You're so much like the moon
What's that?
Can't see through the night
I can feel it all around
I'm gonna go to people cave in here
I just don't think you see why I think
Why I think why I think
Don't think why is it so blind?
Vehicle, it's the next thing you see in the skyline
This is the worst
The fuck you think you feel
Next, I'd like to refer to the article 4C.
The APL catering menu from Saturday 4th of October, which reads as follows, German sauerkraut,
British with boiled potatoes, or Turkish Nuna kebab with crispy caramelized lamb slices
served with a delicious garlic and cocktail sauce, fresh vegetables wrapped in a crisp
and make the room.
Gentlemen of the jury, would you be surprised if I told you Mr. Bertil opted for the British
Racist?
Gills here!
Chills Auntie, let me flush you out first, then you headshot.
British boiled potatoes with minus seasoning over our sacred kebab.
Finally, I present Article 5A, the racist manifesto, published on Mr. Bertil's Twitter account.
Fischer's Playground 2 team lineup has aged really well. Sure, no vitality, spirit or mounts,
but I'm keen to see the Mongols back in action.
Yuria are looking like an early call for a major dark horse.
FaZe, showing a bit of life since the J competition and of course,
Falcon's unrealerted potential.
General of the Jury, in a tweet about exciting teams,
not only did this man not even mention Aurora, he mentioned FaZe and Maus.
This is...
I know what I've done is wrong.
Not mentioning Aurora after I mentioned Miles.
It's an oversight.
After all, given your talent, your potential, your absolute gift for shitting the bed, I'm gonna call you Turkish Miles!
You too! You're of Team Mr. Birdship, you sentenced to mass gratification, 170 DMs and 70 long quotes. Take him away!
You're oralists! You're absolutely oralists! You're a joint! You're Turkish now!
You're a playoff trucker! You're not a racist!
Bring in the next racist. Now you got some explaining to do.
How's he now? Take him down. Good, good. Just like that.
Guys, come on, where's my immersive audio? You know I need my raw, intimate, crowd audio.
Reducing the proximity if the crowd mics has implications.
Eight meters from the crowds. Come on, I need it closer.
We're following protocol for reduction rate.
Jesus Christ, there are ten of audio guys that could have done this already.
Don't worry, don't worry, it ain't absolutely fine.
Komrad Pavlovich, come and get me once my crowd microphones are lowered.
Yes, Komrad Greer.
Very slow now.
Whoa.
Very slow now.
Or slow.
I didn't move any mics there.
What is this?
I'm not even touching them.
But we did everything right.
Clearly you did do everything right because you're flooring my crowd microphones.
I love it. Well done comrades.
What did you do?
I didn't do anything.
Look at it. It's fucking beautiful.
I don't understand. Why do you...
Fucking legends, you completely flawed the microphones.
How the fuck didn't you get this job sooner?
I apologize for the unsatisfactory result.
Apologize?
No, no, no.
This is great.
In fact, it's revolutionary.
What are you doing?
We have to mute the mics.
No?
So they're in the crowd?
Please relax.
The audience is completely unstable.
We have to wait 16 hours to re-rake.
Ha!
Audio safety gone mad.
Sir, it's not safe.
Someone in the crowd could scream the word.
What word?
A word that could get this broadcast cancelled.
A word that you're familiar with.
Safety first. Always.
I've been saying that since the collapse of the CGS.
That's how long I've been working in this space.
Twenty years.
Is that longer than you, Freya?
And you, with your mother's tip, barely out of your mouth.
If I say the audio's safe, it's safe.
And if you two disagree with that, I suggest you become audio operators
at either Star Ladder, Blast or Fisher.
How, even better yet, I can personally recommend you for my old position at PGL.
Vitality entering the arena.
Raise the crowd microphones!
Together then.
Trophy placement in five.
Sir, the levels.
Check three, two.
We're getting a crowd-mike surge.
Check!
What just happened? I don't know.
What are we talking here? RIP headphone users or PGL audio guy spam?
No, no, this is something far, far worse.
This is an emergency. Everyone stay calm. That is our first priority.
There's an F-bomb! There's an F-bomb on broadcast!
He's in shock. Get him out of here!
The chat is burning! Look at it!
You're confused. That's his German colloquial slang.
Freya, contact Witch, delete all the Vods and nuk the clips along with it.
Nothing a little memory holding won't fix here.
What a good one! Richard Lewis has the clip!
Ha! First time? Of course he fucking does, no worries.
I've muted the crowd mics. I've replaced the ambience with a little bit of Kanye.
Uh, so, old Kanye or the newer stuff?
A little bit of his new stuff, why?
Jesus Christ, what again, drafting a statement?
No statement, barriots.
What about Reddit?
Call the Reddit mods.
all right welcome back everybody to another episode of the jason rogan
experience on on super pump for this one i'm joined by tracer at this who is
the head of dose of the department of counter strike efficiency i believe if
i'm
not you know mistake in your job title is a god emperor of dose
yeah and god emperor and you know we need the dose because i'm trace the
you know what comes after dose
obviously jose so
uh... we're here to really clean up some things uh... really kinda
push some of that budget back in the way it was meant to be spent well as we've
You've seen over the years, the entire counter shark ecosystem has just gotten bloated.
Just massive bureaucracy, huge numbers of people, swaths of fans everywhere you go.
We've really had to cut down, I guess, is your whole goal is cutting down and trimming
some of the fat out of that.
Yeah.
And some of that fat, it can't be trimmed.
And so we just had to do away with it outright.
But a lot of that fat comes around those eco rounds.
We're talking about MP9, hard purchases, countering AKs.
And that's just not how this was all designed.
That's not the system that we're supposed to be living under.
Yeah, and you know, EcoRounds really have become the love handles of Counter Strike.
And, you know, you do try as much as possible to minimize those love handles.
But one thing you've obviously done is bring in the opportunity with now the MP9,
with pistols being better as we've seen over the years.
You've really worked hard on making sure that there's never another EcoRound.
Every single round is fatless.
Well, yeah, it's kind of a goes without saying, but we want high, intense Counter Strike at all times.
There will be no more saving.
There will be no more playing the clock.
No, just pure W mouse one.
That's how we get to complete the sort of evolutionary phase
that we're under right now and bringing back and restoring that order.
Now, one thing that's caught the attention of the public recently has been
train coming back into the pool, which was a direct, direct order from,
from your office as far as I know.
Um, you've taken, you've taken a look at the old train and, and I mean,
you want to talk about cutting some fat.
You really, you really took some things out of there.
A lot of the trains are gone now.
You've made a lot of changes.
Well, yeah.
You know, we're looking at different options for clean energy.
Also, not so clean energy and we kind of figured out that right out of the gate
We have to get rid of some of these trains, you know, they're not being used
Yeah, in fact there there's maybe some transients in there
Maybe some people that just won't leave at certain points. We had to really go back and and get the bread and butter out and really make it happen
Well, those trains are from like the early 2000s as well. It's it's old tech
That's just spawning coal up into the air. Well, you know, we did we did go through we talked to a couple different people got a couple different
outside sources Justin Summie comes to mind is so yes that might really know how to integrate
knows a thing or two about the train. It's true. Also, he wasn't necessarily happy with what we
did over there with the the pop dog area, but you can't make everybody happy in this line of work,
Jason. No, you can't. You're probably going to piss up at least 51% of people at say at a minimum
51% seeing at dose like we're kind of looking at this and saying okay 51% that's not enough. Yeah,
we need to piss off everybody as much as possible at all times. Okay, well, I think you're doing a
Spectacular job. Well, that's a nice message out to the public. Look, I love having you. I love bringing in. I'm always I'm always leaving stimulated when you're coming in here
They Jason progame experience
I see you've been playing with 10 year olds again
What don't know that's crazy. What the one-way one versus that kid
Mmm, clap them.
I'll tell him, but it was close.
How am I losing? I'm trying to settle this, sir!
Tell me though, you were clip farming, or?
I wish I was. Dona, I don't think I'd ever be good at CS.
Nah, come on.
Nah, for real. Demon invited me to one of his pro vs bots videos.
That's good content, or?
Dona, I was one of the bots.
Well, I'll always be there to carry your inshore matches.
Man, you know it's bad that I'm getting carried by your manager.
Ohne, not everything comes with an instant dopamine head.
Quick open!
See, even I don't know if you're flip farming right now, or if your brain is actually destroyed.
Have you opened a case on for that?
Well what if I fucking did?
I'll tell you seriously, you're gonna relapse and jail is just gonna overtake you.
What do you think one last thing though they haven't rumors that you're selling
Fentanyl on cathedral grounds you too and I'd be paper make them heat on this
will defend. I'm fucking done. Anymore of this. We're doing cold streams, Minecraft and that's it.
That for me was the culture shock.
Not for lauren.gg HLTV. Whom is this bro?
Get it on y'all!
Mr. Saranthus, the rumors I've heard in the community are all true.
Your knife is a beautiful float.
And each of your skins is more lovely than the last.
Can I interest you in some coffee or a beverage?
Thank you, Mrs. Sarantis, but no coffee.
You being a North American eSports enjoyer with ties to many a Valorant Pro,
one would be safe in assuming you have some soy milk?
I may.
Then it is only right that I indulge in your soy.
Mr. Sarantis, before we begin, I must admit my conventional English is a little out of
practice. However, I've been led to believe that you speak Zuma quite well.
I do.
Well, I kindly ask your permission that I may conduct this interview in Zuma.
By our means.
Okay, Unk, obviously you're washed, but am I relevant or irrelevant to you?
Still really.
Double you.
And you've heard about my little side quest out here in Sweden?
Gaben's got you running down washfallow players.
Shout out Gaben.
If there's one thing he fucked with less than Counter-Strike, it's Valorant.
For real though, why are you here?
Val pressed me nine months ago.
It's all good, they found nothing.
Facts, these files have been run through, but I've got to grind them out again.
Well, say it or else.
Now when Project L hit, there were four orgs in this area,
all sticker farmers like yourself,
100 thieves, C9, EG and NRG, or is that cap?
No cap. Look, you are cool to hit my vape.
Bet. Now, clocking these receipts, all sticker farmers in the area have been
unalive except for NRG which means they've either dipped, fallen off, or
they're fully mask on.
You heard anything, Susie? Only possible cap. I love possible cap. It often
reveals big facts. Give deeds. Well, again, possible cap, but I heard they were
We're chasing Gat and Spain.
Ohio.
Spain.
Valo does tend to attract more Gat.
Gat.
How the energy vibe would say, you know?
Use the vodka, real.
That's mutual fame if you look with ghost on.
Well, that should do it.
Some more soy before you go.
Fuck that.
Stunner, you peeped what the NPCs are calling me, out in Sweden?
Yeah, but it's kind of cringed, not a lie.
But you have peeped it.
Spill the tea.
They call you the CEO of Mewing.
Facts.
Before he was washed, on God,
David didn't really fuck with his nickname.
But why would he hate the name the Gigamogger?
It appears to me he did everything in his power to earn it.
Me on the other hand, Stan my Titan,
because I've earned it,
through hours of grinding mastic's gum.
Mogging.
It is that feature that makes me
such an effective leader of the muse.
You see, unlike your average dev,
I can think like a mouth breather,
where they can only think like a common looks maxer,
or more precisely, a gigachat CS player.
Consider a hot meme the world a Valo iPad kid lives in.
It's an old world indeed.
If a Valo player were to waddle into your crib right now,
would you dapp it up?
I've been to CrashFuck out on that little thing.
Precisely.
But has a Valo player handed you any else?
It couldn't.
Say less.
You're giving some real floss for energy right now.
You cool if I hit my vape as well?
By all means.
Now my hustle dictates that my bait is pull up and sweep the addy before you pass the
vibe check.
Deadass, anything's wrong, it's back on site.
No cap, skins straight cooked.
However, you come through with any deets and we may be able to prevent harm to your account,
Or more importantly, your inventory.
Your low-key sheltering enemies of Counter-Strike. Are you not?
Nah.
Don't count.
I mean, not Loki for real.
Haiki?
Haiki.
You're not clocking it, are you?
you're not clocking that I'm standing on business.
I'm assuming by the fact they're American,
they've understood every word we've said and have long dipped.
Well then, point out their setups.
Accounts? Inventories? I bid you... and you?
This is a bad idea
I got 10 FB rush
Yeah, go B rush, B rush
Let's go, let's go, let's go
Get in the mid, get in the mid, frag middles
Let's go guys
I got 3 frags guys, let's go
FUNNY SHIT CHILDREN
FIFTY FBs
FUNNY SHIT CHILDREN
The bot, the bot
Come on, come on, come on
Please, please, please, please, please
FUNNY SHIT CHILDREN
Holy shit
What is even happening?
Let's go, let's go, let's go
Let's go, let's go.
What's the piece of ice?
There's good spawns on there.
Good spawns from one guys.
Oh, fuck!
Come, come, come, come, come, come.
They're going in, they're going in!
Come on, let's run.
Come on, mix it together.
Millivict, Millivict, crack me down!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let's hide.
Oh that's...
Oh whoa whoa whoa!
Three three!
Oh my f**king god!
Oh my god!
Oh did he get it?
No way...
On the line, on the line!
Get out!
Yeah but...
S**t man...
I got turned up here...
Let's get through this smoke!
I'm together, I'm together!
Let's go!
Two more! Two more!
We're dead!
I can flash shot him!
Oh my god!
So easy! So easy!
Nice! Holy shit!
Yeah, let's go! Let's go!
It's a Sniper! Sniper!
No!
Nice! I have all the Brazilian players alive, they're full beating guys!
Okay, can we be rush? Be rush!
Let's go!
You guys!
Just rush me! Rush me! Rush me!
Yeah, push him!
Oh, this is a bad idea.
Guys, walk through the side, guys.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Guys, Ebi rush, Ebi rush.
Get back to the end, we are finished.
Be clear, be clear.
Then we are missing.
GG.
I'm felled.
We are alive!
Oh, what a load!
Nice, who is the big player?
We can retake one, guys. We can retake one.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
It's A, it's A, it's A, it's A!
I have 50 FPS.
Oh my god.
Go!
No, but, what in the fuck is this?
How long, bro?
You'll be 20 years old.
Yeah, but it's still true!
Check, check, check!
Come on, come on, come on, come on!
Let's go!
Yeah, we do so far!
Five million, dude!
Check here, eight million!
Oh, it's 83!
I'm on the check, check, check!
I'm on the check, check here!
We need a save, guys.
We need a save, dude.
All right!
Let's take a look.
We are so fucked.
Look at the blood holes in the door, bro.
Look at the gap!
Stop and I get it!
Stop and I get pretty much!
Oh, he's dead! Oh, he's dead!
Guys, this is GG guys.
Hey, I guess I have go, I have go, I have go, I have go.
Fake long, guys complete dropping flashes.
Wait for negative to finish shooting and go explode after.
We're totally understand.
Hey! Hold on! Go! Go, go, go, go, go!
I'm going to be in a strategic!
Oh, where are we? Where are we?
My computer is burning, bro.
Take post, take post, take post!
Nice!
Got one!
That's two!
2v2, 2v2!
I'm going!
Missed enemy!
Very guys playing on Cp!
Main pistol and 9-9, easy!
Bro! We are very blind, bro!
Oh
We want negative guys I can't jump negative
Guys let's brush my flesh
Let's go, we win it, 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, let's go
Oh my god! Oh my god!
Oh nice! Nice! Nice!
Nice! Nice!
Oh my god!
Ah shit! Shit!
Save! Save!
He's paving what?
Saving in 20 by 20 is great.
It's an X-fucking go!
Yeah we fake B! We fake B!
B, I smoke. I smoke B, I smoke B.
Go back one, go one, go one.
Go long!
Yeah!
No!
Guys, we playing for Stats on what?
2v4, 2v4.
Together, together.
Lower and longer.
Longer.
1v3.
Nice.
Not even close.
Long clear, long clear, long clear. I have long.
Jack, come on the head.
Hit me, hit me, hit me.
Yeah, he's in the smoke.
He's in the smoke, guys.
In the smoke.
Right below her.
We can't.
Nice.
Retech tunnel.
Let's go.
Flash.
Get flash.
Big flash.
How am I big?
That is insane.
One nice spot to go.
Ah.
One more round.
This is for one more round.
Guys
Two doors, two doors!
Nice, fuck you, fuck you guys!
I'll pick him up.
Dead ram.
One more, one more!
We smoke.
I'm dead, I'm dead!
Nice, nice!
Expert D got you!
No, he was, he was!
God damn it!
Why you smi-
Why you smoke?
Nice.
But to be honest, guys, we need to do a review.
We won both missiles and our musles.
Thank fucking god, please.
Jason Brogan, experience.
All right, here we are.
Welcome back.
Another episode of Jason Brogan podcast.
I've been trying to get one of you guys into my show for a while now, so it's great to
have you.
One of the members of the Audio Only Listeners Club.
I do love listening to your show as well.
Audio Only?
Yeah, I know that you guys do the video.
Yeah.
But just like all the content that I consume, audio only is my option.
Yeah, that's your preferable way of doing it.
Is there a reason for that?
I just find that I really like to paint the picture visually.
Okay.
And I think if I watch the content, it detracts from my imagination.
If you're visual, you got to watch your set, you're focused, you're in one spot,
you're on the couch, you're in a chair.
It's true.
If I'm audio-only, I could be doing God knows what.
Well, first of all, how does this show, how does this show go for you audio-only?
Do you normally feel like we do a good job here presenting the picture?
Look, occasionally when you do get an hour in, I'd like to hear how long you've been talking for,
if you possibly could.
maybe say the guest name a little bit more because as I get further in I might forget
the names of some of the guests. But overall, I'd give it a 7.5 out of 10.
Okay. Well, can I ask you what your name is?
Gareth Smeagol, IHSP. I go by on the internet.
Okay. Nice. What does that stand for?
Not I have a small penis. I have smelly pants.
I've smelly pants.
Yeah. Now this is the online realms.
Okay. So it's something like, you know, hey, we're about three minutes in now. I'm here
with Gareth and or I have smelly pants depending on where you know him.
You can call it whatever you want. Okay, great. Okay, so just little updates like that, I guess.
Yeah, and look, I could be in the kitchen doing some dishes. Sure. Maybe I'm in the laundry doing
some washing. Have you ever felt like it's a little bit crazy to expect these kinds of updates
when you're not paying attention to the content? Well, this is the thing and this is a common
misconception that I think a lot of visual viewers do have. Because the audio only listeners,
we are a part of the community. I need to know the player name, the score line, where we are.
I want to be immersed. Okay. And I feel that commentators of Counter Strike,
they don't respect the audio only listener. I listen to a lot of sports, like darts.
I mean, darts, they tell you exactly what number it lands in. 180. Yeah. They update you with a
score every single time. Look, now I will say, I will say this. I will have it on the television.
You just don't watch. I'm listening. It's just there. Yeah.
Now do you ever like glance or glance now again? Occasionally. Look, I just finished chopping the
onion. I wouldn't want to be caught glancing. Okay. Yeah. But that might go down bad in the
community. If your audio-only community found you watching the game, I can pitch it to shit.
I know that number nine is kicking to number three. They're really good at that. They'll just say
the player name. But you know, frequently when I am doing things and listening with audio-only,
without a whole lot of visual ability, I just internally accept the fact that I'm going to
miss details. I don't think that's acceptable. But I think when you're only paying attention
10 to 60% of the time, you can't be choosing. You can't be begging for different styles. You
You can't be begging people to adapt their work to your 20% of attention.
I'm paying with my time, excuse you, to be consuming this content.
There's been an uptick in, uh, look, preferential treatment to audio
and the listeners this EPS season at 21.
I'm glad that our concerns have been heard and are being met.
Well, OK, well, that's lovely.
I'm very happy to hear it.
They Jason rocking experience.
We represent the future.
And our fantasy scares us.
An OPIGL hasn't won a major since 2016.
In a time of simple, zywoo, now monasy, it will not happen again.
Six months.
We need a strong roster.
I will take you better and better.
It cannot be done. Not like this.
Consecration is evolving, and James is moving backwards.
It's slow, it's lethargic.
If Valve ever introduces MR-12, it will be because of this guy.
Consequences of his success could be catashroff.
Well, it will be because of this guy.
Consequences of his success
could be catatrophic.
Okay, then we're done.
James the Redeemer! In Rio!
Are you telling me that if they made chaos
There's a chance that could destroy the entire crowd?
He's working for it! He needs a van!
You're going to like PC! Stop having day invitations and streams!
Life is not boring! Today is the day that I'm going to like PC!
Now I am become death.
destroyer of crowds
This right up is in contract jail in the fury of tower
Well firstly congratulations everyone you are the lucky few who've made it through the auditions
Now it's time for some dry runs
Now I'm sure you've all memorized your lines
You guys never send me the script
But the script is here. If you need it, now Hugo, please, go on.
Interior.
Night.
A troop patrols an underground bunker.
We follow a tunnel leading to an impenetrable metal door.
Inside, a meeting takes place.
Look around, gentlemen.
I was tasked to assemble the greatest mines Counter-Strike has to offer.
But none of them could make it.
You read the brief?
Kisrata is in contract jail in the fury tower.
Ask for your best trust to get him out.
Well, what do we have here?
Take it by force.
Impressive as ever, Victor.
Kail?
But you always made the plan the best.
Alexi?
I may have something, but it's complex.
Driny?
We hit the north entrance and we hit it hard.
We send an alpha for a full force breach.
With the Fourier forces occupied north,
Eighth Squad sneaks in through the southern entrance.
Alex, sorry, please, just for me. Can you simplify it?
Okay, concentrate.
Let's take the north entrance labeled A.
The south, B.
We send one squad north to hit A,
but what we're actually doing...
is hitting B.
Damnit.
It's so crazy. It just may work.
of all the IGLs and workmen, you are the only one who gets it. It's genius.
Pauline Alphen Betta. Let's go get our men.
What? You really don't know? It's fake. He's a fucking idiot.
Absolutely phenomenal.
And Ace is the champion of the Angel X-Train Master World Final.
He's going to stand up for a .80, he's going to take this fight for three seconds left.
After a round of matches, he's going to start to feel afraid to sink.
And this is an awesome move this is, he's not content with just the next skill.
He's going to cut them down.
She's going to be eliminated.
And it's all done, I promise!
Unbelievable road, winning 4-0 victory over classes
And they did it again, in the break-time!
It's all moved!
Coming up for your Intel Extreme Master World!
Welcome to IEM Atlanta 2026.
This is the final day of this special event and why is it special?
Because we get to crown the winner that is not named Vitality.
This event essentially saved Townshrek.
But before we go into that, we have a third place decider between Bedboom and Legacy.
Why are you excited about that?
Two rising teams, two legacy in-game leaders, not a part of the pun, but also two teams
that caused upsets moving into this tournament.
The two that took down Na'Vi, took down Vitality in that group stage, and there will be a bit
of a disappointment for them that they weren't able to convert and make it further into the
tournament.
A third-place game can always feel a little awkward in that sense, but they have been showing
improvements.
And we have to think about this third-place decider as this is not the end of the road
for either of these teams.
This is quite an achievement when they look at a team that's coming into this.
Obviously they probably hoped for more, but honestly both teams are kind of happy with
where they are finishing a semi-final at least.
It's also a good thing.
So ahead of the major especially, right?
Yeah, I mean, if everybody's sort of improving and ramping up, there are quite a few tier
2, tier 3 teams that have kind of been an awkward spot.
It felt like there was a big rift between tier 1 and the next teams going.
So the fact that those teams are showing some mortality within that tier 1 space does give
people a lot of hope that they're ramping up at the right time.
We have to talk about the fact that this third place decider is not only offering the extra
injection in cash, but also VRX.
This is very important for teams, especially in these kind of rankings.
Absolutely.
When it comes to players though, what do you think?
What does this mean to them, playing these kind of deciders instead of fighting for the
trophies on the final days of the event?
We can't ignore the fact that Beppu more playing with a stand-in and they don't know who they're going to be playing with for the major
So for them, it's probably the more awkward than legacy for sure because they at least know who their
Who this roster is and what their identity is supposed to be so I actually I actually spoke with them
Yeah, so I wouldn't interrupt you there and they are really valuing this kind of experience in front of the crowd
We because even for Flamos, this is his first event a steer event in front of the crowd
He managed to play one before but there was a studio event and once in Katowice in VP
He didn't get the visa it was another visa situation that kind of a stumble opponent there toes
So this is you know, it's very tricky
I wonder really where this game go and honestly
I'm pretty happy that these two teams are going to go in to battle it out because this feels to me like a 50-50 matchup
Yeah, no, there's definitely a lot on the line for them
Especially if you're going to have an underperformance potentially at the major if your preparation is a little weak
There is if you win this game, you don't have to win as many games of the major to start thinking about those tier one invites for the next cycle over
But that's not to say that anybody couldn't punch up and cause it upset the major
We've seen greater underdogs
Make it to the major ground final and that's actually an organization that sits in our ground final today as well
But our third place game is getting ready to get going
But I'd like to hear what I believe you spoke to someone from legacy
I think he sort of spoke to Spatsat and let's see how he's feeling going into the game.
It was so sad to hear that. Always laughing, always having fun. I want to ask you about
the relationship about these early games. It's pretty early in the morning. Did you sleep
well? How are you feeling about this?
I'm feeling well. It's always good to play in the arena. So I'm very excited to play.
I know it's not about the first one, but it's okay. It will be a good match for us to get
more experienced in the readiness and yeah we are very excited, I sleep very well.
I mean I can feel the vibrant you know energy coming out of you but also when I ask this because
whenever you struggle personally it feels like the whole team is weaker, it feels like you're
this key person you know in the whole cog of legacy so I want to ask you is this something that you're
noticing that you put extra pressure on yourself whenever you have to play good in matches like
I think I have a good energy for the team, especially me and your coach, Adyar.
If you see the camera, he's always helping us, saying good things to us to not get pressure.
But in terms of pressure that you say about me, I think I have some extra pressure because I'm younger of the team.
the team so yeah but I'm learning you know it's my second time playing in front of a crown so
yeah I think the time will help me to get better and improve. Makes complete sense and obviously
the opponent against you has like very weird style of play and I want to ask you about this clash
of styles okay you like us you know aggressive team liking to play with the little bit of a tricks
but then on the other hand bad boom not having a full roster buggy team so do you do like this do
do you prefer these over structured themes maybe?
Yeah, I think we cannot say like,
ah, it's gonna be easy because they are,
like you said, a poor team,
but we don't want to have this mental.
So yeah, we're gonna just play our game,
think about your game, and hopefully that brings the win.
I mean, good luck and see how we can make this third place.
Zortek, I've got a few words. First off, good morning, awkward timing for you guys to be
playing a game. How do you feel this morning?
I feel really bad because I'm sick, but actually I kind of like, I kind of love every game
because like you just woke up and you don't have time to overthink and just play.
There's a bit of a routine off a little bit, right? You usually playing in later games
Let me just get a feel for that boom as a team
Who's who's the funniest guy on the squad and why is it boomage? I
Don't know boomage is like
He's trying to connect everyone to each other. It's like a very good and friendly guy and
I think that a lot of guys are now a team that they're kind of friendly for some flamas as well
so he really finds energy, he brings energy to our team and actually it does matter actually.
And the boomer show role is the captain and he's trying to get in a good mood and set the game
because it's really met as well. You just need to understand your captain feel comfortable and
it's besides it's it's very important for calls. Can I just also get an idea of how you feel on
the AWP because once upon a time you were buying P90s at the start of CS2 and you weren't really
sure about AWPing. How are you feeling about it now? People seem to be liking AnimGraft
2 and the AWPing seems to feel better.
First of all, when I bought P90, I don't know, at that time CS was an awful state. For now,
when I'm going to release it, it feels better, but there are some issues, I guess, because
It feels better in terms of smoothness of the game, but sometimes the models are moving
really fast, I mean, and the legs, it's just like moving, and sometimes they're just unusual,
and unpredictable for some reason.
But overall it's better, every update comes, it feels better, and it feels just like for
now game it's really good.
Okay, just quick thoughts. How are you feeling coming into this game against Legacy?
Hard to say, because we were a bit communicated before the game with Nari, and it's just like...
It's a game for third place, it feels like you just aren't able to get the trophy, but you just have to play
because it's like a point and third place, and I don't know, it's kind of real, but I think we just need to focus up and...
I don't know, like, just an just usual game.
Okay, thank you so much for your time. Good luck again.
Hey, good morning Atlanta. How are we feeling out there today?
I happen to see that we're missing just a few people. That's alright.
They're probably asleep back at their B&Bs or hotels. Does that sound about accurate?
That's alright. I'm sure they'll find their way here. It's no stress whatsoever.
Today though, we've got a nice third, fourth place decider.
It's Art vs. Boomage in 2026.
That must mean it's Christmas in May here in Atlanta, Georgia.
That's the 17th of May, to be exact.
Because right after that, we have our big grand final.
But Atlanta, you've been awesome.
And I do think, I do think that it's about time we get the counter strike underway.
Are you guys cool with that?
Yeah, okay. We'll take that.
All right, let's do it.
The next team entering the arena, hailing from Brazil, it's Legacy!
Play in the court, you better know what you're talking about.
One more, one more, you better know what you're talking about.
To the early start here in Atlanta,
and the conclusion of a bumper week of Counter-Strike.
Spanning the entire globe from Astana, Shanghai,
and now we're going to be wrapping up Atlanta Championship Sunday.
But before we crowd a champion, it is, of course, that bronze medal.
you heard it from Zortie in those
pre-match interviews talking about how, you know, it's a bit
awkward early start for the game and as well, not forgetting,
it's just about those points.
Can it be hard to get out of bed and play your best,
but still, stakes, points and stakes present today?
And the majors around the corner, these teams get us
some more reps, especially in front of a crowd.
And hopefully we get some flurry counter-strike, right?
We know Art, he likes to call out of the box aggressive
in your face CS.
And Beckham, Becky, it's saying, oh, well, we have a standing.
So this could be the recipe for a little bit of a puggy start to our Sunday here in the States
I hope so. I saw Doomount this morning having his morning coffee
I just said I love casting you guys, you know, it's an entertaining brand of Counter-Strike
They both smiled giggled and said you'll be entertained today. Okay. Well, let's hope so the early crowd turning out for this one
Thank you very much for being here. Yeah, it's hard to get gamers out of bed before, you know, 10 a.m.
So I'm proud of you guys for making it. I saw it Chad the doors open that there was a rush
Everyone just running to find their seats for today throughout the DreamHack
festival but yes it is it's an interesting one when you think about it
it's interesting to see that both teams have taken massive names you know you
talk about the major around the corner these guys have proven to themselves
they can beat some top dogs. Yeah this is all about confidence building in the last
stretch obviously we have one more event CAC right around the corner but the
major is the big one before we go into that tournament break legacy they will
to be at CAC, that boom, no, and we still don't really know what their roster is going
to look like for Cologne.
Got a mirage to start, a nuke to follow.
We'll see if we need to get to that third and decider.
Well, no better map for the more puggy, looser style that you're anticipating.
As far as individuals, eyes are going to be on that latter and do now kind of want to
punch for the legacy side.
And that's his AWP as well as looked very dialed in, his counter pass is also going to have his work cut out for him.
Yeah, just hoping between these two teams today we get something a little bit more competitive, sure.
Game of League reverse legacy went free yesterday, but all those maps felt like landslides, a bit boom.
They never really had a chance against Na'Vi today. This one's any once.
We're going to get that countdown started and get this third ball placed aside on the way.
CT side start for Betbomber on their opponents map choice. They've just gone five sets of Kev.
They can see him with the U-Tilt, Smoker, pocket of flashes, and Damoli is the head over towards B.
But look at the CT side stack. They're ready for this.
There will not be any more prepared for this. Flamas goes searching early and they are in the blind spot.
Now he gets the headshot. OK, quick one from Boonich. Provides the covering fire.
Flamas rather has his bell run.
So, he got the opening kill.
This since clawed it back,
finished it off onto Flamas,
he was committed to the apartment.
The question is, is that they gonna cut noise and reset?
I don't think that's where the U2 is meant to be tested for,
but once art goes down, the round has to change anyway.
They park the bus, they wait for, move from Betburn.
Listen and sad Zen
Sing how boxed in they truly are listen trying to get tricky with the jumps out just tuck in that tail
That women siren still over towards be salty can patrol a from ticket
And magna jazz over towards market is still committed to this stack
So there are gaps sure but time starting to become a bit of an issue 40 seconds as boom is jump spots catch nothing
I'm not sure how much convincing this is gonna be able to do he's on the other side of the map
And he feels like he needs to get going now
So this is very late in the piece, but the rotation is slowly being drawn. Tentative at the moment from Beppin, they don't know if they lost window control.
And if Nissen now gets spotted, this is kind of genius. That's only going to affirm their belief that it is going to be the A site.
Into the site, audible.
It's moving.
Magnajez, Siren, boom, it's departing, and now it's just boom.
Ten seconds, he dies to the plant.
That's all he has to do. Needs some cover in fire. He's eating the flashbang, but they haven't cleared his corner.
corner, he's managed to position himself perfectly, gets them off the bomb, they have to part now, they have to get it down, a second to spare, they just get it in.
Magma just a second too late, still Latos down and Sansen doesn't have the help of a clutch, all of that for the bomb flower, but not the round, still gonna go that boost way.
Alright, tricky one, had a chance, they're just a different brawl on the initial exchange over towards B, but they cut the noise, they play it late, and they get the bomb down, gonna facilitate this force by going into round
two. Well that's already a funky flavor. That's found one. And at the pace I was expecting.
Oh the taps, he was just a second shy. The little wiggle in the plant.
And well here comes the four spies. Do not enter the glill.
Sanfonyssum, without head armor. Technicius adds in an art and Latto in with the Mac 10 as they
We've got some standard mid utility top count window.
Dima on Art.
Trying to sell that the space has been taken as the rest of them with the bomber.
Lining up the nades for an A execute.
The question for me is, do they throw the nades, then allow Dima on Art to walk through,
try and come in connect or even boost up window?
The mid-prong play first.
No kid if there is a retake, opting for full rifles, Beppin, single SMG in the mix.
Let's hear with the A4.
So on steady wins the race again, Nade.
A bit premature, doesn't catch anything.
Now we're at the sub one minute mark and Nade's come in, so they're going to throw the A-fake
first, Flamas.
Prepared for that, but now, darts back.
Enough choosing to run out of the Edge Hill of Flamers for bad siren trading.
Still not committed up around the end, not enough of a 50-odd to siren.
Profits, the afterman advantage. Now, but look at the bomb vacating, what is this?
All rotate, okay. Very tricky stuff from legacy early.
Yeah, this is the same kind of philosophy as still on the pistol.
He must hear the rotations back if they're noisy.
Bube's making a couple of steps again, 20 seconds, they just have to keep on moving.
They just boom, he's going to be there on time, similar to the pistol, if you can't deny it, it's round 12, 11, 10.
Really kind of fine here, that's all, who can lose the ball instead of course!
It works out just in time, he gets the bomb planted.
Bizarre start to the T side from legacy, but...
same philosophy seems to have translated to the second round force.
This one's going to be tough to break back into regardless of Lano and Satz being on low HP.
There's no kit, there's no chance and we'll call this one done.
So it's pretty early.
It certainly is.
The one-one to start things off.
That's interesting.
There's entertainment.
Hard legacy providing two rounds deep.
Just going to have some buzzer-beater moments as Magnet just hanging around over towards Lada
looking to do a bit of damage on the way out of the door.
that exit through the B apartments or the apartments. Just like Plamas. Forty or iron.
Agnes. There's the boat. I think he's about two weeks early. It's good that he's doing
the world tour. We'll leave you be there in Cologne to deliver the trophy. Of course.
to the major champs. Okay, well the force by wall is we don't have to tell you about it. They're gonna lock horns again 1400 as the lost bonus
the first two rounds, you
know, but is that going to
have leads to some over
rotations for that. But
about this yesterday against
not be right. And if you are
not being you're up against
him like that, but who they're
quoting, Hey, you know, we
have a stand in. You want to
string them out with
rotations, right? You shouldn't
be as well drilled without
your standard five, even
though they played 47 maps
with flammas. Early eight
So early A-nades this time round.
Now, sounds off.
A deep smoke.
Be restricted to movements, but mid.
That's where the action is.
Flamus is calling right there.
3-3 the connector.
Oh, ugly for that boom.
The gap found.
So much misdirection.
Constant manipulation.
And it might not even be the A finish.
Look at this again, Sadson, with the bombs still
floating back of middle.
So cruel.
And doing our investigating P. This is so tough to deal with.
It feels like they're everywhere and nowhere all at once.
They kind of are.
Lato's taking a fight towards ticket.
This seems cut rotations from Jungle.
You've got nothing.
Well, we'll be able to call this the second round for legacy.
What a unique start to a Counter-Strike match.
So much more of this comes in because at a certain point the misdirection will stop and it will just be all that executes
And then your rotations will be late because you're not gonna believe it
So the ramifications of this do have flow and effects
They might just take everything away so the hunt is on and it's just one man standing now. Good. Just goes down to zoom out
And that means it's a full Eka going into the next
That's not bad.
Na'Vi versus Camelidgen coming up next.
Rematch of the groove stage.
I am genuinely intrigued to see how far Camelidgen can push Na'Vi.
Yeah, this is going to be tough in the best of five.
I think there'll be some true weaknesses in the map, Paul.
But bit a lot of Na'Vi fans here in Atlanta.
Any in the crowd at the moment?
Doesn't matter where Na'Vi go, they've got their fans here.
Oh, quick start.
And this one. Be a quick run.
It will just be the farm fest. Art.
Springster action around. Connector.
And it's a Diggleball. It's in the back.
Traded by two now and he pivots in for another two.
Is he on for another race?
Already got three in the tournament so far.
We're loving to find a fourth.
An eco bash. It still counts. The start line will read.
A low HP might not want to risk another.
Just Zorty and Siren to find and...
Well, that's one way to force you out of the window sands and we'll do a sortie siren also under fire quite literally
This will be the three to one
What would trace do in a moment like this with the crowd? It's just like hey Atlanta. Give me a hell yeah
All right, that's what he did
What yeah, okay, what else would he do you'd say howdy y'all how you doing today?
I didn't know that was good.
It kind of worked.
Because you gave them, they can't just give you one answer.
No, it's true, it was too vague.
You do like a yee-ha.
That's not, we're not in the yee-ha country are we?
I think they all year round.
Atlanta, can we have a morning yee-ha?
Wow.
Beautiful.
I mean respect the commitment, thank you.
I'm playing along.
Alright, guns back out, Zordy with the AWP.
Same for Sanzin, Nade top middle.
Bosh.
Bit of damage done there.
Let's set them up to succeed. Zorty comfortable off to do now.
Hard to miss those, just a dry walk into it all.
Well they're still got the space, Zorty on this rotation, Art knows he's got a gap.
It's quite the hell of a gap. Siren's called with his hands down holding the smoke.
They're ready I'm sure, and he's lost his support.
Big shot. Nice one from Nierce. He takes down the Opla, and okay, they're hitting hard today.
This is the fun thing about legacy, right? We know that the individuals shoot down hard.
And if they follow our into battle, everything can be so rapid. This one wasn't about misdirection.
Very direct into what that's but regardless. Oh, two miles death.
And it will be a save again. So far, Mr. Pumich, Mr. Magnajez to hold on to their guns.
As the loss bonus, well, it's starting to build now, 2900 into the next.
If you put yourself into the better boom shoes, these first four, now five rounds, have been very uncomfortable.
This one starts so promisingly, you know, it's all to get the open and kill.
This shot really kind of sealing the deal from this in great luck.
M4, not the headshot, nice work.
And ensuring the save as well.
Well, they all up in key powers
There are a smoke that it just gets close on the hunt, but won't be funny anything
All right. Well, do they want to drop or do they want to just take a part? Well, here we go. This is the fun stuff
Someone's got to get it eventually
Not just yet. We are on we're getting closer. I can tell today's the day today is the day
I
Found one locks accounts and yeah, they'll be watching they did this is good time for them. They're not working today
Nice Sunday fun day
Fierce on the mic first tactical time out called third place cider. Okay. Oh, what's going on here? Oh?
Wow, it's a full recreation. Oh, it's the big apple of the big apple. Wait, it's a 19 to I don't know
Oh, you remember the moment not ready to score. No, it's all was that meant to be like a dragon law rendition there
Yeah, like the cobblestone. Okay. All right. I like the creativity. I
Believe the DRO drops are coming later. Yes, so save your signs or make better ones. Yeah, Alex and I'll be out there with you
And he ramps space taking off the flash and so this is just the partial investment and they'll be able to fall by again into the next
Do you think Missham could get closer to his monitor?
I think he's waiting for VR counter-strike.
Alright, we'll sort the up-and-palice.
This is just going to be a default spread from Legacy.
The pack around middle, Missham and Lando on the extremities.
And Headboom searching for a frag.
The boost start, Boomich.
Only spots to be taught.
Doom has no one to find the kill.
Here, it's just constantly in motion.
Make it so difficult for Boomich to come here.
do mom nails a catchy wind
this low and steady wins the race
try to identify where these rifles are stacked up to or type of a play you
already saw one of their moves. Is there more that you have to get past?
The bomb now grouping up towards me. Another very late round. Surely not
fakey. You should group up. They're going to be going into the stack here. I don't
think there's time to pivot through underpass. They're going to have to commit to be. This
one might get dicey.
What if they leave the site just as they arrive, dropping in with the bomb. Two in
market. One goes down from our. Lato provides the covering fire. They're getting away with
It feels like they're doing it the hard way.
I mean, this just must feel like your brain's getting D-dossed, like, every time.
You start to leave the site, the bomb arrives, super late calling.
And I know that Art loves a risky call, but that's crazy.
You could have been going into the 2v4 situation right there.
Your teammates, you know, searching out, sure, they get a little bit of light resistance, that helps educate, but ever so,
that is a tough one.
It's that style of calling where you run the risk of looking very foolish, but if it was you kind of look like a genius
You know, it's like one or the other. I really want to say it's all for way
Bangladesh will not oblige but some more that came from this and as we cut off in the past
They will retain the AWP man. It's already he could have bought one himself, but this time you can be dropped across
Oh a game and Legion believer
So it was the pistol and that's all that they have to boast so far.
Let's see if they can get anything underway this time.
the mid-dutes. What he moment off from mid. So they feel a lot of pressure but he's going
to crouch under the line, poke his head up and try and find a jewel. This one could just
waltz into this. Wouldn't be the first Zorty Ogner on the AWP. Nice. Fine Slato. Thanks
to the adjustment swiftly. Get it? They just going to try and lure out. I understand the
bomb here on Saturday but Timon Art are completely disconnected from this. They know that Boomage
Which is the A hold up, they need to isolate him.
This seems to be very diligent on his clears, might catch a point right here.
That's pretty much low.
Dodge is the AWP shot, found to two.
Sadler's still staying for a stairs peek.
Nobody home at the moment.
Not looking for Flamers towards Lada.
It's like they're just playing a completely different game from one another, we're in
the team legacy.
Oh, that's enough for Flamers.
Flamers.
Torres out of smoke, Jim. That's coming for you, though.
He's running out. You have the free-fire flash, and...
It's a bit awkward.
OK, it's a 5-1-3.
Should be comfortable for the CTs here on the close.
Art to be disruptive.
McLean-Jez is clearing through.
Good restraint on display from the CTs.
Flash away from the line.
Sortie, another.
Onto Sanzin.
Art won back.
Yes, in finding Flamers, surely not.
Fumich is well positioned to ensure the round goes their way.
The bomb down and the 20 seconds missing.
Runs to his demise, 40, three kills in the round,
a second round on the board for Petboum.
It would have been impressive to see Petboum lose that one.
Considering the state of affairs.
Go for bronze, all right.
Well, it's better to be on the podium.
That's what they're playing for right now.
BOOM!
A couple of easy ones here for Zorsi.
Yeah, you heard him above the pre-match interview
just talking about feeling particularly well.
It's hard to play counter-strike it
with a bit of a distraction.
What if somebody plays in bubbles,
putting on private jets and stuff,
put the travel over a nose,
heading around the world,
you're gonna get to pick something up at a certain point.
But all right, time out call,
this is gonna be my legacy.
I'm gonna try and stay ahead of this
before the cash gets spilled open
and they have to take a save or two.
I've been looking for a new
auto sniper though, so. Only
that one cents worth right there.
Double orbs on the CT side,
magnitude is rocking the secondary
alongside a Zorty. And if they
keep just looking at mine, I
was gonna say keep waltzing and
Right, this one's a pop.
Okay, boom, you've got to let your work out.
If you want the default, box, fly, park in,
Lato down, solid headshot, using that AK well.
Art finds the belated trade, this is low.
Now you're retaking with two orbs.
Yeah, it's not ideal.
Couldn't be a better time to turn at the heat.
Second wave of U2, trying to get some space.
Flammus, not burning, this is huge.
Yeah, he's going to be safe.
This smoke is fading right now.
Thought he's on the other side of it and calm.
I haven't planted, this is where it gets a bit tough.
Thomas has to go for his own smoke.
Tell them that he's fine.
Smoke Rage turns into a corner, then there's what's back through Zorty.
Well-evented HE. What is that movement trying to get out?
Dumo tracks it, now Syra trying to profit.
Progresses up from the 2v2.
Has the 5% of Dumo.
He's having a hell of a round.
He's got it low as well.
Magna just to close it out.
Trapped on ticket, 50 seconds.
Dumo locked in.
Battle of wits between these two.
And there's Dumont, wanna play, maybe try and mantle up.
Catch him by surprise.
Fumble's the movement, but Magnitius is actually using this time to relocate.
And this is Tartuffe for Dumont, right? If you're trying to sit the plan, he just steps out CT and kills you.
Doesn't know where he's rerouted to.
Oh, he gets the Samcubes, no third-
He is!
Magnitius, USP, blind and ready!
You're happy with that, but they know that they can get an awful lot more.
I like this from Nissen knowing that he can just try and isolate fights against Burmese to hay anchor.
Just walking out, taking your chances.
It applies so much pressure to Burmese, it forces rotation.
Siren, the B anchor takes down R.
Santa in top mid box. Can he get anything done? Flamas on the prowl.
Supported.
Back to Jess window.
I see Alpha gets on two.
If you have a person swinging the beam, I was told you could fight the cover.
Santa finds Flamas.
Dom sees you till bell.
Santa was trying to find that belated trade onto Siren after losing early.
Wow, what a shot on the crouch beam.
We know Siren's still here somewhere.
Yeah, that Molly's got his name written all over it.
It's the fight!
Oh, that's a lay!
Incredible!
Siren just lost that one off.
That's ridiculous.
That's incredible.
A boom, it's down, this hit catches through Palace.
What another frustrating round for the CT side?
Death by a thousand papercats, isn't it?
Oh!
Can't catch a break.
What a shot from Mato on the Siren.
That's the one that decides the round, in my opinion.
It kind of forced Siren into the fight, there are two options there I suppose, you can stand
at the flame and try and find him and then get out.
I think he's doing the right thing right, it's very likely it's only Lato there, you
can get the trade and then at that point you're not so worried about that B side of the map,
but it doesn't fall that way and now Zorty looking to save, Nism and Sars, they don't
need to hunt, they can just hold onto their goods.
This will be the sixth round on the T side.
There it is, that shot from Lato.
Wow, Siren's just going to be asking himself, what do I have to do?
Yeah.
Alright, well, it's a Mac 10 for Art, a Galil for Dumal, a case for the rest, and they grouped up.
This is going to be Rush written all over it.
It does.
Hey guys, Siren's probably tilted, let's run at him.
Oh, double nade, put him on 44.
block you till we'll delay. I can call off and you might want to. Immediately looks
what he knows when he's normally playing against. He's going to have to back away.
Is that misdirection familiar in the game?
You hear a third H2 right now.
That's the getting middle.
I'm self in this limbo set-up.
Permission manager responsible for underpass and top middle as Flemish.
Trying to assist Zorty staying in motion.
They are just regrouping again for what should be the B finish.
Three sets of head armor.
Siren only has cavities, already extremely low, 44.
Flemish is here.
Here comes the set piece.
Flamas takes down the Mach 10. Art will help you take the space.
Flamas is forced to wipe by the flame. Nice from Dumas.
The little connects. There's Siren finished off. Lato, comfortable.
Magnajez, partners up with Bermich on the short side.
Spotted as he crossed forward. Lato's taking those engagement.
Looking good to get set to collect.
Finds it on to Boop for a second.
25 in County Boston at the apartment, but it works out and they get all the kills.
He said it previously. It's so
cutthroat poor bet. Boom. What
frustrating CT side they're
having under the thumb of
legacies. I don't know. Bizarre
pacing and they should have
well, if we saw this yesterday
as well, didn't we right? Losing
the second round after the
pistol and it's just going to
cause so many issues if you
can't bounce back with the
and you really need rounds in the CT side.
This is a tactical timeout taken.
They want to just play for four.
They want to see if they can make it a seven to five half
still in legacy's favor.
So it looks like they're just going to hedge their bets,
play for a full rifle round in the next.
So there are some investments,
but nothing too crazy at M4 for Magnet Jazz is the most exciting.
I've never really had a finger on the pulse of what that boom have been.
I'm sorry, excuse me.
Legacy have been up to you if you bet, boom.
With the smoke, it does indicate that you've been out of the mood, so, yeah, you are in
trouble.
Span it away.
You're just jumping to a vape.
And now you need to get out.
Yeah, and they will.
I haven't even had a chance to
fight you really got two players
who are half HP or less.
They're doing the right moves
right there searching for info.
It's just
that earlier conditioning with
all the fakery.
Never really have a good read
of the scenario.
That had stocks in the right
place until the final
until the final few seconds, and Legacy had been able to pull them away.
Looking to test the waters under what to be again.
That'd be clear.
Tag onto Lato.
Looking to rally at bodies.
Look how well placed the grenades are.
Zorty's so compromised.
Back to the side, spotted now.
Nice headshot, though.
It's Lato. Can't stop him.
25 frags between Duma and Lato.
just 11 rounds in, solid output on the sturdy start.
To M4 somewhere here for Bumi, if you can get it.
There's no point even in front of the conversation about damage.
One around left and a half after this.
Just smoke is fading.
As the M4, you can just sit in front of him lying in the doorway.
This is going to be tough to scoop up.
I think Lado, he wants to take it away and make sure that they don't get it back.
Well, that'll cost him.
The image not only gets the kill, but the M4 now just needs to get out of dodge.
Tickled, Bart needs away.
Now that silence is flammous, and that will be the 8th, so...
Cruise control right now for legacy.
If the teams don't get going in the second half, you start to worry about how warmed up they are having to go into the T side of Nuke.
That was my concern yesterday for them against Navi as well.
That's where it's tough as a pick, where the fact that you know that you have to start on that T side.
I think that's the way to go.
They're trying to work out how
they've gotten away with these
fakes. They can't believe it
either. Absolutely battling
stuff. And also anticipating the
second map to start for that
room. Yeah. Three four out half
the course. Can they get the
pistol? Will that be the
conversion? The legacy just
a T side on the CT style. Osh!
Keep your big mouth if you T to work with.
They back solid.
Combined with a flash and actually get a quick
to direct this move. The Magnet Jesus is ready for it.
Big kill. They can just ramp down on these two as well.
Oh, and Lato could be susceptible
to this crunch from the CT side.
There's one from Siren. Satin and Lato kicking up a faster,
more swinging. Lato and Nama!
Oh, they've lost their advantage completely.
That's all he makes his way over.
Just adds in, if you get it.
Oh, textbook.
Legacy, just let the fight come to them.
All those frustrations from the rounds prior.
I'm only going to be exacerbated now.
You try and bring the fight to them.
You don't want to be manipulated in the late round.
And instead, it's just straight up Angels 1 by the Brazilian side.
All right, Flavus.
Well, you want to put yourself in the shot window.
three at the tail end of the half to give your boys four legacy waiting for a push nothing being offered and if they do make their way up Connector he might be able to do this.
Could be a bit of a fire starter for Flamas.
Now to start to get the info and now Nissum and Lato are informed.
We're going to make a way up Catwalk though.
They're headed his way.
Lato feeling ready to take the angel Flamas another isolates and dips.
and dips, nits him in the clutch now.
A one-versus free from Flamers taking shape.
10 seconds.
Just a bomb planted.
Flamers going for the one-blank.
If he dares, no, doesn't want to reveal his position.
Tots on the staircase.
Catches his glimpse of him.
Flamers with the clutch.
Stunning into the half.
Is that going to give them something to work with?
A bit more momentum.
Bet boom, four.
Legacy eight.
We swap sides.
We're back in business, it's the IntellectStreetMasters Championship Sunday and before we can crown
In a chat, we've got a decider who takes the bronze medal for a place to side him
between Betboom and Legacy in an 8-4 half.
What an inspiring half if you're a fan of Legacy.
The T-side was pulling Betboom around the sub.
Fully manipulated.
Deft by a thousand counts, as Chat put it.
I think that's the perfect way to summarize just some of the rounds Betboom had to conceive.
But a clutch from Flamme escaped to the fourth.
And another pistol.
I'll give him a fifth and maybe a bit of momentum on this T-side.
to make is not favoring them, but it has been the kiss method for
Bepperman on these pistols. No utilities that keep it simple,
stupid, and they're just going to come on with an A split with no
nades. Okay, so just back in the rain. USPs will have a chance
to hit some headies just like that. Lato one and done.
Tracking from Art Messi still gets it down back and forth we go.
It's a Leon. Whoa! That's it. That's a lovely sequence.
Which shows you how easy it's going to be when there's no
No names in the mix single flashbang to be concerned about smoke to be worried about and if you're a counter strike player at the top level
And okay, maybe these aren't the most household name teams
What do you think they're doing all day right there playing Jeff Nash their aim is gonna be on point so
This is not the start they were looking for
Let's say we get himself a couple of kills
Who treat himself to a Diggle in this one and adjust the same the other three just in with the glocks
But this one's looking like it'd be quick and dominant
that's a little appetizer before that Navi game. A legion game. And again, returning to that match from the group stage, it was a three mapper. It was where game legend decided to start to use that of ancient and handed Navi their worst loss with this roster on the map 13 to one. That was that was baffling to see that level of result. And then Mirage, that was the third
it was so back and forth in
that second half, it was just
like these weird forced by
winds round up in the air. And
it was it was so if that flavor
of counter strike is offered up,
that's in my opinion, some of
the most fun arena CS, especially
if the rounds are brawls to the
very end. Right if it happens
that there's three kills and
then there's a safe. Not so good.
But, uh, you know, so many to be
fours from being immer attempted
in that one. So more of that
Coach said, hey, a little bit of a mic issue just there.
Let's sort that one out.
No need for the tech.
Just put it closer to your mouth.
OK.
OK, Zinn now for that boom.
Just three more rounds for legacy.
They win this one, and we could zip this one up.
Send the email and get ourself onto Nuke.
one hell of a name. I'm playing through looks like they want to try a B-split.
You're not going to have to go past the connector line.
Oh, that's something on it. Well the pressure's on this and he's over to what's
beyond his own right now.
So it did look like a setup for a B-Player's now
sending out slowly an R with the mid-round move that could win the round.
Yeah, this is actually... So you're not ready for that!
prepared at all. Just completely caught sleep and then it's to get out from underpass. Oh
can he really safe passage? Is it really assured? Yep. Dips into Kong. Just before that smoke
fades beautifully down there from up. He's known to overcook the pooch. This time he's
going to play on this man advantage. Now if he wants to fight again, he's got some teammates
to assist him. Beautiful. Team play on display. So crushing for that boot. Every time you
You've got a bit of a space to piece together the round instead. There's a flash. There's a swing.
A re-aggress. The CT side constantly just poking and plodding you. Now the boost being erected and a
oh, a lovely angle. Catches Siren disappearing into that corner smoke. Things are flowing.
You've got these two hyper-aggressive pieces as your mid-defence. So I'd doom out that arc.
Doom out was playing a bit more of a joker in that round at least for the start. But the fact
the arts will take those chances. Even if he goes down, it offers up the info for Dumas to swing,
and when he knows where players are, even if he doesn't, Dumas will be roared up.
That's flamboyant. That's the way the opening death there, but he didn't even know that was possible.
All right, partial by, and they are cruising.
Art, aggressive again, top mid here in this. See ya.
Just a single Tech 9 frag to be celebrated, but this partial goes absolutely nowhere.
Forced to deploy a smoke just to try and find something other than a clock to try and piece this together.
Got loft behind the sofa cushions and oof.
Heavy nade damage onto Zorty.
There is zero fun to be had here.
And it's getting thrown at you through smokes, through walls, and yeah, there you go.
I'm just that we got new coming
up next. It's very worrisome.
Lazy have a win on new in this
tournament. It was against
Astralis. They were just so
lobby heavy with the pushes.
Here we go again. Is this the
one third time to charm.
Cross your fingers toes. Pray
to Lord Gade. At least it's
a gun that you're going to use.
Yeah. Yeah. Or you can use it
for trade ups. You could do
that. It's a long way to the
gloves, knives and all that
All right, this very well could be the final round of map number one
Yes
Everywhere, yeah, well this one it's
Not an even fight. That's for sure legacy are just bullying him. You're in a 1v5 with a minute and 35 left on the clock
Let's pack it up. Shall we?
This simply finish it cleanly here. Here's flammas coming
Flamers delaying the inevitable, swings on in, 30-4, a thrashing to start us off here in Atlanta.
Enjoy the moment, legacy taken in, the majors right around the corner, you got CAC up first.
These reps are going to be worth their weight in gold.
I
Well, well, well.
I'm sorry dad, I'm sorry.
The mother tells me you've been in here all day.
Did you finish your assignments?
Not yet, there's too much.
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Okay.
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Now lock in!
Every day I bust my ass to put food on the table.
I put electricity in this here machine.
When are you gonna step up?
more of that stick of money. I need 10,000 butt kills. I need 100% jump throw
accuracy. I need you to review the top 10 20 times over before the week's out. We
didn't raise the bottom frag and now give it. You may not like travel, you may
not like the pressure, the new hairstyle I've given you for your brand, but I told
your granddaddy you were gonna be the best offer Mississippi's ever seen.
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When you reload it, it's fixed in.
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Elo tool.
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This way.
Wow.
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Here in six years monitor, 4090.
He must really be dog shit.
Now here's the deal.
It's midday, we've got a couple hours of grinding
before the Danish 14 year old amers get out of school
and I'm too old for that shit.
So I'm gonna need a home cooked meal delivered to me
and that's when I'm gonna take a nap.
And now what are you?
At about 9 p.m. I'm gonna wake up.
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We're gonna play throughout the night.
The DJ's schedule.
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I know Russian, a little bit of French, and I'm well versed in multiple British dialects.
Have you changed your sheets?
The sheets?
Yeah, I'm gonna need a fresh set of sheets for my bed.
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Yeah, yes you will.
Mate, I'm not a fucking cuck.
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The difference? Absolutely not!
For this to work, I need you to be all in, so that I can be all in.
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Constant rotate, let's get in.
Recycling your baseline.
A thin black reticle began to spin.
A sequence of roles, interlinked within roles, interlinked within roles, interlinked within one system.
Roles.
Have you ever been in a system?
Roles.
Do they keep you in a role?
Cells.
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Fraggs.
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Stats.
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Jason Rogan, podcast, check it out!
Thanks, Jason. Raw game. Experience.
Counter-Strike my day. Jason Rogan, podcast, my night.
Welcome, OC, to the Jason Rogan Experience.
You're the next in a long line of North American operas and marksmen coming onto the show.
I guess I'm just looking. If you look back in the history of North American Counter-Strike,
what are your big-op influences? Is there anyone that's really piqued your interest?
No.
No?
No, really?
whole lot of good offers coming out of the region. Yeah, I mean, kind of suck.
What is it about you that you think that makes you such an intriguing,
intriguing cypher for the team? Like, what was it about the weapon that first
got you interested?
Uh, nothing. It was actually just no one else wanted it. And when I crashed
on my team, or a first open team, they were like, yeah, I don't want to hop.
No one else wanted to hop. So I was like, all right, I'll try it out.
Yeah, that's fair. You know, I'm back in the day, you know, way back in the day,
I was somewhat of a marksman myself
I quite enjoyed picking up the big green running around the map. I had great form
I have shoulders straight back, you know perfect posture. Yeah, perfect. But can you show me what you look like when you're? Oh, man
I don't know you got
Yeah, like a
Little bit of a lean to it. Yeah, see your shots probably flick to the left a little bit more. Yeah, I mean
My back has definitely been feeling the the past few years playing so
Yeah, I think that's one of the things most North American operators saying going over to Europe
Where they have that perfect posture is like that that little lean that you've got going on that throws you off quite a bit
If your fundamentals are off once you get to the big leagues, it's gonna be tough
Oh, yeah, what do you think about the problem?
Like what do you think of valve actually brought a bow and arrow under the game with counter straight especially for North Americans?
I could feel it can be it could be a huge benefit. Yeah, I mean seems like
us being on the same
Playing fielder level of with Europeans. It doesn't help so we need some sort of advantage over them
You know, so maybe a bow. Yeah would help us right. We don't want to handle a bow
We got some experience with I think that could actually be the move that makes North American counter strike come right back into the map
Yeah, I mean it'd be exciting to try out a new gun. I mean I not even a gun just a bow and arrow
Yeah, pin people to the wall. It'd be great
They Jason talking experience
Well, an incredibly impressive and dominant result from Legacy to start off our third place
decider, Mirage was a pretty open and shut case for them throughout, Nico.
I think we didn't do enough justice for Legacy because before the game we spoke about how
explosive they're going to be and how incredibly puggy the whole map is going
to be but I'm gonna give credits where they're due because they incredible like
there was depth to it you know there were layers they were kind of outplaying
them tactically on much slower pace which is not something that we see often
from legacy especially from someone that is calling and his name is art you know
he's staple of aggressive gun strike and he's been for so long in Brazilian
scene so this is kind of impressive this is me filling out an apology form to
legacy this thing right behind me I mean it's also the thing we were talking about
it heading into the game religion game in the earlier round is that you know
they have an incredible feel for the map and for them to have switched up their
playbook maybe played a little slower of course it's the start of the day I'm not
sure Betboom were fully awake for some of the rounds but they got lulled into the
full sense of security I think in a fair few of those rounds where it came out to
those final few seconds of the start and it just felt like they were off tempo
from the rest from there on out this is something we've spoke about this well
before the game, that some of these morning games it's really hard to get into.
And from Bedroom POV, it was kind of apparent that some players are not just connecting
so much, you know, the communication feels of and is like every move is a little bit
sluggish and it has a number of things to do with that, obviously, you know, some players
they require a certain amount of preparation and coming into the match they have longer
routines which sometimes as a player myself I can tell you that it's unable to push for
those routines when you have an early morning game and obviously it's not about like just
wake up earlier. It has to be the whole routine. And for Bedboom, I'm quite worried, because
right now we are going obviously to the second map, but it is already being a map down like
this in this kind of fashion. Worries some.
Yeah, I mean, they've tried to pick Nuke against other opponents as well before. And so they're
in this position once again, where if they get off to a pretty poor start, I'm not sure that
Bedboom are going to answer back. Are you expecting anything special from Bedboom coming in?
I do expect more, but I'm not asking for a lot.
I do not believe that it will be enough when I see what kind of form Legacy are coming into this
bed. Well, we're gonna have to wait to see how Nuke goes and whether or not Beppin can answer back
the legacy, the looking hot. We'll see you in Nuke.
The pounding holidays for each of them will become a victory.
And after double-peaking, you get your shot down!
And put the valuable rest of your soul!
Something special to tell you is divine.
And that's it!
So, through the aftertaste...
Calvins!
We are back!
Atlanta, hotlanta, you call it whatever you want, what we've actually come here to do
today is to keep playing and see what happens.
The Great Peach State.
It is Atlanta, Georgia, but mostly a lot of historical f*****.
The hunt continues.
I just want to know if you know anything about video games.
Huh?
All right, man.
Me either.
That's what I was saying, he plays, he plays video games.
You play Counter-Strike!
Deep into the depths of the Pawn City Market.
Hey man, you play video games?
45, so...
How long do you think I am?
32?
Okay, yeah, that's pretty fair, but I'm 36.
We'll take that.
Nice shirt, man.
What do you think about two teams or players playing against each other in tournaments and video games?
I mainly play like Rainbow, Apex.
Is it something where we can kind of mutually agree that there are games that shouldn't be considered respectable?
Perhaps me like I don't want to just put words in your mouth, but Valorant. I was gonna say the same thing. Yes
I guess I know anything about video games at all counter strike
Age of Empire
My team right now is number one in the state on Marvel Marvel Rebels. Yeah, my school. What school you go to?
Carrollton, where can we find some counter strike players? I mean Age of Empire is cool
But I'm looking for counter strikers brother go to the hamburger place, maybe you know in the corner H&F
Thanks for the guidance.
What do you want to say?
What's up, guys?
Poverty.
That's the wildest sign off I think I've ever experienced on the show here.
Poverty.
Hey, welcome.
Good to see you.
Yes, Mr. Dankels.
Lovely.
Well, as you know, the guy's been working with Valve and community servers, which is
a topic very close to Mohan's heart.
So we heard you had some ideas on streamlining the in-game browser.
What are you trying to reinvent the wheel?
Look, we know it's hard because community servers aren't really revolutionary content,
even though they are the original content.
Well, huge patch notes are a glittering lure.
But there is a rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond.
if they have a sentimental bond with the feature.
My first server, I was a regular in this casual community,
KZ, OpIndia, some surf.
See, you think the most important idea to players is new.
Creates an itch.
You simply put out the gameplay as a battle royale.
The next big thing,
But there's also a deeper bond with the content, nostalgia, it's delicate, but potent.
Mr. Dinkels, would you mind?
In Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old woman.
It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone.
This technology, if isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine.
backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place that we hate to go again. It's not a browser.
It's a library. It lets us play the way a child plays. It's explore the way a new player
it's closed. Round and around. Back home again. To a place we know we love.
So gentlemen, we don't need to reinvent the wheel. Just need to keep it moving.
You will never find me.
Welcome back from the break from what was a very quick first map.
Third place decider here, we're starting off this Championship Sunday.
Atlanta, how you doing today?
You excited for Na'Vi vs.Gamer Legionary Layla?
Well, I have two Grand Finals just around the corner.
Might be quick, actually.
I wonder if Luke's going to be similar to Mirage
or if Betoom are going to be putting up a fight.
What do you think, Jellybean?
He side-star your map choice,
and legacy are going to be in your face.
This could be a rapid trip to get that bronze medal.
The highlight was the flamest 1v3 to close out the first half of play.
Well this time they have opted in with some U2.
The plus smokes and Oliah Cheek had a flash and well, the most blown up door and counter
strike goes off again.
Flamest out to the vents.
They love this.
the gun rounds yesterday. Yeah,
he just straightened out the heart
and left a plexi from the sky.
Nice parting from Flamme,
sat in back for once.
MacaJesse sits him down.
Shaken up nicely for an effort.
Pistol and passers.
OK, that's the start they're looking for.
They don't try and pull those similar maneuvers
off of those rifle rounds.
So you have to get past the legacy force.
You have to take shape just yet.
Maybe it's not coming, but I would be surprised.
There it is, starting to equip what they can, so that's an in with a scout, 5-7s, Deagle,
and an MP9 for R. Flamish kind of brings in energy, well, he's the man down the vent,
had support but plucked away.
That's the bomb down to B. Lados here.
Yeah, two of them. This is problematic.
Flamers, silenced.
Oh, he just has cover. Dips towards the Tetris box as the smoke is broken.
Saturn's in a good position to catch Magnegers here.
But it's an uncomfortable fight. No armor. He's lucky to get away with his life.
This isn't going to clash with that, but there isn't.
As soon as he was having a round,
uses that retrieved Mac 10, scavenged away from Flamases' corpse
and puts it to great use, and now on top hot, easy pickings.
This is ugly.
That boom, a very short-lived success after winning the pistol.
Just like MAP 1.
Just like MAP 1, yes, it's due observation now
into the clutch's siren.
He's already been heavily wounded.
Yeah, he's about to be dead.
Well, it takes all the oxygen out of the room for that boom.
Now it's 1400 loss.
No plant.
I can't believe Sadson survived that fight with the Galil.
That couldn't go worse, though, could it?
You sure you go down the vent early, but you lose somebody.
And then, as you try to swing into lower,
you caught one dig to the face.
But there's already two players here waiting for you.
It's an absolute nightmare fuel for that boom.
You're on a tie.
Weird looking second round.
Oh, they're still in spawn working out what they're gonna buy.
I thought two players were leaving spawn with just blocks,
but they have invested is late.
And that's never a good sign.
That shows that you're not confident in the call
you just made off the freeze time.
You're probably still reeling from what went wrong.
Round number two.
We're just gonna try and set them up with some room.
Smoke wall.
It's gonna be the three-piece feed.
Whoa, whoa, he was just unloading in the smoke and it jumped it up to that
I think that's gonna look crazy if you see it from his POV that was nuts
No, and now they can't get that ball back. Oh, no, they can he's got those. Go go gadget arms. I read he's found a gap
Stretch Armstrong
Oh, no!
Shreds through with the spray.
One, maybe two, sure, but all three from Lato.
It looked like that was going to be clunky in transition.
They heard the steps man.
He was caught in the open.
Goal, goal, goal.
Oh, okay.
The real deal.
Here we go.
Oh, wait.
Can we have the key?
All right.
Here we go.
Okay, okay.
to be fair it'd be more exciting than this round. It is five blocks and a manager. Well
if you didn't think the round was over. That's about to tell you it is. Sure, that's one kill, but
that's the bomb, and they just need to find the final man who's announced his presence, Flamas.
That's down to Sadson. That's a three-to-one start.
Somewhere between the Mission Impossible tune and Jaws there. I didn't-
Yeah, but like neither-
Neither of them came to me. So you kind of had-
Both copyrighted.
An augmentation of both, which is probably, you know, copyright safe.
Who's August this? Oh, you guys haven't seen it yet. This is an all believer. Someone's
got to be. Rob's was doing it. Rob's was doing it. The SM was buying the Creed on the group
stage games. Couldn't believe that. Aggie yard playing for control. So it's gonna work
Okay, as well.
I think there's go swinging into his demise.
Do we get safe passage of the orb out?
Easy.
All right.
Well, Siren, the door looked down, and it was going to be ramp pressure if they could
get down secret.
Well, this boost highlighted.
This one's done.
Pack it up.
Yorgo.
Go down to Flamas.
Not clearing this.
Oh, that's great work.
Two more.
Two round.
Boom's a dead man.
Thanks for coming.
Gosh, this is going one way, one way fast.
Five minutes in?
Yeah, a minute around.
And Brazil is going very quickly to that third place.
Obrigada.
In Portuguese, I only know the bad ones, really.
I was just very cracking my brain.
Partial bike.
He's a 4 maps potentially to forget for that move on the stage.
Right?
Yeah.
I guess Navi's one thing, against Legacies another.
Kind of takes a lot of wind out of the sails.
And they're so confident, right?
We know that Legacies love to take the fight and that's not changing here.
Top, top on the way.
Ato could not be more prepared for this move.
Oh, oh.
Nothing!
That's just pokes his nose up!
What the reload?
At least it's come up.
All right.
I just want to see the Orc get a kill. That's all I want.
Just one? That's one.
Uh-oh! My...Sanson's tagged in! There we go! Tagged him back!
A little bit of line assistance there.
Thanks Lordy.
Remember the dream.
This would be the clutch of the century.
Could be the best clutch in Counter Strike history.
I think it would be, yeah. Like, undoubtedly.
The 48 seconds on the clock, he has a flashbang though, maybe he can get a plan.
Maybe not.
Okay, 5-1. Guns will come out though.
Has to change sooner rather than later.
Yeah, I'm sure those are all nice work
From the pub to play the Russians. I'm sure too
All right, we do it. We got double ops. All right, dude. He's gonna go down to Makaraz. There's a nice open kill to start off proceedings
Thanks.
They just...
Side-eyed.
Go away from that.
Give me a jump up, look for the fight!
He might see it by the top there, yep!
Oh, MacroJets can't catch us!
No respect on display at the moment.
Really?
Flammus?
Should have been up here, yeah.
Punish is missing on the miss.
Rotation of the second door.
There we go!
Two before.
This one must be converted.
It's already down on B. Yeah, he's got some of the plumbers to contend with.
Letting Bermidge play, taking space over towards Heaven and Hell.
Not just running into the unknowns, and this is nice, even though they have a heavy advantage,
they're not just launching in, trying to silence the round and get it done.
So that's only hard.
This is likely going to be the finish.
up the heaven they can climb and then you plant back side. I think Lado and
Satsun should be able to say about this one. Unless you peek hard, okay.
Bomb needs to be picked up now. Someone else is gonna be tasked with that.
Flamers to provide the cover. If Lado go lobby or heaven, you know you've lost it.
Going heaven is so risky, you're gonna need to catch a timing.
40 seconds starts now. And they do have kits.
Satsang's palving, good for the rebound. The latter hoping for some crazy Angolong
Dessorty. It's not giving them the fight.
Now looking for damage. So on the way out right now, just going to try and strip away
I think this is just say boys. Let's just reel it in a little bit. I don't have any issue with the aggression
I think just make sure you do it as a unit right and doing this early
It's nice and make sure that you're not going to put yourself in a money break position
There's fears of chance doesn't have too much chipping with just yet because that we're still trying to put that by together
As you mentioned all those casualties
That's a glue for boom it's who's zero and seven
James Bond including they're in a search for him and
and uh, it's already a bit of a scout so it's not the best advice, like see, this can go for that type of ramp aggression
and it seems a little bit more doable
no Org, no Orp for this, just an M4, that means standard start
He has a smoke to block with as well down towards B.
He doesn't want to block, he wants to biff.
Move, glasses the M4.
0-8 for Boomage now.
Yeah, rough.
Oh, it's off.
That's a cheeky move.
I mean, he's blocked the smoke.
He's thrown the smoke.
We're going to see the break from come through.
And he gets the info, the bombs there as well,
but still seems like a crazy move to make,
and Siren's got some room over the woods ramp.
So there nowhere Dumau is,
Siren's going to be able to take the space and get behind it.
Shaking up nicely, Siren catches Nissen, at least now Dumau informed.
There's pressure from Siren.
Dumau going looking for the fight, uses the window perfectly.
Repositions on the railing for another Dumau.
Impactful double, puts Zordy into the clutch, 1v3 quickly becomes a 1 vs 2.
He's spotted going back in the door, so they know that he's not in that smoke just yet.
So if Zordi tries to be tricky in government events, Lato well aware of this possibility.
There's the reroute towards single.
Sanzin actually giving him the room knocked out and giving away the 1v1 possibility.
So the bomb should go down in this situation. Zordi can win this.
Sanzin all trained on one side.
Zordi able to at least get a little bit further away from the bomb. Lato's there though.
in to attack 9, so I'm the same. It looks like it's going to be a partial. I know if
they can get 3 or 4 rounds. I'll make a 5 for that one. On this T side they're in with
a chance. There's still plenty more opportunities available.
Two miles on one, isn't he?
He's a bump-ladder, watch.
Like he's good at game.
The most out of the round, out of his life.
The flowers don't end in the smokes, and this time they'll be thrown.
So they're really looking for info behind that first progression smoke
See how many times they are breaking it open
Red I doesn't know that so it's informed them poorly
And here look like a top play now
They get the ball down have been able to slip. Okay, this is promising
Siren lurking door, hoping to catch rotations.
Can't really go down the vent, but it's kind of brave there.
That is cheeky. I can't believe.
And they're behind the door, open.
That was just going to get shot in the spine. The door's open.
Nice! Oh, gets two!
Zorty able to find one back, but the damages down the round is one.
Legacy, we get past that desert eagle, he hits a banger onto this.
And do now right back swings over the doors boom it greets him that's his first boom it's maybe there's more
Lato doesn't seem to think so gets boom on the floor
seven to two
Down the vent with two that is audacious when you've lost that secret control
That's the thing that outside fake didn't work the way that they'd hoped for
Legacy were reading that it was to be the ramp player a top pop and
And then they risk their rotation down the vent. The reason that you don't want to do that is because if they have gone secret
It's such an easy choke point to cover off with really any level of investment
It's the five round gap
Will it continue to grow so what he's gonna get run boosted outside on top of first
You see nobody cross bar. Come on
Thanks God catch a break siren down on door
I'm just trying to get cheeky with it around the smoke, it's not the same.
Saturn's on this.
Oh, boom! Raft, there at the office for Boomage.
Doom has here, hanging out on his favorite railing.
Supported by Nissen.
And I is in hot pursuit as well.
They've got such a good weed as to where these remaining three are.
Crash and go.
Doom out.
Perfectly positioned.
Only the one, though.
Kepp tumble.
Ah, should have this.
Oh, that was right.
I didn't deny the plan.
Yeah, I think you're right just in time.
Denies and uncomfortable for Magnajez.
Sands in spots in.
Ouch!
It's the flick.
Well done.
Yeah, there's nothing going right now for Beppin with the pistol. They don't get the conversion
Have one opening kill to their name
And that came on the second round that they won so they are just being dictated to
You're losing opening exchanges like that
So it's gonna be a rough half of counter strike another partial
Legacy going through the motion to make it look good.
Wow, while fully blind through a smoke into the head of Flamassaro 1 and done.
Trying to throw pace into Legacy's face, it's not well done for you.
At least it's quick.
Yep.
And that's probably the only saving brace.
It's time to keep that firm.
To go check out all the stalls here at DreamHack for 3v3 this in the grand final.
I'm about to be down there on the tournament floor we go check out the shop
Zordy another impossible situation and the man with the mustache and these boys out
This is playing to win the round as well
Yeah, I think after they gave away their second round the coach with a timer. They've got a hold of a second
Yeah, let's just win this, shall we?
Hey! Nice one, Zorty. Over the extension from missing.
Pull the timer, I think.
He's got himself a gun. Art's just perpetually emotion, isn't he?
There's no place moving!
He's like a shark. He is.
Okay, Shadow spotted. Zorty doesn't know.
Don't tell Zorty. Zorty doesn't know.
I'm going to do it on Duke every Sunday.
Let me tell Beth Boomer on what's that man?
What is that man?
Did Furno?
Yeah.
I'll put a boomer on their knees right now.
Good love, a third.
Play your arm off.
I'm going to run now.
Number two, there you go.
It's gone temporarily exciting.
It brings down Magnetges.
I'm going to run half full up.
I'm going to be able to get out of dodge so that is going to call you out clear tracking this one down Zordy's not looking.
Oh, he's got it on. He's got it on. He's got it on. He's got it on. He's got it on.
If he gets info on both, he's going to be able to back pillow. He's going to be able to get out of dodge.
So Lada's going to call Yard of Clear, tracking this one down. Zordy's not looking.
Oh, he's got an opportunity here.
Just portrayed it.
That trait comes through.
Okay, you should just head in towards A now. You know, Nyssen's the ramp player.
He's in the rafters.
He's spotted the bomb as well. Now he is in the rafters.
There's perfect position. Backs a turn. It's a rough one.
From Batalwes, Bambooms pick. They've got two rounds to show for it.
Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye, ten to two.
Not pretty for that boom.
Could be a quick one for the third ball place.
Decider here at the Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta.
There's levels to this.
Both these teams topped their group,
and both these teams couldn't get anything done
in the semifinals.
Legacy losing the game, legions go to one.
That boom set here by Nafi.
No surprise there.
But what is the lack of resistance
that these teams will be?
Cologne just around the corner.
the Major. Legacy has one more stop before they get there. That'll be CAC
doing a tour of the globe before concluding the season. But they're looking to do it in style.
The win today would secure them a third place showing that hey those stage one teams maybe
they're going to be easy. That's the major roles around.
down the fence behind you.
Spick in immediately.
Now, Flamas, Jubaret is at range.
Not ideal.
USP perhaps better suited to that kind of fight.
Two behind them quickly though.
Okay.
This is going to get uncomfortable.
Listen down.
Nice taps from Magnajez.
Bomb just goes down, but looking good.
How do you win this one up?
You just don't.
Already hearing that diffuse sound and two of them on the screen.
That jazz makes it four he's on for the ace but someone's gonna have to sit in the fuse
And it's the man who could have had it but I was gonna dance with them back vent
And they'll just slowly whittle away at him. Wait, they're off the fuse. It's off the ball. Why off the ball?
The right thing they've lost him
Oh, that was a couple of seconds in it. That nearly was.
You give us an inch, it will take the mile.
Yeah, he's 18 and four right now.
Yeah.
Oh, OK.
That would have been something special.
I don't know.
I think we've got sirens here, huh?
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
Look at this.
I think he saw a blade yesterday. You know, right? I'll try to have a good time as well.
Never in all my years, Chad. I've seen something like that.
Oh, looking crispy. Well, just leave. Just don't smoke it.
Then you can fight it. You're now at taps two and you can win both pistols
and you can still end up losing 13 to three, apparently.
You've got one three out of the four pistols. Okay, so here we go.
Stay fair outside.
Well, at least it's going the way it should. Yeah, right.
I think if you fumble the pistol almost that badly,
Hamas another one V3 though for the boys.
He has already pulled one out on Mirage online from OG
and the bomb at down outside of Lobby.
So that will need to be picked back up or will it?
Hamas is surging.
Where the hell are they?
And they just parked the bus in topside.
11-3, two more rounds, they have to force by out the game.
Oh.
Oh, Boosh is still smiling.
Boosh up.
I'm dead. I'm dead. Just keep up the pace. Not run some smokes. Have to respect that.
Maybe Flemish is. I take a chance at this point. I think that they know it's over. We
We know it's over.
Atlanta, do you think it's over?
Look at the whistle word up next.
Harvey vs. Gay Militian.
They should be entering the building shortly.
It's all team is 5-7 for now.
He's been smoked off.
Might be tempted to try and make a play through it with a glass lamp broken.
It's a vent slip that's slightly concerning.
Lato.
No, it's not.
It's a blot.
Regardless of the spam and the sunk, he's got cover from Lato now.
It's a little flash.
He's in a position.
That's a great spot.
Should be able to dip in a Galantian 1.
Just like that.
There's the cover from Nissen as well.
And Zordi was the first man on the scene.
He's the last man standing, so 12. Lock it in.
Another fine sortie.
This one's for the HLTV Stance Page.
There we go, down to LAPTO, who continues to farm. 23 and 4.
Yeah, the Stance Page for him generally looked rather dominant. 23 already.
That's pretty meaty.
I mean, they've got some
positive takeaways to one win
of a bay, a two one win of a
vitality, a two one win of a
pain and then a two zero lost
in RV. Oh, I can tell you
their time out. Look that looks
good for the coach of stat line
just right. Did I use my time
out? Yes, dropped back to back
as well.
Facts.
ADR doesn't feel the need to contribute. I think things are pretty sane right now.
I'm trying to think what I'm saying in this moment.
It's probably just making lunch plans, you know, like, okay, guys.
Who's hungry?
Yeah, what do you fancy?
All right, oh, yeah.
What kind of cuisine?
Okay, yeah, well, fair enough.
get a bit more time this afternoon to do some tourism yes head to the aquarium
check out the aquarium the beluga whales centennial park yeah get out in the
sun
onto what we're gonna be doing what you now V take it on game of Legion all right
all right all right all right
oh that's her that's the biggest of his hat he didn't quite land on the main
Inruth!
Slipped off.
Back to Jess silently descending the fence, anticipating secret crawl, and he's right.
The heart's here, and Jess is no longer.
Ma brings him down.
Moomish now looks at his copy and paste, goes down as well with a CZ-75, primed and ready
for an up-close excursion.
Now look at how long you've waited to find from Boone.
has himself a rival but not expecting another hearts just gone round the world
Up the vent now and he's going to attack Siren
Siren departs
Siren? Oh he was aware but Art finds it 3 kills deep Art wants to end it now
Pushing ahead of the flames exposed to Lato's Aughty Wolf 4 and we have Gamefotes 3rd place
place a bronze medal on the podium where legacy stand and good run from them
throughout kick things off with a tour of an 80 top of the strass to lock in the
playoffs and even defeated now be two to one to secure themselves a spot
straight into one for those semis lost the game allegiance and then here in
probably a series they had a lot of learnings from but there it is
take down the final man 13 to 3 take the fourth place in legacy there the
The big is here today to kick off at Lanters final day of
Counter Strike. That is a total of seven rounds over two maps
and three of them being pistols. The stats are not
friendly to Betboom today, but legacy. This is a team that we
know can play with an awful lot of momentum and in that run
in to the major right around the corner, CAC, an event where
they could definitely throw their hat in the ring. Just a
nonchalant victory really for legacy. They make that look so
casual. If anything fills us with some confidence for the next
showings and force major around the corner. It's going to be one of those teams to watch out for.
And that's what you'd hope for. Coming into this, you would say that they were the favorite,
but how heavy of a favorite? They made this one look easy.
Come through to taking care of business. And a lot of this is about the mental coming in with
the right attitude, knowing that, hey, look, this isn't for the trophy anymore. We had that
opportunity. We squandered it. This is still a game you're getting the reps in on the stage.
So congratulations to Legacy for taking home that third place today.
We'll keep our eyes on their progressions as the season does come to its close.
The questions of that boom, what's the roster even going to look like?
These are issues plaguing them, cracking with one team, officials with the other.
We're going to throw this one down to Trace with R.
Third, fourth place to Siders. I've got Art, man. You've been in the building a long time.
Tell me about this game today.
Yeah, I think we won the revenge for yesterday.
Yesterday was not such a good game for us, so we came in hungry today.
Today you came in and you guys dominated.
It wasn't even, I'd say, remotely close.
Did it feel competitive in the server at some point?
Yeah, I felt that we could've snowballed.
I think they called me left to our side and we're very good on points today.
So tell me, legacy, you guys are going to CAC, then you've got Stage 2 of Cologne coming up.
How does legacy build from the successes here in Atlanta?
Yeah, that's gonna help us. The last time we're not so great, so having this going forward is going to give us a lot of confidence and a lot of maps to watch and learn from mistakes.
Anything you'd like to say to the crowd at home and maybe this crowd here in Atlanta?
Yeah, I think I'm happy for the big crowd today. I think it's 9am, everybody showed up, so that's nice. Thank you very much for the cheering.
Thank you very much, Art. One more thing.
I
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packed out the Fox Theatre with fans from across the globe.
It was the first CSGO Major ever held in North America, proving eSports could fill iconic
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back here in Atlanta.
But we're in CS2 now, and we're back in Atlanta, and it is an IEM.
Yeah, let's keep the show going, shall we?
Do y'all know anything about video games?
Any video gamers?
That man's a video gamer.
I can smell it.
I know it.
Hey, man.
I'm curious.
See if I keep doing this, I'm dodging my camera guy.
Y'all play video games?
No.
I like your flowers.
Oh!
For some reason, Atlanta seemed a little reluctant to talk to me about video games in some
regards.
Talking to Atlanta's kind of like this.
It's not a whole lot going on here right now.
If you play 10 games in one night, how many games out of 10 do you win?
Five.
What does Atlanta know about video games?
I go a little farther back, so I like arcades.
Would you play with teammates or do you always play by yourself?
I play by myself.
Have you ever heard of a game called Counter Strike?
Counter Strike?
Yeah, yeah, I heard of it before I never played it though.
Have you ever considered team sports?
Yes.
What do you think about people getting paid money to play video games?
That's pretty cool.
Is there anything you want to say on your own behalf?
Yeah
So for utility I have
So four is just my HE and then my smoke is on T
My flash is on like the front mouse button. I was forgetting if this is four or five
and then J is my Molly.
Okay.
And then the other one is actually to change colors.
This is a new fun one thing to have.
Yeah.
So I have like a bunch of colors.
I have so many crosshair binds now actually.
So this is like with the white color, this is black.
And then I have like blue, yellow, green.
The crosshair is the same.
Yeah. It's the same.
It's just a different color.
Yeah. I mean, I also have different crosshairs to you.
Oh my God.
So these are all like my different crosshairs
that I go through.
How many binds was that?
This is a seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
So eight crosser binds.
Eight different crossers.
And then changing colors.
And I can change the colors.
So are you changing crosser throughout a map
or you've got your favorite or what's the go there?
So my favorite is this one.
This is the dog crosser that everyone uses.
But my other favorite is just the dot.
So especially like on long range,
where I'll like put, this is another bind like on mouse three.
So I'll just have like bigger dots and stuff.
So I will have like the really small dot
it's like a headshot angle that I know I'm about to take so maybe I'm on like
a little on nuke or maybe I'm about to like peak pit on dust 2 so I have like
very small things but I usually don't change them too much but some of these
processors they can like change with like the thickness so like these ones
they all are like slightly different so I like kind of messing with them.
That's wild okay you put some time into your comfy this is cool yeah.
Well I have the radar bind actually don't have a radar on this map but I can go
So I have this so it's always a circle. I don't like when it changed to a square
I like it just to be consistent and then yeah, this is how like the radar bind looks
So it is it's good to have I think that everyone should have like a radar bind
I think it's super important like one thing that you can do which is nice which
Like let's just say that like you're in palace right like let's just say that this is mirage palisthenic
You're in the corner and you know like where you're going to like throw a Molly and something and sometimes like a CT
Like they'll fade at the same time. I actually saw the situation like within the last week
Where somebody like the CT is like bumping into him and he knows because he's using the radar bind that he's not in the corner
Yep
And the only way for you if you're like this guy is like you have to sometimes be doing like up down like going like W
And S and check out the radar and seeing if you can move
So if you want to be like super nerdy about that like if you want to see if somebody else is trying to like fade
A smoke with you you just try to bump them
Like while you're in the smoke with them and seeing if you move on the radar
Okay, so I think that that's like a little micro thing that you can do to see if somebody's in a snook with you
Jump I still just do mouse wheel down and space. Okay. I use this is both all right
No, no binds for doing jump throws. You don't really need that anymore. I
Know them they did not practice math that work. They don't prep five maps
The giant taking the ball just in time for Grand Slam.
Coming into Melbourne, it was an opportunity that we never thought the start of the season
would be given to us. We come into a chance to be able to win the Grand Slam. I think
when we won Cologne it was like, okay, maybe we can win a couple of tournaments and get
close to it, but you never think so far down the line, okay, now we bring in Robs and now
is our chance, now is our time to be able to get things rolling and now we're here
and I've been given the opportunity to be able to win the gold bar and play ourselves
in the history books.
Actually, we were not really focused on the win streak. For us, we think most of the bonus
for us was really important to bring good energy during this final.
I'm very excited to be playing with Nikolaj Jan.
I mean, I haven't played in a lot of teams in my career,
and the only team I've played in was Naive Junior Academy and G2.
I mean, I didn't expect myself to be in G2.
Just some weird feeling came some day, and I felt like I needed some change.
I feel like when you have this feeling, you just need to do something with it.
The other guys on the team had a bit of concerns how long it's going to take for Ilya to fit
into the system, but I told them I think it's just going to be very natural for us to just
get him on the team and implement him with everything that we have.
First event, we had literally no practice at all and it's amazing to have him by my
side.
I'm very happy to see him on the left side of me.
We could be losing him to 11-5, it doesn't matter, and I felt like we can always come
back and that feeling was very, very nice.
I don't think we are really focused about money cynical. I think we are focused on ourselves.
They have no pressure, they just play with money. It was the first tournament for them.
We had a good discussion before the game about how we can play, how we can be able to not be stressed during this final, because policy was really stressed.
And good guys, we've played with my own balls, two guys are the best in the world right now, two balls, so let's show them.
Show us some beautiful CS!
No, we'll play it for K-Pige.
I hate this game time, you raise the stakes high
And I'm making a lot of chances straight ahead
Coming inside, we ain't at the same time
You go with the flow, I'm trying to decide
To go in the wind, you're ready over your legacy
I can't let you go, don't trust me, it's a fame, it's on me
I'm gonna take a storm, you can't put a price
I'm gonna make you the smoke, and now, they take it down the e-cow
Push it, so they split the gate, boys
Come on, I'm gonna put you through
I'm gonna cross
8x8X
AHH!
He's not quite as personal as EVOS, he would need to do some bad ulti to win this round.
That's the hedgehog farm once he gets back.
He drops some ulti-
OH!
He peeked into the-
THERE HE IS!
AHH!
Free down!
He doesn't see any of them!
They're starting to aggress.
Oh isolation of the duals! Apex!
RUNS UP TWO!
They're already advancing.
This is quicker than they're ready for.
I think I'm just gonna see if we can sit as this is madness!
Apex!
Take some, train!
Let's carry, it's a short time
I'll reach my goals for sure with no time
It's so much of motivation, you already know my mind
Don't stop, Tassus!
Nico, walk your gun!
Oh, nothing!
You've been through the wind, don't shift damage on the name!
What?
What the fuck is to do with it?
We're gonna have to meet all five!
Tenacious, as ever!
I think on paper it looks like a very good lead, but the new play, this half can turn around very quickly, it's only six round difference which can come down losing pistol or first gun round and then it's kind of equal already.
We obviously felt very good in the moment.
Let's bring more energy in.
It's one round at a time guys, okay?
We step up and do it guys.
Just make sure we listen to that.
We're not gonna take a break.
Whenever we make a plan, whoever says it,
let's go through it, always in council
and then we make a new plan.
Good job, we got these last rounds.
Let's move the CT side and we're all good.
Hey Raj.
Straight in.
Breaking door.
Come in, up right.
Up, up, up.
On those tetras I think.
31, up in post.
Second, second.
Fuck this guy
I want to-
AHHHHH!
Nice!
BUSY!
The absence of others is messy
The stepped up for Vitality
I must win pistol
CONVERTED!
On fire at 1 main, okay?
Almost from studio
Hook on site
Get on me!
One site here
Come on
Nice, I'm on key
Get out of here
1 main
1 more main
One on the conflict as well
Dead main
Nice, nice, nice, nice
Seriously
You're just gonna have to give over 10 rounds
It's critical right now that they hold onto this
Take the Vendor, kill him right now.
They're loud on the cross.
That's not so much.
Rob's pushing RAP. He's in HARD.
Rob's gonna clear through Lombi. Magisk is gonna have a test.
All the pream is there at the second death.
Different moment. Rontal profit.
His big solo rank should may have to go.
They're coming.
At level! At level!
Push it!
Zyra reveals him, jumpscare.
Oh! Kessel gets the one down.
Get planted.
On the top of his head. Nika, goomba stuns!
Sidewalls!
Invents, stands up.
One secret.
Secret!
Saving!
Go back!
Ready, ready, ready, ready!
Nice!
Another, another camera, nice!
Yeah, he's going, he's going!
Yeah!
No!
Nice!
Let's go!
That's nice.
We keep going boys.
Let's go guys.
Let's go guys, let's go.
I'm by your scots.
I'm in, we'll do the, the 5G later on.
Yeah, yeah.
They have shoved all in, the investment, the FD9s.
There's a tag.
You need a miracle, you can test us.
He's just ripped away the opener.
It's full by probably boys. They're 2.4 or so. Just take it slow, that'll go secret, okay?
I'm gonna try to get down.
I'm gonna go with you though.
He might be holding you boys.
I try to go back down.
Okay, try to search Main, I'll go down.
I'm going to go down
Good ramp, dead on the left, nice
The pickpocket will be?
Yeah, he mayn
I'm so just cleared lobby with a scowl
So much going on from behind, Vixen
Make some meal of that
Oh, it's going deep
Yes, let's see where the three are
It's just Flamethrower and then he kicks it on to rock shore
Flamethrower take position
Oh, it's okay, that's enough, that's enough
It's in time!
Has he got it in him?
The bomb will come down a clutch
That would have to save Vitality
Oh, and then no Q
I'm going against Peter, okay?
Niko's Loppo, justice alive, elevator position, through the smoke, it will be about taking the reaction to show...
Oh! The game! The brain! The game states the...
Take my 2. Go, boys.
I did not do the best vibe. I did the cool beat, the best comeback of all time.
It's the final. Let's go, boys.
Oh my god.
I mean, for Qixxan, I knew I had to, I mean, he was 1v1, so I have to kill him as fast as I can.
After that, I knew I had to go really fast. If Niko takes a good position, I have no chance.
Actually, I don't remember, I knew Tessus was there, but I remember, like, I had Niko going ramp, running a little bit,
so I knew he was either, like, going dark or going towards ramp.
The normal position when you feel comfortable is to play above.
Mostly in the final you will play a comfortable position and it will be of sorts.
Obviously you have to mix it up every time in the club because you cannot always play the same thing every time.
People will know that there are so many antistrats so you need to always change your mind.
He's a very humble guy and he's never going to be chasing MVPs or chasing number one in
the world.
He does have that ego as well.
I don't think there's any player in the world that would be happy with finishing top three.
I think he wants to be that number one spot.
He wants to be making sure that every player knows that he's the number one player and
I think this year he's got that bit of ego and that edge to him where he wants to prove
people okay.
Last year was your chance and now I'm coming back to take my throne as well.
2024 was a mistake. I want to give more. I want to show more to people. Also for the team like semi-final, grand final, we are stressed.
Like for Grand Slam or anything. I can push myself even more. I cannot be always the same as I was. I will be like for the 7, 8 past years.
At some point I will be less good. So I need to find maybe new energy, new things to also push myself.
To bring confidence for the teammates, like seeing your staff here, like screaming, giving you energy and not letting you alone.
It's fine. So we always have a round. This was a side rule round boys. Let's not think about it.
Boys, they are still frustrated and they were still probably precious. They pushed the middle late.
So let's just, they might be a big man in here, but let's do a slow, slow round boys, okay?
I'm squeaking, looking for a dual contact plate.
On over extension, one display, messy forced away.
His position noted, Magus still focused on maize back in turn. There's Tessus.
Into the side of Cyborg, Apex flattened, Tessus a double.
Zyron is going to be tested in the water, going down to Kixxan!
Oh, we can't get bone!
Flames is MP9, Jitzy and Kixxan versus Robs.
No idea where Robs is coming from, knows he's the round player.
I don't have a player in D anyway.
One round away from rewriting history.
I'm coming.
Nice.
Come on, come on, come on.
Okay, I'm coming.
I'm coming.
Come on, she's here.
Nice.
Can't hurt, can't hurt.
Check the darkest thing that before you're dead.
One down, two, two down.
They know where he is.
Come on, they need him out.
They'll try to help.
Oh, it's for some of Apex.
It's it, it's it!
Apex two.
Tess is alone.
Then 5-7's gonna jump on him.
Oh my god, he gets away with it.
North is playing with flames, he's back shut up!
No, not like this!
No one!
He knows the rotation, anticipates,
he's coming from the rampside, pivots up to the topside,
into the race against the clock, up the ladder now.
He's playing with the heaven, he's playing with the heaven,
as he goes by it gets the ball,
and then Tess is not looking,
and he's running back to the topside,
nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
Top split into a man.
Perfect position for this, Tess is back
to town, misses up the first couple,
...not in the middle...
Hang on, I just came to the top side, just a one...
...and he's getting overrun!
Nevermind!
He handles it!
...monitor 1G...
Hang on, hang on, hang on.
Wait, are you team?
NOOOOO!
Nice try, nice try.
Aw, I keep 96 base on the other side.
Just calm down, boys, it's all good.
I was playing a lot outside, like...
...he's the one holding an APC, the one I'm hating.
It's just a good secret for killing.
Can't look at you.
You can do mouth secrets.
Falcons another opportunity with the rifles in hand apex here undetected. Yeah, this is a valuable early warning system the canary of the coal mine for yard
My son after a damn it. I'm not a cheese. I would put some cover the bullets down range
Plain to keep the one rotating down towards the B site just didn't play the jump spot these cool
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's late for the timing of the drill. He might not be expecting kicks. It's so close so soon
I'm worried about that flank on the rampside as well, doesn't exist.
Police in CERN, 15 seconds of pressure on these three, how on earth are they supposed to get that bomb down?
Not looking good now, Rop6, but monosy, kicks some falls and flightality, sees another six series points.
Now, just two for the Falcons.
I'm trying to pass to CERN, this is the English, good to be done.
And we're done again.
I'm done, I'm done.
Almost, almost, I'm done.
I'm down, I'm down, I'm down.
One down, one down.
Side-off for the most of them, you're damaged under the falls, kicks them off, you got nothing in that!
The moment of duty, can't stop, he can't get them off in this moment!
Oh my goodness!
I can't get you done! Let's go boys!
I think people would always focus on the fails in a way and especially in moments like this in the grand final.
Miss shots, I don't think I'm the only one that is missing a deal shots
But I think when it comes to me missing a deal shot people just make it a bigger deal out of it
It just caught me off guard because he just kept running and they even knew about me that I was in the windows as well
That's what I always said as long as people talk about you all the time it means it's you know
You matter to the game you matter to to community so for me I kind of got used to it, you know, and
And it was a frustrating moment for sure, but I still believe that we were not in, you know, after that round as well.
It's just annoying to lose these kind of rounds in such a crucial moment.
It's one of the things that you just try and keep focus on the next round, the next round, and there are 70 moments where you think it's lost,
and then all of a sudden, like say, the clutch happens or we make a team retake or something, it's really tough mentally to keep concentrated and focus on the next round.
That's when mistakes happen and the messy counter strike happens and that's why CS is a beautiful game because
even when Falcon probably should have definitely won this round it's
Sometimes the look is on your side and sometimes things happen and the stars align and that's that's what happened here
We feel like we're getting into their heads. We feel like we we're getting on top of them and I think that's the
The most rewarding thing and the nicest thing about it because you kind of feel like you're breaking down the opponent as well
I don't know if you're a Benz fighter.
Oh no! Nico's here!
No one's there! No one's there! No one's there!
Nico down! Are they really doing six consecutive 1 team?
Looking good!
ROBS!
On the RAP!
Hold on!
Fossed out into the fight.
Magnus should have him!
Takes another win!
Bars to a crest but the damage is done.
ROBS's impact reverberates on Ramp.
Triple kill!
Chill, just magisk now, for all of that, six opportunities to win one round squandered and survived by Vitality.
No!
If you want to go down as one of the all-time greats, these are the type of games that you have to win.
Keep going, guys!
Let's go!
Robbs with Navi smokes at the start, okay?
Small raps, yes.
Yes.
It's the big Robin.
Do you remember him?
I'll flash him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Q-Lobby, Q-Lobby.
Smoke that side.
I smoke Wili.
I'm close, hard.
Flash.
Flash in.
In hot set.
She's away, she's away, she's away.
I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming.
We can save, we can save this.
He's in radio, start.
I think they might be trued at him.
I was there with him.
Oh good guys, what did you do?
I was just about to flash it also.
And Lia was coming to the door front, and he went out.
I did I, I did I.
Oh my god, it's so much.
And let's get the tourist.
This integrated before our very highs kicks in a modesty
The stray bullet through the box hits the tag and gets them around
I play precise once and I go into the main and I pick
And we can do XPT or something or you guys can watch the secrets again
Okay, I'll jump rich at all
We're gonna get ahead to head early here. Apex lots of opening deaths these last few.
And again, back turn! Niko, instantaneous deletion of Vitality's captain. That's the opening kill they need.
Speaking of man, he made the thing!
He comes up, Tron, finds out Modesty.
Just as a skip-side, activate late, come up and potentially catch one.
Yeah, back turns! I will down number advantage!
He has this for the superstar performance and he's got your ball!
No he doesn't!
Props wins out!
Messi overlocked!
It falls to Magisk!
Closing that gap rapidly.
Magisk gets so much trouble under so much scrutiny.
Messi from the behind.
He's going to swing out!
Hostilates the dual!
Magisk with the adjustment!
Big gameplay of Magisk!
When everything matters!
No!
He's got the ball!
He's got the crown!
Only two kills, but they are magnificent!
The deal is to let Magisk move.
because Manisi is a lot of other events and you can't finish him, okay?
It's fine guys, yeah, he's equal to it.
Once he tries to touch him aggression, Zywoo already is posted on that exact fight!
Tastes down his rival!
Robs, versus Tess S wins it out, back to back in the head to head.
Look how he keeps going, he'll find the bomb.
Oh, oh, oh, he's gonna lose the bomb.
Niko's gonna put the bomb on the floor and she'll found!
Zywoo, how do you pick this up? How do you play this?
Nine foul turn around gets out. No he doesn't! He goes there!
Mezzie distracted, kicks and profits!
Feels like they've lost this one, slipping away!
Fifteen found first for Falcons!
He goes aggressive, catching eight pegs and it all falls apart.
There's no way, right?
You're not clearing this, you're not ready!
Nice! Nice!
Oh, I see!
Come on!
I love you, I love you!
I f***ing love you!
Will the seventh time
be the last time here in Melbourne
As for, fast down these fobs guys
I shot Maximane
Guys I have no secret okay
I have no secret okay
I was there secret, no secret was
Please don't ram to them
I have no clue
I'm falling down
I'm gonna go down boys
We should be for you guys
Yes, come on two
Come on three
Come on one
Come on down
Come on one
The strings together will double this high pressure round, falling apart at the seams.
The bomb goes down, rops it, the shot.
I'm going again!
One more required! This game will not end!
No more vitality's watched, not a side-woman rops his watch.
Nice!
I'm going to be broken.
I'll go first.
We're in, guys, again.
If he wants to bomb, he's got the gas in the tank to take him that extra mile.
That's probably well placed.
He's just gonna burn out.
You're trying to take one. Get away with it.
They're all supposed to be a free frag instead. Niko makes it costly.
Okay, so it's not a big deal in secret.
Dead outside.
Dead body, double-barreled.
Dead to kill him.
They're going to down it.
Yeah, yeah.
Flames takes it down.
Huge! Double kill, direct to fight.
They're full blast coming.
I'm trying to do all of it after.
I think they're about to close up.
All of them are close to top.
I think he spots two.
They're all dead. They're going to have to swing eventually.
Tess is getting himself out. Loses his head.
Rops makes him dead.
Flames up close on Hutt, holds the attack.
Oh, he hit the shot!
Crazy!
Hey man, I thought you had Hutt.
Let's do the same plan.
I'm running down this side, this side, no.
Two main, two main.
Can you flick, you know, and I go down?
Ready?
We go.
Yeah, we swap out from the door.
So undetected.
To make this play on this stage, this is crazy.
Act on.
Watch out down there.
Watch out breaking vents.
Watch out breaking windows down there.
He has to have this one.
Lame!
He's going in, he's going in!
He's going in!
I'm going in!
Let's go secret way!
Everything is still spread out!
Time's going to become the issue if you take too long, you can't flood the movement.
Sick boys, good call then!
Still can't believe the type of plays that he's gone for doing a lurks move a few spider-man here
They have a TV end okay. I just anticipates his play and sits there waiting away
Two on two, but this is Robson's Zywoo, and I'm honestly going in on Lobby Brown.
He's only left on the side, Robson's touch vent.
Robson default, nothing in your box, you should be outside.
On the other side, he's dead.
NOOOOO!
Nice!
Three stabs, one single round.
Tess is getting tricky with it, strafe's on over, brings the fight.
Apex ready, oh, car convert!
Zywin, keep playing that secret push, Nico burst the wound, AKB off, he tickles him out, confronts his presence, that's info.
Now you can spread yard, you can try and get over to what's heaven and hell, Tessus is already there.
Zywin's pushing, what? What? What? What?
Zywin's pushing! He does it! An unbelievable aggress!
Tessus does continue to impress!
Finding what? Another of the ladder ropes, what's that for?
Their first attempt of the three is fallen, two more rounds, Falcons cannot afford to lose.
I sent him to him, it was good.
I'm ready. I'm pushing for once.
Down goes Flames, Niko gets his. Into the topside though. Zyrus missed his chance.
Messi, can you hold on? He can't!
There we go!
And it's a Vulcan's round!
I can make an ethics.
Where? I don't know.
Nice! Nice to meet you.
Thank you. I knew he was going to come.
Hey, we installed something like this as well.
Can you face your radar as well?
I don't want to do it.
Okay, then do it a bit further.
Yeah, okay.
Keeps sight of big VP.
Guys, just leaving this smokey Zagreb.
Very heavy investment.
Bodies towards yard.
Tessa's just up on the silo, trying to oversee.
Now cross.
What's inside we're gonna push Lobby.
First you know.
We're gonna push it.
As soon as Lobby's called clear,
you have a very good understanding
that this is everybody down secret.
Tessa's now selling outside.
He takes jump spotting.
Spotting, he go repositions.
You mean to level?
Could we done?
Smoke him, he does.
Stack position.
Tessa spotted.
Flames he knows. Apex, here comes the barrage of Utah.
Hold your breath. Flames gets one.
That's magic of Monosy, but then someone's holding on.
Ten seconds.
Where's the bomb? Where is the bomb?
Monosy's gonna punch it in.
Messi, what can you do? He's gonna run at him.
It comes down to a Monosy one.
Monosy versus Messi.
Op versus M4.
Everything to play for.
A million dollars on the line.
No!
Oh, God!
So I shot, I missed, I took Taktan and I killed him.
But Taktan's shot was crazy. I don't know how I hit it.
I don't think I can really explain the emotions that we are going through when things like this happen.
It's just a huge rollercoaster, like you're winning a round and you're losing and then it's a clutch
and it comes down to the wire, literally, you know, and then he hits a crazy hash shot while running with Taktan 9
and then it's crazy, it's crazy honestly and I love it.
You have that momentum, and you enter overtime, you win these three rounds. We definitely
felt like we were going to win it, and I think we played the perfect round, we read them
and we knew exactly what was happening, and they hit headshots, we don't, and Marcy wins
a 1v1 clutch against me, so we had our chance, they took it away from us, and now we just
need to reset, go into the next overtime and try to go again.
Let's go boys, let's go now!
We set!
I heard good, see what?
Guys, I think they will do something stupid.
I'm gonna flash slow around.
They'll do a lot of different aggro,
drop these smokes on the ground.
Time to bask in the chance,
let's try back into play.
I have a lot for you guys.
I'm going to switch guys,
I'm gonna cancel a whole radio.
Flash!
I can go flip side.
Jumping up low, boys!
I'm out of it.
I want you guys to take inside and I'm going to break windows
One group in sequence
I'm Molly
Molly hurts
I'm pressure one in sequence
Wait we cannot do anything
It's only one there
I smoke
Yes
I'm Blem
Coming out
One is coming out
Not out
I don't hear them
Careful my dude
Good noise, good noise
You in it, you in it, you in it
I will kill maybe one point
Oh, an opportunity presents itself
Kixman takes the head off of Apex and now a race to flames
Oh no Roy
He's trapped, he's trapped
Flames swings that door open, all the boys are ready to BALL THE TRICKER!
YAAAHHHHH!
I thought I was on the real, we don't need to push too deep.
Because each time he's so treacherous.
You know, but they will chill no matter what, they won't chill.
Melbourne are you entertained?
Round 38.
You're not just getting a bit frisky, gets to the van, can you get down? Yes you can.
maybe audible that was loud to send well maybe not I will brazenly try to
stand out behind the matches already down here
I'm out there, Willy.
One was down there.
No, no.
I keep down.
I'm pushing.
I'm thinking out there, Willy.
One's right.
Get me out there.
I'm coming in.
I'm out there.
I'm coming in.
I'm going right there.
Right side.
I'm not going out there.
I'm going to keep on my two.
I'm going to go.
In the hatch from there.
You ready my two?
I'm on the right one.
Boom.
Oh.
I see him.
Company nut.
I'm on the other side.
I see him.
from Tess S. Always been a marvel to behold the mechanics of Tess S but now
he's putting her on display in a grand final triple OT. That is some shaky
moments and right now a 1v1. A great attempt at a 1v3 rotation from Flames.
He had a near miss in the last 1v3.
Smoke for the bomb.
That's scary now, that's sound cue. Tess S, an audible reload. Flames just trying to fake him out, Tess S doesn't get
But the time, the time, time, time, time, time.
James got to hold it.
He just has to spam him.
Just has to get him off the ball.
He can't find him!
Nice!
This is a pretty good spot here.
I was looking up there, couldn't you?
Let's try it, man.
Let's try it.
No perfect run this time.
Bit of back and forth, bit of tip for tap.
Blow for blow.
I need to lobby right now.
That's side-fights, okay?
Have a lobby push from video.
Guys, I want to split A later, okay?
I think we'll try to come main with Ilya somehow and we'll go A.
Get in with the bait, Sleek.
I'm so good.
Out of position!
Flage goes down, honestly.
Connecting.
Again with the base, Lee comes so good.
Out of position, Flake goes down, honestly.
Connecting, Rob's just the one, he needs to hold up more where that came from.
Nice!
How'd you go, guys?
Thank you.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
To the T side for Vitality.
Still, no Zyra AWP, looks like he's off.
Lee stays in main, Apex is going to catch a timing.
One main.
I'm on the scene.
Main, Main, Main.
Main.
I'm on Main, I'm on Main.
I'm on Main.
It's on, it's on.
Quick reactions.
It's still on.
It certainly could be.
I need something out of Kingston, just like that.
Oh no, nerve wracking now. Apex, Mezzy. Apex falls away.
Playing the time.
Pulls out the molotov to delay.
I'm in for ya
Wait, wait, on me you think...
Come on
No!
I said!
No, it's them!
Oh my god
I stay
So close, man
Uh, let's go to the terror fire
Let's go
I want to save, yes
Guys, go, go down
Take your time with the breaking of smokes
Okay
And I will go close to main problem
He's heading this way looking for a fight
And he's gonna get it
I wanna see so lucky to be alive
I need to go down, guys, okay?
I can go first, stay here, I'll get the Lithuanian pick, I'm on my way.
Nice, nice man.
Here you go.
I don't see him, let's go.
Let's go, I'm on my way.
I'm on my way.
Let's go.
Yeah, I could have to be the saviour again.
We've been here once before.
Now you're going to call out behind here by Talody.
Nice.
5 HP.
Let's go.
Yeah, tank's on him.
You need to stay alive, Magisk.
And you won't.
They take it all.
I want to pay 2.3a, okay?
I want to sell secret, because I don't think they'll be able to reach me.
I can drop you 8 years.
I was advised, let's keep it up.
Either vitality, pick up the ESL Grand Slam right here and now, or we go into quad over time.
Melbourne, this is ridiculous!
They're really going to try a again.
They're really going to try and test this out again.
Look at the wrong way! Oh, Matt, this has been caught up!
Door rocks!
Demanded a commanding opportunity!
There's only one man that can stop them!
It's not gonna happen, surely, honestly, cannot come up 1v4.
I'm gonna run, I'm gonna run.
That's rough, that's rough, guys, get you, 41.
What's around, what's around?
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
I want to get out of here, do you got it there?
Right there, there, there, right there, right there.
No!
Put through their paces, made to work for it.
Vitality will plunder down under.
Make the most of their golden opportunity, a period of dominance marked by an ESL Grand Slam, the culmination of their efforts.
Rob's got that mind as touch.
Melbourne, your champions, the inter-stream masters, kings of Counter-Strike, this is Vitality's world now.
Oh, it's speechless. I mean, tears of joy. You know, it's magical. It's absolutely magic
that happened today. The kind of rounds we lose, the kind of rounds we win, it's this
nuke was insane and I hope everyone enjoys this best of five.
We had 9-3, yes, we lost a pistol round and from the pistol round it started but we had
a lot of rounds to close the game.
I'm trying to imagine what even happened at the final besides me not performing really
well on the T side, but also I think Zairu has some crazy rounds as well that really
helped them come back into the game.
I think we just gave them away the win basically, I think we had so many situations where we
could have closed out the rounds also, I think most of the coaches went their way as well,
so I think it was a very exciting game.
I was very glad to be a part of that final, because I think it was one of the coolest
finals that we have had recently, so, yeah.
Okay, but it was huge update in CS.
Yes.
How would you rate an Orbit change?
Does it change at all for you?
ConNether sucks, still.
I didn't change anything.
The first connector.
Still sucks.
Now you get peace for me as well.
Now you'll have instant smokes.
Yeah.
Incon.
Instant smokes will come to you.
When they're going con, it will be even worse.
But I think it was like this before, but no, no,
I'm not saying about it.
For sure.
Are they Russian?
For sure, for sure.
Sure, it was the same, but yeah.
OK.
It was hard lineups.
I remember you running, like, somewhere in Spawn,
in the corner, like, watching.
Then it faints, then you run to another line up.
It was pixel smoke.
And someone showed it to me.
Wait, it was you?
No, someone checked them and showed it to me for sure.
And I copied it.
Maybe Vitya?
No, no, no. It was player for sure.
Somebody saw it and be like, hey, check the smoke.
That's for sure, even.
The one on the bench?
Yes.
Maybe I showed it to you.
Yes, for sure, you for sure.
I remember.
I hear you saw the smoke.
It was a guy from Liquid through someone.
Can I ask?
Who's playing mid for you now?
One CT.
Yeah?
How do you like rotating to A?
You know, guys, why are you lying?
Alex.
Bro, why are you...
It's because you...
You should spend it.
No, I'm not.
No, we're not going to say it.
Okay, okay.
You play me.
You're not going to say it.
I'm different now.
But, as you saw yesterday,
on the G2 game,
the CTs aren't throwing like pre-smoke for the AWPer to pick stairs.
To cut them all is
And
I think I honestly think it's a good change same
I'm facing yes
Yes, it's sorry with no you can actually fight me the city and have like equal chance and you can also have like frustrations
Because I mean you played me do you remember like oh all of the day they come
Pop be then you have to rotate the ample going to the small
Now you have another option, like beside pushing to mid you can jump insta-connect
And it's, but wait, before it was the same, the same?
Yes, but it's much faster now. Imagine you do not need like full quad mid control, you don't have to be afraid and just fucking push
Yeah, so most likely you'll have it, because you can fight for mid
Most likely
I saw 3D Max doing that, he started that window
And also I think bigger
How did you see how Tiang?
It's crazy
But also bigger change than the gap, it's the doors
Yes, you can stand there like a little antifash, you know what I mean?
Yes, exactly
There were no antifash positions in middle, and now you can just look at the angle and you won't get blind if they missed the flash
And it has to be pixel perfect
It needs to be this...
Kebab flash, if you remember what it is
Yes
The name like this
I don't think you're going to do it anymore.
It is, it is, it is, it is.
I usually like to always do my monitor as soon as I can.
I usually still do the same thing actually,
where I do like an arm's length away and a little bit more.
And then in terms of like how high,
I usually just go like to the max
and then like a little bit lower.
so like my eyes are at the top of the monitor.
Okay.
So just for some reason that's supposed to be the best.
In terms of keyboard orientation,
you've got a wrist rest.
I do.
I think that it's just nice.
It's just like nice for my wrist,
especially when you're playing for like a long time.
Don't want any issues.
That's pretty much the goal as you get older.
Don't want any issues.
Nothing going wrong.
Long games.
Yeah.
Okay, it goes with your posture.
And it just feels nice because like if you don't have
the wrist rest, like your hand has to be like this.
Whereas like if you have the wrist rest,
just I know just feels more comfortable for me more natural yeah okay and that's
a wu-ting keyboard I do believe yeah this is wu-ting can I ask a couple of
questions maybe wait are they custom keycaps I see are they Japanese yeah okay
let's just just for it looking cool do you ever go where's the letter L gone or
I got it I got it on unlock okay all right for enough I don't even look you
don't even have to look but like whenever I'm doing SSD setup I turn on this
they don't like it because they can't type in the admin password. Ah it's a very
unique looking keyboard. I'll tell you that much. Okay so are you a
rapid trigger user? Yeah. Okay what about your actuation point? So I have it at
point four but I actually have different switches you can feel it if you want.
It's a so they're actually tactile because the standard like HE which is
like the hall effects switches they're usually linear and I really don't like
linear so I found these they're like heavy tactile switches that's supposed to
be like what I used before routing and it feels really nice okay because I used
to like when I'm like doing like ADAD or like doing my strays where I can like
feel the bump and now I can feel the bump and it feels much better for me
okay that's cool okay nice little addition there so do you ever use a 0.4
yeah that on all the keys or some different I have them so it's 0.4 on
WSD and then everything else. I think my default is like around two and then like keys
I really don't want to press like G for example is F like the max I have it at 3.5 or 4
Okay, like G or like the windows key for example like any key that I really don't want to press
Mm-hmm. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, so we ever see you drop your gun to that's user error
All right, so special key caps special switches
I mean I'm on the super strike now lots of grip tape on that yeah just because my hands were always sweating like I think I
Found this in 2019 of like just using grip tape in general
And it helps so much more like just not having to worry about because whenever I have a mouse that doesn't have grip tape
I always have to like do this middle of the rounds and it it makes a big difference for me
Keep playing
And see what happens when I say we're in Atlanta, Georgia. That's because well
Well, we're here for the Intel Extreme Masters.
Believe it or not.
It's just about time to find out the final people here that Atlanta may be able to tell
me about Counter-Strike.
Dude, it's been a long day.
It's hot as heck out here.
Someone out here will absolutely know about Counter-Strike.
What's up?
You play video games?
Yeah, same. People play video games against one another as a team or maybe even a solo
component sometimes. It's weird. I know it's not all the time you get filmed doing your
job, but I'm just going to have to ask you what do you know about Counter-Strike? What
does Atlanta know about Counter-Strike? I'm not as tapped in as I once was with Counter-Strike,
but I have a lot of fond memories of playing in high school. We used to stay up all night,
on school nights, just playing Counter-Strike, me and my three best friends. We have a big
tournament this week here in Atlanta. You know what I'm saying? It's over at the Georgia
World Congress. They're stream hacking the Intellect Stream Masters, right?
Oh yeah, I gotta come back. I gotta bring my bag back.
Come check it out. You know, I've been all over the world, but then they said we're going
to Atlanta. I'm really excited, because you know, I know it. What do y'all recommend?
Magic City.
Magic City. And they got the best wings, right?
The best wings. You know it.
The best wings. Yeah, gang. I appreciate y'all. Have a good night.
I'm the guy from Mavi, when you show the phone, maybe someone will give you a chance.
It was Amiran who called me, he said congrats, you promote the main team. I know sooner or later I'm gonna join, so it was just like, what time?
My biggest strength is confidence, even when we finish the practice, we are sitting, but
most of the time we are working is to not over-peak, because I over-peak a lot.
My brother just thought to play CS, he invited me to a PC club where he was playing with
his friends, and that day I didn't stop playing anymore.
I don't feel pressure at this moment, maybe when I'm gonna play a first round, maybe I'm gonna help, but for now, no.
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And Ace is the champion of the Intel X-ray map world finals.
Still not quite done, Xe is gonna take this fight for the 3 seconds left.
Last two rounds, I'm pretty sure he's gonna start it better for the scene.
The next is a massive new business, but he's still content with just the next is kill!
He's got a gun!
She's gonna get hit!
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Let's go, B!
Give it up for your game, till Extreme Masters World Cup!
Hipex.
Hipex, can I just grab a few words before your game today?
You've been looking really, really solid this tournament, but you're also going up against
a world-class looking wonderful, but the game that you played against them previously, you
actually got the better of him.
Do you have anything specially prepared for wonderful today?
I think I'll just take every game.
I don't have anything specific for him.
We'll just see how it goes.
It's going to be a hard game for sure.
Difficulties have been following the roster for some time.
When you first joined the roster in September last year, were you expecting more immediate
results? Because you guys have had to travel quite a lot to maintain your ranking and get
into these tournaments in the first place.
I didn't expect any results at the start. I think there was a lot of pressure on game
allegiance, a lot of pressure on me when joining as the AWPer that people keep changing in
game allegiance. I think the pressure was high on us and then we took it slow from the beginning
of the year with the change in the roster. And then yeah, I think we've been grinding
and grinding and now I mean the results are proving that something happened. So yeah,
I'm happy we're going in the right direction.
So just to keep it light, I think the current frontrunner for MVP if you guys win today,
but not far behind you are Res and PR.
Is there a friendly competition about who's going to steal that MVP?
No, I don't think so.
I think we'll be just as happy if anyone wins it from us.
Obviously, everyone wants it, but that's not what we focus on and focus on a game as long
as we win it.
It doesn't really matter.
All right.
Thank you so much.
Best of luck in your game today.
Welcome back to Dreamhack Atlanta and the Intel Extreme Masters Counter-Strike Tournament
here on Grand Finals Day.
I don't know why we're getting tricky on Grand Finals Day, we decided we're going to walk
and talk, choose things that I can't do very well.
I don't know if we've ever really done this, I don't know if we've ever, yeah we are getting
this thing going.
Sorry, we don't know the pace, like we can walk backwards.
You can walk backwards.
And Yanko can't be sweaty, he's wearing a suit.
That's true, we can't speed him up at all.
Actually it's fine, you know, the suit hides all the sweats.
They're just gonna be rough out there for sure.
Just for this pre-show, the show ain't gonna work very well.
Yeah, someone's gonna be smelling it once we get to the desk.
But look, gentlemen, we've been talking about some heavy topics, right?
How will the Vitality era end?
Right, we've been talking about, well, that was probably the heaviest topic.
It was probably the heaviest topic that we touched on.
But I want to keep it even more light and fluffy today, like American pancakes.
Yeah, you get a stack?
Not yet, but I'll be getting there before I leave. Don't you worry about that?
So there's a lot going on right at this festival and as all
ESL events there's always a merch shop
So I wanted to buy you guys some gifts to remember your time here in Atlanta by
Talking and opening a bag into my bag. I'm reaching into my bag. We can stop. Yeah, okay. This one's for you. These are mystery
Mystery gifts, you know mystery boxes, but not a box. So I'm gonna know you have to I want to see which keychain you got and now I have a bag
So you guys are gonna keep these
Look at that. Okay. I got a nice pink one. That's kind of cool. Yeah, you do have a nice pink one. I didn't see the face
You happy with that Yanco? Yeah, mine is an actual CS dude. What's yours?
I don't know. I think it's just a monster with a big green tongue. I'll take the trash. I'll take the trash
But I need you guys to keep that. Oh, well, hold up. Hold up. I've got a man taking the bags. Thank you very much, Mike
All right, so that's how we saw that's the light and fluffy. That's the light and fluffy. I like it
Oh, what it was he what are you doing? Okay? Oh, wow do the same thing to be honest. Okay. This is great
This has gotten more value out of this than I could have possibly expected. It's always gonna be with me chat
Wow, okay. Awesome. All right. Do you want to keep the walking tour going? I think we're turning this way
Okay, we're gonna we're gonna pivot. I like this. We're pivoting nice pivot. Are we walking backwards now?
We turn and now we stand now we stand okay now we can get into the bread and butter sure the meat and potatoes the gravy and biscuits
Yeah, this is a lot of waffles. Yeah, that's the one
Stay to the nation conversation right now, right? And I'm not talking about the US of A you guys are smashing it
You don't have enough time. You guys have been doing it great forever. Okay, and you're gonna keep doing it
Nothing's bigger. You know, you got a better it says amazing, right? The people are friendly. They all love talking counting on the outside
That's true. The weather is pretty good. But what we're gonna have to focus on right now is one thing one thing only
Cash cash now. I know we talked on the party. You guys haven't played any of it yet
No, I haven't really doubled in it too much.
But that's not the point.
The point is, it's coming in.
Yes.
Unofficially.
I'm excited for that too.
Now, I think it's been one of the most played maps in FACE this institution's production.
FACE tried to get ahead, they added the FM poem version, now they've added the official
version.
It's getting played a truckload, which is cool, but let's assume that it's coming in.
So that means we've got a couple of questions.
First of all, do you think it's a good thing that it's coming into the map pool?
Because it's quite simple.
I wasn't going to go with the simple angle to it, but I think it prompts a lot of playmaking.
I think it's exciting gameplay on Cache.
Like if we think back to like it's end of its tenure,
the big complaints from pros at the time
were that CT sides kind of were forced to be aggressive
and make plays because you can't hold on to control.
So I mean, I think Cache lends itself to cool retakes.
I think really good aggressive pieces for T and CT sides.
I think that map is just gonna be pure high octane counterstrike.
What do you reckon, Nyaqa?
I like simple, man.
When did simple become like terrible?
Since Jance is not attracting him on the podcast, I think.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You just got all on his own.
Wasn't that what you're doing, man?
Why are we trying to reinvent the wheel with all these maps?
you know, like Anubis or I don't even want to mention Vertigo really in that sense.
Yeah, cash is simple, but that's all right, because, you know, it's easy to play, tough to master.
That's been the case and it provides for exciting gameplay.
And I think that's what we all want in the end.
I think we're seeing how well it's going about this or they're looking at what are the least played maps,
just in comp, not in professional play, right?
And it's always going to be tough for maps like Overpass.
It's just not as exciting, right?
like when you're plugging even like even you think maybe from if you have a five man stack
it's doable but what if you're solo player how are you gonna organize what are you gonna
do you know as a solo player playing overpass so I think that's where maps to cash become
more interesting that's why I don't know so many people played cash now that face it
added it to the to the pool and because it's up to people what they want chat something
with Mirage just to Anubis and cash that those are all pretty simplistic maps to play right
So I got another question off of the cash topic.
Overpass.
So that wasn't going to be it, but we can get there.
But you have made a good point here.
So we're pivoting.
We're pivoting again.
We're pivoting.
There's so much going on in this region.
Look at all the potential motion.
Are we walking again?
Yeah, this is great.
Shit, we're walking again.
OK.
So overpass, you can blow the door off.
Nuke, you can blow the door off.
Cash, you can't blow the door off.
Should that be changed?
Well, should, first, I guess we have to discuss that.
Should we be able to blow the door off?
Ooh, I think yes.
OK.
But that's not really... I want to play this version before I commit to that, but I think it's a new aspect that you can do, like, blow the dwarf as a CT side, you can have a new angle to watch it from, maybe play a little bit more retake, give you options,
T side, blow it open, you can actually get a little bit of a lower con, gives you options of things to play, so I don't see necessarily a downside for it, unless it just turns into some OP factor on the map, right?
Yes, yes, a hundred times, yes.
Okay.
Because why would cash be special compared to other maps?
That's what I think.
What's so special about cash?
If you can blow him up anywhere else, blow him up on cash.
Okay, so we need to start a petition for that.
That's important.
Pivot again.
We're like ballerinas.
This is great.
Okay, so that, you said overpass.
I said overpass, I know the best guy.
I want you to give a well thought out reason
because every man under the sun will say
what map he doesn't want in the map board.
But I want to know why.
I think overpass is one.
I think it's way too big for a map.
I think there's just so much dead time on it,
downtime on it.
I think still when you watch it play,
I feel like there's a lot of motivate.
A lot of teams don't even seem motivated to aggress towards the A bombsite and take it,
like that whole bathrooms control, long control.
Very B centric, yeah.
There's so much time, very B centric.
And I just think a lot of teams aren't very good on it at the moment, which is why we
don't even, like, there's certainly teams that can be fun on the map, just not many
of them.
So, overall, when I get to an overpass game, I feel like 1 out of 6 is like a fun game
to watch.
Yeah, it's pretty rad.
What about you, Reckon?
I don't know, I think the question is, if it's not overpass, then which one is it, right?
Like the Overpass is the easy one to call out.
And Upus made some changes.
I don't know if that's really caused anything.
But that's a conversation in itself.
It's still the least played map.
In Astana, it was played once.
Yeah, wow.
Yeah, and they had Swiss Vesta 3s
and an 18-plat played once.
Here, it's the least played map as well in Atlanta.
Did it not feel that it was like brought back
in like a weird way?
Like it didn't feel like it was brought back
to be here permanently.
It was only a way for one season.
Yeah, it felt like a stop gap almost to me
when they brought it back, I was like,
oh, this feels like, this feels temporary.
But they gave Train a year.
Yeah.
So they're giving Overpass a year.
I imagine they give Anubis a year again.
I don't know, right?
But it'd be weird.
It makes sense that the new edition is the least played.
Well, what's funny about Anubis is I feel like,
I feel like it's a really fun map to watch.
It's like the opposite of Vertigo.
Sure.
Vertigo is fun to play, terrible to watch.
Anubis, really fun to watch, really annoying to play.
Yeah, look, the teams don't feel like
they're complaining about it as much, though.
Yeah.
a good indicator or a bad indicator but it's still not being played a lot which is unfortunate but
you bring up puggy perspective it's a much easier map for people at home to play but in the pro
meta it's not really being adapted to a lot right so I would be happy to see Inferno or over Pasco.
Yeah I'm just on a federal map where your options are limited from the get-go right like where it's
queues one side like significantly you know Nuke for example is also considered a CT side in map
But you have a ton of options on the T side. That's why you never feel like terrible, you know, like whether you get the correct read or not, like that's a different thing. So, yeah, with an OPEX, I'm not sure.
All right.
Yeah, I like it. It was tough.
Well, we're in C. All right. After the major, we'll see what Valve decided to do. They already made a couple of changes to the cash flow. Maybe there'll be more.
Okay.
We're pivoting. We're pivoting. We're pivoting.
And we're walking.
All right. Next topic.
Keep it slow.
All right.
We had a best of five major final, hooray, great.
Now, in Cologne, we get stage three, best of three the whole way through.
PGO are going to do a third place decider.
What else could we possibly ask for? We're running out of things to complain about.
I'm sure we can find something.
I think major overtime needs to be 12.5k instead of 10k.
I agree.
That's a simple one. I think everybody would agree with that.
I think the easy thing is to go towards adding VO3 to stage 2 as well, but I don't think we want that.
I don't think we're there yet.
How long we see how this one goes?
Yeah, yeah.
We don't wait all the time.
We're not there yet.
But what else can we complain about?
The games that people are complaining a little bit about.
Hey, turn your music down.
We're trying to do a podcast here.
But people aren't really complaining about, like, hit regs, sub-tick.
But what else are we complaining about?
I don't know.
I don't see too many, like, crazy.
I'm trying to think of what, well, I'll tell you one for me personally.
I'd like to get rid of Swiss system in some capacity, I'd like to get rid of Swiss system in some capacity.
I'd like to get that out of here, we've had it for a long, around for a long time.
Well, for the majors or in general?
Well, for me, I'd love in general, but I don't mind mixing it in from time to time.
We just have way too much Swiss system nowadays, it feels.
Look at us causing so much chaos, by the way.
Sorry everybody, we apologize, greatly.
But blame this guy, he's the American.
I think GSL is the way to go, but now we really need to be careful.
I think we got everything covered, also something you didn't mention Chad, for Singapore, the
cutoff point for the invites is closer to the major, which is also important, right?
Because it enables you to get a better, clearer picture of who the best teams in the world
are.
You know, hopefully some of the things that you see last minute with these changes and
what not, like helps alleviate some of that, and really there's nothing left in that regard.
I think even with Fallone, the Majors finally have the format they deserve to be the most prestigious tournament in the calendar.
Okay, so the only stuff we can complain about is like game tweaks really, because no one's complaining about the economy really anymore.
Maps is always going to be the one that brings some variance in the conversation.
Like formats, I would like to see more stuff in Asia to help stimulate that region.
I think it's hard to consolidate who the best team is from that region. That's going to be a tough one.
But yeah, otherwise we're running out of things to complain about and I just wanted to see if you guys had any petty grievances
Honestly, I don't have any real significant petty grievances at the moment, but if you give me a couple days
I'll find one for you. I have a curve all though. I would want for the majors to bring back
Vito's right before the game through the in game
Okay, there we go, that's a good addition. Don't give him an hour. You're out on the stage
That's when you're doing
You're in the pick-band and that's when you're stepping on Yakuza Street and that's when you're getting there.
Look at the inception. This is television.
Oh my god.
Wow. That's crazy.
So this might get confusing.
Okay, so we don't really want too much change that's crazy.
I actually really like that video one. I actually want to second that a little bit. I want to just be there.
Because when I was coaching Chinese in 2019 in Katowice, right, we played against Starving in the quarter-final.
and you can see across the stage, like,
who the report got at that point,
like it really becomes the main thing,
because now there's a big staff.
You do it an hour before,
they'll still have stuff to show you,
like they have time to work on it,
but there it had a bigger effect.
Okay, I'm trying to rock my brain
and see if there's anything else.
Like I have mages on the third map,
you don't knock the sides,
but here at ES Elements, we do knock the sides.
I don't really think that's too much of a big deal, really.
No, but you could Zeus for sides,
and I feel like that'd be a little bit cooler.
bit cooler so why you want to add a slight bit of ridiculous to it maybe like a
faster reload maybe like a four-second reload on the Zeus what but you turn
into a clown PS to Jason oh it's a knife rod it's already kind of halfway
there let's just go the whole way okay Jason style lately probably could get
revolvers yeah that okay chat that's crazy scout knows that's a way to yeah
alright so in general you know that's that's about it in terms of big points
to stick out. We got some counter-shock to be played today. We do have some
counter-shock to be played today. It's going to be a fun grand final. I guess the
topic is how much can game religion actually come in and challenge Navi?
Like how much can they actually stand up to? They took him up in the groups.
Yeah, I think just when you talk everything about the majors, like
looking into Cologne, the results that happened in Astana 2 are like pretty
cool for the major because obviously Vitality lost here, Navi finally beat
That's good. Navi stepping up as a challenger. Falcons with Karrigan looked good, managed to win a close series against Furia, grinded out, which is something they weren't able to do before.
And no choke against Magic.
Exactly. Got all the way to the final...
Not scaredy. Not much after service.
Obviously winning the whole event, beating Falcons along the way, beating Fiora being
Maus, dominantly in the semi-final, that's good, their uptick in form continues.
And Fiora, even though they lost in the quarter-finals, they played close series against both Spirits
and Falcons to Finals.
So it's all shaking up to be a bit more of a contentious major.
It seems like just at the final, you know, at the last minute, some of these teams are
finding their forms to the level where they can make the major interesting.
They've all given us just like that little bit of hope.
Every team that we wanted to be able to compete showed just enough this weekend,
Spirit winning, Falcons with the deep run as you mentioned,
Vitality losing, Navi now stepping up, eating Vitality.
Everyone that we want to be a challenger showed us a little bit of something to give you hope they can do.
At the right time, right? Because it could have gone the other way.
And it was all going south prior to this also.
Yeah, we've been sitting there, event after event gone, who's going to challenge these guys?
Oh, Fury look good. No, they don't.
Oh, Falcons, across the chain. It's just constantly up and down.
And now we actually have a bit of excitement.
It's only CAC once we conclude here today.
That has a couple of big names at it.
Welcome to the Luster Paragion in the quarterfinals.
Look, they need, look, I know it.
They don't have to win right over there.
Actually, maybe they do, maybe they do have to win.
I'm not having this conversation with you again.
I'm not, I'm not having this conversation with you again.
Maybe they do have to win.
When she's towering over you.
This one would be a different kettle of fish, wouldn't it?
Can they handle the pressure, Chad?
Falcons.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Look at all the community, all these Falcons fans.
Especially from all these guys in here, they're overwhelming for sure.
Today though, it's the rematch of the groups.
Yeah.
Just to focus in.
I think people will get deceived by some of the close maps that the Emerligen has played.
Obviously, the last series was 2-1.
Those were dissentant rivals, it was group stage games.
So I think in a grand final, Navi is going to take it up a notch, right?
The preparation becomes a little bit more intense.
players bring some more intensity to the game and also just the experience of
playing grand finals in front of a crowd that's where Navi really has game
religions number. I see that game that crew in the interview yesterday where he was
just kind of like he was he sort of said like thank god we didn't lose we beat
Vitaly and thank god we didn't lose in the next game. Yeah. Yeah like you. We're not mouse.
Yeah we're not mouse thank god it's not mouse it's gonna be Navi in the grand
final taking on game religion that's gonna be up next so stay tuned.
Yeah, wonderful.
You know why I requested you again?
Why?
get to talk to highest players rating wise in the event. This is a vibe check so give me give me
a little vibe here what's what's the day like? Amazing yeah yeah honestly amazing I think so yeah.
Game of Legion ahead of you in the final and you already played them and let's say it wasn't the
prettiest win for you guys but I want to specifically mention for you that that was the only quiet game
you've had here and I actually looked at the stats hypex out of you 7 to 1 was that enough
Can you tell anything about it? It was some time ago. So do you remember the game?
It was unlucky. I don't remember the game, but it was unlucky.
Just an unlucky game, yeah?
It was certainly an unlucky one, I think. But after we won the other two maps, it's okay.
You reckon it will be somewhat similar today as well? Like close maps and maybe some blowouts as well in the mix?
It's a best of five after all.
Yeah, I think it's going to be close game because it's a grand final. You don't have easy games in grand finals for sure.
finals for sure, so it's going to be like just a tough game and we'll be ready for it.
I'm going to give you a hard-hitting question to end this. Give me a prediction. You said close game, so what do you expect? 3-1, 3-0 in a style, it's probably, it could happen, right?
Okay, I won't be cocky, I'll say 3-1.
3-1 it is. Okay, thank you and good luck and see you on the server.
The Grand Final, welcome, it's such a pleasure to have you here, are you excited for this one?
Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I wanted to at least have a Navi or a Vitality in the Grand Final.
We get to see exactly that. I'm almost glad as well it wasn't Vitality, simply because they're not practicing, they're practicing about it.
It really does, we should see that evident in the results.
Janko, how's your morning been? You did the pre-shake, got to walk around a little bit, now it's the big one.
Yeah, it's been very active, very active.
But for here, in the grand final, a rematch for Navi and Gamerlige.
Navi, I think, probably expected to be here, considering the field of teams, right?
And Gamerlige, I think, surprised us all.
Not as much with being in the grand final, of course, but also the level of play.
It's just been really solid, and a lot of these map wins have been really one-sided and straightforward, right?
They haven't been challenged all too much outside of, obviously, the one lost to Navi earlier.
Yeah, a bit of research is coming in for Gamer Legion and finally finding themselves in a big final once again
And then as you said, you know now be being able to take down vitality and not pour off a mouse
And that's in the final exit getting the jet gun versus bedroom
And now obviously the main main favorite to to take the trophy as well. It was quite curious though
I mean we had what legacy as well as
As well as that boom in that third place the cider where they beat both the top two seeded teams at this tournament
And so maybe not being able to follow through on that is a little disappointing for underdog warriors out there
but it's a cool story at least for them.
I feel like we need to set the stakes for this trophy as we have it now.
Let's begin with Navi because Janko, we've already seen them obviously taking a trophy this year,
but that was without vitality in attendance. This one would need a whole lot more, right?
Yeah, they've been very honest and vocal about first, even after that pro league win,
like we really want to play vitality because that is the ultimate test obviously in today's day in age
and you know they got that and it was a close final, they lost the first time around
around and then they were saying it doesn't matter if you win a tournament if
vitality isn't there right like it doesn't say anything so for them to be
able to lift a trophy here potentially after beating vitality in the quarry
final would be absolutely massive and a tremendous boost of confidence going into
Cologne. And there's the timing of it right as you said that the timing heading
into Cologne getting the victory the tournament before the big one in Cologne
it couldn't be any better because they also could have beaten Valtelli a couple
of months ago and then lost you know two or three a row heading into Cologne but
It makes it a bit more exciting that the last time the two teams faced if they were to do it again in Cologne
It was actually now they're coming out on top and as she said as well
You know one thing is winning the tournament where my telly is in attendance
But they actually got to play them and beat them and knock them out of the tournament as well
So in terms of farming all the confidence and building the stories for Cologne
We got a full plate sometimes all that you need is to just win a tournament
It doesn't matter the size of it
Reza's getting on the desk with us and talking about winning Park in as a
as a major motivator or something that builds a lot of confidence for the squad. So regardless
of whether it is about vitality or moving into that major, sometimes you just need to
be able to ramp up at the right moment. And so that's what both these teams are hunting
for. I love this idea of the Anidol run coming out of the game of legion here in Atlanta.
But if we're looking at the experience way in terms of these tier one final, Janko, it
pretty heavily sides with the opposition. It's like in day. Definitely, you know, if
If you look at the core of the teams, there's zero for game religion, right?
Obviously, SNACs, the most experienced veteran player, even Top Spit on the other side in
Navi and then Razz the only other player that's really played grand final tournaments of this
magnitude and none of them were recent either for Razz, right?
It's mostly back in the NIP era.
You can see that Makazov only joined less than a year ago to Navi's main roster already
as close to him and this is really important because we heard from Razz even talk about
Ah, now we have more experience on the stage.
That's why we're playing better than we did last year.
That's why we're making less mistakes.
Well, grand finals are just the next level of that, right?
Like, it becomes different because the trophy is right there.
You are within striking distance,
and that's where the pressure gets to its highest, right?
And that's where all the tournaments, mostly from 2024,
that the core of this Navi team has played together really matter
because they've been here before.
They've done it. They know how it is.
This is where they'll feel like they're in their natural habitat.
There's no denying that, you know, when you look at the experience as you showcase right here,
it's heavily favouring towards Navi.
But in terms of game leading and the level of gameplay they've had in the playoffs,
it hasn't really dropped off for my money.
The way they played in the quarterfinal, the way they conducted themselves in the semi-final understates as well,
we've seen high-pitched, you know, still show up in the big moments.
We've seen him being hyped up and being very, I guess, animated understates as well.
So I'm not really worried in terms of game leading, losing their level, you know, by playing understates.
but one thing is doing well in a quarterfinal and in a semi-final, but when you're in the game,
you know, when you're one win away from a trophy, things change a little bit as well.
Snacks and Alexei as in-game leaders have faced off against each other in a grand final before,
in Blast Fall 2024. Snacks won. That's it. That's the only grand final that they've played
against each other where they had to go head-to-head on a cerebral level. And for me, I've really
enjoyed how Snacks has continued to improve this roster. He has brought a calmness to them. He
the way that they play as well,
and he's brought out a lot of his
players, but he doesn't have an
equal or a modesty by his side
this time. So that's really going
to be the difficulty in terms of
that. Those rookie stepping up to
that play because, yeah, Navi are
poised to win it. They're hitting
their stride at the right time. I
love that a little head to
reference, but I was going to record
that sentiment. You need times are
very much changed since the snacks
the trophy of course, massive asterisks, no vitality there, they even said it in the winners interview,
right? But since then what have we seen from Narvi? Yeah, we've seen a lot of dominance against
anyone not named Vitality, right? Because they've lost to them obviously in the two grand finals,
they've lost to them in Rio in the quarterfinal, outside of that there was, you know, the loss to
legacy obviously here in a seeding game, there was a loss to Fury as well in one of the group
stages and that's it they've been beating everyone else so it really was a turning point you know a
combination of lifting a trophy like Yumi has said uptick in performance from guys like wonderful
from guys like Makazi and you have to also if you remember in January when Blade is talking about
you know them and giving an interview he's talking about wow the the map will change really
through a soft guard like train was really big for us and you know we didn't expect that we put a
lot of work on the map so they needed two months three months to really work on their map to get
better on multiple maps and I think all these things together have resulted in
Navi finding success on the server. That's the thing right is the combination of
having all these factors you know moving in the right direction at the same time
because you'd argue if it was only Mikasa staying up his level but wonderful
still struggling with the consistency Navi probably wouldn't look as good as
they do right now and vice versa if wonderful all of a sudden fine
consistency but wasn't helped by the space creating coming in from Mikasa then
Navi would be a good team but not as good as they are right now so in a time
where we thought it was going to be Falcons, we thought it was going to be Furia, all these
other teams fighting to be the next one after Vitality. Well, Navi came out of nowhere, you
know, before this there were maybe places number five, number six in the world, but right
now there's no doubt they are the second best team.
Yeah, I mean, between Wonderful and Mikasa, they have a good opener and a closer and an
opener between those two, but it's really been in the middle with Bits, where I've been
most impressed with this Navi roster, because Mikasa can have great maps. He can be the
best player in the server for a map, but he actually struggles for consistency across
And he's struggled to find that consistency throughout this tournament.
We mentioned Wonderful's name and we have to bring up some of his highlights, right?
Because he's been having such a stellar showing so far at this tournament, Jacob, right?
He's been great, you know, and he's really turned it around.
And people, you know, and myself included, maybe, are quick to forget what was the situation for Wonderful
heading into the Budapest Major just four or five months ago.
I think everyone, including the community, were calling for him to be cut from Na'Vi.
If they didn't do well at the Budapest Major, I'm sure someone would have been cut from Na'Vi as well.
and all of a sudden he steps it up, and ever since he's been consistently delivering as
one of the best performers within the Nalvi game. Both with the AWP, but one thing that
I've noticed as well is that he's very influential in pistol rounds, he also picks up the rifle
from time to time, and it just seems to basically step it up over the course of every single
aspect of playing Counter-Strike. So, for Wonderful to do well, not only has he brought
Nalvi back to life and brought him into the position of being the second best team in
the world, but he's also probably saved his time within Nalvi, because there was a lot
people calling for him to be cut heading into the major buddhah. I do think the the criticisms of
him in 2025 were a little harsh though. I agree. I mean he was probably the most stable of any of
the pieces that they had on the roster in a very turbulent time for Navi where yes everyone's
living in the shadow of the era and maybe the second place finishers in mouths. No one else
was really properly in that conversation so yeah it's a great redemption for Wonderful in a lot
of ways because if he can be this good for Navi then they can win trophies. Also just quick to
Whatever we discussed certain teams, you obviously had the Shiro, the Monocys, the Saibu and the Op,
but we always discussed number 5, 6, 7, 8, they are all bang-arriage at the moment.
There's no good Opers on the market. We're talking about teams, a lot of different teams who could look for an upgrade in the Op-ing department,
but there's no Op-er out there with any sort of resemblance of the level to be a top tier player.
Wonderful, he's elevated himself from the top of that pack now to be in the same category as a Shiro, just below the best in the world.
Ok, give me where he would place in the top three at the moment. I know we're only five months into the air.
Zairu obviously number one, right? Was wonderful contending for that second?
I think with the monesties form, I think you put him at number one. Zairu is obviously the better player and more all-around player.
He's always going to be in that top three conversation and then after that, with his form, you put wonderful there, right?
if he can continue like what he's shown in Astana now, and then you put Shiro around 5-6.
Simply because the way he plays, he's going to get you more rounds, he's going to find you more impact.
Shiro is a safer pair of hands, he's going to be more consistent, probably a little bit better in the clutch,
but wonderful can bring you rounds based off of individual prowess,
and just sort of when he has a lights out game.
Truly has changed the conversation around him.
As I said, it was a player, people were flacking, it was a player that the community were after,
after and now we find him to be one of the more stable parts of this Na'Vi lineup.
That damn Adam Graf too.
Did it before?
He did it before.
And up there comes out and he's loving life.
When we're looking at other prongs of attack for this Na'Vi roster, we're not just looking
at New Yorker to be stepping up, right?
Any kind of little tweaks that you've seen these guys making in order to take steps?
Yeah, I think the problematic thing for game religion, you know, if you talk about Mirage,
because it was two close losses that they had the last two times they played, I think
I think that map is going to be really important and they're running to a bit of a problem because on their t-side
Even though they found ways to win rounds, they just couldn't win rounds going B
Like nobody, they haven't won a single gun round trying to go B and that's where they struggle the most
Really which makes it easier for Navi, right?
Like they can just lean over even though they didn't do that
But they could lean more towards a cheat an extra player there, right? Like apply some pressure and
That way sort of make it even more difficult for game allegiance to get things going
Yeah, I think calling game-religion one-dimensional is maybe a bit over the top, but it does feel like they have a strong plan A, but the plan B, plan C, and basically when you move into the deeper sections of the game, right?
We've spoken a lot about the aggressiveness coming out from them, the pace and change of pace sometimes coming out for snacks, but I do feel they're somewhat limited in how much and how many different ways they can approach the game when you compare them to a team like Navi, who's been doing it so many different fashions.
We love to talk about the prep for game religion good game planning coming into games good targeting finding weak bomb sites
That's blades bread and butter
I mean, but he's the one that did sort of innovate that style of coaching and got his players prepped and is probably a pretty hard
Lang out when it comes to that so
Navi have always been a very enigmatic team to anti-strat even if you're trying to diagnose problems
It can be fairly hard to gauge because from tournament to tournament game to game
It feels there's just a slight tweak or a slight difference that they themselves are correct
just get your opinion on one
thing you need because you
didn't join us for the vitality
Navi series that we saw going
down on Friday. I don't know
whether this is a terrible take
coming from me, but I feel like
this is just a net positive all
around right because I don't
imagine vitality are going to be
taking too much stock short.
There's things you could be
learning from, but it was very
evident without a month of
practice that they were saying
you're not really going to be
coming in as sharp as we've seen
throughout the year. And for
Navi that was such a confidence
boost right. We literally have
that quote from blade saying in
is amazing versus vitality. Do you agree with that sentiment? Do you think this is a net
positive for the ecosystem?
As long as they don't put too much bearing on the practice element for vitality, I mean,
even them coming out and saying they're playing their F game, they see that I will make more
mistakes than he ever really does. It just, there was, we were getting to this point in
the circuit where it felt like everyone was in agreement. It's the vitality era. They're
unbeatable. No one could beat them except Falcons. Maybe you get a close map if you've
got to stand in for some reason but now that they have shown that vitality are mortal there's a
lot of pressure on vitality heading into that clone major you can start practicing for two weeks
but who's to say that the results actually follow the same way that they had the rest of the season
yeah I think you see the the results here you see what's going on in Astana with Falcons making
the final in the first tournament with Karrigan's current being dominant beating everyone in Furia
playing close against both finalists right so those are the three names alongside Navi that you
would sort of look toward that they're going to be able to challenge vitality and yeah absolutely
what we want is at least some competition like we were talking about vitality going into tournament
last three four tournaments they won they haven't lost a map in the playoffs like with these are
ridiculous levels of domination so them losing and other teams playing better and then seeming
like they're upgrading is a net positive for the scene. Yeah seemingly a big win obviously for
Fnally but for the rest of us as well you know from a community standpoint from us even trying
trying to build up the narratives for Cologne, because I agree, we spoke about Vitality having
this massive gap from being number one to the number two and number three teams, but
with Vitality not practicing, would everyone else seemingly stepping it up as you said,
Spirit looking better than they have all year long, you know, netting a trophy in Astana,
Falcons maybe too early to tell if they're much, much better off, but they're such an
explosive team and then Flurry as well, despite the result not looking great at Astana, they
played a great game of Counter Strike against Falcons in that quarterfinal, so seemingly
everyone is getting better just beneath Vitality, whereas Vitality, if anything, stagnated
and that should close the gap that women's begin on.
And this is the exact period, but we want that to be happening.
We're going into the Cologne Major for sure, but fixating on this Grand Final,
I think it's time to check in with Alexi B ahead of the series.
I want to welcome you Alexi to this Grand Final.
It's the best of five, and best of five and you are not necessarily big friends together.
Do you know, do you have an idea why this struggle might be happening?
To be fair, I haven't even thought about it.
I think whenever we played Vestal 5 against teams that felt like we were stronger, it was usually on our side.
But to be fair, there's been some close Vestal 5s and some where we could have done better.
But today I'm not thinking about that.
It's honestly also very close even in those 3-0s, but the maps itself are close, right?
I want to talk to you about something that I think a lot of people don't really see and it's like a
hidden impact in a team of Navi and that are blade pauses. Do they surprise you sometimes? Because it
feels like you could be winning like 4-0, 5-0 and he takes a pause and he's like calming you down but
he's also very vocal and very tactical about the approach you need to change. You as an IGL that you
have to take these pauses and listen to them. Is it surprising to you sometimes? No, I don't think so
because I don't think he takes timeouts when they're not needed, so maybe he hears that we are
you know going away from freestyle with a weak plan or someone is creating an idea that's not
the game plan we wanted to run. I think it's it always makes sense and as an IGL that's a very
good thing because you always you can put your own thoughts on top of that. Yeah overall I don't
think anything goes to waste and I'm not surprised after three years you know. Yeah I mean that makes
The next complete sense, prep-wise, between these finals that you are playing against Vitality all the time and now you have to face someone like Gamer Legion, what's the difference in this prep?
Finally, these individual styles are on your side, right? You are the one that are kind of dictating the pace of all these aim-dos and stuff like that.
So does this allow you to call it a little bit differently? Maybe allow for an extra mistake here and there to still convert the rounds?
Yeah, I think that game religion for us before Texas was a team we didn't play and now it
feels like we've played against them, we've played against them on practice during USA.
So I think that we've kind of trained them as well and they're one of the teams that
completely smashed us last time in one of our map picks.
So we need to take them seriously and they also beat the legacy that we lost to in this
tournament.
When it comes down to comparing Vitality and them, obviously Vitality for us was like a
kryptonite, hard team to beat, we did it, but we cannot take them any less serious.
I think they're playing strong and they deserve the finals, but we have to be better today.
Let's focus on you.
Are you ready to start this ESL Grand Slam season with a win?
Yes, of course.
Let's do it.
See you on the server.
I'm just loving our confidence coming out of LXB and it's a good reason to be confident,
I drink it because let's be real, they are the favourites coming into this.
They are the massive favourites coming into this grand final.
Anything but a victory would be a massive disappointment for Navi,
especially now considering you've finally got over the hurdle of beating Vitality.
To me there's also an extra game within the game, you know,
there's also a fashion you can win in,
because this could also be a back and forth, a close game,
and sure thing, if Navi ends up winning,
you can never make the argument that it's not great to get a trophy,
but I would almost argue, you know, that I want to see a Navi in control throughout this game.
I want to see a Na'Vi that is showing us, you know, heading into Cologne, that they're ramping up,
they're getting better, that they're able to control a team like Gamelidion,
whereas if they lose two maps and we go into a fifth and it's back and forth,
then you at some point are worried they're even going to win.
Sure thing, again, if you win, it's a good sign, but there's different ways of winning,
and I personally would prefer a dominant win for Na'Vi if they were to win,
just to give us a bit more spice for Cologne.
Well, Alexi almost seemed like he was taking a little bit of credit as well,
as I got, we practiced against it, we played against it, we kind of trained alongside them in a way,
So whoever wins today is I guess both winners in some way
So we just take a look at the board picture as the game lesion coming into this one because they let TV did allude to it
They played in the group stage up game lesion looks incredibly well prepared on Navi's map choice of Asian particularly starting on that T side
What other results have we seen the kind of observations have you taken from this game lesion run so far?
I think it's just been really strong in terms of how they're able to mix it up on the T side right before
Maybe it was a little bit one-dimensional. We're just having to play faster
pace right not being that great at playing default but actually in this
tournament even in the playoffs they had some good slow rounds players being
patient taking their time but when it's time to strike you know they're being
decisive and that's key and you could tell it across the board right from all
the individuals even snacks is having his moments sort of leave leading the
young pack and I think that's what makes game a legend dangerous in this
tournament they're not afraid to play they're not afraid to play Counter-Strike
and it's also one of the teams that's been playtested in a lot of tier 2 tier
three tournaments leading up to this and there's something to be said about
getting all those repetitions there's something to be said about playing a lot
of official games and naturally we don't see Navi, those solid teams you
know played there that's called them second tier tournaments right and
sometimes there's a bit of an advantage in being that team you know who's just
grinding and out left right and center because you learn so much about yourself
you learn so much about what's good what's bad where's our map pull at etc etc
so in terms of being playtested coming into this tournament I think that's part
of the reason why gamer leading are so self-aware where they're strong and
where they maybe have the weakness. I think as well because they've slowed down the game a bit
it actually has allowed high-packs to be more involved. You know typically you'd see them on
those pacey rounds fall behind and it does put some pressure on him to clutch which he has been at
this tournament but it is nice that the adaptation and style is actually bringing more of these star
players to the forefront because that young pack is what's fueling gamer league. Oh 100% I mean
when we're looking at or when we're talking about Navi being the massive favorites coming into this
that doesn't mean that there aren't potential polls that games can be poking out so should we
We re-visit the group stage matchup, third map, that was Morage, what's the key to victory
for GAMER LEADER coming into this one?
Yeah, it's around that I want to take you into, not necessarily specific aim towards
Mirage, but more so the willingness to play and also the preparation we spoke about for
GAMER LEADER coming into it.
You see right here, 6-5, the scoreline is somewhat close, it's a competitive game, and
if you follow the radar right here in this very round, we're very deep, sorry, very early
into the round, and you can see there's one player and that is bit up towards Apartments
and then you have PR in the beginning of the round, walking down ramp,
in the beginning backed up by Hypix, but he finds so much space and he's not afraid of pushing it, right?
Going all the way into T spawn, you think a lot of different teams, a lot of players will take the win
that is having ramp control, but you want to push it even further.
Now, whether that's a read directly on Navi, where Bid is not finding the timing,
or whether that's Gamelis taking a bit of a calibratic risk, well, that's up for debate.
However, he goes up towards top middle and at this point, you know, you're in a very winnable position.
A lot of teams don't, they're not really there to make plays like this,
Especially not at a moment where you're down 6-5 on a CC start like Mirage, it gets a double kill.
Make sure that Snacks is close together with Ress, boosted in this position.
And even though Mikasa is coming in from behind and trying to bring back the round for Nabi,
it's not really working out. Playing with this kind of, I guess, balls on the server,
you know, in a game like Nabi, where you're willing to risk it all, whether that's based on your prep,
whether that's based on a feeling or read the PR head, that's something you need in this game.
Not aimed specifically on Mirage, but on pretty much every single map.
The second they are afraid to win, the second they are afraid to play Counter-Strike,
that's the second this game will even be competitive.
Yeah, it's a great example because, well, it's a group stage game in the studio
and it's exactly in this sort of an environment where you see less of those
and Jacob is spot on, you can't change your style, you can't play more scared
or you can't be afraid of making a mistake.
Mistakes are always going to happen and you want to play the game on your terms
and if you're going to have a chance in this final, you have to have the same approach.
you see happen with hyper aggressive teams happen it up to our Brazilian teams at this event is that
when you play this hyper agro style when you play a better team you almost once to stop playing
that way in a way because you're expecting them to answer straight you'll take more precautions
that you have to be able to play that style through and through live and die by the store.
Irina Filly loves your analysis Jacob congratulations and let's move on to the second half of this
map though because Jango you kind of want to put the shoe on the other foot right? Yeah exactly like
He mentioned, you know, on the last two times, they played game-a-living on their T-side,
really did struggle to find success towards the B bomb side, right?
So a couple of examples from their previous game, they ended up being, you know, a 13-10 win for Navi,
just a slow default opening. They're going towards some mid control, right, trying to apply some pressure.
We're going to see them rotate back towards B. What's also important, like, during this time,
as they're grouping, you can see how Navi is going to clear top mid, right?
Alexi is isolated towards the B bombsite on his own, Navi being proactive in the mid
around getting a lot of information.
But this is perfect timing kind of for game allege.
Alexi feeds on an island, look again at the radar, where his teammates are as the utility
starts to fly in from the side of game allege.
And he has a 5-7, like their money is tapped out, this is a huge round for game allege
to win.
scaling is just poor. Makazi gets all the way back, finds two kills before they even get past,
you know, the first wall on the B bomb site, they get completely mowed down, right? Later on,
same game, again, reset round, look at the vibe for Navi, only a FAMAS pistol MP9, here even slower
from the side of game religion. They know it's a bad buy, they're expecting maybe some aggression,
they don't want to be caught off guard. Navi goes for an information play and ramp, right? Once
Snacks hears this. He sort of gives the boat to his teammates. He was supposed to just fake a and again if you look at it
Alexi pretty much on an island
With a 5-7 right so the hit is gonna come in again
With some attention going to be drawn from Ima whose market and Makazi one more time from short this time with a from us
Finds a multi-killer and this has just been really poor from game a legion there
They don't have a good way of hitting this big bomb site.
I'm hoping they came up with something after yesterday,
because this just enables Navi to always focus towards A.
Always cheat that extra player.
It's situations like this where Blades really knows how to take advantage of that.
So I would look towards the Mirage, see if Kimmeligin tries to win around and be early,
just to keep Navi honest for the rest of the half.
It's a couple of those rounds where you pause the screenshot of the radar at that moment,
you see LXB, what a 5-7, you see the spacing coming out for Game of Legion and you'd say the
red around perfectly well, you know, as you said, snacks in a great position to make that call,
not being able to convert on that, not being able to win two rounds like that at the moment
in the game as well, that's something they cannot allow today, Yumi, to happen, because that is,
it's almost unloosable. I feel like had that been Falcon, sort of been screenshots all over the
place, you know, with me and that guy. Yeah, that was a thing as well, because we
the game. The game is a
very important part of the
game. The game is a lot of
vitality win along those types
of rounds, but they typically
go for a gimmick or something.
If the fact that Alexi is able
to get away with that in
moments where there is no
specific setup. There's
nothing gimmicky about the
play. It's it is an indictment
on gamer Legion unable to
being unable to follow through
in some of those key moments,
but they have been improving
at that. I didn't see that
that's the same issues in terms
of finding that lack of
spacing or the lack of pace
Welcome Snacks to the Grand Final, Navi ahead of you, since you and Res are these kind of
experienced guys, these three kids on the roster.
Can you share some words of wisdom that you told them to make it a little bit more business
as usual?
I'm in the top of the match today, in terms of how to prepare before the final.
I think we're going to do it in the huddle, I think they're pretty happy to be in the final,
I didn't feel like they're stressed or something, so I didn't feel like I need to do something.
Alright, what's the difference in preparation for you guys in Best of Five?
You can share as much as you want, but did Grashok, your analyst, pull an all-nighter,
or did you pull an all-nighter to prep these, or was it like a team effort maybe?
I mean, I was sure some no less, but maybe after the game more.
We prepared a little bit. I don't think so we can like prepare all five maps before the best of five.
It's hard to remember everything, but I think we know what to do and I hope for a good final,
but we might lose 0-3 and it's gonna be fine as well because we are in the final.
I'm using with confidence right there. I want to talk a little bit about ancient because that is the map that
It might be in the best of five like this can be pretty key
They beat you pretty heavily like two weeks ago in Texas, but here you beat them 13 to 1
So what do you what what what is that?
What's what are your takeaways basically about the maps like this when you beat someone they beat you and it's like a roller coaster of
performance, you know, it's
It's really tough to say to be honest
We changed a little bit. We didn't fully counter them for the second mention, I would say.
It was more that we felt like we need to fight a little bit more and not give that much space, and I think that was the reason we beat them.
And we also picked T-Side instead of CT, so I think that was the biggest reason.
Makaz is insane on T-Side, so we didn't let him play that much, so maybe that was the reason.
It's a pretty good counter to them, right?
It's not bad, yeah.
Before I end this interview, what needs to happen for you to beat Navi today?
You're a heavy underdog, so what do you have in store for us?
I think the stars need to align in a good way.
I think one of them needs to break a leg or arm and I need to be hungry as well.
So if those three things are going to happen, we have a chance.
We have a chance definitely. Good luck in this grand final.
Snacks, please, never change, could either make a dent in this grand final or could do
0-3, doesn't really matter, they're just proud to have made it here, either way, Janko,
and I think that's a fair enough centre.
Love that term from Stinko, losing with confidence, like, you don't hear that often, but you know,
Snacks, all is going to be honest, right, they know they're the underdog, what's important
for them is that they keep playing the same way, right, and they don't necessarily shut
down just because they're in the grand final, I think it's going to help that they're a
massive underdog, you're not going to feel the pressure on your shoulders as much,
It's Navi's final to lose, and that's why I'm hoping that the Gamalegion can give us an exciting final here.
One of the reasons why we maybe leave that this game is going to be competitive is that we saw them play in the group stage,
and we saw Gamalegion run all over Navi on a map like Ancient Rite.
In isolation, that was a great performance. You can take nothing away from Gamalegion when you beat Navi 13-1.
My issue with that is that we see Navi do that against a lot of different teams, you know, the last couple of months.
A couple of games in group stage, I remember one against Bait where they beat them 13-0 on Bait's map pick.
They go into their own map pick and then they get absolutely run over and I think it's a bit of an issue
We're in the nami camp that they need to play with a certain urgency, right?
There needs to be something at stake for them to be fired up at a hundred percent and one would argue when you go into a
Grand final on a stage like this. There's a lot of urgency to be displayed by an army
So sure thing that was well done by game leading. I do not think now. We will make the same mistake twice
It's a group stage thing for them. It's been happening a couple of times
But on a stage like this in a grand final, I don't really buy into it. I also just say in a best of five
It's not going to probably just not going to happen. I don't know that the map pool feels deep enough really for gamer legion
I don't see the same confidence from players in their independent positions
You know whether that is a PR or 1000 sometimes it can be a little bit more absent on certain maps and I
I mean the objectives are clearly different now
We want to win this and have to win it for game religion
This is the first best of five that three of their players are playing online PR has never played a best of five even online
So there's it is an experience to learning one for game a legion
Let's learn a little bit more about the order in which the maps are going to come out and there's best of five means that we get the two
Bands initially and then you anchor it's all about the order in which these picks are going to come in
Yeah, and who gets to be team a in this one because you get two
Of your own mapex in the first three maps and we see that game a legion is going to be team a no dust to
No overpass for the side of now V and you know there now it gets a little bit tricky for game a legion
do you just go straight to ancient because of how it went last time?
Do you try to punish Navi somehow in De Vito?
They go for Mirage which has been Navi's staple but you played in close two times
and they do go for Mirage having to start on the T side.
Perhaps not being as bad as having to start on CT I imagine of ancient.
I think part of the reason why they go for Mirage in Noggination or even Nuke for that matter as well
is a map where Gamerly even found a lot of successes.
the exact reason you just showed a couple of minutes ago, I think if game agent rewatched
that game, they probably felt they should have won that. They felt that there was plenty
of moments in that game for them to beat Navi. So, picking Mirage is a bit of a sign
of confidence for me that they evaluated that game, they reassessed that game and thought
to themselves, hey, I know we lost Mirage, but we should have won.
I also think that the Anubis pick is very astute from Navi. It's a map that, honestly,
game religion have struggled on that T side in a way that, you know, you don't get the
same individual playmaking that a lot of other teams seem to rely on that map. You know,
stretching rotations, you can ping pong between bombsites, that's actually an area that Gamer
Legion has struggled on, so Navi, look into capitalizing.
And interesting to see Gamer Legion not going for Ancient, they understand it's Navi's also
best map arguably at the moment, so you don't want to necessarily be the ones who pick it.
Going for Nuke, which Navi has been up and down on, hasn't played it that much either,
so I like that, we're trying to make them a little bit uncomfortable, then Navi comes
in with the ancients and we get that inferno decider if it goes all five.
Yeah, it's not a bad arrangement of maps for GamerLegion.
It's maps that they can definitely play at a high level, maps that are competitive on.
In particular Nuke, arguably the statistically speaking strongest map,
so to be able to play that as a third one and that guarantees a good thing for them.
I just love the fact that Navi are the ones to pick engine, right?
That 13-1 loss against GamerLegion, they don't give a damn about that.
There was a one-game-off that said they've done it against playing your teams in group stage.
It's not gonna affect them at all.
and they really don't want Makazi to play on the T side, right?
They can't just start T side on both of Navi's mappics,
but I think in this final, game leading has to win the first map.
I don't think they have a massive chance on Anubis,
so if they lose Mirage, lose Anubis, going into Nuke down 0-2,
by that point it's sort of inevitable it's coming your way, right?
But if you're able to win Mirage and then you're going into Anubis,
no matter what happens, you know that you still have two maps to play, I think that's a way in
for Gamerleague. I think a great way to assess a Grand Final like this when you have a Vesta 5 and
you look at the map, if you took each of them in isolation, you'd argue that Navi are the favorites
on every single map in this series, you know. So in there we got sure there's certain maps where
Gamerleague didn't have a better chance and where they stand a better chance of beating Navi, but
very much agree with you, you know, a ticket into this Grand Final is by winning the first map
and maybe also making Navi doubt himself just a little bit. Just to go back to a point that was
was made earlier, you know, Navi almost need the urgency. They need a motivating factor
to get in. I mean, they show vulnerability against gay religion in the group stage, sure,
but they know that they're the expected favorites. The only thing I'm worried about for Navi
is a complacency. You know, we've talked about mouths beating Vitality once upon a time and
then fumbling the Cologne final for Navi. This would be a massive fumble for them as
an organization and as a squad because we're already kind of predicting and forecasting,
think yeah they'll just win the tournament and they'll ride it in the highs into the
cologne major but it might not be so peachy. I just don't think blade would allow complacency.
He's one of the few coaches that I mean even when we saw them what winning a couple rounds
and then he didn't really like the comms he already took a time out in that semi-final
yesterday just to say hey guys focus I want you to dictate the pace of this one. They've
not been flawless in their gun rounds they've lost to four spies they've had to rely on
four spies just to even make it this far in the playoffs so for them I mean I don't know
you put that down as complacency but there's certainly a risk aversion that
they've not really got down. You can tell Blade has been very intense in this
games and in the timeouts like he took a timeout in the first gun round which
always started like because he was unhappy with what he saw after two rounds
like you never see that that doesn't happen because that's all pre-determined
before the game starts like whether you're 2-0-0-2-3-0-1-1 like you know what
the call is like that's part of the game plan so for him to take that early of a
time out as if you really dislike sort of the attitude the approach for the team
and wanted to get them to zone in and get their shit together by the way we do
have Navi and we do have game allegiance so without further ado it's time to get
championship Sunday started here in Atlanta
Good afternoon Atlanta, how are we feeling?
Every map, every round, every clutch, hell, even every fumble all culminate here into Atlanta
this afternoon, the heart of the south.
And it's not every year that we come to the big city in the south, but if there's one
thing I do know is that we love our fixings down here and we are fixing to have a banging
ass grand final.
Make some noise Atlanta.
If you woke up this morning, you had a headache, you were a little dehydrated, perhaps you
really thought, you know, I need to get back to the venue.
You did the right thing.
You showed up here and now we're ready to watch some of the best counter strike that
the entire planet has to offer us.
And without any further ado, I need to ask the normal question, the same question that
We get asked weekend after weekend and it divides us just here and there.
Do I have any Na'Vi fans in the house?
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
I think there's some Game Religion fans as well.
No, but but Na'Vi fans, where are you all at?
Well, Game Religion, surely you guys are still here, right?
Well, I don't think there's much more to say other than, it's time to play the game!
In the rest of five, it might be tough, but I believe it.
Now we always have a solid game plan, like whatever map you play, you can't slack or anything,
you can't mess up basically.
When we play Navi, they got the experience and that they are one of the best, like you
definitely feel it instantly, in how they move around and punish you, I think they're
definitely beatable.
We figure them out on their best map and I think we can do it on other maps as well.
I'm always happy when we are winning, especially if it's big events.
Obviously, here are no tops, like I said.
You still win, and no matter what event it is,
if you are winning, for me it's a very good feeling.
I win some here, I lost some here, so the trophy will be very nice, especially after
the 2017 final.
That's a counter-strike and I think that's a beautiful thing about that.
I wouldn't obviously put us as favorites here, but it would be awesome.
It's the Intel Extreme Masters, Atlanta! Get up, get up, get up!
Now, welcome to the stage, your first grand finalist, Navi!
It's Lana Georgia, now entering the stage, your second grand finalist.
It's Gamer Legion!
Na'Vi vs. Game Illusion in a Best of 5 Grand Final.
For the former, this is the front they have been craving for what feels like an eternity.
Earning a trophy in itself would be a massive achievement, but to do it after taking down
Vitality would be worth its weight in gold.
Question is, Yankee, can Game Illusion play spoiler tonight?
Listen, Freya, North America loves the good underdog story.
It was here in 2022 in Dallas that Cloud9 won their first trophy.
In 2023, it was ends winning their sole trophy, right?
2024, 2-2-K standing in for G2 taking down Vitality.
Can Gamer Legion write the next chapter of IM in NA and be the next underdog
that's going to put themselves on the map?
It's going to be a tough fight regardless of how you frame it.
However, as you said, there's been a bit of a history
when it comes to underdogs in America.
Now, if we speak wing conditions, Yumi, I'm looking at players like Hypex.
Throughout this tournament, he's been very clutched, he's been stepping up in the big moments,
he's been thriving on the stage, he's been playing animated as well.
The body language coming out of this guy doesn't seem like a newcomer to being on the stage.
He lost it, then I'm also looking towards PR.
I think he has a bit of that X factor on the server that is required if you want to pull off a big offset
that it would be if they were to beat now.
For me, it's Hypex through and through.
That guy has been channeling the audience.
They have cheered for him every clutch every shot, but we've got a split audience here
They have rooted for Navi all the same on the other side of that bracket
So I don't know which way Atlanta is going to swing
But I know that they're gonna enjoy the game between what has been a world-class wonderful and a hypex
That's looking to take him down a question to you, Yanko
Do you think Navi have the corners to be withstanding the pressure on their shoulders here today?
I think they do I think they're tried and tested we can't forget that these are four players that were part of that
20-24 line-up that was team of the year, the wealth of experience that they were
crewed since then, blades standing behind them, you've seen the intensity from him
all tournament plan, he isn't going to let them get from place and he isn't
going to let them take anything for granted. This is what it all comes down
to, that trophy might look within touching distance on the stage but it
could take a marathon to be making it there, it's best of five times between
Na'Vi and GamerLegion tonight here in Atlanta.
A week of Counter-Strike has led up to this moment.
We've got Na'Vi oozing confidence and GamerLegion hoping
that they can even surprise themselves
coming into this best of five.
The odds are stacked against GamerLegion,
but they have been every step of the way
these past few weeks.
Then gaining ground and rising,
playing better and better,
the inexperience getting more of it
And it's critical, they get that experience under the pressure of these grand finals,
heading into the major in Cologne in just a couple of weeks for Navi,
accomplishing their goal, overcoming Vitality, finally.
And even mentioning not dropping the ball in the semifinals, taking that victory,
carrying that momentum, pulled into these playoffs.
Navi looking good, they've got one more hurdle,
one more step to take before they can lift that trophy,
and show that they're primed in writing that this Navi team is peeking at the right moment,
Turning the corner into gold.
We've come to America for the last stop before the match.
So Atlanta and Georgia, let me hear that sound!
What's going on in the final?
Rodney vs. Daniel A. J.
Well, Mirage is going to be the first map of play.
But we have all that fun together for a tech pause at Lannister. Thank you so much for the energy.
We'll have to make it one more time.
And when we get it up and running, we're going to reset all that stuff. We're going to do it over again.
It's going to be great fun.
But truly, Navi now, big test. I mean, accomplishing your goal of beating vitality,
getting that off your back, the pressure that that alleviates, so important that you're able
to build upon that. And that's the thing that Alexi be talking about. He didn't drop that ball.
We didn't kind of disappoint. We saw Maus do it last year in Cologne, right?
Beat Vitality finally, get into the, you know, not able to actually lift the trophy at the end of the day.
That's so deflating, so disappointing, so depressing.
And Navi looking to avoid that here. They are a team that has up and downs, though.
You know, I like the way Snax has come into this with his mentality.
I think it's really important him and Rez as the experienced figure of the team.
I mean, if you go down the list of this game or Legion side,
Towson, PR, and Hypex have never played a best of five on Lancelot.
I think Snacks is very well aware of the kind of task ahead of him,
and I think having a really, really good perspective with this team
to make it so they don't feel as much as that pressure.
He's already been saying, we've accomplished the goals, we're good.
It was great hearing Snacks' candid nature come in and display again ahead of this final.
You know, talking about how he's hoping that there's some sort of miracle happening.
You know, Navi would have to break an arm to put up to lose this final, but we'll have to wait and see as finally it is time to get back into this grand final.
It's Navi vs. Gamelidge and kicking off on Mirage, and we've got plenty of utility over here for Gamelidge.
And so let's see what we've got in store for this play store.
Alright, well, bomb is already positioned towards the A bomb site, so you've got to feel like this mid-player, RedSnack, is going to try and head towards Khan,
but Mikaze is going to try and put a stop to him. First shot's missed, Twill's a headshot traded.
Shot traded.
Yeah, it could work for Macauza.
Hypex and Rez able to get a couple back here for game
allegiance.
Good to see them getting a strong start.
Ema going to be falling back into short.
There's no one at the A bomb site as well.
Players are starting to poke and prod with those two kills.
And PR is like, nobody's here.
So the bomb's going to come in.
Actually, Hypex can play this as slow and chill as he'd like.
Flashbang activates Rez to get comfortable in towards Khan.
So retake will come in.
Ema and Alexi, the closest by, wonderful is going to join up.
There's only one H-E grenade there.
So I don't know how you get in.
Flash goes forward, PR taking Emma away.
Now, we've got wonderful in the LICB who just
have no real chance of getting into this whatsoever.
Rez is going to keep the connector closed off.
LICB stepping ever closer, and Rez takes the head shot.
But we'll confirm this.
So a great start for the Gamer Legion.
A strong pistol showing.
I mean, obviously, the first step you want is winning the pistol.
But I mean, doing it this and that,
there's some lovely shots from the individuals of Gamer
Legion.
Really nice to see coming in sharp,
stepping onto these grand final stages.
Bombs going to go off, one to nothing for Gamer Legion.
Two kills for Rez.
In that pistol, we've touched on him a number of times.
Best start to his career that he's ever had in a year.
It's been a very long career.
Last trophy, he's won in fact,
the tournament this size of the tier one events,
the professional circuit was all the way back
in that legendary I am Oakland
that we've read for so many times back in 2017 MVP of that event but hasn't
lifted that professional circuit that tier one level trophy since then I don't
know if we've mentioned it enough Jason really the Oakland performance yeah we
might need to keep hanging on I think couple more years people will get it
second round bye for gamer Legion excuse me for nobby they invest five
seven deagles and the famas on wonderful
and came to take it very very chill on this tea side
we have to mention that to you know mentioning it you're getting to start
tea side on on a map in the previous years back in the group stage one thing
it does allow is you to open up the series by setting the tone
so i imagine snacks is gonna be happy that here in their map pick obviously
now be selected to see tea side so they once again get that offensive start to
be able to kind of
prime Navi and let him know what kind of aggressive nature they're going to come in.
What kind of style they bring.
Yeah, well, Gamerly's not going to get a whole lot of T-starts in this B05.
I'll tell you what, they're about to run into an issue.
Alexi has slid over at the perfect moment.
There's three, four defenders at this A-bomb side.
Yeah, big set for with the utility into Palace, have to drop back,
but there's plenty of players here.
And the D-go for it, but it's Kimbala on top of the first fight.
Another one from in with D-g.
And yet the Chlubbers here, Gamerly's in the game,
Stolen out, broken apart, and they can't get through to the site.
You see Snacks so far away on the other side of the map, trying to come forward here, but there's 35 seconds only.
Yeah, he can't do anything by jumping Conn and trying to help out. He's got to be a release valve on this flight, so Hybex just needs to survive.
They know he's still there, utility raining in. Now Nabi's getting aggressive, suffocating him before Snacks can show up.
Snacks drifting back over to the site.
There's 15 seconds left. Four players to find.
Navi has done a great job here, and picking up the second-round force by that's four players
staying up, running to get those spores of war off the ground as well, so they get two
career wheels, and AK-47 out of that, and that's really going to help Navi's economy.
Yeah, it's really quickly going to bring Gamer Legion back down to reality as well.
That reminder that they are not the fact of the favorites, that they are the underdog.
Good shot here from Ema. No trade possible.
Smote comes out, you can see Rezgers feels pinned down. Good shot again for Ema.
Lovely D.G.A. work.
Tied at one and GamerLegion have caught back in. All D.G.A.s across the T side.
So hunkered down, this is probably a slow extended round as these D.G.A.s will have time to try and find picks inside the bomb site.
Lay down the smokes.
I mentioned GamerLegion and Navi playing earlier in the tournament, but it's gonna be a different level of Navi now, right, that they've taken down Vitality.
Their confidence is gonna skyrocket especially coming into this BO5 with the disparity in grand final appearances for the players of Navi versus that of game
Allegiant. There's every reason to be confident in this game for Navi.
It was interesting here and Alexi talked about it too, like how they played them back at, you know, back at Blast Rivals and Fort Worth 2-0 for Navi.
They played him in the groups here 2-1 for Navi, but mention that, you know, the game Allegiant's been a team that hadn't played much up until this point.
Spending good amount of time practicing with them during this North American stretch of the season.
I even felt like that kind of experience against Navi constantly helped them raise their game a little bit, raise their level.
So, Gamelige kind of going up against the Masters according to Alexi.
They move in, Paul Frankin becoming through a PR's headshot is good.
Also wonderful, Rez is also picked up a D-Kill.
Another one this time from Towson and the D-Kills on display, back to back rounds.
This time it's Gamelige's turn, but Emma is looking sharp to kick off this final.
Another kill picked up with the AK-47. Still doable here for Navi.
I love this play from Rez though.
He drops the smoke and CT spawn, makes it feel like they've committed.
Taliesin no longer has to be aggressive,
because Rez is saying, just fall back and plan for the B bomb site.
That's where I'm going. Nobody from Navi is expecting this yet.
Now starting to get the sense, because there's been no noise.
There's been no pressure.
And he must piece it together, but it's a little bit too late.
Two on two, both have kits and utility.
Rize just sits up in the apartment once he gets this strong position.
There's a real shot at just rounding this out for game religion that back and forth will continue.
Rize with the rifle, Towson out short with his.
Smoke on the bomb, I would imagine.
He's gonna get a move on now and it's a lexicon he picked off.
Ima now alone.
And yes, he's got the utility but he's not got the time.
He's gotta go and get these kills quickly and now he's just gotta go for the last ditch effort to try and defuse it.
Kill out to short.
Spammed out to the apporments, but it's the time they cost him. He doesn't have enough of it and tries to back away
Rez catches him and Gamer Legion continue this back and forth
Well, if you're gonna want a chance at surprising yourself as you described Gamer Legion in this series and putting up a good fight
You need the experienced players to show up and Rez has just given you an incredible round triple kill and
Orchestrating the actual final victory
Sneaking off to the B bomb site through CT spawn
Deagle's a PR in Taos and do incredible work, but Rez start to finish has impact.
He was a little tongue in cheeks and he was hoping he could find some of that old Oakland form throughout these playoff runs.
Maybe here in the Grand Finals we'll get some shades of it.
It early back and forth between the squad, so economy real busted for Navi. Hard for them to put it together. Both teams actually.
I'd like setting up the mid smoke towards the window and we'll see the
game religion forces start to get ready for what is going to be an A play against
that's on the lorries so often found on his own. Not doing a whole lot of mid
control to start out this half though a lot of this presence towards the A bomb
say this is where they lost the ego earlier another smoke to stall things
out, blocking the choke point, so game a legion knocked a minute, snacks goes down and mid,
a little bit early. Now you have to go into what is going to be a telegraphed play to what they say
side, so Navi have the extra player over here to deal with this and the rotations are now arriving
as well. So if you're game a legion you better be successful in these first fights, Renz coming in
coming in with a double kill, wonderful answer
and back with two of his own, and going out in the open
but it's Hypex delivering a Mikaze against Hypex
in the 1v1 clutch, Hypex in the open, and Mikaze's won it.
So they're back and forth really here.
The War of Attrition continues.
And the timeout coming through here for Gamer Legion.
Yeah, it's all good things over because it's again,
do you want to reinvest into this huge clutch
for Mikaze taking out Hypex who himself
had a great clutch performance in the quarter finals
finals to keep Gamer Legion moving forward into the playoffs, and just the first time
Gamer Legion gonna take a breath and calm things down and talk it over, same for Blade
on the Navi side. Both teams testing each other early, no one able to string two rounds
in a row, no one able to gain the momentum of the early game. But the decision that Gamer
Legion make here is gonna define how this next round will play out, and they are gonna
to reinvest in challenge again.
Deagles on Snacks, Towson and PR,
same for Rez, Tech-Nan on Hypex.
In round five, beginning.
Oh, we know they came in each and a capable
on these Deagles who've seen it before
just in that last previous round, right?
They can do it once more PR going for the challenge on that jump spot of Alexi B
Doing a row is a big ass. It is a big ass
That's what's gonna be needed a big ask here in the grand final and they've got him a wedding inside of corn
Looking down towards what is going to be as peak from snacks coming up first
And he will actually take the headshot through the side of the wall there
So he went down to 11 HP fortunate to still be standing. Yeah, but there's a little bit of a stack there, right?
He had Mikaze and and a teammate. He had wonderful over here towards calm
ready to play with them so that dinky backs off.
The other two stick around and just maintain information over in middle so still they realize there's no scaling quite yet.
Graz gonna take that first step out, teammates coming in from the underpass, there's the Catwalk presence,
but one along the wall, they didn't find him, wonderful and Mikaze, no, everyone down in mid.
And there it is, there's two in a row, Navi, game control.
And Gamelidge, you'll have to sit back and arm her pistols for a round before the rifles come in.
Yeah, it was a big ass, Jason. You're right.
It was a huge ass, yeah.
Now we're just down to Luke Locks.
So, gonna be a 4-2 lead for Navi coming up.
Can't let Navi get control of this game, really.
We all know if you're a game religion
Can't let them just rack up a big CT half here
You don't see those blocks group up in the palace. It's gonna be four players coming through that
They'll come right through that smoke as well. A lot of four ones with snacks is the off man
They get rid of little pistols quite easily so the AK 47 is coming out again here
for Game of Legion.
And they've had a little bit of a luxury, a long time they haven't had to go up against
Wonderful's AWP.
About halfway through this opening half of the Grand Finals, Wonderful's going to get
it out for the first time going into round seven.
Now he's MVP candidate.
He started this map nine and three, statistically the best player of the event.
And he's got his favorite weapon in hands.
So how does this change the nature of the game?
It's been a lot of executes, not so much mid control, but that's changing here.
Timing for Wonderful.
The beatdown to was wonderful.
We'll back away into the connector and
takes a little damage as he filters away, but
still stands and can deliver later impact.
Ooh, look at this step through the smoke.
There he is, not surprising. Oh, Bits got both!
Oh, he got both kills!
That's ridiculous.
It looked like he was guaranteed to be at least the trade kill, but
Bit stepping up in that way, just giving Na'Vi a huge, huge advantage in this round.
Rez is going to somehow pull this back, going over towards B, it's Alexi B waiting out towards the van.
Rez hops outside, tracks through the window, and Alexi B caught, now Rez needs the second.
Trumping down, hunting down the player, it's short, but now realizes he needs him up too, and Rez is locked in.
And he's given a chance here to game a legion all of a sudden.
Wonderful's up, is coming over now, and there goes Rez, Mikaze shuts him down, wide swing inside the site, Hypex.
Can get it planted in a two on two. Wonderful's gonna wait for his teammates to slide over, his teammate, excuse me, that's Bit.
Hypex going into the open will feed his death. Has wonderful weights without peeking into the open, putting snacks in the 1v2.
two years ago he was built for these moments in the clutches the 1v2's yet
to get a kill but can snacks pull this off big goes up for the first peak
detective snacks last boy this would be a classic way to take the time they get
to it can they hold it all the way nobby will just have enough time and snacks
Skips it, and it don't go dropping down with that final bullet.
Yeah, just trying to, I thought he was going to try and disappear behind the smoke,
tucks himself in, and Wonderful finds it with the spam,
just at the perfect moment for the defuse.
Picks his back up as well.
Good clutch from Navi, good retake, and Gamer leeching another time, not burned.
That would have been an extremely snacks clutch, right?
Like, dropping down, last bullet, getting the knife out in the smoke.
This is the one right there, you mentioned it.
Ifex didn't need to take that swing into the open.
A brutal way to go down.
Wonderful just finds him right at the tail end snacks looking for the knife
inside the smoke as he runs out of bullets on the AK. A conversation we
heard in the in the interviews I mean they mentioned they kind of it felt
like gamer Lita talked about we kind of figured out the way we wanted to beat
and we kind of figured about an ancient we feel like we can do that on some of
the other maps as well. So far here on Mirage as their opening pick in these
grand finals we're not seeing that quite yet.
The Na'vi player is all stepping up to perform well in their role, wonderful obviously in
that clutch.
And Rikaze, his previous clutch against Hypex over at the A-bomb site, pit performing well
as the anchor.
and one of the best since he burst into the scene.
And even when he's not here, still the chant prevails.
It's always applicable, I feel.
P.R. 08K-47, all the pressure on his shoulders, and he's in palace.
Very slow round considering the weaponry, very spread too.
Like you have snaps pushed all the way up underneath the window, Towson and Hypex look
like they can, like they want to activate Towson a little bit to make some presence known
towards the B bomb site.
A's on the other side, and the bomb is on the other side of the map.
They want to plant an A, but they want to pull Bobby's in the other direction.
That's just not going to happen. Not enough force behind this fake.
PR has already been spotted up in Palace, so Navi knows exactly what's happening.
Well, get ready to go, Reyes. You've got to respect it.
Wonderful does get overwhelmed eventually by Snacks, who picks up the AWP.
I'll take it for a spin in these final 35 seconds, but this round's going nowhere for game religion.
Unless, unless something special can happen here.
We've got Hypex taking a pick with ATK 9, but as soon as Snacks goes down,
Highpacks has everything to do and Emma's gonna make sure it is a quick kill as soon as that challenge comes
So six to two lead for Nabi starting to get into a real good rhythm on the CT side
Yeah, I built up good amount of money as well wonderful up behind this AWP as $8,100 because a 7,500 Emma's sitting at 9,000
So now they're feeling really really good a lot of luxuries behind them if they ever drop around they can replenish anything they want
Round nine begins AK-47s back in the hands of Gamer Legion.
Yeah, no AWP again.
Gamer Legion just getting the cash out for us.
So Hypex has got a little bit left over for later on in the half.
Well, Navi's bringing forces to the defending middle, and Gamer League is bringing forces
to take mid.
This round might be decided right here.
And well, wonderful.
It's got that opening.
Mikaze on the follow-up kill, and if it's decided, then it's decided Navi's favorit
Very quickly because those two kills are so so quick and now you've left a 5v3 in front of you and game religion
How are you gonna pull this back?
How do you even get into a position to compete for it?
You have to imagine Navi at this point just disappears and plays the five on three no more peaks coming in so you can see
Hypex being patient looking for any further danger
And if they take too long game religion should develop into anything Navi's just gonna make an information play move up somewhere on the map figure out
What's happening?
Oh, you're not losing half of his health.
Going to back away into a CT spawn.
Now Mikaze at the ready next.
Here in that drop.
Ready to react on the boost and take the kill.
Fightbacks actually able to finish him off, so an opening once again somehow here for
game religion.
Yeah, it felt like he panicked.
Maybe I took the shot a little bit too quick, thought it would be a little cleaner.
So, Gamer Legion disappeared, it brought it into a 3 on 4, Rez is very, very hurt down to 19 HP.
Ema and Alexi to hunker down at the B bomb site.
It's really the only play that Gamer Legion have with the time on the clock.
Rez will lead the way with the low health.
Gamer Legion desperate.
The drop comes in, flash is good. Alexi B held back, but Ema again. So reliable today for Novi.
And then he's gonna like to be using that distraction to immerse that up, but Red's sharp shooting yet again
The 19 inch be left. He tries to get the AK-47 and then one of the four of us just in time to blast him through the van
Couple nice cleanup kills from wonderful at that B bombsite now doing very very good moving around the map
But again, I'll be just saying you can't have mid control whatsoever
Yeah, we heard on desk talking about the fact that wonderful has become a consistent piece lately for an RV
which has not always been the case, right?
He's a player that many people have been calling to.
Can't who's talking about how he just is a little bit too inconsistent.
He can disappear in the big moments, but this year's been much better for a wonderful,
and again, a strong start to the grand final here, 13-4.
We're going fast though. We're going real fast with Tech 9.
Right into the A-Falmside, once again, mowed down.
Team kill with the HG grenade as they run through the Molotov.
Nothing working for Gamer Legion.
Is there a certain sense, Jason, you're getting right now that Gamer Legion already scraped in the bottom of the barrel?
Yeah, I mean they just said that it's tough. They don't have the answers at the moment
I think you kind of like lost some of the momentum you could have built up in that exchange early on after winning the pistol
Two clutches have gone against them, which I think is deflating as well
But now you're starting to see some
Sometimes we're Navi's handling the fast tactics really easily at mid previous round now with this kind of a rush
They're handling the slow tactics just fine as well
Well, game religion, obviously, give this a go, but it's going to be happening for these
Tech Knights.
Maybe Joe's smiling towards Rammus, missed the first peek, so Bit will take that contact
bit, taking Hypex out immediately, and Bit goes out for that one as well, securing himself
for 3K and an 8th round for Narvi.
It's one thing we also saw throughout the quarter finals as well.
We touched a lot on high-packs for Gamer Legion,
like carrying Gamer Legion through stretches
with some of the clutches he had.
You're in a similar situation now
where you're having your really impactful riflers
that have been so solid.
Towson has one kill.
PR has two kills.
Rez has been doing that job of creating impact
to try and carry you through the stretch,
but not able to close enough of these rounds out.
Those other riflers need to wake up,
so that might be just a task of this first map
you're getting beat down like okay we experience it now we know what the
pressure is we know we're gonna have to play with it maybe they can wake up for
map 2 so a chance for them though to pop off here and create a little bit more
space for game religion to work with in the second half two rounds remaining
here if you can grab these last two you could be a lot more positive about game
religion
no he's starting to think about a move into his ramps you got bit clearing that
close right. Yeah, we saw Yanko kind of highlight this on the desk with the
illustrator, the different ways that Navi was kind of making information
plays and pushes to figure things out when it's quiet on the map. Gamer
Legion like to play slow at times in the mid-round. We saw that come back to
haunt them in the quarterfinals against Payne who was able to bring a bunch of
flanks and a bunch of wraps onto the tactics they were doing.
Slow again and bits in position at A-Rap to push forward and just find all the
intel needed.
So wonderful keeping an eye on towards Khan with the AWP.
They make their way through, they might be waiting on the stairway, a good trade from Talcy.
Takes a light shot down to 17 HP, Mikaze gonna be forced back by utility.
They're after ready to peek him from multiple positions and it looked like Mikaze was gonna get bucked,
but will he be ready for bit because they just killed Mikaze in this position.
You aren't ready for a bait to arrive and he just peeks up, denies back plant,
and now PR and Hypex having to try and clutch up a bit once again their nightmare.
But it's been high-packs all the time, long clutch in, but he hasn't got the info to make this one doable.
Wonderful looks out towards Kahn, and it's an easy shot for the All-Prot.
A 9-2 lead for Navi.
Looking a little lost there at the end.
High-packs, I think, looking for someone to rotate through middle.
Just wanted to get that pick, and it never came.
So never put himself in a position of impact on the round.
That's a really cruel, nasty maintenance switch.
To have a second player lying in way to A-Ram is just brutal.
You will never, never be ready for that.
that. Last round of the first half. And Mikaze wants to step forward. They'll attempt to
split towards the A bomb site. Resin snacks have to find a way to close the gap because
PR Towson and Hypex, they're ready. Here comes Towson, out towards Bitt. Such a quick, decisive
They're opening here for Novi, they're not gonna let this one slip unless Snacks and Rats can do something fantastic.
And it is Snacks that is fighting on, but it must be Snacks alone.
And 1v2 now, and low HP did not make it into the window.
And Lexi B is gonna be checking to watch it and they have the answer with the grenade.
A brutal first half, they get bashed in, it's a 10-2 lead for Novi.
They're looking like they're gonna make this first map extremely quick.
I'm feeling great. I'm feeling confident about the best of five. We played them twice. We beat them twice
And this is looking like a third is on the card at least for here in Mirage
The first time these squads faced off at the group stage
This was a close affair. But now that we've hit this stage now that these players are competing while staring that trophy
Dead in the eye on the stage. I mean, it's just there's gamer legions getting smoked right now
There's not a whole lot to talk about positive for gamer legion because Navi are showing that comfort in that confidence and they put it out into the map
We tried to be fucking perfect, but I don't want us to be fucking perfect, you know?
I want us to play our game, enjoy, enjoy the fucking first grand final for the majority of the team,
play them after they've had 20 where in the air. Let's change it, alright?
I'm trying to get him hyped up saying we're not even playing our game, we're not even having fun right now,
so at least get that going, let's see if we can return that into form as this map starts coming to a close.
Oh, PR not enjoying the start of this at all, here's bullets, we're blanks.
could have land anything.
And Mikaze marching through its
Navi, comfortably taking the site,
overwhelming it. There's nothing
game religion can do to change the
outcome of this. It's going to be
an 11-2 for Navi. And with the
pistol round at this point, it does
feel like this map is going to be
brought to a close soon.
Yeah, what a crazy turn. I mean,
if you could think all the way
back to the first four rounds of
play, this was back and forth.
Both teams, you know, winning a
pistol, losing the second round,
winning the third, losing the fourth.
I'd go and blow for blow, and man,
what's Navi got hold? There was
just no flight left.
Res force back now and all they can do is save the pistols.
At least a good shot from Ryze to prevent the clean sheet. A small victory but...
I mean, 11-2 now for Navi. They're just looking so good.
I mean, you've got all the pieces you want for Navi showing up. You've got Bit having a great game.
Wonderful and Ima, and then McCaw's are getting involved to start this pistol run as well.
Think of all... I mean, Bit's having a great game, but also remember too,
like the game plan that Gamer Legion brought was a lot of executes towards the A site.
I felt like they really wanted to be able to take over one of the bomb sites on the extremities before switching back into that mid-presence and mid-control
So they've got a lot of attention in a variety of ways heading at him and he sits on the task pretty much each and every time
Good opening kill for him here with the palace push from height backs
11 to 2 all that's left is for Navi to mop up these final pair of rounds
You're lovin' it, aren't you?
No Apex, no Vitality, everything you could've wished for coming to Atlanta.
You're all sick.
Well, Max and 4lexi B, he's put under a lot of pressure here and eventually gonna be taken
away, but that information just allows his team to move into the site.
So I think he'll take, exactly, but it allows a comfortable take away from the bomb site.
But if there's anything but comfortable, Snacks and Rize sending a couple of kills right
back to Na'vi and then BIT! Okay, he comes everywhere!
This is something different from BIT! This is beautiful stuff!
Feels like such a casual sequence.
Yeah!
Like, he's down here up there, really work hard for it.
This is one of those BIT games on Mirage, where he just literally walks out and the bullets have to be a headshot.
Like, that second one is ridiculous!
Yeah, Tommy, this is a great defense, the aggression in mid, but this is just like, you just get disintegrated here.
I don't even see that headshot, it's with the final bullet.
He might he might have even been surprised but comes back for the third
Ten chances for Navi to shut down Mirage and take us on to the second map in this series with the lead
We'll give you two against that if you game village. There's just nothing you can do to deal with that
Come into this with two scouts
From ass MP7 listen plum for he's given the young rifle is on game religion the example to aspire
So you're right guys like PR guys like talson is like this is what it's like being a playoff rifle
You got to get to this point where you just show up and shut the down start to finish
Well, runs gonna get flashed into the ramp no one's home no one there to spot him
So they're gonna start drifting that ball back through T-Sport
Mean for game religion. This is the best chance possible
Are you got four players at least toys this side of the map? Yeah, but it feels like they're gonna start shifting away
Towson is alone. Hypex just kind of passed out through the murder hole
So he's backing off to the B bomb site because it's quiet on the map snacks
hasn't seen anything in middle so yeah you've got a decent amount of numbers
here but also look at it this way there's no utility there's one smoke to
utilize it just gets dropped now in a ramp with no flashes no molotovs for the
CT side
Navi are coming for the map point trying to get out but Reis has got himself a
double kill and then a shut down on B. So similar like a gamer league and all of a sudden a
grain rolled to the A site. Yeah that smoke does its job I think Alexi must have felt
like because they'd given up control in middle and no presence anywhere on the map.
That was the timing they had to hit. As soon as the ballots all faded they just
had to go for it right into the wall. So game religions stay alive a little bit
longer. That is their first round win since round three of this map. It was an
11-0 run from Navi to get to 12.
So, I mean, a little bit of the back foot for Navi, three pistols, two tech nines and
a deagle, two Galils to work with.
It didn't seem to be a problem in the first half, right?
Once they got that deagle out, he's going forward again over on Towson to feed.
The cause I make was right through the underpass, it's a kill towards connector.
Highpacks dead first, Navi with the advantage in terms of the player count, but the weapon
certainly still stronger here for K-Malachian.
Well, remember, Telsen already spotted one of the jump spots towards the B Halls,
so they've actually pulled everyone towards B, thinking it's going to be a plate in this direction.
And Nabi's going to try and back off. Good equalizer found.
Yeah, Rezz is putting up a great showing here.
Really trying to keep his team in this fight, going out, getting these trades, but he's gone.
And there's Deagle rings out. Now it's Telsen and Snacks. They must step up.
They must deliver. Otherwise, this map is done.
And the only player that can change that outcome is Snacks.
He's on the A site.
Bomb is dropped up on short, there's 45 seconds to go back and get it.
They thought it was going to be B the whole time.
They just never expected this many bodies in the middle.
Navi just way too composed and comfortable in the scenario.
Not going to be letting this one slip easily.
Snax is really going to work for this.
A 1v3 clutch for Snax.
Can he pull it off?
Two players going up through connector.
Bit in the wing zone.
Snax has done well.
Now he follows up.
Snax gets away.
And Snax going for Glory in the 1v3.
Trying to keep his team alive.
Look at the damage he's done to Ima.
He's dominating the way.
Sends it in. Ima dodges. Both players so low.
But this would be it.
Snacks looking for the Pg1 v3 off the top of the stairs.
And he goes into the open, but Ima won't deny.
It is brutal.
Navi with no mercy on map 1.
It's 13-3 win on Mirage.
The start of the best of five.
It has to be a wake-up call for gamer Legion.
We're here for the Core XF2C team, we designed our teams over the last couple of days and
we've been talking about players we want to have.
I think that's definitely the conversation right now is about regrets.
I think that's the main thing I'm feeling right now is regret that I went with
Vitality and I don't think Vitality have made me regret anything in terms of
backing them but I wish I went for Na'Vi players this time.
Sure, I have one Na'Vi player in MacAusley but obviously there's some
players in these grand finals that would have been great to have if we could have
seen it in the future.
I think Wonderful obviously were the way he's performing.
He's up there for an MVP of the event.
Hypex on the gamer league inside.
I think he has a chance to catch up with Wonderful in these grand finals as well.
Obviously, you go to the big names that you could go to after that.
It's having a good event.
PR Towson with the rifles have heated up in the plan.
So, yeah, there'd be some do-overs if we could go back.
Yeah, and resident final in America again.
I feel like I could have gone with Ryzen as well.
But I feel like we're moving forward, Jason.
You're the only one that has any hope.
You've got the Pazze.
It's all hinging on Mikasa.
Unless he, if that is the fantasy story,
Mikasa for the win.
I'm Mikaze, getting the win on the first map of this series, Navi, with a massive headstart
in this best of five.
And when I say massive, I mean 13-3 on your opponent's map choice massive.
No question, Jacob, who was in control on this first ground of Mirage.
No, and it's a bit of a shame, right, that they weren't able to put up a better five
game on leading because the beginning of the game actually, you know, resembled a game
that could have been competitive.
We're simple, a game that was a little bit messy to start off with, you know,
training round back and forth, and you sink to yourself,
okay, it's going to be a bit dirty, it's going to be a bit messy,
and that should be an advantage for game-leading,
but once again, now we regain control over the game,
and from the point that the scoreline was 2-2,
you mean there was no doubt who were there by far that our team won the game.
This looks like a hazing.
They played with absolute confidence, swinging everything,
disrupting mid-control takes before they even get started.
It didn't feel like the game-ranger could really get their foot in the door
in so many of these moments and part of that is just the player caliber that
Navi offer up, but I think it is that extra fearlessness that they have
knowing that they are these heavy favorites coming into today.
I love the way you phrase that, you know, it's basically like Navi is saying to
game leader, hey, you think you're ready for a best of five grand final?
How about today, Jacob?
How about today? Well, not for the first map to be completely honest, right?
Some of the playmakers we spoke about in PR and in res were never really
activated, were never able to find the impact that you'd like them to find, and
then again, you know, it's always this side of two coins, like do we praise
Nami for playing well. Do we say game we didn't show up as natural as it is?
You know, there's a bit of both in this case, but if anything, I think now we just played a clinical game of Counter-Strike
You know, you had some of the difference makers in bitch playing exceptionally well
You had wonderful continuing his MVP like performance at IM Atlanta
And when those two are showing up and then finding as much impact as they are
It's very hard for anyone from game leading to do much about it
I think the real shame though is that Rez played an incredible map
It felt like he was doing everything he could to try and drag his team back into situations whether it was late-round kills
or continuously aggressing actually just to try and take over a sector of the map that Navi couldn't get their hands on
But because of he kept on going for those fights
It also ended up becoming sometimes a problem as well where it almost like he had to do too much to try and get them around
So we go back to the beginning of this Mars shaker because you mentioned this moment where it felt a little bit back and falls
Maybe there was gonna be a game on our hands. What did you learn from these couple rounds?
Well, the beginning was messy and then you see it right here now
losing the pistol coming into the second round you think there's a okay now
game on Legion convert and we may have a game risk as you said he did is
absolute best to get the job done here but it's it's just not great looking
right here for for Navi they completely dismantle game on Legion and win this
force by against them surviving ball players picking up a couple of AK-47s
game on Legion answer back in towards that and once again you know resin the
boys they come in towards a bomb side around that is a must win you're sort
of like getting a second chance in this game of converting and really doing the
dirty stuff to Navi and then once more you're not able to close out the round.
Mikasa in a 1v2 scenario picked up an M4A1S and he's so willing to fight, so willing to
go for it.
High picks unfortunately this time around, not coming around clutch.
At this point it was very messy, it was back and forth and I thought to myself, Yuri, that's
a good thing for GamerLegion.
The more this becomes a fist fight, the more unregulated this game becomes, the better
it will be for GamerLegion.
But where you don't convert and you don't capitalise, it's not good enough.
I mean, not be stabilized very quickly after that. So it's it was hardly any real concern for them
But still early call up early time out to use just to make sure everyone was on the same page for the lobby side
I just wanted to look at the stats mainly because I'm not massively a rating guy
But it's very rarely you'll see a 1.98 rating for a player that loses the map
Everybody else was less than half of that rating across the whole squad. So yeah, I mean this did feel like res was alone
and unfortunately today and yes it is a part is part and parcel Navi playing
well game religion playing a little poorly but because these guys are so
inexperienced it because of the way that res was actually taking those fights I
actually wouldn't be surprised if things got very quiet on game religion as well
they didn't play with the same energy at all it's one of those things where where
the impact risk should have had in this game was never really made up for it by
his teammates right we even saw in these two rounds that he was good for kill he
was the one coming in getting an entry and nobody else would follow up nobody
else would help this guy and you look at a PR, you look at a high-picks, you know, do
something in order to make this man's effort worthwhile.
I'm just looking at the openings for the rest of the game, Legion 1 to 13. That really shows
how many times it just started off the back fit and that's exactly what we're talking
about, right, when their plan A doesn't go to plan, as to say, it's not often we see
that plan B, maybe even a plan C really coming out against a team like Navi, right?
And that's the thing, I think what we're seeing right now is Navi coming in and playing good
counter-strike, you know, some of the individuals showing up and then we unfortunately get to
to see disparity between what is the number two team in the world right now and what is
the game are leading that before this tournament to be completely honest most of what they
done so far this year were you know playing tier two tournaments and it wasn't necessarily
like they were dominating it's not like they had a massive win streak coming into this
tournament they were playing better and better than well in fourth world as well by getting
into the play of showing signs of life but there's a difference between the number two
team in the world and being a team that is fighting to enter top 15.
That's why they're even saying winning parking was somehow a confidence booster because they
were attending these tier 2 lands that they were losing the teams that should be well beneath them in the rankings as well.
I think they understand that they've had to build their floor and they're still trying to establish what their ceiling even really looks like.
But it felt like the floor caved in today and on on Mirage.
You can only hope that because Rez has such an inspired performance,
that this talk outside better be damn good from both Rez and snacks as these veterans on the squad.
Because the rookies did seem to climb up.
And that's the thing, when I look at Snacks and the pretty much anything he gave to Stiko as well, he was very candid in the reality, probably is, we might just get smashed out 3-0.
They respect the level of Na'Vi, but I guess that's where the question remains is, what do you see as kind of any hope for game leech and moving forward?
I mean, we had the group stage games as the reference point for us, and we also had them playing in Ft. Worth, where it was more like what we saw here in Mirage, where they got blown out by the server.
But the way Gamer Legion have played up until this point in the group stage, the game against Anandhi as well,
they were competitive on three out of the three maps they played in the tournament as well.
I'm yet to see a Gamer Legion not showing up to a map whatsoever before this happened, right?
So that's my one concern. Does this mean they now lose belief that it's even possible to fight their way back?
Or do we get to see the Gamer Legion we've realistically seen throughout the entire tournament,
where every single map of Counter-Strike they played have been competitive?
Yeah, I mean players love to say the phrase how we put it behind us or we just moved on foot for the next map
But the reality is not everyone can do that you have you always have these ways out with your lurking players
You know thousand PR whether it is high pecs in some of these clutch moments
That's been the consistent narrative for game leeching at this tournament
So now that they're on the biggest stage now that they're the most important game of the tournament
Whether or not they can actually follow through on putting the bad times behind them
That's still we have no inference on that. We have no idea of knowing simply because there is no data for them getting this far
And it's what I mean
It's a huge question moving forward right before we do do that to preface
What's going to be Navi's Matt pick over new best just want to touch upon wonderful again because it's just been such a consistent force
Which is exactly what we wanted to see coming out of that you touched upon it last year
They're up and down. I mean fair enough
It was kind of all over the shop for Navi
But I feel like something's clicked with wonderful and we've got to see a lot from him in Atlanta
Just the fact that we're having the conversation that he may very well be the third best AWP player in the world right now.
He's very much in form, as you said, consistently. Every single game, every single map, is not often you see wonderful not having some sort of impact.
Sometimes, sure, the scoreline may not reflect the amount of impact he's having in a game, or sometimes, sure, maybe he's just having an average scoreline.
But what I've seen as of late, you know, the last three events that we saw as well, it's MVP-like performances coming in from wonderful pretty much every single time he joins the server.
sort of like the consistency he's never had in his professional career.
So if this is a sign for what's to come for Wonderful and what's to come for Nabi,
then it's going to be a different beast to Tain.
The same way people can have this conversation about Zai Woon missing a bit of X-Factor or Flair.
You know, Wonderful has had that in the past year, year and a half,
but he's hitting it way more than we've ever really seen coming out of the past couple of tournaments.
So, yeah, no, it's a really nice sign that he can continue to show up in these grand finals,
because it's insane to think that he could have retained his position on the roster after that
turbulent period and after like the community sentiment I think we talked about earlier was
so against him for such a long time. And I just want to hone in on the point you know he's doing
it in a time where everyone seems to struggle with AWP. If you're not called Monacy, if you're not
called SideRoo, everyone seems to struggle a little bit. Even Molotov has had a period where he
not necessarily played bad but not up to the same level we saw last year. So for Wonderful to come
come alive at this very moment, heading into Cologne as well. It is a game-changer finale.
Just a couple more minutes before we are diving into the set-up map of this Best of Five.
You need, it is Navi's choice, Obenubis makes a lot of sense when you're looking at the
win record on the side of Game of Legion as well. What are you looking at coming into
this one? I'm hyper-focused on Hypex. He has been the
engine, he has been a driver, he's been a catalyst, he has won clutches and he's probably
one of the most consistent pieces when it's coached from CT to T-side on this map for
game religion. Well, if he's ever going to show up in this grand final, it's got to be now as for
the rest of game religion as well, but it's going to be a tricky proving ground for them.
It's a new bus, the choice of Navi coming up in just a few.
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It was no contest. Navi come out swinging against Gamelige and have taken the first map of this
best of five grand final. We now move to Anubis and it's probably going to be more of the
same, Jason. It's very possible. We saw Gamelige. We know that they know the tough task that's
against them on the other side of the stage. I'm talking about this the whole way in.
Gamelutian saying things like they wanted to get revenge from that group stage loss
They felt like they could have won that final map and taken the series that final map was on Mirage and 13 to 11
Victory for Navi now it gets even worse and now you have to go into that second map
This is a team changing the IGL snacks in here having a little bit more say in the mid rounds
They've mentioned the loose style of the previous roster wasn't being successful
They were like too much of individuals
But you had no individual show up on the third on the first map except for res you need more
You need Towson, you need PR, you need Hypex, who's hitting a new level coming into these playoffs.
That all needs to show up on a new base if they want to be able to come back into this grand final series.
Now we want to see glimpses, at least the glimpses of those young players that we've got so excited about in this game.
We'll each in squad that over the past couple of weeks have really stepped up their performances.
If they don't show up, if they do not show up here on the second map,
map. Nobby gonna be 2-0 up in the BO5 and a reverse sweep in your first BO5 final. It just ain't gonna
happen. So let's see how this Nubis goes if Game of Leaching can actually get into this final.
And we're live into the pistol. It's gonna be Nobby starting on the CT side.
Dualies for Ema. On the T side, Snacks has the Util. They flash and they're gonna be aggressive.
There's an aggressive smoke for Nobby to get a push in, see what's happening in middle and they
here and see nothing. So get it back away. So bits the aggressor for the moment
while this smoke is up, but before that fades, see backs off as well. So the slow
opening on the T side for game religion means they don't get punished by any of
these early peaks, but we know the CT side is gonna be proactive and we touched
on this. Yanko brought it up right before the series began. The ability for
Navi to go for information plays and wrap around and disjoint the tactics of
the game religion before they even begin.
What do you do now? Now you're caught in middle.
They've seen you from behind. You know someone's behind you. You can't go back. You can't even go forward.
Now they're coming at them, Kelsen.
Stepping up. Two headshots coming in. Ima steps out into the open.
Balmy's loose.
Game religion have the advantage from the tie being as they go in towards the A site.
Navi don't have anybody close by until wonderful now arrives towards stairs. He's climbing back up
Towards heaven making no secret of his position as he tries to get forward with his teammate fast
But not going to work out here for them in gaming leeching will win the pistol round. That's great work
You can't go back. You can't go forward, but you can just destroy everyone who comes in for the fight
There you go with a couple of kills out of Towson two and one on the pistol
I mean you mentioned snacks coming in is the new IGL for the squad
This has been a good run from them and getting to see what he's capable of doing with this young squad
But they're gonna have to start T side right again here
They started over a mirage
He didn't really get going now. I've got another T side so if you are going to have to see snacks
Have a lot of importance on his shoulders in terms of actually calling a great T side against this Navi side
That looks so strong. Yeah, he's gonna have to call a great T side
But none of that's gonna matter if his players don't show up as they did on map one
You know
It's hard to lay to any kind of fault on the tactical side of things when you have your riflers with one and two kills after a half of play
So yeah, you need snacks to be calling a great game. They have a lot of confidence in him
They've given interviews where they said we have a lot of confidence the way he controls the mid-round the way he paints a picture for how
We're gonna finish things
But I just need the individuals to produce within that system that snacks is calling
And bad news for gamer legion they're walking right into a stack yeah flashes going forward
That's going to be a main control taken over here by Gamelidge and but will they keep going?
How far do they progress?
Here's the flash, has the flashes here and so now you're going to come to meet them on the peak.
It's wonderful, Nimmo with the first two picks.
Snacks going up to fight towards heaven, likes to be gone.
Gamelidge in knee-high-packs to be successful in his fights and he is.
He tries to back away, but once again goes into the fight on 9 HP, so wonderful's got him.
But Immo's been hiding, biting his time and now detected by Rai's.
And what you're just trying to stay alive. Keep the advantage here for Navi as they all join up because they're now joining the pack.
Snacks getting in the midst of the smoke and he loses his life. So it's all on runs and he can't do anything about it.
Once again it is Navi answering back with a forced buy in the second round. This is how it went down to Mirage as well.
And there's nothing worse than this sense of deja vu when you feel like it's going right back except the deja vu is a horrible sense.
just how the first map began and that had been a better conversation guys we
won the pistol let's just secure the second one and they just get destroyed
not be a step ahead full players at this a bomb site pop flash set up for the
exact play you drop the bomb and out last game religion trying to recover the
scenario
I can't see if you can go force back here, it's not for snacks, it's going to be spotted.
Bit going aggressive out of a fantastic map, Bit had over on Mirage as well, just felt
like every boy shot out of that rifle was going through a hole.
He's so confident now, even challenging against snacks, really trying to force this opening
and he's got it.
You can see why he wanted to stay committed to that he's got Mikaze helping to keep some space and protect him
He's got that smoke up. So yeah, lovely shot from pit
Hard for game religion to do anything about that. You just have to sit back patiently and wait for the smoke to fade
In the open wonderful sun great damage Nate comes out
I think a religion is not gonna want anything to do with the B bombsite now
Now, if you look back on the first map, Snacks, Towson, and Hypex were a combined 0 for 13
in opening engagements.
That's the biggest issue, that's the biggest turnaround we need to see at a game religion
is find some of those opening kills.
These engagements need to go a little bit better, well done from PR.
Give yourself a chance in opening a 5 on 4 to play with.
All four members of game religion are going to march right up mid, up the gut of this
defense.
On the back, can they get another one?
PR, quick reactions, and Alexi B dead as well.
So some life yet here for Gamelige.
I'm nervous as MacAuzer right now.
I won't find out, and yep, well,
nerves don't matter when you just get
blasted against the wall like that with Rose's dig.
And that's the site, pawn planted, Gamelige in respawn.
And it's, again, similar to Mirage,
where we had that back and forth.
It just never really got going for Gamelige.
And obviously needs to be a different story here,
But staying in it to kick off the first few rounds is this war of attrition begins again. Yeah
It's coming. It's good to see them
You know we've mentioned that sense of deja vu after losing the second round
It's good to see them respond again
Right like you're not just kind of fade away and be flattened by the fact that they can't carry a pistol round forward
Good to see PR get a good round here as well. I mean we talk about how important it is for him to show up
You really didn't get going at all over a mirage at any point
But this is hopefully is one of those rounds that can ignite him on this T side couple nice
These digo shots like that can settle you down a little bit, calm down the nerves and
just make you feel a little bit more comfortable moving forward into the rifles.
But they lost this upcoming round as well back on the Raj.
And then Navi rattled off 11 in a row.
Can't have that happen again.
We'll get a timeout from Gamer Legion.
And I think that's appropriate.
I think it's actually a well-called timeout to have the discussion.
Come out of this on the losing end like you get on the first map and don't let
Navi gain any momentum so a conversation how they want to play this what they
want to do is make it sure everyone's on the same page so that they can start
digging into the game plan digging into the playbook and rattling off a few
rounds on this T side over Navi get a bit of a buffer in the early stages of
the half because you know Navi's gonna battle back. Four rifles for gamer
and a Mac 10 on snacks.
For Navi, two saved rifles from the previous
and they're buying up around it.
A staunch defense going to be provided here
in round four.
You can see Blade frustrated.
After losing that last record,
I could probably watch turning around the classic
Blade emotions.
I mean, we brought up earlier today on the desk
the fact that Blade called a timeout so early
not so early into the game yesterday, head of the first young round, so.
See if he, uh, lets him play this one out, but I'd imagine he's not going to be too
shy about using them early again.
We've got big down to 64 HP, initial damage through, and we've got stacks
moving up towards top middle, clearing out the window.
Four players with head armor, so that Mac 10 is going to have trouble finding a
clean fighter, a clean headshot, a very slow paced round, yet again, aggression,
information being gathered by this push from Navi.
Towson, the only member watching this.
Towson trying to hold on, but Mikaze able to just push forward and take that bite and win it.
So now Navi a player up, snacks is about to try to respond, but it likes to be
his cognizant of the fact that mid is open.
So detecting how far snacks has gone and immediately the decision for snacks is to change up the avenue of attack.
He's gonna go towards the A side via camera, but there's two players still defending here.
One of which is Ima who's taking that initial contact, but they split bit really well
And then the follow-up kills even better on Ima. So this round just falls apart for Nervy as they can't hold on
Oh unless this happens unless this retake over towards main. Okay, PR you got one. Oh, he got a deep gun. Wonderful!
You'll disappear around the corner and now they got to save. There's nothing you can really do. Wonderful.
Oh HP, Alexi's gonna have to give this up as well.
We're definitely seeing some positive signs here for PR that we just didn't see off from Mirage.
They were watching him on the CT side pistol on mirages one with all those USP shots
I mean this is a very different look from PR so far settling into the second map well back to back rounds
And a gamer legion is able to find their avenue into the A bomb site through middle
Yeah, excuse me just into a into a round win through middle the T goes from PR in the previous one now snacks applying that pressure
So that'll be a conversation among the Navi camp
How exactly they want to handle it? It's got to be annoying and maybe that's the sense of frustration
You're seeing at a plate is losing middle in such a fashion
and the defense not able to react appropriately.
3-1 scoreline, Gamer Legion, they don't drop the ball, this is what we wanted out of them.
Now that deja vu has changed, and it's not the force to take a timeout to talk things over.
Two arc-free rounds, they don't like coming out of middle.
And Gamer Legion have the momentum, the advantage is two rounds straight.
They're safe weapons, Alexi's able to pick up an M4 on his way out.
So Navi talking through their options and yeah, Blade looks real frustrated about
maybe the communication, maybe the way they're reacting.
Okay, this is an extremely animated timeout for Blade.
Throwing everything at the squad then in that 32nd timeout.
Yeah, that's a conversation meant to get everyone to wake up,
maybe feeling complacent after the first map, after how easily they dominated on Mirage,
and blade his sense in something in the early going that he doesn't like a
Couple of rifles for Navi, but very likely to see a 401 start here from game of legend
Game religion got to be careful about some mid-round plays some aggressive plays
They have to know like two rifles were saved
So you're looking to maybe see if those m4s can open up an opportunity early if you're Navi
So game religion to be cautious
But any flash peeks coming in wonderful is going to be alone at the eight bombsite other than that four players stacked up at
B and now starting to push.
Ipex is responsible to gather this information when they turn the corner,
but he's also got to be careful.
The bomb has dropped all the way back towards T spawn.
Doesn't look like anyone from Game of Legends is really aware of that.
It's stuck from wonderful, but it's only a USP here from the cars.
If you can have a slightly better pistol,
that perhaps that could be a lot more potent.
But as soon as they figure out what's up,
You see game where you just accelerate once again into the A side
But you've got a like CB trying to step up this time the rightful still down
Now he's still a threat and I like to be not too far off taking Telsen there as well
He's going back for it like see he's got another kill and all of a sudden
It's PR and high packs having to recover this as bit comes over to back him up
This is a scary combo now bits arrived with the right for grenade lands towards him half his health gone
But high packs and PR needing to stand tall you can't let this slip you cannot let this go
So, GamerLegion, this would be a devastating round loss
and Alexey P is dragging off the over the line in this round.
A forehand from the in-game leader
and that's a round play he can be happy about.
Yes, someone took his speech to heart.
That is a round and a half from Alexey,
sliding over to close the gap.
Two rifles brought in and they come out the victor.
GamerLegion just a stumble on their way into the A bomb site.
Good initial hold from Wonderful to get this kill
but Alexey coming over to support just finds all the perfect timing.
I threw a light a lose a round when you're just trying to build up some steam.
Round six and Gamer Legion have to descend into a couple of pistols.
Tech nine on Taliesin, Deagle on res.
So much of the game plan of Gamer Legion has started in the middle of the map.
We haven't seen any love towards Canals, E-Box and B-Main.
That bombsite hasn't had a whole lot of attention on it.
Snacks likes to call some tricky styles.
Establish a trend, get the defense comfortable and how you're playing, how you're attacking
and switch things up when they least expect it.
Yeah, wonderful looking down, and we'll be right as the first victim of the round here.
Gaming Legion, even if they wanted to respond through B-Made, it'd now been blocked by a smoke, so...
It feels quite... suffocating at this point, with the way Navi have now set this round up, with the advantages and the utility.
Snacks goes up on top of his teammates' heads, searching for some co-izer that might be available, but another smoke through replenishment B-Made in the 35-second mark.
Yeah, and he's just pulled everyone over here.
Oh, another one.
Well, it's because of the smoke. He pulls it over to the B bomb site, and PR feels like he needs to start moving.
He needs to start getting in position to attack, but they're stalled out.
It's just a long time. You feel really uncomfortable if you're just blocked out in this fashion by smoke after smoke.
I don't think Gamer League, and this option's done. Like, you can't even move it.
There's a new one that just got replenished, so they've got to back off. There's no way.
Saving these weapons. And this round just stalls out completely.
What a gift over to Navi. All five players survive.
Money is going to blow up on the CT side.
And this is where things could start to get going right where we talked about the Raj where it was competitive throughout the first couple of
Rounds right back and forth and not be too controlled of the half and just let it all the way
Yes, this is that tense moment where the same thing could just start to occur
I both teams know it the way they've rattled off timeouts three timeouts in the last three rounds two of them from gamer Legion
That kind of round where you just don't even get execute anything just feels terrible
So coach wants to chat.
How do we want to break in now? Do we go back to the middle of the map if you're Gamer Legion?
That's worked for them a couple of times.
Now you also have to consider the AWP of Wonderful, which has already had good impact to a round win for Navi.
Money will be gone for Gamer Legion after this investment.
So a very, very important round seven coming up.
Two rifles, three pistols for Gamer Legion, now be fully kitted out.
Him up, back in the behind the double doors, just as he does that.
Gamer Legion are getting players into position for a B-split.
This is a change of pace now.
Yeah, a lot faster, earlier timings.
but regardless wonderful still ready and that smoke right there's going to catch
rice but it cost him his life tells him to pee on it but that's more like it those are the kind of shots you need to try and break it
but getting past wonderful is going to prove very difficult. Grenade you'll find over the top
catches high pegs and was way to the site then the Molotov combination so the utility from Navi is so strong
to disrupt this and slow this and buy extra seconds for this retake to get closer and closer. An extra smoke by Gamelidge and use on the Molotov as well
They won't have that to block any choke points this retake is going to take its time because bits wrapping all the way around so wonderful
His goal is just to live same with him up
Yeah, they're still got utility to work through and keep eyes on them keep the pressure paid
Towards the CT area so that that flank can be very effective through B main. It's now arriving now
They have to speed up though no longer a secret steps being made
Needing the fights, Navi won in the first one, but Towson revealed a noise, we have all the bullets, he's out of bullets, and Navi come back in on the retake.
Time though, time is the question, have they got enough of it? Holding all the way, Navi just about securing the defuse.
That is an incredible retake, what a time to run out of ammunition, never a chance, never a dull moment to just reload the weapon, reload the tech 9.
He could have had the kill on wonderful and just close that out
The narrow is the slimmest of margins
six bullets
How heartbreaking for Towson
The first not be player even gets off the diffuse he had a kid
I don't think he realized he picked one up on the path in so that equally could have just caused the loss
the last round is another round
with Tech 9s, right? So this is
a good chance to recover again
for a nobby to push them up to
a 5-3 lead. Some of the best
looking rounds, though, I've been
with the Tech 9s in the D-1s. They've been
able to make it work.
It's just faster timeings.
That is for pace play. We've got
wonderful looking to try and shut
them down in the middle, but it's
just going back. He goes into it
and, okay, Reises, he's going
He goes into it, and okay, Ryze is starting things off with a T-Go headshot.
Emma has to duck out, so there's mid.
You've got to work with here, if you're Gamelige-ing.
Yeah, but I will.
So Gamelige is going to go all the way towards Temple, towards the B-bomb site.
Mikaze's here, ready to go.
Nate is out to slow this down.
I don't think Gamelige-ing like this route.
They slow it themselves.
T-Mates been found, and you just have this core three players in the middle of the map
who are stuck with no good options.
Yeah, you have to fight your way out of this, then.
And it doesn't look likely whatsoever.
Hypex, the only player that can really do anything about this. He's picked up the AWP.
Rez has got a deagle headshot out towards Alexi B.
You've still got time to try and piece this one together.
But where do you go?
How in the world do you find a way towards the bomb site without losing a member?
I don't know if you have a spot of that. Looks like Hypex got a glimpse.
25 seconds though. That's all you've got. You've got to drop. You've got to go quick.
Into the water, into the canal, but it's all about this play towards being.
Mikaze's position is off to try and deal with Thres, that's the bomb gone.
Hypex has to clutch this up, Mikaze's moved off, changes up his position,
he's even got utilities to boot as well.
Hypex!
Oh, what?!
Big shot!
Fast kill!
Now the hook is on!
The time gone again in Hypex!
How many less second punches can this guy pull off?!
Aggressive decision, whenever there was another option, who cares about planting a bomb, keep it up, pushing forward to find that last kill.
That's the attitude of Hypex out of Gamer Legion, we've been waiting from these young players.
Can that be the moment that ignites them now in these grand finals?
That is so ridiculous again for Hypex. That shot coming back in out through dark is just unthinkable that he's going to hit this through the fire of sick.
the fire is set, you are killed and then the hunt for him off is successful.
That's the kind of moment that can fire you up and that's the kind of player
game the Legion have been missing.
So many versions of this roster, they struggle to find an awkward with attitude
and look at the frustration it throws into the Na'vi camp.
Yeah, bitches looking up like how the hell did we all lose that?
How the hell did that happen?
Okay, so maybe you've changed the attitude in the Na'vi side as well.
as well you certainly take a lot of that money away that was built up by the
defense now you got to take advantage of it roll with this emotion I bet it's
gonna get in front of that smoke full confidence
give up confidence out to the window dropping down into the water and they
turn finally they turn because I don't like him I was about to get away with
another one there. The rest of POR, that's more like it for Gamelidge, and the right
follows the wrong line, and they've taken away the steam here of Navi, and the
movement towards the B-side, wonderful, he's gonna try and pick up the pace again
for Navi. He's been so good, and this is the turnaround where you might just get
the offer of Navi to run! Wonderful goes back for it again, but this time put in the
ground by Reiss, but he's done enough to make it possible. Alexi's got a long way
to traverse before he can get into this clutch. Looks like he wants to drop down
into canals. He's got a kid in hand, smoke mullets off as well to utilize if you're
Alexi. And now with AK-47.
Oh look at that. Frustration all day. Just sitting back having to watch his in
game leader try and clutch up. He's got 45 seconds as he makes his way over here
Alexi. That ball plant's starting to come through. It's in the right spot. But how
He's got the health.
Now he's going to win.
Restiff walks in, that's a risk, but it suddenly plays off.
Hits the headshot on the likesie P.
And you'll see Gamerly to take the lead of the game.
It's a risk, but I like it.
I mean, Res is just saying, I'm at least going to find out where he is.
If he's not here, it's clear, and I have a much safer position to play from.
If I do find him, just take him down.
5-4, and Gamerly to with this win, grab control.
Here's the double kill from PR.
This aggression has been a nuisance all throughout the half
that Navi's bringing into play, but this time PR shuts it all down.
And yeah, after that kind of a loss and then an aggressive call that just gets deleted,
frustration mounting for the Navi's side, and Hype X feeling comfortable. Smoke is up,
give him some time to peek into the bomb site. Get a time for this AWP to do some work for you.
Yeah, Stax is tapping away on that boosted player, Galexy B.
The car's gonna be burned off the platform.
They're going to take some damage through these smokes.
It comes to rise.
Call on these people to look up towards the platform.
Newer's got one of the P250s.
It has to be a bit, and it's not going to happen.
So, Towson through the triple.
And a 6-4 lead for Gamer Legion.
It had that hero M4 in the previous round.
That didn't have a whole lot to say.
So, this time he's got to stick down to the MP9, his moneys.
At a really rough place for Navi.
Two round lead for Gamer Legion, and finally, in this second map we've seen them come alive.
Talcid 8 and 7, Rez 9 and 7, Hypex with that clutch, he's 7 and 4, PR 8 kills.
Yeah, we're getting all the pieces that made this Gamer Legion run possible, right?
The reason they're in the final was because of these clutches of Hypex,
because of the rifle and core of the Gamer Legion squad, and finally getting to see it on map 2.
Wonderful waits, because he's got the scope up at B main, and there are plenty of players
just around that corner from Game of Legends.
This is meant to be a little bit of a fake.
A little utility towards the A bomb say,
change the timing of this hit.
It's pulled wonderful back just a little bit,
but still looking for this B main play.
They haven't called to move just yet.
Snacks coming back now through canals.
Hypeback's gonna maintain that presence towards A main.
Yonkaze, dropping him behind the obelisk.
I'm supposed to be till you try to slow things down.
Wonderful's got eyes on dark, but...
...the grenade that has to the back of the site, because they're gone.
Wonderful no longer has his support.
He's burning.
And wonderful. Can't do anything about the rest of the players going into the site.
What about Hypex? He's gonna cut off this flight.
Yep, he is. No rotations allowed.
Bit steps out to his death, and now Emma can't go forward.
Max has called them off the B bomb site.
They didn't like how long that tooks, and now they feel like there could be an extra defender there.
They might be a little bit too cutesy.
Alexi's waiting for this relocation.
If this decision comes back to bite them, Rez just spotted Alexi.
Rez is going to move up, PR is just behind him.
Alexi takes a passive angle, but he's going to be smoked away.
And he wins the fight against Rez.
That's an all-important kill.
But now pressure's on. PR goes in alone.
And going alone means easy.
Kills pretty much.
And the bomb goes down, leaving Telsen on the hunt forward.
He also falls.
And once again, limited.
A clutch required for high-packs.
Into the open low, which be at heaven.
10 seconds.
This guy doesn't care about time though.
Taps that bomb. No peek now.
You can't let this one drop your Navi.
And wonderful peeks out from heavy.
Confirms the kill and a round win for Navi.
Yeah, I think GamerLagin just caught way too many pieces throughout that round
and eventually unravels and gets away with them.
Two players execute into the bomb site
before the other two players are even close by to help.
They get shut down. The bomb's alone and isolated.
And that might be Navi's pathway back to tie this up at half.
Third and final timeout used by GamerLegion. This half has just been a brawl between these two teams.
Neither of them wanted to relinquish any kind of control.
But if the second half gets sketchy, GamerLegion is not going to be able to put a stop to anything.
We'll have to do it on the fly now.
I mean look that pressure that kind of frustration in these grand finals those are the things
that game religion snacks was talking about these young guys need to get used to those
Here's the situation, can you play on the biggest stage with frustration, with anger?
In ma, dropping down into the water and that's a big kill to get away with.
Peel a call at the rugs and Inmo is just going to walk away. They're not roll-brain for the opening kill.
Yeah, Navi's opening in this half, that's been just so harassing, haven't they?
Towson breaks the smoke, Alexi backs away.
Snacks in resin middle, Towson and Hypex with his AWP outside the B-Bomb site.
And Navi with all the play towards the middle with the map from GamerLegion, wonderful now
positioned here with the AWP, perfectly timed.
Navi tightened this up right towards the end of the half.
And a couple of extra rounds to work with to make sure this is a tight game going into the break.
I'm sure Blade is going to make great use of that hot time break as well.
Mikaze, Ima, and Lexi B confirmed it, 6-6 in tight game.
Gamalison showing up here in the grand final, a half littered with highlights.
Oh
We wanted Gamer Legion, we got Gamer Legion on a new bus.
They showed up this time winning out the early battle to take some control of this map.
Things are tied at 6-6, but you've got Taliesin, you've got Red Seal, Hypebackx and PR,
all the engine of Gamerleaf, they've got them to this point.
They're having an impact on this map and they're fighting back and contesting Navi.
Yeah, and the earlier game, we see a timeout come out from Blake, wasn't happy with what he was seeing,
and they were able to go on to win a couple more rounds after that.
Then we've seen that clutch and Bytebackx, frustration from Navi starting to seep through,
but they pulled themselves together, they got the final two rounds of a half,
and we now see at 6-6 as we transition to Navi's T side.
Not this around his live, Thule's on Hypex, a little bit of utility for the CT side.
Mikaze with a Molotov, Emo, and Alexi with smokes and a flash.
There is a stack on defense in middle, but where does this utility get placed?
Yeah, Mikaze up first.
Hypex ready, Jobor Red is.
Look in the wrong direction.
Mikaze just gonna walk in, gets a 3 kill, Hypex gets the trade, but there's 3 frags coming so quickly from Navi.
And it's just Towson and PR left and they're split up completely so it has to be one individual heroic play.
And Towson, oh well, he's taking the first couple of steps in that direction.
Been wonderful both dead and Towson blinded trying to get away and he's made it into the cage
so all of a sudden a 2v2 and this round is completely doable as Towson steps up again.
All the doubles swing though Towson, already PR saved his life and steps into the next fight.
to the next fight, Alexey brought down Pistol from Gamer Legion and it's all Towson.
That is sick from Towson. The fact he's managed to do that, the first couple of kills are great,
but it's the fact he gets away, like the fact he gets back to the cave and doubles up with PR, it's great composure.
I think you could see how confident he was. He stands out in the open for a long time.
He felt he had the hot hand after those two kills after this one.
I was really, really worried he was going to get caught by the flash caught in the open,
but able to stay alive just long enough for PR to arrive and help him out.
couple now, good 2v2 victory for Gamer Legion.
The pistols have gone their way on this map,
but they have to win the second round.
They haven't been able to do that when they've won the pistol yet.
Got a no-bomb plant for Navito, so it's not forced by us.
There's a couple of upgrade details.
One of them dead already.
I mean, what a different story it is for him from Mirage to Anubis.
There's a master class in Mirage.
and just living in frustration on map two.
Two and nine.
That'll happen on the CT side of Nubis.
Tough map for the pros to be able to get comfortable on,
especially as bomb site anchors.
I think it's the nightmare map for them.
Mikaza gonna step in with the D.G.L.
and just try and find that opening kill,
but Snacks wants nothing to do with the flight.
They're coming at that A site. Two family players, Ryze and PR. PR up first.
And for a range, could be easy kill. It's a wonderful.
Another two commenced swiftly. And PR makes sure it's done.
So, game religion in the eighth round.
Navi with a body coming up here. It's going to be AK-47s coming out. Can't afford the AWP yet.
I'm loving this battle back. I love seeing game religion actually put a test towards Navi.
They're going to be playing at the first stage of the IEM Cologne Major coming up.
So I mean having this kind of a performance in the Grand Finals again, getting accustomed
to the kind of pressure, the kind of environment you have to play in when you get into the
playoffs of these events.
It's a much, much smaller skill than we'll see in Cologne, but any experience you get
in the environment is valuable and good to see them respond well.
I think if that was Ben who took the team damage, he might have just turned around and shot his teammate as well, he might just be on the edge.
I mean, if you're gambling, you can't see your opponents right now, but you can just keep this up. This could spiral for Navi into the next round.
just be on the edge. If you're gambling, you can't see your opponents right now,
but you can just keep this up. This could spiral for Navi into a situation where
they just can't mentally get out of it. Good spot for Towson over towards CBOX.
He spots one that brings Hypex and Snacks over, but brings him over to their death.
That helped him a bit. That's a better route from him. Three kills. He comes out with the rifle,
Carves up the defenses, Plank comes in, and Bits won the round on his own.
That's way too easy, hit a four on three to give up two kills like that.
Taliesin repositions, takes away the intel that he'd had on how Bits playing it.
Never expected Bits to be that aggressive.
Oh, it just falls apart. That stops so much momentum now.
Navi keeping things close, not letting GamerLegion extend the lead.
the lead. Seven to eight.
Money's still just fine for the Gamer Legion defense. They'll be buying right back up into
this to challenge again in round 16. Navi replenishes with AK-47s as well so
they get a little bit stronger moving forward also and we're going to start
getting that territory where every round for Kamer Legion money's starting to get
low so they got to be careful about that reset. Just two kills walking through
smoke trading out the third one. Beautiful round from Bitt to get Navi back in
And yeah, deep sigh of relief.
This will be interesting to watch,
just because Navi CT side was so disruptive, right?
We had those smokes out towards the stairs.
We had the constant peaks from A main.
Bit was getting a couple kills in that fashion.
A few pushes out B main to get information.
It looks like game religion will have to do something
very, very similar here.
Wonderful, just backs away. Perfect timing for this, and Ima spots it out. Luckily stays alive, and both sides happy to just call the stalemate.
Game losing just back in the way, but then might go back for a second dip. Here's the flash.
Off they go.
Alright, Ima...
Oh, it's tough, it's offward, but wonderful! Goes in, and makes sure the trades come in. Now he's ready for a pull-off as well.
up as well. And that grenade is going to stop high-pitched, considering that maneuver.
Mikaze now making his way through the middle, all solving out PR, so he can't help
him in at all. So, a minute left on the clock, and all important fight picked up here for
Russ.
Now this has given a little bit scrappy across the map. A lot of isolated 1v1s. Alexi now
going to lead the way into the bomb site. One of pillars, one behind the site. Good
trade. Can't turn for the second fast enough. Leaves bits all on his lonesome 1v2.
25 seconds to piece it together.
Rez goes passive as PR treks across the map.
Yeah, for a bit, you know, such a quiet start to this map, but
that 3K in the previous round, is that going to be enough to inspire him to win up this 1v2?
10 seconds, limited time. They have to go for the plant and they start spamming him, so he realizes
there's no way safe to play. So, on time, he's lost this.
I don't even know, he's probably going to go down after this.
Okay, there's the headshot now, you're not gonna want to...
Okay, Rez, you want to find that kill at the end, but Pete's got a vessel.
Takes the money away, even in a victory, it's gonna be a very expensive win for Gamer Legion.
Yeah, I have to stay alive though, if he dies, I mean, he's disaster for him individually, but...
He will stay at tall.
Third and final timeout called by Navi.
They gotta have a good sense of where the money's at for both sides, it's busted on theirs.
lot to play with. Mac Tenon, Galil coming out, light on utility. But equally they know in that
round, Bintake and all those extra weapons away right at the tail end, the two kills and a loss
has done the exact same thing to the defense. So no better time, Blake says, for this third time out.
And he's got orders for Alexi. He's got details for him. Exactly how he wants the round to play out.
Round 17, a Gamer Legion victory means they're on the path to a map win and tying up this grand final series.
For Navi, it's their chance to close the gap, tie things up and continue fighting to take Anubis away from Gamer Legion.
base to play with.
Yeah, not nearly as disruptive, which
means if you sit back against a tactical team, can get tough.
PR has been really, really good so far.
Gets the spot, drops away.
Stalls out the main play with utility,
so game religion can refocus their players towards middle.
Feels like a lexie spotted one.
Makaze looking up towards the hole.
Makaze has made it past, but this is the first fight. It's going to be Rez and Lexi B.
Perhaps, it might be a short.
The rifle out a little bit of a wider angle for him, so Rez drops. Lexi B is going to be very happy about this upgrade,
but as soon as he goes around the corner, the upgrade is short-lived as Hypex gets that trade.
But what's the response from Navi? Now that there's so much attention in the middle, they feel a bit.
It's time to slide into the A bomb site, but that kill is going to pull them back because it's Makaze's turn to slide into a gap.
And this is the danger of Navi. This is the danger of just playing standard
Counter-Strike, playbook Counter-Strike against them as they will pick you apart
because they're just better at the playbook.
Yeah, they're just seesaw you into your death towards the end of this round.
It's such a good understanding. Like, Bitt recognizes he has the opening with all the presence in middle
but when the next kill comes out he's like, okay, well I actually don't need to challenge this.
I don't need to take this risk because now it's someone else's turn.
The system for Navi just works perfectly in that round.
and move up on PR trying to get some access here PR. Finish is off wonderful.
Hopefully she's right there with him. Karzai holding on. PR's into the kill.
AK-47 now picked up. Pits on the long flank. Yeah, I mean he'd love to take that away.
Bombs gonna blow up PR is gonna start moving a little bit further away so
should be there for the waiting arms of bit and CT spawn. Oh he's taking his time.
And it gets it at the end. Right at the tail end. Takes everything away.
That's massive because there's absolutely nothing worth talking about right now for game religion.
There was no double eco territory right now.
Yeah, and they would love to force by a round of AK-47. That obviously ain't happening whatsoever.
Congratulations.
Round 18 and that victory for Navi takes the money out of the hands with a four-stop
Gamer Legion.
Deagle's in five-sevenths.
Yeah, let's see if they can pull this off.
We've seen it before.
Yeah, they were really deadly with them in the first half, weren't they?
The Deagle rounds are kind of what got them going and kept them in the half until they
I woke up with the rifles.
First bit of near-damage landing towards clear.
Sets them back.
I was in game religion really hoping the Navi come in towards this A site.
That's where they've got the stack, four players.
Look, I'm not a cautious Navi or a PN though.
Everyone far back in the opening.
They know the economic situation.
Taken the AK-47 away, likely a four spy is the strongest upgraded pistol.
So making sure they have distance to handle whatever is thrown at them.
So far so good, they picked the right side.
Towson burns inside the Molotov.
Information passed over to Emo on the other side of the wall.
Towson stepping out with a 5-7.
It's going to be causing.
Shoot away there for us.
and they found it towards B no problem. So
Nobby realized it's empty. They're not walking into a stack. There's no tricks laid for them here.
They've got a tight game, so
great to see Nobby picking up the pace to kick off the second half here.
Looking a little bit touch and go. You started to worry perhaps for Nobby that
there's some tilt we're setting in. I mean, I think it's I think we have to just kind of assume it is with the way that we saw
blade second time out and how emphatic and frustrating it is.
I think it's I think we have to just kind of assume it is with the way that we saw blade second time out and how emphatic and
Frustrated he was the image of it through a lot of this
Yeah, there's been some stresses for Navi in this and I think you got to you got to think about to the kind of the pride of the
Pressure they place on themselves coming into these grand finals after finally beating vitality
You know the comments that we have from them just a couple of events a row being like
Like if you don't beat vitality on the vent the trophy doesn't mean anything
So they've accomplished that this is a very meaningful trophy for Navi for their own mental game for the other
obstacles they have to overcome
And that's where you see it some of the frustration bubbling to the surface
But it seems like they've got things settled and calmed down now
Two in a row three the last four in the favor of Navi
And now going up against the defense that doesn't have the money to fight back
No upgrades this time couple of five sevens a Diggle added in late by snacks no armor behind it
No, they're gonna keep things quiet, just spread out, not walking into any of these traps whatsoever.
They're gonna go forward and soften up the rise to the 59.
These rounds kind of feel like they calm before the storm, like everyone's playing very slow, no one's changing anything out.
There's a stack here in the middle, so nice trade.
But when the guns come out in the next round for Gamer Legion, that's what I want you to see.
Which of these teams is going to bring the fight? Which of these teams is going to call something different?
Break out of the playbooks.
Any losing one player?
And they'll not be back into the lead.
A 10-9 lead with a vitamin in here for Gamer Legion.
Interest to see if HyperX does go for the AWP.
The big glass cannon, I was thinking the same thing if you want. We haven't seen it in the second half in his hands
because yet the money hasn't been there with kind of the nature of this game.
It's really sad to see that for Gabriel Lichin considering how impactful he's been for throughout this tournament and even in that first half.
Well considering how impactful wonderful with the off was on the CTC side of the newbis as well.
He was a beast, wonderful at the moment, sitting at 21 kills on the map leading the way for everyone.
Yeah, keep it up his MVP level performance here.
We go up to Carzay and make it their way down into the water.
It's about to be a challenge against snacks and talisman if they were to commit beyond that smoke, but they won't
Res will not nip in behind them. So they won't have the space to play with I think they want to hit this timing though
You might Alexi creeping closer to be made they want to split this very very fast snacks is about to have a lot of love headed in this direction
They actually hit his opponent he hit McCauze with a grenade so he gets the south you knowing he's close
Anyway comes in with a headshot snacks is gone as an antics nobby
As they now charge it quicker with this round and look at this from wonderful
No chance whatsoever, rips the heart of the Game of Legion.
11-9, it's been a competitive map finally for Game of Legion, but it's starting to feel like Navi are ramping up for the close.
Yeah, well, when the games are close and the pressure is on, the best thing you can rely on and lean on is the system of Counter Strike you play as a team.
And Navi's system is just way, way cleaner.
The change of pace, so many rounds from Navi in this half have been slow.
Have been slow progressions, utility, taking space, going through all the details.
And this is a change of style that Snacks clearly didn't expect.
Standing tall, just defending outside of E-Box.
Never expected Alexi to crank things up and be main.
And now the defense crumbling every step.
Navi take a two-round lead up to 11.
They've let GamerLegion stay in this map.
They've let GamerLegion keep it close and now just showing the elevation that they have.
A new level found.
Yeah, they can really step it up.
Just that next level and GamerLegion aren't able to keep up with it right now
and they don't have the money to purchase the resources required to keep up.
So coming into this round, you're going to be sitting with that rifle that Rez has.
Everybody else is going to go to a pistol,
Which means you're gonna be conceiving map points in all likelihood to Navi.
And there's the other like mental effects of that too.
It's been against a force by an eco and a full by, but in the last three rounds, Navi have only lost two players.
Like these wins have just been so strong.
They found solutions, Navi, that have made these rounds very, very easy for them.
And once again, a change up this still back to that slower style spread out default from Navi.
a little bit more lean towards A to open things up, and see all those dots starting to kind of start moving in canals towards
the position of Snaks and Talcyn at the B bomb site.
Going in towards Magnetor on the open, Snaks gonna block him. I think he spotted two.
You know Snaks was close up, he saw a little bit of an arm at the pillar, flushed into the open, he must have got that.
Yeah, good teamwork again from the LV using utility to punish now snacks
This is the kind of snacks play you like to see the nice come out the slash
It's next gets away with one chance for two but really needed that second if this round was gonna happen for game
We'll eat you now that second one could have turned things on its head
Valley it's attempt from snacks sneaky inside the smoke. It's an old classic of his
Surprise didn't start looking for once he starts slashing around once he walks
Well, at this point, if you're a Gamer Legion, the priority has got to be Hypec saving this M4.
I know it's not a lot, I know it's nothing exciting to talk about and bring forward into the next round, but it's really the only thing they have.
Yes, maximizing their percentages, but...
Gamer Legion need every single remaining round in regulation just to get this one into overtime.
This has felt close, and we haven't talked about Navi blowing them out of the water because the scoreboard has been there,
This is now five rounds in a row for Navi on the T side of Anubis.
Six of the last seven in their favor.
Since the guns have come out in this second half, again, they've just showed they have
a different level that they can hit that gamer league that has no chance of reaching today.
Twelve to nine.
And three opportunities to head into the third map of these grand finals with the two-map
lead.
Roby Newt.
And that is what now the R in pursuit of. Another trophy till late.
One to be a stranger to the IEM finals.
This is the eighth final, but only one one of them.
in Rio 2024, so looking to add another one for South America to North America.
Looking likely that Navi will pick up another IEM championship.
They're gonna start moving their way through the smokes. Big to take down Rez first.
You can just see, I mean, the game really has been completely off rhythm of this map.
Not sure the timings that Navi's gonna bring out, the timings are changing every time. Utility's perfect.
Again, it's been up, goes again, a bit, just following up, kill after kill, so easy now
for Narvi to get into a position to close out this map.
This dude's just gotten stronger as he got angry on this map.
The more pissed off you saw him getting, the more kills he's just been racking up ever
since then.
It sounds like the Hulk right now.
You know, Hypex, we're in here on the beach, but look at the position of Wanda4.
I mean, what can you do if you're game a legend?
The hell tentative you have to be just to try and get off the beach.
PR, he's gonna be knocked over last.
He's got a little bit of fight in them yet.
But for Navi, it'll be the second map of the grand final being gone that way.
If Anubis also picks up for Navi and 39, much more competitive from Gamer Legion,
but still not enough.
Navi are in full control and they have their eyes on the prize.
Come on, now come on!
Look, Alex, I reviewed your department's financials.
It's a disaster. I'm sending someone to conduct it.
In the meantime, I'm going to send you to the police station.
I'm going to send you to the police station.
Look, Alex, I reviewed your department's financials.
It's a disaster.
I'm sending someone to conduct an in-person audit.
Ha ha ha ha!
Welcome!
Alex, I'm here for the company audit.
I want to see it.
What is that thing?
It's part of the team.
The employee of the month.
Your department is operating at a massive deficit.
Ms. Pierce, where is she?
And what exactly is Olefans?
I'm sorry, Alex.
Her office has instructed the immediate closure of the division.
What?
You've got to be kidding me!
These are our jobs!
Our lives are going to go on the line!
They're leaving us.
One last case.
Is that a case?
No!
You showed us this case years ago.
Hi.
I'm Alex.
Hi, I'm Henry, Henry G. Greer, new general manager for Team Falcons.
And today, I'm going to give you a peek behind the curtain,
as I build a colossus on Colox's new fantasy mode.
We're going to kick things off with a triple pickup.
Kisuke, Monosie, Niko, my boys, welcome to the team.
And I'm biased, sue me!
So...
Daniel is a personal friend of mine.
I love that.
Seems the site has a...
Technical error.
CUT!
Right.
You've gone over budget.
What do you mean gone over budget?
It's fantasy, right?
The idea is you build a team within your means.
Well that's not very realistic, is it?
Look, it's classic fantasy.
You can pick any player within reason.
And you can build your Oster. The best part, with Colex, you can win actual prizes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all great, but one question. This budget thing.
If I'm maxed out, how am I going to afford Essatag?
What? Can't build a colossus without Essatag?
Despite this one being a more competitive affair than Mirage, it's still Navi to hit
the new best out of the park.
Fit with the 4K to be closing this one out, alongside Wonderful, still showing fine form.
It feels like it's a date with Destiny at this point, Yanco.
Navi on the road to that trophy.
Yeah, it feels like if Game of Legion was going to win, it had to be this map.
I know our new business is very reset.
Na'Vi was really favored going into this best of five, but I don't know who that was on the server, didn't look like Na'Vi.
I mean, that was one messy game of Fransjaja, it was a lot of mistakes from the side of Na'Vi, missed communication, right?
Luckily for them, Game of Legion made a fair share of their own too.
Yeah, I echo that sentiment, you know, again, a mess is start to the game and a game where you'd argue, you know, if you came into it just like Amiraz,
the more messy the game is, the higher the likelihood the Game of Legion would be able to do something.
So, in that notion, you know, that was a good thing for Game of Legion.
I also do think they stayed competitive, you know, I guess long enough for it to be exciting
in this game.
But then Bit turned up on the T side, and Navi started to turn up as well, and then
they got it down in the back.
But very much agree with Janko, you know, this was not a performance per se, Navi would
be proud of.
Yeah, Bit was pissed.
I mean, at the start of the game, a couple of times he got sold by his teammates, sort
of getting shot in his back, or maybe not getting the help that he should have gotten
from the setup and the first half wasn't going great for him. I think he was just mad as hell going
into the second half. I think that's fair enough, right? Because you come off of that first map and
it's so dominant for you. It's kind of weird to see them a little bit disjointed, no? Yeah, he was
like, I'm going to take matters into my own hands. I've had enough and really stepped up in the second
half. As you can see, completely turned it around, the T side, 100 ADR, three multi kills, right?
And put his stamp on an UBIS. Yeah, two of the buy rounds as well. You know, one round he gets a
a triple kill, the other one gets a double entry as well and that's in two
buy rounds coming in for game of legion and that was the big issue.
Game of legion got off to a good start in the first half, they got off to a good
start in the second, you know winning the pistol in the second, converting and
you think to yourself okay that's that's how you enter this game, that's how you
remain competitive but then as it came down to the buy rounds a bit
stepped up, wonderful continued, have a great performance and now be stabilized
again as Janko said a game where they didn't necessarily play well but good
enough to beat that position. It's where the game plan I think shines through in
in the sense of they seemed aware that Gamelidion is going to be very active in the mid-round
on the CT side, right? And a couple of rounds that they won, the buy-round, were just based
off of punishing the aggression. You know that final one, right? Like you're just punishing
some of the aggression before it can even materialise.
We're going to start at the end here, so let's go back to the beginning, because another
tell-tale sign of that kind of chaos that we saw beginning on Mirage obviously carried
on a little bit more, but what were you observing in the beginning of this?
Well, the same thing as with someone in Mirage, where we gave you a couple of examples of the
And then they fail to convert the second round, which is a bit of an issue.
Again, you're active as Janko said, you know, CT side, you like to flash in a player, you think to yourself, that's good right here.
It's well played by Nabi to do it and be so efficient winning.
For Gamerliving, they got caught off guard a little bit, couldn't get the trades in here.
Hypex trying is absolute best. Get caught off guard by wonderful, and you think to yourself, not again, you know.
Don't win the pistol, not winning the second round, converting, getting off to a good start.
I thought, okay, we're gonna see more of the same.
Then I guess what changed this time around was that
Navi kind of, you know, fumbled it a little bit.
Then again, you got to give it to Pierre,
some nasty work with the Deagle right here,
taking some space in middle,
getting into CT spawn as well,
getting a second one, that's beautiful.
Mikasa getting caught off guard,
not sure where to look,
and all of a sudden you're a game a leading
and you're the one doing it to Navi.
The difference from this map to Mirage was that they,
you know, capitalized in this moment.
They won the following round as well,
went up three to one and got off to a good start,
which is exactly what we described for them.
they needed to have if they wanted to remain competitive.
Yeah, and that's, there wasn't much there outside of those stars.
I mean, six out of the nine rounds came at the beginning of
halfs for Gamer Legion, right?
And couldn't really do much outside of that.
Problem was, in the second half, even the round that they win,
well, bit kills everyone, right, and just stays alive.
So their buy is not great.
They are forced into making a play.
Navi knows it, they punish it, and they have full control
of the economy from that point on.
Just to go back to the point that Jacob was making all the moment,
that you were talking about, right?
We see that Game of Legion have the opportunity
to maybe go on a streak of their own.
So what happens in round five for Navi
to make this one a little bit more interesting?
Oh, captain, my captain, right?
Alexi, he's been chilling.
He had two kills on Mirage.
That's great, right?
That's awesome for him.
He's having a light day in the office,
but coming into round five,
he has one of the two safe downs,
like Jacob was put on,
Game of Legion able to,
after that force fight, convert it,
you know, avoid the reset that was going on.
And you're thinking, all right, now they can make a game out of this, right?
They managed to force Navi on an eco, they're getting some bank behind them,
but things weren't as simple as it maybe it has seemed.
Yeah, we can see it play out now.
Yeah, wonderful, and Alexi had the save, because you can see everyone else is on USP,
so they have conceded this round pretty much, you know, they just go for a timing, push outside of B.
He's too far away from his teammates and that he just loses the duel to the 1 and 4.
Now Mokaze on the flank causes some commotion too, you can see the bomb is all the way back
in T spawn, like they're very disjointed, Gamelidge and they understand that they can
take the space on A but it's awkward, they don't have A main control.
Bit is still alive, they're expecting him to be there right and now Alexei is gonna go
to work right, this is a 3v3 where he's just able to win this duel against Towson.
Now, even though they have a lot of time,
Game Religion just decides to go A,
but here, even with some of the utility being used,
you're going to see good team play from Navi.
Makasa drawing attention for himself allows LXP
to find another kill, and then in the 2v1,
LXP closes it out, and this was absolutely massive.
This was around Game Religion, could not afford to lose.
No, you cannot lose that round, you know,
under no circumstances.
For a brief moment, it was a 4v3,
and if you pause the screen, it's LXP with an M4,
and there's two USBs with no ammo.
since you're playing a 1v4, and then as you said, Janko and Mirage, you didn't have to do much,
but that was a massive moment for LXB to come alive and return to the title of the game.
And this is why we say Grand Final is a different beast to anything else, right? Even play of Counter
Strike and whatnot, because these are the sort of rounds that Game of Legion was not losing
up until today, right? Like they were doing a much better job at playing together as a team,
you know, being patient, making sure all their ducks are in a row here, just giving away 1v1
Not half of your team is in T spawn getting the bomb, while you're trying to go towards A through camera,
just allowing for gaps that Navi can bounce on.
And this grand final also a different beast for one of these three players who have the opportunity to take home the DHL MVP.
Who will be the DHL MVP? You decide. You can participate in the DHL MVP vote as it happens.
Make sure to be tuned in to the Twitch stream and be ready to have your say.
Three players in with the chance of taking home this coveted DHL MVP.
And you not at home have the opportunity to influence this vote.
These are the front runners and there is no surprise Jacob to see wonderful the name at the top of the list.
No, we may sound like a broken record, but that's just the way it is at the moment.
Wonderful is playing his best brand of Ghana strike consistency at its finest,
since he added his finance, finding impact left, right and centre.
And even in the moments where Navi sometimes, I wouldn't necessarily say strutly,
but in key moments in the game where maybe Bit is not on fire,
maybe Emil is not getting as much impact as he would like to,
wonderful seems to be the one constant for Navi throughout this tournament.
The second option coming away, it is also going to be Bit.
Lots of impact, particularly as you were saying,
coming into the second half of the Nubis.
Yeah, he was a demon on the first map,
but even on the second one, right after a slow start,
managing to bounce back, really doesn't want to let this one go, finding multi-kills,
just being a dominant presence on the server.
And usually when Bit is having a good series in a finalist,
when Navi comes out of the other side of it with a trophy in their hands.
Final option for you, going to be no surprise to anybody to see.
It is indeed another Navi player.
If you're not tempted with the likes of Wonderful or Bit,
we have a third option for you, and that is going to be in it.
I'm glad we can cast a bit of spotlight on Anima,
because he's actually been having a great tournament as well,
but obviously when you're surrounded by bits, by one full bimer,
casted for that matter as well,
you don't often hear speaking too much about him,
and it's made a bit unfair to him.
I think so far in this tournament, he's been playing great,
and now naturally in this final, he's been finding a lot of impact,
but he's such an important player for now,
in terms of the openings, in terms of being the second voice as well,
you see him constantly being animated towards his teammates as well.
So, you know, I know Emma right now may be in a spot where he doesn't get all the credit he deserves,
but in this final so far, he's been playing lights out.
We've got less than a minute and I do want to get your thoughts on you coming up for game legion
They've beat a few teams on this emotin notable are being furrier recently
But does Navi have an opportunity to close this 30 right here right now?
Absolutely do because I feel that was the shakiest will see Navi in this final on an Ubers right on on nuke
I think you look towards MacAzee on that outside area on the T side
It's travel a little bit okay some of that came against Vitality
But this is where you really wanted to show some
Improvement and have a better game to make it there much much easier for you for I can say very shortly this game is
Well Jacob says it's over that means we do need to throw things to a break Navi
They can see the trophy. It's right there for the taking but one more map may separate them from that fee
It's going down on nuke in just a few
I'm gonna kill you, Vincent.
I have to double-peak, just get this shot!
I'm gonna kill you!
Something special comes from this team,
and that's it!
Got him, Vincent!
We are back!
Excuse me, sorry, can I talk to you for a second?
What's your name?
Haley.
Where are you from?
I'm from Kansas.
Alright, Kansas.
If you give me a map in front of me, I wouldn't be able to point out.
But I'm pretending it's cool.
You're right in the middle of the country.
Got it.
So, you're here in the merch stand right now, looking for some CS-specific merch, do you
like that?
Yes.
Do you spend a lot of money on merch, like a gaming merch in general?
Yeah, I would say I do.
Is the CS the best merch out there?
Yeah, I like it.
Are you here also to watch the final? Yes. What are you cheering for? I was cheering for Vitality
But now I'm gonna root for Navi. Alright, because they're you know, they beat them so might as well take the trophy, right?
Yeah, pretty much.
Are you attending a lot of events like this or this is kind of your first one actually?
So first event first time on camera as well like
Yes, I'm not gonna waste any of your time because you know, I like when girls are buying
merch like this and they're like looking into the fashion of gaming as well
because we gamers we don't know how to dress I disagree I disagree all right
you're too kind for that but I appreciate it and then yeah enjoy the
Oh, the thing is so much!
He's at the beach!
He's at the beach on the beach.
I think I'm gonna take one.
That's him, that's him.
One on the smoke, one on the water.
One on the water.
Yes, yes, yes.
One on the main pushing.
I'm next.
There's one.
I'll be there.
I have a right side bro. I have a right. I have a right. I have a right. I have the
Go stop
I smoke tempo
I'm going back
We are peeking peeking
They're peeking! They're peeking!
I'm on the roof!
I'm going stage!
Push okay
Two, take cover guys
One sequence up
Two peeking!
I'm dead!
I'll kill! I'll kill!
I'm dead
Stay focused
I got you!
I have it guys
I guess put the needle
I think I picked you down
I think he's close foul guys
I'm closing for jungle stand
I'm not planting yet
I'm on kill
Go bro, go bro
I'm down
Well, it's the seventh edition of the ESL Grand Slam kicking off here at the Intel Extreme
Masters in Atlanta.
Vitality wiped the slate clean with their victory and Rio getting the gold bars there.
Now we're just one map away from Na'Vi taking that first step towards their gold bars potentially.
The first notch on the belt to see if they can gain every win necessary
to establish a dominant stretch of counter-strike for them.
They've schooled GamerLegion now on two maps showing prowess individually and as a team.
We head in towards Nuke and Na'Vi looking for glory, looking towards the trophy at the center of the stage.
And now it seems like a mountain in front of Gamelige and losing the first two maps of the best of five is never easy to come back from.
Never mind playing against Na'Vi going on to Nuke.
Of all these youngsters playing their first big grand final in the best of five, there's truly no way Na'Vi let this go.
But Atlanta, if this is to be the final map that makes some noise, you'd be fantastical.
Wee, let's get it going here on Nuke.
Again, Cameron's reaching will start on the T-side, right?
They've had a T-side start every single time so far.
Now they've got to do it on Nuke as well.
It's going to be real tough.
A huge task. We just saw the prowess tactically of Navi on a Nubis picking them apart.
Nuke is an even better map for the tactical teams.
It's going to be a rush towards the ramp room, bit defending, and he's not backing away.
No, he's sticking around and he's confident, but he will be picked apart because of that.
They're actually just going to go straight into his hull, which might walk right into the Na'vi trap.
They have late for him because wonderful is ready, but just a single kill.
So, Alexi B, can he get anything?
Nobody at least keeps his life. He backs away and he gets down into the site.
Yeah, but he doesn't probably have a great read of where they're going to finish up.
This Pesterholtz is getting a little bit weird.
Mikaze holds his nerve, going to walk into the crosshair.
Towson, who snaps down, can't find the kill.
But pressure on Mikaze.
The lone players, Ema and Alexi, slide together in the upper bomb site,
and now just the two of them remain against the four players of Gamer Legion.
the defense. There we go. Yeah.
Clean head show for Towson as well
onto Emma. Just the Lexi beat.
They've got time as well. 50 seconds.
So is gamer Legion starting to figure out
where they want to end this round?
Oh, just talking about the prowess of Navi
on a tactical and strategic level.
And then they get a B rush that their way
and get absolutely overwhelmed by it.
So simple tactic called to great effects.
Hypex hasn't been able to find Alexei who slipped in towards Midi and now he's found an escape, but there's no chance of winning this round.
Bomb's gonna be planted downstairs as Taliesin punches in the numbers.
And you know what? Gamer League has been great and Pistols in this series that the issue for them is coming in the second rounds.
Yeah, right. It's the four spies that come through from the RV, so let's see.
But they can't have that problem here. T-Side Nuke, we talk about all the time, like, get these rounds. These rounds are so critical.
If you win the pistol on the T-Side, being able to gain a couple of fluffy rounds when you have economic advantage, when they have weaker weapons,
You can feel so restricted later on in the half. So you've got to you've got to
stream these routes together. Get out to three or four. Get yourself a leg up
before the guns come out for the knobby side.
Can't believe you're bringing some energy early into the pistol. I liked when
the coach was talking saying that alright guys, like we're trying to be perfect
and we're not getting to that level right now. Let's just enjoy being in the
B05 final and play the counter strike they got them now. I think they did start
to show that over on a new bus. It just wasn't enough. It just wasn't enough in
the end. Well I think I think in the first map they got out the pressure of
just playing in the grand final on this stage with the knowledge of what they
were stepping into I think on a new miss they found the pressure of oh we're
playing well and we actually have a chance to win that's a different kind of
pressure so I guess on some level you're looking here you're like which one are
they going to encounter on Nuke. Neither handled. We've got a wonderful waiting down
in ramp hoping to crack this up with a scout. It's gonna be a bit hard cleared out
by PR. At least they know what they're up against now. I'm sure that'll be the
conversation going around game a legion as well then I'll have it in the mines that we can't lose to this kind of scenario again
I'm gonna see if he's getting one here for Navi, but then Mikasa getting damaged out to 8 HP Alexion 7
There's just no world in which this one gets out of hand from this point
No, not really actually I kind of like it when I'm seeing a game a legion to like in terms of getting some kills and just kind of
Pausing they seem very much like snacks is doing a lot more of controlling
The pacing of how they scale and how they move around the map together for the moment
And gone is wonderful clean round very clean round from gamer legion. They're gonna do nothing. I
Mean we talk all this about new being a tough map for them to overcome Navi on and it will be but at least if you're gamer
Legion you've played this map three times throughout the group sir throughout throughout Atlanta throughout this event and you've won all three of
Them so you've got a little bit of like experience and positive experience you beat pain 13 6 you beat liquid 13 6 you beat sinners 13
it all in the past week. So yeah, tough task you're facing off on this map, but you're
going to feel confident coming into it. Round three is live. We've got pistols for
Naby, Deagles, P250s, nothing crazy. I mean, this is exactly what you need if you're
gaming, right? You're going to get a 3-0 star on your T side of Nuke. If you're fighting
Enough to battle the entire time
At least give yourself a good start
Snacks and a rise fighting outside bit sending one kill back with a Diggle
But just some confidence for game religion going outside and Julie against the weaker weapons
Yeah, happy to take in the range fights and now you just got to protect the one weapon that's been dropped
You know, they're gonna come for it close up
Takes a shot with the Diggle will handle from snacks
He backs away. They know exactly where he lives as well. You can assume he's outside
And that'll be three rounds for gamer Legion
PR controls the kill on Emma so
Freezer start for game leech and fist bumps going out looking composed
But this is where things get a lot more difficult the first big obstacle in the lane off he purchasing up
They're gonna have an AWP here for wonderful. Yeah, they got out that out real quick
So no luxury of having a map without the off going into the first gun round
Tough for Snacks right out of the gate. MP7 on Rez. He'll be looking for an upgrade, a free upgrade for that.
Wonderful's off going to head outside and stick around towards a more centralized location outside CT spot.
Up for Russian! PR! Head off the first!
Yeah, straight up to the side. PR, Rez with the first couple of kills. They're trying to come back in, but they're not ready for Snacks to be so directly below them.
With that distraction, Talcyon comes through and Navi, that is such a difficult round to handle, just thrown at them from Gamelidge.
Yeah, I mean, that's not even a change of pace, just you kind of blow them out of the water first gone round.
You know there might be a few Molotovs missing, a few Nades missing, a few resources to stop those fast rushes.
And a nice, easy one. I love the way Snax has opened up this third map.
I mean, you could have the money if you were really feeling aggressive and really feeling a little bit crazy.
The GamerLegit could go try and hunt down this AWP, but for the moment, happy to just
take a 4-0 start.
And we saw some frustrations on Anubis for Navi as well, I think primarily from Bit,
we saw from Blade as well, it was clear in the early going the team wasn't really clicking
in every single way they would have lights.
Blade got them snapped back into shape really, really quickly, but if that frustration is
still there lingering this could be a slow start for Navi it's around five and
they have yet to begin on here on Nuke and four being picked up I think we're
gonna see if I had a Navi as they want to fight back
I'm loving the start, Amelie Jumbo. Let's see if they can continue it.
Go again, QR just getting close to the squeaky door quite quickly. Smokey, get a go.
Charging out again this time, going to be stopped by Wonderfall.
When they're not stopping, they're trying to get out, they're trying to send
It's what it's the surprise when it's the uppercut. This time Navi was ready for the eventuality.
Wonderful starting and having able to get a quick shot in the execute that takes out the teeth of the attack.
And this time on previous in the last round PR swings out, Hutt gets one kill, creates space.
None of that's created this time. And wonderful loses the gap on Hypex.
who drops down and is just desperate for a bomb plant.
Door's open.
He's got a minute to play with.
Four players to find. A win is unlikely, but any kills you get, anything you can do to limit the money.
Navi still haven't established any kind of economy, so any damage in this round is excellent from Hypex.
It's going to rotate through Ramp Room to make sure he can pick up the bomb.
Mikaze not playing inside the bomb site to make sure that he's going to be safe.
And Hypex peering into his last option which is drop down, get the bomb planted and see what happens afterwards.
No one from Novi's going to offer anything up here to make it an easier time for Hypex.
for high packs to get to play together as a full-man unit come back in on this
three-take high-packs gonna deal with that? No! You can't do it again!
High-packs, hope all gets close to the low HP player.
Well, high-packs won't go down to Mikaze, but you start to believe when it gets those first two in heaven.
You can see exactly how it's gonna happen, right? Get the first kill, the low HP is an easy transfer.
Even at Mikaze up next, that could have put Alexei into an awkward 1v1 valiant effort at a high-packs,
at a high-packs but Navi get on the board first but again those kills are
valuable taking those weapons away and a losing effort forcing the repies
definitely see a high-packs he's got that he's got that clutch factor about him
unable to get killed towards hot if he tosses in the macaul's it's down to 1v1
and almost back high-packs to win it with the clutches he's had in these playoffs
no reason he's gonna be supremely confident going in all those he probably
doesn't care that it's a 1v4.
He's got the all-power now though.
Go up against 1v4.
And now that these guns are out and the CT side has got all their utility, all the bells and whistles,
Snack's gonna have to call a different game.
Can't just call some momentum based off the success of the previous round.
The repeated upper hits went by the wayside.
So now we descend more towards the territory and the shrinks of Navi, which is a tactical effort.
Slope paste as they start moving in towards ramp room behind the smoke. Talcet has position
Snacks gonna deploy a wall outside, but he's the only one out there really to
Activate and utilize the 20 effects Mikaze up on top of the box is gonna get on top of the roof spots one
He's been spotted himself so drops down, but that's a little bit of information gleaned
Wonderful, flicking down, misses the shot, needs to be careful not to be overwhelmed, that's
a great grenade.
Look how much damage that has done, rise down to 42, now Snack's starting to activate.
I was worried about the smoke timing now when it was fading away, Snack's coming for just
a second, but unfortunately the timing does not help him out at all because Mikaze comes
back, advantage now for Navi, 25 seconds left for GamerLegits.
Max was pulling them back into an upper hit because he was going to wrap around head and now it's all gone wrong.
It's only a one for one for Bibb, but you still got plenty of players here.
But Hypex extends into the open, an easy kill for Ima, and now Taucin and Rez with no other option,
but the back off and try and save these weapons. 10 seconds on the clock.
Really heads up for Mikaze. So much quiet around the map. I think everyone from Navi and Mikaze spotted
Snaks at the get-go, but I think he's just thinking, where could he have gone? Where is this guy disappeared off to?
Mikaze will die at the end of the day. Good job from Taucin to grab one more on the exit,
a second round for Navi and if Mikaze doesn't find that kill what he does
Snacks has a very deadly backstab either wrapping around up towards heaven or
going towards ramp room but when he goes down while his team is in transition
it just kind of ends the round there too slow to come to fruition in a timeout
called by gamer legion talking things over
Lita's dwindling but with the pistol round and with winning the first four in
On your T side, you only need to add a couple more throughout the rest of this half to feel
good going into the break.
Both teams, laser focus on the task at hands.
Navi creeping closer to that trophy.
Ground seven.
Opposite again for Hypex, same for Wonderful.
Full buys for both squads.
But he's in a good place as well so they can dig into the playbooks.
Yeah, good to see a keen start to the map here.
Not that back and forth of weaker weapons here and that.
Just really brawling with all the best guns you've got.
Wonderful taking the first damage.
Hypex, the same.
But he's going to move outside.
Look at this call, but it's in the open though.
It's a little bold.
But Hypex has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and Mikaze takes him away.
Yeah, it's a bit of a flex, and it looks a little bit silly,
but I actually don't mind it whatsoever.
You're going to have to have these players stepping up against Na'Vi to make this work.
to win this half by tactics. And Hypex is at a hot hand.
Well, this round has not worked out though for Gamelitch, and those aggressive steps forward have cost them two early kills in snacks and Hypex.
You have to rely upon P.O.I., Taliesin, and Ryze, the rifling core of this squad, as they head back in.
And the defense just looks so solid, like they haven't had to budge, they haven't really had to move.
Not too perturbed or afraid of lower bomb sight, of anyone having crossed the secret.
They've already got Ema down there just spotting to be safe.
The defenders at the upper bomb site are well entrenched in good strong positions.
Drop down into the vent, that's the bomb and that's Ema holding on.
So that was your last-ditch effort trying to evacuate down the lower bomb site.
bomb site. Look how hard they're working just for one kill. You know, like look how hard
they've had to move around the map, how many different looks they've had to take, how many
different pieces they'd have to find and try and do, and it's all just for one kill
and an inability to do anything after the fact.
Yeah, you have that unfortunate feeling where you just have to back away realizing it's
a lost cause. So, go and save these two AK-47s. Navi will go up to three rounds now, but it
does have that feeling that Navi are getting into full control.
I've seen that a couple times in the series already with that CT side just puts up a wall
that you just can't get past.
GameReligion's best success in this game is going to be if they can cause chaos and cause
some disorganized rounds out of Navi, right?
If you can make every single, if you can make a round or a situation just feel so insane
that Navi's not able to really read what's coming, the protocols can't be put into place,
it's just chaos of individuals battling and making decisions and everything happens so
fast.
That's what I think GamerLegion can find some of the edge behind the skills of these individuals,
but the experience, the structure, the strategy of Na'Vi, it's gonna be too much if you're
just gonna be playing slow rounds and trying to make a move.
There's all the charging outside, Mikasa's gonna hear those snaps heading down towards
secret.
Right all the way down Mikasa, he's got the opening headshot, snacks is gone.
Advantage for Na'Vi.
Attempting to make a play up through Ram from the Wanda for his silence PR's attempt.
3v5 again here for Gamer Legion and all the rotations have already been made here for Navi.
They have reinforcements on this people on site.
They are so ready for the fight against Ryze.
One by one Gamer Legion fall and they crumble on this lower site.
There's just a tax you have to pay if you want to gain any ground against Navi.
Every step they've lost a single player. Yeah, it's crippling
No, he went around the back. He's got two players about to go out through control room
But he's holding it. They backtrack
Towson clearing out dark
Meanwhile the rest of the army is trying to rotate down wonderful peaks. Got a look at that all the doors swing open at the same time
Navia hive mind as they head to four
Yeah, just looks so clean in this comeback it happens so fast and so convincingly
All tied up, but not really a whole lot positive for Gamer Legion.
These last four rounds, Navi has just picked up right where they left off with the dominance
on Anubis at the end of that map.
Three rounds straight, only four players have been lost for Navi.
The defense is just clicking.
Back to tech nines, back to fast base towards the upper bomb site.
We're going to try and rush again.
Yeah, it's a bit of a fake out towards A because you want to try and get through ramp, but
There is so good at holding the ramp bro,
God, what, getting past him.
Lifted the crystals.
And now five to four, Navi winner in seconds.
Just leveling up every step of the way.
We talk about coming into this grand final,
the difference in experience,
the difference in pedigree of Navi
when it comes to the big games, right?
Into the grand final so many times.
And for game religion,
You're having to take a bunch of Grand Finals rookies onto the stage today
It's it's a learning experience for sure
They're getting a really rough one right now
I'm interested what snacks is gonna call here in this round because gamer Legion need they need to change the nature this game five rounds
I've been so dominant you're starting to feel like you have no chance of this map if you're gamer Legion
This needs to be around that you can provide a win
This just shows you how important those first three rounds of the game are here on new T side
especially in such a you know when the one team is such a heavy favorite as
well yeah on the car they already had ready so coffee so just rough infant this
time gonna be caught by rice so nobody killed finally going back in favor of
game of Legion what's gonna do with it though well you might try and even
things up here gonna go for a little bit of a peak there's the utility
streaming over for the smoke will actually not a peak he commits himself
and oh, lovely shot Rez, never even had a chance.
So, not much, here's the answer to it.
The advantage immediately goes back and 4v4 reestablished with a minute left on the clock
and Snacks making his move outside.
Point of the smoke towards Main, but as this is happening,
some ground is being taken outside for the T side.
Wonderful was getting closer and closer to Hite,
but he dies in the aggressive play.
Towson's ready for that headshot.
outside of the smoke and this is more like it from Gamer Legion and 4v2 make it 1 as Bit is left alone.
He will take his fight, he will take damage in the engagement and they've now got the information
as to where Bit is playing from, he's doing as much damage as he can here. He can go for this,
they have plenty of money and they're pretty separate, but that NAVE drops him down to 5 HP
and Talsum makes sure Bit cannot step into the clutch and fifth round picked up here for Gamer
And yes, we're going to leave this half saying that they stalled out but with that lead with the advantages
They picked up with the first two rounds and playing five T rounds is already solid for game religion
Yeah, they're in an okay place at the moment
I think the biggest thing is that is leaving this half feeling like you're contending like you're fighting and it's good to
Get that round there to kind of disrupt the momentum of Navi
They were on a huge stretch of round wins they had five in a row
So you at least make that disjointed so you can bring a different vibe into the halftime break
It's not out for Blade, I don't think it's any calls for Panic, nothing like we saw in Anubis whatsoever.
I think here it's just about maintaining this good level that they've had for the past five rounds.
It's don't let this slip away, don't let them take any kind of a lead moving forward.
That round is opened up by Mikaze being aggressive at Redbox, picked off.
Evo was able to find a response and an equalizing kill, but there was...
The map was opened up with some of those picks, wonderful goes down next.
Two rounds remain in this first half of Nuke.
Again, PR with that broken door, blinded, keeps his head in the corner, but Ima still
finds it.
Can't hide away long enough.
No, I'll be again.
Back to the opening kills.
A little bit of reprieve from that in the previous round if you came to leeching, but
right back to normality.
Macaulay playing more passive towards single box. Snacks and Hypex making the move there.
Ema and Alexi have the upper bomb site controlled. Alexi inside hut as well.
That one from Game Religion making any kind of aggressive move at the moment.
Hypex was up on the silo. That was about it. Snacks ready to make his play, but
man down and they still haven't picked a location. Double off setup as well.
Bits got his over towards ramp room with a very, very deep line of sight.
And he just mowed you down with an M4, so it's a swap of weaponry that you might not expect if you head in that direction
But back towards the upper site we go
Snacks getting into his garage
Low HP
But still a threat once he gets in behind enemy lines, but it's quiet for now about to get loud
It is game religion coming through huts and wonderful his mr.
Shot which creates an opening to try and get out here. It was the next problem
Snacks gets caught reds actually got a secondary kill getting into with the site
And now you've got that double-op set up problem of retaking because high packs and tells him I've come through with big shots
We've been bit alone, and he doesn't have the right for just the AWP and high packs takes his head off and takes game religion
Into the lead of the game. I will the changeup hasn't been one of pacing hasn't been one of making fast rushes or aggressive
plays outside or anything like that. That run from GamerLegion, the change up is just
being quiet. They just got a chill for 40 seconds, not be lose track of them and how
are you supposed to call and get ahead of rotations if you got no idea where they are.
Well done from GamerLegion, just going quiet and it's all res. Time and time again, we
know he's been stepping up for this team, that's a sick clear up in the rafters.
six to five
game religion making this far more competitive than we would have thought
opening kill again for nambia snacks balls outside
I'm hoping that they actually come to his position early on, and they are starting to provide edgeing closer and closer.
They've gotten more contact heavy though. I think they might be in trouble here.
Yeah, they might not expect him to still have the off-bound, but Vick has not connected the shot.
He drops down lower, under a minute on the clock, and at least Ben has some help here, right?
The rifle's rotated in with him.
Well, elsewhere for Gamer Legion. Snacks calls them back from that ramp room play.
Leaves PR as a lurker if someone wants to poke their head back up from the defense,
but they're going to try and crack into the upper bomb site.
42 seconds left on the clock. All three players headed towards squeak door.
PR gonna throw a little bit of a fake with utility downstairs, but Alexi's not fooled.
Alexi, no problem on the first, goes back, can't quite get the second.
So, game illusion is still on for this, because they're making that very unlikely now with that kill on PR.
That ball plant is coming through, but it's gonna be high-packs in the unscope for the one time.
And wonderful is out with the final kill. We've got a tie game again.
Novi bring it back, six to six. CT side new.
I've got no fear
If you're hoping for these grand finals to extend, get ready for the next round of battles.
to extend. Gamereligion's done just about as well as you could have hoped for. Battling
very very top here on Nu, taking a tie score 6-6 into the second half. Navi very very close,
one map away from lifting that trophy. What half away from lifting that trophy? So the
only question I got for you Atlanta, do you want to see a fourth map? We're going to be
Live into the pistol round.
Julie's on Towson, utility on snacks.
An all-important pistol round.
Gamer Legion's flight could end here very, very swiftly.
Wonderful outside.
And that's a flight he's going to love to take.
P250 wants to find high-packs, has him pinned down
inside the garage.
P.R. giving the staff to the jump. They're coming at it. Drops on down. Plenty of players
not coming towards it, but he's handled the pressure well against Mikasa. Another one
for P.R. and then Bit makes sure he gets at least that trade, but Ryze backtracking using
some range and not seeing them actually crossing to the side. So that's information. Get on
over to Hypex. Hypex is ready for the mechanic. Any of the kills he will pick up one of the
headshot so a 2v3 still doable for both sides right now be tough to piece this
one together for Navi well wonderful is going to want to step out and maybe cover
heaven and then you can also cover the vent flank if anyone flies up it
Alexi sliding back now it's going to take a little bit of time for him to get
over towards hot to start making their move in snacks playing underneath heaven
or exceed me up in heaven I imagine he would let the bomb go down and wait for
teammates to arrive for this retake and it's priming up to be a two-on-three
wonderful lexipost plant actually make it a two-on-two haircuts passed out by
wonderful first killer the round
no one offering up the next five wonderful steps towards rise there's
being so patient, so composed in this.
All members are impatient, he's going to pay off.
You thought for a second, it might cost him, but Alexi B
is in his turn to step up with a clutch for Navi.
This would be the three-tap, and Alexi B!
So easy on that third kill for Alexi B.
Cool and composed, and a step towards the trophy
for Alexi.
That's so precise.
Those are nasty kills from Alexi B.
Set in the example for the squad to start this second half
in the right way.
A T-side pistol round one by Navi.
It's a little sketchy though.
It is a little bit tough to execute what they wanted.
They had to kind of improvise a little bit.
That's a beauty of a shot from Wunderflot.
From here, Alexi just takes over.
Oh, no!
Well, a second round by for Gamerlige.
On the back foot now, Shirley.
Scout on Hypex.
MP9 on snacks.
Snacks.
Closet to a secret now dropping down the stairway.
Taliesin's going to hear those steps.
Hurt himself in the fight, the 5-7, starting to backtrack.
And the bit, starting to move forward.
He's got the open fights he's looking for.
The garage, that's the bomb. Be careful if you're relaxing.
And Pitt's gonna try and help it. Somehow, right, surviving long enough, but
not able to get any impact. So wonderful cleaning up too.
It tells it up next. Shatter the spot. It doesn't matter.
Hypex! Okay, another one from the scout.
This guy can hit some nutty shots.
And that is just giving Gamelige and the player advantage for the time being.
Yeah, but the map is open. There's some space for Navi to work with.
45 seconds to piece this together.
You know where Towson got his kill earlier, he's disappeared on the map, so it's all gone quiet.
Now Na'Vi is going to start having to figure out Kisa together as they move.
Scout is dropped all the way back to CT spawn.
Bomb is recovered.
Ipex pushes up into the open, gets attacked but falls.
And that leaves Snaks alone at this upper site.
19 seconds left, Snaks peeking out.
There's a lot of damage towards him, but the bomb is dropped.
Towson is here, 14 seconds left.
Try to get back up and the ball goes down. He hits the shot!
What a second!
It's absolute chaos in the van, but it's Towson who thrives in it.
Oh yeah.
And that's the kind of round that'll frustrate Blade more than anything.
Well, he's for... I don't know how...
We don't see a clutch play out quite like that in too many scenarios.
I don't know how many great options there were when the bomb drops.
Ema gets the kill in the upper bomb site.
You spot the player in vents.
Chaotic situation.
And Towson just has to pray.
Play as he pulls the trigger and it all works.
One side at seven, a shocking turnaround that Navi can scarcely believe.
It's an upper rush.
And it's fast, it's quick here for Navi, trying to burst down, likes to be with the first, snacks and respond.
Killing it down, tells him, keeping up the effort from the last round of making sure it isn't unraveled, it isn't undone.
And Navi held back, propelled away from the A site.
And it's game-relager back into the lead of the game again.
Alright, well now things just get weird. Now things are gonna get a little crazy
One that versus four for wonderfully doesn't have to bomb if you can just sneak downstairs not gonna happen
He or shuts it down good upper bomb site defense ready for the rush
And now be set back and back to pistols
Well, I see it does want to get out without an opener, but the rest of his teammates stalled
out, slowed down, disjointed in the end from Novi.
We're in other real fights for them to find in the upper bomb site, so I mean they kind
of take some space, but the retake comes out the rafters, no one is able to get out hot,
they couldn't really get any kind of secure position.
And now we step into a round with a Deagle on wonderful, P250 on Alexei, and probably
some time given over to wonderful to investigate to see what he can get.
And we saw this kind of resistance from Gamer Legion Anubis as well.
It just feels like there's going to be a moment when Navigated figured out first kill onto
Alexei.
Now we stream out the hook.
And everyone from Gamer Legion ready.
Wonderful falls last.
A two-round lead, 9-7 for Gamer Legion.
And the great thing about the economy situation for Gamer Legion is, you know, you've got a buy even after this, right?
So even if you were to concede everybody here, you lose all your opponents, take everybody down.
You still have enough money to go into the next round.
So it's looking good for Gamer Legion for the next few rounds here.
So Nami better figure it out pretty quick.
You know, they still got like a leal here for Lexi.
You don't have to be all about for wonderful.
All of a sudden a chance of game religion to get a map win in this series
There's a question
CT side starting to get confident now play with some attitude tells him moving and bringing down one before grabbing that opening here for game
Religion
I don't see a long way out of the latch onto if they can keep it up
I haven't seen them able to be disruptive against Navi's attack up Navi's offense too much. They got smoked on a new miss
Now he figured it out and just worked them round after round.
So at least here you put him in a difficult position and follow him towards high-packs.
You're all for over in Ram room.
He's ready and waiting.
And snacks.
A moving pick.
There's snacks also answering the feed for Game of Legion.
And at five in the clock, Emma and Lexi B with absolutely no shot at doing anything in
this round.
Yeah, you can back off a little bit with the advantage.
You know exactly.
You know they have to come to you now.
to overextend the gun round for Navi goes by the wayside in a dominant fashion for
Gamer Legion. It's gonna be a full round run for Gamer
Legion's defense after losing the pistol. The most hopeful situation they've been
in yet in these grand finals.
Alexei doesn't even have the bomb. He's never gonna recover that. He's just
looking for some kills, 27 seconds on the clock.
He at least finds one.
Damage done, maybe it off taken away.
Rez is gonna drop vents to make sure he can secure that
when the round ends.
The game religion not offering any other kills up
at the moment, just in the back.
PR, I can start to pressure him a little bit
as the time takes closer towards zero.
It would be absolute disaster if Alexi
begins to die after the time.
so he heads out to his death.
There's not a lot of money, he's still available for Naby.
So, 11 to 7.
And there's definitely what we're gonna see here
from Game of the Year.
Yeah, it feels like it's on the cards, doesn't it?
Now you're starting to mix in a few ideas,
now it can change, and I think that's maybe
some frustration you probably feel for Naby as well,
that it feels like they're starting to build up into this.
And on the CT side, Nuke,
they can really carry that momentum forward.
I still understand that they have nothing to lose.
They're trying to make the spots.
They're still bringing the game back easy.
That's Alexi saying, you know, they feel like they have nothing to lose. They're down 2-0.
It's a position Alexi's felt in Ben in many, many times in his best of five campaigns.
So he kind of knows the mentality that they're carrying forward.
Well, the one in particular was the Rio final, right? The only until Extreme Masters final that Alexi B's been able to win.
But they were down so bad on ancient against Mound, they called it all the way back.
They called that comeback so early and were able to pull it off.
So there is a certain level of belief in what he says.
But in this round, it's going to be tough to see it happening.
They got the Eagles Tech 9 say one of the cross the smoke well down towards secret
But the defensive Molotov makes it disjointed a gap in the smoke they see that they don't even want to mess with it
It was meant to be like you know these these cheaper pistols streaming down to secret not stopping
Trading their way through so Alexi's got to find a new location
Back to lobby we go clearing out any aggressive stance inside of the hut and over towards ramp room is going to be the final play
It's PR to hold on to this
This is the utility coming in.
Takes that second to drop down lower.
45 seconds left.
Hypex trying to get some wallbangs, but they're going to run him down.
They're going to put pressure on the scope.
He's handling it. No issue.
Hypex goes out a second of the round and will go back for a little bit more,
maybe a little bit too much.
Because Alexi B will finally get a kill on towards him,
and that gives the AWP over to Wonderful.
Will that come back to fight Gamelizion in this round?
It shouldn't be.
PR just doesn't need to give up his life force them to peek into you. That's it. Time is an ally. Time is a teammate
There's a little tap. Yeah, shut some down pretty nasty PR looking for all three awkward on the final one
Everyone gets a little bit of comedic relief a gentleman's battle
Finish is it all for the USP
And that was all about saving some money though for this next round for Navi, so the corner
timeout here, you're going to get the UR bell for wonderful, AK-47 is going to be out on
the rest and plenty of utility, and a chance for Blade to get on the mic.
And Nubis was starting to build in this direction though, Gamer Legion kind of creeping a little
bit closer and closer to the finish line, feeling like they had the advantage, feeling
like they had enough rounds to play with, and then Navi snapped into shape after a Blade
timeout and rattled off rounds straight to close it out.
So that's gotta be a very nerve-wracking prospect at the moment if you're on Gamer Legion and
Blade calls this timeout. Remember what just happened in the previous map? This is where you lost it.
So a big round for Gamer Legion to try and get past, and now you can ask the question,
we've seen them get frisked, we've seen them get aggressive and disruptive.
Do they want to try and be disruptive in this round out of the timeout?
Do they have the courage with the inexperienced players to call something,
to try and be, to try and disjoint what Nabi want to do out of the timeout?
Round 19 is live.
GamerLegion, two rounds away from map four, forcing us to ancient.
I think it's only the start.
It's the start of the event with the ult.
Now Mikasa ain't moving up past red.
Yeah, but I smoked that for snacks.
Of course he's going to go have a go, starting to push the smokes.
You heard a likesy saying, they'll be aware they're going to push the smokes, they're
going to try and be disruptive, they have nothing to lose, and they are ready for that
first kill.
Because they're going to get traded, though, is that bomb shifts down lower.
Hypex is here, all fangirl with the AWP, didn't Alexi to challenge around the corner.
Eman, wonderful, waiting to move ramp, but they need the success to start here.
And they've at least gotten past the angle
You know it goes up, but it's high taxes moving forward confidence in boldings by the momentum that game a legion currently have
It's a no scope and a huge step forward to map points here on nuke
It was looking like it was gonna be a clean sweep
It was looking like it was gonna be Navi winning this trophy in three
But game a legion have put up resistance
And even after the timeouts even after saving money to get the goodbye out again
It doesn't matter. They're stopped in their tracks unless wonderful
Wonderful has been the most valuable player for Navi
He's got to go with the bomb though with only 20 seconds and having to fetch this and having to find the defenders
It's just way too much to ask. Yeah, especially with one play being up on a well
But wonderful's got the headshot now the vent dive coming in
He's got his knife off the ready though Rez is in the right position
Wonderful worked hard to get himself into a spot where it looks possible
Possible, but Rez with the time on his side just stands as he flies up the vent
Yeah flip the coin you're gonna stick to the lower bombset where all that attention has been a run up the vents and see if you
Can bypass the defender entirely a nice try though for wonderful very nice try
This is great from high-packs. This is the first shot comes back to help out PR taking the peak and bit straight out a little bit
Too much into the open
Five chances for gamer legion to close this out
It's 2-0 in the series for Navi, but very, very close to GamerLegion, put one on the board, and taking us to Ancient.
We've been up on the roof here of May. Snacks are over-extending.
He knows what he's up against, but he drops down. He puts the pressure on him.
Snacks is elusive though. Look at him. He's hiding away. He still hasn't been fouled.
And in the meantime his teammates are stepping up and removing the threats that were coming after him.
And that bomb is on Alexi P's back.
Yeah, they made it down to secret. Two players of Navi, but Alexi had the bombs, so he had to be the last one to cross.
Ema can cut off rotations through vents. Alexi and Wonderful just have to worry about the bombsite.
That'd be PR, who steps in but he's in no man's land.
Yeah, into the open. Wonderful's gonna drop in.
So they're into the site, and all of a sudden again, Navi have a real chance at closing out this round.
It's gonna be a retake if Game of Legends want to win it here or now.
And you don't have to commit to this you got five rounds to play with you don't have to commit all this economy into a retake if you
Don't feel it's there for the moment three on three
But if snacks in Towson can't produce anything hypex is gonna back off with the op
Timing as they look away snacks in Towson getting caught by wonderful and Emma and this will not close yet
Marvy finds some life to stay here on nuke
Well, let's find out what gamer Legion learned on map two on a new bus where they started creeping closer to that victory that new sense
of pressure stepping in that you're actually at a position to close out the map and win
a map in the Grand Finals.
You got four more rounds to play with.
If Navi start clawing these back, each and every one of those rounds is going to be a
punch in the gut as you still struggle to get the win here on Nuke.
Then I have to see some mental fortitude on display for Gamer Legion.
They take a timeout.
Likely a similar conversation going to be happening in the TeamSpeak on their camp.
12-8. Blade wants this comeback to keep moving forward.
Hypex with 18 kills. Towson leading the way for Gamer Legion with 19. PR there on 14.
Think back to the first map. They were in single digits. They weren't getting anything done.
But now finally warming up into the grand finals to put Gamer Legion at a lead,
And shock, Navi, surprised them on this third map, staring down this deficit.
Yeah, it felt like the trophy was theirs.
Didn't feel like game elites were going to be able to arrive to the occasion.
They've grown into the final, maybe too little too late, but...
Finding some competitive nature now.
Well, we really will test the resolve of Navi, won't we?
Test the words of Lexi B saying that they can come back into this.
Now to remain positive.
Four rounds back.
Trying to get this one into overtime.
Utility goes outside.
And Towson, how can they get vision over the top of it?
They're going to start PR at secret.
They know that Navi have been liking to send players towards secret early in these rounds,
So they're gonna try and meet them now, but Mikaze, he's taking that opening frag and they send the nade towards PR
and like CPS ready for it and Navi have three openers as Mikaze takes the second to remove Telsen.
Okay, uh oh. And final boss right now, Navi warming up.
Yeah, there's a little change in the step, isn't there? Here for Navi.
Every time I was that called, you get to just sit in that silence, listen to your coach talk, maybe the words aren't even sticking in your head,
your head just thinking about the fact that you have these four chances now
thinking about the fact that Navi's just wiped you out a couple of times in a row
and you get that old familiar feeling that they're just a step ahead of you so
Hypeback's just asked to save the AWP. The real issue for game religion in these
losses is gonna be the economy is gonna be the money down the stretch. A saved
AWP here would be so valuable for the AWP and for the 5400 in the bank and Navi
delaying this bomb plant so they can get bit start moving towards ramp room to
discover the position of hypex and he's been found
oh it pulls out the knife calling his teammates over
they've got their plane
and a 7-Eleven all over the show
High-packs stood no chance
That isn't even smiling. He's not even smiling. There's no humor in that situation for him. There is for the rest of us
Flushing him out into the open
Deficit is now cut to earth the lead I should say for game religion is cut to three
There's no room for humor when there's no room for error and that is the situation right now for Navi
Have to be perfect just to get this one in service
So I'm in really does feel like to start to step in that direction
When they should get rid of the money. Yeah, that's a big problem the economy the economy and look at the change of pace
The crank up not be swinging out outside. They want flights
But once got into garage because he needs to clear it and he will huge without snacks brought down to four
But a man advantage provided here's the reaction from game leaves
You're gonna try and push into his lobby. You've got Emma waiting
Rifle in hand, but he misses a big win from him up. It's okay. The information is more than enough
He's getting pushed from the roof as well.
You got Rez up here and so much control of the map being taken there by Gamelige.
I don't think Navi's super concerned considering the kill outside in the space they've gained there.
Rez trying desperately to find him, but he can't. He slipped away.
He bit up towards Heaven as well.
They're surrounding the map here, Navi. Oh, high-packs.
This is all, I mean, this is kind of a, it feels like a fake. They want to go up the vets and it's working perfectly.
Everyone from GamerLegia has been lured to this lower bomb site. There's no defense anywhere on the map.
Great sense from Navi, and now you get some opening kills and you tactically outplay him again.
You have to save if you're GamerLegia, because you can't risk these weapons, you can't risk your economy in this.
Navi's put you in an unwinnable scenario.
Just pushing and pulling them.
If they take these guns away, if Navi decide to hunt this at the end of the bomb timer and take these guns away, it's a disaster.
Let's just go to walk in. So Alexi walks in, that's one of the guns gone and now it might just be a free-for-all to try and go ahead and
remove everything from the remaining game of leeching players.
A little bit far off because it's got one more and every player that you lose...
Send it all, Navi.
...is giving Navi more and more chances to try this one back all the way and they are sending everything they've got at game of leeching
and they will take away everything they had.
Money shattered.
Navi are going to try this all the way aren't they?
Last round of regulation is very likely to be seen now.
12-10 at this point, not enough for a 4-5 for game religion.
And there's no words you can really give in the game religion camp at this point.
Everyone knows the situation you're in, everyone knows how tired it is.
The only thing you're going for you is that you've already got 12, so you can't lose in regulation.
But this Navi come back to force and overtime is going to hit like a loss for sure.
Two deagles of 5'7 on Towson and USPs. That's what game religions got to play with in this round.
Early utility dropped in the upper bomb site, and Ema's gonna slide out.
No sound cues of the Molotov, no presence in the upper bomb site, no counternates, and they feel it's free to waltz in and they're correct.
Pogase just farming outside now until the Deagle finally catches it.
Could be an ice AK-47 to recover, in fact it will.
Towson's going to take the sprint, Ema wants to take that weapon away, but a wonderful
is going to get to it first.
Yep, Towson trying to back out of safety, oh, Hypex missing the shots from behind, Ema's
going to turn.
You have one chance to take him down, you better take it just like PR, having to be open
That's nice. It is nice.
Spray shots from PR. That's three picks up.
It likes to be, I guess.
And now the last round of the half coming up.
Navi, so rich. It goes such a great buy.
And Gamer Legion, their final time out being used here.
That'll be one hell of an inspiring speech.
Gamer Legion going into round 24.
They have this one final opportunity.
Navi bringing it back all the way.
It's squandered four, they have five total, four of them have gone by the wayside.
Navi clawing it back, but they've been doing it convincingly is the real problem.
Those four rounds make it feel like Navi's actually in control.
Well, Navi get control of the game, they bring it back all the way to the final round of regulation,
and you give Blade a chance to talk ahead of the final round as well.
This is definitely looking good for Navi at this point.
It feels like over time, a real possibility of course,
of course and there's another timeout they want to maximize this they want to
make sure that they bring this all the way. Yeah more to say, more to discuss
you're gonna get a couple new timeouts once overtime hits if it hits. And it's
so impressive again to listen in and hear what I'd see call the comeback so early
on in the game and for it to happen once more. For Narvi to find the resolve to be
resilient enough to stay in the fight and drag things back and I think that's
what game religion are getting a taste of is when you drop against these elite
scores the experienced players invest the fives if you don't have that killer
or instinct that moment where you just close it,
they are going to start creeping back into the game again.
Remember to gamer legion fighting
to be a part of the conversation.
This team has been popping off just the last couple of events.
Navi has been fighting for trophies that whole time.
And as we turn the corner into the major,
this display of mental focus to be able to come back here
on the stage and land up.
Well, they've been trying for trophies.
The problem has always been vitality, right?
And they dispatch them in this tournament.
And they have to go on to win it.
They want to still do it in three.
It's still possible for Navi, but they have to do it here.
They have to get it into overtime.
Can Gamer Legion hold on and force out another map?
All right, Snacks and Seeker gonna get aggressive.
Navi bringing bodies outside.
Bitten McCauze lying in wait.
They've got great success finding openings in the outer yard,
but nobody's there this time.
The AWP is passive towards Heaven,
and Snacks not playing in garage.
He's playing down in Seeker,
going to be neutralized by the utility.
Mikaze left to lurk on his own.
Snacks has really been struggling in the opening fights.
He's been going down time and time again.
Navi always finding an opening onto him and here's a chance again.
Snacks going back away. This time plays more disciplined, plays his life.
Yeah, now looking to fight in that situation, looking just to survive.
But unfortunately with that play, he has no idea what the numbers are.
There's no information really gathered. They don't have a number count to say this many went secret.
The entire map is still open and available for Navi to attack into
And it looks like we're going to the upper bomb site. Here's the hit
Navi's last attack in regulation bit with the headshot to open things up
Navi have shown some crazy resilience to try this all the way back
And it's looking like it will be over time just PR up in heaven. Gamer Legion didn't take their chance
They didn't ride their opportunity into ancient and Navi bringing it all the way back to overtime.
That's the difference of experience. Navi stepping into the situation, into the moment
and entering the call while Gaynor Ligeon faded away.
Not able to contain the comeback and now you got to do it the hard way.
Modi comes back, at least you have that. Four buys for both sides.
But this five round stretch from Nabi is going to feel devastating.
And Blade gets that overtime timeout back into his pocket and calls it immediately.
Let's them think about the situation just a little bit longer.
Now Blade's been able to chat a lot over these last couple of rounds here.
It'd be a fun conversation. Maybe he's felt like he's needed to today, right?
You see frequently, I mean he's always going to be a vocal coach, but you see Alexi handling these at times.
Today, it feels like he's taken the reins of a lot of them, disappointed in map 2 with how they began, so making sure he could get them into shape.
Now here it feels tactically directing them quite a bit on Nuke down the stretch.
But ain't nobody complaining when you do this, force overtime off of 5 round win streak.
And we're live into overtime. Off for Hypex, off for Wunderfoul.
Snacks in the open-milliard wall of smokes. A little bit of a gap, but thankfully,
Bit doesn't turn the corner till it breaks. Hypex is going to do it himself. Can't land the shot.
Causing. Just starting to peel away now with his teammates. No longer do they feel like they want to
stay committed. They show presence outside, but they're going to start reallocating their
resources elsewhere and Emma is now looking as that smoke fades away.
I feel like GamerLegions tried so many different setups outside to try and figure out how to stop that attack
and they still just keep losing it.
Oh, they're coming back again here, Navi.
They've still got players ready to go outside once more.
This round with 45 seconds left.
Well, with the timing that they're coming back into it, they forced Hypex's AWP away from the outer yard.
It's actually slid over towards Ramp Room to free up Towson to play Heaven.
Ema and Rez have passed each other through the door smoke and now at Avenue to the lower
bomb site PR is here.
He is down low so is Hypex on the off 23 seconds.
That's all that's left.
Hypex gets in position trying to stop them, trying to beat the battering ram that burst
right through them and PR is there with him.
And this is cutting off his short as they try and fight their way out of decon.
They know they're still going to deal with that off.
They know they're still going to deal with Hypex but knowing and actually doing it are
two very different things, and they do not prevent high-packs from heading up to his 20th kill.
Bit will just hide away, time has ticked on. Yeah, first time throughout this stretch that
we've seen, NAVI feel like they had their opening plan taken away from them.
Little tentative in progressing outside initially, coming back to it, but running out of options
and having to sprint themselves into the lower palm site without being able to stall out or
use any utility to get in safely. Ice round went from Gamer Legion, regaining the lead 13-12.
Door broken open by EMA highbacks again, opening up outside.
They at least want this AWP to keep the attack from Na'Vi honest, right?
That you can't just push forward and try and find duels against our rifles.
This AWP is going to make you consider and slow things down and use utility.
The smoke's break flashed, it's going Mikaze, hunting down highpacks, we're gonna try and get that picked.
Got him, Mikaze did in fact win the fight. Wonderful to follow up here for Navi as well.
Only one kill of an answer back here from Gamelin, so a 43 with over a minute left for Navi.
And Navi should take this slow, so there's time for this defense to figure it out, because at the moment there's way too many resources outside.
Snacks and Rez working together.
PR on his own and doesn't want to mess with ramp room,
so starts pushing.
Starts wanting to take control of Lobby.
Meanwhile, Lobby drops down into secret.
They'll creep up towards the lower bomb site.
Rez has taken a long time shifting over
towards PR's position.
Nobody considering to be bomb site down low.
So this time, Lobby's going to have a much easier time
of things.
Ima still looking for the cutoff,
looking for the rotations, dropping vents,
but he sees nobody home.
It's quite all over the map.
Navi have no idea where the defense is positioned,
but it's all good as they get into the site.
Bitch is looking left and right.
Trying to catch it, but timing in.
But all in one loses that fight.
PR somehow coming out on top of it,
but Bitt is holding off.
A head shot coming through from the machine,
and he gets away.
Gets back in behind that decontour,
And silence is any opportunity here of Game of Legion of making this happen.
Piawn and Snacks have to back away. They concede it.
It's going to be another round for Navi. A 13 to 13 tie game once more.
They're big off. They got the money to go for it if they wanted to.
But with the HP, yeah, it's just such a low percentage.
You can't take a single shot.
So keeping the weapons in their hands, tying things up is Navi.
And you can see just the adaptations from Nabi as well creeping close up along the smoke wall outside
And as soon as that smoke is broken open, you know the AWP has its attention
Towards that break the flashbang comes right through and Mikaze just in the nicoton gets that kill cuz snap was there to take him down
And just took an extra second to the flashbang hitting him as well
They're going up, they're going fast.
Base change, base change to the upper bomb site.
N'Kaase's not looking down, monitoring his way through the site.
N'Kaase's got two more rounds, even better.
A 3k keeps his team in it, but then the follow-up kills come in from Novi.
Layers upon layers, and now a 2v1.
It is doable here for PR.
He's got the health, he's got the utility.
and he certainly got the skills this young rifle looking to win a big round
and overtime in the grand final but Navi peel away they're so comfortable in
rounds like this wonderful and bit just piecing again they're getting the
information now realizing PL is coming in from heaven and instead of going back
and hiding away they step forth and take the fight it is now Navi 14-13 heading
into the second half of overtime in the lead.
Grabbing it right at the end,
and Gamer Legion is not gonna get the luxury this time
of having so many rounds to play with.
Let's see what this T side can do now
when they switch back.
They do have things tied up, 6-6,
able to make things work.
Some fast pace changes early on,
but then they figured it out tactically.
But Nabi's gonna be a different team
after this stretch of grounds bringing it into OT.
A very competitive map for GamerLugin, and they want to continue fighting.
Towson, the first player towards Ramp Room.
Everyone else following it up in lobby.
GamerLugin foregoing the outer yard.
They want no presence there.
This looks to be a fake utility towards the upper bomb site for an exact, but the Ramp
room hit is going to come in it's a wonderful standing his grounds
wonderful sees a lot of opponents come this way doesn't want to get involved in
overwhelm so drop it back have his teammates you've rotated it down lower
with him a game of legend pause in the ramp room assessing their options where
can they go from here yeah bit falling all the way back really strong position
to watch for the heaven play really difficult to clear amount of this
position especially if the hits coming from ramp room might not be able to
stop everyone but he's gonna be quite a nuisance to deal with first skill as
his. Oh, get another one at range. Yeah, he might just be able to stop everyone
after all. He goes ahead, he gets a double and all the information you need
is worth an army to feel comfortable about setting up your defenses and what
is to come. If you can't clear him out of here, you can't climb the ladder. It's the
biggest problem. Bitten never has to take another fight again.
will remain to come in any dodges that utility this time around but now he's got
a different angle on towards Rez.
We got Alexi B who wins that fight versus snacks so Telsen and Rez a 2v5 to try and prevent
Navi from heading up to tournament point. It's wonderful with the shot onto Rez leaving
Telsen 1v4 and he can't do anything with 10 seconds left so it will be Navi who
have not only brought it back all the way but who now stand at tournament point.
This has been a grand final of lessons for Gamer Legion trying to gain experience off
the recent positive results they've had.
This grand final here has been excellent for them reaching this point.
But Navi has just been showing you what experience can do, what a more established game plan,
more established protocols can do.
And now they're going to teach you the lesson on how to close things out.
opportunities, 15-13 well-earned opportunities. And they've been telling us this whole way
to the grand final after the win over Vitality, securing the trophy after that victory means
everything to them. It's the only thing they care about. Round 29 coming up, 15-13, up
Up for Bit, up for Wonderful, up for Hybex.
And potentially the final timeout, what was called during it,
Gamer Legion steps up to the plate, they need two in a row to get us to double OT.
Smokes go outside, it's quick from Gamer Legion to toss them,
but will anybody play in behind them?
Wonderful seeing that no one, no one is there to step forward.
He's gathering so much information on this.
The double-op setup for Na'Vi in place.
Just patient at the moment for Gamer Legion, Snax is going to make a solo effort behind this smoke wall.
Starting to creep up towards Redbox, Hype X is going to join up with them a little bit late.
AWP to cover the captain.
Rez PR and Taliesin waiting over towards trophy. They want to hit Ramper
roll, near miss. Snaps are spotted over the smoke and now all eyes on BIT.
Now that shot on Rez. The opening kill, falling in favor of Narvi.
Four kills away from the championship here in Atlanta. PR waits.
Alexi B gets in the smoke, PR crosses right by him.
I don't see the plan for Gamer Legion yet, Snacks is downstairs.
Okay, inside the smoke it fades.
It improvises, but Mikaze able to trade it.
PR gone, Hypex goes down lower to join up with Towson, who's coming down ramp.
Snacks at the double doors.
It's a last ditch effort towards the slower side, but Bits ready, and he retakes.
This one is for the championship, and it's Towson who will die at the hand of Emma!
And Navi will put a veil in Atlanta Georgia.
They say it doesn't matter if you don't beat Vitality.
Well, Navi have, and now they've won it all.
That's the completion of a very long goal.
It took them so long to overcome Vitality.
And the trophy on top is going to make it all that much sweeter.
Just as you turn the corner into the major as well,
for Gamer Legion it's another story, frustration now.
But certainly going to look back on this run as a positive, the experienced game, the faith in the trust game.
For now they've just got to shake hands and say good game, because they have won it all again.
And now they're setting themselves up so well.
And they've got their first notch on the newest ESL Grand Slam.
And it is the match, that's the conversation, that's the goal in their sights.
And in a world that dominated by vitality, we have begged for a challenger.
And at the final stop before the World Championships at Kevershawite, it is now V-Hoy's step forth.
And now they will step to the front of the stage, they will enter Cologne as their champions.
The Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta Champions, LaVity!
Navi left Krakow, bruised up, hit a home run at ESL Pro League, came into Atlanta with
question marks around consistency but here today not a spin seer prevails and
Alexi B first and foremost congratulations but tell me about this
roller coaster of emotions once we hit new thank you first of all and yeah I
don't know we didn't stop believing T sides we lost the anti-pors after my
clutch I felt like no this can't happen we lost seven rounds in a row or
something and then I had the match point but we still had great runs on our game
We've got the economy rolling and I just do that we're gonna win it in overtime
Just this past Wednesday you take a loss over the legacy and what was a seeding match
You come in the next time you're in a server and you beat a nemesis and vitality
How much did that help propel you? How good did it feel to conquer your demons here?
You know it feels great
As I've said in all the interviews, I don't think it's a dessert trophy without winning vitality
That's why it means a lot to me. I don't care who we played on the finals as long as we won them.
I'm super glad that we won this trophy.
We're just a few months. We're just a little bit of time from that major in Cologne.
What is the message you want the world to hear and know about Navi before we get there to the major?
I mean, I'm just glad that people don't didn't stop supporting us even though we lost against by Saturday many times during the season.
I'm just so glad that we're doing the hard work and we will continue to hard work for the major.
We let our games do the talking and I think people respect how we play but we also need
to understand that Falco's spirit, mouse, every team is strong as well and we just didn't
share the same tournaments so we need to be ready for all teams.
Alexi, congratulations.
Atlanta, Georgia!
Next, a noise for Nabi!
Playing the second trophy of 2026 as we heard from LXV. This is the one that means the most.
And let's talk about it. They closed it out in style.
He was so sad he felt like once they were hitting that overtime this was there as to win and that was a statement to cause it out
Definitely, and I think it was crucial that Navi outside of Mirage didn't play
I feel like even their B game for the most part until this comeback started on you can then in overtime
You know they were able to close it out
But they were sloppy today and still it was a three-over and that's a testament to how good Navi is at the moment
Yeah, I 100% agreeing it didn't feel like we get the best of Navi today
But then again, I don't think the opponent in a game where you really pushed them to the brink either
I'd obviously you argue on new care
That was the case where a game where you can came in and we should have won new
But we should have pushed it into a fourth map
But the first two maps it felt like now we were able to get away with you know the B game the C game and then we
Can't set it
You know heading into the game when there's no urgency almost it feels like for now
We sometimes they fall asleep a little bit
We saw that in the beginning of new but then the comeback T side knew you know the ability to go into overtime and have that confidence
We've got to close it out. That's exactly what you want to see hitting it through major
Yeah, for game of League and it seemed like now it was right for the taking even on an Ubers and then a new coming
It's not quite being up 28 to 3 halfway through the third quarter in a Super Bowl
But still they should have won that prayer. I think you're totally right
Jacob, they look emergency maybe sometimes coming out of Navi
But then when it comes close to game of League and swiping it and maybe pushing us to a fourth
That's when they really turn on and Alexi said, you know, that's where they got back in the zone
and we saw that from the individuals.
Yeah, we did see that from the individuals
and we saw it from maybe the most important individual.
I know the way Mikasa is playing here
in a situation like that, down 12 to eight,
he's not afraid of forcing the goals in the yard.
He was finding snacks over and over and over again
and by far being the spearhead of that T-side,
you know, giving a bit of confidence to Navi
and probably may make calling for Alex B,
you know, so much more easy.
If you can counter Mikasa to go out there
and just get the entry or create enough cares,
create enough space then calling around him
and calling around that becomes so much easier
for a guy like Alex B. So, to see Mikasa, you know,
come into a game like this in a grand final
and continue to do what he does best,
it's such a healthy sign for them.
Obviously, we get to see the pictures of Game Legion
receiving their silver medals,
and this will stay for right in this moment,
but I totally echo the sentiments
of what Jason and Dinko were saying.
This is something they have to be so proud of moving forward,
and especially moving into the major,
should give them some sort of a confidence boost.
Yeah, the key word for Game Legion is experience, right?
And they gave a ton of it in this tournament,
played some really good Counter-Strike but playing in a grand final against a
team like Navi that has so much experience playing on this stage right
and when it comes to the little things and the players individually as well like
it's going to take them a couple of tries before they can really compete on
this level. That's just not the way Blades is looking towards his squad by standing there
and then you know almost feel like he's a proud dad of the entire team you know
once again we get a new Instagram post coming out for Blades and we get that
more often than not as of late. And that's a good thing. I will say, you know, for a
finalist's sake as well, and just to put it into context for this game, we'll talk
about a Navi team that is heading into Cologne, you know, as one of the predetermined favorites.
If not to win the entire thing by now, then at least to be part of the semifinals and the
playoff. Whereas for game-a-league, we'll talk about them, you know, if they could progress
a stage from where they start, that in itself would be a positive. So two teams, you know,
currently on different trajectories, but as Janko said, you know, gaining a lot of experience
here for game-a-league, and that's cool. Winning this tournament was never really realistic.
Well, without further ado, it is time to find out who has taken home the DHL MVP.
Wonderful, explosive play style with the AWP.
Through community vote, statistical dominance, and a sheer desire to win.
You are the DHL MVP in Atlanta. Wonderful.
What would you like to say?
Just thank you all for your support.
And bless you the place, this meeting.
Outstanding stuff.
Go ahead man, don't wait on me, that's yours.
Make some noise!
Yeah, even when Navi weren't showing tip-top form, it was wonderful.
He was always so consistent throughout the duration of the tournament.
I know this is MVP for the Grand Final, but throughout basically the entirety of Atlanta,
Jacob, we've seen such a consistent face from wonderful, well-deserved MVP going home with him tonight.
Without a doubt, I don't think it could be anyone else than Wunderful,
not to take anything away from any of the other Na'Vi players who also showed up in Spades.
Bit had a fantastic playoff, Emma had a lot of impact, but at the end of the day,
as you said, every single game you could make the case that Wunderful was the most impactful player on the server,
so fully deserving for him to hoist another MVP to his name.
And the culmination of, I assume, a lot of hard work, he's really back to his best,
and another part of the reason as to why Na'Vi are looking as good as they are at the moment.
It's great to see and find this form, you know, and find some consistency in this community.
You know, we are too quick to throw shade at players, right, and criticize them.
Wonderful is 21 years old, only still, you know, like he joined Team Spirit and he was 18,
had that short stint on Sprout before joining Naive, and yes, it's been up and down,
but I mean, for a player who, as I said, only 21, I think you can give some leeway.
I think a lot of these guys, once you show them the trust and give them time to develop
and gain some experience, you know, you can get great things in return.
It's also the turnaround that he's been able to do.
We obviously saw him play exceptionally well at the Budapest Major, then at IM Krakow to
begin the year, he had almost a career-verse tournament, you know, ever in terms of his
output.
And then from that point on onwards, he's just been playing lights out, so maybe he
had a bit of a scare at Krakow and realized, hey, I have to put in even more work and focus
more my individual game plan and ever since it's the best wonderful and the
best version of wonderful we've probably ever seen in Navi. Sometimes a cold shower is what you
need to be waking up and realizing hey I need to improve and I need to help my team to these
victories that's what we saw back at ESL Pro League when they managed to get their first trophy of
2026 and it is certainly what we have seen today from the entirety of Navi and wonderful as well.
He will indeed be joining us up here on the desk for a bit more of an extended interview.
Wonderful. Congratulations. Tell me what's going to be ahead right now.
I just have amazing feelings.
I can imagine. Can you describe what was happening during that nuke? Because we see
David Ligin had five chances to close it out. Tell me what happened from your perspective.
We just played a three-to-back distance round, so I think we didn't manage to
roll with them. And just after we win one round, won't you start playing by round?
I said to the guys, let's try to be like Vita, and we did a great comeback, so it's an amazing game.
As I said in the start of this series, it's going to be like a tough game, so we were just preparing for it.
What was the mood like, you know, during that nuke, was frustration starting to kick in,
you know, like you're closer, one map away, and then Game Legion had the lead,
or was there just calm and confidence that you guys are going to still be able to win the game?
I can say, of course it was some, like, tilting moments, but overall it was like calm and
we were just, what to say, believing in our life's range, so, then, yeah.
Now the reason you're standing here is because you're the MVP of the tournament, right?
And we've been speaking about it for quite some time that you seem to have hit an uptick
in your individual shape as a blade.
Does it come from anywhere?
Is it just you, finally, just putting everything together, because the last three tournaments
and you can bring out your best friend of Kamashtra together.
I'm feeling really confident right now,
the last three or four tournaments I think.
I didn't change anything,
I just started to play more confidence.
That's all.
I think I get a lot of experience right now
to take decisions on the map, so that's how it is.
More initiative, has anyone within the team,
maybe Blade or someone else,
help you to gain more confidence
or does it come from the fact that you're playing well and, you know, playing well gives you more confidence?
I think playing well is, this is the main factor of what giving you confidence in the games.
How big part of that is also finally being able to take down Vitality after being closed a couple of times?
Yeah, it's like, to be honest, it was all these closed games, just Vita, but we, like, all this were losing to him,
but it was like, like this one here to win them, and finally we did it.
Of course, I think we're not in the best shape ever, but it gives us a lot of motivation
before the Major to win them.
Yeah, I was going to ask, just in terms of that confidence level, how much of a change
has it had going into the Major?
I cannot say right now, like, about this confidence, we'll see it on the Major, but for sure somewhere
here we have more confidence to play versus these big teams because we are starting to
win them.
And then just final question, oh, sorry, go ahead.
I was going to ask, you know, you made finals four out of the last five tournaments you played.
You won two of them, the three times you lost, you lost to Vitality, right?
Like, going into the major, where do you put this iteration of Navi compared to your 2024 team
who were able to win the major and win a lot of tier one tournaments?
I think, to be honest, we are stronger now than we were in 2024.
And we will just see what will happen on the major.
You prepare good for this big event for me.
Can you tell us what you're going to be getting up to from now until the major?
You've got a couple of weeks, you're going to have some rest, what's the plan?
I think we have like seven days off and after we're going to two weeks before the major,
after we have like three days in Cologne also, before the first stage, naturally I'm playing.
When you say seven days off, does it mean not touching Counter Strike at all or just
chill time to play by yourself?
To be honest, for every person in our team it depends, because sometimes I want to play
even if we have playoffs, but it's mostly because it's 20 days in the US, we are together,
we need to have some time to rest.
But yeah, it's just different from person to person.
Just final thing, if you want to say anything to the fans during your home, feel free to
do it in your native language as well.
Just thank you guys for supporting me and our team, we will become even stronger now.
Thank you guys.
Thank you so much, wonderful.
Congratulations.
Please give it up for wonderful, the DHL MVP.
Of course, the winners on the side of Navi, sadly,
does become losers on the side of game legions.
So let's get some closing thoughts, Kersi, after this one.
Ares, obviously not the end of the tournament that you hope for,
ending on a loss like this, but when you scope out,
there's a lot of positives to take from this, right?
from this right? Yeah of course I don't think we should be disappointed at all to be honest they
are one of the best teams in the world and like we're just we're not there yet that's that's
the truth of it. You grew from game to game it feels like and also individually you in the final
you were kind of step above even your teammates and you were kind of competing with the with the
Navi on pretty good level did you feel this as well that you're kind of growing throughout the
tournament you're getting better and better? Yeah honestly I felt I felt pretty comfortable
against them to go against and I think it showed as well in my game so yeah I was very confident
in this game and yeah I think we lost on like a lot of experience and nervousness and stuff like
this I think we respect them a bit too much and you could see it in the game that we gave them
we gave them way too much space on the map and all this and yeah fair to say that we we don't
have experience yet. It does make sense with three I would say rookies on the team as well with
with snacks and new being those experienced ones.
But what does this mean out of the major for game religion?
Because not many people know,
but game religion is actually a German organization.
You kind of have this whole major, right, coming up.
I mean, yeah, I think this is still a huge step forward for us.
Still, like, reaching the grand final here,
it's like a big confidence boost for us going to the major.
So, yeah, in that way, this is really good and important for us.
I think getting this experience for all of us,
going to the Major and more tier one matches is positive, we can take from this and I think
we should be very happy what we achieved here.
Any final words to the fans?
A lot of them came here to Georgia Atlanta to support you but also worldwide from streams
so this is your camera?
Yeah of course, I mean I'm much more fans than I expected the bonus, I want to say thank
you to all of you that have been here for us throughout this whole event and yeah, hope
to see you in the Major.
Thank you for this and see you soon.
Honestly, I think that's perfectly ramped up from Rezia, a lot of learnings to be taking
away from this, but you can't be too heartbroken after this one, exactly as he said, Navi amongst
some of the best teams in the world that were going to be tested on this stage, he knew
that.
He's so tall in terms of some of his individual output, but a lot to be holding onto moving
forward to Cologne.
100%, I think Game Religion should be incredible proud of the way they're conducting themselves
throughout this tournament, as I said, from the group stage, to the quarterfinal, to the
semifinal that they've made every game competitive and they've showed great
signs on a lot of different maps as well you know shown depth within their
map pool so a lot of good signs now could we get down to experience that's
not the issue right here we're talking about two teams who are just operating
at a different level right it was always going to be Nami being the massive
favorites and regardless of how much experience game leading would show up
with at the end of the day we're talking about two teams who are fighting a
different fight at the moment so anything but but credit to game leading
will be a mistake but the experience part that's gonna help them when they
into the Major at their current stage, where as for Nabi, we're talking about a team that
we expect to go all the way to the playoffs.
Nice one, Game of Legion.
Now you have to do it all over again at the Major.
You need to maintain this high floor that we've seen throughout the tournament and then slowly
go about raising your ceiling by getting more experience against tier one teams.
These playoff games, right, and so forth, so that you can do better next time, like Russ
pointed out.
Yeah, just maybe to poke that a little bit, looking at some of the teams that will be
entering stage one alongside game lesion we got like the bedroom bait heroic as
well big obviously trying to make a deep run home soil but I think it's fair to
say that I mean maybe they would take the edge just above that boom now was one
of the favorites in that stage one I think that's fair to say that they're
one of the favorites to make it to stage two and they have to be after what we
seen so far as Janko said you know sure thing it's nice to be here in Atlanta
it's nice to to be in the grand final but if you head into the major and you
disappoint then was it all worth nothing you know and that's a bit harsh and
And that's the reality of being in the counter-strike scene at the moment, there's constantly
tournaments coming at you, so you kind of have to find some sort of flaw and some sort
of consistency and having anything but game lead in progressing into stage 2 would be a
bit disappointing.
Definitely, that's the bare minimum for them, it feels like, and there are course to make
it into stage 3 as well and maybe ruin the day for some of the other teams that think
they'll benefit from those best of ones in stage 2 as well.
But yet, everything is looking like it's going to be an exciting majoring for them.
This is maybe a tougher question. What's the bare minimum for Navi moving into the major?
I think this is tough because it kind of depends on the way the bracket is drawn right, but surely, I mean anything less than
semi-final, it was like definitely into the playoffs.
I can just say playoffs, right? And then you take it from there. They have to get to the lancest
and then when it gets to that, you know, you imagine there's going to be a lot of other good teams
at that stage of the tournament. You want to go out fighting even if that's, you know, without lifting the trophy.
I think they'll be very competitive. I think you can count on Abbe even if they're not in the final
Or they don't end up being the champions like they're going to make it tough for anyone who potentially
Beats them in Cologne. Yeah, I like that sentiment
You know the playoffs and then depending on who they face in a potential quarter final is probably gonna be determined whether or not
We think it's disappointing of them not to make it further in the tournament
But they have now you know established himself as the first contender to go up against vitality
And I think that's important to be said as well for some of the new viewers out there who maybe just a tune into Counter-Strike
I've seen this tournament in isolation that regardless of what happened here in Atlanta
There's no doubt that heading into Cologne Vitality is still the king team right there still it the team everyone is looking at
There's still the the main favorites everyone is looking to beat them one way or another
Now we're beating them here now we're beating beating Vitality at Atlanta haven't changed that but at the very least it's given us something to talk about
There's hope
Starting in stage two maybe because I don't know whether anybody was tuning into Astana this morning
This is a bit they have how to strike spirit starting in stage two. It's pretty crazy considering what they've been showing now
Thanks for everyone else in stage two. Yeah, true for sure
I mean just a little unfortunately a consequence of the cutoff being in April, you know, which is a
fairly big
Amount of time that you haven't until the major kicks in but it is what it is, right?
you need to know how to handle the VRS and you see some of the teams that are
not in the top 10 starting in stage three so I think ultimately the ambition for
team spirit is to lift the trophy right so we can whichever stage you start
doesn't really matter because you're aiming for the highest goal. Do you want
to talk about the Grand Final in Estonia? At all? Janke or would you rather you didn't see it?
I didn't see it. I don't even know how the players did. I'm sure everyone did
fine on Felton. Let's check in with the ESL Grand Slam to see how it currently
stands with Navi claiming the trophy here as we obviously saw back at IEM Rio
that was the second back-to-back one for Vitality. So a new season has
started and of course it important not to be getting on your belt but the more
important one we are looking at Cologne because you do need one of those high
level events be it Cologne or be it Krakow to be making it through if you
want to get this full wins. Freya, did you know there's a chance Navi can win it this year?
Why not? Why Vitality, not Navi? Theoretically there's three more tournaments this year that
will count towards the ESL Grand Slam but hey at the very least Vitality can't do it this year
because that would be absolutely ridiculous and we'll just see with the way Navi is playing.
Why not? In a lot of these tournaments they've put themselves in the conversation
as a contender for the trophy.
Yeah, we're not about the second best team in the world as of right now,
but then I think we will learn a lot during Cologne.
I start to sense that we're seeing teams ramp it up a little bit.
We saw Spirit, as you said, in Astana for the first time this year,
looking very convincing, getting a trophy on the de-built dunk,
having another dunk performance,
and you also have teams like Falcons making this blockbuster move
with Kerrigan trying to get something done heading into Cologne.
So I think a lot of teams right now are ramping up for the Major in Cologne
and trending in the right direction,
or at least in an interesting direction, depending on how you look at it, and for me that's what's
going to be the most exciting thing in Cologne. We have this team that's called Vitality,
everyone expects to win, and then probably four or five teams who can realistically contest for that trophy.
I am so excited for the major kickoff. How many days have we got? What June 2nd? It's really
not that far away until we can kick off the Cologne Major. Gentlemen, thank you so, so much for
joining me on the desk. Shout out to you, me, wherever you are as well. It was amazing to have
you up on the desk today to
the Atlanta crowd as well. I
know so many people are
coming up trying to show. Yeah,
North American crowds.
Kennedy Begret and it's been so
fantastic here and shout out to
everybody watching along at
home as well. We're now going to
be closing the show.
Congratulations one more time
to Nabi the champions of the
Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta.
Let it burn when the night falls
Take my hand, I feel fresh
When I guess it's all gone away
And I've got it, I've got it, I've got it
And I've got it, I've got it
Get ready, get up!
Very fast, there's the cap, one person for one, one for one, and fight him.
Wonderful, he's causing it, moving everyone down in mid.
Catty pulled off, two players coming up through connector, bit in the wind zone.
Snacks have done well, now he follows up, Snacks gets away,
and Snacks going for Glory in the 1v3, trying to keep his team alive.
Snacks looking for the PG-1v3 off the top of the stairs,
and he goes into the open, but Emma won't deny.
They got utility to boot as well, Hypex.
Oh, what?
Big shot!
Fast kill!
Now the hypes!
Oh, that's what I'm going to get in Hypex!
How many less second punches can this guy pull off?
They got charging quicker with this round.
Get this from Wunderfoul, waiting behind two of them!
Mercy was from Wunderfoul!
You take my place, gonna deal with them?
No, you can't do it again!
Drops going down, plenty of players now coming towards it,
but he's half of the pressure while against Mikaze,
another one for PR!
In my head, I'll be afraid
When darkness comes, I'll find a way
In the light of, light of, light of day
In the light of the dawn
We're not being prepared
In the light of Georgia
The Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta 2026 is brought to you by ESL in partnership with Intel,
A surpredator, D.H.L., Chex, and so on.
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And that's it!
Two and a half minutes!
Calvator!
We are back!
So, the winners of I Am Atlanta!
Hi guys!
Blame me, I interrupted you for a second.
I haven't talked to you, whole tournament.
Are you already posting the Instagram?
I wanna ask you,
must feel really good.
Any words towards the team, towards the fans maybe?
Yes, the crowd was amazing, especially when we played with Adalicy.
Yeah, we did a great job.
We showed resilience because we were close to those new fans,
but still we fought till the end and we showed that we were a better team.
I want to show you appreciation for your poses.
I already mentioned to Alex you have probably the best conversion out of anyone in the scene.
The way you talk and what you talk during the poses, I wish I could be part of that one day,
one day but you know are you having this kind of overview on everyone or are you
just specific teams that you're just kind of reading super well you mean
timeouts yes timeouts on timeouts usually we for me like it's the most
natural process because we have a game plan you know and I always just speak
about game plan like what is happening what is working for us what we discussed
in the program and fully connecting to what happened in practice room always and
And then I see what they did.
And just we have a squad for a long time.
So we have a lot of ideas, gimmicks, like in our pocket.
We can always bring something.
Beautiful.
I want to congratulate you one more time.
And I'll see you around.
Yeah.
Dren, I want to talk to you.
You mentioned to me a couple of times you were sick.
Getting better?
To be honest, like when the first hole finished
in the first map, I had a lot of headache.
And my throat, it's so bad.
And it was so hard to play for me.
Even though we won Mirage, I think kinda easy, 13-4.
After Mirage, I go outside, I tell my guys that I'm so safe.
It's so hard for me to play because all my body is hurting.
And I'm so happy that we managed to win.
Because after the first map, I had to take two pills
because it was so hard to play.
But I'm happy that we won.
I can feel it in your voice as well.
You are shouting like crazy, right?
Yeah, I mean, even though I was sick,
I was trying to help them boys, because sometimes if you don't do good things since yes, at least keep a good atmosphere, I would say.
I'm going to keep the social distancing right now, but I want to congratulate you at least like this, and I'll see you soon in the next tournament, right?
Ola, can you grab me for a second? Mental resilience, and this is the MVP for that.
Thank you, thank you, the teamwork always.
team work always and you know the best right you are responsible for this kind
of mentality 42 team work making sure that this team is a one unit how are
you happy with the guys what they show today on stage or even whole week I
mean I'm very satisfied of course there were moments when I when I saw like
they're like in their emotions but I'm glad that they shake it off they could
talk about it and yeah we came back on you can I think that showed what we made
Congratulations, I want to ask you what's the preparation going to look like for the
next tournament, just roughly, you know, you don't need to share too much, but from your
POV, what guys need to grow on most before the major hits?
I mean, like from the mental side, if it comes to reinforcement, we would need to look into
the, like, you know, keeping it calm and accepting mistakes.
I think that that's the most important thing.
And on the other hand, just not getting too serious about what we're doing because the
moment we are very serious, I think we want to try too hard and that lightness and that
flow, it's just gone.
So I guess that's the focus for now.
It's the game after all.
You want to have fun, right?
Absolutely.
Thank you.
Thank you so much as well and I will see you around.
Thank you so much.
Oh, yeah.
With Emma.
Sorry, sorry.
I was just...
Sorry, sorry, I was just...
Ivan, it's not perfect. We need one more.
How are you doing, Ivan?
How are you doing? Don't look at me. It's a frisbee. Throw it to the crowd.
How are you, my congratulations.
Very good, you?
Yeah, I'm great when I see you smile. I see the interaction with the PR on Rembrother.
Um, Kerenatov-Bules, Kerenatov-Bules, and then...
Accept the fate.
not really but like it's funny because he had usp but he pulls our life first I'm
like and I'm like smiling like doing no no no no then when I see his taking out
usp I'm like okay I have time to reload I mean whenever I saw this I was like
ime and you're like in the high pressure you know third map 6 6 and you're
still laughing you know like it's pretty good mentality yeah it's if something
like this happens it's like what can you do you want to like feel the water I
I with my shots, you with these shots, it's something I must.
How are you happy with the guys performance as a team, as a unit, as a cohesion, you know?
You are working flawlessly in every game, pretty much only one hiccup throughout the whole IAM Atlanta.
Overall, give me your feelings. Out of 10, what would you rate Navi's performance? Obviously,
you have a trophy, so don't get biased. I mean, I would say 10, because we want the trophy, but
but obviously no matter what you have much more like,
not how, no, you have like,
there is room for improvement, definitely.
And yeah, we just need to fix our mistakes, for example,
because it's very good that we came back
from Tredemard, like on Yoke,
but overall like going there, we have some mistakes.
I don't need to fix those to be better
and then that's pretty much it.
But overall for our competitors,
this trophy is gonna be good.
ahead of the major as well. Are you ready to show what you're made of on the
major? It's no secret that you are already you know the the major winner so
time to show it one more time and you know it's vitality it's going to be
for a different kind of pool of players and teams they're falcons as well so I
just want to ask you like are you ready for that competition as well? We are
ready for any team I will say but yeah obviously it's gonna be way way different
Because like I said, there's gonna be more teams that we didn't play.
They can surprise you as well.
That we didn't play yet, for example. We didn't play against Spirit yet.
We didn't play against New Falcons yet.
So it's gonna be something new that we have to experience and then try to counter and play better.
Oh, that's a question actually. As a player to player, or ex-player to player,
did you watch the other tournament that was happening in the stand as well throughout the week?
It's hard because it was like, when we wake up, it's only like, either the second last or last game already happening.
but I was watching just a bit and then I watched from the grand final I watched only like just a bit because you also had an artist
We had to preparation for the game. So you know what these teams are like kind of playing you just mentioned those new teams?
I didn't check fully. I just saw it. I just watched it and I saw some rounds. Yeah
It's much more fun to just enjoy it to see like oh what is this guy doing? Oh, whatever what's gonna happen like as a player also
also, you know, and yeah, it's just more enjoyable to watch, so.
Thank you for this, Ima. And once again, congratulations. I have a, yeah, question?
Ima, this is your camera. You're officially saying goodbye to the whole tournament.
This is your, such a, say, whatever you want to say.
Bye bye, don't you?