They need help, we're talking on the top.
Turn around and I'm gonna kill them, they're over there!
It's all you and it gets no scope!
Run to the chest and carry me in a second shot!
It's so damn fast for Modesty!
Over the last few months, and if he just shows up alongside Kerserot,
this team becomes ferocious and vitality.
It's a tough opening game if you re-arrived.
Yeah, really tough opening game.
I spoke with Gary outside the hotel just on the way in today,
and he just kind of mentioned it.
It feels like the star players,
it feels like they're getting more confident,
that they're building themselves back up to where we've seen them in the past,
and that's only good signs for Furia.
You add the eye test that's looked good
with Fallen's leadership.
Yeah, this team can be dangerous
if they start firing all cylinders.
Set up for the half wall.
There's a flashback at Coffins for Vitality.
Apex has it cocked and ready to go.
Flames and Zywoo, waiting for that initial fight.
Flames will take the attention.
Lulutot does not throw the sandbags,
and Flames is trying to sell his life
so that Zywoo can succeed.
And that is exactly what Zywoo will do.
It's a couple of hoes.
Sub-4 and Saewoo just shuts down the entire set up!
Saewoo's first round at Cologne is an ace in the pistol round!
Oh, the old Baton switch. So beautiful.
They could never get a read. They could never actually find this fight.
Shout out to Flames. Ensuring that we're in that flashbang,
he swung wide to activate Saewoo in this play.
And what a way to start Cologne.
No one was watching him.
That's got f*****g a- sorry, excuse me, that's got a f*****g a- that's got b5 now!
That's got b5 now!
I'm ready to go now!
I'll excuse the French!
Asaiwu with a hot start, Furia, down to Glock's.
And we'll take a moment to take a breather.
There's been so much talk over the last few months about Don, Kimonozzi's rival.
Asaiwu fell out of that conversation for a long time. He hasn't been sort of fighting for that top spot it feels like.
what it feels like. Let's be really still out of that conversation. But I mean look,
the thing you have to you have to think about with Zai Wu is, you know, he's
always said, you know, from speaking with him, it feels very true. Like it doesn't
come off as false that he doesn't actually care about any of that. He
doesn't care about that individual accolade. He doesn't care about being
considered the best player in the world. He didn't care about it when he
was on the verge of overtaking. Simple back and CS go. So now when you
come into this, he's not going to care about it when you know it actually
It might even be a relief that that conversation isn't constantly there.
Sure, but...
He certainly got the skills and vitality, would certainly love for him to play like that,
and we certainly still have the expectations that he can deliver like the best player in the world.
Uh, solo performance in Cologne could absolutely change that.
Fury up to the buy, finally with rifles.
Skulls.
Just looking to apply some pressure towards top middle.
We really enjoyed Skull's performance in Furia throughout Stage 1, looking a lot more comfortable.
Skull's critics have even had to say that he's definitely looking more comfortable inside of this Furia squad.
He saved Furia a lot of the times in Stage 1.
I mean, he just looks like a completely different player. So much more comfort within this team.
Here comes the execute. Late round take of Banana, Flames up close against these two guys, and you shall not pass this smoke.
Oh, no! A complete disaster!
That was a buy for Furia. They do not get even through that smoke. It's Zywoo and Flames. That combo is just locking Banana down.
And look at the way that this map has started. You have the ace from Zywoo and the pistol round, and now you get this where no one can actually even make it through the smoke.
They get stuck behind it. They block each other and get absolutely deleted.
If you're Furia, this is a low point already. Three rounds in.
It's definitely a low point.
We'll be surprised to see a timeout coming at some point soon because
there's been a very slow start to this game.
Vitality have come up, an absolute heater, fall in,
sprinting up through banana, gets beyond that half wall.
And look, let's put this in context too.
Inferno is a must-win map for Furia.
The idea that you go to Vitality's best map of Mirage
and be able to take him there to bring us to a third map,
you can't rely on that whatsoever, so this map is critical for Furia in this series.
in the series. It falls into a pretty good job of forcing his rifles back without losing his life
and no one from Fury goes down in that skirmish of top banana, but the bomb is still going
towards top mid and Xayu has got the read to rotate over and from library he's seen enough
of cello to stand and fight but it isn't exactly the most impactful shots from Xayu where he
leaves that to spinks instead. Xayu rotates over to cover off that archway and Keisarato is
left in a 1v5. It feels like Furio haven't gotten any kills yet to his head and it just
feel like the minimal amount of frags have come in for Furia so far.
Just one on Yuri, back in the pistol round.
A single kill is just crazy to think about for Furia as we go into the fifth round of Inferno.
Well, let's see how this next gun round goes. It surely can't get any worse than the first one
in round three getting stuck behind that banana smoke. Well done from Vitality as you mentioned.
No one committing to the fight against Fallen. No reason to risk your life in that situation.
They're backing away. Same with Zaewoo. Awkward spray out towards Long, but
Doesn't really matter because his goal is just survival doesn't need to commit to that long-range fight
This is a attack as we chill for a little bit
I mean if you really need to chill for a little bit just get it to me
Yeah, it might actually be might be cold starts and then there's this this is freezing
Yeah, you can't talk
But at least you get to just sit there and then I don't know do whatever breathing exercises meditation
Well, so I was just staring directly at them
Whatever mantra you need it'd be funny if we get to a point where like it like teams like to bring a tech time out
would just like stand up and stare down their opponents. That'd be great. Who do you think
would be first to do that? I think it's, I think it's like a Carrigan move. I think it's
playing out cooler in my head than it would in real life but yeah it's sweet in my head.
Just kind of be weird in real life. I would be a little awkward. I don't know who would
do it. I don't think there's any teams who have the the attitude. The old VP would
have been great for it. Yeah that would have been good. They can do that now
with the coaches. Next has returning to vitality. He'd want some trophies this
year with the squad. And it's been a talking point for Apex too. He's got a lot of faith and a lot of
comfort with his coach and really enjoys working with him and just speaking with him about it in
the past. He's just kind of been like, look, bringing him in here, you know, I want him to win
trophies. I want him to have more trophies. I want him to experience winning the biggest
trophies on the biggest stages. So part of the reason that Apex brought him in was, you know,
to work with him and work closely with him and have his knowledge kind of flow throughout
the team but also he wants his homeboy to have some fucking wits I did it again
I apologize you're turning this into an 18 plus show family show Jason that's
the last one I'm gonna button it down for the day at the f-bombs out of here
yeah your little mouth it's I'll get you some soap clean that out Jason I
profusely apologize tell you listeners at home but yeah he wants he wants to be
winning trophies with his coach that's the point I was gonna have the
same dramatic effect as your previous words didn't need to sell it with an
That bomb either did that.
Let me see.
Let me hear what you thought about yesterday.
We had some crazy upsets, Jason.
Yeah, we did.
Oh, it's heartbreaking.
It's mental to think about.
I mean, it's cool because both of those teams saw and Mongols
were like two teams from the first half of the season
that we were like, all right, we're
seeing some cool things.
We're seeing some really cool things out of these teams.
It's looking good.
Ujerks and Aris Dose for saw were like a revelation.
Their right wing was so strong.
Mongols, obviously, was in yo's,
than on the rise as well, Blitz still playing really good.
And just seeing both of them actually capitalize
on that potential and show it off
and upset some of the biggest teams, it's crazy.
A few days ago, we opened stage one
commentating Sol versus Mongols.
And that felt like the most opening game
of a tournament ever, right?
But now that we're casting it again today.
It's because the first game we were alternative
versus like, all right, which Sol is it?
Which Mongols is it?
And now today, it's for qualification
to the Lancess Arena.
So, it's crazy how this tournament has gone so far.
And that's gonna be a tough game to call,
because Mongols feel like they're playing better than that opening game,
and it's sort of looking fantastic.
So, yeah, that's gonna be a fun game later on today.
Mons vs. Falcons currently going over on that main tier.
What spoiler is all for you?
Biden, it's over there for you to catch that action.
Oh, you saw the tweet?
I did.
Did it make you feel bad?
Yeah, because I was like, yeah, you're right.
Alright, well...
Sorry, I ruined your viewing experience.
Make a note out there into its chat.
Dinko is susceptible to peer pressure via social media.
No, I'm not.
I'm a accommodating person.
And I didn't want to ruin this individual's viewing experience.
Well, it's for nothing for vitality.
If goal is to get a good start in Cologne,
they're taking the first step.
All right, fist bumps, high fives.
Everyone's clapping, feeling good.
We're getting back into things.
You know what that means?
Tech pause is fixed.
Thank you to the admin team.
And we've got round five for you. It's going to be an AWP in the hands of Fallen surrounded by full AK-47s in utility, no AWP yet out in the hands of Zywoo.
We'll have to see if that even comes out as we know it's Zywoo. He's content, even happy at times as sick on the M4.
We had a fiery start for Vitality. We'll see if the tech pause has iced them out.
Okay, Seronis, sparing up through that smoke, dishes out significant damage to Apex.
Banana has been a problem for Furia. They haven't been able to get up through Banana, and haven't been able to get back
this Zywu Flames combo.
This time they forced an adjustment to Vitality's defense. Quite significantly so.
Might not be the adjustment they like with the fourth player over at the A bomb site though.
Skull's over and Boiler's looking for someone to get aggressive.
Apex, that low HP is going to park himself inside the bomb site.
He'll be stationary for the rest of this round without HP.
Now with four players here, does Vitality want to get aggressive at all towards brackets?
Just playing containment for the moment, defensive smoke deployed, closing access to rep.
I almost feel like Fury look like they want to set up a mid to B split,
but these smokes delaying things are going to make this a really hard timing to hit and synchronize.
And now, if I tell them to send players away, they're coming back now, signs of Furia's presence in top-middle.
That bomb's still a banana inside, who goes for the peek, dies at long to skulls.
And Apex has no HP, so he can't do anything. He talks himself into the site, he has an MP9 and no HP, so it's on Flames.
So, it's either Flames goes nuclear or this round goes the way of Furia. Falling cuts off Apex trying to make his way back.
And now Flames has been spotted getting pushed from two sides. Time is limited.
It's limited bomb lanes with that headshot bomb is down and they kill
But they have to spread to the site and there's no more time. Oh, should I last second is there?
Vitality pick it up and last second kill on to that ball carrier and theory I cannot catch a break
It's five in a row for vitality
That's insane. I actually thought he might have gotten that at the last
Literally just
millisecond. Flames had to get one kill and he sinks the bomb carrier. That is so
huge. Sinks the bomb carrier behind him, Molotov that he threw as well.
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for Furia in the first five
rounds of this half. And now Zaewoo's got the AWP and now he's punishing you
early deep down middle. Furia knocked out of their game so hard.
Kassarado charges out with a flashbang and ho ho Kassarado rips them open with his
fangs and that smoke goes down towards CT. This time Vitality do not hold that
B site. Find a way to fury a breakthrough. And Vitality not even budging
whatsoever. They know the B site has been lost. This is just an automatic
save call immediately. Clearing out halls to make sure there's no danger for
the save because I will transition away from his position on wrap side.
Fury is just going to, I mean at this point, yeah, you check all the details. You don't skip any steps, clear everything, smoke everything off.
Oh, Fury is actually coming over for a little looksie.
Vitality is having a pier and a wall with a lake shot. Fury gets brought down incredibly low.
Now, Spinks is still on the A side of the map. He's nowhere near this. They're just poking and prodding and trying to get a couple of Xs and damage the economy of Fury.
I think equally though, they probably don't want to lose these weapons even though Spinks has $11,000.
Yeah, it's been a very clean start from Vitality.
As I rule, just take a shot at a very narrow angle.
You know, there's one still, can't land it.
Fury is going to get away and they have their first round on the board.
Yeah, but Spinks is still over towards T-stars.
And as he's charging down middle, they look to make this very expensive for Fury to run at the end.
They're going to throw utility down, they're going to try and heat things up,
and cello and skulls will hang on to those weapons and they will stop Spinks and Mezzie from creating problems.
Yes they will. Dangerous situation for Fury and they come out on top so some rebies for vitality but they've got plenty of economy to handle it.
Good job from K Serato. It's actually, it's one of the things I talked with Gary about. I mentioned I spoke to him at the hotel before coming in today
and I even just kind of said like one of the things I've noticed is K Serato is way more active than like the first 20, 30 seconds in the round that I'm used to
and here just grabbing two entries over and banana like it's nothing.
He's like, fine, I'll do it myself.
Yeah. Love to see it.
Mazzy's gonna mix some aggression into his playstyle, and he's got a clear runway until he meets Skull's.
Heads up, watching for the push.
And an early advantage for Furia.
Zywoo strikes the AWP over the liper, spinks, fighting for short, gets taken out by Fallen, Zywoo had to chime in.
He's holding for that second. Smoke is about to come up.
As long as they wait, long enough for that smoke to bloom, they'll be able to get onto the site.
And Zaiu is still fighting. Smoke breaks apart, Yuri goes down, and it's two versus three.
It just seems difficult for Vitality again here to retake, so we're walking away from this.
Furia will pick up two in a row.
They needed a third player. I think that was Apex trying to come through the smoke and brackets
to wrap around into the bomb site to create a second angle.
And this time, Kcerado, not the entryman, not the aggressor.
He's just chilling and lurking and waiting for that.
So Furia now it's two, seemingly unfazed, not knocked off kilter by these first five rounds.
There was plenty of frustrating moments, you get aced by Zayu in the pistol, you get never
unstepped by the 3 rounds or 4 rounds, and then per second missed plant.
So there's a lot of moments for Furia that could have tilted them off the face of
the universe but they have stayed in it.
That was a sense of being able to build into this is vitality go for their first time out.
As you mentioned earlier, there's a lot of money available for team vitality.
So even though they've lost two rounds in a row, they still have so much cash.
So much cash on the CT side built up.
It would almost be a travesty if they let this kind of early five to nothing lead slip away.
They have so many opportunities to rebuy and adjust and adapt.
I mean, this start for Vitality really ends the conversation that is often had in these tournaments when a team joins later in the competition.
Is the team coming in from the stage one or the play-in going to have more of an advantage warming up?
Well, I think with Vitality's start, that instantly ends that conversation. They're here to play.
I mean, if you look across the board, everything would blend to that, right?
Saw Mongols with those upsets yesterday as well, the teams coming in fresh, teams coming in cold.
And that's I think why it would be such a devastating travesty of vitality wasn't able to capitalize on such a good start with everything falling in their favor
Out of the tactical we're gonna get a technical
Giving you everything today. There's a communication issue. We don't like this. No, we do not so communications a two-way street
It is unless one of them is a narcissist and that's a one-way street Jason
Okay, well I'll add that to the quote
We can add that onto it and it rolls off to the top.
We'll get this one solved.
We've had a few of these but they always get fixed nice and quick.
As always, my dream occurrence for this match with Zywoo having an AWP on the CT side
is that we just see Dominant Zywoo moving around the map.
We saw him with the mid pick a couple rounds back.
I'd like seeing more of those aggressive plays, peeked on Banana, peeked on middle,
maybe get aggressive and go for that peeked ult mid.
Pete in alt mid, you got options, and we know that up on Inferno, if it gets rolling the CT side can just control and dictate where the T's feel comfortable attacking.
I'm sure Brazilian fans would like to see that though. I'm sure they would be happy if it was a quiet Zai Wu, but it doesn't look like he's going to be that quiet Zai Wu today.
Now, 11 and 1, 5 of those in the pistol.
It's actually a very cool off-battle when you think about it. Fallen, you know, obviously not on the same level these days,
but has put together some very good individual maps in this tournament with his AWP.
Some brilliant sequences that we saw over on Anubis.
That was crazy.
Yeah, some combat offing, some classic vintage Fallen was peeking out from behind the curtain. It was great.
I can go for that too.
Yeah, more of that please.
Yeah, I'm agree. I'll take it all.
Vitality's results recently haven't been bad, but I think when you look at a roster like Vitality, their expectations are different than the rest of the squads, right?
They're in that top echelon, so they're wanting trophies. The second place is the first loser.
Yeah, it's weird because there is a very negative conversation around Vitality because it's clear with the eye tests and even just hearing from the players themselves and the team themselves.
There's some things that aren't clicking the way that they feel like they should be, and I mean all these five players individually, very, very good.
But just something hasn't been working, and a lot of it comes down to roles, who's playing where, but you look at these results, it's not bad.
I mean, you know, second at Pro League, second at Dallas, semi-finals at Blast Spring Finals, quarter-finals at Esports World Cup is a rough one.
Obviously you go back further to Katowice, it's a little ugly.
But even that eSports World Cup, like getting to the playoffs, getting to the quarterfinals, it looked bad.
Yeah, but it didn't look good.
That's not missed out on the Katowice. It's probably sure it was at the start of the year, but it's the other championship event.
Right? And this is vitality expected to do well at events like this.
Katowice seems to have a curse for them. They've been in the final and cologne.
I just bet, you know, I like to keep my reference point for teams on that HLTV three-month filter.
You know, like you go all the way back to Katowice and it's like, we've been over that.
Yeah, it's an ugly stain on their resume for 2024 for sure, but I mean I think some of those issues...
Should make up for it with a good performance in Cologne.
And some of these issues still obviously persist.
Well the issues are not persisting in terms of communication, they're sorted out, we're ready to go.
It is 5-2 for Vitality, and Fioria off the back of a 2 rounds in a row.
I see a thing to keep it up with AKs on every player, Kassarotto getting into banana early on.
Grenade's all land past him.
They don't take any damage from these initial skirmishes, but Flames is charging right through that smoke and Kassarotto handles business.
Feels very forced, like that play was designed out of spawn and they just stuck with it even though it's not ideal.
Maybe some utility was missed, but coming through that smoke Kassarotto is not blind whatsoever.
whatsoever, no flashbangs, nothing harassing him, and that's an easy frag and an easy advantage for Furia again.
Now the bomb is going to be going towards the apartments, Mezzi sits within the site, and Zayu is towards pit.
Committed position with AWP, but he's got cover, he can dance in and around this wall.
And Mezzi, if he sets up enough distraction, Zayu's ult can prove the refault. Mezzi from the site collects one kill, and Zayu's got the rest.
No issues for the French AWPer.
He now knows where his next victim is.
The flash up short smoke is out to protect Yuri.
Grave is on the base, so heavy!
Pee-pee.
Man, fall and just frozen in that corner.
You're fighting towards bombsite and you hear that AWP ring out and see a teammate fall
and you just know you're dead.
You're frozen in the open, frozen in place, and helpless.
So, a 5 on 4 for Furia.
Doesn't pan out with the hull's pop, trying to hit a creative timing.
but Cacerado can actually still do something with this because
uh... separate one-view-one-fights, one-to-word CT, one-in-banana.
Problem is, you need to make something happen now. There's 15 seconds and when no one's showing themselves,
this defensive like just staying pad and just staying hidden is actually perfect
because if Cacerado was able to get one kill, you could see that bomb over in halls.
Maybe you force a rotation. This late in the round, Vitality takes a death of the B bomb site.
They probably think that both players are attempting to finish there.
Maybe you get a rotation. Cacerado goes down at the end.
for the time series money like over and it won't be a three round in a row come
back for fury of vitality back 20 ways out of the tech issue and it's I was
earlier playing towards B find himself and hit this round combining with mezi
and they don't get past that all this is this is the great disaster of going
down 0-5 in the fashion you did without having a whole lot of impact
without getting a whole lot of kills and letting the money on the CT side
grow there were four kills in the first five rounds of this game for
So, you get to a point where, yeah, you go on a two-round streak and usually that's
going to be like a half-buy, two rifles, some SMGs for your opposition, but Vitality had
built up like four or five rounds of buying just by the virtue of how strong they were
to open this map.
So, Fury is just playing this game on nightmare mode, having to grind back this game against
full buy after full buy after full buy with no relief.
This music really does make me feel like I'm on an aircraft carrier.
Yeah, you're beginning.
Yeah, it's a fantasy being lived out, Jason.
Get out there, Maverick.
Haha.
Saewoo.
Confident to take the pick down middle.
He's 13-1.
To start off his Cologne campaign and spinks.
Oh, he's moved down into second midfall and spotted.
That tech nine will not fall there.
And now cello's trooper Boiler.
Oh, he gets Saewoo.
And that's a huge opening to get.
Mezzy looking to pluck the gap though.
He goes to fight short but cello is playing the salad of death right now inside of the site and spinks.
He's trying his best to make up for Vitality's weaknesses inside of the safe bomb site, but Cello does not stop
Unrelenting, finally taken out by that itchy grenade, but the damage is already done
You know that fence on balcony saves his life. That is made of some tough material
blocking all of Nezzy's bullets
And this is like a change of pace
I think brought on by individual decisions like you get that spam going towards ult mid and Cello up in
You know up in halls is like oh, I can actually beat his fallback if he's actually peeked that far down mid
He's got a long route to run picks up the pace good heads up play from cello
And you get that kill and you say they've been starting 3b
Let's actually try and pressure this a little bit faster and then once again you find another kill on mezi who misses the shot
It's perfect
So two out of the three rally winds if you really have found it is off the back of Kessarotto
Sprinting up an anti getting two entries and this one's cello crushing down on that a defense
look they all count you know it's a we're not gonna sit here and say fear is
playing beautiful team counter strike but yeah you it's keeping them in the
start you have the individuals to win as individuals as well so use that to your
advantage and as bad as this half as looks you start winning a round like
that here and there every once in a while get up towards four or five and
regardless of the fact that you've been outplayed and you've looked like the
lesser team you're gonna have plenty of rounds to make this a match in the
second half.
Another tech issue, unfortunately.
Yeah, thankfully both teams extremely experienced with these situations and tournaments and stop
and start of play like this can really take you out of the flow, out of the momentum,
out of the game, but these guys are going to be well experienced at dealing with these
pauses.
The rest of the series involves Mirage, up next is Vitality's map pick, and if
needed we've got Nuke for third.
Do you think we're going to need three maps in this series, Jason?
Like I said, if Vitaly win in Furno, I think it's 2-0.
I don't think Furry is winning Mirage.
I think the hard part about this whole series, when you prepare for it, if you're Furry,
you're looking at it and you like Nuke, you don't like Mirage, but you have to ban
other maps.
So they're going to get their best map, and even though you like Nuke, it's Vitality's
second map.
So you're playing two really, really, really strong maps, and Furno is the weakness
that Furry is trying to punish, and if they can't do it here, it's hard to
imagine that they would cause an upset on one of vitality's strengths. I mean, Zairu
is a beast on Nuke. He's a beast on any map, right?
Yeah, it's true.
It's specifically Nuke.
But Nuke is, yeah, it's another level.
That beast shows up a little more often.
Mm-hmm.
What is that?
It looks like a little, I don't know, yeah, like a purple-eyed lemur.
Cool.
Or some weird sloth.
Yeah, we're sloth. I feel like sloth is taking them.
Yeah, Naph is taking that market.
You can't bring a sloth.
I've seen a sloth recently, Jason.
How was that?
It was pretty cool.
It was like this open...
It was kind of like a zoo, but it was a lot more space for the animals, so it was kind of cool.
So I went up there and it was the monkeys were sharing the same sort of enclosure as the sloth.
And the sloth was moving pretty fast for a sloth, man.
Yeah, faster than you expected.
Yeah, it was climbing above my head.
had this tube and it could climb above your head and you could stand underneath it and a
little monkey came over and started peeing through the hole.
So I had to dodge that, Jason.
But that was a fun day.
That's a special day.
I was there with nature.
One with nature.
Sloths are awesome creatures, though.
I can see why Nath loves a sloth.
Are they awesome?
Yeah, dude.
It's like, they're slow, they live life in the slow lane.
Sure.
Everything that makes them awesome.
They enjoy life more than others and they sometimes even forget to eat. They're so lazy so a lot in common with gamers and
Spinks he's charged down mid that m4 is ready to go and no one's turning no one's thinking about it
Finally Yuri has a little look does what Spinks and it's lucky that he did it because
Excel matches Spinks in that fight. I wonder if you heard a footstep as Spinks kind of spent that up to turn the corner
Either way, this is a lot of four on five on four advantages that fear has been able to find
I think this is their third or fourth one so far in this game
And now they're gonna build upon it apex gets a little lazy with that peek and you
Flames has a rebuttal no way you can't let this happen fury on two kills clean on the entry and flamethrower
The coffins it's just ripping them to shreds
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave and now fallen sweat in a 1v3 total
He's collected that first kill there's still two remaining and that rotation from mesi's only arriving now
So fallen he puts the bomb down
He could have thrown the smoke out towards CT, but instead used that to the site.
There's a gap, Fallen goes to use it, I already had eyes on it, and pins him down with an AWP,
but what a step up!
What a hold from Flames!
That's a 1v5 hold from Flames at the B bomb site.
Four kills, and I think if he went passive after the fourth one, he would have got
the fin.
If he just reset himself, he got a little eager for that ace, but it's all good
when you deliver like this.
Two rounds that Flames has individually, literally by himself, won for vitality at the B bomb site.
I don't know how few are going to deal with this, but when you get two entries towards B, you're all charging at one player.
You still can't get into the site.
Yeah, those kinds of miscues for Furia, they'll start to make you in a game feel like you're just getting buried.
inability to trade a player like that when you have such an overwhelming
advantage five on four into a five on three and one guy takes you out chip
damage the native apex eats a ton of damage in return it's not what you want
we'll give him a pass he's been excellent outside that flashbang and
the grand scheme of things it's not a big deal it was still pretty funny
though. Hey, guys, just gonna absolutely destroy it by the flash. Furia, they still want to go B.
I think this is a lot of Furia just saying, you know what, we're getting a little bit
beat up in these defaults, obviously, 7-3. It hasn't worked the way it's designed.
Let's go into something a little bit more simple and let's focus on the trading that we struggled
with in the previous round. Now, the hard part is because they've been stalled out for so long,
by the time they end up pulling the trigger, Spinks is going to be here.
and there's still utility to delay this final push of furia flames force out of
his position you'll play for a new box instead and strip back into second
oranges here comes that attack for furia flames from the site it's cello down
flames looking for a multi kill yet again and he will secure it this time
he's got apex to back him up and apex always down tech knife for fall it
strikes into action and now suddenly it is a winnable round for fall and he's
He's on for the ace. He's on for all five.
We're four HP.
Yeah, four health, that's all he's got to play with here, but Fallen, he brings the fight
to Zywu, and suddenly it is just Mezzi left. Just Mezzi to stop the power of the professor.
And Fallen waits around that corner, doesn't want to give away his spot, doesn't want
to peek into the open. He won't fall for that initial tap. He will not fall for
that old trick. The second, he won't even peek that until this fight eventually
Jumps, Messi walks into him and prevents Fallen from pulling off the heroic clutch to save Furia.
It's eight rounds for Vitality, but that was a damn nice try from Fallen.
It really was.
He did everything he possibly could.
I mean, obviously all the kills are lovely, but even in the one-on-one, right as the bomb goes down,
that's so much time to have to play a post-play at 1v1 with only four health.
And even holding his nerve, not peeking on the first, not even really peeking on the second.
Mezzie just had all the advantages.
Dude, this is going to be such a frustrating half for Furia,
because you're thinking about so many of these scenarios
that you should have won how close you came to winning
multiple rounds in this half.
They have to get four, though.
They have to get four out of this.
They got to do it with mostly Galils.
You think to how Furia have won the majority of the rounds
in this half that has been won to individual stepping up
and getting those clean entries.
Hey, Serato, Cello's had a couple.
Doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to happen for them here in round 12.
You don't get to do this, you don't get to live in this reality,
but if you take the first five rounds away, Fury has done a really good job
in this T-side of finding kills, finding access to bombsites.
I think the biggest problem has been, as I mentioned earlier,
every single round is against full buys, every single round is against rifles, op.
Every single smoke in Molotov possible.
They haven't had anything easy.
They're walking again into the B bomb site.
The B site has been the bane of their existence.
And Flames, a huge part of that.
He hides, he shrouds himself in the darkness.
He now reveals himself to two kills in Kassarano and Nuri.
The finds of Furia are blunted in this half.
And Vitality is. Now with three versus two for them to try and close this nine to three.
Furia get the bomb down. This time Fallen isn't alone.
alone he has cello with him and cello is inside a banana there's utility there's
time the vitality have the player advantage cello is pulled into focus of
CT he smoked out that's gonna make him think there's no banana flank though and
he's looking for it intermittently but here comes spanks doesn't see cello
that smoke is acting against vitality at the moment but he's going to start
spamming trying to keep through attention cello goes back to that kill
Now fallen at the coffin, spray down, goes down to Zaywu and Jello left alone.
He wanted to pull the utility, but he couldn't stop Zaywu.
Zaywu opens the half with an ace and closes it with the deagle.
It's Vitality in the lead, 9-3.
Your first goal is his start out and Vitality have accomplished that.
Zaywu got him started in the right way, five kills and ace in the pisteron.
He ends the first half, 16-3.
He's got Flames, a little sidekick, locking down that B-Bomb site round after round.
He's got 15 kills and they have buried Furia in a 9-3 hole.
Yeah, Flames was incredible in that half as well.
It's just so sick to see Vitality's CT side look that strong.
And now with a pistol round win, Inferno could be a very short story.
Furia invests into three sets of Juleparedes and Jello gets melted.
Zaiwu's having a field day in pistol rounds.
He is the only player for vitality to get a kill in a pistol run still to this point. I kind of want to play a game against
Zagu I just want to see what it feels like because it looks like it would feel rough
What are you supposed to do?
Skulls and Yuri up in halls
So there's no resistance at the eight bombsite. They'll be able to gather information
It's just about can they hold on to their position stay alive and have some impact
So when eventually case or auto and fallen come over they can actually make an attempt at the retake
And as soon as vitality swing into the bomb site and see nobody shooting at him from pit
Nobody shooting at him from the bomb site. They're gonna know halls which they've never cleared is a very real point of danger
They've got to be a little confused right now as well. Oh apex about to find out. Oh
Partments now cleared apex has the information
They're currently occupying the apartments. I think this round is I think I feel pretty confident just calling this
like even if they come in for the retake there's no kit yeah you got to find
five players three of them are in pit two of them and the utility is all over a
beast of there's about 15 different crossfires there's I mean for a must
win round fury of put up no fight yeah there's no urgency about this either
they're still coming closer to the A bomb site they're so far away from it
cool boost to get a kill on the apex but yeah it's just a limited time is
the problem. They don't have any real standing in this round. It's 10 for
Vitality, so essentially it was one off the back of that blistering shot from
Zayu and the round's over. 10-3. Yeah, I don't really like that from
Fyria. That's a critical round that you have to win. I would like to
see a little bit more fire than that. So Vitality get Mac 10s and rifles.
Fury is going to have to decide to do with this armor that they've saved into the next round.
10-3 at the time I was taken from Fury, their second is they discuss things.
Do they want to force up here? Do they want to wait until they can get some stronger weapons on board?
The conversation is currently going on.
In Fury and Camp, their second time I used in regulation, there's all this talk.
But some of the teams that have come into this competition and have had some losses already.
you know we're talking G2 we're talking spirit we were wondering what vitality
fall into that same conversation well right now it looks like a completely
different story for vitality and honestly like before the games began yesterday if
you'd ask someone who's the likeliest to get upset in this opening round G2
spirit or vitality I think most people probably would have said vitality
yeah 100% yeah well apex getting destroyed by cello oh and attack down
mid from Yuri with the scout this is a very nice start all but it's beating
and they've got no way to stop it.
Charging out of the balcony, descending down into the A bomb site.
They've got two kills in this Vitality, and they're two important ones,
because they've got full control of this A site.
Fury starts to rotate these players back.
Fallen is the closest to the fight.
The plant is in. Fallen is looking to see if he can catch someone trying to change position,
get into a post plant, but Vitality found themselves quite comfortable.
Zyul's elevated on the box inside of the bomb site.
Fallen's got beyond that utility, but Spinks has stole their eyes on this,
Fall into Torch and he gets caught by Spinks from Pea.
Gets caught by the Flash and that does cost him his life.
Yeah, he actually might have been able to create an opening for a see if he didn't get blind,
but he ate that Flashbang.
That looks really silly, but I guarantee he was full white on his screen.
Dude, the way Sao can even get control of that Dalil spray while he's just jumping off a box is so crazy.
It's 11 rounds now for Vitality.
It just keeps getting worse for Furia.
And up next is Mirage.
Mirage is, as I've said, Vitality's best map, and Furia's worst map by Winry.
So quite a disparity between the two teams heading into map 2, and this, I mean, for me, as I've said a couple of times, losing Inferno is just the series over for Furia.
We'll have to see what this new lineup can do on Mirage next.
But it's not looking like there's anything to really discuss here in Inferno in terms of a comeback building up,
In terms of some life coming into the Furious side, Vitality's just had their way with
them this entire map.
Jello just gets wiped out.
It's a map point for Vitality.
The Furial have likely to be their only buy here on the CT side in the next round.
And it's exactly what Vitality want.
It's what this team is designed for.
It's having in Zywa with Flames and Spinks at the top of the charts.
Apex and Mezi down fulfilling their roles, but you want those three players at the top
of the scoreboard finding impact and winning games like this.
And boy have they, I mean Flames especially, Zywa is going to get obviously, he always
attracts the most conversation, but Flames is so much impact.
I mean, winning the round at the last second because he drops the bomb carrier
with 6 seconds remaining in like a 1v4 hold of the B bomb site, is 1v5 hold of the bomb
site getting 4 kills on it.
So impressive that he's able to do that more than once.
In a single half.
Nozai Wu charging up banana, we know this is his comfort ground but not this time.
Cello wipes the floor with him, Kessarado, all their load is softened up and that
MP9 only manages one.
Still there's fight for banana going on and Cello gets traded in again, it's
Flanks biting back putting vitality in pole position and he is going to smoke out CT and sprint into the site with a bomb
Spinks is here to cut off this mid rotation awkward situation for him though. He's gonna smoke to get him out of that
Still uncomfortable for Spinks, but he gets out. He's joining his countryman inside
All banana, Spinks will hold it and vitality come through their opening map in Cologne is
Domination versus Furia. This is a squad that are looking scary
This is a squad that do not look like they're going to get upset mirage is up next vitality looking strong
He is seeing a way that fury can win this map steal it away from them when you have side who playing the way he did
We have flamesee playing the way he did sping started to step up towards the end
So the pieces on the vitality side are looking good
Piss around start one for one trade admit in case rato eats one glock bullet to the dome
Well vitality have decided to go with every single player on Kevlar, so it's all about headshots or vitality
They've got a lot of them in these pesterans today, and there's another one coming right up fallen walks into Spinks
Fallen's down vitality into the lead on players and there's so much time look at the mini map at how much space that kill created
You saw immediately Yuri back away from con
Case Serato's left the a bomb site
They're gonna choose to stack over towards be in this entire time vitality was just hoping they'd be able to crawl up connector
Apex needs to find this information though and make sure his teammates don't go up catwalk
That would be the only calamity that vitality can run into
And with Apex in this position, no one's really scouting the A bomb site, so Vitality
still taking their time, still figuring out exactly where they want to finish, seeing if
they can have any more information gathered, seeing if anyone from Fury is going to push
into them.
The bomb now making its way up connector.
Yeah, making the right call.
So pissed around for Vitality.
That's another one for Vitality.
Fury is struggling to get good starts in the halves today and this past at three.
Look at Apex just going from rat position to rat position.
He's lovin' it, absolutely lovin' it.
No one from here really coming towards him though.
They can't win this round once you call that stack, it's over if they don't come to your
bomb site.
So they'll bring the armor into the next round.
Caseurado got gushed, so he should still have enough armor.
I would wonder if he can upgrade for free.
We'll see what they can bring out around that if they even want to go for a second round by
Well, we get to see if you really want to go for the force
But vitality are going to be extremely happy with how it today has started for them
Yeah, I mean it's it's actually
Super important for a team like vitality that's supposed to be one of the best in the world
But has been dealing with so many internal issues probably issues that aren't even like
Directly related to the counter strike itself
It's you know the team issues between them the frustration of things not working of maybe thinking you need to change some things
Adapt some things those conversations getting out to a start like this helps alleviate some of those problems
Really really well, especially at the start of a tournament. It's it's perfect
Fury I have invested
Kassarata's got his head armor
Vitality setting up for an a play
Direct head into the fury at defense
Fallen Kassarata and skulls the three players closest to a
to try and stop this vitality attack.
Mezzi and Apex will be in Palace.
Better get some God-tier shots with those Deagles.
Here come the smokes.
Skulls deploys out his own defensive smoke in the middle of the bomb site,
allowing him to play closer with this Deagle.
The Palace prone to the approach has been softened up.
Skulls have won on Flames, traded quickly by Spinks.
This round is comfortable for vitality, especially with Accule through the smoke from Mezzi.
they clear the rest of the site and they know they've got it.
Yeah, nice shot from Skulls to open things up, but nothing else can be built upon.
It was just the utility, the full wall of smokes that was denying those Deagle's any lines of sight.
And Skulls was the player that was really stepping up over the last few games for Fury,
especially on Mirage. It felt like his a-hold was incredible.
He was getting 3Ks when both his teammates would fall on the site.
He was still getting a multi-kill to keep them into battle.
So, you know, Fury overall may feel uncomfortable on the map,
but Skulls in particular looked really good on the A site defense.
Yeah, he did. He was showing some good things when we saw Fury play this map earlier in Stage 1.
I think the biggest problem with it is just, you know, the level of opposition is going to be completely different.
We saw them play this map against Heroic.
They should want it 13-11 versus Heroic.
Yep, 13-11 win there. They played it against Liquid, a 7-13 loss, and they played it...
They did not play it against Imperial.
So yeah, I got a couple runs on Mirage under their belts to be able to adapt and change and look at things
and see what's working and what's not, but a very tough test to start stage two of IEM Cologne.
I wonder if this game goes on to play FaZe Clan?
Congrats!
That'd be a very exciting matchup if Vitality make it through and looking like it is going to be Vitality.
FaZe vs. Vitality, that's an IEM Cologne game right there, isn't it?
Especially to give an indication of which one of these two top teams that's come in limping a little bit
struggling with themselves. Which of those is going to look the best and come out on top
to start getting into the playoffs?
Will be a really cool indicator of what level these teams have come into Cologne with.
Vitality saying very grouped up as they have every round so far in this half.
The window smoke a blasted opening to reveal two Fiora players.
So Apex taking the first two in this round for Vitality,
You're at least trying to keep Furia in the fight, but it's gonna have to go out again.
Second time of asking.
Now third, unable to sink Apex.
Where's the boost being constructed with these two Furia players?
You're reclimbing up on top, Zywoo dealing with that.
Don't lose the majority of his health, but Sphinx has got short, and covers off forward.
It's not Kassarado the only remaining player for Furia.
Unvitally, once again, off to a flawless start. It's gonna be 3 to 0.
There are 5s here, lead on Inferno.
Now 3 here on Mirage, it could be a similar or even better for a Vitality kill.
Yeah, Furia really can't let themselves get into that hole where the money grows so much for Vitality that they'll just never have to save throughout the half. That's exactly what happened on Inferno.
If you're going to get into a hole, at least do some damage, get some kills and make sure they can't just build up an undefeatable bank.
Apex gets that final frag, it's 3-0, guns will come back out for Furia, Fallen should have the AWP as well.
So a chance for fury at a mount some resistance against this vitality onslaught
It's fine we want it
Perhaps not completely happy with it, but no someone probably apologized for a mistake
Yeah, I think out the result
It fights skulls getting it's always connector
Then back to safety
This is a cool boost from cello and urie saving a spot our sphinx in the apartments
But he didn't take a step too far.
No!
Oh, Cello, that's a risky game you're playing, my friend, and he ends up getting dropped out
of 6 health.
Yeah, that was a really bold, naive move from Cello that no one would be having that angle
even with that boost, but that boost wasn't deep enough to spot the position Spinks was
in.
So Cello pays a heavy price.
Vitality playing this round a little bit slow, hoping to let some of this utility
be used and burned early from the defense.
I would boost it on top of his teammate's head.
That movement was enough to adjust the attention
of Casarotto towards him.
We're breaking the smoke also.
Let him get the glimpse of Zywu jumping up
so he could swing back with a pre-fire.
That's the advantage now for Furia.
As you know, I hit the 39 second mark in this round.
The fight is going down a connector
and Skulls with the second play they weren't ready for.
Falling and Skulls combining, keeping Furia ahead.
This time by two extra players
and Skulls wants to clear Messi.
He knows he's got him pinned in that.
And then he steps off with a headshot, he's got the bomb in his back and he knows if he
exposes himself to short he could easily fall down here and he gets involved with that fight
and Yuri somehow loses it.
Remember Cello, he started to B, well he's over at the A site now and he might be the
player to unravel this round for vitality, he denies that bomb plant, now there's no
time, Spinks has to get it instantly and start planting but he doesn't have the
time for it, now it's about to kill and Fallen just hides away.
from zero to hero, Cello wins the round for Furia.
Yeah, nice round from Cello. He couldn't really do anything until that last eventuality.
He just had to hope and pray they were going to end up coming to that position and he's
primed for it perfectly.
Good job from Kcerato and Khan, Fallen even chimes in with an AWP kill.
Not a bad round from Vitality though.
I mean, phenomenal job from Mezi in a losing effort to get all of those kills, actually
be able to pressure the bomb site but more than anything, Furia wins the round with
only one player surviving.
So again, money is going to be an issue. It's been such a talking point for them.
On Inferno, obviously, because Vitality had all the cash in the world now.
It's Furia trying to get going in the CT side
with a really low tough economy to work with.
Easy for Vitality to just return to the purchase again.
Opel for Zywoo, AK for everybody else.
Although if they do concede this one,
money will drain down to a half-buy scenario.
Furia will then have the opportunity to get into the start of this game.
I wasn't a luxury afforded to them over on Inferno, but you look at Furious by
here there's so many weaknesses despite winning the round. I'm gonna boost Yuri
up in the ladder room. It's quite quick for Vitality getting players into mid.
Fall is down first and that's one of the best weapons gone instantly. This is
why I think they wanted to have players in mid so fast as they wanted the
comms from Furia to be that mid is being pressured they want to take some
attention away so Apex can have an aggressive lurk in Palace and one by
Oh, Mezzi!
He's crumbling down.
He's looking sharp right now, Mezzi.
That's a heat check, Pete.
He's won some feisty roux.
Shouldn't have had a chance in winning.
This time, just looking sharp in this round,
and that's 4-1 for Vitality.
Furia ain't real tough to have to swallow that pill.
No, he really is.
All that aggressive attention just allowing Apex.
I mean, everyone, all parts of that Vitality attack
in different locations on the map
were how to pick up of the pace
and able to completely take advantage of things really early on in the round, and now they're hunting down some weapons.
This would be just brutal for Furia to lose everything here.
Utility used by Yuri, and immediately the commas both are at the B bomb site, one towards Kawak on the right side, one was just at the market door.
Yeah, well, they might be arriving at the Stone Age again.
The asteroid has come to hit the economy of Furia.
Nuri gets her to flames, shredded instantly, not just Jello and Sardis smoke, and he's cleared out nothing save for Furia.
That is a harsh victory for Vitality. Good to see them bloodthirsty and ruthless.
Ruped everything out of the hands of Furia.
Now they have a decision to make, although with the bonus up at three rounds, I imagine it'll be a low buy, pistols and armor, maybe a little bit of nades.
And full buy in the next one.
Yeah, he's lovin' it.
As far as opening games go, they haven't really been made to stress yet.
They've got so much money.
His Apex is venturing, if you do not, because I opened up with the first kill on Yuri,
and this Geagle, unless it goes massive, is not gonna be able to stop anybody from
vitality.
able to stop anybody from vitality now they're working so well together
vitality everything's in sync everything's timed perfectly with different
prongs of the attack they're looking really good for them on this t-side
mirage cash is starting to swell I think we even heard apex of that in the last
round didn't we so much money they had a little french giggle
a little french giggle shella will at least try and get something out of this
but no one for vitality is coming this way in pallet.
Six are going to be a 5-1 start now.
It's not a 5-0 start Jason, they didn't prove slightly.
Yeah, they did.
There's that they could hang their hat on.
We'll see what else they can do with this half.
Shell is not going to get any of the exits he's looking for.
No rifle for the next round saved.
I'm interested to see what Apex is going to do.
This feels like a round where Apex might just call like an A-exec or a fast B-exec.
They've mess with them in the middle so much, they've had so much success there, they've taken it slow, they've taken it fast, they've abused you at Catwalk, they've abused you in Conn.
I feel like Apex might try and get ahead of the defense here and just call it different style.
As I was all pointed towards mid, he's got a pretty good spawn for a pick here.
Actually, he might just head towards the apartments and go for the B-pick, so he's gonna send his AWP over that, fallen up in latter room with his sniper, and he wants to fight mid.
He needs to be careful here, cello. He's had a couple of jumps that may have cost him. I know that for a day, it slows Castorado down, so it completely halts his motion towards connector, and that keeps him in the open long enough for flames to finish him off.
It's okay, Fallen's here for the equalizer. It's not all lost yet. He's hunting desperately to just find a kill, but another one of his teammates have gone down before he's able to even see anyone.
Yeah, this is rough for Fury. Fallen desperately hanging around trying to get rid of Flames. Even that grenade is not enough to finish off the low HP Flames.
Five versus three for Vitality. And they've got so much time in this round to play with.
And a quick hit of tab and you have all the information of your Apex. You get the communication from Flames that Nade came out from Katwalk.
So one's playing there. You see cello is still alive as that be anchor skulls are still alive as the anchor
You can start piecing things together and they just have
An infinite amount of time to work within a five on three
It's such a tough round for fury to figure out where exactly they need to be positioned
The best chance is if this bomb goes towards a
Flames is searching through this B bomb site. Oh cello. This is gonna suck
He's got the one angle that cellos not positioned for you might not you might not clear oh tip of the barrel
You're not gonna clear it at all chill
Oh looks up to the apartments newly gets a second kill out of that as well
But we'll fall at the hand of sphinx who just proves to be immortal right now yet to die. That's a seventh kill
Now messy oh man stands out of the ramp bomb goes to be and messy is about to remove everything from furious hands
Fallen knows that Mezi is there, but the peek into him is not going to work out for Fallen, it is 6-1 for Vitality.
Yeah, and I mean you have that kind of a 5-on-3 for that long, and it's easy to kind of work the math.
They found the success over at the B-bomb site, and they didn't even need to use Mezi,
he was just setting up to take everything away from them again.
FuryA not able to slow down this Vitality attack at all.
You could just tell by the columns that nothing's hectic right now, everything's going so smoothly for Vitality.
The timeout taking second for Furious, the other coach having his say.
Furious do not have the weapons to combat against the full force of vitality here.
It's a skill for falling MP9s on Kassarado or Yuri.
The pistols for the rest.
Here's that change up in style. I was around late.
Mid-utility, but it's going to be a timing hit towards the B-bomb site.
Nade and scout combined for the first kill.
cello does fine work with the p250. Oh, Apex. Spam down randomly and Apex is going to drop the
bomb to take space and make sure there's no stack. He's activated blood thirsty mode,
he throws the bomb down, says it's not his job. I think it might have actually been his job though,
so Aruz got the AWP. It's not going to be his plan and you have Mezzi up in the halls,
so he's going to have to drop down and descend and that opens up the flank a little bit, but
force the British guy to do it. That's the thing, you see a little bit worried they are
about these kinds of things, but it's all good.
Masi puts that ball down.
Yuri Kessarotto coming back through the apartments.
They're just trying to figure out, why are they coming from?
Eventually they'll find out. Apex is covered off short.
Oh, Zyra gets dinked, he's low. Masi's got him covered though.
Skulls comes in, Apex looking the wrong way.
2v2 now.
Kessarotto, surely can't win this fight against Masi, but he certainly will.
Now, Zyra's forced to keep fightality in this round.
Time taking, no kit available.
Kastron has got that kill, but is there time?
No, the answer is a resounding no.
Furia come in, they clean up all the Vitality players,
but unfortunately for them, Vitality's full of cash
and well, not enough time.
But you see how sketchy it gets
when things get mixed up on who's playing the bomb
and who's got the responsibility.
Leave that player up in the halls.
He's safe, he's comfortable,
it's the best place to watch that kind of a flank.
She's all good.
But yeah, a little bit of mis-com on Apex pushing forward,
having to drop out of halls
not opened up the avenue for that retake from Furia. Just no time whatsoever.
And in the wide words of Apex, a few rounds back, plenty of cash.
Yes, those wise, wise words from the Prophet Apex.
Double-op set up here for Furia.
Shallow and Fallen, we know they like to bring it out every now and then.
We know it can be very, very impactful. And I think at this point, nothing's working,
so throw it in. Flames once again getting out behind these top mid boxes.
Xyle once thinks clean the underpass things heat up for place, but he uses that smoke
It just beats off his head
Clams is on a diet of shrapnel look at apex. He just crawled through smoke out palace tried to get cheeky
Didn't go well for him
Will messy clearing the smoke skulls took a step back and didn't really clear the whispers of smoke as much as messy would have liked
I tell you did a really good job of converting 4v5s on inferno
They've got another one here, but this time they walk into a two-man stack.
K-Serrado handles business with the help of Skulls.
Yeah, they know where Mezzi is too. They last seen him towards ramp, so not gonna be easy here for Mezzi to do much.
But if you can make it expensive, sure we have three players. Three players of Alps in the house right now.
It's like the old art case.
Not trusting their rifles.
Not trusting those M4s.
The one bullet drop.
Surely one gets dropped, right?
Yeah, they're gonna drop it for the AK-47 and pick that up.
That's KSROTO grabbing the AK. Time out taking for Vitality.
Yeah, they're giving a speech now. This isn't really about anything tactical or anything switch up.
This is just hard. Everyone take a breather, chill. Let's give them no ground.
Give them no more rounds. Don't let them get back into this game.
Yeah, there's a few little moments that you lose every play in the previous round. The bomb, thumb, bull.
You lose the follow-up, so just make sure we recalibrate.
That kind of a lead I think that's around there that was just kind of opened up to individual plays like let's spread out in the default if you
See something you have the freedom to go for whatever you want apex obviously wanted to test a palace walkout
Again after abusing middle so much after hitting the B bomb site pretty quickly in the previous round thought maybe he might have had
A window where he could catch a sole defender at the A bomb site hit a timing and crack it open
Skulls was ready
Fury looking at this double-op setup as the solution to their problems
to drag them back into this game, a five round deficit at the moment, and Keisarotto is going to get aggressive.
The charge up top mid, AK-47 in the hands, off Keisarotto only grabbing one, Zywoo, barely alive.
It's still able to trade out that 1v1.
Pretty quiet on the map, Vitality is just looking for the next reaction, the next play from Fury,
but that's not coming, with a double up set up, they're so content to just stand far back.
Cello watching B-hulls from market,
Fallen's up, over at the A-bomb site,
peering towards Conn and ramp on timings.
We're from Cello, and as he goes down,
Vitality crumbling.
In this round, it's Spinks and Zaiwu having to fight back,
and that is just so unstoppable.
I just got Molly him out as well.
And now Skulls is forced into the open,
Spinks following up,
and now it's around that Spinks can win.
That fire is starting to clear in jungle,
but Yuri somehow finds sanctuary. Plank comes in, but it keeps him at least pinned in jungle
long enough for Spinks to plant the bomb. Not Spinks, no where he is, and he knows the
other one wasn't off at the B bomb site. So he's trying to just use this belt full of
utility to try and make things a little more comfortable for himself. Create space for
him to get out from behind default boxes, in behind triple. But he's got to worry
about all of the retake positions until there's steps. Now he knows that both
Spinks separates it into the 1v1. Spinks sharpening his sword as they come around the side.
He slices them back and it is vitality in unusable rounds for Furious.
Still stepping up and still getting victories.
That's a 2v4 win for Spinks and Zywoo.
An absolutely filthy round trading their way into the bomb site.
Activated by some spectacular shots from Zywoo.
And a great piece of movement from Spinks. He chucks all that utility. Flashes, Molotov,
Nade, all from the default plant spot inside the bomb site and finds a perfect timing to
transition to the other side. Fury had thought he was on the left the entire time.
Oh, and Saewoo's now fired up. He goes in the middle, Kassurado taking down,
Mezzie quickly in mid. Did I know? There's two players in underpass. There's two players
in underpass right now and Mezzie has his back turned to them. Finally that
Tray comes in from Spinks, and though Mully and Heat thinks out for Yuri, he's making noise now, burning away, and Zaywu...
...starts to clean up this chaos. He's had enough. Zaywu activates into a 3k, and it is dominant again from Vitality.
It's just like in front of him. There's just nothing Fury can do at the moment. Vitality hitting all the right responses and looking real sharp and doing so.
I could believe Messi is walking back onto the underpass.
Yeah, I guess I was surprised they didn't know there was a lot of chaos a lot of smokes and flashes obviously in the middle
A lot of movement and probably columns on the vitality side
But I thought surely someone would have seen one of the players in underpass look they handled it at the end of the day
High fives all around in the final time I use by fury XO that that just goes to show you how important this last round of the half is
We'll see if he makes a whole load of difference
It does feel like this result is already written down.
It was always going to be a tough affair, Mirage.
But you didn't think it could get worse than Inferno.
Well, then you saw the level they came up with on Inferno and you're like, oh, yeah, Mirage
is going to be bad.
And they kept it.
I mean, they've sustained it vitality through both maps in this series.
It's not like it's just a random pop off on one map and then back to nothing on
the second.
They've been incredible consistently across both.
Final round of the first half. Final chance for Furia
to just claw together three.
No mid fight going down this time. Furia don't have the resources,
the weapons to fight. Vitality
no, they've got dominance in mid. The head of skulls, it's a little too large, peeking over the top of that box.
Zywul just needs to see a pixel and he's got that kill locked in.
Spinks to drop Kessarotto, Yuri spotted it's Stez from Zywul so that information
OH even hits the wallbang and Flames finishes him off.
Zywul is unplayable today.
12 kills, 5 deaths, only bested by Spinks.
He was about to extend to 14.
He has fallen left in a 1 vs 5 at the end of his first half.
It is dominance from Vitality.
It got worse for Furia on map 2.
And Vitality have come in with a statement, performance to open up Cologne. This is strong and they are so close to the finish.
It's a brutal domination from Vitality and we got to hear Apex laugh in French a lot in that first half because Vitality are having a great time.
They're having the best time ever. Tend to two, they just finished mopping up Fury on Furno just earlier. This series is going to come to a very, very quick finish.
And Zai Wu the alien with a cosmic performance in that first half.
He's unplayable, unstoppable.
And he's 12-5 right now and he's actually getting outmatched by Spinks, so everyone's firing
all cylinders today.
Even Mezzi's had some incredible rounds in the first half.
We'll see how Furia do an epistor on.
They have struggles in pistols and Apex flames.
They're starting off the fairies with a very clean start indeed.
It looks like those struggles will continue.
Fury it better start prepping for Team Liquid in that lower bracket.
He's just getting destroyed, you look up, and it's just Apex.
Oh, the other side of the floor.
It's a champ, we don't get to see Vitality dominating like this.
It's a lot to do because Apex just goes wild.
Look, mom, new Apex meme just dropped.
There's always a new one.
Cologne Edition.
Oh, Fury.
Well, they've gone for the conservative approach.
Look, you can't fault them whichever way they would have decided to go.
Yeah, this is going nowhere though.
this round ain't going anywhere. Ideal starts to cologne for vitality when they
win this series they'll move on they'll play phase tomorrow. Yeah that's gonna be
a tough game. Fury will drop down to the lower bracket they will play liquid
tomorrow. A rematch. That was a good game that was it that was a great
match. Close game yeah rematch from the from the stage one to one victory for
Team Liquid and obviously a regional matchup as well and I said we'll
preview of the RMRs. We saw both those teams were invited to the America's
RMRs. All these regional matchups we've been able to watch at Cologne between the
Brazilian teams and South American teams and North American teams. It's just like
a good litmus test heading into one of the most important qualifications of the
year. Right now it's lit from Vitality. There's 12 rounds round out on their
scoreboard. Oh, nushed off from Deserato. Eventually taken out by
Mezzy, it is 12-2, map series point for Vitality.
And I love that we're seeing this level from Vitality in the opening game,
because in a role where you see G2 lose in their opening match,
then you also see Spirit lose in their opening match.
You're wondering, what are Vitality going to do against Fury?
This seems like a banana skin.
You couldn't slip on Fury coming into the start of this tournament,
and Vitality have utterly destroyed them.
Fury have won five rounds in the series so far.
Yeah, but you put it like that.
It's not great. I actually didn't even think about that.
Oh baby.
Well, that definitely doesn't help.
That's pretty much how the series is gone, if we're honest.
It's just getting killed through smoke for no good reason.
Vitality, again, everything has gone their way. Everything has worked. One of those games where everything's in your favor.
FURIA gather outside of the B bomb site. The defense they're designed to deal with it is messy with a FAMASA short.
This is going to be a really hard like match review for FURIA after this because it's like you can talk all you want about strategies and gather some mistakes you can pick up on, but on some level it's simply just vitality individuals outplaying and outaiming and outfighting them everywhere they go.
Fallen, the last remaining member, Apex is in the perfect position to close and today
the V is absolutely for victory.
Vitality come into the opening day of Cologne and they stop over Furia.
This is a Vitality that is looking scary.
Zayu shows up and he had the rest of the deathly hollows alongside of him.
Yeah, I really don't care what the kind of recent history is for Vitality in terms
of discipline.
If he shows up alongside Kessaroto, this team becomes ferocious and Vitality is
It's a tough opening game if Fury arrive.
Yeah, a really tough opening game.
I spoke with Gary outside the hotel just on the way in today.
And he just kind of mentioned it.
It feels like the star players, it
feels like they're getting more confidence.
They're building themselves back up
to where we've seen them in the past.
And that's only good signs for Fury.
You add the eye test that's looked good
with Fallen's leadership.
Yeah, this team can be dangerous if they
start firing on all cylinders.
Set up for the half wall.
There's a flashback at Coffins for vitality.
Apex has it cocked and ready to go.
Flames and Zai Wu waiting for that initial fight.
Flames will take the attention, all the talk does not go to the sandbags of Flames just trying to sell his life
So the Cywil can succeed and that is exactly what Cywil will do
It's a cover-hole mix up four and Cywil just shuts down the entire setup
Cywil's first round of cologne is an ace in the pistol round. Oh the old Baton switch
So beautiful they could never get a read they could never actually find this fight shout out to Flames and
ensuring that with that flashbang he swung wide to activate Tyru in this play, and what a way to start Cologne.
Skulls.
He's looking to apply some pressure towards top middle. We really enjoyed Skull's performance in Furia throughout Stage 1.
He's looking a lot more comfortable.
Skull's critics have even had to say that he's definitely looking more comfortable inside of this Furia squad.
He saved Furia a lot of the times in Stage 1.
I mean, he just looks like a completely different player.
So much more comfort within this team.
Here comes the execute.
Late-round take of Banana, Flames up close against these two Ks,
and you shall not pass this smoke.
Oh, no!
A complete disaster!
That was a buy for Furia.
They do not get even through that smoke.
It's Zybel and Flames.
That combo is just locking Banana down.
And now Vitality starts to send players away.
They're coming back now.
Science of Furia's presence in top middle.
middle. That long storm banana inside who comes for the peek dies at long to skulls.
And Apex has no HP so he can't do anything. He talks himself into the site, he has an mp9
and no HP so it's on Flames. So it's either Flames goes nuclear or this round goes the way
of fury. A Fallen cuts off Apex trying to make his way back. And now Flames has been spotted
getting pushed from two sides. Time is limited.
Flames with that headshot. Ball this down and the kill comes through by smoke but it has
has to sprint to the site, and there's no more time.
Surely the last second is through.
Oh ho ho ho, Vitality pick it up.
And last second kill onto that ball carrier.
And Furia cannot catch a break.
It's five in a row for Vitality.
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for Furia
in the first five rounds of this half.
And now Zywoo's got the AWP, and now he's
punishing you early deep down middle.
Furia knocked out of their game so hard.
Okay, Serrano, charges out with a flash, buying it! Ho-ho, okay, Serrano!
Rips them open with his finds, and that smoke goes down towards CT.
This time, Vitality do not hold that B site. Finally, Fury will break through.
And Vitality not even budging whatsoever. They know that B site has been lost.
This is just an automatic save call immediately.
Clearing out halls to make sure there's no danger for the saves.
I will transition away from his position on RAP side.
is just going to, I mean at this point, yeah, you check all the details. You don't skip any steps,
clear everything, smoke everything off. Oh, Fury is actually coming over for a little looksie.
Vitality's having a purin! Oh, the lake shot! Fury gets brought down incredibly low.
No, Spinks is still on the A side of the map. He's nowhere near this. They're just
hoping and prodding and trying to get a couple of X's and damage the economy of Fury.
I think equally though, they probably don't want to lose these weapons even though Spinks
has $11,000. Yeah, it's been a very clean start from Vitality. As I will just take a
shot at a very narrow angle. He knows there's one still, can't land it. Fury is
gonna get away and they have their first round on the board. Yeah, but Sphinx is
still over towards T-stars. And Mezzie's charging down middle. They look to make this
very expensive for Fury. They're gonna throw utility down, they're gonna try and
heat things up, and Cello and Skulls will hang on to those weapons and they
will stop Sphinx and Mezzie from creating problems. Mezzie's gonna
to mix some aggression into his play style and he's got a clear runway until he
meets skulls, heads up watching for the push and an early advantage for Furia.
Zywoo strikes the ult over the library space fighting for short gets taken out
by Fallen, Zywoo has to chime in. He's holding for that second smoke is about to
come up as long as they wait long enough for that smoke to bloom they'll
be able to get on to the site and Zywoo is still fighting. Smoke breaks
apart, Fury goes down and the two versus three that just seems difficult for
Vitality again here to retake so and we're walking away from this fury. I will pick up two in a row
They needed that they needed a third player
I think those apex trying to come through the smoke and brackets to wrap around into the bomb site to create a second angle and
This time case or other not the entry man not the aggressor. He's just chilling and lurking and waiting for that
So if I could keep it up with a case on every player cast or auto it's been out early on
Donated to land past him
You won't take any damage from these initial skirmishes, but Flens is charging right through
that smoke and Kaserado handles business.
Feels very forced like that play was designed out of spawn and they just stuck with it even
though it's not ideal.
Maybe some utility was missed, but coming through that smoke Kaserado's not blind whatsoever,
no flashbangs, nothing harassing him and that's an easy frag and an easy advantage
for Furia again.
Now the bomb is going to be going towards the apartment, Mezzy sits within the
site.
to its pit, committed position with AWP, but he's got cover, he can dance in and around
this wall. And Mezzie, if he sets up enough distraction,
Saewoos' AWP can prove lethal. Mezzie from the site collects one kill and Saewoos got
the rest. No issues for the French AWPer. He knows where his next victim is. The flash
up short, smoke is up to protect Yuri. Graves is so heavy, beefy. Do something with
this because the separately 1v1 fights, 1 to 1 CT, 1 in banana.
Problem is, if you need to make something happen now, there's 15 seconds and when no one's showing themselves,
this defensive, like just staying pad and just staying hidden is actually perfect.
Because if Kcerano was able to get 1 kill, you could see that bomb over at halls,
maybe you force a rotation. This late in the round, Vitality takes a death of the B bombsite.
They probably think that both players are attempting to finish there, maybe you get a rotation.
Kcerano goes down at the end.
for the time so he has many life over him.
There won't be a three round in a row combat for Furia Vitality back to anyways, out of the tech issue.
Zywu, confident to take the pick down middle, he's 13-1 to start off his Cologne campaign and spanks.
Oh, he's moved down into second mid, fallen spotted, that tech nine will not fall though and our cello is too-
Oof, a boiler! Oof, he gets Zywu!
And that's a huge opening to get, Messi looking to plug the gap though, he goes to fight short but cello
He's playing the sound of death right now inside of the sight and sminks
He's trying his best to make out for vitality's weaknesses inside of the safe bomb site, but cellar does not stop
Unrelenting, finally taken out by that itchy grenade, but the damage is already done
You know that fence on balcony saved his life. That is made of some tough material
blocking all of Mezzi's bullets
And this is like a change of pace I think brought on by individual decisions
Like you get that spam going towards ult mid and cello up in you know up in halls is like
Oh, I can actually beat his fallback if he's actually peeked that far down mid
He's got a long route to run picks up the pace good heads up play from cello
And you get that kill and you say they've been starting to rebate
Let's actually try and pressure this a little bit faster
And then once again you find another kill on mezi who misses the shot. It's perfect
Are they also yeah, dude. It's like
slow
Yeah, life in the slow lane sure everything that makes it take everything big joy life more than
Okay, and he sometimes even forget to eat those are lazy so a lot in common with gamers and
Spinks he's charged down mid that M4 is ready to go and no one's turning
No one's thinking about it finally Yuri has a little look does what Spinks and it's lucky that he did because
Excel matches Spinks in that fight wonder if you heard a footstep by Spinks kind of spent that up to turn the corner
Either way, this is a lot of four or five on four advantages that Fury's been able to
find.
I think this is their third or fourth one so far in this game.
And now they're going to build upon it.
Apex gets a little lazy with that peek and utility, but Flames has a rebuttal.
No way.
You can't let this happen, Fury!
Two kills, clean on the entry, and Flames off the coffins.
It's just ripping them to shreds!
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave, and now Fallen's left in
a 1v3 total.
He's collected that first kill, but still two kills left.
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave, and now Fallen's left in a 1v3 total.
He's collected that first kill, but still two remaining, and that rotation from Mezzi is only arriving now.
So Fallen, he puts the bomb down, he could have thrown the smoke out towards CT, but instead uses that to the site.
There's a gap. Fallen goes to use it, so I already had eyes on it, and pins him down with an AWP.
But what a step up! What a hold from Flames!
That's a 1v5 hold from Flames at the B bomb site.
Four kills, and I think if he went passive after the fourth one, he would've got the fifth.
If he just reset himself, he got a little eager for that ace.
But it's all good when you deliver like this.
Two rounds that Flames has individually, literally by himself,
one for Vitality at the B bomb site.
And there's still utility to delay this final push and fury up.
Flames force out of his position.
He'll play for Newbox instead and...
...strip back into Second Oranges. Here comes that attack for Furia.
Flames from the site, it's cello down. Flames looking for a multi-kill yet again.
And he will secure it. This time he's got Apex to back him up.
And Apex, oh, he's down. Technic for Fallen. Strikes into action.
And now suddenly, it is a winnable round for Fallen. He's on for the ace.
He's on for all five.
We're four HP.
Yeah, full health, that's all he's got to play with here, but Fallen...
...he brings the fight to Saewoo!
And suddenly, it is just Messi left!
Just Mezzie to stop the power of the professor and Fallen waits around that corner
Doesn't want to give away his spot doesn't want to peek into the open. He won't fall for that initial tap
He will not fall for that old trick
The second he won't even peek that until this fight eventually comes Mezzie walks into him and prevents Fallen from pulling off the heroic clutch to save
Furia, it's eight rounds for vitality, but that was a damn nice try from Fallen
They're walking again into the B bomb site.
The B site has been the bane of their existence and flames a huge part of that.
He hides, he shrouds himself in the darkness.
He now reveals himself to two kills, a Kessarotto and Yuri that finds that Furia are blunted
in this half.
The Vitality is now a three versus two for them to try and close this nine to three.
Furia get the bomb down.
This time Fallen isn't alone.
He has cello with him, and cello is inside a banana.
There's utility, there's time, and vitality have the player advantage.
Cello is pulled into focus of CT, he's smoked out.
That's gonna make him think there's no banana flank though.
And he's looking for it intermittently, but here comes Spinks, doesn't see cello.
That smoke is acting against vitality at the moment, but he's going to start spamming
and trying to keep their attention.
Zywoo goes back to that kill, now fall in after Coffin, spray he down, goes down to Zywoo and Cello left alone.
He wanted to pull the utility, but he couldn't stop Zywoo.
Zywoo opens the half with an ace and closes it with the Deagle. It's Vitality in the lead, 9-3.
Yeah, Flames was incredible in that half as well. It's just so sick to see Vitality's CT side look that strong.
And now with the pistol round win, Inferno could be a very short story.
Furia invests into three sets of Jules Baranis and Jello gets melted.
Zywu is having a field day in pistol rounds.
He is the only player for a vitality to get a kill in a pistol round, still to this point.
I kind of want to play a game against Zywu.
I just want to see what it feels like because it looks like it would feel rough.
It would feel real rough.
What are you supposed to do?
Skulls and Yuri up in halls.
So there's no resistance at the A-bomb site.
They'll be able to gather information.
It's just about can they hold on to their positions, stay alive, and have some impact
so when eventually K-sur-Auto and Fallen come over, they can actually make an attempt at
the retake.
And as soon as Vitality is swinging to the bomb site and see nobody shooting at him
from pit, nobody shooting at him from the bomb site, they're going to know holes which
they've never cleared is a very real point of danger.
They've got to be a little confused right now as well.
Oh, Apex about to find it out.
Oh, Tarbin's now cleared.
Apex has the information, they're currently occupying the apartments.
I think this round is, I think I feel pretty confident in just calling this.
Like even if they come in for the retake, there's no kit.
Yeah.
You gotta find five players, three of them are in pit, two of them are in the new circle.
There's about 15 different crossfires.
There's, I mean, for a must-win round, Fury would put up no fight.
Yeah, there's no urgency about this either.
They're still coming closer to the A bomb side, but it's so far away from it.
It's a cool boost to get a kill on the Apex, but yeah, it's just the limited time is the problem.
They don't have any real standing in this round.
It's 10 for Vitality, so essentially it was one off the back of that blistering shot from Zayu and the round's over.
10-3.
Yeah, I don't...
Yeah, I don't really like that from Fiora.
Like, that's a critical round that you have to win.
Ending down into the A bomb site, they've got two kills in this vitality, and they're
two important ones because they've got full control of this A site.
Furious starts to rotate these players back, Fallen is the closest to the fight.
The plant is in, Fallen is looking to see if he can catch someone trying to change position,
get it into a post plant, but Vitality found themselves quite comfortable.
So I was elevated on the box and started the bomb site, Fallen's got beyond that
utility, but Spinks has still got eyes on this where Fallen just charges in, gets
caught by Spinks from pit, gets caught by the flash, and that does cost him
his life. Yeah, he actually might have been able to create an opening for a seat if he
didn't get blind, but he ate that flashbang. That looked really silly, but I guarantee
he was full white on his screen. The way Sao can even control that galeel spray while
he's jumping off a box is so crazy. It's 11 rounds now for Vitality. It just keeps
getting worse for Furia, and up next is Mirage. You know, in like a 1v4 hold of the B
bomb site as 1v5 hold of the bomb site getting 4 kills on it.
So impressively he's able to do that.
More than once.
A single half.
Nozai we're charging up banana we know this is his comfort ground but not this time.
Shelo wipes the floor with him.
Keisarado all their load has softened up and that MP9 only manages one.
There's still this fight for banana going on and Shelo gets traded in again.
It's flames.
Biting back.
Putting Vitality in pole position, and he is going to smoke out CT and sprint into the site with a bomb.
Spinks is here to cut off this mid rotation.
Oh, awkward situation for him though.
He's going to smoke to get him out of that.
Still uncomfortable for Spinks, but he gets out, he's joining his countrymen inside.
All banana, Spinks will hold it, and Vitality comes through.
Their opening map in Cologne is Domination versus Furia.
This is a squad that are looking scary.
This is a squad that do not look like they're going to get upset.
Mirage is up next, Vitality looking strong.
Hi guys, Mezi here.
Make sure to sub to ESLCS, keep right on.
Yeah, I think in front of it had to be a must win
and it's just shocking that it wasn't even close
to being in contention.
It was just such a wipeout by Vitality.
They came in today with an attitude.
I mean, the hard thing is seeing a way
that Fury can win this map,
steal it away from them when you have Sai Wu
playing the way he did.
When you have Flames, he playing the way he did.
Spink started to step up towards the end.
So the pieces on the Vitality side are looking good.
Pistor round start, one for one trade in mid, and Quesarado eats one Glock bullet to the dome.
Well, Vitality have decided to go with every single player on Kevlar, so it's all about headshots or Vitality,
and they've got a lot of them in these Pistor rounds today, and there's another one coming right up.
Fallen walks into Spinks, Fallen's down, Vitality into the lead on players, and there's so much time.
Look at the minimap at how much space that kill created. You saw immediately Yuri back away from Khan.
Quesarados left the A bomb site, they're going to choose to back over towards B,
in this entire time Vitality was just hoping they'd be able to crawl up Connector.
Apex needs to find this information though and make sure his teammates don't go up Catwalk.
That would be the only calamity that Vitality can run into.
And with Apex in this position, no one's really scouting the A-Bomb site,
so Vitality's still taking their time, still figuring out exactly where they want to finish,
seeing if they can have any more information gathered,
seeing if anyone from Fury is going to push into them.
The bomb now making its way up Connector.
Yeah, making the right call.
So, pissed around for Vitality.
That's another one for vitality.
If you're really struggling to get good starts in the half today in this best of three
Look at apex just going from rat position to rat position. He's loving it. I
Absolutely loving it
No one from theory coming towards about they can't win this round once you call that stack
It's it's over if they don't come to your bomb site, so they'll bring a lot
Yeah, they'll bring the armor to the next round
KSROTO got gushed, will be a really cool indicator of what level these teams have come into Cologne with.
Vitality's staying very grouped up as they have every round so far in this half.
The window smoke could blast it open to reveal two Furia players.
Zayu Apex taking the first two in this round for Vitality.
You're at least trying to keep Furia in the fight, but gonna have to go out again.
Second time of asking.
Third, unable to sink Apex.
There's a boost being constructed with these two Furia players.
You're reclimbing up on top, Zywoo dealing with that.
The majority of his health, but Sphinx has got short, and covers off forward.
It's now Kassarado, the only remaining player for Furia.
And Vitality, once again, off to a flawless start.
It's gonna be 3 to 0.
They have 5-0 lead on Inferno, now 3 here on Mirage.
It could be a similar or even better for Vitality to kick off Mirage.
Yeah, Furia really can't let themselves get into that hole
where the money grows so much for Vitality
They'll just never have to save throughout the half. That's exactly what happened on inferno
If you're gonna get into a hole at least do some damage get some kills and make sure they can't just build up in
undepleatable bank
Apex gets that final frag. It's three to nothing guns will come back out for fury a fallen should have the AWP as well
But he didn't take a step too far now. Oh cello. That's a risky game. You're playing my friend
And he ends up getting dropped down a six health
Yeah, that was a really bold naive move from cello that no one would be having that angle even with that boost
But that boost wasn't deep enough to spot the position Spinks was in
So cello pays a heavy price
Vitality playing this run a little bit slow hoping to let some of this utility be used and burned early from the defense
Boosted on top of his teammates head that movement was enough to adjust the attention of Casarotto towards it
We're breaking the smoke, also allowed him to get the glimpse of Zaiwu jumping up, so he can swing back with a pre-fire.
That's the advantage now for Furia.
As you now hit the 39 second mark in this round, the fight is going down a connector and Skulls with the second play they weren't ready for.
Falling and Skulls combining, keeping Furia ahead, this time by two extra players.
And Skulls wants to clear Messi. He knows he's got him pinned in there.
But Messi, he snaps on with a headshot. He's got the ball on his back, and he knows if he exposes himself to short, he could easily fall down here.
and he gets involved with that fight, and Yuri somehow loses it.
Remember, Cello? He started a B.
Well, he's over at the A site now, and he might be the player to unravel this round for vitality.
He denies that bomb plant. Now there's no time.
Spinks has to get it instantly and start planting, but he doesn't have the time for it.
Now it's about to kill, and Fallon just hides away.
So, from zero to hero, Cello wins the round for Furia.
Peche, you look at Furious, by here there's so many weaknesses, despite winning the round.
I'm going to boost Yuri up into the ladder room. It's quite quick for Vitality getting players into mid.
Fall is down first and that's one of the best weapons, gone instantly.
This is why I think they wanted to have players in mid so fast is they wanted the comms from Furia to be that mid is being pressured.
They wanted to take some attention away so Apex can have an aggressive lurk in Palace.
And one by one, no Mezzy.
Oh, he's crumbling down.
He's looking sharp right now, Mezzy.
That's a heat check peak.
He's won some fights, he really shouldn't have had a chance at winning.
This would be just brutal for Fury.
I'd lose everything here.
Utility used by Yuri, and immediately the comm is both are at the B bomb site.
One towards Cowok on the right side, one was just at the market door.
Yeah, well, they might be arriving at the Stone Age again.
Roy just come to hit the flakonomy of furia nearly gets her to flames
Traded instantly now just cello and start of the smoke and he's cleared out nothing save for furia
She might just have towards the apartments and go for the the bee pig
So he's gonna send his AWP over that fallen up in ladder room with his sniper and he wants to fight mid
He's be careful here cello. He's got a couple of jumps that they have cost him
I know that grenade, it slows Casterado down so it completely halts his motion towards connector
and that keeps him in the open long enough for Flames to finish him off.
So Dave, Fallen's here for the equalizer, it's not all lost yet, he's hunting desperately
to just find a kill, but another one of his teammates have gone down before he's able
to even see anyone.
Yeah, this is rough for Fury, Fallen desperately hanging around trying to get rid of Flames,
even that grenade is not enough to finish off the low HP Flames.
Flames is searching through this B bomb site.
Oh, cello, this is gonna suck.
He's got the one angle that cell is not positioned for.
He might not clear it.
Oh, tip of the barrel, he's not going to clear it at all.
Cell all looks up to the apartments.
Newly gets a second kill out of that as well,
but will fall at the hand of Spinks.
So it just proves to be immortal right now.
Yet to die, that's a seventh kill.
Now Mezzi stands out of the ramp,
bomb goes to B,
and Mezzi is about to remove everything from Furious hands.
Fallen knows that Mezzi is there,
is not going to work out for Fallen. It is 6 to 1 for Vitality.
Here's that change up in style. I was around late.
Mid-utility, but it's going to be a timing hit, so it's the B bomb site.
Nade and Stout combined for the first kill.
Cellar does fine work with the P250.
Oh, Apex!
Spam down randomly. And Apex is going to drop the bomb to take space and make sure there's no stack.
He's activated Bloodthirsty mode. He throws the bomb down, says it's not his job.
Urie, Kesterado coming back through the apartments.
What are they just trying to figure out? Where are they coming from?
Eventually they'll find out. Apex is coming up short.
Oh, Zywa gets dinked. He's low. Messi's got him covered though.
Skulls comes in. Apex looking the wrong way. 2v2 now.
Kesterado surely can't win this fight against Messi, but he certainly will.
Now, Zywa's forced to keep vitality in this round. Time taking. No kit available.
Kesterado's got that kill, but is there time? No.
The answer is a resounding no. Fury come in and clean up all the vitality players, but unfortunately for them, vitality is full of cash and, well, not enough time.
Flames is on a diet of shrapnel.
Ooh, look at Apex. He just crawled through smoke out Palace, trying to get cheeky.
They can go well for him.
Ooh, Messi clearing the smoke. Skulls took a step back and didn't really clear the whispers of smoke as much as Messi would have liked.
Vitality is a really good job of converting 4V5s on inferno. They've got another one here
But this time they walk into a two-man stack.
Hey, Serato handles business with the help of skulls.
Yeah, they know where Messi is too. They lost seeming towards ramps, so
Not gonna be easy here for Messi to do much
But if you can make it expensive
If you have three players, three players of Alps in the house right now
It's like the old art days
Not trusting their rifles
Not trusting those M4s
Surely one gets dropped, right?
Yeah, they're going to drop it for the AK-47 and pick that up.
That's Kaserado grabbing the AK.
If you're looking at this double-op setup as the solution to their problems
to drag them back into this game, a five-round deficit at the moment
and Kaserado is going to get aggressive.
The charge up top mid, AK-47 in the hands of Kaserado,
only grabbing one Zywoo, barely alive.
It's still able to trade out that 1v1.
We're from cello, Messi goes down.
Vitality crumbling.
In this round, it's Spinks and Zaiwu having to fight back, and that is just so unstoppable.
He's going to molly him out as well.
And now Skulls is forced into the open.
Spinks following up.
And now it's around that Spinks can win.
That fire is starting to clear in jungle, but Yuri somehow finds sanctuary.
Plant comes in, but it keeps him at least pinned in jungle long enough for Spinks to plant the bomb.
But Spinks know where he is and he knows the other one wasn't off at the B bomb site
So he's trying to just use this belt full of utility to try and make things a little more comfortable for himself
Create space for him to get out from behind default boxes in behind triple
But he's got to worry about all of the retake positions until those steps now
We know it's a ball here and Spinks separates it into the 1v1
Spinks sharpening his sword as they come around the side
He slices them back, and it is vitality in unusable rounds for Furious, still stepping up and still getting victories.
That's a 2v4 win for Spinks and Zywoo, an absolutely filthy round trading their way into the bomb site,
activated by some spectacular shots from Zywoo, and a great piece of movement from Spinks.
He chucks all that utility and finds a perfect timing to transition to the other side.
Side Fury, I thought he was on the left the entire time.
Oh, and Zywu's now fired up.
He goes in the middle, Keisarado taken down,
and Mezzy quickly in mid.
I don't know.
There's two players in underpass.
There's two players in underpass right now,
and Mezzy has his back turned to them.
Finally, that tray comes in from Spinks,
and they'll molly and heat things up for Yuri.
He's making noise now, burning away,
and Zywu starts to clean up this chaos.
He's hot enough.
Zywu activates into a 3K,
and it is dominant again from Vitality.
No mid-fight going down this time.
Here we don't have the resources, the weapons to fight.
Vitality, no, they've got Dominance.
In mid, at the head of Skulls, it's a little too large, peaking over the top of that box.
Zywu just needs to see a pixel.
He's got that kill locked in.
Spinks to drop Kassurado.
Yuri spotted it stairs from Zywu, so that information-
Oh, he even hits the wallbang!
And Flayne finishes him off.
Zywul is unplayable today. 12 kills, 5 deaths, only bested by Spinks, who's about to extend
to 14. He has fallen left in a 1 vs 5 at the end of his first half. It is dominance from
Vitality. It got worse for Furia on map 2. And Vitality have come in with a statement,
performance to open up Cologne. This is strong and they are so close to the finish.
And he's 12-5 right now and he's actually getting outmatched by Spinks, so everyone's
firing all cylinders today.
Even Nezzy's had some incredible rounds in the first half.
We'll see how Fury are doing a piss around.
They have struggles in pastels and Apex, full aims, they're starting off the very clean
start indeed.
It looks like those struggles will continue and Fury better start prepping for Team Liquid
in that lower bracket.
Why'd you just get and destroy and you look up and it's just Apex?
Oh, they're upside to the floor.
It's a shame we don't get to see vitality dominating like this is often because Apex
just goes wild.
Yeah, but you put it like that.
It's not great.
I actually didn't even think about that.
Yeah.
That's...
Oh, baby.
Well, that definitely doesn't help.
Pretty much how the series is gone if we're honest is is just that you're getting killed through a smoke for no good reason
Vitality again, everything has gone their way. Everything has worked
One of those games where everything's in your favor
Little fury a gather up sign the B bomb site the defense there designed to deal with it is messy with a fantastic short
This is gonna be a really hard like match review for fury after this because it's like you can talk all you want about
about strategies and there's some mistakes you can pick up on but on some level it's simply
just vitality individuals out playing and out aiming and out fighting them everywhere
they go.
Fallen the last remaining member Apex is in the perfect position to close and today the
V is absolutely for victory vitality come into the opening day of Cologne and they
stop over Furia.
This is a vitality that is looking scary.
Zayu shows up and he had the rest of the deathly hollows.
Get Zayu to get to no skill!
I'm right to the chest of Kharagin, second try!
It's thrown out fast from Odyssey!
Kharagin and his boys get the better of Apex and his.
CT start for Team Vitality phase on the attack and a smoke up top mid to start.
They have a 3-2 division of the Vitality defense.
Apex, he's got himself a whole lot of Utah, silent entry for Rain into the bedroom.
Spinks tending to that possibility.
Rushly on the ones and twos with MC.
On the context.
Well, the Utah's on Apex to block B, so it's gonna have to be the USP's getting it done over towards A.
So I went long side, there's the flash, here comes the waterfall.
Yeah, Rain's gonna be the front man, but it's actually gonna be a one and done from Spinks.
which is partner in crime gets empty completely empty handed there.
Mezzian spins four and they will get that bomb down.
So mission accomplished.
Zyber has already been gooshed.
So that's a yeah impact not going to be felt this time on his inferno pistol.
In the A site, probably a good call.
Is there no there isn't a picture of the flash flamethrower?
It nearly gets out.
Double kills. Great rain shuts it down, though.
Oh, that was almost one way for the kids to kick things off on Inferno.
We had Zywoo when they took to the server yesterday with Ace on the pissed rounds.
Flames with almost a 1v3 situation. That would have been a thing of beauty.
But as soon as you get into the site, you start being like,
okay, this should be pretty straightforward for FaZe.
As long as they play these post plans, there should be no issues.
Well, Flames, after all of his hard work, he's earned himself a Deagle note care.
He's dropped Zywoo a rifle. He's earned it, I suppose.
I suppose?
Yeah, well this is quite a threat that's still available.
Flames and Apex over towards B but they have that drop down 4 in their hands as I would assist and it'll take first blood.
Yeah, is that retrievable?
I don't know what character you're knocking on the door but he pieces out.
They know there's a window of opportunity away from that M4.
They have to be quick if they want to try and beat the reputation and play the number advantage.
Lining up Smoke towards the long side.
They head towards Library. They're gonna try and wrap.
This is a good call against the Light of Bides.
Vampinana speaks with one and a half.
Oh, yeah, now, I thought there was a free frag.
Apex, a little lazy on that one.
It's slow to pull the trigger,
but it doesn't matter if Flamed is here in one tap.
Oh, no! They've pulled it off!
Apex with a double kill.
Let's go indeed.
They leave with the round,
disrupting FaZe's momentum on the second round of play.
Yeah, now they have the miserable variety
of the 1,400 force by to go back the other way.
And FaZe striped me as the type of team
We'll just get the diggles in search, but this is it. If you're gonna have the hero M4 dropped, you want to make sure it's in the action.
You don't want to just be sitting in pit and having to wait, and the round might not come its way, but that's massive from Apex.
And getting fired up, bringing the energy early on, Vitality.
Yeah, didn't get to see that from Flames' POV, but he's here a couple of bangers with that no-armor dig.
Now it's FaZe's turn. Something they're known for, historically capable in these kind of rounds.
Yeah, the problem is they're just gonna have to take their time with this.
You need to allow all this CT utility to be siphoned through, or flash and fight!
Okay, Apex is fortunate that the flames are on his side and not just the play up.
Yeah, jumping while flash banged in.
Oh, Karagin swallows a HE grenade down to 47.
Might get sphinxed on the long side on a jiggle.
Info plays to staying active, Vitality.
Oh, and they will have heard that. Karagin needs to search forward.
Oh, you know what? Not far off from converting onto Flames.
Well, you take the dink and that might entice the rest of FaZe to head over towards B
and see if they can finish the job that their in-game leader started.
But this is looking very good for a 2-1 lead for Vitality,
which should quickly become 3-1 with the full eco next.
How interesting can Brokey, Rain and Rops make this?
Yeah, that's what remains to be seen.
Sphinx is close. If there is any lingering FaZe members just trying to waltz in,
There can be that Molotov deployed from Spinks or a flash over them towards backside is boost. It's making the most of things vitality
Shouldn't be too much here for phase
Rain will search
Actually just all he's hit the head on scary things
It's not as comfortable does go down off the one that he knows is a booster and he's gone down to phase have managed to find the site
Incredible shooting from rain
I thought that crouch was going to be in Flames' favor, but it led to the death of that CT rotation from Spinks.
Yeah, it's crazy. Spinks gets nothing done there.
Hang on.
Yeah, that's a fantastic maid from Zywoo.
Molly would do the job.
He's in trouble.
Trying to get away doesn't hit the first tap, and so Zywoo closed it down, a costly one, sure,
but all they needed was the round, and it's Zywoo that converts it.
Yeah, X-Tiles given a bit of a clap there, but you could see the expression on Apex's face
that should never have been that close.
We're talking a 5v3 situation, you had the right read, the rotation was perfect, you had bolstered the correct bombsite, they still get the plant, they still take 4 kills, it's the rain over the bang!
Spinks just doing the dance.
Yeah, they had 2 flashbangs and the first one they used is perfect, segregating the fight and managing to take as much as they did, it certainly is a silver lining.
Well, we have to change that discourse we were just having because FaZe get in, they do so much damage with only one member and the bomb going down, Karagin wants to keep the pressure on.
Gonna force fight again.
Ooh, is this not a risk?
No, I like it. There's only one player that's survived.
You know that their buy is gonna still be a little bit rough around the edges.
I say that as we take a look at 3M4s in an AK, but lacking U2.
Yeah, and they're gonna try and search towards early apps control.
Apex goes looking, gets in their Mac 10 to the face.
So, we were alongside, though.
Catches frozen, takes him down.
Rain looking to advance.
Mezzy responsible for boiler down.
Sendiary will limit Rain's contributions, a lick of the flame, audible.
Yeah, it was Robs looking for that M4, good catch from MC.
They might be able to get it. Vitality have actually tilted it up into a 2-2 setup. They've given brackets control
and they've also got foregone banana. FaZe just need to go and work that out.
Over a minute left on the clock, so plenty of time and a decent amount of smokes to go for an execute.
I mean, I feel like he's going to be sitting there for a while, but that is the God Flash side.
We'll give you a demonstration of how to line it up.
Yeah, it might even be a gamble. Look at the reposition of Mezzi. He was just starting to hedge towards CT spawn.
The smoke towards Long has drawn him back in and it hasn't been thrown perfectly, but the job has been done
I feel like
I try to call another gamble or a bit of a read it's awfully quiet 38 seconds as he's floating there will be a third man on his way
So timing is everything on this. He's gonna try and swing through that smoke
Here he comes. They're blind, but he is dead huge from Rob's long range tech line headshot posted
Messi, Messi gets two, but Robbs has done the same. It's only Spinks and that bomb will go down with plenty of time to spare.
Robbs and Karagin up against Spinks. Well this time there's no utility to clear out those corners.
That's what helped them last time, the Molly and the HE.
This is awkward. Robbs has had a huge
impactful round with the Karagin call to just push all the chips in.
They know they have them vulnerable, but Spinks could make this costly. He could come back.
1 vs 2, denied by Robs!
A quad kill from the Estonian, that is 2-2, all tied up!
Yeah, great to see some impact from Robs like that.
And this has been a tussle, neither team has been able to establish what their game plan was going to be coming into this matchup just yet.
Because we've had the force by wars back and forth, almost consistently.
And that damage, yeah, that's massive.
And then he does everything himself, the take 9 coming in, just completely shutting down any of the advances from Vitality to defend that site.
And we'll continue. It's not over yet. The force pipe needs to come back from vitality
Phase wins this they can break through and then vitality would be the ones on that fully co-conversation
I'm pulling holes
Had been taken
That goes rain early death is going to be costly
significant damage desire
Smoke on library side, but I was still holding on to it
He's gonna have to tuck back in to cover off arch in case there is the slink potential
Brokey has the bomb, so I imagine he's just gonna be kind of containing while his teammates search.
If they walk through the arch-side smoke, they can pincer onto A, and that looks like what they're doing.
Oh, well done by Mezzy.
Good push from Spinks.
He's into the site. Spinks, he can go round from behind.
Brokey's a free frag. The bomb goes idle.
Rob's in Karagun. They've only got 20 seconds.
First frag is great. Rob's provides the second, but at great cost to his health.
That's how it is. Karagin needs to pick up that bomb now. Apex is going to stop him.
Oh, he fights instead. Flash is good. Zywoo's been spotted out with the frag.
He knows where Flames is too, so he knows where they both are. 13 seconds.
It's still not comfortable in timing. Chance squandered on the 5-7.
Fake on the plant. Hoping to punish. Takes the head. You haven't got time for that, Karagin.
Oh no, the clock. It conversed around for him. I think misjudgment there from Karagin.
Thought he had time for a rifle retrieval.
perhaps anticipates though to have gone and doubled up but either way yeah it's
a bit of a sigh from Karagan knows he could have done a bit more with that
well alright well this game is definitely delivering isn't it from the
pistol round we've had purchases every single round that's followed nobody's
taken an eco constant force buys and the rounds are going down to the wire we've
had three rounds in a row that have come down to just one player staying
alive actually since the pistol as well so it was just the second round of
play where two players for vitality managed to survive.
And as nice as it was, I mean, you know, a testament to what
you've just been saying, Chad, it's just how crazy the buys
off of both teams. Like there's just nothing.
Yeah, but again, it goes back to this novel game plan right
now. So they are just rolling. It is just the individuals on
display.
Alive to alive, one alive, one alive, one alive.
For all indeed, I mean, entertaining, no doubt about it
vitality phase locking horns in an advancement match for the
I think another thing that happens when the matches like this is neither team in a lot
of these rounds either has full firepower or full utility.
So there has to be things that are a little bit direct or risky, which is why you do get
the volatility that we're seeing in some of these scenarios.
You can't go, okay, let's get banana control, then let's return, let's get bracket control
on the T side.
You just don't have the needs to do so.
That's true.
So in combination, both of them, yeah.
And then when the CTs don't have the same to block as they traditionally would,
have to take a couple more forward stances. That's a look for fights. And in the four spies
from Vitality had Spinks with an opener on the Famous. She had Zywa with the drop down
four from Flamzie earlier in the piece over towards B. So constantly looking for the fights
Vitality.
Frozen out of the Moto Smoke. That was the penultimate smoke from FaZe. So you'd
expect there to be a commitment off the back of that. Karagin has flashbangs but
Apex with a HG onto Frozen elsewhere. That's the lurk gone. And he starts to accelerate.
Spinks good find already
Broke into the site we'll find one
There's he's the only one there, but not for long rain doubles up the bomb will go down and phase have the site
Do we finally see a save?
We might have to there. They were so far away. It wasn't like they had a an early lead time on that apps explosion
And they will just look to retain these rifles the galil and the m4 for flames in apex respectively
So they're gonna carry these through we'll type things up again. It'll be three three
It also means that the loss bonuses haven't been able to build because we've just been going back and forth so it'll be 1400 yet again for vitality.
Yeah, a bleak with two rifles into the next.
Yeah, so Flamesy at the moment has 600 so he's going to have 2k. He might be able to drop something. Apex is going to be at 1750.
Maybe they want to give us scouts as I know it's Inferno, but maybe he can harass down towards middle within the early stages.
So nobody's broken through but I think the fact that they saved two rifles says that yeah vitality
I'm just gonna shovel in yet again
So yeah, okay apex is dropped like a little desire where he's boy himself an MP9
I think flames he's dropped an MP9 as well and
One's been equipped from spanks. So this looks like rounds that we've already seen from them throughout this half
Look at it. Look how many MP9's are in the server. They're all live on one side
We've got two MP9's carried over from phase one for rain one for Carrigan
This is the bare knuckles roll right now.
MB9's for the T side, but it's Frozen's first, and it's an impactful one onto flames.
Going looking, Apex cautiously retrieves that M4.
Yeah, and you immediately want to look at the radar.
Are the A defenders looking to group up and try and take some space?
Well, no. Both plans are quite defensively, as it is banana, where they want to take this jewel.
Spinks with the assistance of Apex to see if they can catch the crawl.
It's frozen's first kill good time to get activated chance to finally break vitality
Wary of apartment's bushes. So rain being diligent with his utip and no secret steps will have been heard
So full mid control they haven't been able to say the same for banana just yet
This is a good combo designed to disrupt this very set up
Spinks and apex noted chipping away at apex to 35. It's Zywoo elevated on the barrel Karagur
down and out, but immediate from Robson the way back.
Mezzi long range, but down.
And so the A-Sci once again falls and Vitality
may just have to reside themselves
from a very similar situation to the previous.
Okay, so now we should see the save from Vitality
that will result in an eco behind the M4 and the MP9.
Yeah, so is this a moment's respite from the chaos?
In a way, but they still have to,
I'm curious to see if Apex even opens with the M4
if he gives it to somebody else, right?
But regardless, there's still threats for FaZe.
It's not like they're getting a clean antico round where they just get to play against USPs
or maybe upgrade to the P250s.
This is still a couple of weapons to deal with.
There's also smokes, HEs, so never an easy round.
But you'd feel like you've broken through as far as the economy game is concerned.
Oh, through the land, artsy.
OK, well, first consecutive rounds for FaZe.
Vitality found theirs early on after their forcebite and the follow-up, but too many casualties,
and then these forcebite wars continued.
Frozen's first kill, as mentioned, a nice little opener onto Flamesy, and Zywa in a very
committed position, so good trade for Rops.
Nezzy does what he has to, but getting wrapped off on that long side, so he was going to
be a dead man walking regardless.
Yeah, but if Rops is frapping, it is a Rop, I think.
That's Chad as I lighted still something to be concerned about for phase they're
not gonna be rushing anything willy-nilly did a big bummer for the captain
for vitality if they want to win this round he started me now back over to be
and ah yeah already 35 points of health and we've been here before last time
they probe banana that was the same result for apex just brought down
to a uncomfortable amount of HP I think you just gonna have to gamble stuff
something of your vitality in this type of scenario group up hope that
you've rolled the dice correctly.
Phase, heavy forces in banana.
It is just rops over towards second mid.
More B pressure applied, flush over.
Frozen can take the jewel.
And a big part of this is,
oh, we saw the M4 here, we're calling the bluff.
Is he gonna stay here?
Now that he's, you know, we know, he knows.
Where does he wanna find himself?
And that gamble, so in the manifest,
if you take a look at the radar,
as I was cheating over to help out the A bomb site
as well, it is just flamesy.
And there's another part of this.
In that conversation that Sharks referenced with Apex, Alexi, Karrigan, the mind games of this, they showed the M4 here, are they stacking here?
Do they want to let us in? Is that why no one's peeking now? That frozen's gone forward, he's now noted a plasma boost, that's information.
They can still rotate back, everything else is relatively clear.
They were cutting it fine, I mean 15 seconds, now that smoke fades and so long as they get across and the re-smoke comes in, they've just about managed their time perfectly.
Look at that seven seconds as caragant delivers the package.
I mean, thank God, Frozen went searching.
Without that probe, you're walking into that stack
and they could have gone a different way instead.
Phase, thankfully, covered their bases and working out.
Just important that Apex and Spinks hold on to these,
even though they are gonna buy up into their next round.
Normally, I don't know, we're quite deep
within the half at this point,
but first rifle rounds for the CTs
after losing pistol and forces
can always be a little bit rough
around the edges regarding all the goods.
So a couple of extra rifles, this is going to help them down the stretch.
Broke he wants to kind of disrupt that.
It's going on a bit of a search.
And it's resulted in the loss of his rifle.
Nezzy could have done with taking that AK, but instead loses his life.
That's only the MP9.
So not the end of the world.
I wonder if we see an AWP get dropped across to Zywoo.
That could be made possible by Spinks.
We'll keep our eyes on those purchases, but phase with a two round lead.
And, well, we mentioned the fact that these two teams have played each other three times this year and every time it's been in the playoffs of a tournament we've had, uh...
Oh, good boys.
Yeah.
It's good to have you as well.
Alright, well...
Still good.
Not the end of the world, only two round difference.
Still plenty to be played within this map.
Here's that AWP, so it was dropped across.
So we're getting active with it, and removed.
Big one from Rob, just swing straight into Ziloo.
There's another one the menu Massey does well to get away with his life an important equalizing frag
It's insane that our rops has just gone so quickly into that fight
He's not shy. Is he it's not really kind of typically his
His style
You know his timings
Brings the fight early and it profit it's profitable 10th frag from rops looking like he's in good form today
Familiar opponent the take nine round that he had to be in the most impactful so far. Yeah
I'm intrigued by Flames' position here. He's kind of alone on the site and opting for a very active angle on Paul.
Will's likely slip away as the smoke starts to fade. Apex is looking to join him.
Worst case, he found himself towards CT and they're in a full retake setup. Now that Apex is over, they spawned Spinks as info. Here we go.
Alright Apex, what are you going to do with this?
No, you till really. The fast flank, Spinks put the bomb down.
That's going to completely change the plan for FaZe. Really uncomfortable round now for FaZe plan. They're just going to pick up the bomb and go.
game plan. Slightly delayed. Flames should have at least one empty handed. Rain has found
a huge frag back. Bomb down. 3 on 3. This is an intense retake and it could have got
awkward for Spinks. Core jumping up, man-playing on towards the barrels. Frozen Conceived just
backs away. Time on their side. The last of their utile used to try and take half
wall but Frozen on the re-aggress and Mezzie falls. Karagin takes two. It's a phase
6th on this T-side.
All right, well, we've gone through the history
that match over in London, the spring finals for Blast,
Inferno was the map choice of phase, they won it 13 to 4.
Then they lost the series, 13 to 10 on Dust2,
and then 13 to 6 on Mirage.
So they're keeping up their strong form
on Inferno versus Vitality.
Should be an opportunity for them to look for that 7th.
Now they have upgraded into a,
silence there, there's always been a threat
for Vitality in these rounds.
There's not a single round where it's just been, you know, the lightest of possible investments.
So again, they're going to have to worry about a couple of upgrades, MP9, Deagle, Smokes, and Flamesy with the big one.
Oh, they're going to be calling for a flash.
It's all about the timing here, frozen.
Ooh, does well.
Very well.
And the free fire.
Oh my God, you heard that.
Two AKs are starting anticipating Apex, however.
With combination with his SMG and the HE, he brings down Brokey, Carrigan, Wiltrade.
And it looks like a 7th looms.
I think much more for Mezzi and Zawut to do with only Desert Eagles.
It's crazy at this point how many opening jewels Frozen has been involved in.
And for the most part of this game he was on the receiving end.
Wasn't he 0 and 6?
Yeah he was, but now he's, well...
5 and 6?
But the kills is 3 and 5 in opening jewels.
So all of those frags that he had given away are 5 of them were opening deaths.
Now he's starting to get his own back.
back. So I have great resurgence for Frozen.
Like a comeback in the middle of a half it's impressive.
Yeah there's some players if they don't start the game strong, if they don't get a kill on the
pistol in the early rounds against the force they can just continue to be slow and then you get
beaten down and then you're not going to continue to be aggressive or take your fights.
It seems like it's the opposite of Frozen.
Yeah I mean we talk about confidence being a really important component in a player
and a lot of players kind of derive their confidence.
Do we want to speak on game?
You stay there, then?
Yeah.
I'll go close to Rostov.
He's at bar.
Rostov?
Yes!
I'll swap by again.
Yeah.
Good fucking shit, man.
Good day, Trevor.
Fucking nice.
Pretty calm.
Yeah.
Right, 3v3 post-play position.
Pretty calm.
That's what you'd like to see.
Ozawa gets another opportunity on the AWP last time.
Had it only for a brief moment.
See if we can do more with it there.
We made quite a statement in his opening game. We've only seen that one game vitality versus furious is our second look at what vitality are bringing to I am cologne 2024
Same could be said for phase
And there's I was all good for it, but down after one frozen loses his life and the bomb
That's team play they leave with an advantage and the site. Yeah, Robster did job perfectly there that late piece through boiler
That's that it gets rumbled there waiting there for the progression holes, which we've seen
quite consistently from FaZe. Rain and rops up through Boiler and Halls being quite aggressive.
That's how the last time Zawa had an AWP got rumbled. This time they go straight up the guts,
go long side, AWP signs off. They learn of the Boiler setter who rops comes through and cleans
house. It has to be another Vitality save and it's these two. Yet again, Apex and Flamesy.
Karrigan has gotten wind of this and is already on the hunt.
But yesterday was way too easy for Vitality, wasn't it? I don't mean that in a bad way.
I mean, in a way that they just absolutely mauled their opponent, it was a non-issue whatsoever.
Ooh.
Okay, Apex does get that one.
And should get away with his life.
Let's go into the final round of the first half.
Oh, I tell you, they're gonna be kicking themselves, because after they won the 4-spire and the follow-up, if they didn't give away so many kills,
in that 3-play, it was a 3v5, where Sphinx rotated CT, Apex boosted Flamesey backside,
And that round came down to a one-on-one situation where they gave away the plant, they gave away all those rifles.
If they hadn't have messed up in that variety, we would have likely seen FaZe go forward to take an eco.
And then they could have started establishing themselves in the heart, but since that point, Vitality's finances have been on the ropes.
Sure, there's been the possibility to have a couple of these hero M4s or saved M4s in the mix, the threats that I've been talking about.
But they never really got an opportunity to establish their full game plan with full buys in this first half of play.
Yeah, no, it's really it's admirable considering losing that second round force after winning the pistol
You'd think that that marks like a kind of change in momentum
But even losing the following but making it costly and carrying and making that culture to take it with tech 9s
It's resulted in an 8 3 half. We could be looking at a 9 3 half with all of that said
See how they've tried and finish this one off flames and apex and having their trials on beat
This HE looks like it's destined to do some damage to Flamzee.
He pushes ahead and does manage to avoid the brunt of it.
But he is being run up by Karak, and look at him go.
Nade, Flam, thinks twice about it with a single flashbang.
He's going to set his boys up.
Yeah, the fact that you draw that smoke at about a minute 22 on the clock,
Mission accomplished, you've applied so much pressure.
Vitality feel like they're under threat.
The comms, if you're the A guys right now,
you'd be hearing the B players just screaming that smoke's flashes,
hey, cheese, they're picking and we're hitting them on the E.
So now they get a moment of respite, but that's where FaZe turn their attention to take this mid-control. Rain making no secret of this.
That's what's made down Spinks' pocket.
Ooh, didn't quite nail the flash plate.
Gets away with his life.
Going through the motions here, FaZe, so you've already taken and maintained banana control now.
You've got brackets and a bit more. They want to turn it short.
Mezzie might peek around this, and he's got wild to find Karagith.
Oh.
Hang on, Zai Wu!
Best rops and now it's looking good for a vitality fourth
Anticipating a B finish that you tell
Has landed on CT apex unable to do too much does have a smoke of his own though
Yeah, but that's if you can get past that SMG elevated was flames finds it with the MP9
Brokey the spams away the smoke does well to find itself a kill grabs the AK 47 raise alongside for it
That's crazy.
It's chaos, but Brokey hits the shot!
Oh, great! It's another!
Good God, I think they've turned it around.
The hard work done.
How has that happened?
Brokey and Rain miraculously enter the B-side
with a couple of seconds to spare.
Oh, Vitality are going to be kicking themselves
if they can't close.
Mezzi and Spinks tasked with getting back into this B-bomb
side.
Mezzi coming in first.
Barrel spotted.
Brokey knows he executes it.
And now the last of four! That is miraculous!
What a way to close out the half a ninth and five frags between the two of them!
Rain and Broke, heroes for FaZe as we take two.
He's about to jump into the server to play Vitality for a spot in the Lancess Arena.
And well, we were looking online today about your history in Cologne in ESL.
Posted a couple of things about all the events in Cologne that you've attended.
It's crazy. It's insane, actually. I think you're the only player to do that.
Am I?
I don't know, actually.
I thought Karrion also had a…
Yeah.
I think he also played all the other Colons, but I might be wrong here.
But yeah, it feels good.
No, no.
I was just checking if you were paying attention.
But it's awesome that you're here in Colón again.
Now of course, your phase last year was not the result that you would have hoped.
You know, you always want to be playing in at Lancers and having a chance to get to that trophy.
How do you feel the form of the team has gone now that you booked that great first win versus Liquid?
Yeah, I think it's a good start getting the win, which is Liquid after a rough start of the season so far.
I think we've worked a lot and Kerrigan has implemented a lot of new stuff and
He's calling styles of the change a little bit. So I think we're doing a very good progress
Yeah, could you elaborate a little bit more? Of course, whatever you can say because Kerrigan was saying, okay
I've got everything's gonna change like how much change for you personally and for the team
I think it's more about going back to his old ways a little bit about calling more an intuition and just a game plan
So I think that's what it is to really in the game a little bit more and playing like that
Do you think that those are changes that will benefit you particularly against the game that Vitality likes to play?
I'm not sure if it would do it, but it refers to Vitality, but it's more about the overall team feeling.
You feel like there's more passion in the way we're playing and people will get to communicate more,
get to relay more information to each other instead of just playing with the playbook.
Awesome, looking forward to it. Thank you.
Yeah, insane indeed. It is 9-3 in the first map of this advancement match. It's between FaZe and Vitality.
Both teams still in that upper bracket, but one of them securing the Lancest today.
I'm sure the fandoms of both the Golden Hornets and the FaZe team are going to be looking forward to trying to see their team locked in for the Lancest arena.
Ouch. That's a warning shot to Robs.
Yeah, and he's the only one defending A because FaZe have decided to operate with a four player B stack.
So that's maybe a little bit of help to entice Vitality into looking for this finish.
Molly, out of flames, he did clear off that porch side.
Frozen having to now search down Banana.
Will Apex go overlooked?
Is it a little bit of a mind game?
Oh, nice shot, Robbs.
Gets the most out of it.
Apex however was waiting for this and oh, wow.
He's put a bullet onto Frozen's head.
Ready to go tap.
Yeah, this is going to go hectic.
This is uncomfortable.
Highly uncomfortable.
And Mezzie's doing everything he can.
A third is great.
And the bomb is on his back if he only knew.
Broke, uh, Broke, you should dangle Frozen on his fishing rod.
This is going to be tough to get him by.
Is he going to be anticipated?
Doesn't matter.
With a low HP, Frozen still hits the head shot.
A couple of drops gets a kill, considering that early goose.
You know from that motor position grabbing a kill taking his time with it and that almost spells the map in favor of face
I was gonna be like
Why didn't messy just run to be because he saw broke here and frozen a pek saw both of them down there?
But of course better be done with rotation around for sure
So yeah, I did what he could with a triple kill from messy
But as you said this spells trouble for vitality if they can't win this one
Yeah, they've been able to get an AK in the hands of Zaiwuz got head up behind it
So let's see if he can make a play even just so they can start warming into the series
They're gonna go into their map choice of dust to next and there'll be a whole lot more comfortable
But to get blown out in a match for the arena vitality did make it to the Lanxess last year
There's you the only one not part of this team
He would love to grace the Cologne stage never seen mr. Merriman out there and everybody else in the server
We have in phase they've even won it
There you go
That's I would do was I would does best with the AK-47
That's why you put the collection of confidence hands as you look to try and disrupt the A site straight in double kill
It's bad brokeie. Yeah, they nearly lined up for the double messy. Just three HP
The bomb going down and I will put another one
Broke so low in trouble looks like vitality have done enough to make a little bit more out of the second half
We need more of this force by nonsense. I think that'll be did
handed on a broken frozen can hold on to their upgrades apex really wants to
take this away and well yeah he's been a big enough distraction to get another
for Zywoo so everything Zywoo needed drop the AK finds the opener and that
essentially secures Vitality the round their fourth just a six round game now
and I say just MR12 it's gonna be quite quick to get back into things and
that's where the financial decisions of phase we're gonna have to put under a
microscope just like we did with Vitality in the first half I mean yeah
This is a replay so far of the first half as far as the rounds go
Faze with both pistols
Titanity with both second-round forces
How broadly do we get I?
Think that phase should invest but not fully
Next they can get a piece of 50 or whatever and then they can actually have a full gun rounds, but what do I know?
Carragher disagrees, apparently, we're going all in.
Well, they can make a winner right here right now.
Their individuals have looked a whole lot better.
The five smoke strategy, it's so pure.
No flashes, none of that nonsense.
Just good old fashioned smoke grenades.
Well, Torr was just going to come down to blocking
and hopefully forcing them into the stack.
Truckload of U2 thrown top banana,
but that all seems like it was a bit of a ruse.
It looked like Vitality wanted to start setting their sights on the A bomb site.
They've been blocked towards top mid, which has changed the plans again.
It's being quite erratic with this.
Brokey. Sounds off. Five-seven.
Now noted.
Oh, the other A smoke is on Robs and he's in the side,
so he will not be able to constrict middle whatsoever.
A smoked off the long side.
Oh, Robs is under scrutiny.
Coming in fast.
Yeah, there are a lot of pressure.
He loses his support.
He loses himself.
There you go.
Well, that was efficient.
Well managed.
Well executed.
Vitality get themselves into the A site once more.
Okay, well hold on to your goodies again frozen we'll get to retain this famous for yet another round of play see upgrades on
Carragane and brokey that are the only difference makers going into the next round where yeah, this one should be
the save
Winning a pistol doesn't seem to mean too much if you can't win that second
But you look at both of the second round forces of vitality with the kills that they managed to get on the pistol rounds
They were able to in the first one drop thaiwu and m4 and in the second on the t side drop him an ak
So you have a superstar you've put the weapon in his hands and he found the entries in both of those rounds
Top banana he got a kill on the M4 and now wrapping around that arch side
He got the opening kill on terrain. So that's the impact that you're looking for
And the game is plays more direct in these early moments
Which is where both of these teams can thrive if the players are all willing to put their bodies on the line
You know swing to the jewels that you get a bit more of their
Individualism on on players opposed to the tactical side of hey, let's throw this let's throw that
but we've already had that conversation maybe we have to have another half where
it's the same. I'm afraid it might be the case. As you said, Dust2
Vitality's pick that will be our second counter-strike treat. See what they can
do with what they have. Three saves, one rifle. Oh and I picked the correct site
to hit again. Robson Rain, the eight offenders, the ones who went down in the
Ooh, nice catch with the boost.
Okay.
But that is just going to accelerate them into the USP's and you'll tell, you know what works?
SMGs versus no care of Fluff, Flames had no problem against Rain there, Spinks takes down
Robbs after his P250 did some work.
Well they'll give it a look.
Yeah, no harm done.
Oh, but pushing through that smoke without anyone else.
And Brokey and Frozen still fapping around top banana.
Frozen's been able to pick up that AK.
Alright, well that looks like it's just too appealing to bring through to the
next, doesn't it?
Yeah, Broke, you might want to try and do some damage.
Might not be super attached to the FAMAS.
No, I think he's more than happy to get rid of that, wouldn't he?
But as far as the finances go, it's still starting to carry through it,
it'll help you out in the youth department a little bit.
But we come into this half, phase when the pistol,
you think, alright, this one's going to be done quite quickly.
Well, now it's just a four-round game.
Welcome to M-12.
Yeah, and this is the thing, if phase by, then they lose the round.
So then let's say they don't save an awful lot.
There's going to be a two-round game, essentially.
It can get away from you very quickly.
Vitality know that. So not giving up hope after a tough first half and a first half where they probably should have had an extra round or two.
Alright, well we're about to see the first rough round of the second half take shape. But we've had action non-stop.
What's the opener look like for FaZe? It looks like Frozen of the Tarswitch is holding B on his own.
Four players starting over towards A for FaZe.
This is an active app setup. Forward positioning, but it does look like Vitality want to go direct.
That might change their plans. They're smoked half wall.
Molly in go. Gonna walk through this.
Okay, silent, but they're on their way.
Yeah, they're coming in.
Yes. Karagin, there might be a bit too lay on that smoke.
Suddenly panicked, flustered, good flash.
Karagin pushes! Oh, it's beautiful!
He gets himself a double! Make it a triple from the captain!
Flame slipping there. Are they aware? They are now.
Gets the information. Good work from Rain.
And Faze, I mean it's rare to see something like that work so perfectly.
Two flashes, Karagin swings on the second, and three players doing the dance on an early B commit.
There's a detail. Okay, how many more is he gonna get?
The bomb is in an almost irretrievable position to what CT spawns.
So the fact he's got two kills, that's great, but surely nothing more.
Yeah, I think the fun is stopped here, but Spinks has got 10 grand in the back.
He might just keep having some fun
Bomb couldn't be more irretrievable if they tried
Actually broke he is gonna be exposed to that and Spinks has managed to make this a one versus two
I think phase might be getting a little uncomfortable now
The Spinks might actually get that bomb back in his hand
Great holding it, yes
Cut to Karagin
After all of his hard work he was starting to get a little nervous
Yeah, well that's almost the same that happened within the first half of play to
the the the diggles the 3v4 situation 3v5 situation of all is the beast side just giving away a lot of casualties in a
Round where you can start to establish your own economy and your in-game leader is so much hard work
We'll catch that one again on the replay perfect timing on the push through
Hands over faces the in-game leader walks down three in style and then this is where the bomb gets dropped
You think okay? Well, that should be it
So Spinks has done a little bit of a dent Brokey's been able to bring out the AWP that flash
It's a perfect demonstration of just how good it can look.
Now the God prefix was found with utility.
Going through.
Flashing through, frozen forced away.
Carrying the same.
Top banana gained.
Safe from the flame.
Oh, Robs! Still gets one!
Missed shot from Brokey.
Flames is allowed a second chance.
Well, the keeping phase moving between the sites.
So there are going to be a lot of gaps like a test over here, a test over there, and contacting, they'll be ahead of this as he starts to run.
Oh, big head shot from Merriman.
Testing Carrigan, he's been brought low, should go down here, empty-handed and vitality.
It broke it into the B bomb site and quite a direct approach.
Is that kind of Apex, good old fashioned Apex calling?
Well, I think this is where the mind games between these two teams is going to play in an awful lot.
Oh because in that previous round, hold up I'll say, who am I to broke here, the going down and getting a kill on this orb?
It's gonna be the latter, jump spot, so they know they're under pressure with the hunt.
That's the ramifications of giving away so many rifles to Spinks in the previous, Apex wants to remove it all knowing that they can make their life a whole lot easier as part of this comeback.
Okay, and now we can have a conversation. So, they started 4A with frozen blocking B and one of the key ways that they opened that previous rounds,
which is where Karrigan wrote to the back and got the triple kill, is they flash-rained forward for you in the middle,
but it's not a double apartment.
Then as soon as Rang called mid clear, Karrigan was like,
alright, I'm immediately just going to go towards this B bomb site.
So they had a good idea it was going to be quite direct out of Vitality.
And then Yanko always likes to talk about Vitality.
There's a difference with this team if they win pistol
and how they're going to approach first, go around or if they lose it.
I think the fact that they were able to get that forced buy in their favor,
and then when the rifles came out, they were doing something together as a unit more direct.
They're going to take more of a risk as opposed to going straight into defaulting.
Yanko could correct me. Actually, he's not on the desk, is he?
No, but we've got Jacob Pimp, Vinicky, and Maniac.
Well, Yanko's been talking about that, like, on the CT side,
so if they win the pistol and get the conversions,
their first gun round is going to be something a bit more aggressive and direct,
whereas if they don't, they're going to play a bit more of a safer,
a bit more of a standoff, right?
Aggressive and direct looks good here.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's worth a million.
Zaiwu the motivator. It's okay.
It is okay.
Vitality 7. As Chad was saying, these gaps can close quick, but FaZe did just find themselves their second CT round.
They need to put them back in the dirt. FaZe, they've saved rifles consistently a couple.
You can see the Brokey's AWP and Rain. Can Vitality find a clean 8 there? Avoid this saved AWP.
Did you look set on this B execute? Brokey and Kargan have smokes to block.
Again, ahead of the play, it's a fantastic flash from Carrigan.
Frozen does well to find himself something with the aggressor.
Maybe Brokey's AWP's gonna get a chance here.
Oh, and it does! Flames down. Apex, he's gonna have second thoughts now.
Surely, spamming away at the smoke.
Well, your way back is with Sphinx, and he hasn't taken too much space just yet.
It's letting the probe because he has to do 35 seconds.
They're running. They are running.
And Rob's just left, so yeah.
Yeah, it's rained in the pit with the AK. That's the other saved gun.
Ooh, interesting scenes here.
They don't have a Molly to clear him either.
Okay, Rain, let's see what you got, mate.
That smoke really will limit the sight line he wanted to work with.
He jumps up here, Spinks should have him.
Whoa! Still was ready for Spinks!
Now he maneuvers around that smoke.
13 seconds, planting safe on Cold Zera.
Rain, while aware that Zairu was likely trying to isolate him, hunt him down.
They've used their smokes very well here, Vitality.
pushing smokes. I will transfer turns around spins into the second. It's up to apex though in the clutch
and rock push through finds the head shot apex just shy of the head. That's a miraculous turn
around from phase.
Damn, Reyn did so well there. I thought the Sphinx would have had him dead to right since he's
jumping out of pit and you can see him wanting to reposition so he can try and deal with the
side players still able to get his AK across in time onto Sphinx and that's the difference
Make a kill in my mind. This is great from frozen sure gets one, but it baits them forward. I think okay
That's just the standard B defenders broke. He grabs his and
Rops continues to do damage getting both of these
Up to 18 kills great to see rops with this level of form
Just one more round for phase now to pick up their map choice. Okay
That's pretty meditated. So we drops that one to give him a bit of a buffer to work around over towards brooms
That's worked perfectly and phase will have heard that so they know they can't just spear on down for this banana control
Find one that works, find one that works, wonderfully!
Frozen brings down the woo!
Messi quick to find Karrigan, but he knows Frozen's not far behind him.
Flames putting a lot into this, gotta be careful, he's trying to find info safely
and does catch a glimpse of Robs?
Rain still undetected.
Rain might clear deep.
He does have a lurk and he can dash, he just spots Flames running towards B, surely
that's a little sign that we need to get the rotation going.
Frozen under pressure! A nice head shot from Mezzi.
Two kills from the Brit in this one.
Trade Zywoo, then builds into it with a frag to open up the B bomb site.
Spinks on his core rocks, trying to get towards Banana through mid.
I was going to say that it feels like a save,
and they are going to try and back off.
But with Spinks so close, you wonder, hey,
should we hang around and have a little bit of a look?
He dropped off after that kill.
So, Rain and Brokey, the two who saved before, looking to save again.
And those saved weapons were worth their weight in gold.
Brokey's already passed your line of sight, so Apex should have this one.
There hasn't been a single round this half that Faze haven't saved Summit.
Apex didn't have that one.
Not yet. No, no. In fact, Brokey's been doing great on the saves.
Well, they have worked back into this, haven't they, Vitality?
Couple of rounds that they're going to be kicking themselves over.
They're going to do some damage, but Brokey will retain the AWP and reign the A4.
Now, Brokey could drop a rifle.
Karrigan can buy his own and maybe just an MP9 for Rops or Frozen to operate with, who get left in the Lurch.
Yeah, you see the second incendiary comes through on the fate of the smoke, so just wait it out, Zywoo.
Good work from Mezzy.
Yeah, real clean with it.
Spinks's lurks have been looking successful as well.
Something he's been criticised for.
Not always being as active as perhaps his team need him to be, well, keep an eye on that.
We've got four rounds required out of Vitality.
Yeah, and no lost bonus bill for either team, but more importantly, FaZe.
If Vitality lives around, it doesn't matter, it's over.
That's GG.
But if FaZe lives this one...
Have an opener.
Yeah, well, if this round continues in the direction it's going, FaZe are going to have
to take an eco or the saves again.
If you're Vitality, maybe you'll throw more at hunting those guns away, knowing just
the ramifications.
And you set up with a flash to clear out boiler and holes.
So what is the indicator for Vitality for the finish?
So they send Mezzie, who is low, deep in towards B.
Because he might not get all the necessary information.
Because he is so low, right? He could just die in the choke point.
And FaZe have called a bit of a gamble stack.
They've just kept the A defenders planted.
And this is looking like it's gonna work out perfectly.
35 seconds on the clock.
Bomb committed, apartments. This will be A.
Most definitely.
Ross holding the angle, puts flames on one HP.
Rain, robs, combined to defend the site.
Apex is low. Rain can do this.
It's broken there and it's lovely from FaZe Clan!
Limited resources no problem FaZe Clan 13, Vitality just 8.
It was FaZe's pick, they convert it and are now one map away from the Lancess Arena.
Round especially if you're on the FaZe Clan side of course that's because they just
trounced Vitality on map 1 of this series.
That's right, the scoreline is indicative of that of the biceps that Jacob does have
currently in his jacket.
That's right.
That's what the call-and-phase if this notion or at least in this impasse the first half of the series
And in doing so, let's talk about it. Let's let's really talk about it
I can waffle about something how many zai woos does vitality need to win games
I read as as many as possible. Okay, we just like maybe develop a technology to just duplicate clone or whatever
No, it's not even the story here. I don't even think the story is more zai woos being it
I think the story is rups. Yeah. Yeah, there we go. Cool them on his flanks is cool them apps
He punished timings he whites were anxiety with an AWP to just make him disappear just obliterated the man
He punished whenever vitality try to do the double short stack. He was all over the place
Props to rups. He kept his cool props to rups. Okay, that's good. That's that's very bad. I'll give it to you
I'll give it to you. You need to get a Jacob because his last things cool
I just realized now, yeah.
It's just the times of difference.
Even better, even better.
We actually had a pretty cool Rup segment playing for the pregame,
but we didn't have time for this somehow.
He's pretty stocking, Mr. Rups.
He's been in a rough period together with FaceClan
and I think this is a great example of when he's playing well,
when he's successful with his lurk,
when he's finding impact on the server
and I wouldn't necessarily say dictating the game,
but almost dictating the game with his lurks
and installing Fiend into his opponents,
then FaceClan is looking like a much, much better team.
Of course flanked by Broke, you had a good game, carry again showing up, rain showing up,
it felt like everyone were playing well, but for my money when Rups is playing well,
it usually correlates with face playing well.
And it's been a while since we've seen Mr. Cool be good.
Mr. Cool, hey, you know, I'm thinking about that one exact moment,
where in which, yes, it was Rups v. Zywoo.
Oh, yeah.
And just that awkwardness of the duel,
because you would think like maybe nine times out of ten,
Zywoo gets that frag, but no.
I mean, it was just too fast.
Yeah.
And it's not that often that we say a rifle was too fast for Zywoo,
and the problem is, strategically speaking, the setup of vitality is correct.
You put the AWP, the rifle, you know rubs has been a problem, it's been an issue,
so you try and stabilize it and then you just get...
Exactly what happened.
Just smacked.
Okay, so what do we see around 6? Who got smacked around?
Oh, let's get technical for a second, because this game started as a back and forth,
a tug of war between phase and vitality,
and I personally have a problem with vitality, did here, and the consequences of that round.
So we're talking about round 6, we see here score 9-3 to 2, 50 seconds left,
and if you have your attention on the finances from Vitality it's very very complicated. So
it's a turning point, spoiler alert and what's really interesting as this app's purpose is about
to happen is that if I show you here the setup from Vitality it's very very passive. When they
realize that the app's purpose is going to come there's no rotation whatsoever. The B players
are way too far away. We have Zywul that's a little bit isolated towards Mini Pit and you
will see when that pops rain huge props to him. The fact that he deletes Zywul immediately
As his players are taking space with the Tech 9 that's going to be right now, they catch Sphinx a little bit off guard here.
He's getting in the process, so I will get eliminated by Rain and just like that the site falls and there is no way to see it coming.
That's my issue. You basically give yourself no room for error, no margin for error, no warning sign, no information.
You're blind, you're flying blind and Vitality losing this round is the reason why they started so complex or it was very complex for them to start this first half.
And I guess the only thing that can explain why they would be so passive is obviously as you highlighted the money situation.
You have three MP9s stuck on the side, so you want to force the duels to be close to you, but I agree with you.
Someone has to be spotting that a little bit earlier, so those MP9s can react.
Because one thing is having an MP9 in a close-core comeback, you want to be the one swinging.
You don't want to sit in the corner waiting for someone to run into you.
You want to be the one with the MP9 swinging out.
Of course.
I agree with you. The thought process probably, if you were to ask why I tell you, is that we have a low buy of MP9s,
but it's a little bit too passive for my liking as well.
I agree with you, but just imagine the contrast.
Vitality's first gun round yesterday versus Furio.
It's MP9s on MP9s.
Famesy is T-spell in the smoke, ready to fight them,
but it's a night and day contrast.
You think it's about respect, you know?
Are they giving you too much respect?
It might have been.
I think this round really put Vitality on notice.
Like from that moment on, they started being
a bit too careful.
They gave a lot of space to phase,
and we know how Kerrigan can utilize that.
He could have pressure towards top middle.
He would rotate back to banana whenever that was needed.
and Vitality started being extreme passive.
Xayu didn't really attempt much entry kills.
Happened once here and there with an AK.
He had two AWPs.
This was the Vitality that I don't like to see on Inferno,
but I got to give props to FaZe, two rops to Kerrigan.
Very well put together in the first half.
Yeah, it very well was that.
It was a very concise and concerted effort
from everybody around FaZe to really put Vitality
back to where they started,
which is the lobby,
because then they had to come back and play it all over again.
Hey, let's look around 12 over here.
Well, let's talk a little bit about this map just a little bit more.
Do I have to?
I know, I know.
I feel like from a professional standpoint, I have to look at this round, but it feels
like I'm in orange clockwork and people are trying to traumatize me.
It's a hot mess.
That's exactly how I feel.
Like, what in the absolute mappec show of a round am I looking at?
This was, this got me extremely rowdy.
So you see here, Spain's getting a little bit team flash, but the ID is not that
bad.
They're trying to get information.
It's at 40 seconds on the clock.
Faze are still probing.
Not exactly decided where they want to go.
Mezi finds Care again.
your ropes being punished everything is good everything is good it's great
stress less it's 5v3 all is well and then suddenly with 25 seconds left in a
5v2 Vitality just decide to hit the red button and just say you know what we're
gonna throw everything out the window every logic let me just run in smokes
let me just spray let me just dance around why would I just not wait and
play with goddamn crossfire no let me just fight everywhere and die in a 5v2
that's exactly what's happening I should not watch this round now I'm
are you okay man no no I'm not maniac
you know who is enjoying the show right over there young Howie I see him he's
really enjoying that show
you can see him just kind of teetering over the top a little bit of a smile
there but will the smiles continue to go to dust too we talk about a face he
started there obviously feeling good about what happened in inferno if we
get away from that maybe we can get maniacs for the rest of the segment
well hopefully stay home you're not going anywhere no actually I'm gonna
have to stay I don't think this is going anywhere either and I grew you
That was probably the worst one. We've seen all tournament long to be to be quite honest
Just put some Benji on music to it. Yeah, it was symptomatic of the performance from Vitality
I think those two hopefully will be a little bit different, you know, and I think it should be a more competitive game
However, I think your face and rain for that matter right now the way they're playing the way they're coming into this tournament
It's a new looking face compared to just a week ago in Copenhagen, and I absolutely love that well really Benny Hill
I was thinking more like Benny and Benazi because at this point
It's like, how are you gonna break my heart?
Like, how are you gonna just get in and touch and tell the face
because they're satisfaction is exactly what's happening here.
Break my heart, yes.
Lose this fight me too.
It's a rough go at it, but I think that there is a hard evidence here
to say that, yes, Faze is in control of the series right now, man.
Yeah, I think they are. 100%.
I mean, listen, everything worked for them.
I think the calls were great.
Clutches mostly went in their favor.
You have Kerrigan, who's having impactful moments individually,
like the Flash pop onto the B-side,
and you can use the music which means the yapping is done over to you.
Oh, you mean to... yeah, just a little bit more.
Here's a little bit of a walk before you, and I'm not talking about the stop.
Look at the man driving over to me.
That's Jacob Pipp Minnikey who has selected to take that scooter across time.
Glad we got that footage up there, but obviously it is going to be a break.
We come back, we've got Dust2 between phase and vitality.
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When you like when I connect to the server against top 20 teams or top 30 teams, they have three coach slots
Yeah, it's like two analysts and a coach and you never know like how how much are they gathering from all the games they play and
I don't know like
Three years ago four years ago. I would join server and maybe they don't have a coach, you know, it's like
the level has for sure reason in terms of preparation and
and how many people are watching all these Academy Leagues
and General Managers and whatever.
You have a lot of people behind the scenes
who are also doing something.
You had also this team you played,
like you knew you would kinda win
because it was easy to call, easy to read.
Like so easy.
Nowadays there is not like this really easy game.
Like you're like...
Especially with the Mk12.
Yeah, back then you were like,
okay, we played the Mk12.
It's just a book.
Just read a book and you're like,
okay, they will all do smokes, okay?
this track guys is good three there and but nowadays you come to it you have no
one that you can read like that yeah it's like the major in 2015 like top eight
easy don't have to think about go that children groups made our master some
like 24 spots my good one right but it's like best of all in my 12 have been
that few times to say well to to last chance qualify bro nothing is easy now
And I think I think out of discussion with Philip like I kind of said I
Think in back in the days like when go this is good top eight. It was open
It was very hard, but from top eight to when you met the 16th team that was there was the gap was big falling big
Right and yeah, upsets could happen. Yeah, the game was played at a high level in top eight
But now the floor of the tire two is risen so high
They're playing much more than all the top teams
So when you think about especially this is to coming out they're playing double amount officials than we do
Yeah, meaning they're gaining way faster experience from official game
So once they get an offer to a Taiwan team, they are gonna like ultimate from liquid, right?
I've never really heard about him, but he goes in and he shows really good game for liquid
Right, so that's just okay
Is that there's so much unknown talent right now in tie-two that I think we're choosing tie-two with some
These and stats he's gonna perform on Taiwan. I don't think that was the case five six years ago
It wasn't like people were they were coming to Taiwan. It was like what the fuck where am I? Yeah exactly
Good afternoon. Good evening. Good morning wherever you're watching from you're here tuned in to watch phase verse vitality
The first maps already been locked in for phase and they are just one away from the Lanxess arena
2022 champs looking to return to the Lanxess arena after missing out last year
They were knocked out in the groups by Na'Vi and looking to change that dialogue for 2024 Vitality standing in their way
And it's Vitality's map pick as well
I'm joined by Jack Sponge-Bertschild and I anticipate Dust2 is getting more of a comfort for that of Vitality
Yeah, look yesterday was a walk in the park
It was a breeze for them now they've had a reality check thanks to FaZe
Whilst the map didn't just walk over their opponent in stylish fashion with everybody firing on all cylinders
They battled back in, and that's the positive for Vitality.
They worked hard, they made the game close, and a couple of opportunities.
If weren't squandered, maybe just maybe they could have pushed at the distance.
Let's get this one underway, because Team Vitality...
They were in the playoffs last year,
headed to the semi-finals, eliminated by Entz.
Mezzy was not a part of the team at the time, though.
I'm sure he would love to grace the Lancers stage for the first time.
I love a little CT mid-push.
Even the pros do.
But what do you do when you don't get anything?
Robs has got a lot to do here.
And that's a brilliant way to start.
One tap to the head of Apex, they continue to commit.
And it's looking good for Vitality.
Robs, he needs help, he needs backup, and instead he loses his head.
Frozen however has found contributions on the cross.
Those are hard shots.
He's hit two of them.
Oh, it's only Frozen.
Can he be more?
Oh!
Flames!
That is a huge quad kill!
Okay, that's the output that you're looking for bro watching that from the death POV. It's perfect. It's actually perfect
I'm sure it look great on his two
But just how little you see of him how quick that foot that bullet finds his opponent's head sphinx found one
And that's the reason that they start running flancy down on his own because they know sphinx is on the lurk
So broke he and frozen want to isolate a one-on-two jewel in their favor and they can't do so
Crispy vitality pick up their first pistol. Oh and he picks hit the cost series. Yeah, well
those nades look a bit shy than mine. I love the tenacity out of Spinks the
aggression just runs them down before they can get back and maybe just maybe
we will start a half of this series without the second round force falling
away from the pistol victors. It might be nice. Especially if you're a vitality fan.
Tag onto Zywoo. You can't do those. Yeah not gonna get to find it but Rob's he's done well to finish off.
Think onto spanks
They've taken a lot of damage, but unfortunately with the equipment they have
Broken rain probably gonna look to save
to scouts not the
Weapons for the retake is it?
So if they can hold on to these they can be a little bit prickly going into the next round the USP's can soften
Sorry, they can finish off the softened opponents. They can soften as well. They can it normally go scout tag into
conversion but the other way works too. We'll take either at the moment. Sure
things will. Actility, doing their due diligence, making sure they bring all the
best goodies through. Yeah well Apex and his signature scout found the
Obno and now he's going up against two scouts the next round but he dropped it.
Yeah maybe live to regret that we'll see but still galil prioritization makes
sense. And there won't be an AWP so they are gonna go rifle heavy but they
Noah Scout was saved, so that's already, here it is, BANG!
That's a beaut.
Yeah, I think we do need that, deserves a slow-mo, lovely headshot to carry it.
You miss every shot you don't take, Alex.
Bang, yeah.
Wise Man once hit that.
Isaac Newton, I think.
Yes.
Harry's a big fan of him.
I like his fluid.
The lighter fluid.
Newtonian.
Oh.
Ah, oh, eek, ah!
Frequently, indeed, uh, it's...
A slow demise for Brokey, they find him...
Eventually, WHOOPS!
Very thrilling! Recovers the AK from the first.
Spinks his AK then.
Oh sorry, Apex is used against Spinks.
And this is gone horribly wrong.
Robbs with a touch of aggression using that 5-7 to a deadly effect.
And Mezzie, he's done very well with that one.
Clears out long on his own in one spray.
Robbs finds the bomb, but this is uncomfortable.
If he goes any further, Mezzie's pre-name is brilliant, but Robbs, he's one step ahead.
I will spot some rain interesting back option so there's an information that
that that is not Rob's Rob's is somewhere else rain was towards B and they've got
48 seconds to solve this together bomb T spawn it's uncomfortable for every way
as I would go through suicide so he will pair up with messy Ross might go
and cleared oh we gets the head of Zai we're now messy is the only one alive
He doesn't have the help for this. He does not have the help to really participate rops an impactful quad kill back
Sure, no second round conversion, but how about a third if rops keeps up this form
We might have been seeing smiling soon because look there's been some conversation about rops in his form in recent times
He is in beast mode right now inferno great impact in the early stages of this one massive
These are not easy shots to hit by any stretch of the imagination
Just a little headshot angle sure but rops just annihilates them
He had a tech 9 round early on in Inferno. Now a 5-7 and scavenged AK round early on on Dust2.
This is maybe what FaZe needs to pick up the series 2-0.
Mez, who wants to go? Yeah, flashes are there. Mez, he's out. Long corner smoke arrives.
Yeah, when you go for that opener that you just saw FaZe operate with,
it tends to feel that maybe Long isn't that well fortified.
Someone's going to throw you the door smoke and then maybe jump up shore or throw the flashes.
And then if you molly blue bin, you can definitely feel that Long's a little bit weaker.
So Vitality call the bluff and they get some key real estate all the rules long corner snow nobody playing ahead of a face
They will not have the information
Apex testing Karrigan
Flash just dry wins the dual broke he overwhelmed caught by that contact play good chance for rain to double up here
He has done damage, but this pressure from every angle
He's done so much damage sigh with apex and messy even catching frozen CT. There's nothing here for rops
Well that was hard for but Vitality they will prevail. They kind of played
phase exactly as they wanted Vitality they went out long they threw the
crosswork they weren't playing long I think they left an individual towards
Bluebin in case there was some reagress and they've just piped themselves
through shore and all the fights are broke he missing a shot he's in so much
trouble at that point with the body swinging around the corner and now
as I was gonna get there to repeat a carry through so.
How's that shit done?
Um, I used to play with Zybel.
I imagine that was from the scout round
a little bit earlier in the piece.
Yeah, it's obviously an inspiration.
That's quite official from Ezio,
I'm surprised he didn't call him sir.
Yeah, maybe a little bow.
But that setup that Faze found himself in
tells me they're expecting an all in long.
You wouldn't, it feels so claustrophobic
with the setup they had
because Karagin wasn't playing forward for info.
Rain was tucked in towards Gandalf in case they do cross,
and he could be a nuisance, and then break his AWP,
so they bit Hulglad and Sinka to it being a long play.
And that little jiggle from Karagin gave Apex
all the information he needed,
and that missed shot from Broke,
but also the fact that he's four ways
not on the drop down angle,
that implies that they really had considered
that it was maybe max one shot.
Yeah, and if you wanted to search for info,
you would have wanted to call your V players back over
to help from middle, right, short and mid.
Oh, that's the hell. Crossing is a problem right now.
He does play with Zywu.
He does, yeah, that's the Zywu version.
Opening kill on opening kill, vitality, again,
and whenever they want them.
I like a bit of risk going around like this,
and Kerrigan does too.
Pushing up towards the door site takes full long control.
So that's a gift for the CTs that remain elsewhere.
Mezzy responsible for housing this,
but there will be a moment where he chooses to evacuate.
We'll see if Kerrigan can catch that timing
in an influential manner.
Reigns leaving A though, as they crouch themselves out short, so this already reads like it might be a Vitality 4th.
REEEEEENICE from Kharagun catches that long holder.
Has that changed your plan?
Well, the problem is they're already on the side. Reign now having all that information.
Just because Vitality have gone so quietly, Reign might have found a kill on Apex.
Nice, double tap, double dink. Now it's very much on with Sphinx low.
In Kharagun, oh, we had a little bit of an opportunity, but peeking around the smoke is Zyro on the AWP.
An advantage not interested in this one.
Well, that's like a light switch on off on off.
Were opportunities for face to work back into that.
But the fact that vitality just contact out and keep us so quiet
means that rotating player of rain doesn't have the sound cues.
If you telegraphed in that position,
we tend to do so because there's so many threats, right?
You know, you have to worry about players taking that long range
jewel, but walking out.
So where do you think the confidence was to go for such a kind of
ballsy walk?
The fact that they had the number advantage right so they were already was crawling out before me as you went down towards long
But the fact that they were upper player phase are gonna have to hedge as one of the beat offenders
Sure, I tell you and phase are both aware that Rob's holds the people on so at least I hope face
They're just you know use putting their aim on display. They also had Zawis or to take a lot of those longer angles
Yeah, they had a bit of utilic Molly ramp and go
Okay, well
This might be a humble phase by, of course. We do have those saves.
Yeah, I think because of where the loss bonus is at at the moment, they don't need to force by behind this.
They could just have light upgrades. Next round is going to be 2900.
Make sure you have a full buy next round as it's doing something that's a little bit more desperate right now.
We take a look at the spawns on the CT side and see if there's any potential room for openness.
Frozen has the best long spawn, so because he has one of these save guns, we might see him start A.
Apex and Flames are positioned with good long spawns of their own on T-side.
Maybe we'll see something from them.
They might clash with that rifle.
We'll see. This is the Xyro opener. Just textbook stuff here. Look at this pre-eng. Bang!
Just a reaction speed test at that point.
Karagan's death. You can see a nice Quakescote from Xyro.
We didn't get much chance for Karagan.
And as you highlighted, Chad, it is not going to be a full investment.
They're going to be saving for the full guns in the next.
Apex is taking his spawn, but it doesn't look like Karagan or Frozen are going to be having a look.
Broke he's even been tagged on the cross everywhere they go. Yeah, and long score clear if I'm apex now
I just call the team out. Let's clear out car. Let's smoke the long cross
It's fine like now that so we can get established in pit
There's the long cross smoke
They can just have him watch towards site as everybody walks up and you just need one play-to-play anti flash
You have so many nades as soon as you get behind this smoke
You don't even have to apex actually gonna walk across. I was gonna say you can Molly site
you can molly shot you can really clear all these angles this is great from down
just let me go oh and I found the orp as well it's all working out wonderfully
nothing connects on a full magazine spam through that smoke yeah if I broke you
and frozen the objective changes yeah but there's a problem isn't there look
who's already in that be bomb site broke he's aware well aware no more
problems should be able to retain these yet again. And there's a rifle on B to be saved.
Get your ass over here boys. There's a freebie. Rops has already picked it up. Rain the only
one that's yet to retrieve might stick around, try and punish on the way out the door.
I want to have a bit of a conversation about the CT setup of FaZe and why there is more
autonomy put on Rain. That's one of the keys and it's frozen or Rops or both of
than I would say. Karrigan is the long anchor, which is not a glamorous position. Understandable
why you put him there. As long as you establish it on control early, you can leave him and
he should be good for one, essentially, if they try and breach late. It's not about
him holding that spot. It's about the information being the most difficult to garner where
he is. So it's up to his teammates. Your AWP is obviously going to be here there in
every way. You're rotating right through a rain as well. Do I need to rotate back
to help the mid to B. Are we gonna posh just short? Right? It's up to them to call their
positions in the ground because, oh, mate. Harassment.
I feel like every round it's either been a kill or a tag.
Yeah, and that just makes that B defend. And that was with the smoke. They even threw
the smoke and I was still hitting a tag like that.
It's that internal timer.
So look at the setup now. You can see Brokey's worried about short already because the B
players have no eyes on mid. Rain now rotating back to help deal with CT spawn.
Flash and then the smoke this is so much pressure because rain has to help the mid to be especially considering frozen being tagged
There's a lot of advantage for vitality. You lie off the ribs so much control so much fear in their opponents
Things coming already on the back foot
Just being diligent there making sure that broke he's not on that 50 line with the AWP
Mollied off with the flash convo flames he has short control right now
you've played with the mid to B idea now you're playing with the short execute idea and the extremity players of
Frozen and Carrigan are calling sector clear, but at any moment there could be a pop in their face as well
So if I tell you I've done a good job of masking this
Head of the play was rain on the box
running
Rocks, what can you do?
He does well to find one but the round will end and yeah frozen didn't take much from Spinks is AK
Phase they're just being plagued by these cross shots
I discussed this when we've done a couple of other dust twos. I'd like to see teams trying to exploit lower dark and using the new jump up because it means that you can have one or two players go and lock down long. You can have one player jump up. Sure. You can use the best spawn to go into
I know that the AWP is quite scary right now,
but if you drop a smoke just a little bit through the doors,
the AWP actually can't see you run in.
And then just the idea of that threat
will change the outcome of some of these rounds.
Unless Vitality go, all right, we got some good spawns,
let's just all in.
And then that's gonna remove you slowing down the default,
spread off being more annoying.
Cause FaZe are playing their CT setups
pretty standard right now.
At the two, three split, there's a big gap.
They're not fighting before the map controllers
established, Vitality are getting what they want.
And also the fear factor of a good AWPer
on the other side of the server is so key on a map like dust 2.
If you don't think that you can be a little bit more cheeky
with some of your swings once they've got that short control,
mid control established,
if once they get the AWP into pit,
you're never really going to re-swing
because you know he's got the sight line
or the smoke covered off.
And right now,
Vitality are making them pay even on the door crosses
and they're using smoke.
So FaZe are going to be thinking,
what the hell do we have to do?
Well, I think they found an idea.
Double AWP setup, all right boys.
Okay.
and long seems to be the port of call the boosting over the mid-spire so I'm
about to face it and already flames makes it to rain down empty handed the
flash is a good but not looking car again goes down as well only one remains two
casualties in the opening 20 seconds not a full lineup for the car Molly so
Brokey still has vision he's actually bravely sticking around on car okay
Wow smoke spam this Molly will get awkward. Yeah, bro. You're a dead man. Oh
He tries to turn around on it
Why he's to the fact the fact they'd swing with the flash but still doesn't manage to find much frozen
Spot it out now the tip of his head
There ropes fires off an ultra from shot. They look like you both up apex is actually gonna pivot
He dips towards CT and he's gonna hug you down. You're not ready for this angle
Apex is being very cheeky
He's with him but the idea was great
The Spinks' lurks done it.
Buuuuuh, yep!
Spinks' lurks in nicely.
Again, I mean, he's just become a real problem.
Four phase clan on Inferno and here in Tadus too.
Apex can't seem to mantle up perfectly.
Oh dear.
Well, the call was great, wasn't it?
It was, that's what I'm saying, you know?
I'll give him a full double thumbs up for the idea.
Well, perhaps the execution, but...
Yeah, favorite free pull on the CC side, aren't they?
Flames you jumping out, head down to dodge the flashes, peers up.
Still blind, but has the crosser in the right place.
Good punish on Broke trying to get away and the lurk in case there was any dramas was the knockout blow
I wasn't thinking about some aggression
Good God
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This doesn't feel like map number one at all where Vitality had chances. There was a couple of close rounds for FaZe
That's not the conversation. They are just being spanked
live on national television
And FaZe not fans of that
It's funny, you know, Dust2 we described it as a bit of an aimer's paradise and real strong aimers on this roster
But Vitality are just making them look foolish here
red faces
red cheeks
What you got for us rain would need to hit the first one cleanly and he can't even do that
It's the head shock arrogant accelerates. There's a lot of bodies on his screen in the moment there where it could have been a
double or more
Would have had to be in perfect instead. Yeah, broke in Rob's
Reside themselves will say feels like yeah poor broke he hasn't had much chance to really have influence on these rounds
He used to insert himself into the game though, right? I mean watching ultimate on dust, too
I felt like oh my god, okay, so this sawp has been in every part of the map in the first 30 seconds
He's been at the top of mid. He's on ramp. He's on fighting suicide. He's up long. He's everywhere
So I suppose it's up to brokeie to do that in terms of be
Himself is that what you're implying? Yeah, look obviously some of the setups need to facilitate that right now at the start of the round unless you have
Like a long spawn. You're not going for the corner people facilitating your players
It's slightly damaged on there. I also think the fact that you have rops and frozen as your your b players
Look, I understand why you'd have rain is your a rotating roster. I think he's gonna be great at it
I would love to have someone who's willing to take a few more risks in towards tunnels
I already mentioned that but I would love to see a little bit more of that coordinated play
Maybe it look that these guys know a million times better than I do what's going on
There's obviously a reason they don't want to operate in that fashion, but if you lose long in a round
I would love to see them that round where carrying was at short and they lost long, right?
I would have loved to have seen them push up the tunnels for some information
Right, just confirm it.
Or collapsed on middle with Karagin to have an info or group fight on middle.
One of the two.
Right, try it.
Don't just sit and hold your sides.
Let's try and make something happen here.
We're playing in the dark.
Dynamic.
Yeah, okay.
Interesting.
Well, Frozen tried to get low as in the previous rounds.
I will just complete an idea.
Here it is.
Bang!
Nice try.
Enty.
Enty in the chat.
How many openings do you have now?
Three?
Oh, no way.
One of them was a tag.
It might be three though.
Could have had it elsewhere.
Should we need it? See, looking increasingly likely.
Not this time, by room.
There's not too any damage in the first five seconds of the round.
Maybe FaZe have a chance.
Maybe.
Okay, so you've parked Flames in long,
you know the CTs have no info long.
I'm sure this is where it's a whole lot of fun
for an IGL to call the finish.
You're already aware,
you can kind of have to make an informed decision
based on what you think the CTs do know.
And this is it. What a phase going to do. Are they actually going to try and take some space back together or are they just going to?
What are we doing here? Are we looking at him?
He's looking at notes.
Is he looking at notes?
He's still there just staring at a wall, zooming in on his brain.
He's not looking at notes.
No, he's just having a conversation.
Oh, OK. MC's just been a pixel line mid.
Thanks, MC. We're too busy thinking he was actually.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. OK, there you go.
MC, thank God he's here.
It's such a legend as MC. He knows, he knows everything.
Thought he's mouse, trying to plug in a new mouse, son of a...
Okay, what are we doing here?
You've kind of done nothing, actually, with all of that long control.
You've just cut noise and waited.
I will say there's a lot of nades to be thrown.
So this could be a very intense 30 seconds for the CTs.
Looking like they want to keep the people on the planted,
Rob's bought an Org for this angle.
And he pecks out mid.
20 seconds, they're giving FaZe a chance aren't they?
I'm not sure what the plan is, this is a bizarro world.
Here comes the B-util, Robs has been waiting and loads with his odd frozen in combination,
look at the damage!
Spinks and Mezzie bleeding out 8 seconds, they need to get across!
Oh, um, it's not happening now, it runs over.
Runs over, how does that round go down like that Spinks?
This is AK Drew, wouldn't have mattered if he went down either way, 6100 in the banky...
The banky?
Yeah.
The banky?
The banky.
I was going to say the banky boo, but...
The banky boo!
That's not a thing, I stopped myself.
I don't know what the banky boo is.
What the hell?
Who am I?
Not sure.
No, neither do I.
Neither do I.
We know no one really knows who they are, really.
That's what life's all about.
Yeah.
You just invent yourself, don't you?
What happened with the cross of the bomb?
Were they waiting for the door to smoke to puff up before they crossed or did...
I don't know what happened.
Sweet as I know they had the bomb or...
Here we go.
Mm-hmm spotted. Yeah, but there's short and there's a flash and a frag range of sets himself up for success there
That's what I'm talking about. There's what Chad wanted to see and it's worked out wonderfully
I mean the knowledge is there that bit there is a CT and lowers if I don't know that frozen's right around this corner
He picks could go down here if frozen has a look but Sphinx is covering frozen. I mean everything now
You might have a look and he gets the bomb. Oh
Oooh, okay, the bomb has spewed out of the...
Did I get thrown in the door?
Zywoo, and landed in doors.
It's a little unfortunate.
It looked like it did, could fully catapult it out of him.
Ooh, not a shot from Mezzie, but that's short-lived successes.
The Orc poses it down, yeah, that's crazy, what a...
No, what a launch!
Alright, we'll have the inertia with him.
He must have been running at full, full pace.
Well, you'll snatch four, won't ya?
Does the bomb come out of your face, or your body, when you die?
That's a bit of a philosophical one for you.
You get in the valve of the M's.
MC? I'm good. He knows everything.
Where does the bomb spit out when you die?
Yeah, that was a, uh, finally a bit of phase CT aggression.
Playing towards lower, playing from short, getting in their face.
Not just to lie when they have the full map control, rain with the opener.
Frozen charming in, there it is.
It worked.
Shocked.
So you just missed the Olympics, mate.
No!
Nasty little jump scare.
knows exactly how that one unfolded. Alright, well, fight around to the half, end of BP out for Zywood.
Sure, Flames would have seen it and said it, but it's easy, you know, 30 seconds later, running out.
Oh, there we are.
Why'd you jump over the smoke, mate?
Why'd you give him a glimpse?
I don't think that incendiary has done anything of value.
Spinks, not cleared out of his angle.
If anything, it might do him a favour if he sticks around long enough.
Look at this stack. This is, uh, Karagin and Kou expecting it to be a B finish.
I thought it was gonna stick around, never mind. He just takes the fight. Robbs is dead.
Yeah, the scope.
It will be a B finish, now that they've taken Robbs out.
Maybe it was part of his plan to bait them into this two-man B hold.
Flash, rain swings.
A little bit early.
Confirmation of presence, yeah.
Mismanaged, that's the bomb.
Down one hell of a spray out of frozen.
More to come, Spinks on Insta headshot. Rain, what have you got?
He's got a chance, that's what it was.
Spazywu hits the shot, Karagin.
And Brokey, Brokey misses the shot onto Zywu.
Crossing smoke wall.
Plume to obscure the cross.
I like this smoke back from the CTs.
Gives them options.
They can use that T smoke against them
to just pop out from either side.
Another one towards tunnels.
All right, Karagins, you have to walk through that.
Yeah.
This is the trouble.
Well, maybe it's intentional.
Yeah, precisely.
Still has angles, and they might assume
they're both coming from doors.
Which it looks like they are.
Oh, the mind game as it's on to the 1v1 Zywoo can have it!
The bullets, it's brokey!
Gives them a half to work with.
Hard 4 comes down to a 1v1, it's Phase 4, Vitality 8.
But if he did fail it, it was fine.
They worked it out, made it 4.
keeping it I mean within the realms of possibility Chad that this could be to
zero this could be the last map phase after play till the Lancis or will
vitality secure a third map in anubis early util thrown out towards the B
bombsite just a couple of decoys I'm not talking about Robson Brokey the
actual grenade sponging me oh that's me and you we're here it's Russian MC
that's what I was gonna try and say here they are rushly but anything on
the screen that you want we'll see if Alex will say it. I'm like Ancomand, I am. I'm Ron Burgundy.
Oh! Rops, huh? Oh, flames. Oh, Sping's pushing. This has gone far too well for Faze done right now.
Apex, nice shot. He's on his way back up. Rops, Rain, Frozen though. They should be fine with this.
Oh, firing squad! Yeah, they took a while. They took a while. Mezzie joins the P2K gang.
I didn't think I could love him more. I didn't think I could love him more. The P2K is not
It's not gonna work out for him here.
It's okay, it's okay.
Take the rough with the smooth.
Let's go Bill.
All right, well, look, if you're a Vitality fan,
take stock in the fact that they lost both pieces
on Inferno, but they won both four Spies.
Sorry, it's opening a monster energy.
Yeah, just cracking it open.
Cracking it open.
Cracking it open that can.
Then you can have some,
I don't know what the noodle name is.
Snore.
That's the one.
Yeah.
Oh, they haven't forced.
Okay.
Well, what happens now then?
Statistics.
They run up middle and take the bloody hole.
They take, what do you reckon that is,
a 400, 400?
Around there.
From a molotov.
But at least the round's quick.
Yeah, and they died to Glocks and Glill, so.
All right, all right.
Well, that means we get into the rifle round quicker.
Just a two round game, if Faze can win this,
maybe just maybe they can tie things up,
eight, eight, and yeah, you mentioned it,
the Lancess, this game is a big one.
We know who they will play if,
Well, they lose this series, it'll be Falcons and there's a lower bracket ahead with, well, Liquid down there at the moment and the loser of Mounds vs. Complexity, which is currently live on twitch.tv.com.
That's about 20 on launders, that's live and on Vertigo.
Spoke to exertion yesterday, said what map do they think they're going to play and I said they're going to pick Vertigo.
And they picked Vertigo.
You nailed it.
So his AWP has been a bit of a threat on that T side, peppering them through the doors if not finding opening picks and rops.
Ah, he's gonna walk in his sphincts!
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what should have been a free kill?
And to give away half of his life?
That's the cost of playing Counter-Strike.
PUNCH!
Deep.
OZEN THE DEAD MAN!
Wow, you can see there was a very small window of opportunity for Saga to find that kill.
And this has gone one way fast. Vitality's knight looks rather painless.
Hold up.
Yeah, he gets a plant here. He's got two kills.
I say plant. Maybe I would jump in USP.
YEP! Indy! Just like that. Denies the plant, secures the round. It's nine to six.
Nice attempt from Rain, all things considered.
Yeah, hugely important that he denies the plant because even with the defuse coming through this tool,
it would have had 600 bucks. Frozen could have an AK instead of a Galil.
Rain could have had a Galil instead of maybe a Maktan or a Deagle.
It's rain, so
Yeah, he's gone for it. He really did say you so I was watching him buy us a rain come on now
I know you want the rifle, but
You need the Nates. Yeah, he does
So 600 bucks would have made a big difference good denial from Zawut
There we go in now Sphinx gets across they throw the lamp flat lamp smoke to get across
Pole smoke what I call that pole. It's more of a pole than a lamp
Going along James ready to receive them, but not really the weapon for the job
gets away with his life, get a reposition.
Pit cold clear, now they could use as long as the staging area, they still have a smoke in flashes
to work with, Amolotov is well to clear out Kar, short re-aggress, inter-robs and rain.
Four robs left, here he comes through, robs is blind, blind and deleted, but the deagle works wonderfully!
A third would be crazy, Apex does bring him down!
A's open, need to get this smoke up across.
Yeah, ooze, I did not pull the trigger there, they get across the ramp,
Good damage onto Apex as well, exposed in the open, goes down.
Now surely FaZe should have a heavy advantage.
Will they even have a look in?
So I will just fish in, in case anyone over extends with a quick glance towards CT, but
feel like they are already accepting that this is the FaZe round, or FaZe is seventh back in a way.
Rain's got five kills in the last two rounds and he's only got nine in total.
So he's come to plant the T side.
Yeah, you deny my plant.
You force me to only have a D.
Well, I'll get a double kill and win the round anyway
So if Rosen get himself something a little bit juicier than that galore to carry through to the next because it looks like we will be locking
horns down the stretch of
Dust to apex forum one and opening jewels. Damn
Yeah, he had that round where he ran out long and chased them down in long corner
They had the scout when they were crossing middle. I don't know how you do that. It's like you're watching the game
Sometimes it's crazy
Sometimes I've read in twitch chat other times on watching the game
game. You can never do both at once unless you overlaid it over the rush has gone with
the observing now right so he does big map but he has now got a small screen of the game
on the same I saw that POV it does look very cool. He says it's helpful. I believe it.
We won't be forcing behind the retained guns let's see what they can get out of
Messi's rifle and so I was there to be pinned look at company is how many times
you see uh oh my bro key to that fight yeah just stands and ready to bang the
middle smokes on its way we'll have to respect the smoke but does hear the
audible steps of carrigan I like this from mezzie so he's not fully committed
well he is fully committed but he hasn't just gone all in he's ready to
activate based off the information that his teammates gonna relay to him
butch around the corner Nate does some damage singe of the flames carrigan and
rain pretty low yeah it's like edge to vitality already just intermittent
sweeps from Zywoo trying to catch anyone that's maneuvering back off cat.
Fates do seem to be retooling for the B finish. This is where Mezzi is going to be tested in this angle.
He's sticking around.
Oh, Zywoo, that's a big catch.
And now they peek in. Good work from Robs. He's taken down the Bianca.
I don't need to smoke the doors. You can't just run in.
Yeah, the only other rifle in the mix is that AWP, and you know where it was.
Well, they've drawn him into B. Now they just need to be able to get in towards this A site.
Robs is gonna make sure they can confirm it.
That Molly doing an awful lot of damage.
It's unlikely that I would guess to bring this one through.
Robs?
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
He's had to make this play.
Beautiful from Robs.
That's what you want from your lurk.
That nearly got really awkward.
And it's still good with flames on a USP.
How is this happening?
Oh, Robs needs it.
Gets it.
But still, it's 1v1.
Oh, catastrophe.
It calls.
Robs can save them.
But with 15 seconds, he has to do everything.
Needs to go away.
He has to run into Apex and Apex is sticking around.
He's not going to expect this!
And he catches the timing!
He puts him onto 4 HP!
There's no time!
Six?
I don't know.
He has to hunt!
Apex!
Apex cowering in the corner but there's HP in front!
He's in with the CZ!
That's a massive vitality round!
Apex leading by example with impact!
He was just on a roller coaster of emotions with Apex right there
because he made a merit of it.
Made an absolute meal of it.
Five, four, three, two.
He knows the fight's coming in at the steps and wins it with the CZ75.
Let's add a sire relief, then the cheer because he knows they've done it with two save rifles.
Bro, I love that he's stuck around in that angle.
Catches Robs because he knows he's going to have to be moving.
Catches him in transition, catches him holding W, does significant damage, pieces out those
times against him and that lovely finish on the low HP.
Yeah, look, he should have won it there and then.
The play at that point was perfect.
Just the aim, maybe missing a little bit.
But that is a stalled-out phase getting themselves back into this game just took every advantage
He had every single one. I can't believe that's gone wrong for phase
Flames getting a full kill with a USP long push
Yeah, well that was the the nade damage that came in towards short because rain and carrying were both softened up
Yeah, it did look a bit easy all in long long. Yeah, okay interesting
I always get the flash it seems to work. We're off in the north. It doesn't work for face plan
Oh, so much mutil!
Wow, Reimus!
Full blind!
Flames is going to be saying the same thing.
That's insane that he's pushed at the smoke like that.
Just giving them a way in, and ooh, a missed shot from Zahui.
That's a nice 5v4 that they'll try and hold onto for as long as they can.
Chipped away at his robbs, Nate does land.
So what's the response of Vitality?
Zahui can post up top site.
They just smoked mid-doors to make sure that nobody can weasel out.
nothing. So they've tucked in towards Peer passively. I like this from Apex. In fact he's
gone over towards Carr if they do decide to trundle up long late. He might go overlooked.
Rain's gone all the way around the world back towards B. He can call a flash into
what's up at tunnels but he's got support on the way. So they've parked rops in Peer,
the rest of the crew to join Rain. Now Vitality is starting to ask some questions.
Yeah, it's about time here. Well they could smoke window and doors. They have
have two smokes to make this possible. Oh, they found robs.
That is a little bit problematic because they're already getting a wiggle, a third, excuse me,
a second in the third design's way.
Vitality.
Spings the bait.
And as he goes first, actually, and does significant damage, Karagin, get awareness
that there could have been a second Mezzie, two and then done. It falls into an intense
2v2. Frozen gonna try and plant Brokie to provide some cover. Looking at our windows,
I was considering it
But his all-pun is back just opting with that CZ 75
Frozen tip of the head spotted ten left in the mag broke he onto apex is only I will hear he can't get it done an
Important and necessary round for phase
Damn it looks like the rotation was on point for vitalities, isn't it?
And they were all exactly where they wanted them congregated coming out of the upper tunnels grouped up a cluster of three
But unable to multi-kill
Now that trade game vitality they lose the side after
Getting this kill back, drops as a look, Zoe hits the shot.
Broke and frozen, they pull home a big round, so back and forth we go again.
Now it's Vitality. This has been a war of attrition as far as the finances.
Neither team really able to establish these full buys or patterns where the saving is allowed more often than not.
Gun rounds you see here, here in the purchases.
Mezzy, Mezzy.
Coming in.
to do yeah spamming away the smokes mezzy's gonna go down and this site's
already lost folks oh invested into this yeah see apex day you're gonna be a
shake of the fist put it in that flanders moment cut down that sexy
caragon I'm always visualizing Homer's dad whatever his name is shaking his
fist at the clouds we all know he's actually doing it's Abe it is Abe
Oh, Abe Simpson.
Yeah, I think they just called him Grandpa, don't they?
Yeah, but I've never met an Abe. Have you?
There was the player.
Oh, yeah? Okay.
Is it short for Abraham?
I would believe so.
Oh, so, yeah, maybe a bit of an oldie but a goldie.
Five alive.
The second buyer of the cherry for vitality into the next.
Yeah, but that's the phase to tie it up.
It's a sour cherry.
And then the next round is only the 2400 loss bonus.
loss bonus so if we start doing a bit of mathematics Alex you're strong so you get that calculator out
you are never going to carry around in your pocket 2400 plus whatever the totals they have right now
that's not going to equate to an AWP if as I would ah so unless they get a couple of kills yeah well
they're certainly capable of doing that oh they fumbled the boost they just wanted to spot that
lower push and what Cogglison did yeah nice they're going to try it gets a good catch from Broke
he's having a bit of a resurgence in the second half starting to uh hit some impact hit some
openers. He's even tagged up Zaiwood. That's the rifle. He's got to get out of there. He knows he's
days are numbered and reigns close. Retreat covered clean. Good team play, good awareness. The comms are
there. And so this one, yeah, they just have to put it in now. Mini golf.
Ipex really wanted to track at that M4, didn't he? Just offers himself up to reign for free.
Phase, if this is a 2-0, there's been a dialogue about the team and is this a make or break
event for them they've been on a downward slide obviously starting off CS2 with success or near
successes time and time again making these grand finals then as the season continued they peed it
out and everyone loves a good peter out but for them it was starting to look a little bit worrying
and then you come into this half of 2024 and oh it's okay what's going on with phase the players
aren't clicking they're approaching the game is there internal problems what's going on why
Why isn't it working with this Frozen Edition as good as it was with twists?
I imagine when you get so close to lifting a trophy and then just kind of repeatedly miss out,
I'm sure you know a little bit of apathy slips in.
Well, there was them getting gassed as well.
You know, because you're so close, that means you're playing the most amount of maps in the tournament
because you're going the distance into all these grand finals
and then, yeah, the apathy of not picking up the victory, so close but so far.
And then the problem was more when we came out of the break.
We said, okay, they've had a break. They've had a rest.
We should see the best out of phase that EWC. We had the last groups which yeah was ugly
That's really where warning bells started to go off and there was concern not just from the community standpoint or the pundit standpoint
But the tweets that came out from phase after they lost that event
Right that was that was worrying you'd serve from the likes of English frozen carrying in rocks or put out these tweets
I were playing bad right now and it was quite concerning the old deal a what is going on with phase they come into
Stage 2, they hit Liquid who are one of these teams with a lot of hype around them along with the G2 with the honeymoon form coming out of the break
And now, versus Vitality, they've tied things up 10-10, map number 2, a strong showing on Inferno
And just three rounds away from locking themselves in for the Lancers Arena to return
Since their victory in that absolute epic from 2022
Oh, phase now v final 2024
So we've got the AWP, Flamie dropped the forum
Thanks Flamzie. You have no utility now. Good luck.
You do have an orb in the hands of your super star.
It can be the difference maker.
Let's find out together.
Carrigan goes down to Spinks' aggression.
The trade is coming. Nice from Reign.
But there's still presence. Flamzie doesn't commit to it.
Worried about what might have linked at top mid.
Brokey Adam covered.
So a wise choice from Flamzie just accepts the equalizing frag.
Plenty of time in this round, Bomster at the top of middle.
And the power of an AWP in this position is that though players are committed towards B,
you have to get past the Brokey Scope if you want to get back towards A.
He will likely stay here for as long as you can.
The thing is, they can't really play connected vitality.
You can't like crunch down to middle together. They're searching long
and they're just going to hover towards mid and B.
So, if they take this space back towards long,
it means they can run more of a traditional setup where they leave Flamesy as the anchor.
Well, at least I thought they would. They're actually floating both individuals back.
So they feel confident that it won't be long Zywoo you have a lot on your plate. It really does
He's in the angle for the cross flames takes the first contact does remove rain and then the York can contribute
Two down a dink as well
Zywoo's hit in every shot he takes and with their powers combined flames and Zywoo defend the ace site in a crunch moment
Just two rounds ago. We were having the conversation with Vitality's lost bonus about them not being able to afford an AWP in that round
Flamesy got one kill. They lost it, but he got one kill which gave him 47.50 on the nose to drop Xayu with the AWP
Mmm, but the the devil in the details with Counter-Strike just enough money to make this all possible
And Xayu goes on and gets two huge kills with Defend and puts Vatari up to 11
Going out long selfless Flamesy
Secures an 11th
Apeg still in the flashbang dance. We'll be running back as a smoke to guys is retreat
Kongsword hasn't landed for FaZe, it's not the end of the world.
Having Spinks already towards Lower, this does really assist if they want to play towards Short.
There's more of a support network.
Zyra overseeing mid with the AWP. Apex can connect with the two of them.
Apex holding onto a lot of utility as well at this juncture.
Still has a Smoke, HE, Flash, and the Incendiary.
Smoke... ah sorry.
Smoke's for Spinks and Flamesy and Zyra with some Nades as well.
And I think that's really key because if FaZe just do a Na'Vi, which classically just sit here chill for a while
And then eventually go through this A-Play they have a lot of you to to slow it down or blow open these smoke walls
So Rain throw in the door smoke for them. Oh
With the HE clears it hits it
Spinks will activate and it's already a five verse three
Well now you know where it is and the apex does all those needs to work with
Yeah, and now they're just throw a nice defensive smoke a good angle from flames
he finds it at the Brokey crossing but
Paragon on one HP as well. This is gone horribly long!
Find the whole team in CT. Still lingering where they started.
And yeah, nothing here for Rain. Fires off a warning shot, lets him know where he is and
so helpless. Hopeless. Come on, we'll assume.
Nothing left in the bank balance. 1900. Next round, Rain probably wanting to save this.
Looks like he's being allowed to. Hard work's been done by Vitality.
Yeah, for real, 12 secured. They want to secure the Lancest to date.
Secure Mezzi, his first trip to the Lancest arena. The only player
who has yet to experience and taste what the Lancest has to offer.
Top 8 at IEM Calode is an achievement in itself for every player.
Not there yet.
Top 6.
Not top 8.
Yeah.
Obviously.
Two semi-finals.
Two quarter-finals.
We died to a traditional bracket.
Yeah, okay.
Well, the feeling was there.
Yeah.
I meant what I said.
Just didn't necessarily say really correct.
Well I love that setup from Vitality in the last.
And that might be enough to tip them over the line.
Oh, it's a bit of a team flash right there.
Gets away unscathed, it's all good.
And Zyra looking to do the same again, clearing the smoke. How good is he?
It's not this time. Robbs, that's the punish to the clear.
You can't be looking up and down at the same time.
So a nice start to the phase trying to find these two on the run, testing rain, ooooh dips away!
Well that's info there's probably 2B, there again, takes down Apex, going looking short.
Rob's already in CT so their rotations are completely nullified, there is nothing for them to do.
They can't really contest this. The bomb will be slowly escorted in, they're concerned understandably that there are still bodies fighting from long side but little do they know.
It's just flames deep towards the bedroom area.
Alright, we'll get one more chance to get this done in regulation, don't they?
So take a moment, have a big conversation about how you're going to proceed going into
the next.
See how badly Robs wanted to get the AK into his hands just operating with Kevlar,
and that's a massive kill for him to get good AK on the AWP head-to-head.
If they can find a rifle for Brokey, it's going to feel bloody beautiful going into
round number 24.
got their movements somewhat restricted whether he wants to go looking or not is
the question he might find flamesy
yeah that's that would have been nice to take away made it difficult for flames to
drop he's all perp been a nice back and forth map was definitely I mean it was
an eight four half the fact that phase of matching that output see if they
They can match it in perfectly and then force overtime.
It's high and out taken.
Yes, saved it for the perfect moment, have they?
Tactical time at number three from Vitality XTAS,
an opportunity to prove his worth.
What contributions does he have?
What is the change for Vitality?
How do they look to open this
and hopefully take the team to Anubis,
the third and deciding map in this series?
G2 and Astralis are in the building, setting up.
We'll see if they have to be waiting
a whole other map.
elimination on the line
He's right there is one more
This was that cash on the side we clear the world wonderfully in the previous this tunnel so lucky apex as well core out I
Carried in some good work from him
Okay, three AKs for the CTs to close this and the AWP everything they want and more broke it with the boost making sure nobody
heads towards Lullaby
Nice information is he carried me be really comfortable walking through doesn't even have to worry about it
Okay, high-pressure moments though. This is where phases experience can show.
Vitality, Joker block, full of the same, but Spinks caught on the cross. Patience from the Brokey Orb.
Okay, you've got your opener.
Now you just need to close.
Rob's trying to be as annoying as he can on this bee lurk, wants to keep the eyes of Mezzie,
knowing there's just one bee defender with Spinks in the dirt.
Short molly, flushes back Zywoo.
bridge smoke, but they can play ahead of the Vitality if they like, so that's good information.
Looks like a mid to B split is being lined up.
Flamzie's been able to get across to assist.
Mezzie, they can lock this down the two of them. Apex is here to play as well. They've missed the CT smoke.
Let's go have a gap over the top.
He's got a nice little pocket. He can work with the Aperigun versus Apex.
Neither of which finds lethality. Mezzie under scrutiny, has Flames alongside,
can establish a crossfire time continues to tick 28 as this crunch comes in on to be
Messi needs that first blood he's done well with that one and a half ranked
vulnerable carraghan Messi
playing for Fugard another one
Rops finally brings him down, but it will be a two-on-two and it's uncomfortable
Loki they know where you are. He's just hiding in the smoke as the bomb goes down running at apex
He overspammed his hand and now as I was getting shipped away at as well
Oh, Faze secure the overtime!
Oh, I thought the fact they couldn't get that trade on Flamesy cleanly could have been the undoing there for Faze.
They had the bodies, the call was nice. Flamesy had been rotated over early and he got to live for way too long.
Apex is going to be frustrated about that new that Brokey had to be around the smoke somewhere and he gets runned down.
This is Sphinx overstepping the mark to offer Brokey a kill and back into the round.
I mean, I understand it as well. You spam the smoke, you find him, you've won the round.
You don't, you're caught on a reload. It's a risk.
Look at this. Look at this.
Interesting. He's just walking down.
Yeah, but Spinks is so ready for it.
Yes, he is. Perfect.
Opening kill for Spinks. So turning the table.
From the previous.
He's stuck towards CT side.
So if they walk out mid, they can deal with this.
He wants to play ahead to make sure Spinks doesn't get over to B to help out Mezzie.
Look at this pressure! Look at the call! The conviction from the captain!
Mezzie's alone.
Spinks CT.
It's just all on the Brit.
Hanging out at the back of the site.
Pushing the smoke with Spinks.
Karagin prepared for it.
Frozen aid, well destined for glory.
Chips away at Apex.
Mezzie activates.
Tracking.
Good work.
Good headshots as he got more in him.
He does!
A double kill.
Broke him with the orb.
Trying to hunt him down.
Mezzie playing a dangerous game.
repeating in, Brokey catches a quick one on desire with Mezzi, however stands his ground
and the site is safe. One man against a whole team and he's still alive. Three kills to
his name. That's what you want out of your Bianca. It's a quad kill for Mezzi. Takes
the AWP as well, takes his reward. First round of OT starts with a sphinx opener and
a Mezzi closer.
Yeah, stressful situation for Mezzi. I liked what FaZe did. They were trying to exploit
the gap towards middle really trying to punish through this from Carrigan looks
a little bit desperate and I got him in my eyesight hands off the keyboard behind
his head after the death you're waiting for Brokey and frozen to come through was
it ropes to come through the tunnels and really help him out because I think
Carrigan did a great job he applied a lot of pressure the timing was off
Carrigan wow jumping around that corner with a molotov at his hand and
exposed on the clear yeah okay maybe trying to do a little bit too much in
In the last round it was great, now you just look at his scoreline and go well he's only got 9.
And he's given up an opening death, and here they keep coming.
Spinks flash for a beautiful one bow combo.
3v5.
Sweet turn to your stars.
It romps down, it's Rain, Frozen and Brokey.
Good turn of flash, but wow Brokey.
Long range support, catches flames, going swing it, it's a double kill from Brokey.
How has that happened?
How is this 5 on 3, this two man advantage,
advantage, been squandered so quickly. And there could be more! Who is that? It's Apex
the brave bastard! Double kill! Just takes the fighting noses and Orphe knows the whole
team's there. He just wants to barefeel us to brawl and he does so much with it. 14
on the board, Apex, respect! Takes the fight to Brokey, M4, the AWP.
I can't quite believe that considering the two kills that we're just giving back over
think of it, I don't know if it's because, well, if you guys are doing it like I'm going
to as well.
I'll do it myself.
Well, this is how it's meant to be done, boys.
Impact round from the in-game leader on the other side of the server face.
Now trailing by two.
They worked hard to claw this game back and take it so over time.
Yeah, he fell down.
But is this all for naught?
Remember the CT side is where both of these teams have been weaker.
It's the perfect time for Vitality to find that form, shrug this off.
Can they make a flawless in the first half of OT number one?
Huge round.
Frustrations from Brokey.
He did a fair effort to help them get back into the round with the AWP, but not enough.
No long spawns available for FaZe to go all in, so we won't see them out the gates.
Brokey will use the boost and sees nothing.
Corner smoke flashes to keep Vitality on their toes with the open up.
Thank you, very aggressive with this. He wants to fight.
Get yourself across, use the HE to obfuscate, you overlook.
Wow, what the memo was, take it, map control, quick.
They've just called upper tons clear.
They've already got him across into that rat angle long doors.
They've looked a lot more active in these stretcher rounds
where it's been more competitive or they've been winning.
They've been prodding around a lot more harassing the extremities,
going for lower dark plays.
Yeah.
I mean, it's their pick for a reason.
phase have done incredible work to get themselves back situated into overtime but
that's how it's you certainly looking like they have the edge here on the defense
of OT1 okay smoke from rain that's destined for CT they've got a 3-2
division of defense I wonder if apex calls them into a B push with how
quiet it is they just want another flash and find out the crisscross
carrying out long smoking mirrors on car free kill that's the first
first character to open and kill the game.
Ooh, we can't find the second.
Just tapping away at flames, just wiggling around WAD.
Ooh, hello.
It's all good from flames for the double.
Robbs finally sits him on his ass with 30 seconds.
They can get that bomb towards the site.
Apex.
He's actually going to try and swing into that angle.
He's exposed if Robbs clears it.
He might.
Safe plant.
Safe-ish.
Robbs merging his angles.
He will surely have a glimpse at Mezzie here.
Yeah, oof, clenine headshot, clinical from the Estonian.
Spinks coming in from short though.
That's why Apex is waiting for.
Spokes at it.
Nice shot onto Robbs, finishes him off.
It's up to Brokey.
Can he redeem himself here?
Can he give face something to work with
into the second half of OT?
Spinks and Apex goes for the Hail Mary.
The No Scope does not connect.
He's good on the tech nine though,
but Apex is whittling away.
12 HP, Brokey goes down
and it's spotless from Vitality's CT side.
Damn, I loved it.
really nice little set of rounds that Vitality have been able to scoop up proactive across the map.
A little fake from FaZe. It drew the attention exactly like they wanted.
Zyward just sitting on the car gets absolutely destroyed but Flamesy from top side.
Silenced and four. Multi-kill. Good impact.
Number advantage is part of the retake. A nice shot from Rob Short.
Just one round now for Vitality to take us to Anubis.
I feel like this series might deserve a third.
Both teams playing well, plays less so here and over time.
Can they do anything?
Want their own defense?
What's their plan?
You've got three attempts here.
It's a secure map.
It's already a bridge smoke.
This is pre-meditated call.
The bridge smoke is already down towards A.
Yeah, let me...
Is it fake or is it a commitment?
Keeping them moving by the looks of things.
They want to go mid.
Oh, missed a smoke.
Frozen.
You're going to get swung on.
Yeah.
Oh, jump scare!
What is that? What is this call? Oh, Vitality!
Bulldoze the composition!
Completely broken.
Karigan left alone. Zywoo could finish him off with anything.
Karigan running and gutting, and we are off to Anubis.
Premeditated indeed.
That was just a straight page out of the strap book to secure the first round of your T-Side and overtime.
Faze will have to try and secure their ticket to the Lancest up against Vitality.
Map 3, Anubis.
Yes, please.
There are just some people that want to see this world burn and that's none of us
but it is in fact sometimes phase clan and they're the meaner to try to close
out a game that's not gonna be this one right here we're gonna find ourselves
going to a third that third will be a new best we'll get you right into there
shortly for the time being the one man that made the world burn for phase he
goes by the name of apex you read him in wheat gentlemen he'd eat with
chaos all over that map and listen to me there was a lot riding on that
second map. I had a lot at stake moving into map number three as a Vitality fan of course
on a personal level. I am thrilled to see map number three coming. Yeah, that was a good game of
Counter Strike. I think both teams had periods in the game where they were playing well. Both
teams had periods in the game where they were struggling a little bit. There was a couple
of rounds that wasn't necessarily the most pretty. We'll jump into some of those. But at
the end of the day, I think it's fan of the Vitality and the winning I think face in that
first half, you know, then the winning the last three rounds in the first half and that
That gave them a chance of fighting their way back into the game, but it did feel like
Vitality were a step ahead pretty much from start to finish up until that point.
Remember on Inferno, we talked about the round where things went wrong for Vitality.
We had this little force buy battle, that they lost the A execute.
Here it's the opposite scenario.
It's a force buy battle, but it's Vitality putting ahead actually with some pretty
crazy moves.
If we have round four, feel free to unload that bullet, that magazine, because
this is where Vitality actually makes the difference.
And some risks were taken to be fair.
You see the scoreline, it's 2-1, it's a bit of a mixed bag in terms of purchases, you have a tick 9 on Flames, opening from Apex, missed shot for Broke, very very important, and then Reign stays alive, he gains a lot of time with that smoke.
And now Zywa is going to do something that I haven't really seen in quite a long time, is like Leroy Jenkins through that smoke, opening the round out of nowhere.
From a counter strike standpoint, doesn't exactly make sense, he had no backup behind him, his teammate has not crossed the smoke, but this is the moment that decides it.
This is what sends Vitality into a dominant position in the first half.
It's a pretty good round to showcase and illustrate Saibu and his willingness to take Madison to his own hands,
but also for face-climbing and symptomatic for the CT side setup.
You see Kerrigan fighting Raw against Apix, no backup, no flashes, no nothing.
Then Boke goes in for a flash and sure, he's missing the shot.
He would have been traded regardless.
So it felt like it was a very disjointed face-climbing on that CT side
and they were simplifying the game to a point where they had to rely on individual level
and when your individual level is carrying and taking a fight against Apix, then God knows what happened.
No, no, I agree with you. It was symptomatic. That A-Side was never really on lockdown.
Never really end that long.
Exactly. If we want to get fundamental, it was about long, kind of warm by vitality.
And we see again that Leroy Jenkins from Zahuro, I appreciate that very much.
A couple of great kills from there.
But the A-Side was never on lockdown because long couldn't be maintained under control.
So FaZe played massively towards Catwalk, but they didn't have lower dark.
So if you do not have lower dark and both of your players are mainly towards catwalk,
you can get knaded out, you can get molotov zoned out of that position
and you have nowhere safe to retract. And I think this was the issue, this was abused
by Vitality and a whole lot, either through long, through a split.
And really, Brockey unfortunately never really found himself in a position to make the difference.
And I think it's fair enough for Halad Saivou, because by the scroll line 16 to 17,
didn't necessarily have the best game. There was a period in the game where he was
out of it, where he couldn't get anything done. On that CT side it was like he was
being avoided from face claim when face claim started to rack up the rounds but it all changed when
Saivoo on the CT side started to get a couple of picks and started to get into the game.
That's when Vitality started winning as well. So is that around the second half perhaps around
17 tomorrow? Eh, we can look at round 17, what do you want to? We don't have to actually.
Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. It's a bit of a, a bit of a mid.
It's a bit of a fuck are we going around right now. Saivoo in a position where he gets
absolutely timed by rubs your feet to yourself. Face is coming back, you know,
you see a Deagle, you see a USB and you see a CC but everything is going wrong.
Flamesee is coming in from behind, he's finding a multi-kill with the USP, picking up the AK-47, then Apex coming in with the CC.
He captures the bomb and there's only 18 seconds left, which means Rubs now is in a bit of a problem.
Now for some reason Apex is like...
Why are you sticking around?
...riding around? I don't know, he takes the fight and misses all the...
So he jumps down CT spawn, but he's done enough damage because Rubs now have no choice but to jump down CT spawn with 4 HP.
And not even Apex can miss this duel.
For face-canned though, you're 9...
Sorry, it's 9 to 7.
I'm sorry. He's in this with us. It's 9 to 7.
FaZe can have a perfect opportunity not only winning the round, making 9 to 8,
but they can also build a bit of a bank, build some momentum.
And we saw FaZe playing on the T side of Dust2.
They were in control. Every single time they were able to avoid Saivoo,
every single time they were able to execute in towards either the Beastlet,
which they were doing a couple of times, or over Catwalk,
it felt like they were in control.
So when they essentially lost this round, for me, for my money,
they also lost the opportunity to win the game in regular time.
I mean, definitely. It's a very frustrating round to lose.
You're starting to get back into the game, you're getting to the rhythm, you feel like Vitality's defense is a little bit iffy.
Same issues, flames it towards long, sometimes avoided, sometimes having no backup.
And then you lose a round to CZ's and whatever, a USB guy rushing you for long.
A CZ, you're in a 4v3, it's basically impossible.
I will say, Apex catching strays and that little bit of a fall over from Zyko.
He did play a very decent map, he had a few stabilizing rounds, that was an example there.
At some point he had a multi-kill from the A side with the side answer when Zywoo got found
and you mentioned Zywoo, sure. He had I think two or three rounds where his impact was really felt.
Blowing open smokes, AWP presence toward middle, traumatized FaZe, but then Ruff's figured him out,
FaZe figured him out and it went down to Apex to actually cover that A side and stabilize.
Yeah which you know it did beg the question a little bit like yeah we said how many Zywoo's
does it take to win in this. Sounds like the beginning of a joke. How many Zywoo's does it
take to try to light bulb? Well here here might be a little bit of a joke. How many Apex's
does it take for Vitality to win? You know, that's the question we ask ourselves a little bit sometimes,
maybe never actually. If anything, I've never asked that once ever in my life, but I can't ask you
what's going to happen on Anubis and to do it quickly, Jay. Well, more cast, I guess, and I think
that's what it extends for. When he's playing Counter-Strike, he's always doing something apart
from... There wasn't round where he was just staring into the wall for 30 seconds. I'm not
sure what happened there, but he's jumping around, he's creating pairs, taking it all in,
I guess it is, and I guess Anubis is the same thing. CT side from Vitality, CT side from
APC is gonna try to create cast is gonna try to set up cyber one if you can do that about selling wood. Okay, well
I think you don't have much more to add right you said no no I've talked enough you think you've got a couple of breath
Yeah, we've got more of that coming your way
So we're gonna go to this quick break so we come back get vitality phase situated into the server itself dust to done inferno
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You might walk into a stack on the T side and you might win the round but in your own
head you're thinking like they fully outplayed us but we just won the round, right?
Nice call.
You know all the casters and everyone is like oh you got away with this like whatever
it is but at the same time then you lose a round, you made a really good call on
and like your side player gets the timing and as we spoke like loses the duel that
It's gonna win the round.
And then the casters are going like,
what a weird call.
And you're thinking to yourself like,
this was actually the call.
He's alone, mate, he's alone, he just, he kills me.
You know, the bad call was when he walked into a stack
and just managed to win it, you know?
Sometimes we die one, one, one,
and it's like, what the fuck is he doing?
But in a few, it's three, one, one duels.
And some of them is not 50-50,
it's some advantage for us.
And it's like, it looks really bad.
When I watch the game, like,
it looks really bad from outside what the plan is.
But there's like the key details is in the duals.
And I think often that's really hard to see when the game is live from castors and viewers that the
even there is one dual that the call is about.
And if that dual might turn one away, you can react on it.
And if you win the dual, the round is over.
But if you lose the information you gained might be very valuable to what you planned.
Sure. And I think that's very hard to see from outside.
So the X-ray throws things off so much as well.
Yeah, of course. I love watching clutches when the X-ray is off.
It makes it so much more like, I don't know, just CS-like.
When I'm watching rounds with the X-ray on, sometimes I understand what the team is calling,
but for the viewer it might look so dumb like if the CTs are just making a good plan or whatever,
but the X-ray just throws it off so much. Yeah, the thing we see it, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The way it's there, it's good together.
Yeah, of course we don't know. And that's also, yeah, I agree with that.
that when you have the x-ray you might think yeah what the fuck is this why did
we have no idea the guy is there mate I mean we're not watching through walls
a spot in the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024 playoffs it is up for debate
the winner of this map will secure it and the loser will have to fight
through that lower bracket it is a new best our third map of this series and
it was a choice vitality electing to remove nuke leaves us here
understandable. FaZe and Nuke is a potent combination, but Anubis, Chad you are looking through.
It's an interesting one for both teams.
Yeah, look, as far as vitality are concerned, this hasn't been the hottest map for them by
any stretch of the imagination. They have lost the last four in consecutive fashion,
lost us to VP, G2 Spirit, and Gamer Legion. And for FaZe, you think, Anubis, where
was the last time I saw FaZe play in Anubis? Well, it was EWC against FlyQuest, other
that haven't even played at this side of the season and even before the season end that they weren't playing an awful lot either just once at Dallas so
For phase coming into this as an opportunity for them to come in with some different looks a little bit of a different shape
We'll see and these two teams tussle. I was going through the history books as well. There was once upon a time a game
This is when we were CS go. It was mr 15
It was Vitality vs FaZe all the way back to ESL Pro League Season 17 and the first half of that game was 14-1
And then you wouldn't believe it. I went back 14-1 the other way
And it was actually quite a fun cast because we went in at half-time and we pretended that they were gonna bring it back
And then they did. So it was a little bit silly at the time
But I spoke to both
Karagin and Apex in that little round table. You guys might be catching between the breaks
And they said that happened as well in practice a couple of times
So let's see just how one side of this affair can be at least for the first half
Yeah, well, that was of I would assume tea sides where the stomps were occurring and phase one the knife
So they have elected to start on that same side. Okay. Well
He's clan, how do you want to kick things off? You've had success in the pistols, but
Go back to inferno not so much in the follow-ups
They have had a few tough times against the lower buys of vitality throughout this series
The desk highlighting that clutch from apex with the CZ 75 in CT spawn. Yeah, that was nuts
Okay, well a quiet start for FaZe. There is a...
Flash is carrying him. He loves these.
Or P2Fiddy.
Yeah, no care if he facilitates frozen with his U-Tilts towards A.
Actually, excuse me, towards B?
Yeah, so they're likely selling a fake towards B
and just poshering outside of A for the aggression.
So if there is an A push off of the back of this, they can still pivot.
Speaking of push.
They want them to push into them.
This'll stack.
Yeah, well that's how.
There's a lot of bodies and they all fall to rain!
What a lovely strat.
Carragans spotted mid, then the util lands B.
You have to push A main for answers and you lose three bodies.
The bomb ready, it helps when Rain gets all three clean.
I mean, I'm sure.
That's a fantastic star for FaZe's T side campaign.
Yeah, good to see him on point.
Was it here or was it a blast?
But there was a certain point he wasn't wearing his glasses.
There was a round or two or a game or two at blast.
I saw no glasses.
So what's going on there?
I wasn't sure either maybe they were at the repairman the glasses repairman op someone tris I believe that's the terminology
Yeah, I said it with such confidence cuz I'm sure too. You don't wear glasses. I don't know do I
Not on wood. Yeah, hang on
All right, piss her off the face
As he and a spink so gonna hold on to some kevlar, so let's see do they both go for the famuses behind this they could
Go Famous keep the kev
Be pretty potent going into the second, but this is beautiful from Rainey.
Obviously had roped behind him as part of the stack, but clinical on the shots.
Deletes them all three beautiful headshots.
Oh, that's going to happen.
They both went for Famouss. I love to see it.
It's great when it comes good, when you see the landing.
Let's see what they can do with them.
Obviously it does mean that there's not a single helmet in the squadron.
Yeah, well, there's a few Galils in the mix. I'm active for Carrigan.
Frozen. He'll be holding the B push. Carrigan top mid.
Broke you that link player over towards stairs Robbside outside of a main rain are we playing up towards connector?
But right now they can just play passively
So sitting back allowing vitality to make the opening moves
From the molly baskets. Oh
dear
They're coming to test frames
He's ready to receive removes Robbs traded by rain
So, full A main control lost.
Looks like they're turning their attention towards grouping up.
And it looks like they might have a little lock towards the canal.
They do swing through.
Spinks gets away with his life.
Info.
Two towards the con position.
Frozen.
On that...
Probably the most hard work.
Least glamorous of the T side rolls.
Oh, that's glamorous from Spinks!
Makes great use of that Famas!
No problem. Can they recover this? It's up to Frozen and Brokey. Brokey low. Bodies are
here. Apex hits the shot necessary. Brokey down two! That's a big one back from Vitality.
Hoover up some AKs, two of which they find in time. Massive work. It's a shade of Inferno,
Chad. You had another one to the tally phase. You're getting the pistols. You just got
to get these conversions. That one is a rough one to lose. You get one for one
main but Spinks with the double. Commiss to that farmer spray. Yeah and Reigns swinging out to try
and get the kill. Carrigan took that initial contact. You kind of wish that the Maktin would have
gone wide to open the line. Even that Spinks really didn't have to move that crosshair too much.
And that one will leave a mark. Phase. Trying to bounce back in.
They've opened up with a smoke towards dark, a deep one, and one towards A main. So trying
to apply pressure across the map as they set up this B execute. There's three players for
for Vitality to defend.
Wow for Vitality, best possible outcome, FaZe worst.
no damage, no plant, nothing to write home about in that round.
Oh, and you know that you kind of sit and spawn feeling extra good when they go,
yeah, they bought, right? Yeah, yeah, that was Kev. That was Tech 9s.
And Karrigan took the risk because two players completely unloaded their mags in the smoke.
So he thinks I'll push through and try and catch them off guard.
Was unable to find a frag. Could have been a difference maker.
Things could have got very chaotic, but Vitality just got to coast that one in.
And now we'll see FaZe go for the full list of eco's.
It'll just be Robs to the P250 to try and keep things somewhat interesting.
But Apex had a big smile on his face after that round.
Understandably considering that...
Here they come.
CT side.
Rounds are like gold and that is lovely from Zywoo.
Cleans up! Cleans house. Four kills.
His first contributions here on our third map.
Okay, AK is to be invested. Broke even operating with a Galil for utility sake.
Might have to see the same footcar again because a few of these members might be a little bit light on.
Flamesy was unable to get his hands on that gullil over towards middle so we'll still have to be working with this MP9.
Now again I was talking about what Yanko said with Vitaliy at the first rifle rounds. They tend to take these all in risk but it was off of if they win the pistol.
They didn't win the pistol, they were the force so I wonder if it would just be a bit more of a standard round out of them with that in mind.
It does look that way.
So smoked off on con and lurk smoke be main
Robbs chunked with a rug's name
Carragant dropping in
He's pressuring con he's ahead of the smoke and yes, this is a trouble exposed
Trunner for that smoke into con and it's already cost him his life
Can it cost him the site? I think it will frozen finds one with the frames
It's the rotation coming through and who doesn't get a chance apex
the bomb still has to get across.
I would play from cave up bomb was
tossed.
Flash for good measure.
Digits punched.
And you'd assume the round secure.
It did really look like they wanted to
send Karrigan through middle but you
could see him navigating by looking at
the radar.
And they threw a lot of nades towards
mid.
There was the flashes, there was the
molly doors.
You saw Broky lining up a deep temple
smoke.
Kept mid busy knowing that the rotating player of apex would be focused drop Kagan out and split me perfectly
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable. You know from Sphinx POV
There is time
Fair play fair play try to make the best out of the situation they had cash to splash
giving it a good go. It took him a second to find the bomb, but ooh, with flames
it's covered there's a universe where that goes through. I saw him hanging
around. I didn't think there was any chance that we're gonna give that one a
crack. Yeah. The radius on the Nubis as well. It's so gentle, you know. I figured
they were just gonna try and get exits, but they went for more. Get a relief
from FaZe. Oh, for sure. Off the fumble already, and they're gonna be
feeling pretty hard done by if you lose an injured defuse as well. That'd be an A push
coming through the pipeline. But this is what Rob's is very very good at handling. He's got
Rain going in first. So it might have to be some trades. Rain managing his angles. Distance from
the fight and brings it to mezz. He goes down empty handed and they can't seem to deal with Rain.
They've won three rounds or are making an assumption because the bomb's just been
scuttled loose by as I was AWP. They should have won three rounds and all three Rain has
got the opener over onto Spinks, three glock kills and now two of the A-man push Flamesey and
Mezey absolutely wrecked. Rain's come to play. He really has. I mean, you know, we
talk about big game players. I feel like Rain definitely does. He thrives in an environment
with the additional pressure. That conversation we had about Hunter as well, who earned
Mammoth performance yesterday against Spirit who floundering. I think it's really not a good
good look. Some murmurs going around with different players I had some conversations
with about, maybe it's the end for a player over there at Spirit as well. So we'll have
to see if anything is possible considering the schedule and what comes up next. But yeah,
this phase conversation, we touched on it before. We have these embattled legends
with the trophy cabinet and they were faltering and I touched on the tweet so they knew
it. It wasn't just saying there was being speculated and spoke about from us
the outside and they're like no everything's fine you know it's all good it felt like there was a
couple of reasons to be slightly concerned such an active setup to be rumbled by just one dude
yeah i'm just i'm just interested to see what apex was saying is that i said to go water was he
not sure was he talking about a push down water because he's not he's not happy
Yeah, he's not happy with something.
My French is bad, but it sounded like Passemecout.
In Passemecout, like you're not listening to me.
Oh, it is good having Alex, who can speak a little bit of German and a little bit of French.
That helped. And he would say that.
And his eye we know is what he's saying.
Yeah, our next has.
OK, so that's what he was saying.
So whoever was the B player, was it Spinks?
No, it was I were picking with the orb.
Okay boys we need to listen to each other, I'm sorry blue, we need to listen to each other, no way.
Okay, well you were right, you were right!
Oh god I was nervous, I thought I'd done it wrong.
Good job Alex!
Thank you, wooh!
Vive la France!
Alright, smoke towards Con, keep smoke mid.
Animal passive stance towards A, understandably.
That was a huge nade that just landed on Flamesy's head.
57 points of health is all that remains after that.
Not bad at all, like the counternade to the nade spot.
Well, it's always been called over to bolster this A defence.
Nezion spanks locking down B and Apex in float between the two.
Rain going through his paces.
So exchange of U2, very standard.
That smoke is infinitely more annoying than just smoking off the mouth of Con.
Make it a little deeper.
However you prefer.
That Nade back. Not bad either. Rain takes even more damage than Flames he did.
Okay, well that I mean definitely a strong util game so far from both squads bombs committed to a and there's three players with
Apex on a fast rotation heaven's won't lined up
Can also Molly backsite?
Yeah, well would force I will into the open if they can Molly K
They do they do nice extinguish keeps him around and he delivers the frag team play from vitality setting
So I will work for success flames can be a real thorn in his opponent's side
with the absence of Xyla on flames down to just 2 HP it is problematic now 30
seconds bomb needs to be going down they re-smoke heaven rops goes searching
cam of vulnerability frozen holding that rotate nice fine on the flames mesys for
low brought down though in mid sphinx knows that he only has to focus on the
side but still two on one smoke stairs as his option starts to spam rops not
gonna over commit here broke you on an elevated angle using those steps to
Try and isolate the jewel and sphinx is the one to hit it gave him a chance. He did and sphinx will take that
Spotted on the cross good awareness from robs. That's his first three frags and it's round defining
Huge working to away from robs
And I guess because robs pushed towards heaven or hadn't got that kill that they expected him to be playing a little bit deeper
I can't believe broke he even gave him a chance by going for those jiggles wanted to try and
Badian Robs, which I guess worked overall, and yes, Spinks shot in the back, can't get
easier for Robs, but your bang-on impact, he's had a great, well Robs was having good
impact on Inferno, great impact I might say, he was having some big moments on Dust2 as
well, even though they couldn't get it across the line.
Yeah, he's top of the scoreboard right now across the first two maps.
Ooh, rain, big frag on to Cy, we're trying to turn up the heat mid, didn't work out
for them, broke, he captured Bensi, Flames commits, but traded, so.
Trade work.
this is sort of just going to boil out into a nice calm eighth round.
That was them four brought into this.
So they invested a little some of the way I think it was.
I think it was. OK, so he just charged to remit with it.
Yeah, try to try to get a little bit tricky with it, didn't they?
But yeah, I was looking at the frag totals.
It's definitely Rob's has been in form
at one point two nine rating across our first two maps.
So looking good.
It's good to see a resurgence from Rob's.
No, but it's time to an IEM cologne.
Well, that's where individuals...
Not he is the individual.
That's where the conversation was about the individuals of this team.
Right, a lot of them gravitated towards roms.
You know, what's going on?
There was a lot of reasons as to why FaZe wasn't getting the job done.
Could work from Carrigan, mops up the final two,
and it's now a two-round lead.
How many more can they continue to stack on on this T side?
And this is the problem.
You couldn't have come into this event ruling phase out because if they do show up, which they clearly are and then they make it to the stage
That that old trope that we have and it's it's a trope because it's true is about these boys been
Big game players they do their best work on the stage and it's a completely different game when you get into that type of environment
Certain rounds that you can and can't call
Aggression again flashed out be made frozen will call that thought about flashing himself back in for the fight
right? The jostling for position, Vitality will give that over. It hasn't spurred FaZe
into an immediate reaction. They're still just going to take their time.
I saw it double HE towards Cam there. That's a cheeky way of doing it. Trying to catch
the player in Ziwa's position. They want to go back to B. You can see the little
dots with the bomb going all the way back through spawn. So they pushed out B-man
Vitality. They saw nothing. Frozen didn't even bother hedging back to harass. And
They're near towards B-man, there's a little bit of information, but both teams playing for pieces of this chessboard.
Yeah, simultaneously.
Mid-smoke, that might stall them out.
Do you keep pushing or do you think that that has some potency behind it?
Looks like they're just going to go back to more of a default 2-1-2.
This is a B-retake setup right now. The position of Mezzie is telling.
Blocked at a very good time.
They go all the same.
Placement of his Util here.
And he's in spades. Bam. Damage. They're committing through that smoke.
Karagun low HP. Might try to make a play caught by Spades. Good work from him.
That's a massive double. Catches Reign departing Con. Now the flank from Apex
comes in and connects. Zywu even finishing off frozen. And it all falls to
Brokey. He gets overrun. Two from Zywu. Credit to Mezzie for delaying that.
Just got the cavalry there in time. And that's what you would have been
screaming if you were Apex. I have a timing. I'm flanking. Just delay. Don't
die don't die it's okay if we give away the plant because he did continue to push
mid after that B pressure came in Neo on the mic immediately calls the tactical
time out of first phase. Spings man what a frag. Finding the second really changed
the state of affairs. Bang. I know the stats don't say but you feel like we're
seeing well it's when you compare it to the A1 it doesn't really stack up
because that's normally a financial decision or positional decision but
I feel like we are seeing more and more A4s.
Yeah, for sure.
More of an aimer's gun, I think.
Okay, Neo, what have you cooked up in the lab, my friend?
Still more than enough money for face to get out of full buy.
Now lacking a little bit of utility on Rain.
Only has a smoke to his name, broke you with the AWP.
So both teams about to lock horns.
In round number 10, we are getting to the tail end of half number one, map number three.
They're gonna go aggressive B-man again.
They're flushing out once more. Apex setting them up.
Early pressure on to frozen. They know that it's rarely occupied by more than one so why not confirm it?
There's no early pressure from FaZe anywhere.
Yeah, I like that the fact that they're not like smoking left side side and dropping down and trying to have the initial peek
or mollying, B main to stop the aggression, Vitality are making the most of it.
Especially because they invest FaZe unless two smokes off the rip most times, it's a large smoke and a con smoke.
I'm sure they can't make anything off of it early. Apex is scared of mid. He's heading through beach to A.
Conceeds mid completely. Let's MZ know that it's a vulnerability.
Looks like a good rotation though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it seems like he's ahead of the play.
Well they're ahead of all of this. Look how close they are.
They're here so quick Alex, they're not ready for this.
I know, Zywu was. That's a power gain. Apex is there, but surprised by Frozen's trade.
They know that Flamesy has to be around.
Well MZ is so fast on this too.
MZ is going to catch him off guard.
Like Frozen, are you anticipating someone to be?
Yeah, I don't think he is. This is gonna shock him.
This is a freak. Ooh, nice catch.
Takes down Frozen.
Brokey having with a lot to do.
Robs through mains mode.
Brokey, ooh, he's getting stressed.
Flames forces him to look at him with the defuse.
Now Robs is in the clutch,
but they're just sitting at defuse.
Couple of seconds, it's Vitality 5.
An impressive round.
Genuinely impressive from Vitality.
Their awareness, that rotation from Apex.
He was so ahead of the play.
And Mezzie as well, I think the productivity of them at the start.
Alright, let's prod B, let's see what type of round we're dealing with.
If we spot more than just frozen babies sitting,
then we know that it's going to be something a bit of a different round,
maybe a B-play.
Then not only did they go aggressive long,
they went straight down towards connector and they did the same thing.
And at that point, they had a good idea that it's likely
they're going to be this A-play or mid.
The rotation from Apex gets over in time.
I thought they were going to have a real jump on them
because Faze had made so much headway without making a lot of sound.
Vitality can win the half.
That would be crazy. CT side Anubis, third map for the spotting the playoffs and this one's going to go one way fast, Karigan trying to push the smoke goes down.
Yeah, this map was played 14 times during stage one.
And was it as T side bias as usual?
Well, let's bring out the stats. I think the four out of the seven maps, I think were T sideed.
Okay, yeah.
Play ins.
Ooh, hard tracking from Spinks, but gets the job done.
Yeah, Anubis with a huge sample size was 61.2%.
Wasn't the most T-sided, but the other maps have such small, smaller sample sizes compared.
But Vertigo 62, 63 for Inferno, Ancient was T-sided, 58.
But Anubis up there.
So, I mean, the point stands, if Vitality can leave with 7, they will have done a
a lot of heavy lifting in this first half.
Brokey robs left alone with just Desert Eagles and a dream.
And Apex here to disrupt that.
Flash will force him off.
At least make him turn.
Yeah.
Robbs just has to time this perfectly.
Oh, actually gets the info for free.
Then they flash.
I like that approach.
Gives it a bit more potency and threat.
But there's Zyrus to provide the cover.
Need to hit some bangers here, Robbs.
And has not done that.
Six.
Already approved.
hit this B7. And you just have to look at phase so far on this T half. Who's the man
that you'd attribute to the impact on these rounds? It's Reign. Three on the
pistol round, two on an A main rifle round push, had an opening kill when they
were doing a B split. He's the man that phase have had to look to to crack them
into these scenarios. Otherwise, I tell you they've done a good job of reading
the play, rotating in and now phase. They would love six before they go
into this two-minute break. And again they're going for the same type of
scenario. Heavy with this clump of individuals, Reign, Brokey, rops
over towards A. Nobody outside of B at the start. They have dropped the lurksmoke. They're fed up of
those pushes onto the likes of Spinks and Mezzie for info. That lurksmoke has also pulled Apex over
because of the extra angles that it opens up over towards the site. And I think they're just going
with the keep it simple stupid method. FaZe is going to attack A once more. But they've got Zywoo
and he is posted. So they have to do this perfectly by the book. Flash is in. Zywoo's still not
not blind, playing a real tight gap here. The Molotov will force a decision after, but he
just respects it, gets out, tucks the cave, bobspring ahead of the Utah, a re-pick attempt
from Zywin, costs him his life, he actually ate the flash there, and down they go.
Rain again.
It's ya! Rain impact, double kill from him, Karagin catches rotations, Apex unable to
do anything. Just as he talked about his impact, Shadi finds a boneload more of
it. Trying to find the best way to approach this in a two on four, worried about a mid-lug,
nothing home.
We have to speak, we've got to give this one a go Matt.
Second Flashy goes, attempt and we have 6-6.
So dead even on the half, good at work cut out for them as we swap sides.
Vitality taking to the T side in pursuit of the Lancet Arena.
Half of Counter-Strike separates us from putting another team locked in for the playoffs.
Fades of Vitality fans watching on on the very edge of their seat.
I'm sure as this final half of a newbis awaits us.
They've managed to muster up six, but Vitality's defense.
It's an incredible work from the likes of Spinks.
He's put us in position where we're talking about a favored Vitality finish.
They're on the T side. What do they go for to start with a bang?
Pick up that pistol and put them on the right foot.
It's Rain again. I mean that was the other side of the coin.
Rain has been doing everything he can.
The Gilberetas kept humble inside with the clock testing.
Flashing in for Robs, trying to set him up for success, but now they know where he is.
Carrigan hits a necessary headshot, but it's Robs. Good for Flames.
Puts it onto Spinks.
Bomb lost on Fountain. This is a dream for FaZe.
Start their CT side with a bit of momentum behind the pistol.
That hasn't been an issue finding the pistol, but converting to conversation will have when we get there.
But now it's just Spinks without the bomb and with a whole lot of time.
So patience, ladies and gentlemen, maybe grab a drink.
And you mentioned the edge of the seat.
Falkindar as well, they'll be playing the loser of this series.
Winner will take on the victor of complexity in Maus,
which is currently going on Twitch.tv.
Slash ESL CSB. Sounds like it's heating up.
I can hear Scrony and Launders making a bit of noise.
That spinks. He was patient.
He waited out the smoke and now he returns to see if he can pull off a one on three.
No Kevlar, 63 points of health and a flash.
know they have the ball. Down he goes. Another one for Reign. Okay, well that's five out of the six
pistols within the series, but of those five, Faze have only won the follow-up once. They've only
made the conversion once. That's damning. So if you're Vitality, and I think Vitality even gave
it to them. I think they even took the eco in that scenario. Okay. So it is definitely
and now or never, FaZe, if you're going to try and confer around that you have all of the advantages,
but every time, actually this is an interesting one from Vitality. What are you looking at?
It's not at all in. Let's turn to the god of Counter-Strike in some people's book.
Yeah. But definitely a French Counter-Strike. The god of the team.
While still remaining financially viable into the next.
Vitality's poster boy. One of the three in the conversation for Player of the Year so far
alongside the likes of Donk, already eliminated, and Monosie, playing up next against Astralis
for elimination.
All survival, because the Lancers still laying on the line in that one will be another series
between the Danes or G2, but Zawoo, can you make another miracle happen?
No, no we can't.
What if you go on against Rain?
Too good, too damn good.
So good.
Alright, well Alex, Rain is, are you ready for this?
He's sitting down.
Yes.
Seven and one in opening duels.
This man.
Oh, man, pressure.
Pressure.
Definitely helping define how we look at the aging players.
For real.
Yeah.
I mean, him and Dupree are doing everything they can.
Seven and one.
Impact on almost all of the T-side rounds
that they picked up.
And he's not slowing down.
Two round advantage for Faze.
The rifles come out for everybody besides Apex.
He's going to have a little peek, he's feeding himself.
Early info towards T stairs.
Mezzy, oof, swallowed.
50 points of damage are thereabouts.
Jumps over the spam from Zywoo, trying to return the favor.
They've just blocked out towards A main once more,
and they might try and aggress somewhere else on the map while doing so.
They've completely fogged on the site, just hoping that the smoke wall does its job,
and that's why we're so focused on these mid and B players,
because that's most likely where the first action comes in.
So about 10 seconds Vitality have to wait before the main smoke clears.
So Mez is just staring at that grey screen and now Xayah with the same.
So being blocked across, B main push, Spinks will hear this.
Second flash is grey, but they're not able to capitalize on it.
Oh and he still gets range-iggling now, that's a very important trade back.
Frozen takes it.
It's just carrying it over towards A with an MP9.
Mmm, and that could very well be the beginning of Vitality's first round.
Where does Mez use this molly?
Oh, perfect.
Okay, we get the trouble.
Wow, he still gets one.
Not bad, not bad, but that is.
Robbs gets nothing.
Would have liked a bit more,
but the flashbang from Apex was too damn good.
I'd have to be the save.
You can see the finances for Reign and Brokey.
During the doll jumps, as far as the buyers are concerned,
they have to play this one conservative.
I'm curious over to what's B.
The second flash looked really good
on the Sphinx's position,
but nobody pushed forward to clear out Pizza.
And that's an opening kill back the other way.
We were doing an Anubis game just the other day where we saw that used to great success.
That type of a push to clear out that difficult corner.
But FaZe can't say the same.
So, Paitani will win the first rifle round, draw it back to just one.
And Apex will even get an AK for his troubles.
Frozen can drop something.
I think it is going to be Rain who needs that the most.
Yeah, tough, tough...
...from FaZe.
They, as I would just mentioned, Famous, but it was able to pick up an AK, so I think they
should be aware that that is a possibility.
Good shooting as well, in combination with those flashbangs from Apex.
Clean with it.
I respect the crosshair choice as well.
Oh, Rops has gone into an orc.
Yeah, he's an innovator.
Yeah, we saw him doing on Dust2 as well, and I understand that it gives him a few
more options. Just the angle by the way if ever I'm trying to reference it this is
the angle Robs takes it. Hey rush press one if you could mate. Thanks mate. Thanks
you. Thanks Rush. You can get off him now. Sorry sorry man. Sorry to disturb you.
That was the angle to surprise Mezzi on his clears but we are not going A. At
least not for now. She's not having any U till right so he's just gonna have
to play heads up and Brokey's also tucked over towards A so they are
playing a bit of a total setup on the CT side. There's a lot of room for
vitality to take for seemingly free but they are gonna go through the motions
with flash flames gonna clear close doors nobody home an exchange of smoke so
Carrigan trying to puff up his chest to seem bigger than he is. Cool, Rem will have
heard that drop but looking like they want to pivot back towards A again now
we mentioned Rops having a good series so far this would be his moment to
stand up with a bit of a statement. Multi-kill required.
Ready to zame, need to bait, safe and fountain and there's the jump surprise, it's only one!
Mezzy good for it, Mezzy! Double arm, Garagher to you next!
On the naughty list he overlooks the position but a knee jerk trade straight from Zywoo and the site is lost.
They need to be going 1 for 1 in that situation because if Karaghen comes in and then it's a 2v2 it seems like a possible retake
will retake, but Rain and Frozen know that trying to get back in towards that
bombsite, even with a number advantage at the best of times, can be very difficult.
Sure they have an incendiary, a HE and a kit to work with, but it's just too tall
of a task and too much to risk at this point of the game. So Vitality, they
will get away with a great necessary trade there from Mezzi with the flash
coming in. It's Brokey stepping out and getting nothing done. And you can
understand why he's doing so, because Karrigan was under pressure in
middle. I think he was smoked off towards Temple, so they didn't really
have a whole lot of information of exactly what was going to be piping through and if it was
going to be a split. So you can justify Brokey's swing.
Yeah, I really liked their quick reaction after carrying in smoke doors to just drop and group
A. It was just like kind of, you know, maybe 10, 15 seconds to configure A and then it
was gone into A. Good work from Mezzi. 8-8. Two on the trot for Vitality's T side
campaign.
I think one of the good fortunes for FaZe is Reign has one of these saved rifles.
It will be light investments from the remainder of the FaZe Clan.
Allowing that lost bonus to Bill going into the next, they should get the buys out.
No dramas, 2400.
But what can Reign do?
Can I get the bait?
I like it.
The incendiary does indicate that there is aggression afoot.
I'm glad he cooled his jets.
He could have just kept going in.
But the fact that he stays alive, it's even though you only have a USP
It's really important to just be a name on the board
Something to fear don't give them
Any inch any mile
This is a great timing for rocks. They're gonna hard clear it though Alex. They were 100% hard-clear this
Wow, it wasn't a hard. It was a clear they did clear it. Yeah
So they 99% will hard clear it
Alternative boost from the statue boost.
The problem I have with this is they don't have a smoke.
And if you have a tally with all these nades, surely you're Molly here, right?
Yeah, Spinks is the one with the Molotov.
Right, Spinks?
Oh, that's a bit shallow.
Hang on.
There's the Molly.
There she is.
Well.
Good night, sweet princess.
You still got an angle.
We've still got a chance to find Impact. Rain does find two.
Now with Frozen's help, and they're actually doing it.
Triple kill on the right for Frozen!
Closes! That's massive for FaZe. What a gift!
Rain continues to deliver.
They missed the Molly.
Yeah, he still had space on Glyph.
I can't quite believe that.
Look at this. Look at the gap there.
And all the damage that he does, they did use the Molly just not deep enough.
They even knaded with it as the second night that came into play and rain continues to have massive impact against him vitality
In a game for the arena
Oh, oh the juxtaposition between the two fury on one side jubilation on the other
Tech nines Chad, it's aggressive they're counting on Cywoo. They put an AK in his hands and they said please go kill
But he finds nothing on con spinks an early death an early departure
Starting...
They even had that opening kill in that round.
That was a 4v5.
And then the Execute should have been banged on.
They flubbed it. They threw that smoke too shallow into the molly.
So it didn't even go left side-side correctly.
He's got all the time in the world to find Robster.
Perfect flashbang from Apex.
I'm sure he's getting plenty of the effective flashes.
Carragorn, what have you got here?
Yeah, wise.
Wise. I was holding that angle for the cross.
Flash!
Apex again with these flashbangs.
3 on 3.
Karagin activates! Good find! Catches playing! Focusing now on Mezzie! Yeah, had to be headshots with the limited bullets.
Bomb plant, two on two. Rain and Frozen though, they did it once. Can they save them again?
So much at stake. Coffee got rain. Mezzie hunting him. And Mezzie delivers for vitality.
An important kill again on the A side. He's having a T side is Mezzie.
Frozen rocking up from main apex will aware of that possibility the HE will
soften him up. He's in, anticipating, oh they're so low, they are so low but so is
the time. He has to go, now or never. Tries the transfer, needs to get on that
bomb. It's not the perfectly planted, time sensitive. Meggy swings, what's the time?
A little too shy.
Vitality, fight back.
When Frozen just survives, they're to hold on to that AK,
giving them at least something to carry through.
And you see Rain already in heaven,
but how much can you ask of the guy?
He's done such a great job in this third and deciding map
of the series with his impact in that moment.
Just couldn't deliver the necessary kill
onto Mezzy coming searching.
And this time round, Faze opened things up
with that entry,
You have to really give credit to Flamesy.
The flash work was bang on, Robb's completely blind,
and the same for that of Brokey.
And there wasn't necessarily the most conventional flash position
that he threw the second one from. He was down in canals.
Yeah, great flashes from Mezzi and Apex.
They've got 24 flash assists combined.
Yeah, there's the first, and the second was a thing of beauty as well.
Brozin' given this one on two.
No flash assists.
That's Valve EF. That's just people flash. Enemies flashed.
Is it, wow, whatever the definition is, I'm just gonna call that EF.
Yeah, Valve calls it enemies flashed, HRTV calls it effective flashes.
God damn it guys, can't we just get on the same page?
We just can't.
Well, Vitality, you win this, you're gonna crack through, you're gonna break that glass ceiling.
I've heard about that.
Let's talk about a chocolate factory.
No Willy Wonkers here.
Rain backing away.
Forced away.
Two rifles in the mix. God, this is all hanging on by a thread.
Gabbled four towards B. Just rops in A main. Mitters avoid and Karagin addressing that.
Oh, no, it's not a worry, it is just going to be an execute towards B once more.
This is his smoke. Here's that Mach 10. Rain well aware that there's potential for Spinks to be occupying that far right angle.
Frozen and broke, he's both just kind of ready to deliver if he gets the fight. There it is! Spinks gets one, but shut down.
down. They're rotating. They're silently walking towards middle, magnetizing towards mid with
a little bit of A on top. Mezzie and Zywoo heading towards Robs. Completely flash. He's
got to get one hit. Oh, hard to track. Doesn't do well without Mezzie does great and Karagin,
the next victim. Apex catches him off on the rotate. Rain, however, perpetual threat.
What's he got? No, bullet. Hands towards his ribcage. Brokey. Brokey big actually,
catching Zybu. Rain down but it's all up to Brokey. He could do this.
Mezzy's overlooked this potential crouch. Walk and now we're talking, now we're cooking.
Brokey, this could be huge. Can he secure it for FaZe?
Bomb planted. Flames versus Brokey. Xtaz not going to blink.
And the mentality heard. It's saved by Flames.
What a series this has been. These flying Abysses always are thawed in either side.
Back and forth the individuals on display and another round coming down to a 1v1 Flamesy.
Gets it done.
Oh man, you gotta love some Counter-Strike, haven't ya?
Getting your Monday nights died with a bang.
Oh, I thought Broke you'd done a lot there, but Flames, look at this, Angley finds it,
a quick first bullet headshot on the Galil.
Not shy, not shy, Apex as well, the same.
carpet rolled out for 11 now for vitality has to finally be around with no threats a flash and a p250 is all phase could bring
into this one this is probably the easiest round vitality have played in this map so far
everybody's here yeah stacking a flash flames is actually going to be the perfect disruptor though
yeah they're going to go straight past and right there with distraction get the girl guys get the
They've got the galil. Then flames.
They've got the galil.
Yeah, but then flames takes it all away.
Stops the galil retrieval, takes down Brokey.
Mezzy charges our main and Jobs are good at 11-9 the scoreline
and we are going to get the guns back out for phase.
Keep it up boys, keep fucking going.
Oh, okay.
I presume Cave is gone.
I believe that they call. Okay. Yeah
Rain's not gonna be anywhere near that. This is be look how direct this is the radar tells the entire picture this round
It's time for a yeah. Well, he's been an issue because look at robs. He's been getting exploited. Yeah, it's a great call from apex
Oh, he wants it
In pursuit of the other one round away rain empty handed that surely sealed the deal 12
imminent
They have to save Chad. That's a paypex. Yeah, that allows it
fantastic call and read just straight into it direct again from vitality we had
some similar scenes going down on dust to surely that's that tickles your IDL
brain you see that they've conditioned a they know the anchor struggling you know
that carragans aware that it's a vulnerability you just lost a 1v1 on a
you've lost multiple rounds on a and so you call it a wrecked approach
towards the under guarded site and you throw into the mix that rains the
one holding over towards connector and he's been having the most impacts
for plays in the game so far so we think well we want to avoid this
but no, they go straight into it, pull off the execute,
even having a talk in spawn to discuss, you know,
do we know the right flashes?
Regardless, they pull it off, they stick the landing,
they get to 12 first, and now it's three consecutive four-phase
who were able to retain three guns.
Drops are available because of the loss-burners.
Rain and frozen will be equipped, but now, for Carrigan, this is the mental game.
Does he go back to stacking three players towards A?
Does he go for an aggressive maneuver?
How does he want to approach this CT side?
But it's a conversation for Apex to have the same with his team and they are the ones who have more opportunities
Do we want to just throw balls to the wall do something fast do something aggressive?
See if we can close it because even if they stack the right side and you are in their face
You just have to get these trades and that's round done. It could be the perfect call from Carrigan
But it might not matter
30 seconds tog this one three see both sides are locked in conversation
Series 0.3 of them.
Natality, one round away from returning to the Lancers.
That is the semis last year.
Foster Entz.
Mezzi was not a part of this roster then.
He's never played on the stage in Cologne.
He'd love to get out there to Brit.
Apex has seen a few Cologne finals over his career.
Two to be specific.
Frozen, flirting with some aggression.
Just take early B main, but Zywas with them.
Zywas here, he can do a lot, but no, it's frozen!
Great work!
Double kill, Flames at least one back.
Rain could be next.
Rain, he's buffing around with his nades,
and that two-man advantage just dissolves,
disappears, Apex down to Karagin.
Just walking through the smoke.
Crazy start to this round.
That's a brand new flavour.
Haven't seen that, that's all.
Lots of these timeouts.
This is what we're left with.
The frozen double responded to in kind
Apex over extending into mid and now they're walking into B broke. He's got a lot to do
He's more worried about canals. He has to be aware that he's keeping B open
He has to be aware that he's exposed to jail. I'll bother mouse fodder. Oh
Oh, he's not gone down flames whips it
No, he's not on the crossbar goes down flames vulnerable brought to 50. They're both coming in from con side
Spinks, punching in the cone, tagged down, that M4 one-shot headshot looks more likely
now, but not in flames, it's everything!
It's up to Robs, a tough map, two good maps, but can he redeem himself here, a one-on-one
to extend play?
Up against Spinks, how's the kit?
Battle of Wits and Spinks has managed to get himself all the way down, tucked
into cave.
He's not planning for it.
That's a ballsy call.
Robs won't understand that it...
Oh, he's just brought the fight to him! Disbelief!
And there's vitality! They have secured the Lancess Arena! The Golden Hornets will be happy!
Mezzie, a ticket bugged to his very first!
A tough battle, three maps, Faye showed up with Inferno, Dust2 went to overtime and Faye's could have...
On the context.
Well the utils on apex to block B so it's going to have to be the USP is getting it
done over towards A. So I would long side, there's the flash, here comes the waterfall.
Yeah Rain's going to be the front man but it's actually going to be a one and done from
Spinks. His partner in crime gets empty completely, empty handed there. Mezzi and
Spinks fall and they will get that bombed down. So mission accomplished. Zybu has
already been goosed so that yeah, impact is not going to be felt this time. Bonny's
In the A site, probably a good call.
Is there more?
No, there isn't.
Apex throws the flash.
Flames is in!
He nearly gets out.
Double kills.
Great.
Rain shuts it down, though.
Oh, that was almost one way for the kids to kick things off.
I suppose.
Yeah, well, this is quite a threat that's still available.
Flames and Apex over towards B, but they have that drop down four in their hands
as I would resist, and they'll take first blood.
Yeah, is that retrievable?
Not with Karagin knocking on the door, but he pieces out.
They know there's a window of opportunity away from that M4.
They have to be quick if they want to try and beat the rotation
and play the number advantage.
Binding up smoke towards the long side.
Head towards library.
They're going to try and wrap.
This is a good call against the light of bar.
I see the MP9 that speaks with one and a half.
Ooh, yeah, now, what I thought was a free frag.
Apex a little lazy on that one.
It's slow to pull the trigger, but it doesn't matter if Flames is here in one tap like that, they've pulled it off!
Apex with a double kill, let's go indeed, they leave with the round, disrupting FaZe's momentum on the second round of play.
Now it's FaZe's turn, something they're known for, historically capable in these kind of rounds.
Yeah, the problem is they're just gonna have to take their time with this.
You need to allow all this CT utility to be siphoned through, all flash and fight!
Okay, Apex is fortunate that the Flames are on his side and not just the play-up.
Yeah, jumping while flashbang, then...
Ooh, Karrigan swallows Aichi Grinne down to 47.
Might get Sphinx on the long side on a jiggle.
Info plays a staying active Vitality.
Oh, and they will have heard that.
Karrigan needs to search forward.
Oh, you know what?
Not far off of converting onto Flames.
Well, you take the Dink and that might entice the rest of FaZe
head over towards B and see if they can finish the job that they're in-game leader starter,
but this is looking very good for a 2-1 lead for Vitality, which should quickly become 3-1
with the full eco next.
There shouldn't be too much here for FaZe.
Rain will search, and actually just, oh, he's hit the head, Sean, just spanks.
Okay, scary.
He's got it.
He's comfortable, does go down off the 1, but he knows there's a boost up, and
he's gone down 2.
FaZe have managed to find the site.
shooting from Rain. I thought that crouch was going to be in Flames' favor, but it led
to the death of that CT rotation from Spinks.
Yeah, it's crazy, Spinks has nothing down there.
Hang on, munch. Yeah, that's a fantastic maid from Zywoo.
Molly will do the job.
He's in trouble. Trying to get away. Doesn't hit the first tap. And so Zywoo closed it
down, a costly one, sure, but all they needed was the round, and it's Zywoo that converts
it.
Gonna force fight again.
Oh, is this not a risk?
No, I like it. There's only one player that survived. You know that thereby is
It's going to still be a little bit rough around the edges.
I say that as we take a look at 3M4s in an AK, but lacking U2.
Yeah, and they're going to try and search towards early apps control.
Apex goes looking, gets in there, Mac 10 to the face.
Zywoo alongside though.
Catches, Fozun takes him down.
Rain looking to advance.
Mezzy responsible for boiler dance.
Zendieri will limit Rain's contributions, a lick of the flame, audible.
Zywoo timing is everything on this.
He's going to try and swing through that smoke.
Here he comes.
They're blind.
But he is dead.
Huge from Robs.
Long range tech 9 headshot posted.
Messi!
Gets two.
But Robson's done the same.
It's only Spinks and that bomb will go down with plenty of time to spare.
Robson carrying up against Spinks.
Well this time there's no utility to clear out those corners.
That's what helped them last time, the Molly and the HE.
This is awkward.
Rumps has had a huge impactful round with a Karrigan call to just push all the
chips in. They know they have some fun. But Spinks could make this costly. He could
come back. One versus two. Denied by Rumps. A quad kill from the Estonian. That is 2-2.
All tied up. Yeah, great to see some impact from Rumps like that. And this has
been a tussle. Neither team has been able to establish what their game plan
was going to be coming into this matchup just yet because we've had the
force by was back and forth almost consistently and that damage. Yeah, that's massive. And
then he does everything himself to take nine coming in just completely shutting down any
of the advances from vitality to defend that site. And we'll continue. It's not over. Yeah,
the force by needs to come back from vitality. Buller and holes had been taken goes rain.
early death is gonna be costly significant damage desire where I think
walk through the arch side smoke they can pince are on to a and that looks like
what they're doing well done by medley good push from sping into the site
spings yet can go round from behind broke he's a free frag the bomb goes idle
robson karagin they've only got 20 seconds first time it's great robs
provides the second but a great cost to his health karagin needs to pick up
that bomb now, Apex is gonna stop him. Oh he fights instead. Flash is good. Xylo has
been spotted out with the frag. He knows where Flames is too, so he knows where they both
are. 13 seconds, it's still not comfortable in timing. Chance squandered on the 5-7.
Faker the plant. Hoping to punish, takes the head. You haven't got time for that,
Karagin. Oh no, the clock. It converts the round on 4 and I think misjudgment there
from Karagin. Thought he had time for a rifle retrieval. Or perhaps anticipate
I would to have gone and doubled up, but either way. Yeah, it's a bit of a sigh from Karrigan. No, he could have done a bit more with that
throws out the moto smoke
Was the penultimate smoke from phase so you'd expect there to be a commitment off the back of that Karrigan has flash banks
But apex with a HG onto frozen elsewhere. That's the lurk gone
They start to accelerate spanks good find already
Broke into the side will find one
Mezzy's the only one there, but not for long. Rain doubles up, the bomb will go down and FaZe have the sight.
Oh, do we finally see a save?
We might have to. They were so far away, it wasn't like they had an early lead time on that apps explosion.
Look at how many MP9s are in the server, they're not all on one side.
We've got two MP9s carried over from FaZe, one for Rain and one for Karagith as well.
This is a bare-knuckle brawl right now.
MP9's for the T side but it's Frozen's first and it's an impactful one on to Flames.
Going looking, Apex cautiously retrieves that M4.
And you immediately want to look at the radar.
Are the A defenders looking to group up and try to take some space?
Well no, both plans are quite defensively as it is Banana where they want to take this dual.
Spinks with the assistance of Apex to see if they can catch the crawl.
Oh, this is a good combo.
Designed to disrupt this very setup.
Spinks and Apex noted.
Chipping away at Apex to 35.
It's Zywoo.
Elevated on the barrel.
Carrego.
Down and out, but immediate from Robson.
The way back.
Mezzy long range for down.
And so the A-Sci once again falls.
And Vitality may just have to reside themselves
to a very similar situation to the previous.
Okay, so now we should see the save from Vitality
that will result in an eco behind
the M4 and the MP9.
Oh, good place.
Yeah, it's good to do it.
Alright, well...
It's all good.
Not into the world, let's hear our difference.
Still plenty to be played within this map.
Here's that orb, so it was dropped across.
So I'm getting active with it and removed.
Big one from Rops just swings straight into Zaru.
And there's another one on the menu.
Mezzy does well to get away with his life.
An important equalizing frag.
It's insane that how Rops has just gone
quickly into that fight. It's not shyzy. It's not really kind of typically his style.
At worst case he found himself towards CT and they're in a full retake setup. Now that Apex is
over they... Oh and Spinks has info. Here we go. All right Apex what are you going to do with this?
No util really. Fast flank Spinks put the bomb down. That's going to completely change the
plan to phase. Really uncomfortable round now for phase clan. They're just going to pick up the
the bomb and go. Same plan. Slightly delayed. Flame should have at least one empty-handed
reign has found a huge Frank back. Bomb down. 3 on 3. This is an intense retake and it could
have got awkward for Spain's court jumping up, man-playing on towards the barrels.
Frozen concede just backs away. Time on their side. The last of their utile. Used to
try and take half wall, but Frozen on the re-aggressive. Mezzi falls. Karagon takes
It's a phase six on this two side.
Alright, alright, well, we've gone through the history.
That match over in London, the spring finals were blasts.
Inferno was the map choice of phase. They won it 13-4.
See if we can do more with it there.
So we made quite a statement in this opening game.
We have only seen that one game, Vitality vs Furious.
This is our second look at what Vitality are bringing to IEM Cologne 2024.
Same could be said for phase.
And there's I was all good for it, but down after one frozen loses his life and the bomb
is there.
That's team play.
They leave with an advantage and the site.
Yeah, Rob's did his job perfectly there.
That late piece through Boiler.
That setter gets rumbled.
They're waiting there for the progression holes, which we've seen quite consistently
from FaZe.
Rain and Rob's up through Boiler and Hall's been quite aggressive.
That's how the last time Zawa had an AWP got rumbled.
This time they go straight up the guts.
long side, orp signs off, they learn of the boiler setter who rocks come through and cleans
house. It has to be another Vitality save, and it's these two, yet again, Apex and Flamie.
But yesterday was way too easy for Vitality, wasn't it? I don't mean that in a bad way.
I mean it in a way that they just absolutely mauled their opponent. It was a non-issue
whatsoever. Oop. Apex does get that one, and should get away with his life. Let's
Let's go into the final round of the first half.
I think it's twice about it with a single flash bang.
He's gonna set his boys up.
Yeah, the fact that you draw that smoke at about a minute twenty-two on the clock mission accomplished,
you've applied so much pressure, vitality, feel like they're under threat.
The comms, if you're the A guys right now,
you'd be hearing the B players just screaming that smoke's flashes,
hey, cheese, they're picking, and we're hearing them on the here.
So now they get a moment of respite,
but that's where FaZe turn their attention to take this mid-control.
Rain making no secret of this.
That's made down Spinks' pocket.
Oh, didn't quite nail the flash plate
It's away with his life
Going through the motions here phase so you're really taking and maintain banana control now
You've got brackets and a bit more they would have said sure
Medi might peek around this and he's done well to find car again. Oh
Hang on Zai Wu best rops and now it's looking good for a vitality fourth
Anticipating a B finish that you tell
It has landed on CT, Apex unable to do too much, does have a smoke of its own though.
Have to get through.
Yeah, but that's if you can get past that SMG, elevate it with flames, find it with the
MP9.
Brokey, the spams away, the smoke does well to find itself a kill, grabs the AK-47,
rains alongside for it, flames in the smoke.
It's chaos, but Brokey hits the shot!
Oh, great, it's another!
Good God, I think they've turned it around.
The hard work done.
How has that happened?
Brokey and Rain miraculously enter the B-side with a couple of seconds to spare.
All Vitality are going to be kicking themselves if they can't close.
Mezzy and Spinks, tasked with getting back into this B-bombside.
Mezzy coming in first, Barrel spotted, Brokey knows he executes it!
And now the last of four! That is miraculous!
What a way to close out the half, a ninth, and five frags between the two of them.
Rain and Brokey, heroes for FaZe as we take two.
Molly, out of flames he did clear off that porch side.
Frozen having to now search down Banana.
Will Apex go overlooked?
Is it a little bit of a mind game?
Oh, nice shot, Robbs.
Guess the most out of it.
Apex however was waiting for this, and oh, wow.
He's put a bullet onto Frozen's head.
Right in the tech.
Yeah, this is going to go hectic.
This is uncomfortable.
Highly uncomfortable.
And Messi's doing everything he can.
A third is great.
The bomb is on his back if he only knew.
Broke, yeah, Broke, he should dangle frozen on his fishing rod.
Oh, this is going to be tough to get him by.
I think he's going to be anticipated!
Doesn't matter! With a low HP, Posen still hits the headshot.
So yeah, it did what he could with a triple kill from Merzy,
but as you said, this spells trouble for Vitality if they can't win this one.
Yeah, they've been able to get an AK in the hands of Xayah,
he's got head up behind it, so let's see if he can make a play.
Even just so they can start warming into the series,
They're going to go into their map choice of Dust2Next and they'll be a whole lot more comfortable, but to get blown out in a match for the arena, Vitality did make it to the Lanxess last year.
Mezzie the only one not part of this team. He would love to grace the Cologne stage. Never seen Mr. Merriman out there.
But everybody else in the server we have in Faze, they've even won it.
There you go. That's Zaiward doing what Zaiward does best with the AK-47. That's why you put the Kalashnikov in his hands as you look to try and disrupt the A site straight in, double kill.
Nice back from Brokey, yeah, they nearly lined up for the double, and there's just 3 HP, with the bomb going down, and Zywoot putting another one in the dirt.
Brokey's solo in trouble, looks like Vitality have done enough to make a little bit more out of this second half.
We're gonna get more of this force by nonsense, I think that'll be dependent on if Brokey and Frozen can hold onto their upgrades.
Apex really wants to take this away, and well, yeah, he's been a big enough distraction to get another for Zywoot.
So everything's eye-we-needed, dropped the AK, finds the opener and that essentially secures Vitality the round.
They're fourth, just a six-round game now, I'm gonna say just.
MR12, it's gonna be quite quick to get back into things and that's where the financial decisions of FaZe we're gonna have to put under a microscope just like we did with Vitality in the first half.
I mean, yeah, this is a replay so far of the first half as far as rounds go.
FaZe with both pistols, Vitality with both second round forces.
See what they can do with what they have.
3 saves, 1 rifle.
Oh, and they picked the correct site to hit again.
Robson rain, the 8 offenders.
The ones who went down in the pre-
Ooh, nice catch with the boost.
Okay.
But that is just going to accelerate them into the USP's.
You know what works? SMGs vs. no careful off-lames.
Had no problem against rain there.
Spinks takes down Robs after his P250 did some work.
Well, they'll give it a look.
Yeah, no harm no...
Owl, but pushing through that smoke without anyone else.
And Brokey and Frozen still fapping around top banana. Frozen's been able to pick up that AK.
This is an active-app setup.
Forward positioning, but it does look like Vitality want to go direct.
That might change their plans though. Smoked half wall.
Molly and Goh. Gonna walk through this.
Okay, silent, but they're on their way.
Yeah, they're coming in.
Yes.
Karagin, there might be a bit too lay on the smoke, suddenly panicked, flustered, good flash.
Karagin pushes!
Oh, it's beautiful!
He gets himself a double, make it a triple from the captain!
Flameslip them there, are they aware? They are now, gets the information.
Good work from Rain.
And FaZe, I mean, it's rare to see something like that work so perfectly.
Two flashes, Karagin swings on the second,
and three players doing the dance on the NERMI B commit.
There's a detail.
Oh, okay.
Uh, how many more is he gonna get? The bomb is in an almost irretrievable position
towards CT spawn, so the fact he's got two kills, that's great, but surely nothing more.
Yeah, I think the funnel stops here, but Spinks has got 10 grand in the back, you might just keep having some fun.
Bomb couldn't be more irretrievable if they tried.
Actually, Brokie is gonna be exposed to that, and Spinks has managed to make this a 1 vs 2.
I think FaZe might be getting a little uncomfortable now,
The Spinks might actually get that bomb back in his hands right holding it, yes!
Got to Karagin!
After all of his hard work he was starting to get a little nervous.
That's almost the same that happened within the first half of the play to the Deagles.
The 3v5 situation of it was the beast side, just giving away a lot of casualties in a round
where you can start to establish your own economy.
And your in-game leader has so much hard work, we'll catch that one again on the replay.
Perfect timing on the push-through.
Hands over faces.
The in-game leader locks down three in style, and then this is where the bomb gets dropped, and you think, okay, well, that should be it.
So that sphinx has done a little bit of a dent. Brokey's been able to bring out the AWP.
Now the god prefix was found with utility.
Going through.
Flashing through. Frozen forced away.
Karag in the same. Top banana gained.
Save from the flame.
Oh, Robs! Still gets one!
Missed shot from Brokey.
He's allowed a second chance.
Well, the keeping phase moving between the sides.
So there are going to be a lot of gaps.
Like a test over here, a test over there, and contacting.
They'll be ahead of this.
Mezzy starts to run.
Oh!
Big head shot from Merriman.
Testing Karagin.
He's been brought low.
Should go down here.
Empty-handed and vitality.
They've broken into the B bomb site and quite a direct approach.
Is that kind of Apex, good old-fashioned Apex calling?
Well, I think this is where the mind games between these two teams is going to play in an awful lot.
Because in that previous round, hold up a sec, we're going to have Brokey at the go and down and getting a kill on his orb.
It's going to be the latter.
Jump spot, so they know they're under pressure with the hunt.
That's the ramifications of giving away so many rifles to Spinks in the previous.
Apex wants to remove it all knowing that they can make their life a whole lot easier as part of this comeback.
Okay, and now we can have a conversation.
So, we started 4A with Frozen, blocking B, and one of the key...
Ways that they opened that previous rounds, which is where Karagin wrote it back and got the triple kill, is they flash rain forward for you in the middle of a subtle double apartment, then as soon as rain caught big clear, you look set on this B execute, Brokey and Karagin have smokes to block.
Ooh, they're getting ahead of the play! It's a fantastic flash from Karagin, frozen does well to find himself something with the aggress.
Maybe Brokey's AWP's gonna get a chance here.
Oh, and it does! Flames down! Apex is gonna have second thoughts now. Surely, it's Batman away of the smoke.
Well, your way back is with Spinks, and he hasn't taken too much space just yet.
Starting the probe because he has to. 35 seconds.
They're running! They are running!
And Rob's just left, so yeah, Ray.
There's Rain in the pit with the AK. That's the other saved gun.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, interesting scenes here.
They don't have a molly to clear him, either.
Okay, Rain, let's see what you got, mate.
That smoke really will limit the sight line he went to the work with.
He jumps up here, Spinks should have him.
Whoa! Still was ready for Spinks, now he maneuvers around that smoke.
13 seconds, planting safe on cold Zera.
I mean, I'm not aware that Zywa was likely trying to isolate him, hunt him down.
They've used their smokes very well here, Vitality.
Pushing smoke, Zywa- What a transfer!
Turns around, spins into the second.
It's up to Apex though in the clutch.
And not Rob push through, finds the headshot, he picks just shy of the head.
That's a miraculous turn around from FaZe.
Damn, I had him dead to right since he's jumping out of pin. You can see him wanting to reposition so he can try and deal with the side players.
Now that's pretty mad at Ted as Iroh drops that one to give him a bit of a buffer to work around over towards brooms.
That's worked perfectly and FaZe will have heard that so they know they can't just spear on down for this banana control.
If I want that work, wonderfully!
Frozen brings down the Wu.
He's quick to find Karagin, but he knows Frozen's not far behind him.
Flames putting a lot into this.
Gotta be careful, he's trying to find info safely and does catch a glimpse of Robs.
Rain's still undetected.
Rain might clear deep.
He does have a look and he can dash, he just spots Flames running towards B.
Surely that's a little sign that we need to get the rotation going.
and frozen under pressure. A nice head shot from Mezzi.
Two kills from the Brit in this one.
Trade Zywoo then builds into it with a frag to open up the B bomb site.
Spinks on Cat and his core robs trying to get towards Banana through mid.
I was going to say that feels like a save and they are going to try and back up.
But with Spinks so close, you wonder, hey, should we hang around and have a little bit of a look?
He dropped off after that kill.
So Rain and Broke, either two who saved before looking to save again.
And those saved weapons were worth their weight in gold.
Brokey's already passed your line of sight, so Apex should have this one.
There hasn't been a single round this half, but Faze haven't saved Summit.
Apex didn't have that one.
Not yet, no, no, it's in fact Brokey's been doing great on the saves.
Well they have worked back into this, haven't they Vitality?
Couple of rounds that they're going to be kicking themselves over.
They're going to do some damage, but Brokey will retain the AWP and reign the A4.
Something he's been criticised for.
not always being as active as perhaps his team need him to be well keep an eye on
that we've got four rounds required out of vitality yeah and no lost bonus bill
three the team but more importantly face if I tell you lose around it doesn't
matter it's over that's GG but if phase lose this one now the opener yeah well
if this round continues in the direction it's going phase gonna have to take an
eco all the saves again if you're vitality maybe you'll throw more at
hunting those guns away knowing just the ramifications 35 seconds on the
clock bomb committed apartments this will be a most definitely
Ross holding the angle but flames on one HP rain ropes combined to defend the
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mezzie was not a part of the team at the time though I'm sure he would love to
grace the Lancest stage for the first time I love a little CT mid push even
pros do. But what do you do when you don't get anything? Robs has got a lot to do here.
And that's a brilliant way to start. One tap to the head of Apex, they continue to commit.
And it's looking good for Vitality. Robs, he needs help and he's back up and instead
he loses his head. Frozen however has found contributions on the cross. Those are hard
shots. He's hit two of them. Oh, it's only Frozen. Can he do more? Flames! That
That is a huge quad kill.
Oh, okay. That's the output that you're looking for.
Bro, watching that from the death POV, it's perfect. It's actually perfect.
I'm sure it'll look great on his too, but just how little you see of him, how quick that bullet finds his opponent's head.
Spinks found one.
And that's the reason that they start running Flancy down on his own, because they know Spinks is on the lurk.
So Broke and Frozen want to isolate a one-on-two duel in their favor, and they can't do so.
Crispy, Vitality pick up there first, the pistol.
Oh, and he picks hit the cross?
The series, yeah, well, those nades look a bit shy of the mark.
I love the tenacity out of Spinks.
The aggression just runs them down before they can get back.
And maybe, just maybe, we will start a half of this series
without the second round force falling away
from the pistol victors.
This might be nice.
Especially if you're a Vitality fan.
Tag onto Zywoo.
He's another of those.
Yeah, not going to get to find it, but Rob,
he's done well to finish off.
Dink.
Onto the Spinks.
They've taken a lot of damage, but unfortunately with the equipment they have, broken rain probably
going to look to save.
Two scouts, not the weapons for the retake, is it?
So if they can hold on to these, they can be a little bit prickly going into the next
round.
The USPs can soften, sorry, they can finish off the softened opponents.
They can soften as well.
They can.
It normally goes scout tagging to...
I like it's fluid.
The lighter fluid.
Newtonian
Frequently indeed it's a slow demise for bro key to find him eventually
Very thrilling recovers the AK from the first spinked his AK then sorry apexes used against spinks
This is gone horribly wrong robs with a touch of aggression using that 570 deadly effect
And Mezzie he's done very well with that one clears out long on his own in one spray
Robbs finds the bomb, but this is uncomfortable if he goes any further Mezzie's pre-am is brilliant, but Robbs. He's one step ahead
I will spots rain interesting back option me
So there's an information that that that is not Robbs
Robbs is somewhere else
Rain was towards B
And they've got 48 seconds to solve this together
together on T spawn. It's uncomfortable for everyone. There's no way as I would go through suicide.
So he will pair up with mezi. Cross my gun cleared. Oh, he gets the head of Zywoo. Now
mezi is the only one alive. He doesn't have the health for this. He does not have the
health to really participate. Robbs an impactful quad kill back. Sure. No second round conversion,
but how about a third? All the rules long corner smoke. Nobody playing ahead of the
phase they will not have the information. Apex testing caragant.
No flash, just dry. Here's the jewel, Brokey overwhelmed, caught off guard by that contact
play. Good chance for Rain to double up here, he has done damage but there's pressure from
every angle, he's done so much damage. Zywoo, Apex and Mezzie even catching frozen CT,
there's nothing here for Robs. Well, that was hard fought but vitality, they will
prevail. They kind of played phase exactly as they wanted, I tell you, they went out
long, they threw the crosswork, they weren't playing long. I think they left an
individual towards Bluebin in case there was some re-aggress and they've just
piped himself through Shaw and all the fights are a broken missing of Shaw. He's
in so much trouble at that point with the body swinging around the corner and
now Zahra is going to get there repeatedly to carry through. So, wasn't you done?
I used to play with Zywul.
I imagine that was from the scout rounds a little bit earlier in the piece.
And if you wanted to search for info, you would have wanted to call your V players back over to help from middle.
Right, short and mid.
Oh, what the hell? Crossing is a problem right now.
Let's play with Zywul.
He does. Yeah, that's the Zywul version.
Opening kill on opening kill, Vitality.
Again, whenever they want them.
I like a bit of risk, going around like this, and Karakin does too, pushing up towards the door side.
It takes full long control, so that's a gift for the CTs that remain elsewhere.
Mezzy responsible for housing this, but there will be a moment where he chooses to evacuate.
We'll see if Karagin can catch that timing in an influential manner.
Reigns leaving A though, as they crouch themselves out short.
So this already reads like it might be a Vitality 4th free.
Nice from Karagin, catches that long holder.
Has that changed your plan?
Well, the problem is that already on the site, Reign now having all that information.
information. Just because Vitality have gone so quietly, they might find a kill on the Apex.
Nice, double tap, double dink. Now it's very much on, but it spins low.
And Karagern, oh, he had a little bit of an opportunity, but peeking around the smoke
is Zoe won the AWP. An advantage not interested in this one.
Well, that's like a light switch, on, off, on, off.
We're opportunities for FaZe to work back into that, but the fact that Vitality just
contacts out and keeps us so quiet means that that rotating player of Rain doesn't have
of the sound cues. If you're telegraphed in that position, we tend to do so because
there's so many threats. You know, you have to worry about players taking that long-range
duel, but walking out.
So where do you think the confidence was to go for such a kind of ballsy walk?
It's just being diligent there, making sure that Brokey's not on that 50 line with
the AWP. Mollied off with the flash convo, Flamesy has short control. Right now, you've
played with the mid to B idea, now you're playing with the short execute idea,
and the extremity players of Frozen and Carrigan are calling Sector Clear, but at any
moment there could be a pop in their face as well. So Vitaliy have done a good job of masking this.
Discuss this when we've done a couple of other dust tours. I'd like to see teams trying to exploit
lower dark and using the new jump up because it means that you can have one or two players
go and lock down long, you can have one player jump up short, you can use the best spawn to
go in towards lower dark. I know that the AWP is quite scary right now, and long seems to
be the port of call. The boosting over the mid-spire, so I'm going to map out.
Three numbers of faith here, and already Flames makes it two. Rain down, empty handed,
the flash is a good but not looking, Karagon goes down as well, only one remains.
Two casualties in the opening 20 seconds.
Not a full line-up for the car, Molly, so Brokey still has vision.
He's actually bravely sticking around on car.
Oh, okay, wow, smoke spam.
This Molly will get awkward.
Yeah, Brokey, you're a dead man.
Oh, he tries to turn around on it.
Wise to the fact that it's swing with the flash,
but still doesn't manage to find much.
Frozen, spotted out now at the tip of his head.
There, Rops fires off and Alps off from short.
They know where you both are.
Apex is actually gonna pivot.
He dips towards CT and he's going to hunt you down. You're not ready for this angle.
This is so naughty.
Apex is being very cheeky. Complete jumpscare for Fosy. He's whiffed it.
He's whiffed it, but the idea was great.
Uh, Sphinx has lurks done it.
Buuuuut, yeah.
Sphinx lurks in nicely.
Again, I mean, he's just becoming a real problem.
Four phase clan on Inferno and here in Tadus too.
Apex can't seem to mantle up perfectly.
Looking like they want to keep the people on the planted Rob sport an org for this angle
He pecks out mid
20 seconds they're giving face a chance on that. I'm not sure what the plan is. This is a bizarre world
Here comes to be you till Rob's has been waiting
Loads with his org frozen in combination. Look at the damage
Spinks and mezzy bleeding out eight seconds. They need to get across. Oh
Oh, um, we're not having a now round over round over how how does that round go down like that?
Spinks
Brings his AK through wouldn't have mattered if he went down either way 6100 in the bank. He here we go. Oh
Hmm spotted. Yeah, but there's four and there's a flash and a frag ranger sets himself up for success there
That's what I'm talking about. There's what Chad wanted to see and it's worked out wonderfully
I mean, the knowledge is there that there is a CT in Lowers.
You don't know that Frozen's right around this corner.
He picks to go down here if Frozen has a look, but Sphinx is covering.
Oh, Frozen timing for everything.
Now he might have a look and he gets the bomb.
Oh, OK.
The bomb is spewed out of the Zywoo and landed at doors.
It's a little unfortunate.
It looked like it did, could fully catapulted out of it.
Oh, nice shot from Nezzy, but that's short lived success.
The orc closes it down. Yeah, that's crazy. What a lot of
Believer. All right. We'll have the inertia with him. I don't think that
Incendiary has done anything to value. Spinks not cleared out of his angle. If
anything, it might do him a favor if he sticks around long enough. Look at this
stack. This is a caragon and coal expecting it to be a bee finish. I
thought it was gonna stick around. Never mind. He just takes the fight.
Robbs is dead. Yeah, the scope. It will be a bee finish. Now that they've
taking rubs out maybe it was part of his plan to bathe them into this two-man
behold flash rain swings a little bit of a nation of presents yet mismanaged
as the bottom down what a hell of a spray out of frozen water come sping so an
instant headshot rain what you got it's got a chance that's what it was but I
will hits the shot to harrigan and broke he broke he misses the shot on
desire we crossing smoke will plume to obscure the cross I like this smoke
back from the CTs, gives them options. They can use that T smoke against them to just pop
out from either side. Another one towards tunnels.
Oh, Karrion's going to have to walk through that.
Yeah.
Oh. Well, maybe it's intentional.
Yeah, precisely. Still has angles and they might assume they're both coming from doors.
Which it looks like they are. Oh, the mind games. As it's on to the one. One Zywoo
can have it! No bullets! It's brokey! Gives them a half to work with. Hard
It comes down to a 1v1, it's phase 4, vitality 8.
Early utile thrown out towards the B bomb site, just a couple of decoys.
I'm not talking about Robson Brokey, the actual grenade.
Spongebob, oh that's me, and you. We're here.
It's Russian MC.
That's what I was gonna try and say. Here they are, Rushly!
Guys, put anything on the screen that you want, we'll see if Alex will say it.
I'm like Ancomand, I am. I'm Ron Burgundy.
Oh!
Robs?
down flames. Oh, Sping's pushing. This has gone far too well for Vaze down right now.
Apex, nice shot. He's on his way back up.
Ops, Rain and Frozen though. They should be fine with this.
Oh, firing squad. Nice. Yeah, they took a while. They took
a while. Mezzie joins the B2K gang. I didn't think I could love him more. I didn't think
I could love him more. The B2K is not going to work out for him here. It's okay.
It's okay. Take the rough with the smooth.
to exertion yesterday so what map do you think they're gonna play and I said they're gonna pick
vertigo and they picked vertigo you nailed it so who's orb has been a bit of a threat in that
T side peppering them through the doors if not finding opening picks and drops so he's gonna walk
into sphinx whoa whoa whoa whoa what should have been a free kill and to give away half of his life
that's the cost of playing counter strike deep
Those are the dead man. Wow, you can see there was a very small window of opportunity for
Zaheem to find that kill. And this has gone one way fast. Vitality is nice, looks rather
painless.
Hold up. Yeah, he gets a plant here. He's got two kills. I say plant. Maybe Zaheem
will jump in USP. Yeah, indeed. Just like that. Denies the plant, secures the round.
It's nine to six. Nice attempt from Reinal, things considered.
Yeah, hugely important that he denies the plant because even with the defuse coming through this tool would have had 600 bucks frozen
Could have an AK instead of a galil rain could have had a galil instead of maybe a McTenor or a deagle. It's rain. So
Yeah, he's gone for a deagle it is that you so I was watching him buy us a rain
Gonna reposition pick all clear now they could use long as the staging area
They still have a smoking flushes to work with a Molotov is water clear our car short rear grass inter drops and rain
24, comes through, robs his blind, blind and deleted, but the deagle works wonderfully!
A third would be crazy, Apex does bring him down.
A's open, did he get this smoke up across?
Yeah, ooh, Zywoo did not pull the trigger there.
They get across the ramp, good damage on 20px as well, exposed in the open, goes down.
Now surely FaZe should have a heavy advantage.
Will they even have a look in?
Zywoo's just fishing in case anyone overextends with a quick glance towards CT, but...
Feel like they are
Already accepting that this is the phase rounds or five phases seventh
Back in a way. Ren's got five kills in the last two rounds and he's only at nine in total. So he's come to play on the T side
Yeah, it's like edge to vitality already
Just intermittent sweeps from Zywoo trying to catch anyone that's maneuvering back off cat
Fates do seem to be retooling for the B finish. This is where Messi is gonna be tested in this angle. He's sticking around
Oh Zywa that's a big catch and now they peek in good work from Robs he's taken down the
Bianca.
They need to smoke the doors you can't just run in.
They know yeah the only other rifle in the mix is that AWP and you know you know where
it was.
They've drawn him in to B now they just need to be able to get in towards this A site
Robs is going to make sure they can confirm that Molly doing an awful lot of damage.
Some likely Zywa gets to bring this one through.
Robs?
Oh I love it.
I love it.
He's had to make this play.
Beautiful from Robs.
got really awkward. And it's so good with flames on a USP. How is this happening? Oh,
Robs needs it, gets it, but still it's 1v1. Oh, catastrophe. It calls. Robs can save them,
but with 15 seconds he has to do everything. He has to run into Apex and Apex is sticking
around. You're not going to expect this. And he catches the timing, puts him onto
four HP, there's no time. Six? I don't know. He has to hunt. Apex, Apex, Cowrie
in the corner with his HP advantage! He finishes it with the CZ! That's a massive vitality round!
Apex leading by example with impact! It was just on a roller coaster of emotions with Apex right there
because he made a merit of it, made an absolute meal of it. Five, four, three, two, he knows the
fight's coming in at a step and wins it with the CZ 75. Let's add a sire relief, then the cheer
because he knows they've done it with two saved rifles. Bro, I love that he's stuck
around in that angle flames getting a full kill with a USP long push yeah well
that was the the nade damage that came in towards short because rain and
character were both softened up yeah it did look a bit easy all in long long yeah
okay interesting flyways got the flash it seems to work more often than not
because it worked for face clan
oh so much you tell Wow Ray was full blind full blind flames is gonna be saying
the same thing that's insane that he's pushed at the smoke like that
So what's the response of Vitality? Zahui can post up top site. They just smoked mid-doors to make sure that nobody can weasel out.
Sees nothing. They've tucked in towards Peer passively. I like this from Apex.
In fact, he's gone over to Wood's car. If they do decide to trundle up long, late, he might go overlooked.
Rain's gone all the way down.
So what's the response of Vitality? Zahui can post up top site. They just smoked mid-doors to make sure that nobody can weasel out.
Rain's gone all the way around the world back towards B, he can call the flashing towards
upper tunnels, but he's got support on the way.
So they've parked Robs in pit, the rest of the crew to join Rain.
Now Vitality is starting to ask some questions.
Yeah, it's about time here.
Well, they could smoke window and doors.
They have two smokes to make this possible.
Oh, they found Robs.
That is a little bit problematic because they're already going to wiggle a third, excuse
me, a second in the third on play.
buddy. Spings the bay. And as he goes first actually, and does significant damage, Karagin
get awareness that there could have been a second Mezzy 2 and then done. It falls into
an intense 2v2. Frozen gonna try and plant Brokey to provide some cover. Looking at that
window, Zywu considering it. Put his ult on his back, just opting with that CZ75.
Frozen tip of the head spotted, 10 left in the mag. Brokey onto Apex, he's only
I will hear he can't get it done an important and necessary round for phase
Damn it looks like the rotation was on point for vitality didn't it and they were all exactly where they wanted them congregated coming out of the upper tunnels grouped up a cluster of
Three but unable to multi kill. Ah
So unless they get a couple of kills. Yeah, well, they certainly capable of doing that. Oh, they fumbled the boost
They just wanted a spot that no push and what focus in the yeah, nice
They're gonna try it. That's a good catch from Broke eat
He's having a bit of a resurgence in the second half-styled to hit some impact, hit some openers.
He's even tagged up Zywoo, that's the rifle.
He's got to get out of there, he knows he's days are numbered and Reign's got his retreat covered.
Clean, good team play, good awareness, the comms are there.
And so this one, yeah, they just have to put it in now.
Mini-Golf.
Ibex really wanted to track at that M4, didn't he? Just offers himself up to Reign for free.
Phase, if this is a 2-0, there's been a dialogue about the team and is this a make or break event for them.
They've been on a downward slide, obviously starting off CS2 with success, or near successes.
Time and time again, making these grand finals. Then as the season continued, they peed it out.
And everyone loves a good peter out, but for them it was starting to look a little bit worrying.
And then you come into this half of 2024 and, oh, it's okay. What's going on with phase?
players aren't clicking, they're approaching the game. Is there internal problems? What's
going on? Why isn't it working with this frozen addition as good as it was with Twists?
I imagine when you get so close to lifting a trophy and then just kind of repeatedly
miss out. I'm sure you, you know, a little bit of apathy slips in.
Well, there was them getting gassed as well. You know, because you're so close, that
means you're playing the most amount of maps in the tournament because you got a distance
into all these grand finals. And then, yeah, the apathy of not picking up the victory.
so close but so far.
And then the problem was more when we came out of the break.
We said, okay, they've had a break.
Thanks, Flangie.
You have no utility now.
Good luck.
You do have an orb in the hands of your superstar.
Yeah, can it be the different maker?
Let's find out to get it up.
Carrigan goes down to Spinks as a question.
The trade is coming.
Nice from Reign, but there's still presence.
Flangie doesn't commit to it.
Worried about what might have lingered top mid.
Broke he had him covered.
So a wise choice from Flames, he just accepts the equalizing frag.
Well, at least I thought they would. They're actually plotting both individuals back, so they feel confident that it won't be long, Zywoo.
You have a lot on your plate.
It really does.
Using the angle for the cross, Flames takes the first contact, does remove Reign, and then the AWP can contribute.
Two down, a dink as well, Zywoo's hit at every shot he takes, and with their powers combined, Flames and Zywoo defend the A site in a crunch moment.
Just two rounds ago, we were having the conversation with Vitality's loss bonus about them not being able to afford an AWP.
Sorry, smokes for Spinks and Flames here and Zyber with some nades as well.
And I think that's really key because if FaZe just do a Na'Vi, which classically just sit here, chill for a while,
and then eventually go for this A-Play, they have a lot of U-Tool to slow it down or blow open these smoke walls.
So Rain throwing the door smoke for them.
Oh, Zyber!
He did it with the HE!
Clears it, hits it, Spinks will activate, and it's already a 5 vs 3.
Well now you know where it is, and the Apex still has all those NAVES to work with.
Yep, and now they've just thrown a nice defensive smoke, a good angle from Flames, he finds it,
they're Brokey crossing, put Paragon on 1 HP as well, this has gone horribly wrong,
spiked the whole team in CT, still lingering where they started.
Yeah, nothing here for Rain, fires off a warning shot, lets him know where he is, and
so helpless, hopeless, one would assume.
Nothing left in the bank balance.
1900, next round, Reign probably wanting to save this.
Looks like he's being allowed to.
Hard work's been done by Vitality.
Yeah, for real, 12 secured. They wanted to secure the Lancest today.
Secure Messi, his first trip to the Lancest arena, the only player
who has yet to experience and taste what the Lancest has to offer.
Top 8 at IEM in Colode is an achievement in itself for every player.
Not there yet.
Just didn't what's necessarily correct.
But I love that setup from Vitality in the last.
And that might be enough to tip them over the line.
That's a bit of a team flash right there.
Gets away unscathed, it's all good.
And Zywie looking to do the same again, clearing the smoke. How good is he?
It's not this time. Rob, that's the punish to the clear.
You can't be looking up and down at the same time.
So a nice start to the phase trying to find these two on the run.
Testing rain. Ooh, dips away.
Well, that's info that there's probably 2B.
This is the kill.
He takes down Apex, going looking short.
Rob's already in CT, so their rotations are completely nullified.
There is nothing for them to do.
They can't really contest this.
The bomb will be slowly escorted in.
They're concerned, understandably,
that there are still bodies fighting from long side,
but little do they know.
It's just flames deep towards the bedroom area.
Alright, we'll get one more chance
to get in this dungeon regulation, don't we?
I heard all that, don't we?
Yeah, that's uh that would have been nice to take away made it difficult for flames to drop
His all-per?
Been a nice back and forth map
Well, it's definitely
I mean it was an eight four half the fact that uh phase are matching that output
See if they can match it in perfectly and then force over time
Nice information as he carried me it'd be really comfortable walking through doesn't even have to worry about it
Okay, high pressure moments though. This is where phases experience can show
Oh, Vitality and Chocoblock full of the same, but spings, caught on the cross, patience.
From the Brokey Orb.
Okay, you've got your opener.
He's got a nice little pocket he can work with here.
Carrigan versus Apex, neither of which.
Finds lethality.
Mezzi under scrutiny, has flames alongside, can establish a crossfire, time continues
to tick.
28 as this crunch comes in on to B. Mezzi needs that first blood, he's done well
with that.
One and a half, Rain, vulnerable, Karagin, messy.
The trade.
Lady of the Guard, another one!
Robs finally brings him down, but it will be a 2-on-2
and it's uncomfortable.
Bokee, they know where you are.
He's just hiding in the smoke as the bomb goes down,
running at Apex.
He overspammed his hand.
And now Zai was getting shipped away.
And as well, FaZe secure the overtime.
Oh, I thought the fact they couldn't get that trade
on Flamesy cleanly could have been
the undoing there for FaZe.
They had the bodies.
The call was nice.
flames you've been rotated over early and he got to live for way too long look at
this look at this interesting he's just walking yeah but Sphinx is so ready for it
yes he is perfect opening kill for the Sphinx so turning the table on the
previous well he's stuck towards CT side so if they walk out mid they can
deal with this yeah Karrion wants to play head to make sure Sphinx doesn't
get over to B to help out mezzy look at this pressure look at the call the
Conviction from the captain.
Mezzie's alone.
Spinks CT.
It's just all on the Brit.
Hanging out at the back of the site.
Pushing the smoke with Spinks.
Carrigan prepared for it.
Frozen aid, well destined for glory.
Chips away at Apex.
Mezzie activates.
Tracking.
Good work, good head shots.
Has he got more in him?
He does.
A double kill, Broke with the orb,
trying to hunt him down.
Mezzie, playing a dangerous game,
re-peaking in.
Broke, he catches a quick one on desire
with Mezzie, however, stands his ground.
And the site is safe. One man against a whole team.
And he's still alive. Three kills to his name.
That's what you want out of your Bianca. It's a quad kill for Mezzi.
Takes the AWP as well. Takes his reward.
First round of OT starts with a Spinks opener and a Mezzi closer.
Caragin' Flau. Jumping around that corner with a Molotov in his hand.
And exposed on the clear.
Yeah, okay, maybe trying to do a little bit too much.
In the last round, it was great, and now you just look at his scoreline and go, well, he's only got nine.
And he's given up an opening death, and here they keep coming.
Spinks flash for a beautiful one-bow combo.
3v5.
Sweet turn to your stars.
It's romps down, it's Rain, Frozen and Brokey.
Good turn to flash, but wow, Brokey.
Long range support, catches flames, going, swing in, it's a double kill from Brokey!
How has that happened?
How has this five on three, this two-man advantage,
been squandered so quickly and there could be more who is that it's apex the brave bastard double kill
just takes the fight he knows there's an orp he knows the whole team's there he just wants to
barefeel us to brawl and he does so much with it 14 on the board apex respect
takes the fight to broky m4 v orp i can't quite believe that considering the two kills that
we're just giving back over in the blink of an eye and it's because well if you guys are
I'm doing it like I'm going to as well.
I'll do it myself.
This is how it's meant to be done, boys.
Impact round from the in-game leader
on the other side of the server face.
Okay, smoke from Reign.
That's destined for CT.
They've got a 3-2 division of defense.
I wonder if Apex calls them into a B push
with how quiet it is.
They just want another flash and find.
Now the crisscross.
Carriagun out long.
Smoking mirrors.
On car, free kill.
That's the first Carriagun opening kill of the game.
Ooh, we can't find the second.
tapping away at flames just wiggling around WAB. Oh hello it's all good from flames for the double
Robbs finally sits him on his ass for 30 seconds they can get that bomb towards the site Apex
he's actually gonna try and swing into that angle he's exposed if Robbs clears it
might say flat say fish Robbs merging his angles he will surely have a glimpse
at mezzy here yeah let me headshot clinical from the Estonian sphinx coming
in from short though that's why apex is waiting for a nice shot onto robs finishes
him off it's up to broky can he redeem himself here can he give face something
to work with into the second half of OT sphinx and apex goes for the hail Mary
the no scope does not connect he's good on the tech nine though but apex is
whittling away 12 hp broky goes down and it's spotless from vitality CT
side. I loved it. Really nice little set of rounds that Vitality have been able to scoop up proactive across the map.
What's the plan? You've got three attempts here to secure map 3. It's already a bridge smoke. This is
premeditated coal. The bridge smoke is already down to what's 8. Yeah let me there's a fake or is it a commitment?
Keeping them moving by the looks of things. I want to commit. Oh Mr. Smoke. Frozen,
Frozen gonna get swung on. Yeah. Oh jump scare just as easy as that. What is this call? Oh vitality
Bulldoze the composition
Completely broken
Karigan left alone. I would could finish him off with anything Karigan running and got it and we are off to anubis
Premeditated indeed. That was just a straight page out of the strap book to secure the first round of your t-sided overtime
Hi guys, Mezzzie here make sure to sub to eslcs. Keep right on
Phase Clan, how do you want to kick things off?
You've had success in the pistols, but go back to Inferno, not so much in the follow-ups.
They have had a few tough times against the lower buys of Vitality throughout this series,
the desk highlighting that clutch from Apex with the CZ-75 and CT spawn.
Yeah, that was nuts.
Okay, well, a quiet start for Phase.
There is a flash as Karagin.
He loves these.
Or P2-Fiddy.
50. Yeah, no care if he's facilitates frozen with his utils towards a
Actually, excuse me towards B. Yeah, so they're likely selling a fake towards B and just posturing outside of a for the aggression
So if there is an a push off of the back of this, they can still pivot
Speaking of push they want them to push into the whistle stack. Yeah, well town
There's a lot of bodies and they all fall to rain
What a lovely strap
Carragans spotted mid, then the util lands B. You have to push A main for answers and you lose three bodies
The bomb ready. It helps when rain gets all three clean. I mean, I'm sure
That's a fantastic start for FaZe's T side campaign. Yeah, good to see him on point. There was
Was it here or was it a blast? But there was a certain point. It wasn't where these glasses
There was a round or two or a game or two at blast. I saw in a glass
And I said what's going on there?
I wasn't sure either.
Maybe they were at the repairman.
The glasses repairman.
Of some interest.
I believe that's the terminology.
Yeah.
I said it was such confidence because I was sure too.
Oh, you don't wear glasses.
I don't.
Nor do I.
Knock on wood.
Yeah, hang on.
Alright, piss around for face.
Mezzi and Sphinx are gonna hold onto some Kevlar.
So let's see, do they both go for the famuses behind this?
They could go Famus, keep the Kev.
but right now they can just play passively
so sitting back allowing vitality to make the opening moves
right now Molly the baskets
oh dear
oh he's ready to receive removes robs
traded by Ray, so full A main control lost
looks like they're turning their attention towards grouping up and it looks like they
might have a little look towards canal
They do swing through, Spinks gets away with his life, Info, two towards the composition.
Frozen, on that... probably the most hard work.
Least Glamorous, of the T side rolls.
That's Glamorous!
Spinks makes great use of that Famas! No problem!
Can they recover this?
It's up to Frozen and Brokey, Brokey low.
Bodies are here, Apex hits the shot necessary, Brokey down two!
That's a big one back from Vitality!
Hoover up some AKs, two of which they find in time.
They've opened up with a smoke towards Darkadip, 1-M1 towards AMN,
so trying to apply pressure across the map as they set up his B execute,
but there's three players for Vitality to defend.
Mezzy braved all this.
Headshot angle, he's flashed off, smoke comes in, they're swarming B.
The third man is here in Apex, Karakern.
Yep, Tridon's luck didn't clear Ivy, Mezzie gets a freebie and it looks like they've done enough.
This forced buy from FaZe is fallen flat.
Frozen gets away from the initial spray, Spinks will finish it.
Wow, for Vitality, best possible outcome, FaZe worst.
So, smoked off on Con and Lurksmoke, B main.
Rob's chunked with a Rugged main.
Karagin dropping in.
He's pressuring Conn, he's ahead of the smoke and yeah, Spinks is in trouble, exposed!
Tron up of that smoke, into Conn and it's already costing his life.
Gonna cost him the sight. I think it will, Frozen finds one with the flames, it's the
rotation coming through and doesn't get a chance. Apex, deleted by Brokey with a headshot.
Bombs still has to get across, I would play him from cave, up Bomber's tossed.
And flash for good measure.
Fidget's punched and you'd assume the round's secure.
It did really look like they wanted to send Karagan through middle, but you could see him
navigating by looking at the radar.
And they threw a lot of nades towards mid.
There was the flashes, there was the molly doors that you saw Broke there lining up
a deep temple smoke.
So they kept mid busy knowing that the rotating player of Apex would be focused.
Drop Karagan out and split B perfectly.
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable, you know, from Spinks POV.
Oh my god, there is time.
He's on it! He's covered my flames! He's covered my flames! I would nearly get away with murder!
Fair play! Fair play! Trying to make the best out of the situation.
They had cash to splash, giving it a good go. It took him a second to find the bomb, but...
Ooh, with Flames as cover, there's a universe where that goes through.
I saw him hanging around. I didn't think there was any chance that we're gonna give that one a crack.
The radius on the Nubus as well is so gentle.
However you prefer.
That Nade backed. Not bad either. Reign takes even more damage than Flames he did.
Okay, well definitely a strong Util game so far from both squads.
Bombs committed to A and there's three players with Apex on a fast rotation.
Heavens won't lined up. You can also molly back side.
Yeah, well, we'd force ZywOo into the open if they can mollykate.
They do. They do. Nice extinguish, keeps him around, and he delivers the frag.
Teamplay. From Vitality, setting ZywOo up for success. Flames can be a real thorn in his opponent's side.
But, with the absence of ZywOo and Flames down to just 2 HP, it is problematic now.
30 seconds. Bomb needs to be going down. They re-smoke Heaven, Rops goes searching.
Ham of vulnerability. Frozen holding up, rotate. Nice, fine on the flames.
Mezzy's poor low.
Brought down, though.
In mid, Spinks knows that he only has to focus on the side, but still, two on one.
Smoke's dead, and as his option starts to spam,
Rob's not going to work over commit here.
Broke you on an elevated angle, using those steps to try and isolate the jewel,
and Spinks is the one to hit it.
Gave him a chance.
He did, and Spinks will take that.
Spotted on the cross. Good awareness from Rob's.
That's his fast three frags, and it's round defining.
Huge work underway from Robbs!
Mid smoke, that might saw them out.
Do you keep pushing or do you think that that has some potency behind it?
Looks like they're just going to go back to more of a default 2-1-2.
This is a B retake setup right now. The position of Mezi is telling.
Blocked at a very good time.
They go all the same.
Placement of his Util here.
There's an easy sping.
Damage.
They're committing through that smoke.
Karagin low HP, might try and make a play, caught by Spink, good work from him, that's a massive double!
Catches Reign departing Con, now the flank from Apex comes in and connects,
Zywu even finishing off Frozen, and it all falls to Brokey, he gets overrun!
Two from Zywu, credit to Mezzie for delaying that.
Because he did continue to push mid after that B-pressure came in,
Neo on the mic immediately calls the tactical time out of the first phase.
Spinks man, what a frag.
Finding the second really changed the state of affairs.
Bang. I know the stats don't say it, but I feel like we're seeing, well, it's when you
compare it to the A1, it doesn't really stack up, because that's normally a financial decision.
I'm sure they can't make anything off of it early. Apex is scared of mid. He's heading
through beach to A. Concedes mid completely. Let's know that it's a vulnerability. Looks
like a good rotation though, doesn't it? Yeah, it seems like he's ahead of the
play well they're ahead of all of this look how close they are they're here so
quick Alex they're not ready for this nice I was that's a character apex is there
but surprised by frozen straight they know the flames he has to be around
messy so fast on this too I don't know it's gonna catch him off guard like
frozen have you anticipating someone to be yeah I don't think he is this is
gonna shock him this is a free nice catch takes down frozen brokey heaven
with a lot to do. Robbs through mains mode.
Broke he, oh he's getting stressed.
Flames forces him to look at him with the defuse.
Now Robbs is in the clutch, but they're just sitting at the defuse.
Couple of seconds, it's Vitality 5.
Impressive round.
And I think they're just going with the keep it simple stupid method.
FaZe is going to attack A once more.
But they've got Zywu and he is posted.
So they have to do this perfectly by the book.
Flash is in. Zywu's still not blind.
Hang a real tight gap here. The Molotov will force a decision out of him and he just respects it, gets out,
tucks the cave, drops right ahead of the Utah, a re-pick attempt from Zai, who costs him his life.
He actually ate the flash there and down they go.
Rain again.
It's ya! Rain impact! Double kill from him, Karagin catches rotations, Apex unable to do anything.
Just as he talked about his impact, Shadi finds a bowload more of it.
Trying to find the best way to approach this in a two on four. Worried about a mid-lug, nothing home.
We're off to space, you gotta give this one a go mate.
Second flashy guys. Tempt and we have 6-6. So dead even on the half.
But they're well cut out for the two swap sides. Vitality taking to the T side in pursuit of the Langstess Arena.
Has put us in position where we're talking about a favored Vitality finish. They're on the T side.
What do they go for to start with a bang? Pick up that pistol and put them on the right foot.
It's rain again, I mean that was the other side of the coin. Rain has been doing everything he can.
The Jorberetta's kept humble, it's Zywoo with the block testing.
Flashing in for Robs, trying to set him up for success, but now they know where he is.
Karagin hits a necessary headshot, but it's Robs, good for Flames.
Puts it onto Spinks.
Bomb last on fountain, this is a dream for FaZe.
Start their CT side with a bit of momentum behind the pistol.
That hasn't been an issue finding the pistol, but converting.
It's a conversation we'll have when we get there.
three. Kevlar, 63 points of health and a flash. They know they have to bomb. And down he goes.
Another one for Rain. Okay, well that's five out of the six pistols within the series.
They've just blocked out towards A main once more and they might try and
aggress somewhere else on the map while doing so. They've completely foregone the site just
hoping that the smoke wall does its job and that's why we're so focused on these mid and
B players because that's most likely where the first action comes in. So about 10 seconds
Vitality have to wait before the main smoke clears. So Mez is just staring at that gray screen and now Zai with the same
So being blocked across be main push. Spinks will hear this
Second flash is great, but they're not able to capitalize on it. Oh, he's still kept range. Jiggly now. That's a very important trade back
frozen
Takes it. It's just carrying over towards a with an MP9 and that could very well be the beginning of
Vitality's first round. Where does Mez use this Molly? Oh
Oh, perfect.
Oh, there he goes in trouble.
Wow, he still gets one. Not bad, not bad.
But that is, Robs gets nothing.
Would have liked a bit more, but the flashbang from A-Pace
was too damn good.
I'd have to be the save, you can see the finances for Reign
and Brokey.
Then the doldrums are surprised the buyers are concerned.
They have to play this one conservative.
I'm curious over to what's B.
The second flash looked really good on the Sphinx's position,
but nobody pushed forward to clear out Pizza.
Now, we mentioned Rops having a good series so far, this would be his moment to stand up with a bit of a statement, multi-kill required.
Ready, Zezane.
Ready to fade.
Safe from fountain and there's the jump surprise, it's only one.
There's he go- FOR IT!
Mezzy, double arm!
I understand.
Garagher, are you next?
On the north, he lets you overlock the position, but a knee jerk trade.
Straight from Zywoo and the site is lost.
They need to be going 1 for 1 in that situation because if Kargan comes in and then it's a 2v2, it seems like a possible retake.
But Rain and Frozen know that trying to get back into that bombsite, even with a number advantage at the best of times, can be very difficult.
Sure, they have an incendiary, a HE and a kit to work with, but it's just too tall of a task and too much to risk at this point of the game.
Something to fear. Don't give them any inch, any mile.
Well, he's bought it.
This is a great timing for Rops.
They're gonna hard clear it though, Alex. They will 100% hard clear this.
this. Wow it wasn't a hard. It was a clear. They did clear it. Yeah. So they 99% will
hard clear it.
An alternative boost from the statue boost.
The problem I have with this is they don't have a smoke. And if you're Vitaly with
all these nades, surely you can molotov, right?
Yeah, Spinks is the one with the molotov.
Right Spinks? Oh that's a good shout out.
Hang on. There's the Molly. There she is. Well, good night, sweet princess.
He's still got an angle and he's still got a chance to find impact. Rain does find two.
Now with Frozen's help and they're actually doing it. Triple kill!
Oh, Frozen closes! That's massive buffaze! What a gift! Rain continues to deliver.
They missed the Molly. Yeah, he still had space on Glyph.
I can't quite believe that.
Look at this, look at the gap there and all the damage that he does, he did use the molly just not deep enough, they even naded with it, it was the second nade that came into play, and Reign continues to have massive impact against team vitality in a game for the arena.
Oh, the juxtaposition between the two, fury on one side, jubilation on the other, tech
nine's chat, it's aggressive, they're counting on SiWood, they put an AK in his hands and
they said please go kill.
But he finds nothing on Khan, spinks an early death, an early departure, starting.
They even had the opening kill in that round.
That was a 4v5, and then the execute should have been bang on.
They flubbed it, they threw that smoke too shallow into the molly.
So it didn't even go left side-side correctly.
He's got all the time in the world to find Robs there, perfect flashbang from Apex, I'm
sure he's getting plenty of the effective flashes.
Karagin, what have you got here?
Yeah, wise, wise, no one was holding that angle for the cross.
Flash!
My bad!
Again with these flashbangs.
3 on 3.
Karagin activates, good find, catches flames, focusing now on Mezzie, yeah had to be
headshots with the limited bullets.
Bomb plant two on two. Rain and frozen though they did it once can they save
them again? So much at stake off you got rain.
Mezzy hunting him. And Mezzy delivers for vitality. An important kill again on the
A side. He's having a T side is Mezzy. Frozen rocking up from main apex will
aware of that possibility the HE will soften him up.
Beaks in, anticipating. Oh, they're so low. They are so low, but so is the time. He has to go now or never.
Tries to transfer. Needs to get on that bomb. It's not perfectly planted. Time sensitive.
Maggie Swings! What's the time? We are a little too shy.
Vitality, fight back.
When Frozen just survives, they're to hold on to that AK giving them at least something to carry through.
Well then, it's not a worry, it is just going to be an execute towards B once more.
This is his smoke. Here's that Mach 10. Rain well aware that there's potential for Spinks to be occupying that far right angle.
Frozen and broke, you're both just kind of ready to deliver if you get the fight. There it is! Spinks! Get one, but shut down!
They're rotating.
They're silently walking towards Mid or magnetizing towards Mid with a little bit of A on top, Mezzy and Zywoo, heading towards Robbs.
Completely flashed, he's got to get one hit.
Oh, hard to track, doesn't do well without Mezzie does great, and Karagin the next victim,
Apex catches him off on the rotate, rain however, perpetual threat, what's he got?
Noah, bullet, lands towards his ribcage.
Brokey, big actually, catching Zywoo, rain down, but it's all up to Brokey, he could
do this.
Mezzie's overlooked this potential crouch, walking now, we're talking now, we're
cooking Brokey, this could be huge.
Can he secure it for FaZe?
Bomb planted.
Flames vs Brokey, Xtaz not gonna blink.
Zolkered in the Vitality Herd, saved by Flames!
Rain's not gonna be anywhere near that.
This is B, look how direct this is. The radar tells the entire picture of this round.
It's die-three, hey?
Yeah, well, he's been an issue because look at Robs, he's been getting exploited.
Yeah.
It's a great call from Apex.
Oh, he wants it.
That's it. In pursuit of being just one round away. Rain, empty handed. That surely sealed the deal. 12 imminent.
They have to save Chad. Unless it pay-picks, yeah, it allows it. What a fantastic call and read.
Just straight into it, direct again from Vitality. We had some similar scenes going down on Dust2.
Surely that tickles your IGL brain. You see that they've conditioned A, they know the anchor's struggling.
You know that Karrigan's aware that it's a vulnerability. You just lost a 1v1 on A.
You've lost multiple rounds on a and so you call it a wrecked approach towards the under guarded side on the stage in Cologne
He'd love to get out there the Brit
Apex has seen a few Cologne finals over his career
To be specific frozen flirting with some aggression
They want to just take early be made but I was with them so I was here
He can do a lot but no it's frozen great
What a double kill flames at least one back rain could be next rain
He's flapping around with his nades and that two-man advantage just dissolves disappears apex down to caragant just walking through the smoke
Crazy start to this round. He's more worried about canals. He has to be aware that he's keeping the open
He has to be aware that he's exposed to jail. I'm spotted. I'm spotted. Oh
Broke he's not gone down flames whiffs it
Broke it out! No he's not! On the crossbar goes down! Flames vulnerable! Port to 50! They're
both coming in from conside! Spinks! Punching in the code. Tagged down! That M4 one-shot
headshot looks more likely now, but not if Flames hits everything! It's up to Rops!
A tough map! Two good maps, but can he redeem himself here? A one-on-one to extend
Play!
Up against Spinks, has the kid...
Battle of Wits and Spinks has managed to get himself all the way down, tucked into cave.
There's no plan for him.
That's a ballsy call, Robs won't understand it.
HELLO! He's just brought the fight to him! Disbelief!
And there's vitality! They have secured the Langsess Arena! The Golden Hornets will be happy!
Cologne is one of those events that kind of transcends counter-strike in a way.
It's one of the tiles that everyone wants to win.
This is really where your metal gets tested.
Manchester is a very special arena.
Everyone wants to be there, everyone wants to feel the atmosphere.
It doesn't matter how much of a new team you are, the world is clear.
was clear, Leo's is a minimal man, can't wait to get in the stage, just enjoy being there.
I'm getting very excited, all of my teammates, the coach especially, is hyping us up to play at the arena.
We just need to show up and there's no excuses not to do so.
I passed in Dota for now, instead it's Torsche, who's gonna withstand this pressure from the end.
Lifting a trophy like this or just looking at it, you go back through all the memories
and the historical moments that it had, it makes it a very special one.
It's my first time playing in a big stage and this is what I've worked for.
It's a great team and we want to face them.
The way we have to play the game and win.
We can beat the other guys and upset everyone.
I picture myself lifting the trophy.
We showed up and I think that's the thing I want to take with us.
If we just believe, we can do everything we want.
I know we can.
I believe we can.
I want to do everything to go grand and sexy and re-nice every little bit.
Actually what we love the most is what we fight the most for our business most prestige tournament right we winning my confident vices
I'm I think I'll lift the whole team as much as I can in the ring
Feel like our side of the back is the stronger. We have us G2 mouse
I feel like mouse has been slacking lately a little bit. I said G2 are one of the best teams in the world right now
G2 friend has a chance to beat us. We just gave our best in terms of preparation and other things because we know all big
just on the monies and we also want to write our name into the history.
Being around the trophy it's so big it's so unique. It's just one of those trophies
where lifting it would mean so much for a player. It's just a memorable thing
that you'll never forget. The main goal of Cologne is to win the tournament
and the lift in the trophy. This is one of the OG Counter-Strike events. This
is the big one and so that pressure mixed with a huge arena presence
There's always a big footfall out in Cologne. The pressure is very much on.
You have to earn your spot in the Lancers and then you have to go one step further
and earn the right to lift the trophy. And I think there is a tremendous amount of prestige
when it comes to Cologne.
But you lose this, you'll be facing G2, looking like marauders from that lower bracket in the quarter final.
Okay, well that was something to keep our eyes on. We'll continue that discussion once this pistol concludes.
Shui responsible for this cat take and he is actually going to be casting early looks long aggression
Yes, I was there to check it and actually spots too. So there's some info no casualties either way
They can't barrel through middle because Shui exertion and Jimmy are all here
Yeah, in which case they are just kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place
And that is the hard place hitting Shui takes out sphinx and the P250 on side. We will utilize brawl and deleted
starting to trundle up long, the full 4 mana soul.
Keep your eyes on this Jimmy Flash, how do they utilize it?
They're just gonna creep up the smoke, not in the air.
Torgy casting a couple of...
Lots of info.
Yeah, knows they're commiting, smoke on the cross, turns the flash,
Jimmy throws out his towards the ramp to...
So just to delay, allow Torgy to tuck in.
They do have Shui on Gandalf, but save plant, Flames,
punching in the code, covered by Mezzi.
Two from Shortside, Jimmy late elevator but he could be cleared by Mezzie, won't be doing
that now because Shuey's hit a banger. Two kills from the captain, Zywoo, can he continue
to rack him up because he's all alone now up against three. It's not the best plan.
No, it is a good weapon for this fight but already a couple of missed shots, well surely
go punish, he's hitting them. One remains! Can Zywoo really start with another ace
on the pistol as Torgie's off the bomb. Torgie's running at him. Looking to pick up
your barrettes look at the run and Daowoo has somehow pulled it off again.
Will it be fine? Yes, indeed!
The ace on the pistol, this is becoming a trend.
And no longer the secret weapon, right?
Zawoo doing this on pistol rounds.
We know he's proficient on them, but pulling out two aces on pistol rounds is something special.
And it starts with a Shui Oatna.
They get across long and I said focus on that Jimmy Flash.
He just used it to dissuade.
I'm thinking, looking at the plan, it's not great.
They don't need to be fighting him so wide.
They give him the opportunity and Zywoo will cinch it up. That is Vitality snatching away the pistol from Mouse.
Oh yeah, Mal, I definitely feel that was theirs.
They're round to lose.
Fast P. Hang on, we're too low. This gets awkward for Vitality and Jimmy does something.
He's done nothing. He put a damage onto Spinks.
And it means Scout shot Zergin. Fast on this flank.
He second guessed it. He looked away for a moment and Zywoo gets the double instead.
Couple of missed opportunities.
Brolin and Torgy, yeah, you're not going to be doing much with this one.
Well, this house of cards has come tumbling down quite quickly, so we'll see if Brolin can stay alive
towards lower tunnels. Spinks is the one locking him in, lower HP, Zy were going around the world,
also low. But when these two teams face last on the desk highlighting, as Brolin goes down,
it was during the ESL Pro League Season 19 Finals the best of five. That's when Overpass was
still in the map. Paul, Dust2 wasn't. Coming into this today, Maus are 100% on Dust2,
but they haven't really played it an awful lot.
I remember seeing them having to pick it up for the first couple of times.
They went straight from Pro League into Bet Boom,
and then I think Bet Boom, the team,
tried to pick it against them immediately, which they hadn't practiced.
They still won it.
Okay.
But this is Vitality's choice,
and we've seen them have some real wars on this map.
Back to the series with Faze.
But despite the win record for Maus,
Apex and Co wanting to try something a little bit different
from how things went in that best of five,
the first three right out of
so they picked inferno lost it
and they picked new that was the
third map lost that as well.
So yeah, different formula.
Today's bout.
All right, aggressive up cat
and talk about the carry
potential of these orcas on
either side. Well, it's just
towards you with the scout
water off immediately.
While we do have this lull
or potential lull. Make sure
Make sure you whack twitch.tv.eslcs on your secondary monitor phone, iPad.
I know it's on mine.
Very important to be watching that game.
Faze Clan versus Liquid are rematch from the earlier stages of Stage 2.
Here at IEM Cologne and that one will book the last ticket for the Lancess.
Okay, south-middle, it's the stack exertion with one more body spotted, but the Muppin
bucket can follow.
Use three more to find exertions already low, segregated from the players, should we?
Oh no, he's not anymore, crosses the smoke.
Oh, maybe he wraps up a couple of tidy headshots.
Easy round, no dramas, and just toys you with the aforementioned scout.
Good clean rounds from Vitality, they clutch from Zywoo, and then the conversion, so
great work.
No real dramas.
Pressing tab now for miles as they prepare, they're just going to be looking at an
8-0 Zywoo.
only three rounds in. I mean that ace probably still has some echoes as well.
It's really okay if he holds on to the scout I think. Don't give him an AK. It's not gonna matter
as you'll take it away. And there you go. 3-0. AWP will be available for Torji. So we'll have
to set our sights on this CT setup for Maus. Brawler gonna be anchoring long. We'll see if
he gets testified in the spawns early. Tried to make it interesting. Collapsing down on middle
as a unit. Now this is where the game begins. Maus probably regretting the way that they played
that pistol against Zawoo, so if they can get on the board, none of the rifles have been equipped.
Doesn't look like they will be pumping themselves in towards long, in the fast fashion,
sphinx towards tunnels. Mezzie Flamesy joined by Apex and Zawoo the tale of this. Remember when
we covered off Zawoo against FaZe, he was getting a lot of tags and picks through the doors
with the AWP. Yet to equip it, but we'll see once it comes out how annoying he can be.
He was like posturing to flash someone through doors, but actually seems like the conversation
has changed.
Flash and go, takes short, that smoke still lingers, now they're layering, just as one fades
and another it blooms.
Now that flash is thrown, apex tries to clear close doors, so that's a nice bit of information,
Flames gets that safely.
Pressure all over the map at the same time, okay Flames down, that's big, we're strafing
in to him, he's messy.
down goes the wound. It's
towards his open as the death
discussed. He is an influential
factor. In all of Moses games
so far, it's always getting
shots. That is a threat to
vitality and a threat to
vitality's fourth round.
Sphinx could win this still
plenty of time in the clock.
50 seconds bomb on cat knows
the orbs towards a session is
going to be tending to the
potential sweeps through.
Looking at doors and heading CT
so we will be closer to
assist if the bomb goes a
of a risk for him to cross the fact that he didn't didn't get caught on the timing helps them
piece this puzzle together. Torji's position is going to be really difficult to rumble should be
good for this. Yeah and that's Spinks it's an absolute cracker. Oh he just quick changed. Oh no
Torji loses his head a quick reaction and adaptation from Spinks. Zershin does not choose to jump
keeps him guessing and that could be enough. Oh Spinks caught out again but still Zershin
It's not close!
It swings instead a clutch!
With four rounds in and ready, two clutches for vitality!
And the superstar, Zoe, on the pistol now,
swings in a one on two.
And look, he wasn't expecting exertion.
You can understand why.
The fact that they played that close together exertion,
braving the cross.
Both of those fights he took, he was caught off initially.
I'm pretty sure Atorji had just quick changed as well.
It looked like he was set and ready for that,
Letting them know beautiful stuff of vitality and this is what you need to go your way
And we've mentioned what happens if you lose with your win on that side of the bracket will be the winner of phase slash liquid
Which would be the third place from this group and
saw
Okay, so I played some good chemistry, but I will say one side of the bracket would look a whole lot beefier than the other
I can imagine let's just we live in a world either either way on John let's say that mouse lose
Yeah, right you're gonna have G2 first mouse and that would a place RV
Yeah stacked
Brolin seven not this time
Mezzie he's done some good jobs on this he's had so far even though that rounds that it came to a
Spicks one on two clutch you saw what vitality did right they dropped the crossover smoke without having anybody long that
Segregate your a rotator rifle and the AWP from car won't be able to deal with the mate to be
That's where sphinx went out mid and once they or maybe it was flames you went out mid regardless
Somebody went out mid but then messy drops down from spawn using that to segregate that rifle
And get that pick and then even coming through and towards the around for another fight
So trying some things outside of the box and this is gonna grab another one hundred to zero sure
I understand what he's going for that try to delay the peak
Hope to be overlooked maybe flash but didn't quite work out for them
So now it's just going to exert his deeg and just the one bullet connecting onto Spinks vitality taking this one by force
Apex still lingering top mid so he should be set to collect it onto Jimmy actually two bullets
Into apex one shy of converting and now apex is going to drive by onto torsion get away
Puts that scow down to 63 and it's just an impending death here for torsion except his fate
Will messy leave with three
No, he won't, Torgy. Good for it with the USP.
They'll clap down on him here. They won't give him a chance to get away.
Stinks to remove him. So five on the trot. Fantastic work. The clutches are going to help. They're definitely going to help.
You're not going to turn those down if you're vitality.
See what they're... This is a great entry, is that knows the shadow, comes out with the crouch peek.
Brolin getting deleted, as he has a long spotty-ish.
So just gonna throw out the corner smoke that's gonna keep rolling and shooing on their toes the two of them
We're gonna have to expend a bit of you till toys
You're selling the adp over to what's middle and exertion jumping up catwalk Jimmy there and could be yeah
We might get an all-pet-to-head here. Maybe not anymore. So I would just find up a shot left
I can live from that cat. Yeah, potentially
I'm just looking at mesi's POVs a game for everything. Yeah, he's a
Aggressive boost that would be mad walking the smoke and boost over that would be curious. Well prepared for any problems
Going through their paces are vitality. Smoke towards mid-doors, Molly towards cap, Flamie taking space, has Apex just behind him.
And they've rejigged the CT setup now, so Brolin anchoring long, Toji has rotated the AWP over towards A in case they execute.
Oh, they're just going to take it.
While that extinguish makes you feel very threatened if you're on A, there's real intent that they want to put this pressure on short.
They keep shooing.
Ted would closely to Toji, and exertion now needs to float back across this mid-doors and bombs to the B bombsite with Jimmy.
Yeah, okay clear division of labor for miles as they look to try and post their first
In incredibly close on multiple occasions, but let's see
Round six is where they do buck the trend
Flash in towards the doors. Should we tending to it as a light smoke blues? This is a very well constructed
This is a fake you can see how they're just keeping the CTs guessing all over the map
Is it mid is it be is it long as now with brawling down? It seems it will be a
And the flames are right behind Shuey. He's ratting through this mid smoke Shuey. You can
see he's just got too many things flying about. Oh my god! This is a Dust 2 they could be incredibly
proud of. Just, I mean, a team of mouths is caliber. You can see they're just getting
pulled apart. Misinformation, miscommunication, they're lost. And it's a product of vitality.
They are manufacturing this obscurity, this uncertainty through their calling, through
their presence across the map and it helps where Messi can kill long whenever he wants to.
Yeah but one of the dramas if you're Brolin is the comms at this point is we don't have short,
we don't know what's enough for tunnels, we don't really have mid control and then a low smoke comes
out B as part of the comms, the mid to B smoke lands as well and at that point you have two
options as the long anchor, you can just start pushing because you think it's going to be
split and go behind them or start dropping back so you can group up with your teammates
and Brolin was taking that angle like he's not sitting playing at anchor position or peered
or on the reverse side of Long, he's not fully committed to those Jules.
So he's in two mines. He doesn't think anything's really coming his way.
They step out, they delete him,
and Maus take a tactical timeout to get Sikron on the mic
because things are going miserably for Maus right now.
You've got one kill on Brawl and one on exertion, two for Jimmy,
three for Shui and Torji at the top,
which, hey, some of those have just been on the round, so you've had Scouts.
They're not really impact kills. He's got six.
It's like a race.
Yeah, way more direct, and as I would, who could have gone down?
This team mates, all take a lot of damage from a single HE.
Well this would be a spark to get bounce back in it wouldn't it?
Couple of HE's remaining, will that be used for damage or will it be used to clear some smokes?
I tell you with this lock control, Mezzie is the only piece that hasn't joined the puzzle.
He's just going to cover the flank. Apex starting to walk up, we saw him do this against FaZe.
Oh, would have been spotted there.
Yeah.
Mouse, they know what's up and they're hearing all those AKs just sounding off on long shooies called up by Claire.
More ship damage, Apex Swallows another HE, they've got to be careful.
You peek too far, you go too wide, that AWP will pluck you, but they are walking up into them.
Jimmy and Xersion. Just these side-ars, what have you got for us Jimmy?
Misses his fast, delivers, delivers in a big way!
Double kill, finally silences, spins to bring him down and finds Shaw as well.
Well, Torgie, unable to find anything this round.
Should be burning alive into Masi's cross-air.
And just searching here, yeah, co-hiring the open.
Does love to find the first, but will be run down.
7-0, Vitality, they've got to be feeling very, very good
about the way in which this T-side is not only being structured,
but the way it's being executed and converted.
Yeah, that's one of those rounds where things could,
you know, get the Vitalyubo on edge,
even with this type of the lead.
So Dicey as they're getting blocked by certain smokes,
they cross into the side, Jimmy gets two.
But really, this is a walk in the park for Vitality.
Which I'm pretty sure they are, you know, mandated to do it.
Every morning. Every morning go for that walk.
Oh, flames, a chance.
And I'd say Pex is actually a kill stealer.
That's what he is.
That's insane. They get the corner kill.
I think he just transfers.
That's...
Round?
Whoa.
How do you get back into this?
Exertion's in lower.
We can see a bit of a standoff.
If he plays forward for Info, Messi's going dead to right.
And he pivots back now with Jimmy to try and clamp down on mid.
The door is opening towards B because the upper tunnel smoke is about to fade.
Now Excession has to worry about B. You just have to save.
You just have to save.
I mean, he's got zero in his bank account, max loss.
Keep your goodies, keep your orb, keep your nades.
The penny's going to drop.
Apex immediately knows that there is no resistance, which incites to save.
They didn't even know that they were on the B bomb side. It literally had no idea. Apex gets a complete freebie.
Flames make sure they can't exit towards long. Someone has to go down towards low attack and then Jimmy's stuck towards short.
If they take everything away, it's 8-0 and tough for Maus to justify the rebound. Sure the max loss bonus is in, but the residual cash isn't there.
If they save these two drops are possible, we can have that chat, but they're still just under halfway left on this bomb.
Oh, they're coming for you.
How's it get paddled?
Leave him alone, Torgie's working on keeping hold of his offer here, comes some pressure,
those mollies won't last forever, Torgie hits his, Jimmy doesn't, down he goes, they know what he all is.
A missed first shot, more utility, and down he goes!
Take no prisoners, vitality, a cruelty onto Maus, they just wanted to hold onto their guns,
but it is disallowed by the vitality tea side.
And this is the over, so Apex gets the vote, Jesus.
Oh, we didn't get to see that.
That's we had flames is peering. We did okay. That looks a whole lot tidier
Oh, man, that was cracking an apex even got the third kill. That's for his fifth with in the compact so far three of them were
Pretty damn important making sure there was no saves
But the openness to just crack this open and force a second tactical timeout from Cycron it
Well, look you can try and salvage the half shore
You are gonna have to take a partial then the guns coming out against the next
you just want to see some fight from your team. Nobody is putting up any resistance right now for
mouse. Vitality have been bowled out by the pistol clutch and then the sphinx clutch, but as far as
the calling is concerned, some of these rounds have looked like masterpieces for Apex so it's
really good you can lean back on the stars when it's necessary, but also the calling has been
great. I mean how many years has Apex been punching around us too as well.
Starting with three towards upper B, maybe they go for a flash push but it still sphinx
I think he's got more spanks.
May not expect another day.
What?
Those are the two B defenders.
Oh, oh, no, no, no, no, not like that.
That's fine.
I know we get those com rounds.
I would love to hear what speak.
If he says anything about that, probably not.
Yeah, that I mean, we all know that can.
It can happen.
If you're torsion, you're kind of hoping he clears you.
Yeah.
That can happen.
Yeah, if you're torsion, you're kind of hoping he clears you.
Yeah.
Because at least then you get a fight where you can track the parving.
It's like this mid-range.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oops.
Oh, dear.
Is this Vitality or G2?
I was just saying with the same thought.
This is the G2 form that we've been seeing since.
They got thrown down towards that lower bracket.
Oh, reports in from the sideline coming in thick, hot and fast.
We have a keyboard issue.
Oh, nice mullet.
Harry, I think, has probably got a competitor in the building.
I would argue, yeah, I think they're both on par.
Keep an issue, has been fixed.
Thank you, John. Thanks for the update.
Norris.
They're gonna fall to mistakes, yeah.
They're gonna fall. Okay, yeah.
They have to take risks. You know that's gonna happen.
You know that they're gonna try something aggressive on the CT side.
Shui has a good lower dark spawn. Is he gonna take it?
Where's the AWP on towards you gonna go?
Alright, looks like a standard setup with exertion and Jimmy over towards B.
exertion's having a go, exertion's up to the wards, low up to no good.
Flames and spanks.
Maybe else you're pying up.
Dersertion let them come to him.
My question is just, is Apex going to molly lower tunnels?
Well, now actually that Apex has come through. Yeah, there it is. Perfect.
Absolutely bloody perfect, Alex.
And then your short player gets beheaded because you've got an aimer like Flames who can take that fight.
Torgy, though. He will deliver on to Apex, the aftertap of Flash is punished in a leg shot as well.
Zywoo's put Zershin down to 20.
Well, now you kinda wanna see if Sphinx can go to what's being isolated one-on-one against Jimmy.
Well, the smoke might change that conversation, or the Nade might do it.
Oh, the Nade has done it!
Wow, he finishes the job himself.
Short aggression. How ready is Zywoo?
He's typically very ready for any engagement, even if it doesn't always look like it.
You can see, yeah, he's considering his options as he backs away, and I'm crouching here.
Yo! Perfect from Brolan! Perfectly executed, but now the B site needs to be defended in Jimmy!
He has done enough, at least, to remove Spinks.
Mersi's got the bomb yet to cross. Audible steps, gonna throw it across for his teammate.
Jimmy doesn't know who to commit on that flashbang.
And actually, Mersi will punish it for going looking.
Okay, confirmation of Brolan.
Look at the flame.
I want to hurry here.
Still punching in the code.
And a swing, a big fight taken by Brolin.
He's put impact into this, but it could all be for naught.
Flames all versus Tordi. Now he gets to play with the games with him here.
It's off to the off. It doesn't work out. It's still vitality.
Oh, dear. That's three clutches in the first half of play.
A Zywoo 1v3, a Spinks 1v2, and now a Flamesy 1v2.
Yeah, he started the round with a headshot on Toshiri as well.
Scorchy saw there in the replay, Nade on his face, shouldn't get to play.
Jimmy, yeah, he put up a fight, Mezzie here, some great shots here on Dust2.
And I'm not just saying that, he is?
He is, like, this is some good CS for Mezzie right now.
Well, Axe has an interview, we're saying that he wants a bit more out of Mezzie on the CT sides.
The T side, he's happy with the job that he's doing.
He was looking for consistency for Mezzie, he even said he missed us some shots.
I'm telling you, he's not missing shots right now.
Yeah, he looks like a robot.
In the best way.
This is, um, this feels like a mismatch.
Yeah, but I'm just sitting here going, this is how, you and I are cursed.
No, but this is also, I don't care about us, Chad.
What I care about is how stompy, so like these, these are two teams that have just qualified for the Langtas Arena,
and one right now is just wailing on the other.
Same with that G2.
It's just like the disparity is alarming and exciting.
Yeah, and this is the tea side going to be contributing to that skewed tea side
style that we've had at Kolo and thus far.
Yeah, maybe it's just a tea side thing.
Yeah, maybe that's it.
Yeah, that's why all the clutches and the grubs.
Oh, God.
It's just the tea side.
I reckon it's the pistol.
That pistol.
It's M-R-12.
Yeah, oh, that's it.
That's the M-R-12.
M-R-12, yeah.
No, the CT economy.
It's the CT economy.
We love a 13-0.
Oh, man.
Sorry, guys.
I'm sorry at SPUNJ on Zitta.
Oh, I'm so sorry, everybody.
Yeah, man.
You were doing so well.
I love the rounds in.
I apologize profusely.
It's all right, man.
It won't happen again.
Do you want to cast Maus's first round, because?
Yeah, OK.
Maus sports.
That's your punishment.
Down in the dumps.
Exceeding game sure, but lose out.
We'll have to take on G2.
Two orbs, one for Bladesy.
Doesn't get anything done.
Exertion's aggression.
Not expected.
There's another kill on the table.
Apex low, Bazaewoo strikes.
They know about exertion.
They do.
Well, they know there was one.
Now they know there was two.
Good work.
That's his third fragging sub-Zaewoo as well.
Well, surely Mows win this round.
Counted it with a cast to curse.
That's respect, actually.
A counter-curse.
Harry Potter style.
He and he tagged you to start the round.
Yeah.
Zawoo.
When things even look a little bit worrying, there's some magic from one of these individuals
on Vitality.
Yeah.
This has been fun.
I've enjoyed it.
Isn't it?
Yeah, really.
And as I was going to hit that, yeah, of course it is.
I can witness what could be a 13-0 at the start of this match.
In counter-strike history, a 12-0 score line.
Vitality, couple of clutches.
In fact, how many clutches, Chad?
Three.
That's right.
Chad's here.
And so am I. As we get ready for the second half,
Vitality, good five.
Private pursuit of a semi-final by.
Let's find out if this first map looks
to come to a close in a single round.
Could it be the perfect vitality?
13-0.
Oh, well, now let's take down the Mawoom.
Jimmy, with that P2-3, he gives them a taste of their own medicine.
Now from the disadvantage, Spink starts to depart B.
Flames, suicide.
Nade from Apex is good, right on the face of Zershin.
But now as the hard part, getting to the site, it seems to have already gone down.
They're in.
Flash from Apex and go?
Is that the call?
Yeah, looks like it.
as the inflames will swing with it, and now it's Bowser's turn to do the same right back.
Margin Ferrera, zero. And the first is perfect, a five alive pistol, you'll take that.
Alright, the toughest of tasks isn't it? You said Margin, zero.
Yeah, so you just essentially have to do exactly what Vitality just did, so we'll
need at least three clutches. We're gonna need some good tags on the doors from
Torgy, we're gonna need some crazy opening frags from the best longspawn.
I would like to see them just force even though that's probably not the best
option. When you need one. Yeah it looks like they are just gonna take the full
save and then buy into the next which is fine. Not 13-0. It's true. He's right.
Let's go. Can't argue with maths, unless your name's Terence Howard. Topical. Show up in mid with five US beans and the drive-by from Zershman.
Get some selfs and extra cash to splash 1200, get a ball! Yes indeed, triple on that Max 10. Nice and quick.
Alex, I tell you how much I hate the Vito from Liquid. No, well, you have, but you haven't done it with a microphone on. Would you like to do it?
hate it. I don't like how they're giving FaZe maps that they're comfortable on. I know that they'd
like to play Ancient, but their Dust2 is pretty miserable. I think they could look like they have
a pretty decent Dust2. Anyway, that's a conversation for the A-Stream, Twitch.tv, such as ESL, CS, and
wow, this is catching on, isn't it? We've seen this run, Furia did it, Liquid have done it,
and this is going into this third round with it's like an MP9 buy. You save enough cash that
you have the loss bonus going into the next step. You fall by it, but we might not need a fall
Fall by, MP9s can do it.
And they tend to.
They're brought off in the knocks,
you recover a rifle and you get the bomb.
Are we calling it the fallen?
Are we calling it the liquid?
What are we calling it?
Just calling it MP9s on the third round.
Yeah, okay, fine.
It makes a lot of sense.
I'm sure there's someone at Valve HQ that says,
they finally tried it.
They cracked the code.
They cracked the code, folks.
Instead of playing these rifle rounds
with a flash and a HE.
Now they get to have a very good attempt.
Worst case you have your rifles in the necks and best case you win it with just the SMGs.
And they had an aggressive gambit with two pushing up tunnels, two pushing lower and hold up, Brolin.
You could win the round.
You see, he's about to.
Plays, deleted, and the second, Brolin!
Closes it down, denies the SMG half-by round.
Oh, it does feel good actually. SMG half-by, it works.
Yeah.
Exactly what it is.
It's not an SMG force-by, it's just a half-by.
Yeah, because now, regardless of what we're losing that round,
You got some kills with an SMG, you got some kills with an AK-47, and you've got yourself an AWP full Nades M4s.
You can see the logic.
And you only need that one round, so why not take a bit of a chance?
Zahui with a good long spawn to go for the corner pick.
Brolin might meet him head-on.
Torres, he's there to be p-jump-splotting for middle.
Here he is.
Oh, he actually let one go.
Through the legs.
He's mixed it.
Alright, well, try to take a bit of space, exertion.
Not having to worry about the AWP on short, just thrust himself up on towards the Xbox, has torsion just behind him, clear the smoke and Apex gets caught!
Beautiful.
Alright, mouse. A bit more of this, we must like getting excited.
Bronze out long, can pinch on towards A, looks like Flamesy wants some space.
A nice detail, they smoked B doors from spawn, very early on, which I think led to two players B, which led to one player mid, isolating Apex and leading him to his early demise with the clear of that mid smoke.
Look at this gamble.
Vitality of giving up the B bombsite completely.
Oh, they are going to be in the right place now.
There's plenty of nades as well if they want to stall out short and fight.
Because it's all long centric. Flash.
Oh, counter flash. Back and forth we go.
Still making that vision and look at the damage he has done.
Sure, nothing lethal, but it does soften him up for Flames.
And his aim has been looking crispy today.
It does Flames step up to the plate when tested.
40 seconds the squad bit shaken by Messi's damage. He does nothing so I will release trades
I will stall him all of a sudden wise do all careful with it through
Sinched toes, but a cross-poll and that was a brave maneuver, but it might catch him off guard
They are not prepared for him to be here. Now he's not a yelp. He's actually revealed himself with a crazy spam
Give me through spawn. Yeah, he's gonna house. I was toes exposed. Hello and goodbye spinks in the clutch. What's he got?
time Alex. Well seconds that's the healthiest member they're both softened up
conspintery and it's here the 1v3 and he can't shoo he a necessary head shot there
he had not more but it in in there 4HB on him and the first tack timeout call
vitality didn't like the way that one fell. They're good below there and this
tour was long but very sketchy with all the damage done very close indeed
a messy round end but mouse keep their head just above water. You don't need to buy again for the vitality conversation
can just be another partial investment. See what little move they wanted to try and manifest as a hero M4
potions by Spinks, a scout upgrade by Zywoo, Apex for the CZ-75 and I'm sure Mezzie and Flamesy will get involved
with something of their choice as well. At any moment this could all end for mouse, there's no easy round.
Even if you are just going against the USP's one-foot fault, it's all over. Red Rover
Okay, going for I think double nades long doors, but nobody pushed out so that won't have the many damage at all
Exertion starting towards upper tunnels
and
Then just going into a default spread after that
So Jimmy dealing with the upper push exertion watching lower for now shooting back cap
Brolin is investigating long late with in the round and towards you floating with the AWP
Brolin needs to be very carefully. Got here late.
Worried about players up close. Flames you and Pete with a deagle.
What's he got? A shot.
A shot. Brolin opens up long as an avenue.
Bomb's got something else to wear, but...
Oh well, does not manage to catch Shui looking towards shore side, so tanks him up.
Flash for Spinks to go looking.
Oh, doesn't catch a glimpse of him.
Shui should have it, yeah. Takes down the rifle, this is looking great for a fifth.
Now's going to keep it clean.
So he's going to back away, he loses out, and we've got ourselves 5v1.
It's Apex last of 4.
She'll eat nails.
The head shot, now's...
It's kind of looking similar to the way Vitality's D-side started.
A couple more costly rounds in there.
But yeah, 5 alive, 4 alive.
You're not worried if you're Vitality yet.
That'll probably start creeping in if now's get to 9 rounds, 8-9 rounds.
At that moment you're a little bit more worried
worried because we'll have a few more rifle rounds in the mix by then. When you
think about the flow of rounds it was a pistol loss then they go into round
number two, lose that, the MP9s come out in the third, the rush was coming out of four,
that was another partial for five. B rush, hello!
Yeah, just running straight into mercy, this was a 40 call, it could work out for them now, those
Urshins managed to take down the anchor, Stink gets one. Arn and shuts him out.
But do you go for the retake, right? Going for this B bombsite retake can be
quite difficult. One of the positives that Vitality have for them right now
the fact they have a decent amount of utility. So mollies, HGs, smoke, flashes in the mix.
I see a diffuser kit on Flamesy, but when you only need one round, you're probably, yeah, you are,
you're saving. So that was such a risky call by Maus, but the fact that they traded efficiently
essentially sealed the round. It's like, okay, well, they're not going to risk this,
why would they try and come for this round? They don't have to.
If Mezzi or Spinks get two, either of them, it's a very uncomfortable set of effects.
And you could have really just been shut down. Both players started in the B-bomb side,
So really good work from Maus. A ballsy call from Shuey. I respect the hell out of it
But when you're playing this type of a game, you think okay
Do we just default and try to finish but no you're playing with your balls out
Yes, not playing to not lose and I think this is important regardless of them winning or losing this map is if they can just bring
Themself as individuals back into the series going into vertigo as map number two
We still have two more maps of counter strike ahead of us regardless of the result
If they pull off the remarkable which would mean six more consecutive rounds
Well, I don't know what we'll say about that one. No, Nora. I was not in the realms of
Reality at least at the when we came in from the halftime break at 12 0
Is 12 6 I mean halfway home, but any round any slip up any
misplay like standing in the monotone and losing out to Zai Wu double kill in the flames
the names! And now as I spoke his name, he's done a lot of damage onto Torgie!
Just as you started believing, just as the conversation crept into the dialogue.
Oh, it's out of the top hole.
Maybe we keep doubting them. They'll do the adult bill.
I'll turn it around. So the bomb is on blue bin.
Yes, it is.
That's an orcimo.
Fully fortified. Mezzy doesn't need to move a muscle. Apex can cover short.
Torji could catch Apex on an AD, and overly, oh he's not moving, is he?
Yep, that's a lovely angle to hold, lovely angle to hold, and there it is!
Dust2 converted, 12-0-13-6. Solid work on their T side, finishing off with a Jerry on top,
and their CT side, Vitality 1 up in this series, and went away from a semi-final.
Not bad, not bad day in the office so far.
So this is why the discussion with the loser of this game. You will join G2 and now V
Right so losing this not only you don't give the semi you also have to get through a lot of big dogs
If you want to make a run yeah G2 first and then potentially now V if you can deal with them. Yeah
Okay, well mouse you better win Virgo. You know you brought it here for a reason it is there my pick
Vitality made them a pig look very very good on their T side and that's where my will start as well
So let's see what they've been cooking in the lab. I see a lot of nades child. It's going to be quite a techie pistol
Well, this is got be bombsite written all over it
We've got spinks messy inside however grouped up and who just played for info that was apex
He is called a wrap completely clear. Oh, that's a gift
Yeah, so they should be more than ready to deal with this towards be it's gonna come down to the timing
So it smokes the ready for toji
Yeah, they must have done the homework as well as the info
Pre-having this booze Spinks knows exactly what's up
Mezzie jiggling stairs. Spinks holds this. Here comes the util confirmation of their suspicions.
Mezzie is actually going to be run down. Good flashes, really good flashes. Look at Spinks.
Unable to do anything. Maus perfect into the site. Converts his nade damage. Apex pushing smoke,
but Tony flames and he's not long for this tweld either. That is a perfect start for Maus.
everything going to plan brawland frag it up a storm with three and so the
mission accomplished they go into the stack and you still walk away with the
results a good stuff for miles in the way of the doors some good shooting from
the suite and now we will see what looks like an eco from Vitality
miles of had a mixed bag as far as this map is concerned and I am clone
they played it twice it once against falcons they lost it narrowly 13 to
11. Ended up winning the series, so no foul and against complexity 13 to 9 and complexity
actually picked this map back in Dallas against mouse and that was I think the first or one
of the first times that we had seen the new iteration of Vertigo since the change over
towards elevator coming to play. And yeah, that one was a 1916 loss just a close game.
But when the map was being tested, there was a lot of double nades towards short teams
just find each other a lot in those early stages.
I was talking to Exersion the other day.
He feels like this version of Vertigo is T-sided,
and I think he does quite an interesting job with A-Lerks
once the map starts to open up, so keep your eyes on him.
Not going to be seeing the same MP9 cap approach
that they wore out on Dust2 for the Cali-T.
Yeah, I think, right, this map not so dependent on an AWP,
first and foremost.
There's probably a few other factors that play into it,
as well as this map just starting,
as opposed to them just needing to close out with one round on their CT side of Dust 2 after that
awesome first half of the play. Yeah, Apex is deliberately
got himself early deep down ramp towards yellow, avoids their short molly and will tuck in by the sandbag.
Oh wow, tries his luck to insertion, but flames quick to it.
So consider that dealt with. Mezzi, how's his B anchoring work going?
looking very strong as he does deal with Jimmy's just going for a walk on for a
search he stays active on his angle and confirms it so extends the man advantage
to two and it's uncomfortable for the remaining three of man's been a chip
damage there from the HE they throw one out so as you see we can find if there's
no one overstepping the mark towards a there's more than enough bodies to deal
with this for vitality at the B site swinging for some jewels who set up
Roll and immediately delete it. So as you're continuing the hot hand
Looks what X-Tiles was looking for. Yeah
All right. Well, if you
Can't do any more damage with 45 seconds left on the clock
Sure, he'd lobbing out a couple of smokes towards you looking for a gap flames. He is the step
There's a kill for Shoei and that's all he's gonna get it is just towards you now Galil in hand
It's gonna be more than enough money for a buy into the next four miles
So can hold on to this if he likes or look for a little bit more damage
and a rush. Pick your boys and
towards you were not in a rush.
And for vitality on the other
hand, we haven't seen them play
vertigo. In cologne. Hasn't been
a necessary map as part of their
campaign. They played inferno
Mirage inferno dust to a new
bus. And now dust to and
vertigo. With winds over
Ground time's out towards you holds on to the Galil and Vitality post their first round
Seize you when both your players on the extremities get the kills Flamesee and Mezzion, and then that one's simmered out for mouse
Nothing to really get excited about
No tactical timeout called no conversation needed from Sikrin of how they will adjust. Let's get into
kind of number two
All right big one gonna be telling of just how competitive this first half will be quite a centric
I don't think they want to allow them to have so much a ram control this time rounds
They want to harass a little bit more Jimmy. Wow!
It's been a big shot on Zabezi.
Yeah, looks like a one-time maroonie.
Flames! Flames! Oh, I thought he was flashed there!
His hand was over his face but must have had vision so still takes down Zershin.
It costs him a lot of health but he denied that first test and there's a second straight after Shui walking through smoke into Apex.
And Vitality will take that. That's a gift.
You've got no ramp. You've got no stairs. You've got nothing.
I don't think, yeah, Jimmy getting that kill was necessarily part of the plan.
Look, it's great. But you can see that Miles really wanted to fight for this A ramp control a little bit more.
Jimmy gets that kill. He drops back immediately.
I think they just wanted to try and finish towards A. Assuming there was going to be a rotation.
But because Spinks was aggressive with Mezzie, they didn't need to hedge their bets.
They had the info that there wasn't a follow through.
Now a 3v4, Flamie low.
You know what, use him for info, they're gonna flash him in and know more than info, he gets two more!
Two more kills from Flames!
With a scrap of HP he had, that is a very impactful round.
Alright, Brollo.
He's been known to make some impactful clutches in his day.
He's got 30 seconds.
He needs to isolate this headshot player and he has done so.
Clean headshot onto Apex.
walked on fake sounds I would know is where he is and could have caught him there on the swing just a little behind him on the tracking
To to vitality find consecutive rounds and it looks like it's gonna humble mouse
In a real shot of that if you get to call this I wish I was so diskeg that was the shot
So as you started shooting first Jimmy adjusts in that great defensive work for the likes of flames in apex
And then the follow-through low HP the flash
It's the apex of the flash assistant to feed so keeping on their toes vitality
They will humble the finances of mouse who are just down to a deagle and some glocks eyes on to Georgie to see if he can crack them into
We've seen this from them before
Portaloo strap and mouse lover good troll
Partaloo
One does it eagle is nice to see vitality
Playing some solid counter strike their team who there'd be the occasional worries
It felt like they were lacking trust with their individuals apex would be calling a lot of direct rounds
So they didn't have to really think just kind of clobbered them to grip the to death with aggressive moves on the CT side
I bought direct calls on the T side. Whereas you just trade but they played a much more comprehensive game
They've had a lot of individuals contributing in different moments. They've had their star of Zahe we were getting aces on Pisterance
Two of which that's nice to have in your back pocket
But he hasn't been the only component that's firing and hasn't needed to be there. They were firing flame sets of big games
Sphinx has been winning some clutches
Apex, he's a fragging in-game leader, right? He's one of these guys that he can have a rough time, but then he can, you know, have a quite a good show.
Oh, he can hang. He can hang for sure.
Yeah, so there's been some good moments with this team, and if they're able to pick this series up 2-0, put themselves in the semi-final on what most would argue will likely look like the easiest side of the bracket,
given the fact sores over there. I know they played some good CS, but still, this is going to be a big-boy counter strike. This is going to be on the stages.
So you keep that in your mind and then you remind yourself that they're a team yet to win a trophy in 2024
And that's what they're in the pursuit of right. We've come out of the break
They had a EWC bit of a lighter one right just a bit more of a
Studio environment with a small crowd then you had the blast groups helping getting these more partnered teams warmed into things
And now you're at I am cologne already booking your spot in the Lancashore. Oh miss smoke you see that one
Well off the map, 51 floors down.
But you're putting yourself in a great position that likes the spirit, eliminated themselves
by not showing up, getting destroyed by G2.
Taking the pace out of this one now, it's not going to fight early, but look at the
response from Vitality.
They're not using their nades early.
There's no threat, no need for us to go for smoke while he defends if they're
not going to force it out of our hands.
I'm intrigued how they clear Apex with Flames so active on this angle.
And yeah, Flames will catch the first, Sashen goes down, Apex now will he be overlooked?
It looks like Torgie's not considered it.
He hasn't considered it at all! A free frag for Apex!
Patience prevails, Shoei swings in and it's perfect!
Oh, Apex! He's having a great one!
Triple kill, aggressive defense, Mezzie might catch Jimmy,
But it's a dink exchange, the AK prevails, but all the same, the round is won, the job is done.
If that, you just pissed off at me, Mezzie.
Like, well, we know where he was, he's the B anchor, and he killed me great.
Sick one, kid. Well, you've lost the round, haven't ya?
That's the Mezzie unit dialogue right there.
I think Mezzie's too nice to think that maybe. Maybe that's just me.
I'm gonna get hunted. 20 seconds.
Lost bonus into the next round, 2900 available 4 miles.
likely to see for them, just to go for a couple of upgrades around the saved AK-47, but creates stuff from Apex.
And they even go for the yellow molly, to flush anybody back on the deeper line, but Apex has played aggressive.
Several times, it's clearly part of the game plan. Oh, dear. Jimmy might go down after time. He should do.
Should be able to find him here. There it is. Zaiwui from the top rope.
Lots of cash for Vitality, so happy to give over a few extra bodies to make sure Jimmy goes in the next round of play only with $950 to his name.
How do you suppose Apex is getting there so quickly, so consistently?
Are they throwing the yellow smoke from, like, elevator?
They've done two. So the thing is, Mauser is starting rounds with their lurk smoke,
and they're doing the yellow smoke, so there's room for him to work behind.
But is that an extra gun on?
It looks more. Guys, don't be wasting money.
I'm flying over there. Don't be...
No, no, no, there's not.
OK, OK.
All right, it looks like...
It was a refund. Maybe a quick refund.
All right, all good, all good, all good.
Uh, another missed smoke.
Okay, well highlighted there, good job J-Raz.
So that's an unforced error for Vitality.
But yeah, last round was a little bit different,
look from ours, they didn't go aggressive.
How's that?
Flames might continue to rack them up.
No, he's kept humble.
Good work from Zersh's tech nine.
Nade looks destined for glory.
Just shy.
Okay, well, they're making no secret
that they wanna try and put some pressure on
towards this ramp crane side.
Saewoo investigating towards Gap
They're hoping for a re-aggress. They're hoping that
The misstep from Vitahti comes their way. It is
Apex will surge. Oh timing against him.
Yeah, it's actually peeks into the line, but he's got Saewoo by his side. Good find
40 seconds getting all increasingly more...
What?
Yeah, I was gonna say difficult, but Saewoo gets wall banked by Shuie. Huge work.
I know Apex is around.
Smoke that covers the whole of the site. Good work from Apex however, finishes off Shui.
Spinks has got across the site, this will be a hard fight.
Spinks wins it, nice work, well held.
When we started this map, I was talking about exertion saying this is T-Sider and that
I think he does some good jobs lurking A, but he can't even get control of the ramp.
It's not just on here, it's on the team, but they can't get control of the ramp
to be a lurking presence. Vitality are not allowing it, and the first time that
have allowed it. Mows only had take nine so it was just pistols. It wasn't a full buy whatsoever.
So, if I tell you doing a really good way of disrupting what mows want to be doing as part of
this T-side game plan, the rifles purchased up this time the smoke will land. So yellow blocked.
You can see on the radar lurk smoke for mows to work with but blocked there is the combination
of the two and that's pretty standard. You'd get that on old Vertigo as well.
Well, Apex is harassing, does not want to give this space up for free.
A redeployer of the yellow smoke will sort them out for now.
Now they're not probing middle, they're not probing B.
Spring's forced to extinguish, but will they overlook Massey?
This two-man setup, they've got confirmation of Spring's, and yet too comfortable for Jimmy.
He'll get himself an opening, and it will force Massey into a more humble hold.
You can see just how much pressure Spring's thought he was under.
I thought he had to take the fight, and I guess if Jimmy gets a crossing and
try to spam him through the smoke. But giving it an opener over, maybe that's what
Maus needed to convert another round. I had pistol, the conversion, but that's it.
Vitality are a streak of five. I'm grouping up towards a Vitality have called a gamble
and I think they've felt that they've done such a good job of dealing with the
A pressure that Maus will try and finish elsewhere. That's not the case.
Maus could just walk into A for free. And they will with 1000 whistles
attached.
Was it a save for vitality?
Finances available for sphinx for a rebuy, Apex and Mezzie could give it a crack with
Flamzie and Zy were quite low in the finance department so maybe go fishing but the rod
in the water see if you can find anything.
Brolin it's forwards, Flamzie will get there late.
Sharp from Brolin and surely removing the wo- ah it's a bit costly, it's more than
they were bargaining for.
Everything could be taken away here, yeah Mezzie's the last one standing and he's
He's got three people running at him, he goes down after the one.
Miles, that will feel increasingly good now for your T-side campaign.
Three to five.
It's your first one to the gun rounds, really.
Can you break through?
That's a Jimmy opener and he had one earlier on in the piece until Bezzie.
So Jimmy doing, we'll leave it up to his end of the bargain as the Bianca on the
T-side, the one having to work for that room.
Well the ramifications of giving away all of those rifles in that scenario, I think vitality
with the gamble, either should have just hung around a bit more passably and see if they found
anything on the fade of the smokes as opposed to searching and find them so far in the open,
because now they've had to spend everything.
Sure it's a full buy, A1S's and A1A4 in the mix, there's a diffuse kit for Mezzi,
U-Tills there, they have everything they need to fight back, but if they don't, mouse
can now work their way into this first half of play.
Does Pace come back into the mix for mouse?
Smoke will land again. Ops team making sure they highlight that as a Nade, Chucks Apex.
This is half of his health for the Troubles. They will get the space short, but it wasn't worth it.
Equal damage back in exchange.
Yeah, not bad. They want to flash and pop, but they're already reacting a quick boost.
This could be a bit uncomfortable for Mezzi as, yeah, they dismount audibly.
So, guess the info. You'll take that 2B.
And in the meantime, Flames, he found Torgy through the ramps, but...
Wow! Stay tucked in, Mezzy!
That's the opposite of staying tucked in!
Look at this! Stretching their legs, the confidence is priming for vitality, isn't it?
It really is. I mean, with Flames' inform like this, he feels like he can win any fight, and this would be a crazy one.
Look at that, Crouch holding the angle. Session will punish his overstepping.
So that puts us at 4-4, and Smoke on Bridge will delay.
It can break his shoes, he's got a nade. It's cocked.
It's cleared. Apex. Tough angle to clear. Overlook by Shui. Good trade from Zershin back.
3v3 pushing up. 38. What's the move here?
Oh, Brolin might be able to find Spinks.
Yeah, it's about to find that timing window. It may have been an audible retreat. I think it was.
Sawa. Spinks out. Wow, he still delivers a headshot.
Needs Spinks to follow. Super. Jimmy's too good.
Super precise, and it's to Bianca left. You know where he was?
Because Brolin has the rotation, Jimmy knows to worry about the flank.
That's Mezzi handle this.
Oh, cleanly! Smoking Kit Chad, we're on!
Brolin towards the elevator position, Mezzi.
Order ball, Brolin should have a heavy advantage in this one.
He knows exactly where he is picturing this.
The swing nails it! Perfect from Brolin.
Maus, that's a gift. And Jimmy and Brolin combined, they bring it home.
at home yeah a real mystery for mezi on that retake no information whatsoever on
where brolin was going to be so it had to be noisy couldn't really take his time
even though he had the required utility to try and make it happen so many angles
have to worry about and just gets shot right between the eyes work from
brolin and that's them breaking into the importance the reason you get such a
cheer from mouths is they have put that financial dent mentality have to be
down to an eco they get a chance to level the game up five five and
Brolin picks up right where he left off and the head shot this time on to Zywoo
aggressing middle and that will confirm the suspicions yet nobody left boys
this should be an easy one
Cershin jousting
That's a good word
He's running at him with a lot
Nox apex off his horse
I rewatched Knight's Tale recently you ever seen it?
Great film
Oh mate such a feel good movie
Apart from the princess that says if you love me you'll lose
I think that is a bit of a bad maneuver. I don't think that's cool
I don't think that's princess like and it pissed me off Wow. Yeah, just have to get that out there. That's fun
I'll tie it up. Who's gonna walk over the half lead or
So we find ourselves at six six
Vitality back in with the guns this time lacking the kit
Lacking a few incendries flashes from shooie at the ready exertion might try make a play and mixing it up
They're mixing it up into Spinks' mid-hold. Ronald was not prepared for that off angle.
That will slow down towards you. He has the bombs, but he has support. Shui's with him.
It's quiet on ramp, but Zershin's there, and Molly Guardians are expected. Spinks,
instead, will flash from Mezzie for answers. Zershin down to 50 HP and Nade,
most likely towards the ramp side. Yeah, he was at the native right side.
Look at the angle Apex is working with. They feel like they might have been trapped,
or perhaps it was just a suspicion.
Oh, Shui's coming over, so Maus is starting to pivot back towards A.
Flames you on the jump spot.
Do they scale quickly when they see him?
Oh, does he expect you to see him now?
Peace.
Yeah, so you can see that calling the bluff exertion goes well.
You're getting a call at no man's line.
He just runs and down, takes that space for free in pursuit of the kill.
He's always been able to join this A defense.
Blocked towards short, perfect timing.
Made
Flash, flash and go. Oh, Apex so, so close to death
Zyra's only got one. This is great for Maus. Still finds a second. Great for Torgy. Yeah, he's on it
Bomb's gonna get scooped up. Rotation from Spinks and Mezzie on the way. Yet to plan
Torgy's key cap Maus' chances of a safe here. Looks like Zershin can condemn
catching spings through heaven messy last man standing once more smoke no kit
and heaven occupied he's gonna have to clear this out does so big start
torgy now demanded to clutch as well Brawland's had his moment is it torgy's
turn smoke might lead him to get a little panicked
messy that sound they're trying to explain where it's planted he throws
out the HG gives messy it for a chance it presented itself and torgy he closes
with four kills total. That's a big one. That could very well mean seven, given the finances
of Vitality.
You wonder where this one all goes wrong. Opening kill, that's highlighted, but it just turns
into this lineup. So Flamzie gets overrun, Apex gets flashed. I think with the block
on shore, he's thinking to himself, there's no way they're coming through this, but they
flash, they push, they harass, he lines up with Flamzie and the site just absolutely
collapses thanks to Torgy.
Yeah, I think the immediate knee-jerk flash led to a complete turnaround.
It looked like they'd locked him out. I think Apex thought he had.
And then you see the difference. Exertion knowing how he can function in some of these rounds
now that the buy is in the bin yet again. Final round, have to invest everything they can.
But these clutches that Maus have won, the 1v1s that they converted,
ruined Vitality's finances in two different occasions.
Yeah, here we are. Last round at the half and Maus to leave with the lead on their pick
for a semi-final spot to avoid the big dogs Chewie down big fine from flames
consistent threat search finds the perfect moment finding apex spotting out the
other flames noted brawlin activated he's up against I will we have aims in
clean conversion in middle flames somehow pulls another one out of his
hat it's fallen into place from ours brawlin to impactful kills on his
Yeah, really important lurks from Brawler. Even in the round where he didn't get any frags, he was able to convert the 1v1 with his position.
And some tough clutchers from Mezzie. He's had to try and convert difficult rounds rotating over from his bombsite.
Doesn't really have all the information in the world and now it's just spanks.
A 1 on 3 situation. Has you two no kit? I think this one's done.
was done.
I suspect the same.
You can see the positioning of Maus.
It's diligent, considered, and it's theirs.
Seven.
Gotta be happy with that one, Maus.
Making a statement on their T-side.
After a run of five from Vitality, Maus returned the favor.
Vitality, Maus, map two, Maus' pick.
Vitality took Dust 2, and when you don't want to play Ancient and you don't really
want to play Vertigo, you're going to have to pick the lesser of two evils after
banning Ancient.
they took a target straight towards vertigo and so far so good seven rounds on their t-side a machine
I'm joined by sponge and we're heading into the second half of that to a good bounce back obviously if
you miss map number one you miss vitality demonstrating on the first half of play that they can win 12
consecutive rounds 13 to 6 seems a little bit closer than it was it was an absolute drubbing but
house they got warmed up they won the pistol got the conversion lost five straight and then had a
a couple of clutches brolin with one torsion with another and they walk away with a half lead
brolin on the jump spot here's the steps trundles back calls for assistance
here the whole squad's here chev and jay rance delivering the cameras
oh torsion and depression can't really use these smoke we will get it out of the swinging crane
brawl out oh still hits one that apex could work with flames in combination they can take the
the site the bomb plant exposed. This is a whiff smoke. It's a Torgy smoke. It's a brave
plant spot. Yeah, flame still adjusting to the new vertigo changes. Spinks is still hit
the shot though and it doesn't look like it's going to cost them the round. Funny that.
Yeah, that could have really gone wrong and everybody getting a kill in the round
other than Mezzie. The Torgy getting under pressure was unable to really block the
choke point. I thought, okay, well, it's moved out a little bit deeper. Might not
the end of the world so it just gets killed through it so great job from apex tracking him down
what do you suppose is the new default there to go plan most of them are going into the
this one that corner there yeah the 78 the upside down 78 we call it that's what we call it
well the 68 or the 73 oh okay yeah look Jay's showing us people at home as well thank you yeah
job Jay but that's yeah because of the the new angle that's possible
We are still going to call those boxes default, I'm afraid, I think that goes without saying.
But there is a new default plant spot in town.
I think it also depends on the type of execute that you go for.
You'll be able to plant enough there.
There's Apex second-hand outtowage, important kill, team Goosh there from Sphinx, but we'll
split the pistols.
We'll get the opportunity to tie things up 7-7 because Maus are taking the fullest
of Ecos.
I say that just as Brolin invests himself in OP 250 and Jimmy the same.
He saved the Kevlar. Of course he did. Almost made a faux pas.
That's my job. That's right, I'm lucky I corrected myself.
If I got that wrong, I wouldn't have retired.
Right here and now.
We're just hanging around a no-man's land. You round the corner, that's what you see.
Ooh, little jumpscare on that.
As they search forward, Shuey adds to his pants.
He doesn't want to sit and wait, he wants to take the fight.
Looking through the sort of gap of the sandbag and now swinging out to their demise flamedy with another opener will make that his 7th so far
7th
All right 14 rounds these are 50% opening kill rate
He was having a field day on that ct side with apex. They both did a phenomenal job locking down that a ramp position
It was just the clutches that got away from them
And that was with the b players rotating in unable to convert the rounds can be difficult to do so
Well Flamesee, he's been a bit of an eco-bash up this map, but he'll take him. He'll add him to the stats.
19 for 10, 123 ADR.
I suppose that might be what they're talking about as well.
Alright, let's see. Get a little look at Vitality's T-side on Vertigo.
Don't get many opportunities to have a look, and where did that happen?
Zywu's gone. Zywu dead early. Brolin has provided a nice opening kill.
I'm gonna look at ramp and Zywa loses his life to a full confident aim swing. Let's go, Brolan!
Well, there are some gaps present on the map right now. Nobody tending to middle four mouse.
Shui's hedged over towards B to assist, I think, with a flash. They're gonna try and retake this.
But nobody home of Vitality. Still, we're playing outside of B Lobby. There's a kill.
And that could have been a trade. He's trying to apply a bit more pressure.
Apex could lose the bomb if Brolan holds our fade.
You'll likely peek into it.
On the walk. Oh Apex, good work.
Quick counter-strafe with the S-key. He does manage to hit the shot.
The only thing that I tell you to really have going for the visit advantage is the utility.
Which they're going to be throwing a whole lot of right now.
The barrage of Nades, headshot will be Molotov down.
Oh, he spots him. Good eyes on the shots.
He's so crispy today. It was Dust 2. Now it's time to go.
And Zershin catches Apex walking through a smoke, so Messi's got... that doesn't even count.
Doesn't even get a chance to start the clutch.
Jimmy just swings into him, double kill for him.
Zershin getting himself one through the smoke on Apex as well.
Just walking.
Waltz in straight through.
It's kind of trying to take a bit of a risk there, Apex.
This was the opener.
Yes, we were trying to get the volley off towards Gap.
Just gets caught.
A good kill from Apex to get the back of the round, but these from Flames, they
are hot.
That's one of the easiest kills in Zershin or Gap, but Apex thinking he had an
opportunity.
Call it off and mouse back into the lead just a one round difference as the second tactical timeout call for vitality
I'm sure they'd love to get this done as quickly as possible
As I've been showing some decent form on Nuke, Toji does his favorite map
Thanks to call his own shots on that one with the AWP
Speaking of orbs, not one in the server. It will just be
Rifles on either side, Mezzi, with a Kalil
In case for everybody else on team vitality
No U2 whatsoever for Spinks.
We'll be back to the A plate.
Looks like it.
This time, a heftier assault, and Mezzie has the bomb, so he will have to join the crew.
And no opening death while trying to get that down this time.
We plan to facilitate the walk.
Different CT setup as well though.
Should be helping out A this time.
Last time it was assisting the B defence.
Flash and go.
There they come.
Drive by.
Brolin nails it with Torchy's flash.
He anticipates the molotov, but look at the damage!
Shui's already taken a double kill!
Vitali! Oh, sent back to spawn almost immediately!
One minute 20 on the clock, spints with 30 HP.
A bullet would do it, spot it out now, they'll double peek.
Or dude, they don't even need to.
The bomb in front of them, he comes to them.
And that's a Mao's 9th. That's a convincing Mao's 9th.
And I think I just saw Sycron asking for a timeout.
He wants to throw the knockout blow.
It's gonna feel really good if you're Shui, right?
right? You assisted in this round. You've expected them to come towards A. That's where you're
playing over is the alley to go for this round control. So they win a massive round. Should
we contribute to the big way as well as the in-game leader going to be very happy with
that? Yeah, cool setup. Good spot. Just saw that flash bang in Torchy's hands and you
knew it was go time. Light investments for Vitality. Looks like they will concede
the 10th, there's a flash for Apex and...
Oh, a bit of a misnade.
Everyone's gonna flash, Xersion will be ahead of her.
Oh!
Oh, Spinks is actually taking the head off of Xersion.
Jimmy, he's not flustered. He knows what's up.
You couldn't have more RAM control than that from Roland.
You've only found an MP9, so still tie a flash and go again.
Jimmy, Jimmy. Oh, so blind. What a flashbang.
They could lose the sight, because Spinks is having his night.
It's a triple kill.
Triple kill, just a deagle.
Just a deagle, Chad. No kev.
Mostly glanced.
How has this gone so wrong?
Four miles. It's hard to comprehend.
Spinks just decided he wanted B and he took it by force.
And those are the type of rounds that you need from an individual like Spinks.
if you want to win the trophy here in Cologne.
Alright, Spinks has been criticized a little bit in recent times
for maybe not having the most impact, the lurks being a little bit readable.
But this round, T-side, he only had six kills before this,
comes in and hits three absolute bangers, exertion over steps.
Think, okay, that's info. Jimmy calls the bluff.
That one flash that I thought Apex was going to use for the stairs
was used for the sides of perfection.
It lasted forever!
They just ran him down, so that's E-code.
Stamped, that one on the forehead amounts.
E-code?
Which flash did Apex throw? Was it the one from like...
I think it was just the standard, the Cypher. I don't think it was anything crazy.
Look, I thought it was like over the blue, the blue boys.
The blue boys. The cement tube.
No, he was, I'm pretty sure he was being made with it.
Oh, okay, respect.
Because he was going to flash through the windows.
Here's the look. Okay, absolutely made.
Great shot.
Flashing down, flash in, bang.
What a shot from Spiggs.
And then he hit another one. I mean, just heads on heads.
So I'm sure he put the little bit on the toppings on,
But that's the sphinx round and look what it's done to the finances a mouse two MP9s and a 5-7 to defend their Alma
honor even
I don't know what Alma is sounded good though
Smoke
Same kind of playbook as before no luck smoke in response from vitality
Too mid boosted up exertion
Oh, he wants to fight yet you surprise the surprise and is resulted in an opening death of Roland and another opening kill for flames
Oh man, what's he up now?
I think that's gonna be eight.
That will be his eighth, okay, wolf.
Silent dismount, stylish.
Mouse, I don't want him to give anything away to that mid-player.
Apex is going for it.
He's gonna be, well, walked into the angle.
Torgy, jumpscare.
Good one back, huge.
Maybe he saw all of the men.
Potentially, one trying to get away.
Looses his head to Zywoo.
Jimmy's still there with his rifle.
Zershin's picked one up too.
This can go wrong, but Zywoo doesn't seem to think so.
Jimmy up against the world.
Can Jimmy eat planet?
Oh, he has found the first.
Yeah, Jimmy was trying to get ahead of the rotation because he heard Mezzie's steps,
but I think he should have had that kill every day of the week.
Now, Mezzie's gonna...
Is he going? He went. He starts. He's going now.
He looked a bit nervous.
Yeah, understandably, because Jimmy could have beat them on the rotation after that kill.
He could be gone if he complicated this.
Yeah, that flash tells him he's heading the right direction.
36 points of health. Does that have a molotov he could throw out towards the default plant?
doesn't have the HP, doesn't matter.
Mezzie's hit the heavy.
It's 9-9.
They got a little bit dicier than it needed to.
Vitality had dealt with a threat,
but Jimmy in the clutch, you can't rule them out.
There's Flamesy's 8th.
Brolin's been pretty good in the opening exchanges as well.
He's converted 5, only lost 2.
And a court shot there for Mezzie.
Now the Finances and Mounds are back in the bin.
Can't do a whole lot with the full eco.
Looks like they're just going to stack out
over towards B, get heaps of Info boys to get a move on towards A.
Alright, I thought they were just running towards what should have been the empty site, but
they wanted to back up mezzies, didn't want to allow them around to try and get out of
control, and now Mauser feed them on the rotation.
Still just USPs, a good smoke works, so shouldn't be a problem.
Shouldn't.
Pfft.
Hey, Zawoo.
Yeah, here we go.
Found them!
Looses out after one!
Bit hectic now.
uses out of the one. A bit hectic now with the loss of the rifle, and now Zershin's using
it to great effect and they are quite low. These USPs could hit a headshot or two. Scavenged
Nade ships further away, Vitality's palm start to have a little more sweat upon them.
Should be fine, we said. And yet, Torji's taken down Flames, they spam, but Apex spams
back more lethally, a double kill, finds Zershin on headshot. No armour, but still a problem
with Zershin, no time. The only absentee here is the kit. The frags were there, the rotations
were on point, the Vitality deaths getting a bit sketchy, but they can't quite respond
in kind. After the deagle entries from Spinks into B, Vontmau's take a good stab at doing
something similar.
The fact Vitality have lost absolutely everything in that round against the full
there might be financial ramifications if Maus can get around on the board and tie things up 10-10.
For them the loss bonus is going to be only $1,400.
So they can invest and they can have a little bit of a residual, but that might hurt them going forward.
So Maus making the most of the necessary save round.
Harassment on both sides of the map.
Ate to clear.
Ooh, Brawland. Still braves it.
Regardless of the nade damage to his face, 62 to work with if susceptible to a spam or mantle aft for second Molotov.
Oh and caught out nice. Again, Flames has opened up the round.
Number nine.
Number nine indeed.
Ooh, no problem there, spinning around.
As I would provide, it's covering fire.
11th. Mother quickly accrued.
Yeah, Flames you can really do no wrong in these entry scenarios.
Just rip away these remaining rifles of exertion and Jimmy
I mean you definitely coming into the Lancaster arena having flames in form and confident
That is going to be a conversation. Well, the team knows that they're meant to win trophies when you're in a squad with the likes of
Zywoo on your team you should be contending for them and Vitality definitely were will remind everybody last time these two teams based
EPL season 19 Grand Final best of five
the game. We're in the studio
environment right now. It's also
a seeding game. But I've spoken
to some of the mouse players
before and they treat this as a
very important match. Why wouldn't
you get as deep in the tournament
as you possibly can when you have
a game like this available to
you? Right? So I mean, a quarter
final is for a semi final spot
to and the goal is to get
Let me find a spot too.
And the ramification again needs to be brought up.
You lose this, you play G2,
how it have just been steam rolling everybody
through that lower bracket.
Spirit, Astralis, paying again today.
They open up with a loss to so sure,
but they have recovered and coming out of the break,
G2 are one of the hottest looking teams.
Navi playing solid team CS,
they're also gonna be on that side of the bracket.
So you really don't wanna lose this series.
You would love to keep yourself on the other side
where you're gonna get a phase or a liquid and a saw.
Sounds a whole lot better to me.
Mounds are now out in deep water on their map choice.
Cobbled together investment.
Eagle 5-7 MP9 and that M4 in the head to Jimmy.
Who can step up and be the difference maker for mouse
or is it too little too late?
Let's find out.
Passive stance and spread.
Flash for flames, can he find his 10th opening kill?
I'm about to go alone.
You have to walk that tightrope, you don't want to overcommit.
It's so crazy when the rest of his teammates combine they have three.
Man, I mean yeah this is form, this is confidence and he's going to have another look off the
flash.
Roland makes a wise decision, he's trying back away, spam man, takes him down, brawlin,
neutralizes the open kill threat but when there isn't flames there's a zaiwu instead.
21 rounds of play for Flames, you're going to be the first to open depth, so that's pretty
impressive and they're going to continue to make light work of this mouse, partial investment,
just exertion, back to what default box on B, it's about another couple of bullets, but
now they know where he is, they can pivot accordingly, time is not a problem, or is weaponry
or utility, and real estate is saying that Spinks has plenty of.
We'll just go and plan that bomb.
Last time Spinks was on the lurk to secure the round, he did with, it didn't cost them.
Let's see, can he shoot straight? Ah, the shadow baits him into the bullets.
Is that another body shot? Look how low they all are.
There it is, the block comes out.
12-9, three opportunities to provide Tati to secure the semifinals and avoid that dangerous side of the bracket.
And Mezzi, we've discussed it with the victory yesterday to get in towards the Lancaster, so it'll be his first time.
Fatality we're in the playoffs last year. Apex has been in two grand finals.
Zywoo won the first time he played a clone 2019.
There's some efficiency there, crouching onto the smoke. I don't know if Jimmy's gonna have a chance to freebie.
We did. Yeah, he takes that 10 HP. Zershin spams away and reveals himself. Flames.
Ooh, nearly finished the job. Now he's dinked up too.
Brolin in the meantime is taking down the woo.
Zershin good for it.
Messi slipped through.
Still gets it before the spread.
Good trade.
It's good for Maus.
They will pass their first test.
Then Apex forced into this angle, knows where Jimmy is,
will likely hard clear him.
Well, just to think the impact of that spinks 3K
DiggleRound.
And everything's come tumbling down here.
And when you think of Dust2, sure that first half,
they won every single round, 12-0.
But there was a Zywoo 1v3 on the pistol with P250.
There was a Spinks 1v2. There was a Flamesy 1v2.
So the clutches helped them out, and the impact of Spinks on this map has done the same.
So two more rounds.
You win this mouse, you get vitality on a low buy, and as we've just prefaced,
it's still going to be tough to get past.
So no matter what, this would be a photo finished for mouse in search of overtime.
Here we go.
Strap in.
Mouse in pursuit of OT.
to stay in the conversation again but they're taking incredibly seriously as our vitality
Exertion is in a lot of danger and he has no support, literally none
Ryan walk out on the smoke by calling the opum just well to find the one as he goes down again
16th death, pressure applied by flames clears out close seems like they want to finish towards
A. This is the next duel, does Braun play for information? They're looking to pivot
between the science vitality. They want to keep the seesaw open as Flames he still picks
into what's B. Yeah, he's like made lots of steps on the stairs. He's throwing out extra
nades. It has got two players looking even a third not far off on mid. So really, he
was all hinging on Brawland here timing might catch him. Thanks down to Brawland. Huge
frag to post. Doesn't want to rush. Doesn't want to panic. He has Torgy covering his cross
but a missed shot from Torgy. Yeah, that's costly. Not if Brolin hits every shot he
takes though. Taking out Spinks, now Torsche connects and they will pass test number two.
Tony Flames, and he's out of there. Maybe that's what they're missing. Flames the opener.
Might have to be his doing in the next round. If they can call on him again, lost bonus 1900
into the next round. Flames, we won't be getting any of that. Zairu has enough for an AK. This
Andrew is set for Spinks and Apex. They're just in that perfect sweet spot. Roughly 4K,
a little bit over means they can pick and choose the utility of choice.
Mezi, either with a Kalil or a Mk10 to try and facilitate some U-Til, but Brolin,
the pressure was on him. Timing could have operated against you. Same worrying about
front crane as well as that short push. Let's say Apex is a second sooner as he's clearing
front, crane he goes down, free kill, Scythe's essentially open. Third of the tactical timeouts
and the best time to use it because if we do go into OT they'll get another one.
So X has given them a 30 seconds to have the conversation, getting things done in two maps.
And no torches, AWP is in play. Do they look to
trap pressure anywhere else on the map? And do we want to see if we can go through middle here? Because
for miles it's felt like they've been heavy towards B, trying to get that lobby in stairs control.
We've had a round earlier on in the piece where Shui was assisting this A defences that rotator.
Oh wow, torches are up going middle. This is all in B, really.
Mezzie just wants to run. He wants to gun and spot it by Zershin with a quick glance.
While he forces his hand, gets himself out of hot water, or hot floor.
Well they've got the defense moving. Right, if that was part of the plan...
They've definitely done that.
Yeah, it seems to have worked perfectly. So Mezzie would be Lobby.
Should we embrore on to lockdown A? Torchies are still posted in middle. Nobody's coming mid whatsoever.
Putting faith in Shui in brawling the crossfire for a round.
Merck's smoke dropped.
Give him some time.
Tywin.
Does connect onto Shui's spamming gap.
Where are they going?
It's just all follow Apex around the map as he changes the mid-round calls.
Yeah, Mao's are asking the same question though.
Shui bestows a smoke to block a B. Just used a perfect timing.
Nice for a better.
That's an experienced Bianca with a very good read of the situation.
Now look at his pre-aiming the boost. It's their only option. They shouldn't jump up to this yet
They have and they lose ahead. Oh
destruction mouse
Spray them down. It's Jimmy with a triple
And we are looking at overtime here folks messy with an impossible task
Who's gonna finish the job? Who's it gonna be? Is it messy as he finds two clean headshots?
Big shots!
Morning White Box swings through, and another one from Messi!
Good grief, he gave it a good shake of the stick!
Yeah, we ain't done yet!
Some big shots there, but yeah, 1v5, that wouldn't have been a stylish way for Vitality to close the game.
Give us all the entertainment, but still get it done in two.
And it's not like Vitality didn't have money down the stretch.
Because of the rounds that they were able to pile on after the spring steal, they had plenty of cash.
that final round is pretty well equipped. Messi was the one that started with the
Mach 10 and almost ended with an AK-1 v5. At least taking three out of the pitcher
but we're back into things. And here's a change. Zawoo AWP. Haven't seen that yet.
It's true, that's true. He has been prioritizing a right fall.
Strategy's haven't enabled it. So he was waiting for, but he still goes down,
shoo he out, aims him, nails the headshot, takes down Zawoo and already
I was gonna say hold on to that man advantage apex not having any of that gets a very late trade on to his
Orpah taking down Shuie. They haven't really see-sawed very effectively it's like that you
Oh. Zershin? Zershin? Tux 51 Brawler looking for answers. Hanging on by a thread here on the
And Fady goes down, Sarsian delivers, an impactful double!
Can't close!
Sphinx says play on.
Sphinx brings the bomb.
I think they might just contact.
I don't know if they'll even through.
Okay, never mind.
Shut your mouth.
Telegraphing that there is B presence.
Told you she hasn't moved just yet.
Oh, the Shadow Bay Jimmy does not pull the trigger.
They wanted answers.
They've heard it.
It's audible step on the Guardian position.
He G.
Jimmy Walsh.
Vision, Messi's exposed.
Nice adjustment.
Oh, and Spinks falls as well.
Miles, that is a clean close.
2v2, but they make it look easy.
I'm just surprised that they used U2,
because the way that they could have just walked on in
and searched for the fight,
I guess you can be worried about Quad.
It's such a difficult position to deal with.
I love this opener.
They brought exertion over to assist with A.
They had three Ramplers.
Matoz is almost towards middle yet again.
And right now, I think with that reaction of Apex, he's stumped. He doesn't know what to do.
Lovely. Good read of the situation from Torgy.
So I guess if there's no flames, he opens. They are in a good hot water.
Yeah, for real. And ooh, Jimmy!
Punished by Spinks, so there's an opener. Gift from Spinks.
As I was talking about the Seasaw, they don't really establish enough control.
Oh, they might kiss in the smoke. Hello?
Apex just touches W and confirms there's someone in the way.
Two kills to the good for vitality to tie this back up gotta convert this one surely
Yeah, the best opportunities in a short while. Yeah, but Georgie. He's a real problem for them at times
See if he can start racking up some more multi kills makes her that is a very audible rotation
And so a free flag of the freest of frags there should we?
With his loud steel toe boots on the rotating back
a Jimmy's dead, should be removed as well. Still might be slightly worried for
exertion. He had hedged over towards A. Speaks giving up a little bit of ground
while being a diligent clear for his teammates but they'll be in the bomb will
go down and towards you an exertion. Do you give this one a crack? Well it's over
time and you've got the finances so it might as well have a look but there's
the seesaw because not only does it keep your sights open and options
available right it can act as a very deadly lurk especially now with the new
hole in elevator right if you come up gap you can be behind them in middle so
much quicker yeah it does feel valid like parking someone towards that gap
position unless they're diligent on their clears which they can't always clean
and dependent nice work by Ty they do tie us up even 1313 will now be able
to leave with the lead on the end of their CT side well I think it's been
about the T size right because they've had two extra rounds so we're
So we're going to 7-5 in both of the halves.
So yeah, bang on, no matter how you frame it.
How's that going to expend their overtime tactical timeout?
Maybe Cycron is having that exact conversation.
Hey, if we get two on the CT side,
we should be able to putt this thing.
No orb for Torgie.
Jimmy has enough, right?
He could have bought himself as well.
So this is probably what the timeout is about.
It does become a little bit more difficult to retake
the sides with the AWP.
So, what does that mean for the opener?
I'm going to get to find out here.
He has discussed a second TCT round, certainly would give you a nice edge.
Coming into the second half of overtime.
Starting heavy B again.
Jimmy, he tries the same move, this time no spings to find him.
Just mezzy.
Use the round as well to throw out some Util.
Flash him off the line, good work, good Util.
So I will have his off though, and if you jump spot if you miss step
He's pre-a minute guess the info. Yeah, I think I saw him. Oh, he picked swallowed that
I'm bullet in an a 27
Soften up early and still so much time left on the clock to work within this drought
Rolling and towards you hanging about it's still a smoke on brolin
A stream is currently out of control
I'd be watching that one at the same time, if you can.
Yeah, we got overtime here. It sounds like they got overtime there.
Let's see what happens with that early damage on to Wapax,
because he is going to be walking around the smoke to clear it.
Oh, perfectly timed his flames. Another opening to the tally.
He's gone quiet for a little while hasn't he? Speaks, crossing the smoke.
He wasn't ready for it.
Oh, completely caught off.
Okay, well now things are looking a bit pear-shaped.
Binks another Jimmy rotates in without any support.
He's smoking that's of nowhere he is and Spinks.
Yeah, but with combination with Zai, will we how are going to see that T side by
us even overtime? OK, OK.
Brolin, he does the waterfall smoke plays behind it and they're clearing.
You just see three T's down the bottom of the ramp, staring directly at you.
Orgy, I want to be five.
Now being spotted, dealt with by flames closing around as well as opening.
Now they get to swap back over to the CT side vitality.
Now those clutches hurt their finances a lot in the first half.
We have to go back. There was a Brolin clutch, there was a Toji clutch,
and that's where the finances took a big dent and Maus were able to work their way back into the game.
They closed the half very strong.
But now the finances aren't a conversation. You can have whatever you want.
Zaiwu will go for the AWP on the CT side as well as the T side.
The post up towards middle, Torgie's got his as well, Yellow's smart, we see plenty of this,
Flamesee and Apex, the A-Defense was beautiful in the first half of play.
Yeah, this is a nice change up, intrigue to see what Vitality do with this, because they've
already concerned or rather put invested now that Molly comes in, good idea the
ladder might be occupied if the communication's good.
You're very tough, Cleo.
How are you meant to unravel Brolin unless you catch a timing?
Yeah, Brolin should have him.
Oh, he does! Nails the shot!
Does Spinks do that alone, Brolin's next thought?
Opening kill favours Maus.
Looking to keep it level, as we have been throughout.
That's to be one of these gambles, again, from Vitality.
We saw some within the first half of play where they didn't quite stick the landing.
This time it appears to be the right call.
Blocked at the 52nd mark.
Gonna put too much sweat on Shuey's brow.
Got time to work with, Util as well.
Strong angle from Flames.
Yep, just for that reason, you can see Sergent.
He overlooks it, and it will tie us up.
40 seconds four on four.
Resmote gap, limits your options.
Flames continues to lay waste to another.
Mezzy in combination does make it a two on four,
and is really not looking good for Jimmy.
Allow Trundle towards the gap position. A full magazine sprayed Brawland's lurk.
You can see they're cognizant. It's a possibility.
Flames avert his gaze. Messi's not looking. Does a just.
And now Jimmy with a crazy transfer attempt. But 15 is secure.
One round away from the semi-finals. Now vitality and two opportunities.
I can't believe they played forward on Crane there after a short cut blocked.
I thought they might just wait it out. Allow the U2 to be siphoned through.
They had the number advantage felt like it wasn't a necessary peak and then another one for flamesy. So he's done a great job
Denying this a site aware of the fact that problem wasn't spotted in the feed
And you bang on just one more round five more kills back in a winning position are vitality, but mouse. I've done it once can they do it again
So what consecutive rounds required to go to OT number two shoey takes a lot of damage early down to 67
I forgot about that
So did Vitality now apex is gonna have to function without it
They didn't expect him that is a very big opening kill to post that's such an important round
What a gift that is from apex oh and I was spotted a cheeky bit of leg a bit of ankle
And he does convert patience on that. Let's Jimmy come to him
Plucks him through the board and it's five on three.
The realisation for mouse now, you got absolutely hammered on map number one.
Now your map choice is going down the gurglop.
And trying to line up Nade, suddenly there's a smoke in your face and a bullet there too.
Through the boards, Brawland tagged up, Zywin gets away.
And Mezion Quad, you discuss it, it's hard to clear and oh, oh, oh, Spinks.
They've been kept busy, these smokes, these Nades, these Spams.
And so completely overlooking a very fast flank, it spins to finish the double only Torji
What's he got for us? There's very limited options for him, 4 CTs to get through, 8 bullets
in the magazine, and the first is a clean headshot, but Dami finals, Maus will start
at the first day of play in the LACS arena, gotta be feeling good about that one and
Flames, you can see him on your screen, 28 frags, how many did he end that game
on into the double digits of opening kills. I think he ended with 10 in total there but
he was not forced to be reckoned with. But you lose this you'll be facing G2 who are looking
like marauders from that lower bracket in the quarterfinal. Okay well that's something to
keep our eyes on we'll continue that discussion once this pistol concludes.
Should we responsible for this cat take and he isn't actually going to be casting early looks.
Or long aggression. Yes I was there to check it and actually spots too so there's some info.
No casualties either way.
They can't barrel through middle because Shui, Exertion, and Jimmy are all here.
Yeah, in which case they are just kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place,
and that is the hard place hitting.
Shui takes out Spinks and the P250 on Zai will well utilize.
Brolin deleted, starting to trundle up long.
The full full amount of salt.
Keep your eyes on this Jimmy Flash.
How do they utilize it?
They're just gonna creep up the smoke, not in the air.
Torji casting a couple of...
Lots of info.
Yeah, knows they're committing smoke on the cross turns the flash Jimmy throws out his towards the ramp to suggest a delay
Allow towards you to tuck in
They do have shooing on Gandalf, but safe plant flames punching in the code
covered by Mezzie
To from short side Jimmy late elevator
We could be cleared by Mezzie won't be doing that now because she was a banger two kills from the captain
Zaiwu can he continue to rack him up because he's all alone now up against three
It's not the best plan. No, it is a good weapon for this fight, but already a couple of missed shots
Well surely go punish. He's hitting them. What remains can Zaiwu really start with another ace on the pistol as Torgie's off the bomb
Torgie's running at him looking to pick up the dual barrettes looking to run and down Zaiwu has somehow
pulled it off again
The ace on the pistol this is becoming a trend
They're round to lose. Fast B. Hang on, we're too low. This gets awkward for Vitality and Jimmy to do something.
He's done nothing. A bit of damage onto Spinks and a missed scout shot. Search him fast on this flank.
He second guessed it. He looked away for a moment and Zymon gets the double instead.
Couple of missed opportunities.
Brolin and Torgy, you're not going to be able to do much with this one.
All this house of cards has come tumbling down quite quickly, so we'll see if Brolin can stay alive towards lower tunnels.
is the one locking him in lower HPs. I were going around the world also low.
That's when these two teams face last time the desk highlighting as Brolin goes down.
It was during the ESL Pro League season 19 finals the best of five. That's when Overpass was still
in the mat pool. Dust2 wasn't coming into this today. Maus are 100% on Dust2, but they haven't
really played it an awful lot. I remember seeing them having to pick it up for the first couple
of times. They went straight from Pro League into Betboom. And then I think Betboom,
the team trying to pick it against the immediately which they had in practice. They still won it.
Okay. But this is Vitality's choice and we've seen them have some real wars on this map.
He was like posturing to flash someone through doors but it actually seems like the conversation
has changed. Flash and go, takes short, that smoke still lingers now. The layering just as one
fades and other it blooms. Now that flash is thrown. Apex tries to clear close doors. So that's
That's a nice bit of information. Flames gets that safely.
Pressure all over the map at the same time.
Okay, Flames down.
That's big.
The strafing into him is messy.
Good trade.
Down goes the wound.
It's Torgy's AWP, and as the deaths discussed,
he is an influential factor.
In all of Malus's games so far,
it's Torgy's hitting shots.
That is a threat to vitality,
and a threat to vitality's fourth round.
I think he's gonna win this.
Still plenty of time in the clock.
50 seconds, Bomber on Cat knows the AWP's towards A.
Zershin is going to be tending to the potential, sweeps through looking at doors and heading CT.
So he will be closer to assist if the bomb goes A.
Yeah, and a bit of a risk for him to cross.
The fact that he didn't get caught on a timing helps them piece this puzzle together.
Torgie's position is going to be really difficult to rumble.
Should be good for this.
Yeah, and the Spinks hits an absolute cracker.
Oh, he just quick changed.
Oh no!
Torgie loses his head.
A quick reaction and an adaptation from Spinks.
Exertion does not choose to jump, keeps him guessing, and that could be enough.
Oh, Spinks caught out again, but still, Zersh does not...
Ah!
Spinks instead a clutch!
With four rounds in and already two clutches for vitality.
And the superstar, Zaro, and the pistol now, Spinks in a one on two.
And look, he wasn't expecting exertion.
You can understand why.
The fact that they played that close together exertion, braving the cross.
Both of those fights he took, he was caught off initially.
I'm pretty sure Torgia just quick changed as well. It looked like he was set ready for that, but Apex
In towards the doors Shuie tending to it as a lurksmoke blooms. This is a very well-constructed. This is a fake
You can see how they're just keeping the CTs guessing all over the map. Is it mid? Is it B? Is it long?
There's now with Brolin down. It seems it will be a
Flames is right behind Shuie. He's ratting through this mid smoke Shuie. You can see he's just a cop too many things.
Why about?
This is a Dust 2 they can be incredibly proud of.
A team of Mouses caliber.
You can see they're just getting pulled apart, misinformation, miscommunication, they're lost.
And it's a product of vitality. They are manufacturing this obscurity, this uncertainty
through their presence across the map.
And it helps where Mezzie can kill long whenever he wants it.
Yeah, but one of the dramas if you're problem is the comms at this point,
We don't have short, we don't know what's enough for tunnels, we don't even really have mid-control.
And then, although Smoke comes out B as part of the comms, the mid-to-B Smoke lands as well.
It's time for pace.
Yeah, way more direct, and because I wound, who could have gone down?
His teammates all take a lot of damage from a single HE.
Well, this would be a spark to get Bounce back in it, wouldn't it?
A couple of HEs remaining, will that be used for damage, or will it be used to clear some smokes?
I tell you, with this long control, Mezzy is the only piece that hasn't joined the puzzle.
He's just going to cover the flank. Apex is going to walk up. We saw him doing this against FaZe.
Oh, would have been spotted there.
Yep.
Now, as they know what's up, they're hearing all these AKs just sounding off on long shooies called up at clear.
More chip damage. Apex swallows another HE. They've got to be careful.
You peek too far. You go too wide. That AWP will pluck you, but they are walking up into them.
Jimmy and Zershin. Just these side arms. What have you got for us, Jimmy?
Misses his first, delivers, delivers in a big way. Double kill, finally silences, spins to bring him down, and finds Shaw as well.
Torgy, unable to find anything this round, should be burning alive into Mezzie's cross-air.
Just searching here, yeah, call out in the open, they're about to find the first, but will be run down.
7-0 Vitality, they've got to be feeling very, very good about the way in which this T-side is not only being structured, but the way it's being executed and converted.
Which I'm pretty sure they are, you know, mandated to do it.
Every morning, yeah.
Every morning go for that walk.
Oh, flames, a chance.
And the same thing, he's actually a kill stealer.
That's what he is.
That's insane.
They get the corner kill.
I think he just transfers.
That's...
Round?
Well, how do you get back into this?
Exertion's in lower.
We can see a bit of a standoff.
If he plays forward for info, Messi's got him dead to rights.
When he pivots back now with Jimmy to try and clamp down on mid, the door is
opening towards B because the upper tunnel smoke is about to fade. Well, the penny's gonna drop.
Apex immediately knows that there is no resistance, which incites the save. They didn't even know
that they were on the B bomb site. It literally had no idea. Apex gets a complete freebie.
Flames make sure they can't exit towards long. Someone has to go down towards Lobba
Dark and then Jimmy's stuck towards short. If they take everything away, it's A-Zero
And tough for mouse to justify the rebikes show the max loss burners in but the residual cash isn't there if they save these
Two drops are possible. We can have that chat, but they're still just down to halfway left on this bomb
Oh, they're going for you how to get paddled
Leave him alone. Georgie's working on keeping hold of his offer here comes some pressure
Those mollies won't last forever Georgie. It is Jimmy doesn't hit down. He goes in
Nobody appears a miss first shot more utility and down he goes
Take no prisoners vitality
a cruelty onto mouse they just wanted to hold on to their guns but it is
disallowed by the vitality to you side and this is the open so apex guess Jesus
oh we didn't get to see that oh that's we had flames he's peering we did okay
that looks a whole lot tidier man that that was cracking an apex even got the
third kill that's for his fifth with in the compap so far three of them
Where?
Flames and Spinks
Gonna be occupying up a...
Possession, let them come to him
Cause-
My- My question is just, is Apex gonna molly lower tunnels?
Well, now actually that day it's come through, yet there it is
Perfect
Absolutely
Bloody perfect, Alex
And then your short player gets behind is because you got an aimer like Flames who can take that fight
Torgy though
He will deliver onto Apex, the absence of a flash is...
Oh, punished in a leg shot as well
Zywooz, but Zersha down to 20.
But now you'd kinda wanna see if Sphinx can go towards being isolate the one on one against Jimmy.
The smoke might change that conversation, or the Nade might do it.
Oh, the Nade has done it!
Wow, he finishes the job himself.
Short aggression.
How ready is Zywooz?
He's...
typically very ready for any engagement, even if it doesn't always look like it.
You can see, yeah, he's considering his options as he backs away.
And uncrouch here.
Yo! Perfect from Brolin!
Perfectly executed, but now...
the B side needs to be defended and Jimmy he has done enough at least to remove
Spinks. Mersi's got the bomb yet to cross audible steps gonna throw it across
for his teammate Jimmy doesn't know we'll commit on that flashbang and
actually Mersi will punish it to go and look it. Okay confirmation of brawlan
look at the flame what a hurry here still punching in the code and it's
swaying a big fight taken by brawlan he's put impact into this but it could
It'll be for Nort. Flames, oh versus Torgie now he gets to play wicked games with him here.
Swap to the awp! It doesn't work out, it's still Vitality!
Oh dear, that's three clutches in the first half of play.
Azawi 1v3, Aspix 1v2 and now Flamesy 1v2.
Yeah, he started the round with a headshot on Toshui as well. Real scorchy, you saw there in the replay.
Nade on his face, Sashin didn't get to play.
Jimmy, yeah, he put up a five. Mezzy hits, great shot here on Dust2.
And I'm not just saying that, he is?
He is, like, this is some good CS for Mezzie right now.
Well, Axe says in the interview that he wants a bit more out of Mezzie on the CT sites.
The T site, he's happy with the job that he's doing.
He's looking for consistency for Mezzie.
Even said, he misses some shots.
Oh.
I tell you, he's not missing shots right now.
Yeah, he looks like a robot in the best way.
This is, um, this feels like a mismatch.
Yeah, but I'm just sitting here going,
this is how you and I are cursed.
No, but this is also, I don't care about us, Chad.
What I care about is how stompy, so like these,
these are two teams that have just qualified
for the Lancers Arena, and one right now
is just wailing on the other.
I, same with that G2 there, it's just like, the,
woohoo!
Disparity is alarming and exciting.
Now, sports, that's your punishment.
Down in the dumps, exceeding game sure, but lose up.
We'll have to take on G2.
Two orbs, one for BlameD.
Doesn't give anything dumb.
Exertion's aggression, not expected.
There's another kill on the table.
Apex slope as Zywoo strikes.
They know about exertion.
They do.
Well, they know there was one.
Now they know there was two.
Good work.
That's his third frag.
He takes up Zywoo as well.
Well, surely Maus win this round.
I counted it with a cast of curse.
That's respect actually, a counter-curse.
Harry Potter style.
He tagged Jimmy to start the round.
When things even look a little bit worrying, there's some magic from one of these individuals
on Vitality.
Yeah.
This has been fun.
I've been doing this.
Isn't it?
Yeah, really.
And as I was gonna hit that, yeah of course he is!
I got what I was gonna do!
I'm back and witness what could be a 13-0 at the start of this match!
Let's find out if this first map looks to come to a close in a single round.
Could it be the perfect...
Vitality...
13-0.
Now let's take down the Wooh!
Jimmy, with that B2 Fiddy gives them a taste of their own medicine.
Now from the disadvantage, Spink starts to depart B.
Flames Suicide. Nade from Apex is good. Roy on the face of Zershin.
But Mao's the hard part getting to the site. It seems to have already gone down there.
Flash from Apex and go. Is that the call? Yeah, looks like it. Mezgy and Flames still swing with it.
But look! Good! Roy aligns them both up.
And now Mao's his turn to do the same right back.
Margin Ferrera zero and the first is perfect a five alive pistol you'll take
that all right it's the toughest of tasks isn't it you said margin zero yeah
so you just essentially have to do exactly what vitality just it's all need
at least three clutches that's a conversation for the a stream twitch.tv
such ESL CS and, ah, this is catching on, isn't it?
We've seen this run, Furia did it, Liquid have done it,
and this is going into this third round with,
it's like an MP9 buy, you save enough cash
so you have the loss of bonus going into the next,
then you fall by it, but we might not need a fall by it.
MP9s can do it.
And they tend to, they're all off in the knock
because you recover a rifle and you get the bomb.
Ooh, are we calling it the fallen?
Are we calling it the liquid?
What are we calling it?
We're just calling it MP9s on the third round.
Yeah, okay, fine.
It makes a lot of sense.
I'm sure there's someone at Valve HQ that says they finally tried it.
They cracked the code.
Instead of playing these rifle rounds with a flash and a HE.
Now they get to have a very good attempt.
Worst case you have your rifles in the necks,
and best case you win it with just the SMGs.
And they had an aggressive gambit with two pushing up,
or tunnels two pushing lower.
And hold up, Brolin, you can win the round.
You see, he's about to.
Claims, deleted, and the second Brawler!
Closes it down, denies the SMG half-by-round.
Oh, it does feel good actually, the SMG half-by it works.
Yeah.
Exactly what it is.
He's makes them.
Alright, well try and take a bit of space, exertion.
Nothing to worry about the all-punch short, just thrust himself up on towards that X-Box
has tortured you just behind him, cleared his smoke, and A-Pace gets caught!
Beautiful.
Alright, mouse.
Bit more of this, we might start getting excited.
Bronze out long, can pinch on towards A, looks like Flames, he wants some space.
A nice detail, they smoked B doors from spawn very early on, which I think led to two players,
B which led to one player mid, isolating Apex and leading him to his early demise with a clear of
that mid smoke. Look at this gamble. Vitality of giving up the B bombsite completely.
Oh, they are going to be in the right place now, there's plenty of nades as well if they
They want to stall out short and fight
It's all long centric flash
Oh counter flash back and forth we go
Still has vision and look at the damage he has done
Sure nothing lethal but it does soften him up for fame
His aim has been looking crispy today
Does Flames step up to the plate when tested
40 seconds the squad bit shaken by Messi's damage
He does nothing
So I will release trades
I will stall and I'll send a buy
Oh, careful, when it threw it, cinched toes, but a cross-poll and that was a brave maneuver,
but it might catch him off guard. They are not prepared for him to be here.
Now he's out, and he's actually revealed himself with a crazy spam.
Jimmy threw a spawn.
Yeah, he's gonna have sideways toes exposed. Hello, and goodbye.
Spinks in the clutch. What's he got?
Time, Alex.
12 seconds. And that's the healthiest member. They're both softened up.
up can spring to really end this here the 1v3 he can't shoo he a necessary head shot there he had
one more put it in in there 4hp on him and the first tack timeout call vitality didn't like the way
that one fell. They're good little over there and this tour was long got very sketchy with all the
damage done very close indeed a messy round end but mouse when you think about the flow of rounds
it was a pistol loss. Then they go into round number two, lose that. The MP9's come out the third,
the rush was coming out of four, that was another partial for five. B rush, hello.
Yeah, just running straight in there. This was a ballsy call. It could work out for them now
that Zershin's supposed to take down the anchor. Stink gets one. Arlen shuts him out.
Do you go for the retake, right? Going for this B bomb site retake can be quite difficult.
One of the positives that Vitality have for them right now is the fact they have a decent
amount of utility. So mollies, HE, smoke, flashes in the mix. I see
Diffuse kit on Flameseed, but when you only need one round, you're probably, yeah, you are, you're saving.
So, that was such a risky call by Maus, but the fact that they traded efficiently essentially sealed the round.
It is 12-6, I mean, halfway home, but any round, any slip-up, any misplay, like standing in the monotone and losing out to Zywoo, double kill in the flames!
And now as I smoke his name, he's done a lot of damage onto Torsheed!
Just as you started believing, just as the conversation crept into the dialogue.
Oh, it's all it's all it's all it's all.
Maybe we keep doubting them. They'll do the adult bill.
Turn it around. So the bomb is on blue bin.
Yes, it is.
That's an orcimo.
Fully fortified. Mezzy doesn't need to move a muscle. Apex can cover short.
Torgy could catch Apex on that AD and overly.
Oh, he's not moving, is he?
Yep, that's a lovely angle to hold, lovely angle to hold, and there it is! Dust2 converted, 12-0-13-6!
Solid work on their T side, finishing off with a cherry on top, and their CT side, Vitality 1 up in this series, and went away from a semi-final!
Hi guys, Mezzie here, make sure to sub to ESLCS, keep right on.
Yeah, they must have done their homework, as well as the info.
Pre-having this boot, Spinks knows exactly what's up.
Mezzy jiggling stairs.
Spinks holds this.
Here comes the util confirmation of their suspicions.
And Mezzy, yeah, he's actually gonna be run down.
Good flashes, really good flashes.
Look at Spinks.
Unable to do anything, Mao's perfect into the site.
Converts his knee down with JPEGs pushing smoke, but he only flames and he's not
long for this world either.
That is a perfect start for Mao's.
Everything going to plan, Brawland fragging up a storm with three.
Awesome. First half of play.
Yeah, Apex, he's deliberately
got himself early deep down ramp towards yellow, avoids their short molly and will tuck in by the sandbag.
Oh, wow, tries his luck to search him, but flames quick to it.
So consider that dealt with. Mezzy, how's his Bianca in work going?
Looking very strong, because he does deal with Jimmy, he's just going for a walk, going for a search.
He stays active on his angle and confirms it so extends the man advantage to two
And it's uncomfortable for the remaining three of mouths bit of chip damage there from the HE they throw one out
So you see what you can find if there's anyone overstepping the mark towards a there's more than enough bodies to deal with this for
Vitality at the B site and swinging for some jewels
Who sat up roll and immediately deleted so messy continuing the hot hand
looking for yeah
All right, well, if you can't do any more damage with 45 seconds left on the clock,
should we lob it out a couple of smokes?
Torgie looking for a gap, Flamesy is the step.
There's a kill for Shoei, and that's all he's going to get.
It is just Torgie now.
Galil in hand.
It's going to be more than enough money for a buy into the next four miles.
So, can hold onto this if he likes.
We'll look for a little bit more damage.
Pick your poison, Torgie.
We're not in a rush.
with winds of a furia phase, and now the battle with Maus, as there you have it.
Round time's out, Torgy holds onto the Galil.
Alright, big one, gonna be telling of just how competitive this first half will be.
Quite eccentric, I don't think they want to allow them to have so much ARAM control
this time round.
They want to harass a little bit more, Jimmy, wow.
See a big shot, Monta-Bezzi.
Yeah, that's a one-taperoony.
Flames, flames!
Oh, I thought he was flashed there.
His hand was over his face, but must have had vision, so still takes down Zershin.
It costs him a lot of health, but he denied that first test.
And there's a second straight after Shui walking through smoke into Apex.
And Vitality will take that. That's a gift.
You've got no ramp. You've got no stairs. You've got nothing.
I don't think, yeah, Jimmy getting that kill was necessarily part of the plan.
Look, it's great.
But you can see that Maus really wanted to fight for this A-Ramp control a little bit more.
Jimmy gets that kill, he drops back immediately,
and then they just wanted to try and finish to what they were assuming there was going to be a rotation.
But because Spinks was aggressive with Mezzie, they didn't need to hedge their bets.
They had the info that there wasn't a follow through.
Now a 3v4, Flamesy low.
You know what, use him for info. They're going to flash him in, and no, more than info!
He gets two more!
Two more kills from Flames!
With a scrap of HP he had, that is a very impactful round.
Alright, Brollo.
He's been known to make some impactful clutches in his day. He's got 30 seconds
And he's to isolate this headshot player and he has done so clean headshot onto apex
Will he get walked on fakes outside with his where he is and could have caught in there on the swing
Just a little behind him on the tracking
to two
One does it eagle
It's nice to see vitality playing some solid counter strike
They're a team who, you know, there'd be the occasional worries.
It felt like they were lacking trust with their individuals.
Apex would be calling a lot of direct rounds, so they didn't have to really think.
Just kind of clobbered them to get to death with aggressive moves on the CT side
or direct calls on the T side, whereas you just trade.
But they played a much more comprehensive game.
They've had a lot of individuals contributing in different moments.
They've had their star of Zyre, we were getting aces on Pistergians, two of which
that's nice to have in your back pocket.
But he hasn't been the only component that's firing and hasn't
Needed to be the only one that's firing flame sets of big games. Spinks has been winning some clutches
Apex he's a fragging in game leader, right?
He's one of these guys that he can have a rough time, but then he can you know have a quite a good show
Oh, he can hang he can hang for sure
Taking the pace of this one mouse not gonna fight early, but look at the response from Vitality
They're not using their nades early. There's no threat no need for us to go for smoke while he defense if they're not gonna force it out of our hands
I'm intrigued how
They've clear apex with flames so active on this angle
And yeah flames will catch the first session goes down apex now, will he be overlooked it looks like torches not considered it
He hasn't considered it at all a free frag for apex patience prevails show he swings in and it's perfect
Apex he's up in a great one triple kill aggressive defense
Mazzie might catch Jimmy, but it's a dink exchange, the AK prevails, but all the same the round is won, the job is done.
Likely to see for them, just to go for a couple of upgrades around the saved AK-47, but crazed off from Apex.
And they even go for the yellow molly. To flush anybody back on the deeper line, but Apex is played aggressive.
Several times it's clear part of the game plan, oh dear, Jimmy might go down after time, he should do.
Should be able to find him here, there it is, Zaiwui from the top rope.
Well, Apex is harassing. Does not want to give this space up for free.
Re-deploy the yellow smoke. We'll solve them out for now.
The bowels are not probing middle, they're not probing B.
Ooh, Spinks forced to extinguish, but will they overlook Mezzie?
This two-man setup. They've got confirmation of Spinks, and yet too comfortable for Jimmy.
He'll get himself an opening, and it will force Mezzie into a more humble hold.
You can see just how much pressure Spinks thought he was under.
I thought he had to take the fight, and I guess if Jimmy gets a crossing
Cross you can try to spam it through the smoke.
Finances available for Spinks for a Rebuy, Apex and Mezzie could give it a crack, but Flamzie and Sy were quite low in the finance department, so...
Maybe go fishing, put the rod in the water, see if you can find anything.
Brolin, it's forward. Flamzie will get there late.
Sharp from Brolin. And surely removing the wo- Ah, it's a bit costly, it's more than they were bargaining for.
for. Everything could be taken away here. Yeah, Mezzy's the last one stunning. He's got three
people running at him. He goes down after the one. Maus, that will feel increasingly good
now for your T side campaign. Three to five.
Just Pace come back into the nicks for Maus. Smoke all land again. Obstinate, making sure
they highlight that as the Nade shuts Apex. This is half of his health for the Troubles.
They will get the space shot, but it wasn't worth it.
Equal damage back in exchange.
Yeah, not bad.
They want to flash and pop,
but they're already reacting a quick boost.
This could be a bit uncomfortable for Mezzi,
as yeah, they just mount orderably.
So you guess the info, you'll take that 2B.
And in the meantime, Flames he found Toshin
through the ramps, but...
Wow, say tucked in, Mezzi.
Ooh, that's the opposite of staying tucked in.
Look at this.
Stretching their legs,
the confidence is griming for Vitality, isn't it?
really is I mean with flames is in form like this he feels like he can win any
fight and this is a crazy one yeah look at that crouch holding the angle
Zershin will punish his overstepping so that puts us at 4-4 and smoke on bridge
will delay it can break his shoe he's got a nade it's cocked it's cleared apex
tough angle to clear overlooked by shoey good trade from Zershin back 3v3
pushing up 38 what's the move here oh problem I better find Spinks it's
He's about to find that timing window. Maybe an audible retreat. I think it was.
Swings now. Wow! He still delivers the headshot. Needs things to follow. Super Jimmy's too good.
Super precise and it's to Bianca left. You know where he was.
Because Brolin has the rotation, Jimmy knows to worry about the flank.
That's Mezzi on the list. Oh, cleanly! Smoke and Kit Chat! We're on!
Brolin towards the elevator position. Mezzi.
Audible, Brolin should have a heavy advantage in this one.
He knows exactly where he is, picturing the swing and nails it!
Perfect from Brolin, Maus, that's a gift, and Jimmy and Brolin combined.
Cheer from Maus as they have put that financial dent.
Vitality have to be down to an eco.
They get a chance to level the game up 5-5, and Brolin picks up right where he left off.
Other head shot this time on to Zywoo, aggressing middle.
And that will confirm the suspicions yet.
No money left, boys. This should be an easy one.
Searching jousting.
That's a good word for it.
Just running at him with the marks.
Noxapix off his horse.
I rewatched Night's Tale recently. You ever seen that?
Very few.
Oh mate, such a feel-good movie.
Apart from the princess that says, if you love me, you'll lose.
I think that is a bit of a bad manoeuvre.
I don't think that's cool.
I don't think that's princess-like.
And it pissed me off.
Vitality.
Back in with the guns this time.
Lacking the kit. Lacking a few incendries.
Flash is from Shui at the ready. Exertion might try and make a play. They're mixing it up.
They're mixing it up into Spinks' mid-hold.
Ronald was not prepared for that off-angle.
Now we'll slow down towards you. He has the bombs, but he has support. Shui's with him.
He's always been able to join this A-defense.
A block towards Shaw. Perfect timing.
Made. Flash. Flash and go!
Ooh, Apex so, so close to death!
Zai was only got one! This is great for Maus! Still finds a second!
Great for Torgy! Yeah, he's on it.
Bombs can get scoops out. Rotation of Spinks and Mezzy on the way.
Yet to plan. Torgy's key cap Maus is...
Chances of a sick there. It looks like Zershin can condemn.
Catching Spinks through Heaven, Mezzy, last man standing once more.
smoke no kit and heaven occupied he's gonna have to clear this out does so big
start torgy now demanded to clutch as well brolin's had his moment is it
torgy's turn smoke might lead him to get a little panicked
mezzi that sound they're trying to explain where it's planted he throws out
the HG gives me a chance it presented itself and torgy he closes with four
kills total. That's a big one. That could very well mean seven given the finances of Vitality.
You wonder where this one all goes wrong. Opening kill, that's highlighted, but it just turns into
this lineup. So Flamesy gets overrun, Apex gets flashed. I think with the block on shore, he's
thinking to himself, there's no way they're coming through this, but they flash, they push, they
harass, he lines up with Flamesy. And then you see the difference, exertion, knowing how he
can function in some of these rounds now that the buy is in the bin yet again, fight a round,
have to invest everything they can. But these clutches at Maus of One, the 1v1s that they converted
ruined Vitality's finances in two different occasions.
Yeah, here we are, last round at the half and Maus to leave with the lead on their pick
for a semi-final spot to avoid the big dogs. Chewie, down, big find from flames, consistent
Fret!
Zershin finds the perfect moment, finding Apex, spotting out the other. Flames noted.
Brolin activated. He's up against Cy, where he out-aims him.
Clean conversion in middle. Flames somehow pulls another one out of his hat.
He's fallen into place from ours. Brolin, two impactful kills on his mid-lug.
Yeah, really important lurks from Brolin. Even in the round where he didn't get any frags,
he was able to convert the 1v1 with his position.
And some tough clutches from Bezzie.
He's had to try and convert difficult rounds rotating over from his bombsite.
Doesn't really have all the information in the world and now it just spinks a one-on-three situation.
Has you two no kids?
I think this one's done.
Yeah, I suspect the same.
You can see the positioning of Maus. It's diligent, it's considered, and it's there.
Seven! Gotta be happy without one Maus making a statement on their T side.
After a run of five from Vitality, Maus returned the favour.
13-6 seems a little bit closer than it was. It was an absolute drubbing, but Maus, they got warmed up.
They won the pistol, got the conversion, lost five straight, and then had a couple of clutches,
Brolin with one towards you with another, and they walk away with a half lead.
Brolin on the jump spot, here's the steps, trundles back, calls for assistance.
Here, the whole squad's here.
Chav and J-Raz delivering the cameras.
Oh, so much pressure. How many of these smoke?
We will get it out. Oh, they're swinging crane.
Got that. Oh, it still hits one.
That apex could work with flames in combination.
They can take the site that bomb plants explode.
This is a whiff smoke.
That's the same thing, sir.
Torgy smoke.
Yeah.
It's a brave plant spot.
Yeah, flames still adjusting to the new vertigo changes.
Spinks is still hit the shot, though,
and it doesn't look like it's going to cost them the round.
Funny that yeah, that could have really gone wrong and
Everybody getting a kill in the round other than mezzie
Toys he's getting under pressure was unable to really block the choke point
I thought okay
Well, it's smoothed out a little bit deeper might not be the end of the world still just gets killed through it
So great job from apex tracking him down
All right, let's see get a little look at vitality's T side on vertigo
Don't get many opportunities to have a look and where did that happen?
Zywoo's gone. Zywoo dead early. Brawland has provided a nice opening kill.
How about a look at Ramp and Zywoo loses his life to a full confident aim swing. Let's go Brawland.
Well, there are some gaps present on the map right now. Nobody tending to middle,
four-mouse. Shoei's hedged over towards B to assist, I think, with a flash. They're going to
try and retake this. But nobody home. Vitality, still. Oh, we're playing outside of B Lobby.
There's a kill and that could have been a trade.
Thanks for trying to apply a bit more pressure.
Apex could lose the bomb.
If Bronn holds that fade, you're likely peeking to it.
On the walk! Ooh, Apex! Good work!
Quick counter-strafe with the S-key. He does manage to hit the shot.
The only thing that Vitality really have going for the visit advantage is the utility.
Which they're going to be throwing a whole lot of right now.
The barrage of nades, headshot will be Molotov down, and always spots him!
Good eyes on fire!
Right of his shots!
He's so crispy today, it was Dust2, now it's Vertigo, and Zershin catches Apex walking through
a smoke, so Nezzi's got...
That doesn't even count!
He doesn't even get a chance to start the clutch, Jimmy just swings into him, double
kill for him.
Zershin getting himself one through the smoke on Apex as well.
It looks like it.
time a heftier assault and Nezzie has the bomb so he will have to join the crew
Molly had no opening death while trying to get that down this time
we replenish to facilitate the walk different CT setup as well though you
go should we helping out a this time last thing is assisting the B defense
flash and go yeah they come drive by brawler nails it with torches flash
he anticipates the molotov but look at the damage she was already taken a
double kill. Vitality! Oh, setback to spawn almost immediately. One minute 20 on the clock,
Spinks with 30 HP. A bullet would do it, spot it out now. They'll double peek or do it.
They don't even need to. The bomb in front of them. He comes to them. And that's a
Mao's 9th. That's a convincing Mao's 9th. And I think I just saw Cyclone asking for
a timeout.
A lot of investments for Vitality. Looks like they can see the 10th. It's a flash
for apex and a bit of a misnade.
I think he's going to flash, so there should be a head of it.
Oh!
Oh, Spinks has actually taken the head off of exertion.
Jimmy, he's not flustered.
He knows what's up.
You couldn't have more ramp control than that from brawland.
He's only found an MP9, so still tower flash and go again.
Jimmy, Jimmy.
Oh, so blind.
What a flashbang.
They could lose the site because Spinks is having his night. It's a triple kill
Triple kill just a deagle just a deagle chat no kev
How has this gone so wrong
Formals it it's hard to comprehend
Spinks just decided he wanted B and he took it by force and those are the type of rounds
That you need from an individual like Spinks if you want to win the trophy here in color
Right, Svix has been criticized a little bit in recent times for maybe not having the most impact, the lurks being a little bit readable.
Two mids, boosted up exertion.
Oh, he wants to fight.
Yeah, he actually tries to surprise and is resulted in an opening there for Roland.
And another opening kill for Flamesey.
Oh man, what's he up now?
I think that's gotta be eight.
That will be his eight. Okay, wolf.
Silent dismount, stylish.
Mouse, not wanting to give anything away to that mid player.
Apex is going for it.
He's gonna be, well, walked into the angle.
the angle Torgy jumpscare good one back maybe so all of them potentially one
trying to get away loses his head to Zywoo Jimmy's still down with his rifle
searches pick one up to this can go wrong but I would doesn't seem to think so
Jimmy up against the world can Jimmy eat planet oh has found the first yeah
Jimmy was trying to get ahead of the rotation because he heard messy steps
but speak should have that kill every day of the week now Messi's gonna
Is he going? He went. He stopped. He's going now.
He's looking a bit nervous.
Yeah, understandably, because Jimmy could have beat them on the rotation after that kill.
He could be gargling right now.
Yeah, that flash tells him he's heading in the right direction.
36 points of health. Does that have a molotov he could throw out towards the default barn?
Zai Wu. Doesn't have a HP. Doesn't matter.
Mazzie's hit the heavy.
It's 9-9.
They got a little bit dicier than it needed to.
Good smoke work, so...
Shouldn't be a problem.
shouldn't. Hey Zawa. Yeah here we go. Found them. Looses out after one. Bit hectic now
with the loss of the rifle and now Zasha is using it to great effect and they are quite
low. These USPs could hit a headshot or two. Scavenged Nadeships further away. Vitality's
palms start to have a little more sweat upon them should be fine we said and
yet torches taken down flames they spam but apex fams back more leafily a
double kill finds ushershan on headshot no armor but still a problem exertion no
time the only absentee here is the kit the frags were there the rotations were
On point the vitality deaths getting a bit sketchy
But they can't quite respond in kind after the deagle entries from Spinks into B
Vontmous take a good stab at doing something similar
harassment on both sides of the map
Made to clear. Oh, Roland still braves it
Regardless of the Nate damage to his face 62 to work with it was susceptible to a spam
Well, that will up a second Molotov. Oh, and caught out nice. Again, Flames has opened up the round.
Number nine.
Number nine indeed, and ooh, no problem there. Spinning around, Zaheer provides cover in fire.
11th. Rather quickly accrued.
Yeah, Flames, you can really do no wrong in these entry scenarios.
Just rip away these remaining rifles of exertion at Jimmy.
I mean, he definitely coming into the lengths of Serena, having Flames in form and confident.
That is going to be a conversation.
Well, the team knows that they're meant to win trophies.
When you're in a squad with the likes of Zywoo on your team,
you should be contending for them.
And Vitality definitely were.
We'll remind everybody, last time these two teams faced
EPL Season 19 Grand Final, best of five.
Maus made light work of them.
It was 3-0, and of those three maps,
Vitality picked maps one and three, right?
So when you keep that in mind, Maus were in hot form,
but they're in studio form.
And well, we're in a studio environment right now.
This is also a seeding game.
forced into this angle knows where Jimmy is will likely hard clip will not
hard-clearing well just to think the impact of that spinks 3k
Diggle rounds yeah exertion isn't a lot of danger and he has no support
literally none Ryan walk out on the smoke by calling the open does well to
find the one as he goes down again 16th death pressure applied by flames
clears out close seems like they want to finish towards a this is the next
dual does brawl play for information they're looking to pivot between the sights vitality they want to keep the
seesaw open as flames he still peeps into what's being yeah he's like made lots of steps on the stairs
he's throwing our extra nades it has got two players looking even a third not far off on mid
so really yours all hinging on brawl on here timing might catch him thanks down to brawl and
huge frag to post does i want to rush does i want to panic he has torgy covering his cross
but a missed shot from Torji. That's costly. Not if Brolin hits every shot he takes though.
Taking out Spinks, now Torji connects, and they will pass test number two. Tony Flames.
He's out of there. Maybe that's what they're missing. Flames the opener.
Oh yeah, might have to be his doing in the next round.
See if they can call on him again. Lost bonus 1900 into the next round.
Flames, you won't be getting any of that.
Zaru has enough for an AK to send who's set for Spinks and Apex.
They're just in that perfect sweet spot.
Jimmy stole the smoke to block a beat just used it perfect timing
That's for a better
Experience Bianca with a very good read of the situation now. Look at his pre-aiming the boost. It's their only option
They shouldn't jump up just yet
But they have and they lose their head. Oh
Destruction mouse
Spray them down. It's Jimmy with a triple
And we are looking at overtime here folks messy with an impossible task
Who's gonna finish the job? Who's it gonna be? Is it Messi? As he finds two clean headshots!
Money white box swings through, and another one from Messi! Good grief he gave it a good shake of
the stick! We ain't done yet! Some big shots there but yeah 1v5 that would have been a stylish
way for Vitality to close the game, give us all the entertainment but still get it done in two.
It's not like Vitality didn't have money down the stretch, because of the rounds that they
were able to pile on after the Sphinx Deagle, they had plenty of cash, they went for that
final round to pretty well equips.
Messi was the one that started with the Mk10 and then almost ended with an AK1 v5.
Clearing.
That's why he was waiting for but he still goes down shui out aims him
Nails the headshot takes down Zai Wu an already mouse
Oh, I was gonna say hold on to that man advantage apex
Not having any of that gets a very late trade on to his orpa
taking down shui
Haven't really seesawed very effectively. It's like that you oh
session
Tux 51 brawlin looking for answers
Hanging on by a thread here on the fade he goes down session delivers an impactful double can't close
Spinks says play on
They wanted answers
They've heard it this audible step on the guarding position
He G Jimmy vision as he's exposed nice adjustment. Oh, and Spinks falls as well mouse
That is a clean close to v2, but they make it look easy
So I guess if there's no flames the openers they are in a bit of hot water. Yeah for real and whoa Jimmy
Punished by spring so there's an opener
gift from Spinks
As I saw about the seesaw, they don't really establish enough control. They might kiss in the snow. Hello
Hey back just touches W and confirms there's someone in the way
Two kills to the good for Vitality to tie this back up.
Got to convert this one surely.
Yeah, the best option is in a short while.
Yeah, but Torgie, he's a real problem for them at times.
Let's see if he can start racking up some more multi-kills.
I think he's heard that.
That is a very audible rotation.
And so a free frag, the freest of frags there, should we, with his loud steel
toe boots on.
Well, they're rotating back.
Jimmy's dead.
No Jimmy's dead, should be removed as well. Still might be slightly worried for exertion. He had hedged over towards A
Speaks giving up a little bit of ground while being a diligent clear floor his teammates
But they'll be in the bomb will go down and torgy and exertion. Do you give us what a crack?
Well, it's over time and you've got the finances so that's we'll have a look
There's the seesaw because not only does it keep your sights open and options available, right?
It can act as a very deadly lurk, especially now with the new hole in elevator, right?
If you come up gap, you can be behind them in the middle so much quicker.
Yeah, it does feel valid, like parking someone towards that gap position,
unless they're diligent on their clears, which they can't always be.
Independent.
Nice work.
By Ty, they do.
Ty us up even, 13-13.
We'll now be able to leave with the lead on the end of their CT side.
Let's see what happens with that early damage onto Wapex,
because he is going to be walking around the smoke to clear it!
Oh, perfectly timed his flames!
Another opening to the tally.
He's gone quiet for a little while, hasn't he?
Spinks crossing the smoke, exerts it, wasn't ready for it!
Oh, completely caught off!
Okay, well, now things are looking a bit pear-shaped.
Spinks, another, Jimmy rotates in without any support,
torches, lets him know where he is.
And Spinks, yeah, with a combination inside,
will we be able to see that T-side bias even in overtime?
Okay, okay.
Uh, Brolin, he does the waterfall smoke, plays behind it and they're clearing, you just see
three T's down the bottom of the ramp staring directly at ya.
Torgi, a 1v5.
Now he's been spotted, dealt with by Flames, closing the round as well as opening.
Still a very tough clear.
How you meant to unravel Brolin unless you catch a timing?
Yeah, Brolin should have him.
Oh, he does.
Nails the shot.
Spinks do that alone, Bronnans next thought.
Opening kill favours Maus.
Looking to keep it level, as we have been throughout.
Must be one of these gambles, again from Vitality.
We saw some within the first half of play where they didn't quite stick the landing.
First time, it appears to be the right call.
Blocked with the 52nd mark.
Not going to put too much sweat on Shuie's brow.
We've got time to work with Util as well.
Strong angle from Flames.
Yeah, just for that reason you can see surgeon he overlooks it and it will tie us up with 40 seconds for on four
Re-smoke gap limits your options
Flames
Continues delay waste to another messy in combination does make it a two-on-four and is really not looking good for Jimmy
Allow trundle towards the gap position a full magazine sprayed
Brawlin's lurk you can see they can they're cockless and it's a possibility
Flames your bird's his gaze, Mehdi's not looking, does a just!
And now she'll be with a crazy transfer attempt, but 15 is secure!
One round away from the semi-finals, now vitality, and two opportunities!
Two more consecutive rounds required to go to OT number two.
Shuii takes a lot of damage early down to 67.
Smoke!
Yeah!
I forgot about that.
So did Vitality.
And now Apex is going to have to function without it.
That's a hot dog Tom! He just switched to his nades. Oh, they didn't expect him. That is
a very big opening kill to post. That's such an important round. What a gift that is from
Apex. Oh, Anzai was spotted a cheeky bit of leg, a bit of ankle. And he does convert.
Patience on that. Let Jimmy come to him. Plucks him through the board and it's five
on three. The realisation for mouse now you got absolutely hammered on map number one now
your map choice is going down the gurglot. And trying to line up Nade, suddenly there's
a smoke in your face and a bullet there too, through the boards, Brawland tagged up, Zywut
gets away. And Mezionquad you discuss it's hard to clear and oh, oh, oh, Spinks, they've
been kept busy, these smokes, these Nades, these spams, and so completely overlooking
The very fast flank gets spanked to finish the double.
Only Torchy, what's he got for us?
There's very limited options for him.
Four CTs to get through.
Eight bullets in the magazine.
And the first is a clean head shot.
But down the finals,
Maus will start at the first day of play
in the LACSES arena.
Gotta be feeling good about that one.
And Flames, you can see him on your screen.
28 frags.
How many did he end that game on?
So I always opened up a fair amount
across the Cologne grips with aces in pistol rounds.
Maybe I'm setting the bar too high here,
but I think we all want some tickets to the Zywoo show.
It looks like Flames is gonna be the one
to get tested over a ramp,
and he'll pound out of there.
Saw closed the gap.
Oh, there's an opening.
Flames on the receiving end of that story clock,
and they've got all the space down at lower.
Here's Zywoo.
All right then.
Let's see how he looks to handle this.
The door swung open.
He would get pincet if he tries to move forward here.
This is gonna be flawless from Zai Wu.
He falls at the first hurdle.
The game playing gone for Vitality.
As Soar off to the races here,
gonna take the first round of the semi-final.
A sucker punch.
And Vitality leave with no air in their lungs.
The way that Soar have used his double door and B
is so impressive even then keeping it open to cause some concern for Zai Wu
he's caught closing it in gun rounds we'll see them break it off with a name
it's so annoying he's they've caught so many rotators down on this B bomb site
this has been the map to go for sore it's round it's over towards the yard that
expectation falls the other way as well right face started slow in the
Lancers they paid the price on inferno felt like individuals weren't
there. Apex is however, the captain outside. X star, well maybe current, he's put down.
So we're going to grab those guns and move into the other side. Catch from Ujax's crisp.
Controls that spray very well as Saw deal with the force of vitality. They may have saved Gama
making their buys a little bit better but these guns have gone nowhere.
Messi he's getting walked on through the smoke and by Tality Court surprised.
Zaiwu midair put down by Ujjerk, star of the show with three kills in the second round.
Making a move down awards lower. Spinks at apex the ones to deal with here. Flash is good but
Spinks turns around. Deals with materials as the first man in the rest of saw now look to
to try and get out able.
Mezi is on guard!
Good for the first.
Trape comes through.
Ujax gonna try and fly up the bend here.
They're going right in to Zywu,
but there's the support.
Flames from there.
That's more like it.
Zywu may miss.
Will those two stars show up for vitality?
Spinks and Flames putting together four kills between them.
That's doing a disservice to Flames.
Important Hebron rotate up.
I think the smoke from Mezi is massive in that round as well.
Couldn't have come.
and a better time allows him to split the fights into 1v1s.
He takes one with him, dropping the bomb.
If they view that tag pause,
gave Barry a chance to get involved for the Saw Squad.
They don't want Vitality
to respond so quickly after those pistol round wins
with Flames in a ramp.
3K in the last round opens up this one.
Dealing with Ujjaks as well.
That is the front man of Saw, dropped out of the round.
Nice.
Arostas followed up on two.
It's a very, very quickly, this source squad has melted
under the onslaught of Vitality, two men down, but they make it into this B site.
Plant will be allowed, that will be given over as Vitality starts to move around now.
Unique plant spot as well.
Without that single-door control, there may be ways that Vitality can get a stick in.
The material is in a very powerful position, but we've seen what he can do from that spot.
Sidewood drops in. We've got Kits, we've got Nate, we've got a two-man advantage. This should be Vitality chomping at the bit.
Oh, Kane's cut down. Roman with one, but there's an immediate trade from it.
Story tucked in.
Moutir is gonna try and take that contact, try and conceal Story's position.
There's the first one, Story.
Just dive in with it, and Spink swings it out.
It's close.
Down to the wire, sure, but it's a Vitality round when all is said and done.
Ooh, some materials getting flustered there as well.
Cons, not flying as cleanly as they would have liked.
Didn't know who his teammate had killed.
Got away with two from Dark.
Saw now will be.
Another rifle round for the money and for the momentum.
Spinks tries his hand at the aggression here.
That's exactly what Saw were hoping for.
If did this early-man advantage,
you're not gonna get many around
when you get that five-b-four for free,
so they really want to deliver on it.
And a four down here!
Mezzi with the double, Apex tries to force the fight.
That's a swing they might come to regret.
Missed Molly up in heaven.
Oh god, they've given Zywu and Flames a way into this round.
The Opus Zywu out with the first.
So we're going to try and get that bomb planted.
This is the game.
This is the guy to beat.
Zywu trying to land on the Laxis and he'll get put down.
Lots of Utah burned early in this round for Vitality.
The grand player needs that support of the RPS. Simply nothing there.
Zai Wu trying to peek in, Sourge is baiting a reaction right now as they look outside for an entry that will not materialise unless...
...Bezzy...
...will jiggle and a chance.
The Vitality dance with death, they live to tell the tale. Meanwhile, Zai Wu brings the heat.
One old story with this shot, they could have been in this one.
Oh, he'll be well.
Anything in the hands of Zaiwu, that double push, gets punished.
Store, once again, wait for Vitality to set the precedent.
They're there to respond.
Spinks drops down lower quickly here.
Fast down through the vent.
Apex trying to make his move as well,
but running through the molly.
That'll be heard.
A desperate move for Apex as he tried to get down lower
to support, but with Spinks already dead,
this round might never get going.
Apex feeling like he just has to play the round himself
and win the round as a solo player.
pushes Lobby at the right time, gets that backstab, has to run through the molly, but by that point, yeah, Vitality, enough members have fallen.
That all is suddenly the most valuable thing in the round for Vitality, because they aren't winning this.
Saved guns, all the Vitality you have to work with here, you've seen Zawoo try and get involved early in this game, but for the most part, it's fallen on deaf ears.
Over the wards around Flames only arm with the USP and so this could be the route in for sore
He just has to drop he can't even do anything here
It's just a warning system and alarm to ring on the ramp
What does start to make its way over?
Zywoo will be close both players with the rifles up in heaven. Sorry just dropped in towards the top site
As he the only man who could feasibly rotate over but even he started to readjust and drops down into a as well
So for now you're looking at apex you're looking at flames here. These are the two that have got to withstand the saw here
That's not about this to open
Uspia flames
Eagle of apex does make things complicated now for sore
Blacking they don't have the manpower they lose Roman over at ramp the AK gum swinging
The two is tries to take up the angle the story is just so far away
They've got the bomb on B. How do you even save this round if you're sore? Are you looking to save?
I don't think you ever do. It feels like they wrote this one off
They maybe got a bit ahead ahead of themselves right knowing that they're not up against March in that round there
They think that they can just walk into the B site
Look at one hell of a reminder. I thought when rolling as well
Apex just knows how it was when Saul could have had a huge T side on this first map
Now by time to get a chance to win it out a full buy and reserves as well as I would
continually looking for this pick and you can notice Saur just never giving it
they're never giving him the chance he won't even get to play into this round
if the plan goes right
disaster strikes as he's been a rock over on this topside just the one I've
done this time they're able to turn and deal with flames on the lobby watch
Speciality trade out. Into a good position. Miss shot from Zairu Beckins.
Old versus new, Apex stands to attention as Ujjaks, he just got past him.
That's the plot now. Apex tries to move in swiftly, moving quickly.
Molly's going to displace Ujjaks, horses in forward, Apex spams,
but through the edge of the smoke, through the corner.
Can he find that glimmer of hope, that moment that brings soar right back to the smokes?
It's all there, that pressure is still on right?
It comes down to a 1v1 in that previous round.
He's gonna go back to the yard, gonna go back to outside, but doing so they play
right into Apex's domain, smoke blowing open.
Frankly, he's not punished for that, he was out of ammo as they did so.
The story only just makes it down.
Let's go!
Roman has to live here,
gives some control in the lobby.
Gets smoked out, is...
So, we'll get this lower control
flames in a powerful position.
They swing the door, they're coming at all sides
and he will only fall off to one.
So, we'll get the psychic, they get the plan.
There's a molly on apex, but it's not coming out in time.
Maybe it'll get a kill, either way,
the bump can put down and so two more players of soy
position and materials are 1v4 that is surely too far this time
1v4 on the lowest side for materials
this time
This time at no glory
For the captain assault is five enough for a T-sided team
Or can they squeeze one outright at the end the upper here canceled
By strong double Molotovs into that a side and they're gonna pop ramp and step right to the corner
And Flames feasts two kills before the womb is here and he can shut them down as well only one
Should be enough vitality pre-dropped B to saw walk into the trap
Hey, Pax gonna go swinging out
Soar have not lost out the first half of newt yet across cologne
This might be the first time it looks to happen to them in the semi-final and that's Roman
A quick smoke on the top of main as Zywu looks for this entry kill, he's spotting Matires.
Couple of players in his crosshairs with his shooting his teammates in the back of the head.
They get out of the way, someone hunts down Matires.
Flames taking space and Vitality on the yard.
He's up in the heavens.
Trying to lend a helping hand to Spinks as he looks to chase down that top player.
Story actually going to get dropped on.
Flames changes target and Zywu taps Roman out.
They know that Ujerks is up here in heaven.
living on borrowed time but it's two low HP players that are trying to kill him and now
succeeding that. Arostos, moments late, moments late from the double that was needed.
Spots Flames make it up into the heavens, but the rest of Vitality go elsewhere.
Flames is just a decoy. Arostos has this first kill to find but then the true challenge
begins for Arostos dropping down lower. Zai Wu's given in a little bit of room
to work with a chance in the round but double swans I will lead them and saw
struggle to land on their feet in this set me that's a good start force up one
famas and it gets the job done we go for this force tie-risk high reward
gameplay for sore they can break through early this game suddenly opens back up
and so moves are getting made now but it looks like Sphinx saw something
suspension for Sphinx as he tells Messi turn around deal with the door push they
put a stop to the lobby aggression back in awards main now and that's where
Zai Wu waits piece by piece this saw CT side push gets picked apart and jerks
looking for anything but vitality and concealed their movements the whole
map is one big question mark to Saw. Looking over towards Main. They lost Saw
Zaewoo here. Ujax here's the footsteps now as he looks to make his move, looks to
make the play. Backstab on three through Main. They're not ready for this.
That's the opportunity. That's the chance and it falls short. Force by
round does not prevail. Vitality able to withstand it from 4v5 right off
the top and so everything is working for Vitality right now and it continues in this round.
Takes a while back here, but that double into Source most important gun round yet.
That is going to leave a mark. Absolutely devastating way to begin your CT side rifle
rounds as Zaru's not done. There's more players on his plate. Just pick up the four,
quick back cock connect.
Window for the back stab might start to close soon.
Aros Doss.
Boxed in. They've spotted him now and Spinks makes quick work of it.
Zawoozorp finds its form and with just Muteira's left standing.
Oh, oh my God, they're coming down the vent after him.
Apex wants to take everything out. He wants to add insult to injury.
Muteira holds off for a moment but he can't find the second man.
So everybody balls, Vitality are relentless.
I mean that just speaks to even the knowledge for Vitality.
They know he's the lower player,
they know he's gonna be that guy going down
ramp at the start and coming up secret.
They have done their homework, they were well drilled
for this match and yes,
I would do nothing in the first half,
but the one time we require him to stand tall,
he comes out with three kills on the AWP,
a back breaking economy ruining round at 11-5.
experienced teams, tenured teams, nine rounds straight for Vitality, can they
close it with a flawless ten? Oh, Spinks seems to think so but Roman Clear isn't
coming out of the door, Sora giving a shot, cross outside for Vitality, gonna
set Zairu up yet again to try and find this outside pick, he's got to beat
down on story in an uncomfortable position to clear.
Simon goes, just smoking his face,
story from afar, picks him off.
5v3 for SOR.
Woo-hoo-hoo.
Very important you don't give this one away.
I think if you're SOR at this point,
it's more of a recovery,
just feeling like you're still fighting in this semifinal.
You wanna try and stop 10 straight
to the win for Vitality.
It's a five on three, two players tagged up.
It'd be a fool to be counting Vitality out of this one.
James moves in, goes for the kill,
but there's Moutiris with an instant trade.
Apex spied out in garage,
and Moutiris will get the better of him in that head-to-head.
They stopped the 10-round streak for Vitality.
Stopped them at nine.
Vitality coming in quick outside.
Apex over the smoke, trying to pick the captain.
Moutiris, dangerous cross, and they're already down B.
Ujuks is coming up, Apex avoids capture for now.
They have no idea.
There's Apex getting his revenge.
And this sort of score line, Apex gets a terrifying degree
of freedom to take those sort of risks.
Walks the smoke outside.
His teeth by Taliyah.
Holds now, waits for re-aggression.
Apex trying to calm the path for vitality.
That is their counter.
Arostos last hole, but at the top, reaching a new lead.
Well, Apex get all five to seal the deal for Vitality.
He's teed them up for the victory, and it's only story left to stop them.
This story might not be about Saw.
Might not be a testament to them.
Might not be a monument to Saw's tenacity, the upsets.
The Cathedral might just-
The Vitality smart pick, starting over on the T side, and I think the deaths did a fantastic job of highlighting just how scary these Vitality T sides have been.
Saurav got a monumental task ahead of them. Wonder they might not be made up for. That will get called into question here.
Heat up for the lower take, at least is Aros Dost.
He's gonna find himself at the right place.
They're able to start off Nuke strong.
Will it be the same on Dust 2?
Nade down into lower.
Doesn't find the damage they were looking for,
and instead by T'Ali, he's staked their clay
into this mid control.
Gonna get over to the right side of middle, at least.
Here to try and put a stop to the midtake.
And he will overwhelm Flames now.
Look at Ujax, that's a collateral!
That's how you wanna open!
Two quick kills in the minor backplab.
But Ujax wanting even more.
We'll get bit out by Zairudas, and this one's not done yet!
Roman's going to get planted as Apex has to get the reload!
Roman tries to make his move!
It's down to the wire!
It's not catch with the sidearm!
And there's two bullets in this for story!
AAAAAH!
There's still pages in this chapter.
Maybe Saur can show us something.
But they will have to earn it every step of the way.
A near 2v4 for vitality.
It looks beautiful.
They drop in Zaewoo at 1v1.
Vitality force out of rage. Flashes out long.
They pop that Molly with a smoke and they spill out aggression from Ujerks.
Almost punished.
Got to get Zaewoo in the pit with that scout.
Let them get to work.
The doors open.
A day in the office for Zaewoo.
There is some very confident moves getting made here from Saw.
They'd open up this game.
They could still get punished for those.
But it feels like they've decided if this is how it all ends, they don't want to go quietly into that good night.
Roman gonna get joined over inside of this A-form site as Vitality looks to move in.
One-nines roll!
So that pistol clutch, that pistol pickup, four-story might never come to matter.
The results never come to pass. Vitality immediately turned up the heat and that's what saw having all the info,
everyone over towards A and the man advantage. They had everything they could have asked for
and still it was not enough. Just what you would want from a team you know can and will win trophies.
The question is, is Cologne one of them? Miss Lolli gives me materials a second chance at life here.
It's a surprise he still swings. I didn't know you were in the baddest position but
saw a feeling of pressure bit by bit getting picked apart on the CT side
the tiles even break the smoke they want to take these five states go on
another entry and more to the tally three this time he doesn't start cold
six and one on Zai Wu you won't be at the forefront of this round holding that
mid rotation but saw solidified positions and that might be to their
Detriman, Molly Burns late, story has to swing and it's actually MP9
sniping him out from shore side, vitality may get blocked
but they don't worry, they don't mind, a man up and Zywou still in the middle
Look at this late reaction from Saw, I like their playing together
but they've not hit the nail on the head, Megan gets severed
by Spinks and he gets out for free
His presence over in mid poses an awkward question here, do you keep trying to hunt him down?
you've lost control of the A site. He goes nowhere. This is running the risk of
being a very punishing round and there's that Zai Wu. AWP, Arastas, surplus to
requirement here left trying to hold onto the gun inside of the B side and if you
look at that minimap vitality and feel in a very forgiving mood right now they
want to take everything away they've got that info. So a few more players
There was nothing you could've done.
Got to laugh it off.
Red hot as Vitality stormed the board.
And you can go as far as saying, you know,
Zywool wasn't a requirement on that first map.
Well, in this one, he's making himself one,
making himself a mainstay.
Storing ever fires off.
Back to back rounds.
They never even had the chance to thrive here.
Four on two. Even as Zatanna send her what's going on?
Head shot through the door.
As Ian Zaiwu looked to embark on a two on four.
He's dropped the AWP, he's hit a window around right now. Vitality, I dare say they've got a damn good shot.
Now through the tunnels first.
Oh, Zaiwu went all the ways this could have started. That's what you want.
The game is well and truly a foot as Zaiwu
Carves the path in for Vitality that bomb planted.
now it's sore that find themselves under pressure
they're the ones on the clock! this is iWu's game!
this Vitality have pulled back a 2 on 4
but here is, what is he supposed to do? can he succeed?
what's scary for Saw here is they're flying so blind in this round
they've completely given up control over middle, any noise, any utile that comes out
makes them paranoid, that smoke in CT causes you problems for leaving this A site
So right now Vitality even more goes their way flames comes up big on the spam
Wherever they go, they find themselves in a 5v2 so for Vitality it's about grouping going together
And he finds them both over on short he's reignited the hope for sore by that be enough time
It's running low on Vitality's T side one more man over at long as Apex opens
It's Moutiri's last man to be
Oh no! He tries to slow it down!
Barostos coming up on Elevator and finding that headshot angle. It had to happen.
Flash out long, Apex just gunning, looking at the par thing.
An entry.
So easily done.
Years of experience.
In both roles, he puts it together, he puts it to use.
That's a good angle.
Not normally the guy that did on it, but with Story out of the round.
He has to try. Molly forces him wide right into the arms of Messi.
The sword is just so far away.
Flames like a head.
Half of his kills that he hasn't even seen the people he's shooting at.
The stars have aligned for Flames.
Mouse won't glued down.
They're even hunting.
They're gonna find him.
Waiting till this round is unloosable.
And they're gonna run, Boos.
Into low.
See if the flash frames against the ball again!
It's here, it's never been attacked like that!
Dirty.
This is a statement game for Vitality right now, just playing slow and steady on the T side.
Group hits.
Every entry they need.
Someone who's caught a lot of flak for how he really does wear his heart on his sleeve.
the last of a nine breed of counter strike player.
We've seen him on stages all the way back in 2015.
Some of the highlight reels that guys like Apex were able to bring forward.
Leader finds himself in 2020 to become the captain of Vitality.
And over time, he is growing into this role.
He has learned to excel in the Vitality jersey.
And now he's putting up the numbers to boot alongside of these two sides.
And how good Vitality are looking here, how it's felt like a team game, not the Zywu show.
A testament to what he's able to bring to the table.
Apex, double digits secured.
This French contingent of Vitality looking to bring them glory.
And last year it was all about peaking at the right time, right?
Being prepared for that Paris Major, winning it on home soil.
It warmed up in anticipation.
They got their ducks in a row. They took that trophy.
But right now the same might be happening for Vitality
to capture a trophy that has eluded these players, eluded this organization and eluded Apex through
so many years. They wait and see if they're given anything early. They can feel the terror
that courses through the veins of Saw, knowing that that dream might be about to come to an
abrupt and brutal end. Vitality have the mid control, they wait outside of long, they can't
set a foot wrong here. Metty waits and he is rewarded. Flames dead down in middle but Vitality
now look to go up in the tempo for this A play.
Sleek, Baty on the shot, Messi comes swinging. Vitality, two kills from it. A double-fitch at heart.
Tender State saw at the end of Dust 2. Zai will go swinging. Another man falls.
Bombs getting plugged. Can they get up in time or can Messi stop them? It's only Arostos.
He's had a quiet game today. He's got a stand for 1v1. Spinks, he's taking them.
Can he get on the bomb? There's no kit right now. Apex slowing down, swings in.
A vitality picked around here in the Cathedral.
A vitality confessed to nothing.
They feel no remorse.
They're what make Vitality special.
And right now Apex is right up there alongside
the jewel of French counter-strike in Zhaowu.
And he's playing with some confidence straight up middle,
finding the headshot.
Traded back in damage alone.
Flames hides.
Buried at the back of the pit.
The saw come for the clear.
Have they got the manpower to do so?
Are they too focused on Apex on this crossroads?
He draws them in. They don't check.
A jump will do.
It might be too late. Flames takes two.
And saw it out.
With all the info away.
With the bomb dropped.
And players falling like flies.
It feels like vitality are ready to pluck another pistol.
They say that hope dies last, hope well and truly dies if you fall short in this pistol round.
Vitality, 4 on 2, haven't set a foot wrong yet and there's Zai Wu with the closer!
It's about last hurrah trying to make it prettier but I don't think Vitality are in the mood to give
anything up right now. And Saul might not even get a 4 by that goes to Plan.
Pistols running amuck in middle they find a couple of entries and they flood out
on this B bomb site. Messi on his own just hiding inside the site they line up
double kill turning back story stops him the mysterious is lug comes up with
nothing stories of a clock 1v2 he could go for the bomb he's going for the
kill instead but they are right there behind the door Molly forces flames
In he goes, and story saves the day.
Soar, survive, one more round.
Vitality, get ahead of themselves playing into the 2v1.
You can't underestimate the individuals.
Arostos, a more kill to open up this round.
They're so far behind that they are still refusing to give up.
Neziova in middle, just the one and done off the deagle.
That's opened up the route to the B-plane.
Sora, where are that?
We're going for these grouped plays,
these marches out into the B-side.
This is what we saw from this squad in that quarterfinal.
It was so potent.
Feels like that started to click back into place now.
Off the vitality.
Zaiwu sits alone in the site.
Flash playover in the middle.
Spinks tries to get involved early.
Sora, where are these flashes?
Good!
Tiris picks up that opener.
Nice. Five on four.
They make that fight nice and easy for Moutiris. Flashbang to TM up and now they're going to go in as IWU.
Now they're going to go into the front man of this Vitality Squad.
Tucked in, has support from Flames over on the long side. Good timing on that peek and you see IWU in the kill feed.
That's going to instill a bit of fear and saw. It's Tucked tail, run the other way.
Try and get in over towards B.
Mezzi, waiting here in the window, has support from his captain. First kill comes through.
Are they ready for A-Pelts?
Are they ready for that second man?
The captain! Vitality's captain!
France's captain! A-Pelts has the round!
Hi guys, Mezzi here. Make sure to sub to ESLCS. Keep right on.
But too far gone, too slow to star.
Too much to stop this Vitality.
And now there is nothing left.
All roads lead to ruin for sore.
Moutir is one kill in the bottom and middle.
It goes untrated swings on out, but he can't get a bearing on apex and now speaks. Here we go
It's time here to let the helping hands and as he they get funnels into the killing field to the B site
And they live to tell the tale saw try to break in
Can flames and apex stop them and man down in the retake?
Win this round before no
fake
Will vitality wait will they relent?
Or do they bite at the next opportunity?
They're really trying to bait them in, but Vitality keep calling their block.
Apex swings it wide, and third time's the charm here as they chase them down.
The dream turns to Hatch on Duff's!
What Vitality counter strike!
Showing us phenomenal T sides all through this tournament
taking down some of the best teams and best players in the world.
Time to see if they can add one more skull to the cabinet.
and he'll be the first to
get to the top of the
cabinet. Team Vitality CT side
for armor versus a ripe and
ready saw.
Brushing off the jitters of
yesterday.
So I was opened up a fair amount
across the Cologne groups with
aces in pistol rounds.
Maybe I'm setting the bar too
high here.
But I think we all want some
tickets to the Zywoo show. It
looks like Flames is going to be
there. Saw closed the gap. Oh, there's an opening. Flames on the receiving end of that
story clock and they've got all the space down at lower. Here's Zai Wu. Alright then.
Let's see how he looks to handle this. Door swung open. He would get pincet if he tries
to move forward here. This has got to be flawless from Zai Wu. He falls at the first
The game playing gun for Vitality.
A saw off to the races here.
Gonna take the first...
Sucker punch.
And Vitality leaves with no air in their lungs.
The way that saw have used his double door and B is so impressive.
Even then, keeping it open to cause some concern for Zywoo.
He's caught closing it.
And gun rounds just even break it off with an A.
It's so annoying.
They've caught so many rotators down on this B-bomb site.
This has been the map to go for Saw.
Here's the thing, man, by Taliyah, they've had a lot of runs
of dealing with the pressure, right?
I think for Saw, the worst way this could have possibly started
would be with Taliyah winning the pistol.
Because Saw, they've been feeling pretty good
throughout this event.
It feels like things have just been clicking into place.
They've had faith in each other.
They've had faith in the team.
We don't know if they can take that early blow, right?
And so they at least get this pistol on the board.
Now, you're up against Taliyah.
You never get to ease off here.
You've got to be 110% throughout.
But it's at least the good start they were hoping for.
In that round, it's over towards the yard.
That expectation falls the other way as well, right?
Faze started slow in the Lancers.
They paid the price on Inferno.
It felt like individuals weren't there.
Apex is, however, the captain outside.
X star, or maybe current, he's put down.
So we're going to grab those guns
and move into the other side.
The catch from Ujerks is Prisp, controls that spray very well as Saw deal with the force of vitality.
They may have saved Armour, making their buys that little bit better, but these guns have gone nowhere.
Mezzie, he's getting walked off through the smoke.
The Vitality Court, surprised.
So, I will midair put down by Ujerks, star of the show with three kills in the second round.
Just Faisalip so flustered yesterday, they came in so cold.
You wonder what that game could have been if Inferno was just the typical phase that we expect.
Vitality cannot afford to have that same slow start.
One more eco and then the game begins.
I think Saw made a lot of fans yesterday.
I think they burned them.
I think everyone's kind of romanced by what they put forward here.
I think for a lot of the top teams, one of the problems is Nuke is always a map you look to play.
The best teams in the world always excel on Nuke, and so I think SOR are always going
to have this map waiting if they want it.
Pete Narvey, Pete Kostralis, Pete NIP back in the day and he was the go-to, one of the
mainstays of these rosters.
Just up against the pistols, this is SOR with their chance to have a nice clean
start to this semi-final.
And it's more of these grouped hits, we were seeing these a lot yesterday.
Oh, the pistols!
Numbers don't save them there!
Moutir is gonna try and hold off these vent rotates,
but a three on three gives the way to a chance.
Four by Taliyah, that fast rotate is put down.
Who jerks? That is real clean.
Only the pistol's short, but it's the fashion in which he picks them up.
Saw, I'm just not afraid to take these fights.
They will swing you. They will go for the kill every single time,
and they have the firepower to back up their torque.
Another multi-kill for Ujerks on the anti, but we said we'd wait for the rifles before we sound the alarms.
Zywu's AWP and appearance into round four glance.
Maybe we might all be blasted in the cathedral right now, because first gum round played and you get to see Zywu bring out that AWP straight away.
You want him to make his presence known, you want him to instill that terror that Zywu is capable of and you want him to do it early.
Now when the yard moots here is, man who jerks they're the ones trying to get across here.
Saewoo, maybe get to try his hand at the timing shot.
Doesn't want to reveal it, not for free.
Make them learn the hard way.
Talked about Saw's group struggles in 4v5s, they rely on that advantage more than most teams.
Saewoo's given nothing in the yard.
And Saw hang on, bomb in lobby.
Making a move down awards lower.
Spinks at Apex that wants to deal with here. Flash is good, but Spinks turns around.
Deals with Materias as the first man in. The rest of Saw now look to try and get out A.
Oh, Messi is on guard!
Good for the first. Trape comes through. Ujjak's gonna try and fly off the bank here.
They're going right into Zywu, but there's the support.
Flames throw!
Oh, like is. I would may miss.
Where those two stars show up, the vitality. Spinks and Flames putting together four kills between them.
That's doing a disservice to Flames.
Important heaven rotate up.
I think the smoke from Messi is massive in that round as well.
Couldn't have come, and a better time allows him to split the fight into what he wants.
He takes one with him, dropping the bomb.
Team effort from Vitality gets them on the board.
The Lancers is certainly lit up this afternoon.
It's divided in the Vitality vs. Saw matchup.
you expected but I think yesterday a lot of the vitality fans were cheering for sore they didn't
want them to face FaZe in the semifinals they wanted to easy run they wanted the underdog
the question is have they bitten off more than they can chew
if they view that tag pause gave Barry a chance to get involved for the sore squad they don't
want vitality to respond so quickly after those pistol round wins with flames in a ramp
3K in the last round opens up this one dealing with Ujeks as well. That is the front man of
sword dropped out of the round.
Nice.
Arostos followed up onto. That's it very, very quickly. This sword squad has melted under
the onslaught of Vitality. Two men down, but they make it into this B site. Plant
will be allowed. That will be given over as Vitality starts to move around now.
Unique plant spot as well. Without that single-door control, there may be ways that Vitality
he can get a stick in.
Moutir is in a very powerful position,
but we've seen what he can do from that spot.
Zywu drops in.
We've got Kits, we've got Nade,
we've got a two-man advantage.
This should be Vitality jumping at the bit.
Oh!
Flames cut down, Roman with one,
but there's an immediate trade from it.
Story tucked in.
Moutir is going to try and take that contact,
try and conceal Story's position.
There's the first one, Story.
Not again.
Zywu trying to deal with it,
and Spink swings it out.
It's close down to the wire shore, but it's a vitality round with all this sort of done
Oh, so materials getting flustered there as well comes not flowing as cleanly as they would have liked didn't know who his teammate
He killed got away with two from dark and materials just can't piece it together can't get in cover in time
Vitality back to back rounds worst case snora would have been winning your first rifle and going back to pistols
They will remain above water
This is where Vitality should start to get control of the game on the CT side of you
You know they were expecting this pick from Sorda Day. Apex says he watches demos
They prepped for their opponent
Vitality not here to underestimate anyone
Apex
Back of garage just the pistols to worry about this is a chance to pad the stats out for Vitality
Keep the round nice and clean maybe try and get Zaiwu activated
It's him and Apex very swiftly deal with this yard assault, out of saw.
Xiong Zaiwu falls.
Materials all alone with the Deagle can't expect to get anything else done.
Xiong and Apex match up outside, Apex comes out swinging.
My Tati have the straight shooters right now.
Spinks and Flames are looking solid to begin this game.
Of course we're always going to talk about Zaiwu,
especially on a stage where the supporting cast is there without a doubt.
IWU yet to be truly tested in this match, SOR now will be another rightful round for the money and for the momentum
Spinks tries his hand at the aggression here
That's exactly what SOR were hoping for
Gifted this early-man advantage. You're not gonna get many around when you get that five before for free
So they really want to deliver on it
Mezzi with the double Apex tries to force the fight
That's a swing they might come to regret missed Molly up in heaven
giving Zywoo and Flames away into this round.
The Orpah Zywoo out with the first.
So we're going to try and get that bomb planted.
This is the game.
This is the guy to beat.
Zywoo trying to land on the line system.
He'll get put down, not ready to relinquish it
the way Vitality.
And they grabbed the Orpah as well,
which certainly could feature with Vitality,
but they've got to crunch the numbers.
Tank pause is very important.
I think a lot of this is going to come down to the buy.
Vitality get caught off guard with that A-hit.
Mezzi does more than you could expect.
In a molly, full flash double,
but no clutch here for Vitality.
They will fund that Zairu AWP.
It's gonna leave someone lacking.
And the round player takes the hit.
Look who they're supporting.
Vitality, and got the back end of the crowd behind them.
The Hornets play their tune.
Will Vitality play along with it?
So, hold on to this lead for now as they sit back in the lobby once again hoping that Vitality...
...try and tame them early, try and go for that initial fight.
Lots of Utah burned early in this round for Vitality.
Grand player needs that support of the Orpies, simply nothing there.
Zairu trying to peek in.
So we're just baiting a reaction right now as they look outside for an entry...
...that will not materialize unless...
...Bezzy...
And a chance.
The Vitality darts with death, they live to tell the tale.
Meanwhile, Zaiwu brings the heat.
One old story, there's this shot that could have been in this one.
Anything in the hands of Zaiwu!
That double push gets punished!
Once again, wait for Vitality to set the precedent.
They're there to respond.
Spinks drops down lower quickly here.
Fast down through the vent. Apex.
Trying to make his move as well.
They're running through the molly.
I'll be heard a desperate move for apex as he tried to get down low at a support
But with Sphinx already dead this round might never get going
Apex feeling like you just has to you know play the round himself and win the round as a solo player pushes lobby at the right
Time gets that back stab has to run through the molly, but by that point. Yeah
Vitality enough members have fallen
That all is suddenly
The most valuable thing in the round for vitality because they ain't winning this
saw back to their winning ways with five T rounds and I wonder how many pauses
we see Vitality burn early in the game. Can X-tiles solve this problem?
Because saw start swinging. Always in the eye line of that trophy. Always a
poignant reminder of what it is you're competing for. And the craziest part is
saw never be the favorite. Not at this tournament at least right against
face underdogs against Vitality no chance against whoever they meet from that
mouse-navy game you would have your money the other way but they don't believe
that they're going for gold saved guns all the vitality have to work with you
seems I will try and get involved early in this game but for the most part it's
fallen on deaf ears never awards around flames only arm with the USP and so
this could be the root in for sore he just has to drop he can't even do
anything here it's just a warning system an alarm to ring on the ramp and all
does start to make its way over so I will will be close both players with the
rifles up in heaven so he's just dropped in towards the topside
is he the only man who could feasibly rotate over but even he started to
readjust and drops down into a as well so for now you're looking at apex
you're looking at flames here these are the two that have got to withstand
the saw and that's not a battle but it's to open USP of flames the eagle of
of Apex does make things complicated now.
Passore, they're left blacking, they've got a demand power,
they lose Roman over at ramp, the AK gum's swinging.
The team is trying to take up the angle.
The story is just so far away.
They've got the bomb on B.
How do you even save this round if you're sore?
Are you looking to save?
I don't think you ever do.
It feels like they wrote this one off.
That's a disaster.
Bomb going in first.
They were not ready for the double setup
and somehow Vitality do it with pistols.
That is a real sucker punch to the Sawz confidence now.
They even come in with two guns and they're not required.
Yeah, it's not like it's the hero weapons
that did get away with that round.
It's a USP and a D.G.O.L.
That robs Sawz's chance at that lower play.
Finally seeing some mistakes from Saw, it was about time.
They maybe got a bit ahead of themselves, right,
knowing that they're not up against March in that round there.
they think that they can just once into the B site.
Look at one hell of a reminder.
A point when rolling as well.
Tight game.
Apex just knows how important that is.
Saving themselves.
Winsor could have had a huge T side on this first map.
Now White's had to get a chance to win it out.
A full buy and reserves as well.
Zaiwu continually looking for this pick.
And you can notice Soren just never giving it.
They're never giving him the chance.
He won't even get to play into this round
If the plan goes right, disaster strikes.
As he's been a rock over on this topside,
just the one he done this time.
They're having a turn and deal with Blades on the lobby.
Watch, Spitz goes in for eventality trade out.
All into a good position, missed shot from Zyrouka.
Seconds.
Old versus new, Apex stands to attention.
As he jerks, he's just got past him.
That's the plot now.
Apex tries to move in swiftly, move in quickly.
Molly gonna displace Ujeks, forces him forward, Apex spams,
but through the edge of the smoke, through the corner,
can he find that glimmer?
I hope that moment that Bringsaw, right back to the front
of the conversation, no!
Brains be the brawn and the brains wins every time.
Fantastic reposition from Apex, top-up.
Needs Ujeks to start, he can't escape,
and Apex can wait out that smoke.
Beautifully done, even though it gets a bit hairy in the middles, I was still looking
Beatable right now, still looking
Mortal
Not a good sign for the longevity of this game
But Apex is stepping up and showing up and stays on the stage
So many of these rounds coming down to Vitality's captain
I mean, it's Apex's eagle that takes the attention away and lets Flames get the kill in the lower here
It's him there winning out the 1v1
So no that pressure is still on right comes down to a 1v1 in that previous round
They go back to the yard gonna go back to outside
Doing so they play right into apex's domain smoke blow and open
He was out of ammo as they did so
Story only just makes it down
Remen has to live here give some control in the lobby
get smoked out as Saul get this lower control flames in a powerful position they swing the
door they're coming at all sides and he'll only fall after one so we'll get the site and
they get the plant as a molly on apex but it's not coming out in time maybe we'll get
a kill either way the bombs can put down and so if two more players have saw lurking
around sphinx reads the reposition and materials are 1v4 there is surely too far this time
1v4 on the lowest side for Muteyrius, at this time, this time no glory for the
captain of SORT. He stunned the world with that 1v4 down here yesterday but
Vitality do not let him have the space, the room to get comfortable. They swarm him
into the decon door and Vitality looking to leave this first half in
pole position. I mean they've absolutely saved themselves in this game right
this could have gone apparently wrong without that eco win this could
They've been sore with the momentum by Tarty instead of Break the Money.
Forced that force by, forced this force by, and saw a playing catch-up.
They're playing desperate.
Is five enough for a T-sided team?
Or can they squeeze one out right at the end?
The upper hand cancelled by strong double molotovs into that A side,
and they're going to pop ramp instead, play into the corner.
Big running in and Flames feasts two kills before the woo is here,
and he can shut them down as well.
Only one should be enough.
Vitality pre-drop B, the saw walk into the trap.
Apex gonna go swinging out.
Oh, what? What's that?
Saw have not lost out. The first half of Nuke yet.
Across Cologne. This might be the first time it looks to happen to them in the semi-vital.
And let's Roman compare...
He's been reviewing their demos.
He's been going over the saw game plan.
And boy, does that show off.
Not just in his individual numbers,
But in the score line, first time that Saw lost out the first half on Nuke
across all of IEM Cologne so far.
Yeah, there were some shaky rounds in there, and this is all despite Zai Wu coming in,
looking very cold, missing some shots, not looking like his traditional self.
We know he struggles on a stage of vitality right now, doing it without him.
Can the B250 reignite the fire for Zai Wu?
He crosses outside, a quick smoke on the top of Main.
As Zywu looks for this entry kill, he's spotted Materias,
a couple of players in his crosshairs,
but he's shooting his teammates in the back of the head.
Again, on the way, someone hunts out at down Materias.
Flames taking space and Vitality on the yard.
He's off into the heavens.
Gonna try and lend a helping hand to Spinks
as he looks to chase down that top player.
Story actually gonna get dropped on.
Flames changes target, and Zywu taps Roman out.
They know that Ujerks is up here in Heaven.
He's living on borrowed time,
but it's two low HP players that are trying to really and now succeed in that.
Arostos, moments late, moments late from the double that was needed.
Spots Flames make it up into the heavens, but the rest of Vitality go elsewhere.
Flames is just the decoy.
Arostos has this first kill to find, but then the true challenge begins.
But Arostos dropping down lower.
Zywoo's given him a little bit of room to work with.
A chance in at the round, but double swung.
Zywoo leads them to their demise.
Vitality, pistol round secured as they continue to rack up rounds.
Screw it.
Source mark picked.
Zywoo can't be the star of the show right here.
At least play with your team back off.
Set up that crossfire.
Let your captain throw the smoke in.
Play it by the books.
And Vitality do exactly that.
Flames with two huge entries.
gets that upper control and allows Vitality to run the bomb to B.
It's a really good look right now.
Out of the French organization.
And Soar struggle to land on their feet in this semi.
That's a good start.
Force up, one FAMAS, and it gets the job done.
They go for this force.
Tyris, high reward gameplay for Soar.
They can break through early.
This game suddenly opens back up.
And so moves are getting made now, but it looks like Spinks saw something
For Spinks as he tells Nezzy turn around deal with the door push
They put a stop to the lobby aggression back in awards main now, and that's where Zywu waits
Piece by piece this saw CT side push gets picked apart. New jerks looking for anything but vitality
And concealed their movements the whole map is one
Big question mark to Soar.
Looking over towards Main.
They lost Sozaiwu here.
Ujax, here's the footsteps now.
As he looks to make his move,
looks to make the play.
Backstab on three through Main.
They're not ready for this.
That's the opportunity.
That's the chance.
And it falls short.
Force by Round does not prevail.
Vitality able to withstand it
from 4v5 right off the top.
They put a stop to that force and with it they look to lock in double digits.
Yeah, they listen to the captain. They're great timing to make the freeze call.
Three players of vitality just standing still across the map and Saw come to them.
Feeling the pressure this time, more than ever, playing from behind.
Saw with almost nothing in this round.
Should be vitality's double digits.
This whole round comes down to two upgraded pistols and a Zeus for Saw.
For Vitality, even now they're not jumping the gun, they know they're not going to be up against anything crazy here.
They're trying to keep it safe, speaks with a lot of room out into the topside.
And he melts through that defense, Arof Doss.
Richful thinking as he chases them.
So looking to go flawless here, our Vitality.
Should have no problem.
The bombs are bigger threats than these positions on pistols.
Although no one's looking made, there was a will, there was a way, but...
That's been this game so far for Saw, a chance.
Not capitalised upon, pistol finds one.
The Vitality close with ease, 10-5 right now.
Saw with limited opportunity to make this map interesting.
One thing in the quarter-final where it felt like they were always competitive with FaZe.
It was always neck-in-neck here, you're staring at a big deficit.
One where you have no room for error by Talit Imiyma.
Off to this very cushiony lead. They've got five rounds of space between them and so sore feeling all the pressure
It's sauce my pick vitality
Done their research done their homework
And so everything is working for vitality right now and continues in this round
Takes a while for him to really find his impact here, but that double
Into sauce most important gun round yet. That is gonna leave a mark
absolutely devastating way to begin your CT side rifle rounds as I was not done
There's more players on his plate. Just pick up the four click back. Can't connect
So who's in no hurry the materials might be
Re-emerging from below
Vitality suddenly disappear so we tucked all the way back flames
It's pressure on
And Sword don't know where this round is ending up, it is undecided for vitality, grouping
in the lobby now.
You joked with fantastic timing, but this A site is ripe for the taking.
Window for the backstab, might start to close soon, Aros dos, boxed in, they've spotted
him now and Spinks makes quick work of it, and Zawoozop finds its form and with
Jess Mutira is left standing.
Oh my god, they're coming down the vent off, and Maypex wants to take everything
He wants to add insult to injury.
But here is holds off for a moment,
but he can't find the second man.
And so everybody falls.
Vitality are relentless.
I mean, that just speaks to even the knowledge for Vitality.
They know he's the lower player.
They know he's going to be that guy going down ramp at the start
and coming up secret.
They have done their homework.
They were well-drilled for this match.
And yes, I would do nothing in the first half.
But the one time we require him to stand tall,
He comes out with three kills on the AWP, a back-breaking, economy-ruining round at 11-5.
That just ties this up neatly for Vitality.
There's no getting away from it, this has been domination to open up.
This semi-final from this Vitality squad, eight rounds straight.
Such an impressive look from the Riflers on Vitality.
Flames came in red-hot.
Spinks has had a high impact and Apex has been leading the fray.
Winning round solo on that CT side.
Nothing to dislike for Vitality in this map so far.
Can Saul provide answers or is this one going to Dust?
Found for Ujerx as he throws himself into a fight.
Mezzi, remember the long mad hour, now he's got reinforcements here.
They're waiting for more aggression in the lobby and Aras darts while he gets out with one.
one. It won't be enough to turn the tide here. Mezzy low on health.
And Zywoo gonna swap on over.
Many places he's at anyway.
All right, this is the only danger going into this double ramp
hold, but again vitality, they love calling these freezes.
Sit back, relax, wait for sore to make the mistake.
Eventually, they'll have to go double pumping air with
Apex is already down, lower, and that's easy to get caught, but Flames with a crucial trade are tucked in materials who need everything or nothing, it won't matter.
Vitality looking for map points. Apex is already here. Apex is just in a better position. Roman isn't even ready for this, not even considering it.
And so that one comes for free for Vitality. And what a way to close this game. This would be for the Vitality squad because throughout the entire thing, Storre constantly impressed.
They've constantly before at these surprises no bounds to the upset
But as we get on a new today a map that has been nothing but kind to saw
Vitality do the ultimate injustice. They destroy them on this whole map for the sore squad
Yeah, this is a six win streak going to bed for sore and a win streak over the likes of G2 Navi phase the Mongols
experienced teams tenure teams
Nine rounds straight for vitality. Can they close it with a flawless 10?
Oh, Spink seems to think so, but Roman Clear isn't coming out of the door.
Sora given a shot.
Cross outside for Vitality.
Gonna set Zaheul up yet again to try and find this outside pick.
He's got to beat down on Story in an uncomfortable position to clear.
Zaheul goes, just smoking his face.
Story from afar picks him off.
5v3 for Sora.
Very important, you don't give this one away.
I think if you're sore at this point it's more of a recovery just feeling like you're still fighting in this semi-final.
You want to try and stop 10 straight to the win for Vitality.
It's a five on three, two players tagged up.
It'd be a full to be counting Vitality out of this one.
Lames moves in, goes for the kill, but there's Moutiris with an instant trade.
They've expired out in garage, and Moutiris will get the better of him in that head to head.
head-to-head. They stopped the 10 round streak for Vitality. Stopped them at 9, but
there's still so much more to do for Saw. One round, one heroic moment from anyone
in that Vitality jersey and this map is over. It has to be flawless from here
on out for Saw. We've seen some incredible tenacity from this Portuguese
team where you should surely expect that to be impossible. A bridge too far is the
biggest game of their career. Entity coming in quick outside, they take some of the smoke
trying to pick the captain. What's here is dangerous cross and they're already down B.
Ujuks is coming up, Apex avoids capture for now. They have no idea.
there's apex getting his revenge and this sort of scoreline apex gets a
terrifying degree of freedom to take those sort of risks walks the smoke
outside he's teed by tally up holds now waits for
re-aggression apex trying to calm the path for vitality that is well apex
get all five to seal the deal for vitality he's teed them up for the
victory and it's only story left to stop them this story might not be about
so might not be a testament to them might not be a monument to source to
I see the upsets
Romantics but apex only out to break the heart of sore today and ace in the final round as he brings
Soles, Mute Street 2, and Ender Machu, that was decisive.
13 to 6, Vitality in hit a quote.
Yeah, Apex is obviously going to be the talk for us after this map one.
Not only individually, obviously, exposing the game in this beautiful ace,
but just having the game plan moving into the CT side was extremely efficient.
I think Vitality, Scandalized, Realized, if we let Sol play the counter-strike they want,
if we let them execute, we're going to have a hard time.
So what do I do? My name's Apex, and I get stuck in.
I get outside, I flirt with these smokes, I ask for flashes so I can be disruptive.
He's done that and more and you could see the discomfort on the side of Saw.
Yeah, you could see the discomfort but you could also see the Vitality rush
struggling a little bit in the beginning of that first half, you know.
Clear gameplay and as you said, they wanted to disrupt Saw, they wanted to get into those fights
but Saw responded with playing pretty good Kamastragon and made the game competitive.
I'm thinking to myself, when this course 4-4, Saw is more or less in control
given they're playing on the T side.
There were a couple of rounds that could have tipped the way of Saw
and then it would have been a complete different first half
but once we got into the second, once Vitality got to their T-side, then game over.
And the T-side, I mean, throughout the entire duration of this tournament,
has been no joke for Vitality, right?
Listen, coming into the tournament, they had won 74.7% of all their T-rounds played.
Now they won 5 out of 6, you know, 5 out of 6 in the second half as well.
They're up to more than 76% win rate on their T-side alone.
That's more than every 4 rounds they're winning at the moment.
It's absolutely insane for Vitality and Apex for that matter,
to find that kind of consistency.
But it's also a showcase of Apex, obviously, playing well.
Flames C in the opening department, we saw them in the pistol, we saw it in a couple of the buy rounds.
Everything seems to click when it comes to the T-side.
Yeah, the problem for Saw is that when you move to the second half, you've had this momentum built against you.
I agree with you, the start wasn't the cleanest from Vitality, but they took control.
They took control of the last few rounds of the first half, they moved on to the T-side.
They had a very good pistol round with a lot of space being taken, a lot of duels.
A very claustrophobic for Saw.
And once you confirm, once you win that second force by, you know you're in for it.
Like, you know you're in a good position.
You have the players that have freedom to take risks,
like Apex is running outside.
He's flashing for flames, jumping on top of Mini.
This is the vitality that is the scariest,
that they don't have anything to lose,
and they don't have financial pressure.
Let's jump back to the first half,
because I want to put Brown 9 under the microscope,
because this started off a nine-round streak
for vitality over the course of the two hearts.
And this is the other side of the story,
the one that's maybe a bit less glamorous.
It's the mistakes being made by Sol.
And if yesterday's phase were not hot enough
to kind of punish it, here Vitality absolutely did it.
There was no reason to saw, to commit to that extent,
try and play the lower bombsite without utility.
They got curious, they got a little bit complacent,
and they got helped by the Deagle,
the USP hitting the triangle.
But, logically speaking, with the time
they had left on the clock,
there was no need to take that kind of risk.
You drop the bomb, it's kind of a soft ball
into Vitality, and from that point on,
you feel the game change.
Yeah, and it did run, that's what I spoke about.
You know, Head Star won that round,
You're looking at a six free late for so on the T side of New York.
Think to yourself, all of a sudden the saw is in control there with standing the pressure
of vitality that tried to be disrupted, that tried to be aggressive.
Apex playing Yard, as you said, aggressiveness as well.
So for Saw to lose that round, it was sort of like a momentum killer, but also shows
a bit of the, I say, limitation and maybe inexperience, you know, what in the saw
can it just take you one round like that and then you're out of it.
I think that's definitely fair to say.
I do think we need to take a moment to give Apex some props in this series.
of course our Air Force aim high, what a performance individually obviously the
calling side as well we're gonna give props to that too but the fact that Apex
is coming in this hot when we have a Zywoo on the other hand, he's a little bit absent
I'm sure we'll get on to that later, for Apex he is fully informed here in the arena.
Yeah definitely, they're calling a lot around his own position on the seating side.
He had very good read on when so would try to pay outside how many
terms do I need to be in that very forward position but for the moment as
well we can see here he saves vitality in that one versus two which
I will by the way miss place grossly probably based on a false information on low HP or
Exaggerated information on low HP here. This is a face just reading the game. He finds the first kill and he knows there's a very good chance
They're gonna try to retake information on me
Absolutely anticipating every movement to cross the place one as well
We always know when an apex is on one like that
It gets dangerous because he's got this proclivity to be aggressive and in your face
And if the skill is following up, then you know, you know, that's the trick, right?
Yeah, I know. Having that conversation several times.
When Apex is having one of those games where he's not hitting his shots,
he can singlehandedly lose your Counter-Strike games sometimes.
But when he's hitting it, when he's almost dictating the game
as the in-game leader, as a rifle, and also have a productivity, you know,
and an output of 18 kills and a half like that,
then, I mean, for Apex to play like that, it's okay for Saibu to be a little bit absolute.
Yeah, listen, I do understand we have to define our M4s game high,
and Apex is a good candidate, but this was one of the most clear, clear case of winning by penalty.
Everybody in Vitality had moments. When Mezzi had a few moments where he was alone on the A side, he stepped up.
Flamestop, two ramp rushes. Spinks had a few, it took a few risks, it didn't always work, but I think he managed his door position quite well.
He punished the lurks, so in terms of stats, they were all in the same bunch, and then got someone CPRed Zai Wu after the CT side.
Like, there must have been some kind of high nick maneuver just to come back to life because the T side looked much better.
Yeah, I was going to say, there's one clear name missing from that list that you just riled off their match.
you. Zywu, do you have hope that he is going to be back to life when we're coming into the second
round? So I'm going to be real with you. I'm in a bit of a problematic situation here because one
part of me obviously wants to just dig Zywu and give him excuses and just make it seem like it's
nothing that he can do. He's not responsible of anything. Because there's a part of me that
wants to do that. And that part of me would say give this man some resources on the city side.
Please, for the love of God, like give him a couple of, okay, that's one side of me. The other
The other side is a bit more realist and a bit more accepting with the situation that we had a couple of misses
He went straight to the 8 of you. He missed two or three sitters shots
He had the push with fling's young ramp where he
Misanalyses the situation he moves to trade but then he gets kind of double peaked into these are moments where he is supposed to hit
The shot he's supposed to add the impact
He didn't the CT side was very very hard for him to watch very tough for me to watch
But you know what that's okay
He got teammates with him and he bounced back on the T side
But follow up this whole CTT conversation because that's one that's been a pattern throughout the whole clone.
Yeah, I mean, Saivoo is contributing a lot on that T-side, you know?
As much as you want to say that the CT side wasn't pretty, which I agree with you.
That was a couple of misplays, a couple of misshots.
But T-side-wise, we've only seen Vitality start on the T-side.
We all be saying Saivoo is having a great start to this tournament and vice versa.
So it's very easy to turn the narrative into whatever you want to turn it into.
However, I think the Saivoo, it wasn't his best game, wasn't his worst game.
But again, if this is Saivoo not playing well, then thank God I'm a teammate.
You know if I'm a picks what we do have dust you on the rise and that's vitalities pick coming into this series
And we do have a few words cursive banks and extents
Vitality seemed to be the only team that can take down saw on new guys talking to ex has about it
He said he wants to control things more when it came to the CT side even though a few rounds went against him at the beginning
He was able to hold strong the team did what they were supposed to do on the T side
Well, we know that's been going very well for vitality
He said on dust to if it's their pick and nothing can be taken for granted
He expects them to have changed and things when it comes to it
but this is what they do and they know it, Vitality are very well aware that they should be able to take this 2-0.
But they're prepared for some changes, so let's see how it goes for them.
Well, Sa behind me, a little bit shaken of course, because it was their nuke,
I know of course it is a very good map for Vitality as well,
but Gatsa talking to Barrier Coach rather, and he said,
yeah, they figured us out on T side, that wasn't what we expected.
And on top of that, usually CT sides is where we get a lot of our rounds as well,
that also didn't work out. So that's obviously not according to the game plan. I asked about this too,
he said, no problem there. We knew they were going to pick it. We're fully prepared. We knew
all the maps that we were going to see today, and he's confident going into that one.
Hopefully confidence will be key for Saw to be bouncing back into this one, but this is a
tough situation for Saw to be facing. Not only is it Vitality's map pick of just too
match you, but they're going to be starting on that aforementioned T side. So you're going
to need to be hot out the gate if you saw it on that CT half? Yeah, definitely. I think skill
They weren't really able to match Vitality on you and that had been the main topic for the map one of the phase victory for so
So that's an issue
I also think that they are getting used to a new level of scrutiny which they didn't really know before
As in sure you make it from the stage to to the playoffs people are a little bit impressed
But we might take you with a little bit of complacency once you've beaten phase. This is over that conversation is done
You're going to use every single trick in the book and you are going to take the gamble that so don't have the
diversity right now to change everything from game to game. That is a very much elite level skill
that they might not have quite now. So you could see on Nuke that this was analyzed and sort of
preempted by Vitality. Let's see on those two. I agree with you. I think Vitality have more
dimensions basically to play with. And obviously we spoke about it on Nuke. They came in with a
clear game plan. They even changed it up a little bit in the second half of the first half.
And I think when it comes to Dust 2 as well, for Vitality it's a homegrown map now. It's
a map where they feel very comfortable. I argue Saivu as well is stepping up on that map.
we saw his performance against Maus. That's not going to be an issue. And then you have this trio
right now with Sphinx, Flames and Saibu are all pretty much on the same level. And if you're
saw right now, you need someone to match that output. As we like to say up here, you know,
it's about the tactical, I guess, tactical ability sometimes to approach the map. But at
the end of the day, when it comes to a map like this, too, if you're not winning your duels,
and if you're not un-pying individually, it doesn't matter. You know, you'll just fall
flat on that CT side. So I'm a little bit worried for Saw as well that individually speaking,
they simply can't match the output of it. I'm going to be incredibly selfish here. I
I wanna see Zaru turning up on the big stage
and I can't imagine a better map than Dust2 for him to do it on.
We know he can do it here, he's done it and he has gone by.
I wanna see it in the next map.
I think it's pretty problematic to see you being so biased
because I was expecting more from you.
Where is that coming from?
I just stooped to your level, Matthew.
Sorry, man, I'm sorry.
You guys cool?
I hope the Cyborg's gonna win, I hope Cyborg goes 0-1-13
All I'm saying is I want him to turn up
because we've been hyping this up so much.
As you aptly said, he's got an MVP in this arena.
Now, are you taking home the trophy?
I want to see that MVP level performance again,
and I want to see if Stork can deal with it.
Yeah, I agree with you, but I would like to see that happen
when Vitality needed, because we have already seen here,
and the mouse game is a good example where you win 12-0,
and he's ending up a 21 kill, Chef,
and this is just the absolute base case scenario.
Everything is working for him, the rifle, the ults and all.
Now, give me a hard game, give me a tough game,
give me a moment where the ADP shot is going to be
the difference between winning and losing a map,
and let him hit that shot, and then you get me high.
For now, let's everybody take a deep breath.
Are we gonna be fine?
You sounded pretty hyped.
There you are, Machu.
I think we need to throw this one to a quick break before we get into the action by Talzin's map pick.
Off dust 2 on the other side.
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the tendencies and strategies to watch out for.
Let's take a look at Vitality on Dust 2.
Starting on the T side where Sphinx plays towards B,
Flames plays towards lower tunnels, Apex plays towards mid, and Mezi plays towards long.
Watch out for Vitality using this early mid-doors smoke on T side, as when they do, it's actually
quite likely they'll push through it themselves.
This fast B split is all about the timing and being there one or two seconds faster
than your opponents expect, and Vitality especially like to use this play when they
here a lot of CT presence on A long early as it makes it less likely that mid is so
heavily defended. Switching over to CT side, Mezzie plays towards B, Spinks plays towards
mid and Flames plays towards A long. Spinks is often known as a passive player, however
when he throws this molly it's quite likely he's going for an aggressive move into lower
tunnels. This is not a molly that Spinks throws often so it can be quite a good
tell that he might be in lower tunnels. However, even if you know he's there, he's so talented
he might still get you. So see if you can spot any of these tendencies or if Vitality have
cooked up something new on Dust2.
But on Nuke, they were so busy dreaming, they never woke up.
Vitality's man pick, starting over on the T side,
and I think they did a fantastic job of highlighting just how scary these Vitality T sides have been.
Saurav got a monumental task ahead of them.
One that they might not be made up for.
That will get called into question here.
here. Teed up for the lower take, at least is Arostos.
He's going to find himself at the right place.
They're able to start off Nuke strong.
Will it be the same on Dust 2?
They down into lower.
Doesn't find the damage they were looking for.
And instead Vitality, they take their clay
into this mid control.
It's a commanding start from the Vitality squad.
They leave no stone unturned on that lower tunnel's play.
Slow and steady here on this T side.
All the pressure on the saw.
No one able to make a rotation to cross past those mid-doors.
Zairou now just leaves with a P250.
Petati ready to crunch this B-site, under-defended.
An unexpected source sit with just one player in position.
Can Matires save his man in time?
Can he get over to the right side of middle at least?
He had to try and put his stop to the mid-take.
And he well overwhelmed planes now.
Oh look at Ujjaks, that's a collateral, that's how you want to open!
Two quick kills from the amount of backplot, but Ujjaks wanting even more.
Well get bit out back, and this one's not done.
Planted as Apex has to get the reload.
Oh, Roman tries to make his move, it's down to the wire, it's not with the sidearm,
and there's two bullets in this for story.
Ah!
There's still pages in this chapter, maybe Stork can show us something,
But they will have to earn it every step of the way.
And near 2v4 for Vitality, it looked beautiful.
They're dropping Zywoo at 1v1.
That hits different.
Vitality force out of rage, flashes out long.
They pop that molly, win a smoke, and they spill out.
Aggression from Ujerks.
Almost punished.
Got to get Zywoo in the pit with that scout.
They don't get to work, the doors open, a day in the office for Zai Wu.
There is some very confident moves getting made here from Saw, they don't open up this game.
They could still get punished for those, but it feels like they've decided if this is how it all ends
they don't want to go quietly into that good night.
Roman gonna get joined over inside of this A-bomb site as Vitality looks to do it.
1-9 to that pistol clutch, that pistol pickup.
Four story might never come to matter.
The results never come to pass.
Vitality immediately turn up the heat
and that's what saw having all the info,
everyone over the ward day and the man advantage.
They had everything they could have asked for
and still it was not enough.
Yeah, Vitality have won a lot of man down rounds
in this series already.
So it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
Broken economy for Soap, broken morale.
They looked absolutely crushed after that first map.
Cursed faces on Vitality.
Just what you would want from a team
you know can and will win trophies.
The question is, is Cologne one of them?
This Mali gives me tears of second chance at life here.
Surprise, he still swings.
I didn't know he was at his position, but saw a feeling of pressure, bit by bit getting picked apart on the CT side.
I can't even break the smoke, they want to take these five states go on.
Another entry and more to the tally, three for Zai Wu. This time he doesn't stop cold, six and one on Zai Wu.
There was going to be a map that Zai Wu gets to show up on, it's going to be this one.
Yeah, doesn't get better than dust and that was a whole factor that on that last
map saw scarcely even had to worry about on the pistols but
Zawooz here to keep an eye on it, he actually just goes swinging the confidence on display here, he's kind of mad
as he draws himself into the firing line, everyone gets their piece of the action there, a quick
round for Vitalik to find their third and really cement this leap but this
This is where the guns come out for sore.
Their chance to try and disrupt early.
Back on that first half.
The last map, it felt like the lead disappeared very, very quickly for sore.
They were 5-3 up.
The next thing you know, they're down in the dumps.
They haven't won a round for the remainder of the half.
They don't want that to happen to open up on Dust.
Zai Wu brings that off out and it's close.
No cigar in the mid-hit.
Instead they manage to get on by.
Smoke dropped as well.
That gives the illusion they could play in a lower.
So Vitality have to be a little more respectful here.
It was that first gun round on T-side Nuke, as Aiu comes in with three huge kills, two entries outside.
And they've got him the AWP as quick as they can as well, so let's see if he can put it to use.
He won't be at the forefront of this round, holding that mid rotation, but sort of solidified positions.
And that might be to their detriment. Molly Burns' late story has to swing and it's actually MP9 sniping him out from shore side.
Vitality may get blocked, but they don't worry, they don't mind.
mind. A man up and Zywu still in the middle. Look at this late reaction from
Saw. I like they're playing together, but they've not hit the nail on the head,
gets severed by Spinks, and he gets out for free. His presence over in mid poses an
awkward question here. Do you keep trying to hunt him down? You've lost
control of the A site. He goes nowhere. Oh, this is running the risk of being
A very punishing round, and there's that Zai Wu, AWP.
Arastas, surplus to requirement here, left trying to hold on to the gun inside of the B side.
But if you look at that minimap Vitality, and feel in a very forgiving mood right now,
they want to take everything away, they've got that info.
So a few more players that are going to give James Flames what?
Give him a chance!
Red hot, as Vitality stormed the board,
And you can go as far as saying, you know, Zywu wasn't a requirement on that first map.
Well, in this one, he's making himself one, making himself a mainstay.
Of Dust 2, of the T side, picking saw a part.
Can the scout get revenge? Apex tagged.
Materias repositions.
Uh-oh. Story never fires off.
Oh, what's Sombra?
The Rebel to thrive here. 4 on 2. Even as return is standard. What's going on?
Headshot through the door.
Those don't exist on Dust2 for these squads.
Someone put the metal back.
The new door might have opened up for Saw in this pistol round. Aggression through the long side.
They're leaning heavy over towards middle and A.
So right now by Taliyah they are making the right move.
Grouping over in the tunnels.
And Ziyu and Zywu look to embark on a 2 on 4.
He's dropped the AWP, he's hit a win the round right now, vitality, I dare say they've got a damn good shot.
Now through the tunnels first.
Zywu, out of all the ways this could have started, that's what you want.
The game is well and truly a first, Zywu.
Carves the path in for vitality, that bomb planted.
Now it's Saw that find themselves under pressure.
They're the ones, the clock!
This is IWU's game!
The title team have pulled back a 2-on-4.
Lutiras, what is he supposed to do?
Can he succeed where everyone else tried?
And they keep this T side damn near flawless.
Take a bow, alright.
Absolute masterclass.
Adamesian, IWU could not have played that better and saw a feeling of stress.
Timeout comes through, and a must win by just to stop this war machine of vitality picking up steam.
French Revolution for Team Vitality, Apex leading the charge on the opener.
Zai Wu coming to his own now on Dust2.
Even when Soarer found these advantageous positions, it's not been enough to beat the individuals.
there's no doubting that Vitality have that killer instinct about them.
So relieving just as he's out exerting himself on the stage.
Show what he can do, we all know it.
But he's making it through, miss shot and miss round.
You count your lucky stars there.
If you're our star, you hear that orb fire off,
you know who it was that was waiting for you.
Story now is a chance to get involved on his orb.
Try to take the line over here in middle.
These doors have felt anything but safe.
You don't want to lace your shot on a chance, Wu-Bang, if you're Story, you need to be precise, pinpoint accurate.
That is not it. Both OrpAs with a chance need to come up. Maybe they clash instead, flash, push as I Wu-Bang.
He wants to get a second go and flash himself for a fight. Story hangs on the angle. Undisturbed, but soon to be.
I think that's scary for Saw here is they're flying so blind in this round, they've completely
given up control over middle.
Any noise, any utile that comes out makes them paranoid.
That smoke in CT causes you problem for leaving this A site.
So right now Vitality even more goes their way.
Flames comes up big on the spam.
Wherever they go they find themselves in a 5B2, so for Vitality it's about grouping,
going together into the tier 8.
And he finds them bowed over on short, he's reignited the hope for sore.
Will that be enough? Time is running low.
On Vitality's T-side, one more man over along as Apex opens.
It's Moutyris, last man to beat.
Try to slow it down! There's the rotate!
Much kill for Arostos coming up on Elevator
and finding that headshot angle.
It had to happen.
They just broke their way in, dropping Moutyris after a fantastic double.
But not enough for vitality.
Saw Stemba bleeding.
And you say they're blind blind.
It's Flames who's doing it with no idea.
Shoot through doors and smokes.
Flash out long, Apex just gunning.
Look at the path thing.
And then tree.
So easily done.
Years of experience.
In both roles, he puts them together.
He puts it to use.
He leads from the front.
He shows him how he used to get it done.
Zai Wu that shot sails just over the head.
There's no punishment, there's no chance to punish here if you're sore.
Once more, your left just thanking yourself that that one doesn't go the way of Vitality
and extend this lead even further.
He called a slow down after that initial high pace right off the rib.
So we've done the right response here.
They're taking control over the wards.
It's here is Kester, he glanced through the smoke and he comes to pay the price for it.
It's a good angle.
Not normally the guy did on it, but with story out of the round, he has to try, Molly forces
him wide, right into the arms of Messi, and storage is so far away, flames again!
Half of his kills that he hasn't even seen the people he's shooting at!
The stars have aligned for flames!
one glued down. They're even hunting. They're going to find it. Waiting till this round is
unloosable. And they're going to run boosts into low to the flash frames. Dirty. This is a statement
game from Vitality right now. Just playing slow and steady on the T side. Group hits.
Every entry they need, even Roman is coping there to think he can get out of that position.
He has to just crouch peek and try and take one with him to give his team a chance.
He thinks he can get out of the Molotov.
Vitality or not.
Letting anyone escape.
That's the rifle gone.
Clean flick over towards Shaw, but he's not done with them yet.
Zai Wu, a point to prove in this round as he's looking for all the engagements
down in middle timing nearly goes the ride but he's able to get the gun out in
time knows there's serious bodies up for grabs down here in middle try to
chase him down there's the support from the rest of vitality
Zaru is not in this alone he's got a unit around him it's absolutely felt like a
team game right across that first map as well there was times of brilliance
from players like apex flames coming up with huge multi kills but everyone's
delivered when required. Mezzi was a rock on that topside. Spinks with shooting players in the back.
Saw him had a shot but maybe they're just firing blanks. Been able to cook some ludicrously good
two sides across this event and that does too is no exception to that rule. Someone who's
caught a lot of flak for how he really does wear his heart on his sleeve. Yeah. The last of a
the kind breed of Counter-Strike player.
We'd have seen him on stages all the way back in 2015,
some of the highlight reels that guys like Apex
were able to bring forward,
redefines himself in 2020 to become the captain
of Vitality and over time he is growing into this role.
He's learned to excel in the Vitality jersey
and now he's putting up the numbers
to boot alongside of these T-Sides.
And how good Vitality you're looking here,
Now it's felt like a team game, not the Zywoo show.
Testament to what he's able to bring to the table, Apex.
Double digits secured.
His French contingent of vitality.
Looking to bring them glory.
And last year it was all about peaking at the right time, right?
Being prepared for that Paris Major, winning it on home soil.
They warmed up in anticipation.
They got their ducks in a row. They took that trophy.
But right now the same might be happening for Vitality to capture a trophy that has eluded
these players, eluded this organisation and eluded Apex through so many years.
If Vitality went today this would be Apex's third attempt in that grand final of Cologne.
And right now dare I say Vitality look informed to fight whoever faces them.
That's why it's so believable, you're getting Apex giving us a game like this.
Because he is the one with a strong attachment here to this trophy.
So to see him up there alongside Zai Wu,
whenever there's something personal on the line for Vitality, it feels like they hit that much harder.
Yeah, there are legendary players who have played at the top of CS,
who have never taken his trophy devices, one of them.
Despite the years of a starless success,
Cologne always alluded.
That legendary Danish roster, Apex, does not want to let that be a factor.
He has a point to prove here, does Apex.
Zai Wu right there alongside him, and these rounds so often,
boiling down in this duo.
Here's the rifles getting involved as Spinks mobs up Ujaksim rotation.
You are not safe. There is no weak link.
They are just playing out of their mind.
They are brutalizing Saw in this map.
Saw have not had a chance or dust to.
They won the pistol, a single round in the midst of it.
But otherwise this is domination.
So the whole Cinderella in a dream story around this Saw squad.
It looks like semi-finals might be as far as that goes.
They won't have the resilience here.
They don't have the manpower of vitality though.
This series is about them.
This series is about vitality.
Trying to move into a grand final in terrifying form.
One map drop across IEM Cologne.
One map and that's it.
They want us to sit up and take note.
And maybe you were ready to write off sore,
But this is a team that took down of last year the number four the number three and the number two rated players in the entire world
Modesty robs Nico all fell at the hands of sore
But number one of 2023 Zywoo 16 and four
unbeatable for sore
Nothing in this game says they have it in them and this is a statement for vitality
So I might have the dream the vitality have got the game
And there's no weak link and these slow T sides are so punishing.
Saw having a sit here and a star of every round and come to terms with how one sided this game has been.
Zai Wu trying his hand at the spamming through middle.
Vitali haven't needed pigs. They haven't even always had man advantages.
They've bowled back from seemingly insurmountable odds.
They wait and see if they're given anything early.
They can feel the terror that courses through the veins of Saw
Knowing that dream might be about to come to an abrupt and brutal end.
Vitality have the mid control.
They wait outside of long. They can't set a foot wrong here.
Mezzi waits and he is rewarded.
Flames dead down in middle, but Vitality now look to go up in the tempo for this A-play.
Sweet, 18 on the shot. Mezzi comes swinging.
Vitality two kills from it.
A double-digit heart to death as they saw at the end of Dust2.
Zahruz goes swinging.
Another man falls.
Bomb getting plugged.
Can they get up in time or can Messi stop them?
It's only Arostos.
He's had a quiet game today.
He's got a stand for 1v1.
Spinks, he's taking them.
Can he get on the bomb? There's no kit right now.
Apex slowing down, swings in,
and Vitality take the round.
Here in the Cathedral, and Vitality confessed to nothing.
They feel no remorse.
Decades shooting for the stars.
It's a harsh reality for this sore squad.
It's a reality that Apex on the other side had to deal with.
Time and time over.
But it made in the man he is today.
It made in the man that put Vitality into this position.
Shooting for a grand final.
These defining moments.
They're what make Vitality special.
Right now Apex is right up there alongside
The jewel of French counter-strike in Zhaowu.
And he's playing with some confidence straight up middle, finding the headshot.
Traded back in damage alone, Flames hides, buried at the back of the pit.
The saw come for the clear. Have they got the manpower to do so?
Or are they too focused on Apex on this crossroads? He draws them in.
They don't check, a jump will do. It might need two legs. Flames takes two.
And so now with all the info away with the bomb dropped and players falling like flies
It feels like vitality are ready to pluck another pistol
They say the hope dies last hope well and truly dies if you fall short in this pistol round vitality four on two
Haven't set a foot wrong yet and there's a
with the closer, he'd up flames right at the start of the pistol and then he's there to be there undoing that ultimate end.
Vitality want this to be brutal, they never wanted this to get close and they will get their wish.
The dying moments of this game for Saur, it's about a last hurrah trying to make it prettier but
I don't think Vitality are in the mood to give anything up right now and Saur might not
not even get a full buy if it goes to plan.
Pistols running amuck in middle.
They find a couple of entries.
Can they flood out on this B bomb site?
Messi on his own, just hiding inside of the site.
They line up, double kill, turning back.
Story stops him.
The Matyrus' lurk comes up with nothing.
Story's on the clock.
1v2, he could go for the bomb.
He's going for the kill instead,
but they are right there behind the door.
Molly forces, flames in, he goes,
and Story saves the day.
Store, survive, one more round.
Clutch come too late.
Vitality, get ahead of themselves playing into the 2v1.
You can't underestimate the individuals.
Arostos, one more kill to open up this round.
They're so far behind that they are still refusing
to give up.
And there's the over in middle,
just the one and done off the deagle.
That's opened up the route to the B-plane store,
aware of that.
They're going for these grouped plays, these marches out into the B-side.
This is what we saw from this squad in that quarter-final.
It was so potent.
It feels like that started to click back into place now,
but it really is at the 11th hour,
just like on Nuke with how that one rounded out.
This has to be flawless from Saw.
And there's so far still to go,
but first few steps taken in the right direction.
Well, Vitality let them back in.
As you said, Hope dies last and saw a holding onto this dream.
A hope, a prayer, but far from a reality.
Seven rounds of separation.
Seven rounds between these teams.
Vitaly, one of a vital look forward to yet.
They can catch up quick, but so far in this series,
we haven't seen any reason.
to believe in the majesty of Saw.
It has been all vitality, all the way along,
so even in the Ecos, you must give them their respect.
Popping through the smoke on the D-Gore Flames,
finds one more, and Pistols pick up players
that still Saw should make it across safely.
Through on the back of a clutch, so early in the second half,
you got a couple for free on the back of the money here.
But that true challenge is about to arrive.
Vitality were not expected to win this round.
Vitality get their hands on the big guns in the next and that is really where we get the eye test for just how far
Saw can look to take this comeback six rounds apart
It is a marathon for saw for vitality. It's the final sprint
And you just have so many players to rely on the vitality so many players
Who've given us huge rounds in this game?
story
the guy
He wants to have kick-started a comeback, continues down-middle, no AWP for vitality.
Zaiwu sits alone in the site.
Playover in the middle, Spinks tries to get involved early.
Zoro wearing his flash, it's good!
Moutires picks up that opener.
Five on four.
They make that fight nice and easy for Moutires.
Flashbang to tee him up, but now they're going to go in as Zaiwu.
Now they're going to go into the front man of this vitality squad.
Tucked in has support from Flames over on the long side good timing on that peak
And you see Zaiwu in the kill feed that's gonna instill a bit of fear in saw
It's tucked tail run the other way try and get in over to wards B
Mezzi
Waiting here in the window has support from his captain first kill comes through are they ready for a pose?
Are they ready for that second man the captain vitality is captain Francis captain?
Apex is the round!
And Soar's aspirations crumble to dust.
Tucked in tight.
Apex says goodnight to Soar in the Laxis.
One more round for Vitality, ought to do it.
So calm, it's so collected from Apex.
There was no stress in that. There's been no stress in this game.
Regai tells you everything with his body language.
He has felt anything but stressed here.
This is an apex that is in control
Everything has gone to plan
For a brief moment there saw started to believe again
It was the material's clutch that reignited them in the matchup versus phase
They hope their stories could have done the same thing here
But too far gone too slow to start too much to stop this vitality
Now there is nothing left all roads lead to ruin it for sore
Muteir is one kill in the bottom of middle, it goes untrated, swings on out but he can't get a bearing on Apex and now Spitz
This time here to let the helping hand to Messi, they get funneled into the killing field to the B site
and they live to tell the tale, Saw try to break in
Can Flames and Apex stop them and man down in the retake?
You've seen Vitality win this round before
Will Vitality wait? Will they relent? Or do they bite at the next opportunity?
They're really trying to bait them in, but Vitality keep calling their bluff.
Apex swims it wide, and third time's the charm here as they chase him down in 2015.
Apex!
Cologne is one of those events that's like kind of transcend, you know, counter-strike in a way.
It's one of the titles that everyone wants to win. This is really where your metal gets tested.
Lang says it's a very special arena everyone wants to be there everyone wants to feel the atmosphere
As matter how much of a new team you are the world was clear playoff season minimum and
Can't wait to to get on the stage just enjoy being there
I'm getting very excited all of my teammates the coach especially typing us up to play at the arena
We just need to show up and there are no excuses not to do so
A trophy like this or just looking at it, you go back through all the memories and the historical moments that it had, it makes it a very special one.
It's my first time playing in a big stage and this is what I've worked for.
It's a great team and we want to face them.
The will we have to play the game and the win.
We can beat the ender guys and upset everyone.
I picture myself lifting the trophy.
You showed up and I think that's the thing I want to take with us if we just believe we can do everything one
I know we can I believe we can I want to do everything to look at and then sex arena
I said we did it again
It's actually what we love the most is what we fight the most for this is most prestige tournament right we winning
I come for the rises and I think I'll lift the whole team as much as I can in the ring
I feel like our side of the bracket is stronger. We have us G2 mouse
I feel like Maus has been slacking lately a little bit.
Us and G2 are one of the best teams in the world right now.
G2 finally has a chance to beat us.
We just gave our best internal preparation and other things because we know our biggest
ceremonies and we also want to write our name into the history.
Feeding around the trophy is so big, it's so unique.
It's just one of those trophies where gifting it would mean so much for a player.
It's just a memorable thing that you'll never forget.
The main goal of Cologne is to win the tournament and the lift in the trophy.
This is one of the OG Counter-Strike events. This is the big one.
And so that pressure mixed with a huge arena presence, there's always a big footfall out in Cologne.
The pressure is very much on. You have to earn your spot in the license
and then you have to go one step further and earn the right to lift the trophy.
And I think there is a tremendous amount of prestige when it comes to Cologne.
Scuces, you turn up here to this cathedral like Alastra, can you win or you go home with what might have been still ringing in your ears?
Two teams remain standing, two teams come here, one wants to call themselves the greatest of all time,
one wants to call themselves a team that banished their demons, neither can do that without lifting that trophy.
Welcome to the Intel Xtreme Masters 2024.
Here in Cologne it's time to find out who it's going to become.
A legend.
An IP of one games come 2014.
Winning the trophy in Cologne and lifting it here was a defining moment in my career.
The Grand Final days are brutal.
Losing Grand Finals is probably one of the worst feelings you can ever have.
have. We almost fell short. But our name were the first in a long line to be engraved into that trophy.
That's one of the beauties of this game. At any given moment, you can always, always turn around.
You're best to clear as much as possible and hopefully everything will be lining to you.
Tonight, these two teams has the chance to start this new era.
Back then 2015 final in Cologne, such an amazing moment because that was the first
time we played here. Three finals now but without the trophy we wouldn't meet much.
Almost success here is not success. If I can make Novi the number one
organization when it comes down to winning the most trophies in Cologne,
I would be forever grateful because of the fact that I think I owe it to them.
I was lost, waiting for a miracle, and a miracle happened.
I never expected it to come so soon.
I feel like, blessed in a sense, to fight for the trophy
and one of the biggest trophy encounters like.
We are the disappointing year for us.
This trophy alone can redeem 8 months of not achieving a trophy.
2021, now we won it.
I became a 10 out of 90 straight after that tournament.
This year I only got my first trophy
I now have another chance to get a trophy here, the most iconic trophy in the game.
I've been trying my best every column to get it.
If I get it, it will be one of the best days of my life without the doubt.
I've seen this moment probably a week ago.
I already saw us going down the catwalk, going towards the trophy, lifting it.
Doing everything you can.
After the grand final, I don't care. Every grand final you play defines you.
You don't come to play the grand final, you come to win it.
I know I'm capable of doing it. I know this team is capable of doing it. Now it's just us and the trophy
You work every day for 17 years in Counter-Strike. You play for Colón, two wins for Colón.
Everyone right now in this cathedral Counter-Strike on your feet
Let's lift you to your feet as we welcome the first of our two teams into this cauldron of noise
Two teams, the one to be called champion and the first to enter. Please welcome.
Hansen was lost but now he has found Alexi B first time this year in the Lancers.
Immediately in the grand final, will he be able to lead his team to the first organization winning Cologne three times?
Na'Vi a team that have lifted this trophy before they won it again they want
to be called the world's number one team but they take on a team that has got
close this year they want to do it please welcome it's Vitality arrived with a
sting in their tails so fast on their hitless match you bet Na'Vi they are
totally different these standing between them and that ever a new trophy the
key word is redemption prayer but Vitality has a team that is a whole
here without a trophy, playbacks it is a third attempt, a third attempt at lifting the trophy
here in access and for Zaynou the question is simple, if you really are the best, if nobody
can ever touch you then you need to win Cologne.
Hi there Cologne, here we go, feel that energy, feel the hairs on your arm stand up, that tingle
down your neck, that says what we're about to witness right here, a grand final, one of the
the most vibrant and amazing places to watch anything, but to watch Counter-Strike, here
my word are we blessed. The only way to start it off is with a handshake, so captain's in,
captain's in, here we go. It's about winning, but we start with respect. The handshake
is done, to be called champions, to lift that trophy. Who's winning it? Who's winning
The day of judgement for Apex and Alexi B. For Apex a question of
repenting the demons of almost a decade for Alexi, a task of lifting a third
trophy this year but his first in the Cathedral of Angkor. Absolutely friend.
You know there were talks about major is it a fluke is it not a fluke? There's
no way you can fluke into a Cologne win. Just the amount of games you have to
play. Best of 3's this stage it really reveals your true self on it
And I think Navi has shown us so far. They're the best team in the world.
And it's one last obstacle here to prove it to everyone.
I have absolutely love to witness the conversation change around Navi.
Starting from the doubt whether or not Copenhagen was rightful.
And then suddenly talking about Firepower, we keep shifting the goalposts.
Oh, they don't have the Fyrehead. They don't have the players.
Sometimes we say they don't have the superstar.
And each and every step of the way, they have proven people wrong.
They have been on an up-course trajectory, they have improved, they have grown as a group
and they show up here as the favorites.
Manchi, this is your chance to be a romantic about vitality though.
Do you see them, you know, putting those ghosts to bed, lifting the trophy finally here in
the cathedral?
You've got to believe, don't you?
If you don't believe, what worth is it?
If you don't feel when you watch Counter-Strike, what worth is it?
Of course, I think there's a chance for vitality because they've had enough players
who have showcased the great Counter-Strike we want to see.
They have flamethrower spying on old cylinder, pun intended, spanks, actually have an impact
and hell.
Why don't we mention Zaydu a little bit?
Yeah, I think for Vitality, you know, we have Navi on one side playing to cement their
status as the best team in the world.
Vitality is playing to show that they are a team that can win something.
But they've been here before plenty of times and it's been collapse after collapse
after collapse.
It has to be different this time around if you're going to have any faith about
this team becoming world number one.
Over a decade of history here in Cologne,
but today a new king will be crowned.
It's Vitality versus Navi, it's very final time.
The first time we get to see this head-to-head in 2024
and it's on the grand final stage of Cologne.
Navi Vitality, he pecs on that stage.
He was in attendance of the first 10 years on now
calling the shots, his third grand final.
trophy not just the Lucifer apex but for vitality this year a roster housing
Sairu this 23 year-old prodigy 2023's world's best yet to lift the trophy in
24 will now be locked to secure and fortified that world you just start the
tactician's delight plenty of nades for now V their map choice and want to get
tricky with it out the gates smoke nade for JL destined for the door that
blown off more pressure was the topside Jules Lee's on Zywoo and he's pressure
Oh a lot of early pressure JL out squeaky pressure
responsible for that site and does what Zywoo couldn't with a triple kill
keeping it interesting faders tussling with trouble in there no kevv and 41
points of health effects is down towards B
Oh, that's a big gooch gonna confirm if the bomb is down towards the topside the leader having to rotate over but Emma
He's the one on the hunt
This is incredibly proactive from him a little risky, but it's definitely gonna catch apex as he looks to try and find the ladder silently
Wonderful just needs to live just needs to be always hasn't it all forced to him there
They both depart the site no kid available. He's behind them
It's a risk to try and make a manoeuvre like that in the environment of a stage setting.
You worry, does the work, does the atmosphere give you away, you take your shots and you
miss.
Beautiful defence to the topside from Mr. Merriman the Brit, unloads early and he
is going to have an important role anchoring down that A-side round after round, a very
It's not how you want to start off your grand final for EMA, he's going to have to shake that off.
And not with the form that he is in.
It's on characteristic of the EMA that we've known to come in love over the course of Cologne.
Pressor stands out towards Yard, Zywut, pressed up, drops back now that the smoke wall has dotted in the desk.
We're talking about the head-to-head between EMA, T-side taking Yard Space and Apex, in-game leader.
Leader, tasked with that very quadrant on the map.
Emma will be able to get down with the space necessary.
The rest of Na'Vi towards Lobby, Flamesy,
they're gonna test him, flash and go.
XCB trust victim, but it's immediate back from Bill Apex.
He pushes the flames, he wants to stand, he wants!
Leader has saved them from ramp being lost.
Bomb now falls and so do the hopes of Na'Vi
converting this second round for us by just one man
his dig and Spinks exposed a couple of shots shy Spinks jipped away out oh he
keeps hitting the ball he Spinks runs him down on the reload and JL next.
Huge double from the leader pushing through the flames taking a risk. Ten
years he's been in pursuit of this trophy when they beat Saw he said pretty
good time for a life game well there's no reason the once entry fragger
turned in game leader can't step up plays a very key position of the
similarities between the defences of these two teams on Nuke.
Alexi also playing the yard position as the in-game leader.
Good fight, Vitality getting off to a two-round start.
It should be the third.
Perfect positions for it.
Zairu distracts Apex,
prepares to engage and does activate to find Alexi.
It was interesting with the interviews and the lead-up
to the final getting underway,
how the teams were characterising one another.
Alexi in the interview,
so they practiced against Vitality a lot.
They're explosive.
Mezzi, when he was questioned, labelling Navi a structure, and I think that's a fair
surmise, but both crediting the individuals on either side, hitting hard, we wouldn't
find ourselves with this ground final on our screens if that wasn't to be the case.
And Navi yesterday, not only was that structure in play, it was the clutches, it was the
individuals as the difference makers to get it done in a 2-0 fashion.
Now's pushed them. Vitality had a walk in the park against Saw.
He's actually managed to find one with that dig, searching yard.
Oh, baby!
Oh, it very well could be.
He's already taken two downs.
I went empty-handed.
What a jailer, Nimmer!
In a two versus two flames,
he's got a real opportunity to make this awkward.
Damn it!
He has it. The loss of three rifles,
but it's better that it still reads 3-0.
A little bit wobbly with the finances going forward.
That's a good showing from now on, baby,
Now V that the pistols can be on for the individuals just as we were talking about them
Another big question is I work
2019 his rookie year this arena grand-final appearance MVP, but I lost to liquid
Those are always very tough
Ruffles around now V
Are you gonna try and put a bit of pressure on these rotating elements apex being one of them skinks being your door guy?
You're also going to have Zawoo floating around with the AWP starting towards secret, gets a chance to take out Bit.
Bit in the air man, that's potential victims. The smoke wall has been erected but Zawoo's got nothing to report.
Look at the radar, Vitaliy has completely given up that ramp control.
In exchange they try and fight for heart. JL comes out with a nice opening kill, that's Lezzi down and out. Now Flames has to react and he does well.
Takes the head off of the fin towards squeaky door.
Now, Tyrell will activate for his first.
Spit could have been his next.
But a missed shot, forces Flames to react.
Comes and activates to help him from Heaven.
JL gets that bomb, and takes the site.
Wonderful in support, has to cover Heaven, has to cover May.
Spinks will wait for his teammate.
Flashbang from Flames to be going to be their way in.
Tyrell has so much utility to make this possible, but he's coming up the vent.
JL could be in real, real trouble here.
You're actually on to the smoke, you had the extended air, he coughed and so J-El will catch Zywoo.
And now, it's J-El a wonderful, turn it on its head, only Spinks remains.
Hardly also wonderful, lovely fight.
Time sensitive for Spinks, does have that kit, knows where J-El is, what do you do?
Can J-El outwits him here?
It's an impact when they need it.
More than a dent off of this one and it comes down to the clutch.
Something he was bringing in buckets and spades and that one right there.
Zywoo not sure why he's opted for the rotate through them. He popped his head up secret
He could have come through me the Utah would have been a whole lot easier to throw
That's true little second guessing on Zywoo little bit in decision
Which you cannot have in Counter-Strike especially at these high pressure rounds vitality force
Funds already low Zywoo with the only rifle three SMGs the 5-7 in the hands
It's just a one-for-one round game now, a lead for Vitality, but humbled.
Hard work done, Vitality down to just the pistol, should be now be looking to convert
their third.
And in consecutive fashion.
The chance in his name chat, wonderful.
In a Na'vi jersey.
We describe him as this young talent, but where did this guy come from?
To be already competing as the world number one.
Yeah, you throw that to a lot of the names on Na'vi, don't you?
Really? I mean, JL, the major MVP.
Sure, but we weren't talking about his name.
If you tapped out five years ago, you probably weren't sure.
A bit of a mis-snote there. We'll see if that comes back to haunt them.
the Hondam. Emma with the
Gamer legion performance in the
loss to Vitality back in Paris.
Bit of course, can't stop talking about him.
And Alexi said he was lost when
now he's found in an RV Jersey.
The best of fives, a bit of an issue for Alexi,
but this would probably be the best roster he's had.
Actually, no, I would say it is.
Yeah, not long ago, wonderful was just a name on the face
at high scores. And now look at him on this grand
final stage up against Vitality, up against Iwo.
Could you two work, making sure that these pistols in a half to move?
Oh, nice.
That's a lot of damage, Sphinx inflames with just the USP, and now another body drops!
It's pistols and it's a 2-1-2.
Does this go wrong?
It all the time!
Saves himself!
I don't know where Sphinx was.
He had the bomb chat.
That is really the kill that may have saved him here.
Sure, it's actually quite scary.
Long rage back then, but Ximera on notice, but Navi, they weather the storm.
Alright, well both teams within the first six rounds of play have had some issues with pistols
Yeah, that's true
The dig was with Navi and now it's going to make a little bit lighter from Vitality and Extas
Here's an opportunity to get on the micro-firm before the guns come back out
AWP not available for Zywook, Desk discussing how he's more than happy to operate with the rifles in hand
Think of the previous rifle round, they liked what Vitality did, they sold ramp, they grouped up
When Navi went to hit the topside there were so many Vitality bodies ready
Flamedy was the ramp player already up ladder drilling towards top
Which would have been a surprise for Navi. It was just the post plan. It was the number advantage retake that I think Vitality misplayed
Jail, you don't have a gun, bud
That is necessary. You will need one of those time to go back purchase one
No dramas there, but off the back of the time out just for getting that little detail
So focused on the conversation at hand. This is very top focused. Yeah
They want to test this topside hold and apex spings find themselves there as well
Well, so, right resources here, Spinks, right close to receive, but they've really gone past him.
They've gone past him, overlocked completely, Messi's going to be screaming!
He's top! He got past you, Spinks! What can you do?
Finding one on the door, now Zayac has found himself a double, and look at that!
Because again, another round with a good call. They know what was coming.
Think about all the bodies that were there.
While Spinks plays anti-flash, they get into the topside, but there's so many individuals there to respond.
Apex was playing towards main, he was harassing, Zayac was up the ladder.
We're imbiting on the fact that there's going to be a yard play, which is why Apex is celebrating.
Not only is it a good round to win, it's one where he feels that they have made the right
call on where they should stack.
Now, we can credit that to X as he's the one who called the timer.
We'll give him that one there.
And that has forced Navi into one of their own.
So, Blade, he's going to take the opportunity.
Now, like how that one feels, if it's the mind games of who's reading who, what comes next?
What does the mastermind himself have in store?
Yeah, I mean, that reaction from Apex, it tells me so much.
It's a man determined. Paris major champions.
Copenhagen major champions on the other side of the stage.
There's Pedigree here. Of course a different look for Vitality.
Now trying to replicate in CS2. A couple of new names in the mix.
Most definitely, but Apex he's not. He's been around the block.
Zywoo's consent to go hunting our yard.
He'll be the one responsible for providing the answers.
It's the one RVR sending this way towards the yard position.
Supported util, chip damage, Imeh, walking wonky, multiple bodies advancing.
Whose responsibility is to check this smoke?
This feels like it's a dead centre for Alexi Kovac.
It's made it to the turn!
This has gone out just in time.
Finds the Frenchman's head and now Apex catches Imeh.
Look at the wrong way through with a smoke four on four.
And it could change quick because Apex catches another onto a bit.
What's going on here?
Navigate's walking into him.
Yeah, tough start for Bit, one and eight.
One of these players you're going to turn to on the Navi side.
one who has lifted the trophy for Cologne. Compromised circumstances from the hotel, not the cathedral.
Oh, we're definitely back here now. Well, he knows what it's like to lose in this environment,
the phase. Vaan Burnett 2022, only a couple years ago. Two men in the dirt, Emma and Bitt.
We turn to Alexi Jale and wonderful. Now, the bomb was spotted on Alexi out towards
Yard without initial fight, but that was a long time ago. Flamie's starting to have a little
look. This is a deep clear onto JL. And time's starting to run thin. 25 on the clock, they
need to get a move on. Yeah, this is risky. But if they can get past the sole defence of
the Earth, they're sold too now. Flames is around as well. Apex borrowed deep in dark.
15 seconds. They're going to start going loud. Hoping JL can catch one on the red
rotation. He has managed to catch Sphinx but Apex has won the round with that one.
It takes them down, it's vitality again.
This CT side looking promising, that's two consecutive gun rounds.
Important there, this is the round where they had the advantage,
they didn't fumble it like we saw last time round, their sights weren't given up.
And a good division of labour, lots of questions,
didn't overstep the mark with their aggressive maneuvers other than this one.
He feels like we should have had that one dead to rights.
These teammates will make good Apex with another multi-kill.
I think he's just trying to zone in. He has found a lovely resurgence of form coming into
this year. For a while there was a look of almost kind of apathy. He achieved so much
in his rookie year. I imagine it's a bit of that kind of, you know, Kiirby syndrome.
JL's also talked about it winning the getting the major MVP so soon in his career. He
felt that kind of slit. I think when you look at the teammates that he had in the old Navi roster,
simple, electronic, perfecto. Yeah. And then you look at these new guys at the time of every sport.
Hey, I already won the big event. So I'm contending for the, we're starting again.
Yeah, reset. I thought I was already at the end game. And then moving into English as well.
Tough task for anybody. Absolutely.
Well, they've been able to burn plenty of time off the clock, but Vitality's still holding
Not to a decent chunk of you till let's see if not we can get a plan get a kill get any traction
Yeah, you see those helmets on the floor. Well, they're definitely not on the heads of malty. This is an economical
Just an investment into a single flashbang I suppose. Yeah, best case scenario you're getting a kill here
Now without smoke at 35, I think you're right here comes the flashbang and spanks. Oh blind
Opportunity but JL's trying to get that one down towards the low side a bomb plant would be huge an injection of additional cash
And he's across, I don't think he's going to get it, they're running at it.
I want to be happy with that.
Rotation was there, they just missed the shots on the cross, on the unarmed opponent.
No HE to deal with it, the Molly, Synges it down and that will be a plant for now V.
So some extra funds.
Does that result in a wonderful AWP or do they just stick with the AK-47s?
Still, you have to see it all come out in this matchup and we're already flying
rounds deep and heading into 10.
I can't confirm, we will not see one just yet.
So a great plant from JL.
Something out of pretty much nothing.
Yeah, they're what everything they need now.
Couple of those recovered AK-47s, so the one-shot headshot potential for Flames and Mezzie.
Spinks looking to bomb the forward. Hang on, Mezzie.
Spinks, this is a crunch. A lobby crunch, and nobody's home.
Wonderful! Wonderful!
Spotted out! That was the bomb-T roof! Now they know. The penny drops.
It was aggression in the mix and they just recede. They're saying so active here.
Apex spamming away. Good damage onto Wimmet.
They'll have to function at half HP. It's JL that opens up the account and he's
electing to extend it. Catches, spanks, top sights open.
Flames and Zywoo low and here's Wimmet. Spotted out by Apex and he seals the deal.
Thank you very much. He was even anticipating secret.
Is it really a clean sweep?
Zaheer doesn't seem to think so.
He'll joint the AK-47.
Does Navi have responded with a fourth round?
Let's see if Zaheer gets the hold onto this one.
Wonderful to take the five from Mayn
and Swamp Zaheer grabs another bit of JL.
Important over for him. The aggression comes in
and there's just so many moving pieces from Vitality.
After they run into Lobby, they see absolutely nothing
other than that exchange towards Top Roof.
They try to reset. They try to plug all these holes
All these holes in Na'Vi are standing ready to respond.
So a good reaction from Na'Vi,
considering what they were tasked with.
This is the JL opening up.
As he goes, they know that's one of the topside defenders.
Alexi starts the period, deals with Spinks.
I need for the buy.
This could be a fast.
Never mind, they fall out towards the door.
JL willing to take the fight again.
Completely blind for now.
Smoke deep, he's pushing in and dealt with.
with their powers combined they repel the invaders and Anavi have lost the bomb
it now falls and lies in enemy territory smoked off. You are in trouble!
In the middle of the smoke, Bitt tries his hand towards Rav but flames best him as well
that's still only one kill for Bitt. Vitality locked in to close this one
with a five alive in the tail end of this half. Apex has locked the door behind him
Wonderful is going to try and fight his way through this and Zaiwu is his first victim, but a great cast to wonderful Apex Secure.
Is it seven on the CT side?
Four rounds, T-side Nuke is definitely workable, but considering Vitality tend to do
their best work on the T-Havs, maybe now they were hoping for a little bit more.
I think if they get five, they're going to be happy with that seven five T-side Nuke. That should be
in modern play, so that Alexei and Blade can work with.
What did you make of this kind of aggression towards the squeaky door?
What rumbled it? Was it something as simple as just IWU hitting his shot?
You two were good, right? They got blocks, the flashes were good, the mollies were deep, unable to force the issue.
No, forcing issues is Apex! An already bit goes down! An aggressive maneuver squandered!
Apex still not punished! Alexi missed his shot! That'll finally connect!
The bodies have already dropped.
In their court on the cross, Alexi at least scavenges away and upgrade.
We'll find the M4 to try and play his trade. Final round of those first half.
Well, they can't reset knowing that Vitality are quite heavy with these rotations.
He's moving pieces.
Will they lure into the crosshairs yet again?
Jale has been a hero so far, only with a D.G.L. in his hand, you have to do something massive.
Worryed about lobby pushers, ramp as well.
So plenty of problems for Jale considered.
They're hoping something comes their way.
Spokes fading towards door. Jale could, yeah, take this fight,
but it turns out Spinks is the one coming for the clear.
They're happy to take these searches, even when the man advantage, Sphinx looking.
And they get caught out, JL, just a free frag, back of their head, Sphinx will find it.
Only wonderful in Alexi, to try and make a case for a 7-5 half, otherwise Vitality will be 8 already, safe.
On this CT side.
What can you do, wonderful, on the yard, his crossback spotted, a headshot angle, hard to find, Zywouk on his stairs, it's 8-4.
Solid Hall for Vitality, Vitality Clash, a solid start, Vitality settling into things in every individual contributing.
So we've got 13 at the top, and Apex, he's still got 9 at the bottom, Flames the same, this is a big strong start.
So good reasons for that CT start from Dan Maddisclare, you can hear him celebrating there, he was reading Na'Vi's playbook well.
And for now, V-Chat, what do we make of their first half?
Half of the course, feeling out stages, map number one.
We're just getting underway.
This is where we get to see if Alexi V's best of five woes continue.
Their map choice. Up next, we have Dust2.
It's already onto the attack. Apex with the Nades.
HE, Flash, and a smoke. The rest with armor.
All blown open.
Looks like they want to head towards Ram.
Remember, Bitt had a rough first half.
He could turn that around to you.
The death discusses prowess in this position.
they test him immediately on the pistol, scarp ring away and losing his head to flames.
Problematic rotation from Emma towards the fence anticipating this
this bounding block as the bombs being punched by Mezzi. They have to regain
control of this double-door side but they'll do it as a team as a unit playing
with the daughters Mezzi. Alexi walks to investigate that's the flashback, the skill looks good, looks very, very good for Vitality.
He stills in favor of Vitality and it's bit the one task of being tested early
It's his control of ramp that is the difference maker the fact he goes down without any resistance whatsoever. Oh
Flames it he's equal on the other side
And massacres them in the double doors beautiful word from Vitality
They are playing and running with this momentum their individuals are firing
It has been the highest rate of and is currently struggling as mentioned still early stages plenty of time to turn it around
But they're gonna be in a massive hole
Bound to be six rounds of the difference. They've taken the eco.
Raita, they're usually pretty good with converting these, and this is not a force by any means.
And Chad, from your extended experience competing in this video game,
in those high-pressure games, how important is a strong start?
Is it compulsory?
I think in MR12, the conversation about the pistol and conversions has been amped up a notch.
All the in-game leaders are out there saying there's no time to recover,
There's no time to adjust as opposed to the MR15.
You think you lose a couple of gun rounds,
you still have the back half of rounds in MR15
to be able to recover, be able to change up the play.
Whereas in the MR12, you need to be constantly thinking
of what the next move is, multiple steps ahead.
And if you lose a bad clutch, lose an eco round,
have one slip up, that could be a half done
and Dustin right there.
And in the best of five as well, I suppose,
you know, getting that first map,
you're already hopping a step away from the three.
Ugly looking first, gun round for Navi, MP9 for JL, Framus for Bid.
Lexi B, and wonderful, tending to the yard position, Smokes obscure their view.
They're actually trying to get through main, Lexi B seems to have a read of this, he positions as well.
This is it, through the smoke, Lexi B catches flames, overextending towards the main position.
Smokes are fading, Zairu does slip across.
That's the bomb, yeah, they don't have to commit.
So a lot of teams pop back up and try and scale around towards Heaven and help.
He may will not oblige Zawir for a duel.
So information of what resides down to the lower deck is still a bit of a question for Vitality.
More harassment towards that topside.
But starting to pivot, Apex calling them across and taking a dry Apex.
Goes down to wonderful, a must-hit shot for the young Ukrainian.
New angle and a new opportunity. No smoke wall available. We'll just have to be dry.
Yeah, and on a passing glance, on a little swing, he finds info.
He takes those swings, but he saw another.
So now you'll see the CT forces start to reconfigure.
Him has been here the whole time and it is going to be clean on T'Zai when Mezzi remains.
He's coming in hot for the fast but overlooking that position.
Bit catches him, play happy with that one.
Just his second frag but it's the one that closes it down and secures.
Five, that's the first CT round for now.
Yeah, they need him online.
And I wonder right now if Vitality with this four-spot that they're going to bring in
will try and pressure him towards ramp again.
They're able to get out a bunch of AK-47s as I were into a scout, so a scope in play.
Deep harassing NAIDs, Apex.
Constructions at last might continue into this.
One of the few rifles already chipped down to 63 points of health.
Plenty of bodies behind him.
Three on the ground, two in the sky. Sorry, one in the sky.
They're testing Alexi again.
He can play around this.
And he will! One and a half!
Spinks low as well!
Merzy!
Send to the sidelines.
And yard control is there. You can see flames around unbreakable retrieving when I falls in that smoked off for now
They're not on a hurry here chat. They've got 60 seconds, but look at this from the city
This is a reaction. You lose yard. You take something else. Interesting that they didn't drop anybody down to beat
That is interesting the force position accounting for flames is progression
And JL and Emma designed for Zai we threw man now the smoke will make it difficult
Turns the flash, entering the site, and it's one fucking thing!
Jay, it all just around the smoke, has to pick up the bomb, he's got time to work with...
... because of his squeaky door players who had that on lock.
The smoke drops, he has a choice.
I give up full speed.
At the highest level! At the highest level!
And now he needed it now more than ever!
Doors for vitality!
Just in the way that round was shaping up,
but it is such a huge multi, you lose the site because you either drop back to heart,
your teammates can't contribute from the door.
the post-plan to different conversation, that's a completely different conversation, but it's the
finances now, like that round they lose it, Navi are the ones in the issue with the finances,
and now they're just going to farm them. Right, this will be their third consecutive, but that
what was a gaping void of six rounds is fast going to become three. Yeah, they did this in
the first half, right, so they lost the pistol, lost the conversions, then they brought the
rifles down, they were able to pull Vantali right where they wanted them, but it was
about continuing that streak. Vitality punch back, Navi need to keep them at arm's length
if they want to try and chase down this still lead of three routes couple of
confidence boosted for bit doubles is killed total and attack timeout forced
dare I say it from now these resurgence here well last time they took a timeout
they were able to convert to if the same follows through for extents been in and
out of this vitality jersey with a third French component of the roster
alongside of Apex and Zywook.
Speaking of Apex, there he is.
I mean, you were competing against him back in your day.
Yeah, completely different player.
Still loved to get into a biff,
but definitely wasn't calling the shots.
From entry fragger to IGL.
Hey, in the modern day game,
some similarities in some of these positions
are special on the T side.
Okay, don't be scared about it,
we are out aiming them.
We're talking Tegels and it's everything, okay?
We are now aiming better than them, focus on this.
Whoa.
Don't be scared of Tegels, says play.
We are now aiming better than them.
Here we are.
Round 18, map 1.
Strap in.
Nalvi have found some consecutive rounds.
Three on the top, but the gun's back out.
Yeah, Bit with so much money, still opting to rock this MP9.
Working his way back into this game as five kills
on the CT side.
Clear of the smoke, nobody home.
Transitions just in the nick of time, did Bit.
Flash forward into the fight.
Mezzy blind bit, hits him for free, beautiful teamwork and the dink is there, Spinks.
Low half HP, can't be finished off, Spinks has got the double.
That's massive from Spinks, wonderful turn of trade, but in the positive back in Flames.
In this 1v2 with half health, JR was responsible for a lot of clutches in the semi-final yesterday.
That's why Spinks is in this team, to close these rounds.
3 kills already, but it's this 4th one that is oh so imperative.
The bomb is under enemy control.
And JL, he knows that's important.
His life or the bomb, the target.
The sends into the topside.
New avenue of approach.
30 seconds, Spinks brought into this roster to close and he's done it!
The complete wrong way.
Outplayed.
The ugner was great.
You think the damage from bit, beautiful, but this is the win.
This is the miss from Wonderful after he sprayed down earlier.
You think he'd be good for it?
And J.O. caught looking the big one, just as Navi was starting to string together rounds.
But Taliya aren't under trouble just yet.
Sure.
Two rounds away.
Their money's a little bit bleaker.
Five power, not as strong.
And speaking of AWP, Wonderful's brought his out into the mix.
Back 10, two Galils, two AKs.
Throwing at a top fake, that's going to draw bodies and eyes in towards A.
A, but they want to cross yard and they will, but no easily. Apex, he's called them down.
Alexi will have heard this from Redpoll.
So it's our own parked lobby, but we need people to tend to that low site.
Two?
Two different fronts.
And in the smoke, JLides.
Looking away, fight on multiple fronts towards the control room in the lower side of the low.
Bits been caught out completely, throwing out a smoke grenade to play around.
Wonderful has the angle on the cross from Decon.
Doesn't pull the trigger, Flam's going to start closing that gap.
Oh my god, I don't know if Messi saw him. Wonderful is going for a highly aggressive, highly volatile maneuver.
He likes to be in the mean time on the flame!
He gets the vitality, scrambling now, but Spinks is still around.
Bon Bon would be huge, but oh no! Spinks, he is in struggle. Street three to find.
Knows where Wonderful was. J-Al's on his screen and secures the round.
K-Oss.
What was going on?
That was just K-Oss right there. Bit getting caught in the open.
That was tough the lobby aggression still bodies there for vitality to deal with that
So Alexi denies the plan that's usually important because now it becomes in question the fact he gets to double the fact against the second is insane
Much tougher clutch for sphinx
And now back down to eco for vitality
This is where the comms get chaotic the decisions in the moment can be punished and the pressure of the final
It's us to stress the individuals on the stage. Another moment of respite for Na'Vi.
So because they don't fall foul to multiple Deagles,
Tag 9 couple of clocks in a flash.
But you prepare your setups with your opponents by mind, right?
Oh for sure. But nothing's going to stop a Zywoo one, Deague.
What do we want there? Drops off the silo.
Run boost.
Run boost is all distractions. It's so deep.
The Deagle from Zylo is overlocked, but look at that! Wonderful!
Clean with it!
The Methasame sweeps two under the run, Spinks lost a full elabor spray!
Interestingly, after they won the rounds where it was a 3v1 against Spinks,
they didn't or couldn't get the AWP back for wonderful
and it's likely that one could have been purchased or dropped.
I didn't have full scope of the money, but they haven't brought it forward.
Guys, I'm sorry that we lose rounds because we're not playing together.
together. We better than 10, but we play for our 7 men.
Yeah, for our 7 men, I'm sorry, guys.
But let's fucking wake up and do what we do.
Apex demanding some focus, gonna play together.
It's a team game after all, the individuals can swing.
But you're gonna get this done as a unit.
This time heavy lobby presence from Vitality.
Josiah would award to you to try and
create some presence in space.
Emma already wrote down to awards B,
so they trust that the smoke wall means something.
back to bid. This is his ram. Zark is a bullet into his head just through the
the metal, preserves his life and Zaywu has been caught out outside. In that early descent
down the vent has resulted in a Zaywu opening kill or opening death I should say. His body
now idled outside the secret stairs. Limited util for the finish here by Talatia man down
they are testing bit no secret their occupation bit delivers a headshot his
occupation you met perfect position here to tonight man advantage though is that
really something for vitality in this one where is his help where is the
support maybe he doesn't need it with flames gone
the advances in to clear out the position and now that bomb will likely go down
I say that Alexi already towards the double door swings it open to ensure
they're away and aware that that bomb plant will be spammed. Two of the men are exposed but
Mezzy still puts them all down. JL gone. Wonderful necessary kill. Up to Spinks. Two to
fine. Finds a plant spot he can work with. Wonderful Alexi running it down. Double pick.
Gonna put some respect on Bit's name as well. I know that he's towards the bottom of the
scoreboard. He gets that dink early through the walls at ramp but he doesn't just turtle up.
He still plays forward and gets a kill on Apex so they know that the fight's coming.
they know that it's going to be the B play most likely. That's how Zahua got caught by Emma.
This one gets awkward. Jail full commits to the spray from Double Door. He wasn't being able to get
covered, but at least traded. So some tense moments as the third tactical timeout for Vitality
has been called into use. 3.5 for those on the low ends. Just over 4K for the likes of
Mezzi and Spinks. Max loss bonus into the next. This is the type of round where you can
get tricky with your investment. You don't have to shove all in. Leave a little bit of extra cash so
you can have a full buy-round going into the next, but keep the pressure on. This is still a very
winnable round with what you have at your disposal. You do not want to allow Narvi to accrue any more
cash money. A couple more kills, get the bomb down again. Don't let them off the hook easily.
Does look pacing. They're coming towards Spitz domain once again. Is he ready? Yes, he is!
He's medleyed out, tracking another double kill!
Puts down Zywoo and now charging into MMR!
Oh dear!
You wanted to make it costly!
You wanted to keep it close!
Instead, you've got a single frag and a single player left alive.
This map has been both pistols for Vitality.
Only one gun round since.
And a few rounds where they have tried to pressure Bitt at ramp.
They're pressing tough just like we are.
Typing what appears to be a weakness, but that means that Vitaliy haven't really been able to establish a pattern
Cracks in terms of what could work. It's more explosive direct approach. It is being dealt with now
We are tied up 11-0, 8-4 at the half
We said it was workable and Na'vi agreed
Not just 8-4, 9-4, 10-4
From 10-4 we find ourselves at 11-11
And I know what Vitality are wishing for
And that's the classic apex frustrations that's a mainstay in the Vitality camp
Demands a lot from his team but understandably so
Third time a Cologne grand final. Oh wonderful on the jump spot of the head over to what silo aware of the presence
You still being lined up
And it's with the smoke can also do a flash from this position that completely blinds main
Oh, look how that's gonna be the follow-through. He's got other ideas.
Again, though, you want to talk about direct approaches. Four members of the Vitality Squad.
But it's just Alexi.
He's playing in some breakable position. A flash for his VP. Just confirmed multiple bodies.
Spots the bomb there. Awkward in the flames.
IGL on IGL. Apex brings it down. Apex!
Finding wonderful Awkward now for NLV and Vitality.
They can pause the spings he hasn't he's catching big completely off guard. Yeah, they're still down here
This is a crazy rotation from Navi. They won't expect this
If anyone scouts at that top site
Flames towards main good so quickly drop in
Confirm their suspicions, but instead hang on its apex every round up the bed
That has to be the call still plenty of time to do this. Maybe he's gonna invest to get over to woods
He just to be certain. Well, we can't see and we can't find him. Where are we gonna finish apex? Oh, no
Oh! Hopes us from getting a little nervous about that one.
Would have been an insane 1v5, sure.
But the fact that Navi rotated three bodies down towards B
after Alexi takes contact and gets singed towards yard,
it's an apex double.
And I said that these players,
similar positions on the defense,
well, it's apex on the attack,
cracking yard open,
a necessary round to get them 12.
Na'Vi on this stage yesterday were under pressure against Maus similar situations having a battle
back in close affairs over time well that's where they need to go right here right now
if they want to stay in contention for their map choice map number one of the best of five
Nuke otherwise Vitality can run with the momentum into dust too. Na'Vi Nuke their selection
As the first map of play, Vitality can end it here and take it away from them.
No kit, no money to afford that.
Apex puffs up his chest, spams the smokes, throws out the nades.
Starts his progression.
He's been some flames responsible to contain the lobby.
JL in there.
Towards the A site.
Supportive util for Apex. He's going to try and use this.
Yeah, he'll use that smoke to guide his push.
Alexi doesn't know. It's an uncertainty and nobody's looking his way!
What the f**k?!
Close to Inter getting caught on that quick switch, but he does just enough.
And this is a great catch as well, really sealed it, the deal with the final frag.
Oh, you can understand the pounce. You can understand what Vitality getting the move on.
Apex gets that kill. They want the follow through. They want the knockout blow.
This is a complete change of the setup.
In the... traded out early.
Bit the f**k round play up in warehouse.
He's been spotted on the crossback. The AWP not in yard.
How quick can Vitality piece this together?
Nezzy just taking J.O. in the meantime. Pressure everywhere.
Lots of moving pieces in this one.
Look at Apex.
Alexi B responsible, and now his position is noted by throwing out that incendiary.
Apex in a power position.
There is no way, Alexi's ready for this!
Oh, a lovely start for Vitality, finding gaps up against the very best.
Thomas is there to smoke off ramp. Make sure there's no push in play.
Vitality got me eyes across the tee.
He's been announced as his present spam.
It's just alive.
But Vitality, hard to see you losing this one.
It's a completely different look.
Coming into this OT, the AWP towards Ram,
maybe thinking there might be a bit more bit pressure.
Wonderful, doesn't get any action.
Emma going one for one.
It's JL, who is the hero in the previous.
Falls in the follow-up without any resistance.
And Vitality break through.
Wonderful brings everything through.
a full buy. Do we see yard aggression from Nabi? That's the question. Do they want to stall
out a lot of these movements? If you all in via classic yard aggression, you get one player
close ready, do you want to play on the close side? You can also push a player up, slither
through the main smoke, get ready to fight towards the T's coming out and then have
your AWPer overseas silo. That's an all-in maneuver. That's literally shoving all
in. If you shut down yard, you win the round. You don't. You don't. See what
they call. I feel they have to go for something either more turtle or more
aggressive because right now it feels like they're in between the two minds.
Yeah like a tempered defense. It's not going to be yard focus or centric but
wonderful does find himself here and we could have had a head to head Zywoo is
on that silo providing the overwatch and cuppa for his teammates. A clear of the
smoke, a chance for wonderful. This is what past the Goddess aggressive apex
He's happy to fight brings the upper down to just an inch of HB
Seven for wonderful now they can just stand look at him standing on the red box and how is him a found out spinks
Some smoke games from ime
You know what's up
And who is it buck bit tasked with setting himself up in a position to defend that low side
Im is aggression is called apex he was the lurk towards the red container now the body of the assault
starts to converge onto this B bomb site.
And at the play, the Mezzi!
Oh! It facilitates a plant.
It can't be disrupted.
They're going to have cover from Zywoo.
Looking towards the rampside,
Alexi B descending the vent.
This is an important fight with Mezzi at the same time.
4v3 goes 4v2.
Sure, you've got the bomb down.
But can you defend it?
Mezzi, what you got?
Is there anything here for Zywoo?
Hit, pushing squeaky, flanking yard.
And then slamming the door.
Shut in Zywoo's face.
There's no clutch for you, he says.
So active.
Look at all the places they may go to kill this round.
You have to feel this round shouldn't have even
started to get out of control with the big number advantage.
It's just not on his mark right now.
That shot, we have the advantage against Mezzi.
Vitality, try to make a round out of things.
Fucking important, national, the schoolboys.
Wonderful, trying to touch him, aggression.
There and overtime.
Oh no! An opportunity presented itself!
The backside of Apex slipped into his crosshair but he's unable to pull and convert!
A re-aggression seems...
This is risky.
Absurd.
The information has flown. They know where you were.
But are they expecting you to have stuck around?
A pausey call from Wonderful but by starting to recede now, vitality have paused.
Intending lobby control.
Look at all the nades left for Vitality, still so much to do for the finish, plenty of flashes.
Molly's in the mix.
First off is JL, that Molly top-hunt, and now dipping down the vents, multiple bodies,
and they will hear this, what's he got?
Apex has to try and beat him down.
From either side, he's getting crunched in.
His knees by Apex and a 2-on-2, but look at their health, 16 points of health for
this French duo in Cologne court.
It started to look like a hero in overtime.
The reroute from Vitality, they note the AWP towards Ram.
They don't want to test the ward as they drop back,
they find the gap down the vent,
but Emmett delivers a multi-kill massive work from him.
He was there at the start of the round.
We cut to him just kind of jump spotting for info.
We were so focused on the AWP,
but Vitality had been able to get an individual down towards secret.
So something within the round told Apex,
we should not try and brute force Ram.
We need to look for another way.
Another option to get down towards B, but Navi had an answer.
God, some of these rounds are very, very close, but...
It is solid. A 2-1 scoreline coming into our second half of our first maps over time.
Navi still rolling with the 5-0 AK-47s as part of their T-side.
Keeps them a lot more adaptable. Doesn't lock him into just setting wonderful up for picks on the AWP.
Because I always got his out on the other side.
Let's see what kind of trend they set.
To start us off, it's a headshot from JL.
Spinks brings the fight to the squeaky door, and JL happy to apply.
Yeah, you're bang on there. That's pretty meditated.
That's Spinks saying, I will go and duel against JL.
You know he's going to be there.
You know that's his domain.
So wanting to see if this head-to-head can continue.
They drop sideways AWP down towards B immediately.
He's going to be AWPing from secret.
You hear the smokes, the mollies, and well, now the info that you've got is dead.
Wow, what a big one back from Apex.
He is playing a very solid game of Counter-Strike, keeping up with the younger guns.
This is the gap.
Trading the needle on RV.
Search of 15, in search of securing the double low tier to minimum.
That molly from JL, Wulsen Mezzi, scattering elsewhere.
Flanky's also fortified this A site.
Wixi's starting to pivot them back.
JL could get another, the timing's on his side.
JL's done it!
It's such a crucial moment of the game, JL finding form.
A double kill.
Look at this.
Yeah, there is something afoot.
You can see it's being considered.
Flames is about to be wrapped upon,
and Apex has got himself a real opportunity
to win the round with a flank.
Unlike anything!
Double kill from Apex!
And it still might not be enough!
Zywoo can come up clutch for vitality!
Bit under pressure for 20 seconds!
Zywoo's blind!
Laban, that's for sure.
It's Apex who's the hero,
who's the one who makes that possible.
How has he gone behind them? So active!
We saw him towards main with that nice equalising frag and he just started to crawl and creep and crawl and managed to find it as the capitulation for Navi, pivoting between sights and thoughts.
You think it's done after Jail does so much damage that around, felt like it should have been Navi's every day of the week when the apex push was inspired.
He wants this more than anything. You heard him in the interview.
He says almost success here is not success
He's sick of getting to Grand Finals. He wants to take the trophy home this time
Vitality wants to take the trophy home this time. Oh
Damage yeah, that's her
Humor's options are gonna be limited now and don't forget how impactful he has been in this overtime 28 kills
He's gonna settle for a moment. What are the decisions both of these teams staying active?
always a flank
Hitting the brakes 45 seconds, Alexi's gonna have to come up with a call.
Spinks was flirting with some ideas of clearing.
And instead, just dips himself down.
Risky rotation, considering the circumstances.
Nezzi, under scrutiny, flashes at his feet.
Flames the same, Zywoo, just a dink, but maybe Nezzi
can hold on to this sight.
A man advantage, Spinks is coming up the first.
Only him who stands between the man and there's no damn time.
There's nothing for him here against Nolvi.
It's been all about the CT side, doesn't it?
Well, depends if you're going to put the frame in.
The struggles of the T sides, indeed.
Chattality with both pistol rounds in this map
and the fact that still has gotten here, still has gotten to overtime.
They've been forced to work hard for the individuals delivering Apex especially.
Said yesterday against all was a life game.
Well, it looks like he needs to now to propel his team to first map victory.
Five more kills.
a bit more aggression easier said than done but simple when you boil it down cross
even a wall bang it's just perfectly placed coming apart the seams now he
catches him holding on to his topside valiantly and wonderful finds a way back
in hasn't looked down though has he little does he know apex resides in a
forward position and now that flank you discussed he could be overlooked they
We are starting to depart, when does Apex start to poke his nose into the potential?
For now Bithold's lobby for his return of Alexi and Wonderful.
Just three kills away from starting this grand final with the first map.
The testing spanks, messy flames, everyone here ready to contribute.
Headshot onto Apex, what a single cologne trophy for France.
After having such a presence in the game.
We'll play a part in bringing the first one home to France
Flames now spots him out wonderful will need to support him because he's got a he on his face
So no only working the 60 points of power
cautiously fighting flame just the tip of his head, but that's all bit me off a bit
Pressure onto apex on this side playing the rap position holding the angle the flames obscure on the same and Messi's
P2k that is so much to start off their CT side on it will do nothing here
Yeah, well, it's good for Navi to come into the turf of itality and pick up the pistol round after vitality getting both on the previous map
Mezzie not long for this world JL
I don't opportunity to remove him, but now knows the position of Mezzie backing off
I think the focus definitely is on the likes of bit for now be and well
Zywu based off of what the desk was discussing and his lack of impact on those T side gun rounds
And astonishing stat really
And Chad coming into this one, you know
We talked about exclusivity versus more the structure of Navi surely does too
Surely that leans towards an explosive team a team that can go and take these fights and pack roll up the guts of long up
The guts of me well, that's my vitality of pick this right?
It's a map where they can definitely have those type of pace changes
And maybe when Navi have opted to start on the T side they get to dictate a little bit more of the tone
However with the changes over the years with dust to
The lack of being able to pick a directly from small having a drop down in towards death alley
They've boost up towards that short box position in the most recent update for the map.
It does allow more options for the CTs to play things a little bit differently.
Vitality, they've opted in with a force fire, but strangely enough, haven't brought out
a scout.
No, they've rather crunched, and they're going to get a lot of answers about Upper
B. No one's there.
It's just going to...
JL knows they know.
Yeah, well, we just quickly push Nami in towards A. You have to worry about a
scout right but we can see there's not one in the mix they are fast on this they
are very fast on this.
Oh he's goes down early that's a big catch from Alexi B they can advance now, Zayu long range SMG is not the best weapon for the job and JL will prevail.
Is Galil good for it? Decision to be made here perhaps a second fight of the cherry better for vitality.
Keep the kerf keep the guns have another go it would have otherwise been an eco.
I think Zaewoo even got the jump on JL there with how quick he was.
JL just parked himself up behind the car, seeing if he could deal with the push-up mid,
but Zaewoo hunting him down through spawn.
So now there's still an conversion, as you mentioned.
A few little bits and pieces carried through into the next one,
but I decided to stay a bit of a threat.
Now number one delivered, as we would have all hoped.
Overtime affair of the best of five.
So we will see what type of paces these two teams push us through.
I think when you win the Major with less rounds, one than lost.
Yeah.
Right?
I'm just making sure I'm framing that correctly.
I think you're right.
Yeah.
I've definitely seen that.
Now that it shows you that they've eked through a lot of games.
They just by the skin of their teeth.
Even by their own admission. I think that major came early. It wasn't an expectation for Navi, but they're definitely going to take it with both hands
So what three saves
Nothing to really get concerned about unless Navi make an overstep right so if they go out long right now
Yeah, sure some problems
We're gonna have to wait and see how this shapes up with the rotation on the mini map top left of your screen
But Navian in a hurry. They're not in a rush. They want to find out where these foot faults light a
Good time around to take a breath make sure that everybody is focused in you've taken
Break between the maps you've known it was close. You knew that you're in with some good chances
And a bit can get into the play which you made a statement on the pistol rounds. Well now we're cooking. It was fantastic
Joe having his moments wonderful with that spray down. I think Alexi was calling a decent game
But Vitality, it was Apex and it was his calls towards the tail end with those stacks.
Every time Navi came knocking it was that topside. There were so many bodies to deal with.
So patience being a virtue. Now they will look to take this long control, upshore as well.
Then swing it to what should be an ace split.
Dramas reside on the other side. It's all very sight-centric for Vitality at this juncture.
Who's Apex flashing for?
Si, we're mantling up.
We'll just use that to reposition forward position.
And down, down goes Apex.
Sorry, we've spotted out. Get awareness there for him, Matt.
Not gonna run past it, not in a hurry. 35 seconds as there's the Mezzy Famas.
And it is only gonna get one nice long range shot from bit of course a headshot.
Did you see his headshot percentage in that semi?
Yeah, pretty wild, which is why he's one of the MVP candidates coming into this grand final.
Over 90% headshot.
And it's not like he was under-fragging either.
The AK will make the head-shotting a little easier for Spinks if he can preserve it.
Oh, wow, nice good demonstration. Takes down the headhunter.
Well, this is great damage. Three kills, there'll be a lot of rebies for Na'Vi.
They don't want to give anything else over. A wonderful one.
Blade should be happy with that. This issue is the casualties against Glacell.
So, this wonderful was not able to scavenge an AK.
We'll have to carry through with the Galil.
But the rifle's about to come out for team vitality.
Good shot. And this is the one we saw long range from Mezzi's POV. Yeah, didn't get much of a chance in that one.
But only now it's time for the guns. Now we get to see how the CT side for vitality fares up against now V3-0.
And the AWP is out for wonderful.
Yeah, not the same for vitalities. I would.
Just on the M4A1S at the moment, he's forward on the blue bin.
Shows a little something that's a threat
They've been blocked in there immediately trying to take some space has been able to scurry down middle ahead to head against apex potentially
Who that one? Oh, it really hurts in there cut down to HG's well placed
Blames trying to keep him a baby
Into the spray lovely from flames
catches them
Just as they try to merge out long
Walking wounded in more way than one right now in a low as well as the man disadvantage
Space on in favor of now V wonderful an opportunity on these doors. It's a perfect weapon for these clears
Spinks is happy to hold with apex and toe
So audible
this mount
And Alexi be calling his troops into a finish
In a versus apex could happen
And that would be uncomfortable
him at the late piece holds that top mid push it's not coming just yet flames
stalwart on long messy tucked in will likely be overlocked here he's ready
only the one the spring falls as well JL has made a round out of this the site
there's bomb on his back heading over to the side for a plant email as well
don't forget about the damage he's got 10 winning out that jewel putting
apex down the kit available for this retake yet to reloads I will nine
bullets may not be sufficient for two kills but flames can contribute as well
look at their health he's not gonna molly bricks instead the big box
he swings into him it's too easy
really good trade work from JL on the way in towards the B bombsite there the
multi-kill he gets facilitates an opportunity for Navi to even play that
post plan tough to pick your position for that post plan if you're Navi as
well due to the HP so they're playing in spots that they likely won't get
native won't get mollied. A little bit of frustrating scenes there for JL
considering the work that he put in but Vitality only walk away with two so they
will have to get the drops coming through. Zahruz does get the AWP, wonderful
can have one yet again and play back on the mic. First santicle time out early
on in the piece. Just two. I imagine whether you truly gets to have
complete run of the roots. We had a game earlier in the tournament where
Zahruz was AWPing middle on that T side and he was doing damage through
doors time and time again. If the orping presence can be a fear factor on either side of the server
it will have huge implications. There's going to be an extra flash, an extra jiggle, is there a
run boost required? You're going to have to be as tricky as possible, barrel baits, not just the
shoulder. Us two can be an orper's paradise, but which one of these is going to catch fire?
Not bad for Wonderful. I also want to keep your eyes on Vitality with a lot of these flash
plays towards middle, go up towards long, elbow spotted, now wait for the smoke to plume.
That's Flamesy, well rehearsed in that scenario, a lot of players can pick a little bit early
on that smoke, it does take a little bit longer to plume. Yeah just that protocols,
the fundamentals on long, Flames has done well to avoid the potential for an aggressive AWP
success. They want to talk a bit of aggressive, are they flashing him? He has a look,
He has more than a look, calls it clear, now Bits realising, hang on, I think they might be something fishy afoot and now another flash in his face!
Oh!
Oh, I was just saying to watch the flash plays from Vitality, that's more towards middle.
Apex and Speaks through these alley-oops, but Apex setting up Flamesy, that is pre-meditated, that right there, that's the homework being done, how can we isolate the lock pages?
That's a beautiful little sequence, the difference makers is Emma, again, Lez is head out middle, he's aggressive.
He wants to fight now, but there's an AWP!
We know what it can do in the hands of Saewoo!
But now what do you do if you're now a V?
You know there's a player watch spawn as that rotator.
You know the AWP is under watch A ramp and Spinks is now in tunnels!
2 V 5!
They're everywhere!
I'm getting pushed on B, I'm getting pushed on Long!
Precisely!
They have been harassed all across the map.
Everywhere Na'Vi stepped within this round,
they were dealt with handedly.
That is a beautiful round from Vitality.
And it wasn't just through the guts, it wasn't through short.
It was through the extremities of the map that they made their presence known.
Navi have to offer the save and Alexia wonderful so they have something threatening into the next round to play but that
You love to see the creativity
And you've got to have players that are willing to follow the call
You know flames is doing everything apex demands that as he pulls the strings
It's flamesy that's doing the dance. Well, this is the thing if you apex
You probably say a bit of yourself in an individual like flamesy a stubborn buck young and wanting to take the fights
Essentially at all times if anything it's reeling him in the tends to be the problem
So the fact that he can have an opportunity to fight where they can set him up for that type of aggression and it pays off
You add that to the type of calls the type of CT stacks the apex was calling his team into on nuke
You're adding a lot of feel-good moments in this in game leader head-to-head between apex and a lexie
Lexi looking to dispel those best of five woes
and they are woes
Something about the DO5 has not jelled with a lexie so far a single map win and many opportunities
Orbs searching has to
Needs to be the can opening around like this one of the retained rifles with the force by behind it
Want to set him up as much as you can
Pull up the trigger or noted wonderful activates upon that information starts to progress up short nerd smoke to a facilitate cross
Apex's reaction is interesting actually dips off the ramp and head CT so the somewhat plain retake right now
If it is a short execution, we might give them the sign.
But as we can see, little orange dots have different plans.
The lurk smoke on B drew Sphinx back from middle.
Sphinx and Mezzie to shut down the fight
that's coming their way with 45 seconds.
The flashes have to be perfect.
And that, what a perfectly timed smoke,
might spell a bit of disaster for now.
The time is going to be the biggest issue.
It's getting awfully quiet across the map now.
Mezzi, just as he was making other plans, tends to his sight, does well for the first five.
Mezzi delivers a double, it's up to Spinks to close and he's only got the one in him
because one before has done enough to facilitate plan two on two.
A retake, we've been here before.
Can Vitality best them once more?
There's more health this time, at least for Wonderful.
He's already got two kills.
Can the Yopah pick up a big round for Na'Vi?
Alexi, guard! He did a fend and secure the fourth round for Na'Vi.
Steady shooting from Alexi, they're important round from him.
I said it's getting quiet. Well, he comes out middle.
He's able to deal with that rotation point.
He makes this more segregated.
He actually buys time for the rest of the beat here from Na'Vi
to trade out and take their jewels at their leisure.
The clock and issue, sure, but it's not as rushed.
You're not under pressure immediately.
You don't win the side-fights and then you're worried about more players coming your way straight through CT small ready to deny
Yeah, I thought you set it up and Alexi chose a very good position for it
But we got quite back-and-forth with these tactical timeouts extras
With a moment of response to vitality to talk through their options they can buy
They could definitely bring the guns in to defend their honor
And Navi are only at a two round lead.
They've been tussling in this first half of play.
Pistol conversions, Vitality into the guns with success.
Now Navi strike back.
Wonderful, I think he's spotted a little bit just on the front of that smoke.
Apex is aggressive, very aggressive.
He knows his angles well, well, good job!
I think he's mouse wheeled that.
I think that's a mouse wheel accidental.
And it may result in a frustrated IGL.
That is his sick death empty handed into our second map and this hurts considering how impactful he was on the CT side of nuke
He's got to take the rough with the smooth can his team bail him out
aggressive maneuvers
Resulting in an RV advantage
Claims and Spinks tasked with containing middle of a Raj of utility starts to hit the doors
so they're cheating over
It's a lot of gaps on the map,
but Vitality again are looking
to hedge their bets. Are they
going to send out any probes on
the navi side to see what
resides? You give one back to
404. It might feel futile, but
they go for the crisscross.
They're not up count. Alexi
there as well. Wonderful with
the bomb. You feel like this
has to be the a finish. There's
nobody to apply any resistance.
Yeah, I got a smoke. No mollies.
Smokesman molly is nothing coming their way
And now they found flames dropping off was in it
But that's the long outcome
It's something to work with how is this fallen apart with JL searching out mid the site is there
But it's the round it's the round still up to the base till they give this a go
They're kid on messier molly and play as well. You may as well give it a look
It was gonna be the same but now they're getting into the fight up cat with two
Oh, he man J.R. watching through their fingers here.
Alexi getting spammed on through the smoke and replenish.
Oh, for sure, smoke.
That might do it.
Does he have a look?
Zaiwu's been searching long.
Flames still see T.
Thinking about it, it's hanging in the balance.
One kill, Woodard made the difference.
And now Messi goes down and lose all their guns.
Spinks the only one with an M4 and he's got to save it.
That's five.
Another one of these scenarios that looks good for Navi
then gets threatening in the blink of an eye.
Catching JL trying to slip through that CT smoke, that's what made it possible, but as soon as they get blocked over to what's short, you think that has to be the point at which you call the save.
Wonderful was taking multiple targets, he was looking towards CT, then thought he might have got caught by long. That right there is the mouse wheel, man.
That kill comes in and Wonderful immediately acknowledges long, that's where the real fire was coming.
ahead of this bit bit it's ballsy running out long into some HG stack
covered by JL but they both go down a safe rifle a single deagle
Emma has to search for this he has to there no sphinx is a B defender he was
just spotted long he needs to isolate this 1v1 it's up to Mezzi it is all on
the Brit here he only has a pistol a tiny P250 it's not enough for that kind
a range and yeah Emma knows what that means by taking down Nezzie. He lets his
boys know that the B bomb site is a safe haven. Alexi B is tending to middle, Zyrus missing shots but so is Alexi!
It's surely still safe but hang on Apex is just has to hit one bullet. Shadow wonderful spotted body shot.
This has to be Narvi's round. Costly but it can't cost them the momentum.
thinking about poking their nose in, the flash will be from Apex.
Imma blind, full blind!
He goes down!
Ruffle and a dream, Zywu delivers a gift of vitality!
Another retake on that B bomb site.
Imma makes the right call.
He goes into watch B on his own after this calamity unfolds a lot.
It takes that nade damage, gets isolated.
Alexi not connecting the dot onto Zywu does come back to haunt them as he is the hero
That's the impact that Vitaliy are looking for.
If it's not one freshman, it needs to be the other.
And while this is the normal candidate,
the type arounds Na'Vi need to be converting.
Sylvester's done to Na'Vi immediately.
Finances in question, Deagles take nine to Emma,
taking another risk, another gamble, so much space.
Apex is rotating back nine for him.
He's got no idea.
Flames to HD.
Scarpa's away, but this is a nice response from Na'Vi.
Jail has the rotation towards Short.
bit in tow. And just the short-lived celebrations of a low economic round going away of Vitality.
But Navi, they are not fussed at pro-activity there from in there. Oh, nice shot.
Yeah, important work from him and two back-to-back rounds. I know they didn't convert the previous,
but the fact that he didn't get scared when they were down a number,
some individuals on the extremity might say, all right, hold up, let's just wait,
will group up and we'll try and trade.
He got them the space to get the bomb down, which held with some of these purchases.
And then he just launches himself up Catwalk, short, made a mere limit,
but still got in towards the side, forced by Talid into the save!
JL can't take anything with him!
So back in for a go again, just as by Talid, he went a miracle round.
You think they could start to get to work on this CT side?
Tag time out call, Dextas on the mic,
Blade will have the freedom to do so as well.
This was the death of a...
That could be right, completely called out.
not ready for him to be so far up short in that momentary gap. Yeah, the clock comes out and the fact that he's so keen to go for that type of a fight.
Okay, the frustration from apex, maybe the comms can coming in late. This is some of the information that you need. If you're the a rotating rifle, which apex is flames, the anchors long, I was the AWP right apex wants information from his mid to be defender
on if they can be up Catwalk.
So, whether that came or not, we've got no way of finding out.
And he could just be frustrated at himself for expecting it to not be a possibility,
but a ballsy call from Emma.
An important kill into a round one.
Pushing his beard around that corner.
Smoke exposed and a deleted lovely team play to start.
It's Zywil and Flames named Plated.
Looks like this being handled, doesn't it?
It does. 4th and 7th so far in this second map.
and the other clear that you
might expose this catwalk walk.
No one noted. JL and Emma.
Swamps will for lower and short.
It's one of the conversations
with this Navi roster. Some of
these extremity players JL and
bit have had their time in the
sun and Emma would be going,
okay, well, where is this
game? Allegiant MVP level
performance in a major. He
didn't get it, but it was of
that. They all can. Oh, Apex
cover the corner. Orp can now mantle up and hold the line. But if we have to turn to Immet to find the impact, well, then we have to turn to Immet, says Navi. He's definitely capable. He's having a good tournament too.
So I was searching for this. He wants to get ahead of them. He's the Molly. That Molly will enforce a decision out of it. Does have the smoke grenade. Flashbang lands though, and he's just going to be crouching away, finding an angle. Overlock completely.
Triple kill over here by WONDERFUL!
But that is MASTERFUL from ZAWU!
Yeah, you feel he's done enough, don't ya?
JL WONDERFUL, not even connected.
You said you wanna find out whose paradise it is, it's definitely looking like ZAWU.
The more comfortable after two.
JL onto flames, apex repositions.
JL was brought low, and WONDERFUL has the bomb.
Getting across this, two players, covered it by the flames.
Nice adjustment, taps the head, gets across, sphinx is missed and shot, and waited a second!
That bomb is planted!
They haven't got their health, but this is going to be great!
Oh!
Stressful!
Sweat on the brow, and that's Apex's first kill to secure the round.
Damn, how does Zywoo get away with that towards the car position?
The Molly comes in, the flash is great, he's getting singed.
But they don't believe anybody's home.
He's just tucked behind it. This is the opener.
They've got bit's number at the moment.
Cars on fire, but Zywoo's not.
Keeps his cool, locks down two more frags.
Yeah, an Alexi.
Not happy with how that one unfolded.
How cool do you have to be to see the molly land at your feet, your face blinded, white screen and you still crouch and navigate, keep yourself hidden, overlooked by an RV.
Yeah, well the flashes have been working against, I would just go back to Nuke.
The bit 1v1, he's completely blind, parting back through the door, having no issue with the white screen, still gets to deliver it now, a flavor of aggression.
This is a different look, bringing the fight to SMGs and tech 9 to AK-47s.
Far from ideal, here's the flash set up.
Zywin was not responsible for lower.
Spinks calling for the flash, wants to fight.
Wonderful. Oh, no vision, but no problem.
Spinks hits the shot, bit, we'll find the trade.
The rifle upgrade.
They're advancing mid, they want to test,
and Zywin's off though, it's perfectly set up to collect.
Oh, he's actually no, he's tucked away from window.
Now he returns to it, could be perfectly tied.
And Zywa again is 11th and puts Ime in the dirt.
You have to go A. You know that Orp is over to Wurz B.
You'd want to try and scurry up Catwalk on Isolator 5.
Zywa's bringing the fight.
Oh!
Watch face, Bitscon, JL could be Zywa's next.
Oh, he's so aware!
The re-aggression, the multi-gills keep coming.
And the XCB feels helpless. He really is.
You can see things are starting to get a bit frazzled for now.
and they were still working out who was taking what at the start of this round.
It didn't help the Vitality opted to start things aggressively.
Spinks teeing off with the opener and then from there,
Navi trying to worm their way into any preferences they can.
So I always dealt with the problems and Alexi might just be hoping for the save.
We're going to get to the final round of the half.
The loss bonus only 1900 and that's due to the back and forth nature of this game.
It hasn't been clean counter strike.
That's to be said for either side as our blade take in some notes, Alexi trying to defend his honour.
Worst case he'd go down after time.
Apex will give him at least a little something to work with.
And a miserable buy for the final round of the first half and a second map for Na'vi.
So I was becoming a real nuisance. Apex, lovely name.
We saw this trajectory square on the jaw of bit.
So our final round of this second map's first half, we'll need to limit Sphinx's aggressive options, he's still sticking around the doors.
Skaumfire's off a couple of shots, warning shots across the doors.
Yeah, noisy through Lara as well, so on their haunches, Sphinx and Apex are aware that a mid to be pop could be a possibility with pistols.
Just go back to round with the save rifle, a couple of pistols, Zaheer getting four on that B retake.
It's a frustrating round for Navi to lose, but ramifications, they could have had the half win.
Now they have to just settle for what would likely be a 6-6 unless they can pull out a miracle with this investment.
Apex banking on a mid to B or a B hit, but right now, very short-centric, it's just a rifle of flames.
He's, I will have to cheat back and leave the gap of long if they think it's going to be the A play up Catwalk.
Yeah, it's really putting a lot of faith into Flames.
Three on the wrong side of the map as this hit starts to come in.
Flames does miss the first opportunity, but Zywu in support.
Zywu doesn't hit his second shot.
Flames has gone down. The site will be taken.
Alexi tasks with getting that bomb code punched, but Zywu!
A headshot to Wonderful. That was all that was visible. Just takes him down.
So Nonsha along with it.
And now so uncomfortable, sure the bomb is down,
But is this are going to be another vitality retake?
It looks good because Alexi's low HP after his battle with Apex.
Bit will get aggressive, but now they're pushing George.
Good from Spinks, needs more.
But about half gone. Apex approaching towards the wrap.
JL's actually hit it with the scout and Apex got...
Second map, best vitality a map to the good.
They took one, they took Navi's map, pig of Nuke.
Can Navi return the favor? Can Navi take vitality's dust, too?
And this pistol means an awful lot.
We're getting action in map number two. Plenty of retake scenarios unfolding within that first half of play.
Let's see if we can say the same for the second door smoke.
Count the gates. Three towards Cat. Navi want to fight.
They're bringing in the fight.
And it's going to work out wonderfully. Long range.
Pitt uses the dual-barrettes to great effect. He tames it as well with wonderfuls.
Hopefully finds Zywoo. No contributions from Zywoo in this pistol.
Well, careful now, Apex. You've got the bomb. Your teammates have found some space.
a lexie looking to address that smoke will limit his contributions wonderful
perhaps could do more on the side he's been spotted towards the Gandalf position
flames jumping gets that info knows where two of them are one shot one Gandalf
and a well-placed Molotov but he's pushed the smoke away it struggled in map number one
but coming into map number two is that impact in both pistol rounds and if I
wonderful right there I am giving an extra thank you to my in-game leader
for that distraction I was pinned I was stuck and I was on fire but he
He drew the attention so I could take him down with me.
All of those assists for Alexi, you saw them in the feed as well.
He just softens them up, has three eyes, drags towards his position and is beautifully converted
by Wonderful.
Now for Apex, a bit of a classic, maybe you see this and think, why is he got it on
Zywoo?
Well, this is something Apex has been doing for some time now.
That movement speed and he loves to take a risk.
Straight down the gut, secure his middle, puts pressure on Wonderful.
to scout and Glocks. So they require these tags to make it possible.
They met with the other M4, finally jiggling over towards A-Rat. How good is Apex? That's
the question.
It's wonderful watching now as Alexi has to try and confirm. This is weird. He's got
the perfect weapon for the job, but still watch out. Zywoo has a rifle. No Kevlar
jumping with the SMG. Chips away. Does more damage to two of them. Speaks down!
Gavage, those M4s backed out, take their time before they're a few years around, and the question happened is Apex.
Did exactly what he needed to do on the scout to open the door, the bomb goes down and the buy comes through.
Take demonstration of why he feels confident buying that.
Look at this shot, outrageous! Headshot into him!
Bang! The restabilization, that kind of micro-adjustment.
He overflicks and adjusts.
I want the extra bit of cash in Vitality's back pocket means utility. It's full.
Here's the door smoke from spawn again from Apex.
I don't think they'll be applying pressure out long based off of the spawns.
They want to pipe down the guts of middle, put a lot of pressure on the A rotation of Imma.
Seems like on the agenda, mid-smoke cleared, nobody spotted.
It's a cool way to get the info safely, Flash, NAVE for the clear, jump across.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, look at that one.
It works out.
Team play at the highest level.
It felt like as soon as it was noted,
it wasn't the long extremity play.
They weren't all in, but they have
to be going for mid and short control.
So they harassed the little combo of U-Tilt.
Still will get shot.
In the jiggle as if Molly has a smoke.
Can block.
Blind.
Drops.
Flash is achieved an awful lot.
Forces a reposition.
Look at that round play out.
Rewrouting now, hard vitality.
Mid to B smoke lands.
Alexi might have to push long to assist.
In the meantime, Navi needs to bat down the half just on B.
It has a molly and a smoke.
You feel this is the perfect package for defense?
It's just right now that it's end of the area.
The smoke, not far behind.
They're really going to have to hope
that they can kick through this front door.
Good flash. Flames blind.
Bit responsible for the potential of Flamesy.
Starting his advance now, starting his advance. Slipping the net though. Zywoo kicks over the front door!
Mezzi and Zywoo take the beast side by force. Retake possibilities. The kit, present, Alexi's
rushing through T spawn to try and find a root and an avenue back into this bomb site.
But take a look, Mezzi has another smoke. Could drop that out towards doors. That's
gonna buy them another 20 seconds. Held off and deploying it, didn't get skittished,
Send it out too early and right now if you're now be how do you breach back in?
Flash in front of the tons the Lexi B is having a look yet halfway gone
backing away
Backing away ladies and gentlemen vitality on the board Emma being hunted
He sticks around for one, but flames takes out his gun
Actually stings a little bit wonderful
And Emma going down in the previous losing those M4s right? Yes, it adds up. It's gonna compound
So there are going to be issues for the Navi purchase and this is tough
I thought we'd see something a little bit more aggressive from Navi across the map because it was so quiet
They didn't know exactly what space vitality had and your B defense needs to multi kill
Wasn't the case vitality breakthrough
It burst their first round on the T side early and then put themselves in a position to get on top of the finances effects
gives a quick glance
respects the utile
And so Long will be defended. They can leave and park. Alexi B, that's his now
responsibility. Emma and Bitt start to reposition. Change of plans. No Utah Long
Bitt going to park him there instead. Okay, well, right now a stack called on the
CT side, the B bombsite under fortified and that could be a problem
unless J.O. can go huge. He's only working with a D.Eagle. He's the most
under-equipped with his entire team. And it seems stressful with these
time of rotations for Navier. They're trying to get too tricky with it. Apex just going to apply a bit of pressure.
They're sitting where they're coming.
Yeah JL, JL and a Deagle. There is nothing for him here! No way!
That's it.
A round determined by a single headshot.
Just based on the seats you set up Navier had, they were hedging their bets that it was going to be this A plate.
And JL has so much on his plate. You have to feel for the guy. He only has the Deagle. He's been left to his own devices.
It's so quiet and then everything comes at once. There's pressure towards long so the comms are from his teammates
He's thinking oh they're going for an ace where they're trying to come out long
And there's an IGL yourself Chad. Surely this is around the eggs feels extra good for a fix
He's the one that's called it
He's thrown out this fake and his boys walk into an essentially open bombsite just completely outmaneuvered them
Well, they are gonna hold on to
three rifles and a scout so there's still problems
But Navi's financial decisions going forward
I think they should take a time out to get blade on the mic just to have the conversation just to make sure everybody's on the same page
Because now it's just a two-round game
See these little details that can really add up and here it is the highlight of round number 16. He was quick to it as well
Even if JL was caught switching. I mean he can be frustrated by that, but it was a
Fake-out by vitality and you can see that does feel good for apex a smile on his face
Yeah, Joe went to hit the table then just laugh because what else can you do?
second tank time I'll use and they are getting played involved in this conversation
Alexi has been able to bring in an MP9 JL for that fortune has been given an A1S
the blade traditionally off the back of these more keep harping on about him
the reason he's on that flag right there universally one of the most
Celebrated coaches is played.
I think you've got Zonic and then Blade.
Yeah.
That's the top of the tree.
The top of the mountain.
And so we'll see if Navi can find double digits,
or will Vitality continue to close that gap?
They're coming in.
It's a test of the long defense.
Immen, deleted by Zai, will first pull it, find his head.
What's the response?
What space is taken back?
The CTs have to do something.
It looks for answers towards the upper turns.
Flames playing a very passive game.
picks the same just spotting out mid.
It's not going to get anything
anytime soon. I say that look at
what's happening towards T spawn.
They're going to leave spings
with all of this long control.
Even still, it's such a tough
fight for bits after go to and
only with the Famous.
He has full nades.
He hasn't investigated for
information.
He's worried that there's a
player just defaulting enough
for tunnels and this is bad
info. He's about to get a
surprise unless unless he
adjusts and finds the head
shot confirms the whole
teams there.
Bit has done a lot now to
equalize and to give them a chance to defend but the site already lost
sprinting across the doors apex gets the package to be secured pushing though
disrupting straight through the smoke with spin
spank spotted out
JL spamming through it's gonna be a Lexi set up with some nades for this but it's
not the weapon for the retake JL the only one with the rifle and are they
really not gonna give this a go they're working it out a tough site to
retake especially with that smoke on the doors.
Zywoo could burn to that.
That could be problems but he gets ahead of it.
Just 10 HP on Zywoo but look at that.
Mezzy's good for one.
JL drop!
These 50-50 scenarios.
Not going for the saves.
They're here to entertain in this grand.
And this is massive from JL.
The impact just keeps on coming.
Zywoo thrust.
That orbs out for Zywoo.
We talked about his proficiency on finding that damage on the doors.
This time nothing to report.
Again, towards this B site.
This one's going to be earlier though, and it's JL with wonderful close.
Smoke's not going to stop him.
Oh, he starts to spam. He commits to the spray.
30 bullets, and no kills. He still gets away with one.
Where is he going, bitch?
He jumps into Zywu's orb.
The company with...
AHHHH!
...hoping Alexi creeping, spings over, looking.
The possibility is down they go.
It's the second map of play.
Up of retakes, I thought Simon would seal the deal with that one.
Wonderful head in the clouds as he goes to look over them to be frustrated if you're vitality.
You're in the site, the bomb is down, we talk about how to retake this B bomb site.
Now B, they're pulling it out.
Boreously, one of the hardest to get back into, but I think they're flipping the script today in this grand final.
11 for Na'Vi, two successful retakes in back-to-back fashion.
And look what it's done to Vitality, they took 30 seconds, Iwu doesn't hit it.
No early damage from Vitality's Scout.
We saw it now, VTrip up.
So Light of Eyes in map number one, it comes up again,
and Wonderful will not allow it.
Opening kill onto the in-game lead,
and now it's going to be the puppet master from the grave.
Another clear, another fight.
And they just want to harass.
It's well placed, that's well timed.
Limit, Flames, his options will have to drop off.
Respect the Flame.
Sairu's down, noted on Cat. A flash from Alexi, and Imeq confirms no one's active. No one's forward.
Now they're using Mird as a bit of a death funnel, knowing Vitality have to play into it, just with the sheer amount of utility that they're lobbing in to make this uncomfortable.
Vitality have to turn back to the extremities, and you've cracked into the B bomb site multiple times.
So that's where if you're Apex, you think, well, we're making the right call, we're getting into the site, so we just need to finish these rounds.
And there's a chance for Zywu, doesn't find the head shot but puts JL down and on notice
he will require bit's assistance if they test him on B but look at this regress, Alexi B
pushed through, takes the fight to Flames, only three for Vitality but they're behind
it, trying to flash through, Spinks can he find him? No he can't, solid work, this
now becomes a 2v2, all to play for, Kit on the orpa, Mezzi and Zywu, France and
Britain working together to keep vitality in this.
Masi tested first, lovely headshot, Emma helpless.
The faith Apex has to have in these finishes.
He was the first to go down, still calls them into the B plate.
We just touched on that the fact that getting in time and time
again just losing the retakes.
This B bomb site, leaky like a sieve right now for that bit at JL.
And they've been in situations.
This was the best one yet for them to lock down that site here.
And Alexi has to sit back and just think, what can I do?
Do I have to start calling stacks?
Do we need to start playing more aggressively
in towards tunnels?
We can't be executed on towards that B-side now.
Think about how that's going to play into Navi's head
for the rest of this map.
Approven vulnerability.
And wonderful scout.
Can it replicate what Zywu just did?
Two sequential tags, two body shots, two JL.
Opening up that side, Spinks as well with a double entry.
This is Bleak, when you take a look at the Schmogger's board of side arms.
Narfi do not have the edge, can vitality.
Make this one look painless.
Discussing what the execute's going to be.
Bridge smoke to be deployed now, Apex.
Excellent cookin' as well.
Just wonderful, he's going to be forced off the line by this U-Tilt.
Nothing for him here.
It's a perfect call after abusing that B-bombsite.
Now they hit A.
Rolex is limited in its contributions now with only 17 points of health.
Immet on the ramp won't be the first to move, waiting for some distraction,
but Flames is having none of it.
Oh yes, clean as can be! Clean as a whistle for Flames!
Na'Vi were in the power position,
but there's a air of change in the arena.
It has to be an eco before the guns can come out again.
And before we get there, we need to see what is even going to be possible for Navi.
I'm taking a look at the cash with the loss bonus of 2400 coming into the next.
I don't think we will get an AWP in the mix.
It's a flash on bit. We need to be the definition of perfect.
It's tough to see Navi getting anything done in a round like this.
Navi looking to concede 10 by Talonio about to make this a one round game.
game. Well that's not bad is it? Hello?
Barling. JL the Skittle.
That one again, Aya Zawoo.
Felt good last time.
If anyone in the crowd would give him a hand.
They do start their push. That's the plus.
That's the goal and that's the Spinks.
Combination of bullets and flame.
Release with three.
One round game.
As far as the scoreboard is concerned,
a good map for the stars of Vitality Boat Zawoo
and Spinks delivering 20 for Zawoo, 18 for Spinks.
Okay, and all pass been dropped across.
That's have to be facilitated by JL, only one who could have made that a possibility.
So wonderful, we'll get his weapon of choice.
Blay takes his third and final tactical timeout of regulation.
We have the lost bonuses right now.
It's going to be 2900 into the next FNAV.
That means that we'll probably take a partial, the Vitality could get to 12 first.
It has to be a discussion about save rifles.
But if the game continues and the fashion has so far,
Navey have been up for almost every retake scenario.
And it's your Navey.
Are you overly concerned about being?
Do you leave some absences on long?
Because that looks like we're vitality ahead as fast as possible.
Corner smoke flashes around.
Wonderful.
That AWP is perfect for the fish!
The play gut stems wonderful's round.
He's pinned, he's stuck towards the car position.
He's under so much pressure right now.
He peeks, he dies, he peeks.
He loses.
That smoke won't last forever. Zywu has his target set.
Another one replenishing a deeper smoke to give wonderful something to play around.
Misses his chance, but spring's heavily wounded.
Here comes another Molly.
Oh, that's good.
Using the smoke balls.
They find it, but Flames, he's been waiting for this.
They're going so far as to be charging his apex.
Trying to be the one in.
Trying to be on the span.
Only Zywu remains in and down to 21.
Flames in his feet. He finds headshot.
He still burns down. Flamesy. The misstep. The misjump. The sound cue. The kill back in and then Navi can turn their attention to long and mop up the mess.
X-Tars watching from the sidelines. It's tough to be a coach in these intense games. Powerless.
Do you go back to B?
It's worked for you before.
Jail only operating with an MP9.
Navi still battered and bruised in the economical department.
If you're a Lexi, you feel like you have to call the cheat over.
Or some form of aggression. Does he push long? Does he take the risk?
Because if it is a B execute again, Jail and Bit, they haven't been
fragging in the capacity required. It's been retakes.
How Navi have won those rounds.
They just need one round. A lot hinging on when.
bit feels the pressure and throws out that smoke grenade jumping for info
towards mid JL listening press me his ear to the wall hoping for a sound cue to
give him an indication as to where that bomb will end up 60 seconds now as apex
in combination with his team take doors and make a flash a simple approach
nothing to report the smoke on CT they're making this look like a default
round we're up cat we're applying pressure towards a we're playing pressure
towards me and now be smoked in exchange with the lurk there's a little gap
between the two smokes there that Spinks is brave enough to find himself into the
side and he knows bits around here somewhere now he knows exactly where he is
now he's charging in bit gets messy, bit gets burnt!
Spinks can reignite some hope for vitality at 1 vs 2 but time against him he's a dead man walking!
Harvey went to war yesterday on Mirage versus Maus it was the clutch factor
that was the difference maker but so far in this series it's been the pistols
Vitality with both on Nuke, Nabi with both on Dust2.
This one could have massive ramifications.
But they're heading towards Zywoo.
He hasn't had his majestic pistol round yet.
Spinks spots him out, confirms that suspicion.
Zywoo's been equipped to this, but he's got no vision.
A white screen fades to black as Bit demonstrates his prowess on the glock.
And Alexi B fills the feed with flash assist.
He set them both up for that.
Just chip jammed with that nail to kill.
They're giving Vitality a way back in, but the defence to open up.
It was very sight-centric. 2-3 split, no info played through middle,
and the B execute from Navi. It finds success.
Just two kills, the bomb goes down, and there's no way for Vitality.
Let's take on a 3-B5 disadvantage. Just looking to hold onto their Kevlar.
We'll see what that leaves for the next round of play.
And they're starting to hunt. They want to take away the Kevlar.
Apex doesn't have any, it's just a flash if he flames the Amesia, the two you want to find,
so tucked in, flames he is able to get a kill for his troubles.
It's a bleak start for Vitality, you've just had 10 minutes in the sunshine.
See it back down, back to work and a quick pistol win for Na'Vi.
Well keeping the Kevlar does now allow a couple of Famouss to come into the mix.
The Scout as well for Zywoo, he can do a couple of tags and then they can finish
off SMG for Spinks, Deagle for Apex and these types of rounds, both teams.
I've just shown some issues against the light of ice.
Both teams have had struggles,
and that's to do with the pressure,
that's to do with the environment.
Now we talk about Navi, their structure as a team,
how good they are and how good they should be
at closing out rounds where they have these advantages,
but because of the environment,
because of the bright lights, we've seen some trip-ups.
You heard the desk discussing that crown-ass on the default.
These are the types of the rounds
where the CTs might do something more outside of the box,
a little bit riskier.
crazy in the Nuvra and all in a push that you're not ready for or a boost that's
one hell of a fine might be overlooked by Navi no one on the way just yet really
taking their time now be hoping for an aggressive leader dismounted upon the
fade and I'm crouching towards this two manhold of connector JL spotted out
apex fires off a warning shot testing flanks that's a good flash does
Hit someone. Oh, Apex has found a headshot.
Now Flames can build upon it, shut down by JL.
Good work from Speck still here.
A second round forced by from Vitality is one kill away from Conversion.
And already Zyra hits the scout shot.
That's why you can't count out any of these rounds.
These force flies precisely round for both of these teams.
It's going to be tough every single round.
And what we learned from Dust2, retakes are possible.
We've reached a point in Counter Strike not that long ago,
where saving was always the best option.
Taking your toys on, packing them up and going back to play for another day.
But Apex loves the way that one feels.
A connector heavy setup that just makes mincemeat of Na'Vi.
No plan for them, but the force has to come back out due to the lost bonus.
They'll try tech nines and deagles.
So stunned by Vitality.
This will be the upper cut to take control of the Finances.
Alexi looks like he's walking straight into Apex.
The smoke just kaising.
Alexi's crawl, that finds it all the same.
Mezzi blind, calling for backup, straights away, spotted but not dead.
Spinks is there in support, bit done well to find Mezzi.
Spinks, they know where you're shot necessary, they need to fight a mother.
Yay, hold on! Activates! It's Apex and Flames to close.
Those Farmasses do what they have to.
Response time there from Vitality was on point. Everybody getting on the rewards
that B site to make sure the bomb doesn't go down. There's no chance for
Navi to set up the post plant and that's them taking control.
That uppercut I was talking about has put Navi on their ass.
Good entry on the way in for bit.
They had to fight hard for this.
But the dead, that's all it was.
Vitality, they can stand up, they can shrug it up.
Now they can set their sights on an easy third round.
One deagle, that's an MS hands,
and he's already been choked.
33 points of health, shell shot from the Nade.
That's suboptimal from Flames.
Not the end of the world, given what he's up against
the miss smoke on palace will try the incendiary and my title you've been in a
couple of finals this year pro league blown out best of five didn't even get a
map Dallas well don't say stewie to two K's named too loud excuse me they
probably thought that was theirs for the taking now cologne the one that
apex has been hunting for a decade in two finals before one alongside of
We're back in 2019 in his rookie year. We touched on it earlier in the pace against Liquid
And he picks a set of sites on glory
Stating he wants to take a Cato or a Cologne and a major before he retires
Here he is on the grand final stage
Yes stylish
Very stylish he loves to fight you talk to him. He doesn't want to sit still
He doesn't want to hold an angle hold and stare at his crosshair
He was the fight. He was to bring the fight.
The fight came to him this time. It doesn't sound like a type of player. You want to make a CT side anchor, does it?
You could say that, yeah.
He's a very versatile player.
Lovely adjustment on to that jumping JL.
Not bad.
All right, well the guns are back out now for Na'Vi.
This pretty standard approach we've seen from Na'Vi. Two players over towards Aion.
Palace and the ramp.
Flames the aggressive flash ball against the fight. Alexi wins it out.
Bit now will search J.O. the same.
Lexi, Lexi goes down, Apex and Stinks combine to find the equalizer, but that's a gap for Bit.
This is naughty by Zahru, they're not going to clear it.
Oh they're not! They could have got both! Huge work that angle!
Catching them completely off guard, they thought they had the space.
Apex has repositioned nicely around that smoke.
But throughout this game Vitality throw these little spanners in the works.
Flamie's the A to F, and he fights mid first dies.
Both J.O.M.P.E.R. activate the space, expecting this to be a retake ace setup.
Zywu, tugged in, Ibnak, waiting for exactly that moment, and now it's Apex's turn.
Spinks has taken so much space to the map, Ibnak.
On the other side of things could be the difference maker.
Who strikes first on the lurk?
There's a timer on all of this. Molotov available, will force out Apex.
Flights of the ladder, not gonna be found.
No! Where's the comms?! Bit!
Able to adjust! It falls to wonderful!
Spinks has been working towards this wonderful mile overloss.
If he steps back into the line of fire, Spinks will convert another vitality round.
I think you bang on there about where's the comms.
How does Bit not know that there's a player up on the balcony?
The flames are in, the burn is heard.
I think he was even spotted.
He gets shot at.
That's a rough one.
But Spinks always had to deal seal with this flank around the world.
Vitality continued the winning ways.
three rounds of the difference.
Alexi, he's afforded a bit.
AK-47.
Straight off of a round where Bit looked frustrated.
And then Blade gets involved.
Maybe he doesn't like the call.
They can always sell back.
Or maybe he loves the call.
Just wants to make a couple of little tweaks.
They're in the position with the lost bonus,
3,400 into the next one.
They can take a few more of these liberties.
In the next, we will see them get into what
should be the full buy-around.
Maybe the AWP for 1-4-Liever comes into play.
What do you make of the prioritization of smoke grenades? Not a single flashbang, but everyone bar bit seems to be starting with the smoke.
Well, it's going to give them round openers and then potentially closes. Sure, the flashes are great to try and facilitate the joules, but if they get the window smoke in,
might just be able to swing out and look to take those fights. There you go. A couple of late flashes in from Alexi.
Insta window lined up from Emma. Even a molly in the back pocket of JL. That's going to be used through Palace.
So there's the opener. Top cat out window. Very standard as far as Mirage is concerned, but this is more of a direct approach.
I'm going to hit A quite heavily this time. No interesting maneuvers, no interesting calls from Vitality. They should be able to get in Na'Vi. Flames.
He activates early. Spamming away. Finds bit through the smoke. That was the AK.
Just like that. Falls into AXEB's unarmored hands.
Trying to prioritize the party, picks swings through, another body drops left and right,
Navi dropping like fly, JL tries as hard as he might, but he's empty, it's all life with
just the one casualty.
That was not what they were aiming for Chad.
And again the response time for Vitality.
Everybody just rotating, gearing up their positional advantage, they know it's the
all in.
Sending all the bodies across, now the AWP will come out for wonderful.
That's the change, they have everything that they hope to proceed with Navi on
this T side.
Yeah, we haven't seen those rounds where there's just that moment's respite for Na'Vi.
Well, maybe you need another JL crazy clutch on 1 HP with one bullet.
Oh, we've seen those.
But that was how they got rounds on the board yesterday.
True. It was clutches.
Clutches were how Na'Vi were able to present opportunities on the T side.
But this pro activity from Vitality is making clutches awfully difficult.
Even planting.
Look how spread they are on that mini-map.
This is it. Vitality opt to not play standard with their position.
The pressure dealt with. J.O. loves this to dodge the flash.
For advantage.
Huge name. Massive damage.
Apex just takes the fight. Jumping!
The Guardian Angel of Vitality.
That's a gift.
In the shutdown early.
I feel like risks will be rewarded against N'R.V.
Maybe not constantly.
But it feels like the right time, the right place,
and it can completely unravel N'R.V. in their proceedings.
We talk about how good they can be on the default.
Well, if you can do things again outside of the box, a little bit quirky, a little bit different.
Alexi has to puzzle solve quicker, and how many solutions has Blade run the boys through?
30 seconds reroute.
Finish undecided, fight coming their way.
It's Merzy.
Going through the potpaces, Alexi B.
That's a B to fend up.
Catches out Merzy, and Alexi B down to side.
We cannot adjust an important trait from JL.
Overlooking Spinks, confirms the spray, but now Bitt will activate.
15 seconds, where's that bomb?
It's on the back of Wonderful.
Got a plant safe.
And he's going to have to find a safe haven to plant.
Will do so. Apex has to close the gap.
We talked about clutches.
We were talking about Na'Vi.
Wonderful denies Apex's charge.
There's the second.
Right, mind the confidence there for Wonderful to peek back into that angle.
Could have just put her up towards spawn,
given Apex a lot of room to work and attempt that 1v2 scenario.
but the vertigo snuffs it out immediately. Hello, I've seen you. I have the better gun. Bang, you are dead.
And Na'Vi, they do find a solution. This is Apex. Important kill from Bid dealing with Spinks.
And a strong finish from Na'Vi. Now it didn't have to be a crazy clutch.
Teamwork making the dream work to keep them in this. Three rounds of difference.
Everyone providing what was necessary. Zairu now with the AWP.
Different look, very different look for Na'Vi into this one.
Sending him her across early, but Zywu has starting B.
It'll be the right call.
A lot of bodies coming his way can shut them down with the AWP in hand.
Has Mezzie for support from market window.
Zywu testing here.
And he's gonna win now on the head to head.
Wonderful, shut down by the AWP.
Zywu re-aggressing.
Oh, an opportunity! Could not track the jumping bit.
Hunting him down now.
Zywu still gets another...
Flames and Spings overlooking him at Bitt doing one better into Bitt.
Well that leap of faith from Bitt, you didn't think that it was going to cost Zywu, that miss.
Bitt gets up in his face and they just line up.
Bitt found his form on Dust2, pistol rounds, his impact fell.
The final round to close with that weak B defense.
Now kicking up a fast here with T-side Mirage.
Oh, Rageous.
Important save for Spinks.
The good Gracers will retain the M4, can also
Drop across an AWP for Zairouz, Zairouz could drop another rifle
Vitality can still have a pretty deadly buy
But a conversation to be had, thinks X-Tas, here it is again, look at bit
Troubles on map number one, oh, may have had you at home, worried but bit says, I'm here to play
EWC MVP bit
MVP candidate here in Cologne
A slow start
Janko just said on the desk, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
And that conversation is wide open, the fact we have one map apiece.
Back on Navi's turf, streaks to defend for either team.
Now this is how it's going to come together.
Spinks facilitates the awp for Zywoo. Zywoo drops a rifle across.
The moment that's in the hands of Apex.
Good job, boys.
Sick!
That's good initiative of B. You didn't stop on a fucking nice throw.
Sick shot.
Jones cut that one.
Big enough his style.
Yeah, keep it a cool, keep it a calm.
Flamesy with an MP9, Mezzie with a deagle.
So the mid-defence with Vitality
has everything they desire to try and shut this down.
They say that's how it starts B with the AWP again.
It's not going to get as much action this time round.
Yeah, the setup on A could have a cause for concern.
Just a desert eagle and a SMG for Flames and Mezzie.
But these are the tricks that I'm talking about with vitality.
Mezzie, traditionally a B Defender.
So does he play first?
It looks like from default, him and Flames,
you're setting up a bit of a crossfire.
Apex still to chip in from window slash connector.
Skinks up in that bedroom.
He's a ghost in the room.
And it's really important to space the image to get in time and time again.
Walking out, Mezzie spotted.
Something's up.
Mezzie to fire! Flames gets away with murder!
Emma should be able to put this one in. Very low HP and it's a double kill for Emma.
The site is there, Spinks inside with their priorities changed.
I don't think there's a conversation. This has to be the safety vitality. It's more about Wulnawi hunt.
Let's get up huge ramifications if they do choose to. I need a position to.
To say one or two bodies, nothing more. And you don't want to give them a way back in if they have gone fishing.
We can see they've totaled up trying to hold on to these white knuckle grip
Just to give themselves something to carry into the next Los Blones is starting to mount
2400
Yeah, it looks like it has been given the green light to go look in but
It's heading in the wrong direction
I wonder now if I tell you want to try and shut down this mid-control
Alexi is getting his parving towards island in middle
He's getting to play behind tap playing from the box image
But being able to walk through the underpass we have since some rounds where vitality have attempted to harass
But it's difficult to do. It's difficult to do with all the weapons and all the utility.
And it's such an all-in. If you lose those jewels, Navi could just waltz away with another.
One-round difference, still in the favour of vitality. We had the pistol, but the force
bite back from vitality is what led to five consecutive rounds until Navi have word into
action.
That's a one-round game, folks. Saved right, falls the only respite. A chance for
vitality.
Now we have the edge, and they're going as a pack.
Quick, Liggity split up mid, casting splits, down he goes, nice, he's D.G.O.L.
Good support there from JL, flashes come over, but he denies.
If they still head towards B, the Orp's here.
Yeah, this is what it is, it's just Siwa.
Siwa's standing between them.
Gets his revenge from the last test on B, claims it is D.G.O.L.
did something. The fact that kept this almost spotless. Oh, JL you've heard that. That is spotless.
That's miraculous. You thought there was going to be a car crash potential on short. The flash comes
over. The two players come swinging out of the bedroom. They're lightening up. There's so many
bodies in mid. Nami say no. And JL he's looking the other way so the flash doesn't do its full
impact. And this one flash around the corner. Zaiwu just standing there in the open and
a wonderful gets the better of him. The Desk did say after map one you can't have apex having the
most impact in the map that can't be the consistent formula for a Vitality victory. Who's going to
step up? Who will it be? It's not Flamesy, not here, not on A, not now, and XCB and Emma
flunk the side, writes one back from Zairu, spinks the side, the round is on. By catching
and an AWP from Alexi!
He brings the fight to the defender!
As he and Zywoo have a decision to make, ouch!
That's a mistake.
Pace changes out of Navi and back to back rounds.
I know the save guns are in the mix in the previous.
Get stuck in straight through the gaps in the middle.
This time in towards A, Merciless.
The calling from Alexi puts them up to six.
They can win the half.
and a miserable scene for Vitality's bike, feeling the pressure is Apex, it's been here
twice before, losing for a third time in Cologne in the final. That one, that one's really
going to leave a mark. So I would definitely have some influence on Dust too, but it wasn't
enough to get them across the line. He's the superstar, but Desk also set him up.
You want to be in the good conversation, well, the trophy captain has to match and in these
type of games, this is where you need to step up.
We've got Inferno next.
That's a guarantee.
Anubis if we need it and that's if these two teams decide they want to take it there.
MP9 and FAMAS.
I thought you said to be dead.
I didn't.
I swear.
I shouldn't swear in the cathedral.
I didn't shot from the AWP apex.
He has no scared, is he?
having to take the risks. Again it looks like he is putting himself on the line in
pursuit of some sort of early lead as an advantage for his team.
And Nabi they can seize the lead at the half. Our final round of this third map's
first half. Mezzi's B site holds. Spinks and Mezzi. This duo. Smoke that could be
disrespected. It has been Spinks looking elsewhere. Mezzi has so much to do. So
much required of him and they overlook the position, the FAMAS is good for one, but Spinks is fumble,
attribution, Flames keeps us level, Apex pushing, charging into the fight, down as well, it's up
to him, we're in the clutch, Kazaiwu has found wonderful, back and forth in that head to head,
and now we are met with two to find, those searching, they partner up and he finds his
timing, does isolate the duel, removes Flames, can he? Half of Mirage and looking to keep
that streak alive. 12 consecutive mirage victories. This one is in a grand final of epic proportions.
Navi and Vitality are first look at this head to head. We have not seen Navi versus Vitality until
now. In the summer, in the Lancess Arena, a clutch from Ime. Securing the seventh, Vitality
have five to work with. But back in form, the Majority popped off. One of the reasons
He gets to don this, Na'Vi, Josie. It's been... Oh, wow.
But working his way...
...lates it very highly of him.
An execute from Vitality. Straight out the gates towards double HEs.
Ooh, where are they going?
Likely would see those towards Ticket.
But there's nobody home for Na'Vi.
It's Bit, swatting from the connector position, just in front of the stairs.
Three-power... Yeah, three-power's too ramped.
Bit. He's been having some good pistol rounds.
Smoke tough initially, so completely unable to contribute as they do surge into the site.
The whole squad is here, Vitality plant their flag on the A site.
Control of CT gained, aware of the potential for a flash on the retake.
Good name! Right in the face of JL.
Dealing with that rotation, softening them up before they come back in 5v5.
Kitten to smoke.
Who's got the better communication? Who can aim quicker on these pistols?
Five alive for both sides, Alexey encroaching.
First, from Taiwan down to IMEH, Mezzi has ramp under their control, IMEH's doing everything
he can. A double kill with his USP. Two bullets, his only has and spinks make sure he cannot
use them. Wonderful. He's on it. Oh, he's holding it, running out IMEH. Kills, and a
crucial start to this second half. Alright, that one could have got real chaotic, but
we will split the pistols. First time in this series so far. We see the force
come out from Naveed. Will they allow Vitality to get up to seven and tie things
out for free. Investment from Emma into a Deagle but everybody else going to keep it clean. So right
full round coming up next. This is how Vitality started their campaign in the first half. Full
spot on the CT side. Well, Navi aren't doing the same and then they went on a spree of five.
Navi then closed out of the half with six consecutive to make the statement to give them
the lead but look how quick you can drop. We'll be all tied up in a moment as Spinks
getting a walk in the park trying to take an awful lot of space over towards eight.
Look at all of this room. He's not getting shot at. You think nobody's home. He's clearing late when he was open to the angles and hello
It's an absolute free beat the rotation for Navi should be on but the same for vitality sites clear
Heading back over that will allow Navi to rotate in time
You've got apex and connector spinks up in a forward position as well. How many just spinks get here?
Long range nice that shot he is gonna
Oh, not the cash! Oh, it's all Spinks!
Four kills!
The ace was available to him on the other side of that wall, not to know, but Cash definitely going to be splashed from Spinks.
Four kills with an SMG.
Doesn't even go first.
Sai Wuga thief, the scoundrel.
Most up a round, definitely good to lift the spirits.
All five stand alive, clean off of Vitality, extra cash for Spinks in future rounds.
This is a bit of a bonus to galils on a Mac 10
This is just a farming session with Spinks
Well, not be they took the eco for this moment
They wanted to bring the rifles out into the third. Let's see what they have in store. No diffuse kit
Would be a problem if we get into a post plan
Yeah, well, that seems to be the goal here vitality. They aren't gonna go for a bit of a direct approach
all starting
To watch that second letter just juggling around some you till the bomb being dropped three players over towards be there
Doesn't have to be a full commitment.
Just getting the feel for it. Baits out some nades.
You can see the limited resources.
And the key is to focus on the rotations.
So Wonderful has left window.
He's gone to help the B bomb site.
That's created a bit of a gap.
It's just Jalen middle and B over to wall day.
We can see that there's no pressure.
Now that's not...
It's a double pump.
So now they're going to doubt it.
The mid control utility comes in.
Wonderful keeps moving.
Doesn't feel like he's ahead of the play.
Emma and Lexi, they question,
is it even out bomb site?
And we have nothing left to block with.
The second wave could be deadly.
Well, Alexi react all in a getting pressure from sure side does well to find one gets more than one
Three kills to the good so I won't back with the rebuttal
Such low HP Alexi be ready for it
well received
They tried deception pulling rotations, but said back to sport
Good round to deal with
double fake
pressure towards be the no go
Mid util into play, Apex a moment too soon on that cap play.
He was later in there, was definitely committed towards that B5.
Vitality with the clean anti eco round, have enough to buy again.
Still a very heavy approach more towards B, at least for the start of the round.
Three over towards the apartments, two top middle, nobody dealing with the extremity of the A push whatsoever.
JL just had a look in middles, I raise edgy out at all!
But JL compared,
Immet has to take shelter and towards underpass, he has done well to at least find Apex there.
We've divided attacking side, now Mezzy pushing through the apartment,
Alexi drops a smoke to play around, Spinks in the site with Mezzy.
The bomb detached from me, it's so Alexi spotted out!
Does some damage to Mezzy.
Let's see. Can't hold on. Spinks has brought him down. Significant damage dealt by the
Thin though. This should be a tough one for Vitality to close and then A from Bit finishes
the job onto one. Mezzi, 6 HP, Flames is still disconnected. You're looking to re-clear
him. Wonderful spot, Sim. Still another headshot from Mezzi. Does a lot with a little. This
is manageable for Flames. Oh it is now. Flames on a grand final stage. Can he come up clutch
under the pressure? He has already proven he can. From the same palm side. Can Flames
stop it from happening again? Ops 4 truck. Staying active. That smoke by so much time
you can see him so paranoid of all the possibilities. Flames could be right there
in it now, respected and faded.
Emma spotted out now, the info flows.
Emma has the advantage, but he just needs one bullet.
James just needs the head shot.
Oh, and there's so many details in that one.
The fuses will come through, blade.
He doesn't have rotation.
Being the misstep was trying to catch Alexi
as he's running towards short.
They shoot just as he gets behind the pillar.
It allows him to drop the defensive smoke and stay alive.
This nade comes in and finishes what Alexi started.
Flamesy coming in late has the bomb knows his teammates are brittle uses the information almost perfectly a moment more
There wasn't a kid with that diffuse
We are coming down to the minutiae in these rounds to the difference vitality by again all in diggles
Ak's galils
Util to work with him this time taking the pace out of things. It has been quite be focused in the last few
Now this has the opposite flavor
Will it be sweet or will it be sour for vitality trying to fend off
Double digits for an RV that ramp smokes an invitation for flames the inside would have played behind it knowing
It's unlikely anybody is up close and personal with that block
Takes with the mid utility again. So connector and window cornered off for spinks to try and take some space
Wonderful cannot contribute that puts jail in a bit of a rough position
What decision does he make back peddling always a safe pair of hands and then finding that impact?
noisy on the escape here comes the A maneuver
Flames spots out bit and he will get back
double incendiary in the defense trying to delay 37 seconds they start the final play
the final commitment spinks the first to fall good back from Flames on
Petrus mid-stop shot from wonderful they stretch their legs they pushing
through Flames has racked up another double kill so far
And he might find more. He's got the AWPer trapped.
Zywoo onto wonderful. Surely adds it now, with the bomb now down.
CT's pushing through smokes, a boost on the sandwich.
Gonna be spotted out. Zywoo catches another.
He's got two. And Flames leaves with three.
It's Vitality making this a one-round game.
You can't miss a shot. You see, wonderfully gets that kill.
It's a different round. They're not able to take so much space.
He misses one shot and they're in. He's under pressure.
He is stuck towards Ticket. The rotation's still on the way.
They're smoked off. Ima gets the opener on the look towards Connector. Those sphinxes coming.
Flamesy. Beautiful work from the young gun. This is what he does best, making his way
in towards the site and announcing his presence. And Wonderful can see the frustrations from that
missed AWP shot. Flames and Zywin, 30 frags in 17 rounds between the two of them.
They're giving Vitality the firepower to fight. Now the edge is theirs to make this
all tied up at 9 each.
Navee haven't gone all in, they've just gone deagle.
So there's a little bit of residual cash loss
on all of their members.
They will have to take another eco into the next
if they can't get anything done right here right now.
Bataria in a position to force themselves into the lead.
They have worked hard to break Navee down.
So the financial control, it looks to be theirs
if they can get past what Navee have in store.
It will just be Alexei with a smoke towards B.
He's told the rest of his team to focus more to mid and A.
Again, no rush from Vitality. 60 seconds left on the clock.
Plenier U2 left to work with. How diligent are they?
They're just trying to catch Apex off guard, but...
Hasn't worked out. Still, Apex...
Spotted out.
Pushing up pawns, Ivory good covering, fire helpless, spam of the deed.
Some damage, but nothing to write home about.
Wonderful, the last to fall, and we are dead even.
in the second half of our third.
This is absolutely a marathon, not a sprint chat.
Two maps in, dead even.
But as you said, that double economical,
they gave it a go with the pistols.
How'd they get nothing out of this with the stack?
And I thought the flash towards connected was well timed,
but there wasn't a conviction with the swing
when the players were turning too many bodies.
Great work from Vitality.
And that's the time around you wanna see
setting themselves up for what is looking to just be
A execute and everything they desire the smokes will be in play the mollies to
And they should walk away with this one. No dramas
Comprehensive sight take
Flight parts outlined
Everyone knows where they have to clear sphinx is managed to clear out the triple box a little bit of a jump scare for flames
It's finished off by the JLD pushing Sam would your legs he does contribute as well this aggression with the USP
It has led to a couple of kills
And JL's dig, all that remains, Masi spotted out, a hard head shot to hit, Masi makes it look easy.
Yeah, the only way that works for Navi is when the first USP kill comes in, if they all just follow.
When their attention gets drawn and then the next player swings, the next player swings because they need a moment to line up those shots.
But you know who else needs a moment, Blade?
Second tactical timeout in this map so far.
Navi worked hard within that first half to put himself into a two-round lead.
coming into the second they lose the pistol they take the eco into the
follow-up the guns come back out and now we are back and forth with vitality
one round to the good vitality no slouch on Mirage don't let the fact that
Na'vi 12 in a row for them take away the fact that vitality have a
consecutive of their own and then we remind you one more time that these two
teams have not played this year so that best in the world on this map
I'm sure apex was waiting for his opportunity to put his teams up
against the test of Navi. Is this where that trend breaks for Apex's third attempt at a trophy in Cologne?
I don't think he's ever had this much support at Cologne. Gordon Horowitz on one side, the Navi
Nation on the other. Yeah, and Arena divided and at the moment in separable. Navi nine.
And hang on, Im has taken a leap towards attempt. Apex has just gone for a captain's play.
He is just trying to eek his way out of the apartment through the smoke.
Ine receives it comfortably. He's 17th. He's definitely present and correct.
Comfortable on the big stages, Ine. And this is where he does his best work, Mirage.
There it is. You can see Apex. He's going to be punching air.
What a disadvantage. Difficult solution for Vitality Defined.
2-2 split, Flamie and Zywut. The firepower through middle.
good flash does catch him but I will have the cover they don't over extend
that's the timing just as I will look away pull down his name they hit with a Lexi B
impressed a 10-10 scoreline imminent as he gives it a go supported by Spicks a
headshot found and no a second on to him a bomb plant unlikely the flames deny it
for a couple more seconds there's another one where that came from Lexi has
one lined up that's perfectly timed that's gonna spread wider has to talk
can respect it 24 that smoke's not gonna last forever as he from palace
egging that bomb to be planted is wonderful in a position to run at this
a fake as well they're taking their time hoping the frag comes their way holding
it now wonderful straight size I think that one got a little bit diced here
than I had to it could have just stayed tucked towards the site didn't need to
overstep the mark a couple of kills they get in the bomb goes down but the
Cash was always there for vitality.
This was Emma dealing with Apex.
And JL, the timing, couldn't have been better.
Lulled into that false sense of security.
You're flashed.
No one's peeking.
JL finds that window of opportunity.
And you know what?
He's back on the Mike blade.
He wants to ensure Narvi are equipped to start Inferno
a map away from the Cologne trophy.
I wonder if this is he's heard something come out from Alexi
in that moment that he's wanted to change.
That's possible too.
Because to use it now.
Exactly.
It's a big decision.
Their finances are the ones that are more troublesome.
Vitality have a little bit more residual cash.
Zaiwu, Apex, in bi-territory.
Mezi's going to be the same.
Whereas Na'Vi, if they lose everything,
It's hard to justify what the purchasers are gonna look like down the line and we are at the home stretch of Mirage
Wonderful has had the AWP only eight kills to his name
He's equal on the other side Zywa with 18. This is Poppy. This is explosive
The testing bit. He's all alone on this A site. Where is the support?
Immigrides to help him, but Bit's headshot's good
Delivers passes the first test, but Spinks and Mezzi have opened up the A site
Spinks from midside Mezzi from Tetris
Wonderful, as you discussed, only eight.
They've got to deal with Spinks, they've got to find him.
Wonderful has to worry about 180 degrees right now.
But he's just faded away.
That's Apex Cook.
Takes the stairs with the boost in and on CT.
Perfectly timed on the clear, anticipating the boost.
Miss shot from Zywoo, in the pieces out, repositioned, and Spinks is running.
He's going.
Alex has hurt this.
Seems aware.
to fight the determinants of that B site is lost for Na'Vi.
Alexi, what do you do?
Mezi and Simon disconnected from the game plan.
Given on a silver platter to the man born.
The day Counter-Strike released, partners up with Mezi.
And slips just past the window of opportunity.
It's him as responsibility.
Uncertainty.
Alexi from chat, he's making a move.
War Vitality.
No, for you the same.
Searching CT.
Being so diligent about this, they're going to have to plant a safe side behind the triple box.
Worried about everything.
Nezzy.
Punching in the code, covered by Zywoo.
Immet encroaching.
A nice spam.
Alexi B brings down the planter.
It all falls to Zywoo.
What can he deliver?
On the grand final stage, two against him.
He gets baited.
Immet.
Braves!
Sona!
in the CT, Apex not ready, baiting out those shots, he's on his own, Alexi wasn't close
enough for the trade, Zayhu said Emma, wonderful mate to look foolish here, worried about the
lurks, the limp out towards the BA side, just look at the complete wrong direction,
but Emma he is got the hot hand right now, and the best slam for Apex. As mentioned,
the money, it was going to be there for Vitality, that plant helps even more so.
Help me with the point to prove, flames, spam and smokes.
It's apparent that Mid is under their control.
Pressure applied.
65 seconds remain. They're going to get the boost up towards Short.
They're timing for this, and yeah, more than they bargained for on the other side.
There's one!
The ball's off!
An opening death for Apex.
Frustrations will continue to compound.
JL spotted, Flames.
On the mantle up, squats out the Short player.
short player. Zywoo with that AWP looking for anything. Reaggress. And it's too
comfortable for Zywoo. That's a nasty death for JL. Zywoo has found it. And he
might do more! MF! Not scared of Zywoo! The finding spring towards the apartment.
That moves, enforces him wide, flames him into the site. Makes you be... That
could be exposed. So much responsibility on the captain here.
Another!
He's got Zyberl as well now, ever!
It's just gonna take the Jules.
And that's gonna be the last time out.
Those funds deplete it for Vitality.
And they just want to keep this thing going.
Wonderful. Finally find something with the AWP.
And it's on to Apex, who's been getting desperate with some of these plays.
The Palace walk, the Connector Lea, no trade potential, no space to be taken.
Na'Vi have put Vitality under pressure.
And they are crumbling three consecutive for Navi to draw themself up to 12.
If there's anything left in the tank they need to find a down vitality.
An AK for Zywoo, a hero move required.
Is this the last of Mirage?
Will Navi extend their dominance on Mirage? Another win.
One round away, or can Vitality fight back with limited weaponry?
Eyes on the prize, Zywoo with the AK.
Wonderful doesn't succumb to these early flashbangs.
Clashbanks does not pull the trigger. Bides his time, has to hit this!
He does some damage onto Apex, but already looks good for Vitality.
A direct and brutal approach.
Had to be the calculator cold. Navi can't justify this.
It's just the financial conversation at all of these maps.
Because they're so close, because they're so back and forth.
And the fact that Vitaly break through with Wonderful,
who is clearly feeling the pressure, wobbly on the first shot.
There, out, they open in.
Immer, who's been the hero in the last couple falls.
You think, Big, can he be the closer again? The pressure.
The mole is there, the smoke comes in, but he gets traded and Vitality pull off the heist.
That was punchy, that was explosive.
And Mezzi as well, you know, yes, a missed off shot, but someone's got to hit that shot with a Galileo long range and he does it.
Yeah, you have to punish the mistake. You have to punish the miss and they definitely do.
On no timeouts left. Take your 20 seconds. That's just for your son. We're going to get straight back into the action.
applying a bit of pressure over towards B but hold up a second there's been a bit of a rerout
It's not just looking like they want to shove
Hedging back now into something a bit more default as Alexi working on space whose puzzle taking shape lucky to be alive deep smoke
What does this change within the round?
Almost feels impossible to head towards B knowing that they could be pushed up unless you wait this out
Once the smoke starts to fade you could go in for the clear but time is something vitality
will be lacking. A minute and ten feels like a lot to work with now but when you
want to take this to overtime that clock is going to be trickling past timers of
the essence. A must win round. 60 seconds to find it.
Short this again, short this again. And y'all JL gets the information also
I'm not gonna get out of the jump.
And now they take the fight in there!
Deleted my flywheel for a nice double!
It's good again.
And only in SMG.
What's he supposed to do?
Brings out the house on A.
Bombs will be planted.
J-L-L-X-E-B trying to stop it
from going to overtime.
And Vitality done enough.
It's looking awfully good.
Apex staring at the smoke.
So, Lexi B hoping for an overextension.
Mezzy, that third piece.
he will be the catalyst holding the cross a shot from apex connects and now what can
you do Jay? I've only got the hopeless as he accepts there are more rounds to be seen on the run.
The comps are both of these teams just when the chips are down the
finance is broken you think they're down you think they're dusted.
Flaynze pulls out an opener on Emma who has been having a great game over
towards connect up. It feels like this is exactly what this best of five
deserves all the rounds over times give us more deviation from the norm hyperaggressive
from speed from the elevated angle delivers an opening kill trying to mix it up into OT
do something you haven't done before flames information there apex walking through a
smoke into jail a comfortable collection and what the form of it's overtime and
suddenly we're bare knuckle brawling boxing charging up ramp and now we have
receive this well. This is where the individuals get put on display. The
decisions under pressure, well Vitality, they were the ones running with that
momentum taking us into overtime. It was now of these chance to close. Now both
teams are to pick themselves off. Pick themselves up, dust themselves off. As it
is just messy, first of the 1v5, might make it to second. Emma with the close
some AK scavenge carried through free to work with and that was Spinks trying
something different trying something risky hey I'm just gonna run a and try and
take the fight against bit wonderful delivers on his everybody lining up the
scoreboard for now V was I would into another AWP is gonna be out of funds
very quickly must win wonderful it's an aggressive position this feels like the
type around that Alexi's reading they'll go back to the A execute just take a look
at the bit and Emma set up that's not the case
oh he's got that smoke to play with so he's allowed to dip away on the flash and
cross flames get himself across to the mid boxes didn't feel that under pressure
otherwise he would have dropped the extinguish just happy to play on the
cast gives himself open to that short fight so didn't really expect that it
be too much more behind it and by holding on to that smoke a free view
for the window that side was keen to start looking current a smoke from
Apex now we can start look look at the region to the CT set up. They really are leading
JL Alexi short side and all
One out is still the four onto JL
As you with the bomb as well. I'll be re-aggressing the re-clearing timing from JL. He's not ready for Zywoo
Fames and now catch is negative on the CT side as Apex who's completely disconnected and spinks will have to wait
I'm on D. Apex working his way towards count walk
Towards that short side
Who knows there's an AWPer on that site, wonderful, not so active on the line, intermittent check.
So the bomb, he missed it, Apex forces him off the line, puts that AWPer down to just one bullet.
One bullet would do it, with wonderful, 14 seconds though, you need to plant, and Spinks has opened up the opportunity.
Scooping up the bomb, you have to get past Bit, but he does fall off the angle, 8 seconds, they flash as the bomb will go down.
Nade won't finish him off, Bit and Immetra, get in, Spinks denies, it falls to him again on this B bomb site.
Has he got another bomb?
But the bomb was down.
Ima was still in A.
He literally went into Palace.
They didn't even try and fortify the package.
Apex had a free avenue up Catwalk.
That's why Ima was so late to this.
We saw wonderful re-clearing there,
and the bomb obviously would have flashed on the map,
but perhaps they didn't load it initially.
Okay, fighting middle, awkward for Ima.
It throws out the extinguished, but can't get out his gun out in time.
Another opening from Flames.
He is comfortable on the stage.
Wonderful spanking spanks, avenging Bit, but look at Apex, he is already burrowing into the B-bomb site, wonderful good connection.
So Flames' party has been crashed.
So many gaps to concern yourself with and look how entrenched Apex is.
No one's there.
You have to call it back surely, with how far forward he is.
They're wondering if it's been a B-app's push because Alexi's still alive.
Is he clear?
He pecks. Positioning alone has won them the kill onto a leg C and necessary trade.
Wonderful! Activate! It's all been wonderful so far.
There's still time to pivot. They do not have to finish towards B.
Are they going to really run into wonderful with a hot hand?
Three kills deep into the third round of overtime here.
Peek-a-throo, spotted out, lives on.
Woff-you-gah! They're jumping at him.
Tags up. Zywa knocks off his boots.
Tudson as Mezzi's hunting, a hard shot to hit, he's not far off, gets his eye to the scope but Mezzi brings him down.
JL already brought low, 12 HP, 1 vs 2 but they're not looking, they're not ready for JL!
You were thinking for wonderful it was better late than never, and he showed up with a massive round.
If he connected as opposed to the leg shot that's there round to take, he was looking hot, played ahead.
Apex not ready for two over towards market, but it's Mezzi wins out the 1v1 on the low HP JL
We swap sides
We get ready to go again
Blade from a recent of them with the tactical timeout used in OT
I need three straight on the T side to get this done
To just to secure double overtime vitality
You might be looking to steal away another map pitch.
Will he get back and forth?
This roster was built for trophies.
Getting Zywa one contract.
You have to build a trophy contender around him.
That's been the task apex has set forth and now here,
eight months deep by Talatir in pursuit.
But not first.
This is the team of 2023 going up against what
What witness trophy could become the team of 2024 major winners now V
Look at the silence the critics who are going to reinforce that number one in the world spot
Have to work hard for it now on the T side remember
We've gotten definitely into the thicker things the excitement and all-time hype
But there's streaks in the line for both these teams as far as Mirage is concerned
Neither team can likely remember what a loss on Mirage feels like someone is gonna have that
Sovereign reality at the end of this OT someone is going to be one that the way
lifting
Alright, well
The pressure it's encapsulated right there and Spinks whoosh
Loses his head in at one tap straight to the skull of Spinks
Nice from flames. They may look in the wrong way bit from palace, but apex has been completely overlooked
They're not looking at it! Wonderful! It's a free frag!
Mark points in the third of his best of five.
Lexi B, Alik.
HG, Bullet.
Finding him top mid.
The pressure to call the right shots here.
He needs two rounds just to see another overtime.
Trying this one again.
That sticks to the landing this time round.
Ima, active immediately. This is a classic.
This is very GK.
And in this environment, this is insane.
Especially now that's actually found Apex from the palace position, a long range headshot.
This is insanity from Imma! Flags into Spinks!
Messi down over North to the Double Cality, a charge to end it here, despite the heroics of Imma!
Flamesy bosses with defences up through Underpass, they've got two sitting on the ball.
Coming in for Imma, and Messi tries to keep him in the bay.
The flames on the floor, Messi goes activated, it's Imma, good for it!
And from the Huxing to have converted Imma's brilliance.
Zawoo is in a pivotal position. He can play between either side.
Knows where Alexi is.
Deagle headshot required.
Lexi's holding! Passes the turn!
Vitality, or Navi force us into another overtime.
You've got to wonder, was that the plan in the last round?
Perhaps. Just let's do it again and let's not mess it up.
There's just so many more bodies towards connector of that piece.
I suppose he needs to get the space for them to be able to pivot,
so the gap was pipped.
And Ember continues to be the hero,
but Mezzi almost spoiled the party for the Navi fans with that double.
This got so chaotic.
And that gap, that gap in their fount is a product of their reaction to the con smoke.
They boost up over it. Perhaps they're aware that that's going to be unoccupied upon the connector smoke.
He slips in the back lines, opens up the b-site, still a labour to fair thanks to some heroics from Mezzi.
The brains of both of these teams attempting to make adjustments.
You get one tactical timeout in each set of overtime, doesn't carry over, needs to be used.
So X-Tas, why the hell not?
But that also gives Blade the opportunity, so both coaches and captains a chance to confer on how they want to try and finish this round.
I'll tell you when this, we're going into Inferno, one map to the good, one map away.
Love you, Winner, we go again.
with T side consecutive unless apex and mezzi can do the improbable there's good
damage fighting JL they know where they both are now on sandwich he gets away
reposition smoke guys in the advance of mezzi so much damage onto apex and yeah
finished off by Alexi mezzi what can you do the first is clean but ever say
each we need more rounds both teams fighting tooth and nail to keep their
mirage win streak alive to be one map away from that cologne trophy you
I've spoken about this a few times, Vitaliy can throw these looks that are outside of the box because of the way that Mavis Structure Counter Strike works.
Sphinx, the short defender, was an EASI.
I feel like in that situation, the setup is good. Vitaliy have made the right call.
This execution as well, Crosshair on the head and all that. They are going to be going for something quick and poppy mid.
Alexi B already, look at him, look at him!
Ahead of the plays, I would not think they would report. How has he gotten here already? One minute thirty nine.
Alexi behind, enemy lines, Matthew spots him out.
Smoke to get himself out of trouble.
Early pressure, early mid control.
Apex, worried about ladder.
Atali aren't grouping up for a crunch on middle.
He's hanging in a pretty standard hold, but they know that they're under a lot of pressure.
Apex is somewhat committed towards this position because they know Venrum is giving up.
Look at this, he can't really move.
He doesn't have support to get out.
That window smoke does give him an option.
Another good call from Vitality, Spinks over towards Azi, with two flames he hit, bomb
on JL towards Ramp.
CB seem to think so, heading into the A side, Spinks still here, nice for patients from Apex
rewarded onto Alexi. The A side occupied, and he goes hunting for head to spit, brought down.
After taking out the captain, Mezzi and Spinks to avenge their fallen comrade.
Just JL, and Spinks with his knife out, tucks in, face the shot, and it's good for Spinks!
Counter strike, it's high intensity today in this grand final.
Whoa, selflessness there as well from Spinks, playing to be traded with that jump out,
No, and if Joe wants to take the fight, he's just trying to draw the cross there and does it perfectly
But this was a beautiful flick down from Zaiwup
Shutting down the onslaught through connector, teeing Vitality up for their 16th round
Magic number we're looking for right now is 19. Oh flames
He's actually starting to test bit on the palace position
Quick headshot plus no fee with a man advantage
early into the piece.
Trying to find early gaps and punished for it.
Yeah, no advantage really feels like an advantage in these situations.
It's just waiting to see, especially the Vitality City side,
what their proactive maneuver is going to be,
or where Apex pulls them into a gamble.
That's a miss.
Does Apex want to have a look at that?
An opportunity presents itself,
and yeah, the Molotov will limit his options.
And I found the smoke, trying to make a move, making a move now, it's perfectly timed, A-Pace just gets run down.
The Zywu War does connect, Spinks unloading his magazine into the smoke, which is for the one, and then humbles him.
But that's Mezzi spamming away to convert.
Put this into a 2-1-2, wonderful a headshot, that's all he could see.
Hands are haircut to Mezzi, Zywu thrust into the clutch.
Wonderful and bit up against him.
Two bullets in the orb.
Two targets to find and the fastest device he's taken.
Your heart stops.
A USB.
Wonderful's even hanging around to take the five.
The plant is open, he's trying to get away.
And Wonderful's woes continue.
A 2v1 that should have been Narviss.
But Zywu happens.
Surely an inevitability, but how do you shake that off?
So deep into Mirage.
And that's the thing, when you go up against Vitality, when you go up to the greats of the game,
when you go up against Zywu, you know you can attest a couple of rounds, especially once you're getting to overtime, to his name.
It's fine. But when the pressure of the grand final stage, map number three, your turf, 12 consecutive,
you have to take that time, Matt. You have to try and cool things down.
You have to see if you can bounce back. And that's what I'm saying about these opening kills,
These advantages, they don't guarantee you anything in this arena.
Flames. Goes down early and watches that from the sideline.
Smokes on A, early, early, and a miss from Zywoo. That's awkward.
Especially now the bullet finds it through the box.
It's up to Flames on the site. Does well onto JL, but Alexi B trades through.
Reaggression, Apex through the smoke.
Anticipated, Zywoo's Naive finds wonderful.
Alexi B's doing everything he can.
fake plan, Sphinx Leng is short, and where's Ima completely isolated between the two of them?
Lexi B pauses, let's Ima come to him, he's coming through short side, Ima could be exposed here.
We know he can hit these flicks, he's got the hot hand right now as well.
And he's done it, Lexi B, caught in this grand final, maderation of the Lanxess Arena.
This is what we expect from Zywook, this is what you want to see from Zywook.
This is why the name is one to be feared and you just sit back and you watch it unfold and
you bask in its glory.
The Hornets worshipping his impact and you feel that that has to be enough of vitality
to get the job done.
It's fast shot, they're charging in for it, they're throwing it all out the A-site
and now repelled.
Give us it again, it won't be fine.
You're heating up.
To keep it perfect.
You're heating up to keep it perfect a little bit of fear. I'm sure for wonderful
There's other rounds. They were definitely within Zahruz will house. This is the impossible the bomb on his back
That's cool talking about a comeback is he gonna give this one a look
I'm not sure. He's sure haven't had a lot of these
lengthy saves this series. This is new
What do you make of a pacey call when you're up 1815 the first round T side apex says let's just charge
Well, this is it is where the in-game leader brain really plays into action
You have three opportunities. Do you want to take the fast option first or do you want to save it until the end?
You could just go default you lose you go default you lose then you're with the third round. You go
Well, okay, we're gonna throw on a pace change. I like the fact that he's given it to go out the gates
But does this inform your next call? I mean, it's not surely gonna be something in the same thing
I feel like the stubbornness from Vitality.
Oh, well, oh.
Well, he made us all wake. Wonderful.
We'll punish him. No loss bonus for you, Zaheer.
You lose absolutely everything.
Well, you win this one, Na'Vi.
Zaheer is going to be in a bit of trouble financially.
He's been dropped the AWP by Spinks going into this.
The heads-up counter-strike is what some of these Na'Vi
individuals would love to play.
Bit, the prime example of that. Just puts the hammer down.
But they're the ones who are playing from behind.
Flames gets out JL spamming that AK-47 three of those for the CC side as they look to find three
Oh! Whoa! Wonderful!
Kings is out and he's looking
Stressful. Stressful, good find from Bit catches the walkout, spinks
Limited options for the remaining three, Messi does go look in wonderful sitting every shot
He takes this round and now Messi he's been hurt and look at the flame betrays
We've been here before.
I feel like Lads, I would make the only place, shall we Lads?
Might be a good idea.
Let our AWPer, let our star play up.
Yes, indeed.
I'm going to tell you how the AWP gone.
There's Navi, they over time.
A 3-0 CT side from Vitality and Navi looking to respond in kind.
More dominantly, they have died once on this CT side in overtime.
One kill is all Vitality boast in these two rounds of play.
In these two rounds of play they only need five to get the job done.
It doesn't matter how they get there, just need to get there.
These timeouts again. For the confidence for Na'Vi,
those two rounds being a clinic is going to fill them with confidence, but it just
takes one moment, one misstep, one repick.
Kind of look could all fall apart.
Start us off. Early glances at middle for either side.
Bomb is going to be heading palace early.
Apex has a plan. Now it's up to Vitality to execute it. Flames. Takes himself out mid.
Off the head of Zywil. There is visibility there. Is Apex aware?
Forced away by the nade. Good damage, chunky.
The pressure for Anavi to match the 3-0. And they're looking for another overtime.
Can Vitality recover from an opening kill? Zywil seems to think so. He thinks he
can end it now and secure Mirage! Nice work! Spumms him down to 19 points above! Bomb on
his back, players above him. What a headshot from the smoke! This could be enough, he has
to not overcook it. Spinks versus WandaFall, he's thrown out his nade, swaps to the AK,
he's nervous. Spinks looks calm, ready, 20 seconds, he's hoping WandaFall overcooks,
It overmoves it, hoping that the stress gets the better of the young gun, or the quad kill.
Spinks will have to make a move, time against him, drops away, wonderful goal!
The fake plant, Spinks, does he call the blocker?
It's a goal again to separate these two Titans.
Now you talk about the insanity of overtime, but what happens when you get this deep?
It's still the little details, Alexi in that previous round heads towards A, play
tuck in the site.
As soon as Bit shows himself connector, they come out palace, he gets a kill.
It's these little details and now it's Emma, up to bats.
You'll take that one.
Smoke, you can't flush me out, throw your molly, it'll be wasted.
Opening kills though, not always an indicator of the closer.
A four.
Hungry Hornets.
Wonderful.
Forced away from the line of fire, good work from Apex, taking space and made my land close.
Chip damage.
They're testing JL here.
They are testing JL. He's brave to keep throwing, but his downrange
and still delivers a headshot onto Flanks.
Traded by Mezi, Alexi lingers.
35.
Time pressure. Two players here.
It's Mezi responsible for it with a loss of 8x.
It's awkward.
Caught with his nade in his hands and Zywu again left alone.
He's got nothing.
Four against...
In the serve up.
This is their first time in the Lancers.
One hell of a debut.
Vitality were here last year, slightly different roster, but they're just taking their time
basking in the glory that Cologne has to offer and putting on a show.
Just the one casualty in their first CT round, cannot be keep it clean.
This is all in towards middle for both teams.
Wonderful.
With that off, between the wickets of two, swinging out wide with this white screen,
It's actually JL! The flash is sent to an early grave, but Zywoo does the same, finds wonderful short side.
Apex looking for JL here, he might have a look and spots him out! Ooh, a dink!
Damn.
Impressive to find even anything after the hunt from Apex, and that does have him walking wonky, 10 HP, uncomfortable for Apex, as he still looks a pivot, leaving Zywoo, lad aside.
Alexi's position, he's opened a short.
I suppose thinking Bit might have info there, he's not currently active on it.
He's repositioned, so aware of the possibility, Apex has donated the bomb to Spinks, said here, you take this.
Back around the world, so up through the underpass is Spinks.
Zaiwu from short is going to have to try and pick it, and he's grabbed another.
All called very awkward now for him, Alexi B is so far away.
Vitality surging into the side side. We're looking the wrong way. Guess the info gets away. How is Emma doing this again?
Spinks doesn't think he is with 14 seconds that bomb will be planted. Alexi B known to beat the Bianca
Uncertainty for Apex considering CT
Alexi advancing a smoke will cover it
ineffective Nade
on the crawl
Navi's captain
thinks his way in considering the options has no answers towards the ramp side and with his back turned he's brought low
No response from ramp time sensitive mission for Alexi and Sphinx has actually gotten past completely
Outmanoeuvred outplayed and it is 19
The impact for Zywer is definitely showing up
Finding the kills that the team needs if they're able to play into rounds and just get obliterated allows Zywer to play in here
It is bang this is after the JL double
It feels like a different round, doesn't it?
How long this took, but Zywu with impact to draw them back into it.
With how that round started, that should have been now these.
They'll be feeling the same.
This rollercoaster of emotions and counter-strike continues.
Just trading blows in our third overtime, 22, the magic number.
The situation flames him, loads his mag into the smoke and finds the young Ukrainian
Can Vitality convert the opening? Do Navi have the capacity to jostle back for control at the disadvantage?
Apex sending his troops into Alexi's domain. Oh, missed shot! And Alexi, he thrives!
He's actually got a second! He grabs Iwo's AWP and it pursue him more, but here's Mezzi and Spinks hitting their shots and seizing the advantage for themselves.
I'm already going down on B, Bid and Emma. What can you do? Apex is going to join the party.
An uncomfortable retake.
An impossible retake.
There's nothing for you here.
All the time in the world to set yourself up through the flames of headshot.
Spinks has them on the cross though. Spinks hasn't locked in. Apex managing his angles ready to be in the fight.
Spinks hasn't finished off his meal and Apex goes bottomside.
Here's a change, Vitality CT side, double AWP, we don't stop.
Alexi B alone ranger. Pressure onto Mezzi as well in this Bianca position. Still has his smoke.
Ready for a jump and actually Obstrant's smoke off the apartment. That could be an invitation to push.
And they are creeping. Contact walking and the Flash forces them into the line of fire.
Mezzi does well to convert. Mezzi, this one man army defends his sight on a ramp.
Sends no feedback to spawn is unless he married a legs you've got anything more to say about this one. They don't look good
There's a legs he sure found one on the extremity found spings in the smoke, but
The site is lost upon lies with vitalities defense and messy passing his test on be his smoke in a flash and he used them both
But this is perfection. This is what's crazy. We're gonna catch it in the replay, but it's the right call
Alexi has the B Defender, the short player, stuck over towards Vendor. It's only
Mezzi on the side. Apex is having to rotate in. The call is the right option.
It's the right play. Mezzi just stands up. The individual difference makers. Mezzi
needed the multi. He needed to stall them out or they would have cracked in
and then the retake would have been off.
He's under so much pressure.
The rotation point can't be spinked.
He is stuck. It needs to be apex.
Spinks still contribute somehow.
And that Zywoo flashbang flying over
to enable the multi-kill to be converted.
We find ourselves dead even 40 rounds deep
in the third map of this grand final.
Black and yellow behemoth, I've described now.
Now V, now Vitality, packing a punch themselves.
Right now, the top of the scoreboard is over on one side, 36 in there, dead even.
Couple of 40 bombs could be brewing here, couple more rounds in it.
This is the round though, the winner of which will have that map point to work with.
Apex, Apex has been a dangerous game here but the flash is there in support.
Get him off the ledge, get him off the lift and get him out safely.
Oh, he's hanging around.
I was sitting catching the enemy sweeping top mids,
trying to punish that type of a play with stall
and buy himself more time with the incendiary.
Alexi, aware of the possibility,
Sphinx starting to push as well.
In bold and narrow vitality.
Yeah, and so I was going to provide some cover and fire as well.
The overwatch with the AWP.
Alexi B's going to have more than he barked in for any moment.
Now it's Apex versus Alexi.
Apex favored in the exchange, puts Alexi down to just 11.
A headshot off from the M4A1.
The Sphinx is unknown, hard to clear.
Hang on, the timing on this, yeah, his fingertips down and out, but look at him!
The sharp shooter, a clean headshot onto Sphinx.
Bit tried to find a gap through the ball of smoke, but goes down.
Solid work from the A anchor, Flames and Apex have connected.
Apex in rotation, wonderful, and JL trying to get across.
Flames on the other side of that smoke, he might be overlooked here.
JL, yeah, brought him straight into Flames!
The job at these anchors in back-to-back rounds, defending their site admirably.
At that point, we've been here before, break the streak,
and extend their own, looking for their ninth, and to deny the thirtieth.
This is the third time Vitaliy have been in this position since forcing overtime.
They have been the ones who should have been in the position to close.
Time and time and time again.
and RV have not relented.
They have not given things over.
They have stayed in with the fight.
XCB out, man.
Has a look at Spings, takes down the short player, a gift.
A real opportunity for a fourth overtime.
Mehdi doesn't seem to think so,
with the aggressive short finds the orper.
Look in the wrong way.
Holding WA, pegs doesn't exactly what he does.
They don't have the bomb.
It's still over to what spawn.
They need to go back and get this or force the fights.
First, looks like it's a fight on the menu. Flames, can he really lock it down?
A multi-kill required, and he's got himself the double.
That's going to be it. Apex found the bomb.
And the curtains will surely be closed on Mirage.
An extended break to allow these teams to refuel and refocus.
The series is far from over,
and these teams coming into Inferno on different footing.
We have traded blows and territory as far as map picks are concerned.
Nothing has made sense.
And if we continue by the script,
Navi should be snatching this one away and taking us to the 5th of Anubis.
That's a mistake.
And it's gonna get worse and less bit.
Spins around! Flanks makes it level. Flames has not left!
And Flames delivers!
Sites up on the business.
Wide open.
Wonderful and JL quite quick on this flank.
They're gonna be clearing through diligently.
Spam from Alexi drawing attention from the library side.
JL a wonderful poke their nose up brackets.
This flash has to be great.
Set up and vitality looks solid.
So I won't even chipping away at Alexi B on that tapping of the glock.
Masy and Apex going to be the first on the side to receive the man.
Well, JL does well, but there's Flames! Another one from Flames!
Alexi B, no Kevlar, half health.
There's nothing for him here. It needs the one they mean to go on.
A pistol round win.
I'm talking about this yesterday. This is the important note.
with Inferno on the menu.
Navi off the back of a victory against Mouse.
We touched on the pistol rounds, right?
They liked to stack 3 towards B.
Well, against Mouse, they were heavy A.
Here they've gone back to their tried and tested.
Interesting, and Vitality called the bluff.
They get themselves in off the back
of some great pistol work from Flames.
Now for Vitality,
they actually lost a phase on this map.
13-5.
Oh, wow.
Domination.
That was the series that could have been a 2-0 in favour of Faze.
Required Dust 2 and then Anubis.
Now we have the stack.
It's in the right place.
At least for now.
Deepak's going to get a lot more than he bargains for
as he rounds the corner, screaming,
boys get out of there,
Spinks stick around,
Divya Mac 10, farm up some cash.
$600 already.
Make it $1,200.
Catches him a push in the smoke.
Jobs are good and there is one man
And a pair of dual barrettas, standing between them and there's a sight.
And...
Well, please!
Jump! It takes a headshot midair!
Vitality jumped for joy after that one, not going to find any issues.
All five looking to stay alive as it is just the in-game leader once more.
Vitality, head to the semis last year.
Unable to get past Ence.
This time in the grand final.
One map away from securing that trophy.
Na'Vi, are they gassed? This is the best of five.
Na'Vi doesn't look too stressed just yet.
On the one side of the server, you have Vitality.
No trophy this year. Na'Vi, they took the first trophy of the year.
At least in the Copenhagen Major.
And we're off.
Alexi B charging into Messi.
Messi does pander it well.
With 10 HP to work with, that incendiary could be his end.
And it's finally built upon it.
AKHJ welcomes the re-swing.
JL was hungry.
And Zai Wu puts a bullet between his eyes to extend their advantage and now the B site you would think is wide open
Wonderful throws out the incendiary to say it's not but they know the site
Unoccupied and flames is going to scout it out confirm their suspicions
That has to be to save now wonderful to back off and go into a bit on the other side of the map
Flamesy clearing the path and apex to plan that bomb
Pistol conversion and now the first gun rounds
This is what vitality are looking for
What's the important part guys is to help your teammate to be family guys as I said I repeat
that once again it's the key if you want to win Cologne guys just one map thinking about
your fucking contours like your DNA eyes in the sky locked around discipline guys
free VVV discipline use your teeth play for each other if everything guys.
What's your next task?
Got me riled up in the DNA.
10 rounds away. And this is the thing, you've had such a bomb burner over series. You never
wanted to simmer out. You never wanted to be a landslide. Two saved rifles, so drops
aren't possible. Just blade ones taking time out to discuss the way forward. Take more
of the conservative approach. Just play behind these two sad guns, hedge in with something
like on the other three and then go for a full rifle round into the next. If they're
getting caught off guard there you can see he flashed into the open and then
just taken out for free. RV he decided to get the party started. Again a three
player feast start. They've got four in there.
Not too far away as a nade. Lashes Alexi. Often overlooked this boost. They are
saying one of their rivals up a success. Oh but he just bounce them eight pads.
Activates for two. I know Alexi and Inna are both there. The flash assist
and the Emma kill. That's two out of the three remaining players. Just have to get past Bit, who they know has a rifle.
He's making a bit of a name for himself in the apartments, though.
Caution from Spinks doesn't choose to take that fight alone.
He'll move us closer towards middle.
Has to play for Infer.
Alexi, with a smoke, can redeploy to continue to block.
That would be perfect, and does drop it out.
Lining up Utah regardless.
Alexi being Emma could be overrun here.
It has to be Emma.
He has at least the rifle. He cleared the smoke.
What's he got? Replansion of the smoke. That limits their options.
Do you want to push through it? I think they still do.
Inners ready. He's ready for only the one.
No, because Zaiwu hits it. Five and zero.
Yet to die in Zaiwu. Bits get just the one.
Six kills for Zaiwu. Zero deaths.
And closing that gap.
Nine rounds is all that separates vitality
from an elusive trophy and from the IEM Cologne trophy.
Considering the circumstances,
Kami bought themself as much time as possible.
The setup felt like it was in the right place.
It was over to rotate over in somewhat time.
Next rightful round.
Next real opportunity for Na'Vi to post a round.
This is brave from Nezzi.
Forward position is susceptible to lots of nades on his way.
64 is what he's working with.
It's just Alexei here.
The rotation is full.
is full. Na'Vi have left their in-game lead up with it all to do.
Is this confidence from Alexi? Can he really use his nades, additional cash,
picks up some extras, flashing, puffing up the gas.
Yeah, they're coming for him, and that nades well placed as well.
They lose the side. What a read.
They're just contact walking in. They found the gap. It's only Alexi here!
It's unlocked right now, Na'Vi. This has to be the save. There's no way in.
You put up no resistance. Alexi absolutely destroyed.
Not only out called, but out gunned.
Na'Vi see this grand final as an opportunity to fortify,
to reinforce the world number one title.
They claim to that throne.
And yet here we are in our fourth map.
In the words of Einstein,
adversity introduces a man to himself.
Can now the response to a five zero start
They're in a hole the positive is they have a blade timeout likely coming they can drop a gun to a Lexi, so they will be
fully armed
But these rounds are getting away from them so quickly
That's the fives map on not a sprint
The vitality of running away with things early
No blade timeout
Guys, please, we need to speak. It's very important. If you want to win, we need to speak.
Apex, he's wants to fight. He welcomes the engagement that JL and Light applies. They're burning out, smoke is forced.
Pushing through, easy collection for JL.
Clear part of the game plan. Vitality do not want to give over Banana Control whatsoever.
Think about how much they are putting into this space. They're down to almost no utility, still a minute on the clock.
Both teams, with these rallies of maids back and forth, and Na'Vi will come out...
...the better.
But for how long?
Vitality down a player, and heaps of cash don't have to save. Can take any risks they'd like.
There's so much in the coffers, there's at least two buys for everybody in Vitality going forward.
So, Navi have retained the banana control short.
Had to use an awful lot of U-Tool to be able to do so.
2-3, split of the defences.
Ima and Bit to lock down the short and app side of things, and that's where the fight is coming.
Perfect timing on that, but they'll explode through, there's a flash on its way.
Ima and Bit, the sharpest tools in the Navi shed, tested here on the side.
The play jumps in and it's Iberavada still holding on to 5 alive and Spinks and Zywu with no time.
Damage would be good right now if you're Vitality. Like mentioned you have plenty of cash.
If you could take a kill 2, it'd make it 3, that'd be great.
But right now it might be now staying door closed, flawless.
They still fight Banabi.
Multiple rounds in consecutive fashion will be necessary to take control of the economy.
Round at a time.
But if Vitality continue with this onslaught towards Banana, one Fumble, one Stacknave, one push that you're not ready for, and this could all fall apart.
Yeah, love the way you highlighted just how much of a priority that Banana fight is.
Do you change the approach now?
Looks like it.
Some other gays that gone in saying that it looks a bit more default.
Sphinx towards second and Flamesy was with him, but pivoted immediately through the chicken pit.
Maybe, no, it's bot out too, that's info.
Charging up Banana, they're gonna fight.
It's Alexi and JL, what they got? JL's got nothing!
Staring at the sub-banks, Missy puts him in the dirt, and the B site once again, explicives, makes him the second for Xaywoon.
And already the site lost. How brutal is that? Flames getting that information.
Look at the Sphinx lurk. He's already here to take this away from Bear. You might walk away with nothing.
You just had a flawless round now, V. You need a five for your right and these weapons.
And by Tali, they have the solution to now VCT side.
Banana, the B bomb site. Harass it.
Absolute scenes right now, Navi cannot hold on.
That info from Flames can vote it upon.
Wonderful gets something, Bit too.
Apex really wants to take this away.
He's charged forward to fortify the fifth position.
Flames has done well there, taking down the AK.
Bit loves an AK-47 on its CT positions.
Will not get a chance to utilize.
Wonderful. Can't hold on to the orb surely.
Still being closed in on Mezzi and Apex will take it away.
Send it to Spawn with nothing.
Vitality, six already, just seven rounds in.
And Apex not picking up the AWP says that is not a part of our T-side game plan.
It'll be rifles throughout and we know Zawoo can get it done with anything.
He's currently AM2 leading the charge for Vitality.
And not only would this be Apex in that pursuit, that 10 years, the third grand final.
This is Zawoo, he's in the conversation for one of the greats.
The trophy cabinet needs to represent that and IEM Cologne must be there.
Accusations that Zywoo's not there in the big games while this is a grand final,
he's at the top of the scoreboard and they are still encroaching on that trophy.
Seven rounds all they need and Flames takes a leap towards a seventh right now.
Zywoo tested on the beat side, Immet and JL didn't connect some shots but Zywoo and Apex
Stubborn on this control and Zywoo will go down that big from JL finds a little bit of a gap spams the smoke
Spinks searching
Active on this one bit typically the housekeeper of the balcony. Alexi's aware this possibility
The group's up now Vitality plenty of time to work with you two as well apexes low, but JL 2 and bit just walks into Spinks
So active they're not ready for another apex overwhelms them now as a race a race into Alexi low
He collects the first that's big from Alexi puts it on to Flames with 40 seconds to play
No idea where he is
He's got a 1v1
Looking for Alexi and he fights it! Flames looking to come up clutch!
This is such a tough retake now for JL the bomb can go down and Flamesy can go absolutely anywhere
The rotation time is miserable for the Lithuanian the way back in there's just so many questions
They put him in this jersey. They saw the potential in Flames, but when he's having a really good game
He is Flames Z. This would be for seven.
Smoke out, gives him the info. JL has no idea about these trophy hopes!
Feels like everything is going vitality's way right now. Opening kills galore
Clutches in their favor
Navi with just one round and that is the first tactical time out for Blade
thought he was going to call it earlier in the piece but he's let his voice play
now they're in trouble now they need his guidance the team of 2023 taking on
the ones who want to be named the team of 2024 major trophy EWC that's what
stacks their cabinet vitality is currently bare this year what a time to
decided the cologne grand final the first time to face we're in August the
calendar is stacked and this is the first time they lock horns and on the
grand final stage navi well they being consumed by this moment of vitality the
ones that want it more ten year pursuits claims it's got the right
Team mates alongside, Apex gets aggressive and so does Bit, brings the fight towards the apartments.
The first blood drawn, Navi can make a half out of this. It has to start now.
Second opening kill, can't give that away from 3.
Makes good on the promise, Alexi B, set Stale up for success and then Sendiery to stop the trade.
You have to.
Spinks is here as well, this will be quick, it's going to be a 2v3 in favour of Vitality, can they break in?
JL, and Alexi. Lots of nades could delay.
Here's the flash, here's the go. What are you gonna do about this?
Just a mantle up, actually. Clearing out the dark and coffin position.
Alexi's nade does nothing. Resmoke on the position. They can maintain this boost.
Alexi could be caught out by the elevated position, but does not expose himself.
45. Wonderful.
Miles away, and Spinks is testing in. Alexi being in trouble.
Anticipating the setup, they know what's up. JL throws out a smoke.
Lexi's incendiary forces the fight the SMG now going wide
Now take it up up but that needs to spell more rounds for now V for five CT side definitely something to play with
the vitality
They respond like they have
RV are in trouble
The money slowly being whittled down as we get towards the tail end of the half.
It's not too late for Navi to take control if they can find consecutive yet to be done.
Again, it's banana harass.
Chunks away, him and Messi was aware of very good nade.
Everybody's here.
And another for man, just catching strays.
Oh and it's Apex's turn.
Look at them get a Lexi B fine sideward.
What a scalp to take and he hold on to his life.
Flames wants to threaten it, spams the smoke.
Alexi B and Ima have the B control.
Oh, my God, Apex gets his bell run.
In the Cathedral, 14 HP, saved by the concrete.
Navi did have vision on middle, just been smoked off towards long side.
It's force-wonderful, more passive.
Alexi's still aggressive, he has to win out these fights.
Ima is here.
He's back in his aim.
Says I got this, I'll get one.
I'll at least get one.
Flames to B.
Game and what a shot!
Tim is not going to be undetected. He's not fighting. He's sitting back side hoping to be overlooked
Wonderful has flashes as an alley-oop available
There's the cheeses, there's the flames, the spy was here, he finds just the one
The Molotov forced to fight now, the bomb will be planted, this is maycore break
Bit and wonderful, they can break vitality but they have to retake the B site
Bit and wonderful, this Ukrainian duo, side by side, in Cologne
A triple kill from Flames. Final environment, but wonderful.
He's got a chance. He knows exactly what's up.
He does pull out the fake spings, trying to play the time.
Time gone inside.
That decision from Emma. He had a smoke. He had a molly.
He opted to play back site.
Did not fight with the leader.
Wanted to lull them into the B hit and they came knocking.
He takes the fight, only gets one.
Now it's a 2v2 post plan. Not sitting still.
the Flamesy special. Brothers in arms, Spinks and Flamesy, Flamesy though. At the top of
the table he has surpassed Zai Wu in our fourth map of the best of five final.
Gonna dig deep now Na'Vi. Four still on the table. A bite, something to work with, something
to fight with, something to push back with. Two clutches in the last three rounds of
play. Those are difference makers. Those are game changers.
Both going vitality's way. They can almost taste it. If they can keep this dominance up, if they can keep Na'Vi in the dirt, the red carpet will be rolled out for vitality to keep Na'Vi's legacy up for debate in 2024.
They're all looking to make history as well, and we're in here, Wood, to abandon the only
organisation to have listed three Cologne titles.
Seems a long way away now.
Yeah, might just have to settle for two.
Poised.
Our vitality.
A late sweep of banana, a lick of the flame, JL alone, isolated, on an island and calling
for aid, calling for backup, Imer with a bludge.
Of course it's going to rotate, they've been under the pump.
Every time they want to be, they've successfully taken it.
Alexey's coming as well.
And this read of the situation puts it all on to two.
Bit and wonderful, a chance, an opportunity, but the whole team
going to barrel into their bombsite with 30 seconds on the clock.
Bit readies himself a battle.
An elevated position and off-angle, wonderful pitside.
Long the gap, Alexey be scarpering, charging to try and fill that gap.
Get some information there, Mese lives on, force the fight to wonderful, down off the one!
Alexi B, he's got it all!
This conditioning has Na'vi scared. Just a bit of pressure up, Banana.
They bite, hook, line and sinker. They leave, bit and wonderful.
To lock down the A site and spinks, slaps them around. That's nine.
It's often discussed, rarely discussed in the first half of play, but on the menu and available for vitality to put them in full control coming into that second half.
Four-sliding banana again for Naby, on the first time we've seen that this half. Feels like they have to win out of this fight. Feels like they need this control.
They have to, but can they? Alexey to set up the two of them.
Fastenate's good, J.O. Exposes it, Apex!
Charging up to deliver the headshot,
Reboss down the trigger, and perfectly plays crosshair!
Now don't finish this!
This is the last round, you've got to go for it,
see a little bit, Spicks will take you now, it's just wonderful.
1v5, not a hope in the world and vitality.
It's used, it has!
It's once said, almost success here is not success.
He's been on the grand final stage before,
but the trophy eludes him.
And it has alluded to vitality for this entire year now, just three rounds.
Hope dies last, but the comeback starts here for Na'Vi, filling out the rounds.
Occupying apartments and boiler, banana as well, Alexi and Float with the bomb.
Util on his back, Sphinx, the lone defender of the A bomb site.
Well, Vitality hedged their bets for a B play.
No resistance to be felt from Na'Vi whatsoever.
And it's a bit to start searching. Will he overlook the position?
Finding Spinks is a big start to taking this round. Now the utility.
From Alexi. Oh, Apex still hits!
Spotting out the bomb now, bow. They're all grouped up.
The entirety of Vitality advancing. Quick thinking. Wonderful.
The chance he delivers! Taking down Flames.
Previously impactful on the first pistol. Now he's gone.
He might have to do it instead the P2K is good. It's bitter and they charge
Now be a few players offering themselves up and vitality
Will grab the pistol rounds. What a shot
This one here from wonderfully did his job. He knew more was coming
He hung around for a little bit too much
It looks like Alexi B's best of five woes are gonna continue in their most horrible of fashions
other answers not looking at the sheets looking at the boys the round was
perfect they were into the less defended site they fought before the util and they
gave Vitality 11 the bomb goes down kills came through a purchase is available
but now V those opportunities are now less and less forced into Mac 10 tech
9, Desert Eagle and Khalil. Your grand final hopes hanging in the balance of a disadvantage
round of counter strike and bit. We know what he's capable of but he has to start now.
Mezzi, his counterpart on the other side of the belt. It's aggression. It's found Mezzi
short, but he was the fight chasing at all the nades. Wonderful as a belt full and
he nearly lost it.
They send the packing, they send it quickly into Wazai. Zywu's here.
Oh, it's Zywu though. You gotta watch out for Zywu. Tucks away. Sets himself
for the plate flashes and flashes to delay apex library spamming away hang on
Zywoo down after one the JLD good for it what a spam from it
Bones won one into the head of JL could have made the difference
spinks and flames mid-side SMGs on the clear smoke will have them nervous
JLPT noted and already Flames is hitting the shots wonderful's gone down
is this really how it goes down Alexi and JL fighting these rounds are going
come down to the final moments apex again feels like something specials on his side with his rotations
it's coming in never allowing navi to have the sight for free but jl gets the reload in gets the
final kill and keeps navi alive of course vitality forced by back you know the pressure is so high
something that vitality have done quite well throughout this series is apex calling the CT
sides into strong stacks. This could be another one.
Turns to flash gracefully, and stack.
You ask yourself, are they blocking because nobody's home?
How many bodies are on the other side?
And at the same time, so how do you smoke down the balcony?
It just keeps these mind games, these questions.
You never know what's on the other side.
You never can be 100% sure.
That's where the gut comes into play.
Smokes, indicate a wrap.
Arch Library, isolating the sightlines, wanting to take the advantages with the rifles.
Zaiwu starting to activate, starting to look for an isolated duel.
JL good on to Flames, the penny drops and so does Zaiwu.
This is where Vitality needs to take a breath.
Hold on to what you have.
Have another crack in the next round of play.
You're so close, but you do not want to give Na'Vi
Three opportunities
They will be able to have four pieces
unless
Now you're looking Spriley Navi are looking like they want to take away these upgrades sure they look light
But they're still possible of a problem if they are carried into the next
Yeah, now just defending their weaponry throwing out a smoke in as creeping and crawling weightless
They do really want to take this away a heavy investment
Navi
To make that next round a whole lot easier. They think it's been twice.
They considered it. The smoke has done more than enough.
While I'm about to go off, he won't take anything away. They didn't get their hands on his gun.
So, Sphinx can drop across his upgraded pistol. I think he had a 5-7.
I think Zaru's now been equipped with that.
Just flames you who might be using the USP.
So, still around where Na'Vi need to keep it perfect.
We've seen some insane comebacks with this Cologne, go no further than Liquid versus FaZe.
Lighting doesn't strike twice though, does it?
Wonderful receives Spinks, Flames next victim, good catch and Apex.
He drives by with our CZ, a bullet shot!
5-7 does nothing for Zywoo and Mezzi, his B250 does bear some fruit.
Moment's there, we're a multi on the pistols and that could have been a whole new conversation.
to bring this back to what could be considered a manageable score line.
An uphill battle on the T side and a good reminder for everybody at home.
On the edge of your seat, full anticipation, and a smoke while he's in exchange.
Not the same level of harass, vitality, their solution to Mavi's defence was all in banana.
It's the Naive. There at Emma, we'll get Boiler and Hall's control.
Nezion Spinks. Tars with locking down. Short and abs and Zywoo over the wards long. Apex in rotation. Flames the on-beat.
Right now Vitality can't really have control of anything. Working on brackets. Drawing the attention of four.
Nezion Spinks starts to maneuver forward. Zywoo short side. Navi are walking into the Lions down here.
Oh! Never mind! It's bit! It's the Lions head on with a double kill. He has overlooked Zywoo. Zywoo looked for one.
save
It's the landlord
We know an inferno
We know in the big games the important that just he can have nuclear level performances just a double headshot
Instantaneous couldn't have been a worse time for them to start transitioning through halls
We know the peak is advantage they step into the fight and now the hunt from JL
This is the issue with the comeback of this magnitude the CTs can just opt for a lot of these saves the lockers building
they'll be able to drop the silenced M4s. So keep the buys coming, keep the threats there.
JL has noted where they've got Nofti and another defensive smoke saved to late. That's a block,
but they're coming through. Apex, under pressure. How's the support of Flamesy just behind?
How much do you put into this, Navi? That's the question. The flash comes in,
doesn't catch him. It doesn't overcommit either. Apex, is he done enough to hold
onto these rifles? Looks like he has. And so there will be threats. There will be threats
into the 18th. So a similar situation with Na'Vi in the first half. They save two
rifles and everybody else just hedged in with little investments. Some armor, some
pistols, some utilt. They can't go down the full buy and some
beautiful shooting there from Na'Vi. It's the first rifle round of the half.
What do you call this one? The MP9 of Spinks could be quite threatening as a
piece of this puzzle. He's taken some liberties as well.
It is going to be the first man on that scene good chip damage down mid lexie being jail catch flak
Well, this means it's just backed off. Okay. He's heard or seen enough
Try and force them around the map vitality have two smokes one for apex one for flamesy flames
He's on be apex over towards long flash at the ready for mezi
Plans with one of the save rifles. That's a massive round throughout this final
Come on here could seal the deal for 12
vision obscured towards middle
In the dark, our vitality. We have info that we don't have sightlines.
And banana is pressure 2. Will that bait have a smoke? Yes it will.
I mean, on the clock, job done.
This has been left extra utility. He's just grabbed another smoke to work with.
So you can block towards B for even longer if required.
Thinking twice. Oh, he does burn it.
At 50 seconds.
He won't have answers and flames. He's thinking about the rotation.
Are they ahead of this? Has Apex got the read?
It didn't matter last time, but can Bit really have the same impact?
Bit or Ime?
The setup looks strong.
Bolstered, ready.
Vitality looking for 12, but it's an XCV that is wrapped up for 1!
It was all hanging in the balance for a moment.
JL down to Flames, he'll take the upgrade.
But Navi will take a 7.
It's worth a look.
Hang around, see if somebody else oversteps.
Well, they've seen enough.
another rifle will back off with the AK and the M4. Now it's just a four-round
game. Well up next about to be the second rifle round in this second half of
play. So I will see if he's side at AWP. It's possible. It's more than possible.
He could get dropped across from one of these survivors, could buy it himself.
So how do you want to take a timeout? So they want to take a chat before this
gets too deep before this gets too close. It's four rounds manageable you still got
them at arm's length. Ooh, starting to let out some real frustrations. What was
such a power position? An emotional team like Vitality, you would hate to see
that become their undoing. Navi lost the pistol round. They lost both pistol
rounds and somehow they're still in this fighting. They haven't given up
It was a 10-2 half-chat, that pistol made it 11, and that 11 has now started at the top of the board for a run from Na'vi.
Five consecutive in pursuit of another now.
Damage! Conversion! Apex and opening death of the back of the Frustrations!
Will it go further? Spinks is low!
They've got to save again! This is an anti-tactical time now, Ocus!
But opening as well from wonderful, you catch it there.
Just commit to the spray, obscured by the smoke, but still commits, and Apex, he went
to swinging.
This is where we start getting into dangerous territory.
CT side Inferno traditionally need a lot of this utility to make these rounds happen.
For the banana control, the conversation we're having within the first half, just
to slow them down, just to stall them out, not even to win the space.
They do get the off desire again, but this is one of these situations where it's
not the all-in. Max loss bonus is going to be in play and as part of his comeback
Navi will have to fight against this round after round after round save guns
extra cash what's possible half buys a few M4s a couple of pistols these are
traditionally some of the most difficult rounds in Counter-Strike to win.
And Slywood kicks it off with a leg shot. Uncomfortable for wonderful but that changes the whole dialogue now
AWP noted we have to worry about that on some of these longer sight lines
We need to be either making sure we've got flashes on the corners with the peaks the wider swings
And he's already long gone. You see that POV he finds himself on B
Smoke exchange mid long obscure, but bit can potentially walk through
In their boiler with him. Siwu already scoped up on B. JL. He's trying his luck JL may not be prepared for this
The flash of it. Goonby's not ready!
Siwu! Dynamic with the AWP!
You know there's a gap right now
But if you go you're going into Mezzi and Spinks rotation on the way they're running the two Frenchmen
Looking to do what no one's done before
Despite that rich history for France in Counter-Strike
Bit out Park Molly's awkward Spinks goes down empty-handed has to be messy
He's made a bit of a close one still goes to
Vitality to kill
Appianship poses it down and of course as I was AWP to push them around the map
Made good on by Mezzi, shows his head top banana, forces Navi into A, pressure back on.
Margin Ferrera, none. For Navi, every round could be their last.
You can't even be thinking about map number five, you've got to be thinking about overtime.
And it's all in pursuit of that, in the center of the stage, in the Lancesse arena.
Zaywe wants to start us off with a bang. Last time a leg shot. Onto his rival,
AWP, wonderful. Posted anticipating something similar.
Trying to put a leash on his movements, not giving him so many chances,
so many opportunities. Change of view too in banana once more.
Alexi Faktis wants to pick up any remaining U2 short.
Imma M Bit, up to the usual tricks as he fill in the pressure,
Masha drops out of the defensive smoke, blocked for now.
So it was all on the long side.
One smoke, I'll have to reposition.
The intensity of the moment.
Not lost on anyone.
One misstep, one overpeak, one underappreciated angle,
like a boost over a smoke on long side,
but they haven't moved.
And the coming time sensitive for Narvik.
JL on B.
Apex still has a full belt of utility to block.
This lay in the piece, a full belt of utility to block.
It's looking good for Vitality.
JL trying to be the difference maker. Apex flashed off.
But still he's ready and he starts it with a bang!
Spinks is called back towards A.
Zywoo and Mezzie are already here. A missed shot from Zywoo. Bitt gets a chance. A second chance.
Twenty seconds.
They have to get this bomb down, the legs he delivers!
His options were there, a missed shot and some great ones from Bitt. A double kill.
He doesn't want to give this one up. He does not want to be the reason now V-Folster here on Inferno.
His trademark map, Stoicism from Apex to have his nades let lay.
He didn't feel any pressure, banana men.
There was no way they were getting into his sight without bottles of flame and smoke.
But now V, breaking case of emergency,
Bitt is the secret weapon on Inferno to keep them in it yet again.
Three more rounds for overtime.
A round at a time required, money available.
Vitality can't be climbing this mountain, this treacherous pass, Na'Vi.
Nothing will come for free.
I remind you that 11 of Vitality's were in the first 13 rounds of play.
They just need one to show that this was nearly cosmetic for Na'Vi.
This grand final for their world number one.
One, forward mid-sense, flash it already, will there be a fight?
Immetlined, backs away, Nezzy's vision also, taken.
And it's good from Spinks, tested by Bitnipik.
Is there really anything from Na'Vi in the absence
of their super weapon?
He's gone, Immetraids four on four
with 60 seconds left in play.
Zaiwu, guardless, quick,
Sparming away is that where it ends.
Immettent bit watching.
Hands off the peripherals for players for vitality.
Still standing.
That's the man advantage.
This is scary.
40 seconds.
Is this the last round of counter-strike in the Lancest?
Can Flames hold his sight?
Xayah will win support, but...
Smug lands!
JL's not looking!
Flames aggressive with 20 seconds left.
They just have to kill two.
just a Lexi B and wonderfulization of dreams, wonderful dreams of the trophy in the Lancers.
One on three, it's right there for the taking, Vitality, they just need the one-five sip trophy.
2019, I lost to Liquid, 2024, a win against Na'Vi, the number one team in the world, third times the charm.
To witness vitality surpass Na'Vi.
To bring them down in a form of affair.
To bring him to question.
It's from Zywoo.
And this time in the grand facetion about that MVP.
They said...
Aids for Na'Vi.
They're a map choice.
And want to get tricky with it out the gates.
Smoke made for JL.
Destined to the door. That blown off.
More pressure towards the topside.
Julees on Zywoo, where he's pressure.
Oh!
A lot of early pressure.
Responsible for that sight and does what Zaiwu couldn't with a triple kill keeping it interesting
Flavors tussling with trouble in there no Kev and 41 points of health
Pex is down towards B
That's a big douche gonna confirm if the bomb is down towards the topside the leader having to rotate over but Emma
He's the one on the hunt
This is incredibly proactive from him a little risky
But it's definitely gonna catch apex as he looks to try and find the ladder silently
Wonderful just needs to live just needs to be always hasn't it all forced to him that they both depart the site
No kid available. He's behind them. But it was heading that moment
It's a risk to try and make a maneuver like that in the environment of a stage setting
You worry does the work does the atmosphere give you away? You take your shots and miss
Beautiful defense to the topside from Mr. Merriman, the Brit, unloads early and he is going to have an important role anchoring down that A site round after round.
Very winnable opportunity.
The rest of Na'Vi towards Lobby, Flamesy, they're going to test him, flash and go.
The XCB trust dates him but it's immediate back from Big Apex, he pushes the flames, he wants to stand, he wants to play!
What? The leader has saved him from ramp being lost.
Bomb now falls and so do the hopes of Navi converting this second round for us by...
Just one man on his deek.
Spinks, exposed, a couple of shots shy, Spinks chipped away out.
Oh, he keeps it in the body, Spinks runs him down on the reload.
And JL next!
A big positions for it.
Zairu distracts, Apex prepares to engage and does activate to find Alexei.
Vitality had a walk in the park against S.O.L.
Himmler has actually managed to find one with that deke, searching yard.
And a lot very well could be, he's already taken two down Zywoo, empty-handed.
And with...WHAAAAAT? AYAYA than Himmler!
In a two versus two flage, he's got a real opportunity to make this awkward.
Hitting Himmler has potential victims. The smoke wall has been erected but Zywoo's got nothing to report.
Look at the radar. Vitality have completely given up that ramp control.
In exchange, they try and fight for Hart. JL comes out with a nice opening kill. That's
Messi down and out. Now Flames has to react and he does well. Takes the head off of the
fin towards Squeaky Doors. Now Tye will reactivate for his first. It could have been his next.
But a missed shot forces Flames to react. Comes and activates to help him from Heaven.
JL gets that bomb and takes the site. Wonderful in support. Has to cover Heaven. Has to
cover May. Spinks will wait for his teammate. A flashbang from Flames. Gonna be there
way in. Tywin has so much utility to make this possible but he's coming up the vent.
JL could be real real trouble here. Yachi onto the smoke he had the
infamilaric after so JL will catch Tywin. And now it's Nabi's round for the taking.
JL are wonderful. Turn it on its head. Only spings remain. The hard clear was a
wonderful lovely fight. Time sensitive for Spice does have that kit knows where
JL is. What do you do? Can JL outwit him here? He makes impact when they
need it.
Flames however takes the space as they depart lobby, he enters it, there is a perfect opportunity
for him to have the element of surprise.
He saw that one coming, Xayah was there as well, but it's just the one for...
Could you two work making sure that these pistols didn't have to move?
Oh, that's a second.
A lot of damage.
Spings and Flames with it, just the USP and now another body drops.
It's pistols and it's a 2-1-2.
Does this go wrong?
It all the time saves himself.
They know where Spinks was.
We have the bomb chat, that is really the kill that may have saved them here.
Sure it's actually quite scary, long raid back 10, but Tim are unnoticed, but Navi, they weather the storm.
Alright, well both teams within the first six rounds of play have had some issues with pistols.
Yeah, that's true.
The deep was with Navi and now it's going to make a little bit lighter from Vitality and X-Tas.
Here's an opportunity to get on the micro firm before the guns come back out.
Yeah, they want to test this topside hold and Apex Spings find themselves there as well.
Well, so, right resources here, Spinks right close to a C, but they've really gone past him.
They've gone past him, but look, completely messed up, he's going to be screaming!
He's top!
He got past you, Spinks!
What can you do?
Finding one on the door.
Now, Zyle's found himself a double, and look at that!
Because again, another round with a good call.
They know what was coming.
Think about all the bodies that were there.
Short, Spinks!
Spinks played anti-flash.
They get into the topside, but there's so many individuals there to respond.
Apex was playing towards main, he was harassing, Zyle worked the ladder.
They weren't biting on the fact there was going to be a yard play, which is why Apex
is celebrating.
Not only is it a good round to win, it's one where he feels that they have made the right
call on where they should stack.
Now we kid the credit that to Xtaz, he's the one who called the timeout, we'll give
him that one there, and that has forced Nabi into one of their own.
Support of Util, chip damage, in there, walking wonky, multiple bodies advancing,
whose responsibility is to check this smoke, this feels like it's a dead center for
Where Alexi caught with his legs and his hands!
What's up?
Alexi gets his gun out just in time, finds the Frenchman's head
and now Apex catches him and look at the wrong way through with his smoke forehand
It could change quick because Apex catches another onto a bit
What's going on here? Now we're just walking into him
Yeah, tough stuff a bit
15 seconds
I think it's far going loud
Hoping JL can catch one on the left rotation
He has managed to catch Spinks but Apex has won the round
for that one, takes them down, it's Vitality again.
This CT side looking promising,
that's two consecutive gun rounds.
Couple of those recovered AK-47s,
so the one-shot headshot potential for Flames and Mezzie.
Spinks looking to bother forward, hang on, Mezzie,
Spinks, this is a crunch, a lobby crunch,
and nobody's home.
Wonderful, wonderful!
Spotted out, that was the bomb-T roof,
now they know the penny drops.
There was aggression in the mix,
and they just recede, they're saying so active here.
Apex spamming away, good damage onto Ime.
And after functioning a half HP,
it's JL that opens up the account,
and he selects it to extend it.
Catches, spanked, Top Scythe's open.
Flames and Zairu low, and here's Ime.
Spotted out by Apex, and he seals the deal.
Thank you very much, he was even anticipating secret.
Is it really a clean sweep?
Zairu doesn't seem to think so.
Well, Joints for the AK-47.
Is Na'Vi have responded with a fourth round?
Since Na'Vi gets the hold on to this one.
Wonderful to take the five from Mayn and Swamp-Tahwee grabs another bit.
It's JL.
Important over for him, the aggression comes in
and there's just so many moving pieces from Vitality.
After they run into Lobby, they see absolutely nothing
other than that exchange towards Top Roof.
They try to reset.
They try to plug all these holes in Na'Vi are standing ready to respond.
Never mind, they're still out towards the door.
JL willing to take the fight again completely blind for now. Smoke deep, he's pushing in and down with it.
Big one, big one from Zywoo and Spinks.
With their powers combined they repel the invaders and Na'Vi have lost the bomb.
It now falls and lies in enemy territory. Smoked off.
You are in trouble and it gets worse.
Zywoo's caught him and threw the smoke.
Bit tries his hand towards Rav, but Flames bests him as well.
That's still only one kill for Bit.
Vitality locked in to close this one with a five alive in the tail end of this half
Apex has locked the door behind him wonderful
He's gonna try and fight his way through this since I will is his first victim, but a great cost to wonderful
Apex secures it seven on the CT side
I think if they get five they're gonna be happy with that seven five T side Luke that should be in
modern play
So that Alexi and blade can work with what did you make of this kind of aggression towards the squeaky?
Yo, what rumbled it? Was it something as simple as just IWIH hitting his shot?
The U2 was good, right? They got blocked, the flashes were good, the mullies were deep, unable to force the issue.
No, forcing issues is Apex!
An already bit goes down! An aggressive win over Squandert! Apex still not punished!
Alexi missed the shot!
Does finally connect!
The bodies have already dropped.
Inme caught on the cross. Alexi at least scavenges away and upgrade.
We'll find the M4 to try and play his trade. Final round of those first half.
Well, they can't reset knowing that Vitality are quite heavy with these rotations.
They're happy to take these searches, even on the man advantage, Sping's looking.
They may get caught out, JL, just a free frag, back of their head, Sping's will find it.
Only wonderful in Alexi, to try and make a case for a 7-5 half, otherwise Vitality will be 8 already, safe.
On this CT side, what can you do, wonderful, on the yard,
His crossback spotted a headshot angle, hard to find, Zywouf on his stairs, it's 8-4!
Solid haul for Vitality!
All blown open, looks like they want to head towards Ram.
Remember, Bitt had a rough first half, he could turn that around to you.
The Death's disgust is prowessing this position, they test him immediately on the pistol,
scarfing away and losing his head to Flames!
Problematic rotation from Imma towards the fence, anticipating this at least bounding block,
as the bomb's being punched by Mezzi.
They have to regain control of this double-dawed side, but they'll do it as a team, as a unit.
Playing with the Daughters, Mezzi. Alexi walks to investigate. That's the flashback.
Looks good! Looks very, very good for Vitality!
Delivers a triple to secure an early 9-prong.
It's both pistols in favour of Vitality, and it's bit the one tasked with being tested early.
It's his control of ramp that is the difference maker.
He goes down without any resistance whatsoever.
Flamesy is equal on the other side and massacres them in the double doors.
Beautiful work from Vitality. They are playing and running with this momentum.
Their individuals are firing.
Lexi B done wonderful. Tending to the yard position.
Smokes obscure their view. They're actually trying to get through the main.
Lexi B seems to have a read of this. He positions as well.
This is it. Through the smoke, Lexi B catches Flames.
Over extending towards the main position. Smokes are fading.
Xayu will just slip across. Smoke wall available, wall just has to be dry. Yeah, not a passing
glance on a little swing. He finds info, he takes down Spinks, but he saw another. So now
you'll see the CT forces start to reconfigure. Him has been this near the whole time and
it is going to be clean onto Xayu, where Mezzi remains. He's coming in hot for the
But overlooking that position bit catches in play happy with that one
Deep harassing Nate apex frustration in the last might continue into this
One of the few rifles already chipped down to 63 points of health plenty of bodies behind it
We on the ground two in the sky. Sorry one in the sky
They're testing Alexi again
You can play around this and he will one and a half spinks low as well
Mezzy, send to the sidelines and yard control is there as you can see flames
around unbreakable, retrieving right falls in, smoked off for now. And JL and
Emma designed for Zai Wifu Mei. Now the smoke will make it difficult. Turns the
flash, entering the site and it's one of the best two-something. JL just around the smoke,
has to pick up the bomb, he's got time to work with...
Because of these squeaky door players who had that on lock, the smoke drops,
He has a choice I give up full control plant for free
And now we needed it now more than ever
Flash forward into the fight as he blind bit gets him for free
Beautiful team work at the Dink is there Spinks
Blow off HP can't be finished. Oh, he's got the double that's massive from Spinks
Wonderful trying to trade but in this one V2 with half health
JL was responsible for a lot of clutches in the semi-final yesterday but that's why
Spinks is in this team to close these rounds. Three kills already but it's this
fourth one that is oh so imperative the bomb is under enemy control and JL he
knows that's important his life or the bomb the target he sends into the
topside new avenue of approach 30 seconds Spinks brought into this
roster to close. And he's done it!
So it's our park lobby, but we need people to tend to that low site.
Two different fronts.
And in the smoke, JL lines looking away.
Fight on multiple fronts towards the control room in the lower side as well.
It's been caught out completely, throwing out a smoke grenade to play around.
Wonderful has the angle on the cross from Deacon.
Doesn't pull the trigger.
Flames going to start closing that gap.
Oh my God, I don't know if Mezzi saw him.
Wonderful is going for a highly aggressive, highly volatile maneuver.
The lexicon in the meantime onto Flames! He gets two!
Problems for Vitality. Scrambling now, but Spinks is still around.
Bompland would be huge, but what would Spinks? He is in struggle. Street three to find.
Those were wonderful ones. JL got his screen turned around!
And it secures the round. Eight, four, now V.
That was chaos. What was going on?
That was just chaos right there. Bickering cornering the open.
This is his ramp.
That is a bullet into his head. Just through the metal,
he deserves his life.
And Zai was been caught outside, in that early descent down the vent
has resulted in a Zai Wu opening kill or opening death.
I should say, his body now an idled outside the secret stairs.
Limited util for the finisher vitality, a man down, they are testing bit.
No secret, their occupation bit delivers a headshot.
a head shot, his occupation.
You may have perfect position here to tonight.
A man advantage though, is there really something for vitality in this one?
Where is his health?
Where is the support?
Maybe he doesn't need it.
With Flames gone, Messi advances in to clear out the position and now that bomb will
likely go down.
I say that, Alexi already towards the double door, swings it open to ensure they're
away and aware that that bomb plan will be spammed to another man exposed but
Mezzi still puts him on down. JL gone. Wonderful necessary kill.
Up to Spinks.
Two to five. Finds a plant spot he can work with.
Wonderful Alexi. Running it down. Double peek!
Does look pacey. They're coming towards Spitz. Don't make it once again.
Is he ready? Yes he is! Mezzi down!
Putz down Zywu and now charging into him.
Oh dear!
You wanted to make it costly. You wanted to keep it close.
instead you've got a single frag and a single player left alive this map has
been both pistols for vitality only one gun round since and a few rounds where
they have tried to pressure bit at ramp they're pressing tough just like we
are targeting what appears to be a weakness but that means the vital you
haven't really been able to establish a pattern cracks in terms of what
could work this more explosive direct approach it is being dealt with now we
are tied up 11 all half we said it was workable and now the agreed again though
you want to talk about direct approaches for members of the vitality squad but
it's just a lexie and he's playing this unbreakable position a flash for his
repeat guts confirmed multiple bodies spot the bomb there awkward in the
The Flames!
IGL on IGL, Apex brings it down, Apex!
Finding wonderful, awkward now for Na'Vi and Vitality.
They can pause for Spinks, he hasn't.
He's catching me completely off guard, yeah, all that space taken!
But if they're still down here, this is a crazy rotation from Na'Vi.
They won't expect this.
If anyone scouts out that topside, Flames towards Main could so quickly drop in, confirm.
There's suspicions, but instead hang on it's apex every round up the vent that has to be the call still plenty of time to do this
Maybe it's gonna be best to get over to woods
He just to be certain. Well, we can't see we can't find him. Where are we gonna finish apex? Oh, no, they're going to
Massey stops us from getting a little nervous about that one would have been an insane one be five short
Towards the A site
What a view tilt for Apex, he's going to try and use this, yeah, he'll use that smoke to
guys his push.
Now, Apex he doesn't know, it's an uncertainty, and nobody's looking his way, what the fuck!
This is a complete change of the setup, Inver, traded out early, bit the ramp player in warehouse,
he's been spotted on the crossback, the AWP not in yard.
How quick can Vitality piece this together?
As he's just taken J.O. in the meantime, pressure everywhere.
Lots of moving pieces in this one.
Look at Apex.
Alexi be responsible now his positions noted by throwing out that incendiary
He picked in a power position to strike there is no way Alexi's ready for this
Oh a lovely start for Vitality finding gaps up against the very best
Good confidence there to smoke off ramp make sure there's no push in play
Vitality got me eyes cross the T's bit and out of his presence and just alive
But Vitality hard to see you losing this one
Wonderful brings everything through. A full five.
Do we see yard aggression from Navi? That's the question.
Seven for Wonderful. Now they can just stand, look at him standing on the red box.
And how is him a foul? That springs.
Some smoke games from Immet.
You know what's up. And who is it?
Buck Bitt, tasked with setting himself up in a position to defend that low side.
In his aggression his core apex he was the lurk towards the red container now the body of the assault
Starts to converge onto this B bomb site
It facilitates a plant it can't be disrupted they've got a graph cover from Zywoo looking towards the ramp side
I like CP descending the vent. This is an important fight with messy at the same time
4b3 goes 4b2
Sure, you've got the bomb down, but can you defend it messy what you got is there anything here for Zywoo
He's hit the first as the door is closed, is that right?
Forced off his JL, that molly top-hard.
And now, dipping down the vents, multiple bodies,
Immy will hear this, what's he got?
Yes, he's down!
X has to try and beat him down.
From either side, he's getting crunched in.
His knees by Apex and a 2-1-2,
but look at their health, 16 points of health
for this French duo in Cologne.
Causes the smoke.
Guys, he's aggression!
Zywin!
Immy has started to look like the hero in overtime.
The reroute from Vitality,
They note the orb towards Ram, they don't want to test the water, they drop back, they find the gap, down the vent, but Immet delivers a multi-kill massive work from him.
He was there at the start of the round, we cut to him, just kind of jump spotting for info.
We were so focused on the AWP, but Vitality had been able to get an individual down towards Secret, so something within the round told Apex, we should not try and brute force Ram, we need to look for another way, another option to get down towards B, but Na'Vi had an answer.
Let's see what kind of trend they set to start us off, it's a hit shot from JL.
Spinks brings the fight to the squeaky door and JL happy to apply.
Yeah, you bang on there. That's premeditated. That's Spinks saying, I will go and duel against JL.
You know he's going to be there. You know that's his domain.
So wanting to see if this head-to-head can continue.
It drops always AWP down towards B immediately.
He's going to be AWPing from secret.
You hear the smokes, the mollies, and well, now the info that Emma is dead.
What a big one back from apex he is playing a very solid game of Counter-Strike keeping up with the younger guns
This is the gap
Reading the needle on RV
Search of 15 in search of securing the double OTA to minimum that was from JL will send mezzi
Scattering elsewhere flames. He's also fortified this a site
Jail could get enough of the timing on his side, Jail double kill.
Such a crucial moment of the game, Jail finding form.
A double kill.
Look at this.
Yeah, there is something afoot.
You can see it's being considered.
Flames is about to be wrapped upon and Apex has got himself a real opportunity to win
the round with a flank unlike anything.
Double kill from Apex and it still might not be enough means IWU can come up clutch
for vitality. Bit under pressure with 20 seconds, I was blind!
Risky rotation, considering the circumstances.
Messi under scrutiny, flashes at his feet, flames the same,
Zywer, just a ding, but maybe Messi can hold onto this site.
A man at Vardy Spitz is coming up the ladder and it pays off!
A late flank, first. Only Yimma stands between the man
and there's no damn time.
There's nothing for him here!
What a way from starting this grand final, by taking Nuke up against Narfi!
Hi guys, Mezzi here. Make sure to sub to ESLCS. Keep right on.
A bit more aggression.
Easier said than done, but simple.
When you boil it down, cross out on hell!
It's not even a wall bang, it's just perfectly placed!
Coming apart of the scenes now!
Oh, JL's gone as well!
Lezzie catches him, holding on to his topside valiantly and wonderful finds a way back in.
Hasn't looked down though, has he?
Little does he know, Apex resides in a forward position and now that flank you discussed.
He could be overlooked, they are starting to depart.
When does Apex start to poke his nose into the potential?
For now, Bit holds lobby for the return of Alexi and Wonderful.
Just three kills away from starting this grand final with the first map.
The testing spanks, Mezzy, Flames, everyone here ready to contribute.
Finds the headshot onto Apex. They're all ready for you and down.
It's gone out.
Claims now spots him out. Wonderful will need to support him because he's got a HG on his face, you know.
Only working with 60 points of health.
Gautiously fighting Flames just at the tip of his head but that's all bit me.
Good start for Bit.
Pressure onto Apex on this side, playing the round position, holding the angle, the flames obscure, and he misses his charge!
Look at them! He's done the same, and Mezzi's B2K, there's so much to start off their CT side on Newt, will do nothing here.
Yeah, well it's good for Nezvi to come into the turf of Vitality and pick up the pistol round after Vitality getting both on the previous map.
Mezzi not long for this one as well, JL, an opportunity to remove him, but now knows the position of Mezzi backing off.
I think the focus definitely is on the likes of bit for now being from Zywu
based off of what the desk was discussing and his lack of impact on those
T side gun rounds. An astonishing stat really.
Who's Apex flashing for?
Zywu mantling up. We'll just use that to
reposition forward position. And down goes Apex.
Zywu spotted out. Good awareness there for him.
Not going to run past it. Not in a hurry. 35 seconds as there's the
as he farm asked and it is only gonna get one nice long rain shot from bit of
course a headshot did you see his headshot percentage in that semi yeah
pretty wild which is why he's one of the MVP candidates coming into this
grand final over 90% headshots and it's not like he was underfragging either the
AK will make headshotting a little easier for Spinks if he can preserve it
wow nice the demonstration takes down the headhunter well this is great
3 kills, gonna be a lot of rebies, they don't want to give anything else over, a wonderful
one.
They should be happy with that.
Oh that one, oh it really hurts.
Here man, cut down.
2 HEs, well placed.
Flames, trying to keep them up baby.
We'll get ahead of this, into the flames, into the spray, lovely from Flames.
Catches them.
Holds that top mid push, it's not coming just yet.
Flames, storm ward on long.
tucked in will likely be overlooked here he's ready and messy only the one the
Spinks falls as well JL has made a round out of this the site there's bomb on his
back heading over to the site for a plant email as well don't forget about the
damage he's got 10 winning out that dual putting apex down the kit
available for this retake yet to reloads I will nine bullets may not be
sufficient for two kills but frames can contribute as well look at the health
He's not going to molly bricks instead the big box
The man swings into him. It's too easy
They want to talk ever grassy that a flashing him he has a look he has more than a look calls it player now bits realizing hang on
I think they might be something fishy afoot and now another flash in his face
I was just saying to watch the flash plays from vitality. That's more towards middle apex and speaks to these alley oops
but apex setting up flamesy that is premeditated that right there that's the
homework being done how can we isolate the long piece that's a beautiful little
sequence the difference makers is Emma again Liz is head out middle he's
aggressive he wants to find out but there's an AWP we know what it can do in
the hands of Saewoon but now what do you do if you're now a V you know there's
a play to watch spawn is that rotator you know the authors under what's a
ramp and Spinks is now in tunnels 2v5 they're everywhere I'm getting pushed
on B, I'm getting pushed on long. Precisely. They've been harassed all across the map.
Everywhere Navi stepped within this round, they were dealt with handedly.
That is a beautiful round from Vitality. And you've got to have players that are willing to
follow the call. You know, Flames is doing everything Apex demands there. As he pulls the
strings, it's Flamesy that's doing the dance. Well, this is the thing. If you're Apex,
you probably see a bit of yourself in an individual like Flamesy, Stubb and Buck,
young and wanting to take the fights essentially at all times. If anything, it's reeling him
in the tends to be the problem. So the fact that he can have an opportunity to
fight where they can set him up for that type of aggression and it pays off.
The flashes have to be perfect and that... Oh what a perfect eight-time smoke.
Might spell a bit of disaster for Na'Vi. Time is gonna be the biggest issue.
It's getting awfully quiet across the map now.
Mersey, just as he was making other plans, tends to his sight, does well for the first five.
Mersey delivers a double, it's up to Spinks to close and he's only got the one in him
because Wonderful has done enough to facilitate plan two on two, a retake. We've been here before.
Convitality, best of them once more. There's more health this time, at least for Wonderful.
He's already got two kills.
I think he's spotted a little bit just on the front of that smoke. Apex is aggressive,
the area aggressive. I think he's mouse wheeled that. I think that's a mouse wheel accidental.
Yeah, no carbon smokes. No molly is nothing coming their way
And now they found flames dropping off was in that's the long
You've zoomed something to work with how is this fallen apart with JL searching out mid the site is there
But it's the round is the round still up to debate till they give this a go
I kid on mezia molly and players. Well, you may as well give it a look
It was gonna be the same but now they're getting into the fight up cat with two
Oh, hey man, JL watching through the fingers here,
Alexi getting spammed on through the smoke and replenish off the short smoke.
That might do it.
Does he have a look? Zaiwu spinks searching long,
Flamestow CT thinking about it, it's hanging in the balance.
One kill, Woodard made the difference and now Messi goes down and lose all that guns!
Spinks the only one with an M4 and he's got to save it.
Ahead of this bit, bit.
It's Borsi running out long into some HG stack.
He's covered by JL, but they both go down a safe rifle, a single deagle.
Emma has to search for this, he has to, there are no Spinks as a P defender, he was just
spotted long, he needs to isolate this 1v1.
It's up to Mezzi, it is all on the Brit here.
He only has a pistol, a tiny P250, it's not enough for that kind of range, and yeah,
Emma knows what that means.
By taking down Mezzi, he lets his boys know that the B bomb site is a safe haven.
Alexi B, tending to middle, Tyre was missing shots, but so is Alexi!
It's surely still safe, but hang on, Apex, they just have to hit one bullet,
shout out, wonderful spotted body shots!
This has to be Navi's round.
Costly.
But it can't cost them the momentum.
Thinking about poking their nose in, the flash will be from Apex.
Immet blind!
Full blind!
See what it's done to Na'Vi immediately, finances in question,
Deagle's, Tech 9's, Imma, taking another risk, another gamble, so much space.
Apex is rotating back 9-5, he's got no...
Up is away, but this is a nice response from Na'Vi.
JL has the rotation towards Short, bit in tow,
and just the short-lived celebrations of a low economic round
going the way of Vitality, but Na'Vi, they are not fussed at that.
Pro-activity there from Imma. Oh, nice shot.
Yeah, important work from him and two back to back rounds.
I know that didn't convert the previous,
but the fact that he didn't get scared when they were down a number,
right, some individuals on the extremity might say,
all right, hold up, let's just, I'll just wait.
We'll group up and we'll try and trade.
He got them the space to get the bomb down,
which helped with some of these purchases.
And then he just launches himself up Catwalk.
Shaw made a mere limit, but still got in towards the side.
Four strikes, I didn't see the save.
JL can't take anything with him.
Bushing is good, around the corner, Smoke exposed and a deleted lovely team play to start.
It's Zywu and Flames name plated.
What's that good fan handle, doesn't it?
It does, 4-7 so far in this second map.
He's the Molly.
That Molly will force a decision out of this.
Does have the smoke grenade, Flashbang lands though and he's just going to be crouching away,
finding an angle, overlock complete!
But that is masterful from Zywu!
Yeah, you feel he's done enough, don't you?
J.R. wonderful, not even connected.
You said you want to find out whose paradise it is.
it's definitely looking like Zywoo. The more comfortable of the two. JL onto
flames, Apex repositions, JL was brought low and wonderful has the bomb. Getting
across this two players, they might have flamed, nice adjustment, Taps planted.
We haven't got the help, but it's going to be great! Apex's first kill to secure the round.
Taps, how does Zywoo get away with that towards the car position? The Molly
comes in, the flash is great, he's getting singed. They don't believe
anybody's home. He's just tucked behind it. This is the home now. They've got
It's number at the moment. Cars on fire, but Zaiwuz not keeps his cool. Locks down two more frags than Alexi.
Not happy with how that one unfolded. Flavor of aggression.
Yeah, this is a different look. Bringing the fight to SMGs in tech nine, two AK-47s.
Far from ideal. Here's the flash set up. Zaiwuz was not responsible for lower.
Spinks calling for the flash. Wants to fight. Wonderful.
Oh, no vision, but no problem! Spinks!
Hits the shot, Bitt will find the trade!
The rifle upgrade!
They're advancing mid, they want to test, and time is off, so it's perfectly set up to collect.
Oh, he's actually no, he's tucked away from window.
Now he returns to it, could be perfectly timed!
Tywin again! It's 11th!
And puts Immet in the dirt!
You have to go A, you know that AWP is over to WTB,
you'd want to try and scurry up Catwalk and isolate a fight.
I'm just bringing the ball to my face, bit's gone, JL could be Zyrus, Nex, oh he's so aware!
The re-aggression, the multi-gills keep coming.
We're going to get to the final round of the half, the lost bonus is only 1900 and that's
due to the back and forth nature of this game.
He hasn't been clean counter strike, that's to be said for either side is, I'll play
taking some notes, Alexi trying to defend is on the worst case, he'd go down after
time.
Yeah, it's really to put a lot of faith into Flames.
Three on the wrong side of the map as this hit starts to come in.
Flames does miss the first opportunity, but Zywoo in support.
Zywoo doesn't hit his second shot. Flames has gone down.
The site will be taken.
Alexi tasks with getting that bomb code punch, but Zywoo!
A headshot to WandaVolva.
That was all that was visible. Just takes him down.
So Nonsha long with it.
And now so uncomfortable. Sure, the bomb is down,
this are gonna be another vitality retake.
It looks good because Alexi's low, 8 HP after his battle with Apex.
Bit will get aggressive, but now they're pushing George.
Good from Spinks, needs more.
But we're about half gone.
Apex approaching towards the wrap.
JL's actually hitting with the scout, and Apex can't do it!
They're bringing the fight.
And it's gonna work out wonderfully.
Long range.
Bit uses the dual baratis to great effect.
He tames it as well with wonderfuls.
How they find Zywoo.
No contributions from Zywoo in this pistol.
Careful now Apex, you've got the bomb, your teammates have found some space.
Alexi looking to address that.
Smoke will limit his contributions. Wonderful.
Perhaps could do more on the side.
He's spotted towards the Gandalf position. Flames jumping.
Gets that info, knows where two of them are.
One short, one Gandalf and a well placed Molotov.
But he's pushed the smoke. Alexi catches him looking elsewhere.
Bit struggled in map number one, but coming into map number two
he has had an impact in both pistol rounds.
And if I'm wonderful right there, I'm giving an extra thank you to my in-game leader for that distraction.
I was pinned, I was stuck, and I was on fire, but he drew the attention so I could take him down with me.
You know, with the Umba M4, apparently jiggling over towards A-Round, how good is Apex? That's the question.
Oh, Apex!
Completely flicks! And Delilah Ames has contributed! Wonderful watching now as Alexi has to try and confer. This is weird.
He's got the perfect weapon for the job, but still watches out. Zaiwu has a rifle.
No Kevlar jumping with the SMG, chips away, does more damage to two of them,
Spicks down and airs.
The question, how good is Apex?
But exactly what he needed to do on the scout to open the door,
the bomb goes down and the buy comes through.
Oh, perfect demonstration of why he feels confident buying that.
Look at this shot, outrageous headshot into Ima.
Bang!
Oh, the restabilization, that kind of micro adjustment.
The overflicks and adjusts.
It's a cool way to get the info safely. Flash made for the clear.
Jump across.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, look at that one!
Trying to set them up for success and it works out!
Teamplay at the highest level!
It felt like as soon as it was noted it wasn't the long extremity play.
They weren't all in.
They have to be going for mid and short control.
So they harassed the little combo of Util.
Bit responsible for the potential of Flamesy.
Starting his advance now.
Starting his advance.
Slipping the net though.
Zywu kicks over the front door. They're in!
Mezi and Zywu.
Take the beast side by force.
Retake possibilities.
The kit, present, Alexi's rushing through T spawn.
To try and find a root and an avenue back into this bomb site.
Yeah, but take a look. Mezi has another smoke.
Could drop that out towards doors.
That's gonna buy them another 20 seconds.
Held off of deploying it.
Didn't get skittish, didn't send it out too early.
And right now, if you're Na'Vi, how do you breach back in?
Flash in front of the Tons.
Alexi B is having a look yet.
Halfway gone.
Backing away.
Backing away, ladies and gentlemen.
Vitality on the board on their T-side.
Himmer being hunted.
He sticks around for one, but Flames takes out his gun.
And so we'll see if Na'Vi can find double digits.
Or will Vitality continue to close that gap?
They're coming in.
It's a test of the long defense in a deleted by Zaiwuz, but bullet times his head.
What's the response? What space is taken back? The CTs have to do something.
It looks for answers towards the upper turns. Flames playing a very passive game. Apex the same,
just spotting out mid. It's not going to get anything anytime soon. I say that. Look
at what's happening towards T spawn. They're going to leave Spinks with all of this long
control. Even still, it's such a tough fight for Bit to have to go to and only with the
He has full nades. He has an investigative for information.
He's worried that there's a player just defaulting enough for tunnels, and this is bad info.
He's about to get a surprise.
Unless, unless he adjusts and finds the headshot, confirms the whole team's there.
Bit has done a lot now to equalize and to give them a chance to defend, but the site already lost.
Sprinting across the doors. Apex gets the package to be secure and pushing though.
Disrupting, straight through the smoke was bit.
tried to get their head of the play, instead Apex takes his head off.
Spinks spotted out, tagged up big from 1 to 4 on the scout.
JL spamming through, it's going to be a Lexi set up with some nades for this,
but it's not the weapon for the retake. JL the only one with the rifle,
and are they really not going to give this a go? They're working it out.
A tough sight to retake, especially with that smoke on the doors.
Zywu could burn to that. That could be problems, but he gets ahead of it.
Just 10 HP on Zywu, but look at that, Mezzy's good for one. JL trying to mo-
with wonderful close.
Smoke's not gonna stop him.
Oh, he starts to spam.
He commits to the spray.
He's going, bit, jumps into Zywoo's AWP.
To the shadow round by Zywoo.
Combat AWPing, Alexi creeping,
spings over, looking the possibility.
As he is down, they go, as in his double.
Up a three takes, I thought Zywoo would seal the deal with that one.
Yeah, wonderful's head in the clouds as he goes to look over the...
But in there from time...
Oh, he's sort now of a trip up.
So Light of Eyes in map number one, it can't happen again,
and Wonderful will not allow it opening kill onto the in-game leader now
It's gonna be the puppet master from the grave another clear another fight
And they just want to harass
And on notice he will require bits assistance if they test him on B, but look at this regress Alexi be pushed through
Thanks to fight to be from vitality, but they run trying to flash through Spinks can he fight in and no he can't
Solid work as this now becomes a 2v2 all to play for
Get on the orpa, Mezzi and Zywu, France and Britain working together to keep vitality
in this.
Mezzi testing first.
Lovely headshot, in that.
It's like cooking as well, it's just wonderful he's going to be forced off the line by this
U-Tilt.
Nothing for him here.
It's a perfect call after abusing that B bomb site.
Now they hit A, and Alexi's limited in his contributions now with only 17 points
of health.
won't be the first to move waiting for some distraction but Flames he's having none of it oh
Yes clean as can be clean are you overly concerned about being do you leave some absences on long because that looks like where
Vitality are headed as fast as possible
Wonderful
Spinks gets ahead of the play now he's trapped the all-part is for punish
The play has come in, the extinguished from his teammate, Alexi B extends wonderful's round.
But he's pinned, he's stuck towards the composition.
He's under so much pressure right now.
He peeks, he dies, he peeks, he loses.
That smoke won't last forever, Zywu has his target set.
Another one replenishing a deeper smoke to give wonderful something to play around.
Misses his chance, but Sping heavily wounded.
Here comes another volley, wonderful last game.
Using the smoke, but burns down!
Finally, he falls! They find it, but Flames, he's been waiting for this, they're going...
AHHHHH!
...parting as Apex! He just shows him a way out!
Jumping on the spam, only Simon remains in an impossible clutch!
Brought down to 21! Flames in his feet, he finds a shot!
60 seconds now as Apex...
In combination with his team, take doors and mid.
A flash, a simple approach, nothing to report.
And a smoke on CT.
They're making this look like a default round, we're up Cat, we're applying pressure towards A, we're applying pressure towards B, now B smoked in exchange with the lurk.
There's a little gap between the two smokes there, that Spinks is brave enough to find himself in.
Into the side, he knows Bits around here somewhere, now he knows exactly where he is, now he's charging in, Bitt gets messy, Bitt gets both!
Only Flames can reignite some hope for Vitality, a one versus two, but time against him, he's a dead man walking!
Team's taking each other!
But they're heading towards ZywOo.
He hasn't had his majestic pistol round.
Yes, Spinks spots him out, confirms that suspicion.
ZywOo's been a quick hit, but he's got no vision.
A white screen fades to black as BIC demonstrates his prowess on the clock.
And the Lexi B fills the feed with flash assist.
He set them both up for that.
Just chip jammed with that nade.
A kill might have given Vitality a way back in,
but the defence to open up.
It was very sight-centric.
2-3 split no info play through middle and they'd be executed from na'vi it finds success
There's two kills the bomb goes down and there's no way for vitality
Take on a 3v5 disadvantage just looking to hold on to their Kevlar. We'll see what that
Leaves for the next round of play
And they're starting to hunt they want to take away the Kevlar
Apex doesn't have any it's just a flash it be playing to your nezzie of it to you want to find to tuck
Dane Flames, he is able to get a kill for his troubles.
I am encroaching towards this two-man hold of connector.
JL spotted out, Apex fires off a warning shot.
Testing Flames, that's a good flash, does hit someone.
Oh, Apex has found a headshot.
Now Flames can build upon it, shot down by JL.
Good one from Spick still here, and just like that.
A second round for Spike from Vitality is one kill away from conversion.
And already Zaurim hits the scout shot.
SEALS HIS FATE!
Alexi B looks like he's walking straight into Apex.
Oh, the smoke just kizing Alexi's crawl but finds it all the same.
Mezzi blind calling for backup, straights away, spotted but not dead.
Spinks is there in support, bits done well to find Mezzi.
Spinks, they know where you are!
And they hit the headshot necessary, they need to fight another day.
Hold on, activates! It's Apex and Flames to close.
Those farmasses do what they have to.
to. Stating wants to take a Cato or a Cologne and a Major before he retires. Here he is
on the grand final stage. Stiming! Stimish! This is a pretty standard approach we've seen
from now. Two players over towards Aion, Palace and the Ramp. Flames the aggressive
flash ball against the flight, Alexi wins it out. Vietnam will search Jail the same.
Alexi goes down, Apex and Sphinx combine to find the equalizer, but that's a gap for Bit.
This is naughty by Zahler, they're not going to clear it.
Well they're not, they could have got both of Dinkon to Bit!
Huge work that angle.
Catching them completely off guard, they thought they had some space.
Apex's reposition nicely around that smoke.
There's a timer on all of this.
On the top available, will force out Apex, flies up the ladder, not going to be found.
No! Where's the comms? Bit!
to adjust it falls to wonderful
Spinks has been working towards this a wonderful mind overlocking he steps back into the line of fire
Spinks will convert another vitality round
This is it a vitality opt to not play standard with their position
dealt with jail
Loves this to dodge the flash
for advantage
Huge made massive damage apex just takes the fight jumping the guardian angel of vitality
Finish undecided, fight coming their way.
It's Merzy.
Going for it, a po-pace, it's Alexi B.
Catches out Merzy, and Alexi B down to tie.
We cannot adjust.
An important trade from JR, overlooking Spinks.
Confirmed the spray, but now Bitt will activate.
15 seconds, where's that bomb?
It's on the back of Wonderful.
Got a plant safe.
And he's going to have to find a safe haven to plant.
We'll do so, Apex.
Asked to close the gap.
We talked about clutches.
We were talking about now of the wonderful Denyzei pecs his charge. There's the second
Has mezzee for support from market window
Zai was tested here and he is going to win now on the head to head wonderful shut down by the or
Zai we're reaggressing oh an opportunity could not track the jumping bit
Hunting him down now Zai will still get to another vitality frames and spings over look at him
And he'll get important save for sphinx
The good graces will retain the M4, can also.
Spinks up in that then room.
It's really important to space the image to get in time and time again.
Walking out, Nezzy spotted, something's up.
Nezzy the fire, flames, flies off the ladder!
Gets away with murder!
Image should be able to put this one in.
Very low HP and it's a double kill for MF.
The site is there, Spinks inside with their priorities changed.
I don't think there's a conversation. This has to be the safe to vitality. It's more about will now be hunt
We have simpson rounds where vitality have attempted to harass
But it's difficult to do having the most impact in the map that can't be the consistent formula for a vitality victory
Who's gonna step up? Who would it be? It's not flames. He not here
Not on a not now an XCB
He and Emma flood the side, rise one back from Zairu,
Spinks the side, the round is on.
By catching Bid, and a, oh, a hunt from Alexi.
He brings the fight to the defender.
As he and Zairu have a decision to make, ouch,
that's a mistake.
Looking pace changes out of Naby,
and back to back rounds.
I know the save guns are in the mix in the previous,
get stuck in straight through the guts in the middle,
this time in towards A, Nusilus.
We're calling from Alexi, puts them up to six, they can win the half.
It has been Spinks looking elsewhere, Mezzi has so much to do, so much required of him,
and they overload the position, the fan has his gift for wide, but Spinks has fumbled.
The tributions, Flames keeps us level, Apex pushing, charging into the fight, down as well.
It's up to Immer in the clutch, because Zywu has found Wanda4 back and forth in that head-to-head, and now Immer.
With two to find, those searching, they partner up, and he finds it.
Yeah, three past two ramp.
Bit. He's been having some good pistol rounds.
Smoked off initially, so completely unable to contribute as they do surge into the site.
The whole squad is here.
Vitality, plant their flag on the A site.
Control of CT gained, aware of the potential for a flash on the retake.
Good name! Right in the face of JL.
dealing with that rotation, softening them up before they come back in, 5v5, getting the smoke.
Who's got the better communication, who can aim quicker on these pistols, 5 alive for both sides,
Alexi encroaching first from Daewoo down to Ime, Mezzi has ramp under their control, Ime's doing
everything he can, a double kill with his USP, two bullets is all he has and spinks make sure
he cannot use them, wonderful, he's on it, oh he's holding it, running out Ime, it's gonna be
a vitality pistol. Impact from Mezzi, doubling his kills and a crucial start to the second
half. Alright, no one could have got real chaotic, but we will split the pistols. First time
in this series so far. We'll see the force come out from Na'Vi. Will they allow Vitality
to get up to seven and tie things up for three? Investment from Emma into a Diggle,
but everybody else going to keep it clean. Is it even our bombsite? And we have nothing
left the block with the second wave could be deadly.
How will Alexi react?
Oh, Inna, getting pressure from short side does well to find one, gets more than one.
Three kills to the good.
Cywu, back with a rebuttal, but not such low HP.
Alexi P, ready for him.
Well received.
They tried deception, pulling rotations, but sent back to spawn.
JL just had a look in the middle, so I raise engine out and oh!
Puts JL to bed.
In there has to take shelter in towards underpass, he has done well to at least find Apex there.
And a divided attacking side, now Mezzy pushing through the apartment, Alexi drops the smoke to play around, Spinks in the site with Mezzy.
The bomb detached from there, so Alexi spotted out.
Does some damage to Mezzy.
Alexi can't hold on, Spinks has brought him down. Significant damage dealt by the Thim though.
This should be a tough one for Vitality to close and the NA from Bit finishes the job
onto one.
Mezzi, 6HP, Flames is still disconnected and looking to re-clear him.
Wonderful spot, still another headshot from Mezzi, does a lot with a little.
This is manageable for Flames, oh it is now, bit spotted out, loses his head.
Flames on a grand final stage, can he come up clutch under the pressure?
is already proven he can. On the same bottom side, can Flames stop it from happening again?
Opts for truck, saying active. That smoke by so much time, you can see Ima so paranoid of all
the possibilities. Flames could be right there in it now, respected and faded. Ima spotted out
now, the info flows. Ima has the advantage but he just needs one bullet, Flames just needs
He's the head, shot, cut!
Oh, and there's so many details in that one.
The fuses will come through Blade,
and he doesn't have the good graces off the South Cusins.
Double incendiary in the defense, run and delay.
37 seconds, they start the final play.
The final commitment, spinks the first to fall.
Good back from Flames on Tetris.
Missed off shot from Wonderful.
They stretch their legs, they pushing through.
Flames has racked up another double kill so far.
And he might find more.
He's got the AWP, but trapped.
Zywoo onto wonderful surely adds enough with the bomb now down
CT's pushing through smokes a boost on the sandwich gonna be spotted out Zywoo catches another
He's got two and flames leaves with three. It's vitality making this a one-round game
Comprehensive side take
Flight parts outlined
Everyone knows what they have to clear springs is managed to clear out the treble box
A little bit of a jump scare for Flames as it's finished off by the JLB.
Pushing Sam, which Alexi does contribute as well.
This aggression with the USP, it has led to a couple of kills.
And JL's dig, all that remains.
Mezzy spotted out, hard head shot to hit. Mezzy makes it look easy.
Good flash, does catch him.
But Zaheel had the cover, they don't overextend.
That's the timing!
Just as Zaheel looks away, pulls out his very favorite press.
JL and Alexi beat in press.
A 10-10 scoreline imminent, Mezzi gives it a go, supported by Spicks, a headshot found and no, a second on to him there!
A bomb plant, unlikely, the flames deny it for a couple more seconds.
There's another one where that came from.
Lexi has one lined up, that's perfectly timed.
That's going to spread wider.
Has to talk and respect it, 24, that smoke's not going to last forever.
Mezzi from Palace, begging that bomb to be planted.
It's wonderful in a position to run over there. It's a fake as well.
They're taking their time, hoping the frag comes their way.
Holding it now, wonderful straight shot.
It's JL first and blows here on Mirage.
I think that one got a little bit diced here than it had to.
Bit could have just stayed tough towards the site.
He's equal on the other side, because I were with 18.
This is Poppy, this is explosive.
The testing bit, he's all alone on this A site.
Whereas the support in the dry is to help him.
But Bit's headshot's good.
Delivers, passes the first test.
But Spinks and Mezzie have opened up the A site.
Spinks from midside, Mezzie from Tetris.
Wonderful, as you discussed, only eight.
They're going to deal with Spinks.
They've got to find him.
Wonderful has to worry about 180 degrees right now.
But he's just faded away.
That's Apex Cook.
Takes the stairs with the boost.
Imma on CT.
Perfectly timed on the clear, anticipating the boost.
Miss shot from Zywoo.
Imma, pieces out.
Reposition.
They're bailing.
Spinks is running.
He's got it!
Alexi's heard this.
Seems aware.
This is the fight that determines if that b-site is lost for Navi.
Alexi!
Pass it!
And now what do you do?
Mezi and Zai were disconnected from the game plan.
To the man born.
Day counter strike released.
Partners up with Mezi.
And Slips just passed the window of opportunity.
It's him as responsibility.
Uncertainty.
Alexi from Cat.
He's making a move.
Vitality. No V the same.
Searching CT being so diligent about this, they're going to have to plant
safe side behind a triple box.
Worried about everything.
Nezzie punching in the code covered by Zywoo, Ime and Crochi.
A nice span.
Alexi B brings down the plan to it all forces Zywoo.
What can he deliver on the grand final stage two against him?
He gets baited.
Ime, Braves!
Sona!
65 seconds remain. They're gonna get the boost up towards Short.
Good timing for this and yeah, more than they bargained for on the other side.
There's Wanderball!
An opening depth for Apex. Frustrations will continue to compound.
JL spotted. Flames on the mantle up, spots out the Short player.
Zywu with that AWP, looking for anything.
Reagress.
And it's too comfortable for Zywu. That's a nasty death for JL.
Zaiwu has found it and he must do more!
Emma's not scared of Zaiwu!
That is a clear!
Alexi B defends his site honorably by finding
Spinks towards the apartment.
That moves, enforces him wide, flames him into the site.
Lexi B, that could be exposed.
So much responsibility on the captain here.
Every angle, how has he got Zaiwu as well now?
Emma's present, only present!
Wonderful doesn't succumb to these early flashbangs.
does not pull the trigger. Bides his time. Has to hit this.
Oh, Stingwish quick-sinking. Spam is there, play him.
Harvest bit, still shooting.
He puts some damage onto Apex, but already looks good for Vitality.
A direct and brutal approach.
Got to be the calculator cold. Mavi can't justify this.
It's just the financial conversation at all these maps,
because they're so close, because they're so back and forth.
Oh, no timeouts left.
Take it 20 seconds. That's just freestyle.
We're going to get straight back into the action.
Chlopist again. Chlopist again.
And you all, JL gets the information on some of them, yeah.
And now they take the fight, it moves for a nice double!
It's been again!
And only in SMG, what's he supposed to do?
Brings down the house on A.
Bombs to be planted, JL and Lexi B trying to stop it from going to overtime.
And Vitality done enough, it's looking awfully good, Apex staring at the smoke so Lexi
B hoping for an overextension.
Mezzie, that third piece.
He will be the catalyst.
Holding the cross.
A shot from Apex connects and now what can you do?
JL's only got the orb.
Helpless, as he accepts.
There are more rounds to be seen on the run!
Deviation from the norm.
Hyper-aggressive.
From Spick's pick, from the elevated angle delivers an opening kill.
Trying to mix it up into OT.
Do some of what you haven't done before. Flames information there.
Apex walking through a smoke into JL.
collection and what before seals the deal. Now just come off, it's overtime and
suddenly we're bare knuckle, ballooning, boxing, charging up, Rump, and Navi have
received this well. This is where the individuals get put on display. The
decisions under pressure, well by telling you they were the ones running with
that momentum taking us into overtime it was Navi's chance to close. Now both
15 did a pick themselves off.
Pick themselves up, dust themselves off.
As it is just Mezzi.
First of the 1v5, won't make it to second.
Emma with a close of AK Scavige, carried through.
JL, Alex in short side, and all...
He won out this JL to 4 onto JL.
Mezzi with the bomb as well, they're re-aggressing, they're re-clering.
Timing from JL, he's not ready for Zywoo.
But are they ready for Alex?
Important trade from Flames, and now Wonderful catches the bomb.
Says, well, can Na'Vi really find two consecutive on their CT side?
It's Apex who's completely disconnected and Spinks will have to wait.
Come on, B, Apex working his way towards, can't walk.
Towards that short side.
Noses and Orca on that side, Wonderful not so active on the line.
Intermittent check. So the bomb, he's missed it.
Apex forces him off the line, puts that Orca down to just one bullet.
One bullet would do it with Wonderful.
14 seconds though, he needs a bomb and Spinks has opened up the opportunity.
Scooping up the bomb, you have to get past bit, but he does fall off the angle.
8 seconds, they flash as the bomb will go down.
Nade won't finish him off.
Bit and Immetra, get in but Spinks denies!
It falls to Immet again on this B bomb site.
Has he got another?
AHHHHHHHHH!
Okay, fighting middle, awkward for Immet.
Throws out the extinguished but can't get out his gun out in time.
Another opening from Flames.
He is comfortable on the stage.
Wonderful finding Spinks.
Avenging bit, but look at apex. He is already borrowing into the B bomb site wonderful good connection
So flames his party has been crashed so many gaps to concern yourself with and look how entrenched apex is
No, one's there you have to call it back surely with how far forward he is
They're wondering if it's been a B apps push because Alexi's still alive
Is he clear?
apex
Positioning alone has won them the kill on to a leg C and necessary trade. Wonderful activates. It's all been wonderful so far
There's still time to pivot they do not have to finish towards B
Are they gonna really run into wonderful with a hot hand free kills deep into the third round of overtime here?
He can throw spotted out lives on what you got they're jumping at him
Tags up, ZywOo knocks off his boots.
Tugs in as Mezzy's hunting, a hard shot to hit, he's not far off, gets his eye to the scope but Mezzy brings him down.
JL already brought low, 12 HP, 1 vs 2 but they're not looking, they're not ready for JL!
Alright, well, the pressure, it's encapsulated right there.
And Spinks, whoosh, loses his head, Immet one tap straight to the skull of Spinks.
Nice from Flames, Imer looking the wrong way, bit from Palace, but Apex has been completely overlooked.
They're not looking at it, wonderful, it's a free frag!
Oh, the Vitality looking for 15!
Sticks the landing this time round.
Imer, active immediately, this is a classic.
This is very cheeky.
And in this environment, this is insane.
Especially now, it's actually found Apex from the Palace position, a long range headshot.
This is insanity from Imer, Flags into Spinks!
Messi now overlapped to the double kill!
Gives Vitality a chance to end it here, despite the heroics of him there.
Flamsey bolsters the defenses up through underpass.
They've got two sitting on the ball.
Coming in for it now, Messi tries to keep him in the bay.
The flames on the floor, Messi goes activated, it's in there, good for it.
And from behind, seems to have converted him as brilliant.
Zaiwu is in a pivotal position, he can play between either side.
Knows where Alexi is.
Deagle headshot required.
Lexi's holding! Passes the test.
Harvey winner, we go again.
Oh, it's a false to go for something quick.
It's such an important round.
Integral, in-meh clearing corners rapidly.
Flames maybe gonna be overlooking this, yeah they have.
JL find Sywell early, but Spinks is kicking up a fast Alexi from Khan.
Lee with T side consecutive and less.
Apex and Mezzi can do the improbable.
There's good damage, finding JL.
They know where they both are now.
On the sandwich, he gets away, reposition,
smoke, guising the advance of Mezzi.
There's so much damage onto Apex and yeah, finished off by Alexi.
Another good call from Vitality, Spinks over the war days, I were too flamsy here, bomb
on JL towards ramp.
Oh, to rest!
Is there more to be said?
Bit and Alexi B seem to think so.
Heading into the A-side, Spinks still here.
Nice for patients from Apex, rewarded onto Alexi.
The A-side occupied.
And he goes hunting for head, just bit.
Brought down.
After taking out the captain,
Mezzi and Spinks to avenge their fallen comrade.
Just JL.
And Spinks with his knife out, tucks in,
face the shot, and it's good from Spinks!
Oh, Flames has actually started to test bit
test bit on the palace position and then I found the smoke and make a move
making a move now it's perfectly timed a basis gets run down as I will walk does
connect spinks and loading his magazine into the smoke just for the one in
there humbles him but that's busy spamming a way to convert it's just into a
two-on-two wonderful a headshot that's all he could see hands a haircut to
messy Zywu thrust into the clutch wonderful and bit up against him two
Two bullets in the orc. Two targets to find. And the first is Devine! He's taken from the sideline.
Smokes on A, early. Early and a miss from Zywoo. That's awkward. Especially now the
bullet finds it through the box. It's up to Flames on the side. Does well for JL, but
Alexi B trade through. Reaggression. Apex through the smokes. Anticipated. Zywoo's
Naive finds wonderful. Alexi B's doing everything he can. Fade plant. Spingslinger's short.
And where's Emma completely isolated between the two of them?
Lexi B pauses, let's see him come to him.
So is timing.
He's coming through short side.
Emma could be exposed here.
We know he can hit these flicks.
He's got the hard hand right now as well.
And he's done it, a Lexi B caught off.
It has to be enough for Vitality to get the job done.
It's Farthscher, they're charging into bit, it's the first.
They just wanted to throw it all at their A site and now repelled!
It doesn't waver! Deliver the lover!
Zahui, give us it again! It won't be fine!
But does this inform your next call?
I mean, it's not surely going to be something in the same vein.
I feel like the stubbornness from Vitality...
Oh, well, oh!
Well, he made us all wait.
Wonderful, we'll punish him. No loss bonus for you, Zahui,
and you lose absolutely everything.
Flames gets out, JL spamming that AK-47.
Three of those for the CT side as they look to find three
Jinx is out and he's looking
Stressful stressful good fine from bit catches the walkout spinks
Limited options for the remaining three as he does go look in wonderful sitting every shot
He takes this round and now messy. He's been hard to look at the flame betrays in a comfort and we've been here before
I feel like Led's eye would make that opening play, shall we, Led's?
Might be a good idea.
Let our AWPer, let our star play up.
Oh yes, indeed a headshot of the day out of the AWP comp.
Pressure for an RV to match the 3-0.
And they're looking for another overtime.
Can Vitality recover from an opening kill?
Zywu seems to think so.
He thinks he can end it now.
And secure.
Mirage, bit, nice work.
Spumbs him down to 19 points.
He's about to catch his meds, he's winging, but Spinks and Zywoo, bomb on his back, players above him and Nathan, what a fuck!
He's got a knave, Spinks is low.
This could be enough, he has to not overcook it, Spinks versus Wunderfall, he's thrown out his knave, swaps to the AK, he's nervous.
Spinks looks calm, ready, 20 seconds, he's hoping Wunderfall overcooks it, overmoves it, hoping that the stress gets the better of the young gun.
For the quad kill, Sphinx will have to make a move time against him. Drops away.
Wonderful! Oh, this is his chance!
A fake plant, Sphinx. Does he call the Blast Guards?
It's these little details that now it's in my up to bats. You'll take that one.
Smoke, you can't flush me out. Throw your molly, it'll be wasted.
Opening kills though, not always an indicator of the closer.
Hungry Hornets. Wonderful.
Forced away from the line of fire. Good work from Apex taking space and they made my land close.
Chip damage.
They're testing JL here.
They're testing JL. He's brave to keep throwing bullets down range.
He still delivers a headshot onto Flanks.
Traded by Mezzi, Alexi lingers.
35.
Time pressure. Two players here.
It's Mezzi responsible for it with the loss of Apex.
It's awkward. Kourt with his left alone.
He's got nothing.
It's O.T.
Wonderful.
Wicked that off between the wickets of two swinging out wide with his white screen.
It's actually JL Flames and Messi sent to an early grave, but Zywoo does the same.
Finds a wonderful short side. Apex looking for JL here.
He might have a look at spots him out. Ooh, a dink.
Damn. Apex has donated the bomb to Spink said here you take this back around the world.
So up through the underpass is Spink. Zywoo from shore is going to have to try and pick
and he's grabbed another.
All called very awkward now for him.
Alexi B is so far away.
Vitality surging into the side.
We're looking the wrong way.
Gets the info, gets away.
How is Emma doing this again?
Spinks doesn't think he is.
With 14 seconds, that bomb will be planted.
Alexi B known to be the Bianca.
Uncertainty for Apex, considering CT.
Alexi advancing a smoke will cover him.
Ineffective Nade.
On the crawl, Navi's captain makes his way in, considering the options has no
answers towards the ramp side and with his back turned he's brought low. No
response from ramp, time-sensitive mission for Alexi and Sphinx has
actually got past completely. Oh, out manoeuvres, out played and it is 19 each.
In our third overtime 22 the magic number
Flames the unload his mag into the smoke and finds the young Ukrainian can vitality convert the opening
Do Navi have the capacity?
To jostle back for control at the disadvantage apex sending his troops Alexi into Alexi's domain
XB thrives! He's actually got a second!
He grabs Iwuzo!
And in pursuit of more!
But here's Mezzi and Spinks hitting their shots and seizing the advantage for themselves.
I'm already going down on B and Ima. What can you do? Apex is going to join the party.
An uncomfortable retake.
An impossible retake.
There's nothing for you here.
All the time in the world to set yourself up through the flames of...
Spinks has him on the cross though. Spinks hasn't locked in. Apex managing his angles, ready to get in the fight.
Spinks hasn't finished off his meal and Apex goes down!
And how is this reality?
Mezzie is well in this Bianca position. Still has his smoke.
Brave for a jump and actually Obstrant smoke off the apartment.
That could be an invitation to push and they are creeping.
Contact walking and the flash forces them into the line of fire.
Mezzie does well to confide. Mezzie, there's one mad army, defends his sight honorably.
sends no feedback to spawn it's unless him and Alexi have got anything more to say about this one
they don't look good because Alexi Shaw found one on the extremity found spings in the smoke but
the site is lost upon lies with Vitality's defense and Mezzi passing his test on B.
Is Smoke going to flash and he used them both? But this is perfection. This is what's crazy
we're going to catch it in the replay but it's the right call. Alexi has the B defender
The short play up. Stuck over towards vent room.
It's only Mezzi on the side. Apex is having to rotate in.
The call is the right option. It's the right play.
A headshot from the M4A1.
The sphinx is unknown. Hard to clear.
Hang on the timing on this. Yeah, it's fingertips.
Down and out! But look at him!
The sharpshooter. A clean headshot onto sphinx.
Bit tried to find a gap through the palace smoke but goes down.
Solid work from the A anchor flames and apex have connected apex in rotation wonderful than JL trying to get across
Flames on the other side of that smoke you might be overlooked here
JL yeah, running straight into flames a double make it free in defense away
XB out
Takes down the short player again real opportunity for a fourth overtime
Mezzie doesn't seem to think so, with the aggressive short finds the AWPer, look in the wrong way
holding W, Apex does exactly what he does onto Alexi. I don't know if the bomb is still over to what spawn
they need to go back and get it, it's all forced to fights. First looks like it's a fight on the menu,
flames can he really lock it down and a multi-kill required and he's got himself the double.
That's gonna be it, Apex found the bomb and the curtains will surely be closed.
Navi 12 and a row!
And if we continue by the script,
Navi should be snatching this one away
and taking us to the fifth of Anubis.
Uh, hello.
That's a mistake.
And it's going to get...
Wow, that's a left bit!
Spins around, finds Spinks,
makes it level, Flames has not left!
And Flames delivers!
Taking him down!
Wide open.
Wonderful and JL, quite quick on this flank.
They're going to be clearing through diligently.
Spam from Alexi drawing attention from the library side, JL and wonderful Pope their
nose up brackets.
Alexi's flash has to be great.
The setup from Vitality looks solid.
So I won't even shipping away the Alexi B on that tapping of the glock.
Mazian Apex going to be the first on the side to receive the map.
Well, JL does well, but there's Grahame's another one from Flames.
Alexi B, no careful of our half health.
There's nothing for him here.
It needs the one time, can't do it!
Vitality, start as they mean to go on, a pistol round win.
At least in the Copenhagen Major, and we're off.
Alexi B charging into Messi, Messi does pander it well.
The 10 HP to work with that incendiary could be his end.
And it's Zywoo that builds upon it.
AKH, he welcomes the re-swing!
JL was hungry!
And Zywoo puts a bullet between his eyes to extend their advantage,
And now the B site, you would think is wide open.
Wonderful throws out the incendiary to say it's not, but they know the site unoccupied
and Flames is going to scout it out, confirm their suspicions.
That has to be to say now, wonderful to back off and go and join bit on the other side of the map.
You never wanted to simmer out.
You never wanted to be a landslide.
Often overlooked this boost, they are setting one of their rifles up for success.
Oh, but he just wants them apex, activates for two.
I know Alexi and Emma are both there.
The Flash assist and the Imma kill. That's two out of the three remaining players. Just have to get past Bit, who they know has a rifle.
They clear the smoke. What's he got? Replenishing the smoke. That limits their options, so you want to push through it. I think they still do.
Imma's ready. He's ready for only the one. No, because Zywu hits it. Five and zero. Yet to die is Zywu.
Bit's got just the one. Six kills for Zywu.
Try and find it, but nothing on their half-willed utility. Apex, he's wants to fight. He welcomes the engagement that JL and Light applies. They're burning out. Smoke is forced.
Pushing through. Easy collection for JL.
Clear part of the game plan. Vitality do not want to give over banana control whatsoever. Think about how much they are putting into this space. They're down to almost no utility cylinder on the clock.
spot.
The man bit, the sharpest tools in the Na'Vi shed, tested here on the site.
Flays jumps in and it's in there and bit to repel the invaders, still holding on to
five alive and Spinks and Zywoo with no time.
Damage will be good right now if you have a title.
Like mentioned, you have plenty of cash.
If you can take a kill too, you make it three, that would be great.
But right now it might be nothing, all closed, flawless.
They still fight for Na'Vi.
Charging up Banana, they're going to fight.
It's Alexi and JL, what they got?
JL's got nothing.
Steren in the sandbags, Mezzie puts him in the dirt!
And the B site once again, exploited,
Imae with a nade, trying to leave his fingertips.
Makes him the second for Zywoo.
And already the site lost.
How brutal is that? Flames getting that information.
Look at the Sphinx lurk. He's already here to take this away from Bear.
You might walk away with nothing.
You just had a flawless round now, V.
V did a five for you right, and these weapons.
And by Tali, they have the solution to Navi's CT side.
Banana, the B bomb site. Harass it.
Absolute scenes right now, Nelvi cannot hold on.
That info from Flames converted upon. Wonderful gets something. Bit 2.
Apex really wants to take this away. He's charged forward to fortify the fifth position.
Flames has done well there, taken down the AK. Bit loves an AK-47 on his CT positions.
Will not get a chance to utilize. Wonderful. Can't hold on to the orb surely.
Still being closed in on Mezzi and Apex will have taken away.
Send him to spot with nothing.
And Zywoo will go down, that pick from JL finds a little bit of a gap, spams the smoke.
Searching active on this one bit. Typically the housekeeper of the balcony. Alexi's aware of this possibility
The group's up now Vitality plenty of time to work with you to as well apex's lover JL2 and bit just walks in the spinks
So active and ready for another apex overwhelms them now as a race a race into Alexi low HP
He collects the first that's big from Alexi puts it onto flames with 40 seconds to play
No idea where he is
He's got a 1 on V1 looking for Alexi and he finds it!
Flames looking to come up clutch!
This is such a tough retake now for JL.
The bomb can go down and Flamesy can go absolutely anywhere.
The rotation time is miserable for the Lithuanian.
The way back in there's just so many questions.
They put him in this jersey.
They saw the potential in Flames.
But when he's having a really good game, he is Flamesy.
This would be for seven.
Smoke out, gives him the info. JL has no idea!
Feels like everything is going vitality's way right now. Opening kills galore. Clutches in their favour.
Navi with just one round and that is the first tactical time out for Blade.
Thought he was going to call it earlier in the piece but he's let his voice play. Now they're in trouble.
Now they need his guidance.
Ten year pursuit.
Reflames has got the right team mates alongside.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Apex gets aggressive and so does Bit.
Brings the fight towards the apartment.
So first blood drawn, Navi can make a half out of this.
It has to start now.
The second opening kill can't give that away for free.
Makes good on the promise.
Alexi B sets JL up for success.
An incendiary to stop the trade.
Have they could know this?
We have to.
We smoke on the position.
They can maintain this boost.
Alexi could be caught out by the elevator position,
but does not expose himself.
45.
Wonderful. Miles away and Spinks is testing him.
Alexi being in trouble.
Anticipating the setup, they know what's up.
JL throws out a smoke.
Alexi's incendiary, forces the fight.
The SMG now going wide.
Finding a safe haven in the smoke.
He's tapping away, does damage to Flames
and now brings him down with a U.S.
Chunks away, him and Nezzy were aware.
A very good name.
Everybody's here.
And another for me! Just catching strays!
Oh, and it's Apex's turn!
Look at that! Alexi B finds Zyward!
What a scalp to take, and he hold onto his life!
Flames wants to threaten it, spams the smoke!
Alexi B and Inna have the B control!
Oh my god, Apex gets his bell run!
In the Cathedral, 14 HP, saved by the concrete.
Navi did have vision on middle, just being smoked off towards Longside.
It's force-wonderful, more passive.
Alexi's still aggressive, he has to win out these fights.
Emma is here he's back in his aim says I got this I'll get one. I'll at least get one
Him is not going to be undetected. He's not fighting. He's sitting back side hoping to be overlooked wonderful has flashes
There's an alley you have to choose. There's the flames expose him. He finds just the one
The monotone force to fight now the bomb will be planted. This is make or break. They can break vitality
But they have to retake the B site
Bit and wonderful. This Ukrainian duo, side by side, in Cologne.
Oh, he brings the fight through, opened up the site, a triple kill from Flames.
Thriving in this grand final environment, but wonderful.
This time.
He's got a chance, he knows exactly what's up, he does pull out the fakes,
Spinks trying to play the time, times on his side.
He hits the shot, but it's done.
Questions are going to be asked of that decision from Emma.
He had a smoke, he had a molly, he opted to play back side.
Did not fight with the leader, wanted to lull them into the B hit and they came knocking.
He takes the fight, only gets one, now it's a 2v2 post plan.
Not sitting still, the Flamesy special.
Brothers in arms, Spinks and Flamesy, Flamesy though.
An elevated position and off fangal, wonderful pitside.
Long the gap, Alexi be scarpering, charging to try and fill that gap.
Get some information there, Bezzi lives on, forced to fight the wonderful down after one.
Alexi B is going all to down!
But can they, Alexi to set up the two of them.
Parsonage good, JL exposed, and Apex charging up to deliver the head shot.
Ah, look easy!
He knows what that flash means!
Holds down the trigger, and perfectly plays Kosser!
And double digits!
Even finishes!
This is the last round, you've got to go for it, see it later.
Pet Spinks will take you now, it's just wonderful!
1v5, not a hope in the world, if he stops!
Ha ha ha, confused! It has to be popped!
And it's Pet to start searching.
Will he ever look position? Finding Spinks is a big start to taking this round.
Now the utility from Alexi.
Oh!
Vanted spotting out the bomb now, Baut.
They're all grouped up.
The entirety of Vitality advancing.
Quick thinking.
Wonderful on the charge.
He delivers.
Taking down Flames.
Previously impact them on the first pistol.
Now he's gone.
Mezzi might have to do it instead.
The P2K's good.
It's bit's back turned.
Apex distracting.
Executing.
It is 6, falling apart for Navi when a man is most.
Apex hits the shot just as the smoke's about to bloom, four on four and they charge!
Now V, a few players offering themselves up and Vitality will grab the pistol rounds.
What a shot! This one here from Wonderful, he did his job, he knew more was coming,
he hung around for a little bit too much and it looks like Alexi B's best of five woes are
are going to continue. We know what he's capable of but he has to start now.
Mezzi is his counterpart on the other side of the bow. It's aggression, it's
found Lezzi Shaw, but play to us, the fight chasing at all the nades. Wonderful as a
belt full and he nearly lost it. It's in the packing, it's in the quickly into
what day. Zywu's here. Oh it's Zywu though. You got to watch out for Zywu.
Tucks away, sets himself up for the play. Flashes to delay. Apex library,
Spamming away, hang on, ZywOo down after one.
The JLZ, good for him, what a spam from Apex!
Once more by Apex, back to background, he's jumping for Rinfos,
one bullet to the head of JL could have made the difference.
Spinks and flames, mid-side SMGs on the clear,
Smoke will have the nervous.
JLP noted, and already Flames is hitting the shots,
Wonderful's gone down, and this is really how it goes down,
Alexi and JL fighting to our nails JL give anything over for these rounds are going to come down to the final moments apex again
Feels like something specials on his side with his rotations
It's coming in never allowing now V to have the sight for free
But JL gets the reloading gets the final kill and keeps now be alive
Lighting doesn't strike twice though. Does it?
Wonderful as he speaks. Flames next victim. Good catch and a thanks.
He drives by with a CZ, a bullet shot.
5-7 does nothing for Zywu and Mezzi. His B250 does bear some fruit.
Navi are walking into the Lions den here.
Oh! He takes the Lions head on with a double kill. He has overlooked Zywu and Zywu overlooked the one.
Say, how much do you put into this, Navi?
The question, the flash comes in, doesn't catch him, bit doesn't overcommit either, Apex is he done enough to hold onto these rifles, looks like he has.
And so there will be threats, there will be threats.
The setup looks strong, holstered, ready, Vitality looking for 12, but it's an XCV that is wrapped up for one and double for f***.
There was all hanging in the balance for a moment, JL down to flames, he'll take the upgrade, but Navi will take a 7.
It's worth a look. The second rifle round in this second half of play.
So, I wish CT side at AWP. It's possible. It's more than possible.
Could get dropped across from one of these survivors, could buy it himself.
Damage. Conversion. Apex and opening dead. Of the back of the frustrations, will it?
Look at this.
Father, Spinks is low.
We're going to save again. Bits a long tape, Mezzy first. Then I'll deal with you, Spinks.
Zaywu's fighting hard, hitting sharp nearly!
In their boiler with him, Zaywu already scoped up on B. JL, he's trying his luck.
JL may not be prepared for this, the Flash has been cut, he's not ready!
Zaywu, dynamic with the AWP!
You know there's a gap right now, but if you go, you're going into Messi and Spinks' rotation on the way.
They're running, the two Frenchmen, looking to do what no one's done before.
Despite that rich history, four France and Counter-Strike.
Bid out Bulk. Molly's awkward.
Spinks goes down. Empty handed. It has to be Mezzie.
He's made a bit of a close one. Still goes two.
Mezzie's deliverancy. Two kills. Just a one kill, man.
Apex still has a full belt of utility to block.
This late in the piece. A full belt of utility to block.
He's looking good for vitality.
JL trying to be the difference maker. Apex flashed off.
But still he's ready and he's started with a bang.
Spinks has called back towards A.
Zywu and Mezzie already here and this shot from Zywu.
Bit gets a chance, a second chance.
20 seconds.
They have to get this bomb down, the next he delivers.
It's up to Zaro on the side, from behind.
He can't hit the shot, Zaro's good for it.
Betty, and all he's got down.
Patience went there, a missed shot,
and some great ones from Bit.
A double kill, again, into a...
But now, V.
Breaking case of emergency,
Bit is the secret weapon on Inferno
to keep them in it yet again.
Three more rounds for overtime.
but round at a time required.
Imma lied.
Backs away.
Masi's vision also taken.
And it's good from Spinks, tested by Bitnok.
Bitnok, is there really anything from Na'Vi
in the absence of their superweapon?
He's gone.
Imma trades four on four with 60 seconds left in play.
Zywu.
Oh, God! He wasn't ready!
He was moving forward!
He didn't even have his eye to the scope,
but Ima goes down regardless quick. Can Flames hold his sight? Xayah will win support, but it's my plans!
J-O's not looking! Flames aggressive with 20 seconds left, they just have to kill two.
Just a Lexi B and wonderful stand between vitality and a realization of dreams.
Wonderful hits, one Xayah will deny, the bomb going down is up to a Lexi.
One man dreams of the trophy in the Lancers.
One on three. It's right there for the taking. Vitality, they just need to kill him. They
just need the one frag and it will be that as well. Out in force to witness Vitality
surpass Narvi. To bring them down in a form of affair. To bring into question the world
number one. Another amazing performance from Zawo. And this time in the grand final.
It's time, the conversation about that MVP.
They said, fighting here, the chest of Kharazim, second strike,
it's a winner and fast from Odyssey.
Last few months, and if he shows up alongside Kersarot,
this team becomes ferocious and vitality,
it's a tough opening game if Fury arrive.
Yeah, really tough opening game.
I spoke with Gary outside the hotel just on the way in today,
and he just kind of mentioned it.
It feels like in Star Players,
it feels like they're getting more confidence,
that they're building themselves back up
to where we've seen them in the past,
and that's only good signs for Fury.
you add the eye test that's look good with Fallen's leadership.
Yeah, this team can be dangerous if they start firing on all cylinders.
Set up for the half wall, there's a flashback at Coffins for Vitality.
Apex has it, cocked and ready to go.
Flames and Zywoo, waiting for that initial fight. Flames will take the attention.
All the talk does not go to the sandbags, so Flames is trying to sell his life
so that Zywoo can succeed and that is exactly what Zywoo will do.
It's a couple of hoes, not four, and Zywoo just shuts down the entire setup.
Tywoo's first round at Cologne is an ace in the pistol round.
Oh, the old Baton switch.
So beautiful, they could never get a read, they could never actually find this fight.
Shout out to Flames, ensuring that with that flashbang, he swung wide to activate Tywoo in this play.
And what a way to start Cologne.
No one was watching you?
No one was watching you.
There's a gun fight!
No one was watching him.
That's got f***ing APA.
Sorry, excuse me. That's got APA.
That's got B5.
You're fine.
I'm ready to go now.
Now, I'm excused the front...
Zaywu with a hot start, Furia, down to Glocks, and we'll take a moment to take a breather.
There's been so much talk over the last few months about Donk and Monacy's rival.
Zaywu fell out of that conversation for a long time. He hasn't been sort of fighting for that top spot it feels like.
Let's be really still out of that conversation.
I mean, look, the thing you have to think about with Zaywu is, you know, he's always upset.
said, from speaking with him it feels very true, like it doesn't come off as false that
he doesn't actually care about any of that, he doesn't care about that individual accolade,
he doesn't care about being considered the best player in the world, he didn't care
about it when he was on the verge of overtaking, simple back and CS go, so now when you come
into this, he's not going to care about it when you know, actually it might even
be a relief that that conversation isn't constantly there.
He certainly got the skills and vitality, would certainly love for him to play like
and we certainly still have the expectations that he can deliver like the best player in the world.
Solid performance in Cologne could absolutely change that.
Fury up to the buy, finally with rifles.
Skulls.
He's looking to apply some pressure towards top middle.
We really enjoyed Skull's performance in Fury throughout Stage 1.
He's looking a lot more comfortable.
Skull's critics have even had to say that he's definitely looking more comfortable
comfortable side of this Furia squad. He saved Furia a lot of the times in stage one.
I mean he just looks like a completely different player. So much more comfort within this team.
Here comes the execute. Late round take of Banana, Flames up close against these DKs and
you shall not pass this smoke. Oh no! A complete disaster!
That was a buy for Furia. They do not get even through that smoke. It's Zywul and
Flames. That combo is just locking Banana down.
Look at the way that this map has started. You have the asterisks, I ruined the pistol round,
and now you get this where no one can actually even make it through the smoke.
They get stuck behind it, they block each other and get absolutely deleted.
If you're Furia, this is a low point already.
Oh yeah.
Three rounds in.
Okay, it's definitely a low point.
We'd be surprised to see a timeout come in at some point soon, because
there's been a very slow start to this game. Vitality have come out.
An absolute heater, falling, sprinting out through banana, gets beyond that half wall.
And look, let's put this in context too. Inferno is a must-win map for Furia.
The idea that you go to Vitality's best map of Mirage and be able to take him there to bring us to a third map,
you can't rely on that whatsoever, so this map is critical for Furia in the series.
It falls to the pretty good job at forcing his rifles back without losing his life,
and no one for Furia goes down, and that skirmish of top banana, but the bomb is still going towards top mid,
and Zayu has got the reed to rotate over and from library he's seen enough of Cello to stand and fight
but it isn't exactly the most impactful shots from Zayu, he leaves that to Spinks instead
and Zayu rotates over to cover off that archway and Kerserato is left in a 1v5
it feels like Furia haven't gotten any kills yet, it just feels like the minimal amount of
frags have come in for Furia so far. Just one on Yuri, back in the pistol round.
single kill is just crazy to think about perfuria as we go into the fifth round of
inferno. Well let's see how this next gun round goes it surely can't get any
worse than the first one in round three getting stuck behind that banana smoke.
Well done from vitality as you mentioned no one committing to the fight
against fallen no reason to risk your life in that situation so back and away
same with Zawoo awkward spray out towards long but doesn't really matter
because his goal is just survival doesn't need to commit to that long
range fight. This is a attack as we chill for a little bit.
I think if you really need to chill for a little bit, just kind of get into this.
Yeah, it might actually be.
There's cold starts and then there's this. This is freezing.
Yeah, you can't talk but at least you get to just sit there and then, I don't know,
do whatever breathing exercises, meditation.
Well, as I was just staring directly at them without a blink.
Yeah, whatever mantra you need. It'd be funny if we get to a point where like teams
like you're doing a tech timeout, which is like stand up and stare down their opponents.
That'd be great. Who do you think it would be first to do that?
I think it's playing out cooler in my head than it would in real life, but yeah sweet
Just gotta be weird in real life. Yeah, it would be a little awkward
I don't know who would do it. I don't think there's any teams who have the attitude the old VP would have been great
Yeah, that would have been good
They can do that now with the coaches
Next as a turning to vitality
He wants some trophies this year with the squad and it's been it's been a talking point for apex too
He's got a lot of faith and a lot of comfort with his coach and really enjoys working with him and just speaking with him about it in the
Past he's just kind of been like look
Bringing him in here, you know, I want him to win trophies. I want him to have more trophies
I want him to experience winning the biggest trophies on the biggest stages
so I mean part of the reason that apex brought him in was you know to work with him and work closely with him and
Have his knowledge kind of flowed throughout the team, but also
He wants his homeboy to have some fucking wits
I did it again. I apologize you're turning this into an 18-plus show. That's a family show Jason
That's the last one. I'm gonna button it down for the day at the f-bombs out of here. Yeah, your little mouth
It's I'll get you some soap to clean that out Jason. I profusely apologize to all you listeners at home
But yeah, he wants he wants to be one in trophies with his coach
That's the point. I was messing have the same dramatic effect as your previous words to me to sell it with an up bomb either
Let me see let me hear what you thought about yesterday
We had some crazy upsides, Jason.
Yeah, we did.
Oh, it's heartbreaking.
It's mental to think about.
I mean, it's cool because both of those teams, Saw and Mongols, were like two teams from
the first half of the season that we were like, all right, we're seeing some cool things.
We're seeing some really cool things out of these teams.
It's looking good.
You jerks and Aaron Stills for Saw were like a revelation.
Their writing was so strong.
Mongols, obviously, Mazzinho has been on the rise as well.
Blitz still playing really good.
And just seeing both of them actually capitalize on that potential and show it off and upset
some of the biggest teams, it's crazy.
A few days ago we opened Stage 1 commentating Sol vs Mongols and that felt like the most
opening game of a tournament ever, right?
But now that we're casting it again today.
It's because that first game we were all tentative about, alright, which Sol is it, which Mongols
is it.
And now today it's for qualification to the Lancess Arena.
So it's crazy how this tournament has gone so far.
That's gonna be a tough game to call because Mongols feel like they're playing better than that opening game and saw it looking fantastic
So yeah, that's gonna be a fun game later on today
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Well for nothing for vitality
If goal is to get a good start in Cologne they're taking the first step alright fist bumps high fives everyone's clapping feeling good
We're getting back into things. You know what that means tech pause is fixed. Thank you to the admin team
We've got round 5 for you. It's going to be an AWP in the hands of Fallen surrounded by full AK-47s in utility.
No AWP yet out in the hands of Zywoo. We'll have to see if that even comes out as we know with Zywoo.
He's content, even happy at times to stick on the M4.
We had a fiery start for Vitality. I'll see if the tech pause has iced him out.
them out. Keisarana spamming up through that smoke dishes out significant damage to Apex.
Banana has been a problem for Furia, they haven't been able to get up through Banana, they haven't
been able to get back. This Zywu Flames combo, this time they forced an adjustment in Vitality's
defense. Quite significantly so.
Might not be the adjustment they like with the fourth play over at the A bomb site though.
Skulls over in Boilers looking for someone to get aggressive. Apex that low HP is going to
park himself inside the bomb site. He'll be stationary for the rest of this brown
without HP. Now with four players here this vitality want to get aggressive at
all-towards brackets. Just playing containment for the moment, defensive
smoke deployed, closing access to rep. I almost feel like Fury look like they want
to set up a mid to B split, but these smokes delaying things are gonna make
this a really hard timing to hit and synchronize. And now Vitality start to
send players away. They're coming back now, signs of Fury as presence in top
middle. That bomb still on banana inside, who comes for the peek, dies at long to skulls.
And Apex has no HP, so he can't do anything. He tucks himself into the site, he has an MP9
and no HP, so it's on Flames. So it's either Flames goes nuclear or this
round goes the way of Furia. Falling cuts off Vapex, trying to make his way back.
And now Flames has been spotted, getting pushed from two sides. Time is limited.
Flames with that headshot, bomb is down, and the kill comes through that smoke,
but they have to sprint to the site, and there's no more time!
Surely the last second is through!
Oh ho ho ho!
Vitality picking up!
And last second kill onto that bomb carrier!
And Fury, I cannot catch a break!
It's five in a row for Vitality!
That's insane.
I actually thought he might have gotten that at the last second.
Literally just right out of time.
In the middle of second, Flames had to get one kill
and he sinks the bomb carrier.
That is so huge.
Sinks the bomb carrier behind the Molotov
Molotov that he threw as well
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for Furia in the lat in the first five rounds of this half
And now Zywuz got the AWP and now he's punishing you early deep down middle
Furia knocked out of their game so hard
Kcerano charges up with a flash bang and oh Kcerano
Rips them open with his fangs and that smoke goes down towards CT
this time Vitality do not hold that B site. Finally, Furia breakthrough.
And Vitality not even budging whatsoever. They know that B site has let them
loss. This is just an automatic save call immediately. Clearing out halls to make
sure there's no danger for the saves. I will transition away from his position on
wrap side. Furia is just going to, I mean at this point, yeah, you check
all the details. You don't skip any steps. Clear everything, smoke everything off.
Oh, Furia is actually coming over for a little looksie.
Vitality is having a peer and the light shot, Yuri gets brought down incredibly low.
Now, Spinks is still on the A side of the map.
He's nowhere near this.
They're just hoping and prodding and trying to get a couple of Xs and damage the economy
of Furia.
I think equally though, they probably don't want to lose these weapons even though Spinks
has $11,000.
Yeah, it's been a very clean start from Vitality.
Yes, I will just take a shot at a very narrow angle.
Who knows there's one still can't land it fury is going to get away and they have their first round on the board
Yeah, but Sphinx is still over towards T stars and Messi's charging down middle
They look to make this very expensive for fury. They're right at the end. They're gonna throw utility down
They're gonna try and heat things up and cello and skulls will hang on to those weapons
And they will stop Sphinx and Messi from creating problems. Yes, they will
Dangerous situation for fury and they come out on top so some rebies for vitality that they've got plenty of economy to handle it
Good job from K. Serato. It's actually, it's one of the things I talked with Gary about,
I mentioned I spoke to him at the hotel before coming in today, and I even just kind of said,
like, one of the things I've noticed is K. Serato is way more active in like the first
20, 30 seconds in the round that I'm used to, and here just grabbing two entries
over and banana, like it's nothing.
It's like, fine, I'll do it myself.
I'd love to see it.
Mazzie's gonna mix some aggression into his play style, and he's got a clear runway
until he meets skulls heads up watching for the push and an early advantage for
furia
cywoo strikes the all over the livers speaks fighting for short gets taken out
by fallen cywoo has to chime in he's holding for that second smoke is about to
come up as long as they wait long enough for that smoke to bloom they'll be
able to get onto the site and cywoo is still fighting smoke breaks apart fury
goes down it's two versus three that just seems difficult for vitality again
here it's a retake so we'll walk it away from this furia will pick up two in a row they needed
that they needed a third player i think those apex trying to come through the smoke and brackets
to wrap around into the bomb site to create a second angle and this time case or other
not the entry man not the aggressor he's just chilling and lurking and waiting for that
so furia now is two seemingly uh on phase not knocked off kilter by these first five
There was plenty of frustrating moments. You get ace by Zywoo in the pistol.
You get one kill in three rounds or four rounds and then
second
Mist planned. So there's a lot of moments for Fury that could have tilted them off the face of the universe
But they have stayed in it.
That was a sense of being able to build into this is vitality go for their first time out
As you mentioned earlier, there's a lot of money available for team vitality
So even though they've lost two rounds in a row, they still got so much cash.
So much cash on the CT side built up.
There would almost be a travesty if they let this kind of early 5-0 lead slip away.
They have so many opportunities to rebuy and adjust and adapt.
I mean this start for Vitaliy really ends the conversation that is often had in these tournaments
when a team joins later in the competition.
Is the team coming in from the stage one or the play-in going to have more of an advantage warming up?
I think with Vitality started that instantly ends that conversation. They're here to play
I mean if you look across the board everything would lend to that right saw Mongols with those upsets yesterday as well to teams coming in fresh teams coming in cold
And that's I think why it would be such a devastating
Travesty of vitality wasn't able to capitalize on such a good start with everything falling in their favor
Out of the tactical we're gonna get a technical
Giving you everything today as a communication issue. We don't like this
No, we do not so...
Mutation's a two-way street.
It is.
Unless one of them's a narcissist and that's a one-way street, Jason.
Okay.
Well, we'll add that to the quote.
That's a new evolution.
We can add that onto it and it rolls off the tongue.
We'll get this one solved.
It's a few of these, but they always get fixed nice and quick.
As always, my dream occurrence for this match with Zywoo having an AWP on the CT side
is that we just see Dominance Zywoo moving around the map.
We saw him with the mid-pick a couple rounds back.
I'd like to see more of those aggressive plays, peek down banana, peek down middle, maybe get aggressive and go for that peek in alt mid, you've got options and we know that up on inferno if it gets rolling CT side can just control and dictate where the T's feel comfortable attacking.
I'm sure Brazilian fans would like to see that though, I'm sure they would be happy if it was a quiet Zai Wu, but it doesn't look like he's going to be that quiet Zai Wu today.
Now, 11-1, five of those in the pistol.
It's actually a very cool up battle when you think about it.
Fallen, you know, obviously not on the same level these days, but has put together some
very good individual maps in this tournament with his AWP, some brilliant sequences that
we saw over on Anubis.
That was crazy.
Yeah, some combat offing, some classic vintage Fallen was peeking out from behind the
curtain.
It was great.
I can go for that too.
Yeah, more of that please.
Yeah, I'm greedy.
I'll take it all.
Vitality's results recently haven't been bad, but I think when you look at a roster like Vitality, their expectations are different than the rest of the squads, right?
They're in that top echelon, so they're one of trophies. The second place is the first loser.
Yeah, it's weird because there is a very negative conversation around Vitality because it's clear with the eye-tests and even just hearing from the players themselves and the team themselves.
There's some things that aren't clicking the way that they feel like they should be.
And I mean all these five players individually very, very good, but just something hasn't been working
and a lot of it comes down to roles, who's playing where, but you look at these results, it's not bad.
I mean, you know, second at Pro League, second at Dallas, semi-finals at Blast Spring Finals,
quarter-finals at Esports World Cup is a rough one.
Obviously, you go back further to Katowice, it's a little ugly.
But even that Esports World Cup, like getting to the playoffs, getting to the quarter finals, it looked bad.
Yeah, but it didn't look good.
Let's not miss out on the Katowice. I'm sure it was at the start of the year, but it's the other championship event, right?
And this is by towerly expected to do well at events like this.
Katowice seems to have a curse for them. It'd be the final of Cologne.
I just bet, you know, I like to keep my reference point for teams on that HLTV three-month filter.
Yeah, you know like you go all the way back to Katowice and it's like we've been over that and yeah
It's it's an ugly stain on their on their resume for the for 2024 for sure
But the I mean I think some of those you make up for it with a good performance in Cologne
And some of these issues still obviously persist
Well the issues are not persisting in terms of communication. They're sorted out. We're ready to go
It is 5 to 2 for vitality furia off the back of a two rounds in a row
I'm guessing if they could keep it up with a case on every player, Casarotto getting into banana early on.
Grenade's all land past him.
They won't take any damage from these initial skirmishes, but Flames is charging right through the smoke and Casarotto handles business.
It feels very forced like that play was designed out of spawn and they just stuck with it even though it's not ideal.
Maybe some utility was missed but coming through that smoke, Cacerotto is not blind to whatsoever.
No flashbangs, nothing harassing him and that's an easy frag and an easy advantage for Furia again.
The bomb is going to be going towards the apartment.
Mezzi sits within the site and Zaiwu towards pit.
Committed position with AWP but he's got cover.
He can dance in and around this wall and Mezzi, if he sets up enough distraction,
Zaiwu's AWP can prove the lethal.
Mezzi from the site collects one kill and Zaiwu's got the rest.
No issues for the French AWPer.
He now knows where his next victim is.
The flash-up short smoke is up to protect Yuri.
Grenade is on, he's so happy.
Pee-pee.
Man, fall and just frozen in that corner.
You're fighting towards bombsite and you hear that AWP ring out and see a teammate fall
and you just know you're dead.
You're frozen in the open, frozen in place and...
...helpless.
So, a 5 on 4 for...
...Furia...
Doesn't pan out with the halls pop trying to hit a creative timing, but case or auto can actually still
Do something with this because there's a separate 1v1 fights once a word CT one and banana problem is he needs to make something happen
Now there's 15 seconds and when no one's showing themselves this defensive like just staying pad and just staying hidden is actually perfect
Because if case or auto is able to get one kill you could see that bomb over in halls
Maybe you force a rotation this late in the round vitality takes a death of the B bombsite
They probably think that both players are attempting to finish there. Maybe you get a rotation
KSR auto goes down at the end for the time series money like over and
It won't be a three round in a row come back for fury of vitality back to any ways out of the tech issue
And it's I was earlier playing towards B find yourself and hit this round combining with messy
And they don't get past that all this is this is the great disaster of going down 0 5 in the fashion
You did without having a whole lot of impact not getting a whole lot of kills of letting the money on the CT side
grow. There were four kills in the first five rounds of this game for Furia. So you get to
a point where, yeah, you go on a two-round streak and usually that's going to be like
a half-buy, two rifles and SMGs for your opposition, but Vitality had built up like four or five
rounds of buying just by the virtue of how strong they were to open this map. So Furia
is just playing this game on nightmare mode, having to grind back this game against
full buy after full buy after full buy with no relief. This music really does
make me feel like I'm on an aircraft carrier.
Yeah, the beginning.
Yeah, it's a fantasy being lived out, Jason.
Get out there, Maverick.
Saewoo, confident to take the pick down middle.
He's 13-1 to start off his Cologne campaign and spinks.
Oh, he's moved down into the second minute,
fallen spotted.
That tech nine will not fall though.
Now, cello's two for boiler.
He gets Saewoo.
And that's a huge opening to get.
Messi looking to plug the gap though.
He goes to fight short, but cello
is playing the sound of death right now
inside of the site and Sphinx he's trying his best to make up for vitality's weaknesses inside of this A bomb site
but cello does not stop
Unrelenting finally taken out by that itchy grenade, but the damage is already done. You know that fence on balcony saves his life
It is made of some tough material
blocking all of Nezzy's bullets
And this is like a change of pace I think brought on by individual decisions
like you get that spam going towards alt mid and cello up in you know up in
halls is like oh I can actually beat his fallback if he's actually peeked that
far down mid he's got a long route to run picks up the pace good heads up play
from cello and you get that kill and you say they've been starting to be let's
actually try and pressure this a little bit faster and then once again you
find another kill on mezi who misses the shot it's perfect so two out of the
three rally winds if you really have found it is off the back of keserado
sprinting up an anti getting two entries and this one's cello crushing
down on that a defense. Look they all count you know it's we're not going to
sit here and say theory is playing beautiful team counter strike but yeah
it's keeping them in the start you have the individuals to win as individuals as
well so use that to your advantage and as bad as this half as looks you start
winning a round like that here and there every once in a while get up
towards four or five and regardless of the fact that you've been outplayed and
you've looked like the lesser team you're gonna have plenty of rounds to
to make this a match in the second half.
In that case you unfortunately.
Yeah thankfully both teams extremely experienced
with these situations and tournaments
and stop and start of play like this
can really take you out of the flow, out of the momentum, out of the game
but these guys are going to be well experienced
at dealing with these pauses.
The rest of the series involves
Mirage up next, that's Vitality's map pick
and if needed we've got Nuke for third.
Do you think we're going to need
Three maps in this series, Jason?
Like I said, if Vitaliy win in Furno, I think it's 2-0.
I don't think Furry is winning Mirage.
I think the hard part about this whole series, when you prepare for it, if you're Furia, you're looking at it, and you like Nuke,
you don't like Mirage, but you have to ban other maps.
So they're going to get their best map.
And even though you like Nuke, it's Vitality's second map.
So you're playing two really, really, really strong maps.
And Furno is the weakness that Furia is trying to punish, and if they can't do it here,
It's hard to imagine that they would cause an upset on one of Vitality's strengths.
I mean, the...
Zairu is a beast on Nuke.
He's a beast on any map.
Yeah, it's true.
Specifically Nuke.
Nuke is...
Yeah, it's another level.
That beast shows up a little more often.
Mm-hmm.
What is that?
It looks like a little...
I don't know.
Yeah, like a purple-eyed lemur.
Cool.
Or some weird sloth.
Yeah, more sloth.
I feel like sloth is taking them.
Yeah, Naph is...
Yeah, yeah.
taking that market. You can't bring a sloth. I seen a sloth recently Jason. How is that?
It's pretty cool. It was like this open, it was kind of like a zoo but it was a lot more
space for the animals so it was kind of cool. So I went up there and it was the monkeys
were sharing the same sort of enclosure as the sloth. And the sloth was moving pretty
fast for a sloth man. Yeah, faster than you expected. Yeah, it was climbing above
my head and had this tube and it could climb above your head and you could stand
Underneath it and a little monkey came over and started peeing through the hole
So I had to dodge that Jason, but that was a fun day. That's a special day. I was there with nature
one with nature
Sloths are awesome creatures though. I can see why naff loves a sloth
Are they awesome? Yeah, dude. It's like
slow
Yeah, life in the slow lane
Sure, everything that makes them awesome.
They take everything, they enjoy life more than others.
Okay.
And they sometimes even forget to eat, they're so lazy.
So, a lot in common with gamers.
And Spinks, he's charged down mid.
That M4 is ready to go, and no one's turning.
No one's thinking about it.
Finally Yuri has a little look,
just what Spinks, and it's lucky that he did
because the XL matches Spinks in that fight.
I wonder if you heard a flip step.
That Spinks kind of spent that up to turn the corner.
Either way, this is a lot of 4 on 5 on 4 advantages that Fury's been able to find.
I think this is their third or fourth one so far in this game.
And now they're going to build upon it.
Apex gets a little lazy with that peek and you tell him the flames has a rebuttal.
No way.
You can't let this happen, Fury!
Two kills, clean on the entry, and flames off the coffins!
It's just ripping them to shreds!
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave, and now Fallen's left in a 1v3
total.
kill, they're still two remaining and that rotation from Mezzi is only arriving now. So Fallen, he puts the
bomb down, he could have thrown the smoke out towards CT, but instead uses that to the site.
There's a gap. Fallen goes to use it, Zaywe already had eyes on it and pins him down with a AWP,
but what a step up. What a hold from Flames. That's a 1v5 hold from Flames at the B bomb
site. Four kills and I think if he went passive after the fourth one he would have got the
If he just reset himself, he got a little eager for that ace.
But it's all good when you deliver like this.
Two rounds that Flames has individually, literally by himself.
One for Vitality at the B bomb site.
I don't know how few are going to deal with this now.
When you get two entries towards B, you're all charging at one player.
And you still can't get into the site.
Yeah, those kinds of miscues for Furia,
They'll start to make you in a game feel like you're just getting buried
inability to trade a player like that when you have such an overwhelming advantage five on four into a five on three
And one guy takes you out
Chip damage
The native apex eats a ton of damage in return
It's not what he wanted
We'll give him a pass. He's been excellent outside of that flashbang in the grand scheme of things
It's not a big deal. It was still pretty funny though
Apex is going to have so destroyed by the flash.
Furia, you still want to go B.
I think this is a lot of Furia just saying, you know what, we're getting a little bit
beat up in these defaults, obviously 7-3, it hasn't worked the way it's designed.
Let's go into something a little bit more simple and let's focus on the trading that we
struggled with in the previous round.
Now the hard part is because they've been stalled out for so long, by the time
they end up pulling the trigger, Spinks is going to be here.
And there's still utility to delay this final push of Furia.
Flames forced out of his position.
He'll play for Newbox instead.
Strip back into Second Oranges. Here comes that attack for Furia.
Flames from the site, it's chelode down. Flames looking for a multi-kill yet again.
And he will secure it. This time he's got Apex to back him up.
And Apex always down. Technicrofall strikes into action.
And now suddenly it is a winnable round for Fallen. He's on for the ace.
He's on for all five.
We're 4 HP.
Yeah, for help, that's all he's got to play with here, but Fallen, he brings the fight to Saewoo!
And suddenly, it is just Mezzi left! Just Mezzi to stop the power of the professor!
And Fallen waits around that corner, doesn't want to give away his spot, doesn't want to peek into the open.
He won't fall for that initial tap. He will not fall for that old trick.
The second, he won't even peek that until his fight eventually comes.
Messi walks into him and prevents Fallen from pulling off the heroic clutch to save Furia.
It's eight rounds for Vitality, but that was a damn nice try from Fallen.
It really was.
He did everything he possibly could.
I mean, obviously all the kills are lovely, but even in the one-on-one, right as the bomb goes down,
that's so much time to have to play a post-play at 1v1 with only four health.
And even holding his nerve, not peeking on the first, not even really peeking on the second.
Mazi just had all the advantages.
Dude, this is going to be such a frustrating half for Furia, because you're thinking about so many of these scenarios that you should have won how close you came to winning multiple rounds in this half.
They have to get four though. They have to get four out of this.
They got to do it with mostly Galils.
You think to how Furia have won the majority of the rounds in this half, it has been one individual stepping up and getting those clean entries.
Hey Serato, Cello's had a couple.
Doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to happen for them here at round 12.
You don't get to do this, you don't get to live in this reality, but if you take the first five rounds away,
Fury has done a really good job on this T side of finding kills, finding access to bombsites.
I think the biggest problem has been, as I mentioned earlier, every single round is against full buys.
Every single round is against rifles, AWP.
Every single smoke in Molotov possible.
They haven't had anything easy.
They're walking again into the B bomb site.
The B site has been the bane of their existence.
Flames a huge part of that.
He hides, he shrouds himself in the darkness.
He now reveals himself to two kills in Kassarotto and Yuri.
The finds of Furia are blunted in this half.
And Vitality is now a three versus two for them to try and close this nine to three.
Furia get the bomb down.
This time Fallen isn't alone. He has cello with him and cello is inside of banana.
There's utility, there's time.
And Vitality have the player advantage.
Cello is pulled into focus of CT.
He's smoked out.
That's gonna make him think there's no banana flank though.
And he's looking for it intermittently, but here comes Spinks.
Doesn't see cello. That smoke is acting against Vitality at the moment.
But he's going to start spamming and trying to keep the retention.
and cello goes back to that kill, now fallen after coffin spray, he down goes down to xaywoo
and cello left alone, he wanted to pull the utility but he couldn't stop xaywoo
xaywoo opens the half with an ace and closes it with the deagle, it's vitality in the lead, 9-3
own vitality have accomplished that, xaywoo got him started in the right way
5 kills and ace in the pistol round, he ends the first half, 16-3
he's got flames, a little sidekick, locking down that B bomb site round after round
He's got 15 kills and they have buried Furia in a 9-3 hole yeah flames was incredible in that half as well
It's just so sick to see vitality CT side look that strong and now with a pistol round win
Inferno could be a very short story
Furia invests into three sets of Joe Barrett and Jello gets melted Zaiwu is having a field day in pistol rounds
He is the only player for vitality to get a kill in a pistol run still to this point
I kind of want to play a game against Zabu, I just want to see what it feels like.
It would feel rough.
It would feel real rough.
What are you supposed to do?
Skulls and Yuri up in halls.
There's no resistance at the A-bomb site, they'll be able to gather information.
It's just about can they hold on to their positions, stay alive and have some impact
so when eventually K-cerato and Fallen come over they can actually make an attempt at the retake.
And as soon as vitality swing into the bomb site and see nobody shooting at him from pit
Nobody shooting at him from the bomb site. They're gonna know halls which they've never cleared is a very real point of danger
They're gonna be a little confused right now as well. Oh apex about to find it out. Oh
Parments now cleared apex has the information
They're currently occupying the apartments. I think this round is I think I feel pretty confident just calling this
like even if they come in for the retake there's no kit yeah you got to find
five players three of them are in pit two of them and then you throw these all over a
beast there's about 15 different crossfires there's I mean for a must-win
round fury of put up no fight yeah there's no urgency about this either
they're still coming closer to the A bomb site they're so far away from it
it's a cool boost to get a kill on the apex but yeah it's just a limited
time is the problem. They don't have any real standing in this round. It's 10 for
Vitality, so essentially it was one off the back of that blistering shot from
Zayu and the round's over. 10-3. Yeah I don't really like that from Furia, but
that's a critical round that you have to win. I would like to see a little
bit more fire than that. So Vitality get Mac 10s and rifles. Furia is gonna
have to decide to do with this armor that they've saved into the next round.
10-3, a timeout taken from Fury of their second as they discuss things. Do they
want to force up here? Do they want to wait until they can get some stronger
weapons on board?
The conversation currently going on. In the Fury of camp, their second timeout
used in regulation. There's all this talk about some of the teams that
have come into this competition and have had some losses already. You know
We're talking G2, we're talking spirit
Are you wondering?
Which vitality fall into that same conversation? Well right now it looks like a completely different story for vitality
And honestly like before the games began yesterday if you'd ask someone who's the likeliest to get upset in this opening round
G2 spirit or vitality, I think most people probably would have said vitality. Yeah, 100% yeah
Well, apex getting destroyed by cello. Oh and attack down mid from Yuri with the scout
This is a very nice start all but it's speeding up and they've got no way to stop it
Charging out of the balcony, descending down into the A bomb site. They've got two kills in this vitality, and they're two important ones, because they've got full control of this A site.
Furious starts to rotate these players back. Fallen is the closest to the fight. The plant is in. Fallen is looking to see if he can catch someone trying to change position, get into a post plant, but vitality found themselves quite comfortable.
I was elevated on the box inside of the bomb site fallen scott beyond that utility that spanks is still the eyes on this
But fall into charge and then gets caught by spanks from pit gets caught by the flash and that does cost him his life
Yeah, he actually might have been able to create an opening for a see if you didn't get blind
But he ate that flashbang that looks really silly, but I guarantee he was full white on his screen
The way so I would keep and control like a wheel spray while he's just jumping off a box. It's so crazy
It's 11 rounds now for vitality
It just keeps getting worse for Furia.
And up next is Mirage.
Mirage is, as I've said, Vitality's best map.
It's Furia's worst map by win rate. So quite a disparity between the two teams
heading into map two. And this, I mean for me
as I've said a couple of times, losing Inferno is just the series over for Furia.
We'll have to see what this new lineup can do on Mirage next.
But it's not looking like there's anything to really discuss here in Inferno in terms of a comeback building up
In terms of some life coming into the furious side
Vitality's just had their way with them this entire map
Jello
Just gets wiped out it's a map point for vitality if you will have
likely be their only buy here on the CT side in the next round and it's exactly
what Vitality want. It's what this team is designed for and it's having
Zywoo, Flames and Spinks at the top of the charts. Apex and Mezzie down fulfilling
their roles but you want those three players at the top of the scoreboard
finding an impact and winning the games like this.
And boy have they, I mean Flames especially, Zairu's going to get obviously he always attracts the most conversation but Flames is so much impact.
I mean, winning the round at the last second because he drops the bomb carrier with six seconds remaining in like a 1v4 hold of the B bomb site,
his 1v5 hold of the bomb site getting four kills on it.
So impressively he's able to do that more than once.
In a single half.
Nazai who is charging up banana, we know this is his comfort ground but not this time.
Cello wipes the floor with him, keserato, all their load is softened up and that MP9 only manages one.
There's still this fight for banana going on and Cello gets traded in again, it's Flames.
Biting back, putting vitality in pole position and he is going to smoke out CT and sprint into the site with a bomb.
Spinks is here to cut off this mid rotation.
Oh, awkward situation for him though.
He's got a smoke to get him out of there.
Still uncomfortable for Spinks, but he gets out. He's joining his countrymen inside.
All banana, Spinks will hold it, and Vitality come through their opening map in Cologne.
It's domination versus Furia. This is a squad that are looking scary.
This is a squad that do not look like they're going to get upset.
Mirage is up next. Vitality looking strong.
He's seen a way that Fury can win this map, steal away from them when you have Sairu playing the way he did.
When you have Flamesy playing the way he did, Spink started to step up towards the end.
So the pieces on the Vitality side are looking good.
Pistor rounds start, one for one trade admit, in case Serato eats one Glock bullet to the dome.
Well, Vitality have decided to go with every single player on Kevlar, so it's all about headshots or Vitality.
And they've got a lot of them in these Pistor rounds today.
And there's another one coming right up.
Fallen walks into Spinks, Fallen's down, Vitality into the lead on players and there's so much time.
Look at the minimap at how much space that kill created. You saw immediately Yuri back away from Khan.
K Serato's left the A bomb site, they're gonna choose to stack over towards B and this entire time Vitality was just hoping they'd be able to crawl up connector.
Apex needs to find this information though and make sure his teammates don't go up catwalk. That would be the only calamity that Vitality can run into.
And with Apex in this position, no one's really scouting the A bomb site, so vitality still taking their time, still figuring out exactly where they want to finish, seeing if they can have any more information gathered, seeing if anyone from Fury is going to push into them.
The bomb now making its way up connector.
Yeah, making the right call. So, pissed around for vitality.
That's another one for vitality. If you're struggling to get good starts in the half today and this best of three.
Look at Apex just going from rat position to rat position.
He's lovin' it. Absolutely lovin' it.
No one from here coming towards him though.
They can't win this round once you call that stack, it's over if they don't come to your bomb site.
They'll bring the armor to the next round.
Kasurado got gushed, so he should still have enough armor.
I would wonder if he can upgrade for free.
We'll see what they can bring out around that.
that if they even want to go for a second round by.
Well, when we get to see if Fury want to go for the force, well, Vitality are going to
be extremely happy with how today has started for them.
Yeah, I mean, it's actually super important for a team like Vitality that's supposed
to be one of the best in the world, but has been dealing with so many internal issues,
probably issues that aren't even, like, directly related to the counter strike itself.
The team issues between them, the frustration of things not working, of maybe thinking you need to change some things, adapt some things, those conversations, getting out to a start like this helps alleviate some of those problems really, really well, especially at the start of a tournament.
It's perfect.
Fury have invested. Kassarata's got his head armor.
Vitality, setting up for an A-play. Direct hit into the fury at defense.
Fallen, Kassarata, and Skulls, the three players closest to A.
Trying to stop this Vitality attack.
Messi and Apex will be in Palace.
Better get some God-tier shots with those deagles.
Here come the Smokes.
Skulls deploys out his own.
defensive smoke in the middle of the bomb site, allowing him to play closer with his
Deagle. The Palace prone to the approach has been softened up, Skulls at one on
flames, traded quickly by Spinks. This round is comfortable for vitality especially
with that kill through the smoke from Mezzi, they clear the rest of the site
and they know they've got it. Yeah, nice shot from Skulls to open things up
but nothing else can be built upon it is just the utility, the full wall of
smokes that was denying those Deagles any lines of sight. And Skulls was the
that was really stepping up over the last few games for Fury, especially in Mirage.
It felt like his A-hold was incredible, he was getting 3Ks.
When both his teammates were falling on the site, he was still getting a multi-kill to keep them in the battle.
So, you know, Fury overall may feel uncomfortable on the map,
but Skulls in particular looked really good on the A-site defense.
Yeah, he did. He was showing some good things when we saw Fury play this map earlier in Stage 1.
I think the biggest problem with it is just, you know, the level of opposition is going to be completely different.
We saw them play this map against Heroic.
They should have won it, 13-11 versus Heroic.
Yep, 13-11, win there.
They played it against Liquid, a 7-13 loss,
and they did not play it against Imperial.
So yeah, I got a couple runs on Mirage into their belts
to be able to adapt and change and look at things
and see what's working and what's not,
but a very tough test to start stage two of IEM Cologne.
Winner of this game goes on to play FaZe Clan.
Congrats!
That'd be a very exciting matchup if Vitality make it through and looking like it is going to be Vitality
and FaZe vs Vitality, that's an IAM Cologne game right there, isn't it?
Especially to give an indication of which one of these two top teams that's come in limping a little bit and struggling with themselves
which of those is going to look the best and come out on top to start getting into the playoffs?
It'll be a really cool indicator of what level these teams have come into Cologne with.
Vitality's staying very grouped up as they have every round so far in this half.
The window smoke can blast it open to reveal two Furia players.
Apex taking the first two in this round for Vitality.
You're at least trying to keep Furia in the fight, but it's gonna have to go out
again.
Second time of asking.
Now third.
Unable to sink Apex.
There's a boost being constructed with these two Furia players here. We're climbing up on top
So I would be dealing with that
The majority of his health the sphinx has got short and covers off forward
It's not cancer out of the only remaining player for a furia a vitality once again off to a flawless start
It's gonna be 3 to 0 that a 5-0 lead on inferno
Now three here on mirage. It could be a similar or even better for vitality
Yeah, furia really can't let themselves get into that hole where the money grows so much for vitality
They'll just never have to save throughout the half. That's exactly what happened on inferno
If you're gonna get into a hole at least do some damage get some kills and make sure they can't just build up an
Undepletable bank apex gets that final frag. It's three to nothing guns will come back out for fury a fallen should have the AWP as well
So a chance for fury at amount some resistance against this vitality onslaught
It's fine we want it
Perhaps not completely happy with it, but no someone probably apologized for a mistake. Yeah, they got the result
They fight skulls getting into his connector
Get back to safety
This is a cool boost from cello and Yuri see if they can spot us spinks in the apartments
But he didn't take a step too far now. Oh cello. That's a risky game
You're playing my friend and he ends up getting dropped out of six health
And that was a really bold naive move from cello that no one would be having that angle even with that boost
But that boost wasn't deep enough to spot the position spinks was in
So Cello pays a heavy price. Vitality playing this round a little bit slow, hoping to let some of this utility be used and burned early from the defense.
Zywoo boosted on top of his teammate's head. That movement was enough to adjust the attention of Kessarotto towards him.
Breaking the smoke also allowed him to get the glimpse of Zywoo jumping up so he could swing back with a pre-fire.
That's the advantage now for Furia. As you now hit the 39 second mark in this round,
the fight is going down a connector and skulls with the second play they weren't
ready for it. Fallen and skulls combining, keeping Furia ahead, this time by two extra
players. And skulls wants to clear Messi. He knows he's got him pinned in there.
Then Messi steps out with a headshot. He's got the ball on his back and he
knows if he exposes himself to short he could easily fall down here and he
gets involved with that fight and Yuri somehow loses it. Remember Cello? He's
starting to be, well he's over at the A site now and he might be the
player to unravel this round for vitality. He denies that bomb plant, now
There's no time springs has to get it instantly and start planting, but he doesn't have the time for it now
It's about the kill and fall and just hides away
So from zero to hero cello wins the round for furia. Yeah, nice round from cello
He couldn't really do anything until that last eventuality just had to hope and pray
They were gonna end up coming to that position and he's primed for it perfectly
The job from case Arado and calm fallen even chimes in with an off kill not a bad round from vitality though
So a phenomenal job for Mezzi in a losing effort to get all of those kills, actually be able to pressure the bomb site, but more than anything,
Fury wins the round with only one player surviving. So again, money is going to be an issue. It's been such a talking point for them on Inferno, obviously,
because Vitality had all the cash in the world now. It's Fury trying to get going in the CT side with a really low tough economy to work with.
That's easy for Vitality to just return to the purchase again, all Belfast's IWU AK's for everybody else.
Although they do concede this one, money won't drain down to a half-buy scenario, Furia.
Will then have the opportunity to get into the start of this game.
It wasn't a luxury afforded to them over on Inferno.
Betcha, you look at Furia's buy here, there's so many weaknesses, despite winning the round.
They're gonna boost Yuri up into Ladderoo.
It's quite cool for Vitality getting players into mid.
Fallen's down first, and that's one of the best weapons gone instantly.
This is why I think they wanted to have players in mid so fast,
is they wanted the comms from Fjord to be that mid is being pressured.
They wanted to take some attention away so Apex could have an aggressive lurk in Palace.
And one by one, no one's crumbling down.
He's looking sharp right now, Mezzy.
That's a heat check peek.
He's won some fights. He really shouldn't have had a chance of winning.
This time just looking sharp in this round and that's 4-1 for Vitality, FURIA.
It's real tough to have to swallow that pill in all Yuri.
All that aggressive attention just allowing Apex, I mean everyone, all parts of that Vitality attack
in different locations on the map were how to pick up of the pace
and able to completely take advantage of things really early on in the round
and now they're hunting down some weapons.
This would be just brutal for FURIA to lose everything here.
Utility used by Yuri and immediately the commas both are at the B bomb site one towards cowock on the right side
One was just at the market door. Yeah, well, they might be arriving at the stone age again
The asteroid has come to hit the fake economy of fury at nearly gets her to flames
Predated instantly now just cello inside of the smoke and he's cleared out nothing to say for fury yet
That is a harsh victory for vitality good to see them blood thirsty and ruthless
rip at everything out of the hands of Furia now they have a decision to make
although with the bonus up at three rounds I imagine it'll be a low buy
pistols and armor maybe a little bit of nades and full buy in the next one
Apex is having fun yeah he's loving it as far as opening games go they're not
haven't really been made distressed yet they've got so much money
His apex is mentioning period do not
So I will opens up with the first kill on Yuri and steal
Unless it goes massive
He's not gonna be able to stop
Anybody from vitality
Now they're working so well together vitality everything's in sync everything's timed perfectly with different prongs of the attack
Things are looking really good for them on this T side Mirage. Yeah, cash is starting to swell
I think we even heard Apex said that in the last round, didn't we?
Yeah, he did.
So much money.
And then he had a little French giggle.
A little French giggle.
Chela will at least try and get something out of this, but no one from Vitality is
coming this way in Paloalas.
It's going to be a 5-1 start now.
It's on the 5-0 start, Jason.
It didn't prove slightly.
Yeah, they did.
There is that they could hang their hat on, and we'll see what else they can do with
this half.
Shell is not going to get any of the exits he's looking for, no rifle for the next round saved.
I'm interested to see what Apex is going to do.
This feels like a round where Apex might just call like an A-exec or a fast B-exec.
They've mess with them in the middle so much, they've had so much success there, they've
taken it slow, they've taken it fast, they've abused you at Catwalk, they've abused
you in Khan.
I feel like Apex might try and get ahead of the defense here and just call a different
style.
As I was all pointed towards mid, he's got a pretty good spawn for a pick here.
He might just head towards the apartments and go for the B pick so he's going to send his AWP over that,
falling up in ladder room with his sniper and he wants to fight mid.
He needs to be careful here, cello.
He's had a couple of jumps that may have cost him.
I know that grenade slows Castorado down so it completely halts his motion towards connector
and that keeps him in the open long enough for Flames to finish him off.
It's okay, Fallen's here for the equalizer, it's not all lost yet.
He's hunting desperately to just find a kill, but another one of his teammates
have gone down before he's able to even see anyone.
Yeah, this is rough for Fury, Fallen desperately hanging around trying to get rid of Flames.
Even that grenade is not enough to finish off the low HP Flames.
A five versus three for Vitality, and it costs so much time in this round to play with.
And a quick hit a tab and you have all the information of your Apex.
You get the communication from Flames that a Nade came out from Catwalk, so one's playing there.
You see cello is still alive as that B anchor, skulls are still alive as the A anchor.
You can start piecing things together, and they just have an infinite amount of time to work within a 5 on 3.
It's such a tough round for Fury to figure out where exactly they need to be positioned.
The best chance is if this bomb goes towards A.
Flames is searching through this B bomb site.
Oh cello this is gonna suck. He's got the one angle that cello's
Not positioned for you might not you might not clear tip of the barrel
He's not gonna clear it at all cello looks up to the apartments newly gets a second kill out of that as well
But we'll fall at the hand of spring so it just proves to be immortal right now yet to die. That's a seventh kill
Now messy oh man stands out of the ramp bomb goes to be and messy is about to remove everything from furious hands
Fallen knows that Mezzi's there, but the peek into him is not going to work out for Fallen, it is 6-1 for Vitality.
Yeah, and I mean you have that kind of a 5-on-3 for that long, and it's easy to kind of work the map.
They found the success over at the B bomb site and they didn't even need to use Mezzi,
he was just setting up to take everything away from them again.
Fury had not able to slow down this Vitality attack at all.
If you just tell by the columns that nothing's hectic right now, everything's going so smoothly for Vitality.
And I'm out taking second for Furious, to the coach having his say.
Furious do not have the weapons to combat against the full force of vitality here.
It's a scout for Fallen MP9, so on Kessarotto, Yuri, and pistols for the rest.
Here's that change up in style. I was around late.
Mid-utility, but it's going to be a timing hit, so it's the B bomb site.
Nade and scout combined for the first kill.
Chela does fine work with the P250.
Oh, Apex.
Spam down randomly.
And Apex is going to drop the bomb to take space
and make sure there's no stack.
He's activated bloodthirsty mode.
He throws the bomb down, says it's not his job.
I think it might have actually been his job, though.
So I always got the offense.
It's not going to be his plan, and you have Mezzi up
in the halls.
So he's going to have to drop down and descend,
and that opens up the flank a little bit, but.
Forced the British guy to do it.
That's the thing, you see a little bit worried
they are about these kinds of things,
It's all good
As he puts that ball down
Yuri Kesterado coming back through the apartments
And they're just trying to figure out. Why are they coming from?
Eventually, they'll find out apex is cut off short. Oh as I will gets dinged. He's low mess. He's got him covered though
Skulls comes in apex looking the wrong way
To V2 now Kesterado surely can't win this fight against messy
But he certainly will now it's I was forced to keep fighting in this round time taking no kid available
Castron has got that kill, but is there time? No. The answer is a resounding no.
Furia come in, they clean up all the vitality players, but unfortunately for
them vitality is full of cash. And well, not enough time.
But you see how sketchy it gets when like things get mixed up on who's
playing the bomb and the responsibility. Leave that player up at
the halls. He's safe, he's comfortable, it's the best place to watch that kind
of a flank. She's all good. But yeah, a little bit of mis-com on Apex pushing
forward, having to drop out of halls and that opened up the avenue for
That retake from Furia?
Just no time whatsoever.
And in the wide words of Apex, a few rounds back, plenty of cash.
Yes, those wise, wise words from the Prophet Apex.
Double-op set up here for Furia.
Shallow and Fallen, we know they like to bring it out every now and then.
We know it can be very, very impactful.
And I think at this point, nothing's working, so throw it in.
Flames once again getting out behind these top mid boxes.
Xayu and Spinks clear on the underpass. Things heat up for Flames, but he uses that smoke.
And he just beats off his head.
Flames is on a diet of shrapnel.
Oh, look at Apex. He just crawled through smoke out Palace, trying to get cheaty.
Didn't go well for him.
Oh, well, Messi clearing the smoke. Skulls took a stab back, and didn't really clear the whispers of smoke as much as Messi would have liked.
Vitaliy did a really good job of converting 4v5s on Inferno. They've got another one here, but this time they walk into a two-man stack.
The one bullet drop.
Surely one gets dropped, right?
Yeah, they're gonna drop it for the AK-47 and pick that up.
That's Kessarado grabbing the AK.
Timeout taken for vitality.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're giving a speech now. This isn't really about anything tactical or anything switch-up.
This is just, alright everyone, take a breather, chill. Let's give them no ground, give them no more rounds.
Don't let them get back into this game.
Yeah, there's a few little moments that you lose every play in the previous round, the bomb fumble,
and that you lose the follow-up, so just make sure we recalibrate.
I think that kind of a lead, I think that's around there, that was just kind of opened up to individual plays.
Like, let's spread out in the default. If you guys see something, you have the freedom to go for whatever you want.
Apex obviously wanted to test a palace walkout.
Again after abusing Middles so much, after hitting the B bomb site pretty quickly in the previous round,
thought maybe he might have had a window where he could catch a soul defender at the A bomb site,
hit a timing and crack it open.
Skulls was ready.
Furia looking at this double-op setup as the solution to their problems.
To drag them back into this game of five round deficit at the moment and K Sarato's going to get aggressive.
And charge up top mid AK-47 in the hands of Keisarado only grabbing one Zywoo, barely alive.
It's still able to trade out that 1v1.
Pretty quiet on the map, vitality is just looking for the next reaction, the next play from
Fiora but that's not coming.
With a double up set up, they're so content to just stand far back.
Cello watching B hulls from market, Fallen's up, over at the A bomb site, peering towards
Conn and ramp on timings.
We're from cello mess he goes down
Vitality crumbling in this round it's been since I will having to fight back and that is just so unstoppable
I've got volume out as well
No skulls is forcing the open spings following up and now it's around that spinks can win that fire is starting to clear in
Jungle, but Yuri somehow find sanctuary
Plant comes in but it keeps him at least pinned in jungle long enough for spanks to plant the bomb
That's Spinks know where he is and he knows the other one wasn't off at the B bomb site.
So he's trying to just use this belt full of utility to try and make things a little more comfortable for himself.
Create space for him to get out from behind default boxes in behind triple
But he's got to worry about all of the retake positions until those steps. Now he knows that both here and Spinks separates it into the 1d1.
Spinks sharpening his sword as they come around the side. He slices them back and it is vitality in
In unusable rounds for Furious, still stepping up and still getting victories.
That's a 2v4 win for Spinks and Zywoo.
An absolutely filthy round trading their way into the bomb site,
activated by some spectacular shots from Zywoo.
And a great piece of movement from Spinks.
He chucks all that utility, flashes, Molotov, Nade,
all from the default plant spot inside the bomb site,
and finds a perfect timing to transition to the other side.
Side Fury, I thought he was on the left the entire time.
Oh, and Zywoo's now fired up.
He goes in the middle, Kassarado taking down, and Mezzy quickly in mid.
Do you not know?
There's two players in underpass, there's two players in underpass right now, and Mezzy has his back turned to them.
Finally, that trade comes in from Stinks, and they'll molly and heat things up for Yuri.
He's making noise now, burning away, and Zywoo...
Well, starts to clean up this chaos.
He's had enough.
Zywoo activates into a 3K,
And it is dominant again from vitality. It's just like in front of there's just nothing fury it can do at the moment
Vitality hitting all the right responses and looking real sharp and doing so
Coupling message is walking us back to under the other person. Yeah, I guess I was surprised that you know
There's a lot of chaos a lot of smokes and flashes obviously in the middle a lot of movement probably comes on the vitality side
But I thought surely someone would have seen one of the players in underpass
They handled it at the end of the day
High 5's all around in the final time how used by Furiax so that just goes to show you how important this last round of the half is.
We'll see if it makes a whole load of difference. It does feel like this result is already written down.
It was always going to be a tough affair Mirage.
But you didn't think it could get worse than Inferno.
Well then you saw the level they came up with on Inferno and you were like, oh yeah Mirage is going to be bad.
I mean, they've sustained it vitality through both maps in this series.
It's not like just a random pop-off on one map and then back to nothing on the second.
They've been incredible consistently across both.
Final round of the first half. Final chance for Fury to just claw together three.
No mid-fight going down this time. Fury don't have the resources,
the weapons to fight.
Vitality, no they've got dominance in mid,
the head of skulls, it's a little too large,
peeking over the top of that box,
Zywul just needs to see a pixel.
He's got that kill locked in,
Spinks to drop Kassarotto,
Yuri spotted it, Stez from Zywul,
so that information, oh he even hits the wall bang,
and Flames finishes him off, Zywul is unplayable today.
12 kills, five deaths, only bested by Spinks.
It was about to extend to 14.
It has fallen left in a 1 vs 5 at the end of this first half.
It is dominance from Vitality.
It got worse for Furia on map 2.
And Vitality have come in with a statement of performance to open up Cologne.
This is strong and they are so close to the finish.
It's a brutal domination from Vitality
and we got to hear Apex laugh in French a lot in that first half
because Vitality are having a great time.
I mean they yeah they're having the best time ever 10 to 2 they just finished
mop it up fury on the furnace just earlier this series is gonna come to a
very very quick finish. Zai Wu the alien with the cosmic performance in that
first half he's unplayable unstoppable and he's 12 and 5 right now he's
actually getting outmatched by spanks so everyone's firing all cylinders today.
Even Nezzy's had some incredible rounds the first half. We'll see how
They have struggles in Pistols and Apex Flames. They're starting off the fairies with the very clean start indeed.
It looks like those struggles will continue. And Furia better start prepping for Team Liquid in that lower bracket.
It's getting destroyed, you look up and it's just Apex. Woohoo! On the other side of the floor.
It's a shame we don't get to see Vitality dominating like this often because Apex just goes wild.
Look, mom, new Apex meme just dropped.
There's always a new one.
Cologne edition.
Oh, Fury.
Well, they've gone for the conservative approach.
Look, you can't fault them in whichever way they would have decided to go.
Yeah, this is going nowhere, though.
This round ain't going anywhere.
Ideal starts to Cologne for Vitality.
When they win this series, they'll move on.
They'll play FaZe tomorrow.
Yeah, that's going to be a tough game.
Fury will drop down to the lower bracket.
they will play liquid tomorrow.
A rematch.
That was a good game.
That was a great match.
Close game, yeah.
Rematch from the stage one.
Two-one victory for Team Liquid.
And obviously a regional matchup as well.
And I said a preview of the RMRs.
We'll get it, we saw both those teams
were invited to the Americas RMRs.
That's true.
All these regional matchups,
we've been able to watch at Cologne
between the Brazilian teams,
the South American teams and North American teams.
It's just like a good litmus test.
Heading into one of the most important qualifications of the year.
Right now it's a lick from Vitality.
There's 12 rounds round out on their scoreboard.
Oh, a nice shot from Kessarotto.
Eventually taken out by Mezzy, it is 12-2.
Map series point for Vitality.
And I love that we're seeing this level from Vitality in the opening game,
because in a world where you see G2 lose in their opening match,
then you also see Spirit lose in their opening match.
You're wondering, what are Vitality going to do against Furia?
This seems like a banana skin. You couldn't slip on Furia coming into the start of this tournament.
The vitality of, uh, utterly destroyed them. Furia won five rounds in the series so far.
Uh, yeah, but you put it like that.
It's not great. I actually didn't even think about that.
Yeah.
Oh, baby.
Well, that definitely doesn't help.
That's pretty much how the series is gone, if we're honest.
is is just that getting killed through smoke for no good reason vitality
again everything has gone their way everything has worked one of those games
where everything's in your favor
fury gather outside of the B bombsite the defense that are designed to deal with
it is messy with a fantastic short this is gonna be a really hard like match
review for fury after this because it's like you can talk all you want about
strategies there's some mistakes you can pick up on but on some level
It's simply just Vitality individuals outplaying and outaiming and outfighting them everywhere they go.
Fallen, the last remaining member, Apex is in the perfect position to close.
And today the V is absolutely for victory.
Vitality come into the opening day of Cologne and they stomp over Furia.
This is a Vitality that is looking scary.
Zayu shows up and he had the rest of the Deathly Hollows alongside of him.
long side of it. Yeah I really don't care what the kind of recent history is for
vitality in terms of discipline. If he shows up alongside Casseron this team
becomes ferocious and vitality it's a tough opening game if Fury arrive. Yeah
really tough opening game I spoke with Gary outside the hotel just on the way
in today and he just kind of mentioned it feels like it's our players it feels
like they're getting more confidence that they're building themselves back up
to where we've seen them in the past and that's only good signs for
Fury. You add the eye test that's look good with Fallen's leadership. Yeah
this team can be dangerous if they start firing all cylinders. Set up
for the halfwall. There's a flashback at Coffins for vitality.
Apex has it cocked and ready to go. Flames and Zywoo
waiting for that initial fight. Flames will take the attention.
All the talk does not go to the Sandbags.
Flames is trying to sell his life so that Zywoo can succeed.
And that is exactly what Zywoo will do.
It's a couple of hoes next up for and Zywoo just shuts down
the entire setup. Zywoo's first round of Cologne
is an ace in the pistol round.
Oh, the old Baton switch.
So beautiful they could never get a read they could never actually find this fight shout out to Flames and
Shearing that with that flashback. He swung wide to activate time ruin this play and what a way to start cologne
skulls
It's looking to apply some pressure towards top middle. We really enjoyed skulls performance and fury of throughout stage one
Looking a lot more comfortable on the skulls critics have even had to say that you know
He's definitely looking more comfortable side of this furious squad
He saved Furia a lot of the times in stage one.
I mean, he just looks like a completely different player.
So much more comfort within this team.
Here comes the execute.
Late round take of Banana, Flames up close against these DKs and you shall not pass
this smoke.
Oh no!
A complete disaster!
That was a buy for Furia.
They do not get even through that smoke.
It's Zybel and Flames.
That combo is just locking Banana down.
Now, if I tell them to start to send players away, they're coming back now.
Signs of Furia's presence in top middle.
That bomb still on banana and Syruc goes for the peek, dies at long to Skulls.
And Apex has no HP, so he can't do anything.
He tucks himself into the site, he has an MP9 and no HP, so it's on Flames.
So, it's either Flames goes New Killer or this round goes the way of Furia.
Falling cuts off Faipex trying to make his way back, and now Flames has been spotted, getting pushed from two sides.
Time is limited.
Flames with that headshot, bomb is down, and the kill comes through that smoke,
They have to sprint to the site, and there's no more time!
Surely the last second is through!
Ho ho ho ho!
Vitality picking up!
A last-second kill onto that ball carrier!
And Furia cannot catch a break!
It's five in a row for Vitality!
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for Furia in the first five rounds of this half.
And now Zairu's got the AWP, and now he's punishing you early, deep down middle.
Furia knocked out of their game so hard!
Kassarotto charges up with a flashbang and Ho Ho Kassarotto rips them open with his
fines and that smoke goes down to WSCT. This time Vitality do not hold that B site.
Finally Furia breakthrough. And Vitality not even budging whatsoever. They know
that B site has been lost. This is just an automatic save call immediately.
Clearing out halls to make sure there's no danger for the saves. I will
transition away from his position on wrap side. Furia is just going to, I mean
At this point, yeah, you check all the details.
You don't skip any steps.
Clear everything, smoke everything off.
Ooh, Furi is actually coming over for a little look-see.
My town is having a pier and the light shot.
Furi gets brought down incredibly low.
Now, Spinks is still on the A side of the map.
He's nowhere near there.
So they're just smoking and prodding
and trying to get a couple of Xs
and damage the economy of Furi.
I think equally though,
they probably don't want to lose these weapons
even though Spinks has $11,000.
Yeah, it's been a very clean start from Vitality.
As I rule, just take a shot at a very narrow angle.
Whoop.
He knows there's one still.
Can't land it.
Fury is going to get away, and they have their first round
on the board.
Yeah, but Spinks is still over towards T-stars.
And Mezzie's charging down middle.
They look to make this very expensive for Fury.
They'll run at the end.
They're going to throw utility down.
They're going to try and heat things up.
And Cello and Skulls will hang on to those weapons,
and they will stop Spinks and Mezzie
from creating problems.
Mezzie's going to make some aggression into his play style.
He's got a clear runway until he meets skulls heads up watching for the push
And an early advantage for furia
Zywoo drags the all over the library speaks fighting for short gets taken out by fallen
Zywoo has to chime in he's holding for that second smoke is about to come up
As long as they wait long enough for that smoke to bloom
They'll be able to get on to the site and Zywoo still fighting smoke breaks apart fury goes down
And two versus three that just seems difficult for vitality again here to retake so
They're walking away from this.
Furia will pick up two in a row.
They needed a third player.
I think that was Apex trying to come through the smoke and brackets to wrap around into the bomb site to create a second angle.
And this time, KSR, not the entryman, not the aggressor.
He's just chilling and lurking and waiting for that.
I say they could keep it up with AKs on every player, KSR.
Getting into banana early on.
Grenades all past him.
You won't take any damage from these initial skirmishes, but Flames is charging right through
that smoke and Kaserotto had no business.
It feels very forced like that play was designed out of spawn and they just stuck with it even
though it's not ideal.
Maybe some utility was missed, but coming through that smoke Kaserotto is not blind
whatsoever.
No flashbangs, nothing harassing him and that's an easy frag and an easy advantage
for Furia again.
Now the bomb is going to be going towards the apartment, Mezzy sits within the
site.
I would say committed position with AWP but he's got cover he can dance in and around this wall
And as he if he sets up enough distractions I was all could prove
lethal as he from the site collects one kill and I was got the rest
No issues for the French offer. He knows knows where his next victim is the flash up short smoke is up to protect Yuri
Grave is so heavy beefy
Do something with this because separate a 1v1 fight, one towards CT, one in banana.
Problem is you need to make something happen now. There's 15 seconds and when no one's showing themselves, this defensive like just staying pad and just staying hidden is actually perfect.
Because if Kcerato is able to get one kill, you can see that bomb over at halls, maybe you force a rotation. This late in the round Vitaliy takes a death at the B bomb site.
They probably think that both players are attempting to finish there, maybe you get a rotation. Kcerato goes down at the end.
for the time so he has money like a friend it won't be a three-round in a
row come back for fury of vitality back to any ways out of the tech issue
Saewoo confident to take the pick down middle he's 13 and 1 to start off his
cologne campaign and spanks always moved down into second mid fall and
spotted that tech nine will not fall though and that cello is too
ployler oh he gets Saewoo and that's a huge opening to get mezi looking to
You know that fence on balcony saved his life. That is made of some tough material blocking all of Mezzi's bullets.
And this is like a change of pace I think brought on by individual decisions
Like you get that spam going towards alt mid and cello up in you know up in halls is like
Oh, I can actually beat his fallback if he's actually peeked that far down mid
He's got a long route to run picks up the pace good heads up play from cello
And you get that kill and you say they've been starting 3b
Let's actually try and pressure this a little bit faster
And then once again you find another kill on mezi who misses the shot. It's perfect
Are they also yeah, dude, it's like
They're slow, they live life in the slow lane, they take everything, they enjoy life more
than others.
And they sometimes even forget to eat, they're sort of lazy.
So a lot in common with gamers, and Spinks he's charged down mid, that M4 is ready to
go and no one's turning, no one's thinking about it, finally Yuri has a little look
towards Spinks and it's lucky that he did because he can't see how it matches Spinks
in that fight.
You heard a footstep by Sphinx, kinda stepped it up to turn the corner.
Either way, this is a lot of four on- or five on four advantages that Fury's been able to find.
I think this is their third or fourth one so far in this game.
And now they're gonna build upon it. Apex gets a little lazy with that peek and utility, but Flames has a rebuttal.
No way. You can't let this happen, Fury! Two kills, clean on the entry and Flames off the coffins.
It's just ripping them to shreds!
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave, and now Fallen's left in a 1v3 total.
He's collected that first kill, but still two remaining, and that rotation from Mezzi's only arriving now.
So Fallen, he puts the bomb down, he could have thrown the smoke out to a CT, but instead uses that to the site.
There's a gap.
Fallen goes to use it, Zai-Wu already had eyes on it, and pins him down with an AWP.
But what a step-up! What a hold from Flames!
That's a 1v5 hold from Flames at the B bomb site.
Four kills and I think if he went passive after the fourth one, he would have got the fifth.
If he just reset himself, he got a little eager for that ace.
But it's all good when you deliver like this.
Two routes that Flames has individually, literally by himself,
one for vitality at the B bomb site.
And there's still utility to delay this final push of Furia.
Flames forced out of his position.
He'll play for Newbox instead.
Strip back into Second Oranges. Here comes that attack from Furia. Flames from the site. It's cello down. Flames looking for a multi-kill yet again.
And he will secure it. This time he's got Apex to back him up. And Apex always down. Technique for Fallen strikes into action.
And now suddenly it is a winnable round for Fallen. He's on for the ace. He's on for all five.
We're here for HP.
Yeah, for health. That's all he's got to play with here. But Fallen, he brings the fight to Zywu.
And suddenly it is just messy left just messy to stop the power of the professor and fallen waits around that corner
Doesn't want to give away his spot doesn't want to peek into the open. He won't fall for that initial tap
He will not fall for that old trick the second
He won't even peek that until this fight eventually comes as he walks into him and prevents fallen from pulling off the heroic clutch to save
Furia, it's eight rounds for Vitality but that was a damn nice try from Fallen.
They're walking again into the B bomb site. The B site has been the bane of their existence
and Flames a huge part of that. He hides, he shrouds himself in the darkness. He now
reveals himself to two kills to Kassarotto and Yuri. The finds that Furia are blunted in
this half and Vitality is now a three versus two for them to try and close this nine
to three. Fury get the bomb down. This time Fallen isn't alone. He has cello with him.
And cello is inside of banana. There's utility. There's time. Vitality have the player advantage.
Cello is pulled into focus of CT. He smoked out. That's gonna make him think there's no banana
flank though. And he's looking for it intermittently, but here comes Spinks. Doesn't
see cello. That smoke is acting against Vitality at the moment, but he's going to start
Spam it, trying to keep the attention.
Cello goes back to that kill.
Now, falling out the coffin,
spray down, goes down to Zywoo.
And Cello left alone.
He wanted to pull the utility,
but he couldn't stop Zywoo.
Zywoo opens the half of the nades
and closes it with the deagle.
It's Vitality in the lead, nine to three.
Yeah, Flames was incredible in that half as well.
It's just so sick to see Vitality's CT side
look that strong.
And now with the pistol round win,
Inferno could be a very short story.
Furia invests into three sets of Jules Perez and Jello gets melted. Zaiwu is having a field bay in pistol rounds.
He is the only player for Vitality to get a kill on a pistol run. Still to this point.
I kind of want to play a game against Zaiwu. I just want to see what it feels like.
It would feel rough.
It would feel real rough.
What are you supposed to do?
Skulls and Yuri up in halls.
So there's no resistance at the A-bomb site. They'll be able to gather information.
It's just about can they hold on to their position, stay alive and have some impact so when
eventually K Serato and Fallen come over they can actually make an attempt at the retake.
And as soon as Vitality swing into the bomb site and see nobody shooting at him from pit,
nobody shooting at him from the bomb site, they're gonna know halls which they've never cleared
is a very real point of danger.
They've got to be a little confused right now as well.
Oh, Apex about to find it out.
Cool, apartment's now cleared. Apex has the information. They're currently occupying the apartments.
I think this round is... I think I'm pretty confident in just calling this.
Like, even if they come in for the retake, there's no kit.
Yeah.
You gotta find five players, three of them are in pit, two of them in the opposite pit.
And then you put these all over a beast.
There's about 15 different crossfires.
There's... I mean...
For a must-win round, Fury put up no fight.
Yeah, there's no urgency about this either.
They're still coming closer to the A-bomb side, but they're so far away from it.
It's a cool boost to get a kill on the A-packs, but yeah, it's just a limited time is the problem.
They don't have any real standing in this round, and it's 10 for Vitality,
so essentially it was one off the back of that blistering shot from Zayu, and the round's over.
10-3.
Yeah, I don't... Yeah, I don't really like that from Furia.
Like, that's a critical round that you have to win.
What's vitality fall into that same conversation? Well right now it looks like it completed a different story for vitality
And honestly like before the games began yesterday if you'd ask someone who's the likeliest to get upset in this opening round
G2 spirited or vitality, I think most people probably would have said vitality. Yeah 100% yeah. Well
Apex getting destroyed by cello. Oh and attack down mid from Yuri with the scout
This is a very nice start all but it's speeding up and they've got no way to stop it
Charging out of the balcony. Descending down into the A bomb site. They've got two kills in this vitality.
And they're two important ones because they've got full control of this A site.
Furious starts to rotate these players back. Fallen is the closest to the fight.
The plant is in. Fallen's looking to see if he can catch someone trying to change position, get into a post plant.
But Vitality found themselves quite comfortable. So I was elevated on the box and started the bomb site.
Fallen's got beyond that utility. But Spinks has still got eyes on this one. Fallen's just torching and gets caught by Spinks from pit.
Spinks from Pete is caught by a flash and that does cost him his life
Yeah, he actually might have been able to create an opening for a scene if you didn't get blind
But he ate that flashbang that looks really silly, but I guarantee he was full white on his screen
Do the way so I would even control like a little spray while he's jumping off the box. It's so crazy
It's 11 rounds not for vitality
It just keeps getting worse for furia
And up next is Mirage
It ain't like a 1v4 hold of the B bomb site is 1v5 hold of the bomb site getting four kills on it
So impressively able to do that more than once
A single half
Nozai would charge enough banana. We know this is his comfort ground but not this time
Shello wipes the floor with him Kessarotto all their load is softened up in that MP9 only matches one
Still this fight for banana going on and shella gets traded in again its flames
Biting back, putting Vitality in pole position, and he is going to smoke out CT and sprint into the site with a bomb.
Spinks is here to cut off this mid rotation.
Oh, awkward situation for him though.
He's going to smoke to get him out of there.
Still uncomfortable for Spinks, but he gets out.
He's joining his countrymen inside.
All banana, Spinks will hold it, and Vitality come through their opening map in Cologne is Domination vs. Furia.
This is a squad that are looking scary. This is a squad that do not look like they're going to get upset.
Mirage is up next. Vitality looking strong.
Hi guys, Mizzie here. Make sure to sub to ESLCS. Keep right on.
I think Inferno had to be a must win and it's just shocking that it wasn't even close to being in contention.
It was just such a wipeout by Vitality. They came in today with an attitude.
I mean the hard thing is seeing a way that Fury can win this map.
Steal it away from them when you have Zairu playing the way he did.
When you have Flamesy playing the way he did.
Spinks started to step up towards the end, so the pieces on the vitality side are looking good.
Pistols around start, one for one trade admitted, in case Serato eats one Glock bullet to the dome.
Well, Vitality have decided to go with every single player on Kevlar, so it's all about headshots or vitality,
and they've got a lot of them in these Pistols around today, and there's another one coming right up.
Fallen walks into Spinks, Fallen's down, Vitality into the lead on players, and there's so much time.
Look at the mini-map and how much space that kill created.
You saw immediately Yuri back away from Khan, in case Serato's left the A bomb site, they're going to choose to step back over towards B.
In this entire time, Vitality was just hoping they'd be able to crawl up connector.
Apex needs to find this information though and make sure his teammates don't go up catwalk.
That would be the only calamity that Vitality can run into.
And with Apex in this position, no one's really scouting the A bomb site, so Vitality's still taking their time,
still figuring out exactly where they want to finish, seeing if they can have any more information gathered.
Seeing if anyone from Fury is going to push into them.
With the bomb now making the toy up connector. Yeah making the right call so
pissed around for vitality. That's another one for vitality. Struggling to
get good starts in the half today in this past of three. Look at Apex just
going from rat position to rat position. He's loving it. Absolutely loving it.
No one from theory coming towards him though. They can't win this round once
you call that stack it's it's over if they don't come to your bomb site.
So they'll bring the armor to the next round.
K-Sirado got gushed.
Will be a really cool indicator of what level these teams have come into Cologne with.
Vitality's saying very grouped up as they have every round so far in this half.
Window smoke, your blasted open to reveal two Furia players.
Apex taking the first two in this round for Vitality.
You're at least trying to keep Furia in the fight.
Gonna have to go out again.
Second time of asking, now third unable to sink Apex.
There's a boost being constructed with these two Furia players.
You're reclimbing up on top, so I will be dealing with that.
The majority of his health, but Sphinx has got short and covers all fall in.
It's now Casterado, the only remaining player for Furia on Vitality once again, off to a flawless start.
It's going to be 3 to 0.
Then a 5-0 lead on Inferno, now 3 here on Mirage.
It could be a similar or even better for Vitality.
Furia really can't let themselves get into that hole where where the money grows so much for vitality
They'll just never have to save throughout the half. That's exactly what happened on inferno
If you're gonna get into a hole at least do some damage get some kills and make sure they can't just build up in
Undepletable bank apex gets that final frag. It's three to nothing guns will come back out for fury a fallen should have the AWP as well
But he didn't take a step too far now. Oh cello. That's a risky game
you're playing my friend and he ends up getting dropped down to six health and
that was a really bold naive move from cello that no one would be having that
angle even with that boost but that boost wasn't deep enough to spot the
position Spinks was in. So cello pays a heavy price. Vitality playing this round
a little bit slow hoping to let some of this utility be used and burned early
from the defense. I floasted on top of his teammates head that movement was
enough to adjust the attention of Casarotto towards him.
Well breaking the smoke also allowed him to get the glimpse of Zaiwu jumping up so he could
swing back with a pre-fire.
That's the advantage now for Furia.
As you know, hit the 39 second mark in this round, the fight is going down a connector
and Skulls with the second play they weren't ready for.
Falling and Skulls combining, keeping Furia ahead, this time by two extra players and
Skulls wants to clear Messi.
He knows he's got him pinned in there.
Then Messi, he snaps on with a headshot.
He's got the bomb in his back and he knows if he exposes himself to short
It could easily fall down here and he gets involved with that fight and Yuri somehow loses it
Remember cello. He started to be well
He's over at the A site now and he might be the player to unravel this round for vitality
He denies that bomb plant now. There's no time
Spinks has to get it instantly and start planting, but he doesn't have the time for it now
It's about the kill and fall and just hides away. So from zero to hero cello wins the round for furia
Petya, you look at Furious by here. There's so many weaknesses despite playing around.
They're going to boost Yuri up in the ladder room. It's quite quick for Vitality getting players into mid.
Fallen's down first and that's one of the best weapons gone instantly.
This is why I think they wanted to have players in mid so fast is they wanted the comms from Furia to be that mid is being pressured.
They want to take some attention away so Apex can have an aggressive lurk in Palace and one by one, no messy.
Crumbling down.
He's looking sharp right now, Mezzy.
That's a heat check peak.
He's won some feisty roux.
Shouldn't have had a chance at winning.
This would be just brutal for Furia.
He'd lose everything here.
Utility used by Yuri, and immediately the commas
both are at the B bomb site.
One towards Kawak on the right side.
One was just at the market door.
Yeah, well, the MIP arriving at the Stone Age again.
Asteroid is coming to hit the flakonomy of Furia.
Yuri gets her bit flames.
Treaded instantly.
Now just cello inside of the smoke and he's cleared out nothing to say for Fury up
Actually might just head towards the apartments and go for the the bee pig so
Send his AWP over that fallen up in latter room of his sniper and he wants to fight mid
And he should be careful here cello. Got a couple of jumps that may have cost him
And all that grenade it slows Kastrono down
So completely halts his motion towards connector and that keeps him in the open long enough for flames to finish him off
It's okay, Fallen's here for the equalizer. It's not all lost yet. He's hunting desperately to just find a kill
but another one of his teammates have gone down before he's able to even see anyone.
Yeah, this is rough for Fiora. Fallen desperately hanging around trying to get rid of Flames.
Even that grenade is not enough to finish off the low HP Flames.
Flames is searching through this B bomb site.
Oh, cello, this is gonna suck.
He's got the one angle that cello's not positioned for.
He might not clear.
Oh, tip of the barrel. He's not gonna clear it at all.
Chalor looks up to the apartments newly gets a second kill out of that as well
But we'll fall at the hand of sphinx who just proves to be immortal right now yet to die. That's a seventh kill
And now messy oh man stands out of the ramp bomb goes to be and messy is about to remove everything from furious hands
Fallen knows the mess he's there but the peek into him is not going to work out for fallen
It is six to one for vitality. Here's that change up in style. I was around late
mid-utility but it's gonna be a timing hit towards the B-bomb site, Nade and Scout combined for the first kill.
Cellar does fine work with the P250.
Oh boy, Pex.
Spam down randomly and Apex is gonna drop the bomb to take space and make sure there's no stack.
He's activated Bloodthirsty mode. He throws the bomb down and says it's not his job.
Yuri Kesterado coming back through the apartments.
Well, they're just trying to figure out where are they coming from.
Eventually they'll find out.
Apex is covered off-short.
Oh, Xayu gets dinked, he's low.
Messi's got him covered though.
Skulls comes in, Apex looking the wrong way.
2v2 now.
Castorado, surely can't win this fight against Messi,
but he certainly will.
Now Xayu is forced to keep Vitality in this round.
Time taking, no kit available.
Castorado's got that kill, but is there time?
No, the answer is a resounding no.
Furia come in, they clean up all the Vitality players,
but unfortunately for them, Vitality's full of cash.
And, well, not enough time.
claims is on a diet of shrapnel look at apex you just crawled through smoke out
palace tried to get cheeky didn't go well for him
will messy clearing the smoke skulls to go step back and didn't really clear the
whispers of smoke as much as messy would have liked italy did a really good
job of converting 4v5s on inferno they've got another one here but this
time they walk into a two-band stack case or auto handles business with the
help of skulls and they know where messy is to the last scene towards ramp
So not gonna be easy here from as you to do much
But if you can make it expensive if you have three play three players of ops in the house right now
It's like the old art case not trusting their rifles
Not trust in those other floors the one bullet surely one gets dropped. Yeah, they're gonna drop it for the AK 47 and pick that up
That's guess rather grab the AK
Fury looking at this double ops setup as the solution to their problems
to drag them back into this game of 5 round deficit at the moment and K Serato is going to get aggressive.
The charge up top mid AK-47 in the hands of K Serato only grabbing one, Zywoo, barely alive.
It's still able to trade out that 1v1.
We're from cello, Messi goes down.
Vitality crumbling.
In this round, it's Spinks and Saewoo having to fight back, and that is just so unstoppable.
I've got Molly him out as well.
And now Skulls is forced into the open, Spinks following up.
And now it's around, and Spinks can win.
That fire is starting to clear in Jungle, but Yuri somehow finds sanctuary.
Plant comes in, but it keeps him at least pinned in Jungle long enough for Spinks to plant the bomb.
That Spinks know where he is, and he knows the other one wasn't off at the B bomb site.
So, he's trying to just use this belt full of utility to try and make things a little more comfortable for himself.
He creates space for him to get out from behind default boxes, in behind triple.
But he's got to worry about all of the retake positions until there's steps.
Now he knows they're both here, and Spinks separates it into the 1v1.
Spinks sharpening his sword as they come around the side.
He slices them back, and it is vitality in unusable rounds for Furious.
Still stepping up, and still getting victories.
That's a 2v4 win for Spinks and Zywoo.
An absolutely filthy round trading their way into the bomb site,
activated by some spectacular shots from Zywoo.
And a great piece of movement from Spinks.
He chucks all that utility and finds a perfect timing
to transition to the other side.
Fury had thought he was on the left the entire time.
Oh, and Zywoo's now fired up.
He goes in the middle, Kassarotto taken down.
Mezzy quickly in mid.
There's two players in underpass, there's two players in underpass right now and Mezzie has his back turned to them.
Finally that trade comes in from Spinks, and they'll molly and heat things up for Yuri.
He's making noise now, burning away and Zaywu, well, starts to clean up this chaos.
He's had enough. Zaywu activates into a 3k and it is dominant again from Vitality.
No mid fight going down this time.
Yuri don't have the resources, the weapons to fight.
Vitality? No, they've got dominance in mid. The head of skulls, it's a little too large peeking over the top of that box.
Zywu just needs to see a pixel. He's got that kill locked in. Spinks to drop Kassurado.
Yuri spotted it's Stas from Zywu, so that information- Oh, he even hits the wallbang!
And Flames finishes him off. Zywu is unplayable today.
12 kills, 5 deaths, only bested by Spinks.
He was about to extend to 14.
He has fallen left in a 1 vs 5 at the end of this first half.
It is dominance from Vitality.
It got worse for Furia on map 2.
And Vitality have come in with a statement of performance to open up Cologne.
This is strong and they are so close to the finish.
And he's 12-5 right now and he's actually getting outmatched by Spink.
So everyone's firing all cylinders today.
Mezzy's had some incredible rounds the first half we'll see how fury doing a piss around they have struggles in pistols and apex
Flames they're starting off the fairies with a very clean start indeed
It looks like those struggles will continue and fury a better start prepping for team liquid in that lower bracket
Magic is getting destroyed you look up. It's just a peck
The other side of the war. It's a it's a shame. We don't get to see vitality dominating like this
This is more often because Vaphex just goes wild.
Yeah, but you put it like that, it's not great, I actually didn't even think about that.
Yeah.
That's, um, oh, baby.
Well, that definitely doesn't help.
That's pretty much how the series is gone, if we're honest, is just getting killed
through a smoke for no good reason.
Vitality, again, everything has gone their way.
Everything has worked.
of those games where everything's in your favor.
Oh, Fury, gather outside the B-bomb site.
The defense that are designed to deal with it is messy with a FAMASA short.
This is going to be a really hard, like, match review for Fury after this,
because it's like, you can talk all you want about strategies,
gather some mistakes you can pick up on, but on some level,
it's simply just vitality individuals outplaying and outaiming
and outfighting them everywhere they go.
Fallen, the last remaining member, Apex,
Apex is in the perfect position to close, and today the V is absolutely for victory.
Vitality come into the opening day of Cologne and they stop over Furia.
This is a Vitality that is looking scary.
Zayu shows up and he had the rest of the deathly hollows.
I'm gonna kill one of those no scum!
I want to be just a coward in second strike!
It's so damn fast for Monty!
I'm gonna let his boys get the better of Apex and his.
CT start for team Vitality phase on the attack and a smoke up top mid to start.
They have a 3-2 division over the Vitality defense.
Apex he's got himself a whole lot of Utah, a silent entry for Rain into the bedroom.
Spinks tending to that possibility. Rushly. On the ones and twos with MC. On the context.
Well the util's an apex to block B so it's going to have to be the USP's getting it done over towards A.
Zywin long side. There's the flash. Here comes the waterfall.
Yeah, Rain's going to be the front man but it's actually going to be a one and done from Spinks.
His partner in crime gets empty completely, empty handed there. Mezzi and Spinks fall.
four and then we'll get that bomb down. So mission accomplished. Zywoo's already been
gooshed so that's an impact. Not going to be felt this time on his Inferno pistol. In
the A site, probably a good call. Is there a more? No, there isn't. Apex throws the flash,
flames is in, flames is in! He nearly gets out. Double kills great, Rain shuts it down
though. Oh, that was almost one way for the kids to kick things off on Inferno.
We had Zywoo when they took to the server yesterday with Ace on the pistol rounds.
Flames with almost a 1v3 situation, that would have been a thing of beauty.
But as soon as you get into the site, you start thinking,
okay, this should be pretty straightforward for FaZe.
As long as they play these post plans, there should be no issues.
Well, Flames, after all of this hard work, he's earned himself a Deagle, no care.
If he's dropped Zywoo, a rifle, he's earned it, I suppose.
Yeah, well, this is quite a threat that's still available.
Flames and Apex are towards B,
but they have that drop down four in the hands as I would have resist and it'll take first blood.
Yeah, is that retrievable?
I don't know if Kara can knock on the door, but he pieces out.
They know there's a window of opportunity away from that M4.
They have to be quick if they want to try and beat the rotation and play the number advantage.
Lighting up smoke towards the long side.
They head towards library. They're going to try and wrap.
This is a good call against the Light of Bars.
The MP9 has sphinxed with one and a half.
Ooh, yeah, now I thought there was a free frag.
Apex, a little lazy on that one, it's slow to pull the trigger, but it doesn't matter if Flames is hit in one tap, like that, they've pulled it off!
Apex with a double kill, let's go indeed, they leave with the round, disrupting FaZe's momentum on the second round of play.
Yeah, now they have the miserable variety of the 1400 force by to go back the other way, and FaZe, strike me as the type of team, we just get a D-Eagles in search, but this is it, if you're going to have the hero M4 dropped, you want to make sure it's in the action, you don't want to just be sitting in pit and having a way, and the round might not come its way,
But that's massive from apex
Getting fired up bringing the energy early on vitality. Yeah, I didn't get to see that from flames is p.o.v
But he's a couple of bangers with that no armor dig
Now it's phases turn something they're known for historically capable in these kind of rounds
Yeah, the problem is they're just gonna have to take their time with this
You need to allow all this CT utility to be siphoned through all flash and fight
The flames are on his side and not just the play up jumping while flash bang then oh
Oh, Carrigan swallows a HE grenade down to 47.
Might get sphinxed on the long side on a jiggle.
Info place is staying active, Vitality.
Oh, and we've heard that.
Carrigan needs to search forward.
Oh, you know what?
Not far off of converting onto Flames.
Well, you take the dink, and that
might entice the rest of FaZe to head over towards B
and see if they can finish the job that they're
in game leader starter.
But this is looking very good for a 2-1 lead
for Vitality, which should quickly become 3-1
with the full eco next.
How interesting can Brokey Rain and Rops make this?
Yeah, that's what remains to be seen.
Spinks is close.
If there is any lingering phase members
just trying to waltz in,
there can be that Molotov deployed from Spinks
or a flash over them towards backside is boost.
It's making the most of things, Vitality.
There shouldn't be too much here for phase.
Rain will search and actually just,
oh, he's hit the head shot for Spinks.
He's got a comfortable, does go down off the one, but he knows there's a boost up, and he's gone down too!
Fate have managed to find the site!
Incredible shooting from Rayne!
I thought that crouch was gonna be in Flames' favor, but it led to the death of that CT rotation from Spinks.
Yeah, it's crazy, Spinks gets nothing done there.
Hang on.
Yeah, that's a fantastic nade from Zywil.
Molly will do the job.
He's in trouble, trying to get away, doesn't hit the first tap, and so Zywil closes it down, a costly one, sure,
But all they needed was the round and it's Zywoo that converts it.
Yeah, X-Town has given a bit of a clap there, but you could see the expression on Apex's face that should never have been that close.
We're talking a 5v3 situation. You had the right read. The rotation was perfect.
You had bolstered the correct bomb site. They still get the plant. They still take 4 kills. It's the rain over the bang.
Spinks just doing the dance.
Yeah, they had 2 flashbangs and the first one they used is perfect, segregating the fight
and managing to take as much as they did, it certainly is a silver lining.
Well, we have to change that discourse we were just having. Because FaZe get in, they do so much damage with only one member and the bomb going down.
Karrigan wants to keep the pressure on.
Gonna force fight again.
Oh, is this not a risk?
No, I like it. There's only one player that's survived.
You know that their buy is gonna still be a little bit rough around the edges.
I say that as we take a look at 3M4s in an AK, but lacking Util.
Yeah, they're gonna try and search towards early apps control.
Apex goes looking, gets in their M10 to the face.
So, I will go alongside though.
Catch is frozen, takes him down.
Rain, looking to advance.
Mezzy responsible for boiler van. Sendier will limit Rain's contributions, a lick of the flame, audible.
Yeah, that was Robb's looking for that M4, good catch from MC.
Well they might be able to get it, Vitality have actually turned it up into a 2-2 setup, they've given brackets control.
And they've also foregone banana, FaZe just need to go and work that out.
A reminit left on the clock, so plenty of time and a decent amount of smokes to go for an execute.
I mean I feel like he's gonna be sitting there for a while but that is the god flash
I will give you a demonstration of how to line it up. Yeah, it might even be a gamble
Look at the reposition of messy. He was just starting to hedge towards CT spawn
It's not towards long as drawn him back in and it hasn't been thrown perfectly, but the job has been done. I
feel a look I
Tried to call another gamble or a bit of a read it's awfully quiet 38 seconds as he's floating. There will be a third man on his way
way. So timing is everything on this. He's going to try and swing through that smoke.
Here he comes. They're blind. But he is dead. Huge from Robs. Long range Tech9 headshot posted.
Messi! Messi gets two. But Robs has done the same. It only spinks and that bot will
go down with plenty of time to spare. Robs and Karaghan up against Spinks.
Well this time there's no utility to clear out those corners. That's what helped
them last time, the Molly and the HE. This is awkward. Rompz has had a huge impactful
round with a Karagin call to just push all the chips in. They know they have some vulnerable,
but Spinks could make this costly. He could come back. One versus two, denied by Rompz.
The quad kill from the Estonian, that is 2-2, all tied up. Yeah, great to see some
impact from Rompz like that. And this has been a tussle. Neither team has been
able to establish what their game plan was going to be coming into this matchup
just yet because we've had the force by was back and forth almost consistently and that
damage. Yeah, that's massive. And then he does everything himself. The tech man coming
in just completely shutting down any of the advances from vitality to defend that site
and will continue. It's not over yet. The force by needs to come back from vitality
phase wins this. They can break through and then vitality will be the ones on that
a full eco conversation.
Boiler and holes had been taken.
That goes rain.
Early death is going to be costly,
significant damage to Zywoo.
Smoke on library side,
but I was still holding on to it.
He's going to have to tuck back in to cover off arch
in case there is the slink potential.
Loki has the bomb,
so I imagine he's just going to be kind of containing
while his teammates search.
If they walk through the arch side smoke,
they can pincer onto A,
and that looks like what they're doing.
Oh, well done by Mezzie.
Good push from Spinks.
Hacking into the site, Spinks here can go round from behind.
Broke, he's a free frag, the bomb goes idle.
Robs and Karagin, they've only got 20 seconds.
First frag is great, Robs provides the second,
but at great cost to his health.
Karagin needs to pick up that bomb now,
Apex is gonna stop him.
Oh, he fights instead, flash is good.
Zile has been spotted out with the frag.
He knows where Flames is too,
so he knows where they both are, 13 seconds,
it's still not comfortable.
Timing chance squandered on the 5-7 fake on the plan hoping to punish takes the head
You haven't got time for that carrigan. Oh no the clock
Who conversed around for him if it missed judgment there from carrigan thought he had time for a rifle retrieval
Or perhaps anticipates I would to have gone and doubled up
But either way yeah, it's a bit of a sigh from carrigan knows he could have done a bit more with that
For all right. Well, this game is definitely delivering isn't it from the pistol round
we've had purchases every single round that's followed nobody's taken an eco
constant force buys and the rounds are going down to the wire we've had three
rounds in a row that have come down to just one player staying alive actually
since the pistol as well yeah it was just the second round of play where two
players for vitality managed to survive as nice as it was I mean you know
testament to what you've just been saying Chad it's just how crazy the
buys off of both teams. Like there's just nothing again. It goes back to the
snow ball game plan right now. So they are just rolling. It is just the
individuals on display. One alive, two alive, one alive, one alive, one alive.
Roll indeed. I mean, entertaining. No doubt about it. Vitale in phase locking
horns in an advancement match for the Lancers. I think another thing that
happens when the match is like this is neither team in a lot of these
rounds either has full firepower or full utility. So there has to be
things that are a little bit either direct or risky, which is why you do get the volatility
that we're seeing in some of these scenarios. You can't go, okay, let's get banana control
then let's return, let's get bracket control on the T side, you just don't have the needs
to do so.
That's true. So in combination, both of them, yeah.
And then when the CTs don't have the same to block as they traditionally would, they
have to take a couple more forward stances. They have to look for fights. And in the
four spies from Vitality had Spinks from the Nobner on the Famous, she had Zywu with
the drop them for from Flamesy earlier in the piece over towards B. So constantly
looking for the fight's fatality.
Throw us out of the motosmoke.
What was the penultimate smoke from Faze?
So you'd expect there to be a commitment off the back of that.
Karagin has flashbangs, but Apex with their HE onto Frozen elsewhere.
That's the lurk gone.
And they start to accelerate.
Spinks, good find already.
Broke into the site, we'll find one.
And as he's the only one there, but not for long,
Rain doubles up.
The bomb will go down and Faze have the sight.
Oh, do we finally see a save?
We might have to. They were so far away, it wasn't like they had an early lead time on that apps explosion.
And then we'll just look to retain these rifles, the Galil and the M4 for Flamesee and Apex respectively.
So they're going to carry these through. We'll tie things up again early 3-3.
This also means that the loss bonuses haven't been able to build because we've just been going back and forth.
So it'll be 1,400 yet again for Vitality.
Yeah, a bleak with two rifles into the next.
Yeah, so Flamzie at the moment has 600, so he's gonna have 2k. He might be able to drop something.
Apex is gonna be at 1750. Maybe they want to give a scout to Zywa. I know it's in Thurno, but maybe he can harass down towards middle within the early stages.
But still, nobody's broken through.
But I think the fact that they saved two rifles says that, yeah, Vitality, I'm just gonna shovel in yet again.
So, yeah, okay. Apex has dropped the Galil to Zywa. He's bought himself an MP9.
I mean Flames, he's dropped an MP9 as well, and one's been equipped from Spinks, so it
looks like rounds that we've already seen from them throughout this half.
Look at how many MP9s are in the server, they're not all on one side.
We've got two MP9s carried over from FaZe, one for Rain, one for Carrigan.
This is wild.
This is the bare knuckle brawl right now.
MP9s for the T side, but it's Frozen's first, and it's an impactful one onto
Flames.
Go in, look in, Apex cautiously retrieves that M4.
Yeah, you immediately want to look at the radar other a defenders looking to group up and try to take some space
Well, no both plants are quite defensively as it is banana where they want to take this dual spanks with the assistance of apex
To see if they can catch the crawl
It's frozen's first kill good time to get activated Chester finally break vitality
Wary of apartment's bushes so rain being diligent with his utopia and no secret steps will have been heard
to full mid control they haven't been able to say the same for banana just yet
this is a good combo designed to disrupt this very setup
sphinx and apex noted chipping away at apex to 35 it's zywoo elevated on the
barrel karagur down and out but immediate from rops on the way back
mezzilong range for down and so the A site once again falls and vitality may
just have to reside themselves to a very similar situation to the
Okay, so now we should see the save from Vitality that will result in an eco behind the M4 and the MP9.
Yeah, so is this a moments respite from the chaos?
In a way, but they still have to, I'm curious to see if Apex even opens with the M4 if he gives it to somebody else, right?
But regardless there's still threats for Faze. It's not like they're getting a clean anti-eco round where they just get to play against USPs or maybe upgrades into P250s.
This is still a couple of weapons to deal with.
There's also smokes, H.E.s, so never an easy round.
But you'd feel like you've broken through as far as the economy game is concerned.
Oh, through the map, artsy.
Okay, well, first consecutive rounds for FaZe.
Vitality found theirs early on after their forcebite and the follow-up,
but too many casualties.
And then these force by wars continued
Frozen's first kill has mentioned a nice little opener on to flamesy and
Zyra win a very committed position so good trade for rops. Mezzie does what he has to be getting wrapped off on that long side
So he was gonna be a dead man walking regardless
Yeah, but if rops is wrapping it is a rock I think
That's Chad as I lighted
Still something to be concerned about for phase. They're not gonna be rushing anything willy-nilly
Do the big bummer for the captain for vitality if they want to win this round
He started me now back over to be and ah
Yeah, already
35 points of health and we've been here before last time they probe banana
That was the same result for apex just brought down to a uncomfortable amount of HP
I think you just gonna have to gamble so something give you a vitality
In this time of scenario group up. Hope that you've rolled the dice correctly
phase
Heavy forces in banana. It is just rops over towards second mid more B pressure applied flash over frozen can take the jewel
And a big part of this is oh we saw the M4 here. We're calling the bluff
Is he gonna stay here now that he's you know, we know he knows where does he want to find himself and
That gamble so in the manifest if you take a look the radar, so we're cheating over to help out the a bomb site as well
It is just flamesy and there's another part of this in that conversation that
Shocks referenced with Apex, Alexi, Karrigan.
The mind games of this is like, okay, well they showed the M4 here, are they stacking here?
Right, do they want to let us in? Is that why no one's peeking now?
That frozen's gone forward, he's now noted a player's in the boost, that's information.
They can still rotate back, everything else is relatively clear.
Well they were cutting it, fine. I mean 15 seconds, now that smoke fades,
and so long as they get across and the resmote comes in, yeah.
They just about managed their time perfectly. Look at that.
Seven seconds as Karrigan delivers the package.
I mean, thank God frozen when searching without that probe you're walking into that stack and they could have gone a different way instead phase
Thankfully covered their bases and working out
Just important that apex and sphinx hold on to these even though they are gonna buy up into the next round
Normally, I don't know we're quite deep within the half at this point
But first rifle rounds for the CTs after losing pistol and forces can always be a little bit rough around the edges regarding
All the goods so a couple of extra rifles. This is gonna help them down the stretch
Broke he wants to kind of disrupt that
It's going on a bit of a search
And it's resulted in the loss of his rifle as he could have done with taking that AK, but instead loses his life
That's only the MP9 so not the end of the world
I wonder if we see an AWP get dropped across to Zywu that could be made possible by Spinks
We'll keep our eyes on those purchases, but phase with a two round lead.
And well, we mentioned the fact that these two teams have played each other three times
this year and every time it's been the playoffs of the tournament we've had, uh...
Oh, good boys.
Yeah, it's good to do it.
Is that me as well?
All right, well...
It's all good.
It's not the end of the world, only a two round difference.
Still plenty to be played within this map.
Here's that AWP, so it was dropped across, so I'm getting active with it, and removed.
one from Rob's just swings straight into Zywut and then another one the menu
Mezzie does well to get away with his life an important equalizing frag it's
insane that our rops has just gone so quickly into that fight he's not shy is
he it's not really kind of typically his style he knows his timings brings the
fight early and it's profitable tenth frag from Rob's looking like he's in
good form today. Familiar opponent. The tech 9-round that he had has been the most impactful
so far. Yeah. I'm intrigued by Flames' position here. He's kind of alone on the site and opting
for a very active angle on pool. Will slightly slip away as the smoke starts to fade. Apex
is looking to join him. Worst case, he found himself towards CT and they're in a full
retake setup. Now that Apex is over, they... Oh, it spinks his info. Here we go. All
right, Apex, what are you going to do with this? No, you tell really. Good fast
Spinks have put the bomb down that's going to completely change the plan to face
Really uncomfortable round now for face plan. They're just going to pick up the bomb and go same plan
Slightly delayed flame should have at least one empty-handed rain has found a huge Frank back
Bomb down three on three
This is an intense retake and it could have got awkward for spinks core jumping up man pulling on towards the barrels
Frozen concede just backs away
Time on their side
The last of their utile, used to try and take half wall, but throws on the regress, and Mezzi falls,
Karagin takes two. It's a phase six on this two-side.
All right, all right. Well, we've gone through the history. That match over in London,
the spring finals were blast. Inferno was the map choice of phase. They won it 13-4.
Then they lost the series, 13-10 on Dust2, and then 13-6 on Mirage.
So they're keeping up their strong form on Inferno vs Vitality.
Should be an opportunity for them to look for that 7th.
Now they have upgraded into a Silent State 4.
There's always been a threat for Vitality in these rounds.
There's not a single round where it's just been, you know, the lightest of possible investments.
So again, they're going to have to worry about a couple of upgrades.
MP9, Deagle, Smokes, and Flamesy with the big one.
Oh, they're going to be calling for a flash.
It's all about the timing here, Frozen.
Ooh, does well. Very well.
And the Free Fire. Oh my god, you heard that.
Two AKs are starting anticipating Apex, however,
with a combination with his SMG and the HE.
He brings down Brokey, Carrigan, Wiltrade.
And it looks like a seventh looms.
Nothing much more for Mezzie and Zywoo to do
with only Desert Eagles.
It's crazy at this point how many opening jewels
Frozen has been involved in.
And for the most part of this game,
he was on the receiving end.
Wasn't he zero and six?
Yeah he was, but now he's uh, well...
Five and six.
But uh, the kills is...
He's three and five in opening duals, so he's...
You know, all those frags that he'd given away, five of them were opening deaths.
Now he's starting to get his own back, so Gray Resurgence from Frozen.
I could come back in the middle of a half, it's impressive.
Yeah, there's some players, if they don't start the game strong, if they don't get a kill on the pistol on the early rounds against the force,
they can just continue to be slow and then you get beaten down and
Then you're not going to continue to be aggressive or take your fights.
It seems like it's the opposite of Frozen.
Yeah, I mean, we talk about confidence being a really important component in a player.
And a lot of players kind of derive that confidence.
One of the CQK Logs, one of the CQK Logs.
I leave one on another.
Blue in SP 1, go.
Stay there, then?
Yeah.
I go close to Runeslaw.
He's at the bottom.
Runeslaw?
Nice!
I'll swap by again.
Yeah.
Two fucking shit, man.
We're there, Treven.
Fucking nice.
Pretty calm.
Yeah.
Right, 3v3 post-player position, pretty calm.
That's what you like to see.
Well, Zywoo gets another opportunity on the AWP last time.
Had it only for a brief moment.
See if we can do more with it here.
Zywoo made quite a statement in his opening game.
We have only seen that one game, Vitality vs. Furia.
This is our second look at what Vitality are bringing.
It's YM Cologne 2024.
Same could be said for FaZe.
And there's Zywoo's awp.
Good for it, bucked down after one.
Frozen loses his life, and the bomb rops his there.
That's team play. They leave with an advantage and the site.
Yeah, Robs did his job perfectly there.
That late piece through Boiler, that set-up gets rumbled.
They're waiting there for the progression holes,
which we've seen quite consistently from FaZe.
Rain and Robs up through Boiler and Halls being quite aggressive.
That's how the last time Zawa had an AWP get rumbled.
This time they go straight up the guts, go long side,
AWP sands off.
They learn of the Boiler set-up,
who Robs comes through and cleans house.
There has to be another Vitality save, and it's these two.
yet again apex of flamesy cargan's gotten wind of this and is already on the hunt
but yesterday was way too easy for vitality wasn't it i don't mean that in a bad way i mean it in a
way that they just absolutely mauled their opponent it was a non-issue whatsoever
apex does get that one and should get away with his life let's go into the final round of the
first half i tell you gonna kick be kicking themselves because after they won the fourth
and the follow-up if they didn't give away so many kills in that three play
it was a 3v5. The Sphinx rotated CT, Apex boosted Flamesey back-site and that
round came down to a one-on-one situation where they gave away the plan, they gave
away all those rifles. If they hadn't have messed up in that variety we would
have likely seen FaZe go forward to take an eco and then they could have
started establishing themselves in the heart but since that point Vitality's
finances have been on the ropes. Sure there's been the possibility to
have a couple of these Hero M4s or Saved M4s in the mix, the threats that I've been talking about.
But they never really got an opportunity to establish their full game plan,
with full buys in this first half of play.
Yeah, no, it's really, it's admirable considering losing that second round force after winning
the pistol. You'd think that that marks like a kind of change in momentum, but
even losing the following, but making it costly and carrying and making that
quarter to take it with tech nines, it's resulted in an eight three half. We could be
be looking at a 9-3 half with all of that said. See how they've tried and finished this
one off. Flames and Atex have been having their trials on B. If HE looks like it's destined
to do some damage to Flames, he pushes ahead and does manage to avoid the front of it,
but he is being run out by Karag and look at him go. Nade, flame, thinks twice about
it with a single flashbang. He's going to set his boys up.
The fact that you draw that smoke at about a minute 22 on the clock mission accomplished,
We've applied so much pressure, vitality, feel like the under threat, the comms if you're the A guys right now, you'd be hearing the B players just screaming that smoke's flashes, hey cheese, they're picking and we're here in the lobby.
So now they get a moment of respite, but that's where FaZe turn their attention to take this mid control, Rain making no secret of this.
That's made down Spinks' pocket.
Ooh, didn't quite nail the flash plate.
Gets away with his life.
Don't do the motions here phase so you're already taken and maintained banana control now you've got brackets and a bit more
They want to turn short
Mezzie might peek around this and he's done well to find Karagin.
Hang on Zai Wu best rops and now it's looking good for a vitality four
Anticipating a B finish that you tell
Has landed on CT apex unable to do too much does have a smoke of his own though
Yeah, but that's if you can get past that SMG. Elevated was flamed. Finds it with the MP9.
Brokey.
Spams away at the smoke does well to find himself a kill.
Grabbed the AK-47, raged alongside Vorit.
Played into the smoke.
It's chaos, but Brokey hits the shot!
Oh, rain! It's another!
Good god, I think they've turned it around.
The hard work done. How has that happened?
Brokey and rain miraculously enter the B-side with a couple of seconds to spare.
There's about to jump into the server to play Vitality for a spot in the Lancest Arena.
Well, we're looking online today about your history in Cologne and ESL.
Posted a couple of things about all the events in Cologne that you've attended.
It's crazy.
It's insane actually.
I think you are the only player to do that.
Am I?
I don't know actually.
I thought Kerrigan also had a...
Yeah.
I think he also played all the other Colognes, but I might be wrong here.
But yeah, it feels good.
No, no.
I was just checking if you were paying attention, but it's awesome that you're here in
Cologne again.
Now of course, for FaZe, last year was not the result that you would have hoped.
You always want to be playing in Atlantis and having a chance to get to that trophy.
How do you feel the form of the team has gone now that you booked that great first win versus Liquid?
I think it's a good start getting the win which is Liquid after a rough start of the season so far.
I think we've worked a lot and Kerrigan has implemented a lot of new stuff.
He's calling styles of the change a little bit so I think we're doing a very good progress.
Yeah, could you elaborate a little bit more of course whatever you can say because Kerrigan was saying,
okay I've got everything's going to change.
Like how much change for you personally and for the team?
I think it's more about going back to his old ways a little bit,
but calling it more an intuition than just a game plan.
So I think that's what it is to be reading the game a little bit more and playing it like that.
Okay, do you think that those are changes that will benefit you particularly
against the game that Vitality likes to play?
I'm not sure if it would do it with versus Vitality,
but it's more about the overall team feeling.
You feel like there's more passion in the way we're playing,
and people will get to communicate more,
you have to relay more information to each other,
instead of just playing off the playbook.
so yeah awesome looking forward to thank you thank you insane indeed it is 9
3 in the first map of this advancement matches between phase and
vitality both teams still in that upper bracket but one of them securing the
Lancest today I'm sure the fandoms of both the Golden Hornets and the phase
team are gonna be looking forward to trying to see their team locked in for
the lancest arena. Ouch. That's a warning shot to Robs. Yeah, and he's the only one defending
A because FaZe have decided to operate with a four player B stack. So that's maybe a little
bit of help to entice Vitality into looking for this finish. Molly, out of flames you
didn't clear off that porch side. Frozen having to now search down banana. Will Apex go overlooked?
Is it a little bit of a mind game? Oh, nice shot, Robs. Gets the most out of it.
Apex however was waiting for this and oh
He's put a bullet onto frozen's head
Yeah, this is gonna go hectic. This is uncomfortable
highly uncomfortable and messy student everything he can a third is great and the bomb is on his back if he only knew
Frook broke you should dangle frozen on his fishing rod
This is gonna be tough to get him by is he gonna be anticipated doesn't matter with a low HP frozen still hits the headshot
couple of drops gets a kill considering that early goose you know from that
motor position grabbing a kill taking his time with it and that almost spells the
map in favor of phase I was gonna be like why didn't messy just run to be
because he saw broke he and frozen a pex saw both of them down there but of
course better beat him with attention right for sure so yeah I did what he
could with a triple kill from messy but as you said this spells trouble for
vitality if they can't win this one yeah they've been able to get an AK
the heads of Zywoo's got head up behind it so let's see if he can make a plate
even just so they can start warming into the series they're gonna go into their
map choice of Dust2Next and they'll be a whole lot more comfortable but to get
blown out in a match for the arena Vitality did make it to the Lancest
last year. Mezzie the only one not part of this team he would love to
grace the Cologne stage never seen Mr. Merriman out there but everybody
else in the server we have and FaZe have even won it.
there you go that's I would do what's I would does best with the AK-47 that's
why you put the Kalashnikov in his hands as you look to try and disrupt the
A site straight in double kill nice back from Brokey yeah they nearly lined up
for the double mess he just three HP the bomb going down and I were putting
another one in the dirt Brokey solo in trouble looks like vitality have done
enough to make a little bit more out of this second half we need more of
this force by non-sense. I think that'll be dependent on if Brokey and Frozen can hold
on to their upgrades. Apex really wants to take this away and, well, yeah, he's been
a big enough distraction to get another for Zywoo. So everything Zywoo needed, dropped
the AK, finds the opener, and that essentially secures Vitality the round. They're fourth,
just a six-round game now. I'm gonna say just. MR12, it's gonna be quite quick
to get back into things, and that's where the financial decisions are phased. We're
gonna have to put under a microscope just like we did with Vitality in the first
I mean, yeah, this is a replay so far of the first half as much as rounds go
phase with both pistols
Titanity with both second-round forces
How broadly do we get I think that phase should invest but not fully
They're a little bit of residual kind of out of the next they can get a piece of 50 or whatever
And then they can actually have a full gun rounds, but what do I know?
Carragher disagrees, apparently we're going to get it all.
Well, they can make a winner right here right now.
Their individuals have looked a whole lot better.
The five smoke strategy, it's so pure.
No flashes, none of that nonsense.
Just good old fashioned smoke grenades.
We're just going to come down to blocking and hopefully forcing them into the stack.
Truckload of U2 thrown top banana, but that all seems like it was a bit of a ruse.
It looked like Vitality wanted to start setting their sights on the A bomb site.
They've been blocked towards top mid, which has changed the plans again.
It's being quite erratic with this
Brokey sounds off 5-7 now noted
Oh, the other a smoke is on rop's and he's in the side so he will not be able to constrict middle whatsoever
They smoked off the long side. Oh rop's is under scrutiny
Coming in fast. Yeah, there are a lot of pressure. He loses his support. He loses himself. There you go
Well, that was efficient well managed well executed vitality get themselves into the a site once more
Okay, well hold on to your goodies again frozen we'll get to retain this famous for yet another round of play
It's the upgrades on
Carragane and broke either the only difference makers going into the next round where yeah, this one should be
the save
Winning a pistol doesn't seem to mean too much if you can't win that second
But you look at both of the second round forces of vitality with the kills that they managed to get on the pistol rounds
They were able to in the first one drop
I was an M4 and in the second on the T side drop him an AK. So you have a superstar. You've put the weapon in his hands
And he found the entries in both of those rounds
Top banana he got a kill on the M4 and now wrapping around that arch side. He got the opening kill on terrain
So that's the impact that you're looking for
And the game is plays more directs in these early moments
Which is where both of these teams can thrive if the players are all willing to put their bodies on the line
You know swing take the jewels that you get a bit more of their
individualism on on play as opposed to the tactical side of hey let's throw this
let's throw that we've already had that conversation maybe we have to have
another half where it's the same afraid it might be the case as you said dust
to vitality to pick that will be our second counter strike treat see what
they can do with what they have three saves one rifle on a pick the
corrects to sight to hit again. Robson rain the eight offenders the ones who went down in the preview.
Nice catch with the boost. Okay. But that is just going to accelerate them into the USP's and
you tell you know what works SMGs versus no care for our flames had no problem against rain there
spinks takes down Robs after his P250 did some work. Well they'll give it a look. Yeah no harm
no foul but pushing through that smoke without anyone else. And Broke and Frozen still fapping
around top banana. Frozen's been able to pick up that AK.
Alright, well that looks like it's just too appealing to bring through to the next, doesn't it?
Yeah, Broke, you might want to try and do some damage.
Might not be super attached to the FAMAS.
No, I think he's more than happy to get rid of that, wouldn't he?
But as far as the finances go, it's still slanted to character it'll help you out in the youth department a little bit.
But we come into this half, phase when the pistol, you think, alright, this one's going to be done quite quickly.
Well now, it's just a four-round game.
Welcome to M12.
Yeah, and this is the thing, if FaZe buy, then they lose the round, and let's say they don't save an awful lot.
We're going to be a two-round game, essentially. It can get away from you very quickly.
Vitality know that.
So, not giving up hope after a tough first half, where they probably should have had an extra round or two.
Alright, well, we're about to see the first rough round of the second half take shape.
But we've had action non-stop.
What's the opener look like for FaZe?
It looks like Frozen of the Toss was just holding B on his own.
Four players starting over towards A for FaZe.
This is an active-app setup.
Forward positioning, but it does look like Vitality want to go direct.
That might change their plans though.
Smoke half wall.
Molly and Go.
Gonna walk through this.
Okay, silent, but they're on their way.
Yeah, they're coming in.
Yes.
Karagin, it might be a bit too late on that smoke.
Settling panic, flustered, good flash.
Karagin pushes!
Oh, it's beautiful!
He gets himself a double!
We'll make it a triple from the captain!
Flameslip them there, are they aware? They are now!
Gets the information. Good work from Rain.
And Faze, I mean it's rare to see something like that work so perfectly.
Two flashes, Karagin swings on the second,
and three players doing the dance on the nearly B commit.
There's a detail.
Okay.
How many more is he going to get?
The bomb is in an almost irretrievable position to watch CT spawn.
So the fact he's got two kills, that's great, but surely nothing more.
Yeah, I think the fun is stopped here, but Spinks has got 10 grand in the back, he might just keep having some fun.
Bomb couldn't be more irretrievable if they tried.
Actually, Brokie is going to be exposed to that, and Spinks has managed to make this a 1 versus 2.
I think FaZe might be getting a little uncomfortable now, but Spinks might actually get that bomb back in his hand.
Great holding it, yeah!
get to Carrigan after all of his hard work. He was starting to get a little nervous.
That's almost the same that happened within the first half of play to the Deagles, the 3-5 situation of it was the B-side.
Just giving away a lot of casualties in a round where you can start to establish your own economy.
And your in-game leader is so much hardware. We'll catch that one again on the replay.
Perfect timing on the push through. Hands over faces. The in-game leader locks down three in style.
And then this is where the bomb gets dropped and you think, okay, well, that should be it.
So, Spinks has done a little bit of a dent. Brokey's been able to bring out the AWP.
That flash. The perfect demonstration of just how good it can look.
How the God Prefix was found. With utility.
Going through.
Flashing through. Frozen forced away.
Karagin the same. Top banana gained.
Safe from the flame. Metti and Orobs! Still gets one!
Miss shot from Brokey. Flames is allowed a second chance.
Well, the keeping phase moving between the sites, so there are going to be a lot of gaps.
Like a test over here, a test over there, and contacting?
They'll be ahead of this.
As he starts to run, oh, big head shot from Merriman!
Testing Karagin, he's been brought low, should go down here, empty handed and vitality.
They've broken into the B bomb site, and quite a direct approach.
Is that kind of Apex, good old fashioned Apex calling?
Well, I think this is where the mind games between these two teams is going to play in an awful lot.
But because in that previous round, hold up a sec, we're going to have Brokey at the go and down and getting a kill on his orb, it's going to be the latter, jump spot, so they know they're under pressure with the hunt.
That's the ramifications of giving away so many rifles to Spinks in the previous, Apex wants to remove it all knowing that they can make their life a whole lot easier as part of this comeback.
Okay, and now we can have a conversation. So, they started 4A with Frozen, Blocking B, and one of the key ways that they opened that previous rounds, which is where Karrigan wrote to the back and got the triple kill, is they flash-rained forward for the info in the middle, but started to double the parmots.
Then as soon as rain caught mid-clear, Karrigan was like, alright, I'm immediately just going to go towards this B bomb site, so they had a good idea it was going to be quite direct out of Vitality.
I don't know yanko always likes to talk about vitality
There's a difference with this team if they win pistol and how they're gonna approach first gun rounds or if they lose it
I think the fact that they were able to get that forced by in their favor and then when the rifles came out
They were doing something together as a unit more more direct
They're gonna take more of a risk as opposed to going straight into defaulting
Yanko can correct me. Actually not on the desk is he?
We got Jacob in a key and okay maniac well
Yanko's been talking about that like on the CT sides if they win the pistol and get the conversions their first gun round is going to
be something a bit more aggressive and direct whereas if they don't they're gonna
play a bit more of a safer a bit more of a standard all right. Aggressive and direct
looks good here.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Zai Wu the motivator it's okay it is okay.
Vitality seven as Chad was saying these gaps can close quick but FaZe did
just find themselves their second CT round they need to put them back in
the dirt. FaZe they've saved rifles consistently a couple you can see the
Brokey's orb can reign, can vitality, find a clean 8th, avoid this saved AWP.
You do look set on this B execute.
Brokey and Karagin have smokes to block.
Ooh, they're getting ahead of the play.
It's a fantastic flash from Karagin.
Frozen does well to find himself something with the aggress.
Maybe Brokey's orb is going to get a chance here.
Oh, and it does. Flames down.
Apex is going to have second thoughts now.
Surely spamming away at a smoke.
Well your way back is with Sphinx and he hasn't taken too much space just yet, starting the
probe because he has to do 35 seconds.
They're running, they are running!
And Rob's just left, so yeah, ready.
It's rained in the pit with the AK, that's the other saved gun.
Ooh, interesting scenes here.
They don't have a molly to clear him either.
Okay, rain, let's see what you got, mate.
That smoke really will limit the sight line he wanted to work with.
He jumps up here, Sphinx should have him.
Whoa!
Still was ready for Sphinx!
Now he maneuvers around that smoke.
18 seconds planting safe on cold Zera.
I mean, I'm not aware that Zairu was likely trying to isolate him, hunt him down.
They've used their smokes very well here, Vitality.
Pushing smokes, Zairu! What a transfer!
Turns around, spins into the second.
It's up to Apex though in the clutch.
And off, Robb pushed through, finds the headshot. Apex just shy of the head.
That's a miraculous turnaround from FaZe.
Tap, Reng did so well there. I thought the swing sort of had him dead to right
He's jumping out of here and you can see him wanting to reposition so he can try and deal with the site players
Still able to get his AK across in time onto spanks and that's the difference make a killer my man
This is great from frozen sure gets one, but it baits them forward with a thing
Okay, that's just the standard B defenders broke. He grabs his and
Rops continues to do damage getting both of these
Up to 18 kills great to see rops with this level of form
Just one more round for phase down to pick up their map choice. Okay
That's pretty meditated, Zaru drops that one to give him a bit of a buffer to work around
over towards Brooms.
That's worked perfectly, and FaZe will have heard that so they know they can't just peer
on down for this banana control.
They find one that works, they find one that works wonderfully.
Frozen brings down the Wu.
Is he quick to find Karagin but he knows Frozen's not far behind him.
Flames putting a lot into this.
Got to be careful, he's trying to find info safely and does catch a glimpse of
Rains still undetected.
Rammite clear deep.
He does have a lurk and he can dash. He just spots flames running towards B. Surely that's a little sign that we need to get the rotation going.
Frozen under pressure! A nice headshot from Mezzy.
Two kills from the Brit in this one. Trade's Xaywut then builds into it with a frag to open up the B bomb site.
Spinks wants to counter his core robs. Trying to get towards Banana through mid.
I was going to say that feels like a save and they are going to try and back off, but with Spinks so close you wonder, hey, should we hang around and have a little bit of a run?
hang around and have a little bit of a look.
He dropped off after that kill.
So, Rain and Brokey, the two who saved before,
looking to save again.
And those saved weapons were worth their weight in gold.
Brokey's already passed your line of sight,
so Apex should have this one.
There hasn't been a single round this half,
the Faze Haven't Saved Summit.
Apex didn't have that one.
Not yet, no, no.
It's in fact Brokey's been doing great on the saves.
Well, I have worked back into this,
haven't they, Vitality?
Couple of rounds that they're
gonna be kicking themselves over.
It's gonna do some damage, but Brokey will retain the AWP and reign the A4.
Now Brokey could drop a rifle.
Karagin can buy his own and maybe just an MP9 for Robs or Frozen to operate with who get left in the lurch.
Yeah, you see the second Intendery comes through on the fate of the smoke. So just waited out Zywoop.
Good work from Mezzi.
Yeah, real clean with it.
Sphinx's lurks have been looking successful as well.
Something he's been criticised for.
not always being as active as perhaps his team need him to be well keep an eye
on that we've got four rounds required out of vitality yeah and no lost bonus
bill three of the team but more importantly phase if I tell you the
matter it's over that's GG but if phase lose this one yeah well if this round
continues in the direction it's going phase gonna have to take an eco all
the saves again if you vitality maybe you'll throw more at hunting those
guns away knowing just the ramifications and he set up with a flash to clear out
boiler and holes so what is the indicator for vitality for the finish
do they send mezi who is low deep in towards B because he might not get all
the necessary information because he is so low right he could just die in the
choke point and phase of colds a bit of a gamble stack they've just kept the
a defenders planted and this is looking like it's gonna work out perfectly
35 seconds on the clock bomb committed apartments this will be a most
definitely. Ross holding the angle, puts flames on 1 HP, Rain robs, combined to defend the site, Apex is low, Rain can do this, Broke is there, and it's lovely from FaZe Clan.
Limited resources, no problem, FaZe Clan 13, Vitality just 8, it was FaZe's pick, they convert it, and are now one map away from the Langsess Arena.
Round especially if you're on the phase clan side, of course, that's because they just trounced vitality on map one of this series
That's right. The score line is indicative
That of the biceps that Jacob does have currently in his jacket. That's right big strong
That's what they're calling phase if this notion or at least of this impasse the first half of the series
And in doing so let's talk about it. Let's let's really talk about it. Maybe stuff that
I can waffle about something how many zai woos
does Vitality need to win games?
As many as possible.
I think we just like maybe develop a technology to just duplicate, clone or whatever.
No, it's not even the story here.
I don't even think the story is more Zywood being it.
I think the story is Rups, let's cool them.
Yeah, there we go.
Cool them on his flanks, cool them apps.
He punished timings.
He white swung Zywood with an AWP to just make him disappear, just obliterated the man.
He punished whenever Vitality tried to do the double short stack.
He was all over the place, props to rups, he kept his cool.
Props to rups, he kept his cool.
That's not bad, props to rups.
We can even get it, Jacob, because his last seems cool.
Ah, okay.
I just realized now, yeah.
It's just the times of difference.
Even better.
We actually had a pretty cool rup segment playing for the pregame,
but we didn't have time for it this time around.
He's been struggling, rups, Mr. Rups.
He's been in a rough period together with FaceTime,
and I think this is a great example of when he's playing well,
when he's successful with his lurk,
when he's fighting impact on the server,
and I wouldn't necessarily say dictating the game,
but almost dictating the game with his lurks
and installing fear into his opponents,
then FaceClan is looking like a much, much better team.
Of course, flanked by Broke, he had a good game,
carry again showing up, ring showing up,
it felt like every time we're playing well,
but for my money, when Rops is playing well,
it usually correlates with FaceClan, well,
and it's better once, as we've seen Mr. Cool be good.
Mr. Cool.
Hey, you know, I'm thinking about
that one exact moment,
where in which, yes, it was Rops v. Zywu.
Yeah, it's just that that awkwardness of the duel because you you would think like maybe nine times out of ten
So I will get that frag but no, I mean it was just too fast
Yeah, it's not that often that we say a rifle was too fast was I won the problem is
Strategically speaking the setup of vitality is correct. You put the AWP the rifle, you know rubs has been a problem
It's been an issue so you try and stabilize it and then you just get
Exactly what I just smacked okay, so what do we see around six? Who got smacked around?
I just let's get technical for a second because this game started as a back-and-forth a tug-of-war between phase and
Vitality and I personally have a problem with vitality did here and the consequences of that round
So we're talking about round six. We see here score nine three to two fifty seconds left
And if you have your attention on the finances from vitality, it's very very complicated
So it's a turning point spoiler alert and what's really interesting as this apps purpose is about to happen
Is that if I show you here the setup from vitality is very very passive when they realize that the aspect is gonna come
There's no rotation whatsoever. The B players are way too far away
We have Zywu that's a little bit isolated towards mini pit and you will see when that pops rain
Huge props to him the fact that he delete Zywu immediately as his pairs are taking space with the tech nine
That's gonna be right now. They catch spanks a little bit of guard here
He's getting in the process. I will get eliminated by rain and just like that the side falls and there is no way to see it coming
That's my issue. You basically give yourself no room for error
No margin for no warning sign no information. You're blind
You're flying blind and vitality losing this round is the reason why they started so
Complex or it was very complex them to start this first half
I guess the only thing that can explain why there would be so passive is obviously as you highlighted the money situation
You have three MP9s stuck on the side
So you want to you want to force the duals to be close to you
But I agree with you someone has to be spotting that a little bit earlier
So those MP9s can react because one thing is having an MP9 in a close call come back
You want to be the one swinging you don't want to sit in the corner waiting for someone to run into you
You want to be the one with the MP9 swinging out
I agree with you. You know the default process probably if you were to ask about some of the is that we have a low by
But it's a little bit too passive my liking as well
I agree with you, but just just imagine the contrast vitalities first gun around yesterday versus fury
Oh, it's MP9's on MP9's famzy is T-Spa in the smoke
Ready to fight them but like it's a night and day contrasting itself
Respect, you know are they giving too much respect? It might have been it might have been
I think this round really put vitality on notice like from that moment on they started being a bit too careful
They gave a lot of space to phase and we know how Kerrigan can utilize that
Yeah, he could have pressure towards top middle
He would rotate back to banana whenever that was needed and vitality started being extreme passive
Zywo didn't really attempt much entry kills happened once here and there with an AK. He had two AWPs
This this was the vitality that I don't like to see on Inferno
But I got to give props to phase two rops to Kerrigan very well put together in the first half
Yeah, it very well was that it was a very concise and concerted effort from everybody on phase to really
Put vitality back to where they started which is the lobby because then they have to come back and play it all over
Hey, let's look around 12 over here. Well, let's talk a little bit about this map just a little bit more. We have to
I know I know I know I have to look at this round
But it feels like I'm in orange clockwork and people are trying to traumatize me. It's a hot mess
That's exactly how I feel like what in the absolute
Muppet show of around am I looking at this was this got me extremely rowdy
So you see here Spain skinny a little bit team flash, but the idea is not that bad
They're trying to get information. It's a 40 seconds on the clock phase are still probing not exactly decided where they want to go
Mezzie finds care again. You have your rocks being punished. Everything is good. Everything is good. It's great
Stress less it's 5v3 all is well and then suddenly with 25 seconds left in a 5v2
Vitality is decide to hit the red button and just say you know what we're gonna throw everything out the window every logic
Let me just run in small to me just spray
Let me just dance around why would I just not wait and pay the goddamn crossfire?
No! Let me just fight everywhere and die in a 5v2!
That's exactly what's happening!
I-I shouldn't have watched this round.
Now I'm pissed.
Are you okay, man?
No! No, I'm not!
Maniacs.
This is a D3SCO line!
Yeah, that's a rough go-ahead.
It's a D3SCO line!
You know who is enjoying the show right over there?
Young Howie. I see him. He's really enjoying that show.
I mean, it's always...
You can see him just kind of teetering over the top a little bit about the smile there.
But will the smiles continue to go to dust too?
We talk about a phase CT start.
They're obviously feeling good about what happened in Inferno.
If we get away from that maybe we can get maniac for the rest of the segment
You're not going anywhere. No, actually, I'm gonna have to say I don't think it's going anywhere either
And I agree with you that was probably the worst one
We've seen all tournament long to be to be quite honest. It's a many feel music to it. Yeah
It was symptomatic of the performance from Vitality. I think those two hopefully will be a little bit different
You know, and I think it should be a more competitive game
However, I think your face and rain for that matter right now the way they're playing the way they're coming into this tournament
It's a new looking face compared to just a week ago in Copenhagen, and I absolutely love that
But really, Benny Hill, I was thinking more like Benny and Benazi because at this point it's like,
I'm gonna break my heart.
But he's just getting touched and...
It's all basically their satisfaction is exactly what's happening.
I'm gonna break my heart.
Yeah, I'm gonna lose this fight me too.
It's a rough go at it, but I think that there is a hard evidence here to say that,
yes, FaZe is in control of the series right now, man.
Yeah, I think they are, 100%.
I mean, listen, everything worked for them.
I think the calls were great.
Crutcher's mostly went in their favor.
Sure.
You have Kerrigan, who's having impactful moments individually, like the flash pop onto the B side,
and he accused the music, which means the yapping is done over to you.
Oh, you mean to... yeah, just a little bit more. Here's a little bit of a wap before you,
and I'm not talking about the stop. Look at the man, Drog!
That's Jacob Pippenikey, who has selected to take that scooter across town.
Glad we got that footage up there, but obviously it is going to be a break.
We come back, we've got dust too, between phase and vitality.
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When I connect to the server against top 20 teams or top 30 teams, they have three coach slots.
Yeah.
It's like two analysts and a coach.
And you never know how much are they gathering from all the games they play.
And I don't know, like three years ago, four years ago, I would join server and maybe they don't have a coach.
It's like, the level has for sure reason in terms of preparation and how many people are watching,
you know, all these Academy Leagues and General Managers and whatever, like,
you have a lot of people behind the scenes who are also doing something.
You had also this team you played, like, you knew you would kind of win
because it was easy to call, easy to read, like so easy.
Nowadays, there is not like this really easy game like you like.
Especially with the Mk12.
Yeah, back then you were like, okay, we played the Mk12.
It's just a book. Just read a book and you're like, okay, they will all do smokes.
Okay. This shot guys, let's go through there.
And but nowadays you come to the, you have no one that you can read like that.
That's like the major 250 like top eight easy.
You don't have to worry about go there. Children groups made our master out.
I'm like 24 spots might get one, right?
Nobody's like, best of one, Imma 12.
I have been there a few times, 2-0, 2-2,
last chance, qualifier.
Bro, nothing is easy nowadays.
And I think I had a discussion with Philip,
like I kind of said, I think in back in the days,
like when Goal is just go top eight, it was open.
It was very hard.
But from top eight to when you met the 16th team,
that was the gap was big, falling big, right?
And yeah, upsets could happen.
Yeah, the game was played on a high level in top eight.
But now the flow of the T2 is risen so high, they're playing much more than all the top teams.
So when you think about, especially with these two coming out, they're playing double amount of officials than we do.
Meaning they're gaining way faster experience from official games.
So once they get an offer to a T1 team, they are gonna, like, ultimate from Liquid, right?
I've never really heard about him, but he goes in and he shows a really good game for Liquid, right?
So that's the showcase that there's so much unknown talent right now in T2.
That I think we're choosing tattoo with some decent stats. He's gonna perform in Taiwan
And I don't think that was the case five six years ago. It wasn't like people were they were coming to Chawan
It was like what the fuck am I exactly good afternoon? Good evening. Good morning wherever you're watching from you're here tuned in to watch phase first
Vitality the first maps already been locked in for phase and they are just one away from the Lancess arena
2022 champs looking to return to the Lancess arena after missing out last year
They were knocked out in the groups by Na'Vi.
They're looking to change that dialogue for 2024.
Vitality standing in their way and it's Vitality's map pick as well.
I'm going by Chad Spongeburtial and I anticipate Dust2 is giving more of a comfort for that of Vitality.
Yeah look, yesterday was a walk in the park, a bit of a breeze for them.
Now they've had a reality check thanks to FaZe.
Whilst the map didn't just walk over their opponent in stylish fashion with everybody firing on all cylinders.
They battled back in and that's the positive for Vitality.
They worked hard, they made the game close, and a couple of opportunities, if weren't squandered, maybe just maybe they could have pushed to the distance.
Let's get this one underway, because Team Vitality, they were in the playoffs last year, headed to the semi-finals, eliminated by Entz.
Mezzy was not a part of the team at the time though, I'm sure he would love to grace the Lancet stage for the first time.
I love a little CT mid-push, even the pros do.
But what do you do when you don't get anything?
Robs has got a lot to do here.
And that's a brilliant way to start.
One tap to the head of Apex, they continue to commit and it's looking good for vitality.
Robs, he needs help and he's back up and instead he loses his head.
Frozen however has found contributions on the cross.
Those are hard shots.
He's hit two of them.
Oh, it's only Frozen.
Can he do more?
Oh, flames!
That is a huge quad kill.
Oh, okay.
That's the output that you're looking for.
Watching that from the death POV is perfect. It's actually perfect
I'm sure it look great on his too, but just how little you see of him how quick that foot that bullet
Finds his opponent's head sphinx found one and that's the reason that they start running flancy down on his own because they're no
Spinks is on the lurk so broke he and frozen want to isolate a one-on-two jewel in their favor and they can't do so
Crispy Vitality pick up there first at pistol. Oh, and he picks hit the cross series. Yeah, well
Those nades a bit shy the mark. I
I love the tenacity out of spinks the aggression just runs them down before they can get back and maybe just maybe
We will start a half of this series without the second round force
Falling away from the pistol victors. It might be nice
Especially if you're a vitality fan
Tag onto Zywoo. You know those. Yeah, not gonna get to find ever Rob. She's done well to finish off ink onto spinks
They've got they've taken a lot of damage, but unfortunately with the equipment they have
broken rain probably gonna look to save. Two scouts not the weapons for the
retake is it? So if they can hold on to these they can be a little bit prickly
going into the next round the USPs can soften sorry they can finish off the
softened opponents they can soften as well they can it normally goes scout
tag into conversion but the other way works too we'll take either at the
moment. Sure things will. Vitality doing their due diligence making sure they
to bring all the best goodies through.
Yeah, well, Apex and his signature scout found the Oven now,
and now he's going up against two scouts
to the next round, but he dropped it.
Yeah, maybe you live to regret that, we'll see,
but still, good little prioritization makes sense.
And there won't be an AWP,
so they are gonna go rifle heavy,
but they know a scout was saved,
so that's already, here it is.
Bang!
That's a beaut.
Yeah, I think we do need that.
Deserves a slow-mo, lovely headshot to Garaget.
In this every shot you don't take, Alex.
Bang, yeah.
Wise man once said that.
Isaac Newton, I think.
Yes.
Harry's a big fan of him.
I like his fluid.
The lighter fluid.
Newtonian.
Oh, ee, ah.
Frequently, indeed, it's a slow demise for Brokey.
They find him, eventually.
RING!
Very thrilling.
Recovers the AK from the first.
Spinks is AK then.
Oh, sorry, Apex is used against Spinks.
And this has gone horribly wrong.
Robs with a touch of aggression using that 5-7 to a deadly effect.
And Mezzie, he's done very well with that one.
Clears out long on his own in one spray.
Robs finds the bomb, but this is uncomfortable.
If he goes any further, Mezzie's pre-ame is brilliant, but Robs, he's one step ahead.
Aiwu, spots rain. Interesting.
Make sure you back off, chimney.
So there's an information that that is not Robs.
Robs is somewhere else.
Rain was towards B and they've got 48 seconds to solve this together.
Bombs he spawned. Oh, it's uncomfortable for everyone.
There's no way Zai would go through suicide, so he will pair up with Mezzie.
Rob's might go unclear.
Oh, he gets the head of Zai. We know Mezzie's the only one alive.
He doesn't have the health for this. He does not have the health to really participate.
Rob's an impactful quad killback.
Sure, no second round conversion, but how about a third?
If Robs keeps up this form, we might even see him smiling soon, because look, there's been some conversation about Robs in his form in recent times.
He is in beast mode right now in Furno. Great impact in the early stages of this one.
Massive. These are not easy shots to hit by any stretch of the imagination.
Just a little headshot angle, sure, but Robs just annihilates them.
He had a tech 9 round early on in Inferno, now a 5-7 and scavenged AK round early on on Dust2.
This is maybe what FaZe needs to pick up the series 2-0.
As he wants to go, yeah, flashes are there, and as he's out, Long Corner Smoke arrives.
Yeah, when you go for that opener that you just saw Faze operate with, it tends to feel that maybe Long isn't that well fortified.
Someone's going to throw you the doors smoke, and then maybe jump up short, or throw you the flashes, and then if you molly blue bin,
you can definitely feel that Long's a little bit weaker.
So Vitality call the bluff, and they get some key real estate.
All the ruse, Long Corner Smoke, nobody playing ahead of it for Faze, they will not have the information.
information. Apex testing Karrigan.
No flash, just dry. Wins the duel, Brokey overwhelmed, caught off guard by that contact
play. Good chance for Reign to double up here, he has done damage, but there's pressure from
every angle, he's done so much damage, sigh with Apex, and Mezzie even catching Frozen
CT, there's nothing here for Robs. Well, that was hard for, but Vitality, they will
prevail.
they kind of played phase exactly as they wanted by Tyler they went out long
they threw the cross smoke they weren't playing long I think they left an
individual towards blue bin in case there was some re-aggress and they've just
piped himself through shore and all the fights are a brokey missing a shot he's
in so much trouble at that point with the body swinging around the corner and
now Zahra is gonna get there to repeat a carry through so I imagine that was
from the scout rounds a little bit earlier in the piece.
Yeah, it's obviously an inspiration.
That's quite official from Ezio.
I'm surprised he didn't call him sir.
Yeah, maybe a little bow.
But that setup that Faze found himself in
tells me they're expecting an all in long.
It was so claustrophobic with the setup they had
because Carrigan wasn't playing forward for info.
Rain was tucked in towards Gandalf in case they do cross
and he could be a nuisance and then break his AWP.
So they were they bit hook line and sinker to it being a long play
And that little jiggle from carrigan gave apex all the information he needed in that miss shot from broken
But also the fact that he's always not on the drop-down angle
That implies that they really had considered that there was maybe max one short
Yeah, and if you wanted to search for info you would have wanted to call your v players back over to help from middle
Right sure and mid. Oh
Crossing is a problem right now. I was I was he does. Yeah, that's the Zai Wu version
opening kill on opening kill vitality again and whenever they want them I like a
bit of risk around like this and Karagin does too pushing up towards the door
side takes full long control so that's a gift for the CTs that remain elsewhere
mezzy responsible for housing this but that will be a moment where he chooses
to evacuate we'll see if Karagin can catch that timing in an influential
manner range leaving a though as they crouch themselves out short so this
already reads like it might be a vitality fourth. Nice from Karagun catches that long holder.
Has that changed your plan? Well, the problem is they're already on the side. Rain now having
all that information. Just because Vitaly have gone so quietly, Rain might find a kill on the apex.
Nice, double tap, double dink. Now it's very much on with Sphinx low.
And Karagun, oh, he had a little bit of an opportunity but peeking around the smoke
is Zywa on the AWP. An advantage, not interested in this one.
Well, that's like a light switch on off on off
We're opportunities for phase to work back into that
But the fact that Vitality just contact out and keep it so quiet means that rotating player of rain doesn't have the sound cues
If you telegraph in that position
We tend to do so because there's so many threats, right?
You know, you have to worry about players taking that long-range shool, but walking out
So where do you think the confidence was to go for such a kind of ballsy walk?
The fact that they had the number advantage right but uh, so they were already sprawling out before me as you went down towards long
But the fact that they were upper player phase gonna have to hedge
It's one of the B defenders mentality and phase of both the way that Rob holds the people on side
Obviously, I hope they should be
They're just you know use pretty much aim on display. They also had Zawoo's orb to take a lot of those longer angles
Yeah, they had a bit of uterity money ramp and go
Okay, well
This might be a humble phase by of course we do have those saves
Yeah, I think because of where the loss bonuses out at the moment
They don't need to force by behind this. They could just have light upgrades next round. It's gonna be 2900
Make sure you can have a full buy next round as doing so. It's a little bit more desperate right now
We take a look at the spawns on the CT side and see if there's any potential
Room for openness frozen has the best long spawn so because he has one of these save guns
We might see him start a
Apex and Flames are positioned with good long spawns of their own on T side.
Maybe we'll see something from them.
They might clash with that rifle.
We'll see. This is the Xayah. We'll open out just textbook stuff here.
Look at this pre-aim. Bang!
Just a reaction speed test at that point.
Karagan's death. You can see a nice quick scope from Xayah.
We didn't get much chance for Karagan.
And as you highlighted, Jad is not going to be a full investment.
They're going to be saving for the full guns in the next.
Apex is taking his spawn, but it doesn't look like Karagan or Frozen are going to be having a look.
Broke he's even been tagged on the cross everywhere they go. Yeah, and long school clear if I'm apex now
I just call the team out. Let's clear out car. Let's smoke the long cross
Imagine
It's fine like now that so we can get established in pit as the long cross smoke
They can just have him watch towards site as everybody walks up and you just need one play-to-play anti flash
You have so many nades as soon as you get behind this smoke
You don't even have to apex actually just gonna walk across. I was gonna say you can Molly site
you can molly shore you can really clear all these angles this is great from
that just let me go oh and I found the orp as well it's all working out
wonderfully nothing connects on the full magazine spam through that smoke yeah
broken frozen the objective changes yeah but there's a problem isn't there
look who's already in that be bomb site
the brookies are well aware no more problems should be able to retain these
yet again. And there's a rifle on B to be saved. Get your ass over here, boys. There's a freebie.
Rops has already picked it up. Rain the only one that's yet to retrieve might stick around,
try and punish on the way out the door. I want to have a bit of a conversation about the
CT setup of FaZe and why there is more autonomy put on Rain. There's one of the keys
and it's frozen all rops or both of them I would say.
Karrigan is the long anchor, which is not a glamorous position.
Understandable why you put him there, like as long as you establish it on control
early you can leave him and he should be good for one, essentially if they try and
breach late. It's not about him holding that spot,
it's about the information being the most difficult to garner where he is.
So it's up to his teammates, your AWP is obviously going to be here there and
everywhere you're rotating right through rain as well right do I need to rotate
back to help them it to be are we gonna posture short right it's up to them to
call their positions in the ground because mate harassment I feel like every
round it's either been a killer or a tag yeah and that just makes that be a
defense and that was with the smoke they even threw the smoke and so I was
still hitting a tag like that internal timer so look at the setup now
you can see Brokey's worried about short already because the B players
have no eyes on mid, Rain now rotating back to help deal with CT spawn.
A flash, and then the smoke.
This is so much pressure because Rain has to help the mid to beat, especially considering
Frozen being tagged.
There's a lot of advantage for Vitality right off the rip, so much control, so much fear
in their opponents.
They kind of are already on the back foot.
It's just being diligent there making sure that Broke is not on that 50 line with
the AWP.
Mollied off with the flash convo, Flamesy has short control.
Right now you've played with the mid to B idea, now you're playing with the short execute idea
and the extremity players of Frozen and Carrigan are calling Sector Clear,
but at any moment there could be a pop in their face as well.
So Vitaliy have done a good job of masking this.
Ever the play was rain on the box, running, rocks, what can you do?
Well to find one but the round will end and yeah, Frozen didn't take much from Spinks's AK.
I mean, they're just being
plagued by these cross shots.
I discussed this when we've done
a couple of other dust twos.
I'd like to see teams trying to
exploit lower dark and using
the new jump up because it means
that you can have one or two
players going locked down long.
You can have one player jump
up. Sure. You can use the best
spawn to go in towards lower
dark. I know that the orb is
quite scary right now, but if
you drop a smoke just a little
bit through the doors, the orb
actually can't see you run in
and then just the idea of that
threat will change the outcome
of some of these rounds unless
all in and then that's going to remove you slowing down the default spread or being more annoying because phase of playing their CT
Setups pretty standard right now and the 2-3 split. There's a big gap
They're not fighting before the map controllers established by Tality are getting what they want and
Also the fear factor of a good opera on the other side of the server is so key on a map like dust too
If you don't think that you can be a little bit more cheeky with some of your swings once
They've got that short control mid-control established if once they get the open to peer
You're never really going to reswing because you know he's got the sight line or the smoke covered off and right now
Vitality are making them pay even on the door crosses and they're using smoke so phase are gonna be thinking what the hell do we have to do?
Well, I think they found an idea double orbs that are boys. Okay
And long seems to be the port of cool
The boosting over the mid-sparter something about a phase here
And already flames makes it to rain down empty handed the flat is a good
but not looking, Carrigan goes down as well. Only one remains.
Two casualties in the opening 20 seconds.
Not a full line up for the car, Molly, so Brokey still has vision. He's actually
bravely sticking around on car.
Oh, okay, wow, smoke spam.
This Molly will get awkward. Yeah, Brokey, you're a dead man. Oh, he tries to turn around on it.
Wise to the fact that it's winged with the flash, but still doesn't manage to find much.
Frozen, spotted out now at the tip of his head. There, rops fires off an ult drop from short.
Look at where you both are. Apex is actually going to pivot, he dips towards CT, and he's
going to hug you down, you're not ready for this angle. Apex is being very cheeky, complete
jump scare for Fosy, he's whipped it, he's whipped it, but the idea was great.
Spinks has lurks done it.
Spinks lugs in nicely. Again, I mean he's just becoming a real problem. Four phase
clan on Inferno and here in Tadastu. Apex can't seem to mantle up perfectly.
Oh dear. Well the call was great wasn't it?
That's what I'm saying, you know, I'll give him a full double thumbs up for the idea.
Not perhaps the execution, but the rounds are round.
Favourite freefall on the CC side aren't they?
Fenty jumping out head down to dodge the flashes, peers up, still blind but has the crosser in the right place.
Good punish on Broke, you're trying to get away.
And the lurk, in case there was any dramas, was the knockout bloke.
Frozen thinking about some aggression with Zyton.
I mean these are these are another name in that conversation. It's always a joy as anyone who enjoys watching Counter-Strike played at the highest level for the world's best.
We'll be seeing Monacy in action later today. This doesn't feel like map number one at all where Vitality had chances. There was a couple of close rounds for FaZe.
That's not the conversation. They are just being spanked live on national television.
And FaZe not fans of that. It's funny you know you just too we describe it as a bit of an aimer's paradise, some real strong aimers on this roster, but
Fatality of just making them look foolish here. Red faces, red cheeks, what have you got for us Rain?
We'd need to hit the first one cleanly and he can't even do that, hits the headshot,
Paragon accelerates, there's a lot of bodies on his screen in the moment there where it could have been a double or more.
would have had to be in perfect instead. Yeah, Brokey and Robs reside themselves with
same feels like yeah poor Brokey hasn't had much chance to really have influence
on these rounds. He used to insert himself into the game though. Right I mean
watching Ultimate on Dust2 I felt like oh my god okay so this AWP has been in
every part of the map in the first 30 seconds he's been at the top of mid
he's on ramp he's on fighting suicide he's on long he's everywhere so I
suppose it's up to Brokey to do that in terms of B insert himself is that
you're implying. Yeah, look obviously some of the setups need to facilitate that right now at the
start of the round unless you have like the long spawn. You're not going for the corner picking
off facilitating your players. Slightly damaged on there. I also think the fact that you have
rops and frozen as your B players. Look I understand why you'd have rain as your A rotating
right so I think he's going to be great at it. I would love to have someone who's willing
to take a few more risks into what's tunnels. I already mentioned that but I would love to
see a little bit more of that coordinated play. Maybe look, these guys know a million times better
than I do what's going on. There's obviously a reason they don't want to operate in that fashion, but
if you lose long in a round, I would love to see them, that round where Karagin was at short,
and they lost long, right? I would love to have seen them push up the tunnels for some information.
Right, just confirming. Or collapsed on middle with Karagin to have
info or group fight on middle. One of the two, right? Try, don't just sit and hold
your sights. Let's try and make something happen here. We're playing in the dark.
Dynamic. Yeah, okay, interesting. Well, Frozen tried to get low as in the previous rounds.
Zywoo just completed an item. Here it is. Bang! Nice try. Enti. Enti in the jam.
How many opponents do you have now? Three? Oh no wait one of them was a tag. It might be three though.
Could have had it elsewhere. Anubis the third should we need it. Seen looking increasingly likely.
Not this time. Zywoo. There's not too any damage in the first five seconds of the round.
Maybe FaZe have a chance. Maybe. Okay so you've parked Flames in long. You know the
the CTs have no info long. I'm sure this is where it's a whole lot of fun for an
IGL to call the finish. You're already aware you can kind of have a
make an informed decision based on what you think the CTs do know.
Well, this is it. What a phase going to do. Are they actually gonna try and take
some space back together or are they just gonna... what are we doing here,
right? Are we looking at notes? He's still there just staring at a wall,
zooming in on his brain. He's not looking at notes? No, he's just having a
conversation oh okay MC's just been a pixel line mid thanks MC we're too busy
thinking he was actually oh yeah okay there you go MC thank God he's here
such a legend as MC he knows he knows everything thought he's mouse
trope playing in your mouth okay what we doing it you've kind of done nothing
actually with all of our long control you've just cut noise and waited I I will
say there's a lot of nades to be thrown so this is gonna be a very intense
30 seconds for the CTs. Looking like they want to keep the people on B planted.
Robs bought an Org for this angle. He pecks out mid.
20 seconds. They're giving FaZe a chance, aren't they?
I'm not sure what the plan is. This is a bizarro world.
Here comes the B-Util. Robs has been waiting.
And loads with his Org frozen in combination.
Look at the damage. Spinks and Mezzie bleeding out.
Eight seconds. They need to get across.
Oh, um, it's not happening now.
round over round over how how does that round go down like that spinks brings his
AK through wouldn't have mattered if he went down either way 6100 in the banky
the banky yeah the banky the banky I was gonna say the banky boo but the banky
boo not a thing I stopped myself I don't know what the banky hell who am I I'm
not sure no neither one neither one we don't know one really knows who they are
That's what life's all about yeah
You just invent yourself don't you what happened with the cross of the bomb when they're waiting for the door smoke to puff up before they crossed
I did I don't know what happened had the bomb or here we go. Oh
Spotted yeah, but there's sure and there's a flash and a frag range of sets himself up for success there
That's what I'm talking about. There's what Chad wanted to see and it's worked out wonderfully
I mean the knowledge is there that there is a CT in lowers you don't know that frozen's right around this corner
Apex could go down here if Frozen has a look, but Spinks is covering Frozen timings and everything.
Now he might have a look and he gets the bomb!
Ooh!
Okay!
The bomb has spewed out of the...
Do you like that through mid-doors?
...Zywoo and landed in doors.
It's a little unfortunate.
It looked like it did.
It could fully catapult it out of him.
Ooh!
No shot from Mezzie, but that's short lived success.
The orb closes it down.
It did!
Yeah, that's crazy.
What a launch!
I don't believe it!
show with him must have been running at full full pace well you'll snatch four
why yeah does the bomb come out your face or your body when you try it when you
die that's a bit of a philosophical one for you you get in the valve the m's mc
I'm sorry where does the bomb spit out when you die yeah that was a yeah finally
a bit of phase CT aggression playing it was lower playing from short getting
in their face now and then we'll have the full map control rain with the
opener. Frozen Charming in there it is. It worked. Shopped. Why would you just miss the
Olympics mate? Nasty little jump scare. Knows exactly how that went unfolded. Alright well,
fight around to the half. Time to be pee out for Zywoop. Sure flames would have seen it
and said it but it's easy you know 30 seconds later. Sure. Running out. Oh there we are.
Why'd you jump over the smoke mate? Barfley. Why'd you give him a glimpse? Yeah. I don't
I don't think that incendiary has done anything of value.
Spinks.
Not cleared out of his angle.
If anything, it might do him a favour if he sticks around long enough.
But look at this stack!
This is Karagaman Kou.
Oof.
Expecting it to be a B finish.
I thought he was going to stick around, never mind.
He just takes the fight, Robs is dead.
Yeah, the scope!
It will be a B finish, now that they've taken Robs out.
Maybe it was part of his plan to bait them into this two-man B hold.
Flash, rain swings.
A little bit early.
Confirmation of presence, yeah.
It's managed, that's the bomb down, what hell of a spray out of frozen with watercarts and sphinx at insta headshot rain what have you got
Got a chance, that's what it was, but Zywu hits the shot, Karagin and Brokey, Brokey misses the shot onto Zywu crossing smoke wall
Plume to obscure the cross, I like this smoke back from the CTs, gives them options
They can use that T smoke against them to just pop out from either side
Another one towards tunnels
I guess you have to walk through that.
Yeah.
Oh.
Well, maybe it's intentional.
Yeah, precisely.
Still has angles, and they might assume
they're both coming from doors, which it looks like they are.
Oh, the mind games.
As it's on to the 1v1, Zywoo can have it.
The bullets, it's brokey.
Gives them a half to work with.
Hard 4 comes down to a 1v1.
It's phase 4, Vitality 8.
I mean, within the realms of
possibility chat that this could
be to zero. This could be the
last map phase after play till
the Lancet or will vitality
secure a third mapping anubis.
Early util thrown out towards
the B bombsite. Just a couple
of decoys. I'm not talking
about rocks and broke the
actual grenade. Spongebob
need. Spongebob. Oh, that's me and you. We're here. It's Russian MC. That's what I was going
to try and say. Here they are. Rush Lee. Put anything on the screen that you want. We'll
see if Alex will say. I'm like Ancomand. I am. I'm Ron Burgundy. Oh, Rob's has taken
down flames. Oh, Spinks pushing. This has gone far too well for Vase down right now.
Apex. Nice shot. He's on his way back up. Rob's rain frozen though. They should
be fine with this. Yeah, that took a while. They took a while.
Mezzie joined the P2K gang. I didn't think I could love him
more. I didn't think I could love him more. The P2K is not
going to work out from here. It's okay. It's okay. Take the
rough with the smooth. Let's go. Alright, well, look, if you're
a Vitality fan, take stock in the fact that they lost both
pieces on Inferno, but they won both four Spice. Sorry,
he's opening a monster energy. Yeah, just cracking it open
back and open that can then you know some I don't know what the noodle name is
snore that's the one yeah well they haven't forced okay well that what happens
now then statistics they run up middle and take the bloody hell they take that
is a 400 400 around around now but at least around quick yeah and they
died to glocks and glills so all right all right well that means we get into
rifle rounds quicker just a two-round game if they can win this maybe just
maybe they can tie things up 8-8 and yeah you mentioned it the Lancest this
game is a big one we know who they will play if them well they lose this series
it'll be Falcons and there's a law bracket ahead with the liquid down
there at the moment and the loser of mouths versus complexity which is
currently live on twitch.tv slash ESL CSB plus by scrawny and launderst that's
live and on vertigo spoke to exertion yesterday so what about do they
they're gonna play and I said they're gonna pick vertigo and they picked vertigo.
You nailed it.
So it was Orp has been a bit of a threat in that T side, peppering them through the doors
if not finding opening picks and rops, ah he's gonna walk into Sphinx 4.
Whoa whoa whoa what should have been a free kill and to give away half of his life
that's the cost of playing Counter Strike.
Deep.
Horizons are dead man, wow you can see there was a very small window of opportunity for
I need to find that kill and this has gone one way fast vitality's nice looks rather painless hold up
Yeah, he gets a plant here. He's got two kills. I say plant. Mmm. Maybe's I would jump in USP
Fendi just like that denies the plant secures the round. It's nine to six
Nice attempt from rain all things considered
Yeah, hugely important that he denies the plant because even with the diffuse coming through they still would have had 600 bucks frozen
could have an AK instead of a Galil. Reign could have had a Galil instead of maybe a Mk10
or a D. Eagle. It's Reign, so... Yeah, he's gone for a D. He needs that U2. I was watching
him buy us a Reign. Come on now. I know you want the rifle, but you need the Nades.
Yeah, he does.
So, 600 bucks would have made a big difference. Good denial from Zawoo.
There we go. And now, Sphinx gets across. They throw the lamp smoke to get across.
Pole smoke? What do I call that? Pole. It's more of a pole than a lamp.
out long.
Flames ready to receive them, but not really the weapon for the job.
Gets away with his life.
Got a reposition.
Pit cold clear.
Now they could use as long as the staging area.
They still have a smoke and flashes to work with.
The Molotov is well to clear our car.
Short, re-aggress, inter-robs and rain.
Four robs been waiting for.
Flash comes through.
Robs is blind.
Blind and deleted, but the Deagle works wonderfully.
A third would be crazy.
Apex does bring him down.
A's open.
Did he get this smoke up across?
Ooh, Zywuz did not pull the trigger there.
They get across the ramp.
Good damage, that's why Apex is well exposed in the open.
Goes down.
Now surely FaZe should have a heavy advantage.
Will they even have a look-in?
Zywuz goes fishing in case anyone over extends
with a quick glance towards CT, but feel like they are
already accepting that this is the FaZe rounds,
or FaZe is seventh back in a way.
Reng's got five kills in the last two rounds,
and he's only got nine in total.
So he's come to plan the T side.
Hey, you deny my plant? You force me to only have a D-Gull? Well, I'll get a double kill and win the round anyway.
Sifros can get himself something a little bit juicier than that Gallauder carry through to the next
because it looks like we will be locking horns down the stretch...
of dust too.
Apex, 4-1 and opening Jules. Damn.
Yeah, he had that round where he ran out long and chased them down in long quantify.
He had the scout when they were crossing middle.
I don't know how you do that, Chum. It's like you're watching the game with him.
Sometimes crazy
Sometimes I've read in Twitch chat other times on watching the game
You can never do both at once
Unless you overlaid it over the rush has gone with the observing now, right?
So he does big map, but he has now got a small screen of the game on the same monitor. I saw that POV it does look very cool
He says it's helpful. I believe it
They won't be forcing behind the retained guns.
Let's see what they can get out of Mezze's rifle, and so I was there to be pinned.
Look how confident he is.
How many times do you see, uh, oh, my bro, he'd tell that fight.
Yeah, he stands and ready to bang.
Well, Middol smokes on its way.
Will have to respect the smoke, but does hear the audible steps of Karagin.
I like this from Mezze, so he's not fully committed, well, he is fully committed,
but he hasn't just gone all in.
He's ready to activate based off the information that his teammate's going to relay to
him.
Crash around the corner, Nate does some damage, singe of the flames, Karagin and Reign pretty low.
Yeah, it's like edge to vitality already.
Just intermittent sweeps from Zywoo trying to catch anyone that's maneuvering back off cat.
Fates do seem to be retooling for the B finish. This is where Mezzie's gonna be tested in this angle, he's sticking around.
Oh, Zywoo, that's a big catch.
And now they begin! Good work from Robs, he's taken down the Bianca!
They need to smoke the doors, you can't just run in.
Yeah, the only other rifle in the mix is that AWP, and you know where it was.
They've drawn him in to B, now they just need to be able to get in towards this A site.
Robs is going to make sure they can confirm it, that Molly doing an awful lot of damage.
It's unlikely that I would get to bring this one through.
Robs?
Oh, I love it. I love it.
He's had to make this play, beautiful from Robs.
That's what you want from your lurk.
Ooh, that nearly got really awkward.
And it's still good with flames on a USP.
How is this happening?
Oh, Robs needs it, gets it, but still it's 1v1!
Oh, there's 20 seconds.
Oh, catastrophe, it calls.
Robs can save them, but with 15 seconds he has to do everything.
Needs to go A.
He has to run into Apex, and Apex is sticking around.
You're not gonna expect this!
And he catches the timing!
Oh, no!
He puts him onto 4 HP!
There's no time!
That's a plant.
Six?
I don't know.
He has to hunt.
Apex!
Apex cowering in the corner with his HP advantage!
He finishes it with a single set!
That's a massive vitality round!
Apex leading by example with impact.
It was just on a roller coaster of emotions with Apex right there,
because he made a merit of it, made an absolute meal of it.
Five, four, three, two.
He knows the fight's coming and it is steps and wins it with the CZ75.
Let's add a Sire relief, then the cheer,
because he knows they've done it with two save rifles.
Bro, I love that he's stuck around in that angle.
Catches, rops, because he knows he's going to have to be moving.
Catches him in transition, catches him holding W,
does significant damage, pieces out those times against him and a lovely finish on the low HP.
Yeah, look, he should have won it there and then.
Sure. The play at that point was perfect, just the aim maybe, missing a little bit.
But that has stalled our FaZe, getting himself back into this game.
Just took every advantage he had. Every single one. I can't believe that's gone wrong for FaZe.
Flam's getting a full kill with a USP long push.
Yeah, well that was the the nade damage that came in towards short because rain and character were both softened up
Yeah, I did look a bit easy all in long long. Yeah, okay interesting. So I was got the flash
It seems to work more often than not because it worked for face plan
Oh so much you tell wow Ray was full blind full blind flames is gonna be saying the same thing
That's insane that he's pushed at the smoke like that
That's giving them away and then we'll miss shot from Zawoo that's that's a nice 5v4 that they'll try and hold on to
For as long as they can chip away at his robbs Nate does land
So what's the response of vitalities I would can post up top site
They've just smoked mid doors to make sure that nobody can weasel out
Sees nothing
So tucked into what's peer passively. I like this from apex
Fatty's gone over towards car if they do decide to trundle up long late. He might go overlooked
Rain's gone all the way around the world back towards B, he can call the flash
towards upper tunnels but he's got support on the way so they parked
rops in pit the rest of the crew to join rain. Now Vitality is starting to ask
some questions. Yeah it's about time here. Well they could smoke window and
doors. They have two smokes to make this possible. Oh they found rops. That
is a little bit problematic because they're already getting a wiggle a
The third, excuse me, a second in. The third is on his way.
Spings the bait.
And as he goes first, actually,
with a significant damage carry,
getting awareness that there could have been a second Mezzy 2, and then done.
It falls into an intense 2v2.
Frozen's gonna try and plant Brokie to provide some cover,
looking at that window, Zywoo considering it.
Put his ult on his back, just opting with that CZ-75.
Frozen, tip of the head spotted, 10 left in the mag.
Brokie onto Apex's only Zywoo here.
only Zywoo here, he can't get it done.
An important and necessary round for FaZe.
Tam, look at the rotation was on point for Vitality,
didn't it?
And they were all exactly where they wanted them congregated,
coming out of the upper tunnels,
grouped up a cluster of three,
but unable to multi-kill.
Now that trade game Vitality,
they lose the side after getting this kill back,
drops as a look, Zywoo hits the shot,
Broke and frozen, they pull home a big round.
So back and forth we go again.
Now it's Vitality.
This has been a war of attrition as far as the finances neither team really able to establish these full buys or patterns where
The saving is allowed more often not gun rounds. You see it here in in the purchases
Way the smoke's messy is gonna go down and this site already lost folks. Oh
Invested into this. Yeah, see apex day a bit of a shake of the fist bit of a Ned Flanders moment
Cut down that sexy car again
I'm always visualising Homer's dad, whatever his name is, shaking his fist to the clouds.
We all know his actual name.
I don't know his actual name.
It's Abe.
It is Abe.
Abe.
Oh, Abe Simpson.
Yeah.
I think I just called him Grandpa, don't I?
Yeah.
But I've never met an Abe.
Have you?
There was the player.
Oh yeah?
Okay.
Is it short for Abraham?
I would believe so.
Oh, so yeah.
Maybe a bit of an oldie but a Goldie.
Five alive.
Second by the cherry for vitality into the next
Yeah, but that's the face to tie it up
It's a sour cherry and then the next round is only the 2400 loss bonus
So if we start doing a bit of mathematics Alex you're strong
So you get that calculator up you are never gonna carry around in your pocket
2400 plus whatever the totals they have right now that's not gonna equate to an AWP if is I would
So unless they get a couple of kills. Yeah, well, he's certainly capable of doing that
Oh, they fumbled the boost. They just wanted to spot that lowered push and what cogles in the yeah, nice
They're gonna try it. That's a good catch from brokeie. He's having a bit of a resurgence in the second half style to hit some impact
Hit some openers
He's even tagged up Zywoo. That's the rifle. He's got to get out of there
He knows his days are numbered and reigns close
retreat covered clean good team play good awareness the comms of that and
So this one. Yeah, they just have to put it in now
mini golf
IPEX really wanted to track at that M4 didn't he just offers himself up to reign for free?
Phase if this is a 2-0 there's been a dialogue about the team and is this a make or break event for them
They've been on a downward slide obviously starting off CS2
With success or near successes time and time again making these grand finals then as the season
Continued they peed it out and everyone loves a good Peter out
But for them it was starting to look a little bit worrying and then you come into this half of 2024 and whoa
It's okay. What's going on with phase the players aren't clicking they're approached the game. Is there internal problems?
What's going on? Why isn't it working with this frozen addition as good as it was with twists?
I imagine when you get so close to lifting a trophy and then just kind of repeatedly miss out
I'm sure you you know a little bit of apathy sleep slips in there was them getting gassed as well
We you know you could just so close that means you're playing
the most amount of maps in the tournament because you're going to distance into all these grand finals and then yeah
The apathy of not picking up the victory so so close but so far and then the problem was more when we came out of the break
We said okay, they've had a break. They've had a rest. We should see the best out of phase at EWC. We had the
last groups which
Yeah, it was ugly. That's really where
Warning bells started to go off and there was concern not just from the community standpoint or the pundit standpoint
But the tweets that came out from phase after they lost that event
That was that was worrying you'd serve from the likes of things as frozen carrying in a ropsill put out these twits
I were playing bad right now, and it was quite concerning the old deal a what is going on with phase they come into
Stage two base be liquid who are one of these teams a lot of hype around them along
So the g2 with the honeymoon form coming out of the break and now versus vitality
They've tied things up 10 10 map number two a strong showing on inferno and just three rounds away from locking themselves in for the
Lanxess arena to return
since their victory in that absolute epic from 2022.
Oh, FaZe now v final 2024.
So we've got the AWP, Flamesy drop the forum.
Thanks Flamesy, you have no utility now, good luck.
You do have an AWP in the hands of your superstar.
It can be the difference maker.
Let's find out together.
Carrigan goes down to Spinks as aggression.
The trade is coming, nice from Reign,
but the still presence Flamesy doesn't commit to it.
Worried about what might have linked up top mid
Brokey Adam covered
So wise choice from flames he just accepts the equalizing frag
Plenty of time in this round bomb stood at the top of middle
And the power of an all-pins position is that though players that committed towards B
You have to get past the Brokey scope if you want to get back towards a he will likely stay here for as long as you can
The thing is they can't really play connected vitality. You can't like crunched down to middle together
They're searching long and they're just gonna hover towards mid and B
So if they take the space back towards longer means they can run more of a traditional set up where they leave Flamsey as the anchor
Well, at least I thought they would they're actually floating both individuals back
So they feel confident that it won't be long Zywoo you have a lot on your plate. It really does
He's in the angle for the cross flames takes the first contact does remove rain and then the York can contribute
Two down a dink as well Zywoo's hit in every shot he takes and with their powers combined flames and Zywoo
Defend the ace site in a crunch moment
Just two rounds ago, we were having the conversation with Vitality's loss bonus about them not being able to afford an AWP.
In that round, Flamzy got one kill. They lost it, but he got one kill, which gave him 47.50 on the nose to drop Zywoo the AWP.
The devil in the details with Counter-Strike just enough money to make this all possible, and Zywoo goes on and gets two huge kills with the defend and puts Vitality up to 11.
Going out long.
Selfless Flamzy. Secures an 11.
Apex, doing the flashbang dance, will be running back as a smoke to guide his retreat.
Corner smoke hasn't landed for FaZe, it's not the end of the world.
Having sphinx already towards Lower, this does really assist if they want to play towards Short.
There's more of a support network.
Zywoo overseeing mid with the AWP. Apex can connect with the two of them.
Apex holding onto a lot of utility as well at this juncture.
Still has a smoke, HE flash, and the incendiary.
Smoke. Sorry, smokes for Spinks and Flames here and Zyber with some nades as well.
And I think that's really key, because if FaZe just do a Na'Vi,
which classically just sit here, chill for a while, and then eventually go for this A-Play,
they have a lot of U-Tilt to slow it down or blow open these smoke walls.
So Rain throw and the door smoke for them.
Oh, Zyber.
He cleared it with the HE.
Clears it, hits it, Spinks will activate, and it's already a five-verse three.
Well, now you know where it is, and the Apex still has all those nades to work with.
Yep, now they're going to throw a nice defensive smoke, a good angle from Flames, he finds it,
they're Brokey crossing, but Tarragon on 1 HP as well, this is gone horribly wrong, finds
the whole team in CT, still lingering where they started.
Yeah, nothing here for Rain, fires off a warning shot, lets him know where he is and
so helpless, hopeless, one would assume.
Nothing left in the bank balance, 1900, next round, Rain probably wanting to save
this.
Second is being allowed to...
Hard work's been done by Vitality.
Yeah, for real, 12 secured. They want to secure the Lancest today.
Secure Messi, his first trip to the Lancest arena. The only player
who has yet to experience and taste what the Lancest has to offer.
Top 8 at IEM Colode is an achievement in itself for every player.
Not there yet.
Top 6.
Not Top 8.
Yep.
Obviously.
Two semi-finals.
Two quarter-finals.
We've done to a traditional bracket.
Yeah, okay.
Well, the feeling was there.
Yeah.
I meant what I said.
I just didn't think it was necessarily correct.
Well, I love that subtle vitality in the last, and that might be enough to tip them over
the line.
Oh, that's a bit of a team flash right there.
Gets away unscathed.
It's all good.
Anzai, we're looking to do the same again.
Clear in the smoke.
How good is he?
It's not this time.
Robbs, that's the punish to the clear.
You can't be looking up and down at the same time.
So a nice start to the phase trying to find these two on the run testing rain. Oh dips away
Well, that's info there's probably to be this is an error in
Tastes down apex going looking short
Rob's already in CT so their rotations are completely nullified. There is nothing for them to do
They can't can't really contest this the bomb will be slowly escorted in they're concerned understandably that there are still bodies fighting from long side
But little do they know
It's just flames deep towards the bedroom area.
Alright, well they got one more chance to get this done in regulation, don't they?
So take a moment, have a big conversation about how you're going to proceed going into the next.
You see how badly Robs wanted to get the AK into his hands just operating with Kevlar.
And that's a massive kill for him to get good AK on the AWP head to head.
If they can find a rifle for Brokey, it's going to feel bloody beautiful going into round number 24.
Reigns got their movements somewhat restricted.
Whether he wants to go looking or not is the question. He might find Flamesey.
He heard all that at me.
Yeah, that would have been nice to take away, made it difficult for Flamesey to drop his
all-pup.
Been a nice back and forth map.
Well, it's definitely. I mean, it was an 8-4 half, the fact that FaZe are matching
that output, see if they can match it perfectly and force over time.
It's timeout taken.
Yes, saved it for the perfect moment, have they?
Tactical timeout number three from Vitality XTAS, an opportunity to prove his worth.
What contributions does he have? What is the change for Vitality? How do they look to open this and hopefully take the team to Anubis, the third and deciding map in the series?
G2 and Astralis are in the building, setting up. We'll see if they have to be waiting the whole other map.
Elimination on the line.
I'll go jump us. There's one more.
He's right. There is one more.
There is one more.
This was that catch on the Zywoo clear.
It worked wonderfully in the previous. This time not so lucky. Apex as well.
Core out. I carry in some good work from him.
Okay, three AKs for the CTs to close this.
And the AWP. Everything they want and more.
Broke it with the boost, making sure nobody heads towards lower.
Nice information as he carried me. It'd be really comfortable walking through.
Doesn't even have to worry about it.
Okay, high pressure moments though. This is where phases experience can show.
Vitality, Chocoblock, full of the same, but Spinks caught on the cross. Patience!
From the Broke York.
Okay, you've got your opener.
Now you just need to close.
Rob's trying to be as annoying as he can on this B-Lurk.
Wants to keep the eyes of Nezzy, knowing there's just one B Defender with Spinks in the dirt.
Short Molly.
Flushes back, Zywoo.
bridge smoke but they can play ahead of a vitality if they like so that's good
information looks like a mid to be split as being lined up so maybe he's been
able to get across to assist mezi they can lock this down the two of them apex
is here to play as well they've missed the CT smoke that's gonna have a gap
over the top it's got a nice little pocket he can work with their car again
versus apex neither of which finds lethality mezi under scrutiny has
flames alongside can establish a crossfire time continues to tick 28 as
this crunch comes in on to be messy he's done well with that one and a half
rain vulnerable caragon messy the train of you got another one raps finally
brings him down but it will be a two on two and it's uncomfortable bokey they
know where you are he's just hiding in the smoke as the bomb goes down running
at apex he overspammed his hand and now as I was getting shipped away as well
Oh, Faze secure the overtime!
Oh, I thought the fact they couldn't get that trade on Flamesy cleanly could have been the undoing there for Faze.
They had the bodies, the call was nice. Flamesy had been rotated over early and he got to live for way too long.
Apex is going to be frustrated about that new that Brokey had to be around the smoke somewhere and he gets run down.
This is Spinks overstepping the mark to offer Brokey a kill and back into the round.
I mean, yeah, I understand it as well.
You spam the smoke, you find him, you've won the round.
You don't, you're caught on a reload.
It's a risk.
Look at this.
That's interesting.
He's just walking down.
Yeah, but Spinks is so ready for it.
Yes he is.
Perfect.
I'm hoping he'll kill for Spinks, so turning the table from the previous.
He's stuck towards CT side.
So if they walk out mid, they can deal with this.
Karrion wants to play head to make sure Sphinx doesn't get over to B to help out Mezzie.
Look at this pressure! Look at the call! The conviction from the captain!
Mezzie's alone. With Sphinx CT.
It's just all on the Brit.
Hanging out of the back of the site.
Pushing the smoke with Sphinx. Karrion prepared for it.
Frozen aid, well destined for glory. Chips away at Apex.
Mezzie activates. Tracking.
Good work, good headshots. Has he got more enemy? Does!
A double kill, broken with the AWP trying to hunt him down.
Mezzie, playing a dangerous game, re-peeking in.
Broke he catches a quick one on desire with Bezzie however stands his ground and the sight is safe one man against a whole team and he's still alive
Three kills to his name
That's what you want out of your Bianca. It's a quad kill for Mezzie
Takes the York as well
Takes his reward first round of OT starts with a sphinx opener and a Mezzie closer. Yeah stressful situation for Mezzie
I liked what phase did they're trying to exploit the gap towards middle
Really trying to punish through this from Karrigan looks a little bit desperate and I go to him in my eye side
Hands off the keyboard behind his head after the death
You're waiting for bro key and frozen to come through was it ropes to come through the tunnels and really help him out because I think
Karrigan did a great job. He applied a lot of pressure. The timing was off
Karrigan found
Jumping around that corner with a molotov in his hand and exposed on the clear
Yeah, okay, maybe trying to do a little bit too much in the last round. It was great
Now you just look at his score line and go well he's only got nine and he's giving up an opening death and here they keep coming
Spinks flash for a beautiful one bow combo
3v5
Sweet turn to your stars
With romps down it's rain frozen and brokey
Good turn to flash but wow brokey long range support catches flames going swing it it's a double kill from brokey how has that happened
How has this five on three this two-man advantage been squandered so quickly
And there could be more! Who is that? It's Apex the Brave Bastard! Double kill!
Just takes the fighting hostess and Orphe knows the whole team's there. He just wants the barefielder to brawl and he does so much with it!
14 on the board Apex respect!
Takes the fighter brokey M4VOrphe.
I can't quite believe that considering the two kills that we're just giving back over in the blink of an eye.
And it's like well if you guys are doing it I guess I'm going to as well.
This is how it's meant to be done boys impact round from the in-game leader on the other side of the server face
Now trailing by two they worked hard to claw this game back and take it to overtime
Yeah, he fought down that is this all for naught
Remember the city side to is where both of these teams have been weaker
It's the perfect time for Vitality to find that form shrugged this off
Can they make a flawless in the first half of OT number one?
Huge round.
Frustrations from Brokey.
He did a fair effort to help them get back into the round with the AWP, but not enough.
No long spawns available for FaZe to go all in, so we won't see them out of the gates.
Brokey will use the boost and sees nothing.
Corner smoke flashes to keep Vitality on their toes with the open up.
Thanks, very aggressive with this. He wants to fight.
He gets himself across, uses the HE to obfuscate.
escape. Maybe overlooked. Wow, the memo was take it map control quick. They've just called
upper tons clear. They've already got him across into that right angle long doors. They've
looked a lot more active in the stretcher rounds where it's been more competitive or
they've been winning. They've been, you know, prodding around a lot more harassing the
extremities going for lower dark plays. Yeah. I mean, it's their pick for a reason
phase of done incredible work to get themselves back situated into overtime, but that's how
it's used to be, certainly looking like they have the edge here on the defence of OT1.
Okay, smoke from Reign, that's destined for CT, they've got a 3-2 division of defence.
I wonder if Apex calls them into a B push with how quiet it is, they just want another
flash and fine, now the crisscross, Karagan out long, smoke and mirrors, on car, free
kill, that's the first Karagan to open and kill the game.
Ooh, he can't find the second. Just tapping away at flames, just...
Wiggling around WAD.
Ooh, hello! It's all good from flames for the double!
Robbs finally sits him on his ass for 30 seconds, they can get that bomb towards the site. Apex!
He's actually gonna try and swing into that angle. He's exposed if Robbs clears it.
You might.
Safe plant.
Safe ease.
Ooh, Robbs merging his angles. He will surely have a glimpse at Mezzie here.
Yep.
Oof, clean headshot, clinical. From the Estonian.
Spinks coming in from short though. That's why Apex is waiting for us.
Spikes headed.
Nice shot onto Robbs, finishes him off. It's up to Brokey. Can he redeem himself here?
Can he give face something to work with into the second half of OT?
Spinks and Apex goes for the Hail Mary. The No Scope does not connect.
He's good on the Tech 9 though, but Apex just whittling away.
12 HP, Brokey goes down and it's spotless from Vitality's CT side.
Damn, I loved it.
really nice little set of rounds that Vitality have been able to scoop up proactive across the map.
A little fake from FaZe. It drew the attention exactly that they wanted.
Zyward just sitting on the car gets absolutely destroyed, but Flamesy from top site.
Silent Stand 4. Multi-kill. Good impact.
Number advantage is part of the retake. A nice shot from Rob Short.
Just one round now for Vitality to take us to Anubis.
Yeah, this series might deserve a third. Both teams playing well.
Pays less so here in overtime. Can they do anything with their own defense?
What's their plan? You've got three attempts here to secure map breakers.
It's already a bridge smoke. This is pre-meditated call. The bridge smoke is already down to
one day. Yeah, let me... is there a fake or is it a commitment?
Keeping them moving by the looks of things. They wanna go mid.
Oh, missed a smoke. Frozen. Frozen. Gonna get swung on.
Yeah, oh, jump scare just as easy as that. What is this call? Oh vitality.
Bulldoze the composition.
Completely broken.
Karrigan left alone. Zaiwu could finish him up with anything.
Karrigan running and got it, and we are off to Anubis.
Premeditated indeed.
That was just a straight page out of the strap book to secure the first round of your T side and overtime.
Faze will have to try and secure their ticket to the Lancest up against Vitality, map 3 and Nubis.
Yes please.
There's some people that want to see this world burn and that's none of us.
But it is in fact sometimes Faze clan and they're demeanor to try to close out a game.
That's not going to be this one right here. We're going to find ourselves going to a third.
That third will be a Nubis. We'll get you right into there shortly.
But for the time being, the one man that made the world burn for Faze,
he goes by the name of Apex. You read him in Weep, gentlemen.
He did reap chaos all over that map and listen to me there was a lot riding on that second map
I had a lot at stake moving into map number three as a vitality fan, of course on a personal level
I am thrilled to see that number three coming. Yeah, it was a good game of Counter-Strike
I think both teams had periods in the game where they were playing well both teams had peers in the game where they
Were struggling a little bit
There was a couple of rounds that wasn't necessarily the most pretty we'll jump into some of those
But at the end of the day, I think it's fan of the vitality and the winning I think face in that
first half you know then the winning the last three rounds in the first half and
that gave them a chance of finding their way back into the game but it did feel
like Vitality we were a step ahead pretty much from from start to finish up
until that point. Remember on Inferno we talked about the round where things
went wrong for Vitality we had this little force buy battle that they lost
the A execute here it's the opposite scenario it's a force buy battle but
it's Vitality putting ahead actually with some pretty crazy move if we have
round four feel free to unload that bullet that magazine because this is
is where Vitality actually makes the difference.
And some risks were taken to be fair.
You see the score line, it's two to one,
it's a bit of a mixed bag in terms of purchases.
You have a tick nine on Flames, opening from Apex,
missed shot for Broke, he's very, very important.
And then Rain stays alive.
He gains a lot of time with that smoke.
And now Zywoo is going to do something
that I haven't really seen in quite a long time.
He's like, Leroy Jenkins, do that smoke!
Leroy Jenkins!
Opening the round out of nowhere.
From a Counter Strike standpoint,
doesn't exactly make sense.
He had no backup behind him.
His teammate had not crossed the smoke,
But this is the moment that decides it.
This is what sends Vitality into a dominant position
in the first half.
It's pretty good round to showcase and illustrate Saibu
and his willingness to take Madison to his own hands,
but also for face claim and symptomatic
for the CT side setup.
You see Kerrigan fighting Raw against Apix.
No backup, no flashes, no nothing.
Then Broke goes in for a flash and sure,
he's missing the shot.
He would have been traded regardless.
So it felt like it was a very disjointed face claim
on that CT side.
And they were simplifying the game to a point
where they had to rely on individual level.
and when your individual level is carrying and taking a fight against Apix, then God knows what happened.
No, no, I agree with you. It was symptomatic.
That A-side was never really on lockdown.
Never really end that long.
And if we want to get fundamental, it was about long, kind of worn by vitality.
And we see again that Leroy Jenkins from Zyphus.
I appreciate that very much. A couple of great kills from there.
But the A-side was never on lockdown because long couldn't be maintained under control.
So FaZe played massively towards Catwalk, but they didn't have lower dark.
So if you do not have lower dark and both of your players are mainly towards catwalk,
you can get knaded out, you can get mulled up, zoned out of that position,
and you have nowhere safe to retract. And I think this was the issue, this was abused
by Vitality, yeah, a whole lot, either through long, through a split, and really
broken, unfortunately. Never really found himself in a position to make the difference.
And I think it's fair to ask for highlights, Saivou, because by the scoreline 16-17,
didn't necessarily have the best game. There was a period in the game where he was
out of it, where he couldn't get anything done on that CT side. It was like he was being
being avoided from face-clen when face-clen started to rack up the rounds,
but it all changed when Saivoo on the CT side started to get a couple of picks
and started to get into the game, that's when Vitality started winning as well.
So, is that around the second half, perhaps around 17 somewhere?
Eh, we can look at round 17, what do you want to?
We don't have to ask the 19.
Yeah, let's do it, let's do it.
You asked the 19.
It's a bit of a myth.
It's a bit of a fuck, are we going around right now?
I'm not gonna lie, you know.
Saivoo in a position where he gets absolutely timed by a rupture thing,
to sell faces coming back, you know, you see a Deagle, you see a USB,
and you see a CC, but everything is going wrong.
James C is coming in from behind, he's finding a multi-kill with the USP, picking up the AK-47,
then Apex coming in with the CC.
He catches the bomb and there's only 18 seconds left, which means Raps now is in a bit of a
problem.
Now for some reason, Apex is like...
Why are you sticking around?
...riding around.
I don't know, he takes the fire, this is all of these.
Jumps down CT spawn, but he's done enough damage because Raps now have no choice but to
jump down CT spawn with 4 HP and not even Apex can miss this duel.
For facecams though, you're 9...
Oh, I'm sorry, it's 9...
That's a 7.
I'm sorry, he's...
It's 9-7, FaZe Clan have a perfect opportunity, not only winning the round, making 9-8, but they can also build a bit of a bang, build some momentum.
And we saw FaZe Clan on the T side of Dust2. They were in control. Every single time they were able to avoid Saivoo,
every single time they were able to execute in towards either the B split, which they were doing a couple of times, or over Catwalk,
it felt like they were in control. So, when they essentially lost this round, for me, for my money,
they also lost the opportunity to win the game in regular time. Definitely. It's a very frustrating round to lose.
You're starting to get back into the game, you're getting to the rhythm, you feel like Vitality's defense is a little bit iffy, same issues, flames it was long, sometimes avoided, sometimes having no backup, and then you lose a round to CZ's and whatever, a USP guy rushing you for long.
CZ, you're in a 4v3, it's basically impossible.
I will say, Apex catch and strays in that little bit of a talkover from Zeke.
He did play a very decent map.
He had a few stabilizing rounds. That was an example there.
At some point he had a multi-kill from the A side with the side answer when Zywoo got found.
And you mentioned Zywoo, sure.
He had, I think, two or three rounds where his impact was really felt.
Yeah, blowing open smokes, AWP presence toward middle, traumatized phase.
But then Ruff's figured him out, FaZe figured him out, and it went down to Apex to actually cover that A side and stabilize.
Yeah, which you know it did beg the question a little bit like yeah
We said how many zai woos does it take to win in this?
Sounds like the beginning of a joke like how many zai woos it takes to change a light bulb
Well here here might be a little bit of a joke how many apexes does it take for vitality to win?
You know, that's the question we ask ourselves a little bit sometimes maybe never
I mean if anything I've never asked that once ever in my life
But I can't ask you what's gonna happen on anubis and to do it quickly
Well more cast I guess and I think that's what what it extends for when he's playing counter strike
He's always doing something apart from there wasn't around when he was just staring into the wall for 30 seconds
I'm not sure what happened there, but he's jumping around, he's getting to the abyss and
taking it all in.
I guess it is.
And I guess it's the same thing.
CT side from Vitality, CT side from Apex, he's going to try to create cast, he's going
to try to set up side of the wind.
If you can do that, Vitality will win.
Okay.
Well, I think you don't have much more to add, right?
You said to be quick.
No, no, I've talked enough.
You think you've got a couple of breaths in there.
Yeah, we've got more of that coming your way.
So we're going to go to this quick break so we can come back, get Vitality
phase situated into the server itself.
Thus too, done, Inferno, done.
Now we just need Anubis to find out if phase or vitality can't secure that birth within
the lengths of...
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You might walk into a stack on the T side, and you might win the round.
But in your own head you're thinking like, they fully outplayed us, but we just won the round, right?
And everyone's...
Nice call.
You know all the casters and everyone is like, oh, you got away with this, like whatever it is.
But at the same time, then you lose a round, you made a really good call-on,
and your side player gets the timing, and as we spoke, loses the duel that's going to win the round,
and then the casters are going, like, what a weird call-on.
And you're thinking to yourself, like, this was actually...
He's a loan mate, he's a loan mate, he just...
He's free kills me.
The bad call was when he walked into a stack and just managed to win it.
Yeah, it's true.
Sometimes we die 1-1-1, and it's like, what the fuck is he doing?
But in the fairway, it's free 1-1 duels,
and some of them is not 50-50, some advantage for us and it's like it looks really bad, when
I watch it again like it looks really bad from outside what the plan is but there's like the
key details is in the duels and I think often that's really hard to see when the game is live
from castles and viewers that there is one duel that the call is about and if that duel
might turn one away you can react on it and if you win the duel the round is over but
And if you lose, the information you gained might be very valuable to what you planned.
Sure.
And I think that's very hard to see from outside.
The X-ray throws things off so much as well.
Yeah, of course.
I'm not watching clutches when the X-ray is off.
It makes it so much more like, I don't know, just CS-like.
When I'm watching rounds with the X-ray, sometimes I understand what the team is calling.
But for the viewer, it might look so dumb, like if the CTs are just making a good
plan or whatever.
The X-ray just throws it off so much.
Yeah, yeah, the thing we see it, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We see it through the whole A, it's there.
It's got together.
Yeah.
Of course, we don't know.
And that's also, yeah, I agree with that.
When you have the X-ray, you might think, yeah,
what the fuck is this?
Why did it go?
We have no idea.
The guy is there, mate.
Yeah, you know, we're not watching through walls.
A spot in the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024 playoffs.
It is up for debate.
The winner of this map will secure it.
And the loser will have to fight through that lower bracket.
It is Anubis, our third map of this series.
And it was a choice.
Vitality electing to remove Nuke leaves us here.
Understandable phase and Nuke is a potent combination.
But Anubis, Chad, you are looking through.
It's an interesting one for both teams.
Yeah, look, as far as Vitality are concerned,
this hasn't been the hottest map for them
by any stretch of the imagination.
They have lost the last four in consecutive fashion,
losses to VP G2 spirit and gamer legion and for phase you think a new bus. Where was the
last time I saw phase play in a new bus? Well, it was EWC against FlyQuest other than that
they haven't even played at this side of the season. And even before the season ended,
they weren't playing an awful lot either just once at Dallas. So for phase coming into
this as an opportunity for them to come in with some different looks, a little bit
of a different shape. We'll see. And these two teams Tassel, I was going through the
history books as well there was once upon a time a game this is when we were
CSGO it was MR 15 it was Vitality vs. FaZe all the way back to ESL Pro League
season 17 and the first half of that game was 14 to 1 and then you wouldn't
believe it I went back 14 to 1 the other way and it was actually quite a fun
cast because we went in at half time and we pretended that they were going to
bring it back and then they did so it was a little bit silly at the time
but I spoke to both the Karagin and Apex in that little round table you
guys might be catching between the breaks and they said that happened as
well in practice a couple of times so let's see just how one side of this affair can be at least
for the first half. Yeah well that was of I would assume T sides where the stomps were occurring and
Faze won the knife so they have elected to start on that same side. Okay well uh Faze clan how do
you want to kick things off you've had success in the pistols but go back to Inferno not so much
in the follow-ups they have had a few tough times against the lower buys of vitality throughout
this series the desk highlighting that clutch from apex with the cz 75 and ct spawn yeah that was nuts
okay well a quiet start for phase there is a flash as caragant he loves these
or p2 fit it yeah no care if he's facilitates frozen with his utils towards a actually
excuse me towards b yeah so they're likely selling a fake towards b and just posturing
outside of a for the aggression so if there is an a push off of the back of this they can
can still pivot speaking to push they wanted to push into their little stack
yeah well town there's a lot of bodies and they all fall to rain what a lovely
strap carragans spotted mid then the util lands be you have to push a main for
answers and you lose three bodies the bomb ready it helps when rain gets all
three clean I mean I'm sure that's a fantastic star for phases T side campaign
Yeah, good to see him on point. There was...
Was it here or was it a blast? But there was a certain point. He wasn't wearing his glasses.
There was a round or two or a game or two at blast. I saw no glasses.
So what's going on there?
I wasn't sure either.
Maybe they were at the repairman.
The glasses repairman.
Of some interest.
I believe that's the terminology.
Yeah, I said it was such confidence because I was sure too.
You don't wear glasses?
I don't.
Not a why?
Knock on wood.
Yeah, hang on.
All right, piss around the face.
Daisy and the Spinks are going to hold onto some Kevlar, so let's see, do they both go for the Famis' behind this?
They could go Famis, keep the Kev...
Be pretty potent going into the second, but this is beautiful from Rainy. Obviously had Rops behind him as part of this stack, but clinical on the shots.
Deletes them all three beautiful headshots.
Oh.
Oh, that's gonna happen.
They both went for Famis'. I'd love to see it. It's great when it comes good, when you see the landing.
Let's see what they can do with them obviously it does mean that there's not a single helmet in the squadron
Yeah, well, there's a few glills in the mix. I'm active for Carrigan
Frozen he'll be holding the B push car again top mid broke you that link player over towards stairs Rob side outside of a main
Rain will be playing up towards connector
But right now they can just play passively just sitting back allowing vitality to make the opening moves
Baskets oh dear they're coming to test James
Oh, he's ready to receive, removes robs.
Traded by rain.
So full A main control lost.
Looks like they're turning their attention towards grouping up.
And it looks like they might have a little lock towards canals.
They do swing through.
Spinks gets away with his life.
Info, two towards the composition.
Frozen on that probably the most hard work.
Least glamorous of the T side rolls.
Oh, that's glamorous from Spinks, makes great use of that Famas. No problem.
Can they recover this?
It's up to Frozen and Brokey, Brokey low.
Bodies are here, Apex hits the shot necessary, Brokey down two!
That's a big one back from Vitality!
Hoover up some AKs, two of which they find in time.
Massive work, it's a shade of Inferno Chad.
They had another one to the tally phase, you get in the pistols,
You just gotta get these conversions.
That one is a rough one to lose.
You get one for one on main, but Spinks with the double.
Commits to that farmer spray, beautiful.
And Reigns swinging out to try and get the kill.
Kerrigan took that initial contact.
You kind of wish that the Maktain
would have gone wide to open the line.
They remember that Spinks really didn't have to move
that crosshair too much.
And that one will leave a mark.
Phase, trying to bounce back in.
They've opened up with a smoke towards Darker,
deep one, and one towards A main.
They're trying to apply pressure across the map as they set up this B execute, but there's
three players for Vitality to defend.
As he braves to hold this headshot angle, he's flashed off, slow comes in, there's swarming B.
The third man is here in Apex, Karagun.
Yep, Triders luck, didn't clear IV, and as he gets a 3B and it looks like they've done enough,
this forced buy from FaZe has fallen flat.
Frozen.
Gets away from the initial spray, Spinks will finish it.
Wow for Vitality best possible outcome phase worst no damage no plant nothing to write home about in that round
Oh, and you know you that you kind of sit a spawn feeling extra good when they go. They bought right?
Yeah, that was kev that was tech 9s and carrying took the risk because two players completely unloaded their mags in the smoke
So these things I'll push through and try and catch them off guard was unable to find a frag
Could have been a difference maker things could have got very chaotic
But Vitality just got to coast that one in and now we'll see phase go for all the fullest of eco
it'll just be rock to the p250 to try and keep things somewhat interesting but apex at a big smile on his face after that round
Yeah, understandably considering that they come
Rounds are like
Is lovely from side who cleans up cleans house for kills his first
Contributions here on our third map. Okay, a case to be invested broke even operating with a galil for utilities sake
might have to see the same for Karagin because a few of these members might be a little bit light on.
Flamesy was unable to get his hands on that gullil over towards middle, so we'll still have to
be working with this MP9. Now again, I was talking about what Yanko said with Vitaly,
right the the first rifle rounds they tend to take these all in risk, but it was off of
if they win the pistol, they didn't win the pistol, they won the four, so I wonder if
it would just be a bit more of a standard round other than with that in mind. It does look that way.
So smoked off on con and lag smoke be main
Robbs chunks with a rugs day
Paragon dropping in
It's pressuring con is ahead of the smoke and yes, it's a trouble exposed
Trun up of that smoke into con and it's already cost him his life
To the cost of the site. I think it will frozen finds one with the flames
It's the rotation coming through and who doesn't get a chance apex
the bomb still has to get across.
I was playing from cave up bombers
tossed strong on a good measure.
He just punched and you'd assume
the round secure.
It did really look like they wanted
to send a car again through middle,
but you could see him navigating
by looking at the radar.
And they threw a lot of nades
towards me.
There was the flashes.
There was the molly doors that
you saw broken.
They're lining up a deep temple
smoke.
They kept mid busy knowing that the rotating player of Apex would be focused, drop Kagan
out and split B perfectly.
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable, you know, from Spinks POV.
Zywoon, Zywoon, Zywoon, oh.
Oh my god, he's on it, he's on it, he's on it, he's covered by flames, he's covered
by flames!
Zywoon nearly gets away with murder!
Fair play, fair play, trying to make the best out of the situation.
They had cash to splash, giving it a good go.
Oh, it took him a second to find the bomb, but ooh, with flames as covered, there's a universe where that goes through.
I saw him hanging around. I didn't think there was any chance that we're going to give that one a crack. Yeah.
The radius on the Nubus as well is so gentle. You know, I figured they were just going to try and get the exits, but they went for more.
Bit of relief from FaZe.
Oh, for sure. After the fumble already, you're not going to be feeling pretty hard done by if you lose an injured fuse as well.
That'd be a push coming through the pipeline.
But this is what Robbs is very very good at handling. He's got rain going in first
So it might have to be some trades rain managing his angles
Distance from the fight and brings it to me as he goes down empty-handed and they can't seem to deal with rain
They've won three rounds or I'm making an assumption because the bombs just been scuttled loose by as I was a WP
They should have won three rounds and all three Reigners got the opener over onto
Spinks, three Glock kills and now two of the AMM push Flamesy and Mezi
absolutely wrecked. Reign's come to play. He really has I mean you know we talk
about big game players I feel like Reign definitely does he thrives in an
environment with the additional pressure. Had a conversation to be had about
Hunter as well who heard a mammoth performance yesterday against Spirit
who floundering. I think it's really not a good look. Some murmurs going around with
different players I had some conversations with about maybe it's the end for a player
over there at Spirit as well. So we'll have to see if anything is possible considering
the schedule and what comes up next. But yeah, this phase conversation, we touched on it
before. We had these embattled legends with the trophy cabinet and they were faltering
And I touched on the tweet, so they knew it.
It wasn't just something that was being speculated and spoke about from us on the outside.
And they're like, no, everything's fine.
You know, it's all good.
It felt like there was a couple of reasons to be slightly concerned.
Such an active setup to be rumbled by just one dude.
Yeah, I'm just interested to see what Apex was saying.
And I said to go water.
Was he not sure?
Was he talking about a push down water?
Because he's not.
He's not happy.
Yeah, he's not happy with something.
My French is bad, but it sounded like Passemecout.
Passemecout? You're not listening to me.
It is good having Alex who can speak a little bit of German and a little bit of French.
That helps. And he would say that and his eye-witnesses would be saying it.
Yeah. And next has.
Okay. So that's what he was saying.
So whoever was the B-player, was it Spinks? No.
It was Zywer picking with the AWP.
Okay, boys, we need to listen to each other, not sorry, but we need to listen to each other, no way.
Okay, well you were right, you were right!
You were right!
Oh god, I was nervous, I think I thought I'd done it wrong.
Good job, Alex!
Thank you, woo! Vive la France!
Alright, smoke towards Con, keep smoke mid.
And a more passive stance towards A, and stand up Lee.
That was a huge nade that just landed on Flamesley's head.
57 points of health is all that remains after that.
Not bad at all, like the counternade to the nade spot.
Well, it's always been called over to bolster this a defense
Nezzy and Spinks locking down B and apex in flow between the two
Rain going through his paces
So exchange of you two very standard that smoke is it infinitely more annoying than just smoking off the mouth of con
They get a little deeper
However you prefer
That made back not bad either rain takes even more damage than flames. He did okay
Wow definitely a strong util game so far from both squads.
Bombs committed to A and there's three players with Apex on a fast rotation.
Heavens won't lined up.
Can also Molly back site.
Yeah, well would force Zywil into the open if they can MollyK.
They do, they do.
Nice extinguish keeps him around and he delivers the frag.
Teamplay from Vitality setting Zywil up for success.
Flames can be a real thorn in his opponent's side.
Oh!
Ah, with the absence of a Xyma and flames down to just 2 HP, it is problematic now.
30 seconds, bomb needs to be going down, they re-smoke heaven, rops goes searching.
Cam of vulnerability, frozen holding that rotate, nice find onto flames, Mezzy's poor low.
Broad down though.
In mid, Spinks knows that he only has to focus on the site, but still, 2 on 1.
Smoke stairs, limites, option starts to spam, rops not gonna over-commit here, broke you on an elevated angle,
using those steps to try and isolate the duel and Spinks is the one to hit it.
Gave him a chance.
He did.
And Spinks will take that.
Spotted on the cross.
Good awareness from Robs.
That's his fast three frags and it's round defining.
Huge work underway from Robs.
And I guess because Robs pushed towards Heavenrad and got that kill
that they expected him to be playing a little bit deeper.
I can't believe Broke even gave him a chance by going for those jiggles.
Wanted to try and
bait him Robs, which I guess worked overall.
And yeah, Spinks shot in the back, can't get easier for Robs, but you bang on impact.
He's had a great... Well, Robs was having good impact on Inferno, great impact I might say.
Yeah.
And he was having some big moments on Dust2 as well, even though they couldn't get it across the line.
Yeah, he's top of the scoreboard right now across the first two maps.
Ooh, rain.
Big frag onto Zywoo, trying to turn up the heat mid.
Gonna work out for them, broke he can't...
I see, Flames commits, but traded.
So...
The trade work.
Yeah, this is Zorda's gonna boil out into a nice...
Calm.
Eighth round.
That was them four brought into this. So they invested a little sum.
Was that on the woo? I think it was. I think it was.
Okay, so he just charged through mid with it.
Yeah, tried to get a little bit tricky with it, didn't they?
But yeah, I was looking at the frag totals. It's definitely,
ROPS has been informed at 1.29 rating across our first two maps.
So looking good. It's good to see a resurgence from ROPS.
No better time than an IEM cologne.
Well, that's where individuals...
No, he is the individual.
That's where the conversation was about the individuals of this team.
A lot of them gravitated towards roms, you know what's going on.
There seems like there was a lot of reasons as to why FaZe wasn't getting the job done.
Could work from Carrigan.
Moms up the final two.
And it's now a two-round lead.
How many more can they continue to stack on on this T side?
And this is the problem.
You couldn't have come into this event ruling FaZe out
out because if they do show up which they clearly are and then they make it to
the stage that that old trope that we have and it's it's a trope because it's
true is about these boys been big-game players they do their best work on the
stage and it's a completely different game when you get into that type of
environment certain rounds that you can and can't call aggression again
flashed out B main frozen will call that thought about flashing himself back
in for the fight adjusting for position vitality will give that over
It hasn't spurred FaZe into an immediate reaction. They're still just going to take their time.
I saw a double HE towards Cam there. That's a cheeky way of doing it.
Trying to catch the player in Ziwa's position.
They want to go back to B. Consider the little dots with the bomb going all the way back to respawn.
So they pushed out B-Man Vitality. They saw nothing.
Frozen didn't even bother hedging back to harass.
And they towards B-Man is a little bit of information,
but both teams playing for pieces of this chessboard.
Yeah, simultaneously. Mid-smoke, that might stall them out.
Do you keep pushing or do you think that that has some potency behind it?
Looks like they're just going to go back to more of a default 2-1-2.
This is a B retake setup right now. The position of Mezzie is telling.
Blocked at a very good time.
They go all the same.
Placement of his util head. FBs and sphinks.
Faaam damage.
They're committing through that smoke.
Karagin low HP, might try and make a play.
Caught by Spink, good work from him.
That's a massive double.
Catches Reign departing.
Conn, now the flank from Apex comes in and connects.
Zywu even finishing off Frozen.
And it all falls to Broki.
He gets overrun.
Two from Zywu.
Credit to Mezzie for delaying that.
Just got the cavalry there in time.
And that's what you would have been screaming if you were Apex.
I have a timing.
I'm flanking.
Just delay.
Don't die, don't die.
It's okay if we give away the plant.
Because he did continue to push mid after that B pressure came in.
Nio on the mic immediately calls the tactical timer the first with FaZe.
Spanx man, what a frag. Finding the second really changed the state of affairs.
Bang.
I know the stats don't say, but I feel like we're seeing...
Wow, it's when you compare it to the A1. It doesn't really stack up because that's
normally a financial decision or positional decision. But I feel like we are seeing more
more and more A4s. Yeah for sure. More of an aimer's gun I think. Okay Nio, what have
you cooked up in the lab my friend? Still more than enough money for face to get out of full
bite. Now lacking a little bit of utility on Rain, only has a smoke to his name, broke
you with the AWP. So both teams about to lock horns. In round number 10 we are getting
to the tail end of half number one map number three. We're going to go aggressive B man
Again, they're flushing out once more. Apex is setting them up.
Early pressure onto Frozen.
They know that it's rarely occupied by more than one, so why not confirm it?
There's no early pressure from FaZe anywhere.
Yeah, I like that the fact that they're not smoking left side-side
and dropping down and trying to have the initial peek or mollying,
B main to stop the aggression, vitality making the most of it.
Especially because they invest...
FaZe invests two smokes off the rip most times.
It's a lurk smoke and a con smoke.
Sure, they can't make anything off of it early.
Apex is scared of mid.
He's heading through beach to A. Concedes mid completely. Let's as he know that it's a vulnerability.
Looks like a good rotation though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it seems like he's ahead of the play.
Well, they're ahead of all of this. Look how close they are.
They're here so quick Alex, they're not ready for this.
No, as I was, that's Paragon. Apex is there, but surprised by Frozen's trade.
They know that Flamesy has to be around.
Maybe he's so fast on this too.
Maybe he's going to catch him off guard.
Like Frozen, have you, are you anticipating someone to be, yeah, I don't think he is.
This is gonna shock him.
This is a fri- Ooh, nice catch.
Takes down Frozen.
Brokey Heaven with a lot to do.
Robs through mains mode.
Brokey, ooh, he's getting stressed.
Flames forces him to look at him with a defuse.
Now Robs is in the clutch with a dissing, a defuse.
Couple of seconds!
It's Vitality 5!
Impressive round.
Genuinely impressive from Vitality.
Their awareness, that rotation from Apex.
He was so ahead of the play and messy as well. I think the productivity of them at the start. Alright, let's prod be
Let's see what type of round we're dealing with if we spot more than just frozen babies sitting
Then we know that it's going to be something a bit of a different round
Maybe a B play then not only did they go aggressive long
They went straight down towards connector and they did the same thing and that point
They had a good idea that it's likely they're going to be this a play or mid the rotation from apex gets over in time
I thought they were gonna have a real jump on them because phase had made so much headway without making a lot of sound
But how do you can win the half?
That would be crazy.
CT side of Nubis, third map for the spot in the playoffs
and this one's going to go one way fast.
Karagin trying to push the smoke goes down.
Yeah, this map was played 14 times during stage one.
And was it as T side bias as usual?
Well, let's bring up the stats.
I think four out of the seven maps, I think with T side it.
Okay, yeah.
Play ins.
I'm tracking from sphinx but gets the job done
Yeah, a new bus with a huge sample size was a sixty one point two percent
T wasn't the most T-sided but the other months have such small smaller sample sizes compared by vertigo
62
63 for Inferno
Ancient was T-sided 58
8.
Put an oomis up there. So, I mean, the point stands. If Vytanti can leave with 7, they'll
have done a lot of heavy lifting in this first half.
Roky robs left alone with just desert eagles and a dream.
And Apex here to disrupt that.
Flash will force him off.
At least make him turn.
Yeah.
Rops just has to time this perfectly.
Oh, actually gets the info for free then. They flash. I like that approach.
Gives it a bit more potency and threat, but there's Zyowins to provide the cover.
He takes some bangers here Robson has not done that
Six already
Approved could this be seven and you just have to look at phase so far in this tea half
Who's the man that you'd attribute to the impact on these rounds?
It's rain three on the pistol round two on an a main rifle round push had an opening kill when they were doing a B
Split he's the man that phase of had to look to to crack them into these scenarios
Otherwise my tell you have done a good job of reading the play rotating in and now phase
they would love six before they go into this two-minute break. And again they're
going for the same type of scenario heavy with this clump of individuals
rain-brookie-rops over towards A. Nobody outside of B at the start. They have dropped
the lurksmoke, they're fed up of those pushes of the likes of Spinks and Mezzie
for info. That lurksmoke has also pulled Apex over because of the extra
angles that it opens up over towards the site. I think they're just going
with the keep it simple stupid method. FaZe are going to attack A once more.
They've got Zywoo and he is posted so they have to do this perfectly by the book. Flash
is in. Zywoo is still not blind. Having a real tight gap here. The Molotov will force
a decision out of him and he just respects it. Gets out, tucks the cave. Vox playing
ahead of the U2. A re-pink attempt from Zywoo costs him his life. He actually ate
the flash there and down they go. Rain again. It's rain impact. Double kill
from him, Karagin catches rotations, Apex unable to do anything. Just as he talked about his
impact, Shadi finds a bono more of it. Trying to find the best way to approach this in a
two on four. Worried about a mid-lug, nothing home.
We're off to space, gotta give this one a go, mate.
Second flash, he does. Attempt and we have 6-6. So dead even on the half. Gooda work,
cut out for them as we swap sides. Vitality taking to the T side in pursuit of the
half of Counter-Strike separates us from putting another team locked in for the playoffs.
Faze and Vitality fans watching on on the very edge of their seat, I'm sure as this
final half of a Mubis awaits us. Faze will take to the CT side. They've managed to
muster up six, but Vitality's defense, some incredible work from the likes of Spinks,
has put us in position where we're talking about a favored Vitality finish. They're
on the T side what do they go for to start with a bang pick up that pistol put
them on the right foot it's rain again I mean that was the other side of the coin
rain has been doing everything you can the Jorberetta's kept humble inside
with the blast testing flashing in for Rob's trying to set him up for success
but now they know where he is carrying it's a necessary headshot but it's
Rob's good for flames puts it on to Spinks bomb lost on fountain this is a
dream for FaZe start their CT side with a bit of momentum behind the pistol. That hasn't been an issue
finding the pistol but converting. It's a conversation we'll have when we get there.
For now it just spinks without the bomb and with a whole lot of time. So patience ladies and gentlemen
maybe grab a drink. And you mentioned the edge of the seat, Falcandar as well. They'll be playing
the loser of this series. Winner will take on the victor of ComplexVMMals which is kind of
going on twitch.tv slash ESL CSB sounds like it's heating up I can hear
scrawny and Launders making a bit of noise that spinks he was patient he
waited out the smoke and now he returns to see if he can pull off a one on three
no Kevlar 63 points of health and a flash they know they have to bomb and
down he goes another one for rain okay well that's five out of the six
pistols within the series, but of those five, FaZe have only won the follow-up once. They've only
made the conversion once. That's damning. So if you're Vitality, and I think in that, Vitality even
gave it to him. I think they even took the eco in that scenario. Okay. So is it definitely,
now or never, FaZe, if you're going to try and confer around that you have all of the advantages,
but every time, actually, this is an interesting one from Vitality.
What are you looking at?
It's looking all in.
Let's turn to the God of Counter-Strike in some people's book.
Born on the death of Counter-Strike.
But definitely a friend to Counter-Strike.
The God of the team.
While still remaining financially viable into the next.
Vitality's poster boy.
One of the three in the conversation for Player of the Year so far, alongside of the likes
of Donk, already eliminated, and Monacy playing up next against Astralis for elimination.
survival because the Lancet is still laying on the line and that one will be another series
between the Danes or G2 but Zywoo, can you make another miracle happen?
No, no we can't.
Not if you're going up against Rain.
Too good, too damn good.
So good.
So did.
Alright, well Alex, Rain is, are you ready for this?
Go on.
You're sitting down.
Oh, yes.
Seven and one in opening jewels.
This man is definitely helping define how we look at the ageing players.
For real.
Yeah, I mean him and Dupree are doing everything they can.
Seven and one.
Impact on almost all of the T-side rounds that they've picked up, and he's not slowing
down.
Two round advantage for Faze.
The rifles come out for everybody besides Apex.
He's gonna have another little peek.
He's feeding himself.
Early info towards T-Stars.
Mezzie, oof, swallowed 50 points of damage of their abouts, jumps over the spam from Zywoo,
trying to return the favor.
They've just blocked out towards A main once more, and they might try and aggress somewhere
else on the map while doing so.
They've completely fogged on the site, just hoping that the smoke wall does its job, and
that's why we're so focused on these mid and B players, because that's most likely
where the first action comes in.
So about 10 seconds vitality have to wait before the main smoke clears, so Mezzie's
He's just staring at that grey screen, and now Zai with the same.
So being blocked across, B-man pushed.
Spinks will hear this.
Second flash is grey, but they're not able to capitalize on it.
Oh, and he still gets brain jiggling now.
That's a very important trade back.
Frozen.
Takes it.
It's just Karagin over to one day with an MP9.
Hmm, then that could very well be the beginning of
Faitanati's first round.
Where does Mezzi use this molly?
Oh, perfect.
Oh, Karagin's in trouble.
Wow, he still gets one. Not bad. Not bad. But that is Robbs gets nothing
Would have liked a bit more but the flashbang from apex was too damn good
I'd have to be the save you can sort of find answers for rain and bro key
During the doll drums as far as the buys are concerned. They have to play this one conservative
I'm curious over to what's be the second flash looked really good on the sphinx's position
but nobody pushed forward to clear out pizza and
That's an opening kill back the other way
We were doing an Anubis game just the other day where we saw that used to great success.
That type of a push to clear out that difficult corner.
But Faze can't say the same.
So, Paitani will win the first rifle round, draw it back to just one.
And Apex will even get an AK for his troubles.
Frozen can drop something.
I think it is going to be Rain who needs that the most.
Yeah, tough from Faze.
I would just mentioned Famous but it was able to pick up an AK so I think they
should be aware that that is a possibility. Good shooting as well in
combination with those flashbangs from Apex. Clean with it. I respect the crosshair
choice as well. Rops has gone into an orc. Yeah he's an innovator. Yeah we saw him
doing on Dust2 as well and I understand that it gives him a few more options.
Just the angle, by the way. If ever I'm trying to reference it, this is the angle Rob takes it.
Hey, Rush, press 1 if you could, Matt. Thanks, mate. Thanks, Rush.
You can get off him now. Sorry, sorry, man. Sorry to disturb you.
That was the angle.
To surprise Mezzi on his clears, but we are not going A. At least not for now.
He's just not having any U-Til, right? So he's just gonna have to play heads up,
and Brophy's also tucked over towards A, so they are playing a bit of a total setup on the CT side.
There's a lot of room for Vitality to take for seemingly free, but they are going to go through the motions.
Good flash flamethrower is going to clear closed doors, nobody home, an exchange of smoke,
so Karrigan trying to puff up his chest to see him bigger than he is.
Ooh, Greml have heard that drop.
But looking like they want to pivot back towards A again.
Now we mentioned Rops having a good series so far.
This would be his moment to stand up with a bit of a statement.
Multi-kill required.
Red is his aim, need to bait, safe from fountain, and there's the jump surprise, it's only one!
Nezzy good for it, Nezzy! Double arm!
Garregor, are you next? On the naughty list, he overlooks the position, but a knee jerk trade
straight from Zywoo, and the site is lost.
They need to be going 1 for 1 in that situation, because if Kargan comes in and then it's a 2v2
it seems like a possible retake, but Rain and Frozen know that trying to get back in towards that bomb site,
that bombsite even with a number advantage the best of times can be very difficult.
Sure they have an incendiary, a HE and a kit to work with but it's just too tall of a task
and too much to risk at this point of the game. So Vitality they will get away with a great
necessary trade there from Mezzi with the flash coming in. It's Brokey stepping out and getting
nothing done. And you can understand why he's doing so because Karagon was under pressure in
middle. I think he was smoked off towards Temple so they didn't really have a whole lot
of information of exactly what was going to be piping through and if it was going to be a split.
So you can justify Brokey swing. Yeah, I really liked that quick reaction after carrying in smoke doors to just drop and group a
It was just like kind of you know, maybe to him 10 15 seconds to configure eight and then it was gone
Into a into a good work from Mezzi eight eight
To on the trot for vitality's t-side campaign
Well, I think one of the good fortunes for phases rain has one of these saved rifles
It will be light investments from the remainder of the phase clan
Allowing that loss bonus to build going into the next they should get the buys out no drama is 2400
But what can rain do?
Can I debate? I like it
The incendiary does indicate that there is aggression afoot and glad he called his jets
He could have just kept going in but the fact he stays alive. It's even though you only have a USP
It's really important to just be a name on the board.
Something to fear.
Don't give them any inch, any mile.
This is a great timing for ops.
They're gonna hard clear it though, Alex.
They will 100% hard clear this.
Well, it wasn't a hard.
It was a clear.
They did clear it.
Yeah.
So they 99% will hard clear it.
An alternative boost from the statue boost.
The problem I have with this is they don't have a smoke and if you have a tally with all these nades
Surely you can molly it right?
Yeah Spinks is the one with the molotov
Right Spinks?
Oh that's a good shout mode
Hang on, there's the molly
There she is
Well goodnight sweet princes
He's still got an angle
And he's still got a chance to find impact
Rain does find two
Now with Frozen's help and they're actually doing it
Triple kill of the life for Frozen
closes! That's massive for FaZe! What a gift! Reign continues to deliver! They missed the Molly!
Yeah, he still had space on Glyff. I can't quite believe that.
Look at this! Look at the gap there and all the damage that he does,
they did use the Molly just not deep enough. They even naded with it. It was the second
nade that came into play and Reign continues to have massive impact against team Vitality
in a game for the arena.
Oh, the juxtaposition between the two.
Fury on one side, jubilation on the other.
Tech nines, Chad, it's aggressive.
They're counting on Siwu.
They put an AK in his hands and they said,
please, go kill.
But he finds nothing on Conn.
Spinks an early death, an early departure.
Starting...
Hey, they had the opening kill in that round.
That was a 4v5.
And then the execute should have been bang-on.
They flubbed it, they threw that smoke too shallow into the molly, so it didn't even go left side-side correctly.
He's been all the time in the world to find Robster, perfect flashbang from Apex, I'm sure he's getting plenty of the effective flashes.
Carraghan, what have you got here?
Yeah, Wise, Wise, no one was holding that angle for the cross.
The flash!
Like that!
Again with these flashbangs, three on three.
Aragon activates, good find, catches flames, focusing now on Mezzie, yeah, had to be headshots with the limited bullets.
Bomb plant, two on two, Rain and Frozen Bear, they did it once, can they save them again?
So much at stake, what have you got Rain? Mezzie hunting him, and Mezzie delivers for vitality.
An important kill again on the A side, he's having a T side is Mezzie.
Frozen rocking up, from Main, Apex will aware of that possibility, the HE will soften him up.
He's here, anticipating the hole. They're so low. They are so low, but so is the time.
He has to go. Now or never. Tries the transfer. Needs to get on that bomb. It's not perfectly
planted. Time-sensitive. Meggy swings! What's the time?
You're a little too shy. Fight, Tally. Fight back.
When Frozen just survives, they're to hold on to that AK, giving them at least something
to carry through and you see Rainer already in heaven but how much can you ask of the
guy he's done such a great job in this third and deciding map of the series with his impact
in that moment just couldn't deliver the necessary kill onto Mezzi coming searching.
And this time round phase opened things up with that entry but you have to really give
credit to Flamesy.
The flash work was bang on, robs completely blind and the same for that of Brokey
And there wasn't necessarily the most conventional flash position that he threw the second one from he was down in canals
Yeah, great flashes from mezzi and apex. They've got 24 flash assists combined
Now there's the first and the second was a thing of beauty as well frozen giving this one on two. That's not flashes
That's valve. Yes, that's people flash enemies flashed. Is it? Wow, whatever the definition is
I'm just gonna call it yes. Yeah valve cause the enemies flashed HLTV cause it affected flashes. God damn it guys
Can't we just get on the same page? We just can't
Well, by the time you win this, you're going to crack through, you're going to break that glass ceiling.
I've heard about that.
Think about a chocolate factory.
No Willy Wonkers here.
Rain back in a way.
Forced away.
Two rifles in the mix.
God, this is all hanging on by the thread.
Gamble 4 towards B.
Just rops in A main.
Mird is a void and Carrigan addressing that.
Well then, it's not a worry, it is just going to be an execute towards B once more.
This is his smoke. Here's that Mach 10.
Rain well aware that there's potential for Spinks to be occupying that far right angle.
Frozen and Broke, he's both just kind of ready to deliver if he gives the fight. There it is!
Spinks! Get one, but shut down!
They're rotating.
They're silently walking towards mid or magnetizing towards mid with a little bit of A on top.
Mezzy and Zywoo heading towards Robs.
Completely flashed, he's got to get one hit.
Oh, hard to track, doesn't do well without Mezzie does great and Karagin the next victim.
Apex catches him off on the rotate, rain however.
Perpetual threat, what's he got?
Noah, bullet, hands towards his ribcage.
And Brokey, Brokey big actually, catching Zywoo.
Rain down, but it's all up to Brokey, he could do this.
Mezzie's overlooked this potential crouch walk and now we're talking, now we're cooking Brokey, this could be huge.
Can he secure it for FaZe?
On planted.
Flames vs Brokey, Xtaz not gonna blink.
Fatality heard, it's saved by Flames!
What a series this has been, these line of buys always a thorn in either side.
Back and forth the individuals on display and another round coming down to a 1v1 Flamesy.
Gets it done.
Oh man, you gotta learn some Counter-Strike haven't ya?
Getting your Monday nights died with a bang. Oh, I thought Broke you've done a lot there
but Flames look at this, angrily finding a quick first bullet headshot on the Galil.
Not shy, not shy. Apex as well. The same.
Red Carpet rolled out for 11 now for Vitality has to finally be around with no threats.
A flash and a P250 is all FaZe could bring into this one. This is probably the easiest
around Vitality have played in this map so far. Everybody's here. Yeah, stacking a flash.
Flames is actually going to be the perfect disruptor though. Yeah, they're going to walk
straight past him, nice little distraction. Get the Galil guys, get the Galil. And then
Flames. They got the Galil. Yeah, but then Flames takes it all away. Stops the Galil
retrieval. Takes down Brokey. Mezzy charges our main and Jobs are good at 11-9 the
Scoreline and we are gonna get the guns back out for phase
Okay, I
Presume cave is gone. I believe that they call okay. Yeah
Rain's not gonna be anywhere near that. This is B. Look how direct this is the radar tells the entire picture this round
It's time for a yeah, well a's been an issue because look at Rob's he's been getting exploited
Yeah.
It's a great call from Apex.
Oh, he wants it.
In pursuit of being just one round away, rain empty handed.
That surely sealed the deal 12.
Imminent.
They have to save Chad.
And that's the Apex, yeah, it allows it.
What a fantastic call and read.
Just straight into it, direct again from Vitality.
We had some similar scenes going down on Dust2.
Surely that tickles your IGL brain.
You see that they've conditioned A.
They know the anchor's struggling.
You know that Karrigan's aware that it's a vulnerability.
You just lost a 1v1 on A.
You've lost multiple rounds on A.
And so you call it a wrecked approach towards the under guarded side.
And you throw into the mix that rains the one holding over towards connector.
And he's been having the most impacts for face in the game so far.
So we think, well, we want to avoid this threat.
But no, they go straight into it, pull off the execute,
even having a talk in spawn to discuss that we know the right flashes.
Regardless, they pull it off.
They stick the landing.
They get to 12 first.
And now it's the three consecutive four-phase
who were able to retain three guns.
Drops are available because of the loss-burners.
Rain and Frozen will be equipped.
But now, for Carrigan, this is the mental game.
Does he go back to stacking three players towards A?
Does he go for an aggressive maneuver?
How does he want to approach this CT side?
But it's a conversation for Apex to have the same
with his team, and they are the ones who have more opportunities.
Do we want to just throw balls to the wall?
Do something fast? Do something aggressive?
See if we can close it because even if they stack the right side and you are in their face
You just have to get these trades and that's round done. It could be the perfect call from Carrigan
But it might not matter
30 seconds to talk this one three see both sides are locked in conversation
Series point three of them
Vitality one round away from returning to the Lancers matters of the semis
last year buster ends
Mezzie was not a part of this roster then, he's never played on the stage in Cologne, he'd love to get out there to Brit.
Apex has seen a few Cologne finals over his career.
Two to be specific, Frozen flirting with some aggression, they wanted to just take early B main but Xayu was with them.
Xayu was here, he can do a lot but no, it's Frozen, great one!
Double kill, Flames at least one back, Rain could be next, Rain, he's fapping around with his nades and that two-man advantage just dissolves, disappears.
Here's Apex down to Karagin just walking through the smoke.
Crazy start to this round.
That's a brand new flavor.
Haven't seen that, that's all.
After these timeouts, this is what we're left with.
A frozen double.
Responded to in kind.
Apex overextending into mid
and now they're walking into B.
Broke, he's got a lot to do.
He's more worried about canals.
He has to be aware that he's keeping B open.
He has to be aware that he's exposed to Jail.
Bounce spotted, bounce spotted.
Oh, Brokey.
Brokey!
Oh, he's not gone down!
Flames whiffs it!
Brokey allowed!
No, he's not!
On the cross, bad goes down!
Flames vulnerable!
Port to 50!
They're both coming in from Conside!
Spinks!
Punching in the code.
Tagged down.
That M4 one-shot headshot looks more likely now,
but not if Flames hits everything!
It's up to Robs!
A tough map!
Two good maps!
But can he redeem himself here a one-on-one to extend play up against Spinks has the kid
Battle of wits and Spinks has managed to get himself all the way down tucked into cave
There's no planet for him. That's a ball. He call ropes weren't understand that it
And there's vitality they have secured the Lancet arena the Golden Hornets will be happy
Mezzie, a ticket box to his very first.
Tough battle, three maps, Faze showed up on Inferno, Dust 2 went to overtime and Faze could have...
On the context.
Well the utils on Apex to Block B, so it's going to have to be the USPs getting it done over towards A.
So I went long side, there's the flash, here comes the waterfall.
Yeah, Reign's going to be the front man, but it's actually going to be a one and done from Spinks.
Partner in crime gets empty completely empty handed there mezzan spills for
And they will get that bomb down so mission accomplished as I was already been goose so that's a yeah impact
Not gonna be felt this time on his inferno pistol
In the A site probably a good call is
The flash flamethrower is in!
He nearly gets out double kills great rain shuts it down though
Oh that was almost one way for the kids to kick things off. I suppose. Yeah well this
is quite a threat that's still available. Flames and Apex over towards B but they
have that dropped M4 in their hands as I would have assist and it'll take burst blood.
Yeah is that retrievable? I don't know what the carry can knock it on the door but he
peaces out. They know there's a window of opportunity away from that M4. They have to
be quick if they want to try and feed the rotation and play the number advantage.
Lining up smoke towards the long side, head towards library. They're gonna try and wrap.
This is a good call against the line of five. Campionana spinks with one and a half.
Ooh, yeah, now, I thought was a free frag. Apex a little lazy on that one.
It's slow to pull the trigger, but it doesn't matter if Flameless hit it one tap late.
Oh, they've pulled it off! Apex with a double kill. Let's go indeed.
They leave with the round, disrupting FaZe's momentum on the second round of play.
Now it's FaZe's turn. Something they're known for historically capable in these kind of rounds.
Yeah, the problem is they're just gonna have to take their time with this.
You need to allow all this CT utility to be siphoned through or flash and fight!
Okay, Apex is fortunate that the flames are on his side and not just the play up.
Jumping while flashbang, then ooooh, Karrigan swallows a HE grenade down to 47.
Might get sphinxed on the long side on a jiggle.
Info place is staying active, Vitality. Oh, and they will have heard that. Karagat needs
to search forward. Oh, you know what? Not far off converting
onto Flames. Well, you take the dink and that might entice the rest of FaZe to head
over towards B and see if they can finish the job that they're in-game leader starter,
but this is looking very good for a 2-1 lead for Vitality, which should quickly
become 3-1 with the full eco next. That shouldn't be too much here for FaZe.
Rain will search and actually just, oh, he's hit the headshot.
Okay, scary, he's got a comfortable, does go down off the one, but he knows there's a boost up
and he's gone down two, Faze have managed to find the site.
Incredible shooting from Rain. I thought that crouch was going to be in Flames' favor,
but it led to the death of that CT rotation from Spinks.
Yeah, it's crazy, Spinks gets nothing done there.
Hang on. Yeah, that's a fantastic nade from Zywin.
Molly would do the job.
He's in trouble, trying to get away doesn't hit the first tap and so Zywu closes it down
a costly one sure but all they needed was the round and it's Zywu that converts it.
In a force fight again.
Was this not a risk?
No I like it there's only one player that survived you know that thereby is going
to still be a little bit rough around the edges. I say that as we take a look at 3M4s in an AK
but lacking U2.
Yeah they're going to try and search towards early apps control.
Apex goes looking get to that Mac 10 to the face Zywu alongside though.
Catches Frozen takes him down. Rain looking to advance.
Mezzy responsible for boiling the incendiary will limit Rain's contributions
the lick of the flame audible. So timing is everything on this.
He's gonna try and swing through that smoke. Here he comes. They're blind.
Oh but he is dead. Huge from Robbs. Long range tech 9 headshot posted.
Mezzy, Mezzy gets two. But Robbs has done the same. It only
Sphinx and that bomb will go down with plenty of time to spare.
Robson-Karrigan up against Sphinx.
This time there's no utility to clear out those corners.
That's why I helped them last time, the Molly and the HE.
This is awkward.
Robson's had a huge, impactful round with a Karrigan call to just push all the chips in.
They know they have some fun.
But Sphinx could make this costly. He could come back.
One versus two, denied by Robson.
Quad kill from the Estonian. That is 2-2, all tied up.
Yeah, great to see some impact from Robs like that.
And this has been a tussle near the team.
It's been able to establish what their game plan
was gonna be coming into this matchup just yet
because we've had the force by wars back and forth
almost consistently and that damage.
Yeah, that's massive.
And then he does everything himself.
The tech nine coming in just completely shutting down
any of the advances from Vitality to defend that site.
And we'll continue.
It's not over yet.
The force by needs to come back from Vitality.
That bullet and holes had been taken.
That one goes rain.
Early death is going to be costly.
Significant damage to Zywoo.
As they walk through the archside smoke,
they can pincer onto A,
and that looks like what they're doing.
Well done by Mezzie.
Good push from Spinks.
He's into the site.
Spinks, he can go round from behind.
Broke, he's a free frag.
The bomb goes idle.
Robbs and Karagun, they've only got 20 seconds.
First frag is great.
Great, Robs provides the second, but a great cost to his health.
Karagin needs to pick up that bomb now, Apex is going to stop him.
Oh, he fights instead.
Flash is good.
Xayu has been spotted out with the frag.
He knows where Flames is too, so he knows where they both are.
13 seconds, it's still not comfortable, and timing...
Chance squandered on the 5-7.
Faker the plant.
Hoping to punish, takes the head.
You haven't got time for that, Karagin.
Oh, no, the clock.
It converts the round for him.
I think misjudgment there from Karagin.
Thought he had time for a rifle retrieval, or perhaps anticipates I was to have gotten
doubled up, but either way, yeah, it's a bit of a sigh from Karrigan, knows he could have
done a bit more with that.
Frozen out of the Moto Smoke, that was the penultimate smoke from FaZe, so you'd expect
there to be a commitment off the back of that.
Karrigan has flashbangs, but Apex with their HE onto Frozen elsewhere, that's the Lurk
gone.
And they start to accelerate, Spinks, good find already, broke into the site, well
You'll find one.
There's he's the only one there,
but not for long rain doubles up.
The bomb will go down and FaZe have the sight.
Oh, do we finally see a save?
We might have to.
They were so far away.
It wasn't like they had an early lead time
on that apps explosion.
Look at how many MP9s are in the server.
They're not all on one side.
We've got two MP9s carried over from FaZe,
one for rain, one for character.
This is wild.
This is the bare knuckle brawl right now.
MP9's for the T side, but it's Frozen's first and it's an impactful one onto Flames.
Going looking, Apex cautiously retrieves that M4.
Yeah, and you immediately want to look at the radar.
Are the A defenders looking to group up and try and take some space?
Well no, both plans are quite defensively as it is Banana, where they want to take this jewel.
Spinks with the assistance of Apex to see if they can catch the crawl.
Oh, this is a good combo.
Designed to disrupt this very setup.
Spinks and Apex noted chipping away at Apex to 35 it's Zywoo elevated on the barrel
Carragane down and out but immediate from Robson the way back, Mezzi long range from down
and so the Aci wants again false and Vitality may just have to reside themselves to a very
similar situation to the previous okay so now we should see the save from Vitality that will
result in an eco behind the m4 and the mp9 oh good boys yeah it's good to do that as well
all right well it's all good it's not the end of the world only two round difference
still plenty to be played within this map here's that orb so it was dropped across so i
were getting active with it and removed big one from rop just swing straight into zaewoo
and then another one the menu mesi does well to get away with his life
An important equalizing frag.
It's insane that our rops has just gone so quickly into that fight.
He's not shy, is he?
It's not really kind of typically his style.
In the worst case, he found himself towards CT and they're in a full retake setup.
Now that Apex is over, they won.
Spinks his info.
Here we go.
All right, Apex, what are you going to do with this?
No, you till really.
The fast flanks.
Spinks to put the bomb down.
That's going to completely change the plan to phase.
Really uncomfortable round now for FaZe Clan. They're just gonna pick up the bomb and go. Same plant. Slightly delayed. Flame, shut up!
At least one empty-handed. Rain has found a huge Frank back.
Bomb down. 3 on 3. This is an intense retake and it could have got awkward for Sphinx.
Core jumping up, mantling on towards the barrels. Frozen concede just backs away.
Time on their side.
Last of their utile used to try and take half wall, but throws on the re-aggress, and
Mezzi falls, Karagin takes two. It's a phase six on this two-side.
Alright, alright, well, we've gone through the history. That match over in London, the
spring finals were blasts. Inferno was the map choice of phase, they won it 13-4.
See if we can do more with it there. So we've made quite a statement in this opening
game. We have only seen that one game, Vitality vs Furia. This is our second look at what Vitality
are bringing to IEM Cologne 2024. Same to be said for FaZe. And there's IWZOR. Good for
it. But down after one, Frozen loses his life and the bomb rops is there. That's teamplay.
They leave with an advantage and a side. Yeah, rops did his job perfectly there.
That late piece through Boiler. That setter gets rumbled. They're waiting there for
progression holes which we've seen quite consistently from FaZe. Rain and
rops up through boiler and holes being quite aggressive that's how the last
time Zawa had an AWP got rumbled. This time they go straight up the guts, go
long side, AWP sawns off. They learn of the boiler sawn who rops comes through and
cleans house. It has to be another Vitality save and it's these two yet
again Apex and Flamity. Yesterday was way too easy for Vitality wasn't it?
I don't mean that in a bad way I mean it in a way that they just
absolutely mold their opponent. It was a non-issue whatsoever.
Apex does get that one and should get away with his life. Let's go into the final round of the first half.
Thinks twice about it with a single flashbang. He's going to set his boys up.
Yeah, the fact that you draw that smoke at about a minute,
twenty-two on the clock, mission accomplished, you've applied so much pressure,
vitality, feel like they're under threat. The comms, if you're the A guys right now,
Now you'll be hearing the B players just screaming that smoke flashes, hey cheese, they're picking, we hear them in the molly.
So now they get a moment of respite, but that's where FaZe turn their attention to take this mid control. Rain making no secret of this.
And they downspinx his pocket.
Ooh, didn't quite nail the flash plate. Get away with his life.
Going through the motions here FaZe, so you're already taking and maintaining banana control now. You've got brackets and a bit more.
They want to sell it short.
he might peek around this and he's done well to find Karagin.
Oh. Hang on, Zai Wu.
Best rop, so now it's looking good for a Vitality 4.
Anticipating a B finish.
Now Util has landed on CT. Apex unable to do too much.
Does have a smoke of his own though.
Have to get through.
Yeah, but that's if you can get past that SMG.
Elevated with Flames.
Finds him with the MP9.
Broke it.
Brokey, the spam's where the smoke does well to find itself a kill, grabs the AK-47,
rains alongside Vorit, plays in the smoke, it's chaos but Brokey hits the shot!
Oh!
The rain hits another!
Good god, I think they've turned it around.
The hard work done, how has that happened?
Brokey and Rain miraculously enter the B site with a couple of seconds to spare.
Oh Vitality are gonna be kicking themselves if they can't close.
Mezzy and Spinks tasked with getting back into this B bomb site.
And as he comes in first, Barrel spotted, Brokey knows he executes it, and now the last
of four!
That is miraculous!
What a way to close out the half, a ninth, and five frags between the two of them, Raid
and Brokey.
Heroes for Faze as we take two.
Molly, out of flames, you did clear off that porch side, Frozen having to now search
down Banana.
Will Apex go overlooked?
Is it a little bit of a mind game?
Oh, nice sharp robs.
That's the most out of it. Apex however was waiting for this and oh wow. He's put a bullet
onto Frozen's head. Yeah this is gonna go hectic. This is uncomfortable. Highly uncomfortable
and Messi's doing everything he can. A third is great and the bomb is on his back if he
only knew. Brokey should dangle Frozen on his fishing rod. This is going to be tough
to get them both. Is he going to be anticipated? Doesn't matter. With a low HP, Frozen still
Oh, it's the headshot.
So yeah, it did what he could with a triple kill from Masi.
But as you said, this spells trouble for Vitality.
If they can't win this one.
Yeah, they've been able to get an AK in the hands of Zaiwuz.
Got head up behind it.
So let's see if he can make a play.
Even just so they can start warming into the series,
they're going to go into their map choice of Dust2Next.
And they'll be a whole lot more comfortable.
But to get blown out in a match for the arena,
Vitality did make it to the Lancess last year.
Masi, the only one not part of this team,
he would love to grace the Cologne stage.
Never seen Mr. Merriman out there.
But everybody else in the server we have in FaZe,
they've even won it.
There you go, that's Zaiw doing what Zaiw does fast
with the AK-47.
That's why you put the Kalashnikov in his hands
as you look to try and disrupt the A site.
Straight in, double kill.
Oh, it's back from up.
Brokey, yeah, they nearly lined up for the double,
and there's just three HP.
The bomb going down.
And Zaiw putting another one in the dirt.
Brokey's solo in trouble.
looks like Vitality have done it enough to make a little bit more out of the second half.
We're going to get more of this forced by Nonsense. I think that would be dependent on if Broz and can hold on to their upgrades.
Apex really wants to take this away and well, yeah, he's been a big enough distraction to get another for Zywut.
So everything Zywut needed dropped the AK finds the opener and that essentially secures Vitality the round.
The fourth, just a six round game now, let's say just.
MI-12, it's going to be quite quick to get back into things,
and that's where the financial decisions of FaZe, we're going to have to put under a microscope,
just like we did with Vitality in the first half.
I mean, yeah, this is a replay so far of the first half as far as the rounds go.
FaZe with both pistols.
Vitality with both second round forces.
See what they can do with what they have.
Three saves. One rifle.
Oh, and they picked the correct site to hit again.
Robson Rain, the A defenders, the ones who went down in the pre...
Ooh, nice catch with the boost.
Okay.
But that is just going to accelerate them into the USP's and Vietta, you know what works?
SMGs versus no care for our flames, had no problem against Rain there, Spinks takes down
Robs after his P250 did some work.
Well, they'll give it a look.
Yeah, no harm, no...
Oh, but pushing through that smoke without anyone else.
And Brokey and Frozen are still fapping around top banana.
Frozen's been able to pick up that AK.
This is an active-app setup.
Forward positioning, but it does look like Vitality want to go direct.
That might change their plans though.
Smoke's half wall.
Molly in go. Gonna walk through this.
Okay, silent, but they're on their way.
Yeah, they're coming in.
Yes, Karagin.
There might be a bit too late on the smoke.
Suddenly panicked, flustered, get flashed.
Karagin pushes!
Oh, it's beautiful!
He gets himself a double, make it a triple from the captain!
Captain, flames slipped in there, are they aware, they are now, gets the information.
Good work from Rain.
And FaZe, I mean, it's rare to see something like that work so perfectly.
Two flashes, Karagin swings on the second, and three players doing the dance on an early
B commit.
There's a detail, okay, how many more is he going to get, the bomb is in an almost
irretrievable position towards CT spawn, so the fact he's gotten two kills, that's
great, but surely nothing more.
That's almost the same that happened within the first half of play to the the diggles the three of you first situation three or five
situation was the beast side just giving away a lot of casualties in a round where you could start to establish your own economy and
Your in-game leader is so much hard work will catch that one again on the replay perfect timing on the push through
Hands over faces the in-game leader walks down three in style and then this is where the bomb gets dropped
Do you think okay? Well, that should be it
So that speaks has done a little bit of a dent broke. He's been able to bring out the AWP
Now the God Prefix was found with utility, flashing through, frozen forced away, carrying
the same, top banana gained, safe from the flame, messy, and oh R.O.P. still gets one,
missed shot from Brokey, flames, he's allowed a second chance.
Well the keeping phase moving between the sites, so there are going to be a lot of
gaps.
Like a test over here, a test over there, and contacting, they'll be ahead of this.
There's he starts to run. Oh! Big head shot from Berryman!
Testing Karagann, he's been brought low. Should go down here. Empty handed and vitality.
They've broken into the B bomb site and quite a direct approach. Is that kind of Apex?
Good old fashioned Apex calling.
Well, I think this is where the mind games between these two teams is going to play in an awful lot.
But because in that previous round, hold up a sec, we're going to have Brokie,
they're going down and getting a kill on his ult. It's going to be the latter.
jump spot so they know they're under pressure with the hunt that's the
ramifications of giving away so many rifles to sphinx in the previous apex
wants to remove it all knowing that they can make their life a whole lot easier as
part of this comeback okay and now we can have a conversation so it's not a
4a with frozen blocking B and one of the key ways they open that previous
rounds which is where Kaagum rotated back and got the triple kill is they
flash range forward through in front middle but it's not a double
parmots then as soon as Reyn called mid clear you look set on this be execute
Brokey and Karrigan have smokes to block oh they're getting ahead of the play it's
a fantastic flash from Karrigan frozen does well to find himself something
with the aggress maybe broke his orbs gonna get a chance here
oh what it does flames down apex he's gonna have second thoughts now surely
he's coming away the smoke well your way back is with Spinks and he hasn't
taken too much space just yet starting the probe because he has to
35 seconds they're running they are running and Rob's just left so yeah
rain in the pit with the AK that's the other saved gun oh interesting scenes
they don't have a molly to clear him either okay rain let's see what you got
me that smoke really will limit the sidelining wanted a word it's been
should have it whoa still was ready for spinks now he maneuvers around that
smoke 13 seconds planting safe on cold Zera rain what I wear that Zai was
likely trying to isolate him, hunt him down. They've used their smokes very well here Vitality,
pushing smokes. What a transfer! Turns around, spins into the second. It's up to Apex though
in the clutch. And not rock past through! Finds the headshot. Apex just shy of the head.
That's a miraculous turnaround from FaZe. Damn, I had him dead to rights as he's
jumping out of pit and you can see him wanting to reposition so he can try and
deal with the side players. That's pre-amounted. It's like he drops that one to give
a bit of a buffer to work around over towards brooms that's worked perfectly and FaZe will have
heard that so they know they can't just spear on down for this banana control.
Find one that works, they find one that works wonderfully. Frozen brings down the woo.
There's he quick to find Karrigan but he knows Frozen's not far behind him.
Flames putting a lot into this. Gotta be careful he's trying to find info safely and does catch
Perhaps a glimpse of Robs.
Rain still undetected.
Rain might clear deep.
He does have a lurk and he can dash.
He just spots Flames running towards B.
Surely that's a little sign that we need to get the rotation going.
Frozen under pressure! A nice headshot from Mezzy.
Two kills from the Brit in this one.
Traits Zai Wut then builds into it with a frag to open up the B.
Bomb Zai Spinks on his cat and hits Core Robs.
Trying to get towards Banana through mid.
I was going to say that feels like a save and I got to try and back off.
But with Spinks so close you wonder,
Hey, do we should we hang around and have a little bit of a look? He dropped off after that kill
So rain and broke either to save before looking to save again and those saved weapons were worth their weight in gold
Broke he's already passed your line of sight. So apex should have this one
There hasn't been a single round this after face haven't saved summit apex didn't have that one not yet
No, no, it's in fact broke. He's been doing great on the saves
Well, I have worked back into this having their vitality
Vitality couple of rounds that they're gonna be kicking themselves over
They need to do some damage with broke you will retain the AWP and rain the a4
Something he's been criticized for
Not always being as active as perhaps his team need him to be well
Keep an eye on that. We've got four rounds required out of vitality
Yeah, and no lost bonus bill for either team but more importantly face if I tell you lose around
It doesn't matter. It's over. That's GG, but if face loose this one
Yeah, well, if this round continues in the direction it's going, FaZe are going to have
to take an eco all the saves again.
If you have a Tati, maybe you'll throw more at hunting those guns away, knowing just the
ramifications.
35 seconds on the clock, bomb committed, apartments, this will be A.
Most definitely.
Ross, holding the angle, puts flames on 1 HP, rain, robs, combined to defend the
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He needs help and he's back up and instead he loses his head.
Frozen however has found contributions on the cross.
Those are hard shots.
He's hit two of them.
It's only Frozen.
Kennedy, more!
Flames!
That is a huge quad kill!
OK, that's the output that you're looking for.
Bro, watching that from the death POV, it's perfect.
It's actually perfect.
I'm sure it'll look great on his too,
but just how little you see of him,
how quick that bullet finds his opponent's head.
Spinks found one.
And that's the reason that they start running Flancy down on his own, because they know Spinks is on the lurk.
So Brokey and Frozen want to isolate a one on two duel in their favor, and they can't do so.
Crispy Vitality pick up there first, the pistol.
Oh, and he picks hit the cross?
The series, yeah. Well, those Nades look at shy the mark.
I love the Tenacity out of Spinks. The aggression just runs them down before they can get back.
And maybe, just maybe, we will start a half of this series without the second round force...
Falling away from the pistol victors. It might be nice
Especially if you're a vitality fan
Tag on to Zai Wu. It's another of those. Yeah, not gonna go to find it. No, Rob. She's done well to finish off. Thank you
spanks
They've taken a lot of damage, but unfortunately with the equipment they have
broken rain probably gonna look to save
two scouts not the
Weapons for the retake is it?
So if they can hold on to these they can be a little bit prickly going into the next round
the USPs can soften, sorry they can finish off the softened opponents, they can soften
as well.
They can.
It normally goes scout tagging to, I like it's fluid.
The lighter fluid.
Newtonian.
Ah.
Oh.
E.
Ah.
Prickly indeed.
It's a slow demise for Brokey.
They find him eventually.
Threatening! Very Threatening! Recovers the AK from the first. Spinks his AK then.
Oh sorry, Apex is used against Spinks.
And this has gone horribly wrong.
Robs with a touch of aggression using that 5-7 to a deadly effect.
And Mezzie, he's done very well with that one.
It clears out long on his own in one spray.
Robs finds the bomb but this is uncomfortable.
If he goes any further, Mezzie's pre-ame is brilliant but Robs, he's one step ahead.
I will spots rain interesting
back off to me so there's an information that that
that is not ross robson somewhere else
rain was towards be and they've got forty eight seconds to solve this together
on T spawn it's uncomfortable for every way as I would go through suicide so he
will
pair up with messy Ross might go on cleared
oh we gets the head as I will know messy is the only one alive he doesn't
have the health for this. He does not have the health to really participate. Robs! An
impactful quad kill back. Sure, no second round conversion, but how about a third?
All the roos. Long corner smoke. Nobody playing ahead of the phase. They will not have the
information.
Apex testing caragant. No flash. Just dry. Wins the duel. Broke he overwhelmed.
Caught off guard by that contact play. Good chance for Rain to double up here. He has done damage,
damage, but this pressure from every angle, he's done so much damage, Siwu, Apex and
Mezzie even catching frozen CT, there's nothing here for Robs.
Well, that was hard for, but Vitality, they will prevail.
They kind of played phase exactly as they wanted Vitality, they went out long, they
threw the crosswork, they weren't playing long, I think they left an individual towards
Bluebin in case there was some re-aggress and they've just piped themselves through
sure and all the fights are broke. He missing a shot. He's in so much trouble at that point
with the body swinging around the corner and now Zawoo is going to get there and repeat a carry
through. So, I was at you, Dan. I used to play with Zawoo. I imagine that was from the scout round
a little bit earlier in the piece. And if you wanted to search for info, you would have
wanted to call your B players back over to help from middle, right? Sure and mid.
Crossing is a problem right now. I play with Zawoo. He does. Yeah,
Yeah, that's the Zywoo version.
Opening kill on opening kill, vitality.
Again, whenever they want them.
I like a bit of risk on a round like this, and Karagin does too.
Pushing up towards the door side.
Takes full long control.
So that's a gift for the CTs that remain elsewhere.
And there's a responsible for housing this, but there will be a moment where he chooses to evacuate.
We'll see if Karagin can catch that timing in an influential manner.
Ranged leaving A though, as they crouch themselves out short.
So this already reads like it might be a Vitality 4th.
Freeeeeee!
Nice from Karaghan!
Catches that long holder!
Has that changed your plan?
Well, the problem is they're already in the site.
Rain now having all the information.
Just because Vitality have gone so quietly.
Rain might find a kill on the Apex.
Nice!
Double tap!
Double ding!
Now it's very much on with Spinks low!
And Karaghan, oh, he had a little bit of an opportunity,
but peeking around the smoke is Zywa won the AWP.
An advantage would not interest him in this one.
Well, that's like a light switch, on, off, on, off.
We're opportunities for FaZe to work back into that,
but the fact that Vitality just contacts out and keeps us so quiet
means that that rotating player of Reign doesn't have the sound cues.
If you're telegraphed in that position,
we tend to do so because there's so many threats, right?
You know, you have to worry about players taking that long-range duel, but walking out...
So where do you think the confidence was to go for such a kind of...
ballsy walk?
Just being diligent there, making sure that Brokey's not on that 50 line with the AWP.
Molly it off with the flash convo, Flamesy has short control.
Right now you've played with the mid to B idea, now you're playing with the short execute idea
and the extremity players of Frozen and Carrigan are calling Sector Clear,
but at any moment there could be a pop in their face as well.
So Vitaliy have done a good job of masking this.
Head of the play was Rain on the box, running, rocks, what can you do?
Oh he still does, he does well to find one, but the round will end and yeah, Frozen
didn't take much from Spinks's AK.
Faze, they're just being plagued by these cross-shots.
I discussed this when we've done a couple of other Dust2s.
I'd like to see teams trying to exploit Lower Dark and using the new jump-up,
because it means that you can have one or two players go on lockdown long,
you can have one player jump-up sure, you can use the best spawn to go in towards Lower Dark.
I know that the AWP is quite scary right now.
And Long seems to be the port of call.
They're boosting over the mid-smart, so I'm gonna matter.
a phase here and already Flames makes it to rain down empty handed the flash is
a good but not looking Carrigan goes down as well only one remains two casualties
in the opening 20 seconds not a full lineup for the car Molly so broke he
still has vision he's actually bravely sticking around on car okay wow smoke
spam this Molly will get awkward yeah broke you're a dead man oh he tries
to turn around on it wise to the fact that swing with the flash but still
doesn't manage to find much frozen spotted out now the tip of his head there
rops fires off an off-shot from shot they know what you both are apex is
actually gonna pivot he dips towards CT and he's gonna hug you down you're not
ready for this angle Apex has been very cheeky he's with him but the idea was
great the Spinks has lurks done it but yeah Spinks lugs in nicely again I
He's just become a real problem for FaZe Clan on Inferno and here in Tugas too.
Apex can't seem to mantle up perfectly.
Looking like they want to keep the people on B planted.
Rops bought an Org for this angle.
Apex out mid.
20 seconds. They're giving FaZe a chance aren't they?
I'm not sure what the plan is.
This is a bizarro world.
Here comes the BU till.
Rops has been waiting and loads with his Org.
Frozen in combination! Look at the damage!
Spinks and Mezzie bleeding out! Eight seconds! They need to get across!
Oh, um...
It's not happening now, it runs over!
Run over?
How... How does that round go down like that?
Spinks...
Brings his AK through, it wouldn't have mattered if he went down either way.
6100 in the bank, he...
Here we go! Oh!
Hmm...
Spot it!
Yeah, but there's...
Sure! And there's a flash and a frag!
Ranger sets himself up for success there!
That's what I'm talking about!
There's what Chad wanted to see!
And it's worked out wonderfully!
I mean, the knowledge is there that there...
There is a CT in Lowers.
They don't know that Frozen's right around this corner.
Apex could go down here if Frozen has a look,
but Sphinx is covering...
Ooh, Frozen's timing is everything.
Now he might have a look.
And he gets the bomb!
Ooh!
Okay, the bomb has spewed out of the...
Did I get through him, though?
...Zywoo and landed at doors!
It's a little unfortunate.
It looked like it did.
can fully catapult it out of him. Oh, shot from Mezzie, but that sure lived successes.
The Orc closed it down. Yeah, that's crazy. What a launch.
I can't believe it. All right, we'll add the inertia with him.
I don't think that incendiary has done anything of value. Spinks, not cleared out of his
angle. If anything, it might do him a favor if he sticks around long enough.
Look at this stack. This is a Karagaman toe, expecting it to be a B finish.
I thought he was gonna stick around, never mind, he just takes the fight, Robbs is dead.
Yeah, the scope.
It will be a B finish now that they've taken Robbs out.
Maybe it was part of his plan to bait them into this two-man B hold.
Flash, rain swings.
A little bit early.
Confirmation of presence, yeah.
Mismanaged, that's the bottom down.
What the hell of a spray out of frozen?
There's more to come.
Spin to an insta headshot, rain, what've you got?
He's got a chance, that's what it was.
But Zywoo hits the shot, Paragon.
And Brokey, Brokey misses the shot onto Zywoo, crossing smoke.
will plume to obscure the cross I like this smoke back from the CTs gives them
options they can use that T smoke against them to just pop out from either
side another one towards tunnels I guess you have to walk through that yeah this
is oh well maybe it's intentional yeah precisely still has angles and they
might assume they're both coming from doors it looks like they are oh the
mine games as it's onto onto the one we can have it it's broken gives them a
half to work with hard for comes down to a one V1 it's phase four vitality eight
early util thrown out towards the B bombsite just a couple of decoys I'm not
talking about ross and broke the actual grenade spongy me oh that's me and you
we're here it's Russian MC that's what I was gonna try and say here they are
Rushly anything on the screen that you want. We'll see if Alex will say I'm like Ancomand
Burgundy oh
Flames oh
Spinks pushing this has gone far too well for face done right now apex nice shot. He's on his way back up
Rops rain and frozen though. They should be fine with it
Yeah, they took a while they took a while mezzy joins the p2k gang
I didn't think I could love him more
I didn't think I could love him more. The P2K is not gonna work out for him here
It's okay. It's okay
Take the rough with the smooth
Spoke to exertion yesterday. So what map do you think they're gonna play?
I said they're gonna pick vertigo and
They pick vertigo you nailed it
So who's AWP has been a bit of a threat on that T side peppering them through the doors if not finding opening picks and rops
Ah, he's gonna walk in his spigts. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, what should have been a free kill and to give away
Half of his life.
That's the cost of playing Counter Strike.
Deep.
OZEN'S A DEAD MAN!
Wow, you can see there was a very small window of opportunity for Zai to find that kill.
And this has gone one way fast.
Vitality's Knight looks rather painless.
Hold up.
Yeah, he gets a plant here.
He's got two kills.
I say plant.
Mmm, maybe Zai would jump in USP.
YEP!
Indeed!
Just like that.
Denies the plant, secures the round.
It's nine to six.
Nice attempt from Rain, all things considered.
Yeah, hugely important that he denies the plant, because even with the defuse coming through,
they still would have had 600 bucks.
Frozen could have an AK instead of a Galil.
Rain could have had a Galil instead of maybe a Maktan or a Deagle.
It's Rain, so...
Yeah, he's gone for a Deagle. It is that U2.
I was watching him buy us that Rain.
Gonna reposition.
Pit cold clear.
Now they could use, long as the staging area, they still have a smoke and flashes to work with.
The Molotov is well to clear our car.
Short re-aggress, into Robson Rain.
There he is.
There he comes through, Robson's blind, blind, and deleted!
But the Deagle works wonderfully!
A third would be crazy! Apex does bring him down!
He's open, did he get the smoke up across?
Ooh, Zahua did not pull the trigger there.
They get across the ramp, good damage on Zahua.
Apex is well exposed in the open, goes down.
Now surely FaZe should have a heavy advantage.
Will they even have a look-in?
Zahua's just fishing in case anyone overextends
with a quick glance towards CT but feel like they are already accepting that this is the
phase rounds or five phases seventh back in a way.
Ren's got five kills in the last two rounds and he's only got nine in total so he's come
to play on the T side.
Yeah that's like edge to vitality already.
Just intermittent sweeps from Zywoo trying to catch anyone that's maneuvering back
off cat.
Faze do seem to be retooling for the B finish this is where Mezzi's going to
be tested in this angle. He's sticking around. Oh, that's a big catch. And now they begin.
Good work from Robs. He's taken down the Bianca.
Senator Smotherdors, you can't just run in.
Yeah, the only other rifle in the mix is that AWP. And you know, you know where it
was.
They've drawn him into B. Now they just need to be able to get in towards this A site.
Robs is going to make sure they can confirm it. That Molly doing an awful lot of damage.
Some likely Zywa gets to bring this one through.
Robs?
Oh, I love it. I love it. He's had to make this play. Beautiful from Robs.
That's what you want from your lurk.
Ooh, that nearly got really awkward.
And it's still good with flames on a USP.
How is this happening?
Oh, Robs needs it, gets it.
But still it's 1v1.
Oh, catastrophe.
It calls.
Robs can save them, but with 15 seconds he has to do everything.
Needs to go away.
He has to run into Apex and Apex is sticking around.
You're not going to expect this.
And he catches the time and puts him onto 4 HP.
There's no time.
Six?
I don't know.
He has to hunt.
Apex.
Cowery in the corner with his HP advantage!
He finishes it with the CZ!
That's a massive vitality round!
Apex, leading by example with Impact!
He was just on a roller coaster of emotions with Apex right there
because he made a merit of it, made an absolute meal of it.
5, 4, 3, 2, he knows the fight's coming in at a step
and wins it with the CZ 75.
Let's add a sire of relief, then the cheer
because he knows they've done it with two saved rifles.
Bro, I love that he's stuck around in that angle.
Flames getting a full kill with a USP long push
Yeah, well that was the the nade damage that came in towards short because Rain and Carrick were both softened up
Yeah, it did look a bit easy
All in long
Long? Yeah, okay, interesting
So I always got the flash
It seems to work more often than not
Does it work for phase clan?
Oh, so much UTile! Wow, Rainy!
Full blind! Full blind! Flames is gonna be saying the same thing
That's insane that he's pushed with a smoke like that
Just giving them away and then who am I shot from as I would that's that's a nice 5v4
They'll try and hold on to it for as long as they can chip the way out is Rob's Nate does land
So what's the response of vitalities? I would compose up top site
They just smoked middoors to make sure that nobody can weasel out
Sees nothing. They've tucked into what's peer passively. I like this from apex
Fact he's gone over towards car if they do decide to trundle up long late. He might go overlooked
Rain's gone all the way around the world back towards B, he can call the flash
towards upper tunnels but he's got support on the way so they've parked
rops in pit the rest of the crew to join rain. Now Vitality are starting to ask some
questions. Yeah it's about time here. Well they could smoke window and doors. They
have two smokes to make this possible. Oh they found rops. That is a little bit
problematic because they're already gonna wiggle a third excuse me a second
and in the third design's way.
Spings the bait.
And as he goes fast, actually,
and does significant damage,
Karagin get awareness that there could have been a second Mezzy 2,
and then done.
It falls into an intense 2v2.
Frozen gonna try and plant Brokie to provide some cover,
looking at that window, Zywoo considering it.
Put his allpines back, just opting with that CZ75.
Frozen tip of the head, spotted 10 left in the mag.
Brokie onto Apex's only Zywoo here,
He can't get it done!
An important and necessary round for FaZe.
Damn, it looks like the rotation was on point for Vitality's, isn't it?
And they were all exactly where they wanted them congregated,
coming out of the upper tunnels, grouped up a cluster of three,
but unable to multi-kill.
So, unless they get a couple of kills.
Yeah, well, he's certainly capable of doing that.
Oh, they fumbled the boost.
They just wanted to spot that lower push and work focus in the...
Yeah, nice. They're going to try it.
That's a good catch from Broke.
He's having a bit of a resurgence in the second half.
trying to hit some impact, hit some openers, he's even tagged up Zywoo, that's the rifle,
he's got to get out of there, he knows he's days are numbered and Reigns going to retreat.
Covered, clean, good team play, good awareness, the comms are there.
And so this one, yeah, they just have to put it in now.
Mini golf.
IPEX really wanted to check at that M4, didn't he?
Just offers himself up to Reign for three.
Phase, if this is a 2-0, there's been a dialogue about the team and is this a make or break event for them?
They've been on a downward slide, obviously starting off CS2 with success, or near successes, time and time again making these grand finals.
Then as the season continued, they peed it out, and everyone loves a good peter out.
But for them, it was starting to look a little bit worrying, and then you come into this half of 2024 and, oh, it's okay.
Okay, what's going on with FaZe? The players aren't clicking, they're approaching the game.
Is there internal problems? What's going on? Why isn't it working with this frozen edition as good as it was with Twists?
I imagine when you get so close to lifting a trophy and then just kind of repeatedly miss out.
I'm sure you know a little bit of apathy slips in.
Well, there was them getting gassed as well, you know, because you're so close.
That means you're playing the most amount of maps in the tournament because you're going to distance into all these grand finals.
And then, yeah, the apathy of not picking up the victory, so close but so far.
And then the problem was more when we came out of the break.
We said, okay, then I had a break.
Thanks, Flamzie, you have no utility now.
Good luck.
You do have an orb in the hands of your super star.
It can be the difference maker.
Let's find out together.
Carrigan goes down to Spinks as a crash
and the trade is coming.
Nice from Reign, but there's still presence.
Flamzie doesn't commit to it.
Worried about what might have lingered top mid.
Broke he had and covered.
So a wise choice from Flamzie
accepts the equalizing frag. Well at least I thought they would. They're actually
flooding both individuals back so they feel confident that it won't be long
Zywoo you have a lot on your plate. It really does. Using the angle for the cross
Flames takes the first contact does remove rain and then the York can
contribute. Two down, a dink as well, Zywoo's hit it every shot he takes and
with their powers combined Flames and Zywoo defend the ace site in a crunch
moment. Just two rounds ago we were having the conversation with Vitality's
loss bonus about them not being able to afford an AWP.
Sorry, smokes for Spinks and Flames here and Xyber with some nades as well.
And I think that's really key because if FaZe just do an NAVI, classically just sit here,
chill for a while and then eventually go for this A-Play, they have a lot of U2 to slow
it down or blow open these smoke walls.
So Rain throw in the door smoke for them, ooooh, Xywoom!
Yeah, you did it with the HE!
Clear is it?
Hits it!
Spinks will activate and it's already a 5 vs 3!
Well now you know where it is and the Apex does all those nades to work with.
Yeah, and now they're just throwing a nice defensive smoke a good angle from flames
He finds it at the Brokey crossing put tarragon on one HP as well
This is gone horribly wrong this fight the whole team and CT
Still lingering where they started
Yeah, nothing here for rain fires off a warning shot let them know where he is and so helpless
hopeless
Come on would assume
Nothing left in the bank balance
1900 next round rain probably wanting to save this
So he's being allowed to.
Hard work's been done by Vitality.
Yeah, for real, 12 secured. They want to secure the Lancest today.
Secure Messi, his first trip to the Lancest Arena.
The only player who has yet to experience and taste what the Lancest has to offer.
Top 8 at IEM Colode is an achievement in itself for every player.
Not there yet.
Just didn't necessarily correct.
Well, I love that sort of from Vitality in the last.
And that might be enough to tip them over the line.
That's a bit of a team flash right there.
Gets away unscathed.
It's all good.
Anzai, we're looking to do the same again.
Clear in the smoke.
How good is he?
It's not this time.
Robbs, that's the punish to the clear.
You can't be looking up and down at the same time.
So, a nice start to the phase trying to find these two on the run.
Testing rain.
Ooh, dips away.
Well, that's info there's probably 2B.
This is the kill.
Takes down Apex, going looking short.
Rob's already in CT, so their rotations are completely nullified.
There is nothing for them to do.
They can't really contest this.
The bomb will be slowly escorted in.
They're concerned, understandably, that there are still bodies fighting from long side, but little do they know.
It's just flames deep towards the bedroom area.
Alright, we'll get one more chance to get this done in regulation, don't we?
Heard all that, aren't we?
Yeah, that would have been nice to take away, made it difficult for Flames to drop.
Is it all perp?
Been a nice back and forth map.
Well, it's definitely. I mean it was an 8-4 half, the fact that FaZe are matching that output,
see if they can match it perfectly and force overtime.
Nice information, as you can see, Karagny would be really comfortable walking through, doesn't even have to worry about it.
Okay, high pressure moments though, this is where phases experience can show.
Vitality, Joker block, full of the same, but spanks caught on the cross.
Patience from the Brokey Orb.
Okay, you've got your opener.
He's got a nice little pocket he can work with there.
Karagin versus Apex, neither of which finds lethality.
Mezzi under scrutiny, has flames alongside, can establish a crossfire.
Time continues to tick, 28 as this crunch comes in onto B.
to be. Messi needs the first blood, he's done well with that. One and a half ranked vulnerable
caragon Messi. Flame of your god, another one! Robs finally brings him down but it will
be a two on two and it's uncomfortable. Bokey, they know where you are, he's just hiding
in the smoke as the bomb goes down running at Apex, he overspent his hand and now Xay was
getting shipped away at as well. Faze, secure the overtime.
Oh, I thought the fact that they couldn't get that trade on Flames, he cleanly
he could have been the undoing there for FaZe. They had the bodies, the call was nice, Flamzee
had been rotated over early and he got to live for way too long. Look at this, look at this.
Interesting, he's just walking down. Yeah but Spinks is so ready for it. Yes he is, perfect.
Opening kill for Spinks, so turning the table from the previous. He's stuck towards CT side.
So if they walk out mid they can deal with this. Yeah, Karrion wants to play ahead to make sure Spinks
This doesn't get over to B to help out Mezzie. Look at this pressure, look at the cold, the conviction from the captain!
Mezzie's alone.
He's sphinx CT.
It's just all on the Brit.
Hanging out of the back of the site.
Pushing the smoke with sphinx, Karakut prepared for it.
Frozen aid, well destined for glory, chips away at Apex.
Mezzie activates, tracking.
Hello!
Good work, good headshots as he got more in him, he does!
A double kill, Brokey with the orb trying to hunt him down.
Mezzie, playing a dangerous game, re-peaking in.
Brokey catches a quick one on society with Mezzie however stands his ground and the site is safe one man against the whole team
And he's still alive three kills to his name
That's what you want out of your Bianca. It's a quad kill for Mezzie
Takes the Orp as well takes his reward first round of OT starts with a sphinx opener and a Mezzie closer
Caragin valve
Jumping around that corner with a molotov in his hand and exposed on the clear
Yeah, okay, maybe trying to do a little bit too much in the last round. It was great
Now we know you just look at the scoreline and go well, he's only got nine and he's given up an opening death
And here they keep coming spinks flash for a beautiful wombo combo
3v5
Sweet turn to your stars
It's Rob's down. It's rain frozen and brokeie
Good time flash, but wow brokeie long range support catches flames going swing it. It's a double kill from brokeie
How has that happened? How has this 5 on 3, this 2 man advantage been squandered so quickly?
And there could be more! Who is that? It's Apex the brave bastard! Double kill!
Just takes the fighting host as an AWP knows the whole team,
Stereopeach just wants to beat me once the brawl and he does so much with it!
14 on the board! Apex, respect! Takes the fight to Brokey, M4, the AWP.
I can't quite believe that considering the two kills that were just given back over in the blink of an eye
and Apex goes, well, if you guys are doing it, I guess I'm going in as well.
I'll do it myself.
This is how it's meant to be done, boys. Impact round from the in-game leader on the other side of the server face.
Okay, smoke from Rain. That's destined for CT. They've got a 3-2 division of defense.
I wonder if Apex calls them into a B push with how quiet it is. They just went another flash and fine. Now the crisscross.
Carraghan out long, smoking mirrors, bomb car free kill, that's the first Carraghan open
and kill of the game.
Ooh, we can't find the second, just tapping away at flames, just wiggling around WAD.
Ooh, hello, it's all good from flames for the double.
Robbs finally sits him on his ass with 30 seconds, they can get that bomb towards
the site.
Apex.
He's actually gonna try and swing into that angle, he's exposed if Robbs clears
it.
You might.
Safe flat.
Safeish.
Rob's managing his angles. He will surely have a glimpse at Mezzie here.
Yep. Ooh, clean head shot.
Clinical from the Estonian.
Spinks coming in from short though. That's why Apex is waiting for him.
Spokes at him.
Nice shot onto Rob's. Finishes him off. It's up to Broke.
Can he redeem himself here? Can he give face something to work with into the second half of OT?
Spinks and Apex goes for the Hail Mary. The No Scope does not connect.
is not connected, he's good on the tech 9 though but Apex is whittling away, 12 HP, Broke he goes down and it's spotless from Vitality CT side.
Damn, I loved it. Really nice little set of rounds that Vitality have been able to scoop up pro-active across the map.
What's the plan? You got three attempts here to secure map 3.
It's already a bridge smoke. This is pre-meditated call. The bridge smoke is already down towards A.
Yeah, let me... is it fake or is it a commitment?
Keeping them moving by the looks of things.
They want to go mid.
Oh, missed a smoke.
Frozen.
Going to get swung on.
Yeah.
Oh, jump scare!
Just as easy as that!
What is this call?
Oh, vitality!
Bulldoze the composition!
Completely broken.
Karagin left alone.
Zywoo could finish him off with anything.
Karagin running and gunning and we are off to Anubis.
Premeditated indeed.
That was just a straight page out of the strap book to secure the first round
to your T side and overtime.
Hi guys, Mezzi here.
Make sure to sub to ESLCS.
Keep right on.
Phase clamp, how do you want to kick things off?
You've had success in the pistols, but...
Go back to Inferno, not so much in the follow-ups.
They have had a few tough times
against the lower buys of Vitality throughout this series,
the desk highlighting that clutch from Apex
with the CZ75 and CT spawn.
Yeah, that was nuts.
Okay, well, a quiet start for Phase.
There is a flash as Karagin. He loves these.
Well, P250.
Yeah, no care if he facilitates frozen with his Utah towards a.
Actually, towards the.
Yeah, so they likely selling a fake towards B
and just poshering outside of a for the aggression.
So if there is an a push off of the back of this, they can still pivot.
Speaking of push, they want them to push into the little stack.
Yeah, well, it's a lot of bodies and they all fall to rain.
What a lovely strap.
Carragans spotted mid, then the util lands B. You have to push A main for answers and you lose three bodies
The bomb ready. It helps when rain gets all three clean. I mean I'm sure
That's a fantastic start for phases T side campaign. Yeah good to see him on point. There was
Was it here or was it a blast but there was a certain point he wasn't wearing his glasses
There was a round or two or a game or two at blast. I saw no blast. So what's going on there?
I wasn't sure either. Maybe they were at the repairman.
The glasses repairman.
Oh, someone trussed.
I believe that's the terminology.
Yeah, I said it was such confidence because I was sure too.
You don't wear glasses?
I don't.
Not a why?
Knock on wood?
Yeah, hang on.
All right, piss around the face.
Mezzy and Sphinx are gonna hold onto some Kevlar, so let's see.
Do they both go for the Famis' behind this?
They could go Famis, keep the Kev.
But right now they can just play passively.
So sitting back allowing vitality to make the opening moves.
Raps is going close.
Oh dear.
They're coming to test, Flames.
Oh, he's ready to receive, removes robs.
Traded by rain.
So, full A main control lost.
Looks like they're turning their attention towards grouping up.
And it looks like they might have a little look towards canals.
They do swing through.
Spinks gets away with his life. Info, two towards the con position.
Frozen, on that probably the most hard work.
Least Glamorous of the T-side rolls.
Oh, that's Glamorous!
Spinks makes great use of that Famas. No problem!
Can they recover this?
It's up to Frozen and Brokey. Brokey low.
Bodies are here. Apex hits the shot necessary.
Broke he down to that's a big one back from vitality
Hoover up some AKs two of which they find in time
They've opened up with a smoke towards darker deep 1m 1 towards a man
So trying to apply pressure across the map as they set up this be execute
But there's three players for vitality to defend
As he braves to hold this edge on angle be flashed off smoke comes in there's swarming deep
The third man is here in Apex, Karakin. Yep, Triton's luck didn't clear IV, Messi gets a freebie and it looks like they've done enough.
This forced buy from FaZe has fallen flat. Frozen gets away from the initial spray, Spinks will finish it.
Wow, for Vitality, Best Puzzle Icon FaZe worst.
So smoked off on Con and lag smoke, B main.
Rob's chunked with a rug's made, Karagin dropping in, his pressuring con is ahead of the smoke
and yes, Finch is in trouble, exposed, trying to put that smoke into con and it's already
cost him his life, could it cost him the sight, I think it will, frozen, finds one with the
flames, it's the rotation coming through and whoop, doesn't get a chance, Apex deleted
by Brokey with a headshot.
Bomb still has to get across, I was playing from cave, up bomb was tossed.
And flash for good measure.
He just punched.
And he'd assume the round's secure.
It did really look like they wanted to
send Karrigan through middle,
but you could see him navigating by looking at the radar.
And they threw a lot of nades towards mid.
There was the flashes, there was the molly doors.
You saw Broky there lining up a deep temple smoke.
So they kept mid busy,
knowing that the rotating player of Apex would be focused.
Drop Karrigan out and split B perfectly.
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable, you know, from, uh, Spinks POV.
Uh, Xywo, Xywo, Xywo, oh!
Um, there is time!
He's on it! He's on it! He's on it! He's covered by flames! He's covered by flames!
I would nearly get away with murder!
Fair play! Fair play! Try to make the best out of the situation.
They had cash to splash,
giving it a good go. It took him a second to find the bomb, but...
Ooh, with flames as cover, there's a universe where that goes through.
I saw him hanging around, I didn't think there was any chance that we're going to give that one a crack, yeah.
The radius on the Nubis as well, it's so gentle.
However you prefer.
That made back. Not bad either. Rain takes even more damage than Flames he did.
Okay, well definitely a strong util game so far from both squads.
Bombs committed to A and there's three players with Apex on a fast rotation.
Heaven's note lined up.
Can also molly back side.
Yeah, well, I would force Zywul into the open if they can Wally K.
They do. They do. Nice extinguish keeps him around and he delivers the frag.
Teamplay. From Vitality, setting Zywul up for success.
Flames can be a real thorn in his opponent's Zywul.
Ah, with the absence of Zywul and Flames down to just 2 HP, it is problematic now.
30 seconds. Bomb needs to be going down. They re-smoke Heaven.
Rops goes searching. Cam of vulnerability. Frozen holding that rotate.
Nice final to Flames, Mezzie's poor low.
Brought down though.
In mid, Spinks knows that he only has to focus on the side, but still, 2 on 1.
Smoke stairs, Minizzi's option starts to spam.
Rob's not going to over-commit here.
Broke you on an elevated angle, using those steps to try and isolate the jewel,
and Spinks is the one to hit it.
Gave him a chance.
He did, and Spinks will take that.
Spotted on the cross.
Good awareness from Rob's.
That's his fast three frags, and it's round defining.
Huge work underway from Rob's.
Mid smoke that might saw them out
Do you keep pushing or do you think that has some potency behind it?
Looks like they're just gonna go back to more a default 2-1-2. This is a B retake setup right now
The position of Mezi is telling
Blocked at a very good time
They go all the same
Placement of its util here. There's a decent sping spam damage
They're committing through that smoke carry good low HP might try and make a play caught by spinks good one from him
That's a massive double catches rain departing con now the flank from apex comes in and connects I will even finishing off frozen
And it all falls to brokeie. He gets overrun
Two from Zywoo credit to a messy for delaying that
Because he did continue to push mid after that B pressure came in Neo on the mic immediately calls the tactical time out of first phase
Spinks man. What a frag
Finding the second really changed the state of affairs
I know the stats don't say it, but I feel like we're seeing, well, it's when you compare
it to the A1, it doesn't really stack up, because that's normally a financial decision.
Sure, and they can't make anything off of it early, Apex is scared of mid, he's heading
through beach to A, concedes mid completely, let's mess with you know that it's a vulnerability.
Looks like a good rotation though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it seems like he's ahead of the play.
They're ahead of all of this. Look how close they are. They're here so quick Alex. They're
not ready for this.
No, as I was.
Gatscaraga and Apex is there, but surprised by Frozen's trade.
They know that Flamesy has to be around.
Maybe he's going to catch him off guard.
Like, Frozen, are you anticipating someone to beat you? I don't think he is. This
is going to shock him. This is a quick, ooh, nice catch. Takes down Frozen. Broke
heaven with a lot to do. Robbs through mains mode. Roky, oh he's getting stressed. Flames
forces him to look at him with the defuse. Now Robbs is in the clutch, but they're just
sitting at defuse. Couple of seconds, it's Vitality 5. Impressive round.
I think they're just going with the keep it simple stupid method. FaZe is going to
attack A once more. But they've got Zywu, and he is posted. So they have to do this
perfectly by the book flashes in so I was still not blind
I'm a real tight gap here the Molotov will force a decision out of him and he just respects it gets out
That's the cave box playing ahead of the Utah
We think attempt from Zairu costs him his life
He actually ate the flash there and down they go ain't again. It's yeah rain impact double kill from him
Karak and catches rotations apex unable to do anything
Just as you talked about his impact chat he finds a bono more of it
trying to find the best way to approach this in a two on four worried about a
mid-lug nothing home we have to space you got to give this one a go man second
flashy guy this attempt and we have six six so dead even on the half with a
work cut out for the swap sides vitality taking to these T side in pursuit of the
Langstess Arena has put us in position where we're talking about a
favored vitality finish they're on the T side what do they go for to
start with a bang. Pick up that pistol and put them on the right foot. It's rain again. I mean that was
the other side of the coin. Rain has been doing everything he can. The Jules Barrette has kept
humble inside with the clock testing. Flashing in for Robs trying to set him up for success but
now they know where he is. Carrigan hits a necessary head shot but it's Robs. Good for
flames. But sit onto Spinks. Bomb last on fountain. This is a dream for FaZe. Start
their CT side with a bit of momentum behind the pistol. That hasn't been an issue finding the
pistol, but converting to conversation we'll have when we get there.
Three. Okay, Vlaar. 63 points of health and a flash.
They know they have the ball. And down it goes.
Another one for Rain. Okay, well that's five out of the six pistols within the series.
They've just blocked out towards aim aim once more and they might try and aggress somewhere
else on the map while doing so. They've completely foregone the site just hoping that
that the smoke wall does it's job and that's why we're so focused on these mid and B players
because that's most likely where the first action comes in.
Still about 10 seconds vitality have to wait before the main smoke clears, so Mez is just
staring at that grey screen and now Zai with the same, so being blocked across, B main
push, Spinks will hear this.
Second flash is grey, but then I would have capitalised on it.
Oh, he still gets rain jiggling now, that's a very important trade back, frozen, takes
it.
It's just carrying it over to what day with an MP9.
that could very well be the beginning of Fatality's first round.
Where does Mezzi use this molly?
Oh, perfect.
Oh, carry of the trouble.
Wow, he still gets one. Not bad, not bad.
But that is, Robbs gets nothing.
Would have liked a bit more, but the flashbang from Apex was too damn good.
I'd have to be the save.
You can see the finances for Rain and Brokey.
During the doll jumps, as far as the buyers are concerned,
they have to play this one conservative.
I'm curious over to what's B.
the second flash looked really good on to Sphinx's position but nobody pushed
forward to clear out pizza. Now we mentioned Robs having a good series so far.
This would be his moment to stand up with a bit of a statement. Multi-kill required.
Ready to zame.
Nate to Bay. Safe and fountain and there's the jump surprise. It's only one.
As he goes for it, Mezzie! Double R. Garagher to you next. On the naughty land,
You see, that blocks the position, but a major trade straight from Zywoo and the site is lost.
They need to be going one-for-one in that situation, because if Karaghan comes in and then it's a 2v2, it seems like a possible retake.
But Rain and Frozen know that trying to get back into that bombsite, even with a number advantage at the best of times, can be very difficult.
Sure, they have an incendiary, a HE and a kit to work with, but it's just too tall of a task and too much to risk at this point of the game.
Something to fear. Don't give them any inch, any mile.
Rob's just walked it.
This is a great timing for Rob.
They're gonna hard clear it, though, Alex.
They will 100% hard clear this.
Oh, I think so.
Well, it wasn't a hard-
It was a clear.
They did clear it.
Yeah.
So, they 99% will hard clear it.
Your alternative boost from the statue boost?
The problem I have with this is
they don't have a smoke.
And if you have a tally with all these nades,
Surely the Molly here, right?
Yeah, Spinks is the one with the Molotov.
Right, Spinks.
Oh, that's a bit shallow.
Hang on.
There's the Molly.
There she is.
Well, good job, sweet princess.
He's still got an angle, and he's still
got a chance to find impact.
Rain does find two.
Now with Frozen's help, and they're actually doing it.
Triple kill on the right for Frozen!
He closes!
That's massive for FaZe.
What a gift Rain continues to deliver.
They missed the Mollie.
Yeah, he still had space on Glyph.
I can't quite believe that.
An unforced error.
Look at this, look at the gap.
And all the damage that he does, they did use the Mollie,
just not deep enough.
They even naded with it.
It was the second nade that came into play,
and Reign continues to have massive impact
against Team Vitality in a game for the arena.
Oh, the juxtaposition between the two.
fury on one side, jubilation on the other, tech 9s, Chad it's aggressive, they're counting
on Si Wu, they put an AK in his hands and they said please go kill. But he finds nothing
on Con, spinks an early death, an early departure, starting a little good.
How do you even have the opening kill in that round? That was a 4v5 and then the execute
should have been bang on. They flubbed it, they threw that smoke too shallow into
the molly, so it didn't even go left side side correctly.
He's got all the time in the world to find Robster, perfect flashbang from Apex.
I'm sure he's getting plenty of the effective flashes.
Karagin, what have you got here?
Yeah, wise, wise.
Zywa was holding that angle for the cross.
Flash!
Oh, I like that!
Again with these flashbangs.
3 on 3.
Karagin activates!
Good find!
Catches flame!
Focusing now on Mezzie!
Yeah, had to be headshots with the limited bullets.
Bomb plant, 2 on 2.
Rain and frozen though.
They did it once.
save them again. So much at stake, what have you got, Rey?
Mezzie hunting him, and Mezzie delivers for vitality.
An important kill again on the A side. He's having a T side, is Mezzie.
Frozen rocking up, from Main, Apex will aware of that possibility, the HE will soften him up.
He's in. Anticipating. Oh, they're so low. They are so low, but so is the time.
He has to go. Now or never. Tries to transfer. Needs to get on that bomb.
It's not the perfectly planted, time-sensitive,
Medi swings, what's the time?
Oh, a little too shy.
Vitality, fight back.
When frozen, just survives that hold on to that AK,
giving them at least something to carry through.
Well then, it's not a worry,
it is just going to be an execute towards B once more.
This is a smoke, here's that Mach 10.
Rain, well aware that there's potential for Spinks
to be occupying that far right angle.
Frozen and Brokey both just kind of ready to deliver if he gives the fight.
There it is! Spinks! Gets one, but shut down!
They're rotating.
They're silently walking towards mid or magnetizing towards mid with a little bit of A on top.
Mezzie and Zywoo heading towards Robs.
Completely flashed. She's got to get one hit.
Oh, hard to track! Doesn't do well without Mezzie does great and Karagin the next victim.
Apex catches him off on the rotate rain, however.
Perpetual threat. What's he got?
No, ah, bullet.
Hands towards his ribcage.
Brokey big, actually.
Catching Zybu. Rain down, but it's all up to Brokey.
He could do this.
Mezzy's overlooked this potential crouch.
Walkin' out, we're talkin' out, we're cooking!
Brokey, this could be huge!
Can he secure it for FaZe?
Bomb planted.
Flames versus Brokey.
X-Taz not gonna blink.
And it's all good!
In the Vitality Herd,
It's saved by flames
Rain is not gonna be anywhere near that this is be look how direct this is the radar tells the entire picture this round
It's time for you. Yeah. Well, he's been an issue because look at Rob's. He's been getting exploited. Yeah, it's a great call from apex
Oh, he wants it
In pursuit of Asia one round away rain empty and it that's surely sealed the deal 12
imminent
They have to save Chad unless it apex. Yeah, allows it
What a fantastic call and read.
Just straight into it direct again from Vitality.
We had some similar scenes going down on Dust2.
Surely that tickles your IGL brain.
You see that they've conditioned A, they know the anchor's struggling.
You know that Karrigan's aware that it's a vulnerability.
You just lost a 1v1 on A, you've lost multiple rounds on A, and so you call it a direct
approach towards the under guarded side.
On the stage in Cologne, he'd love to get out there to Brit.
Apex has seen a few cologne finals over his career.
Two to be specific, Frozen flirting with some aggression.
They want to just take early B main, but Zyw is with them.
Zyw is here, he can do a lot, but no, it's Frozen!
Great work!
Double kill, Flames at least one back, Reign could be next.
Reign, he's f***ing around with his nades
and that two-man advantage just dissolves, disappears.
Apex down to Karagin, just walking through the smoke.
Crazy start to this round.
He's more worried about canals.
He has to be aware that he's keeping B open, he has to be aware that he's exposed to Jail.
Bounce spotted, bounce spotted.
Oh, Brokey.
Brokey!
Oh, he's not gone down!
Flames whips it!
Brokey, allow it!
No, he's not!
On the crossback, goes down!
Flames vulnerable!
Brought to 50!
They're both coming in from Conside!
Spinks!
Punching in the Cove!
Tanked down, that M4 one-shot headshot looks more likely now!
But not if Flames hits everything!
It's up to Robs!
A tough map!
Two good maps!
But can he redeem himself here a one-on-one to extend play?
Up against Spinks has the kid...
Battle of Wits and Spinks has managed to get himself all the way down, tucked into cave.
There's no planet for him.
That's a ballsy call, Rops won't understand it.
Hello! He's just brought the fight to him!
Disbelief!
And there's vitality! They have secured the Langsess Arena! The Golden Horners will be happy!
Cologne is one of those events that's like kind of transcending you know counter-strike in a way
It's one of the tiles that everyone wants to win. This is really where your metal gets tested
Lanccess, it's a very special arena. Everyone wants to be there. Everyone wants to feel the atmosphere
It doesn't matter how much of a new team you are, the world is clear.
I'm here, Leo Cisum in the room and can't wait to get in the stage, just enjoy being there.
I'm getting very excited, all of my teammates, the coach especially is having us up to play at the arena.
We just need to show up and there's no excuses not to do so.
Lifting a trophy like this or just looking at it, you go back through all the memories and the historical moments that it had.
It makes it a very special one.
It's my first time playing in a big stage and this is what I've worked for.
It's a great team and we want to face them.
The will we have to play the game into, we can be the underdogs and upset everyone.
I picture myself lifting the trophy.
We showed up and I think that's the thing I want to take with us.
If we just believe we can do everything we want, I know we can.
I believe we can. I want to do everything to look at and dance in the ring.
I'll say we did it again.
This is actually what we love the most. This is what we fight the most for.
This is the most prestigious tournament right we're winning.
I found some advices and I think I'll lift the whole team as much as I can in the ring.
I feel like our side of the bracket is stronger.
We have us, G2, Mouse.
I feel like Mouse has been swacking lately a little bit.
Us and G2 are one of the best teams in the world right now.
G2 finally has a chance to beat us.
We just gave our best in terms of preparation and other things because we know our biggest
ceremonies and we also want to write our name into the history.
Being around the trophy is so big, it's so unique. It's just one of those trophies where
gifting it would mean so much for a player. It's just a memorable thing that you'll never forget.
The main goal of Cologne is to win the tournament and lift in the trophy.
This is one of the OG Counter-Strike events. This is the big one.
And so that pressure mixed with a huge arena presence, there's always a big
footfall out in Cologne. The pressure is very much on. You have to earn your spot
in the Lancers and then you have to go one step further and earn the right to
lift the trophy. And I think there is a tremendous amount of prestige when it
comes to Cologne.
But you lose this, you'll be facing G2 who are looking like Marauders from that
lower bracket in the quarterfinal.
OK, well that was something to keep our eyes on.
We'll continue that discussion once this pistol concludes.
Shui responsible for this cat take,
and he is actually going to be casting early looks.
Or long aggression.
Yes, I was there to check it, and actually spots too.
So there's some info.
No casualties either way.
They can't barrel through the middle
because Shui, exertion and Jimmy are all here.
Yeah, in which case they are just kind of stuck
between a rock and a hard place,
and that is the hard place hitting.
Shui takes out Spinks and the P250 on Xayah will well utilize. Brolin deleted, starting
to trundle up long. The full format and assault.
Keep your eyes on this Jimmy Flash. How do they utilize it? They're just going to creep
up the smoke nut in the air.
Torji casting a couple of...
Lots of info.
Yeah, knows they're committing. Smoke on the cross, turns the flash. Jimmy throws
out his towards the ramp just to delay. Allow Torji to tuck in. They do have Shui
on Gandalf but save plant flames punching in the code covered by mezzi to from
short side Jimmy lay elevator but he could be cleared by mezzi won't be doing
that now because she was at a banger two kills from the captain
Zywin can he continue to rack him up because he's all alone now up against
three it's not the best plan it is a good weapon for this fight but already a
couple of miss shots well surely go punish she's hitting them what remains
Can Zahehu really start with another ace on the pistol as Torgie's off the bomb?
Torgie's running at him, looking to pick up the dual barrettes, looking to run him down.
Zahehu has somehow pulled it on the pistol. This is becoming a trend.
And no longer the secret weapon, right? Zahehu doing this on pistol rounds.
We know he's proficient on them, but pulling out two aces on pistol rounds is something special.
And it starts with a Shui Oatna. They get across long, and I said focus on that Jimmy Flash.
He just used it to dissuade him, thinking, looking at the plant, it's not great.
They don't need to be fighting him so wide
They give him the opportunity and Zywoo will cinch it up
That is Vitality snatching away the pistol from Bouse. Oh, yeah, man. I was definitely gonna feel that was theirs
They're round to lose fast beat hang on. We're too low as this gets all quick for Vitality if Jimmy does something
He's done nothing. I've got a damage on the Spinks and a missed scout shot surgeon fast on this flank
He's he second guessed it. He looked away for a moment and Zywoo gets the double instead
couple of missed opportunities.
Brolin and Torgy, yeah, you're not going to be doing much with this one.
Well, this House of Cards has come tumbling down quite quickly,
so we'll see if Brolin can stay alive towards lower tunnels.
Spinks is the one locking him in.
Lower HP is either going around the world or so low.
But when these two teams face last on the death highlighting,
as Brolin goes down,
it was during the ESL Pro League Season 19 finals the best of five.
That's when Overpass was still in the map pool.
Dust2 wasn't.
Coming into this today,
will be a lot of time. They
haven't really played it.
No full lot. I remember seeing
them having to pick it up for
the first couple of times they
went straight from Pro League
into that boom, and then I
think that boom the team tried
to pick it against the
immediately, which they
hadn't practiced. They still
want it. Okay, but this is
Vitality's choice and we've
seen them have some real
wars on this map.
The series with face.
Despite the win record for
bit different from how things went in that best of five because I will remind
you in that best of five series Vitality had two of their three maps in the
first three right out of so they picked inferno lost it and they pick nuke that
was the third map lost that as well so yeah different formula today's bout all
right aggressive up cat they talk about the carry potential of these orpes on
either side well it's just towards you with a scout watered off immediately
And while we do have this lul, or potential lul, make sure you whack twitch.tv.eslcs on
your secondary monitor phone, ipad, I know it's on mine. Very important to be watching
that game, phase-client versus liquid a rematch from the earlier stages of stage 2. Here an
IEM cologne and that one will book the last ticket for the Lancess.
Packs out middle into the stack exertion with one more body spotted, but the mop and bucket can follow
Just three more to find exertion is already low segregated from the players chewy. Well, no, he's not anymore crosses the smoke
Names he wraps up a couple of tiny headshots
Easy round no dramas and just toys you with the aforementioned scalp
Good clean rounds from vitality that clutch from Zaiwu and then the conversion. So great work
And no real dramas pressing tab now for miles as they prepare they're just going to be looking at an eight
Zero Zai Wu you're only three rounds in I mean that ace probably still has some echoes as well
It's really okay if he holds on to the scout. I think I don't give him an AK
It's not gonna matter as you take it away. There you go. Three. Oh
AWP will be available for Torgy
So we'll have to set our sights on the CT set up for miles
Brolin will be anchoring long. We'll see if he gets tested by the Spawns early.
Tried to make it interesting, collapsing down on middle as a unit.
This is where the game begins. Maus probably regretting the way that they
played that pistol against Zywooz. If they can get on the board,
none of the rifles have been equipped. Doesn't look like they will be pumping
themselves in towards Long in the fast fashion. Spinks towards tunnels.
Mezzi Flamesy joined by Apex and Zywoo the tail of this. Remember
when we covered off Zawut against FaZe, he was getting a lot of tags and picks through the doors with the AWP.
Yeah.
Yet to equip it, but we'll see once it comes out how annoying he can be.
He was like posturing to flash someone through doors, but it actually seems like the conversation has changed.
Flash and go, takes short, that smoke still lingers now, then layering just as one fades, another it blooms.
Now that flash is thrown, Apex tries to clear close doors.
So that's a nice bit of information, Flames gets that safely.
Looking at doors and heading CT so he will be closer to assist if the bomb goes a
Yeah, and a bit of a risk for him to cross the fact that he didn't didn't get caught on the timing helps them piece this puzzle together
Torji's position is going to be really difficult to rumble should be good for this
Yeah, and the spinks. It's an absolute cracker. Oh, we just quick
No, Torji loses his head a quick reaction and an adaptation from spinks
Urchin does not choose to jump keeps him guessing and that could be enough
Oh, Spinks caught out again, but still, Zersh does not.
Spinks instead a clutch with four rounds in and already two clutches for Vitality.
Damn, the superstars, Zau and the pistol now Spinks in a one on two.
And look, he wasn't expecting exertion, you can understand why.
The fact that they played that close together exertion, braving the cross.
Both of those fights he took, he was caught off initially.
I'm pretty sure Torgy had just quick changed as well.
like he was said ready for that but apex letting them know beautiful stuff of
vitality and this is what you need to go your way and we mentioned what happens if
you lose what you win on that side of the bracket will be the winner of phase
slash liquid which will be the third place from this group and saw
okay so I played some good counter shot but I will say one side of the bracket
would look a whole lot beefier than the other hmm like I mentioned let's
just we live in a world either either way on John Lennon but let's say that mouse
lose yeah right you're gonna have G2 first mouse that when it plays na'vi
oh yeah stacked brawler seven not this time messy he's done some good jobs on
the T side so far even though that rounds that it came to a speaks one on
two clutch you saw what vitality did right they drop the crossover smoke
without having anybody long that segregates you a rotator rifle and the
AWP from car won't be able to deal with them to be that's where sphinx went out mid and once they
Maybe was flames you went out mid regardless
Somebody went out mid but then mezzie drops down from spawn using that to segregate that rifle and get that pick
I'm not even coming through it towards the a ramp for another fight
So tracks of things outside of the box and this is gonna grab another one hundred to zero sure
I understand what he's going for that when I delay the peak hope to be overlooked maybe flash but
Didn't quite work out for them
So now it's just going to exert his dig and just the one bullet connecting on to Spinks vitality taking this one by
Force apex still lingering top mid so he should be set to collect it onto Jimmy actually two bullets
Into apex one shy of converting and now apex is going to drive by onto torsion get away
Puts that scout down to 63 and it's just an impending death here for torsion except his fate
Will messy leave with three
No, he won't, Torgy. Good for it with the USP.
They'll climb down on him here. They won't give him a chance to get away.
Spinks to remove him. So five on the trot. Fantastic work. The clutches are going to help. They're definitely going to help.
You're not going to turn those down if you're vitality.
See what there? This is a great entrance. It knows the shadow, comes out with the crouch peek.
Brolin getting deleted. As he has a long spawn here.
Just gonna throw out the corner smoke, that's gonna keep Brolin and Shuey on their toes.
The two of them are gonna have to expend a bit of Utah.
As you're starting the ADP over towards middle, an exertion jumping up Catwalk.
Jimmy there, anchor B.
Yeah, we might get an AWP to head here.
Maybe not anymore as I would just fight off a shot on the left.
Might come in for that Cat.
Yeah, potentially.
I'm just looking at Mezzy's POV. He's a key for everything.
Yeah, he's a considering aggressive boost.
That would be mad.
We'll get the smoke and boost over.
Yeah, that would be curious.
Well, prepared for any problems.
Coming through their paces are vitality smoke towards mid-doors Molly towards cat flames taking space has apex just behind him
And they've rejigged the CT setup now so brought anchoring long
Torgy has rotated the AWP over towards a case to execute. Oh, they're just gonna take it
Well that extinguish makes you feel very threatened if you're on a there's really intent that they want to put this pressure on short it keeps you eat
Ted that closely to Torgy and exertion now needs to float back across this mid-doors and boss to the B bomb side with Jimmy
Yeah, okay, clear division of labour for Maus as they look to try and post there first.
In incredibly close on multiple occasions, but let's see if round six is where they
do buck the trend.
Flash.
In towards the doors, she'll be tending to it as a large smoke blooms.
This is a very well constructed-
This is a fake.
You can see how they're just keeping the CTs guessing all over the map.
Is it mid?
Is it B?
Is it long?
with Brolin down it seems it will be a flames is right behind Chewie he's
ratting through this mid smoke Chewie you can see he's just got too many
this is a dust to they could be incredibly proud of just I mean mouse a team of
mouth is caliber you can see they're just getting pulled apart misinformation
miscommunication they're lost and it's a product of vitality they are
manufacturing this obscurity this uncertainty through their calling through
their presence across the map and it helps where Mezzie can kill long whenever he wants to.
Yeah, but one of the dramas if you're Brolin is the comms at this point, we don't have
shore, we don't know what's enough for tunnels, we don't even really have mid controls.
And then a low smoke comes out there, he is part of the comms. The mid to B smoke lands as well
and at that point you have two options as the long anchor. You can just start pushing
because you think it's going to need to be split and go behind them or start dropping back
so you can group up with your teammates. And Brolin was taking that angle, like he's not
sitting playing at anchor position or pit or on the reverse side of long, he's not fully
committed to those jewels. So he's in two mines. He doesn't think anything's really coming his way.
They step out, they delete him, and Maus take a tactical timeout to get Cyclone on the mic because
things are going miserably for Maus right now. You've got one kill on Brawl, one on exertion,
two for Jimmy, three for Shui and Toji at the top, which hey, some of those have just
been on the round so you've had scouts. They're not really impact kills. He's got six.
It's time to race. Yeah, way more direct. And I won't, who could have gone down?
Well, this could be a spark to get Bowls back in it, wouldn't it?
A couple of Hes remaining, will that be used for damage or will it be used to clear some smokes?
I tell you, with this lock control, Mezzy is the only piece that hasn't joined the puzzle.
He's just going to cover the flank. Apex starting to walk up. We saw him do this against FaZe.
Ooh, would have been spotted there.
Now, as they know what's up, from the hearing, all those AKs just sounding off on long shooies
called up, but clear.
Worship damage, Apex swallows into the HE, they've got to be careful.
You peek too far, you go too wide, that AWP will pluck you, but they are walking up
into them.
Jimmy and Zershin.
Just these side arms.
What have you got for us, Jimmy?
Misses his first, delivers, delivers in a big way.
Double kill, finally silences, spins to bring him down and finds Shaw as well.
Unable to find anything this round, should we burn it alive into Messi's cross set?
And just search in here, yeah, in the open, just wild to find the first, but we'll be run down.
7-0 Vitality, they've got to be feeling very, very good about the way in which this T-side is not only being structured,
but the way it's being executed and converted.
Yeah, that's one of those rounds where things could, you know, get the Vitalyub on edge, even with this type of the lead.
So Dicey, as they're getting blocked by certain smokes, they're crossing towards the side, Jimmy gets two.
But really this is a walk in the park for Vitality.
Which I'm pretty sure they are, you know, mandated to do in contracts.
Every morning, yeah. Every morning go for that walk.
Oh, flames, a chance, and a safe. He's actually, he's a kill stealer. That's what he is.
That's insane. They get the corner kill.
He just transfers. That's...
Round? Well, how do you get back into this? Exertion's in lower. We can see a bit of a standoff.
If he plays forward for info, Messi's got him dead to rights.
And he pivots back now with Jimmy to try and clamp down on mid.
The door is opening towards B because the upper tunnel smoke is about to fade.
Now Exhusion has to worry about B. You just have to save.
You just have to save.
He's got zero in his bank account.
Max loss.
Keep your goodies.
Keep your orb.
Keep your needs.
Well, the penny's going to drop.
Apex immediately knows that there is no resistance, which incites the save.
They didn't even know that they were on the B bomb site.
It literally had no idea.
Apex gets a complete freebie.
Flames make sure they can't exit towards long.
Someone has to go down towards low attack and then Jimmy's stuck towards short.
If they take everything away, it's 8-0,
and tough for Maus to justify the rebikes.
Sure, the max loss bonus is in, but the residual cash isn't there.
If they save these two, drops are possible.
We can have that chat, but they're still just under halfway left on this bomb.
Oh, they're coming for you.
How's it get paddled?
Leave him alone. Torgie's working on keeping hold of his offler here. Comes some pressure.
Those mollies won't last forever. Torgie hits his. Jimmy doesn't. Down he goes. They know where he appears.
A missed first shot. More utility and down he goes. Take no prisoners. Vitality. A cruelty.
Onto Maus. They just wanted to hold onto their guns, but it is disallowed by the Vitality team side.
And this is the over. So Apex gets the vote. Jesus. Oh, we didn't get to see that.
Oh, that's uh, we had Flamesy's P.O.B.
We did, we did.
Okay, that looks a whole lot tidier.
Oh man, that was cracking.
And Apex even got the third kill, that's for his fifth in the compap so far.
And three of them were pretty damn important, making sure there was no saves,
but the openness to just crack this open and force a second tactical timeout from Cycren.
Well, look, you can try and salvage the half shore.
You are going to have to take a partial, then the gun's coming out again to the next,
but you just want to see some fight from your team.
Nobody is putting up any resistance right now for miles. Vitality have been bowled out by the pistol clutch and then the sphinx clutch.
But, as far as the calling is concerned, some of these rounds have looked like masterpieces for Apex, so it's really good you can lean back on the stars when it's necessary, but also the calling has been great.
I mean how many years has Apex been punching around us too as well?
Starting with three towards upper B, maybe they go for a flash push, but it's not sphinx with position four.
Team flash as well.
Oh, well played. Oh, well played. Oh, I think he's got more spanks. We're not expecting another.
Yeah, he won. Those are the 2B defenders. Oh, oh, oh no. No, no, no. Not like that.
The spotlight is based immediately. I know we get those com rounds. I would love to hear what Spank, if he says anything about that.
Probably not. Yeah, that, I mean, we all know how that can, that can happen.
If you're torsion you're kind of hoping he clears you yeah because at least that you get a fight way you can track the
Parthings like this midway
Is this vitality or g2
G2 form that we've been since they got thrown down towards that lower bracket
Well reports in from the sideline coming in thick hot and fast we have a keyboard issue. Oh
nice mullet
Harry, I think, has probably got a competitor in the building.
I would argue, yeah, I think they're both on par.
Keyboard issue has been fixed.
Thank you, John. Thanks for the update.
No worries.
They're going to fall. Okay, yeah.
They have to take risks. You know that's going to happen.
You know that they're going to try something aggressive on the CT side.
Shui has a good lower dark spawn. Is he going to take it?
Where's the AWP on tour? Is he going to go?
Looks like a standard setup with Xersion and Jimmy over towards B.
Xersion's having a go. Xersion's up to the ward's low up to no good.
Flames and spings. Can't be ushie pying up, but...
Xersion let them come to him.
My question is just, is Apex gonna molly lower tunnels?
Well, now actually they're that way. It's come through. Yeah, there it is. Perfect.
Absolutely bloody perfect, Alex.
And then your short player gets beheaded because you've got an aimer like Flames, you can take that fine.
Torgy though, he will deliver on to where he takes, the absence of the flashes.
Oh, punished, and a leg shot as well.
Zywoo's put Zershin down to 20.
Well, now you'd kinda wanna see if Sphinx can go to what's being isolated, the one on one against Jimmy.
Or the smoke might change that conversation, or the Nade might do it.
Oh, the Nade has done it.
Wow, he finishes the job himself.
Short aggression, how ready is Zywoo?
He's typically very ready for any engagement, even if it doesn't always look like it.
Yep, you can see he's considering his options as he backs away and uncrouch here.
Yo! Perfect from Brolan. Perfectly executed, but now the B site needs to be defended and Jimmy.
He has done enough at least to remove Spinks.
Mezzie's got the bomb yet to cross.
Audible steps, he's going to throw it across for his teammate.
Jimmy doesn't know he's going to commit on that flashbang and actually Mezzie will punish him for going looking.
Okay, confirmation of Brolan. Look at the flame.
I'm not in a hurry here. Still punching in the code.
And a swing, a big fight taken by Brolin.
He's put impact into this, but it could all be for naught.
Flames, all versus Tordi. Now he gets to play wicked games with him here.
Swap to the awp! It doesn't work out! It's still vitality!
Oh dear. That's three clutches in the first half of play.
Azawi 1v3, Spinks 1v2, and now Flamesy 1v2.
Yeah, he started the round with a headshot on Toshui as well.
Gorgie saw that when the replay, Nade on his face, shouldn't get to play.
Jimmy, yeah, he put up a fight, Mezzie here, there's some great shots here on Dusty.
And I'm not just saying that, he is.
He is like, this is some good CS for Mezzie right now.
Axe has an interview with saying that he wants to be more out of Mezzie on the CT sides.
The T sides, he's happy with the job that he's doing.
He was looking for consistency for Mezzie, he even said he misses some shots.
I'll tell you who's not busy shots right now.
Yeah, he looks like a robot in the best way.
This is, um, this feels like a mismatch.
Yeah, but I'm just sitting here going, this is how, you and I are cursed.
No, but this is also, I don't care about us, Chad.
What I care about is how stompy, so like these,
these are two teams that have just qualified for the LACS arena
and one right now is just wailing on the other.
Same with that G2.
Yeah, it's just like the disparity is alarming and exciting.
Yeah, and this is the tea side going to be contributing to that skewed tea side stateline
that we've had at Kolo and thus far.
Yeah, maybe it's just a tea side thing.
Yeah, maybe that's it.
Yeah, that's why all the clutch isn't by ground.
Oh god.
It's just the tea side.
I reckon it's the pistol.
That pistol.
It's MR12.
Yeah, that's it.
That's the MR12.
MR12.
Yeah.
No, the CT economy.
It's the CT economy.
We love a 13, Zero.
Oh.
Dad, you...
Sorry, guys.
I'm sorry.
That's SPUNJ on Zitta.
I'm so sorry, everybody.
Yeah, man.
I...
You were doing...
We were doing so well.
11 rounds in.
I apologize profusely.
It's alright, man.
It won't happen again.
Do you want to cast Mouses first round?
Yeah, okay.
Alright.
Mousesports.
That's your punishment.
Down in the dumps.
Seeding game sure, but lose out.
Poo-hoo!
We'll have to take on G2.
Two orbs, one for Blading.
Doesn't get anything done.
Exertion's aggression.
Not expected.
There's another kill on the table.
Impact slow, but Zywoo strikes.
They know about exertion.
They do.
Well, they know there was one.
Now they know there was two.
Good work.
That's his third frag.
He did some Zywoo as well.
Well, surely Mows win this round.
I counted it with a cast to curse.
That's respect, actually.
A counter-curse.
How do you put a style?
He tagged Jimmy to start the round.
When things even look a little bit worrying,
there's some magic from one of these individuals on Vitality.
This has been fun.
I've been doing that. Yeah, really. And as I was going to hit that, yeah, of course it is.
Of course it is. No, 0-5, please come back and witness what could be a 13-0 at the start of this match.
Into the second half, is Thomas in Counter-Strike history. A 12-0 score line.
Vitality, couple of clutches. In fact, how many clutches, Chad?
Three. Three. That's right, Chad's here.
And so am I, as we get ready for the second half,
Vitality, good five,
private pursuit of a semi-final bye.
Let's find out if this first map looks to come to a close
in a single round.
Could it be the perfect Vitality, 13-0.
Mowls take down the Mawoo.
Jimmy, with that B2-50,
gives them a taste of their own medicine.
Now from the disadvantage,
Spink starts to depart B.
Flames, suicide,
Nade from Apex is good,
right on the face of Zershin.
But now is the hard part getting to the site, it seems to have already gone down, there it is.
Flash from Apex and go, is that the call?
Yeah, looks like it, Messi and Flames will swing with it, but...
And now it's...Maus is turned to do the same right back.
Margin Ferrera, zero.
And the first is perfect, a five alive pistol, you'll take that.
Alright, uh...
It's the toughest of tasks, isn't it?
You said Margin...
Zero.
Yeah, so you just essentially have to do exactly what Vitality just did. So we'll need at least three clutches.
We're gonna need some good tags on the doors from Torgy. We're gonna need some crazy opening frags from the best longspawn.
I would like to see them just force, even though that's probably not the best option.
When you need one?
Yeah, it looks like they are just gonna take the full save and then buy into the next, which is fine.
Not 13-0, boss.
Not 13-0. It's true.
He's right.
Let's go.
I can't argue with maths, unless you're named Terran Towered.
Topical?
I'm going to show up in mid with five USBs and the drive-by from Zershed.
Get some selfsummit for cash to splash 1200 and get a ball!
Yes indeed, triple on that Mac 10, nice and quick.
Alex, do I have to tell you how much I hate the Vita from Liquid?
No, well, you have, but you haven't done it with a microphone on.
Would you like to do it?
I just hate it.
Okay.
I don't like how they're giving FaZe maps that they're comfortable on.
know that they're back by ancient but the dust is pretty miserable. I think
they could look like they have a pretty decent dust too. Anyway, that's a
conversation for the A stream. Push that TV slash ESL CS and wow this is catching on
isn't it? We've seen this run. Furia did it. Liquid have done it. This is going
into this third round with it's like an MP9 buy. You save enough cash that you
have the loss of bonus going into the next. You fall by it but we might not
need a fall by it. MP9s can do it.
That's more often than not, because you recover a rifle and you get the bomb.
Oof.
Are we calling it the Fallen?
Are we calling it the Liquid? What are we calling it?
Just calling it MP9s on the third round.
Yeah, okay, fine.
It makes a lot of sense.
I'm sure there's someone at Valve HQ that says they finally tried it.
They cracked the code.
They're playing these rifle rounds with a flash and a HE.
Now they get to have a very good attempt.
Worst case you have your rifles in the necks and best case you win it with just the SMGs.
And they had an aggressive gambit with two pushing up, two pushing lower and hold up, Brolin.
You could win the round.
He's about to.
Flames, delete it, and the second, Brolin!
Closes it down, denies the SMG half-buy round.
Oh, that does feel good actually. SMG half-buy, it works.
Yeah.
Exactly what it is.
It's not an SMG force, but just a half-buy.
Yeah, because now, regardless of what we're losing that round, you've got some kills with an SMG,
He got some kills with an AK-47 and you've got yourself an AWP full nades and fours. You can see the logic.
And you only need that one round so why not take a bit of a chance?
Zaheer with a good long spawn to go for the corner pick.
Brolin might meet him head on. Tosh is there to be p-jump spotting for middle. Here he is.
Oh, he's actually let one go.
Through the legs.
He's makes them.
Alright, well try them.
Just take a bit of space, exertion.
Not having to worry about the AWP on short. Just thrust himself up on towards that Xbox.
has told you just behind him clear the smoke and Apex gets caught.
Beautiful.
Alright, mouse.
Bit more of this, we must like getting excited.
Bronze out long, can pinch on towards A, looks like Flamesy wants some space.
A nice detail.
They smoked B doors from spawn very early on, which I think led to two players B, which
led to one player mid, isolating Apex and leading him to an early demise with a clear
of that mid smoke.
Look at this gamble.
Vitality of giving up the B bombsite completely
Hmm
They aren't gonna be in the right place now. There's plenty of needs as well if they want to stall out short and fight
Because it's all long centric flash
Counter flash back and forth we go
Vision and look at the damage he has done sure nothing lethal
But it does soften them up for flames and his aim has been looking crispy today
Does flames step up to the plate when tested 40 seconds the squad bit shaken by Nessie's
He does nothing so I will at least trade
Well, he will still, oh, I said it wise to all careful with it through it
Singed toes, but a cross brawler. That was a brave maneuver, but it might catch him off guard
They are not prepared for him to be here
But now he's now they are and he's actually revealed himself with a crazy spam Jimmy through spawn. Yeah
He's gonna house. I was toes exposed. Hello, and goodbye spinks in the clutch. What's he got?
time Alex 12 seconds that's the healthiest member they both softened up
conspins really and this here the 1v3 he can't shoo he a necessary head shot there
you have no more bullet in in there 4hp on him and the first tack timeout
calls vitality didn't like the way that one fell they could be loaded there
and this tour was long gone very sketchy with all the damage done very
close indeed a messy round end but mouse keep their head just above water you
don't need to buy again for the vitality conversation can just be another
partial investment see what little move they want to try and manifest as a hero
M4 purchased by Spinks a scout upgrade by Zywoo apex with a CZ-75 and I'm
sure Mezzi and Flamesy will get involved with Sonic of their choice as
well at any moment this could all end for mouse there's no easy round
Even if you are just going against the USPs one foot fault it's all over red rover
Okay, go through. I think double nades long doors, but nobody pushed out so that won't net the many damage at all
exertion starting towards upper tunnels and
Then just going into a default spread after that
So Jimmy dealing with the upper push exertion watching lower for now shoot back cap
Brolin is investigating long late with in the round and towards you floating with the AWP
Brolin needs to be very carefully. Got here late. Worried about players up close. Flamesy
and Pete with a deagle.
Shot.
Shot. Brolin opens up long as an avenue. Bomb's got something else to wear, but it's not really.
Doesn't manage to catch Shui looking towards shore side, so tanks him up.
Flash for Spinks to go looking. Ooh, doesn't catch a glimpse of him. Shui should have
it. Yep. Takes down the rifle like this. He's looking great for a fifth. Now it's
When you think about the flow of rounds, it was a pistol loss
Then they go into round number two lose that the MP9s command the third the rifle's command of four
That was not a partial for five and be rush. Hello. Yeah, just running straight to messy
This was a ballsy call it could work out for them now the Zershin space to take down the anchor spink gets one
Arlen shuts him out. Do you go for the retake, right?
Go for this be bopside retake can be quite difficult one of the positives that Vitality have for them right now
Is the fact they have a decent amount of utility some mollies, HG smoke
I see him defuse kit on flamesy, but when you only need one round, you probably yeah, you are you're saving so that was such a risky call by mouse with the fact that they traded efficiently essentially sealed the round right so well they're not going to risk this why would they try and come for this one they don't have to if messy or sphinx get to either of them it's a very uncomfortable
And you could have really just been shut down. Both players started in the B-bomb side.
So really good work from Maus. A ball's he called from Shuey. I respect the howl out of it
but when you're playing this type of a game you think, okay, did we just default and try and find a finish
but no, you're playing with your balls out.
They're playing to win.
Yes.
Not playing to not lose.
And I think this is important regardless of them winning or losing this map
is if they can just bring themselves as individuals back into the series
going into vertigo as map number two.
We still have two more maps of Counter-Strike ahead of us regardless of the result.
If they pull off the Remarkable, which would mean six more consecutive rounds, well...
I don't know what we'll say about that one.
No, Nora, I was not in the realms of reality,
at least when we came in from that halftime break at 12-0.
It is 12-6, I mean, halfway home, but any round, any slip-up, any misplay,
like standing in the Molotov and losing out to Zywoo, double kill in the flames!
and now as I spoke his name he's done a lot of damage onto Torgy.
Just as you started believing, just as the conversation crept into the dialogue.
Oh, so it's almost off hold.
Maybe we keep doubting them. They'll do the adult bell.
I'll turn it around so the bomb is on blue bin.
Yes it is.
That's an orcimo.
Fully fortified. Mezzy doesn't need to move a muscle. Apex can cover short.
Torji could catch Apex on an AD and overly...
Oh, he's not moving, is he?
Yep, that's a lovely angle to hold.
Lovely angle to hold.
And there it is!
Dust2 converted, 12-0-13-6.
Solid work on their T side, finishing off with a cherry on top.
And their CT side.
Vitality won up in this series and went away from a semi-final.
Not bad. Not bad day in the office so far.
So this is why the discussion with the loser of this game,
you will join G2 at RV.
Right, so losing this, not only you don't get the semi, you also have to get through a lot of big dogs if you want to make a run.
Yeah, G2 first and then potentially RV if you can deal with them.
Yeah, whoop, whoop, whoop, okay. Well, Mals, you better win Viagra.
Now you know, you brought it here for a reason. It is their map pick. Vitality made their map pick look very, very good on their T side.
And that's where Mals start as well. So let's see what they've been cooking in the lab.
I see a lot of NAVS chat. It's going to be quite a techie pistol.
Well this has got B bombsite written all over it. We've got Spinks, Messi and Zaheer however grouped up and who just played for info that was Apex
He is called A-Ramp completely clear. Oh, that's a gift. Yeah, so they should be more than ready to deal with this towards B
It's gonna come down to the timing so it smokes they're ready for Torji
Yeah, they must have done the homework. Well as well as the info
Pre-hanging this boost Spinks knows exactly what's up
Messi jiggling stairs Spinks holds this here comes the utile confirmation of their suspicious
And there's he. Yeah, he's actually gonna be run down. Good flashes, really good flashes.
Look at Sphinx. Not able to do anything. Maus perfect into the site. Converts his
nade damage. Apex pushing smoke, but Tony flames and he's not long for this
tweld either. That is a perfect start for Maus. Everything going to plan. Brawland
frag it up a storm with three. And so, yeah, mission accomplished. They go into
the stack and you still walk away with the results. So good stuff. More
Now we will see what looks like an eco from Vitality.
Maus have had a mixed bag as far as this map is concerned, and I am cloned.
They played it twice, it once gets falconed, they lost it narrowly 13 to 11.
Ended up winning the series, so no harm, no foul.
And against complexity, 13 to 9.
And complexity actually picked this map back in Dallas against Maus.
And that was, I think, the first, or one of the first times that we had seen the new iteration.
the first or one of the first times that we had seen the new iteration of Vertigo since the change
over towards Elevator had come into play and yeah that one was a 1916 loss just a close game but when
the map was being tested there was a lot of double needs towards short teams just trying to fight
each other a lot in those early stages and I'm talking to Exersion the other day he feels like
this version of Vertigo is T-sided and I think he does quite an interesting job with A-Lerks
once the map starts to open up so keep your eyes on him. Not only seeing the same MP9
and Kevin approach the ball out on dust two.
Yeah, I think right this map not so dependent on an AWP first and foremost.
It's probably a few other factors that play into it as well as this map just
starting as opposed to them just needing to close out with one round.
On their CT side of dust two after that.
Awesome. First half of the play.
Yeah, apex is deliberately
He's got himself early deep down ramp towards yellow, avoids their short molly and will
tuck in by the sandbag.
Oh wow, tries his luck to search him but flames quick to it.
So consider that dealt with.
Mezzie houses the anchor and work going, looking very strong as he does deal with Jimmy's
just going for a walk, going for a search.
He stays active on his angle and confirms it so extends the man advantage to two
and it's uncomfortable for the remaining three of Mounds.
bit of chip damage there from the HE, they throw one out.
As you can see, if there's anyone overstepping the mark towards A, there's more than enough
bodies to deal with this for vitality at the B site.
We've been swinging for some jewels.
Boost that up, rolling immediately to lead it, so Mezzie continuing the hot hand.
That's what X-Tars was looking for.
Yeah.
Alright, well, if you can't do any more damage, it's 45 seconds left on the clock.
I'm sure he'd lob it out a couple of smokes.
Torgie looking for a gap. Flamesee is the step.
There's a kill for Shui, and that's all he's going to get.
It is just Torgie now. Galil in hand.
It's going to be more than enough money for a buy into the next four miles,
so you can hold on to this if you like.
So look for a little bit more damage.
Pick your poison, Torgie. We're not in a rush.
And for Vitality on the other hand, we haven't seen them play Vertigo
in Cologne.
So it hasn't been a necessary map as part of their campaign.
They played Inferno Mirage, Inferno Dust 2 Anubis, and now Dust 2 Anvertiga.
With wins over Furia FaZe, and now the battle with Maus.
So there you have it.
Ground time's out, Torji holds onto the Galil, and Vitality posts their first round.
It's easy when both the applies on the extremities, get the kills, Flamesee and Mezzier,
and then that one's simmered out for Maus.
Nothing to really get excited about.
No tactical timeout called, no conversation needed from CycloN of how they will adjust. Let's get into...
Turn round number two.
Alright, big one. Give me telling of just how competitive this first half will be.
Quite eccentric. I don't think they want to allow them to have so much A-Round control this time round.
They want to harass a little bit more Jimmy. Wow.
Must be a big shot on T'Veze.
Yeah, looks like a one-time haroonie.
Flames, flames! Oh! I thought he was flashed there!
Flash there. His hand was over his face, but must have had vision, so still takes down Zershin.
It costs him a lot of health, but he denied that first test, and there's a second straight after.
Shui walking through smoke into Apex, and Vitality will take that. That's a gift.
You've got no ramp. You've got no stairs. You've got nothing.
I don't think, yeah, Jimmy getting that kill was necessarily part of the plan. Look,
it's great, but you can see that Malz really wanted to fight for this A ramp control a little
bit more Jimmy gets that kill he drops back immediately and then they just wanted to try
and finish to what they were assuming there was going to be a rotation but because Spinks was
aggressive with Mezzie they didn't need to hedge their bets they had the info that there wasn't
the follow through an hour 3v4 flames he low.
You know what use it for info they're going to flash him in and know more than info he gets
two more two more kills from flames with a scrap of HP he had that is a very impactful round
He's been known to make some impactful clutches in his day, he's got 30 seconds and needs
to isolate this headshot player and he has done so clean headshot onto Apex, when he gets
walked on fakes on Xywis, that's where he is and could have caught him there on the
swing just a little behind him on the tracking.
2-2 Vitality find consecutive rounds and it looks like it's going to humble nows.
Moving a real shot at that if he gets to go on as I was so disconnected that was the shot
So as he started shooting first Jimmy adjusts and then great defensive work for the likes of Flainty and Apex
And then the follow-up through low HP the flash the apex of the flash assist in the feed so
Keeping on their toes vitality. They will humble the finances of mouse or just down to a Diggle and some glocks
Eyes on to Georgie to see if he can crack them into we've seen this from number four
Before to lose strap and mouse love a good troll
It's nice to see Vitality playing some solid counter-strike.
They're a team who, you know, there'd be the occasional worries.
It felt like they were lacking trust with their individuals.
Apex would be calling a lot of direct rounds, so they didn't have to really think.
Just kind of clobber them to death with aggressive moves on the CT side or direct calls on
the T side, whereas you just trade.
But they played a much more comprehensive game.
They've had a lot of individuals contributing in different moments.
Had their star of Zai we were getting aces on Pisterance two of which that's nice to have in your back pocket
But he hasn't been the only component that's firing and hasn't needed to be the only one is fine flame sets of big games
Spinks has been with some clutches
Apex he's a dragging in game leader right?
He's one of these guys that he can have a rough time
But then he can you know have a quite a good show
We can hang he can hang for sure
Yes
So there's been some good moments with this team and if they're able to pick this series up to
put themselves in the semi-final on what most would argue will likely look like
the easiest side of the bracket given the fact sores over there I know they
played some good CS but still this is gonna be a big boy counter strike this
is gonna be on the stages so you keep that in your mind and then you remind
yourself that they're a team yet to win a trophy in 2024 and that's what
they're in the pursuit of right we've come out of the break got a EWC bit of
a lighter one right just a bit more of a studio environment with a small
crowd. Then you had the blast groups helping getting these partner teams warmed into things.
And now you're at IEM Cologne already booking your spot in the Lancer Shore. Oh,
miss smoke. You see that one? Well off the map. 51 floors down. But you're putting yourself in a
great position that the Lancer Spirit eliminated themselves by not showing up, getting destroyed
by G2. All right, taking the pace over this one now. It's not going to fight early, but look
Look at their response from Vitality.
They're not using their nades early.
There's no threat, no need for us to go for Smoke Molly defense if they're not going to force it out of our hands.
I'm intrigued how...
they've...
clear Apex with Flames so active on this angle.
And yeah, Flames will catch the first, Sashen goes down, Apex now will he be overlooked?
It looks like Torchy's not considered it.
He hasn't considered it at all! A free frag for Apex!
Patience prevails, Shoei swings in, and it's perfect!
Oh, Apex! He's having a great one! Triple kill! Aggressive defence!
Mezzie might catch Jimmy, but it's a dink exchange, the AK prevails.
But all the same, the round is won, the job is done.
If that, you just pissed off at me, Mezzie.
Like, well, we know where he was, he's the B anchor, and he killed me great.
Sick one, kid. Well, you've lost the round, haven't you?
That's the Mezzie in a dialogue right there.
I think Mezzie's too nice to think that maybe. Maybe that's just me.
I'm going to get hunted. 20 seconds.
Lost Burness into the next round. 2900 available, 4 miles.
Likely to see for them, just to go for a couple of upgrades around the saved AK-47, but Kreystar from Apex.
And they even go for the yellow molly.
Right, to flush anybody back on the deeper line, but Apex has played aggressive.
Several times, it's clearly part of the game plan. Oh, dear.
Jimmy Biker down after a time. He should do.
Should be able to find him here. There it is. Zawir from the top rope.
Lots of cash for Vitality, so happy to give over a few extra bodies to make sure Jimmy goes in the next round of play only with $950 to his name.
How do you suppose Apex is getting there so quickly, so consistently? Are they throwing a yellow smoke from, like, Elevator?
So the thing is, Maus are starting rounds with their lurk smoke, and they're doing the yellow smoke, so there's room for him to work behind, but...
Is that an extra gun on the spawn? Guys don't be wasting money. I'm flying over there, don't be...
No, no, no, there's not. Okay, okay. Alright. It's a refund, maybe a quick refund.
Alright, alright, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Another miss smoke. Okay, well highlighted there, good job J-Razz.
So that's an unforced error for Vitality.
But yeah, last round was a little bit different, look for a mouse, they didn't go aggressive.
How's that?
Flames might continue to rack them up. No, he's kept humble. Good work from Zersh's tech 9. Made looks destined for glory.
Just shy.
Okay, well, they're making no secret that they want to try and put some pressure on towards this ramp crane side.
Saiwu
Investigating towards gap. They're hoping for a re-aggress. They're hoping that a
misstep from Vitality comes their way. It is.
Apex will surge.
Oh, timing against it.
Yeah, Zasher peeks into the line, but he's got Saewoo by his side. Good find.
40 seconds getting all increasingly moored.
What?
Yeah, I was gonna say difficult, but Saewoo gets wall-banked by Shuie. Huge work.
I know, Apex is around.
Smoke that covers the whole of the site. Good work from Apex, however. Finishes off Shuie.
When we started this map, I was talking about Exertion saying this is T-Side, and that I think that he does some good jobs lurking A, but he can't even get control of the ramp. It's not just on him, it's on the team, but they can't get control of the ramp to be a lurking presence.
Vitality are not allowing it, and the first time that they have allowed it, Mao has only had take 9s. It was just pistols. It wasn't a full buy whatsoever.
take nice it was just pistols it wasn't a full buy whatsoever so by telling you
doing a really good a good way of disrupting what mouse want to be doing
as part of this t-side game plan the rifles purchased up this time the smoke
will land so yellow blocked you can see on the radar lurk smoke for mouse to
work with but blocked there is the combination of the two and that's
pretty standard you get that on old vertigo as well apex is harassing
does not want to give this space up for free a redeployer the yellow smoke will
solve them out for now mouths are not probing middle they're not probing b
oh springs forced to extinguish but will they overlook mazzi his two-man setup
they've got confirmation of sphinx and you're too comfortable for jimmy
he'll get himself an opening and it will force mazzi into a more humble hold
let's see just how much pressure sphinx thought he was under i thought he had to take the
fight and i guess if jimmy gets a crossing and try to spam him through the smoke
But giving it an opener over, maybe that's what mouse needs to convert another round.
I had pistol, the conversion, but that's it.
Vitality on a streak of five.
Grouping up towards a vitality of called a gamble, and I think they've felt that they've
done such a good job of dealing with the A pressure that mouse will try and finish elsewhere.
That's not the case.
Mouse could just walk into A for free.
And they will with bells and whistles attached.
Well, it's just safe for vitality.
Finances available for Spinks for a Rebuy. Apex and Mezzie could give it a crack, but Flamzie and Xayah were quite low in the finance department, so
Maybe go fishing, but the rod in the water. See if you can find anything. Brolin, it's forward.
Flamzie will get there late.
A shot from Brolin, but should we be removing the word? Ah, it's a bit costly. It's more than they were bargaining for.
Everything could be taken away here. Yeah, Mezzie's the last one stunning. He's got three people running at him. He goes down after the wand.
one. Now is that that will feel
increasingly good now for your T side
campaign three to five.
It's your first one into the gun
rounds really. Can you break
through? That's a Jimmy opener
and he had one earlier on in the
piece until Nezzie. So Jimmy doing
will live it up to his end of the
bargain as the be anchor on the T
side, the one having to work for
that room. Well, the
ramifications of giving away all
of those rifles in that scenario,
I think vitality with the gamble
either should have just hung around
more passively and see if they found anything on the fade of the smokes as opposed to searching to
find themselves around the open, because now they've had to spend everything. Turo to full buy,
A1S's and 1A4 in the mix, there's a defuse kit for Mezzi, U-Tills there. They have everything they need
to fight back, but if they don't, the mouse can now work their way into this first half of play.
This pace come back into the mix for mouse. Smoke will land again,
OBS team making sure they highlight that as the name chucks Apex.
This is half of his health for the Troubles. They will get the space short. It wasn't worth it.
Equal damage back in exchange.
Yeah, not bad. They want to flash and pop, but they're already reacting a quick boost.
This could be a bit uncomfortable for Mezzi. Yeah, they dismount orderably.
So you guess the info. You'll take that 2B.
In the meantime, Flamesy found Toji through the ramp smoke.
Wow. Stay tucked in, Mezzi.
That's the opposite of staying tucked in.
Stretching their legs, the confidence is brilliant for vitality, isn't it?
It really is. I mean, when Flames is in form like this, he feels like he can win any fight.
And this would be a crazy one. Yeah, look at that. Crouch holding the angle.
Zershin will punish his overstepping.
So that puts us at 4-4.
And Smoke on Bridge will delay.
It can break it. Shoe is going to nade. It's cocked.
It's cleared. Baypegs. Tough angle to clear.
Overlook by Shoei. Good trade from Zershin back. 3v3 pushing up. 38.
What's the move here?
Oh, Brolin, might be able to find Spinks.
Yeah, it's about to find that timing window.
It may have been an audible retreat.
I think it was.
Sairu.
Spinks out.
Wow.
He still delivers the headshot.
Needs Spinks to follow.
Super.
But Jimmy's too good.
Super precise, and it's the Bianca left.
You know where he was.
Well, because Brolin has the rotation,
Jimmy knows to worry about the flank.
No, he's meant to handle this.
Oh, cleanly.
Smoke and Kit-Chat.
We're on.
Brawland towards the elevator position, Mezzi.
Order ball.
Brawland should have a heavy advantage in this one.
He knows exactly where he is picturing the swing and nails it.
Perfect from Brawland.
Maus, that's a gift.
And Jimmy and Brawland combined, they bring it home.
Yeah, a real mystery for Mezzi on that retake.
No information whatsoever on where Brawland was going to be.
So it had to be noisy.
He couldn't really take his time,
even though he had the required utility to try and make it happen.
So many angles have to worry about and just gets shot right between the eyes work from Brolin
And that's them breaking into the importance the reason you get such a cheer from Maus as they have put that financial dent
Vitality have to be down to an eco. They get a chance to level the game up 5-5 and Brolin picks up right where he left off
Another head shot this time on to Zywoo aggressing middle and that will confirm the suspicions yet
No money left boys. This should be an easy one
It's a good word for it.
It's running at him with a heart.
Knocks Apex off his horse.
I rewatched Knight's Tale recently.
You ever seen that?
Very film.
Oh mate, such a feel good movie.
Apart from the princess that says if you love me you'll lose, think that is a bit
of a bad manoeuvre.
I don't think that's cool.
I don't think that's princess-like and it pissed me off.
Wow.
Just have to get that out there.
No, that's fine.
Now, all tied up.
Who's gonna walk over the half lead or...
Till we find ourselves at 6-6.
Vitality.
Back in with the guns this time. Lacking the kit.
Lacking a few incendries.
Flash is from Chewie at the ready.
Exertion might try and make a play.
They're mixing it up.
They're mixing it up into Spinks' mid-hold.
Roller was not prepared for that off-angle.
Well, slow down, Torgie. He has the bombs.
But he has support. Shui's with him.
It's quite on ramp. Zersh is there.
And Molly Guardians are expected.
Spinks instead.
Flash for Mezzy for answers.
Zersh down to 50 HP and Nade most likely towards the ramp side.
Yeah, he was Naded right side.
Look at the angle Apex is working with.
They feel like they might have been trapped or perhaps it was just a suspicion.
Well, Shui's coming over.
So, Maus is starting to pivot back towards A.
Flames you on the jump spot.
Do they scale quickly when they see him?
Oh, does he expect- yeah, he's seen it now.
Peace.
Yeah, so you can see that calling the bluff exertion goes well.
You can get caught in no-man's land.
He just runs and down, takes that space for free in pursuit of the kill.
Xayu has been able to join this aid defence.
Blocked towards Shaw, perfect timing.
Made.
Flash.
Flash and go!
Ooh, Apex so, so close to death!
Xayu has only got one.
This is great for Mao. Still finds a second.
Reef for Torgie. Yeah, he's on it.
Bombs could get scooped up. Rotation of Spinks and Mezzie on the way. Yet to plan.
Torgie's key kept him out. Chances of a safe hit. It looks like Zershin can condemn.
Catching Spinks through Heaven. Mezzie, last man standing once more. Smoke no kit and Heaven occupied.
He's gonna have to clear this out. Does so. Big start.
Torgie now demanded to clutch as well. Brolin's had his moment.
Is it Torgie's turn? Smoke might lead him to get a little panicked.
Mezzy, that sound, they're trying to explain where it's planted.
He throws out the HE, gives Mezzy a 4 chance!
It presented itself and Torgie, he closes with 4 kills total.
That's a big one. That could very well mean 7, given the finances of Vitality.
You wonder where this one all goes wrong. Opening kill, that's highlighted,
but it just turns into this lineup.
So Flamesee gets overrun, Apex gets flashed, I think with the block on short he's thinking to himself, there's no way they're coming through this, but they flash, they push, they harass, he lines up with Flamesee, and the site just absolutely collapses thanks to Torji.
Yeah, I think the immediate knee jerk flash led to a complete turn around, it looked like they'd locked him out, I think Apex thought he had.
And then you see the difference, Exercian knowing how he can function in some of these rounds now that the buy is in the pavilion, again, final round, have to invest everything they can.
But these cultures that Maus have won, the 1v1s that they converted ruined Vitality's finances
in two different occasions.
Yeah, here we are.
Last round at the half and Maus to leave with the lead on their pick for a semi-final spot
to avoid the big dogs.
Chewie, down.
Big find from Flames.
Consistent threat.
Zershin finds the perfect moment.
Finding Apex spotting out the other Flames.
Noted, Brolin activates and he's up against Zai, where he out-aims him clean conversion in middle, flames somehow, pulls another one out of his hat.
It's fallen into place for Maus. Brolin, two impactful kills on his mid-lurk.
Yeah, really important lurks from Brolin. Even in the round where he didn't get any frags, he was able to convert the 1v1 with his position.
That's some tough clutches for Messi. He's had to try and convert difficult rounds, rotating over from his bombsite.
side doesn't really have all the information in the world and now it's
just spinks a one-on-three situation has you till no kids think this one's done
I suspect the same you can see the positioning of mouse it's diligent
considered and it's there's seven gotta be happy with that one mouse making a
statement on their t-side after a run of five from Vitality mouse return the
favor Vitality mouse map two mouse's pick Vitality took dust too and when
you don't want to play ancient and you don't really want to play vertigo you're gonna have to pick the lesser of two evils off the
banning ancient now as they took a target straight towards vertigo and so far so good seven rounds on their tea side
I'm a sheen I'm joined by sponge and we're heading into the second half of map to a good bounce back obviously if you miss map number one
You missed vitality demonstrating on the first half of play that they can win 12 consecutive rounds
13 to 6 seems a little bit closer than it was it was an absolute drubbing but house
They got warmed up. They won the pistol, got the conversion, lost five straight, and then had a couple of clutches. Brolin with one towards you with another.
And they walk away with a half lead. Brolin on the jump spot. Here's the steps. Trundle's back. Calls for assistance.
Here the whole squad's here. Shavin' J-Raz delivering the cameras.
Oh, towards you under pressure. Can't really use your smoke.
We will get it out of there. Swing and crane. Golland. Ooh, still hits one.
It's one that apex could work with flames in combination. They can take the side that bomb plants explode. This is a whiff smite
That's a syringe smoke. Yeah, there's
It's a brave plant spot. Yeah flame still adjusting to the new vertigo changes
Spinks is still hit the shot though, and it doesn't look like it's gonna cost them the round
Funny that yeah, that could have really gone wrong and
Look everybody getting a kill in the round other than mezzie
The torch is getting under pressure. I was unable to really block the choke point. I thought okay
Well, it's moved out a little bit deeper might not be the end of the world so it just gets killed through it
So great job from apex tracking him down
What do you suppose is the new default vertical plan?
Most of them are going into the this one that corner there
The 78 upside down 78 we call it. That's what we call it. Well the
73 oh, okay. Yeah, look Jay's showing us people at home as well. Yeah job Jay
But that's yeah because of the the new angle that's possible
We are still gonna call those boxes default I'm afraid. I think that's that goes. Yeah. Yeah
But there is a new default plant spot in town. I
Think it also depends on the type of execute that you go for. Oh, yeah, but a plan enough there
It is there's a pecs a that's or is she important kill team douche there from Spinks
But we'll split the pistols
Attali we'll get the opportunity to tie things up seven seven because mouths are taking the fullest of ecos
I say that just as brolin invests himself into a p250 and Jimmy the same. Oh Jimmy's even
They saved the Kevlar, of course again almost made a faux pas
That's my job. That's right. I was lucky I corrected myself. I got my order retired
Right here and now I'm just hanging around in no man's land you round the corner. That's what you see
Ooh, jumpscare on that.
As they search forward, Shui adds to his pants.
He doesn't want to sit in the way, he wants to take the fight.
Looking through the sort of gap of the sandbag,
and now swinging out to their demise, playing with another opener.
We'll make that his seventh so far.
He's seen seventh.
Alright, 14 rounds, he's got a 50% opening kill rate.
He was having a field day on that CT side with Apex.
They both did a phenomenal job locking down that A ramp position.
It was just the clutches that got away from them and that was with the B players rotating in unable to convert the rounds
Can be difficult to do so for flamesy. He's been a bit of an eco basher this map, but it'll take him pull out him to the stats
19 for 10 123 80 up. I suppose that might be what they're chucked it about as well
All right, let's see get a little look at vitality's t-side on vertigo
Don't get many opportunities to have a look and where did that happen?
Zywil's gone. Zywil dead early. Brawland has provided a nice opening kill.
I'm going to look at Ramp and Zywil who uses his life to a full confident aim swing.
Let's go Brawland.
Well, there are some gaps present on the map right now. Nobody tending to middle four miles.
Shui's hedged over towards B to assist, I think, with a flash. They're going to try and retake this.
But nobody home in Vitality. Still...
We're playing outside of B Lobby. There's a kill.
There's a kill. That could have been a trade.
Nice to try to apply a bit more pressure.
Apex could lose the bomb.
If Bronon holds that fade, you'll likely peek into it.
On the walk! Ooh, Apex! Good work!
Quick counter-strafe with the S-key. He does manage to hit the shot.
The only thing that I tell you to really have going for the visit advantage is the utility.
Which they're going to be throwing a whole lot of right now.
parrage of nades. Hetshot will be Molotov down and oh he spots him. Good eyes on f***.
He's so crispy today. It was Dust2. Now it's time to go and Zershin catches Apex walking through a
smoke. So Messi's got... that doesn't even count. Didn't even get a chance to start the clutch. Jimmy
just swings into him. Double kill for him. Zershin getting himself one through the smoke on Apex
as well. Just walking. Waltz in straight through. It's time to try and take a bit of a risk
to Apex. This was the opener. Yeah, Zahler trying to get the Molly up towards Gap. Just
gets caught. A good kill from Apex to get them back into the round, but these from Flames, they are hot.
That's one of the easiest kills exertional get, but Apex thinking he had an opportunity.
Caught off and mouse back into the lead, just a one round difference as the second tactical
timeout call for Vitality. I'm sure they'd love to get this done as quickly as possible.
Pals have been showing some decent form on Nuke. Taugy says it's his favorite map.
Thanks to Caulie's own shots on that one with the AWP. Speaking of orbs,
Not one in the server. There will just be rifles on either side.
Mezzie with a Galil.
In case for everybody else on Team Vitality.
No U2 whatsoever for Spinks.
It'll be back to the A plate.
It looks like it. This time a heftier assault.
And Mezzie has the bomb, so he will have to join the crew.
Molly.
And no opening death while trying to get that down this time.
We plan this to facilitate the walk.
Different CT setup as well though. You've got Shui helping out A this time. Last time it was assisting the B defence. Flash and go!
Yeah, they come. Drive by. Brolin nails it with Torchy's flash. He anticipates the molotov, but look at the damage!
Shui's already taken a double kill. Vitali! Oh, setback to spawn almost immediately!
One minute 20 on the clock. Spints with 30 HP. A bullet would do it. Spotted out now. They'll double peek or do it. They don't even need to.
the bomb in front of them. He comes to them and that's a Mao's night. That's a convincing Mao's
night. And I think I just saw Sycron asking for a timeout. He wants to throw the knockout blow.
It's going to feel really good if you're Shui, right? You assisted in this round. You've expected
them to come towards A. That's where you're playing over is the alley to go for this round
control. So they win a massive round. Shui contributes in a big way as well. So the
in-game lead are going to be very happy with that. Yeah, cool setup. Good spot.
just saw that flashbang in Torchy's hands and you knew it was go time.
Light investments for Vitality, looks like they will concede the 10th.
There's a flash for Apex and...
Oh, a bit of a misnade.
Apex is going to flash, Zersh should be ahead of it.
Oh!
Oh, Spinks is actually taking the head off of exertion.
Jimmy, he's not flustered. He knows what's up.
You couldn't have more round control than that from Roland.
You've only found an MP9, so still tower flash and go again.
Jimmy, Jimmy, oh so blind, what a flashbang.
They could lose the sight, because Spinks is having his night, it's a triple kill.
Triple kill, just a deagle, just a deagle, Chad, no kev.
Mostly glonts.
How has this gone so wrong?
It's hard to comprehend.
Spinks just decided he wanted B and he took it by force.
And those are the type of rounds that you need from an individual like Spinks,
if you want to win the trophy here in Cologne.
Spinks has been criticised a little bit in recent times,
maybe not having the most impact, the lurks being a little bit readable.
But this round, T side, he only had six kills before this,
comes in and hits three absolute bangers,
exertion over steps.
Okay, that's info. Jimmy calls the bluff.
Bluff that one flash that I thought apex was going to use for the stairs was used for the sides of perfection
It lasted forever!
They just ran him down so that's E code
Stam that one on the forehead of mouse
E code
Which flash did apex throw? Was it the one from like
I think it was just a standard it's the cycle I don't think it was anything crazy
Look I thought it was like over the blue the blue boys
The blue boys
The cement tube
No he was pretty sure he was be main with it
Oh okay respect
Because he was going to flash through the windows
Just follow the last thing he made great shot
Cursion down, flash in, bang. What a shot from Spinks, and then he hit another one! I mean, just heads on heads!
So I was sure he put the little bit on the toppings on, but that's the Spinks round.
And look what it's done to the Finances' amounts, two MP9s and a 5-7 to defend their armor.
On our even... I don't know what armor is.
Sounded good, though.
Smoke? Same kind of playbook as before, no lurk smoke in response from Vitality.
Two mids, boosted up his Zershin.
Ooh, he wants to fight!
He actually tries to surprise and is resulted in an opening death of Roland.
And another opening kill for Flamesy.
Oh man, what's he up now?
I think that's gotta be eight.
That will be his eighth, okay, wolf.
Silent dismount, stylish, mouse.
Not wanting to give anything away to that mid player.
Apex is going for it. He's gonna be, well, walked into the angle.
Torchy!
Jumpscare, good one back, huge!
Lots of info, maybe you saw all of them there.
Potentially, one trying to get away loses his head to Zywoo. Jimmy's still down with his rifles.
Zershin's picked one up too. This can go wrong, but Zywoo doesn't seem to think so.
Jimmy up against the world. Can Jimmy eat planet? Oh, he has found the first.
Yeah, Jimmy was trying to get ahead of the rotation because he heard Mezzy's steps, but
Spink should have had that kill every day of the week. Now, Mezzy's gonna...
Is he going? He went. He stopped. He's going now.
now. Look a bit nervous. Yeah,
understandably because Jimmy could have beat them on the rotation after that
kill would be got complicated this flash tells him he's heading the right
direction 36 points of help does have a molotov he could throw out towards the
default bar and I will doesn't have the HP doesn't matter.
Mezzie's hit the heavy. It's nine nine.
I got a little bit dicier than it needed to.
Vitality had dealt with a threat but Jimmy in the clutch, you can't rule
them out. His flames he's eight.
Brolin's been pretty good in the opening exchanges as well, he's converted 5, only lost 2.
And an important shot there from Mezzi, how the Finances and Maus are back in the bin.
Can't do a whole lot with the full eco, looks like they're just going to stack out this time over towards B.
Get the heaps of Infoboys, get a move on towards A.
Alright, I thought they were just running towards what should have been the empty site, but they wanted to back up Mezzi,
didn't want to allow the rounds to try and get out of control.
And now Maus has beat them on the rotation, still just USPs.
A good smoke works, so shouldn't be a problem.
Shouldn't.
Pfft.
Hey, Siwa.
Yeah, here we go.
Found them! Looses out after one.
Bit hectic now with the loss of the rifle, and now as Arsham's using it to great effect,
and they are quite low, these USPs could hit a headshot or two!
Scavenged Nadeships further away, Vitality's palms start to have a little more sweat upon them.
Should be fine!
We said.
And yet, Torgy's taking down Flames, they spam, but Apex spams back more lethally, a double kill, finds Zershin on headshot.
No armour, but still a problem with Zershin, no time, the only absentee here is the kit.
The frags were there, the rotations were on point, the Vitality deaths getting a bit sketchy,
but they can't quite respond in kind after the deagle entries from Spinks into B.
Vontmous take a good stab at doing something similar.
The fact by Taliyah have lost absolutely everything in that round against the full eco
there might be financial ramifications if Maus can
Get around the board and tie things up 10-10 for them. The loss bonus is going to be only 1400
So they can invest and they can have a little bit of residual, but that might hurt them going forward
So Maus making the most of the necessary save round
harassment on both sides of the map
Made to clear. Oh brawl. I'm still braves it
Regardless of the made damage to his face, 62 to work with if susceptible to a spam will
mantle off the second molotov.
Oh, and caught out nice again!
Flames has opened up the round!
Number 9 indeed!
Oh, no problem there, spinning around, as I would provide discovering fire at 11th.
Rather quickly accrued.
Yeah, Flames you can really do no wrong in these entry scenarios.
rip away these remaining rifles of exertion and jimmy I mean you definitely
coming into the Lancels Arena having flames in form and confident that is
gonna be a conversation well the team knows that they're meant to win trophies
when you're in a squad with the likes of Zywoo on your team you should be
contending for them and Vitality definitely were we'll remind everybody
last time these two teams faced EPL season 19 Grand Final best of five
mouse made light work of them it was three zero and of those three maps
map. I mean, the map's vitality
picked maps one and three, right?
So you keep that in mind.
Mouser in hot form, but they're in
studio form and well, we're in a
studio environment right now.
It's also a seeding game.
But I've spoken to some of the
mouse players before and they
treat this is a very important
match. Why wouldn't you get as
deep in the tournament as you
possibly can when you have a
game like this available to you?
Right? So I mean, a quarter
final is for a semi final spot
to and the ramification
just been steamrolling everybody through that lower bracket.
Spirit, Astralis, Payne again today.
They opened up with a loss to Soar, sure,
but they have recovered.
And coming out of the break, G2 are one of the hottest-looking
teams.
Navi playing solid team CS.
They're also going to be on that side of the bracket.
So you really don't want to lose this series.
You would love to keep yourself on the other side,
where you're going to get a phase or a liquid and a Soar.
Sounds a whole lot better to me.
The cows are now out in deep water on their map choice, cobbled together investment, Eagle
5-7 MP9, and that M4 in the hands of Jimmy.
Who can step up and be a different maker from ours, or is it too little too late?
Let's find out.
Passive stance and spread.
Flash for flames, Penny find his tenth opening kill.
I'm about to go alone.
You have to walk that tightrope, you don't want to over-commit.
It's so crazy when the rest of his teammates combined they have three.
Man, I mean yeah this is fall, this is confidence and he's going to have another look off the
flash.
Brawlin makes a wise decision trying back away, spam man, takes him down.
Brawlin neutralizes the open kill threat but when there isn't flames there's a Zywoo
instead.
21 rounds of play for the players who are going to be first opening depth so that's
pretty impressive and they're going to continue to make light work of this mouse
partial investment just exertion. Back towards the default box zombie. Spans
are a couple of bullets but now they know where he is they can pivot
accordingly. Time is not a problem. There's weaponry or utility and real estate is saying
that Spinks has plenty of. We'll just go and plan that bomb on a last time
Spinks was on the lurk to secure the round he did with it didn't cost
them. Let's see, can he shoot
straight? Ah, the shadow,
baggots him into the bullets.
He's at another body shot.
Look how low they all are.
There it is, the block comes out.
12-9, three opportunities to
provide Tati to secure the semi-finals
and avoid that dangerous side of
the bracket.
And, Mezzi, we've discussed it
with the victory yesterday to get
in towards the Lancaster to be
his first time. Tati were in
the playoffs last year. Apex
has been in two grand finals.
I would want the first time he played a clone 2019
It's an efficiency that
Crouching on to the smoke. I don't know if Jimmy's gonna have a
Chancellor freebie we did yeah, he picks that 10 HP Zershan spams away reveals himself flames
Who nearly finished the job now? He's dinged up to
Rollin in the meantime taken down the whoo Zershan good for it
As he steps through still gets it before the spread good trade is good for miles. They will pass their first test
and Apex forced into this angle knows where Jimmy is will likely hard clip will not
hard clear him. Well just to think the impact of that Spinks 3k Deagle
round yeah and everything's come tumbling down hill and when you think of dust
two sure that first half they won every single round 12-0 but there was a Zywoo
1v3 on the pistol with P250 there was a Spinks 1v2 there's a Flamesy 1v2
so the clutches helped them out and the impact of Spinks in this map has
done the same. So two more rounds. You win this mouse, you get vitality on a low buy and
as we've just prefaced still going to be tough to get past. So no matter what, this will be
a photo finished for mouse in search of overtime.
Here we go. Strap in. Mouse in pursuit of OT. To stay in the conversation again that
they're taking incredibly seriously as of vitality.
is in a lot of danger and he has no support.
Yeah.
Literally none.
Ryan walk out on the smoke by coring the open.
Just well to find the one as he goes down again.
16th death.
Pressure applied by Flames clears out close.
Seems like they want to finish towards A.
This is the next duel.
Does Brawl play for information?
They're looking to pivot between the site's vitality.
They want to keep the seesaw open as Flames,
he still peeks into what's B.
Yeah, he's like made lots of steps on the stairs.
He's throwing out extra nades.
It has got two players looking even a third not far off on mid. So really was all hinging on brawling here timing might catch him
Becks down to brawling huge frag to post doesn't want to rush doesn't want to panic
He has toji covering his cross, but a missed shot from toji. Yeah, that's costly
Not if brawling hits every shot he takes though taking our spanks now
Torji connects and they will pass test number two Sony flames
He's out of there
Maybe that's what they're missing. Flames the opener might have to be his is doing in the next round if they can call on him again
Lost bonus 1900 into the next round Flames. We won't be getting any of that
So who has enough for an AK the same as ever speaks at apex. They're just in that perfect sweet spot
Roughly 4k a little bit over means they can pick and choose the utility of choice
Mezzie either with the Kallil or a Mac 10 to try and facilitate some YouTube a brolin
The pressure was on him timing could have operated against you see I'm worrying about front crane as well as that short push
Let's say apex is a second sooner as he's clearing front click crane. He goes down free kill
Sights essentially open
Third of the tactical timeouts and the best time to use it because if we do go into OT they'll get another one
So X has given them 30 seconds to have the conversation to get anything's done in two maps
No torches AWP is in play do they look to?
try pressure anywhere else on the map and it's it do we want to see if we can go
through middle here because for miles it's felt like they've been heavy towards
B trying to get that lobby in stairs control we've had around earlier on in
the piece where Shui was assisting this aid offences that rotate up oh wow
push is up going middle this is all in B really.
Mezzie just wants to run he wants to gun and spot it by Zersh with a quick glance
Molly forces his hand, gets himself out of hot water, or hot floor.
Well they've got the defence moving. Right, if that was part of the plan...
They've definitely done that.
Yeah, it seems to have worked perfectly. So as he would be Lobby,
should we embrore on to lock down A, torches the AWP still posted in middle?
Nobody's coming mid whatsoever.
Putting faith in, should we embrore on the crossfire for A round?
GAMP!
Merc smoke dropped.
Gives him some time.
Can I fund to Shuri spamming GAMP?
Where are they going? It's just all follow Apex around the map as he changes the mid-round calls.
Yeah, Mao's are asking the same question though.
Jimmy still has a smoke to block a beat. Just used a perfect timing.
Can ask for a better.
That's a experienced Bianca with a very good read of the situation now.
Look at this, pre-aiming the boost. That's their only option.
They shouldn't jump up just yet.
But they have, and they lose their head.
Oh, destruction!
Maus, spray him down, it's Jimmy with a triple.
And we are looking at overtime here, folks.
Mezzie with an impossible task.
Who's going to finish the job?
Who's it going to be?
Is it Mezzie?
As he finds two clean headshots.
Molly Whitebox swings through.
Another one from Mezzie.
Good grief, he gave it a good shake of a stick.
Yeah, we ain't done yet some big shots there. But yeah, 1v5 that would have been a stylish way for vitality to close the game
Give us all the entertainment, but still get it done in two
And it's not a vitality didn't have money down the stretch
Because of the rounds that they were able to pile on after the sphinx to eagle they had plenty of cash
They went for that final round pretty well equipped
Messi was the one that started with the mark 10 and almost ended with an AK 1v5
Please take a three out of the pitcher, but we're back into things and here's a change the Zawoo AWP
Haven't seen that yet.
That's true, that's true. He has been prioritizing a Rai-Four.
Strategy Tavern enabled it.
So he was waiting for, but he still goes down. Shui out-aims him.
Nails the headshot, takes down Zai Wu, and already Maus...
Ooh, I was gonna say, hold on to that man, advantage Apex.
Not having any of that gets a very late trade onto his Orpah.
Taking down Shui.
They haven't really see-sawed very effectively. It's like that you...
Zershin? Zershin?
Tux 51, Brawlin looking for answers.
Hanging on by a thread here on the fade. He goes down. Zershin delivers an impactful double.
Can't close. Spinks says play on.
Spinks brings the bomb.
I think they might just contact. I don't know if they'll even...
Okay, never might. Shut your mouth.
Now, telegraphing that there is B presence.
I told you she hasn't moved just yet.
Oh, the shadow bay Jimmy does not pull the trigger.
They wanted answers.
They've heard it.
This audible step on the Guardian position.
Peechee.
Jimmy, what a vision.
Messi's exposed.
Nice adjustment.
Oh, and Spinks falls as well, Miles.
That is a clean close.
2v2, but they make it look easy.
I'm just surprised that they used Util because the way that they could have just walked on in and searched for the fight
I guess you can be worried about quad it's such a difficult position to deal with I love this opener
They brought exertion over to assist with a they had three rifles what torches all was towards middle yet again
And right now I think with that reaction of apex. He's stumped. He doesn't know what to do
Lovely good read of the situation for him to Georgie
So I guess if there's no flansey openers they are in a bit of hot water. Yeah for real one
Ooh, Jimmyed!
Punished by Spinks, so there's an open-up!
Gift from Spinks!
As I saw him at the Seasaw, they don't really establish enough control.
They might kiss in the smoke.
Hello?
Hey, Peg just touches W and confirms there's someone in the way.
Two kills to the good for Vitality to tie this back up.
Gotta convert this one, surely.
Yeah, the best opportunity is in a short while.
Yeah, about Torgy.
He's a real problem for them at times.
Let's see if he can start racking up some more multi-killers.
I've heard that.
That is a very audible rotation.
And so a free frag, the freest of frags there, should we?
With his now steel toe boots on.
Well they're rotating back.
No jimmies dead, should we removed as well.
Still might be slightly worried for exertion.
He had hedged over towards A.
Spinks giving up a little bit of ground while being a diligent clear for his teammates,
But they'll be in the bomb will go down and towards you and exertion. Do you give us a crack?
Well, it's overtime and you've got the finances so it might as well have a look but
There's the seesaw because not only does it keep your sights open and options available
Right, it can act as a very deadly lurk
Especially now with the new hole in elevator right if you come up gap you can be behind them in middle so much quicker
Yeah, it does feel valid like parking someone towards that gap position unless they're diligent on their clears which they can't always be
to be able to leave with the
lead on the end of their CT side.
Well, I think it's been about the
T size right because they've had
two extra rounds. So we're talking
seven or five in both of the
halves. So yeah, bang on no matter
how you frame it. How's that
going to expend their overtime
tactical timeout? Maybe cyclone
is having that exact
conversation. Hey, if we get
two on the CT side, we should
be able to leave with the
lead on the end of their CT
side. Well, I think it's
TCT so we should be able to put this thing
No, all for Georgie
Jimmy has enough right he could have bought himself as well
So this is probably what the timeout is about it does become a little bit more difficult to retake the science with the AWP
so
Does that mean for the opener?
Get to find out here
He has discussed a second TCT round certainly would give you a nice edge
Going to the second half of overtime
Starting heavy B again. Jimmy, he tries the same move, this time no spings to find him.
Just mezzy. Pimsy around as well to throw out some Util.
Flashed him off the line, good work, good Util.
Tsaiwu has his ult though, and if you jump spot, if you miss step, he's pre-aiming it.
Guess the info.
Yeah, I think I saw him.
Oh, well.
Apex swallowed that!
A bullet and an A, 27.
Softened up early and still so much time left on the clock to work within this round
Rolling a torchy hanging about still a smoke on brolin
A stream is currently out of control
Be watching that one at the same time if you can yeah, we've got overtime here. It sounds like they got overtime there
Let's see what happens with that early damage on to apex because he is gonna be walking around the smoke
Over clear! Oh! Perfectly timed his flames! Another opening to the tally.
He's gone quiet for a little while hasn't he? Spinks, crossing the smoke, kicks in, wasn't ready for it!
Oh, completely caught off!
Okay, well now things are looking a bit pear shaped.
Spinks, another, Jimmy rotates in without any support or any-
That's a T-smoke!
That's of nowhere he is.
And Spinks, yeah, with a combination with Zywin, we are going to see that T-side bias even in overtime.
Okay, okay.
He does the waterfall smoke plays behind it and they're clearing you just see three T's down the bottom of the ramp staring directly at ya
Oh gee a 1v5
Now it's been spotted dealt with by flames closing the round as well as opening
Now they get to swap back over to the CT side vitality
Now those clutches hurt their finances a lot in the first half we have to go back there was a brawlin clutch
There was a Torji clutch and that's where the finances took a big dent and
mouths were able to work their way back into the game. They closed the half very
strong but now the finances aren't a conversation. You can have whatever you
want. Zahewe will go for the AWP on the CT side as well as the T side.
Post up towards middle. Torji's got his as well. Yellow smite we've seen plenty of this.
This flamesy and apex, the A-Defense, was beautiful in the first half of the play.
Yeah, this is a nice change-up.
Intrigue to see what Vitality do with this, because they've already concerned, or rather put invested, now that money comes in.
Can I dare the latter might be occupied if the communication's good.
Still a very tough clear.
How you meant to unravel Brolin unless you catch a timing?
Yeah, Brolin should have him.
Oh, he does. Nails the shot.
Does Sphinx do that alone, Brolin's next thought?
Opening kill favours Maus.
Looking to keep it level as we have been throughout.
Must be one of these gambles again from Vitality.
We saw some within the first half of play where they didn't quite stick the landing.
This time it appears to be the right call.
Blocked at the 52nd mark.
Not going to put too much sweat on Shuie's brow.
We've got time to work with, Util as well.
Strong angle from Flames.
Yeah, just for that reason you can see surgeon he overlooks it and it will tie us up with 40 seconds for on four
Re-smoke gap limits your options
Flames
Continues to lay waste to another messy in combination does make it a two-on-four and is really not looking good for Jimmy
Allow trundle towards the gap position a full magazine sprayed Brawlin's luck
You can see they can they're cognizant. It's a possibility flames your verts is gays
He's not looking does adjust and now Jimmy with a crazy transfer attempt, but 15 is secure one round away from the semi-finals now
Vitality and two opportunities. I can't believe they played forward on crane there after short cut blocked
I thought they might just wait it out allowed the you to to be siphon through they had the number advantage
It's felt like it wasn't a necessary peak and then another one for flamesy. So he's done a great job
Denying this a site
Aware of the fact that Brolin wasn't spotted in the feed and you bang on just one more round five more kills back in a winning position
Are vitality but miles have done it once can they do it again?
Two more consecutive rounds required to go to OT number two. Shui takes a lot of damage early down to 67
Smoke, I forgot about that
So did vitality now apex gonna function without it
Fight
He just switched to his nades!
Oh, they didn't expect him...
That is a very big opening kill to post. That's such an important round.
What a gift that is from Apex.
Oh, and Zai Wu spotted a cheeky bit of leg, a bit of ankle.
And he does convert. Patience on that. Let's Jimmy come to him.
Plucks him through the board and it's five on three.
The realisation for mouse now, you can absolutely have it on map number one.
Now your map choice is going down the gurglock and trying to line up Nate suddenly for smoke in your face and a bullet there too
Through the boards brawl untact up Zywin gets away
And messy on quad you discuss it's hard to clear and oh
Spinks they've been kept busy these smokes these nades these spams
And so completely overlooking a very fast flying gets spanked to finish the double only
Only Torji, what's he got for us?
There's very limited options for him.
Four CTs to get through.
Eight bullets in the magazine.
And the first is a clean headshot.
But down the finals, Mouse will start at the first day of play in the Lanccess Arena.
Gotta be feeling good about that one.
And Flam, as you can see him on your screen, 28 frags.
How many did he end that game on?
Into the double digits of opening kills.
I think he ended with 10 in total there, but he was forced to be reckoned with.
But you lose this, you'll be facing G2, who are looking like marauders from that lower bracket in the quarter final.
Okay, well that was something to keep our eyes on. We'll continue that discussion once this pistol concludes.
Shui responsible for this cat take, and he is actually going to be casting early looks.
Long aggression.
Yes, I was there to check it, and actually spots too, so there's some info. No casualties either way.
They can't barrel through middle because Shui, Xotian and Jimmy are all here.
Yeah, in which case they are just kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place and that is the hard place hitting, should we?
Takes out Stinks and the P250 on side will well utilize Brolin, deleted.
Starting to trundle up long, a 4-4 man assault.
Keep your eyes on this Jimmy Flash, how do they utilize it?
They're just going to creep up the smoke, not in the air.
Torgy casting a couple of-
Lots of info.
Yeah, knows they're committing smoke on the cross, turns the flash, Jimmy throws out his towards the ramp just to delay.
Allow Torchy to tuck in.
They do have Shuri on Gandalf, but safe plant.
Flames. Punching in the code.
Covered by Mezzie.
Two from short side.
Jimmy lay elevator, but he could be cared by Mezzie.
Won't be doing that now, because Shuri's hit a banger.
Two kills from the captain.
Zywin, can he continue to rack him up?
Because he's all alone now up against three.
It's not the best plan.
No, it is a good weapon for this fight, but already a couple of missed shots.
Well, surely he'll go punish.
He's hitting them, what remains?
Cause Zawoo really start with another ace on the pistol.
As Torgie's off the bomb, Torgie's running at him.
Looking to pick up the dual barrettes,
looking to run him down Zawoo has somehow pulled it off again.
Will it be fine?
Yes indeed, ace on the pistol.
This is becoming a trend.
They're round to lose.
Fast B, hang on, we're too low.
This gets awkward for Vitality.
If Jimmy does something, he's done nothing.
He put a damage onto Spinks and a missed scout shot.
He looked away for a moment, and Zyron gets the double instead.
Couple of missed opportunities.
Brolin and Torgy, yeah, you're not going to be doing much with this one.
Well, this house of cards has come tumbling down quite quickly,
so we'll see if Brolin can stay alive towards lower tunnels.
Spinks is the one locking him in.
Lower HP, Zyron, we're going around the world also low.
When these two teams face last on the desk of highlighting,
as Brolin goes down, it was during the ESL Pro League Season 19 final
It was during the ESL Pro League season 19 finals the best of five
That's when overpass was still in the map Paul. Dust2 wasn't coming into this today
Maus are a hundred percent on Dust2, but they haven't really played it an awful lot
I remember seeing them having to pick it up for the first couple of times
They went straight from Pro League into Betboom and then I think Betboom the team tried to pick it against them immediately
Which they hadn't practiced. They still won it. Okay, but this is vitality's choice and we've seen them have some real wars on this map
He was like posturing to flash someone through doors, but it actually seems that the conversation
has changed.
Flash and go, takes short, that smoke still lingers now, then layering just as one fades
and another it blooms.
Now that flash is thrown, Apex tries to clear close doors, so that's a nice bit of information,
Flames gets that safely.
Pressure all over the map at the same time, okay Flames down, that's big, but strafing
in to him is messy.
He's going to win this. Still
plenty of time in the clock. 50
seconds. Bomber on cat knows
the orbs towards a session. It's
going to be tending to the
potential. Sweeps through.
What kind of doors and heading
CT, so we will be closer. To
assist if the bomb goes a and a
bit of a risk for the
potential. We're going to
get a little bit of a little
bit of a little bit of a little
If the bomb goes a and a bit of a risk for him to cross the fact that he didn't didn't get caught on the timing helps them
Piece this puzzle together. Torji's position is going to be really difficult to rumble should be good for this
Yeah, the spinks. It's an absolute cracker. Oh, we just quit
Torji loses his head a quick reaction adaptation from spinks session does not choose to jump keeps in guessing and
Spinks caught out again, but still such
It's not far, it's not far!
Spinks instead, a clutch!
With four rounds in and already two clutches for vitality.
And the superstar, Zoe, won the pistol, now Spinks in a one on two.
And look, he wasn't expecting exertion, you can understand why.
The fact that they played that close together exertion, braving the cross.
Both of those fights he took, he was caught off initially.
I'm pretty sure Autorgia just quick changed as well.
It looked like he was set and ready for that, but Apex...
Flash in towards the doors shui tending to it as a light smoke blooms. This is a very well-constructed. This is a fake
You can see how they're just keeping the CTs guessing all over the map. Is it mid?
Is it B? Is it long as now with brawlin down it seems it will be a
Flames is right behind shui he's ratting through this mid smoke shui you can see he's just got too many
This is a dust too they could be incredibly proud of just I mean
A team of mouths is caliber!
You can see they're just getting pulled apart, misinformation, miscommunication, they're lost.
And it's a product of vitality. They are manufacturing this obscurity, this uncertainty,
through their calling, through their presence across the map.
And it helps where Messi can kill long whenever he wants it.
Yeah, but one of the dramas, if you're brawling, is that the comms at this point,
we don't have short, we don't know what's in up the tunnels, we don't really have mid-control.
And then a live smoke comes out B as part of the comms. The mid-to-B smoke lands as well.
Well, it's not a pace.
Yeah, way more direct, and because I wouldn't...
Ooh, could have gone down.
His teammates all take a lot of damage from a single HE.
Well, this would be a spark to get bounced back in it, wouldn't it?
A couple of HEs remaining. Will that be used for damage, or will it be used to clear some smokes?
I tell you, with this long control, Mezzie is the only piece that hasn't joined the puzzle.
He's just going to cover the flank.
Apex starting to walk up. We saw him do this against FaZe.
Ooh, would have been spotted there.
Yep
Now as they know what's up and they're hearing all these AKs just sounding off on long shooies called up but clear
More ship damage, Apex swallows into the HE they've got to be careful
You peek too far you go too wide that AWP will pluck you but they are walking up into them Jimmy and Zershin
Just these side arms. What have you got for us Jimmy?
Misses his first, delivers, delivers in a big way, double kill, finally silenced his sphinx to bring him down and find short as well, Torji
Unable to find anything this round, should we burn it alive into Mezzy's cross-set?
And just search in here, yeah, call out in the open, there's one to find first, but we'll be run down.
7-0 Vitality, they've got to be feeling very, very good about the way in which this T-side is not only being structured, but the way it's being executed and converted.
Which I'm pretty sure they are, you know, mandated to do in the tracks, yeah.
Every morning, yeah, every morning go for that walk.
Oh, Flames, a chance, and Apex, he's actually, he's a kill stealer, that's what he is.
that's what he is that's insane they get the corner kill he just transfers that's
round well how do you get back into this exertions in lower we can see a bit of a
standoff if he plays forward for info Messi's getting dead to rights when he
pivots back now with Jimmy to try and clamp down on mid the door is opening
towards B because the upper tunnel smoke is about to fade well the pennies
gonna drop apex immediately knows that there is no resistance which
inside to save. They didn't even know that they were on the B bomb site. It literally had no idea.
Apex gets a complete freebie. Flames make sure they can't exit towards long. Someone has to go
down towards low attack and then Jimmy's stuck towards short. If they take everything away,
it's 8-0 and tough for Maus to justify the rebuy. It's sure the max loss bonus is in,
but the residual cash isn't there. If they save these two drops are possible,
we can have that chat, but they're still just under halfway left on this bomb.
Oh, they're coming for you.
How's he getting paddled?
Leave him alone.
Torgie's working on keeping hold of his offer.
Here comes some pressure.
Those mollies won't last forever.
Torgie hits his.
Jimmy doesn't.
Down he goes.
They know where he appears.
A missed first shot.
More utility.
Down he goes.
Take no prisoners.
Vitality.
A cruelty.
Onto Maus.
They just wanted to hold onto their guns,
but it is disallowed by the Vitality team side.
And this is the open.
So Apex gets the vote.
Jesus.
Oh, we didn't get to see that!
Oh, that's uh... We had Flames' POV, didn't we?
We did, we did!
Okay, that looks a whole lot tidier.
Oh man, that was cracking!
And Apex even got the third kill, that's for his fifth in the compapse so far.
Three of them were...
Flames and Spinks...
Gonna be occupying up...
The desertion let them come to him.
Cause...
My question is just, is Apex gonna molly lower tunnels?
Well, now actually that Apex come through?
Yeah, there it is. Perfect!
Absolutely bloody perfect, Alex.
And then your short player gets bit-headed because you've got an aimer like Flames who can take that fight.
Torgy though, he will deliver on to a face, the opposite of a Flash is punished in a leg shot as well.
Zywoo's put Zershin down to 20.
Well now you'd kind of want to see if Sphinx can go towards being isolated the one on one against Jimmy.
The smoke might change that conversation, or the Nade might do it.
The Nade has done it.
Wow, he finishes the job himself.
Short aggression. How ready is Zywin?
He's typically very ready for any engagement, even if it doesn't always look like it.
You can see he's considering his options as he backs away.
And uncrouch here.
Yo! Perfect from Brolin. Perfectly executed, but now the B site needs to be defended and Jimmy.
He has done enough at least to remove Spinks.
Messi's got the bomb yet to cross. Audible steps, gonna throw it across for his teammate.
Jimmy doesn't know if he can make on that flashbang.
And actually, Mersi will punish it for going look at confirmation of Brawlan.
Look at the flame.
Not in a hurry here.
Still punching in the code.
And it's waiting a big fight taken by Brawlan.
He's put impact into this, but it could all be for naught.
Flames, oh, versus Torgy, now he gets to play wicked games with him here.
Swap to the off!
It doesn't work out!
He's still vitality!
Oh, dear.
That's three clutches in the first half of play.
Zywoo 1v3, Spinks 1v2, and now Flamesy 1v2.
Yeah, he started the round with a headshot onto Shui as well, real scorchy,
saw her there in the replay, nade on his face, shouldn't get to play.
Jimmy, yeah, he put up a fight, Mezzie here, some great shots here on Dusty.
And I'm not just saying that, he is?
Yeah, he is, like, this is some good CS for Mezzie right now.
Well, Axe does an interview with saying that he wants to be more out of Mezzie on the CT sides.
The T-Sides, he's happy with the job that he's doing, he's looking for consistency for Mezzie.
Even said, he misses some shots.
I tell you, he's not missing shots right now.
Yeah, he looks like a robot, in the best way.
This is... this feels like a mismatch.
Yeah, but I'm just sitting here going, this is how you and I are cursed.
No, but this is also... I don't care about us, Chad.
What I care about is how stomp he's so... like these...
These are two teams that have just qualified for the Langtas Arena, and one right now is just wailing on the other.
Same with that G2 game, it's just like the disparity is alarming and exciting.
Now sports.
That's your punishment.
Down in the dumps.
Seeding game show, but moves up.
We'll have to take on G2.
Two orbs, one for BlameZ.
Doesn't get anything done. Exertion's aggression. Not expected. There's another kill on the table.
Apex slope as Zywoo strikes. They know about exertion. They do. Well, they know there was
one. Now they know there was two. Good work. That's his third. Frag! He digs up Zywoo
as well. Well, surely Maus win this round. I counted it with a cast of curse. That's
respect actually a counter-curse
He and he tagged Jimmy to start the round
Yeah
When things even look a little bit worrying, there's some magic from one of these individuals
on Vitality
Yeah, this has been fun. I've enjoyed it.
Yeah, really. And, you know, Zai was going to hit that.
Yeah, of course he is! Of course he is!
FOOTFOOT, PLEASE COME BACK AND WITNESS WHAT COULD BE A 13-0 AT THE START OF THIS MATCH
Let's find out if this first map looks to come to a close in a single round. Could it be the perfect
Vitality
13-0
MOULS TAKE DOWN THE WOO
Jimmy with that b2fiddy gives him a taste of their own medicine now from the disadvantage
Spink starts to depart B. Flames, Suicide, Nade from Apex. It's good right on the face of Surtian,
but Mao's the hard part getting to the site. It seems to have already gone down there in.
Flash from Apex and go. Is that the call? Yeah, looks like it. Mezgy and Flames will swing
with it, but look, Rollin' Lines and both up. And now Mao's his turn to do the same right back.
The first is perfect, a 5 alive pistol, you'll take that.
Alright, it's the toughest of tasks isn't it?
You said margin, zero.
So you just essentially have to do exactly what Vitality just did, so we'll need at
least three clutches.
That's a conversation for the A-Stream, Twitch.tv.eclcs and wow, this is catching
We've seen this run, Furia did it, Liquid have done it, and this is going into this third round with it's like an MP9 buy.
You save enough cash that you have the loss of bonus going into the next, and you fall by it.
But we might not need a fall by it, the MP9s can do it.
And they tend to, go off of the knot because you recover a life fall and you get the bomb.
Oof, are we calling it the Fallen? Are we calling it the Liquid? What are we calling it?
We're just calling it MP9s on the third round.
Yeah, okay, fine.
It makes a lot of sense. I'm sure there's someone at Valve HQ that says they finally tried it.
They cracked the code.
Instead of playing these rifle rounds with a flash and a HE.
Now they get to have a very good attempt. Worst case you have your rifles in the necks.
And best case you win it with just the SMGs.
And they had an aggressive gambit with two pushing up, two tunnels pushing lower.
And hold up, Brolin. You could win the round.
He's about to.
Flames, delete it, and the second Brawler!
Close it down, denies the SMG half-by-round.
Oh, that does feel good, actually. SMG half-by, it works.
Yeah.
Exactly what it is.
He's mixed it.
Alright, well, try to take a bit of space in the exertion.
Not having to worry about the AWP on short,
just thrust himself up on towards the Xbox,
has torches just behind him,
clear of the smoke, and APS gets caught!
Beautiful.
Alright, mouse.
Bit more of this, we must like getting excited.
Brawler's out long, can pinch on towards A.
It looks like flames. He want some space a nice detail. They smoke B doors from spawn very early on which I think led to two players be which led to one player
mid isolating apex and leading him to his early demise with a clear of that mid smoke. Look at this gamble
Vitality of giving up the B bombsite completely
Oh, they are gonna be in the right place now. There's plenty of needs as well if they want to stall out short and fight
Cause it's all long centric. Flash, ult, counter flash, back and forth we go. Still Mehdi has vision and look at the damage he has done.
Sure, nothing lethal but it does soften him up for Flames and his aim has been looking crispy today.
It does Flames step up to the plate when tested. 40 seconds the squad bit shaken by Mehdi's damage.
He does nothing. So I will release trades.
Oh, he will stall him. Oh, set him wide.
Oh, careful. Run it through it.
Singed toes, but a cross-pollin'.
That was a brave maneuver, but it might catch him off guard.
They are not prepared for him to be here.
Now he... Now they are.
And he's actually revealed himself with a crazy spam.
Jimmy threw a spawn.
Yeah, he's gonna have Cyrus' toes exposed.
Hello, man. Goodbye.
Spinks in the clutch. What's he got?
Time, Alex.
12 seconds.
And that's the healthiest member that most softened up.
Can Spinks really end this here?
the one before he can't shoey a necessary headshot there he had not more
put it in in there for HB on him and the first tack time out call vitality
didn't like the way that one fell it could be loaded there and this tool is
long up very sketchy with all the damage done very close indeed a messy
round end but mouse when you think about the flow of rounds it was a
pistol loss. Then they go into round number two. Lose that. The MP9's come out of the third.
The rush was coming out of four. That was another partial for five. B rush. Hello.
Yeah, just running straight into Messi. This was a ballsy call. It could work out for them now.
Those urges are supposed to take down the anchor. Schloop gets one. Pond and shuts him out.
Do you go for the retake, right? Going for the B bomb site retake can be quite difficult.
One of the positives that Vitality have for them right now is the fact they have a
decent amount of utility. So mollies, HE, smoke, flashes in the mix.
I see a diffused kit on Flamesy, but when you only need one round, you're probably, yeah, you are, you're saving.
So that was such a risky call by Maus, but the fact that they traded efficiently essentially sealed the round.
It is 12-6, I mean, halfway home, but any round, any slip-up, any misplay, like standing in the Molotov and losing out to Zywoo, double kill in the Flames!
And now as I smoke his name, he's done a lot of damage onto Torsheep.
Well just as you started believing, just as the conversation crept into the dialogue.
Oh, so it's a lot of offhole.
Maybe we keep doubting them.
They'll turn it around.
So the bomb is on blue bin.
Yes it is.
That's an orcimo.
Fully fortified.
Mezzy doesn't need to move a muscle.
Apex can cover short.
Torgy could catch Apex on an AD and overly.
Oh he's not moving is he?
That's a lovely angle to hold. Lovely angle to hold.
And there it is! Dust 2 converted, 12-0-13-6.
Solid work on that T side, finishing off with a cherry on top.
And there's CT side, Vitality 1 up in this series and went away from a semi-final.
Hi guys, Mezzi here. Make sure to sub to ESLCS. Keep right on.
Yeah, they must have done their homework. Oh, as well as the info.
Pre-having this booth, Spinks knows exactly what's up.
Mezzie jiggling stairs. Spinks holds this. Here comes the util confirmation of their suspicions.
And Mezzie? Yeah, he's actually gonna be run down. Good flashes, really good flashes. Look at Spinks.
Not able to do anything. Mows perfect into the site.
Converts his nade damage, Apex pushing smoke, but Tony flames and he's not long for this world either.
That is a perfect start for Mows. Everything going to plan. Brawland frag it up a storm with three.
Awesome first half of play. Yeah apex. He's deliberately
Himself early deep down ramp towards yellow avoids their short Molly and we'll tuck in by the sandbag. Oh
Wow tries it's locked insertion, but flames as quick to it
So consider that dealt with messy houses be anchoring work going looking very strong
Is he does deal with Jimmy's just going for a walk going for a search?
He stays active on his angle and confirms it so extends the man advantage to two
and it's uncomfortable for the remaining three of mouths but a chip damage there
from the HE they throw one out so you see anybody can find if there's no
an overstepping the bike towards a there's more than enough bodies to deal
with this for vitality at the B site and swinging for some jewels boost that
up roll and immediately deleted so messy continuing the hot hand was what
it's time was looking for yeah all right well if you can't do any more
damage with 45 seconds left on the clock.
I'm sure he'd lobbing out a couple of smokes.
Torgie looking for a gap. Flamesy is the step.
There's a kill for Shui.
And that's all he's going to get. It is just Torgie now.
Galil in hand.
It's going to be more than enough money for a buy into the next four mouths.
So, you can hold onto this if you like.
So look for a little bit more damage.
Pick your poison, Torgie. We're not in a rush.
With wins over Furia phase.
And now the battle with mouse.
So there you have it. Ground time's out towards you, holds onto the Galil.
Alright, big one. Gonna be telling us just how competitive this first half will be.
Quite eccentric. I don't think they want to allow them to have so much A-Ramp control this time rounds.
They want to harass a little bit more. Jimmy, wow.
Must have been a big shot onto Bezzie.
Yeah, looks like a one-time maroonie.
Flames, flames! Oh, I thought he was flashed there.
His hand was over his face but must have had vision so still takes down Zershin.
It costs him a lot of health but he denied that first test and there's a second straight
after.
Should we walk him through smoke into apex and Vitality will take that.
That's a gift.
You've got no ramp, you've got no stairs, you've got nothing.
I don't think, yeah, Jimmy getting that kill was necessarily part of the plan.
Look, it's great but you can see that Malz really wanted to fight for this A-Ramp
control a little bit more.
Jimmy gets that kill.
back immediately. I think they just wanted to try and finish to what they were assuming there was
going to be a rotation. But because Spinks was aggressive with Mezzie, they didn't need to
hedge their bets. They had the info that there wasn't a follow through. Now a 3v4, Flamesy low.
No, I use it for info. They're going to flash him in and no, more than info. He gets two more.
Two more kills from Flames with a scrap of HP he had. That is a very impactful round.
All right, Brollo. He's been known to make some impactful clutches in his day.
He's got 30 seconds and needs to isolate this headshot player.
He has done so. Clean headshot onto Apex.
When he gets walked on, fakes out his eye window.
He's where he is and could have caught him there on the swing.
Just a little behind him on the tracking.
2-2.
One does it eagle.
It is nice to see Vitality playing some solid counter strike.
They're a team who, you know, they're the occasional worries.
It felt like they were lacking trust with their individuals.
Apex would be calling a lot of direct rounds, so they didn't have to really think.
Just kind of clobbered them to death with aggressive moves on the CT side,
or direct calls on the T side, whereas you just trade.
But they played a much more comprehensive game.
They've had a lot of individuals contributing in different moments.
They've had their Star of Xayah, we were getting aces on Pistorhounds,
two of which that's nice to have in your back pocket.
But he hasn't been the only component that's firing,
and hasn't needed to be the only one.
He's firing Flamesets and big games.
Spinks has been wearing some clutches. Apex, he's a fragging in Game Leader, right?
He's one of these guys that he can have a rough time, but then he can, you know, have a quite a good show.
Oh, he can hang. He can hang for sure.
Alright, taking the pace over this one, now. It's not going to fight early, but look at the response from Vitality.
They're not using their nades early. There's no threat, no need for us to go for smoke while he defends if they're not going to force it out of our hands.
I'm intrigued how they've clear Apex with Flames so active on this angle and yeah Flames will
catch the first, Sashun goes down, Apex now will he be overlooked?
It looks like Torchy's not considered it, he hasn't considered it at all a free frag
for Apex!
Patience prevails, Shoei swings it in and it's perfect!
Oh Apex, he's up and a great one!
Triple kill!
Aggressive defense, Mirzy might catch Jimmy, but it's a dink exchange, the AK prevails,
but all the same the round is won, the job is done.
Likely to see for them, just to go for a couple of upgrades around the saved AK-47, but Kresa
from Apex, and they even go for the yellow molly, to flush anybody back on the deeper
line, but Apex has played aggressive several times, it's clearly part of the game plan,
oh dear, Jimmy Biker down after time, he should be able to find him here, there
It is, Zywin from the top rope.
Well, Apex is harassing, does not want to give this space up for free.
A redeployer of the yellow smoke will solve them out for now.
The mouths are not probing middle, they're not probing B.
Oh, Spinks forced to extinguish, but will they overlook Massey?
This two-man setup, a confirmation of Spinks, and yet too comfortable for Jimmy.
He'll get himself an opening, and it will force Massey into a more humble hold.
See just how much pressure Spinks thought he was under.
I thought he had to take the fight and I guess if Jimmy gets a crossing and tries to spam him through the smoke
Finances available for sphinx for a rebuy apex and mezzi could give it a crack with flames the inside
We were quite low in the finance department, so
Maybe go fishing put the rod in the water see if you can find anything
Brolin it's forward
Flames you'll get there late
Sharp from brawland and she we were leaving the world. Ah, it's a bit costly. It's more than they were bargaining for
Everything could be taken away here. Yeah, Messi's the last one standing. He's got three people running at him.
He goes down after the one.
Maus, that will feel increasingly good now for your T-side campaign.
Three to five.
Does Pace come back into the mix for Maus?
Let's work all land again. Obstin, making sure they highlight that as a nade. Chucks Apex.
This is half of his health for the Troubles. They will get the space short. It wasn't worth it.
Equal damage back in exchange.
Yeah, not bad.
They want to flash and pop, but they're already reacting a quick boost.
This could be a bit uncomfortable for Mezzi, as yeah, they dismount orderably.
So he gets the info. You'll take that 2B.
And in the meantime, Flamesy found torsion through the ramp smoke.
Wow.
Stay tucked in, Mezzi.
That's the opposite of staying tucked in.
Look at this.
Stretching their legs. The confidence is griming for vitality, isn't it?
It really is. I mean, when Flames is in form like this,
he feels like he can win any fight.
Crazy one, yeah, look at that crouch holding the angle.
Zershin wall punishes overstepping.
So that puts us at 4-4.
And Smoke on bridge will delay.
It can break it, Shui's got a nade.
It's cocked.
It's cleared.
Apex, tough angle to clear.
Overlook by Shui.
Good trade from Zershin back.
3v3 pushing up, 38.
What's the move here?
Oh, problem, I better find Spinks.
Yeah, it's about to find that timing window.
It may have been an audible retreat.
I think it was.
Zywoo, it swings now.
Wow, he still delivers the head shot.
Knees fixed to follow.
Super Jimmy's too good.
Super precise, and it's to Bianca left.
You know where he was.
Because Brolin has the rotation, Jimmy
knows to worry about the flank.
Thanks, Mezzi, handle this.
Oh, cleanly.
Smoking kit, Chad.
We're on.
Brolin towards the elevator position.
Mezzi, audible.
Brolin should have a heavy advantage in this one.
He knows exactly where he is, picturing the swing.
nails it! Perfect from Brolin, Maus that's a gift and Jimmy and Brolin combine.
Cheer from Maus as they have put that financial dent.
Vitality have to be down to an eco. They get a chance to level the game up 5-5
and Brolin picks up right where he left off. On the headshot this time on to Zywoo
aggressing middle and they will confirm the
suspicions yet. No money left boys, this should be an easy one.
So that's your jousting?
That's a good word for it.
He's running at him with a harness.
Nox Apex off his horse.
I rewatched Night's Tale recently. You ever seen that?
Great film.
Oh mate, such a feel-good movie.
Apart from the princess that says if you love me you'll lose.
I think that is a bit of a bad manoeuvre.
I don't think that's cool. I don't think that's princess-like.
And it pissed me off.
Vitality, back in with the guns this time, lacking the kit, lacking a few incendiaries.
Flashes from Shui at the ready, exertion might try and make a play. They're mixing it up.
They're mixing it up into Sphinx's pit-hold.
Grona was not prepared for that off-angle.
Well, slow down towards you, he has the bombs, but he has support. Shui's with him.
Zoe's been able to join this A-defence.
A block towards shore, perfect timing.
Maid.
Flash. Flash and go!
Ooh, Apec so, so close to death!
Zai was only got one, this is great for Maus, still finds a second!
Great for Torji.
Yeah, he's on it.
Bomb's gonna get scooped up, rotation from Spinks and Mezzie on the way, yet to plant.
Torji's key cap, Maus is taking chances of a sick here.
It looks like Zershin can condemn.
Catching spanks through heaven, Messi, the last man standing once more, smoke no kit and heaven occupied
He's gonna have to clear this out, does so! Big start!
Torji, now demanded to clutch as well, Brolin's had his moment
Is it Torji's turn? Smoke might lead him to get a little panicked
Messi, that sound they're trying to explain where it's planted, he throws out the HG, gives Messi it for a chance
It presented itself and taurgy he closes with four kills total
That's a big one that could very well mean seven given the finances of vitality
You wonder where this one all goes wrong opening kill that's highlighted
But it just turns into this lineup so flames he gets overrun apex gets flashed
I think with the block on shore. He's thinking to himself
There's no way they come it through this but they flashed they push they harass he lines up with flames
And then you see the difference. Exertion knowing how he can function in some of these rounds now that the buy is in the bin yet again. Final round have to invest everything they can.
But these clutches that Maus have won, the 1v1s that they converted ruined Vitality's finances in two different occasions.
Yeah, here we are. Last round at the half and Maus to leave with the lead on their pick for a semi-final spot to avoid the big dogs.
Chewie, down, they find from Flames, consistent threat.
Zershin finds the perfect moment, finding Apex spotting out the other, Flames noted, Brolin activates it, he's up against Sigh,
where he now aims him, clean conversion in middle, Flames somehow pulls another one out of his hat,
and it's fallen into place for a mouse, Brolin, two impactful kills on his mid luck.
really important lurks from problem even in the round where he didn't get any
frags he was able to convert the 1v1 with his position at some tough clutches
from Ezzy he's had to try and convert difficult rounds rotating over from his
bombsite doesn't really have all the information in the world and now it's
just spinks a one-on-three situation has you two no kids think this one's done
I suspect the same you see the positioning of miles it's diligent
Considered. And it's there.
Seven. Got to be happy with that one, Mous.
Making a statement on their T side.
After a run of five from Vitality,
Mous returned the favor.
13-6 seems a little bit closer than it was.
It was an absolute drubbing, but Mous,
they got warmed up.
They won the pistol, got the conversion, lost five straight,
and then had a couple of clutches.
Brolin with one towards you with another.
And they walk away with a half lead.
Brolin on the jump spot.
Here's the steps. Trundle's back.
Calls for assistance
Yeah, the whole squad's here
Shev and Jay rounds delivering
the cameras
Oh, towards you under pressure. How many easy smoke?
We will get it out. They're swinging craze. Got that. Oh still hits one
But apex could work with flames in combination. They can take the side the bomb plant exposed. This is a whiff smoke
That's a sea smoke. Yeah
It's a brave plant spot. Yeah flames still adjusting to the new vertigo changes
Spinks is still hit the shot though and it doesn't look like it's going to cost them the round.
Funny that.
Yeah, that could have really gone wrong.
Look, everybody getting a kill on the round, other than Mezzie,
the torchy getting under pressure was unable to really block the choke point.
I thought, okay, well, it's smoothed out a little bit deeper.
It might not be the end of the world, so it just gets killed through.
It's a great job from Apex, tracking him down.
Alright, let's see.
Get a little look at Vitality's T-Side on Vertigo.
Don't get many opportunities to have a look.
Look, and where did that happen?
Zywa's gone.
Zywa dead early.
Brawlin has provided a nice opening kill.
I'm gonna look at Ramp and Zywa loses his life
to a full confident aim swing.
Let's go, Brawlin.
Well, there are some gaps present on the map right now.
Nobody attending to middle four now.
Shui's hedged over towards B to assist, I think,
with a flash.
They're gonna try and retake this.
But nobody home, Vitality.
Still, oh, we're playing outside of B lobby.
There's a kill.
That could have been a trade, and it's trying to apply a bit more pressure.
Apex could lose the bomb. If Bronon holds that fade, you'll likely peek into it.
On the walk! Ooh, Apex! Good work!
Quick counter-strafe with the S-key. He does manage to hit the shot.
The only thing that Vitality really have going for the visit advantage is the utility.
Which they're going to be throwing a whole lot of right now.
The barrage of Nades, Hedgehog will be molotoved out and always spots him. Good eyes on these shots!
He's so crispy today, it was Dust2, now it's time to go and Zershin catches Apex walking through a smoke, so Mezzie's got...
That doesn't even count! He doesn't even get a chance to start the clutch. Jimmy just swings into him, double kill for him.
Zershin getting himself one through the smoke on Apex as well.
Looks like it. This time, a heftier or so and Mezzie has the bomb, so he will have to join the crew.
Molly I had no opening death while trying to get that down this time
Replenish to facilitate the walk different CT set up as well though
You know, should we helping out a this time? Last time it was assisting the B defense flash and go
Yeah, they come drive by brawler nails it with torches flash
Anticipates the monitor for look at the damage. She was already taking a double kill fight. I'll sit back to spawn almost
immediately one minute 20 on the clock
Spinks with 30 HP a bullet would do it
spotted out now they'll double peak or
dude they don't even need to the bomb in
front of them he comes to them and
that's a mouse knife that's a convincing
mouse knife and I think I just saw
Cyclo and asking for a timeout. Light
investments for Vitality looks like they
will concede the tenth it's a flash
for apex and a bit of a
misnade. Apex is going to flash it's
Xersion will be ahead of her.
Oh!
Oh, Spinks has actually taken the head off of Xersion.
Jimmy, he's not flustered. He knows what's up.
You couldn't have more RAM control than that from Brawlant.
He only found an MP9, so still tar flash and go again.
Jimmy, Jimmy. Oh, so blind. What a flashbang.
They could lose the fight because Spinks is having his night.
It's a triple kill.
Triple kill, just a deagle! Just a deagle chat, no kevvv!
Mostly he glots!
How has this gone so wrong?
Four mouths, it's hard to comprehend.
Spinks just decided he wanted B and he took it by force.
And those are the type of rounds that you need from an individual like Spinks if you want to win the trophy here in Cologne.
Spinks has been criticized a little bit in recent times for maybe not having the most impact, the lurks being a little bit readable.
Two mid, boosted up exertion.
Oh, he wants to fight.
He actually tries to surprise and it's resulted in an opening death of Roland.
And another opening kill for Flamesey.
Oh man, what's he got now?
I think that's gotta be eight.
That will be his eighth.
Okay, wolf.
Silent dismount, stylish, mouse.
Not wanting to give anything away to that mid player.
Apex is going for it.
He's gonna be, well, walked into the angle.
Torgy.
Jump scare. Good one back.
Lots of info.
Maybe he saw all of them there.
Essentially, one trying to get away loses his head to Zywoo. Jimmy's still down with his rifle. Zerzhik picked one up too. This can go wrong, but Zywoo doesn't seem to think so.
Jimmy up against the world. Can Jimmy eat planet?
Oh, he has found the first.
Yeah, Jimmy was trying to get ahead of the rotation because he heard Mezzie's steps, but speak should have had that kill every day of the week.
Now, Mezzie's gonna... Is he going? He went. He stopped. He's going now.
You look a bit nervous.
nervous yeah understandably because Jimmy could have beat them on the rotation
after that kill would be gone he's a complicated this yeah that flashed
house and he's heading the right direction 36 points of health does have
a lot of it could throw out towards the default line I will doesn't have a HP
doesn't matter mezzie's hit the heavy it's 9 9 a little bit dicier than it
needed to a good smoke work so shouldn't be a problem shouldn't
Hey Sauer. Yeah, here we go.
Found them. Looses out after one.
A bit hectic now with the loss of the rifle and now Asashin's using it to great effect
and they are quite low. These USPs could hit a headshot or two.
Scavenged Nadeships further away. Vitality's palms start to have a little more sweat upon them.
Should be fine, we said.
And yet, Torgy's taken down. Flames, they spam, but Apex spams back more leafily. A double kill, finds Zershin on headshot. No armour, but still a problem with Zershin. No time, the only absentee here is the kit.
The frags were there, the rotations were on point, the vitality deaths getting a bit sketchy, but they can't quite respond in kind. After the deagle entries from Spinks into B, Von Maus take a good stab at doing something similar.
Harassment on both sides of the map.
Need to clear.
Oh, Brolan. Still braves it.
Regardless of the need damage to his face, 62 to work with it, susceptible to a spam or mantle up, a second molotov.
Oh, and caught out nice. Again, flames has opened up the round.
Number nine.
Number nine indeed, and ooh, no problem there. Spinning around.
Zyra provides cover in fire.
11th. Rather quickly accrued.
Flames you can really do no wrong in these entry scenarios.
Just rip away these remaining rifles of exertion and jimmy.
I mean, you definitely coming into the lengths of Serena having flames in form and confident.
That is going to be a conversation.
Well, the team knows that they're meant to win trophies.
When you're in a squad with the likes of Zaiwu on your team, you should be contending for them.
Vitality definitely were.
We'll remind everybody, last time these two teams based, EPL season 19, Grand Final, best of five.
have mouse-made light work of them. It was 3-0 and of those three maps Vitality picked
maps 1 and 3. Right? So, when you keep that in mind, mouse were in hot form but they're
in studio form and well we're in a studio environment right now. It's also a seeding
game.
Some efficiency there. Crushing onto the smoke. I don't know if Jimmy's gonna have
a...
Chance of a freebie, we did. Yeah, Apex, that 10 HP, Zershin spams away, reveals himself, Flames.
Ooh, nearly finished the job, now he's dinked up too.
Rollin' in the meantime's takin' down the woo. Zershin good for it, and as he slips through,
still gets it before the spread, good trade. It's good for Maus, they will pass their first test.
And Apex, forced into this angle, knows where Jimmy is, will likely hard clear-
will not hard clear him.
Well, just to think the impact of that spanks 3k Diggle round.
Yeah.
Exertion is in a lot of danger, he has no support.
Yeah.
Literally none.
Ryan walk out on the smoke by calling the open, does well to find the one, as he goes
down again.
He's 16th, death.
Pressure applied by Flames clears out close.
Seems like they want to finish towards A.
This is the next duel.
There's problem play for information.
They're looking to pivot between the site's vitality.
They want to keep the seesaw open as Flames, he still picks in towards B.
Yeah, he's like made lots of steps on the stairs, he's throwing out extra nades.
It has got two players looking, even a third not far off on mid.
So really, he was all hinging on Brawland here.
So I mean, might catch him.
He backs down to Brawland, huge frag to post.
Doesn't want to rush, doesn't want to panic.
He has Torgy covering his cross, but a missed shot from Torgy.
That's costly.
Not if Brawland hits every shot he takes though.
Taking out Spinks, now Torgy connects
and they will pass test number two.
Stoney Flames, he's out of there.
Maybe that's what they're missing, and Flames the opener.
Oh yeah, might have to be his doing in the next round.
See if they can call on him again.
Lost bonus, 1900 into the next round.
Flames, we won't be getting any of that.
Zahewe has enough for an AK,
the same to himself for Spinks and Apex.
They're just in that perfect sweet spot.
Jimmy Stiles a smoke to block a beat.
Just used a perfect timing.
Asked for a better.
He has experienced Bianca with a very good read of the situation now.
Look at this, pre-aiming the boost. It's their only option.
They shouldn't jump up just yet.
But they have and they lose their head.
Oh, destruction!
Maus, spray him down.
It's Jimmy with the triple.
And we are looking at overtime here, folks.
Mezzie with an impossible task.
Who's gonna finish the job?
Who's it gonna be?
Is it Mezzie?
As he finds two clean headshots.
Money, white box swings through.
Another one from Messi! Good grief he gave it a good shake of the stick.
Yeah.
We ain't done yet.
Some big shots there but yeah 1v5 that would have been a stylish way for Vitality to close the game.
Give us all the entertainment but still get it done in two.
And it's not like Vitality didn't have money down the stretch.
Right, because of the rounds that they were able to pile on after the swing steegle they had plenty of cash.
They went for that final round, it's pretty well equipped.
Messi was the one that started with the Mk10 and almost ended with an AK-1 v5.
Clearing.
This way he was waiting for, but he still goes down. Shui out-aims him.
Nails the headshot, takes down Zaiwu, an already mouse.
Ooh, I was gonna say, hold on to that man advantage, Apex.
Not having any of that gets a very late trade onto his Orpher.
We're taking down Shui.
They haven't really seesawed very effectively. It's something that you...
Oh.
Zershin, Zershin, Tux 51, Brawler looking for answers, hanging on by a thread here on the fade, he goes down, Zershin delivers an impactful double, can't close, Spinks says play on, they wanted answers, they've heard it, this audible step on the Guardian position,
Heechee, Jimmy one vision, Spezzy's exposed! Nice adjustment! Oh, and Spinks falls as well,
Miles! That is a clean close! 2v2, but they make it look easy!
So I guess if there's no flames, they are in a bit of hot water.
Yeah, for real. Ooh, Jimmy! Punished by Spinks, so there's an opener. Gift from Spinks.
As I was talking about the Seasaw, they don't really establish enough control. They
might kiss in the smoke. Hello?
Apex just touches W and confirms there's someone in the way.
Two kills to the good for Vitality to tie this back up.
Got to convert this one surely.
Best option is to use it in a short while.
Yeah, but Torgie, he's a real problem for them at times.
See if he can start racking up some more multi-kills.
That is a very audible rotation.
And so a free frag, the freest of frags there, should we?
With his now steel toe boots on.
rotating back. No Jimmy's dead. Shui removed as well. Still might be slightly worried for
exertion. He had hedged over towards A. Spinks giving up a little bit of ground while being
a diligent clear for his teammates, but they'll be in. The bomb will go down and towards
you an exertion. Do you give this one a crack? Well, it's over time and you've got
the finances. So it matters we'll have a look, but ah, there's the seesaw because
It's not only does it keep your sights open and options available, right?
It can act as a very deadly lurk, especially now with the new hole in elevator, right?
If you come up gap, you can be behind them in the middle so much quicker.
Yeah, it does feel valid, like parking someone towards that gap position,
unless they're diligent on their clears, which they can't always beat.
And dependent.
Nice work by Ty.
They do tie us up even.
1313 will now be able to leave with the lead on the end of their CT side.
Let's see what happens with that early damage on to Wavepex, because he is going to be walking
around the smoke to clear it!
Oh!
Perfectly timed his flames!
Another opening to the tally!
He's gone quiet for a little while hasn't he?
Speaks crossing the smoke, he wasn't ready for it!
Oh!
Completely caught off!
Okay, well, now things are looking a bit pear shaped.
Speaks, another, Jimmy rotates in without any support or torches, that's him nowhere
he is.
And Spinks, yeah, with a combination with Xayah, will we be able to see that T side by us even in overtime?
Okay, okay.
Brolin, he does the waterfall smoke, plays behind it, and they're clear, you just see three T's down the bottom of the ramp, staring directly at ya.
Torji, a 1v5.
Now he's been spotted, dealt with by Flames, closing the round, as well as opening.
Still a very tough clear.
How you meant to unravel Brolin, unless you catch a timing?
Yeah, Bronnan should have him. Oh, he does! Nails the shot!
Does Spinks do that alone, Bronnan's next thought?
Opening kill favours Maus.
Looking to keep it level, as we have been throughout.
Must be one of these gambles, again, from Vitality.
We saw some within the first half of play where they didn't quite stick the landing.
This time it appears to be the right call.
Blocked at the 52nd mark.
Not gonna put too much sweat on Shui's brow.
We've got time to work with you till as well strong angle from flames
Yeah, just for that reason you can see surgeon. He overlooks it and it will tie us up with 40 seconds for on four
Resemote gap limits your options
flames
Continues to lay waste to another messy in combination does make it a two-on-four and is really not looking good for Jimmy
Allow trundle towards the gap position a full magazine sprayed
Brawland's lurk, you can see they're cognizant it's a possibility, Flamie avert his gaze,
Mehzi's not looking, does a just, and now Jimmy with a crazy transfer attempt, but 15 is secure.
One round away from the semi-finals now, vitality and two opportunities.
Two more consecutive rounds required to go to OT number two. Shui takes a lot of damage early down to 67.
Smoke, yeah, I forgot about that. So did vitality.
And now Apex is going to have to function without it.
Or fight.
That's a hot dog, Dom! He just switched to his nades!
Oh, they didn't expect him.
That is a very big opening kill to post. That's such an important round.
What a gift that is from Apex.
Oh, and Zaiwu spotted a cheeky bit of leg, a bit of ankle.
And he does convert.
Patience on that. Let's Jimmy come to him.
come to him, plucks him through the board and it's five on three.
The realisation for mouse now you can absolutely have it on map number one, now your map choice
is going down the gurglop.
And trying to line up Nade, suddenly there's a smoke in your face and a bullet there too,
through the boards, brawl and tacked up, Zywin gets away, then mezi on quad, you
discuss it, it's hard to clear, and oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, they've been kept busy,
these smokes, these nades, these spams, and so completely overlooking a very fast
get spanked to finish the double. Only Torgy, what's he got for us? There's very limited
options for him. Four CTs to get through. Eight bullets in the magazine and the first
is a clean headshot. But down he finals. Maus will start at the first day of play in the
Lancess Arena. Gotta be feeling good about that one and Flames, you can see him on
your screen. Twenty-eight frags. How many did he end that game on?
I always opened up a fair amount across the Cologne groups with aces in pistol rounds.
Maybe I'm setting the bar too high here.
But I think we all want some tickets to the Zywoo show.
It looks like Flames is going to be the one to get tested over at Ramp.
And he'll bound out of there.
Saw closed the gap.
Oh, there's an opening.
Flames on the receiving end of that story clock
and they've got all the space down at lower.
Here's Zywoo.
All right, then.
Let's see how he looks to handle this.
door swung open he would get pincet if he tries to move forward here this is
got to be flawless the game playing gone for vitality a sore off to the races here
gonna take the first round of the 75 punch and vitality leave with no air in
their lungs the way that saw have used this double door and B is so impressed
Even then keeping it open to cause some concern for Zaiwu.
He's caught closing it.
In gun rounds, you'll see them break it off with a nade.
It's so annoying.
They've caught so many rotators down on this B bomb site.
This has been the map to go for sore.
This round, it's over towards the yard.
That expectation falls the other way as well, right?
Faze started slow in the Lancers.
They paid the price on Inferno.
It felt like individuals weren't there.
Apex is, however,
the captain outside
X-Star, or maybe current, he's put down.
So we're going to grab those guns and move into the lower side.
Catch from the Ujerks, his press controls that spray very well.
As Soar deal with the force of vitality,
they may have saved Dahmer, making their buys that little bit better,
but these guns have gone nowhere.
Mezzi, he's getting walked on through the smoke,
and Vitality caught, surprised.
Zaiwu midair put down by Ujerks.
Star with a show with three kills in the second round.
Making a move down towards lower.
Spinks at Apex that wants to deal with here.
Flash is good, but Spinks turns around.
Deals with Metiris as the first man in.
The rest of Saw now look to try and get out.
Able, Meti is on guard.
Good for the first.
Trade comes through.
Ujer is going to try and fly up to back here.
They're going right into Zywu, but there's the support.
Flames throw.
That's more like it.
Zywu may miss.
Were those two stars show up for Vitality, Spinks and Flames putting together four kills between them.
That's doing a disservice to Flames.
Important Heaven Rotator. I think the smoke from Messi is massive in that round as well.
Couldn't have come, and a better time allows him to split the fights into 1v1s.
He takes one with him, dropping the bomb.
They view that attack ball and gave Barry a chance to get involved for the sore squad.
They don't want Vitality...
to respond so quickly up to those pistol round wins with flames in a ramp 3k in the last round
opens up this one dealing with Ujeks as well that is the front man a sword dropped out of
the round nice our starts followed up onto it's a very very quickly this source squad
has melted under the onslaught of vitality two men down but they make it into this
B site plant will be allowed that will be given over as vitality starts to move around
now. Unique plant spot as well. Without that single-door control, there may be ways
that Vitality can get a stick in. Moutir is in a very powerful position but we've
seen what he can do from that spot. Zywu drops in, we've got kits, we've got
nades, we've got a two-man advantage. This should be Vitality jumping at the
bit. Claims cut down. Roman with one but there's an immediate trade from it.
Story tucked in. Moutir is gonna try and take that contact, try and seal
story's position. There's the first one story.
Oh, Spinks swings it out. It's close. Down to the wire, sure, but it's a vitality round with all this said and done.
Oh, so McSteria's getting flustered there as well. Cons, not flying as cleanly as they would have liked. Didn't know who his teammate had killed.
Got away with two from Dark. Saw now will be. Another rightful round for the money and for the momentum.
Sphinx tries his hand at the aggression here, but that's exactly what Saw was hoping for.
Gifted this early man advantage, you're not gonna get many around when you get that 5v4 for free, so they really want to deliver on it.
You're gonna fall down here!
Mezzi with the double, Apex tries to force the fight!
But that's a swing they might come to regret.
Missed Molly up in heaven, oh god they're giving Zai Wu and Flames away into this round.
The AWP is IWU out with the first.
So we're going to try to get that bomb planted.
This is the game.
This is the guy to beat.
Zywu trying to land the lancest and he'll get put.
Lots of Utah burned early in this round for Vitality.
Ramp player needs that support of the AWP.
He has simply nothing there.
Zywu trying to peek in.
So we're just baiting a reaction right now
as they look outside for an entry that will not
materialize unless.
As he will tiggle and it's shots.
Vitality darts with death.
They live to tell the tale.
Meanwhile, Zywu brings the heat.
One of story was this shot.
They could have been in this one.
Anything in the hands of Zywu,
that double push gets punished.
Store once again,
wait for Vitality to set the precedent.
They're there to respond.
Spinks drops down lower quickly here.
Fast down through the vent.
Apex trying to make his move as well,
but running through the molly.
I'll be heard a desperate move for apex as he tried to get down low at a support
But with space already dead this round might never get going
Apex feeling like he just has to you know play the round himself and win the round as a solo player pushes lobby at the
Right time gets that back stab has to run through the molly, but by that point yeah vitality enough members have fallen
That all of a suddenly
The most valuable thing in the round for vitality because they ain't winning this
save guns all the vitality have to work with you seems I will try and get
involved early in this game but for the most part it's fallen on deaf ears
and awards ramp flames only armed with the USP and so this could be the route
in for sore he just has to drop he can't even do anything here it's just a
warning system and alarm to ring on the ramp what does start to make its way
over so I will will be close both players with the rifles up in heaven
So he's just dropped in towards the top site.
Is he the only man who could feasibly rotate over, but even he started to readjust and drops down into A as well.
So for now, you're looking at Apex, you're looking at Flames here.
These are the two that have got to withstand the saw here.
That's not a bad one, but it's to open.
You're with me at Flames. The eagle of Apex.
Does make things complicated now for Saw.
They're left lacking. They've done up the manpower.
They lose Roman over at ramp. That AK gum's swinging.
The story is just so far away.
They've got the bomb on B. How do you even save this round if you're sore?
Are you looking to save?
I don't think you ever do.
It feels like they wrote this one off.
They maybe got a bit ahead of themselves right knowing that they're not up against March in that round there.
They think that they can just waltz into the B site.
Look at the hell of a reminder.
That bomb went rolling as well.
Apex just knows how imps went so kind of had a huge t-side on this first map
Now by time to get a chance to win it out a full buy and reserves as well as I do
Continually looking for this pick and you can notice sort of just never giving it they're never giving him the chance
He won't even get to play into this round if the plan goes, right?
disaster strikes
As he's been a rock over on this top side just the one I've done this time
even more the Vitality trade out all to a good position this shot from Xayah.
Old versus new Apex stands to attention as Zuzhex he's just got past him that's
the plot now Apex tries to move in swiftly moving quickly Molly gonna
just play Zuzhex forces him forward Apex spans but through the edge of the
smoke through the corner can he find that glimmer I hope that moment that
Bring sore right back to the front of the cross smokes
So no that pressure is still on right comes down to a 1v1 in that previous round
We go back to the yard gonna go back to outside, but
Doing so they play right into apex's domain smoke flowing open
He was out of ammo as they did so
Story only just makes it down
Roman has to live here give some control in the lobby
get smoked out so we'll get this lower control flames in a powerful position they swing the
door they're coming at all sides and he'll only fall after one so we'll get this site and they
get the plant there's a molly on apex but it's not coming out in time maybe it'll get a kill
either way the bomb's been put down and so two more players have saw lurking around
Spinks reads the reposition and materials are 1v4 that is surely too far this time
On B4 on the lower side for materials, for this time, this time no glory for the captain
Assoc.
Is 5 enough for a T-sided team or can they squeeze one out right at the end, the upper
here cancelled by strong double molotovs into that A side and they're going to pop
rampant, stand flames on the corner, they're running in and the flames feast, two kills
before the Wu is here and he can shut them down as well. Only one should be enough. Vitality
pre-dropped B, the Saw walk into the trap.
Apex going to go swinging out.
Oh, a flight of lefts!
A Sauron Roman! Sauron not lost down the first half of Nuke yet. Across Cologne, this
might be the first time it looks to happen to them in the semi-final unless Roman...
A quick smoke on the top of main and Zywu looks for this entry kill. He's spot
But here is a couple of players in his crosshairs, but he's shooting his teammates in the back of the head
They get out of the way. Someone hunts that down materials flames taking space and vitality on the yard
He's off into the heavens
Gonna try and lend a helping hand to Spinks as he looks to chase down that top player
Story actually gonna get dropped on flames changes target and Zai Wu taps Roman out
They know that Ujerks is up here in heaven. He's living on borrowed time
but it's two low HP players that are trying to only land and they'll succeed in that.
Arostos, moments late, moments late from the double that was needed.
Spots, Flames make it up into the heavens.
But the rest of Vitality go elsewhere. Flames is just a decoy.
Arostos has this first kill to find, but then the true challenge begins.
But Arostos dropping down lower.
Zai Wu's given him a little bit of room to work with.
A chance in at the round, but double swung.
Zai Wu leads them.
And Saw struggled to land on their feet in this semi.
That's a good start.
Force up, one famas, and it gets the job done.
They go for this force.
Tyris, high reward gameplay for Saw.
If they can break through early,
this game suddenly opens back up.
And so moves are getting made now, but it looks like Spinks saw something.
Suspension for Spinks.
As he tells Mezzi, turn around, deal with the door push.
They put a stop to the lobby aggression.
Back in awards main now, and that's where Zywu waits.
Piece by piece, this saw CT side push gets picked apart.
New jerks looking for anything but vitality.
They've concealed their movements.
The whole map is one big question mark to saw.
We're gonna go looking over towards me. They lost so is I will hear who jokes
Here's the footsteps now as he looks to make his move looks to make the play
Backstab on three through the main and not ready for this
That's the opportunity that's the chance and it was sure a spy round does not prevail vitality
able to withstand it from 4v5 right off the top
Everything is working for vitality right now and I can see news in this round
So, take so long for him to really find his impact here, but that double into Soar's most important gun round yet, that is going to leave a mark.
Absolutely devastating way to begin your CT side rifle rounds. As I was not done, there's more players on his plate. Just pick up the four, click back, can't connect.
The window for the backstab might start to close soon, Arof's DOS.
Boxed in, makes spotting him now and Spinks makes quick work of it.
Zawoozorp finds its form and with just Moutiris left standing.
Oh my God, they're coming down the vent after him.
Apex wants to take everything out. He wants to add insult to injury.
Moutiris holds off for a moment but he can't find the second man
and so everybody falls.
Vitality are relentless.
I mean that just speaks to even the knowledge for Vitality.
They know he's the lower player.
They know he's going to be that guy going down,
ramp at the start and coming up secret.
They have done their homework.
They were well-drilled for this match.
And yes, I would do nothing in the first half,
but the one time we require him to stand tall,
he comes out with three kills on the AWP,
a back-breaking economy ruining round at 11-5.
Experience teams, 10-year teams,
9 rounds straight for Vitality. Can they close it with a flawless 10?
Oh, Spinks seems to think so, but Roman Clearsen coming out of the door.
Sora giving a shot
across outside for Vitality. Gonna set Zairu up yet again to try and find this outside pick.
He's got a beat down on Story in an uncomfortable position to clear.
So I would go smoke this base story from afar, picks him off. 5v3 for Saw. Very important you don't give this one away.
I think if you saw at this point it's more of a recovery, just feeling like you're still fighting in this semi-final.
You want to try and stop 10 straight to the win for Vitality.
And so 5 on 3, 2 players tagged up.
He'd be a fool to be counting Vitality out of this one.
Lames moves in, goes for the kill, but there's Muteiros with an instant trade.
Apex spotted out in garage, and Muteiros will get the better of him in that head-to-head.
They stopped the 10-round streak for Vitality, stopped them at 9.
Vitality coming in quick outside, Apex over the smoke trying to pick the captain.
What's here is
Dangerous cross and they're already down be you juxtas coming up apex avoids capture for now. They have no idea
There's apex getting his revenge
And this sort of scoreline apex gets a terrifying degree of freedom to take those sort of risks
walks the smoke outside
His teeth my tally up
Holds now waits for re-aggression apex trying to calm that path for vitality that is they
can't do it.
Well apex get all five to seal the deal for vitality.
He's teed them up for the victory and it's only story left to stop them.
And this story might not be about sort, might not be a testament to them, might not be
a monument to Sourceternacity the upsets, the cathedral.
Mark Pick starting over on the T side and I think the deaths did a fantastic job of
highlighting just how scary these vitality T sides have been. Saurav got a
monumental task ahead of them. Wonder they might not be made up for. That will
get called into question here. Teed up for the lower take at least is Aras Dost.
He's gonna find himself at the right place. They're able to start off Nukes Strong.
Will it be the same on Dust 2? Nade down into lower. Doesn't find the
damage they were looking for and instead by T'Kali, he staked their clay into this mid control.
Can I get over to the right side of middle at least?
Yeah, they're trying to put a stop to the midtake and he will overwhelm Flames now.
Look at Ujax, that's a collateral!
That's how you want to open!
Two quick kills from the minor backplot, but Ujax wanting even more.
Well, get banned out by Zai Wude!
Gonna get planted as Apex has to get the reload.
Oh, Roman tries to make his move!
It's down to the wire!
Clutch with the side arm and there's two bullets.
It's in this for story.
There's still pages in this chapter.
Maybe Saur can show us something,
but they will have to earn it every step of the way.
A near 2v4 for Vitality.
It looked beautiful.
The dropping Zywoo at 1v1.
Vitality force out of rage.
Flashes out long.
They pop that Molly with a smoke,
and they spill out aggression from Ujerks.
Almost punished.
Got to get Zywoo in the pit with that scout.
Let him get to work.
The doors open.
A day in the office for Zywoo.
There is some very confident moves getting made here from the saw.
They'd open up this game.
They could still get punished for those.
But it feels like they've decided if this is how it all ends,
they don't want to go quietly into that good night.
Roman going to get joined over inside of this safe on site.
Vitality looked to do it, 1-9's raw to the left!
So that pistol clutch, that pistol pickup, 4 story might never come to matter.
The results never come to pass, Vitality immediately turned up the heat and that's what saw having all the info, everyone over towards A and the man advantage.
They had everything they could have asked for and still it was not enough.
Just what you would want from a team you know can and will win trophies.
The question is, is Cologne one of them?
This Mali gives me tears, a second chance at life here.
Surprise, he still swings.
Didn't know you were in the baddest position, but saw a feeling of pressure.
Bit by bit getting picked apart on the CT side.
The Tiles even break the smoke, they want to take these fine states go on.
Another entry and more to the tally, three for Zaewoo.
This time he doesn't start cold, six and one on Zaewoo.
He won't be at the forefront of this round, holding that mid rotation,
but sort of solidified positions and that might be to their detriment.
Molly Burns late, story has to swing and it's actually MP9 sniping him out from short side.
Vitality may get blocked, but they don't worry, they don't mind.
A man up and Zaewoo still in the middle.
Look at this late reaction from Saw.
I like their playing together, but they've not hit the nail on the head.
They're gonna get severed by Spinks, and he gets out for free.
His presence over in mid poses an awkward question here.
Do you keep trying to hunt him down? You've lost control of the A site.
He goes nowhere.
Oh, this is running the risk of being a very punishing round.
And there's that Zai Wu. AWP.
Arastas, surplus to requirement here, left trying to hold onto the gun inside of the B side.
And if you look at that minimap Vitality, and feel in a very forgiving mood right now,
they want to take everything away, they've got that info.
And so a few more players are going to give chase to them, a chance!
There was nothing you could have done against that!
Got to laugh it off.
Red hot.
As Vitality stormed the board.
And you can go as far as saying, you know, Zaiwu wasn't a requirement on that first map.
Well, in this one, he's making himself one, making himself a mainstay.
Uh-oh.
Storing them the fires off.
They're able to thrive here.
Four on two.
Even as Return Ascender, what's going on?
Hedgehog through the door.
As Zian Zaiwu looked to embark on a two on four.
He's dropped the AWP, he's here to win the round right now.
Vitality, I dare say, they've got a damn good shot.
Now through the tunnels first.
Zai Wu out of all the ways this can be started.
That's what you want.
It's well and truly a foot, Zai Wu.
Carves the path in for Vitality.
That bomb planted.
Now it's saw that find themselves under pressure.
They're the ones.
Oh, the clock!
As Vitality have pulled back a two on four.
But here is what is he supposed to do?
Can he succeed?
The thing that's scary for Seoul here is that they're flying so blind in this round.
They've completely given up control over middle.
Any noise, any utile that comes out makes them paranoid.
That smoke in CT causes you problem for leaving this A site.
So right now Vitality, even more goes their way. Flames comes up big on the spam.
Wherever they go, they find themselves in a 5v2.
So for Vitality it's about grouping, going together into mid-terrain.
And he finds them both over on short. He's reignited the hope for Seoul.
That'd be enough, Tyne is running low, on Vitality's T side, one more man over a long as Apex opens, it's Muteris, last man to beat
Oh no, it's the slow it down, there's the rotate!
Elevator and finding that headshot angle, it had to happen
Flash out long, Apex just turning, look at the par thing, so easily done, years of experience
In both roles, he puts it together, he puts it to use
It's a good angle.
Not normally the guy that did on it but with story out of the round.
He has to try, Molly forces him wide right into the arms of Mezzi.
And Sora just so far away.
Flames again!
Half of his kills and he hasn't even seen the people he's shooting at.
The stars have aligned for Flames.
Mouse won't gloot down.
They're even hunting.
They're going to find him.
Waiting till this round is unloosable.
And they're going to run boost.
Into low.
See if the flash.
Frames gets through.
It's here and it's never been attacked like that.
Dirty.
This is a statement game from Vitality right now.
Just playing slow and steady on the T side.
Group hits.
Every entry they need.
Someone who's caught a lot of flak for how he really does wear his heart on his sleeve.
Yeah.
The last of a nine breed of Counter-Strike player who'd have seen him on stages all the
way back in 2015.
Some of the highlight reels that guys like Apex were able to bring forward, redefines
himself in 2020 to become the captain of Vitality and over time he is growing into
this role.
He has learned to excel in the Vitality jersey.
And now he's putting up the numbers to boot alongside it, these T sides.
And how good Vitality are looking here, how it's felt like a team game, not the Zywu show.
Testaments to what he's able to bring to the table, 8x, double digits secured, this French
contingent of Vitality looking to bring them glory.
And last year it was all about peaking at the right time, right, being prepared
for that Paris Major, winning it on home soil.
They warmed up in anticipation. They got their ducks in a row. They took that trophy
But right now the same might be happening for vitality
To capture a trophy there is a little bit of these players alluded this organization and alluded apex through so many years
They wait and see if they're given anything early
They can feel the terror that courses through the veins of sore
knowing that dream might be about to come to an abrupt and brutal end.
Vitality have the mid control, they wing outside of long, they can't set a foot wrong here.
Mizzy waits and he is rewarded.
Flames dead down in middle but Vitality now look to go up in the tempo for this a-play.
Sweet baiting on the shot as he comes swinging, vitality two kills from it, a double-digit heart to dare this they saw at the end of Dust 2.
Zayu will go swinging, another man falls, bomb getting plugged, can they get up in time or can Messi stop them?
It's only Arostos, he's had a quiet game today, he's got a stand for 1v1, Spinks he's taking them, can he get on the bomb?
There's no kit right now, Apex slowing down, swings in, and vitality take the round.
Here in the Cathedral, Vitality confessed to nothing.
They feel no remorse.
They're one make Vitality special.
And right now Apex is right up there alongside the jewel of French counter strike in Zywou.
And he's playing with some confidence.
Straight up middle, finding the head shot.
Traded back in damage alone.
Flames hides.
buried at the back of the pit.
The saw come for the clear.
Have they got the manpower to do so?
Or are they too focused on Apex on this crossroads?
He draws them in. They don't check.
A jump will do.
It might be too late.
Frames takes two.
And saw now, with all the info away, with the bomb dropped,
and players falling like flies,
it feels like Vitality are ready to pluck another pistol.
They say the hope dies last.
hope well and truly dies if you fall short in this pistol round vitality four on two
haven't set a foot wrong yet and there's that wound with the closer it's about last hurrah
trying to make it prettier but i don't think vitality are in the mood to give anything up right now
that's all might not even get a four by because to plan pistols running amuck in middle they
They find a couple of entries, can they flood out on this B-bomb side?
Messi on his own, just hiding inside of the site, they line up, double kill, turning back.
Story stops him, but Matias' luck comes up with nothing.
Story's on the clock. 1v2, he could go for the bomb.
He's going for the kill instead, but they are right there behind the door.
Molly forces flames, in he goes, and Story saves the day.
S.O.L.S. survived one more round.
Vitality, get ahead of themselves playing into the 2v1.
You can't underestimate the individuals.
Now Rostos, one more kill to open up this round.
They're so far behind that they are still refusing to give up.
Messi over in middle, just the one and done off the deagle.
That's opened up the route to the B-plane.
S.O.R.A. aware of that.
They're going for these grouped plays,
These marches out into the B side. This is what we saw from this squad in that quarterfinal. It was so potent
Bill said that started to click back into place now
Vitality so I will sit alone in the site
Watch play over in the middle Spinks tries to get involved early
Here is picks up that opener by five on four
They make that fight fight nice and easy for material is flashbang to team up
But now they're gonna go in as I woo now they're gonna go into the front man of this vitality squad
Tucked in has support from flames over on the long side good timing on that peak and you see Zai woo in the gilfee
That's gonna instill a bit of fear in sore. It's tough tail run the other way try and get in over to wards be
messy
Waiting here in the window has to bail from his captain first kill comes through
Are they ready for a pose are they ready for that second man the captain?
Vitality's captain, France's captain, Apex has the round, right there!
Hi guys, Mezzi here, make sure to sub to ESLCS, keep right on.
But too far gone, too slow to start, too much to stop this vitality.
And now there is nothing left, all roads lead to ruin for sore.
Moutir is one kill in the bottom and middle, it goes untrated.
Swings on out, but he can't get a bearing on Apex and now Spitz.
Here we go.
It's time in helping out to Messi they get funneled into the killing field to the b-site and they live to tell the tale
So try to break in
Can flames and apex stop them a man down in the retake?
Win this round before no
fake
Will vitality wait will they relent?
Or do they bite at the next opportunity?
They're really trying to bait them in but my mentality keep calling their block.
Apex swings it wide and third time's the charm here as they chase him down.
Turns to Ash on Dust!
What vitality turned to Gold!
He's got himself a depinical counter strike!
Showing us phenomenal T sides all through this tournament taking down some of the best teams and best players in the world.
Time to see if they can add one more skull to the cabinet.
team vitality CT side for armor versus a ripe and ready saw
Brushing off the jitters of yesterday
Zywuz opened up a fair amount across the Cologne groups with aces in pistol rounds
Maybe I'm setting the bar too high here
But I think we all want some tickets to the Zywuz show
It looks like flames is gonna be the one to get tested over a ramp and he'll bound down there
Saw closed the gap. Oh, there's an opening. Flames on the receiving end of that
story clock and they've got all the space down at lower. Here's Zai Wu.
Alright then. Let's see how he looks to handle this. Door swung open. He would get
pinched it if he tries to move forward here. This is gonna be flawless from Zai Wu.
He falls at the first hurdle. The game playing gone for vitality.
The Saw off to the races here, going to take the first round of the semi-
A sucker punch and Vitality leave with no air in their lungs.
The way the Saw have used this double door and B is so impressive,
even then keeping it open to cause some concern for Zywoo,
he's caught closing it, in gun rounds he'll see them break it off with an A.
It's so annoying, they've caught so many rotators down on this B bomb site,
This has been the map to go for Saw.
Here's the thing, my vitality,
they've had a lot of runs of dealing with the pressure, right?
I think the Saw, the worst way this could have possibly started
would be with Vitality winning the pistol.
Because Saw, they've been feeling pretty good
throughout this event.
It feels like things have just been clicking into place.
They've been faith in each other.
They've been faith in the team.
We don't know if they can take that early blow, right?
And so they at least get this pistol on the board.
Now you're up against Vitality.
You never get to ease off here.
You've got to be 110% throughout, but it's at least the good start they were hoping for.
This round, it's over towards the yard.
That expectation falls the other way as well, right?
Faze started slow in the Lancers.
They paid the price on Inferno.
It felt like individuals weren't there.
Apex is, however, the captain outside.
X-Star, or maybe current, he's put down.
So we're going to grab those guns and move into the lower side.
Catch from U-Jokes, his press.
Controls that spray very well as saw a deal with the force of vitality
They may have saved armor making their buys that a little bit better
But these guys have gone nowhere. Mezzi. He's getting walks on through the smoke
Vitality court surprised
As I will midair put down by Ujerks star of the show with three kills in the second round
Just faze looks so flustered yesterday. They came in so cold
You wonder what that game could have been if Inferno
was just the typical phase that we expect.
Vitality cannot afford to have that same slow start.
One more eco, and then the game begins.
I think SOR made a lot of fans yesterday.
I think they've earned them.
I think everyone's kind of romanced by what they've put forward here.
I think for a lot of the top teams,
one of the problems is Nuke is always a map you look to play.
The best teams in the world always excel on Nuke.
Yeah, and so I think sore always gonna have this map waiting if they want it
Peek-na-vee peek Astralis peek NIP back in the day and you was the go-to one of the mainstays of these rosters
Just up against the pistols
This is sore with their chance to have a nice clean start for this semi-final and it's more of these group tits
We were seeing these a lot yesterday
Oh! Right into the pistols!
Numbers don't save them there!
Moutir is going to try and hold off these vent rotates, but a three on three.
It's a way to a chance for Vitality that fast rotate is put down.
Who jerks? That is real clean. Only the pistols shot, but it's the fashion in which he picks them up.
Saw are just not afraid to take these fights. They will swing you.
They will go for the kill every single time.
and they have the firepower to back up their torque.
Another multi-kill for you jerks on the ANSI,
but we said we'd wait for the rifles before we sound the alarms.
Zywu's orb and appearance into round four glance.
We might all be blessed in the cathedral right now because
first gum round played and you get to see Zywu
bring out that orb straight away.
You want him to make his presence known,
you want him to instill that terror.
Sai Wu is capable of, but you want him to do it early.
Now, when the yard moods here is...
Man, who jerks? They're the ones trying to get across here.
Sai Wu...
Maybe he's going to try his hand at the timing shot.
Doesn't want to reveal it, not for free.
Make them learn the hard way.
Talked about sores, groups, struggles in 4v5s.
They rely on that advantage more than most teams.
Sai Wu's given nothing in the yard.
And so, hang on, bomb in lobby.
Making a move down awards lower
Spinks and apex the ones to deal with here flashes good, but Spinks turns around
Deals with materials is the first man in the rest of saw now look to try and get out a messy is on guard
Good for the first trade comes through who Jack's gonna try and fly up the bend here
They're going right into Zywoo with there's the support flames
That's more like is I would may miss
the game. And that's what he's
doing. This. With those two
stars show up vitality, spinks
and flames, putting together
four kills between them. That's
doing a disservice to flames.
Important heaven rotate up. I
think the smoke from messy is
massive in that round as well
couldn't have come at a better
time allows him to split the
fights into one be once he
takes one with him dropping
up this afternoon. It's divided in the Vitality vs. Saw matchup. Not what you expected, but
I think yesterday a lot of the Vitality fans were cheering for Saw. They didn't want them
to face FaZe in the semifinals. They wanted the easy run. They wanted the underdog.
The question is, have they bitten off more than they can chew? So if they view that
Attack 4s gave Barry a chance to get involved for the Saw Squad.
They don't want Vitality to respond so quickly after those pistol round wins, but Flames in a ramp.
3K in the last round opens up this one, dealing with Ujerks as well.
That is the front man of Saw, dropped out of the round.
Nice.
Arostos followed up onto.
It's a very, very quickly.
This Saw Squad has melted under the onslaught of Vitality.
Two men down, but they make it into this B site.
That plant will be allowed, that will be given over as Mitallity starts to move around now.
Unique plant spot as well, without that single-door control, there may be ways that Mitallity can get a stick in.
Muteer is in a very powerful position, but we've seen what he can do from that spot.
Saewoo drops in, we've got kits, we've got nades, we've got a two-man advantage.
This should be Mitallity chomping at the bit.
Ooh, claims cut down, Roman with one, but there's an immediate trade from it.
Story tucked in, Moutir is going to try and take that contact, try and conceal Story's position.
There's the first one, Story, just a move, and Spink swings it out.
It's close. Down to the wire, sure, but it's a vitality round with all this said and done.
Oh, so Moutir is getting flustered there as well, comms, not flying as cleanly as they would have liked.
Didn't know who his teammate had killed, got away with two from Dark.
And Moutir is just can't piece it together, can't get in cover in time.
Vitality back to backgrounds worst case scenario would have been winning your first rifle and going back to pistols
They will remain above water
This is where vitality should start to get control of the game on the CT side of you
You know, they were expecting this pick from Sorda day apex says he watches demos
They prepped for their opponent
Vitality not here to underestimate anyone
Garbage just the pistols to worry about. This is a chance to pad the stats out for Vitality.
Keep the round nice and clean. Maybe try and get Zawoo activated.
The Sim and Apex very swiftly deal with this Yardesaw.
Sure Zawoo falls. Materials all alone with the Deagle. Can't expect to get anything else done.
Sim and Apex match up outside. Apex comes out swinging.
Vitality have the straight shooters right now. Spinks and Flames are looking solid to begin this game.
Of course, we're always going to talk about Zywu, especially on a stage.
But the supporting cast is there without a doubt. Zywu yet to be truly tested in this match.
Saw now will be another rightful round for the money and for the momentum.
Spinks tries his hand at the aggression here.
That's exactly what Saw were hoping for.
Gifted this early-man advantage. You're not going to get many around when you get that 5v4 for free.
So they really want to deliver on it.
Ah, what a fall down here.
Mezzi with the double, Apex tries to force the fight.
That's a swing they might come to regret.
Missed Molly up in heaven.
Oh God, they've given Zai Wu and it flames away into this round.
The AWP of Zai Wu out with the first.
So we're gonna try and get that bomb planted.
This is the game, this is the guy to beat.
Zai Wu trying to land on the Laxis
and he'll get put down.
ready to relinquish it the way of Vitality yet.
And they grab the AWP as well, which, you know,
certainly could feature with Vitality,
but they've got to crunch the numbers.
Tight pause is very important.
I think a lot of this is going to come down to the buy.
Vitality get caught off guard with that A hit.
Nezzy does more than you could expect.
In a molly, full flash double.
But no clutch here for Vitality.
They will fund that Zywoo AWP.
It's going to leave someone lacking.
And the round player takes the hits.
I wonder who they're supporting.
Vitality.
They've got the vacuum of the crowd behind them.
The Hornets play their tune.
Will Vitality play along with it?
Soar.
Ead for now as they sit back in the lobby.
Once again, hoping that Vitality...
Try and tame them early. Try and go for that.
Initial fight.
What a util burned early in this round for Vitality.
Round player needs that support of the Orp.
He has simply nothing there.
trying to peek in. Zahir just baiting a reaction right now as they look outside for an entry that will not materialize unless...
Bezzie.
...Lil'Jiggle and a chance.
The Vitality dance with death, they live to tell the tale. Meanwhile, Zahir Wu brings the heat.
One off story is this. Shot that could have been this one.
And anything in the hands of Zahir Wu that double-bush gets punished!
Once again, wait for Vitality to set the precedent. They're there to respond.
Spinks drops down lower quickly here.
Fast down through the vent. Apex trying to make his move as well.
They're running through the molly.
That'll be heard. A desperate move for Apex as he tried to get down lower to support.
But with Spinks already dead, this round might never get going.
Apex feeling like he just has to play the round himself and win the round as a solo player.
Pushes lobby at the right time, gets that backstab, has to run through the molly.
But by that point, yeah, vitality enough, members have fallen.
That all of a sudden, the most valuable thing in the round for vitality,
because they ain't winning this.
So we're back to their winning ways with five T rounds,
and I wonder how many pauses we see vitality burn early in the game.
Can X-Tiles solve this problem?
The sword starts swinging.
Always in the outliner, that trophy.
Always a pointy reminder of what it is you're competing for.
And the craziest part is Zaw will never be the favourite.
Not at this tournament at least, right?
Against FaZe, underdogs, against Vitality, no chance.
Against whoever they meet from that mouse-navy game,
you would have your money the other way.
But they don't believe that.
They're going for gold.
Saved guns all the vitality you have to work with here.
You've seen Zawoo try and get involved early in this game,
but for the most part, it's fallen on deaf ears.
Ramp, Flames only on with the USP, so this could be the route in for Zaw.
He just has to drop, he can't even do anything here, it's just a warning system, an alarm to ring on the ramp.
And what does start to make its way over?
Zawu will be close, both players with the rifles up in heaven.
Zawu just dropped in towards the topside.
Is he the only man who could feasibly rotate over, but even he started to readjust and drops down into A as well.
So for now, you're looking at Apex, you're looking at Flames here.
These are the two that have got to withstand the saw here.
That's not a bad blow!
But this to open!
USP of flames!
Deagle of Apex!
Does make things complicated now for Saw.
They're left lacking.
They don't have the manpower.
They lose Roman over at Ramp.
The AK gum's swinging.
And Terry's tries to take up the angle.
The story is just so far away.
They've got the bomb on B.
How do you even save this round if you're saw?
Are you looking to save?
I don't think you ever do.
It feels like they've wrote this one off.
That's a disaster.
Bomb going in first.
They were not ready for the double set up and somehow Vitality do it with pistols.
That is a real sucker punch to the Sawz confidence now.
They even come in with two guns and they're not required.
Yeah, it's not like it's the Hero Weapons that did away with that round.
It's a USP and a Deagle that robs Sawz's chance for that lower play.
Finally seeing some mistakes from Saw, it was about time.
They've maybe got a bit ahead of themselves, right? Knowing that they're not up against March in that round there.
They think that they can just waltz into the B site.
Look at what hell of a reminder.
That point went rolling as well.
Tight game. Apex just knows how important that is.
Saving themselves.
Went Sorkin had a huge T side on this first map.
Not by time to get a chance to win it out.
A 4-by and reserves as well.
Taiwu continually looking for this pick and you can notice Sorkin just never giving it.
They're never giving him the chance. He won't even get to play into this round if the plan goes right.
Disaster strikes.
As he's been a rock over on this topside, just the one they've done this time.
They're having a time to deal with Lamez on the lobby, but Spitz goes in for even more.
The Vitality trade out, into a good position.
Mid-shot from Zywoo. One minute, ten seconds.
Old versus new, Apex stands to attention, and Zuzhex, he's just got past him!
That's the plot now.
Apex tries to move in swiftly, moving quickly.
Molly gives a display, Zuzhex forces him forward, Apex stands, but through the edge of the
smoke, through the corner, can he find that glimmer of hope, that moment that
brings Saw right back to the front of the conversation?
No!
Be the brawn and the brains wins every time.
Fantastic reposition from Apex.
Top up means you judge is stuck.
He can't escape.
And Apex can weigh down that smoke.
Beautifully done, even though it gets a bit hairy in the middles.
I was still looking.
Beatable right now, still looking mortal.
Not a good sign for the longevity of this game.
But Apex is stepping up and showing up
stage on the stage. So many of these rounds coming down to Vitality's captain. I mean it's Apex's
Deagle that takes the attention away and lets Flames get the kill in the lower here. It's him
there winning out the 1v1. Let's all know that pressure's still on right? It comes down to a 1v1 in that
previous round. Gonna go back to the yard, gonna go back to outside but
but feeling so they play right into Apex's domain.
Smoke blowing open.
Thankfully he's not punished for that.
He was out of ammo as they did so.
The story only just makes it down.
Roman has to live here.
Give some control in the lobby.
Get smoked out as, so we'll get this lower control flames
in a powerful position.
They swing the door, they're coming at all sides
and he'll only fall off to one.
So we'll get the site, can they get the plan?
There's a molly on apex, but it's not coming out in time.
Maybe he'll get a kill either way.
The bomb's been put down, and so two more players of saw lurking around.
Spinks reads the reposition, and Moutiris a 1v4 that is surely too far this time.
1v4 on the lower side for Moutiris.
For this time, this time, no glory.
For the captain of saw, he's stunned the world with that 1v4 down here yesterday,
But Vitality do not let him have the space, the room to get comfortable.
They swarm him into the decon door.
And Vitality looking to leave this first half in pole position.
I mean, they've absolutely saved themselves in this game, right?
This could have gone apparently wrong without that eco win.
This could have been sore with the momentum.
Vitality, instead, break the money, forced that force by,
forced this force by, and saw a playing catch-up.
They're playing desperate.
Is five enough for a T-sided team?
Can they squeeze one out right at the end? The upper hand cancels by strong double Molotovs into that A side and they're going to poprap and step right into the corner.
They come running in and flames feasts. Two kills before the wound is here and he can shut them down as well. Only one.
Should be enough. Vitality pre-drop B to Saw walk into the trap.
They're perhaps gonna go swinging out.
Oh, what?
That's how they pull on Roman!
Saur have not lost out at first half of Nuke yet.
Across Cologne, this might be the first time it looks to happen to them in the semi-final.
And that's Roman!
Convey-
Now, he's been reviewing their demos.
He's been going over the Saur game plan.
And boy, does that show off.
Not just in his individual numbers, but in the scoreline.
First time that Saur have lost out at first half on Nuke.
across all of IEM Cologne so far.
Yeah, there were some shaky rounds in there,
and this is all despite Zai Wu coming in,
looking very cold, missing some shots,
not looking like his traditional self.
We know he struggles on a stage,
but Vitality, right now, doing it without him,
can the P250 reignite the fire for Zai Wu.
He crosses outside, a quick smoke on the top of main.
And Zai Wu looks for this entry kill,
he's spot on for Tyrus,
couple of players in his crosshairs,
But he's shooting his teammates in the back of the head.
They get out of the way, someone hunts out of down materials.
Flames taking space and Vitality over the yard.
He's up into the heavens.
Gonna try and lend a helping hand to Spinks
as he looks to chase down that top player.
Story actually gonna get dropped on.
Flames changes target.
And Zai Wu taps Roman out.
They know that Ujerks is up here in heaven.
He's living on borrowed time,
but it's two low HP players that are trying to break.
Aaros Doss, moments late.
Moments like from the double that was needed spots flames make it up into the heavens
But the rest of vitality go elsewhere
Flames is just the decoy
Arostos has this first kill to find but then the true challenge begins for Arostos
Dropping down lower Zai Wu's given him a little bit of room to work with a chance in the round
But double swung Zai Wu leads them to their demise vitality pistol round secured
as they continue to rack up rounds.
Scrooge, Saw's smart pick.
It's like, we can't be the star of the show right here.
At least play with your team back off,
set up that crossfire,
let your captain throw the smoke in,
play it by the books.
And Vitality do exactly that.
Flames with two huge entries,
gets that upper control
and allows Vitality to run the bomb to B.
It's a really good look right now.
Out of the French organization.
and saw struggle to land on their feet in this semi.
That's a good start.
Force up, one FAMAS, and it gets the job done.
And go for this force.
Tyris, high reward gameplay for Saw.
If they can break through early, this game suddenly opens back up.
And so moves are getting made now, but it looks like Spinks saw something.
Four spinks as he tells Messi turn around deal with the door push
They put a stop to the lobby aggression back in awards main now, and that's where I will wait
Piece by piece this saw CT side push gets picked apart and jerks looking for anything but vitality
They've concealed their movements the whole map is one
Big question mark to saw
He's got a lot of power.
Looking over towards me.
They lost.
So I will hear who jerks.
Here's the footsteps now as he
looks to make his move looks to
make the play backstab on three
through main.
They're not ready for this.
That's the opportunity.
That's the chance.
Sure.
Forced by round does not
prevail by talent.
Able to withstand it from 4B5
right off the top.
They put a stop to that force
double digits. Yeah, they listen to the captain. They're great timing to make the freeze cool.
Three players of vitality just standing still across the map and so come to them feeling
the pressure this time more than ever playing from behind. So with almost nothing in this
round should be vitalities, double digits. This whole round comes down at two upgraded
pistols and a Zeus for sore for vitality. Even now they're not jumping the gun.
They know they're not going to be up against anything crazy here.
They're trying to keep it safe, speaks with a lot of room out into the topside.
He melts through that defense.
Arafs does.
Wishful thinking as he chases them.
So looking to go flawless here, our vitality should have no problem.
The bombs are bigger threats than these positions on pistols.
Although no one's looking main, it was a win, that was a way, but
that's been this game so far.
saw a chance, not capitalised upon, pistol finds one, the vitality closed with ease, 10 to 5 right now
saw with limited opportunity to make this map interesting.
One thing in the quarterfinal when it felt like they were always competitive with FaZe, it was
always neck and neck here, you're staring at a big deficit, one where you have no room for error,
Vitality meanwhile, off to this very cushiony lead, they've got five rounds of space between
between them and Sora, Sora feeling all the pressure.
It's Sorsmarp pick, Vitality, done their research,
done their homework, everything is working
for Vitality right now and it continues in this round.
So into Sora's most important gun round yet,
that is gonna leave a mark.
Absolutely devastating way to begin your CT side right
for rounds as I was not done.
There's more players on his plate.
just pick up the four, flip back, can't connect.
So who's in no hurry?
The materials might be reemerging from below.
Vitality suddenly disappear.
So I would talk all the way back, flames.
It's pressure on.
Sword don't know where this round is ending up.
It is undecided for vitality, grouping in the lobby now.
You juxt with fantastic timing,
This A site is right for the taking
Window for the backstop might start to close soon our host us
Boxed in
Now and speaks makes quick work of it so Zawoo's up finds its form and we just mutir is left standing
Oh my god, they're coming down the bed after a Maypex wants to take everything out
He wants that insult to injury
Mutir is holds off for a moment, but he can't find the second man and so everybody balls
Vitality are relentless.
I mean that just speaks to even the knowledge for Vitality.
They know he's the lower player, they know he's going to be that guy going down
Rapper the star and coming up secret.
They have done their homework, they were well drilled for this match.
And yes, I did nothing in the first half, but the one time we require him to stand tall
He comes out with three kills on the AWP, a back breaking, economy ruining round at 11-5.
That just ties this up neatly for Vitality.
There's no getting away from it. This has been domination to open up.
This semi-final from this Vitality squad. Eight rounds straight.
Such an impressive look from the rifleers on Vitality.
Flames came in red-hot.
Spinks has had a high impact and Apex has been leaving the fray.
Winning round solo on that CT side.
Nothing to dislike for Vitality in this map so far.
Can Saul provide answers, or is this one going to dust?
Down for Ujerks as he throws himself into a fight.
Mezzi, not a long that out, and now he's got reinforcements here.
They're waiting for more aggression in the lobby.
And Aros Dost, while he gets out with one,
that won't be enough to turn the tide here.
Mezzi, low on health.
And Zaiwoo gonna swap on over.
Many places he's out anyway
All right, this is the only danger going into this double ramp hold, but
Again vitality they love calling these freezes
Sit back relax
Wait for sort of make the mistake eventually they'll have to go double pumping in with you till apex is already down
That's easy gets caught but flames with a crucial trade a tucked in materials who needs everything or nothing
It won't matter. Vitality looking for that point.
Apex is already here. Apex is just in a better position.
Roman isn't even ready for this. Not even considering it.
And so that one comes for free for Vitality.
And what a way to close this game.
This would be for the Vitality squad.
Because throughout the entire thing, Saurav constantly impressed it.
Constantly before. These surprises. No bounds to the upset.
But as we get on a nuke today, a map that has been nothing but kind to Saur.
Vitality do the ultimate injustice.
They destroy them on this home map for the Saw Squad.
Yeah, this is a 6th win streak going to bed for Saw
and a win streak over the likes of G2, Na'Vi, FaZe, the Mongols.
Experience teams, tenure teams.
9 rounds straight for Vitality.
Can they close it with a flawless 10?
Oh, Spink seems to think so,
but Roman Clearsen coming out of the door.
Soar, given a shot, cross outside for vitality, going to set Zairu up yet again to try and
find this outside pick. He's got to be down on story in an uncomfortable position to clear.
Zairu goes, smoking his face, story from afar, picks him off. 5v3 for Soar. Very important
you don't give this one away. I think if you're Soar at this point it's more of
recovery just feeling like you're still fighting in this semi-final. You want to try and stop
10 straight to the win for Vitality. And so 5 on 3, 2 players tagged up. It'd be a fool
to be counting Vitality out of this one. Lames moves in, goes for the kill, but there's
Moutyrus with an instant trade. Atex spotted out in garage. And Moutyrus will get the
better of him in that head-to-head. They stopped the 10 round streak for Vitality.
them at nine but there's still so much more to do for Saw. One round, one heroic
moment from anyone in that Vitality jersey and this map is over. It has to
be flawless from here on out for Saw. We've seen some incredible tenacity from
this Portuguese team but you should surely expect that to be a possible
A bridge too far in the biggest game of their career.
Vitality coming in quick outside, Apex over the smoke trying to pick the captain.
Alcatyr is dangerous cross and they're already down B.
Ujuks is coming up, Apex avoids capture for now.
They have no idea.
There's Apex getting his revenge.
At this sort of score line apex gets a terrifying degree of freedom to take those sort of risks
walks the smoke outside
He's teeth my tally up
Holds now waits for re-aggression apex
Well apex get all five to seal the deal for vitality
He's teed them up for the victory and it's only story left to stop them
this story might not be about store might not be a testament to them might
not be a monument to source tenacity the upsets
well they say the French are Romantics but apex only out to break the heart of
saw today an ace in the final round as he brings soles and you street to an end and match you
that was decisive 13 to 6 vitality in his approach yeah apex is obviously going to be the talk for
us after this map one not only individually obviously closing the game into this beautiful
ace but just I think the game plan moving into the city side was extremely efficient I think
vitality is analyzed realized if we let salt play the counter strike they want if we let
let them execute, we're gonna have a hard time.
So what do I do?
My name is Apex and I get stuck in.
I get outside, I flirt with these smokes.
I ask for flashes so I can be disruptive.
He's done that and more and you could see the discomfort
on the side of Saur.
Yeah, you could see the discomfort,
but you could also see the vitality.
We're struggling a little bit in the beginning
of that first half.
You know, clear gameplay and as you said,
they wanted to disrupt Saur,
they wanted to get into those fights,
but Saur responded with playing pretty good Counter-Strike
and made the game competitive.
I'm thinking to myself when this goes 4-4,
Saw us more or less in control given the playing on the T side.
There were a couple of rounds that could have tipped the way of Saw and then it would have been a complete different first half,
but once we got into the second, once Vitality got to their T side, then game over.
And the T side, I mean throughout the entire duration of this tournament, has been no joke for Vitality, right?
Listen, coming into the tournament, they had won 74.7% of all their T rounds played.
Now they won 5 out of 6, you know, 5 out of 6 in the second half as well.
They're up to more than 76% win rate on their T side alone.
That's more than every 4 rounds they're winning at the moment.
It's absolutely insane for Vitality and Apex for that matter to find that kind of consistency.
But it's also a showcase of Apex, obviously playing well.
FlameC in the opening department, we saw that in the pistol, we saw it in a couple of the fire rounds.
Everything seems to click when it comes to the T-side.
Yeah, the problem for Saw is that when you move to the second half, you've had this momentum built against you.
I agree with you, the start wasn't the cleanest from Vitality, but they took control of the last few rounds of the first half.
They moved on to the T-side, they had a very good pistol round with a lot of space being taken, a lot of jewels.
a very claustrophobic facade and once you confirm once you win that second force by you know you're in
for it like you know you're in a good position you have the players that have freedom to take
risks like apex is running outside he's flashing for flames jumping on top of mini this is the
vitality that is the scariest but they don't have anything to lose and they don't have financial
pressure let's jump back to the first part because i want to put round nine under the
microscope because this started off a nine round streak for vitality over the course of the
two hearts and this is the other side of the story the one that's maybe a bit less glamorous
It's the mistakes being made by saw and if yesterday's face were not hot enough to punish it here by tell it
He absolutely did there was no reason to saw to commit to that extent
Try and pay the lower bombsite with our utility. They got curious
They got a little bit complacent and they got half by the deagle the USP hidden in the angle
Yeah, but logically speaking with the time they had left on the clock
There was no need to take that kind of risk you drop the bomb
It's kind of a soft ball into vitality and from that point on you feel the game changed
Yeah and it did right and that's what I spoke about you know had saw one that round
You're looking at a six three lead for so on the T side of new you think to herself all of a sudden saw us in control there
With standing the pressure vitality to try to be disrupted to try to be aggressive a pitch playing Yardus who said aggressivity as well
So for saw to lose that round it was sort of like a momentum killer
But also shows a bit of the there's a limitation and maybe an experience
You know what if the soul can it just takes one round like that and then you out of it
I think that's definitely fair to say I do think we need to take a moment to give a pecs and props in this series
of course our Air Force aim high. What a performance individually. Obviously the cooling side as well.
We're going to get props to that too. But the fact that Apex is coming in this hot when we have a
Xayu on the other hand. He's a little bit absent. I'm sure we'll get on top later. Apex, he is fully
informed here in Erie. Yeah definitely cooling a lot around his own position on the seating side.
He had very good read on when so we're trying to play outside. How many times do I need to
be in that very forward position? A couple of moments as well we can see here. He saves
vitality in that one versus two which that would by the way misplace Bruce Lee
probably based on a false information on low HP or exaggerated information on
low HP here this Apex just reading the game he finds the first kill and he
knows there's a very good chance they're gonna try and retake information on me
absolutely anticipating every movement to cross the placement as well we always
know when when Apex is on one like that it gets dangerous because he's got
this proclivity to be aggressive and in your face and if the skill is
following up then you know you know that's the trick right yeah we're having
that conversation so many times when Apex is having one of those games where he's
not hitting a shot he can singlehandedly lose your gun as far as games sometimes
but when he's hitting it when he's almost dictating the game as the in-game
leader as a rifle and also have a productivity you know and an output of
18 kills and a half like that then I mean for Apex to play like that it's
okay for side rule to be a little bit absent yeah listen I do understand we
have to define our aim for aim high and Apex is a good candidate but this
This was one of the most clear, clear case of winning by Kennedy.
Everybody in Vitality had moments.
When Mezzi had a few moments where he was alone on the inside, he stepped up, flanged up two
ramp rushes, Spinks had a few, it took a few risks, it didn't always work, but I think
he managed his door position quite well, he punished the lurk, so in terms of stats,
they were all in the same bunch, and thank god someone CPR'd Zai Wu after the CTSI,
like there must have been some kind of Heimlich maneuver just to come back to life, because
the T-Side looked much better.
Yeah, I was going to say there's one clear name missing from that list that you just riled off their match you.
Zywu, do you have hope that he is going to be back to life when they're coming into the second match?
So, I'm going to be real with you. I'm in a bit of a problematic situation here because
one part of me obviously wants to just dig Zywu and give him excuses and just make it seem like it's nothing that he can do.
He's not responsible of anything. Oh, because there's a part of me that wants to do that.
And that part of me would say, give this man some resources on the city side.
Please for the love of God like give him a couple of okay
That's one side of me the other side is a bit more realist and a bit more
Accepting with the situation that we had a couple of misses. He went straight to the 80 he missed two or three
Sitter shots. He had the push with flames young ramp where he
Misanalyses the situation he moves to trade but then he gets kind of double-peaked into these are moments where he is supposed to hit
The shot he's supposed to have the impact
He didn't the CT side was very very hard for him to watch very tough for me to watch
But you know what? That's okay. He got teammates with him and he bounced back on the T side
But follow up this whole CT T conversation because that's one that's been a pattern throughout the whole clone
Yeah, I mean Saivoo is contributing a lot on that T side
You know as much as you want to say that the CT side wasn't pretty which I agree with you
That was pretty ugly. Yeah a couple of misplays a couple of misshots for T side wise that we only seem by telling you
Start on the T side. We'll be saying Saivoo is having a great game
He's having a great start to this tournament and you know vice versa
So it's very easy to to turn the narrative into whatever you want to turn it into however
I think the side route wasn't his best game wasn't his worst game
But again if this is Saivou not playing well, then thank God I'm a teammate
You know from apex what we do have dust to on the horizon
That's vitality's pick coming into this series and we do have a few words courtesy of banks and extents
Vitality seemed to be the only team that can take down saw on new guys talking to ex-taz about it
He said he wants to control things more when it came to the CT side
Even though a few rounds went against him at the beginning
He was able to hold strong the team did what they were supposed to do on the T side
Well, we know that's been going very well for vitality
He said on DOS2, it's their pick, but nothing can be taken for granted.
He expects them to have changed from things when it comes to it,
but this is what they do and they know it.
Vitality are very well aware, but they should be able to take this 2-0.
But they're prepared for some changes, so let's see how it goes for them.
Well, Sa behind me, a little bit shaken of course, because it was there and you,
I know of course it is a very good map for Vitality as well,
but Gads talking to, or Gads talking to Barry, their coach rather, and he said,
Yeah, they figured us out on T side, that wasn't what we expected.
And on top of that, usually CT sides is where we got a lot of our rounds as well.
And that also didn't work out.
So that's obviously not according to the game plan.
I asked about this too.
He said, no problem there.
We knew they were going to pick it.
We're fully prepared.
We knew all the maps that we were going to see today.
And he's confident going into that one.
Hopefully confidence will be key for Sword to be bouncing back into this one.
But this is a tough situation for Saw to be facing.
Not only is it Vitality's map pick of Dust2, Mathieu,
but they're going to be starting on that aforementioned T side.
So you're going to need to be hot out the gate if you saw it on that CT half.
Yeah, definitely. I think skill-wise, they weren't really able to match Vitality on you.
And that had been the main topic for the map one of the phase victory for Saw.
So that's an issue.
I also think that they are getting used to a new level of scrutiny,
which they didn't really know before.
As in, sure, you make it from stage two to the playoffs.
People are a little bit impressed, but we might take you with a little bit of complacency.
Once you've beaten FaZe, this is over. That conversation is done.
You're going to use every single trick in the book,
and you are going to take the gamble that so don't have the diversity right now
to change everything from game to game.
That is a very much elite level skill that they might not have quite now.
So you could see on Nuke that this was analyzed and sort of printed by Vitality.
Let's see on this too.
I agree with you. I think Vitality have more dimensions basically to play with.
And obviously, we spoke about it on Nuke.
They came in with a clear game plan.
They even changed it up a little bit in the second half of the first half.
And I think what it comes to us too, as well, for Vitality, it's a homegrown map now.
It's a map where they feel very comfortable.
And I guess Saivu, as well, is stepping up on that map.
We saw his performance against Maus.
That's not going to be an issue.
And then you have this trio right now, where Spinks, Flames and Saivu
are all pretty much on the same level.
And if you saw right now, you need someone to match that output.
As we like to say up here, you know, it's about the tactical, I guess,
Tactical ability sometimes to approach the map, but at the end of the day when it comes to a map like Dust2,
if you're not winning your duels and if you're not un-pying individually, it doesn't matter, you know, you'll just fall flat on that CT side.
So I'm a little bit worried for Source World that individually speaking, they simply can't match the output of Vitellum.
I'm going to be incredibly selfish here. I want to see Zaru turning up on the big stage and I can't imagine a better map than Dust2 for him to do it on.
We know he can do it here, he's done it in years gone by. I want to see it in the next map.
I think it's pretty problematic to see you being so biased for Zaru.
I was expecting more from you. Where is that coming from?
I just stooped to your level, Matthew. Sorry, man, sorry.
You guys cool? I hope Saibu goes 0-1-13 in this game.
All I'm saying is, I want him to turn up because we've been hyping this up so much.
As you have, we said he's got an MVP in this arena without actually taking home the trophy.
I want to see that MVP level performance again, and I want to see if Saw can deal with it.
Yeah, I agree with you, but I would like to see that happen when Vitality needed.
Because we have already seen here, and the mouse game is a good example where
You win 12-0 and he's ending up a 21 kill, and this is just the absolute basic smile.
Everything is working for him. The rifle, the albs and all.
Now, give me a hard game. Give me a tough game. Give me a moment where the ADP shot is going to be the difference between winning and losing a map, and let him hit that shot.
And then you get me high. For now, let's everybody take a deep breath.
You sounded pretty high there. You know what, Mathieu? I think we need to throw this one to recuperate before he gets into the action.
By Talisman, his map pick offed us two on the other side. We'll see you there.
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How close is CS2 to being as good as CSGO?
What percentage is CS2 to being close to CSGO?
The way you're shaking your head, you're close to 50, almost, it feels like.
I think it's 40 now.
40%?
Yeah, I think 40%.
40% left or 40% there?
40% there.
My goodness.
Yes.
I would say 70.
70?
No, look at me, I got crazy because I said 70.
Hawker here, the Counter-Strike Scholar and I'm back with the plan of attack to show
you the tendencies and strategies to watch out for.
Let's take a look at Vitality on Dust2, starting on the T side where Sphinx plays towards B,
Flames plays towards lower tunnels, Apex plays towards mid and Mezzie plays towards long.
Watch out for Vitality using this early mid-door smoke on T side, as when they do,
It's actually quite likely they'll push through it themselves.
This fast B-split is all about the timing and being there 1 or 2 seconds faster than your
opponents expect, and Vitality especially like to use this play when they hear a lot of CT
presence on A-long early as it makes it less likely that mid is so heavily defended.
Switching over to CT side, Mezzie plays towards B, Spinks plays towards mid, and
Flames plays towards A-long.
This is often known as a passive player, however when he throws this molly, it's quite likely
he's going for an aggressive move into lower tunnels.
This is not a molly that Spinks throws often, so it can be quite a good tell that he might
be in lower tunnels, however even if you know he's there, he's so talented he might still
get you.
So see if you can spot any of these tendencies or if Vitality have cooked up something
new on Dust2.
Where so many fell, Vitality rose to the occasion.
On Apex's fifth run to the Clown Trophy,
he set us saw Lim from Lim and lines up a grand final appearance.
Dust who stands in the way of victory, of Vitality.
And saw how to pick deeper than ever before.
But on Nuke, they were so busy dreaming, they never woke up.
Vitality's smart pick, starting over on the T side.
and I think the deaths did a fantastic job of highlighting just how scary these vitality t-sides have been
Sore have got a monumental task ahead of them
Wonder they might not be made up for that will get called into question here
Teed up for the lower take at least as our stars is gonna find himself at the right place
They're able to start off new strong. Will it be the same on dust to made down into lower doesn't find the damage
they were looking for and instead vitality stick their clay into this mid control.
It's a commanding start from the vitality squad as they leave no stone unturned on that lower
tunnels play. Yeah slow and steady here on this T side. All the pressure on sore, no one able to
make a rotation to cross past those mid doors. I will now just leave to the P250.
by Tati ready to crunch this B site, under defended and unexpected, saw sit with just
one player in position. Can Matires save his man in time?
Can he get over to the right side of middle at least? Here to try and put his stuff to
the midtake and he will overwhelm Flames now. Look at Ujjaks, that's a collateral!
Two quick kills from the amount of backplab, but Ujjaks wanting even more. Well get
And this one's not done get planted as apex has to get the reason Roman tries to make his move
It's not cut much with the sidearm and there's two bullets in this for story
There's still pages in this chapter
Maybe saw can show us something
But they will have to earn it every step of the way and near 2v4 for vitality. It looked beautiful
That hits different.
Vitality force out of rage.
Flashes out long.
They pop that Molly with a smoke and they spill out.
Aggression from Ujerks, almost punished.
Got to get Zywoo in the pit with that scout.
Let them get to work.
The doors open.
A day in the office for Zywoo.
There is some very confident moves getting made here from Saw.
They do open up this game.
They could still get punished for those.
But it feels like they've decided if this is how it all ends, they don't want to go quietly into that good night.
Roman, can they get joined over inside of this safe home site as Vitality looks to do their talents?
One-nines, right a lot!
So that pistol clutch, that pistol pickup, four-story might never come to matter.
The results never come to pass, Vitality immediately turn up the heat and that's with Saw having all the info,
Everyone over towards A and the man advantage
They had everything they could have asked for and still it was not enough
Yeah, Vitality won a lot of man down rounds in this series already
So it's gonna get worse before it gets better broken economy for sore broken morale
They looked absolutely crushed after that first map
focused faces on vitality
Just what you would want from a team you know can't and will win trophies.
The question is, is Cologne one of them?
This Molly gives me tears, a second chance at life here.
It's a surprise he still swings.
I didn't know you were in his position, but saw a feeling of pressure.
Bit by bit getting picked apart on the CT side.
The Tars even break the smoke, they want to take these fights, they go on, another entry and more to the tally, three for Zaiwu, this time he doesn't stop cold, six and one on Zaiwu.
It was going to be a map, as Zaiwu gets to show up on, it's going to be this one.
Doesn't get better than Dust.
That was the whole fact that on that last map, so scarcely even had to worry about it on the pistols, but...
Zawooz here to keep an eye on it. He actually just goes swinging the confidence of display here.
It's kind of mad as he throws himself into the firing line. Everyone gets their piece of the action there.
A quick round for Vitality to find their third and really cement this lead, but this is where the guns come out for Saw.
That chance to try and disrupt early. Back on that first half. The last map, it felt like the lead disappeared very, very quickly for Saw.
quickly for Saw. They were 5-3 up. The next thing you know, they're down in the
dumps. They haven't won a round for the remainder of the half. They don't want
that to happen to open up on Dust. Zayu brings that all-power and it's close.
No cigar in the mid-hit. Instead they managed to get on by smoke dropped as
well. That gives the illusion they could play in a lower. So Vitality
have to be a little more respectful here. It was that first gun round on
T-side Nuke where Zayu comes in with three huge kills. Two entries outside
and they've got him the AWP as quick as they can as well. So let's see if he
put it to use. He won't be at the forefront of this round, holding that mid rotation,
but Swarm solidified positions, and that might be to their detriment. Molly burns,
late story has to swing, and it's actually MP9 sniping him out from short side. Vitality may
get blocked, but they don't worry, they don't mind. A man up and Zywou still in the middle.
Look at this late reaction from Swarm. I like their playing together,
But they've not hit the nail on the head.
Gaggenig gets severed by Spinks.
And he gets out for free.
His presence over and mid poses an awkward question here.
Do you keep trying to hunt him down?
You've lost control of the A site.
He goes nowhere.
This is running the risk of being a great punishing round.
And there's that Zai Wu. AWP.
Arastas.
surplus to Requiem in here.
Left trying to hold onto the gun inside of the B site.
If you look at that mini-map vitality and feel in a very forgiving mood right now
They want to take everything away. They've got that info
So a few more players
Gotta laugh it off red hot as
Vitality storm the board and you can go as far as saying, you know Zairou wasn't a requirement on that first map
Well in this one, he's making himself one making himself a mainstay of
of Dust2, of the T side,
picking Saw apart, can the scout
get revenge, Apex tagged,
Materia's repositions.
Storing their verifiers off.
Oh! I see them!
Sacked to background, they've never even had the chance to...
They're able to thrive here.
4 on 2.
Even as return as sender, what's going on?
Hedgehog through the door.
Those don't exist on Dust2 for these squads.
Someone put the metal back.
Muto might have opened up for Saw in this pistol round.
Aggression through the long side.
They're leaning heavy over towards middle and A.
And so right now Vitality, they are making the right move.
Grouping over in the tunnels.
And Zi'anzaiwu look to embark on a two on four.
Drop the Orp, he's here to win the round right now.
Vitality, I dare say they've got a damn good shot.
Now through the tunnels first.
And of all the ways this could have started, that's what you want.
The game is well and truly a foot.
Zai Wu carves the path in for Vitality.
That bomb planted.
Now it's Saw that find themselves under pressure.
They're the ones on the clock.
This is Zai Wu's game, 11-1.
This Vitality have pulled back a 2-on-4.
Muteiris, what is he supposed to do?
Can he succeed where everyone else tried?
And they keep this T side damn near flawless.
Take a bow, all right.
Absolute masterclass.
Adam Mezzi and Zairu could not have played that better
and saw a feeling of stress.
Saimal comes through and a must win buy just to stop this.
War machine of vitality picking up steam.
French Revolution for team vitality.
Apex leading the charge on the opener, Zai Wu coming to his own now on Dust2.
And even when Sora found these advantageous positions, it's not been enough to beat the
individuals.
There's no doubting that Vitality have that killer instinct about them.
So relieving just to see Zai Wu exerting himself on the stage.
Sure, what he can do, we all know it.
But he's making it true, miss shot and miss round.
You count your lucky stars there.
you hear that old fire off.
You know who it was that was waiting for you.
Story now is a chance to get involved on his or.
Tries to take the line over here in middle.
These doors have felt anything but safe.
Don't waste your shot on a chance.
Wolfgang, if your story you need to be precise.
Pinpoint Acura, that is not it.
Both Orpers with a chance neither come up.
Maybe they clash instead.
Flash pushes Zayu back. He wants to get a second goal.
Flash himself for a fight. Story hangs on the angle.
Undisturbed.
But soon to be.
I think that's scary for Saul here,
is they're flying so blind in this round.
They've completely given up control over middle.
Any noise, any util that comes out makes them paranoid.
That smoke in CT causes you problem for leaving this A site.
So right now, Vitality, even more goes their way.
Flames comes up big on the spam wherever they go they find themselves in a 5v2
So for Vitality it's about grouping going together into Muteris and he finds them both over on short
He's reignited the hope for sore. Will that be enough? Time is running low on Vitality's T side
One more man over a long as Apex opens it's Muteris last man to be
Blotch kill Barostos coming up on elevator and finding that headshot angle it had to happen
they just broke their way in dropping materials after a fantastic double but
not enough of vitality so stepped the bleeding and you say that flying blind
it's flames who's doing it with no idea shoot through doors and smokes flash
how long apex just turning look at the part thing so easily done years of
experience in both roles. He puts it together. He puts it to use. He leads from the front.
Mbappeck shows him how he used to get it done. Zai Wu that shall sail just over the head.
There's no punishment. There's no chance to punish here if you're sore. Once more,
you're left just danking yourself. That one doesn't go the way of Vitalik. You can extend
this lead even further. They call the slowdown after that initial high pace right off the
So I've done the right response here, they're taking control over the Watscap wall.
It's here is Kester, he glanced through the smoke and he comes to pay the price for it.
It's a good angle.
Not normally the guy that done it, but with story out of the round.
He has to try, lolly forces him wide right into the arms of Messi.
The sword is just so far away.
Flames again!
Half of his kills that he hasn't even seen the people he's shooting at!
The stars have aligned for Flames!
Mouse won't gloot down.
They're even hunting. They're gonna find him.
Waiting till this round is unloosable.
And they're gonna run boost.
Into low.
To the flash.
It's here, it's never been attacked like that!
dirty. This is a statement game from Vitality right now just playing slow and steady on the T side.
Group hits. Every entry they need. Even Roman is coping there to think he can get out of that
position. He had to just crouch peek and try and take one with him to give his team a chance.
He thinks he can get out of the Molotov. Vitality are not letting anyone escape.
That's the rifle gone.
Clean flick over towards Shaw, but he's not done with them yet. Zai Wu
a point to prove in this round
as he's looking for all the engagements down in middle timing nearly goes the ride, but he's able to get the gun out in time.
Knows there's serious bodies up for grabs down here in middle, but they're trying to chase him down.
There's the support from the rest of vitality. Zai Wu's not in this alone.
He's got a unit around him.
It's absolutely felt like a team game, right?
Across that first map as well,
there was signs of brilliance from players like Apex.
Flames coming up with huge multi-kills,
but everyone's delivered when required.
Mezzy was a rock on that top site.
Spicks with shooting players in the back.
Saw him had a shot,
but maybe they're just firing blanks.
Apex has been able to cook some ludicrously good T-sides
across this event,
across this event and that does too is no exception to that rule. Someone who's
caught a lot of flak for how he really does wear his heart on his sleeve. Yeah
the last of a dying breed of Counter-Strike player. We've seen him on
stages all the way back in 2015. Some of the highlight reels that guys like Apex
were able to bring forward. Reid finds himself in 2020 to become the captain of
Vitality and overtime he is growing into this role. He has learned to excel
in the Vitality jersey and now he's putting up the numbers to boot alongside
at these T sides and how good Vitality are looking here how it's felt like a
team game not the Zywou show. Testaments what he's able to bring to the table
apex, double digits secured, this French contingent of Vitality looking to
bring them glory. And last year it was all about peaking at the right time
right being prepared for that Paris Major winning it on home soil it warmed up in
anticipation they got their ducks in a row they took that trophy but right now
the same might be happening for vitality to capture a trophy there's a loot of
these players alluded disorganization and alluded apex through so many years if
Vitality win today this will be apex's third attempt in that grand final of Cologne
And right now dare I say vitality look informed to fight whoever faces them
That's why it's certainly the you're getting apex giving us a game like this
Because he is
the one with a
Strong attachment here to this trophy. So to see him up there alongside Zai Wu
Whenever there's something personal on the line for Vitality, it feels like they hit that much harder.
Yeah, there are legendary players who've played at the top of CS, who have never taken his trophy.
Device is one of them. Despite the years of a strahler success, Cologne always eluded that legendary Danish roster.
Apex does not want to let that be a factor.
He has a point to prove here to Zephex.
Zai Wu right there alongside him at these rounds so often.
Boiling down at this duo.
There's the rifles getting involved.
The Spinks mobs up Hu-Jackson rotation.
You are not safe. There is no weak link.
They are just playing out of their mind.
They are brutalizing Saw in this map.
Saw have not had a chance on Dust2.
They won the pistol.
a single round in the midst of it, but otherwise this is domination.
For the whole Cinderella in a dream story around this sore squad,
it looks like semi-finals might be as far as that goes.
They won't have the resilience here, they don't have the manpower, vitality though.
This series is about them.
This series is about vitality.
Trying to move into a grand final in terrifying form.
Terrifying form, one map dropped across IE and Cologne, one map and that's it!
They want us to sit up and take note.
And maybe you were ready to write off SAW, but this is a team that took down of last year,
the number four, the number three and the number two rated players in the entire world.
Modesty, Robs, Niko all fell at the hands of SAW.
But number one of 2023, Zywoo 16-4, unbeatable for SAW.
Nothing in this game says they have it in them and this is a statement for vitality
So I might have the dream but vitality have got the game
And there's no weak link and these slow t-sides are so punishing
Having a seat here at the start of every round and come to terms with how one-sided this game has been
Zai Wu trying his hand at the spamming through middle
Vitality haven't needed picks, they haven't even always had man advantages.
They've battled back from seemingly insurmountable odds.
They wait and see if they're given anything early.
They can feel the terror that courses through the veins of Saw, knowing that that dream might
be about to come to an abrupt and brutal end.
Vitality have the mid control.
They wait outside of Long.
They can't set a foot wrong here.
Yes, he waits and he is rewarded.
Flames dead down in middle, but Vitality now look to go up in the tempo for this A-play.
Slowly baited on the shot, Messi comes swinging.
Vitality two kills from it. A double digit heart.
To deadness they saw at the end of Dust 2.
Zai will go swinging.
Another man falls.
Bonk getting plugged.
Can they get up in time or can Messi stop them?
It's only Arostos.
He's had a quiet game today.
He's got a stand for 1v1. Spinks, he's taking them.
Can he get on the bomb? There's no kit right now.
Apex slowing down, swings in, a Vitality Cathedral.
They feel no remorse.
Okay, it's shooting for the stars.
It's a harsh reality for this sore squad.
It's a reality that Apex on the other side
had to deal with time and time over.
But it made in the man he is today,
it made in the man that put Vitality into this position,
Shooting for a grand final.
These defining moments.
Big Vitality special right now.
Apex is right up there alongside
the jewel of French counter-strike in Zai Wu.
And he's playing with some confidence.
Straight up middle, finding the headshot.
Traded back in damage alone.
Flames hides, buried at the back of the pit.
The saw come for the clear.
Have they got the manpower to do so?
Or are they too focused on Apex on this crossroads?
He draws them in. They don't check.
A jump will do. The 92 legs, Flames takes two.
And so now, with all the info away, with the bomb dropped,
and players falling like flies,
it feels like Vitality are ready to pluck another pistol.
They say the hope dies last. Hope well and truly dies.
If you fall short in this pistol round, Vitality, four on two.
Haven't set a foot wrong yet, and there's Zai Wu with the closer!
Flames right at the start of the pistol, and then he's there to be...
Vitality want this to be brutal.
They never wanted this to get close, and they will get their wish.
The dying moments of this game for sore.
It's about a lost to Ra trying to make it prettier, but...
I don't think Vitality are in the mood to give anything up right now.
And Saul might not even get a four-by because to plan pistols running him up in middle.
They find a couple of entries. Can they flood out on this B-bomb site?
Messi on his own just hiding inside of the site. They line up, double kill, turning back.
Story stops him. The Miserys' lug comes up with nothing.
Story's on the clock. 1v2, he could go for the bomb.
He's going for the kill instead, but they are right there behind the door.
Molly forces Flames, in he goes, and Story saves the day.
Saw one more round.
Touch come too late.
Vitality.
Get ahead of themselves playing into the 2v1.
You can't underestimate the individuals.
Karostos.
A more kill to open up this round.
They're so far behind
that they are still refusing to give up.
Neziova in middle, just the one and done off the deagle.
That's opened up the route to the B-plane.
Saw are aware of that.
They're going for these grouped plays,
these marches out into the B-side.
This is what we saw.
from this squad in that quarterfinal. It was so potent.
It feels like that started to click back into place now.
But it really is at the 11th hour.
Just like on Nuke, with how that one rounded out,
this has to be flawless from Saw.
And there's so far still to go,
but first few steps taken in the right direction.
Well, Vitality let them back in.
As you said, Hope dies last,
and Saw are holding on to this dream.
A hope of prayer, but far from a reality.
Seven rounds of separation.
Seven rounds between these teams.
Vitality, one of a vital look forward to yet.
They can catch up quick, but so far in this series, we haven't seen any reason
to believe in the majesty of Saw.
It has been all Vitality, all the way along, so even in the Ecos, you must give them their respect.
Popping through the smoke with a deep, more flames, finds one more, and Pistols pick up players,
but still saw, should make it across safely.
Breakthrough on the back of a clutch, so early in the second half,
you got a couple for free on the back of the money here.
But that true challenge is about to arrive, Vitality, we're not expected to win this round.
Vitality get their hands on the big guns in the next and that is really where we get the eye test for just how far
Saw can look to take this comeback six rounds apart
It is a marathon for saw for vitality. It's the final sprint
And you just have so many players to rely on for vitality so many players
Who've given us huge rounds in this game?
story
The guy
Who wants to have kick started a comeback?
continues down middle, hope for vitality. Zywu sits alone in the site. Flash playover in the
middle, Spenx tries to get involved early. Zora where it is, Flash is good! Moutiris picks up that opener.
Five on four. They make that fight nice and easy for Moutiris. Flash bang to
team up but now they're gonna go into Zywu, now they're gonna go into the front man of this
Vitality squad tucked in has support from Flames over on the long side good timing on that peak and you see Zaywu in the kill feed
That's gonna instill a bit of fear in store. It's top tail run the other way try and get in over to Wardsby
messy
Waiting here in the window has support from his captain first kill comes through
Are they ready for a pose? Are they ready for that second man the captain by
Vitality's captain, France's captain, Apex has the round, right, that was his moment and he plays it to perfection!
And Soar's aspirations crumble to dust, sucked in tight, Apex says goodnight to Soar in the Lanxus.
One more round for Vitality, ought to do it.
So calm, it's so collected from Apex.
There was no stress in that, there's been no stress in this game.
tells you everything with his body language. He has felt anything but stressed here. This is an apex
that is in control. Everything has gone to plan. For a brief moment there, Saw started to believe
again it was the materials clutch that reignited them in the matchup versus phase. They hope that
stories could have done the same thing here. But too far gone, too slow to start, too much
to stop this vitality and now there is nothing left. All roads lead to ruin for Saw.
Muteir is one kill in the bottom of middle, it goes untrated, swings on out but he can't get a bearing on Apex and now Spitz.
Here we go. This time here they're helping Hanse and Messi. They get funneled into the killing field to the B site and they live to tell the tale.
Saw trying to break in.
Can Flames and Apex stop them and man down in the retake?
You've seen Vitality win this round before!
Not a fake.
Will Vitality wait? Will they relent?
Or do they bite at the next opportunity?
They're really trying to bait them in, but Vitality keep calling their blasts.
Apex swings it wide, and third time's the charm here, as they chase him down!
In 2015, Apex...
Cologne is one of those events that's like kind of transcending, you know, counter-strike in a way.
It's one of the titles that everyone wants to win. This is really where your metal gets tested.
Lancest, it's a very special arena. Everyone wants to be there, everyone wants to feel the atmosphere.
It doesn't matter how much of a new team you are, the world is clear,
playoffs is a minimum and
can't wait to get on the stage, just enjoy being there.
I'm getting very excited. All of my teammates, the coach especially, is hyping us up to play at the arena.
We just need to show up and there's no excuses not to do so.
Lifting a trophy like this or just looking at it, you go back through all the memories and the historical moments that it had.
It makes it a very special one.
It's my first time playing in the big stage and this is what I've worked for.
It's a great team and we want to face them.
The will we have to play the game and to win, we can be the underdogs and upset everyone.
I picture myself lifting the trophy.
We showed up and I think that's the thing I want to take with us.
If we just believe we can do everything we want, I know we can.
I believe we can.
I want to do everything to look at our lancet and realize that we did it again.
So actually what we love the most is what we fight the most for.
This is the most prestigious tournament right now.
We're winning, my confidence rises,
and I think I'll lift the whole team as much as I can in the ring.
I feel like our side of the bracket is stronger.
We have us, G2, Maus.
I feel like Maus has been slacking lately a little bit.
Us and G2 are one of the best teams in the world right now.
G2 finally has a chance to beat us.
We just gave our best in terms of preparation and other things
because we know our biggest tournament is in...
We also want to write our name into the history.
Being around the trophy, it's so big, it's so unique.
It's just one of those trophies where gifting it would mean so much for a player.
It's just a memorable thing that you'll never forget.
The main goal of Colound is to win the tournament and lift up the trophy.
This is one of the OG Counter-Strike events.
This is the big one.
And so that pressure mixed with a huge arena presence,
there's always a big footfall out in Colound.
The pressure is very much on.
You have to earn your spot in the Lancers
And then you have to go one step further and earn the right to lift the trophy.
And I think there is a tremendous amount of prestige when it comes to Colote.
Scuces, you turn up here to this cathedral like how to strike and you win.
Or you go home with what might have been still ringing in your ears.
Two teams remain standing.
Two teams come here.
One wants to call themselves the greatest of all time.
One wants to call themselves a team that banished their demons.
Neither can do that, without lifting that trophy.
Welcome to the Intel Extreme Masters 2024.
Here in Cologne, it's time to find out who it's going to become, a legend.
And one games come 2014.
Nineteen cent per hour!
Winning the trophy in Cologne and lifting it here was a defining moment in my career.
The Grand Final days are brutal.
Losing Grand Finals is probably one of the worst feelings you can ever have.
We almost fell short.
But our name were the first in a long line to be engraved into that trophy.
That's one of the beauties of this game.
At any given moment you can always, always turn it around.
You're best to clear your mind as much as possible
and hopefully everything will be aligning to you.
Tonight, these two teams have the chance to start this new era.
Back then in 2015, the final in Cologne was such an amazing moment because that was the
first time we played here.
A few finals now, but without the trophy it wouldn't mean much.
Almost success here is not success.
If I can make Novi the number one organization when it comes down to winning the most
trophies in Cologne, I would be forever grateful because of the fact that I am
but I think I owe it to them.
I was lost waiting for a miracle, and a miracle happened.
I expected it to come so soon.
I feel like less in a sense to cry for the trophy
and one of the biggest trophy encounters, Dijk.
We're the disappointing year for us.
This trophy alone can redeem eight months
of not achieving a trophy.
2021, Navi won it.
I became a fan of Navi straight after that tournament.
This year, I only got my first trophy,
We now have another chance to get a trophy here, Colo.
The most iconic trophy in the game.
I've been trying my best every Colo to get it.
If I get it, it will be one of the best days of my life without the doubts.
I've seen this moment probably a week ago.
I already saw it as going down the catwalk,
going towards the trophy, lifting it,
bringing everything you can.
After the game final, I don't care.
Every game final you play defines you.
You don't come to play the game final, you come to win it.
I know I'm capable of doing it.
I know this team is capable of doing it. Now it's just us and the trophy.
You work every day for 17 years of being in Counter-Strike. You play for Cologne. Two wins is going on.
Whatever you are right now in this Cathedral Counter-Strike, on your feet let's lift you to your feet
as we welcome the first of our two teams into this cauldron of noise.
two teams that want to be called champion and the first to enter.
Please welcome, it's Navi.
Once he was lost but now he has found Alexi for the first time this year in the Lancers.
Immediately in the grand final, will he be able to lead his team to the first organization winning Cologne three times?
Navi a team that have lifted this trophy before they want it again they want to
be called the world's number one team but they take on a team that has got
close this year they want to do it please welcome it's Vitality!
They arrive with a sting in their tail sword first on their Hitler's match you bet
Navi they are a totally different beast standing between them and that ever
a new trophy. The key word is redemption frail but Vitality has a team
it is a whole year without a trophy. Playback it is a third of ten, a third of ten that's
dipping the trophy here in Ices. And for Zaybu the question is simple, if you really are the best,
if nobody can ever touch you, then you need to win Cologne.
Hi there Cologne, here we go. Feel that energy, feel the hairs on your arm,
stand up, that tingle down your neck. That says what we're about to witness right here.
grand finally one of the most vibrant and amazing places to watch anything but
to watch Counter-Strike here my word are we blessed the only way to start it off
with a handshake so captain's in captain's in here we go it's about
winning but we start respect the handshake is done
to be called champions to lift that trophy who's winning it who's winning
Did you hear that? Who's winning?
The day of judgement for Apex and AlexiV.
For Apex, a question of rebending the demons of almost a decade for Alexi.
A task of lifting a third trophy this year, but his first in the Cthulhuanko.
Absolutely, Fran. You know, there were talks about major. Is it a fluke? Is it not a fluke?
There's no way you can fluke into a Cologne win.
Just the amount of games you have to play.
best of trees this stage it really reveals your true self on it and I think
Navi has shown us so far they're the best team in the world and it's one last
obstacle here to prove it to everyone. I have absolutely love to witness the
conversation change around Navi starting from the doubt whether or not
Copenhagen was rightful and then suddenly talking about Fireball we keep
shifting the goalposts oh they don't have to fight her they don't have
Sometimes they say they don't have the superstar and each and every step of the way they have proven people wrong.
They have been on an up course trajectory. They have improved. They have grown as a group and they show up here as the favorites.
Matthew, this is your chance to be a romantic about Vitality though. Do you see them putting those ghosts to bed, lifting the trophy finally here in the cathedral?
You gotta believe, don't you? If you don't believe, what worth is it? If you don't feel when you watch Countess Rock, what worth is it?
What is it of course? I think there's a chance for vitality because they've had not players who have showcased the great counter-strike
We want to see they have flames who spying on old cylinder pun intended spanks actually having impact and hell
Why don't we mention Zygote?
Yeah, I think for vitality, you know, we have Navi on one side playing to cement their status as the best team in the world
Vitality is playing
To show that they're a team that can win something but they've been here before plenty of times
And it's been collapsed after collapsed after collapsed it has to be different this time around if you're going to have any
Faith about this team becoming a world number one over a decade of history here in Cologne
But today a new king will be crowned its vitality versus not be it's quite a final time
the first time
We get to see this head-to-head in 2024 and it's on the grand final stage of cologne
Na'Vi Vitality, Apex on that stage, he was in attendance of the first 10 years on now
calling the shots, his third grand final, trophy, not just a Lucifer Apex, but four Vitality
this year, a roster housing sidewoo, this 23 year old Prodigy, 2023's world best, get
to lift the trophy in 24. Will Narvi look to secure and fortify that world number one?
You just start, tactician's delight. Plenty of nades for Narvi, their map choice and want
to get tricky with it out the gates. Smoke made for JL, destined for the door, that blown
off, more pressure towards the topside. Julee's on Zywoo and he's pressure. A lot
of early pressure. JL are squeaky, pressure applied. Desi, he's found the same in
The face of the S-
Responsible for that sight and does what Xayu couldn't
with a triple kill, keeping it interesting.
Faders tussling with trouble.
Imme no Kev and 41 points of health.
Apex is down towards B.
Oof, and that's a big douche.
Gonna confirm if the bomb is down towards the topside.
The leadout having to rotate over but Imme, he's the one on the hunt.
This is incredibly proactive from Imme.
A little risky, but it's definitely gonna catch Apex
he looks to try and climb the ladder silently. Wonderful, just needs to lift, just needs to be...
Oh, he's hasn't! It all falls to him, man. They both depart the site. No kid available.
He's behind the boat! It's a risk to try and make a manoeuvre like that in the environment
of a stage setting. You worry. Does the work, does the atmosphere give you a way? You take
your shots and you miss. Beautiful defence to the topside for Mr. Merriman the Brit.
unloads early and he is going to have an important role anchoring down that A site round after rounds
Winnable opportunity
It's not how you want to start off your grand final for him a he's gonna have to shake that off and not with the form that he is in
It's not characteristic of the image that we've known to come in love
over the course of cologne
Progressive stance out towards yard as I work
pressed up
Drops back now that the smoke wall has dotted in the desk was talking about the head-to-head between Emma
T side taking yard space and apex in game leader tasks with that very quadrant on the map
Emma will be able to get down with the space necessary
The rest of now V towards lobby flamesy they're gonna test him flash and go
XCV trust victim, but it's immediate back from bit apex. He pushes the flames
He wants to stand, he wants to lift!
Has saved him from ramp being lost.
Bomb now falls and so do the hopes of Navi
converting this second round for us by
just one man and his dig
and Spinks exposed a couple of shots.
Shy, Spinks chipped away out.
Oh, he keeps it in the body.
Spinks runs him down on the reload
and JL next.
Now pushing through the flames, taking the risk.
Ten years he's been in pursuit of this trophy.
When they beat Saw,
He said pretty good time for a life game. Well, there's no reason the once entry fragger turned in game leader
Can't step up plays a very key position of the similarities between the defenses of these two teams on nuke
Alexi also play in the yard position as the in-game leader
Like by Tyler they're getting off to a two-round start it should be the third
fake positions for it
Zairu distracts Apex prepares to engage and does activate to find Alexi
I think it was interesting with the interviews and the lead-up to the final getting underway
how the teams were characterising one another. Alexi and the interview, they're practised
against Vitality a lot. They're explosive.
Mezzi, when he was questioned, labelling Navi a structure, and I think that's a fair
surmise, but both crediting the individuals on either side hitting hard, we wouldn't
find ourselves with this ground final on our screens if that wasn't to be the
case. And Navi yesterday, not only was that structure and play it was the clutches,
was the individuals as the difference makers to get it done in a 2-0 fashion.
Maus pushed them. Vitality had a walk in the park against Saul.
Him has actually managed to find one with that dig, searching yard.
Good be, he's already taken two downs. I will empty-handed.
In a two versus two, Flames has got a real opportunity to make this awkward.
Down the bend, Dix, down the bend, Buss!
Vitality, it already has it, the loss of three rifles, but it's better, but it's still read 3-0.
A little bit wobbly with the finances going forward.
That's a good showing from Na'Vi, that the pistols can be on for the individuals,
just as we were talking about them. Another big question is Zywoo.
2019, his rookie year. This arena, grand final appearance. MVP, better lost to Liquid.
Those are always very tough.
Ruffles around. Now on V. Are you going to try and put a bit of pressure on these rotating elements? Apex being one of them, Sphinx being your door guy.
You're also going to have Xayah floating around with the AWP, starting towards secret. Gets a chance to take out Bit.
Bit in the air now, that's potential victims. The smoke wall has been erected but Xayah has got nothing to report.
Look at the radar. Vitality have completely given up that ramp control.
JL gets that bomb and takes the site. Wonderful in support, has to cover Heaven, has to cover
of mate, Spinks will wait for his teammate, a flashbang from Flames to be gonna be their
way in.
Tyrell has so much utility to make this possible, but he's coming up the vent.
Well JL could be real, real trouble here, you actually opt for the smoke you had the
instantiary cast and so JL will catch Tyrell, and now it's Navi's round for the taking.
JL are wonderful, turn it on its head, only Spinks remains, a hard clear on the
wonderful, lovely fight.
sensitive for Spinks does have that kit knows where JL is what do you do can JL
out with him here impact when they need it more than a dent off of this one and
it comes down to the clutch something he was bringing in buckets and spades and
that one right there Zywoo not sure why he's opted for the rotate through vent he
popped his head up secret he could have come through main the Utah would have
been a whole lot easier to throw that's true little second guessing on
Zywa a little bit indecision, which you cannot have in Counter-Strike, especially at these high-pressure rounds.
Vitality force.
Funds already low. Zywa with the only rifle.
Three SMGs.
And a 5-7 in the hands.
It goes down! Not need that!
Veins, however, takes the space.
As they depart Lobby, he enters it.
There is a perfect opportunity for him to have the element of surprise.
But what? Zywa's there as well, but it's just a one-round game now.
A lead for Vitality, but humbled.
Hard work done. Vitality down to just the pistol. Should be Navi looking to convert their third.
In a consecutive fashion.
The chance is named Chad. Wonderful. In a Navi jersey.
We describe him as this young talent, but where did this guy come from?
Already competing. That's the world number one.
Yeah, you throw that to a lot of the names on Navi, don't you?
Really? I mean JL, the major MVP. Sure, but we weren't talking about his name.
tapped out five years ago, you probably weren't sure.
Well, bit of a miss-smoke there. We'll see if that comes back to Hornedom.
In there with the Gamer Legion performance.
Yeah.
In the loss to Vitality back in Paris.
Bit, of course, can't stop talking about him.
And Alexi, he said he was lost, but now he's found in the Navi jersey.
The best of fives, a bit of an issue for Alexi,
but this would probably be the best roster he's had.
Actually, no, I wouldn't say it is.
Yeah, not long ago, Wonderful was just a name on the face at high scores.
and now look at him on this grand final stage up against Vitality up against Iwo.
Would you two work making sure that these pistols in half the boom?
Oh, that's a lot of damage.
Sphinx inflames with just the USP and now another body drops!
It's pistols and it's a 2-1-2.
Does this go wrong? It all the time saves himself!
I don't know where Sphinx was.
He had the bomb chat.
That is really the kill that may have saved them here.
Sure it's actually quite scary long way from the weather of the storm.
Alright well both teams within the first six rounds of play have had some issues with pistols.
Yeah that's true.
The dig was with Navi and now something a little bit lighter from Vitality and X stands.
Here's an opportunity to get on the micro-firm before the guns come back out.
AWP not available for Zywooff. Desk discussing how he's more than happy to operate with the rifles in hand.
You can see the previous rifle round. I like what Vitality did. They sold round, they grouped up.
When Navi went to hit the top side there were so many Vitality bodies ready flames
He was the ramp player already up ladder drilling towards top which would have been a surprise for Navi
It was just the post plan. It was the number advantage retake that I think Vitality miss played
JL you don't have a gun, but that is necessary. You will need one of those time to go back purchase one
No drama's there, but off the back of the time out just forgetting that little detail
So focused on the conversation at hand. This is very top focused
Yeah, they want to test this topside hold and apex sphinx find themselves there as well
So right resources here sphinx right close to receive
Because again another round with a good call. They know what was coming think about all the bodies that were there
Shosteen played anti-flash, they get into the topside, but there's so many individuals there to respond.
Apex was playing towards main, he was harassing, Xayah went up the ladder,
they weren't biting on the fact there was going to be a yard play, which is why Apex is celebrating.
Not only is it a good round to win, it's one where he feels that they have made the right call on where they should stack.
Now we can credit that to X, as he's the one who called the timeout, we'll give him that one there,
and that has forced Na'Vi into one of their own.
So Blade, he's going to take the opportunity.
I like how that one feels and if it's the mind games of who's reading who, what comes next.
What does the mastermind himself have in store?
Yeah, I mean that reaction from Apex, it tells me so much.
It's a man determined.
Paris major champions.
Copenhagen major champions on the other side of the stage.
This pedigree here.
Of course a different look for Vitality now trying to replicate his CS2.
A couple of new names in the mix.
Most definitely, but Apex he's not.
He's been around the block.
Zywoo's consent to go hunting out Yard, he'll be the one responsible for providing the answers
as to what Navi are sending this way towards the Yard position.
Support of Util, chip damage, Ime, walking wonky, multiple bodies advancing, whose responsibility
is to check this smoke?
This feels like it's a dead center for Alexi, Core with his nades at a time, this has gone
up just in time, finds the Frenchman's head and now Apex catches Ime, look at the
wrong way through with the smoke 4 on 4 and it could shade quick because Apex
is another onto bit what's going on here now we're just walking into him yeah
tough stuff a bit one and eight one of these players you're going to turn to on
the Navi side to one who has lifted the trophy for Cologne compromise
circumstances from the hotel not the cathedral but we're definitely back here
now well he knows what it's like to lose in this environment the phase
barnburner 2022 only a couple years ago but it two men in the dirt Emma and
We turn to Alexi Jail and wonderful. Now the bomb was spotted on Alexi out towards yard without initial fight
But that was a long time ago flames. He's starting to have a little look
See a deep clear onto Jail
And time starting to run thin 25 on the clock they need to get a move on yeah, this is risky
But if they can get past the sole defense of the sea soul to now flames is around as well
They pecs borrow deep in dark
15 seconds
They're going to start going loud, hoping JL can catch one on the men's rotation.
He has managed to catch Sphinx, but Apex has won the round.
Without one, takes them down. It's vitality again.
This CT side looking promising. That's two consecutive gun rounds.
Important there. This is the round where they had the advantage.
They didn't fumble like we saw last time round. Their sights weren't given up.
And a good division of labour. Lots of questions.
Didn't overstep the mark with their aggressive maneuvers other than this one.
You feel as though we should have had that one dead to rights.
These teammates will make good Apex with another multi-kill.
Has to be the eco for Narvi.
This is the pick of the Narvi Nation.
You see there, I think he's just trying to zone in.
He has found a lovely resurgence of form coming into this year.
For a while there was a look of almost kind of apathy.
He achieved so much in his rookie year.
I imagine it's a bit of that kind of you know, Kyobi syndrome JL's also talked about it winning the getting the major MVP so soon in his career
He felt that kind of slip. I think when you look at the teammates that he had in the old Navi roster simple electronic
Perfecto. Yeah, and then you look at these new guys at the time of him as well. Hey
Already won the big event. So I'm contending for the twist. We're starting again
Yeah, I thought I was already at the end game and then moving into English as well
Tough task for anybody. Absolutely
Well, they've been able to burn plenty of time off the clock, but Vitality's still holding
onto a decent chunk of Util.
Let's see if Na'Vi can get a plan, get a kill, get any traction.
Yeah, you see those helmets on the floor?
Well, they're definitely not on the heads of Na'Vi.
This is an economical, just an investment into a single flashbang.
I suppose, yeah, best case scenario, you're getting a kill here.
I'm not going to get through this.
Yeah, now with that smoke at 35, I think you're right.
Here comes the flashbang and Sphinx.
Oh, blind!
Opportunity!
JL's trying to get that bomb down towards the low site. A bomb plant would be huge, an injection of additional cash.
And he's across! I don't think he's going to get it! They're running out of air! We've got to be happy with that.
Rotation was there. They just missed the shots on the cross on the unarmed opponent.
No H.E. to deal with it. The MOLLY singes it down and that will be a plant for NARV. So some extra funds.
Does that result in a wonderful AWP or do they just stick with the AK at 47s?
Still, you have to see it all come out in his matchup and we're already...
The time round is deep and heading into 10, I can confirm we will not see one just yet, so a great plan from JL.
Something out of pretty much nothing.
They've got everything they need now.
Couple of those recovered AK-47s, so the one-shot headshot potential for Flames and Mezzy.
Spinks looking to rather forward. Hang on, Mezzy, Spinks, this is a crunch! A lobby crunch and nobody's home!
Wonderful! Wonderful! Spotted out! That was the bomb-tea roof! Now they know! The penny drops!
There was aggression in the mix and they just received the same so active here
Apex spamming away good damage onto Wimmet
I'll have to function a half HP it's JL that opens up the account and he's a lexie to extend it
Catches, spings, top sights open
Flames and Zairu low and here's Wimmet
Spotted out by Apex and he seals the deal. Thank you very much. Wim is even anticipating secret
Is it really a clean sweep?
Zaheer doesn't seem to think so. He'll yoink the AK-47.
Does Navi have responded with a fourth round?
Let's see if Zaheer gets to hold onto this one.
Wonderful to take the five from Maynard.
Swamp Zaheer grabs another bit. It's JL.
Important over for him. The aggression comes in
and there's just so many moving pieces from Vitality.
After they run into Lobby, they see absolutely nothing
other than that exchange towards Top Roof.
They try to reset. They try to plug all these holes
and Navi are standing ready to respond.
So a good reaction from now be considering what they were tasked with. This is the JL opening up.
As he goes, they know that's one of the top side defenders. Alexi starts to peer in, deals with Spinks.
I need for the buy. This could be a fast. Never mind. They're still out towards door.
JL willing to take the fight again. Completely blind for now. Smoke deep. He's pushing in and down with it.
Big one! Big one from Zywoo and Spinks!
With their powers combined, they repel the invaders and Na'Vi have lost the bomb.
It now falls and lies in enemy territory, smoked off.
You are in trouble! It threw the smoke!
Bit tries his hand towards Ramp, but flames best him as well, but still only one kill for Bit.
Vitality locked in to close this one with a five alive in the tail end of this half.
Apex has locked the door behind him. Wonderful. He's going to try and fight his way through this.
Zayu is his first victim, but a great cast.
Wonderful. Apex secures it.
Seven on the CT side.
Four rounds. T-side nuke is definitely workable.
Considering Vitality tend to do their best work on the T-harves,
maybe now they were hoping for a little bit more.
I think if they get five, they're going to be happy with that.
Seven, five. T-side nuke. That should be in modern play.
It's like that Alexi and Blade can work with.
What did you make of this kind of aggression towards the squeaky?
What rumbled it? Was it something as simple as just IWU hitting his shot?
The U2 was good, right? They got blocked, their flashes were good,
the mollies were deep, unable to force the issue.
Hey, no, forcing issues is Apex!
And already Bit goes down! An aggressive maneuver squandered!
Apex still not punished! Alexi missed his shot!
Does finally connect!
The bodies have already dropped.
Imma caught on the cross. Alexi at least scavenges away and upgrade.
We'll find the M4 to try and play his trade final round of those first half
Well, they can reset knowing that Vitality are quite heavy with these rotations. He's moving pieces
Will they lure into the crosshairs yet again?
JL has been a hero so far only with the D. Gleane's hand would have to do something massive
Worried about lobby pushes ramp as well. So plenty of problems for JL considered
They're hoping something comes their way
Spinks fading towards door. JL could take this five, but it turns out Spinks is the one coming for the clear.
They're happy to take these searches, even with the man advantage. Spinks looking.
And they get caught out. JL just a free frag back of their head. Spinks will find it.
Only wonderful little lexie to try and make a case for a 7-5 half. Otherwise, vitality will be eight already.
safe on this CT side what can you do wonderful on the yard his cost back
spotted a headshot angle hard to find Zywoo on his stairs it's 8-4 solid
hold for vitality, vitality settling into things in every individual
contributing Zywoo 13 at the top and apex he's still got nine at the quarter
Flames the same, this is a big strong start.
Some good reasons now on that CT start from Dan Maddis-Clair.
You can hear him celebrating there, he was reading Nardi's play, but well...
And for Nardi, Chad, what do we make of their first half?
Half of the course, feeling out stages, map number one.
We're just getting underway. This is where we get to see if Alexi V's best of five woes continue.
Fair map choice, up next we have Dust2.
Altaradion to the attack, Apex with the Nades, HE, Flash and a Smoke, the rest with Armour.
All blown open, so they want to head towards Ram, remember, Bitt had a rough first half, he could turn that around to you.
The Deaths discussed his prowess in this position, they test him immediately on the pistol, scarpering away and losing his head to Flames!
Problematic rotation from Imma towards the fence, anticipating this bounding block as the bombs being punched by Mezzi.
They have to regain control of this double door side, but they'll do it as a team, as a unit.
Playing with the Daughters, Mezzi. Alexi walks to investigate. That's the Flashbang.
It still looks good! Looks very, very good for Vitality!
Both pistols in favour of Vitality, and it's been the one task we've been tested early.
It's his control of Ramp, but it's the difference maker.
He goes down without any resistance whatsoever.
Flames it. He's equal on the other side.
And massacres them in the double doors. Beautiful work from Vitality.
they are playing and running with this momentum.
Their individuals are firing.
It has been the highest rate of play
and is currently struggling.
As mentioned, still early stages,
plenty of time to turn it around.
But they're going to be in a massive hole.
Bound to be six rounds of the difference.
They take it, the eco.
Atada, usually pretty good with converting these
and this is not a force by any means.
And Chad, from your extended experience
competing in this video game,
in those high pressure games,
How important is a strong start?
Is it something, is it compulsory?
I think in MR12, the conversation about the pistol and conversions has been amped up a notch, right?
All the in-game leaders are out there saying there's no time to recover,
there's no time to adjust as opposed to the MR15.
You think you lose a couple of gun rounds, you still have the back half of rounds in MR15
to be able to recover, be able to change up the play.
Whereas in the MR12, you need to be constantly thinking of what the next move is,
multiple steps ahead and if you lose a bad clutch lose an eco round have one slip
up that could be a half done and dusted right there and in the best of five as
well I suppose you know getting that first map you're already a hop and a
skip away from the three so I've been looking first gun round for Navi MP9 for
JL Fabis for bit Lexi B and wonderful tending to the yard position
smokes obscure their view they're actually trying to get through the main
Lexi B seems to have a read of this. He positions as well. This is it. Through the smoke, Lexi B catches flames
overextending towards the main position. Smokes are fading. Zywu does slip across.
That's the bomb. Yeah, they don't have to commit. It's a lot of teams
pop back up and try and scale around towards Heaven and help.
Himo will not apply Zywu for a dual. So information of what resides down to the lower deck is still a bit of a question for vitality.
more harassment towards that topside.
For starting to pivot, Apex calling him across
and taking it dry, Apex goes down to wonderful.
A must-hit shot for the young Ukrainian.
New angle and a new opportunity.
No smoke wall available.
We'll just have to be dry.
Yeah, and on a passing glance, on a little swing,
he finds info, he takes those things,
but he saw another.
So now you'll see the CT forces start to reconfigure.
Image been this here the whole time
it is gonna be clean on to Zywoo.
Mezzie remains, he's coming in hot for the first,
but overlooking that position bit, just his second frag,
but it's the one that closes it down and secures five.
That's the first CT round for Narvi.
Yeah, they need him online.
And I wonder right now, if Vitality with this force
by that they're gonna bring in,
will try and pressure him towards ramp again.
They're able to get out a bunch of AK-47 Zywoo
into a scout, so a scope in play.
It's Apex, prostration to the last,
might continue into this.
One of the few rifles already chipped down to 63 points of health, plenty of bodies behind
him.
Three on the ground, two in the sky, sorry, one in the sky.
They're testing Alexi again.
He can play around this and he will.
One and a half, spings low as well.
Merzy, send to the sidelines and yard control is there.
You can see flames around, unbreakable, retrieving rifles in that smoked off for now.
They're not in a hurry here, Chad.
They've got 60 seconds, but look at this from the CT.
This is a reaction. You lose yard, you take something else.
Interesting that we didn't drop anybody down to B.
That is interesting.
Wonderful's position. Accounting for Flames' progression.
And JL and Emma designed for Zai we threw Mei.
Now the smoke will make it difficult.
Turns the flash, entering the site, and it's 1-1.
Everything JL just around the smoke has to pick up the bomb.
He's got time to work with...
And he's gonna fight with another fight!
Because of his squeaky door players who had that on lock,
The smoke drops, he has a choice.
I give up full control, that's massive.
At the highest level, at the highest level.
And Nami needed it now more than ever.
Stills for vitality.
Just in the way that round was shaping up,
that it is such a huge multi, you lose the site
because you either drop back to heart,
your teammates can't contribute from the door.
The post plans a different conversation.
That's a completely different conversation,
but it's the finances now.
But that round they lose it now,
the other ones in the issue with the finances
now they're just gonna farm them. Right. This this will be their third consecutive but that what was
a gaping void of six rounds is fast going to become three. Yeah they did this in the first
half right so they lost the pistol lost the conversions then they brought the rifles out
they were able to put Vantali right where they wanted them but it was about continuing that
streak. Vitality punch back. Marvy need to keep them at arms length if they want to try
and chase down this still lead of three rounds. A couple of confidence booters for bit.
it. Double is his kill total and
attack time out forced dare I
say it. From now, these
resurgence here. Well, last time
they took a time out. They were
able to convert. It's if the
same follows through for X
tasks. In and out of this
vitality, Jersey. The third
French component of the roster
alongside of apex and Zai
to get into a biff but definitely wasn't calling the shots. From entry fragger to IGL. Hey in the
modern day game some similarities in some of these positions especially on the T side.
Whoa don't be scared of Tegels says blade. We are now we are aiming better than them.
Here we are. Round 18, map one. Strap in. Nalvi have found some consecutive rounds. Three on the
trot but the guns back out. Yeah, Pete with so much money still opting to rock this MP9. Working
his way back into this game as five kills on the CT side. Clear of the smoke, nobody home.
Transitions just at the nick of time did bit. Mashed forward into the fight. Mezzi blind bit,
Gets him for free, beautiful team work, and the dink is there, Spinks!
Low half HP, can't be finished off, Spinks has got the double!
That's massive from Spinks! Wonderful try to trade, but in it falls it back and flames back and forth!
In this 1v2 with half health, JL was responsible for a lot of clutches in the semi-final yesterday.
But that's why Spinks is in this team, to close these rounds.
Three kills already, but it's this fourth one that is oh so imperative.
The bomb is under enemy control and JL, he knows that's important, his life or the bomb, the target.
He sends into the topside, new avenue of approach, 30 seconds, spinks, brought into this roster to
close and he's done it! And the complete wrong way. Damage from BIC, beautiful, but this is the
win, this is the miss from Wonderful. After he's sprayed down earlier, you think he'd be good
for it and J.O. caught looking.
Love what a big one.
Just as Nalvi was starting to string together rounds.
Vitality aren't under trouble just yet. Sure, two rounds away.
Their money's a little bit bleaker. Firepower not as strong and speaking of AWP,
wonderful's brought his out into the mix.
Maktan Tugalil's two AKs.
Going at a top fake that's going to draw bodies and eyes
in towards A but they want to cross yard and they will but no easily Apex.
He's called them down, Alexi will have heard this from Redpull.
So it's our part Lobby, but we need people to tend to that low site.
Two different fronts.
And in the smoke JL lides.
Looking away, fight on multiple fronts towards the control room in the lower side as well.
Bits been caught out completely, throwing out a smoke grenade to play around.
Wonderful has the angle on the cross from Deacon.
Doesn't pull the trigger, Flam's going to start closing that gap.
Oh my god, I don't know if Mezzy saw him.
Wonderful is going for a highly aggressive, highly volatile maneuver.
That was chaos. What was going on? That was just chaos right there, bit getting caught in the open.
That was tough, the lobby aggression, still bodies there if I tried to deal with that.
So Alexi denies the plan. That's usually important because now it becomes in question. The fact
he gets the double, the fact he gets the second is insane. Much tougher clutch for Spinks and
now back down to eco for Vitality. This is where the comms get chaotic. The decisions
in the moment can be punished and the pressure of the final starts to stress the individuals
on the stage. Another moment of respite for Navi. So because they don't fall found
multiple Deagles. Tech nine couple of clocks in a flash. But you prepare your
setups with your opponents by mind right? Oh for sure but nothing's gonna stop
as I were one dig audible that drops off the silo run boost run boost is all
distractions is solar deep the deal from cycle is overlocked but look at that
wonderful clean women in the same sweet to under the right
interestingly after they won the rounds where was a 3v1 against spinks they
didn't or couldn't get the AWP back for wonderful and it's likely that one
could have been purchased or dropped a didn't have full scope of the money
But they haven't brought it forward
Apex demanding some focus got a play together. It's a team game after all the individuals can swing
But you're gonna get this done as a unit
Some heavy lobby presence from vitality just I would watch you have to try and
create some presence in space and I already wrote down to towards B so they
trust that the smoke will mean something back to bid this is his Ram that is a
bullet into his head just through this the metal
preserves his life and I was been caught out outside in that that early
descent down the vent has resulted in a zaiwu opening kill or opening death
I should say his body now an idle outside the secret stairs
Limited utile for the finish here vitality a man down they are testing bit
No secret their occupation bit delivers a headshot his occupation
You met perfect position here to tonight
Man advantage though is that really something for vitality in this one? Where is his help? Where is the support?
Maybe he doesn't need it!
With Flames gone, Mezzie advances in to clear out the position and now that bomb will likely go down.
I say that, Alexi already towards the double door, swings it open to ensure they're away and aware
that that bomb plant will be spanned, two of them are exposed, but Mezzie still puts them all down.
J.I. God, wonderful necessary kill!
Up to Spinks.
Two to find, finds a plant spot he can work with.
Wonderful, and Alexi's running it down!
Double pit!
He puts some respect on Bid's name as well.
I know that he's towards the bottom of the scoreboard.
He gets that dink early through the walls of ramp,
but he doesn't just turtle up.
He still plays forward and gets a kill on Apex.
So they know that the fight's coming.
They know that it's going to be the B-play most likely.
That's how Xayu got caught by Emma.
This one gets awkward.
Jail full commits to the spray from double door.
He wasn't being able to get covered, but at least traded.
So some tense moments as the third tactical timeout for Vitality
has been called into use 3.5 for those on the low ends just over 4k for the likes of
mezi and spinks max loss bonus into the next this is the type around we can get tricky with
your investment you don't have to shovel in leave a little bit of extra cash so you can
have a full buy around going into the next but keep the pressure on this is still a very
winnable round with what you have at your disposal you do not want to allow navi to a
crew any more cash money. A couple more kills get the bomb down again. Don't let them off the hook easily.
Does look pacy. They're coming towards fifth domain once again. Is he ready? Yes, he is.
Nasi down. Tracking another double kill. Puts down Zywoo and now charging into ML. Oh dear.
You wanted to make it costly. You wanted to keep it close.
Instead you've got a single frag and a single player left alive.
This map has been both pistols for Vitality.
Only one gun round since.
And a few rounds where they have tried to press a bit at ramp.
They're pressing tough, just like we are.
They're targeting what appears to be a weakness,
but that means that Vitality haven't really been able to establish a pattern.
Cracks in terms of what could work.
It's more explosive. Direct approach.
It is being dealt with now. We are tied up. 11-0.
A-4 at the half. We said it was workable.
And Navi agreed.
Not just they, four, nine four, ten four.
From ten four, we find ourselves at eleven eleven.
And I know what Vitality are wishing for.
An elusive round on this tee side.
And that's the classic apex frustrations.
That's the main stay in the Vitality camp.
Demands a lot from his team, but understandably so.
Third time in the Cologne Grand Final.
Oh wonderful on the jump spotted the head over to what silo aware of the presence
You're still being lined up
Enix with the smoke can also do a flash from this position that completely blinds main
No, that's gonna be the follow-through he's got other ideas again though you want to talk about direct approaches
Four members of the vitality squad, but it's just a lexie
And he's playing in some breakable position, a flash for his repeat, does confirm multiple
bodies, spots the bomb there, awkward in the flames!
IGL on IGL, Apex brings him down, Apex!
Finding wonderful, awkward now for Melvin and Vitality.
They can pause the spings, he has them, he's catching big, completely off.
But he's still down here, this is a crazy rotation from Melvin, they won't expect this.
If anyone scouts out that topside
Flames towards man could so quickly drop in
confirm
Their suspicions, but instead hang on his apex every round up the bed
That has to be the call still plenty of time to do this. Maybe he's gonna investigate over the woods
He just to be certain well, we can't see and we can't find him. Where are we gonna finish apex?
Oh, no, they're going to stop us from getting a little nervous about that one
would have been an insane 1v5 shot, but the fact that Navi rotated three bodies down towards B
after Alexi takes contact and gets singed towards yard, it's a apex double. And I said that these
players, similar positions on the defense, well it's apex on the attack, cracking yard open,
a necessary round to get them 12. Navi on this stage yesterday were under pressure against
mouse. Similar situations having to battle back in closer fares. Overtime. Well that's where they need
to go right here, right now if they want to stay in contention for their map choice. Map number
one of the best of five, Nuke. Otherwise Vitality can run with the momentum into Dust 2.
Yeah, Narvi, Nuke their selection as the first map of play. Vitality can end it here and
and take it away from them.
No kit, no money to afford that.
Apex puffs up his chest,
spams the smokes, throws out the nades.
Starts his progression.
Spinning some flames responsible to contain the lobby.
JL in there.
Towards the A site.
Supportive util for Apex.
He's gonna try and use this.
Yeah, he'll use that smoke to guys he's pushed out.
Alexi doesn't know.
It's an uncertainty and nobody's looking his way.
What the fuck?
so close to Inter getting caught on that quick switch but he does just enough and this is a great
catch as well really sealed it to deal with the final frag. You can understand the pounce you can
understand why Vitality getting the move on A-Pace gets that kill they want the follow-through they
want the knockout blow this is a complete change in the setup. Inter traded out early bit the
ramp play up in warehouse he's been spotted on the crossback the AWP not in yard how quick can
Vitality piece this together as you just taken J.O. in the meantime pressure everywhere
Lots of moving pieces in this one.
Look at Apex.
Alexi be responsible, and now his position is noted
by throwing out that incendiary.
Apex in a power position to strike.
There is no way, Alexi's ready for this.
Oh, a lovely finding gaps up against the very best.
Good cognizance there to smoke off ramp.
Make sure there's no push in play.
Vitality got in the eyes, crossed the T's,
did, announces his presence, and out.
Just alive.
But Vitality, I'm hard to see you losing this one.
It's a completely different look.
Coming into this OT, the AWP towards Ram,
maybe thinking there might be a bit more bit pressure.
Wonderful, doesn't get any action.
Emma going one for one.
It's JL, who is the hero in the previous,
falls in the follow-up without any resistance.
And Vitality break through.
Wonderful brings everything through.
A full five.
Do we see yard aggression from Navey?
That's the question.
Do they want to stall out a lot of these movements?
If you all in via classic yard aggression, you get one player close,
ready that you want to play on the close side, but you can also push your player
up, slither through the main smoke, get ready to fight towards the T's coming out
and then have your AWPer overseas silo.
That's an all in manoeuvre.
That's literally shoving all in.
If you shut down yard, you win the round.
You don't, you don't.
See what they call.
I feel they have to go for something either more turtle or more aggressive
because right now it feels like they're in between the two mines.
Yeah, like a tepid defense.
It's not going to be yard focus or centric,
but Wonderfull does find himself here.
And we could have had a head-to-head.
Zylo is on that.
Zylo providing the overwatch and cuppa for his teammates.
A clear on the smoke.
A chance for Wonderfull.
Whistles one pass.
Oh, God, that's aggressive.
Apex, he's happy to fight.
Brings the AWPer down to just an inch of HP.
Seven for Wonderfull.
Now they can just stand.
Look at him standing on the red box.
And how has Ima found that? Spinks!
Some smoke games from Ima.
You know what's up.
And who is it?
Buck Bitt, tasked with setting himself up in a position to defend that low site.
Ima's aggression has caught Apex.
He was an alert towards the red container.
Now the body of the assault starts to converge onto this B bomb site.
And it's a play by Messi!
Oh! It facilitates a plant.
It can't be disrupted.
They're gonna have cover from Zywoo looking towards the rampside.
Alexi B descending the vent. This is an important fight with Mezzie at the same time.
4B3 goes 4B2.
Sure, you got the bomb down, but can you defend it? Mezzie, what you got?
Is there anything here for Zywoo? He's hit the fastest of the door.
Hit, pushing squeaky, flanking yard.
And then slamming the door shut in Zywoo's face. No clutch for you, he says.
So active. Look at all the places him they got to kill this round.
You have to feel this round shouldn't have even started to get out of control with the big number advantage.
Bits just not on his mark right now that shot. We have the advantage against Mezzi
Vitality trying to make a round out of things
Wonderful trying to touch of aggression
There and overtime
An opportunity presented itself the backside of apex slipped into his crosshair, but he's unable to pull and convert a
Reaggression seems this is risky absurd
The information has flown. They know where you were.
But aren't they expecting you to have stuck around?
A pausey call from Wonderful, but they're starting to receive now. Vitality have paused, maintaining lobby control.
Look at all the nades left for Vitality. Still so much to do for the finished plenty of flashes.
Molly's in the mix.
Forced off is JL, that Molly top hut.
And now dipping down the vents, multiple bodies, and they will hear this.
What's he going? Messi makes us to try and beat him down.
From either side, he's getting crunched in.
Being points of health for this French duo in Cologne court.
They're starting to look like a hero in overtime.
They note the orb towards Ram.
They don't want to test the ward as they drop back.
They find the gap down the vent,
but Emmett delivers a multi-kill massive work from him.
He was there at the start of the round.
We cut to him just kind of jump spotting for info.
We were so focused on the AWP,
but Vitality had been able to get an individual down towards secret.
So something within the round told Apex,
apex we should not try and brute force wrap we need to look for another way
another option to get down towards B but Navi had an answer got some of these
rounds are very very close but it is solid a 2-1 scoreline coming into our
second half of our first maps overtime Navi still rolling with the 5k 47s as
part of their T side keeps them a lot more adaptable doesn't lock them into
just setting wonderful up for picks on the AWP because I always got his out
on the other side. Let's see what kind of trend they set to start us off. It's a headshot from JL.
Spitz brings the fight to the squeaky door and JL happy to apply. Yeah, you bang on there.
That's premeditated. That's Spitz saying I will go and duel against JL. You know he's going to be there.
You know that's his domain. So wanting to see if this head-to-head can continue,
the drop side was AWP down towards B immediately. He's going to be all pink from secret.
So here are the smokes, the mollies and well, now the info that Emma is dead.
Wow, what a big one back from Apex. He is playing a very solid game of Counter-Strike.
Keeping up with the younger guns.
This is the gap.
Threading the needle, Anavi.
In search of 15, in search of securing the double OTA at a minimum.
That molly from J.L. Wilson-Mezzi, scattering elsewhere.
Flanks is also fortified this A site.
He's starting to pivot them back. J-O could get an up guard.
The timing's on his side. J-O's done it.
Such a crucial moment of the game. J-O finding form.
A double kill. Look at this.
Yeah, there is something afoot. You can see it's being considered.
Flames is about to be wrapped upon.
And Apex has got himself a real opportunity to win the round with a flank.
I'd like anything! Double kill from Apex!
And it still might not be enough for me!
Maybe! Just maybe, Zywook!
Under pressure for 20 seconds, Zywook!
Laban, that's for sure. It's Apex who's the hero, who's the one who makes that possible.
How's he gone behind them? So active.
We saw him towards main with that nice equalizing frag and he just started to crawl and creep and crawl
and managed to find it as the capitulation for Navi, pivoting between sides and thoughts.
You think it was done after Jail does so much damage that...
That round felt like it should have been nowadays every day of the week, but the apex push was inspired.
He wants this more than anything. You heard him in the interview.
He says almost success here is not success. He's sick of getting to grand finals. He wants to
take the trophy home this time. Vitality wants to take the trophy home this time.
Damage. That's hurt.
Him, his options are going to be limited now and don't forget how impactful he has been in this overtime 28 kills
He's gonna suffer for a moment. What are the decisions both of these teams staying active?
always a flank
He in the breaks 45 seconds. Alexi's gonna have to come up with a call Spinks was flirting with some my ideas of clearing
Instead just dips himself down
Risky rotation considering the circumstances
Nezzi underscrewed to the flashes at his feet, flames the same, Zywer just a ding but maybe
Nezzi can hold on to this site, a man advantage, Spitz is coming up the left, only Ymir stands
between the man and there's no damn time, there's nothing for him here by taking
Nuke up against Nalvi.
It's been all about the CT side doesn't it?
Well depends if you want to put the frame in, the struggles of the T sides indeed,
Fatality with both pistol rounds in this map and the fact that still has gotten here still has gotten to overtime
They've been forced to work hard for the individuals delivering an apex especially
Said yesterday against all was a life game. Well looks like he needs a number to propel his team
To first about victory five more kills
A bit more aggression easier said than done, but simple when you boil it down
Cross out on even a wall bang. It's just perfectly placed
Coming apart of the seams now.
Oh, JL's got as well.
Mezzie catches him, holding onto his topside valiantly,
and Wonderful finds a way back in.
Hasn't looked down though, has he?
Little does he know.
Apex resides in a forward position,
and now that flank you discussed.
He could be overlooked.
They are starting to depart.
When does Apex start to poke his nose into the potential?
For now, Bit holds lobby for the return
Alexian wonderful just three kills away from starting this grand final with the
first map the testing spanks messy flames everyone here ready to contribute is
the headshot onto apex direction single
after having such a presence in the game will Xi would play a part in bringing
the first one home to France claims now spots him out wonderful will need to
to support him because he's got a HE on his face, you know, only working at 60 points in
power, cautiously fighting Flay, just the tip of his head, that's all bit me! Good start
for Bit, pressure onto Apex on this side, playing the ramp position, holding the angle,
the flames obscured, he's done the same, and Mezzi's P2K that did so much to start
off their CT side on Nuke will do nothing here.
Yeah, well, it's good for Na'Vi to come into the turf of Vitality and pick up
the pistol round after Vitaliy getting both on the previous map.
Mezzi not long for this world, JL.
Had an opportunity to remove him,
but now knows the position of Mezzi backing off.
I think the focus definitely is on the likes of Bit for Navey
and Rob Zywu, based off of what the desk was discussing
and his lack of impact on those T-side gun rounds.
An astonishing start, really.
And Chad, coming into this one, you know, we talked about
exclusivity versus more the structure of Navey.
Surely does too.
But surely that leans towards an explosive team, a team that can go and take these fights
and pack roll up the guts of long, up the guts of mid.
Well, that's why Vitality have picked this, right?
It's a map where they can definitely have those type of pace changes.
And maybe when Navi have opted to start on the T side, they get to dictate a little
bit more of the tone.
However, with the changes over the years with Dust2, the lack of being able to pick
a directly from spawn, having to drop down in towards Death Alley, they've boost
up towards that short box position in the most recent update for the map.
It does allow more options for the CTs to play things a little bit differently.
Vitality.
They've opted in with a force fire, but strangely enough, they haven't brought out a scout.
No, they've rather crunched, and they're going to get a lot of answers about Upper B. No one's there.
It's just going to... Ah, Jail knows they know.
Yeah, well, just as quickly pushing Army in towards A.
You have to worry about a scout, right? But we can see there's not one in the mix.
They are fast on this. They are very fast on this.
He takes, oh he goes down early, that's a big catch from the Lexi B, they can advance now.
Zayu long range SMG, it's not the best weapon for the job and JL will prevail.
Is Galel good for it? Decision to be made here, perhaps a second bite of the cherry, better 4-5 mentality.
Keep the kerf, keep the guns, have another go, it would have otherwise been an eco.
I think Zayu even got the jump on JL there with how quick he was.
JL just piked himself up behind the car, seeing if he could deal with the push out mid,
but Zywu hunting him down through spawn.
So, Navi, pistol and conversion, as you mentioned,
a few little bits and pieces carried through into the next
but it's hard to stay a bit of a threat.
Now, number one delivered, as we would have all hoped,
overtime affair of a best of five.
So, we'll see what type of paces these two teams
push us through.
Best type of counter-shake tends to get played
in the Lancest.
Did you need more when you saw that Copenhagen victory
from Navi?
need to see something on top of that.
I think when you win the Major, with less rounds,
one than lost.
Yeah.
Right? I'm just making sure I'm framing that correctly.
I think you're right. Yeah, no, I've definitely seen that.
Now that it shows you that they've eaked through a lot of games.
They just by the skin of their teeth.
And even by their own admission,
I think that Major came early.
It wasn't an expectation for Navi,
but they're definitely going to take it with both hands.
Very nice. Finally we have some money.
So what, three saves?
Nothing to really get concerned about unless Navi make an overstep.
Right.
So if they go out long right now, yeah, short some problems.
We're going to have to wait and see how this shapes up with the rotation on the minimap top left of your screen.
But Navi aren't in a hurry. They're not in a rush.
They want to find out where these foot faults lie.
A good time around to take a breath.
Make sure that everybody is focused in.
You've taken a break between the maps.
You've known it was close.
close you knew that you're in with some good chances and a bit can get into the
play which he had a statement on the pistol rounds well now we're cooking
Emma was fantastic Jail having his moments wonderful with that spray down
I think Alexi was calling a decent game for vitality it was apex and it was his
calls towards the tail end with those stacks it's not every time Navi came
knocking towards that topside there were so many bodies to deal with so
patience being a virtue now they will look to take this long control up
sure as well. It's going into what should be an A split. Dramas reside on the other side.
It's all very sight-centric for vitality at this juncture. Who's Apex flashing for? Siwamantling
up. We'll just use that to reposition forward position and down goes Apex. Siwamantling spotted
out. Get awareness there for him. Not going to run past it, not in a hurry. 35 seconds
as there's the Merzy fan-mass and it is only going to get one nice long-range
Shot from bit of course a headshot. Did you see his headshot percentage in that semi?
Yeah, pretty wild, which is why he's one of the MVP candidates coming into this ground final.
Over 90% headshots.
And it's not like he was under-fragging either.
The AK will make headshotting a little easier for Spinks if he can preserve it.
Oh, wow, nice.
The demonstration.
Takes down the headhunter.
Well, this is great damage.
Three kills. There'll be a lot of rebys.
So, Narvi, they don't want to give anything else over, a wonderful one.
Blade should be happy with that.
This issue is the casualties against those saves. Wonderful was not able to scavenge an AK.
We'll have to carry through with the Galil, but the rifle's about to come out for Team Vitality.
Good shot.
And this is the one we saw long range from Mezzi's POV.
Yeah, didn't get much of a chance in that one.
But only now it's time for the guns. Now we get to see
how the CT side for Vitality fares up against Narvi 3-0.
And the AWP is out for Wonderful.
Yeah, not the same for Vitality, Zywut.
Just donning the M4A1S at the moment, he's forward on the blue bin, bit.
So it's a little something, that's a threat.
They've been blocked, Inner immediately trying to take some space,
has been able to scurry down middle ahead to head against Apex potentially.
That one, oh, it really hurts, Inner, cut down.
2 HEs, well placed.
Flames, trying to keep him at bay.
They will get ahead of this! Into the flames! Into the spray! Lovely from Flames!
Catches them!
Just as they're trying to merge out long.
Walking wounded in more way than one right now. Emma Lowe as well as the man disadvantage.
Space.
Not in favour of Na'Vi.
Wonderful. An opportunity on these doors. It's a perfect weapon for these clears.
Spinks is happy to hold with Apex and Toe.
It's her.
Audible.
Disnount.
And Alexi B calling his troops into a finish.
Ime versus Apex could happen.
And that would be uncomfortable.
Ime the late piece.
Holds that top mid push. It's not coming just yet.
Flames stalwart on long.
Mezi tucked in. Will Leica be overlocked?
Terry's ready. And Mezi...
Only the one!
But Spinks falls as well.
JL has made a round out of this.
The Scythe there's. Bomb on his back.
Heading over to the Scythe for a plant. Ime as well.
about the damage he's got 10 winning out that dual putting apex down the kit
available for this retake yet to reload so I will nine bullets may not be
sufficient for two kills but flames can contribute as well look at the health
he's not gonna molly bricks instead the big box
Emerson swings into him, it's too easy! Flames and Zaiwu!
Ponder up and clutch up for Vitality!
Really good trade work from JL on the way in towards the B-bomb side there.
The multi-kill he gets facilitates an opportunity for Navi to even play that post-plant.
Tough to pick your position for that post-plant if you're Navi as well due to the HP.
So they're playing in spots where they likely won't get naded, won't get mollied.
A little bit of frustrating.
Scenes there for JL considering the work that he put in, but Batal the only walk away with two.
So they will have to get the drops coming through. Zaheer does get the AWP. Wonderful can have one yet again and blade back on the might.
First tactical timer early on in the piece.
Just two. A map I imagine where the AWP truly gets to have complete run of the roots.
We had a game earlier in the tournament where Zaheer was AWPing middle on that T side and he was doing damage through the doors time and time again.
If the orping presence can be a fear factor on either side of the server it will have huge implications
It's gonna be an extra flash extra jiggle. Is there a run boost required?
You're gonna have to be as tricky as possible barrel baits not just the shoulder
Us two can be an orper's paradise, but which one of these is gonna catch fire
Not bad for wonderful
Oh, my God, what's going on?
Fucking joke.
Good job, boys.
Oh, my God.
I also want to keep your eyes on vitality with all of these flash plays towards middle.
Step up towards long, elbows spotted, now wait for the smoke to plume.
That's Flamesy.
Well, rehearsed in that scenario.
Flames can pick a little bit early on that smoke.
It does take a little bit longer to plume.
Yeah, just that protocol, the fundamentals on long.
on long Flames has done well to avoid the potential for an aggressive AWP success, they
want to talk about aggressive, are they flashing him? He has a look, he has more than a look,
calls it clear, now Bitz realising hang on I think they might be something fishy afoot
and now another flash in his face! Oh!
Well I was just saying to watch the flash players run by Tali, that's more towards middle,
Apex and Speaks to these alley-oops but Apex setting up Flamesy, that is pre-meditated,
Right there, that's the homework being done.
How can we isolate the lock piece?
That's outrageous!
That's a beautiful little sequence.
The difference-makers as Emma again leers his head out middle.
He's aggressive.
He wants to find out, but there's an AWP!
We know what it can do in the hands of Saewoo.
But now what do you do if you're an RV?
You know there's a player watch spawners that rotate it.
You know the AWP is under what's a ramp
and Sphinx is now in tunnels, 2v5.
They're everywhere.
I'm getting pushed on B.
I'm getting pushed on long.
Precisely.
They've been harassed all across the map.
Everywhere Na'Vi step within this round, they were dealt with handedly.
That is a beautiful round from Vitality.
And it wasn't just through the cuts, it wasn't through short.
It was through the extremities of the map that they made their presence known.
Na'Vi have to offer the save, and Alexia are wonderful,
so they have something threatening into the next round to play, but that...
You love to see the creativity.
And you've got to have players that are willing to follow the call.
You know, Flames is doing everything Apex demands there.
As he pulls the strings, it's Flamesy that's doing the dart.
Well, this is the thing. If you're Apex, you probably see a bit of yourself in an individual like Flamesy,
a stubborn buck, young, and wanting to take the fights, essentially, all times, if anything.
It's reeling him in, that tends to be the problem.
So the fact that he can have an opportunity to fight where they can set him up for that type of aggression,
and it pays off.
You add that to the type of calls, the type of CT stacks that Apex was calling his team into on Nuke.
You're adding a lot of feel-good moments in this in-game leader, head-to-head, between Apex and Alexi.
Alexi looking to dispel those best of five woes.
And they are woes.
Something about the DO5 has not jelled with Alexi so far.
A single-map win and many opportunities.
Orb searching has to.
Needs to be the can opener and around like this.
One of the retained rifles with the force bar behind it.
Want to set him up as much as you can.
Pull of the trigger. Orb noted. Wonderful.
Activate upon that information.
starts to progress up short lurksmote to a facility cross.
Apex's reaction is interesting. He actually dips off the ramp and head CT.
So they're somewhat playing retake right now.
If it is a short execute, Zawa might give them the sight.
But as we can see,
all orange dots have different plans.
The lurksmote on beat drew Spinks back from middle.
Spinks and Mezzi to shut down the five that's coming their way with 45 seconds.
The flashes have to be perfect.
And that, oh what a perfect eight times smoke might spell a bit of disaster for now the time is going to be the biggest issue
It's getting awfully quiet across the map now
Mersey
Just as he was making other plans tends to his sight does well for the first five
Mersey delivers a double it's up to Sphinx to close and he's only got the one in him because wonderful has done and enough to facilitate plan
Two on two a retake we've been here before
Convitality best than once more. There's more health this time at least for wonderful. He's already got two kills
Can the Yopah end and secure for Navi steady shooting from Alexi there important round from him
I said it's getting quiet. Well, he comes out middle. He's able to deal with that rotation point
He makes this more segregated
He actually buys time for the rest of the beat here from Navi to trade out and take their jewels at their leisure
The clock an issue sure, but it's not as rushed, you know under pressure immediately
You don't win the side-fights and then you're worried about more players coming your way
straight through CT spawn ready to deny.
Yeah, that time to set it up and Alexi chose a very good position for it.
But we got quite back informed with these tactical timeouts.
XTAS, with a moment of respite for Vitality to talk through their options, they can buy.
They could definitely bring the guns in to defend their honour.
And Navi are only at a two round lead.
They've been tussling in this first half of play.
Pistol conversions by Tardy into the guns with success.
And now Navi strike back.
Wonderful. I think he's spotted a little bit just on the front of that smoke.
Apex is aggressive. Very aggressive.
He knows his angles. Well, well, good job!
I think he's mouse wheeled that.
I think that's a mouse wheel accidental.
And it may result in a frustrated IGL.
That is his sixth death, empty-handed into our second map.
And this hurts considering how impactful he was on the CT side of Nuke.
He's got to take the rough with the smooths, can his team bail him out?
An aggressive manoeuvres, resulting in an RV advantage.
Flames and Spinks tasked with containing middle.
A garage of utility starts to hit the doors.
It's not that cheating over.
Spinks in float has joined, at least was considering joining,
How does a defense but changing their tune? What's the tell?
There's a lot of gaps on the map, but vitality again are looking to hedge their bets
Are they gonna send out any probes on the Nambi side to see what resides you give one back to 4v4
It might feel futile, but they go for the crisscross
In the up count Alexi there is well wonderful with the bomb. You feel like this has to be the a finish
There's nobody to apply any resistance. Yeah, no mollies. Nothing coming their way
and now they found flames dropping off was in the back
it's something to work with how is this fallen apart with JL searching out mid
the site is theirs but is the round is the round still up to the bait did they
give this a go kid on mezzi Amolian players well you may as well give it a
look it was gonna be the same but now they're getting into the fight up
cat with two oh a man JL watching through their fingers here Alexi
getting spammed on through the smoke of a replenish of the short smoke that
might do it. Does he have a look? Xayu is sping searching long, Flamestow CT thinking about it,
it's hanging in the balance. One kill, Woodard made the difference and now Messi goes down,
he moves all that guns. Spings the only one with an M4 and he's got to save it. Another one of
these scenarios that looks good for Na'Vi then gets threatening in the blink of an eye.
Catching JL trying to slip through that CT smoke, that's what made it possible,
but as soon as they get blocked over towards Shaw, you think that has to be the point
which you call the save. Wonderful was taking multiple targets.
He was looking towards CT, then thought he might have got call-fire long.
That, right there, is the mouse wheel mare.
Yeah, that kill comes in, and Wonderful immediately acknowledges long.
That's where the real fire was coming.
Headed for this bit.
Here, it's Borsi running out long into some HG stack.
He's covered by JL, but they both go down at safe rifle.
A single deagle.
Ima has to search for this. He has to.
Then O'spinks is a B defender. He was just spotted long.
He needs to isolate this 1v1 it's up to Mezzi it is all on the Brit here
He only has a pistol a tiny P250
It's not enough for that kind of range and their MNO's what that means by taking down Mezzi
Let's his boys know that the B bomb site is a safe haven
Alexi be intending to middle side was missing shot, but so is Alexi
It's surely still safe, but hang on apex is just that's the hit one bullet shadow wonderful spotted body shot
This has to be Navi's round, costly, but it can't cost them the momentum.
Thinking about poking their nose in, the flash will be from Apex.
Imme blind, full blind, he goes down a dream, Saiwu delivers a-
Another retake on that B bomb site.
Imme makes the right call, he goes in towards B on his own after this calamity unfolds along.
It takes that. Nate damage gets isolated. Alexi not connecting the dot onto Zawoo does come back to Hornman as he is the hero
and that's the impact of Natalia looking for.
If it's not one Frenchman, it needs to be the other and while this is the normal candidate,
the type who rounds Na'Vi need to be converting.
See what it's done to Na'Vi immediately.
Finances in question, Deagles, Tech 9s in there taking another risk, another gamble, so much space.
Apex is rotating back knife out. He's got no idea.
up his way, but this is a nice response from Navi. Jail has the rotation towards short,
bit in toe, and just the short-lived celebrations of a low economic round going away of Vitality,
but Navi, they are not fussed, but pro-activity there from him. Oh, nice shot.
Yeah, important work from him in two back-to-back rounds. I know they didn't convert the previous,
but the fact that he didn't get scared when they were down a number,
right some individuals on the extremity might say all right hold up let's
I'll just wait we'll group up and we'll try and trade he got them the space to get
the bomb down which helped with some of these purchases and then he just
launches himself up catwalk short made a mere limit but still got in towards the
side force my time into the same jl can't take anything with him so back
in for we go again just as vitality win a miracle round you think they can
start to get to work on this CT side tag time I'll call the ex-tas on the
my blade will have the freedom to do so as well. This was the death of Apex. You're
right, completely coiled, not ready for him to be so far up short in that momentary
gap. Yeah, the glock comes out and the fact that he's so keen to go for that
type of a fight. Okay, the frustration from Apex, maybe the comms camp coming in
late. This is some of the information that you need. If you're the A rotating
rifle, which Apex is, Flamie, Ankers, Loms, I was the A AWP. Apex wants
information from his mid to B defender on if they can be up catwalk. So whether that came or not we
would have no way of finding out and it could just be frustrated at himself for expecting it
to not be a possibility but a ballsy call from Emma and an important kill into a round one.
Wishing his bit around that corner smoke exposed and it deleted lovely team play to start. It's
Sairu and Flames name plated.
It's like this been handled, doesn't it?
It does, 14-7 so far in this second map.
Another clear. That actually might expose this catwalk.
Walk, no one noted.
JL and Ima.
Swanswalf are lower and short.
It's one of the conversations with this Na'Vi roster.
Some of these extremity players, JL and Bit, have had their time in the sum.
And Ima would be going, okay, well, where is this?
game a legion MVP level performance in a major he didn't get it but it was of that
Elk and hey apex just spotted the back turn from Alexi there that smoke did
not completely cover the corner or can now mantle up and hold the line but if we
have to turn to him it to find the impact well then we have to turn to
Emma says now V he's definitely capable you're having a good tournament
to so I was searching for this he wants to get ahead of them he's the
Molly Molly will my force a decision out of the smoke grenade flash bang
and he's just gonna be crouching away, finding an angle, overlocking!
But that is masterful from Zywoo!
Yeah, you feel he's done enough, don't you?
JL wonderful, not even connected.
You said you wanna find out whose paradise it is, it's definitely looking like Zywoo.
The more comfortable after two.
JL onto flames, Apex repositions, JL was brought low, and wonderful has the bomb.
Getting across this two players, covered it by the flame,
nice adjustment, taps the head, gets across,
speaks to Smith and Char, then wait a second!
That bomb is planted!
They haven't got enough health for this, it's gonna be great!
He's getting all this full, sweat on the brow, and that's Apex's first kill to secure the round.
Tam, how does Zaiwu get away with that towards the car position?
The Molly comes in, the flash is great, he's getting singed.
But they don't believe anybody's home.
He's just tucked behind it, this is the opening up.
They've got Bit's number at the moment.
Cars on fire, but Zaiwu's not, keeps his cool, locks down two more frags.
Yeah, and Alexi
Not happy with how that one unfolded
How cool do you have to be to see the Molly land at your feet your face?
Blinded white screen and you still crouch and navigate keep yourself hidden overlooked by an RV
Yeah, well the flashes have been working against I would just go back to newt. Yeah the bit 1v1
He's completely blind parley back through the door. I have no issue with the white screen still gets to deliver it now
flavor of aggression
This is a different look
Bringing the fight to SMGs and tech 9 to make a 47th
Far from ideal. Here's the flash set up. So I was not responsible for lower
Spinks calling for the flash wants to fight wonderful. Oh, no vision, but no problem spinks
It's the shot bit will find the trade
The rifle upgrade
They're advancing mid they want to test and so is also is perfectly set up to collect
Oh, he's actually no he's tucked away from window now he returns to it could be perfectly time
Again, it's 11th and puts in it in the dirt
You have to go away
You know the orbs over to what's being you'd want to try and scurry up catwalk and isolate a fight
Face bits gone JL could be sire. Who's next? Oh, he's so aware
The re-aggression the multi kills keep coming
And Alexi B feels helpless. He really is and you can see things to start to get a bit
frazzled for Navi. Freestime had ended and they were still working out who was taking
what at the start of this round. Didn't help the vitality opted to start things aggressively.
Spinks teeing off with the opener and then from there, Navi trying to worm their way
into any crevices they can. I always dealt with the problems and Alexi might just be
hoping for the save. We're going to get to the final round of the half. The loss
bonus only 1900 and that's due to the back-and-forth nature of this game. He hasn't
been clean Counter-Strike, that's to be said for either side as our play tech
gives him notes. Alexi trying to defend his honor. Worst case he'd go down after
time. Apex will give him at least a little something to work with. And a
miserable buy for the final round of the first half of the second map for
Na'Vi. Zai was becoming a real nuisance. Apex lovely name, he saw this
trajectory square on the jaw of bit. So our final round of this second map's first half.
Molly to limit Spinks's aggressive options. He's still sticking around the doors.
Stem fires off a couple of shots, warning shots across the doors.
Noisy through Laura as well. So on their haunches, Spinks and Apex,
aware that they're meant to be pop could be a possibility with pistols.
just go back to round with the save rifle, a couple of pistols, Zahua getting four on that B retake,
it's a frustrating round for Navi to lose, but ramifications, they could have had the half win.
Now they have to just settle for what would likely be a 6-6 unless they can pull out a miracle with
this investment. Apex banking on a mid to B or a B here, but right now, very short-centric,
it's just the rifle of flames, Zahua will have to cheat back and leave the gap of long if
if they think it's going to be the A-Play up Catwalk.
Yeah, it's really putting a lot of faith into Flames.
Three on the wrong side of the map as this hit starts to come in.
Flames does miss the first opportunity,
but Zyro in support.
Zyro doesn't hit his second shot.
Flames has gone down.
The site will be taken.
Alexi tasks with getting that Bongo punch,
but Zyro down.
So Nonsha along with it.
And now, so uncomfortable, sure the bomb is down,
but is this going to be another vitality retake?
It looks good, because Alexi's low, 8 HP after his battle with Apex.
Bit will get aggressive, but now they're pushing short,
it's good from Spinks, needs more.
But about half gone, Apex approaching towards the wrap.
JL's actually hitting with the scout, and Apex got...
The Vitality are mapped to the good.
They took one, they took Navi's map pick of Nuke.
Can Navi return the favour?
Can Navi take Vitality's dust too?
That means an awful lot.
We're getting action in map number two.
plenty of retake scenarios unfolding within that first half of the play. Let's see if we can
say the same for the second door smoke. Count the gates. Three towards Cat. Navi want to fight.
They're bringing in a fight. And it's going to work out wonderfully. Long range. Bit uses the
Jorba Reds as the great effect. He tames it as well with wonderfuls. How they find Zywoo.
No contributions from Zywoo in this pistol. Oh careful now Apex. You've got the bomb. Your
teammates have found some space. Alexi looking to address that. Smoke will limit his contributions.
Wonderful, perhaps could do more on the sides. He's spotted towards the Gandalf position.
Flames jumping, gets that info, knows where two of them are.
One shot, one Gandalf, and a well-placed molotov.
Number one, but coming into map number two is that impact in both pistol rounds.
And if I'm wonderful right there, I'm giving an extra thank you to my in-game leader for that distraction.
I was pinned, I was stuck, and I was on fire, but he drew the attention, so I could take him down with me.
All of those assists for Alexi, you saw them in the feed as well.
He just softens him up, has three eyes dragged towards his position and it's beautifully converted by Wonderful.
Scout for Apex, a bit of a classic. Maybe you see this and think, why is he got it? Not Zywoo.
Well, this is something Apex has been doing for some time now.
That movement speed and he loves to take a risk. Straight down the gut, secure his middle, puts pressure on Wonderful.
It's just a scout and Glocks.
So they require these tags to make it possible.
He met with the other M4.
Finally jiggling over towards A-Rat.
How good is Apex? That's the question.
Alexi has to try and confer. This is weird.
He's got the perfect weapon for the job,
but still watch out. Zaiwu has a rifle.
No Kevlar jumping with the SMG.
Chips away. Does more damage to two of them.
Spicks down!
That's the question. How good is Apex?
He did exactly what?
He watched out to open the door.
The bomb goes down.
Perfect demonstration of why he feels confident by and that.
Look at this shot. Outrageous.
Rageous headshot into him a
Bang the restabilization that kind of micro adjustment the overflicks and adjusts
I want the extra bit of cash in vitality's back pocket means utility. It's full
Here's the door smoke from spawn again from apex
I think they'll be applying pressure out long based off of the spawns
They want to pipe down the guts of middle
put a lot of pressure on the A rotation of Ima. Seems like on the agenda it's
smoke cleared, nobody spotted. It's a cool way to get the info safely flashed,
made for the clear. Jump across. Oh that's right. Oh yeah look at that one! Trying to set them up for
success at the highest level. It felt like as soon as it was noted it wasn't
the long extremity player they weren't all in but it has to be going from
mid and short control. So they harassed the little combo of U-Tilt. Still will get shot.
Emma on the jiggle as Molly has a smoke. Can block.
Nice. Drops. Flash has achieved an awful lot. Forces a reposition.
Round of that round player.
Re-routing now. Narv vitality. Mid to B smoke Lance.
Alexi might have to push long to assist.
In the meantime, Narvi need to bat down the half just on B.
It has a molly and a smoke. You feel this is the perfect package for defense?
It's just right now that it's in the area. The smoke, not far behind.
They're really going to have to hope that they can kick through this front door.
Good flash. Flames, blind.
Bit responsible for the potential of Flamesy.
Starting his advance now.
Starting his advance.
Slipping the net though. Zywoon kicks over the front door. They're in!
Mezion Zywoon. Take the beast side by force.
Retake possibilities the kit present Alexi's rushing through T spawn to try and find a routine an avenue back into this bomb site
But take a look. Messi has another smoke. Oh, yeah, drop it out towards doors. That's gonna buy them another 20 seconds
Held off and deploying it didn't get skittish didn't send it out too early and right now if you now be how do you breach back in?
Flash in front of the tons Alexi B is having a look at halfway gone
Backing away. Backing away, ladies and gentlemen, vitality on the board on their team side.
Emma being hunted. He sticks around for one, but Flames takes out his gun.
That actually stings a little bit. Wonderful. And Emma going down in the previous losing those M4s, right?
Yes, it adds up. It's going to compound.
So there are going to be issues for the Malvi purchase, and this is tough.
I thought we'd see something a little bit more aggressive from Malvia across the map because it was so quiet
They didn't know exactly what space vitality had and you B defense needs to multi kill
Wasn't the case vitality breakthrough
They first their first round on the T side early and put themselves in a position to get on top of the finances effects
gives a quick glance respects the util
So long will be defended they can leave and park a Lexi B. That's his now
Responsibility in it and bit start to reposition change of plans
No, you too long bit gonna park him there instead
Okay, well right now a stack called on the CT side the B bombs are under fortified and that could be a problem
Unless J. Oh can go huge. He's only working with a Diggle. He's the most under equipped
with his entire team
And it seems stressful with these type of rotations for Navier. They're trying to get too tricky with it
Apex just gonna apply a bit of pressure
This isn't where they're coming. Yeah, JL JL and a deagle. There is nothing for him here
That's it
Around determined by a single headshot just based on the seats he set up Navier had they were hedging their beds
But it was gonna be this a plate and Jail has so much on his plate. You have to feel for the guy
He's only has the eagle. He's been left to his own devices. It's so quiet and then everything comes at once
There's pressure towards long so the comms are from his teammates
He's being an older gone for an ace player that try to come out long
And there's an IGL yourself Chad. Surely this is around the eggs feels extra good for apex
He's the one that's called it
He's thrown out this fake and his boys walk into an essentially open bomb site just completely outmaneuvered them
Well, they are gonna hold on to
Three rifles and a scout so there's still problems
But Navi's financial decisions going forward, I think they should take a timeout to get
blade on the mic just to have the conversation, just to make sure everybody's on the same
page. Because now it's just a two round game.
It's these little details that can really add up, and here it is, the highlight of round
number 16.
He was quick to it as well, even if JL was caught switching.
I mean, you can be frustrated by that, but it was a fake out by vitality, and
you can see that does feel good for Apex, a smile on his face.
Now J.O went to hit the table, then just laughed because what else can you do?
Second tag time I used.
And they are getting played involved in this conversation.
Alexi hasn't been able to bring in an MP9.
J.O, without that fortune, has been given an A1S.
A blade traditionally off the back of these, and we'll keep half an on about him.
There's a reason he's on that flag right there.
Universally, one of the most celebrated coaches is Blade.
I think you've got Zonic and then Blade.
Yeah.
That's the top of the tree, the top of the mountain.
And so we'll see if Navi can find double digits,
or will Vitality continue to close that gap?
They're coming in.
It's a test of the long defence.
In and deleted by Zaruva.
Bullet finds his head.
What's the response?
What space is taken back?
The CTs have to do something.
It looks for answers towards the upper tons flames playing a very passive game apex the same just spotting out mid
It's not going to get anything anytime soon. I say that look at what's happening
Towards T spawn they're going to leave spanks with all of this long control
Even still it's such a tough fight for bits after go to and only with the Famis. He has full nades
He hasn't investigated for information. He's worried that there's a player just defaulting enough for tunnels
And this is bad info. He's about to get a surprise unless unless he adjusts and finds the headshot confirms the whole team's dead
JL has got a lot now to equalize and to give them a chance to defend but the site already lost.
Sprinting across the doors. Apex gets the package to be secured.
Pushing though. Disrupting. Straight through the smoke with bit.
Trying to get the red. Apex takes his head off.
Spink spotted out. Tacked up. B*** from 1 to 4 on the scout.
JL spamming through. It's going to be a lexie set up with some nades for this but it's not the weapon for the retake.
JL the only one with the rifle and are they really not going to give this a go? They're working it out.
A tough site to retake especially with that smoke on the doors
Zywoo could burn to that that could be problems, but he gets ahead of it
Just 10 HP on Zywoo, look at that, Lezzy's good for one, JL trying to mo-
These 50-50 scenarios and this is massive from JL, the impact just keeps on coming
Zywoo thrust forward by the flames, wonderful, has to hit that shot and the defuse is the Berspinavi
But we continue to go blow for blow
That orbs out for Zywoo, we talked about his proficiency on finding that damage on the doors
on the door this time nothing to report again towards this b-side tell you
have an affinity for the b-finish this one's gonna be earlier though and it's
JL with wonderful close smoke's not gonna stop him
oh he starts to spam he commits to the spray 30 bullets and no kills he still gets away with one
where is he going bitch jumps into Zairu's orb
The company with a guy who combat AWPing Alexi creeping, spings over looking, the possibility
is down there!
It's in!
The wonderful head in the club, but in there from top, you're vital, you're in the side,
the bomb is down, we talk and take this B bomb side.
That's it!
Notoriously, one of the hardest to get back into, but I think they're flipping the
script today in this grand final, 11 for Na'Vi, two successful retakes in back to
Back fashion and look what it's done to vitality. They took 30 seconds. I who doesn't hit it
No early damage from vitality scout
We saw now the trip up
So lighter buys in that number one again and wonderful will not allow it opening kill on to the in game leader now
It's actually the puppet master from the grave another clear another fight
And they just want to harass
It's well placed. That's well time limits flames his options will have to drop off respect the flame
Sairu scout noted on Cat. A flash from Alexia in it confirms no one's active. No one's forward.
Now they're using mid as a bit of a death funnel knowing Vitality have to play into it just
with the sheer amount of utility that they're lobbing in to make this uncomfortable.
Vitality have to turn back to the extremities and you've cracked into the B bomb site multiple
times. So that's where if you're Apex you think well we're making the right call,
we're getting into the sites, we just need to finish these rounds.
And there's a chance for Sairu who doesn't find the headshot but puts JL down and on notice
He will require bits of assistance if they test him on B, but look at this re-aggress.
Alexi B pushed through, takes the fight to Flames.
Only three for Vitality, but they're running out of control.
Trying to flash through, Spinks can he find him?
And no, he can't solid work as this now becomes a 2v2.
All to play for.
Kit on the orpa, Mezzi and Zywu.
France and Britain working together to keep Vitality in this.
Messi tested for a lovely headshot,
in that helpless,
that is Messi.
Having these finishes, he was the first to go down,
still calls them into the B plate.
We just touched on it, the fact that they're getting in
time and time again, just losing the retakes.
This B bomb site leaking like a sieve right now
for that bit and J-O and they've been in situations.
This was the best one yet for them
to lock down that site here.
And Alexi has to sit back and just think,
what can I do?
Do I have to start calling stacks? Do we need to start playing more aggressively
in towards tunnels? We can't be executed on towards that B-side now.
Think about how that's going to play into Navi's head for the rest of this map.
Approven vulnerability and wonderful scout. Can it replicate what Zywu just did?
Two sequential tags, two body shots, two JL opening up that side,
spinks as well with a double entry. This is bleak when you take a look at
the smorgasbord of side arms.
Navi do not have the edge, can vitality.
Make this one look painless.
Discussing what the execute's going to be.
Bridge smoke to be deployed now.
Apex.
Something cooking as well.
Just wonder who's going to be forced off the line
by this Util.
Nothing for him here.
It's a perfect call after abusing that B bomb site.
Now they hit A.
Relax, he's limited in his contributions now with only 17 points of help.
In on the ramp, won't be the first to move, waiting for some distraction,
but Flames isn't having none of it.
Oh, yes, clean out.
Na'Vi were in the power position.
But there's an air of change in the arena.
It has to be an eco before the guns can come out again.
And before we get there, we need to see what is even going to be possible for Na'Vi.
I'm taking a look at the cash with the loss bonus of 2400 coming into the next. I don't think we will get an AWP in the mix
The flash on bit
Will need to be the definition of perfect
It's tough to see now be getting anything done in a round like this now be
Look at a concede 10 by Talon here about to make this a one-round game
Well, that's a drop out is it?
Bowling the Elvis Skittle
Don't for that one again. I use I would it felt good last time
If anyone in the crowd would give him a hand.
They do start their push. That's the flashbang. That's the goal.
And Spinks' combination of bullets and flame.
He leaves with three. One round game.
And as far as the scoreboard is concerned, a good map for the stars of Vitality,
both Zaiwu and Spinks delivering.
20 for Zaiwu, 18 for Spinks.
Okay. And Orp has been dropped across.
That's had to be facilitated by JL.
Only one who could have made that a possibility.
So wonderful, we'll get his weapon of choice.
Blay takes his third and final tactical timeout of regulation.
We're at the lost bonuses right now, it's going to be 2900 into the next for Na'Vi.
That means they will probably take a partial, the Vitality could get to 12 first.
It has to be a discussion about save rifles.
But if the game continues and the fashion has so far, Na'Vi have been up for almost every retake scenario.
And if you're Na'Vi, are you overly concerned about B?
Do you leave some absences on Long? Because that looks like where Vitality are headed as fast as possible.
What a smoke flashes around!
Wonderful! That's extinguished from his teammate! Alexi B extends wonderful's round!
He's pinned, he's stuck towards the car position. He's under so much pressure right now.
He peeks, he dies, he peeks, he loses.
That smoke won't last forever. Zaiwu has his target set.
Another one replenishing a deeper smoke to give wonderful something to play around misses his chance for spring's heavily wounded
Here comes another Molly, one plus two
Using the smoke for burns
Finally he falls, waiting for this, they're going
SOOOOOOON
Charging his apex, trying to be the one M, makes it that shows him a way out
On the spam, only Simon remains in an impossible clutch
Brought down to 21, flames in his feet, he finds headshot
He still burns down
Flamesy the misstep the misjump the sound cue the kill back in and then now he can turn their attention to long and
Ex-tiles watching from the sidelines. It's tough to be a coach in these intense games
Powerless do you go back to be it's what for you before?
JL only operating with an MP9
Na'Vi still battered and bruised in the economical department.
If you're a Lexi, you feel like you have to call the cheat over.
Or some form of aggression. Does he take the risk?
Because if it is a B execute again, JL and BIT,
they haven't been fragging in the capacity required.
It's been retakes. How Na'Vi have won those rounds.
They just need one round.
A lot hinging on WEN, BIT feels the pressure
and throws out that smoke grenade, jumping for info towards MIT.
JL listening, pressing his ear to the wall.
Hoping for a sound cue to give him an indication as to where that bomb will end up
60 seconds now as apex
Combination with his team take doors and mid a flash a simple approach nothing to report and a smoke on CT
They're making this look like a default round. We're up cat
We're applying pressure towards a we're playing pressure towards me and now be smoked in exchange with the lurk
There's a little gap between the two smokes there
That spings is brave enough to find himself into the sighting he knows bits around here somewhere now
Now he knows exactly where he is, knife out, charging in, bit gets messy, bit gets...
Only Flames can reignite some hope for vitality, a one versus two,
but time against him, he's a dead man walking!
Navi went to war yesterday on Mirage versus Maus.
It was the clutch factor, that was the difference make-up.
But so far in this series, it's been the pistols.
Matali with both on Nuke, Navi with both on Dust2.
This one could have massive ramifications.
But they're heading towards Zywo. He hasn't had his majestic pistol round.
Yes, Spinks spots him out, confirms that suspicion.
Zywo's been a quick list, but he's got no vision.
Hawaii screen fades to black as Bit demonstrates his prowess on the clock.
And Alexi B fills the feed with flash assist. He set them both up for that.
Just chip damage with that there to kill.
Might have given Vitality a way back in, but the defence to open up.
It was very sight centric. Two, three split, no.
info play through middle and the B execute from now V it find success
Just who kills the bomb goes down and there's no way for vitality
Take on a 3v5 disadvantage just looking to hold on to their Kevlar will see what that
Leaves for the next round of play
When they're starting to hunt they want to take away the Kevlar apex doesn't have any
It's just a flash should be flamethrower to you want to find to tucked in flames
He's able to get a kill for his troubles
It's a bleak staff of itality. You've just had 10 minutes in the sunshine.
Sit back down, back to work in a quick pistol win for Na'Vi.
Well, keeping the Kevlar does now allow a couple of pharmacists to come into the mix.
Scounders well for Zywoo. He can do a couple of tags and then they can finish off.
SMG for Spings, Diggle for Apex.
And these types of rounds, both teams have shown some issues against the lighter buys.
Both teams have had struggles and that's to do with the pressure.
That's to do with the environment.
We talk about Na'Vi, their structure as a team, how good they are and how good they should be at closing out rounds where they have these advantages.
But because of the environment, because of the bright lights, we've seen some trip-ups.
You heard the deaths discussing that...
...proud way, it's on the default.
These are the type of rounds where the CTs might do something more out...
...sign the box, a little bit riskier, a crazy maneuver and all in a push that you're not ready for, or a boost.
That's one hell of a find.
Might be overlooked by Narvi. No one on the way just yet.
Really taking their time. Narvi hoping for an aggressive lead here.
Dismounted upon the fade.
They are encroaching towards this two-man hold of connector.
JL spotted out. Apex fires off a warning shot.
Testing flames. That's a good flash. Does hit someone.
Oh, Apex has found a headshot. Now flames can build upon it.
Shucked down by JL. Good work from Spinks.
A second round, fourth fight from Vitality is one kill away from Conversion.
And already Zyre hits the scout shot.
That's why you can't count out any of these rounds.
These four spies are precisely right for both of these teams.
It's going to be tough every single round.
And what we learned from Dust2, retakes are possible.
We've reached the point in Counter Strike not that long ago,
where saving was always the best option.
Taking your toys on, packing them up and going back to play for another day.
But Apex loves the way that one feels.
A connector heavy setup, which just makes mint meat of Na'Vi.
No plan for them, but the force has to come back out due to the loss bonus.
Now try Tech Nines and Deagles.
So stunned by Vitality.
This would be the uppercut to take control of the Finances.
And XB looks like he's walking straight into Apex.
Oh, the smoke just kaising, Alexi's crawl, but finds it all the same.
Mezzi blind, calling for backup, strakes away, spotted, but not dead.
Spinks is there in support, bits done well to find Mezzi.
Spinks they know where you are and they hit the headshot necessary. They need to fight another get our masses do what they have to
Response time there from vitality was on point everybody
Getting over it was that b side to make sure the bomb doesn't go down
There's no chance for now be to set up the post plant and that's them taking control that upper cut
I was talking about has put now be on their ass
Who didn't turn the way in for bit. They had to fight hard for this
But the dead, that's all it was.
Mitali, they can stand up, they can shrug it off.
Now they can set their sights on an easy third round.
One Diggle, that's in Emma's hands
and he's already been shot, 33 points of health.
Shell shot from the Nade.
That's so optimal from Flames,
not the end of the world,
given what he's up against,
just the miss smoke on Palace
with Rabi and Sendiari.
And Mitali have been in a couple of finals this year.
Pro League blown out.
Vesta 5 didn't even get a map.
Dallas, well, don't say Shuey 2,
2K's name too loud, excuse me.
They probably thought that was there for the taking.
Now Cologne, the one that Apex has been hunting for a decade.
We've been in two finals before,
one alongside of Zahou back in 2019 in his rookie year.
We touched on it earlier in the piece against Liquid.
And Apex has set his sights on Glory, stating he wants to take a kato or a cologne and a major before he retires.
And here he is on the grand final stage.
Hey! Stunning work!
Yeah, stylish. Very stylish. He loves to fight. You talk to him.
He doesn't want to sit still. He doesn't want to hold an angle, hold his stare at his crosshair.
He wants to fight. He wants to bring the fight.
And the fight came to him this time.
It doesn't sound like the type of player you want to make a CT side anchor, does it?
You could say that, yeah!
He's a very versatile player.
Oh, lovely adjustment onto that jumping JL.
Not bad.
Alright, well the guns are back out now for Na'Vi.
This is a pretty standard approach we've seen from Na'Vi.
Two players over towards A on Palace and the ramp.
But claims the aggressive flashball against the fighter.
Lexi wins it out.
Bitna will search JL the same.
Lexi, Lexi goes down, Apex and Sphinx combine to find the equalizer, but that's a gap for
Bit.
This is Nordi by Zywa, they're not going to clear it.
Oh, they're not!
It could have got both of them!
Dink onto Bit!
Huge work that angle.
Catching them completely off guard, they thought they had some space.
Apex's reposition nicely around that smoke.
But around this game Vitality throw these little spanners in the works, Flamese is
the A to Fender, he fights mid first dies.
Both J.O. and Pyrr activate the space, expecting this to be a retake ace at up Zaewoo, tugged in, in dark, waiting for exactly that moment, and now it's Apex's turn.
Spinks has taken so much space in the map, Emma. On the other side of things could be the difference maker. Who strikes first on the lurk?
There's a timer on all of this. Molotov available, will force out Apex, slides up the ladder, not gonna be found. No! Where's the comms?! BIT!
Unable to adjust, it falls to wonderful!
Spinks has been working towards this, a wonderful might overlush it if he steps back into the line of fire!
Spinks, welcome!
I think you're bang on there about where's the comms.
How does Bit not know that there's a player up on the balcony, the flames are in, the burn is heard, I think he was even spotted.
He gets shot at.
That's a rough one.
But, felt like Spinks always had to deal seal with this flank around the world.
Natality continue the winning ways.
Three rounds of the difference.
Alexi.
He's afforded a bit on AK47.
Straight off of a round where Bit looked frustrated, and then Blade gets involved.
Maybe he doesn't like the call, they can always sell back.
Well maybe he loves the call, just wants to make a couple of little tweaks.
They're in the position with the lost bonus 3400 into the next where they can take a few
more of these liberties.
In the next we will sort of get into what should be the full buy-around.
Maybe the AWP for one to believe it comes into play.
What do you make of the prioritization of smoke grenades? Not a single flashbang, but everyone, Barthip, seems to be starting with the smoke.
Well, it's going to give them round-openers and then potentially closes.
Sure, the flashes are great to try and facilitate the joules, but if they get the window smoke in...
...might just be able to swing out and look to take those fights.
There you go. A couple of late flashes in from Alexi.
Insta window lined up from Emma.
Even a molly in the back pocket of JL. That's going to be used through Palace.
So there's the opener, top cat out window, very standard as far as Mirage is concerned, but this is more of a direct approach.
We're going to hit A quite heavily this time.
No interesting manoeuvres, no interesting calls from Vitality, they should be able to get in Na'Vi.
Flames, he activates early, spamming away, finds Bit through the smoke.
That was the AK, just like that, falls into AXB's unarmored hands.
Try to prioritize the party, pick swings through, another body drops left and right, Navi dropping like flies, JL tries as hard as he might but he's empty, it's all Vitality 5 with just the one casualty.
That was not what they were aiming for Chad.
And again the response time for Vitality. Everybody just rotating, gearing up their positional advantage, they know it's the all in.
Sending all the bodies across. Now the AWP will come out for wonderful.
That's the change. They have everything that they hope to proceed with Na'Vi on this T-side.
Yeah, we haven't seen those rounds where there's just that moment's respite for Na'Vi.
Well, maybe you need another JL Crazy Clutch on 1 HP with one bullet.
I wish he knows.
But that was how they got rounds on the board yesterday.
It was clutches.
Clutches were how Na'Vi were able to present opportunities on the T-side.
That was pro-activity from Vitality's making clutches awfully difficult.
Even planting.
Look how spread they are on that minimap.
This isn't a Vitality opt to not play standard with their position.
Get the shot dealt with, J.O.
Loves this to dodge the flash.
For advantage.
Huge name, massive damage.
Apex just takes the fight. Jumping!
The Guardian, Angel, own Vitality.
That's a gift!
In that shot down early.
I feel like risks will be rewarded against an RV.
Maybe not constantly.
But it feels like...
the right time, the right place, and it can completely unravel Navey and their proceedings.
We talk about how good they can be on the default. Well, if you can do things again outside of the box,
a little bit quirky, a little bit different, Alexi has to puzzle solve quicker,
and how many solutions has Blade run the boys through? 30 seconds reroute.
Finish undecided, fight coming their way.
It's Merzy going through the high paces, Alexi B.
B defend up catches out Mersi and Alexi B down to Zywin cannot adjust an important trade from JL
Overlooking Spinks confines the spray but now Bit will activate 15 seconds. Where's that bomb?
It's on the back of wonderful. Got a plant safe and he's gonna have to find a safe haven to plant. We'll do so Apex
Ask to close the gap
We talked about clutches who were talking about now V wonderful denied apex is shot. There's the second
I might have a confidence there for wonderful to peek back into that angle could have just
told her up towards spawn given apex a lot of room to work and attempt that 1v2 scenario
but the fact you just snusted out immediately hello I've seen you I have the better gun bang
you are dead and now they do find a solution this is apex important kill from beer dealing
with spinks and strong finish from now a v no one did not to be a crazy clutch
teamwork making the dream work to keep them in this three rounds the difference
Everyone providing what was necessary.
Zaiwu now with the AWP.
Different look, very different look for Navi into this one.
Sending him a cross early, but Zaiwu has starting deep.
That'd be the right call.
A lot of bodies coming his way can shut them down with the AWP in hand.
Has Mezzi for support from market window.
Zaiwu tested it.
And he is going to win now on the head to head.
Wonderful, shut down by the AWP.
Zywu re-aggressing. Oh, an opportunity could not track the jumping Bit.
Hunting him down now, Zywu still gets another point.
Flames and Spings overlooking him.
And he'll get that one event per Bit, doing one better into B.
Well, that leap of faith from Bit. You didn't think that it was going to cost Zywu that miss.
Bit gets up in his face and they just line up.
Bit found his form on Dust2. Pistol rounds, his impact fell.
Well, the final round to close with that weak B defense.
Now kicking up a fast here with T-side Mirage.
Oh, Rages.
Important save for Sphinx.
The good Graces will retain the M4.
Can also...
Drop across an AWP for Zywerz.
Zywer could drop another rifle.
Vitality can still have a pretty deadly bite,
but a conversation to be had thinks X-Tat.
Here it is again, look at Bid.
Troubles off at number one.
I have had you at home worried, but Bid says, I'm here to play.
EWC MVP, Bid.
MVP candidate here in Cologne.
A slow start.
Janko just said on the desk, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
And that conversation is wide open.
The fact we have one map apiece back on Na'Vi's turf,
streaks to defend for either team.
Now, this is how it's going to come together.
Spinks facilitates the all for Zywoo. Zywoo drops a rifle across.
The moment that's in the hands of Apex.
Bigging up his star. Yeah, keeping it cool, keeping it calm. Flamesy with an MP9,
Mezzie with a Diggle. So the mid-defence with Vitality has everything they desire
to try and shut this down. They say that Zywoo starts B with the AWP again.
in. It's not going to get as much action this time round.
Yeah, the setup on A could have a cause for concern, just a desert eagle and an SMG for
Flames and Mazzie.
But these are the tricks that I'm talking about with Vitality.
Mazzie, traditionally a B defender.
So does he play first?
It looks like from default, him and Flames, you're setting up a bit of a crossfire.
Apex sort of chip in from window slash connector.
Spinks up in that dead room.
It's really important to space the inmates getting time and time again.
out, Mezzy spotted, something's up. Mezzy the first, Flames fly! Gets away with Marder!
In there, should be able to put this one in. Very low HP and it's a double kill for M.M.
The site is there, Spinks inside with their priorities changed. I don't think there's
a conversation, this has to be the safe vitality, it's more about Wuknaw the hunt.
It's going to have huge ramifications if they do choose to. I'm in a position
to. To send one or two bodies, nothing more.
You don't want to give them a way back in if they have gone fishing.
We can see they've turtled up trying to hold on to these white knuckle grip.
Just to give themselves something to carry into the next.
Los Berners is starting to mount. 2400.
Yeah, it looks like Emma's been given the green light to go look in, but...
He's heading in the wrong direction.
I wonder now if Vitality want to try and shut down this mid-control.
Alexis getting his parving towards Ireland in middle.
He's getting the play behind Tart playing in front of the box.
but being able to walk through the underpass.
We have Simpson rounds where Vitality have attempted to harass.
But it's difficult to do.
It's difficult to do with all the weapons and all the utility.
And it's touching all in. If you lose those jewels,
Navi could just waltz away with another.
One round difference, still in the favour of Vitality.
We had the pistol, but the force by back from Vitality
is what led to five consecutive rounds
until Navi have word into action.
It's a one round game, folks.
Saved right, falls the only respite.
A chance for vitality.
Navi have the edge, and they're going as a pack.
Quick, Liggity split, up mid.
Kesting split, Stoudi goes, Maggie Deagle!
Good support there from JL.
The flashes come over, but he denies.
They're still head towards B, the Orbs here.
Yeah, this is what it is, it's just Zywis.
Zywis standing between them.
Gets his revenge from the last test on B.
D-flames and a D. Oh, nearly did something.
The fact that Kepis almost spotless.
Oh, JL, you've heard that.
That is spotless.
That's miraculous.
She thought there was gonna be a car crash potential
on short, the flash comes over,
two players come swinging out of the bedroom.
They're lining up, there's so many bodies in mid.
Nami say no, and JL, he's looking the other way
so the flash doesn't do a full impact.
And this one, flash around the corner,
as I was just standing there in the open
wonderful gets the better of him. The desk did say after map one you can't have apex
having the most impact in the map that can't be the consistent formula for a
vitality victory. Who's gonna step up? Who would it be? It's not Flamesee, not here, not on A, not now, an XCB, and they're about to flood the site. Nice one back from Zairu, Spinks decides the round is on. By catching bit, and it's all a hunt from a Lexi. He brings the fight to the defender.
as he and Zywoo have a decision to make. Ouch, that's a mistake.
Pace change is out of Navi and back to back rounds.
I know the save guns are in the mix in the previous.
Get stuck in straight through the guts of middle this time in towards A.
Merciless.
In calling from Alexi puts them up to six. They can win the half.
And a miserable scene for Vitality's bite.
to the pressure is apex
It's been here twice before losing
for a third time in Cologne in the final
That one that one's really gonna leave a mark
So I would definitely had some influence on dust to
But it wasn't enough to get them across the line
He's the superstar the desk also set him up. You want to be in the code conversation. Well, the trophy cabinet has to match
and in these type of games
This is where you need to step up. We've got Inferno next.
That's a guarantee.
Anubis, if we need it, that's if these two teams decide they want to take it there.
MP9 and Famous.
I thought he said to be dead.
Lich, I thought he said to be dead.
Royce, the crowd, I swear.
Shouldn't swear in the Cathedral.
Lich, shot from the AWP. Apex, he is not scared, is he?
But he's having to take the risks.
Again, it looks like he is...
Putting himself on the line in pursuit of some sort of early lead as an
advantage for his team. Navi they can seize the lead at the half our final
round of this third maps first half. Mezzi's B site hold, Spinks and Mezzi,
this duo. Smoke that could be disrespected. It has been Spinks looking
elsewhere, Mezzi has so much to do, so much required of him and they overload the position.
The decision of Bamas is good for Wildman. Spinks is fumbled.
His contributions, Flames keeps us level.
Apex pushing, charging into the fight.
Wimmer in the clutch, Kazaiwu has found wonderful.
Back and forth in that head-to-head, and now he's met with two to find.
Goes searching, they partner up, and he finds his timing.
Does isolate the duel, removes Flames, can he make it?
And looking to keep that streak alive, 12 consecutive Mirage victories.
This one is in a grand final of epic proportions.
Navi and Vitality are first look at this head to head.
We have not seen Navi versus Vitality until now.
In the summer, in the Lancess Arena, a clutch from Ime.
Securing the seventh, and Vitality have five to work with.
Turns out he is.
But back in form, the major where he popped off,
one of the reasons he gets to don this, Navi, Josie.
it's been a while. But working his way, it's very highly of him. Execute from Vitality straight
up the gates towards double HEs. Where are they going? Likely would see those towards
ticket. There's nobody home for now V. It's bit swatting from the connected position
just in front of the stairs. Three pallets, yeah three pallets to ramp. Bit. He's been
having some good pistol rounds. Smoked off initially so completely unable to contribute
They do surge into the site the whole squad is here vitality plant their flag on the A site
Control of CT gained aware of the potential for a flash on the retake good name
Right in the face of jl dealing with that rotation softening them up before they come back in 5v5
Kiddness smoke
Who's got the better communication?
You can aim quicker on these pistols five alive for both sides lexie encroaching
First, from Zai Wu down to Ime.
Mezi has ramp under their control.
Ime's doing everything he can.
A double kill with his USP.
Two bullets is all he has,
and Spinks makes sure he cannot use them.
Wonderful.
He's on it.
Oh, he's holding it, running out.
Ime, it's gonna be a vitality pistol.
Impact from Mezi, doubling his kills
at a crucial start to the second half.
All right, no one could have got real chaotic,
but we will split the pistols.
First time in this series so far,
We see the force come out from Navi.
Will they allow Vitality to get up to seven
and tie things up for three?
Investment from Emma into a Diggle,
but everybody else can keep it clean.
So rightful round coming up next.
This is how Vitality started their campaign
in the first half.
Force fire on the CT side.
Well, Navi aren't doing the same
and then they went on a spree of five.
Navi then closed out the half with six consecutive
to make the statement, to give them the lead.
But look how quick you can drop.
We'll be all tied up in a moment as Spinks getting a walk in the park trying to take an awful lot of space over to Ward 8
Look at all of this room. He's not getting shot at you think nobody's home. He's clearing late when he was open to the angles and hello
It's an absolute freebie the rotation for Navi should be on but the same for vitality sites clear
Heading back over that will allow Navi to rotate in time
We've got apex and connector Spinks up in a forward position as well. Oh, they need a spinks get here
Long range, nice headshot to the ears, going to farm up the cash, oh it's all Spinks!
Four kills, the ace was available to him on the other side of that wall, not to know, but Cash definitely going to be splashed from Spinks.
Four kills with an SMG.
It doesn't even go first.
Taiwuga thief, the scoundrel.
Most up arounds definitely good to lift the spirits
All five stand alive clean off of vitality extra cash for sphinx in future rounds
This is a bit of a bonus to go little down a mac 10
This is just a farming session
with sphinx
Well, not me. They took the eco for this moment. They wanted to bring the rifles out into the third
Let's see what they have in salt no diffuse kit
Would be a problem if we get into a post plant
Yeah, well that seems to be the goal here vitality. They aren't gonna go for a bit of a direct approach
All starting
Towards that second letter just juggling around some you till the bomb being dropped three players over towards feet
It doesn't have to be a full commitment
Just getting a feel for it eight thousand days. You can see the limited resources and the key is to focus on the rotations
So wonderful has left window. He's gone to help the B bombsite. That's created a bit of a gap
It's just jail on middle and bit over towards a we can see that there's no pressure
Now that's a double pump. So now they're gonna doubt it the mid control utility comes in
Wonderful keeps moving. Doesn't feel like he's ahead of the play.
Emma and Alexi, they question, is it even our bombsite?
And we have nothing left to block with. The second wave could be deadly.
How will Alexi react? Oh, Emma, getting pressure from your side does well to find one, gets more than one.
Three kills to the good.
Tsaiwu, back with the rebuttal.
Such low HP.
Alexi B, ready for him.
Well received.
They tried deception.
Pulling rotations, but sent back to Spawn.
to deal with double fake pressure towards be the no go.
Me due to in the play apex a moment too soon on that cap play.
He was later in there was definitely committed towards that B five on vitality with the
clean anti eco round have enough to buy again still a very heavy approach more towards
be at least for the start of the round three over towards the apartments to top middle.
dealing with the extremity of the A push whatsoever.
Can't hold on, Spinks has brought him down.
Significant damage dealt by the Thin though.
This should be a tough one for Vitality to close
and then the Naive from Bit finishes the job onto one.
Mezzi, 6HB, Flames is still disconnected.
We're looking to re-clear him.
Wonderful spot, Sim, still another headshot from Mezzi.
Does a lot with a little.
This is manageable for Flames.
Oh, it is now. Bit spotted out, Flames!
On a grand final stage, can he come up clutch under the pressure?
Imme has already proven he can.
On the same bomb site, can Flames stop it?
From happening again.
Obt's full truck.
Staying active.
That smoke by so much time, you can see Imme so paranoid of all the possibilities. Flames could be right there in it now.
Respected and faded.
Imme, spotted out now, the info flows.
Imme has the advantage but he just needs one bullet. Flames just needs the headshot cut!
there's so many details in that one the fuse will come through blade he doesn't
have the good graces of this but they pulled the rotation being the misstep
was trying to catch Alexi as he's running towards short they shoot just as he gets
behind the pillar it allows him to drop the defensive smoke and stay alive this
nade comes in and finishes what Alexi started Flamesy coming in late has the
bomb knows his teammates are brittle uses the information almost perfectly a
A moment more, it wasn't a kit with that diffuse.
We are coming down to the minutiae in these rounds.
To the difference, Vitality by again.
All in, Deagles, AK's, Galils.
Util to work with them this time taking the pace out of things.
It has been quite B focused in the last few.
Now this has the opposite flavour.
Will it be sweet or will it be sour?
for Vitality trying to fend off double digits for Narvee.
That ramp smokes an invitation for the Flamesians.
I would have played behind it knowing it's unlikely anybody is up close and personal with that block.
It picks with the mid utility again.
So connector and window cornered off for Spinks to try and take some space.
Wonderful cannot contribute.
That puts JL in a bit of a rough position.
What decision does he make?
Backpedaling, always a safe pair of hands and then finding that impact.
Noisy on the escape.
Here comes the A maneuver.
Flames spots our pit and he will dip back.
Double incendiary in the defence, running delay, 37 seconds.
They start the final play, the final commitment, spinks the first to fall.
Good back from Flames on Tetris, missed off shot from Wonderful.
They stretch their legs, they pushing through, Flames has racked up another double kill so far.
And he might find more, he's got the AWPer trapped.
Zywoo on to wonderful, surely adds enough with the bomb now down.
CT's pushing through smoke, the boost on the sandwich,
gonna be spotted out, Zywoo catches another, he's got two.
And Flames leaves with three, it's vitality making this a one round game.
You can't miss a shot, you see wonderfully gets that kill, it's a different round,
they're not able to take so much space, he misses one shot and they're in,
he's under pressure, he is stuck towards ticket, the rotation's still on the way,
they're smoked off.
Ima gets the opener on the look towards connector. No sphinx is coming flamesy beautiful work from the young gun
This is what he does best making his way in towards the site and announcing his presence and wonderful concede the frustrations from that miss AWP shot
Flames and Zai will 30 frags in 17 rounds between the two of them
They're giving vitality the firepower to fight
Now the edge is theirs to make this
All tied up at 9 each.
Nabi haven't gone all in.
They've just gone devils.
So there's a little bit of residual cash lots on all of their members.
They will have to take another eco into the next
if they can't get anything done right here, right now.
Bataria in a position to force themselves into the lead.
They have worked hard to break Nabi down.
So the financial control, it looks to be theirs
if they can get past what Nabi have in store.
It will just be Alexei with a smoke towards B.
towards B. He's told the rest of his team to focus more to mid and A.
Again, no rush from Vitality. 60 seconds left on the clock.
Plenier U2 left to work with. How diligent are they?
They're just trying to catch Apex off guard, but...
It hasn't worked out. Still, Apex...
Signing on this!
... is pushing it out, pushing up cars.
I will get covering fire, a helpless spam of the deed.
Some damage, but nothing to right home about.
Wonderful, the last to fall, and we are...
dead even
In the second half of our third this is absolutely a marathon not a sprint chat
two maps in
dead even
But as you said that double economical they gave it a go with the pistols
How they get nothing out of this with the stack and I thought the flak towards connected was well time
But there wasn't a conviction with the swing when the players were turning too many bodies
They work from vitality. That's the time around you want to see
setting themselves up for what is looking to just be an execute and everything they
desire the smokes will be in play the mollies too and they should walk away
with this one no dramas comprehensive side take flight parts outlined everyone
knows where they have to clear springs is managed to get out of the treble
box a little bit of a jump scare for Flames as it's finished off by the
JLV pushing sandwich Alexi does contribute as well this aggression
with the USP, it has led to a couple of kills. JL's dig, all that remains.
Masi spotted out, a hard head shot to hit. Masi makes it look easy.
The only way that works for Navi is when the first USP kill comes in,
if they all just follow. When their attention gets drawn and then the next
player swings, the next player swings because they need a moment to line up
those shots. But you know who else needs a moment? Blade. Second tactical
timeout in this map so far. Navi worked hard within that first half
to put themselves into a two-round lead.
Coming into the second, they lose the pistol,
they take the eco into the follow-up,
the guns come back out and now we are back and forth
with Vitality, one round to the good.
Vitality, no slouch on Mirage.
Don't let the fact that Na'Vi, 12 in a row for them,
take away the fact that Vitality
have a consecutive of their own.
And then we remind you one more time
that these two teams have not played this year.
So that best in the world on this map,
I'm sure Apex was waiting for his opportunity
to put his teams up against the test of Navi's is this where that trend breaks
for apex's third attempt at a trophy in cologne I don't think he's ever had this
much support that cologne one on one side of the Navi nation on the other
the arena divided and at the moment in separable Navi nine and hang on in has
taken a leap towards attempt apex has just gone for a captain's play he is
just trying to eek his way out of the apartment through the smoke.
Now Imer receives it comfortably, he's 17th, he's definitely present and correct.
Comfortable on the big stages, Imer.
And this is where he does his best work, Mirage.
There it is, you can see Apex.
He's going to be punching air.
What is the advantage, difficult solution for Vitality to find?
Tsutsu split, Plengi and Zywu.
The firepower through middle.
Good flash, does catch him.
As I had the cover they don't overextend that's the timing just as I would have so I pulled out his name
JL and Alexi be impressed
A 10-10 scoreline imminent. Mezzy gives it a go supported by Spicks a headshot found and no a second on to him
The bomb plant unlikely the flames deny it for a couple more seconds. There's another one where that came from
Lexi has one lined up, that's perfectly timed.
That's going to spread wider.
That's Tatar can respect it. 24, that smoke's not going to last forever.
Is he from Palace?
Begging that bomb to be planted.
It's wonderful in a position to run over there, it's a fake as well.
They're taking their time, hoping the frag comes their way.
Holding it now, wonderful straights out.
It's JL first and...
I think that one got a little bit diced here than it had to.
Bit could have just stayed tucked towards the site.
Didn't need to overstep the mark a couple of kills they get in the bomb goes down
But the cash was always there for vitality
This was Emma dealing with apex
and
JL the timing
Couldn't have been better
Lulled into that false sense of security your flashed no one's peaking
JL finds that window of opportunity and you know what he's back on the Mike blade
He wants to ensure Navi
are equipped to start
Inferno a map away from the Cologne trophy. I
Wonder if this is he's heard something coming out from Alexia in that moment that he's wanted to change that's possible to
Because to use it now exactly
It's a big decision
Their finances are the ones that are more troublesome vitality have a little bit more residual cash
Zaiwu Apex in bi-territory, Mezzi's gonna be the same.
Whereas Na'Vi, if they lose everything, it's hard to justify what the purchase is gonna look like down the line.
And we are at the home stretch of Mirage. Wonderful. Has had the AWP, only 8 kills to his name.
He's equal on the other side, Zaiwu with 18. This is Poppy, this is explosive.
The testing bit, he's all alone on this A site, where he's supporting him.
Support in the drys to help him, but Bit's headshot's good.
Delivers, passes the fast test, but Spinks and Mezzie have opened up the A site.
Spinks from midside, Mezzie from Tetris.
Wonderful, as you discussed, only eight.
They're going to deal with Spinks, they've got to find him.
Wonderful has to worry about 180 degrees right now.
But he's just faded away.
Let's Apex cook, takes the stairs with the boost, in on CT.
Perfectly timed on the clear, anticipating the boost.
Miss shot from Zywoo, Emma pieces out, repositions, and Spinks is running.
He's going... I like to have heard this.
Seems aware, this is the fight that determines if that B-site is lost for now.
V-X-E-B!
And now what do you do?
Mezzi and Zywoo disconnected from the game plan.
The man won!
On a silver platter to the man born.
The day Counter-Strike released, partners up with Mezzi,
and slips just past the window of opportunity.
It's him as responsibility.
Uncertainty.
Alexi from Cat, he's making a move.
Four Vitality.
Melvin, the same.
Searching CT.
Being so diligent about this,
they're going to have to plant a save-side behind a triple box.
Worried about everything.
Nezzy.
Punching in the code, covered by Zywoo.
Inet encroaching.
A nice spam!
Alexi B brings down the plan, so it all falls to Zywoo.
What can he deliver?
On the grand final stage,
Two against him, he gets baited!
Immeb, braved!
Sona!
Hugely impact clutch to take them into half-time rotation of CT.
Apex not ready.
Baiting out those shots.
He's on his own.
Alexi wasn't close enough for the trade.
Zaihu says, Immeb, wonderful mate to look foolish here.
Worried about the lurks, the limp out towards the A side.
Just look at the complete wrong direction.
But Immeb, he's got the hot hand right now.
And the best plan for Apex.
As mentioned, the money.
It was going to be there for Vitaliy.
That plant helps even more so.
Al mid with a point to prove. Flames spamming smokes.
It's apparent that mid is under their control.
Pressure applied.
65 seconds remain.
They're gonna get the boost up towards short.
Good timing for this and yeah, more than they bargained for on the other side.
There's a wonderful tour!
And opening depth for Apex.
Frustrations will continue to compound.
JL spotted. Flames.
On the mantle up, spots out the short player.
Zywoo with that AWP, looking for anything.
Reaggress.
And it's too comfortable for Zywoo, that's a nasty death for JL.
Zywoo has found it.
And he might do more in honorably by finding Spinks towards the apartment.
That moves, enforces in wide, flames us into the site.
And XCB, back could be exposed.
So much responsibility on the captain here.
And then from every angle, how has he got Zywoo as well now?
It's just gonna take the Jules.
And that's going to be the last time out, those funds deplete it for Vitality and they just
want to keep this thing going.
Wonderful finally find something with the AWP and it's on to Apex who's been getting desperate
with some of these plays.
The Palace walk, the Connected Lea, no trade potential, no space to be taken, now the
pressure and they are crumbling.
Three consecutive for Na'Vi to draw themselves up to 12.
If there's anything left in the tank they need to find it now Vitality.
An AK for Zaiwu, a hero move.
Is this the last of Mirage?
Will Narvi extend their dominance on Mirage?
Another win.
One round away, or can Vitality fight back
with limited weaponry?
Eyes on the prize, Zaiwu with the AK.
Wonderful doesn't succumb to these early flashbangs,
does not pull the trigger.
Bides his time.
Has to hit this, thinking spam is there.
He puts some damage onto Apex,
but already looks good for Vitality.
A direct and brutal approach.
Got to be the calculator cold, Navi can't justify this.
It's just the financial conversation of all these maps,
because they're so close, because they're so back and forth.
And the fact that Vitaliy break through with wonderful,
who is clearly feeling the pressure.
Wobbly on the first shot, there, out, they open in,
Ima, who's been the hero in the last couple of falls.
You think, Big, can he be the closer again?
The pressure, the Molly's there, the smoke comes in,
but he gets traded, and Vitaliy pull off the heist.
That was punchy, that was explosive.
And Mezzi as well, you know,
Yes, a missed off shot, but someone's got to hit that shot with a Galileo long range, and he does it.
Yeah, you have to punish the mistake. You have to punish the miss, and they definitely did.
On no timeouts left. Take your 20 seconds. That's just for your son. We're going to get straight back into the action.
Joe can drop a rifle.
Alexi, just shy on the 2900 mark. Could drop a FAMAS, maybe just an MP9.
He might take the MP9 for himself.
He will do, so bit as the A anchor MP9. Alexi is the B anchor the same.
Rifles for the mid-defence, Kips in play, Util there.
And they like the way that one fell by Tality.
Search early with the boost.
That being still for the AWP.
Spinks making sure it doesn't seem too obvious,
applying a bit of pressure over towards B,
but hold up a second, there's been a bit of a reroute.
It's not just looking like they want to shove.
Hedging back now into something a bit more default,
as Alexi working on space with Puzzle,
taking shape, lucky to be alive, deep smoke.
What does this change within the round?
Almost feels impossible to head towards B knowing that they could be pushed up unless you wait this out
Once the smoke starts to fade you could go in for the clear but time is something vitality
Will be lacking a minute and ten feels like a lot to work with now
When you want to take this to overtime that clock is gonna be trickling past timers of the essence
A must win round
60 seconds to find it
Short boost again short boost again
And y'all JL gets the information also playing yeah, the jump
And only an SMG what's he supposed to do brings down the house on a
Bomb to be planted JL a legsie be trying to stop it from going to over time
have vitality done enough. It's looking awfully good. Apex staring at the smoke so
XCB hoping for an overextension. Mezzy, that third piece. He will be the catalyst
holding the cross. A shot from Apex connects and now what can you do J? I've only got
the AWP. Oplus, as he accepts, there are more rounds to be seen on the round. We go to one.
The gumption of both of these teams. Just when the chip sits down, the
finances broken you think they're done you think they're dusted flames he pulls
out an open on Emma who has been having a great game over to what's connect up
it feels like this is exactly what this best of five deserves all the rounds
over times give us small deviation from the norm hyper aggressive from speed
from the elevated angle delivers an opening kill trying to mix it up into
OT do you see them when you haven't done before flames information there
Apex walking through a smoke into JL, a comfortable collection.
Like the gloves just come off, it's overtime and suddenly we're bareknuckle,
brawling, boxing, charging up, rump, and Navi have received this well.
This is where the individuals get put on display.
The decisions under pressure of Vitality, they were the ones running
with that momentum, taking us into overtime.
It was Navi's chance to close.
Now both teams did a pick themselves off.
They pick themselves up dust themselves off as it is just messy
First of the 1v5 won't make it the second Emma with the close of AK scavenge carry through
free to work with and that was Spinks trying something different trying something risky
Hey, I'm just gonna run out a and try and take the fight against bit wonderful delivers on his
Everybody lining up the scoreboard for now beat was I would
Into another AWP is gonna be out of funds very quickly
It's not the case. He's got that smoke to play with, so he's allowed a different way
on the flash and cross flames. Get himself across to the big boxes. Didn't feel that
under pressure. Otherwise he would have dropped the extinguish. Just happy to play on the
car to give himself open to that short fight. So didn't really expect that it'd be too
much more behind it by holding on to that smoke a freebie for the window that
Zywoo's Q to start looking con a smoke from apex now we can start look look at
the region of the CT set up they really are leading Jay on the legs and
short side and all he won out the shoulder for onto JL as he with the
bomb as well are they re-aggressing the reclearing timing for JL he's not ready for Zywoo
Ready for a lexeme! Important trade from Flames and now what?
That's more catch is the ball. Binks as well!
Can Larvi really find two consecutive on their CT side?
It's Apex who's completely disconnected and Spinks will have to wait.
Come on D, Apex working his way towards... can't walk...
Towards that short side.
Nose is an AWPer on that site. Wonderful, not so active on the line.
Intermittent check. So the bomb, he missed it! Apex forces him off the line, puts that AWPer down.
Just one bullet, one bullet would do it with wonderful.
14 seconds though, he needs a bomb and Sphinx has opened up the opportunity.
Scooping up the bomb, you have to get past bit, but he does fall off the angle.
Eight seconds, they flash as the bomb will go down.
Nade won't finish him off.
Hit an Emma, trying to get in, but Sphinx denies, it falls to Emma again on this B-bomb site.
Has he got another bomb?
Leeds Emma on the way in, and I don't know if Nabe knew that the bomb was down.
Emma was still in A.
He literally went into Palace.
They didn't even try and fortify the package.
Apex had a free avenue up Cowork.
That's why Emech was so late to this.
We saw wonderful re-clearing there,
and the bomb obviously would have flashed on the map,
but perhaps they didn't note it initially.
Okay, fighting middle, Aukwitra, Emech throws out the extinguished,
but can't get out his gun out in time.
Another opening from Flames.
He is comfortable on the stage.
Wonderful's finding sphinx, avenging Bip.
But look at Apex, he is already burrowing into the B bomb site, wonderful good connection.
So Flames' party has been crashed.
So many gaps to concern yourself with, and look how entrenched Apex is.
No one's there.
You have to call it back, surely, with how far forward he is.
They're wondering if it's been a B apps push, because Alexi's still alive.
Is he clear?
He pecks. Positioning alone has won them the kill on to a leg C and necessary trade.
Wonderful! Activate! It's all been wonderful so far.
There's still time to pivot. They do not have to finish towards B.
Are they going to really run into wonderful with a hot hand?
Three kills deep into the third round of overtime here.
Peek-a-boo, spotted out, lives on.
Woff-you-guard. They're jumping at him.
Tags off. Zilem knocks off his boots.
Todd's seeing as Mezzi's hunting a hard shot to hit and he's not far off, gets his eye to the scope, but Mezzi brings him down.
JL already brought low.
12 HP, 1 vs 2, but they're not looking, they're not ready for JL!
Wonderful, it was better late than never.
And he showed up with a massive round, if he connected as opposed to the leg shot, that's their round to take.
He was looking hot, played ahead, Apex not ready for two out of the towards market, but it's Mezzi.
Wins out the 1v1 of the low HP JL
We swap sides
We get ready to go again
Blade trying to recent them with the tactical timeout used in OT
I need three straight on the T side to get this done to just to secure double overtime fatality
Might be looking to steal away another map pitch. Do they get back and for this roster was built for trophies
getting Zywa one contract. You have to build up trophy contender around him. That's been
the task apex is set forth and now here eight months deep vitality are in pursuit.
This is the team of 2023 going up against what with this trophy could become the team
of 2024 major winners now V. We're going to silence the critics. We're going to
reinforce their number one in the world spot.
Have to work hard for it now on the T side. Remember, we've gotten
definitely into the thicker things, the excitement and all time
hard, but there's streaks in the line for both these teams. As
far as Mirage is concerned, neither team can likely remember
what a loss on Mirage feels like. Someone is going to have that
sobering reality at the end of this OT. Someone is going to
maybe one map away.
It's a listing.
All right, well,
the pressure, it's encapsulated right there.
And Spinks, whoosh!
Loses his head, Imeh one tap straight to the skull of Spinks.
Nice from Flames, Imeh looking the wrong way,
bit from Palace, but Apex has been completely overlooked.
And I'm looking at it, wonderful as a free frag!
A vitality looking for 15!
Two map points in the third of his best of five.
Alexi B, Alik, HG, Bullet, finding him top mid.
The pressure to call the right shots here.
He needs two rounds just to see another overtime.
Trying this one again.
Sticks the landing this time round.
Himmer, active immediately.
This is a classic.
This is very cheeky.
And in this environment, this is insane.
Especially now, that's actually found at Epex
from the palace position, a long range headshot.
This is insanity from Emmer!
Flags into Spinks!
Mezzy got all the love to this vitality,
a chance to end it here, despite the heroics of Emmer!
Flamesy bolsters the defenses up through Underpass.
They've got two sitting on the bomb.
Coming in for him though, Mezzy tries to keep him alive.
The flames on the floor, Mezzy goes activated,
it's Emmer, good for it.
And from behind, seems to have converted Emmer's brilliance.
Zawoo is in a pivotal position,
He can play between either side, knows where Alexi is.
Deagle head shot required.
Alexi's holding, passes the test.
One point, Vitality or Navi force us into another overtime.
You've got to wonder, was that the plan in the last round?
Perhaps.
Just let's do it again and let's not mess it up.
There's just so many more bodies towards connector of that piece.
I suppose he needs to get the space for them to be able to pivot.
So the gap was pips and Ember continues to be the hero,
But Mezzi almost spoiled the party for the Navi fans with that double.
He's got so chaotic.
And that gap, that gap he may have found is a product of their reaction to the con smoke.
They boost up over it.
Perhaps they're aware that that's going to be unoccupied upon the connector smoke.
He slips in the back lines, opens up the b-site.
Still a labored affair thanks to some heroics from Mezzi.
The brains of both of these teams, attempting to make adjustments.
You get one tactical timeout in each set of overtime.
doesn't carry over, needs to be used.
So X-Tas, why the hell not?
But that also gives Blade the opportunity.
So both coaches and captains a chance to confer
on how they want to try and finish this round.
Let's how do you win this?
We're going into Inferno, one map to the good,
one map away.
Love you, winner.
We go again.
All the balls to go for something quick.
In such an important round.
Integral, immaclaring corners rapidly.
Flames maybe gonna be overlooking this.
Yeah, they have JL, finds I will early,
Spinks is kicking up a fast Alexi from Khan and now bring their streak valiantly with T side consecutive and less Apex and Mezzi can do the improbable.
There's good damage, finding JL they know where they're going, now on sandwich he gets away, reposition smoke, guising the advance of Mezzi.
So much damage onto Apex and yeah finished off by Alexi, Mezzi what can you do? The first is clean but it is sad.
Both teams fighting tooth and nail to keep their Mirage Winstry alive, to be one map away from that Cologne trophy.
You think Spinks, right? I haven't spoken about this a few times, Vitaliy can throw these looks for the outside of the box because of the way that Navi's structure counter-strike works.
Spinks, the short defender, was an ESI.
You feel like in that situation the setup is good. Vitaliy have made the right call.
It's execution as well. Cross there on the head and all that, they're going to be going for something quick and poppy mid. Alexi B already, look at him, look at him!
Ahead of the plays. I was not thinking about what hours he'd got on here already. One minute thirty-nine, Alexi behind every line as he spots him out.
Smoke to get himself out of trouble. Early pressure, early mid control.
Nepex, worried about ladder.
Vitality aren't grouping up for a crunch on middle.
Saying in a pretty standard hold, but they know that they're under a lot of pressure.
Apex is somewhat committed towards this position because they know Vendorub is given up.
Look at this, he can't really move.
He doesn't have support to get out.
That window smoke does give him an option.
Siboon just looks away there.
Just avert his gaze as they know how to look.
Another good call from Vitality.
Spinks over towards Azi, with two flames he hit.
Bomb on JL towards ramp.
He said, bit of the Lexi V seemed to think so, heading into the A-side, Spinks still here, nice of a patient from Apex rewarded onto a Lexi.
The A-side occupied, and he goes hunting for head, does bit, brought down.
After taking out the captain, Mezzi and Spinks to avenge their fallen comrade.
Just JL, and Spinks when his knife out, tucks in, face the shot, and it's good from Spinks!
Out of strike, it's high intensity today in this ground final.
Selflessness there as well from Sphinx. Played to be traded with that jump out.
No, and if Jail wants to take the fight, he's just trying to draw the cross there and does it perfectly.
But this was a beautiful flick down from Zywoop.
Shutting down the onslaught through connector, teeing Vitality up for their 16th round.
Magic number we're looking for right now is 19.
Oh, Flames is actually starting to test bit on the palace position.
A quick headshot, Nalfi with a man advantage, early into the piece, trying to find early
gaps and punished for it.
Yeah, no advantage really feels like an advantage in these situations, it's just waiting to
see, especially with Vitality's CT side, what their proactive maneuver is going to
be or where Apex calls them into a gamble.
That's a miss.
Apex want to have a look at that, an opportunity presents itself and yeah, the Molotov will
limit his options.
And I found the smoke, trying to make a move, making a move now, it's perfectly tied,
Apex just gets run down, the Zywul war does connect, Spinks unloading his magazine into
the smoke just for the one, and their hardball's him, but that's Mezzi spamming away to convert.
It's just into a 2-1-2, wonderful a headshot, that's all he could see.
Hands a haircut to Mezzi, Zywul thrust into the clutch, wonderful and bit up against
him.
It's in the or two targets to find usp your heart stops a usp
Wonderfuls even hanging around to take the fire, but he's trying to get away
And one of those woes continue
The 2v1 that should have been navi's
But Zairu happens
Surely in inevitability, but how do you shake that off so deep into Mirage?
And that's the thing when you go up against Vitality, when you go up to the greats of the game, when you go up against Zywoo,
you know you can attest a couple of rounds, especially once you're getting to overtime to his name.
It's fine, but when the pressure of the grand final stage, map number three, your turf, 12 consecutive,
you have to take that time, Matt. You have to try and cool things down.
You have to see if you can bounce back. And that's what I'm saying about these opening kills, these advantages.
They don't guarantee you anything in this arena
Flames goes down early and watches that
From the sideline smokes on a early early and a miss from Zaru that's awkward
Especially now the bullet finds it through the box. It's up to flames on the site does well to jail
But Alexi be trade through
Regression apex through the smoke
Anticipated I was made by wonderful Alexi bees doing it everything he can fake plant
Spinks Ling is short.
And where's the amount completely isolated between the two of them?
Lexi B pauses. Let's see him come to him.
It's always timing.
He's coming through short side.
Himmer could be exposed here.
We know he can hit these flicks.
He's got the hard hand right now as well.
And he's done it!
Lexi B caught off and threw the ball!
Earning the adoration of the Lancels Arena.
This is what we expect from Zywook.
This is what you want to see from Zai Wu.
This is why the name is one to be feared.
And you just sit back and you watch it unfold and you bask in its glory.
The Hornets worshipping his impact
and you feel that that has to be enough for Vitality to get the job done.
It's Fastchart. They're charging into the first.
They just wanted to throw it all up at A site and now...
Will you give us it again? It won't be fine.
You're heating up to keep it perfect.
They're doing a fear I'm sure for wonderful.
There's other rounds, they were definitely within Zawa's wheelhouse.
This is the impossible.
With the bomb on his back.
I was just picking up.
That's cool.
Talking about a comeback.
Is he going to give this one a look?
I'm not sure he's sure.
I haven't had a lot of these...
lengthy saves this series.
No, he's new. This is new.
What do you make of a Pacy call when you're up 18-15?
The first round, T side, Apex says, let's just charge.
Well, this is it, this is where the in-game leader brain really plays into action.
You have three opportunities.
Do you want to take the fast option first, or do you want to save it until the end?
You could just go default, you lose. You go default, you lose.
Then you're with the third round, you're going, well, okay, we're going to throw on a pace change.
I like the fact that he's given it a go out of the gates.
But does this inform your next call?
I mean, it's not surely going to be something in the same vein.
I feel like the stubbornness from Vitality...
Oh, well, oh.
Well, he made us all wait. Wonderful. We'll punish him. No loss bonus for you, Zawoo, and you lose absolutely everything.
Well, you win this one, Na'Vi. Zawoo's going to be in a bit of trouble financially. He's been dropped the AWP by Spinks going into this.
The heads-up counter-strike is what some of these Na'Vi individuals would love to play.
Bit, the prime example of that. Just puts the hammer down. But they're the ones who are playing from behind.
James gets out JL spamming that AK-47 three of those to the CC side as they
look to find three in a row. Spinks is out and he's looking. Stressful. Stressful, good
fine from Bit, catches the walkout, Spinks. Limited options for the remaining three.
Mezzi does go look in, wonderful sitting every shot he takes this round and now
Mezzi he's been hard and look at the flame betrays Imek and Vards and we've been here before.
I feel like Led's eye will make the opening play, shall we, Led's?
Might be a good idea.
Led our AWPer, let our star play out.
Yes, indeed, a headshot to JL, the AWP gone, though.
There's Navi into the overtime.
A 3-0 CT side from Vitality, and Navi looking to respond in kind.
More dominantly, they have died once on this CT side in overtime.
One kill is all Vitality post in these two rounds of play.
They only need five to get the job done.
It doesn't matter how they get there, they just need to get there.
At least timeouts again.
For the confidence of an RV, those two rounds being a clinic is going to fill them with confidence.
But it just takes one moment, one misstep, one re-pick.
And it could all fall apart.
Start us off.
Early glances at middle for either side.
Bomb is going to be heading palace early.
Apex has a plan.
Now it's up to Vitality to execute it, Flames. Takes himself out mid, off the head of Zywoo.
There is visibility there. Zpexalware forced away by the Nade. Good damage, chunky. Pressure.
Frenave to match the 3-0 and they're looking for another overtime. Can Vitality recover from an
opening kill? Zywoo seems to think so. He thinks he can end it now and secure.
Mirage bit nice wide spams him down bomb on his back players above it
What a shot he's got a nice mix is low this could be enough he has to not over cook it
Spinks versus wonderful he's thrown out his name swaps to the AK he's nervous
Spinks looks calm ready 20 seconds he's hoping wonderful overcooks it over
moves it hoping that the stress gets the better of the young gun for the
Quad kill, Spinks will have to make a move, time against him, drops away.
A fake plant, Spinks, does he call for BLOCKERS to separate these two Titans?
Now you talk about the insanity of overtime, but what happens when you get this team?
It's still the little details, Alexi in that previous round,
Hedge towards A, play tucked in the site.
As soon as Bit shows himself connected, they come out palace, he gets a kill.
It's these little details, and now it's Emma up to bats.
You take that one, smoke, you can't flush me out,
Throw your molly, it'll be wasted!
Opening kills though, not always an indicator of the closer.
A four.
Hungry Hornets.
Forced away from the line of fire, good work from Apex taking space,
and they made my land close.
Chipped damage.
They're testing JL here.
They are testing JL, he's brave to keep throwing,
but it's downrange, he still delivers a headshot onto Flames.
Traded by Mezi, Alexi Lingers.
Thirty-five.
Time pressure.
Two players here. It's Mezzi, the responsible for it with a loss of 8-9.
It's awkward.
Caught with his lead in his hands and Zywil again left alone.
He's got nothing for many in the serve-up.
This is their first time in the Lancers.
One hell of a debut.
Vitality were here last year.
Slightly different roster.
But they're just taking their time
basking in the glory that Cologne has to offer and putting on a show just the
one casualty in their first CT round can now be keep it clean this is all in
towards middle for both teams wonderful with that off between the wickets of two
swinging out wide with his white screen it's actually JL ladies and medis sent to
an early grave but Zywoo does the same finds wonderful short side apex
He's looking for JL here, he might have a look at him, spots him out, ooh a dink!
Impressive to find even anything after the hunt from Apex, and that does have him walking
wonky, 10 HP uncomfortable for Apex, as he still looks a pivot, leaving Zywu ladd aside.
Alexi's position, he's open to short.
I suppose thinking Bit might have info there, he's not currently active on it.
He's repositioned, so, aware of the possibility, Apex has donated the bomb to Spinks, said here,
you take this, back around the world, so up through the underpass is Spinks.
Zaiwu, from short, is going to have to try and pick into A, and he's grabbed another.
Oh, very awkward now for him. Alexi B is so far away. Vitality surging into the site,
Zaiwu looking the wrong way, gets the info, gets away. How is him doing this again?
Spinks doesn't think he is. With 14 seconds that bomb will be planted. Alexi B known to be the Bianca.
Uncertainty for Apex considering CT. Alexi advancing a smoke will cover him.
Ineffective Nade. On the crawl. Navi's captain makes his way in.
Considering the options has no answers towards the ramp side and with his back turned he's brought low.
No response from Ramp, time sensitive mission for Alexi and Sphinx has actually gotten past, completely.
Oh, outmanoeuvre is 19!
The impact for Zywoo is definitely showing up.
Finding the kills that the team needs, if they're able to play into rounds and just get obliterated,
it allows Zywoo to play in, here it is.
Bang, this is after the JL double.
Feels like a different round, doesn't it?
How long this took but Zywoo we give back to draw them back into it and then with how that round started
Well, that should have been now these
They'll be feeling the same
This rollercoaster of emotions and counter strike continues just trading blows
In our third overtime 22 the magic number
Wonderful. Oh the perfect read of the situation
Flamesy unloads his mag into the smoke and finds the young Ukrainian
Can Vitality convert the opening? Do Navi have the capacity to jostle back for control at the disadvantage?
Apex sending his troops into Alexi's domain.
Oh, missed shot! And Alexi deprives! He's actually got him! Got a second!
He grabs Zywuz off and in pursuit of Moore, but here's Mezzi and Spinks hitting their shots and seizing the advantage for themselves.
I'm already going down on B, Bid and Emma. What can you do? Apex is going to join the party.
An uncomfortable retake.
An impossible retake.
There's nothing for you here.
All the time in the world to set yourself up through the flames.
A headshot from Bid! It's unbelievable!
Spinks has him on the cross though. Spinks has him locked in. Apex managing his angle.
Ready to give him a fight. Spinks hasn't finished off his meal.
Here's a change. Vitality. CT side, double AWP. We don't stop.
Alexi be alone ranger
Pressure onto mezi as well in this Bianca position still has his smoke
Ray for a jump and actually opt to try and smoke up the apartment
That could be an invitation to push and they are
Creeping contact walk it and the flash forces them into the line of fire. Mezi does well to convert
Mezi this one sends now V back to spawn is unless him Aaron Alexi
You've got anything more to say about this one. They don't look good
There's a legs he sure found one on the extremity found spings in the smoke, but
the site is lost upon lies with vitality's defense and messy passing his
test on B his smoke and a flash and he used them both but this is perfection
this is what's crazy we're gonna catch it in the replay but it's the right call
Alexi has the B defender the short player stuck over towards bedroom it's
only messy on the site as having to rotate in the call is the right
option. It's the right play. Mezi just stands up. The individual difference
makers. Mezi needed the multi. He needed to stall them out or they would have
cracked in and then the retake would have been on. He's under so much pressure.
The rotation point can't be sphinxed. He is stuck. It needs to be apexed.
Speaks still contributes somehow.
And that Zywu flashbang flying over to enable the multi-kill to be converted.
We find ourselves dead even 40 rounds deep in the third map of this grand final.
Black and yellow behemoth, I've described now V.
Now Vitality, packing a punch themselves.
Right now the top of the scoreboard, Zywu on one side 36, Emma dead even.
Couple of 40 bombs could be brewing here. Couple more rounds in it.
This is the round though. The winner of which will have that map point to work with.
Apex, Apex has been a dangerous game here, but the flash is there in support.
Get him off the ledge, get him off the lift and get him out safely.
Oh he's hanging around.
I was sitting catching and the enemy sweeping top mids trying to punish that type of a play
was stolen and by himself. More time with the incendiary.
Alexi aware of the possibility. It's been starting to push as well.
In bold and hour of vitality.
Yes, I was going to provide some covering fire as well, the overwatch with the AWP.
Alexi B is going to have more than he bargained for any moment now, it's Apex versus Alexi.
Apex favoured in the exchange, puts Alexi down to just 11.
A headshot off from the M4A1.
The sphinx is unknown, hard to clear.
Moving on to timing on this, yeah, his fingertips down and out.
The sharp shooter.
A clean headshot onto sphinx, bit tried to find a gap through the palace smoke,
It goes down the solid work from the anchor. Flames and Apex have connected. Apex in rotation. Wonderful and JL trying to get across.
Flames on the other side of that smoke. He might be overlooked here. JL, yeah, running straight into Flames!
Admirably! A map point. We've been here before. And extend their own. Looking for their ninth. And to deny the 13th.
This is the third time Vitality have been in this position since forcing overtime.
They have been the ones who should have been in the position to close.
Time and time and time again.
RV have not relented.
They have not given things over.
They have stayed in with the flight.
And they actually be our move.
Look at Shwingz.
Takes down the short player again.
Real opportunity for a fourth overtime.
Messi doesn't seem to think so.
As he aggresses short finds the AWPer.
Look in the wrong way.
Holding W, Apex does exactly what he does, but...
I don't have the bomb, it's a level to watch spawn, they need to go back and get this, or force the fights.
First, looks like it's a fight on the menu, flames, can he really lock it down?
A multi-kill required and he's got himself the double.
That's going to be it, Apex found the bomb.
And the curtains will surely be closed on Mirage of E12, but it ends here and...
An extended break to allow these teams to refuel and refocus.
The series is far from over.
These teams coming into Inferno on different footing with traded blows and territory as far as map picks are concerned
Nothing has made sense
If we continue by the script Navi should be snatching this one away and taking us to the fifth of a new bus
Hello, that's a mistake, and it's gonna get worse and that's bit spins around finds spinks makes it level flames has not left
flames delivers
Thank you, and down.
Wide open.
Wonderful, and JL, quite quick on this flank.
They're going to be clearing through diligently.
Spam from Alexi, drawing attention from the library side.
JL and wonderful poke their nose up brackets.
Alexi's flash has to be great.
The setup and vitality look solid.
Dior even shipping away at Alexi B on that tapping of the glock.
Mezzion Apex going to be the first on the site to receive the man.
Well, JL does well, but there's Blame's another one from Flames.
Alexi Pino, Kevlar, Harpal. There's nothing for him here.
It means the one-time card to start as they mean to go on.
A pistol round win.
I'm talking about this yesterday.
This is the important note with Inferno on the menu.
Navi off the back of a victory against Mouse.
We touched on the pistol rounds, right?
They liked to stack three towards B.
Well, against Mouse, they were heavy A.
Here they've gone back to their tried and tested.
interesting and vitality called the bluff they get themselves in off the back of
some great pistol work from flames and for vitality actually lost to phase on
this map 13 to 5 oh wow domination that was the series that could have been a
two-oh in favor of phase required dust to and then a new bus now we have a stack
It's in the right place, at least for now.
The e-picks is going to get a lot more than he bargains for as he rounds the corner, screaming.
Boys, get out of there.
Spinks, stick around.
With your mag 10, farm up some cash.
$600 already.
Make it $1,200.
Catches him, pushing the smoke.
Jobs are good, and there is one man and a pair of dual barrettas standing between
them and his A site, and well, please.
Jumping shot midair.
Vitality jumped for joy after that one. Not going to find any issues. All five looking to stay alive as it is just the in-game leader once more.
Vitality, head to the semis last year. Unable to get past ends. This time in the grand final. One map away from securing that trophy.
Na'Vi, other gas. This is the best of five. Well, it doesn't look too stressed just yet.
Yeah, on the one side of the server. You have vitality. No trophy this year, but now V they took the first trophy of the year
At least in the Copenhagen major and we're off Alexi V charging into Messi. Messi does pander it
Well, the 10 HP to work with that incendiary could be his end
Welcomes the re-swing. JL was hungry
The Zywoo puts a bullet between his eyes to extend their advantage and now the B site you would think is wide open
Wonderful throws out the incendiary to say it's not but they know the site
Unoccupied and flames is going to scout it out confirm their suspicions
It has to be to save now wonder put it back off and go and join bit on the other side of the map
Flamesy clearing the path and a vex to plan that bomb
Pistol conversion and now the first gun rounds
This is what Vitality are looking for.
What's important about guys is to help your teammate to build family guys.
As I said I repeat once again, it's the key to want to win Cologne guys.
It's just one map thinking about your fucking control strike, your TNA, eyes in the sky,
locked around, discipline guys, 3v3 discipline, use your T, play for each other, if, everything
guys.
What's your next task?
me riled up in your DNA.
That'd be ten rounds away.
And this is the thing, you've had such a bomb-burner of a series.
You never wanted to simmer out.
You never wanted to be a landslide.
Two saved rifles, so drops aren't possible.
Just blade one, take a timeout to discuss the way forward.
Take more of the conservative approach.
Just play behind these two saved guns,
hedge in with something light on the other three,
and then go for a full rightful round into the next.
Emma getting caught off guard there.
You can see he flashed into the open
and then just taken out for three.
Now he's starting to get the party started.
Again, a three player V-star,
eight out four, Emma, up too far away as a nade.
Lashes Alexi.
Often overlooked this boost.
They are setting one of their rifles up for success.
Oh, but he just bounced them!
Apex activates for two.
I know, Alexi and Emma are both there.
The Flash assist and the Emma kill.
That's two out of the three remaining players, just have to get past Bit who they know has a rifle.
He's making a bit of an aim for himself in the apartments though.
Caution from Spinks doesn't choose to take that fight alone.
It will move us closer towards middle.
Has to play for Infert. Alexi, with a smoke, can redeploy to continue to block.
That would be perfect and does drop it out.
learning of you till regardless and actually being in that could be overrun
here has to be Emma has at least the rifle the clear the smoke once you got
replenishing the smoke that limits their options you want to push through it I
think they still do in this ready he's ready for only the one no because I will
hit sit five and zero yet to die is I will get just the one skills for
I will zero deaths and closing that gap nine rounds is all that separates
vitality from an elusive trophy and from the IEM Cologne trophy. Considering the
circumstances, they bought themselves as much time as possible the setup felt
like it was in the right place it was over to rotate over in somewhat time.
Next rifle round, next real opportunity for Na'Vi to post a round.
This is brave from Mezzi, forward position is susceptible to lots of nades on his way, 64 is what he's working with.
It's just Alexi here, the rotation is full. Na'Vi have left their in-game lead up with it all to do.
Is this confidence from Alexi, can he really use his nades, additional cash, picks up some extras, flashing, puffing up gas.
They're going to swing it again, they're coming for him, and that nades well placed as well.
They lose the sight.
What a read.
They're just contact walking in. They found the Gabby. It's only Alexi here!
Mezzi secures the round with a single kill!
It's unlocked right now, Navi. This has to be the save. There's no way in.
You put up no resistance. Alexi absolutely destroyed.
Not only out called, but out gunned.
Navi, see this grand final. It's an opportunity to fortify,
to reinforce the world number one title.
they claim to that throat. And yet here we are in our fourth map.
In the words of Einstein, adversity introduces a man to himself, can now the
response to a five zero start.
They're in a hole. The positive is they have a blade timeout likely coming.
They can drop a gun to a Lexi so they will be fully armed.
But these rounds are getting away from them so quickly.
That's the fives marathon not a sprint but vitality are running away with things early
No play timeout
That's please we need to speak very important if you want to win. Yeah, we need to speak
Prioritizing communication into our sixth round of play cannot be bucked the trend can they show that they're here to fight?
Mezzy leg shot a limp for the Brit
Smokes a made exchange
There's judgement on the geometry, the mate does nothing.
More where that came from, Alexi B.
Throws out one to try and find it, but nothing.
On their half-willed util, Apex, he wants to fight, he welcomes the engagement,
the JL might apply, is that burning out?
Smoke is forced, pushing through, easy collection for JL.
Clear part of the game plan, Vitality do not want to give over Banana Control whatsoever.
Think about how much they are putting into this space.
They're down to almost no utility, so a minute on the clock.
Both teams, with these rallies of nades back and forth, and Navi will come out.
They're better.
Vitality down the play-up.
Have heaps of cash, don't have to save. Can take any risks they'd like.
There's so much in the coffers, there's at least two buys for everybody, and Vitality going forward.
So Navi have retained the banana control short. Had to use an awful lot of U-Tool to be able to do so.
Two-three split of the defences.
Ima and Bit to lock down the short and app side of things, and that's where the fight is coming.
Perfect timing on that, but they'll explode through, there's a flash on its way.
And then Bit, the sharpest tools in the Na'Vi shed, tested here on the side, Flay jumps in,
and it's Iberabit to repel the invaders, still holding on to Fiverr Live and Spingston Zaiwu, with no time.
Damage would be good right now if you're Vitaliy. Like mentioned, you have plenty of cash.
If you could take a kill too, it'd make it three, that'd be great, but right now it might be nothing.
Door closed, flawless.
They still fight for Na'Vi.
Multiple rounds in consecutive fashion would be necessary to take control of the economy round at a time
But if vitality continue with his onslaught towards banana one thumb, but one stack may one push that you're not ready for
This could all fall apart
Yeah, love the way you highlight just how much of a priority that banana fight is do you change the approach now?
It looks like it
Now the gays had gone in slang and it looks a bit more defaults, spins towards second in flames
He was with him but pivoted immediately through the chicken pit, so maybe no, it spots out too, that's info
Charging up banana, they're gonna fight. It's Alexi and JR, what've they got? JR's got nothing
Staring at the start backs, Messi puts him in the turn, and the B site once again
exploited, Imer with a native, trying to leave his fingertips
Makes him the second for Zywa
And already the site lost how brutal is that flames getting that information look at the Spinks look
He's already here to take this away from beer. You might walk away with nothing
You just had a flawless round now V. He did a five for your right and these weapons and
Vitality they have the solution to Navi CT side
Banana the B bomb site harass it
Absolute scenes right now now V cannot hold on that if I'm playing converted upon wonderful gets something bit to
Apex really wants to take this away. He's charged forward to fortify the fifth position.
They've just done well there. Taking down the AK bit, loves an AK-47 on his CT positions. Will not get a chance to utilize. Wonderful.
Can't hold onto the orb surely. Still being closed in on Mezzi and Apex would have taken away. Send it to spot with nothing.
Vitality! Six already. Just seven rounds in.
And Apex not picking up the AWP says that is not a part of our T-Side game plan
It'll be rifles throughout and we know Zawoo can get it done with anything
He's currently AM2 leading the charge
for vitality and not only would this be
Apex in that pursuit that ten years the third grand final. This is Zawoo
He's in the conversation for one of the greats the trophy cabinet needs to represent that and I am Cologne must be there
Accusations that Zywoo's not there in the big game, well this is a grand final, he's at the top of the scoreboard and they are still encroaching on that trophy.
Seven rounds all they need and Flames takes a lead towards a seventh right now.
Zywoo tested on the B side, Immet and JL do connect some shots but Zywoo and Apex stubborn on this control.
And Zywoo will go down, that big from JL finds a little bit of a gap, spams the smoke.
Spinks searching active on this one bit typically the housekeeper of the balcony Alexi's aware this possibility
The group's up now vitality plenty of time to work with you to as well apex's loba JL
To and bit just walks in the Spinks so active
They're not ready for another apex overwhelms them now as a race a race into a lexie low HP
He collects the first that's big from a lexie puts it onto flames with 40 seconds to play
No idea where he is
He's got a 1 on V1 looking for Alexi and he finds it!
Flames looking to come on clutch!
This is such a tough retake now for JL.
The bomb can go down and Flamesy can go absolutely anywhere.
The rotation time is miserable for the Lithuanian.
The way back in there's just so many questions.
They put him in this jersey.
They saw the potential in Flames.
But when he's having a really good game, he is Flamesy.
This would be for seven.
Smoke out, gives him the info.
J.L.A. is no way down, trophy hopes!
Feels like everything is going vitality's way right now.
Opening kills galore.
Clutches in their favor.
Navi with just one round and that is the first tactical time out for Blade.
Thought he was going to call it earlier in the piece,
but he's let his voice play. Now they're in trouble.
Now they need his guidance.
of 2023, taking on the ones who want to be named the team of 2024. Major trophy, EWC,
that's what stacks their cabinet. Vitality is currently bare this year. And what a time to
decide it. The Cologne Grand Final, the first time to face, we're in August. The calendar is
stacked and this is the first time they lock horns and on the grand final
stage Navi well they being consumed by this moment of vitality the ones that
want it more ten year pursuit flames has got the right team mates alongside
get aggressive and so does bit brings the fight towards the apartment so
first blood drawn Navi can make a half out of this it has to start now the
second opening kill. Can't give that away, sorry! Makes good on a promise! Alexi B sets Theo up for success
and then Sendieri to stop the trade. You have to. Speaks is here as well, this will be quick. It's
going to be a 2v3 in favour of Vitality. Can they break in? Jael and Alexi. Lots of nades
could delay. Here's the flash, here's the go. What are you going to do about this? But
with just a mantle up actually clearing out the dark and coffin position,
Alexi's Nade does nothing. We smoke on the position, they can maintain this boost. Alexi
could be caught out by the elevated position but does not expose himself. 45, wonderful,
miles away and Spinks is testing it. Alexi being in trouble, anticipating the setup. They know what's
up. JL throws out a smoke. Alexi's incendiary, forces the fight. The SMG now going wide, finding a
safe haven and the smoke is up and away, does damage to Flames and now brings it down with the
Now take it up, but that needs to spell more rounds for Na'Vi.
Four, five CT side, definitely something to play with, but Vitality, if they respond
like they have, Na'Vi are in trouble.
The money slowly being whittled down as we get towards the tail end of the half.
It's not too late for Na'Vi to take control.
If they can find Conception yet to be done, again this banana harassed.
Chunked away, Ima and Nezzy were aware of very good nade.
Everybody's here.
And another fantastic just catching strays.
Oh, and it's Apex's turn.
Look at them, Alexi B finds Iwo.
What a scalp to take, can he hold onto his life?
Flames once the threat in it, spams the smoke.
Alexi B and Ima have the B control.
Oh my god, Apex, get this bell run.
In the cathedral, 14 HP, saved by the concrete.
Navi did have vision on middle, just been smoked off towards long side.
It's forced, wonderful, more passive.
Alexi's still aggressive, he has to win out these fights.
Emma is here.
He's back in his aim.
Says I got this.
I'll get one.
I'll at least get one.
Thanks to P.K.
What a shot!
How aimed?
Emma's not going to be undetected.
He's not fighting.
He's sitting backside.
Hoping to be overlooked.
Wonderful hatch flashes.
Wonderful has flashes, there's an alley over there.
That's the juice, there's the flames, expose him, he finds just the one.
The Molotov forced to fight now, the bomb will be planted, this is make or break.
Bit and wonderful, they can break vitality, but they have to retake the B site.
Bit and wonderful.
This Ukrainian duo, side by side, in Cologne, opened up the site, a triple kill from Flames.
Thriving in this grand final environment, but wonderful.
This time he's got a chance. He knows exactly what's up
He does pull out the fake springs trying to play the time time
Decision from him a he had a smoke he Adam Molly he opted to play back side
Did not fight with the leader wanted to lull them into the be hit and they came knocking
He takes the fight only gets one now as a 2v2 post plan not sitting still the flames. He's special
Brothers in arms spanks and flames he flames he though
At the top of the table he has surpassed Zai Wu in our fourth map of the Best of Five final.
Gonna dig deep now Na'Vi, four still on the table.
A bite, something to work with, something to fight with, something to push back with.
Two clutches in the last three rounds of play.
Those are difference makers, those are game changers.
Both going Vitality's way. They can almost taste it.
If they can keep this dominance up, if they can keep Navi in the dirt, the red carpet will
be rolled out for Vitality to keep Navi's legacy up for debate in 2024.
They're all looking to make history as well. A win here would have made them the only
the organization to have lifted three Cologne titles.
Seems a long way away now.
Yeah, might just have to settle for two.
Poised are vitality.
A late sweep of banana.
A lick of the flame, JL alone isolated on an island
and calling for aid.
Calling for backup.
Irma will oblige.
Of course it's gonna rotate.
They've been under the pump.
Every time they want to be,
they've successfully taken it.
The Lexi's coming as well.
This reader the situation puts it all on to two bit and wonderful a chance an
Opportunity but the whole team gonna barrel into their bombsite with 30 seconds on the clock bit ready himself for battle
An elevated position and off fangal wonderful pitside
Long the gap Alexi be scarpering charging to try and fill that gap get some information there
But as Nezzy lives on force the fight to wonderful down after one
This conditioning has now be scared
just a bit of pressure up banana they bite hook line and sinker they leave
bit and wonderful to lock down the A site and spinks slaps them around that's
nine just often discussed rarely discussed in the first half of play but
on the menu and available for vitality to put them in full control coming into
that second half. Force-loving banana again for Navek. Well the first time we've seen that this half.
Feels like they have to win out this fight. Feels like they need this control. They have to.
But can they? Alexi to set up the two of them. First Navek, JL exposed and Apex
charging up to deliver the head shot. Oh easy. Finishes. This is the last round. You've got
to go for it. See it later. Spinks will take you now. It's just wonderful. 1v5 not a hope
in the world and vitality. He starts this one said almost success here is not
success. He's been on the grand final stage before but the trophy eludes him for
this entire year now just three rounds. Hope dies last for the comeback starts here for
Na'Vi rounds occupying apartments and boiler. Benana as well. Alexi in float
with the bomb. U-Tool on his back, Sphinx. The lone defender of the A bomb site on
Vitality. Hedge their bets for a B play. No resistance to be felt from Naby
whatsoever. It's a bit to start searching. Will he overlook the position? Finding
Sphinx is a big start to taking this round. Now the utility from Alexi.
Oh, Apex spotting out the bomb now, bow to your Vitality Advancing.
Quick thinking, wonderful other turn!
Previously impact from on the first pistol, now he's gone,
and he might have to do it instead.
The P2K's good, it's bit's back turned, Apex distracting, executing,
and he hits the shot just as the smoke's above.
Now there are a few players offering themselves up,
and Vitality will grab the pistol rounds.
What a shot!
This one here from Wonderful, he did his job,
He knew more was coming he hung around for a little bit too much
It looks like a Lexi bees best of five woes are gonna continue in the most horrible of fashions
The answers not looking at the sheets looking at the boys
The round was perfect they were into the less defended site
They fought before the util
They over peaked and they gave vitality 11 the bomb goes down kills came through a purchase
This is available, but Na'Vi, those opportunities are now less and less forced into Mach 10,
Tek 9, Desert Eagle and Galil.
Your grand final hopes hanging in the balance of a disadvantage round of Counter Strike and
Bit.
We know what he's capable of, but he has to start now.
Mezzi, his counterpart on the other side of the belt.
It's aggression.
It's found Mezzi's shore, but he wants to fight chasing it all the nades.
a belt full and he nearly lost it. It's in the packing, it's in the quickly into what day. Zywu's here.
Oh it's Zywu though, you gotta watch out for Zywu, tucks away, sets himself up for the play. Flash is to delay.
Apex library, spamming away. Hang on, Zywu down, our foes one-foot into the head of JL could have
made the difference. Spinks and flames, mid-side SMGs on the clear. A smoke will have them nervous.
JL pit noted and already Flames is hitting the shots wonderful has gone down is this really how it goes down Alexi and JL
down to the final moments Apex again feels like something specials on his side with his rotations
he's coming in never allowing Na'Vi to have the sight for free but JL gets the reload in gets
the final kill and keeps Na'Vi alive of course Vitality forced by back you know the pressure
is so high something that Vitality have time quite well throughout this series is Apex calling
the CT sides into strong stacks. This could be another one. Turns to flash gracefully
and stack. You ask yourself are they blocking because nobody's home? How many bodies are
on the other side? And at the same time so I will smoke out the balcony. It just
keeps these mind games these questions you never know what's on the other side.
You never can be a hundred percent sure that's where the gut comes into play.
Smokes indicate a wrap.
Arch library, isolating the sight lines, wanting to take the advantages with the rifles.
Taiwu starting to activate, starting to look for an isolated duel.
JL good on to flames, the penny drops and so does Taiwu.
This is where Vitality needs to take a breath.
Hold on to what you have.
another crack in the next round of play. You're so close but you do not want to
give Na'Vi three opportunities. They will be able to have four pieces, one less.
Na'Vi are looking swirly. Na'Vi are looking like they want to take away these
upgrades. Sure they look light but they're still possible of a problem if
they are carried into the next. Now just defending their weaponry, throwing
out of smoke. They're as creepin and crawling way close. They do really want to take this
away. A heavy investment. Navi, to make that next round a whole lot easier. They think
it's been 12 off. They considered it. The smoke has done more than enough. Bomb about
to go off. He won't take anything away. They didn't get their hands on his gun.
So Spinks can drop across his upgraded pistol. I think he had a 5-7. I think Zaru's now
been equipped with that. Just flames you who might be using the USP. So still around when
Na'Vi need to keep it perfect. Since an insane combat this cologne gonna throw that liquid versus face.
Lighting doesn't strike twice though does it. Wonderful receives Sphinx. Flames next victim.
Good catch and apex. He drives by without CZ to bullet shine. Five-seven does nothing for
Mazaewoo and Mezzi, his P250, he does bear some fruit.
Moment's there, we're multi on the pistols and that could have been a whole new conversation.
Navi's starting to bring this back to what could be considered a manageable score line.
An uphill battle on the T side and a good reminder for everybody at home.
On the edge of your seat full anticipation and a smoke, all these in exchange.
the same level of harass vitality their solution to navi's defense was all in banana. This is the
name. Here at Emma we'll get boiler and halls control. Nezion Spinks tasks with locking down
short and abs and Zaiwuk over towards long apex in rotation flames the on B. Right now vitality
can't really have control of anything working on brackets. Drawing the attention of four.
Nezion Spinks starts to maneuver forward Zaiwuk short side.
Navi are walking into the Lions down here.
The Lions head on with a double kill, he has overlooked Zywin, Zywin overlooked the one.
It's the landlord, we know an Inferno, we know in the big games the important match is he can have nuclear level performances.
Just a double head shot, instantaneous.
Couldn't have been a worse time for them to start transitioning through halls,
we know the peak is advantage, they step into the fight, and now the hunt from JL.
This is the issue with the comeback of this magnitude.
The CTs can just opt for a lot of these saves.
If the Lost Burner's building, they'll be able to drop the silenced M4s.
So keep the buys coming, keep the threats there.
JL has noted where they've gotten off to.
And another defensive smoke saved to late.
That's a block, but they're coming through.
Apex, under pressure.
Has the support of Flamesy just behind?
How much do you put into this, Nami?
That's the question. The flash comes in.
Doesn't catch him, but it doesn't overcommit either.
Apex, has he done enough to hold onto these rifles?
Looks like he has.
And so there will be threats.
There will be threats into the 18th.
So a similar situation with Na'Vi in the first half.
They saved two rifles and everybody else just hedged in with little investments.
Some armor, some pistols, some newtile.
Next round they can get out the full buy and some beautiful shooting there from Na'Vi.
It's the first rifle round of the half.
What do you call this one?
MP9 of Stinks could be...
My threatening is a piece of this puzzle.
He's taken some liberties as well.
Emma's going to be the first man on that scene.
Good chip damage down mid.
Lexi B and JL catch Flak.
Nob, Spinks has just backed off.
Okay.
He's heard Orson and Arth.
Try and force them around the map.
Vitality have two smokes.
One for Apex, one for Flamesy.
Flamesy's on B, Apex over towards Long.
Flash at the ready for Mezzi.
Flamesy with one of the save rifles.
That's had some massive rounds throughout this final.
Another one here could seal the deal for 12.
Vision obscured towards middle.
In the dark.
Ah, Vitality.
We have info that we don't have sightlines.
And banana this pressure too. Will that bait out of the smoke? Yes it will.
A minute on the clock. Job done.
Banes has been left. Extra utility. He's just grabbed another smoke to work with
so you can block towards B3 even longer if required.
Thinking twice. Oh he does burn it. At 50 seconds.
He won't have answers in flames. He's thinking about the rotation.
Are they ahead of this? Has Apex got the read?
Didn't matter last time but can Bit really have the same impact?
Bit or immense. The set-up looks strong, bolstered, ready.
Vitality, looking for 12, but it's an XCV, but it's wrapped up for one.
It was all hanging in the balance for a moment, and JL down to Flage will take the upgrade,
but Navi will take a 7.
It's worth a look. Hang around, see if somebody else oversteps.
Well, they've seen enough.
Crop another rifle, wall back off with the AK and the M4.
Now it's just a four-round game.
Well, up next about to be the second rifle round in this second half of play.
So I will see decided AWP it's possible, it's more than possible to get dropped
across from one of these survivors could buy it himself.
If I tell you want to take a timeout, do they want to take a chat before
this gets too deep, before this gets too close?
It's four rounds manageable.
You still got them at arms length.
Ooh, it's starting to let out some real frustrations.
What was such a power position, an emotional team like Vitality, you would hate to see
that become their undoing.
Navi lost the pistol round, they lost both pistol rounds and somehow they're still in
this fighting, they haven't given up hope just yet.
It was a 10-2 half-jump, that pistol made it 11, and that 11 has now started at
top of the board for a run from Na'Vi. Five consecutive in pursuit of another now.
Damage. Conversion. Apex an opening death of the back of the frustration. Will it fall further?
Spring to blow. Impending shots nearly. Focus. One hell of an opening as well from wonderful.
You catch it there. Just commits to the spray. Obscured by the smoke but still commits and Apex
he went to swing it. This is where we start getting into dangerous territory. CT side in
Furno traditionally need a lot of this utility to make these rounds happen.
For the banana control, the conversation we're having within the first half,
just to slow them down, just to stall them out, not even to win the space.
They do get the off desire again, but this is one of these situations where it's not the all-in.
Max loss bonus is going to be in play, and as part of this comeback,
Navi will have to fight against this round, up the round, up the round, save guns,
extra cash, what's possible? Half buys, a few M4s, a couple of pistols.
These are traditionally some of the most difficult rounds in Counter-Strike to win.
And Slywoot kicks it off with a leg shot.
Uncomfortable for 1-4.
But that changes the whole dialogue now. AWP noted.
We have to worry about that on some of these longer sightlines.
We need to be either making sure we've got flashes on the corners with the peeks.
The wider swings.
And he's already long gone. You see that POV, he finds himself on B.
Smoke exchange mid. Long obscure but BIT can potentially walk through.
Ime Boiler with him, Zywou already scoped up on B, JL, he's trying his luck, JL may not be prepared for this, the Flash is in, Gerv he's not ready, Zywou, dynamic with the AWP.
You know there's a gap right now, but if you go you're going into Mezzi and Spinks, rotation on the way.
They're running, the two Frenchmen, looking to do what no one's done before, despite that rich history, four France and Counter-Strike.
Bit outbound, Molly's awkward, space goes down, empty handed, it has to be Mezzi, he's made a bit of a close one
On to the side, he closes it down, running out of...
Of course, as Zywa's AWP to push them around the map, lecture on wonderful made good on by Mezzi
Shows his head, top banana, forces Na'Vi into A, pressure back on
Margin Ferreira, none, for Narvi, every round could be their last.
You can't even be thinking about map number five, you've got to be thinking about overtime.
And it's all in pursuit of that, in the center of the stage, in the Lancess Arena.
Zaiwui wants to start us off with a bang, last time a leg shot, onto his rival, Orpah Wonderful, posted anticipating something similar.
Trying to put a leash on his movements, not giving him so many chances, so many opportunities.
Change of view too in Banana once more, Alexi back to spawn to pick up any remaining U2 short.
In the Ambit, onto the usual tricks.
As he's feeling the pressure drops out of the defensive smoke, locks for now.
So he was all on the long side, one smoke and left to reposition.
The intensity of the moment.
Not lost on anyone.
One misstep, one overpeak, one unappreciated angle, like a boost over a smoke on long side, but they haven't moved.
Becoming time sensitive for Navi. JL on B.
Apex still has a full belt of utility to block. This late in the piece, a full belt of utility to block.
He's looking good for vitality. JL trying to be the difference maker. Apex flashed off, but still he's ready and he's starting with a bang!
Spinks has called back towards A.
Tywin and Messi already here, and missed shot from Zywoo.
Bit gets a chance, a second chance.
20 seconds.
They have to get this bomb down, and XT delivers!
It's up to Zywoo on the side!
Fragout, and some great ones from Bit.
He doesn't want to give this one up.
He does not want to be the reason now B-Folter here on Inferno.
His trademark map, Stoicism from Apex to have his nades left late.
He didn't feel any pressure, banana meant there was no way
they were getting into his sight without bottles of flame
and smoke but Na'Vi breaking case of emergency bit is the secret weapon on
Inferno to keep them in it yet again three more rounds for overtime but round
at a time required money available but out he can't buy I can be this mountain
this treacherous pass Na'Vi nothing will come for free I remind you that
With 11 of vitalities, we're in the first 13 rounds of play.
They just need one to show that this was merely cosmetic finale.
This grand final, for their world number one.
Forward mid-stance.
Flash of the ready, will there be a fight?
In that line.
Backs away.
Mezzy's vision also taken.
And it's good from Spinks, tested by Bit.
No bit!
Is there really anything from Na'Vi in the absence of their super weapon?
He's gone.
Ime trades four on four with 60 seconds left in play.
Zaiwu.
Ime goes down regardless. Quick spanning away is that where it ends?
Ime and Bit watching.
Hands off the peripherals. Four.
Players for vitality still standing. That's the man advantage. This is scary.
40 seconds.
Is this the last round of counter-strike in the Lancers?
Can Flames hold his sight?
Xayah will win support, but...
Smokes!
LAMS!
Jadaleff is aggressive!
With 20 seconds left, they just have to kill two!
Just a lexie beat of the trophy in the Lancers!
2019, a loss to Liquid.
2024, a win against Na'Vi, the number one team in the world.
Apex, third time's the charm.
In this vitality surpassed Na'Vi. Conversation about that MVP. They said...
New to start. They are map choice and want to get tricky with it out the gates.
Smoke made for JL, destined for the door. That blown off.
More pressure towards the topside. Jules leaves on Zywoo and he's pressured.
A lot of early pressure. Responsible for that site and does what Zywoo couldn't with a triple kill.
Keep it interesting! Flavours tussling with trouble!
Imeh, no Kev, and 41 points of help.
Imeh is down towards B.
And that's a big gooch.
Gonna confirm if the bomb is down towards the topside.
The leadout having to rotate over, but Imeh, he's the one on the hunt.
This is incredibly proactive from Imeh.
A little risky, but it's definitely gonna catch Imeh.
Because he looks to try and climb the ladder silently.
Wonderful, just needs to lift, just needs to be...
Oh, he's hasn't!
It all falls to him, they both depart the site, no kid available, he's behind the bar!
It's a risk to try and make a manoeuvre like that in the environment of a stage setting.
You worry, does the work, does the atmosphere give you away, you take your shots and you miss.
Beautiful defence to the topside from Mr Merriman, the Brit, unloads early and he is going to have an important role anchoring down that A-site round after round.
opportunity the rest of Navi towards Lobby flamesy they're gonna test him flash
and go XCB first victim but it's immediate back from bit apex he pushes the
flames he wants to stand he wants to play that has saved them from ramp being
lost bomb now falls and so do the hopes of Navi converting this second
round falls by just one man and his dick Spinks exposed a couple of shots
Shai, Spiggs chips away at... Oh, he keeps it in the body, Spiggs runs him down on the reload.
And JL there, perfect positions for it.
Zaywu distracts, Apex prepares to engage and does activate to find Alexi.
Vitality had a walk in the park against S.O.L.
Ymer's actually managed to find one with that D.E.A.K. searching yard.
And a knock! Could be, he's already taken two down, Zaywu empty-handed.
And with... What?! That JL and Ymer!
In a two versus two, Flames has got a real opportunity to make this awkward.
And the man gets down the f-
Bitting him out as potential victims.
The smoke wall has been erected, but Zai was got nothing to report.
Look at the radar.
Vitality has completely given up that ramp control.
In exchange, they try and fight for heart.
JL comes out with a nice opening and kill.
That's Mezzi down and out.
Now Flames has to react to it as well.
Takes the head off of the fin towards Squeaky Door.
Now Zai will activate for his first.
Bick could have been his next.
But a missed shot, forces Flames to react, comes and activates to help him from Heaven.
JL gets that bomb and takes the site.
Wonderful in support, has to cover Heaven, has to cover Main.
Spinks will wait for his teammate.
A flashbang from Flames to be their way in.
Tyro has so much utility to make this possible, but he's coming up the vent.
JL could be in real, real trouble here.
Yachi opts for the smoke, he had the incendiary craft, and so JL will catch the roof.
And now it's an armies round for the taking.
JL are wonderful, turn it on its head, only Spinks remains, a hard clear off to wonderful, lovely find.
Time sensitive for Spinks, does have that kit, knows where JL is, what do you do? Can JL outwit him here?
Spinks is back when they need it.
Vames however, takes the space, as they depart lobby, he enters it, there is a perfect opportunity for him to have the element of surprise, but wonderful!
His eyes are out of the maze, he saw that one coming, Zyrus there as well.
Would you two work making sure that these pistols in half the move?
Oh, that's a second.
A lot of damage. Spinks and Flames with just the USP and now another body drops!
It's pistols and it's a 2-1-2. Does this go wrong? It all the time! Saves himself!
I don't know where Spinks was.
He had the bomb chat. That is really the kill that may have saved him here.
Sure, it's actually quite scary. Long-hanged back, 10-hobbies, they weather the storm.
Alright, well both teams within the first six rounds of play have had some issues with pistols.
Yeah, that's true.
True the tables with RV and now something a little bit lighter from vitality and x-tas
Here's opportunity to get on the micro firm before the guns come back out
Yeah, they want to test this topside hold and apex spings find themselves there as well
So right resources here spings right close to receive
He's gonna be screaming
Spings what can you do finding one of the door now?
outside, who's found himself a double.
And look at that!
It's a shutdown!
Triple from the wound.
Apex likes the way that feels,
because again, another round with a good call.
They know what was coming.
Think about all the bodies that were there.
Shot, spin, played, anti-flash.
They get into the topside,
but there's so many individuals there to respond.
Apex was playing towards main.
He was harassing, Xayah worked the ladder.
They weren't biting on the fact
there was gonna be a yard play,
which is why Apex is celebrating.
Not only is it a good round to win,
it's one where he feels that they have made it
the right call on where they should stack.
Now they credit that to X-Tas, he's the one who called the timer, we'll give him that one there.
And that has forced Na'Vi into one of their own.
Support of Util, chip damage, Imeh, walking wonky, multiple bodies advancing.
Whose responsibility is to check this smoke? This feels like it's a death sentence for Alexi.
Call it his mazes, and he gets his gun out just in time, finds the Frenchman's head.
And now Apex catches Imeh, look at the wrong way through, there's smoke 4 on 4 and it could change quick, because Apex
Catches another onto a bit. What's going on here? Now we're just walking into him.
Yeah, tough stuff a bit.
Fifteen seconds.
Because the star going loud.
Hoping JL can catch one on the vet rotation.
He has managed to catch sphinx, but Apex has won the round with that one.
Takes him down. It's vitality again.
This CT side looking promising. That's two consecutive gun rounds.
Couple of those recovered AK-47s, so the one-shot headshot potential for Flames and Mezzi.
Spinks looking to bar the forward hang on messy spinks. This is a crunch a lobby crunch. Nobody's home
Wonderful
Spotted out that was the bomb team roof now. They know the penny drops
There was aggression in the mix and they just received the same so active here
Apex spamming away good damage onto Rimmer
We'll have to function at half HP. It's JL that opens up the account and he selects into extended
Catches spinks top sites open
Flames and Zairu low and here's him at Spotted out by 8x and he seals the deal. Thank you very much
He was even anticipating secret
Is it really a clean sweep?
Zairu doesn't seem to think so. He'll yoink the AK-47
There's nothing we have responded with a fourth round
So Zairu gets the hold onto this one
Wonderful to take the five from Main and slumped Zairu grabs another bit of J.O.
No, important over for him the aggression comes in and it's just so many moving pieces from vitality after they run into lobby
They see absolutely nothing other than that exchange towards top roof. They try to reset
They try to plug all these holes and now they are standing ready to respond
Never mind it's all the out towards door jl. We're gonna take the fight again completely blind for now smoke deep
He's pushing in
Big one! Big one! From ZywOo and Spinks!
With their powers combined they repel the invaders and Na'Vi have lost the bomb.
It now falls and lies in enemy territory, smoked off.
You are in trouble!
He went through the smoke!
Bit tries to turn towards Ramm but flames best him as well but still only one kill for Bit.
Vitality locked in to close this one with a five alive.
The tail ended this half.
Apex has locked the door behind him.
Wonderful is going to try and fight his way through this.
And Zywoo is his first victim, but a great cast.
Wonderful, Apex secures it.
Seven on the CT side.
I think if they get five, they're going to be happy with that.
Seven, five, T side, Luke.
That should be in modern play.
It's like that Alexi and Blade can work with.
What did you make of this kind of aggression towards the squeaky door?
What rumbled it? Was it something as simple as just Zywoo hitting a shot?
You two was good, right? They got blocked.
The flashes were good, the mollies were deep, unable to force the issue.
Hey ho! Forcing issues is Apex!
An already bit goes down! An aggressive maneuver squandered!
Apex still not punished! Alexi missed and shot!
They'll finally connect!
The bodies have already dropped.
Inme caught on the cross, Alexi at least scavenges away and upgrade.
We'll find the import to try and ply his trade.
Final round of the first half.
Well, they can't reset knowing that Vitality are quite heavy with these rotations.
They're happy to take these searches. Even on the man advantage, Spinks looking.
And they get caught out, JL, just a free frag back of her head, Spings will find it.
It's only wonderful in Alexi to try and make a case for a 7-5 half, otherwise Vitality will be 8 already safe.
On this CT site, what can you do, wonderful on the yard, his crossback spotted, a headshot angle, hard to find, Zywoo on his stairs, it's 8-4!
Solid haul for Vitality!
All blind open. Looks like they want to head towards ramp. Remember, Bitt had a rough first half. He could turn that around to you.
The death's discussed his prowess in this position. They test him immediately on the pistol, scarfing away and losing his head to Flames.
Problematic rotation from Emma. Towards the fence anticipating this bounding glock. As the bombs being punched by Mezzi.
They have to regain control of this double door side, but they'll do it as a team, as a unit.
Playing with the doors is Mezzi. Alexi walks to investigate.
That's the flashback. It still looks good! Looks very, very good for Vitality in 9-2-1.
Spoke Pistols in favour of Vitality and it's bit the one task of being tested early.
It's his control of ramp that is the difference maker.
He goes down without any resistance whatsoever.
Flames it. He's equal on the other side.
And massacres them in the double doors. Beautiful work from Vitality.
They are playing and running with this momentum.
Their individuals are firing.
Lexi B and wonderful. Tending to the yard position, Smokes obscure their view.
They're actually trying to get through the main. Lexi B seems to have a read of this. He positions as well.
This is it. Through the smoke, Lexi B catches flames.
Over-extending towards the main position. Smokes are fading. Zairu does slip across.
Smoke wall available. We'll just have to be dry. Yeah, and on a passing glance, on a little swing,
he finds info. He takes down Sphinx, but he saw another.
So now you'll see the CT forces start to re-configure.
Him has been this here the whole time and it is gonna be clean on Desai when Mezzi remains.
He's coming in hot for the first but overlooking that position bit.
Catches him play happy with that one.
Deep harassing there Dave Becks.
Frustration to the last might continue into this.
One of the two rivals already chipped down to 63 points of health.
Plenty of bodies behind him, three on the ground, two in the sky, sorry, one in the sky.
They're testing Alexi again. You can play around this.
He will, one and a half, spings low as well.
Merzy, sent to the sidelines.
And yard control is there, you can see flames around, unbreakable, retrieving rifles,
in the smoke top for now.
And JL and Imba designed for the sideway through main.
Now the smoke will make it difficult.
And the Flash entering the site and it's one thing.
Jail just around the smoke has to pick up the bomb he's got some time to work with.
And he's gonna find another fight.
Because of his squeaky door players who had that unlock, the smoke drops.
He has a choice.
I give up full control.
Ike, baby, that's massive.
At the highest level, at the highest level.
And Nami needed it now more than ever.
Flash forward into the fight.
Mezzy blinded, gets him for free.
Beautiful team work.
And the dink is there, Spinks.
Low half HP, can't be finished off, Spinks has got the double!
That's massive from Spinks!
Wonderful try to trade, but in it goes it back and flat him back!
In this 1v2 with half health, JL was responsible for a lot of clutches in the semi-final yesterday.
That's why Spinks is in this team, to close these rounds.
Three kills already, but it's this fourth one that is oh so imperative.
The bomb is under enemy control and JL, he knows that's important, his life or the bomb,
the target descends into the topside, new avenue of approach, 30 seconds, spinks, brought
into this roster to close, and he's done it!
So Zairu parked Lobby, but we need people to tend to that low site, to two different
fronts.
And in the smoke JL lies, looking away, fight on multiple fronts towards the control
room in the lower side as well.
It's been caught out completely throwing out a smoke grenade to play around wonderful has the angle on the cross from Deacon
Doesn't pull the trigger flames gonna start closing that gap. Oh my god
I don't know if Messi saw him wonderful is going for in a highly aggressive
Highly volatile maneuver will exit the in the meantime on the flames against two
Problems for vitality scrambling now the sphinx is still around
Bompland would be huge and sphinx he is in struggle street three to find knows where wonderful was
He's out on his screen, turns around and secures the round.
Eight, four and a half feet.
That was chaos.
What was going on?
That was just chaos right there,
bit getting caught in the open.
This is his ram.
That is a bullet into his head,
just through the metal,
preserves his life.
And Zywoo's been caught outside,
in that early descent down the vent
has resulted in a Zywoo opening kill
or opening death, I should say.
His body now an idol outside the secret stairs.
Limited utile for the finish here, Vitality.
A man down, they are testing bit.
No secret, their occupation bit delivers a headshot.
His occupation.
You met perfect position here to tonight.
A man advantage though,
is there really something for Vitality in this one?
Where is his help?
Where is the support?
Maybe he doesn't need it.
With flames gone,
there's the advances in to clear out the position
and now that bomb will likely go down.
I say that, Alexi are ready towards the double door,
swings it open to ensure they're away and aware
that that bomb plant will be spammed.
Two of the men are exposed,
but Mezzi still puts some more down.
JL gone, wonderful necessary kill.
Up to Spinks.
Two to find, finds a plant spot he can work with.
Wonderful, and Alexi's putting it down.
Double pin.
Doesn't look pasty.
They're coming towards Spitz, Domain once again.
Is he ready?
Yes, he is.
Mezzi down, tracking it.
puts down Zai Wu and now charging into MMR.
Kostli, you wanted to keep it close.
Instead, you've got a single frag and a single player left alive.
This map has been both pistols for Vitality.
Only one gun round since.
And a few rounds where they have tried to pressure Bitt at ramp.
They're pressing tough just like we are.
Targeting what appears to be a weakness,
but that means that Vitality haven't really been able
to establish a pattern.
in terms of what could work, there's more explosive direct approach, it is being dealt with now, we are tied up 11-0,
8-4 at the half, we said it was workable, and Navi agreed.
Again though, you want to talk about direct approaches, four members of the Vitality Squad.
But it's just Alexi.
He's playing in some breakable position, a flash for his repeat,
Guts control multiple bodies, spots the bomb there, all good in the flames!
IGL on IGL, Apex brings him down, Apex!
Finding wonderful awkward now for Navi and Vitality.
They can pause the spings, he hasn't.
He's got him bit completely off guard, yeah, all that space taken, and body's dropping!
But he's still down here, this is a crazy rotation from Navi.
Now what do you expect this?
If anyone scouts out that topside,
flames towards main, gets so quickly,
in confirm their suspicions but instead hang on it's apex every round up the
bed that has to be the call still plenty of time to do this messy gonna
investigate over the woods be just to be certain well we can't see and we can't
find him where we're gonna finish apex oh no they're going towards the A site
Supportive util for Apex. He's going to try and use this. Yeah, he'll use that smoke to guide his push.
Now, Alexi doesn't know. It's an uncertainty and nobody's looking his way! Wonderful!
This is a complete change in the setup. In that, traded out early, bit the ramp playoff in warehouse.
He's been spotted on the crossback, the AWP not in yard. How quick can Vitality piece this together?
Nezzi's just taking J.O. in the meantime. Pressure everywhere.
Lots of moving pieces in this one. Look at Apex.
Alexi be responsible now his position is noted by throwing out that incendiary
He picked it a power position to strike. There is no way Alexi's ready for this
Oh a lovely start for Vitality finding gaps
Up against the very best
Good confidence there to smoke off ramp. Make sure there's no push in play
Vitality got the eyes cross the T's bit and after his presence
Oh just alive
But vitality hard to see you losing this one
Wonderful brings everything through a full five
Do we see yard aggression from Nabi? That's the question
Seven for wonderful now they can just stand look at him standing on the red box and how is him about mass things
Some smoke
You know what's up, and who is it but bit tasked with setting himself up in a position
to defend that low site.
In his aggression, his core apex,
he was the lurk towards the red container.
Now the body of the assault starts to converge
onto this B bomb site.
It facilitates a plant.
It can't be disrupted.
They're going to have cover from Zaiwui.
Looking towards the rampside,
a legsy B descending event.
This is an important fight with Mezzi at the same time.
4B3 goes 4B2.
Sure, you got the bomb down,
but can you defend it? Mezzi, what you got?
Is there anything here for Zaiwui?
He's hit.
First off is JL, that molly top-hard, and now dripping down the vents, multiple bodies,
Imma will hear this, what's he got?
Metapex has to try and beat him down.
From either side, he's getting crunched in, counter his knees by Apex and a 2-1-2,
but look at their health, 16 points of health for this French duo in Cologne.
Caught at no chance for Zywoo, he's got some indagression, Zywoo!
Imma started to look like a hero in overtime.
The reroute from Vitality, they note the orb towards Ram,
They don't want to test the waters. They drop back. They find the gap down the vent for him. It delivers a multi kill massive work from him
He was there at the start of the round we cut to him just kind of jump spotting for info. We were so focused on the AWP
But Vitality had been able to get an individual down towards secret
So something within the round told apex we should not try and brute force ramp
We need to look for another way another option to get down towards B
But now B had an answer
Let's see what kind of trend they set to start us off.
It's a headshot from JL.
Spinks brings the fight to the squeaky door, and JL happy to oblige.
Yeah, you're bang on there. That's premeditated.
That's Spinks saying, I will go and duel against JL.
You know he's going to be there.
You know that's his domain.
So wanting to see if this head-to-head can continue,
the drops are with AWP down towards B immediately.
He's going to be AWPing from secret.
You're hearing the smokes, the mollies, and well, now the info that Emma is dead.
Wow, what a big one back from Apex.
He is playing a very solid game of Counter-Strike.
Keeping up with the younger guns.
This is the gap.
Threading the needle on RV.
Search of 15, in search of securing the double OTA to minimum.
That was from JL, Wilson Mezzi.
Scattering elsewhere.
Flakes is also fortified this A site.
Once he's starting to pivot the back,
JL could get another, the timing on his side.
JL's doubled up.
Such a crucial moment of the game JL finding form a double kill look at this
Yeah, there is something afoot you can see it's being considered flames is about to be wrapped upon and apex has got himself a real opportunity
to win the round with a flying
unlike anything
and it still might not be enough vitality
Bit under pressure for 20 seconds risky rotation considering the circumstances
Hi guys, Mezzie here. Make sure to sub to ESLCS. Keep right on.
a bit more aggression easier second done but simple when you boil it down cross out
on him it's not even a wall bang it's just perfectly placed coming apart the
seams now oh JL's got as well. Messi catches him holding on to his topside
valiantly and wonderful finds a way back in hasn't looked down though has he
little does he know apex resides in a forward position and now hit that flank
you discussed. He could be overlooked. They are starting to depart. When does Apex start to poke
his nose into the potential? For now, Bit holds lobby for his return of Alexi and Wonderful.
Just three kills away from starting this grand final with the first map.
The testing spanks. Nezzie flames everyone here, ready to contribute.
But fight! Finds the headshot onto Apex. They're all ready for you and down!
It's gone out.
Flames now spots him out.
Wonderful will need to support him
because he's got a HE on his face.
You know, only working with 60 points of health.
Cautiously fighting Flames.
Just the tip of his head, but that's all Bit needs.
Good start for Bit.
Pressure onto Apex on this side.
Playing the right position, holding the angle.
The Flames obscure, and he misses his charge.
Look at that.
Done the same, and Messi's P2K.
That is so much to start off their CT side.
I knew we'll do nothing here.
Yeah, well, it's good for Navi to come into the turf of Vitality and pick up the pistol round after Vitality getting both in the previous map.
Mezzi not long for this wall, JL.
I had an opportunity to remove it, but now knows the position of Mezzi backing off.
I think the focus definitely is on the likes of Bit for Navi and...
Well, Zywu, based off of what the desk was discussing and his lack of impact on those T-side gun rounds.
An astonishing stat, really.
Who's Apex flashing for?
Zywu mantling up.
We'll just use that to reposition forward position and down goes Apex.
Tywoo spotted out. Get awareness there for him. Not going to run past it. Not in a hurry.
35 seconds as there's the Mezzy FAMAS and it is only going to get one nice long range
shot from bit of course a headshot. Did you see his headshot percentage in that semi?
Yeah pretty wild which is why he's one of the MVP candidates coming into this ground
final.
Over 90% headshots and it's not like he was under-fragging either.
The AK will make head-shotting a little easier for Spinks if he can preserve it.
Oh, wow!
Nice!
The demonstration takes down the headhunter.
Well, this is great damage.
Three kills, gonna be a lot of rebies for Na'Vi, they don't want to give anything
else over, a wonderful one.
Blade should be happy with that.
Oh!
Oh that one, oh it really hurts him, they're cut down, two HGs well placed.
Flames, trying to keep him at bay, they will get ahead of this, into the Flames, into the
spray, lovely from Flames, catches them, holds that top mid push, it's not coming
just yet, the Flames stalwart on long, Mezzi tucked in, will like it be overlooked,
there he's ready, and Mezzi, only the one, the Spings falls as well, JL has
He's made a round out of this, the site there's bomb on his back, heading over to the site
for a plant, Emer as well, don't forget about the damage.
He's got 10.
Winning out that dual, putting Apex down.
The kit available for this retake.
Yet to reload, Zywil, 9 bullets, may not be sufficient for 2 kills, but Frames can
contribute as well.
Look at their health, he's not going to molly bricks, instead the big box.
Emer, swings into him, it's too easy!
Frames and Zywil!
They want to talk a bit of aggressive, are they flashing him?
He has a look, he has more than a look, calls it clear, now Bits realising, hang on, I think
there might be something fishy afoot and now another flash in his face, oh hyperaggressive!
The fight to the offense!
Well I was just saying to watch the flash plays from Vitality, that's more towards
middle, Apex and Sphinx through these alley-oops, but Apex setting up Flamesy, gutters pre-meditated,
that right there, that's the home where being done, how can we isolate the long piece?
That's a beautiful little sequence the difference makers is Emma again Liz has had our middle. He's aggressive
He wants to find out but there's an AWP we know what it can do in the hands of Saewoon
But now what do you do if you're now a V? You know there's a play to watch spawn as that rotator
You know the authors of the what's a ramp and Spinks is now in tunnels 2v5
They're everywhere. I'm getting pushed on B. I'm getting pushed on long
Precisely they've been harassed all across the map everywhere. Navi stepped within this round
They were dealt with handedly.
That is a beautiful round from Vitality.
You've got to have players that are willing to follow the call.
You know, Flames is doing everything Apex demands there.
As he pulls the strings, it's Flamesy that's doing the dance.
Well, this is the thing. If you're Apex, you probably say a bit of yourself in an individual life.
Flamesy, a stubborn buck, young, and wanting to take the fights essentially at all times.
If anything, it's reeling him in that tends to be the problem.
So the fact that he can have an opportunity to fight where they can set him up for that type of aggression,
And it pays off.
The flashes have to be perfect.
And that...
Oh, what a perfectly timed smoke.
Might spell a bit of disaster for Na'Vi.
Time is going to be the biggest issue.
It's getting awfully quiet across the map now.
Merzy.
Just as he was making other plans.
Tends to his sight.
Does well for the first five.
Merzy delivers a double.
It's up to Spinks to close.
And he's only got the one in him because wonderful.
He's done enough to facilitate plan.
Two on two a retake we've been here before
Can vitality best them once more there's more health this time at least for wonderful. He's already got two kills
Can the your pun?
Pick up a big round for now VLX he can't tribute
Wonderful, I think he spotted a little bit just on the front of that smoke apex is aggressive very aggressive
He knows these angles well, what a jump! I think he's mouse wheeled that. I think that's a mouse wheel accidental
Yeah, caramel smokes. No molly is nothing coming their way
And now they found flames dropping off was in that's the long
Something to work with how is this fallen apart with JL searching out mid the site is there's but it's the round
It's the round still up to debate. Do they give this a go kid on messie a molly and play as well
You may as well give it a look it was gonna be the same, but now they're getting into the fight up cat with two
Oh, hey man, JL watching through their fingers here,
Alexi getting slammed on through the smoke of a furnished off the short smoke.
That might do it.
Does he have a look?
Ziouzping searching long, Flamestow CT thinking about it,
it's hanging in the balance, one kill would have made the difference,
and now Messi goes down and lose all their guns.
Spinks the only one with an M4 and he's got to save it.
Ahead of this bit, bit, it's Borsi running out long into some HG stack.
He's covered by JL, but it's rightful. A single deagle.
Emma has to search for this. He has to.
Venos spinks as a V-Defender. He was just spotted long.
He needs to isolate this 1v1.
It's up to Nezzy. It is all on the Brit here.
He only has a pistol.
A tiny P250. It's not enough for that kind of range.
And yeah, Emma knows what that means by taking down Nezzy.
He lets his boys know that the B-Bomb site is a safe haven.
XB tending to middle, Tyro's missing shots, but so is Alexi!
It's surely still safe, but hang on, Apexi just has to hit one bullet.
Shadow, wonderful spotted body shots.
This has to be Navi's round.
Costly, but it can't cost them the momentum.
Thinking about Pokemon Nose in, the flash will be from Apex.
Immet blind, full blind!
The dream SaiWu delivers a kick!
Soon it's done to Navi, immediately.
Finances in question, Deagle's, Tech 9's, Immet taking another risk, another gamble, so much space.
Apex is rotating back 9-up, he's got no idea!
This is a nice response from Navi, Jail has the rotation towards Short.
Bit in tow. And just the short-lived celebrations of a low economic round
going away of Faitanthi, but Navi, they are not fussed at the pro activity there from Immet.
Oh, nice shot.
Yeah, important work from him in two back-to-back rounds.
I know that didn't convert the previous,
but the fact that he didn't get scared
when they were down a number,
right, some individuals on the extremity might say,
all right, hold up, let's just, I'll just wait.
We'll group up and we'll try and trade.
He got them the space to get the bomb down,
which held with some of these purchases.
And then he just launches himself up Catwalk,
shot, made him be a little bit,
but still got in towards the side,
force-like tied into the save,
and JL can't take anything with him.
Wishing his bit around that corner. Smoke exposed and a deleted lovely team play to start.
It's Zairu and Flames name plated.
What's that good spin hand? What's it now?
It does 14-7 so far in this second map.
Here's the Molly.
That Molly will force a decision out of them.
Does have the smoke grenade. Flashbang lands though and he's just going to be crouching away.
Finding an angle overlock complete.
But that is masterful from Zairu.
Yeah, you feel he's done enough, don't you?
JL wonderful, not even connected.
You said you want to find out whose paradise it is.
It's definitely looking like Zairu.
The more comfortable after two. JL onto flames, Apex repositions.
JL was brought low and wonderful has the bomb. Getting across this, two players.
Double hit by the flame. Nice adjustment. Taps the head, gets across,
spinks his missed shot and waited a second. That bomb is planted.
They haven't got the health for this. It could be great.
Tweet on the brow and that's Apex's first kill to secure the round.
Tim, how does Zahru get away with that towards the car position?
The Molly comes in, the flash is great. He's getting singed.
But they don't believe anybody's home.
He's just tucked behind it. This is the hope now.
They've got bit's number at the moment.
Cars on five and Zywoo's not keeps his cool.
Locks down two more frags.
Yeah, an Alexi.
Not happy with how that one unfolded.
Flavor of aggression.
Yeah, this is a different look.
Bringing the fight to SMGs and Tech 9
to make a 47s.
Far from ideal. Here's the flash set up.
Zywoo was not responsible for lower.
Spinks, calling for the flash, wants to fight, wonderful.
Oh, no vision, but no problem, Spinks hits the shot, BIT will find the trade.
The rifle upgrade.
They're advancing mid, they want to test, and Tywin is off though, it's perfectly set up to collect.
Oh, he's actually no, he's tucked away from window. Now he returns to it, could be perfectly...
Time! Tywin again! He's 11th! And puts Immet in the dirt.
You have to go A. You know the AWP is over towards B. You'd want to try and scurry up Catwalk
and isolate a fight.
It's a homie's bringing the fight to the end.
Our face bit's gone. JL could be Zawoo's next.
Oh, he's so aware. The re-aggression, the multi-gills keep coming.
We're going to get to the final round of the half. The lost bonus is only 1900.
And that's due to the back and forth nature of this game.
It hasn't been clean counter strike.
That's to be said for either side is a blade taking some notes.
Alexi trying to defend is on the worst case he'd go down after time.
Yeah, it's really a lot of faith into Flames.
Three on the wrong side of the map as this hit starts to come in.
Flames does miss the first opportunity, but Zywu in support.
Zywu doesn't hit in second shot. Flames has gone down.
The site will be taken.
Alexi tasks with getting that bonkoi punch, but Zaiwu!
The headshot is wonderful, but that was all that was visible, just takes him down.
So nonchalant with it.
And now so uncomfortable, sure the bomb is down, but is this going to be another vitality retake?
It looks good, because Alexi's low, 8 HP after his battle with Apex.
Bit will get aggressive, but now they're pushing short.
Skip from Spinks, needs more.
Bomb about half gone, Apex approaching towards the wrap, JL's actually hitting with the scout
and Apex got...
They're bringing the fight.
And it's going to work out wonderfully.
Long range.
Bit uses the dual baratis, the great effect.
He tames it as well with Wunderfuss, how they find Zywoo.
No contributions from Zywoo in this pistol.
Oh, careful now Apex, you've got the bomb.
Your teammates have found some space.
Alexi looking to address that.
Smoke will limit his contributions.
Wonderful.
Perhaps could do more on the site.
He's spotted towards the Gandalf position.
Jumping gets that info knows what two of them are one shot one candle and a well-placed monitor
It's struggled in map number one but coming into map number two is that impacting both pistol rounds and if I'm wonderful right there
I'm giving an extra. Thank you to my in-game leader for that distraction
I was pinned I was stuck and I was on fire, but he drew the attention so I could take him down with me
He met with the other M4, apparently jiggling over towards A-Rat.
How good is Apex? That's the question.
Ooh, Apex! Completely flakes and deletes!
It has gone! Flames has contributed! Wonderful watching now as Alexi has to try and confirm this is weird.
He's got the perfect weapon for the job, but still watches out.
out, Zaiwu has a rifle, no Kevlar jumping with the SMG, chips away, does more damage to do it and
spits down and there you go. Well that scavenged those M4s, that guy'll take their time before
that a few years but I asked the question, how good is Apex? It's exactly what he needed to do
on the scout to open the door, the bomb goes down and the buy comes through.
Oh, perfect demonstration of why he feels confident buying that. Look at this shot,
Outrageous headshot into Imer.
Bang!
Oh, the re-stabilization and that kind of micro adjustment.
He overflicks and adjusts.
It's a cool way to get the info safely flashed.
Nade for the clear.
Jump across.
Oh, that's right.
Oh, yeah! Look at that one!
Trying to set them up for success and it works out!
Teamplay at the highest level!
It felt like as soon as it was noted it wasn't the long extremity player, they weren't all in,
but they have to be going for mid and short control, so they harassed the little compo of U2.
Bit responsible for the potential of Flamesy, starting his advance now,
starting his advance, slipping the net though, Zywoo kicks over the front door, they're in!
Mezzi and Zywoo, take the beast side by force.
Retake possibilities, the kit, present, Alexi's rushing through T spawn.
to try and find a route and an avenue back into this bomb site.
But take a look, Messi has another smoke.
Could drop it out towards Dawes.
That's going to buy them another 20 seconds.
Held off and deploying it.
Didn't get skittish, didn't send it out too early.
And right now, if you're Na'Vi, how do you breach back in?
Flash in front of the Tans.
Alexi B is having a look at.
Halfway gone.
Backing away.
Backing away, ladies and gentlemen, vitality.
On the board on their T side.
Imre being hunted.
He sticks around for one, but Flames takes out his gun.
And so we'll see if Navi can find double digits or will Vitality continue to close that gap.
They're coming in.
It's a test of the long defence.
Imre, deleted by Tywin first.
Bullet finds his head.
What's the response?
What space is taken back? The CTs have to do something.
It looks for answers towards the upper turns. Flames playing a very passive game.
Apex the same, just spotting out mid.
It's not going to get anything anytime soon. I say that look at what's happening
Towards T spawn they're gonna leave spanks with all of this long control
Even still it's such a tough fight for bits after go to and only with the Famis. He has full nades
He hasn't investigated for information. He's worried that there's a player just defaulting enough for tunnels
And this is bad info. He's about to get a surprise unless unless he adjusts and finds the headshot confirms the whole teams there
Bit has done a lot now to equalize and to give them a chance to defend but the site already lost
sprinting across the doors. Apex gets the package to be secured pushing though.
Disrupting straight through the smoke with bit. Trying to get there ahead of the play.
Instead Apex takes his head off. Spinks spotted out, tagged up big from 1 to 4 on the scout.
JL spamming through it's gonna be a Lexi set up with some nades for this but
it's not the weapon for the retake. JL the only one with the rifle and are
they really not gonna give this a go? They're working it out. A tough sight to
retake, especially without smoke on the doors.
Zywoo could burn to that.
That could be problems, but he gets ahead of it.
Just 10 HP on Zywoo, but look at that.
Mezzy's good for one.
JL trying to mo-
Wonderful close.
Smoke's not gonna stop him.
Oh, he starts the spam.
He commits to the spray.
30 bullets!
And no to Zywoo's AWP.
Carpenter, he-
Being a lexie creep,
him spins overlooking.
The possibility is down.
They go!
That is on both halves
in the second map of play.
Teams giving it a go, giving it a chance, getting in their face.
I thought Simon would seal the deal with that one.
Now Wendell's head in the clouds as he goes to look over them.
But in there from tunnels.
We saw Navi trip up to Light of Eyes and not another one.
It comes up again and Wendell will not allow it.
Opening kill onto the in-game leader.
Now it's going to have to do the Puff and Master from the grave.
Another clear, another fight.
And they just want to harass.
And on notice he will require bits assistance if they test him on B but look at this re-aggress
Alexi B pushed through, takes the fight to flame, in control, trying to flash through,
Spinks can he fight in there? No he can't, solid work as this now becomes a 2v2, all to
play for, hit on the AWPer, Mezzi and Zywu, France and Britain working together to keep
Vitality in this.
Mezzy tested first. Lovely headshot, in that, helpless.
It's like cooking as well.
It's just wonderful. He's gonna be forced off the line by this U-Tilt.
Nothing for him here.
It's a perfect call after abusing that B bomb site.
Now they hit A.
Rolex is limited in his contributions now with only 17 points of help.
Emil on the ramp won't be the first to move, waiting for some distraction,
but Flames is having none of it.
Oh yes clean as can be clean. Are you overly concerned about B? Do you leave some absences on long because that looks like where vitality are headed as fast as possible.
Corner smoke washes her out. Wonderful. That AWP is perfect for the job. That's why you put it in his hands. And he's getting run at.
Spinks gets ahead of the play now. He's trapped. The AWP is up and ready to punish. The play has come in. The extinguished from his teammate. Alexi B extends wonderful's round.
round. He's pinned, he's stuck towards the car position. He's under so much pressure right now.
He peeks, he dies, he peeks, he loses. That smoke won't last forever. Zywoo has his target set.
Another one replenishing a deep-up smoke to give wonderful something to play around. Misses
his chance, but Sping's heavily wounded. Here comes another Molly. Oh, that's good!
Using the smoke, but burns down! Finally, he falls! They find it, but Flames,
He's been waiting for this. They're going...
Oh! It's a 3B! Charging his Apex! Trying to beat the 1M!
Jumping on the Spawn. Only time will remain in an impossible clutch.
Brought down to 21 frames and it's 35 headshots!
60 seconds now as Apex in combination with his team take doors and mid.
A flash, a simple approach. Nothing to report and a smoke on CT.
They're making this look like a default round. We're up count.
We're applying pressure towards A, we're applying pressure towards mid.
towards mid, now B smoked in exchange with the lurk.
There's a little gap between the two smokes there, that Spinks is brave enough to find
himself in, into the side, and he knows Biff around here somewhere, now he knows exactly
where he is, knife out charging in, Biff gets messy, Biff gets BOW!
Only Flames can reignite some hope for vitality, a one versus two, but time against him, he's
a dead man walking!
But they're heading towards Iwo, he hasn't had his majestic pistol round yet, Spinks
Spots him out, confirms that suspicion.
Sy was been equipped with this, but he got no vision.
A white screen fades to black as Bit demonstrates his prowess on the clock.
And the XB fills the feed with flash assist.
He set them both up for that.
Just chipped Jammage with that native kill.
I'm not giving Vitality a way back in, but the defence to open up.
It was very sight-centric.
2-3 split, no.
Info play through middle and the B execute from Na'Vi.
It finds success.
Just two kills, the bomb goes down and there's no way for Vitality to take on a 3v5 disadvantage.
Just looking to hold on to their Kevlar. We'll see what that leaves for the next round of play.
And they're starting to hunt. They want to take away the Kevlar.
Apex doesn't have any, it's just a flash. If he flames you, there's the other two you want to find.
To tuck in, flames you. Oh, he's able to get a kill for his troubles.
They're now encroaching towards this two-man hold of connector.
JL spotted out, Apex fires off a warning shot.
Testing flames, that's a good flash, does hit someone.
Oh, Apex has found a headshot!
Now Flames can build upon it, shot down by JL!
Good work from Spiky!
It is one kill away from conversion!
And already Zyra hits the scout shot!
Seals his fate!
AlexiB looks like he's walking straight into Apex.
The smoke just kaising Alexi's crawl but finds it all the same.
Mezzi blind calling for backup, strakes away, spotted but not dead.
Spinks is there in support, bit's done well to find Mezzi.
Spinks, they know where you are and they hit the headshot necessary.
They need to fight another day, hold on, he missed out!
Apex reactivates, it's Apex and Flames to close.
Those farmasses do what they have to.
Stating, he wants to take a Kato or a Cologne.
and a major before he retires.
And here he is on the grand final stage.
Hey! Stunning work!
Yeah, stylish!
This pretty standard approach was seen from Nami.
Two players over towards Alon.
Palace and the ramp.
Flames the aggressive. Flashfall against the flight.
Alexi wins it out.
Bitna will search Jail the same.
Alexi, Alexi goes down.
Apex and Stinks combine to find the equaliser.
But that's a gap for Bitna.
They're not going to clear it all, they're not!
They could have got those, they didn't come to bit!
Huge work that angle.
Catching them completely off guard, they thought they had some space.
Apex is repositioned nicely around that smoke.
There's a timer on all of this.
Molotov available, will force out Apex.
Flies up the ladder, not going to be found.
No! Where's the comms?
Bit!
Looked to adjust, it falls to one before.
Spinks has been working towards this.
The wonderful might overlock it.
He steps back into the line of fire.
a fire, Spinks will convert another Vitality round.
This is it, Vitality opt to not play standard
with their position dealt with.
J.O. loves this to dodge the flash.
For advantage, huge name, massive damage.
Apex just takes the fight, jumping.
The Guardian, Angel, on Vitality.
Finish undecided, fight coming their way.
It's Merzy going through the potpaces,
Alexi B.
He defends up catches out Mersi and Alexi be down to so we cannot adjust an important trade from JL overlooking Spinks
Confines the spray, but now bit will activate 15 seconds. Where's that bomb?
It's on the back of wonderful. Got a plant safe and he's gonna have to find a safe haven to plant will do so apex
Ask to close the gap
We talked about clutches who we're talking about now the wonderful denies apex is charged as the second
has mezzied for support from market window so we tested here and it is gonna
win now on the head-to-head wonderful shut down by the or so we're re-aggressing
opportunity could not track the jumping bit
hunting him down now I was still get to the vitality flames and spings over
looking him and he'll get that one eventually important save for Spinks
The good graces will retain the M4. Can also skinks up in that bedroom.
It's really important to space the image getting time and time again.
Walking out, Mezzy spotted. Something's up.
Mezzy the first! Flames!
Imme should be able to put this one in. Very low HP and it's a double kill for Imme.
The site is there. Spinks inside with their priorities changed.
I don't think there's a conversation. This has to be the save for Vitality.
more about Wu Malvi hunt.
We have Simpson rounds where Vitality
have attempted to harass.
But it's difficult to do.
Having the most impact in the map,
that can't be the consistent formula
for a Vitality victory.
Who's gonna step up?
Who will it be?
It's not Flamesy, not here.
Not on A, not now.
And XCB and MF, flood the site.
Ries one back from Zai Wu,
Spinks the site, the round is on.
By catching B, and it's all a hunt from Alexi.
He brings the fight to the defender.
Esi and Zywu have a decision to make. Ouch! That's a mistake.
Pace changes out of Naby and back-to-back rounds.
They know the safe guns are in the mix in the previous.
Get stuck in straight through the guts of middle this time in towards A.
Merciless.
In calling from Alexi puts them up to six. They can win the half.
It has been Spinks looking elsewhere. Mezzy has so much to do, so much to quiet of him and they overload the position, the famas is good for one but Spinks has fumbled.
It is contribution, Flames keeps us level. Apex pushing, charging into the fight, down as well, it's up to Imr in the clutch.
Sidewoo has found WandaFour back and forth in that head-to-head and now he's met
with two to find
those searching
They partner up and he finds his timing done three pallet. Yeah, three pass to ramp
Good, he's been having some good pistol rounds
Smoked off initially so completely unable to contribute as they do surge into the site the whole squad is here
Fritability plant their flag on the A site
control of CT gained aware of the potential for a flash on the retake
good name right in the face of JL dealing with that rotation softening them up
before they come back in 5v5 kid in the smoke who's got the better communication
you can aim quicker on these pistols five alive for both sides Alexi encroaching
fast from Zairou down to Imezzi has ramp under their control Imezzi doing everything he can
A double kill with his USP. Two bullets, his only house and spinks. Make sure you cannot use them. Wonderful.
He's on it. Oh, he's holding it. Running out of it. It's got to be a vitality pistol. Impact from Mezzi.
Doubling his kills and a crucial start to the second half.
Alright, that one could have got real chaotic, but we will split the pistols.
First time in this series so far. We'll see the force come out from Na'Vi.
Well, will they allow Vitality to get up to seven and tie things up for three?
investment from Emma into a Deagle but everybody else gonna keep it clean
is it even out bombsite and we have nothing left to block with the second
way it could be deadly how will Alexi react oh we know getting pressure from
your side does well to find one gets more than one three kills to the good
so back with a rebuttal such low HP Alexi be ready for it well received they
tried deception pulling rotations but sent back to sport you know just how to
look in the middle so I was edging out it all but JL's combat.
Imer has to take shelter and towards underpass he has done well to at least
find apex there and the divided attacking side now Mezzi pushing through the
apartment. Alexi drops a smoke to play around spinks in the site with Mezzi the
The bomb detached from there, so Alexi spotted out.
Does some damage to Mezzi.
Alexi can't hold on, Spinks has brought him down.
Significant damage dealt by the Finn though.
This should be a tough one for Vitality to close
and an A for Bit finishes the job onto one.
Mezzi, 6 HP, Flames is still disconnected.
You're looking to re-clear him.
Wonderful spot, still another head shot from Mezzi,
does a lot with a little.
This is manageable for Flames, oh it is now, it's spotted out, loses his head.
Flames on a grand final stage, can he come up clutch under the pressure?
He is already proven he can.
On the same bottom side, can Flames stop it from happening again?
Opts four truck, saying active.
That smoke by so much time, you can see Imer so paranoid of all the possibilities, Flames could be right there in it now, respected and faded.
Imer spotted out now, the info flows, Imer has the advantage but he just needs one bullet, Flames just needs the headshot!
Oh, there's so many details in that one, the fuse will come through.
Double incendiary in the defence, round of delay, 37 seconds they start, the final play, the final commitment, spinks the first to fall, good back from Flames on Tetris!
Missed all shot from wonderful. They stretch their legs. They pushing through flames has racked up another double kill so far
He's got the all-potract
Zywoo onto wonderful surely adds enough with the bomb now down
CT's pushing through smokes a boost on the sandwich gonna be spotted out Zywoo catches another
He's got two and flames leaves with three. It's vitality making this a one-round game
in. Comprehensive side take. Flight parts outlined. Everyone knows where they have to clear.
Spinks has managed to clear out of the triple box. A little bit of a jump scare for Flames
as it's finished off by the JLD. Pushing Sam with Alexi does contribute as well. This
aggression with the USP has left him a couple of kills. And JL's dig. All that remains.
Mezzi spotted out. A hard head shot to hit. Mezzi makes it look easy. Good flash.
catch him but I will have the cover they don't overextend that's the timing just a
siren of sway pulls out his name they aggress JL and Alexi be impressed a 10-10
scoreline imminent as he gives it a go supported by Spinks a head shot found and
no a second on to him the bombard unlikely the flames deny it for a
couple more seconds there's another one where that came from
Lexi has one lined up that's perfectly timed that's gonna spread wider has
to talk and respect it 24 that smoke's not gonna last forever as he from Palace
Begging that bomb to be planted is wonderful in a position to run of this a fake as well
They're taking their time hoping the frag comes their way
Holding it now wonderful straight side is JL first
I think that one got a little bit diced here than it had to be could have just stayed tucked towards the site
He's equal on the other side Xayah we're with a team. This is poppy. This is explosive the testing bit
He's all alone on this A site where is the support in the grinds to help him?
The bit's headshots good delivers passes the first test but Spinks and Mezzi have opened up the A site
Spinks from midside Mezzi from Tetris
Wonderful as you discussed
Only eight they got to deal with Spinks. They got to find him wonderful has to worry about 180 degrees right now
He's just faded away. That's apex cook takes the stairs with the boost in the on CT
Perfectly timed on the clear, anticipating the boost.
Miss shot from Zywoo, Emma peaces out, repositions and Spinks is running.
Alexi's heard this.
Seems aware.
This is the fight that determines if that B site is lost for Naveen.
What do you do?
Mezzi and Zywoo disconnected from the game plan on a silver platter to the man born.
Day Counter-Strike released, partners up with Mezzi.
And slips just past the window of opportunity.
It's him as responsibility.
Uncertainty.
Alexi from Cat, he's making a move.
Four Vitality.
Navi the same.
Searching CT.
Being so diligent about this,
they're gonna have to plant safe side behind the triple box.
Worried about everything.
Mezzi, punching in the code,
Covered by Zywoo, Imeh encroaching a nice spam.
Alexi B brings down the planter, it all falls to Zywoo.
What can he deliver on the grand final stage?
Two against him, he gets baited.
Imeh, brave!
So done!
65 seconds remain, they're gonna get the boost up
towards Short.
Good timing for this and yeah, more than they bargained
for on the other side.
There's Wanda Boltz, all.
And opening depth for Apex.
Frustrations will continue to compound.
JL spotted, Flames on the mantle up, spots out the short player.
Zairu with that AWP, looking for anything, a real grass.
And it's too comfortable for Zairu, that's a nasty death for JL.
Zairu has found it, and he might do more, it's not scared of Zairu.
That is a clear, the Lexi B defensive site honorably by finding
Spinks towards the apartment, that moves, enforces him wide, Flames is into the site.
Next he be back could be exposed so much responsibility on the captain here
Doesn't succumb to these early flashbangs is not pulled the trigger bides his time
Custom damage onto apex but already looks good for vitality a direct and brutal approach
Gotta be the calculator cold. Navi can't justify this.
It's just the financial conversation in all these maps.
Because they're so close, because they're so back and forth.
On no timeouts left.
Tell you 20 seconds, that's just freestyle.
We're going to get straight back into the action.
Short boost again. Short boost again.
And he'll all JL gets the information or something like that.
Good jump.
And now they take the fight, and they're deleted by Flames.
Oh, he comes together with Zanwu for a nice double.
It's bit again.
And only in SMG.
What's he supposed to do?
brings down the house on A.
Bombs to be planted, JL and Lexi B
trying to stop it from going to overtime.
Have Vitality done enough?
It's looking awfully good, Apex staring at the smoke
so Lexi B hoping for an overextension.
Mezzi, that third piece.
He will be the catalyst, holding the cross,
a shot from Apex connects and now what can you do?
JL's only got the hopeless as he accepts
There are more runs to be seen on the run!
Deviations from the norm, hyper-aggressive from Spick-Spick
from the elevated angle delivers an opening kill.
Trying to mix it up into OT.
Do something you haven't done before, flames information there.
Apex walking through a smoke into JL, a comfortable collection.
And it's just come off, it's overtime,
and suddenly we're bare knuckle,
pooling, boxing, charging up ramp,
and Nalfi have received this well.
That's where the individuals get put on display.
The decision is under pressure, they were the ones running with that momentum, taking
us into overtime, it was none of these chances to close.
Now both teams are going to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, as it is just Mezzi.
First of the 1v5, won't make it to second, Emma with the close, and AK Scavige carried
through.
JL Alexi shore side and all he won out the stool before onto JL
As he with the bomb as well. Are they re-aggressing a re-clear a good timing from JL? He's not ready for Zywoo
Important trade from Flames and now wonderful catches the bomb. Binks as well
Can't not be really fine too consecutive on their CT side as apex who's completely disconnected and spinks will have to wait
I'm on be apex work in his way towards count walk
towards that short side.
Noses and Orca on that side, wonderful, not so active on the line, intermittent check.
So the bomb is missed it, Apex forces him off the line, puts that Orca down to just one bullet.
One bullet would do it with wonderful.
14 seconds though, you need to plant and Spinks has opened up the opportunity.
Scooping up the bomb, you have to get past Bit, but he does fall off the angle.
Eight seconds, they flash as the bomb will go down.
Nade won't finish him off.
Bit and Immetra, they get in and Spinks denies it.
to him again on this B bomb site! Has he got a-
AAAAAAAAH!
Okay, fighting middle, awkward for Imeq, throws out the extinguisher, can't get out of gun out of flames!
He is comfortable on the stage, wonderful finding spints, avenging bit, but look at Apex,
he is already burrowing into the B bomb site, wonderful good connection.
So, flames his party, has been crashed.
So many gaps to concern yourself with, and look how entrenched Apex is.
No one's there.
You have to call it back surely with how far forward he is
They're wondering if there's been a B apps push because Alexi's still alive
Is he clear?
Apex
Positioning alone has won them the kill on to Alexi a necessary trade wonderful activate
It's all been wonderful so far. There's still time to pivot. They do not have to finish towards B
Are they gonna really run into wonderful with a hot hand three kills deep into the third round of overtime here?
Peek-a-throo, spot it out, lives on, Wafya guard, they're jumping at him, tags up, Zywil knocks off his boots!
Tug Sien as Mezzi's hunting, a hard shot there, and he's not far off, gets his eye to the scope, but Mezzi brings him down!
JL already brought low, 12 HP, 1 vs 2, but they're not looking, they're not ready for JL!
Well, the pressure, it's encapsulated right there.
And Spinks, whoosh, loses his head, Imeh one tap straight to the skull of Spinks.
Nice from Flames, Imeh looking the wrong way, bit from Palace, but Apex has been completely overlooked.
Look at that, wonderful, it was a free frag! A vitality looking for 15!
Sticks the landing this time round. Imeh active immediately, this is a classic.
This is very cheap.
And in this environment this is insane.
It's insane, especially now, that's actually found at Apex from the palace position, a long range headshot.
This is insanity from Emre!
Messi now overlocked and it gives Vitality a chance to end it here, despite the heroics of Emre!
Fancy bolsters of the fences up through Underpass, they've got two sitting on the bomb.
Coming in for him though, Messi tries to keep him away.
The flames on the floor, Messi goes activated, it's Emre, good for it!
And from behind, seems to have converted Emre's brilliance.
Zaiwu is in a pivotal position, he can play between either side, knows where Alexi is.
Deagle headshot required, Alexi's holding, passes the test!
Harvey winner, we go again.
All the balls to go for something quick.
In such an important round.
Integral, in their clearing corners rapidly.
Flames maybe gonna be overlooking this, yeah they have JL find Zaiwu early.
Wings is kicking up a pass to Alexi from Conn.
Had Lee with T side consecutive and last apex and as he can do the improbable.
Another good call from Vitality, spinks over to Wattay's IWU 2 flamesy hit bomb on JL
towards Ramp.
Oh, Flames is actually starting to test bit on the palace position.
Here man, and I found the smoke, kinda making a move, making a move now.
It's perfectly timed, A-Pace just gets run down.
Zywu does connect, spinks and looting his magazine into the smoke, which is for the one,
and then Humble falls in, but that's Mezzi spamming away to convert.
It's listening to a 2-1-2, wonderful a headshot, that's all he could see.
Hands are haircut to Mezzi.
Zywu thrust into the clutch. Wonderful and bit up against him.
Two bullets in the orb. Two targets to find. And the first is divine, he's taken!
From the sideline, smokes on A early. Early and a miss from Zywu. That's all quick.
Especially now the bullet finds him through the box. It's up to flames on the site.
Does well onto JL but Alexi B trade through. Reaggression, Apex through the smokes.
Anticipated, Zywu's made, finds wonderful. Alexi B's doing everything he can.
fake plan. Spinks lingers short.
And where's him and completely isolated between the two of them?
Lexie be pauses. Let's imagine come to him.
So his timing is coming through short side.
It could be exposed here.
We know he can hit these flicks.
He's got the hard hand right now as well.
And he's done it.
Alexi be called off and final map
three and half of my time to get the job done.
It's faster than charging into bit.
It's a meat grinder into the first!
They just wanted to throw it all at the A site and now, repelled!
It doesn't waver!
Deliver! Give us it again! It won't be fine!
But does this inform your next call?
I mean, it's not surely gonna be something in the same vein.
I feel like the stubbornness from Vitality...
Oh, well, oh!
Well, he made us all wait.
Wonderful, we'll punish him. No lost bonus for you, Zahui,
when you lose absolutely everything.
James gets out, JL spamming that AK-47.
Three of those for the CT side as they look to find three.
Oh, whoa, wonderful!
Spinks is out, and he's looking.
Stressful. Stressful. Good find from Bit.
Catches the walkout, Spinks.
Limited options for the remaining three.
Mezzi just go look in, wonderful, hitting every shot.
He takes this round, and now Mezzi's been hurt.
They're making the flame betrays, Imek converts.
And we've been here before.
I feel like Led Zei would make the opening play, shall we, Ledz?
Might be a good idea.
Let out AWP, I let out star play up.
Oh, yes indeed a headshot of the day out of the AWP gone.
The pressure for an RV to match the 3-0.
And they're looking for another overtime.
Can Vitality recover from an opening kill?
Thaywu seems to think so.
He thinks he can end it now and secure.
Mirage bit nice, works, bums him down to 19 points of help.
Bomb on his back.
Players above him underneath him.
What a headshot from Spinks.
He starts a leap in the right direction.
It has to be wonderful!
Redemption on little shot!
He's got an aide, Spinks is low.
This could be enough.
He has to not overcook it.
Spinks versus Wonderful.
He's thrown out his aide, swaps to the AK.
He's nervous.
Spinks looks calm.
Ready.
20 seconds.
He's hoping Wonderful overcooks it, overmoves it.
Hoping that the stress gets the better of the young gun.
For the quad kill, Spinks will have to make a move.
against him, drops away, wonderful, oh, this is his chance.
Fake plant spings, does he call the bluff guys?
It's these little details and now it's Emma up to bats.
You'll take that one, smoke, you can't flush me out,
throw your molly, it'll be wasted.
Opening kills though, not always an indicator
of the closer of four.
Hungry Hornets, wonderful.
Forced away from the line of fire,
good work from Apex, taking space
made my land close. Chipped damage. They're testing JL here. They are testing JL. He's
braved to keep throwing bullets down range. He still delivers a headshot onto flames. Traded
by Mezi, Alexi Lingers. 35. Time pressure. Two players here. It's Mezi, the responsible
for it with the loss of Apex. It's awkward. Carlton left alone. He's got nothing. SOT.
Wonderful. With that orb between the wickets of two. Swinging out wide with his
White screen, it's actually JL! The plush is at Unison!
Flames and Messi sent to an early grave, but Zywoo does the same, finds wonderful short side.
Apex looking for JL here, my overlooking spots him out! Ooh, a dink!
Damn, Apex has donated the bomb to Spinks said here, you take this, back around the world,
so up through the underpass is Spinks, Zywoo from short is going to have to try and pick it,
Hey, and he's grabbed another!
Awkward, very awkward now for him, eh?
Alexi B is so far away.
Titasi surging into the side,
so we're looking the wrong way.
Gets the info, gets away.
How is Emma doing this again?
Spinks doesn't think he is.
With 14 seconds, that bomb will be planted.
Alexi B, known to be the Bianca.
Uncertainty for Apex, considering CT.
Alexi advancing a smoke will cover him.
Ineffective Nade.
On the crawl, Navi's captain makes his way in, considering the options has no answers towards the ramp side and with his back turned, he's brought low.
No response from ramp, time sensitive mission for Alexi.
And Sphinx has actually got past completely.
Oh, out manoeuvres, out played and it is 19 each.
In our third overtime, 22, the magic number.
Wonderful. Oh, the perfect read of the situation. Flames the unloads his mag into the smoke and finds the young Ukrainian.
Can Vitality convert the opening? Do Navi have the capacity to jostle back for control?
At the disadvantage, Apex sending his troops into Alexei's domain.
Oh, miss shot! And he lets it! He thrives!
He's at... grabs Iwo's AWP!
And in pursuit of more! But here's Mezzi and Spinks hitting their shots and seizing the advantage for themselves.
I'm already going down on B-E-Bit and Emma, what can you do? Apex is going to join the party.
An uncomfortable retake.
An impossible retake. There's nothing for you here.
All the time in the world to set yourself up through the flames.
The headshot for a bit is unbelievable!
Spinks has him on the cross though, Spinks hasn't locked in, Apex
Managing his angles, ready to get in the fight, Spinks hasn't finished off his meal and Apex goes down!
How is this reality? The nade is catch on the cross, it's Parkes for the taking!
Mezzie as well in this Bianca position, still has his smoke
Brave for a jump and actually Obstrant's smoke off the apartment
That could be an invitation to push and they are creeping
Contact walking and the flash forces them into the line of fire
Mezzie does well to convert
Mezzi, this one-man army defends his sight honorably!
Sends no feedback to spawn, it's unless him, Aaron, Alexei,
but anything more to say about this one, they don't look good.
Because Alexei Shaw found one on the extremity,
found spins in the smoke, but the sight is lost upon,
lies with Vitality's defense, and Mezzi passing his test on B.
His smoke and a flash and he used them both.
But this is perfection.
This is what's crazy, we're really catching it in the replay.
But it's the right call. Alexi has the B defender, the short player, stuck over towards
bedroom. It's only Mezzi on the site. Apex is having to rotate in. The call is the right
option. It's the right play.
A headshot from the M4A1.
The sphinx is unknown. Hard to clear.
Hang on the timing on this. Yeah, his fingertips down and out. But look at him. The sharp
Shooter a clean headshot onto Spinks bit tried to find a gap through the palace smoke
But goes down the solid work from the a anchor flames and apex have connected apex in rotation
Wonderful than JL trying to get across flames on the other side of that smoke. You might be overlooked here
JL yeah, running straight into flames
XB out
Spinks takes down the short player again real opportunity for a fourth overtime
He doesn't seem to think so, as he aggresses short, finds the AWPer, look in the wrong way, holding W, Apex double exactly what it has found to Alexi!
They don't have the bomb, it's still over to what spawn, they need to go back and get this, all force the fights.
First, looks like it's a fight on the menu, Flames, can he really lock it down? A multi-kill required and he's got himself the double!
That's going to be it, Apex found the bomb.
And McCartens will surely be closed.
Navi 12 in a row, but it ends here and ends today.
And if we continue by the script,
Navi should be snatching this one away and taking us to the fifth of Anubis.
Uh, hello.
That's a mistake and it's going to get worse.
And that bit spins around, finds Spinks, makes it level,
Flames has not left and Flames delivers.
Wondering if he goes!
Side-dump of the business!
Wide-open!
Wonderful then Jail, quite quick on this flank.
They're going to be clearing through diligently.
Spam from Alexi, drawing attention from the library's side.
Jail a wonderful poke their nose up brackets.
Alexi's flash has to be great.
The setup for the Vitality looks solid.
So I won't even shipping away at Alexi B on the tapping of the Glock.
and Apex going to be the first on the side to receive the man.
Well, JL does well, but there's Blames, another one from Flames.
Alexi B, no Kevlar, half hell.
There's nothing for him here, it needs the one-time card.
Do it!
Vitality, start as they mean to go on.
A pistol round win, at least in the Copenhagen Major.
And we're off.
Alexi B charging into Messi.
Messi does pundle it well, with 10 HP to work with.
That incendiary could be his end.
And it's side with a built-up on it.
AK headshot, he welcomes the re-swing!
J-owl was hungry!
Zi-woo puts a bullet between his eyes to extend their advantage and now the B site you would think is wide open.
Wonderful throws out the incendiary to say it's not, but they know the site unoccupied and Flames is going to scout it out, confirm their suspicions.
I ask you to save now, wonderful to back off and go and jump bit on the other side of the map.
You never wanted to simmer out, you never wanted to be a landslide.
Off and overlook this boost. They are setting one of their rifles up for success.
Oh, but he dismounts them! Apex activates for two!
They know Alexi and Emma are both there.
The flash assist and the Emma kill. That's two out of the three remaining players.
Just have to get past Bit who they know has a rifle.
They clear the smoke.
What's he got? Replenishing the smoke. That limits their options.
So you want to push through it. I think they still do. Emma's ready.
He's ready for only the one. No, because Zywu hits it.
5 and 0, yet to die in Zywoo! Bits get just the one for Zywoo!
Try and find it, but nothing.
On their half-wooled U-Till, Apex, he wants to fight, he welcomes the engagement,
the JL at light applies, they're burning out, smoke is forced.
Pushing through, easy collection for JL!
Clear part of the game plan, Vitality do not want to give over Banana Control whatsoever.
Think about how much they are putting into this space,
they're down to almost no utility, still a minute on the court.
And bit the sharpest tools in the Navi shed tested here on the site plays jumps in
To repel the invaders still holding on to five alive and sping some Zai Wu with no time
Damage will be good right now if you have a tiny like mentioned you have plenty of cash
If you can take a kill to make it three that'd be great, but right now it might be nothing all closed flawless
They still fight for Navi
Charging up Banana, they're gonna fight.
It's Alexia JL, what've they got? JL's got nothing!
Steril in the soundfights, Mizzie puts him in the dirt!
And the B-side once again, exploited!
Imer with a made-up, trying to leave his fingertips!
Makes him the second for Zywo.
And already the site lost.
How brutal is that? Flames getting that information.
Look at the Sphinx lurk, he's already here to take this away from Bear.
You might walk away with nothing.
He just had to floor this round now, V.
He did a fight for you right, and these weapons.
And Vitality, they have the solution to Na'Vi's CT side.
Banana, the B bomb site. Harass it.
Absolute scenes right now, Na'Vi cannot hold on.
That info from Flames converted upon.
Wonderful gets something, Bit too.
Apex really wants to take this away.
He's charged forward to fortify the pit position.
They've just done well there, taking down the AK.
Bit lobs an AK-47 on his CT positions.
Will not get a chance to utilize.
Wonderful. Can't hold on to the orb, surely.
Still being closed in on Mezzi and Apex.
would have taken away. Send it to Spawn with nothing.
Vitality. Six already. Just seven rounds in.
Seven rounds all they need and Flames takes a leap
towards a seventh right now. Zywu tested on the B side.
Immet and JL do connect some shots but Zywu and Apex
stubborn on this control and Zywu will go down. That's Big from JL.
Finds a little bit of a gap, spams the smoke.
Spinks searching active on this one bit typically the housekeeper of the balcony. Alexi's aware this possibility
The group's up now vitality plenty of time to work with you to as well apex's lober jail
To and bit just walks in the Spinks
So active ready for another apex overwhelms them now as a race a race into a lexie low HP
He collects the first that's big from a lexie puts it onto flames with 40 seconds to play
No idea where he is
He's got a 1 on V1 looking for Alexi and he finds it!
Flames looking to come up clutch!
This is such a tough retake now for JL.
The bomb can go down and Flamesy can go absolutely anywhere.
The rotation time is miserable for the Lithuanian.
The way back in there's just so many questions.
They put him in this jersey.
They saw the potential in Flames.
But when he's having a really good game, he is Flamesy.
This would be for seven.
out gives him the info. JL has no idea at face!
Feels like everything is going vitality's way right now.
Opening kills galore. Clutches in their favor.
Navi with just one round and that is the first tactical time out for Blayne.
Thought he was going to call it earlier in the piece but he's let his voice play.
Now they're in trouble. Now they need his guidance.
Ten year pursuit. Blayne's got the right
Team mates alongside to facilitate, Apex gets aggressive and so does Bit.
Brings the fight towards the apartment.
So fast blood drawn, Navi can make a half out of this.
It has to start now.
The second opening kill, can't get that away from 3.
Makes good on the promise.
Alexi B sets JL up for success.
An incendiary to stop the trade.
As he thinks about it, you have to.
We smoke on the position, they can maintain this boost.
Alexi could be caught out by the elevated position,
but does not expose himself.
45, wonderful, miles away and Spinks is testing in.
Alexi being in trouble, anticipating the setup, but he know what's up.
JL throws out a smoke, Alexi's incendiary, forces the fight, the SMG now going wide,
finding a safe haven and the smoke is tapping away, does damage to Flames and now brings
him down with a UFB, Spinks in the cut cut.
Chunks away, him and Mezzi were aware of very good nade.
Everybody's here.
And another for Messi! Just catching strays!
Oh, and it's Apex's turn!
Look at banana!
Alexi B finds Zywin!
What a scalp to take, and he holds onto his life.
Flames wants to threaten it, spams the smoke.
Alexi B and Ima have the B control.
Oh my god, Apex gets his bell run.
In the cathedral, 14 HP saved by the concrete.
Navi did have vision on middle, just being smoked off towards Longside.
It's force-wonderful, more passive.
Alexi is still aggressive, he has to win out these fights, Ima is here.
He's back in his aim, says I got this, I'll get one, I'll at least get one.
Flakes to peek in, what a shot!
In the stand, Ima's not going to be undetected, he's not fighting, he's sitting back side.
Hoping to be overlooked.
Wonderful has flashes, there's an alley-oop available.
There's the Flames, exposed here, he finds just the one.
The Molotov forced to fight now, the bomb will be planted, this is make or break.
Tough retake.
They can break vitality but they have to retake the b-site.
Bit and wonderful.
This Ukrainian duo, side by side, in Kalan.
Oh!
Brings the fight tuned up the site, a triple kill from Flames.
Thriving in this grand final environment but wonderful.
He's got a chance, he knows exactly what's up, he does pull out the fakes, Spinks trying
to play the time, time on his side.
He hits the shot but it's not...
decision from Emma, he had a smoke, he had a molly, he opted to play back side, did not
fight with the leader, wanted to lull them into the B hit and they came knocking. He takes
the fight, only gets one, now it's a 2v2 post plan, not sitting still, the Flamesy special.
Brothers in arms, Spinks and Flamesy, Flamesy though. An elevated position and off fangle,
wonderful pitside. Long the gap, Alexi be scarpering, charging to try and fill
that gap gets some information there best messy lives on force the fight to
wonderful down after one okay they actually just set up the two of them
first needs good jail exposed in apex charging up to deliver the head shot
people look easy he knows what that flash means holds down the trigger a
perfect and double digits. Putting Vitality three away from the trophy before the half
even finishes. This is the last round you've got to go for it. See it, let it be it. Spinks
will take you now. It's just wonderful. 1v5 not a hope in the world and Vitality can they be stopped.
Haha, we'll find out, Dad! Three rounds, all the separate vitality from their first trophy of the year!
Not used, it has to be pumped!
And it's pit to start searching. Will he overlook the position?
Finding Spinks is a big start to taking this round. Now the utility from Alexi.
Oh, Apex still hits the shot on the cross!
Four of the bomb can even be planted, spotting out the bomb now.
They're all grouped up. The entirety of vitality advancing.
Quick thinking. Wonderful. The chance he delivers. Taking down Flames.
Previously, impact them on the first pistol. Now he's gone.
He might have to do it instead. The P2K is good.
It's bit back turned. Apex distracting. Executing.
Hitting the shot!
Matt is most.
Apex hits the shot just as the smoke's about to...
Now there are a few players offering themselves up and Vitality
will grab the pistol rounds.
What a shot!
This one here from Wandaful, he did his job, he knew Maul was coming.
He hung around for a little bit too much, it looks like Alexi B's best of five woes are going to continue.
We know what he's capable of, but he has to start now.
Mezzi, his counter part on the other side of the bow.
It's aggression!
It's found Mezzi short, but Flades, he wants to fight, chasing at all the nades.
Wandaful has a belt full, and he nearly lost it.
It's in the packing, it's in the quickly into what's A's.
Oh, it's Zywu though, you gotta watch out for Zywu, tucks away, sets himself up for the plate, flashes to delay, Apex library, spamming away, hang on, Zywu down after one, the JLV good for it, what a spank from Apex, back to back, Rousey's jumping for rim phones, one bullet to the head of JL could have made the difference.
Spinks and Flames, mid-side SMGs on the clear, Smoke will have them nervous. JL Pitt noted.
And already Flames is hitting the shots, wonderful's gone down, it's as early as it goes down, Alexi and JL fighting!
Tooth and Nails! JL X, he wants it!
These rounds are going to come down to the final moments, Apex again.
Feels like something special is on his side with his rotations.
He's coming in, never allowing Na'Vi to have the sight for free, but JL gets the reload
in, gets the final kill and keeps Na'Vi alive.
Lighting doesn't strike twice though, does it?
Wonderful receives, Svix, Flames next victim, good catch and apex.
He drives by with that CZ to pull it shy.
5-7 does nothing for Zywu and Mehdi, his B250 does bear some fruit.
Na'Vi are walking into the Lions den here.
Oh! He takes the lion's head! On with the double kill! He has overlooked Zywin! Zywin overlooked for one!
Saib, how much do you put into this, Na'Vi?
It's the question. The flash comes in. Doesn't catch him. Bit doesn't overcommit either.
Apex has he done enough to hold onto these rifles. Looks like he has.
And so there will be threats. There will be threats.
His setup looks strong.
It was all hanging in the balance for a moment, JL down to Flames, he'll take the upgrade,
but Navi will take a seven.
It's worth a look.
The second rifle round in this second half of play.
So I will see if he's side at AWP.
It's possible.
It's more than possible.
Could get dropped across on one of these survivors, goodbye to himself.
Apex an opening death of the back of the frustrations.
Will it pop the father? Spinks is low.
They've got to save again.
Zywu's fighting hard, he makes shots nearly.
In their boiler with him. Zywu already scoped up on B. JL, he's trying his luck.
JL may not be prepared for this. The flash of the gun, he's not ready.
Zywu, dynamic with the AWP.
You know there's a gap right now, but if you go, you're going into Mezion, Spinks, rotation on the way.
They're running. The two Frenchmen looking to do what no one's done before, despite that rich history for France in Counter-Strike.
Bit outbound. Molly's awkward. Spitz goes down empty-handed. It has to be Mezzi. He's made a bit of a close one. Still goes two!
He two kills! Just the one kill bit!
Pex still has a full belt of utility in the block. This late in the piece. A full belt of utility in the block.
He's looking good for vitality. JL trying to be the difference maker. Apex flashed off.
Still he's ready and he's started with a bang.
Spinks has called back towards A.
Tybur and Mezzi already here, a missed shot from Zywu.
Bit gets a chance, a second chance.
20 seconds.
They have to get this bot down and Xy delivers.
It's up to Zywu on the side, from behind.
He can't hit the shot back.
Fertations were there, a missed shot and some great ones from Bit.
A double kill again.
But Na'Vi, breaking case of emergency.
Bit is the secret weapon on Inferno to keep them in it yet again.
Three more rounds for overtime, but round at a time required.
Immet line, backs away.
Messi's vision also taken.
And it's good from Spinks, tested by Bitna.
Bit, is there really anything from Navi in the absence of their superweapon?
He's gone.
Immet trades four on four with 60 seconds left in play.
Zai Wu.
Oh, the guard die to the scope, but Emma goes down regardless, quick.
Can Flames hold his sight?
Zai Wu in support, but...
Smokers!
J-Hall's not looking!
Flames, aggressive!
With 20 seconds left, they just have to kill two.
Just Alexi B, and wonderful!
Stand between vitality and a realisation of dreams.
Wonderful!
It's one!
Zai Wu denies the bomb going down, it's up to Alexi.
Groups and dreams of the trophy in the Lancers.
It's one, ZywOo denies the bomb going down, it's up to LXC.
Drops and dreams of the trophy in the Lenses.
One on three, it's right there, they just need to kill him.
They just need the one frag.
Fitness Vitality surpassed Na'Vi.
To bring them down in a four map affair,
to bring into question the world number one.
Another amazing performance from ZywOo.
And this time in the grand final, conversation about that MVP!
Run to the chest of Karaoke in second flight! It's so damn fast for Mordesci!
It's so damn fast for Mordesci!
Two months, and if he shows up alongside Kersarotto, this team becomes ferocious and vitality.
It's a tough opening game if Fury arrive.
Yeah, really tough opening game. I spoke with Gary outside the hotel just on the way in today,
and he just kind of mentioned it. It feels like the star players,
it feels like they're getting more confident, that they're building themselves back up to where we've seen them in the past,
And that's only good signs for furia you add the eye test that's look good with Fallen's leadership
Yeah, this team can be dangerous if they start firing on all cylinders set up for the half wall
There's a flashback at coffins for vitality. Hey pecs has it cocked and ready to go flames inside. Woo
Waiting for that initial five flames will take the attention all the time
It's not going to send back some flames is trying to sell his life so that I will can succeed
And that is exactly what I will do it's a couple of hoes
What makes up for it?
And Sywa just shuts down the entire setup.
Sywa's first round of Cologne is an ace in the pistol round.
Oh, the old Baton switch.
So beautiful.
They could never get a read.
They could never actually find this fight.
Shout out to Flames, ensuring that with that flashbang,
he swung wide to activate Tyru in this play.
And what a way to start Cologne.
It's goodbye!
No one was watching him.
That's got fucking APS.
I'm sorry, excuse me, that's gotta be fine, that's gotta be fine, that's gotta be fine,
I'm ready to go now!
I'll excuse the fri...
Zaywu with a hot start, Furia, down to Glock's, and we'll take a moment to take a breather.
It's been so much talk over the last few months about Don Kimonis' rival.
Zaywu fell out of that conversation for a long time.
He hasn't been sort of fighting for the top spot it feels like.
Let's be really still out of that conversation.
but i mean look to the thing after the of the thing about it's i was you know
he's always said you know i am from speaking with it feels very true like
it doesn't come off as falsely
he doesn't actually care about any of that he doesn't care about that
individual accolades care about being considered the first but the best player
in the world he didn't care about it
when he was on the verge of overtaking simple back in c s go so now when you
come to this he's not going to care about it
we know it actually might be a relief that conversation isn't constantly there
He certainly got the skills and vitality, would certainly love for him to play like that, and we certainly still have the expectations that he can deliver like the best player in the world.
Solid performance and Cologne could absolutely change that.
Fury up to the buy, finally with rifles.
Skulls.
Looking to apply some pressure towards top middle. We really enjoyed Skull's performance and Fury throughout stage one.
Stage one is looking a lot more comfortable a lot of the skulls critics have even had to say that you know
He's definitely looking more comfortable side of this furious squad. He saved fury a lot of the times in stage one. I
Mean he just looks like a completely different player so much more comfort within this team
Here comes the execute late-round take up banana flames up close against the case and you shall not pass this smoke. Oh
no a
complete
Disaster that was a buy for furia. They do not get even through that smoke
It's I won flames that combo is just locking banana down and look at the way that this map has started
You have the ace from Zybu in the pistol round and now you get this where no one can actually even make it through
The smoke they get stuck behind it. They block each other and get absolutely deleted if you're furia
This is a low point already. Oh, yeah, we rounds in
It's definitely a low point.
We'd be surprised to see a timeout coming at some point soon
because there's been a very slow start to this game.
Vitality have come out with an absolute heater falling,
sprinting up through Banana, gets beyond that half wall.
And look, let's put this in context too.
Inferno is a must-win map for Furia.
The idea that you go to Vitality's best map of Mirage
and be able to take him there to bring us to a third map,
you can't rely on that whatsoever.
is critical for Fury in the series.
It falls from a pretty good job at forcing his rifles back without losing his life,
and no one for Fury goes down in that skirmish to top banana,
but the bomb is still going towards top mid, and Zaiu has got the read to rotate over,
and from library he's seen enough of cello to stand and fight,
but it isn't exactly the most impactful shots from Zaiu.
He leaves that to Spinks instead.
Zaiu rotates over to cover off that archway,
and Kerserato is left in a 1v5.
It feels like furia haven't gotten any kills yet. It just feel like the minimal amount of frags have come in for furia so far
Just one on Yuri back in the pistol round single kill
It is just crazy to think about for furia as we go into the fifth round of inferno
Well, let's see how this next gun round goes
It's surely can't get any worse than the first one around three getting stuck behind that banana smoke
Well done from vitality as you mentioned no one committing to the fight against fallen no reason to risk your life in that
situations are back and away same with zaiwu awkward spray out towards long but
doesn't really matter because his goal is just survival doesn't need to commit
to that long-range fight this is a attack as we chill for a little bit if
you really need to chill for a little bit just get into it might actually be
might be cold starts and then there's this this is freezing yeah you can't
talk but at least you get to just sit there and then I don't know do whatever
breathing exercises meditation was I was just staring directly at them yeah
Whatever mantra you need it'd be funny if we get to a point where like it like teams like you bring a tech time out
Which is like stand up and stare down their opponents. That'd be great
Who do you think would be first to do that? I think it's I think it's like a carrying move
I think it's playing out cooler in my head than it would in real life, but yeah, it's sweet
And I just gotta be weird in real life. Yeah, it would be a little awkward. I don't know who would do it
I don't think there's any teams who have the attitude the old VP would have been great. Yeah, that would have been good
They can do that now with the coaches
Next as returning to vitality
He wants some trophies this year with the squad.
And it's been a talking point for Apex too.
He's got a lot of faith and a lot of comfort with his coach
and really enjoys working with him
and just speaking with him about it in the past.
He's just kind of been like,
look, bringing him in here,
I want him to win trophies.
I want him to have more trophies.
I want him to experience
winning the biggest trophies on the biggest stages.
So part of the reason that Apex brought him in
was to work with him and work closely with him
and have his knowledge kind of flow throughout the team
But also he wants his homeboy to have some fucking wits. I did it again. I apologize
You're turning this into an 18 plus show. This is a family show Jason. That's the last one
I'm gonna button it down for the day at the F bombs out of here. Yeah, your little mouth
It's I'll get you some soap clean that out Jason. I profusely apologize. It's all you listeners at home
But yeah, he wants he wants to be one of trophies with his coach
That's the point. I was gonna have the same dramatic effect as your previous words to me to sell it with an F bomb either
Let me see, let me hear what you thought about yesterday.
We had some crazy upsets, Jason.
Yeah, we did.
Oh, it's heartbreaking.
It's mental to think about.
I mean, it's cool because both of those teams saw and Mongols were like two teams from the
first half of the season that we were like, all right, we're seeing some cool things.
We're seeing some really cool things out of these teams.
It's looking good.
You jerks and Aaron's Dose for Saw were like a revelation.
Their writing was so strong.
Mongols, obviously Mazzinho's been on the rise as well.
Blitz still playing really good.
And just seeing both of them actually capitalize on that potential and show it off and upset
some of the biggest teams, it's crazy.
A few days ago we opened Stage 1 commentating Sol vs Mongols and that felt like the most
opening game of a tournament ever, right?
And now that we're casting it again today.
It's because that first game we were alternative, we were just like, alright, which Sol is
it?
Which Mongols is it?
And now today it's for qualification to the Lancess Arena.
So it's crazy how this tournament has gone so far.
And that's gonna be a tough game to call because Mongols feel like they're playing better than that opening game and saw it looking fantastic
So yeah, that's gonna be a fun game later on today
Monsfurs is Falcons currently going over on that major what's spoiled the result for you by nets over there if you want to catch that action
Oh, you saw the tweet. I did
Did make you feel bad. Yeah, cuz I was like, yeah, you're right
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If goal is to get a good start in Cologne they're taking the first step all right fist bumps high fives everyone's clapping feeling good
We're getting back into things. You know what that means tech pause is fixed. Thank you to the admin team
And we've got round five for you. It's gonna be an AWP in the hands of Fallen, surrounded by full AK-47s in utility.
No AWP yet out in the hands of Zywoo. We'll have to see if that even comes out, as we know it's Zywoo.
He's content, even happy at times to stick on the M4.
We had a fire restart for Vitality. We'll see if the tech pause has iced him out.
Okay, Serrano, sparing up through that smoke, dishes out significant damage to Apex.
Banana has been a problem for Furia, they haven't been able to get up through Banana,
and haven't been able to get back this Zywu Flames combo.
This time they forced the adjustment in Vitality's defense. Quite significantly so.
Might not be the adjustment they like with the fourth player over at the A bomb site though.
Skull's over in Boiler's looking for someone to get aggressive.
Apex with that low HP is going to park himself inside the bomb site.
He'll be stationary for the rest of this round with that HP.
Now with four players here, does Vitality want to get aggressive at all towards brackets?
Just playing containment for the moment, defensive smoke deployed, closing access to rep.
I almost feel like Fury look like they want to set up a mid to B split, but these smokes delaying things
are going to make this a really hard timing to hit and synchronize.
And now Vitality start to send players away. They're coming back now.
Signs of Fury is presence in top middle.
That bomb still in banana inside, who goes for the peek, dies at long to skulls.
An Apex has no HP, so he can't do anything.
He tucks himself into the site, he has an MP9 and no HP, so it's on Flames.
So it's either Flames goes nuclear, or this round goes the way of Fioria.
Falling cuts off Apex trying to make his way back, and now Flames has been spotted, getting pushed from two sides.
Time is limited.
Flames with that headshot, bomb is down, and the kill comes through that smoke, and they have to sprint to the site, and there's no more time!
Shrug it!
Last second!
Is there-
Hohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho
Vitality picking up!
And last second kill onto that bomb carrier!
And fury, I cannot catch a break!
It's 5 in a row for Vitality!
That's...
Insane...
I-I actually thought he might have gotten that at the last second!
Literally just ran out of time!
Ha ha ha!
In the millisecond, flames had to get one kill!
And he sinks the bomb carrier!
That is so huge!
Sinks the bomb carrier behind Demolitov that he threw as well...
Oh, oh, oh, everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for Furia in the first five rounds of this half.
And now Zywuz got the AWP, and now he's punishing you early deep down middle.
Furia knocked out of their game so hard.
Kastorado charges out with a flash, buying in a hole! Kastorado rips them open with his finds,
and that smoke goes down to with CT. This time Vitality do not hold that B site.
Finally, Furia breakthrough.
And Vitality not even budging whatsoever. They know the B site has been lost. There's just an automatic save call immediately.
Clearing out halls to make sure there's no danger for the saves. I will transition away from his position on RAP side.
Fury is just going to... I mean at this point, yeah, you check all the details. You don't skip any steps.
Clear everything, smoke everything off. Oh, Fury is actually coming over for a little looksie.
Vitality's having a pier on the lake shot. Yuri gets brought down incredibly low.
Now, Spinks is still on the A side of the map. He's nowhere near there. They're just hooking and prodding and trying to get a couple of X's and damage the economy of Furia.
I think equally though, they probably don't want to lose these weapons even though Spinks has $11,000.
Yeah, it's been a very clean start from Vitality.
As I will just take a shot at a very narrow angle whoop knows there's one still can't land it
Fury is gonna get away and they have their first round on the board
Yeah, but Sphinx is still over towards T stars. They're messy is charging down middle
They look to make this very expensive for fury. They're right at the end. They're gonna throw utility down
They're gonna try and heat things up and cello and skulls will hang on to those weapons
And they will stop Sphinx and messy from creating problems. Yes, they will
Dangerous situation for fury and they come out on top
So some rebies for vitality, but they've got plenty of economy to handle it
Good job from K serato. It's actually it's one of the things I talked with with Gary about a mention
I spoke to him at the hotel before coming in today and I even just kind of said like one of the things I've noticed is
K serato is way more active in like the first 20 20 30 seconds in the round that I'm used to and here just grabbing two entries over
And banana like it's nothing. He's like fine. I'll do it myself
Love to see it
Masi's gonna mix some aggression into his play style and he's got a clear runway until he meets skulls heads up watching for the push
And an early advantage for furia
Sairu strikes the all-over-the-lifers speaks fighting for short gets taken out by fallen Sairu has to chime in
He's holding for that second smoke is about to come up as long as they wait long enough for that smoke to bloom
They'll be able to get onto the site and Sairu is still fighting smoke breaks apart Yuri goes down
And it's two versus three that just seems difficult for vitality again here to retake so
Now walk it away from this. Fury will pick up two in a row. They needed that they needed a third player
I think those apex trying to come through the smoke and brackets to wrap around into the bomb site to create a second angle and
This time case or auto not the entry man not the aggressor. He's just chilling and lurking and waiting for that
So fury it now is to seemingly
the, uh, unfazed, not knocked up,
killed her by these first five rounds.
There was plenty of frustrating moments.
You get ace by Zayu in the pistol.
You get one kill in three rounds, or four rounds,
and then, second, missed plant.
So there's a lot of moments for Fury
that could have tilted them off the face of the universe,
but they have stayed in it.
I was a sense of being able to build into this
is vitality go for their first time out.
As you mentioned earlier,
There's a lot of money available for team Vitality, so even though they've lost two rounds in a row,
they still got so much cash.
So much cash on the CT side built up, it would almost be a travesty if they let this kind
of early 5-0 lead slip away.
They have so many opportunities to rebuy and adjust and adapt.
I mean this start for Vitality really ends the conversation that is often had in these
tournaments when a team joins later in the competition.
the team coming in from the stage one or the play in going to have more of an
advantage warming up well I think with vitality start that instantly ends that
conversation they're here to play I mean if you look across the board
everything would lend to that right saw Mongols with those upsets yesterday as
well the teams coming in fresh teams coming in cold and that's I think why
would be such a devastating travesty of vitality wasn't able to
capitalize on such a good start with everything falling in their favor out
out of the tactical we're gonna get a technical
give me everything to that as a communication issue
we don't like this we do not so it's a two-way street
it is
unless one of them is a narcissist that's a one-way street jason
okay
well i'll add that to the quote that's a good evolution
you can add that onto it and it's it rolls off the top
we'll get this one solved
for a few days but they always get fixed
nice and quick
as always my my dream
My dream occurrence for this match with Zywou having an AWP on the CT side is that we just see
Dominance Zywou moving around the map. We saw him with a mid pick a couple rounds back.
I'd like seeing more of those aggressive plays, peeked on Banana, peeked on middle,
maybe get aggressive and go for that peek in ult mid. You got options and we know that op on
Inferno if it gets rolling the CT side can just control and dictate where the T's feel comfortable attacking.
I'm sure Brazilian fans would like to see that though. I'm sure they would be happy if it was a quiet Zywou
but he doesn't look like he's going to be that quiet so I will with today.
Now 11 and 1, 5 of those in the pistol.
It's actually a very cool off-battle when you think about it. Fallen, you know, obviously not on the same level these days,
but has put together some very good individual maps in this tournament with the ZWP,
some brilliant sequences that we saw over on a Nubis.
That was crazy.
Yeah, some combat off things, some classic vintage Fallen was peeking out from behind the curtain, it was great.
I can go for that too.
Yeah, more of that please. Yeah, I'm greedy, I'll take it all.
Vitality's results recently haven't been bad, but I think when you look at a roster like Vitality, their expectations are different than the rest of the squads, right?
Yeah. They're in that top echelon, so they're wanting trophies. The second place is the first loser.
Yeah, it's weird because there is like a very negative conversation around Vitality because it's clear with the eye-tests and even just hearing from the players themselves and the team themselves.
There's there's some things that aren't clicking the way that they feel like they should be and I mean all these five players
individually very very good
But just something hasn't been working and a lot of it comes down to roles who's playing where but you look at these results
It's not bad. I mean, you know
second at pro league second at Dallas
Semi-finals at blast spring finals quarter finals at eSports World Cup is is a rough one
Obviously you go back further to Katowice. It's it's a little ugly
But even that eSports World Cup, like getting to the playoffs, getting to the quarterfinals, it looked bad.
Yeah, but it didn't look good.
Let's not miss out on the Katowice. It's all be sure it was the start of the year, but it's the other championship event, right?
And this is vitality expected to do well at events like this.
Katowice seems to have a curse for them. It'd be the final of Cologne.
I just bet, you know, I like to keep my reference point for teams on that HLTV three month filter, you know, like you go all the way back to Katowice
and it's like we've been over that and yeah it's it's an ugly stain on their on
their resume for the for 2024 for sure but the I mean I think some of the make
up for it with a good performance of Cologne and some of these issues still
obviously persist all the issues are not persisting in terms of communication
they're sorted out we're ready to go it is 5 to 2 for vitality fury off the
back of a two rounds in a row if they can keep it up with a case on every
Player Casarotto, getting into Banana early on.
Grenade's all...
Well, I passed him.
He won't take any damage from these initial skirmishes,
but Flames is charging right through that smoke.
He Casarotto handles business.
Feels very forced, like that play was designed out of spawn,
and they just stuck with it even though it's not ideal.
Maybe some utility was missed, but...
Coming through that smoke, Casarotto's not blind whatsoever.
No flashbangs, nothing harassing him,
and that's an easy frag and an easy advantage for Furia again.
Now the bomb is going to be going towards the apartments.
Mezi sits within the site.
And Zayu is towards Pit.
Committed position with AWP, but he's got cover.
He can dance in and around this wall.
And Mezi, if he sets up enough distraction,
Zayu is all to prove the lethal.
Mezi from the site collects one kill,
and Zayu's got the rest.
No issues for the French AWPer.
He now knows where his next victim is.
The flash up short smoke is up to protect Yuri.
Grave for Zayu.
He's so heavy.
Pee-pee. Man, fall and just frozen in that corner. You're fighting towards bombsite and you hear that
offering out and see a teammate fall and you just know you're dead. You're frozen in the open, frozen
in place and helpless. So a 5 on 4 for Furia doesn't pan out with the hulls pop, trying to hit a
creative timing, but Quesarado can actually still do something with this because it's a separate
1v1 fights, 1 towards CT, 1 in banana.
Problem is, he needs to make something happen now.
There's 15 seconds and when no one's showing themselves,
this defensive, like just staying pad and just staying hidden,
is actually perfect.
Because if Cacerota was able to get 1 kill,
you could see that bomb over at halls.
Maybe you force a rotation.
This late in the round, Vitality takes a death of the B bomb site.
They probably think that both players
are attempting to finish there.
And maybe you get a rotation.
Cacerota goes down at the end.
For the time, so he has many left over.
It won't be a 3 round in a row.
Come back for Furia, Vitality.
back to any ways out of the tech issue and it's I was earlier playing towards B
find himself and hit this round combining with messy and they don't get past that
all this is this is the great disaster of going down 0-5 in the fashion you did
without having a whole lot of impact without getting a whole lot of kills
and letting the money on the CT side grow there were four kills in the
first five rounds of this game for furia so you get to a point where
yeah you go on a two-round streak and usually that's gonna be like a half
by two rifles and SMGs for your opposition but Vitality had built up like four or five rounds of
buying just by the virtue of how strong they were to open this map so Fury is just playing this game
on nightmare mode having to grind back this game against full buy after full buy after full buy with
no relief this music really does make me feel like I'm on an aircraft carrier yeah you're
beginning yeah it's the fantasy being lived out Jason get out there Maverick
haha
Saibu
Confident to take the pick down middle
He's 13-1
To start off his Cologne campaign and spinks
Oh, he's moved down into second mid
Fallen spotted, that tech nine will not fall
But when our cello's turned for boiler
Oh, he gets Saibu
That's a huge opening to get
Mezzy looking to block the gap though
He goes to fight short Pichello
He's playing the sound of death
Right now inside of the site and spinks
He's trying his best to make out for vitality
His weaknesses inside of the safe bomb site
but cello does not stop unrelenting, finally taken out by that itchy grenade, but the damage is already done.
You know, that fence on balcony saves his life. That is made of some tough material, blocking all of Mezzi's bullets.
And this is like a change of pace, I think, brought on by individual decisions.
Like, you get that spam going towards ult mid, and cello up in, you know, up in halls is like,
like, oh, I can actually beat his fallback.
If he's actually peaked that far down mid,
he's got a long route to run, picks up the pace,
good heads-up play from Cello, and you get that kill,
and you say, they've been starting 3B.
Let's actually try and pressure this a little bit faster.
And then once again, you find another kill on Mezzi
who misses the shot.
It's perfect.
So two out of the three relevance that Fury have found
is off the back of Kessarotto,
sprinting up an anti-getting two entries,
and this one's Cello, crushing down on that A defense.
Look, they all count.
You know, we're not gonna sit here
say fear is playing beautiful team counter strike but yeah it's keeping them in the
start you have the individuals to win as individuals as well so use that to your
advantage and as bad as this half has looked you start winning a round like
that here and there every once in a while get up towards four or five and
regardless of the fact that you've been outplayed and you've looked like the
lesser team you're gonna have plenty of rounds to make this a match in the
second half. Thank you. Unfortunately yeah thankfully both teams extremely
experience with these situations and tournaments and
Stop and start of play like this can really take you out of the flow out of the momentum out of the game
But these guys are going to be well experienced at dealing with these pauses
The rest of the series involves Mirage up next this vitality's map pick
And if neither we got nuke for third, do you think we're going to need three maps in this series Jason?
Like I said, if I tell you when inferno, I think it's a 2-0. I don't think I don't think fear is winning Mirage
Um, I think the hard part about this whole series when you prepare for it, if you're
Fury, you're looking at it, and you like Nuke, you don't like Mirage, but you have to ban
other maps.
So they're gonna get their best map, and even though you like Nuke, it's Vitality's
second map.
So you're playing two really, really, really strong maps, and Furno is the weakness
that Fury is trying to punish, and if they can't do it here, it's hard to imagine
that they would cause an upset on one of Vitality's strengths.
I mean, Zairu is a beast on Nuke.
He's a beast on any map.
Yeah, it's true.
Specifically Nuke.
Nuke is, yeah.
Yeah, it's another level.
That beast shows up a little more often.
What is that?
It looks like a little, I don't know, yeah, like a purple-eyed lemur.
Cool.
Or some weird sloth.
Yeah, we're sloth.
I feel like sloth is taking them.
Yeah, nap has kind of taken that market.
You can't bring a sloth.
I've seen a sloth recently, Jason.
How is that?
It's pretty cool.
It was like this open, it was kind of like a zoo but it was a lot more space for the
animals so it was kind of cool.
So I went up there and it was the monkeys were sharing the same sort of enclosure as
the sloth.
And the sloth was moving pretty fast for a sloth, man.
Yeah, faster than you expected.
Yeah.
It was climbing above my head.
It had this tube and it could climb above your head and you could stand underneath
it and a little monkey came over and started peeing through the hole.
So I had to dodge that, Jason.
But that was a fun day.
That's a special day.
It was there with nature.
with nature. Sloths are awesome creatures though. I can see why NAF loves a sloth. Are they
awesome? Yeah dude, it's like slow life in the slow lane. Sure, everything that makes
it awesome. They take everything, they enjoy life more than others. And they sometimes even
forget to eat, they're so lazy. So, a lot in common with gamers. And Spinks, he's
charged down mid. That M4 is ready to go and no one's turning, no one's thinking
about it finally Yuri has a little look just what Spinks and it's lucky that he
did because XL matches Spinks in that fight. I wonder if you heard a footstep as
Spinks kind of spent that up to turn the corner. Either way this is a lot of four
on or five on four advantages that Fury's been able to find I think this is
their third or fourth one so far in this game and now they're gonna build
upon it. Apex gets a little lazy with that peek and Flames has a
No way. You can't let this happen, Furia! Two kills, clean on the entry and Flames off the coffins! It's just ripping them to shreds!
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave, and now Fallen's left in a 1v3 total. He's collected that first kill.
There's still two remaining, and that rotation from Mezzi is only arriving now, so Fallen, he puts the bomb down.
He could have thrown the smoke out towards CT, but instead uses that to the site.
There's a gap, Fallen goes to use it, Zywa already had eyes on it and pins him down with a AWP,
but what a step up, what a hold from Flames.
That's a 1v5 hold from Flames at the B bomb site.
Four kills and I think if he went passive after the fourth one he would have got the
fifth.
If he just reset himself he got a little eager for that ace, but it's all good when you
deliver like this.
Two rounds that Flames has individually, literally by himself, won for vitality at
the B bomb site.
I don't know how few are gonna deal with this now when you get two entries towards B. You're all charging at one player
You still can't get into the site
Yeah, those those kinds of miss miscues
For fury they'll start to make you in a game feel like
You're just getting buried
Inability to trade a player like that when you have such an overwhelming advantage five on four into a five on three
And one guy takes you out
Chip damage from the native APACs, he's had a ton of damage in return.
It's not what he wanted.
We'll give him a pass.
He's been excellent outside of that flashbang, and the grand scheme of things is not a big deal.
It was still pretty funny though.
APAC's just getting up, so you destroy it by the flash.
Fury up.
You still want to go B?
I think this is a lot of Fury just saying,
And you know what we're getting a little bit beat up in these defaults obviously 7-3. It hasn't worked the way it's designed
Let's go into something a little bit more simple and let's focus on the trading that we struggled with in the previous round
Now the hard part is because they've been stalled out for so long by the time they end up pulling the trigger
Spinks is gonna be here
And there's still utility to delay this final push of fury up
Flames forced out of his position. You'll play from new box instead and
Strip back into second oranges. Here comes that attack from Furia. Flames from the site, it's cello down. Flames looking for a multi-kill yet again, and he will secure it. This time he's got Apex to back him up, and Apex always down. Technique for Fallen strikes into action, and now suddenly it is a winnable round for Fallen. He's on for the ace. He's on for all five.
work at a 4 HP.
Yeah, 4 health, that's all he's got to play with here.
But Fallen, he brings the fight to Saibu,
and suddenly it is just Messi left,
just Messi to stop the power of the professor.
And Fallen waits around that corner,
doesn't want to give away his spot,
doesn't want to peek into the open.
He won't fall for that initial tap.
He will not fall for that old trick.
The second, he won't even peek that until this fight
eventually comes.
Messi walks into him and prevents Fallen
from pulling off a heroic clutch to save Furia.
It's eight rounds for Vitality,
but that was a damn nice try from Fallen.
It really was.
He did everything he possibly could.
I mean, obviously all the kills are lovely,
but even in the one-on-one, right as the bomb goes down,
that's so much time to have to play a post-play at 1v1
with only four health, and even holding his nerve,
not peeking on the first,
not even really peeking on the second.
Mezzi just had all the advantages.
Dude, this is gonna be such a frustrating half
fury because you're thinking about so many of these scenarios that you should have won
how close you came to winning multiple rounds in this half. They have to get four though.
They have to get four out of this. They got to do it with mostly Galils. You think to
how fury I have won the majority of the rounds in this half it has been one individual
stepping up and getting those clean entries. Okay Serato, Cello's had a couple. Doesn't
It has to be pretty. It just has to happen for them here in round 12.
You don't get to do this. You don't get to live in this reality.
But if you take the first five rounds away, if you're done a really good job on this T-side of finding kills, finding access to bomb sites,
I think the biggest problem has been, as I mentioned earlier, every single round is against full buys.
Every single round is against rifles, AWP, every single smoke in Molotov possible.
They haven't had anything easy.
They're walking again into the B bomb site.
site. The B site has been the bane of their existence and flames a huge part of that. He hides,
he shrouds himself from the darkness. He now reveals himself to two Jellos and Kessarado in
Yuri. The finds of Furia are blunted in this half and Vitality is now a three versus two for
them to try and close this nine to three. Furia get the bomb down. This time Fallen isn't
alone he has cello with him and cello is inside of banana there's utility there's
time the vitality have the player advantage cello is pulled into focus of
CT he smoked out that's gonna make him think there's no banana flank though and
he's looking for it intermittently but here comes Sphinx doesn't see cello that
smoke is acting against vitality at the moment but he's going to start
spamming and trying to keep the attention cello goes back to that
Now falling out the coffin, spying down, goes down to Zaewoo, and Jello left alone.
He wanted to pull the utility, but he couldn't stop Zaewoo.
Zaewoo opens the half with an ace, and closes it with the eagle.
It's Vitality in the lead, 9-3.
Zone Vitality have accomplished that.
Zaewoo got him started in the right way, 5 kills, and ace in the pistol round.
He ends the first half, 16-3.
He's got flamed, a little sidekick, locking down that B bomb site, round after round.
He's got 15 kills and they have buried Furia in a 9-3 hole.
Yeah, Flames was incredible in that half as well.
It's just so sick to see Vitality's CT side look that strong.
And now with a pistol round win, Inferno could be a very short story.
Furia invests into three sets of Chulburetis and Jello gets melted.
Zaiwu's having a field day in pistol rounds.
He is the only player for Vitality to get a kill on a pistol round.
Still to this point.
I kind of want to play a game against Zabu, I just want to see what it feels like.
It would feel rough.
It would feel real rough.
What are you supposed to do?
Skulls and Yuri up in halls, so there's no resistance at the A bomb site.
They'll be able to gather information.
It's just about can they hold on to their positions, stay alive and have some impact
so when eventually K-sur-Auto and Fallen come over they can actually make an attempt at the retake.
And as soon as Vitality swing into the bomb site and see nobody shooting at him from pit,
nobody shooting at him from the bomb site,
they're gonna know holes which they've never cleared is a very real point of danger.
They're gonna be a little confused right now as well.
Oh, Apex about to find it out.
Oh, apartment's now cleared. Apex has the information.
They're currently occupying the apartments.
I think this round is, I think I feel pretty confident in just calling this.
Like, even if they come in for the retake, there's no kit.
Yeah.
You gotta find five players, three of them are in pit, two of them in the bomb site.
And then you sell these all over a beast only.
There's about 15 different crossfires.
There's, I mean...
For a must-win round, Fury put up no fight.
Yeah, there's no urgency about this either.
They're still coming closer to the A bomb site, they're so far away from it.
It's a cool boost to get a kill on the Apex, but yeah, it's just a limited time is the problem.
They don't have any real standing in this round.
It's 10 for vitality. So essentially it was one off the back of that blistering shot from Zayu and the rounds over
10-3
Yeah, I don't
Yeah, I don't really like that from Furia. Like that's that's a critical round that you have to win. I
Would like to see a little bit more more fire than that
So vitality get Mac 10s and rifles
Furia is gonna have to decide to do with this armor that they've saved into the next rounds
10-3 at the timeout taken from Fury of their second as they discuss things.
Do they want to force up here or do they want to wait until they can get some stronger weapons on board?
The conversation currently going on.
In Fury of camp, their second timeout used in regulation is all this talk.
About some of the teams that have come into this competition and have had some losses already.
You know we're talking G2, we're talking Spirit.
We were wondering, what's Vitality fall into that same conversation?
Well right now it looks like a completely different story for Vitality.
And honestly like before the games began yesterday if you'd ask someone who's the likeliest to
get upset in this opening round G2 Spirit or Vitality, I think most people probably would
have said Vitality.
Yeah, 100% yeah.
Well, Apex getting destroyed by Cello.
Oh and attack down mid from Yuri with the Scout.
This is a very nice start all but it's speeding up and they've got no way to stop it.
out of the balcony descending down into the A bomb site. They've got two kills in this vitality
and they're two important ones because they've got full control of this A site. Furious starts to
rotate these players back. Fallen is the closest to the fight. The plant is in. Fallen is looking to
catch someone trying to change position, get into a post plant, but Vitality found themselves quite
comfortable. So I was elevated on the box and started the bomb site. Fallen's got beyond that
utility but Spinks has still got eyes on this but Fallen's just charging in, gets caught
He's caught by Spinks from pit!
He's caught by a flash and that does cost him his life.
Yeah, he actually might have been able to create an opening for a scene if he didn't get blind, but he ate that flashbang.
That looked really silly, but I guarantee he was full white on his screen.
Dude, the way Sao can even get control back to Leel's spray while he's jumping off a box is so crazy.
It's 11 rounds now for Vitality.
He just keeps getting worse for Furia.
And up next is Mirage.
Mirage is, as I've said, Vitality's best map.
It's Furia's worst map by win rate, so quite a disparity between the two teams heading
into map 2.
And this, I mean, for me, as I've said a couple of times, losing Inferno is just the series
over for Furia.
We'll have to see what this new lineup can do on Mirage next.
But it's not looking like there's anything to really discuss here in Inferno in terms
of a comeback building up in terms of some life coming into the furious side.
Vitality's just had their way with them this entire map.
Hello.
Just get wiped out.
It's a map point for Vitality, if you will have.
Likely be their only buy here on the CT side in the next round.
And it's exactly what Vitality want.
You want this team is designed for it and it's having Zywoo with Flames and Spinks at the top of the charts.
Apex and Mezzie down fulfilling their roles but you want those three players at the top of the scoreboard finding an impact and winning games like this.
And boy have they, I mean Flames especially. Zywoo's going to get obviously, he always attracts the most conversation but Flames is...
So much impact.
I mean winning the round at the last second because he drops the bomb carrier with six seconds remaining in like a 1v4 hold of the B bomb site.
There's 1v5 hold at the bomb site, getting 4 kills on it.
So impressively he's able to do that.
More than once.
In a single half.
Nazai will charge in a banana.
We know this is his comfort ground, but not this time.
Cello wipes the floor with him.
Kessarotto, oh their load has softened up and that MP9 only manages one.
There's still this fight for banana going on and Cello gets traded in again.
It's Flames, biting back, putting Vitality in pole position.
And he is going to smoke out CT and sprint into the site with a bomb.
Spinks is here to cut off this mid rotation.
Oh, awkward situation for him though.
He's got a smoke to get him out of there.
Mmm, still uncomfortable for Spinks.
But he gets out, he's joining his countrymen inside.
All banana, Spinks will hold it and Vitality come through their opening map in Cologne is Domination versus Furia.
This is a squad that are looking scary.
This is a squad that do not look like they're going to get upset.
Mirage is up next. Vitality looking strong.
He is seeing a way that Furia can win this map, steal it away from them when you have Saaru playing the way he did, when you have Flamesey playing the way he did.
Spink started to step up towards the end. So the pieces on the Vitality side are looking good.
Pistor round start, one for one trade admit, in case Serato eats one Glock bullet to the dome.
Well Vitality have decided to go with every single player on Kevlar, so it's all about headshots or Vitality, and they've got a lot of them in these Pistor rounds today.
And there's another one coming right up, Fallen walks into Spinks, Fallen's down, Vitality into the lead on players, and there's so much time.
Look at the mini-map and how much space that kill created. You saw immediately Yuri back away from Khan, in case Serato's left the A bomb site, they're going to choose to stack over towards B.
And this entire time Vitality was just hoping they'd be able to crawl up connector. Apex needs to find this information though and make sure his teammates don't go up catwalk.
That would be the only calamity that Vitality can run into.
And with Apex in this position, no one's really scouting the A bomb site, so vitality is still taking their time, still figuring out exactly where they want to finish, seeing if they can have any more information gathered, seeing if anyone from Fury is going to push into them.
The bomb now making its way up connector.
Yeah, making the right call. So pistol round for vitality.
That's another one for vitality.
Fury is struggling to get good starts in the halves today in this best of three.
Look at APEX, just going from rat position to rat position.
He's lovin' it.
I'm absolutely lovin' it.
No one from Fury coming towards a belt makes it.
They can't win this round once you call that stack, it's over if they don't come to your bomb site.
So they'll bring the armor to the next round.
Kassurado got gushed, so he should still have enough armor.
I would wonder if he can upgrade for free.
We'll see what they can bring out around that.
if they even want to go for a second round by.
Well, we'll get to see if you really want to go for the force.
Well, Vitality are going to be extremely happy with how today has started for them.
Yeah, I mean, it's actually super important for a team like Vitality
that's supposed to be one of the best in the world,
but has been dealing with so many internal issues,
probably issues that aren't even, like, directly related to the counter-strike itself.
It's, you know, the team issues between them,
frustration of things not working of maybe thinking you need to change some things adapt some things those conversations
Getting out to a start like this helps alleviate some of those problems really really well, especially at the start of a tournament. It's it's perfect
Fury I have invested
Kassarata's got his head armor
Vitality setting up for an A play
directed into the fury of defense
Fallen Kassarata and skulls the three players closest to a
to try and stop this vitality attack.
Mezzi and Apex will be in Palace.
Better get some God-tier shots with those Deagles.
Here come the smokes.
Skulls deploys out his own defensive smoke in the middle of the bomb site,
allowing him to play closer with this Deagle.
The Palace pronged at the approach has been softened up.
Skulls at one on flames, traded quickly by Spinks.
This round is comfortable for vitality, especially with that kill through the smoke from Mezzi.
from Mezzi, they clear the rest of the site and they know they've got it.
Yeah, nice shot from Skulls to open things up and nothing else can be built upon it,
it was just the utility, the full wall of smokes that was denying those Deagles any lines of sight.
And Skulls was the player that was really stepping up over the last few games for Fury,
especially in Mirage, it felt like his A-hold was incredible, he was getting 3Ks,
when both his teammates were falling the site, he was still getting a multi-kill to keep them in the battle.
So, you know, Fury overall may feel uncomfortable on the map, but Skulls in particular looked really good on the A-site defense.
Yeah, he did. He was showing some good things when we saw here we play this map earlier in stage one.
I think the biggest problem with it is just, you know, the level of opposition is going to be completely different.
We saw them play this map against Heroic.
They should want it 13-11 versus Heroic.
Yep, 13-11 went there. They played it against Liquid, a 7-13 loss, and they played it, they did not play it against Imperial.
So yeah, I got a couple runs on Mirage with their belts to be able to adapt and change and look at things and see what's working and what's not, but a very tough test to start Stage 2 of IEM Cologne.
I wonder if this game goes on to play FaZe Clan.
Congrats!
That'd be a very exciting matchup, with Vitality making through and looking like it is going to be Vitality and FaZe vs. Vitality, that's an IEM Cologne game right there, isn't it?
Especially to give an indication of which one of these two like top teams that's come in limping a little bit and struggling with themselves.
Which of those is going to look the best and come out on top to start getting into the playoffs?
It will be a really cool indicator of what level these teams have come into Cologne with.
Vitality staying very grouped up as they have every round so far in this half.
The window smoke blasted open to reveal two Furia players, Saewoo Apex taking the first two in this round for vitality.
You're at least trying to keep Furia in the fight, but it's gonna have to go out again.
Second time of asking, now third unable to sink Apex.
There's a boost being constructed with these two Furia players, you're climbing up on top, Saewoo dealing with that.
The slowest the majority of his health, but Spinks has got short, and covers off forward.
It's now Kassarado, the only remaining player for Furia, and Vitality once again, off to a flawless start.
It's going to be 3-0, then a 5-0 lead on Inferno, now 3 here on Mirage.
It could be a similar or even better for Vitality to kick in Mirage.
Yeah, Furia really can't let themselves get into that hole where the money grows so much for Vitality that they'll just never have to save throughout the half.
That's exactly what happened on Inferno.
If you're gonna get into a hole at least do some damage get some kills and make sure they can't just build up an
Undepletable bank apex gets that final frag. It's three to nothing guns will come back out for fury a fallen should have the AWP as well
So a chance for fury at a mount some resistance against this vitality onslaught
It's fine we want it
I'm not completely happy with it, but...
Someone probably apologized for a mistake.
Yeah, and they got the result.
They'd fight Skulls, getting its voice connector.
They'd back to safety.
This is a cool boost from Cello and Yuri.
See if they can spot us, Spinks in the apartments.
But he didn't take a step too far.
Now, oh, Cello, that's a risky game you're playing, my friend,
and he ends up getting dropped down to 6 health.
That was a really bold naive move from cello that no one would be having that angle even with that boost
But that boost wasn't deep enough to spot the position Spinks was in
So cello pays a heavy price
Vitality playing this run a little bit slow hoping to let some of this utility be used and burned early from the defense
Boosted on top of his team that's had that movement was enough to adjust the attention of Casarotto towards him
Well, breaking the smoke also allowed him to get the glimpse of Zaiwu jumping up so he could swing back with a pre-fire.
That's the advantage now for Furia.
As you know, he hit the 39 second mark in this round.
The fight is going down a connector and Skulls with the second play they weren't ready for.
Falling and Skulls combining, keeping Furia ahead, this time by two extra players.
And Skulls wants to clear Messi. He knows he's got him pinned in there.
But Messi, he snaps out with a headshot. He's got the ball on his back.
And he knows if he exposes himself to short, he could easily fall down here.
And he gets involved with that fight, and Yuri somehow loses it.
Remember, Cello, he's starting to be, well, he's over at the ace side now,
and he might be the player to unravel this round for vitality.
He denies that bomb plant, now there's no time.
Spinks has to get it instantly and start planting, but he doesn't have the time for it.
Now it's about the kill, and Fallon just hides away.
So from zero to hero, Cello wins the round for Furia.
Yeah, nice round from Cello. He couldn't really do anything until that last eventuality.
He just had to hope and pray they were going to end up coming to that position,
and he's primed for it perfectly.
The job from Kcerato and Khan, Fallen even chimes in with an AWP kill.
Not a bad round from Vitality though, a phenomenal job from Mezzi in a losing effort to get all of those kills,
actually be able to pressure the bomb site, but more than anything,
Fury wins the round with only one player surviving.
So again, money is going to be an issue, it's been such a talking point for them.
On Inferno obviously, because Vitality had all the cash in the world now,
It's Furia trying to get going in the CT side with a really low tough economy to work with.
That's easy for Vitality to just return to the purchase again, all about for a case for everybody else.
Although they do concede this one, money will drain down to a half-buy scenario, Furia.
They'll have the opportunity to get into the start of this game.
It wasn't a luxury afforded to them over on Inferno.
I betcha you look at Furious by here, there's so many weaknesses despite winning the round.
They're gonna boost Yuri up into the ladder room.
It's quite quick for Vitality getting players into mid.
Fallen's down first and that's one of the best weapons gone instantly.
This is why I think they wanted to have players in mid so fast is they wanted the
comms from Furia to be that mid is being pressured, they wanted to take some attention
away so Apex can have an aggressive lurk in Palace and one by one, he's crumbling
down.
He's looking sharp right now, Mezzi.
That's a heat check peak.
He's won some feisty ruse.
Shouldn't have had a chance in winning.
This time just looking sharp in this round,
and that's 4-1 for Vitality, Furia.
Hey, it's real tough to have to solo that pill on all curies.
All that aggressive attention, just allowing Apex.
I mean, everyone, all parts of that Vitality attack
in different locations on the map
were had a pickup of the pace.
Been able to completely take advantage of things
really early on in the round,
and now they're hunting down some weapons.
This would be just brutal for Furia to lose everything here.
Utility used by Yuri, and immediately the comm is both
are at the B bomb site, one towards Kawak on the right side,
one was just at the market door.
Yeah, well, the A-M-I-P arriving at the Stone Age again.
The asteroid has come to hit the economy of Furia.
Yuri gets her to flames, trade it instantly.
Now just cello and start of the smoke,
and he's cleared out nothing saved for Furia.
That is a harsh victory for Vitaly. Good to see them bloodthirsty and ruthless.
Rip at everything out of the hands of Furia.
Now they have a decision to make. Although with the bonus up at three rounds, I imagine it'll be a low buy.
Pistols and armor, maybe a little bit of nades.
And full buy in the next one.
Apex is out. Have fun.
Yeah, he's loving it.
As far as opening games go and I haven't really been made to stress yet
They've got so much money
Is they thanks for mentioning period do not
So I will open up for the first kill on Yuri this deal
Unless it goes massive
He's not gonna be able to stop
Anybody from vitality
Now they're working so well together, Vitality. Everything's in sync, everything's timed perfectly with different prongs of the attack.
Things are looking really good for them on this T side Mirage.
Yeah, Cache is starting to swell.
I think we even heard Apex say that in the last round, didn't we? We have so much money.
Yeah, he did. So much money.
And then he had a little French Giggle.
A little French Giggle.
Chela will at least try and get something out of this, but no one for vitality is coming his way in pallet.
I think it's going to be a 5-1 start. No. It's on the 5-0 start Jason. It didn't prove slightly.
Yeah, they did. There is that they could hang their hat on. We'll see what else they can do with this half.
Chela's not going to get any of the exits he's looking for. No rifle for the next round saved.
I'm interested to see what Apex is going to do.
This feels like a round where Apex might just call like an A-exec, or a fast B-exec.
They've mastered them in the middle so much, they've had so much success there,
they've taken it slow, they've taken it fast, they've abused you at Catwalk,
they've abused you in Con.
I feel like Apex might try and get ahead of the defense here and just call a different style.
As I was all pointed towards mid,
I just got a pretty good spawn for a pick here.
Actually, he might just head towards the apartments and go for the B-Pick, so he's going to send his AWP over that, fallen up in latter room with his sniper, and he wants to fight mid.
And he's to be careful here, cello. He's got a couple of jumps that may have cost him. I know that for a day, it slows Casterado down, so it completely halts his motion towards connector, and that keeps him in the open long enough for Flames to finish him off.
It's okay, Fallen's here for the equalizer. It's not all lost yet. He's hunting desperately to just find a kill.
But another one of his teammates have gone down before he's able to even see anyone.
Yeah, this is rough for Fury. Fallen desperately hanging around trying to get rid of Flames.
Even that grenade is not enough to finish off the low HP Flames. A five versus three for Vitality.
And they've got so much time in this round to play with.
And a quick hit of tab and you have all the information of your Apex.
Communication from flames that a nade came out from catwalk. So one's playing there
You see cello is still alive as that be anchor skulls are still alive as the a anchor
You can start piecing things together and they just have an
Infinite amount of time to work with it a five on three
It's such a tough round for fury to figure out where exactly they need to be positioned
The best chance is if this bomb goes towards a
Flames is searching through this B bomb site. Oh cello. This is gonna suck
He's got the one angle that cellos not positioned for you might not you might not oh tip the barrel
He's not gonna clear it at all
Cholo looks up to the apartments newly gets a second kill out of that as well
But we'll fall at the hand of spring sir just proves to be immortal right now yet to die. That's a seventh kill
Now messy
Stands out of the ramp bomb goes to be and messy is about to remove everything from furious hands
Fallen knows the Mezzy's there, but the peek into him is not going to work out for Fallen, it is 6-1 for Vitality.
Yeah, I mean, you have that kind of a 5-on-3 for that long, and it's easy to kind of work the math.
They found the success over at the P-Bomb site, and they didn't even need to use Mezzy,
he was just setting up to take everything away from them again.
Fury, I'm not able to slow down this Vitality attack at all.
You could just tell by the columns that nothing's hectic right now, everything's going so smoothly for Vitality.
At time of taking second for Furious, the other coach had me here say,
Furious do not have the weapons to combat against the full force of vitality here.
It's a scout from Fallen MP9, so on Kassarado, Yuri, and pistols for the rest.
Here's that change up in style. I was around late.
Mid-utility, but it's gonna be a timing hit towards the B-Bomb site.
Nade and Scout combined for the first kill.
kill cellar does fine work with the p two fifty all the way back spam down randomly
and apex is going to drop the ball to take space and make sure there's no
stack is activated blood thirsty mode he throws the ball down says it's not his
job
i think it might have actually been his job does i was going to be up it's not
going to be his plan and you have a messy up in the halls so he's going to
have to drop down and descend and that opens up the flank a little bit but
force the british got to do it
that's the thing you see a little bit worried they are about these kinds of
things but it's all good as he puts that ball down
Yuri Kesterado coming back through the apartments
and they're just trying to figure out where are they coming from
eventually they'll find out Apex is covered off short
oh Zywoo gets dinged he's low, Masi's got him covered though Skulls comes in
Apex looking the wrong way 2v2 now Kesterado
surely can't win this fight against Masi but he certainly will now Zywoo is forced to keep
Vitality in this round. Time taking. No kit available.
Castor out has got that kill, but is there time? No.
The answer is a resounding no.
Fury are coming in, they clean up all the Vitality players,
but unfortunately for them, Vitality's full of cash.
And well, not enough time.
But you see how sketchy it gets when like things get mixed up
on who's playing the bomb and the responsibility.
Leave that player up the halls.
He's safe, he's comfortable.
It's the best place to watch that kind of a flank.
She's all good.
But yeah, a little bit of miss-com on Apex pushing forward,
Having a drop out of Halls and that opened up the avenue for that retake from Furia.
Just no time whatsoever.
And in the wide words of Apex a few rounds back, plenty of cash.
Yes, those wise, wise words.
From the Prophet Apex.
Double off setup here for Furia.
Chello and Fallen, we know they like to bring it out every now and then.
We know it can be very, very impactful.
And I think at this point, nothing's working, so throw it in.
Flames once again getting out behind these top mid boxes. Zaiwen's spanks clearing the underpass. Things heat up for Flames, but he uses that smoke, and he just beats off his head. Flames is on a diet of shrapnel.
Ooh, look at Apex. He just crawled through smoke out of Palace, trying to get cheaty.
They can go well for him.
Ooh, Messi clearing the smoke. Skulls took a step back, and didn't really clear the whispers of smoke as much as Messi would have liked.
Vitality is a really good job of converting 4v5s on Inferno.
They've got another one here, but this time they walk into a two-man stack.
Kcerado handles business with the help of Skulls.
Yeah, they know where Mezzi is too. They lost him towards ramp, so...
Not gonna be easy here for Mezzi to do much, but if you can make it expensive...
If you only have three players, three players of alps in the house right now.
It's like the old art days.
Not trusting their rifles.
Not trusting those in force.
The one bullet drop.
Surely one gets dropped, right?
Yeah, they're going to drop it for the AK-47 and pick that up.
That's Kassarato grabbing an AK.
Timeout taken for vitality.
Yeah, they're giving a speech now.
This isn't really about anything tactical or anything switch up.
This is just, all right, everyone, take a breather, chill.
Let's give them no grounds.
Give them no more rounds.
Don't let them get back into this game.
Yeah, there's a few little moments that you lose every play
in the previous round, the bomb, thumb, ball,
and that you lose the follow-up.
So just make sure we recalibrate.
I think that kind of a lead, I think that's around there.
they was just kind of opened up to individual plays like let's spread out the
default if you guys see something you have the freedom to go for whatever you
want apex obviously wanted to test a palace walkout again after abusing
middle so much after hitting the B bombsite pretty quickly in the previous
round thought maybe he might have had a window where to catch a sole defender
at the A bombsite hit a timing and crack it open Skulls was ready to fury
looking at this double ops setup as the solution to their problems to drag
them back into this game of five round deficit at the moment and K Serato is
gonna get aggressive. The charge up top mid AK-47 in the hands of K Serato only
grabbing one Zywoo barely alive. It's still able to trade out that 1v1. Pretty
quiet on the map, Vitality is just looking for the next reaction, the next
play from Fury up, but that's not coming. With a double-op set up, they're so
content to just stand far back. Cello watching B-hulls from market,
Fallen's up, over at the A bomb site, peering towards Conn and ramp on timings.
Can work from cello, Mezzy goes down.
Vitality crumbling.
In this round, it's Spinks and Zaiwu having to fight back, and that is just so unstoppable.
I just got Molly him out as well.
And now Skulls is forcing the opening, Spinks following up.
And now it's around that Spinks can win.
That fire is starting to clear in jungle, but Yuri somehow finds sanctuary.
comes in, but it keeps him at least pinned in jungle long enough for Spinks to plant the bomb.
Spinks knows where he is and he knows the other one wasn't off at the B bomb site.
So he's trying to just use this belt full of utility to try and make things a little more comfortable for himself.
Create space for him to get out from behind default boxes, in behind triple,
but he's got to worry about all of the retake positions until there's steps.
Now he knows they're both here, and Spinks separates it into the 1D1.
Spinks sharpening his sword as they come around the side, he slices them back and it is vitality
in unusable rounds for Furious, still stepping up and still getting victories.
That's a 2v4 win for Spinks and Zywoo, an absolutely filthy round trading their way
into the bomb site, activated by some spectacular shots from Zywoo.
And a great piece of movement from Spinks, he chucks all that utility, flashes,
Molotov made all from the default plant spot inside the bomb site and finds a perfect timing to transition to the other side
Fury I thought he was on the left the entire time
Oh ho and Zayu is now fired up. He goes in the middle case Serato taken down. Mezzie quickly in mid
Do you not know? There's two players in underpass. There's two players in underpass right now
Mezzie has his back turned to them. Finally that tray comes in from Spinks
And they'll molly and heat things up for Yuri. He's making noise now burning away and Zayu
who starts to clean up this chaos, he's not enough.
Saewoo activates into a 3K, and it is dominant again
from Vitality.
It's just like in front of him, there's just nothing
Fury can do at the moment.
Vitality hitting all the right responses
and looking real sharp and doing so.
I could believe Messi just walking
with his back turned to the underpass.
Yeah, I guess I was surprised that he didn't know.
There was a lot of chaos, a lot of smokes
and flashes obviously in the middle,
a lot of movement and probably columns on the Vitality side,
but I thought surely someone would have seen
one of the players in underpass.
They handled it at the end of the day.
High-fives all around in the final timeout used by Furiax,
so that just goes to show you how important
this last round of the half is.
We'll see if it makes a whole load of difference.
It does feel like this result is already written down.
It was always going to be a tough affair, Mirage.
But you didn't think it could get worse than Inferno.
Well, then you set a level they came up with on Inferno,
and you're like, oh, yeah, Mirage is going to be bad.
They've sustained it, Vitality, through both maps in this series.
It's not like just a random pop-off on one map and then back to nothing on the second.
They've been incredible consistently across both.
Final round of the first half. Final chance for Fury to just claw together three.
No mid-fight going down this time.
Fury don't have the resources, the weapons to fight.
Vitality, no, they've got Dominus in mid, the head of Skulls, it's a little too large, peeking over the top of that box.
Zywul just needs to see a pixel, and he's got that kill locked in.
Spinks to drop Kassurado, Yuri spotted it, Stez from Zywul, so that information, oh, he even hits the wallbang, and Flames finishes him off.
Zywul is unplayable today.
12 kills, 5 deaths, only bested by Spinks.
It was about to extend to 14.
It has fallen left in a 1 vs 5 at the end of this first half.
It is dominance from Vitality.
It got worse for Furia on map 2.
Vitality have come in with a statement of performance to open up Cologne.
This is strong and they are so close to the finish.
We got to hear Apex laugh in French a lot in that first half because Vitality are
having a great time.
I mean, yeah, they're having the best time ever.
10-2, they just finished mopping up Fury on 9.
Furna was just earlier.
This series is going to come to a very, very quick finish.
And Zai Wu, the alien with the cosmic performance
in that first half, he's unplayable, unstoppable.
And he's 12-5 right now, and he's actually
getting outmatched by Spink.
So everyone's firing all cylinders today.
Even Nezzi's had some incredible rounds in the first half.
Well, let's see how Fury are going to pass the round.
have struggles in pistols and apex flames they're starting off the
fairest with a very clean start indeed it looks like those struggles will
continue and fury a better start prepping for team liquid in that lower
bracket it's getting destroyed you look up it's just apex of the other side of
the floor it's a champ we don't get to see vitality dominating like this
because the apex just goes wild look mom new apex meme just dropped
There's always a new one. There's always a new one.
Cologne edition.
Oh, Furia. Well, they've gone for the conservative approach.
Look, you can't fault them, whichever way they would have decided to go.
Yeah, this is going nowhere, though.
This round ain't going anywhere.
Ideal starts to Cologne for Vitality.
When they win this series, they'll move on. They'll play FaZe tomorrow.
Yeah, that's going to be a tough game.
Furia will drop down to the lower bracket. They will play Liquid tomorrow.
a rematch. That was a good game, that was a great match.
A close game, yeah, a rematch from the stage one.
2-1 victory for Team Liquid.
And obviously a regional matchup as well, a nice little preview of the RMRs.
We saw both those teams were invited to the America's RMRs.
All these regional matchups, we've been able to watch at Cologne
between the Brazilian teams, the South American teams and North American teams.
It's just like a good litmus test,
heading into one of the most important qualifications of the year.
And right now it's lit from Vitality, in those 12 rounds, round out on their scoreboard.
Oh, Nusha from Kessarotto, eventually taken out by Mezzi, it is 12-2.
Map series point for Vitality.
And I love that we're seeing this level from Vitality in the opening game, because in a role where you see G2 lose in their opening match,
then you also see Spirit lose in their opening match.
You're wondering, what are Vitality going to do against Furia?
this seems like a banana skin you could slip on fury coming into the start of
this tournament and vitality of a utterly destroyed the fury of one five
rounds in the series so far yeah but you put it like that it's not great I
actually didn't even think about that yeah oh baby well that definitely doesn't
help that's pretty much how the series is gone if we're honest is is just
That?
Furia getting killed through a smoke for no good reason, vitality, again, everything
has gone their way, everything has worked.
One of those games where everything's in your favor.
And when Furia gather outside the B-bomb site, the defense they're designed to deal with
it is messy with a FAMASA short.
This is going to be a really hard match review for Furia after this because it's
like you can talk all you want about strategies, gather some mistakes you can pick up
on, but on some level.
It's simply just vitality, individuals outplaying and outaiming and outfighting them everywhere they go.
Fallen, the last remaining member, Apex is in the perfect position to close and today the V is absolutely for victory.
Vitality come into the opening day of Cologne and they stomp over Furia.
This is a vitality that is looking scary. Zayu shows up and he had the rest of the deathly hollows alongside of him.
Yeah, I really don't care what the kind of recent history is for vitality in terms of discipline.
If Hughes shows up alongside Kassarotto, this team becomes ferocious and vitality is a tough opening game if Fury arrive.
Yeah, really tough opening game. I spoke with Gary outside the hotel just on the way in today and he just kind of mentioned it.
It feels like his star players, it feels like they're getting more confidence that they're building themselves back up to where we've seen them in the past.
And that's only good signs for Fury. You add the eye test that's looked good with Fallen's leadership.
Yeah, this team can be dangerous if they start firing all cylinders.
Set up for the half wall. There's a flashback at Coffins for Vitality.
Hey Pex, how's it cocked and ready to go?
Flames and Zywoo, waiting for that initial fight. Flames will take the attention.
We'll talk to Knocked out of the Sandbice, and Flames is trying to sell his life
so that Zywoo can succeed, and that is exactly what Zywoo will do.
It's a couple of hoes mixed up for, and Zywoo just shuts down the entire setup.
Zywoo's first round at Cologne is an ace in the pistol round.
Oh, the old Baton switch. So beautiful. They could never get a read. They could never actually find this play. Shout out to Flames.
And shearing that with that flashbang, he swung wide to activate Tywoo in this play. And what a way to start Cologne.
Skulls. He's looking to apply some pressure towards top middle. We really enjoyed Skull's performance in Furia throughout Stage 1.
Looking a lot more comfortable on the skulls critics have even had to say that you know
He's definitely looking more comfortable side of this furious squad. He saved fury a lot of the times in stage one
I mean he just looks like a completely different player so much more comfort within this team
Here comes the execute late-round take of banana flames up close against these new days and you shall not pass this smoke. Oh
No a complete
Disaster that was a buy for fury
They do not get even through that smoke. It's desirable in flames that combo is just locking banana down
And now vitality start to send players away. They're coming back now signs of furious presence in top middle
That bomb still banana inside who goes for the peak dies at long to skulls and apex is no HP
So he can't do anything he talks himself into the site
He has an MP9 and no HP so it's on flames
So it's either flames goes new killer or this round goes the way of fury a falling cuts off a pecs trying to make his
way back and now Flames has been spotted getting pushed from two sides. Time is limited. Flames
with that headshot. Bomb is down and the kill can get that smoke but it has to sprint to the site
and there's no more time. Shortly the last second is through. Vitality pick it up and
last second kill onto that bomb carrier and Furia cannot catch a break. It's five in a row for Vitality.
Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong for Furia in the first five rounds of this half
And now Zairu's got the AWP, and now he's punishing you early deep down middle.
Furia knocked out of their game so hard!
Kassarotto charges up with a flashbang, and ho ho ho! Kassarotto rips them open with his fangs, and that smoke goes down to Luceti.
This time, Vitality do not hold that B site. Finally, Furia break through.
And Vitality not even budging whatsoever. They know that B site has been lost. There's just an automatic save call immediately.
Clearing out halls to make sure there's no danger for the saves, I will transition away from his position on RAP side.
Fury is just going to, I mean at this point, yeah, you check all the details, you don't skip any steps.
Clear everything, smoke everything off.
Ooh, Fury is actually coming over for a little looksie.
Vitality's having a pier and a whore with a light shot.
Fury gets brought down incredibly low.
Now, Space is still on the A side of the map.
He's no one near this, so they're just poking and prodding and trying to get a couple of X's and damage things.
economy of furia. I think equally though they probably don't want to lose these
weapons even though Spinks has $11,000. Yeah it's been a very clean start from
vitality. I will just take a shot at a very narrow angle. Whoop. He knows there's
one still can't land it. Furia is gonna get away and they have their first
round on the board. Yeah but Spinks is still over towards T-stars. They are
meshes charging down middle. They look to make this very expensive for furia
right at the end. They're gonna throw utility down. They're gonna try and
heat things up and cello and skulls will hang on to those weapons and they
will stop Sphinx and Mazzie from creating problems.
Mazzie is going to mix some aggression into his play style and he's got a clear runway
until he meets Skulls, heads up watching for the push and an early advantage for Furia.
Zyroo strikes the AWP over the liper, Sphinx fighting for Short gets taken out by Fallen,
Zyroo has to chime in. He's holding for that second, Smoke is about to come up.
As long as they wait, long enough for that Smoke to bloom, they'll be able to get
onto the site and Sylu's still fighting. Smoke breaks apart, Yuri goes down and a two versus
three that just seems difficult for Vitality again here to retake so they're walking away
from this. Furia will pick up two in a row. They needed a third player. I think that was
Apex trying to come through the smoke and brackets to wrap around into the bomb site
to create a second angle and this time KSorado, not the entry man, not the aggressor,
he's just chilling and lurking and waiting for that. I see if they can keep it up
With AK's on every player, Casarotto, getting into banana early on.
Grenade's all mad past him.
He won't take any damage from these initial skirmishes, but Flames is charging right through that smoke, and Casarotto handles business.
Feels very forced, like that play was designed out of spawn and they just stuck with it even though it's not ideal.
Maybe some utility was missed, but coming through that smoke, Casarotto's not blind whatsoever.
whatsoever, no flashbangs, nothing harassing him, and that's an easy frag and an easy advantage for Furia again.
Now the bomb is going to be going towards the apartment, Mezzi sits within the site, and Zayu is towards pit, committed position with AWP, but he's got cover, he can dance in and around this wall.
And Mezzi, if he sets up enough distraction, Zayu is on to prove the lethal. Mezzi from the site collects one kill, and Zayu's got the rest.
No issues for the front shopper. He knows where his next victim is. The flash up short, smoke is up to protect Yuri.
Yuri?
Grave is on the base.
So heavy.
Leafy.
Do something with this, because to separate a 1-2-1 fight,
1-2-1 CT, 1-1 in banana.
Problem is, you need to make something happen now.
There's 15 seconds.
And when no one's showing themselves,
this defensive, like just staying pad and just
staying hidden, is actually perfect.
Because if K-Syrano was able to get 1 kill,
you could see that bomb over at halls.
Maybe you force a rotation.
This late in the round, Vitality
takes a death of the B bombsite.
They probably think that both players
are attempting to finish there.
Maybe you get a rotation.
Okay, Serato goes down at the end.
Four of the time, so he has many left over.
And it won't be a three-round in a row come-back for Furia Vitality.
Back to any ways, out of the tech issue.
Saewoo, confident to take the pick down middle.
He's 13-1 to start off his Cologne campaign and spanks.
Oh, he's moved down into second mid, fallen spotted.
That tech nine will not fall though.
Now cello's turned for boiler!
He gets ZywOo and that's a huge opening to get Mezzie looking to plunk the gap though.
He goes to fight short Pachello.
He's playing the sound of death right now inside of the site and Sphinx.
He's trying his best to make up for Vitality's weaknesses inside of the safe bomb site,
but Pachello does not stop unrelenting.
Finally taken out by that itchy grenade, but the damage is already done.
Yo, that fence on balcony saved his life.
It did.
of some tough material, blocking all of Mezzi's bullets, and this is like a change of pace
I think brought on by individual decisions.
You get that spam going towards ult mid and Cello up in, you know, up in halls is like,
oh, I can actually beat his fallback.
If he's actually peeked that far down mid, he's got a long route to run, picks up
the pace, good heads up play from Cello, and you get that kill and you say, they've
been starting 3B, let's actually try and pressure this a little bit faster, and then once
Once again, you find another kill on Mezzie who misses the shot.
It's perfect!
Are they also?
Yeah, dude.
It's like, they're slow, they live life in the slow lane, sure everything that makes
sense.
They take everything, they enjoy life more than others and they sometimes even forget
to eat, they're so lazy.
So, a lot in common with gamers and Spinks, he's charged down mid, that M4 is ready
to go and no one's turning, no one's thinking about it.
Finally, Yuri has a little look, because it's Spinks, and it's lucky that he did, because
the XL matches Spinks in that fight.
I wonder if he heard a footstep as Spinks kind of stepped it up to turn the corner.
Either way, this is a lot of four, or five on four advantages that Fury's been able to
find.
I think this is their third or fourth one so far in this game, and now they're going
to build upon it.
Apex gets a little lazy with that peek and you tell him that Flames has a rebuttal.
No way.
You can't let this happen, Fury!
Two kills, clean on the entry, and Flames off the coffins!
It's just ripping them to shreds!
He nearly takes everybody with him to the grave,
and now Fallen's left in a 1v3 total.
He's collected that first kill, but still two remaining,
and that rotation from Mezzi is only arriving now.
So Fallen, he puts the bomb down.
He could've thrown the smoke out towards CT,
but instead used that to the site.
There's a gap.
Fallen goes to use it,
Zywa already had eyes on it,
and pins him down with an AWP,
But what a step up what a hold from flames and that's a 1v5 hold from flames at the B bomb site
Four kills and I think if he went passive after the fourth one, he would have got the fit
If he just reset himself, he got a little eager for that ace
But it's all good when you deliver like this two rounds that flames has individually literally by himself
One for vitality at the B bomb site and there's still utility to delay this final push of fury up
Flames forced out of his position, he'll play from Newbox instead and strip back into
Second Oranges.
Here comes that attack from Furia.
Flames from the site, it's cello down, Flames looking for a multi-kill yet again, and he
will secure it.
This time he's got Apex to back him up, and Apex always down, tech knife for Fallen,
strikes into action, and now suddenly it is a winnable round for Fallen.
He's on for the ace, he's on for all five, okay, 4HB, yeah, 4HB, that's all
he's got to play with here, but Fallen, he brings the fight to Zai Wulun.
And suddenly it is just Messi left, just Messi to stop the power of the professor and Fallen waits around that corner
Doesn't want to give away his spot doesn't want to peek into the open. He won't fall for that initial tap
He will not fall for that old trick the second
He won't even peek that until this fight eventually comes
Messi walks into him and prevents Fallen from pulling off the heroic clutch to save Furia
It's it rounds for vitality, but that was a damn nice try from Fallen
They're walking again into the B bomb site. The B site has been the bane of their existence
Flames a huge part of that
He hides he shrouds himself in the darkness
He now reveals himself to two kills a Kessarado and Yuri the finds if fury are blunted in this half
And vitality is not three versus two for them to try and close this nine to three
Fury get the bomb down this time fallen isn't alone. He has cello with him
And Cello is inside of Banana. There's utility. There's time.
And Vitality have the player advantage.
Cello is pulled into focus of CT. He smoked out.
That's going to make him think there's no Banana flank though.
And he's looking for it intermittently, but here comes Spinks.
Doesn't see Cello. That smoke is acting against Vitality at the moment.
But he's going to start spamming it, trying to keep the attention.
Cello goes back to that kill. Now Fallen after Coffins.
Where he goes down to Zywoo, and Cello left alone.
He wanted to pull the utility, but he couldn't stop Zywoo.
Zywoo opens the half with an ace, and closes it with the deagle.
It's Vitality in the lead, 9-3.
Yeah, Flames was incredible in that half as well.
It's just so sick to see Vitality's CT side look that strong.
And now with the pistol round win, Inferno could be a very short story.
Furia invests into three sets of Jule Baranis and Jullo gets melted.
Zywoo's having a field day in Pistor Runs.
He is the only player from Vitality to get a kill on a Pistor Run.
Still to this point.
I kind of want to play a game against Zywoo.
I just want to see what it feels like because it looks like it would feel rough.
It would feel real rough.
What are you supposed to do?
Skulls and Yuri up in halls.
So there's no resistance at the Ape bomb site.
They'll be able to gather information.
It's just about can they hold on to their positions, stay alive and have some impact so when eventually
K-cerato and Fallen come over they can actually make an attempt at the retake.
And as soon as Vitality swing into the bomb site and see nobody shooting at him from pit,
nobody shooting at him from the bomb site, they're going to know halls which they've
never cleared is a very real point of danger.
They've got to be a little confused right now as well.
Oh, Apex about to find it out.
The apartment's now cleared. Apex has the information. They're currently occupying the apartments.
I think this round is... I think I feel pretty confident in just calling this.
Like, even if they come in for the retake, there's no kit.
Yeah.
You gotta find five players, three of them are in pit, two of them are in the bomb circle.
The bomb circle is all over a beast, though.
There's about 15 different crossfires.
There's... I mean...
For a must-win round, Furia put up no fight.
Yeah, there's no urgency about this either.
They're still coming closer to the A-bomb side, but they're so far away from it.
It's a cool boost to get a kill on the A-packs, but yeah, it's just a limited time is the problem.
They don't have any real standing in this round.
It's 10 for Vitality, so essentially it was one off the back of that blistering shot from Zayu and the round over.
10-3.
Yeah, I don't...
Yeah, I don't really like that from Fiora, but that's a critical round that you have to win.
Ending down into the A bomb site.
They've got two kills in this vitality,
and they're two important ones,
because they've got full control of this A site.
Furious starts to rotate these players back.
Fallen is the closest to the fight.
The plant is in.
Fallen's looking to see if he can catch someone
trying to change position,
get him into a post plant,
but Vitality found themselves quite comfortable.
Zywoo's elevated on the box inside of the bomb site.
Fallen's got beyond that utility.
It spinks his stone to ice.
On this, when Fallen's just charging in,
gets caught by spinks from pit,
gets caught by a flash,
and that does cost him his life.
Yeah, he actually might have been able to create an opening for us, see if he didn't get blind, but he ate that flashbang.
That looked really silly, but I guarantee he was full white on his screen.
Dude, the way Siu can even control that galeel spray while he's jumping off the box is so crazy.
It's 11 rounds now for Vitality.
He just keeps getting worse for Furia.
And up next is Mirage.
It ain't like a 1v4 hold of the B bomb site, it's 1v5 hold of the bomb site, getting four kills on it.
So impressively he's able to do that, more than once.
In a single half.
Nozai would charge in a banana, we know this is his comfort ground, but not this time.
Cello, watch the floor with him, Casserado, all their load is softened up and that MP9 only manages one.
There's still this fight for banana going on and Cello gets traded in again, it's Flames.
biting back, putting vitality in pole position, and he is going to smoke out CT
and sprint into the site with a bomb. Spinks is here to cut off this mid-rotation.
Oh, awkward situation for him though. He's going to smoke to get him out of there.
Mmm, still uncomfortable for Spinks, but he gets out. He's joining his countrymen
inside. All banana. Spinks will hold it at vitality. Come through. Their opening
map in Cologne is domination versus fury. This is a squad that are looking scary.
This is a squad that do not look like they're going to get upset mirage is up next vitality looking strong
Hi guys, mezzie here. Make sure to sub to ESL CS keep right on
Yeah, I think it's going to have to be a muscle in and it's just shocking that it wasn't even close to being in contention
It was just such a wipeout by vitality. They came in today with an attitude
I mean the hard thing is seeing a way that fury can win this map steal it away from them when you have
So I will playing the way he didn't you have flames he playing the way
he did. Spinks started to step up towards the end so that the pieces on the vitality side
are looking good. Pists around start, one for one trade in mid in case Serato eats
one Glock bullet to the dome. Well, Vitality have decided to go with every single player
on Kevlar so it's all about headshots or vitality and they've got a lot of them in
these Pists around today and there's another one coming right up. Fallen walks into Spinks,
Fallen's down, Vitality into the lead on players and there's so much time. Look
at the mini map and how much space that kill created. You saw immediately Yuri
back away from Khan, in case Serato's left the A bomb site, they're going to choose to
step back over towards B and this entire time Vitality was just hoping they'd be able to
crawl up Connector. Apex needs to find this information though and make sure his teammates
don't go up Catwalk. That would be the only calamity that Vitality can run into. And
with Apex in this position, no one's really scouting the A bomb site, so Vitality's
still taking their time, still figuring out exactly where they want to finish, seeing
if they can have any more information gathered. So, you know, if anyone from Fury is
going to push into them.
The ball now making its way up connector. Yeah, making the right call. So pistol round for vitality
That's another one for vitality
If you're in a struggle way to get good starts and the halves today in this best of three
Look at apex just going from rat position to rat position. He's loving it. I
Absolutely loving it
No one from Fury are coming towards him though.
They can't win this round once you call that stack, it's over if they don't come to your bomb site.
So they'll bring the armor into the next round.
Caseurado got gushed.
Will be a really cool indicator of what level these teams have come into Cologne with.
Vitality is saying very grouped up as they have every round so far in this half.
Window smoke blasted open to reveal two Fury of players.
Apex taking the first two in this round for vitality, you're at least trying to keep Fiora in the fight
but it's gonna have to go out again
Second time of asking
Now third, unable to sink Apex. There's a boost being constructed with these two Fiora players
You're climbing up on top, so I was dealing with that
The majority of his health, the sphinx has got short and covers off forward
It's okay. So rather the only remaining player for Fiora and vitality once again off to a flawless start
It's going to be 3 to 0.
They have 5-0 lead on Inferno, now 3 here on Mirage.
It could be a similar or even better for a vitality kill on Mirage.
Yeah, Fury really can't let themselves get into that hole where the money grows so much for vitality
that they'll just never have to save throughout the half.
That's exactly what happened on Inferno.
If you're going to get into a hole, at least do some damage, get some kills and make sure they can't just build up an undepleatable bank.
Apex gets that final frag.
It's 3 to nothing. Guns will come back out for Fury.
A Fallen should have the AWP as well.
But he didn't take a step too far.
Now, oh, cello, that's a risky game you're playing, my friend, and he ends up getting
dropped down to six health.
Yeah, that was a really bold, naive move from cello that no one would be having that angle
even with that boost, but that boost wasn't deep enough to spot the position Spinks was
in.
So cello pays a heavy price.
Vitality playing this round a little bit slow, hoping to let some of this utility
be used and burned early from the defense.
Zywoo boosted on top of his teammate's head. That movement was enough to adjust the attention of Casarotto towards him.
Well breaking the smoke also allowed him to get the glimpse of Zywoo jumping up so he could swing back with a pre-fire.
That's the advantage now for Furia as he now hit the 39 second mark.
In this round the fight is going down to connector and Skulls with the second play they weren't ready for.
Falling and Skulls combining, keeping Furia ahead. This time by two extra players and Skulls was to clear Messi.
clear, he knows he's got him pinned in there, but he steps out with a headshot, he's got
the bomb in his back and he knows if he exposes himself to short he could easily fall down
here and he gets involved with that fight and Yuri somehow loses it.
Remember cello, he's starting to be, well he's over at the A site now and he might
be the player to unravel this round for vitality, he denies that bomb plant, now there's
no time, Spinks has to get it instantly and start planting but he doesn't have
the time for it, now it's about the kill and Fallon just hides away.
from zero to hero, Cello wins the round for Furia.
Petya, you look at Furia's body here.
There's so many weaknesses despite winning the round.
They're gonna boost Yuri up into Ladderoo.
It's quite quick for Vitality getting players into mid.
Fall is down first and that's one of the best weapons gone instantly.
This is why I think they wanted to have players in mid so fast
is they wanted the comms from Furia to be that mid is being pressured.
They wanted to take some attention away so Apex can have an aggressive lurk in Palace.
And one by one, it'll just crumbling down.
You're looking sharp right now, Mezzi.
That's a heat check peak.
He's won some feisty.
Really shouldn't have had a chance in winning.
This would be just brutal for Furia to lose everything here.
Utility used by Yuri, and immediately the commas both are at the B bomb site.
One towards Kawak on the right side, one was just at the market door.
Yeah, well, they might be arriving at the Stone Age again.
The asteroid has come to hit the economy of Furia, nearly gets her to flames.
Traded instantly. Now just cello inside of the smoke and he's cleared out. Nothing saved for Furia.
Actually, he might just head towards the apartments and go for the B-pick, so he's going to send his AWP over there, fallen up in latter room of his sniper and he wants to fight mid.
He needs to be careful here, cello.
Got a couple of jumps that may have cost him.
I know that grenade, it slows Kassarado down, so it completely halts his motion towards Connector,
and that keeps him in the open long enough for Flames to finish him off.
So, okay, Fallen's here for the equalizer. It's not all lost yet.
He's hunting desperately to just find a kill, but another one of his teammates have gone down before he's able to even see anyone.
Yeah, this is rough for Fury. Fallen desperately hanging around, trying to get rid of Flames.
Even that grenade is not enough to finish off the low HP Flames.
Flames is searching through this B bomb site.
Oh, cello, this is gonna suck.
He's got the one angle that cello's not positioned for.
He might not clear it.
Oh, tip of the barrel, he's not gonna clear it at all.
Cello looks up to the apartments, nearly gets a second kill out of that as well,
but will fall into hand of Spinks, so it just proves to be immortal right now.
Yet to die, that's a seventh kill.
And now Mezzi stands out of the ramp,
bomb goes to B, and Mezzi is about to remove everything from Fury's hands.
Fallen knows the messe's there, but the peek into him is not going to work out for Fallen. It is 6-1 for Vitality.
Here's that change up in style. I was around late. Mid-utility, but it's going to be a timing hit towards the B bomb site.
Nade and Scout combined for the first kill. Cellar does fine work for the P250.
Oh, Apex!
Spam down randomly, and Apex is going to drop the bomb to take space and make sure there's no stack.
He's activated Bloodthirsty mode. He throws the bomb down, says it's not his job.
up. Yuri Kesterado coming back through the apartments. And they're just trying to figure
out where are they coming from. I'm not sure what they'll find out. Apex has come
off short. Oh, Xayu gets dinked. He's low. Messi's got him covered though. Skulls comes
in. Apex looking the wrong way. 2v2 now. Kesterado, surely can't win this fight against
Messi, but he certainly will. Now Xayu is forced to keep vitality in this round.
Time taking, no kit available. Kesterado's got that kill, but is there time? No.
The answer is a resounding no.
Fury are coming and they clean up all the vitality players, but unfortunately for them vitality
is full of cash and, well, not enough time.
Clems is on a diet of shrapnel.
Ooh, look at Apex, he just crawled through smoke out Palace, tried to get cheaty.
They can go well for him.
Ooh, Mezzy clearing the smoke, skulls took a step back and didn't really clear the
whispers of smoke as much as Mezzy would have liked.
My talent is a really good job of converting 4 v 5s on inferno
They got another one here, but this time they walk into a two-man stack case or auto
Handles business with the help of skulls. They know where messy is to they last seen towards ramp. So
Not gonna be easy here for messy to do much
But if you can make it expensive through we have three play three players of all-past right now
It's like the old art days not trusting their rifles
Not trust in those M4s. Surely one gets dropped, right?
Yeah, they're going to drop it. The AK-47, pick that up. That's Kasurado grabbing the AK.
Fury looking at this double-op setup as the solution to their problems to drag them back into this game.
A five-round deficit at the moment and Kasurado is going to get aggressive.
We're charged up top mid AK-47 in the hands of K-Zerato only grabbing one, Zywoo, barely
alive but still able to trade out that 1v1.
We're from Cello, Messi goes down.
Vitality crumbling.
In this round it's Spinks and Zywoo having to fight back and that is just so unstoppable.
Oh, he's got Molly him out as well.
No skulls his force into the open, Spinks following up.
And now it's around that Spinks can win.
That fire is starting to clear in jungle, but Yuri somehow finds sanctuary.
Plant comes in, but it keeps him at least pinned in jungle long enough for Spinks to plant the bomb.
Not Spinks know where he is and he knows the other one wasn't off at the B bomb site.
So he's trying to just use this belt full of utility to try and make things a little more comfortable for himself.
Create space for him to get out from behind default boxes, in behind triple.
But he's got to worry about all of the retake positions until those steps.
Now he knows they're both here, and Spinks separates it into the 1v1.
Spinks sharpening his sword as they come around the side.
He slices them back, and it is vitality in unloosable rounds for Furious,
still stepping up and still getting victories.
That's a 2v4 win for Spinks and Zywoo.
An absolutely filthy round,
trading their way into the bomb site,
activated by some spectacular shots from Zywoo.
And a great piece of movement from Spinks. He chucks all that utility
and finds a perfect timing to transition to the other side. Fury had thought he was on the left the entire time.
Oh, and Zywoo's now fired up. He goes in the middle, Kassarotto taken down.
Mezzie quickly in mid. Did I know? There's two players in underpass. There's two players in underpass right now. Mezzie has his back turned to them.
Finally, that tray comes in from Spinks, and they'll molly and heat things up for Yuri.
He's making noise now, burning away, and Zywu...
Oh, he starts to clean up this chaos. He's had enough.
Zywu activates into a 3k, and it is dominant again from Vitality.
No mid-fight going down this time.
Here, you don't have the resources, the weapons to fight.
Vitality, no, they've got dominance.
mid at the head of skulls it's a little too large peeking over the top of that
box. Zywu just needs to see a pixel and he's got that kill locked in. Spinks to
drop Caserado. Yuri spotted it Stez from Zywu so that information oh he even
hits the wall back and Flames finishes him off. Zywu is unplayable today.
12 kills, 5 deaths, only bested by Spinks. He was about to extend to 14.
He has fallen left in a 1 versus 5 at the end of this first half. It is
dominance from Vitality it got worse for Furia on map 2 and Vitality have
come in with a stately performance to open up Cologne. This is strong and they
are so close to the finish and he's 12-5 right now he's actually getting outmatched
by Spinks so everyone's firing all cylinders today. Even Mezzi has had some
incredible rounds in the first half. We'll see how Furia doing a pistol round.
have struggled in Pistols and Apex Flames they're starting off with a very clean start indeed.
It looks like those struggles will continue and Fury better start prepping for Team Liquid
in that lower bracket.
Imagine just getting destroyed you look up and it's just Apex of the other side of
the floor.
It's a shame we don't get to see Vitality dominating like this more often because Apex
just goes wild.
Yeah, but you put it like that.
It's not great. I actually didn't even think about that.
Yeah.
That's, um...
Oh, baby.
Well...
That definitely doesn't help.
That's pretty much how the series has gone, if we're honest.
It's just...
That?
Getting killed through a smoke for no good reason.
Vitality, again, everything has gone their way.
Everything has worked.
One of those games where everything's in your favor.
Well, if you were to gather outside the B bomb site, the defense they're designed to deal with it is messy with a FAMAS at short.
This is going to be a really hard like match review for Furia after this, because it's like you can talk all you want about strategies and gather some mistakes you can pick up on, but on some level, it's simply just vitality, individuals outplaying and outaiming and outfighting them everywhere they go.
Fallen, the last remaining member, Apex is in the perfect position to close and today
the V is absolutely for victory.
Vitality come into the opening day of Cologne and they stop over Furia.
This is a Vitality that is looking scary.
Syul shows up and he had the rest of the deathly hollows.
DROP THE DROP TURN! OPEN AND KILL THEM!
NO SKILL!
RUN TO THE SHATES TO CAROKEY IN SECOND SLIGHT!
STILL NOW, FAST FOR MONITORY!
Aragon and his boys get the better of Apex and his.
CT start for Team Vitality phase on the attack and a smoke up top mid to start.
They have a 3-2 division of the Vitality defence.
Apex, he's got himself a whole lot of you to assign an entry for rain into the bedroom.
Spinks tending to that possibility.
Rushly, on the ones and twos with MC, on the context.
Well the utils on apex to block B, so it's going to have to be the USP's getting it done over towards A.
Zawoo alongside, there's the flash, here comes the waterfall.
Yeah, Rain's going to be the front man, but it's actually going to be A1 and done from Spinks.
His partner in crime gets empty, completely empty handed there.
Mezzian spins four and then we'll get that bomb down. So mission accomplished. Zywu's
already been goose so that uh yeah impact not going to be felt this time on his inferno pistol
in the A site probably a good call is there more no there isn't apex plays the flash flame
just inflated it in it nearly gets out double kills great rain shuts it down though
that was almost one way for the kids to kick things off
on Inferno. He had Zywoo when they took to the server yesterday with an ace on the
pistol rounds. Flames with almost a 1v3 situation that would have been a thing of
beauty. But as soon as you get into the site you start thinking okay this should
be pretty straightforward for FaZe. As long as they play these post plans
there should be no issues. Well Flames after all of his hard work he's earned
himself a deagle no care. He's dropped Zywoo a rifle. He's earned it I suppose.
Yeah well this is quite a threat that's still available. Flames and Apex
Over towards B, but they have that drop down four in the hands as I would resist and it'll take first blood
Yeah, is that retrievable?
With Karagin knocking on the door, but he pieces out
They know there's a window of opportunity away from that M4
They have to be quick if they want to try and beat the rotation and play the number advantage
Running up smoke towards the long side
They head towards library. They're gonna try and wrap. This is a good call against the light of bars
The MP9 has sphinxed with one and a half. Oh, yeah now
Now, I thought it was a free frag. Apex is a little lazy on that one.
It's slow to pull the trigger, but it doesn't matter if Flames is hit in one tap like that.
They've pulled it off! Apex with a double kill. Let's go indeed.
They leave with the round, disrupting FaZe's momentum on the second round of play.
Yeah, now they have the miserable variety of the 1400 force buy to go back the other way.
And FaZe striped me as the type of team who just get a D-Eagles in search.
But this is it. If you're going to have the hero M4 dropped, you want to make sure it's in the action.
You don't want to just be sitting in pit and having a way in the round might not come its way, but that's massive from Apex.
And getting fired up, bringing the energy early on, vitality.
Yeah, didn't get to see that from Flames' POV, but he's hit a couple of bangers with that no-armor dig.
Now it's FaZe's turn. Something they're known for, historically capable in these kind of rounds.
Yeah, the problem is they are just going to have to take their time with this.
You need to allow all this CT utility to be siphoned through, or flash and...
FIGHT!
Okay, Apex is fortunate that the Flames are on his side, and not just the play-up.
Yeah, jumping one flashbang, then, ooh, Karagin swallows a HE grenade down to 47.
Might get sphinxed on the long side on a jiggle.
Info place is staying active, Vitality.
Oh, and then we've heard that. Karagin needs to search forward.
Oh, you know what? Not far off of converting onto flames.
Well, you take the dink and that might entice the rest of FaZe to head over towards B and see if they can finish the job that they're in game leader starter.
but this is looking very good for a 2-1 lead for Vitality,
which should quickly become 3-1 with the full eco next.
How interesting can Brokey, Rain and Rops make this?
Yeah, that's what remains to be seen.
Spinks is close. If there is any lingering phase members
just trying to waltz in, there can be that Molotov deployed from Spinks
or a flash over them towards backside.
This boosts, it's making the most of things, Vitality.
It shouldn't be too much here for phase.
Rain will surge and actually just oh he's hit the edge on the sphinx, he's got it.
He's comfortable, does go down off the one but he knows there's a boost up and he's gone
down two.
Faze have managed to find the sight.
Incredible shooting from Rain.
I thought that crouch was going to be in Flames' favor but it led to the death of
that CT rotation from Sphinx.
It's crazy, Sphinx gets nothing down there.
Hang on.
Yeah, that's a fantastic nade from Zyward.
Molly would do the job.
He's in trouble, trying to get away, doesn't hit the first tap, and so Xayu closes it down
a costly one, sure, but all they needed was the round and it's Xayu that converts it.
Yeah, Xayu has given a bit of a clap there, but you could see the expression on Apex's face
that should never have been that close. We're talking a 5v3 situation, you had the right read,
the rotation was perfect, you had bolstered the correct bombsite, they still get the
plant, they still take 4 kills, it's the rain over the bang, Spinks just doing the dance.
Yeah, they had two flashbangs and the first one they used is perfect, segregating the fight and
managing to take as much as they did. It certainly is a silver lining.
Well, we have to change that discourse we were just having because FaZe get in,
they do so much damage with only one member and the bomb going down.
Karrigan wants to keep the pressure on. Going to force fight again.
Oh, is this not a risk?
No, I like it. There's only one player that's survived. You know that
their buy is going to still be a little bit rough around the edges.
I say that as we take a look of 3M4s and an AK, but lacking U2.
Yeah, and they're gonna try and search towards early apps control
Hey pegs ghost looking get to that Mac 10 to the face. I will alongside though
Couches frozen takes him down
Rain looking to advance
Mezzy responsible for boiler that incendiary will limit rain's contributions a lick of the flame audible
Yeah, it was Rob's looking for that m4 good catch from MC
Well they might be able to get it. Vitality have actually turtled up into a 2-2 setup
that given brackets control and they've also foregone banana. Fascius need to go and work
that out. A remit left on the clock, so plenty of time and a decent amount of smokes to
go for an execute. I mean I feel like he's going to be sitting there for a while but
that is the god flash side. We will give you a demonstration of how to line it up.
Yeah and it might even be a gamble. Look at the reposition of Mezzi. He was just
starting to hedge towards CT spawn. The smoke towards Long has drawn him back
And it hasn't been thrown perfectly, but the job has been done.
I feel like...
I tell him to call another gamble or a bit of a read, it's awfully quiet. 38 seconds.
Mersi's floating. There will be a third man on his way.
So our timing is everything on this.
He's gonna try and swing through that smoke.
Here he comes. They're blind.
Oh, but he is dead! Huge from Robbs!
Long range tech nine headshot posted!
Mersi! Mersi gets two!
But Robbs has done the same. It's only Spinks and Upon will go down with plenty of time to spare.
Robbs and Karagin up against Spinks.
Well this time there's no utility to clear out those corners.
That's what helped them last time, the Molly and the HE.
This is awkward.
Robbs has had a huge impactful round.
With the Karagin call to just push all the chips in.
They know they have some vulnerable, but Spinks could make this costly.
He could come back.
One versus two, denied by Robbs!
A quad kill from the Estonian.
That is two-two.
all tied up. Yeah, great to see some impact from rops like that. And this has been a tussle.
Neither team has been able to establish what the game plan was going to be coming into this
matchup just yet, because we've had the four spy wars back and forth, almost consistently,
and that damage. Yeah, that's massive. And then he does everything himself,
the tech nine coming in just completely shutting down any of the advances from vitality to defend
that site. And we'll continue. It's not over yet. The four spy needs to come back from vitality.
Paze wins this, they can break through and then Vitality will be the ones on that full
eco conversation.
Buller and Halls have been taken.
That goes Reign, early death is going to be costly, significant damage as I would.
Spoke on Library side because I was still holding onto it.
He's going to have to tuck back in to cover off Arch in case there is the slink potential.
Broke, he has the bomb so I imagine he's just going to be kind of containing while
his teammate's search.
If they walk through the archside smoke, they can pince her onto A, and that looks like what they're doing.
Oh, well done by Mezzy.
Good push from Spinks.
I've seen to the site, Spinks, he can go round from behind, Broke, he's a free frag, the bomb goes idle.
Robson, Karagin, they've only got 20 seconds, first frag is great.
Robs provides the second, but a great cost from his help.
Karagin needs to pick up that bomb now, Apex is gonna stop him.
Oh, he fights instead.
Flash is good, Zywoo's been spotted out with the frag.
He knows where Flames is too so he knows where they both are 13 seconds.
It's still not comfortable and timing chance squandered on the 5-7 fake on the plan hoping to punish takes the head
You haven't got time for that car again. Oh, no the clock
It converts the round for him. I think misjudgment there from car again thought he had time for a rifle retrieval
Or perhaps anticipates I would to have gone and doubled up
But either way, yeah, it's a bit of a sigh from car again knows he could have done a bit more with that
Well, alright, well this game is definitely delivering isn't it?
From the pistol round we've had purchases every single round that's followed.
Nobody's taken an eco, constant force buys and the rounds are going down to the wire.
We've had three rounds in a row that have come down to just one player staying alive.
Actually since the pistol as well.
So it was just the second round of play where two players for Vitality managed to
survive.
It's as nice as it was, I mean, you know, testament to what you've just been saying
It's just how crazy the buys off of both teams like this. Just nothing again
It goes back to this no real game plan right now. So they are just rolling
It is just the individuals on display live alive. What alive? What alive? What alive?
Roll indeed. I mean entertaining. No doubt about it. Vitale in phase locking horns in an advancement match for the Lancet
I think another thing that happens when the matches like this is
Neither team in a lot of these rounds either has full firepower or full utility
so there has to be things that are a little bit either direct or
Risky, which is why you do get the volatility that we're seeing in some of these scenarios
You can't go okay. Let's get banana control. Then let's return. Let's get bracket control on the tea side
You just don't have the needs to do so
That's true so in combination both of them
Yeah, and then when the CT's don't have the same to block as they traditionally would they have to take a couple more
forward stances have to look for flights and
And in the four spies from Vitality had Sphinx with an opener on the famo
She had Zywa with that drop them four from Flamesy earlier in the piece over towards B
So constantly looking for the fight to Vitality
throws out the Moto smoke
Was the penultimate smoke from phase so you'd expect there to be a commitment off the back of that caragon has flashbangs
But apex with their HG onto frozen elsewhere. That's the lurk gone
And they start to accelerate Sphinx good find already
Broke into the site well find one
There's the only one there, but not for long. Rain doubles up. The bomb will go down and FaZe have the sight.
Do we finally see a save?
We might have to. They were so far away, it wasn't like they had an early lead time on that APPS explosion.
And they will just look to retain these rifles, the Galil and the M4 for Flames in Apex respectively.
So they're going to carry these through. We'll tie things up again. It'll be 3-3.
It also means that the loss bonuses haven't been able to build because we've just been
going back and forth.
So it'll be 1400 yet again for Vitality.
Yeah, a bleak with two rifles into the next.
Yeah, so Flamety at the moment has 600, so he's going to have 2K.
He might be able to drop something.
Apex is going to be at 1750.
Maybe they want to give a scout to Zywa.
I know it's Inferno, but maybe can harass down towards middle within the early stages.
But still, nobody's broken through.
But I think the fact that they saved two rifles says that yeah vitality. I'm just gonna shovel in yet again
So yeah, okay apex is drop the galil to zi where he's bought himself an MP9
I think flames he's dropped an MP9 as well and
One's been equipped from spanks. So this looks like rounds that we've already seen from them throughout this half
Look at it. Look how many MP9s are in the server. They're all over on one side
We've got two MP9s carried over from phase one for rain one for character this wall. This is the bad knuckle for all right now
MP9's for the T side, but it's Frozen's first and it's an impactful one onto Flames.
Going looking... Apex cautiously retrieves that M4.
Yeah, you immediately want to look at the radar. Are the A defenders looking to group up and try and take some space?
Well, no. Both planted quite defensively as it is Banana, where they want to take this jewel.
Spinks with the assistance of Apex to see if they can catch the crawl.
It's Frozen's first kill. Good time to get activated. Chance to finally break Vitality.
Wary of apartment's pushers, so Rain being diligent with his U-Tilt, and no secret steps
will have been heard.
So full mid control, they haven't been able to say the same for Bananas just yet.
Oh this is a good combo.
Designed to disrupt this very setup.
Spinks and Apex noted, chipping away at Apex to 35, it's Zywoo, elevated on the barrel.
Karagur, down and out, but immediate from Robs on the way back, Mezzi, long range
for down.
And so the A-Sci, once again, falls and Vitality made us have to reside themselves to a very
similar situation to the previous.
Okay, so now we should see the save from Vitality that will result in an eco behind the M4
and the MP9.
Yeah, so is this a moment's respite from the chaos?
In a way, but they still have to, I'm curious to see if Apex even opens with the M4 if
he gives it to somebody else, right?
But regardless, there's still threats for Faze.
It's not like they're getting a clean anti-eco round where they just get to play against
or maybe upgraded to P250s.
This is still a couple of weapons to deal with.
There's also smokes, HEs, so never an easy round.
But you'd feel like you've broken through
as far as the economy game is concerned.
Oh, through the land, artsy.
Okay, well, first consecutive rounds for FaZe.
Vitality found theirs early on after their forced by
and the follow up, but too many casualties.
And then these forced by wars continued.
Frozen's first kill as mentioned, a nice little opener onto Flamesy.
And Zywe went in a very committed position, so good trade from Rops.
Mezzy does what he has to, but getting wrapped off on that long side so he was going to be a dead man walking regardless.
Yeah, but if Rops is wrapping it is a Rop, I think.
That's Chad as I lighted.
Still something to be concerned about for FaZe, they're not going to be rushing anything willy-nilly.
He did a big bummer for the captain, for Vitality if they want to win this round.
He started me and now back over to B, and ah, already 35 points of health.
Yeah, we've been here before.
Last time they pro-banana, that was the same result for Apex, just brought down to an uncomfortable
amount of HP.
I think you're just going to have to gamble stuff, something of your vitality.
In this type of scenario, group up, hope that you've rolled the dice correctly, phase,
heavy forces in banana, it just rops over to the second bit, more B pressure applied,
flash over, frozen can take the jewel.
And a big part of this is, oh, we saw the M4 here.
We're calling the bluff.
Is he gonna stay here?
Now that he's, you know, we know, he knows,
where does he wanna find himself?
And that gamble signed the manifest,
if you take a look at the radar,
Zawoo cheating over to help out the A bomb site as well.
It is just flamesy.
And there's another part of this,
in that conversation that Shock's referenced,
with the Hatter with Apex, Alexi, Carrigan.
The mind games of this is, okay,
well, they showed the M4 here,
are they stacking here?
Right, so they wanna let us in,
is that why no one's peeking now?
Frozen's gone forward, he's now noted a player's in the boost. That's information. They can still rotate back. Everything else is relatively clear.
Well, they were kind of fine. I mean, 15 seconds, now that's when it fades, and so long as they get across and the resmote comes in, yeah, they just about managed their time perfectly.
Look at that. 7 seconds as Karrigan delivers the package. I mean, thank God Frozen went searching. Without that probe, you're walking into that stack and they could have gone a different way instead.
base and fully covered their bases and working out.
Just important that Apex and Spinks hold onto these,
even though they are going to buy up into their next round.
Normally, I don't know, we're quite deep within the half
at this point, but first rifle rounds for the CTs
after losing pistol and forces can always be a little bit
rough around the edges regarding all the goods.
So a couple of extra rifles, this is going to help them
down the stretch.
Brokey wants to kind of disrupt that.
It's going on a bit of a search.
and it resulted in a loss of his life.
Well, Messi could have done with taking that AK,
but instead loses his life.
Yeah, it's only the MP9, so not the end of the world.
I wonder if we see an AWP get dropped across to Zywut.
That could be made possible by Spinks.
We'll keep our eyes on those purchases,
but phased with a two-round lead.
And, well, we mentioned the fact that these two teams
have played each other three times this year,
and every time it's been the playoffs of a tournament,
we've had...
Oh, good place.
Yeah, it's good to damage as well.
All right, well, not into the world, only two round difference.
Still plenty to be played within this map.
Here's that orb, so it was dropped across.
So I'm getting active with it and removed.
Big one from Rops, just swing straight into Zywoop.
And then another one on the menu,
Massey does well to get away with his life.
An important equalizing frag.
It's insane that our Rops has just gone so quickly
into that fight.
He's not shy, is he?
It's not really kind of typically his style.
But he knows his timings, brings the fight early
and it's profitable.
10th frag from Robs, looking like he's in good form today.
Familiar opponent.
The tech nine round that he has been
the most impactful so far.
Yeah.
I'm intrigued by Flames' position here.
He's kind of alone on the site
and opting for a very active angle on pool.
Will slightly slip away as the smoke starts to fade.
Apex is looking to join him.
In worst case, he found himself towards CT and they're in a full retake setup.
Now that Apex is over, they spawned.
Spinks is in for it. Here we go.
Alright Apex, what are you going to do with this?
No, you tell really.
The fast flank.
Spinks put the bomb down.
That's going to completely change the plan for Faze.
Really uncomfortable round now for Faze Clan.
They're just going to pick up the bomb and go.
Same plan.
Slightly delayed.
Flame should have at least one empty-handed.
Rain has found a huge flank back.
from down three on three. This is an intense retake and it could have got awkward for Spinks.
Core jumping up, mantling on towards the barrels. Frozen concede, just backs away. Time on their side.
The last of their utile, used to try and take half wall, but Frozen on the re-aggress and
Mezzi falls. Karagin takes two. It's a phase six on this two-side.
All right, all right. Well, we're going through the history that match over in London,
the spring finals for Blast. Inferno was the map choice of phase. They won it 13 to 4. Then they
lost the series 13 to 10 on Dust2 and then 13 to 6 on Mirage. So they're keeping up their strong
form on Inferno versus Vitality. Should be an opportunity for them to look for that seventh.
Now they have upgraded into a Silent State 4. There's always been a threat for Vitality in
these rounds. There's not a single round where it's just been, you know, the lightest
possible investment. So again, they're going to have to worry about a couple of upgrades.
MP9, Deagle, Smokes and Flamesy with the big one.
Oh, they're going to be calling for a flash.
It's all about the timing here, Frozen.
Ooh, does well. Very well.
And the Free Fire. Oh my god, you heard that.
Two AKs are starting, anticipating.
Apex however, with a combination with his SMG and Bihachi.
He brings down Brokey, Carrigan, World Trade.
And it looks like a seventh loom.
I think much more for Mezzie and Zywoo to do with only Desert Eagles.
It's crazy at this point how many opening jewels Frozen has been involved in and for
the most part of this game he was on the receiving end.
Wasn't he 0 and 6?
Yeah he was but now he's uh well...
5 and 6?
But the kills is he's 3 and 5 in opening jewels so he's you know all those frags
that he'd given away 5 of them were opening deaths.
Now he's starting to get his own back so great resurgence from Frozen.
They could come back in the middle of a half, it's impressive.
Yeah, there's some players, if they don't start the game strong, if they don't get
a kill on the pistol in the early rounds against the force, they can just continue to be slow
and then you get beaten down and then you're not going to continue to be aggressive or
take your fire.
So it seems like it's the opposite of Frozen.
Yeah, I mean we talk about confidence being a really important component in a player
and a lot of players kind of derive that confidence.
City go low, one of the city is shot.
I leak one another.
Ruins are on the spawn gate.
You stay there, dude?
Yeah.
I go close to Rusev.
He's at Barna.
Rusev?
Yes!
I'll swap by again.
Yeah.
Good fucking shit, man. Good day, Trevor.
Fucking nice.
Pretty calm.
Yeah.
Right, 3v3 post-planned position. Pretty calm.
That's what you like to see.
Well, Zoe gets another opportunity on the AWP last time.
Had it only for a brief moment.
See if we can do more with it there.
So, we made quite a statement in his opening game. We've only seen that one game. Vitality vs Furious is our second look at what Vitality are bringing to IEM Cologne 2024.
Same could be said for FaZe.
And there's ZywOo's AWP, good for it, but down after 1, Frozen loses his life and the farm, Robs is there.
That's team play. They leave with an advantage and a site.
Yeah, Robs did his job perfectly there. That late piece through Boiler, that setter gets rumbled.
They're waiting there for the progression halls which we've seen quite consistently from phase rain and robs up through boiler and halls being quite aggressive
That's how the last time so I had a natvp got rumbled this time. They go straight up the guts go long side orp signs off
They learn of the boiler setter who rocks comes through and cleans house
It has to be another vitality save and it's these two yet again apex of flamety
Kargan has gotten wind of this and is already on the hunt.
But yesterday was way too easy for Vitality, wasn't it?
I don't mean that in a bad way.
I mean, in a way that they just absolutely mauled their opponent.
It was a non-issue whatsoever.
Apex does get that one and should get away with his life.
Let's go into the final round of the first half.
Oh, Vitality are gonna be kicking themselves
because after they won the fourth spy and the follow-up,
if they didn't give away so many kills,
in that three play it was a 3v5 where Sphinx rotated CT, Apex boosted Flamesy back sight and
That round came down to a one-on-one situation where they gave away the plant they gave away all those rifles if they hadn't of
Messed up in that variety
We would have likely seen FaZe go forward to take an eco and then they could have started establishing themselves in the heart
But since that point Vitality's finances have been on the ropes sure
There's been the possibility to have a couple of these hero M4s or saved M4s in the mix the threats that I've been talking about
But they never really got an opportunity to establish their full game plan with full buys in this first half of play
Yeah, no, it's really it's admirable considering losing that second round force after winning the pistol
You'd think that that marks like a kind of change in momentum, but even losing the following
But making it costly and carrying and making that cool to take it with tech 9s
It's resulted in an 8 3 half. We could be looking at a 9 3 half with all of that said
See how they've tried and finished this one off flames at apex and having their trials on beat
If they cheat looks like it's destined to do some damage to flames
He he pushes ahead and does manage to avoid the brunt of it, but he is being run out by carry look at him go
Nade flame
It's twice about it with a single flash bang
He's gonna set his boys up now the fact that you draw that smoke at about a minute 22 on the clock mission accomplished
You've applied so much pressure
Vitality feel like the under threat the comms if you're the a guys right now
You'd be here in the B players just screaming that smokes flashes. Hey, cheese. They're picking
So now they get a moment of respite, but that's what phase turn their attention to take this mid control rain making no secret of this
Made down Spinks's pocket. Oh didn't quite nail the flash plate
It's away with his life
Go through the motions their phase. So you're really taking and maintain banana control now
You've got brackets and a bit more they want to sell it short
And he might peek around this and he's done well to find carragans
Oh
Hang on I will best robs and now it's looking good for a vitality for
Anticipating a B finish that you till
Has landed on CTA pegs unable to do too much does have a smoke of his own though
Yeah, but that's if you can get past that SMG elevated was flames finds it with the MP9
Brokey just spams away at the smoke as well to find himself a kill grabs the AK-47
Reigns alongside for it, claims in the smoke
It's chaos but Brokey hits the shot!
Oh! Reign is another! Good God I think they've turned it around
The hard work done, how has that happened?
Brokey and Reign miraculously enter the B site with a couple of seconds to spare
Oh Vitality are going to be kicking themselves if they can't close
and spinks, tasked with getting back into this B bomb site.
Mezzie coming in first, Barrel spotted,
Brokey knows he executes it, and now the last of four!
That is miraculous!
What a way to close out the half and knife,
and five frags between the two of them.
Rain and Brokey, heroes for FaZe as we take two.
Rain is about to jump into the server to play Vitality
for a spot in the Lancest Arena,
and while we were looking online today
about your history in Cologne and ESL,
I'll post it a couple of things about all the events in Cologne that you've attended.
It's crazy.
It's insane actually.
I think you're the only player to do that.
Am I?
I don't know actually.
I thought Kerrigan also had a...
Yeah.
I think he also played all the other Colognes, but I might be wrong here, but yeah, it feels
good.
No, no.
I was just checking if you were paying attention, but it's awesome that you're here in
Cologne again.
Now, of course, for FaZe, last year was not the result that you would have hoped.
You know, you always wanted to be playing in Atlancis and having a chance to get
to that trophy.
How do you feel the form of the team has gone out?
You booked that great first win versus Liquid.
I think it's a good start getting the win which is Liquid after a rough start of the season so far.
I think we've worked a lot and Karrigan has implemented a lot of new stuff.
He's calling us to change a little bit so I think we're doing a very good progress.
Could you elaborate a little bit more of course whatever you can say because Karrigan
was saying okay I've got everything's going to change.
How much change for you personally and for the team?
I think it's more about going back to his old ways a little bit.
calling more an intuition than just a game plan. So I think that's what it is to
reading the game a little bit more and playing like that.
Okay, do you think that those are changes that will benefit you particularly against
the game that Vitality likes to play?
I'm not sure if it would do it, but it refers to Vitality, but it's more about the
overall team feeling. You feel like there's more passion in a way in the
way we're playing, and people will get to communicate more. We have to relay
more information to each other instead of just playing with the playbook.
Awesome. Looking forward to it. Thank you.
Thank you
Insane indeed it is 9-3 in the first map of this advancement matches between phase and vitality
Both teams still in that upper bracket, but one of them securing the Lancest today
I'm sure the fandoms of both the Golden Hornets and the phase team
We're gonna be looking forward to try to see their team locked in for the Lancest arena
Ouch, that's a warning shots of Robs. Yeah, and he's the only one defending a because phase have decided to operate with a four player
B-stack so that's maybe a little bit of help to entice Vitality into looking for this finish.
Moly, out of flames he did clear off that porch side. Frozen having to now search down banana.
Will Apex go overlooked? Is it a little bit of a mind game? Oh nice sharp robs.
Gets the most out of it. Apex however was waiting for this and oh wow. He's put a bullet
on to Frozen's head. Yeah, this is gonna go hectic. This is uncomfortable. Highly uncomfortable
and Messi's doing everything he can. A third is great and the bomb is on his back if he only knew.
Brokey should dangle Frozen on his fishing rod. This is going to be tough to get him by. Is he
going to be anticipated? It doesn't matter with the low HP. Frozen still hits the head shot.
Couple of rocks gets a kill considering that early goose, you know, from that motor position
grabbing a kill, taking his time with it, and that almost spells the map in favour of FaZe.
I was gonna be like, why didn't Mezzy just run to B? Because he saw Brokie and Frozen, Apex saw
both of them down there, but of course, they could have turned around.
So yeah, I did what he could with a triple kill from Mezzy, but as you said, this spells
trouble for Vitality if they can't win this one. Yeah, they've been able to get an AK in the
hands of ZywOo, he's got head up behind it, so let's see if he can make a play. Even just
Just so they can start warming into the series, they're going to go into their map choice of Dust2Next
and they'll be a whole lot more comfortable, but to get blown out in a match for the arena, Vitality did make it to the Lanxess last year.
May as you're the only one not part of this team, he would love to grace the Cologne stage.
Never seen Mr. Merriman out there, but everybody else in the server we have in FaZe, they've even won it.
There you go, that's Zaiwu doing what Zaiwu does best with the AK-47, that's why you put
the collation of cock in his hands as you look to try and disrupt the A site.
Straight in, double kill.
Nice back from Brokey, yeah they nearly lined up for the double, Mezzy just 3 HP, the bomb
going down and Zaiwu, putting another one in the dirt, Brokey solo in trouble, looks
like Vitality have done enough to make a little bit more out of the second half.
We're gonna get more of this force by nonsense. I think that'll be dependent on if Brokeen frozen can hold on to their upgrades
Apex really wants to take this away and well, yeah, he's been a big enough distraction to get another for Zywoo
So everything's I we need to drop the AK finds the opener and that essentially is secure as vitality the round there for
Just a six round game now. Let's say just MI 12
It's gonna be quite quick to get back into things and that's where the financial decisions of phase
We're gonna have to put under a microscope just like we did with vitality in the first half
I mean, yeah, this is a replay so far of the first half as much as rounds go.
Faze with both pistols.
Faitanthi with both second round forces.
How broadly do we get?
I think that Faze should invest, but not fully.
They're a little bit of a residual kind of vibe.
And then in the next, they can get a piece of 50 or whatever,
and then they can actually have a full gun rounds.
But what do I know?
Carrigan disagrees, apparently.
Well, they can win it right here right now.
Their individuals have looked a whole lot better.
the five smoke strategy it's so pure no flashes that nonsense just good old-fashioned smoke grenades
it's all just gonna come down to blocking and hopefully forcing them into the stack
truckload of utl thrown top banana but that's all seems like it was a bit of a ruse it looked
like Vitality wanted to start setting their sights on the A bomb site they've been blocked
towards top mid which has changed the plans again it's being quite erratic with this
Brokey. Sounds off. 5-7. Now noted.
Oh, the other A smoke is on Robs and he's in the side, so he will not be able to constrict
middle whatsoever.
They smoked off the long side.
Oh, Robs is under scrutiny.
Coming in fast.
Yeah, there are.
That's been a lot of pressure.
He loses it.
Support.
He loses himself.
There you go.
Well, that was efficient.
Well managed.
Well executed.
Vitality.
Get themselves into the A site once more.
Okay.
Well, hold on to your goodies again.
Frozen will get to retain his Famous for yet another round of plate.
It's the upgrades on Karagena Brokey that are the only difference
makers going into the next round where, yeah, this one should be.
The save.
Running a pistol doesn't seem to mean too much if you can't win that second.
But you look at both of the second round forces of vitality with the
kills that they managed to get on the pistol rounds.
They were able to, in the first one, drop Tywoo and M4.
And in the second on the T side, drop him an AK.
So you have a superstar.
You put the weapon in his hands and he found the entries in both of those rounds
Top banana he got a kill on the M4 and now wrapping around that art side
He got the opening kill on terrain. So that's the impact that you're looking for
And the game is plays more directs in these early moments
Which is where both of these teams can thrive if the players are all willing to put their bodies on the line
You know swing to the jewels that you get a bit more of their
Individualism on on play as opposed to the tactical side of hey, let's throw this
Let's throw that we've already had that conversation. Maybe we have to have another half where it's the same afraid it might be the case
As you said dust to vitality's pick that will be our second
town of strike treat
See what they can do with what they have
Three saves one rifle
Oh, and they picked the corrects to start to hit again Robson rain the eight offenders the ones who went down in the
Nice catch with the boost. Okay
But that is just going to accelerate them into the USP. You know what works? SMGs versus no
care flow. Flames had no problem against rain there. Spinks takes down robs after his P250
did some work.
Well they'll give it a look.
Yeah, no harm done. Well, but pushing through that smoke without anyone else.
And Brokey and Frozen are still fapping around top banana. Frozen's been able to
pick up that AK.
Alright, well that looks like it's just too appealing to bring through to the
next, doesn't it?
Yeah, Brokey might want to try and do some damage.
Might not be super attached to the Famas.
No, I think we'd be more than happy to get rid of that, wouldn't we?
But as far as the finances go, it's still something to carry through to
help you out in the youth department a little bit.
But we come into this half, phase when the pistol, you think,
alright, this one's going to be done quite quickly.
Well, now it's just a four-round game.
Welcome to M112.
Yeah, and this is the thing.
If phased by, then they lose the rounds.
And let's say they don't save an awful lot.
But it's going to be a two-round game, essentially.
It can get away from you very quickly.
Vitality know that.
So not giving up hope after a tough first half and a first half where they probably should have had an extra round or two
Well, we're about to see the first rough round of the second half take shape, but we've had action on stop
Once the opener look like for face. It looks like frozen of the toss was just holding B on his own four players starting over towards a for face
This is an active app setup
Forward positioning, but it does look like vitality want to go direct
That might change their plans though. Smoke's half-walled.
Molly and Go. Gonna go through this.
Okay, silent, but they're on their way.
Yeah, they're coming in.
Yes, Garaghan. There might be a bit too late on that smoke.
Suddenly panicked, flustered, good flash.
Garaghan pushes! Oh, it's beautiful!
He gets himself a double! Make it a triple from the captain!
Flame slipped him there. Are they aware? They are now.
Gets the information. Good work from Rain.
And FaZe, I mean it's rare to see something like that work so perfectly.
Two flashes, Karagin swings on the second, and three players doing the dance on the Nanny B commit.
There's a detail.
Okay, how many more is he going to get?
The bomb is in an almost irretrievable position to watch CT spawn, so the fact he's gotten two kills, that's great, but surely nothing more.
Yeah, I think the fun is stopped here, but Spinks has got 10 grand in the back, you might just keep having some fun.
Bomb couldn't be more irretrievable if they tried.
Actually, Brokey is going to be exposed to that,
and Spinks has managed to make this a 1 vs 2.
I think FaZe might be getting a little uncomfortable now,
but Spinks might actually get that bomb back in his hand.
Ray's holding a gut to Karrigan.
After all of his hard work, he was starting to get a little nervous.
That's almost the same that happened within the first half of a play,
to the Deagles, the 3v4 situation, 3v5 situation of it,
the B side just giving away a lot of casualties in a round where you can start to establish your own economy and your in-game leader is so much
Hard work will catch that one again on the replay perfect timing on the push through
Hands over faces the in-game leader locks down three in style and then this is where the bomb gets dropped
You think okay? Well, that should be it
So that Spinks has done a little bit of a dent Broke. He's been able to bring out the AWP that flash
The perfect demonstration of just how good it can look
Now the God prefix was found
Lift utility.
Going through.
Flashing through.
Frozen forced away.
Harrogant the same.
Top banana gained.
Safe from the flame.
Mehdi and Orobs!
Still gets one!
Missed shot from Brokey.
Flames, is allowed a second chance.
For the keeping phase moving between the sites.
So there are going to be a lot of gaps.
Like a test over here, a test over there.
And contacting.
Don't be ahead of this.
As he starts to run, oh!
Big head shot from Merriman.
Test in Carrigan, he's been brought low, should go down here, empty-handed and vitality.
They've broken into the B-bomb site and quite a direct approach, is that kind of Apex, good old-fashioned Apex calling?
Well, I think this is where the mind games between these two teams is going to play in an awful lot.
Because in that previous round, hold up, I was saying, we're going to have Brokie, they're going down and getting a kill on his ult.
It's going to be the latter.
Jump spot, so they know they're under pressure with the hunt.
That's the ramifications of giving away so many rifles to sphinx in the previous, Apex wants to remove it all knowing that they can make their life a whole lot easier as part of this comeback.
Okay, and now we can have a conversation. So, they started 4A with frozen blocking B and one of the key ways that they opened that previous rounds, which is where Karrigan rotated back and got the triple kill, is they flash-rained forward for info in the middle, but started double apartments.
Then as soon as rain called mid-clear, Karrigan was like, alright, I'm immediately just going to go towards this B bomb site, so they had a good idea it was going to be quite direct out of vitality.
Yanko always likes to talk about vitality. There's a difference with this team if they win pistol and how they're gonna approach first-gun rounds
Or if they lose it and see the fact that they were able to get that forced by in their favor and then when the rifles came out
They were doing something together as a unit more more direct
Yeah, they're gonna take more of a risk as opposed to going straight into defaulting
Yanko can correct me. Actually not on the desk is he? No
We got Jacob Emphthineke and
Okay, maniac well Yanko has been talking about that like on the CT sides if they win the pistol and get the conversions
Their first gun round is going to be something a bit more aggressive and direct, whereas if they don't they're going to play a bit more of a safer, a bit more of a stand-up.
Well, aggressive and direct looks good here.
Zywoo the Motivator, it's okay.
It is okay.
Vitality 7.
As Chad was saying, these gaps can close quick, but FaZe did just find themselves their second CT round. They need to put them back in the dirt.
phase they've saved rifles consistently a couple you can see the Brokeys
orb and rain can vitality find a clean eight fit avoid this saved AWP did you
look set on this be execute brookie and carrigan have smokes to block oh
they're getting ahead of the play it's a fantastic flash from carrigan frozen
does well to find himself something with the aggress maybe broke his orbs
gonna get a chance here oh and it does flames down apex he's gonna have
Second thoughts now, surely spamming away at the smoke.
Well, you're way back into it with Spinks,
and he hasn't taken too much space just yet,
starting the probe because he has to 35 seconds.
They're running, they are running.
And Rob's just left, so yeah, Ray.
It's Rain in the pit with the AK.
That's the other saved gun.
Ooh, interesting scenes here.
They don't have a molly to clear him, either.
Okay, Rain, let's see what you got, mate.
That smoke really will limit the side line
he wanted to work with.
He jumps out of the pit, Spinks should have him.
Whoa, still was ready for Spinks,
Now he maneuvers around that smoke, 13 seconds planting safe on Cold Zera.
I mean, I'm not aware that Zywa was likely trying to isolate him, hunt him down.
They've used their smokes very well here, Vitality.
Pushing smokes, Zywa! What a transfer!
Turns around, spins into the second.
It's up to Apex though in the clutch.
And Robb pushed through, finds the headshot. Apex just shy of the head.
That's a miraculous turnaround from FaZe.
Damn. Rain did so well there. I thought the Sphinx would have had him dead to right since he's jumping out of pit
and you can see him wanting to reposition so he can try and deal with the side players
still able to get his AK across in time onto Sphinx and that's the difference make a kill in my mind.
This is great from Frozen, sure gets one, but it baits them forward. I think okay, that's just the standard B defenders.
Broke he grabs his and Rops continues to do damage getting both of these.
Up to 18 kills. Great to see Rops with this level of form.
I want just one more round for FaZe now to pick up their map choice.
Okay.
Oops.
That's pretty meditated as Iroh drops that one to give him a bit of a buffer to work
around over towards Brooms.
That's worked perfectly.
And FaZe will have heard that so they know they can't just spear on down for this banana
control.
They find one that works, they find one that works wonderfully.
Frozen brings down the Wu.
Man, is he quick to find Karagin but he knows Frozen's not far behind him.
Flames, putting a lot into this.
Got to be careful, he's trying to find info safely and does catch a glimpse of Robbs?
Rain still undetected.
Red Mike clear deep.
He does have a lurk and he can dash, he just spots Flamie running towards B.
Surely that's a little sign that we need to get the rotation going.
Frozen under pressure! A nice headshot from Mezzy.
Two kills from the Brit in this one.
Trade Zywoo then builds into it with a frag to open up the B.
Bombsite Spinks on Captain's Core Robbs.
Trying to get towards Banana through mid.
I was gonna say that feels like a save and they are gonna try and back off but with Spinks so close you wonder
Hey, do we should we hang around and have a little bit of a look he dropped off after that kill?
So Rain and Brokey the two who saved before looking to save again and those saved weapons were worth their weight in gold
Brokey's already passed your line of sight so Apex should have this one
There hasn't been a single round this after face haven't saved some it apex didn't have that one not yet
No, no it's in fact broke. He's been doing great on the saves
But they have worked back into this haven't they Vitality?
A couple of rounds that they're gonna be kicking themselves over.
They need to do some damage, but Brokey will retain the AWP and reign the A4.
Now Brokey could drop a rifle, Karugin can buy his own and maybe just an MP9 for
Robs or Frozen to operate with who get left in the lurch.
But yeah you see the second the Intendery comes through on the fate of the smoke so
So just waited out Zywoop. Good work from Mezzy.
Yeah real clean with it. Spinks's lurks have been looking successful as well. Something
he's been criticised for. Not always being as active as perhaps his team need him to be.
Well, keep an eye on that. We've got four rounds required out of vitality.
Yeah and no lost bonus built for either team but more importantly FaZe. If Vitality lose
round it doesn't matter it's over. That's GG. But if FaZe lose this one...
Yeah, well, if this round continues in the direction it's going, FaZe are going to have
to take an eco all the saves again.
If you're Vitality, maybe you'll throw more at hunting those guns away, knowing just the
ramifications.
And you set up with a flash to clear out boiler and holes.
So what is the indicator for Vitality for the finish?
Do they send Mezzie, who is low, deep in towards B, because he might not get all
the necessary information?
Because he is so low, right?
die in the choke point. And FaZe have called a bit of a gamble stack. They've just kept
the A defenders planted. And this is looking like it's going to work out perfectly. 35 seconds
on the clock, bomb committed, apartments, this will be A.
Most definitely. Ross holding the angle, puts flames on 1 HP, Rain robs, combined to defend
the site, Apex is low, Rain could do this, Broke is there, and it's lovely from FaZe
This plan, limited resources, no problem, phase plan 13, vitality just eight.
It was phases pick, they converted and are now one map away from the Lang Cesarita.
Round especially if you're on the phase clan side, of course that's because they just
trounced Vitality on map one of this series.
That's right, the score line is indicative of that of the biceps that Jacob does have
currently in his jacket.
That's right, big strong, that's what they call in phase, if this notion, or
at least at this impact, so the first map of the series.
In doing so, let's talk about it.
Let's really talk about it.
Maybe we talk about the game or you want to waffle.
Do you want to waffle?
I can waffle about something.
How many Zywos does Vitality need to win games?
Three.
As many as possible.
Like, can we just, like, maybe develop a technology
to just duplicate, clone, or whatever?
No, it's not even the story here.
I don't even think the story is more Zywos we need.
I think the story is rups.
Yeah.
Yeah, there we go.
cool them on his flanks, he's cool them apps, he punished timings, he white swung Xywil
with an AWP to just make him disappear, just obliterated the man, he punished whenever Vitality
tried to do the double short stack, he was all over the place, props to rups, he kept
his cool.
Props to rups?
Okay that's pretty good, I'll give it to you, we need to get it to Jacob because
his last thing is cool.
Ahh, okay I just realized now, it's just a time of difference, even better, even
better.
Pretty pretty pretty cool rup segment plan for the pregame, but we didn't have a time for this time around
He's been struggling rups. Mr. Rups
He's been in a rough period together with face-clan and I think this is a great example of when he's playing well
When he's successful with his lurk when he's finding impact on the server and I wouldn't necessarily say
Dictating the game but almost dictating the game with his lurks and installing fear into his opponents
Then face-clan is looking like a much much better team
Of course flanked by broke he had a good game carry again showing up rain showing up
It felt like every time we're playing well, but for my money when rups is playing well
It usually correlates with face playing well, and it's better once as we see mr. Mr. Cool be good mr. Cool
Hey, you know I'm thinking about that one exact moment where which yes
It was rops v. Zywoo. Oh, yeah
And just that that awkwardness of the duel cuz you would think like maybe nine times out of ten
Zywoo gets that frag but no, I mean it was just too fast
Yeah, and it's not that often that we say a rifle was too fast was I won the problem is
Strategically speaking the setup of Vitality is correct. You put the AWP the rifle
You know rubs has been a problem. It's been an issue so you try and stabilize it and then you just get
Exactly what that just smacked. Okay. So what do we see around six? Who got smacked around?
I just let's get technical for a second because this game started as a back-and-forth a tug-of-war between phase and vitality
And I personally have a problem with vitality did here and the consequences of that round
So we're talking about round six. We see here score nine three to two fifty seconds left
And if you have your attention on the finances from Vitality, it's very very complicated
So it's a turning point spoiler alert and what's really interesting as this apps pop is about to happen is that if I show you here the setup from
Vitality is very very passive when they realize that the apps pop is gonna come
There's no rotation whatsoever. The B players are way too far away
We have ZywOo that's a little bit isolated towards mini pit and you will see when that pops
Rain huge props to him the fact that he deletes ZywOo immediately as his players are taking space with the tech 9
That's gonna be right now. They catch Spinks a little bit of guard here
He's getting in the process so I will get eliminated by rain and just like that the side falls and there is no way to see it coming
That's my issue. You basically give yourself no room for error no margin for error no warning sign no information
You're blind. You're flying blind and vitality losing this round is the reason why they started so
Complex or it was very complex them to start this first half and I guess the only thing that can explain why there would be so
passive is obviously as you highlighted the money situation you have three MP9s
stuck on the side so you want to you want to force the duals to be close to you
but I agree with you someone has to be spotting that a little bit earlier so
those MP9s can react because one thing is having an MP9 in a close core comeback
you want to be the one swinging you don't want to sit in a corner waiting
for someone to run into you you want to be the one with the MP9 swinging out
I agree with you you know the thought process probably if you were to ask
about tell me is that we have a low by no but it's a little bit too
passive my liking as well I agree with you but just just imagine the
In contrast, Vitality's first gurn around yesterday versus Furia.
It's MP9s on MP9s.
Famesy is T-Spawn in the smoke, ready to fight them.
It's a night and day contrast.
You think it's not respect, are they giving too much respect?
It might have been.
I think this round really put Vitality on notice.
From that moment on, they started being a bit too careful.
They gave a lot of space to FaZe,
and we know how Kerrigan can utilize that.
He could have pressure towards top middle.
He would rotate back to banana whenever that was needed.
And Vitality started being extreme passive.
I didn't really attempt much entry kills, happened once here and there with an AK, he had two AWPs.
This was the vitality that I don't like to see on Inferno, but I got to give props to FaZe,
two rubs to Kerrigan, very well put together in the first half.
Yeah, it very well was that. It was a very concise and concerted effort from everybody
around FaZe to really put vitality back to where they started, which is the lobby,
because then they had to come back and play it all over again.
Hey, let's look around 12 over here. Well, let's talk a little bit about this map,
Just a little bit more.
We have to.
I know.
I feel like from a professional standpoint I have to look at this round, but it feels
like I'm in orange clockwork and people are trying to traumatize me.
It's a hot mess.
That's exactly how I feel.
Like what in the absolute muppet show of a round am I looking at?
This was, this got me extremely rowdy.
So you see here, Spain's getting a little bit teamfashed, but the ID is not that
bad.
They're trying to get information.
It's in 40 seconds on the clock.
Faze are still probing.
Not exactly decided where they want to go.
Macy finds care again.
You have Europe's being punished.
Everything is good! Everything is good! It's great!
Stress less, it's 5v3 all is well!
And then suddenly, with 25 seconds left, in a 5v2, Vitality decided to hit the red button.
And just say, you know what? We're gonna throw everything out the window!
Every logic! Let me just run in slow, let me just spray, let me just dance around.
Why would I just not wait and play the goddamn crossfire?
No! Let me just fight everywhere and die in a 5v2!
That's exactly what's happening!
I- I shouldn't have watched this round. I'm pissed.
Are you okay, man?
No! No, I'm not!
Maniacs.
This is a three-score line.
Yeah, that's a rough go.
It's a three-score line.
You know who is enjoying the show right over there, young Howie.
I see him.
He's really enjoying that show.
You can see it.
It's kind of teetering over the top a little bit of a little smile there.
But Will the Smiles continue to go to Dust2?
We talk about a face CT start.
They're obviously feeling good about what happened at Ferno.
If we get away from that, maybe we can get Maniacs for the rest of the segment.
Hopefully.
You're not going anywhere?
No.
I'm not going anywhere.
I don't think this is going anywhere either.
I agree with you.
That was probably the worst one.
to be quite honest. Just put some Benny Hill music to it. Yeah, it was symptomatic of the
performance from Vitality. I think us two hopefully will be a little bit different, you
know, and I think it should be a more competitive game. However, I think face and rain for that
matter right now. The way they're playing, the way they're coming into this tournament,
it's a new looking face compared to just a week ago in Copenhagen, and I absolutely
love that. Well really, Benny Hill, I was thinking more like Benny and Benazi, because
Because at this point it's like, I'm going to break my heart.
My heart is just getting pushed and touched and...
I tell them that the phase gets their satisfaction.
I'm going to break my heart.
Yes, I'm going to lose this 5v2.
It's a rough go at it, but I think that there is a hard evidence here to say that yes,
phase is in control of the series right now, Maniac.
Yeah, I think they are. 100%.
Listen, everything worked for them. I think the calls were great.
Crutches mostly went in their favor.
You have Kerrigan, who's having impactful moments individually.
Crash pop onto the B side and he accused the music, which means the yapping is done over
to you.
Oh, you mean to, yeah, just a little bit more.
Here's a little bit of a walk before you, and I'm not talking about the stop.
Look at the man driving over to me.
That's Jacob Pinneke, who has selected to take that scooter across town.
Glad we got that footage up there.
But obviously it is going to be a break.
We come back, we've got dust too, between phase and vitality.
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When I connect to the server against top 20 teams or top 30 teams, they have three coach slots.
It's like two analysts and a coach.
And you never know how much are they gathering from all the games they play.
And I don't know, like three years ago or four years ago I would join server and maybe they don't have a coach.
It's like the level has for sure reason in terms of preparation and how many people are watching.
You know all these academy leagues and general managers and whatever like you have a lot of people behind the scenes who are also
Doing something. Yeah, you had also this team you played like you knew you would kind of win because it was easy to call
Is it to read like so easy nowadays? There is not like this really is a game like you like especially the mark 12
Yeah, you you back then you were like, okay, we played them out. It's it's just a book
Just read the book and you were like, okay, they will all do smokes. Okay
this track guys let's go through there and but nowadays you come to there you
have no one that you can read like that the major 250 like top eight easy don't
have to think about go that children groups made our moustache I'm like 24
spots my good one right I have been there a few times to say well to to
less chance qualifier bro nothing is easy now this and I think I think out
discussion with Philippe like I kind of said I think in back in the days like when
go this is go top eight it was open it was very hard but from top eight to when
you met the 16th team that was that was the gap was big falling big right and
yeah offsets could happen yeah the game was played a high level in top eight but
now the floor of the tire two is risen so high they're playing much more than
all the top teams so when you think about especially these two coming out
They're playing double amount of officials than we do meaning they're gaining way faster experience from official games
So once they get an offer to a Taiwan team, they are gonna like ultimate from liquid, right?
I've never really heard about him, but he goes in and he shows really good game for liquid, right?
So that's a showcase that there's so much unknown talent right now in Tai-2 that I think
Choosing Tai-2 with some decent stats. He's gonna perform on a Taiwan
And I don't think that was the case five six years ago. It wasn't like people were they were coming to Chawan
It was like what the fuck?
Good afternoon. Good evening. Good morning wherever you're watching from you're here tuned in to watch phase verse vitality
The first maps already been locked in for phase and they are just one away from the Lancest arena
2022 champs looking to return to the Lancest arena after missing out last year
They were knocked out in the groups by Na'Vi
They're looking to change that dialogue for 2024 vitality standing in their way
and it's Vitality's map pick as well.
I'm joined by Chad Sponge-Bertschild,
and I anticipate Dust2 is going to be more of a comfort
for that of Vitality.
Yeah, look, yesterday was a walk in the park.
A bit of a breeze for them.
Now they've had a reality check thanks to FaZe.
Foster map didn't just walk over their opponent
in stylish fashion with everybody firing on all cylinders.
They battled back in, and that's the positive for Vitality.
They worked hard, they made the game close,
and a couple of opportunities, they weren't squandered.
Maybe just maybe they could have pushed it the distance.
Let's get this one underway because team vitality.
They were in the playoffs last year,
headed to the semi-finals, eliminated by Entz.
Mezzy was not a part of the team at the time though.
I'm sure he would love to grace the Lancaster stage for the first time.
I love a little CT mid-push.
Even the pros do.
But what do you do when you don't get anything?
Robson's got a lot to do here.
And that's a brilliant way to start.
One tap to the head of Apex, they continue to commit.
And it's looking good for vitality Robbs you need to help me to back up and instead he loses his head frozen
However has found contributions on the cross those are hard shots
He's it two of them. Oh, it's only frozen. Can he be more?
flames that is a huge quad kill
Okay, that's the output that you're looking for bro watching that from the death POV is perfect
It's actually perfect. I'm sure it look great on his too, but just how little you see of him
How quick that bullet finds his opponent's head.
Spinks found one.
And that's the reason that they start running Flancy down on his own,
because they know Spinks is on the lurk.
So Brokey and Frozen want to isolate a one-on-two duel in their favor,
and they can't do so.
Crispy Vitality pick up their first pistol.
Oh, and he picks hit the cross.
The series, yeah.
Well, those nades, look at shy the mark.
I love the tenacity out of Spinks.
The aggression just runs them down before they can get back,
and maybe, just maybe,
we will start a half of this series without the second round force
falling away from the pistol victors it might be nice especially if you're a vitality fan
tag on to zai wu it's another dose yeah not going to be able to find out the rocks he's done
well to finish off ink onto skinks they've got they've taken a lot of damage but unfortunately with
the the equipment they have broken rain probably going to look to save two scouts not the
The weapons for the retake is it.
So if they can hold onto these, they can be a little bit prickly going into the next round.
The USPs can soften, sorry, they can finish off the softened opponents.
They can soften as well.
They can.
It normally goes scout tag into conversion, but the other way works too.
We'll take either at the moment.
Sure things will.
Vitality doing their due diligence, making sure they bring all the best goodies through.
Yeah.
Apex and his signature scout found the Obeno and now he's going up against two scouts to the next round but he dropped it.
Yeah, maybe you live to regret that we'll see but still, galil prioritization makes sense.
And there won't be an AWP so they are going to go rifle heavy but they know a scout was saved.
So that's already, here it is.
Bang! That's a beaut.
Yeah, I think we do need that. Deserves a slow-mo. Lovely headshot to Garrigan.
You miss every shot you don't take, Alex.
Bang. Yeah.
Why is man once said that Isaac Newton I think yes
How is he a big fan of him? I like his fluid the lighter fluid Newtonian
Quickly indeed it's a slow demise for bro key they find him eventually
Very threatening recovers the AK from the first spinked his AK then. Oh, sorry apex is used against spinks
And this has gone horribly wrong.
Robs with a touch of aggression using that 5-7 to a deadly effect.
And Mezzie, he's done very well with that one.
Clears out long on his own in one spray.
Robs finds the bomb, but this is uncomfortable.
If he goes any further, Mezzie's pre-ame is brilliant, but Robs, he's one step ahead.
I will.
Spots rain.
Interesting.
Okay.
So there's an information that that is not Robs.
Robbs is somewhere else.
Rain was towards B and they've got 48 seconds to solve this together.
Bomb T spawn.
Oh, it's uncomfortable for everyone.
There's no way Zoe goes through suicide, so he will pair up with Mezzie.
Robbs might go unclear.
Oh, he gets the head of Zaiwu.
Now Mezzie is the only one alive.
He doesn't have the help for this.
He does not have the help to really participate.
Robbs!
An impactful quad kill back.
Sure, no second round conversion, but how about a third?
If Robs keeps up this form we might even see him smiling soon because look there's been
some conversation about Robs in his form in recent times.
He is in beast mode right now in Furno.
Great impact in the early stages of this one.
Massive.
These are not easy shots to hit by any stretch of the imagination.
Just a little headshot angle, sure, but Robs just annihilates them.
He had a tech 9 round early on in Inferno, now a 5-7 and scavenged AK round early
on on Dust2.
This is maybe what FaZe needs to pick up the series 2-0.
As he wants to go, yeah, flashes are there. As he's out, Long Corner Smoke arrives.
Yeah, when you go for that opener that you just saw Faze operate with, it tends to feel that maybe Long isn't that well fortified.
Someone's going to throw you the Doors Smoke and they maybe jump up shore or throw the flashes and then if you molly blue bin,
you can definitely feel that Long's a little bit weaker.
So Vitality call the bluff and they get some key real estate.
All the ruse, Long Corner Smoke, nobody playing ahead of it for Faze, they will not have the information.
Apex testing car again.
No flash, just dry.
Wins the duel, Broke he overwhelmed, caught off guard by that contact lay.
Good chance for Rain to double up here, he has done damage, but...
There's pressure from every angle, he's done so much damage.
Cy will Apex, and Mezzie even catching Frozen CT, there's nothing here for Robs.
Well, that was hard fought, but Vitality, they will prevail.
They kind of played phase exactly as they wanted by the time they went out long this
with a cross smoke. They weren't playing long. I think they left an individual towards blue
bin in case there was some regress. And they've just piped himself through shore and all the
fights are broke. He missing a shot. He's in so much trouble at that point with the
body swinging around the corner. And now as I was going to get that repeated carry
through so I'll send you down. I imagine that was from the scout round a little bit earlier
in the piece. Yeah, it's obviously an inspiration. That's quite official from Ezio, I'm surprised
he didn't call him sir. Yeah, maybe a little bow. But that setup that Faze found himself
in tells me they're expecting an all in long. It feels so claustrophobic with the setup
they had because Karagin wasn't playing forward for info.
Rain was tucked in towards Gandalf in case they do cross and he can be a nuisance and
then break his AWP so they bit Hulglad and Sinka to it being a long play.
And that middle jiggle from Karagin gave Apex all the information he needed and that
mid shot from Broke, but also the fact that he's forward, he's not on the drop down
angle, that implies that they really had considered that it was maybe max one shot.
Yeah and if you wanted to search for info, you would have wanted to call your B players
back over to help from middle, right, short and mid.
Oh bloody hell, crossing is a problem right now.
He does play with Zywu.
He does, yeah, that's the Zywu version.
Opening kill on opening kill, vitality.
Again, whenever they want them.
I like a bit of risk around like this,
and Karagin does too, pushing up towards the door side.
Takes full long control.
So that's a gift for the CTs that remain elsewhere.
Mezzy responsible for housing this,
but there will be a moment where he chooses to evacuate.
We'll see if Karagin can catch that timing
in an influential manner.
Reigns leaving A though, as they crouch themselves out short.
So this already reads like it might be a Vitality 4th.
Freeee!
Nice from Karrigan. Catches that long holder.
Is that change your plan?
Well, the problem is they're already in the site.
Reign now having all the information.
Just because Vitality have gone so quietly.
Reign might find a kill on the Apex.
Nice! Double tap!
Double dink! Now it's very much on, but Spinks low.
And Karrigan, oh, he had a little bit of an opportunity
but peeking around the smoke is Xayu won the AWP.
An advantage you're not interested in this one.
Well, that's like a light switch, on off, on off.
We're opportunities for players to work back into that,
but the fact that Vitality just contacts out
and keeps us so quiet
means that rotating player of rain
doesn't have the sound cues.
If you telegraph in that position,
we tend to do so because there's so many threats, right?
You know, you have to worry about players
taking that long-range duel, but walking out.
So where do you think the confidence was
to go for such a kind of ballsy walk?
The fact that they had the number advantage, so they were already crawling out before Mezzie went down towards Long, but the fact that they were upper player,
FaZe are going to have to hedge as one of the B defenders, Vitality and FaZe are both aware that Rob holds the people on site, or at least I hope FaZe would be.
And they're just, you know, putting their aim on display, they also had Zawoo's AWP to take a lot of those longer angles.
Yeah, they had a bit of utility, money ramp and go.
Okay, well this might be a humble face-by of course we do have those saves yeah
I think because of where the loss bonuses out at the moment they don't
need to force by behind this they could just have light upgrades next round
it's gonna be 2900 make sure you have a full buy next round as it's doing so
it's a little bit more desperate right now we take a look at the spawns on the
CT side and see if there's any potential room for open as frozen has
the best long spawn so because he has one of these save guns we might see him start A.
Apex and Flames are positioned with good long spawns of their own on T side maybe we'll see
something from them they might clash with that rifle we'll see this is the Zywo open
out just textbook stuff here look at this pre-aid bang just a reaction speed test at that point
Karagan's death you can see a nice quick scope from Zywo we didn't get much chance for Karagan
and as you highlighted Jad is not going to be a full investment they're going to be
Saving for the full guns in the next apex is taking his spawn bar. It doesn't look like caragon or frozen are going to be having a look
Broke he's even been tagged on the cross everywhere they go. Yeah, and long school clear if I'm apex now
I just call the team out. Let's clear out car. Let's smoke the long cross
Imagine
It's fine like now that's how we can get established in pit. There's the long cross smoke
They can just have him watch towards site as everybody walks up and you just need one play-to-play anti flash
You have so many nades as soon as you get behind this smoke
You don't even have to paper. It's actually just gonna walk across. I was gonna say you can molly side
You can molly short you can really clear all these angles. This is great from dad. Just let me go. Just let me go. Oh
And I found the orp as well. It's all working out wonderfully
Nothing connects on a full magazine spam through that smoke
Yeah, I broke him frozen the objective changes. Yeah, but there's a problem isn't there look is already in that B bomb site
Oh, but Broke is aware. Well aware.
Yeah, no more problems. Should be able to retain these yet again.
And there's a rifle on B to be saved. Get your ass over here, boys.
There's a freebie. Robson's already picked it up.
Rain the only one that's yet to retrieve might stick around, try and punish on the way out the door.
I want to have a bit of a conversation about the CT setup of FaZe and why there is more autonomy put on Rain.
There's one of the keys and
It's frozen ball rocks or both of them. I would say
Karrigan is the long anchor which is not a glamorous position
Understandable why you'd put him there like as long as you establish it on control early
You can leave him any should be good for one essentially if they try and breach late. It's not about
Him holding that spot. It's about the information being the most difficult to garner where he is
So it's up to his teammates your AWP is obviously gonna be here there and everywhere
you're rotating rifle of rain as well.
Right, do I need to rotate back to help them in to B?
Are we gonna posture short, right?
It's up to them to call their positions in the round
because, oh, mate.
Harassment.
I feel like every round
it's either been a kill or a tag.
Yeah, and that just makes that B defend.
And that was with the smoke.
They even threw the smoke
and so I was still hitting a tag like that.
It's that internal timer.
So look at the setup now.
You can see Brokey's worried about short already
because the B players have no eyes on mid.
Raine now rotating back to help deal with CT spawn.
A flash?
And then the smoke?
This is so much pressure because Raine has to help the mid to V,
especially considering Frozen being tagged.
There's a lot of advantage for Vitality right off the rip,
so much control, so much fear in their opponents.
Fazecon are already on the back foot.
It's just being diligent there, making sure that Broke is not on that 50 line with the AWP.
Mollied off with the flash convo flames. He has short control right now
You've played with the mid to be idea now
You're playing with the short execute idea and the extremity players of frozen a character calling sector clear
But at any moment there could be a pop in their face as well
So I tell you have done a good job of masking this
The play was rain on the box
running
Rocks, what can you do?
Well to find one but the round will end and yeah frozen didn't take much from sphinx's AK
I don't know how they're gonna
play. There just being plagued
by these cross shots. I
discussed this when we've done a
couple of other dust twos. I'd
like to see teens trying to
exploit lower dark news in the
new jump up because it means
that you can have one or two
players gone locked down long.
You can have one player jump
up. Sure you can use the best
spawn to go into what's all
the dark. I know that the
Orp is quite scary right
now, but if you drop a
smoke just a little bit
through the doors, the
Unless Vitality go, all right we got some good spawns,
let's just all in, and then that's gonna remove you
slowing down the default spread or being more annoying.
Cause FaZe are playing their CT setups
pretty standard right now, and the two, three split,
there's a big gap, they're not fighting
before the map control is established,
Vitality are getting what they want.
And also the fear factor of a good
opera on the other side of the server
is so key on a map like Dust2.
If you don't think that you can be a little bit more
cheeky with some of your swings once they've got
that short control, mid control established,
If once they get the AWP into pit, you're never really going to re-swing because you know he's got the sightline or the smoke covered off.
And right now, Vitality are making them pay even on the door crosses and they're using smoke.
So FaZe are going to be thinking, what the hell do we have to do?
Well, I think they found an idea.
Dumb all-orbs and up, alright boys.
Okay.
And long. Seems to be the port of call.
They're boosting over the mid-smash, something about to happen.
but not looking, Karagin goes down as well.
Only one remains, two casualties in the opening 20 seconds.
Not the full line up for the car, Molly,
so Brokey still has vision,
he's actually bravely sticking around on car.
Oh, okay, wow, smoke spam.
This Molly will get awkward.
Yeah, Brokey, you're a dead man.
Oh, he tries to turn around on it.
Wise to the fact that swing with the flash,
but still doesn't manage to find much.
Frozen spots it out now, the tip of his head there.
Rops fires off an auto from short.
They know where you both are. Apex is actually going to pivot, he dips towards CT, and he's going to hunt you down, you're not ready for this angle loss.
Apex is being very cheeky, complete jumpscare for Fosy, he's whiffed it, he's whiffed it but the idea was great.
Spinks has lurked on it.
Spinks lurks in nicely. Again, I mean he's just become a real problem.
Four phase clan on Inferno and here in Tidus too. Apex can't seem to mantle up perfectly.
Oh dear. Well, the call was great wasn't it. That's what I'm saying, you know, I'll give him a full double thumbs up for the idea.
Not perhaps the execution, but it sounds like that.
Favourite freefall on the CC side, aren't they? Flinty jumping out, head down to dodge the flashes, peers up, still blind but has the crosser in the right place.
Good punish on Broke, he trying to get away. And the lurk, in case there was any dramas, was the knockout blow.
Frozen thinking about some aggression as I...
I will hear folks. Good God.
I mean, these are another name in that conversation.
It's always a joy as anyone who enjoys watching Counter-Strike played at the highest level.
The world's best.
We'll be seeing Monocle in action later today.
This doesn't feel like map number one at all where Vitality had chances.
There was a couple of close rounds for FaZe.
That's not the conversation. They are just being spanked live on national television.
And Faye's not fans of that.
It's funny, you know, Dust2 we described it as a bit of an aimer's paradise, some real strong aimers on this roster,
but the fatality of just making them look foolish here.
Red faces.
Red cheeks.
What have you got for us, Rain?
We'd need to hit the first one cleanly and he can't even do that.
It's the headshot.
Harragon accelerates, there's a lot of bodies on his screen, and the moment there where it could have been a double or more.
Would have had to be in perfect instead.
Yeah, Brokey and Robb's reside themselves will say it feels like yeah poor Brokey hasn't had much chance to really have influence on these rounds
He needs to insert himself into the game though. Right. I mean watching ultimate on dust 2 I felt like oh my god
Okay, so this AWP has been in every part of the map in the first 30 seconds. He's been at the top of mid
He's on ramp. He's on fighting suicide. He's up long. He's everywhere
So I suppose it's up to Brokey to do that in terms of be insert himself. Is that what you're implying?
Yeah, look obviously some of the setups need to facilitate that right now at the start of the round unless you have like the long spawn
You're not going for the corner picking off facilitating your players. It's like the damage on there
I also think the fact that you have robson frozen as your your B players
Look, I understand why you'd have rain as you're a rotating roster. I think he's gonna be great at it
I would love to have someone who's willing to take a few more risks in towards tunnels
I already mentioned that but I would love to see a little bit more of that coordinated play
Maybe it look that these guys know a million times better than I do what's going on
There's obviously a reason they don't want to operate in that fashion, but if
You lose long in a rounds. I would love to see them that round where carrying was at short and they lost long, right?
I would have loved to have seen them push up a tunnels for some information
Collapsed on middle with carrying in to have info or group fight on middle one of the two
Right try to try to sit and hold your sights. Let's try and make something happen here
We're playing in the dark dynamic. Yeah, okay. Interesting. Well frozen tried to get lowest in the previous rounds
I will just complete a night here it is back
Nice try and TNT in the jam. How many of you have now three on away one of them was a tag
It might be three though. Could have had it elsewhere
And new business third should we need it see looking increasingly likely?
Not this time I will there's not too any damage in the first five seconds of the round
Maybe FaZe have a chance.
Maybe.
Okay, so you've parked Flames in long, you know the CTs have no info long.
I'm sure this is where it's a whole lot of fun for an IGL to call the finish.
You're already aware, you can kind of make an informed decision
based on what you think the CTs do know.
Well, and this is it. What are FaZe going to do?
Are they actually going to try and take some space back together,
or are they just going to...
What are we doing here?
Are we looking at notes?
He's looking at notes.
Is he looking at notes?
He's still there just staring at a wall, zooming in on his brain.
He's not looking at notes?
No, he's just having a conversation.
Oh, okay.
MC has just been a pixel line mid thanks MC.
We're too busy thinking he was actually...
Oh.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Oh.
There you go.
MC, thank God he's here.
He's such a legend as MC.
He knows, he knows everything.
I thought he's playing in your mouse or something.
Okay, what are we doing here?
You've kind of done nothing actually, with all of that long control, you've just cut noise and waited.
I will say there's a lot of nades to be thrown, so this could be a very intense 30 seconds for the CTs.
Looking like they want to keep the people on B planted, Rob's bought an Org for this angle.
He pecks out mid.
20 seconds. They're giving FaZe a chance, aren't they?
I'm not sure what the plan is. This is a bizarro world.
Here comes the B util. Rob's has been waiting.
and loads with his orcs frozen in combination. Look at the damage. Spinks and Mezzie bleeding
out 8 seconds. They need to get across.
Oh, um, we're not having a now. Round over.
Round over. How does that round go down like that? Spinks brings his AK through. It wouldn't
have mattered if he went down either way. 6100 in the banky.
The banky? Yeah.
The banky.
The banky. I was going to say the banky boo, but...
The banky boo.
That's not a thing. I stopped myself.
I don't know what the bank is doing.
Who am I?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
No, neither do I.
Neither do I.
We don't know who really knows who they are, really.
That's what life's all about.
Yeah.
You just invent yourself, don't you?
What happened with the cross of the bomb?
Were they waiting for the door to puff up before they crossed or did the street
not know if he had the bomb or...
I don't know what happened.
Here we go.
Oh.
Spotted.
Yeah, but there's a...
And there's a flash and a frag.
Ranger sets himself up for success there.
That's what I'm talking about.
There's what Chad wanted to see.
Marked out wonderfully. I mean the knowledge is there that there is a CT in lowest.
You don't know that Frozen's right around this corner.
Apex could go down here if Frozen has a look, but Sphinx is covering Frozen's timings and everything.
Now he might have a look and he gets the bomb.
Ooh, okay. The bomb has spewed out of the...
Did I catch him in the door?
...Zaiwu and landed in doors.
It's a little unfortunate.
It looked like it did fully catapulted out of him.
Oh shot from Mezzie, but that's short lived successes. The old clothes sit down. Yeah, that's crazy. What?
All right, we'll have the inertia with him
Must have been running at full full pace. Well, you snatched four. Yeah
Just the bomb come out your face or your body when you drive when you die
That's a bit of a philosophical one for you. You get in the valve DM's MC
Where does the bomb spit out when you die?
Yeah, that was a, uh, finally a bit of phase CT aggression, playing towards lower, playing
from short, getting in their face, not just the line that would have the full map control
rain with the opener. Frozen charming in there it is. It worked.
Shocked. Oh, you just missed the Olympics, mate.
Nasty little jump scare. Knows exactly how that one unfolded.
All right. Well, part of round of a half, MVP out for Zywoop.
Sure, Flames would have seen it and said it, but it's easy, you know, 30 seconds later, running out.
Oh, there we are.
I just...
Why'd you jump over the smoke, mate?
Why'd you give him a glimpse?
I don't think that incendiary has done anything of value.
Spinks. Not cleared out of his angle.
If anything, it might do him a favour if he sticks around long enough, they may...
But look at this stack!
This is, uh, Karagan and Kaho, expecting it to be a B finish.
I thought he was going to stick around, never mind he just takes the fight, Robbs is dead.
He had the scope.
It will be a beefish, now that they've taken Robbs out.
Maybe it was part of his plan to bait them into this two-man beehive.
Flash, rain swings.
Little bit early.
Confirmation of presence, yeah.
Mismanaged, that's the boss.
Oh, what the hell of a spray out of frozen?
There's more to come!
Spin to an insta headshot, rain off you go.
He's got a chance, that's what it was.
But Zywu hits the shot, Karagin.
And Brokey, Brokey misses the shot onto Zywu, crossing smoke wall.
...plume to obscure the cross.
I like this smoke back from the CTs, gives them options.
They can use that T smoke against them to just pop out from either side.
Another one towards tunnels.
Alright, Karrion's gonna have to walk through that.
Yeah.
This is...
Oh.
Ooh.
Well, maybe it's intentional.
Yeah, precisely.
Still has angles, and they might assume they're both coming from doors.
Which it looks like they are.
Oh, the mine games!
As it's onto the one being...
ONES I WILL COULD HAVE IT!
NO BULLETS!
IT'S BROKEY!
gives them a half to work with hard for comes down to a 1v1. It's phase for vitality eight
Even if he did fail it, it was fine. They worked it out made it for keeping it
I mean within the realms of possibility chat that this could be to zero this could be the last map phase after play till the
Lancest or will vitality secure a third man being a new bus
early util thrown out towards the B bombsite just a couple of decoys I'm not
talking about robson bro key the actual grenade
spongy me oh that's me and you we're here it's Russian MC that's what I was
gonna try and say here they are rushly anything on the screen that you want
we'll see if Alex will say I'm like ancomand I am burgundy oh robs flames
oh spings pushing this is gone far too well for face done right now apex
nice shot he's on his way back up raps rain frozen though they should be fine with this
yeah they took a while they took a while mesi joins the p2k gang i didn't think i could love him more
i didn't think i could love him more the p2k is not going to work out for him here it's okay it's
okay take the rough with the smooth let's go bill all right well look if you're a vitality fan
take stock in the fact that they lost both pistols on inferno but they won both four spies
Sorry, he's doping a monster energy.
Yeah, just cracking it open.
Cracking it open.
Cracking it open that can.
Then you have some...
I don't know what the noodle name is.
Snore.
That's the one.
Yeah.
Oh, they haven't forced.
Okay.
Well, what happens now then?
Statistics.
They run up middle and take...
The bloody hell...
They take, uh...
Wally and Woody again.
That is a...
400 damage.
400.
They're out.
Around there.
From a molotov.
But at least the round's quick.
Yeah, and they die to Glocks and Glill.
So...
Alright, alright.
Oh that means we get into the rifle rounds quicker. Just a two-round game if
face can win this maybe just maybe they can tie things up 8-8 and yeah you
mentioned it the Lancess this game is a big one we know who they will play if
them well they lose this series it'll be Falcons and there's a lot of bracket
ahead with well liquid down there at the moment and the loser of mouths vs.
complexity which is currently live on twitch.tv slash eslcsb
that's about 20 and launderst that's live and on vertigo spoke to
exertion yesterday. So what map do you think they're gonna play? And I said they're gonna pick
where to go. And they picked where to go. You nailed it. So I was awp. Has been a bit of a threat
on that T side. Peppering them through the doors. If not finding opening picks and rops.
Ah, he's gonna walk into Spinks Hall. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What should have been
a free kill? Had to give away half of his life. That's the cost to play in Counter Strike.
Deep. Those ends are dead, man. Wow, you can see there was a very small window of
opportunity for Zaheem to find that kill. And this has gone one way fast. Vitality's
ninth looks rather painless. Hold up. Yeah, he gets a plant here. He's got two kills.
I say plant. Maybe Zaheem would jump in USP. Yeah, Fendi! Just like that. Denies the plant,
secures the round. It's nine to six. Nice attempt from Rain. All things considered.
Yeah, hugely important that he denies the plant because even with the defuse coming
through this tool, it would have had 600 bucks. Frozen could have an AK instead of a
of a Galil. The rain could have had a Galil instead of maybe a Mactan or a Deagle. It's
rain so yeah he's gone for a Deagle. He needs that U2. I was watching him buy. I was like
rain come on now. I know you want the rifle but you need the nades.
Yeah he does. So 600 bucks would have made a big difference. Good denial from Zywoop.
There we go and now Sphinx gets across. They throw the lamp fly lamp smoke to get
across pole smoke. What kind can I call that pole? It's more of a pole than a
lamp going along flames ready to receive them but not really the weapon for the job gets away with
its life get a reposition pit cold clear now they could use long as the staging area they still
have a smoke and flashes to work with a molotov is well to clear out car short re-aggress into
robson rain waiting for robs is blind blind and deleted but the deagle works wonderfully
I thought it would be crazy. Apex does bring him down.
He's open. Did he get the smoke up across?
Oh, Zahua did not pull the trigger there.
They get across the ramp. Good damage on Zahua.
Apex as well, exposed in the open, goes down.
Now, surely, FaZe should have a heavy advantage.
Will they even have a look in?
Zahua's just fishing in case anyone overextends
with a quick glance towards CT, but feel like they are
already accepting that this is the FaZe round,
or FaZe's seventh back in a way.
Reyn's got five kills in the last two rounds and he's only got nine in total so he's come to plant a T side
Yeah, you deny my plant you force me to only have a deagle. Well, I'll get at a double kill and win the round anyway
Sip throws and get himself something a little bit juicier than that galore to carry through to the next because it looks like we will
Be locking horns down the stretch of dust to apex four and one and opening jewels. Damn
Yeah, he had that round we ran out long and chased them down long
Quantify had the scout when they were crossing middle.
I don't know how you do that, Chet. It's like you're watching the game or something.
Sometimes. Crazy.
Sometimes I'm reading Twitch chat, other times I'm watching the game.
You can never do both at once.
Unless you overlaid it over the...
Rush has gone with the observing now, right? So he does big map.
But he has now got a small screen of the game on the same monitor.
I saw that POV. It does look very cool.
He says it's helpful.
I believe it.
They weren't before seeing behind the retained guns. Let's see what they can get out of Mezzy's rifle and so it was there to be pinned.
Look at how confident he is. How many times do you see, uh, all my brookie take that fight?
Yeah, he stands and ready to bang.
Well, Mid-Daw smoke's on its way.
We'll have to respect the smoke, but does hear the audible steps of Karagin.
I like this from Mezzy, so he's not fully committed. Well, he is fully committed, but he hasn't just gone all in.
He's ready to activate based off the information that his teammate's going to relay to him.
Flash around the corner, Nate does some damage, singe of the flames, Karagin and Reign pretty low.
Yeah, it's like edge to vitality already. Just intermittent sweeps from Zywoo trying to catch anyone that's maneuvering back off cat.
Faze do seem to be retooling for the B finish. This is where Mezzy's gonna be tested in his angle, he's sticking around.
Oh Zywoo, that's a big catch. And now they peek in! Good work from Robbs, he's taken down the Bianca.
I just need to smoke the doors. You can't just run in.
Yeah, the only other rifle in the mix is that AWP, and you know where it was.
They've drawn him in to B. Now they just need to be able to get in towards this A site.
Robs is going to make sure they can confirm at that molly doing an awful lot of damage.
It's unlikely Xayah would guess to bring this one through.
Robs? Oh, I love it. I love it. He's had to make this play.
Beautiful from Robs. That's what you want from your lurk.
Ooh, that nearly got really awkward.
And it's still good with flames on a USP. How is this happening?
Oh
Rob's needs it gets it, but still it's 20 seconds. Oh catastrophe it calls
Robs can save them, but with 15 seconds. He has to do everything needs to go away
He has to run into apex and apex is sticking around. You're not gonna expect this
Six
Apex apex cowering in the corner with his HP
The advantage he finishes here with the CZ, that's a massive vitality round.
Apex leading by example with impact.
He was just on a roller coaster of emotions with Apex right there
because he made a merit of it, made an absolute meal of it.
Five, four, three, two.
He knows the fight's coming in at the steps and wins it with the CZ 75.
Let's add a sire relief then the cheer because he knows they've done it
with two saved rifles.
Bro, I love that he's stuck around in that angle.
Catches, rops because he knows he's going to have to be moving.
Catches him in transition, catches him holding W, does significant damage,
peaces out those times against him, and a lovely finish on the low HP.
Yeah, look, he should have won a there and then.
The play at that point was perfect, just the aim, maybe, missing a little bit.
But that has stalled our FaZe, giving himself back into this game.
Just took every advantage he had, every single one.
I can't believe that's gone wrong for FaZe.
Flam's getting a full kill with the USP long push.
Yeah well that was the the nade damage that came in towards short because rain and
cargo were both softened up. Yeah it did look a bit easy. All in long. Long, yeah okay
interesting. Goliw has got the flash. It seems to work more often than not. Does it
work for face clan? Oh so much detail. Wow, Ray was full blind. Full blind. Flames is
going to be saying the same thing. That's insane that he's pushed at the smoke like
that. Just giving him a way in and oh a missed shot from Zowoo. That's a nice 5v4
they'll try and hold on to for as long as they can. Chipped away at his robbs, Nate does land.
So what's the response of Vitality's? Iowa can post up topside.
They've just smoked mid-doors to make sure that nobody can weasel out.
Sees nothing. They've tucked in towards Peer passively. I like this from Apex.
In fact, he's gone over towards Carr. If they do decide to trundle up long
late, he might go overlooked. Rain's gone all the way around the world back
towards B. He can call a flash in towards Upper Tunnels, but he's got support on the
way. So they've parked rops in pit, the rest of the crew to join rain. Now Vitality is starting
to ask some questions. Yeah, it's about time here. Well they could smoke window and doors.
They have two smokes to make this possible. Oh, they found rops. That is a little bit problematic
because they're already going to wiggle a third, excuse me, a second in the third
design's way. Vitality. Spings the bait. And there he goes first actually and does
significant damage, Karagin getting awareness that there could have been a second mezzy two and then
done. It falls into an intense 2v2. Frozen going to try and plant, Brokey to provide some cover,
looking at that window, Zywu considering it. Put his ult on his back, just opt in with that
CZ-75. Frozen tip of the head spotted, 10 left in the mag, Brokey onto Apex's only Zywu here,
he can't get it done! An important and necessary round for FaZe.
Damn, it looks like the rotation was on point for Vitality's, isn't it?
And they were all exactly where they wanted them, congregated, coming out of the upper tunnels,
grouped up a cluster of three, but unable to multi-kill.
Now that trade game, Vitality, they lose the side after getting this kill back.
Rops has a look, Zahua hits the shot.
Brokey and frozen, they pull home a big round, so back and forth we go again.
Now it's Vitality.
Look, this has been a war of attrition as far as the Finances.
Neither team really able to establish these full buys or patterns where the saving is allowed more often than not gun rounds
You see it here in in the purchases
As he knows he got a little bit too long to do. Yeah
I mean away the smoke's messy is gonna go down and this site already lost folks. Oh
Invested into this. Yeah, see apex day a bit of a shake of the fist sort of a net Flanders moment
Cut down that sexy car again
I'm always visualizing Homer's dad, whatever his name is, shaking his fist to the clouds.
We all know his actual name.
We do.
It's Abe.
It is Abe.
Abe?
Oh, Abe Simpson.
Yeah.
But I think I just call him Grandpa, don't I?
Yeah.
But I've never met an Abe.
Have you?
There was a player.
Oh yeah?
Okay.
Is it short for Abraham?
I would believe so.
Oh, so yeah, maybe a bit of an oldie but a goldie.
Five alive.
Second by the cherry for vitality into the next
Yeah, but that's the phase to tie it up
It's a sour cherry and then the next round's under the 2400 loss bonus
So if we start doing a bit of mathematics Alex, you're strong
So you get that calculator out and you are never gonna carry around in your pocket
2400 plus whatever the totals they have right now, that's not gonna equate to an AWP if as I would
So unless they get a couple of kills. Yeah, well, they certainly capable of doing that
Oh, they fumbled the boost. They just wanted to spot that lower push and what Cogglaston did. Yeah, nice
They're gonna try it. That's a good catch from Broke. He's having a bit of a resurgence in the second half
starting to hit some impact, hit some openers. He's even tagged up Zai, that's the rifle.
He's got to get out of there. He knows his days are numbered and Reigns got his
retreat.
Good team play, good awareness, the comms are there. And so this one, yeah, they just have to put it in now.
Mini golf.
Apex really wanted to track at that M4, didn't he? Just offers himself up to reign for free.
Phase, if this is a 2-0, there's been a dialogue about the team and is this a make or break event for them?
They've been on a downward slide obviously starting off CS2
with success or near successes, time and time again making these grand finals. Then as the season
continued, they peed it out and everyone loves a good peter out, but
for them it was starting to look a little bit worrying and then you come into this half of 2024 and
Oh, it's okay. What's going on with phase the players aren't clicking their approach to the game
Is there internal problems? What's going on? Why isn't it working with this frozen addition as good as it was with twists?
I imagine when you get so close to lifting a trophy and then just kind of repeatedly miss out
I'm sure you you know a little bit of apathy sleep slips in there was them getting gassed as well
We you know because you're so close that means you're playing
The most amount of maps in the tournament because you're going to distance into all these grand finals
And then yeah the apathy of not picking up the victory so so close to it so far
And then the problem was more when we came out of the break. We said, okay, they've had a break
They've they've had a rest. We should see the best out of phase at EWC. We had the last groups, which
Yeah, it was ugly. That's really where
Warring Bells started to go off and there was concern not just from the community standpoint or the pundit standpoint
But the tweets that came out from phase after they lost that event
Right that was that was worrying you'd serve from the likes of fingers frozen carrying in a rock
So put out these tweets that were playing bad right now and it was quite concerning the old dearly
What is going on with FaZe?
They come into Stage 2.
They feed Liquid who are one of these teams with a lot of hype around them,
alongside G2 with the honeymoon form coming out of the break.
And now, versus Vitality, they've tied things up.
10-10, map number 2, a strong showing on Inferno,
and just three rounds away from locking themselves in for the Lancers Arena
to return, since their victory,
in that absolute epic from 2022.
FaZe now v-final 2024.
So we've got the orb, Flamzie dropped the floor.
Thanks Flamzie, you have no utility now, good luck.
You do have an orb in the hands of your super star.
Can it be the difference maker?
Let's find out together.
Karagin goes down to Spinks as a crash and the trade is coming!
Nice from Reign, but there's still presence Flamzie doesn't commit to it!
Worried about what might have lingered top mid.
Brokie Adam covered.
So a wise choice from Flamzie just accepts the equalizing frag.
Plenty of time in this round. Bomster at the top of middle.
And the power of an AWP in this position is that though players that committed towards B,
you have to get past the Brokey Scope if you want to get back towards A.
He will likely stay here for as long as he can.
The thing is, they can't really play connected vitality.
You can't crunch down to middle together. They're searching long,
and they're just going to hover towards mid and B.
So if they take the space back towards long,
it means they can run more of a traditional setup where they leave Flamesy as the anchor.
Well, at least I thought they would. They're actually floating both individuals back.
back, so they feel confident that it won't be long. Zywut, you have a lot on your plate.
It really does. Using the angle for the cross, Flames takes the first contact, does
remove Reign, and then the York can contribute. Two down, a dink as well, Zywut in every
shot he takes, and with their powers combined, Flames and Zywut defend the A site in a crunch moment.
Just two rounds ago, we were having a conversation with Vitality's lost
banners about them not being able to afford an AWP. In that round, Flames,
Flamesy got one kill. They lost it, but he got one kill, which gave him 47.50 on the nose to drop Xayu with an AWP.
The devil in the details with Counter-Strike, just enough money to make this all possible,
and Xayu goes on and gets two huge kills with the defend and puts Vitality up to 11.
Going out long.
Selfless Flamesy. Secures an 11. Apex doing the flashbang dance. We'll be running back as a smoke to guise his retreat.
Kwonosmo hasn't landed for FaZe. It's not the end of the world. Having Spinks
already towards Lower, this does really assist if they want to play towards Short.
There's more of a support network. Zyber overseeing mid with the AWP. Apex can
connect with the two of them. Apex holding on to a lot of utility as well at
this juncture. Still has a Smoke, HE Flash, and the incendiary. Smoke, sorry.
Smokes for Spinks and Flainty and Zyber with some nades as well. And I
I think that's really key because if FaZe just do a Na'Vi,
which classically just sit here, chill for a while,
and then eventually go for this A-Play,
they have a lot of U-Tool to slow it down
or blow open these smoke walls.
So Rain throw in the door, smoke floor them.
Oh, Tywoom!
He cleared it with the HE.
Clears it, hits it, Spinks will activate,
and it's already a five-verse three.
Well, now you know where it is,
and the Apex still has all those nades to work with.
Yeah, and now they're gonna throw out
a nice defensive smoke, a good angle from Flames.
He finds it, a broky crossing,
put Karakin on 1 HP as well. This is gone horribly wrong!
He's fighting the whole team in CT.
Still lingering where they started.
Yeah, nothing here for Rain.
Fires off a warning shot, lets him know where he is
and so helpless, hopeless.
Come on, we'll assume.
Nothing left in the bank balance.
Nineteen hundred.
Next round, Rain probably wanting to save this.
Looks like he's being allowed to.
Hard work's been done by Vitality.
Yeah, for real, 12 secured.
They want to secure the Lancest today.
Nessie his first trip to the Langsess Arena the only player who has yet to experience
and taste what the Langsess has to offer.
Top 8 at IEM Calode is an achievement in itself for every player.
Not there yet.
Top 6, not top 8.
Obviously.
Two semi-finals.
Two quarter-finals.
We don't do a traditional bracket.
Yeah, okay.
Well, the feeling was there.
Yeah.
I meant what I said.
Just didn't wasn't necessarily correct.
Well I love that sort of vitality in the last, and that might be enough to tip them over the
line.
Oh, it's a bit of a team flash right there.
Gets away unscathed, it's all good.
And Zyra looking to do the same again, clearing the smoke.
How good is he?
It's not this time.
Robbs, that's the punish to the clear.
You can't be looking up and down at the same time.
So a nice start to the phase trying to find these two on the run.
Testing rain.
Dips away.
Well, that's info there's probably 2B.
This is the kill.
He takes down Apex, going looking short.
Rob's already in CT, so their rotations are completely nullified.
There is nothing for them to do.
They can't really contest this.
The bomb will be slowly escorted in.
They're concerned, understandably, that there are still bodies fighting from long
side, but little do they know.
It's just flames deep towards the bedroom area.
Alright, we'll get one more chance to get this done in regulation, don't they?
So take a moment, have a big conversation about how you're going to proceed going into
the next.
See how badly Robs wanted to get the AK into his hands just operating with Kevlar, and
that's a massive kill for him to get, good hanging on the AWP head to head.
If they can find a rifle for Brokey, it's going to feel pretty beautiful going into
round number 24.
Reigns got their movements somewhat restricted, whether he wants to go looking or not is
the question. He might find Flamesy. He heard all that, didn't he?
Yeah, that's, that would have been nice to take away, made it difficult for Flames to
drop. He's all perp.
Been a nice back and forth map.
Well, it's definitely. I mean, it was an 8-4 half. The fact that FaZe are matching
that output, see if they can match it in perfectly and then force over time.
He's time out taken.
Yes, saved it for the perfect moment, have they?
Tactical timeout number three from Vitality XTAS, an opportunity to prove his worth.
What contributions does he have? What is the change for Vitality? How do they look to open this?
And hopefully take the team to Anubis, the third and deciding map in the series.
G2 and Astralis are in the building, setting up. We'll see if they have to be waiting a whole other map.
Illumination on the line.
Good run, boss. There's one more.
He's right. There is one more.
There is one more.
This was that cash on the Zywoo clip.
Well, wonderfully in the previous, this time not so lucky.
Apex as well. Call out.
I carry getting some good work from him.
Okay, three AKs for the CTs to close this and the AWP.
Everything they want and more.
Broke it with the boost, making sure nobody heads towards Lullab.
Nice information.
You see, Karagnik would be really comfortable walking through.
Doesn't even have to worry about it.
Okay, high pressure moments though.
So this is where FaZe's experience can show.
Vitality, Chaka Block full of the same, but Spinks caught on the cross.
Patience from the Brokey Orb.
Okay, you've got your opener.
Now you just need to close.
Grop's trying to be as annoying as he can on this bee lurk.
Wants to keep the eyes of Mezzie, knowing there's just one bee defender with Spinks in the dirt.
Short Molly flushes back Zywoot.
bridge smoke but they can play ahead of a vitality if they like so that's good
information looks like a mid to be split is being lined up flames he's been
able to get across to assist mezi they can lock this down the two of them apex
is here to play as well they've missed the CT smoke that's gonna have a gap
over the top it's got a nice little pocket he can work with it again
versus apex neither of which finds lethality mezi under scrutiny has
flames alongside, can establish across fire, time continues to tick, 28 as this crunch comes
in on to B.
Messi needs the first blood, he's done well with that, one and a half, rain, vulnerable,
Karagin, Messi.
Another one!
Robs finally brings him down but it will be a two on two and it's uncomfortable.
Oki, they know where you are, he's just hiding in the smoke as the bomb goes down,
running at Apex, he overspanned his hand and now Zahra is getting chipped away as
well, Faze, secure the overtime.
Oh, I thought the fact they couldn't get that trade on Flamesey cleanly could have been the undoing there for FaZe
They had the bodies the call was nice Flamesey had been rotated over early and he got to live for way too long
Apex is gonna be frustrated about that knew that Brokey had to be around the smoke somewhere and he gets run down
This is Sphinx overstepping the mark to offer Brokey a kill and back into the rounds. I
Mean yeah, I
I understand it as well. You spam the smoke, you find him, you've won the round.
You don't, you're caught on a reload. It's a risk.
Look at this. Look at this.
That's interesting. He's just walking down.
Yeah, but Spinks is so ready for it.
Yes, he is. Perfect.
Opening kill for Spinks, so turning the table on the previous.
Well, he's stuck towards CT side.
So if they walk out mid, they can deal with this.
Yeah, Karrion wants to play ahead to make sure Spinks doesn't get over to B to help out.
Look at this pressure. Look at the call the conviction from the captain as he's alone the spink CT
It's just all on the Brit hanging out at the back of the site pushing the smoke with spinks carraghan prepared for it
throws an aid well destined for glory chips away at apex messy
Tracking good work good headshots as he got more in him
He does a double kill broke you with the York trying to hunt him down
Mezzie, playing a dangerous game,
re-peeking in, Broke he catches a quick one on desire with Mezzie however, stands his ground
and the site is safe. One man against the whole team and he's still alive.
Three kills to his name. That's what you want out of your Bianca. It's a quad kill for Mezzie.
Takes the AWP as well, takes his reward. First round of OT starts with a
sphinx opener and a Mezzie closer.
Yeah, stressful situation for Mezzie. I liked what FaZe did. They were trying to
Exploit the gap towards middle really trying to punish through this from carrigan looks a little bit desperate
And I got him in my eyesight hands off the keyboard behind his head after the death
You're waiting for bro key and frozen to come through was it rops to come through the tunnels and really help him out
Because I think I can did a great job. He applied a lot of pressure. The timing was off
Carrigan wow
Jumping around that corner with the mullets off at his hand and exposed on the clear
Yeah, okay, maybe trying to do a little bit too much in the last round. It was great
Now he just looks at his scoreline and goes, well, he's only got nine.
And he's given up an opening death, and here they keep coming.
Spinks flash for a beautiful one-bow combo.
3v5.
Sweet turn to your stars.
If romps down, it's Rain, Frozen, and Brokey.
Good turn of flash, but wow, Brokey.
Long range support, catches flames, going, swing it!
It's a double kill from Brokey! How has that happened?
How has this five on three, this two-man advantage, been squandered so quickly?
And there could be more!
Who is that?
It's Apex the Brave Bastard!
Double kill!
Just takes the fighting noses and Orphe knows the whole team's down, he just wants to bare
few us to brawl and he does so much with it!
14 on the board, Apex respect!
Takes the fight to Brokey, M4VOrphe.
I can't quite believe that considering the two kills that we're just giving back over
in the blink of an eye, but it's like well, you guys are doing it and I guess
I'm going to as well.
Alright, I'll do it myself.
This is how it's meant to be done, boys. Impact round from the in-game leader on the other side of the server face.
Now trailing by two, they worked hard to claw this game back and take it to overtime.
Yeah, eight four down.
But is this all for naught?
Remember the CT side was where both of these teams have been weaker.
It's the perfect time for Vitality to find that form, shrug this off.
Can they make a flawless in the first half of OT number one?
Huge round.
Extraction's from Brokey.
He did a fair effort to help them get back into the round with the AWP, but not enough.
No long spawns available for FaZe to go all in, so we won't see them out of the gates.
Brokey will use the boost and sees nothing.
Corner smoke flashes to keep Vitality on their toes with the open up.
Thank you. Very aggressive with this. He wants to fight.
Get yourself across. Use the HE to obfuscate.
escape. Maybe overlooked. Wow, the memo was take it map control quick. They've just called
upper tons clear. They've already got him across into that right angle long doors.
They've looked a lot more active in the stretch of rounds where it's been more competitive
or they've been winning. They've been, you know, prodding around a lot more harassing
the extremities, going for lower dark plays. Yeah. I mean, it's their pick for a reason
phase have done incredible work to get themselves back situated into overtime but
that's how to certainly looking like they have the edge here on the defense of OT1
okay smoke from rain that's destined for CT they've got a 3-2 division of defense
I wonder if apex calls them into a B push with how quiet it is they just
went another flash and find out the crisscross. Karagan out long. Smoking
mirrors. One car free kill that's the first Karagan opening kill of the
go
we can't find the second to tap it away at flames just
wiggling around WAD
oh hello it's all good from flames for the double
robbs finally sits him on his ass for 30 seconds they can get that bomb towards the site
apex
he's actually gonna try and swing into that angle he's exposed if robbs clears it
you might
save plant
save ish
robbs managing his angles he will surely have a glimpse at mezzie here
Ooh, clean headshot, clinical from the Estonian.
Spinks coming in from short though,
that's why Apex is waiting for...
Smoke faded.
Nice shot onto Robbs, finishes him off, it's up to Brokey.
Can he redeem himself here?
Can he give face something to work with into the second half of OT?
Spinks and Apex goes for the Hail Mary.
The No Scope does not connect, he's good on the Tech 9 though,
but Apex just whittling away, 12 HP.
Brokey goes down and it's spotless from Vitality's CT side.
Damn, I loved it.
Really nice little set of rounds that Vitality have been able to scoop up pro active across the map
Little fake from FaZe it drew the attention exactly that they wanted
Zyward just sitting on the car gets absolutely destroyed but Flamesy from top site
silenced them four
Multi-kill good impact
Number advantage is part of the retake a nice shot from Rob short
Just one round now for Vitality to take us to Anubis
I feel like this series might deserve a third. Both teams play him well.
The play is less so here and over time. Can they do anything? Want their own defense?
What's their plan? You've got three attempts here.
It's already a bridge smoke. This is pre-meditated call. The bridge smoke is already down to
what's at. Yeah, let me... is it a fake or is it a commitment?
Keeping them moving by the looks of things. They won't go mid.
Oh, missed a smoke. Frozen. Frozen. They're gonna get swung on.
Yeah, all jump-scared, just as easy as that!
What is this call?
Oh, Vitality!
Bulldoze the composition!
Completely broken.
Karagan left alone.
Xayah would finish him off with anything.
Karagan running and gutted, and we are off to Anubis.
Pre-meditated indeed.
That was just a straight page out of the Strapbook
to secure the first round of your T-side in overtime.
Faze will have to try and secure their ticket
to the Lancest up against Vitality.
map 3 Anubis. Yes, please. There are just some people that want to see this world burn and that's none of us
But it is in fact sometimes phase clan and their demeanor to try to close out a game
That's not going to be this one right here. We're gonna find ourselves going to a third that third will be a new
This will get you right into there shortly
But for the time being the one man that made the world burn for phase
He goes by the name of apex you read him and wheat gentlemen
He did reap chaos all over that map and listen to me there was a lot riding on that second map
I had a lot at stake moving into map number three as a vitality fan of course on a personal level
I am thrilled to see that number two coming. Yeah, that was a good game of Counter-Strike
I think both teams had periods in the game where they're playing well both teams had peers in the game where they were struggling a
Little bit. There was a couple of rounds that wasn't necessarily the most pretty will jump into some of those
But at the end of the day, I think it's fair enough the vitality and the winning I think face in that
first half you know then the winning the last three rounds in the first half and
that gave them a chance of finding their way back to the game but it did feel like
Vitality we were a step ahead pretty much from from staff to finish up until
that point. Remember on Inferno we talked about the round where things went wrong
for Vitality we had this little force buy battle that they lost the A execute
here it's the opposite scenario it's a force buy battle but it's Vitality
putting ahead actually with some pretty crazy move if we have round four
feel free to unload that bullet that magazine because this is where vitality
actually makes the difference and some risks were taken to be fair you see the
scoreline it's two to one it's a bit of a mixed bag in terms of purchases you have
the tick nine on flames opening from apex and miss shot the bro key very very
important and then rain stays alive he gains a lot of time with that smoke and
now Zywa is going to do something that I haven't really seen in quite a long time
he's like Leroy Jenkins through that smoke opening the round out of
From a Counter-Strike standpoint, it doesn't exactly make sense.
He had no backup behind him. His teammate has not crossed the smoke.
But this is the moment that decides it. This is what sends Vitality into a dominant position in the first half.
It's pretty good round to showcase and illustrate Saibu and his willingness to take Madison to his own hands,
but also for face-climbing and symptomatic for the CT side setup.
You see Kerrigan fighting Roar against Apix. No backup, no flashes, no nothing.
Then Boke goes in for a flash and sure, he's missing the shot.
missing the shot he would have been traded regardless so it felt like it was a
very disjointed face claim on that CT side and they were simplifying the game
to a point where they had to rely on individual level and when your individual
level is carrying and taking a fight against apics then god knows what happened.
No no I agree with you it was symptomatic that that A site was never really on
lockdown. No never really end that and if we want to exactly if we want to
get fundamental it was about long kind of won by vitality and we see again
that Leroy Jenkins from Xiong who I appreciate that very much a couple
of great kills from there, but the A site was never on lockdown because Long couldn't
be maintained under control, so FaZe played massively towards Catwalk, but they didn't
have lower dark.
So if you do not have lower dark and both of your players are mainly towards Catwalk,
you can get knaded out, you can get molotov zoned out of that position, and you have nowhere
safe to retract.
And I think this was the issue, this was abused by Vitality, and a whole lot, either
through Long, through A split, and really broken, unfortunately, never really found
himself in a position to make the difference.
And I think it's fair enough to highlight Saivoo because by the scoreline 16 to 17 didn't necessarily have the best game
There was a period in the game where he was out of it where he couldn't get anything done on that CT side
It was like he was being avoided from face clean when face clean started to rack up the rounds
But it all changed when Saivoo on the CT side started to get a couple of picks and started to get into the game
That's when right now they started winning as well
So is that around the second half perhaps around 17 tomorrow? We can look at round 70 you want to we don't have to ask
Let's do it. Let's do it.
Okay, nice.
It's a bit of a myth.
This is a bit of a fuck are we going around like?
I'm not going to lie here.
Cyro in a position where he gets absolutely timed by a rupture thing to himself.
Face is coming back, you know.
You see a Deagle, you see a USB, and you see a CC.
But everything is going wrong.
FlameC is coming in from behind.
He's finding a multi-kill with the USB, picking up the AK47.
Then Apex is coming in with the CC.
He captures the bomb and there's only 18 seconds left.
Which means Rups now is in a bit of a problem.
Now, for some reason, Apex is like...
Why are you sticking around?
Rice thing around?
I don't know.
It takes the fire, and this is all that he's...
He jumps down CT spawn, but he's done enough damage,
because rubs now have no choice but to jump down CT spawn with 4 HP,
and not even apics can miss this duel.
For faceclan though, you're 9...
Sorry, it's 9 to 7.
Nah, I'm sorry, he's literally as well as...
It's 9 to 7, faceclan have a perfect opportunity,
not only winning the round, making 9 to 8,
but they can also build a bit of a bang, build some momentum,
and we saw faceclan on the T side of Dust2.
They were in control.
Every single time they were able to avoid Saivoo,
time they were able to execute in towards either the B split which they were doing a couple of times
all over Catwalk it felt like they were in control so when they essentially lost this round for me
for my money they also lost the opportunity to win the game in regular time I definitely had to
it's a very frustrating round to lose are you realizing you're starting to get back into the
game you're getting to the rhythm you feel like Vitality defends a little bit iffy same issues
fancy towards long sometimes avoided sometimes having no backup and then you lose a round to
CZs and whatever. USB guy, USB, a Deagle, a CC, you're in a 4v3. It's basically impossible.
I will say, Apex catching strays and that little bit of a talk over from Zeke. He did pay a very
decent up. He had a few stabilizing rounds, that was an example there. At some point he had a
multiple from the A side with the side answer when Zywoo got found. And you mentioned Zywoo,
sure. He had I think two or three rounds where his impact was really felt. Blowing open smokes,
AWP presence toward middle, traumatized phase, but then Rup's figured them out, Faye's figured
them out, and it went down to Apex to actually cover that A-side as table-wise.
Yeah, which, you know, it did beg the question a little bit, like, yeah, we said, how many
Zywos does it take to win in this...
Sounds like you're thinking of a joke, but how many Zywos does it take to prize a lightbulb?
Well, here, here might be a little bit of a joke.
How many Apexes does it take for Vitality to win?
You know, that's the question we ask ourselves a little bit sometimes, maybe
never, actually.
I mean, it never...
I've never asked that once ever in my life, but I can't ask you what's gonna
happen on anubis and to do it quickly, Jay.
More cast I guess and I think that's what what a pick stands for when he's playing counter strike
He's always doing something apart from there was around when he was just staring into the wall for 30 seconds
I'm not sure what happened there, but he's jumping around
He's getting here into the abyss and all in I guess it is and I guess it's the same thing
CT side from vitality CT side from a piece is gonna try to create cast
He's gonna try to set up cyber and if you can do that by telling you would okay
Well, I think you don't have much more ad right you said to be no no I've talked enough
You've got a couple of breaths in there.
Yeah, we've got more of that coming your way.
So we're going to go to this quick break.
So we come back, get Vitality phase situated into the server itself.
Dust2 done, Inferno done.
Now we just need Anubis to find out if phase or Vitality can't secure that birth within the Langsys.
We'll be right back.
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You might walk into a stack on the T side, and you might win the round,
but in your own head you're thinking like,
They fully outplayed us, but we just won the round, right?
Good, good.
Nice call.
You know all the casters, and everyone is like,
oh, you got away with this, like whatever it is.
But at the same time, then you lose a round,
you made a really good call on,
and your side player gets the timing,
and as we spoke, loses the duel that's going to win the round,
and then the casters are going like,
what a weird call.
And you're thinking to yourself, like, this was actually...
He's alone, mate, he's alone, he just, he kills me.
But the bad call was when he walked into a stack and just managed to win it, you know?
Yeah, sometimes we die 1-1-1, and it's like, what the fuck is Faze doing?
But in theory, it's 3-1-1 duels, and some of them is not 50-50, it's some advantage for us.
And it's like, it looks really bad.
When I watch the game, I'm like, it looks really bad from outside, what the plan is.
But there's like, the key details is in the duels.
And I think often that's really hard to see when the game is live from castles and viewers.
There is one duel that the cold is about and if that duel might turn one away, you can react on it and if you win the duel, the round is over but if you lose, the information you gained might be redeveloped to what you planned, sure.
And I think that's very hard to see from outside.
Sure. The X-ray throws things off so much as well.
Yeah, of course.
I love watching clutches when the X-ray is off. It makes it so much more like, I don't know, just CS-like.
When I'm watching rounds with X-Ray, I understand what the team is calling, but for the viewer, it might look so dumb,
like if the CTs are just making a good plan or whatever, but the X-Ray just throws it off so much.
Yeah, they think we see it, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
If the wall A is there, let's go together.
Of course, we don't know.
And that's also, I agree with that.
When you have the X-Ray, you might think, yeah, what the fuck is this?
We have no idea.
The guy is there, mate.
I mean, we're not watching through walls.
this hasn't been the hottest map for them by any stretch of the imagination.
They have lost the last four in consecutive fashion,
lost us to VP, G2 Spirit, and Game Allegiant.
And for FaZe, you think Anubis,
where was the last time I saw FaZe play in Anubis?
Well, it was EWC against FlyQuest,
other than now they haven't even played at this side of the season,
and even before the season ended,
they weren't playing an awful lot either, just once at Dallas.
So, for FaZe coming into this,
There's an opportunity for them to come in with some different looks, a little bit of a different shape.
We'll see.
On these two teams' tassel, I was going through the history books as well.
There was once upon a time a game.
This is when we were CSGO.
It was MR-15.
It was Vitality vs. FaZe all the way back at ESL Pro League Season 17.
And the first half of that game was 14-1.
And then you wouldn't believe it.
It went back 14-1 the other way.
And it was actually quite a fun cast, because we went in at half-time
and we pretended that they were going to bring it back, and then they did.
So it was a little bit silly at the time.
But I spoke to both Karagin and Apex in that little round table.
You guys might be catching between the breaks.
And they said that happened as well in practice a couple of times.
So let's see just how one side of this affair can be, at least for the first half.
Yeah, well, that was of, I would assume, T sides,
where the stomps were occurring and FaZe won the knife.
So they have elected to start on that same side.
OK, well, FaZe Clan, how do you want to kick things off?
You've had success in the pistols, but...
Go back to Inferno, not so much in the follow-ups.
They have had a few tough times against the lower buys of Vitality throughout this series,
the desk highlighting that clutch from Apex with the CZ-75 and CT spawn.
Yeah, that was nuts.
Okay, well, a quiet start for FaZe.
There is a...
Flash is Karagin. He loves these.
Or P2-Fiddy.
Yeah, no care. If he facilitates Frozen with his Utilth towards A...
Actually, excuse me, towards B.
Yeah, so they're likely selling a fake towards B and just poshering outside of A for the aggression.
So if there is an A push off of the back of this, they can still pivot.
Speaking of push, they want them to push into the head.
This'll stack.
Yeah, well, it's out. There's a lot of bodies and they all fall to rain.
What a lovely strap.
Carrigan spotted mid.
Then the U2 lands B.
You have to push A main for answers and you lose three bodies.
The bomb ready.
It helps when rain gets all three clean.
I mean, I'm sure.
That's a fantastic start for FaZe's T-Side campaign.
Yeah, good to see him on point.
There was...
Was it here or was it a blast?
But there was a certain point he wasn't wearing his glasses.
There was a round or a two or a game or two at blast.
I saw no glasses.
And I said, what's going on there?
I wasn't sure either.
Maybe they were at the repairman.
The glasses repairman.
Oh, someone...
I believe that's the terminology.
Yeah.
I said it was such confidence because I was sure too.
You don't wear glasses?
I don't.
No, do I?
Not from wood?
Yeah, hang on.
Alright, piss around for face.
Mezzy and the Spinks are gonna hold onto some Kevlar, so let's see.
Do they both go for the Famasus behind this?
They could go Famasus, keep the Kev.
Be pretty potent going into the second, but this is beautiful from Rainey.
Obviously had roped behind him as part of this stack, but clinical on the shots.
Deletes them all three beautiful headshots.
Oh.
Oh, that's gonna happen.
They both went for Famasus.
I'd love to see it.
It's great when it comes good, when you see the landing.
see what they can do with them obviously it does mean that there's not a single helmet in the squadron
yeah well there's a few glils in the mix i'm active for carrigan frozen he'll be holding the b push
carrigan top mid brokey that link player over towards stairs ropside outside of a main reyna
will be playing up towards connector but right now they can just play passively so sitting back
allowing vitality to make the opening moves reyna's going close oh dear they're coming to
test-fames. Oh, he's ready to receive, removes robs. Traded by rain. So, full A main control
loss. Looks like they're turning their attention towards grouping up. And it looks like they
might have a little luck towards canal. They do swing through. Spinks gets away with his
life. Info. Two towards the composition. Frozen. On that, probably the most hard
work. Least glamorous of the TSI roles. That's glamorous from Spinks, makes great use of that
famas. No problem. Can they recover this? It's up to Frozen and Brokey. Brokey low. Bodies
are here. Apex hits the shot necessary. Brokey down two! That's a big one back from Vitality.
Hoover up some AKs, two of which they find in time. Massive work. It's a shade of
You had another one to the tally, FaZe you're getting the pistols you just gotta get these conversions that one is a rough one to lose
You got one for one on main but Spinks with the double
Commenced to that farmer spray, beautiful
And Reigns swinging out to try and get the kill, Karrigan took that initial contact
You kind of wish that the Maktem would have gone wide to open the line
They remember that Spinks really didn't have to move that crosshair too much and that one will leave a mark
FaZe trying to bounce back in
They've opened up with a smoke towards Darker Deep, one M1 towards AMN, so trying to apply
pressure across the map as they set up this B execute, but there's three players for
Vitality to defend.
As he braved all this headshot angle be flashed off so it comes in there's swarming D
The third man is here in apex character. Yeah tried his luck didn't clear IV messy gets a freebie
And it looks like they've done enough this force by from phases fallen flat frozen
That's away from the initial spray Spinks will finish it
Wow for vitality best possible outcome phase worst no damage no plant nothing to write home about in that round
Oh, and you know you that you kind of sit and sport and feeling extra good when they go they bought right?
Yeah, that was kev that was tech nines and cargantel the risk because two players completely unloaded their mags and the smoke
So these things I'll push through and try and catch them off guard was unable to find a frag
Could have been a difference maker things could have got very chaotic
But I totally just got to coast that one in and now we'll see phase go for all the fullest of eco
There'll just be rocks of the P250 to try and keep things somewhat interesting
But apex had a big smile on his face after that round
Yeah, understandably considering that...
Here they come.
TT side, round are like goals and that is lovely from Sideway.
Cleans up, Cleans house, four kills.
His first contributions here on our third map.
OK, AK is to be invested, broke even operating with a Galil for Utility.
I might have to say the same for Karagin because a few of these members might be
a little bit light on.
Flamesy was unable to get his hands on that Galil over towards middle so we'll
still have to be working with this MP9. Again, I was talking about what Yanko said with Vitaliy
at the first rifle rounds. They tend to take these all in risk, but it was off of if they
win the pistol, they didn't win the pistol, they won the four. So I wonder if it would
just be a bit more of a stand-up round other than with that in mind. It does look that
way.
So smoked off on Con and Lurg Smoke, B main. Robbs chunked with a Rug's name.
arrogant dropping in. His pressuring con is ahead of the smoke and yeah, sphinx is in trouble,
exposed. Trying to put that smoke into con and it's already costing his life. Gonna cost
him the sight. I think it will, frozen, finds one with the flames, it's the rotation coming
through and doesn't get a chance. Apex deleted by Broke with a headshot.
Bombs still has to get across. I would play from cave, up Bombers tossed. And flashed
a good measure, digits punched, and you'd assume the round secure. It did really look
like they wanted to send Karagan through middle, but you could see him navigating by looking
at the radar, and they threw a lot of nades towards me. There was the flashes, there
was the molly doors, you saw Broke there lining up a deep temple smoke. So they kept mid
busy knowing that the rotating player of Apex would be focused, dropped Karagan out
and split me perfectly.
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable, you know,
from Sphinx POV.
Zywoom, Zywoom, Zywoom, oh.
Oh my God, there is time.
He's on it, he's on it.
He's coming by flames, he's coming by flames!
I will nearly get away with murder!
Fair play, fair play,
trying to make the best out of the situation.
They had cash to splash, giving it a good go.
It took him a second to find the bomb,
but ooh, with flames as covered,
there's a universe where that goes through.
I saw him hanging around. I didn't think there was any chance that we're gonna give that one a crack. Yeah, the radius on the new bus as well
It's so gentle, you know, I figured they were just gonna try and get exits, but they went for more get a relief from phase
Oh for sure after the fumble already, you know gonna be feeling pretty hard done by if you lose an injured diffuse as well
Happy a push coming through the pipeline. This is what Rob's is
Very very good at handling. He's got rain going in first
So it might have to be some trades. Rain managing his angles. Distant from the fight and brings
it to Mezzie. Goes down empty handed and they can't seem to deal with Rain.
They've won three rounds or are making an assumption because the bomb's just been scuttled loose by as I was AWP.
They should have won three rounds and all three Reiner's got the opener.
Over onto Spinks, three Glock kills and now two of the A-man push Flamzie and Mezzie absolutely wrecked.
Rain's up to play.
He really has. I mean, you know, we talk about bid game players.
I feel like Rain definitely does her.
He thrives in an environment with the additional pressure.
Have that conversation to be had about Hunter as well,
who had a mammoth performance yesterday against Spirit,
who floundering.
I think it's really not a good look.
Some murmurs going around with different players.
I had some conversations with about,
maybe it's the end for a player over there at Spirit as well.
So we'll have to see if anything is possible, considering the schedule and what comes up
next.
But yeah, this phase conversation, we touched on it before, we had these embattled legends
with the trophy cabinet and they were faltering and I touched on the tweets so they knew it.
It wasn't just something that was being speculated and spoke about from us on the outside and
they're like, no, everything's fine, you know, it's all good.
It felt like there was a couple of reasons to be slightly concerned.
I said you should show it to the water.
Such an active setup to be rumbled by just one dude.
Yeah, I'm just interested to see what Apex was saying there.
So I said to go water. Was he...
I'm not sure. Was he talking about a push down water?
Because he's not happy with...
Yeah, he's not happy with something.
My French is bad, but it sounded like Passemer...
Passemer...
Like, you're not listening to me.
Oh.
It is good having Alex, who can speak a little bit of German and a little bit of French, that helped.
And he would say that and his eye would know what he was saying.
Yeah.
And next has.
Okay.
So that's what he was saying.
So whoever was the B player, was it Sphinx?
No.
It was Iward Picking with the AWP.
Okay, but we need to listen to each other.
Sorry, but we need to listen to each other.
No way.
Okay.
Well, we're right.
You're right.
Oh God, I was nervous.
I thought I'd done it wrong.
Good job, Alex.
Thank you.
Woo!
Viva la France!
Alright, smoke towards Conn, keep smoke mid.
And a more passive stance towards A, understandably.
That was a huge nade that just landed on Flamesey's head.
57 points of health is all that remains after that.
Not bad at all.
Like the counternade to the nade spot.
Well, it's always been called over to bolster this A defence.
Nezion spinks locking down B and Apex inflow between the two.
Rain going through his paces.
So exchange of view tilt, very standard.
That smoke is infinitely more annoying than just smoking off the mouth of Conn.
They get a little deeper.
However you prefer.
That Nade backed. Not bad either.
Rain takes even more damage than Flames he did.
Okay, wow. I mean, definitely a strong util game so far from both squads.
Bombs committed to A and there's three players with Apex on a fast rotation.
Heaven Smoke lined up.
Can also molly back side.
Yeah, well, I would force Zywul into the open if they can Molly-K, they do, they do.
Nice extinguish keeps him around and he delivers the frag.
Teamplay, from Vitality setting Zywul up for success.
Flames can be a real thorn in his opponent's side, but with the absence of Zywul and Flames
down to just 2 HP it is problematic now.
30 seconds, bomb needs to be going down, they re-smoke Heaven, Robs goes searching.
Cam of vulnerability, frozen holding that rotate.
Nice find on the flames, Mezzy's brought low.
Brought down though.
In mid, Spinks knows that he only has to focus on the side,
but still, two on one.
He smokes Steadlin' as his option starts to spam.
Rob's not gonna over-commit here, broke you on an elevated angle,
using those steps to try and isolate the dual,
and Spinks is the one to hit it.
Gave him a chance.
He did.
And Spinks will take that.
Spotted on the cross.
Good awareness from Rob's.
That's his first three frags, and it's round defining.
Huge work underway from Rob's.
And I guess because Robs pushed towards Heaven right and got that kill that they expected him to be playing a little bit deeper.
I can't believe Broke even gave him a chance by going for those jiggles.
Wanted to try and bait in Robs, which I guess worked overall.
And yeah, Spinks shot in the back, can't get easier for Robs, but you bang on impact.
He's had a great... Well, Robs was having good impact on Inferno, great impact I might say.
He was having some big moments on Dust2 as well, even though they couldn't get it across the line.
Yeah, he's top of the scoreboard right now across the first two maps.
Ooh, rain big frag onto Zai, we're trying to turn up the heat mid, didn't work out for
them, broke your catch of fancy, flames commit, but trade it, Zai.
Trade work.
Yeah, this is Zorda's going to boil out into a nice calm 8th round.
That was an M4 brought into this.
So they invested a little sum.
Was that on the woo?
I think it was, I think it was.
Okay, so he just charged through mid with it, there we go.
Yeah, tried to get a little bit tricky with it, didn't they?
But yeah, I was looking at the frag totals.
definitely robs has been in form at 1.29 rating across our first two maps so
looking good it's good to see a resurgence from robs no better time than an IEM cologne
well that's where individuals not he is the individual that's where the
conversation was about the individuals this team right a lot of it
gravitated towards robs you know what's got the things like there was a lot
of reasons as to why phase wasn't getting a job done could work from
Karagin mops up the final two and it's now a two-round lead how many more can
they continue to stack on on this T side and this is the problem you couldn't
have come into this event ruling phase out because if they do show up which they
clearly are and then they make it to the stage that that old trope that we
have and it's it's a trope because it's true is about these boys being
big-game players they do their best work on the stage and it's a
completely different game when you get into that type of environment certain
rounds that you can and can't call. All right aggression again. Flashed out B main. Frozen
will call that. Thought about flashing himself back in for the fight. Adjusting for position.
Vitality will give that over. It hasn't spurred phase into an immediate reaction. They're
still just going to take their time. I saw it double-heat you towards Cam there. That's
a cheeky way of doing it. Trying to catch the player in Ziwa's position. They want
to go back to B. Consider little dots with the bomb going all the way back through
spawn. So they pushed out B main Vitality, they saw nothing. Frozen didn't even bother
hedging back to harass. A nape towards B main is a little bit of information, but both
teams playing for pieces of this chessboard. Yeah, simultaneously. Mid smoke, that might
stall them out. Do you keep pushing or do you think that that has some potency behind
it? Looks like they're just going to go back to more of a default 2-1-2. This
is a B retake setup right now. The position of Mezi is telling. Blocked at a very
good time. They go all the same. Placement of his util hair, lefties and sphinx. Spam,
damage. They're committing through that smoke. Carragun, low HP. Might try and make a play
call by Sphinx. Good work from him. That's a massive double. Catches, rain, departing
con. Now the flank from Apex comes in and connects. Zywoo even finishing off frozen
and it all falls to Brokey. He gets overrun. Two from Zywoo. Credit to Mezzie for delaying
just got the cavalry there in time and that's what you would have been screaming
if you are apex I have a timing I'm flanking just to lay don't die don't die
it's okay if we give away the plant because he did continue to push mid after
that B pressure came in Neo on the mic immediately calls the tactical time
are the first for phase spings man what a frag finding the second really
changed the state of affairs bang I know the stats don't say but you feel
I feel like we're seeing, it's when you compare it to the A1, it doesn't really stack up, because that's normally a financial decision, or positional decision, but I feel like we are seeing more and more A4s.
Yeah, for sure.
More of an aimer's gun, I think.
Okay, Neo, what have you cooked up in the lab, my friend? Still more than enough money for face to get out of full bite.
Now lacking a little bit of utility on Rain, only has a smoke to his name, broke you with the AWP, so both teams about to lock horns.
In round number 10, we are getting to the tail end of half number one map number three
They're gonna go aggressive B man again. They're flashing out once more. Apex setting them up
Early pressure onto frozen. They know that it's rarely occupied by more than one so why not confirm it?
There's no early pressure from phase anywhere
Yeah, I like that the fact that he they're not like smoking left side side and dropping down and trying to
The initial peak or mulling B main to stop the aggression vitality making the most of it
Especially because they invest phase invest two smokes off the rip most times. It's a lurk smoke and a con smoke
I'm sure they can't make anything off of it early. Apex is scared of mid. He's heading through beach to A. Concedes mid completely. Let Smezzy know that it's a vulnerability.
Looks like a good rotation though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it seems like he's ahead of the play.
Well, they're ahead of all of this. Look how close they are. They're here so quick, Alex. They're not ready for this.
I know, Zywu was. That's a character. And Apex is there, but surprised. Life frozen straight.
They know that Flamzie has to be around.
Well, maybe so fast on this too.
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe he's going to catch him off guard.
Like Frozen, are you anticipating someone to beat?
Yeah, I don't think he is.
This is going to shock him.
This is a freaking, ooh, nice catch.
Takes down Frozen.
Brokie having with a lot to do.
Robs through mains mode.
Brokie, ooh, he's getting stressed.
Flames forces him to look at him with the defuse.
Now Robs is in the clutch, but they're just sitting at defuse.
A couple of seconds, it's Vitality 5.
An impressive round.
Genuinely impressive from Vitality, their awareness, that rotation from Apex, he was so ahead of the play.
And Mezzie as well, I think the productivity of them at the start.
Alright, let's prod B, let's see what type of round we're dealing with.
If we spot more than just frozen babies sitting, then we know that it's going to be something a bit of a different round, maybe a B-play.
Then, not only did they go aggressive long, they went straight down towards connector and they did the same thing.
And at that point, they had a good idea that it's likely going to be this A-play or mid.
The rotation from Apex gets over in time.
I thought they were going to have a real jump on them because FaZe had made so much headway
without making a lot of sound, but Tati can win the half.
That would be crazy.
CT side of Nubis, third map for the spot in the playoffs, and this one's going to go
one way fast.
Karagin trying to push the smoke goes down.
Yeah, this map was played 14 times during stage one.
And was it as T side bias as usual?
Well, let's bring up the stats.
I think four out of the seven maps, I think, were T-sided.
Okay. Yeah. Do you want to play ins?
I'll track him from sphinx, but get the job done.
Yeah, Anubis with a huge sample size was 61.2%.
T wasn't the most he cited, but the other
amounts have such small, small sample sizes compared.
But Vertigo.
62.
63 for Inferno.
Ancient was he cited 58.
But Anubis up there. So, I mean, the point stands, if Vitality can leave with 7, they'll
have done a lot of heavy lifting in this first half.
Brokey, Robs, left alone with just Desert Eagles and a dream.
And Apex here to disrupt that.
Flash will force him off.
At least make him turn.
Yeah, Robs just has to time this perfectly.
Oh, actually gets the info for free then they flash.
I like that approach.
Gives it a bit more potency and threat, but there's silence to provide the cover.
He takes some bangers here, Robson has not done that.
Six, already accrued. Could this be seven?
And you just have to look at FaZe so far in this tea half.
Who's the man that you'd attribute to the impact on these rounds?
It's Rain. Three on the pistol round, two on an AMA rifle round push.
Had an opening kill when they were doing a B-split.
He's the man that FaZe had to look to, to crack them into these scenarios.
Otherwise, Matalya, they've done a good job of reading the play, rotating in,
and now FaZe, they would love six before they go into this two-minute break.
And again, they're going for the same type of scenario, heavy with this clump
of individuals, rain, brookie, rops over towards A.
Nobody outside of B at the start.
They have dropped a lurksmoke.
They're fed up of those pushes onto the likes of Spinks and Mezzie for info.
That lurksmoke has also pulled Apex over because of the extra angles
that it opens up over towards the site.
And I think they're just going with the keep it simple stupid method.
FaZe are going to attack A once more.
But they've got Zywoo.
And he is posted, so they have to do this perfectly by the book.
Flash is in. Zywoo's still not blind.
Playing a real tight gap here.
The Molotov will force a decision out of him, and he just respects it, gets out.
Tuck's the cave.
Bob's playing ahead of the Utah.
A re-peak attempt from Zywoo costs him his life.
He actually ate the Flash there, and down they go.
Rain again.
It's rain impact.
Double kill from here.
Karagin catches rotations, Apex unable to do anything.
Just as he talked about his impact,
Shadi finds a bono more of it.
Trying to find the best way to approach this
in a two on four.
Worried about a mid-lurk, nothing home.
We off to a space, you gotta give this one a go, Matt.
Second flash, he does.
Attempt, and we have 6-6.
So, dead even on the half.
Good, that worked.
Cut out for those we swapped sides.
Vitality taking to the T side
in pursuit of the Lancess Arena.
of Counter-Strike separates us from putting another team locked in for the playoffs.
Faze and Vitality fans watching on the very edge of their seat. I'm sure as this final half
of Anubis awaits us. Faze will take to the CT side. They've managed to muster up six,
but Vitality's defense, it's an incredible work from the likes of Spinks, has put us in
position where we're talking about a favored Vitality finish. They're on the T side. What
What do they go for to start with a bang?
Pick up that pistol and put them on the right foot.
It's rain again.
I mean, that was the other side of the coin.
Rain has been doing everything he can.
The Gilberts has kept humble.
It's Sywoo with the dark testing.
Flashing in for Robs, trying to set him up for success,
but now they know where he is.
Karagin hits a necessary head shot,
but it's Robs, good for Flames.
But sit on to Spinks.
Bomb last on fountain.
This is a dream for FaZe.
Start their CT side with a bit of momentum.
find the pistol. That hasn't been an issue, finding the pistol, but converting. It's a
conversation we'll have when we get there. For now, it just spinks without the bomb and
with a whole lot of time. So patience, ladies and gentlemen, maybe grab a drink.
And you mentioned Edge of the Seat, Falkhundar as well. They'll be playing the loser of
this series. Winner will take on the victor of complexity and mounds, which is currently
going on Twitch.tv slash ESL CSB. It sounds like it's heating up. I can hear Scrony
and Launders making a bit of noise that spinks he was patient he waited out the
smoke and now he returns to see if he can pull off a one-on-three okay Vla
63 points of health and a flash they know they have the ball down he goes
another one for rain okay well that's five out of the six pistols within the
series but of those five phase have only won the follow-up once they've only
made the conversion once. That's damning. So if you're vitality and I think in that vitality
even gave it to him, I think even to the eco in that scenario. So okay. So is it definitely
in now or never phase if you're going to try and confer around that you have all of
the advantages. But every time actually this is an interesting one from vitality. Turn
to the God of Counter Strike in some people's book.
Yeah, born on the day of Counter Strike.
But definitely a French Counter Strike.
The God of the team.
While still remaining financially viable into the next.
Vitality's poster boy.
One of the three in the conversation for Player of the Year so far alongside of the likes of Donk, already eliminated.
And Monacy playing up next against Astralis for elimination.
survival because the lengths that are still laying on the line in that one
will be another series between the Danes or G2 at Zywoo. Can you make another
miracle happen? No, no we can't. What if you go up against Rain? Too good, too damn good.
So good. So do you. Alright, well Alex, Rain is, are you ready for this?
Yes, you're sitting down.
Yes.
7 and 1 in opening duels.
This man.
Oh, man, pressure.
Definitely helping define how we look at the ageing players.
For real, yeah.
I mean, him and Dupree are doing everything they can.
7 and 1.
Impact on almost all of the T-side rounds
that they picked up.
And he's not slowing down.
Two round advantage for Faze.
The rifles come out for everybody besides Apex.
He's gonna have another little peek, he's feeling himself early info towards T-Stairs.
Mezzy, oof, swallowed.
Fifty points of damage are thereabouts.
Jumps over the spam from Zywoo, trying to return the favor.
They've just blocked out towards A main once more,
and they might try and aggress somewhere else on the map while doing so.
They've completely fogged on the site, just hoping that the smoke wall does its job,
and that's why we're so focused on these mid and B players,
because that's most likely where the first action comes in.
So about 10 seconds Vitality have to wait before the main smoke clears.
So Mezzie's just staring at that grey screen and now Xayah with the same.
So being blocked across, B main push, Sphinx will hear this.
Second flash is grey but they're not able to capitalize on it.
Oh he still gets brain jiggling now. That's a very important trade back.
Frozen. Takes it.
It's just carrying it over to war day with an MP9.
And that could very well be the beginning of Vitality's first round.
Where does Mezzie use this molly?
Oh, perfect.
Oh, Kelly gives a trouble.
Wow, he still gets one. Not bad. Not bad.
But that is. Rob's gets nothing.
Would have liked a bit more, but the flashbang from Apex was too damn good.
I'd have to be the save. You can see the finances for Rain and Brokey
during the doldrums as far as the buys are concerned.
They have to play this one conservative.
I'm curious over to what's B. The second flash looked really good
on the Sphinx's position, but nobody pushed forward to clear out Pizza.
And that's an open kill back the other way
We were doing an Anubis game just the other day where we saw that used to great success
Yeah, I've pushed to clear out that difficult corner
But phase can't say the same so by tiny win the first rifle round draw it back to just one and apex
We'll even get an AK for his troubles
Frozen can drop something. I think it is going to be rain who needs that the most
Yeah tough a tough
Or phase though, so I would just mentioned Famous, but it was able to pick up an AK
So I think they should be aware that that is a possibility
Good shooting as well in combination with those flashbangs from apex clean with it. I respect the crosshair choice as well
Rob's has gone
You know
Yeah, he's an innovator.
Yeah, we saw him doing on Dust2 as well, and I understand that it gives him a few more options.
Just the angle, by the way. If ever I'm trying to reference it, this is the angle Rob takes it.
Hey, Rush, press 1 if you could, mate.
Thanks, mate. Thanks, Rush.
You can get off him now. Sorry, mate. Sorry to disturb you.
That was the angle.
To surprise Mezi on his clears, but we are not going A.
At least not for now.
It's just not having any U-Till, right?
So he's just gonna have to play heads up
and Brokey's also tucked over towards A,
so they are playing a bit of a total setup on the CT side.
There's a lot of room for Vitality to take
for seemingly free, but they are gonna go through the motions.
With Flash, Link's gonna clear close doors,
nobody home, an exchange of smokes,
so Karrigan trying to puff up his chest
to see him bigger than he is.
Ooh, Rumble have heard that drop.
But looking like they wanna pivot back towards A again.
Now we mentioned Ropp's having a good series so far.
This would be his moment to stand up
with a bit of a statement.
multi-kill required.
Freddy's his aim.
Native bait. Safe and fountain and there's the jump surprise. It's only one.
Mezzy good for it! Mezzy! Double up!
Garagher, are you next? On the naughty list, he overlooks the position but a knee jerk trade.
Straight from Zywoo and the site is lost.
They need to be going one for one in that situation because if Karaghen comes in and then it's a 2v2
it seems like a possible retake but Reign and Frozen know that trying to get back in towards that bomb site
even with a number advantage at the best of times can be very difficult.
Sure they have an incendiary, a HE, and a kit to work with,
but it's just too tall of a task and too much to risk at this point of the game.
So Vitality, they will get away with a great necessary trade there from Mezzie with the flash coming in.
It's Brokey stepping out and getting nothing done.
And you can understand why he's doing so because Karagon was under pressure in middle.
I think he was smoked off towards Temple,
so they didn't really have a whole lot of information of exactly what was going to be piping through,
and if it was going to be a split.
So you can justify Brokey's swing.
Yeah, I really liked their quick reaction after carrying in smoke doors to just drop and group A.
It was just like kind of, you know, maybe 10, 15 seconds to configure A, and then it was gone into A.
Good work from Mezzy. 8-8.
To on the trot for Vitality's T-side campaign.
Well, I think one of the good fortunes for FaZe is Rain has one of these saved rifles.
It will be the light investments from the remainder of the phase clan
Allowing that loss bonus to build going into the next they should get the buys out no drama is 2400
But what can rain do?
Carg a debate I like it
The incendiary does indicate that there is aggression afoot and bloody cool these jets
He could have just kept going in but the fact he stays alive
It's even though you only have a USP it's really important to just be a name on the board
So I think to fear don't give them
Any inch any mile is well. This is a great timing for us. They're gonna hard clear it though Alex
They will 100% I clear this
Well, it wasn't a hard it was a clear they did clear it. Yeah
So they're 99% will hard clear it
An alternative boost from the Statue Boost.
The problem I have with this is they don't have a smoke and if you have a Tali with all
these nades, surely the Molly over here, right?
Yeah, Spinks is the one with the molotov.
Right, Spinks.
Oh, that's a bit shallow.
Hang on, there's the Molly.
There she is.
Well, good night, sweet princess.
You still got an angle and you still got a chance to find impact.
Rain does fine too. Now with Frozen's help and they're actually doing it.
Triple kill of the R for Frozen closes!
That's massive for Faze. What a gift Rain continues to deliver.
They missed the Molly.
Yeah, he still had space on Glyph.
I can't quite believe that.
Look at this, look at the gap there and all the damage that he does, they did use the Molly just not deep enough.
Naded with it. There's the second night that came into play and Reign continues to have massive impact against team vitality
In a game for the arena
Oh the juxtaposition between the two fury on one side jubilation on the other
Tech 9 shot. It's aggressive. They're counting on Cywoo. They put an AK in his hands, and they said please go kill
But he finds nothing on con spinks an early death an early departure
starting...
They had that opening kill in that round.
That was a 4v5, and then the Execute should have been banged on.
They flubbed it, they threw that smoke too shallow into the molly,
so it didn't even go left side-side correctly.
Keeps it all the time in the world.
Just find Rob's there. Perfect flashbang from Apex.
I'm sure he's getting plenty of the effective flashes.
Karagin, what have you got here?
Yeah, wise, wise. Now he was holding that angle for the cross.
Flash!
Like that!
Again with these flashbangs.
3 on 3.
Karakin activates, good find, catches Flayne, focusing now on Mezzie.
Yeah, had to be headshots with the limited bullets.
Bomb plant, 2 on 2. Rain and Frozen though, they did it once. Can they save them again?
So much at stake, off you go, Rain. Mezzie hunting him.
And Mezzie delivers for Vitality. An important kill again on the A side. He's having a T side as Mezzie.
Frozen rocking up from main apex will aware of that possibility the HE will
soften him up. He's in anticipating all this. They are so low but so is the time.
He has to go. Now or never. Tries the transfer needs to get on that bomb. It's
not perfectly planted. Time sensitive. Meggy swings! What's the time? A little too
You're too shy.
Vitality, fight back.
When Frozen just survives, they're to hold on to that AK, giving them at least something to carry through.
And you see Rain already in heaven, but how much can you ask of the guy?
He's done such a great job in this third and deciding map of the series with his impact.
In that moment, just couldn't deliver the necessary kill onto Mezzi coming searching.
And this time round, Faze opened things up with that entry,
with that entry, but you have to really give credit to Flamesy.
The flash work was bang on,
Rob's completely blind and the same for that of Brokey.
And there wasn't necessarily the most conventional flash position
that he threw the second one from. He was down in Canals.
Yeah, great flashes from Mezzi and Apex.
They've got twenty four flash assists combined.
And there's the first and the second was a thing of beauty as well.
Frozen, giving this one on two.
No, flashes. That's valve.
Yes, as people flash enemies flashed.
Is it, wow, whatever the definition is, I'm just gonna call it EF.
Yeah, Valve calls it enemies flashed, HLTV calls it effective flashes.
God damn it guys, can't we just get on the same page?
We just can't.
Well, Vitality, you win this, you're gonna crack through, you're gonna break that glass ceiling.
I've heard about that.
It's like a bit of chocolate factory.
No Willy Wonkers here.
Rain backing away.
Forced away.
Two rifles in the mix.
God, this is all hanging on bucket thread.
Gabbled fall towards B. Just rops in A main. Meters avoid and Karagin addressing that.
Well, they don't know. It's not a worry. It is just going to be an execute towards B once more.
This is his smoke. Here's that Mach 10. Rain well aware that there's potential for Spinks to be occupying that far right angle.
Frozen and broke, he's both just kind of ready to deliver if he gets the fight. There it is! Spinks! Gets one, but shut down.
They're rotating.
They're silently walking towards middle, magnetizing towards mid, with a little bit of A on top.
Mezzie and Zywoo heading towards Robs.
Completely flashed, he's got to get one hit.
Oh, hard to track!
Doesn't do well without Mezzie does great and Karagin the next victim.
Apex catches him off on the rotate, rain however.
The petul threat, what's he got?
Nah, bullet.
Rans towards his ribcage.
Broke!
Broke big actually, catching Zywoo.
Rain down but it's all up to Broke.
He could do this.
Mezzie's overlooked this potential crouch.
Walker now, we're talking now, we're cooking.
Brokey, this could be huge.
Can he secure it for FaZe?
Born planted.
Flames versus Brokey.
Xtaz not going to blink.
Natality heard, it's saved by Flames.
What a series this has been.
This line of buys always a thorn in either side.
Back and forth, the individuals on display
And another round coming down to a 1v1 Flamesy.
Gets it done.
Oh man, you gotta love some Counter-Strike, haven't ya?
Getting your Monday nights started with a bang.
Oh, I thought Broke you'd done a lot there, but Flames, look at this, Angley finds it.
A quick first bullet headshot on the Galil.
Not shy. Not shy. Apex as well. The same.
Red Carpenter rolled out for 11 now for Vitality.
has to finally be around with no threats. A flash and a P250 is all FaZe can bring into
this one. This is probably the easiest round Vitality have played in this map so far. Everybody's
here. Yeah, stacking a flash. Flames is actually going to be the pathway disruptor though, yeah,
they're going to walk straight past them, nice little distraction. Get the Galil guys,
get the Galil. And then Flames. They got the Galil. Yeah, but then Flames takes
it all away stops the galil retrieval takes out bro key mesi charges out main
and jobs are good and 11 to 9 the scoreline and we are gonna get the guns
back out for phase
oh okay I presume cave is corn I believe that they call okay yep rain's
It's not gonna be anywhere near that this is be look how direct this is the radar tells the entire picture of this round
It's died for you. Yeah. Well, he's been an issue because look at robs. He's been getting exploited. Yeah
It's a great call from apex. Oh, he wants it
In pursuit of the just one round away rain empty handed that surely sealed the deal 12
imminent
They have to save Chad if that's a apex. Yeah, allows it
What a fantastic call and read.
Just straight into it direct again from Vitality. We had some similar scenes going down on Dust2.
Surely that tickles your IGL brain. You see that they've conditioned A, they know the anchor's struggling.
You know that Karrigan's aware that it's a vulnerability. You just lost a 1v1 on A, you've lost multiple rounds on A,
and so you call it a direct approach towards the underguarded side.
And you throw into the mix that Reigns the one holding over towards Connector.
And he's been having the most impacts for players in the game so far.
everything. Well, we want to avoid this threat. But no, they go straight into it. Pull off the execute,
even having a talk in spawn to discuss. Do we know the right flashes? Regardless,
they pull it off. They stick the landing. They get to 12 first. And now if you three consecutive
four-phase, who were able to retain three guns, drops are available because of the lost burners.
Rain and frozen will be equipped. But now for Karagan, this is the mental game. Does he go
back to stacking three players towards A? Does he go for an aggressive maneuver? How does he
want to approach this CT side. But it's a conversation for Apex to have the same with
his team and they are the ones who have more opportunities. Do we want to just throw balls
to the wall, do something fast, do something aggressive, see if we can close it? Because
even if they stack the right side and you are in their face, you just have to get
these trades and that's round time. It could be the perfect call from Carrigan.
But it might not matter.
30 seconds to talk this one three, see both sides are locked in conversation series point, three of them.
Vitality, one round away from returning to the Lancers, that is the semis last year, roster ends.
Mezzi was not a part of this roster then, he's never played on the stage in Cologne, he'd love to get out there to Brit.
Apex has seen a few Cologne Finals over his career, two to be specific.
Frozen flirting with some aggression, they want to just take early B main, but Sywell's with them.
Sywell's here, he can do a lot, but no, it's Frozen! Great work! Double kill! Flames at least one back!
Rain could be next! Rain, he's faffin' around with his nades and that two-man advantage just dissolves, disappears!
Apex down to Karagin, just walkin' through the smoke.
Crazy start to this round. That's a brand new flavour.
Haven't seen that at all.
Lots of these timeouts. This is what we're left with.
The frozen double. Responded to in kind.
Apex overextending into mid and now they're walking into B. Brokey's got a lot to do.
He's not worried about canals. He has to be aware that he's keeping B open.
He has to be aware that he's exposed to jail.
Oh, spotted, bow spotted.
Oh, Brokey, Brokey!
Oh, he's not gone down! Flames whiffs it!
Brokey, now! No, he's not on the cross-back!
Goes down! Flames vulnerable!
Port to 50!
They're both coming in from Conside!
Spinks!
Punching in the code.
Tagged down!
That M4 one-shot headshot looks more likely now!
But not if Flames hits everything!
It's up to Robs!
A tough map!
Two good maps!
But can he redeem himself here?
A one-on-one to extend play!
Up again, Spinks has the kit, battle of wits, and Spinks has managed to get himself all the
way down, tucked into cave.
There's no planet for him.
That's a ballsy call.
Rops weren't understand that.
Hello!
He's just brought the fight to him!
Disbelief!
And there's vitality.
They have secured the Lancers Arena.
The Golden Hornets will be happy.
Mezzy, a ticket booked to his very first!
Tough battle, three maps, Faze showed up when Inferno dust two went to overtime and Faze could have...
On the context.
Well the util's on Apex to block B, so it's gonna have to be the USP's getting it done over towards A.
So I went long side, there's the flash, here comes the waterfall.
Yeah, Reign's gonna be the front man, but it's actually gonna be A1 and done from Spinks.
partner in crime gets empty completely empty handed there mezzan spins four
And then we'll get that bomb down so mission accomplished as I was already been goose so that so yeah impact
Not going to be felt this time on his inferno pistol
In the A site probably a good call is there no there isn't apex throws the flash flames is in flames
nearly gets out
Double kills great rain shuts it down though
Oh, that was almost one way for the kids to kick things off.
I suppose?
Yeah, well, this is quite a threat that's still available.
Flames and Apex over towards B,
but they have that dropped M4 in their hands as I would assist,
and little takes first flight.
Yeah, is that retrievable?
Not with Karagin knocking on the door,
but he pieces out.
They know there's a window of opportunity away from that M4.
They have to be quick if they want to trap either rotation
and play the number advantage.
Lighting up smoke towards the long side, head towards library. They're gonna try to wrap.
This is a good call against the light of buys. The MP9 has spanked with one and a half.
Ooh, yeah, now. I thought it was a free frag. Apex is a little lazy on that one.
It's slow to pull the trigger, but it doesn't matter if Flames is hit in one tap.
Like, wrap! They've pulled it off! Apex with a double kill. Let's go indeed.
They leave with the round, disrupting FaZe's momentum on the second round of play.
play. Now it's FaZe's turn. Something they're known for, historically capable in these kind
of rounds. Yeah the problem is they are just going to have to take their time with this.
You need to allow all this CT utility to be siphoned through all flash and fight. Okay
Apex is fortunate that the flames are on his side and not just the play up. Jumping
while flash banged in. Oh, Karagin swallows a HE grenade down to 47. Might get sphinx
the long side on a jiggle. Info plays a staying active vitality. Oh, and they will have heard
that. Carrigan needs to search forward. Oh, you know what? Not far off from converting
on to Flames. Well, you take the dink and that might entice the rest of FaZe to head
over towards B and see if they can finish the job that their in-game leader started.
But this is looking very good for a 2-1 lead for vitality, which should quickly become
three one with the full eco next. There shouldn't be too much here for FaZe.
Rain will search and actually just oh he's hit the head shot on the sphinx.
He's not comfortable, he does go down off the one but he knows there's a boost up and he's
gone down too. FaZe have managed to find the site. Incredible shooting from Rain.
I thought that crouch was gonna be in Flames' favor but it led to the death
of that CT rotation from Spinks. It's crazy, Spinks has nothing done there. Hang on. Yeah,
that's a fantastic nade from Zywoo. Molly would do the job. He's in trouble. Trying to get away,
doesn't hit the first tap, and so Zywoo closes it down, a costly one, sure, but all they needed
was the round, and it's Zywoo that converts it. Gonna force fight again. Oh, is this not a
risk? No, I like it. There's only one player that survived. You know that their buy is
gonna still be a little bit rough around the edges. I say that as we take a look at
3M4's in an AK
but lacking U2
Yeah and they're gonna try and search towards early apps control
Apex goes looking, gets an F-MAC 10 to the face
So I will go alongside though
Catches Frozen, takes him down
Rain, looking to advance
Mezzy responsible for boiling the incendiary
will limit Rain's contributions
and look at the flame audible
So timing is everything on this
He's gonna try and swing through that smoke
Here he comes!
They're blind! Oh, but he is dead! Huge from Robs! Long-range Tech9 headshot hosted!
Mezzy! Mezzy gets two! But Robs has done the same. It's only Spinks, and that bot will go down with plenty of time to spare.
Robs and Carrigan up against Spinks.
Well, this time there's no utility to clear out those corners. That's what helped them last time, the Molly and the HE.
This is awkward. Robs has had a huge impactful round with a Carrigan call to just push all the chips in.
They know they have some vulnerable but Spinks could make this costly. He could come back
Quad kill from the Estonian that is 2-2 all tied up. Yeah, great to see some impact from robs like that
And this has been a tussle neither team has been able to establish what the game plan was going to be coming into this matchup
Just yet because we've had the force by wars back and forth almost
Consistently and that damage. Yeah, that's massive and then he does everything himself the tech man coming in just
completely shutting down any of the advances from vitality to defend that
site and we'll continue it's not over yet the forcebite needs to come back from
vitality I'm pulling holes had been taken don't goes rain or early death is
gonna be costly if can damage desire work if they walk through the archside
smoke they can pincer onto a and that looks like what they're doing no well
Well done by Mezzie.
Good push from Spinks.
He's into the site.
Spinks, he can go round from behind.
Broke, he's a free frag.
The bomb goes idle.
Robbs and Karagin, they've only got 20 seconds.
First frag is great.
Robbs provides the second, but at great cost from his help.
Karagin needs to pick up that bomb now.
Apex is going to stop him.
Oh, he fights instead.
Flash is good.
Zile has been spotted out with the frag.
He knows where Flames is too.
So he knows where they both are.
13 seconds.
It's still not comfortable.
Timing chance squandered on the 5-7 fake on the plan. I hope it's a punish takes the head
You haven't got time for that Karagin. Oh, no the clock
It converts the round for him if it missed judgment there from Karagin thought he had time for a rifle retrieval
Or perhaps anticipates I would to have gone and doubled up, but either way
Yeah, it's a bit of a sigh from Karagin knows he could have done a bit more with that
throws out the Moto smoke
Oh, it's the penultimate smoke from FaZe, so you'd expect there to be a commitment off the back of that.
Karrigan has flashbangs, but Apex with their HG onto frozen elsewhere. That's the lurk gone.
And they start to accelerate. Spinks, good find already.
Broke into the site, well, find one.
There's he's the only one there, but not for long. Rain doubles up. The bomb will go down and FaZe have the sight.
Oh, do we finally see a save?
We might have to. They were so far away, it wasn't like they had an early lead time on that apps explosion.
Look at how many MP9s are in the server, they're not all on one side.
We've got two MP9s carried over from FaZe, one for Rain and one for Carrick.
This is a bare knuckle of roll right now.
MP9s for the T side, but it's frozen first and it's an impactful one onto Flames.
Going looking, Apex cautiously retrieves that M4.
Yeah, and you immediately want to look at the radar. Are the A defenders looking to group up and try and take some space?
Well, no. Both plans are quite defensively as it is banana where they want to take this duel.
Spinks with the assistance of Apex to see if they can catch the crawl.
This is a good combo. Designed to disrupt this very setup.
Spinks and Apex noted chipping away at Apex to 35. It's Zywoo, elevated on the barrel.
Caragher down and out but immediate from Robson the way back, Mezzi long range for down
and so the A-Sci once again falls and Vitality may just have to reside themselves to a very similar
situation to the previous. Okay so now we should see the save from Vitality that will
result in an eco behind the M4 and the MP9. Oh good boys. Yeah, it's good to do that.
All right well, it's all good. Not the end of the world, only two round difference.
still plenty to be played within this map. Here's that orb so it was dropped across
so I'm getting active with it and removed. Big one from Rops just swings
straight into Zawoo. And with another on the menu, Messi does well to get away with
his life. An important equalizing frag. It's insane that Rops has just gone so
quickly into that fight. He's not shy is he? It's not really kind of typically
his style.
At worst case he found himself towards CTN there in a full retake so now that Apex is
over they won.
Spinks is in for it.
Here we go.
Alright Apex, what are you going to do with this?
No util really.
The fast flanks.
Spinks have put the bomb down.
That's going to completely change the plan for FaZe.
Really uncomfortable round now for FaZe Clan.
They're just going to pick up the bomb and go.
Same plan.
Slide delayed.
Flame shut up.
At least one empty-handed Reign has found a huge frag.
back. On down three on three.
This is an intense retake and it could have got awkward for
Spinks. Court jumping up, man-cling on towards the barrels.
Frozen concede just backs away. Time on their side.
And last of their utile. Used to try to take half wall but frozen on the
re-aggress. And Mezzi falls. Carrigan takes two.
It's a phase six on this two-side. All right, all right. Well,
we're going through the history that's a match over in London, the spring
finals for Blast. Inferno was the map choice of FaZe. They won it 13-4.
See if we can do more with it here.
ZywOo made quite a statement in his opening game. We've only seen that one game, Vitality vs Furious.
This is our second look at what Vitality are bringing to IEM Cologne 2024.
Same could be said for FaZe. And there's ZywOo's AWP. Good for it, but down after one!
Frozen loses his life and the bomb drops is there. That's team play. They leave with an advantage
and the site. Yeah, Robson did his job perfectly there. That late piece through Boiler.
That set up gets rumbled. They're waiting there for the progression halls, which we've seen
quite consistently from FaZe. Rain and Robs up through Boiler and Halls being quite aggressive.
That's how the last time Zawa had an AWP got rumbled. This time they go straight up the
guts, go long side, AWP signs off. They learn of the Boiler set up, who Robs comes through
and cleans house. It has to be another Vitality save, and it's these two yet again. Apex
of flingy yesterday was way too easy for vitality was no I don't mean that in a bad way I mean it
in a way that they just absolutely mold their opponent it was a non-issue whatsoever
Apex does get that one and should get away with his life let's go into the final round of the
first half things twice about it with a single flashbang he's gonna set his boys up yeah the
fact that you draw that smoke at about a minute twenty two on the clock mission accomplished
You've applied so much pressure vitality feel like that under threat the comms if you're the a guys right now
You'd be here in the B players just screaming that smokes flashes. Hey cheese. They're picking
So now they get a moment of respite, but that's where phase turn their attention to take this mid control rain making no secret of this
Downspinx's pocket. Oh, we didn't quite nail the flash plate
Get away with his life
Don't do the motions here phase. So you already taken and maintained banana control now
Now you've got brackets and a bit more. They want to tell you it's short.
Mezzy might peek around this and he's done well to find Karagith.
Oh.
Hang on, Zywoo.
Best drops and now it's looking good for a Vitality 4.
Anticipating a B finish.
Now you, Tilt.
Has landed on CT. Apex unable to do too much.
Does have a smoke of his own though.
Have to get through.
Yeah, but that's if you can get past that SMG.
Elevated was flamed, finds it with the MP9.
Brokey just spams away at the smoke does well to find himself a kill grabs the AK-47
Rains alongside for it
It's chaos, but Brokey hits the shot!
Rains is another!
Good god, I think they've turned it around
The hard work done. How has that happened?
Brokey and Rain miraculously enter the B-Side with a couple of seconds to spare
All Vitality are going to be kicking themselves if they can't close
Mezzie and Spinks tasked with getting back into this B bomb site. Mezzie coming in first,
Barrel spotted, Brokey knows he executes it and now the last to fall! That is miraculous!
What a way to close out the half and ninth and five frags between the two of them!
Raid and Brokey, heroes for FaZe as we take two.
Molly, out of flames you didn't clear up that porch side. Frozen having to now search down
banana. Will Apex go overlooked? Is it a little bit of a mind game? Oh, nice shot, Robbs.
Gets the most out of it. Apex however was waiting for this, and oh, wow. He's put a bullet onto
Frozen's head, ready for the test. Yeah, this is going to go hectic. This is uncomfortable,
highly uncomfortable, and Messi's doing everything he can. A third is great. And the bomb is on
his back if he only knew. Broke he should dangle frozen on his fishing rod. This is going to be tough
to get them both. Is he going to be anticipated? It doesn't matter! With a low HP proscent, still hits
the head shot. So yeah, it did what he could with a triple kill from Mezzy, but as you said,
this spells trouble for Vitality if they can't win this one. Yeah, they've been able to get
an AK in the hands of Zaiwiz, got head up behind it, so let's see if he can make a plate.
Even just so they can start warming into the series, they're going to go into
their map choice of Dust2Next and they'll be a whole lot more comfortable but to get blown out
in a match for the arena Vitality did make it to the Lanxess last year.
Mezzie the only one not part of this team he would love to grace the Cologne stage. Never seen
Mr. Merriman out there and everybody else in the server we have and FaZe they've even won it.
There you go that's Zayu doing what Zayu does best with the AK47 that's why
you put the Kalashnikov in his hands as you look to try and disrupt the A site
Straight in double kill nice back from Brokey. Yeah, they nearly lined up for the double messy. Just three HP
The bomb going down and I will put another one
Brokey's solo in trouble looks like vitality have done it enough to make a little bit more out of this second half
Oh, we need more of this force by nonsense. I think that'll be did
pendant on it broke in frozen can hold on to their upgrades
Apex really wants to take this away and well, yeah, he's been a big enough distraction to get another for Zywoo
So everything's I we need to drop the AK finds the opener and that essentially is to cure as vitality the round
They're fourth just a six-round game now and I say just
MR 12 it's gonna be
Quite quick to get back into things and that's where the financial decisions of phase
We're gonna have to put under a microscope just like we did with vitality in the first half
I mean, yeah, this is a replay so far of the first half as much fire the rounds go
Nope.
Faze with both pistols.
Phytanti with both second round forces.
See what they can do with what they have.
Three saves.
One rifle.
Oh, and they picked the correct site to hit again.
Robson Rain, the A-Defenders.
The ones who went down in the previous...
Ooh, nice catch with the boost.
Okay.
But that is just going to accelerate them into the USP's and...
You tell, you know what works?
SMGs versus no-care-flaw.
Flames had no problem against Rain there, Spinks takes down Robbs after his P250 did some work.
Well they'll give it a look.
Yeah, no harm in it.
Owl, but pushing through that smoke without anyone else.
And Brokey and Frozen still fapping around top banana.
Frozen's been able to pick up that AK.
This is an active-app setup.
Forward positioning, but it does look like Vitality want to go direct.
That might change their plans though.
Smoke's half wall.
They're coming in.
Yeah, they're coming in.
Yes.
Karagin, there might be a bit too late on the smoke.
Suddenly panicked, flustered, good flash.
Karagin pushes!
Oh, it's beautiful!
He gets himself the double!
Make it a triple from the captain!
Flameslip them there.
Are they aware?
They are now.
Gets the information.
Good work from Rain.
And Faze.
I mean, it's rare to see something like that work so well.
It's rare to see something like that work so perfectly.
Two flashes, Karrigan swings on the second,
and three players doing the dance on an early B commit.
There's a detail, oh, okay.
How many more is he gonna get?
The bomb is in an almost irretrievable position
towards CT spawn, so the fact he's gotten two kills,
that's great, but surely nothing more.
Yeah, I think the fun is stopped here,
but Spinks has got 10 grand in the back.
He might just keep having some fun.
could not be more irretrievable if they tried. Actually, Brokie is going to be exposed to
that and Spinks has managed to make this a 1 vs 2. I think FaZe might be getting a little
uncomfortable now, but Spinks might actually get that bomb back in his hand, great holding
it, yes, cut to Karagin. After all of his hard work, he was starting to get a little
nervous.
That's almost the same that happened within the first half of the play to the Deagles,
the 3v5 situation of it was the beast side. Just giving away a lot of casualties in
around where you can start to establish your own economy and your in-game leader is so much hard work
we'll catch that one again on the replay perfect timing on the push-through hands over faces the in-game leader
locks down three in style and then this is where the bomb goes dropped do you think okay well that should be it
that's how sphinx has done a little bit of a dent brookie's been able to bring out the awp
another god prefix was found with utility going through flashing through frozen forced away
Karagan the same. Top banana gained. Save from the flame, Mezzy and all.
Oh, Rob still gets one! Miss shot from Brokey. Flames. He's allowed a second chance.
Well the keeping phase moving between the sites. So there are gonna be a lot of gaps.
Like a test over here, a test over there, and contact him. He'll be ahead of this.
Mezzy starts the run. Oh! Big head shot from Merriman!
testing arrogant he's been brought low should go down here empty-handed and
vitality they've broken into the b-bomb site and quite a direct approach is that
kind of apex good old-fashioned apex calling well I think this is where the
mind games between these two teams is gonna play in an awful lot but because
in that previous round hold up a sec we're gonna brookie the going down
and getting a kill is all it's gonna be the latter jump spot so they know
they're under pressure with the hunt that's the ramifications of giving
away so many rifles to spinks in the previous apex wants to remove it all
knowing that they can make their life a whole lot easier as part of this comeback
okay and now we can have a conversation so they started 4A with frozen blocking
B and one of the key ways that they opened that previous rounds which is
where Kargan wrote to the back and got the triple kill is they flash rain forward
for him from middle but started double apartments then as soon as rain called
mid clear as you look set on this B execute
Brokey and Karagin have smokes to block.
Ooh, they're getting ahead of the play.
It's a fantastic flash from Karagin.
Frozen does well to find himself something with the aggress.
Maybe Brokey's orb is going to get a chance here.
Oh, and it does. Flames down. Apex.
He's going to have second thoughts now. Surely he's f**king away with the smoke.
Well, your way back is with Stinks,
and he hasn't taken too much space just yet.
Starting the probe because he has to do 35 seconds.
They're running. They are running.
And Rob's just left, so yeah, Ray...
So, yeah, Ray.
It's rained in the pit with the AK.
That's the other saved gun.
Ooh, interesting scenes here.
They don't have a molly to clear him, either.
OK, Ray, let's see what you got, mate.
That smoke really will limit the sight line
he wanted to work with.
He jumps up here, Spinks should have it.
Whoa, still was ready for Spinks.
Now he maneuvers around that smoke.
13 seconds, planting safe on cold Zera.
Ray, I'm unaware that Zaiwu was likely
going to isolate him, hunt him down.
They've used their smokes very well here, Vitality.
Pushing smokes. I will! What a transfer!
Turns around, spins into the second.
It's up to Apex though in the clutch.
And off Robb was through, finds the headshot. Apex just shy of the head.
That's a miraculous turnaround from FaZe.
Damn, I had him dead to right as he's jumping out of here.
And you can see him wanting to reposition
so he can try and deal with the side players.
That was pretty meditated.
Zahui drops that one to give him a bit of a buffer
to work around over towards Broom.
So that's worked perfectly.
And FaZe will have heard that,
so they know they can't just spear on down for this banana control.
They find one that works, they find one that works wonderfully!
Frozen brings down the woo!
Man, is he quick to find Karrigan, but he knows Frozen's not far behind him.
Flames, putting a lot into this, gotta be careful, he's trying to find info safely
and does catch a perhaps a glimpse of Robs?
Rain's still undetected.
Right, Mike, clear, deep.
He does have a look and he can dash, he just spots Flames running towards B.
Surely that's a little sign that we need to get the rotation going frozen under pressure a nice headshot from messy
Two kills from the Brit in this one trades I will then build into it with a fight to open up the B bomb size spinks
I can't miss core rocks try to get towards banana through mid
I was gonna say that feels like a save and they are gonna try and back off
But with spinks so close you wonder hey, do we should we hang around and have a little bit of a look?
He dropped off after that kill so rain and broke you the two who saved before looking to save again and
and those saved weapons were worth their weight in gold.
Brokey's already passed your line of sight, so Apex should have this one.
There hasn't been a single round this half that they haven't saved Summit.
Apex didn't have that one.
Not yet, no, no, it's in fact Brokey's been doing great on the saves.
Well they have worked back into this haven't they Vitality?
Couple of rounds that they're going to be kicking themselves over.
Nate's going to do some damage, but Brokey will retain the AWP and rain the A4.
something he's been criticized for not always being as active as perhaps his
team need him to be well keep an eye on that your four rounds required out of
vitality yeah and no lost bonus bill for either team but more importantly face if
Vitality leaves around it doesn't matter it's over that's GG but if phase lose
this one another opener yeah well if this round continues in the direction
it's going phase gonna have to take an eco all the saves again if you're
Vitality, maybe you'll throw more at hunting those guns away knowing just the ramifications
35 seconds on the clock bomb committed apartments. This will be a most definitely
Ross holding the ankle what's flames on one HP rain robs combined to defend the site apex is low rain can do this broken there
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Mezzie was not a part of the team at the time though. I'm sure he would love to grace the Lanxus stage for the first time
I love a little CT mid push
Even the pros do
But what do you do when you don't get anything Robs has got a lot to do here
And that's a brilliant way to start one tap to the head of apex. They continue to commit
And it's looking good for vitality Robs. He needs help he's back up and instead he loses his head frozen
However has found contributions on the cross. Those are hard shots
He's hit two of them.
It's only frozen.
Oh! Flames! That is a huge quad kill!
Okay, that's the output that you're looking for.
Bro, watching that from the death POV is perfect.
It's actually perfect. I'm sure it'll look great on his too,
but just how little you see of him,
how quick that bullet finds his opponent's head.
Spinks found one.
And that's the reason that they start running Flamesy down on his own,
because they know Spinks is on the lurk.
So Brokey and Frozen want to isolate a one-on-two duel in their favor and they can't do so
Crispy Vitality pick up their first the pistol. Oh, and he picks hit the cross series. Yeah, well
Those nades a bit shy the mark. I
Love the tenacity out of sphinx the aggression just runs them down before they can get back and maybe just maybe
We will start a half of this series without the second round force
Falling away from the pistol victors. It might be nice
Especially if you're a vitality fan
Tag onto Zywoo.
He's another of those.
You know, not going to be able to find it, but Rob, she's done well to finish off.
Ink.
Onto the sphinx.
They've taken a lot of damage, but unfortunately with the equipment they have,
broken rain probably going to look to save.
Two scouts, not the weapons for the retake, is it?
So if they can hold onto these, they can be a little bit prickly going into the next round.
The USPs can soften.
Sorry, they can finish off the softened opponents.
They can't soften as well. They can it normally go scout tag into
Like his fluid the lighter fluid Newtonian
Prickly indeed it's a
Slow demise for brokey. They find him eventually
Very thrilling recovers the AK from the first spinked is a K then sorry apex is used against spinks
And this has gone horribly wrong.
Robs with a touch of aggression using that 5.7 to a deadly effect.
And Mezzie, he's done very well with that one.
Clears out long on his own in one spray.
Robs finds the bomb, but this is uncomfortable.
If he goes any further, Mezzie's pre-ame is brilliant, but Robs, he's one step ahead.
I will spot some rain.
Interesting.
Okay.
I should back off, shouldn't I?
So there's an information that that is not Robs.
somewhere else. Rain was towards B, and they've got 48 seconds to solve this together.
Omte spawn. Oh, it's uncomfortable for everyone. There's no way Zawa goes through suicide,
so he will pair up with Mezzie. Rob's my guy on cleared. Oh, he gets the head of Zawoo,
now Mezzie's the only one alive. He doesn't have the help for this. He does not have the
help to really participate. Rob's an impactful quad killback. Sure, no second round conversion,
But how about a third?
All the Ruse, Mountain Corner Smoke, nobody playing ahead of us today. They will not have the information
Apex testing Karrigan
No flash, just dry. Lins the Joule, Broke he overwhelmed, caught off guard by that contact play. Good chance for Rain to double up here
He has done damage, but there's pressure from every angle
He's done so much damage, Si with Apex and Mezzie even catching frozen CT. There's nothing here for robs
well that was hard for but vitality they will prevail
they kind of played phase exactly as they wanted vitality they went out long
they're through the crosswork
they weren't playing long I think they left an individual towards blue bin in
case there was some regress
and they've just piped themselves through shore and all the fights are
brokey missing a shot he's in so much trouble at that point with the body
swinging around the corner and now as I was going to get there to repeat a
carry through so
I was going to do that.
I used to play with Zywul.
I imagine that was from the scout rounds a little bit earlier in the piece.
And if you wanted to search for info,
you would have wanted to call your B players back over to help from middle, right?
Short and mid.
Oh, bloody hell. Crossing is a problem right now.
I play with Zywul.
He does. Yeah, that's the Zywul version.
Opening kill on opening kill, vitality.
They get him whenever they want him.
I like a bit of risk going around like this and Karagan does too.
pushing up towards the door side takes full long control so that's a gift for
the CTs that remain elsewhere. Mezzy responsible for housing this but that
will be a moment where he chooses to evacuate. We'll see if Karrigan can
catch that timing in an influential manner. Rain's leaving A though as they
crouch themselves out short so this already reads like it might be a
Vitality 4th. Nice from Karrigan catches that long holder.
Did that change your plan?
Well, the problem is they're already on the side.
Rain now having all the information.
Just because Vitality have gone so quietly,
Rain might find a kill on Apex.
Nice, double tap, double dink.
Now it's very much on, but Spinks low.
And Karaguen, oh, he had a little bit of an opportunity
but peeking around the smoke is Zai, we won the AWP.
And advantage not interested in this one.
Well, that's like a light switch, on, off, on, off.
We're opportunities for FaZe to work back into that,
but the fact that Vitality just contacts out
keep it so quiet means that rotating player of rain doesn't have the sound cues if you're telegraphed in that position
We tend to do so because there's so many threats, right?
You know, you have to worry about players taking that long-range shool, but walking out. So where do you think the confidence was to go for such a kind of?
ballsy walk
Just being diligent there making sure that broke he's not on that 50 line with the AWP
Mollied off with the flash convo flames. He has short control right now
You've played with the mid to be idea now you're playing with the short execute idea and the extremity players of frozen in character
Calling sector clear, but at any moment there could be a pop in their face as well
So I tell you have done a good job of masking this
The play was rain on the box
running
Rocks, what can you do?
Well to find one, but the round will end and yeah frozen didn't take much from sphinx's a k
Phase they're just being plagued by these cross shots
I discussed this when we've done a couple of other dust twos. I'd like to see teams trying to exploit lower dark and using the new jump up
Because it means that you can have one or two players go and lock down long
You can have one player jump up shore you can use the best spawn to go in towards lower dark
I know that the orb is quite scary right now
And long seems to be the port of cool
Boosting over the mid-spire so I'm gonna remember the phase here
And already flames makes it to rain down empty handed the flag is a girl
but not looking, Carrigan goes down as well. Only one remains. Two casualties in the opening 20 seconds.
Not a full lineup for the car, Molly, so Brokey still has vision. He's actually bravely sticking
around on car. Oh, okay. Wow, smoke spam. This Molly will get awkward. Yeah, Brokey, you're a dead
man. Oh, he tries to turn around on it. Wise to the fact that it's swing with the flash,
but still doesn't manage to find much. Frozen, spotted out now at the tip of his head.
There, Rops fires off an AWP from short. They know where you both are. Apex is actually going to pivot.
He dips towards CT. And he's going to hug you down. You're not ready for this angle, Rops.
Apex is being very cheeky. Complete jumpscare for Fosy. He's whiffed it.
He's whiffed it, but the idea was great.
Uh, Spinks has lurked on it.
But, yep. Spinks lurks in nicely.
Again, I mean, he's just become a real problem.
Four phase clan on Inferno and here into Dust2. Apex can't seem to mantle up perfectly.
Looking like they want to keep the people on B planted. Rob's bought an Org for this angle. Apex out mid.
20 seconds. They're giving FaZe a chance aren't they?
I'm not sure what the plan is. This is a bizarro world. Here comes the B util. Rob's has been waiting.
And loads with his Org frozen in combination. Look at the damage!
Spinks and Mezzie bleeding out 8 seconds, they need to get across!
Oh, erm...
It's not happening now, round over!
Round over...
How...how does that round go down like that?
Spinks...brings his AK through, wouldn't have mattered if he went down either way, 6100 in the bankie.
Here we go!
Oh!
Hmm...
Spot it!
Yeah, but there's...
Sure!
And there's a flash and a frag, Ranger sets himself up for success there!
That's what I'm talking about!
There's what Chad wanted to see!
And it's worked out wonderfully. I mean the knowledge is there that there is a CT in lowers
You don't know that Frozen's right around this corner
He picks could go down here if Frozen has a look but Sphinx is covering
Frozen timing there everything now he might have a look and he gets the bomb
Okay, the bomb has spewed out of the...
Did I get thrown in the door?
...Zaiwu and landed at doors
It's a little unfortunate
It looked like it did could fully catapulted out of him.
Oh, no shot from Mezzie, but that sure lived successes.
The more close to the down, yeah, that's crazy, what a...
More, more!
I can't believe it!
Alright, we'll have the inertia with him.
I don't think that incendiary has done anything of value.
Spinks.
Not cleared out of his angle.
If anything, it might do him a favour if he sticks around long enough.
But look at this stack.
This is Karrigan and Karrot expecting it to be a B finish.
I thought he was going to stick around, never mind.
He just takes the fight, Robbs is dead.
Yeah, the scope.
It will be a B finish now that they've taken rops out.
Maybe it was Parv's plan to bait them into this two-man B hole.
Flash, rain swings, a little confirmation of presence, yeah.
Mismanaged, that's the bomb.
Down one hell of a spray out of frozen with water coming,
spring to an insta headshot, rain off you got.
It's got a chance, that's what it was,
but Zywoo hits the shot, Karagun and Brokey.
Brokey misses the shot onto Zywoo, crossing smoke wall.
Plume to obscure the cross.
I like this smoke back from the CTs, gives them options, they can use that T smoke against
them to just pop out from either side.
Another one towards tunnels.
Alright, Karrion's gonna have to walk through that.
Yeah.
This is...
Oh.
Well, maybe it's intentional.
Yeah, precisely.
Still has angles, and they might assume they're both coming from doors.
Which it looks like they are.
Oh, the mind games!
As it's on to the 1v1!
Zywoo can have it!
No bullets!
It's broken!
Brokey! Gives them a half to work with.
Hard four comes down to a 1v1.
It's phase four, vitality eight.
Early util thrown out towards the B bomb site,
just a couple of decoys.
I'm not talking about Robson, Brokey, the actual grenade.
Spongebob, oh, that's me and you.
We're here.
It's Russian MC.
That's what I was gonna try and say.
Here they are, Rushly NMC.
Guys, put anything on the screen that you want.
We'll see if Alex will say it.
I'm like Ancomand, I am.
I'm Ron Burgundy.
Oh!
Rops.
Oh, flames.
Oh!
Spring's pushing.
This has gone far too well for FaZe done right now.
Apex!
Nice shot.
He's on his way back up.
Rops, Rain and Frozen though.
They should be fine with this.
Just a fine squawking.
Yeah, they took a while.
They took a while.
Mezzie joins the B2K gang.
I didn't think I could love him more.
The B2K is not going to work out for him here.
It's okay.
Take the rough with the smooth.
spoke to exertion yesterday so what map do you think they're gonna play and I
said they're gonna pick vertigo and they pick vertigo you nailed it so who's
AWP has been a bit of a threat in that T side peppering them through the doors if
not finding opening picks and rops he's gonna walk into sphinx whoa whoa whoa
what should have been a free kill and to give away half of his life that's the
cost to play in Counter Strike.
Deep.
Frozen to death, man.
Wow, you can see there was a very small
window of opportunity for Zaius to find that kill.
And this has gone one way fast.
Vitality's knife looks rather painless.
Hold up.
Yeah, he gets a plant here.
He's got two kills.
I say plant.
Mmm, maybe Zaius jumping USP.
Yapp, Indy!
Just like that.
Denies the plant, secures the round.
It's nine to six.
Nice attempt from Rainel.
Yeah, hugely important that he denies the plant because even with the defuse coming through this tool
So would have had 600 bucks frozen could have an ACA instead of a galil rain could have had a galil instead of maybe a
Mactana or a deagle it's rain. So
Yeah, he's gone for a deal he needs that you so I was watching him buy I was like rain
Gonna reposition pick all clear now they could use long as the staging area
They still have a smoking flashes to work with a molotov as well to clear our car short re-aggress into robson rain
Way too far, there it is.
Robbs is blind, blind and deleted, but the Deagle works wonderfully!
A third would be crazy, Apex does bring him down.
He's open, need to get the smoke up.
Yeah, oh, Zawoo did not pull the trigger there.
They get across the ramp, good damage onto Apex as well, exposed in the open, goes down.
Now surely FaZe should have a heavy advantage.
Will they even have a look in?
Zawoo's just fishing in case anyone overextends with a quick glance towards CT, but...
I feel like they are already accepting that this is the phase rounds or phase is seventh back in a way.
Ren's got five kills in the last two rounds and he's only got nine in total. So he's come to play on the T side.
Yeah, it's like edge to vitality already. Just intermittent sweeps from Zywoo trying to catch
anyone that's maneuvering back off cat. Faze do seem to be retooling for the B finish.
This is where Mezzi is going to be tested in this angle. He's sticking around.
Oh, Zywo, that's a big catch.
And now they peek in!
Good work from Robs!
He's taken down the Bianca!
Don't even smoke the doors, you can't just run in.
Yeah, the only other rifle in the mix is that AWP, and you know where it was.
They've drawn him in to B. Now they just need to be able to get in towards this A site.
Robs is going to make sure they can confirm it.
That Molly doing an awful lot of damage.
So likely Zywo gets to bring this one through.
Robs?
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
He's had to make this play.
Beautiful from Robs.
That's what you want from your lurk.
That nearly got really awkward and it's so good with flames on a USP. How is this happening?
Oh, Rob needs it, gets it, but still it's 1v1. Oh, catastrophe. It calls. Rob's can save them,
but with 15 seconds he has to do everything. He has to go away. He has to run into Apex and
Apex is sticking around. You're not going to expect this. And he catches the timing,
puts him onto 4 HP, there's no time. Six? I don't know. He has to hunt. Apex. Apex
Cowering in the corner with his HP advantage!
He finishes it with the CZ!
That's a massive vitality round!
Apex, leading by example with impact!
He was just on a roller coaster of emotions with Apex right there
because he made a merit of it, made an absolute meal of it.
5, 4, 3, 2, he knows the fight's coming in
and he steps and wins it with the CZ 75.
Let's add a sire relief then the cheer
because he knows they've done it with two saved rifles.
Bro, I love that he's stuck around in that angle.
Flames getting a full kill with a USP long push
Yeah, well that was the the nade damage that came in towards short because rain and carry were both softened up
Yeah, I did look a bit easy all in long long. Yeah, okay interesting. I was got the flash
It seems to work more often than not. It doesn't work for face plan. Oh
So much new to know wow rain was full blind full blind flames is gonna be saying the same thing
That's insane that he's pushed at the smoke like that
just giving them away and then we'll miss shoppers I would that's that's a
nice 5v4 that they'll find hold on to for as long as they can chip away at his
robbs Nate does land so what's the responsive vitalities I would can post
up top site they've just smoked mid-doors to make sure that nobody can
weasel out sees nothing they've tucked into what's peer passively I like this
from apex Freddy's gone over to what's car if they do decide to
trying to look long, late. He might go overlooked. Rain's gone all the way around the world back
towards B. You can call a flash in towards upper tunnels, but he's got support on the
way. So they've parked ropes in pit, the rest of the crew to join Rain. Now my Tardia
is starting to ask some questions. Yeah, it's about time here. They could smoke window
and doors. They have two smokes to make this possible. Oh, they found ropes. That
is a little bit problematic because they're already getting a wiggle a third
excuse me a second in the third is on the way vitality
spings the bay as he goes first actually and does significant damage
car again get awareness that there could have been a second messy two and then
done it falls into an intense 2v2 frozen gonna try and
plant broky to provide some cover looking at our windows i was
considering it put his allpines back just opting
with that CZ-75, frozen tip of the head spotted, 10 left in the mag, brokey onto Apex's only
Zywu here, he can't get it done! An important and necessary round for FaZe.
Damn, it looks like the rotation was on point for Vitality's, isn't it? And they were all
exactly where they wanted them congregated, coming out of the upper tunnels, grouped up
a cluster of three, but unable to multi-kill. So unless they get a couple of kills.
Yeah, well they certainly capable of doing that. Oh, they fumbled the boost. They
They just wanted to spot that lower push and what
Nice they're gonna try it. That's a good catch from Brokey. He's having a bit of a resurgence in the second half-styling to hit some impact hit some openers
He's even tagged up Zywoo, that's the rifle he's got to get out of there
He knows he's days are numbered and reigns close
Retreat covered clean good team play good awareness the comms are there and so this one. Yeah, they just have to put it in now
out. Mini golf. Ipex really
wanted to track at that M4 didn't he just offers himself up to rain for free?
Hey, if this is a 2-0 there's been a dialogue about the team and is this a make or break event
for them? They've been on a downward slide obviously starting off CS2 with success or
near successes time and time again making these grand finals then as the season
continued they peed it out and everyone loves a good peter out but for them it was
starting to look a little bit worrying and then you come into this half of 2024 and
oh it's okay what's going on with phase the players aren't clicking they're
approached the game is there internal problems what's going on why isn't it
working with this frozen addition as good as it was with twists I imagine when
you get so close to lifting a trophy and then just kind of repeatedly miss out
I'm sure you you know a little bit of apathy sleep slips in there was them
getting gasped as well we you know because you're so close that means
you're playing the most amount of maps in the tournament because you got a
distance into all these grand finals and then yeah the apathy of not picking up the victory so
so close just so far and then the problem was more when we came out of the break we said okay
they've had a break thanks flamie you have no utility now good luck you do have an orb
in the hands of your superstar can it be the difference maker
let's find out together the car again goes down to sphinx's aggression the trade is coming
nice from rain but there's still presence flamie doesn't commit to it worried about what
What might have lingered top mid?
Broke he out and covered.
It's a wise choice from Flames. He just accepts the equalizing frag.
Well, at least I thought they would. They're actually flooding both individuals back.
So they feel confident that it won't be long.
Zywoo, you have a lot on your plate.
He really does.
Using the angle for the cross.
Flames takes the first contact, does remove rain, and then the orb can contribute.
Two down.
A dink as well. Zywoo's hit in every shot he takes, and with their powers combined,
Flames and Zywoo, defend the A site in a crunch moment.
Just two rounds ago, we were having a conversation with Vitality's loss bonus about them not being able to afford an AWP.
Sorry, smokes for Spinks and Flames here and Zywoo with some nades as well,
and I think that's really key because if FaZe just do an NAVI,
which classically just sit here, chill for a while and then eventually go for this A play,
they have a lot of U-Tool to slow it down or blow open these smoke walls.
So Rain thrown the door smoke for them.
Oh Zywoo!
Hit it with the HE!
Clears it, hits it, spins will activate and it's already a 5 vs 3.
Well now you know where it is and the Apex stars all those NAVES to work with.
Yep, now they're just throwing a nice defensive smoke, a good angle from Flames, he finds it,
they're broky crossing, but Karagon on 1 HP as well, this has gone horribly wrong,
finds the whole team in CT, still lingering where they started.
And yeah, nothing here for Rain, fires off a warning, shot lets him know where he is
and so helpless, hopeless, one would assume.
Nothing left in the bank balance
1900 next round rain probably wanting to save this
So he's being allowed to hard works been done by Vitality. Yeah for real 12 secured. They want to secure the Lancest today
Secure messy his first trip to the Lancest arena the only player
Who is yet to experience and taste what the Lancest has to offer?
Top 8 at IEM Calode is an achievement in itself for every player
Not there yet. Just didn't wasn't necessarily correct
Well, I love that subtle from Vitality in the last, and that might be enough to tip them
over the line.
Oh, it's a bit of a team flash right there.
Gets away unscathed, it's all good.
And I will look at it the same again, clearing the smoke.
How good is he?
It's not this time.
Robbs, that's the punish to the clear.
You can't be looking up and down at the same time.
So a nice start to the phase trying to find these two on the run.
Testing rain.
Ooh, dips away.
Well, that's info there's probably 2B.
This is the kill.
It takes down Apex, going looking short.
Rops already in CT, so their rotations are completely nullified.
There is nothing for them to do.
They can't really contest this.
The bomb will be slowly escorted in.
They're concerned, understandably, that there are still bodies fighting from long side,
but little do they know.
It's just flames deep towards the bedroom area.
Alright, well, they got one more chance of getting this done in regulation, don't
they?
Well, that would have been nice to take away, made it difficult for Flames to drop.
It's all perp.
It's been a nice back and forth map.
Well, it's definitely.
I mean, it was an 8-4 half.
The fact that FaZe are matching that output.
See if they can match it perfectly and force overtime.
Nice information.
As you carry it, it will be really comfortable walking through.
Doesn't even have to worry about it.
Okay, high pressure moments, though.
moments though this is where phases experience can show.
Vitality, Chocoblock, full of the same spings caught on the cross, patience from the Brokey
AWP.
Okay, you've got your opener.
He's got a nice little pocket, he can work with it.
Hell again versus Apex, neither of which.
Finds lethality.
Messi under scrutiny, has flames alongside, can establish a crossfire, time continues
to tick, 28 as this crunch comes in on to B.
Messi needs that first blood, he's done well with that.
One and a half ranked vulnerable Karagan.
Messi, playing for Vy'Gard, another one!
Rops finally brings him down, but it will be a 2-on-2,
and it's uncomfortable.
Bokey, they know where you are, he's just hiding in the smoke,
he's the bomb goes down, running at Apex, he overspent his hand,
and now Zai was getting shipped away as well,
Faze secure the overtime!
Oh, I thought the fact they couldn't get that trade on Flamesy cleanly
could have been the undoing there for Faze.
They had the bodies, the call was nice, Flamzy had been rotated over early and he got to live for way too long.
Look at this, look at this.
That's interesting, he's just walking down.
Yeah, but Spinks is so ready for it.
Yes, he is, perfect.
Opening kill for Spinks, so turning the table from the previous.
He's stuck towards CT side.
So if they walk out mid, they can deal with this.
Yeah, Karrion wants to play head to make sure Spinks doesn't get over to B to help out Mezzy.
Look at this pressure.
Look at the call, the conviction from the captain.
the captain.
Mezzie's alone.
With Spinks CT, it's just all on the Brit.
Hanging out at the back of the site.
Pushing the smoke with Spinks.
Carrick had prepared for it.
Frozen Aid, well destined for glory.
Chips away at Apex.
Mezzie activates.
Tracking.
Good work, good headshots.
As he got more in him, he does.
A double kill.
Broke him with the orb, trying to hunt him down.
Mezzie, playing a dangerous game,
re-peaking in.
Broke, he catches a quick one on society with Mezzie,
however stands his ground.
And the site is safe.
One man against a whole team and he's still alive.
Three kills to his name.
That's what you want out of your Bianca.
It's a quad kill for Mezzi.
Takes the AWP as well, takes his reward.
First round of OT starts with a Spinks opener
and a Mezzi closer.
Carragane, wow.
Jumping around that corner with a Molotov in his hand
and exposed on the clear.
Yeah, okay, maybe trying to do a little bit too much.
In the last round it was great.
Now you just look at his scoreline
Well he's only got nine and he's giving up an opening death and here they keep coming.
Spinks flash for a beautiful one bow combo. 3v5.
Sweet turn to your stars.
With roms down it's Rain frozen and Brokey.
Good turn to flash but wow Brokey. Long range support, catches flames going swing in.
It's a double kill from Brokey. How has that happened?
How has this five on three, this two man advantage been squandered so quickly?
And there could be more! Who is that? It's Apex the Brave Bastard! Double kill!
Just takes the fight! He knows the whole team step. He just wants to barefeel us the brawl, and he does so much with it!
14 on the board! Apex, respect!
Takes the fight to Brokey, M4 v AWP.
I can't quite believe that, considering the two kills that we're just giving back over in the blink of an eye.
And Apex goes, well, if you guys are doing it, I guess I'm going to as well.
This is how it's meant to be done boys impact round from the in-game leader on the other side of the server face
Okay, smoke from rain that's destined for CT. They've Scott three to division of defense
I wonder if apex calls them into a bee push with how quiet it is. They just want another flash and fine now the criss-cross
Cargain out long
Smoking mirrors on car three kill. That's the first car again. Open kill of the game
We can't find the second just tap it away at flames. Just
Wiggling around WAB. Oh, hello. It's all good from Flames for the double.
Robbs finally sits him on his ass for 30 seconds. They can get that bomb towards the site. Apex...
He's actually going to try and swing into that angle. He's exposed if Robbs clears it.
He might.
Safe flat.
Safeish.
Oh, Robbs managing his angles. He will surely have a glimpse at Mezzie here.
Yep.
Ooh, Clemine headshot. Clinical. From the Estonian.
Sphinx coming in from short though. That's why Apex is waiting for.
Nice shot onto Robbs, finishes him off. It's up to Brokey. Can he redeem himself here?
Can he give face something to work with into the second half of OT?
Sphinx and Apex goes for the Hail Mary. The No Scope does not connect.
He's good on the Tech 9 though, but Apex just whittling away. 12 HP.
Brokey goes down and it's spotless from Vitality's CT side.
Damn, uh, loved it.
Really nice little set of rounds that Vitality have been able to scoop up, proactive across the map.
What's the plan? You've got three attempts here.
For secure map three.
It's already a bridge smoke. This is premeditated coal. The bridge smoke is already down towards A.
Yeah, let me, there's a...fake or is it a commitment?
Keeping them moving by the looks of things.
They want to go mid.
Oh, missed a smoke.
Frozen, frozen, gonna get swung on.
Yeah, oh, jump scare! Just as easy as that! What is this call?
Oh, vitality!
Bulldoze the composition!
Completely broken!
Karagan left alone, Zaiw could finish him off with anything.
Karagan running and gutted, and we are off to Anubis!
Creamed, meditated, indeed.
That was just a straight page out of the strap book
to secure the first round of your T-side in overtime.
Hi guys, Mezzi here.
Make sure to sub to ESLCS.
Keep right on.
Phase Clan, how do you want to kick things off? You've had success in the pistols, but go back to Inferno, not so much in the follow-ups.
They have had a few tough times against the lower buys of Vitality throughout this series, the desk highlighting that clutch from Apex with the CZ-75 and CT spawn.
Yeah, that was nuts.
Okay, well, a quiet start for Phase. There is a...
Splash!
Flash is caragant. He loves these.
Or P2-50.
Yeah, no care if he's facilitates frozen with his utils towards a
Actually, excuse me towards B. Yeah, so they likely selling a fake towards B and just posturing outside of a for the aggression
So if there is an a push off of the back of this, they can still pivot speaking a push
They want them to push into them. It's all stacked. Yeah, well, there's a lot of bodies and they all fall to rain
What a lovely strap
Carragans spotted mid then the util and B you have to push a main for answers and you lose three bodies
the bomb ready it helps when rain gets all three clean i mean i'm sure
that's a fantastic start for phasers t-side campaign yeah good to see him on point there was
was it here or was it a blast but there was a certain point he wasn't wearing his glasses
there was a round or a two or a game or two at blast i saw no glasses what's going on there
i wasn't sure either maybe they were at the repairman the glasses repairman of someone
I believe that's the terminology yeah, I said it was such confidence because I was sure to you don't wear glasses
I don't know do I?
Not yet. Yeah, hang on
All right, piss around the face
Maisie and a sphinx are gonna hold on to some kevlar so let's see do they both go for the famuses behind this they could go
Famous keep the kev
Right now they can just play passively so sitting back allowing vitality to make the opening moves
Oh, he's ready to receive removes robbs traded by rain
so full a main control lost looks like they're turning their attention towards
grouping up and it looks like they might have a little luck towards canal they do
swing through spings gets away with his life info to towards the composition
frozen on that probably the most hard work least glamorous of the T side
rolls that's glamorous from Spinks makes great use of that Famas no problem can
they recover this it's up to frozen and broke he broke he low bodies are here
apex hits the shot necessary broke he down to that's a big one back from
Vitality, Hoover up some AKs, two of which they find in time.
They've opened up with a smoke towards Darker Deep, one M1 towards AMN, so trying to apply
pressure across the map as they set up this B execute, but there's three players for Vitality
to defend.
As he braves to hold this headshot angle, he'll be flashed off, slow comes in, they're
swarming B.
The third man is here in Apex, Carrigan, yeah tried his luck, didn't clear IV,
As he gets a freebie and it looks like they've done enough, this forced buy from FaZe has fallen flat.
Frozen.
Gets away from the initial spray, Spinks will finish it.
Wow. For Vitality, best possible outcome, FaZe, worst.
So, Smoked off on Con and Lurksmoke, be main.
Robbs chunked with a rugfnade.
Karagin dropping in.
He's pressuring Con, he's ahead of the smoke and yeah, Spinks is in trouble, exposed!
Tryna put that smoke into Conn and it's already costing his life.
Could it cost him the sight? I think it will.
Frozen finds one with the flames. It's the rotation coming through and doesn't get a chance.
Apex, deleted by Broke with a headshot.
Bombs still has to get across. I was playing from cave. Bombs was tossed.
And flash for good measure. Digits punched.
And you'd assume the round's secure.
It didn't really look like they wanted to send Karagan through middle, but you could see him navigating by looking at the radar.
And they threw a lot of nades towards me. There was the flashes, there was the molly doors, you saw Broke there lining up a deep temple smoke.
So they kept mid busy, knowing that the rotating player of Apex would be focused, dropped Karagan out and split B perfectly.
Yeah, it was really uncomfortable, you know, from Spinks POV.
Oh my god, he's on it!
He's on it!
He's coming by Flames!
I will nearly get away with murder!
Fair play!
Try to make the best out of the situation.
They had cash to splash, giving it a good go.
It took him a second to find the bomb, but...
Ooh, with Flames as covered, there's a universe where that goes through.
I saw him hanging around.
I didn't think there was any chance that we're going to give that one a crack.
The radius on Anubis as well is so gentle.
However you prefer.
Tornade backed. Not bad either.
Rain takes even more damage than Flames he did.
Okay, well definitely a strong util game so far from both squads.
Bombs committed to A and there's three players with Apex on a fast rotation.
Heaven's note lined up.
Can also Molly back side.
Yeah, well with force I will enter the open if they can Molly K.
They do. They do. Nice extinguish keeps him around and he delivers the frag.
Teamplay from Vitality. Setting side will work for success. Flames can be a real
thorn in his opponent's side. But with the absence of Xyla and Flames down to just
2 HP it is problematic now. 30 seconds. Bomb needs to be going down. They
re-smoke Heaven. Robs goes searching. Cam of vulnerability. Frozen holding that
rotate. Nice find onto Flames. Mezzy's poor low. Brought down though. In mid,
Spinks knows that he only has to focus on the side, but still, two on one.
Smoke stairs, as his option starts to spam.
Rops not gonna work over commit here, broke you on an elevated angle,
using those steps to try and isolate the duel, and Spinks is the one to hit it.
Gave him a chance.
He did, and Spinks will take that.
Spotted on the cross.
Good awareness from Rops.
That's his first three frags, and it's round defining.
Huge work underway from Rops.
Mid smoke, that might saw them out.
Do you keep pushing or do you think that that has some potency behind it?
Looks like they're just gonna go back to more of a default 2-1-2.
This is a B retake setup right now. The position of Mezzie is telling.
Blocked at a very good time.
They go all the same. Placement of his neutral here.
And a decent spank.
Bam. Damage.
They're committing through that smoke.
Carragan low HP.
Might try and make a play caught by Spink.
Good one from him.
That's a massive double.
Catches rain departing con now the flank from apex comes in and connects zaiwu even finishing off frozen
And it all falls to brokeie. He gets overrun
To from zaiwu credit to mezi for delaying that
Because he did continue to push mid after that B pressure came in neo on the mic immediately calls the tactical time out of first phase
Spinks man. What a frag
Finding the second really changed the state of affairs
Barring I know the stats don't say about it. You feel like we're seeing
Well, it's when you compare it to the A1. It doesn't really stack up because that's normally a financial decision.
I'm sure they can't make anything off of it early. Apex is scared of mid. He's heading through beach to A. Concedes mid completely. Let's magically know that it's a vulnerability.
Looks like a good rotation though, doesn't it?
Yeah, it seems like he's ahead of the play.
Well, they're ahead of all of this. Look how close they are. They're here so quick, Alex. They're not ready for this.
What is it?
I know who it is.
An Apex is there, but surprised by Frozen's trade.
They know that Flamesy has to be around.
Mez is so fast on this too.
Yeah, I don't know.
Mez is fluid.
Maybe he's going to catch him off guard.
Like, Frozen, are you anticipating someone to be...
Yeah, I don't think he is.
This is going to shock him.
This is a fr...
Ooh!
Nice catch!
Takes down Frozen.
Brokey Heaven with a lot to do.
Robs through mains mode.
Brokey...
Ooh!
He's getting stressed.
Flames forces him to look at him with the defuse.
Now, Robs is in the clutch, but they're just sitting at defuse.
Couple of seconds, it's Vitality 5.
Impressive round.
I think I just go on with the keep it simple stupid method.
Faze looking to attack A once more.
But then, of course, Zywoo.
And he is posted, so they have to do this perfectly.
By the book, flashes in, Zywoo's still not blind.
Playing a real tight gap here.
The Molotov will force a decision out of him,
and he just respects it, gets out,
Tuck's the cave, Rob's playing ahead of the Utah, a re-peak attempt from Zywoo costs him his life
He actually ate the flash there and down they go. Rain again. It's ya! Rain impact, double kill from him
Karagin catches rotations, Apex unable to do anything
Just as he talks about his impact chat, he finds a boneload more of it
Trying to find the best way to approach this in a two-on-four worried about a midler, nothing home
We have two speaks, gotta give this one a go, mate
second flashy guy attempt and we have six six so dead even on the half
well they work it out for those three swap sides vitality taking to these T side
in pursuit of the lengths this arena has put us in position where we're talking
about a favored vitality finish they're on the T side what do they go for to
start with a bang pick up that pistol put them on the right foot it's rain
again I mean that was the other side of the coin rain has been doing
everything he can, the Jorberetta has kept humble in Siewil with the dark testing.
Flashing in for Robs, trying to set him up for success, but now they know where he is,
Karagin hits a necessary headshot, but it's Robs, good for Flames.
Puts it onto Spinks.
Bomb last on Fountain, this is a dream for FaZe.
Start their CT side with a bit of momentum, bind the pistol.
That hasn't been an issue, finding the pistol, but converting.
The conversation will have when we get there.
Okay, Vlaar. 63 points of health and a flash.
They know they have to bomb.
Then down he goes.
Another one for Rain. Okay, well that's five out of the six pistols within the series.
They've just blocked out towards AimAim once more,
and they might try and aggress somewhere else on the map while doing so.
They've completely foregone the site, just hoping that the smoke wall does its job.
And that's why we're so focused on these mid and B plays,
because that's most likely where the first action comes in.
So about 10 seconds vitality have to wait before the main smoke clears.
So Mezzie's just staring at that grey screen and now Xayah with the same, so being blocked across, B main push, Spinks will hear this.
Second flash is grey, but they're not able to capitalize on it.
Oh, he still gets grey and jiggling. Ah, that's a very important trade back. Frozen takes it.
It's just Karrigan over to World Day with an MP9.
And that could very well be the beginning of Fatality's first round.
Where does Mezzie use this molly? Ah, perfect.
I'm curious over to what's be the second flash looked really good on the Sphinx's position, but nobody pushed forward to clear out pizza
Now we mentioned Rops having a good series so far. This would be his moment to stand up with a bit of a statement, multi-kill required.
Freddy's his aim.
Nate to Bane.
Safe from fountain, and there's the jump surprise. It's only one.
As he gets for it, Mezzie, double arm.
Garagat, are you next?
On the naughty left, he overlocks the position, but a knee jerk trade.
Straight from Zywoo, and the site is lost.
lost. They need to be going one for one in that situation because if Kargan comes in and then it's a 2v2 it seems like a possible
retake but Rain and Frozen know that trying to get back in towards that bomb site even with a number advantage of the best of times can be very difficult.
Sure they have an incendiary, a HE and a kit to work with but it's just too tall of a task and too much to risk at this point of the game.
Something to fear. Don't give them any inch, any mile. This is a great timing for ops. They're gonna hard clear it though Alex.
They wall 100% hard clear this.
Wow, it wasn't a hard.
It was a clear.
They did clear it.
Yeah.
So, they 99% will hard clear it.
It will turn it to a boost from the statue boost.
The problem I have with this is they don't have a smoke.
And if you're vitality with all these nades,
surely you're Molly here, right?
Yeah, Spinks is the one with the Molotov.
Right, Spinks?
Oh, that's a good shout-out.
Hang on. There's the Molly.
There she is.
Well, goodnight, sweet princess.
He's still got that angle.
And he's still got a chance to find impact.
Rain does find two.
Now with Frozen's help, and they're actually doing it.
Triple kill on the right for Frozen!
Closes!
That's massive buffets.
What a gift!
Rain continues to deliver.
They missed the Molly.
Yeah, he's still had space on Glyph.
I can't quite believe that.
Look at this, look at the gap there and all the damage that he does, they did use the molly just not deep enough, they even knaded with it.
There's a second nade that came into play and Reign continues to have massive impact against team Vitality in a game for the arena.
Oh, the juxtaposition between the two, fury on one side, jubilation on the other.
Tec9's Chad is aggressive they're counting on Siwoo they put an AK in his hands and they said please go kill
But he finds nothing on Khan spinks an early death an early departure
starting
They had the opening kill in that round
That was a 4v5 and then the execute should have been bang on they flubbed it
They threw that smoke to shallow into the molly, so it didn't even go left side side correctly
He's got all the time in the world to find Rob's there perfect flashbang from Apex.
I'm sure he's getting plenty of the effective flashes.
Caragin, what have you got here?
Yeah, wise, wise.
I was holding that angle for the cross.
Flash!
Oh my God!
Again with these flashbangs.
3 on 3.
Caragin activates!
Good find!
Catches flame!
Focusing now on Mezzie!
Yeah!
Had to be headshots with the limited bullets.
One plant, two on two. Rain and Frozen though, they did it once. Can they save them again?
So much at stake, what have you got Rain? Mezzy hunting him. And Mezzy delivers for vitality.
An important kill again on the A side. He's having a T side is Mezzy. Frozen rocking up.
From Main, Apex will aware of that possibility. The HE will soften him up. He's in. Anticipating.
Oh, they're so low.
They are so low, but so is the time.
He has to go.
Now or never.
Tries the transfer.
Needs to get on that bomb.
It's not perfectly planted.
Time sensitive.
Meggy swings.
What's the time?
You're a little too shy.
Fight, Tally.
Fight back.
When Frozen just survives, they're
to hold on to that AK, giving them at least something
to carry through.
Oh, they don't know.
It's not a worry.
This is going to be an execute towards V once more this smoke. Here's that Mac 10
Rain well aware that there's potential for sphinx to be occupying that far right angle
Frozen and broke you both just kind of ready to deliver if you get the fight there it is sphinx gets one, but shut down
They're rotating
They're silently walking towards middle magnetizing towards mid with a little bit of a on top messy and ziwu heading towards the Robbs
completely flashed he's got to get one here
oh hard to track doesn't do well without
mezzie does great and carrigan the next
victim apex catches them off on the
rotate rain however perpetual threat
what's he got no bullet hands towards
his ribcage brokey big actually
catching cyber rain down but it's all
up to brokey could do this
mezzie's overlooked this potential
crouch walk and now we're talking now
we're cooking brokey this could be
huge can he secure it for FaZe on planted flames versus Brokey Xtas not gonna
blink saved by flames rain's not gonna be anywhere near that this is B look how
direct this is the radar tells the entire picture of this round it's died
3a yeah well he's been an issue because look at robs he's been getting
exploited you know it's a great call from apex all he wants it in pursuit
Okay, just one round away! Rain, empty handed! That surely sealed the deal! 12, imminent!
They have to save Chad. And that's if Apex, yeah, allows it.
Fantastic call, and Reid.
Just straight into it, direct again from Vitality. We had some similar scenes going down on Dust2.
Surely that tickles your IGL brain. You see that they've conditioned A, they know the anchor's struggling.
You know that Karrigan's aware that it's a vulnerability. You just lost a 1v1 on A, you've lost multiple rounds on A.
rounds on A, and so you call it a wrecked approach towards the under guarded side.
Down to Karagin, just walking through the smoke.
Crazy start to this round.
He's more worried about canals.
He has to be aware that he's keeping B open.
He has to be aware that he's exposed to Jail.
Bounce spotted, bounce spotted.
Oh, Brokey.
Brokey!
Oh, he's not gone down!
Flames whiffs it!
Brokey allowed!
No, he's not!
On the crossbar, goes down!
Flames vulnerable, brought to 50.
They're both coming in from conside.
Spinks.
Punching in the code.
Tagged down.
that M4 one-shot headshot looks more likely now but not if Flames hits everything. It's up to
Robs, a tough map, two good maps but can he redeem himself here? A one-on-one to extend play.
Up against Spinks, how's the kid?
Battle of Wits and Spinks has managed to get himself all the way down, tucked into cave.
It's not planned for him.
That's a ballsy call. Robs won't understand that it...
Hello! He's just brought the fight to him! Disbelief!
And there's vitality! They have secured the Langsess Arena! The Golden Horners will be happy!
Cologne is one of those events that kind of transcends counter-striking away.
It's one of the titles that everyone wants to win. This is really where your metal gets tested.
It's tough.
Lines says it's a very special arena.
Everyone wants to be there, everyone wants to feel the atmosphere.
As matter how much of a new team you are, what was clear.
Leo, Susan, Minimo, and I can't wait to get on the stage just enjoying being there.
I'm getting very excited.
All of my teammates, the coaches, especially typing us out to play at the arena.
We just need to show up and there's no excuses not to do so.
Lifting a trophy like this or just looking at it,
you go back through all the memories and the historical moments that it had.
It makes it a very special one.
It's my first time playing in a big stage and this is what I've worked for.
It's a great team and we want to face them.
The will we have to play the game and to win, we can be the underdogs and upset of it.
I picture myself lifting the trophy.
We showed up and I think that's the thing I want to take with us.
If we just believe we can do everything we want, I know we can.
I believe we can.
I want to do everything to the Grand Nensics Arena, so we can do it again.
This is actually what we love the most, is what we fight the most for.
This is the most prestigious tournament, right?
We're winning, my confidence rises, and I think I'll lift the whole team as much as I can in the ring.
I feel like our side of the bracket is stronger. We have us, G2, Maus.
I feel like Maus has been slacking lately a little bit.
Us and G2 are one of the best teams in the world right now. G2 finally has a chance to beat us.
We just gave our best in terms of preparation and other things because we know our biggest tournament is in...
We also want to write our name into the history.
Being around the trophy is so big, it's so unique.
It's just one of those trophies where
gifting it would mean so much for a player.
It's just a memorable thing that you'll never forget.
The main goal of Cologne is to win the tournament
and then lifting the trophy.
This is one of the OG Counter-Strike events.
This is the big one.
And so that pressure mixed with a huge arena presence,
there's always a big footfall out in Cologne.
The pressure is very much on.
You have to earn your spot in the license
and then you have to go one step further and earn the right to lift the trophy.
I think there is a tremendous amount of prestige when it comes to Kalo.
We'll lose this, you'll be facing G2,
who are looking like marauders from that lower bracket in the quarterfinal.
OK, well that's something to keep our eyes on.
We'll continue that discussion once this pistol concludes.
Shall we responsible for this cat take?
And he is actually going to be casting early looks.
Or long aggression.
Yes, I was there to check it and actually spots too.
So there's some info.
No casualties either way.
They can't barrel through middle because Shui exerts an engineer all here.
Yeah, in which case, they are just kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place,
and that is the hard place hitting.
Shui takes out Spinks and the P250 on XI will well utilize.
Brolin deleted, starting to trundle up long, the full format and assault.
Keep your eyes on this Jimmy Flash, how do they utilize it?
They're just going to creep up the smoke, not in the air.
Tozhi casting a couple of...
Lots of info.
Yeah, knows they're committing smoke on the cross turns the flash Jimmy throws out his to was the ramp just to delay
Allow towards you to tuck in
They do have sherry on Gandalf, but safe plant flames punching in the code
Covered by Mezzie
To from short side Jimmy lay elevator
We could be killed by mezzie won't be doing that now because she was a banger two kills from the captain
Zywoo, can he continue to rack him up because he's all alone now up against three?
It's not the best plan.
No, it is a good weapon for this fight, but already a couple of missed shots.
Well, surely he's going to punish, he's hitting them.
What remains can Zywoo really start with another ace on the pistol as Torgie's off the bomb.
Torgie's running at him.
Looking to pick up the dual barrettes.
Looking to run him down.
Zywoo has somehow pulled it on five.
Yes, indeed, an ace on the pistol.
This is becoming a trend.
And no longer the secret weapon, right?
Zywoo doing this on pistol rounds.
We know he's proficient on them,
but pulling out two aces on pistol rounds is something special.
And it starts with a shooey opener.
They get across long, and I said focus on that Jimmy Flash.
He just used it to dissuade him, thinking, looking at the plant.
It's not great. They don't need to be fighting him so wide.
They give him the opportunity, and Zywoo will cinch it up.
That is Vitality snatching away the pistol from Mouse.
Oh yeah, Mal, I was definitely going to feel that was theirs.
They're around to lose.
Fast B, hang on, we're too low. This gets awkward for Vitality, a Jimmy does something, he's done nothing, he's got a damage onto Spinks, and a missed scout shot, Zershin fast on this flank.
Y'all, he's second-guessed it. He looked away for a moment, and Zyne gets to double instead.
Couple of missed opportunities.
Brolin and Torgy, yeah, you're not gonna be doing much with this one.
Well, this house of cards has come tumbling down quite quickly, so we'll see if Brolin can stay alive towards lower tunnels.
Spinks is the one locking him in, lower HP as I were going around the world, also low.
That's when these two teams face last on the desk highlighting as Brolin goes down. It was during the ESL Pro League season 19 finals
The best of five. That's when overpass was still in the map pool. Thus to wasn't coming into this today
Mows are a hundred percent on dust to but they haven't really played it an awful lot
I remember seeing them having to pick it up for the first couple of times
They went straight from Pro League into bet boom and then I think that boom the team
Trying to pick it against them immediately, which they hadn't practiced. They still want it
Okay, but this is vitality's choice and we've seen them have some real wars on this map
Friends the series with face
but
Despite the win record for mouse
Apex and co wanting to try something a little bit different from how things went in that best of five because I will remind you in that
Best of five series vitality had two of their three maps in the first three right out of so they picked inferno lost it
And they pick new that was the third map lost that as well
So yeah, different formula for today's bout.
Alright, Grecious of Upcast, they're talking about the carry potential of these Orps on either side.
Well, it's just talking with the Scout, warded off immediately.
And while we do have this lull, or potential lull,
make sure you whack twitch.tv.eslcs on your secondary monitor, phone, iPad.
I know it's on mine.
Very important to be watching that game.
FaZe Clan vs Liquid are rematch from the earlier stages of Stage 2.
Here at IEM Cologne and that one will book the last ticket for the Lancess.
Creeks out middle, it's the stack exertion with one more body spotted but the mop and bucket can follow.
Just three more to find. Exertion's already low, segregated from the player's shoey.
Well, no, he's got any more across the smoke.
Oh, he wraps up a couple of tiny headshots. Easy round, no dramas, and just toys you with
the aforementioned scout. Good clean rounds from Vitality that clutch from Zywoo and then
the conversion. So, great work. And no real dramas.
Pressing tab now for Maus as they prepare. They're just going to be looking at an 8-0
Zywoo. You're only three rounds in. I mean, that ace probably still has some echoes
as well.
It's really okay if he holds on to the scout. I think you don't want to give him an AK, it's not gonna matter as you'll take it away
And there you go, 3-0
AWP will be available for Torji
So we'll have to set our sights on this CT setup for Maus
Brolin will be anchoring long. We'll see if he gets testified in the spawns early.
Tried to make it interesting collapsing down on middle as a unit
Now this is where the game begins. Maus probably regretting the way that they played that pistol against Iowu
See if they can get on the board
None of the rifles have been equipped
doesn't look like they will be pumping themselves in towards long in the fast
fashion. Spinks towards tunnels, as he flames he joined by Apex and Zywoo the
tail of this. Remember when we covered off Zywoo against Faze he was getting a
load of tags and picks through the doors with the AWP. You had to equip it
but we'll see once it comes out how annoying it can be. He was like
posturing to flash someone through doors but actually seems like the
conversation has changed. Flash and go, take short, that smoke still lingers
now the layering, just as one fades and another it blooms. Now that flash is thrown, Apex tries
to clear closed doors so that's a nice bit of information, Flames gets that safely. Pressure
all over the map at the same time, okay Flames down, that's big, but strafing into him is
messy. Good trade, down goes the wound, it's Torgie's AWP and as the desk discussed
he is an influential factor. In all of Malzah's games so far and Torgie's hitting
that is a threat to vitality and a threat to vitalities fourth round.
Swings can win this. Still plenty of time in the clock. 50 seconds.
Bomber on Cat knows the orbs towards A.
Zashan's going to be tending to the potential.
Sweeps through looking at doors and heading CT.
So he will be closer to assist if the bomb goes A.
Yeah, and a bit of a risk for him to cross.
The fact that he didn't get caught on the timing helps them piece this puzzle together.
Torgie's position is going to be really difficult to rumble.
Should be good for this.
Yeah, unless Spinks hits an absolute cracker.
Oh, he just quick changed.
Oh, no.
Torchy loses his head.
A quick reaction and adaptation from Spinks.
Zershin does not choose to jump.
Keeps in care, singing that could be enough.
Oh, Spinks caught out again, but still Zershin does not.
Ah!
Spinks instead a clutch.
With four rounds in and already two clutches for vitality.
And the superstar, Zoe, won the pistol.
Now Spinks in a one on two.
And look, he wasn't expecting Zershin.
And you can understand why the fact that they were played that close together exertion braving the cross.
Both of those fights he took, he was caught off initially.
I'm pretty sure Torgy had just quick changed as well. It looked like he was set and ready for that, but Apex letting him know beautiful stuff of vitality.
And this is what you need to go your way.
And we'd mention what happens if you lose, what you win.
On that side of the bracket will be the winner of FaZe Slash Liquid, which will be the third place from this group.
And saw
Okay, so I played some good counter-strike, but I will say one side of the bracket would look a whole lot
beefier than the other
Hmm, I can imagine let's just we live in a world either either way on John Lennon
But let's say that mouse lose. Yeah, right? You're gonna have Jesus mouse and that winter plays RV
Yeah stacked
Brolin, 5-7, not this time.
Oh, Mezzie, he's done some good jobs on this east side so far.
Even though that rounds, it came to a Spinks 1-2 clutch, you saw what Vitality did, right?
They dropped the crossover smoke without having anybody long.
That segregates your A-rotator rifler, and the AWP from car won't be able to deal with the B.
That's where Spinks went out mid, and once they, or maybe it was Flames you went out mid,
regardless, somebody went out mid.
But then Mezzie drops down from spawn using that to segregate that rifler and get that peek,
and then even coming through it towards the A-Round for another fight.
So he's trying some things outside of the box and Messi's going to grab another one.
100-0, Shui, I understand what he's going for there, trying to delay the peek,
hoped to be overlooked, maybe flashed, but didn't quite work out for them.
So now it's just going to be Zersh's dig and just the one bullet connecting onto Spinks,
Vitality taking this one by force.
Apex still lingering top mid, so he should be set to collect it onto Jimmy, actually, two bullets.
Into apex one shy of converting and now apex is going to drive by onto torsion get away
Puts that scow down to 63 and it's just an impending death here for torsion except his fate
Will messy leave with three?
No, he won't torsion good for it with the USP
Don't climb down on him. Yeah, they're like give him a chance to get away
Thanks to remove him so five on the trot a fantastic work. The clutches are gonna help
They're definitely gonna help. You're not gonna turn those down if you're vitality.
See what there, this is a great entrance that knows the shadow, comes out with a
crouch peek. Brolin getting deleted as he has a long spawn here. So just gonna
throw out the corner smoke that's gonna keep Brolin and Shui on their toes. The
two of them are gonna have to expend a bit of Utah. As you're starting the A to
P over towards middle and exertion jumping up Catwalk, Jimmy got Anka B.
Yeah we might get an AWP to head here. Maybe not anymore as I would just
I'm just looking at Mezzy's POV, he's a save for everything.
Yeah, he's a considerate aggressive boost, that would be mad.
The walk of the smoke and boost over that would be curious.
Well, prepared for any problems.
Going through their paces are vitality.
Smoke towards mid-doors, Molly towards Cat.
Flames taking space, has Apex just behind him.
And they've re-jigged the CT setup now.
So, Brolin anchoring long.
Torgy has rotated the AWP over towards A in case they execute.
Well, they're just going to take it while that extinguish makes you feel very threatened if you're on a there's real intent that they want to put this pressure on short
it keeps you a
Tevred closely to toji and exertion now needs to float back across this mid-doors and bolster the b-bomb side with Jimmy
Yeah, okay clear division of labor from ours as they look to try and post their first
In incredibly close on multiple occasions, but let's see
Round six is where they do buck the trend
flash
In towards the door shui tending to it as a large smoke balloons. This is a very well constructed. This is a fake
You can see how they're just keeping the CTs guessing all over the map. Is it mid? Is it B?
Is it long as now with brawlin down it seems it will be a
Flames is right behind shui. He's ratting through this mid smoke shui. You can see he's just got too many
This is a dust too they could be incredibly proud of
of just, I mean, Mouth, a team of Mouth's caliber.
You can see they're just getting pulled apart,
misinformation, miscommunication, they're lost.
And it's a product of vitality.
They are manufacturing this obscurity,
this uncertainty through their calling,
through their presence across the map.
And it helps where Mezzie can kill long whenever he wants.
Yeah, but one of the dramas, if you're brawlin',
is the comms at this point, we don't have short,
we don't know what's enough for tunnels,
we don't even really have mid-control.
And then a low smoke comes out B as part of the comms.
The mid to B smoke lands as well.
And at that point, you have two options as the long anchor.
You can just start pushing because you think it's gonna be split
and go behind them or start dropping back
so you can group up with your teammates.
And Brolin was taking that angle.
Like he's not sitting, playing at anchor position
from pit or on the reverse side of long.
He's not fully committed to those jewels.
So he's in two minds.
He doesn't think anything's really coming his way.
They step out, they delete him
and Maus take a tactical timeout
to get Sarkar on the mic
because things are going miserably for Maus right now.
You've got one kill on Brolin,
One on exertion, two for Jimmy, three for Shui and Torji at the top, which, hey, some of those have just been on the round so he's had scouts, so they're not really impact kills. He's got six.
It's time to race.
Yeah, way more direct, and Zai Wu could have gone down. His teammates all take a lot of damage from a single HE.
Well, this could be a spark to get bounced back in it, wouldn't it? A couple of HEs remaining. Will that be used for damage or will it be used to clear some smokes?
I tell you with this long control, Mezzie is the only piece that hasn't joined the puzzle.
He's just going to cover the flank.
Apex's coming to walk up.
We saw him do this against FaZe.
Oh, would have been spotted there.
Yep.
Now, as they know what's up, they're hearing all these AKs just sounding off on long
chewies called up, but clear.
More chip damage.
Apex swallows into the HE.
They've got to be careful.
You peek too far.
You go too wide.
That AWP will pluck you, but they are walking up into them.
Jimmy and Zershin. Just these side arms. What have you got for us, Jimmy?
Mrs. First delivers! Delivers in a big way! Double kill, finally silenced,
it spins to bring him down and finds Shaw as well. Torgy.
Unable to find anything this round, should we burn him alive into Messi's cross-air?
And just Zershin here, yeah, caught out in the open, just wild to find the first, but we'll be run down.
7-0, Vitality. They've got to be feeling very, very good about the way in which this T-side is not only being structured,
but the way it's being executed and converted.
Yeah, that's one of those rounds where things could get
a Vitalubon edge even with this type of a lead.
So Diceus, they're getting blocked by certain smokes.
They cross into the side, Jimmy gets two.
But really, this is a walk in the park for Vitality.
Which I'm pretty sure they are mandated to do.
Every morning.
Every morning, go for that walk.
Old flames, a chance, and a safe exit.
He's actually, he's a kill stealer.
That's what he is.
That's insane.
They get the corner kill.
he just transfers. That's round. Well, how do you get back into this? Exertions in lower.
We can see a bit of a standoff. If he plays forward for infirmess, he's going dead to
right. When he pivots back now with Jimmy to try and clamp down on mid, the door is opening
towards B because the upper tunnel smoke is about to fade. Now, Exertion has to worry
about B. You just have to save. You just have to save. He's got zero in his bank
account. Next loss. Keep your goodies, keep your orb, keep your nades.
Well, the penny's gonna drop. Apex immediately knows that there is no resistance, which insights
to save. They didn't even know that they were on the B bomb site. It literally had no idea.
Apex gets a complete freebie. Flames make sure they can't exit towards long. Someone
has to go down towards low attack and then Jimmy's stuck towards short. If they
They take everything away. It's 8-0 and tough for Maus to justify the rebikes.
Sure that Max lost bonuses in, but the residual cash isn't there.
If they save these two drops, it's possible we can have that chat,
but they're still just under halfway left on this bomb.
Oh, they're coming for you.
How's it get paddled?
Leave them alone. Torgie's working on keeping hold of his offer here.
Come suppress her. Those mollies won't last forever.
Torgie hits his. Jimmy doesn't. Down he goes.
They know where he appears. A missed first shot.
More utility and down he goes.
Take no prisoners vitality a cruelty onto mouse
They just wanted to hold on to their guns, but it is disallowed by the vitality to you side
And this is the open as a apex get Jesus. Oh, we didn't get to see that. Oh, that's we had flames. He's PV
Okay, that looks a whole lot tidier. Oh man. That was cracking an apex even got the third kill
That's for his fifth in the compapse so far and three of them were
pretty damn important making sure there was no saves but the openness to just
crack this open and force a second tactical timeout from Cycranon well look
you can try and salvage the half shore you are gonna have to take a partial then
the guns coming out again to the next but you just want to see some fight from
your team nobody is putting up any resistance right now for miles vitality
have been bowled out by the pistol clutch and then the sphinx clutch but
as far as the calling is concerned some of these rounds have looked like
masterpieces for apex so it's really good you can lean back on the
stars when it's necessary but also the calling has been great. I mean how many
years has Apex been punching around us too as well. Starting with three towards
upper B maybe they go for a flash push but it's not something to a position for.
Team flash as well. Oh well played. Oh I think he's got more spanks. Me not
expecting another. Yeah he won. Those were two B defenders. Oh no no no no not
like that. That's the smile on his face immediately. I know we get those com rounds. I would love
to hear what's big if he says anything about that. Probably not.
Yeah, that I mean we all know how that can happen.
If you're torsion, you're kind of hoping he clears you because at least then you get
a fight where you can track the parting. It's like this mid-range. Yeah. Oops. Yeah.
Is this Vitality or G2? G2 form that we've been seeing since they got three
thrown down towards that lower bracket.
Oh, reports in from the sideline coming in thick, hot and fast.
We have a keyboard issue.
Oh, nice mullet.
Harry, I think, has probably got a competitor in the building.
I would argue, yeah, I think they're both on par.
Keyboard issue has been fixed.
Thank you, Chad. Thanks for the update.
No worries.
They're gonna, okay, yeah.
They have to take risks.
You know that's gonna happen.
You know that they're going to try something progressive on the CT side.
Shui has a good lower Darkspawn. Is he going to take it? Where's the AWP on Tor? Is he going to go?
Alright, looks like a standard setup with Exertion and Jimmy over to Orcs B.
Exertion's having a go.
Exertion's up to Orcs low up to no good.
Flames and sphinx.
Gonna be occupying up up.
Exertion let them come to him.
My question is just, is Apex going to molly lower tunnels?
Well, now actually that they've come through. Yeah, there it is. Perfect.
Absolutely bloody perfect, Alex.
And then your short player gets beheaded because you've got an aimer like Flames who can take that fight.
Told you, though. He will deliver off the way to X, the absolute type of flashes.
Oh, punished in a leg shot as well. Zyrus put Zershin down to 20.
Well, now you'd kind of want to see if Sphinx can go towards being isolated, the one on one against Jimmy.
Well, the smoke might change that conversation, or the Nade might do it.
Oh, the Nade has done it.
Wow, he finishes the job himself.
Short aggression. How ready is Zywu?
He's typically very ready for any engagement, even if it doesn't always look like it.
You can see, yeah, he's considering his options as he backs away.
And uncrouch here.
Yo! Perfect from Brolin. Perfectly executed, but now the V-Site needs to be defended and Jimmy.
He has done enough at least to remove Spinks.
Mezzi's got the bomb yet to cross. Audible steps. He'll throw it across for his teammate.
Jimmy doesn't know if he'll commit on that flashbang.
And actually, Mersi will punish him to go and look at...
Confirmation of Brawland. Look at the flame.
What a hurry here. Still punching in the code.
And a swing, a big fight taken by Brawland.
He's put impact into this, but it could all be for naught. Flames.
Oh, versus Taurgy. Now he gets to play wicked games with him here.
Swap to the off! It doesn't work out! It's still Vitality!
Oh, dear. That's three clutches in the first half of play.
Zywoo 1v3, Spinks 1v2, and now Flamesy 1v2.
Yeah, he started the round with a headshot on Tashiri as well, real scorchy,
saw her there in the replay, Nade on his face, Zershun didn't get to play.
Jimmy, yeah, he put up a fight, Mezzie here, some great shots here on Dust2.
And I'm not just saying that, he is.
He is, like, this is some good CS for Mezzie right now.
Well, Axe has an interview with somebody who wants to be more out of Mezzie on the CT side.
The T-Sides is happy with the job that he's doing, he's looking for consistency for Mezzie.
Even said, he misses some shots.
Oh.
I tell you, he's not missing shots right now.
Yeah, he looks like a robot, in the best way.
This is, um, this feels like a mismatch.
Yeah, but I'm just sitting here going, you and I are cursed.
No, but this is also, I don't care about us, Chad.
What I care about is how stompy these are.
These are two teams that have just qualified for the Lancels Arena.
And one right now is just wailing on the other.
Same with that G2, it's just like the disparity is alarming and exciting.
Yeah, and this is a T-side, going to be contributing to that skewed T-side style
and we've had it color and thus far.
Yeah, maybe it's just a T-side thing.
Yeah, maybe that's it.
Yeah, that's it.
That's why all the clutches and all the rounds.
Oh, God.
It's just the T-side.
I reckon it's the pistol.
That pistol.
It's MR12.
Yeah, oh, that's it.
It must be at my 12th, isn't it?
At my 12th, yeah.
No, the CT economy.
It's the CT economy.
Ah.
We love a 13-0.
Ah.
You...
Sorry, guys.
I'm sorry.
That's SPUNJ on Zitta.
I'm so sorry, everybody.
Yeah, man.
You were doing so well.
11 rounds in.
I apologize profusely.
It's all right, man.
It won't happen again.
Do you want to cast Maus' first round?
Yeah, okay.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, okay
Now sports that's your punishment down in the dumps
Seeding game sure but lose up. We'll have to take on g2
Two orbs one for play
Doesn't get anything done exertion's aggression not expected. There's another kill on the table apex lobe as I was strikes
They know about exertion they do well, they know there was one now they know there was two
Good work. That's his third frag. He takes up Zywoo as well.
Well, surely Maus win this round.
Counted it with a cast to curse. That's respect, actually. A counter-curse.
Harry Potter style.
He tagged you to start the round.
Zywoo, when things even look a little bit worrying, there's some magic from one of these individuals on Vitality.
Yeah. This has been fun. I've enjoyed it.
Yeah, really. And as I was going to hit that, yeah, of course he is! Of course he is!
No, zero, five, please come back and witness what could be a 13-0 at the start of this
match in Counter-Strike history. A 12-0 score line. Vitality, couple of clutches. In fact,
how many clutches, Chad?
Three.
Three. That's right, Chad's here. And so am I. As we get ready for the second
And half Vitality, good vibe, private pursuit of a semi-final bye.
Let's find out if his first map looks to come to a close in a single round.
Could it be the perfect Vitality 13-0?
Well, Mal's takedown the boo-woo.
Jimmy, with that P2 Fiddy gives him a taste of their own medicine.
Now from the disadvantage, Spink starts to depart B.
Flames, suicide, Nade from Apex is good, Royals a face of Zershin.
But now as the hard part gets to the site it seems to have already gone down, they're in!
Flash from Apex and go, is that the call?
Yeah, looks like it, Mezzy and Flames will swing with it!
Burn to do the same right back, zero!
And the first is perfect, a 5 alive pistol, you'll take that!
Alright, uh...
It's the toughest of tasks, isn't it?
You said, margin...
Zero.
Yeah, so you just essentially have to do exactly what Vitality just did.
need at least three clutches we're gonna need some good tags on the doors from
Torgy we're gonna need some crazy opening frags from the best longspawn I
would like to see them just force even though that's probably not the best
option when you need one yeah it looks like they are just gonna take the
full save and then buy into the next which is fine not 13 0 he's right let's
Let's go. Can't argue with maths. Unless your name's TerraToward.
Topical. Show up in mid with 5 USBs and the drive-by from Zershed.
Get some self-summit for cash to splash 1200 and get a ball.
Yes indeed, a triple on that Max 10. Nice and quick.
Alex, can I tell you how much I hate the Vito from Liquid?
No, well, you have, but you haven't done it with a microphone on. Would you like to do it?
I just hate it. Okay.
I don't like how they're giving phase maps that they're comfortable on. I know that they're
by ancient but the dust is pretty miserable I think look at whether have
a pretty decent dust to anyway that's a conversation for the a stream
Twitter TV such ESL CS and plow this is catching on isn't it we've seen this run
fury I did it liquid have done it and this is going into this third round with
it's like an MP9 by you save enough cash that you have the loss of bonus going
to the next and you fall by but we might not need a fall by
And they tend to.
They're more often than not, because you recover a rifle and you get the bomb.
Are we calling it the fallen?
Are we calling it the liquid?
What are we calling it?
Just calling it MP9s on the third round.
Yeah, okay, fine.
It makes a lot of sense.
I'm sure there's someone at Valve HQ that says they finally tried it.
They cracked the code.
Instead of playing these rifle rounds with a flash and a HE.
Now they get to have a very good attempt.
Worst case you have your rifles in the necks, and best case you win it with just the SMGs.
And they had an aggressive gambit with two pushing up, two pushing lower, and hold up, Brolin.
You could win the round.
You see, he's about to.
Plays, deleted, and the second, Brolin!
Closes it down, denies the SMG half-buy round.
Oh, it does feel good actually. SMG half-buy, it works.
Yeah.
Exactly what it is.
It's not an SMG force-buy, it's just a half-buy.
Yeah, because now, regardless of what we're losing that round, you've got some kills with an SMG,
You got some kills with an AK-47 and you've got yourself an AWP full nades and fours. You can see the logic
And you only need that one round so why not take a bit of a chance?
Is I with a good long spawn to go for the corner pick?
Brolin might meet him head-on towards his AWP jump spotting for middle. Here he is
Hey, oh, he's actually let one go. Through the legs
He's makes them
All right, well try them
Take a bit of space exertion. Nothing to worry about the AWP on short just thrust himself up on towards that Xbox
has told you just behind him clear of the smoke and Apex gets caught.
Beautiful.
Alright, Mouse.
Bit more of this, we must like getting excited.
Bronze out long, can pinch on towards A, looks like Flamesy wants some space.
A nice detail.
They smoked B doors from spawn very early on, which I think led to two players B, which
led to one player mid, isolating Apex and leading him to his early demise with a clear
of that mid smoke.
Look at this gamble.
Vitality of giving up the B bombsite completely.
They are going to be in the right place now. There's plenty of nades as well.
If they want to stall out short and fight, because that's all long centric.
Flash, ball, counter flash, back and forth we go. Still Messi has vision and look at the damage he has done.
Sure, nothing lethal, but it does soften him up for Flames and his aim has been looking crispy today.
He does flame step up to the plate when tested 40 seconds the squad bit shaken by Messi's damage
He does nothing so I will release trades. I will saw all of us in a bite. They were careful with it through
Singed toes, but a cross problem. That was a brave maneuver, but it might catch them off guard
They are not prepared for him to be here. Now he's actually revealed himself with a crazy spam
Give me through spawn. Yeah, he's gonna have so I was toes exposed
Hello, and goodbye. Spinks in the clutch. What's he got?
Time, Alex.
12 seconds.
And that's the healthiest member they've both softened up.
Can Spinks really end this? Here, the 1v3!
He can't!
Chewie!
A necessary head shot there. He had one more bullet in in there.
4HB on him, and the first hacked timeout call.
Vitality. Didn't like the way that one fell.
They're good to loathe in there and this tour is longer, very sketchy with all the damage done.
Very close indeed, a messy round end but Maus keep their head just above water.
You don't need to buy again for the Vitality conversation, can just be another partial
investment.
See what little move they wanted to try and manifest as a hero M4 purchased by Spinks,
a scout upgrade by Zywoo, Apex for the CZ-75 and I'm sure Mezzie and Flamesy will
get involved with something of their choice as well. At any moment this could all end for
mouse. There's no easy round. Even if you are just going against the USPs, one-foot-fold
it's all over, red-rove up. Okay, going for I think double nades long doors but nobody
pushed out so that won't med the many damage at all. Exertion starting towards upper
tunnels and then just going into a default spread after that. So Jimmy dealing with
The upper push exertion, watching lower for now, shooting back.
Cap, Brolin is investigating long late within the round
and towards you, floating with the AWP.
Brolin needs to be very carefully. Got here late.
Worried about players up close. Flames the impair with a deagle.
What's the goal? A shot!
A shot.
Brolin opens up long as an avenue.
Bomb's got nothing else to wear, but...
Doesn't that manage to catch Shuri looking towards shore side?
So, tanks him up.
Flash for Spinks to go looking.
And oh, he doesn't catch a glimpse of it.
Sure he should have it, yeah.
Takes down the right flood.
This is looking great for a fifth.
Miles, can they keep it clean?
So I'm trying to back away.
He loses out, and we've got ourselves 5v1.
It's Apex, last of four.
Sure he nails the headshot.
Miles, it's kind of looking similar to the way Vitality's D-side started.
A couple more costly rounds in there.
But yeah, five alive, four alive.
Hey, you're not worried if you're Vitality yet?
probably start creeping in if bounds get to nine rounds, eight, nine rounds. At that moment you're
a little bit more worried because we'll have a few more rifle rounds in the mix by then.
When you think about the flow of rounds, it was a pistol loss.
Then they go into round number two, lose that. The MP9 to command the third. The rifle's
commanding four. That was another partial for five. And B rush, hello.
You're just running straight into Messi. This was a ballsy call. It could work out for them.
Now there's actually a spanish attack down the anchor. Spink gets one. Pond and shuts him out.
But do you go for the retake, right?
Going for this B-bombside retake can be quite difficult.
One of the positives that Vitality have for them right now
is the fact they have a decent amount of utility.
So mollies, HG, smoke, flashes in the mix.
I see a diffused kit on Flamesy, but when you only need one round,
you probably, yeah, you are, you're saving.
So that was such a risky call by Maus,
but the fact that they traded efficiently
essentially sealed the round.
Right, it's like, okay, well, they're not gonna risk this.
Why would they try and come for this round?
They don't have to.
If Mezziel Spinks get two, either of them, it's a very uncomfortable set of a fan.
And you could have really just been shut down. Both players started in the B bomb site.
So really good work from Maus. A ballsy call from Shuey. I respect the hell out of it,
but when you're playing this type of a game, you think, OK, did we just default
and try to find a finish, but no. You're playing with your balls out.
They're playing to win, not playing to not lose.
And I think this is important regardless of them winning or losing this map,
is if they can just bring themselves as individuals back into the series going into vertigo as map number two
We still have two more maps of counter strike ahead of us regardless of the result if they pull off the remarkable which would mean six more consecutive rounds
Well, I don't know what we'll say about that one. No Nora. Yeah, it was not in the realms of
Reality at least at the when we came in from the half-time break at 12 zero
Nope. It is World 6, I mean, halfway home, but any round, any slip up, any misplay, like
standing in the Molotov and losing out to Zywu, double kill in the flames! And now as
I smoke his name, he's done a lot of damage onto Torshi.
Well, just as you started believing, just as the conversation crept into the dialogue.
Oh, it's all the way towards our fault.
Maybe we keep doubting them. They'll turn it around. So the bomb is on blue bin.
Yes it is.
That's an orcimo.
Fully fortified. Mezzy doesn't need to move a muscle. Apex can cover short.
Torgy could catch Apex on an AD and overly. Oh he's not moving is he?
Yep, that's a lovely angle to hold. Lovely angle to hold. And there it is.
Dust 2 converted. 12-0-13-6. Solid work on that T-side.
finishing off with a Jerry on top and their CT side vitality one up in this
series and went away from a semi-final not bad not bad day in the office so far
so this is why the discussion with the loser of this game you will join g2 at
now be right so losing this not only you don't get the semi you also have to
get through a lot of big dogs if you want to make a run yeah g2 first and
then potentially RV if you can deal with that yeah okay well now it's
You better win Virgo. You know you brought it here for a reason. It is their map pick. Vitality made their map pick look very, very good on their T side.
And that's where the Males start as well. So let's see what they've been cooking in the lab. I see a lot of Naveshark. It's going to be quite a techie pistol.
Well, this has got B bombsite written all over it. We've got Spinks, Mezi and Zaheer however grouped up. And who just played for info? That was Apex. He is called A-Rap completely clear.
Oh, that's a gift.
Yeah, so they should be more than ready to deal with this towards B. It's going to come down to the timing, so smoke's ready for Torgy.
Yeah, they must have done their homework. Well, as well as the info.
Pre-having this boost, Spinks knows exactly what's up.
Mercy jiggling stairs. Spinks holds this. Here comes the usual confirmation of their suspicions.
And there's E. Yeah, he's actually going to be run down.
Good flashes, really good flashes. Look at Spinks.
Not able to do anything, Maus. Perfect into the site.
Converts his make damage, Apex pushing smoke, but...
There are only flames and he's not long for this world either.
That is a perfect start for Maus. Everything going to plan.
Brawland fragging up a storm with three.
And so, yeah, mission accomplished.
They go into the stack and you still walk away with the results.
So good stuff.
Four Maus on the way in the door, so good shooting from the suite.
And now we will see what looks like an eco from Vitality.
Maus have had a mixed bag as far as this map is concerned, and I am cloned. They played it twice.
It once gets falconed, they lost it narrowly 13-11.
Ended up winning the series, so...
I have no foul, and against Complexity, 13-9.
And Complexity actually picked this map back in Dallas, against Maus.
And that was, I think, the first, or one of the first times that we had seen the new iteration of Vertigo,
since the change over towards elevator had come into play.
And yeah, that one was a 19-16 loss, just a close game.
But when the map was being tested,
there was a lot of double nades towards short,
teams were just trying to fight each other
a lot in those early stages.
And I was talking to Exersion the other day,
he feels like this version of Vertigo was T-sided.
And I think he does quite an interesting job
with A-Lurks once the map starts to open up.
So keep your eyes on him.
Not going to be seeing the same MP9 Kev approach
that we wore out on Dust2, for clarity.
Yeah, I think right this map not so dependent on an AWP first and foremost
It's probably a few other factors that play into it as well as this map just starting as opposed to them
Just needing to close out with one round on their CT side of dust to after that
Awesome first half of play. Yeah apex is deliberately
Himself early deep down ramp towards yellow avoids their short Molly and we'll tuck in by the sandbag
Oh wow, tries his luck to search and the flame is quick to it, so consider that dealt
with.
How's his B anchoring work going?
Looking very strong, as he does deal with Jimmy, just going for a walk, going for a search.
He stays active on his angle and confirms it, so extends the man advantage to two,
and it's uncomfortable for the remaining three of man.
He's put a chip damage there from the HE, they throw one out.
So as you see, we can find if there's anyone overstepping the mark towards A, there's
More than enough bodies to deal with this for vitality at the base site.
Swinging for some jewels.
Boost that up.
Rollin' immediately deleted, so as he's continuing the hot hand.
That's what he's looking for.
Yeah.
Alright, well, if you can't do any more damage, it's 45 seconds left on the clock.
I'm sure he'd lobbing out a couple of smokes.
Torgy looking for a gout.
Flamesy is the step.
There's a kill for Shoei.
And that's all he's gonna get.
It is just Torgy now.
Galil in hand.
hand. It's going to be more than
enough money for a buy into the
next four miles so. Can hold
onto this if he likes to look
for a little bit more damage.
Pick your poison toys. You were
not in a rush and for vitality
on the other hand, we haven't
seen them play vertigo. In
cologne hasn't been a
necessary map as part of their
campaign. They played in
to go with wins over fury a phase and now the battle with mouse there you have it
round times out towards you holds on to the galil and vitality post their first
round it's easy with both your players on the extremities get the kills flamesy
and messier than that one simmered out for mouse nothing to really get excited
about no tactical timeout called no conversation needed from CycruN of how
they will adjust let's get into turn round number two all right big one gonna be
telling of just how competitive this first half will be quite a centric I
don't think they want to allow them to have so much a ramp control this time
rounds they want to harass a little bit more Jimmy Wow so the big shot on
Tamezi flames flames oh I thought he was flashed there his hand was over
his face but must have had vision so still takes down Zershin. It costs him a lot of health but
he denied that first test and there's a second straight after Shui walking through smoke into
apex and Vitality will take that. That's a gift. You've got no ramp, you've got no stairs, you've
got nothing. I don't think yeah Jimmy getting that kill was necessarily part of the plan. Look
it's great but you can see that Maus really wanted to fight for this A ramp control a little
bit more. Jimmy gets that kill he drops back immediately I think they just wanted to
trying to finish towards that. Assuming there was going to be a rotation, but because Spinks
was aggressive with Mezzie, they didn't need to hedge their bets. They had the info that
there wasn't the follow through. Now 3v4, Flames is low.
You know what? Use it for info. They're going to flash him in and knoll more than info.
He gets two more. Two more kills from Flames with a scrap of HP he had. That is a very
impactful round.
All right, Brollo.
He's been known to make some impactful clutches in his day.
He's got 30 seconds.
He needs to isolate this headshot player if he has done so.
Clean headshot onto Apex.
When he gets walked on, fakes outside.
He's where he is and could have caught him there on the swing.
Just a little behind him on the tracking.
2-2. Vitality.
Fine consecutive rounds and it looks like it's going to humble mouse.
Who'd been a real shot at that if he gets to go on as I was so disconnected.
That was the shot. So as he started shooting first, Jimmy adjusts and then great defensive
work for the likes of Flainty and Apex, and then the follow-through low HP, the flash.
See Apex with the flash, assisting the feed. So keeping on their toes vitality, they will
humble the finances of Maus who are just down to a deagle and some glocks. Eyes
on Toji to see if he can crack them into. We've seen this from them before.
The Portaloo strap.
Yeah, Maus love a good troll.
Portaloo.
One Desert Eagle.
It's nice to see Vitality
playing some solid counter-stroke.
They're a team who, you know,
they'd be the occasional worries.
It felt like they were lacking trust with their individuals.
Apex would be calling a lot of direct rounds,
so they didn't have to really think.
Just kind of clobbered them to death
with aggressive moves on the CT side
or direct calls on the T side,
They've played a much more comprehensive game.
They've had a lot of individuals contributing in different moments.
They've had their Star of Xayah, we were getting aces on Pisterance,
two of which that's nice to have in your back pocket.
But he hasn't been the only component that's firing
and hasn't needed to be the only one that's firing.
Flamesets are big games.
Spinks has been winning some clutches.
Apex, he's a fragging in-game leader, right?
He's one of these guys that he can have a rough time,
but then he can have quite a good show.
Oh, he can hang, he can hang for sure.
Yeah, so there's been some good moments with this team.
And if they're able to pick this series up 2-0, put themselves in the semi-final on what most would argue will likely look like the easier side of the bracket,
given the fact soars over there. I know they played some good CS, but still, this is going to be a big-boy counter strike. This is going to be on the stages.
So you keep that in your mind, and then you remind yourself that they're a team yet to win a trophy in 2024.
And that's what they're in the pursuit of. We've come out of the break. We had EWC, bit of a lighter one, right?
just a bit more of a studio environment with a small crowd, then you had the blast groups
helping get in these all partner teams warmed into things. And now you're at IEM Cologne
already booking your spot in the Lancashore. Oh, miss smoke, you see that one? Well off
the map. 51 floors down. But you're putting yourself in a great position that the likes
of Spirit eliminated themselves by not showing up, getting destroyed by G2. Taking the
pace out of this one now is not going to fight early but look at the response
from Vitality they're not using their nades early yeah there's no threat no
need for us to go to smoke Molly defense if they're not going to force it out of
our hands I'm intrigued how they clear apex with flames so active on this
angle yeah flames will catch the first session goes down apex now will he be
overlooked it looks like torti's not considered it he hasn't considered it
The taller free frag for Apex! Patience prevails, Shoei swings in, and it's perfect!
Oh, Apex! He's having a great one!
Triple kill! Aggressive defence!
Mezzie might catch Jimmy, but it's a dink exchange, the AK prevails.
But all the same, the round is won, the job is done.
If that, you just pissed off of you, Mezzie.
Like, well, we know where he was, he's the B anchor, and he killed me. Great.
Sick one, kid. Well, you've lost the round, haven't you?
That's the Mezzi Unidialog right there.
I think Mezzi's too nice to think that maybe.
Maybe that's just me.
I'm going to get hunted.
20 seconds.
Lost bonus into the next round.
2900 available for miles.
Likely to see for them just to go for a couple of upgrades
around the saved AK-47, but great stuff from Apex.
And they even go for the yellow molly,
right, to flush anybody back on the deeper line,
but Apex has played aggressive several times.
It's clearly part of the game plan.
Oh dear Jimmy might go down after time he should do should be able to find him here
There it is. I was from the top rope lots of cash for vitality
So happy to give over a few extra bodies to make sure Jimmy goes in the next one to play only with
950 bucks to his name. How do you suppose a bigs is getting there so quickly so consistently?
Are they throwing the yellow smoke from like elevator if done too?
So the thing is Mauser starting rounds with their lurk smoke and they're doing the yellow smoke
So there's room for him to work behind but
Is that an extra gun?
It looks like one.
Guys, don't be wasting money.
I'm flying over there.
Don't be...
No, no, no, no, it's not.
Okay, okay.
Was it really fun?
Maybe it'll be quick, really fun.
All good, all good, all good.
Another miss smoke.
Okay.
Well highlighted there.
Good job, J-Raz.
So that's an unforced error for Vitality.
But yeah, last round was a little bit different.
different look for about as they didn't go aggressive.
How's that?
Flames might continue to rack them up.
No, he's kept humble.
Good work from Xersion's Tech 9.
Made looks destined for glory.
Just shy.
Okay, well, they're making no secret that they want to try
and put some pressure on towards this ramp crane side.
So, we're investigating towards Gap.
They're hoping for a re-aggress.
They're hoping that a misstep from Vitality
comes their way.
And it is. Apex will search.
Oh, timing, yes it is.
Yes, Apex peeks into the line, but he's got Saewoo by his side. Good find.
40 seconds getting... oh, increasingly more...
Oh, what?
Yeah, I was going to say difficult, but not as Saewoo gets wall-banked by Shui. Huge work.
I know Apex is around.
The smoke that covers the whole of the site. Good work from Apex, however, finishes off Shui.
Spinks got the cross to site, this will be a hard fight.
Spinks wins it, nice work, well held.
When we started this map, I was talking about exertion, saying this is T-Sider,
and that I think they've done some good jobs lurking A,
but he can't even get control of the ramp.
It's not just on him, it's on the team,
but they can't get control of the ramp to be a lurking presence.
Vitality are not allowing it, and the first time that they have allowed it,
Mao's only had take 9s, it was just the pistols.
It wasn't a full buy whatsoever.
So, Vitality are doing a really good way of disrupting what Maus want to be doing as part of this T-Site game plan.
The rifles purchased up this time, the smoke will land, so yellow blocked.
You can see on the radar, lurk smoke for Maus to work with, but blocked there is the combination of the two.
And that's pretty standard, you'd get that on old Vertigo as well.
So, well, Apex is harassing, does not want to give this space up for free.
A redeployer of the yellow smoke will stall them out for now.
Now, the mouths are not probing middle, they're not probing B.
Oh, Sphinx forced to extinguish, but will they overlook Masi?
This two-man setup, they've got confirmation of Sphinx, and yeah, too comfortable for Jimmy.
He'll get himself an opening, and it will force Masi into a more humble hold.
See, just how much pressure Sphinx thought he was under.
I thought he had to take the fight, and I guess if Jimmy gets a crossing
and tries to spam him through the smoke, but giving an opener over,
maybe that's what Masi needed to convert another round.
pistol the conversion but that's it vitality or a streak of five grouping up
towards a vitality of called a gamble and I think they've felt that they've done
such a good job of dealing with the a pressure that mouse will try and finish
elsewhere that's not the case mouse could just walk in a for free and they
will with thousand whistles attached safe for vitality finances available for
sphinx for a reply apex and as you could give it a crack with flames the
I would quite low in the finance department. So
Maybe go fishing put the rod in the water see if you can find anything
Brolin it's forward
Flames you get there late sharp from brawl and and she we're leaving the world. It's a bit costly
It's more than they were bargaining for
Everything could be taken away here. Yeah, Messi's the last one stunning. He's got three people running at him
He goes down after the one
Mouse that that will feel increasingly good now for your T side campaign three to five
It's your first one into the gun rounds, really. Can you break through?
That's a Jimmy Oatner and he had one earlier on in the piece until Fezzy.
So Jimmy doing, we'll live it up to his end of the bargain.
That's the Bianca on the T side, the one having to work for that room.
Well, the ramifications of giving away all of those rifles in that scenario,
I think Vitality with the gamble either should have just hung around a bit more passively
and see if they found anything on the fade of the smokes as opposed to searching
find themselves around the open because now they've had to spend everything.
Juro to full buy, A1S's and 1A4 in the mix, there's a diffuse kit for Mezzi,
Util's there. They have everything they need to fight back but if they don't,
the mouse can now work their way into this first half of play. Does Pace come
back into the mix for mouse? This one called Land again. Ops team making sure they
highlight that as a name, Chuck's Apex. Loses half of his health for the
troubles they will get the space shot was it worth it equal damage back in
exchange yeah not bad they want to flash and pop they're already reacting a quick
boost this could be a bit uncomfortable for mezi as yeah they just mount order
blink so you guess the info you'll take that to be in the meantime flames he
found torsion through the ramps but wow say tight in messy oh that's the
opposite of staying tucked in look at this stretching their legs the
Confidence is priming for vitality, isn't it?
It really is. I mean, when Flames is in form like this,
he feels like he can win any fight.
And this would be a crazy one.
Yeah, look at that crouch hold in the angle.
Xersion will punish his overstepping.
So that puts us at 4-4, and Smoke on Bridge will delay.
It can break it. Shoe is going to nade. It's cocked.
It's cleared. Apex. Tough angle to clear.
Overlook by Shoe. Good trade from Xersion back.
3v3 pushing up. 38.
What's the move here?
Oh, Brolin might be able to find Spinks.
Yeah, it's about to find that timing window.
It may have been an audible retreat.
I think it was.
Cywoo.
It swings now.
Wow, he still delivers the head shot.
Needs Spinks to follow.
Super Jimmy's too good.
Super precise, and it's to Bianca left.
You know where he was.
Because Brolin has the rotation,
Jimmy knows to worry about the flank.
There's Mezzi handle this.
Oh, cleanly.
Smoking Kit Chat.
We're on.
Brawland towards the elevator position, Mezzi.
Order ball, Brawland should have a heavy advantage in this one.
He knows exactly where he is, picturing the swing,
he nails it, perfect from Brawland,
mouse, that's a gift, and Jimmy and Brawland combined,
they bring it home.
Yeah, a real mystery for Mezzi on that retake.
No information whatsoever on where Brawland was going to be,
so it had to be noisy, couldn't really take his time,
even though he had the required utility
to try and make it happen.
So many angles to have to worry about and just gets shot right between the eyes.
You work from Brolin and that's then breaking into the importance.
The reason you get such a cheer from Maus is they have put that financial dent.
Vitality have to be down to an eco.
They get a chance to level the game up 5-5 and Brolin picks up right where he left off.
Another headshot this time on to Zywoo aggressing middle and that will confirm the suspicions yet.
No money left boys. This should be an easy one.
It's a good word for it.
It's running at him with a lot.
Knocks Apex off his horse.
I rewatched Knight's Tale recently.
Great film.
Oh mate, such a feel good movie.
Apart from the princess that says if you love me you'll lose.
I think that is a bit of a bad manoeuvre.
I don't think that's cool.
I think that's princess like and it pissed me off. Wow. Yeah, just have to get that out there. That's fine
I'll tie it up. Who's gonna walk over the half lead or
To be fun to self at six six
Vitality back in with the guns this time lacking the kit
Lacking a few incendries flashes from chewy at the ready exertion might try make a play and mixing it up
They're mixing it up into spinks. It's been hold
Roller was not prepared for that off angle
or slow down towards you. He has the bombs, but he has support. Shui's with him.
It's quiet on ramp, but Sarshan's there and Molly Guardians are respected.
Spinks instead. Flash for Mezzi for answers. Sarshan down to 50 HP and Nade.
Most likely towards the ramp side.
Yeah, he was Naded right side and look at the angle Apex is working with.
They feel like they might have been trapped or perhaps it was just a submission.
Well, Shui's coming over.
So Maus is starting to pivot back towards A. Flames you on the jump spot.
Do they scale quickly when they see him and pull?
Does he expect- Yeah, he's seen it now.
Peace.
Yeah, so you can see that calling the bluff exertion goes well.
You're getting a call in no-man's land.
He just runs him down, takes that space for free in pursuit of the kill.
Xayu has been able to join this A-defense.
Blocked towards Shawl, perfect timing.
Maid.
Flash. Flash and go!
Ooh, Apex so, so close to death!
Xayu has only got one. This is great for Maus. Still finds a second.
for Torgie. Yeah he's on it. Bombs gonna get scooped up. Rotation of Spinks and
Mezzie on the way. Yet to plan. Torgie's keep cap mouths. Chances of a
sick there. Looks like Zershin can condemn. Catching Spinks through heaven. Mezzie,
last man standing once more. Smoke no kit and heaven occupied. He's gonna have
to clear this out. Does so. Big start. Torgie now demanded to clutch as
well. Brolin's had his moment. Is it Torgie's turn? Smoke might lead him to get a little
panicked. Mezzi, that sound, they're trying to explain where it's planted. He throws out
the HE, gives Mezzi a 4, a chance! It presented itself and Torgie! He closes with 4 kills
total. That's a big one. That could very well mean 7. Given the finances of Vitality.
You wonder where this one all goes wrong. Opening kill, that's highlighted, but it
just turns into this lineup. So Flamesee gets overran, Apex gets flashed. I think with the
block on shore he's thinking to himself there's no way they're coming through this but they
flashed, they pushed, they harassed, he lines up with Flamesee and the site just absolutely
collapses thanks to Torji.
Yeah I think the immediate knee jerk flash led to a complete turnaround. It looked like
they'd locked him out. I think Apex thought he had.
And then you see the difference. Exertion, knowing how he can function in some of these
rounds now that the buy is in the bin yet again find a rat have to invest everything they can
but these clutches that Maus have won the 1v1s that they converted ruined Vitality's finances
in two different occasions. Yeah here we are last round at the half and Maus to leave with the
lead on their pick for a semi-final spot to avoid the big dogs Chewie down big find from
flames consistent threat search finds the perfect moment finding apex spotting out
the other flames noted brawlin activated he's up against I will we have aims and
clean conversion in middle flame somehow pulls another one out of his hat it's
fallen into place from ours brawlin two impactful kills on his mid luck it
really important lurks from problem even in the round where he didn't get
any frags he was able to convert the 1v1 with his position and some tough
Clutchers from Bezzie. He's had to try and convert difficult rounds rotating over from his bombsite.
Doesn't really have all the information in the world and now it's just Spinks.
A one on three situation. Has you two no kids? I think this one's done.
I suspect the same. You can see the positioning of Maus. It's diligent, it's considered, and it's theirs.
Seven. Gotta be happy with that one, Maus. Making a statement on their T side.
After a run of five from Vitality, Maus return the favor.
Vitality Maus map two, Maus' pick.
Vitality took Dust two, and when you don't want to play Ancient,
and you don't really want to play Vertigo,
you're going to have to pick the lesser of two evils.
After banning Ancient, Maus, they took a target straight towards Vertigo.
And so far, so good. Seven rounds on their T side.
I'm a machine, I'm joined by Sponge,
and we're heading into the second half of map two.
Yeah, good bounce back, obviously.
If you missed map number one,
You missed vitality demonstrating on the first half of play that they can win 12 consecutive rounds
13 to 6 seems a little bit closer than it was. It was an absolute drubbing, but how's they got warmed up
They won the pistol got the conversion lost five straight and then have a couple of clutches
Brolin with one towards you with another and then walk away with a half lead on on the jump spot
Here's the steps trundles back calls for assistance
Yeah, the whole squad's here
Shev and J-Raz delivering the cameras.
Oh, towards you under pressure. How will they use your smoke?
We will get it out. They're swinging cranes.
Roll out. Oh, still hits one.
The Apex could work with flames in combination.
They can take the side that bomb plants explode.
This is a whiffed smoke.
That's a Sorge smoke.
Yeah.
It's a brave plant spot. Yeah, flames still adjusting
to the new vertical changes.
Spinks is still hit the shot, though.
It doesn't look like it's going to cost them the round.
Funny that yeah, that could have really gone wrong and
Look everybody getting a kill in the round other than mezzy
The torch you getting under pressure was unable to really block the choke point. I thought okay
Well, it's moved out a little bit deeper might not be the end of the world still just gets killed through it
So great job from apex tracking him down
What do you suppose is the new default vertical post that we're going into the this one that corner there?
The 78 upside down 78 we call it. That's what we call it. Well the six eight seven the 73
Oh, okay. Look, Jay's showing us people at home as well.
Thank you, yeah.
Job Jay.
But that's, yeah, because of the new angle that's possible.
Have to, uh...
We are still going to call those boxes default, I'm afraid.
Oh, yeah.
That goes with that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But there is a new default plant spot in town.
I think it also depends on the type of execute that you go for.
We'll be able to plant in that.
There it is. There's Apex saving that.
So is the important kill.
Team Goosh there from Spinks.
But we'll split the pistols.
Matali, we'll get the opportunity to tie things up 7-7 because Maus are taking the fullest of Ecos.
I say that just as Brolin invests himself in OP 250 and Jimmy the same. Oh, Jimmy's even.
They saved the Kevlar. Of course he did.
Almost made a faux pas.
That's my job.
That's right, I'm just lucky I corrected myself. If I got that wrong, I wouldn't have retired.
Right here and now.
Oh, just hanging around a no-man's land. You round the corner, that's what you see.
Oh, jumpscare on that as they search forward sure. He adds his pants doesn't want to sit the way it wants to take the fight
Looking through the silver gap of the sandbag and now swing it out to their demise
We're gonna make that his seventh so far
Seven alright 14 rounds these are 50% opening kill rate
He was having a field day on that CT side with apex. They both did a phenomenal job locking down that a ramp position
It was just the clutches that got away from them and that was with the B players rotating in unable to convert the rounds can be difficult to do
So flames he's been a bit of an eco bash up this map, but it'll take him pull out into the stats
19 for 10
123 ADR I suppose that might be what the chocolate about as well
All right, let's see get a little look at vitalities T side on vertigo
Don't get many opportunities to have a look and where did that happen?
Zywil's gone. Zywil dead early. Brawlin has provided a nice opening kill.
How about a look at Ramp and Zywil loses his life to a full confident aim swing. Let's go Brawlin.
Well there are some gaps present on the map right now. Nobody attending to middle four
miles. Shui's hedged over towards B to assist I think with a flash. They're going to try and
retake this. But nobody home. Vitality still. Oh we're playing outside of B lobby. There's
as a kill, and that could have been a trade.
Nice trying to apply a bit more pressure.
Apex could lose the bomb.
If Bronon holds that fade, you'll like it peek into it.
On the walk.
Ooh, Apex, good work.
Quick counter-strafe with the S-key.
He does manage to hit the shot.
The only thing that Vitaliy really
have going for the visit advantage is the utility,
which they're going to be throwing a whole lot of right
now.
The barrage of Nate's headshot will be Molotov down,
Oh, he spots him! Good eyes on f***ing a lot of these shots!
He's so crispy today, it was Dust 2, now it's time to go,
and Zershin catches Apex walking through a smoke, so Messi's got...
That doesn't even count!
He doesn't even get a chance to start the clutch.
Jimmy just swings into him, double kill for him.
Zershin getting himself one through the smoke on Apex as well.
Just walking, waltzing straight through.
Yeah, it's kind of transiting a bit of a risk there, Apex.
This was the opening, as I was trying to get the volley off towards Gap, just gets caught.
A good kill from Apex to get them back into the round, but these from Flames and they are hot.
That's one of the easiest kills in Xerxn will get, but Apex thinking he had an opportunity.
Called off and mouse back into the lead, just a one round difference as the second tactical time-out call for Vitality.
I'm sure they'd love to get this done as quickly as possible.
Pals have been showing some decent form on Nuke.
Toji says it's his favourite map.
Thanks to Koli's own shots on that one with the AWP.
Speaking of orbs, not one in the server.
It will just be rifles on either side, Mezzie with a Galil.
In case for everybody else on Team Vitality.
No U-Towatso ever for Spinks.
It'll be back to the A-plate.
Looks like it. This time, a heftier assault, and Mezzie has the bomb,
so he will have to join the crew.
Molly.
And no opening death while trying to get that down this time.
We replenish to facilitate the walk.
Different CT setup as well, though.
You've got Shui helping out A this time. Last time it was assisting the B defence. Flash and go!
Yeah they come, drive by, Brolin nails it with Torchy's flash. He anticipates them on the top!
But look at the damage! Shui's already taken a double kill!
Vitali! Oh, sent back to spawn almost immediately!
One minute 20 on the clock, spinks with 30 HP. A bullet would do it, spots it out now.
They'll double peek or do it. They don't even need to.
The bomb in front of them, he comes to them.
And that's a Mao's night. That's a convincing Mao's night.
And I think that you saw Cycro asking for a timeout.
He wants to throw the knockout blow.
It's going to feel really good if you're Shui, right?
You assisted in this round. You've expected them to come towards A.
That's where you're playing over as the ally to go for this wrap control.
So they win a massive round.
Shui contributes in a big way as well.
So the in-game lead are going to be very happy with that.
Yeah, cool setup. Good spot.
Just saw that flashbang in Toshi's hands and you knew it was go time.
Our light investments for vitality looks like they will concede the 10th is a flash for apex and
Oh a bit of a misnade
Everybody's gonna flash Zersh should be ahead of it. Oh
Oh Spinks has actually taken the head off of exertion
Jimmy he's not flustered. He knows what's up
You couldn't have more RAM control than that from brawlant
They've only found an MP9, so still tower flash and go again.
Jimmy, Jimmy.
Oh, so blind.
What a flashbang.
They could lose the sight because Spinks is having his night.
It's a triple kill.
Triple kill.
Just a deagle.
Just a deagle, Chad.
No kev.
Mostly glocks.
How has this gone so wrong?
Four miles.
It's hard to comprehend.
Sphinx just decided he wanted B and he took it by force and those are the type of rounds
That you need from an individual like Sphinx if you want to win the trophy here in Cologne
Sphinx has been criticized a little bit in recent times for maybe not having the most impact the lurks being a little bit readable
But this round T side he only had six kills before this comes in and hits three absolute bangers exertion over steps thing
Okay, that's info Jimmy calls the bluff that one flash that I thought apex was gonna use for the stairs was used for the
side to perfection lasted forever they just ran him down so that's ecode stamp
that one on the forehead of mouse code which flash today big sir was it the one
from like I think it was just a standard in the cycle I don't think crazy happened
it was like over the blue the blue boys the blue boy cement tube no he was
pretty sure he was be made with oh okay respect he was gonna flash through the
windows. Here's the lowdown. Bang!
Great shot.
Cursion down. Flash in. Bang.
What a shot. It's from Spinks. And then, he hit another one.
I mean, just heads on heads.
So I will surely put the little bit on the toppings on,
but that's the Spinks round.
And look what it's done to the Finances and Mouses.
Two MP9s and a 5-7 to defend their armor.
Odd-er even.
I don't know what armor is.
Sounded good though.
Smoke.
Same kind of playbook as before, no lurk smoke in response from Vitality.
Two mid, boosted up his urchin.
Oh, he wants to fight.
He actually surprised the surprise, and it's resulted in an opening death of Roland.
And another opening kill for Flamesey.
Oh man, what's he up now?
I think that's gonna be eight.
That will be his eighth, okay, wolf.
Silent dismount, stylish, mouse.
Not wanting to give anything away to that mid player.
Apex is going for it, he's gonna be, well, walked into the handle, Torgy.
Jump scare, good one back, huge!
Lots of info, lots of info. Maybe he saw all of the vets.
Potentially. One trying to get away, loses his head to Zywoo. Jimmy's still there with his rifle, Zasher's picked one up too. This can go wrong, but Zywoo doesn't seem to think so.
Jimmy up against the world, can Jimmy eat planet?
He has found the first.
Yeah, Jimmy was trying to get ahead of the rotation because he heard Mezzy's steps, but speak should have had that kill every day of the week.
Now, Messi's gonna...
Is he going? He went. He stopped. He's going now.
You look a bit nervous.
Yeah, understandably, because Jimmy could have beat them on the rotation after that kill.
He could be guarding the nightclub.
He complicated this.
Yeah, that flash tells him he's heading the right direction.
36 points of health. Does have a molotov he could throw out towards the default plant.
Taiwu.
Doesn't have the HP. Doesn't matter.
Messi's hit the head.
It's 9-9.
They got a little bit dicier than it needed to.
Vitality are dealt with a threat, but Jimmy in the clutch, you can't rule them out.
As Flamesy's 8th, Brolin's been pretty good in the opening exchanges as well.
He's converted 5, only lost 2, and a point shot there from Mezzi.
How the Finances are mouths are back in the bin.
He can't do a whole lot with the full eco, looks like they're just going to stack out this time over towards B.
They've got heaps of info, boys, get a move on towards A.
Alright, I thought they were just running towards what should have been the empty side,
but they wanted to back up mezzies, didn't want to allow them rounds of trying to get out of control
and now Malzah beat them on the rotation. Still just USPs.
Good smoke work, so shouldn't be a problem.
Shouldn't.
Hey, Zawa.
Yeah, here we go.
Found them. Looses out after one.
A bit hectic now with the loss of the rifle and now Zasha's using it to great effect
and they are quite low these usps could hit a headshot or two scavenge name ships further away
Vitality's palm start to have a little more sweat upon them should be fine we said
and yet torches taken down flames they spam but apex fams back more lethally a double kill finds
zershin on headshot no armor but still a problem exertion no time the only absentee here is the
kit. The frags were there. The rotations were on point. The vitality deaths getting a bit
sketchy. They can't quite respond in kind after the deagle entries from Spinks into B.
Vontmous take a good stab at doing something similar.
Yeah, well the fact vitality have lost absolutely everything in that round against the full
eco. There might be financial ramifications if Maus can get around on the board and tie
things up 10 to 10. For them the loss bonus is going to be only 1400. So they can
invest and they can have a little bit of residual but that might hurt them going
forward so mouse making the most of the necessary save round harassment on both
sides of the map need to clear oh brawland still braves it regardless of the
need damage to his face 62 to work with it was susceptible to a spam will
ankle up the second Molotov don't call out nice again flames has opened up the
Number 9 indeed! No problem there, spinning around.
Zaheer provides cover in fire at 11th. Rather quickly accrued.
Flames you can really do no wrong in these entry scenarios.
Just rip away these remaining rifles of exertion and jimmy.
I mean you definitely come into the Lanccess Arena having flames in form and confident.
That is going to be a conversation.
Well, the team knows that they're meant to win trophies.
When you're in a squad with the likes of Zywoo on your team,
you should be contending for them.
And Vitality definitely were.
We'll remind everybody, last time these two teams faced
EPL season 19, Grand Final, best of five.
Maus made light work of them.
It was 3-0, and of those three maps,
Vitality picked maps one and three, right?
So, when you keep that in mind,
Maus were in hot form, but they were in studio form.
And, well, we're in a studio environment right now.
It's also a seeding game, but I've spoken to some of the mouse players before and a treat. This is a very important match
Why wouldn't you get as deep in the tournament as you possibly can when you have a game like this available to you?
Right, so I mean a quarter final is for a semi-final spot, too
And the ramification again needs to be brought up. You lose this you play G2
How have just been steamrolling everybody through that lower bracket Spirit, Astralis paying again today
They open up with a loss to Saw Shaw, but they have recovered and coming out of the break G2 are one of the hottest looking teams
Navi playing solid team CS. They're also going to be on that side of the bracket
So you really don't want to lose this series
You would love to keep yourself on the other side where you're going to get a phase or a liquid and the saw
Sounds a whole lot better to me
Bows are now out in deep water on their map choice
cobbled together investment
Eagle 57 MP9
And that M4 in the hand to Jimmy.
Who can step up and be the difference maker for Mouse, or is it too little too late?
Let's find out. Passive stance and spread. Flash for flames, can he find his 10th opening kill?
I'm about to go alone.
You have to walk that tightrope, you don't want to over-commit.
It's so crazy to think when the rest of his teammates combine they have three.
Man, I mean, yeah, this is full. This is confidence. He's going to have another look off the flash
Roland makes a wise decisions trying back away spam and takes him down
brawlin
Neutralizes the opening kill threat, but when there isn't flames, there's a side who instead
21 rounds of play for flames is your first opening death. So that's pretty impressive
And they're gonna continue to make light work of this mouse partial investment. Just exertion
Back towards the decoy box on B.
Spams out a couple of bullets, but now they know where he is.
They can pivot accordingly. Time is not a problem.
Or is weaponry or utility and real estate is saying that Spinks has plenty of.
We'll just go and plant that bomb on A.
Last time Spinks was on the lurk to secure the round.
He did whiff, it didn't cost them.
Let's see, can he shoot straight?
Ah, the shadow baits him into the bullets.
Is there another body shot? Look how low they all are.
There it is, the glock comes out.
12-9, three opportunities for Vitality to secure the semifinals and avoid that dangerous side of the bracket.
And Mezzi, we've discussed it with the victory yesterday to get in towards the Lancaster to beat his first time.
Vitality were in the playoffs last year. Apex has been in two grand finals.
Zaiwu won the first time he played a Cologne 2019.
Some efficiency there.
Crouching under the smoke. I don't know if Jimmy's gonna have it.
Chanta freebie, we did. Yeah, Apex, that 10 HP. Zershin spams away, reveals himself, flames.
Ooh, nearly finished the job. Now he's tinked up too.
Brolin in the meantime is taking down the Wu. Zershin good for it.
As he slips through, still gets it before the spread. Good trade. It's good for Maus. They will pass their first test.
And Apex forced into this angle knows what Jimmy is will likely hard clip will not hard clear him
Well just to think the impact of that spinks 3k Diggle round
Yeah, and everything's come tumbling downhill and when you think of dust to show that first half
They won every single round 20, but there was a ziwu 1v3 on the pistol with p250. There's a spinks 1v2
There's a flames you won't be to so the clutches help them out and the impact of spinks in this map has done the same
So two more rounds. You win this mouse you get vitality on a low buy and as we've just prefaced still gonna be tough to get past
So no matter what this would be a photo finish for mouse in search of overtime
Here we go strap in mouse in pursuit of OT
To stay in the conversation game that they're taking incredibly seriously as our vitality
Exertion is in a lot of danger and he has no support
Yeah, he's literally done.
Ryan walk out on the smoke, by calling the opro.
Does well to find the one, as he goes down again.
16th death.
Pressure applied by Flames, clears out close.
Seems like they want to finish towards A.
This is the next jewel. Does Brawn play for information?
They're looking to pivot between the site's vitality.
They want to keep the seesaw open as Flames, he still peeks in towards B.
Yeah, he's like made lots of steps on the stairs, he's throwing out extra nades.
It has got two players looking, even a third not far off on mid.
So really, he was all hinging on Brawland here.
Timing might catch him.
X down to Brawland, huge frag to post.
Doesn't want to rush, doesn't want to panic.
He has Torgy covering his cross, but a missed shot from Torgy.
That's costly.
Not if Brawland hits every shot he takes, though.
Taking out Spengs.
Now Torgy connects, and they will pass test number two.
Sony flames.
And he's out of there.
Maybe that's what they're missing the flames the opener. Oh, yeah, I'm after be his is doing in the next round
So if they can call on him again lost bonus 1900 into the next round flames
We won't be getting any of that so who has enough for an AK to send me some for Spinks and apex
They're just in that perfect sweet spot
Roughly 4k a little bit over means they can pick and choose the utility of choice
Mezzie either with a Kallil or a back ten to try and facilitate some YouTube a problem
The pressure was on him or timing could have operated against you see I'm worrying about front crane as well as that short push
Let's say apex is a second sooner as he's clearing front click crane. He goes down free kill
Sights essentially open
Third of the tactical timeouts and the best time to use it because if we do go into OT they'll get another one
So X Taz giving them a 30 seconds to have the conversation to get anything's done in two maps
And no torches AWP is in play today look to
try pressure anywhere else on the map and it's it do we want to see if we can go
through middle here because for miles it's felt like they've been heavy towards
B trying to get that lobby in stairs control we've had around earlier on in
the piece where Shui was assisting this a defenses that rotate up oh wow push is
off going middle this is all in B really be messy just wants to run he
wants to gun and spot it by session with a quick glance while he forces his
Get some self out of hot water or hot floor
Well, they've got the defense moving right if that was part of the plan
They've definitely done that. Yeah, it seems to have worked perfectly. So as you would be lobby
Should we and brolin to lock down a torches or still posted in middle? Nobody's coming in whatsoever
Putting faith in should we in brawling the crossfire for a ramp?
They're like smoke dropped, they give some some time, it's over, it does connect onto
Shuri's spamming gap.
Where are they going?
It's just all follow Apex around the map as he changes to mid-round calls.
Yeah, mouths are asking the same question though.
Jimmy still has a smoke to block a beat, just used it perfect timing.
He can ask for a better.
That's a experienced Bianca with a very good read of the situation now.
Look at this, pre-aiming the boost, it's their only option.
They shouldn't jump up just yet.
But they have and they lose their head. Oh destruction mouse
Spray them down. It's Jimmy with a triple and we are looking at overtime here folks messy with an impossible task
Who's gonna finish the job? Who's it gonna be? Is it messy as he finds two clean headshots?
Only white box swings through another one from messy good grief. He gave it a good shake of the stick
Yeah, we ain't done yet some big shots there. But yeah, 1v5 that would have been a stylish way for vitality to close the game
Give us all the entertainment, but still get it done in two
It's not like vitality didn't have money down the stretch
Because of the rounds that they were able to pile on after the spring steagle that had plenty of cash
They went into that final round pretty well equipped
Messi was the one that started with the mark 10 and almost ended with an AK 1v5
At least taken three out of the pitcher, but we're back into things and here's a change. Zauwoo AWP
Haven't seen that yet. It's true. That's true. He has been prioritizing a rifle
Strategies haven't enabled it. So he was waiting for but he still goes down shui out aims him
Nails the headshot takes down Zai Wu and already mouse
Oh, I was gonna say hold on to the that man advantage apex
Not have been any of that gets a very late trade on to his all but
taking down shui
Haven't really seesawed very effectively. It's like that. You oh
Zershin? Zershin?
Tux 51, Brawler looking for answers.
Hanging on by a thread here on the fade.
He goes down. Zershin delivers an impactful double.
Can't close.
Spinks says play on.
Spinks brings the bomb.
I think they might just contact.
I don't know if they'll even...
Okay, never might.
Shut your mouth.
I'm telegraphing that there is B presence.
I told you he hasn't moved just yet.
Oh, the Shadow Bay Jimmy does not pull the trigger.
They wanted answers.
They've heard it.
It's audible step on the Guardian position.
He G. Jimmy Warnes.
The vision.
Messi's exposed.
Nice adjustment.
Oh, and Spins falls as well, Mowz.
That is a clean close.
2v2, but they make it look easy.
I'm just surprised that they used U2,
because the way that they could have just walked on in
and searched for the fight, I guess you can be worried about Quad.
It's such a difficult position to deal with. I love this opener
They brought exertion over to assist with a that had three rifles while torches all was towards middle yet again
And right now I think with that reaction of apex. He's stumped. He doesn't know what to do
Lovely good read of the situation from torgie. So I guess if there's no flames the openers. They are in a good hot water
Yeah, for real. I'm all jimmy punished by sping. So there's an opener
Gift from spinks
As I was talking about the Seasaw, they don't really establish enough control, they might kiss in the smoke.
Hello?
Apex just touches W and confirms there's someone in the way.
Two kills to the good for Vitality to tie this back up.
You've got to convert this one surely.
Best option is in a short while.
Yeah, but Torgie, he's a real problem for them at times.
See if he can start racking up some more multi-kills.
That makes her bad.
That is a very audible rotation.
And so a free frag, the freest of frags there, shooey, with his loud steel toe boots on.
Oh they're rotating back.
Jimmy's dead.
Shooey removed as well.
Still might be slightly worried for exertion.
He had hedged over towards A.
Spring's giving up a little bit of ground while being a diligent clear for his teammates,
but they'll be in.
The bomb will go down, and Torgie, an exertion.
Do you give this one a crack?
Well, it's overtime, and you've got the finances.
So may as well have a look, but
Ah, there's the seesaw
Because not only does it keep your sights open
And options available
Right, it can act as a very deadly lurk
Especially now with the new hole in elevator
Right, if you come up gap
You can be behind them in the middle so much quicker
Yeah, it does feel valid like parking
Someone towards that gap position
Unless they're diligent on their clears, which they can't always be
Round dependent
Nice work
By Ty, they do
Tie us up even, 13-13, will Maus be able to leave with the lead on the end of their CT side?
Well, I think it's been about the T-Sides, right, because they've had two extra rounds.
So we're talking 7-5 in both of the halves.
So, yeah, bang on, no matter how you frame it.
Maus are going to expend their overtime tactical timeout.
Maybe Cycron is having that exact conversation.
Hey, if we get two on the CT side, we should be able to put this thing.
No ult for Torgy.
Jimmy has enough, right?
He could have bought himself as well, so this is probably what the timeout is about.
It does become a little bit more difficult to retake the science with the AWP.
So, what does that mean for the opener?
Good to find out here.
He has discussed a second TCT round, certainly would give you a nice edge
coming into the second half of overtime.
Starting heavy B again.
Jimmy, he tries the same move, this time no spings to find him.
Just mezzy.
Easy around as well to throw out some U-Tilt.
Flash him off the line, good work, good U-Tilt.
Tsaiwu has his ult though.
And if you jump spot, if you miss step,
he's pre-aiming it, guess the info.
Yeah, I think I saw him as well.
Apex, swallow that!
A bullet in an A, 27.
Soften up early and still so much time left on the clock to work within this round.
Brolin and Torji hanging about, still a smoke on Brolin.
A stream is currently out of control. I'd be watching that one at the same time, if you can.
Yeah, we got overtime there. It sounds like they got overtime there.
Let's see what happens with that early damage onto Wapex, because he is going to be walking around the smoke to clear it.
Oh, perfectly timed his flames. Another opening to the tally.
He's gone quiet for a little while, hasn't he? Spinks crossing the smoke.
What?
Wasn't ready for it.
Oh, completely caught off.
Okay, well, now things are looking a bit spare-shaped.
Spinks, another, Jimmy rotates in without any support.
Torgie, that's him nowhere he is.
And Spinks, yeah, with a combination with Zywin,
we are going to see that T-side fire this evening over time.
Okay, okay.
Brolin, he does the waterfall smoke, plays behind it,
and they're clearing, you just see three Ts down the bottom of the ramp,
staring directly at you.
Torgie, a 1v5.
Now they've been spotted, dealt with by flames, closing the round as well as opening.
Now they get to swap back over to the CT side of Vitality.
Now those clutches hurt their finances a lot in the first half.
We have to go back.
There was a Brolin clutch, there was a Torgy clutch, and that's where the finances took
a big dent and Maus were able to work their way back into the game.
They closed the half very strong.
But now the finances aren't a conversation.
You can have whatever you want. Zawoo will go for the AWP on the CT side as well as the T side.
I'm going to post up towards middle.
Torzion's got his as well. Yellow smoke, we see plenty of this.
Flamesee and Apex, the A-Defense was beautiful in the first half of play.
Yeah, this is a nice change up.
Intrigued to see what Vitality do with this, because they've already concerned, or rather put invested now that Molly comes in.
Good idea, the ladder might be occupied if the communication's good.
So very tough, Claire.
How are you meant to unravel Brolin unless you catch a timing?
Yeah, Brolin should have him.
Oh, he does! Nails the shot!
Does Spinks do that alone, Brolin's next thought?
Opening kill favours Maus.
Looking to keep it level, as we have been throughout.
That's to be one of these gambles, again, from Vitality.
We saw some within the first half of play where they didn't quite stick the landing.
This time, it appears to be the right call.
Blocked at the 52nd mark.
It's not going to put too much sweat on Shuie's brow.
We've got time to work with Util as well.
Strong angle from Flames.
Yeah, just for that reason you can see Zersh.
He overlooks it and it will tie us up.
40 seconds for on four.
Re-smoke gap, limits your options.
Flames continues to lay waste to another.
Mezzi in combination does make it a two on four
and is really not looking good for Jimmy.
allow trundle towards the gap position a full magazine sprayed Brawland's luck
you can see they can they're cockless and it's a possibility flames your
vertices gaze maybe not looking does adjust and now Jimmy with a crazy
transfer attempt but 15 is secure one round away from the semi-finals now
vitality and two opportunities I can't believe they played forward on
crane there after shortcut blocked I thought they might just wait it out
allow the YouTube to be siphoned through they had the number advantage
It's felt like it wasn't a necessary peek and then another one for Flamesy.
So he's done a great job, denied this A site, aware of the fact that Brolin wasn't spotted
in the feed, and you bang on.
Just one more round, five more kills back in a winning position, aren't vitality, but
Maus have done it once, can they do it again?
Two more consecutive rounds required to go to OT number two, Shui, tanks a lot of
damage early down to 67.
Smoke, smoke.
I forgot about that.
So did Vitality.
And now Apex is going to have to function without it.
Oh, fine.
That's a hot back, Tom!
He just switched to his nades!
Oh, they didn't expect him...
That is a very big opening kill to post.
That's such an important round.
What a gift that is from Apex.
Oh, and Zywu spotted a cheeky bit of leg, a bit of ankle.
And he does convert.
Patience on that.
Let's Jimmy come to him.
Plucks him through the board, and it's five on three.
The realisation for Maus now, you can absolutely hammer it on map number one, now your map choice is going down the gurgle up.
And trying to line up Nade, suddenly there's a smoke in your face and a bullet there too!
Through the boards, brawl untagged up, Zyward gets away!
And Mezion Quad, you discussed it, it's hard to clear and oh, oh, oh, Spinks!
They've been kept busy, these smokes, these Nades, these spams, and so they're completely overlooking a very fast flank!
get spanked to finish the double. Only Torji, what's he got for us? There's very limited
options for him. Four CTs to get through. Eight bullets in the magazine and the first
is a clean headshot. But Dami finals, Maus will start at the first day of play in the
Lancess Arena. Gotta be feeling good about that one and Flames, you can see him on
your screen, 28 frags. How many did he end that game on? Into the double digits of
opening kills. I think he ended with 10 in total there but he was actually forced to be reckoned with.
But you lose this, you'll be facing G2 who are looking like marauders from that lower bracket in
the quarter final. Okay, well that looks something to keep our eyes on. We'll continue that discussion
once this pistol concludes. Shui responsible for this cat take and he is actually going to be
casting early looks. Long aggression. Yes, I was there to check it and actually spots too,
so there's some info. No casualties either way. They can't barrel through middle because Shui
Exertion and Jimmy are all here
Yeah, in which case they are just kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place and that is the hard place hitting
Should we takes out sphinx and the p250 on side we will utilize brawl and deleted
Starting to trundle up long the full four-man assault keep your eyes on this Jimmy flash
How do they utilize it? They're just gonna creep up the smoke not in the air
Toji casting a couple of lots of info. Yeah, no is that committing smoke on the cross turns the flash Jimmy throws out
here's towards the ramp to just a delay allow Torchy to tuck in they do have
Shuri on Gandalf but save plant flames punching in the code covered by Mezzie
to from short side Jimmy late elevator but it could be cleared by Mezzie won't be
doing that now can Shuri's hit a banger two kills from the captain
Zywin can he continue to rack him up because he's all alone now up against
three it's not the best plan no it is a good weapon for this fight but
ready a couple of missed shots will surely go punish she's hitting them one
remains can Zahru really start with another ace on the pistol as Torj is
off the bomb Torj is running at him looking to pick up the dual barrett is
looking to run him down Zahru has somehow pulled it off again will it be fine
yes indeed the ace on the pistol this is becoming a trend they're round to
lose fast beat hang on but too low as this gets awkward for vitality a Jimmy
Something he's done nothing and put a damage onto Spinks and a missed scout shot search and fast on this flank
Yo, he's he second-guessed it. He looked away for a moment and Zion gets to double instead couple of missed opportunities
Rollins and torsion. Yeah, you're not gonna be a doing much with this one
All this house of cars has come tumbling down quite quickly
So we'll see if brolin could stay left towards lower tunnels Spinks is the one locking him in lower HP as I were going around the
world also low
But when these two teams face last on the desk highlighting as Brolin goes down
It was during the ESL Pro League season 19 finals the best of five
That's when overpass was still in the map pool dust who wasn't coming into this today
Mouser a hundred percent on dust to but they haven't really played it an awful lot
I remember seeing them having to pick it up for the first couple of times
They went straight from Pro League into bet boom and then I think that boom the team
Trying to pick it against them immediately, which they hadn't practiced. They still want it
But this is Vitality's choice, and we've seen them have some real walls on this map.
the game. The game is going to
win this. The game is going to
win this. The win is messy.
Good trade. Down goes the
win. It's told his or but as
the desk discussed, he is an
influential factor. In all of
mouths is getting so far and
torturing shots. That is a
threat to vitality and a
threat to vitalities. Fourth
round. I think we're going to
win this still plenty of time
in the clock. 50 seconds
bomb on cat knows the orps
towards a. Yes, Ashley is going
to be tending to the
potential. Sweeps through.
to assist if the bomb goes a and a bit of a risk for him to cross the fact that
he didn't didn't get caught on the timing helps them piece this puzzle
together towards his positions gonna be really difficult to rumble should be
good for this yeah the Spinks it's an absolute cracker we just quick change
oh no Torji loses his head a quick reaction and adaptation from Spinks
exertion does not choose to jump keeps him guessing and that would be enough. Oh,
Spinks caught out again, but still, Zersh does not. Spinks instead a clutch with four
rounds in and already two clutches for vitality. And the superstar Zahru and the
pistol now Spinks in a one on two. And look, he wasn't expecting exertion. You
can understand why the fact that they played that close together exertion
braving the cross. Both of those fights he took, he was caught off initially.
I'm pretty sure Torgia just quick changed as well. It looked like he was set ready for that, but Apex...
Flash...
In towards the doors, Shui tending to it as a light smoke blooms. This is a very well constructed-
This is a fake.
You can see how they're just keeping the CTs guessing all over the map. Is it mid? Is it B? Is it long?
As now, with Brolin down, it seems it will be A.
And Flames is right behind Shui. He's ratting through this mid smoke. Shui, you can see he's just got too many-
Why about? Oh my god!
This is a Dust2 they could be incredibly proud of.
Just, I mean, Mouse, a team of Mouses caliber.
You can see they're just getting pulled apart, misinformation, miscommunication.
They're lost. And it's a product of vitality.
They are manufacturing this obscurity, this uncertainty through their calling,
through their presence across the map.
And it helps where Messi can kill long whenever he wants it.
Yeah, but one of the dramas, if you're brought along, is that the cons at this point,
At this point we don't have short, we don't know what's in up the tunnels, we don't really have mid control and then a low smoke comes out B as part of the comms, the mid to B smoke lands as well.
It's time for pace.
Well this would be a spark to get bounce back in it wouldn't it?
A couple of H's remaining, will that be used for damage or will it be used to clear some smokes?
If I tell you with this lump control, Mezzie is the only piece that hasn't joined the puzzle.
He's just going to cover the flank.
Apex starting to walk up.
We saw him do this against FaZe.
Oh, would have been spotted there.
Yeah.
Maus, they know what's up and they're hearing all these AKs just sounding off on long
chewies called up, but clear.
More chip damage.
Apex swallows into the HE.
They've got to be careful.
You peek too far.
You go too wide.
That AWP will pluck you, but they are walking up into them.
Jimmy and Zershin, just these side arms.
What have you got for us, Jimmy?
Misses his first, delivers, delivers in a big way.
Double kill, finally silences,
spings to bring him down and finds Shaw as well.
Torji, unable to find anything this round.
Should we burn him alive into Messi's cross-air?
And just Zershin here, yeah,
quite highly open to find the first,
but will be run down.
Seven and zero, vitality.
They've got to be feeling very, very good
about the way in which this T-side
is not only being structured,
the way it's being executed and converted. Which I'm pretty sure they are, you know, mandated to do.
Every morning. Every morning, go for that walk.
Oh, flames. A chance. And Apex. He's actually, he's a kill stealer. That's what he is.
That's insane. They get the corner kill.
And he just transfers. That's...
Round?
Whoa. How do you get back into this? Exertions are lower. We can see a bit of a standoff.
If he plays forward for info, Messi's got him dead to rights. When he pivots back now with
with Jimmy to try and climb down on mid.
The door is opening towards B
because the upper tunnel smoke is about to fade.
Well, the penny's gonna drop.
Apex immediately knows that there is no resistance,
which incites the save.
They didn't even know that they were on the B bomb site.
It literally had no idea.
Apex gets a complete freebie.
Flames make sure they can't exit towards long.
Someone has to go down towards Lovatar
and then Jimmy's stuck towards short.
If they take everything away,
It's 8-0 and tough for Maus to justify the rebikes.
Sure, the max loss bonus is in, but the residual cash isn't there.
If they save these two drops, it's possible we can have that chat,
but there's still just under halfway left on this bomb.
Oh, they're coming for you.
How's it get paddled?
Leave him alone.
Torgy's working on keeping hold of his AWP.
And here comes some pressure.
Those mollies won't last forever.
Torgy hits his.
Jimmy doesn't.
Down he goes.
They know where he will piss.
A misper shot.
More utility.
And down he goes.
Take no prisoners, vitality, a cruelty onto Maus.
They just wanted to hold onto their guns,
but it is disallowed by the vitality two-side.
And this is the over, so Apex gets the vote, Jesus.
Oh, we didn't get to see that.
Oh, that's, we had Flamesy's POV.
We did, we did.
Okay, that looks a whole lot tidier.
Oh man, that was cracking.
And Apex even got the third kill, that's for his fifth.
And perhaps so far, three of them were.
Flames and Spinks.
I'll be occupying up, but Zershin let them come to him.
My question is just, is Apex gonna molly lower tunnels?
Well, now actually that I've made it to come through, yeah, there it is. Perfect.
Absolutely bloody perfect, Alex.
And then your short player gets behind us because you've got an aimer like Flames who can take that fight.
I'm sorry, though. He will deliver on to Apex. The absence of a flash is harnished in a leg shot as well.
So I would put Zershin down to 20.
You kind of want to see if Sphinx can go to what's being isolate the one on one against Jimmy
Well the smoke might change that conversation or the Nade might do it
The Nade has done it. Wow. He finishes the job himself
Short aggression how ready is Zywoo?
He's typically very ready for any engagement even if it doesn't always look like it
You can see he's considering his options as he backs away and crouch here. Yo perfect from Brolin
perfectly executed but now the V-Sight needs to be defended and Jimmy he has
done enough at least to remove Spinks.
Mezzie's got the bomb yet to cross audible steps gonna throw it across for
his teammate. Jimmy doesn't know if he can make on that flashbang and actually
Mezzie will punish it for going looking. Okay confirmation of Brawlan. Look at the
flame. Not in a hurry here. Still punching in the code and a swing a big
fight taken by Brawler and he's put impact into this but it could all be for
Nort. Flames all versus Torgy now he gets to play wicked games with him here
swap to the AWP! It doesn't work out! It's still Vitality!
Oh dear that's three clutches in the first half of play. Azawi 1v3,
Spinks 1v2 and now Flamesy 1v2. Yeah he started the round with a headshot
on Toshiri as well real scorchy he saw there when the replay
Nade on his face should you get to play. Jimmy yeah he put up a fight.
Mezzie here, some great shots here on Dust2.
And I'm not just saying that, he is?
He is, like, this is some good CS for Mezzie right now.
Well, Axe says in the interview, we're saying that he wants a bit more out of Mezzie on the CT sides.
Okay.
The T sides, he's happy with the job that he's doing.
He was looking for consistency for Mezzie.
Even said, he misses some shots.
I tell you, he's not missing shots right now.
Yeah, he looks like a robot in the best way.
This is, um, this feels like a mismatch.
Yeah, but I'm just sitting here going, this is how you and I are cursed.
No, but this is also, I don't care about us, Chad.
What I care about is how stompy, so like these, these are two teams that have just qualified for the Langtas Arena,
and one right now is just wailing on the other.
I, same with that G2 now, it's just like the disparity is alarming and exciting.
Now sports that's your punishment down in the dumps
Seating game sure, but lose up. We'll have to take on g2
Two orbs one for lady
Doesn't get anything done exertion to Greshan not expected. There's another killer on the table apex low beside who strikes
They know about exertion they do well, they know that was one now they know that was two
Good work. That's his third frag. He dinks up Zywoo as well.
Well, surely Maus win this round.
With a cast to curse. That's respect actually. A counter-curse.
Harry Potter style.
He tagged Jimmy to start the round. Zywoo...
When things even look a little bit worrying,
there's some magic from one of these individuals on Vitality.
It's been fun. I've been just...
Isn't it?
Yeah, really.
And, as I was going to hit that...
Yeah, of course he is!
I got what I was going to say!
I was saying, folks, please come back and witness what could be a 13-0 at the start of this match.
Let's find out if this first map looks to come to a close in a single round.
Could it be the perfect...
Vitality...
13-0.
Or...
Now, let's take down the womb.
Jimmy, with that P2 Fiddy,
He gives them a taste of their own medicine.
Now from the disadvantage, Spink starts to depart B.
Flames, suicide.
Nade from Apex is good, right on the face of Surshin.
But now as the hard part getting to the site,
it seems to have already gone down.
They're in.
Flash from Apex and go.
Is that the call?
Yeah, looks like it.
Mezgy and Flames will swing with it.
But look, Rollin' Lines and both of them.
And now it smells it's turn to do the same right back.
Margin Ferrera zero
And the first is perfect a five alive pistol you'll take that
all right
It's the toughest of task isn't it you said margin
Zero yeah, so you just essentially have to do exactly what vitality just it's who will need at least three clutches
That's a conversation for the a stream twitch.tv slash ESL CS and wow this is catching on isn't it?
We've seen this run Furia did it liquid have done it
This is going into this third round with it's like an MP9 by you save enough cash
So you have the loss bonus going into the next and you fall by but we might not need a full-time
They tend to
That's more often than not because you recover a rifle and you get the bomb. Oh
Are we calling it the fallen are we calling it the liquid? What are we calling it?
Just calling it MP9's on the third round. Yeah, okay fine
It makes a lot of sense. I'm sure there's someone at Valve HQ that says they finally tried it.
They cracked the code.
Instead of playing these rifle rounds with a flash and a HE.
Now they get to have a very good attempt.
Worst case you have your rifles in the necks, and best case you win it with just the SMGs.
And they had an aggressive gambit with two pushing up or tunnels, two pushing lower.
And hold up, Brolin. You could win the round.
He's about to.
Instally it and the second Brawler!
Closes it down, denies the SMG half-by round.
Oh, it does feel good actually. SMG half-by, it works.
Yeah.
Exactly what it is.
This makes them...
Alright, we'll try to take a bit of space, exertion, not only to worry about the AWP on short,
just thrust himself up on towards the Xbox,
so it's totally just behind him, clear of the smoke and Apex gets caught!
Beautiful.
Alright, mouse.
Bit more of this, we must start getting excited.
Brawn's out long, can pinch on towards A.
So flames, you want some space.
A nice detail.
They smoked B doors from spawn very early on,
which I think led to two players B,
which led to one player mid, isolating Apex
and leading him to an early demise
with a clear of that mid smoke.
Look at this gamble.
Vitality of giving up the B bombsite completely.
Mm.
Oh, they are gonna be in the right place.
Now, there's plenty of nades as well.
If they wanna stall out short and fight,
there's all long centric flash,
Oh, counter flash, back and forth we go, still Messi has vision and look at the damage he has done.
Sure, nothing lethal, but it does soften him up for Flames and his aim has been looking crispy today.
It does Flames step up to the plate when tested, 40 seconds the squad, bit shaken by Messi's damage.
He does nothing, so I will release trades.
Mali was stolen, all set up by...
Oh careful, but it frimmed, it singed toes, but a cross, Prollin, that was a brave maneuver,
but it might catch him off guard. They are not prepared for him to be here.
Now they are, and he's actually revealed himself with a crazy spam.
Jimmy threw a spawn.
Yeah, he's gonna have sirens, toes exposed.
Hello, and goodbye. Spinks in the clutch. What's he got?
Time, Alex.
Wow, seconds. That's the healthiest member.
They're both softened up. Can Spinks really end this?
Here, the 1v3!
He can't.
Shui, a necessary head shot there. He had one more bullet in in there.
4HB on him, and the first tack timeout call, vitality. Didn't like the way that one fell.
They're good looking over there, and this tour was long, got very sketchy with all the damage done.
Very close indeed, a messy round end, but mouse. When you think about the flow of rounds, it was a pistol loss.
Then they go into round number two, lose that, the MP9's command the third, the Rush was commanding four, that was another partial for five,
Rush, hello?
Yeah, just running straight into Messi.
This was a palsy call.
It could work out for them now that Zershin's
supposed to take down the anchor.
Stink gets one.
Harden shuts him out.
But do you go for the retake, right?
Going for this B-bombside retake can be quite difficult.
One of the positives that Vitality have for them right now
is the fact they have a decent amount of utility.
So mollies, HE, smoke, flashes in the mix.
I see a diffused kit on Flames eating,
but when you only need one round, you probably, yeah,
you are, you're saving.
So that was such a risky call by Maus with the fact
they traded efficiently essentially sealed the round is well six I mean half
way home but any round any slip up any misplay like standing in the monotone
and losing out to Zywoo double kill in the flames and now as I spoke his name
he's done a lot of damage onto Torchy just as you started believing just as
the conversation crept into the dialogue maybe we keep doubting them
They'll turn it around, so the bomb is on blue bin.
Yes it is.
That's an orcimo.
Fully fortified, Messi doesn't need to move a muscle.
Apex can cover short.
Torgy could catch Apex on an AD and overly.
Oh, he's not moving, is he?
Yep, that's a lovely angle to hold.
Lovely angle to hold.
And there it is.
Dust 2 converted, 12-0, 13-6.
Solid work with that T side,
finishing off with a cherry on top.
home there CT side vitality one up in this series and went away from a semi-final
hi guys mezzie here make sure to sub to ESLCS keep right on
yeah they must have done the homework as well as the info pre-having this booth
Spinks knows exactly what's up mezzie jiggling stairs Spinks holds this here
comes the util confirmation of their suspicions
there's he yeah he's actually gonna be run down good flashes really good
flashes, look at Sphinx, unable to do anything, Mao's perfect into the site.
Converts his nade damage, Apex pushing smoke, but only flames and he's not long for this
world either.
That is a perfect start for Mao's, everything going to plan, Brawland frag it up a storm
with three.
Awesome, first half of the play.
Yeah, Apex is deliberately got himself early deep down ramp towards yellow, avoids their
short Molly and we'll tuck in by the sandbag. Oh wow, tries his luck to search and
the flames quick to it. So consider that dealt with. Mezzie, how's the anchoring
work going? Looking very strong as he does deal with Jimmy. He's just going for a
walk, going for a search. He stays active on his angle and confirms it. So
extends the man advantage to two and it's uncomfortable for the remaining three
of mouths. Bit of chip damage there from the HE, they throw one out. It's always
You see what we can find if there's anyone overstepping the mark towards A.
There's more than enough bodies to deal with this for vitality at the B site.
We're going to be swinging for some jewels.
Boost that up.
Brolin immediately deleted, so as you're continuing the hot hand,
looks more exciting.
What X-Tiles was looking for.
Yeah.
Alright, well, if you can't do any more damage with 45 seconds left on the clock,
I'm sure he'd lobbing out a couple of smokes.
Torgy looking for a gout.
Flamesy, here's the step.
There's a kill for Shuey, and that's all he's going to get.
It is just Torgy now. Galil in hand.
Gonna be more than enough money for a buy
into the next four miles.
So you can hold on to this if you like.
So look for a little bit more damage.
Pick your poison, Torgy.
We're not in a rush.
With winds of a furia phase.
And now the battle with mouse.
So there you have it.
Round time's out. Torgy holds on to the Galil.
All right, big one.
Gonna be telling you just how competitive
this first half will be.
Quite eccentric.
I don't think they want to allow them
I have so much ARAM control this time round.
I want to harass a little bit more Jimmy.
Wow!
I'm just gonna do a big shot on Tamezi.
Yeah, look at that one tapiruni.
Flames, flames!
Oh, I thought he was flashed there!
His hand was over his face but must have had vision so still takes down Zershin.
It costs him a lot of health but he denied that first test and there's a second straight after Shui walking through smoke into Apex.
And Vitality will take that. That's a gift.
You've got no ramp. You've got no stairs. You've got nothing.
I don't think, yeah, Jimmy getting that kill was necessarily part of the plan.
Look, it's great. But you can see that Malz really wanted to fight for this A ramp control a little bit more.
Jimmy gets that kill. He drops back immediately.
I think they just wanted to try and finish towards A. Assuming there was going to be a rotation.
But because Spinks was aggressive with Mezzie, they didn't need to hedge their bets.
They had the info that there wasn't the follow through.
Now a 3v4, Flamesy low.
Not using for info, they're gonna flash him in and no more than info, he gets two more!
Two more kills from Flames!
With a scrap of HP he had, that is a very impactful round.
Alright, Brollo.
He's been known to make some impactful clutches in his day.
He's got 30 seconds.
He needs to isolate this headshot player and he has done so.
Clean headshot onto Apex.
walked on fakes outside windows where he is and could have caught him there on the swing just a little behind him on the tracking
to two
One does it eagle
It's nice to see vitality
Playing some solid counter strike the team who there'd be occasional worries
It felt like they were lacking trust for their individuals apex would be calling a lot of direct rounds
So they didn't have to really think just kind of clobber them to grit into death with
on the cc side of all direct calls on the t-side where you just trade but they played a much more
comprehensive game they've had a lot of individuals contributing in different moments they've had
their star of sight we were getting aces on pistol rounds two of which that's nice to have in your
back pocket but he hasn't been the only component that's firing and hasn't needed to be the only
one that's firing flamesets to big games smicks has been winning some clutches apex he's a
fragging in game leader right he's one of these guys that he can have a rough time but then
and then he can, you know, have a quite a good show and so...
Oh, he can hang! He can hang for sure!
Alright, taking the pace out of this one now.
It's not going to fly early, but look at the response from Vitality.
They're not using their nades early.
There's no threat, no need for us to go for smoke while he defends
if they're not going to force it out of our hands.
I'm intrigued how...
they've...
clear Apex with Flames so active on this angle.
And yeah, Flames will catch the first,
Urshen goes down, Apex now will he be overlooked?
he's not considered it. He hasn't considered it. It's all a free frag for Apex. Patience prevails,
show he swings it in and it's perfect. Oh, Apex, he's up and a great one. Triple kill,
aggressive defense. Mirzi might catch Jimmy, but it's a dink exchange. The AK prevails,
but all the same, the round is won, the job is done.
Likely to see for them, just to go for a couple of upgrades around the saved AK-47,
but craced up from apex and they even go for the yellow molly right to flush anybody back on the deeper line
But apex has played aggressive several times. It's clearly part of the game plan. Oh, dear Jimmy Michael down after time
He should do should be able to find him out. There it is. I were from the top row
Well apex is harassing does not want to give this pace up for free redeploy the yellow smoke will solve them out for now
Yeah, now's a not probing middle. They're not probing B
Spring's forced to extinguish but when they overlook messy this two-man setup
They've got confirmation of Spinks and yeah too comfortable for Jimmy. He'll get himself an opening and it will force mezzie into a more humble hold
See just how much pressure Spinks thought he was under thought he had to take the fight
And I guess if Jimmy gets a crossing and try to spam him through the smoke
Finances available for Spinks for a Rebuy Apex and mezzie could give it a crack but flames the inside were quite low in the finance department so
Maybe go fishing put the rod in the water see if you can find anything
the last one stunning. He's got
three people running at him. He
goes down after the one mouse
that that that will feel
increasingly good now for your
T side campaign three to five
just pace come back into the
mix for mouse. It's not called
land again. Obstinate you
should be able to do that.
You can do that. You can do
that. You can do that. You
can do that. You can do that.
You can do that. You can do
that. You can do that. You
can do that. You can do
that. You can do that.
Obs team making sure they highlight that as a Nade, Chucks Apex.
This is half of his health for the Troubles, they will get the space short, but wasn't worth it.
Equal damage back in exchange.
Yeah, not bad.
They want to flash and pop, they're already reacting a quick boost.
This could be a bit uncomfortable for Mezzi, it's yeah, they just mount orderably.
So guess the info, you'll take that 2B.
And in the meantime Flamesy found Torji through the ramps, but...
Wow.
Stay tucked in, Mezzi.
Ooh.
That's the opposite of staying tucked in.
Look at this.
Stretching their legs, the confidence is priming for mortality, isn't it?
It really is. I mean, when Flames is in form like this, he feels like he can win any fight.
And this would be a crazy one. Yeah, look at that crouch holding the angle.
Zershin will punish his overstepping.
So that puts us at 4-4.
And Smoke on Bridge will delay.
It can break it. Shoe is gonna naid. It's cocked.
It's cleared. Apex. Tough angle to clear.
Overlook by Shoei. Good trade from Zershin back.
3v3 pushing up, 38.
What's the move here?
Oh, Brolin, might be able to find Spinks.
Yeah, it's about to find that timing window.
It may have been an audible retreat.
I think it was, Zai Wu.
Spinks now. Wow, he still delivers the headshot.
Need Spinks to follow.
Super Jimmy's too good.
Super precise, and it's to Bianca left.
You know where he was.
And because Brolin has the rotation,
Jimmy knows to worry about the flank.
God, he's meant to handle this.
Oh, cleanly!
Smoking Kit Chat, we're on!
Brawland towards the elevator position, Mezzi.
Audible.
Brawland should have a heavy advantage in this one.
He knows exactly where he is, picturing the swing and nails it.
Perfect from Brawland.
Maus, that's a gift and Jimmy and Brawland combined.
Chia from Maus as they have put that financial dent.
Vitality have to be down to an eco.
They get a chance to level the game up 5-5
and Brawland picks up right where he left off.
And the head shot this time on to Zywa, aggressing middle.
And I will confirm the suspicions. Yeah, no money left boys. This should be an easy one
session jousting
It's a good word for
Just running at him with a lot
Not say pecs off his horse. Hmm. I
Re-watched Knights tale recently you ever seen a film. Oh mate such a feel-good movie
Apart from the princess that says if you love me you'll lose think that is a bit of a bad maneuver
I don't think that's cool. I don't think that's princess like and it pissed me off
Vitality back in with the guns this time lacking the kit
Lacking a few incendries flashes from chewy at the ready exertion might try make a play and mixing it up
They're mixing it up into spinks is mithold
Problems not prepared for that off angle
Will slow down towards you. He has the bombs, but he has support shoeies with him
has always been able to join this a defense
clock towards short perfect timing
made flash flash and go
oh 8px so so close to death
has always only got one this is great for mouse still finds a second
great for torgy yeah he's on it
bomb's gonna get scooped up rotation from sphinx and mezzy on the way
yet to plant
Torgie's key cap mouths. Chances of a signal.
It looks like Zershin can condemn catching spings through heaven.
Messi, last man standing once more. Smoke, no kit and heaven occupied.
He's going to have to clear this out. Does so. Big start.
Torgie now demanded to clutch as well.
Brolin's had his moment.
Is it Torgie's turn?
Smoke might lead him to get a little panicked.
Messi, that sound they're trying to explain where it's planted.
He throws out the HG, gives Messi a 4 chance!
It presented itself in torgy!
He closes with 4 kills total!
That's a big one. That could very well mean 7.
Given the finances of Vitality.
You wonder where this one all goes wrong.
Opening kill, that's highlighted, but it just turns into this lineup.
So Flamzy gets overrun, Apex gets flashed.
I think with the block on short, he's thinking to himself,
there's no way they're coming through this, but they flash, they push, they harass.
He lines up with Flamzy.
And then you see the difference exertion knowing how he can function in some of these rounds now that the buy is in the
Bin yet again find a route have to invest everything they can
But these clutches the mouse of one the one be ones that they converted ruined the vitality's finances
In two different occasions. Yeah, here we are last round at the half and master leave with the lead on their pick
for a semi-final spot
To avoid the big dogs
Shuri down big fine from flames consistent threat
Search finds perfect moment finding apex spotting out the other flames
Noted brawlin activated. He's up against I will we have aims in clean conversion in middle flame somehow pulls another one out of his hat
Let's fall him into place from ours brawlin too impactful kills on his mid luck
Yeah, really important lurks from problem even in the round where he didn't get any frags
He was able to convert the one V1 with his position
And some tough clutches for Mezzi.
He's had to try and convert difficult rounds rotating over from his bombsite.
Doesn't really have all the information in the world and now it's just spinked.
So one on three situation, has you two no kids?
I think this one's done.
I suspect the same.
You can see the positioning of Maus.
It's diligent.
It's considered.
And it's theirs.
Serpent, got to be happy without one Maus making a statement on their T side.
After a run of five from Vitality,
Maus returned the favour.
13-6 seems a little bit closer than it was.
It was an absolute drubbing, but Maus,
they got warmed up.
They won the pistol, got the conversion, lost five straight,
and then had a couple of clutches.
Brolin with one towards you with another,
and they walk away with a half lead.
Brolin on the jump spot.
Here's the steps.
Trundle's back.
Calls for assistance.
Here, the whole squad's here.
Chev and J-Raz delivering the cameras.
Oh, thought you had a pressure cover to use your smoke.
Well, you will get it out of there. Swing and crane, roll out.
Ooh, still hits one.
That apex could work with flames in combination.
They can take the side that bomb plant exposed.
This is a whiff smoke.
It's a...
That's a sauté smoke.
Yeah.
It's a brave plant spot.
Yeah, flames still adjusting to the new vertigo changes.
Spinks has still hit the shot, though,
and it doesn't look like it's going to cost them the round.
Funny that.
Yeah, that could have really gone wrong.
Look, everybody getting a kill on the round other than Mezzie.
The torch he's getting under pressure was unable to really block the choke point.
I thought, okay, well, it spilled out a little bit deeper.
Might not be the end of the world, so it just gets killed through.
It's a great job from Apex, tracking him down.
Alright, let's see.
Get a little look at Vitality's T-side on Vertigo.
Don't get many opportunities to have a look.
And where did that happen?
Zywu's gone.
Zywu dead early.
Brolin has provided a nice opening kill.
I'm gonna look at Ramp and Zywin loses his life to our full confident aim swing. Let's go Brawland.
Well there are some gaps present on the map right now. Nobody tending to middle four mouse.
Shui's hedged over towards B to assist I think with a flash. They're gonna try and retake this.
But nobody home in Vitality. Still we're playing outside of B Lobby. There's a kill and that could have been a trade.
He's trying to apply a bit more pressure.
Apex could lose the bomb. If Bronon holds that fade, you'll likely peek into it.
On the walk! Ooh, Apex! Good work!
Quick counter-strafe with the S-key. He does manage to hit the shot.
The only thing that Bataliya really have going for the best advantage is the utility.
Wish they're gonna be throwing a whole lot of right now.
The barrage of nades. Hedger will be Molotov down. And oh, he spots him! Good eyes on...
He's so crispy today, it was Dust2, now it's hard to go and Zershin catches Apex walking
through a smoke so Mezzy's gone.
That doesn't even count.
He doesn't even get a chance to start the clutch, Jimmy just swings into him, double
kill for him.
Zershin getting himself one through the smoke on Apex as well.
It looks like it, this time a heftier assault and Mezzy has the bomb so he will have
to join the crew.
Mike.
And no opening death while trying to get that down this time.
They replenish to facilitate the walk.
Different CT setup as well though.
You've got Shui helping out A this time.
Last time it was assisting the B defence.
Flash and go.
There they come.
Drive by, Brolin nails it with Torchy's flash.
He anticipates them on the top, but look at the damage.
Shui's already taken a double kill.
Vitali!
Oh, sent back to spawn almost immediately.
One minute 20 on the clock, Spinks with 30 HP, a bullet would do it, spot it out
now.
They'll double peek.
need to. The bomb in front of them, he comes to them, and that's a Mao's night, that's
a convincing Mao's night, and I think I just saw Cyclo asking for a timeout.
Light investments for Vitality, looks like they will concede the 10th, it's a flash for
Apex and...oh, a bit of a misnade. Apex is going to flash, Xerxion will be ahead
of it. Oh, Spinks is actually taking the head
Off of exertion, Jimmy, he's not flustered, he knows what's up, you couldn't have more
ramp control than that from Brawlant.
You've only found an MP9 so, still tower flashing go, again?
Jimmy, Jimmy, oh so blind, what a flashbang, they could lose the sight cause Spinks is
having his night, it's a triple kill, triple kill, just a deagle, just a deagle chat,
Kev, mostly Glantz! How has this gone so wrong? Four miles, it's hard to comprehend.
Spinks just decided he wanted B and he took it by force. And those are the type
of rounds that you need from an individual like Spinks if you want to
win the trophy here in Cologne. Spinks has been criticized a little bit in
recent times for maybe not having the most impact, the lurks being a little
readable. Two mid, boosted up exertion. Oh, he wants to fight. He actually surprised the
surprise and it's resulted in an opening death of Roland. And another opening kill for Flamesey.
Oh man, what's he got now? I think that's gotta be eight. That will be his eight. Okay, wolf.
Silent dismount, stylish, mouse. Not wanting to give anything away to that mid player.
Apex is going for it. He's gonna be, well, walked into the angle. Torgy.
Jump scare! Good one back! Huge!
Lots of info, lots of info. Maybe he saw all of them there.
Potentially. One trying to get away loses his head to Zywoo.
Jimmy's still there with his rifle. So actually, he's picked one up too.
This can go wrong, but Zywoo doesn't seem to think so.
Jimmy up against the world. Can Jimmy eat planet?
He has found the first.
Yeah, Jimmy was trying to get ahead of the rotation because he heard Mezzie's steps,
but I'm just being sure I had that kill every day of the week.
Now Messi's gonna... is he going? He went, he stopped, he's going now.
You look a bit nervous.
Yeah, understandably, because Jimmy could have beat them on the rotation after that kill.
He could be guarding the line now.
Yeah, that flash tells him he's heading the right direction.
36 points of health. Does that have a molotov he could throw out towards the default line?
Zywoo. Doesn't have the HP! Doesn't matter!
Messi's hit the heavy. It's 9-9.
They got a little bit dicier than it needed to.
A good smoke work so it shouldn't be a problem.
Shouldn't.
Hey Zawoo.
Yeah, here we go.
Found them.
Looses out after one.
Bit hectic now with the loss of the rifle and now Zawoo's using it to great effect
and they are quite low.
These USPs could hit a headshot or two.
Scavenged Nadeships further away.
Vitality's palms start to have a little more sweat upon them.
should be fine we said and yet Torgy's taken down flames they spam but Apex
spams back more lethally a double kill finds Urshin on headshot no armor but
still a problem is Urshin no time the only absentee here is the kit the
frags were there the rotations were on point the vitality deaths getting a
bit sketchy but they can't quite responding kind after the deagle entries
from sphinx into b font mouse take a good stab at doing something similar
harassment on both sides of the map
they declare oh brawland still braves it regardless of the nade damage to his
face 62 to work with it susceptible to a spam or
that will up a second molotov no and caught out nice again flames
is opened up the round. Number nine indeed and ooh no problem there spinning
around as I would provide discovering fire. 11th rather quickly accrued. Flames
you can really do no wrong in these entry scenarios just rip away these
remaining rifles of exertion and jimmy. I mean you definitely coming into the
lengths of Serena having flames in form and confident that is going to be a
conversation. Well the team knows that they're meant to win trophies. When you're in a squad with
the likes of Zywoo on your team, you should be contending for them. And Vitality definitely were.
We'll remind everybody, last time these two teams based, EPL season 19, Grand Final, best of five.
Maus made light work of them. It was 3-0 and of those three maps, Vitality picked maps one and
three, right? So when you keep that in mind, Maus were in hot form, but they're in studio
And well, we're in a studio environment right now. This is also a seeding game
an apex forced into this angle knows where Jimmy is will likely hard clip will
not hard clearing but just to think the impact of that spings 3k digg around
yeah exertion isn't a lot of danger he has no support yeah literally none
Ryan walk out on the smoke by calling the open does well to find the one as he
goes down again 16th death pressure applied by flames clears out close seems
like they want to finish towards a this is the next jewel does brawl play for
information they're looking to pivot between the sights vitality they want to
keep the seesaw open as flames he still picks into what to be yeah he's like
made lots of steps on the stairs he's throwing out extra nades it has got two
players looking even a third not far off on mid so really yours all hinging on
Brawland here. Timing might catch him.
They're X down to Brawland. Huge frag to post.
Doesn't want to rush, doesn't want to panic.
He has Torgy covering his cross, but a missed shot from Torgy.
That's costly.
Not if Brawland hits every shot he takes, though.
Taking out Spinks, now Torgy connects,
and they will pass test number two.
Tony Flames.
He's out of there.
Maybe that's what they're missing.
Flames the opener.
Well, yeah, it might have to be his doing in the next round.
if they can call on him again, lost bonus 1,900 into the next round. Flames, we won't be getting any of that.
Zaru has enough for an AK to send, who's set for sphinx and Apex. They're just in that perfect sweet spot.
Jimmy still has a smoke to block a beat, just used a perfect timing.
He can ask for it better. That's a experienced Bianca with a very good read of the situation.
Now look at this, pre-aiming the boost. That's their only option.
He shouldn't jump up just yet.
But they have, and they lose that, and oh, destruction!
Miles, spray him down, it's Jimmy with a triple, and we are looking at overtime here, folks.
Mezzie with an impossible task.
Who's gonna finish the job?
Who's it gonna be?
Is it Mezzie?
As he finds two clean headshots.
Molly Whitebox swings through, and another one from Mezzie.
Good grief, he gave it a good shake of the stick.
Yeah.
Yeah, we ain't done yet.
Some big shots there, but yeah, 1v5.
That would have been a stylish way for Vitality to close the game,
give us all the entertainment, but still get it done in two.
And it's not like Vitality didn't have money down the stretch.
Great, they, because of the rounds that they were able to pile on after the spink steegle,
they had plenty of cash.
They went into that final round, pretty well equipped.
Messi was the one that started with the Mach 10,
and then almost ended with an AK 1v5.
Clearing.
So he was waiting for, but he still goes down, Shui out-aims him.
Nails the headshot, takes down Zai Wu, an already-mouse.
I was gonna say, hold on to that man advantage, Apex.
Not having any of that gets a very late trade onto his Orphe.
Taking down Shui.
They haven't really seesawed very effectively. It's like that you...
Thershan? Thershan?
Tux 51 brawling looking for answers
Hang it on by a thread here on the fade he goes down session delivers an impactful double can't close
Sphinx says play on they wanted answers
They've heard it this audible step on the Guardian position
He G
Jimmy will have vision as he's exposed nice adjustment
Oh, and Sphinx falls as well mouse that is a clean close
2v2, but they make it look easy.
So I guess if there's no flames, they open as they are in a bit of hot water.
Yeah, for real, and ooh, Jimmy!
Punished by Spinks, so there's an opener.
Gift from Spinks.
As I was talking about the Seasaw, they don't really establish enough control.
They might kiss in the smoke. Hello?
Hey, Peck just touches W and confirms there's someone in the way.
Two kills to the good for Vitality to tie this back up.
You gotta convert this one surely. Best option for him is in a short while.
Yeah, but Torgie, he's a real problem for them at times. See if he can start racking up some more multi kills.
So he's heard that.
That is a very audible rotation.
And so a free frag, the freest of frags there, should we?
With his now steel toe boots on.
Oh, they're rotating back.
Jimmy's dead. Should we remove this as well?
Still might be slightly worried for exertion.
He had hedged over towards A.
He's giving up a little bit of ground while being a diligent clear for his teammates, but they'll be in.
The bomb will go down and Torgy an exertion.
Do you give this one a crack?
Well, it's over time and you've got the finances, so Matt's will have a look, but...
Ah, there's the seesaw, because not only does it keep your sights open and options available,
it can act as a very deadly lurk, especially now with the new hole in Elevator, right?
If you come up, you can be behind them in the middle so much quicker.
Yeah, it does feel valid to like parking someone towards that gap position unless they're diligent on their clears, which they can't always beat.
And dependent.
Nice work. By Tally, they do. Ties up even, 13-13. Will Maus be able to leave with the lead on the end of their CT side.
Let's see what happens with that early damage onto Waveplex, because he is going to be walking around the smoke to clear.
Oh, perfectly timed his flames. Another opening to the Tally.
He's gone quiet for a little while hasn't he? Spinks crossing the smoke, wasn't ready for it!
Oh, completely caught off!
Okay, well now things are looking a bit pear-shaped.
Spinks, another, Jimmy rotates in without any support, torches.
That's a T-smoke!
That's a nowhere he is.
And Spinks, yeah, with a combination inside, will be how are we going to see that T-side fire
this evening over time?
Okay, okay.
Brolin, he does the waterfall smoke, plays behind it, and they're clearing.
you just see three T's down the bottom of the ramp staring directly at ya.
Toji, a 1v5.
Now he's been spotted, dealt with by flames, closing the round as well as opening.
Still a very tough clear.
How are you meant to unravel Brolin unless you catch a timing?
Yeah, Brolin should have him.
Oh, he does. Nails the shot.
Does Spinks do that alone, Brolin's next thought?
Opening kill favours Maus.
looking to keep it level as we have been throughout.
That's to be one of these gambles again from Vitality.
We saw somewhere in the first half of play
where they didn't quite stick the landing.
This time it appears to be the right call.
Blocked at the 52nd mark.
Gonna put too much sweat on Shuey's brow.
Got time to work with Util as well.
Strong angle from Flames.
Yep, just for that reason you can see Zergent,
he overlooks it and it will tie us up
with 40 seconds for on four.
Resmote gap, limits your options.
Flames continues to lay waste to another.
Mezzi in combination does make it a two-on-four
and is really not looking good for Jimmy.
A loud trundle towards the gap position.
A full magazine sprayed.
Brawlin's lurk, you can see they're cognizant.
It's a possibility.
Flames avert his gaze.
Mezzi's not looking, does a just.
And now Jimmy with a crazy transfer attempt,
but 15 is secure.
One round away from the semifinals,
now vitality and two opportunities. Two more consecutive rounds required to go to
OT number two. Shui takes a lot of damage early down to 67.
I forgot about that. So did Vitality. Now Apex is going to have to function without it.
Oh, fight. That's a rocker, darling! He just switched to his nades!
Oh, they didn't expect him. That is a very big open and kill to post. That's such an important round.
What a gift that is from Apex. Oh, and Zaihu spotted a cheeky bit of leg, a bit of ankle, and he does. Convert. Patience on that. Let's Jimmy come to him.
Clucks him through the board, and it's five on three.
The realisation for mouse now. You can absolutely have it on map number one. Now your map choice is going down the gurgle.
And trying to line up nades. Submits the smoke in your face and a bullet there too. Through the boards. Brolin tagged up. Zaihu gets away.
And Messi on quad, you discussed it, it's hard to clear, and oh, oh, oh, Spinks.
They've been kept busy, these smokes, these nades, these spams.
And so, completely overlooking a very fast flank, it's Spinks to finish the double.
Only Torji, what's he got for us?
There's very limited options for him.
Four CTs to get through.
Eight bullets in the magazine.
And the first is a clean headshot.
But down he finals.
Maus will start at the first day of play in the Lanxess Arena.
Gotta be feeling good about that one, and Flames, you can see him on your screen, 28 frags. How many did he end that game on?
Zywuz opened up a fair amount across the Cologne Grids with aces in pistol rounds.
Maybe I'm setting the bar too high here, but I think we all want some tickets to the Zywuz show.
It looks like Flames is going to be the one to get tested over at ramp,
and he'll pound out of there, saw close the gap.
the gap. Oh, there's an opening. Flames on the receiving end of that story
glock and they've got all the space down at lower. Here's Zai Wu. Alright then.
Let's see how he looks to handle this. The door swung open. You would get
pincet if he tries to move forward here. This has got to be flawless from
Zai Wu. He falls at the first hurdle. The game plan gone for vitality.
A saw off to the races here gonna take the first round of the semi-final.
A sucker punch and Vitality leave with no air in their lungs.
The way the saw have used his double door and B is so impressive,
even then keeping it open to cause some concern for Zywoo,
he's caught closing it, in gun rounds you'll see them break it off with an A.
It's so annoying, they've caught so many rotators down on this B bomb site.
This has been the map to go for Saw.
That round, it's over towards the yard.
That expectation falls the other way as well, right?
Faze started slow in the Lanxus.
They paid the price on Inferno.
It felt like individuals weren't there.
Apex is, however, the captain outside.
X star, or maybe current, he's put down.
Saw going to grab those guns and move into the lower side.
Catch from the Ujerks, his press.
Controls that spray very well as Saw deal with the force of vitality.
They may have saved Dharma making their buys that little bit better, but these guns have gone nowhere.
Mezzi, he's getting walked on through the smoke.
Vitality caught. Surprised.
Zaiwu mid-air put down by Ujjerk.
Star of the show with three kills in the second round.
Making a move down towards lower.
Spinks at Apex that wants to deal with here.
Flash is good, but Spinks turns around.
Deals with materials is the first man in the rest of saw now look to try and get out
Hey, oh, that's more like is I will may miss
With those two stars show up for vitality spinks and flames putting together four kills between them
That's doing a disservice to flames
important heaven rotate up. I think the smoke from Mezzi is massive in that round as well.
Couldn't have come at a better time. Allows him to split the fights into 1v1s.
He takes one with him, dropping the bomb.
If they view that attack, forwards gave Barry a chance to get involved for the sore squad.
They don't want Vitality to respond so quickly after those pistol round wins,
but Flames in a ramp. 3k in the last round opens up this one.
Dealing with Ujerx as well. That is the front man of saw dropped out of the round
Nice. Aarastas followed up on two. It's a very very quickly. This saw squad has melted
Under the onslaught of vitality two men down, but they make it into this B site
Plant will be allowed that will be given over as my tally he starts to move around now unique plant spot as well
Without that single-door control there may be ways of vitality can get a stick in
Muteira is in a very powerful position, but we've seen what he can do from that spot.
Zywu drops in, we've got kits, we've got maids, we've got a two-man advantage.
This should be Vitality chomping at the bit.
Oh, Flames cut down, Roman with one, but there's an immediate trade from it.
Story tucked in.
Muteira is going to try and take that contact, try and conceal Story's position.
There's the first one, Story.
Jens Zywu trying to deal with it, and Sphinx swings it out.
It's close.
Down to the wire shore, but it's a vitality round with all this said and done.
Oh, some materials getting flustered there as well, comms.
Not flying as cleanly as they would have liked.
Didn't know who his teammate had killed.
Got away with two from Dark.
Saw now will be.
Another rifle round for the money and for the momentum.
Spinks tries his hand at the aggression here.
That's exactly what Saw were hoping for.
If you did this early man advantage, you're not going to get many around when you get that 5v4 for free.
They really want to deliver on it.
You want to fall down here.
Mezzi with the double apex tries to force the fight.
That's a swing they might come to regret.
Missed Molly up in heaven.
Oh god, they're giving Zywu and Flames away into this round.
The open Zywu out with the first.
So we're going to try and get that bomb planted.
This is the game.
This is the guy to beat.
Zywu trying to land on the line.
and he'll get put down.
Lots of Utah burned early in this round for Vitality.
Grand player needs that support of the Orpias.
Simply nothing there.
Zywu trying to peek in.
So we're just baiting a reaction right now
as they look outside for an entry that will not
materialize unless, as he will jiggle and a chance.
Vitality dance with death.
They live to tell the tale.
Meanwhile, Zywu brings the heat.
One of the stories is this shot.
could have been this one. Anything in the arms as I move that double push gets
punished sore. Once again wait for Vitality to set the precedent there to
respond. Spinks drops down lower quickly here. Fast down through the vent. Apex
trying to make his move as well. They're running through the molly and he'll be
heard. A desperate move for Apex as he tried to get down lower to support
but with Spinks already dead this round might never get going. Apex feeling
like he just has to, you know, play the round himself and win the round as a solo player pushes Lobby at the right time, gets that backstab, has to run through the molly, but by that point, yeah, vitality, enough members have fallen.
That all is suddenly the most valuable thing in the round for vitality, because they ain't winning this.
Saved guns all the vitality you have to work with you.
Seems I will try and get involved early in this game, but for the most part it's fallen on deaf ears.
Over the wards around flames only arm with the USP and so this could be the root in for sore
He just has to drop he can't even do anything here
It's just a warning system an alarm to ring on the ramp
What does start to make its way over?
Zywoo will be close both players with the rifles up in heaven. So he's just dropped in towards the top site
As he the only man who could feasibly rotate over but even he started to readjust and drops down into a as well
So for now you're looking at apex
You're looking at Flames here, these are the two that have got to withstand the saw here and that's not a bad one!
But it's to open! USP of Flames! Deagle of Apex!
It does make things complicated now, but Saw, they're left lacking, they don't have the manpower, they lose Roman over at Ramp, the AK gum's swinging.
Taylor's trying to take up the angle, the story is just so far away.
They've got the bomb on B, how do you even save this round if you're Saw? Are you looking to save?
I don't think you ever do. It feels like they wrote this one off.
Maybe got a bit ahead of themselves right knowing that they're not up against March in that round there
They think that they can just waltz into the B site
Look at one hell of a reminder. That one went rolling as well. Anex just knows how it was
When Sorkin had a huge T side on this first map
Now Baytaz get a chance to win it out a 4-by and reserves as well
Tywoo
Continually looking for this pick and you can notice Sorkin just never giving it they're never giving him the chance
He won't even get to play into this round if the plan goes right
Disaster strikes
This has been a rock over on this top side just the one I've done this time
They're able to turn and deal with flames on the lock
Watch! Spits the tally trade out!
All into a good position! Miss shot from Zai Wuken!
One minute ten seconds!
Old versus new Apex stands to attention as Ujax, oh he's just got past him
That's the plot now. Apex tries to move in swiftly, move in quickly.
Molly gonna displace Ujax forces and forward. Apex spams but through the edge of the smoke, through the corner.
Can he find that glimmer? I hope that moment that brings saw right back to the front of the conversation.
No, it's Apex locking it down.
late cross smokes
So now that pressure is still on right comes down to a 1v1 in that previous round
You go back to the yard gonna go back to outside, but
Doing so they play right into apex is domain smoke blow and open
He was out of ammo as they did so
Story only just makes it down
Roman has to live here. Give some control in the lobby
get smoked out as Saul get this lower control flames in a powerful position
they swing the ball they're coming at all sides and he'll only fall off to one
so we'll get the site and they get the plan there's a molly on apex but it's
not coming out in time maybe we'll get a kill either way the bottom put down and
so two players of saw lurking around Spinks reads the reposition and
materials are 1v4 that is surely too far this time 1v4 on the lowest side
for materials this time this time and no glory for the captain of saw is five
enough for a T-sided team or can they squeeze one out right at the end the
upper-hand cancelled by strong double Molotovs into that A side and they're
gonna pop ramp instead of playing to the corner running in and Flames feasts
two kills before the womb is here and he can shut them down as well only
One, should be enough. Vitality pre-drop B, the Saw walk into the trap.
Apex gonna go swinging out.
Oh, what? What's that?
Saw have not lost out, the first half of Nuke yet.
Across Cologne, this might be the first time it looks to happen to them.
In the semi-final, the next Roman can bail.
A quick smoke on the top of me.
Zywu looks for this entry kill, he's spotted Batyrus.
Couple of players in his crosshairs, but he's shooting his teammates in the back of the head.
They get out of the way, someone hunts down the Tyra's, Flames taking space and Vitality own the yard.
He's off into the heavens.
Gonna try and lend a helping hand to Spinks as he looks to chase down that top player.
Story actually gonna get dropped on, Flames changes target and Zai Wu taps Roman out.
They know that Ujerks is up here in heaven. He's living on borrowed time, but it's two low HP players that are trying to...
Oh, he allowed!
and now succeeding that.
Arostos, moments late.
Moments late from the double that was needed.
Spots Flames make it up into the heavens.
But the rest of Vitality go elsewhere.
Flames is just the decoy.
Arostos has this first kill to find,
but then the true challenge begins for Arostos,
dropping down lower.
Zywoo's given him a little bit of room to work with.
A chance in at the round,
but double swung.
Zai Wu leads them and Saw struggled to land on their feet in this semi.
That's a good start.
Force up, one FAMAS and it gets the job done.
Let me go for this force.
Tyris Kyraward gameplay for Saw.
If they can break through early, this game suddenly opens back up.
And so moves are getting made now, but it looks like Spinks saw something.
Four spinks.
As he tells Mezzi, turn around, deal with the door push.
They put a stop to the lobby aggression.
Back in awards main now, and that's where Zai Wu waits.
Piece by piece, this source CT side push gets picked apart.
And Jerk's looking for anything but vitality.
They've concealed their movements.
The whole map is one big question mark to Soar.
We're gonna go looking over towards me and they lost so is I will hear who jokes
Here's the footsteps now as he looks to make his move looks to make the play backstab on three through main
They're not ready for this. That's the opportunity. That's the chance
Force by round does not prevail vitality
able to withstand it from 4v5 right off the top
Everything is working for vitality right now and I continues in this round
So, takes a while for him to really find his impact here, but that double, into Soar's most important gun round yet, that is going to leave a mark.
Absolutely devastating way to begin your CT side rifle rounds, as I was not done.
There's more players on his plate, just pick up the fork, flick back, can't connect.
The window for the backstab might start to close soon, Aros Doss boxed in, makes spot in now and Spinks makes quick work of it.
Zawoozop finds its form and we just, Muteira is left standing.
Oh, oh my god, they're coming down the vent after him. Apex wants to take everything out. He wants to add insult to injury.
Muteira holds off for a moment but he can't find the second man and so everybody falls.
Vitality are relentless.
I mean that just speaks to even the knowledge for vitality. They know he's a lower player
They know he's gonna be that guy going down ramp at the start and coming up secret
They have done their homework. They were well drilled for this match. And yes
I would did nothing in the first half, but the one time we require him to stand tall
He comes out with three kills on the AWP a back breaking
economy ruining round at 11-5
experience teams, tenure teams, nine rounds straight for Vitality can they
close it with a flawless ten? Spinks seems to think so but Roman Clearsen
coming out of the door, Sora given a shot across outside for Vitality, gonna
set Zai Wu up yet again to try and find this outside pick he's got to beat
down on story in an uncomfortable position to clear as I would goes the smoke in this base story from afar picks it off
5v3 for sore
Very important you don't give this one away
I think if you're sore at this point, it's more of a recovery just feeling like you're you're still fighting in this semi-final
You want to try and stop 10 straight to the win for vitality?
And so five on three two players tagged up
It'd be a fool to be counting Vitality out of this one.
Flames moves in, goes for the kill,
but there's Muteiros with an instant trade.
Apex spotted out in garage,
and Muteiros will get the better of him in the head to head.
They stopped the 10 round streak for Vitality.
Stopped them at nine.
Vitality coming in quick outside.
Apex over the smoke, trying to pick the captain.
All Muteiros, dangerous cross, and they're already down B.
U-Jokes is coming up, Apex avoids capture for now.
They have no idea.
There's Apex getting his revenge.
At this sort of score line, Apex gets a terrifying degree
of freedom to take those sort of risks.
Walks the smoke outside.
His teeth by tallying up.
Holds now, waits for re-aggression.
Apex trying to carve the path for vitality.
That is their counter.
Well, Apex get all five to seal the deal for Vitality.
He's teed them up for the victory, and it's only story left to stop them.
But this story might not be about Saw.
Might not be a testament to them.
Might not be a monument to Saw's tenacity, the upsets.
The Cathedral might...
Vitality is my pick.
Starting over on the T side, and I think the Deaths did a fantastic job of highlighting just how scary
These Vitality t-sides have been
Soar have got a monumental task ahead of them
Wonder they might not be made up for that will get called into question here
He'd up for the lower take at least is our star. So he's gonna find himself at the right place
They're able to start off new strong. Will it be the same on dust to Nate down into lower doesn't find the damage
They were looking for and instead by tally state their clay into this mid-control
I can't get over to the right side of middle at least here to try and put his stuff to the mid-take
and he will over one flames now we look at Ujax that's a collateral that's how you want to open
two quick kills in the amount of backplot but Ujax wanting even more will get bit up by Zawoud
there's Apex coming up through middle and this one's not done yet gonna get planted as Apex has to get the reload
Roman tries to make his move it's down to the wire it's not much with the sidearm and there's two
It's in this for story. They're still pages in this chapter
Maybe saw can show us something
But they will have to earn it every step of the way a near 2v4 for vitality it looked beautiful
Vitality force out of rage flashes out long they pop that molly with a smoke and they spill out aggression from you
Jokes almost punished
Got to get Zaewoo in the pit with that scout.
Let them get to work.
The doors open.
A day in the office for Zaewoo.
There is some very confident moves getting made here from Saw.
They do open up this game.
They could still get punished for those.
But it feels like they've decided if this is how it all ends
they don't want to go quietly into that good night.
Roman gonna get joined over inside of this day bomb site.
Vitality looks at me.
One-hines, raw the luck!
So that pistol clutch, that pistol pick up, four-story might never come to matter.
The results never come to pass, vitality.
Immediately turn up the heat and that's what saw having all the info, everyone, over to Ward's A and the man advantage.
They had everything they could have asked for and still it was not enough.
enough just what you would want from a team you know and will win trophies the
question is is cologne one of them this Molly gives me tears a second chance at
life here it's pricey still swings they didn't know you were bad his position
but sort of feeling the pressure bit by bit getting picked apart on the CT
side I don't even break the smoke they want to take these fights they
Another entry to the tally. This time he doesn't start cold, 6-1 on Zywoo.
He won't be at the forefront of this round, holding that mid rotation, but sort of solidified positions, and that might be to their detriment.
Molly Burns' late story has to swing, and it's actually MP9 sniping him out from shore side.
Vitality may get blocked but they don't worry they don't mind a man up and Zayu still in the middle
Look at this late reaction from saw. I like they're playing together. They've not hit the nail on the head
They're gonna get severed by Spinks and he gets out for free
His presence over a mid poses an awkward question here. Do you keep trying to hunt him down?
You've lost control of the A site
He goes nowhere
This is running the risk of being a great punishing round and there's that Zywoo AWP
Arastas
Surplus to requirement here left runner hold on to the gun inside of the B side
If you look at that minimap vitality and feel in a very forgiving mood right now
They want to take everything away. They've got that info
So a few more players
Red hot as
Vitality stormed the board and you can go as far as saying you know
Zaywu wasn't a requirement on that first map.
Well, in this one, he's making himself one, making himself a mainstay.
Ooh, story never fires off.
Oh, he never even had the chance to fight!
They're able to thrive here.
4 on 2.
Even as return ascender, what's going on?
Headshot through the door.
And Zaywu looked to embark on a 2 on 4.
He's dropped the AWP, he's here to win the round right now.
Vitality, I dare say they've got a damn good shot.
Now through the tunnels first.
Oh, Zai Wu out of all the ways this could have started.
That's what you want.
It's well and truly a first.
Zai Wu.
Carves the path in for Vitality.
That bomb planted.
Now it's Saw that find themselves under pressure.
They're the ones.
Oh no!
This Vitality have pulled back a 2-on-4.
Moutiris, what is he supposed to do?
Can he succeed?
I think that's scary for Saw here,
They're flying so blind in this round.
They've completely given up control over middle.
Any noise, any utile that comes out makes them paranoid.
That smoke in CT causes you problem for leaving this A site.
So right now Vitality, even more goes their way.
Flames comes up big on the spam.
Wherever they go, they find themselves in a 5v2.
So for Vitality, it's about grouping, going together into the tier 8.
And he finds them both over on short.
He's reignited the hope for sore.
Will that be enough? Time is running low. On Vitality's T side, one more man over us.
It's Moutiris, last man to beat. Oh no!
Try to slow it down!
Watch Kilparostos coming up on Elevator and finding that headshot angle. It had to happen.
Flash out long apex. Just gunning. Look at the par thing.
An entry. So easily done. Years of experience in both roles. He puts it together.
He puts it to use.
It's a good angle.
Not normally the guy to don it, but with Story out of the round.
He has to try, Molly forces him wide right into the arms of Messi.
And Sora just so far away.
Flames again!
Half of his kills that he hasn't even seen the people he's shooting at.
The stars have aligned for Flames.
Mouse won't gloot down.
They're even hunting they're gonna find them waiting till this round is unloosable
And they're gonna run booze
into low
To the clash
It's here is never been attacked like that dirty
This is a statement game from vitality right now just playing slow and steady on the T side group hits
Every entry they need
someone who's caught a lot of flak for how he really does wear his heart on his
sleeve yeah the last of a kind breed of Counter-Strike player but I've seen him
on stages all the way back think 2015 some of the highlight reels that guys
like apex were able to bring forward redefines himself in 2020 to become the
captain of Vitality and over time he is growing into this role he's learned
to excel in the Vitality jersey and now he's putting up the numbers to boot
alongside at these two sides and how good Vitality are looking here how it's
felt like a team game not the Zywu show. Testimony to what he's able to bring to
the table. Double digits secured this French contingent of Vitality looking
to bring them glory. And last year it was all about peaking at the right time
right being prepared for that Paris Major winning it on home soil they warmed up in anticipation
they got their ducks in a row they took that trophy but right now the same might be happening for
vitality to capture a trophy that is alluded these players alluded this organization and
alluded apex through so many years they wait and see if they're given anything early they can
feel the terror that courses through the veins of soar, knowing that that dream might be about to come
to an abrupt and brutal end. Vitality have the mid control, they wait outside of long, they can't
set a foot wrong here, Messi waits and he is rewarded. Flames dead down in middle but Vitality now
Now look to go up in the tempo for this A-play.
Splay baiting on the shot as he comes swinging, vitality two kills from it, a double-digit heart.
To tender stay saw at the end of Dust 2.
Zywoo goes swinging, another man falls, bomb getting plugged.
Can they get up in time or can Nezzi stop them?
It's only Arostos, he's had a quiet game today.
He's got a stand for 1v1, Spinks, he's taking them.
Can he get on the bomb? There's no kit right now.
Apex slowing down, swings in, and Vitality take the round.
Here in the Cathedral, and Vitality confessed to nothing.
They feel no remorse.
They're what make Vitality special right now.
Apex is right up there alongside the jewel
of French counter-strike in Zhaowu.
And he's playing with some confidence.
Straight up middle, finding the head shot.
Traded back in damage alone.
Flames hides.
Buried at the back of the pit.
The saw come for the clear.
Have they got the manpower to do so?
Were they too focused on Apex on this crossroads?
He draws them in.
They don't check.
A jump will do.
It might be too late.
Flames takes two.
And saw now, with all the info away, with the bomb dropped,
and players falling like flies,
it feels like Vitality are ready to pluck another pistol.
Let's say the hope dies last, hope well and truly dies if you fall short in this pistol round by Tality.
Four on two.
Haven't set a foot wrong yet.
And there's Zai Wu with the closer.
It's about a last hurrah trying to make it prettier, but I don't think my Talit here in the mood to give anything up right now.
And Saul might not even get a four by if he goes to plan.
Pistols running amuck in middle. They find a couple of entries.
Can they flood out on this B-bomb site?
Mezzi on his own, just hiding inside of the site.
They line up, double kill, turning back.
Story stops him, but Matias' lurg comes up with nothing.
Story's on the clock.
1v2, he could go for the bomb.
He's going for the kill instead,
but they are right there behind the door.
Molly forces Flames, and he goes, and Story saves the day.
Saw survived one more round.
Vitality get ahead of themselves playing into the 2v1.
You can't underestimate the individuals.
Arostos, a more kill to open up this round.
They're so far behind that they are still refusing to give up.
Mezi over in middle, just the one and done off the deagle.
That's opened up the route to the B-plane. Saw are aware of that.
They're going for these grouped plays, these marches out into the B-side.
This is what we saw from this squad in that quarterfinal.
It was so potent.
Bill said that started to click back into place now.
No AWP for Vitality.
Zaiwu sits alone in the site.
Flash playover in the middle.
Spinks tries to get involved early.
Sora wearing his flash is good.
Moutiris picks up that opener.
5-5 on 4.
They make that fight nice and easy for Moutiris.
Flash bang to tee him up.
But now they're going to Zaiwu.
Now they're gonna go into the front man of this Vitality squad.
Tucked in, has support from Flames over on the long side.
Good timing on that peek and you see Zywoo in the kill feed.
That's gonna instill a bit of fear in Saw.
It's Tucked tail, run the other way.
Try and get in over to Wards B.
Mezzi, waiting here in the window,
has Sopel from his captain.
First kill comes through.
Are they ready for a pose?
Are they ready for that second man?
The captain, Vitality's captain.
France's captain, Apex has the round!
Hi guys, Mezzi here, make sure to sub to ESLCS, keep right on.
But too far gone, too slow to star, too much to stop this vitality.
And now there is nothing left, all roads lead to ruin for sore.
It's here is one kill in the bottom and middle, it goes untrated.
Swings on out, but he can't get a bearing on Apex and now speaks.
This time here to lend a helping hand to Nezzy, they get funneled into the killing field to the b-site and they live to tell the tale
Saw try to break in
Can flames and apex stop them and man down in the retake?
You see Vitality win this round before
fake
Will vitality wait will they relent?
Or do they bite for the next opportunity?
They're really trying to bait them in, but Vitality keep calling their bluff, Apex swings it wide, and third time's the charm here as they chase him down.
What Vitality got himself, a depinical counter strike.
I've shown us phenomenal T sides all through this tournament taking down some of the best teams and best players in the world
Time to see if they can add one more skull to the cabinet
Team vitality CT side full armor versus a ripen ready sore
Brushing off the jitters of yesterday
So I always opened up a fair amount across the Cologne groups of aces in pistol rounds
maybe I'm setting the bar too high here but I think we all want some tickets to
the Zywoo show it looks like Flames is gonna be the one to get tested over at
ramp and he'll bound out of there saw close the gap
oh there's an opening Flames on the receiving end of that story Glock and
they've got all the space down at lower here's Zywoo alright then let's see
how he looks to handle this door swung open he would get pincet if he
tries to move forward here. This has got to be flawless.
From Zai Wu, he falls out of the first hurdle.
The game playing gone for Vitality.
A saw off to the races here.
Going to take the first round of the semi-final.
A sucker punch.
And Vitality leaves with no air in their lungs.
The way they saw have used this double door
and B is so impressive, even then keeping it open
to cause some concern for Zywoo, he's caught closing it.
In gun rounds, you'll see them break it off with an aid.
It's so annoying.
They've caught so many rotators down on this B-bomb site.
This has been the map to go for Saw.
Here's the thing, man, Vitality,
they've had a lot of runs of dealing with the pressure, right?
I think for Saw, the worst way this could have possibly started
would be with Vitality winning the pistol.
Because Saw, they've been feeling pretty good throughout this event.
It feels like things have just been clicking into place.
They've been baiting each other.
they've been faith in the team. We don't know if they can take that early blow, right?
And so they at least get this pistol on the board. Now you're up against my talent. You
never get to ease off here. You've got to be 110% throughout. But it's at least the
good start they were hoping for.
That round, it's over towards the yard.
That expectation falls the other way as well, right? Faze started slow in the Lanxus.
They paid the price on Inferno. It felt like individuals weren't there. Apex is,
However, the captain outside, X-Star, or maybe current, he's put down.
So we're going to grab those guns and move into the lower side.
Catch from U-Jugs is crisp, controls that spray very well as Soar deal with the force of vitality.
They may have saved armor, making their buys a little bit better, but these guns have gone nowhere.
Mezzi, he's getting walked on through the smoke, and Vitality caught, surprised.
Zaiwu mid-air put down by Ujerk, star of the show with three kills in the second round.
Just FaZe looked so flustered yesterday, they came in so cold.
You wonder what that game could have been if Inferno was just the typical FaZe that we expect.
Vitality cannot afford to have that same slow start.
One more eco, and then the game begins.
I think SOR made a lot of fans yesterday.
I think they've earned them.
I think everyone's kind of romanced by what they put forward here.
I think for a lot of the top teams,
one of the problems is Nuke is always a map you look to play.
The best teams in the world always excel on Nuke.
And so I think SOR are always going to have this map
waiting if they want it.
Peek Na'Vi, Peek Astralis, Peek NIP back in the day and he was the go-to.
One of the mainstays of these rosters.
Just up against the pistols, this is sore with their chance to have a nice clean start for this semi-final.
And it's more of these grouped hits. We've seen these a lot yesterday.
Oh! Right into the pistols!
Peace.
Numbers don't save them there.
Moutir is going to try and hold off these vent rotates, but a three on three
gives way to a chance for Vitality that fast rotate is put down.
Ujerks, that is real clean, only the pistol's short,
but it's the fashion in which he picks them up.
Saw are just not afraid to take these fights.
They will swing you, they will go for the kill every single time,
and they have the firepower to back up their torque.
Another multi-kill for Ujerks on the anti,
but we said we wait for the rifles before we sound the alarms.
Zai Wu's orb and appearance into round 4 glance.
We might all be blessed in the cathedral right now because first gum round played and you get to see Zai Wu bring out that orb straight away.
You want him to make his presence known, you want him to instill that terror that Zai Wu is capable of and you want him to do it early.
Now when the yard meets here is...
Man, who jerks? They're the ones trying to get across here.
Sayu, maybe going to try his hand at the timing shot.
Doesn't want to reveal it, not for free.
Make them learn the hard way.
Talked about Sores, Groups, Struggles and 4v5s.
They rely on that advantage more than most teams.
Sayu's given nothing in the yard.
And Sore hang on, bomb in Lobby.
Making a move down awards lower.
Spinks at Apex that wants to deal with here.
Flashes, Group, and Spinks turns around.
Deals with Materias as the first man in, the rest of Saw now look to try and get out a...
...Messi is on guard!
Good for the first, trade comes through, Ujjörg's gonna try and fly off the bench here, they're going right into Zywoo, but there's the support!
Flames from...
That's more like it, Zywoo may miss!
Where those two stars show up, vitality, spinks and flames, putting together four kills between them.
That's doing a disservice to Flames.
Important heaven rotate up. I think the smoke from messy is massive in that round as well
Couldn't have come at a better time allows him to split the fights into 1v1s
He takes one with him dropping the bomb
Team effort from vitality gets them on the board the Lancers is certainly lit up this afternoon
Divided in the vitality versus saw man shop. Oh, what you expected
But I think yesterday, a lot of the Vitality fans were cheering for Soar.
They didn't want them to face FaZe in the semi-finals.
They wanted the easy run. They wanted the underdog.
The question is, have they bitten off more than they can chew?
Excuse their view that Tag4 has gave Barry a chance to get involved for the Soar squad.
They don't want Vitality to respond so quickly after the official round wins with Flames in a ramp.
3K in the last round opens up this one. Dealing with Ujjurks as well, that is the front man of Saur dropped out of the round.
Arostas followed up onto. And so very very quickly this Saur squad has melted under the onslaught of Vitality.
Two men down but they make it into this B site.
Plant will be allowed, that will be given over as Vitality starts to move around now.
Unique plant spot as well.
Without that single-door control there may be ways that Vitality can get a stick in.
Ruter is in a very powerful position, but we've seen what he can do from that spot.
Zywu drops in, we've got kits, we've got Nade to go a two-man advantage.
This should be Vitality jumping at the bit.
Flames cut down, Roman with one, but there's an immediate trade from it.
Story tucked in.
Ruter is going to try and take that contact, try and conceal Story's position.
There's the first one, Story.
Jets, Zywu trying to deal with it and Sphinx swings it out.
Down to the wire shore but it's a vitality round with all this said and done.
Oh, so Matyrus getting flustered there as well, comms.
Not flying as cleanly as they would have liked. Didn't know who his teammate had killed.
Got away with two from dark.
And Matyrus just can't piece it together, can't get in cover in time.
Vitality, back to back rounds.
Worst case scenario would have been winning your first rifle and going back to pistols.
They will remain above water.
This is where Vitality should start to get control of the game on the CT side of you.
You know they were expecting this pick from Sota Day.
Apex says he watches their nos.
They prepped for their opponent.
Vitality not here to underestimate anyone.
Back of garage, just the pistols to worry about.
This is a chance to pad the stats out for Vitality.
Keep the round nice and clean. Maybe try and get Zywu activated.
This him and Apex very swiftly deal with this Yardasaur.
How does Saw...
Shaw Zawoo falls.
No tears, all alone with the Deagle.
Can't expect to get anything else done.
See when Apex match up outside, Apex comes out swinging.
Right, Tati, you have the straight shooters right now.
Spinks and Flames are looking solid to begin this game.
Of course, we're always going to talk about Zawoo,
especially on a stage where the supporting cast is there
without a doubt. Zawoo yet to be truly tested in this match.
Saw now will be another rightful round for the money and for the momentum
Spinks tries this out of the aggression here
That's exactly what saw we're hoping for
Gifted this early man advantage. You're not gonna get many around when you get that 5v4 for free
So they really want to deliver on it
Merzy with the double apex tries to force the fight
But that's a swing they might come to regret missed Molly up in heaven
Oh God, they're giving Zywoo and Flames away into this round.
Biorpa Zywoo out with the first.
So we're gonna try and get that bomb planted.
This is the game, this is the guy to beat.
Zywoo trying to land the lancest, and he'll get put down.
Story, ready to relinquish it the way of Vitality yet.
And they grabbed Biorpa as well, which certainly could feature Vitality,
but they've got to crunch the numbers.
Tank pause is very important.
I think a lot of this is gonna come down to the buy.
Vitality get caught off guard with that A-hit.
Mezzi does more than you can expect in a molly full flash double.
But no clutch here for Vitality. They will fund that Zywul Warp.
It's going to leave someone lacking.
And the round player takes the hit.
So I wonder who they're supporting.
Vitality.
They've got the back end of the crowd behind them.
The Hornets.
Play their tune, will Vitality play along with it?
saw now as they sit back in the lobby once again hoping that Vitality try and
tame them early try and go for that initial fight what are you till burned
early in this ramp of vitality ramp player needs that support of the
orps simply nothing there so I will find a peek in so we're just baiting a
reaction right now as they look outside for an entry that will not
materialize unless as he will jiggle and a chance Vitality dance with
Death they lift to tell the tale. Meanwhile, Zywoo brings the heat.
One of the stories of this shot, they could have been this one.
Oh, dear.
And anything in the hands of Zywoo, then double push, gets punished.
Store, once again, wait for Vitality to set the precedent.
They're there to respond.
Spinks drops down lower quickly here.
Fast down through the vent. Apex trying to make his move as well.
But running through the molly, that will be heard.
A desperate move for Apex as he tried to get down lower to support.
It's already dead. This round might never get going. Apex feeling like you just have to, you know, play the round himself and win the round as a solo player pushes lobby at the right time gets that backstab has to run through the molly.
But by that point, yeah, vitality enough members have fallen. That all is suddenly the most valuable thing in the round for vitality because I am winning this.
saw back to their winning ways with five T rounds and I wonder how many pauses we
see vitality burn early in the game. Can X-tiles solve this problem?
The sword starts swinging. Always in the eyeliner that trophy. Always a pointy
reminder of what it is you're competing for. And the craziest part is Zaw will
never be the favorite. Not at this tournament at least right against
Underdogs against Vitality, no chance, against whoever they meet from that Malznar v. Game.
You would have your money the other way, but they don't believe that.
They're going for gold.
Saved guns all the Vitality you have to work with here.
You've seen Zawoo try and get involved early in this game,
but for the most part it's fallen on deaf ears.
And for the wards around Flames, only armed with the USP,
so this could be the route in for Zaw.
He just has to drop. He can't even do anything here.
do anything here, it's just a warning system, an alarm to ring on the ramp.
And what does start to make its way over?
Zywoo will be close, both players with the rifles up in heaven.
Zywoo just dropped in towards the top site.
I see the only man who could feasibly rotate over,
but even he started to readjust and drops down into A as well.
So for now, you're looking at Apex, you're looking at Flames here.
These are the two that have got to withstand the saw here.
That's not a bad one, but there's two open!
USP of Flames! Deagle of Apex!
Does make things complicated now, Prisor.
They're left lacking the gun of the manpower.
They lose Roman over at ramp. The AK gum's swinging.
The team is trying to take up the angle. The story is just so far away.
They've got the bomb on B. How do you even save this round if you're sore?
Are you looking to save?
I don't think you ever do. It feels like they wrote this one off.
That's a disaster.
Bomb going in first.
They were not ready for the double set up and somehow vitality do it with pistols
That is a real sucker punch to the source confidence now they even come in with two guns and they're not required
Yeah, it's not like it's the hero weapons that did get away with that round
It's a USP and a Diggle
The Rob source chance of that lower play
Finally seeing some mistakes from sore. It was about time
time. Maybe got a bit ahead of themselves, right? Knowing that they're not up against
March in that round there. They think that they can just waltz into the B site. Look at
what a hell of a reminder. What went rolling as well. Tight game. Apex just knows how important
that is. Saving themselves when Saw could have had a huge T side on this first map.
Now my time to get a chance to win it out. A full buy and reserves as well. Tywoo
Continually looking for this pick and you can notice Sory just never giving it. They're never giving him the chance
He won't even get to play into this round if the plan goes right
disaster strikes
As he's been a rock over on this top side just the one who done this time
They're able to turn and deal with lanes of the lobby. Watch!
The Vitality trade-out onto a good position. Nice shot from Zairouka!
One minute ten seconds
Old versus new, Apex stands to attention as Ujjaks, he's just got past him.
That's the plot now, Apex tries to move in swiftly, moving quickly.
Molly's gonna displace Ujjaks, forces him forward, Apex spams, but
through the edge of the smoke, through the corner, can he find that glimmer?
I hope that moment that Bringsaw, right back to the front of the corner.
Brains be the brawn, and the brains wins every time.
Fantastic reposition from Apex, top-high.
Means you judge a start, he can't escape,
and Apex can wait out that smoke.
Beautifully done, even though it gets a bit hairy
in the middles, Iwu still looking.
Beatable right now, still looking mortal.
Not a good sign for the longevity of this game,
But Apex is stepping up and showing up in stage on the stage.
So many of these rounds coming down to Vitality's captain.
I mean, if Apex is the eagle that takes the attention away
and lets Flames get the kill in the lower hit,
it's him there winning out the 1v1.
No, that pressure's still on, right?
It comes down to a 1v1 in that previous round.
Gonna go back to the yard, gonna go back to outside, but...
Doing so, they play right into Apex's domain,
Smoke's low and open, thankfully he's not punished for that.
He was out of ammo as they did so.
The story only just makes it down.
Reven has to live here, give some control in the lobby,
get smoked out as, so we'll get this lower control flames
in a powerful position.
They swing the door, they're coming at all sides
and he'll only fall off to one.
So we'll get the psych and they get the plan.
There's a molly on Apex, but it's not coming out in time.
Maybe it'll get a kill, either way the bomb's been
put down and saw two more players of saw lurking around,
Spinks reads the reposition,
and Materias a 1v4 that is surely too far this time.
1v4 on the lowest side for Materias.
For this time, this time, no glory.
For the captain of Saw, he's stunned the world
with that 1v4 down here yesterday,
but Vitality do not let him have the space,
the room to get comfortable.
They swarm him in at the decon door.
And Vitality looking to leave this first half in pole position.
I mean, they've absolutely saved themselves in this game, right?
This could have gone apparently wrong without that eco win.
This could have been sore with the momentum.
Vitality, instead, break the money, force that force by, force this force by,
and sore playing catch-up.
They're playing desperate.
Is five enough for a T-sided team?
Or can they squeeze one out right at the end?
The upper hit canceled by strong double molotovs
into that A-side and they're gonna pop ramp and step play to the corner.
They come running in and Flames feasts two kills before the Wu is here
and he can shut them down as well. Only one should be enough.
Vitality pre-drop B, the Saw walk into the trap.
Apex gonna get swinging out.
Oh my, what's that?
That leaves it all on Roman.
Saw and Nolop across Cologne.
This might be the first time it looks to happen to them in the semi-final.
And that's Roman.
match it with knowledge. Apex mentioned how he's been reviewing their demos.
He's been going over the saw game plan.
And boy does that show off, not just in his individual numbers,
but in the scoreline, first time that saw, lost out the first half on Nuke,
across all of IEM Cologne so far.
Yeah, there were some shaky rounds in there, and this is all despite.
So I wound up coming in, looking very cold, missing some shots,
Not looking like his traditional self. We know he struggles on a stage but vitality right now at doing it without him
Can the P250 reignite the fire for Zai Wu. He crosses outside a quick smoke on the top of main
The Zai Wu looks for this entry kill. He spotted the tears
A couple of players in his crosshairs, but he's shooting his teammates in the back of the head
They get out of the way. Someone hunts down the tears flames taking space and vitality on the yard
He's off into the heavens.
He'll try and lend a helping hand to Spinks as he looks to chase down that top player.
Story actually going to get dropped on. Flames changes target.
And Zai Wu taps Roman out. They know that Ujerks is up here in heaven.
He's living on borrowed time, but it's two low HP players that are trying to realize
and now succeed in that.
Aros Dost, moments late, moments late from the double that was needed.
needed. Spots Flames make it up into the heavens but the rest of Vitality go
elsewhere. Flames is just a decoy. Arostos has this first kill to find but then
the true challenge begins for Arostos dropping down lower. Zywu's given in a
little bit of room to work with. A chance in the round but double swung Zywu
leads them to their demise. Vitality pistol round secured as they continue to
to rack up rounds, Scrooge.
Saw's mark picked.
It's like we can't be the star of the show right here.
At least play with your team back off,
set up that crossfire,
let your captain throw the smoke in,
play it by the books.
And Vitality do exactly that.
Flames with two huge entries,
gets that upper control
and allows Vitality to run the bomb to B.
It's a really good look right now.
Out of the French organization.
And Saw struggled to land on their feet
In this semi, that's a good start.
Force up, one FAMAS and it gets the job done.
Let me go for this force.
Tyris, high reward gameplay for Saw.
If they can break through early,
this game suddenly opens back up.
And so moves are getting made now,
but it looks like Spinks saw something,
so Spinks, force Spinks.
As he tells Mez, he turn around,
deal with the door push,
they put a stop to the lobby aggression,
back in a war to main now,
And that's where Zaywu waits.
Piece by piece, this sore CT side push gets picked apart.
And Jerks looking for anything but vitality.
And concealed their movements, the whole map is won.
Big question mark to Zaw.
They're going to go looking over towards Main.
They lost so Zaywu here.
Ujjaks, here's the footsteps now.
As he looks to make his move, looks to make the play.
Backstab on three through Main.
They're not ready for this. That's the opportunity.
That's the chance. And it falls short.
Forced by a round does not prevail.
Vitality able to withstand it from 4B5 right off the top.
They put a stop to that force.
And with it, they look to lock in double digits.
Yeah, they listen to the captain.
They're great timing to make the freeze call.
Three players of vitality just standing still across the map
and so come to them.
Feeling the pressure this time.
More than ever, playing from behind.
Saw with almost nothing in this round.
Should be Vitality's double digits.
This whole round comes down to two upgraded pistols and a Zeus for Saw.
For Vitality, even now, they're not jumping the gun.
They know they're not going to be up against anything crazy here.
They're trying to keep it safe.
Stinks with a lot of room out into the topside.
He melts through that defense.
Aros Tosk, Westfield thinking as he chases them.
So, looking to go flawless here, our Vitality.
Should have no problem.
The bombs are bigger threats than these positions on pistols.
Although no one's looking main, there was a will, there was a way, but...
That's been this game so far for Saw.
A chance, not capitalised upon.
Pistol finds one.
The Vitality close with ease.
10-5 right now.
Saw with limited opportunity to make this map interesting.
There's one thing in the quarter-final where it felt like
They were always competitive with phase. It was always neck-in-neck here. You're staring at a big deficit one way
You have no room for error vitality me mark off to this very cushiony lead
They've got five rounds of space between them and saw saw a feeling all the pressure. It's saws my pick vitality
Done their research done their homework
That's it. Everything is working for vitality right now and it continues in this round
So, takes a while for him to really find his impact here, but that double into Soar's most
important gun round yet, that is going to leave a mark.
Absolutely devastating way to begin your CT side rifle rounds.
As Zaru's not done, there's more players on his plate.
Just pick up the four, flick back, can't connect.
So I was in no hurry, but materials might be re-emerging from below.
Vitality suddenly disappeared, so I was tucked all the way back.
Flames put pressure on.
Sordona, where this round is ending up, it is undecided for Vitality, grouping in the lobby now.
You jerks with fantastic timing, but this A site is right for the taking.
Window for the backstab, might start to close soon, Aros Doss.
Boxed in, they've spotted him now, and Spitz makes quick work of it.
Zawoozorp finds its form, and with Jess Mutira is left standing.
Oh, oh my God, they're coming down the vent after him.
Apex wants to take everything out, he wants to add insult to injury.
Mutira holds off for a moment, but he can't find the second man,
and so everybody falls.
Vitality are relentless.
I mean, that just speaks to even the knowledge for Vitality.
They know he's the lower player.
They know he's going to be that guy going down, ramp at the start,
and coming up secret.
They have done their homework.
They were well-drilled for this match.
And yes, I would do nothing in the first half,
but the one time we require him to stand tall,
he comes out with three kills on the AWP,
a back-breaking, economy-ruining round at 11-5.
That just ties us up neatly for Vitality.
There's no getting away from it. This has been a domination to open up this semi-final from this vitality squad eight rounds straight
Such an impressive look from the rifle is on vitality flames came in red hot
Speaks has had a high impact and apex has been leaving the fray
Winning round solo on that CT side
Nothing to dislike for Vitality in this map so far.
Can Saul provide answers or is this one going to dust?
For Ujerks, as he throws himself into a fight,
Mezzi, have a long night out and now he's got reinforcements here.
They're waiting for more aggression into the lobby and Aras darts
while he gets out with one.
That won't be enough to turn the tide here.
Mezzi low on health.
And Zayu we're going to swap on over.
Many places he's at anyway.
Alright.
This is the only danger going into this double ramp hold, but...
Again, Vitality, they love calling these freezes.
Sit back, relax.
Wait for Saw to make the mistake.
Eventually they'll have to go.
Double pumping A with Util. Apex is already down.
Lower, and that CZ gets caught.
But flames with a crucial trade are tucked in materials
who need everything or nothing.
It won't matter. Vitality looking for map points.
Apex is already here. Apex is just in a better position.
Roman isn't even ready for this. Not even considering it.
And so that one comes for free for Vitality.
And what a way to close this game.
This would be for the Vitality squad
because throughout the entire thing,
Saurabh constantly impressed.
They've constantly before.
Now, these surprises, no bounds to the upstep.
But as we get on a nuke today and map,
there's been nothing but kind to Saur.
Vitality do the ultimate injustice.
They destroy them on this whole map for the Saw Squad.
Yeah, this is a six win streak going to bed for Saw and a win streak over the likes of G2,
Navi, FaZe, the Mongols, experienced teams, tenured teams.
Nine rounds straight for Vitality. Can they close it with a flawless 10?
Oh, Spink seems to think so, but Roman Clearsen coming out of the door.
in this semi-final. You want to try and stop 10 straight to the win for Vitality, and so
5 on 3, 2 players tagged up. It'd be a fool to be counting Vitality out of this one.
James moves in, goes for the kill, but there's Moutiris with an instant trade. Apex spotted
out in garage. Moutiris will get the better of him in that head-to-head. They stopped
the 10 round streak for Vitality, stopped them at 9. But there's still so much
much more to do for Saul. One round, one heroic moment for anyone in that vitality jersey and
this map is over. It has to be flawless from here on out for Saul. We've seen some incredible
tenacity from this Portuguese team, but you should surely expect that to be impossible.
A bridge too far in the biggest game of their career.
Vitality coming in quick outside, Apex over the smoke, trying to pick the captain.
What we hear is dangerous cross and they're already down B.
Ujerks is coming up, Apex avoids capture for now. They have no idea.
There's Apex getting his revenge.
and this sort of score line apex gets a terrifying degree of freedom to take those
sort of risks walks the smoke outside he's teeth by tally up holds now waits
for re-aggression apex reaching well apex get all five to seal the deal for
vitality he's teed them up for the victory and it's only story left to stop
them. This story might not be about Saw, might not be a testament to them, might not be a monument
to Saw's tenacity, the obssets, the cathedral might not be tested, there's no panic.
Well they say the front of Romantics, but Apex only out to break the heart of Saw today
and ace in the final round as he brings Saw's Nuke Street to an end and match you.
That was decisive.
13-6, Vitality in here to play.
Yeah Apex is obviously going to be the target for us after this map won.
Not only individually, obviously closing the game in for this beautiful ace but just
I think the game plan moving into the CT side was extremely efficient.
I think Vitality, Scandalized, Realized, if we let Saur play the Counter Strike they want, if we let them execute, we're gonna have a hard time.
So what do I do? My name's Apex and I get stuck in, I get outside, I flirt with these smokes, I ask for Flasher so I can be disruptive.
He's done that and more, and you can see the discomfort on the side of Saur.
Yeah, you can see the discomfort, but you can also see the Vitality, we're struggling a little bit in the beginning of that first half, you know.
Clear game plan, as you said, they wanted to disrupt Saur, they wanted to get into those fights, but Saur responded,
were playing pretty good Counter-Strike and made the game competitive. I'm thinking to myself when
this course 4-4 saw us more or less in control given they're playing on the T side. There were a
couple of rounds that could have took the way of saw and then it would have been a completely different
first half but once we got into the second once Vitality got to their T side then came over.
And the T side I mean throughout the entire duration of this tournament has been no joke
for Vitality. Coming into the tournament they had won 74.7% of all their T rounds played.
Now they won 5 out of 6 you know 5 out of 6 in the second half as well. They're up to more
than 76% win rate on their T side alone. That's more than every four rounds they're winning at the moment.
It's absolutely insane for Vitality and Apex for that matter to find that kind of consistency.
But it's also a showcase of Apex, obviously playing well. Flame C in the opening department,
we saw that in the pistol, we saw it in a couple of the fire rounds. Everything seems to click
for the competition. Yeah, the problem for Saw is that when you move to the second half,
you've had this momentum built against you. I agree with you the start wasn't the cleanest
from Vitality, but they took control. They took control of the last few rounds with the
the first half, they moved on to the T side, they had a very good pistol round with a lot
of space being taken, a lot of jewels, a very claustrophobic façade and once you confirm
once you win that second force buy you know you're in for it, like you know you're in
a good position, you have the players that have freedom to take risks like Apex is running
outside, he's flashing for flames, jumping on top of Mini, this is the vitality that
is the scariest when they don't have anything to lose and they don't have financial pressure.
Let's jump back to the first half because I want to put brown nine under the microscope
because this started off a nine round streak for Vitality over the course of the two halves.
And this is the other side of the story, the one that's maybe a bit less glamorous.
It's the mistakes being made by Saw. And if yesterday's phase were not hot enough to kind of punish it,
here Vitality absolutely did. There was no reason for Saw to commit to that extent,
try and play the Logo Bomb style without utility. They got curious, they got a little bit complacent
and they got hurt by the Deagle, the USB hidden in the angle. But, logically speaking,
we defined they had left on the clock there was no need to take that kind of risk you drop the bomb
It's kind of a soft ball into vitality and from that point on you feel the game change. Yeah, and it did right
And that's what I spoke about. You know had saw one that round
You're looking at a six three late for so on the T side of New York your fingers out all of a sudden saw us in control
They were standing the pressure vitality that tried to be disrupted
They tried to be aggressive a pitch playing yard as you said aggressively as well
So for saw to lose that round it was sort of like a momentum killer
But also shows a bit of the there's a limitation and maybe an experience
You know what if this all came it just takes one round like that and then you out of it
I think that's definitely fair to say I do think we need to take a moment to give apex and props in the series
Is it cause our Air Force aim high what a performance individually obviously the cooling side as well
We're gonna give props to that too, but the fact that apex is coming in this hot one
We have as I won the other hand is a little bit absent. I'm sure get on to that later
For Apex, he is fully informed here at Leary.
Yeah, definitely calling a lot around his own position on the seating side.
He had very good read on when so would try to play outside.
How many times do I need to be in that very forward position?
A couple of moments as well we can see here.
He saves vitality in that one versus two, which I will by the way misplace grossly,
probably based on false information on low HP or exaggerated information on low HP here.
This Apex is just reading the game.
He finds the first kill and he knows there's a very good chance
good chance they're gonna try and retake information on me absolutely anticipating
every movement, good cross replacement as well. We always know when when Apex is on
one like that it gets dangerous because he's got this proclivity to be aggressive
and in your face and if the skill is following up then you know that's the
trick right? Yeah I know, I've heard that conversation a few times when Apex is having one of those games where he's not hitting his shots he can single hand you lose your
down a strike game sometimes but when he's hitting it when he's almost dictating the
game as the in-game leader as a rifle and also have a productivity you know and
and an output of 18 kills and a half like that, then for Apex to play like that, it's
okay for Cybull to be a little bit absent.
Yeah, listen, I do understand we have to define our A4 game high, and Apex is a good candidate,
but this was one of the most clear, clear case of winning by primitive.
Everybody in Vitality had moments, when Messi had a few moments where he was low
on the A side, he stepped up, named up two ramp rushes, Sphinx had a few, it took
a few risks, it didn't always work, but I think he managed his door position
quite well he punished the lurks so in terms of stats they were all in the same bunch and
thank god someone CPRed Zai Wu after the CT side like there must have been some kind of
high mic maneuver just to come back to life because the T side looked much better.
Yeah I was going to say there's one clear name missing from that list that you just
rolled off their match you. Zai Wu do you have hope that he is going to be back to
life when they're coming into the second match?
So I'm going to be real with you, I'm in a bit of a problematic situation here
Because one part of me obviously wants to just dig Xayu and give him excuses and just make it seem like it's nothing like he can do
He's not responsible of anything because there's a part of me that wants to do that
And that part of me would say give this man some resources on the city side
Please for the love of God like give him a couple of okay
That's one side of me the other side is a bit more realist and a bit more
Accepting with the situation that we had a couple of misses. He went straight to the 8 of me
He missed two or three sitters shots
He had the push with Flincy on the ramp where he mis-analyses the situation
He moves to trade but then he gets kind of double peaked into these are moments where he is supposed to hit the shot
He's supposed to have the impact. He didn't the CT side was very very hard for him to watch very tough for me to watch
But you know what that's okay
He got teammates with him and he bounced back on the T side
But follow up this whole CT T conversation because that's one that's been a pattern throughout the whole clone
Yeah, I mean side who is contributing a lot on that T side
You know as much as you want to say that the CT side wasn't pretty which I agree with you
Yeah, a couple of misplays, a couple of misshots for T-SignWise, we've only seen Vitality start
on the T-Sign, we all be saying Cyro is having a great game, having a great start to this
tournament and vice versa, so it's very easy to turn the narrative into whatever you want
to turn it into, however I think for Cyro it wasn't his best game, it wasn't his worst
game, but again if this is Cyro not playing well then thank god I'm a teammate, you
know if I'm Apex.
What we do have Dust2 on the horizon, that's Vitality's pick coming into this series
and we do have a few words courtesy of Banks and X-Tas.
He seems to be the only team that can take down Saw on Nuke.
I was talking to Exotaz about it.
He said he wanted to control things more when it came to the CT side.
Even though a few rounds went against him at the beginning,
he was able to hold strong.
The team did what they were supposed to do on the T side.
Well, we know that's been going very well for Vitality.
He said on Dust 2, obviously it's their pick,
but nothing can be taken for granted.
He expects them to have changed some things when it comes to it.
But this is what they do and they know it.
Vitality are very well aware that they should be able to take this 2-0.
But they're prepared for some changes.
So let's see how it goes for them.
Well, Saw behind me a little bit shaken, of course,
because it was their new kind of course,
it is a very good map for vitality as well,
but gets talking to, or got to talking to
Barry, their coach rather, and he said,
yeah, they figured us out on T side.
That wasn't what we expected.
And on top of that, usually CT sides is where
we get a lot of our rounds as well,
and that also didn't work out.
So that's obviously not according to the game plan.
I asked about this too, and he said,
no problem there, we knew they were going to pick it,
we're fully prepared, we knew all the maps
that we were going to see today,
and he's confident going into that one.
Hopefully, confidence will be key for Saw
to be bouncing back into this one,
but this is a tough situation for Saw to be facing.
Not only is it Vitality's map pick of just too match you,
but they're gonna be starting on that aforementioned T side.
So you're gonna need to be hot out the gate
if you saw it on that CT half.
Yeah, definitely.
I think skill-wise, they weren't really able
to match Vitality on you,
and that had been the main topic
for the map one of the phase victory for Saw.
So that's an issue.
I also think that they are getting used
to a new level of scrutiny,
which they didn't really know before.
As in, sure you make it from the stage two
to the playoffs, people are a little bit impressed,
but we might take you with a little bit of complacency.
Once you've beaten FaZe, this is over.
That conversation is done.
You're going to use every single trick in the book,
and you are going to take the gamble
that so don't have the diversity right now
to change everything from game to game.
That is a very much elite level skill
that they might not have quite now.
So you could see on Nuke that this was analyzed
and sort of preempted by Vitality.
Let's see on this too.
I agree with you. I think Vitality have more dimensions basically to play with and obviously we spoke about it on Nuke
They came in with a clear game plan
They even changed it up a little bit in the second half of the first half and I think what it comes to does too as well
For Vitality, it's a homegrown map now. It's a map where they feel very comfortable
I'd argue Cyvoo as well is you know stepping up on that map. We saw his performance against Maus
That's not gonna be an issue and then you have this trio right now where Sphinx, Flames and Cyvoo are all pretty much on the same level
And if you're so right now you need someone to match that output as we like to say up here
You know, it's about the tactical, I guess, tactical ability sometimes to approach the map.
But at the end of the day, when it comes to a map like Dust2, if you're not winning your duels
and if you're not on-pie individually, it doesn't matter.
You know, you just fall flat on that CT side.
So I'm a little bit worried for Soar as well, that individually speaking,
they simply can't match the output of Vitality.
I'm going to be incredibly selfish here.
I want to see Zaru turning up on the big stage,
and I can't imagine a better map than Dust2 for him to do it on.
We know he can do it here, he's done it and he has gone by.
I want to see it in the next map.
I think it's pretty it's pretty problematic to see you being so biased was I
really I was expecting more from you. Where is that coming from?
I just stooped to your level. Sorry man.
You guys cool? I hope Saibot's going to win out. I hope Saibot goes 0-1-13 in this game.
All I'm saying is I want him to turn up because we've been hyping this up so much as you have.
We said he's got an MVP in this arena without actually taking home the trophy.
I want to see that MVP level performance again and I want to see if Saur can deal with it.
Yeah I agree with you but I would like to see that happen when Vitality
needed because we have already seen here and the mouse game is a good example
where you win 12 to 0 and he's ending up at 21 kills and this is just the
absolute base case now everything is working for him the rifle the alts and
all now give me a hard game give me a tough game give me a moment where the
ADP shot is going to be the difference between winning and losing a map and let
him hit that shot and then you get me high for now let's everybody take a
deep breath
you sounded pretty hard there you know what match you I think we need to throw this one to a quick break before we get into the action by Taliesens
Matt picked off Dust2 on the other side. We'll see you there.
watch. It needs a bit more but it's delicious. You got it. How close is CS2 to being as good
as CSGO? What percentage is CS2 to being close to CSGO? The way you're shaking your head
you're close to 50 almost it feels like. I think it's 40 now. 40% yeah I think 40%.
40% left or 40% there? 40% there. My goodness. Yes. I would say 70. 70?
I've got a crazy look at that said 70.
Hawker here, the Counter-Strike scholar and I'm back with the plan of attack to show you
the tendencies and strategies to watch out for.
Let's take a look at Vitality on Dust 2, starting on the T side where Sphinx plays towards
B, Flames plays towards Lower Tunnels, Apex plays towards Mid and Mezzie plays towards
Long.
Watch out for Vitality using this early mid-doors smoke on T side, as when they do, it's actually
quite likely they'll push through it themselves.
This fast B split is all about the timing and being there 1 or 2 seconds faster than your
opponents expect, and Vitality especially like to use this play when they hear a lot
of CT presence on A long early as it makes it less likely that mid is so heavily defended.
Switching over to CT side, Mezzie plays towards B, Spinks plays towards mid, and Flames plays
towards A long.
Spinks is often known as a passive player, however when he throws this molly, it's quite
likely he's going for an aggressive move into lower tunnels.
This is not a molly that Spinks throws often, so it can be quite a good tell that he
might be in lower tunnels, however even if you know he's there, he's so talented
he might still get you.
See if you can spot any of these tendencies or if Vitality have cooked up something new on Dust2.
Vitality rose to the occasion on apex's fifth run to the clone trophy
He severs saw limb from limb and lines up a grand final appearance
Dust who stands in the way of victory for vitality and saw after big deeper than ever before
But on nuke there was so busy dreaming they never woke up
Vitality smart pick
Starting over on the T side, and I think the Deaths did a fantastic job of highlighting just how scary these vitality T sides have been.
Saurav got a monumental task ahead of them.
Wonder they might not be made up for.
That will get called into question here.
Teed up for the lower take, at least is Arastas. He's going to find himself at the right place.
They're able to start off Nuke strong.
Will it be the same on Dust2? Nade down into lower.
Doesn't find the damage they were looking for, and instead Vitality staked their clay into this mid-control.
It's a commanding start from the Vitality squad.
As they leave, no stone unturned on that lower tunnel's play.
Yeah, slow and steady here on this T side.
All the pressure on the saw, no one able to make a rotation to cross past those mid-doors.
I will now just leave to the P250.
Vitality ready to crunch this B site.
under defended and unexpected.
Source it with just one player in position.
Can Matires save his man in time?
Can he get over to the right side of middle at least?
He had to try and put his stuff to the midtake,
and he will overwhelm Flames.
Now look at Ujjaks, that's a collateral.
That two quick kills from the man at back plant,
but Ujjaks wanting even more.
We'll get better, and this one's not done.
They get planted as Apex has to get the reload.
Roman tries to make his move.
It's down to the wire!
Hoppers clash with the sidearm and there's two bullets in this for story!
There's still pages in this chapter.
Maybe Saur can show us something
but they will have to earn it every step of the way.
A near 2v4 for Vitality.
It looked beautiful.
The dropping Zai Warder won me one.
That hits different.
Vitality falls out of rage.
Flashes out long.
They pop that Molly with a smoke
They spill out aggression from you jerks almost punished
Got against I wouldn't have hit with that scout let them get to work
The doors open
A day in the office for Zywoo
There is some very confident moves getting made here from saw they don't open up this game
They could still get punished for those
But it feels like they've decided if this is how it all ends
They don't want to go quietly into that good night Roman gonna get joined over inside of this a bomb
Vitality looks to do it.
1-9s, roll the lock!
So that pistol clutch, that pistol pickup.
Four story might never come to matter.
The results never come to pass.
Vitality immediately turn up the heat,
and that's what saw having all the info,
everyone over to Ward's A, and the man advantage.
They had everything they could have asked for,
and still it was not enough.
Yeah, Vitality have won a lot of man-down rounds in this series already.
So it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Broken economy for Soap, broken morale.
They looked absolutely crushed after that first map, focused faces on Vitality.
Just what you would want from a team you know can and will win trophies.
The question is, is Cologne one of them?
Miss Molly gives me materials. The second chance at life here.
He still swings. I didn't know he was at his position, but I saw a feeling of pressure.
Bit by bit getting picked apart on the CT side. I can't even break the smoke. They want to take these fights.
They go on. Another entry and more to the tally. Three for Zai Wu. This time he doesn't start cold.
Six and one on Zai Wu.
It was gonna be a map as I will gets to show up on it's gonna be this one
Doesn't get better than dust
That was a whole factor that on that last one up so scarcely even had to worry about take on the pistols, but
I would see it to keep an eye on it
He actually just goes swing at the top of the display here
It's kind of mad as he throws himself into the firing line
Everyone gets their piece of the action that a
A quick round for Vitality to find their third and really cement this lead, but this is where the guns come out for sore
That chance to try and disrupt early
Back on that first half the last map it felt like the lead disappeared very very quickly for sore
They were five three up the next thing you know, they're down in the dumps
They haven't won a round for the remainder of the half
They don't want that to happen to open up on dust
Brings that off out and it's close no cigar in the mid-hit
Instead they managed to get on by smoke dropped as well that gives the illusion
they could play in a lowest of vitality up to be a little more respectful here it
was that first gun round on T side mucus I who comes in with three huge kills two
entries outside and they'd got him the AWP as quick as they can as well so let's
see if he can put it to use you won't be at the forefront of this round
holding that mid rotation but swap solidified positions and that might be
to their detriment. Molly Burns late story has to swing and it's actually MP9
sniping him out from shore side. Vitality may get blocked but they don't worry
they don't mind. A man up and Zaewoo still in the middle. Look at this late
reaction from Saw. I like they're playing together but they've not hit the
nail on the head. They're gonna get severed by Spinks and he gets out for
free. His presence over in mid poses an awkward question here. Do you keep
trying to hunt him down. You've lost control of the A site. He goes nowhere. This is running
the risk of being very punishing round and there's that Zai Wu. AWP. Arastas, surplus to requirement
here left trying to hold onto the gun inside of the B site and if you look at that minimap
vitality and feel in a very forgiving mood right now they want to take everything away.
got that info. So a few more
plays. There was nothing you
could have done against that.
Gotta laugh it off. Red hot. As
vitality storm the board and
you can go as far as saying, you
know, Zairu wasn't a requirement
on that first map. Well, in this
one, he's making himself one,
of Dust2, of the T side, picking Saw apart, can the scout get revenge, Apex tagged, Materia's repositions.
Story never fires off.
Oh, what a seed in!
What?
Saw comes back to background, they've never even had the chance to fight.
They're able to thrive here.
4 on 2, even as Retana send it. What's going on?
Hedgel through the door.
Those don't exist on Dust2 for these squads.
Someone put the metal back.
The new door might have opened up for Saw in this pistol round.
Aggression through the long side.
They're leaning heavy over towards middle and A.
And so right now Vitality, they are making the right move.
Grouping over in the tunnels.
And Zi'anziwu looked to embark on a two on four.
He's dropped the orb.
He's here to win the round right now.
Vitality, I dare say, they've got a damn good shot.
I'll throw the tunnels first, but Zai Wu out of all the ways this could have started.
That's what you want.
The game is well and truly a foot.
Zai Wu, carves the path in for Vitality.
That bomb planted.
Now it's Saw that find themselves under pressure.
They're the ones.
Oh, the clock.
This is Zai Wu's game, 11-1.
This Vitality have pulled back a 2-on-4.
for Moutiris. What is he supposed to do? Can he succeed? Where everyone else tried?
And they keep this T side damn near flawless.
Take a bow, all right. Absolute masterclass. Adamesian Zairou could not have played that better
and saw a feeling of stress. Timeout comes through and a must win by just to stop this war machine of vitality.
picking up steam. French Revolution for Team Vitality, Apex leading the charge on the
opener, Zywoo coming to his own now on Dust2. Even when Sora found these
advantageous positions it's not been enough to beat the individuals there's no
doubting that Vitality have that killer instinct about them. So relieving just
to see Zywoo exert himself on the stage sure what he can do we all know
it through miss shot in this round. You count your lucky stars there if your
arrow starts you hear that old fire off you know who it was that was waiting
for you. Story now has a chance to get involved on his orb. Tries to take the
line over here in middle. These doors have felt anything but safe. You don't
want to waste your shot on a chance wall bang if your story you need to be
precise. Pinpoint Acura. That is not it! Both Orpahs with a chance need to come up. Maybe
they clash instead. Flash pushes Zairu back. He wants to get a second go to flash himself
for a fight. Story hangs on the angle. Undisturbed, but soon to be.
I think that's scary for Soul here is they're flying so blind in this round.
They've completely given up control over middle any noise any utile that comes out makes them paranoid
That smoke in CT causes you problem for leaving this A site
So right now vitality even more goes their way flames comes up big on the spam
Wherever they go, they find themselves in a 5v2 so for vitality. It's about grouping going together
And he finds them both over on short he's reignited the hope for sore
By that be enough time is running low on vitality is T side one more man over a long as apex
Helps its materials last man to be
Watch kill power starts coming up on elevator and finding that headshot angle it had to happen
They just broke their way in dropping materials after a fantastic double
But not enough of vitality saw step the bleeding
and you say the blind blind it's flames who's doing it with no idea shoot
through doors and smokes flash our long apex just kind of look at the
part thing so easily done years of experience in both roles he puts it
together he puts it to use he leads from the front
The attack shows him how he used to get it done.
Zai Wu, that shot sails just over the head.
There's no punishment, there's no chance to punish here if you're sore.
Once more, your left just thanking yourself that that one doesn't go the way of vitality
and extend this lead even further.
They call the slowdown after that initial high pace right off the rip.
So we've done the right response here.
They're taking control over the Watscat wall.
Lutzeris can actually glance through the smoke and he comes to pay the price for it.
It's a good angle.
Not normally the guy that did on it, but with story out of the round.
He has to try, and he forces him wide right into the arms of Messi.
And Sory just so far away.
Flames again!
Half of his kills that he hasn't even seen the people he's shooting at!
The stars are aligned for Flames.
Mouse won't gloot down.
They're even hunting. They're going to find them.
Waiting till this round is unloosable and they're going to run boost into low.
Two of the flash.
It's here and it's never been attacked like that.
Dirty. This is a statement game from Vitality right now.
Just playing slow and steady on the T side. Group hits.
Every entry they need, even Roman is coping there to think he can get out of that position.
He had to just crouch peek and try and take one with him to give his team a chance.
He thinks he can get out of the Molotov.
Vitality are not letting anyone escape.
That's the rifle gone.
Clean flick over towards Shaw, but he's not done with them yet.
Zai Wu, a point to prove in this round as he's looking for all the engagements
down in middle.
nearly goes the right but he's able to get the gun out in time knows there's
serious bodies up the grabs down here in middle trying to chase him down
there's the support from the rest of itality Zawoo's not in this alone he's
gonna unit around him it's absolutely felt like a team game right across that
first map as well there was times of brilliance from players like apex
flames coming up with huge multi kills but everyone's delivered when
required. Nezzie was a rock on that top site. Speaks with shooting players in the back.
Saw him had a shot, but maybe they're just firing blanks.
Apex has been able to cook some ludicrously good T-sides across this event, and Dead Dust
2 is no exception to that rule. Someone who's caught a lot of flak for how he really
does wear his heart on his sleeve. The last of a kind breed of Counter-Strike player.
But I've seen him on stages all the way back in 2015, some of the highlight reels that guys
like Apex were able to bring forward, redefines himself in 2020 to become the captain of Vitality.
And over time, he is growing into this role, he has learned to excel in the Vitality jersey
and now he's putting up the numbers to boot alongside it, these T-sides.
And how good Vitality are looking here, how it's felt like a team game, not the
Zywou show. Testimid to what he's able to bring to the table. Apex, double digits secured.
This French contingent of vitality. Looking to bring them glory.
And last year it was all about peaking at the right time, right? Being prepared for that.
Paris Major winning it on home soil. They warmed up in anticipation. They got their
ducks in a row. They took that trophy. But right now the same might be happening for
vitality to capture a trophy that has eluded these players, eluded this organization and
eluded Apex through so many years in vitality when today this would be Apex's third attempt
in that grand final of Cologne.
And right now dare I say vitality look in form to fight whoever faces them.
Yeah, that's why it's so relieved that you're getting Apex giving us a game like this.
Because he is the one with a strong attachment here to this trophy.
So to see him up there alongside Zai Wu,
whenever there's something personal on the line for Vitality, it feels like they hit that much harder.
Yeah, there are legendary players who played at the top of CS who have never taken this trophy.
The device is one of them. Despite the years of the Astralis success, Cologne always alluded
that legendary Danish roster. Apex does not want to let that be a factor.
He has a point to prove here to Zephyx. Zai Wu right there alongside him in these rounds
so often. Boiling down at this duo. There's the rifles getting involved as Spinks mobs
up who jerks in rotation you are not safe there is no weak link they are just
playing out of their mind they are brutalizing saw in this map saw have
not had a chance on dust to they won the pistol a single round in the midst of
it but otherwise this is domination for the whole Cinderella in a dream
story around this sore squad. It looks like semi-finals might be as far as that goes.
They won't have the resilience here. They don't have the manpower vitality though.
This series is about them. This series is about vitality. Trying to move into a
grand final in terrifying form. One map dropped across IEM Cologne. One map and
that's it. They want us to sit up and take note. And maybe you were ready to
right-off saw but this is a team that took down of last year the number four
the number three and the number two rated players in the entire world
monocene robs Nico all fell at the hands of saw but number one of 2023
Zywoo 16 and four unbeatable for saw nothing in this game says they have it
in them and this is a statement for vitality so I might have the dream
The Vitality have got the game.
Now there's no weak link and these slow T sides are so punishing.
Zora having a sit here at the start of every round and come to terms with how one sided this game has been.
Zai Wu trying his hand at the spam in through middle.
Vitality haven't needed pips, they haven't even always had man advantages.
They've bowled back from seemingly insurmountable odds.
They wait and see if they're given anything early. They can feel the terror that courses through the veins of saw
Knowing that dream might be about to come to an abrupt and brutal end
Vitality have the mid control. They wait outside of long. They can't set a foot wrong here
Messi waits and he is rewarded
Flames dead down in middle, but Vitality now look to go up in the tempo for this a play
He's got a stand for 1v1. Spinks, he's taking them. Can he get on the bomb? There's no kid right now. Apex slowing down, swings in, and Vitality take the round.
Here is the final round.
Another man falls. Bond getting plugged. Can they get up into the line? Or can Messi stop them?
It's only Arostos. He's had a quiet game today. He's got a stand for 1v1.
Spinks, he's taken them. Can he get on the bond? There's no kid right now.
Apex slowing down, swings in, and Vitality take the round.
Here in the Cathedral, and Vitality confessed to nothing. They feel no remorse.
Fall from glory. After almost a decade shooting for the stars, it's a harsh reality
for this sore squad.
It's a reality that Apex on the other side
had to deal with time and time over.
But it made him the man he is today.
It made him the man that put vitality into this position,
shooting for a grand final.
These defining moments, vitality special.
And right now Apex is right up there alongside
the jewel of French counter-strike in Taiwu.
And he's playing with some confidence straight up middle.
Finding the head shot.
Traded back in damage alone.
Flames hides.
Buried at the back of the pit.
The saw come for the clear.
Have they got the manpower to do so?
Are they too focused on Apex on this crossroads?
He draws them in. They don't check.
A jump will do. It might be too late. Flames takes two.
And saw now, with all the info away,
with the bomb dropped,
and players falling like flies.
It feels like Vitality are ready to pluck another pistol.
They say the hope dies last, hope well and truly dies if you fall short in this pistol round.
Vitality four on two.
Haven't set a foot wrong yet.
And there's Zai Wu with the closer.
Teed up flames right at the start of the pistol.
And then he's there to be there undoing their ultimate end.
Vitality wanted this to be brutal.
They never wanted this to get close, and they will get their wish.
The dying moments of this game for Saw.
It's about a lost hurrah trying to make it prettier,
but I don't think Vitality are in the mood to give anything up right now.
Saw might not even get a 4-by for those to plan pistols running amuck in middle.
They find a couple of entries,
Can they flood out on this B bomb site?
Messi on his own, just hiding inside of the site.
They line up, double kill, turning back.
Story stops him, but Miseres' lug comes up with nothing.
Story's on the clock. 1v2. He could go for the bomb.
He's going for the kill instead,
but they are right there behind the door.
Molly forces Flames, in he goes, and Story saves the day.
Saw, survive, one more round.
clutch come too late. Vitality get ahead of themselves playing into the 2v1. You
can't underestimate the individuals. Arostos, a more kill to open up this round.
They're so far behind that they are still refusing to give up. Neziova in
middle, just the one and done off the deagle. That's opened up the route to
the B-plane. Sora aware of that. They're going for these grouped plays, these
marches out into the B-side. This is what we saw from this squad in that
quarter final it was so potent feels like that started to clip back into place now but it really is
at the 11th hour just like on nuke with how that one rounded out this has to be flawless from sore
and there's so far still to go but first few steps taken in the right direction
real vitality let them back in as you said hope dies last and sore are holding on to this dream
a hope of prayer but far from a reality. Seven rounds of separation, seven rounds between
these teams. Vitaly, one of a vital look forward to yet. They can catch up quick but so far
in the series we haven't seen any reason to believe in the majesty of saw it
has been all vitality all the way along so even in the ecos you must give them
their respect popping through the smoke with a legal point one more and pistols
pick and players but still saw should make it across safely right through on
the back of a clutch so early in the second half you got a couple for free
on the back of the money here, but that true challenge is about to arrive.
Vitality, we're not expected to win this round.
Vitality, get their hands on the big guns in the next.
And that is really where we get the eye test for just how far
Saw can look to take this comeback.
Six rounds apart.
It is a marathon for Saw.
For Vitality, it's the final sprint.
And you just have so many players to rely on for Vitality.
so many players who have given us huge rounds in this game.
Story, the guy who wants to have kick-started a comeback
continues down middle.
No AWP for Vitality, so I will sit alone in the site.
Playover in the middle, Spenx tries to get involved early.
Soar aware of this, Flash is good.
Tear is, picks up that opener.
Nice. Five on four.
They make that fight nice and easy for Moutiris. Flashbang to TM up and now they're going to go in as IWU.
Now they're going to go into the front man of this Vitality Squad.
Tucked in, has support from Flames over on the long side. Good timing on that peak and you see IWU in the kill feed.
That's going to instill a bit of fear and soar. It's Tucked out, run the other way.
Try and get in over to Wards B.
Mezzi, waiting here in the window, has some out from his captain.
First kill comes through. Are they ready for a pause?
Are they ready for that second man, the captain, Vitality's captain, Francis' captain, Apex has the round, right!
Aspirations crumble to dust, tucked in tight, Apex says goodnight to Soar in the Lanxus.
One more round for Vitality, you ought to do it.
So calm, it's so collected from Apex.
There's been no stress in that, there's been no stress in this game.
Raghai tells you everything with his body language.
He has felt anything but stressed here.
This is an apex that is in control.
Everything has got to plan.
For a brief moment there, Soar started to believe again
it was the materialist clutch that reignited them in the matchup versus phase.
They hoped that stories could have done the same thing here.
But too far gone, too slow to start, too much to stop this vitality.
And now there is nothing left. All roads lead to ruin for Saw.
Moutir is one kill in the bottom of middle. It goes untrated, swings on out, but he can't get a bearing on Apex.
And now Spitz, this time here to lend a helping hand to Mezzi, they get funnelled into the killing field to the B site.
And they lift it till the tail. Saw trying to break in.
Can Flames and Apex stop them and man down in the retake?
Oh Vitality will win this round before the fake. Will Vitality wait? Will they relent?
Or do they bite at the next opportunity? They're really trying to bait them in but Vitality
keep calling their bluff. Apex swings it wide and third time's the charm here as they chase
them down in 2015. Apex.
Cologne is one of those events that's like kind of transcending, you know, counter-strike
taken away. It's one of the titles that everyone wants to win. This is really where your metal
gets tested.
Lanks says it's a very special arena. Everyone wants to be there. Everyone wants to feel the
atmosphere. It doesn't matter how much of a new team you are, the world is clear.
Playoffs is a minimum and can't wait to get into the stage, just enjoy being there.
I'm getting very excited. All of my teammates, the coach especially, is hyping us up
To play at the arena, we just need to show up and there's no excuses not to do so.
Seeing a trophy like this or just looking at it, you go back through all the memories
and the historical moments that they had. It makes it a very special one.
It's my first time playing in a big stage and this is what I've worked for.
It's a great team and we want to face them.
The will we have to play the game into it.
We can be the underdogs and upset of you.
I picture myself lifting the trophy.
We showed up and I think that's the thing I want to take with us.
If we just believe, we can do everything we want.
I know we can. I believe we can.
I want to do everything to go get a Nancex Arena, so we do it again.
Actually, what we love the most is what we fight the most for.
This is the most prestigious tournament, right?
We're winning, my confidence rises,
and I think I'll lift the whole team as much as I can in the ring.
I feel like our side of the bracket is stronger.
We have us, G2, Maus.
I feel like Maus has been slacking lately a little bit.
I said G2 are one of the best teams in the world right now.
G2 finally has a chance to beat us.
We just gave our best in terms of preparation and other things because we know all big decent
nominees and we also want to write our name into history.
Cleaning around the trophy is so big, it's so unique.
It's just one of those trophies where gifting it would mean so much for a player.
It's just a memorable thing that you'll never forget.
The main goal of Cologne is to win the tournament and lift the trophy.
This is one of the OG Counter-Strike events. This is the big one.
And so that pressure mixed with a huge arena presence, there's always a big footfall out in Cologne.
The pressure is very much on. You have to earn your spot in the Lices
and then you have to go one step further and earn the right to lift the trophy.
I think there is a tremendous amount of prestige when it comes to Cologne.
For excuses, you turn up here to this cathedral like how to strike and you win or you go home with what might have been
Still ringing in your ears
Two teams remain standing two teams come here one wants to call themselves the greatest of all time
One wants to call themselves a team that banished their demons knew they can do that that lifting that
trophy
Welcome to the Intel Extreme Masters 2024.
Here in Cologne, it's time to find out who it's going to become, a legend.
The game's come 2014.
Winning the trophy in Cologne and lifting it here was a defining moment in my career.
The Grand Final days are brutal.
Losing Grand Finals is probably one of the worst feelings you can ever have.
We almost fell short, but our names were the first in a long line to bring them to that trophy.
That's one of the beauties of this game.
At any given moment, you can always, always turn around.
You try your best to clear your mind as much as possible, and hopefully everything will be lining to you and me.
Tonight, these two teams has the chance to start this new era.
Like then, 2015 final in Cologne. Such an amazing moment because that was the first time we played here.
Three finals now, but without the trophy, it wouldn't mean much.
Almost success here is not success.
If I can make Navi the number one organization when it comes down to winning the most trophies in Cologne,
I would be forever grateful because of the fact that I think I owe it to them.
I was lost waiting for a miracle, and a miracle happened.
I expected it to come so soon. I feel like blessed in a sense to fight for the trophy and one of the biggest trophy encounters like
We had a disappointing year for us. This trophy alone can redeem eight months of not achieving a trophy
2021 now you won it I became a father of 90 straight after that tournament
This year I only got my first trophy and now I have another chance to get a trophy here. Hello the most iconic trophy in the game
I've been trying my best every column to get it, if I get it, it will be one of the best
day of my life without a doubt.
I've seen this moment probably a week ago, I already saw us going down the catwalk,
going towards the trophy, lifting it, bringing everything you can.
After that game final, I don't care, every game final you play defines you, you don't
come to play it again, you come to win it.
I know I'm capable of doing it, I know this team is capable of doing it, now
It's just awesome the trophy
You work every day for 17 years and you can destroy you play for column to win this column
And this cathedral account a strike on your feet
Let's lift you to your feet as we welcome the first of our two teams into this cauldron of noise
two teams
The one to be called champion
And the first to enter
Please welcome
It's Navi!
1-0 to 1-0.
1 skin was lost, but Navi has found Alexi B first time this year in the Lancers.
Immediately in the grand final, will he be able to lead his team
to the first organization winning Cologne three times?
Navi, a team that have lifted this trophy before, they won it again.
They want to be called the world's number one team.
But they take on a team that has got close.
This year they want to do it.
please welcome it's vitality sting in their tails saw first on their hit list
match you bet Navi they are a totally different beast standing between them
and that ever elusive trophy the key word is redemption for vitality as a TV is a
whole year without a trophy for apex it is a third of chance in third attempt
at lifting the trophy in an access and beside who the question is simple if
you really are the best if nobody can ever touch you then you need to
You win Cologne.
By the Cologne, here we go.
Feel that energy, feel the hairs on your arm.
Stand up, that tingle down your neck.
That says what we're about to witness right here.
A grand final, one of the most vibrant and amazing places to watch anything.
But to watch Counter-Strike, here, my word are we blessed.
The only way to start it off is with a handshake.
So, captain's in, captain's in.
Here we go.
It's about winning, but we start with respect.
The handshake is done.
Calone on that trophy.
Who's winning it?
Is it Narvee?
Fans, did you hear that?
Who's winning?
Is it Vitality?
The day of judgement for Apex and Alexi B.
For Apex, a question of rebending the demons of almost a decade.
For Alexi, a task of lifting a third trophy this year
that hit first in the Cthulhuangku.
Absolutely. There were talks about major, is it a fluke, is it not a fluke?
There's no way you can fluke into a Cologne win.
Just the amount of games you have to play, best of trees, this stage, it really reveals your true self on it.
I think Navi has shown us so far, they're the best team in the world,
and it's one last obstacle here to prove it to everyone.
I have absolutely love to witness the conversation change around Navi,
starting from the doubt whether or not Copenhagen was rightful and then suddenly talking about firepower
We keep shifting the goalposts. Oh, they don't have the firepower. They don't have the players
Sometimes we say they don't have the superstar and each and every step of the way they have proven people wrong
They have been on an upwards trajectory. They have improved
They have grown as a group and they show up here as the favorites
Matchy, this is your chance to be a romantic about vitality though. Do you see them, you know
Putting those ghosts to bed, lifting the trophy finally here in the competition.
You got to believe, don't you? If you don't believe what worth is it? If you don't feel when you watch Counter-Strike what worth is it?
Of course, I think there's a chance for vitality because they've had enough players who have showcased the great Counter-Strike we want to see.
They have Flames who's flying on all-cylinder pun intended, Spinks actually have an impact and help.
I think for Vitality, we have Navi on one side playing to cement their status as the best
team in the world.
Vitality is playing to show that they are a team that can win something.
We've been here before plenty of times and it's been collapse after collapse after collapse.
It has to be different this time around if you're going to have any faith about this
team becoming the world number one.
over a decade of history here in Cologne.
But today a new king will be crowned.
It's Vitality versus Navi.
It's Grand Final time.
The first time we get to see this head to head in 2024
and it's on the grand final stage of Cologne.
Navi Vitality.
Apex on that stage.
He was in attendance at the first 10 years on now
calling the shots.
His third grand final trophy.
Not just elusive for Apex, but for Vitality.
this year. A roster housing Zywoo. This 23 year old Prodigy, 2023's world's best.
Get to lift the trophy at 24. Will Narvi look to secure and fortify that world number one?
Mewk to start, tactician's delights. For Narvi, their map choice and want to get tricky with it
out the gates. Smoke made for JL, destined for the door. That blown off. More pressure
She was the topside. Jules Lee's on Zywoo, and he's pressure.
A lot of early pressure. J-L out, squeaky pressure, applying a duck!
Responsible for that sight, and does what Zywoo couldn't with a triple kill.
Keeping it interesting. Flavors tussling with trouble.
Emma, no Kev, and 41 points of health.
And Pex is down towards B.
And that's a big gooch.
Gonna confirm if the bomb is down towards the topside.
The leader having to rotate over, but Emma, he's the one on the hunt.
This is incredibly proactive from him a little risky, but it's definitely going to catch apex as he looks to try and climb the ladder silently
Wonderful just needs to live just needs to be always hasn't it all falls to him
They both depart the site no kid available. He's behind the boat
It's a risk to try and make a maneuver like that in the environment of a stage setting
You worry does the work does the atmosphere give you away?
You take your shots and you miss beautiful defense to the top side from Mr.
Merriman the Brit unloads early and he is gonna have an important role anchoring
down that A site round after round
Very winnable opportunity
It's not how you want to start off your grand final for EMA, he's gonna have to shake that off
And not with the form that he is in
It's not characteristic of the image that we've known to come and love over the course of Cologne
Pressure stands out towards yard, Zywer, pressed up, drops back now that the smoke wall has dotted
at the desk.
We're talking about the head to head between MF, T-side taking yard space and Apex in-game
leader tasked with that very quadrant of the map.
MF will be able to get down with the space necessary.
The rest of Na'Vi towards Lobby, Flamesy, they're going to test him, flash and go.
BCB trust victim, but it's immediate back from big apex. He pushes the flames. He wants to stand. He wants to blitz.
Saves them from ramp being lost. Bomb now falls and so do the hopes of Navi converting this second round for us by
just one man and his deak
Spinks exposed a couple of shots shy. Spinks jipped away out. Oh, he keeps it in the body. Spinks runs him down on the reload.
And JL there. Huge double from the leadout pushing through the flames taking a risk
10 years he's been in pursuit of this trophy when they beat saw he said pretty
good time for a life game well there's no reason the once entry fragger turned
in game leader can't step up plays a very key position of the similarities
between the defenses of these two teams on nuke alexey also playing the yard
position as the in-game leader
good fight by Tata getting off to a two-round start it should be the
Third.
Fake positions for it.
Zairu distracts.
Apex prepares to engage
and does activate to find Alexi.
It was interesting with the interviews
and the lead-ups to the final getting underway,
how the teams were characterising one another.
Alexi in the interview,
so they're practised against Vitality a lot.
They're explosive.
Mezzi, when he was questioned,
labelling now the obstruction.
And I think that's a fair surmise,
but both crediting the individuals
on either side hitting hard,
we wouldn't find ourselves with this ground
final on our screens if that wasn't to be the case. And Navi yesterday not only
was that structure and play it was the clutches it was the individuals as the
difference makers to get it done in a 2-0 fashion. Mouse pushed them. Vitality had
to walk in the park against all. Ima has actually managed to find one with that
dig. Searching yard. Empty handed. Jay Allen Ima. In a two versus two
flames it's got a real opportunity to make this awkward.
Jax down the vent with the mentality it already has if the loss of three rifles
But it's better, but it's still read 3-0 a little bit wobbly with the finances going forward
That's a good showing from now V that the pistols can be on for the individuals just as we were talking about them
Another big question is I would
2019 his rookie year this arena grand final appearance
MVP but a loss to liquid
Those are always very tough
Ruffles are out. Now a V. Are you going to try and put a bit of pressure on these rotating
elements? Apex being one of them, Sphinx being your door guy. You're also going to have Zywa
floating around with the AWP starting towards secret. Gets a chance to take out Bid.
Bid and him out as potential victims. The smoke hall has been erected, but Zywa's
got nothing to report.
Look at the radar. Vitaliy have completely given up that ramp control.
exchange they try and fight for heart JL comes out with a nice opening kill
that's messy down and out now flames has to react he does well takes the head
off of the fin towards squeaky door now Simon will activate for his first it
could have been his next but a missed shot forces flames to react comes and
activates the cell help him from heaven JL gets that bomb and takes the site
wonderful in support has to cover heaven has to cover me it's been so
wait for his teammate a flashbang from flames to be gonna be their way in so
Hyrule has so much utility to make this possible, but it's coming up the vent.
JL could be a real, real trouble here.
You actually opt for the smoke he had, the incendiary cast, and so JL will catch the woo.
And now, it's Ravi's round for the JL, and wonderful. Turn it on its head.
Only spings remain. The hard clear was so wonderful. Lovely fight.
Time sensitive for Spice, does have that kit, knows where JL is.
What do you do? Can JL outwit him here?
Spice, the shot makes impact when they need it.
More than a dent off of this one and it comes down to the clutch
Something he was bringing in buckets and spades and that one right there Zywoo not sure why he's opted for the road through then
He popped his head up secret. He could have come through man
The Utah would have been a whole lot easier to throw. That's true
Little second guessing on Zywoo not an indecision which you cannot have in Counter-Strike especially at these high pressure rounds vitality force
Funds already low Zywoo with the only rifle
3 SMGs, and a 5-7 in the hands.
James, however, takes the space as they depart Lovie.
He enters it. There is a perfect opportunity for him to have the element of surprise.
But what needs to be saw about one coming.
Zai was there as well, but it's just a one-fortality, but humbles.
Hard work done.
Patality down to just the pistol.
Should be Navi looking to convert their third.
In a consecutive fashion.
The chanceing is named, Chad. Wonderful.
In a Navi jersey.
We describe him as this young talent, but where did this guy come from?
To be already competing as the world number one.
Yeah, you throw that to a lot of the names on Na'Vi, don't you?
Really? I mean, JL, the major MVP, sure, but we weren't talking about his name.
If you tapped out five years ago, you probably weren't sure.
A bit of a miss smoke there. We'll see if that comes back to Haundam.
Emma with the Gamer Legion performance.
Yeah.
In the loss to Vitality back in Paris.
of course, I can't stop talking about him. And Alexi said he was lost. Well now he's
found in the Navi jersey. The best of fives, a bit of an issue for Alexi, but this would
probably be the best roster he's had. Actually, no one would say it is.
Not long ago, wonderful was just a name on the face at high scores. And now look at
him on this grand final stage up against Vitality, up against Iwo.
Would you two work, making sure that these pistols didn't have to move?
Oh, that's a second.
A lot of damage.
Sphinx inflames with just the USP and now another body drops!
It's pistols and it's a 2-1-2. Does this go wrong? It all saves himself!
I know where Sphinx was.
He had the bomb chat. That is really the kill that may have saved him here.
Sure, it's actually quite scary. Long rage back then but Dimmer on notice.
But Navi, they weather the storm.
Alright, well both teams within the first six rounds of play have had some issues with pistols.
with pistols. Yeah, that's true. The Divos with Navi announced something a little bit lighter from Vitality and X-Tanz.
Here's opportunity to get on the micro firm before the guns come back out.
AWP not available for Zywook. Desk discussing how he's more than happy to operate with the rifles in hand.
The previous rifle round, I like what Vitality did. They sold ramp, they grouped up.
When Navi went to hit the top side, there were so many Vitality bodies ready, Flames.
He was the ramp player already up ladder drilling towards top, which would have been a surprise for Navi.
It was just the post plan. It was the number advantage retake that I think vitality misplayed
Jail you don't have a gun bud
That is necessary. You will meet one of those time to go back purchase one
No drama's there, but off the back of the time out just for getting that little detail
So focused on the conversation at hand. This is very top focused
Yeah, they want to test this topside hold and apex spings find themselves there as well
So my resources here spings right close to receive
They're gonna blast him over, look, completely messaged him, he's screaming, he's top, he got past, he spins, what can you do?
Finding one on the door, now Sightwings found himself a double, look at that!
Know what was coming, think about all the bodies that were there, Sightwings played anti-flash, they get into the top side,
but there's so many individuals there to respond, Apex was playing towards main, he was harassing, Xayu up the ladder,
they weren't biting on the fact there was gonna be a yard play, which is why Apex is celebrating,
not only is it a good round to win, it's one where he feels that they have made the right call on where they should stack.
Now we can accredit that to X-Taz, he's the one who called the timeout, we'll give him that one there.
And that has forced Nabi into one of their own.
So Blade, he's going to take the opportunity.
Not liking how that one feels, and if it's the mind games of who's reading who, what comes next.
What does the mastermind himself have in store?
Yeah, I mean that reaction from Apex, it tells me so much.
It's a man determined.
Paris major champions.
Copenhagen major champions on the other side of the stage.
There's Pedigree here.
Of course a different look for Vitality, now trying to replicate his CS2.
A couple of new names in the mix.
Most definitely, but Apex, he's not.
He's been around the block.
Zywu's been sent to go hunting out Yard, he'll be the one responsible for providing the answers.
And so, what Navi are sending this way towards the Yard position?
Supported util, chip damage, Emeh, walking wonky, multiple bodies advancing.
Whose responsibility is to check this smoke? This feels like it's a death sentence for Alexi.
He's gone out just in time, finds the Frenchman's head and now Apex catches him and look at the wrong way through with the smoke 4 on 4 and it could change quick because Apex catches another onto Bit.
What's going on here? Na'Vi just walking into him.
Yeah, tough start for Bit, 1 and 8.
One of these players you're going to turn to on the Na'Vi side to one who has lifted the trophy for Cologne.
Compromise circumstances.
From the hotel, not the cathedral.
We're definitely back here now.
Oh, he knows what it's like to lose in this environment, the phase.
Barn burn up 2022, only a couple years ago, but two men.
In the dirt, Emma and Bitt, we turn to Alexi Jaleh, and wonderful.
Now, the bomb was spotted on Alexi, out towards Jaleh with that initial fight.
But that was a long time ago.
Flames, he's starting to have a little look.
This is going to be deep clear onto Jaleh.
And time starting to run thin.
25 on the clock, they need to get a move on.
Yeah, this is risky.
Right, if they can get past the sole defences... Oh, I say sole too now. Flames is around as well.
Apex borrowed deep in dark.
Fifteen seconds.
They're gonna start going loud.
Hoping JL can catch one on the left rotation. He has managed to catch Spinks,
but Apex has won the round with that one. Takes them down. It's vitality again.
This CT side looking promising. That's two consecutive gun rounds.
important there, this is the round where they had the advantage they didn't fumble
like we saw last time round, their sights weren't given up and a good division of
labor. Lots of questions, didn't overstep the mark with their aggressive maneuvers
other than this one. He feels like we should have had that one dead to rights.
These teammates will make good apex with another multi-kill. That's to be the
I think he's just trying to zone in. He has found a lovely resurgence of form coming into this year for a while. There was a look of almost kind of apathy.
He achieved so much in his rookie year. I imagine it's a bit of that kind of, you know, Kiirby syndrome. JL's also talked about it winning the getting a major MVP so soon in his career. He felt that kind of slip.
I think when you look at the teammates that he had in the old Navi roster, simple, electronic, perfecto.
Yeah.
And then you look at these new guys, and at the time everyone was like,
Hey, I've already won the big event, so I'm contending for the tw- we're starting a game.
Yeah, reset.
I thought I was already at the end game.
And then moving into English as well.
Tough task for anybody.
Absolutely.
Well, they've been able to burn plenty of time off the clock,
but Vitality is still holding on to a decent chunk of Utah.
Let's see if Navi can get a plan, get a kill, get any traction.
Yeah, you see those helmets on the floor. Well, they're definitely not on the heads of Mavi. This is an economical
Just an investment into a single flashbang. I suppose yeah, best-case scenario you're getting a kill here
Now with that smoke at 35, I think you're right here comes the flashbang and stinks. Oh blind
Opportunity but JL's trying to get that bomb down towards the low site a bomb plant would be huge an injection of additional cash
And he's across I don't think he's gonna get it
They're running out of air.
Think, Judd, you've got to be happy with that.
Rotation was there.
They just missed the shots on the cross,
on the unarmed opponent.
No HE to deal with it.
The Mollyey syndrome down,
and that will be a plan for Narvee.
So some extra funds.
Does that result in a wonderful AWP,
or do they just stick with the AK-47s?
Still, you have to see it all come out in his matchup,
and we're already time-round steep and heading into 10.
I can confirm we will not see one just yet.
So a great plan from JL.
Something out of pretty much nothing.
Yeah, they've got everything they need now.
A couple of those recovered AK-47s, so the one-shot headshot potential for Flames and Mezzie.
Spinks looking to land a forward, hang on, Mezzie, Spinks, this is a crunch.
A lobby crunch, and nobody's home.
Wonderful!
Spotted out, that was the bomb-tea roof!
Now they know!
The penny drops!
There was aggression in the mix, and they just recede.
The saying's so active here.
Apex spamming away. Good damage onto Wimmet.
And after a function of half HP, it's JL that opens up the account.
And he's a lexy to extend it.
Gatches, spanks, top sights open.
Flames in Zairu low, and here's Wimmet.
Spotted out by Apex.
And he seals the deal.
Thank you very much.
He was even anticipating secret.
Is it really a clean sweep?
Zairu doesn't seem to think so.
He'll joint the AK-47.
Does Navi have responded with a fourth round?
Let's see if Zaheer gets the hold onto this one.
Wonderful to take the five from Ayn and Swamp Zaheer grabs another bit of JL.
Important over for him, the aggression comes in and there's just so many moving pieces from Vitality.
After they run into lobby, they see absolutely nothing other than that exchange towards Top Roof.
They try to reset, they try to plug all these holes and Navi are standing ready to respond.
So a good reaction from Navi considering what they were tasked with.
I think this is the JL opening up, as he goes, they know that's one of the top side defenders.
Alexi starts to peer in, deals with Spinks.
And he's for the buy, this could be a fast.
Never mind, they're still out towards the door.
JL willing to take the fight again, completely blind for now.
Smoke deep, he's pushing in and Delwyn.
Big one, big one from Zywoo and Spinks.
With their powers combined, they repel the invaders and Narvi have lost the bomb.
It now falls and lies in enemy territory, smoked off.
You are in trouble!
In the middle of the smoke.
Bit tries his hand towards Rav, but Flames bests him as well.
That's still only one kill for Bit.
Vitality locked in to close this one with a five alive.
In the tail end of this half,
Apex has locked the door behind him.
Wonderful is going to try and fight his way through this.
Since IWU is his first victim, but a great cast.
A wonderful Apex secures it.
Seven on the CT side.
In four rounds, T-Side Nuke is definitely workable.
But considering Vitality tend to do their best work on the T-Harves,
maybe Na'Vi were hoping for a little bit more.
I think if they get five, they're going to be happy with that.
Seven-five, T-Side Nuke.
That should be in modern play,
so that Alexi and Blade can work with.
What did you make of this kind of aggression towards the squeaky door?
What rumbled it? Was it something as simple as just Zywoo hitting his shot?
U2 was good, right? They got blocked, their flashes were good, the Oli's were deep, unable to force the issue.
Forcing issues is Apex, and already bit goes down, an aggressive maneuver squandered. Apex still not punished.
Alexi missed the shot, does finally connect.
The bodies have already dropped, Emre caught on the cross, Alexi at least scavengers away and upgrade.
We'll find the M4 to try and play his trade. Final round of the first half.
Well they can't reset, knowing that Vitality are quite heavy with these rotations, these moving pieces.
Will they leer into the crosshairs yet again?
Jail has been a hero so far, only with a D.G.L.E.s hand
you'd have to do something massive.
Worryed about lobby pushers, ramp as well.
So plenty of problems for Jail, considered.
They're hoping something comes their way.
Spikes fading towards door.
Jail could, yeah, take this far,
but it turns out Spinks is the one coming for the clear.
They're happy to take these searches.
Even on the man advantage, Spinks looking.
And they get caught out JL just a free frag back of their head, Spings will find it.
It's only wonderful in Alexi to try and make a case for a 7-5 half otherwise Vitality will be
eight already safe on this CT side. What can you do wonderful on the yard his crossback spotted a
headshot angle hard to find Zywoo on his stairs it's eight four solid hold for Vitality.
The mentality clash, de-settling into things in every individual, contributing.
Zaywee 13 at the top, and Apex, he's still got nine at the bottom, Flames the same.
This is a big strong start.
Good reasons why on that CT start from Dan Madis-Clair, you can hear him celebrating there,
he was reading Na'Vi's playbook well.
And for Na'Vi, Chad, what do we make of their first half?
Half of the course, feeling out stages, map number one, we're just getting underway.
This is where we get to see if Alexi B's best of five woes continue.
They're map choice. Up next we have Dust2.
And Talade onto the attack. Apex with the Nades.
HE, Flash, and a smoke. The rest with armour.
All blown open. Looks like they want to head towards Ramm.
Remember, Bitt had a rough first half. He could turn that around to you.
The best discusses prowess in this position.
They test him immediately on the pistol.
Scarpering away and losing his head to Flames.
Problematic rotation from Emma towards the fence anticipating this at least bounding Glock as the bombs being punched by Mezzi
They have to regain control of this double door side, but they'll do it as a team as a unit
Playing with the daughters. Mezzi Alexi walks to investigate that the flashback is still looks good
Looks very very good for Vitality
Both pistols in favor of Vitality and it's bit the one task with being tested early
It's his control of ramp that is the difference maker the fact he goes down without any resistance whatsoever
Flames it, he's equal on the other side and massacres them in the double doors.
Beautiful work from Vitality. They are playing and running with this momentum.
Their individuals are firing. It has been the highest rate of and is currently
struggling. As mentioned, still early stages plenty of time to turn it around
but they're gonna be in a massive hole. Bound to be six rounds of the
difference. They've taken the eco. Vitality usually pretty good with
converting these and this is not a force by any means and Chad from your extended
experience competing in this video game in those high-pressure games how
important is a strong start is it something is it compulsory I think in
MR 12 the conversation about the first leg conversions has been amped up by a notch
all the in-game leaders are out there saying there's no time to recover there's
no time to adjust as opposed to the MR 15 you think you lose a couple of gun
You still have the back half of rounds in MR15 to be able to recover, be able to change up the play.
Whereas in the MR12, you need to be constantly thinking of what the next move is.
Multiple steps ahead and if you lose a bad clutch, lose an eco round, have one slip up.
That could be a half done and dusted right there.
And in the best of five as well, I suppose, you know, getting that first map,
you're already a hop and a skip away from the three.
So I'll be looking first, gun round for Navi, MP9 for JL, Fabis for Bid.
XB and wonderful. Tending to the yard position. Smokes obscure their view.
They're actually trying to get through the main. XB seems to have a read of this.
He positions as well. This is it. Through the smoke, XB catches flames.
Over-extending towards the main position. Smokes are fading. Zywoo does slip across.
That's the bomb. Yeah, they don't have to commit.
A lot of teams pop back up and try and scale around towards Heaven and help.
He will not oblige Zawir for a duel.
So information of what resides down to the lower deck is still a bit of a question for vitality.
More harassment towards that topside.
But starting to pivot, Apex calling them across and taking a dry Apex.
Goes down to wonderful, a must-hit shot for the young Ukrainian.
New angle and a new opportunity.
No smoke wall available, will just have to be dry.
Yeah, and on a passing glance, on a little swing, he finds info.
He takes down Spinks, but he saw another.
So now you'll see the CT forces start to reconfigure him has been this here the whole time and it is going to be clean on to Zai Wumezi remains
He's coming in hot for the first but overlooking that position bit catches him play happy with that one
Just his second try but it's the one that closes it down and secures five that's the first CT round for now V
Yeah they need him online and I wonder right now if Vitality with this force by that they're going to bring in
We'll try and pressure him towards ramp again.
They're able to get out a bunch of AK-47s.
I went into a scout, so a scope in play.
E-Piracic may its apex.
Frustration in the last might continue into this.
One of the few rifles already chipped down to 63 points of health.
Plenty of bodies behind him.
Three on the ground, two in the sky.
Sorry, one in the sky.
They're testing Alexi again.
You can play around this.
He will. One and a half.
Spinks low as well.
Merzy.
Send to the sidelines, and yard control is there, as you can see flames around
Unbreakable, retrieving Ryfall's Emma, smoked off for now. They're not in a hurry here, Chad.
They've got 60 seconds, but look at this from the CT, this is a reaction. You lose
yard, you take something else. Interesting that they didn't drop anybody down to B.
That is interesting.
Under Falls position, accounting for Flames' progression, and JL and Emma designed for
Now the smoke will make it difficult, turns the flash, entering his side, and it's one
f***ing out just around the smoke, has to pick up the bomb, he's got time to work with
and he's going to fight another fight!
Because of his squeaky door players who had that on lock, the smoke drops, he has a choice.
I give up full control, I got massive!
At the highest level, at the highest level, and no one needed it now more than ever.
Just in the way that round was shaping up, that is such a huge multi, you lose the
side because you either drop back to heart, your teammates can't contribute from the door.
The post plan is a different conversation. That's a completely different conversation,
but it's the Finances now. That round they lose it now. The other ones in the issue with
the Finances and now they're just going to farm them. Right. This will be their third consecutive,
but what was a gaping void of six rounds is fast going to become three.
Yeah, they did this in the first half, right? So they lost the pistol, lost the conversions.
Then they brought the rifles out. They were able to pull back entirely, right,
where they wanted them, but it was about continuing that streak. Vitality punch back.
Navi need to keep them at arm's length if they want to try and chase down this still
lead of three rounds. Couple of confidence boosters for bit,
doubles his kill total and attack timeout forced, dare I say it, from Navi's resurgence here.
Well last time they took a timeout they were able to convert. See if the same follows through
for Extas in and out of this vitality jersey with the third French component of the roster
alongside of Apex and Zywoo, speaking of Apex, there he is.
I mean, you were competing against him back in your day.
Yeah, completely different player. Still love to get into a biff, but definitely wasn't
calling the shots.
From entry fragger to IGL.
Hey, in the modern day game, some similarities in some of these positions especially on
the T side.
Don't be scared of us. We are aiming better than them. Focus on this.
Don't be scared of Deagle, says Blayne.
We are now aiming better than them.
Here we are.
Round 18, map one. Strap in.
Narvi have found some consecutive rounds. Three on the drop, but the gun's back out.
Yeah, Bear with so much money. Still opting to rock this MP9.
Working his way back into this game as five kills on the CT side.
Clear of the smoke, nobody at home. Transitions just in the nick of time, did bit.
Flash forward into the fight, Mezzy blind bit, gets in for free.
Beautiful teamwork, and the dink is there, Spinks.
Low half HP, can't be finished off, Spinks has got the double.
That's massive from Spinks. Wonderful try to trade, but in a positive...
In this 1v2 with half health, JL was responsible for a lot of clutches in the semi-final yesterday.
But that's why Spinks is in this team to close these rounds.
Three kills already, but it's this fourth one that is oh so imperative.
The bomb is under enemy control.
And J.L., he knows that's important, his life or the bomb, the target.
Descends into the topside, new avenue of approach, 30 seconds, Spinks brought into this roster to close.
J-O just look at the complete wrong way.
Outplayed.
The opener was great.
You think the damage from bit beautiful, but this is the whip.
This is the miss from Wonderful.
After he sprayed on earlier, you think he'd be good for it.
And J-O caught looking.
Oh, just as Narvin was starting to string together rounds.
Matali aren't under trouble just yet.
Sure, two rounds away.
That money's a little bit bleaker.
Five-power, not as strong.
And speaking of AWP, Wonderful's brought his down into the mix.
Back 10, two Galils, two AKs.
Throwing out a top fake, that's gonna draw bodies and eyes
in towards A, but they want to cross yard and they will, but no easily, Apex.
He's called them down, and Lexi will have heard this from Redpull.
So Zaru parked Lobby, but we need people to tend to that low site.
Two? Two different fronts.
And in the smoke, JL lines.
Looking away, fight on multiple fronts towards the control room in the lower side as well.
It's been caught out completely, throwing out a smoke grenade to play around.
Wonderful has the angle on the cross from Dekon.
Doesn't pull the trigger. Flames gonna start closing that gap.
Oh my god, I don't know if Messi saw him.
Wonderful is going for a highly aggressive, highly volatile maneuver.
Electricity in the mean time onto Flames!
He gets problems for vitality.
Scrambling now, but Spinks is still around.
Bomplarm would be huge, but oh no!
And Spinks, he is in struggle.
Street three to find.
Knows where Wonderful was.
JL's on his screen and secures the round.
That was chaos. What was going on? That was just chaos right there. Bit getting caught in the open.
That was tough. The lobby aggression, still bodies there for Vitality to deal with that.
So, Alexi denies the plan. That's hugely important because now it becomes in question. The fact he
gets the double, the fact he gets the second is insane. Much tougher clutch for Spinks
and now back down to Eco for Vitality.
This is where the comms get chaotic, the decisions in the moment can be punished, and the pressure
of the final starts to stress the individuals on the stage.
Another moment of respite for Na'Vi, so because they don't fall foul to multiple deagles,
take nine couple of blocks in a flash.
But you prepare your setups with your opponents by mind, right?
Oh for sure, but nothing's going to stop us, I will one, D.
There drops off the silo run boost
There's all distractions. It's so deep the deal from sour is over look, but look at that wonderful
clean with it
In the same sweeps to under the run
Interestingly after they won the rounds where was a 3v1 against spin state if it didn't or couldn't get the AWP back for
Wonderful and it's likely that one could have been purchased or dropped. I didn't have full scope of the money
But they haven't brought it forward
I'm sorry, we lose round because we're not playing together.
We better than them that we play for our separate.
Yeah, sorry.
We play for our separate, I'm sorry boys.
Let's fucking reach up and do what we can.
Apex demanding some focus, got to play together.
It's a team game after all, the individuals can swing.
But you're going to get this done as a unit.
This time heavy lobby presence from Vitality.
Josiah with awards, Yanta trying to create some presence in space.
Emma already wrote down to awards B,
They trust that the smoke will meet something back to bit.
This is his ram.
That is a bullet into his head, just through the metal.
Preserves his life.
And Zywu's been caught outside, in there.
That early descent down the vent has resulted in a Zywu opening kill or opening death, I should say.
His body now idled outside the secret stairs.
Limited util for the finish here Vitality, a man down, they are testing bit.
No secret, their occupation bit delivers a headshot, his occupation.
Ume, perfect position here to tonight.
A man advantage though, is there really something for Vitality in this one?
Where is his help? Where is the support?
Maybe he doesn't need it.
With Flames gone, Messi advances in to clear out the position
to now that bomb will likely go down. I say that Alexi already towards the double
door swings it open to ensure they're away and aware that bomb block will be
spammed. Two of them there exposed but Mezzi still puts them all down. JL God, wonderful necessary kill.
Up to Spinks. Two to find, finds a plant spot he can work with. Wonderful
Alexi, running it down. Double pick! Gotta put some respect on Bidsame as well. I know that he's
towards the bottom of the scoreboard. He gets that dink early through the
walls at ramp but he doesn't just turtle up he still plays forward and gets a
kill on apex so they know that the fight's coming they know that it's gonna
be the B play most likely that's how Zahra got caught by Emma this one gets
awkward JL full commits to the spray from double door he wasn't being able to
get covered but at least traded so some tense moments as the third
tactical timeout for Vitality has been called into use 3.5 for those on the
low ends. Just over 4k for the likes of Mezzi and Spinks. Max loss bonus into the next. This
is the type of round where you can get tricky with your investment. You don't have to shove
all in. Leave a little bit of extra cash so you can have a full buy-around going into
the next, but keep the pressure on. This is still a very winnable round with what
you have at your disposal. You do not want to allow Narvi to accrue any more cash
money. Couple more kills, get the bomb down again. Don't let them off the hook
easily. Does look pacy. They're coming towards bitstomay once again. Is he ready? Yes he is!
Matthew down! Tracking another! Puts down Zywoo and now charging into MRO.
Wanted to keep it close. Instead you've got a single frag and a single player left alive.
This map has been both pistols for Vitality. Only one gun round since.
And a few rounds where they have tried to pressure bit at ramp.
They're pressing tough just like we are.
Targeting what appears to be a weakness, but that means that Vitaliy haven't really been able to establish a pattern.
Tracks in terms of what could work. It's more explosive, direct approach.
It is being dealt with now. We are tied up, 11-0 half. We said it was workable and Na'vi agreed.
Not just 8-4, 9-4, 10-4.
From 10-4 we find ourselves at 11-11.
And I know what Vitality are wishing for.
And a lucid round on this T side.
And that's the classic Apex frustrations.
That's the main stay in the Vitality camp.
Demands a lot from his team, but understandably so.
Third time at Cologne Grand Final.
Wonderful on the jump, spotted the head over to what Silo is aware of the presence.
Utah being lined up.
Apex with the smoke can also do a flash from this position that completely blinds Main.
Well, that's gonna be the follow-through. He's got other ideas.
Again, though, you want to talk about direct approaches.
Four members of the Vitality Squad.
But it's just Alexi.
He's playing this unbreakable position. A flash for his VP.
Guts can find multiple bodies.
Spots the bomb there.
Awkward in the flames!
IGL on IGL.
Apex brings him down. Apex!
Finding wonderful Awkward now for Nalvi and Vitality.
they can pause the spings he hasn't he's catching bit completely off but he's still down here this is a crazy
rotation from Navi they won't expect this if anyone scouts out that topside flames towards main could so
quickly drop in confirm their suspicions but instead hang on it's apex get rerout up the bend that
has to be the call still plenty of time to do this maybe gonna be best to get over towards
B just to be certain well we can't see and we can't find him where are we gonna finish apex
Oh, no, they're going towards him.
Oh!
Masi stops us from getting a little nervous about that one.
Would have been an insane 1v5, sure.
But the fact that Navi rotated three bodies down towards B
after Alexi takes contact and gets singed towards yard,
it's an apex double.
And I said that these players, similar positions on the defense,
well, it's apex on the attack, cracking yard open,
a necessary round to get them 12th.
Navi on this stage yesterday were under pressure against Maas.
Similar situations, having a battle back in close affairs over time.
Well that's where they need to go right here, right now if they want to stay in contention
for their map choice. Map number one of the best of five, Nuke.
Otherwise Vitality can run with the momentum into dust too.
Yeah, Navi nuked their selection as the first map of play
Vitality can end it here and take it away from them. No kid. No money to afford that
Apex pops up his chest
Spams the smokes throws out the maids
Starts his progression
Spin some flames responsible to contain the mobby JL in it
Towards the A site
Sportive util for Apex, he's going to try and use this, he'll use that smoke to guys he's pushed out, Alexi doesn't know, it's an uncertainty, and nobody's looking his way, what the f***, so close to Imer getting caught on that quick switch, but he does just enough, and this is a great catch as well, really sealed the deal with the final frag.
You can understand the pounce, you can understand why Vitality getting the move on, Apex gets that kill, they want the follow through, they want the knockout blow.
This is a complete change in the setup, him out, traded out early, hit the round playoff in warehouse, he's been spotted on the crossback, the AWP not in yard.
How quick can Vitality piece this together? As you just said, can J.O. in the meantime pressure everywhere?
Lots of moving pieces in this one. Look at Apex.
Alexi be responsible and now his position is noted by throwing out that incendiary
He picks in a power position to strike. There is no way Alexi's ready for this. Oh, I'll leave finding gaps
Up against the very best
Good confidence there to smoke off ramp make sure there's no push in play
Vitality got me eyes cross Matisse bit and out of his presence spam. Oh just alive
But vitality hard to see you losing this one
It's a completely different look coming into this OT. The AWP towards Ram, maybe thinking
there might be a bit more bit pressure. Wonderful doesn't get any action. Emma going one for one.
It's JL who is the hero in the previous falls in the follow up without any resistance and
vitality break through. Wonderful brings everything through. A full five. Do we see yard aggression
from Nabi? That's the question. Do they want to stall out a lot of these movements?
If you all in by a classic yard aggression, you get one player close, ready, you want to
play on the close side, but you can also push your player up, slither through the main smoke,
right, get ready to fight towards the T's coming out and then have your AWPer overseas silo.
That's an all-in maneuver.
That's literally shoving all in.
If you shut down yard, you win the round.
You don't.
See what they call?
I feel they have to go for something either more turtle or more aggressive because right
now it feels like they're in between the two mines.
Yeah, like a tap in defense.
It's not going to be yard focus or centric, but Wonderful does find himself here.
And we could have had a head-to-head, Zywoo is on that silo providing the over-watching
cover for his teammates.
A clear of the smoke, a chance for Wonderful.
This is what Barthes have got us, aggressive apex.
He's happy to fight.
Brings the Orpah down to just an inch of HB, seven for Wonderful.
Now they can just stand.
Look at him standing on the red box.
And how is he going to find that?
Some smoke games from Ime.
We know what's up.
And who is it?
But Bit tasked with setting himself up in a position to defend that low site.
Ime's aggression has caught Apex.
He was the lurk towards the red container.
Now the body of the assault starts to converge onto this B bomb site.
It facilitates a plant.
It can't be disrupted.
They're going to have cover from Zaiwu.
Looking towards the ramp site.
Alexi B descending the vent.
This is an important fight with Mezzie at the same time.
4v3 goes 4v2.
Sure, you got the bomb down, but can you defend it? Mezzie, what you got?
Anything here for Zywoo, he's hit the farthest of the door.
Hit, pushing squeaky, flanking yard.
And then, slamming the door, shut in Zywoo's face. No clutch for you, he says.
So active. Look at all the places he may go to kill this round.
You have to feel this round shouldn't have even started to get out of control with the big number advantage.
It's just not on his mark right now that shot. We have the advantage against Mezzi
Vitality trying to make a round out of things
Wonderful trying to touch of aggression
Here in overtime and oh no
An opportunity presented itself the backside of apex slipped into his crosshair, but he's unable to fall and convert a
A re-aggression seems...
This is risky.
Absurd.
The...
Information has flown. They know where you were.
But aren't they expecting you to have stuck around?
A pausey call from Wonderful, but by starting to recede now, vitality have paused.
Returning lobby control.
Look at all the nades left for vitality. Still so much shoot-off for the finished plenty of flashes.
Molly's in the mix.
First off is JL, that molly top-hard. Now dipping down the vents, multiple bodies.
Immy will hear this, what's he got? Messi's down!
Apex has to try and beat him down. From either side, he's getting crunched in.
Has he got a river? Hell, 16 points of health for this French duo in Cologne.
Congression, Zywin!
Immy has started to look like a hero in overtime. They note the ult towards Ram.
They don't want to test the ward as they drop back. They find the gap down the vent,
but Emma delivers a multi-kill massive work from him.
He was there at the start of the round.
We cut to him just kind of jump spotting for info.
We were so focused on the AWP,
but Vitality had been able to get an individual down towards secret.
So something within the round told Apex,
we should not try and brute force round.
We need to look for another way,
another option to get down towards B,
but Navi had an answer.
Gosh, so many rounds are very, very close, but it is solid.
a 2-1 score line coming into our second half of our first maps over time.
He's still rolling with the 5-0 AK-47s as part of their T side.
Keeps them a lot more adaptable, doesn't lock them into just setting wonderful up for picks on the AWP,
because I always got his out on the other side.
Let's see what kind of trend they set to start us off. It's a headshot from JL.
Spinks brings the fight to the squeaky door and JL happy to apply.
Yeah, you bang on there. That's pretty meditative. That's Spinks saying,
I will go and duel against Shayo. You know he's going to be there.
You know that's his domain. So wanting to see if this head-to-head can continue,
the drops I was AWP down towards B immediately. He's going to be all picked from secret.
You hear the smokes, the mollies, and well, now the info to him is dead.
Wow, what a big one back from Apex. He is playing
a very solid game of Counter-Strike, keeping up with the younger guns.
This is the gap.
Threading the needle, R-N-R-V, in search of 15, in search of securing the double O-T at a minimum.
That move from JL, Wilson, Mezzi, scattering elsewhere.
Flanders is also 4-5 this A site.
Wixie's starting to pivot them back. JL could get enough of the timing on his side. JL's doubled!