I'm on the concrete now
I can feel it
I'm on the concrete now
I can feel it
I'm on the concrete now
I can feel it
I can't feel it all around
A corner called a people cave in it
Another pressure of a dead-time dress
I can see all the foam but in
I see the storm give out
I'm burrowing up with another single cloud
I can see the storm give out
Where is the tide?
Oh, oh, oh, that's it I
Can't see no more
Can't see no more
I'm stuck in my beard, we're going to have to do that again.
Counter Strike Combine 2025 Dallas, Texas, come in direct hot and into your living rooms
around the globe.
We're going to have the best Counter Strike players in the world put through a bunch of
tests, trials and tribulations.
Do you have what it takes to win in Texas?
We've had our best man on the job rush, the A. Rushlesson, defining and coming up with
a couple of new techniques on what Counter Shot plays should be bringing to the server.
Let's find out if they've got what it takes.
Honestly, are you ready?
I am ready.
On the sound of the whistle, your time will commence.
Dark.
That's unusual techniques in a chair adjusted.
Of course.
time will commence. That's unusual techniques in a chair adjusted, not a mandatory part of the set up here.
We don't have to rush. How is he on a mash deck? He's fine. He's fast usually. So he looks like he's not in a hurry right now.
He doesn't understand the... It's a time trial.
As long as he gets headshots. Well he's even doing table height. We haven't seen this before.
This could be very problematic.
What's the problem?
He's now under the table.
Do you feel confident in beating this time?
I have 100%.
You know, I don't fucking see a blade.
The USP's had to twist it. It's the classic.
Is it all plugged in?
Of course.
And stop the clock.
That's the time of a minute and five seconds.
Plug in that mouse and the keyboard.
And straighten the monitor.
Wait, it's also chair. It's also table.
But we will give extra points.
He did, you know, take some...
But you didn't, that's not part of the test.
Those guys are not professional.
Nico, are you ready?
Yes.
I'm gonna set up the whistle, begin.
Whistle.
Oh, look at that.
He's not doing chair.
But how do you, who cares, I think.
No, he's not doing it.
He's not doing it.
But he's not doing it perfect, you know?
This setup should be perfect.
You don't have to hurry.
You're not gonna hurry.
Are you already hurry?
Oh, it's teamwork.
No, I want to go on flight.
This is looking speedy.
Rushly's happy with that.
Stop the clock.
33 seconds. Absolutely trouts to your time.
Oh, there's a bit.
Do you want a whistle?
Yeah, that's one.
He's gone ahead of the whistle there. That's a false start.
I've lost the catch. Here we go.
Oh, 160 down the gate.
I'm 43. Ooh!
Can I start one?
That's that one.
And he's double clicked that.
138.
This is gonna be harder than this.
165.
150 average.
152 at best average for a fantasy.
Happy with that?
Fine.
But she doesn't have that.
I don't know what's the...
What's the cost?
No.
Right at that one?
You don't know what's bad off the bank?
I think I've got that one.
Are you feeling comfortable?
Yes.
On the whistle.
Whistle.
Yeah!
I think 138 was most of his lowest, I'm 46, I think 164, I think it's good, I didn't think
he was that good, I don't know, I'm probably going to shout, the score is 11-11, you've
died first, you've turned away the opening kill, you're thinking fuck I've just given
Kixen pulls off a miraculous 3k and right now you're up to 12 first, map 5, you're about to win the grand final.
How loud would your nice be? You can't just yell anything, like you can't just yell Blyat or something, we need nice.
Nice! 114! Is it just one take?
Okay, just one take.
That was good.
That was great.
Are you fired up on your Glearno?
Of course not.
I was 12-12.
Kixen Prime is going to clutch 1v1.
Oh, 128! That's 14 decibels louder.
I remember the times I shout and I stand up and my fucking head is spinning.
Bottle of water is here. Your hand on mouse and keyboard. You need to grab the water bottle,
take the lid off, take a sip, put the water bottle lid back on and put the water bottle back down.
No, the bottle's open.
Doesn't want to spill a drop here.
Consider it on the sip and bottle back down.
Stop the top.
Nine seconds.
No, I just want to drink on the sip.
This is yours now.
Now this is a man who knows how to stay hydrated.
Ha ha ha.
What's up, my friend?
I'm going to spill it on the piece of the kill.
He's put the bottle back down with lid on in transition.
That's a technique that you love to see.
What do you think?
Your keyboard will stop working if you will spill everything.
What we're going to do right now is, we're going to test how strong you are.
You're going to shake Nico's hand, you're going to shake my hand,
and then you're going to grab this and you're going to squeeze.
It was 400 there, that's the highest point.
About 40, sorry, not 400.
Okay.
I did it.
Are you happy with that?
It's fine
57 oh my you're gonna get the gym, man
We're gonna give you a page number, okay
You have to flick through find the page number and read what it says on the page page 76
Oh, he's going straight to the back without knowing how many pages on the strap book
He's going all five rounds with minimal utility.
What? No, he's 77, blyat.
Go mid and wait, I'll molly window, push when you hear the molly land the goal,
go camera tempo, roll the smoke, they haven't control, plant aim, take aim in.
But I have a question. Who brings back 100 pages on 10 pages and he says 6?
Well, this is to be vitality.
Up to be vitality?
Yeah.
Rate boss, yeah?
Yeah.
All right, that is going to be 18 seconds.
I'm on freeze time like this.
Wait, it's page 13.
There is a...
Mice.
It's a 67.
It's a good stripe book, right?
Insane.
Okay, Nico's turn.
American Strat Book.
68.
Fuck.
I'm in with the pages here.
Milk, eggs, breads, chicken breast, rice, apples, broccoli, cheese.
12 seconds!
Look at that.
Man, I have like strats here.
Milk, eggs, broccoli, sandwich.
Well, they're co-ordinated.
Restraat.
How do you feel about peeling and taking a bite of a banana?
Where are they?
Which part?
It's following.
I need to eat the whole banana to take a bite.
I don't have to open one of them.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
Peel open it.
Yes.
Okay, okay, so I'm in front of...
Man, I don't understand this.
Just peel the banana, take a bite.
Okay?
What am I doing?
Strong peeling technique there.
In the mouth, chewing out.
You actually opened the mouth.
11 seconds.
That's not that time!
I'm taking this banana.
I will not chew it, I'll just swallow it.
Are you kidding?
Nikol, you're not doing it, you need to chew it.
Why don't you chew it?
Don't chew it, alright?
Oh, he's not happy with the bite size!
That's just a nibble.
It's a small bite, a nibble.
It's a small bite.
Ota, plus one second.
Okay.
Plus one?
So we're giving it a referee.
What was one?
But you're gonna take it up with the tournament management.
Well, look how much I bite.
Yeah, look, it's not fair in life.
Honestly, for the size of bite,
he's taking one second off your time.
And give me one second later.
Yeah.
Let's bring it on next task.
How are you with utility?
Very good.
All right, we get three shots.
I'm gonna imagine you're in accuracy, not time.
It's a normal thing.
It's very sportive, isn't it?
Oh, it's returned!
He sped through the shots, there nothing lands, but I would like to give one point for the return on deflection.
That's not fair.
Hit the ball, it came back.
He's hit the net.
No, that was a bad throw.
With 1-1, yeah?
Well, look, I feel, turn this into a 0.5.
If this is only worth one, then the bounce back is only worth a 0.5.
No way, Nico wins.
Mine is always like this, against me.
Everyone against me.
Are you happy with the results of today?
Yes.
Do you guys feel ready for Texas?
Yes.
Insane, really.
Here, let's have the title.
We'll eat bananas, drink water, and play basketball.
Perfect.
That's exactly what we need to make Kamastra.
Great.
Thank you, gentlemen.
I think at this moment I was actually getting pissed off like I normally don't do and I think
in a game like this where you play a sangle there's not this like fully fire inside me
and at that moment I have to say that I think this is one of the most important things when
I shot my body and it excavated me so much in the game I wanted to win so badly so actually
the game meant something more than just a game telling him nice save after I shoot my
body I think that's a pretty good trash talking my opinion so that's for sure one top one
for now. I know which one is this though. I have good history with Taps and good friends.
I speak German. In theory it was one of those moments where I just suddenly started speaking
German to them. I don't think the Tristar is so much there. It's more like just me speaking
German. So I'll put that on the lowest, I think eight.
I don't know what I'm doing here. I just think I'm explaining to them how we shot them.
I've been put there on seven.
I think I was having a shaky aim in an important round and then I was like, I was saying I
was a little bit nervous.
So it's not really a trash talk. I think it's more trash talk about myself and six out
of top 8. I think this one is actually pretty good because there's always this idea in all
teams that you can't kill Saibu in the back. We played a strat where the whole idea was
that I'm running out and I don't do it along guy and I'm trying to kill the oba and dong.
So I'll put that on number 2. That's really funny actually.
Thank you, Rob.
I mean, this one is...
I mean, we are getting wrecked by Vitality
and then Rob's just helping us out a bit.
He feels bad for us and he kills the teammate,
which means I think we're now first gone round on Luglis.
So it's funny for us,
free out of top three, just because it's a funny moment.
We're so bad for you!
Bad for you! Hello?
Wrong sign!
Wrong sign.
This was a little more trash talkies on German.
I think we faked them or something and we went to the other side and they're rotating 5 to the guys to the wrong side
The other one that most German was more calm, but this one is more like fresh talking in German to to big
So number four
I'm obviously fired up from the shouting at them and I think they did a bad retake on this too
There's the wasn't that bad, but I'm just trying to turn the need to train their retakes
Especially when you want to start shoot buddy, you know, I have something personally can say for you
don't shoot my body like that so yeah then it's trainer retakes let's see the
first clip this is me for sure no this is you or it's usp and one more yeah
every time Jimmy has a spray down or he has to multi kill and he spams all his
amphibes and he beeps at his usp and he's double thing everybody
It's funny, because he is really good at mood killing, so yeah.
Oh, I beg your pardon, thank you.
Maybe it's me.
No, it should be you.
Oh, this is the Spirit Clash at 15-14, 0-2nd left, when I kill Shiro in Deathless.
Doing a hot ride.
Yeah, I want to plant, he comes up, plant.
Oh, I have no time.
Oh, actually I had time.
Yeah, I used to do the clip.
Yeah, it was a really good clutch.
Yeah.
You had some good shots.
Some Tec9 and Ope.
Yeah, exactly.
But, yeah, good clutch.
Good clutching.
Yeah.
Eventually with that clutch, maybe we wouldn't have made it to finals.
Who knows.
But, yeah.
Oh, this is the 1-on-5.
1-on-5 vitality.
Lisbon, right?
I don't know that side.
Yeah, it was the final.
Yeah.
Grand final.
Was it last map?
No, it's second.
No.
This is the first map, I'm pretty sure, I remember it was a pretty tight game, we had good city side, I think they were making a comeback on their city side, no, no, no.
I think we lost 3-0.
But I remember this clutch, and this bus 2 we should have won for sure.
Especially after this clutch, I think it was like 10-6 after this clutch or something like this.
Like we got a good lead, also we got a lot of money and then I think we're in the next one and then we just lose everyone after that which was a bit sad.
This clutch, I think I played it really good I feel, but also shooting really well.
Yeah, you were really in some killing everybody as the appearance, you were really just fast.
Probably the best pilot of my career to be honest.
Yeah.
I think so, one with 5 and 10 fighters.
Yeah, on stage.
I know this one. It's Farcon's B-POP. It looks actually really easy now.
You make it look easy. Yeah, right? Yeah, make it look easy.
I don't know why can't I do this every time they can't beat me.
Yeah, I remember this. I thought they are faking a B-POP and I said it's not B.
And after that the second guy comes and I kill him and I'm like,
Okay, it's B, it's B, it's B, and I'm just kidding though, but yeah.
Or this is 2G.
Yeah, they were way up, I just go in my Terminator mode, you know.
Multikill, that's what I'm saying.
Exactly, Multikill.
Yeah, I mean, I think we were leading the game again, but then we lost the map, or we lost the game at least.
Because we lost them all the time in Cologne, like every time we faced, I don't remember, two or three times.
Yeah, pretty simple, straightforward, nothing crazy, but just some good mood here.
Oh my god, I just watched this exactly clip, it's right on the side, yes.
I don't know what to say.
You make it look easy, you make it look easy.
Before I killed him, in short, in the kitchen I missed two shots,
and I had to reload my AWP, took a little bit of time,
and I was scared that they can maybe kill, I don't know who I was alive,
because it has a 2-1-4, I think.
Maybe with Lothan, his pings.
We played this, it was very good to play it off each other,
and we just didn't let them get close.
You hit the good shots, the necessary shots.
Yeah, easy for you.
This is where it's not yet from me.
Well, your river is really good in this tournament.
I was flying only in this tournament, I have to say.
This was World Capt. 24, Chimpen Prime.
No, no more Prime.
No more Prime.
So you have no skins?
I'm not sure about that also and he's wonderful now with ult.
He's got the entire...
I don't know what I'm saying but...
So he has it for me.
I think you can see the sharpness when you kill the back side guy.
And then you turn... yeah, you turn at back.
He's not that sharp at all.
True.
And Jimmy is sharp, I think he's one of the best aimers in the world.
Damn.
It's autumn again?
Oh, yeah, it stays. Yeah, I remember
You just drift around I dodge the flash
You kill everyone
I died this guy and it blocked the vehicle. Oh, okay. It does break with shots. Yeah, I remember this keep
I didn't say single that I was just yeah full of Dean
I was just killing the people on my screen. I remember we had some talk after like you
You didn't say anything, you just killed a mom or something like this, but yeah, you were shooting pretty hard.
I played pretty bad this game.
After this clutch?
After this ace, I had not been able to kill this game, so it was pretty shame.
It's such a shame, but...
It's a good ace kill.
Yeah.
Hmm, yeah.
All right, Hallie.
What I'd like to do with you today is share some facts about your outie.
Because your outie is an exemplary player.
These facts should be very pleasing.
Just relax your body and be open to the facts.
Your Outie is fond of films and owns many movies.
Your Outie is strong and helps a group lift a heavy object.
Your Outie is a major MVP.
This is when we're ready for the fight!
Whoop.
I'm sorry, please try to enjoy each fact equally.
That's minus 12 rounds.
Rounds?
These rounds will be deducted from your overtime bonus.
Your outie loves animals, and owned goats in their yard.
No!
It's right around us, don't break it!
Before a forced move inside, due to the presence of a bald eagle,
because your outie sacrifices space and is not boosted by his roles,
your enemy must now aspire to reach your outie's greatness.
It's a long time waiting. I miss that for a fifth, so bad.
When we walk into the state, I'm looking at it to majors, I want Cologne.
I just miss that one piece, which is Katowice.
All pressure that we can get is from the crowd cheering against us.
It's always funny to win against the crowd and make everyone silent.
You don't wait 11 years to fail at this point.
To win in Caravessa, it's hard. To aim back to back, near impossible.
Please welcome to the stage, Team Black Dive Day!
Team Spare!
But that trophy, something iconic, is about to happen.
Going to the final definitely had a revenge in my mind.
I had a guy inside of me, I knew it was going to be different for sure.
I knew that guy was going to pull off some things, you know, I'll have some personal
revenge against him, so I had a couple of headaches of my sleeve as well.
Some players know how to win.
That guy knows how to win.
He knows how to be good in big games.
It doesn't mean that he will be good at every big game.
When you play with Robin, he gives you confidence just by the way talks, how Kami is during
the round, etc.
Not by his pitch, but the way talks during the game, the way he plays.
With FaZe, we had a lot of success.
We won those tournaments but vitality is going to be different so we have to find our own
recipe.
I think they're just happy to have me and I think most of it brings confidence to the
team.
Let's go!
Play with the PS4. Play with the clear we discussed. Listen to Leonid in the middle, everything will work out.
Go!
The sails are past, wonderful might make up for it, they've got to stop falling, and wonderful can end your life now, but I'm unable to get the gun on in time!
Simple tries to cover low on health, has to hit back clean!
And simply the thing is all by just to die on a fall!
What do you think man?
No, we're going to fuck them.
Okay.
You ever bit the body?
You ever put a hoodie under the shirt?
I don't know how he pulls it off and I couldn't.
No.
He used to do it at school.
He's absolutely flustered.
Yeah, you're looking at that.
Time reveals he's in the office.
Now that they're on the boy position, whoa!
What?
How does he get three?
Three man ace up the stack,
Oh he gets in for two of the powers.
He get down quicker, just move it.
He's booked.
Three man ace at the start, only gets in for a two of the powers.
He hit that quick adjustment, and he's packed!
Ah!
Ah!
The powers are so great!
Oh my god!
Woo!
Three!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
The candidate mutilies rises to the occasion.
Man, he's playing like a beast in this game.
Oh my god, this is Tansmer, what a legend.
And simple, even failing the full spot just can't die at all.
This is so hard for me to fucking call.
When you all, there's small commas all the time.
The way we respond to each other, it's so bad vocally.
If you wanna keep talking like this to each other,
we're gonna pay for it, man.
And it's fucking fucking okay.
I want you guys to fucking step up now, repel a bit, we won the first map, we had a good
position all the time, and now we need to beat the fucking screw when we talked about
it.
And it's fine, if it's here and there, it's fine, but every round there was something,
something, something all the time.
It locks it in!
one thing we can count on is that if ufa UFO let's do it
Absolutely phenomenal.
And Ace is the champion of the Intel Extreme Master.
You're 500.
This girl still not quite done,
and she is going to take this fight for three seconds left.
Well, it's two rounds,
and the next she's going to start it well before you see it.
As this is a massive move,
this is when he's done for 10,
with just the next is killed.
He becomes a champion!
And it's all done!
I'm strong, Chris!
Unbelievable run with a four-shadow victory over classes.
And they did it again in the run-down.
Let's go, dude!
Give it up for your intel, Extreme Masters World Champion!
Welcome to the Intel Extreme Masters in Krakow, the continuation of a legacy that began nearly
two decades ago.
In 2007, our journey started in Hanover with the IEM World Championship, laying the foundation
for modern Counter-Strike competition.
By 2014, the world turned its eyes to Katowice, where eSports found its new home.
Inside the legendary Spodak Arena, passion became tradition and tournaments became pilgrimage,
the best teams and the loudest fans on earth. Champions were crowned, rivalries
were born, and moments became myths. The Polish crowd set the global standard
with wars that shook the arena and silently carried the weight of championships.
For more than a decade every February meant just one thing.
Katowice was the capital of Counter-Strike. Now new heroes continue to
seek greatness at a new peak. From Hanover to Katowice to Krakow, this is more
than a tournament. This is the beating heart of Counter-Strike history. This is the Intel
Extreme Masters.
The Intel Extreme Masters Crack-off 2026 brought to you by ESL. In partnership with Intel,
Acer Predator, DHL, Zowell, Jax, and City of Cardinal.
There's a lot of action going on here in Krakow.
Half of it's right here on this ping pong table.
As you can see, it is the game of games,
but there are at least two of those ahead of some of these teams today.
Yo, what's up, Spinks? Can we hang out for a minute?
Yeah, of course. Let's do it.
Yeah, let's do it. Look, you guys are getting set in for the long haul today.
It could potentially be a pretty long day, or how does it feel on these marathons?
Well, I hope it will be a long day, right?
We don't want to go out on the first game. I hope for a long day.
It's been a long time to be honest for me, to have two best of three's on the same day.
I hope we will get there and win both of them, so we'll see how it goes.
And judging by how it's going from Al's, you guys seem like you're in pretty good spirit.
seems like no one got trapped in the elevator. Nothing crazy happened this morning, right?
Like, some of the face players and our coach got stuck in the elevator. So, they're a bit
delayed, but it's fine. Besides it, the spirits are good, the vibe is good. Of course, we
are a bit sad about the game yesterday, but it's kind of like...
Yeah, that's part of it. In these dabbings, really cold outside, you've got to get inside,
stay warm. It all comes to today though. So tell me, Spinks, when you woke up today, you
knew it could be a long day. Tell me how you approached it. What do you tell yourself in
the morning after day 5, 10, 15, 25, counter-strike in a row?
So when I wake up, sometimes it's hard to wake up. But when you have a long day, you
have to be instantly sharp, be fast, do everything you need to get done before the game. And right
now we are just focused on the first game. I think that's the main priority right now.
We need to win this one in order to get the second one, so we just focus on the first
game, use the energy we have for the first game.
When we get to the second one, we handle it.
We just use everything we have in our tank.
It's the start of the season, start of the year, so we should have good energy inside
of us.
Let's see how it goes.
Hit the ground running.
Anything you want to tell the Malz fans?
Anything you want to say to your coaching staff, your staff overall?
Coaching staff, Malz fans.
I would just say this, that we have a lot of fans outside the hotel that support us and
and the ask for pictures and everything, it's super nice.
I'm really hoping we will make it to the arena
and enjoy it more, so thank you everyone here and back home.
And thank you, Mr. Spinks.
Thank you.
It is nearly time to be locked in for the Tour on Arena.
Last few seats available,
some teams vying for that semi-final bye as well.
Got Chadi B with me to kind of get us situated
for our final day of play here in Krakow,
or at least final day of play prior to those playoffs.
Yeah, I got to tell some story,
to jump into Aurora versus Vitality. Aurora actually upsetting Mouses, one that I think
people need to be paying attention to. This team coming into 20-26, Joe did not part of the squad.
I think everyone was thinking they were on a bit of a downward trajectory. The Mouses win
is massive and now they go up against Vitality, a team that call versus call they've actually never
lost to. So for Aurora are they the Kryptonite to Apex and his boys? With the new best back,
it's possible. But those results that I'm referencing, Ancient History and Ancient's a
the key word in this, both teams are banning ancient, right?
So with that in mind, who's going to float it?
Where's it going to come into play?
And what maps are we going to get between these two?
Because this is for a spot in the semis.
And if I tell you when that, they're
going to find themselves what 17 consecutive top four
placements.
And you were talking about upward trajectory.
I think we can actually move on to another team that
does bear some significance in this run, which is foot.
I mean, somewhat of an unknown entity.
It was a team that we didn't get to cover too much
the mainstream obviously don't have that name value as some of the other guys but perhaps they're
going to is that going to be a conversation later that we should highlight them right because people
need to pay attention to this team right this is the navi academy minus mccasey plus longs and I
think people really need to give them some respect right the top results they're able to achieve
even though they went out in the lower bracket they are the ones that put furia down in the lower
bracket right so this is a team that I think throughout 2026 when they get in more reps
one to look out for and some of these names like your demons your cemeteries of the world
the players that people need to be looking out for and with fury out having to go to the lower bracket. It's been a tough run
Mongols three maps right yesterday against Navi three maps right now
They have one more best of three and it should be the easiest of the lot against Astralis to get on through to that arena
Yeah, no, that is one of them
I'm excited to see of course, you know, there are other teams fighting for that final spot as well
Which other ones are standing out to you?
You know you look at a mouse phase 3d max falcons, which two do you see making it through?
So this is the lower bracket garner right in group B you have to play two best of trees within the day
You've got the big brother, little brother situation right now where mouse has been coming out on top in recent history other than the major of the phase.
This is a matchup that we all know very well and they played an awful lot against one another since 2023.
And right now is it going to be mouse on a downward trajectory, right?
Because where was murmur is about a roster change. They weren't able to find the results they wanted in 2025.
And phase are also looking to recover some of that form or was it just another great major run down the bottom of this?
Falcons as well with a bit of a fumble or maybe pushed down here by Aurora and 3D Max.
I honestly think that any of these four teams can take this final spot in Group B.
Okay, well, we only find one way to find out which is to get this day started.
I think we can continue to adventure around the studio. See if Trace is around here somewhere.
Big day ahead of mouse here and exertion to be exact. Exertion, how do you feel coming today?
Feel good. I feel calm. Maybe I was lacking that in the last two days. So, yeah, I'm just ready to
show a better me and the better mouse today.
Let's roll it all the way back.
Last year you guys lost out to Liquid in not always like the most pristine fashion has
Poland treated you guys when it's come to Counter-Strike in terms of mouths.
What would you say the the upcoming has been from then to now?
I mean of course a lot of change in last year also last year we played with a stand-in when
we lost here in Katowice but yeah we're really excited to have a new event in Krakow so I'm
I'm really hopeful that we will make the playoffs and we're going to do everything to reach there, but first we have to beat FaZe.
First you have to beat FaZe and we're almost there. You guys got trounced by FaZe last I looked.
It was at Budapest, it was about Nuke and Fernau. It wasn't pretty. What did you guys take from that?
Well, different stakes. Definitely, obviously, them beating us in a quarter-final of a major hurt a lot,
especially as we thought that we would go really far in that major now we're in
a different still elimination game who loses is out so we hope to send them
home but yeah I think that last time we were not that ready to play today we
need to come on fire it's been our issue lately maybe you could say also the
first two games we played here we've had pretty weak start so today we want to
start strong against face like a roar kept you guys in single digits on dust
two in inferno were you able to isolate those problems and can you tell us what
Yeah, definitely. I mean, I think they played good, Aurora. They definitely deserve the win, but I still think that we just didn't play it to our level at all.
So, mostly taking away that we just threw a lot of rounds and we had really slow starts on both maps, 5-1, 5-0, something like this.
And, yeah, coming into the day, we need to make sure we have hot starts. We need to make sure that when we get into those territories, we play them properly.
When we get to Antico, we play them properly. So, yeah, we have to definitely step up if you want to stay in the tournament.
face is not a team that you can just roll over at any time so yeah I just hope we bring
our A game if we bring our A game I have no doubt we're gonna beat them.
Did the video go the way you wanted it?
Yes nice video I heard now it was Mirage, Nuke, Inferno or something no Mirage something like
this I don't know. Something like that I mean there's a lot of videos going on.
Exactly I didn't fully follow yet but yeah I will get the video and in either way the
video will be good for us. Good deal thank you Mirage for the exertion.
of that here today on the final day of play and I am crack off as far as stage two is concerned
two best of threes for one of these two names and the same to be said for three max versus
falcons which is going on the B stream right now through key takeaways from the spinks and the
exertion interview both of them alluding to the fact that they're not focused on the second best
of three they're not taking this one for granted and understandably as trace highlighted in his
interview there is a head-to-head that favors face and the video will be up on screen it's going to
Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, and that head-to-head from the major.
Exertions take different stakes, obviously different because Arena playoff, right,
this time is just to survive the day. We'll actually survive to play later
there, but still elimination. So I'll say different environment.
I think that's probably what he was alluding to.
Yeah, and being a studio environment, I think Mouses are done with those woes,
unless it's a grand fun, right? That has been the biggest pressure point for Mouses
in 2025. This is a good team who are yet to become a great team. We know that they can
make the deep runs, they can beat anybody, but when it gets to the grand final, they're lacking
that spark. Now you have to wonder when does resentment turn into contempt? We heard some
murmurs about the potential of roster changes. Nothing happened and you want to make sure everybody
is on the same page because this time last year they had Zelex standing in. That's when they
they got rid of Shuie. So Alex had to stand in from the academy. Spinks comes in for clues.
They win that. Well, that's our next event. All right. And if you take a look at their
run since then, their worst placement was Katowice last year. Since then it has been
all playoffs. So right now, if they are unable to lock themselves into the playoffs, that
will be their worst placement since Katowice last year. And yeah, I am winter this time
in Krakow. All right then. So we get the party started. Odds favoring Mous at the top of
Makes sense. I think FaZe are still trying to scrap together some form of...
I want to call it consistency.
This is a roster that had a great major short, a miracle run.
There's a stack on A, three players to defend. One sandwich, one firebox, one ticket.
Spinks is in such a perfect position for that.
Instead, Shoji's been unable to provide it, Broke. He does manage to punish him for his negligence.
Torji would love to get away from this with a kill and is struggling to do so.
Karagamash, pick up Brawler, not the knife kill!
Frozen's just been his grambit to Torji's spine!
All the hell are missing bullets!
Exertion manages to control two, three from Exertion!
What is that for a start?
You've got knife kills and still not a pistol!
Eh, that is scrappy there.
Really struggling to deal with Torji,
and then they're not expecting rotation to be there already.
They should have been on high alert considering how long this took.
You can see it here from the, this is a great context cam that comes in.
So Spinks fluffs his lines, he gets dealt with, and the knife has to come up to deal with Torz.
He probably has to head towards CT, and then it's not ready for the rotation to be here.
That took an awfully long time, so fumbling the 2v4, now's a pick up the pistol.
Bomb not going down.
Doesn't mean it is just a hero AK in the hands of frozen.
Well, you do get some perks, I guess, for the knife kill cash.
Yeah, it is interesting to see the Mirage pick, right?
I think they are looking at Maus in recent history on this map.
They have lost the last three in a row, so hopefully finding a pressure point for Baze.
I don't even think they know what their map pool is.
Nuke, maybe?
Well, Mirage, maybe?
They've got that as the third, but they need to pick up this or Inferno to get there.
Right.
And I don't know how convincing the win yesterday against BCG was.
Mm-hmm losing a map. I think PCG exceeded my expectations big one for frozen here
He's gonna have a head to head the off angle adopted by torsion. That's you probably back looked away
They trust spinks to hold this but if twist gets run boosted that might be enough
A bit ahead of the run boost and it's gonna be frozen that does manage to punish spinks court crouching
Interesting the two comp players just siphoned back quickly and left spinks on his lonesome
So they've given away a kill still gonna be a tough round to work together need to find this gun on short
It's just frozen here. One of the gloss is not going to come over to pick it up.
He's only got one. That's nice from Karak, finds that head.
He covers the fire.
Yeah, an awkward jump from exertion. They still have a crossfire and he should be fine.
Nails it onto the two unarmored. It's frozen. The last of four problem solved for Mao.
He's not too stressful after all.
All right, Torgie, really any information that it wasn't a full buy? It was not the force.
so there will be a gun round now. See this is two players around Conn and then
Spinks out fighting gets the first, gets left in his loans and the Conn players
back off this year. No head number for Torjip. See there, Karagan's glock just
deleting him. Okay so Karagan takes the sacrifice, he'll be down to the pistol.
Everybody else to the rifle, two Galils.
And lots of utility to dissuade the early mid control.
Twist knows he can't play just yet through underpass because he would be disconnected
from the top mid players who are actually backing off, so this is a relatively quick
reroute.
We've seen incendries towards the island box, lower pass, underpass, or lower, put them
together, lower pass.
That sounds pretty good.
It's the alternative universe version of overpass.
It sounds like something you'd do in coding, you know?
You know, it's gotta do the lower pass and then I'll be live.
Now, well, this is turning into an execute damn quickly.
It's Brolin from Ticket.
Contributions from Torji and Exertion connector.
Lots of mazes, Brolin.
Ready to contend with this and actually a little smoke dribbled forward to give him some options.
You wanna swing across, hop on Ticket, doesn't find the kill on Karagin.
It's actually broken that will finish him off. Thank you very much. Not ideal
Suboptimal sprayed and snuck into the nice it is
A second too late to stop that bomb from being planted still finds the kill regardless so broken a team kill and a death
But the bomb planted is that all phase are gonna have and certainly looks that way mouse just picking them apart
I don't know about the frozen 1v5 nor do I especially with 32 points of health versus all five of mouths
He will have a little peek, spotted our now's version swings and he's looking deadly today.
Okay, well that is way too easy. No U2 left there for the post-plant. A TK definitely helping,
but good impact from Brolin and game lead out from Ticket. Doing a whole lot of damage.
Again, you can hear them having a conversation. Yes, that was a full buy.
How many AKs did you bring through? Plenty. Damn, three now for the mouse ranks.
So we'll just have to be partial. Phase two, get the bomb down.
That's uncannot risk the full investment moment.
The pistol was their best opportunity to get underway so far, and they fumbled the 2v4.
It was a hero AK, now a rifle round, and neither of those have felt close at all.
Torch is just playing on the cusp of that smoke in the window, pretty staunch, defensive,
middle, spinks, exertion, and Torch, you're all in the duel.
Jimmy's also cheating over short.
Now it's one of those teams that are more than happy to take the fights, and they are
coming their way.
Second way over smokes
Exertion's gonna be sticking around
It's gonna swing
You could find Dr. Frozen, he's done very well
Adjusting to Broke, you can ask three bullets of the magazine
Massive from Spinks. That's what you want from your short play. He ain't playin' scare, but he's punished for that
He's gonna be a nice shot from Twist, means nothing in the grand scheme
4-0 start on faces Matt Pig. I'd take the time out. I try and wake the boys up
The plan is only one gun round has been played, but just to say, listen, we can't let this
go on for too long.
We need to get in the game early.
If this does become a three-matter for either team, it is going to be tough, right?
3D Max or Falcons, both squads that can put you through your paces.
So if you want to make a debut in the crack of, wow, I'll say debut.
Some of these players back at PGL, Pager in 2017 have been to the Toron before.
We have got that forward position jumping out of the window, his exertion.
I think he may have a head to head with him.
Ooh, it's Spix, once again, just put bodies down on mid.
Well, that head to head can't win out, nice from Jacob, that's a really important kill.
Bomb is isolated from this though, Broke, he can be very late to the party.
Torgy's off, it feels like Froze is going to be in trouble if he sweeps through.
Now, as Jacob caught Jimmy there, just spammed him down.
His spink's still sticking around towards connector,
but Torchy's AWP arrives just on the scene in time.
Brokey had no idea the AWP was already posted.
Now, Frozen's been handed a more winnable than the 1v5.
It's 1 versus 2 for him to try and contend with.
He's going to try and get the flank on Torchy right now.
He's piled all the way back.
He might catch this one for free.
See, Will.
Spinks however, working the smoke.
He's going to get under the stand because of a jump.
Timing of Spinks' swing, just right!
Cardilocks, eat your heart out, he's nailed that.
Alright, well, back to the drawboard for FaZe.
No bomb going down this time,
and you can see them just dawdling into that side.
It felt like there's gonna be, again,
mouses every day of the week.
Good attempts from Jacob.
Two impactful kills that made that round
look a whole lot more winnable than it was.
Yeah, needed to stay alive, though, right?
The baby swinging forward,
I think they're trying to buy a bit of space.
You can see right now, on screens,
the mics that are active throughout this time out.
Oh, that's a nice addition.
And no surprises that it is.
They're coaches.
Well, Carraghan and Twist having a dialogue as well.
Oh, this is neat.
OK, I am obsessed.
That's really cool.
I can't wait to make a day where we pick assumptions.
It will be a day where we do have it.
On the whole herd. Come on now.
We can't have our case handy.
He's been working hard on that one.
Shit, right. Respect to MC.
All right. Well, they are with the guns again.
Not the best advice.
Hello? Yeah, look at Jacob.
He's not scared, and he should be,
because Torgy's off easy to punish.
Yeah, it feels like it's a tone change, right?
Let's go and fight. Let's take some early biffs, and...
Already lost the opening pick.
That'll stall things out.
That's not a great smoke for Jimmy.
Exertion's gone for a push.
The broken is anticipating.
Hello and goodbye. A solo venture pushing forward and it has pulled him straight back into level pegging.
So this is now a chance in the 4v4.
Brawlin's on A. He's actually investigating powers. I like this move a lot from Brawlin.
It's going to relieve you so much pressure on the site. You're happy to give it over and you might even find twists.
Twist versus Brawland, and he's just, uh, niggled it.
You can't chase this down either.
Frozen's gonna try and contain him, but Brawland doesn't need to back all the way out.
He can just wait.
He wants to get out.
He is gonna have a little bit of an overstep.
Frozen profits.
So Spinks smoked off.
It's gonna be Jimmy from CT.
Spinks is chipping in through the smoke.
Brutal for FaZe Clan.
Again, it just looks so hard to see Brokey being able to turn this one on its head.
Hagen's playing clutch essentially here.
He is, and the bomb has been allowed to go down.
Jimmy, look as if he punish on the way back out, that elevated angle.
He finds the head of Brokey, and Karagan is playing for this clutch, but Torji should have him.
He's got you kind of boxed in here.
Torji...
Oh, he's not necessarily spotted Karagan out just yet.
He tickled on the bomb, Jimmy, with some very important kills.
That's a rough start for FaZe Clan's Mirage. Now these six rounds they're probably flown by.
Let's hit the tab and take a look at how quick this is flying.
We've been in the server for 10 minutes and 40 seconds.
Yeah, damn.
So these have been rapid.
And most of these have not been close.
No window smoke.
And the tortoise are going to enjoy that.
Yeah, this room's sphinx is brewing as well.
So starting to get some good impact is sphinx.
Three of his kills were against the eco,
but through the rest of had ramifications and in these gun rounds
Rookie had a very high rated performance in a game
BCG 1.4 rating cross three maps good to see him in that
his best form
Gonna need him gonna need the whole squad
Right Spinks is having a hell of a day on these smoke spams. It's falling so neatly into place for miles
This is the thing with Maus, right? They haven't been able to put much silverware in the cabinet, but they're still a very, very good team.
Whatever they need to find to be able to push them over that edge.
About 2-3% Spinks is talking about.
Yeah, and it's tough to find, right? But they have so much experience now as a unit. They've been together for a year since Spinks came in.
Right, they made that change. Everyone questioning how Brolin was going to go as an in-game leader.
Well, they're making deep runs. They're beating the best teams in the world. They're just not lifting the titles.
titles they one clue sure but that didn't have all the big names and there
always a threat you ask any of the top teams that yeah now's a scary
peaking back into this is really cheeky from toys he's got a fake them out
there broke he could be a bit upset about that one frozen's been her Jimmy
didn't I saw him on radar I think I'm pretty sure they saw twist on radar so
with it both well up and you can see that default player now speed
shoot hard is a demon yeah that is that it's 10 kill another car flying through
the smoke spans from sphinx just feels like every round we're saying that
Sphinx is very active in these opening fights it's currently three and one in
that department as you want to talk about active torches or I mean he's
everywhere they're showing confidence which is what you need to do against
because this is the team that once upon a time, I was like, they were the farm team.
This was the Faze Academy. That hasn't been the case for a while.
And I do love the fact that they are playing with this level of confidence, right?
Against names that once upon a time were just farming them.
Fun phase. I just want to get these AKs out of my mouth with his hands.
But, I mean, at that point, you know, that's a luxury. You need a round.
I want to see them play a decent round of team counter strike,
playing off of each other some trade potential as we...
See the conversation again, but yeah, this has already gotten away from you, right?
You are 7-0 down. It's your map choice.
You can still salvage the half, but it needs to start with an inspirational tech nine rounds
Campo calls them on mouths are doing at all everything is working everybody's contributing
Can they keep it flawless for an eight round run
Yes, you're trying to punish Jimmy on B right now
Go fast. Flash is there. Jimmy does eat the flashbang. Torchy smokes off, won't be able to help him out.
Still Jimmy tracks the swing of the top line. How's he heavy?
He's had about one frame to adjust to Jacob. Does go down to the flame, but regardless that's a lovely, impactful two from the Bianca.
I haven't got the rifle off his corpse either.
Four coming in from market side. Are they just going to flood out? Is there utility ahead of it?
get a couple of HEs, gonna be thrown out, looking for damage and a little bit onto twists.
Frozen and Twist, it's just Tech 9's up close, they're gonna really need to find a quick
first and they have done so, still unable to find anything cause Frozen, Twist looks
like he's gonna peek into the AWP and he does.
Bro, you can't win this one, no way, Jose, too many bodies, too many bullets and just
enough time for a defuse.
Okay, that's the first round as well, now it's been under a lot of pressure since the
pistol.
Nice kill, Jimmy.
Yeah, nice kill.
Second one is wow, he's under so much pressure there.
I can't believe he's been able to connect on that second frag.
That was just pure instinct, pure reactions as well.
Like the first one's great, like he falls back,
gets away from the initial flashbang,
gets his vision back.
This tracks this, three HP, one bullet, he's dead.
What is that?
Jimmy.
What is that?
Good stuff, young lad, okay.
Well, four rounds left in this half.
Lacking opening kills on this T-side is two of which so far, so we know it's been difficult.
We seem to get spammed through smokes.
We need to avoid giving over the opening kill and get some map control to get a second stage
going within these rounds.
If you're losing a player early, then how are you ever meant to be able to play the
push-pull, catch them off guard?
They're always playing from behind.
Yeah, I haven't seen them.
I haven't been keeping track of the opening kills, but it does feel like Maus of absolutely.
Oh, they're cramming them right now.
I think it was a TK in the mix.
Oh, that's right.
So if you're counting them, you might think, where's Missing?
Well, that was Baroque taking down Karagin.
First gun round, I believe.
Heavy A-Lean.
Got a Maus in this one.
They are putting the AWP on B.
So a lot of faith on Torgie.
and there's an over. Oh yeah, that's a big one, especially taking down the highest flyer for Maus.
That's the short player. What info was that? Still want to finish, eh?
Dude, an exertion's anticipating that very move, playing around the smoke.
Ooh, loses vision, disappears, dips away, Jimmy down, they know there's another. Yabba's twist
with big round! Three quick kills from Twist, two on the entry to the A site, puts Torgie
into the one versus three. With all the money that I have, I feel like he should give it a go.
Have a look. Try and at least limit the rifles that are going to be brought into the next force rebies.
Keep them under pressure. This is the round they were waiting for, Faze.
Finally getting those AKs out of mouse's hands. The AWP as well from Torji.
My question is, is if you can make a half out of it, right? It's still attainable.
Next three, A4 is fine and you've also stolen the momentum. You get that pistol in the second half
and you actually convert it with a number advantage next time and you're back in it.
Really good flash work from Broke. He was there throwing them over the top of connector
and those two kills from Twist securing the round. So impactful from Mr RVD.
Going into the stack and walking out with the first rounds. That's going to feel good.
Not so good for Carrigan, but good for the players to be connecting some shots. Now this is an
aggressive stance. All up and under pass. This is the second prong to this.
This is the exertion ready to snap in if Toji gets flashed off and oh, he's popping away.
So get later on the timing shrimp phase, don't want to contest too early but still gonna
have to, I was gonna say swing into this but twist is stunning the back pedal.
Shake of jumping the line.
I feel like Toji's good for this.
Oh, it doesn't hurt.
Yeah, absolutely perfect.
Carragorn trying to punish their retreat but no chance, plenty of covering fire, 3 CTs
scarper into connector, the short player dunks and they're on top of Carragorn's face.
Looking good.
For a mouse, return to form an immediate ninth stopping phase from that four we just discussed.
Toys should be on B in time as well.
Perfect rotation.
Block smoke, Jimmy's angle still gonna work out, even harder to clear now.
I can't completely overlook now.
Oh, Kagan's found a gap.
It isn't gap.
Time's the biggest issue, 35.
Like a double Tetris setup.
Oh, wow, spinks is quick, isn't he?
That was pure reactions out of him.
Now Jacob's going to have to clear this out.
Jimmy's in the perfect spot, does get overlooked.
And it is four, it's so far from Maus.
Finally, a little discrepancy.
Just the one from Brokey.
Orp on the line, Torgy not going to hit that reaction speed shot, but his teammate Spiggs is here to do all of the heavy lifting.
Nice shots from Frozen, all too little too late.
Just going to try and preserve his AK-47.
Even that's not necessarily a guarantee if Sershin swings on out.
And in that corner looking the wrong way. Okay, well retains the AK.
the AK. I look so good for
mouse. Like when you're watching those
rotations, you're watching the
incredible reactions out of Spinks.
We talk about teams being on the same page. Mouses
definitely are in their approach to the game, right? You were
highlighting there the fact that that underpass pick comes in
and then they all get out and they're also there. They're brave
that, okay, well, we'll talk to our guy. We need to protect him.
They throw utility to harass because they know
the response is going to be trying to isolate that player
in underpass, make it very awkward. Jules
coming from both sides.
Yeah, there's no time to really react up for that with the son of the had
I didn't even know they were going into the trap so the best now that they can get for phase is three
And they burn all three tactical timeouts
So how many times for the conversation be the same or our boys it's a right
Let's just salvage some rounds. We can do it on the CT half right now. It's a pretty bleak outlook
You know, we agree.
Nothing's impossible with FaZe, but this isn't a major.
So...
Yeah, right.
They don't get the hidden major magic buff.
Op sounds off, loaded into play.
That's just brawl and taking fights.
Karrigan just can't control it.
How's he pushed for more?
They really aren't backing themselves with backing their aim.
That is the fourth opening death death for Karrigan.
Top half for him.
Brutal.
Frozen's going to be really mad that he's just gone for that second one.
Oh, more pit.
Easy frag for Torgy.
Gatches Jacob.
Brouching.
It's just too easy for Miles.
Attempt round imminent.
Secured. They have done almost all of the hard work in this first half and FaZe's map pick is going down the gurgler.
What I checked in, it was about 10 minutes or somewhere at 21 now, so those timeouts are probably what's taken longer than these rounds.
I mean, let's see this from Brolin.
And then he just walks on that smoke.
Oh, Frozen's going to be upset that you just push it for a number two there.
FaZe are just looking completely outclassed right now. This isn't close at all.
But there's how many of these rounds they put up any resistance just go fast when in doubt rush it out
Brawler they want yeah, and they found you Jacob with one
That's an opening kill for phase plan very short lived as far as the partages go spam on the smoke could be deadly
Rakes even better because even better not if you're exposed though
Jacob spammers are quite fine a stares player, but at least frozen can is Jimmy from the CT side swings on out good for it
it. Frozen anticipates a move around that smoke session. It's just scuttled one across
the floor, but they're actually going to give a little bit of space to the remaining two.
I think when you see it's twisted, frozen, you have to play this one properly. You can't
just run at these two.
Okay, and that bomb planted. Trying to distract and draw attention also helps them triangulate
the post plant positions of these two. On this jiggle though, the way that they're using
Torgi's AWP is just gonna sweep through this line first and if Frozen's not careful he's
likely gonna be falling victim to this slow crawl of Torgi's Sniper.
Just like that.
Awkward for the 1v3.
Twist with everything to do.
Knows one from Khan.
Concerned about that.
Doesn't know if there's a second.
Doesn't matter about that last piece.
It's gonna be a nice impactful round from Exertion.
Three kills in the round.
Spinks in Exertion 14.
Phase 1.
I was never meant to stay It was you that pulled me in
Promise me that we'd be okay
All of your lies I once believed in
You were there most of the time
And that was never good enough for me
I've been going out of my mind
I've been going round like crazy
We're not gonna let this break
Why is there always a show?
Oh, you said so
Oh, oh, oh, oh
You got me like crazy
You were always fine, and I was always wrong
Wraithing, baby, where did I not go?
Wraithing, baby, you were loving me
You were always fine, and I was always wrong
Wraithing, baby, you were dancing
You were always, you were waiting for me
You were always, you were waiting for me
You wanted to be here forever
Remember when we used to have it all
We were so good together
I guess we won't feel the same
Oh, hey, oh
What I do, what I do, which thing?
Whoa, whoa, oh, oh
Whoa, whoa, oh, oh
You were never so good
Well, that was never good enough for me
Let me go without my mind
Let me go around like crazy
Well, they got to hit me this way
Why is there always a struggle
For you to go
Like crazy
That you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Crazy
Baby, where did I not go?
Six of their last seven mirages, Faze thought it was a weakness, but right here, right now,
one of these two teams is looking extremely weak and it ain't miles.
They're having a great time.
This is serving as a warm up for their second best of three of the day.
They get in, they're climatized in the environment, they make it quick, you can even go back
to the hotel and have a nap at this stage.
11-1.
Will it be the sweep for the run?
Well, now we have to move this head to the left, it's not better.
We'll find out very quickly if they're capable.
Outlook unlikely.
I'd give it less than 10% chance.
What the smoke at least from Jacob?
Yeah, it's going to give him a different sight line, he has to play around, Broke he
He certainly has done well in that first duel, but very quickly.
Competent trade from Jimmy dropping down, Jacob around that smoke.
He's used it to great success, enables him to get away, and wrapping around it.
Oh, he's found a very important shot to the back of the head of Prolan, removes him from
the default.
Boss puts that bomb loose on the bomb site, and fays with a man advantage.
Spinks from ramp and slowing things down towards, he's got a lot on his play.
Doesn't well.
Oh my goodness, he had a chance for two.
had a great first half. One versus two clutch that he's hoping he can get away with and
a couple of bullets do find their way into his KF Lafram Frosen's USP.
They can win this. It's hard to see a world where FaZe give him a 1v1 cleanly. Watch this.
That's another bullet. Lowering him down to 20. Another two of them. Into his boots
would do it. I'll give him the plant now. Fair enough he's earned it. There's a juicy
looking for spines but next at a minimum. That's nice. That's over USP. As well now he's got six
bullets and he needs to type ahead. Another body shot. Okay, well there's a lot of attrition
trying to get Spiggs out of the round and he does milk it for everything it's worth. Sure,
not a round win but he's going to enable and facilitate that force by as you've highlighted.
Well, Jacob chips in, gets himself a multi-kill. That's not too bad.
There's a long way back up this mountain. There's the body block on the smoke. Always risky. Imagine
Nick are flooding out on that piece of utility. He does cause to be awfully awkward, but Broke
he finds the opener and they're going to need a whole lot more of that. Think about how
Jarring Mouse were to FaZe's approach. They were going to spam through smokes, they couldn't
get any space, and this is going to be one of those classic round-of-the-time type games.
Three Galils, a Tech 9 and a D. Eagle. The pistols are the ones with utility into round
number 14. Strapped up with rifle heavy is FaZe.
Yeah not a single smoke thrown from spawn you can see Jimmy's gonna be the
one to throw that first window smoke. You have to really value it when you've
only got a handful so...
35 lobbed out and they just strapped top middle the confidence on display and
understandably so. Jacob ready to flash mid they're gonna fight.
Twist will swim on out and it's just too easy for Paul and he tracks the head now
Now for some Jeopardy! Handles it well, couple of bursts, finding the heads.
Throwing an exertion fall.
Spinks dismounts, audible.
Full flash there for Jimmy, looking at the sun.
All good to flash out window.
Phase, settle back.
I got what they were looking for. They have the advantage.
Grouped up and still with some flashes.
could find a finish over towards B. That's where the bomb is heading. Now when this is
Carrigan's side, can they exploit that potential weakness? The support of Frozen is close, but
remember he is low. Carrigan needs a minimum of one in this situation.
And in the absence of Utile to react to that first fight, I think Carrigan is going to
kind of hide to the best of his ability and count on a sound cue being given over.
No kid, remember, if the bomb goes down.
Oh, he goes peeking through the window.
I mean, no good for him.
Oh, he hasn't seen anything, has he?
Now he gets the sound at least.
A bit of damage onto Spinks.
Frozen call to lend him a hand,
and Karrigan needs to find a kill here.
Don't forget, back up low HP.
He gets nothing, still with that low HP.
Frozen finds a kill number three.
Swinging his Spinks.
Oh, he messed it up.
But a quick reaction from Brokeys Farmer.
Still touchable.
Nice round from Frozen.
He's had low HP, safe faceclan there, just to keep the conversation alive with Mirage being a competitive affair.
That jump from van to Bench is what caught Karganov guard, because Frozen from the market window was covering that Swiss.
Because they jumped over that line of sight, now Karganov is getting shot in the back.
This second one is instrumental, but not only that, just the fact he stays alive and finds two more kills.
So you see this, he starts investigating Karganov the worst time.
Now he tucks in. They had a good set up but it's all down to frozen again thanks to Broke also snapping into that frag.
Alright we'll keep the pressure on. I gotta respect this from Maus. Another AK into the mix. There won't be a full buy behind it though.
They can limit the investment going into the next round front phase. They're sitting themselves up in a strong position just to close it down. Quick smart.
So it's just smokes, means it's gonna be tough to push them off the line with flashes, but
right now, not aggressive with this mid-defense, they are giving them top mid control for free.
He's shelling out dry. They're gonna keep pushing.
Ooh, Roland. Should be dead, yeah. Nice tracking from Twists.
What the window smoke out in time, though?
They're still aware of the potential for an exertion late lurk.
Twists positioned to catch him and he does confirm it. Looks like he's alone.
The forcing rotators now the A focus is being revealed.
Torch gets nothing down with his AK-47. Looks like a bit of a shutdown.
Maus, ooh, needed that from Spinks to keep this going.
You still need to fight. CT occupied.
Smoke's fading.
Cover from Jimmy has to be good.
Flash avoided. He nails the body shots. It's okay.
But I love the idea. That felt very threatening from Maus regardless of the disadvantage.
It's just Jacob coming up. The flash...
So a bit of a mis-com there on the time you get that flash, but even if FaZe end up losing
this one, now getting more warmed up for Inferno and they're going to need it.
Yeah, and they'll be starting on the CT side.
So you know, just getting your CT comms, your protocols, your communication.
Sleep out of your eyes.
It's a late start.
That's a 2 PM game.
It's not like we're playing at 10am or anything along those lines, so you have plenty of time to work through it in the morning.
Alright, puts into the guns now, Mous. Everybody's strapped.
No way to be pit-for-tourish yet, right?
You also keep that in mind. If they break through the rifles, we know the Orbs can come out later in the piece anyway.
Jake would frozen-pear up to clear our A-Ramp.
Jimmy, playing on the top road, having to worry about pass-push as well, since the timing.
What train provided by frozen but Jimmy does well to get his now. That's the short plan
about it right so
I'm gonna make a move off the back of that information. No, so just grouped up around
middle loose piece of spanks
Told you heading back to make sure there was no T spawn push as well so quite diligent
stuff at the moment they are worried if that push followed through
I'm not sure if you can see it, but it's still on the move.
CT connector smoked.
Brokey, is he pushing this?
Spinks is going to be there.
He's holding this.
This is an important duel.
And Sticks just got caught on the quick switch.
Has vision.
And nails the headshot onto Brokey.
I'd let Brolin lurk A now, because if you find a gap,
then everybody can come through, underpass back to A.
And if you know that it's Brokey, right, traditionally,
window player. They're up to something a little bit funky,
twist and frozen post hang on a so that might be the wrong call
and that's actually what they're getting up to so they're not
living bro look. They're just going to group up from through
ramp three through con. Here comes the finish. Well, there are
gonna be CTs here.
I can't on the way on Earth. Could this go wrong?
Can't really spoke maybe you could burn him. Wow, look how much
Damage they've done with that incendiary. No spam from Karagin.
He wants eyes drawn towards CT hoping to get this flank onto the connector.
Linger of Spinks. He's going to be anticipating this. He's not looking.
Nice find. Karagin removes one. Makes it a 3 on 3. Looks good indeed.
Dunks on Torgie swinging on Al. Unable to provide. Exhaust with a double kill.
Karagin could come up clutch. He does.
Facebar needed that.
I told you to smile. I looked at your smile before. It's not easy, guys.
Little bit of chat coming out of Karagin.
Well, when you're so far down the ball, you've got a lot of ground to make up.
At least they're enjoying themselves here. Love this one from Froze and so much damage done.
And then when the Nade comes in to play later...
Yeah, fair play. And Zendirek a pure Utah kill. Really nice.
And this is stressful for Karagin, right? Having to win that fight against Brolin.
he can play the 1v1 instead.
He wants to help his boy and.
Okay, again, and carry can not
choosing to like reveal his
jungle walks. So he gets that
first onto spanks. It's uh, yeah,
it's good counter. Well, the
bomb does go down. The lost
premises in play and it looks
like the AK is a stand on the
board. One thing I've noticed
on the with the microphone
icons is that Cyclones Mike
never stops. It is for the
false 30 seconds. He is very
He is very, uh, yeah, he's got a lot to say it must be strange
We're not limited at all with how much we can speak imagine if they are guys
You're only allowed to talk with 30 seconds and then once pretty some ends you have to shut up
Yeah, that would be tough. Yeah, would make commentary hard for sure. I feel like tennis. Yeah
Oh, that's a nice point. No, I thought that was very well played a good shot
I don't think that was even remotely nervous.
I think when you have four straight rounds, you've got in the bomb down every time.
It's the opposite of what we normally talk about.
Oh, they're foot, they're by, they're half, they're by, they're...
These guys fill in a bye every round.
Yeah.
Turning into an execute.
Jacob and Broke you here.
Broke, he's all up in the mix.
Exaktion opens to a slink behind the smokes, and ooh, a missed shot from the off.
How many chances is he gonna get?
Jacob needed another.
Awkward, very awkward.
Broke, he's all past a spank, sure, but it's a twist that's trying to be
difference maker. A bullet into Jimmy. A 2-1-2 with that bomb again planted.
Ronan's going to have a head-to-head duel here with Carrigan on the CT side.
Twist unable to lend a hand. It is just a head-to-head duel and in favour of
Brawland. Clean headshot from the Swedish captain.
Twist down to clutch.
It is Twist's turn. Carrigan did it in the previous. This one feels a whole lot harder.
Both healthy and a healthy crossfire as well.
Brawland last seen CT. No smoke. It really is hard mode for Twist. He's not getting the
the fights he was hoping for.
Gonna give it a fake hope to cast Jimmy Swing
and it does do so.
Now gonna run at him, no chance for this one.
Hoping he can force the findings to get on it immediately.
Does hit the head shot, not gonna have the time.
So a 12th found, not too long into this second half
before Maus do finally break through.
What was that?
The fifth consecutive plant.
Yeah, that's it, right?
They're getting into the side every time.
So this is why it's so difficult.
But Maus are making some noise.
Kagan with a bit of smack talk.
So it's just one more round now and the buyer is going to be brittle because of the state of the nation
Those rounds being so close face haven't been able to build a bank
And this is tough for twist wrap because he knows the bronze spawn and then in terms of Jimmy you could be anywhere
They need to show some attitude
I would like it even if mouse became the bad guys
Right like it lead into it right they need some form of a personality
I would like if they became the bad guys. I mean, I'm actually already thinking like a doctor evil skin every brand
Yeah, get exertion with like a count his lap. Okay, meet again. Mr. Anderson
To do goals a fan message MP 9 and I'm for walking around number 18 sounds like a joke or at least the start of one
We'll see who's laughing
I'm not sure if you can see
what's going on here. I'm not
sure if you can see what's going
on here. Certainly not looking
great for phases map picking
this one. But as you said, you
know, come into this one phaser
trying to work out what their
map pool is. Now seem pretty
certain about this, and you
heard from the interview
Trace gave with exertion. Happy
with the video. No matter what
very happy with the pizza. No
matter what. Definitely more
depth in the map. Port flash
This stops him from spiraling, but look at this.
This is quicker than maybe choice and ready for slipping into the murder hole and he's
the one doing the murdering.
Caragin on B, they're coming his way and he only has a deagle.
So these need to be abs- oh, I can't remember.
He only had a deagle.
A lot better than the Desert Eagle for a multi-kill spray down he's going to need to provide.
Ricky and Jacob are both playing in the A ramp smoke right now.
No.
Caragin's worried about his flank as well, so this is brutal.
He's looking for exertion.
up the spot the bomb. Oh, he's in so much trouble. He is in so much trouble. Surely
Mirage ends here. Jimmy has secured the site. Now is looking very good to convert their
first map of this. What could be double best of three day loser, of course, goes home.
Both mouths and Falcons wanting to avoid their worst placements in a while. Now is their
worst placement of 2025 was at Katowice. So that was with a standing. Jacob's got one
Exertion low. Yeah, the MP9 could find exertion, but they're not going to get much more
Just like that. Wow. That's a dominant star phases map picking
They've got five rounds to post mouse looking confident
Could be a long day in the office for them back to back best of trees if they can convert and it's their map inferno up next
I
Don't be short from the next step.
Yeah, yeah. 25.
Can't be yet, Flan.
You hear him? Drop in. I can handle him.
I'm being short now. Do it. 20 seconds.
Can't be. I'll respond.
1B. 2B.
Holding bench, CrossFit.
2B. 1K.
Bench, 1. Bench, 1. Jump.
Are they planting?
Hedding.
We're coming.
Bench and side.
Okay, side up!
Five, side!
All in, Schwie!
All right
All we have to do is to
We're here
All we have to do is
We're here
Let's start with the CSAT deck. So we start with the dropable utility.
The utility was around 2020.
So we'll put it around 6 for now.
Yeah.
I think it's one of the new ones.
And a major staff asset, number 6.
Put it in 5. Put it in 5.
That's not a point.
The oldest one for sure is this gun update. It is the winter offensive update. Yes, I agree. Yeah from all of these for sure
so that is going
Here great winter offensive update. This one. It's one of the early ones. I think I put it one for now
I think it's removed half-time show. I think so as well actually. We're gonna go with this one
Yeah, yeah, I think I agree the only half-time like a voice clips. I see you're like really old
I've played it three times.
20, 19, 20, 20, maybe?
One was Fortnite rocking.
20, 20, right?
20, 19.
CS is like, we need to make money.
We add the PUBG...
I think it's around 2018.
For sure it's before the door of the utility.
I put it clear on 4.
I put it 3 for now.
Yeah, good work.
So 3rd one is Revolver, correct?
Yeah, I think 3rd one's Revolver.
Like, people are just getting one shot by Revolver.
I'm not sure what they were thinking.
This pistol's doing 120 damage on one shot.
No, I think we've all lost before Danger Zone.
Yeah, I think so.
I mean, Flaire was fucking people up, yeah.
So, I think this one has to move down.
Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
We'll see.
Okay, so the next one has to be Danger Zone.
Danger Zone for sure, for us.
It's kind of interesting to try something like that in CS.
I feel like CS is not good for this, you know.
Okay, Vertigo removed.
From my pool?
From my pool.
What do you play for, Vertigo? Train?
Yeah, in the first bootcamp of the day.
Yeah, in the first bootcamp.
And so, Generic is the first.
So, I think...
We put it here?
7 for now.
So I'd say 5th one is the top utility drop.
Utility drop.
I remember this was released 2021.
My first encounter as a banana player against 4 Nadesets.
Yeah, they were in E.
I'm like, dude, they have so many Nadesets, I have to account for like everything now.
So yeah, 5th drop is in.
Half-time MM voice chat removed.
Yeah, that's a good number too.
Yeah, so we moved these ones down.
Yeah.
We moved everything down.
I don't see what the fuck has happened the first one day.
Do you remember the oppying five bullets before the pair break?
I'm not sure man. I'm not looking that much.
I don't know. I don't know either.
Like this and where do you go is the last?
Yeah.
I think that would make sense.
Yeah?
Perfect.
Nice.
Amazing.
What books would you do from 10 to 5?
It makes sense I think.
It was after Dracoity.
Yeah for sure.
It was the big update in CS2, which was the same thing.
All the news.
Yeah. Well, you believe in that?
Yeah, I'm f***ing tired of this.
I'm tired of this.
I'm going to this.
Yeah?
Four.
I'm a brusque.
Hey, guys, I'm Twist.
I'm Frozen.
And this is Dynamic Duo's.
We're playing B on Dusty and Luis.
I mean, it can be rough,
But also I feel like it's one of the chiller sites, so to say.
Especially if you're in a harsh weather next to you.
First of all, I think you need to cross doors, so you need to HE door.
Or get a smoke from the A guys to smoke midfield.
Step two, get to B side. Throw a molotov.
Molotov or smoke if you have or something.
Just shut down that fur like first time in B-pop.
That can happen in B rush.
Yeah, it all comes down to the signals the enemy team is giving.
If the door smoke is a bit too late or there's a door smoke,
but there's no flashes or anything.
I always have to be careful when a team is walking the contact, the B-pop.
That's why you see a lot of players just instantly maybe flash off the wall, the tunnel wall,
and then smoke, just so any contact player is eliminated really.
The biggest threat to B-players is actually B-split.
B-split is the biggest threat by far.
You gamble that the B-site, the players are playing more on the mid-side of the map,
and then if you hit a good timing on a B-pop, through the smoke, the risk can pay off,
but most times teams are playing out the defaults.
It's a lot of utility tracking and economy management.
If teams can afford all this utility to prevent the de-split,
say for us, if we can't,
we always have to adapt in the round for what can happen.
If the teams can play the round well,
you know, make cities use a lot of utility,
then it will get to the point on the B side
where you run out of nades, and, you know,
as Ron said, you have to choose either you play for mid
you play for B site and I mean it just comes down to killing right then maybe rough sometimes yeah.
Despite it being a smaller site out of the map I mean you can get away with playing one close
angle to MP9. You can only stay there for so long because you cannot stay there if they're splitting B.
You want to make sure you get up from A or M4 to make sure that you and your site partner can have
good crossfires in long range duels either window and in car so just splitting B one point gets
It's contact first with a better gun and then of course Tabula is always nice for the B-Site.
And he's also really good at surviving.
When he has a smoke, I feel like I can always rely on him to buy time.
So I always have time to come back from mid and throw flashes.
When I play a site with a player, there's a lot of natural chemistry.
We're doing things that can be unspoken and we just play off of each other well.
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Alright guys, I know you all kind of expected the state to come.
As players, I've always said, you need to leave the game before the game leaves you.
Recently, with H.
Come on.
Cover up.
Just want to say congrats.
I think the carry you had has been a hell of a lot.
Well, thanks mate.
Um...
I'll pass on the message.
The message?
To Grain.
I-I thought you were leaving.
Oh, I'm not leaving.
I'm not leaving.
I'm not fucking even!
We are running back!
Where's Ray?
They're gonna need a fucking Ray then?
What for though?
Get me out!
I've got some flip-tops, late-prime sets
Before they get rid of me!
You never after the first? I never after the second cut.
Freddy Kano glasses.
Two-time plan in my head after my teammates clutch around.
Five standards out of my chair.
Four year cobbings after winning against Ziko.
We lost to Ziko White Boys.
Two staring contest with the camera.
So top it all off. One kill on the deciding match.
And that, my friends, is truly goat status.
I feel you, bro.
Put some smoke in your eyes, Emma.
Light goes on the highlands.
Come on, lads.
Please ensure your phone is muted during the session.
Already muted after a break.
Of course. Floor and policy.
This wellness check-in has been scheduled after you declined a department move to finance inforgence earlier this year.
Distractions acknowledged. Your records do show you've been underperforming in your aura disposal duties.
Exceeding the aura cap imposed by 4M must be proving stressful for you.
Your Aura levels are concerningly high for your station. Luckily, your colleagues' work
is ensuring that your team's aura
will return to nest zero
at the end of the cycle.
Or a disposal, successful.
The board is thrilled
with your departure from the system to present.
They hope you'll be around.
We're a long time.
Before we end the session,
we've produced a photo of your Outie's family
for you to enjoy at your workstation.
Thank you so much, Jimmy.
Oh, and Jimmy,
please refrain from locking the break room door whilst inside.
It is a communal area.
I haven't been locking it.
The room is monitored 24 hours a day.
I've been acting up map one Mirage that was phases pick and it was a very confident victory
so far so good for the back to back best of threes a fight for survival in the lower bracket
for both mouse and phase, of course, going on simultaneously to this is Falcons and 3d max in the very same situation. So if you've got two screens pop and both on a conversation being had as we get ready for inferno,
winner that plays one of this simple as that says that was you get ready for inferno. Now this is mouse is map choice. It's tough to know what you're meant to do in a team huddle like that of your face, right? Because I don't think you're
Losing rounds just off the back of the way that you're running your rounds.
It just feels like the players aren't connecting and that's a sign of a lot of things, right?
The comms aren't flowing, maybe the faves isn't there, there's a lot to unpack.
I think everybody with the name value always want to see faves do well.
The reality is that our season was headlined by the Major Rung and they've returned to
the form that most expect, whereas Maus, them being in this situation, it's been some time
since we've seen this team play two best of threes in a single day, normally blasting
through the groups, the playoffs where they tend to have trouble during the Cologne Final
last year. Let's see if they're able to deal with this one. Quick smart. Get
themselves a rest and focus on the final best of three of the day. Here's a bit.
Oh, it's quite a hell of a bit. Twist ready to fight. Brokey flashes and Jacob and Twist
profit. Job done. Trying to get out could be the hard part. Spinks has made it difficult for one.
Twist gone. It's Jacob contending with two. Orc would fight for him. Different elevations
at long range and he's kept him busy. That Brawlin should be able to book him in here.
as I considered it for a second that fast flank and Brokey actually going to be very cheeky.
Stays forward with the knowledge that Brollen is in apartments.
Has the bomb too, so if he catches the timing right now Brokey,
missed it. He hasn't, so he's going to try and track this one down and look at this,
burrowed back into his sport, Jimmy's on the bridge.
This is an unusual pit, still frustrating death for Brokey.
Yeah, and I think for FaZe, what are you meant to say in that team,
Well, I think you hear Karrigan talking about the DNA.
That's just essentially the way that they want to approach the game.
And one of the keys for FaZe is causing chaos,
bringing everyone else down to your level, right?
Bringing you into the mud.
And one way to do that is to play aggressive.
Mouths have iced them out in this situation.
Said, well, if you want to push, you want to fight, you can keep on coming.
This has all happened within the first 20 seconds.
Oh, that's valuable.
Now they're going to erupt into a...
Oh, you had to hit that one, Garagin.
Mailing the head shot.
No chance for Jimmy in this one.
But no shot side.
They're going to partner up.
And he's dead.
Frozen Pucks.
Wow, Frozen and Garagin turned that two on three into a two on nil.
Important pistol to start off proceedings, map two.
They didn't give him a chance to get into that moment, did they?
Jimmy also decided to plant open.
Normally, when you've lost so much space on the map,
your plant safe. Jimmy thought he had a little bit more time and that's going to cost him.
But we will see the fourth spike. Because it starts so well. I think what I was impressed
by by Maus was the way they found a solution to this by locking them in, you know, taking
the fight from bridge, taking the fight and spinks his head shot as well. And this shot
from Carrigan makes life a whole lot easier, doesn't it? Impactful from Frozen.
How are they going to be able to continue to set a turn on this CT side? Obviously,
winning at the banana jewels is one thing but having exertion running at you with full
nades is always going to be tough.
So that's where we're going to have to have our key focus.
Essentially frozen the car again up against exertion.
People have support, it's not just going to be him running up banana on his own but he's
the point man.
Okay, so Carmoly to deny information and with that down, looks like they're going to start
to congregate quickly for an A execute. Smokes flashes and a molly in the mix. It's a passive
setup on A. Anti-Force, break on the balcony, Jacob and Pitt, twist to support from the
long side.
Having that flash lands forces some spam, but I think that's what they were looking for.
Just block top mid, they're already ahead on a timing.
Oh, Spinks does very well. Best twist in the head to head, short side.
Wrapping on in.
Rookie's exposed.
Yeah, Rookie's gonna try and play in the smoke.
It's his best option right now.
Jacob's gonna be forced onto the reload.
They're closing the gap on him so much.
Pressure applied here by Maus.
And it's only Rookie left to do anything.
Lucky there's a TK in the mix, still a 3v3.
Yeah, it's still looking like it's gonna be that bomb planted.
It's just that rat in the system.
Broke in apartments, limits some of their post-plan options.
Keeps attention drawn as well, which will, by time, for the others,
throws him in Carrigan to try and retake the A-site in back-to-back.
Round, did it on the pistol.
Now up against the force.
Exertion so low on HP, is going to be looking for answers,
trying to get something, some value.
And of that three points of health.
No kit here.
Carrigan's dead, no kit, and running light on time.
Maybe is just going to be saving those two rifles.
say that broke he does bring the fight and frozen unable to connect onto their head without flash
back so mouse quickly wrestling back for control despite broke his best efforts but yeah jake
in the pit getting nothing done so they've thrown a mid block smoke but they're already in brackets
and then it's twist on his own so you would have hoped that somebody would have gone with him to
try and clear out top mid a little bit to disconnected their phase i think that's probably
the best word to describe them so far in this series. Now they'll be down to the
force bar behind to save them for a frozen. Twisters able to get a Famous,
there's two 5-7s and an MP9. And Jacob getting essentially nothing, I understand
there's a TK there, but the pit anchor, he gets one, they're broke, he gets another.
Maybe the TK doesn't happen, but still you haven't even game stayed and that
didn't seem to matter anyway.
A bit deep, frozen ahead of that, still cops a light lick, transitions now into the site
alongside of Carrigan.
control and holes and boiler is about to be all mouses.
Trades into the site. Mouse sees the a control
Fast up short the two of them carry in frozen bomb hasn't been planted yet. Can they catch a timing? It's not looking great. Is it?
Jimmy's safe on the pit now Zershin has that crossfire tour. He's even on the elevated box gonna be guaranteed a headshot you think
Charging one in it's a messy spray
It's a play nearly at just for three.
Okay, that one got costly, but that should now see
Maus taking this next round and confirming their third.
It has to be the FaZeco.
They're saying they're full eco.
So while making sure, they're identifying the little details.
Talk about the finances a lot,
but it is just so hugely important.
The problem with, oh, okay, hold up, I take it back.
They've gone in again.
So the fact that it's come down
to just one man staying alive, FaZe have decided to shove behind this.
And you can kind of understand how it's going to subvert the expectations.
We just heard Maus say they've got no money.
Yeah, so you don't want to be throwing too many pieces of utility or showing yourself
if you don't have to right now.
If you're FaZe, you do just hope that this gamble of the Beast Ark is correct.
So they know that coming into this round, you had the 1900 loss, right?
They're assuming you take the eco then with the 2400.
You've got yourself M4s with Util.
We're gonna get a little suspicious now. Yeah, see this is the thing if you start seeing a little bit more
Okay, well then they're not gonna have a great buy next round at all
So maybe the penny has dropped that they've come up against some resistance if they were thinking they were just gonna walk into
USPs
So pressuring top banana now rerouting again, they've really had a good time over towards this a site
Yeah, looks like they're gonna fight again
Locked.
Not timed on that smoke.
Broke is ready if they want to run through it, he's going to put a time position to collect and he does.
Farms up a double kill.
Now Jacob, so much for him to do.
Twister's done what he couldn't.
And now Frozen should have the run right here.
FaZe, the force converted if they could just find Torgy.
He's getting overrun.
Too many bullets.
Not enough time.
He's got 70 points of health.
Another on the plate.
He's ready.
He's got pressure onto Broke.
Broke!
And Torgy could save Maus.
One hell of a clutch from the plate.
Just Karagin to find Torgie with 25 seconds to piece it together.
Love this from Torgie, just borrowing it to the pit, letting Karagin play.
Noobs always play.
Is Karagin really walking into this cross-air? Torgie's just considering the short side.
What bullet does do it, FaZe?
That's cheeky.
A crazy turnaround, a crazy turn of events and a frustrating round loss, I'm sure, for miles.
Okay, so now they're gonna likely force my back in. This will continue.
They have an AK available on Jimmy.
The rest are able to get in at a brawl with the Lille, some Deagles and Tech 9s most likely.
Toge does such a good job here, right?
This type of round could have been a real nice trendsetter for FaZe.
If they had kept those three players alive, they'd been able to pick up those rifles.
It's thereby still not great.
It's an MP7 for Twist and a Famous for Jacob.
Some really nice moments for Brokey, though.
You see how well he plays around the cusp of that smoke, expecting them to pop on through.
Massive double for him to deny that potential.
There's now the shoe on the other foot.
Phase has to win this one to humble the finances of now.
Remember, they won the pistol, then lost the following two,
but have won a consecutive force by back.
So the tug of war continues.
Yeah, it's not a competition about who has the better buy here, though.
Well, I think about how eccentric it's been right now
They just set up towards banana and execute the setup is frozen over towards
Oh, it's just frozen towards the coffins and now his positions. No, this is brilliant for miles. You've got a golden opportunity now
The B sides yours a huge opening kill making a double from
Sure broke. He's chipped him through the smoke, but this one's already looking pretty bleak
You've even got spanks holding for extra exits. Yeah, the fact that he's still here to contain this that came way too easy, right?
They shouldn't have been able to fall apart that quickly.
Kerrigan's going to be really not too happy with himself there.
Well, Twister's silence spank, so at least that helps secure the way out with the rifles.
I say rifles, it's just the A4 on Brokey, isn't it?
Taken with a Famous and Twistered an MP7, and it's better than nothing.
I'd like to see that pick from Brolin again, high impact from him.
Yeah, massive frag.
Like, it wasn't much from Karrigan.
You know, most of them, they're kind of playing just a tiny pixel, just a spot.
So he's a little crouch, peak, perfect pre-aim, and he peeks in with his head.
Perfect pre-aim.
Karrigan's head bang on.
Fuck, how else can you frame it?
Round of winning opener there from Brolin.
Look, that's sick fucking tears, man.
Good job.
I'll tell you the Hyman.
Or Hype Man.
Oh, but Hype Man makes it sound more medieval.
I like that.
All right, well...
Adam asks Porsche asked a hypeman.
We're not in the gun rounds, but...
We may as well be.
I suppose.
Everyone's shoving all in every round.
Loved it.
Cool little play there.
Synchronizing your smoke break with a flashbang, but nothing netted.
Oh, hang on. Jimmy. Jimmy!
Ooh, he's going down quick!
It's a nice find from Twist that could have very easily been a double.
I can't believe he's got one there.
Jimmy's had some miraculous frags in this series so far
when it looks like he's up against it.
Brokey searching.
Going for a look.
And he's found a freebie.
Catches exertion, anticipates Spinks on the reaction.
Has he got another here?
Ooh, Spinks important!
Removes Brokey from the set.
3 on 3, backing to B.
So Twist can always play early for info,
but they've been punished with the rear-gress, right?
So you probably don't want to step into this on your own.
Frozen is tucked in second oranges.
Well, actually, on top of second oranges, excuse me.
He gets nothing done.
It's a long rotation.
And then 2v3, if he gets one, they can give it a look.
There'll be a kit left on the side on his corpse.
Okay, frozen, how do you approach this?
You uncrouch and you just get the one.
Up and on a fast, very rapid.
They cut noise at the right time.
Spinks gets no early warning, no indication, but peeking in, AK vs SMG, thriving!
He's doing it all!
Well handled by Spinks, mouse will secure it, increasing that gap between them and FaZe.
Okay, FaZe.
There you go.
That's that's what I'm saying. Playing with a gun, a belt of utile and it'd be nice to be able to play evenly matched. Right. So I don't fault them for the type of calls that they're making with the doubling down because it paid off.
They just weren't able to hold on. So now they will take the eco five now for miles continuing to be quite dominant.
Okay, that's the first time he hasn't used the 4th 30. That was just 28.
Okay.
Yeah.
Now, here's where you'll be a bit shittier if you're carrying him. As you hear that,
and you're all right, we'll take the save. And then you take the save and you bring
out the guns and the round is just as poor. Because you could have at least kept them
limited right been going back and forth you've already won a force by why couldn't
you do it again I know that was another force by it I do agree with twist in the
sense of let's get the guns out I mean it is I'm sure it is frustrating taking
angels SMGV 8k on multiple occasions you're gonna feel pretty hard done by
feel like you're playing in hard mode but they also spilled in their balance as
well so I guess the one where Torgie almost clutched down is the real problem right you
win that round it could have been so much better worth so much more you take the round
of course but what could have been is now they're fully strapped they will have B for
free exertion they're just letting him search it's always a pleasure to watch as well when
exertion and Torgie are on their games and obviously it hasn't just been that Jimmy was
very good on Mirage as well Spinks has been great, Rollins had some really impactful kills
So how's the looking very good at the moment?
Yeah, we're just playing hide and seek for round seven.
Three Max versus Falcons on their second map.
We're going to go check out that action as well.
We're on Dust two now and the third and decide if they need it will be new.
Later today, we've got GT versus Spirit.
That's for semis or quarters.
Australian versus Furia.
That's for the final spot in group A.
And to round out the date, Tardi vs Aurora, that could be an interesting one.
I think if you're Apex and Kogler, okay, well, this time last year at Bounty, we lost to
this team.
Right.
Let's see if we can set the record straight.
I don't know, I think Aurora has just been kind of that grim reaper meme right now.
Everyone they're faced has been brought down rather convincingly.
And Soulfly playing well.
Yeah.
is brought in to replace Jota, and he's really finding some output.
And we've touched on it a bunch of times, but, again,
final game of the day with playoff ramifications
as far as qualification or not goes
is going to be winner of this versus winner
of the 3D Max Valorant Games.
So plenty of counter-straps to come your way today.
It's always a shame, right?
If you look at the matchup, this one
It's not a big TK enemy, so this one gets picked on name value, but then, oh, it's a stomp and say, oh, well, maybe we should have put Falcons vs. 3D Max on Italian, but, hey, that's one thing you can't do in Counter Strike is predict the results.
Well, you can predict the results, maybe not the way we get to the result.
In fact, half of our job is predict the results.
Yeah, I'll tell that one back immediately.
All right, well, they've got their own fours.
Okay, this is exactly what Tuis wanted. Now you just go seven, five, and everything's tickety-blocked.
Oh, okay. Just 7-5 with the 16-9-0-1-0.
Against an incredibly informed mouse. How hard could that be?
Timing everything with this HG.
And it's bang on.
Hundred damage from Carrigan's $300 investment.
Brawl, Anas!
And exertion. They've got wonky legs now.
Jelly legs.
Imagine you had a third, that would have been it.
Oh, you're done!
Bowling from Anderson!
How's that?
Exertion's got one, that could have been the double, man.
Uno.
Ein.
Well, this has forced their hand back to, hey, at least to investigate for the time being, rotation over now,
Cag and Johnny broke in Jacob, both pit side.
I think I'm going to wait this out. Are they going to reroute?
That's the conversation they're having. Okay, rerouting. Get through Boil Up.
It's a test for this brokey Jacob A site. You'd love to keep it clean, Alex.
You really would. Let's just have to rebuy one or two guns,
guys. Let's not turn this into a clutch or anything chaotic.
Karagin is playing for one and gets away with his life.
Flash for the Wii. Reswing. Oh, didn't find the finish.
Look at the health though.
More costly than they would have liked.
Broke he finds the finish on to Jimmy and an opportunity for Jacob as well.
Oh dear!
They've collapsed just in time for a plant.
Exertion and sphinx break in.
Output from exertion.
With that aforementioned one point of health, he might slip into a boiler just in time.
Just as they arrive, it's getting harder to see face taking this one exertion with output
on the one HP, not one, but two kills.
With the lowest health, you can possibly have,
and that nade's not gonna find Spinks,
or at least it's not gonna find the finish.
Now, Exertion activates,
and Spinks is having trouble finishing off his meal.
Exertion's ready to punish.
A back presented, a double kill on the one HP.
Now he has to clutch.
Time on his side is ticking away.
It's their round.
Ha ha ha ha.
Damn, that's a turn around and a half.
Okay.
Well, he doesn't even go down to the barbie lives
Yeah, see that from exertion thought about name play counter try out there Jimmy they saw you neither didn't care about apps anymore
So Jimmy's activated on long they've left exertion there to become the ops piece and it's been absolutely perfect
Let's say 4v5 and that was a clean opener found by phase that the nades did all the damage
So you get your guns, but you don't get your rounds and the woes continue
How many CT rounds has it just been a less than ideal by the phase
As far as
Stories go the one that I was looking at this morning is
All right, you've got good nades guys
Any more than that though, don't we we do need a bullet
Hot desertion's head, he's the one handing out haircuts right now, can't really get clothes lined.
Come on in, the water's warm.
He's just got extra health I think.
With 200 armor buff.
Yeah.
One of those super soldiers.
Well Jimmy's on A, so there is at least a 4v3 opportunity for Bays over towards B that they don't know, the bomb's down 40 seconds.
Jimmy's still on A.
They'd have to get really out of control.
No, they've also planned it for Jimmy.
It's in the open for CT.
Round field secure, doesn't it?
Search and plan around this smoke.
Anticipates a knee break.
It still gets another one.
Double kill from exertion.
Broke is gonna try and deal with this Jimmy finish.
And oh, one more pull it.
Now two on two, no time.
Brutal for FaZe Clan.
More kills that mean Diddly squat.
Torchy gets away with his AWP and Jacob doesn't get away with anything.
Set for now to two.
Alright, what do Maus call 9-10?
Now, obviously it's the AWP from the Mongols.
Yes.
What type of peak is it? Is it...
I know what it is, I'm guessing.
Okay.
My guess would be the one where Torchy goes as fast as he can up mid
and like peeks into arch or quad side, you know?
Okay.
Just because that's the kind of thing we've seen from 9-10.
Well, we also don't know if they said yes, we can do 9-10.
That spinks immediately said no, I want to do something else.
Okay, well, we're not doing 9-10.
Oh, missed shot! Missed opportunity.
Not going to be too happy.
This time more forward starts.
The B defense, but I can't avoid the phase-nade scanning.
Double dunk, Tarly, in the previous by Karrigan.
I think you'll keep taking it if you keep winning the rounds.
I'll be the nade sponge, it's all good.
This, I would say, is the first full gun round by the classic Chad Bertra definition.
Yeah, just took ten rounds.
Yeah.
Oh, frozen on the smoke wall.
Exertion.
He adjusts.
Covered by Torgy.
Ah, they are flowing right now.
This is a good counter-shock for the mouse.
Oh, oh, the one-two punch and leg shot, exertion's holding.
It's just flawless.
keep finding just the one he knows he's going to have to make the play to keep hold of the site.
He's about to eat that flashbang. Disappears into the smoke and I think he'll probably catch him.
But he's about to walk into his demise torch. He receives an AWP delivery.
Thanks very much. Okay, so the worst placement for Maus in recent history was kind of it's a last
year, but Spinks couldn't play, but they had to use Alex. That's right. The worst placement for
For Falcons in recent history, and this is with Kiyosuke and the roster was Cologne.
So take those results, the starting points for both teams.
From those moments on woods, obviously one is longer than the other, I'm aware.
But they've made the playoffs of all the events that they've attended.
So the fact that the two of them have to go toe-to-toe today, hold up actually, I shouldn't
be disrespecting 3D Max right now, I don't know what the scoreline is over there, assuming
Falcons win and mouse win. One of those two teams will have their worst placement since
I learned Falcons or since out of it's a last year for mouse.
Good covering fire.
Well, it'd be fantastic. I'd say.
Good. Nice one more. And the fact that taught you did just swap out, fix up the AK as broke
the smoke, couldn't have made it any easier. Neo's going to pull the, actually it surprises
me now. No, I'm looking at it. That's the first phase time out. 10 rounds into a rather
bleak half.
This is tough to watch, right? Phase losing to 3D Max, 13-7, 13-2. 13-2 was on their
map choice.
3D Max are coming in with a point to prove that they're not kind of satisfied with just
being a gatekeeper anymore, but you do have to take down big names, not just Faze, your Falcons, of course.
And I had to head currently going down on the B-Stream.
How's this?
Faze have not won their map choice in the three series they played.
How is that? That's bizarre.
Well, I think it just goes to show that their identity and their approach to the game and everything.
I don't want to say they're still trying to iron it out. It just...
Black Luster.
It's not where it needs to be.
Now, Torgie gets to go and search top mid, hoping someone overextends.
These are the setups where I feel really bad for the A defenders, right?
You're not playing for any brackets control.
Furnace was one of those gaps.
I was always back with A top with transitional defense, right?
You at least want to be playing short or long and jiggling.
So you know when to drop back, but with how good players are with the pre-A in these days,
you're so susceptible to giving up a kill.
Frozen's found one. But the advantages have meant nothing for Faze so far.
Oh, Karrigan's going to need to be very quick on the draw. Doesn't finish off the orcs.
Offends him down to just six points of health.
I just love the poise from Maus in these situations, though, even when they are in a manned disadvantage
and players low on HP, they keep the ideas flowing and they find finishes.
But looking for a fight and that finish for XCOM2 to smoke, that's a kill given back over.
And Twists could be caught backpedaling.
Jayson's put a head-to-head duel. Big find from Twists.
And if Bron goes down the round, he's going to fall apart for miles.
Torgie's trying to reposition apps.
Bron keeps the pressure on, hoping that the AWP can finish off the job.
And he might.
Oh! Doesn't hit the flick.
Now they know, looking good for at least number three.
Ooh, FaZe, they need four minimum if they want to keep this conversation of a competitive second map.
map. I think normally I'd be setting the bar by what you know where we've seen with a lot of top
teams it just it feels very blacklust up from phase the counter-strike we're getting today so
it's hard to build that same case in the same way we would for other squads. Yeah there is an error
that this is just delaying inevitable results. I suppose we need to see like a fire start around
where we see them get fired up and it's well played and it's off of each other there's some good
team work. I think the biggest highlight for me and you know you kind of left
grasping for something to celebrate in the scoreline like this but phases
Utah definitely has looked more polished on B some nice HE grenades it's about it
and there's some right back from mouse they managed to convert off of it.
Drollet all covered by spings he was supposed to go down to the twist swing.
No Karagin tip. Yep and they're looking for in the flash throw now just swing off
nothing, nothing for Karagin spray. Decisive entrance into the B-bombside, looking great
for collection of the 9th and a missed shot from the Torgy York, not going to be the end
of the world. Even got the flank coming in from Jimmy. So you've got to be quick about
this one. Jacob at least with a full belt of nades, going to try and force them and flush
them into angles for the York, but it feels like Jimmy's just secured this round. And
their half confirmation of the all
and dissipates the flank for a moment.
And yeah, it's all falling into place for Maus.
This is two extremely dominant first halfs
of play for Maus on Mirage, their opponent's map choice.
It was 11-1 as Jacob's gonna give it a good shake
of the stick, but there's just no time for this.
He'll go down to Jimmy and on Inferno,
their map choice, nine to three on the T side.
A pistol and we'll call this one done.
My heart is swimming now, Don't want my life to be any end
I just wanna feel whole again, yeah When you come around
My heart is bursting out, I don't wanna be strangers in these days
Cosmic life of seamless truth
I swear I saw your light
I pushed the body
Flying saucin' out of space
Only love can bring me face to face with you
I swear I saw your eyes
I felt it coming
You were full that I could taste
When you love can't bring me face to face with you
I swear I saw the sun in your eyes and the back doors
I'm a horizon so I'll call the cops in an area
The gasoline came there in my way
I swear I saw the moon in your eyes and I saw you kiss
You look in the eyes, don't you?
The cold and dark is in the middle of the night
The gas in the heat is in the back of the head
The bottom is endless now, hell, the hills again
No, don't wanna be alien to you
I swear I saw the light
I pushed the button
I got CT
2 in front of us
CT one's that far back
That might be us, coming to you
Good job, proggy, you're so fucking bad in this game.
One at a time.
Real money is fine.
Fucking hitting you to god and still cannot kill me.
Holy shit.
Man, sick man.
Nice, holy shit, cheers.
This is what I want to see, Alex.
I want to see them become the bad guys.
I want to see them with some attitude.
I want to see them shit talking their opponents.
Hell yeah.
You might not think they're those type of guys, but it doesn't take much to become them.
That's that Jimmy Orba.
I think he's got the most.
Oh, absolutely.
You've seen the new airing, man?
It's all good, boys.
We have been in worse situations since we are phase.
It's doable.
It's very unlikely.
They are three straight losses on Inferno to start, well, two to start the year.
The last loss in 2025 was against Vitality in the grand final.
that though they had won six straight at the major so they're inferno given what they need
tough to track for exertion long-range dual directors no one's saying it's ideal brolin's
hearing this as they head towards CT spawn he gets a free shot to a walking bro key
back of the head tapped off jimmy goose by jacob's block on the A site and brolin's
having no spingy stuff all yes sping goes down that's actually a huge frag from frozen
Okay.
Rue Schult.
Ah, that's big from Brawland, despite his 8 HP.
He's playing with confidence.
Yeah, that makes a big difference, doesn't it?
Toyshe's on the way, he's going to have to do a lot of heavy lifting here.
Oh, doesn't know that first headshot, and his teammates are low, so that's a big death
to be giving up.
Jacob gets that claw back.
Low HP, Brawland.
Does he really find more out?
But yes, he does!
Impelable!
Improvious to damage!
You can't touch him!
damage you can't touch him, Pollen surely not! Denied by Jacob!
Oh, this is making them sweat, isn't it? Constant attempts, the individuals from
Maus certainly putting their aim on display. Impressive attempt from Brawlan.
Now, it's about the conversion for FaZe, but Brawlan getting three kills, everybody knows
what that means, and if you don't, I'll tell you, he can now drop an MP4.
Who's the lucky lad? It's likely, yeah, it is.
So their force by is...
Oh, actually, Sphinx is the man who ends up with the M4 out of it. Okay.
They had a quick thumb war.
The other side, who gets the AK? I think right now,
FaZe, obviously, they win the pistol on the CC side, they can't win the follow-up.
You have to do it this time. Yes.
That conversation was forgivable in the first half because it was the first half.
Yeah, they did get into a rather deep hole as a product of the
forced by war. Now what? Break on half-war nothing spotted, it's just
exertion here, so trying to act bigger than he is.
Not bad in terms of damage done with the maid there, so let's see if they're able
to capitalize on exactly that. Spinks. Looking like he wants to play in this
mid smoke, so he can react with his teammates who have just spurted forward
on the short side.
Sphinx will rotate over to join accession on B.
For the finish, it's going to be two smokes.
It's pulled towards you.
The two smokes pull a third man off of the A site.
Frozen needs to kind of find a commitment to keep the boots planted.
It's working out wonderfully.
Now they start their finish towards the A site.
Jimmy and Barola.
Desert Eagle headshot, I think the perfect start hasn't provided, just wants to carry his body.
Force wide into the MP9 and it's not the multi-heat desire, Jimmy, just the one.
Pull it off, hold on to these, go get into the next.
It's tough though, you can see what happens right, Brolin actually wants to stand and keep delivering whatever he can.
As soon as he starts parving away, it almost forces them to look at Jimmy.
Yeah.
So it's like, ooh.
Doesn't get the element of surprise he was counting on.
same conversation we had a mirage and neo's sentiment right we've seen it plenty of times
before we all know it's possible but there are certain signs that need to start happening and I
think the clearest indication is winning rounds and winning rounds that you should so this is a
first step in that direction but you will have to go up against 2mp9 to m4 again into the next
So it won't be an easy round by any stretch of the imagination.
I gave myself a few opportunities there didn't he?
They see it opens up.
Oh, okay.
I'll also see Ginny.
And then Jacob just swoops in and finds that trade.
Elimination knocking, if mouse can close.
This one turns into just a three round game.
I feel like you're walking the tightrope, but it is definitely possible.
Forward stance from Sphinx and Torgie, respectively.
I like him this round at all.
That is a lot more than I was expecting from Torchy.
And he has found a decent timing, so by playing forward finding nobody in halls at all, and
nobody even spotting for it, there's still a couple of problems.
Now, it has informed Maus to stack B. This doesn't have to be the finish from phase.
Twist and Jacob can still try and find another avenue out.
But the pressure is forced out of smoke. Now it's just two flashes.
So let's Torji go over look. That becomes the next question. He's not playing for confirmation.
Now he's essentially in a limbo position. If they do return to A and he's able to get a kill as they're trying to slip up mid from boiler,
then they're going to have to worry about holes this entire time. So Torji, what level of output can you find?
What kind of sound cues are Faye's going to give him?
There we go.
Here's the wrap short side.
Well, I know this is a possibility.
Yeah, they know they haven't taken any apartments info.
Are they just saving again, Mouse?
Just going to do it again next round.
I think the armor is key.
Sure.
Save yourself a good amount of cash.
Even get yourself a G'lil upgrade.
down Karagin, and actually going further forward.
Toshi looking for an AWP, so he's got one now, right?
He'll be able to buy that into the next round.
They're too late to get over here to actually contend, but Toshi's done more than enough.
He'll be able to drop that go to somebody else, he'll be able to buy himself an AWP.
So decent output.
Oh, he wants more, so looking for damage, Toshi will eventually go down, but it's all
good.
Left the exit.
He's half-hearted hunt has resulted in another death and sphinx is in for now revealed
Just like that. We're a safe haven. Yeah, it's cause everything that is such a costly round
That's pretty punishing it's one of those rounds where you kind of you want but at what cost
Yeah, so everybody can get everything that desire besides Jake who's down to a good little so he can facilitate the nades
They've bought in a couple of H. E's here and I think I heard break you say something about a break
So let's see if they're just gonna do the standard or post a base of banana because you know that exertions gonna come
charging down so you're able to blow it open and find yourself that opening
incision for round number seven. Okay he's looking for it. He's got a head, okay. I'm backing off.
Frozen at broom. Extinguished for safety. Flash coming. Exertion wants to fight.
Spotted on the half wall. Get connection. Frozen complete. Blinded off.
Excessive jump, drawing his attention enough for the Flash to be a perfect connection and he profits.
Broke he with the orb stuck at log.
Oh dear.
He's the situations Brokey finds himself in. Yeah, there's no way he's getting both of them there.
Does well to find anything.
Now Sphinx is going to get really hot and heavy.
Flashed into the fight by the Molotov.
Alright, that's well handled. Now looking for the finish, Brolin likely slivered towards B and that's the right call.
the right call. He was on A but had to rotate back. Now up middle. Do they smoke off long?
Looks like Torgie's going to have a smoke in front of his face. No one peeking ahead
of it, so good restraint.
It's essentially pressure on Jimmy. If there is a motor smoke, it would nullify Torgie's
position. Throwing out by Karagin. How's Jimmy going to play this? That's the vision. Tracks
Well, no trade from Karagin, he's having trouble finishing him off, Jimmy.
Storm on the site, and a clutch for Jacob, but an AWP locking down the short side.
If he returns, he is a dead man.
We peeking into Torchy. Ooh, what? Miss Shaw from the AWP.
Chance to plant, chance to clutch.
Good work from Brawland.
Just closing in on him, choking him out.
It's all about Jimmy for me in that situation, that double kill. Friday, we're able to delay
that for so long as well, so great anchor work there from Jimmy on the site. Now it's
just three more rounds, is there ever to pick up their first on the defence?
Yeah, it's rare to see Jimmy not get one in those kind of scenarios, there's three
on threes, this was a weird situation for Broker to be left in.
It's done well to get one, and then they do with Spinks, but this is the round winner.
Right, Twist trying to make space, that trade by Karagin not immediate.
Still laboured from Jacob as well, and then he's surrounded in the 1v2.
And now all the damage of the round where they were up against the double dip of the Force
leaves them with some Tec-9s, a Maktana, Galil and a Deagle.
Such little variants in the fragging departments while every member of Maus
Contributing relatively equally.
Exploding mid.
Ah, towards you in that position, but we're flashed off the line, still.
Spits down.
Runs out of bullets, loses his head.
Any of Force by Wars in the first half, didn't we?
So no smoke on his belt, but exertion will be able to block for the incendiary by himself six seconds for Brawland to get closer.
Brawland has a smoke at HE.
Oh, even better.
Just in time. Just in time. It's flowing so nicely.
Brawland can get himself across.
I can't flash and go.
Rolling and disobeying this just starts to spray your head up the plate.
There's Zershin with the chip in.
It's just so well constructed.
Phase back to spawn.
An 11th round in the bag for Maus.
Definitely looking comfortable on their map pick and for Phase.
They ran out of chances.
Bags are half packed.
I'm going to crack off. It's
in the D. Go needs to get that
bomb having trouble finding it.
And now we just have to sit the
plant is going to run him down
and they'll get that over these.
It will now have to be a tough
choice for phase. Do we just
force by out the game? Do we
echo this one? Give them 12.
Yeah, it's falling apart. One
even look like they're having the worst.
Fibes are high.
Not a lot of stuff being said by near here.
Well, there we go. Starting to ship it now.
I guess they, yeah, you're residing yourself to exactly what I said.
You echo this, you're essentially playing for six straight.
Yeah, six straight on the T side of Inferno.
How are, how likely is that?
Don't have to be a mathematician.
Yeah, just the counter drive that they played today with the two maps combined.
Now Mirage was 13 to five.
I've done one better so far, but you can tell that they aren't on the same page and things
aren't flowing.
We saw on the way in from the highlights to start the day, carrying with a lot to say
in their game against BCG.
It felt like it was just doing the same just there.
more of mouse just smart for me to hear
beautiful
you definitely do the future armor intro, what can you?
Right, like brain to remember the future armor in trade to be honest with you know
Yep, okay, how about you have a typical brain
What do we think with a new nice sounds chat
Don't mind him.
Yeah, I mean, that's all good.
That tickles my brain as well. I think it sounds quite good.
The draw animation sound.
All the audio changes when they first make it. People hate them and then everyone gets used to them.
It's like, yeah, what would we have done without them?
And then eventually we'll change away from now. Audio, I want to be saying to you and they're like,
man, we hate this new one. We like the old one.
And we're like, well, the old old one or the new old one?
Yeah, Counter-Strike the community and change.
They want some and then when they get it, it's not the change they wanted.
on it. Yes, but everyone wants a different chance. This is somewhat reminiscent of yesterday's
3D Max Vatality game. It is. But this one has much more dire stakes. Absolutely. Yeah,
I mean, you, uh, come into this tournament with aspirations of accessing the tour arena.
Yeah, especially when you take a look at what happened in bouncy for both
Phase and now V. I think now we put up a pretty good fire there to tough bracket run and not to say the mouse
I'm tough but for phase they had an opportunity against 3d max
Which is a team who was just in the you know, you're in the major final
You think you should be beating a team like 3d max, but really we all know
it was
something special the phase major run certainly was and
And you also
Hard to get too excited for miles right now. The thing is you can continue to sing the praises and say they're playing very well
Which they are they're connected. They have a lot of ideas. They're flowing. They're confident their aim looks on point
But they have to do this again later today
So the biggest part of all this in my opinion as a mistimed all it's off-thrown
Nade lands
No one in is they have made this quick and easy. They haven't had distress. Yeah, they only have good vibes off the back of this
You go, you have a team talk, a little strap meeting, cheeky nap, plenty of time for lunch,
after digest.
Yep.
And Torgie's just pushed apartments for an opening kill.
That's a very frustrating opening death for Jacob to stomach.
Might be the last opening death he concedes here in Krakow, looking like the phase exits imminent.
Karrigan gonna be looking to be the entry instead. Beats flash, flame and bullets. Still, Frozen is not giving up.
Not ready for another, are they though? Not ready for Spinks, that Joker at the back of the side.
A second for Quiet, he can't quite finish off Twist, a dink hit.
Despite Torgie's opening, their face have the advantage.
Oh for how long? Nice wallbang connection, so everybody's low.
The clock could do bits.
Even a clock, wait, holy moly.
That's a 5-7. That could really hurt,
especially with Jimmy already removing Twig.
Just like that!
Faceclan eliminated
in the hands of Mao.
It's keeping it easy, keeping it smooth.
Not having to put too much energy
into your first of what has to be
two best of threes.
Pat, you're back. We'll see you in the lobby phase.
This has been a trip to Krakow, sure,
but not one to remember.
Polish representation here in Poland to start off the I.M. Winter Championship, but Maus
looking pristine. That's a 13-5, 13-6, 2-0 absolute slamming against FaZe, a team that
once upon a time they had issues with for recent history. It tells a different story.
Sure, you lost to the Major, but right now you have just bludgeoned them. There are some
real issues for FaZe. Back to the drawing board, conversations to be had. The future
for this team. Is it really? Oh, we show up at majors, but that's it. The mouse on the other hand, remember, they're in pursuit of yet another playoff. The Sphinx edition throughout 2025. They were going deep. They were showing good CS, but it's the trophies that eluded them. Looking to kick the year off on the right foot, but you will need to be able to pick up another series later today before we can get there. We are just waiting to have a play up to get an interview with Trace and a Saranthus on the sidelines. But, uh, yeah, I think all you can do is sing the prayer.
of a mouse who came to play today.
Yeah, absolutely. And also what you're probably going to want to do is quickly refresh your HRTV to see whether or not you've got a locked in opposition for that game.
You know, 3D Max and Falcons, the winner of which will be playing that head-to-head.
But it does sound like we've got a losers' interview ready, the exit of Karrigan and FaZe Clan with Trace.
The game was mouse and FaZe, and in this moment it is us saying goodbye to FaZe in Krakow here at the Intellectual Dream Masters.
Keregin, talk to me about these emotions in this moment.
I mean it's rough.
I mean after our major run obviously we didn't have the best start
the tournament prior to this one.
Come in here, Shaggy starts some technical difficulties on first day
but today we didn't stand a chance against Mouson.
That's how the game goes sometimes.
We played really good at them in the major and this time they had our number.
Yeah it seemed like the throttle was all the way up on map one.
You know 11-1 that's a rough score line to even start to come back from.
I mean a series alone starting in the first map that way. It wasn't an uphill battle, obviously.
I mean yeah from the beginning I think we had a chance at the pistol. Pistol hasn't been on our
sides this tournament either. So I think they played a good C2 side. We knew that it could be
rough on the T side but we also have a very strong C2 side. Maybe we had a grind at three or four
rounds on the T side. I think we could have a good chance to close out Mirage.
I would ask about Inferno but I'm more curious about some of the stuff that you probably learned
here about FaZe, what can you take to the drawing board with what you guys were able
to accomplish here in Krakow?
I think it's one of those moments where we have to step back compared to our progression
at the Major, right?
So we need to find a consistency how we can deliver good results like we did at Major.
That's been a problem the past few months or actually the last year.
So obviously a lot of work ahead of us, we had a bootcamp coming into the event, unfortunately
didn't give us enough and yeah until next tournament we need to make sure we have a
good position for the major coming on the line but for now we need to work on
the details better and be a better team. You want to say anything to the facehands
at home on your way out? Sorry about the facehands who decided to buy some tickets
for the arena not this time unfortunately but I hope you guys will
have a great experience in Krakow and see you next time. Thank you
Thank you very much, Kerrigan.
We're gonna go to a quick break.
We come right back.
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G2 is on a tear here at IM Krakow. They've already qualified to the Tower of Arena, but
they could get a buy rather to the semi-final if they do beat Spirit today.
So, congratulations on the performance of the team so far.
Tell me a little bit from the coach's perspective, what has been working so well?
I think on some of the things that were not working so well on the last season,
like we have been more stable mentally, I would say.
Then also, like just having more team play in general, like the players clicking together basically.
and that's been basically helping us to control the rounds mid-game like we
have been controlling the pace pretty good on all the games I would say so far
and that's gonna be the plan today as well like obviously I would say
Spirit is they are a tougher team than the ones we have faced so far so it's
gonna be a different type of challenge but for sure the plan is gonna be to
control the pace of the game. I mean those are good observations all of them
and I've drawn the connection to Blast London a few times because that is where everything
was working perfectly, but that was very early on in the journey of this roster, right?
Is that something that you've always been kind of following?
Like, oh, this is what we should get again and how close do you think you can get to
that level?
What are the defining factors?
I mean, if you talk about London, I think it was early on in the team.
I can't say it was like we were stable yet.
I think a lot of it was about firepower in that event, individual shining, and even at that point
after winning the event I knew it's not going to be something that's going to be easy to repeat in a
way because I knew we had a lot of work ahead of us. We need to play better as a team to be more
consistent. And some of those things are the things we worked after that event that we were not able
to show in the next events exactly, but here some of the things are clicking and that's something
that shows in the results but it's still going to be like I would say we have
still many things to work on and today is just another match with the rest of them
but we will try to show the consistency basically here as well.
You already have your spot in playoffs which is great success. Tell me a little
bit about the spirit matchup. It has changed a bit. One of the reasons I've
brought up London as well is because you beat them there of course in the road
to the finals or to the title but they look completely different now don't they?
Yeah, and I mean with the roster changes and everything, there's some changes I would say also in the play style.
Some things probably for them also to iron out like with the new roles having like rookie IGL and so on.
So yeah, it's a different matchup and start of the new season and everything.
So it's going to be a lot different than also with the map side.
I think it's going to be a bit different compared to what it was last season.
Wonderful. Thank you very much and good luck.
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get to see some kind of early signs of the New Look spirit
and how exactly G2 is going to handle that.
Yeah, absolutely.
For G2, also important to remember,
this was their first event of the year with Stage 1.
So that probably helped them a little bit
to get warmed up with those games against passion
away and against Liquid.
And for Spirit, obviously, they made two roster changes,
signifies how they felt about their roster ending last year.
and what was necessary to happen for them to get back to a legit contender status.
Did you expect those roster changes to be happening to Spirit, Jail?
Oh no, not at all.
But I feel like those are changes that are very well received by me at least.
I feel like it's the path to elevate Spirit to a different level.
Okay, maybe not the higher than the vitality, but I'm sure they have the capabilities of,
I mean, Donk.
He can beat anyone on the server, and if he can get the right timing or the right support
his team is. You don't know the ceiling of the team.
I think it's interesting because the team kind of looks like the one where Santhi and
Magis were also, you know, when they had trouble leading the range right now. But I heard Tania
say that it actually feels like it's a completely new team and it's, for me, it's interesting
to see how Magis is going to pick up this whole in-game role and how he's going to
be leading and is going to make it work. You know, one thing is what he's done so far,
but I still think we need to see more out of the spirit, like more consistency. We need
just see them continuing, going back to fighting for the show before we can say that this was
actually a rush in settings that is actually looking better than the last one.
Yeah, I heard you know it's only been a couple of events.
Yeah, I think the problem for Spirit and probably they saw it that way too to some extent was lack
of playmakers outside of Donk. Like lack of aggressive players here is the second best player
on the team. He's not a creator. He is a finisher, he cleans up, he's great in the clutch, great
at the end of rounds, but when Dong dies or he gets shut down a little bit and someone
else needs to, you know, the space is somewhere else, they didn't have a guy to take advantage
of it. I think that's why Tenir is a great addition, because he is a guy who likes to
go for moves, go for plays, create that space. Now he's put in more of a role with Zontex
coming back that suits that a bit better and Zontex can just chill in upper B, you know,
I thought, rotations and whatnot.
For me, that was one side of it, and the other side is the experience, you know, because
when you bring Zwei in and Tnir both new to tier one Counter-Strike, like, one is alright.
Two, now it becomes like a big gap between them and the core of the team.
So bringing back Zontex, who was a part of the line-up, obviously, and Magix too, for
a lot of those big event wins.
I think now there's two things, they get more firepower, but there are more experienced roster with the lineup that they have.
Obviously, when we talk about Spirit, we'd be amiss not to mention Donk, which is where you brought up a really interesting comparison between these two teams, right?
Spirit obviously have a huge star alongside them, whereas for G2, you don't really know who is kind of the star state as yet in terms of those individuals.
that kind of reminded us of both of your situations in your former teams, right? Obviously, Navi, we never said that you guys had a real clear star,
whereas you've always had to play alongside some of the biggest names in Counter-Strike, right?
How is it from your perspective to preda, have the likes of Xion, the likes of device back in the day as well?
How much space do you have to give up for them to kind of sacrifice to make sure they can be playing exactly at the top of their game?
I didn't really feel like we had to sacrifice a ton of space, the more space we could create around them the better they got
but it wasn't like that, if we wouldn't take the space they would just fall off the cliff and not perform
I'm sure Device and Zywu are very different players but at least when my time with Zywu
having a player that can just win rounds by himself or take the game into his own hands
and just create opportunities time and time again and always be this nuisance for the team
for the team and also have that kind of fear factor towards your opponent, where they always,
they're also afraid of him, right? It's like you will always be afraid of Sae Woo,
whether he has a Deagle or AK or for that matter. And it's also to have a guy in a team
that has this star power, it also just elevates the rest of his team. Whenever there's like a call
to be made, if he just opens his mouth saying, I think we should be doing this, because this should
be working. Then if that comes out of my mouth, that should, that has leads leverage that it comes
out of sight, because everyone just believes that whatever he says is true and works, right?
So it's something that we're seeing a lot of the teams, the top teams now that are fighting for
the trophy, like the majority of them, they do have an actual star that just shines, some of them
may even have two, right? But it still seems to be a struggle sometimes to only have him to rely on.
I think for me it was interesting because G2 does remind me a little bit of your Navi lineup in
in 2024, right, where you have players that don't really have an ego, everyone's willing
to do whatever it takes.
The players are very versatile too, being able to take up different roles.
So would you say that's a fair comparison?
Like how did it work inside your team?
Do you, first of all, do you agree that you didn't have like a clear superstar on the
roster?
Yeah, I agree 100% and G2 is just like us.
I completely agree with you.
And I feel like G2's strength is not their star player, not their AWPer, not their lurker.
It's more of a team that is working very well together.
It's like a well-oiled machine.
And everyone, each of them has equal amounts of space they can take.
And that is what I like about them.
You cannot just go and pick, oh, heavy god is going to carry the game or the orh hunter,
even though hunter is a very good shooting in the leader.
But that's besides the point.
I feel like it is very interesting to watch them because they play truly CS, like by the
And it's one of the things I truly love about them.
I think what's interesting though is even though that's true about the G2,
I think the general manager said instead of chasing stars, we were building a constellation
when everyone can contribute. But even with your team, when you did win events,
you would have a really good turner, you would step up at the major,
ancient game, Deagle round, or it would be bit to have a really good tournament
really good map in a grand final. I think it's, you know, it really can raise your floor,
the teamwork and that unity, but the ceiling is still determined to some extent by the
players and their firepower. So I don't, I'm not still, I'm still trying to figure out
who's going to be the JL for G2, right? Who's going to be, who's going to be that guy when
you get to the arena during the weekend and it's 10-10 and both teams are out of money
and who's going to get the AK, who's going to be the one that you're going to call the
round for, sort of, that you're going to put your money on.
I think maybe they're still figuring that out, because doing it by committee all the
time, I don't buy that.
I don't think it works that way.
But it's also like for the G2 situation as of right now, if you go back in time, they've
always had to rely on having stars, right?
Niko and Manasi was like the identity of the team.
One thing is what they did on the server, but they were also like the way that we communicate
and function as like the role models on that team, you know, that's what they've been having
to work with for a long time. And when that kind of shifts the opposition and they had
to look somewhere else, now they had to, as we talked about having to rely a little bit
more on being a team, creating a structure, getting a coaching that could get the best
out of the least expected in some sense, right? It's like a, it's a different approach to
G2 than we've seen before. And it's taking a while for them to get it to work. And when
I think, at least for a player wise, when I'm looking at teams, when I look at Navi with
with you guys, but also looking at Maus.
It's a team that doesn't necessarily have this start,
that is relying more on having a stable core with players
that always seem to be contributing.
Whereas a team like the Falcons now with Niko and Monty,
they can rely on the Wusiwood that they have this to start
to carry them over the finish line,
giving them those two, three percentage that some of the teams
that are just below them are still lacking.
And it's got to be a little bit frustrating sometimes
to feel like you can't really drag it across the finish line
because you don't have that superstar, you aren't very lying on having everyone in the team contributing.
I mean, most likely, it probably feels amazing when you have that star player.
You make a bad call, you completely fall in your face,
and then all of a sudden, you're like 1v4, 1v3, you open the door back into the round,
that must feel lovely.
Yeah, that's at least my experience with great players.
It's not like you tailor the entire game to them.
It's more when you're in a bad spot, they can make a play to put you, pull you out of it, right?
Like whether it's an unequan-monesty winning a 2v4 clutch when you know, they have no business doing that or whether it's in the
Mid-round in a 3v3 like someone making a great call or a great play right having good reactions. It's those
Kind of things I feel like where it really helps out
You know, they just sort of we always and people say it when they played against Vitality. Ah, it's desirable round
You know just so you brush it off like he's gonna win
you're gonna lose around you're not supposed to because he is just that good if you think oh my god
We're terrible. We messed up, you know, blah blah blah. You just say hey, this is desirable round
Let's just keep going. You know, you just accept it for what it is and then and brush it off
Yeah, it's gonna never be happening at some point in any given situation
Right in terms of looking at those former stars of G2 obviously the huge storyline of last year was Niko and Munisee departing
I'm just curious from your perspective, Yanko
Do you think Hunter would have stepped into the shoes of Inge leading if they hadn't had such a huge roster shift in terms of
I mean to basically just completely rebuild this G2
I'm guessing not
G2 wanted him to do it before a couple of times
He wasn't ready similar to Nico, but I think he's great for the role, right? And I think it was actually
It was reliant on having someone like saw come in right that's the best
partner for Hunter in this new journey in a way right you need someone who's a
really good coach who's experienced also with the how they built their lineup
that's what saw is great at getting more out of you know peace not superstar
players and just having teams with really high floor so I think all of that
combined together makes this a very interesting project for G2 I think
obviously with their win in London you saw when they peak how it can look like but outside of that
unfortunately they weren't able to sort of make even playoffs consistently and they've lost to
really good teams but that's what it's like you know you're going to run into vitality or Falcons
or Uria spirit at some point right and and eventually you're going to have to start beating
them I think there was no expectations for G2 from themselves for last season right but slowly
now they did great, they're in the playoffs, but slowly you're going to start to expect some results,
you know, to see that so you can see whether this roster has the potential to go all the way,
or are you still up piece or two away from getting there? That was a question I wanted to post to
you, Peter. Do we give G2 in terms of this rebuild a bit more leeway than, let's just say, the Robson
Vitality move didn't go so well, right? I imagine we kind of give a couple of months to that to
to come together when you're having a complete overhaul like this. Do you give a team more
time in your opinion to get up to a top level?
Yeah, I suppose you kind of have to. I wouldn't say it's a gamble from the side of DG, but
they sure have to be looking at a different approach now that they do lose such a big
liability in minus C and Eqo. And to have Hunter take over the reins was maybe in the
cards for a while, but now that he's actually there, it's a big change not only for him,
but also for everyone coming into the team.
And I think it's nice for him to have a guy like Saul
that can kind of cater to him and point him
in the right direction.
A guy that has been working a lot with Russos
that's come sort out of nowhere
and been really working with talents and everything.
And I think that they've obviously,
they've been having their ups and downs, right?
2025 wasn't really the greatest year for G2.
There was a lot of turmoil around the team.
And I do feel like we do now see like this six, six, seven,
that was not even intentional.
You got it out there.
You can't see that there's six plus months that there's like this threshold where teams
start to improve.
And I think that is also the case for them, you know, it's starting to see, we're starting
to see pieces come together for the team that seem to be like more in their own control.
So also mentioned that it was actually at a point now that they feel like they've gone
to know each other.
And it just takes a while for a team when you put all new pieces together, because there's
There's so many things you need to address. Playbook, how people react towards each other,
but it's also about getting the whole vibe going inside.
I'm sure you can testify to this JL too, right? When you're on the team, and you're playing,
and you feel like there's so much that you can improve on before you think about roster
changes, right? Because when you lose games, you would say, ah, we made a mistake here,
like someone messed up the smoke, or someone forgot the call, or you say, ah, we just don't
have yet the protocol for this sort of run, like very rarely you can go back to the games
and say, this guy is just not shooting hard enough, right? Or maybe this player is just
too quiet in this situation. How do you feel about that?
Yes, I feel like it should take a lot of time before a team thinks about roster changes,
because I mean, most of the time you lose a CS game because of how you've played the
game of CS, but I mean, sometimes it's not the CS that loses the game. We had one example
Yesterday, I'm not gonna talk about it, but what I'm trying to say is...
Because G2 is a team that, for example, has a lot of protocols, they have a lot of plays.
If you want to steal stuff from a team and you need a move, you're gonna watch a team like G2, right?
Because it's not as simple as,
ah, I'm honest, he has a good spawn, he's gonna peek this, right?
They need to set themselves up a little bit more.
And you can do that a lot.
I mean, you can widen your playbook to a very good level
where you become hard to read and everything.
And I think a team like G2 will push that all the way
because they like the team that they have.
And it's great personalities of the team
they mesh together as well before they'll think like,
ooh, it would be quite nice to have someone.
If we were able to pick up someone like Molo,
though, you know, for some players, ooh.
But that's the whole thing about roster changes.
it can have so many different vibes to it because a roster change,
when you make a roster change, like, and you go into a team and you start working
together, it's very easy to feel like, okay, if something's off in terms of the
persons you've picked, like, is there like a personality issue? Is there a role
issue? Then it's very easy to go in, into the path of thinking, okay, we should
just make some change because there's clearly something that doesn't click
and we can feel it from the get go. Like, there's like something deep within us
that just seems to be working out. And then you have a team that you put
together where the roles are set, everyone's feeling sort of comfortable,
But you just need to have more time to get all the things working for you
And I think that is that is the more case and when you look at this G2
I think they are satisfied with the roles their satisfied with the people they have and they know that everyone will contribute now
It's just about giving that extra time to get them better
And it is now as I mean I think I mentioned this in stage one when we saw G2 first for the first time
This is at a point where G2 they need to create results now
Otherwise we've got it or they have to go down the path of thinking okay
we need to have better players or better people to actually work with.
I think that's a fair analogy. When you speak about roles, what about Heavy God recently?
I think Heavy God is very interesting. He's been a player that's been,
let's say he's been around for a while, right? It's only recently he's kind of been breaking
through into the tier one scene. And it's one of these Israeli players that is alongside the likes
of Spinks and Nerds and also Xershin that has come out of this country that really can play
really good counter strike and I think heavy guard for this matter is really strong in
his anchoring position because he's a reliability, he's really good when he puts in pressure
situation but also getting multiple kills.
I think he's extremely well and nice to work with obviously I've never got to play with
him but from what I hear from other people he's a super nice guy, he's a solid guy, he's
not selfish or anything, it's one of those traits that's extremely important to have
as a player and especially an up and coming.
And I remember that when I was in Falcon, he would actually reach after Snappy because
he was in doubt of what he should do with his career.
He was asking Snappy, like, what should I do?
Should I actually go to Cloud9 because at that point, you know, he was uncertain about
this decision because he did have a stint in OG where he was playing, then picked up
by Cloud9 and he was not sure what he was going to do because he really wanted to make
like the best decision of where he should be going.
And that also just showcases again that first of all Snappy seems to be like the Australian
guys.
He's trying to care for the talents coming to the scene and I think that Heavy God has been
extremely instrumental for G2 in this game tournament.
Is he impressed you, Jeff?
Yeah, of course.
I mean, 2025 was the year of where I actually started respecting Heavy God as a player.
And the way he, because he mirrored a lot of my positions, so I know what to expect from that position.
And I feel like he likes the details about a map and then he would kind of break the
meta for it.
Once he joined G2, I was seeing a lot of mixed plays from him and then towards the end of
2025 he was making his own style and defining ancient base site and how he wants to play
it.
And I feel like Heavy God is a type of player that really suits Saw as a coach.
Kerogot is very coachable, very nice, a solid player and pretty much all the guys on G2 are very well fit for a coach like so.
Yeah, I think that's a really good point, and it kind of goes to what you were saying the other day, Janko, about this G2 roster, right?
It comes back to the star player conversation, but it's the lack of, well, the seeming lack of ego from the outside.
It's the selflessness.
Yeah, yeah, they do seem like an incredibly selfless team. Is that maybe to play Devil's Amphibio a little bit?
Is that ever going to come back to bite you though?
It's a good problem to have right like if it gets to that point where you're seeing that in the big games
You're missing someone stepping up right like you're all
Contributing in this stage of the tournament, but then everyone's performance dips a little bit on the big stage
I mean the only guy I mean the guy that I trust the most is hunter right with how he's been playing also recently
You know, he's a big game player big stage player
I am pretty sure about heavy god 2 at this point in time and then it's the rest of team
I like Sampias, he's not going to blow you away with his performance or with his fracking,
but he can be a very safe pair of hands.
And you look at the op-ing field nowadays, I mean, there's not really that many, if any,
clear upgrades, and you cannot underestimate the veteran presence on the team, his familiarity
with Saw, he can be also his sort of a second voice on the lineup to some extent, right?
And it really comes down to Matus. He's the X factor for me, right?
Yeah.
Definitely has potential and more of an aggressive player too, where if he can sort of step into and grow a little bit more,
can be what defies the change. I know they brought in Malbs, and Malbs was sort of being groomed to take over Niko's positions,
and when Niko was going to leave. But I think what you get the most out of him is,
Use him in a flamesy sort of a role, where he's an anchor on CT side and just an aggressive space-taker on the T side.
So if you can put him in situations where he can use his aim the most as possible, his aim is incredible.
And the mechanics are really, really strong. We saw it on Anubis against, I don't know who, I think, Liquid.
He had an incredible game and that's how you get the most out of him.
And just the potential. I think the potential is there. I think that's maybe what's most important right now.
right now, we're looking at G2, that there's players inside that team that has a lot of
potential. Some of them have already shown it and some are still to show that it's on
the biggest stages, right? But the potential is there and you're curious about what it's
going to be like. And I think that also, now you mentioned San Pai, he's had a little bit
of a harder time to transition into CS2 when I got to play with him. He's always been a
little bit more on the passive side, but he's also going to be important for this roster.
But I have to agree with you in the terms of matters. He is, in my books, the one to
be looking for alongside heavy guard when it needs to be the the hard care that's
going on with Donk this turn he's just he's having a great time he's just
vibing yeah all time his mental is like it so good how close game against the
trial is from dust he's still like all smiles you know I mean that's dangerous
that's scary I've heard he's got a girlfriend that's okay yes that's why
okay props boys love so you what you're saying is that this could be from his
girlfriend to get like, have you ever figured out if it's a lion or is it cat or is it? He's wearing
on his body. It's like a Minecraft animal. It's a Minecraft either way jail though. In terms of G2
playing against a new team like spirit source has something really interesting in the interview
that I've heard of this saying he feels like it's going to be a game of controlling the pace. Do you
think that's a key to victory for G2 in this one? I feel like for sure G2 have the advantage of
structure. They've been together for a long time. They know they have a lot of protocols.
They know how the game works, but that could also be their downfall.
Because Spirit is not going to be as structured, they're not going to, I don't know, use all the flashes, all the smokes.
Sometimes they're going to face Spirit and they're just swinging out.
With the simple let's pop B and then you have to fight a dunk, you have to find Zontix, Magix, everyone and that's where you can lose.
I also like Magix's sort of personality for this team as an IGL.
Because I feel like with time he's going to be willing and already is to some extent to let them loose a bit more
You know like just run around some more
Keep it simple not always drag out the whole round
You know take advantage of the momentum and obviously the the players that they have well, hello
Not much you can do once the game goes live right
It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Yes, I don't know if you see someone who looks the...
Chopper's given Harley at some point.
He gave one to Madagascar.
Yeah, he did.
He was going to have that crazy 3K.
I can't see T-Spawn.
Just in terms of like preparing for a team like Spirit from your experience jail,
like obviously it's a completely different version of Spirit we're seeing now,
does that make it more or less scary in your opinion?
because previously we kind of knew the structure that Spirit likes to deploy.
A bit more of an unexpected Spirit. Is that even more dangerous in your opinion?
Oh, of course. I feel like the disadvantage of Spirit previous season is that they were always
very readable. You can guess where they were going. They were using certain Util for certain
B-Pops, A-Pops. But now, first of all, they have refreshed their Shrattbook. They've changed up
to Util, so you cannot get rid of that. And sometimes they don't feel like they even care
about the strat they're going to play. They're playing default and then all of a sudden one gets
an opening, Tenir gets an opening and they play off the openings and then that's where G2's
protocols have to come in place in order for them to defend the aggression from Spirit.
And they just look comfortable playing default. I mean my taste from the times we've
watched Spirit specifically on the seed side, it's not been like this extremely aggressive
where they constantly look for info trying to fight out these crazy, you know, crazy fights.
It's more just been like falling back, playing off each other, understanding the situation and
and then just fall, because they feel comfortable playing that kind of system, and that's a
good sign already.
Sometimes the maps and expectations.
Anubis, I just kidding.
We see it on the screens, but it's like they played a lot of Dust and Mirage against each
other in the past showings, and so I was talking about different maps here, so I already see
it in terms of both teams changed their picks.
Nice.
G2 with the Anubis one, Spirit actually going for Overpass to punish G2.
I like that from that approach, and also like we talked about previously, a good game to
test out the map somewhat, you know, it makes sense to pick it as a punish, so just to get
a temperature check on how good you are on it before you have to go into the tower on
Arena and that's through the sider, if we end up getting to it, that's where we're going
to see some fireworks.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for your thought.
It is time to get into the game.
Elimination, not beckoning for either of these two teams, but a semi-final spot is on the
line.
the game. We're going to go
into it. G two versus spirit.
Semifinal spot is very cool.
The previously the fast pass in
the playoffs. It's certainly an
opportunity that neither team
is going to, you know, take too
lightly. This is a game that
will be full focus. You
essentially get to skip a whole
stage. Of that core final. Yeah
listening for me, I could there
in terms of that being able to
put your feelers out in a
series like this. It's going to
for G2, trying to return to the glory that was the London win.
And now on the reintroduced Amoebas back into the map,
pulled afresh and up the start of 2026.
Now, we haven't seen Spirit play this one just yet.
Last time, it was all the way back
at the Austin Major versus Na'Vi,
and they picked up the win 13-11.
That was during the Swiss stage.
We've been over six months since then.
Oh.
We have an opening, ladies and gentlemen.
Have you got killed Magix and Con?
Yep, just a one tap to the face of the what was a B duo magics and donk were responsible now just don't lies on this side of the map and they're all coming his way
He's got a block smoke and he's elected to throw it towards con that is going to open up such opportunities now
You just have to get past donk
I think you wait you should wait for the smoke to fade before you go
You know under rush you have the man advantage, but there's absolutely no need for pace right now
now. Heavy God's also going to join them. So, spoke of the ready from some pious. How
good is the flash? And how good are these two dual barrettas? And he is on the way as
well.
Oh, Crosshair was well placed. Donk does control for another. Don't know, some pious. A team
killer. Donk just shreds them. Quick, three out of the dual barrettas. No problem. B site
safe and a frustrating start for G2.
especially with that opening, thanks to Heavy God.
So that one is going to be a bit of a swallowing right there.
And if the pistol round is anything to go off, here it is.
Okay, well, swung out and deleted.
Great shot from Heavy God.
Just a little round of applause for that one.
We're happy that Duncan the boy is on B,
locked things down.
Now, the previous setup that we saw
from Spirit back when Chopper was on the roster
was Magix is the Bianca Donk is the connector player.
Chopper was over towards middle,
Zonty's anchoring A and of course Shiro on the AWP.
We have an aggressive start out the hole,
so they've got the water control very easily
and there's gonna be the eco from G2.
They just have a couple of diggles to work with.
One for matters, one for heavy gods.
So we'll see if they can find some picks.
Smoke fades, looking for a fight.
I mean, it's gonna be the objective here for the SMGs to get the majority of the kills as well if you want more cash in the coffers.
I think he's turning this Mb7 into a speciality gun.
Ooh, yeah, he's gonna catch and put it in his face and cover for Donk is enough.
He will go down eventually. Donk won't, though!
Alright, Donk's doing Donk things and another multi-kill, so already finds himself seven kills deep, just two rounds in.
Alright, we'll keep on counting, but those are the easy ones against the EECs. Now the guns come out.
We did see G2 play this against Liquid, and it was the bonus round, 16-14 game, so overtime,
so there are a lot of reps in there G2.
I think a lot of the other teams in the club are going to be happy testing Spirits and
Ubers to see where it's at, giving us all some data.
Shiro denied on the early peek out of the hole.
Now it's likely to be alive.
Shiro's missed opportunity on middle.
So what is a bit of a tell is looking where Hunter's headed.
Alrighty, he's joining heavy guard on this A control.
Sontek's perfectly poised.
Peaks on in, removes Hunter and the bomb was spotted.
I'll just have to put in some big performances to get G2 to where they are right now.
The win over foot, that would have felt real good because those young bucks, they were
making some noise.
They've been taunting their opponents, obviously eliminated yesterday, but definitely showing
the promise that they're going to have in 2026.
I think we just picked up a spot in Cluj because Legacy pulled out, so we'll get to see them
again in just a week's time.
All right.
Well, using the whole boosting up, Gap has been pipped, Tenir is actually playing this quite passively.
Magics and Donk play for info, outside B called Clearb, there is about 45 seconds left on the clock right now,
so just batting down the hatches on the side to see if you can defend with the number advantage.
Yeah, Shero looks like he's going to be arriving towards Heaven just ahead of the arrival of G2.
It's going to be such a weak execute, it's just smokes.
Yeah, it looks like Tenir's going to be in a prime position to combine with Zontics, just to shut this down and take that first gun.
Has to be contact.
Yeah, well just an air out you catch it the first fight for free. Have you got down confirmation for bodies?
Octix peeks on out same position where he found Hunter gets himself another one. Malph's is the
Little bit of a surprise and so nice headshot provided, but it is still shiro heaven that Malph has to get past
unable to do so orb connects
You got nine seconds and pyres and shiro playing it smart not gonna give you that fight you so desperately sought and now you're gonna try not to
die after time
I don't know that big box. I think it's done enough
Fighting in plain sight
Little bit agreed got the better of it. He thought he could catch Don can get himself an extra kill
This is a miserable start to the map for G2 pistol round starts with an opening kill
Since then pretty much nothing some players coming into the next round with only 200 bucks to his neck
So his buys are gonna be offset now by going down after time. I
Think he's also worried if I get swung on I need some type of space to be able to try and buy
So that is tough as it will be a partial for G2 back out of the window. Don't they're gonna use their spawns
Right, we've seen this in two rounds now, especially against these lighter buys
It's very constricting if you can pull it off and it might start conditioning G2 to be throwing double nades or mollies
Into the hole to stop this type of a plate, but I like it to the doing on the law by is it obviously is risky
Ah, okay. Obstain showing that the e-box smoke is missed when we cover the liquid game
Hunter and some pious we're doing spawn instas and that is something that I'm
sure Halley has been looking at in the prep for this one applies a lot of
pressure if you can't fight from Evox at all
setting up for a B-pop so they want to go into Donk site again you've got the
spot of sheer this time here they start to saunter in
So well placed HE from Donk.
Didn't bite down on the fake at all.
Hunter can drop out the hole and draw a heavy god.
Two up through E-box, three through B main, second wave of U2 on maps.
maps. And as always, she was in the right place using that smoke cover to try and adopt
an early nine and he's here. Cray shot to some buyers. They're quick one as well. Follow
up three on the top from the sniper job done round one spirit for G2 nil. She wrote for
in the round actually gets the last one there on to maps as well. And nice to see this format
of spirit right now. This is the CT side of an Ubers and we're still learning just how
These map changes will balance the map.
First tactical timeout called by Saw.
An opportunity as the guns do get dawned again
to have a conversation if he wants to change things up.
Now, we have to see them hitting the details
like the spawn-based instas for E-Box.
We also need to see them also starting
to get involved in these rounds.
We've got two girls from Mattas too for heavy God.
Wanna peace with some pirates and mobs
and hunts yet to get going.
So there's only the second rifle round, but the first one had some pyres going down after time.
Pleasure League from Shearer, makes it look so good.
Talk about those instas, there's one. Have you got throws out here?
So let's make sure that goes to the E-box position. It does not.
Yeah, so that's two missed ones, especially when this is your map choice.
Didn't look like an easy lineup if I'm going to be honest.
Still going to be able to get the control that they're looking for, and maybe not seeing
it.
Also has Spirit Gun hold up.
They've got a different game plan.
Well, no, they're just not land.
They're trying.
The details.
Three-player stacking over towards B with rifles, Shiro middle, Zontics pressed up in baskets,
trying to be a bit of a nuisance.
This will flash, but Shira's not going to be caught by this.
Sendieri, Tark, feeds that Molotov camera.
You can see the game plan from G2.
That's to force mid space, and it's theirs.
No answers in middle.
Now, you're worried about potential temple slip,
and you go on looking for answers.
Oh, it's in shot.
It's a great shot.
Some bias, just a quick burst.
And you can see this is what we're talking about.
That mid-util has led to Nier to go sweeping through CT spawn,
trying to find a potential aggressive lurk.
G2 with a man advantage, but by no means a guarantee that this will be their first round off the back of the sore timeout
That's the second opener so far within the five rounds of play needed capitalise on this one
Spotted Sontics gonna have to pass this test. He's already got the helping hand of shiro laying down the law with you
Oh another
Onto Hunter heavy god good find out to don't try to rotate towards a main the bomb will go down and it's shaping up
Pedal to the metal, goes charging through the flames, Mattis handles it.
Tenir in the 1v3.
He's got one for free.
Oh, he's got a good idea about Malm's in his plant position.
Oh, HP for Mattis, for Malm.
Finish is off the job.
Have he got last? He's not playing scared.
He could have very easily been put in his head in the vice, but...
It's the shot necessary.
A grimace on his face, but G2 do get on the board.
I think he was trying to get to the AWP for some pious there, so it doesn't get there in time.
But that's a nice one. They do converse off the back of that opening.
Thanks to some pious.
Now, you question this from Shiro, but maybe he knows Yanko's on the desk.
Yanko thinks that Shiro can make more, sorry, take more chances.
And that one right there through the flames trying to subvert the expectation.
Doesn't find the frag he was looking for, but very good attempt from Taneer.
Yeah, valid.
Double orbs.
Very early as we do get a Halley tactical time out.
So Magics, we bring one out.
So good weapon you just hold on to, be main right? You don't have to use your smokes,
you don't put the pressure in the same way.
Mid you can channel all of his resources.
Drumroll please.
Third time is the charm, I believe that's how the saying goes.
This one, right on the money.
The judges are happy with that one.
Okay.
Surprise going quick through.
Sendieri and straight down.
Zontics finishes him off with his flames and bullets combination.
He's a no.
Oh, he knows how heavy.
God, how has he done that?
Moving and shooting.
Clears out heavy God effortless from Zontics.
And now I'm going to be gifted that AWP to see if he can find more output on that low-h.
more output on that low HP job. Feels half done.
I love the killer nature of that, right? You know that there's a player tucked in, the
AWP cover from Shiro, you're trusting in it whole-heartedly there and you're just
swooping in and getting your teammate two-man advantage. And you can see Magic donating
that U-Tilt so Don can continue to block, gives him more options for how he wants to
take this assault. And they don't even know the double AWP serum play just yet. It's
something that hasn't been noted, but likely will as they try a different variation to
boost this time looking for a pick. So two and three Evox matters becoming B main now.
Well it's not going to spam, but Candy's ult is just perfect. Don't even getting one.
comfortable trade and looks like that's a dead man shiro gets him low and he's
finished off neat and tidy things are flowing things look great over on the
spirit camp
so this is a bit to say that I keep talking about the way they tried to
open the round you can see here just going straight to that century and that
Always felt like the death note. I love this.
Oh, dear, man.
And...
Frols the spray, finds the headshot, last bullet.
Right now the team play on point, but so is the individual powers for Spirit.
Is there 5-1 up, 4-2 the good?
Look, smoke B, donk.
Who's gonna play through that for a moment?
I think he did too.
Just trying to catch them if they are trying to sweep across to that right-hand side.
There is always an idea with G2.
This is one of the reasons why it's pretty high on the last year, despite limited success outside of London.
They always have an idea, right? There's a stratus, not just running around.
This is a team that functions with some really exciting pieces as Magic's orb sounds off again.
It's just all lining up so well, isn't it? Doc is ready to make a play off of the E-box crunch.
Wow, what was that? Rapid fire, Desert Eagle. Two heads roll.
Malves' Desert Eagle is somewhat notorious, but I think it's only really going to net him
The plant of the round
Okay, lucky you changed his mind there could have been wall banked. Yeah, no gap is closed
You may not even get that plants on ticks could push on it gets him off the bar. We could have committed for the cash
Let's try make something bigger than that all right sir
Six to one are we about to have back-to-back stomps on the a stream?
Driven's attention. You can also go check out Astralis versus fury up for the final spot from group eight
We're going to have that will lock himself in for the Toron.
Oh, man, it's great shots, but that's what we're celebrating right now.
That tells you how low the bar is in terms of traction from G2 in the early stages.
Another tactical timeout called by Saw.
He's expended two within seven rounds of play.
How he's used to one.
And he's double orbs still a feature.
I'm seeing the mics on both coaches using those 30 seconds wisely.
I really do love that new feature, new addition.
The costume to find an answer to these double orbs right now feels like wherever they go,
there is a magic for a shero in the feed.
Yeah, the setups have been perfect for spirit, right?
the way that they've been taking these fights, they started that fast day main play when it's slow.
They're just getting picked apart and we also have issues with them not landing their E-Box smokes, but they've done it again this time.
Looks like MIRD is going to be...
The game of the game is they boost the orb up to look over the smoke.
Mattis will par through on the right side.
Logically, sounds so far. We aren't going to need a flashbang, though, or Shiro's likely
guaranteed a frag here. It's dry! It's dry! But he misses his shot! Massive find from
Mattis! He wants to accelerate. You can see the tenacity in his gameplay.
Donk's just taken B-man in control, so that's going to leave you at some of this mid pressure.
So opportunities to pivot right now. It's a great line for the AWP to hold, so Donk
having B man really sets magics up. It's middle. That's the problem. And essentially, they're
saying, Zontics, you're on your own. If it's a split, good luck, mate. I say that. Magic
started to rotate away off the block. So blocking e-box now pivoting. They're going to try and
clear mid together. Our Zontics into near to easy for some pious profits on the swing
of to near. Well, that baits them into the A play. Zontics and magics are both here.
Yeah, and if they both win their opening duel, suddenly it's a three on three.
Santic's ready for that.
Doesn't quite find lethality forced on the under two.
Magic's overwhelmed, and that is flawless.
High impact for a mattress. He really was the fire starter.
That's going to be a whole lot more like it as far as sore is concerned.
He takes his second time out. They do a default.
They walk through middle. Pretty simple round.
Just comes down to winning that fight, which isn't simple at all, right? You bang on, Shiro's on the line
Madis goes, why Shiro misses the shot, Kyo comes in and then they
piece the round together, stay connected with the A-split
And there's just Donk who's gonna be holding on to this AK-47 at beach, so
Need to now take a look at the finances
We know issues going into the next round, but if they lose consecutive
That's where they can become a little bit of a problem, so Zontics will get the 1400, that's going to bring him to 3.2, Tanir was at 900 bucks, he goes up to 2.3, Don't could drop one rifle, and likely to see poor Zontics have to operate with an SMG, so that could inform the type of setup they go for over towards the A side, he might want to plant baskets with an SMG of some variety.
Is that opening shot?
Looked wider from Shirou's perspective didn't it that he swung but you see it from Mattis
Selfless from Magix as well. I just saw him he flirted with a double-aught bid purchase and instead has resided himself to an SMG
Dropping an M4 for Zontics. Okay, so it's Magix the one who has to consider doing something different
But again if people look at Magix play at the tournament so far, he's been moved in the MP7 to great success a lot
using the buff
Yeah, there's some early adopters to be buffed as a G.
To ask yourself, right, last time we were able to walk through the smoke, this time what will they adjust and how do we adjust accordingly?
So U2, line pressure towards A main, block smoke dropped.
Have you got presses into the smoke?
I'm sure it takes to drone matters hunter working towards e-box three player stack is actually they're feigning this mid pressure
Evox the same time
Box not scared. Thank you very much hunter strafes on in to his demise at the hands of donks a cake
No, I've just got them away out by taking this mids control right now
So they might just go into another a split. Oh, he's found another one. That was on the all some pirates just got warped
Buy that, Donk. One tap.
Have you got wants to take his chances on a duel, perhaps?
They really are light on time.
And it doesn't get easier for Magix, does it? Now really uncomfortable for G2.
They're running Shiro's way. He's guaranteed this one.
So comfortable. Just a pedestrian round.
in the middle. I'm going to
get a little bit of a strong
into warped cross has G2. They're
not picking your on T side
anubis. You've got only two
rounds to both. Yeah, so
salvaging the half. They could
try and scoop up five. They
have three more to play, and
they are able to buy again.
To get that one from dogs. P.
O V with the shot that onto
some bias. It always makes me
happy when I see it again. You
I think it's the first one.
Two, two, two.
They're not coming.
They're not coming.
Yes, yes.
It looks like middle is going to be another conversation starter for G2.
It's only one of the few things that's worked.
This is the thing, if they give them over mid control and not the opening pick,
like what happened with Madison of Shiro, what's the difference, right?
Because you're able to stack those sights at 3-2.
And if he does see a temple smoke, he's going to immediately molly or incendiary the camera position.
But no, that implies something else.
That's gone into the smoke, so no delay available.
Camera smoked, pressure applied.
They're in no rush, are they?
So they're happy to wait for these reactions.
Surprise is hoping somebody pushes B.
Have you got hope in the same way towards A?
Player's getting a little bit scared trying to rotate between the sights through a temple or camera.
See, Spirit just backed their individuals, right?
We don't need to over rotate.
And if you do take this fight,
If High Likelihood 1 of Zontix or Shiro is going to be able to find the kill required.
Okay, second wave.
This time they'll make walking on it.
Pulse to near, attention drawn away from B.
Not 30 seconds for this finish.
to me. Big for Mattis with empty hands to near goes down now don'ts attention drawn that way now they apply the pressure now they dump the utility to that be vom site donkeys got only the one they keep him humble G2 have got the site a must win round a must convert.
Shiro, he's having a look.
He may be considering the save.
Yeah, maybe he's just going to stay here.
Just feel like dropping out.
He's kind of committed to this, right?
Like you miss a shot, suddenly that orbs not going to brought through.
And there's a re-smoke over towards Temple, so I think that definitely signs seals and
delivers round number three.
What a big bomb on an Ubesi, though, so should be fine to just exit B main at the end.
Yeah, I think for Shiro, his biggest worry is if Heavy got exited his way, but oh my God, Zontics, that's punishing, isn't it?
Trying to get their way out, being main spammed into the smoke, takes down some pies.
Heavy got, will pick up that AWP, both of them stay alive.
Even in victory, Spirit found a way to make you feel less good about it.
I think the two of them stay alive is hugely important for another rifle round.
So both Zontics and Shiro can drop, and Donk had about 4.2, so he's going to be able to buy himself, and they'll be able to go again.
That was a nice flash you can see from by the B players to set them up for that fight to keep dog humble
We need to return to the pregame interview with sore
With shocks where he was discussing controlling the tempo of the game and by playing this slow. They are
Right. I understand they only have three rounds to their name
But you can see it's very clear that they want to let spirits simmer and then they're really taking their time
They're not playing behind their early utility. They're waiting for some form of reaction and they're turning the screws in the final moments
Patrick's again, the MP7, even though they would have been able to get M4s across the
board, I think they want to make sure that there's more than enough utility.
And the Shiro AWP fund, you want to make sure there's always cash in that.
So Kanji, two clawback of fifth.
Remember, we're still learning with the Nubis, just what the status quo will be, so five could
be more than enough.
Just seems to know roughly from practice how it's been shaking out.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I do find some pirates trying to find an E-box pick exciting,
because if it's playing as they stand at set up,
after this smoke, Donk is typically going to be happy to take a fight or two.
Mattis? Oh, he's found him!
Donk, brought down as an opening kill. Mattis has really been finding impacts.
Boos could catch Shiro.
Yeah, he spots the tip of the head, didn't react.
Jumps up, misses shot, awkward fight for some pious.
Info goes both ways. Shiro, some combat, all being required.
You can see he's on high alert, ready to swivel around.
And then that hubbub, in that distraction, some ace face has been taken.
Fountain occupied by Heavy God. Is Xontix cognizant of the possibility?
Is he aware of his knife outrunning on air?
A free frag for Heavy God is what I thought was about to happen.
Messy spray results in a zontics frag.
Shiro's got your camera wrap covered.
Malp's likely to be going down to this line.
Too easy for Shiro.
Two on four.
What have you got?
You buying some time with the Matoff?
How does in the smoke laying the face of your-
Just gonna be caught exposed such good output from zontics on his bombsite
And some pious surely gonna get overwhelmed not the weapon you'd want in this scenario you get the first swap to the glock
There's a whole lot more when that came from a shiro is posted
They're having a good time in the making it look like light work
Despite Matt is finding the opening kill onto donk no less and now if I was a little bit concerning doesn't have the best
you're going to go to master is four and your next round of play. It's not going to have
everything you desire. So you think heavy God and he thinks as well, this is essentially
the round winner of the way in fact, he is unable to convert that frag and son is getting
more output off the back of that catching hunter as well. Very well done there from
son ticks. You can see some biases, barrels sticking out. She were just tracking him down
in the final round of this first half G2's choice and a punish of Overpass up next.
Oh, hero, not going to be hitting that shot, not an easy one.
Hunter gets away with his life.
Don't just get in the right place at the right time as he's his grenade.
Oh, and it's ball is that is a hard shot to hit
Hunter down out of the round
It's past us to receive he doesn't want anything to do with that and in the mean time
I'm so six caps the perfect timing out a main with valves gone
You want to try and find some space on a she or a will concede that's the first time
He's gone aggressive the entire half and he saved it to the final round and he gets that perfect like the dream of leaving a man
and seeing someone stairs looking e-box you just licking your lips. That's always you too feeling pretty helpless in these scenarios having to try and fight back in and that'll be the same again.
It's Magik's on his own over towards B right now and that's where they're starting to take shape towards.
That's very late on B main worried about a push. Magik starts to turtle up playing retake. So while his teammates investigate middle as well as A,
his job is just to stay alive and report what he sees. Donk is now going to be back in time and because of that incendiary could have even parred that in towards the side if you'd like.
What a brilliant rotation, buying time with that flamethrower.
Oh, and Dog in the position to frag up a storm.
Two kills from Dog.
Get out of his sight.
Spirit, 9, G2, 3, and this was their map pick.
Looking very comfortable, looking dominant.
Oh, Spirit.
And I know what then do let's keep me up at night
Follow you till the dark
I know what you like
Keep me up and I am gonna follow that park
It was too much to know
Had to leave from home before
I know we must go on, go on
Oh
I
I'm going to hit you camera come to me come to me
I'm with you now
I'm picking
Let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go
There, there, there. Last dog.
I have a helmet. I have a helmet.
I have a helmet.
I'm running in the mud.
It could be water technically.
I pick.
Nice, boys.
Nice round.
Put that three on me.
Nice, guys, let's go!
Let's go, guys.
Yes, and that was probably the highlight of that first half for G2's Anubis.
Nine already on the board as we swapped sides and...
Let's see if Spirit can keep this going, keep this momentum flowing.
Pistol round would almost seal the deal.
Compulsory for G2 to take this.
It's a slow one, and it is overpass up next.
They have a 22.2% win rate on it.
They played it 9 times in 2025.
They are 2 and 7 on the map.
currently on a full map losing streak and there only wins are over rooster and ens
Oh
rooster and ens
Not names we've been discussing much last year or this one
And well, it will be the a finish some pys and matters can respond to this quickly
I'm also super curious about the hunter flash bang you can see that there's this nice one to combo
Have you got smokes if you try and push it you're blinded by hunters underhand
They're ahead of it. Facts a turn. No flash connects with the bullets, dude.
Hividing quickly. Back to E-box.
Want to try and finish on B. Malmsteen's playing retake from long,
so they should be able to slip in if Magix is fast, but he doesn't know the site is clear.
Yeah, and they do have a kit as well for this retake.
You take the bomb, it'll be a much stronger force into the next,
but can they really win a 3v5?
Spirit have been on easy street so far.
Shira with a P250 is going to take some fights.
There he is, and this is the perfect range for it to connect.
He hasn't hit the first couple of bullets,
and now the gap closes.
The new titans, heavy guard.
Ooh, still hit one.
Quick reactions from Teneir, but there's Shirou finding just the one kept down.
So the must win pistol is one.
Given the diffuse to Hansa with the kit.
All right, they're going to do Falcons, guys.
So they're going to throw a 2v5.
We're going to learn.
Wow. Yeah, well, the level of entertainment of this game is offering unless you're a spirit fan, which a lot of you aren't.
It's been an ugly one to watch from a G2 perspective, yet to post consecutive rounds and mandatory now.
Two Galils, two MP7s, and a Tech 9 up against the fully fledged rifles of G2. Two famuses complimenting the M4s.
Supplies has a flash at the ready.
Babs, confident, jump spotting, gets a little bit of info.
Saw Magix.
Passive outside of BM Magicals, or Hoover at that space up quickly.
Sontics.
He's got an AMA in control.
No resistance, they're essentially playing at retake A.
You faked some sounds there and you didn't get a meteor block you till throne, so what does that tell you?
I think you want to finish A because you have baskets as the staging area.
But, I want to see if you can win a fight or draw a rotation.
Try and soften their utility a little bit more.
So don't set up against the dual with mobs.
More of a fair fight, a little verse M4.
Come on, it's just gonna...
Run you down! Who gets out? Both of you?
Now I think returning... Oh, it's an air bomb, I was going to say returning to A.
It's a new world cheat over and it helps when you oh, so this is playing ahead of the timing. He's been spotted out
Information flows they know one close on a that draws hunter and heavy-gods focus
30 seconds cameras blocked they have to come through
But no one's holding it. They didn't know he's a cross. What is that Zontick's profits?
The forward aggressive momentum on 2A and it's collapsing before our eyes.
G2's sight is lost and that is a little too easy.
They need to save.
Can I just lose everything?
That fan masses, oh, managed to find a headshot.
That is a little bit of a confidence booster,
but still the conversation remains.
Do you really want to throw all your rifles into this?
I don't know if production will be able to provide it,
but if it is possible to get what heavy God has said
in that moment when he spots zontics and what was ushered in with the comms because he definitely saw zontics.
Yes.
Maybe an assumption being taken from Hunter that they wouldn't be so brazen to cross on his own and he's not peeking, he's not fighting,
but that right there is an absolute mare from G2.
And even in that listening we had on the way back, it sounded like the comms were a little bit sketchy at times.
That just from our perspective looks very silly.
I know, we've got really good nukes more.
fight. Get a little mouth stonk head to head at range. Potentially. Oh, hello, heavy god.
That's a nice aggressive maneuver from the five seven to draw to two to a man advantage.
I think for the last round, I think, okay, well, something cannot make a plan. He's learned
some this time around.
Is the force by wars on or is it spirits 45 disadvantage around that they can piece together?
Magics is having to call the team back into this so within the mid-round congregating over towards middle
The newly appointed in-game leader
Has found the gap they've just rotated away. This is obviously quite fortunate that the timing is
Manifested taking back a main with three so still grouped up
Look a little bit clunky and as they turn around
Spirit be in their face. It's insane timing
He's hearing a man. Yep
Magix has led his team to the bomb site.
There is someone ahead of the plate.
That is Mattis, traded by Don.
Quick on the follow up, brutal.
You know, Heavy God was here.
He got the kill.
He was the man that took down Son.
Sad to dink 1 HP.
He's likely to be alive.
Everybody coming from A-Made.
10 bullets.
Doesn't like to go for the reload.
No swing on that for Parnish.
Behind the cake position.
Nade looks like it's going to smoke Heaven.
Oh, Donk's still finding output on the 1 HP.
Shiro has a molly.
He's got three kills deep into this one.
Surely you can find the kill!
How's he gone four?
Four kills from Donk.
Heavy got to clutch, but there's just no time for this to fuse,
especially with the flames on the bomb.
Shiro will finish what Donk started, completed.
Incredible.
And the gap being found.
Nudgek's leading his team to an open bomb site at Amanda's advantage.
That's very fortunate that nobody was tending to that right G2 making a grouped up play to get the a main space
At least they were staying assertive, but it ended up costing them and especially when dong does that
So this would be G2 force buying out the game. They'll buy this one and they'll buy the next one
Just a marvel and just some spotty rounds for G2
Okay, getting reports from production that when have you got spotted Zontics, he said nothing.
Oh.
So, yeah, that would explain everything.
He definitely spotted him, right?
I mean, we could have fallen foul to like X-ray, you know, silliness, but I'm almost
certain we saw like that flash on the jiggle out.
Well, Hunter, try to get the morale high. Again, the stakes of this one. You are locked
in for the arena, however, you are looking for a semifinal burp, which removes an obstacle
of having to play on that Friday.
Spirit there, they are sailing through. I am crack-off so far. It's been two woes in
every game up until this point. And if they continue on this path, I think overpass seeming
very likely to be theirs. So a spotless record. Taking shape and the semi final. You've got
Vitality up against Aurora later today. Winner of that will be, attend to the same feet.
So let's say Vitality are the heavy favorites there. If they win that, so then we then will
have Spirit on the opposite side of the bracket from Vitality. And we might be getting a rematch
of last year's Grand Final. So plenty of other teams in contention. I'm just speculating
on the possibilities. But if you're watching the A stream today, it's been now three consecutive
pretty flat maps. The ideas are there. Well, in this game, at least phase was a no show
in their elimination game. Have you got it's got nothing left to block. That was the last
Grenade G2 had in their possession, so.
Though the clock is running thin,
Heavy God really needs to find itself a multi here.
Can't control it for number two.
Hunter and some pious on the scene.
A scout shot misses.
And the bomb is planted.
We are force-buying out the game.
Such dominance on display here from Team Spirit.
Proficient on the newest addition to the map, Paul.
threatening. And there's one back from Hunter on that CZ. Matt is hoping to catch the timing
maybe on that reload he will. Yeah, Profit finds Team Teneir taking shape. This is all
too good for G2. Okay, that's a little bit of something. A flip of the script. Very close,
10 second defuse, but a retake that the numbers and the weapons were stacked against you.
Okay, so they've brought themselves three AKs through on that, but it's gonna have to be a whole lot cleaner counter-strike play to bring this one back in.
I think Spirit exuding a little bit too much confidence, which I think is a good thing, right, but not having the best post-plant setup.
So in review, how he's gonna say, alright boys, let's just play these rounds a little bit tidier next time, because they know that should have been theirs.
And now their money is on the line. So G2, the same conversation comes back. No consecutive rounds. This one.
Is a must win if you want to break the money and start to sink your teeth into an oevis
Don't party for a collision with mouths
And the girls try and fight out be made it looks like the flash from some classes being lined up Mattis is calling for he wants to swing
the flash did connect multiple bodies big fire available ball is lost massive
from the two of them that is so impact and there is more to be done
that chicks is there trying on a bomb retrieval mission he's gonna swing on
how he's hit the insta headshot Chad well that really is a massive relief for
team spirit can't believe matters just surging so much I think trying to just
establish that control of the bomb to really win the round on his own but
staying aggressive. Have you got want to path through middle that option is
available magics just sit wait he knows the cavalry needs to join him if they
want to find this round finish that back around through T spawn. Oh wow! Magics
composed tap just the pixel on the crouch catches hunter walking mid. Have you
got still gonna have a very good timing on this they're gonna finish B he's gonna
be put on the flank if some pious gets anything heavy god has a chance that's
and if some pious five francs deep in this series the money
I'm gonna put a money down rain he's gonna have to stand for another gets away from the flames
any points of health come from shiro bomb being planted can't contest and the heavy
got on this flank not being considered right now he needs to live but actually
want to fight him he actually catches the spam traded out nice from shiro
chases him down has no idea that heavy god is already across on b main he's
playing it safe though. He's gonna force Heavy God to make that next move. And this is a must win 1v1 of G2.
One chance. No.
Now he does. Quick adjustment. Survives. He knows the clock's on his side. It's ticking down. Heavy God's got the kit.
Gotta try and find this fight. Shiro just dancing around the pillar. And he fights the headshot as well.
Nothing going right for G2.
I had it from Heavy God's POV on my screen. I thought he caught a glister there on the way in. Just saw the gun sticking out from the side of the pillar.
But yeah, not from Shiro's POV, of course.
Well, love the two-man push.
I thought he caught, yeah, never mind, either way.
A couple of ifs, buts and maybes, and it's all down to another four-spice, so...
Matt is trying to do a lot there.
Magic's quick. Confidence stride through middle to claim this territory, 14 spirit.
Simultaneously, Donk is getting a bit pushy, being received well by Heavy God. Opening kill
for G2. And some pirates looking like Magic could have number here, but oof, good range
for the 5-7. Clicks off his head and extends their advantage. Two man, G2 lead. And very
segregated teams and two of them with mp7 so maybe there's another round in
store
when they pull it off again Sontics and Shiro partner up in middle need to get
past some pies they know there is over towards camera position
plan to slip down for some pies playing it very safe so gets the info gets away
informs his team of what's coming Sontics is dropping back with the bomb so looks
Well, they want to turn this into a beast, but with Shiro playing through Temple.
Feneir would have to go off.
And just the wonder for trade is insufficient.
Shiro's coming.
Considered by Malbs.
But a lot to worry about now has to repause.
Oh, getting a little stressful, surprisingly.
You've only got 20 seconds.
You do have to be on high alert for this flank through Temple.
Malbs feels destined for glory here.
Saves the day, supplies.
on very clean for the flows.
You can see our schedule is OK.
We have to worry about B main temple,
potentially CT, if he's really, really milking it and E box.
So they're checking everything.
And some prices kill actually, you know,
being a bit of a difference maker in middle.
This is it from the bird's eye perspective,
really clean shooting from him.
I think they will get consecutive rounds this time, Alex.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, well, that's pretty good to say the echo. So it's five clocks and two flashes.
Finally, G2 on round of a 19 are looking to get consecutive rounds on their map choice.
This is totally don't call the Falcons.
Who will be playing later today against mouse?
It's always a fun game when those two teams go toe to toe.
Yeah, I expect that one to deliver in the entertainment value.
I should be able to hunt this right down now that I know it's box.
Okay.
We're sketchy, but no drama as the Moppin' Bucket is out over towards the A site.
Have you got with two?
Surprise getting peppered and we'll go down, but...
Oh.
Ah.
That's way more than I'm expecting.
Fair play to Shearow.
That's exactly how it must feel playing against me.
It is going a whole lot that way.
third tactical timer from spirit how is that enough for this he says listen gentlemen
i'm gonna request now shall we 13 this is 12 and because of the buying pattern they've gone for
they're not really in a position to go for too strong of a full buy they are still investing
because he's on ticks with an a can all the goodies magic's back to the mp7 shiro's gone out the ak
and donken and tenir i was gonna say in galil's but it looks like they're gonna make sure donk has
has an AK. At least he's requesting one. He dropped the blue for a moment.
Yeah, anyone?
Uh, you know, guys, you see now, I, I have the AK.
I'm the captain now. Antoneer will.
Yes. Yep. Good. Good boy.
I mean, I'd probably press tap first and then I would be without hesitation.
I give Donk an AK no matter what the situation is.
41 frags between Shiro and Donk.
If I could refund all of my money, and pull it together, on the pistol round, I'd give
Duncan AK.
You know, you just give the guy an AK.
That was his one request for how he'd change the game is buying AK on the city side.
So Spiritmine find themselves in a bit of trouble, Alex, if they don't convert this
one.
2400 lost bonus into the next.
Yeah, they could open up a runway for a hell of a comeback.
looks good for some pirates here. Sontics gets nothing out of his rifle now they're
entering in heavy guard. On the back foot, how does it well? Take some down Hunter and
Unison onto Donk with just the one kill.
I like this gap that they pipped quickly though, look at this, they are going straight through
Temple while we're now on board with Madison Malm so we're starting to push through canals.
They don't know it, they're not going to expect it but the B bomb site is completely open.
And if you start to panic about this and if they're slow about their clears you might
even catch wind of their rotations back through beach. Looks like very hesitant
Hunter. He's aware that that's a possibility. So gonna partner up and
clear slowly. They need to do this together. So Shiro is gonna be the
point man on this clearing it out. It's just about where they planned. If they
take too much longer, they're gonna die in the back. Have you got an Hunter?
Far away now. And surprisingly, yes, the site is clear. Oh, he's gonna be visible.
They don't quite get the angle on him in time.
Still no announcement of G2's position, so yeah, he might just get caught off.
Shiro gets a bit of a jump scare.
Ooh, jumping out of his skin, but Tineer sprained down too.
Over the plant.
And perhaps try and find an angle around this.
Calling the bluff.
Hides out in his smoke and now has confirmation they weren't on it.
Good. Oh my God, I've got a head shot.
And now he knows he's off it.
Tineer is playing them like a fiddle.
Now he walks in, catches that time, it gets heavy,
got off the bar, he's playing this to perfection.
To do a dancing around, heavy, got hunts him down.
Is there time for this to fuse?
Oh!
Only just Tenea nearly pulled off the impossible.
That was a beautiful one before that was starting to take shape right there.
And it's a buzzer beat up.
That would have been one to remember for Tenea.
what a joy to watch that one unfold the first two impeccable but this whole
playing around the defuse finding the presence of mind to clear out Hunter so
precisely and then the fake steps confirms he's off the bomb so many
times but have you got doesn't get flustered the fact he's still manages to
convert this will be it by the way that's how close it was
all right well they do have to stomach the partial but because of the plant they
get a little bit more play on sir and all those kills so this is now turned
interest into an interesting affair just a four-round gap they need to weather
this against the pesky pistols
Malbs is gonna be very cautious on these e-box fights doesn't want to just be
peeking into a deagle of any sorts.
Pretty kind of like swinging out, hey?
Yeah, the ball looks off.
And space, and now a headshot, big from Zontics.
He wants to get aggressive, so does Dark,
push it through, the Heaven smoke is cheeky.
Epic God reacts nicely, spam from Magix connecting,
it's chaos on the A-bomb site.
Three versus three, dropping that M4 to that healthy shiro.
Got a double swing, camera and bricks.
Heavy God needs to find himself some more impact, down to a half health.
Shear rubber points to Nade, needs the multi.
Only got three bullets left in that M4.
Alex to reload, stills looking, shaping nicely.
Four spirit, Nade's not gonna find Shearrow, still got health.
Still got his M4.
Important from Heavy God, G2, just gotta get past Taneer.
Heavy God did it in the previous, but Taneer's making it hard for the ball.
He's just playing the bomb.
Yeah, there's a kit, you've got a smoke, you've got a kit, you've got a smoke.
It's trying to trace him down surely not another
Lovey again. There's no way
Second time's the charm on the teneir clutch spirit take g2's pit and okay that one got extended g2
They didn't give up the fight, but it's teneir clutch after clutch was the second one that matters most
But spirit fellow they were in full control of that one
It's their map pick up next, overpass.
Guys, is this over in two?
Yeah, you kind of get the feeling that Spirit never really had a moment where their foot
was off the gas in this one.
Incredible control, basically, from beginning to end to near.
It would have been incredible to end it in the penultimate round, but getting you come
up and send the final one to pre, that's going to put a smile on you first.
Yeah, I teach you all for a sort of slow start, and they did actually manage to make the game
a little bit interesting, but Spirit seemed to be in control throughout the majority of
the game, we had to praise Dark and Xero, obviously the two heavy hitters on the Spirit side.
And Spirit again, once again just showcases that they can just play this very default style.
It doesn't necessarily have to be where they need to go aggressive all the time and find
a lot of info on just playing off of Xero and being a very stable CT team and having
a really good defense, let them a lot of rounds on the CT side.
And Xero just seemed to have a bit of an issue trying to find that groove specifically on
the T side where they only got a call round by really playing a slow inside the middle
and going for both the A and B split, but whenever they were hit inside trying to go for the
A main control or for the Cape, they will also be able to just lose an extra.
There's obviously a lot of nuance that we're going to be breaking down, but this is really a more perfect opportunity
to bring up the fact that when you're a team without a clear start, rather going up against a team
where there's one very clear one, it's always going to be a bit tricky.
Yeah, I think it was a very interesting game from calling slash reading your opponent's standpoint, right?
It seems like Spirit maybe picked up a little bit recently in terms of their style on CT side.
They don't change things.
You know how you condition your opponent with something and then you've been conditioning them and now you do something
and it works perfectly.
Spirit maybe decided they're not going to get conditioned because Peter spot on.
They were winning rounds by playing slow and taking mid and then you're expecting,
okay, now they'll play heavy mid.
We'll hit the bomb side.
There's going to be one guy there.
We're gonna trade, plant the bomb, but no, Spirit just kept giving them mid, despite losing rounds.
They kept playing for the sides, and G2 sort of expecting that switch up to happen, it never came,
and that's why they couldn't win consecutive rounds in the first half.
You played mid CT side on Anubis, right, Jail? Was that an interesting approach from Spirit there, in your opinion?
Oh yes, a little bit, because now that the door is inverted, it actually gives you the opportunity to fight for mid a little bit more.
Because in the previous iteration of Anubis, you didn't have a chance to fight against two Molotovs or a small plus Molotov combo.
Now that there's a door, you kind of have anti-flash angles.
So I'm surprised by Spirit. Maybe they didn't have enough experience on the map yet.
Are you actually impressed with how little the window seems to be here?
Because I feel like when we watched, let's say three maps, they really used window a lot.
I don't feel like we've seen the teams use window as much. It doesn't really create this new opportunity.
How do you think so?
It's a different, like, how different do you think it is as a mid-plane out that you have this window?
For me, personally, I'm not a pro anymore, but...
I was your...
No, no, I mean, I would love to use the window now.
Like, to get informational peaks, maybe...
Maybe even stay middle next to the window and taking all of the water control
and letting your B connector guy rotate off the map towards A or like push B main.
But I don't see teams...
rarely doing that.
I think Spirit are just hipsters, you know?
It's like, ah, this is the new, everyone's using it.
Like, we're not going to do it.
We like it all.
It's cool.
We're too cool for that.
It's false.
Should we dive into some of the rounds?
Obviously, first half, it was tricky for G2 to string anything together consecutively.
What did you notice about how Spirit kind of treated that CT side?
I think they just had good reads a little bit.
And then the early moves from G2 got shut down, right?
This is the first gun round.
They're trying to sort of contact in two As.
Once it just gets the entry kill, all right.
They reset, boost Malph's up, go back to A,
but still you can see three Spirit players are there,
and they're again trying to contact, doesn't work out the way they planned it,
going to end up losing the round in the end, I shot from Shiro here, right?
That's the first gun round, alright, they lose the anti-Eco,
Saw takes a timeout, they do the slow round, they win it,
so now we get the gun round following that, reset round,
again just a smoke in connector,
and they want to go for a faster peak towards A with Sun Pius, but the gank gets shut down.
It's another good read from Spirit. You can see the mid player is also leaning towards A,
so I don't know if it came from PrEP or they played each other on this map in practice or what
is it, but early on Spirit definitely had G2's number. It's probably a case with the... I don't
think the first round was necessarily a bad call, and let's say that Honda wins that 50-50
You know that just changes the round there was also given situations where heavy god gets a lot of space
It just also fumbles at one of those kills
But and you know when you don't win your 50-55s or the ones you even have a greater advantage
And you you don't create the openings and for them changing up the pace to try and go a little bit more great
It made sense if they would expect to have a rifle right the thing is that she was now posted and
Zero also from my memory when we played him back in the days on that map
He would always love to go for this pillar position and him and sons
to just have this very good chemistry and to switching up having the op that in it's
if some takes and then some to just trusting shiro also to just go for that second kill
when he actually knows the guy is down in the corner.
So keeping it you know with variations on the civil side makes it very hard for the
team to also to reach the citry.
I think we've got some opinions about shiro up here on this desk.
What's your take on shiro gel before we let this man unleash?
I mean as a pro player I can say he's you're not something it's not something you prepare
for in advance.
Shiro is never going to go for the early peek of getting an advantage, maybe catching you off guard.
He's more of the later type of player.
And when you prep for a team, you don't prep for Shiro at the 2v2 or the 3v3.
You just prep for the team, and Shiro is really good in the clutch, but that's about it.
What I really love about Shiro, I mean, there's this idea that Shiro is kind of a baiter,
or he's playing like very passive, he doesn't go for the openings and yada, yada, yada, which makes sense,
But I should think that his place that kind of fits into what they haven't really having the guy that is just
Incredibly good at just holding angles or being this stable guy and also in the after plans
That's why he also excels you know clutching is something that he's really good at
He's good at understanding when to go for the certain pigs and when he has the space to work with that's where she do
She really excels and I think it's a good fit for for the likes of also having someone that's as aggressive as don't
Yeah, also to near to have this thing that they can fall back to
So there's this debate that he's a little bit better and I don't necessarily think that it's needed for sure to go for these openings
He could be doing it more, but in reality, is it actually needed of him? What do you think about that?
I think it's needed as so he becomes a topic in prep. To that extent, right?
It's needed, so it becomes something you need to bring up and you need to spend, you know, some extra utility in your default because he might go for something, right?
In a team with those rifles, I agree, he fits better than a monosie would in that team.
Because then you can't just satisfy everyone and there's not enough space for everyone to be making a play.
At all times, I just think it can be somewhat more where it makes it more difficult for people to game plan against them.
Because now you can focus all your thoughts on Donk and people triple-nading him and having these set plays
just to chip away at him when it comes to doing map control and stuff.
It's just, for me at least, it just feels like he's so true to his style, like that's his comfort zone.
If you would start working on the show, saying you should probably be trying to go for more openings,
you should try to change your playstyle, I'm not sure that will benefit him, will it benefit the team?
I'm not certain, maybe in some time we've touched on the whole thing that Spirit has been easy to
prep around, you know, that they're very easy to read, right? But it's like, if you take Zero
out of the equation of him, out of his composure,
does it actually make Spirit better or does it make him worse on the long run?
That's my question.
I think, you know, you don't want to change his style.
Just bro, give me a little bit of something, something.
You know, just a little bit.
Jump out with him.
Just so it's all predictable.
Hey, hey, hey, break it up, break it up.
We go to JoJo over here.
But if you're going for to be a title contender,
don't you want that diversity and maybe Shear goes for more aggressive plays?
I feel like Shear or going for more aggressive plays
is the next step for Spirit.
It's everything in contrast that goes into one big ball of CS.
And I feel like it's one of the topics you really have to think about.
Yeah, his style, I said it fits spirit, right?
It's just about, sure, man, you have your style, you're more of a defensive pass
over, that's great.
Doesn't mean you have to play at 100% of the time, you know, 10, 15%
once, twice a half, do something where, you know, it has to be something
that the teams will worry about, right?
And surprise them, because you take that more into account
that they don't expect it coming from you.
You've got to expect the unexpected, a little bit, to kind of catch some people off guard.
Just one more note on this, a new bit specifically, because I want to go back to the mid position of the mad jail,
and these guys both mentioned kind of the pace of G2 on that T side.
What did you notice coming into round number 10?
Ooh, so from G2, what I wanted to see more of them is what exactly they're doing now.
They're doing it very, very late into the game.
They're just taking some mid control. There is no decisive plan on where to go, A or B.
So they take mid control, they push away to near, and it took like 40 seconds to actually make the plan to go towards either A or B split.
And when they decide to go for a B split, they're gonna be smoking off-camera, moving slowly into jungle, and getting the heal on to near,
he doesn't necessarily know how many people are in temple, and this set-up flash from some pyres to blind Donk is what I've been really missing from G2.
It's not a set blade that they've had previously, they got it on the fly and that's what I missed from G2
because that's the experience of Anubis talking right here.
And when Spirit, they're kind of a new team, their protocols are not set in stone yet
and that is really what I've missed from G2 is thinking the advantage that Spirit is not as experienced.
You're like playing out of the institution, you know that you rely on people picking things up on the fly
because that's also what you need if you want to beat Spirit.
If you want to beat a team like spirit, you also need to be thinking outside the box and pick up the things that is
Is maybe not set in stone that you talked about in preparation
But the thing that you can see in front of you that you can help your team in with this type of utility
Well, we do have to add things to a quick break before we can get into that second map that second map being overpass
Or maybe is Jacob and Vinike would say overpass for the side of G2
Looking pretty unlikely for them to be bouncing back either way that semi-final sport is up for grabs
It's going down after this
Come on!
Come on!
No big fight here, and we know you're doing a good break.
I'm sorry.
Don't fuck it all.
It starts with a dream, with a team you barely know,
in an amateur official that feels like the grand final,
where practice becomes progress, and every loss feels like a lesson.
When will your journey begin?
I wanted to do the monitor right now
Be careful, Alvaro
I'm sorry
Be careful, nice, be careful
I think so, yeah
No, no
Hi!
He's out to the USP and they pick up the pace towards the B bomb site
Yeah, Hooksy wedding up in the apartment
Kassurado gonna bring Hooksy down
Switching out to the USP
A good start here for Fury as they flood into the B bomb site
There's really no resistance from Astros in this point
All words is, you'll take the all that's successful and so we'll find the first round of play
Yeah, let's do your play
So let's find a way to lose this round and everyone peaks everything. Yeah, it shouldn't really be an issue
What's the weather? I don't think there's gonna be any standing to get back in Fuzi as you mentioned already brought low
So I think the Astralis players going to just kind of prioritize the armor and ryu and stare back away
There's some cheap upgrades in the future
And a nice pistol round from Furia.
Alright, well they got it on Overpass as well, on their T side, but weren't able to
kind of capitalize and build into the half with it.
And only Raju stays alive with the Drow Barrettas and the Kevlar all the way back at T spawn.
starts to come out swinging here if you're fury up conversation about bringing
some energy to the server knowing they've got a straws on a map they're not
hugely comfortable on is that third and final map of nuke would be very
exciting both things that give us a good show in there there should be a 2-0
lead here for fury up
Oh, there's no investment. I'm sorry, but we just have to save from Raios. He's gone into a helmet.
That's it.
Everybody on Fury are electing in for a Rai Force.
Yeah, just be very patient with it.
Looking for any kind of a play from the CT side, any kind of a push. Not gonna happen.
So, it's Rals1 to let kind of Fury just have the map.
gonna be an easy one to get up to nothing. I don't know, we'll see how good of a start
this can be. Maladoy falling, Kacerado with kills in the pistol. We're looking for them
to come alive. Yukinder with someone who I feel like we talked about him at the start
of the series was the best player for Fyria. That overpass map, I feel like he just got
a couple unlucky timings. I feel like it's still there, but he kind of got a few unfortunate
moves that they were made and the timing of them just don't pan out in his favor whatsoever.
A force like him on Mirage, especially if he can start, you know, controlling towards Khan and just being a nuisance in the middle of the map from the T side, you kinder can have a huge impact on this map.
Nothing too disruptive in a round like this?
No, not at all. Nothing you can do.
Well, Leonard advances into the quarter-finals.
Both G2 and Spirit will be taking to the Tour on Arena, the question being which one will
skip that Friday of play, skip the quarters entirely as a semi-final spot up for debate,
it doesn't really feel like it's too much of a conversation though after that first
map on Nubis. It was G2's pick and it was, yeah, didn't feel us with too much confidence,
the score line maybe deceiving. It looks close perhaps that it even was, but Spirit incredibly
good form. We're seeing Magics, of course, taking to this roster, Zontics as well, back
in the jersey. Things seem to be flowing perfectly. Could they have a flawless run to the playoffs?
Yeah, this is it, right? If Spirit are able to show that level of form, he back to 2024.
That's where Spirit lifted the title and donk showed the world he's a monster. 2025, they
were in the grand final against Vitality. 2026, now that we've moved to Krakow, bigger arena,
twice the size, twice as many people.
We'd love to see them making a run.
And this is a really nice confidence building series.
It looks like the comms are flowing,
individuals looking sharp, the ideas are there.
As we do get Overpass underway,
historically a bad map for G2.
This would be their best Overpass win ever.
Hunter's gonna be executed on the uncrowed,
Shiro nails it on the reaction,
and now Mabs has got an awful lot of work to do.
closing the gap some pious will be there to try and tap ahead on a rival to
it is brought down are you pushing through their own smoke? Donk is he
out playing scared and it costs him everything? That reaction smoke needs to
be a partage. I don't have to pivot now but if you go back heavy god locked the
door so slightly disconnected was Donk. They are hanging around Zontik's will
play through long. He's been noted now. Oh, and a nice tap from Malbs as well. Takes down
the cover of the Shiro P250. Stilts on Tix's advancing and can't quite find the head he
needed onto Malbs. Round for Malbs. Yeah, Sympact right there, triple kill. He looked
like he was on his own and Heavy God's going to be picking him up, but understandably so,
you want to see those individuals shining bright. I think getting the intensity level
right is saying that G2 probably have a tough time being able to settle in with.
Obviously, they've already achieved the goal, which was getting to playoffs.
But I would feel against a team like this, it's their hardest opponent yet.
You would really want to see where your squad is at.
Nice! Let's go! Let's go!
So, I think Saul can be a harsh but fair coach.
And I've liked some of the comments we've heard from him in the past.
Like, boys, are we going to play Counter-Strike?
We've done a Dust 2 game once upon a time.
And I'd give a bit of a dressing down outside and say look let's let's lift the energy right do we're not going to win this
And for only a half mast
Spirit over the force
Wanted to go under this connect to control and then likely we're into a B split
Something quite interesting is how aggressive now just playing this round, but also they've got two HEs to near a magics
Looks like it might be destined for that peace side of the map, Malbs.
They've slipped through.
Has no idea.
Neither does Hunter.
Calling us on the paravision, these nerds are going off and they'll also erupt through
monster at the same time as flashes.
Using it for cover.
Oh nice.
Perfect timing.
Overlook from connector.
Chiro stops it from being a perfect lockdown.
Still the one casualty, but G2 do get past.
about the aggressive position from Malbs there, I think we'll see a lot of that and a lot
of risks being taken because you've already lost your map pick and I agree with you the
scoreline makes it look closer than it was and you want to lift the energy and I think
you say, well, boys, again, we're now we're really up against it.
Well, could you remind us and me the stats of G2's overpass recently?
So it's two wins out of nine games, the wins are over Rooster and Ents.
That's right, yeah.
Two out of nine.
turning how look is bleak but sometimes aggression the remedy yeah and I think
for that energy level it's also a sign of confidence now sometimes it looks
desperate and silly and then you're still not gonna hit the shots and you
get wrecked but the other side is you start picking up some momentum you say
hey spirit it's not over yet you guys need to pull it together as the deagle
whistles by in that exchange he's not scared now it's just a forward stand and
bang position. Not scared of your
Desert Eagles and you will pay the
ultimate price for it. Still managed to
get another though. This is it right
there. They're going to give away a
couple of deaths and you're gonna have
sloppy moments and there'll be
situations where you think oh maybe
they should be just playing the number
advantage but I think if I'm sore what
I'm looking for is the team attempting
to play. Not being scared of the
opponent you're up against because you
can have all the protocols and all the
strategies that fundamental understandings if your players aren't
hitting the shots then I feel confident to do so you're never going to win.
So right now just three to find and if you are just joining us and you're not a
traditional counterstrike you're welcome to overpass. These rounds can play extremely slowly.
Big old map.
What's the saving two if things aren't going your way on the T side?
Well, under our flash, that's G. Keep Magic takes down supplies, but Mattis is here to
save the day.
Oh, you have it so just...
Oh, it's nice.
You delivered it like a biomass burst.
That was cool.
Who has a good spawn?
Someone did.
Someone does.
It's good.
I think...
Does it matter?
Well, we were on their camera.
Yeah, I didn't catch it.
Oh, it was...
Maybe some pies?
It could have been any of them.
I'm gonna say someone has a good spawn.
Someone's happy with their spawn.
But first, gun rounds.
Not being way-laid, bunny-forced by wars.
The AWPs brought out for both Sympires and Shiro.
We should see full game plans on display right now.
Oh, respect the playground you tell.
Delays their progress.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh!
internal time of supplies thinking about it a bit late
yeah, Zontec's completely bugged
heavy god sets up Mattis for a g2 opening into the fast gun round okay things are flowing
Teneir's even taken a heavy beating told you that would be aggressive right this is with a
number advantage they're not turtling up they're going to take the chances
it can be really difficult to kind of put a lid on a CT side for a plan like this exactly
This is where you're cracking and this is what teams are doing, especially underdogs.
They're making these moves against you, not in a match for a spot in the semis.
Surprise forward, Donk is covering the Donk exit.
Like if he was just up there on the side now, there's two players.
So they're going to start coming forward as well.
is committed yeah he's hoping to catch them here as they round the corner
shiro is gonna be peeking into him and again with the sumpire's timings he
just falls out of it into a more shallow line shiro ready primed and ready just
too good far away from the fight some parts doesn't even see him right here
comes the youth so 20 seconds they gotta go now that Molly's pissed yeah it's not
perfect shiro will be advancing heavy-gold should be set to collect here
Don't look there. Oh, and now shiro hitting the shots. Why is this getting so close running down the clock?
But still with time to plant spirited in magics and shiro making magics happen
You got Mattis a kit and a 1v2 on the plate shiro seems so convinced. He's just posted on the dumpster
The sound you're giving away for Mattis to build that mental picture
And a headshot from Magix. What a way to turn it on.
That's a 3v5 right there. If you're not winning that one, especially after that opening exchange,
Mathers takes down Zontis, but then also takes the space.
You know that it has to be the AVE finish at that point.
They also get the spam kill through the long smoke.
So this is the timing on just missing the jump.
We were on board with some pipes for a lot within that round.
And then just to see him get pipped to the post, you see just eking into it.
We're sure that looks way too easy.
It's the kill on the heavy god, right? The fact that that's a hard clip of Don Kichiro who does end up getting the kill
But that's the one that makes the side so susceptible
Should be winning that you need to be winning that
It looked in the opening five seconds like you were supposed to win that
Both teams with some problems have you got it with an MP9
Magic's with the MP7 and the AWP searching some pious. Shot whistles by, has another shot on the AWP.
Now if you're over towards the A side of the map you start doing this, taking some caps that Hunter plugs.
So hey, we show the AWP but we also know that if you want to start taking some liberties elsewhere, we're here to surprise you.
So Hunter pops up his head and this might force them into a B-play.
That was the sound of an underhanded right click smoke so they know someone's up close.
Sumpias is going to be a must hit, gets awkward if he does it.
It's all of them here.
It's very awkward if he doesn't.
Every god gets out.
Now we need to spray Mattis, not enough.
Sumpias got a lot of work to do dancing around the pit, although that's what all of us can,
but won't do.
here from some fires hunter is saving g2 massive multi to near with a weird jump nearly cost him
everything the bomb can plant okay but coming in from the short side mouths could really just
walk in and collect around here traves away lives on any good to wear yes you can
just in time mouth saves g2 hunter has done so much work there in the absence of a mattis
The absence of a Sumpires, it's Hunter that makes that round a reality for G2.
Yeah, if you just fumbled a 3v5 man advantage and then you have four players on the side after
getting an opener and then still losing the round, that one is going to leave a mark of G2
mentors so they get away with it. I mean, yeah, I say Hunter, of course Malibus does get a pat on
the back too, needed someone to close. Ooh, that got way too close.
We'll call the tactical timeout and this is the team's side of overpass band map choice.
3-4 rounds should be enough for them to still get the business done in 2-0.
And an uncharacteristic start from Donk. How many games in Donk's career has he started?
Five rounds with empty hands.
Watch him end up at the top of the scoreboard when we finish the map.
And how close was this? Oh, it was.
I've got the space, short water, letting Donk search towards B this time.
Yeah, and Matt is pretty susceptible to it.
That's a valuable bit of info.
Also forces him to smoke.
Malb's aggressive on A. He's not backing down either.
He is not.
Even the playground aggression facilitated by...
Let's go, Malb.
Yes.
It's good to see.
Donk is coming ahead of this, though.
I've got ready for the dual zero six for dogs.
Don't take a rainbow down just the one back from ten years,
take nine, but Mattis should have the angle here.
Force to turn the flash supported by Hunter who's got their exit.
Oh, hang on.
Yeah, sorry.
Tanisha, no.
I just walked into something.
Yeah, Taneer.
I guess he doesn't know.
No, I didn't look them.
Ha ha ha.
All right, well, hold up.
It's still a minute.
And now it's just become a three V two situation.
What was it to be for? Hunter trying to make a play. Remember, they are going to continue to go for these motions.
This is a team that's trying to battle back from a very disappointing first map.
So might be some more out of the box moments.
Magics into near partnered up both with rifles, only one with Kevlar.
Nothing for Magics to work with.
Heading down the fireman's pole, into connector.
And these teams are going to route past each other again. We've seen this happen a couple of times.
Malm's actually on the way back and he's been making some big moments happen.
He's in the right place.
Something up, perfectly positioned.
Malves an impactful round once more.
12 frags, deeper, solid haul.
Ah, they lost the AK.
That's a shame.
That is a shame.
That's a fourth multi.
Too much of a team player.
Ha ha.
Okay, well, they will have noted that was just the partial
buy, it'll be the full guns coming out now.
That was 2900 loss burns coming into this one.
It'll be 3400 going into the next.
We'll keep tabs on how long
Donk stays silent.
Standard 2-3 split of the defense, mobs playing for connector, not for the fountain's fight.
Flash for the mobs swing, Taniri's down there.
I think that one missed, didn't it? I just didn't make it through the door.
I took the rotating piece heading back towards A now. They are hearing presence on long. I'm pushing in. Continue to search for fights.
That smoke's about to fade in Con, so we'll be using B as his evacuation point. Thinks it's too risky to head back up.
It's right. Donk is already over towards party.
to be. Now, here's the problem.
Spirit only have two smokes and two flashes to find the finish on the rounds, right? And
they don't even have all the staging area there to hopeful they haven't cleared out bathrooms
that have long control. And this is forcing the hand back into a B play.
It's kind of like don't say likely to have a fight or two if they successfully find something
on B. The rotation point of connects is going to be so appealing.
Very passive set up on B.
Well, he's actually gonna go down and join him. So even better, you got the whole five-man unit gonna be crunching into the site
Now I'm in a premium position to find one
Does best to near heavy God rewarded as well it's a good tap from Sonic's into heaven
Sontics double entry nose mouth is there graffiti doesn't hit the trade
Mobs again with impact for G2, keeps their head above water and hunts up.
He just puts his head in the vise again from Zontix, three kills deep.
Magix, what?
Instant headshot.
Finishes off Mobs, all of his hard work could be for nothing if the Obcargo 1v2, they might just double swing in here on the drop.
Perfect! Magix and Zontix, five kills. Spirit steal away their second.
Okay, that's a huge run from Zontix there, isn't it? Under pressure.
Wow.
his third opener right there on the way in blind but two absolute bangers the third one on to Hunter
Hunter knows he should have had him every day of the week and that's going to put the time out on
the other side of the server. They need to discuss where the finances are. They've had a couple of
close rounds now due to haven't they? In the last patch obviously having the board wiped there before
that only three staying alive before that just the one with the Malbs clutch means that their money
is in jeopardy. Then four for heavy god. A couple of famuses in the mix. A deagle for
Malbs. Then P9 for Hunter. So this next round is worth two.
That's the first. Yeah, that makes it look so good.
This one here Hunter. I think Hunter would have heard him running. Unless comms were
crazy. Right, there's also that chance, but somethings was making a lot of noise and then
the Mac 10 of Magic's getting value. And he's always happy to operate with something less.
This round Don gets his first.
Made stack lined up, this has to do with the boost.
Four player B stacks and past the only one on A.
Might be another one of these slow rolls.
Well, forces the smoke.
Don't have many of those going, so...
To drop it tells there were a bit of a fear factor on B.
to see.
It's a Donkenshiro, garnering long control,
need to clear our upper bathrooms.
Maddux with the bomb over towards playground.
Tenir connectors on ticks,
dealing with any B pushes.
Maddux actually picked up that bomb and taking it back to B,
so this long presence is just to try and keep,
or force,
and those B players over, and it looks like it's wild.
Hunter is going to be knife out and rotating.
So now, you've really sold it. Now you throw some Util, you spot an Orpha off a shot.
Heavy God is in that spotter spotter.
Yeah, he is on his own.
He has a smoke, he's just blocked that short.
He comes to the A execute.
Ah, okay.
Heavy God still seems like he's on high alert for the potential.
I'm sure Donk's trying to sell it. Heavy God doesn't move a muscle.
Burrows in his confirmation of presence and he's going to use their smoke against them.
Love this positionally played by Heavy.
Oh, no.
Now he could just deny the plan and win the round.
No, no, no, no, no.
He's behind him.
No!
Oh, have he gone around with a...
Nothing spirit can do!
That is beautiful!
He is so fortunate to be alive right there.
Tenille was literally standing right behind him in that smoke.
And his block short, not monster, plays in it,
comes out on the fade.
I am in awe.
That is...
I mean, those are the plays we dream of making.
Have you guys just pulled it off?
Up against Team Spirit.
Look at this, right? You've got Tini standing right behind him, right?
And then he starts to transition as the smoke is fading and then it lines up. It's a double kill out of nowhere
Yeah disbelief. Yeah, I'd be back for two. How's that even happened was in the short smoke?
You can see spirit of actually called a timer just to kind of piece together what went wrong there
Well, that was their way to get on top of the money, right?
that was a pretty rough buy for G2. You win that one. They have to take the eco. You're
able to start storming away with things. Wow. Not a backbreaker, but an ankle for sure.
Yeah. And that was the way for the spirit to accrue a lot of rounds. Then it would have
been job done. Right. Okay. You get that one. That's three. The next one's guaranteed for
then the guns come back up, but it can be forced to work for their rounds, aren't they?
So, Mab is starting over towards A. Oh, I have a fight here.
Spotted him up, and you spot the flash of the ankle.
You know, Mab's is in that forward scar. I'm just going to molly first.
I'm timing to peek it. Yeah, Mollie's going to force him. Oh.
Oh. He missed his window. Still nearly hit the flick.
The two strafie there from Sheeran.
A little too much. Mustard on the hotdog.
Out. Oh, brilliant line up for Mattis. Getting away with his life as well. The jump saves him.
Orpshot lands in his thigh.
This is more like it from G2. And again, they're up against it. This is not a map that they have found any success on.
Yeah, certainly can be a contrasting name as far as teams they've beaten on overpass,
right? What was it, Ence?
And Rooster. But I think the key right now is that they have to get as many rounds in
this CT half as possible. Now, thank you very much, Captain Obvious, but it means that the
T side, it's going to be very, very difficult for them. So if they're able to keep this
to a 10-2 scoreline, all right, we can push this to a third of Dust2. Why the hell not?
And that means that Spirit are going to go out and have the huddle and say, boys, that
was the punish. That was meant to be the one we were guaranteed.
feeling you did the hard work on
Nubis. So it's really nice to see
the fight coming out of G2 and
especially from Malbs. Here's
someone who in recent times has
started to receive a bit of
criticism for not being able to
live up to what is required
within the roles that he plays.
Right now he is the man 15 of
four to be top of the server
having impact whether it's
openings or multis.
Proactive info play trying to
see if they could find anything
anything on the hunt. Yeah,
that'd be that. So retaining the
head of him, the orb, very likely
even if they spur into action now
because they're going to get there in time.
The hunt's up. Just checking in
how good his flash was. Happy with that one.
But they are going to buy around
these saved guns. The AK and the orb
come in again, they're gonna bolster it once more with some lighter weaponry and to think
yeah that chance for Shiro to find the pick. Those are missing. Perfect just lining up
simple stuff for Mattis there. Yeah for Hunter you can understand why he's asking about the
flashes three assists in the feed. Nice name, Meteor of Shiro is AWP. Hefty damage. Okay.
Fight for Malm's once again finding opening picks this time if a head-to-head duel with Tenere is more than happy to take
Oh, he's gonna head to head with donkey
He is having a good time on overpass some pious catches the rest chasing him down
Nothing in this round. What's so ever ten looks very likely now, right doesn't it? It's 3400 into the next
This is going to be round number eight guaranteed and because they force bought again
They if they want to have a full gun round they have to take an eco
Sorry or partial right now and then they could fall behind to the final round to play to try and salvage
Does how they want to use another timeout? That's also another question
At least they're not burdened and this is gonna sound crazy by having the AWP in this round
It does mean that
Magics can call something a little bit more direct
They don't have to worry about going for so much map control because if you are gonna go for something a little bit more
fast and poppy with Shiro's orb he's just going to become a utility bitch right so in
this situation, they're mainly on pistols, OXGON AK again, we're going to go fast for
B and connect to control, yeah he's got heavy god swinging him with an MP9 and he will remove
heavy god's head, Malbs has got two to contend with and then I'll lock him out and they thought
the Molly would cover them, today it's gone down, magics onto Malbs, OXGON found another,
That's the B site, defence completely out of the round.
This is an unusual decision making tree, so you smoke Tev and you are surely going to be wanting to plant on the B bomb site, you know it's yours.
I just wanted to ensure you had sufficient time to do so safely.
Alright, tough retail with supplies from the AWP, does have the smoke. Can they pull this one off? This was just a light investment.
investment
Don't looks like he's destined for a tap hit Mattis. How's your clearing?
US counter strafing. Oh
To quick succession from Mattis and suddenly all falls to the shoulders of Zontics
Am I line up for him? Guess that first for free. No immediate tray play the bomb play the time
It's on your side. He has got the smoke in the kit not gonna make the same mistake as an oobus
Just go straight through the fuse is what it's all connected
to the right. He's got the
right to the right. Oh,
something explains that
perfectly doesn't eat. Oh,
that's the first backs off
knows the supplies has to go
for that bomb and they're sure
it comes down to the final
moments with that diffuse
coming through, but something
is always cool as a cucumber.
The coolest they make good on
Donks entries into the B bomb
site. I think he's been fed
up for getting dictated to
Last one. All good indeed. Let's see if they can find themselves nine.
Our Spirit are going to find a little bit of resurgence just the tail end of this D-side.
That's got Sontics forced out. He'll use the smoke for cover.
Save from the flashes and dips into Conor.
Time to record him on the cusp of that smoke before.
So we'll concede and they pushed all the way over towards T spawn Mattis has taken so much space
Have you got worried about connect up?
And hearing this
Something's not ready at all. He's acting like he's on his own
Mattis was hoping he'd have more info to report, but
He'll have to take it
Now you feel like you have to go away opportunity a little bit of damage on to Xenia through the wall
Some past his orbs position noted. She wrote, oh, he just gets him. Just like that,
catches him peeking, reading some past so easily. To near versus heavy god. Heavy god
clean with it. Okay, and Madis was back on B. You're not expected to see that at all. Not
Prepared magics worry about the fighter as mobs does peek on out
Seven nine three half
Sheeran don't gonna give it everything they can 18 seconds. You've got a smoke in your face
You're gonna have to try and play on the fade but now this flames
Sheeran burning
Extinguish boys nine seconds. You do have to give it a go and that is running into their demise
Heavy got finishes off the job. Okay, maybe there's something to be said about this head-to-head after all spirit thought they were punishing with overpass
But they're the ones being punished
It's a night
And even if you're feeling blue
It will be alright
Leave your troubles behind
And cut no doubt
Don't you worry about a thing
Take it all away
Feeling, feeling the groove of it
Feeling, feeling the groove of it
Feeling, feeling the groove of it
Tidying loose and walking
Feeling
At the break of dawn, a brand new day.
Everything will be brighter, and it's all got no way.
But tonight, forget about that time.
I'm stuck in the middle of the night, with your eyes moving high
I'm caught in the night
Oh, oh, oh, I'm feeling
I'm saving the groove, the rhythm, feeling
Oh, oh, oh, I'm feeling
I'm turning loose and broken, feeling
After you can feel it, and this...
I'm calling Niky.
I'm peeking from city insta.
Niky, I'm peeking from site.
I'm peeking from...
I'm peeking from site!
Water, water, one, no time.
Nice!
I'm fucking sorry dude.
I'm fucking sorry dude.
Guys, guys, guys.
I'm fucking sorry dude.
And if we were looking for a moment
to summarize how we got to a 9-3 scoreline,
that heavy-gott clutch is gonna be the one.
And you need a couple of miraculous moments, don't you?
Saw on the mic, good half, good CT, good calls.
Perfect, guys, let's keep this.
That's fast B, they're keeping the energy up.
Yeah, this is a must-win pistol, spirit one and ending two.
All players receiving him.
multiple on his screen. How does he track and unload and clicking as hard as he can? But
only the two. Hunter keeps him humble.
Supias. Quick adjustment. Nice headshot. Breaks the neck of Sontics and long range to
Nears trying to tap heads. The basic maneuver is adopted and good taps out of Supias. His
glock showing some precision as they want to just tap this one home. Looking to extend play and
take us to Dust too if they can match the output of Spirit and then some.
round resets now shiro has drawn this into a 1v1 have you got yet to plant the
bomb on his side we had a chance right there every god gets a second chance to
start punching in the code so shiro will use this opportunity to close the gap
very loud and have it go takes the fight shiro thrives and that's what he does
best mr. clutch shiro picks up a pistol round to bring a spirit back into the
conversation that bomb going down likely facilitating a g2 force by they'll
have some teeth. But keep tabs on Donk in their second half. First half, three kills.
She gets two on the pistol. See how quick. He skyrockets up the board. And this is great
from Shiro. This is one of his best qualities. This man is clutch. No AWP to save. He gives
it a go. And I actually think those saves of the AWP in the first half is why their
buying pattern was so weird. They kept saving an AK and an AWP and they're like, well, right,
We're gonna force by behind it.
We're gonna do it again.
We saved the A-CAN.
Oh, all right, let's do it again.
So you never really got to see them play out
too many full rifle rounds
where they had everything they desire.
And don't just have a look over the fence.
We know it is a technical issue.
There's a problem with sound for Hunter.
We'll get that one sorted and get it back out of way.
So momentum on that pistol
is just gonna be stored for a moment.
You know, I can see Falcons and Mao
starting to take to the booths for their match.
They're gonna be locking horns after this one.
you go well that's the thing we didn't get to watch the Falcons 3D max game so
we don't even know what form they're in I know that they to order but I didn't
get to watch it I take away from the mouse game as they are in for they were
looking clean and they had a great time right there they're the synergy between
the players was on point everyone was hitting shots
Fira versus Strauss is another conversation then you've got Vitality
versus Aurora for the same sex as this one get an action-packed date it's only
the big names left isn't it? Last day of the group stage or stage two I should say.
I love this ass from Jimmy as well. Yeah, no, I mean for sure he is doing a lot of the carrying
outside of the server as far as I'm always concerned. And Jimmy's the one that if he can
find some comfort in the mouse roster in 2026, then maybe he can start to make a difference.
I think that would be where that 5% could be, you know, they say they're a bit more clutch,
She'll be one extra anchor and you're looking at, you know, the difference.
Hunter has given the admin team a thumbs up.
He's happy with his audio solution.
This has given Saw a little bit more time to think.
Does he want to take a time out to have a conversation
regarding what type of force by, or if he sees the force plane,
does he want to call them off of that and go into the
lighter of the investments being an eco?
But it is a force by
Little mobs, one for Hunter, people for Heavy God Techno for Mata, Scout for Sympias.
Spirita only bringing 2M4s into this, but it is on Donkenshiro who both had monster
maps on Anubis.
And it's that duo that holds A.
Tierska rotating right, Flut, Magixx and Zontics locking down B, and Extinguish gives
you a lot of information.
They wouldn't be doing that on an E-Cup.
If dog jumps, ooh, yep, gets the answer.
The early body's long.
His immediate reaction is to take the toilet space.
space. Sometimes trying to peek in might catch one on the jump spot and he has tagged up
to near. Just two on B right now. They said they're heading back towards that site. So
Tania, because he's resigning on A, the B bombsite relatively weak.
Yeah, and don't don't really looking for some answers as to if there's anyone hanging around.
Stalling out on B now, so they know it's been called clear on A.
Tania needs to start rotating.
He's on his way.
Oh, sure.
They're ahead.
Already got a lot of work to do.
They're around that smoke looking for something does find matters,
but Malbs has got the necessary frags.
It's just Sontics here does well to find Malbs eventually.
Shirow still in a position to do something with Donk by his side.
Well, Donk is stuck enough.
Looks like Shirow was back in the way.
Donk, the opposite, pushing on in, ready for this head-to-head.
Sampias, Pilla.
Shirow upon the fade of the Heaven Smoke will be able to finish off the job.
And Nade could do it too.
See you later. Sampias down. Two to find.
Donk looking for impact.
This would be a whole lot of impact.
If he can get past the Hunter Scout on the line, it does so.
It's Shirow now.
And Shirow needs to show up.
Still though, body shots would be enough.
enough. The damage was done. 10 second defuse right down to the wire. Spirit think they've
got it. In the absence of a pistol, you will take the second round force by OK. The dream
alive for that 2-0 semifinal by. Okay, so pistol and conversion both coming down to
a 1v2 and then a 2v3 retake on the site. This one looking very scary thanks to mobs
again, gets the entry, even finds the follow-up.
It's another opening kill for Mr. Malbs.
Continues to add those to the tally, but not enough for his team to hold on to.
Shiro is merely rerouting.
Don't you worry, Donk was thrusting himself in.
Shiro giving himself the higher elevation,
but because that was close, G2 will buy again.
One more time.
Oh, so much damage has been done already.
Sampias and Malbs already brought down to below half HP.
It has run through the playground, Oli.
Yeah, it looks like it.
Whoa, okay, so yeah, speed is the name of the game.
Last time, Donk got an early info.
So, jump spot onto the long occupation.
He's gonna hope to do it this time from site,
and he spots them.
Block smoke deployed, and a redirection of the G2 attack.
The fact that the damage through that incendiary is so heavy, could have been made as well right, we didn't actually catch what went down, but the fact that it's the two AKs that are half HP, less than ideal, neither of them with head armor either.
Yeah, this is feeling a bit stressful for magics. It's got Zontics and Shiro close by.
Oh, spots are heavy. Can't quite control the spray. He's going to be mad about that one.
Especially if it comes back to haunt them. Important from Zontics.
Once again, thriving. There's so much scrutiny. Four kills deep.
He's once again just doing everything for Team Spirit, solid as a rock in the anchor position.
to win a three V two. So close
that I actually thought you to
what? Yeah. Sorry, Jiro.
There with the loss burn is able
to buy in a little bit more so
can be somewhat threatening
nine and a scout.
I'm saying keep your eyes on Donk who had three kills in the first half.
Well, he's up to six, but two of those came on the pistol.
It's been Shiro and Zontics.
Putting in a shift right now.
I mean the scout is going to be a bit of a great equalizer if shiro is active
Was he just sporting on long years? This is it's it's it's an annoying game
But this is the a game
You know you play for info and then you block with your utile you wait for that third piece
Which is to near to rotate over and you hope you don't give away a pick I
Overstepping the marks a shiro gets the info
Tania rotates over
A bomb site three strong. Yeah and dogs in such a powerful position if they do start trying to cross out along trying to get
Into the bomb site you have to get past the site line of dogs. So yeah looking very good
Oh the flash was perfect lovely from Mattis runs them down still needs someone to step up
Shapshiro does with Teneir's help, but the sight now looking a little vulnerable.
That's his complaint.
You hear the audible rotate.
You know where they're coming from.
Suddenly a native lands on Magix's face.
A second for good measure.
This is sketchy.
Super uncomfortable retake now and no smoke for their defuse.
Zontix does have to kit, but already feels like G2 is set to succeed.
Set like to collect their tenth.
Another one of these.
They have to go for it.
in a crack. Not the ideal plan. And a messy spray from Mattis.
Sontics now knows where the last is. He wouldn't sit it. Just gonna sit it.
He's just gonna sit it Mattis. Sontics the ninja. He's so cheeky. Expects Mattis to
be a little hesitant. Sontics again. Can't stop saying he's never the moment.
That's massive impact. Yeah he keeps having it doesn't he? Hand G2 again, awfully close.
I mean that's a hand of God moment. The fact he's just gone and stolen it away. G2 did all of the hard work. Let's recap.
So Donk gets flashed. Perfect. Mattis converts. Overrun the site.
Mab catches them in the open taking fights from their teammates. Lovely layering of the attack starting with the toilets arriving late.
Long both of the long players getting the job done.
Byzantics just deep enough on the angle. He gets the five second defuse.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You're getting a lot of that out
of the G to listen. Obviously
with us. We Russians. I don't
know what the spirit is saying,
but every time it's like nice try.
Good round. Yeah, but right. This
is a real chance for them to have
already. Sunk their teeth into
spirit and really have taken
this second map. Probably
the head of us too. But yeah,
Poor Paniers, a mouse problem.
Okay.
We saw him the other day, I have to go wide for a moment.
But you want to talk about nice tries.
You see this round recap here?
What you can't see is the fact that it was, yes, a 1v1 in the pistol,
2 alive for the CTs in the next, 3 alive and then 0.
Uh, so yeah, really is, uh, feels like you're just there.
Like the round is just out of reach.
That's the tough moment for Spirit, and especially with them going for these retakes.
That's the crazy part as well, because if they lose everything, they lose everything.
Yeah.
They've lost, but it's something to be 1400 and for G2 they know that they've got them right where they want them
And so it's gonna call his second tactical timeout likely to say exactly that boys. I know it's close
But if we just win this one rifle round
You know, let them save they're gonna be in a tough spot going forward for the remainder of this map
Howly it's the opposite all right, these have been a bit tight if we can now good job
But if we can time this up a bit so it's not so stressful that'd be great
And there's an interesting little interaction with Hallie and Tanea after the end of Anubis.
It, you know, I think the people at home interpreting it as a bit of a dress down from Hallie towards Tanea,
but maybe that's the way he gees him up.
Again, I don't speak the language. I don't know what's being said.
And Hallie looks like an intense dude.
Maybe that's the way he gives praise. Who knows?
Round 17, map two.
Only one kid in play with this. Shiro could have bought another.
Kit is on Donk and they're not playing forward on Adolphe, right? They throw the U-Till, but Donk's on site, Shiro's at long.
Addis gets con control, short water there's. Now I'm starting to work on his A-progressions now.
Oh, it looks like they've successfully possessed the Byzantics' position, which is going to be very hard to stick through.
28 left for the Byzantics. It's a good player to have low HP.
especially that clutch he's been
ready himself without flash an indicator that some past might be coming
just looked away starts to worry about the uh...
bathroom side
don't get that position to get that multi-kill spray down
head-to-head with malbs and he wins it out
she ever will
put the trigger first
So you know where two of them are?
G2 stalled out.
Sure is there to be.
Okay, choppin' and changin' the set right now.
Jump spot from T'Neil on back, did he spot much?
T'Neil's going as well.
Now he's called a second, sure.
Change in places, okay, well they just keep on movin'.
Yeah, they gave me the right place. Three bodies here.
Magic's even on his way, Sonic's leaving B.
They know what's up. Swing it on out with empty hands.
Don't nothing more to show for his aggressions on the long side.
Shiro, the dunk looks imminent.
Some pious. Catch that.
And it's up.
Shiro doing it all on.
It's a beautiful sequence out of Shiro.
Ace, four team spirits snipe, but just when they needed a shutdown.
Yeah, well, they needed to keep some bodies alive.
That's one way to do it.
Shiro up to 18 frags.
They said, keep your eyes on dunk.
Well, it's the Shiro and Zontik show right now,
and that one's stylish.
That was a stylish five.
You think Donk has this one, right? But it's Shirou who just pips him.
So the support there, and then coming through long with Donk dead.
The Nade is beautiful, just ricochets, lands right in the hands of Sampias,
and keeps on picking Shirou.
Statement made, one round game, back into the buys, we go again.
Sniper's on over past CT, huh?
That's all about, really.
Yeah. Shirou giving us a great demonstration.
You either have a rifle who just goes absolutely nuts with his aggressive fights towards fountain, long, connector, or you get your AWPer.
Shiro's eating good right now.
He's not gonna go back into the toilet side, okay.
More offensive defense here.
Get spotted out.
Get the infiltrator the gifts away.
That's a ridge, you give this up again.
Some pirates can catch him on the cross here. That's what he's looking for.
There better be a good flash. Still, ahead of it was Donk. Some pirates not caught by the flashbang.
This is the toughest game I've seen Donk have in a long time.
It is. A real rarity.
And the call from Hunter seems to be group up long and try and finish again with this kind of split.
Last time Zontik's got away with a cheeky defuse.
I just thought I heard the scope.
So info on a forward orb. This is very aggressive from Shiro.
He's in trouble.
He's in a lot of trouble. Nice help from Tenir elsewhere.
Oh, still gets away with an microscope!
That's outrageous! Nearly had the collapse!
Alright, they're all rotating over.
Three Raios, fours now.
Heading up through Bank and CT.
They've already had one of these.
Bank smoke's already starting to fade.
Tough retake.
Two flashes here for Zomtix.
he can throw these to near a match can both come spilling at a bank.
Another nade, a little bit more damage.
Now softened up, looking good from some pious,
Hunter's there and Hunter closes.
Finally, they break through this war of attrition.
It's their sixth time of asking and now posting their first tea side round.
Don't forget, an incredible first half.
And I think a second half where they've had more opportunities
than Spirit did in their entire first half, and they still walked away with three.
So shiro that would have been insane if you got the double there
They almost lined up some pious with two very important kills there
One to find the open onto dawn the other two really slow the potential for that retake
They know what it means you can see why it's such a big celebration
Finances are in the in the bin
Shiro has been able to get an AWP again, though
And they are still feeding donk guns. Okay, maybe it's maybe it's not the bin per se
You could make this work.
You can. It's just...
I didn't think that Donk would come into this half and still be kept so quiet.
So, it feels like it's his time now to take over,
especially considering the swarm of riflers that are having no issue taking his bathrooms control.
This is where you want your rifler to get that multi and ruin the round right there and then.
You should be playing con.
One way for this to stop that from happening is to avoid him completely to niggas.
Run boosted out, turns the flash, borrows into the smoke and has an opportunity for glory.
Glory, two on a screen, does burst the first, can't adjust to heavy-god in time.
Don't get nothing done.
And Sampias does catch Azontic's aggressions, a very nice headshot.
This is feeling like three maps now.
It is.
It's 1900 into the next.
They've broken through.
So it's likely the eco which should give over 12 and then they'd buy at 12 to 8
and have to go flawless with four straight rounds to push it into overtime.
getting the brakes G2 waiting for any regressors magics is investigating short
Shiros also joined the B bombsite
I think through monster Shiros on a heater right now is in very fine form
Easy first, dips away, now they're in the right place!
Shiro's shutting them down, put his aim on display, he has to do it all now.
They know where he was, is he ahead of the rotator, they're just gonna fake him out.
It's the question he's asking right now.
They're in two mines as well, they think Shiro's gonna take another re-peak.
He's hearing him up con, so he'll be there, oh no.
Stickin' to his guns on B, here's the steps now, not in a position to take this fight.
Now is it around where he wants to consider the save. Remember, 1900 lost into the next.
Talked about him being clutch chat. He is going to have a look.
Nautis on the truck.
Perfect in time. Nautis removes the orb. No save for you.
Despite Shiro's best efforts, G2 have secured 11.
He's doing everything right now with Shiro. Okay.
It's not a fun choice to make right now, but...
I think with the CT side of Overpass you want to believe even if you give over 12 you can win 4 straight to push you into OT
Well we did, we saw them win 5 straight to start off the CT half, but terrorists win
Different kind of fish halfway down the road and yeah, Donk visibly frustrated about this game, it's an enigma
Yeah, and he's not spewing about it, he's not blaming his team, because a lot of these fights he's on his own in these scenarios
So which typically is rewarded or at least gets away with it
Today on overpass just pointing out
From the ops team Malm's got knifed in spawn
See if that plays a part into this first fight and doesn't look like it will taps the head it's in there
There's dog though doing something and completely removing connector as an option
Has he waited for this moment right has he gone all right hold up a second. Let's give him a chance map number one
was too easy. We're going to make it exciting for the viewers at home. Yeah, and well, he's
brought low. And he's rotated over towards a so currently out of the pitcher, but Magix
has a smoke to block. And he's the only one with Kev, so we will keep hold of it 25.
This starts to become a little bit scary because if Magix catches a whiff and doesn't die.
Yeah, he's gonna die by the way.
Uncle B here.
A single bullet would put an end to Spirit's attempts here.
Still trying to keep it threatening.
G2 commiting, missed shot, whistles past, multiple bodies advancing.
Short trying to kick up a fuss.
Now up to chasing him down and looks like they're gonna just find this one comfortable.
Perfect.
G212, Spirit 8.
Four consecutive demanded of them.
And it does not let me can afford a shero warp
It's doing it's been such a statement piece. This is gonna be a tough way to do it
And it will have to be don't cover towards a getting smelper on that rifle or
In his dust too
And this is tough right the all peaking into this you've got magic on the jiggle as he goes back
Surprise gets the info of magics in the open that smoke block telling you completely different rounds
G2 have found himself.
I love it.
They've come to play on Overpass after Anubis.
The Convert had to have been one of hate.
This is a free crack.
Let's give it a go.
Let's get in.
Let's start taking some fights.
It was very slow, very tempered on Anubis.
plays that way traditionally but mobs has been great seven and two in openings
another one today walks into the scope it's magic's trading
still with an advantage on g2 and mobs is on the wall path heading in towards this
head to head the magics they're just walking into them important from donk but have you
got keeps him down has to be sure i guess has to be a shiro clutch or we will see three
Dust who awaits G2 making this over bars look comfortable
Spirit picking
But Matt is tonight's we do need three maps what a turnaround in form
Individually sound impressive from mobs and don't an uncharacteristic performance. He ends the map 9 and 18
He had a bit of a slow one here today giving away opening kills and just really not getting up to usual donk antics
But again have to give a bit of a tip of the hat there to Malves who has been in the crosshairs recently
It's a very strong performance. They came in they were willing to put it on the line and we are going to dust too
So this one down to the desk
Yeah, and product response coming out of G2 such an incredible CT side and the cast has just touched for Malves firing on all cylinders
Have a little bit of an absent showing from Don't I wouldn't put it all down to that for spirit to be letting this one
Go to a third but either way that was a very impressive resurgence from G2
Okay, yeah, absolutely so and it's interesting. This is the first time spirits has ever picked overpass
Whenever they play that it was either picked by their opponents or the decider
So having to start on the T side kind of what we saw from G2 on an Ubers
Just couldn't win consecutive rounds always getting reset
struggling with the economy and G2 took full advantage of that.
They also made it extremely difficult for the likes of Spirit Day.
G2 were playing aggressive, they were playing well out of space, especially towards the B bomb side.
We saw Heavy God taking a lot of space towards water, we also had Matty's pushing out monster multiple times.
So it was also very hard for Spirit to always be in the RAP season.
They had to be so aware of all the situations throughout the round because G2 was pushing for space
and it was very hard for Spirit to string things together.
Can you call it a punished pick if you're not as aware of the map intricacies as G2R?
Because I feel like G2 were all over the place, pushing short, pushing connector, A.
And I even saw some routes from G2 where they made aggressive pushes against the half-bys of Spirit.
And as a Spirit player, that has to get into your head that,
wow, they're even willing to make that incorrect play of pushing against Ecos and just fully smashing them on every single part of the map.
Like, if you're a spirit player, what are you thinking?
Yeah, but it definitely felt like that was their game plan and the go-to thing.
I guess when you go up against a team that has been playing so well,
also the way how the individuals really showed up at Anubis U,
you also gotta give them back, right?
You also need to not allow them that much space
because if they get the space, they will just take everything away from you.
It's also just a matter of showing some character and stepping up to the table
and saying, hey, I can also do this to you guys.
Like, I'm not gonna respect you that much.
Yeah, they did exactly what Saul was kind of alluding to in that
that pretty much interview with
shocks, right? They were the
one controlling the pace,
controlling the tempo of this
match. And I don't blame
Spirit necessarily for picking
this into G2 because G2 had
some dire results on this very
map. It's really good to see
them just turning it around with
a completely different look
this time. Well, I think it's
a bit misleading when you look
at the stats because I think
half of their losses are to
Furia, who we've been saying
is the best overpass team in
the world towards the end of
last year. But I still don't
mind the pick from Spirit,
right? They've had good results
themselves. This is just the
first time they pick it and
And also if they can make overpass, sort of a staple in their pool, I think that can go
a long way to giving them an advantage in some of these map vetoes against other contender
teams.
We've been scouting around why G2 looked so good on that CT side.
So let's dive into it.
You got a round for Yanko, what do we see?
Yeah, we're talking about Spirit struggling to win consecutive rounds.
So they won the first gun round, we're going into the reset round and I really like the
small, it's the details and the little things that G2 has, right?
So it's going to be just standard opening from the side of Spirit.
Some pious is towards the B bombsite though.
And he's going to miss this shot on Magix, kind of supposed to hit it.
But you will see what that will do to Donk, right?
Because Magix is coming up on B, he's like, oh, shh, I'm going to run out long and take
fights with the AK, right?
But that's exactly what Hunter is waiting for.
And he almost like times it exactly five seconds, you know, by the time the info gets to him
and someone reacts, that's when I'm going to peek out.
I've been punished by this so many times.
Right, and he gets caught a little bit off guard, so a 5v4 Hunter is immediately going to book it back towards the B bomb site.
So here you can see that the setup, it's four players from the side of G2 on this bomb site.
Like they're just waiting for this hit to come and actually, even with the extra bodies there, the hold isn't too strong.
They get traded out in monsters, some pious misses, another shot, but they don't expect Hunter to be this close.
You can see he gets two free kills, really, because Mobs is the A player, Hunter was on long.
So that really gives Mobs a chance to clutch this round.
Tanir almost gets away here, Mobs wins it in the end, and G2 wins that all-important reset round.
Just really showcases again how much information is important on OPAS.
Like, if you can have, like, of course that kind of plays into all the maps, right?
If you know where your opponent's heading, it's quite easy, right?
But OPAS is the map that allows you to go for these information plays, and specifically for what they did here.
You know just changing together make sure they work with me had to set a perfect and close top tonight
I would you write that round to jail give us your expert opinion
that's 10 out of 10 like to bait the op on B and
The only thing that would make it better if I'm there under that had an op and then reveal you have two ops
Then on the way towards like B you take an M4 and then you're in water
That would be the craziest round, but it still is there's so much details in this round and to a viewer at home
You probably don't even get to see them
So props to you for pointing them out.
Just saying, like, why is Donk running out long?
It's like, yeah, there's no hope.
I'm going to take a fight against anyone else.
Well, the success just kept on continuing for G2.
Dupri, you brought up round number eight.
What do we see here?
Round eight, again, is also a good showcase
of individual decisions making.
And this one is specifically on to heavy guard.
And we do see the spirit is trying to change things together
and figure out how they can actually manage to get the rounds going.
And they go for this very, like, very structured default,
trying to close out to see if the other player is going to be looking.
We usually see players heading back for Monastery, we have one guy sitting outside of B as well.
And then when Spirit Day actually decides to go this time and play, they do an A fake,
a smoke for CT Faker, which is unfortunate.
And then actually just also showcase on the rail that you can see that the player is being so close to the action on A
that they know this is a fake.
So have you got the sides to go hide inside the smoke because he knows that right now he needs to get a double kill.
And Spirit player thinking, hey, we just made like the most perfect fake ever since there's no one on the bomb side.
but he actually also gets a little bit lucky that Shaniro doesn't spot him.
But by having got making the decision,
having got making the decision of hiding in the smoke,
instead of trying to fight,
just really showcases that he actually puts a lot of effort and thought into his thought process.
I think it's just crazy because money is tapped out on G2 as well.
Like again, Spirit, a bit unfortunate here,
because if they win this round, they probably win two more off the back of it
and might have closed out the game 2-0,
but sometimes, you know, you need a little bit of luck on it.
Yeah, that's fair enough.
How would you kind of characterize that CT side then, all in all, from G2?
Very proactive, very confident. On the map they're not confident on.
You know what I feel like was the game plan for them on this map particularly?
Just play as it was like a facet game or like a practice.
You don't really care about the result, you just want to play the best CS,
you connect to each other and then you try to play for the win, or the best the way you can.
And this is what we saw from G2 on the CT side, I loved it.
I guess that's like one question, sorry, Janko, like I wanted to pose to you when we do have these seeding game situations.
How important is it for a team to actually go to the semis?
I mean, for us personally, we treated it as it is important, but if we have a map that we're not confident on, we will try to put it in the pool.
And yeah, that's the way we treated.
Oh, these games should be actually be super tricky for a player. I actually didn't like them too much.
I think it was hard to find that kind of excitement of this game.
Yeah, it's great that you can actually advance to go into the semis,
but at the same time, if you lose, sure you're still the player, you drop to the quarters.
And now also the fact that Spirit decided to pick Opus,
it's also these matches that are not as high-stake, but still matter,
that you can actually allow yourself to try out some things.
It actually also could be a case for Spirit that they wanted to show that their map pool is deeper than it maybe is
and also that they actually dare to pick overpass, so these matchups can be very tricky actually.
I think that's why it's great that Dust2 is the decider, you know?
Like, that's a map both teams actually play. We both try to pick something else, didn't work out.
Alright, let's go back to normal on Dust2 and see who actually will come out on top.
I mean, fun fact, talking about the semi-finals, whenever we played the tournament and got it
to the semi-finals from the groups, that was the tournaments we always lost. We went to the finals,
lost, yes. And then if you went to like the finals from quarterfinals, that's the tournaments
where we were the winners.
Yeah, that one I can relate to. I mean, it has happened multiple times. You go to the
semis, then you're playing in semifinals on stage and you haven't really played for a
couple of days because there's like a little bit of a long break. You face a really good
team coming from the quarterfinal, they're already acclimated to the whole setting, so
playing in the arena and then you get blown out. I remember talking about playing as Navi
back in 21 and I was like, we played, we were like eight routes and we just like blown
out the water, it's tough.
Just very quickly to put a bow on this. I think we'd be doing a bit of service if we didn't shout out melts and this one because he's
a subjective sometimes a little bit of criticism
I think it's fair to say with the whole idea of him coming into a place Nico's roles
Maybe not always living up. I mean, that's huge shoes to fill right but really putting in a pretty a shift on this over pause
Yeah, absolutely, especially on the CT side just like JL also pointed out the aggression the relentlessness from G2
they had couple of good reads meant to play for be meant to play for a and and really
prevented spirit from sort of taking map control, getting rounds to develop, and
just denying them space in this game.
It was good to see, you know, we all know how good he can be, so it was nice that he,
you know, I wouldn't say for once, stood up to the whole expectation, but more
from this and he's in really good shape.
What are we predicting for Dust 2 that we're back on a more, I guess, familiar
turf this time? Who are you going with, you know?
I think it's just stuff to go, you know, once Donk has a 0-7 game, that's like once a year,
or once a season that that's he that that happens and he particularly will be pretty pissed about that and he's going to come to dust 2 with a mission
I also think that dust 2 it just it plays into the hands of spirit in my opinion I think they they've looked super solid throughout the tournament on dust 2
it's a it's a place where a shiro can just be as passive as he kind of wants to be specifically on the A bomb so that's what's going to play into the hands and I don't think it's going to happen that we're going to see another fumble from dunk
The only way I see G2 winning the game is to actually taking the fight to Spirit, no matter it's T side, C side.
I just want them to actually ruin the game plan of Spirit because there's so experience on the map.
They have to close the game out on the turf that Spirit is not comfortable with, if you know what I mean.
Well, it's time to find out exactly how this one is going to be unfolding at all.
It all comes down to Dust2 to see if G2 or Spirit will be making it to the semi-finals of the Intel Extreme Masters crack-off 2026.
to go down after this break.
No big fight here in the road to the end of the road, someone will blow up it all!
You can do what you want.
Mario, go banana with them, it's 2-3.
Okay.
Mario, carry banana, pick up height and go anti-flash.
Cartway was also.
Obserching banana, 100% info.
They will clear the path and go banana.
Okay, let's fake and Akita, search and...
Yeah, I'll take silent.
Search, search already Niky.
Yeah, I'll search.
I don't mind, yeah they've slashed me.
Oh, banana, 100%.
I drop the flash, I drop the extra flash.
I pick banana, I pick banana.
One more, close.
One more guys, only one.
There wasn't B, there wasn't B.
I'm going close, get out guys, okay?
I'm burning default.
Two CT guys.
All three, all three, same people.
I'm playing default.
to fight of both. One more, are you coming? You can have one default, they're attacking
Mario, we can't attack him, yes. Two banks, one CT, one bank, one CT. Big bank out.
get him!
get him!
get him!
get him!
And my whole team was kidding me. Why is he bullying me?
There there my son. He heard a lot of flame in my time.
But nothing comes close to what that 34 year old man said about you.
Mr. Spock at yarn.
And for ESL to publish such foul toxicity.
I'm surprised in ESL.
I can't believe they do that to you man. That's fucked up.
His own profession. Magic said Kerg and Bodysheim.
He went to speak to face manager.
I'm just kid. It's misunderstood.
I'm just a chill and kind guy.
They're saying our... they're saying donkswide. It's all wrong.
Adjust your opponent, get scared and try height.
So innocent.
Can you even remember a donkwach?
No. No, I don't actually.
I'm afraid of the questions.
Do you remember what happened to Zontics on the Major?
I have to need two points, though.
Another Kerrigan victim.
You poor souls.
Go home, my son.
Confession is not needed.
Only rest after this ordeal, my son.
He can fly.
Ah, there's our young prodigy.
Donk is in the building, R.P. Donk is in...
Such a pleasant young overlooking.
Let's go!
They're a friendly band.
I like you, Thomas.
I like you, I like you too, Thomas.
Oh, he's possessed!
I think this is too short, that's what she said so...
I think that was a perfectly sized piece of spaghetti if you ask me Trace, but yeah,
No serious business coming into the third map. Actually being honest with all of you at home
Didn't think we'd need it. I'm very surprised. Yes. Get here considering the record for G2 on overpass
But if they fix those woes
Might be something they can use a bit of protection going into the playoffs. Yeah, look good doesn't have his headset on so
maybe not
Maybe not
No, it's okay. All right. There we go. I knew they were just faking me out there. I can still see freeze done ticket on down.
I want to get how they situated so he can hear what his team is saying, but we can paint the picture of dust too.
This is a map that has been strong for both of these teams in 2026. I say that as we've just started February.
Yeah, we've had that G2 who've taken down passion in stage one, the Mongols and foot all on dust too.
So three straight and for the newly pieced together complexion of the spirit roster the same to be said
Bounty they took down in a circle and here in Krakow. They've been Astralis and
Na'vi now the Astralis game got down close that was a 16 to 13 game
But the Na'vi was a 13 to 3 stompy
But what's positive winning records for both teams
So someone is gonna lose their small streak
But there is a rumor in Counter-Strike
little audible and he gets maybe bad info potentially.
Oh.
They've given up long control.
They are worried about a potential B and especially with the low, but Shiro's ahead of it.
So he's going to know this ain't real.
And he could very well have a couple of kills here once you've run past him in the smoke.
He's going to relay that information to the boys.
He's just one player.
Surely he can hear it's just one player.
Still gets away with one.
to be able to fire it before
Magix went down and now Taneir
is going to have to be turning to this long cross.
Quick tap to the face.
Heavy God put down ahead of the smoke grenade.
Hunter's ready for you.
He's going to have to be careful if he does get cleared.
Shiro just runs him down and now
bomb planted in the 2 on 4.
It's going to be hard for Mattis and
Sumpires to overcome the odds here but the P250
at range you've got an opportunity.
You've got to start hitting headshots though.
Sumpires gets caught with a headshot of his own.
Shiro and Taneir overwhelm
And in fact, it was all the shiro and teneir show.
All right, well, a heavy rotation to deal with the beef.
Fake and no issues on the retake.
The bomb does go down.
G2 will be able to buy in behind it with a relatively decent force.
And Malm's gets another rope now.
Good shot.
They played ahead of their U2.
I think likely what's happening there is they're screaming, right?
Oh, the four B, four B, four B.
Well, they rotated quite quickly, swiftly.
And because they tried to cross before the smoke was up, they lost a body.
So not doing it by the book G2 hoping to catch them off guard with pace
And then we'll cost them in the scheme of things but the bomb does go down the force by comes through
And aggression again donkeys running up it all again
Yeah, the claims can be doing an awful lot of this as he does just go swinging on in and
Don't have ended the round just just like that you force pop
have another go have an eco handed to them rapid just running up the guts of mid this
is a I thought this was like that's a pug call yeah but I love it this is where if apex
from the server he'd be young you go what was that an eco yesterday with the 3d max versus
vitality game but any plans you had come on rabble this is a donkish hero in your face
I mean the fact they get the fifth as well, there's two magazines unloaded and five G2
members.
Have you got Saw, Shiro, In-N-Outta-Lower?
They could find Mattis.
Oof, heavy damage inflicted.
Four Deagles, you're hoping to search, you know, find a kill or two.
This being a searchin'?
Donk is gonna keep searchin'.
I get those EECs now. You got to make up for the last map.
And to bring him really up to speed, Anubis, that was the Picker G2.
Sure, our Donk were huge on that map.
She's got a really, really tough go of things
trying to shrink consecutive rounds together.
Sure, I'm just going to farm them up here.
One more to find some pires around the corner.
News for deep clear, but it's going to head back for the rifle instead.
But found him.
I'll save you first for Shiro.
And overpass, if you just missed it, it was a really strong performance from GT on the CT side, led by Malbs.
Good rifling over towards A, finding a lot of opening kills.
I think Spirit kind of dug themselves into a hole when they were going for so many force buys behind the AWP and the AK they kept saving.
saving but still second half got close because of sozontics and shiro clutches and retakes.
Doc was involved in one of those two but this is a tactical timeout called by Saw.
I think what I would do in the early stages is remind them how map one went, the contrast of
the team chat you have between map one and two and that you're hoping that they continue to bring
that now into map three. Yeah put the four mouses in on overpass into a bottle.
That's just they've come out swinging haven't they spirit they've decided we are just going
gonna take these jewels and you don't want to let that scare you right you need
to be able to think you can go toe-to-toe with these guys
so sure with his orp some pious equips his
to start aggressive short.
Supplies spots two on the cross.
And shiro wants to break the
flag straight to the leg shot.
Some past doesn't make the same
mistake, but at least ten is able
to put him down. Surprise. The
one has been missing the shots,
isn't it? But this time does
kind of shiro. So there's that
Character development. We love it.
They've precipitated the mid-space now. They weren't hanging around in case there was a response to try and scuttle it and take that space.
Also, this is one of the maps where Donk is clip farming with AWP multiple tournaments.
We've seen him look very good with this sniper rifle, secondary capacity and the absence of Shiro. He will be gifted it.
I'm trying to play to punish on the cross.
Now it's the one that's tasked with getting the bomb across, if it is going to be that
short finish.
Is it just going to be setting up for space taking?
It'll be the B play, right?
I think you just want to at least apply a little bit of pressure with Hunter's presence,
and then juggling the U2 across to Hunter so he can throw out mid to B.
Down goes Hunter.
That's the mid-lock gone.
Sontics is trying to play for his life. Oh gets caught transitioning off of the window roost
Don't forward position as well. Tux in ready to adjust doesn't hit the necessary shot the movement from G2 too hard to track
should be round I
Think we should see that's near and magic saving this one
If magics can find himself yep, he has so he's taking the some pipes at a view P and suicide
So that's great for sure going to the next we also have a lot of cash with how clean they dealt with those first three
I'm curious there if
Zontis was reposing because he was scared of the B play or if when they kill the mid to B
They think it's gonna be something else because you don't often see him get caught like that
So here's the tag just through the corner of the wall there and
some pyre steadies the aim for
the open up
And that's it. Yeah, Zontis just looks completely out of position. So maybe they were gonna change the setup
Maybe he was coming to come out help play for the mid to B, but
step we'll get you two on the board with their first so plenty of money for that
spirit bite. Supires will get the AWP and both teams fully strapped again so
this is what you want to see. Well these weaker scenarios. Supires throwing out
long corner smite that's gonna apply pressure towards this air defense early
the other gonna boost him up. He's just gonna pick.
Now head in second man crosses.
Magics is ahead of the long corner smoke so knows the long is clear but they're
gonna try to very, very quickly down middle. This could just be a punish.
Walk out mid to be in split.
Okay, well you're gonna have a five on two.
Unless T'Nir can find something to contribute, the double smoke might stop the smoke break.
It does.
Donk caught jumping up. Nice from Hunter. Just some six here. He's doing his best.
finds two of them tough decision to be made by spirit or is it are you just
gonna guarantee to save this well if some pious gives something over by peaking
a little bit too aggressively then they might want to give it a look I think
who's good if you hit the flick that's hanging around
how you give it a go now you're feeling a bit silly on you
Molly smoke towards the door you're still feeling like the T side has got a bit
of an edge here, as long as Malm's in heavy, God can do something.
Smoke's going to limit him, forces him forward.
There's not much time left for them to give this a go.
I don't have a kid either.
Just running on into their demise.
It's all too easy for the two of them.
OK, well, a little bit overzealous.
So, Sampai is actually baiting him in with his death.
Yeah, still part of the plan.
They're going to take less in the next round than they should have.
And I think the reason that you probably
should have been leaning towards the save
is because that happened so quickly,
and you saw there the extra U-Till to sway the doors and the window plate.
So at that moment, it must have known that there was so much U-Till left,
but still opted to give it a go.
So I can't imagine Halley's too happy with that.
What I love about that for G2 and just for the counter-strike side of things
is the fact that you had the lurksmoke thrown and a quick, nice outside of BCT smoke thrown.
You can condition, like, you're going to be on high alert now.
When that lurksmoke drops, you're going to be perhaps more inclined to rotate
or inclined to dunk your U-Till early.
It's gonna force Spirit to acknowledge that that is a possibility that it could just be a 5 on 2 if you're, uh...
Scared about this split.
Timing as well.
It happened so quick, right? It's an immediate spawn call mid to B, so...
Yeah, right.
Pages, right?
Right shot from T'Nia.
Obviously, information relayed by Shiro, but...
Yeah, shouldn't have gone that close. That boost seems a little bit extra.
This time we're gonna go see some action on Long.
Same gap though if you look at the minimap, right?
But if they wanted to continue to try and pressure Shaw at middle straight away,
Shirou hasn't been selling it with the AWP.
Oh, nice for Mattis.
Magix was unprepared for someone to have already got out towards the blue bin
and now he can play forward.
The smoke gives him cover.
Teniz looking for him, but the sound cue's heard and Mattis...
He's got a good shot at this!
Double kill for Mattis!
That is beautiful!
Shirou shuts him down.
It was gaps available, but I don't mind the call now just to hit pause and regroup heavy
God has the regress and he just perfectly places the cross that shiro happily walks on into
his demise.
This is looking to be three straight rounds and three against the gun.
So this is heavy lifting being done right now by G2.
I think donkins on takes a result of themselves to losing this round by sitting on that B
bomb site. Still will see G2 go through the motions. It's not from the coach there. They're
pushing out mid. Look if this map is becoming a mental battle, don't let them get to your
heads. Okay, so that is the right sentiment to have, right? This is a team who can hear
how they don't have superstar name value in the G2 squad, but their pieces are very good,
right? Heavy God, I think he's great for his roles. And Joe was talking about him on the desk saying, in those positions, it breaks the
matter, right? And so, you know, the decision tree, heavy God being creative, and working out solutions to problems that maybe others
wouldn't. I think Mattis is a really good team piece, right? Because he's happy to go aggressive. He knows when he should and
shouldn't play by your rules.
Yeah, some pious he gets he gets a lot of shade thrown his way and when he's missing all shots
It's very easy to do so but him and Hunter they're throwing so many of the nades to establish these rounds and when he needs to he can have impact
It just I think people would like it to be more consistent
I think if some pious could find a little more impact on the AWP and be more of a presence on the all
I think that would create more of a fear factor for G2
There's an argument to be made that you know
It was required of him to do more of the heavy lifting and his, you know,
more lifestyle riders days like this.
He didn't have a team with the muscle that G2 does.
Yeah, but he was exciting at end.
And I think that was because of the style that was calling.
They were always in chaos.
And Sampias was, you know, one of those guys when it came down to some combat
hoping it was great, didn't always have to be throwing the nades either.
So different responsibilities.
But this is what team counter strikes about.
And I think everybody on G2 is playing for the team.
Right, Saw has done a good job of building that culture and getting everyone on the same page of what he considers team Counter-Strike.
But those Sibs come in again, a buy again, so will it be another round straight for G2 against a fully fledged Rifled Spirit?
It's quick. Don, are you ready for this? The whole team's coming your way, and Zontecs does deliver.
Removing heavy-guard Nasi, needed a second and delivers it, sometimes misses the opportunity, and there's more coming their way.
Wow, they just hit a brick wall, don't they?
This time, Zontics and Donk good for two each.
That is trouble for Donk there, if Zontics isn't playing car.
Ready for that snatch because Donk, when he catches the info, they're already starting to leak out tunnels.
To Malbs, not completely boxed in for now, but because he has stayed in tunnels, will be.
You will see to near head all the way around T spawn just to make sure that there's no way out.
Jiro's AWP trained on lower as Malibs does take down Donk.
Think if you can do that to Donk you can start to frustrate him.
That's definitely a frustrating death.
Kind of want to punch.
Okay, so they break the streak, do spirit.
Where are the problems in this V2 Vi, where it's all good in the hood with the finances?
second time I've called. Fly my way over to spawn and see what guns are on the ground
and how it's all starting to take shape. So yeah, there are going to be some problems
and that's likely why Source taken this time out just to make sure they work out exactly
what they need. So there's actually 30 seconds before the funds are gone is important.
I'm sure I was supposed to spirit match a dust two. Okay. Well, shouldn't have read that
one. So we'll be a tech nine for matters. Everyone else has the AKs all for sympias.
What are you looking at? Yeah, what are you? What's he looking at? He's trying to like
If you can ascertain any info from the other side, I don't know.
Double awp-ing.
They were actually going to try and punish over the missed, quote-unquote, missed mid-door smoke.
So like a game plan or first play. I like the ideas behind G2's play.
I'm hoping an AWPer thought he had an opportunity.
Are they going to use the molly to flush Taneer out?
Okay, yeah.
It's just a flash, so no molly.
He's here in the steps, they're up short.
Perfect position.
Yeah, as long as Matt deals with the lurk, which he is doing,
everything will be fine.
He obviously has to worry about upper-tons push at the same time.
Now that they've got the staging area short, it's about waiting out the CTU till
until you think you have enough to execute this.
Some pirates jumping across it as well just to try and give them a line.
Okay, Shiro is parked up towards CT trying to snatch a frag.
Are they going to drop mobs into CT and try mid to B-split?
Yeah, he's dropping.
Breaks his legs to the ears here and doesn't get anything thanks to the heavy gun flare.
Donk's AWP does find that response and there's two orbs now visible. They're trying to apply pressure towards B
I say that's they actually turn tail. They're running straight into magics
He's gonna catch him on the jump up at least confirms. They're trying to pivot
It's a way if you want to swing you got to swing into the shiro warp
Sheerah has to get that first shot for the magics will second time's the charm
solid
Sampias needs to get out of there might get run down and lose the AWP firing away back and off and he should be all good
He can get out of here. So Sampias will save the all but it has to be a light buy behind it now
2400 going into the following. So likely just gonna be this AWP
I think as well
They're expecting magics to likely be anchoring long. So the fact is sure like that their reason of going back is okay
Well, if we know that the AWP is playing ramp, maybe that's our pivot point, but Magic's playing close short means
He's also there on the site to help out Shiro and that signal comes a little bit earlier than what Jitsu would have been expecting
So this is really all eyes on some pious right now
If they don't give him anything, it's so tough radio. Oh, yeah, he can go peak mid or can
waltz up short. They're going to have to play through this smoke and boost over is even
better. So he's called it clear. But these are not fun fights, right? Maybe you run boost
the glock but even still.
Shiro is going to have the shot
baited by the jumping glock.
Dumping is utile but he is to get swung upon
and with this shot he's bombed out. Mattis has
managed to not only take down the AWPer
that's going to put another weapon retrievable.
Sampai is supposed to fight the pit player I think.
Yeah not a bad call. Oh CT instead.
doesn't fight a bullet yet.
Magic's taking his time.
Let's Teneir make that first move through the smoke
that gives him a bit more room on the way.
Good fight from Teneir.
The AWP has done nothing.
The Glocks, however, are quite threatening.
Heavy God fighting another one.
Heavy God's gonna be dead in a second
and Spirit Will managed to get that defuse threatening
considering the amount of Glocks
and disappointing if you're the saved AWP
that does nothing.
That's one of those rounds where you would love some pies to hit a shot and I'm not saying it was going to be easy at all
But if he does hit a shot there considering the output they got from the glocks that becomes a likely round in an unlikely circumstance
She was POV it was an important rundown from Mattis. He did not slow down release W and you managed to bring down the sniper
Oh, a USP at range. Hopping those heads like cherry tomatoes.
So because St. Pie saved the AWP in that previous round, he's lost bonus. He's come through,
but he hasn't had the extra cash. So he's just going to be operating with the T9 and
saw calling three of three tactical timeouts in the first half within nine rounds of play.
So he needs this half salvaged before they swap sides. It's still going to be the double
orbs equipped for spirit. He's very curious to me. Most players don't even care what's
going on in this light.
They pretend the other thing, right? Yeah. Just wants to see what's happening. Is this
another one of those G2 cores off the rib? Because I absolutely loved that fast B. I'm
not going to see that.
You don't like the orb for the fear factor, right? So...
Well, that's an alternative approach to the boost.
You'd have an angle even if it was the hinge smoke.
Like that.
Oh, but it's flash!
Should've hit something flashy!
Three for one!
Maybe round done.
Cool. That's cool. That's Counter Strike.
It's also not the pre-ame, right?
You know, team's are very aware of this.
Oh, he's rotated it perfectly.
okay at least the flash connects he is always made a sound cue so he's gonna get
swung on
and let him go away
oh tracks and somehow not dead to even had a chance for more
shiro three kills deep
zontics bomb site he's got the perfect elevation catches that headshot angle onto
heavy guard now delaying as long as he can
Mattis knows the cavalry are charging over manages to isolate zontics for the
What? Oh! Mattis! That is ridiculous!
Making something out of nothing and now pulling it into a 1v1.
Spirit collapse at the hands of the Mattis, AK.
Mattis can make it all go away.
Right, well, come to time. Back to pick up that bomb.
I don't think he's got time to go around the world.
Mattis is here.
Yeah, I wasn't prepared for that.
Wow.
Strong case being made for an insane clutch from Mattis.
Good to see him put his...
Trying to steal the spotlight off the Shiro show.
Yeah, right, but putting his individual prowess on display right there.
That's just some of what this kid has in store.
Here we go. Perfect.
We get to see it from his POV.
Ah, that shows it so much better than in-game possibly.
Look at the difference.
Yeah.
His screen completely white.
That's obviously so we can maintain some visual, but for Shiro, OK, OK.
It is the Shiro show, 16 and 4.
He's been good over all three maps.
Yes.
Shiro has been, actually, Shiro has been great over all three maps.
Feasting on G2 now is just two more rounds available.
Just exemplary warping, isn't it?
He's got that full package.
They're all swarming him.
Yeah, which is supposed to be scary, but to the form he's in.
Find myself worried about G2.
They're just going to take full-A execute.
Alright. They managed to break in with the Glocks. I mean...
Yeah.
I feel like Magix's Flash or Palm Flash is going to be very weird response.
Yep. Could be Flash, could be susceptible, turns it, loses vision, there's a nice one again.
Matt is with openings. And nearly the close in the previous.
She wrote hits the shot necessary despite some damage going his way and the supportive flashes don't stop heavy god from finding to near
Just fall back or pink
Beautiful to watch isn't it I feel a little bit bad there for magics
I'm not sure if it was intentionally the CT spawn smoke or they missed that was meant to land on elevator
But his response to that right
He's meant to come out and be shrouded by both of those smokes
And then they have that runway channel behind and he just pumps them
But in this scenario only the first one was there there was one down it may have been intentional towards that
It very very well could be and then he doesn't have the same cover that he was expecting
With the traditional set piece but fun around first half map 3 winner goes to the semis
The bias is just going to take a pot shot
And donkers brought his to try and disrupt their crawl
18 and 4 yeah
Fight the KD. Oh donk. You're in trouble
Yeah, yeah, you ain't gettin' anywhere. They know where you are, Nade, Throne, Molotov, Tennis.
He's in trouble, but Shiro is still alive, so maybe all hope is lost?
Despite G2 having that man advantage.
Yeah, it's good when the guy's name rhymes with hero.
It certainly is.
He just keeps moving. Shiro's feeling the flow of the game right now.
You can't say life game because life series. It's a life series. It's map after map after
map. I'm just trying to call them into this. He really, this is, this is out of the ball.
He said he's going to demand. Yes. And if he kills heavy God, they go peaks away just
as he rounds the corner. And that would be counter strike. That would be the game he's
having. Have you got has to help them now? Yeah. Oh. Oh, nothing's gets one. I might
slow you down enough for Shiro's flank to connect. What's he got? An easy first. Surely
dead. Thank you, heavy God. All right, Zontics in the one V2 for a nine three half.
Yeah, a lot of ground to cover.
Yeah, no smoke though.
Very noisy, they know exactly where he is.
What can you do, Zontics?
Looking great though G2 could stabilize for their fourth looking increasingly likely.
He crouch walks his way looking for some pyres, his head in spots, just a flash of him does
hit the first headshot.
Oh my God, he's threatening.
He's looking like he could take him both on.
Not gonna happen.
G2-4, Spirit 8.
This battle for those semi-finals.
And Shiro really wants to skip that Friday.
I
we have a fighting chance it's just important to stay in the game like there wasn't a single
around where we don't understand what's happening.
Yeah.
Back in business for the final half of this head-to-head between G2 and Spirit.
We get to hear a little listening, a little tidbit from G2's half-time chat.
And yeah, they definitely were tracking Team Spirit,
but there definitely seems to be some fragging from the Team Spirit camp.
In fact, Shiro having a live series, incredible, impeccable from their sniper.
Malbs has been spotted on the corner. Ooh, and he's managed to hit a banger.
Taps out Donk and he gets away with his life.
I really enjoy what I'm seeing from Malbs, but they're quick on this.
Okay.
Advancing up the ramp, Malbs needs another one of those and struggling.
Some pirates isn't. Just taps them away. Okay.
Dream start for your pistol. Not a single casualty.
That's going to start you off with the right foot forward.
Yeah, and so no one they can get back in especially with around like that. No plant no chance for a threatening force by you can't get a donken a K
So that one is nice and it what I'm liking the most that amazes the confidence to take these fights
Right, he's flushed in sure and the clear is perfect the facts and pass gets to it had a pretty quiet first half
Still feeling the fire G2
Oh, that's pretty good.
There we go.
Nice job, nice job.
You said the flash was bad, I thought.
The mouse peaked off to the flash.
Oh, you just got cooked.
Yeah, you did.
That's me.
I think you just honed ya, actually.
Shira had seven multi-kills in that first half.
Yeah, just a standard half.
stand at half of them.
Well, that was in a prime position to fire up a few more.
Sampias wants to get his fair share.
By one they come, and as a cluster they fall.
Just on.
And he got a kill, so Sampias goes down.
of the lives on and gets himself a nice 4k. Maybe Sampias is happy to die now he can buy his alt.
So now there's no question I have to get the alt now. The 2024 champ spirit
come up against G2 who essentially have rebuilt the entire project.
Last six months London was the highlight but I've enjoyed the ideas that I've seen coming
out of this camp. It looks like they're probably on the right path. Now it's just about finding
some consistency, some pliers trying aggression.
I'm not sure it doesn't get restricted by lower tunnels.
He's committed, Alex. Very committed.
You're a concern, isn't it?
He's just hanging around.
He will play for this fight.
How's Hunter meant to help him, for sure?
No, sure. Yeah, I mean, hoping that the...
Lower players don't progress. It looks like he's going to go further forward.
He is absolutely gagging for a fight.
The back cat players gonna molly lower mid or smokes fader. They're gonna have to replenish they are
You see that as a way to exit okay, so you're trying to be jarring to make sure they can't get enough control for free
But you've actually burnt 50 seconds off the clock where they were statues, so that's not bad either
Sure, it's not a kill
But now they're gonna be pressed for time
Don'ts ahead of that mid-block.
Alms is also just pushed into long doors and they've taken up the tunnels.
So they know it's either mid to be or short.
100% and mobs keeps on pushing.
Yeah, this is nice, that's what you want to see.
Walks about perfectly timed.
Yeah, he's been given another one.
No H.E.D.B. they have to go.
Here they come.
Nails the first, to near.
Just the second as well.
Quick flick of the wrist onto magics.
Looking like nothing can get past the some pirates up on the ramp side
Moms on the flank even onto shiro perfect round out of count of counter strike out of g2 and that is great
That is a very nice round indeed so nice one kill so far. Yeah, it's been a very numbers with donk of the glock
He side. Oh, yeah, nothing's going for him right now spirit
Taked time out call remember saw used all three in the first half
It's Halley with two now one remaining and this is really good for some parts
This is some of the best AWP we've seen from all series long.
More of that, please.
Big cheer from the other end of the land hall.
Go and check out the result between Mastras and Furia.
So those 30 seconds have transpired.
They're going to partial.
As you mentioned, they haven't been making any headway in the frag department
or getting the bomb down.
That's something I'm sure Hallie would love to change.
And get Shiro's AWP out.
Let's get him back with the weapon of choice.
I'll do a smoke there for Magix.
Just love two smokes to work with, so plenty of options as some pice.
There's an extra HE for the brakes.
I'll respect that.
And here we go again.
That's not actually peeking for the cat fight, they're crawling up undetected.
Yeah, it could be a bit of a jump scare for Hunter, if I think that...
What's further back than that? That's a big death!
He's gonna be screaming.
Some pirates trying to get his way over there and a mid-shot from Mab's could be costly, he's been brought low.
Some pirates have managed to finish him off with the dunk, nice double spray.
Mab's gets his gun out just in time.
Sure, late long.
Yeah, late long with a P250, not really a fair fight versus the sniper rifle.
Magic's just the one that's important important frags from Mattis Famas
G2, okay a couple more kills for spirits sure
But they've managed to tie this game up dead even 8a. I couldn't get the bomb down there either
So slightly more threatening but
So it'll be tough going forward loss winners maxed out this you love the confidence don't you you get a nasty bullet to the face down
To 20 HP it would be easy to play scared in that scenario. You seem out just go swanging
get himself the impactful double necessary.
They do get that shiro all about now and just going to smoke off suicide again.
It's the second time they've run this.
I know you were talking about pug moves before when we saw spirit running up middle.
Yeah.
You know, smoking suicide, mulling back cat.
That's what you do in like a 32 player casual server because you know they're all moves, right?
So this is really part of the game plan, trying to eliminate shiro's access through suicide.
Ready to block shore, they're happy to concede this space.
Our place nade.
Magic stomachs the majority of it.
Donk as well.
Is this a ghost?
The flash and go?
Some pipes?
Perfect position, but it hasn't hit the first bullet.
Hunters in a prime position to do something.
The second time, the charm connecting onto magic.
Sontik's trying to profit off of all this distraction.
And we'll land a back stab onto Heavy God.
Can they really go back?
I don't think so.
Too many fights here.
Taneer catches Malb's.
It's Hunter on the ramp supported by that Sumpias orb.
How do you just need to live?
Dropping CT.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Mattis, here's this.
How Shirakort Hunter understandably baffled Mattis
back to a position some pious looking for them. They spot them. They're trapped boxed in shiro to clutch
20 seconds die and straights bomb is down ct trying to find and track him some pious
actually pull the trigger. What a crazy 10 of events that round was. The fact that I've seen them
dropping to ct spawn because they think that's the way out. That's the way forward. Then they get
the shiro kill. They go back to war day and don't just looking down at the desk. There's half right
Now it is flat not a single plant five straight rounds two rounds in a row where it's short
They're able to pick up three frags, but this one just stalls out the CT drop. That is crazy
And then poor shiro who's been having a great series gets caught in a timing in with another partial supplies aggressive against a loba
This is risky. It's so risky. Whoa headshot sanded out by don't dig
dirty that's one way for them to get back into the game isn't it there's an
orp don't add it to shiro and another gun on count that they can try and pick up
dongs fed up then if you're gonna give him a chance he's gonna take it
regressed on short Madison mobs yeah shiro is holding with that all you won't
crouch at your own peril but he's nailed it Mattis with precision his aim on
display once more it's it's impressive to see just taking a head-to-head duel
with Shiro on an informed sniper.
Is he in another queue? I can't believe he got it again.
Yeah, that might become as a surprise to Magix.
Now confirms it gets away with the info.
Docs off, could sweep through. What a shot!
Matt is doing everything he needs to and then some.
Awkward for Mouths and Awkward for Fyte.
They could come down to the 1v1.
Zontics equipped with a sniper rifle.
How often do you see that in his hands?
Get a rifle if he mounts us up short.
Can you show something a little bit more comfortable to work with?
Yeah, he's got the technique now as well. I think just because the amount of fights that G2 have been giving
All right, they're giving him a taste of their own medicine. So at the moment Sontiq's wary of the continued push
He has a lot of nades to work with
He's gonna get an open runway guaranteeing the short flank can't come in quick and with the orb still gonna plant for short
Have you got could be anywhere
Sontics dropped. And the heavy god piling is it long or short? Short side?
I don't think you're expecting this of your heavy god. At most ramp or long.
It's very unorthodox.
Sontics will have to play up the elevator box for the final frag.
He's hoping that he'll see the short plant and assume goose.
Yeah, ramp or goose, that's it.
fake
Sontics calls the bluff
Heavy God has no idea he won't be able to believe this
And now he just has the angle heavy God don't have the time don't have the time Sontics has played you
beautiful
Solid close one hell of a parole on Dusty we've got here
It's the most out-of-the-box clutch where it felt like you had extremely limited potential to try and win the round if he just
Refuse I guess not he's thinking well, I have the all at least you know gets that for free, but
Ah, but also how often in 1v1 is someone sticking that first time?
He's just calculated, gamble, unorthodox for short.
And all of that for naught, for Mattis.
Now, this is going to be one that they feel they've given away their G2.
Yes, so, once some pyres goes down, if he gets traded, no harm, no foul,
but the fact that they lose two in that exchange, door now open.
Yeah, you do feel silly when dong just hits those two
and suddenly a team of thrusts into such a forced fight. Last chance for Halley.
Yes, so both coaches have expended all tactical timers. We'll not see them again until we get
to overtime and that's if we need to get there. Money on the line for G2.
Same can't really be said for spirit. They have 2900s to loss bonus into the neck,
so if they do get the bomb down, it will put them in by territory.
G2 have brought out double arms. One on heavy god, one on sympias.
But if we reflect on how we got here, they had to give them those fights.
So G2 are just operating with a little bit more of a standard round.
Big exception being heavy god equipped with a sniper.
Yeah, makes them less U2 dependent.
Their biggest concern would be a lurk smoke on B.
Doesn't look like that's going to be deployed.
Xontix is the one dealing with the tunnels pushing. Doesn't have a smoke, so...
It's going through the motions.
No contact and we're now at the minute mark.
Turtled up on BRG2 and looking to return late through long, will be spirit.
Must hit shot for the sniper.
Some bias. Ready?
Swinging. Lovely. Receives to near.
Break of the smoke. Gives an attack with donkeys. Quick on the draw.
Quick scope double.
room for more as well anticipating the potential for another body magic's just
gonna borrow into the pit so what now I think it's so yeah I'm pretty sure safe
you two aren't gonna be able to find anything so yes sometimes you win
Sometimes you lose this time. He has done a lot of winning just a two round or other to kill shut down on the long side
I think he's gotten 12 kills in the second half already. Yo, so
He had a slow go. I think it was two kills in the first half him and hunter very quiet
I'm still very quiet, but some pious is going on a bit of a tear right now. It's roughly 12 kills in the second half
So he's being a difference maker like shiro was
and you can see turns both the flashes the name comes in there is team play on
display to help set him up for this one and that's on the dog so he's been
removed they do save the AWP and the two AKs
oh no that's not a shot catches heavy flag just unloads his mag through the
doors
so on six quick progressions lower hunters already deployed a block smoke
It's quite shallow on short.
I feel like they have to take some risks right now on this T-side because it's very one-dimensional.
They're just going slow using the U2 and taking the short control.
Right.
They haven't really forced any issues.
And obviously we know long spawns is necessary to be able to take some pace.
But no B-Pops yet.
Nothing really to report in terms of interest of the rounds.
Mr. Molly, that hasn't landed as intended.
It's meant to land up at that box, force back the Fifi line, that nades good.
Four members catching flak of Team Spirit.
Just bludgeoned by Yuto at this point, Sparsky to sweep back in.
One more time, this time.
Looking good for the one and duck.
Yep, nails it, onto Shiro no less, dips away, they accelerate, Taneer's dropped.
Starting to accelerate, but there's some bias hitting every shot.
The PT side, the Orbs Paradise,
some pious demonstrates.
Nice dunk from Mattis as well.
They are just bleeding out.
Look at their health.
He's by peace.
These grenades have just torn Team Spirit apart.
And I'll give him a dunk a chance.
The pious has gone back to long corner,
waiting for Mattis and have he got to pair up.
And peek at your own peril.
Massive from G2, some pious.
He's going to have to get his flowers for his performance
here in the second half.
I don't want to get too far ahead of myself here, right?
The second game we have, which is for semis or quarters, is Vitality vs Aurora.
Now, I think most people would be backing Vitality in just based on the status of that team.
If you're a spirit, and what ends up happening is you lose this game,
you're going to drop onto the same side of the bracket as Vitality.
Assuming Vitality beat Aurora, right?
That might not have been Aurora being in fine form, but
I guess those ramifications aren't known right now, so we'll leave them to later in the piece,
but this T side leaves a lot to be desired.
They have one round, it came from a dunk, double dig, and then an out-of-the-box,
quite kooky clutch to be all considered by Zontics against Heavy God.
Lost bonus maxed out. Rifle's in again.
But G2, they are just two rounds away from the semifinals.
Could be one hand of a starter there, yeah, wouldn't it? And it wouldn't be done.
Just yet, near again, this time, chipped away at down to 85, the nades from G2 have just been so sound.
An usual angle adopted by some part. It's somewhat of a committed angle, isn't it?
Yeah, and he's sticking in for this. He's got support.
So he pulls the trigger and then...
Oh, this is his shot! Hunter goes down, he does too!
Nearly had the follow-up, but there it is! Malb's good.
Jumping up, quick to it. He's ready for the swing of Shiro.
Far too easy for him, the bombs delivered to his front door and there's another on the other side of that smoke.
Tineer coming along.
He hasn't been hurt, he hasn't been hurt.
Oh, you're right. You could have a jump on them.
He does. Oh, needed to hit. That does stabilise the burst, confirms Malp still there, present.
Zontik's on the other side of the smoke.
No, heavy god's the bee holder. You're waiting for his reaction right now while this smoke is up.
Yeah, it's coming.
Zontik remains hidden in sight.
On the phase, coming swinging on through, Tineer combines, and now heavy god's in the clutch.
They might have a look at the timing is perfect. Have you got a golden opportunity to smoke in his way?
I heard it.
Zontick's hurt the gun. He now knows exactly what's up. Hits him with the smoke and will spam him down.
Just a little more. Zontick secures spirit. Pick himself up and equalizer.
Okay. 11 to 10 now.
One more round and it's all tied up and it should be...
I mean, not easy to replicate, right? You can't be calling, let's do that again.
This is it. It's another round where the fight is almost offered up to them.
Obviously, this is a little bit more condensed in terms of the fight being in the short corner.
So, Pius does so well to still get one. I cannot believe it.
And then he gets the pivot back in time.
And not only does he swap to the gun, also the smoke comes in and hits him, and then Zontics won't take him down again.
Money truly in trouble for Jitsu now.
They lose this, but tied up, and Spirit can take this in regulation.
And it is a B test.
Heavy God, tight to the power position, matters a bit late on the flames.
Still have you got struggling controlling the spray for one Mattis needs output
He knows he's got to struggling with the spray brought down to his knees by zontics on the entry
It's hunter the first man on the scene got a respect the utile
Bleak
Going for the boost hoping some past can catch someone on the big box. So actually gonna use the rifle instead
Hunter hasn't got anything to report
It's on. It's has a safe haven tucked on the box itself hold on to these. Don't lose everything here. I think you might be on to something. Yes, and passes ready backing away.
Magic's got the back step up to mouths. You won't be bringing the MP9 through, but Hunter might not be bringing his M4 through. Just a messy spray from Shiro does mean he will.
It's still going to be tough right now. Magic is here to cut him off as he exits through mid doors. Okay, so CT is the only option. Oh, slipped off the window.
I might buy in the good graces.
Magic's his hunt cut short.
Wouldn't mind them running that again, right?
Now the money is in the mud.
We have the saved AWP, Hunter with 2.2.
Fortunately with the kill bonus
that's been injected last second,
some players can drop at M4.
Remember, neither coach has a timeout.
You're just sitting here right now,
letting your players play.
And it looks good because it segregates them on the way out.
Takes a while for the extinguish.
So if Zontics goes down, that's probably round,
but he's able to stay alive
even find the second. So under a lot of pressure on beat. They drop an M4, they can get out
what, two M4s with one being saved and a FAMAS. Come on a spoken flash is. Mab says
not clear. So I think the G2 have been doing well up to this point is a lot of the softening
with the U2 and that is going to be lighter in an album like this, right? So you save
One in four bringing the all the dropping in for from some pious you get a famous in an MP9 it looks serviceable
But now the pressure it's come up to a whole different notch
Some pious looking destined to hit this one on the donk switch just nails it and gets away from to near chasing him down
swing out from Mattis a
A warning shot.
Fired off. They back away. G2 have managed to repel the initial test from Spirit.
It's a minute on the clock and they just have one smoke on Heavy God.
I heard a re-smoke B at a moment's notice, but that one's not going to hit the mark, is it?
They still want to walk out for the mid-to-B or do they want to group up with Tenir on short?
Smokes and we know some pious has been hitting everything under the Sun right now
He's got 20 kills. He's already tracked down sure how did an amazing first? I think sure has one kill in this second up
And some pious
Out with one more to me takes him down with empty hands this time
Hunters hearing all of this
He's gone overlooked as he advances further from the elevator setup with a he and a look towards the ramp
Just got a kit. Oh, you can chase down magics. Yeah, all panicked. Now see still does manage to remove what he's got a lot more to do
Can't handle it. Shiro secures it
Team spirit as you said have the chance to do it in regulation and it's so bleak for G2
The loss bonus right because they're winning all these rounds on the way back up. It's so tough
The money is in the bin. It's a financial game at the end of the day
And Tenea is the man who comes in clutch with that shot there onto some pious
There's the opener onto dog. It's this one. This is the round winning frag
That is massive under pressure from Tanea and now due to they scrapped together this
by they were so close to booking them a spot in the semis frustrations from Hunter who's
having a terrible map. He's been a carry for them throughout earlier matches in this tournament.
He's trying to make a play straight into lower. They're going to crunch up a tunnels.
It's on to explain it passively they're ready to fight on middle as well.
It's some pie of perfect rain 57 he's nailed the headshot necessary there's until important
shipping trying to run for the hills trying to get out of there don't controls the spray
Lovely work falling apart G2 trying to hold on the buff. Yeah, but only one heavy god can save them
Bomb spotted lower, how does he react spirit just need to win this one V2 and it is game
semi-final secured hard work
Feels like the only option is to let them have the bomb eventually hope that they take sweet time
Yeah, but even if they grab it at that point, you're still gonna have to head through tunnels to get a better gun
You're not winning a retake on the A side with an MP9
So hoping that they pick this up and finish B that's gonna be his best bet in this current outlay of the situation
Is he now 28 seconds, it's love the bomb and now they're away
Hey, how are you meant to win this out, mate?
It just got so much harder.
I guess you can jump up short.
There might be a gun scuttled around there.
You know exactly what's happening now.
They're restricting your movements.
Molly smokes.
Bomb will go down.
And he's just going to go through CT with the MP9.
It looks so good for spirit.
This looks impossible for heavy god.
The one thing he's got is the element of surprise,
and that smoke can actually lend to his angle of approach.
As the smokes fade, he tucks on Goose and Doc's not looking.
Doc's not looking, finds the first in the clutch.
He reads it!
No!
Oh, Heavy God!
That is impressive!
That is outrageous!
Team Spirit, they thought he was theirs right up until it wasn't!
Ah, they're scampering into the side.
They're throwing the mollies.
They've dropped two defensive smokes,
and he's used them to perfection.
Heavy God has just pulled off a miracle to push us into overtime!
A miracle is the perfect word for it!
He tugs goose, don't get so jump scare, he knows Gandalf, he's locked in like a laser!
They must feel like a victory in itself.
That's a one in a hundred clocks, that is out of this world.
Alright OT, we go again.
No time to stop, no time to take your breath.
Money's not the problem for G2 anymore, 12 and a half K, spring to life.
Look at this, surging straight down middle, Donk.
Yeah, he wants the fight and he's happy to apply, Hunter.
Six frags in 24 rounds of play,
but here in the 20-50, finds an opening onto Donk.
Yeah, Donk letting his frustrations get the better of him there,
just thinking, I'll make the move that wins the rounds.
And you get yourself four, the next set of play and starting off with another opening
death starting to become a recurring theme for Dom.
Calculated risk from T'Nir.
Goes through the block smoke mid.
Have you paid with four right now?
He's buying.
Wow.
T'Nirly finished off T'Nir there.
All pressure on Mattis.
Yeah, one man.
And a whole lot of work to do and he's doing it.
Double kill.
Shiro disconnected.
Still hitting shots onto Malb's nose.
is another CT. It's the top of mid. He's not ready for heavy. God puts one at the back of his head in his
Sontics in the clutch, bringing the fight to them. Oh no, doesn't have the bullets. One bullet left in the
mag. Didn't go for the plot went for the fight. Well, yeah, that's what I was going to say. It needs
to be a highly tactical timer just to take the pace out of it. So listen, we broke them late in the
game. We know we should have done it in regulation, but it's not over yet. We need to calm down
and lock back in. These teams have had so long since the coaches have been able to contribute.
True. It was like 9-9.
At that point, they've been flying by the seat of their pants. It's been the in-game
leaders calling the shots. And some really hard fought rounds. For the longest time,
it looked like G2 were the ones who had them done in regulation. But a tough patch around.
The Finances brittle, lost bonus at the bottom of the barrel.
And the heavy god.
I'm gonna be two from the heavens to put us into OT.
This is the reset.
This is where you likely see spirit just go back into the slower roll.
Could even be a B-pop.
That's a direct start.
You hope the orb catch is one on the jump spot.
Yeah, Mattis. Ready to this. Tux on in. That's ringing him. Nice find from Donk. Gets the
entry. Just having got to find it. It's the double from Donk. Okay, you've got your bombsite.
How are you looking to convert this time out? Give this one a go. No doubt about it. You
We got money for the next.
Some pyres.
Smoke break, sheroes.
This barrel broke out.
Don't kick the spider.
Alps and Hunter gonna be partnering up.
Watch out through the window.
Trying to find a bit more damage.
It does connect onto dong.
Two of them.
Worse for wear.
Got a few more nades to work with now.
There's double brick set up.
The AWPer happy to punish.
They're trying to smoke him out, and they will manage to fault the impact.
Is that the little one-two punch?
Some pyre some mouths have removed the bodies, Donk got the entries, and Donk will close
as well.
Quad kill, into the B bomb site to get Spirit started in overtime.
It looks like the B defensive is somewhat ready for the last tick, right?
They dropped that shallow incendiary on the way out, there was also the flash, just with
the timings that went against them there, and Donk happened.
Right, so there's the incendiary just forcing through it.
Wow, that's a bullet.
Yeah, just deleting Madis right there, and then just parving the Marauder on towards the B bomb site.
Good attempt, very late in the piece, everything needs to go perfect for G2 there.
Who's gonna walk away with the lead before we swap sides?
Shiro's AWP, posted long, and there you go. Shiro has been a non-issue for G2 in this second half.
And now he's found an opener.
Sometimes he's trying to find a response to the flash with Diligent though.
Confirmed there was an all-part mid, Matt is sticking around hoping they try and swing to punish the retreat.
He's going to get it.
He's going to get a fight. Yeah, Magic's caught off.
Love to CG2, keeping that aggressive philosophy even into an intense overtime affair.
So full reroute right now.
Leaving Alpertano's all the way back to long.
They're looking just to finish through long and they've got plenty of smokes to be able to do so, right?
Do they want to throw one out?
out. Treated like a double pump bait that CTU to hope somebody swings. Where's that fourth man?
Two smoke breaks and nothing to report. Surprise there's another NAID. Number three could be right
on the money. Teneir gets the bomb across unspotted. Our utility exchange trying to pick
up the pace. Spirit are across. Teneir does find one. Clean on to Mattis. Damage inflicted
to the sheer reward but don't get up and starts to put bodies down. Hunter's gone. Looking
to leave with the lead. Our spirit on this tee side of overtime. Double orb retaken at
214. Sure, heavy god, your 1v2 was cool. This would be equally as ridiculous.
And they've spotted him out on the short side as well.
Give it everything it's worth. First found onto Don, can debate the shot. Hope the rifle misses
his. Not gonna happen. So 14. 100% conversion off of the Halitimer.
Okay, well, that's all it took
The boss man to be able to get back on the mic
I think it was likely a bit more of a mental timeout right just to settle them down and have them lock in
But this is good shiro finding this open up
Both orpers in this map have been a pleasure to watch
Some pious on the CT side came to life once we shiro did his best work
And now he gets back on that side of the server just two rounds now for spirit
Hunter's really quick to the short side. He's actually taken that space almost immediately.
Like no fear. He's just walking all the way up and no one's going to spot him. He might
catch him off guard and he's just so quick on it. Oh, an opportunity squandered.
He's going to be kicking himself. There's cold his own hand there and the fact that
The beat hasn't been able to do any damage.
Hunter's not hitting straight this time round.
Now he has to try and pull the strings from the grave.
This team in a 4v5 and he knows
that was an opportunity to give them a free way in.
So, can his teammates bail him out?
Still picking the right side,
it seems if they do finish through short,
Churro's AWP not in place to lock them down from car.
And if it had started, it would have hunter seen him.
Ignade 100 damage.
Teneir throws it from the rampside and actually vacates.
The biggest issue right now is that this B set up where they've been able to get Shura
backplat and the rifles are dealing with mid to B and they're clearing it.
There's 30 seconds, you know it, I see ya.
Teneir's gonna hope to catch one on the cross.
Donka justing and an archimantle up in the smoke could actually use that smoke to jump all the way up.
Who plays first though?
Ooh, Magix does with a huge headshot.
Now we jump up and Donk sprays down, not enough bullets.
Some players would hell of a clutch available to him.
The 1v5 seems like it's a bit of an impossible task.
They're surely gonna be getting onto that bomb.
Tom Zontics is tight ready to jump up and punish next time he pulls the trigger shiro lock in the door
His shot running out of chances so 15 first found for spirit. Okay, just one more of those needed and that was hard to taking a bit of a chance
What's the sore conversion rate like to straight needed to go to double O T
team snatching away one another's map picks this is the kill teniz had some
very important shots right late in regulation coming up short and bopping
some pious over the warts ramp when he had that AK
we noted from regulation the jitsu they're happy to call the bluff on no
orbs starting mid and we saw them in one of those early rounds just walked down
from mid to being a raptor hunters done it by scaling up cat not afraid of the
AWP at all, but this time it looks like Shiro is going to start over towards middle.
So if they operate with something similar, they might not get the desired result.
They don't have great long spawns either, so we'll have to be something more of a standard
variety.
Surprise, not getting boosted.
nothing to report not holding for the smoke break either could be exposed yeah
oh no don't get two of them the smoke break completely pants is them they
were not prepared it's gonna have to be a moment we know Matt is it's been
finding impact around this series but he's gonna have to find a way to claw it back and
opening the punt up. Quiet game on Dust2.
But a kill here could make the difference.
Pressure applied towards the A site does. Crawl the attention of Shiro.
impossible. There's still nades on the players on B, right? You got Xantix playing backside for info,
you got tucked in towards Khaar-Dog, the guy who found the openness, had a tough map too,
he's got 25 kills right now, map number three. Huge impact once we've got to overtime to secure
things. We'll just have to be the three of them in through the upper tunnels.
Gotta throw this nade at the perfect timing as well.
Doc's there, Doc's dead, that's the Matty's entry, if he could just find one more G2 could do it again!
These impossible rounds, not with this G2, not with Matty's just walking into the site.
If he goes here, doesn't have the vision, a perfect flash from Shearrow, he's gonna do it all and it won't happen!
Spirit made to work, blood, sweat and tears, overtime, even extra rounds required, G2 putting up one hell of a fight,
But spirit to the semi taking on a strong list now V and G2 on the run it to that semi final
Both these teams will play in the Toron and it's nice to see the two of them matched up
What type of counterfeit was delivered 13 to 8 on an Ubers in favor of spirit
We got it overpassed and that's the best win yet for G2 on that map in this roster's history
So that one is going to be a positive to take into the arena the playoffs just a couple of days away
the team. We've got a lot of
time to play. But Dust to gave
us the fireworks. It's got put
through their paces by Strauss
little bit earlier in the
tournament on this very map so
that no strangers. But now
they're four on the trial and
just to win streak for G2 has
been split here. They were three
as well to start 2026. This
right now is a nice way to
measure what type of counter
I already got hit by a 6-7 and we didn't even begin yet, but congratulations, Magix!
A semi-final birth for the team, are you proud of the boys?
Yeah.
But can you tell me why? It was a little bit difficult on this map.
They came back, he needed an overtime. What didn't go as planned?
I'm proud because we won and what didn't go wrong.
I feel like that their game plan was pretty good, because they have executed a few ideas
that was kind of uncomfortable to play against, and I believe it happened both on Overpass
and both on Dust2 going into the T side, and yeah, that's it.
Okay, how do you feel you're evolving as an IGL with all these reps now already at IAM
Krakow?
Yes.
Yes, you are evolving great.
I saw that Halle tried to shush you yesterday after you made that crazy play, you jumped
down, you got him.
What's going on with that?
Everything is fine.
Everything is fine?
I'm glad to hear it.
Tell me then about what we can expect from Spirit at the playoffs.
I know one here before, so I probably want to get back to that.
Oh, I have no idea.
We're going to find it out in three days.
It's true, we will.
Who has been the hardest IGL you've played against in your 10 year?
What?
Who has been the most difficult IGL to play against so far?
I don't know.
You don't know? Nobody? Is it all easy?
No, it's not easy, but I'm not sure if it's about IGL.
It's probably, you know, about the team, the team style, team ideas, and the way they play in the official game.
And you cannot really rely on...
It's not like one-on-one me against Alexei or Hunter or whoever.
You know, it's the team effort.
It's a team effort, so who do you think is the biggest threat for you
that I am crack of then, team-wise?
Well, so far, from what we have seen, it was Jeter.
Okay, nice.
Thank you very much and congratulations.
Over to... No, over to a break. We'll be right back.
for the crack hole playoff spot is back on
And here come Furia trying to get out towards the upper side.
You can't do it coming out first.
Tech 9's in.
Yabi has to turn.
Oh no.
There we go.
You can't do it with the double.
The Tech 9's might just rip the heart out of Astralis.
It's you can't do it with some brilliant shooting and Molodoy to catch the descent down.
Ryu falls to his death and Astralis looking like they're going to crumble here.
The comeback was there.
But Furia finds success bursting through that A-bomb site.
They will move into the Intel Extreme Masters crack-off playoffs.
It was a tough fight the whole way through the group stages for Furia.
They're not playing the right game.
They're not in the form we've seen in 2025.
But regardless, they make it.
And the frustration from Astralis on display.
It was so close.
And what they've done in such a short amount of time is...
Check here in front of us, we really, really go over here.
Really important match.
What have you guys done by the time after your last match, actually?
There wasn't that much time.
Yeah, we didn't have too much time, we just ate lunch, we had 30 minutes rest and we came
back.
time to prepare but we did our best. It is quite a difficult matchup I want to say you
went on record saying hey we're not out yet so that's the win but now I feel like playoff should
be kind of a minimum right how is the reintegration of Kyosuke and Maxim going do you think you're
ready to to beat this mouse now? Yeah I mean obviously it takes time to to to start playing
the same way like we did before because we didn't play for around 10 days with Kyosuke but now he's
back and I feel like with every game we play here we're improving so I think we're on a good
on a good way and I think we can beat anyone with Maxim in the team and it just comes down
to us how we play, how our mental is and anything is possible.
So how is your mental because I know that's been a topic of discussion at times in these
important games.
I think the last two days it has been really good against Energy yesterday, it was not
the easiest game for us and also today against 3D Max we lost some rounds that could have
broken us in a way or that could have made us play a bit worse, let's say, but I think we
had good mental today and yesterday, so hopefully it will be the same against Maus.
I hope so as well. Thank you very much. Good luck.
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The road running thin at the Intel Extreme Masters crackle,
there's only one place in the playoff remains.
that's what it means. Both
Falcons and mouths are feeling
that pressure. It goes without
saying that the former squad
with so many big names and so
much investment at that. Having
left 20 25 with their hands
practically empty is less than
satisfactory for Mao, sadly a
similar fate also so close, but
yet so far is a phrase used all
too much and now together for a
year, those final percentages
are so desperately needed through
Do or die and I want to just get right into it. Yanko in terms of now is 20 25
How do you read into some of those results?
Close but no cigar. I feel like they're a good team definitely one of the best teams when you look back
But the lack of trophies, that's what everyone's playing for right and I thought after how the first half of the year
Then if they end up without a trophy by the end of the year, they have to make a roster change
They didn't I don't know if they're also one of the teams that the market wasn't there for it
and they didn't have a change that they liked, so they just stuck with what they had.
But it feels like when the year passed, you know, everything you could have done with the lineup,
you've done at that point in time. Also, this last map rotation, it doesn't suit Miles whatsoever.
Yeah, no, removing the train, not very fair.
And I've been a bit of a mouse believer throughout 2025. I just love the story behind
and I think that the whole promotion of the academy team and the main team has always been so beautiful to see but
It's it's it's been a year where they only got that trophy in Cluj-Napoca and then they've had their struggles against Vitality when they finally
overcome that hurdle of not winning against Vitality in Cologne, they fell short to spirit and it's been like they ever ever changing game for them that it's like
Where are they going? Where are they hitting?
I guess they're ever gonna get better with the call that they have of players right now and as Janko mentioned
it's a time for a change that didn't do that. Where are they looking and I can only have my assumption
how it is to be in a team where you are so close all the time where you end up in a position thinking
what's what's actually needed for us to get over the hurt like how do we get those last two to three
percent and right now I don't think that mouse will figure them out. So you didn't really have to
do that all too much in your career did you Peter? Well he did. Oh I did. He did it and then he did it.
And then it was me I mean I was the one getting caught in the end right. You mentioned that that's
That's Bing's quote, though. The final two or three percentages.
Do you think it's that little of a percentage jail,
or do you think there's maybe a little bit more for Maus to do?
I feel like he was more on with the percentages.
We talk about Maus as if they were not enough to win the trophy,
but their position they were facing was vitality, time and time.
Yeah, but not in the second half of the year.
Let's be real, vitality were showing some weakness, right?
Do you not read a bit more into that?
Maybe they lost some confidence because the first half of the year,
they had to face vitality and afterwards they were like,
Maybe there's something wrong with us.
I mean, look, the Fury of Water tournament, Mongols, Spirit with a dead roster, G2 even ended up winning the tournament.
So it's not the Vitality show anymore. Sure, nobody could beat Vitality first half of the year.
But second half, a lot of different teams beat Vitality, a lot of different teams ended up with a trophy.
I mean, for Maus to not be able to break through with anything, they regressed towards the second half of the year.
It's definitely a bit of a confidence issue, right?
And I've also been saying this with the mousebook, when they don't have, like, had this clear style player,
like, you cannot have more than one guy having an off-game whenever they face off against the elite teams,
because if you have two guys in that team that has an off-game, they will most of the time lose,
because they're so reliant on everyone chiming in, and you have a really big player in exertion that has
kind of fell off sometimes when it gets to the player, when it gets more sistic, you know,
he's really good in the group stage. You also have Spinks that can have really good games,
but also Jimmy or Jim Fair for that matter has had like he's had a rough time going like you know
He's not been the not been the standout guy that we've been praising for whereas the exertion has as we mentioned
He's the kind of a group state's guy that really gets things going
But playoff sometimes just needs to be a difficult time for him
I wish we had more time to be diving into this mouse conversation
But we do have to give a few moments to Falcons because let's be real yanko
It's not exactly like they've been living up to their side of the bargain either. Yeah, this is also
I mean their first line with the full lineup
They had to play with the standing at the bounty finals and you know that game against Aurora was all the issues that they've had rearing there
Had out yet again, you know losing rounds with advantages not being able to win key rounds losing pistols
So on and so forth right they had a scare against energy
But they managed to sort of persevere and still come out on top taking care of business today against 3d max in a much better game
with Kyosuke, leading the way and similar to Miles, the team that was close a lot but never
could lift the trophy. Granted they were getting better with every tournament but we know Peter
better than anyone what the expectations are being part of the Falcons organization and sooner
or later you need to have some silverware to show for it or else. It's only gotten worse since my
time because I mean one thing when we had that lineup with with the old in-score now it's it's
even better like you have bigger stars you have Manusiniko and you also brought in Kyosuke like
What is the next thing for Falcons? Obviously that is picking up some silverware as you mentioned,
but it's getting there that's been the issue right now. You know, finding that confidence also
in the grand finals when it actually matters the most has been the issue and it is about pressure
from the Falcons side that with the budget they have and everything that the stars are lining for
them, it's been a difficult time for them to find that kind of confidence and keep it going. And
it's only a matter of time in my opinion before they crack it up. Well, it's time to get this final
show of the group stage started
one more spot in the playoffs
remains either mouse or Falcons
will claim it. It's time to dive
into it. Yes, only one spot left
and for number three and number
four in the world, one of them
won't be seeing the inside of
the Torrent arena. Four I am
crack of. This is the game that
decides it all. You've had a
for this all-important head-to-head.
It's gonna be a banger.
The reassuring factor is both these teams are solid today, right?
We've had mouths making quick work of FaZe,
Falcons doing the same to 3D Max,
neither having problems despite some shaky starts in the tournament.
Both these squads lost to Aurora,
and even Falcons only barely beat NRG.
But today might be a different day
where we get the best level from these two squads.
for miles. T side starts on
Inferno, their pick. Falcons
back with their full roster.
Off the back of a playoff run
without it. Yeah, I think that's
the other thing that's kind of
loaded the deck in a weird way
for the Falcons. Right the idea
that as the desk was saying, this
is their first event with their
a grand final run with nucleons in over their star of Kiyosuke.
Now, kill early for Jimmy up in the apartments, Tess says quick to equalize as this A-pop
coming in.
Now, let's hold the advantage.
There is this player in the back lines left to deal with, the rotates now arrive, Brolin's
gonna find Tess out there in the apps and it looks to be a dominant pistol, leveled to
open things up here for the mouse squad.
set up for Falcons, right? Tess is never expected because they're double apps, but they're not
playing off each other. However, Maus find the gap and quickly take the site. It's extremely
difficult to retake in a pistol of all rounds. Find yourself looking at these squads and finding
it hard to imagine a playoff without one of them being there, but running down that train of thought
last year in Katowice, this one was a bit of a dark mark against the record of both of these squads
failing to make it for Maus. They had a standing for that one.
Yeah, I think you can write it off for Maus that event,
because of course they had Xalex in the lineup,
and then they went on to make every single playoff.
This is a semi-final guarantee team for Maus.
They were so consistent at getting to the top four.
Within that, it does feel weird that the last time we saw them
in the playoff of this event, it was with Shui in the lineup for Maus,
and it was an entirely different, you know, Boros to Falcons that were there
for for this squad 2024 feels like a lifetime ago but even though it's a very
different Falcons that they saw still solve their problems the team that has
had trouble in some of these man advantage positions the team has had
trouble on Inferno alone so all eyes on today got this force by out on the B site
stack with four strong for falcons as mouse look to execute it's going to be a bloodbath
Stack well founded and no fullback plan here for mouse
Times low. They haven't got anyone maintaining control anywhere else in the map
So they've got a breakthrough this stack here and now
Nico full blind where he gains vision
Jimmy set of entries. Are they ready for modesty up here on the boosts?
What a low players, but he can't convert a single one of those kills was made for him right there multiple players on 10 health
Doesn't even hit a single bullet
That really for a 2v4 was winnable for a moment
You know, it's the two low guys to be ahead in that charge, right brolin jimmy first guys moving through
And so certainly was a world where monasy makes that happen, but that's not the one we're living in
Might be the first and the last CZ buy for Monosy this year.
Let him down.
And Mal's great pop, considering we see how blind exertion is coming in through that broken smoke.
But we saw it from Nico's POV. He was full flash as well. No one could see anything.
Mal's get out with four alive and the round. Really well done.
Calm and calculated from Spinks, and not just Q2K back to the server, but Zonic behind
them as well.
Gonna be needed today for Falcons.
It's always weird with these pistols, right? Because if you've been following this team, you saw last year troubles with pistols, it was pro league especially, where they were like 2 and 12 on pistols.
Then they go into rivals, they win the vast majority of pistol rounds there. They had incredible track record, they go on all the way to the finals.
By the way, Monicy, that's why you 5-7? Don't get the CZ.
better, but perhaps some similar struggles here starting the year. They certainly didn't
look good at pistols at bouncing.
Kiyosuke flashed the knife.
Niko was keen to hand off the Galil, giving it to Tess as he's got armor to save as well.
They're going to float around, see if this is worth prodding.
Up through banana exertion, here's them coming his way and doesn't hang around to fight this.
He knows they're on the clock, he knows they don't have a lot of money,
not much to work with in this round.
And so no reason to give them that invitation.
Will the space be enough?
Kilvates says damage, duty here for the Falcons.
Taking a couple of guns would be nice.
Niko just trying to buy time. They can go down with the bomb. Tess is out of there and so are Mao's.
They've done a good job of avoiding damage in this game right now. Four alive and then three alive.
Mao's starts strong. This is Falcon's first rightful round coming in now.
Now, Toshi's orb, at 5 and 0, coming into play.
So many questions today on the form of these teams, especially the form of Falcons.
What monosy do we get?
All right, the monosy that wants to no scope down through the mid-smoke.
So maybe that's a good sign of connection coming in confident shows off his orb
Tells mouths it's here
Pop ruin the top mid and they catch
That says with a bit of you tell out in the open
Niko trying to hold on here. Won't crumble not yet. Anyhow Niko is clinical. That third thing of beauty finally dealt with.
But he's done more than enough to tee this one up for the Falcons.
I saw Kushti 1v2 with Niko making plays like that.
It really does bring the hype and energy for the Falcons.
Comes in with a roar. I felt like he was gonna get none there as the first player jumps the cross.
Nico can't finish the kill. He goes on to two-pull it, that lost player.
What an incredible round for Nico. That round is done. If he even gets two kills, it doesn't feel like enough.
Sick round from Nico to kick off this series.
Niko comes up with an MVP in a lost final, a bounty, and Inferno was the one map where
it felt like he had a really good read on what Paravision was doing.
He was finding a lot of gaps, he was pushing smokes, reading some of these JT sides.
Yeah, and the thing we kind of found ourselves saying.
Oh, right. Well, you just get a Nico highlight. Now you've got a
monosy collateral in the next round. Stars Align.
Start of field. Very, very Falcons. Thank you. Out towards top
mid. It's Spinks taking space away in the downtime, but you're
already in dire straits. Only one bullet's been fired in the
around. Golden bullet. And this is going to be an odd job here for miles in the three
on five with minimal map control.
The U-Tails, the flames, Spinks burns, and Yasuke really wants to get revenge with the
flash of his teammate. They're both blind.
How about another?
Oh, sphinx!
Dead on the corner.
Jimmy not long for it either, and Torsi, back on the AK
in an impossible 1v5.
He has 10 seconds.
Better off saving.
Not allowed.
Five up for Falcons.
Monty makes it easy for them.
Oh, he chatted over for miles.
I mean, you're not thrilled with the last two, are you?
You know, worried, because one of the things we were talking about, you know, at that opening
event of the year was the idea for Falcon's team that are used to, I say used to, they
are used to it, but they necessarily thrive under, always playing under a lot of pressure
just because you know the money that's gone into building this team, the names that are
in it as well and how the results haven't been there, but getting to see them with
a standing, they learned a bit more into trying to have some fun in those games, playing high
energy counter strike and one of the things we was speculating was you know
can this serve as like a good reminder off the top of the year to try and ignore
the noise a little bit just home in yeah and play your game as it were as
cliche as the old interview answer is you know as I think awkward that they
even draw parry as a grand final match because it's like they're underdogs the
whole way and then suddenly in the final their favorites will be standing
That adds more pressure again, and paravision played up to it, with minimal expectations
got out with everything.
So it's Counter-Strike, it's the top level, there's never a day without pressure, this
is a perfect example, 2 BO3s in one day, and playoff qualification only available for one
of these squads.
Put up or shut up at this point.
Someone's gotta go.
Alright, Monosigunna tries hand of the opening pick again out here towards Banana.
This time exertion got skewered by this AWP.
This time he's dodged the bullet and he knows better than to go and reface that.
without some form of assistance.
Honestly, just playing a harass for this banana controller, that is so nearly a catch.
Honestly, he's playing confident though. That much is very clear.
It's a good sign.
Are they gonna challenge him?
Can't do it dry, surely he hit that barely.
I was won this position, how much do they want it?
What are you willing to dedicate?
Honestly still has a line.
I mean, you've finally been pushed back after really sticking around out here towards top
banana.
But only now having to drop your smokes at B, you're not even close to thinking about
rejigging this setup here. If you're falcons, all it's going to do is slow down the rotate.
Still a problem if you don't get in cleanly and there's Kiyosuke over along offering that 5v4
up for the squad forced out by the Utah. Now the battle begins. Tess says down here in the pit,
drawing them in. He's got Niko offering assistance. Does Tess says even need it? He's got the round.
Nico there nearly end up feeling surplus to requirement, but finally gets his chance to shine as well
It's a nice easy one for the Falcons as miles get picked apart as worst case
Noir for miles because they've gone into this game and they've met a modesty collateral and Nico solo sight hold and now
Tessus has done the same
It doesn't seem like a weak star for any Falcons player just yet
And so miles are gonna have to fight an uphill battle on
On this T side of Inferno, Cycrn calls the first time out.
I'm sure there's some frustration for Malz.
He did everything they wanted early round, pushing Monosibak.
They got out with no casualties, and then Tessus just does them dirty.
High energy falcons flying into 1st, 4th, 3rd.
And a couple of pistols here for Maus with a Spinkskillill.
It's going to have to play active.
If Maus ought to have a chance.
I think you're seeing the hot stuff from passes should get you a little excited off
and the guy kind of decides where the floor in his falcons team is at.
Squad of stars, one of the guys who takes a bit more of a back seat, Brawler towards
banana are they ready for Nico as the third piece they should have been and
they're not you'll swipe him aside he played denied as the triple stack comes
through Nico going back to his roots out towards banana and able to lock it
down what more could you want if your falcons right now you've gone away with
absolute murder just a pistol round win for miles clean anti-ecos and now
Falcons. Forging a five round streak.
Cession. Crashered. Season push ahead of the smoke here. Suki doesn't give a damn.
Gets involved with a 5v4. It spinks through the smoke to trade it.
to trade it. Mal's not afraid of taking risks themselves.
And as Falcons burn two mollies on one position,
it leaves them lacking in this B bombsite.
They're going to back up.
Feels exploitable.
Falcons trying gamble instead, moving Niko back over.
Crazy aggressive move for Tessas.
Through a smoke, that's Jimmy another.
And Mal's no.
Double mollies got burned.
They know this site is weaker.
Niko's come back in.
That's exactly what miles are thinking.
Still have a smoke to block here, but you almost hope it doesn't come through and that they're
able to just force miles into this stack.
Now Torsche's AWP is on the line.
Oh, Nico tries to get ahead of it and Torsche firing one off as soon as that smoke blooms
able to find him.
M.T. for Nico.
I mean, he caught Torsche moving.
I'm shocked he got the counter straight to hit that shot after taking a couple of bullets
from Nico had to be an instant headshot here for Falcons.
And instead, Miles, do make a gun round work.
Something I am liking from Falcons over here
towards Banana is trying to kind of bully exertion
early on, because you know he can be a very snowbally player,
right?
And if you're going to let him get away with taking space,
you're going to let him kind of hit his groove here
on the T side of Inferno.
That can be a big problem.
But in that same vein, while you know the ceiling of exertion is super, super high,
and he is capable of just taking control over games,
he's also someone who's had his fair share of underperformances in high pressure moments.
And so if you're able to slow his roll early, that could do you a world of good
in the big picture of this series.
Now that's typically been in playoffs, right?
Those difficult games you're talking about, but not in group stages.
That's what we find ourselves now.
Spinks got right clicked by his teammate in the spawn, so already Mao starting this round
off with a huge disadvantage.
It gets made worse.
Double kill up Banana.
Kiyosuke and Niko combining very well in the CT side right now.
A mouse just can't get a read on it.
Run down by Kiyosuke, more damage done.
You could call a save.
I wouldn't be surprised if they do.
It's just so...
No one feels good about it, but it really is feeling like your only option here.
You might not find out who knifed Spinks, unless it's on replay, because no assist given over. Falcons won't find this kill.
Maus back up into spawn. The door literally shut. Four maus.
Not an ideal way to start off. Exertion one and eight, as you say.
I mean, you know, if you're not able to get through Banana, there's only a couple of rounds of this T side left.
You're going to have to lean a bit more on your apps player.
And I see if you can find anything on the other end of the map.
But does that feel too obvious now?
You know, that's sort of the mind game at play here with locking down
banana so early on in the game.
I say so early on, we're right near the end of the half.
But it's been the mission for the Falcons from the get go.
I like this from Nico as well, risking the AK, but knowing he can really punish
mouse rub salt in the wound with an aggressive move here.
It's going to get held by the AWP, shouldn't be able to get away with a kill.
But he's going to try it anyway.
Not overplaying.
Round guaranteed.
And Falcons respond to that one single rifle round the mouths are picked up.
Well, to say the least, get to everything you need, time out for miles.
Like this new HUD edition as well, seeing you get to talk in these timeouts, right?
You see both the coaches, nattering away, bit of talk from Exersia at the start of it.
Great edition from MC.
Obviously, a lot of talk for exertion.
We know he's a vocal guy inside of this team as well.
And also he's in the position that really demands all the attention,
taking this banana control.
And right now it's not working out.
So calling a shot, calling what he needs to get activated.
And if he doesn't, this might just be a swoop of a half.
Eyes on exertion in this gun round.
Oh, a monosie trying the opening.
Berlin still leads the charge out through mid, and here it is, the uptick out towards
this A site.
Now, Falcons have started triple B in the majority of these rounds.
This one is the exception.
Three players out towards A. They try and get ahead of this change of direction.
It's all going to fall on a Tess as spot out from the shore side.
He'll take two with him.
And that multi-kill there keeps Falcons very much
in the conversation.
Fast flank up through Banana as well.
Falcons did have the lead on the change from Maus in this round.
Had the right idea.
But can they nail the execution?
Exertion gets himself his second of the game thus far.
And it's an important one left on Akiyosuke now in this clutch.
No kit right now.
Maybe Tessa's had one down in pit.
It'll have to come through if he's not
I'm gonna win this round quickly.
Torschey on the line, ready and waiting.
And calling for that last round.
Maus know they need it on this T side.
A nice aggressive change of pace,
catching off guard, the Falcons on a mid hit.
Double kill for Tessus, still not enough,
but all these anchor positions,
really holding their own here for Falcons.
But still, Maus find five.
No!
Keep close!
Someone like B is off limits here.
Might have to be the late to retake when Falcons are out of nades.
Yeah, even then though, hasn't stopped Falcons from going.
Yeah, even then though, hasn't stopped Falcons from going back to the 3B opener.
Held all their utility.
Spinks even tagged, trying to make his way through the apartments.
Monacea is wall-banging them all, caught them through Boiler.
Big Sam flashed in.
Aggressive play.
Kisuke low, and out here, all on an island.
Got players nearby to support.
Now spotted two crossing back into Banana.
Classic setup.
Banana built a bit of a picture though for how this round could play out and now it's sort of cross in.
They don't have any burning utility here. That one Molly is on Jimmy back in apartments.
They can't clear this position. They have to fight.
Boost up. Ready to double swing this, Nico. Another transfer.
He's in form right now.
If he gets aggressive, this is Torsche here with the bomb.
Gotta just play to survive.
I'll save now.
Try and get out of there, link back up with Jimmy and Spinks
out on the other end of the map.
Falcons are already one step ahead of this,
moving two players around for the rotate.
Because even Clip and Arnaud, they know it's coming in.
They're shot for monesty,
and that's gonna bring them through.
Down in the pit, it's Tessas.
His multi-killers have been invigorating in this one.
It might not even be a requirement.
Oh, Jimmy, that is a crazy transfer.
Good time.
I'm so low, and that will decide it.
As good as it looked, it won't mean a thing.
Falcons see that CT half through to a winning side,
and it's the anchors right now.
These transfers, these multi-kills,
and they shut down a banana, breaking that game plan
apart for Maus.
Falcons fighting for the playoffs here up against Malz, it's Malz's pick of Enfato,
You would barely know it, rock solid defense, multiple gun rounds over.
Without that pistol, this would have been a stop.
Yeah, and I don't think the scoreline necessarily shows just how in control of this game the
Falcons were.
7-5 sounds like it might have been pretty close.
Three of those rounds came off the pistol for Maus, and even then the rounds for Maus
were able to break through.
Falcons did have the right read and the right ideas.
They just kind of flubbed their lines.
It's a little bit worrisome.
I was expecting more from Maus from the get-go that this is where they would challenge Falcons.
The Falcons actually looked pretty dialed in, pretty switched on right now.
Nico giving us a stellar game.
Kiyosuke's been living up to his side of the bargain at B, and Tessas was a rock on that A site.
Harry, it would be a great time for Falcons to find a pistol round.
Yes, it would.
That's a problem.
Down there, though.
That's a big problem.
That's a whole other thing.
It would be a great time to win the lottery, really, any time.
But the odds don't look great for it.
Buy enough tickets. You take enough rides. Maybe just maybe. There's something in sight.
Washi Dolboret is going into a quad A-stack. Kiyosuke and Monosie reduced it down to two.
Possible round now.
And you're locked out. Moto smoke in your way. Niko even holding for these rotates in mid.
Oh Niko. He's been super dialed in.
Oh, there by Brolin on the push and so they've at least dealt with the backstab
Going nowhere quickly a mouse waiting to see if there's anything else
What are we waiting for boys slow on this
And that's gonna leave them with little time to work with I didn't see a kid anywhere right now
And so they need kills they need them quickly post plot well and truly set up here for the falcons
I'm wouldn't you know it
They've got this pistol down in the bag!
Strangely, it doesn't even feel like they really believed that they could win that 3v3
short odds against them without a doubt, but at pace, you never know.
Didn't utilize their utility, smoke doesn't come in, that felt like a... just a lost round
before they tried.
Falcons, huge victory.
Looking up a pistol after a winning half, keeping this momentum going into their T side, kicks
and calling from the front.
It feels like a map made for the Falcons.
Yeah, also just a nice feeling when you play in a stacked site and it never even felt that
way to you.
They took two gunfights, their whole push out of the apartments.
Mamo smoked with Devastate into the setup, leaving it to play retake and, as you pointed
out, didn't even really feel like they believed in the retake.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh!
Damn! Go on. Go on then. For all time's sake Tor, she make us believe. This was
suave. I'm honestly got so deleted and now Niko is dead as well. This four-spy
looking great for mouse. Maybe there's some fight left in them. It's the two
top performers to open things up here. Bomb lost over at ramp as well so you're
going to be slow to react in this situation.
Tess says, finds a surprising amount of room.
Brolin struggles with the cover,
but will eventually get it.
They've got a gap along, though.
Motor smoke, he's going to walk through this.
Two rotations in sport.
If he hears these steps,
he's going to have a huge chance.
Kiyosuke and Kixson, 2v4,
trying to kick down this door.
Kiyosuke chases, second player unnoted about,
and Zershin will hold on to this round.
Back to B goes he.
KickSan, another chance.
Maus are throwing this away right now.
It's still two rifles against one.
Yeah, and you just pick your battle, right?
Do you go into Brolin, who's had time to reposition out here on A?
Or do you leave it fully to the unknown and go look for exertion?
He's going to pick the closer bombsite here,
hoping he can move past his IGL counterpart for the Maus squad.
And he's just seen the barrel.
Oh, dear.
Brolin closed in.
KickSan able to get past him.
Exertion has three kills in this game.
He got his third in this round right now.
They're now relying on him in the clutch.
He's not exactly feeling it,
but he will pick this one up.
And that matters, and step in the right direction
for Exertion.
And the gap now starts closing.
Mows with a four-spy win.
We often say in-game leaders in those clutches,
they fumble with nades, they try and do too much,
they try and think, they try and cook.
Kixson had Molly HE, and he takes the straight-up gunfight.
Don't get me wrong.
I like the element of surprise.
Peek is advantage.
Name whatever you want.
He has low health.
Exertion holds on.
Hindsight decides.
Exertion.
Picks up that round for Maus.
You hear how wild everyone goes for Exertion as well,
but he wins that clutch.
Not only is he giving them a major lifeline,
but everyone on Maus is hoping
that can be the turning point, right?
He hasn't wanted to address the elephant in the room just yet, but exertion was struggling
throughout the entire first half.
Never got going.
He's just picked up a massive 1v1 and you're hoping that if you inject him with a little
bit of energy, he'll be able to give it back tenfold.
Sonic very vocal in this time at him and Nico a conversation.
All of Mao's getting involved.
Oh, hang on.
Makes me wonder.
I think we got Nico charging up banana.
He was doing all the talking.
He's been given the hero gun.
He is the best spawn.
the old position this guy used to dominate. I think you've got to be ready to deal with a Niko banana rush.
All right, let's get it going. That was a forced by victory for Maus.
Scout shot down middle, Spinks peeked down middle. Real test for exertion here, right?
Just won that clutch, Maus. They've read this one right, at least. They're starting three players
over towards B. Niko, instead, just playing it passive, waiting for a swing and waiting for a fight
to come his way through the banana smokes. Spawn smoke denies that.
I have to come free here, Niko's got to go and earn it.
Falcon's waiting on his every move.
Ouch, that's a meaty naid and there's follow up U-Till here.
Oh!
wide, still gonna take one with him. Courses exertion on the receiving end of it. Luckily
enough, Brolin here to keep everything square. It's a gun game. That says, here's that rotate.
One more man over towards Long and he might think he's got the room tunnel visioned on
those footsteps. The idea that Long had just opened up. Well, Jimmy's quick to shut the
door on it. Nice trap there for Malz. Falcons get stuck in it. Now Clixon's gonna kick
He's got to claw his way out of this 1v3 step made or feeling position smoke fading. He's got one more down
Pope started and finished off by the captain Brolin holding strong three kills
And miles are making this one close after all rather the fact we know he's talking in these timeouts now is such a safe edition like
Well, you know all this conversation about what the coaches even do and you know still a lot of conjectures
So only the teams can truly know what at least now we get a little bit more info
On who's calling the shots
And in fairness I will say in all these times I never go back to not having it now good job ESL
Little midrash box burning it up. They just run through
Spinks on the corner, easy, and flashbangs here as Falcons, red in the face, embarrassed by Spinks.
Yeah, and Mowers have done a really, really solid job of capitalizing on that early clutch in the four-spy to bring themselves back into the game.
Now they are very much in the conversation for a recovery. This round, well, that'll be the true limit test.
the buy coming in for the Falcons to contend with. Torsche gets to don his AWP. This is
the first fully even fight we've got to have in this second half. And at a tie game, all
the way into round 17, this one will give you a nice little leg up. Either towards recovery,
or to an upstair opening map for the Falcons.
Test his volunteers for the Mach 10, takes it out of Kixon's hands.
He's setting up flashes for the apartments, taken now by Falcons.
Nice response, Jimmy, with a set flash.
Kicks up the man advantage.
Worth a punch.
Especially with it being exerted in there, it feels like he's eating a magnet in this game.
Bullets just have a way of finding him, so why not leave it to chance there?
Nico also gets the info there.
Fairly active, double banana setup.
Didn't spot a third, no inkling, the stack is here, and so it feels like that might
be enough to seal the fate of this BXX for the Falcons. They start to move in.
Hals don't bite the bullet, they don't panic with utility there, as that smoke comes in from quite a far.
You go, getting up top B, the smoke, received, and 30 seconds, decision to make here, no more smokes left on this B bombsite. Flashes, HEs, everything else, can Maus hold strong with the man advantage.
Ritec arrives and it's Torsche primed with a flash.
Exertion's gonna go on the back of this.
Two players down there in the pool.
He's able to ice them both out.
Multi-kill from Exertion.
Will get dealt with, but time is low.
Torsche's the only one close by.
And if they want to play this in the Ritec,
play them out advantage.
Well, that's the numbers game.
Torsche never attempts to deny that bomb plant.
They play active, can't hide here.
That says swing, and shot goes unpunished.
Now they know where both players are for this post-plan.
Monacy trying to reposition, trying to take some ground back
so he can change position, keep it dynamic, cross back out for Monacy.
And it takes two to cancel in. Jimmy there.
Swing out from the spawn, and Maus move into the lead.
What a recovery. Everyone putting a multi-kills here in this run back for Maus.
It's a double in defense from exertion after a really horrid start to this game.
and jimmy comes up with three by the end the opener in apps closes on the post plan
house take the lead right back from falcons despite that winning half and a pistol round
the force by upset and force straight here for miles impressive resilience but we know this is
a team that NEVER goes down. They have recovered some incredible games in the last year. So
this one's NOTHING to him. Falcon's classic mid-rush. Nikko's lost his gun. Picks it back
up. They're out long but they're so split. No tethering here for Falcons. Quartz cut
Kiyosuke responds.
Oh, dear!
Exertion found through that smoke.
And suddenly, what was a pacey round for the Falcons?
Well, it might start to slow on down.
Toshi goes looking out here on long.
Oh, really in danger, but makes it across in the library.
Smoke out.
Fade!
And the Niko dig, are they ready for Toshi?
Got into the library.
Possession!
Niko is!
Oh, dear.
Forced by round, and Falcons off all the way to the bank.
Ninth looming as they bring it back to a tie game.
I don't know what happened in middle.
Nico dropped his Deagle.
He dropped his pistol, maybe throwing nades around.
Thank goodness he picks it back up.
I mean, that Deagle's so hot that he had to put it down.
Double headshot, hiding in the smoke.
Great freeze from Falcons there.
And Mao's really hoping Jimmy can keep this gun going.
but Falcons are in hot pursuits.
Honestly, he doesn't care about this Khalil.
He's got an orb dropped over next round anyway.
Falcons know Jimmy,
hit player, they're gonna come find him.
There's no way Jimmy should survive this.
Tessas has Nade.
Oh, Jimmy.
Oh, I'm dead on the drop.
Oh my God.
Look at this, all smiles for Nico.
You know, that is one thing I hope you kind of found at the start of the year, having a tournament where it was more about him, right?
Like with no Kiyosuke, with Nucleon standing in, we were looking at Niko as you said earlier, he got the MVP at that event.
And I hope it's kind of led him to back his aim a hell of a lot more.
He's had some great games here as well in Krakow.
Everything just feels a little better.
Oh, okay, it's been the rivalry, Torsi!
Front line AWP ahead of the smoke, picks Modesty out of the round.
Torsi was even checking for that play, but Torsi is quick to it right now, from the scout
in the second round to the AWP in the 19th.
need Torsche though to find even more success on this AWP if they head in his
direction and that could change now with a re-smoke from Maus. Trying to leave a
backdoor open, Tess says still roaming and exploring the apartments. No cliff
finish yet and Tess says we'll look to rejoin the gang out here on banana. He
found the fight before Torsche but your job is far from over. He's about to have
all of the Falcons coming towards his bombsite. Now exertion you're going to
expect to find here. Toshi being in this spot, that's going to take a bit of
prediction, a bit of a read. The idea that he would reposition after that first.
Nope, you learn about it the hard way. Orc fires off. Niko now donning it. Oh no.
Holds this line. Backstab starting to take shape for Maus and Falcons are
fully boxed in, they need an opening, they need someone to provide him with Torsche going
from strength to strength on the AWP. You'd like to think he's done more than enough with
that triple. Now's had to win that round, their money was on its last legs, they get
out with four players standing and it's on the back of an explosive round from Torsche
and his AWP.
And that will insta-force the time out here for Falcons, their momentum shattered yet again,
Again to the first half, these streaks of CT-sided rounds and T economy crumbling, at least they can drop guns.
Everyone can buy.
The Falcons, this is going to be your final swing on the T side of Maus's map pick if you want to find this upset on Inferno.
Impressive resilience as always for Maus.
Lead by Torsche here, backside multi-kill.
I think at this point, you'll take that trade.
Niko's been a real thorn in your side, could get problematic, Brolin falls, but he plays
it safe, dropping that utile, Toshi rotates over on the orb.
Well, as much as Niko's been a problem for Mao's, Toshi has for Falcons, so in the right
position now, you feel like Niko is off in the perfect counter to an AWP with a well-placed
AK headshot. Can someone make up for it? Toshi is left alone. Smoke might just win this round
for the Falcons. Yeah, Toshi is going to hit one. Goes out for the swing around that smoke.
Nade could still be interesting with Kiyosuke, but it's missed the mark and now it had given you
you a fighting chance. Now you're left weighing up in this 4v4. Money still in that pretty
awkward spot. You're out of position and you just let this one pass you by.
Oh, dude, I can't believe it. Yeah, the first miss shot, yeah, it's unfortunate. It feels
like it should be a kill. And then just missing the Nade, throwing away the only opportunity
to open up that post point. Now's have got to say Falcons will allow it their economy
far from safe as well. An even game. TIT for TAT right now in this second half.
See on Xershin's face, he's not happy with this.
It's the wide swing off the three layers of utility up an honor.
Maybe one or two from it would have really eased up the round for miles.
I think it's one thing if you're getting, you know, blowing out the water by Falcons,
but this is a close game.
He knows, you know, you've even heard from Spicks an interview saying if we just played
five, 10% better, we could have been winning trophies last year.
What is this really going to be a similar sort of vibe for now is where you come real
close but you are lacking that 5, that 10, that 15 whatever percent it may be that little
nudge to bring you over the finish line or can they level up here to open up this do
or die series?
Just a bittersweet year for mouses really.
Slowest start for the Falcons.
No crazy pace out towards banana it's measured all across the map.
Pressure on for Maus, they've lost here, and they're clutching at straws to try and get
buys together down the stretch.
It's all going to be depending on saves.
It's Toshi's finding it, the 5v4, they gave that second wind two Maus, but no one's ready
for Kiyosuke in this position.
Surely Spinks even gave it a check, even gave it a glance.
Still wasn't fast enough, and now a miss!
Torchy makes up for it!
Second time's the charm.
They're gonna put distance between themselves and that AWP.
I say that.
Mika, look like he was thinking about challenging it.
Eggseq out towards the B site, but this doesn't feel real.
With so many of your pieces out towards A,
they're gonna bring that bomb back round, try and link up.
They know the pressure.
It's sky-high for Maus, that they might feel twitchy.
They might feel nervous.
They'll stick to their guns with two players here.
They're even bringing a third over mouse have the right read. They know what's happening footsteps now hurt on
Puttley closing in crossfires too strong and Falcons can't get through it
Now is get to 11 live to fight another day
And that dreaded reset that was hanging over the top of them denied as they hold on oh
Mouse needed that round
It felt like gg without a economy gone and keep in mind dust is the second map of this series
I just don't matter the mouse and played in six months until this tournament
Anubis
They're old perma
Back in the map pool. They've had to swap they banned us to the six months straight
They are out of practice Falcons are picked it into punish
And so mouse really need theirs in this series
With it it sets us up for an ancient decider
They are still not out of the woods on Inferno, Falcons throw one final buy at them.
In hopes of hunting down this mouse CT side.
I love what Mouse did there, they pulled Brolin back over, he spams, flashes for exertion,
then he goes back into A. He knows him supporting his teammate makes it feel like there are
two players at B.
But he was right on the money with the reed forces Falcons into the stack
Risky moves made by mouths
3b
So that blog by his time I was can change their mind change their setup
Spinks is full joker in this round, he is just gambling inside of B, committed right
now.
Falcon's going for the A hit, they found the gap.
The way around the long side, and so even these rotates going to find it hard to play
into this one, the two guys in the site, well they've actually split up on this, Torsche
holding onto the apartments, that leaves Jimmy with short and long, got to have eyes in the
back of his head.
Valley forward first, now closing in, tall, she can't cover.
As the Falcons run through that deep end, says Spinks, just created a big problem there.
Smoke push, gets them in past Nico.
And now you can weigh this one up. Do you want to give it a go?
You could fight for that point here and now.
Should.
And if you're able to win it, will Falcons look broke moving forward?
You would leave yourself right there, ready to lock in Inferno after a troublesome first half.
Tessayze on the AWP will give you an answer, knocks out Spinks over on Short and now this
is really starting to lose steam, Brolin in an advanced position, walk further forward,
oh god no, Tessayze will wrestle it back and so no worries, no crazy loss 3 take there,
Falcons hold on. An exertion dies with the bomb, it goes very wrong for Miles, they go in for damage,
They lose everything. They can still buy full. Nobody is sitting pretty at 11-11 and we've been,
we've been teasing the idea of an economic break this entire second half because it has been back
and forth rounds for six straight, but whoever loses this round is broke. Make no mistake. There
is zero loss bonus. There is only bomb plot money. Yeah. And so as both teams buy down fully,
It feels like round 23 is the game.
Mouses' damage there helps them more than it hurts them.
They have a better buy in this round.
Both squads have just been trying to dodge that reset this entire time,
And it finally catches up with them at the worst possible. It will happen in round 24 not now, but in the next
And so the winner of this has the the perfect layup to go on to close out the game
Nothing is ever safe, but it is about as good as an advantage as you're gonna get
Six rounds
with different winners in a row.
Because sometimes in these spots, you know, it's down to like a myriad of factors.
It's like, yeah, well, if they save, they could still get a buy together.
But that's not even an option.
1900 for Maus, if they lose it.
1400 for Falcons, if they lose it.
You are broke next round, no matter what happens.
Getting stressful here.
Yeah.
You tilt.
Dropped over.
No hurry here for Falcons.
It would feel crazy to be rushing in this round.
Call from spawn as apartments control.
Kicks and feigns presence in mid with a long smoke cutting off Torsche's orb.
I have a sick idea of to go for the gamble here, right?
With the money being where it's at.
This idea that, well, if you picked wrong, you at least have a proper chance to go in
the next.
pick right, you have it all to gain.
Now start with a quad A stack.
Rotates can arrive quickly, but they'll only get here
if the site can withstand the hit.
Kiyosuke double entry.
Spinks tucked in, Spinks goes swinging.
Gets out with a double.
It's enough to keep you very much intrigued in this round.
Do or die for mouse.
Save or commit.
One of these is a long way away.
It's only Kiyosuke in the site.
Aid will find a bit of chip damage,
but it's nothing to write home about.
Monacea is playing for a very late in the day,
but have been packed here,
hoping that if anyone tries to come up short,
that's where he gets to play.
Guess who gets triple?
I keep for all five.
Monacea doesn't go back.
He can backstab.
Oh, Nades Paul, they're here and burning.
Forced to swing right out into the open.
It's Monacea, it's nothing.
Falcons, they need him now.
I need Ilya and he can't do it.
Exertion from bottom of the board.
A massive clutch.
The back breaking 1v1 comes through out of exertion.
Unreal round.
Monosy playing so late and Kiyosuke, all that work.
All those entries, impossible trades
only to burn down fully in the molly.
Doesn't even take one with him.
A one tap for Monosy, but too hot to handle here
for the Falcons, they fall in round 23.
They pay the price with their economy.
And the hype comes back for exertion.
Is he yet again wins them a 1v1 with resounding implications?
Look at his final buy.
They tried to get in his head,
they tried to get him off to a really rough start.
And so often that just spells the end
of these high impact games for exertion.
That clutch might be all you're left talking about.
Falcons can't hack it in the 2v2 and look at what it's left them with.
AK on Kiyosuke, Gelil for Monosy, the two that couldn't do it in the last round.
Armed again to try and run it back.
And a more standard setup this time for Maus, right?
Not going for anything crazy, don't feel the risk reward of the gamble.
It's a standard 2-3 setup, 2-3 split, but aggressive up towards top banana.
They'll have info ahead of time.
They know that Falcons aren't looking for this map control.
Spinks is so hard to get past. He has had a bunch of multi-kills on this CT side in some very important rounds.
She's come in.
Oh, kicks down with the D, gonna open things up.
And now the A site shrinks on down.
You're playing crossfires between D4 and pit, and you're just hoping that someone can get a multi-kill.
Toshi rings out with the first miss.
There's a backstab closing in on this play in the downtime.
Oh!
Portion to start hitting.
Nico's down, Jimmy.
Oh!
And that's the follow-up from this Nico Digg.
Help from Tess S goes a long way.
And all that's left to do is stop Brolin in this clutch.
He goes again.
Tess S does it.
Digg's breakthrough for the Falcons.
And we're going to OT!
Falcons refuse to fumble this game.
They refuse to throw it away with all odds against them,
with nothing but deagles and a single rifle that doesn't come through.
Falcons break into extra time.
Niko having a start of the year, what a hell of a start.
MVP back at bounty and Falcons fighting for another playoff.
And it's just such a huge sire leap for the Falcons.
Those are the spots they normally flubbed around in, you know?
Those type of 2v1s, where you feel like they've done enough.
Do you feel like they've kept themselves in it?
Job's far from over, you're still gonna get through here
and Spinks has made sure you stay on the back foot.
Anana has been closed in this game.
It just shows the fact that Falcons have gone for these continuous A-hits.
They don't like what it has in store and it doesn't like them.
4v2 is Torsi picks Tess's.
And you feel like you've just got to walk back into uncharted waters.
Wherever you go, Falcons locked out of this first round.
The high-low setup.
Their mouths unmoving.
Without U2 or Kixson, there's no way.
He tries, but Zershin holds it.
Haste your own medicine type setup there.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Okay, here we go, but it doesn't have the bomb.
Still playing it forward as though he does.
Do they know?
Got it, their feet, they smoke and they go back.
They don't want to lose this round.
Now let's just lock the door.
On round 25, as Nico hangs around.
Ultimately, just too far away to get this one done.
You just have expectation that they're playing the bomb.
Nico's going to run it in. Not really much point saving.
Can't hurt to cry, but Roland has the cross. And from afar, Malz pick up the first.
Torsche bring in the hype. Malz have had great energy today.
Energy something that this team have spoke about a lot, right? The idea that it's one of the first
things you kind of notice about them when they do start struggling things get a little bit quiet
at all she's usually the guy to bring that hype bring that energy why he does kind of feel like
the hearts of this mouse team really are giving accession his flowers he has recovered in this
game right not pretty scoreline but two massive 1v1 clatchers in the one game alive yeah he is
definitely recovered well great grenades here for miles but do they know that falcons call the bluff
Niko is still walked up top banana through the utile
Jimmy living and dying
in apartments
Niko still sending it he has Nate's fly. He knows he has a gap
Oh exertion nervous here because he's seen your hand. He knows you're getting that utile in
It's one way info, the exertion didn't seem to go
There's a utile out as well on the player at coffins
And Niko actually has a huge bit of room. A huge gap right now is just open to Niko.
They both have Utile out in the open! Niko unable to capitalize on getting an opening, and exertions actually get a respond!
How on earth did Maus end up coming out of that looking better?
It looks so wrong there for Maus, and both of them push back in and pick kills off.
5v3, this one should be assured. Toshi doesn't miss that.
and Falcons falling just a little bit short timing spotted by Jimmy. Tess is blocked and
so this walk-up short is going nowhere. Again nothing to save for Falcons, not even the round.
I knew the swing was coming from somewhere.
As they try to play on through, they get decisively denied.
Maus, since reaching this overtime, they have not squandered this opportunity.
Two in a row, looking to go flawless on the CT half.
And the thing that really stands out in a...
In a second half of play that was so back and forth for those final, you know, eight rounds,
this has been dominant.
And like, the rounds haven't even been close, you know?
Nico trying to like walk through what was a 1v4 he got one
No impact kill on Torsche over overextending through mid other than that the round
Decisive win for Maus there another decisive victory where it's kind of just a limp
Well may as well see if we can win it as they walk up through short
These have not been competitive rounds not by any margin
You can't even say that Falcons haven't got to good positions
That's a spot that Niko would kill for. Literally. They get in all the way into Bernardo, had no idea on the opponents that are waiting for you.
They both have nades out in the open.
It will hurt to watch back, that's for sure. If he pushed any earlier, he would have had a kill there.
Hasn't been a time out a while. Both coaches take the entire 30 seconds for themselves.
Oh, exertion. He's relentless, but Niko is prepared. Anti-flash on the corner deals with
the point man of mouths and they might just jump in at smoke. Make some second guess.
Well, you've been kind of searching for an advantage. Get a play from the front in any
one of these rounds. They're not quick to give it away.
I'll respect the smoke in the top banana and lend a bit of time instead just to push and
prod elsewhere. Kyosuke roaming the apartment.
were unlucky. He didn't toss you through the wall. He caught him there as that smoke came
up. So maybe felt like he should have had that kill.
You know you're going to split the defense here. You know you're forcing Maelz to make
concessions, to leave gaps somewhere on the map. It's down to Falcons now to find them.
Torsche's had some misses in this position already. Can't afford to be had now. Looks
to play inside of the site, Falcons three strong. Tempting with an execute, Spinks picked
in me trying to get aggressive. Let's go Falcons back. No, they go in. Massive entry from Kingston
who has been extremely quiet and kills come up in every position. Four Falcons players
with a frag.
I nearly won't be in your heart. Skip the beat for just a second, but they bought it back
around they're just going to dodge Brolin entirely captain never gets a fair shot at this one
insults i can still at least get something here
one round to hold on to in this first half of overtime they get there flawlessly
The stress is still sky high.
It's a crazy move for Spinks to make, not seem him to be very active at all.
He's been playing Joker in the pack, hiding out in bomb sites.
Not looking to take risks, so a big swing and a miss here.
and Falcons prosper one round on their T side.
Back to a half that was really solid.
If you remember back in regulation,
Maus could not get going.
Exertion was a non-factor.
By the end, they were avoiding banana entirely.
And you know, we've heard the type of things
that Zonic says to this team thinking back
to some of the comebacks you've seen.
The ancient one, they were massively down.
and so on it calls the time and says, you know, we're the best,
we're the best defensive team in the game.
And so let's lock in, let's level up.
You can envision he said something similar here, right?
Try and inspire them to get that one T-side round,
the idea that you did win this game out on the CT half.
And so you've got to have full faith
that you can go flawless if you're the Falcons.
This was your better side.
You really outdid Maus in that first half.
It was really only the pistols that were anything to speak of and even in the two rifle rounds that Mao's found Falcons had the right idea
Had the right read. They just didn't nail the execution
No room to mess up in that same regard now
There's every round counts
Once you hit OT
Just reiterating the importance of
of mouths, taking their map pick here. Sure, they dust two, you know, it might be new and improved, it might be back, but it's not a map we've seen them play since the Austin Major when Anubis was still in the pool.
And now with it back, mouths have had to move back to a dust two. It got one win over NRG here, they lost to Aurora pretty one sidedly. And it's certainly an exploitable map for the Falcons.
Exactly why they've gone for the pick here.
So now I just don't want to fall back on a tournament lifeline onto a map they've got two officials in in six months.
So from what I can see, we've got everyone back in the server.
And Fistbombs being exchanged now is our back.
Now, we've been crediting exertion for the recovery here.
If you remember, he had a really, really rough time T-side. They completely wrecked him out here towards Banana.
He did not get going at all.
Only found his second kill right at the tail end of the first half, was 1-9 at one point in time.
Really, really struggled.
And they never got to take Banana because of it.
Well, we said he's recovered well.
He picked it up, moving into the CT half. He won them the clutch, they kept the game alive.
And this is where we see, does that extend through this T side in overtime?
Falcon's start very passive.
Honestly, we're just considering a mid-pick, they didn't want to risk it with a triple B.
But if they miss con for Maus as Jimmy gets full blind.
And in the silence, Falcons eye up a rotation, they might need to, Mausik like they want
to attack this site and do it pretty decisively.
Tassay's down here and the pit was a force to be reckoned with in regulation while he's
dead.
Straight away here, tagged from Monacy and there's a follow up exertion out in the open.
They get this one into a three on three.
Brolin was also tagged, scraped by the Monacy shot earlier.
Let's go for wallbangs here.
He's still interested.
Pressure never lets up for Maus.
There's no freebies in overtime.
Torsche on this line with the AWP delivers,
kicks and dead.
Flash is allowed them to start closing the distance,
moving in, trying to get round.
This Torsche, oh, but he's red here like a book.
Modesty might find him, needs even more.
And at six points to health, there is no winning this one.
winning this one at four monocie.
Mows now have two opportunities to lay in for the rest and sit and map up.
Does too uncertain or not.
If you've got a map in your pocket, you'll feel that much better for it.
Mows in a perfect position now.
Spinks just had some incredible rounds in this game.
The flick headshot here to find the opener.
And remember, right?
Exertion had problems on the T side of this map at the start of the game.
What were the other problems for Mows?
It was these rock solid anchor players.
It was Niko multi kills.
It was Tessa's multi kills on this A site, completely shut out.
Great post plan read for Toshi.
Maus right there, ready and willing to close this game.
Another opportunity.
Yeah, ready and willing.
But are they able to opportunities?
You could even afford to have a misstep in theory.
And so that gives you a bit of a degree of freedom, freedom that the Falcons simply do
not have on this CT half.
You're certainly seeing that in the setups.
It's less aggression, less searching for info.
Monosy, line off the angle, still gets his.
Even double dips.
It's the end of the line after the double.
Rotate start to arrive.
Kiyosuke first on this scene and he's looking to leave an impression.
Charges down that bomb plotter.
left to Brolin, 1v2, Niko and Kicksan still to deal with.
Oh, shoot, the plant, they're closing in. Both players out in the open and Brolin gets
iced out. Falcons give themselves a fighting chance for double overtime. One round left
in this.
Kiyosuke's show continues. Honestly, hits a couple as well. Maus still able to trade
of good spacing. I push through this smoke, high risk, high reward, and not only gets
him his double, it gets them the anti-clutch, Falcon survive, one more round. In a very
stressful environment.
Also get out of that with two alive, which means Niko gets to have an AK. Wouldn't mind
it if Kiyosuke got the other one, but Kixxan's gonna hold onto it.
Yeah, I think hand that over.
It's got double your kills.
Maybe he doesn't want it.
Yeah, sure.
Monosit scopes up on mid.
Wasn't presented anything early on in this one.
Molly's forced him back. Nades are good. Once again,
used to try and bully exertion out here at banana, but the hit's still coming.
Now is still making moves.
All the way into the top of B. Kiyosuke first to fall.
I'll be back to his entries here.
Insane. Jump up. If Kiyosuke had the AK, what that could have been?
It's something that's all that we weren't really used to seeing.
Getting that opening kill at Banana, like you have a lot of wounded players right now, but if you overextend, you just give it to Archie another!
Sit back and breathe.
Five on three.
You couldn't get man advantages in these Banana fights all throughout Reg.
Don't get ahead of yourself though. Two low players.
players the Falcons make a good gamble and mouse hit that bombsite there are
always ways these can go wrong so Falcons have to read it right two
players back site kicks in and monosy monosy with a slow start but building
back into this game and mouse all five it's all about the trades
Xashin takes the AWP because he's low.
It's a Torsi won't have his weapon of choice.
How's his rifling?
Push through, they let the low player lead the pack,
roll it up at the front, and a hell of a shot back from Torsi.
Kicks out on the rifle now, dead to that naïve.
And Tess says, all the way on the other end of the map,
left in an unwinnable 1v3.
Maus, they've done this.
There should be no world. The low players went out and sacrificed themselves.
Willing to lay down their life, faith in the rest of the team to see it through.
An exertion, holding on from bottom of the board delivers the killing blow.
Maus, 16-14.
A close game, a back and forth game, but when we hit the OTs, Maus level up.
down, but never out for miles, great recovery after a difficult first half without the second pistol. It felt like Falcons were teed up for the two and
oh, now they're going to have to earn it on their map pick. We're heading to the unknown of dust two.
Truly a war of attrition where miles would eventually come out on top. So many high pressure, high octane scenarios in its mouths to
somehow outlasted Harry and Hugo just said there were opportunities for Falcons to be closing this
one, Janko. Once again, reception to their fingers. Yeah, a very close series, unfortunately, you
know, the two bad starts made things more difficult for them in regulation. But honestly, their T-side
just wasn't good enough. I mean, it took some, you know, deagle prowess from the likes of Niko
and Tess's in that final round of regulation. But even prior to that, when Kiyosuke Niko got
four kills, you know, on a half-buy to extend their time in this game, right?
I think some of the mid-routing wasn't really up to par during regulation and in the end they
pay the price. Falcons clearly painting the picture once again that it's the individual that gets
them over the finish line and that's one player to play your cards, right? But if you cannot get
the individual to be working and you can't find openings, or at least play off those openings that
you actually create, then you will find yourself in a tough position. I didn't think that Falcons
did have rounds where they looked good, but at the same time they also had floors of rounds
where it looked pretty bad. But I feel like those rounds that Falcons had, they were kind of set
from spawn. It wasn't something they pivoted into like mid-round. It's more of, they went fast A
and then they got the round done and they went fast B, fast banana, they got a couple of entries and
the round just kind of gets into your pocket. And but besides that, I feel like the mid rounds
were kind of poor from Falcons. Yeah, I feel like that's a really good point and maybe one that
that you can perhaps illustrate, and around you picks out Dupree, you had a conversation
with Zonek, which you actually saw materializing in the game. What was happening here?
Zonek was obviously telling me that some of the issues that they'd be having is that
the fakes that they're supposed to be pulling off has to be aligned with what's happening,
and the banana control is what has been happening throughout this game. And now, mouseball at
this point has already lost a lot of control, so they decided to gather up a torsion, searching
for some information in top mid to try and string out what's actually happening inside
the rounds. And Kyuzuki is ready for this aggression, actually picks up Spinks, and
He knows that there's another guy helping him out and he almost catches the frag onto Torch as well.
And then Falco turns their attention to the B-bombs where they actually want to do the B-fake.
The issue here is that as you look at the clock, the time is running low, but the fake is happening so late,
and it's actually so hard. There's two late to react towards the other bombsite that actually runs into C.D. Spawn,
and actually makes it all the way back to the site.
And also then having no smoke at Modopid also allows the guy from Leipzig to help out.
And that just paints the picture again for Falcons that they're in a position where the idea is right,
but the execution is just not connected with how the other guys on the A-bombs on his position.
Like they cannot react towards that play they just made up and that made them in a quite sticky situation.
It's a 4v4 in which Maus had 3A, rotated and played 3B during the fake and came back to play 3A again before Falcons even started hitting the bombs.
And the idea was good, you know, it happened like it was supposed to work exactly how they wanted,
but the issue is just that it went too slow like in the opposite direction.
Why would that be the case though?
Why would you be second guessing what you should be doing in that situation?
The players.
Why would you react quicker?
A lot of people put their blame on the Inge reader for, oh, that's a bad call.
No, no, he called well.
It's just to think that the players have to take control and like react towards A.
They have to be in the positions because Kixon is not just going to call,
Let's fake B and then wait 20 seconds to go. That doesn't work like that.
He said, let's fake B and let's go. And then the player that has to take responsibility of,
okay, I'll go long, I'll take the rotation, I'll come short, I'll mollipede, whatever.
And, sorry, I agree with you what you're saying. It's more like the fact that
it's also about having the overview because if the guy is on banana,
he's saying, I'm about to fake, but the guy is on the A-bomb, so I was like, you know,
you need to wait like five seconds, we're not in position, right? No, it's the combination
where you communicate between the sides because you don't necessarily have the overview because
because you're watching across it, but it has to be the all-view that actually speaks in that situation.
That is hard. That is hard to have that all-view to know that I cannot do the fake now
and need to wait before my guys' position to actually hit the monster.
It was also crazy. I mean, we saw Kyosuke get a little bit frustrated after he dies.
It felt like he had Toji dead to rights, and it's two of the main guys towards the end of that game.
Even in the final round, Kyosuke feel like he has that kill in Banana.
There was that 2v2 with him and WannaCy that they couldn't just clutch and torsion on the other side of things like every time
Maus needed an entry or needed someone to step up, it felt like he delivered this round, the second round of the second half with that scout with this kill
You know, this is what gave Maus life really, Falcons convert this and start getting a good economy
Doesn't feel like Maus has enough in the tank to mount the comeback
Tosi is always a really interesting one when we're just talking about Opens in general, right?
And I'm curious to know from your perspective, JL, obviously you've had the conversation about Shiro and there wasn't necessarily so much preparation involving him.
How much was Torsi involved in the prep when you're looking at Maus demos and you're looking at exactly what you expect them to be playing like?
I mean, first of all, since Torsi I knew in 2024 and then 2025 and 2026, every single year, even months, he ramped up his performance and he's getting better and better and better.
And I feel like he's always been consistently good, and then getting better afterwards.
And I feel like he's added not just his gameplay to the mix, but also being supportive to his teammates,
because after every single round I can hear him scream, even in the backstage, I can hear him supporting his teammates,
and I think that's super detrimental to a team like Maus that's kind of running off vibes, so to say.
I wanted to ask you one more thing. Sometimes we talk about, like, if you're Falcons in this position,
in this position it's almost better if you just lost this map like 13-8 you know instead of because
it's your opponent's map pick and you already played a series earlier today and now like you had
your chance and it went to overtime and then you lost you think there's any merit to that or is
that all BS I mean you just want it to be as close as possible I mean it really depends how
they value their inferno if they thought their inferno was good and then they lost of course they
can lose some confidence after that but if they thought oh whatever it's a punish pick from them
We can just try our best, and if we lose we go to the next map, but it depends on that.
Like on the mental side, it doesn't sort of make you play a bit worse on the next map,
because you know you were close and you made maybe some mistake and the frustration sticks around.
I feel like going back to the topic of how we devalued in Inferno, if they had a bad Inferno,
and be like, okay guys, we've got 14 rounds in Inferno, we're playing good,
it just said the map was kind of not our strong suit, now we can actually play our game,
and the map that suits us, that shows them.
Like in theory, it shouldn't matter whether you lose in overtime or you get stomped 13-1.
In theory, it shouldn't matter.
But I mean, we're players after all, right?
Yeah.
Eventually, you're not in the manner.
No, but it's because you go back to the cruel situation, thinking that we could actually
have been leading this series if I wouldn't have been on X or Y or whatever that is.
And you know, that's why you sometimes hit yourself with the blame hammer.
And you know, that's part of being a player.
But in theory, it's actually just all about forgetting about the result and forgetting about
what you did in moving on to the next one because you'll have another shot.
And also the reason why we said the map change makes it even worse for Maus is because Dust2
was their perma-band. And now with the introduction of Anubis when Anubis was in the pool before
it was their perma-band. So now between the two maps they're going with the one that they've actually
played at some point and Dust2 was definitely a weakness for them. Towards the end they were
getting decent on it so to speak but this is where Falcons on paper should have a
big advantage looking at just the players that they have and how well worse they are on the map.
100%. I was just looking at some of the stats here. They played NRG and Aurora, lost Aurora,
beat NRG. I think that kind of makes sense with the caliber of team-speak-it-of-mouse.
Who are you looking at particularly if you're coming into this map that you haven't been playing
in the past six months from the mouse side? Who do you think should be having the most impact on
this one? I feel like it's the active players like the mid-core, the short-core, but if I'm
I'm not playing the map, I'm just playing the mental game, pushing them, I'm doing whatever I can to disrupt Falcons' game plan
because it's their map, they for sure prepared a lot on it, it's one of their favorite maps and if Falcons do not get to enjoy and actually play their prep, that could be the end of them.
I was going to say the same thing from the Falcons' side, you need to be ready for them just coming at you constantly and being disruptive and that should be the main focus of the talk and the game plan.
right? Okay, default, but let's make sure that we have protocols for their aggression.
Don't think about too much. I don't think there's going to be many 5v5, you know, round
executes in this game. You just need to be focused on punishing their aggression trading
and the sides reacting, right? Like because they like to group mouse, so there's going
to be a gap somewhere you need to be quick with your reactions to exploit the gaps when
they present themselves.
I just want to take up scope out. Sorry, Jail. Just to look at this, because obviously this
This could be the last time we see Falcons here in Krakow.
How much of a disaster in your eyes would that be if they don't make it through to playoffs?
I mean, losing to Maus is not such a disaster, of course.
You could have had a better tournament at the start of the tournament, but losing to
Maus is not something you should be ashamed of.
Maus is a strong team and they were a title contender last year, I mean, some tournaments.
So there's no shame in that, but of course, they can play better, but Maus is a good opponent
that way.
I think it's a disaster for both teams, like regardless of the result, you know.
This is the first tournament for Mousesports. If they go out now, that's a big disaster.
Also with the fact that they didn't make any roster changes and for the side of the Falcons,
they're still looking to break through. And if they go out here, that's also a disaster.
No matter who's losing, it's going to be a disaster. Regardless of the opponent, that's
at least in my books. But of course, this is what happens when the good teams, they fumble
in the group stage and they end up in the emulation game. But that's part of the game, but a disaster
regardless of the result.
was losing to Aurora for both of these teams it feels like. I thought it was a lock for
Miles Falcons in Vitality in this group but Aurora just stepping up really best with the
plans for both of these teams but you know no point crying over spilled milk you still
have this one opportunity and you need to take advantage of it.
Well we do need to have things to a quick break before we can get back into it. A bit
of unknown territory for Miles, I only seen them play it twice so far this event thus
two brought into the mix by Falcons to see if they can keep their heads above water. It's going down
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But instead, the machine declared war.
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Now, the one thing the Division needs is a hero.
What about this?
This could be a way in but they don't have a choice. It's all you know
Splunge virtual
Is it finally over
And bro, look at him, just look at him.
Yeah, it's oozing from him.
Yeah bro, oozing.
What is your secret?
Is it the hair?
If we can only unlock that one key ingredient, that aura.
If we find that missing piece, the trophies we start flying in.
Okay, okay.
Detecting a little bit over here.
He's faded, but he got it.
Oh yeah.
There we go.
Aren't you just a snack?
Yeah, I can't deny it.
He got it.
Look at the size of him.
He's a big guy.
For you.
Imagine him just slowly...
Joking.
Your bombs are the utility.
And then just plowing it.
Bro, what?
The old school VP, the plow.
Know your history, bro?
Sorry, just got PTSD.
Hey bro, ready to look in?
I wasn't even the crowd favorite in my hometown.
Like, I was looking for my family,
and even they were cheering for us.
We are in the mud.
How even this guy has more aura than us.
He used to literally have zero.
Yeah, so it moves off this fucking belt.
Until...
Wait!
They've won an actual fucking tournament.
Shit.
Fuck.
Well you know what's better than aura, playoffs, that's what Maus are fighting for today, trophies
are later discussion, let's just get into the tour on arena first, Falcons are mapped
down in this final day of groups and Dust2 decides whether Maus need a third or they
can get it done quick and easy as Jimmy likes it.
Yeah, Dust 2, where we've ended up.
Falcons looking to exploit this one and hoping it can save them in this series.
That's what you think, you couldn't like Torsche anymore.
Goes ahead and...
That just puts in a great map.
Fantastic actor as it turns out too.
Does he have his lines memorized for Dust though?
And is he ready to play the hero?
Wow Falcons feeling villainous right now gonna need to reverse sweep this series
We mentioned dust to as a potential worry for mouths a map that haven't really played in six months two games locked here
Crack off so far. Let's see if they're up for the task
Lower push for Spinks has exertion riding shotgun
You can see the monesties considering it
Holding on to this push in through lower
What do you be able to stop for guns?
he's just looked away and the timing might not get worse than this for the Falcons
backstab closing in and play a late here's the steps at least kick sound won't last
long an exertion no way no way you come through this what if you do he's gonna
listen for that tap and tries to get a move on test says turns back around in
time and Falcons will find success in this pistol three from Monacy look like
he was going to miss the timings all together,
running more than made up for it.
Important fake plan there,
because Maus were planning to push on the plant
through the window, so the flanker come in.
So that tap baits him into Monos, he's double.
They turn around to deal with the flank.
Scary pistol nonetheless,
but Kixon hearing those steps
at least gave info for Falcons, well utilized.
Torsche was just a monster in that previous map. His orb, his scout, his openers.
I'll block in this round. Smoke comes down.
Falcon 1 there. First pistol in the second half on Inferno. They're still lost to the force.
So really looking to keep it simple here and avoid that. We've got double car
setup here, 3B strong, Falcons all going into a stack, but they've got AKs.
What could go wrong?
Well, with entries like that, the testers, let's go ahead and make this easy.
Exertion doesn't last long at the car, and I can't believe we just saw an MP5 SD get
a kill.
Some things really are wild about this series.
Falcons winning a pistol and converting it.
Shocking.
And now getting off to a good start.
was saying on the desk that they had these slow starts, these slow beginnings, feeling
like that's what did them in on Inferno. Well, at least dodging that here. It's a welcome
change.
A necessity to set the record straight in this map. They know it's a map that Maus
won't have the recent depth on, the recent experience and so surely just we see a lot
of comebacks from ours we see strong resilience but do we see the playbook if they are down?
Well we might have to find out. 2-0 start soon to be made 3.
Scout gets to go again and I feel like you're already gonna have a bit more depth and then
getting a call from the front would be a real nice double whammy four kicks that.
See Brolin trying to make a move. Falcons aren't overlooking this idea.
Two players actually watching for aggression up into the top of mid.
I don't think Monosy could get any more passive.
Oh wait, Nika rather.
Oh, how?
Brolin' like a bandit, get's out.
I mean, that's not the best of starts.
You do still have this long controller, Monosy, down here in pit, and a good tap-down range.
You'll find Torsche, that's the scout, hopin' a sniper, pit player, out of the round, ends
up on the receiving end of these AK taps. Catwalk now pride open by the Falcons and
this is all the makings that are then course correcting Nico. I'm able to stop that flank
in from behind and with the scout deleted again, Brolin's double shouldn't come to matter.
Oh, why not? Got a bit of a gap. Nico plays on the edge of it but the smoke is a wall
all here for Malus getting through.
Not easy.
And good that Niko moved with that spam coming in.
There's a gun to save for exertion,
and that's temptation enough.
Falcons convert their pistol.
Falcons had a couple of chances to actually win on Inferno.
One of the ones that stood out, I guess,
was the Kiyosuke Modesty 2v2 attempt
that was the big clutch for exertion
that kept the dream alive for this Malus squad.
than they would go on and win it.
You know, I think it's a bit of a rough one.
Monacee here, a cracking shot to open the 1v2.
But in the end, it was all in vain.
He never really took control of Inferno.
Can't be hard to do as the AWPer here on Dust.
No such excuses.
And you want Monacee hitting hard.
He's 5-0 to open up right now.
And he's going to bring out that AWP instantly,
looking to put it to work from the get-go.
I want to see a bit more from Monossey here on the Falcons' map pick.
Yeah, it's weird because you look at the numbers and it looks really good.
And he did have a recovery from a slow start, but there were definitely some swings and misses.
A long exit with spawns to boot.
They've got a lot of bodies out the long side.
They hit the off-fire off as well.
They know that Toshi started his round here.
Now's they're actually hanging around trying to scrap for this space.
Committed to their setup. Committed to the anti-long rush.
And it's ended up offering Brolin up on a silver platter 5v4 for the Falcons
Torsi trying to reposition ends up losing his head
Now just exertion and its entries all day for Niko
Feels like a map that's made for the Falcons try with some of the individuals we have on this team
Extremely sharp shots for Niko. He's lost his gun again
And Kiyosuke, we know he's a mechanical monster and monocle on that mid-cross as well.
Niko's gonna jump in here?
Oh no, he's looking to take that up out of their hands.
Yoynk and Spinks really wants to take you back for Torshe.
Oh, they're giving monocle a need to blow it away.
What?
Oh, wait.
I mean, it's wide, I guess it's still hard to pick up, so...
Bomb might help. Bomb will help.
Look how much they'll die on what.
Honestly, he might die. Gotta run, gotta run. That bomb is big.
Honestly, dies with the orb, speaks, picks it up, and so does Kiyosuke, so everyone gets out.
Sorry how much they were playing to deny it, though. You don't want to allow that orb to keep making appearances for Toshi.
Joshi, no question that he's switched on in this series.
Any round you can get, if you're monosy,
not having to worry about one for the other side
only makes your own guy hit that much harder as well.
What's been a nice way to gain some early economic control
in a game that you're already winning.
But it doesn't pan out.
And Cyclone gets ahead of this 4-0 lead
with a very early timeout, just five rounds into the game.
No spawns for long this time, so a bit more of a default round for the Falcons.
Full anti-long rush set up here for Maus.
Four planks.
You are very dedicated to this.
It's a setup there with two now you've got to disband that four man a hold and
Try and plug these holes that were open at the start
Honestly walks right into the torsion, but he shows them early why falcons were so keen to keep it out of play
Getting very involved. I'm just looking behind the molly as well peeking quite deep onto default
does get blocked at long famas my let rolling down his tests and kicks and
try and contact out this position it's ugly on the shot kiss who gets
naded on short there's a man up there again don't know about Spinks he's always
hiding out he's always cheeky this guy when you least expect him or that pick
from Nico on an aggressive v-play Spinks doesn't get to reveal his strong
position. That bomb is rotating out. Miss shot for Torsche. Niko doesn't cross. Torsche,
I think he's figured it out, has the line locked. Going to peek into Niko, a terrifying
peek. And one he trifles with again, spinks flank. Apparently going to be the answer.
All right, worries needed to be. He's just missed that timing, though.
This is weird now. He's going to kill Niko, but they get the site.
They know a kill's coming to them, right?
They know that Niko will get served up on this wrap brown.
And so there he is, shot in the back.
That leaves you in a retake, leaves you in a three on two.
Tess says it's very, very low from these earlier fights.
Kicksan might have to put up some numbers here.
Wasn't his strong suit back for Inferno.
Given a flash that feels like it both should have been
and needed to be that kill.
Because now he's lost Tess's in the site
and Toshi's hot for the trade.
They tried to keep that up away for him,
But it found its way back into its owner's hands,
and he puts it to work.
Mouser, just the best team to catch you off guard
with the kill feed reading, right?
When you're going, oh, be player dead, be player up, whatever.
That doesn't really seem to matter when you're with Mouser,
because Spinks is always in somewhere unsuspecting.
You see the surprise from Nico on the cam
when he gets shot in the back.
Mouser, the best team to make a case for positionless CS.
Other problems would appear if you tried, but Spinks is always catching teams off-guard.
Takes a lot of resources and a lot of risks, but once the Maus are happy to take, Spinks back on B, and Falcons meet him there.
But they're all covering the line, they know they don't have to worry about these closer angles still, doesn't make it any easier.
Niko Ankiyosuke went looking for those openings.
Oh no!
Don't lose this fight. Don't lose this fight. It starts to feel really, really rough if you let Brolin get away with that.
Now you're still in a recoverable position here.
Honestly, waiting.
I'm hoping that someone overextends.
Someone takes a cursory glance into the tunnels,
and this AWP will be given a chance to level the playing field.
This is pixel-perfect on the hold, right? No one's giving him an inch.
This pink's not the type of guy to get too eager in these positions.
They know the AWPs are live. Why risk it?
Why give Monosie a way back into this round? It was supposed to be locked off of his B hit.
And that smoke has the bombs coming in.
Further irritation.
This is an aid. You could blow it open, but it's going to feel pretty desperate.
It's a move I don't really think you love if you're the Falcons.
Our second hit, I think.
Or just to say, respectable to keep the open play. This is the right call for the Falcons.
That kill on the flank doesn't really open up the opportunity.
Maus also continually throw U-Tile. Molly just came down on B.
If Alcans tried to hit that site, it would not have gone well.
So, second round take of a Maus. Good B hold.
to keep in track of the money.
It's the money that he's on.
How can time out ahead of one more rifle round?
Seen a bit of frustration there for Nico, not liking the tone set in these lines.
last two. I mean, that flash lands as they get out tunnels. It becomes a millisecond
sooner. Maybe he doesn't die on the first entry, Sonic with his time out. And what was
very interesting here is it's not on where he's necessarily dominating the airwaves.
There was a lot of interjection there down the pack. Everyone with a point to say for
the Falcons. Still waiting for
monasy on this orb to even really fire a shot off. Had it in every round possible
and still yet to get a kill with it. Torsies getting quite involved might be
breaking this mid smoke open. Spinks starting aggressive and lower. Waiting for the clear,
Toshi gets tagged on the break. He's still learning about Spinks, but he takes in that Molotov,
and now Modesty's running him down, chasing him in lower. Spinks gets out with the kill.
Messy along for Brolin, but damage done, and Falcons just have to rush. Toshi's pushed off the line.
Really, really low on health here, even hurting around the drop. That smoke hit nearly gets him
killed. It's not much of a smoke either. Still able to path round it on the Falcons. Molly
slowed their roll. Backstab on the cards for Spinks and I mean he's playing an aggressive
move right now that no one's looking. Spinks is the round in the palm of his hand. Is he
ready to strip it away? Runs out of ammo. And Tess says with a must win fight keeps things
straight and narrow for the Falcons or so you'd like to think. Torsche is already committed
to the idea of saving. Jimmy's hanging around waiting to see if he can make this interesting
up over spells disaster because he goes right in a test says. So they don't know it, but
they won this round. Torsche was out of there. They left it to Jimmy just to see if he could
cause chaos in that round in that one on three. Almost feels reductive, but it's just whiffs
for miles in this round. Right, Brolin getting damage on long feels nice in the moment, but
doesn't take a kill with him and spinks great flank.
He killed Modesty in middle in the open,
but he can't capitalize on back's turn.
Even the low player takes a lot of bullets
revealing his flank second whiffs on Tess's
who goes on to kill Jimmy.
I mean, any better shots for Maus
and I think they just win this round flat out.
So reduced to the gunfights,
Falcons favor up to five.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
The terrorists win.
Oh!
簡單!
Tess has died to the bomb.
Yeah, it's my deal!
Like in the early stages of this one.
I'm gonna die.
I'm gonna die.
If you remember, Falcons sunk a good chunk of resources into trying to remove the AWP from play whenever they're winning.
They're not squeaky clean, such that they're rolling in money out on this T-Side.
Another full buy comes out for the mouse squad with that AWP saved forward
Niko AWP has the longspawn gonna try his hand at the opening and mouse they've been making sure to
really pad this part of the map they've got multiple players here Niko lands a tag
this AWP's feeling cursed right now no one's got to kill with it yet for the Falcons it's
It's just been tags at most.
It's better than nothing.
And Brolin has just been dead for none on the long position.
The two times Falcons have tested him.
So whether or not they know they have that tag, going back into long, it's not a bad move.
We're still really waiting for either Orp to stand tall and dominate this game.
And so as we look on in these next couple of rounds, I'm waiting to see,
Will it be Monticey recovering from this slow start?
Reminder, he had the ult from the third round of play.
Oh, there'd be Torsche to stand and deliver on the CT half.
Looked like they were going to play into his bombsite.
They still could with Niko floating around in the tunnels.
The option is left there for the Falcons.
If they don't like what they see on Cat, they can go back.
They can change their mind.
Right now, you're happy you're at least burning some Util
out of the mouse squad.
Maybe going to try and send Kiyosuke down into the spawn
for a backstab, but nobody here, nobody home.
And I set on B for this split.
Good position for Jimmy.
Tess is on his own, bomb goes in
and Jimmy just drops out of the ground,
kicks in, needs his trade desperate.
Does come up with it, exertion traded in the spawn,
torches open another miss,
and these orbs aren't going anywhere quick.
Modesty finally finds his first kill since the third round
and that might signal the save.
Falcons sixth locked in on this T side.
I think a very, very happy that you get through this round. If you're the Falcons, it's a nice big picture idea, but a number of things nearly go wrong for them, right?
Awkward spacing on Tess as he makes his way out towards the double doors. An important trade from the captain. Kick sand is double opener worth its weight in gold to the Falcons.
gold to the Falcons, you know, that round can start to spiral very quickly. Then it
missed from Torsche in through the tunnels and suddenly the fact you hemorrhage those
players from mid, losing Tessers, losing the player that dropped in a spawn in Kiyosuke
don't matter so much once you've got the B site under lock.
He had a pretty rough first map, couldn't win his fights, he comes up with the kills
of Jimmy and the back stabs of Xershan who was hiding out in spawn.
the Falcons on a hot streak.
I want to see with the boost the chance to try and hit a cross shot but he lacks nothing
Instead of just watching for lower tunnels, now we'll at least make life easier for Niko and Kiyosuke who are moving quickly now into this part of the map.
I'm on the space for 140.
And even this kind of feels nice, because earlier on in the game you were worried about those aggressive moves from Spinks.
He was being a real nuisance in through the tunnels.
Another miss from the Toshi Orb exertion makes up for it.
Okay, Torchy Whiffing was not on my bingo card.
That's back to back rounds.
At least he has his teammate by his side.
So, how does Kixson call them out of this in a 4v5?
Niko has been...
...planning great openers into bomb sites.
Might need to again.
I just wonder if hearing the AWP fire on A
can give you enough cause for concern just to stay away from that side of the map.
Saw that as soon as it fired off Niko went and retook those upper tunnels
and so maybe looking at the mid-to-be split here,
once again just running back the same round from the Falcons.
They're going to have about 20 seconds when that smoke faded up a B,
so it's not on Niko right now, it's on his team getting out on this mid position.
No smoke forward, 40 flicks back.
good connection. Modesty owns the line while making it in.
All knots.
Spinks from the window catches them by surprise on that mid-crossing.
When no smokes there, it was always going to be an uphill battle for the Falcons to say the very least.
Something had to go really right and it all goes horribly wrong.
Nico never even gets a chance to play and again we find ourselves looking at a Spinks multi-kill round
to get Maus on the board.
No doubt in his output in this map right now, top of the charts, 8 and 4, and he's been on the present.
You're always worried about where Spinks is going to crop up.
You've seen him aggressive in lower tunnels, he's backstabbed you on a long flank, he played Trigger Discipline in the pit,
and now he's appeared emerging late out through the B window to shut down a B split.
They're there and everywhere. The Indian nightmares.
Now, it's looking to recover their half.
Breaking the money would be one step in the right direction to do so.
Monosie up again. Torsche takes his upcat.
Monosie waits for a break of the smoke.
Spinks his hold again, but it's going to go in deep instead.
Knowing the timing, Kiyosuke comes out lower.
Great grenade here for Malz.
Counter Kiyosuke.
He's been getting shut down in the middle and on short, one and six.
Down to just 20 health.
Might want to hand that gun over.
Roland, stronger position than before.
And even this kind of sucks for Kyosuke. You know, every party wants him to be online,
wants him to be feeling good. You've got to take the gun off of him, though, in this
round. You just don't really have the resources to go around.
Well, Kixen's 2-0 on opening duels, so he's going to have to come in first here and bail
Falcons out in another mid-to-be. Again, Spinks is in the right position. Does
he have another multi-kill in him?
Surely he tucks it, he pops, hop, swings and now he lets Jimmy play.
Takes that contact, next I'll trade it back and forth, it's not a multi-kill though and
Modesty's got his in the downtime.
Bikes down on Jimmy, ready for it, Modesty's pulled the knife in the smoke and it all gets
a bit crazy, chaotic miss, Potoshi, and that's surely gonna cost him.
They've got him boxed into this corner, 15 seconds left, you can't actually hold this
forever, they've got to make a move and Kiyosuke will.
knife in smoke. What the hell is that? Is he just swinging while he runs through? Jimmy
disappears. Modesty puts him in the morgue. Triple kill deals with long flank. Show me
this. Runs through and just spams stabs till he gets the kill and great composure in the
2 on 1. They haven't boxed in this 15 seconds. They have to make a decision and Falcons just
stick to the kill. Now Monacek feeling it goes for another pick, does miss, gonna get
Molly. And they do nothing. They did literally no damage. I have no idea how Monacek gets
out unscathed from that. Show that back. Felt like the perfect punish. Spinks was still
able to find a man advantage for Maus in the midst of all the chaos. And so no opener
for the Falcons they've got to look elsewhere. He literally shouldn't be alive that landed
dead on him. Well somehow some way he's been given a second chance in this round.
Roland, just push long doors again.
You make a move of it.
I've just got to trust this team at this point doesn't want to be the liability of giving
up a kill in the man advantage so let your boys hold.
40 seconds for Falcons to make a decision, they might be tempted by another mid to be,
it's monosy upper.
one more smoke out mid to be here for Falcons. Spinks in Jimmy once again.
Spinks up close, doesn't get out with anything and Jimmy pulls right away, it's exertion
on a mad dash! Through the mid smoke doing big damage! Don't tell me that the Fagmonis
he didn't die to that Nade will really come to matter in the long run, it's down to this
1v1! Can't quite find the bomb, Brolin might feel temptation to go through that time so
low monies just going to get the numbers plugged in surely not the man that wasn't even meant
to be at play was supposed to be dead to the utiling tunnels has a clutch right here shut
down a lockdown of it and finally monies demise bought about by mouse was feeling meant to be
wasn't it it was all building for monies second chance at life hitting his shots feeling fancy
and still Brolin squeezes out one final round here for Malz.
We go into number twelve.
And Malz are looking for these scraps at the end of the half.
I'm honestly dancing with death
and hitting very hard
after going five rounds straight without a kill.
So Malz really have it in him.
I did it with a five in the first half of Inferno.
I see that whole belt of Utah left back over at ramp.
That's from hours later.
Should this come down to the cap play?
Well, Falcons are taking it quickly, but also quietly a combo that's hard to pull off.
There's no info here.
Now's they're aware that this has been the gap and so pressure's gonna be on for exertion.
He's got that full bounty of utile just to keep replenishing Catwalk.
Keep it uncomfortable for the Falcons.
And it's at the turn of that smoke that they are gonna change direction here.
Looking into mid now.
Ooh, nearly awkward timing for Torsche.
He's going to catch Nico as he tries to lob the nades over on Short.
Got to hope that giving that smoke over was worth it just to get this exact rolling in
because there's the second volley of Utile from the mouse squad.
Where do you think it's going?
Playout in towards A.
Exertion's got no more Utile to fall back on now.
He's just got to back his aim, bit of support from the Torsche AWP.
This Short play gets churned up, shut down.
Maus looking good for a five round recovery as Tess says is iced out that little pocket a utility
reactivation of exertion on the second map has left Maus in with a chance
You are my skin power.
You are my skin power.
You are my skin power.
Falcons hoping that they can recover and take this one all the way to Ancient.
They put in a winning half there with a bit of help from a rare pistol win to get things
going.
Now is a lagging lightly behind now move on to the T half. This is a map yet to really be dominated by any one or per
Honestly, maybe taking the cake in that regard
But I think both still yet to truly leave their mark on dust to we're left wondering who gets activated first CT side for monocy could be wearing
It's sick
Told she was getting just smoked off in middle wasn't really having any cat xx to get involved
Let's see what mouse's new T side looks like on a map that they've only played twice in six months
Austin was the last outing before Krakow
And we're not in Texas anymore
Good catch for monocy flash team set up by his squad and propelled forward on those door burritos
Passing into the site, Monosy just continues his reign of terror on these doolies and it's
all the double pistols getting multi kills, three for Monosy, two for Kiyosuke and an
eighth round secured as both pistol rounds now go the way of the Falcons.
Alright, things are starting to fall in their favor, huh?
Falcons with an 8-5.
It's exactly the score they had back on Inferno.
The difference is they lost the force by straight away.
It's going to be a lot harder for Mals to pull that out of their hat.
No bomb plant, should be no investment.
So Falcons favored here on this second map as it was always meant to be.
One of their more comfortable picks.
and if slow starts with the issue on Inferno, that excuse does not exist here on Dust2, doesn't
get sweeter than this.
Said earlier, but getting a call from the front on a map that your opponent doesn't
have a lot of reps on is a very liberating feeling for the Falcons as well.
So a lot going their way, and then just to capitalize on it, the ball is very much in
their court. Timing on that, but chance falls a little shy.
I was near what was coming, they backed up after the spot, trying to minimise damage,
but only for a moment because this one is going nowhere. Four clocks.
Ego moving over at the right time.
Well contained, just looking to keep this clean and fire alive.
Well done for the Falcons, no issue there.
First gun round for Maus, and not the first of many if they don't find success with it.
That's two could be over very very quickly, a far cry from the over times of Inferno,
and the back and forth nature of that opening map.
Bonus round for the Falcons, they're going to come through with an aggressive look.
in this first rifle, Niko gets fed to Maus out there in middle.
Don't know what happened, but if Falcons changed their mind, they went heavy too lower and
then they decided to bail. You didn't get to leave. Maus was so aggressive out mid.
That was such a quick push. Falcons get completely caught off guard.
To be fair, you're not expecting the midtake to come in that quickly.
The Falcons caught off guard with a pace and a 5v3.
Miles cannot afford to waste this one.
Uh-oh.
There's a lot of damage done here.
Might be left looking at Spinks again,
asking him to save the day, and it's all
going to come down to if he can nail Kiyosuke here.
He gets dealt with straight up.
Three guys low.
Exertion, the only one with health.
Brolin helps out massively with that entry.
Are they ready for kickstand?
Spam is good.
Spam is very, very good.
That's exertion, now removed.
And the holly doesn't pop.
It was caught by kick sand.
Oh, dear.
Oh, no, mouse.
Left clutching at straws, as Brolin is doing all he can
to keep them in the conversation.
One shy of all the kills.
And there's Jimmy, the save the day, breaking through
and stopping that weird round from coming in
for this Falcon squad.
3v5 into a 1v1 for Falcons, a very nice try.
But Jimmy is too late.
So late, Kiyosuke doesn't expect it, thinks he's trading on short.
In fact, right on time to find the first round of the half here for Maus,
first buy coming in hot.
On the end of the world for Falcons, they get caught on an aggressive move,
they have plenty more chances.
Oh my, Jimmy, they have no idea, he just jumps through the smoke.
Complete disrespect, they're spamming it,
And they line up.
A very naughty move from Jimmy P.
And again, risks must be taken by the Falcons, Nico.
Staring down, hiding out.
You hear the orb fire off from the site? You could stand to overlook Nico.
saw the heavy long set up saw them trying to fight for the space you know
that someone was here throwing the flashes for them to go and enable that
fight this could get very scary if a mouse again it's a fight through
Molly forces Nico back question is that they hear the tag on it and a little
jiggle up didn't get him spotted they didn't see it Nico only good for one
it's a quick-term patoshi and so even though they play into the stack they
get through it. That was all five players for the Falcons inside of the A site at one point in time.
As they're getting advantages and then they're slowing really well and just letting these rounds
get squeezed out. The question is, are Falcons going to keep giving them these double kills?
It was the double low push. It was Jimmy through the smoke. Two very easy setups, four mouths,
both closed out. I mean, also just what a time for exertion to start to really, you know,
leave a bit of a mark on this game. It was his slow start on Inferno that gave you so
much worry, right? Just questioning, could he kind of bring himself back into the series?
He's a really important piece of the mouse squad. And because this is one of those teams
that doesn't have the super identifiable star power star player, you know, the desk were
even saying this. Dupree was mentioning it. Whatever one or two players have an off game,
you really feel it in the mouse squad. Well, he's had massive impact here on Dust2. This
is set to be a one round game for Big Apple here, for pistols and mouse. If they just
walk up into a it's going to be that round confirmed.
So as this one is tightening up, I think it's a good idea just to remind
ourselves of what's on the line here, right? This is the do or die spot.
This is the move into the tour on locking in a playoff appearance
versus going home. These are two squads that didn't manage to make it
to the playoffs last year where you have to go back to former rosters to
the last time they were in a playoffs at this tournament. Both teams were the point to prove
number three and four in the world and one of them is going to be shy of that playoff mark.
And you thought the Falcons were ready to extend this to be a three mapper to take it all the
way. They come off the back of reaching the grand finals with a stand-in and without Zonic out of
bounty at the start of the year. And now they're in a position where Maus are so close they're
They're within touching distance of tying this up on a map that they've had next to no experience on since Austin only starting to play it again here in Krakow
And that was forced right they just really don't want a new best. We already have five of the six playoff teams locked in
This is the final spot. We've got spirit G2
Furia vitality
Aurora and one of these two
two teams that
Missed the playoffs last year now's had a stand in
and two teams desperately fighting for the Toron.
Well, Falcons really botched this lead on their map pick of all places.
Keep in mind, winner of this is going to draw the bracket against G2, so it could be Niko
V. Hunter in the arena in a quarter-final.
That was what Falcons are playing for.
right now mouse are making something out of this second map a slow and steady
comeback rounds gifted to them somewhat advantage is certainly hemorrhaged by
the Falcons this buy is not pretty after the full USBs they only have two
players with the utility. Kittless, orpless, hopeless? Uh oh. Might be a bit deep here
for the second cubby, so Kicks and survives on the edge of the molly. It says Torsche
alone in tunnel right now. Miles check their flank. Long block. If anything, that's a
favour to Miles. Going out long in this position against his double setup would go very well
for Falcons you'd like to think. It's going to be a retake round here four miles coming
out into monocle and tests as flashes off the mark won't do anything about these players
towards long exertion. Sure you dealt with tests as for that's the beauty of this bait
and switch monocle gets all the reward. And so long as contained aggression in the tunnels
as kick sand goes hunting. Leaves are just on spanks, not long for this world with body
system employed all across the map for the Falcons bait and switch at long double tunnels
push in the downtime and it'll see them through on a double digits. You're breathing a little
easier. There's still more to do here, but it's a massive step in the right direction.
Falcons have been playing together on the CT side. That's the one thing you can't criticize,
Obviously a bit audacious at times with the mid with the lower push in the first gun round. It's how mouse
Took advantage in this half
Nice double setup on the long side eight. Yeah, we're feigning a long control round, but they're not actually playing for it
They didn't smoke in from CT and the flashes on test says it's really huge that he gets that smokes from there on
Brolin or else just come through and had a big problem on his hands
and he still might. Spinks is not respecting this smoke, playing right through it.
Teed up with a flashbang.
Look him for monosy, he's bottom down low.
They know that Tessa's kinda gone far, they know he's gonna be close by.
This is put Falcons immediately.
Their backs are up, they're...
Preparing themselves for a retake all of a sudden as this here has come through at a blistering pace.
Oh no.
Exertion's even playing it forward, will you expect this much aggression?
From Exertion!
and you've got a save rounds been decided in seconds. That is a decisive call for
mouse. They call the bluff on the long take and they were right in that. What a
move for Spinks is why I love that he plays ahead of that timing walks through
that smoke. He knows even in a 5v4 mouse or Falcons are not going to peek back on
long for info. They have the block. They have the advantage. So Spinks just walks
it in. I just love watching him play. Takes a huge risk, but if they'd sit there and do
nothing, Mauser locked out along. There is almost no way to win that round. And so Spinks
gets involved, sends them packing, forces Modesty to save off that high damage and gets
Mauser bombplot. Right now, Falcons are going to need a double bedded coffin because they
They just keep getting lined up!
Spinks calling the AWP save, Malz know what they're up against.
One round game!
Even if I could come through with a round like that, correctly anticipating the...
The smoke screen of a pretend long control round from the Falcons.
It's the decisiveness of the call.
It's the way that it staggers you and the fact that it's very much kept the pressure
on the Falcons.
Now down to an AWP head to head out here in middle.
Both of them miss.
Heavy mid-set up.
I anticipate what now is his next move might be.
And they all fired off and say,
Monacee is going to be the first guy to rotate away.
It's not moving far though.
It's Nico alone in the bomb site again.
Another round where Falcons just seemingly have no utility, right?
These rounds are getting very expensive.
They're only saving a couple of guns, having to drop weapons over.
And they're burning you till quick.
Final smoke out.
to the end of the clock. Even
that's a bit of a knock on
effect of just how pacey the
last round was right. You don't
feel like you can afford to sit
on the little utility had. You
had to burn it early.
On take you till double flash
is trying to bring them out into
the fold. Now last time you had
a multi killed in that bait and
switch set up this time. Tessas
has to do it alone because that
smoke cuts him off from the rest
of his team. It's Tessas
off from the rest of his team. It's Tessay's versus 2 for this long control.
They're able to get out with a buckload of damage, but only one of the kills.
Toshi just buying you time, holding these rotates off from middle, leaves you with
only Niko to worry about. They run at him and he whiffs. Gap on the smoke forced by Niko.
Catch is rolling on the crosses. Jimmy 1v3 and Niko is just daring to come
through on a second timing. Catches him throwing nades and Falcons find 11.
That's an eco. Give it a bit of disrespect back the other way right from the rush round up through long
He now throws caution to the wind just to ice out Jimmy doesn't give him any room to work with in that 1v3 clutch
Mows all of this, you know tenacity in the T side all of these advantages converted and now
Nothing to show for it. They call a timeout, but the buy is the big problem
It may be talking two or three AKs at best
Exertion is doing a lot of talking in this time-out. He's the guy with the
biggest gun in the round and the most aggressive piece of this mouse squad.
Torsche's whips man now they're really starting to cost him. Could have controlled
around there in the middle. Could have allowed his team to slow it down. He just
gets run at.
I think he's usually so full of life and you're used to hearing and cheering used to hearing
celebrating these guys spend a lot of time on the road together. Everyone in the team
likely knows the torch. He isn't feeling his best self right now.
After a great inferno, the same way they were trying to hype exertion up and bring him back
into the fold. They've got to do the same with Torsche because you're dead on right.
It wasn't really much of an orper's game throughout a lot of that first half, but there's no doubt
in the monies found the greater impact out of the two of them rising up towards top of
the board for his team stands to only get better as he might find himself in
the right place on the tail end of a cat exec. That's what mom is hoping for.
Remember, exertion was the guy doing a lot of the talking in that timeout.
Him, Brolin, Sycron. Those were the three now. Let's go in. Let's let's see what
they've cooked up. Let's see what exertion tries to do with one of the three
hero guns in this round. Jimmy lurking with one of the two AKs at long.
It's going to be out of the action for a while now and Tessa's just holds the
smoke. Malz feigning something here in middle. Does just feel like they're gonna end on a
catwalk play. Even if mid to B needs come in. Malz trying to force Falcons to move. Will
they panic? Niko does. Well you hear that drop down. You know you're getting the reaction
that you wanted. J site gets a little weaker. Now the play out through the long doors is
a little early from Jimmy. Wondering if that gives off the aim of the game. He will get
out with his one, but as he dealt with in the head to head, and Tessa is not on that
awp, he's going to get brushed aside.
So much success all over the map, Falcons just have no room, they get squeezed in their
sight.
Spinks picked mid with a pistol.
It's all come unraveled here for the Falcons, yet again, mouse is broken by, breaks through.
That is an unreal round to win.
They will just not let Falcons get comfortable down the tail end of Dust 2.
Any time they're winning a round there is an instant response from Maus.
This one came with severe limitations and it hinged on that plan from the timeout working
flawlessly and it did.
They got the exact reactions they wanted.
Jimmy and Spinks both helped out getting a kill on the extremities.
One lay out towards the long doors.
Maybe the unaccounted one over towards middle, only sweet in the deal.
You come into that round with just two AKs and a glow.
You leave with an AWP, you leave with everything, and you leave with Falcons shattered on this CT side.
We've got two players on 1400.
Gonna have to find a way to make it work.
Zonic's job now.
Kicks and instantly hands off his M4 to Monacy.
And similar to Inferno, with those last few rounds, Harry, if you remember, it was traded
rounds again and again and again and again.
We just had five in a row traded out, which wrecks that economy.
means that it coming down into those final rounds. Look, inferno was meant to be decided
by the money that ended up not really happening with the wins out of the Falcons. Sure. But
they've got a hope that once more these low econ rounds can come up in their favor or
else it really does start to spell a bit of a grim picture. The devastating part is Falcons
on the CT side. If they they're all in, if they lose this round right now, Mars get 11
they probably, Falcons probably have to give them 12.
This is a horrible position to be in for Falcons
on a map that was meant to be a lock-in for them.
8-5 lead.
Mouses have not given up.
Kiyosuke committed.
Are they ready?
That's a spot, that one's free.
Oh, and there's even a follow-up miss from Toshi once more.
Could have had that trade at bare minimum,
made it a 2-for-1.
But Kiyosuke lives to continue fighting in this round.
That's a map winning play right there.
Like this is the way we're seeing this up.
This is Falcons about to be broken
coming into round number 23.
Kiyosuke might just have saved this entire game
with that double entry.
Falcons need to finish what he started.
There's not a bit of utility,
this flash. Yeah you still very much have to win these gunfights here on out. The round is by no
means over. If it's left to a retake, you don't have the utile to try and claw yourself back in.
You're relying on individuals. Niko backstab comes in, Toshi caught out in no man's land and they
will shut down the short play. Spain's got 20 seconds and too much ground to cover. Get ahead
for the hills and that's if
kick sand lets him. Falcons
continue this back and forth
this trade of rounds. And they
move on to map point. I don't
think I can sing the praises
enough. If Kiyosuke doesn't get
that double, I'm all inning a
mouse win and a two and oh and
Falcons eliminated from the
tournament. Mousy the playoffs.
That just feels like it's meant
to be. Double kill for Kiyosuke
keeps them in this game gives
Unreal impact. They had nothing.
Up until now, Mouses have always been willing to go blow for blow.
Tip for tat, you take one, we take one.
Well, that's got to keep up if they want to stay alive now on Dust2.
UK more damage, put down range out towards middle.
Kick sign with a swing. Trying to seal this here and now.
Does a bit of damage onto that second player in.
Man advantage for the Falcons, but a tricky B-side retake nonetheless.
What's going for?
Only one more smoke left in play. They'll be able to replenish the doors.
At least shut down one of these angles throughout most of that bomb timer.
But full belty, you tell our monosy.
Molly's smokes, Nades are plenty for the Falcons.
They're gonna start cooking here. Ready to go on this retake.
It all starts with a monosy flash.
My flash, surgeon waits behind the big box, blinded our mouths as Falcons come flying.
Newt, wings clipped, cut down, exertion clutch, and it's Modesty running him up, headshot over the top!
Exertion keeps this game going!
From a very, very quiet Inferno, burning them alive here in the penultimate round of Dust 2!
Exertion keeps the dream right there and right for the taking!
Back-to-back over times, perhaps.
As Maus keep himself in it.
What a recovery from exertion. That is now twice over in these maps. Is that potentially
game defining clutches? Can Maus realize the chance that exertion has just given them?
Again, you have no util for the Falcons to rely upon.
Look at Arm's monosy. It's playing an MP5 SD. I never thought I'd see the day.
It's Tessa's earlier, wasn't it? On the T side.
Honestly, he bought this and handed it right back.
Well, you've got to make do with what you've got. A B gamble.
Kiyosuke, the orper. He's got no Kevlar.
Not even the first time this has happened on this CT side.
Kiyosuke's had it a number of times over, honestly.
It's hot potato. Kixxin's MP5 now. It's yours, buddy.
I'm not playing this stuff.
I don't know. A cat execute is a GG into overtime for Falcons. You are just really, really hoping they play into your hands. They play into this stack. If they don't, you're relying on a huge individual moment from these long players who might get left out of position entirely.
And if this comes down to a retake, you don't have utility, you don't have kids.
The odds massively shift in Maus's favor.
Up until this point on their road, they haven't been able to string two together since right
at the beginning of this T side.
Every single time, it's just been back and forth, round for round, round for round, and
that won't be enough here.
They're going into Kiyosuke on this secondary orb, nails that opener, exertion, the clutch
from that last round, the opener for Maus, dead first.
And Kiyosuke's not contempt, we're just the one.
The backstab connects.
Jimmy wrestles back a couple.
They've given up the site control.
Oh, that's nearly the teammate.
But a 2v5 dangerously close to coming in.
Walking in, waiting for the flank.
Tess is running.
There is no kit right now.
2v5 down to 2v1.
Overtime balance.
Tess comes in.
They know he's here.
Ready to swing off, Sphinx is contact, surely close, Jimmy takes it all the way into overtime!
Three kills from Jim Pat, back at the site, and back into overtime we go, Falcon's can't finish!
That was their chance, that was their opportunity, that was the game!
They get the exact play they were hoping for, the exact move out of mouse they were ready for,
and even the multi-kill from Kiyosuke is not enough to do it!
Oh, he's kicking himself the window swing. Okay, look at that minimum. If you want to look for some
positives, I feel like so positive. I really want to try and search for a grain of positivity right now.
They've not had proper buys in a long while with the trade of these rounds back and forth. And that
UTL really did start to matter. It started to restrict the playbook a hell of a lot. It won't
be an issue here in overtime. This is such a roller coaster. I mean, they did the hard job.
They did the difficult bit by winning with that Kiyosuke Double up on the catwalk play.
That gave them that point. That was meant to be the game.
And Maus just find a way.
2v5.
Thinking about ancient. We play on.
It's a roller coaster and a screws loose.
Will Falcons get flung out here in the group stage of Krakow?
I see back on his orb no longer handing off to Kiyosuke. He's gonna go far and
Why to look for the opener out here on short finds that 5v4 mollies get traded, but a good read their good head on their shoulders
Niko's provided the escape route countering that Molotov with one of his own and that will keep modesty in this round
I was accepted they trust in their round to close out
They don't want to dig the grave any deeper in a three on five
Modesty gets to reposition and Niko as well back down into middle
It's a beast smoke. Now it's making it moves. And they have to hit B at this point.
Blocked by some time.
And edging closer is exertion. Break on the smoke torch, he's dead first.
Alright, kicks out up close. Oh, cancelled by exertion out through mid!
And a 3v5, albeit for only a moment, only for a faint second, but unable to hold on to it.
The Falcons' mouths get through with a plan.
Even a lurk from Spinks.
This will be the last thing you're expecting.
You think Middles clear.
You think Exersion was the only guy on this mid-offensive.
The Spinks wrapping all the way through the tunnels now stands to rob this one out from
underneath the Falcons.
They're readying themselves up in the window.
He's playing at 4-1 and he's got them right where he wants them. There's the close!
Spinks, lines them up, knocks them down, and Malz take that first in OT.
2v5, 3v5, back-to-back. I know it's quick trades instantly, but those mini-matters are still coming in.
Those screenshots for Malz in impossible rounds.
Falcons.
This was meant to be theirs that go-to map pick in this series against a mouse that haven't played Dust 2 in six months.
And right now they have the round lead in overtime.
Can't praise him enough either. Spinks has been such an impressive force throughout the entire series.
We've talked a lot about exertion and the recovery he went on after that first half of Inferno.
Spinks meanwhile he has been a absolute rock and the worst kind. It's the boulder that's always chasing you
You're always looking over your shoulder wondering where he's gonna pop up next
It's a huge step towards the toron for mouse
Gonna need a couple more like that before they put the Falcons to rest here on dust to
Another double orb
Another reach for the stars, miss for monosie, no punish for mouths.
Not a noise made on the catwalk trying to bait whatever they can out of the falcons trying
to extract info and put pressure on and they have split this defense and there's all be
a line drawn through the center of the map. These guys on A don't get to be involved. If
the B site can't withstand this hit that's coming its way, this round is over for the
Falcons. KickSide is spammed to open it up and again it spinks to do it.
This B site's just been abused all game wrong for Miles and they're going to go back into
it. The only change today is Monosy is here but he is alone. We're not talking. You know,
10 lines through the map anymore. There's a very real one. Those smokes cut them up in half.
Monosy doesn't know where to look. They're coming for him through middle. They're coming for him
through the tunnels everywhere. The Monosy goes, leads to the same end and it's death inside of B.
Falcons are out of this round. They are out of the pitcher. 3v5 required.
It would have to start right now with this kill on exertion. And even then, it's still a huge uphill
Battle down near vertical. Exertion makes matters worse.
Impossible here for Falcons. They have to try, but even then they know it's not going to come through.
They walk away.
And because they've been leaning on the double orbs, if they want to have them going forward,
if they want to have that as a fixture of this CT half, they have to save here.
The option to retake, the option to try isn't even available.
Although they would make any damn difference. This is back to backgrounds into overtime for Maus.
This is four straight.
Nico will get his AWP and they take it away!
This could damn well be a flawless T side from now and spearheaded by Spinks and Exertion who are on the wall path.
If Toshi was the hype man, if Toshi was the guy keeping them going on Inferno,
Well, he's now handed that baton over to exertion
Carrying the flame carrying the torch Prolin dead first in this round
It's Kiyosuke on that orb to open things up
I wonder he feels like he has to get involved the last round the falcons one comes off of his double killer middle
So they lost the 2b5 they lost it three on five
This one starts 4v5 for Maus.
Falcons grit their teeth.
And Maus walk up cat, Monacy.
Tested.
Alone.
Here's the exit coming.
This shot just sails right past exertion.
Util gonna rain in from Nico out towards the spawn.
That's all they have to work with.
Modesty follows up. 3v5.
He's out.
I can tell you there's struggles converting on these rounds,
but this time they swarmed, they fight it together,
and they overrun the mouse squad,
at least getting away with something right at the end of their CT half.
It's been a minute since the Falcons round.
straight for mouths but they do grab onto some breathing room not sitting and facing elimination
for an entire T side because that's what's on the line playoff attendance for number three on
number four, but not both.
It's tense.
Monty's been trying going for the midfight.
Try going for the mid pick.
Toshi, he'll play it forward.
Takes that all out towards short, and there's a native combo to follow it up.
Niko is super wounded.
And then Fosuke Asuke as well, the man that held the promise of bailing them out of saving
them in some of these rounds dead first.
Of course, he repositions as this fades, could be a big problem, he's going to go gamble
B. Brolin and Long, he was a bit of a problem in regulation, Falcons were abusing him, they
were getting away and he never got a kill, it's now the time that's going to change.
Oh, I hear that smoke. That might be the invitation. That's the chance to go.
Spinks tucks in. No, he's gonna struggle to get gun on in time.
But again, we've talked about Spinks and just how annoying he's been.
Now, it feels like he's always in the right place here at the card.
He forces him wide with that molly. A very awkward miss for Monty.
Spinks giving a second chance.
Damage done on the long push, but four players out there in the open challenging him.
Not even he's capable of those numbers.
Exertion now, next on the chopping block, how will he fare?
Can he rise to the occasion where Brolin and Spinks came up short?
Doesn't have Utel to help him here.
It's just gonna come down to the mechanics, gonna come down to the aim.
There's 20 seconds left for the Falcons, they're going in with so low...
Oh no!
Wig out from exertion!
And it drives a nail into the coffin of the Falcons!
There's 10 seconds here for Monosy!
Closing in!
Can't steal it back!
Torchy takes him down.
And has got two chances to lock him playoffs right now.
And Falcons had two of their O they couldn't close.
You think Maus are going to let them back in the game,
winning the most unwinnable rounds,
teed up for a 2-0 to eliminate Falcons in the group.
This is a Maus who did not miss a playoff in 2025
with their full roster.
The only playoff Maus missed was Katowice.
here in Krakow, Mao's look to make up for it.
A year of success.
Every arena, every stage, every crowd against the Mao still made it.
Five kills.
Started off again.
And for the flight of the Falcons here, they're in freefall, they've stalled, and they're
in danger of hurtling down to Earth.
Elimination is just one round away, and so whatever your next move is, it better be the
best move you've got.
Slow to open, but quick to end as they set their sights on this A-bomb sight.
Torschey had some swinging misses.
This should be the time to find yourself. This should be the time to get going because the Utiles are making life easy for Torsche.
He burns from 100 to 0.
Prolin trying to buy time and it's a losing battle as they've made their way up through the catwalk.
Falcons looking good to hold on.
Jimmy gets the dink but that won't be enough to win this round for you.
And now Falcons, they're fighting for double OT.
Once again, this is what is going the distance in overtime.
Torsche fumbled his smoke there, he didn't get it out, he quick switched off and so that Molly burns him, he didn't even realize he thought it was gone.
Mal's extinguished in this round.
Falcon's fine, one more.
A clean cat executes.
And you do feel like this A site is the answer, right? Spinks has just been Titanic in this series.
Falcons know, they can abuse Brolin at long, all their rounds coming off this A site.
Do they go back to it?
Round 30.
Double overtime, or two and zero for Malz.
he got it out it's all she's learning sometimes it's just not your map
sometimes it's just not your day but that's where you know when you're at
your lowest your team is there to pick you up that's what it's meant to be
that's how mouths have always operated winners a team loses a team it's not
What about these huge upticks of any one individual?
They're meant to do it together, and so let's see if the rest of the gang can strap their
heads on in this final round of play.
Falcons go back to the cat control, but this time they haven't left it to the remit of
Torsche.
They've put exertion.
They're best man on the case.
Get that smoke out now so if the same Molly comes in it will still be a problem for exertion.
Torsche will nail a shot on the cross.
That didn't happen last time.
Falcons enough to worry about that the last time around.
And Kixxan's even burnt to death in the downtime.
Falcons move in.
Retake.
I'm on their backs.
This one's going to get celled with a retake out towards A.
Tess says we'll be given the room to get this bomb planted.
Bomb has been created.
It costs a smoke.
It costs everything.
Falcons have to fight their way out of this hole.
Honestly, Spocken takes the fight, takes the head off.
Roll it out in the open as a dead man.
Falcons right there as Monacy is desperate to drag them through to another O.T.
25 kills deep and now Donning is weapon of choice.
It's all in the other kid for the Falcons.
Another overtime secured at the hands of Monacy.
Monacy moves mountains into double O.T.
Four frags on the cat corner, carries them through
and keeps Mouse down for one more.
Felt like another fatal blow for the Falcons was brewing
Another early exit
More to see make sure not yet
And a test of longevity
That's where the team with more depth, with more reps, is meant to come out ahead.
That's what Falcons have got to be telling themselves here.
Modesty's kept them in this series. Modesty's kept them in the conversation.
And now it's down to the rest of them to live up to their side of the bargain.
It's another chance at this T-Side.
Mine games still are a factor, right? What are you doing on this T-Side?
Where are you going? Because it's just been cat-exec.
That's the only way Falcons have found success in this T-Side.
Owls prioritise the A site. Four players are long, control taken.
Portions all float to the corner.
Monosy moves through middle.
Falcons want to punish Brolin again, but are they ready for a new joker and a new deck?
It's exertion hiding out back at the pit. Brolin, he has been exploited time after time.
to kite, he is not taking kills with him. This round is different.
With exertion waiting, you've been so used to seeing Brolin here alone.
Exertion in behind enemy lines, doesn't want to waste the opportunity.
Waited to try and get a double from that position.
Brolin died to enable it.
Could have been the round if you found Kixson.
Lucky to be alive and out, gives the chance.
The Info spotted, but mid control still taken with no smoke.
You cannot risk the cross on mid to B.
that is a risk not worth taking so many of these rounds even into the overtime's
the lack of utah has been a massive red flag a huge glaring problem for the
Falcons to navigate no matter where you go not having smokes is always a problem
trying to get out through the catwalk hoping the flashes open that a well
placed Molly will bring you in to the conversation
Toshi doesn't seem to think so he thanks you for these open sight lines with
Modesty tapped out. There's no winning this for Kicksand.
Two guys right here on the map,
gotta find them both clearly,
and he can't get past that double setup.
Excession with a big 3K.
Mouses have been so anti-clutch, right there.
They've just been shut down every one of these clutch rounds.
We don't even talk about them as a possibility,
even when Falcons are in good positions
to potentially get a couple of kills,
put a bomb down, open up the chance.
Mouses do not let it happen.
Their trading has been excellent in this game.
To the final moment of the round, Mao's there. Nice shot for Monosy.
Portia resource. Unexpected. How did that come from?
The new warp is entered the arena. New warp is entered the battlefield.
He's taken an aggressive stance with it all the way to low and they'll hear it fire off.
Torshi core, there's the swing. Exertions just double killed them down in the lower tunnels.
It's all chaos and Mao's. They are thriving in it right now.
How do Mao's get out of man up? You feel like Torshi blinded you with a
missed shot and lower is enough for Falcons to run away with the advantage. Exertion has regrouped.
He has disappeared. And Falcons, this is the one time they have you till, but ironically,
contact would be their best play. There's no one watching this position. The Falcons realize the
reset has come in. It's a great realization. Kicks and calls them in. They shift into the site.
This gives them element of surprise. Bomb can go down once they've cleared positions.
Miles is still going to be hot on their tails with the retake, but now you have Molly, two mollies, Smoke.
You have everything you need to shut down a post-plan.
When you talk about the Falcons, it's important, it's impossible to not talk about the star players in this squad, but all three of them are dead.
In this 2v3, it's going to come down to the rest.
Tess says, right-hand man, up close, can't find a double kill, and now kicks in as the captain's going to do it.
Exertion's three kills deep. He's got hot hands. He's feeling great right now.
Down near unstoppable. Is Kixxan really the man for the job?
Backed off the angle to the flashes. Quick reposition. Spam for a bit of damage.
But Kixxan needs two clinical shots and can't find a thing.
Maus charge him down and he clutch indeed as they stop another one of these
Falcons around in their tracks. Falcons do the right move there.
They play very cheeky. They play very well. They molly behind Tessus.
He gets back controller cow it's blocked of course mouse have everything in their pocket
They throw the kitchen sink at him porcelain knocks Falcons out cold
Piano from the top floor Falcons crushed two rounds in this CT side mouse look for flawless half
And this was the side that they were meant to be struggling on, right?
That's the part that's making you nervous.
The idea that they could just give themselves this huge leg up, only one round needed.
If you go flawless, you've got three chances on the hard of heart, this T side, just to
get it on the board, just to knock Falcons out.
Finally deal with the monster under the bed here.
And get rid of this Dust 2.
Don't have to worry about it.
Look in the playoffs here and now. It's Spinks playing in the lower. Again with an aggressive move.
Spinks always leaves you looking right over your shoulder. That double keeps the round alive.
Falcons freeze.
Let kill be handed over. Monici hopes. There is no one on B.
This entire round is focused on the catwalk, focused on mid.
Both teams neglecting the tunnels, neglecting the B site. They believe these fights this round is won and lost out here in the skirmish for mid control.
All mouths know, Falcons could be walking into the tunnels, so Maus get clamouring for information, they get desperate.
Pushing in. Honestly, he's got the cover.
Yeah, well the barrel of his teammate baited him in.
Two, the deadly shot. He connects it. Bails out his teammate.
3 on 2 for Falcons, another advantage.
She now takes the line, Kiyosuke! It's a blinder!
No.
And with Jimmy spotted out here in middle, Niko is closing in, stalking his prey up through the long side.
You hear these nades coming out, and that's the invite for Niko to come knocking.
One round grabbed on this tee half.
It's always just one round, it's always just enough to keep them in.
Not enough to win, enough to not lose. Again, for now.
I love the moment Sphynx picks and chooses to get aggressive.
Often, such a passive player, you can't flush him out and then every now and then he throws his name in the ring.
Oh, we said that the B site's been getting neglected. We said that no one's been going B. Could that be about to change?
Torsche had the spawn, the rest of the team played over here in behind him.
And it's only kick-sand here.
Oh, don't do this.
These teams have fully neglected this bombsite throughout overtime.
Just so risky to hit it in the dark, no information out of spawn.
What you want to go be without a pick, you could just get turned into a compost.
I'll decide against it.
Yeah, Maozong.
No one wants to make that.
Fast play that just throws away one of these chances.
Especially with how many double orbs Falcons pulled out in this game right here.
was double-opping the first half of Inferno. He was, uh, uh, uh, of Dusty, the first half of overtime.
He was pulling it out over Monacy when he didn't have the money.
And so Malz don't know what they're up against yet.
Monacy bordering on 30 kills.
Exertion. Right there as well.
Now slow and Falcons passive, playing the round out, playing the clock, holding their
smoke.
The final one goes out on B. They've bought a lot of time.
Do they know where it's going?
Falcons re-clear middle together, the mutil baits them in, it's a long hit, into monosy.
and now just tease up tests to play off of it. So this bombs alone on long. So there's no winning
this round anymore for mouse. It's a swing and a miss at the first time of asking on this T side.
Falcons will tie this game up. The round goes a bit wrong from the get go. Miles were very reliant
on that B pick for torsion. They just spread back out to T spawn feeling like they just have to go
out long. Honestly, in a strong position. Now's failure to launch in this round. You kind of get
one round to play like that right you had one round of breathing room to go and
risk it on an entry from the Torsche Orp didn't have much follow through or much
to fall back on when that didn't pan out and so the round just kind of peter this
next one has to have a little bit more direction for now they have to be very
direct or insistent or at least have a clear end goal behind the call again
triple B spawn here for mouse Jimmy has long spawn but it's not the guy you want
taking the orp for a pick risk you want to take this is where you look at a
rolling and wondering what he can come up with. Oh well that will help kick sand the brains of the
operation spread all over the middoors. Niko and with a reply add towards long. You know you got
that B pick and you wonder if that's an enticing enough offer to really just hammer this one home.
Look for that mid to be again. Kiyosuke will be the one in the hot seat as he's the only guy on
this half of the map. Mostrophobic position here but with the AK up close Kiyosuke looks for head
shots crosses back out the smoke disappears and mouse move in kiyosuke up and over monosie in a
battle in middle but it's all about this b-side the kiyosuke can't contain but monosie curse and
no nake can connect he goes down how can he not finish the kill monosie with 30 frags tags two
bags neither bomb down for mouse that is so close to being a life game shot for the collateral
coming up short may as well have never hit them at all if Falcons don't capitalize
ready to push through this smoke is Nico Brolin's low on health from that tag earlier he'll finish
what monies he started and now exertion makes a play all on his own low on hp cover him from
torchy Nico's getting sandwich Nico's getting iced out and there's nowhere left to turn
Maus get on! To match in series point!
Elimination, staring Falcons in the face again.
Maus right there.
And Monossey.
You have to feel for the kid.
Connection with the orb. No kill on that cross.
This Maus team resilience has always been a downfall.
It's always been a pitfall.
But on Inferno exertion came through with round winning plays
to keep them in it from bottom of the board.
In that round, Torsche lands multiple tags, multiple round saving kills, and now they swing for the fences.
And towards Long, Falcons, they've got a scrap for another overtime.
They finish it with a bang. Falcons bail out, they want nothing to do with this.
Damage done from the Falcons.
Miles have been hit hard. Torsche is risking it, crossing into the pit, but he does so safely with cover of the smoke.
Monossey holding for the cross.
Plats.
Mal's methodical, but got to get past Monossey still.
As Brolin negotiates with Middle,
a lot of ice for Falcons on this position.
Brolin's Util tells Falcons what's up,
but his team are moving on long.
Smoke blocked.
Tess has jumped out.
It bounced it into the site.
Mal's going to have to replenish.
It is on torsion.
He's on pit with the orb.
Don't want to take your eyes off of the scope.
Monacy is waiting patiently.
Will it pay off?
Kicks hand, gets his revenge on a mid pushing.
Now they try and pick up the pace on this A here.
And these next few fights decide everything.
Niko takes charge, opens with one.
Follow up for Toshi in response.
Another one of these 3B5s don't have this low against you.
They've really, really struggled in these moments.
Can Kicks hand deliver salvation?
No.
It falls on a Kiyosuke, reuniting with the Falcons here in Krakow.
And this will be the time, but deny it as Jimmy plays it forward.
And the House of Cards comes crumbling down.
Mouse into playoffs, Falcons grouped here in Krakow.
After a missed year in Katowice, Mouse make every playoff of 2025.
And they kick off 26 back to another stage, back in front of another crowd.
Falcons fall, Falcons fumble, multiple man advantages again, let them down.
They just couldn't win these advantage rounds. That is a high pressure, high octane, 5v3,
and it slips through their fingers. How many times is this going to be the case for the Falcons?
After reaching the finals to start the year without their full roster,
this was meant to be the van getting back together. Well, they just got played off the stage by the
the other team. Maus moving into those playoffs. I don't know an unlikely map, an unlikely story.
The recovery from Torsche, the recovery from exertion. It was a resilient game, a resilient
display out of Maus and it has earned them a spot in the Toron arena.
We said train removal from their map pool is going to let them down but I think Maus
have a new Dust 2 in store. Let's see how they're feeling about that as they qualify
to the playoffs of Krakow.
I mean, they might, I'm gonna ask.
Congratulations, Torgie, but what an insane series.
The overtime's were crazy.
Tell me a little bit about what you needed to overcome
in order to get this playoff berth.
Yeah, I think it was a really close game.
I think it was a really good game.
I think Falcons played really good,
but I think we were pushing a lot,
especially each other, like keeping each other hyped.
And I think Sushen played a really good Dastron
he had a lot of impact.
And yeah, I think just a really close game and
Yeah, to make playoffs, you know, we lost to our Aurora, which is a tough game for us
I don't think we showed up at all as a team and
We know coming into today that it will be a long day and we have to push a lot
And I'm really proud of the team that we make it playoffs and we are not
Breaking our playoffs run. So yeah, I'll get back to that in a second
But about this day and about the difficulties of this day and how much kind of motivation do you get from the fact that like you didn't always have the
Best start but you recovered exertion and have the best start maybe or the best round
But he recovered and that time and time again you were winning these rounds where you were actually not supposed to win them
Yeah, I think it's really nice to see that we can some we because in my will sometimes it feel like we are always losing those runs
Where we shouldn't and it's really nice to see that we can also win those runs where we should lose
and yeah I think just our mentality was really on point today like we didn't
have a good start again and coming back and Session had a rough inferno start
and he was keeping up and he was playing really good and yeah I think
everybody did their job so yeah sorry I'm a little bit overrun. It's okay you're
smiling so much I love it but then of course I'll get back to you said getting
to every playoff in 2025 but of course the big thing is not getting the trophies
you would have wanted. And I'm going to ask you again, what can be different about this
mouse that I am crack off could be the one that 2026 could be the one that you get the
trophies that you deserve?
Yeah, I think I would say now we have a different mouse. Even though we are the same players,
we are the same mouse, but at the same time we are different. We change a lot of things
in our how we work and how we do stuff. And I think these small things change a lot of
things at this level, but at the same time we have still the mouse that we trust each
other, we trust the players and we have a really good spirit in the team and just really
enjoying our time and yeah, so yeah I think we have a good shot this Crackle and also
I think this lower bracket round will help us a lot because we didn't play the first
tournament of the year and it's also good for the VRS points to be honest, these two
wins but also it's a little bit of experience you know before the play of
games so I think it was good for us.
Okay the new and improved mouse love to see it great win congratulations Torji
and we'll be looking forward to mouse in the arena and I'm going to head over to
the other side because unfortunately that does mean
it is the end of the road for Falcons. Kikson I'm just going to open the floor
to you I think that will be best where did you leave it here today?
I mean, I think we didn't play our best game today, obviously we just played slow, we were
making decisions slow and we didn't execute our rounds properly, so I think we didn't
deserve to win this game honestly, it was too close maps but I think we all deserved
to win.
When it comes to the mentality I just spoke to Torgy and he said it was our mentality
that made us win today, does in essence, does it come down to this for Falcons, for a lot
of those rounds where you felt we should have won those and that's just happened a lot, right?
I think it's good to be frank.
Yeah, I mean the mentality is really important but I think our mentality was actually good
in this game because I think in both maps we were down, like they had a lot of matchpoints
but we never gave up and we came back on both Inferno and Dust2 so I think the mentality
was not the problem today.
I think we just didn't play good in-game and we did way too many mistakes.
My commiserations and thank you very much.
Back to you.
Just a gut wrenching end for Falcons at Intel Extreme Masters Crack-Off 2026.
As Torsi put it, they won so many rounds they were meant to lose, which shown the inverse for Falcons losing so many rounds that they were supposed to win.
And it seems like the same situation time and time again, these man advantages, not being able to convert them, it just feels like it's written in fate for Falcons at this point.
6-0 in clutches for Maus on Dust2, that's the only number that you need to hear to understand why the result was what it was and
For a team like Falcons with the players that they have you can't have that happening
You know, that's why you pay a lot of money for guys like Nico for guys like Monacee, right?
to B-clutch and to in those post-plan situations sort of step up and
Give you an advantage over the other team
I'm not saying necessarily they were to blame but it's this is a part of the game where Falcons just
need to do better and it's been too long that they've had issues, the same sort of issues
where it's just you either need to fix it or some change needs to be happened.
I just also feel like the interview with Garbo the kickstander, he's been very honest about that.
Actually, I didn't feel like they deserved to win, you know, the way they executed things incorrectly,
but also how they were too slow at making decisions was, you know, that kind of sets the tone for how
that it also looked like sometimes when we're watching the game, that the decision-making was too
slow and also the clutches you mean like that clutches usually come down to the
individuals making decisions out of intuition what's actually happening
and we only saw a few glimpses of this we just which is that might as you had a
really good situation here but overall it was just like for the fact to lose so
many clutches but also lose so many advantageous situations is heartbreaking
for them obviously because it is a team that we expect a lot from with
everything that they have got on the line so to see them go out as I mentioned
coming into the game, we were just asking for regardless of who would lose, but this game
had everything, but in the end it was just Mausbord who decided to pull the longest
draw.
Just in terms of kicks in there for you Jail, obviously it's been almost three years since
you were on a squad with him, but just what was he like as a leader back then when maybe
things wouldn't go your way, he's obviously being incredibly honest, saying they're like
he deserves to win in those situations, but tell me a little bit about him as a personality
how he kind of reflected upon those tough moments I'm sure you experienced.
I mean to speak truthfully he has leveled up so high in terms of taking accountability being
this humble leader that he's gonna be honest about his team and himself of what he expects of
himself in his team and I really praise those kind of Imgilators because this is the correct path to
succeed only with realizing your own mistakes and what you can improve on only then you can
like, excel not just as a leader but just as a captain as well.
I guess my only issue with some of those answers,
and I obviously really appreciate Kixson giving his insight in such a tough situation,
I feel like it's what we've been hearing for the past six months with Falcons, right?
Like, they're very candid and saying,
hey, we have the game plan, it's just the issue is not executing properly.
What do you do from that point forward, though?
And I mean, the team was given a vote of confidence,
there were no roster changes being made, right?
And I like that, but you also had multiple rounds where, you know,
They're playing 3B, mouse comes B, Kisuke even gets one or two kills with the op on the entry
and they still end up, the defense falls apart and they lose the round.
You know, it's too many, a combination of losing rounds with advantages and having good reads
and not leading to round wins, right?
And this is the first tournament with the full lineup.
You can say, all right, we just had a bad tournament,
but there's not a lot of leeway left for this lineup.
You have clues around the corner, if the same issues are happening then, what do you do?
What's the solution in that case?
Maybe another star player.
Just one more.
Just one more.
Are you going to be... Is it going to be you?
A star player, I said.
It's far in my eyes, my bro.
You're generally picking a lot of the year.
Not too shabby.
Just to wrap up the Falcons conversation, we touched upon pressure.
Surely you experienced that in the Falcons jersey, to prove that this is a whole nother level
of pressure, right? No offence, I'm not saying that that roster wasn't meant to compete with
this one. But like, when you look at the names on that list, we know this is less than okay
for Falcons to pitch you.
For sure. Like the pressure is at an all-time high. And then with resource like this, it's
only going to be bigger for the next one, because that's what we're going to be thinking.
Like, did they learn something from the previous resource that they've been into? And for the
Falcons, you know, it's always been that thing that has been having like the most, like that's
have been filling the most.
What do you say?
The biggest thing inside the team is the pressure
because with the salaries and with the expectation,
like all the budget that you have
and with Falcons vision of creating a super team,
but also obviously with the names,
it just adds this next level of pressure
where you're only meant to be doing good
and if you're not, then people is gonna be laughing at you.
And I think that is one of the things that actually,
sometimes baller is a lot of the Falcons players
Whenever we know how I guess a jail can ask testimony to this, but whenever we go on will it be HLTV or Twitter?
Whatever, you know people laugh at you if you're not doing well like it
It's tough to be in this position and it's like every single time they have these fumbles and they don't advance to
playoffs that is
Regardless of not you'll be looking at it
Sometimes you do turn to it and it's just tough to feel at the communities against you and I think that adds
That's even another layer of pressure too to the Falcons players.
Let's look at the other side of the story though, because of course we do need to celebrate
mouse and what they were able to achieve in this series as well.
We talked about it having Dust2 as the last six months prior to this map pool change.
That was their veto, they've only played it a couple of times this tournament and this
is where we saw the runway was open for Falcons to take this to three.
Credit to the individuals of mouse for making sure that that wasn't the case.
They absolutely didn't give up, they lost both pistols in this game, had to claw back
in the halves always played the percentages really well. Shout out to Exertion who stepped
up massively towards the end of regulation and in overtime as well and just the whole
mouse quad because ever since Falcons added Kiyosuke they've been beating Maus in all
the games sort of that mattered up until the major and now also here two very important
games obviously and Maus had their number both times and can go a long way in how their
season transpires because they were really becoming a nemesis for Miles.
We had a saying in Astralis, that it sometimes was really good to have these kind of group stage
one where you fumble a game that you should be winning and then you turn your attention
and work your way through the lower bracket and get like a really close game in the end
because it kind of sets up the pace and sets up the expectation for the player to come
because you've already been in situations like this before.
If Miles goes into the playoff now and end up in a situation where it gets really close,
gets to overtime and multiple overtime they've already tried and already experienced right
they they will have experienced these feelings before sometimes it kind of sets you up and
prepares you for what to come and I think that's also what actually talks you brought
into the interesting that it you know it actually is a good way to see that they made the players
and now they're kind of ready for what's gonna come at them.
We do get to see how exactly the player bracket is going to transpire this victory from Alan's
means they will face G2 in that quarterfinal or Ryan Furrier going to be on the other
side of things, that's because Vitality did advance in that game versus Roura, where there
was another foray of ancient. We'll leave that for another time. Team Spirit also in
the semifinal.
You have the same scenario in the FURIA Roura game. Both teams also banned ancient and both
played Vitality and played ancient against them, so I'm not sure we'll see shenanigans
over on the stage, but I think two very cool brackets because you get G2 sort of on the
I was tested by mouse for a perennial playoff team
Furya who started shaky this season
Managed to get to the playoffs in the end right going up against Aurora who took down both mouse and
Falcons sort of the surprise package of this tournament and then lying in invades the best players in the world
Don't on one sides. I want the other that's gonna be so exciting and it also is
Officially sold out for the entire duration of the weekend. I'm sure you can attest
You were in the Toron some years ago. It wasn't the best result for you, but it's such a vibe in there.
Come on, Frey, it was a semi-final, actually. That wasn't too bad.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gambit. Seuss.
I'm trying to throw a five-point major champion. You kind of expect to...
Imagine I could have made this six if I didn't lose to Seuss through all due respect.
Well, either way, it's going to be such a fun time. Come Friday, gentlemen.
Thank you so much for joining me for the duration of Stage 1.
Obviously, Dupri and Janko are joining us for Stage 2 as well, Jail.
I'm so excited to welcome you to the desk in the arena, but we're gonna have to wait a couple of days until that goes down
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I'm not sure what this is.
I'm not sure.
I mean, what is this?
I don't know.
You would love to get away from this with a kill and it's struggling to do so
Karrigan, I'm gonna smash out
Karrigan, I'm gonna smash out
I'm not the life king of the processions, but it's a crap minute to Torchy's spine
I'm not a missing bullet, exertion manages to control two, three from exertion
I'm ready, man!
Nice one, Karrigan
How he does
How he does?
How he does?
How he does?
How he does?
Oh
It's Mattis traded by don't quick on the follow-up
You know heavy-god was here. He got the kill he was gonna have to take down song that's a dink one HP
still finding output on the one HP.
Jura has a molly.
Took three kills deep into this one.
Surely you can find the kill! How's he gone for?
Ah! Ah!
He's just playing the bomb.
Yeah, there's a kit. You've got a smoke.
You've got a kit. You've got a smoke.
Some pyres is trying to chase him down.
Surely not another.
Larvae is going to fuse.
There's no way.
I can't quite...
They have a fighting chance.
It's just important that we stay in the game.
He's going to use their smoke against them, love this positionally.
Play by Heavy.
Oh no!
How he could just deny the planter window round?
Stay behind him!
No!
Oh, Heavy gone a round winner!
As the smokes fade, he tucks on Goose and Dom's not looking.
Dom's not looking, finds the first in the clutch.
He reads out!
No!
Stop, Heavy gone!
Come from behind me.
Bet you tell how he opened me.
He carried China hold on here.
Oh, crumble!
Crumble, knock down, Nico is clinical, that's fine, I'm waiting for beauty.
Nice!
Let's get a moment!
No way you come through this.
What you doing?
He's gonna listen for that tap and tries to get a move on, the test says.
He turns back around in time.
Takes the fight, takes the head off, rolling out of the open, is a dead man.
Foul control, there's not a single death, but the track, the foul!
25 kills deep and now Darning is weapon of choice.
It's all we can make of the kid, for the Falcons!
Power, power, power, power!
Not one moment, no one will take my throne!
Charge and fire!
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And Ace is the champion of the Intel X-ray map. One final.
Storm is still not right. That is easy. He's going to take this fight though. Three seconds left.
Let us do a round to make it go to start before you see it.
And this is the maximum you'll present with me's dog content, with Justin Maxx's kill.
He's looking right down, she's looking at me!
And it's all done! I'm falling for it!
Unbelievable rune, with a 4-0 victory over Clash.
And they did it again!
And it's the bloodbath!
It's the view!
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This is not the end of this video.
I'm not doing this because I'm the one who gets the most damage.
What's wrong with me?
I'm not going to kill you.
I'm going to kill you.
Okay?
I'm done.
I'm going to finish this video.
Okay.
I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm done.
I'm done.
Of sight the days like these never end
And oh, she says
I know the feelings won't come round again
And oh, no
And oh, I was waiting for the light to end
And he's seen it, and he's striking with his legs in
He says, all right, we'll tell them to come together
Yeah, it's all right, we just need a little time
So, hold on to a couple of times
I'm gonna feel like I'm going to cry tonight
He says that he wants to try everything
Oh yeah
That he's done
On my list of things he wished to do
Oh no
I was with him again
He thinks that's not where he's gonna find him
He says, alright, we're all in this together
That's alright, he's still a little tired
So hold on, hold tight
Hold the fear when you're doing it right, it's like
Never have friends like me
Never have friends like me
Never have friends like me
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