Music
That's it, guys!
But this is a concert?
Oh, wait...
This is a concert!
That's it, right?
Yeah, right!
You know what?
This is a concert!
You know what?
This is a concert!
Yeah, right!
But if you're not gonna get it,
I'll get it!
You know what?
This is what we call a good song!
Let's go!
He's going, he's going, he's going, he's going
But if I hit the chest, he's going to break the hand's leg
He's going, he's going, he's going, he's going
But if I hit the chest, he's going to break the hand's leg
It's fried with the same fish oil, look at the f**king face, right?
I'm dancing to the chorus
Tell me if that's what you want
To fly from the sky and have to swear
I'm asking you to come to me
Screaming the confusion
Because if he goes
You'll see if he doesn't go
You'll see
But if he goes
You'll see if he goes
You'll see
But if he goes
You'll see
But if he goes
You'll see
But if he goes
Red and blue in the same eye
Without entering, only the tail, right?
A vision of the longitude
That confusion doesn't want anymore
This is for the dignity, rest
Scratching but the heart is missing here
Grow and making the protection
This is rare, but of course it's happening
He goes, the abyss
But who's saving the abyss
Equipment in the abyss of the palm of his hand
He goes, the abyss
But what's the point of this?
It's that under the verse of the Lord God
But the contrary is irony
And these sarcastrums are contradiction
This might of everything is done
The will of the verse of the no
But the contrary is irony
And these sarcastrums are contradiction
This might of everything is done
The will of the verse of the no
Leave me, it's time to wrap up
It's wonderful, guys!
The whole business is at the corner, after all the work, after the director!
This is pure jazzy soccer!
It's wonderful!
I see your face on the street
In the coffee shop where I met you
I ask you to come back to me
I don't want to retire
Mina
Our love is worth it
Mina
I will never give you
Mina
Our love is worth it
Mina
Mena, mi amor caliente es tu hundera
Oh, yeah
Yo sé que hay tiempo para construir
Lo que hemos soñado, yo lo veo venir
Mira que tu ausencia me hizo comprender
Y ordeno, juro, no te voy a perder
Veo tu rostro en la calle, en el café donde te conocí
Le pido a Dios que regreses a mí, ya no me quiero rendir
Eh, veo tu rostro en la calle, en el café donde te conocí
Le pido a Dios que regreses a mí, ya no me quiero rendir
Nena, nuestro amor vale la pena
Fira, Fira, Fira
Nena, el amor caliente es tu convena
Y veo, Tiro, Tiro
Cuando llego a la casa todo se desplaza el amor
Nos abraza una piña cola
La playa la brisa caribe el amor
Bailando sintiendo todo nuestro amor
Junto aquí estamos desde Venezuela
Es inevitable el amor que nos quema
Me derrito por ti
Now I want to be inside you
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
I
The beauty is natural
The joy that today is Carnaval
I'm going to Rio with the panda and the tambourine
I saw the fantasy, I was going to live in it
Result for life, for love, and for peace.
Today is a lively party, never again.
Wake up and run to see, the human color.
The sun is shining on you.
It's going to shine.
Wake up and run to see.
Wake up with the sea.
The sun is shining on you.
It's going to shine.
Let's go to the sea.
The color of the sea
The sun is about to rise
It's going to shine
The color is running to see
The color of the sea
The sun is about to rise
It's going to shine
Come on, Samar!
I
You can tell anyone for singing
All in our food and ourselves
You can tell anyone for singing
So I'm gonna go
I'm stuck
I'm gonna go
I'm stuck
I
We don't play no games right here We ain't never slipping right here
This another level, this one over here is Ray Ray
We don't do no talking right
We don't play no games right
We ain't never sticking around, yeah
This another level, this one over here is Ray Ray
Riding on this gang can have me feeding like I'm Fred Astaire
Bruh, I was kinda sure but I was smelling like a millionaire
Claim that opposition will be stepping, they were running scared
Man, we're loud enough that I was scared
It's fair to us trying, trying, hitting us, can't you, can't you?
I just let a fan in, he came in canny, I'm up in the air
I was in the clouds, I don't ever take the stairs
We don't do no talking round here
We don't play no games round here
We ain't never sleeping round here
This another level, this one over here is very rare
We don't do no talking round here
We don't play no games round here
We ain't never sleeping round here
It's another level, this one over here is red and red
I was in the corner sweating till the lights came
I don't ever see you step out on this nitrene ride brim
I will blow your mind like I'm migraine
I was bossing out these spots pulling something out my socks
I was huffing out of blocks on the vibrate
I don't need to talk to Frank, I did it my way
Never sleepin', never trippin', never violate it
We don't gas around here, we on the higher eight
We don't do no talkin' round here
We don't play no games round here
We ain't never sleepin' round here
This another level, this one over here is red red
We don't do no talkin' round here
We don't play no games round here
We ain't never sleepin' round here
This another level, this one over here is really rare
I
Rafa, really making history. Absolutely phenomenal.
The NA's is the champion of the NFL extreme map world finals.
Still not quite done yet.
Z is gonna take this fight though. Three seconds left.
Oh, that's too wrapped up. It's gonna start it, but I'm free to say.
Well, this is a massive move for Z.
But he's gonna put tech with just the nexus kill.
He was the captain of the G-Team!
And it's all done!
I'm truly blessed!
Unbelievable love,
when they force your victory over classes.
And they did it again!
In the last battle,
it's time for you!
Give it up for your angel,
Extreme Masters,
World Champion!
The Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2026 is brought to you by ESL and partnership with Intel,
Acer Predator,
Jax,
and DHL.
Good afternoon, gamers.
We have one more day of the B stream
at Intel Extreme Masters Rear.
Maybe more standoffs like that
to come later on in the broadcasts.
The fight for the FAMASI arena is on.
We've already got four teams confirmed,
and this little bracket is about to eliminate a few more.
It's been a gruelling run.
We've had a couple teams already exit the competition
and we will bid farewell to a few more here today.
Maybe some surprises that have caught us off guard a little bit.
We've got some fantastic games lined up here
to round out the B-stream for IEM Rio.
Yes, super excited.
I mean, some players that we've followed for a very, very long time
in Red Cannes, of course,
and then some of the players on Spirit
We've known for a long time from their very first forays into professional counter strike
In their academy roster, but now of course they are world superstars of counter strike. So we're looking forward to it
But red canids. I mean I feel for them. They will have played both vitality and spirit at this tournament. How about that?
Yeah, welcome to the big leagues, Mr. Rents, who of course, this is his first S tier event only his second land throughout his entire
Infant career and he really has been thrown straight into the furnace. So, uh, yeah, we'll see if he's fine
able to find a way to make it work. But ultimately, I mean, it's all about the experience, right?
And this is hope that they don't go out with the wimper.
Yeah, indeed. We come look at the brackets and see exactly where we are at at the moment. Of
course, it's the group A upper bracket. We saw the obvious win for Vitality, but then the real tough
test for Vitality against a hunterless G2, who would have thought that that particular edition
of G2 with tax standing in from their Academy would have pushed Vitality that damn hard all the way
to the end of regulation on map 3. Incredibly impressive.
And then Spirit, who we're about to see coming in here,
got getting absolutely obliterated by Falcons.
So we've got two teams already confirmed
for the Final Fantasy Arena in the upper bracket.
And now, Spirit has to fight for their life.
Falcons continue to own Spirit, so long as it's not at the major,
which was like the most important of all the series.
They played against each other, and that was the one where Team Spirit,
or, shall I say, Zwei was really able to upheaval of Falcons on that occasion. But, yeah, that
game yesterday was just a really good look for Falcons. Since they got that one over
3D Max, they came back on map one, they just haven't looked back since.
I mean, yeah, they've been lost any rounds, right? It was nine rounds in that series.
Exactly.
And it's that nine-three deficit to 3D Max. It's been an absolute destruction for them.
And everyone is standing in their path at all. Here is Group B, which of course we focused
I'm glad that they're here.
They're here. So we're going to
play with them. We've been
focused on a lot on this be
stream over the course of the
event so far, Aurora having a
little bit of a test against
hard to on map to not looking
entirely clean. And that is why.
For me, miles managed to take
them down so comfortably late
last night. Furia guaranteed to
play in the arena. They all do
battle with mouths later on to
find out who goes through the
semis and who has to make do
with the quarter finals. I'm
really excited to see how
to them playing from the home crowd. And it always seems like they ramp up when Rio comes around.
I mean, as we even saw in that interview from Kcerata, how he mentioned that a Brazilian team
has never won at a Rio event either, right? And they're hoping that maybe they can be the team
to buck that trend legacy out of contention. Red Cannons need to beat spirit here today and then
try and win another game later on down the line to get there. So at least Furia, the most expected
team to actually make a run have gotten themselves into the arena already.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure.
Here's our schedule for the
afternoon on our big stream.
Red cannons versus spirit to
come. Now you think that would
be a stomp, but you never know.
Langton can't strike can
provide some crazy. We know
surely know surely we know, but
it's applying at home hometown
buff. I'm kidding. It should be
a stomp Aurora versus bait to
come after that. That one could
be a little bit more shaky for
Aurora because they're not
really been the Aurora we kind
of know at this event. Of
course, we know Zantara's is
being troubled by that hand
the team. They're going to be
on the ground. They're going to
get hamperd by that. Um and
baked have the ability to punch
up to some of these teams at
this level when they're when
they're feeling it, right? So
up to see how that goes. Also
have nothing to lose. Do bait
there. The big underdogs either
way more on that later. That
will be the next game we cover
here on this stream. It is, of
course, Spirit versus red can as
we can zero in our focus on
that particular game. Spirit
find themselves in the lower
what a transpired yesterday with him
posting his lowest rating of his career so far.
And that's a really scary prospect for Red Cannons
that he's going to be taking his anger out on them.
Absolutely, right?
It's a weird state for spirit.
It goes without saying they house one of the most naturally gifted players of all time.
If it's not a team effort, it doesn't work, right?
And very clearly, things aren't really working all too well for them right now.
I thought at the time that getting Zontik's back and moving Teneir around
putting magic system game leader wasn't something I was against of what whatsoever, but they
just haven't been ready yet and they've been really, really inconsistent and even Donk
has been inconsistent as well. That 0.3 rating, as you say, is the lowest of his career. And
look, every great player has an off day. Recently, the entirety of Spirit are having more off
days than they would want.
I mean, it's just proof that it's taken us a long time, but it's proof that Donk is
also human. We first thought it was this lab specimen that could never actually fail and
have an off day. But finally, with the sample size of a year and a half at the highest level
of the game, we now do get to see even longer than that, two years at the highest level.
We get to see that, yeah, okay. Donk can also have a game where he disappears and obviously
like you kind of highlight, maybe it's a systemic issue, you know, broader problem than just
Donk himself.
Yeah, and Ren too, of course. We'll have a quick conversation about him yesterday. We've
have had two great interviews
with him at this event, one with us and one with Harry.
I mean, it's actually crazy that he made his HLTV debut
in 2026 at the beginning of the year.
He only played CCT with a mixed team.
He played a couple of those smaller events
with Red Cannons Academy.
All of a sudden, he's on the main team
and he's debuted at his first S tier tournament
playing both Zai Wu and Donk.
Incredible.
I mean, that's one way to rack them up, right?
some big names that he gets to go against on the server.
As we get a look at the veto here, Trav,
it's going to be Mirage picked by Red Cannons.
It's the map we saw them pick yesterday against Gentlemates.
It's the map we saw Don struggle on against Falcons.
It seems picking Mirage into Spurt quite consistently now.
I don't think that's because they think there's a weakness there for Spurt.
I think it's more down to the fact that it just so happens to be a coincidence
that those are good maps for the teams that have played against Spurt.
It's ancient for the favourites.
and then if, which we certainly shouldn't require a decider, we will go to Overpass.
Yeah, and if Red Cannings do get to Overpass, you remember what Shay was able to do to Gentlemakes yesterday,
but as you say, it would be a massive surprise if this series goes three.
This is a chance for Spirit to warm up into the tournament, feel a little bit better about themselves
after what Falcons did to them yesterday.
Absolutely. Try and regain some confidence. There's going to be an exec into the safe
bomb site. Red canids keeping things extremely simple in the pistol here trying to minimise
the variance and what could then go wrong and it's going to be Ren too to draw first
blood. It's a near pressure and the back lines here and towards CT's got some support coming
through there that's actually going to enable him to keep his life intact and Zontics will
get a multi as red cannons run into a brick wall. Oh, that's a shame because it was such
a good start. Hang on a second. Drop has an opportunity. Slow one versus two. You know,
so both these players are but the mid range dualies from magics will close it out. And
yet that was actually not a bad call. I do say it was simple for red cannons. They delayed
those flashes pretty well, really blinding up the bulk player terribly. But in the they
broke through, Teneir was able to survive just about long enough to get his on ticks
in to help. Yeah, exactly. That's the key detail, right? As it was a matter of seconds
at that point. I think it's actually a really rough round for Red Cannons to lose because
when you're such a massive underdog as they are in the series against Spirit, pistol rounds
become insurmountably more important because pistol rounds are so variable, volatile that
this it closes the gap between teams at that point because of like I say how much variance
there is two pistol rounds and that's where you got to try and capitalize as the underdog because
you're gonna have a far more difficult time in the gun rounds obviously and then of course when
you're eco-ing as well so I feel like if there ever was going to be a world in which there'd be any
chance for red cannons to do some damage pistol rounds were a requirement from the word go.
Exactly and now unfortunately they're going to go for the full eco to play for the guns in the
third, just waiting for Spirit to use some of their utility so they have to
repurchase it. So I'll take this opportunity to maybe tell you guys a
little bit more about Red Canards. I'm sure there are many Spirit fans tuning
in here. Maybe you've never seen a Red Canards match ever. You've got Cowards
of course, who used to play for Payne. He's currently on loan from Payne at Red
Canards. You've got Shea, loaned from Imperial, who is brilliant in that third
map against Gentlemakes yesterday. We already touched on Rento a little bit,
So worth mentioning drop is the in-game leader of course formally from fury and MIBI was part of that fury a team that made the plows
The Rio major back in 2022
Magic since on six and be holding in bet very easily here and there we go
They only lose one player no worries against the full eco
So yeah, I mean red can is as a reminder as well came all the way from the open qualifier through the closed qualifier
They qualified with history by the way didn't even qualify with rent to on the team
But yeah, it's been a long journey for them to get here and I'm sure they,
least thing they were, last thing they were expecting was to play both Vitality and Spirit at this event.
Well, there was a game that I found where Drop did play against Spirit back in
2024 at ESL Pro League and it was MIBR who beat Spirit 2 once so maybe some
Spirit enjoyers have seen Drop before. It was a big game there where like I said
they eliminated Spirit from Pro League. Now, obviously, yeah, long time ago, sure,
Maybe a stronger team even with guys like Insani in the mix as well, but hey, they have been on the receiving end of
Drops devastation before do I expect it to happen again? Yeah, absolutely not but
Indeed
Let's go around for red cannons. How do they begin their series and why is there a crazy test for them rent to glass cannon on the off to begin?
begin.
Trinity is starting to dwindle a little bit.
Shea will use one of the final smokes they have
for a window position.
Does it look like they're preparing for some kind of a B split
because of the positioning of these underpass players,
but they could still make their way into connector.
Of course, they know that will be donk territory.
Yeah, probably avoid that at all costs. I imagine would be part of the game plan
They've checked their boxes really nicely so far with how they've progressed through the round efficient utility usage
Obviously not much of a contest in towards middle here from spur
It is gonna be magics and zon'tix you get tested over towards this B bombsite
There goes your lurker drop a roof in your cage and that they've advanced really far forward
Magics boosted up on the box will be the one to receive contact
There's a hell of a lot of damage and a kill in that combination as well don't tries to force the issue
He wants to get ahead of this team there because he recognizes there's that window of opportunity
but he'll lose his life.
Archiro's taking a lot of damage as he's burned to the flames.
Cowers will turn in time to tear his head off,
and it's Tania left in the clutch.
Huge round from Cowers.
Wow. As you say, Donk really forcing the issue early.
He wants to get into the game early about how,
after how he got obliterated against Falcons yesterday,
and I don't blame him,
but now Tania has got no kit in this clutch.
Cowers will give up his life for information,
but now Dada Dez is set up on bench headshot,
angle headshot taken.
First gun round for the Brazilians,
and it's a Chilean to close it.
Ah, very good work coming through there from Red Cannons and maybe just too much space and respect being given up here by Spirit.
I mean the first time they actually kind of clock what's going on is when Magix takes contact and he's boosted up on the box
and when you're in that position you're not normally the guy who's supposed to be taking first contact.
So I feel like Red Cannons have done a really good job of getting super far forward before Spirit had even kind of realized what was going on.
That kill on Donk there was certainly a key frag.
long really trying to force the issue and it ends up costing his team quite a lot
One of the main things that we haven't had a chance to touch on yet
Is the fact that Halley is not with spirit at Rio
I have some health issues that he needs to sort himself out with so we hope he feels and gets better
But Sopfic is with them and of course Sopfic has so much experience playing with both donk and
Zontics and up for us at the time on that spirit Academy team
He's also been the main coach and often player when he had to stand in for the Kiyosuke version of Spirit Academy as well.
So, you know, if there's one person that knows these players incredibly well that isn't Halley, it would be him.
So it's good for Spirit to have him around.
But of course, we know that Halley was one of the main pieces of the spirit organization that we put in a lot of work for the calling.
I mean this is his team right and it kind of feels like at the moment
Magix is more just a conduit for Halley and what's going on in the server and I
don't expect Magix to really be taking a huge amount of space in terms of
dictating how the team is going to be playing until he's really been able to
come into his own as a captain I mean obviously there was that interview from
Overdrive where he said it could take up to two years and I think that was maybe
a little bit misconstrued by the community that he's not saying we'll
start winning in two years back to that point because there's a big moment here
Ashira on the open he's gonna get destroyed by dropping the first responder is on six
He's not much he can do about it nothing's going to be ready except that they think
Magics is jumping and hoping that don't can come through and bail them out and while don't does get the kill magic shows down
That is gonna be red cannons doubling up their own countertrap
Just a while it you jump back in just to finish off the points. I was making there
I think it was misconstrued with what overdrive said when he said that it's gonna be two years for magics to be a cat good captain
It doesn't mean that it gets a two-year runway, and that's when they can start to expect results from Spirit.
It means that for now, it is just going to be Halley's team and Halley's vision that Magix is then implementing in the server.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's a bad way of looking at it at all.
Good damage here by Tanea, by the way. Him and Donk, both actually...
...a little limit drop.
So being the only man alive, Red Cannons after that gun round win.
will keep his galile. Yeah,
fighting come was very awkward.
Mostly for shade, to be honest
with you when he had such little
ammunition remaining, the magics
is hopping around like a kangaroo,
inadvertently baiting perfectly
for Donk, probably enough.
But there we are.
It's dark when the first gun round
convert against the force by type
the scoreline opportunity now
against the eco.
I called early here by spirit
Notice that there was a lot of talking from magics in the tack time arts last time not so much from Sotfic
And it doesn't look like Sotfic is chiming in a whole lot
Maybe a couple words coming through from him. That's a listening going on
For red canards extremely important that they come out the gate swinging here
They're not gonna be making a comeback against road if they start like
Eight one down or something like that
It's gonna have to be them from the word go putting pressure here on spirit if there's gonna be any chance for them
Of course on tix as I said did keep the galil
And as you'd expect he drops over to donk
Let's see what if I didn't do with the galil as an AK then you know what's gonna be happening, but
You know the glil is excellent
See if donk can prove it to be so flashing toward wrap maybe trying to get these pistols into position to go for a push
Donk's got the wider angle with the 5-7 close, but there's no one there to receive it at the moment.
Cannons are taking their time, and going about this early stage of Mirage, very calmly against Spirit,
not getting ahead of themselves, not going for anything too crazy on these anti-Ecos and anti-forces.
They've got space here.
A little fake thrown into the mix here.
Spirit have peeked behind the curtain and kind of realized what's going on.
The problem is that Donk's hero Galil is on the polar opposite side of the maps where the action is going to go down now.
There's a lot of time between this fake that's been thrown here by Red Cannons,
and them actually pulling the trigger on the execute into the speed bomb site.
And that window of opportunity now starts to close because Donk is charging in this direction.
There's already three players in position here for Spurt.
Donk is going to arrive on the scene soon enough, not when the execute gets going,
but he will be here to try and help his teammates out.
Great first frag found from Davidea.
Zontex's Deagle's got to connect.
There's Donk.
He's now nestled into the bomb site.
He can be a really big problem for them to have to deal with now.
It is all of a sudden the only problem that they have to deal with and they'll make it happen.
Oh big damage again. Three players tagged up
to less so than drop but Teneir cannot work his way in with the 5-7 and red canids have the lead.
You joked with me before we went live over under on red canids getting more than 10 rounds in the
entire series. I definitely thought over and you agreed with me um but you know I think
Spirits at the moment as we saw against Harkins yesterday, sure they've already beaten Liquid in this tournament
But every bloody team's beaten Liquid at the moment. That's not really a very impressive result
They just don't look like themselves the entire collective recently. They've been so inconsistent with their results
Absolutely, I mean there's a lot of things that's further trying to figure out at the moment
Apparently there's a lot of players just on different wavelength and trying to get balanced within the team is something Donk spoke about that
They're struggling with a lot of different ideas swirling around
And it means that there's a big disconnect within the squad at the moment, which means if there ever was, like, the slightest slimmest of chances for Red Cannons to push Spurt, it would be today.
It would be here on this occasion. They're going to leave their hearts on the server here at their home event, and they're going to have to overcome one of the best teams in the world, though, even on their off-day, and they still got Donk.
But red cannons might have Davideus we all you know we as a duo have covered over death
a lot of the years in tier 2 Brazilian can strike and lots in South American ESL challenger
league for example we know of course he's a he's a major playoff player now with pain
but now he's back on red cannons he's fragging a lot better than he ever did on pain obviously
playing lower tier South American opposition but he's looking at the Davideus we know and
love. Flash through that short smoke and shaggle entry zontics perfectly. Donk on the rotation
straight away. Magic's under pressure playing Jail on the B bomb side. They saw that lurk
up top connector and they could go back and they are going to I think. Donk could cut
this round down at the leg though. Yeah he's dropped the bomb carrier and oh Chiro excuse
me not Donk. I just saw the EM4 Donk was in that position earlier. Chiro making a really
good play there to actually get the kill and then he's going to be able to get the Yorpe
as well. And if the job wasn't done initially, it should be now. Is there enough time? I think
there's just enough time here. Donk is going to realize that he maybe has an opportunity
to catch this player on the crosscours. Not going to be able to get across. And now it's
just about prioritizing his life. And Donk will survive long enough yet to get his team across
the line and tie up the scoreboard here for Spirits.
Cavadirus does actually get the kill, which means no one on Spirits survives winning that round.
So thereby will not be good. And Redcans will be the first people to realize that and recognize
that they'll know they've got a good opportunity here and they're actually going to call a timeout to
discuss it as you can see on your left of your screen the buyer is not going to be good at three
mp9s in this gun round for spirit you've seen jane call a call a half buy on rounds like this before
yeah i mean it is obviously very unauthentic box oh he's doing the challenge trav he's doing the
stream of challenge try to see how many he can get in in 20 seconds or so probably not to top
only his numbers but you're right that this is unorthodox to to kind of half buy after winning
around that is very James-esque but um yeah you've just heard and you're such massive favorites you're
probably not going to be giving up that sort of ground here against Redcats. Yeah just don't treat
them too much respect or otherwise you could easily get caught and they might still who knows
it's not over until it's over. A little bit unsure Redcam is about how to go about this purchase
one of the main reasons why they called that half-bite, or called the tack pole, sorry,
to go for this force-bite with the Eagle, Tech 9, Glill and a couple of AKs.
So it was a really good play from Shira in that previous round, really taking the initiative
there, getting the bomb dropped in underpass and then immediately dropping down, picking
up the op, getting the second kill.
excellent trading but by cowers but no time to cross and don't put a stop what
red cannons wanted to try and do and one of those rounds where you take a
oh yeah sorry man go on I was gonna say that I mentioned the lack of quality
weaponry for spirit they're already out of util mr. Windows I was gonna say
let's play the game of guessing who won the previous round based on the buy for
both these teams because this is like difficulty level impossible.
Red Cannons have gone B a lot.
In fact, they've looked to go B every single round, bar the pistol,
and then obviously in the previous, they try to pivot away from B late in the round.
Now they're going to explore into this A site.
Tenier goes through that A ramp smoke.
He's got Shiro in tow.
In the meantime, Red Cannons have just slowly cracked their way down the ladder
into this A bomb site, and it's going to be Zontik who pays with his life for that information.
You're not going to expect Sheer again. Maybe they do. You're definitely not going to expect T'Nia as well, but T'Nia's gone down.
That puts Sheer in a bit of a pickle stack between a rock and a hard place, and he will battle back for two.
Pretty good, but Cow has a low HP, will immediately destroy Magix, and that leaves Donk last alive again.
I'm afraid he will not be winning this one.
Incredible work from Red Cannon is really well-pathed through Palace there.
Walking down the ladder silently, which is what Heavy God did yesterday for G2.
and get a really clean quad kill.
This time, it's a double from Cowards
and a double from Drop that will secure
a four or three lead to Red Cannards.
And again, just the lack of utility for the Spirit
and just plain weaponry really coming back to fight them there.
That's the open kill from Cowards.
If he actually goes down to that CT position,
that would actually make a big difference
for the mid-port portion of that take.
Yeah, I think you're right.
That's probably the lunge pin in the round there.
That kill going Red Cannards' way
was maybe one of the main determining outcomes of the round, even though it was one of the
first kills in the round. And then I like that late activation on the player coming
through from ramps, so red cannons prioritized the hit through Palace, and because they've
got that extra man who comes late through ramp, he gets the intel, as we do follow the
smoke all the way through to make sure they landed this time, which they do. Thank you,
Mr. Shev, and join us, our observers. But, yeah, that that late activation through ramp
was also a key detail to make sure that red cannons had the intel, that there was already
one player advanced and ramp and then a second in the corner there as well. So neither of those players able to catch red cannons off guard
as Donkel used the near as bait on the end of his fishing rod there to enable him to get an open and kill with the Sura rifle.
SM4 that was kept over is gonna try and be the main
thing to get spirit back in this and Magix actually has made quite a bit of noise pushing forward to grab that AK
and Shay you can tell by his facial expression on that push forward
It's been taken and they know Magix is there and that is why Davidus creeps out ramp on a timing
Good job. Now don't think stairs already will pre made it though and destroy it. Shea good job. Oh
And that's five three
Indeed it is and it's about trying to prioritize keeping the rest of these players alive before red cannons that they can build up their bank
One of the main struggles for spirits on the city side of mirage has been trying to figure out their best way of going up
upset setting themselves up because Tania has always been a catwalk player
He was the catwalk player on gun 5
He was a catwalk player for heroic on the CT side of this map and then when he came into the team to replace
Zontics he was the catwalk player as well when he joined the team and then his way became the a anchor right now
They continue to juggle these roles around where Tania is now the a anchor here
Mirage and Zontics has returned back to his position on top, which is where he
has always played. I feel like Taneer has certainly been struggling in that A
anchor role here on Mirage in particular. I mean getting Taneer in particular into
this spirit team felt like a slam dunk at the time. We covered him so much in gun
five. I mean we remember that gun five team with him and Yellow, who's obviously now
on paravision, was slapping people about in tier two. Taneer was incredible. He
He carried that over to Heroic when it was kind of a temporary move to begin with and
he was so damn good, Heroic kept him.
But yeah, it's just not the Teneir we remember from those days, even against this really
good tier 1.5, tier 1 opposition in Heroic.
And it's a shame because we know what Teneir has got in his locker.
Let's see if we can show a little bit of it today.
Even you're thinking it's Red Canne as you could see a very good level from him, but
Kawa is waiting on ramp.
Tamago's looking, will get deleted, eventually Zontix gets his kill from short, a rare headshot on Davideus, 4v4 but look at the damage.
Feels like they're lacking the AWP on Shiro as well, again they're not gonna have it here.
Fundamental part of their defense is Shiro with that sniper rifle on the CT side and the CT sides have been in a big portion of where Spurred of Axiopin struggling, their T sides have been alright.
And again, the defensive half proving to be a problem here against Red Cannards.
We've got a game in our hands, 4v4.
Damage done, like you say, to both Donk and Zontics as Red Cannards zero their sights in on the speed bomb site.
We smoke from Magix on a good timing.
Four players walking in.
Four Red Cannards.
45 seconds left in the round, they've got plenty of utility, not just for the take,
but for the after plant as well.
Magic.
Magic will switch hands there,
maybe to make it feel a bit more comfortable
on that sort of angle.
Now, Zontics will shift back to help.
Magic will once again put himself in jail.
It's my favourite position,
but it's usually only good for a one-for-one.
Only in van.
And they will try and make the push now.
Zontics is here on time,
but they need to get at least a killer piece here.
That molotov spread on bench, I don't think it will,
but it's a brilliant clear from Shea.
Goodness gracious me, Zontics.
now having to sand tall. He gets one but he needs more and he can't grab it. Drop will push him out
of the round. 10 seconds for the plant. They're going to be okay. Venting's got the line. He'll
miss and Shiro will get that kill with the M4. As unfortunately, one of the kind of patterns we've
noticed with Rento under pressure as the newbie to the team is a bit prone to the odd miss. Now
Donk and Shiro in the retake. The two best players on Spirit to try and make it happen.
They might have to be Shiro, but Drop is going to stand tall.
9 HP to spare, and Red Cannons right now are in full control.
Getting loud in and out of the server as well.
They're trying to add insult to injury right now,
and pile that pressure onto Spurt,
who should never have had any serious problems coming into the series here against Red Cannons.
But all of a sudden, they're under the cross, they're under the pump,
and they're feeling the heat here in Rio.
Shae is trying to show us, not just on the flare camera reactions, but what he was able
to do against gentlemates on Overpass yesterday.
He was the key factor to eliminating the Spaniards from Rio and keeping their home event alive.
It's crazy.
Is that bloody orphan Shiro's hands man?
I know, it's crazy how much work he's been doing with the M4!
Has he even had an AWP once?
I mean, I know he picked up an AWP and he got that kill in Lowers,
but that was picked up off of a red cannon's body!
I'm not sure if he's actually started around with the sniper yet,
yet we're already nine deeper Mirage!
Oh, dear!
Spirit!
Someone send out a search warrant!
Also does deserve to be said that red cannons players are looking exceptionally sharp here in the server today, man
We took the name plates off. I think that was red cannons
Excuse me spurt on the T side. How sharp they've been looking with their first bullet accuracy their sprays
And this is all while rent to is yet to really come online you with his AWP
Yeah, going to slow things down here, our red cannons. Look to see if there's anything
untoward here in the round, recognizing that Sprit will be on the low buy and maybe expecting
them to make some sort of a play.
Something I mentioned to you yesterday as well that I know that Drop has got plenty of experience
playing on Fury and MIBR. One of the things that he really struggled with on both of those
Those two terms was big pressure moments in big games and he used to really fall off individually
as the in-game leader or not.
He's the in-game leader here and he's playing really, really well in a big game against
Spirit.
11-5, powers and nose is a bit of default presence there from Magix and we're trying
to bait for Tanea.
We're going to clear it properly, pretty good drop coming through and there we go.
Clean as you like and this half-buy is going nowhere.
2 will get a second kill for his confidence and it's 7-3.
A win in the half now guaranteed for Red Cannons on the T side of Mirage sure it's their map pick,
but they could have picked any map in the world and I wouldn't have expected this to happen against Spurot
who are looking a little bit shell-shocked right now because not only are they behind,
I mean sure it's still map 1 and we're still in the first half, but that pressure of them just having been such
overwhelming favourites coming into the series, as soon as you check the scoreline and you're down 7-3,
down 7-3 that expectation means that the pressure builds exponentially at that point.
Yeah red canvass will have come into this game with nothing to lose and sure they did that against
Vitality but we know Vitality are pretty impenetrable. Spirit, not so. Oh great, flash in middle,
the delayed one from drop at 1 minute 30, take the headshot on Zontix, carers will entry to
Tenea on A and Donk only just gets there in time.
Ren 2, spotted on ramp.
Not used to fight that and nor will Donk to be fair.
So 4B3 to work with.
And again, going back to their good old faithful here.
It's only Magix on this half of the map right now.
Do they get a read on this to start to rotate anybody
across the map?
even and magics is even focusing on middle right now and so there's nobody
home this is probably gonna be a situation where once they realize that
they end up just committing to the save unless magics can find a quick fire
double I don't see any way back into this when they start residual neutral to
deploy in the post glance as well magics plays cat not by choice
forced backwards by the nade and this is round over 8 out of 11 now going red
canids his way when do we start to panic do we hit that button already this is
crazy my words red canids maybe keeping an eye on what falcons did to the
did to spirit yesterday and trying to take a few leaves out of that book
shiro has an AWP but guess what it's only an exit kill I think one of the main
things I want to pray to a canids for which you know a separate thing from
what you already have is the fact that they kept this extra utility once they
taken a bombsite. You can afford to throw all their players in here by the way. There's no problem with
everyone going down because they've got all the money in the world for the final round of the half.
They will give that hunt to go. Only a couple of kills for Spirit as consolation.
And say what you want about them not having Halley here, about Magix being a new IGL in the infancy
of that domain. This is the CT side boys. This is where you're supposed to just have your individuals
winning their duels, making good individual decisions based on their own game sense and
their own situation as well, and then kind of coming together as a unit in that regard.
It's anything but that, quite the contrary. It's Donk to fall first here.
Red Cannons on course for nine. They've been really good at converting his opening kills
into round wins. Can they do it again here to really ramp this half home?
Unshiro knows he has to stick around. He needs to try and find something to answer back,
but that made almost expose him in that pick toward under.
Now again, it's a round where Spirits have lost their opening kill and they're scrambling in the
rotations. They might just get caught in transition again. Wouldn't be the first time. We've got three
over toward A at the moment. Lontek's holding on to short, having to worry about both middle and B.
To near now, close wrap. Flash will come through to give him a look. He needs to live from it.
Thankfully Karras is full blind from it and he will be able to upgrade to the AK. But now Renty can set himself up from the catwalk position.
Shiro picks it, it could be in trouble, Renty will take it. On his S2 event debuts, he's killed both dog and shiro in a singular round beyond his wildest dreams.
Now Magix, drop. Will drop, but Magix might need one more, but Davidesk is in no time whatsoever. Ridiculous swing.
to make it a quad kill. It's
nine three, but not to spirit
to red can it's not even be
called into action from short
here. They're going through C
T to a it's going to be onto
here. I think. Sucking
sandwich, but it's going to be
cleared by the rent to tech
nine. I can't believe what I'm
witnessing at the moment.
Zontix one V three. And all
three angles are well set up
for the crossfire. Utility
a spirit to Red Canids!
Do not rub your eyes, you are really witnessing Red Canis up 9-3 on Team Spirits, the lowest
ranked team in the tournament that came all the way from the open qualifier is troubling
some of the best players in the world.
A big time, there are a real fallen in spirit side right now, it was a three-all scoreline
at one point on Mirage and then it was just a hot six-run streak coming through from Red
Cannards, putting spirit on the back foot, proving already that they can bleed here in
the series against Red Cannards.
I can't believe I'm saying this, I'm going to give you the old cast a cliche, they need
the pistol spirit, not Red Cannards, it's Spirit who need the pistol three, nine behind, and
walking in through Palace.
A radio reach coming through there at a really good time.
Unfortunately for Drop though, he'll get destroyed by Donk.
Then comes the entry man himself,
gets himself two off the bat.
Rento will put him down though.
Great confidence for Rento after that quad kill
to end the half after he had a very slow half overall.
He'll be now feeling it a little bit more.
There's actually some monotones and some extra flashes
to work with here.
It looks like Spirit want to try and attack Jungle.
Cowice knows it though, playing safe.
Great tap on Magix.
Cowice has been so clean so far
And there's two more to add to the tally.
Teneir will find Renty on the trade though,
and Davides is circling on the spot trying to find Shiro,
and he can't.
He's now all down two cowards in the 1v2.
I think Teneir and Shiro have got this one under lock and key,
and that's a great head shot from Teneir.
So the must win pistol does go their way.
Yeah, really well done there.
I mean, Donk with an explosive open and kill there
through the smoke to set the round in motion,
then he combines that with the second important frag as well.
Spirit then feel like they can't really commit to the original plan of taking deep CT control
so they instead re-route and try and go towards Jungle.
That gets emphatically shut down by Cowe's with a phenomenal double kill.
There's some really clean shots coming through from him.
It starts to get quite concerning at that point there for Spirit but they regain control
and they get it across the line to set this second half in motion.
Long road back for them here on Mirage but they've got to keep that belief.
Look at this.
Fadabadass.
Not really a boost you see all too often, and these are the rounds you're really going to be careful.
With if you are Spirit and all the hard work and don't throw it away against the Famas, MP9s, 5-7 and Scouts,
Chase even got immediate counter utility if Dabba dare sees anything.
But the bomb's going back toward middle, it's only Tenea lurking here at the moment.
Spirit just trying to get an idea of what's going on in the round as they start to take
some shape themselves.
One-three, one-split, keeping their options available here in Palace, Player in Apartments.
Both extremities covered and it looks like they're just going to root their way up catwalking
to be.
Now how do red cannons respond to this considering there are two players in this corner?
Not going to be spotted initially by Donk, but it's really awkward to try and take fights
in towards Catwalk from these positions, and Donk will come through just in time as he cuts the scaffolding down from
underneath Davideus. That is going to enable the apartment player, and it's now impossible for Rinto on Scout.
There's one, but yeah, it was only ever going to be one, to be fair, he's done very well to get that one.
Magix will find drop, and that means Kha'ez has nothing to do, and ideally, you probably try and keep the famas, even though it's only a famas,
and he will fall away. So well done, Spirit there, they parve it well.
And, yeah, unfortunately for Davidas, that tree trunk, as you say, did get cut down.
So, no impact to be had from that position.
It was probably...
I reckon he was licking his lips because he hears those footsteps and he realizes,
I'm about to get this jewel here on T'Nia.
Look at how long T'Nia was in position.
And then Davidas hears him and starting to advance.
Then just as T'Nia shows up, was about to show up in Davidas' cross.
That's where Don crowns the corner and gets the kill.
And Davidas, all of a sudden, is like, mate, why did you...
Oh, you didn't run away, you died.
That means the stack is no longer assembled
for the boost at least,
and that will be Spirit at least closing the gap.
And often in these sort of games,
it is a little bit harder for the underdog
to hold on on CT side,
because realistically,
Spirit do have way more advanced tactics
than red cannons probably have, right?
And it's a very common pattern
that a favorite does make a T side come back,
even if it's the un-favorite side of the map.
Absolutely key points in Ale, there, Trav.
Especially when you combine that with the fact that it's going to be Donk in this T-side,
he's going to be exceptionally difficult, Geoff or Red Cannons to contain,
and to try and win these isolated jewels where they can't always be the one that are calling the shots in the round,
playing at their own pace, dictating where they go on the map,
instead having to receive Spirit and try and deal with what's being thrown at them,
that can be insurmountably more difficult as the end of Dog.
And another factor to consider is of course red cannons would have had some hope coming into this one
But they probably also did consign themselves to the fact that this wasn't gonna go their way when they realized that they drew spirit
Then they get themselves 9 3 up on the half and all of a sudden in that great between halves
It's like guys, we're in control
This this is actually like our game to lose all of a sudden and then reality can start to set in like oh
Damn this game to lose and and all of a sudden it's like we never expected to be here. How are we here?
What's going on and that can start to overwhelm you a little bit back calm down?
You're not the one being overwhelmed. It's red can is being overwhelmed right now. I am a little bit right
Well, spirit are two
Oh dear, I'm a very empathetic person Trav. I'm feeling their emotions very valid very valid
Cow is will do well to get the kill on zonetix. Well, unfortunately
It's gonna be very difficult for these two digs to hold on drop dancing around on the bench
He's got davidas on default with him, but they should be cleared and even though drop does actually dig donk out of the round
Have space and I say they have space. I mean Taneer's 6 HP. Magix is 22. This was not easy by any stretch and
Recony's can still lock them in with some aggressive exit positions here.
I mean any damage or any further damage would certainly be welcomed already two kills in the round Taneer is low
They could get one more frag. That would be fantastic here. Just a force for it to
rebuy a lot of their weaponry. I mean, Shea says, mate, it's all new because I'd like
to keep this AK in play. And Kha'Z will find the timing. And like I said, it's an
era of magic. They're both low. Kha'Z is not at all kind of win this round right now.
It's just about trying to keep the T's in and around this bomb. And yeah, good.
There's no way T'Nia's gonna get far away enough, right? Not on 6 health. Maybe.
Maybe. In fact, yeah, only just. Oh, nope, not even.
Okay, four kills in the year, not bad, really not bad. Keeps the spirit a little bit more honest.
Yeah, I mean, we know that some of these Red Canis players do have big event experience.
I mentioned Drop earlier, obviously we know Coway has played big events with Payne.
He's not even permanently signed to Red Canis, he's only on loan from Payne.
He shares on loan from Imperial.
He'd argue that Red Canis doesn't even have a full team, in that sense.
But yeah, they are proving that there are no pushovers whatsoever.
But now real difficulties will begin on the CT side.
Renzi has got his AWP out.
He's had one very, very good round in this series, that was at the end of that first
half.
But it can't just be the one.
For me it's this gun round.
It's this gun round for Spirit where they'll settle back into the map if they can make
it work.
We've seen this picture, we've seen the story already before here on the B stream between 3D Max and Falkens, where 3D Max went up 9-1, and then on the T side of Inferno, we had that masterful comeback from Falkens, where they went onto on the map 13-10.
Can Spirit replicate that here against Red Cannons to dodge this bullet?
Yeah, I'm feeling a lot less concerned for spirit now. I'm feeling more concerned for red cannons
I'd love to see a crazy upset, but it's gonna be difficult from here even with a 9-6 lead
Sure will entry drop they go to have a desk magics will find him and now all of a sudden shea alone on
B doesn't have any help here whatsoever as they're gonna close in on him from short and apartments
This split is gonna make him feel a lot of pain. I'm afraid needs to get the kill immediately on to near
but Teneir does not allow it and Renjun needs to get out of their ASAP
Now there's as well to find that killer magix, but even he might be able to save Donk almost catches him
but
The gap the gap is two and they will be hunting as you say
All right everybody with me now let's have a nice deep breath because this has been a ridiculous map so far
Okay, cool. Listen, Spirit are back. They've drawn with them too. They're gonna be feeling
a whole lot better about this than they were five, ten minutes ago. Really good for their
confidence as well to battle back on this T side, go flawless so far with four consecutive
rounds and build themselves into this T side.
And whatever happens from here, Red Canis can say, look guys, well, we made them sweat.
So we should be proud of ourselves.
But of course, still in the league, they'll still believe that they have a way to win
the map.
But let's say we've got that REN2 AWP coming in in this round, even though they don't have
much around it.
Three deagles and an MP9.
utility isn't that bad considering it's a half-investment. Sure, looking for the
jump spot. I mean, he's gonna need some kills here. Always gonna have to save the
AWP because they get 3400. That means he will be up to enough money to afford an
AWP, but only just in the next round. A couple kills will push him over the edge
to get that Kevlar and some extra utility, but it's a bit of a gamble here
from Ren too.
Much prefer the angle on top of the pot in ramp from Kha'ez.
This one's a little bit easier to prefire I feel like, but Shiro's creeping in, and
maybe that shadow advantage will help out Kha'ez.
Looking for one more, and don't fall, jump as well.
That's the bomb, but he sees the orb on the ground and he's like, ooh, shiny, and goes
a bit too deep for it.
Hehehehe, but the round's on.
Poison Chalice in a way, but you're right, he's done the damage and given his team a chance here in the light investment with those two kills.
Cowars has been a monster here on the server. 21 frags. 17 rounds deep.
Can his team finish off what he has started?
Spurs to slow things down. They pump the brakes because they're gonna try and keep the CT side guessing as to where they're gonna go.
That's a big list from RainTube. Extremely costly.
Magics has heard the reposition coming through from Connect, he's going to look to close the door in on that player, but it doesn't matter, because T'Niwa holds his own to get both those frags.
Can Davideus deny the plant? Absolutely. Now with only 18 seconds left, this could port cause a problem.
Oh!
He's up as well, and he's going to connect on the shot to finish off the top.
Oh, Davideus, there's the individual ability from one of the best Chilean players we've ever seen.
Maybe the best Chilean player we've ever seen.
That is what we want to see, and that is the kind of round which could get red canners closer to that finish line.
Oh my goodness, Tonea did so much work, even on low HP to get that second killing connector.
It felt like they were under complete control for the majority of it until that bomb plant was denied.
Yeah, what's up with that positioning on the bomb bow, Triv?
I mean, why hasn't he actually just tucked himself in behind the box completely?
Because he actually did reposition initially, but he didn't go far away around enough the box
to actually completely cover himself from CT. Extremely costly mistake there from Tonea.
Yeah, almost like he was a little bit flustered after those two kills he got and with how low HP he was, he was really panicking to get that plant as ASAP.
He didn't need to rush it. I thought for sure, Rento missing that shot on Ramp was the round ending mistake.
But now all of a sudden, with the damage that's been done to Spirit in a couple of these previous rounds, if Red Canis win this one,
Spirit have no money at 11-7 down. Nightmare!
Oh man, all of a sudden, and they were kind of coasting back into the game, but losing
that round throws a big spanner in the works.
Some questionable decisions made, some mistakes made.
Red cannons will open up their account during the second half as a result, and like you
said, when this 11-7 probably becomes 12-7, then Spurt need 5 in a row to force overtime.
Yeah, it's been a pretty quiet game by the standards of Davideus, but impact kills are
what matters if they win a single round.
You've made up for it.
He's done it.
And now on B, drop is holding on, Donka's going to go down already, Davideus is there
to help.
He knows it's a short play coming through, but he's out of bullets on that M4, now Shade's
stuck.
Zontics is looking for him.
He's the bomb carrier, and he's going to get caught.
Bomb dropped in apartments, 20 seconds left.
It's a great kill from Shira, but rotations are in.
The magic still only has that Mach 10, he can't do anything about it.
Chiro, can he even get away and save?
Renji will miss another sitter, he's missed so many shots in this game which really makes
it even more impressive.
The red cannons are winning 11-7, they're two away from winning map one.
After time...
Oh Chiro could after time, but he will, he's gone and yet he can connect on that shot which
he doesn't, maximising the pain right now in Onspirit and you can see some serious concern
looked on their faces, donk head in hands as they're on the brink of this first map getting away from them.
What a kill to take. Good call by red cannons to rotate into B as they did. They had players in
insurance policy positions. Again, drop getting very important kills in pressure moments and
look at the money for Shiro. $350. He can get a smoke and a decoy if he wants. What's that gonna do you? Nothing.
with only 2400 round loss bonus behind them it's not like it gets much better
for him in the next spirit don't really have any option but to play for overtime
from here red cannons have come alive on the CT side super impressive that
they've been able to jumpstart their campaign after having lost the first
four rounds with a half by one that brain fade there from Taneer has really
He caused some havoc now for spirit.
My word.
Red Cannons are on the brink of winning this first map in this low bracket affair against
spirit.
Ronk is 11 and 14, Trav.
Not numbers synonymous with him even on his bad days.
When you combine that with the fact that it's against Red Cannons, it looks even worse.
they're going with here is the smoke and double flash. A bomb plant will be the goal to get
any extra money for Shiro.
I kind of know they have an incredible opportunity here to confirm at least overtime and have
many opportunities, five opportunities to win map one. As long as it will give that
one a little bit of a cheeky glance but nothing doing, drop hole in the angle, they've got
full mid control with short being covered by Navaders, drop covering the underpush.
This plant is getting less and less likely by the second.
All signs point from the direction of red cannons getting themselves up to map point
to mirage their map pick. Five of them to be precise if they can get it done here in round 19.
They've kind of realized what's going on here ahead of time. They've rotated some players across
They've got a really good crossfire set up two pairs on the bombsite one on cat
This should be impossible for spirit to penetrate
There we go. Just dropping left right and center. It is gonna be spirit
You're gonna have to win five rounds in a row to force us into all over this is not clean at all
You can immediately tell even though playing against mostly glocks in this round red can is are so nervous
there's barely any headshots hitting that round and lots of whiffs they are
feeling it right now because they know the position they are in their home
event a chance to pick up a map against the top side what an opportunity
All right, spirit. Your life here a mirage now hinges by a thread.
Red cannons on the brink of doing the unthinkable.
Winning the series? Impossible coming into this game.
Winning a map? Extremely unlikely.
But now we have to question everything we know.
Because red cannons have completely shape-shifted here the entire fabric of this series.
Rentoo now would be a lovely time to hit some shots, to relieve the pressure on your riflers.
That one stunning quad kill he got at the end of the first half, got them that 9-3, which
has been absent since.
Dong, the magicians have a gap, they're going to work their up connector and that's a lovely
opening on drop.
Kowhez is under some pressure. He'll get deleted immediately. And the under-balk player in Davidesch, surely.
There's nothing we can do with this one. And there we go. A double peek will come through and donk.
We'll get a double. So, step one of five complete.
And made to look easy as well as they go through the motions and processes without much of a complication.
checks and balances all intact four spurred in that round not much of a
contest in middle able to get a lot further forward than what red cannons
would have been comfortable with and then just that explosion up connector two
kills in quick succession then that third added to the tidy soon afterwards
rent to and shade looking to save their weapons to me
oh a fat frag found from him and he's got the position now on lock yet or rent
to a porrento getting destroyed from every witch angle.
So, I say a lie for one round longer.
How much longer will it be?
Red Cannons are gonna use their final timeout of this game.
They get to overtime, they will be given one more.
Both teams will obviously.
And this is what I was talking about earlier,
where Red Cannons may even be in disbelief
because obviously there wouldn't have been any pressure coming into the series for them
knowing they're playing against Spirit, there was no expectation whatsoever.
All of a sudden, they're on map points of map 1.
Like you say, they're probably feeling pretty damn nervy right now.
They've got to continue to do what's worked for them up until this point.
One moment is all they need to conclude proceedings here on Mirage and get that job done.
And obviously for those of you who maybe aren't aware, Spirit are playing without Hallie at this event.
Hallie, the coach, is having some health issues, but we hope he gets better soon.
Sothick, the academy coach standing in, but Sothick has all the experience in the world.
With bringing up Donk and Zontex and Artfrost, it would have been at the time the main core of that academy roster.
I've got to get down to dares do they pulled up the secondary orp and it's a great kill on shiro
Step one in this gun round to MP 9s on Shane cow as a little bit of a concern
But drop has an M4 and already with that opening kill spirits are leaving the A bomb site entirely
Great time to bring the double orps the table here a bit of a gimmick for red canards that normally can at least get you one round in the half
by virtue of catching your opponent's off guard with that second sniper rifle.
It has spilled the blood of Shiro already.
Spirit now clustered together into Ward's middle,
and Davideus continues to plague them with the second orb.
Magix has been felled, but now he's going to have to call this round from the sidelines.
Isn't it crazy that they pull out that secondary orb and immediately it finds impact?
Oh, it's going to find a third as well.
Davideus looking to try and end Spirit here once and for all,
but he does go a little bit overpeaky.
That is a free beat for Donk on the trade, but there's still two more CTs on this A bomb site.
Nade into a jungle, they're going to try and cross through, there's still like Kowers MP9,
and there it is, Zontik's removed, Donk is all alone, 1 vs 4.
In other situations, I would say absolutely, he wins this one, but there's no time, still finds two,
three total, an incredible headshot on drop, surely. Not a clutch from Donk at the very last gasp.
Look where Shea is. He's playing time in Palace. Now he knows he's coming. Oh, it's so nervy jumping at Donk. Who's winning it? It's Shea!
They made it difficult for themselves, but there's nothing candid about that performance from Red Cannons. That was impressive. Spirit are in trouble.
Oh, we nearly get that Donk moment that we so desperately desired and you can see the look on his face.
the look on his face that just believe he cannot fathom the fact that they've lost the map here,
the first map of the series in this lower bracket. My god, Donk nearly saves the day for Spurt with
an unbelievable 1v4 attempt, but his efforts go in vain and with that red can it, I've gone up 1-0
here in this lower bracket second round. It's incredible that Ren 2 was struggling on the
off for so long in that game. I had one incredible round sure but it's Dada Darius
picking up that secondary off. Here we go, we see it on the replay. Unbelievable
multi just when it was required and Red Cannons are in an incredible position.
Spirit looking like they are nowhere at the moment. 13-8 win for Red Cannons.
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I feel that there's no one but I know, those of myself
I
I feel the light again
Tell me myself, so I'll try
I
To make a fool out of me
I was lost in the idea of it all
Too many years, I'll be sore for it here
But in power, I'll know
And I don't know where to run to
But it could be oblivion
I dream I was making love to a whole new life
Now my lesson was I'll skip the reminder
I would've left for now
If I turn around
Let me go
I need you for the dance and I'm here to give myself
Picking up the pieces of the puzzle you put up
Wondering if I could change the thing to make it work
But I won't be surface-dissurring
one. And swan did it. Where's
chopper now, huh? Probably
streaming. They're throwing
that fast cross smoke, so
XSE takes a pot shot. Tuck
some car and is noted. Oh,
peaks in clean head shot. It's
what you want to see. He's got
Yeah, full blind headshot.
They're crossing very loud about this.
Masuta's going to have that first tack.
Tap, a nice headshot from Masuta.
He's done very well here.
Solid as a rock.
Triple kill from Masuta, starting as they mean to go on.
OK, well, tempering the pace of G2 with that one.
Tack very fortunate to get that kill
while completely blind until that XCC is getting the openings,
slowing them down, playing towards cart.
Here it is.
Bosh.
Yeah, had a pack to choose from.
2 there. That second tap. Not too far off. And then Masuda just unleashes. Wiking his
addition to the team. And in with a force. Sampias boosts it up, gets a tag. Gravity
brought low. Might want to get out of lower tunnels if he can. That's a Famous that he
could give over for free. As much as you can, your own peril, Marcus Scout, was surveying.
I think it was interesting that with that interview as well, Freya touching upon a saying you're playing with less pressure and rather than matters getting into, yeah, well, we had very limited time with TAC, right?
That just reinforces what I'm talking about in terms of the thin strap book.
That's what makes it so admirable how competitive they have been, not only against vitality, but the fact that they've got to take this one.
If hip.
three. Three. Nuts. Flatten
the Maca four star fan. The
A site is just a scout. Looking
like a second round conversion
coming to G two's way. 3D Max
a fumble. Oh, it's me. They tried
to bring the fight. Just
flattened by the tech nine of
nerds. We saw a lot of this as
well. Pack roll stuff from G
this one wasn't immediate, but still with that group players,
tack has been let off the leash to try and hunt gravity down.
And he's not too far away.
The low HP on gravity after that scout town.
He's been noted towards suicide.
Everyone else will spring to action to remove this and try and wipe the board.
So gravity is going to do his very best to hold on to this.
But I think Mattis with this flank should have him dead to rights.
I'm going to hit the shift key.
Keep running, gravity.
You're right where I want.
Yeah.
Oh, a moment.
I thought he was going to try and go for an outlandish knife attempt.
I mean, it makes sense financially, you know, it would be nice to get the extra injection
of cash gets and pies on an early AWP presence. But regardless, I mean, winning the second
round, it's going to kind of redeem the lost pistol. Let's see it from nurses, POV. The
first couple of clicks just really too easy. I think that's a great way to summarize it.
Well, the layer of the land is this, you just got owned on your map choice. You've gone
I had a team hard he said boys. It's fine dust up next we can pull it back. You know, let's bring some energy
We don't want to get eliminated here. We don't want this to be and you come in you win the pistol and
Then you just get stripped by a force by so the high that you were just riding from doing the hard work
Everything you just talked about outside immediately you get reset to the feeling you had on inferno. Yeah, they're very familiar feeling
to block that either. Cosmo glands. There's a variation that you can throw that is much
harder to block. Well, clearing out cars. I can't think of the last time I saw the T-side
with three Famisans, but here we are. How far do they get them? Gravity chips away at
Mattis gets across the ramp. Another body shot from Lucky's D. Macca will finish off
the job with his USP. The else really for 3D Max in this one. Gravity, they know he's
around the smoke somewhere. Wow, uses his D. Well, nails a headshot onto some pious
before the round. It comes to its foregone conclusion. Yeah, and usually that wasn't
of force back from 3D Max. That was just a couple of pistols invested. So I guess they're
going to take another round right now, which is the same, and then go full guns into the
follow up. I don't see them buying right now with macro at 4K, Masuda at 3.7. This is going
to be another round that's essentially the same thing. And it's not the most glamorous
approach. It's also not the most competitive approach, but it does mean that their first
gun rounds will have an AWP for Macca, all the bells and whistles. You won't be playing
from behind, being more limited, but also needs to you give G2 a 3-1 lead in the early stages of their map choice, the confidence brewing.
Mattis, tests the mid hold and the Masuta will fall.
I think with what we're seeing from G2 and regardless of what happens in that other series, you might even say that G2 are the favorite now.
We know one sunny day doesn't make a summer, but Red Cannons are feeling hot at the moment.
They've just taken a map against Spirit and I tell you what, now all the pressure is on
the favourites shoulders.
I mean, yeah, it does feel that way.
I feel like this break would have served them extremely well to try and reset between maps because they've just suffered an anomaly.
Nobody ever would have expected Spirit to have lost a map against Red Cannons.
Now the conversation shifts to are they actually going to lose the entire series and get eliminated by Red Cannons?
Because that would just completely unthink.
I mean, especially when you look at the Red Cannons team as it stands, right?
I mean, there haven't even been that great in regional South American tournaments.
That's something I really want to bring up here going into map two, right?
Because Ancient coming in here, Red Cannards, they have a 50% win rate on it
with 20 games played.
It's way more than Spirit Play Ancient,
because in general, Red Cannards play more matches than Spirit do.
They're grinders, of course.
But they've lost to a team called Dash,
which aren't a very good team in South America,
a local LAN in Brazil.
And they've also lost to teams like Marsbourne and 9Z,
and Audic as well in ESL Challenger League.
So they haven't really got much form on this map.
If Spirit want to answer back, well, if they want to, they have to.
It should be here.
I mean, Red Canna's even got hammered by Gentlemates on this very map yesterday.
A 13-4 loss was what they suffered against the Spaniards.
So surely, surely this will not be done into Spirit looking to try and turn up the paces.
They charge through Donut and towards the same bombsite
and they're just going to thrust themselves straight through that smoke.
The game plan was always to get the trade and they've managed that successfully.
There's a lot of pressure here from Red Cannons, they're looking to try and unsettle Spurt
before they actually get the bomb done, but Spurt will hold their own.
And they just want to continue to force these fights.
They're really looking to kickstart their campaign here on the second map.
So 2v2 temporarily on the A bomb site, but Magix won't activate.
They know where he is, so they might try and force the issue a bit quicker
on the A site to anywhere near that bomb.
But I think they now realise they're pinched it and they're just looking for the kills.
And if that option being taken, it's not going to work out all too well.
Spirit are going to hold on, so on six we'll get the kill.
And today, we'll finish it off with a triple.
And Spirit will start well on ancients.
As they did on Mirage, they're three for three in pistols,
if you can even believe it.
They lost map 113-8 after having won both pistol rounds on Mirage.
They even converted their pistol rounds as well, Triumph.
It's not like, okay, they won the pistol,
but then they lost to the four straight afterwards.
Haha! On both halves they won the second round which makes it even more catastrophic and unbelievable that they got that map got away from them.
The natural force.
This is history in the making and Spirit do not want to be on the wrong side of this history.
Fun enough where it can't even have history on the team anymore.
True, good attempt from Kalez, but Donk is always going to get the frag and there we
go.
Drops in with the MP9.
Will manage to get Donk out of the round, but the force won't pay off and Spirit Forcing
their way into B will pay off.
It'll be a 2-0 start and have a day or two until we'll try and keep what they've got
to have something to use in round three.
This is good for Spurge to settle themselves into the game here because those cracks from
Mirage would very quickly start to creep into here on Ancient if they got off to a poor
start as well. Instead, with the strong start, they can paper over those cracks and start
to build themselves into the second map.
And yes, for those of you who are just joining the broadcast, that dot at white square on
your screen at the top of the scoreboard, that's on a bug, really is one map to Red
Cannons.
13-8 as well, like I said, it was dominant.
Gun rounds looked so good.
were extremely sharp for red cannons as well, which is very impressive.
Outgunning, Spirit was not a sin since I expected to say coming into this broadcast, but that
absolutely was the case on the previous map.
I feel like there's going to be an element of Spirit, just like I said, looking to kick
start their campaign here on Ancient by brute forcing their way through these first couple
of rounds and just trying to boss red candidates to remind them who the real boss is on the
server.
Yeah, there's that sort of thought process to it, I think.
I think there were certain moments on Mirage where Spirit tried to play like the dominant
team.
They tried to play assertive and played like they're the favourites, which obviously they
are.
Without Halley on the team in the coach slot for this event.
Yeah, we can has had a couple of individual moments. I mean rent to getting that crazy quad killer the end of the first half
Which is one impactful round of the game
That was superb and then dada desk decides well and to you're missing a few shots
I'm gonna take matters into my own hands. He grabs a secondary or but then gets a crazy triple
To help assist that final round
It's an absolutely incredible that donk attempt went down to that closer clutch with Shea in Palace
some baffled that it got that far, but Shay got it done jumping around with that MP9 using
that movement accuracy. You know, that wasn't there for the MP9 relatively recently.
Yeah. I mean, one versus four in like 20 seconds was what Doggunk had to try and deal with and
he got extremely close to making it happen. And it was actually really good to see that
Shay didn't choke that one out because I feel like most players in that situation just almost
like a deer in the headlights get completely shell shocked and have no idea what to do.
But he didn't give himself any time to actually think about it, right?
Because like you say, he just kept jumping around and then she was able to finish off the job
and complete the map for his team and make good of that ridiculous multi-alert dava.
There's the second AWP as we now sink our teeth into the first gun round here on Ancient.
It's funny, I mean, I mentioned that Red Canyon's play a lot more than Spirits
because they grind out those local lands in South America to try and make the
major and try and get better as a team, try and get Ren to a little bit more
experience. The reminder it says HLTV debut at the beginning of the year, this is
big event debut, S tier debut, whatever you want to call it, and now he's played
both Xayu and Donk at his first event. That is not something most players can talk about.
Yeah what a sculpt this would be as well and then there'd be one best to three
away from getting themselves in the arena. And if you beat Spirit, the lot would give
you all the belief in the world that you could get the job done. Simple and direct is the
name of the game. You're from Spirit, just surging their way in towards this beat bombsite.
I suspected this would be the game plan from them. Brilliant utility usage there. Shea and
Drop never stood a chance.
This is a little bit more like it. 4-0 will be the score and Red Cannons might not even
be able to save here because I think the hunt will already begin in a matter of moments
Shiro still has that Mach 10, there's no reason for him to keep hold of it.
He should be pressing W and looking for the exiting Davadas, Rento or Kawa as ASAP.
There we go, they've all left the bomb now.
Made sure they've come at this saving attempt from Red Canis from three different angles too,
so they know that there's been no one to slip a gap and get a crazy ninja or something like that.
All angles have been cleared.
Yeah, these kills would go a long way as well, so they can pry at least two of these three
guns out of the hands of these red cannons players.
It means that they actually won't have enough money to justify the buy in the next.
And there are those two kills I was talking about in a whole no way!
In the last tick of the round, Donk is gonna round the corner, demolish Rento, send him
packing.
No survivors for red cannons.
A spirit of coming to map two with the bang.
Yeah, not much you can do about that
Look at the buy they had on the half back down to the five sevens and deagles and MP9's I
Would like to see red can his play. Oh, there we go. That's classic dog
The D transfer that was his signature on this map for many a moon and still kind of is in a way
I think so. I don't know if he's being pressured from Jaguar, but poor drop. Oh, that's a check.
Check and play. So well done from him. I mean, shows us against the half by, but really just
flexing his muscles right now is Mr. Don can maybe that little 1v4 attempt at the end of
Mirage kind of brought him back into the fray here to a degree because obviously he was nowhere
to be found throughout the rest of the map. Completely unlike what we're expected to
see from him. And yeah, you're right, yesterday as well was unheard of from the young destroyer.
But now, five kills and we're in the fifth round, therefore red canids across the board.
There's a sixth at least as the ragdoll goes flying.
I have a dare, so do you got a big moment here with the stairs and eagles on the right side
He's got the pillar to play
around, but he can't connect on
that first shot. A little bit
more invigorating hand slacks
from Donk as well. You can tell
that the motivation never wanes.
He's always been very matter of
fact in every interview he's
ever done and anything he's
ever said to anyone, really
teammates or talent or any
publication. He just wants to win
whatever it takes and
replace badly or not.
So, not nearly as stoic as someone like Sonic's in terms of what sort of emotions he's feeling.
It's always very easy to get a read on the state of mind of Mr. Dong based on his player cam.
That's for sure. He doesn't shy away from showing his emotions.
As we see red cannons looking to try and take initiative around Six trying to open up their accounts.
It's going to be DongToe who opens up the speed bomb site with a great opening kill on Rain 2.
And that's going to allow for his teammates to come through straight afterwards.
A brilliant flash from the Shea who's chased back in the corner.
A hunter down by Dong himself again.
I think it's fair to say that normal services has resumed already.
Paul Rento is having a bit of a shocker.
I mean, they had plenty of time to get that kill on ramp,
but just whiffed pretty much everything,
and that is probably what comes with the nerves
and the hype of winning that opening map
and just it being your first big event in general.
Sure, it's now vague comfort that your first big STLan
is one in your home country.
like he's had to travel into Europe for the first time to play this event but yeah he's um
kindly put he's being outclassed at the moment
yeah i mean you would have expected anything less of this level of the game to be completely real
i hope you say return to schedule program and coming through here with the series between
spirit and red canids. Fantastic start here for the favourites to try and look to bed what
a transpired on that previous map. Bit of a rude awakening for red canids.
Yeah, and we came into the series saying we wanted to see Donk look like Donk again after
what Falcons did to him yesterday. Magic's once again his comfort place on the team as
we know. The troll right hand. And yeah, already he's trying to warm back in on ancient. Yeah,
I mean, I think it's always been a thing that's been synonymous with some of the biggest talents
in any world sport, they more often than not wear their heart on their shoulder and uh yeah as you mentioned Donk is
exactly like that as well. At the moment Red Canis I'd love to see them throw a little bit more
caution to the wind because nothing is going right right now and this is a free hit on ancients like
you know you really shouldn't be a map up anyway even though you play so damn well just press
a bit w a little bit try and get in the faces of spirit don't treat them with respect and see where
it gets you. It has got them a kill back this time on Calvary.
I feel like they have tried that a little bit already with their swinging in towards
murder and some early jewels being taken, but you are right that I like the words you
use there for your hit. I think that's a great way to describe what ancient is for them,
but right now they're the ones who have been clapped in the server and it's a great read
from Spirits after that early death goes down over towards the B bomb site and they get
that kill on donut they just use that to ride their way into a vacant A site
flawless here from a spurt as they assume full control
there also was a life game from Kawa's Amaraj must be said a 2.01 rating from
him by far his best performance against a tier 1 team in his career odds of that
have happened the odds of that happening were extremely low odds of him
Replicating that performance twice in one series?
Surely zero. So we're gonna need to see the rest of the team trying to find
Some sort of a semblance of that level here as well. There's gonna be any chance for red cannons
Again, they're hunting the saving players of Shane Cowares. We're not one for this world
There goes cowares and Shane now stuck in Jaguar, but he's to scarper in time. So he's done well
But yeah, I mean again as I said before the map began not a good map really for red cannons at all
They've managed to find a way to beat Sharks on the map by regional rival, but the only
regional rival they've beaten recently is Galoreys at that Betboom Circuit X LAN.
Previously they had lost to 9Z twice, Dash, which I mentioned at that Fergie in-house
tournament.
And they've also lost to Marsborne.
And there's some North American fans in chat, Marsborne mentioned, that was an overtime
loss against Marsborne, which was not a good look.
And as you said earlier, I mean, Gentlemates destroyed them yesterday on 13-4.
So, maybe this is to be expected, this probably is what Mirage would have looked like, but
as I said, pre-hit, see what they can do, but at the moment, spirit, know what they
can do, and they're in full control.
It's also very good to see that they've been able to reset like this, even without Halley
between maps, just try and pull the team back in line, give them some advice, just get them
levelheaded once again.
This is going to be a big test for Magix and the infancy of his IGL and career as well,
suffering a map loss like that against Red Cannons and then being in a position where
he has to like, regalvanize the team and get everybody with their heads back in the game
and make sure he keeps his head in the game.
So it's a challenge in that regard.
A bit of a challenge here in the round for Red Cannons as they're able to make something
work with these weaker weapons, couple pistol kills coming through for them all of a sudden
to 5 vs 2. Look at that, they're such a play for that, and we even drop will get a kill
through the wooden cave. So, all of a sudden, out of completely nowhere, they get a little
bit more lackadaisical and get punished for it. That 5-7 stack gets all the damage, rifles
can be picked up for free, with all five players alive, that'll do wonders for their money.
Yeah, absolutely. I was just about to say, we have had a 13-0 on ancients already with
and I'll be besting Bait on that map two days ago.
And I'm glad I didn't say it before this round,
because then I would have been accused of,
obviously, tinkering it.
However, it's gonna be a red cannon
to get the round done and then make it look easy.
Like you say, maybe Spirit just getting a little bit relaxed
there in that round, a little bit complacent
and it's gonna cost us a head-man.
Whatever we say, we'll always be accused
of cast the cursing things.
I don't believe in it personally, but there we are.
Watch this. Donk's gonna get a crazy entry.
So he didn't curse that one.
Davadayus will...
Davadayus will go down immediately.
And now he's trying to press the issues
from further behind the smoke.
And Shay has no idea how to make a novel renaissance.
They're giving it cursory glances, but Donk's ready.
More ready than ever before.
And look at the third.
A clean tap on Shay.
And he'll say bye bye in this round.
Donk's looking for them all pushing through red.
Two players were siding here.
to try and clear every single angle. ESE's drop. Oh, it was so close to the fourth and you could tell
he really wanted that fourth on the possible ace, but in the end all that matters is that Spirit win
another clean round. It's going to be 8-1 and Tanea is roundly on these two saving players as well.
Karras is more stuck than the stuck thing in this corner. He's trying to brawl his way out,
but he'll get traded by Tanea and now as you can see, Donk knows this is what it is more like for
spirit. Yeah, brilliant round coming through from and bouncing back immediately after they
lost to the half-buyer as well as a key win there for spirit just to make sure that there's
no momentum whatsoever born off of that round when they're four red canards. You see that
graph that came out from Luz Reposer recently about first bullet accuracy? I didn't, but
I know he does good content. Educate me. So who's at the top? Have a guess. Is it Donk
by chance. It's not Donk. It's not Donk, which was crazy. It's frozen. Frozen has got the
first bullet act, the best first bullet accuracy out of any tier one player, which is just
ridiculous. Donk is obviously right up there, but it's the top three frozen rops and Donk.
There you go. Save Frozen. Any agreeers on that one? I'd imagine so. Just everybody watching
the same. Good kill from Shay. Today we'll go down. Get a couple of consolation rounds
at the end of this half, nine, three, eight, four. This will keep them in the conversation.
If it's a 10, two, eleven, one, we know it's 100% cooked. It'll be a nicely cooked meal
for Team Spirit to get to overpass ASAP. I said earlier, right? I mean, we were thinking
that overpass would never be happening between these two, but Shay was brilliant against
Gentlemates on overpass yesterday. If you can rekindle some of that, then you might still
have a game rather than what we are expecting to be, a bit of a walkover in map 2 and 3.
Got to holding on really well here though. Get some stuff for Double on Donk and Zontics.
Now Kawerz knows what's going on. He might use to push ramp here, one of the more unexpected
places to be at this stage of the round, but look where Magix is. And Ren too. And then
Magic's lost alive. Oh, he's got a freebie, but I don't think it's going to have any impact in the round, thankfully.
Never mind. Friend 2 reads it well, falls all the way back, even making noise with it, plays it a bit safer, and gets a nice kill.
So that's two red cannons.
Really well done coming through there to at least get themselves a second run and try and give themselves something to work with going into the second half.
half mean obviously even if they win these last two to get eight four on the
board that would be far from desirable but it means that on paper they haven't
lost the map in the first half.
I ain't about to be taken.
Pretty fast opening to the map for Spirit with how they went about things and
Looks like they're gonna run it back here and Karras was not ready. That's more of the
Explosive teneer we saw from the gun five of heroic days
No holds barred B Bumsite taken and
Sure the red can rotation is multiple on shelf when we go for a flank
But there's on ticks are still there to hold for that alongside shiro and that smoke is covering it off
Make that retaking possible
So even with the money in the bank they've got going to the far end of the half
they're already committing to a save because they know they're probably going to be hunted anyway.
Yeah, true. I mean, they have been already at once at one point in this half. It's
spurred going back to their good old faithful that that's just been their default when they've
lost around is all right. Let's just brute force our way back into B. As you say, they catch carways
completely off guard by progressing forward before he's even been able to drop that smokes.
They're already way advanced ahead of that smoke grenade. Get that kill on carways and with one
frag that's already round over. And now, I mean, now it is map over in the first half,
even though this is 9-3, there's no world in which Red Cannons are going to be able to come
back from a 9-3 deficit on the T side of agents against this informed spirit. You have looked
a hell of a lot better. The rest of the team doing their job to a really good level as well.
Far more convincing.
It is. And right now the focus is just getting themselves out of this small hole. They are
dug for themselves, but they'll know it's only a very, very small step on where they
want to be. I mentioned that their form, how inconsistent it's been since those changes
that have come through to the team. I think I was pretty happy that they brought Zontox
back and moved to near into something a bit more comfortable, but somebody found out that
way to begin with and it's looked very uncomfortable overall for the entire team. At least this
game which should have been way more comfortable than this is looking a bit more free for Spirit
here. Davideus is going to try and make something happen with the M4 in middle this time, pushing
around this smoke. Donk is a late entry on this occasion and there's nothing you can do sometimes
when Donk is on the other side and then the example of it that last line up
there from drop to actually take down his opposite number I gel versus I gel not
really a duel more just a crowd coming through there from drop to bring it back
into a four versus four as spirit will set their sights in on a donk left his
own devices on middle he's gonna have to hold this ground here to and circumvent
any rogues rotations try and keep this donut player focused in on middle as
Well, I'm a Julie, taking Win-Gonks in this sort of form, but she says I don't care, destroys him
And that's gonna allow for him to have his attention back into A, he's gonna drop this advance smoke to give himself a bit of room to work with
But T'Nia will deny with a really well timed spray
Smoke doesn't completely expose the planter and rents him with the no scope on the follow-up though
Extremely unlikely on that second attempt, but he's actually gotten the frags. I need to make something happen
From Temple, but it's a look away as soon as two players in clutch in his position and then just ignores it entirely
OK, Zontics, but a miscommunication there maybe. What could Shirou do with the rifle?
Behind default box, against Rento, Drop and Kara as there's one tap.
Looking for a second, even getting encroached upon by Rento.
Shots have been missed, but Drop will figure it out.
The Red Canids do manage to scrounge a third round at the end of that half.
They got a 9-3 on map 1, they won the map, but Spirits are 9-3 up here.
They should win the map. Let's see if they can in a few minutes.
Well, like the spirit we know and love, both in the server and out of the server, with
the attitudes on the side of Donk and Magix, but the support between the two of them, they
need it right now because they're still a map down, they haven't secured Ancient yet,
but it should be done in a matter of minutes.
the direction that the game is trending in right now spurts in complete control and there should
be no world in which that wanes here on ancient completely destined to take this to the decider
which would be overpass and will be overpass I say with all the confidence I have in spur
finishing off the job and I mean they may be on the CT side but that's not going to stop them from
attacking here in the pistol. Yeah ready I mean look in the middle to see if red cannons are
are preparing for a shout, but they're going to see the Jaguar sapping stead. Now Shura
with the Dually's immediate double kill. Two guns are better than one and maybe he's going
to get three kills. Beautifully held. And now Ren2 and Shae are left a little bit confused
about what to do next. Ren2 might be the player with the utility, but the unfortunate part
is he's got no teammates around him to use it for. And that bomb, of course, also dropped
on the edge of Jag. Try and put Molly in there to force a couple of players at bay, but Shiro
is not being cleared, and maybe it could be a Shiro moment here. There is four going for
the reload, almost jumps at the last player with the knife, but who cares, because Donk's
there to help. So important round to sort of the second half for Shiro. Nice quad to
get them to double digits.
Sheriff Shiro on the scene slaughters the foxes. My goodness, he goes hunting, and he
He does a brilliant job by finding all of those kills, I mean the fact that he's even
able to get those first two frags initially and then he even has time to get the smoke
grenade out and then get the pistols back to that third kill was just sublimely done
from him.
4 for 4 in pistol round, I'm proud, I suppose I've had not a single loss, I haven't had
any problems in that department throughout this series.
No Fully Co.
And now, yep, just the glocks for red cannons, full they've got.
Hmm, what did you have to fuel your fuel yourself for the broadcast today?
Oh boy, I I had quite the meal four eggs scrambled beautifully
into some toast with cheese on top and avocado and a tomato.
OK, I didn't expect that to be that extensive for the answer.
But I know you don't disappoint me, usually, with that.
Those answers, I'm going to say.
I've been eating some big breakfast.
Man
What about yourself? What did you go for for my my classic sandwiches and crisps because I'm British, you know and all that
Love how you emphasize British with like an even more yeah, I pronounce my teas man. I pronounce my tea
That's all I'm saying. I do it properly. I
appreciate
Why is it a note you're saying three or three either way what I know is this round is free for spirit
It's three rounds for red cannons and two away from spurred taking us to the site.
Now he can actually cast a game again, an actual interesting round upon us.
Let's see if red cannons can show something on a slight recovery,
or if we're going to speed run to overpass.
11-3 to Scott. And it's going to keep the MP9. No operento, unfortunately, and it looks
like we're going to have something a bit pacey off the bat. We know how easy it is to hold
W on to either one of these two bombsites on ancient and get onto these sites quickly.
And don't call any hold on for one. A bombsite taken. Davides is luck. Actually does find
magics as we can see him retreating from middle now.
The Zontics has dealt with Renter, and that's an annoying one.
That's the bomb on the floor now that they're going to have to creep forward to grab, and
another bomb on that smoke is elapsing.
Ah.
I've also double mollied, so that's going to cost them an extra piece of utility to
work with, but at least Avedes will find that frag on Zontics who is just frustrating
them through from CT to near now in donut.
Is he going to look to try and make it take it goes through?
he might be able to deny this bombcloth, that's not going to happen for him. Drop will get his gun up, but not in time to deal with Tanea.
Thankfully, Kawa's is on the scene to restore calm and get the job done, as Red Cannons will keep themselves on ancient for a little bit longer.
So earlier, about Red Cannons maybe throwing caution to the wind and just giving this one the, uh, you know, good old college try.
And I think going for that rush A there was that. And I'm glad to report it hasn't failed too horribly.
As I've never dared to look, I was talking about great replay to catch that.
Now it's all hold on for some more impact after how good he was on map 1, as he said,
repeating it was pretty impossible and he's not repeated it, but there's something to
talk about there on the hold.
Now Spirit's money is on the edge of being broken, so we could have 11.5 and if we do,
it should be 11.6.
That would make sense considering the financial status here for Spirit and Red Cannons there.
to make moves early on in the round. They've already scaled four players up through middles,
waiting for that smoke and doughnut to fade, and that might be their moment to then look to accelerate.
But it's Donku's on the scene with one of these three rifles and deep space has been taken by
Zontics in their main, and there's no pressure on him right now, so he might be a really difficult
player to try and uproot if they do commit to the exec, but this one lone smoker is going to be
enough for red cannons to re-root and reassess the situation. Donku's job in that round,
on this round thus far was to jiggle Donut and see if they were advancing. In the end, his presence alone,
his aura, I've kept them away from Donut and Drop is going to do the damage instead. They burst their
way through Red Room and the help from Shea to take Donk out to make sure that Drop didn't get caught
on the secondary angle works really well. Thontik's now alone on A and Magic's alone in Jaguar.
Red Canis, I just need to group up, make their call and they should have that 11-5 I was talking
about. Can Zontics be a bit of a snake in the grass here? There's one. J was low. I know where he
is and they should be enclosing upon him from doughnut. He's going to be using the position
two. Zontics does find one more, but now the molotov will be an issue and that plant should
be able to come through. The lurk from carries works well. If I'm magic's advancing, that's twice
now magic's been caught by a red canid's lurk. And Zontics will be trying to get out of that.
Now while navigated here from 8 cannons, as you mentioned the aura from Fogman and
Smokerlade as well, force them back from Donuts, they decide okay let's try and rather
take this through middle and then it's a really good flashbang to set those two players
up that were advancing through Red Room, that was a REN2 flashthrow, I think it was Drop
and Shea that then combined really nicely there to actually get that control, get themselves
flurry of frags, three kills in quick succession here between them.
Since they're round up brilliantly. At this point, red cannons, they just don't keep spirit yet for
a little bit longer, and it deprived them of some of that momentum that they've built up
throughout ancient up until now, and try and hype themselves up as well to improve the mood in
the camp if they could get seven, maybe eight rounds here on ancient before they inevitably
lose the map compared to what would have been losing like 13-3 potentially.
I just feel a little bit better about yourselves and that can help going into map 3.
Exactly.
Fully co-coming in here so we can give you the A-screen update.
G2 did beat 3D Max 2-0.
Quite a comfortable one as well.
36-31.
Some parts of Mattis leading the way.
TAC once again playing very, very well.
You lack of pressure maybe on G2 at this event but in some parts of the interim in-game leader.
That's that secondary caller with that help is
Making g2 perform at their best good kills from zontics here rare headshots with the dig from him, but he will go down
to cowers
Now let's see if we can as can keep this comeback trial going
Also that means you have confirmation of what would be our lower bracket final match here in group a g2 versus the winner of the series and
and that would be for a spot in the Rio at the arena at Rio.
For Masi Arena.
On stage. Yes, sir. That's what they're playing for right now,
is to book themselves a date with G2.
And that would be later on tonight, by the way, Trak.
That means two days to freeze in one day.
On current form, I picked G2.
I was very, I'm completely honest with you.
We'll move tack.
Anyway, fast play coming in here.
Already mid-control for Adaius.
He does best on this occasion from Shell.
Find Shiro as well.
They're starting to work their way back into this game.
Karris playing around this smoke, Magix.
All they're going to bypass each other,
but Magix gets his vision back first.
Now they're two more players that came from Davaday,
so they can find one more headshot and he does as to Nier.
Try this to come and help out.
Deleted by the Chilean Goat.
Preview two.
Yeah, they're trying to figure out what to do here
because they saw Zontics earlier on in the round.
They saw that he was the one that retreated back through
doughnut rent to hold the flank really well done they recognize that they've
got a four ccts to make some sort of a move rent to punishes that move they
know that magics was over towards be not too long ago and so they will just
charge across over at a that vacant bombsite and that's another gun round
going their way so maybe they're prying the door open ever so slightly to try to
get their foot jam their foot in between the frame and the door and see if
they can ask some questions here of spirits on ancient which seemed like
it was a formality at one point. You could also see the miscommunication by the way in
middle in that round because after Don goes down, Xantix decides that he's not hanging
around. He looks to retreat back through that smoke at that moment. Shiro goes through the
red room smoke to fight in the middle. So Shiro and Xantix on completely different pages
at that point.
Davideus will close it with a quad, and there will be no saves for Spirit. These from the
Dabba Deus POV, but hop up on the little shelf near Jaguar to get that kill on Taneer was
particularly clean, and of course Dabba Deus knows what it's all about, getting into a
major playoffs in the Americas, making one with pain, going all the way to the semi-finals
an incredible tournament for him, now back on one of his older organisations, very really
been a name for himself on red canids and he's fracking as good as he ever used to.
And again, some of the biggest and best names in the world making it even more impressive.
Just going back to the points I was making as well.
I mean, that has kind of been one of the big issues that Spurt have highlighted is that
they're frequently not on the same page.
And we could see it there in that round with how Shiro and Zontics weren't really
able to combine as well as they probably could have in that situation. Making plays that kind of
contradicted one another. The CT side has been where Spirit have been struggling and maybe just
maybe we're seeing those issues creeping in here on Ancient as well. They'll still be breathing easy
but not much if they lose and not a whole lot if they lose that next round. Obviously an issue if
they managed to find this round but these often can get out of hand even from these
positions. Zontec's MP9 big, Shadow Advantage you know Shiro is here with the P250 but Zontec
has to watch into that main position he can't help because he's occupied by Shea even though
he does take Shea out, the A bomb site is taken comfortably and Donk can make it a headshot.
It's only on the retreat. AK for magics to grab after Donk gets that kill and I'm sure
That will be dropped over to the man himself in the next round
11 8 makes for far better reading than 11 3 ever did that's for sure seemed like it was a closed case at that point
If they win this next gun round all of a sudden I reckon there's a little bit of a cause for concern at that point
Some of that momentum that
Spirits had built up with all the success they had to grab majority of the map proceeding this little fight back coming through from red cannons
We spoke about how cowards are a bit of a lifer on map one
I think it's important to mention for me that
Drop is playing very well as an individual while being the in-game leader something that I touched on at the beginning of the series is that often
and, um, you know, drop has really fallen off individually in big pressure moments in big tournaments.
Well, it was in-game leading slash playing as a rifle for Fiora and MIBR, but it's having a good one here when it matters
to try and keep his team alive in his home event.
It's been really good throughout the tournament so far been very impressive.
Where's the flash?
It's gotta go straight through. Dry is the name of the game.
That fan's never gonna work out against Donk, who does the damage with the triple,
made to look easy as usual,
and that should set Spirit to get themselves up to that point.
Back to a 2KD, and again, as we saw earlier, he's hunting for more,
but Drop will put him down this time.
They're gonna be a little bit careful. 2v5s can get out of hand.
They do know Drop is stuck. That is the Donk we know and love.
Especially on Ancient, just controlling Middle all by himself, pretty much.
Rintu and drop now working their way up ramp
It's their last port of call the last option really
Rintu does have the banners back does have utility as well to be fair but
It's all two players here. Magix has got the line. He's got help from Tenea every angle is being covered
They have got up a very long way though. That's gonna be a nice clear for drop. Unfortunately. Let's go down for his trouble
So Rintu the new boy
by S tier event debut, but wall banged out of the round.
There's not even a chance for a plant then to be set up.
And that is what can happen at this level.
Yeah, I appreciate the effort there
of what you were trying to set up yourself
for Rento in the 1v3, but I just denied
before you can barely even finish punching in the digits.
It was a really risky approach,
trying to walk through the smoke at that point.
I mean, donk at the worst of times,
is still able to find multi kills
from those sorts of positions.
as easy as it's going to get for him. And now, four chances here for Spur to seal the
fate of this map and take his time to pass to Sint for the score here and see which of
these two teams will be eliminated here at IEM Rio 2026.
But Paul Creep passed the Jag Smoke to help clear up middle. That is the extra prong that
it was kind of missing. I had it but Bonk deleted it in that previous round. And, uh,
the magics might be going for the peek forward. The big gap on that right side to work with
and now Dropnose is close trying to get that damage through the paper thin walls of Jag.
Gonna fall back now though. The bomb has dropped till outside middle. I haven't made a call
yet at all. I have red canids. So I'm just holding in their default. The booster, try
me clear red room, but they want it home.
Asperd is saying we're not going to give this one to you by just clashing straight into
you at the start of the round and then maybe just losing this by virtue of Jules, you're
going to have to come and get it.
And you've seen the Hilo set up in cave with two.
How about the AWP in the mix there as well from Shiro?
There were three players looking in that direction.
However, red canards have been able to find a big gap here as they carved their way through
middle.
I've heard I've got no idea that this is happening right now.
Penny will start to drop for Shiro as he starts to consider it, but the attention is being kept on B by this little bit of a fake that's being thrown.
They setting themselves up for a B-split, they're very well maybe, and that will keep Shiro's attention away from middle.
And now, off the back of losing that party making their way up ramp, they decide that they actually have to try and shift their focus in towards a Xontix on the tree,
and then you've got a player who keeps himself up in temple. Xontix will show his position, and then that allows for Dom to step up with a brilliant double kill.
have Spirit have got their campaign back on track as they bounce back on it.
And that is more like it from Spirit and from Donk.
He was completely shut out of play by Falakins yesterday and in this opening
map, even though he almost had that incredible 1v4 at the end to try and save Spirit,
he was also not at his best. That is more like it and a brilliant map from him.
His first appearance really in Rio showing what we all know he is made of.
Red Cannons have to go to Overpass to try and create what would be the upset of the year maybe so far
And the only way it's been on the ground
Is when I can see you, I gotta let it down
I need something better to do
Spending hours thinking of you
Holdin' love like a fuel
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Don't look who I am on my own
I'm lost in fellow times, I'm too slow
And I just wanna talk about my own
This only ends now All the moments we love
I'm sick of feeling stuff Our home is a fight
It feels like I'm going to hell now I'm lost in fear, it's a new start
All this world is forever unknown
Yeah, unknown
It's all my core, I am unknown
And my defectors, no soul
All this world is forever unknown
Unknown
They will use it to shed a leak
Turn to lose and all consider
Come on, get together
Tonight's the night
Even if you're feeling blue
It will be alright
Leave your troubles behind
And have no doubt
Don't you ever feel the day of the love?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, feeling
Staying in the groove, the rhythm, feeling
Oh, oh, oh, oh, feeling
Turnin' loose in the rhythm, feeling
Don't forget about that time
Tonight we rock tonight
Tonight, tonight
Oh, oh, oh, what a feeling
I'm standing through the days of cheerleading
Oh, oh, oh, what a feeling
I think you can feel it.
That this is a magical moment.
And not every moment can be precious like this.
So come on, here's something you don't want to miss.
I gotta get out
I gotta get out of here
Gotta get out
I get to get out, I feel it here inside of me
But you know what just occurred to me, baby
The feeling would've used to be
At this time, I just keep on walking
And I won't stop no, I just can't waste time talking
Gotta save myself
Gotta get out, gotta get outta here
That's the last thing I do
Gotta get through, gotta get through to you
Gotta get out, gotta get outta here
Got to see what's up at the meeting
I'm missing no matter where I go, where I be
Come on, I can't help but find my own beat
No, just come on, gotta be out of here
I just keep putting more
Who's got a big, big thing?
Gotta get out of here
Just kick it, hold it back
Got to get up
Got to get up, got to get out of here
I gotta get up, yeah, yeah
Come on, got to get out of here
You can hold me back, oh, oh, no
Got to get out, come on, got to get up, got to get out
Gotta get out of here
Come to see what's up in the game
Spirit have looked like shadows of their former selves at Intel Extreme Masters Rio in the last couple of days until that map of ancient.
Sure, it's only red cannons, but Donk is back, putting in the numbers we know he can.
26 kills, 13 deaths, 2.07 rating on 134 ADR.
They need more of that though, to confirm keeping him alive in the lower bracket.
I mean surely it is just business as usual here once again with Spirit bouncing back
the way that they did on Ancients and looking a whole lot like the team we'd expected coming
into the series.
I don't think that's now going to be derailed again because sure it's one thing to have
a slow start and get completely off guard, maybe there were complacent coming into map
one just expecting to dominate on Mirage and coast through the series, they then get that
rude awakening, they look really good on map 2, now surely they remain locked in and finish
off the job right.
you think, and of course something that you mentioned yesterday, um, over past all plus
map, uh, Ren2 is not really looking like the, the player that he wants himself to be at
this level. He's been really struggling throughout this entire series. And, um, no, when you've
got Shiro as your counterpart to go up against, maybe you can expect that briefly on your
big event debut. But he's going to need to show up here to give Red Cannons any chance
ATTOL!
Absolutely, Red Canid's gonna be starting off on the CT side as they did on Ancient,
and I think it might be really difficult for them to try and contain Spurt on this T-Side.
Sure, Overpass T-Side, generally speaking, is quite difficult, but I think that the...
...Pascent ferocity that Spurt are gonna bring to the server here might just completely blow Red Canid's out.
No, boy, if they hadn't already had a good enough chance of all players alive on the server here for...
...Spurt as they get the bomb down, they've been able to boost the player up into Heaven.
At least Kawa's will draw first blood and second added into the mix as well, but if her resistance put up by magic though,
magic's rather with a quick fire double will certainly help. No kit in play means timers of the essence.
Hmm, it'll go down and Drop and Shea will do some good work. Now, Zontex is 1 HP from Heaven.
A bomb is being diffused, but it was just in vision and they might get all the kills, but I'm afraid for Red Cannons it won't be enough.
Oh, well done from Zontics. It felt really awkward when he was so low on health and all of a sudden he was the last man left alive.
That boost into heaven ends up paying dividends as Zontics is able to get two key kills there from above and find the frag on the diffuser just in time.
That was the necessary kill. His prioritization was on point.
Spirit come up the gate swinging here as they pick up on overpass for the lift off on ancient
Force by will come through they have enough to get
Shea on the M4. That's what the update to give you $50 per kill gives you
The extra opportunity to buy a bit more if you actually do get all the frags in the pistol even if you lose the round
and I mentioned it one more
time. Pretty crazy that it says
David in a big event and. Coming
from the Red Cannons Academy
also only playing a couple of
events prior one LAN as well in
Sao Paulo. That was pretty much
it. He's already played an
Intel Extreme Masters against
both as I will and don't.
either Spirtle Falcons here in the slower bracket game. So that would have been super
difficult regardless of who he came up against. A trial by fire, four into and only his second
LAN events of his career. And he's got a hull of a test ahead of him here over on the A bomb
side of Force by back from red. Can it to try and respond to the pistol round where they
had lost it out? He is the only man here right now. And he's fallen back into that.
And this should be impossible for him to hold on by himself with only a scout.
Unfortunately, this stack will not be successful unless Rento does something unbelievable.
Or, spirits, I can guess themselves and go back B, but I don't think they're going to be doing that.
They'll focus all of them on A now, and that Nade does critical damage, poor Rento.
Not even given an opportunity to shoot one bullet.
Shifting away with that scout, we could have a bit of a unicorn round here.
The magic is on the hunt, which means he may be able to get a kill on Rento as he shifts away toward B,
but they are committing to a 5v5 save there on the CT side.
I really like their decision not to actually
try and shift the defence away from B.
They gamble stacked on that B bombsite, they bet on black,
the ball swings around the board and it lands in red
and so that's unfortunate,
but it means that they will be able to keep all five
of their players alive here and save their money
and still effectively have a four sport set of weapons
to work with.
So I think it's a good decision making to think tank their Rom-Raid Cannons.
We're going to be able to get far away enough to survive the bomb explosion.
It's going to be Spurt who go up 2-0.
Yes, a compilation of the entire round from Cowards' POV.
That's all he was able to do.
I listened to my voice notes to speed.
That's unfortunately sometimes the reality of a professional counter strike.
If you guessing correctly, that's what you've got to do.
Anyway, Spirit will be very aware that they have exactly the same purchase in this round as they had in the previous.
In form, shape, so in play, they might not know about it.
Guess what, Cow is in the same role again.
Can we get a counter going of how many times he's had to jump here in these past rounds?
Do you think he's a mouse wheeler or a spacebar jumper?
Oh, I hope for his sake.
This is a scroll wheel jump going on right now and he's not having to push space every
time.
I'm a disgusting spacebar user.
I hate to admit.
Just to answer yourself, Trav.
Why would you do that live on broadcast, mate?
Hey, man.
Any headshots is what matters.
Rensu can't, though, and oh, he gets a tag, but yeah, no 360 trick shots to work with
here. I'll give him some style
points. No kill points. I'm
afraid rotation up is pretty
quick for David air some
teneur is close thing is ever
this is very exposed from
bathroom and as soon as these
players free up, they're going
to catch him in the side as
well to find one. He's got some
help actually launching into
the action, but that help will
now be deleted as Donk finds
Well, managed to just clip Shea out of the round as well.
Encourages the smoke in a kit,
but there'll be no ninja possibilities here.
He's buying next round anyway.
He might give it a look just for the hell of it.
That's the only chance, right?
That's the only way he could conceivably win the round
is if Spirits exit the bomb site early,
he gets a kill on one, drops a smoke while diffusing
and makes some magic happen.
It's definitely his plan and what he's hoping for.
One player already making his way down to B. Second following suit, but he's gonna have
to run from here and that's the problem, is the steps are gonna be heard and he hasn't
even gotten himself close enough, unfortunately.
He shies away, Trav.
Disgusting.
That will be the three score.
Yeah, indeed, unfortunately, he doesn't roll the dice.
Some damage done, at least with a couple kills coming through from red cannons, is he gonna
be buying up in this next round at Spur to come out the gate swinging. Can they get this
first gun run under their belts as well because that would really solidify their strong start
here on Overpass.
And yesterday when Red Cannons were able to beat Gentlemates in that game we covered on
the B stream, it took incredible moments from Shea on the T side to get that game one for
Red Cannons and is that really replicable? I'm not so sure. So they need to get a handle
hold in the game here very quickly otherwise it's gonna be disappearing from
them. Expectedly so, but they've had a chance given to them by their brilliant
Mirage and it would be a shame if they went with the Wimper. True, true. Because
they weren't able to bring nearly the same sort of ferocity to ancient with
what we saw out of them on Mirage, but I mean that was to be expected considering
the struggles they've had on that map in general. Tania gonna have a duel offered up to him. It's a
really good understanding of the angles here from Kawa's with the position that he's taken up,
that he can't be spotted from Lowers and that he can just step out and immediately force that fight.
But he has lost Avedas in water already. Spirit looked to build themselves in this round now
taking some shape. They have kind of kept their options open with Dong feeling out towards Longan.
It's a near in Lowers, but with the time ticking they're going to have to make a decision
And it looks like the the the B bomb sites where they're going to try and finish this round
And Rento playing from pillar he has to get this opening kill
He's with a few of these from this position already and even more so now coward has gone down
Oh, it's gonna be awkward. They should just get completely enclosed upon as long as it's will find drop and Rento is so stark
I so uncomfortable to watch
Usually in those situations your rifle is there to support you so here's like complete committal to that position
looks really ugly yeah all his friends were dead and unfortunately that makes
it super awkward for him much like the sign suggests no playing ball here for
red cannons just yet on overpass there remain on a duck that kill there on
carways I think was the really key frag in the round there to completely open up
that be on site was even a team passion makes on six got completely blinded up by
a flash throw over monster time, but he was able to regain his vision and time and that makes it
impossible for Ren 2 left to his own devices. Not able to do the Guardian. No, no, that is the
thing that my brain goes back to every time I see that position. And the dream is real as he mounts
all five. Mouse sports are no more. Isn't it crazy? I can remember the castle lines from like 2016.
I mean yeah absolutely props to you ten years ago it was a completely iconic
moment there's a reason it's called the Guardian because really only one man's
Let's get a piece in those sorts of moments together.
Ugh.
Good times.
Right, Trop.
What do you got for the team here?
Absolutely not the start that they would have been hoping for.
I mentioned that obviously generally speaking the rule of thumb is you love to start on the CT side of overpass
But I actually think when you're such a massive underdog like red canids are in this game
I think there's a weird case to be made to actually want to play on the T side first
Or maybe it's more so not wanting the big favorites to get to start on the T side where they get to come into the map
Dictate the pace of the game. I know I know it sounds crazy
But I've seen it happen all too often where you have this massive just out to between teams and when the favorites start on the T side
They just run away with the game by getting to like I say dictate the pace play on their own terms
Warm up into the game as it goes on and not have to remain static and wait for the game to come to them
It's what we saw happen on Mirage right where it kind of started on the T side
Completely blue spirit of the server not saying that would happen here again
But I think it's really tough to try and start on the defensive half against an already warmed-up spirit another
Four-man session up on B for red cannons and another round where cow is is
committed to his role
Poor guy. That's how he spent the entire map so far, it feels like. That's all saving.
Anyway, it's a similar setup. Ren 2 alone with the scout.
Spirit, no, they don't need to just run in willy-nilly.
Take their time, set up on long, use the utility around bathroom to block off green bin, block off truck.
I'm going to work their way in now.
Shea is there to help. Actually, there is a rotation a little bit quicker this time.
There are going to be four players on site.
They could be locked behind some utility cell.
Actually, Shane will hold on if I magic.
Shane's dropped with one, but it's a really important kill from Shiro in the end.
USP of Rentsu will drop, however, and that will call it.
Five-zero.
All navigated from Spurt, despite running into the numbers on the A bomb site, they make
light work of the defense.
Like you said, an important kill coming through from Shiro to really alleviate the pressure
and basically hammer the round home.
Clean shot there from Taneir to finish off the job.
5-0 indeed.
Red can, it's time to run out of chances here in this first half.
If they can't win this first gun run, then the rock really starts to set in
and it feels like this becomes completely impossible for them if it isn't already.
Yeah, maybe took it just a little bit for spirit to warm into the game today.
I was like, unfortunately, this third map might be a bit of a damp squib of a map, but I'm
hopeful for a closer game.
We shall see.
Shiro going for the classic towards short, getting ahead of the utility, going for the
peek from the sandbags.
It's going to be a good nade.
And Shiro will get into Cowair, so that's a change-up, this coming through with that
nades that did perfectly counter it, banked off of the girder, near and Xontex tagged down low.
An opening kill for Red Canada's rarity here since Mirage, especially one that doesn't just get
immediately traded now. Magix is going to try and find a timing. This is just dry contact,
this is them not wanting to give up the game as to actually what's going on.
Magix is going to cross in towards the corner here and probably remain posted in this position.
No need for red cannons to go advancing though with that man advantage already in play. They're gonna want spur to come to them
Three man set up on the bomb site itself and one player in heaven donkeys hoping that would be till it is done
You might be able to pull some of the attention away. It's a really good flashbang there
But thankfully for cow is he's got David is in support to keep him alive
The kill will eventually come back your force group, but it should be too little to ever death
There's also taken up the position that cow is was playing and that is exactly what works out for his second kill on to near
good job from red can is they're
in the game now. Comfortable
until you get that first round
on the board. It's a cliche, but
it's true. And. As I said,
that's exactly something they've
put into practice on their B
side. Defense is yesterday when
they lose that. Barrels player
creep Davides into that position.
Maybe it could be the way around
on occasion. It could be cowers
to hide their plan model and try and get a couple of cheeky kills, and when they're going overlooked,
at that time there was never really any risk in the round, though.
That's just it.
Give an insurance policy to get him against that frag.
I've noticed Donk has actually been playing the extremity quite a lot on this map so far.
He's often almost been like in a weird lurk role, where he's been by himself on the top
side of the map. Obviously, there's a lot of space there for him to work with,
and that's what you want with a player like Donk where he can try and force those jewels
and back his mechanics, try and find some 1v1s.
It's quite interesting to note that he's often been just like left to his own devices
to feel out the opposite side of the map to where his team is going to try and finish these rounds.
There we go.
Rintu's got one.
He's hoping he's gonna get some more but more permanently rather than just the singular
but Zontek's entered carries again, Davides playing the same position but they'll know
he's here this time. Lots of mollies in water, it's a very obvious position he will be in
now toward barrel. Renting to here on time, he's gonna hit some shots and these flashes
are still gonna be very awkward for him to deal with and they're really encroaching on
this position. Drop has dropped in to help though and Davides is doing a great job once
again from the barrel position. Two quick headshots when two does hit his one shot and
Chirro is not going to be attempting this one.
And fortunately Spurred actually missed their window of opportunity with the exec. They
were looking to try and force themselves into that B bomb site. Had they continued to commit
after they had entered the B bomb site initially, it would have only been the barrels player
that they had to contest. But because they just decided to slow things down and respect
the smokes at that point. That's when we see the rotation start flooding through from red
cannons. They get two players on the bombsite, they get one in heaven, the utile starts to
be deployed as well, and they completely stifle the attack. You need to see a little bit more
of a kill at instinct coming through there from Spurs, I reckon.
Yeah, a little bit stalled. And we've seen that work before. I mean, there was actually
around yesterday that General Knight's put together right where they just waited behind
those smokes and with that patience we were able to break through.
It was a bit of a gamble, but Spirit it didn't work on this occasion.
It was pulling control and read it perfectly.
Mzontek threw short already, short control imperative on other passers we know and he's
already going to put himself in that corner.
Now, Spirit have exhausted their funds here with an investment in roundnates.
If they lose this round as well, then red cannons should draw within one and all of a sudden the decider is well and alive at that point.
Couple consecutive rounds going the Brazilians way. Can they add one more to that tally?
To break the finances here for Spirit.
This one's worth 2-2 for the price of one. Everybody loves a good special and this is second one of them.
the boost on the default box for a drop to have a little look and unfortunately it doesn't work for him
It's a good kill from Zontics to grab
Now Ren2 feels like he needs to make a move and there are many players coming his way
And he could get caught from that connector swing. Shea is there with him
This is gonna be a hard flick to hit for Ren2. Bomb coming his way on the back of Magix and the setup is good
But it relies on Ren2 entirely and he will connect with it. That's a really nice one on to Nier
Now we're of course worried about some bathroom progression and he'd be absolutely right to be worried about it and Donk is too ready
For endu to swing it's out on Shay. You'll get one in the back. I say get one in the back
He's not completed it yet. Finally will be another bullet so look at Zontik's creeping through
Carrots are trying to make a play not gonna happen. Magix finds Shay and Davidas is on the
Smoke near Greenbin. The bomb now going back to will be with that sight being clear unfortunately in the wrong position
Oh, what could have been had Shea got that kill on Magix? That would have been the bomb
dropped from the round thrown into disarray. Magix will hold his own though and get that
key frag to then create that space. And obviously with the space being taken by Zontics of getting
that kill on Coway's, they realize that B is the best course of action. And Davideus,
just by virtue of almost being trapped, probably has to attempt this one. They've got some
money to play with, so why not? He starts to creep his way forward. Nothing on offer.
Magix will eventually swing to get some information and now Davideus wants to try and force the issue
because he knows that there was one player who was at a bomb site, so he's trying to isolate the jewels
but it's a really good timing on the peek there from Zontix.
He knows Davideus has just gotten on the bomb, he's probably going to try and tap it there to draw players out.
It's exactly what Zontix is relying on as he steps out and gets that kill.
Yes, basic, but no, I'm going to go for ranked players would think,
okay, we can't lose the round from here, just hide and we will win the round.
But sometimes it is a better decision to peek on those sort of timings when a player is making noise
running in when they're not ready for the swing, when they might be, as you say, in the process of
looking to try and tap the bomb. And it worked well for Azontics, spirit up to six and two.
They can have some money via the last couple of rounds they've won, but they don't get a six-six
half. I am not entirely confident and really realistically, if you look at previous games on
on the map, 6 on T should be enough for Spirit already.
Yeah, they're gonna want more. They're 6 inside of 8 here. They're gonna want to try and put Red Cannons away in this first half, and if they can win this gun round here in round 9, they're basically on the brink of enacting that already, because then they go up 8-2, and that's completely an unassailable lead.
What's the game plan going to be? It looks like they can fast in towards that B bomb site coming through from Spur, do they just continue the charge late? Absolutely do.
Flashes over the top, the top donk leading that charge right now, surging forward. Noises got players trapped in towards the back of the bomb site as well.
Really good flashes coming through from Spur to keep Donk alive for a little bit longer, but it's a couple kills that go back and forth.
Teneir's going to start to run out of ammo, but he will get a kill before he does.
Cat always treats positions with Tania, but you've got magics on the spot there to get the kill necessary and gain full control
That was all over the place, but it will be spirit who come out on top
That was a absolute kerfuffle on B there. That was very hard to track
But both teams really have burned the end and spirit break through and as you say just too much presence too quickly
They weren't really ready for it and rented about to die
to Shirou. Nope, staring at each other like we saw with Martinez and Shay yesterday. Uh,
that clip went pretty viral. As you can see here, Kauras almost made a play. Look at Tamiya
had no idea, but just not clean on the kill on Magix. Unfortunately.
Some brilliant tea sides here from Spirit so far on both Ancients and Overpass in particular.
I mean, they was at 9-3 or 10-2 on ancient.
I think it was 9-3.
9-3, I think, right?
Yeah, so 9 out of 12 rounds there on the T side,
going spurts away.
He has 7 out of 9 rounds on the T side,
going their way as well.
Gotta give Magix his flowers here,
especially without the coach.
This has been all him with some really good call
in great direction, some good ideas coming into the rounds.
And even when there's been some Spanish throw in the works,
they've still been able to come up with solutions
and adaptations on the fly to figure out
those difficult moments. This one here, 4 red can, it's certainly a difficult moment.
A light investment with the round lost bonus behind them means they can dig a little bit
deeper into their pockets. And Spode immediately recognised that this is going to be a lower
buy so their best course of action is to probably try and exploit some longer range jewels back
back up towards the A bomb site they go.
Luxmok will now come through with that long presence and Zontix is already up to front
bathroom.
Bon is with him and some of that ex-utility will now be used for a proper execute on A.
Once again, Rento is in a very similar position. It's not being as assertive as it wants to be when all the utility is flying in.
I get it. Davides has a flank, but with an MP9, can he really activate it?
It's gonna be checked at some point as well. Rento is already creeping away, so it might only be exit damage here for Davides.
Once it's creeping up,
let's get the kill. Now down to half HP and they're about to trade in. They're actually running him down for that trade.
near what's nothing to do with it.
They're going to entry from Shea, but Donk's going to hold on.
That switch to the weapon for Shea to grab the AK.
It's awkward in the corner, and Tanir will help out.
They're bouncing off of each other right now.
Tanir and Donk, great teamwork.
And Kauras is going to give this one a look with damage on Tanir and Donk,
but it's only consolation kills, and Donk will not miss, as he so often does.
Yeah, well done from Spirit there in the post plant,
because as soon as they identify a threat,
all immediately zero in their focus on that threat, right? Like you say this, you
davidness in bathrooms, okay, let's charge them down, let's get back kill.
Then they recognize that the next threat comes through from bank, okay? We just
overwhelm any players trying to come through from there, we stack up the
numbers and that works the trick as well. Red can is never really able to set
foot back in that A bomb site. Spurred eight out of ten, now just five rounds
away from surviving the scare here against red cannons. Definitely a tougher
test against G2 later tonight. They're gonna have to be on their game for that one,
each of them look really good in Rio thus far. Yeah I mean I feel like the shock of that first
map they lost against Red Cannards could serve Spurt in a weird way just to jolt them all back
into action. Yeah that's a good call. I need to break the smoke again but Tanira's gonna cross into Con.
One of an advanced angle for Rento on long.
Seems like that's one of his favourite positions to play from front with the AWP.
One of the safer ones.
I don't blame him.
On his big event debut.
Once again, I think Spirit are going to look to run this one back.
They know that the executes have been working well and Rento is going to try and play it
from the edge of the site instead.
You will find Don can point opening to grab.
Hasn't got much space on truck to work with though.
Being burnt down to 45 and the flash is on Shaya really good
and in comes Tanea.
Oh my goodness, an absolute wipeout on A again.
Even with the opening kill from Ren 2,
they still can't hold on.
For a team that have been,
I was going to say extremely poor with their flashes
in recent times,
but it's just straight up barely throwing flashes
on the T side.
That was a really well constructed run from Spirit using the Flash as brilliantly.
You see boys, you see how much easier it is to take Jules the players who are completely blind.
There's a lesson in there.
Oh, did you see the Observer gave it a little nod?
Cheers mate.
It's crazy to see though on the stats that have come out recently how Spirit are
out of like tier one teams, a team that by far used the least amount of flashes.
It used to be that, super effectively used.
It used to be the Naphany way.
Anymore, anyone who's been watching Naphany on TDK, you'll know that it's completely changed that thought process.
Any TDK enjoyers maybe?
You've got one of them right next to you, preferably speaking, just on the other side of the planet.
Um, I mean how many miles is it from London to South Africa? I'm not, I'm not sure. I haven't done the math.
Uh, I mean I know the kilometers. I think it's about 10, 9 to 10,000 I would guess.
Not bad. I'll walk it. See you in a minute. Uh, quick pushing towards short for Zontics. He's gonna
have control of it already and could catch the jump spot. Close. But no cigar. Dangerous.
It's also really important that Spurt gave themselves so much breathing room here before
they go to the CT side because the CT side is where they've been hamstrung lately here
with this team.
It's where they've really struggled and been underwhelming, been underperforming on the
defense of half regardless of the map.
It's their T side where they haven't really dropped off as much.
So the fact that they've already gotten nine rounds here, potentially even a tenth, but
I don't think that's going to make any difference in the grand scheme of things is certainly
done themselves a massive service and very I guess you could say set piece based from
spirit but now they're doing one on toward B. There have been lots on A and now they're
choosing to finish off the half with a bit of variance. Donk will get tagged on the jump
across there. Now he'll know there's a bit of presence in that ballroom position. Karris
holds on, needs more than the one though and can't get it. And just like that, both B site
players taking down, site open for business, drop ahead of the utility though.
There's one over peek until he's got a teammate in support. Not taking a tag to the molly
will make his mind to go for that path, but Ren2 smoked off with Xontix, taking the headshot
on drop. That is going to be that. Ren2 knows this half is over. One before, has nothing
You can do a team dig coming through, but Spirit won't care.
One, Josh, you can see Wikipedia there waiting in the background.
He wants to play his game and he might be able to in a minute.
Spirit are up and looking comfortable once again.
Oh
the game is not done yet.
Yeah, thankfully for spurred.
It's the best of three, uh,
obviously lost map number one
did not go according to plan
whatsoever. Winning one map for
red cannons was extremely
unlikely going on to win the
series for the first time
in a row, but it's still
was extremely unlikely.
Going on to win this series felt impossible.
A miracle would have been required,
and it certainly is now being down 10-2.
Feels like Red Cannons are a couple moments away
from being eliminated from their home tournament.
She-Row would be devastating with the Jules on Ancient,
but this time, he's only gonna be able to get one.
So Red Cannons at least give themselves a chance here
in the Pistols and start to push into Water.
Jax behind the smoke.
Molly for back dice comes through to lock it up,
but they are gonna be jumping into Magix,
that gives him the tour to most
free headshots of his life and
then don't arrives on the scene
and now they're loving it easy
for magics and they just get
gifted headshots.
Oh, I'd love to see it again in
a replay because that must have
been pretty crazy. Honestly, with
the USP up close like that with
two players leaping in on him.
That would have been I think a
very impressive couple of kills
out of magics and if the job
wasn't done already, it certainly
is now a formality from here for
spirit to get themselves into that match against G2 later on today. Winner of that gets themselves
into the playoffs and will play in front of the crowd on the stage at IEM Rio.
Yeah, well, the annoy spirit to have to play more games and maybe otherwise they would
have wanted to confirm that arena spot, but it might warm them up even more, who knows.
the right to the left.
Hold the mp9 about to get
jumped on by Shea but
magic is there as well. He
was helping out on a on the
pistol. Now he's on B to stop
the push. Stop trying to tap
his way to victory to the tech
nine is about to go down and
to near will launch himself at
him. And absolutely run him
down and spirit of running
down red cannons at the moment
comfort 12 to two. And, uh,
Well, thank God they've survived the sked because it seemed like they were spiraling at one point and had they lost the series and been eliminated
This would have been the worst loss suffered by the spirit organization in the past three years
And the worst loss suffered by the scene since they added donk into the mix
They haven't lost her team outside of the top 50 since donkers joined the team not the best of three on land at least
That would have been a completely shocking result
But not gonna happen here today one more round is all they required to get the job done and booked themselves that date with
G2 later on. Don't want the speedrun ending.
We'll get traded by Drop. Little bit of life left.
But you can get two ahead of themselves here.
Just play as you usually would. Finish off the game properly.
Magic accidentally drops down there and Kratos will lose 8 HP,
but you won't care at one shot.
Yeah, this is what we had anticipated coming into the series for Red Cannons, I'm afraid.
And you know what? At least they gave us some goddamn entertainment.
That was crazy cinema water transpired on the first map of Mirage.
A 13-8 win for Red Cannons.
I've never seen their players look so sharp.
Coway's had a ridiculous performance on that map,
but they've certainly reverted back to the means since then.
Spirit have gotten better and better as the game has gone on.
And it's just a matter of getting a couple more kills,
and that would see Red Cannons exiting the competition.
Yeah, shame, but I think, you know, Red Cannons have nothing to be really upset about.
They came in as the biggest underdog, they came all the way from the open qualifier.
Nice shot from Rento.
They could open up the B-bomb side a little bit.
Now only Xontix is here to try and defend it against four players coming his way.
That's a clear monster, but he gets both cowards and drop looking to hold on.
Oh, Rento! Not a clue about what's hitting him.
And Zontics has deleted them all, Magics is on site and Shiro will clear it from heaven.
Spirit get the job done, Red Canis have nothing to be embarrassed about.
They've played really well in this series, but in the end, we all know Spirit are better, and that's proof.
Ah, Spirit survived, that would have been, like you say, upset of the year, upset of CS2.
Maybe, I mean, there's been some crazy games that have happened and most definitely would have been right up there with them.
However, Spirit will get the job done, go shake some hands and start to think about that series.
to be in the first year for
Ren two playing his first ever
tournament at this early first
of a big event is first S tier
event. It only played smaller
lands and online events before
this and only debuted on HLTV in
2026. He's got a lot to work on
as a professional, but he's got
an incredible memory here
debuting against Zai Wu and
then playing its donk as well. So
in the end, they fought with
the team and they fought
well. So in the end, they fought really well. Eliminating
gentlemates with a great result, got them all important VOS
points to work with for the upcoming season in tier two
South America. But of course, as we thought would be the case,
spirit were too much for them.
Yeah, I mean, the entire scene would have been set on fire. I
mean, they would have descended into chaos and anarchy had red
cannons gotten the win over spirit, it would have been a field
day for the spirits haters. In the end, though, they do
ultimately get the job done. Got to give some credit to Magix. I mean, without Halle behind him,
he was the main leadership figure within the team. He was the one who would have been
trying to galvanize the unit off there, lost that map off Mirage to open up the series. He
called a brilliant T-side on both ancient and overpass, and that would have been a big test for
him as a captain, and he passed with flying colors. Yeah, exactly. And I mean, look, he won't, it is
a sort of personality, Magix, just not really give a damn about a game like this if they win,
I think the entire tier spirit
probably feel the same. Maybe
that's why they struggled a bit
in map one, but, uh, yeah, they
got bigger tests to come. Um
of course, Don can indeed kind
of recover some of his form that
we all know he can produce. He
had a very rough day against
Falcons yesterday, dropping his
career worst map, a massive
shock. But even a mirage he was
trying to drag spirit back into
the game right at the very end,
back up again. On ancient.
134 ADR 2.07 performance. And
then, of course, a solid team
effort on map 30 pass from
everyone on spirit and they'll
be happy. Um, but G2's form with
tack on the roster has really
been incredibly decent. So you
know what? I actually think G2
might be the favorites of that
game tonight. I'll go against
you there. Backspur. I think
after the loss they suffered
against red Canada, sure it
lost map one 13 eight bud. Like I said, I think it does just jolt them back in and it reminds them that it's very important because those games are
loseable. Indeed. I think we've got Tania ready for a conversation with us in the interview. Hello, Tania. Thank you so much having a quick chat with us.
Congratulations on the win. Definitely a rough start for you guys. Can you tell us a little bit what the mood was like in the camp and what the
conversations were when red can is one map one our mood was good but I don't
know we just have very bad city side probably I very like position a other
I'm stuck on this map but it's fine after first map we just handed it and just
joined to second map because you know we are stronger as a team and for us
That's going to be very good.
Okay, and tell us a little bit about Sotvic filling in for Halle
and what he's been bringing to the team here as the stand-in coach.
Right now, he helps for us.
I don't know how to say.
He's just trying to find for everyone Mocha Fort
and trying to fix our little bit base.
Yeah, and sometimes, of course, on some pauses, he's just calling some stuff what we should
do and trying to fix some problems in doing much.
Today, this is the first time I've had a chance to interview you after me and Matt have casted
you for years and years in tier two, we're on gun five and heroic, of course, and we're
growing as a player.
What would you say for you personally has been the biggest challenge working your way
up from the lower tiers of CS and now playing consistently in tier 1.
Sorry, can you repeat the question?
What do you think your biggest challenge has been personally, yourself, in the server or out of the server, playing from in tier 2 compared to tier 1?
It's very interesting question.
If we will compare tier 1 and tier 2, I think it's the same way, just a little bit more work because you're playing against good players and teams.
They have a lot of stuff and sometimes you should spend more time for preparation, for example, because they also did some anti-strat, something like that.
that you should try to understand what they want to do, step by step, yeah.
And if we talk about ulcer, it's more about trying to give positive to my mates,
trying to share my smile to everyone, but sometimes it's hard, but yeah.
Okay, and now obviously last question before we let you go your next game is
against G2 in that lower bracket final for the group for a spot in the playoffs
what do you think about that game man how you guys feeling? I think we're feeling
good because it's probably I don't know I'm tired for real because it's maybe
probably third time when we will play against G2 for qualified to play offs
because it was before on the EPL both times and I don't remember where one more event yeah and I
think it's good enemy for us just to see okay well thank you very much for joining us mate all the
best in that next series and maybe we'll see you again for another interview afterwards okay thank
Thank you, guys, bye.
Good stuff. Obviously, like, having not, you know,
interviewed to near before, it's always a tough one to know,
maybe what the, you know, English is going to be like,
obviously, I've seen him in interviews before,
but, you know, do you want to ask two elaborate questions?
I tried to make sure I speak slowly,
and I think he appreciated the question,
even if it was a bit elaborate from my side.
But, yeah, there we go.
And I appreciate the answer.
He gave us a very good one.
So, they're through to playing as G2 later,
And we've got one more game to cover between us two as well, Aurora versus Bait coming up.
Now, lot on the line here for Aurora, they should be one of those consistent playoff teams.
They've been in a little bit of a rough form lately and Bait are by no means a pushover.
Who will win it? We'll find out in a minute.
Here's the
I'm going to.
against the round with
Frontal is manufacturing
openings with his team. Well
done. That's you forcing the
short players away into
exactly that and they catch
him. Really well done. How are
we going to see a pace around
Look at this from Emma. Yeah, Emma's just front and straight up the guard, plays this
pole position. Up on the palm by Norbert. Love this setup. Hyper aggression, look at
it go. Emma with two kills, McCarthy responsible for the low. And Kalash goes down. That just
baited in, hook, line, and sinker. This round's down. Frontalus will not be seven, he's open,
me zoom. I don't think he's going to be winning a 1v4, Nade. At the doorstep, that's down
to 12 points of health. Really nice time for Navi to throw in a little bit more of a limbo
setup like that and it delivers. So looking comfortable on Navi. I had discussion a little
bit earlier in the day when we had G2 on our screens. The idea in this matchup, you want
to get it done as quick as you can with a little stress as possible so you can set
your sights on the final best of three for one of the last two spots. We've
already locked in four teams. Falcons, Vitality, Maus and Furia. My hometown
hero will be here and also the world number one. Maus returned to the playoffs
and Falcons with their goodbye tour for Kixon. Sorry Lam for all of those.
Navi want to stay in the conversation with that world number two. I think Norbert
Wacken on a desk mat. He's out there going, well, there's not really a world two or three at the moment.
It's just vitality.
What you can't really argue with?
I think the most exciting final, maybe not based off of the counter strike
we've seen from Furia recently, but in terms of the story,
Lance Furia versus Vitality, that was starting to heat up towards the tail end of 2025.
And just the fact that a Brazilian team having a tough time winning a trophy in Brazil,
How many more times are you going to get the professor in an arena game in his home country?
Yeah, where he is in the conversation of lifting not playing a show match not here for shits and giggles here with a real chance
It was a valiant attempt from red canids
But unfortunately not enough to be taken down spear over on the B stream rent to really appreciate you taking the time commiserations once again
Tell me about that first map because it was a great showing for you guys
What do you think happened after that that caused you to be unable to close out the series?
Yeah, like you said, we did a great first map. I think we played Atarya's team gameplay, communication, everything was good in the first map.
That's why we won. It was our pick because we were confident on that map.
And we tried to do something different from yesterday against Dental Mates on Ancient.
And I think we dropped the level a little bit in the last two maps,
and Spirit were a better team in all nations and overpass.
And I think this is a good opportunity for me playing at Tariah's event.
I don't think I played well today. I wanted to play better.
I think I made some mistakes and let my team down some rounds, you know?
But that's life, you know? I will play more tournaments, I will get more XP,
And I hope I can come back here in Rio to play another big tournament like this or in another country, you know
But I'm very proud of this team. I think
Comparing the first day to today. I think we are evolving a lot, you know
and I think if we stayed the same level as the first map we could could have won against Spirit and
Guarantee a spot in the playoffs, you know against the I don't know the I think it is
3D Max or G2 right? Yeah that was our main focus going to the playoff here in Brazil
right because we are a Brazilian team we hope it's the last thing that dies in
our body you know but that's what happened Spirit played a better game
today and that's it. It's crazy whenever I speak to you it still
blows my mind that it's your first here online because you're so eloquent you're
so mature as a player I just wanted to ask what you have taken away from this
experience of course it's gutting not to be making it to playoffs but for you to
to be learning, growing as a player.
What's the main takeaway for you?
Like I said, it's gaining XP, because this is the second time
I leave my house to play some tournament, playing CS.
And it's an honor to play against Donk,
against Zybel, the best players in the world.
But when we are facing each other in the server,
we are not friends, we are enemies, right?
Because everyone is trying to win.
But that's life.
I think it is a great opportunity for me, like I said,
because I was playing third, three, 34 tournaments in January against some teams in Brazil
and now I'm playing against the best players in the world. It is amazing.
And I hope I can stay with the team and I can start playing better
and we can smash some teams in the next events, you know.
You certainly haven't had easy opponents here for sure.
I'm sure you've gone and have a lot of fans for you personally throughout this run.
People wanting to see more of Red Canid, sadly you won't be at the major,
Do you know if there's any other tournaments coming up for you guys as a bootcamp on the horizon?
What's happening for the team for the rest of this part of the season?
I think we will play a lot of tournaments in Brazil like Secret X, like Pet Boom,
those tournaments that gains a lot of VRS points for us. Of course, we didn't make it to the major
and that decision of me going up to the first team was because of that because they didn't have any
chances so they put me the first team before the the time you know and our main focus now is going
to the hotel we will talk we will see the game what we made of some mistakes these mistakes we
made in the match and we will start training now we have I think we have like some weeks to train
without any tournaments and that's what we are going to do we are going to fix the mistakes we
We are going to train a lot to practice against the best teams in the world because they are
here in the rear, of course, and get ready for the next season to be the next major of the year.
Well, I run to it.
It's been an absolute pleasure to get to speak to you, get to see you in the server as well.
Commiserations, we're looking forward to seeing the bounce back from Reconyx.
Thank you.
to see.
Beautifully eloquent interview
again there from Ren two and
looking forward to seeing more
of him in the future, but now
we need to focus on Aurora and
bait and Aurora need to find a
focus on how to recover because
of course they've struggled a
little bit in this event in the
lower bracket. They're very
So there's that sort of elephant in the room of the Zantares injury,
he'll be affecting his form a little bit.
Matt and Bait won't be a pushover, but they should be.
Yeah, for Aurora, right? You would imagine.
I mean, Aurora were previously infallible
against teams outside of the tier one,
against teams outside of top 10.
They would basically never lose series to those sorts of teams.
It would always be like one of the big dogs
that would topple them somewhere.
Normally, they were like playoffs mainstays,
but they have proven to be beatable by some tier two teams recently.
obviously they lost to both M 80 and Alliance in recent times. So perhaps that might give
bait a little bit of hope. Yeah, we'll get into more of our, you know, thoughts about
these two, maybe in some of the downtime rounds like Ecos and such. But for now, we need to
get into the meat and potatoes of the pistol smoke on stairs already. Santar is from stairs.
We're going to tap an MPL first because the game goes flying. What sick will tap him out
of the rounds and tires will get his one playing from bench. CZ dropping. And they do have
the server. The server four V
three here was still that H. E
on major. Sanfield could try
and push forward here on
stairs and he will. He's
actually got two one V ones in
a way, but Santa's won't let
him win it and what sick will
find Alex as well. So good
start for Aurora. Yeah,
welcome to the lower bracket.
Boys. I mean, they look super
sharp from the word go. They
would have been ready and
raring waiting for their
chance to jump into the
Blast straight through that free game and really didn't get to break this one down whatsoever much like MPL was blasted out of the server in this one
Just lost over the veto quickly. Shall we with this being an anti-eco? It's mirage first picked by bait
We then go to overpass afterwards which surprises me Trav because I thought it would have been dust to for Aurora
Yeah, maybe there's a little bit
And it's scared about how I've been playing on that map after what happened yesterday
I mean hot to made that come back against them as well
Don't forget when there were nine one up and it looked like it was gonna be a breeze
took them all the way to overtime, just losing a bit of confidence on that map.
And of course Aurora's map pool has always been a point of conversation that
mainly it's a Nubis that they dominate on. As you said earlier, they have found
some losses on a Nubis recently, even in these tier two lands like Dracula and
against some teams like, as you say, M80 and Alliance. So a bit of a surprise there.
And it is a worry. It is a worry overall. You know, I think I would argue that the
biggest problem right now, as I mentioned in the pregame, is maybe the Xantara's
injury. I'm not going to watch
it on the mag seven. And of course, even if he's feeling fine, carrying this injury and playing with it, it's obviously a niggle that will always be in his head, which is something that's very frustrating for any player. I hope he's feeling okay. But
But really finding a way to play around it with such a busy calendar is something that he's finding a way around
Yeah, I mean he is the star so you're right that it is a concern for himself and for Aurora in general with him having been their best player for a long time
I mean what Katie is absolutely stepped up his game this he's been extremely impressive, but you're right
They've got a super busy schedule
I mean they even did play at that was it a dracula and events as well
Which I think quite a lot of people were surprised by trying to guarantee themselves a spot in the third stage of the major
That event didn't necessarily go according to plan for them either way shifting the focus back here to round three
We got our first gun run upon us and they all they're not gonna over complicate the approach with the entire team grouped up outside of
Apartment and reaching their way forward
Jill hold on against kins resort
They know of course that the secret that magia plays B and kind of always has for aurora
And to attack that early
First gun round off the bat, but they'll be held at bay for now.
Now sends them packing, and they don't have a whole lot of utility to try and figure out
a way to get back into this round.
That's their last flash that's been deployed for Sizi to get past connector, so nothing
to actually aid their cause in getting into the say bombsite.
Smoking to top con is quite intriguing because the entire team is kind of pathing their way
in that direction.
Now you've got the double angle hold you have from Sant Aris.
You can hold both Catwalk and hold for a player who may be hoosting up here.
He's going to spot the head of two brilliant Tron, so there from Xantar is, takes the head off both.
And that should shut the round down. He will be traded, but he's done his job and then some.
And Woxix on the line from Pticketbox as well.
Oh, they headshot angle being peeked though.
It's a hard one to connect with and Alex almost takes the kill, but Woxix will survive and elevate his angle really nicely.
It's all down to Asentheal. He's got the bomb, but he's got no time
He'll be trying to save the AK and under and Magik could even try and drop on him here
Something to give a go considering he's so close could maybe even take him down after time
He doesn't get around the angle, but just about does it was tight, but sent feel will keep his AK
Yeah, squeaky bomb time
I thought for a second that that magik was about to drop off maybe he doesn't commit either way
It's a great start here for Aurora, just breezing their way to 3-0 start as they settle themselves
into the series.
Here, of course, lives on the line in the matchup against Baitloser is eliminated.
Winner has to win one more best of three to get themselves into the playoffs, so it'll
be one of this versus winner, or versus Navi.
Not even gonna say the winner between Navi and Hotoo, but it's Navi in that low of a
round.
Final for Group B, and that's a hell of a game.
Hey man, that's Norbert Eurasia. I will not stand for that.
It will be Navi, Trav. I hate to break it to you, mate.
I'm the last guy who wants to disappoint my homie, but surely that is the case.
St. Yel. He's the one who kept the same game players he highlights,
and he does well to at least get a kill.
Now, just the last line of defence in the speedbomb site, rotations will come through,
but Badger's been dealt with, and the remaining players here are locked out in market.
Yeah, they got that one smoke picked up, but Soulfly will disrespect it
and find a way to deny the bomb plant, but as he trades it, they're going to need Zantara's
and they've got him. 3 HP stands tall. NPL 19 health, but the angle is held by Zantara's
on the AWP. The quick switch coming over and Zantara's having a great start to this BO3.
He really is your bang on. I mean, he's shown up in a big way immediately off the rip, and that's
a scary sign here for bait because it feels like he could just 1v9 this game if he's at his best
level. Surely got some solid talent. On baiting, NPL absolutely the best player with that rifle
says he can blow hot, but he's just very inexperienced and it's normally these sorts
of games where that inexperience can be exploited.
Yeah, and baiting in general too much. I think they've just not had a good season. I mean,
this might be one of their better wins if they're able to pull this one off today. We
know how much they love Mirage. They would love to find an early take here, but we shall
see. I think I'll get into a bit more about what I think about their season later. I think
they're ever so slightly fortunate they still found a way to grind their way into the Cologne
Major. Yeah, true. In that head to head between Sizi and Woxic, oh boy, feels like Woxic's
probably just gonna eat him alive here but hey Bates have got nothing to lose
right no expectation on their shoulders already first blood being drawn by
Woxic the Dominator sent he'll cancel out of this one Bates have got a bit of a
foothold in middle but it's gonna be pretty tough to try and transition from
here into a bombsite. We smoke bottom con as well Santa Rosa is about to break it
So he's on that line, but there are three rifles looking to maybe traverse that line.
So Antares is ready, but with 30 seconds left in this one, they're going to have to go.
Waiting for the fade, maybe thinking they still have time to do that, and they do.
There's a pretty scary man on the other side.
Won't spam it, he will fall back.
Now he gets help from his sight-flowers, because Antares might need to do it all,
or could cross their placement on the second, but doesn't get it.
and Wakadie will not be able to get more than one from short.
Now, Maga has a play to make in his 2v2.
Can't complete the frag on MPL, but where is that bomb plant?
Wox, it gets the kill, but you could argue
maybe there was a lack of info on the second player and connector.
Maybe he just didn't need to face at all.
If he hid CT, maybe he wins the round.
It would have been so tight, right?
Trying to get that bomb from connector.
There was nine seconds on the clock at that point,
so he probably would have just been able to make it, but...
And maybe Woxy could hold that, help that tight angle from CT on the cross onto triple and try to catch the carrier in that fashion and that would have won the round.
Aurora maybe just over brawling here in a situation that's exactly what Bait would have wanted, right?
Because that was probably their best chance of winning the round, it was just by virtue of getting the kills, which is something that they do to open up their account here.
And because of the kills that they were able to get in the rounds they lost prior to that, it's straight into force by territory for Aurora.
Yeah, 3mp9s and 4 famas.
Admitting to that second orp, of course, being a main factor,
with the money being a bit rough.
You can find a way for bait to really integrate themselves into the game early.
Of course, bait have had lots of different orpers in 2026,
and while Hedrick didn't necessarily have huge X-factor,
his stable nature was really the main thing that helped bait when they had explosive and maybe
sometimes inconsistent riflers. Now with Sizi, another young 16-year-old, see what they've got
with him today. In comes the A-play, self-flight underbalk. Flash is coming over, Acadia looking
to try and get his door, but he can't save self-fly. It's well-defined too, and Woxic is still
hiding under balcony. He'll get taken out by Sizi, and it's a great clear. NPL on connect it on
and Tarez. Are they aware of
Maga sitting on triple waiting for one of these two players to commit to the bond plant. MPL is not looking. There we go. 1v1 and sees Sizi immediately.
Free AK. Can he pre-fire Sizi on this angle? 17 seconds. Maga knows Sizi has to make a move to look for that plant or look for the kill.
And Maga, oh, he gets the duel but Sizi will hold on.
Oh, feels like Madge had done all the hard work. He had actually timed it to perfection as he starts to shift out of that position, but Sizi will hit the shot there.
Great job from him to actually save the day for his team and hold his nerve in that 1v1 back and forth throughout the round.
Like he highlighted, Keely there, that kill from Wikipedia wasn't in time to keep his teammate under bulk in the alive.
Woxic was trapped after he shows his hand in towards the firebox as well, and it's Sizi who will finish off the job, and with that Aurora have been condemned to an eco.
AD gets a bit of information, but that is all.
Kenzo's all under into push.
They will try and take some control around the map, considering they have nothing to
work with, and that's why Soulfly will wander into Palace with the Turkish kings and tares.
They'll not be long on that throne.
Hang on.
Something's not looking.
awful timing because I think he was looking for a split second and then looked away as
Sulfly will pick forward. So now Xanti has an AK.
He does, but he doesn't have a head. Well done there from KensaSault and they have a
really good idea that Sulfly's here as well. He's actually with that 5.7 been able to decapitate
KensaSault to try and keep this one somewhat interesting. Now, weapons not really recoverable
as things stand. Time starts to tick, where Katie is going to say, fine, it's a good timing,
MPL with his wits about him instantaneous on that time to kill. And my dear is going to be
Susie as well with some phenomenal presence of mind there to just keep control of the opposite
side of the map. Only Woxic left and it shouldn't be for much longer now that he's been spotted.
And there we go. So they had done exactly what you wanted to see from Bait.
And if you remember as I was kind of touching on a little bit earlier this used to be
bread and butter. The bait, this map. It was, I think they got something crazy, like 19 in a row
on it in tier 1.5 lands and some tier 1 events over the course of their older roster.
Pretty sissy and pre-the Sekoukawa experiment as well.
Yeah, true, you're right. This was like a stronghold for bait, right? And I feel like
Kedtrick was one of the main reasons as to why that was the case. And you used the perfect word
earlier to describe his skill set and it's stable. He was a reliable AWPer. He was a safe pair of
hands. He was the kind of guy that if he was holding an angle you would back him to get the shot
nine times out of ten, but he didn't really bring that x-factor. He didn't really bring that
sort of play-make ability to blow rounds wide open. Maybe that's what they want from an AWPer.
Maybe trading a little bit less reliability for more play-making ability.
sent feel so fly not ready for that swing he was to be fair just hit the
headshot like he was looking the wrong direction I just got the org out not
something you see all too often anymore no it's very viable on long-range maps
maybe not as much so on Mirage see the org come out a little bit on train given
the new train. Oh yeah, absolutely was prolific on that map, kind of the only map like you say.
Magetrono putted to Yusya on Mirage and it's not really going to be his job here in this round.
His bait starts to gravitate in towards the same box like that for the Rora would be hoping for.
They've got a triangle set up here, but it's Voxic who misses what should be his
black used earlier bread and butter. That's a basic kill coming through that it goes arrive
for Voxic. Santari is going to get forced up by the Molly. He's able to find a frag on one and
some damage on a second but that man advanced drop assist fate now working against the clock
with Woxic could continue to apply the pressure that allows Wacadia to activate for jungle but
they've got the breathing room for a plant now and it's this magia and that tagged up Woxic
so he's been able to retreat as well to a more favorable angle playing on the bricks but Woxic
was waiting for it low HP doesn't matter when you have that sniper now npl they know where he
threw that flash from 1v2 tap on the bomb trying to lure him out trying to get Woxic to hold the
the angle but he'll miss and Maja's not able to trade. NPL with a big 1v2 and once again
Aurora fumbling some rounds in the late game.
Ah, two costy misses there from Wox, they can't get that kill on the initial entry
onto the A bomb site and then he's holding that line there waiting for the peek to come
through from jungle, not able to hit the shot there and NPL punishes. He has been the life
blood of this bait roster. I mean obviously he was the IGL for a very long time on this team
and he was still putting up really good numbers while he was calling. He then decided to go for
somebody who was a bit calmer in the server I think was the main thing they were looking for
out of Alex when they interviewed him a couple months ago so he took over in that role and NPL
just continues to dominate with the rifle and provide these sorts of moments for his team.
Yeah NPL for me I mean he was one of my favorite players in tier 2 and it's weird. I mean according
he's not falling into an up and
coming plan because he already
had that chance on Navi, which
you you've mentioned previously
as well. Um obviously it was a
little bit of a tough
circumstances for him on that
team. We all know what I mean
by that, but yeah, I think he
simple. He was totally
revitalized by this fake
project with it was an in game
leader or now just a plane
rifle with Alex on the IGL
role. So. Yeah, funny that when
you don't have a player who's
and saying well some of us aren't ready to be playing at LAN events so I have no idea
how we're going to do anything at this tournament when some of us are completely inexperienced.
Okay Matt we get it.
I'm not sure.
Either way that was a long time ago.
I feel like you would have learnt a lot from that.
Obviously it would have been a really rough time for him but diamonds are made under pressure
and NPL is certainly coming to his own since then.
Let Axe is creeping up short here with a couple of teammates around him.
And Maja, well I'm afraid, I'm not sure he's going to be standing for too much longer.
MP9 only, there's a half-buy.
Because he's seen Woxic on the rotation and Mikado tries to come and help out,
but Maja had no information on short whatsoever.
And maybe that wasn't communicated over to Wikipedia to be honest with you as you will get one he tries is up most
But Alex gets the kill round over five for the lead
Yeah, nice call here with the way that they weaved their way through the round up middle without any pressure or any sort of issues and then just
Snap right on to that B bombsite
able to isolate Maja and obviously once they got that initial kill onto Wikipedia
I think it was it was just a freebie from there regardless of even if magic got that second kill
I don't think they would have had any trouble and actually winning the round itself
Like you say a lead now for bait as they go up 5-4
It was Aurora who had come out the gate swinging it was a 4-0 start for them
But it's a five round streak response here from baits. Yeah, and they're you know in general
There are always incredibly high expectations for Aurora, especially obviously at home in Turkey
and overall in this year, I feel like they've exceeded them and lived up to them because I think it's all fly
Was a bit rough to begin with and then really is coming to his own in these difficult roles on the team
Maybe playing with Magia back in the sangal days helping him with that
Comfortability on the roster. I didn't think it would take him a little bit longer than it had and he's been doing fine
And some of those difficult positions, but very clearly Aurora
So I have those inconsistencies that plague them even though they do more often than not make clouds and it did you really well to
Get that final ESL Pro League
then they
Look poor they can look like
But worrying for the entirety of the Turkish fan base, that's for sure
Yeah, I will say I mean soul flies completely exceeded my expectations because he was a player that you and I were covering a lot
is here too. Either way, more on that just now because it's going to be a really important
gun round here for Aurora to try and put a stop to the momentum that's being built up
here by Bay kills go back and forth. The 4B4 ensues in the Dust will settle. Now Bates
have been really good at just slowing down these rounds and getting themselves into a
shape. Even when they leave minimal time in the clock they're still able to make it work.
Keeping their options available, one player ramp bombscooped up and MPL is going to join
up with the centiel over towards that side of the map.
that join up and take a little bit more time but they've got it to use. Once again
the players on A but not really playing a position that can affect the site take
early but now as Antares maneuvering back towards stairs that might be a bit of a
difference. This is on the line and there's a swing of random timing,
information swing from Zantares works really well and big knee damage and
and the Centiole really good job
and a lovely swing into card.
That is what Zantare is all about.
The Zantare's peak is back in this round
and Soulflow will hold on from triple.
The Centiole lasts alive 20 seconds
and he might just try and slip away.
Will he even be allowed to with that AWP recovered?
Just about.
Yeah, well figured out there from Aurora.
They were kind of able to glean what was going on there
once they saw the pressure from middle
and then some presence over at ramp.
It's like a kid boys.
This is the A-split.
We've got to set ourselves up accordingly and they're able to deal with it decisively to tie up the score line there
Hit themselves back in the game
Of course, this is baits map pick. We know how dangerous they are on mirage really difficult to contain
They're not the type of squad that's going to be bringing these set players into each round there
And that's what makes them difficult because you can't just try and like anti-strat them and it's not like there's
Obvious tells about what they're going to be doing based off certain sets of utility. They mostly just default their way
It's quite like a loose style that comes through Alex is a lot of autonomy for the individuals
And then they kind of like I say build themselves into the round based off what they're able to figure out in the mid round
We'll see if that comes to the four as this series progresses
Bait season kind of propped up by the fact that it didn't still find a way to qualify color and really only coming due to
winning that parkin event in Denmark and there's local pop-up lands which they
managed to beat 3d max and bestia so in that tournament they'd lose to 3d earlier
in the tournament but they made up for it when it matters those points to scrape
into cologne
you're right that was definitely the difference maker right because I don't
think they were really on track to to make the major difference for that
tournaments. Great opening kill from Kenzis or so. Frequently the man to open up these
rounds here for or bait attempts. A hell of a lot of their opening jewels. More so than
most entry frags do. Yeah, for the T side of baits and the maps that they play. And
again, he's got a lot to decide to go searching. Xantares wants to try and get one back and
he does trade onto Kenzis. So, but it's a lovely little jiggle peak frag coming through
from NPL. Low on health, but that doesn't deter him. He still gets the job done.
A little pre-fire that was.
Vantares will get his one again, but will go down, but MPL,
would be the only way he felt comfortable going for that trade kill, being 16 HP.
Dolphine will rotate back into jungle. He's the main man on the AD fence,
but they are going to get Wikipedia over there now as well.
Two already out ramp, one on Tetris.
And Wikipedia is going to peek further forward to look for that, and then sees the gun barrel pop out.
How long is this percentile gonna stand from there? The answer is not much longer.
Wacadia, good job. And now Sizi is a very hard trade on that headshot angle with the AWP.
They're really good repositioning from Wacadia. Taking the elevated ground, are beautifully done.
Back down to under, that gets Soulfly activated. He finds Sizi, an MPL.
He might have started the round, but he will not be able to end it.
Exceptional work hard for Wacadia, man. A massive multi coming through from him.
And it's only npl left remaining with no chance obviously just gonna have to hold on to his ak to carry the cross into the next
And when you look at the finances you have a baits
It's gonna be pots and pans pieced around the safe rifle
So then to try and work with fitting pots and pans would be if the straw was played in the kitchen
So where npl is now not the best manners for him standing on the counter
And kind of strike though will let it slide
What take Trav go on
You ready? I'm holding my chair right now.
Alright, you might need to.
Chats, let's see what you guys think.
Best Rifle for Aurora in 2026?
Well, I'll say it's a lukewarm take from you on that one.
Alright, yeah. Maybe I oversold it.
You definitely oversold it.
But it is, it is for crazy to think though, right?
I mean, if you'd told me that would be the case like nine to twelve months ago, I maybe
would laugh a little bit so it's just amazing to see his evolution and
development. I mean yeah I'd love to watch him ever since he came through and
super enjoyable. He's like a mini Zantara in many ways and now maybe these
days his air, or even his superior. We'll see. Certainly the air feels that way. I
like that way of it being described as it's gonna be an executing towards a
bombsite piece to get a zantara is super prepared for that boost up into snipers and that's
going to be info game because that came silently and he couldn't have gotten up there without
giving away the audio cue without the second player in position.
Yeah and with the dig being heard and ramped from kensas all he's not really got much
say in Aurora I know they have full control of it.
Shea-ma had a pretty rough fight at the end of this first half, always a very painful
one for any team when you're on what is pretty much a dig force and it's a far round of the
half. Nothing to grow with. MPL already tagged down on his AK. Now Magi, as we fly into his POV,
he's got rotations already coming his way. They know the A-bomb site is clear, there's been a
little bit of a check by Soulfly, and Woxic, again an uncharacteristic miss, but the thing is,
Magi is still here, and so is Zantaro's now. There is no way out of those apartments,
because he will give it a go, but now the time is really getting lower, and Zantaro is about to
be cleared. Almost a double spray down. AK retrieved, but 9 seconds has to pick up the
bomb and get onto the site to get it planted somehow. We go for a tap to begin with, but
surely that doesn't work. Actually a crazy edge on Wikipedia, but the trade is quick
and Aurora will recover a good streak in that half from bait, but it will be Aurora to win
the half 7-5. See you in a minute.
Aurora do well to nudge ahead against bait and what has always been a great map for the
Ukrainians but I do think there's a long way to go in this one.
Of course Aurora going over to their two sides now where a lot of their troubles have arisen
as of late and we'll see if that will arise once again to stop them from getting themselves
over the line.
Yeah, I mean, there was a nice streak of five there from Bates in the middle of a half,
but it's Aurora who claimed those final two rounds to give themselves a bit of a legia.
Noses in front coming into the T side of Mirage.
We know that Major is a tactical master, and again it's going to be an execute here to
try and get the job done in the pistol.
Smoke top con, Molly, deep jungle.
Now they have got one more smoke left remaining, and I'm wondering what the intention is for
that smoke.
room for MPL to play with behind the molly, but you can't do anything about the players
actually getting onto the bomb site. It's a plant on the front side of triple and there's
that secondary smoke being thrown deep into snipers. It's going to be a really difficult
retake here for Bait with the post plant positions that have been taken up by this T side, especially
with Woxic. Oh, I was going to say, going the long way around, but he decides against
it. Alex has got the smoke kit, so that is the
one thing going in their favour, but that won't go in their favour. So if I remove the
with in kenz is all and they need to force away in but zamtara has stopped MPL that kit is now
still alive but it's on the site trying to force its way in and it just won't be able to it's on
the ground now and ascent feel is caught from the three separate angles really nice pistol to marora
there was a bit of a fake info with that early gush and MPL which could have come back to bite
them later in the round it did get that little gush sound cue but it was only for like 15 damage
Then it doesn't need anything, and the roar will throw in a really nice T-Pistol.
They're very well done to boost themselves now coming into the second half here on Bates' map.
That's exactly what they would have wanted to kickstart their campaign on the T side of Mirage,
where they do tend to struggle a little bit. I mean, obviously, most teams favor the CT side,
sometimes Aurora will have their issues here, so getting the pistol round is a nice boost for them.
Full save from Baytrap, putting a lot of eggs in the basket of that next round.
If they lose that next round, then it's 11-5 before they get a reinvestment,
and surely that would be an unassailable lead for Aurora.
Alex's still waiting in Palace with the Zeus,
but Xantara's gives him something.
Too far away, surely?
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
and already sees the arm and knows what's coming.
Well done. Nice and easy there for Aurora making light work of the eco
and this is where there's a lot of pressure now on Bay coming into the gun round
and Aurora will recognize that they know that Bates chances here in Mirage
basically hinge on this round. So if they can win this round right here
they've all but put Mirage away.
This is why I'm keen to see what manager actually decides to call. What what do they try and fall back on?
It's a team that very infrequently will just rush in rounds. You very rarely ever see a roar
It's go for a straight up B rush from spawn. There's always a little bit of tactical depth to their approach
And this one will be no difference. It's gonna be a default here to test the defense. Oh
That's gonna be in the lanes where sent the LES 10 HP before he's even had a chance to play round 15
a little bit too wide of a jump spot you could argue. There are different ways of going about
jump spotting on Valorant, which usually leave you less exposed to damage. I'll get punished for it.
And with that pressure shown in Sir Apartments Aurora, now we're going to shift their focus
away from that side of the map entirely and because this MPL is so low, they're feeling
compelled to maybe lean an extra player in that direction. MPL has all but committed
and now they're going to realise that that's the wrong decision with the util starting
to barrel in towards a bomb site scissor with a job to do. Unfortunately, it gets blinded
up so you can't do much about the players entering through ramp. It's going to be xantares
to draw first blood as well. Aurora rule with an iron fist to say take control of A. It's
another great flash to enable the palace player on the swing.
Very good, an MPL stuck in CT on the bin, not being cleared properly, but soon as one
player peeks forward, that's when Maja will be there to trade.
In the draw, trying to save, not able to, and Porilas Enthiel, who got taken into the
tinnage pit at the beginning of the round with nothing to do, will just go down into
around anyway. Painful and Aurora starting to show some of their superiority and Zantares is having
a very overdue great game. Yeah, I mean they haven't even broken a sweat you have there. I mean,
obviously, there's a bit of a streak there from bait in the first half, but Aurora just assumed
full control. It was a really well constructed run from them. Everything going according to plan.
There was never a moment where they had to kind of try and break out of the mold and make a play
where things maybe you didn't, like there was no spanners thrown in the works. There was nothing
in chaotic that threw them off their course. Checks and balances all working out perfectly
as they crossed their T's and got their eyes. Their flashes were brilliant. Just never giving
those T's a chance in those duels. And it's now going to have to be a light buy here from
Bay to South Aurora getting up to 11, but I don't think that that's going to work out
and I'll tell you how good Aurora have looked in these past few.
Yeah, I mean the main criticism of Aurora lately really has been the T side calling,
There's there's two things that are reality that need to be reminded
People need to be reminded of I think
Firstly, there is no better Turkish in-game leader out there for Aurora if they want to say full Turkish
And then we had that crazy rumor from that sponge mentioned recently, which I'm sure some of you guys know what I'm talking about
And yeah, there's no one from tier two really in the Turkish scene for me that would have any
any improvement to this. Exactly. We'll give any improvement to this Aurora team. And if
you look at where Aurora were as a turn on fire when they dropped Magia and tried Wox
it because the AWP in game leader, they're a tier two team back then. There's a big difference
now obviously. There's a reason. There's a big reason. More than is a Bacadia. That is
a big difference. But yeah, as you say, a reason he got picked back up again.
He's also a captain because there's often the two words become synonymous with one
another IGL and captain.
The commander is a leader.
You'll often see him taking the responsibility.
You'll see him trying to G up the troops on the server.
You'll see him often taking responsibility to shield some of the team around him.
And that is the job done here against the half by easy work.
Aurora just milked those free frags.
And Salfly for me has also been a revelation.
I mean, obviously it maybe would have caught them a little bit off guard that Yota had left the team.
And it's like, well, where do you even go to?
Sure, it's almost impossible to replace Madge in this team,
but it's not like there's any outstanding Turkish players out there,
besides X-Flight, obviously, that you could just immediately start into this team.
And Salfly was kind of languishing around tier three for me before he got picked up,
and he wasn't really on anybody's lips in terms of players that Aurora would have been considering.
But he's taken like a duck to order at this level, which is really impressive.
Oh, nice pick from Sizi.
And yeah, funnily enough, to pick up on your point, I think Soulfly is a player that I've always liked,
having watched him since the beginning of his career, really.
And he was a one Turkish player that I always felt deserved one shot at the big Turkish team with,
you know, the Zantares and Woxic duo that never got it yet.
I'm so glad that he's playing pretty well with it at the moment.
the team. Well, MPL will
manage to remove his entire is
in this round, though, and they
do have a 403 here baits on the
defense for Katie will drop as
well. Imagine and so flight in
a two V three. I've got chance
to remove MPL from the stairs,
but really good movement there
from MPL to make himself awkward
to hit. Maybe that will change
win any and in graph two is out,
which is obviously in the in the
beta right now. Maybe but what
but also wonderful comes up before the major.
That's one of the big conversations swirling around
at the moment.
Steps here, heard by Susie.
Gonna be able to post on the angle
and it will be the freest of frags.
Four homers, Magi just runs straight into the scope.
Was hoping that maybe you've been able to get ahead
of the game there with that quick shift over towards B
but it's gonna be bait who hold on
and are able to deal with the threat.
It felt like Wikipedia may have been able to get bait out
from the back line to that boost up into snipers
But now he was taken down really low which made his jewel very difficult.
MPL does a fantastic job here around the stairs with three key kills coming through from him.
There's like a lot of the successes here for baits on Mirage have been born off of big moments from MPL and that one's no different.
Now he does a bit of damage on Wacadia but he'll avoid the brunt of it.
Once again as you were describing no opening picks given up by Aurora here, the main things
they try not to do in these gun rounds no one wants it obviously but as you
described earlier the bit of a staple of a Aurora T side and MPL well that'll
help revenge there that's big damage with the HG it was actually a really nice
bit of movement to throw that made as well stepping backwards while throwing
the need to kind of lob it a little bit there and right on target now they set
their sights in on the speed bomb site with a lot of emphasis in towards you, to try and
draw that catwalk player away.
Oh, what the hell happened there?
Magi attack by Stizzy, I believe, and a sentiel would do a really good job to try and lock
these players in on apartments, but oh.
Xantara's will breach back, it's Woxic on the long line, a flurry of frags, Xantara
is doubles down on entry duty, Magi are in the opposite side of the map, he's done good
damage to Alex, he's got intel in the process as well, and it's a retake required here from
bait if they even want to risk it and roll the dice because look at their money, or lack
thereof.
like it's gonna let Aurora have 12 here, unfortunately. Nothing much they can do. And again, it wasn't a
guarantee that they were going to be able to break through in that round, but that's what Aurora can
do when you've got Zantara is playing well. Two quick headshots, 23 and 10 now in the game.
The crack in that B-bomb side was taken by him. And in the end, he also cracked it open.
that help from Woxic catching the rotation coming into market.
This means you can get your AWPer on that line,
and you don't have to give up any free kills by jumping into the site.
You know, it's going to be difficult for the CTs to get back in.
And they have double the score of bait right now.
Six chances for Aurora to go up 1-0 here in this lower bracket second round matchup.
Of course winner of this plays against the winner between Navi and Hattu, it's a little
bit of a check in, see what's happening over on the A stream.
Alright, well it's Navi who prevailed on map 1 with a 13-7 win, convincing for them
on Hattu's map pick of Dust2 which has been a bit of a stronghold for Hattu, they get
manhandled there, I mean Navi versus Aurora for a spot in the arena at Rio will be a sumptuous
Sure, I mean that one could go either way. We know what Navi have been like lately
They've met lots of people are saying that the closest contender to vitality
I wouldn't even necessarily disagree with that in a way, but the consistency is something that they just haven't been able to find and more
From the not they get drawn into these long games and always go three maps that game against a furia last night was crazy. I
Very much enjoyed that one in my downtime after covering the B stream very entertaining crazy
he come back from Furia to get the arena confirmed. Alex on site, they were to help from Balcony
on Kenzizawa, but Aurora just walking out and that might be a bit unexpected. Great
clear from Wikipedia. And Kenzizawa is stuck on the back and they know he's there. So
they will try and clear him and in turn actually get exposed to NPL and he actually gets a
second on Zantara as well. He's about to get peaked from stairs, he had no idea that
That was coming. More great work from Wikipedia.
3v2. I'm not down yet, but Sizi in a senthiel, not really in position to do much about it, senthiel big flank short.
Actually, I thought Waxxick was aware of that, but I lied. He was not, and he'll go down.
Thing is, there's an open duel to take its magic, and you thought he was going to get that for a second.
Now Sizi has to get both kills with a USP, 4 and 9 HP.
HP is there a world they're dancing around the site now playing time really awkward for Aurora here
There's one now Sizi has the utility to use kit available
The Katie's got all the way around to bottom con and Sizi might choose to hold it where Katie I can't see him and
bait I could have stay alive
Can you even believe it that was all over the place and then says he just stands on the slow
Oh, the woods and what Katie up will get the kill
I think it's almost like you just turn his brain off once you got into fuse
Maybe couldn't even believe it himself
He just had to catch his breath trap because that was ridiculous all over the place well done from Susie to hold
His nerve the young star the new boy on the block will save the day
And then catch a hail of bullets, but at least he can still re-afford the open brain phrase
In end around time before freeze time. Oh, that was funny
He won't care, he's won the round and he's still got an AWP in the following, but maybe a slight lesson to be learned there at the 16 year old.
I mean, I will say, really smart positioning for him in the diffuse, right? Because he goes on the opposite side of Trouble and you could see where Katie had no idea of that.
I mean, obviously there's a smoke, but it helped him out even more.
full A exec here for Aurora something they usually go back to in a round like that sort
of happens there's brute force their way to victory they're trying it again and walks
it go get the entry on scissor this time no heroics from the bait all upon this occasion
it might have to be Alex instead they got a peak from stairs to worry about and a peak
from Bench as well, but SoulFly and Santarez will find a way to delete both of them.
Another 3v2 here for Aurora to try and finish off the job.
Put a utility in play, he's sent here into Palace, and they're going to want to try and
make a move while that is in Send here, he's in play to try and isolate these jewels over
at Ramp.
No kid, means that time is of the essence, and Magus scooped up the warp off of Wox's
and body. It's now all on
essential and it's essential
that he is able to win this one.
Haha low hanging
food's got to be picked as well
as essential does find that pick
imagine but like I said without a
kid to this one is impossible
and it's going to be Zantares
who walks around the smoke Aurora
get the job done without even
really breaking much of a sweat
on their opponent's map.
Yeah and that's a really important
one because I think Zantares
firstly he was online
that's the most important part
for me he's been a bit up and down
of course the hand injury is a
injury is a factor and in the end we've seen Aurora choke games before from big leads especially
when rounds are going to arrive like the scissi DQs we just saw. They're able to find a way to
close that on this occasion. It's a good sign it was that comfortable considering Bait had always
loved a bit of mirage. So we'll see how the best of the series will go. Overpass up next of course
that is the Aurora map pick. Not D2 this time, that will be a decider if we need it but we do
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I think they do have another buy, even if they lose this one.
But with five rounds already, I think maybe he's saying, OK, well, hold up, don't up plays.
Let's connect with the rest of the team.
I understand you had all the space.
I know that you won't, but let's just make sure that we're finishing these rounds together.
So MP9 for Frontalas having a tough go with things at the moment, one and seven.
They're not playing to stop mid, I think.
Well, this time, Meezie's blocked by the flashbang,
Golasha self-flash, bounces it off the wall
and finds Mikaze cleanly.
I was about to say, it felt like they're just
conceiving this territory.
Bits walking out contact main,
but Meezie borrowed behind the toolbox.
This is normally the cave player.
Yeah, it's gonna be a jump scare for a bit.
Hello, and goodbye.
Dips away.
Oh, good pip.
I'm just gonna try again, and Meezie will spot him.
staying dynamic on that big box realizes that Molotov's coming in and so dips away to cover.
Okay, well, this is another must convert round for hot to considering the state of affairs.
Now be grouped up towards elbow.
And this is the right play for Norbert. Just play for info. Don't hard commit to any angles with the
a big advantage that you've been able to garner.
He's fine just holding red room to be honest.
He can trust Mizzou and Kailash, right?
He's on the angle.
This is the fight.
Peaks in, nails it, head shot.
Shooting.
Moralized, fighting that.
Really nice shooting from Mizzou there.
Wow, you're a dead man.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Or is it out of bounds?
crew enough cash for another purchase. So having to get through three straight rifle rounds are
hard to before they can bottom out the bank balance of blades boys.
It's fair to see McCarthy with empty hands in middle.
I wonder if it's going to deter them trying again.
Oh no, he flashed it.
They'll try again.
Pulls us into a 3v3. Nice from MeeZoo.
He dips back. He catches Alexi B's attempt from heaven.
on Lane.
Macaulay Donut. So who's going to make the move?
I think at least Park and wait for all the smokes to fade.
You're going to expect the CTs to start searching for information,
whether that's grouped up or individually.
You hope something comes your way.
You're still going to minute 15 left on the clock at this point.
There it is. Norbert Mees would pair up.
So they just stay in cable. Do they want to search forward?
Because they don't really have a lot of answers right now.
If they search, that's exactly what bit's waiting for.
and he catches them with their backs turned the timing of him arriving on the
angle. Frustrating death for Mizu and now Mikaze down to Frantales. That's a huge
frag is second only in the entirety of ancient but now Norbert he's got his
work cut out for him. Trying to get to that corner. That's the shadow advantage
but wonderfuls rifle sings nails the head shot should be set to collect
Frontale's gonna have a look
picks up from Kirt in a full belt
2400 lost into the next such a redeeming 1v2
I guess the smoke in the kit makes it a little bit more enticing
The long game screams save. Yeah, but the ego probably wants to give it a look
You remain silent so that clock continues to rot you really really running out of time just talking of time
time in for an awareness. Alright, okay. No one's testing us from CT. I'll give it a look.
We'll clear our corners and a big smile on the face a bit there. Happy with that one.
Yeah, just the amount of flashes. This is a great little showing right here. Just the constant
stream of orange over the top from spawn to help facilitate that mid fight. Needed a little bit
extra. Good mccasin in it to make sure that space was theirs. Very emotive, aren't they,
On the hot two side.
I mean, MZ is having a great game.
He feels like if he doesn't get two kills,
he's not going to be around.
Are they forced?
All right.
Fight mid.
Oh, down.
Go to Mccasey.
A-play.
Rotaris.
Oh!
Son of a gun.
Oh, I bet he can't believe that guy stopped.
Why is he stopping?
Down the street.
Damn, that takes time.
True.
Oh, no.
Oh, finally get your roll.
No smoke CT, they're crossing.
You're expecting the wide parting?
Yeah, of course you are.
You just hit like a pebble and stop.
Stop it on a dime.
Call it seven.
Seven and three.
Narvi, their map choice and...
I'm sure there's been a...
Oh, oh.
Nah.
Frontal is a Norbader and the wrong side of the map.
Yeah, good point, well made.
Seven for Narvi.
It's a really good one. It's
a really good one. It's a
really good one. Another kill
for me. So up to 14 now. It
does feel like now we have, you
know, been very. Even in their
site hits if they've spread them
out. Okay, you like a bit right
there to be the special the
special indeed. Sometimes
sometimes we go to.
Norby like to keep your guns
and with the loss of bit as
Maccazzi and bit are in that touching distance. So if they need bit to get you till he will have to buy a little doesn't mean
The bit will end up with a little but
I think that the this is this is casual for now baby. It's meant to be tense. It feels casual
it's like they want to walk through this yeah they do him is flash well positioned
by the flashback catches Norbert test for me zoo combines with his team made norbert
and they've shot down it's a three for two exchange oh clips him awkward for him and
with the incendiary out throws himself out his utile to try and buy some space if he
He just stays alive.
He's doing that.
It can give Mikazi's lurk an opportunity
to try and commit.
Oh, he's got three of them on the back line.
Spots frontales is open.
Jump scare for frontales.
Doesn't want to go down.
Doesn't need to give him that philots.
Emma now cook.
Introduce for Shorah, clean air shot.
Yeah, he's so noisy.
Emma knew exactly where he was.
Now Mikazi throws a smoke.
He can progress upon walking strength.
What? Oh, Kalash gonna be headin' hands after that one.
Just for Antares now in the clutch, Mikaze.
Sick games behind the smokes, Mikaze.
Yeah, he just, he uses them, walks straight through.
Back and forth.
Frantares has lost track of everything.
Yeah, well, Mikaze's smoke created so many question marks.
He's got a good idea that he's gone back this way.
It's a fair play, but...
Oh, my God, Mikaze.
He's so at home on ancient.
Every fight prepared for...
Navi have really found themselves a diamond from their Academy.
This is the Academy, excuse me.
Navi Junior was Navi Junior.
Yeah, you're right, it was the Academy.
It's just I forgot the foot, then, you know, moved the foot.
Yeah.
Well, there's lots of different Academy names, aren't there?
Aries.
Oh, the Serene face for me, too.
They shouldn't be winning a couple of these, should they?
Okay, him, it's my opening.
This is like official light.
Yeah.
Or, or Prack extra.
One of the two.
Amizu swings, Amizu dies.
Bloody hell.
This is a real disparity between these two right now.
Narvi, consider the world number two by the rankings,
not by themselves, but either way,
they're making Hottu look like
they're in a whole different category.
Flash is too late.
Alexi gets that.
Norbert's now long side.
They swing in.
The trade should be there.
And it's just Duke,
walking out middle into Mikazi.
He owns this side of the map and confirms the 9-3-1 half.
Na'Vi making this quick.
They've got a date for a playoff match later today.
And they're looking hot.
What do you reckon? We got Rookie of the Year right here. SoulFly, is he early contender
for Rookie of the Year 2026? He's playing pretty good.
Yeah, it's...
I think, yeah.
You guys have to say it.
I think he started the first tournament, I think he was stressful, I think.
It was the first tournament for him and he's the player that he didn't play a lot of LANs,
like his first LAN since three years, so it's something difficult for him.
But now, I think the most interesting thing is on the Stage 1, he has like 0-9 rating,
but when he goes to Stage 2, when there is Maus, Falcon, like top 10 teams, he put 120,
So I think it's a very good thing for him, playing good against a good opponent, but it's a very good sign for us.
For me, it's something I like as a leader.
You talked a bit about playstyle, that you need to suit to your players. What kind of a player is he, playstyle-wise?
He was playing style roles on his last game, wasn't he?
Yeah, he was on T side, he was sometimes taking map control, but when I was on terrace and
also we could, I can't give him that role, you know, so in Turkey, you know, we, I like
since seven years since Space Soldiers, I like of lurker, like player like drops, you
know, on T side.
And I just needed a lot like a B plan, you know, as a leader when I take map control
and I have a guy on my other side to give me a plan, bro, we can do that now, some voice.
I want him to do that, that's why I'm talking with him, like you have to talk much extra,
so now his role on his side is more sometimes like lurking, but not always.
But for now it's just been like two months, so I'm not pretty sure, just saying,
but he's a player with really calm, with good mental, and that's very important for us.
He's helping a lot.
Also smart. He's just choosing the smart way to play like when he's in an entrance well like killing one, not going for a second, trying to like waste some utilities to come back to people and nobody told him to do it.
If I'm killing one, I'm going for the second one.
That one was one for the third one.
The repakes.
So, there's a rock from all aspects of Aurora and some big words there about Sol
Fly, of course, and how he's managed to come up from that Tier 3, Tier 2 scene.
We watched him a lot on Fire Flux match.
It was a really cool team to see him on, because Banjo's on that team as well, wasn't that
team as well, and now everyone's focused, obviously, and I think those two were the
best players on that squad and deservedly now getting some flowers and some big events.
Yeah, I mean obviously a bit of a transition here for Salflyce and stepping up to the Aurora
played as we hear from that interview where Matt just says, I can't give him the roles
that are currently taken up by Xantar as in Wikipedia, so there's a bit of like an evolution
and development required here for Salflyce in this Aurora team trying to take up a bit
more of an Alerka role and then you heard Woxic even chiming and he's a pretty smart
player. He likes to really think about how he goes about his processes, which I think
exactly what you want from a lurker, right, who just applies that extra layer to his game.
He's done a pretty good job so far. A lot of respect from his team.
Yes, indeed. And now going into overpass, it might be a bit of a punish pick coming in
from Aurora. It's not been a best map for them lately. They used to have it as a really
good secondary or tertiary map in their pool if they didn't get a chance to play a Nubis.
But it's been turning off a little bit. Thing is, Bait have only played it four times this
year and not to great effect.
Yeah, I mean, they did at least get a winner of a passion away on this map yesterday.
So they've got a recent rep and they lost an OT to foot.
So I think that they'll at least kind of back themselves to a degree here.
Starting off on the CT side, our bait, they've got a three man set up on the B bomb side
and they're going to have a hell of a job to do.
to the right. It's not all not
ready for Santa. It's already
be in and Santares will not let
up. Incredible map one from him.
He gets two kills on his entry
into the B bomb site in the
central. Try his best to hold on.
But MPL will be dated. He's
going to keep it actually and
try and take these flags now be
thought he killed the CT player
and that could maybe descend this
round into chaos, but magic has
more comfortable for Aurora, Woxic and Soulfly are now stuck next to each other in that water
position tripping over each other somewhat, but Soulfly will run down one and react to
NPL, Woxic survives a one HP and Aurora get away with it.
I mean actually super well navigated there by Madger and Soulfly because they realize
if they swing that right side that's probably exactly what Sizi was holding and they were
completely correct so instead they just keep walking back using those sandbags as cover
And then a big double swing comes through from them.
Soulfly flexing his fragging power here in the pistol run with three key kills, even the transition here.
Basically mid-tap there, he's able to finish off the job and get Aurora off to a good start with the pistol.
Now just to avoid the force, MP9s, 5-7s, these close ranges and connector.
That'd be a scary place to go.
Those kills from Ocadia with the Glock are actually extremely important because if he goes down there like his teammate
After getting the initial kill with the Mach 10
I mean sure he gets those two but it would have been a 3v3
It would have been a pretty good position for bait with the force by but Ocadia just goes nuclear two quick kills coming through from the side on there
Just basically gets the job done single-handedly. It was so close to getting in the ace
That would have been a sick ace from him as well with those three kills and quick succession either way
They'll take the round on the board
So now all I have to deal with is these measly pistols.
Yeah, and I can talk over this round a little bit, and maybe talk a bit about what I was saying earlier about the sort of mismatch on the map in a way.
I mean, sure, Aurora had some really poor losses on it recently when they went to play Dracula, and I don't think they really wanted to be at Dracula.
I think the main reason they went there was to try and doubly secure their tier 3, their stage 3 invite for Cologne.
and the end obviously that one a little bit of ride, but you know losing to alliance and a matey
frustrating for them
There's lots of legacy as well on the map a couple of times in pro league
So I think it's not a favorite that used to be as I said earlier
I always felt like it was really good second of your tertiary map for Aurora even when they're called eternal fire a few years ago
It's a sense of thought process
Okay, we'll get caught this time and hang on a moment
There are lots of players on a and I think they've realized that thankfully it's more than enough time to go down common
Plot number one B. So I continue
Waffling, I think a little bit
When it comes to bait right as I said for this year lots of foot no the time
For corrects. That was the playoff game. I believe
Furia at pro league and then Aurora at Cluj
So Aurora have previous knowledge of how to get past bait even if that was like a couple of months ago
they won't have forgotten that and I think that maybe is another reason why they went to go into
Why are we still going a by the way? I'm trying to talk about things guys. Why are we still going a so rude of them?
But they went around in the end and yeah, I think there are reasons why Aurora gone to overpass is my point
Yeah, you're absolutely right
I mean just to highlight the lack of reps there for Bay probably one of the key factors that Aurora read into and I think it would have been like
like, super obvious, at least on paper, that they probably would have picked, like it was
a very high probability Aurora would have picked Dust coming into this. I think they
probably, once they figured out that Aurora was the team they were playing against, probably
would have done most of their prep for Dust and to try and study the tendencies and the
way that they like to play on the map and have done, put most of their time into preparing
for Dust too. So maybe even just trying to shake things up a little bit and maybe catch
Bait off guard in that regard.
Yeah, that is the thought process that I think is pretty evident. And if we do get the interview
after which we should. We want to be a role of players so we can maybe ask them about that.
Big damage on Makadia with the spam from Kinzizor.
Here's a crazy stat. T side and CT side win percentages for Aurora on this map. T side,
52 percent, CT side 48 percent. Teams normally love playing the CT side. It's a pretty heavy CT
side of map in fact a lot of people would make the case for it being the
heavy the heaviest CT side of map in the pool I mean alongside nuke would be the
two in the conversation so it's a pretty big drop before Aurora going on to the
defensive. Generally a weird one because that's what kept them alive in a lot of
the previous games they played back in the eternal fire days and overpass it was
their CT side dragging improve these long get long hearts but yeah the
team side improving and Zor will get his one on self line MPL on long is now
known about to walk sick or just gets around the corner and he'll drop the
bomb over to a teammate to get it planted as he looks to try and take
deeper control in bank to get a kill back in this 3v4.
Up's on the line though, we'll miss a shot and that means that walks it will go down in the end
because he's got a sent feel in support and in the end it looks like a sent feel is
going to be the main man to help out with that support. Bait will get a
breakthrough, get their first round on overpass.
That was perfect, therefore they, because of MPL's presence in Long, it makes Aurora
super uncomfortable to try and plant default, they worry about pressure up-lowers that would
then flank over through bathrooms, so they think our best course of action is to plant
reverse default and then try and fight in towards the backlines, take control of Dumpster
and Bank, which would give them really good post-plant positions to play with, however,
that's exactly where three of the four players are coming through from bait, so they end
up just getting these jewels off and up to them and they don't even really have to try
figure out where he takes it just to win these fights.
Yeah, Santhiel, when he was first coming through and was first added to Bate, which I'm pretty
sure was his only team in his career so far, he was really rough as a youngster a year
or two ago. One of the roughest debuts I've ever watched when I casted his first game
on Bate. He's grown as an individual so well, and that is a gorgeous shot from Woxic. Door
broken open, Kensi-Zor goes for the jump peek and bye bye.
Yeah he missed some of the easier shots on Mirage but that's a great one coming through
from him pre-empting the jump peek.
Like you say, Kensi-Zor going to be sidelined early on here.
Bait struggled a lot on the CT side of this map yesterday against Cash New A. Of course
it still went on to win the map pretty comprehensively.
They were down 8-4 on the half and they won the map 13-9 so it was a really good T side.
I wonder if those frailties will come into the equation here. Once again, it's only Suzy between Aurora and that A bomb site.
And he's in an advanced position without any option of falling back, so he's going to have to stand and bang them out of the server.
He has all the footsteps, and he actually does really well to get that first pick and then reposition with a little bit of cover to try to avoid the trade.
That takes the attention away from his teammate coming through from Lowers.
Good acceleration there from Wikipedia instead of hanging around to take the jewel. Instead prioritizes the plant, but now there's a chance here for bait in this 2v2.
for some alexa. I want to be tabbed up by accidents, kind of what it looked like, because his
face changed at that weird timing there. He doesn't go down, but now look at the damage!
8 HP on both and now 0 HP on alex. Ah, if a sentiel was full health, all this utility could
give this retake a go, but now there's no point. Acadia and Zantares, the two main men on the
rifles, on Aurora, will figure things out and break straight back through 4 to 1.
a fantastic bounce back immediately after losing the first gun round they'll be able
to win the gun round afterwards and sure they're financed with an amazing tact and they keep
bait in a tenuous position early on here on Overpass. This is how it had opened up. We
need that extra zoom, Waxx certainly didn't. There was still a good little resurgence here
from bait with this combination between Alex and Sizi but Aurora don't panic in and amongst
the chaos and get the job done regardless. So he still has enough of the orb, here we
go. It's going to be important for Bate to get something for a while. I mean it's kind
funny right because it feels like a bit of opposite day when we cast over pass because we usually
would say if they let Aurora get five six on T side maybe the game's already over but we've seen
multiple really good T sides not just from other teams in this tournament but from bait as well
earlier on so look Aurora apparently struggled more on CT and pass maybe you have to consider that
pretty deeply when it comes to the second half here and reconsider what we think is the minimum rounds
for Aurora on T.
Hey you're right compared to what it would normally be would probably be like five you'd say cool
you feel like you've done a good job on the T side but they're probably going to be more
looking in towards actually winning the half here to give themselves a bit of breathing room.
Woxic's already gotten an opening kill he catches Alex off guard and then Ascentheal decides to go
searching he suffers the same fate Woxic doubling down with key kills to open up the speed bomb site
They haven't pulled the trigger on actually taking control of that B bomb site though
Maybe still a chance you have a fade. I mean doesn't even look like they're interested in trying to make something happen
It's wakadia controlling the opposite side of the map now
You should be a dead man to NPL bomb still has to be recovered Aurora are so hesitant to commit into that B site
Which has had nobody home for like 30 seconds now having incredibly diligent, right going through all that protocols
Not just diving in thinking it's a formality and that's a good thing
Just before Aurora at a big event, they want to try and keep that a pattern and don't get
into any lazy mindsets in those situations.
Sizi, can he keep the AWP?
Dantares, ah, misses the shots.
Other ones are the Dantares, Tali.
And feeding Woxic in the early round really ended it straight away, didn't it?
The Cardio will trade immediately, and that is five very quickly.
Yeah, and it also breaks the finances of Baych on the CT side,
so it should be 6-1 before they're able to put up any sort of semblance of a defense.
Aurora have pitched up and they look the part.
We already know who the team would be that the winner of this game would face in the next round
off the lower bracket, now if you made light work of Hottu on the process off.
As I see that game's not done, I thought it was.
map 1 and then 10-8 here on map 2, so maybe hot to put up a bit of a fight and keep Navi
around for a bit longer, but it's winner of that place, winner of this or a spot in the
arena in the next few days.
Yeah, Navi vs Aurora has been a great match up to watch before. Make sure you keep watching
the B stream as we finish off the broadcast tonight. We'll be handing over to our esteemed
colleagues, but there'll be some bangers. Oh, that's a brilliant combination in-con.
That is certainly a banger.
Kenzuzawa's 5-7 gets 2 as they break the door open.
And all of a sudden, Kenzuzawa's now pushed up in-con with that AK.
It's not going to affect too much more, but ready an advantage.
And Aurora need to find a gap to work with.
Right now, kind of everything is somewhat covered by bait.
It's going to be really difficult for Aurora to try and figure out.
That will certainly help. True to the name, Zantare's peak.
Impossible to go up against their four MPL.
And if Alex goes down here and long, that's the door wide open to get into the A bomb site.
And Woxic will be able to adjust. Alex had actually spotted the legs.
He had a good idea of what was coming his way.
Wasn't able to do anything about it.
And now Zantare is playing Janitor with him just sweeping in these backlines.
Looking to try and control these flanks.
But hello.
Actually a really good time to push up for Kenty.
So what's that?
I'm not going to be able to
get to the end of the week. I
should have had that killed
dead to write every day of the
week and I reckon the reaction
from Travis the same one from
the soul. What a shame. That
was a great opportunity to make
something exciting happen, but
look, it happens to the best of
us. It really does.
Then tires where is the man
though to, of course, recover
the round brilliant clears in
off he got the AK from his incredible work to break through connector like he did got the reward
of the AK couldn't put it to use. Yeah I mean he could have basically just put the round away
if he'd gotten that first kill cleanly enough I would have thrown him into disarray for Aurora.
Gunner aren't here for bait to try and put a stop to the rock that currently sets in.
Great flash play coming through taking initiative here looking to try and kickstart their campaign
by playing active and it has net again an early kill and they're going to continue to advance
off the back of that as well.
I don't know if that's tough to just play.
I understand they had a play in mind at the beginning of this round to dead set we're
pushing fountain.
We're getting control of it early, we're looking for an opening kill.
There was no real need to go further than that.
They got their rewards and they could have fallen back with it and now opening kills
overpass are precious. Very hard for a T side to recover from 4v5s more often than not against
a full gun round. So I'll chuck that one away as well I'm afraid. Now a raw rate will take long
control. They might be saying it so it could easily go down through bathroom to connect to
it still. It's only a cover from Sizi at the moment but they wouldn't want to do that right now
because there are three CTs on B. So once again it could be Sizi, the main man in position to
to prevent Aurora reaching 7.
Oh, I saw some question marks here about the round.
Wikati is in and amongst the thick of things right now.
There's two players for the CT side,
and it's going to be Alex, who's trying
to make a play through the smoke.
No.
Gearoos, it's, oh, I haven't just stopped in my tracks.
The Alex clock that he realizes in time.
It was a fake with the attention trying to be drawn.
A, the round is still going to end.
B, Woxic will see the feet and find the frag on Alex.
But there's still resistance with only 10 seconds left.
There should be no way for Aurora to win this one.
A Senthil has to deny the plant.
It's going to be Woxic.
A Senthil doesn't see him.
He does not spot him.
Bonplon completes a 2v2 ensues,
and Woxic will even get the kill as well.
Oh, a nightmare.
NPL 1v2.
Can he recover things?
Woxic eventually goes down,
living a charmed life in this one.
Magi holding on from Pillar.
Look how advanced his position is.
Surely it's unexpected, but no.
NPL will save the blushes of a Senthil.
How did he not see the leg on the pillar?
Goodness.
I'm shocked by that, imagine he was annoyed that he couldn't take advantage of it, and why not? Don't blame him.
Yeah, cause he had made a really smart decision by actually getting himself in behind the pelive.
I thought that was the round-winning play to finish off the job that MPL is actually able to shift his crosshair and adjust in time to get that kill.
My god, same kill. You can't even blame that on 4x3, I'm afraid. I mean, there's just so many moments in this round where it's like, okay,
There should be no way Bait loses from here and they got extremely close, painstakingly
close to that one getting away from them, but guess who, it's NPL that saves the day again
for Bait.
I don't, I'm pretty sure that it was quite evident as well.
I mean, look, we always know we have the X-ray, the players don't.
It will look a lot more obvious to us from the outside, but I'm pretty sure that was
very visible for him on that push forward.
It was like half a second, but still, most players would see that.
I've seen it before from that position.
Anyway, it's a really important second round, and MPL does really well.
That's the second 1v2 of the series, by the way.
Yeah, true. It's got to be the start of something here for Beta.
Can't afford to just be one round in isolation,
because they get completely financially reset if they lose round nine.
And it's almost like then it's the beginning of the end for Beta, you would imagine.
Aurora have completely outclassed them throughout this series so far.
13-1-8 win for them on Mirage.
7 I think.
They're not much of a worry, they're 13-7 in fact yet.
And 6 out of 8 going their way here on Overpass in complete control.
Job, not done yet though.
Corset have the most perfect buy ever.
They'll have one Famas and utility is okay.
I think they have decent nades on MPL and essential, but...
Difference in the setup this time.
Oh, MPL wanders forward on a timing.
Woxic, is he gonna keep trained on it?
That is the question. He will.
Woxic has been fed a lot of frags in this map so far, from just maybe Aurora being a little...
Sorry, bait being a little bit lazy on occasion.
Suzy gonna go searching, finds a frag for Freya's mag, looks to set some utility up on Wakati, wood spot too there.
Maybe that's the ghost signal here, but Suzy's doing a brilliant job cooking things up here, in towards bathrooms.
We're finally getting a Suzy moment with the sniper rifle.
Wakati has no idea, should be an impossible 2v4 for him to recover unless Wakati can get the kill.
Suzy, that is a brave way to go about it with the USP.
That's a little bit unforced from him.
It's actually a path down low as onto the B bombsite here for Aurora, but there's no way for them to know that of course
So the issue is they know kensas all still around party and I think they might actually just commit to the save
There's 15 seconds. No time to get onto the a site from long now. So
It's all things. They may have made their way down, but little do they know they're not even going for this round
Would you believe in the end the NPL gift on long works out for that kensas or flank
which pretty much puts an end to the round, right? Maybe it was by design all along.
I guess so.
Couple consecutive rounds being strung together here. We've seen Sizi commit himself into these
bathroom positions before and that time comes up Rosie for him dancing around with the sniper
rifle. Big opportunity now for bait in round 10. Broken by for Aurora.
up. This is where they could really sink their teeth into the CT side and start to make this
competitive. Very much so. Now confirmed the fact that Navi is the opponent in that lower bracket
final they have managed to deal with Hottu in two maps as we thought they would. Fortunately,
one of our previous Rio champions Norbert is eliminated. Please have a good event. Hottu
who haven't done themselves in a service.
It's tough for them.
Oh, great pick from Zantares.
Kenzor goes for a little glance and gets immediately deleted,
and now just a classic B take off the back of that axe,
gets one, and then Zantares is still delivering from short.
Centiel tries to peek to help, but can't even get any other duel
than the one against Zantares.
Says he will do some good knee damage,
and actually Woxic takes a lot for that follow-up.
But it is a 2v4, and they need these guns
the following round. I love the explosive option there from Aurora. I really, really like how
quickly they actually accelerate into that B bomb site once Antares gets that opening kill.
Just start flooding their way through Monster Tunnel. Let the Mactanes rip, let them off the leash,
and the Hounds hunt the bait players down. Zantares is the one to continue to control from
construction as well as he gets that second frag to really make sure there's no chance for the
the defense and they completely crumble over on that B-bomb spike to bait and that will
get Aurora a lead at a minimum they'll now have seven rounds going into the second half
that's what I said would be the baseline for them to feel comfortable obviously that's
more rounds than you would normally need on the T side but as we've already highlighted
they do tend to have some struggles in the defensive half of this map so this is now
giving them the boost that they would have needed.
Yeah very unusually so because yeah I mean I remember we covered quite a lot of the old
that's not the strong, um, team
that plays in big events as it
was as it is now as it was back
then. But you know, they were
really solid overpass and
appeared with this exact lineup
where. Um, you see the overpass
was something they would rely on
when I knew this wasn't in the
pool. Have maybe two or three
maps. I think Aurora do play
well, even if they don't have a
new business in the pool. It's
dust to overpass and inferno.
Um, of course, one of those
wasn't going to be played, so
So, if we go three.
Yeah, which we shouldn't, right?
I mean, obviously there has been some like spurts
of competition coming through from bait
at that streak of five on Mirage.
It was basically the only thing to get excited about
at that point, there went up five, four
and then it was just all Aurora from there.
And here they've looked super sharp.
I mean, if Aurora had to eco once throughout the series
so far, it's weird.
You don't even mention it.
It feels like I've always had some kind of a buy. No full hard eco.
Just speaks volumes to how much control they've had throughout the series, right?
Indeed.
Lash into long bathroom, self-level clear that.
And that's a classic M4. That's a tornado with the LDLC stickers on it.
Was that Planet Key Dynamics as well there? I can't see.
say it's a classic three-pack winter 2014 you're right with the bear yes actually
have a team in CS again picking up the poles of course again I've gone back home
haven't they exactly all right this is make or break for beta there's any
chance for them here on the map they have to win round 11 otherwise it's
almost a guarantee it'd be 9-3 with them being completely broken both
financially and just mentally have at least gotten an opening kill. It's the
crown jewel of Zantare's removed from the T side. Two players in control of short.
They don't need a monster player because of that. You can focus the rest of their defense on A. Alex
will get one, but with Cardia trade, NPL quickly, they get this and then being baited in and gets
one and a half. That might be enough because Kinsor is still hiding in the corner of truck.
don't think that would happen against a team of Aurora's calibre, obviously an entire
tier between passion you air, especially once they're not having Senzu at this event, and
the level you're going to get from Aurora, especially with Woxic on that CT side, you'd
imagine he's going to be more than just a handful with that AWP once he gets going.
If that wasn't in an essential flank, then SoulFly may have been able to hop away and
play from Bathroom or play the headshot angle on the grass maybe, but yeah, never going
to happen.
That is all if, but some maybes.
That is not reality.
That is an alternate universe.
Fly around of Overpass first half.
So far, looking to try and take some initiative up short here.
So as Antares did this earlier, I've actually seen Bacadir do it as well.
Now it's Sulfly's turn.
Now he's seen quite a bit of success from this position being taken up by Aurora in
the early stage.
Sulfly not searching as much as some of his teammates have in the early stages of the
round.
Makes sense because the way that the team is set up is sort of like they're really in
position to try and capitalize off of him making a play instead. It is going to be Zantaurus
trying to poke through monster. And that's going to cost him his life. Alex will double
down that one at range on to Magus. The bait are finally getting going. Maybe a little
bit too late on the defensive half, but at least they're going to give themselves a bit
to work on.
They know that's all flight though, but he can't get the second with Woxic 26 HP. Working
their way back in. It does not seem possible with 50 seconds on the clock even. You need
crazy entry from Wikipedia. Is he got a gun on the ground to grab that? He's trying to find it,
but only with a P250 at the moment. What's happened there? I'll go back for mages, I think.
Has he got time to do that? There we go. Okay, I think he was looking to see if anyone had thrown
that gun forward into the smoke, but you will take the Galil in the end. Unfortunately,
it's wasted quite a lot of time, and now he's got Util, but Woxic needs to go crazy on this entry.
Actually not ready for it there Alex, showing the trend will come through though and yes, Ascentfield does confirm it.
Oh, that HE was thrown, that could have found the kill on Ascentfield.
Wikipedia is very stuck here, but the AK picked up now.
We'll find the duel on Ascentfield, 4 seconds for the plant, just about gets it, in comes an HE, and the charge in from MPL.
And once again, bait stay in touch, but once again, Aurora are keeping them at fingers length.
I
Another banger from the ESL halftime playlist to take us into the second half of Overpass
bait.
They've made some blunders on this map, but they're still in touchmats.
Yeah, they are with that little resurgence at the end of the halftime, I feel like they
have kept this campaign somewhat on track.
I mean, I think Aurora have done the job by getting themselves a bit of a lead going into
second half but we have already highlighted that some of these frailties have been exposed by
Aurora's defense on this map before so let's see if they can do that as well to try and force a
decider. Sizzly smoke flash Alex smoke flash flash danger with the utility for Aurora.
Woxic will work his way through from long though very aggressive open to the pistol needs to help
down oh my goodness blinky you will have missed it the pistol rounds over I was about to say
Woxic what are you doing get out of there after you find the opening kill but that's why I'm talking about the game
And it's why he's in the server fantastic mechanics on display coming through from Woxic throws the textbook out the window
And he just puts lead in the head of the bay plane so much presence there from Aurora
That is no holds barred no chance for bait to even set up what they wanted to do
Split second CT pistol win for Aurora
And on the CT side we mentioned they have an unusual low win rate from that like overpass
Let's see if they can change that today. They've got the pistol and I've got to get the conversion
because it's a full eco for baits and Woxic is looking for some dollar
Yeah, four for four in pistol rounds are Aurora now with that second half pistol going their
Wait you spoke about money for the SMG. Well, there's another multi-kill coming through from him back to back triple kills
Out of the Turkish talent there
And that will probably does he just drop the MP9 here and get the up
I mean, I reckon they'll probably play the bonus out, but I think Woxic is gonna be a menace here
They need four more rounds out of ten left remaining in the half
And that would stamp their ticket into the next round of the lower bracket and Woxic indeed
has got the sniper rifle as early as his first gun round.
Shot Molly for control.
Often you will see a CT side maybe going for the run boost to get across that
and get short control early, but instead they're Tri-Middle.
All that makes it like to break the smoke.
Decadian knows it, but still gets one.
Look at Zantares, this is really cheeky.
He's not showing himself in playground.
He's about to have a whale of a time.
Hage is now coming in to help out as well.
as well as you 30 it's all being thrown and Santar as a hearing this trampling around the
T says position a match has done really well a kill and a half that is when Santar is will activate
incredible pressure early half here for Marora.
I love it in this first gun round as well because they know they've got baits backs against the
wall they know that bait bait are going to be feeling the pressure coming into this round and
And so Aurora looked to just try and snap the neck of Bait early on in the second half
by throwing themselves into the action, finding the kills.
And that extra trade there from Xantares gets them the advantage.
Now, Senthiel is searching for short and NPL's gone up the lowest stairs.
The problem is that the bomb is all the way back at the top of the ladder.
Now, Senthiel with the spray not gonna go his way,
and it's only NPL left who should be able to catch Xantares off guard maybe,
but then he's got such limited time to try and win the 1v2 afterwards.
Oh, no, it's known.
And Antares will still find the kill.
Ah, these little moments in the game for beta are really unfortunate.
It's not the first time you've seen a whiff cost him a route back into a round as well, right?
Yeah, true.
And these guys are just so ridiculously good that they will punish you.
You've got to take advantage of everything you can get.
I mean, the Kensisaw was the worst example of all the whiffs so far in this series.
Bait down to an eco and Aurora basically within touching distance of that date with Navi which is now being confirmed as Navi did get the win over Hottu
And Aurora versus Navi would be
Accentulating affair to try and get a spot out there in the arena
So they can do it up here to this is gonna be a big burst into the speed bombs right side straight through the monster smokes all fly
We'll spray down one but there's an immediate response out of the entry frag a kensi
with two out of the ten. Oh, Zantares and Maja are having to work their way back in now, but
Maja gets caught even as that smoke is reappearing in front of his eyes and all of a sudden
six for bait because Zantares is leaving and Woxic is already playing Exit kills outside
Monster so that is one that we didn't expect, that's for sure. Axis on the hunt as well,
that Woxic AWP, oh sorry, the Zantares AK might not be alive for too much longer.
in quite a lot of noise and Sizi has seen him easily removed so we've got a bit
of a lifeline here coming in for baits I never expecting Alex oh did he see him I
mean it was so quick when he was moving around he might not have spotted him but
that smoke in play he may have actually created enough space for himself so yeah
looks like that will be carried across like you say a lifeline indeed are a
a preve as bait able to win the slight investment courtesy of a kensy saw moment which had been
few and far between.
He's the hard entry frag for bait and he's really struggled to crack these bomb sites
open against Aurora, which is obviously always going to be very difficult against some really
talented players, but that is a lead off here as it gives them a way back in potentially.
Let's see Sizi enjoying himself in some way, even though he's not having the best of games
and they're losing a map in 10-6.
Um, and you gotta enjoy it when you're still a young player.
Don't be too hard on yourself, I know some players are, even from day one.
Of course there'll be some of those players, some of the best players in the world, but
you catch my drift.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, he's only 16, which is crazy.
Unfortunately, Donka's ruined everybody's perspective on how good a 16-year-old should
actually be.
Yasuke, another one of those examples, but he still has a long career ahead of him.
you can figure out some of those other aspects of the game's antara is well that tree doesn't provide
much cover once they realize that you're there good first frag in the round you're for bait to
start to get things going now what's it come back at i have to make a move to creep forward
oh that's an annoying mess yeah smoke was awkward for him maybe taking a little bit of
a distraction from it but he'll go for long instead good flash and on as even on long says he
he will see his enemy but not be able to take him down and now he's down to 38 HP.
Check the gamble, Trav.
All four players for Aurora in and around the Saybombs site.
Really well poised to deal with what's coming their way.
NPL spotted.
He's also gonna be isolated now as his teammates have been locked up by the incendiary.
They've decided to try and go through it straight into the Turkish plunder.
It's a delight here from Aurora as they find a quick couple of kills in 30 seconds left
and it's gonna be so easy as they mow the middle tower.
I mean, that'll put smiles on Aurora faces. That was I could not have been easier considering they're in a disadvantage
Charging through long no second prong coming from bathroom really hurting them there. Just having full control and full vision on long
That's really made that such a more comfortable hold and to be fair
I mean that just saw NPL before he was fully blinded, but he's still got the kill
During his blindness and that made a big difference into making it on a lot more comfortable
I can't say what he just said,
but if you're a look reader,
you don't really even have to be one.
That was pretty obvious.
Oxy can't even believe how easy that was.
Crazy. Good work from Soulfly.
Tantares, by the way,
went 25 and 11 in map one with a 1.9 rating,
124 ADR,
and he's delivering again here.
It's going to be a really good series for Tantares.
And I know, like, you know,
bait aren't on the level of the teams
that you know,
Now, Rora want to punch up two to try and beat to make the playoffs with Navi waiting in the wings later, but
at least it's a good sign that he's woken up today and is looking more like the Zantara as we know.
With that hand injury that we know he's got, it's always something that could be on your mind,
even if you're feeling okay. So, yeah, it's great to see him play well again.
Absolutely. It's always a fantastic showing when Zantara is online in a big way.
good spray from kensisor nearly on the transfer there as well this is what they need out of him
on the t-side their t-sides for bait are heavily reliant on these opening kills kensisor attempts
like a third of the opening kills for bait when he's finding success like that he makes their
lives a whole lot easier another annoying start to the round for aurora now woxic is the man to be
in playground on a random timing instead. It was Antares before. Very deep push from him.
Antares will be okay. It is. And Antares is getting boosted up. Oh, now leg C. That is very
awkward. They know it's the AWPer. They might do now. And Antares, as he drops down, still finds
one. And I don't quite know how Sizzy hasn't punished Woxic. Oh, he's completely trapped,
but the kills continue to go down on the opposite side of the map. And at this point,
Waxx is just trying to stay alive for as long as he possibly can.
He knows that they're crunching in on both sides from him on top of the slide.
He's having some fun in the playground, but Alex will eventually end playtime.
But there's only 30 seconds left on the clock.
Yeah, not watched playtime left in the entirety of IEM Rio for bait, maybe, I'm afraid.
Mm-mm.
20 for this round.
Bot utility, but thing is, look at what kind of playing a really good position.
already fall back once he gets the information and 10 seconds is a massive issue for Bait.
Bomb is now waking up onto the site but they have to check so many angles and they can't
get that bomb planted and just like that MPL is having to run away 12 for Aurora and just
like map 1 they have double the score of Bait at 12-6.
It's another opening kill that goes awry for Bait and that's just criminal and this
This is how it had started was Kenzie saw just charging up shore catching soulfly completely
unaware but unfortunately it doesn't actually materialize into a round that gives Aurora
six chances here to seal the fate of the series and progress forward here in the competition.
They've made light work of bait so far which is a bit underwhelming right we would have
been at least hopeful that bait could have made this a contest but it certainly hasn't
been that way.
The opportunity to go for the boost on the long ledge for Woxic looking all the way through
the diner.
Or head scene.
And that's good info.
I really like the observing there with the little fly through for us to see how they're
stacking themselves up.
Shout out to Shev and Jonas for pushing all the buttons as far as the observing is concerned
on the B3 Waxing, last button one, not going to connect.
He will catch them completely off guard,
he cuts through from the back lines,
and he finishes it off in style.
Aurora, job done as they will push on in to Narmine.
That's an apt ending to the entire series.
I don't forget how Aurora won the CT pistol round.
That was over in a flash,
and that one might have been just as quick.
Goodness me, right into that blender.
And as you said earlier, it is definitely a Turkish delight.
It's created something tasty for Aurora,
but there is a lot more things to come as you say.
Bait should have been an easy game for them. It was an easy game for them.
Now, Navi to come, and haven't they had impressive and exciting matchups in the past?
Yeah, I mean, you're right. That is going to be such a fun game for a spot at the playoffs
to get to play in front of the crowd on the stage.
One of those teams is going to be extremely disappointed, not opening, going all the way.
Bait, it is the end of their road. It was a meek exit from the competition.
I mean, sure, a tough draw for them where they got knocked down to the lower bracket by Navi,
and then they were eliminated by Aurora without even really having put up much of a fight.
I know it's a shame for Bate, right? And it does kind of go in turn with how their season
is being played out, right? They did make the major in Cologne. That is the main positive. They
won that plan over in Denmark to qualify. But in general, they just haven't had any consistency.
And the inconsistency in that AWP role, for me, is the main thing. Like, you root head trick,
You wanted something more explosive the head trick had a stable level which I think you know was good enough for this bait team and
You know going from one 16 year old or per to another. I'm not so sure if that's the answer
Yeah, I mean a lot of questions at this point they're locked in for the major and then maybe they'll reassess from there
I mean like I said, obviously very difficult teams that they had to play up against
There's no shame in losing to Navi and Aurora. It was more just about the maps that they lost
They never got to double digits in any of them right 13 0 and then what like 13 4 in the two maps
They lost to Navi and then 13 7 and 13 5 here against Aurora 13 6 rather
They just got completely dominated. We're never really in the contest of any of the maps that went against them
Yeah, but at least for Aurora's sake right?
It's a really important win to get this one done easily because even the game against how to that map to that when all the
Waiter over time when they were 9 1 up. I mean, you know Aurora
sometimes play the really really long series and it ties them out stresses them out and they you know
You've seen the tilt get to them more often than not, especially xantharis to be fair
Um, and yeah to get this one done cleanly will be really grateful
Especially when they know that that game to come later tonight and a little chance to breathe
Yeah, there are teams that have always I think generally speaking in the past year or so been very good at teams that are quite
like a tier below them. They've always been really reliable in those sorts of series. Obviously a
draculant, it didn't really go that way with some losses to M18 Alliance. But like you say, such a
convincing win over bait will just restore that conviction that they are way above a team at that
level. And that's how we've come to know them, right? Like always just kind of hanging in and
around that top eight level. And that's exactly what they displayed in the series today.
Yeah, they had a decent season. We went into the game talking about how, you know, maybe a
maybe expectations for them were a little bit lower
because of the changes they made,
but I'll tell you what,
there was one man who showed us up on that one
and deservedly so, is SoulFly,
and I believe we've got an interview ready
with him right now.
SoulFly, my friend, congratulations on your W.
That was really clean from you guys.
Talk us through the first map and the,
I guess the close first half,
but then leading into an easy win.
Yeah, we prepared really well for this B8 game, like the both Mirage and Overpass.
And Overpass is lately really strong, I feel like, we're playing really strong, and they
also played well, but at the end of the day we managed to win.
Tophla, I'd like to know about the decisions actually pick Overpass coming into the series,
I did my prep on Dust2 for the most part, now I was a little bit surprised, maybe Bait also expected you guys to pick Dust,
so can you give us some insights onto the decision making there for the veto?
Yeah, like in the practice room we were discussing what should we pitch, and we had kind of a three option,
but we decided to pick Opus because we know they don't like to play Opus, they're second-band,
And as I said, we are slowly step-by-step improving on our pass, and we are in the good level, in my opinion, and then we just picked, you know, because we know that they are not good enough to win against us.
I'm going to start with you.
So this is a question I posed
to to near earlier because
both me and that have covered
you for years playing in tier
two. I mean, I even covered
you back in in San Gal when you
first played with with Magia.
What would you say has been the
biggest challenge for you in
that jump from tier two into
now consistently playing tier
one and flying all around the
I think it's really hard to stay at a high level because it's like all the time whatever happens in the past is getting in my head and then sometimes I'm losing confidence, sometimes playing bad, sometimes taking bad decisions, but I feel like I'm improving but I cannot show in the game.
which I'm trying to more vocal on my side, but yeah, it's hard to stay there and you have to be all the time in Prove,
because it's so, like everybody remember you from your past game, you know, previous game, so today it was a good,
but in general staying at this high level, it's hard, but I hope I can make it.
You're ready, mate. You've already been extremely impressive and there's still a lot of lessons
to be learned. You've done a great job. Last question before we let you go. Next opponent
is going to be Na'Vi for a spot in the arena on the stage. A team that you guys have really
struggled to beat in recent times. I'm sure you guys are looking for revenge after the
way that that ESL Pro League finals game went. How are you guys feeling about that series
later on today against Na'Vi?
I mean, I don't remember how many times we lost against them,
but there is some error to stop, you know, so we should stop this area.
I believe today, what we showed against B8, it was good, and I hope this time we can win,
and we are really confident about playing against Na'Vi, because yesterday we had a long talk
about why we lost and then some issue we had.
But today in the morning, when we were eating breakfast as a team,
and then I feel like everybody was happy and I can feel from outside
we're going to make good, we're going to show a good game today.
And then we showed on B8 and I believe we're going to show on the another game as well.
Well, I have faith too, man.
Thank you for joining us for a conversation.
Always good to hear from you and best of luck in that next game.
I hope to get to see you guys on the stage in the next few days.
Thank you so much. My pleasure. Bye bye, guys.
Chersulf life. Good stuff.
Hot news, Trav.
Go on. Aurora eat breakfast together.
Oh, well, there you go.
I mean, I guess that's why they won today, huh?
We know the key. We know the secret.
But yeah, it's a really important win for them, and I'm very glad to see them get it,
because I think that Aurora and RV game should be a banger.
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an absolute banger here on the
B stream. I got to be honest.
We got spirit up against G two
getting straight into it. I'm
so excited for this one, man. I
think it's going to be a great
game. It really has the
potential to deliver. We might
have, you know, these two teams
not quite 100% spirit have been
slowly hemorrhaging over the
course of this year. And of
Game as it's an important game, of course, a knockout game here.
Yeah, that's it.
You know, with both of these suicides as well, they both have kind of like quite distinct kind of pitfalls at the moment,
which is even with kind of tax-standing and it feels like a GT side that could still upset here, right?
Sure.
Proving that they can drop maps and can drop series and can look a little bit weaker than what we've come used to this side.
And probably even what we expected of this lineup when it was formed on paper.
It was like, okay, injection of firepower, slight change in kind of the IGL role and everything.
to feel that this is a team that can build upon this.
But if anything, it's been the other way.
And we've kind of the major around the corner.
This is two different sides who for different reasons
want to prove what they can do here.
For Rio, for the likes of G2, it's kind of like,
yes, we've got to stand in, but that
could be the future of the slalom.
No, that is very true.
That is very, very true.
I think they're obviously using it as an opportunity
to test the water, in a sense.
But we do have a little bit of a look at the main man over
on the G2 side at the moment.
That is heavy God.
He's playing very, very well.
They obviously, I think both these teams
have a bit of a tough opening matchup as it were.
So it kind of makes sense that down here
in the losers fighting for their life in the group stage.
But heavy God is a big, big part of the G2 side
and he has been for a long time.
Yes, exactly that.
And of course this tournament so far,
he's over performing compared to kind of his usual,
let's say, you know, at a 1.24,
he's absolutely loving life in the server.
And they're looking towards him for a lot of firepower, right?
It is obviously quite a big loss with our Hunter.
I think very good. He's now going to take a real kind of stake here and kind of prove that he can be here
This either they can step up in terms of that firepower and he can be a real difference maker
This is a team that have the makings to bring a lot to the surface
It's just whether they actually click in general and the thing with heavy
God, of course, he's performing so well
But we need a few people around them to really step up it this side really wants a chance
Yeah, no, I think that is true
I think maybe they have sort of lent on him in a big way that it's like right even more freedom even more
responsibility being put onto him here to sort of lead the way. It is a little bit questionable
I suppose but the big questions are around this guy and of course we've got a little
bit of a chance to speak to Tag. Let's check in.
Speaking with Tag ahead of your game and obviously coming into this tournament you get to play
against number one in the world and number two in the world as well. You had Zayac who
already on your menu now it's done. How are we feeling before this game against Spirit?
I mean, it's a big task and a big challenge both yesterday and today, but I mean, we showed
yesterday that we can and we probably should have won the game.
So, I mean, we're going through the same mentality today for the victory, of course, for the
playoffs.
I mean, it's my dream to play in front of the arena.
So, yeah, I mean, I hope we win and show good yesterday.
Obviously, you are lacking some experience in this kind of a tier, but are you channeling
that maybe nervousness into excitement?
this technique help you perform better and focus on all the spotlight that is on you right now?
Yeah for sure as I said in the HLT interview that all of this energy should be transformed
like for the good so as you said like excitement to have the team up and all this kind of stuff
but yeah mainly I had nurse on the first day but by the time we play here it's going away
like bit by bit and I think now I mean I'm just I'm confident myself in the team and
ready to play the game here.
It makes complete sense.
I mean, the Vitality game, you held on your own now,
you stomped 3D Max, you clearly are showing that there's
a place for you even in this tier one competition.
So this confidence, is it like oozing out of you
or are you just not really caring that much about it?
Because some players do not ultimately care.
I mean, talking about confidence, of course,
it's one of the main things as a player
you need to have going into the game.
And it's important to me to feel confident and comfortable
in the game, so I can do my own moves, not only just teamwork and believing more in myself.
But of course, each game I'm gaining more confidence and it will be, I think, a key
factor in this game for the playoffs, to just be confident and do my work and this way gain
the win over spirit.
I want to give you a little spotlight here, and if I think worse, the worst spirit, maybe
the worst dunk.
I mean, nothing much, but I hope it will be a good game and we win.
Alright, not so spicy, but that's completely alright.
Let's see how it goes on the server.
Yeah, I mean, excited to get into this one, right?
We race him as well up against Nia here in a little head-to-head, just to kind of give you guys an idea.
And, you know, the spirit conversation immediately springs to mind.
I think it's a very, very interesting one at the moment in the way that, you know,
Donk is obviously still effective.
He talks about like an injection of firepower and stuff.
I think they definitely have had that since the changes, but it also feels especially with chopper leaving that they've lost some discipline structure and whatnot.
And I think they're kind of playing a style that's like a few almost, you know what I mean?
It's like, we're better. We've got all these great fraggers and we've got the greatest fragger in theory, at least given the history of Don Cripe, maybe not into this year.
And I think that they've just lost a bit of identity and, yeah, the structure of the team seems to be breaking apart.
Of course, I am fit to near as well. I mean, this tournament started quite well for him, right against liquid. He looked really, really solid.
But I guess it's sort of an easy game to look solid against quite a weak liquid, but against Falcons, he offered absolutely nothing, 0.4 rating for him in that one.
So it's interesting as we get live in this one, high stakes for this matchup. And I'm really excited to see what we can get going.
Nuts. First contact.
Here's him. He's spossed the shoulder.
We can't really do anything.
The Magix isn't forced off balcony.
Yeah, I think a cheeky angle from him, really.
On that.
Sideways.
Peripheral angle.
Smoke going to go down as well.
So really dealing with this.
Quite nicely on the spirit side of things.
Now just on the other side of the smoke here.
Just ready here.
Raring to go.
On those Julees.
Flash is a bit dodgy.
Oh, that's the CT plant.
The Magics is going to keep them coming all the same.
They just cannot take him down.
It's too messy over here.
And the contact flash has been super effective.
And it will be a flawless pistol to kick off a spirit.
Really nice start.
And I think, you know, there's that got one big error
and issue that we speak about when you go for these B-Pops.
You've got to get out, right?
That's the first thing.
If you get stuck in towards apartments,
life becomes very, very difficult.
And that's exactly what happens.
Those flashes are fantastic from a spirit.
They keep them locked in there.
And despite being blind, Magics does really, really well
with the dualies.
three kills as a whole. So fantastic work from him. But for G2, that is a bit of a wake-up
calling towards the opening round of your map here. Because the fact that you get nothing,
can't even get a plant, can't even get a kill, and you get completely stuck.
It's right beside that. I'm not here to play. It won't be a buy coming through for the T side.
That makes complete sense. Rare that each of the four spies come in the T side without the bomb
I don't want this one should be a little bit of a throwaway back towards be it seems on magics is there to meet them once again.
It is only him. Yeah, they are on the lower weaponry make a noise.
There's that rotation in from short now though.
So smoke goes down good timing on it and unfortunately the contact block idea has been bailed upon.
So G2 gonna make us wait for the action in this round.
have some palace here. Nurtz. Oh, knife in hand. Shira was turned around for a moment.
I mean, weird little exchange over there. They're now going to high tail it with that
deep palace information back towards B. So due to a kind of all over the place at the
moment, I think it's safe to say being kind of annoying, really wanting to force this
bomb plant out if they can, but a re-smoke in the apartment. So I think you kind of
just have to send it here guys and face the facts that the full eco is not going to work
for you. It's good timing on that re-smoke as well. Just to keep that to our 42nd mark.
It is really labored from Magix. He will forward an 8 or see off some price to the very least.
Azontics gets a second, makes out a third for him as well. Tack will deliver with one. The
question is, can he get a pawn? The answer is very swiftly no. So a couple of consolation kills.
That'll be that. I guess you're not really expecting anything in that round. You're not too upset with
it. Here's the real test. And you know, we kind of like to call this sort of first gun round,
the real litmus test of really what's going on. And this is it for G2. We don't know kind of how
deep this is going to go for this island. Obviously, a pretty tough run or things since it is already,
but can they compete in the firepower? T-Side of Mirage, this is a chance to really
flex the muscles and be able to lose with it. Early-mid utility comes out here. Something to
rush. Just in kind of top mid as well trickles down, which also affects the rush. So I think
they're really expecting some aggressive movement from spirit in the early stages.
Not quite the case. You can see as well the two players at top mid quote unquote for GT
were actually quite far away. Yeah, from the conventional spots. They're really expecting
spirit to get in their face, which might be the case, but a little later into the round.
All eerily quiet. Deep smoke there from Magix. As they were looking tempted to look towards
B once again, last two times having exactly been successful. This time they've got the
rifles on the util behind it. There's resmokes in towards mid, they'll be stuck for now.
Looks like Tak will be taking first contact in a second, but it's Donk on the other side.
We smoke into the top window, he'll just join up with Shira who gets a tag onto Matty's, but it's not enough for the kill.
Donk and Shira combine well.
There's nerds and Matty's the first to fall and they can fall back to site.
Yeah, really good stuff.
Spirit, playing confidently but not playing kind of stupid as it were, which I think was a bit of a fine line.
Some players find themselves to be the only one left here.
And even with the info, you can't get anything done.
It's incredibly clean from spirit like I say forward-facing but not early on in the round not predictably
Just nice open angles working together
G2 really did not have an answer G2 were expecting the aggression. Yeah, it never came and there's the thing right now
Spirit and not being made to sweat really
They're very simple very basic set ups and they're working really really well and there's no complaints
The bomb plant. Nothing to fall back on for G2s, they have to go for another half-bite.
Pretty simply should be the fourth on the board, fourth spirit.
You want to make sure again that if you can deny that bomb plant, that'll be nice, just
a nice little consistent thing to have.
Even though you know for sure that G2 will be buying in towards the next, but a nice
nade to open up proceedings.
Taktak to blow, Nurtz will take a tag, he himself is a deagle!
Spamming away can't find it tonight. We'll get one before he's traded. Yeah, I mean the trade is still decent in and of itself
They store up shots. He just kind of ducks under the bullet there
I was slightly concerned
About the state of the a bomb site say left if we could open the early stages M4 to tempting
Don't start moving forwards here to try his best some pious
The deagle looking for a couple of heads and he was close on that second not quite there
it's still definitely doable.
Maybe not so much now as tactic gets us back stabbed and they seem quietly aware of the fact that one had made it open to
Connector window that sort of area. Yeah, and indeed they do
hold it together
A little bit better
I guess from g2 that we get on towards the site itself and we have a bit of movement there
But this has been a poor start from them on their map pick right?
They've got to set the tone here really in the series on mirage
Obviously it's one of those maps that we always talk about everybody knows everybody loves you don't see that much new on it
So because of it comes down to how well as a team plan, you know coming through here
What's the prep being looking like in towards a side like spirit and ultimately do we have the individuals online?
And I think that's the key issue at the moment for G2. We're just not looking very sharp
You know, we were saying the praises of heavy guard obviously got this new man on nerds as well in towards the silent
There's a lot of people you can fall back on in terms of who can really give you a lot of space bring you a lot of kills
We're not seeing any of that now. So second chance at this fall by
For this side, it really has to be quite stellar. I think to start convincing us that they're going to have a chance in this series
As much as G2 have had moments of brilliance in this tournament this far
They're still coming as underdogs here
I mean primarily just the base off the stand-in alone to be honest even without that
I'll give you two
They've sort of made usage here as the previous rifle rounds.
G2 the approach, not much different.
However, they start to move up a lot earlier than they did, both towards top boxes and
in the underpass where we've got nerds.
Seems like it will be an A-split in the end, just in case of where the kills come in.
utility game at the moment. Try and bait a peek out, try and bait some information out,
but it's just not really coming. However, it is somewhat tactical in the sense that
it's just a real lack of utility left for the CT side. I think that's an unfortunate
timing spam. Onto heavy guns, optics hanging around here, finds information, does get aggressive
and loses his head. Donk maybe has enough to work with to hold the line to the end.
Meanwhile, yeah, figures it out that they were indeed bumping in the smoke. It's going
be down to just two now for the G2 side of things. Matty's is low and it is just not happening.
Absolutely being played off the server at the moment. Nice find in isolation. He does
have the ball. He's got three more to get through and the AWP is right around the corner
already waiting for him.
It's just another one that's just too easy. Again, right? They're not being made to sweat,
not being made to work at the moment. Spirit, they're more than happy just to sit on the
side. They don't even need to get kind of too proactive. You know, we're seeing a little
of loose mid control playing around like you to get you spoke up but they're not
swinging forward there and taking this on us they're just waiting for G2 to one
by one walk into them and they're winning our aim deals every 50-50 more or less is
going the way I spur it and this is making life so simple for them on this
CT side it's a real concern for G2 and even more so as well you call the time
out you bring Soren towards play and have him have a little conversation of
what about it seems so far where the gaps and nothing changes it's exactly the
the same sort of ramp. This is
a little better. Nerds will
open up with a double D eagle
is don't go hit the deck. So
numbers favor G2 here despite
being on the lesser by. Yeah,
I mean, getting the individuality
going playing much more aggressive.
It's good to see and definitely
what they needed to inject into
the game, whether it ends up
winning a round or not. I think
just need to. Knock some
confidence out of spirit. If
All based on the timing, two of them with eight in hand, it's rough, but it still works!
And the final bullet, it would seem the gods of CS really want Spirit to be winning this one.
He's so lucky.
That is insane.
Heavy God, all alone, clean.
A couple more of those, maybe on the cards.
Hey, 50 seconds, mate, don't cut them out.
They actually might be life in this.
No, no.
Oh, I was gonna say, he's gonna be seen.
He gets the bomb, tried to move through it, and that just wasn't the right option.
I don't know tough tough to call in that particular situation, but of course it is to near right time right place by just half a second
Yeah, they were watching him and then they were like right. We've got to get the utility out the start of it was really ugly
Yeah, you know
spraying and praying but
That's a reaction we had when that little comes through. How's it got away with that?
valid
Totally valid second time out and again like just such an asses to
So it's like the rounds are
moving faster than you might
expect. Yeah, this high stakes
high level game, you know, so
we say that while that is
because we're not getting any
post plants. So yeah, that's
the game. It's like a small
silver lining nuts. Nice couple
of shots again. A bit of
space and towards a but. Nothing
that's really making us feel
convinced at the moment. Yeah I
mean, the game's gone super
quick as well. We've only been
here about 10 minutes. Yeah
any post plant so that's the the long shot of it we can't even get a plant at the moment.
Some players low pick up the seedings, he's out the head to head against Shiro, they're
waited for half a second just for that window smoke, a fight to come through first and an
opening kill to fall back on 4G2 in a full gun round. At this point we'll take any post
this fight, do you like this move there? Nerds just want that's right, it's the second that
you'll find Donk. Nurtz. Another double from him this time with the rifles behind it in a two versus four. Surely. First round on the board for G2.
Yep.
Get the gamers activated, man. Give them some more freedom and I think a lot of what's talked about there is just getting proactive.
Yeah.
Playing...
...aggressive. And I think playing as though it's any other team. You know, don't be worried about spirit. Don't be worried about the presence of Donk and an informed Tineer.
However, things are getting a little bit closer.
Certainly closer than they would have wanted, but they still managed to get the round.
And at this point in the scoreline, that is all that matters.
So, it's now time to string them together, it's now time to build up that confidence.
Comes off the back of a timing pick, and then the reaction to the reaction, ultimately,
if Spirit can maybe nullify that, it does take quite a lot away from G2's wincom, there.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
First on the board and now that round number seven needs to be used as a bit of a catalyst
We have to start building up something to fall back on for G2 all start
The worst possible thing as well off the back of finally getting around on the board is just get immediate dumpster into the follow-up
You can't find consistency this maps can be over before even really begins
Control taken
Technically both sides top mid and control by the T side
But because of Shira's movie as coverage towards Undale took back into those corners that smoke will fade
They probably have a sneaking suspicion. There's one lurking around the boxes, but
You can leave them there for now
He's in a damage
Feel like there's just not as many opportunities to find pics Molly goes in nerds though has avoided it
And there's no flash for this move. He's playing auntie. They're gonna walk in next to him
I'm gonna say we're seen a worried about in there for a moment
Don't cut clothes trying to keep them a bay calling flash and some assistance. It's perfect
Absolutely brilliant finds and that's what he does of course
That's the one factor you're gonna have to deal with all series long
an advantage to the CT side
Be bomb site that finds itself open
That is head on a swivel here checks out for one. He might be able to get a bit more as well
Well, suddenly it's even suddenly there is space for that bomb, but there's not loads of time for the bomb. This is the key thing. Can we jump in here? Can we deny it? Maybe that's what they're looking to try and do.
Magix goes down and surely has to be a 4v3 conversion. I don't think Shira on the Orp, Donk on the 28 HP want to go for this.
No, I think you're right. I think it's mostly considering that Shira's been spotted. Some pirates in the pop shop, but I think he had the shoulder just through the shelves.
Yeah, they're not giving us one look the whole for exits and I'd be as good as it gets. I say they sure will
He knows you got a window. It's gonna fall away alive
G2 put a second on the board with a hit towards Pete
Sure, I can't find anything on the tail end
Please stay alive for G2 this is gonna give them something to fall back on at the very least
I think it's a bit of a waste.
Speaking about how nice it started and having to burn a couple of time off to really get this out activated is.
Ultimately, not a good sign, but that's a good round in isolation.
It starts pretty poorly. The A here gets shot down and they still recover from it as well.
This just proves to them that we can contend in, that we can have a little bit of something.
I think when on that t-side when you're able to give yourself like a
solidly
Advantageous position in terms of like the map control and the flow of the round and then you can actually use it
That is a very good sign. Yeah, they might have been a man down
But Matty's had an ascendant position in terms of like there's no one here. We can get the bomb down
I can control things I could maybe find a kill from it and all these potential
positives like came through which I think is the key thing that they're able to convert that then things might have fallen flat because of
The man advantage, but you sort of evened it up very quickly by having that control and by him finding that kill and
Suddenly the 3v3 looks even for actually you get like an immediate boost
You know what I mean? You're like 50% ahead off the back of one kill
It's time a little more of a passive control in towards mid by spirit.
Let me somewhat reluctantly, but they'll give it that control for now.
Wait to see what the action is from G2.
Bomb not committed, but probably scooped up as they're going to join back towards the A site, all five, in this direction.
Going to Palace player heavy got it, but I have to get the support of Nerds as well.
It's going to be a simple dive out here.
The Oncons sure are the first lines of defense and you got to near just round the corner.
Quick rotation is on ticks.
Still make this an absolute bloodbath.
So GT have to be really clean on their entries.
Yeah.
AID.
Didn't quite find anything just yet.
Timing's on two off, but they will move in a bit later than he was expecting.
There's another Nade with Donk's name on it, by the way, in that same position.
The Opts to break things open.
Try and find a fight.
Just not one appearing.
They've lost control of the Ape on site.
itself. What should come in? It's all a question of whether they can get in on that retake first fully fledged retake of the map so far as well, by the way. So feeling pretty damn good here. And spirit looking to test the defenses of G two now donks spotted.
It's a little up to drop back.
He takes a tag and is finished off.
I think just totally trapped in.
Can they work around him?
There's one more kit remaining for Zontics.
They're really playing this slowly
though on the spirit side of things.
The AWP misses it shot.
That's certainly lucky.
Still got to break in.
Still got to find the defuse.
Ultimately, they don't have like a smoke on it.
So it's all going to come down to the kills
and heavy God finds two.
Zontics will get on it, you know.
Molly comes in and it's heavy God that finishes them off.
It felt closer. It felt like they were peeking a bit later than you'd like, but they still managed to get it done.
I think it's in the end there as well. The trades and spirits, the poor, right, ultimately.
And I think that's put you in a pretty tough spot.
I think for G2, you've got to commend them for that post-plant.
They wait for as long as they can before they have to fight.
And they have a couple of feelers holding these angles, but they haven't got a place so long.
They've just got to wait by this time. Bomb planted for him.
That's a huge one. You can see what it means for G2.
It will break the finances over towards spirit. So a third on the board for this T side should naturally move into a fourth
Yeah, I mean it's the second time out really that seems to be massive here seems to have made the difference the first one didn't really resonate
Maybe it was more of a tactical conversation
Second one seems like it's way more mental getting everyone even
building up that belief and
So far it's done very very well to near the only ones who have found a kill here
This is also a good sign insanely quick insanely effective
And ultimately very very clean on the Pansy eco
There's a punch gets in the way and he will go down. So just a one kill
Really building momentum to even things up before the half. Yeah, it's a great round to have
Making sure that those easy ones are well fundamentally easy, you know, sometimes when they're a bit of work to get them over the line
I guess the half buys it's a bit of an indictment and just how shaky things are
That'll show things up though for G2.
The Spirit from Solid Stars, six rounds out the gate.
They've led this lead slip. It's a two round game now,
and absolutely recoverable for G2, especially in this current form.
It's the final two rounds of play.
You feel like a Spirit, you've got to get at least one of them.
Just guarantee, with a six nil star, you've got to be guaranteeing a lead by the half.
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
You will be kicking yourself if you're not able to get there.
Donk really wants to get there as well, taking some aggressive heads-up fights, nearly wins
two of them. It's the AWP as well that backs him up, the dynamic duo crunching in towards
middle heavy god, attempting to find a play with things being against him very, very quickly.
Just a slight change up in the approach from Spirit has potentially netted them that key
seven that you were talking about. Just going to be some pious remaining here, one versus
They know about him. Yeah flank on the way. He's not staying alive. He's got a minute. Yeah for sure
But it could get a little frisky. They're kind of split. Yeah
Ajax will hold though. Thankfully I thought he was gonna get excited
Go peeking in and give him those isolated 1v1s
I'm over here 40 seconds surely impossible
I'm not sure if he's going to
be able to do that, but he's
going to be able to do that.
Scoop it up as he moves on past
TV room rather than in towards
it, but. If anything, that might
work against him. That scope
surely heard. Magics might know
what up some higher set spotted
magics patients will pay off for
him. Not that round on the ball
for spirit. I think I'm right
three in the first half. The first two on the Thunderbolt, but we already got one more round
to play that, kind of saw it can have an effect on. A bold choice not to save it for that second
half when it might be actually a little bit more useful for more than just the one round.
Yeah, sure. I think it's just like pure course correction. Yeah. And I guess also, if you're
looking at this, you're saying eight four with then ask, kind of moving on towards our CT
side, like maybe we need the fifth. I don't have any, any chance in our mind just for
confidence sakes. No, it is true. I think we have a pretty strong CT sided team here,
though, honestly. I think also a lot more belief in their CT side trying to give themselves
as much of an advantage as you would. But yeah, the three timeouts in one half is not
completely unheard of, but it's certainly an orthodox. I think if things spiral in that
second half, you know, you lose the pistol, you lose the first rifle, kind of just screwed.
I mean, small line wise and the fact that you just won't be able to hit that course
correct, like I say.
So it's a lot of chips into this first half and then a lot of belief in just the general
effectiveness of their CT defense.
Let's put it this way, you know, with how much you've kind of invested in towards this round
outside of like the buy itself, but obviously with that third and final time out, you better
win it.
If you don't, that's going to really knock the confidence.
going to re-aggress here. He knows there was a jiggle peeking between himself and TAC.
You'll hold, you'll wait, can't find the flick and TAC is very lucky to still be alive.
Very rare that we talk about sure missing shots like that.
True. Lighting going into the underpass.
Mid control comes round. 4G2 here and certainly curious what they are up to do with it. Usually
There's a there's a fight. They know there's a fight. I'm not normally given this much room
I'm back flashed on the edge of the smoke watching for like a
He himself somehow is able to get away with that. I
Don't I thought he'd just surely get seen but that is crazy
In a sense of timing of course as that smoke goes down massive to be coming in shiro
Has missed some shots here, but maybe enough work being done by the rest of the team to hold this round
I
Oh
Despite using all three timeouts in that first half of G2, four rounds is all they can get in the first half of their map picks.
So potentially some concerning times for G2, that is for damn sure, Spirit.
But I'm not looking completely clean, still cleaner, and that's really all that matters.
Yeah, no, I think a very, very big deal for Spirit.
G2 just could not really get a foothold in that first half.
I think some decent rounds, but it just felt like Spirit are ready for them to be contacting ready to take a lot of the fights
Yeah, and looking very very sharp as you would expect from some of them. I mean ten years 16 and 7
You know, this is a guy
The has maybe been freed up in the new iteration of spirits
Matty's nearly
Stopping them in their tracks, but not quite the banana. Sorry the B apps. I don't know. I'm saying
on the top of the top. Yeah,
really, really quite clean.
And he wants more fights, though,
and the bomb has not been planted.
He is kind of bailed out.
It's left in the one versus three
now, which is always impossible.
He's got armor.
That's a nice side note to have it,
but no kit, no utility, no chance
and now he'll have to hit some
ridiculous shots.
And it's magic who bells them out
of both of them as well.
First kill in particular,
he gets going to move
moving through apartments, massively, massively important just to give them space to plant
and then of course the one to close it out but it's dire times for G2, it may seem still
quite early in towards this game.
You're 9-4 down, you don't bring a lot to the table here, you can potentially force
by them which is actually what they're going to go for but because they don't really get
that many kills they can't bring really anything that's super scary but a scout out for some
Pyres will be looking okay and TAC are standing with an MP9.
It is potentially, as we say, a non-starter here for G2 if things continue on the way that they're going.
TAC though, on that automatic weapon, does find good timing.
And Sun Pyres takes ahead as well as a TAC.
Maybe a couple of TACs, actually, by the looks of the HP bars, they're all tagged up here.
It will all find a kill, though, pretty incredible.
the game. He's going to be
back into a three versus two,
but definitely not a winnable
one just yet. It's moving in
57 out. He's got the Mac 10
should he need it as soon as
there's any kind of peak. It's
an easy find for him. That's an
info trade off, though. Zontics
goes early and does indeed
confirmed they're both coming
in from short Donk has only got
that Mac. It's all going to be
on Cheryl here with his
Look like you have the drop but not quite and the HP makes a difference. Nurtz is one bullet away
One good clean bullet away from death
But all those tags from the scout saving them. Yeah, that's absolutely huge
What a force by to be winning. I want a time to go round about the G2
That's gonna flip the script quite a lot
We were already building that narrative that time was running out and things looking quite dicey and the force by wasn't exactly
But it's just how much damage like some players gets two huge tags which are then traded out and they find kills behind it
It's a brilliant work
Before to be sure right idea strong execution
The good news is because of another bomb bar there is still a little bit residual cash to fall back on you can see it now
With the double AK that come through
Magic's dropping one of them. So
And they can be armor with it as well.
It's Nair and Donk, Lord of the AKs, both of them having fantastic maps so far.
We can't count it out just yet.
Shura has his moments with the Eagle too.
For the same vein that we gave kind of G2, but with respect to that previous round, not
going to hold off on it just yet for Spirit.
They've put all the resources in the right place, having that definitely safe to say.
and they got enough utility for an execute here smoke two mollies two flashes and HG
Just want to kill first
They nearly find it there. I love the idea of the boost above that smoke
It does not happen in the other case will slowly walk away to make sure they stay alive and in the conversation
So yeah, it potentially does come down
as a simple
Execute here the bare bones of it
to go. Magic's on that line-up,
ready and raring to go. Some
palace presence with Zontics on
his Diggle, but it's all about
these a case who are again
leading the charge and they're
slightly ahead of things, you
know, up quite quickly to try
and do their job. Nice Molotov
from Zontics, but it cost him
his life. Don turns away from a
flash. He too will fall. So
today are gonna have to go
late in Palace to find the trade on him. Back down to a three on three. Magic's finding an AK
of his own, T'Nia waiting to burst forwards but he just does not have the HP to take the risks
and they will see it off. Some slight bits of damage but it is time now for G2 to close the gap.
Yeah there was a brief window there where things potentially could have opened up for spirit but
nice work shooting down that A site and I think not only just shutting it down but
the quick rotations over just to make sure they're the numbers right. Be able to trade effectively,
You know that that by is going to be funky even if they are bringing a couple of AKs the support round is going to be dicey
You have the advantage as you to they play with the confidence of having said advantage the next work
We'll get broken around 16
G2 they should be making this a two-round game without breaking that much of a sweat to be honest
It's go hooks across the board. No armor no utility. This should be an easy one to put to bed
You would assume so again the around where you look to try and force out the bomb plant
As G2 did in a couple of egglock rounds
Awesome feels loosely like an existence time out here. Yeah for sure time out about calling one
Just show up and have a bit of a conversation on the lesser bite
Yeah, and late into us around after you figured out what you want to do in towards your next gun rounds
Then you dive in somewhere and hope for the best and well, it looks like they'll be diving in towards be momentarily
first find for Matty's
Just as that smoke was blooming and some pirates will catch the lurker in through top mid.
Should be easy stuff. Matties has made noise dropping down. This might test them forward, but he's ready here to meet them.
And Matties gonna find both. Donk.
We'll get a trade and AK scooped up, but surely impossible. 40 seconds and a 1 vs 4 with no armour.
It's always scary taking fights against him, but the MP9 will swing to see him off.
off and the eco puts the rest of
only the one caustic. Not too
upset about that. Yeah, still
comfortable still in a very good
spot, but looking to continue it
from here. And their lead is
severely under threat, right?
If they cannot get this gun
round. I think we start to,
especially without a bomb plant,
we start to talk about G two
evening things up very, very
quickly. And we theorized a
little that they would have a
confident and perhaps in their
minds, cleaner CT side seems to
to be the case, despite losing out in the pistol, still able to win four spies and fight
back pretty well when their backs are against the wall, at least to begin with, but this
is the first proper test, you know. A lot of early utility coming out from the T side.
And this reads like a G2 round. Maybe they have Donk tucked away, but they too are preferring
a much more passive start into these T side rounds.
Yeah, I agreed.
The smoke phase in towards lower.
The boost is a nice idea.
I don't really think it's going to be tested.
Feneer's too far forward in towards apartments,
at least for now.
And he's just jump-peaking.
Feneer's waiting,
hoping that he can catch a fortunate timing.
Sort of jiggle-peaking against each other at different timings.
Same idea.
Under a minute, and no real movement be made by Sperma to flash in.
For heaven he's gonna be good, I can't believe he don't lose to that ult, cause he wasn't actually blinded up.
He just looted the raw aim build to a moving MP9.
He doesn't even tag him.
Yeah, wild.
Taneer though, has found a lot of space on P, and Matty's called off.
Taneer at range.
Takes down some players.
It's a little all over the place here, there's another kill towards the A side of things.
of things. Ha. Okay. So we've
lost the man advantage some
out as by tenors insane two
piece. Some mistakes from
spirit for sure to allow kills
to come back around for G two,
but they are kept in the mud a
little bit. They are so stuck
in terms of this retake. All
very split all very far away,
I think that's all magics in my
eyes just has to play as safe as
possible. And I don't think you
can really lose this to nail
looking to do it all himself.
But there's just not enough time.
They have to very quickly guess.
They have to fake him out. They
have to take him down. They're
going to smoke on the bomb. That's
the round. That's all magics had
to do. Maybe I speak too soon
though. Oh my goodness. That is
a hell of close. That is so very
close. I thought it was a bit
Right down to the wire.
Yeah, within millimeters there.
That is so unbelievably close to stealing one away and being such heartbreak.
But it's fundamentally a 2 vs 3 converted, which I think is kind of the main takeaway.
Matt just does really well with this first one.
Look how close this gets.
Gawd.
Ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
I don't blame him.
Rightly so.
Yeah, that's how we felt watching it right down to the wire.
But finally around back on the board for spirit now three ahead three away from taking G2's map pick a mirage and kickstarting this series well
Again similar to what we said at the halfway point. It's not exactly the cleanest kind of strike
especially by their standards, but they walk away with this map intact
Oh, they'll really take themselves as a winners of win
Yeah, no for sure and again
Just hitting heads a little bit better. It might be to near might not be don't necessarily
But you know, it's kind of funny to say he's what 1511 and it's funny for us to be like
I yeah, it's not a usual don't a performance
Yeah expecting more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I also would say especially in a mallet mirage
It feels like a map in which you really sometimes just get the best out of him like he can just hold W. Yeah
Be God waits behind that smoke again spirit like to leave this late, but
Yeah, an Orthodox, and have you got playing the front side of Tetris, you'll now tuck up close left.
It could be nicely placed. It will do a little bit of a tag.
Body spotted, some five-thrucks for proceedings. Down goes to near, but dunk on the swing and they're fine.
That's what he does best. Send him in towards the fight and see what he can come up with.
One is good, sure, a quick on the trade. The A site now under serious siege is that C4 will go down.
will go down. Some players can't deny it either. I know about him, too, but he nails a shot
towards Donk, which will give the numbers towards G2.
Yeah, I mean, sometimes this is done really well, I think, to keep them in this initial
entry. The confidence to move forwards to try and find another shiro on the reposition
as he feels he's been figured out, and he wouldn't be correct. He also can't guard
the bomb very well from Palace. Smoke on top of the bomb, not really ideal. Magics, perhaps
I'm just gonna have to go first in his kits in play
He's completely off the mark. Oh, man
He's just like no he does manage to find him second time of asking and again
I think is maybe just bought enough time even with the kits and
Sun pliers goes down to the bottom to add insults to injury
That is tough magic stank Leon on a bit of a re-correction
Well, it's the moments like that
I think this is where these new habits of like moving while you're spraying and things like that
I think you really need to be precise when you're trying to take people down on the bomb and
correcting and
knowing where your bullets are going
And it's back to back rounds and might just belt them out just as they go over the e fuses
And he used the the guy to make the difference you could see he'd lost track of where they're actually planted for and I'm assuming
That's probably getting combed over
That's not where it went down. Lube it to the left and
that recourse
We'll net another round by the finest of margins to Spirit.
And you can see because each and every round is quite expensive,
it is having a knock-on effect to their buyers despite the successors.
They're still coming in with Orc and Investments,
couple of glills, same as well.
Found this time they've got an MP7 here as well,
but Tania does not care.
The less than premium rifle, we'll find that as some players.
It's a forced buy, of course, for G2.
It's generally where teams like to lean here,
forced buy here rather than playing for overtime.
Has it started well at the very least tackle re-aggress and I'll never the playing field for a piece
Who's on six
He is alone here, but he's got the job. He's checks it. He's that's open. Oh, it's here
So good that he checks it. I think because heavy God
Really could have been devastating on those ramp players
That's smoked off
I'm saying not to spray through so wants to keep his location a little bit of a
Secret I've been my name the last yeah, magic's finding
Matty's at like top mid. Yeah, so with that they're also cut off. It's like the only place in goes calm
They just do not fancy that I don't blame them I just don't think it's really worth giving a look into I
Guess to have a little bit of last bonus to fall back on for that buy into what is most likely the last round of play
over G2
But she feels like they've just gone out with a bit of a whimper on their map. They've just not offered up enough spirit
Say it again. It's not the cleanest by their standards, but it's still enough
They've still got an extra 10 20% on top of GT right now
And that's all that really is required to me is having a very good map, which is good to see we kind of spoke about it
You know, he's at the ups and downs of the liquid game is great
But then the Falcons one wasn't
4.41 for him. He crossed that series. This is a really good map for him to get into was his is what the covers are
And you know continuing where we're at as well where
We're not getting those like kind of super shine lights across the board or we're not getting half this like donk wonder map
Right, it's nice to have somebody to fall back on and for it to be to near especially because of you know
He's had a bit of a spotlight
Yeah, looking very good here, I think to take this one over the line G2 with some moments
But just never had control of this game. I think that's gonna remain the case till
It does go the wave spirit
I think I thought she's well the rifling core of it was Jesus never got going
Yeah, I you know like nuts. He's had a couple of moments here
They're especially kind of clutches and retakes, but have you got a Matty's and looked
Pretty weak by by again their standards, right? And it's been tough to watch don't you know swinging to the first supply
It's called platter to big person to find as well and don't good deliver
On a third, head on a swivel, the 180 from him is magic.
As Teneir nets another, heavy guard in the ground,
and Matty's now on a one versus four
to keep them alive in this map.
No chance in hell.
That is for damn sure, a smoke, no kit, and an MP9.
He needs a breath from the heavens
that any sort of a chance he's seen of.
Donk is delivered on a monster round to close out Mirage.
And he may be a little bit quiet by what we expect of him,
but he picks his time to shine.
Yeah, and still able to do it.
This is the thing, it's not like he was missing.
I think it maybe comes down a little bit more
to Tania just taking that limelight away from him, right?
With perhaps a couple more multi-frag rounds,
but I think they will be competing for the series
towards the end there.
Donk brings it within one or two kills on that scoreboard.
So, you know, they were very, very close,
looking pretty effective,
but at the end of the day, spirit able to take it
Extremely cleanly and for me, it was all about them the whole way through on G2's map pig
Maybe where the standing road comes to an end
Unfortunately, they get some look on their sides in places, but looking very very consistent
I think as well, you know
It's something that we brought throughout that map just the close moments the 1vx is the 1v1s
They all go the way of spirit and it adds up it compounds and it leads to a 13-7 map number one
That was G2's map pick, not the way they wanted to start it.
We've got Spirit's pick of Dust2 coming up next,
and it might be the end of this series.
We'll have to find out after the break.
T side, but Kixxum walks backwards through the palace smoke,
drops, robs, and smoke pushes the vitality.
You have not been nice to them.
Flash your flash, boys, let's go!
I mean, these rounds have been getting cleaner and cleaner for the Falcons.
That's the other worrying thing.
It's been a long time since Vitality have had them even close to kind of feeling the burn feeling the stress
Just going for it now living like
Surely not
Surely not even now
Still good for a double high stress situation. You wouldn't know it
And Apex can't do a thing at Falcons. Map point in their favour. Higgs can, he just
got the last bullet kill as he dropped in. That is unbelievable. How many times, he's
still negative on the KD but his impact in the CT side cannot be overstated. Another
multi-kill in a new position for the captain of Falcons. And a frustrating T-cypher vitality
who just cannot get back on the board. A round straight. And this is where they kind
of were against G2 the other day and they still won from a similar position. I doubt to them there.
Do we doubt them again?
Vitality's always seen him to dig themselves out of these spots, but this looks so hard right now
Falcons everything has been going right every round has been clean
Monty's belly had to use his AWP and now he strikes onto apex
How do you win this round is it Falcons with the first map of the series
Flames trying to ignite something here with a double keeps this one off flames
binds one more on the top of that smoke so you asked for it you said they always
seem to dig themselves out can flames be the guy kicks down throughout this
entire attempt at the T half has been the problem in these a plays so often good
for the multi-kills. If you can do that again now, let's get a tee up the Falcons. It's
only Robs remaining. KickSign can't be stopped. Mr. Multi-Kill. Falcons captain seals it with
a 3K and they lock in this opening map. They were down. You thought they were out. 8-4
down as they moved in to this CT half or they walk away. 10 is all Vitality get.
You want to come with me, I can see it in your eyes, it's a feeling that you can't deny, I'll bring you high so deep, so we can feel the light of the world behind, let yourself go, enjoy the ride.
And if we fall, don't forget to just go with the light
I'll kiss your flame, and you'll be mine
And if you fall, you'll be mine
Just go with the light
Yeah, but we're gonna stay in the tower for a while now.
This is sick, fuck!
This is so cool.
I'm a fucking medic!
I can build a wall, wait.
What is this?
Is this Rainbow Six? And what's happening?
Go, go, go, go, go.
2 mid, 2 mid, 2 mid.
I'm dead.
Next you can in 50 seconds.
2 mid, 3 mids.
I'm going no banana.
Good.
There's a fucking game, bro!
They're retreating, they're retreating.
Outside.
This is... this is not good.
There's two more.
They're going to break through.
I'm going to get you.
Banana.
I'm gonna have something to kill.
Banana, bro.
Who built the wall?
I can't hear you.
I'm dying.
All the kills are like that.
We have a lot of kills.
What is this?
Can you put it on the wall?
Oh, I see it.
It's on the wall.
It's me.
All of Goose.
Can you put the wall?
Yes.
Come on.
Wait.
It doesn't work.
I'll start the smoke.
Wallhack is on.
I see them!
One more!
I give you guys wallhack.
Who's shooting?
Yeah, that was sick!
Do it again, do it again, do it again.
Wait, it's the trap, it's the trap, bro.
Yes, do it.
Stand up.
No, just sit down.
Stand up, I don't see them.
Go play and watch the chickens long and see if they're long.
If they don't see them, they go long.
Oh, fuck.
I'm going chicken.
Oh, no!
I killed a chicken, bro.
I'm going to kill the chicken.
Watch out, watch out.
Vashka, they ran away.
I got him.
I killed everyone.
I'm walking.
This wall killed 100 FPS for me.
Put the gun on the top of the wall.
Make sure to look at the monsters.
AWP, AWP, boost me up, yeah, yeah.
Take care of yourselves, guys.
Andrey, I'll show you, yeah, I'll show you.
I got it, he's in the bush.
What kind of guy is that?
I'll put everyone on the plus.
That's right there.
Yeah, let's go.
I'm going to get a monster in the forest.
Give me a present, damn it!
Ah, you're in the bush.
Give me an autograph.
No, two Bs, one in the bush.
Come on, push, push.
Wait, they're pushing.
They're pushing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What the fuck is this?
Nice.
Nice, save it.
Okay, we can all go B, they just put the wall there, hold B from there.
That's why they didn't smoke monster, bro.
They're all going to the left.
They're going to shoot at you guys.
They're up to the right. Up to the right is the camera, no?
That's how they work. It's the real cameras.
I can run in. I have extra left, you know?
Whoa, whoa, stop the car. Stop the car.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh-huh.
Save yourself.
Go.
Okay.
I'm going to go.
One on the right!
Do you still have a grenade?
No, I don't.
I can't see anything there.
I'm going to go up there.
Is your fucking wall there?
I just broke your wall there.
I'm on CT.
CT one, over one.
You saw me?
Fucking chicken!
Oh, I was opening the door for once.
I can't flash you now, because you're going to get out.
It's fake flash, f**k.
No, it's not.
You love it, you wear it.
That's the perfect line for this content.
Can you stab me with a camera?
No, I can't.
Oh, I can.
The f**k is nothing made.
That's what I say.
F**k, I see.
I see.
How should I do this?
Assert.
What's the sound?
How should I understand that this is how it works?
Well, it works in the game.
Oh, someone's not speaking.
I don't know.
What?
I'm not sure.
One on short.
I'm not sure.
I got him.
I'm gonna take him.
Not bad.
I'm gonna put the camera on the monster.
I'm gonna rain, guys.
You were choosing two.
One city.
I only chose one.
I'm a medic.
I'm not fucking kidding.
I'm fucking...
I'm not fucking kidding.
Look.
I put it.
Fuck.
Wait, let me flash you.
I'm going to the fight.
Let me flash you.
Wait, I put it.
I'm fucking kidding, guys.
Are you ready?
I put it.
Yeah.
I'm shooting.
Fuck.
I just killed the guy without a bullet.
I didn't understand how to stay. I wanted to go further.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I told him what is next to him
You should have sprung up
My fucking ability is amazing
I wish this ability was real bro
Alright, actually maybe I will start a Korean veteran now
This is awesome, exciting!
I heard some sound on there
One's there
On there, on there, on there
Only one, only one
There's one on there
No one is still on me
Two banana, two banana
Okay, flash banana
One flash
Bank, bank, bank
I'll bank, bank
I'll teleported, bank
Coming to you
Come on.
I don't know.
He's running.
Nice.
I don't know.
That's bad.
Damn.
I'm gonna play as a hopper, yeah?
Ah, guys, I have a plan.
I'm gonna play.
Look, I'm gonna get home.
I'm gonna go to the 50 hp.
And I'm gonna start healing.
You're gonna run next to me, and you're gonna heal too.
Ah, I'm gonna heal.
Come on.
Let's go.
I'm going.
Let's go.
Kill him.
He's gonna rush.
He's almost dead.
No, no.
This is the most ruthless fucking skill.
I'm dead.
What is this?
I'm dead too.
Give me a flash.
I can flash over monster for you.
I'm blind, come out.
I'm in the hole.
Stumble, stumble.
He's teleporting.
He's out.
I'm gonna get the camera
He's a monster, a fane
He's gonna kill you, right?
Yeah, he's a shaw
This is a skill, Timba
He's not your dog
Nice
Hit it, hit it
Thank you
I'm gonna get my AK, bro
Come on, come on, come on
Don't throw, we can live in two rounds
Under, under, both both
It's mine, and he was rotating towards him, Rostov.
He's coming, he's coming. Good job.
You're sick David!
Ah, that was...
Should be heaven.
Oh, it happened already?
Oh!
What is this dash?
I got most of the data, bro.
Dude, you outplayed it.
Freaking sick.
Crazy.
Heaven's taking picture of it now.
Why did you say backlight?
I was like what?
Oh, what?
Nice, he gave up.
W, W all around.
Let's go, we won one of these games.
Fucking sick man.
I think pretty worried for the G2 side of things. It's never really got into the conversation.
on map number one is the the big issue and I think they will kind of know that they you saw fear their timeouts in the first half
Then they didn't have any left in the second half and the second half also didn't really go to plan
Even though they won a force by like they just really could not get things going in their favor
I don't want to say we slightly foreshadowed it, but we kind of did we were saying oh
It might be a good idea to keep one on deck
Yeah, just in case that second half starts a little slow like you lose pistol you lose kind of a force by behind there
You want to make sure your first gun run goes well, but they don't have any time out to pull back on or spirit
I'm gonna give them one so
They ran away with things and now we look in towards this map number two cause dust two is the picker spirit and all
Expectations now that they should be taking this is there. It's such a good map for spirit
It's been such a pocket pick for them for a long long time and I mean outside of statistics now side of maps or the rest
They just look so much sharper as a team especially that rifling call. Yeah, I mean, there's just no real way you've
the game. It's a little bit of
a sugarcoating it for the G two
side. They did not have the
individuals to match up. It's
not like the tactics were super
deep. Um, and especially
straight out of the gate spirit
were just able to read them off
the park. And I think, you know,
it came down some timeouts. It
came down to we need to change
things up. Big style. Now we're
on the dust, too, which is
I don't know if the G2 that's
fair, but it's going to be
tough. It's your tips. The
first head and straight up
short. They will go looking
good to get that bomb down. In
a matter of moments, especially
with some smoke backing it up.
Yeah, well that is get one back
and tackle family through the
smoke. Matties okay just when
it felt like things are looking
pretty good for spirit. They're
now on the back foot and to
What was looking like a bad spot there towards that A site fantastic work from him
And that's what they needed kickstart. You dust to have a nice solid
CT pistol and then you can scale in towards your opponents mapping
Yeah, I mean we were all in there maybe even spirit a little bit too much themselves, right there spacing breaks down
So the trades are pretty tough on site USP, but I think everyone felt
Got the opener look at the state of the a bomb site. Okay, they should be able to get in
at least get the bomb plant, I don't even get that. So there's going to be a hard eco
here with a couple of P250s in play, but G2 should move us to pretty quickly in spirit.
Immediately have the wind taken out of their sails. Yeah, I'm watching not really a lot
they can do in a round like this. They go deep in towards Longhouse, but too deep that
I won't really do anything towards Shiro.
Oplope 250s, that is about it.
Move here, Shiro! We'll find the first, maybe...
We have an oversight there, Matty's didn't really need to move on forward.
It all cost him his life and I'll give over.
That'd be nice.
And Shiro can stay there as well.
Yeah.
to make a decision. Generally
speaking, when you look at this
like brute force trying to get
the bomb down. Is a short on
this map has the most
efficacy. It spots them out,
but into a little bit. You don't
want to be the next one to go
down when you've already lost
to my advantage. He does a lot
of damage to be fair to not all
it gets expended, but it doesn't matter too much. Some players backs him and he will stay alive. That's the key thing really. So just the one kill often else happening either those P 250s to double
dink somebody. But yeah, not to be some prices really well. They bails tack out tack a little bit of a labored spray looked like he was maybe under a tab in a pressure and he just didn't want to fall either.
but some players as well his two kills give him time to pull up the pistol
re-peaking on that low player and just like that second on the board and
how he towards that first gun round force for it the T side on Mirage look
excellent to me all the way throughout but I especially don't get that tail end
absolutely flying so I hoping they can tap back into that it will be AK's across
the board bar magics he's gone for the Khalil to bolster up the utility tab
Let's go round to see what Spirit all about. We've already spoken about it, we've really
sung the praises. This is such a good map for them. Sort of expecting an immediate response
in towards your first investment now.
off of the tunnel aggression, but a lack of presence is still information. Just got to
be careful. Zontics has heard all this going down. He's gone for a look himself to just
see if the tunnels are compromised or not. And it is the latter. Smoke's coming into
the extremities though, so Spirit not really going to have too much to work with going
into what would be their attack. 45 seconds, I don't have a lot of time here.
Smoke down as well. Tack playing behind it.
Matty's up close, potentially could be overlooked here.
Should get at least one, and he does. How about a second, he'll find that two.
Don't can't turn around in time. Tack had made a move forward.
Ashiro falls, and well it's all falling apart, unfortunately, four spirit.
It's left down to the leader, and there's nothing Magics can do.
All he can opt is here to just show up and save and keep the take care live.
It's a really nice shot down there by G2.
Yeah, just over the top contact from Spirit.
Really seem in this series, both teams are leaning into that in a big, big way.
And I think it means they're not able to check those corners, like you say.
They're not really leaving themselves a lot of time.
Yeah.
Just put some evenness, pressure.
also very awkward team damage.
The hair is to near span around.
Didn't quite get the cross around dinked his teammate,
then died and then his teammates on half HP
because he's taking a dink.
So yeah, well, it does.
That feels like a pretty rare turn of events, unfortunately.
But yeah, run out of mouse mat.
I definitely have that one one sort twice
or you bang your keyboard.
You know, we don't have a perfect step up like this.
I I end up swiping and collect punch my key gonna get you keyboard on like the 90 degree angle
I know that's a big part why they do it. I also enjoy not having carpal tunnel. Yeah, that's fair
That's a vacate he's gonna be dropped over towards Donk
Ain't fair enough to be honest, but he's yet to get the ball
On six takes a tag
Survives down as well the second nades too deep or HP
We look at that bomb down Montoff coming in a little late.
We look at Donk here.
Post plan.
Players coming at him.
Can he take any down?
Lovely little boost to get the first.
The costum effect chunk of that HP.
The bomb is really ticking down now.
He wants someone else to take it.
He's a bit healthier.
Certainly not feeling himself, you might say.
There's trades coming in though with these tech 9s.
It's down to the one on one.
Sunpires does manage to find its ontics.
However, in all of this, he was just so far away from the bomb site, and with him just not revealing, hiding away,
he's going to win the round out. Some players just didn't want to get in there. There's not enough time.
That is wild. The Zontics just completely takes himself out of the round and is able to win it like that.
And Dongsun really well. They needed someone to fall back on. You can see that.
Maybe very slightly surprising kind of lacking confidence generally speaking you'd opt in to be like 14 HP
I'm still better, but he does drop the gun over and then he re-picks it back up and then get the kill behind it
Well, like you said Tom tix. He just doesn't show any presence. They lose track of him as does we and
He just hides in the smoking towards CT the spirit and unlikely first on the board for them
That might be something which they can use as a bit of a springboard to kickstart the seaside properly now
On their mapping.
They're gonna wake up call for G2.
Donk deals so much damage to TAC.
Those bullets look like they are millimetres away with his final one in the chamber.
He'll catch TAC, but Donk is left really gonna 11 points of HP.
Yeah, I mean, good to see. Maybe he senses it in himself that he's like,
I'm feeling a little less confident. Maybe trying to play a more selfless game.
He just remembers.
Wait a minute. I'm Donk.
Indeed.
He locks in the moment in the mirror with himself.
And indeed he will find a big find.
And now onto the AWP.
He'll bog down his law.
So we'll see what he can do with that.
Looking for that entry, able to get that entry.
They will force some pious now off of the corner angle.
And he cannot get anything going.
I feel a save for G2.
Absolutely brewing here. Heavy gods.
Nearby, if anyone comes his way, but with that CT smoke,
and he starts to confirm that they're not gonna go crazy mode.
Yeah.
Five versus three converting into the second round for spirit.
Oh, it's on ticks.
Ha ha ha.
Comical, to be honest.
If you hadn't of stopped, I think you would have caught.
Yeah, I think you would have caught.
Have you got a look in the wrong way?
I think he kind of just didn't really realize how much it plowed.
Yeah.
Well, this is the CS2 Smokes, isn't it, really?
Yeah, volumetric and all those buzzwords.
They're like, throw it out of spot.
In the end, have you got...
He can't get out of there.
will just be Matty's and Nurtz. Staying alive M4 and a famouse for them.
Second back-to-back for Spirit and now the chance to scale. There will be a reinvest to come
through for G2 at the very least. You can use this round in a similar fashion as the last two
and that's where money will start to run a bit of dry and that's a potential you might see a time
come through. Certainly see.
Between each other at the moment as we get into an important round, there's still some
kind of presence coming in. Oh, big time onto the AK perfect guy. Well, not only if your
name is heavy God, he's like, Yeah, give me that. Give me that.
I'll just launch together. Thank you very much.
Honey, we'll do some work with it. Honey, get a bit more than that though.
It's the key question. Very confident move. Had it in the previous from Donk. Got it again here.
So maybe something that G2 can open their eyes to is like Donk looking for entries.
Back.
Just come in to round this corner. Matties will swing. No one here.
It's a pretty interesting fight that feels like it might brew here around short on the
swing because Zontics have Util in hand, down he will go and same for Taneir, but they're
walking in towards Magix.
There's two to him.
He looks for three and he gets the dink onto Matty.
It's not enough and the clock can't see it off.
It's all on Shiro and he should know we're both in the mark and he has lost plenty of
time.
But it's where he is the third remaining player in all of this chaos.
He knows the two guys are the grass through and towards shorts.
Does he have the idea that there's a last man lurking towards be of all places?
I think you should surely expect it.
And he was there at the start of the round.
Yeah, but we now enter into the conversation.
Is he just saving to feel like he is.
Yeah, 25 seconds as we cut to these replays.
He's all the way in T spawn walking around.
So I don't think he is going to be going for it and he should get away with that save
It's the big thing, isn't it right? He wants the orb, of course
Doesn't know how low some of these players are
Yeah, it's that unconfirmed damage. I think it was only
One of them in towards shore there understand that means we dealt some damage there
They weren't 100% sure of like what the molly had done either, but
Yeah, I think it's just not worth a fight
So first time I was taken
by spirits. Yeah, the other way than we were expecting. It's true. It's true. I will say
though, I understand kind of why you want to go in towards this. I think the spirit, you don't want
this, you know, this back and forth and kind of trading of bits of momentum. I want to get back
into what we saw in towards Mirage where it never really felt in doubt. Like we kind of spoke
well on that first off when spirit on the CT side for the majority of it never really felt like
they were made to sweat. Really, there was a couple of rounds here, there are a couple of hiccups
where it wasn't again the cleanest as we were putting it but they never felt like we're like oh okay
This is actually a bit dicey here. You still close on the half eight eight to four and they kind of ran away with that t-side
It doesn't feel the same here
This half's a lot different in what we've seen in terms of the early approach. She too look a little bit more comfortable
We're seeing a little bit more depth from them and
I'm glad to see it. They haven't really taken a knock in terms of their confidence to fight from Mirage
There was a world in which they're just losing a lot of aim rules. I was worried they were gonna sit back a lot in this game
They haven't as we saw in our previous round
That's a lovely way to start things off for sure and that's safe law comes in handy immediately. Yeah big
And they are back with a vengeance here looking to just stay hot on those heels
And a key starter like that is gonna leave G2 in a pretty rough position feel the
5v4 early conversions like that are really really good on this too, so
So, Spirit will certainly know how to close out from here, going to need a miracle hold
on what we would presume is a given the plastering from Spirit.
And it might be a very simple short dive as well.
You can see no one really in the direction along right now, but we've seen this a couple
of times already for Spirit.
Even rounds lost where they take the short control, they plant four short and they just
fall away.
They don't really want to set up with any sort of long, they're more than happy to
to give it off. Leave it, because they can just play. As we saw when Zontik stayed alive
in the smoke, these sort of gimmicks that you can get away with.
We're going for the late move, backing forwards mid. Now, this is a big risk. There's a lot
of bodies here, but the trades are good. The thing is, do you expect two more round this
corner? And I think, smartly, they're going to retract.
They are indeed, and maybe force them to come at you. However, Matty's is in behind, and
I think he's expecting it. But player in the lower tunnel, so Mac 10 making all the difference
it's back into a two versus two. So G2 have kept this competitive despite going down to the early frag, all the anti flash.
Bad time to turn.
Heavy God was the healthy player. The main man gets taken down.
Mattie's left to clutch up. He's deep into the lion's den here as he is looking for that first.
He will get it. Spots out the second and it's going to need the double dinkery. Doesn't have the HP.
Tanay takes him easily and it's a valiant effort from G2 but not valiant enough.
And he didn't have the ammo either, only four bullets left in the chamber for him so he had to be
more or less absolutely picture perfect and it was in the case.
That very nearly fell apart, that flank is a nice move that comes through,
it felt like the initial idea around mid could have and should have if they committed to it,
completely crumbled that to the side round but thankfully they pulled back and
And they go for the round that we were hoping they would go for.
Just take short control.
Numbers of Vantage goes a unit.
Move on through, play in the close bond.
And thankfully, that is the case.
And before heavy guard as well, he's
turning to look in towards short, expecting
Donk won a round from that position earlier.
So you're looking over there to see if he can catch a head.
And he gets caught back turn.
Speaking of heavy guards, we'll open up proceedings here.
It's Donk to fall.
Cheryl get one on his own, but the B site is lost.
We know how difficult this site is to take.
Little messy there by Magix, but it'll get the kill nonetheless.
Oh my goodness, the wall of smokes.
Oh!
It seems giving you a path, but straight into the barrel of T'neer, ultimately.
Shiro will once forward for that final kill, but I think it was locked in.
One on four, it would have been.
And the B-burst works effectively.
Problematic.
4G2.
You know, as well as one of those things, it's a really nice thing, I think for yourself,
for your spirit, just to prove, we've got to be here in the locker there, right?
Yeah, for sure.
And that just soars the seat of doubt now into G2.
They've always got to be really kind of attuned to this heat core, even in this kind of tournament
on the B stream.
A couple of these B hits, but they're so janky that they just stop going back to B. And then
it actually makes you really one-dimensional, really readable, and really easy to shut down
on the T side.
have got any kind of proven to themselves. Okay, we can actually take that site with really decent efficiency.
That's where it keeps this map so open for you to maneuver around. Yeah.
Yeah, and I think it's quite clever as well that it comes at the time that their economy is about to break.
So kind of subconsciously as a player, you might be
hesitant with your needs, might be looking to keep them for the retake, right, the important things in the round.
the same. Stats are, stats at the end of the day. The first time I'm going to be taking here, IG2.
We're going to have to flip side in terms of the timeouts for them. Obviously, they were
6-0 down to starting towards Mirage. They burned two timeouts really early to then finally get
their first on the board, and they used all three in that first half, and we critiqued it.
It did come back to bite them this time. You could even maybe argue held on to a little bit long.
I think maybe kind of a saw just wanted to see how it plays out, but you've now lost the lead,
You've lost control and just still at risk of putting up essentially the exact same half score line that we had on Maraud
The 8-4 is still absolutely a possibility for spirit
You really feel like they're warming up into this game now
This T side is starting to get a really decent read on what G2 are throwing at them and they're not being caught surprised
So a big turning point here a key round for G2 I think to
keep things even and stop that eight full school line from creeping through right into the back of your mind
It's huge for their like morale. Yeah, you lose this and you actually start to enter into a position of a lot of pressure
Yeah, I think it really could be the case. They've expended a lot of utility early on tea side being whilst loads left
Simple simple stuff from them thus far
Cuts awesome barrage as well. This one spirit love they love leaving these rounds like you draw that CT utility
You get a little bit of a read, but it gives you so much in the postpon and we've even seen in this map
How many rounds they've won just by chaining smokes?
It's a bay on shore for now
Will be a heavy B stack from G2. I say it's a quite bold call, hasn't it?
I'd like to see them get aggressive over there, which they will do right a bit of a backup
Maybe a flash. Yeah, yeah, okay, so it feels like things are pretty solid over there
They've got two smokes left, one of which does find its way towards A, the other in towards mid, to flash for some players to have a look.
So they're trying to take the aggressive stance, but unfortunately costs them a player.
Smoke will still come in.
Gonna buy even more time with nothing in the upper tunnels, about a minute in the round, with some pre-
Doesn't show no A.
It does appear that Spirit may well be walking into a trap here if they're not careful.
Yeah.
You have some spot on.
It's up 30 seconds as we're making a moving break on that smoke.
Try sending them forward with heavy guns here, ready to meet them.
The issue is, trades go favourably for a brief moment towards that CT side,
but it's still a 2 vs 3. Numbers in favour and already starting to get really quite concerning.
Back and forth into that 1 vs 1.
And with 7 seconds, there's just no real time here.
and taking it a bit slow playing to their strengths, but unfortunately it does fall flat in the end.
I don't know, I should have wanted that to right, I will.
Matty just gets caught by the flash, it's a nice move, a nice idea, but Forty's timing was just a little bit off.
But that spirit has been pretty good with getting that opening kill and then freezing.
freezing. Yeah, for sure. It
doesn't work for them in the
previous round. So again, they
just have to be a bit careful.
And I think they have learned
from their lessons. It's like,
let's send one contingent out,
and then we've got another one
on the other side of the map.
This contingent's found that
B site. Yeah, just having some
proactivity and you see Nerdy gets
the Molly in. I mean,
goes for it. I don't even know
that he necessarily needs to be
just fully trying to get
attention towards him, I suppose.
As of course, we knew Zontick's
had slipped through. So that'll
through so that'll be the round you can't even really blame nerds as well because he's there's
a slight window where they've been caught and then moved across and he has no idea that they're
actually out magics wow in the back lines how about three no just stolen away i'm biased and
i isn't more of that little clip at the end but the question is kind of keep the opera live
hang free for now looks like he's not tempted to swing there's so much time left on that
and eventually he does make the move.
Shiro is there. He's going to win that fight out every day of the week.
And an immediate response from Spir.
And it all just starts by two players who just go for a contact out towards B.
And to their surprise, no one's home.
Yeah, no, for sure.
But I think, like I say, it's very similar to some of the moments that we've seen from them.
But instead of all five players then getting together in the five on four,
I haven't been like sending someone out mid to have a look there, right?
Use the advantage, use the fact that there's going to be a gap somewhere on the map.
And they do just that.
He's nearly finding magic, he's ahead of one of them.
It's hit by one, oh it's a dodgy flash baby.
So they find themselves blinded, but one for one you'll probably take that on a lower
by like this, you get your hands on an AK now.
Get that into some healthier hands, the former nerds and try and put up your best
fight here to keep things as even as possible.
timing on that smoke into a shore but I'm gonna surprise that when magic spots a
lot of presence out towards long they don't really take any other space they
don't try and move to find other parts of the map and it hands for for magics
call from the grave here my friend oh he's hiding his mouth while he's just
in case we can liberate him yeah this is this is crazy depth to be fair they
I don't know what I'm saying.
There's no way.
So bias up close.
They do have a Molly to clear.
She's going to go for a peek.
Oh, my.
Surely, surely dead here.
Donkel swing.
Tenir gets two, though.
Makes up for earlier mistake and keeps
the numbers in favor of this T side looking to close out
the final round in style with a lead in the half.
And they're doubling back towards B.
Have you got a don't think spotted?
And he can have a couple here.
Gets two and a ding on towards Zontics.
a 1 versus 1 against Nertz.
And he can get this C4 down.
Ops with a tap, 20 seconds, doesn't have a lot of time.
Seconds out of asking, numbers punched in.
But Nertz with the advantage on the HP.
Does he have the advantage on the swing?
Just about!
The difference in HP is what makes the difference in that round.
And by the skin of their teeth, G2 will tie up this half.
6 apiece.
We're gonna see you after the break.
Welcome back in, we are ready for the second half of course, as just to getting well underway
but remaining competitive, it felt like on map 1 Spirit were in the lead and had control
and G2 relying on some lucky moments, but there was a genuine game out there from G2,
so potentially keeping things alive here in this knockout series.
Yeah, exactly. I'm really kind of interested now as we move in towards this second half.
What changes for both these sides? I think for G2, like, they've proven enough already
from that first half that they can contend and they can bring a little bit to the table,
but for Spirit, you'd argue that it's just a couple rounds that they let slip sort of
nothing right and they can clean up a couple of those moments I still value
them as the side for me we got the full balder you took on towards magic to
near a little bit himself do least out for dong he lost for him
Lee Molly Cheryl played behind he's got a nice little gap to contend with but
after a couple of miss shots he'll fall away yeah plays it safe and when we
I would stop them all gaining bits of short controls.
Most of them had to go down, they're not necessarily up on Xbox.
So indeed, G2 are like,
oh, we might get caught with our pants down here.
Try and go for a different approach.
And it will be more of a mid to B play here.
It's a great flash.
Eat some more of bait.
Magics on the right lines, but not quite able to land anything.
Just yet, Shiro gonna find the first.
Dong dealt with.
And it's down to just Xon-Tix on the site.
He gets flattened.
bomb should get planted here.
Three versus three.
And I mean, it's more about the retake.
There's not really a lot of threat to it
for that spirit side of things.
Teneir coming in and tunnels.
And it just, I don't know, it just doesn't look good to me.
No, I agree.
Just whether Teneir can find the back part player.
Sampires, he did have a little peekhole.
That's quick by Teneir.
And he's looking for more as well, he gets the second, Shiro will dive out, but they can't find him.
He's just staying alive and Matty's might have bought enough time.
How in God's name does he stay alive for as long as he does?
There's no kit, there's no chance.
And Matty's shaking his head, but he bells them out there.
The hero in that round, despite Taneer's antics from Tunnels.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Taneer has run out of ammo.
He's the problem. Yeah, well, because he was running out with his knife,
which just doesn't make any sense.
No, you're probably right then.
And I think from here...
That's it, yeah. It doesn't go in for the reload, right?
It doesn't go in for the automatic reload.
So, yeah, he runs out of ammo
and that kind of screws them really
because they lose that man in the side
and it becomes about the time.
So, a really big find for G2 that it felt like
indeed they were in good position
and then all of a sudden,
Tineir absolutely gave it to Spirit
but they just couldn't convert it in the end.
Unfortunately, going to go in for the four-spy now.
I'm curious to see what spirit might have up their sleeve on
the brick wall of the Dust2CT side.
I lose this and there's a nice little pathway for G2.
Build a wealth of a lead.
Scaling up into one short.
Nearly portioned.
They've got more Utah.
to fall back on, especially now that they've taken the space.
Just drop an A, just to try and slow down the roll and the molly behind it as well.
Scared about that diving towards the A site.
But there is three towards A now.
Two in towards long, and it's on ramp.
So exactly, you know, a pretty awkward hold for G2 to kind of contend with, and first
of all, it's also just figure out.
Yeah, but that's sort of what
they're doing, I suppose, sending
the feelers out there. The smoke
comes in in a defensive manner.
Just trying to keep them distracted
enough, but not quite all that
loud, right? The B player's not
going to move. There's a flank
coming in from Taneir as well.
So very ready for the B here,
as ready as they can be. Magix
goes rushing through, finds one
with his 5-7, will be dealt with.
Oh, man, it's a lovely little
salve. The bomb's going to spill.
The AK picked up. It's on tix
denied anymore. Taneir, they know
Well, Cheryl will make himself known with a kill, though. The two versus two, it's definitely doable.
It's no care. Cheryl moves up onto an AK, so I kind of like how this looks. And what's
he thinking? Is he fully rotating around? Are we really doing that? It looks like, I
think it's what he's going to go for, but with no player in the tunnels, I think this
just wastes your time, to be honest. And I think, like you mentioned, no care. It has
become a soft save. So I don't know. Hey, it's a good exit play, though. It should be
at least getting one more. They dive keeping attention drawn. Sure, it should be able to
see a remaining two or see four. I get the last everyone dies.
Yeah, with that being a force, I mean, I don't think G2 are too upset with that. To be honest,
they know this next round's a bit of a gimmick. Yeah, so just do it. You just do it. I mean,
they weren't a great money bill of themselves. So I think we're gonna have like a little
maybe a Mac 10, something like this, but which is the flip side is, yeah, we've got a pistol.
Yeah, I know. You should be able to make money off of this buy. So I think you just send it on.
I don't know if you're not saving the AK, but it's not like I'm gonna do something with this
next round. Try and do something in that round. Yeah. Right. Exactly. I think you just go
for it, man. Yeah. Well, I need a damage. We'll catch nuts and tack.
But if they're too bothered, they're scaling once again into wall short in the early round.
Xbox smoke just faded.
I think still needs to cross. It's nice to move here by it's near. The unfortunate thing
is just that no one's really going there at the moment. Have you got waiting for a swing
from them? And at the same time, they're moving quite quickly now in towards the A site. Molly
down background, they've still not seen any sort of response. So the Cogs start to work
and they realize that actually no one's home.
Yeah, so it becomes once again about doing damage for the side of the spirit. They really,
I think, wanted to capitalize a few more greater pistols than you might expect to near two
rounds in a row by the way he's been able to walk out long like that. I think he heard
how he got to rotate and it looked like he moved immediately when he got to step into
join him towards A. Yeah, but certainly something that you took after bearing mind is that Tanira
has got a great sense of how to run things over there towards long quick break. Not going
to happen on short unfortunately. Another one though for the five seven so couple of
I don't think he's quite going to get it. No one coming his way, unfortunately, so he will look to back off, but it keeps the econ way down for G2. Yeah, three round lead. Close in an instant if this next round doesn't go that way. Yeah, it absolutely keeps things manageable.
And I guess that's the main thing for them
Even still nice little Buffett to have
But a nine to six three rounds ahead
Even if your money is a little weird just having that breathing room the G2 on your opponent's map pick is pretty huge at the moment
I'm still pretty tough for spirit on their own map pick. They're not looking
Super comfortable at the moment, but now was a chance to really get into it first proper gun round where they could start
building up a bit of that CT side and showing what they're all about, showering towards the AWP and rifles alongside it.
Lackle continued to wield the Mach 10 here with Matty's on the Galil.
Guess where's Kitchener, just around here's the 4th flat, they've still got money to buy in towards the next.
Big damage onto Matty's here.
two immediate on the site and today who's been a bit of a nuisance towards long
will hold for that continuously over and at the feet of nerds can't find the head
with just a pixel to work with off the box now they know what's going on magic
shiro combined as he looks for another in the output deliver potentially even a
third to four backup but he is tagged doesn't need to over fight and the
rotations are sharp by spirit there's that third by shiro the last man
the game. It's a very clean
round. And again, it does
really speak to like, you see
the whole plan kind of
unfolding that. Yes, they lost
the pistol, but the way that
they played it was for this
rifle round. They find it very
cleanly. They've got a great
read. Maybe they play like the
antithesis of what they would
usually do and G two and not
prepared for that. And it ends
up being a flawless round and
you see where the money goes
for G two, so. Win out this
force by which is we would give them that advantage been a couple of force by conversions here so it
certainly could happen to you too but spirit with that and then it's an eco then you're 99 you got
one more rifle and you can start knocking on the door to the two zero right so one round really
has made all of the difference here and they're just holding the line beautifully again very well
red G2 with the quick burst
towards middle. Been waited
for and successfully held by
spirit. I don't know how to
change up because today has
been that kind of long pit
player. Yeah, very, very
charity at the CT side. And
this time just based on the
spawn, you know, you know, you
can get out in through door
and set himself up and
towards short. It's nice work.
Honestly, the dynamic nature
of dust to you might not
heavily play off of those spawns. Can change up your position. You can go B for a round
if you want, even though typically you find yourself in pit or as an anchor, you can really
change things up depending on the direction of the wind.
And the thing is he's making up for what at the moment is. Don thinks he's struggling
to really get involved into this 4-on-11 for him, but also Don Kubai, his standard is missing.
He's really not looking as sharp as what we usually expect. So it's near finding a
to form him and Cheryl have been excellent. Magi's had a nice couple of moments too.
That's keeping spirit in contention for this map on the 2-0. Alpha G2,
quite a damning position. Of course, that save AK will come through. I don't think Heavy Goz
is going to be hunted here at the tail end. But you're all looking at now what is,
no money to reinvest in towards the next round. That was a forced by the forced flat.
that. And this lead is going to
be all but lost most likely. I've
been looking at attack time out
either into words this position
here or in before like our next
investment. Just goes to show
I mean spirit a world class team
on this map. And very much
proving it. Yeah, I think it's
even at 75% like they're still
you look at here is, again, Donk is not frying and lighting up the scoreboard. If anything,
he is a little bit detrimental. Yeah, you know, please don't come after me. But he's
not having lights out performance. That's another thing that Spirit are kind of having
to deal with. That's a huge fine. That's the danger man dropped early to near kind of spoken
and so his praise is about how much of a nuisance he's been towards long. Now he's falling flat
to match this. No, he's not. Thankfully, he does give it just a little glance and nuts.
Can't deliver anything. You still got heavy gun on that safe AK now and M4 scooped up
for Matty's. It's still a little dangerous in the four versus four, but from a position
like this, especially considering there's only one guy with armor, you shouldn't be
struggling. It looks like Don could be tested in due time.
Yeah, I mean we called him out a little bit on Mirage, but when put under pressure
He seemed to thrive so might be another opportunity
To show that or are they going to sadly pivot away? I think they are indeed
Gonna pivot away heavy God's got himself out long. He does get dropped
I don't think there's much else to this then just really looking for a cheeky unlikely gap
You know what? It's on six was nearly it. It does go down. So there's damage done
Some pious maybe not gonna happen for him though. So I'll see it off nine to nine the big round on
The cards now and as we said we want to see a timeout coming into this one for G2. It's very very important
They will indeed
That timeout going well, it's all on the mic
I was just kind of waiting a second see you know if he was gonna be more vocal or not. Yeah
Yeah, I mean, I think they really kind of look to him. I mean, of course, especially with the absence of Hunter like he
Yeah, this is then becomes like the complete leader right in a sense. Like we're really looking to him to
dig them out of this hole
One thing in that previous round as when I mentioned that
John takes his timing when he doubles back towards B to resmoke and it just hit more force into kind of pivot way
They know they don't have the use of the pop through that smoke. It's just a death trap. So really really nice work from him
It's something quite subtle, but it just changed the game from them. They're just caught in transition
They're like diving out mid late into that round with no real game plan
It was
Aloh by with the save a case
We're not gonna expect loads, but of course with that save they came then nothing we found in that round
Have you guys only got a Mac 10 here as we are tied square nine rounds apiece
the back of their time out G2 you lose this round and you're actually in serious trouble.
And it doesn't start well. Donk on the secondary will open up proceedings towards B.
Yeah still wanting to get into the conversation and he does it on the big green.
He's trying to move himself up with a really big kill. Heavy impact.
the top frag are gone as well. Yeah. We're on the G2 side so looking really really effective
and I think should be able to convert from here you would assume G2 gonna have their
work cut out for them. On again that's slightly lesser by missing all the extras around the
edges. They're still gonna try and hit me. So much util as well. Over towards the CT side.
There's someone that can come through a lurksmoke, come down and you just drop a molly in behind.
Slow them down immediately.
Smoked, go deep into those tunnels again, which is something they're going to have to work around.
The more time they waste here, the less effective their lurksmoke is, which is now starting and has faded.
And if it's onto a spam that catches some players, that's the game playing gone.
I think you just have to save it.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, look, it stinks because you've got Donk on like a contact orb,
Just catching you on an aggressive angle. Yeah
Sure a small oversight. There's like there's no flash. It's not something they go for it's not something that even like shiro likes doing as
An orper are those types of plays
So really quite clever from donkey in that sense and then you get spammed through the smoke for the second kill agreed
So it's like great, you know, what can I do about that? What have I done wrong?
In hindsight, I maybe could have held the most passive angle possible in upper tunnels, but like, it's really difficult kills to deal with.
Yeah, it's two really small things, because you know, that first one, you know, essentially, all two of those are like, you know, shit happens, right?
You go into a peek, it's like, it's the first time we see the secondary ult come out from Spirit, so it's like, it's unfortunate, it happens.
But then that second kill, that's just so unfortunate.
So it's things you can't really kind of like account for that much maybe the first one a bit more so that second one
That's just that's unlucky
But even without that spam kill, it was just still so much you till there Molly's smokes that would have been replenished
It would have been such an awkward died and they spent way too long
You get your lurk smoke out on towards B and then you don't do anything with it
So it just fades by the time you can even make use of it
That's the same way break on the smoke
maybe heard but it doesn't really give you all that much you know of course they're gonna be hanging around Xbox
It's pretty conventional. It's just a question of how many of them?
Moving up into these angles 45 seconds now not a lot of time
Diggs loses his head as tax spotted him
First and takes him on the second. There's still just not a lot of time and couple players not quite in position just yet
It's a good molly though and a second behind it that I'll slow down to here.
Now that's the one that changed this round.
They will come through towards short.
It should do a decent amount of damage.
It does, but it's surely in a spot like this not going to make a difference.
And as Magix falls, that's the round itself falling into place for G2.
The real mistake there comes from Taneir.
An overextension and basically an unnecessary swing there.
And that's it.
He's meant to be the insurance quality to cut rotations.
Instead, he gives them the pathway to shut out that A-side.
Matties will fall, but it doesn't make a difference.
An over-face and over-fight.
That'll be G2 time. This game up 10 rounds apiece.
Sure.
There's life still left in this side.
It's definitely safe to say.
I think it does feel like individual mistakes,
but more of a round that Spirit lost.
kills came to g2. That would be my only kind of nitpick, uh, criticism. But yeah, I mean,
maybe look, you know, Teneir also has activated from long quite a lot. So perhaps you read
there is to just make sure you've always got a player over there looking on the timing,
which they seem to have really down is that it takes that peak. Well, it's just all out
of whack. You know, you've got Teneir pushing, you've got magics hiding on the site, shiro
on like a contact or really really really risky move and they're just not together in any way on
that A-bomb site. Yeah.
Bunker keep hold of that secondary orb.
I don't seem to get him on towards the rifle and get proactive but at least from the shot we
saw earlier the issue is they're just not really going to be. So Dong's not being tested all too often.
And indeed they get that made down at the absolute perfect time.
Yeah, and then a second behind it as well just to add insult to injury on Heavy God.
It's brilliant. It really is.
Makes them so vulnerable in this round now.
I mean Magic Store's another HE.
Speaking of...
Here it is. Get a kill.
Touchdown. On to attack.
Brilliant.
The use all so far has been sublime from Spirit. There's only 30 seconds left.
It looks like they might have to just sort of slightly panicked for a late dive into Jose.
Yeah, Molly in the way. They can get a player down and into CT, just about.
They are going to quickly pivot back towards B, but the B players are ready.
Don Quid demiss on the orb, the uncomfortable orb potentially.
They're going to close that gap.
T'Near goes down, so the B hold really does have to find success.
Matisse falls, and that's the big kill.
It's all the rotators there going down, man, but they cannot break into B.
and just about able to hold. It's
Zontics to bail out Donk, who
misses a shot. And even Tim, it's
like, whoa, that was a big one.
That was a sitter, which I don't
usually do. And also the fact
that I miss it means that they
really close that gap into be
Zontics, the quiet man, the
journeyman, the pack mule at times
of this team bails them out in a
And as well, not even just the Citimus by Donkeys and put on the angle and towards tunnels and then get some swung
So I think he's not like I'm done with the old but I'm gonna go back to my comfort right back on towards there
The rifle and he gets the AK as well, which is even more of a benefit benefit to have
but a final timeout
4g to
You know for damn sure that they are running out of time here
not only in this map, not only in this series, but in this tournament, I lost here means elimination
It means of course, look in your spot into what was that quarterfinals
Yeah, I mean the high the big thing for G2 as well is I think that's been read is their
Control room as it were their pivot point is short
And I think that they they won from there in the round prior to that one
Yeah, and then in that round they just go there again. It's far too predictable
They've got the pace massively here, though, out into towards middle, Donk somewhat ready.
He does find one, Zontik's in a great spot, and heavy God walks straight into that cross-era rather, jumps straight into it.
Zontik's still around, as to be expected, Sunpires finds his, and Zontik's no heroics this time.
Three HP on Nerts might be the only difference they need.
It's Sunpires, though, the annoyance into towards middle.
Making the difference would have been a great naid, but Magik's Ops
Not to release it at this time. They've got money to buy into us an extra round
I'd be giving this a go and especially now of that naid
They still don't look convinced and they're so worried about a flank
We've got a buy-in towards the next round. I'd be giving this one a look in oh
Just a bit faster just a little bit faster than
waiting
Until they feel absolutely ready and unfortunately that gives too much time to G2 for that Sunpire's flank. I think
Bangier flashes over the top and get in there, but we know that they'll now know that that was the move
But unfortunately just nervous getting into that site. Also just what a ball's he called to make off the back of that tech time out
You are flying out the bulls. No xbox smoke. No door smoke. They hadn't even got the CT smoke down
the high boulder is sent out as a mercenary and to just to try and do what he can and he does
excellently you fly on towards the fight you go for a real punchy round to split towards B
it's a big call to make it's super bold from g2 but it'll tie this game up
don't think it's just an mp9 for him shiro gets his AWP rifles across the board for the rest and
and fair decent amount of util as well.
The issue is, you look at both sides, sets of finances.
We generally like to consider this a swing round here.
Not the best flash, but they managed to work their way out.
There's nobody around anyway.
It's Shiro on the corner angle here,
who needs checking.
Those flushers do not get anywhere near him.
Is there a Molly with his name on?
Not quite yet, and he will keep on dragging.
Shiro does not miss.
You have to force him out of his hidey-hole, and they will burn him alive, but I think enough has been done.
All on nerds, he's alone, he's found out, and he's finished off as Spirits will be the first to threaten the map series and knock out point against G2 here.
That is huge, and even more so as well, not even just getting the round, it's the fashion in which Spirits get the round.
No bomb plot for G2.
I said coming in towards that round, this is what we consider a swing round, because it means
that the residual cash left over is not great, and a few things really have to go right to be able to squeeze out a buy to follow it.
Man, alive. You can see what the knock-on effect is, and Cheryl full-blank does not affect him.
Matty's will hit the deck.
Four alive, Cougar leels, a deagle, and an AK-47 in the hands of Nurtz to keep G2 alive here in IEM Rio 2026.
But Spirit, they might just pick them at the post on their map pick.
It wasn't exactly the most comfortable of showings, but late in towards this.
Similar to what we saw in Mirage, they've picked their time to come alive.
Is there anything left in the tank for G2?
Anything left in the locker?
Special to buy like this.
One minute 10.
to go back to the default of
let's just pivot around short
and hope for the best. Last
time they met. There's a crack
out on this map. It went to
overtime. So I think we may
well have the possibility of it
as due to will believe in
themselves to take it. They did
lose it, but it could take it
to the overtime once again.
to take it. They did lose it, but it could take it to the overtime once again. Can they
do it from behind though is the problem? It's all about the A bombsite. It's all about
the short approach. They've been big fans of it. The drop into CT though. They go for
this move again. Baking things out. That smoke will work for them. The B hold looked good
last time. Will it be the same here? It's Donk. You've got to get through. Not the guy
You want to be dealing with them the CT smoke went down from behind and they will be demolished for the two zero
It's heartbreak for G2 and they will be knocked out here playoffs secured for spirit
However, I think they did play the better counter strike throughout. It's just unfortunate D2 comes so close for G2
They will be kicking themselves. Yeah, absolutely credit to them right at that tail end for spirit
They find the form required and they see off the series.
We have to get farewell to G2,
but Spirit will put their spots in towards the quarter-final.
Now that question still arises for them.
How deep can this side actually go at the moment?
Yeah, I think it's a very fair question,
as things are, you know, difficult to predict for Spirit.
We're seeing some interesting things come in, you know,
in terms of like, Donk, in terms of Tenir stepping up,
But also, I think some of the calling and certainly how to use the pieces has changed and
As it changed for the better. I think there's still the jury out on that one for sure
But you take down g2 here in two-zero fashion. That's to be expected one close mark
That's to be expected and g2 unfortunately
The reality of it may be that if they had hunter if they had a bit more prep time on the stand-in, etc
It could have been a better showing because for those that don't know hunter
like just wrecked his ankle, so I don't think it was necessarily one that they
would have been ready for in terms of standing. Sometimes you do know way
ahead of time. No, exactly. I mean, even with kind of like passion your way and
sends you not being able to play, it's like they probably would have got a
decent bit of heads up. Okay, this is not going to work. We do think they're standing,
but yeah, this is probably somewhat last minute. It's a little bit unfortunate. I
don't think TAC did bad. You know, he's playing kind of tough roles and he's
flustered and probably sent me last minute here as well. I don't think this
tournament considering the you know all the narrative around it with the stand
in a while I don't think it's terrible like you know for them they showed some
decent moments you know they take down gentle mates granted dropping them up
there is probably not all we want but you take a map of vitality that's not
terrible and you know you even pushed in the distance spirit there on DOS2
which of course you know how generally quite scary they are on that map pick
but ultimately speaking I don't think they probably had the highest
expectations like if they got to playoffs that'd be an odd great like you
You know, we made it to playoffs with a standing minimal amount of prep to slot them in towards these roles and whatnot
I'm obviously quite big shoes to fill not only obviously with what under us for the calling
But he actually does bring a lot in terms of the numbers department too. So it's a big guy to lose
So I think the G2 as much as obviously he's going to be annoying not going in towards the playoffs and not being able to play in front
Of the crowd. I still don't think it's a terrible tournament for them considering the circumstances
Yeah, no for sure for sure
they won't feel like that in
the moment, but they can
definitely step away and kind
of be happy with how things
have gone down. They win the
games that they're expected to
win. Um and ultimately, like
you say, take a map off of
vitality so you can kind of be
happy. It's just tough the way
the format works that you do
get gut punched by the probably
the two strongest teams. Maybe
Falcons have got more form at
the moment than spirit, but
ultimately looking good. Meanwhile,
we do have an interview ready to
the next couple of hours. I'm
excited. I'm excited. I'm
excited. Excited to get into
it. Yeah, kind of here from
magic. Thank you very much for
giving us some of your time.
Congrats on the wind. Congrats
on the playoffs. Of course, and
I just want to kick things off
how you feeling against G two
there. Obviously it's been
maybe for you a tougher
tournament. You lose a map
against red canids and get
knocked down by falcons
earlier on how you feeling
like right now but you know we just got owned against Falcons but overall form of
the team is pretty fine and it's okay and we're capable of playing the game
and what was what happened in today's morning was the first map against Red
Kennids oh I mean I was so mad that everyone involved but we managed to like
get our shit together and when the two maps against red cannons and against g2 we also came
we lost mirage against red cannons but we have beaten g2 who won vitality on mirage
that's pretty weird but overall yeah we just played pretty decent against g2 especially on mirage
on dust it was kind of shaky in some places in some moments because they were playing pretty good
you know, it's kind of a
somewhat rarity that you get
kind of a double game day. So
what is it like for you guys in
terms of kind of preparation?
You know, having a little bit
less time is going to get ready
for this one. How did you feel
kind of bouncing off the back
of that red Cannad's game like
you mentioned of the drop map,
but then off of that, the series
had some nice moments from you
guys and then coming towards G
two with somewhat minimal time
to get ready for this game.
Well, I think it's going to be
a good start. I think it's going
to be a good start. I think it's
going to be a good start. I
think it's going to be a good
start. I think it's going to
Well, personally, I do hate the game days with two matches.
It's only happened to me twice or three times, I believe.
It happened in Krakow.
It was bad, but we made it through the groups.
It happened at some EPLs for me as well in the past.
But overall, it's a bad thing.
And the bad thing is that usually, when you're doing so, you have an early game, usually,
or what happened with me, it was extremely early game, and after that, you have to play
the game in the very least, and you're kind of shadowy, kind of fucked.
Everyone can say about the preparation stuff, but it's also bad, but the worst thing is
that you're playing one game.
a long time. Usually you're playing the other one. Yeah, I get what you mean. Like you're
not quite in the flow of things for that second game, I suppose. I just want to zoom in on
you. How are you feeling with the changes in the team with the new responsibilities?
You know, it's been a good six months or so now. So how are you feeling around, you know,
magic as the captain, I suppose, of a spirit.
Good.
Yeah, nice. Fair enough.
Last one for me. I just want to touch on how you boys feeling now that you've booked your spot into playing in front of the crowd.
You know what kind of Brazilian crowds are like.
They get really loud. It's always kind of a fun time playing out there in Rio.
How are you guys feeling about obviously being in Rio, a really, really cool place to be.
And of course, we're kind of the counter strike world.
But then, of course, now to play in front of what is a super, super loud crowd.
Oh, first of all, it is actually really cool to make the playoffs because the group stage
is behind us and we made the playoffs finally and I hope we're going to play better, we
just have to do it and that's cool because the pressure is off because losing it in the
group stage is bad.
about the playoffs. I remember I've been playing in quarterfinals in Rio Major. And yeah, that
was loud. Yeah, exactly that. We're going to take any more of your time. Thank you very
much for joining us and congratulations on the win and booking a spot in Toh's playoffs.
Best of luck, mate. Thanks.
Awesome. Always good to check in, of course. Here's the results for Spirit off the back
of what was some nice moments of the tournament, but also some shaky ones too. I think in particular,
that Falcons game, dominantly defeated there. But around that, the beat and the teams, they
should be beating, right? They take down G2, which of course, you kind of put them with a
stand-in especially at a level below them, same for Rehkanid, same for Liquid. So it kind of feels
like all these results make sense, right? There's nothing really out of the ordinary here. This is
a spirit side that are still maybe not at that kind of level of kind of the, I'll call them the
contenders like your navi is your mouse your falcons in particular i who actually might be able to really kind of push the distance against the
fightality side um obviously no one's really able to contend with them at the moment that still remains to be the case whether that will change in this tournament but
jerry speaking i think the spirit they win the games and should be winning they lose the game that we would kind of expect them to lose to be honest
now it's the case of can we actually find like a an extra 10 15 percent in towards playoffs can we use maybe a bit of the crowd to
of people around them. Yeah
well. It's interesting as well.
Though Magix comes in. Asked him
how he was feeling on the win
like the general question, and
he just after two wins today was
like, I don't know. We're kind of
shaky, I think. Obviously they're
not super happy with how they're
performing. I think they expect
more. I think they want more
losing a map against red Canards
is probably going to wake you up
in a way of like, we're just not
like they probably expected to just walk over that team and it wasn't that easy so yeah still a lot of questions from
Spirit themselves let alone what guys like us have got to say about them
But they do indeed made the qualification in the end
Ultimately, that's all that matters. They've put this spot into Wars playoff
But that is just our third game of the day. We've got one more to bring you which we're very much looking forward to it
Is Navi taking on Aurora here, which is all the makings to be an absolute
We are really looking forward to this one, of course, another game that comes through with some stakes.
That's how we like it.
Winner will advance to those quarter-finals.
Losing team is eliminated.
It's about to get really spicy.
We're going to throw it to a break as we get things ready for our fourth and final game here on the B-Street.
A lot of damage, they're looking to get their gun round out in number 4.
Oh, big nade, no apex is up top as well.
Vitality can need these kills more than Falcons do, so they'll pull back to CT spawn.
And I like that you're just not making it easy for them, you know?
They're kind of trying to tempt you in with the pistols out in the yard.
Open that you just come gunning for the
Eco kills, but that's not what you deal them. You play back. Don't let them make it expensive
So how can's get out with it for alive when all this said and done no issues here on the conversions
Niko's had a bit of a tough series, had some good moments on Mirage but Dust2 was lacking.
I feel like this is one of his best sides though, or at least has potential to be.
CT side on Nuke, gonna see him starting main most of the rounds.
Sometimes assisting Kyosuke on ramp.
For the most part, dealing with outside and this door pressure, breaking the smoke by
Not crossing behind it on the first volley.
Taking their sweet time.
They're allowing the cross, but they're still playing for information, they want to at least
know.
There's another wall of smokes comes down.
Oh, that actually falls short.
That is not what they wanted.
Oh, that's really awkward.
Yeah, this is apex to try and brute force something.
Didn't have any more smokes to kind of replenish them out in the yard and that could prove
to be a costly error.
Monosy caught out gets away with a big chunk of damage before he's dealt with
Backstab here for Robs need a kickstand to get gun on trade secure
But a lot more still to do low health on these main fights and tessas holding the line been a great start to this game for tessas
And there's a two HP
I far cry from winning this
Bomb dropped back in main
And that's just the beginning of his problems will have this route down the vent, but it's heard Falcons can now give chase uses Molly if he kept
It's why he could have burnt then and actually bought time
I don't think you can win this one right now
They're gonna have him at least after the plant if not before and so not even extra money for vitality
Holding that Molotov would have made all the difference in that 1v2 clutch with tests as low
Double CT then can't say I've ever seen that but it works well for the Falcons on this top hold
Dude, you've got to acknowledge the game that Tess says is giving us to open this up
He's 8-0 topping the charts for vitality got a big 3k in the pistol
Pulls through and in a big way for them in that round right stops the the split in its tracks
Shuts down the entire main component on his own. That's I think the one little miss smoke kind of ruined the whole round for vitality
They would have had Falcons in the dark in terms of being down secret
They could have even made it themselves, but they lost a player advantage from that smoke alone
That's what's ramp Kiyosuke on the chopping block
Just gives him the space so does monosy
We'll bang
Hey, pecs are stuck
Looks like they want to flush it out
Playing heavy to resist out in the yard and heavy down at lower as well.
They've got Apex trapped out here behind red, but taking a lot of attention away, allowing
his boys to creep up through hell, trying to close in on these tech nines.
Alka's doing a good job of keeping them at bay.
Wow, okay.
First time that fight's ever been taken.
time here for Vitality, because 2v5 make it just SideWoo on low health, whittling away
right now, it's nicely done outside, monosy triple kill on the AWP, Joyce Tess says at
8 kills, top of the server.
Hey, they've been talking about how they've been trying to kind of refine things as a
team, right, make it a bit less individualistic, playing off of each other.
I think you've noticed that a bunch in these early rounds, like no unnecessary risks, no
kind of giving Vitality what they're wanting on these pistols, just playing the range game,
can each other up they're playing these crossfires out in the yard that were
really hard to get through because you know you had monosy and kiyosuke ramp
you could have played for that space earlier in the round you could have tried
to contain them but it's nice you know low-risk CS on display out of the
Falcons to open up nuke and it's doing them well and last go around for
Vitality it was one miss smoke felt like it cost them everything
So how will they fare now that everything's gone a picture perfect rops
Barreling through the doors securing entries out into this top site and that's
Robbs this spinning top up in a
Pulls the wall over the eyes of the Falcons
Monacy might arrive at lower, but he's not long for this world
He is out of there when the lurk goes so well. It's like an entry triple kill topside and in fact Falcons are closer to be
My tati do you get that bomb down and Falcons look to walk away? I say that Nico
Visitive in the vents. I will hold it down and that will send modesty back to spawn
Excellent little pump down lower and nothing Falcons can do about it when they get laid to waste on upper
Oh, Robs, may have heard that. Doesn't look like it.
Have you want to let you save that orb? So, picks it up for Zywoo, takes 4 kills here
and puts Vitality on the board. It's not too late, it is never too late, as we've already
learned.
He's been having a really, really good series.
One at 1 MVP and he blikes the way it felt, so keen to get back there.
Been a real driving force here for Vitality.
It's a step in the right direction, still a ways to go, aggression for monosy on the
to open this one up. Deep angle out towards the hut. Likewise, Kiyosuke looking to get
stuck in over here at ramp. So looking for lobby info, looking for lobby fights.
But nothing will be given to the Falcons with Robson in this position, Mezzi, to back him
up. It's passive right now.
This is all the while Apex has been roaming in the yard and in game leaders
want to be one or lower at the same time. So honestly, it's not missing right now.
Good man to remove as well. Everyone breathes a little easier when
Robs is out of the picture. Apex going to get caught knife out in it.
Lower.
Not today.
Dead on arrival this round three on five. Robs gone. No lower control.
Flames is in a decent position, but Falcons are a lot aware of this and the timing peek
for kicks and catchish Flames looking astray.
Mezi and Zywoo.
I would see what fighters he walk away in this and yes, up the roof they go.
So Falcons not only get a round, but get a flawless round when they already had a bit
of money left up.
It's going to propel them on this CT side, making a very convincing case right now.
And sure, you know, keep in mind, like, both these teams already in the playoffs quarter
finals are worst case for the loser of this game, but there's more on the line for vitality.
And it's not even just the streak.
It's the fact that, you know, vitality don't play quarter finals.
They are not used to this, right?
Sure, the last time was Chengdu last year
where they got out of the lower bracket in the group.
But for the most part,
this is a team that always win the seeding game
and go straight through to semis.
What does that do?
That gives you an extra day off.
It gives you a chance to rest.
Something very important for a team
that always play tournaments out to the final day,
who always play a B05.
You know, other Rosses are traveling after group stages.
Vitality are longing out every single event and so
Short the streak being broken is one thing they've set up a higher one than that already
But it just means more days of play for vitality if they're gonna lose today it makes that run harder towards the Grand Slam
Can they level up right now six one for Valken's full control everything going well
I'm feeling very content with this early lead you've been able to amass, but you can never
get too comfortable here.
Well, it takes a lot for Vitality to get very threatening again, so...
Spammed.
these spams, the connection from honesty, all of it goes a long way. And already, you
know, there's been a bunch of rounds like this of Vitality, where it just kind of feels
like there's not a lot left to do anymore from the word go.
Yeah. And you know, it's one thing Apex pulling his knife in secret and getting cleared by
Niko, but that's just random smoke spam. And it's put Apex down 0-8. It's kind of killed
the round. And yeah, this is a good answer for Vitality, just going together and going
into this topside, but you already know in a 5v3 there's going to be ample players here.
Tess is in a great off angle.
And he's been red hot to open up this map.
Tess says convincing shut down lines up the double and there's no more issues.
Now who's just going to bow out of this?
You don't really have a choice.
This is why this is how Nuke can feel constricting sometimes on the T side.
You need a lot to go right.
early staging you till has to hit your smokes outside your vent smoke pressure
early in the round and then get a player down secret then you can start mid
round you can start using your pieces but if you're just stuck in the lobby
and you're getting massacred outside like vitality are what are you supposed to
do
Oh, not even the savers guaranteed going down to the wire as I will get out.
So, they all maintained, but I mean, you know, does that, what is that really serve here
for vitality?
They're going to need something.
Something's got to go right.
They're going to get wrecked in lobby.
They're going to get spammed out in the yard.
The problems feels never ending.
Meanwhile for the Falcons,
just going from strength to strength.
And I'm loving the way these rounds are looking.
That's the thing, they're very pretty rounds
out of the Falcons.
It's very considered, everyone's on the same page.
You're being aggressive, but not in a way that
you're risking loads.
I'm even thinking of some of these monosy angles where,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
felt like it was gonna be a monosy opener.
They've given him a second chance at redemption.
Can't make it happen.
dead on that week, Zai Wu able to deal with him so finally results out in the yard of 5v3 for Vitality
Apex says pull back right now everybody right we've been given the chance this is what we've been waiting for
all game right now let's actually get to play out one of these advantageous positions
so no one to die, Vitality go all the way back, Tessus is making a nice move but it's a high risk one
Because the trade feels inevitable for Robs.
Messi gets it done. 4-on-2.
Sive relief here. Two top performers of Falkensfeld.
A 4-on-2 for Team Vitality.
They breathe, they give Zawoo some more time, but they're getting set up for this A-Split.
I guess who's going to be here, but has a lot of responsibility, fully alone, kicks
down, playing for lower.
The option would be to fly up through the vent, or I hope they bring it down here.
No reason to do so for Vitality, so as to get in behind them, it's kicks down arriving.
out with his one but the trade is right there. Yeah very well done for Vitality they slow it down
at the perfect point it was a bit of a miss from Odyssey a kill that would have absolutely changed
the tune of that round but Zywu goes on to win it out. How close this was Zywu jumping over even
hit the leg and finish what he started. Feeling good you've been able to kind of stop this streak
from amassing again but it can't just be a one and done for Vitality. Sentences you're not really
used to say and this is a squad that's always lethal. So let's see if they can go on a bit
of a streak here to close out this T half. They're a round away from breaking the Falcons money.
This is what's been good about Falcons. Every round it's something different. It's a new idea.
It's a new starting position for Monosy. It's Nico now getting aggressive and up and over.
Since I wound down, Monosy has his back, and this terrifying twosome outside is knocking Vitality out of this half.
That's more like it from Nico. Very quiet series.
Yeah, I mean, they know they lose that last one based on the fights out of the yard. So Monosy and Nico say no way, not happening again.
And these very active starts with the Falcons and another round that's over before it even
begins for Vitality.
It's very hard for Apex to call out of the situation because it's just they're setting
up to the round.
They're getting destroyed in, Deco's pushing through the outside smoke, jumping up and
finding Zai Wu.
and the game is going to be
a little bit more audacious
moves being made by Falcons. I
mean, you know what we talk
about pressure with this falcon
squad, the idea that they
always seem to give you your
best work when the pressure is
off. This is maybe like the
least pressure for match on
paper. Because playoffs are
already guaranteed, right? Like
you said coming into this. This
is between quarters and
San Rumors swollen. So they're giving us a fantastic game. It's rare to see Vitality
look so stumped. That is a real rarity. You don't get this. Like you said, it's in the
early staging of the round. You're not getting a cross-secret. You're not getting to play
a mid-round. The rounds are so decisive against you.
Yeah, it's these two game plans clashing for vitality. It's pretty standard. It's where we want to go outside
We want to get secret we want control in yard for the Falcons
It's we're gonna disrupt all of that and they've done it perfectly think about how we haven't seen an APOP
We haven't seen a single bit of contact on ramps since the pistol
And so
Falcons calling a great game right now
And holding up their side of the bargain a to two
It's never too late. Double wall, all fake. They don't want outside anymore. They've had
enough. And so this is where Falcons, after a bit of a breather, have got to be ready
for everywhere else on the map. Kiyosuke, no support right now.
Now, you think about how outside focused this game has been. There's next to no one here
for the Falcons. So Apex's little ruse he's tried to throw in hasn't exactly
worked. There's plenty of guys nearby to help out Ramside. Monosib being one of
them hoping they can bait them into Kiyosuke for a bit of a mowdown.
The Spansion guys to go and deal with Apex. They'll deal with him on this secret
lurk. That's just a great read of what was gonna come their way in this round.
Oh, it falls short. Dude, these smokes have just been getting caught on little lips.
It's the outside one that bungled them earlier. This falls on the line,
and they just go swinging in together. It doesn't even matter.
Double kill for Mezzi. The bomb can go down.
All right, this would be a huge boost to Vitality, 2v4.
And a double kill on that transfer. Adam Mezzi's giving them a fighting chance.
Honestly, in Tessa, it's the two top performers right now for the Falcons.
have to try and recover this and that bomb is taken away
time running long rops with that beautiful transfer and a 2v4 mesium
rops combined oh my never count them out we already know about it but
vitality dig deep in a very important round late in this half it is a
a recoverable harp with four on the T side, but so much has to go right there. Huge spray down
and Rob saves them just as well.
Grabs eye, Wooz Orb, and Vitality look to put it to you straight away.
I'll enter the stalemate. Any time you can get Monosifar in that AWP with no opener is
a win for Vitality.
The ramp is completely empty in this round. It's not the eco lower. It's Kiyosuke who's
gone all the way down secret. Monosifar takes ramp back, but Vitality are about to go in.
This could be awkward timing for Monosifar. He's going to have to hit some close shots.
And by all pink, one under flames and then just backs out of there.
In my Kyosuke is firming up the defenses outside confirms that these smokes are just a fake.
So a very good picture on where Vitality could be in this round.
It's a trap or it's a trap which one do you want?
Both sides cordoned off and the longer you wait the closer Kyosuke gets.
Vitality don't know they are on the clock right now.
And that's it.
loves this little position back at the door and so P.S.
Okay.
What about going further?
Robs with the check and now a route opens into the top site.
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Here we are again keeping the Counter Strike coming as we move into our final game here
on the B stream, another qualification, excuse me,
Navi into Aurora, it's too much.
The project of Navi Aurora.
Yeah, it's just blowing my mind.
It'll do that to you.
And indeed, we are back for a little bit more
counter strike there as Navi Aurora.
I think really could be, you know,
the previous game didn't quite deliver for us.
I think this could be a very, very close one.
We've got an informal Aurora.
I think they look all right, to be honest.
And I do feel that Navi, you know,
maybe going to be able to meet that head-on.
Yeah, and there's moments here where we're not the on always kind of like, you know, super super clean
He's gonna drop a map debate as well, which may be a little bit of a concern
But this is another game with really really high stakes, of course that vitality focus game is currently going on as we just saw it
into all is that
Got a tail end of kind of the first half of map three
We've just seen a group a concluded though from that lower bracket spirit to zero over G2
the game. We're going to be
going to the next round. We're
going to be going to the next
round. We're going to be going
to pretty clean stuff or all
things. It's it, but we're now
moving back over to group B
Furia miles will be coming up
on the A stream after that
Falcons Vitality game, and we've
got another really important
one as well. That game into the
top bracket. Both of them are
already qualified. It's just
who goes to the Sammys and who
goes to the quarters. This one
is for qualification winner of
here and I mean it's so hard to call out the gates. No absolutely I think the you know
Navi obviously want to be contending in the playoffs want to be contending for this tournament
as they maybe find themselves on a hot run coming in but Aurora on the other side of
things also have a chance we've got a little bit of a check in with Wacadia on that Aurora side.
I'm standing here with Wacadia for a little word and Chad I wanted to talk a bit about your rise
in this team because when you were joining this team it was kind of like
Santaris powerhouse and Santaris disc, Santaris that it was the Turkish
Terminator but right now you're developing into really all-arounder and
star in this team. Can you share us, can you share a little bit of info? Why is that?
We have a lot of experienced players and I'm learning a lot from them
and we're playing a lot so it's kind of developed me as well.
I mean you're not having these star roles as well and you're putting up
insane numbers and insane impact so does this help you that major or some
other guys experience guys are kind of helping you out with this? Yeah of course
like they are playing for a really long time and also our coach is helping me a
lot. You don't need to share too much but can you tell us what is your personal
kind of like weakness because as I said you can do anything on the server you're
lurking well you're anchoring well I saw you pick up double O as well and you're
insane with it so what the hell is weakness of my caddy? For sure I can
It's my mentality, when I start a week to the game or something like this, I can't get myself up.
So you're kind of relying on these good starts to the matches, so you're kind of fired up, right?
Yeah, kind of.
And what would you consider a success here in Rio from the team's perspective? Is that a play-off run? Is that a trophy?
We are a team like a consistently playing playoff, so I think our
our skills will be maybe semis or finals or maybe topi.
I mean it is every time you're having these deep rounds on the tournaments
where there are no Vitality, no Falcons, but right now they're here, so this is
kind of like different task for you, right? Do you have any comment on that?
Like why are you, why is it so difficult against these teams specifically?
Because you're consistently like not getting deep rounds here.
All of the teams are here, I think, like top teams, so it's going to be harder than the other tournaments.
But I think we have a good chance here today. If we beat Maus, we will be on the same quarters, at least.
So hopefully we will win and go to quarters.
You can secure this play right away and we will see how that one goes.
Yeah, I mean, looking very, very good. Of course, it's nice to check in with Bacadia.
interesting player to pick up
there is Deco is highlighting
the fact that he's kind of
this like Swiss army knife in
a way this team at the moment,
especially more so at the moment
because we've got Zantara's with
this injury kind of like we
don't know the ins and outs,
but that's obviously what they've
been talking about. Is that
hindering his game? Does he just
you know play a little bit safer
or is he like jam packed with
painkillers trying to just ignore
the fact that he might have a
that. I know the inner details
of it. Just the fact that there
is a risk injury. Um so
wakadia, maybe they're having
to lean on him a little bit
more, and he seems cool with
that, but also a bit open about
his own experience and his own
weaknesses, which is always
pretty good to recognize. That's
good. And knowing as well, you
know, mental is one of those
hardest things really kind of
this sort of level to try and
shore up, right? Because it can
be so inconsistent, depending on
the day, depending on even
something like the maps and
and to kickstart things. That is a raw as pick as I'll start that T side. They got Raj to follow up. And if we needed dust to
Decider, so very huggy set of a fair here in the veto and it looks like a row. I want to set a bit of a tone
They're going quick the moving forward in towards me and McCarty with that first test and he will get his kill
It's a little labored but walks it quick on the trade
moving faster
as they could actually call a full pause. I think there was a thought for a moment and intrusive thought to go rushing through their own smoke.
Oh my, and they just found the timing here on wonderful.
What are they going to do with it? I think they were expecting another player to be around here, so perhaps a bit confused themselves.
The killer's not presented itself.
They're going to be tracked down. This is just such a weird game state to watch unfold in real time.
Noise being made though, of these flanking players coming in, Woxic very ready.
Maybe they were expecting them to be further ahead.
And they actually were into that B bomb site, giving the game away slightly early.
I'm going to get planted, still got the coffin slash church control,
but the shots are just not landing for Navi here.
Lexi Bill will manage to find one, but I don't know man, this is,
for me, initially not looking great.
Yeah.
They have started to find them, they've got that kit as well importantly.
There's no gap on this, there is.
I thought there might be a gap. It did look like it didn't really bounce up the wall properly, but it's all on the captain now.
I'm just gonna bail them out and he now has to reload. How is he still alive?
And he stays alive for long enough to make it not
Surely enough time that it's unbelievable because it's just a little way at the end here. Well, just as it goes green. Oh
My god, that is so close and such a sigh of relief
the team. But Navey will
steal away that pistol. I
thought with them struggling
to kill my that wouldn't be
the case. No for sure. And
then like some missed shots
and missed opportunities at
the kills. It just felt like
Aurora were properly in the
green. I mean, the bars
disappeared guys. You know,
that's that's as close as it
gets. Um but yeah, really
wild that Navey are able to
come out on top. About the
it negatively it is safe to say. Still a pretty good force though right we got an AKR,
a couple of Khalil's, Mach 10 as well, it's just my Joe takes a hit with only the upgrade
of pistol for him. Yeah I think another key thing Wacadia mentioned just to keep an eye on him
as an individual is that if he gets off to like a slow start he struggles to get back into the game.
Yeah so keep your eyes on all these things as Navi may well have noticed that as well
He's not made a peep, goes completely unseen.
He's still got control of the site, drops the player down.
They have maybe overcooked things ever so slightly,
but it's not a lot of time to get this bomb down.
They can get it down.
But there's just enough if they get that kill and they did.
So one small thing there,
Woxic faints the presence of running away,
which can be heard from the site.
They might just salvage this round.
It's a 1 versus 2, but MagiWolf fall,
and Woxic gonna play up close.
Surely there's no way McCartney's gonna expect this.
You might use the knave to break this smoke though.
It will deal a bit of damage to Woxic at the very least, but again, still not fully cleared.
And he- OH! I SAID HE'S GOT A KNIFE! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
Oh my god!
Woxic is just dismayed by that decision.
Mikaze, a bit of fortune, he's diving round the corner.
I know what you can do if your Mikaze has laughed.
You know how fortunate that is.
Just steal away that round, but...
Oh, that is a tilt-er for Aurora.
another tilter as well, was an annoying one to lose, that is more so annoying with a knife that
was just honestly him just trying to move around the corner to set himself up, but the panic click
you can see just the shock on the faces, I still want to say despite losing the round though
a nice idea, Woxig runs down mid, 2A players and Ozo rotate, it's not running back towards B,
He then doubles back and they split in towards the site and catch the guy in towards big box completely back turned
So the idea is really nice. It's just that's just unfortunate. Yeah. Well, I mean
Unfortunately, you might be two rounds in a row where they're not necessarily going to look to blame themselves. Yeah as a team, especially
And that's honestly we look towards some like my dream to say just brush it off like, you know
Yeah, exactly, but it's fine
Yeah, last time these two sides played an inferno all the way back in Cluj
And it was an overtime through 16 to 12 in favor of Navi
Well, we'll see unless it's been learned very similar Vita there is a lot
Also came into play as a 39 for Aurora
that. That's to what play
finals. Man. It's a rough flash,
but Alexi be still able to get
something done with it. They
just were not ready for his
presence. They got caught up in
another fight. That's three
kills without taking any damage
by the way between the main
players. It has got them locked
in. From behind so 25 seconds.
that's exactly what they're going to do, but it's a flawless round from Navi. So we've had two very tight rounds. They stomach that one as you would expect given the buy from Aurora, but ultimately starting to pick up a lot of steam. And on the Turkish side, they're going to have to be very careful about how they approach these next few rounds.
Yeah, it's bottom.
Nice little buffer zone to get to start things off.
A 3 down though.
4 on RV.
And it's, you know, technically speaking, it's all about bonus buy, right?
You know, why would you really upgrade here?
You can keep the farmhouse, keep the MP9.
In play, that scoop to bank is always nice too.
Even if you don't win this for RV, if you make this round expensive, it's really gonna help things out.
for Aurora not only a must win but it's kind of a must win where you'd like it to be pretty
clean at that too just to give yourself on that seaside just some sort of thing to fall
back on to fall forward
they're gonna look to keep this banana control now I suppose becomes the question they have
been giving it quite easily. You can see actually why we're doing that. Alex, he's going to rotate
away. He was going to support them, but if not, if he got into us banana and there's less than
a minute on the clock, so worst case scenario, like now they start moving back in late into
the round, he's got plenty of time for him to fall over and the opener will come through for
wonderful. And he actually, for a second. Meanwhile, fight on eight goes successfully for Narvi as well.
to be more presence in towards
that B bomb site. Wonderful. I
think indeed will take some open
angles if the opportunity presents
they're looking to first kind of
but now they've put a pause on it.
Well does well to keep control
of the site but to moving into
CT and then one bales on it like
Aurora themselves don't quite know
what they're doing. So I think it's
making them very hard to read.
Wonderful looks for another kill.
Unfortunately loses his head.
bit not able to take down that planter. So the two versus two does not look healthy for Navi.
Great start for them into the round, but Aurora remaining ever unpredictable, I think, should
be able to net this one. Never thinking about it. I do like this. There's plenty of cash to go buy in.
Why not? Try and take some guns away, and why not? Threaten the round. He doesn't have a kit,
taps onto the bomb, Magi needs to come and dive fast. It's not the case, and he will miss the
the window on the round itself, nearly takes him down. Not quite, but makes it expensive
in the end.
Nearly another round, though, where it's right down to the wire, and if it had gone the
way of Narvi, furthermore, where you could be a little bit tilted if you're Aurora,
but it's nice to finally get one on the board in towards your first gun round. But it is
still very expensive, what is ultimately a bonus buy. You know, the guns brought over
from that round prior, so Narvi will call for their first time out in opportunity for
blade. Discuss what he's seen. I don't think you're gonna be too annoyed by that round
loss for Narvi, just by how expensive you've made it. You've kept that T-Side economy in
check and that's what we see, right? Two glills have to come in for my Dranasol fly here.
Flipside Lexi does have a Phamas. There's not all Stonchan and Rebo's in terms of their
It's very close there. Even like bits trying to you know, shorties trying to find on the
planter itself. If he gets like one more tag there, it could be the difference maker.
It's close, but Aurora will take it against the odds. There is a response from Navi here
in terms of the bite, but still looking for a lot more success from Aurora. They have
have to turn that boon into a string of rounds, actually be eat some nade damage because they
not necessarily forced away at this stage. It's not really any follow up on the back
of these nades though from the T side and how are you going to try and abuse that fact?
Playing it super safe here. Ooh, a little spot. But there's not much you can do about
that. Light bits of banana control. And how are we doing while over here? But no kills
as yet despite so much presence, so much back and forth and all that utility expended from
both sides actually.
Yeah.
I'm on a spam, but nothing's to be found from it.
Emma makes a move, and when Cadio hit the deck, as we open things up, it doesn't even
take any damage.
So, the knight's fine from him.
I'm not committed.
It looks like I want to double back for a second attempt at the A site.
I don't know about this 40 second mark as they're looking to move in. It was actually rotated off long.
That is made to feel all the more worse as the motor smoke comes down. That's control they have no idea about.
Wonderful, not really forced off too easy for him, it feels.
He's able to hide away. They look to now play that crossfire.
Wonderful, a known quantity. The flash is brilliant though.
He will keep them coming so quick a player that really needs to come out of his shell for this team to do well
I think into 2026. It feels like he's got a bit more confidence to him. Yeah, I know agreed
That's a lot more like it. I
Love that call for the supporting flash as well to give him the the confidence for that second peek and it's it's a really nice fight
Pretty speaking in this head-to-head and all you had you're behind
and. So far that is how things
are looking for to one now for
them back in towards a half by
for Aurora. That nine's out and
it might be a bit of a quicker
paced one here. Might have to
go for something as simple as
an a dive. But here's those
steps. He wants nothing to do
with that as you'll fall off.
There's two other players here
gaps to be exploited Aurora not really looking to press their advantage smoke
and flash will change hands maybe no I think I just just kind of drop them pick
them back up maybe a bit bored over there of course he's got another smoke so
that's just one fades in towards deep and on he could throw another or you can
keep hold of it and try and keep them locked out of the site for that later part of the round.
It looks like it might not be required.
There's 50 seconds, they're moving back towards A.
We're about to get an old classic waterfall here.
One flash, one smoke. There's the smoke and the flash will follow it.
Oh, smoke is quite late though.
That allows two players to go firing in onto this waterfall.
It's just not going to happen. They absolutely get mowed down.
you. You might have to go to
the other side of the road.
Far too easily. You might argue
but around the expect to go the
way of Aurora. They just want
to get a return on that
investment, not going well here
now. They will bring a time out
in. Five one. Yeah, it's the
tea side. Yeah, you might say
this that in the other, but
they're just really not keeping
up your spot on. Things are
and a lot for him to talk about, to be honest.
Things are looking a little bit dicey.
Navi, it feels maybe ever so slightly akin
to what we saw in that kind of GT and Spirit game
in that first map where kind of the way we were putting it,
especially in that first half,
was they're just not being made to sweat that much.
Like we're not seeing anything
that's really making Navi super uncomfortable.
Like they're not forced to go hunting for information
or burning a lot of their utility in tours around.
Like, they can just sit back on the site, invite the pressure in, and kind of soak that pressure in, and they're able to overcome more often than not.
I swear that we're a real worry, it starts to come forward.
The trade of U2, but that deep banana smoke is the big thing here.
Looking to trade it back, looking to maybe take some fights even, but Mikaze going to find the first head, Santaris does drop an XB, costs an awful lot.
Maybe a needless kill seem like they were on different pages about
Standing and fighting and dropping back
So it gives a kill back towards Aurora, but they have again, you know lost the banana control. It's pretty common at this point unfortunately for them
Wonderful have the right idea with a holding towards boiler, but it'll come off the angle
We clears the position that'll give soulful like
And he doesn't even need to overfight.
You're more than happy to play a 1 vs 3,
especially because that bomb is dropped.
It's all on Wikipedia, and it's wonderful to close.
He's looking really good, actually.
Very confident, very sharp.
And it just feels like Aurora can't do anything to make his life difficult.
Which is knowing where the line is as well,
I think we're going to be pretty happy when we see a move like that,
that it's like, he's got the hot hands, he's found a couple of kills.
He could have gone for the reface,
But he opts to drop back group up with the team play the bomb. Yeah
Yeah, complete reposition there where chances to the 1v3 is really good for he could have been like, yeah
Yeah, I'm I'm actually frying a lot of times you will see that. Yeah, yeah, that first player goes down and then we go
Dangerous and you know, they lose the 1v3, but you just play the trade
Really really well done speaking of dangerous
That was a slightly dangerous move by bit to it's going for seconds there
But he will not be killing on the less and unfortunately that move through on that
from Ocadia which is a little slow so no trade there. Very quickly down to three
for Aurora in this half by here with more like a hero AK.
He has to do something special. Bit round this corner on the right-hand side long
there's two players who reside there. Surely next to impossible and there it is
in the game. It's just perfect
team work is that Torres. You
get one. It's a consolation
kill, but an immediate immediate
trade and will say it again.
Novy aren't being made to feel
uncomfortable. This is very
simple stuff in the city side,
and it's working brilliantly,
and this is almost like the
prophetic tea side. Unfortunately
in the way that Aurora just not
managed to get into this game.
There's been a timeout. It's not
really helped. The one round they
they do get is very lucky. I think they create their own look in it. They have this crazy
move like through the smoke and catching players off in towards CT on the B side of things.
You know, if maybe you are just joining us trying to give you a picture of that. But
ultimately, yeah, ultimately, they've just not really done very much. And you could argue
around that Navi lost is all Aurora been able to find here. I think it was 5v3 at one point
in that round. Yeah, it's a guarantee leading out the half. On top of that, it just feels
like it should lead to at least a couple more at this rate. Because Aurora really aren't,
I mean, they're barely getting to post-plants, right? And this is where we paint quite a
bleak picture on a map in which in the past, I thought, okay, granted, it's been a good
few months since coming to play between these two sides, but it was overtime. Last time
they played. It's struggling. Yeah, very much so. And it's Ima only able to get one, two
versus four, surely a round to be taken here. Alexis got other ideas, but that move by
Santaris should all but show things up. Alexi in a one versus three does have a kit, but
no utility and half HP. He's got no chance on how I think he might just suck his tail
between his legs and get out of there. Give up the round, Aurora will take a second and
there's no point for Alexi. He's halfway sticking around though. Maybe just for that
AK that was informed, it was MacAusie's at one point. They've got plenty of money as
well, right? But he will look save the AK. On the chance that he can, and Aurora will
be back in as soon as we kind of call them out they do manage to just squeeze it out despite you
know the presence of three players a quick rotation with elective B being there. What a sharp shooting
gets it done on A. Yeah exactly that. So get up to a second. Still need to use this springboard
for more of a hands up aura and we've seen some shake you know we I mean we've seen the best
and the worst aura at this tournament from you know even just ask Arslan we look back to all
that Houttu game, right? You know, map number one on that mirage, fantastic, right? Pretty
effortless as well for them as they coast around, but that does too was really, really
wild. Goes into OT, never even should have got there. There was a real chance in a real
world which, you know, you can make the argument, they kind of should have lost that map as
well. We should have gone to the side there, but they weren't able to recover, but we kind
of can see where there's a roar of sight. I can check out a little bit in the mental
stay is obviously so so important for them. I worry that morale is at a bit of a low at the moment.
It's nice to get that second and if it's a flash in the pan that's really gonna hurt.
That's a great timing on that nade. Yeah he dishes out a little bit to the beholders. Oh my goodness,
wonderful with the tag bit with the finish. So far going to be kicking himself that he does not manage
to find either of those KD out long, spotted now. Lots of chips taken out of the Navi health
bars, but no kills. And that's what Aurora need, especially in this situation where they
find themselves on the back foot with very little control to work off here as well. It's
just not looking good. Like a group back towards B. This two players to meet them and Alexi
with more or less a full belt. Longary holds this smoke, actually the more effective it
becomes to be honest. He actually has missed a window. Oh, hang on. That Jiggle Peach works
against him. He's missed a window here. Oh my God, that's all I can do this alone. Yes,
get the second that's so unfortunate for Alexi. He's jiggle-peaking there from CT, but he just misses
that small margin with Zankara's crosses and gets up close, and it costs Mikaze his life.
But even with Ima find that kill, this retake is probably still not going to happen.
I don't know. They're on the way. Ima picks his HE up. There's not going to be loads of time.
I think with that kill, they'll be like, okay, see, yeah, actually we'll go back to saving.
But they were on the way. They were on the way, I think, to give him a bit of a hand if he managed to find more space, which he doesn't.
Yeah, that's really unlucky. I think you could also look to Mikaze. It's kind of both players making tiny mistakes for me.
I think Mikaze playing so, so info-less. It's quite dangerous as well.
But it is unlucky, taking against the timing.
Yeah, just both players completely caught off guard, which is not good.
You could maybe argue as well, did they both have needs at the same time?
I think it's possible.
Yeah, it looks like it is.
Because they look like it was on a quick stage.
So, yeah, totally caught their panster.
Mostly holding a flash to kind of like, got in towards pool, but it's a really fine
margin there but nice work from Zantara it's nonetheless injury feels like it's
having no effect on his individual ability at the moment brought around the
play here in this first half what was a really poor start 7-1 down around in a
road might just give you a chance and because they finally finding fortune on
that spam he's not really been getting too much with it and now he will another
Open up an RV which feels like a bit of a consistency each every round
Certainly more often than not maybe far more often
Oxic
It's an aid as well. So from bad to worse
And it looks like a lockout over in the short area
Yeah, I'm backing off they're giving it up. Yeah, I'm gonna move into the cross area of the orbit
Not feeling great about this one
It's wonderful in
Actually a good spot, but he does get taken down. He's had to open it if they go quick
They actually might find a gap
It's very possible. Mikaze smoke in but they know that comes from CT
They know that says there's not really anyone around but they maybe scale a bit too quick
He still gets there in time. He'll eat an aid, but to no effect
Still alive still standing still looking for fights and the ace now comes into question
He's denied by the fire, but his bullets are true
They will see it off in the end.
Narvi to net eight, but Mikaze with a hell of a hold in the nick of time.
Yeah, he has absolutely saved them in that one.
Wonderful falls. They scale so quickly into wall B, which is absolutely the right call by Aurora.
It's a really nice way to go about it.
If they underlawed about that, it would have been too simple for the rotations to come through.
They don't. They step at the pace they fly in, but Mikaze has gone absolutely huge.
who's just having that one extra bit of utility.
A smoker or Molly in towards Coffins,
that rounds theirs.
They get a plant and a post plant
and all things should slot into place.
Well, he just catches two swinging across
and towards the site, goes in for another.
It's brilliant.
So second time I'll take him.
Aurora, heading into the final round off his half.
You'd argue that eight already by most metrics is enough,
up. It's kind of that thing of eight to four feels like there's a bit of a chance nine to
three really feels like the reasons. Yeah, definitely in agreement. Definitely in agreement.
They are looking to maybe send it back to basics. Is it a full rush? It is at least for one
of them. Magic to open, but he will lose his life. Lexi, a trigger pull could have done
God's work, but he opts not to go for it, waiting for more aggression to come his way.
Not the case, a quick pivot back towards the A-bomb site has also been read pretty heavily by the Navi boys.
He's working towards long.
Where's the Smolly gonna go?
KD out.
Or Imma on the other side of this smoke.
Who spots who first?
They realize they're running into each other.
Oh my god.
How does Imma come out on top in that fight?
It felt like Wikipedia had the drop, but even still,
Imola wins it and the wonderful trades to keep the numbers in favour of Navi.
Under a minute once again, Zantharys a soft flyer.
Happy saved them here.
Wonderful, pop shot, doesn't quite connect, but Alexi's reclaiming space.
In through brackets, he might have them both lined up and dead to right.
Nine for Navi, at the end of that half, it's a fantastic start
into all the opponents might pick.
I've been thrown out.
the
The nine three half and now maybe more applicable how they were kind of shades of that Melbourne final you remind you remember in that one
Honestly saying afterwards, you know, it's a final hit. It will never forget. He'll always remember it
And that feeling of you know letting vitality back in after a dominant half being what 12 6 up
It's rare that you get such a parallel to try and have your revenge, but that's what he's looking for.
Modesty means business. Shot on the smoke and Zywoo's round is over.
Bang, a move for Modesty.
Caught him on the jump and just waited until he had the guarantee.
If he says again, he is so cheeky.
He walked through the ramp smoke last round and now he's down the vent.
If Vitalty think they can rotate safe, they don't know.
One lurks below. Down secret with the bomb.
Honestly, still looking for another kill.
He doesn't know how close he got. Two players move past his crosshair.
But he can still play later in the round. His team have great control on Lower.
Four players shifting to B, and Vitalty have no reason to gamble on this lower site.
They have yet to been given a single Q.
Let alone to know that four players are here
You're gonna have to play a really quite you know out of position
Man down retake Robs does what he can right throwing caution of the wind on a charge through that Molotov
You're really hoping he could find some
miraculous multi kill when that doesn't happen
Still a tricky spot apex
has at least secured an even odds battle here Bob makes it in plant for the
Falcons and cover provided by that monosy orb catch on the vents test as
finally gets rewarded and that'll leave it on mezzie then late to the party and
in to that monosy AWP I miss one thing to lose from a 9-3 score line is another
thing to still drag it into overtime and win out that is back to
backgrounds of Falcons here at OT. Shocking. They are still here in the lead.
Dude, there's Falcons going, but you know, it's kind of the dream set up right now. You've got Niko
a monocy, top of the charts, monocy, the EU can really tell the impact he's had at the moment this one.
A severe struggle for Aurora, it is safe to say as it has not started well here on Inferno.
A map that came super, super close the last time these two teams met. That was a couple months ago
now and it seems Aurora have not changed things up too much since then. They really are paying
the price, nine three at the turn of the half. Now the game you were just watching there,
Mr. Harry just Harry Russell did very nicely tell us that was also a nine three to kick things off
and now it's gone to overtime. So maybe we might be on for an overtime here. What do you think?
To add even more last time they played Inferno, it did go to overtime. All the signs. I wouldn't
I didn't mind it, that's all I'm saying.
Yeah, a bit of sustenance in this game would be nice.
If the divine powers of the universe can give us a nice close game here for that playoff spot.
Just something to get our teeth into. If I let that first half was, you know, pretty simple stuff by Navi,
you know, we keep saying the same thing about Under the Sensor, like they just didn't really have to work too hard for a lot of those rounds.
And even when Aurora were finding a bit of success, it was, you know, just momentary flashes of it.
There was no consistency to come through. So, Navi, we're looking towards the A site here, and in comes the whole
Belda utility, up close. Okay, Dia, he felt hard done by not to get a kill, but it's in the third prepper seedings, and then Tarzan the site should
be dead to right. He gets one before he falls, but it's not enough.
Yeah, and holding the backside as well, looking very, very good. Alexi B gets a 3-1. They're not going to be able to track and
round. Like I don't know. I don't know what you're really excited about saving for. Yeah,
so it just kind of goes to show that I think they are maybe conceding things a little bit.
What's the case and kill bonus towards the end? Maybe I maybe I eat my words slightly.
We'll see what he's able to bring into this round now, but he likes the scout. We might
even see the scout come through for him. Scout on behind it. We should fairly sure he has
armor. So that's just a really neat and reinvesting only a mere pixel to work with. Yeah, but it was
very false firing it like the muzzle flirt. Let's see. Looks like probably chopped over the m4 to
Santar as he's going to wield the deagle. A couple of MP9s behind it. But normally they're
inching closer and closer to that finish line on your opponent's map pick in pretty emphatic
fashion. Double digits already, you're seven rounds ahead at this point. If you take down
this force by, this maps right off. For Aurora there's surely absolutely no chance. All towards
A though. I think I'll still dig for information in
banana maybe all the way up towards B actually. See how far they can get before they meet
resistance. Yeah, I'll go and have a look. Yeah, just got to be careful of the A side
of things. That's what we're after. That's what we're worried about. And the M4s and
Taras are sort of dotted in between this really nice defensive triangle. Working his way through.
Maybe not going to reveal immediately. Starts on top with Maget. Could get messy. First
revealed, it's clean from bit and they have to be somewhat weary of a set up of a stronger
vibe as Zantares has got the perfect angle, does not miss a bullet, and the ace not gonna
happen for him, it was alright there.
Alexi B dies away but all the same, Zantares has given them a huge lifeline.
will go down and Aurora begin to close the gap. That's a huge round to take. Xantares
so so well done by him. And with that being said now, the chance to open up the docket
a little bit here on this CT side. He does so well in from short.
Navi, it's a gut punch because unfortunately they had actually gone for a little bit more
an information kind of poking product towards top and honor and a bit more patience going because
that smoke comes down just above a minute on the clock from the one remaining B player.
They just waited it out and had a little look even if they didn't want to commit to it they
could still rotate between the sights and whatnot but before that smoke comes down they
want nothing to do with it. They walk in towards the stack and of course they walk into that
that man's Antares up to 14 now for him. No rule choice for Navi. You have to go for
a forced buy and response. You double eco. Credit Pistols across the ball and that's
it. It's a nice need to start things off. Aurora. Don't trade a bit back. It's more
of a tickle, but still maybe something to work in the future. Are they going to boost
on this half wall where Katie has got half an eye on it. Molotov comes in, that forces them back.
That will be tics herd as well.
Katie are going alone here.
Only gets one despite a good flash.
A lot of info though.
I don't know, I worry a little bit.
They're going to pick up a gun.
They're going to gain some ground. Aurora have rotated three over here.
And there's still plenty of time to pivot back towards A if they choose.
What will they choose I suppose is the question.
The thing is they can afford to have three pivots over here
because they've got a mid player holding for the rotation now.
So, they're going to know for sure,
because Soulfly, whether they're wanting to double back towards A,
hence why they're more than happy to keep the numbers.
And over here, Woxigul be flashed,
he just turns back in towards the smoke,
they're diving through towards the site magi, one for one.
Bit, finds a second!
It's labored, very labored by Zantares,
and that'll give them the B site.
Numbers advantage, Bit's three kills,
have given them a lifeline in this four-spy,
and it's all now on Soulfly.
a full belt of utility and the kit to work with.
But a tough one versus two, there's the first,
Emma goes down.
Now, all on the shoulders of Bit,
the Soulfighter asks himself, where is he tucked?
Where is he hiding?
Nate will go to dark, wrong position.
He does have time to clearly be back turned,
and Bit will deliver.
It's a quad kill for him,
off the back of the quad from Santores,
and Navi steals such an unlikely round back.
Yeah, I mean, really well done from them entering in, brought a bit close by a couple of the individuals,
but I do think that getting into that bombsite despite three as well is so well done.
Just a bit curious, you know, why you thought it was really on that right-hand side of the site.
It's got to be done.
Maybe thinking that, like, the guy in Newbox was the planter who was bit.
Kind of thing, I'm not quite sure.
It's just unfortunate because he actually had a bit more time to work with there like yeah, I can't
So I
Just want to display this out for you as well the timeline of this map so far or this half
I should say you've had Navi win the pistol Aurora win the force with like a crazy individual moment and then
Lose out the force. Yes to an individual moment, but I'm just talking about them at this point
Yeah, where it's like they cannot convert a simple around. I don't think given that you really deserve
to win this map. You know, you're not winning the rounds that you should and you have to
lean on and Tara is going crazy to get your only round this far in the second half. So
I think it keeps pointing towards it's a question we bring up every time right when you win
around is it replicable? No, you can't rely on that. I'm sure you can't expect the same
thing for bit but not only of one in other ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, not been the
I think you're absolutely spot
on. It's unconvincing. It is.
It's a nice way to put it in that
two for him. The peeking out
towards long there and effective
and the last one of Acadia. No
real chance and help. He's
loosely going to give us a look
in, but. I mean, he didn't
already know with inferno. We
like a lot of saves and I would
And he signs his own death warrant in a way the interview earlier on becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
Yeah, if I start to get into this one and indeed he struggled to get into it and
I think he's a key component at the moment soul fly doesn't have the punch
It can't lean on walks it as much as that orper. He's very inconsistent with his performances
Oh
Damn that is so nice from him. The first two are pretty clean, but that's a real statement shot
Yeah, it's it's tough man when you speak things like that you sometimes speak them into existence. Yeah
I
Think certainly has been the case. Oh
They have a small update. Just had word
that over on the other side that was nicely at the half Falcons have won
Vitality Wow, so they are beatable, but
Semifinal final quarter the both can still be in playoffs and the vitality may be saving straps for the big thing
We'll have to see what they're actually finally being figured out back to the game a hand here though
Not be looking to close out this map
It's been chased as immoral reclaimed the space gets one instantly dropped
So apartments and sauce on my gathered. That is a great need near perfect
It's entire still wants to stick around
Wants to be the hero again. He is bit jumping up
I believe as he turns around to take him down onto the AK looking for a few more fights
He's second time's been hit directly with you till they seem to have a bit of a homing missile on him at the moment
but
We'll survive with that AK living to fight another day
Jim Wikipedia
Up close round top car
What my car's a shot how about the second? Oh hitting me the knife in the first half the jump shot in panic in the second
twice
Counter-Strike gods are favored Macaulay, and it might be enough an RV to close this one out
Alexi will spam the smoke down goes soulfly and
Santar is he's been the only real lifeline for Aurora in their map pick
But it's not being enough while he's at a decent map
No one else has been there to support him and despite nursing an injured hand
He's had some nice moments, but this one versus three has surely got no legs behind it
He will have to go for the sake of dignity. The unbeatable boosted spot though as Alexi B will see it over the line. Super one sided stuff.
Again, not what we were expecting. We wanted competition here. We wanted it to be close and Aurora have not really delivered in that way.
This is their pick. This is their home map at the moment and it does not happen for them at all.
just boxed on it was just a non-starter unfortunately they can never really get into it you know it was
a little bit scrappy out the gates but Navi ran away with that first off and gave themselves
all the foundations required to see it off and he said it plenty of times about the map itself
Navi would never really made to work in this first map and who knows whether that's going to be the
case with the series because for Aurora that was so unconvincing that I'm worried that I could see
in towards this second map coming up in just a second, it will be Mirage.
And yes, we've seen good moments from Aurora at this tournament on this map,
but a lesser side of Houttu isn't exactly what they want to fall back on.
Narvi look clean and they'll their map pick up Mirage up next.
Times are looking bleep for Aurora.
But for now, we're going to throw this one to a break. We'll see you soon.
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Conceded what you're about to call an accident.
of the game.
last time these two teams met on it. This is a matchup that's gone back and forth quite a bit this year actually.
They have met a number of times, so I think maybe Nabi's starting to get a bit of the download
and ultimately the upper hand against them in pretty much every single matchup that they face this year,
but it's getting quietly more and more one-sided, you might argue, and this could potentially be the pinnacle of it.
of it, Mirage will tell us if that is going to be so.
Yeah, last time they met, it was 2-0, granted it was a very different kind of veto.
The last time they met on Mirage was back at the pro league finals, right?
And 13-7, RV. It's not exactly painting.
A pretty picture for Aurora.
And now the question for us with this side is,
ultimately in this space here and now,
a map down after a non-existent start in towards this series,
does Aurora have the capacity to take down RV?
That's the question we asked.
did they actually have the chops to be able to reverse sweep this sort of a series? It is a big ask, but with so much at stake.
Let's see if that's going to be the case. They're starting on the CT side here on Navi's pick of Mirage, but after a 13-4, it's safe to say that obviously the mental state is going to be a little dicey.
They need a pistol. They need a strong start just so they can alleviate some of this pressure.
Yeah, for sure. We talked about it quite a lot. They talked about it in their own interview, or at least what KD did for his own game.
They don't like starting slow. I think they like starting in front. They don't like playing from behind
Not that any team really would prefer it
But you know some teams are gonna be more capable than others. I think is what I'm saying and Aurora maybe
Falls into that latter category
Santares
Trained him for the first
Resets for another gets blinded off. He's still alive
But they are gonna be after him. Madge though is the one from short takes a second for the comms to even come in
He finds two and that feels like enough kills to start knocking this round together
He might gonna fall thinking he was hidden in the corner. It's gonna be bitten Alexi B. Alexi has a very slim
Oh, it's got a bomb down. I think he has missed him. Unfortunately and the maid
Certainly helps out Aurora to get the pistol over the line. I think playing a beautiful counter to what came at them
Yeah, it's a really nice start as well. I only the one casualty
We're pretty happy about that
really nice fight thing. Majors
two and to show in particular really,
really important because like you said,
I think the comms are a little closer.
So it takes them a while to turn around
that corner. The need onto Alexi,
but Majors was also fantastic.
It's a six points of HP.
That's what we want to see from Aurora.
Not only a good round, but getting fired up.
That's where they do their best work.
At this side, you can start really getting
lively, getting vocal.
That's what we feel like they've got a chance
We saw a really good map here from them against O2, right?
We know that they have the ability to look clean,
but so do Navier to my shot from my car, say,
he decided to open, but the bomb is so far away.
No, that is true. We'll see what they can do to hold on, if at all.
Trade there.
Sounds very strange.
Yeah, the bomb is even apprehensive to try and cross.
They'll recover both the guns.
Long arms there from Alexei.
Yeah, a little bit.
Bomb has been planted.
get the bomb down. Lexi looking to take another fight. Didn't quite get it. The eagle of wonderful,
trying to chime in. One in the apartment. Woxa kid's very low, so I mean, we'll see. This could
get dicey if one good clean kill goes the way, but I don't think it will. An innocent punch,
just going to be a bit too much. So they get the bomb plant. I think Navi, honestly, they don't
realize how good they have it. They just sort of turtle up a little and try and play the trades.
I will
Look towards Maja though. He's alone on B. He goes for a late move into the actual late ish into the apps
Very costly very risky and it was the first domino
They didn't knock the rest of them over but it was the first domino to winning that round for Navi
No, I agree
I guess, you know, you know V you're not really too upset about that a couple of kills in a bomb on in around that
That was not loads brought to the table. That was an eco to me
They don't go for the force that round and now they can have a nice
you know, we sometimes see
when you come in to run out of
this, the four by does require
somebody to pick up a ghillie
to have the full belt to you
too.
He's across the board.
That's nice to see.
Questions now.
What can they do?
Can they kickstart this campaign
on the T side and get back to
their winning ways that we saw
in Inferno where they looked so
calm, so collected.
We're going to dive on towards
A here.
Molly, you just singed the toes
of Soulfly, but he's able to get
one.
And with the support of Zantares,
they're shutting down this A move
this a move quite well yeah very clean so far
hoping that that continues for them I mean what an RV do here really so you
continue moving forward Zima he found the first as well hold on the second was
clear that first one I didn't even clock hold the phones what is going on it's
around here Emma I mean they could pull away they could go be
I think that's what they want to do. Bit is checking it out.
I'm really worried about Wacadia here. If he is to fall, being quite aggressive in the
way that he is, they can scale in towards B quite quickly.
But they're not going to give it to him. They're just baiting the fact that they could be going
B, spread to defence, and Bit will look to join them from mid.
And he finds a head while doing so.
So quick.
But it opens the door, doesn't it? It's like, is there anybody behind him?
They may be up short to be so fast off HP here as well. This is not like me
Of like has to find this and bits played this almost a perfection
I think the or my take him but no
Decadier on his uncomfortable gun. Mrs. The shot gets the Julie's out there a bit better for him
Into the one versus three overall down to two or back out
Looking to try and just get one more before he fully enters the threshold into the site not gonna happen and
really nice. It does really well. It's gonna follow it up. Wonderful. We'll open up proceedings.
Pass the parcel with this orb to be honest. Wonderful once a little bit more. Of course a
four spy for the CC side but this could be uncomfortable. Imma again with a sharp shot
from him. We'll find Zantara's Soulfly or four and we're down to two and MP9 and an orb.
8 of 2 versus 5. They haven't even done a point of damage yet.
We're KDA hidden away.
I can see him getting... 1, for sure. Maybe 2.
Ooh, the smoke went down perfectly for him. He just didn't... realize in time.
Just a 1 kill, Magi on the backside here with the MP9.
Does he want to hold this into the next round? Does he want to try and make some money, take some guns away?
It looks a bit funnier on their server side than it does on our Relay, but yeah, if that's
still the way it's done, I don't really know.
It's to be fair, moving into a new game and everything.
It's been a while since I've been in the admin side, but that doesn't really look worth looking
at.
He's just kind of dead, whereas it felt like Bit was like sat on top of him like, haha,
look at this, guys.
Yeah.
I mean, I've seen a few, I think sometimes we get like that like slight spectator on where it's the body's gonna fly up
Yeah, yeah, smoke's usually different in Go again, I don't think so, yeah
But, I don't know how the sausage is made anymore, you know, because I don't have to do it myself
Yeah, technologically illiterate, so
Either way, the hunt does net something, or likes the hunter, aggro exit is probably the
more apt way of putting it.
An upgrade on the MP9 but it's still a really nice round for a Norvee, nonetheless, tidings
up.
But the AK saved by Maja, but that's it.
Really decent position to put yourself in now.
My Jeff, I'm at AK, he's going to go searching and all net one but an immediate trade and unfortunately that AK is now dropped in a really unrecoverable spot and there's no support.
Yeah. I mean you have to try and create something with it really so I do understand that.
I kind of like when they move with the pack though.
No, it does feel a bit better. Sometimes you get like the saved AWP going off on its own trying to find an opening pick.
I think of a rifle though, like I like it where it's like the pistols draw the crosshairs away a bit of a human flashbang type thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're going alone like we need something miraculous to make this round a possibility and now that AK probably not going to be recovered unless they go for a late attempt to the retake towards what looks like it's going to be B coming through under and then they can scoop it up potentially but.
I can't see where Katie's dead to right, which he is.
The cars, they'll find him.
Now they start moving forward, and as we can see, absolutely no one's home.
Yeah, looks good.
I mean, as to be expected, no hiccups is what you want, really.
AK finds one and it's traded.
Fair.
But you just don't want to be losing any kills or guns if you can help it to these
pistols.
Is the AK still there?
I wonder if they get shuffled away.
I thought so, that it would still be here, but someone's come back. Someone's come back for it.
It was for a while. Somebody definitely came back for it.
Oh, no, no, no, no, it is. It is there. They've actually...
Huh?
They've got two of them.
Oh, yeah. Immersed. They've got Immersed. Okay, okay. So they've definitely done...
Yeah, for a second that confused me as well.
Oh, my God, I just got to vote.
Yeah, they're all good.
But they did not get rid of them.
Yeah.
But they did get a good read on the timing of like, let's make sure we deny the AKs away.
Yeah, it couldn't seem on the floor. I wasn't sure if it was like a brief window.
Yeah, this way it's like they'd like shuffle them up the stairs and throw one over or what not.
Either way, nice round to be getting.
Bro, for like half a second, I thought they just invented an AK out of thin air, to be honest.
Because we were looking for one AK and then suddenly they had two.
It's magic.
And they're donating for just a moment.
But yeah, they take the ones that potential away, which is going to be a good feeling.
and again. It's Navi in full control, guiding the proceedings here, straight out on towards
a smoke. It actually just gives it away. It wasn't necessarily a molly for down below.
So Fly does very well to find one. The classic break of the smoke, not quite working. The
person who broke it, Emma. Layton Kahn finds a pretty big kill, gains him a lot of room
now. But CT left open. Flank as well brewing. And you know, they'll think they've got
handle on this because bit is in palace. Bit was having a look.
Wikipedia trying to really take as much as he possibly can, and he will absolutely demolish
them there. Clean in on the ramp. Very well played.
In with the only one left. Takes a dink through the walls, so he's slightly healthier than
you might expect, but surely not long for this world.
Just take one with him at the moment. Could maybe get the bomb plant as there's a lot
I don't know that Woxic would necessarily want to peek into this.
The window is closing, Wokadia coming in from the side in just a moment here.
Woxic waits, and he just jumps in the air, gives it an easy one.
That always all down to Wokadia though, that flank, the timing on it's absolutely perfect,
and the trigger discipline as well to wait for a second player rotating,
Yeah, just dropping the bomb make sure you get both
I thought it was move alone would be enough, but they actually take a real age
To commit to moving forward and towards the A side like it felt like with where in his position was and with how quickly
He moved through con killed that guy in towards a rank at a front bench
And then taking jungle control that they could plant for essentially top corner and play around there
They just take so long with that kind of bomb the back of the car say it takes ages to move forward there
so unsure and that uncertainty and uncertainty is what costs them in the end.
Aurora by back, tie it up.
Guys, I smoke when there's someone's puffed up.
There's a bit more on offer here, it feels.
Again, we kind of, we spoke about this so much in that first map that I just never felt like none of you were made to work.
They are now being made to work for these rounds.
This is where Aurora can start hopefully opening up the bank a little bit to give us something in this map.
Crazy time I'll call as well. I have to respect that massively.
crazy isn't confusing just in the sense of like getting ahead of everything really proactive
which is what we often like to see but it does feel like a timeout that you might not
necessarily need so Blake trying to get really ahead of things and maybe it is going to work
for them here is that hitting out on towards a wox it though finds himself in the perfect
spot with Katie a chiming in they're just very very ready for this Katie you'll make
a quick move they've got to recover the bomb is the big thing for Navi there's some low
HP bars, but they will absolutely eat the nades.
Two HGs and the fire is the big thing.
They get stuck.
They get slowed in the fire on the ramp, which it feels like a lot of effort to get away from it.
Wonderful is the only one left.
So. Timeout's cool.
There was an idea there.
Go fast, get in the mixer.
Again, spacing, not quite good enough from Navi, allowing multi frags to come through.
Yeah, and then when things are to fall apart for Navi
Aurora just just dumped the entire kitchen sink at them right every bit of you till we've got
Throw it into war front. We know that we can split the pack here and cause even further issues. Yes. Fantastic work
That's silver lining is that the opal stay alive 30 seconds to save it so
Maybe presumptuous of me to say it will stay alive
You might have to fight for this and there's the first major drops. They now know for damn sure. He's not gonna be giving this round again
Yeah, but I don't think they want to go for it themselves. It's don't really have the the residual cash to fall back on it's a risk it like
Vocadia and walks even just one of them was to fall it's still gonna
Have a bit of a damper in the mood. Well, I think it still is to be honest with that. Yeah, kill from wonderful
To bring it down to two lost bonus is not being great to be trained, you know
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It still might be a little bit awkward, but at the same time, same thing will be here for Na'Vi.
Yeah, so in theory, a hopeful chance for Aurora to build some money.
We have seen efficacy on those four spies.
Maybe Na'Vi, think about it, but no, they are going to eco around the AWP.
your tiny bit of utility ball is what turns my crank, but other than that, you're not
expecting too much. Yeah. Nope. Okay, they'll get there. They'll get there. Oh, yeah. That
is a really nice shot from wonderful. Just the head to spot out there, but it's enough
for him. And there we go. The pistols doing what they need to do to facilitate that orb.
And you know the AWP is there, because he's saved.
Yeah.
What is around it?
There's an air of mystery in terms of the buy.
Have they forced?
Are they doing something slightly heavy, even like tech nines and light armor?
This is very much with that eco bouncing around.
Like you said, I think you kind of give it a call of like, they should be eco.
Yeah.
It's not a definite thing, and you might also slip in, they could be half bought, right?
hard to fully track the econ. They will be ready for this B hit coming their way. However,
wonderful. Keep swatting himself in. It's the rotations that you have to worry about.
Wonderful has done everything he absolutely can in this round. It might not be enough,
unfortunately, and Alexi B just gets taken down. I mean, fair play from wonderful. Again,
keeping their econ low with the three kills. But maybe if it was just a pistol kill in
there, that really would have been on for Nardi.
Yeah, it's really not a bad effort, by any means.
Now this should be...
The very least where, again, now for Rory can properly build upon this.
Because you can see, wonderful, because he said they're on prior, but then have you up there.
He only has a deagle and armor to work with, the rest of the team can buy as the eco of the previous.
The funds, the finances are a little weird for Navi.
I think we're wonderful looking quite sharp. It's gonna be a bit of a miss to not have him on the all
It's been pretty confident with it
Yeah, that is true, and it feels like especially so far in this series. He's been winning out by head to head against woxic
Woxic didn't offer up a lot to be completely honest into was that first one? It was basically only Zantara's
Now we're getting a little bit more especially from wokadia who we kind of critiques and spoke about
got his own head in towards map number one but he's looking a lot more comfortable here so far.
That's been honest for Aurora. You found round number nine. There's a sixth there. You probably
then break the economy as well of Na'Vi once again. So you should get a seventh behind it,
guaranteeing a lead on the CT side. Like you could very quickly at the tail end of this half
scale. So actually building up a really decent first half. So a fair decent under pressure on
the game. Good needs here.
Wonderful survives on just to
HP as they look to mount the
comeback into this be bomb site.
There is a boost up as always
effective. I think they just
have to play the patient's game
around said boost. Wonderful
knows that he has to take some
chance to see a given his low
HP and he will indeed finds
entire is that now starts to
I have to give it up. Navi will stay close to them. Really nice round. I love that boost,
even though it wasn't required. It might be something that they try and use a little
later down the line. Wonderful with his two HP will be far enough away that he's fine.
So he survives. That's a good round to take back. But you can see the start. Well, Kady
are getting one right early in towards that round. It feels like it puts you in a decent
spot but because his entry onto that B site is immaculate that swing from him is so unbelievably
good and one of we even this fine just gets a little fortune to catch Santora's tunnel visioning
to a different spot so we'll call for their first time out they know Navi are
even down their necks a little bit
very, very big round. You find
this here. You know, we kind of
spoke about them that previous
round was so important. They
lost it. Money's broken Aurora
can scale. Scripts kind of flipped
towards this round where it's the
opposite side of Rory. You lose
this round money broken and
Navi not only tie the game up,
but actually they should be
taking a lead and maybe even
for the half itself, which to do
that on the T side of Mirage is
pretty huge. Very, very back
come close even in the streakier portions for these teams.
So, all very costly, all very unsure, no round is like set in stone even though the buy is not great for Aurora.
Woxic gonna get aggressive, finds the opener onto Mikaze, a quick attempt at tracking him down.
They have actually looked to massively pick up the pace as they feel they've got good space on short,
but Woxic, too smart for them.
Santares will help out with a spam through.
Woxic misses a shot.
Doesn't go down to the nape, just about.
It's all going to be onto wonderful here.
One versus four.
And Woxic is the man that we watch,
but his teammates have done a very good job
of chiming in, working around his face.
Wonderful looks.
Very clean, but cannot get it done.
And a Q1 for Aurora, as you say, does go their way.
So really difficult to split these two teams right now.
Back and forth, back and forth.
Need the side really at the moment able to
get a proper stranglehold on momentum and run with it.
And he's making for some exciting CS, but for Woxig does so well.
That first hit in particular is really good to get,
but it's also such a good information gatherback.
How can God save me? He stays alive at the end there, I have no idea.
Should have fallen, but doesn't.
And how means that, Navi, have to come into the penultimate round of playing this off with
I've ever been walking one. It's a hero AK 4-bit
If you had armor, I'll be there my cars they utilize it here, but
We'll see what bit can do he's been a little quiet to start off this map though
Probably a little bit of a pasta parcel though he goes in first yeah, someone else takes it and well
It was getting exactly that bit might get boosted in here. Oh
Oh, oh my. Torres supported and they're after him in the one way or another.
Karzay gonna move quick, gets his hands onto the AK, lovely bit of movement here, it will
be heard.
Magalow, Magalow does just, I'll get the catch on him, he's quite lucky.
Looking decent himself, but again, team effort here.
Aurora's doing a very good job of just picking players off, working very well together here
on this CT side.
They will take that mathematical lead, still space for Narvi of course, to close as much
as they can, but Aurora are opening the door to map number three, potentially being needed.
Yeah, they are.
Already up to seven is great, if you can make an eight-four-half out of this, Aurora, you
put yourself in a good spot, seven to five, feels like a bit of a handshake concerning
this map being relatively well lent towards that CT side, feels like somewhat even meat
and ground. They're going really quick towards it and it's going to work. Oh, is it going to work?
Wacadia for two, soul flies, flash into us top mid is sublime and that gives him two easy fights
and he looks for more a little late bit there but Wacadia will net the third
and no matter what moment it's all on the shoulders of Emma and Bitt to bail out Narvi
in a 2v5 turn two versus four.
more. Can they pull off a miracle here? It'd be a hell of a thing, but feeling very unlikely.
Katie is 17 and 7. Yeah, he's going crazy. I mean, certainly felt it after the previous
map about that pep talk in between. And they're doing very well here. It's, well, yeah, just
looking much, much better.
Oh, Katie, uh, don't lose out.
Wondling in, but he's spotted him at.
That is the key thing they know about him.
Team A table to deal. It's all going to be on bit here.
Who may well have been heard running in.
Little elbow spotted, ought to cover the cross,
and he will indeed go down.
So, 8-4, feeling pretty damn good here, Aurora.
The energy definitely picked up,
and they are looking to keep this series going,
keep themselves alive here at IEM Rio.
We will catch you in a few, the culmination of Mirage.
This one is called a whisper, okay, but the truth don't let it go
You take your taste for it, it's like you take a cooler
We don't have it, what's the matter, what's the matter?
Did it in my body, baby?
Oh, I said my heart is going
Did it in my body, baby?
Oh, I said my heart is going
Did it in my body, baby?
I know what it's like to fall in love with you
I'm a baby, I'm a baby
Don't want no small talk, act like no small talk
Just wanna go down on the floor
Yeah, what you pay for is more than what you pay for
So we take the floor to A to F to skate up
I've got the waving and the fishing, they've got no place here
When you came for this one, when you came for this one
We're coming for one, one, one
I'm feeling my heart is beating
I don't know what is in my heart, it's beating
I'm feeling my heart is beating
I don't know what is in my heart, it's beating
I'm feeling my heart is beating
Oh, Aurora, they've laid down the gauntlet in that first half, 8 to 4.
Generally speaking, it feels like it should be enough.
They get a strong start towards the second half and we could be turning our attention
into discussions of a map 3 and in the game like this, let's be honest,
Harvey, I feel like it deserves this is such an important match with
elimination on the line, but qualifications of playoffs.
I love the side. Yeah, for sure.
I mean, definitely in terms of the stakes, it would be great.
I think Navi, though, would not want to let things reset again.
That does do is really interesting as well.
It's a map with both of these teams like at the moment.
That could be quite spicy.
be unconvinced by this navi mirage at the moment which is surprising because
they've looked around this map no it's true I think a big change up from aurora
is the key thing maybe now be feeling like they had enough of a download on
this team fall kazi with a big one through the smoke though to kick us off
here in the pistol the break that comes in little catches is there any headshots
but my car's a the answer is no but he's spot a lot of information to work with
of the very least. Meanwhile,
the CT control here from Aurora.
Certainly an interesting smoke.
I mean, it's pretty telegraphed, isn't it?
They're going to be behind it.
Yeah, they get their own CT smoke out
on the Navi end to like try and split them up.
Maybe. Yeah, doesn't really work
because we're catering in particular on the clock.
Goes crazy.
I think now we just needed to send it together in good time.
They don't land the head shots and a really big steal.
I think because they're finding the early kill and the information
Is is a lot right and it just doesn't even come close. That's it. I
Was a little worried about my job playing hot to the left and Simon smoke disappears
You just like a dead man walking, but it's fine
individual
Yeah, it's a right sunshine. Yeah get into it. We said this really early on what do you say?
He said after the pistol in the first round of this map, Wokse got really loud and he said that's what we want.
Get fired up. That's when Aurora play their best Counter-Strike.
We are seeing her now. Himmler spotted and now smoking his face.
He's under a lot of pressure and he's gaudling in this position.
It's Bit and Macarze though that will open up proceedings to a slight overface and look at the damage dealt towards Aurora.
remaining to 28 and 27 points of HP a piece and now on a two versus five surely
absolutely dead to right here and bit will make sure of it's all for the last
man with a Mac 10 and no chance of the one versus five so maybe closer a little
bit too much in this one they are a little bit overconfident they over face
and they pay the price not me they might be struggling a bit in this map but
They're still short. I mean just a complete con rush for the most part
I think with a little bit of a lurking presence on short or whatever like one player
Taking his time and really not be just playing the perfect setup to counter that
So as him is looking a little awkward the reason he doesn't put the smoke down is there's a scout on toll booth
Hmm, so I think he's a little bit like if I smoke this
my scout won't be able to see.
And so he's maybe thinking half way whatever,
and maybe someone even tells him to smoke here,
because initially it looked like he wanted to move away
and just leave the space open.
And it does end up working.
The scout hits two types,
and I think that's just where the whole panic came in,
and then the crunch from the rest of the guys in mid
while everyone's trying to focus on this scout.
So really well found.
A big one for Narvi.
And another forced by wind for them, by the way.
by the way. Yeah, exactly.
They're so consistent on them.
Just their mentality, their approach is really good.
We do get a force back on us once,
and Wacadia has slipped the net here.
Oh, hang on.
Easy to get double checked.
Thank God it does.
There was a real moment that could have been dicey.
Alexey, all fine.
Wacadia.
And now just three tech nines remaining.
One spoke to work with.
It looks like they're going to dive back in towards this B site.
That's the luck.
Two players here to beat them, one of which
the Mac 10 of Alexi, which could print a little bit of cash for the end of this round and
It's a decent spot to be and yes, the loss of the pistol is bad, but
if anything, the winner of the force by is even better and it gives you a bit more of a runway
to work with and we can of course see it here. I mean, deadly serious. Like if they
can't get bomb plants and things, I think Aurora could be in a really
dangerous position. Alexi be with a late jumping though.
So, does lose his life, Mikaze holding the line, drawing them in, trying to buy time for his teammates and he does very well to deny more kills and deny that bomb pan.
Right, even if he gets two and he goes down quick, there was probably a plant happening.
So, really, really well done. I think if they can just starve them out of the econ on that T side, it can be pretty hard to get those plants going.
Really good stuff from Navi here to continue this on, but it's difficult could come crumbling down probably not in this next round
But the one following
Please come out
Yeah smart there really is
So I throw around unfortunately here for Aurora
Obviously should be making this a two-round game getting up towards that seventh
around like this you want to make sure A there's not expensive for an RV and B also just denying
the plan just make life as difficult for Aurora as you can really constrict that
east side economy as much as you possibly can in terms of your influence and bombs will move
back over towards A leaving a lurking presence of Maja towards B to hopefully try and draw
rotations over there and speaking of
actually they're going to double back to
be I wonder what might just heard or
seen that is really drawn them back
quite immediately
yeah maybe just trying to keep them
guessing keep things confusing looking
to contact through the smoke here maybe
I'm not sure if he's going to
be able to move up. He's this.
Front anchor, which is kind of
interesting. You would maybe call
him the anchor, but he's very
much trying to settle Macaulay,
who seems more hosted in on the
site. If that makes sense. Yeah.
So Alexi, you'd maybe call the
anchor, but like, you know,
Macaulay is. The defensive
line. I don't know. It's a
the anchor might play more
Commonly, you know and the way we saw Madge who was like left on be and yeah
They really sent players up short and whatnot and Madge was sort of making the mistake of over-facing a lot on the other
Yeah, they're leaving big gaps, but you kind of get the other side here where Alexi's drawing attention and trying to
Give McCall's a favorable fight which has happened now a couple of times in a row
Like he's taking fights as they're swinging out focused on jail and focused on wherever Alexi's playing
That's working. This is gonna be a battle of reactions or a battle of patience
Who moves first generally speaking of a moves first should lose
Let's see who starts to get giddy to look for information wonderful
Slight movements from him do worry me. Hmm stay posted
Yeah, just try it, you know.
Bomb and weave as everyone is these days.
Feels like it should be Soulfly to go first, but I don't know.
Yeah, it's locked on this angle though, isn't it?
Yeah, and it does feel like an anti-push type.
Oh, here we go.
Whoever moves first, I think, will lose.
And it looks like that'll be Soulfly, and that is the case.
It's a battle of wits there. It's a battle of patience, then.
I'll win it out. There's the opener.
And in it, we'll get one behind it as well, with a KDF.
Yeah, Navi all of a sudden coming alive once the guns have come into play man
Wonderful with a massive reposition here, but still feeling
Very very confident for the open angle shot does miss
But he puts up the wall, you know, he says I am here you've got to get through me
Yeah, and that'll slow down this roll on towards the a bomb site
It's not gonna happen a flawless one from Navi and Aurora as I said starve them of the bomb plant starve them of a way in
of that confidence on this T side and just the small switch in your brain that's like,
okay, we can win. We can get rounds. How did we find out the one? How do we work off of it?
You're still banging your head against the wall here.
And although the score line is against them,
it feels like Narvi are the team that are winning this game.
Yeah, they're in control and they're starting to streak really well now.
They're starting to snowball in a position where she's getting really dangerous for Aurora.
No shocker that we see that second time I'll get called but unfortunately, it's a timeout called where
You feel that you can't really have that much effect behind it because there isn't gonna be a buyer here
That was another attempt to the buy which gets immediately shut down flawlessly by Navi. No plot behind it. I mean a
Horrible spot
Maybe got a bit of a gimmick in towards this round potentially Aurora but
generally speaking it feels like it should be a simple one to put to bed so
you're hoping that a large portion of that tax amount and getting fabric on the
mic is talking about this following gun run around on the 19 because you lose
that and then we actually are saying it's getting to do with high territory
yeah definitely bursting in here Aurora opting to go for a quicker route and
They've opened the path towards the palace to big break off that smoke.
It's going to stop the bomb going down, but it's getting a bit weird here in Conn.
MacAze keeps his head screwed on straight.
Some turrets find themselves the only one left, and there's still enough chaos going there.
I could see him finding a kill or two, but there's a lot of players to get through.
That was very, very dicey in the Conn.
MacAze does really well.
They deny that bomb plant. I think it's a huge deal here.
It's an interesting idea from Aurora. They've obviously gone deep into the strap book here with the
Jungle push con. Yeah plan
very
original and creative kind of strategy
Yeah, it's an orthodox for for sure. Maybe something to Nabi have seen because they're really adamant on breaking open
That smoke to try and deny the bomb plan
I like that as well for Macaulay to kind of take a few steps back and sort of invite them in to chase him.
Nine all. Tide game.
What? It's wonderful to have front proceedings.
You'll find the first one towards Woxic, who got stuck in towards Delpan and Sampares will fall to the hands of Macaulay.
So another double opener from Navi. Something that's happened a few times now on this CT side and it leaves Aurora reeling.
A five versus three, but they really don't have a lot of information to fall back on
and what these CT side setups are looking like in this round specifically.
They've got one minute to try and figure it out from a numbers advantage.
We're in trouble.
If they can't somehow salvage this round, especially if they don't get a plant as well,
only broken again with Narvin then on double digits, then probably the 11th.
At that point you've got, at this stretch there's actually one more gun round for Aurora
to play to stay alive in this tournament.
I think it's just over. I feel like I've seen enough to be honest like looks were checked out. Yeah, and it just Navi are
each which way
He'll it's a post just pulling them apart
Well a team damage. Yeah, that was the back of his head for sure
We'll be planted
Okay, do you just push forwards and you know, Navi you've got to be careful the jobs not finished and
could certainly slip through their fingers here. Two on two in the CT itself, Mikaze, clean trade,
but neither player wants to go in. They were trying to use the man advantage to threaten things,
and it's not happened. It's not happened at all. Mikaze here, one on two now, got a clutch up to
save them. He's got the information that he needs to work with. They line up for the double swing
as an idea works well for Aurora and they pull that one back from a five on three. Yeah.
Two quick opening kills that come through. It's wonderful. MacArthur combined to start this off
and then it crumbles. That's a tilted to lose for Narvi but credit to Aurora. We were worried that
they were checked out that they were already a bit of a lost cause. That's a huge recovery.
I mean, yeah, you speak about like checked out. I think that's maybe what Narvi have a little bit
you're like, okay, we've got the opening two nice rounds one, you know, it just wins itself from it.
Not the case, but they're still back. They're still not floated.
It gets aggressive in a similar vein to the previous round and yeah, again, finds an opener.
Kind of it did look like what walks cross it was on there, but
to be so
we're already in that first side to just take on over into those double digits.
It's a nice bit of breathing room to have or a bit of just a sigh of relief
because it looked like they were on track to really just fall in so unbelievably flat.
But it's another round, as it feels like it's happened so many times now
where Aurora have got to play from a numbers disadvantage.
And yes, it worked in that last round, but you can't rely on it.
Little flash, little miss from Zintara's.
to build up. It's going to be
the B split here. So fly
leading that short move does go
down. But Zintara is not
expected. It starts to reveal
itself. It's still just that
slim advantage and Lexi B
traces the outline of magic
and Tares. There is fire in the way.
It spreads to him, so all of a sudden,
and Tares has a newfound confidence, I would imagine.
He spotted one, was he seen, though,
is the question, and Bit has a little look, loses his head.
Wonderful on the AWP. Wonderful on the AWP.
Trained in and underneath the crosshair to take him down.
Another near-clutch, another close round, though,
as we hit double digits for both sides.
And another near-catastrophe for Navi as well.
That was so close to a pretty huge fumble in back to back rounds.
I think both sides will be appreciative of a timeout now.
Just need to take a beat, take a breather.
But in particular for Aurora, you come back into the buy.
But as we can see on that left-hand side, it's not exactly favourable.
Double-gallilas to come through with the Max 10.
It's the lesser buys that are there to alleviate the lack of utilities.
and Taurus can pick up a little bit with his AK.
We are getting down to the wire here.
Ten of Peas.
Always that one now.
It's just lingers in the back of your mind.
There's never been a consistent econ to fall back on for Aurora
for a long time now because they've been struggling with bomb plants.
and even with lost bonus it's tough and then even when they have one rounds they're still so expensive
every round is kills winning it you know i mean like if there haven't been any diffusers or any
close timeouts so they've had the bomb down but they've not necessarily built lost bonus with the bomb
or extra cash with the bomb i should say and i find an opener here though as i look to create that
that. And we're KD it takes
into his own hands again.
Player that is just begging
for a bit of support from the
rest of the. Boys here and
Zantara is close, but you know
they need a little bit more. I
think and close to loose them
to be fair. I'm trying to I'm
clutching at straws, but. A
key opener, none of the less
and Aurora looking to pivot
enough be just an eagle not Megs then misses the shot here and the third time
I'm asking sees him off Alexi fighting for his life and by the skin of his teeth
stays alive at one point of HP but he will get his kill before dropping he's
then seen off by an H.E. of Zantares to keep the numbers in favor of Aurora and
now with that bomb punched in I think you can RV you just save it they've got
I mean, HP bars go so low to be fair. They've got plenty of cash, and I think if maybe they had the open hand, but it was deep in the side, so that's really your only weapon that feels worth saving at that point.
that point. Um, I will mention
that comes down to a two on
it would have been unfortunat
that happened at 10 10 is
say the least. Yeah, you kn
And he was debating. He was
that. I think he should have
short. Yeah. Also a totally
It's like small things with the double scope, they actually really cost them because you can flick up in time.
But it's fine.
I'll point dwelling on the details.
Vantage Aurora, late.
In Navi's map pick.
Still not dead just yet.
Another moment where both sides are very appreciative to have...
a moment to take a breather yeah the rounds themselves are so punchy they're
so pacey that it feels like you just need a moment to relax and think what
actually just happened there and some very talkative coaches on both sides
as well which I think will really help you just take some pressure off your own
minds and the beauty is both these sides have a lot of voices in the teams
themselves they can kind of trade ideas and figure out what they want to do
Mid presence here for Navi. Kind of 20 seconds later than you usually would.
Or I mean while scaling up, gaining some ground. Not quite enough just yet. A lovely
nade. Resmoke of the window as well to go along with it.
A bit of a homie mess I was following him through. I think he couldn't escape.
I think it's fighting that instinct, is it?
It's going to go forward. Yeah, moving backwards is getting away from something.
Actually, in that case, he should have gone forwards. But even then, he might have walked
into a cross. Hang on. Hang on. Oh, wonderful. It's close. He was nearly, nearly out of his scope.
FOV there. Some tires will manage to take down that window player that he'd softened up earlier.
Wonderful has fully conceded the space, leaving bit on an island all by himself. So big sacrifice.
I wonder if he just goes back into the jungle position.
So panic for this guy, he's been doing a bit more, they've maybe opened him up more into
this year you might say.
Previous round misses a few shots and in this round he's potentially lost his bottle as
I think they wanted him in the jungle area.
And this looks very strange now.
They're taking a sweet time and I'm just starting to flank.
If OxyC falls, and I just find that useless, it's a little labored, he gets instantly traded,
but look at the time again on this diffuses, it's not a lot to work with.
Wonderful, he's got the kit, and I think he's got the time as well, it's going to be mighty
close, but he's going to do it.
Wonderful, what a round for him again, and there's been so much talk about him in this
side, he is making up for it in a massive way here, deep into Wars Map 2.
Might catch a bit of it here on the replay. I don't think because we don't have the sideline
Wonderful gets his kills. It was bit that had the kid
Wonderful as he's just moving in finding the kills. It's not intentional because it's not a lot of time picks up that kid
Yeah, he's just walked over it because his teammate died next to him
I'm so sure that it was it was bit that had the kid
At that moment. I mean that is that is just wild
That is wild because because bit goes down mm-hmm to
the flank and I was like rounds just over because that was the kick guy yeah
and they don't have time to like fumble and pick it up and you know all that but
it just fell perfectly for wonderful crazy yeah 11 apiece the game that keeps
on given what do we say we said we wanted just a map here of Mirage that
we can kind of sink our teeth into well they can't strike God's I've answered
We've got that handsome.
This map that potentially could be far from over.
11 apiece.
Remember, 8-4 at the half. It felt like it was all in a nice spot.
Then the pistol taken by Aurora, you go 9-4 up.
We're like, that's it, surely.
Maybe we are starting to talk about that map number three.
And then it's the force by one.
And a bit of form and consistency that comes through for Navi.
A good chain of rounds.
It really feels like despite the score line staying the same they've just constantly been
playing catch up in terms of momentum of this half specifically.
Wonderful looking to be forward facing here some very big rounds from him.
Oh he misses here he misses here it seems the harder ones it seems the ones under pressure
They were so confident in him. They left him alone because he's hearing good time
But he's taking a lot of damage because he's already gone in for a fight bit traded quickly
It's too on to though. They're still keeping the trades coming on this CT side
So somehow
They're competitive despite first kill
Going massively against them and the bomb plant just absolutely unstoppable
He's into the two versus two well XCB is gonna get a peak that comes its way in was right there for the trade
It's down to soul fly here. He will be spotted and that bomb is not planted for him
Top comes in and soul fly although panic will still get it done. Emma cannot confirm
What he's happening in this game the unlikeliest of rounds the unlikeliest of kills
Aurora are the first to hit 12
Yeah
Just a few
small moments there that cost RV in that round so fly cross-air train look
what it means to them look what it means that point and so fly will open up a
second forum as well sublime and so fly the clutch in the previous the opener
here in towards what potentially might be the last oh wow he's picked his moments
come alive as there's two left make that one it's all on the captain Alexi in a one versus four
and the five seven it's desperately trying to find something but it's not enough Aurora survive a
scare in that second half but the third map is required to see who is going to the arena.
Yeah absolutely crazy stuff here guys I mean wild. Navi with the comeback after the eight four and
And then they just go on this run after winning the fourth one on the CT side to take back control to feel like Aurora
We're just never gonna get anything else on the T side of things and then all of a sudden
Pandora's box opens man
Just absolute pandemonium every single round that you can think of and in each way we've got clutches
We've got crazy diffuses. We got just wild wild clutch moments, and it's so
unpredictable. Maybe things will continue on to map number three. It's that Dust2
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stop playing Dust again and Nuke they haven't won this year so it's been a bit of a ropey
one for Maus and that Mirage would certainly so.
Furia with wind in their sails with semi-finals on the horizon might just fly towards it unless
Maus play their best game yet here on Dust.
I think it's a great game on it versus Aurora yesterday, but like we said on map one, that
felt like it was an exception to the rule for Maus on Dust2.
This has been a very struggle, some map for them.
Since the changes you talk about and then having a take to it again, well, Fury are
They're very proficient here.
This could be weird.
Oh, he missed the smoke.
And Jimmy just punishes him walking in.
Oh, dear.
It's kind of ruined the whole pistol, hasn't it?
Yeah, in a way.
In every way.
What do you do now?
for Furia. This is a nail-biter of a pistol as they try and course-correct the 3B5. No
excuse, Miles. Add a miss-smoke in there and that threw the entire plan through a loop.
Nice. This one goes nowhere quickly for Furia. Molodoy had to die dropping down was his
best bet. I like that. It's a better idea than just going for the ram player who could just
run away. All the way. Just
forcing the death. And now's
taking the pistol. Okay,
reassuring and even more
reassuring. I think that
furious don't bomb plant
because we saw mouse win CT
pistol garage and then your
kinder happened double glill
entry winning out through your
force by going to get a scout
on for them. But for the most
part, this is eco. I do this
are in an orper on furia and they're not the same person true i'm not letting you
curb any me right now harry no i i'm not buying in
mouths aren't throwing this round i don't know i all right let's see
there's just something about it when he gets this gun in particular okay
with these positions though it would have to be a curb any
Type moment, fallen.
There he is, nailing it!
Not bad.
Hell of a pick up on his spinks.
Now's runaway.
Even a dink on a Jimmy softening him up.
Oh, the gun.
He's got it, he's got it.
Back up cat and their crunching middle together.
Oh no.
Oh, they're leaning B. Second player board over.
Sashen should have this. Smoke, can be disrespected.
Oh, another tag bird just cut down. As the crisis averted there for miles, no issues.
That was just a solo scout round. The real buy is coming now.
How does Molotoy have an AWP in round 3 with no bomb plants?
I find a way well now is here they all brattle off and they might be asking themselves the
same question glass cannon or for Molodoy torsion also has his oh
the
back to be here for furia. Yeah, you're in a bit of an odd spot because
I haven't really gone looking for any space and they've held on for a long time to all
of this util starting to dump it in now is the time runs lower. You've been re smoked
in it up a tunnels call one more smoke still at be in seconds is one up right now. This
This is a big problem.
We're going to have to go through one eventually.
Great flash, but oh, he sneaks in.
Oh my goodness, Kcerato.
That's very boring.
Recommits to his wild.
Had a chance to get out of there.
Now you play through the smoke in the tunnels.
It doesn't pan out for them.
And now you've got this glass cannon on Molodoy.
The only thing left in the clutch.
I know.
There should be no way he can win this.
Three players.
They can play to trade, aim punch plays into this as well.
Parmes a shot, three bullets.
Gonna be flawless, full molotoy.
And that first one, it's swinging a miss, iced out.
As Maus with the third, they collect that one.
But they have to serve it, oh my god.
I don't know how to play with them, yeah.
Cleanly done here for Maus.
Azurchen starting stronger on this map, 4-0.
It's a double kill there, doesn't let Molotov get out of control.
That was very scary.
Barely took a bullet there, close.
And as you said, during the round, goon or mouse to hold onto that utile.
Yeah, especially because, you know, even thinking back to Mirage moments ago,
the early calling from Fallen when they swapped halves was very, very pasty.
And if you remember like Mao's tried to go for the same type of thing in that first rifle round there
They they were light on the utile early
They were trying to hold on to it late round and they got dealt a really really pacey play out of furia
But here just anticipating it's a little bit slower. It comes with the territory of dust too
That's a no one used anything and that's walled they didn't really have a lot of information so
Nice early read and feel for how fury we're gonna approach that round
It's a solid first step of four hours on this CT side.
of
the
Oh, flashed into the orb but Toshi can't connect and now Coroner smokes.
Is there room to breathe in the middle?
I have to rotate Coroner and help out on A.
It feels like a fake but it's not.
They're coming through the mid-doors right now.
Many fires stumbling through sphinx, important double kill.
that climb is meant to be. It's only Jimmy in position.
You can do running at him through B.
Yeah, you got a pincer on Jimmy. Oh, no, your kinder with an important pickup
and Yuri's cut down exertion on his rotate.
This mid scrap sacrificing players to get past Spinks.
Let's Furia in a very good position. Bomb planted 2v2. Low HP on your Kindar, so you're looking at Molodoy.
Can't afford to get nothing done here. Kindar might be in the spot to try and clutch, but doesn't really have the facilities for it.
I'm going to take off this bomb, you kind of gets his now it's on to Molodoy back of
the site swings out wide and seals it with the clutch.
Great patience there for Molodoy doesn't move a muscle that's his teammate take all the
contact and now is just walking in but they don't have the time to walk forced to swing
into that last player and fury again on the board after an eco no less.
I was technized running out mid, despite a double kill from Spinks.
Barely issues in Cyclo and get on the mic.
Making sure mouths don't crumble because, you know, while this is...
Statistically a map they've been struggling on, it's also their most played.
Maybe in part due to teams picking it against them.
But in the last three months, a lot of experience, a lot of learning, a lot of losses, but
it's a chance to improve upon them.
They went on a seven loss streak to start this year.
When the exception of that win against Falcons to make it to the playoffs of Krakow, he had
to beat a truly top team.
I know we do have a few fans but I don't know. There's a lot standing around that goes on these days to be honest, you know, maybe 9 rounds have been min maxed a bit too far, but either way, it's good to see who gets the side choice and it is on the side of Aurora for us here, who of course have kept the dream alive, man, Superzoom.
of course, have kept the dream
alive, man. Super super close in
order to do so, but they do
manage to find themselves that
second map. So both teams
trading each other's picks and
we end up on the dust to here
to decide this one. A real keen
rivalry, I think therefore has
set itself up between these two
teams over the past couple of
months have met an awful lot.
Generally speaking, it has been
it's not common one, let's
say. Yeah. So interested to
see how it pans out here. Last
time they played on it back at
the pro league season 23
finals dust to. Taken by
Navi 13 to nine. So let's see.
Really good. Decided for both
of these sides. We caught Aurora
on this map. Yesterday or two
But it was a we kind of simultaneously in that maps for the best and the worst that I've ever
First off was fantastic. The second second one wasn't it? Yeah second off was a pretty woeful
So let's see run away and it's walks into open up proceedings as McCarsey will fall
But probably a few lessons learned from that one, you know
We got to be to major afterwards and he was like we were just sort of a bit of sleep and we felt good after the first half and just didn't
fully stay locked in as it were I think here against Navi it's gonna be quite
the opposite so maybe we can see them in the ascendancy with the recent map in
their favor actually find another clean showing here first killer's good things
slow down a bit Navi you're gonna go flying in try and work their way down
as a flash that makes life awkward so they've been fully spotted out here bit
from long oh fine both the kills he was the key moment and indeed he does
to go down three on three. Now
with very little control for
Aurora. They'll be corralled in
exactly where Navi want them.
And the headshots right around
the corner, but it depends who
for the Jules get involved here
bit on a USP. Alexi be up close
on the Glock as well looking
for a couple more and he's going
to get them. Then Alexi doing
all the work. What a huge round
to recover as well. Walks. It
that spot alone they are put into a really good position but the scaling towards shore is excellent
they've got to thank beer getting both of those kills out towards long is monumental
and turning this round on his head that's been so well up close
yeah you can see how much it means to them do you get that strong start
up. We'll get, oh, I'm gonna say we'll get a force. So trained on Alexi, the wonderful
swings in and nearly gets a tag off there. Straight out long though, where there's much
less of an Aurora defense being put up, they will have heard plenty of utility over here,
so I'm sure we'll give it a bit of a look. They're ready and raring. The header comes
all the hair of this you'll hear all of this two forum is wakadia as well is also here
as the bomb will get planted wakadia is now a known quantity on that flank so i'm out
of a small window but small as the operative word as he'll fall and that'll be that nothing
wakadia can do here from one versus three may have won that the rights which he does
Macauze just quick switches onto the knife that'll cost him his life.
But it will not alter where this round's going to go.
It's not if you take a second and being that a failed force,
the third should be found pretty simply.
They've only got one thing to fall back on.
That saved Galil in the next round.
I don't think they'll be buying around it.
And that's it as well. He doesn't have armour.
Yeah.
So it's like, does he want to spend the cash?
Not sure.
Maybe.
Maybe with the kill and everything, right?
Just give yourself a little bit of a try as chance.
otherwise the the glills not really gonna do anything for you but Navi starting strong Navi
looking to try and bounce back after the previous map some wild moments for both sides to be fair
but they are the ones that picked the post so yeah just looking clean slate right headspace and get
get this dust two rolling. Get an MP9 out for Tantara's small amount of use on the CT side.
This is a little bit of firepower around. That saved Giliobo, so it's going to be a very difficult
round for them to convert. And once again, looks like they want to look in that direction of A,
but everyone is here from Aurora.
The gamble stack in the A site might just be the right call.
All leading the charge here does indeed find the entry.
It will be pretty far ahead.
Flash has come in.
I mean, you've got to be spinning around to find these kills.
So fly does a decent job of it.
And there is Walksick with that galil bomb dropped,
to get the ball to the left
of the left. Making things very
very competitive. It's messy
even if they do win it. Already
a bit too messy for my money,
so. Rora staying in the
conversation for every single
round bombs still not picked up
this year. We're trying to
clear each and every angle.
Find the heads that may be
over facing. Got one so far.
Got another. Looks clean to
bail them out. Magic will be
something that Aurora have been doing quite a lot of very much enjoying the immediate okay. I'm out of there
I'm going long. I'm getting the catch and now you can see he's doing the same thing but in reverse
To just get the catch off Emma
Saving the round clutching the round now
And he get it done
Magic on the MP9. It's not the weapon that he wants head spotted on both sides
He hides in my repositions to take him down, and a really big round from him.
Yeah, it battles them out.
They were looking really uncomfortable there.
So a nice work from him.
It's still very expensive considering, pretty lack of investments, to be perfectly honest with Aurora.
That's a silver lining in a bad spot.
Yes, you lose a round, but four to five kills is not fired by any means.
only an MP9 brought in towards that round a little bit of U2 on top of that save
Khalil.
Hit the argument that advantage is towards Aurora here, firepower wise at the
very least. Fourth round. There should be the open play for Wox, that could be
huge, Alexi's had to get back in towards a Mach 10.
Flash towards Short, gonna get the info over there.
because they actually on the edge of the Molotov looking to try and find the heads and tires nearly gives it to him
Cinge of the toes will give his position away
Takes a bullet or two and looks to back off
So more of a beeline here. I think it's safe to say that bombers
Maybe as close to be as and as far away from a as you could possibly get
So I think that gives the game away for you
mid-split coming in there ahead of the smoke though beautiful timing from Alexi B to find that kill now they have to fight back in towards mid
But Alexi B's getting all done by himself. He will be traded the teammates
nearly failing to bail him out and
Leave it was Woxxxorp that just gets one on the edge maybe boosted maybe
Well, perhaps just a spam through but all the same into two versus two very doable retake here. Oh
That might change things
How all our major?
does have a kit
And they'll know wonderful is tagged. He may not know how much
Bye, but I know he's taking a shot
But do I make a difference wonderful sees it off
It's a small
small gap from to work of in tours window
The huge round to take again for Nardi to keep things ticking on this T side
I'll actually does so unbelievably well. He's first to a fantastic
It's a slight gap in the smoke by a bit.
Beautiful work, quite an aggressive post plant.
It feels quite a bit of a necessity as well.
In that 2 vs 2 they've got to gain information on where they're coming from.
It's a nice work.
Back into it.
Bit of a half bite for Aurora.
You've got to rifle out for Wikipedia.
But aside from that, 3MP9 is in the scalp.
Yeah, I quite like it that they're still able to put some presence here and you know working it down the middle with the
mp9 so I think we know how
Busted this gun can be in the right hand. So Laura having come close in a lot of rounds
Even the lower by ones
To do that again
Difficult spray at range. I mean because it doesn't take much damage. That's not one died there. I know it's it's very
I think a lot of damage maybe through like the edge of the box type thing on the
Sandbags or whatever it is rice. I think did we find out yeah way
The kills do start rolling in for Nabi
Cause a blinded it stays alive. That's it seems to be pretty proficient on this MP9. Oh
You're saying gets two more, but there was around, you know, who's finding them a range a couple rounds ago
I don't think it's gonna happen. Unfortunately, but I mean he keeps the damage coming on this MP9, man
very close to another kill that not going to happen five in a row for Navi and Aurora really
There's some closer moments, but just nothing convincing enough. They're always on the back foot
They're always looking for a clutch. They're always looking for a flank that goes unseen
And they're not on the board just yet. So they can't be playing like that the entire half it exactly
So they will call for their first time out
It's Fabio will
get into a bit of the depth now with this Aurora side kind of probably putting a
lot of onus on them saying time is really running out and we cannot afford
to fall flat in towards this next gun now we've got a real idea and we are
seeing some quite quick rounds and that might be the sort of counter for
Aurora fight fire with fire try and take a bit of space off from them be
proactive as we like to call it
How does things change? Back into a 4x. Making it pretty close on the lower investment, so
you're soon as the chance here. The flash is good, but a flash in response will force
wonderful off that angle, and on control completely taken by Aurora in the early part of this
round.
Karzee, always looking for this first pick up towards Shaw. He's always close to the
molleys he quite likes that idea. Maybe got his settings perfected for playing around the fire
where not a lot of players do. Unless there'll be more of a late long hit which is curious not
all that common but I think now I'll be after the timeout feeling that they need to keep things
It's fresh. Yeah. Fake out in mid here. It will pull one away from long, but there's
still all magic. It's just thrown a smoke. I think they know where that's come from.
It still doesn't matter. Such a great angle and just like one that you don't necessarily
get much practice against. Centauras finds another that starts to hammer it home. Just
just double checking. It's right. I'm sorry. It's just a wall. I'm looking at laughing.
Just the wall! I think he saw like a barrel.
He either saw a barrel, or were Katie was like, I'm hitting something.
It's like, it's the wall, man!
It's laughing at each other.
Shooting shadows.
Going crazy.
Him and shooting heads. That is a real long-range shot.
He taps away to find Maja.
They've got a little bit of room here.
They've got a small, small window for the dive-through shot.
It is fantastic, but Katie does not want to give them anything.
I'll do like what he was saying.
Also Chorus is like, I'm not that man.
Like I really thought someone was there like, it's like you.
It's pretty funny.
It's kind of like the Scooby-Doo movie where they like.
Going for the doors.
Yeah.
And then they're like, get it off me or whatever.
You know, and it's like, there's nothing.
There's nothing on.
Yeah. Relax.
You're good.
Chill out.
But no, I do, I like the idea that it's Acadia.
And she's like, someone, I'm pumping in someone on the smoke.
Kill him.
There's no one there.
It's like now, bro, you're all good.
out towards B. Oh, soul flight.
Shaky from him. He'll fall to the max.
Tell him to drive by and speak another drive by.
Alexi, you'll have one of his own as Bit delivers on towards Maja.
Wikipedia is the last line of defense and there's too many fights to be had.
Like a deer in headlight, didn't know where to look.
And it's all up to Woxic and let's be frank,
in a one versus four, he's not going to give this one a look in.
It takes it, frags, at the very most,
as Navi bite back instant response
off the first bit of success for Aurora. That's a great way to go about it.
Right, so we've got a guy playing car, also known as Closet, over on B. Kind of the perfect
spot to stop rushes. He dies pretty much instantly. There's a guy with an instant flank. He's
being watched over a long. He dies instantly. There's a guy in the lower tunnels who is
being watched for. He dies instantly. So every single advantageous little moment and spot
for Aurora, just gets completely flattened by a low buy.
So, Navi are really playing very well,
and I think up to the peak of their individual game, in fact.
And you hate to sort of single them out,
but I just think Salfi's got to do so much better here.
Oh, yeah, that's like a...
They're on the rush.
I will give it, there's maybe not a guy like playing Window with him.
Yeah. Right away.
It helps if you have a distraction or a flash to come over.
But that's like a double kill spot,
because everyone's got to readjust their crosshair,
because there's a metal pillar in the way of the car.
It's like the most annoying spot on this map,
I think, for a lot of pros.
No, I agree.
I just feel like you've got to be getting at the very least one
and then get traded, but then maybe
buy time for the rotation to come through.
He just gets nothing.
Just gets complete.
Did not even get one.
I thought he got one.
He just gets run down by a Mach 10.
So.
That does stink.
Yeah.
Cars, they just flies in with that Mach 10.
Yeah, wow.
at the same exact time as our Lexi swings on towards Antares of the Tech 9,
catching that late kind of tunnels rotate coming through.
Because I saw this kill on the minimap that was like just in front of tunnels as they were entering.
And I suppose my brain clocked that that was surely the guy playing in a closet.
So that's crazy, he doesn't even get one.
I don't even know what happened, he just gets, you know, cross-a-codes,
skewered all over the place.
Na'Vi, the very fast start in towards this T-side, and already up to six is fantastic.
Any more they find from here on out is just a cherry on top of what is, look like a really,
really good first half under the side-up.
For those who are maybe only joining us kind of late through this series, we've been talking
about just how important this game is, lose and you are eliminated, win and you go to
play-offs and this is...
Yeah, there you go.
This is looking like...
My friend, he is.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Boost me, boost me.
Not now, boost me.
There's a roof in the way.
Yeah.
It's all right, rather than the end.
Orphan or it might be the case.
I just, it kind of just goes to show that I feel Aurora like the fatigue factor maybe
is coming into play.
It's just so very rough and I don't really know what to make of it, to be honest.
This is, I think, you know, both of these sides have played series, you know, already today.
No, that is true.
Yeah, Maus, I got Aurora.
I'll be with the bigger break.
Like, how do you want to break it down?
You know, like, who do you want to give?
They might have even played at the same time, actually.
Yeah. I guess Narvys was a little bit more by the book, a little bit more easy, you know,
against Ho2, where on the flip side, of course,
Ferrari was that defeat to Maus.
This is a bit better with Cadia, so I'm flying for one.
He's spoke about him in that previous round not doing enough.
Surely now it is.
Well, maybe not enough. No, it won't, but Bit is gonna deliver.
Now that bomb can come down. No play up towards the car himself.
And he'll hit another shot.
Whoa!
And Santor is all four and Macauze re-aggresses.
That is a huge, huge round to take for an RV.
Number disadvantage, they're struggling to even get in towards the site to plant.
And it's the 1,000 yard stair of Woxic, which sums up Aurora right now.
That is a horrible round to squander.
Hey, it's absolutely perfect for a bit, though.
Yeah.
I don't think the kills get any better than that.
It doesn't even take a lot of damage on all three.
It's insane from him.
Two versus four, and they're diving out towards B.
Yeah, B as well, you know.
like just so hard to go into that bottom side of the deficit.
They're angry here, Aurora.
Some full-on faces for sure, but at least
they are keeping to their game plan,
getting aggressive here, trying to force out a lower by round.
It does come close in places, but unfortunately,
I don't think it's going to happen.
Thatcher does find himself tucked in the corner.
They'll check for it.
I mean, Navi, yeah, they just can't put a foot wrong at the moment.
that. Every decision they make
is working there in that flow
state. And even right down to
this, the flank holding the
flank is just perfect. It isn't
a great round. He was on the
pressure. This first two kills
like he's getting run up by the
MP 90 delivers in both instances.
It's a bit weird on the Aurora
side. I'm reading that there's
just a lot of like acceptance
almost that these rounds are
You know, there needs to be a little bit more get up and go perhaps
That's why the timeout comes in here that yeah, you're going into a buy, but I think this is more of a
Vibe change
Yeah within the team
And I feel like this timeout might even be a bit of a vibe check like guys come on like I
Know this frustration is gonna creep in and I know there's a bit of tilt, but
It we it's do or die this is essentially a best of one broad to see who goes to playoffs
No time to get rejected
we have to find the second wind bring us back into wars this map
Navi are just reading them like a book in the moment and they are making it so
simple it's looking a lot more akin to what we got in Inferno and granted that
was such a long time ago now especially in the scope of the series but I think
life's so horrible for Aurora and in a similar vein maybe some closer rounds
rounds but it does feel like Navi have got every little advantage. Waxix is so
unfortunate to get the leg and then he goes through the flames takes so much
damage and is the first to fall from a car safe. I mean I like the idea he
called it confidence I think it could stage like this be a bit of blind
frustration. I think that he hit a tag and then he goes in again so I
think it's just even more annoying this I'm trying to get this first kill it's
It's just not happening.
So there's a lot of moments where they might put it down
to like, look, like, how is that not a kill?
How have I not found success there?
But like, Navi are just doing whatever they want.
It's just working.
I think that previous round screams to me
that they're frustrated and it's seeped in
towards the gun round here.
I think you're spot on.
I think there's these overfaces that come through
of just, you know, pure annoyance.
But they can see in real time,
Their playoff chances are slipping through the fingers.
Wonderful holding.
Just in case a pit player goes for a late look.
I mean, he's got the right idea.
Little does he know.
Oh, yeah, Molotov forced a soft fly off.
Nowhere he was surviving.
The flash is fantastic.
Himmer looked down.
Who left?
Okay, he doesn't even.
Oh my God.
I think I might have shown up on the minimap a little bit,
like while he was halfway blind.
They probably got combed over, like, hey, you saw him.
Yeah, yeah.
Great round though, again.
It's just they're using Aurora's tendencies against them.
They speak like the, the frustrations.
We kind of saw this fall on faces.
They're quite the jester at the moment.
Aurora, because of how poorly he thinks he's going.
But again, you would kind of get a bit annoyed,
because some of these rounds have been so annoyingly close,
or squandered, like that two versus four, for example.
You are going to get a bit tilted,
these rounds and this is the worst possible time for it. A leg on towards Antares on the cross.
It's a four spot here in the penultimate of the play, but
you lose this. We could very, very much be looking at 11.5 and surely there's no chance of
recovering even if it does go to 9-3. I don't know if there's any chance of recovering.
Yeah, yeah, for sure, it does seem that way, but we like to keep things unbiased as not to be accused of anything but Woxic
trained in for the headshot doesn't quite happen for me. Just get to survive.
Just get to trade off. It's like they've taken the site, but I'm keeping long here.
Are they going to be able to get the retake going themselves? A smoke to maybe create some space, but
also could just work for the T side. Honestly, wonderful.
you know, you're going to be
going to be able to get to the
top of the level. Looking to
take the fight to the all better
than the scout. Of course, he
will not to and the hold in
towards short is effective. Not
going to happen. They are just
still throwing themselves out.
You know what I mean? Like
we're Katie are really trying
as best, but it's just not
getting off the ground in any
of these rounds now, man. You
know, forced by can be a bit
man and get an opening kit that is just not happening. Navi aren't losing any good fights right now.
They are not struggling. It's the last round of play in this half. Double digits already secured
by Navi on this C side. Unfortunately it's just been non-existent. And as Antares to open up a
seeding, Salfi can be tested. They're diving on through. He will get one. Make that two for him.
Running low on ammo. I only got two bullets left in the MP9.
He's desperately spamming E and hoping that he can scoop up some sort of upgrade.
He can't find it. Might have to opt for the reload. There it is. Now finally gets the AK.
Two versus five. Surely an unsquanderable round.
There you go. That's a word for you.
And he...
I'm bad to your dictionaries.
I don't know if you were so serious about the words, man.
I was gonna say like any crossword my power is out there
He just didn't realize it that gave him crazy points on Scrabble. Yeah
What's it countdown that's all I'm thinking about down a bit of a British coded show
Yeah, I guess I even a shot outside of the UK probably not. I don't know that any other country in the world would watch that
It's like half past four
Daytime TV.
Pensioner, you know, like, nothing happens, so what does that word mean?
And then there's like a lady in the corner with a dictionary, it's like, invented in
15, this is weird, you know.
And then you've got that one maths round.
Yep, yep.
I don't think...
There's a very select few people that enjoy that show, truly, but it is just so British
coded.
You know, it's very much like, oh, I've just put the kettle on for a tea.
That's it.
So I'm just going to go into that, I'm going to watch a countdown.
Oh!
Wonderful.
Nice shot.
off. There might be legs behind it. I speak too soon. Closed out, so a small sigh of relief,
but this is a very tall task to get back in towards the scheme. 10-2 at the half. We'll catch you off the break.
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they are going to lock themselves into that playoff spot. And I think, rightfully so, with the 10 to half in their favor,
Rora just really not getting in the conversation. Maybe the T side gives them the ability to direct the game as we like to take as a narrative between now and I, but unfortunately, I don't think it's going to be the case here.
maybe the steepest uphill battle you can possibly imagine, even if it was a 12-0, the difference really is negligible at a scoreline like this.
You've got some breathing room, but the pistol is still a must.
Yeah.
In a weird way, we don't normally say it too often, but pistol does feel like it is still a die, really.
You can lose a pistol, and all of you up to 11, especially if you don't get a bomb plant behind it as well for Aurora.
you're probably stuck in towards an awkward spot like for spying out the rest of the rounds and never having a
Proper set full by unless you want to play for OT, but whoever wants to play for OT
There's sort of now or never all this Aurora side
Very tentative as they move up towards a but in comes the flash and that'll send them on forward
three players here to meet them.
Oh, lovely little touchdown flash there
to just push these players away.
The bomb is not necessarily committed in.
They've tried to reposition towards middle here.
Oh, it's going to find three.
No. Oh, my goodness.
Magic, the only one left.
He's going to put his grace.
I don't know.
That is the most insane overcookers we like to say.
I think you just go, hey, man.
Yeah, they, two flashes to send you in towards A and then Soulfly gets a kill, just commit with him.
I think it was three in the end, I think it was like two and then someone came
back on that corner to throw like a little, little touchdown flash.
Yeah, um, Soulfly under on Dora. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
As he dived in towards CT and he was kind of, kind of popping himself out of long,
but like even still, like you've done, you put so much into that and yeah, I think you should put it.
Just get the pistol, like the pistol doesn't have to be advanced.
Oh, it's gonna, it's gonna work.
Quad kill for bit.
And that's that. You can see the dejection over there, but what a round from him.
Three quick kills with the Duallys in towards him, and the fourth just to seal the deal with a cherry on top.
I mean, they just make it too easy. Don't swing together properly.
Oh, so easy. 11 for Navi. And like we said, this is kind of the only decision you've got here, really, Aurora.
Just forced by out the rest of the rounds and hope for the best.
contacting up middle here to give it one last go it feels like we'll be given a lot of room
no early fights no risky moves from navi which you might expect a scoreline like this they will
look to play it conventionally and with a lot of respect.
Images gave away his smoke which obviously would be nice in a spot like this to slow down the short
part but now he's just gonna have to fight. He's got no utility for this to be flashed into these
engagements and the first is good. Molly down front site, no plant for you unless you swing
this Goose player. It's a risk in itself. The Deagle connects for one. The scout will see it
off as a location officer. Finds one with the Mach 10 but he needed more and he doesn't get it.
Magic trying to deliver with that tech nine
How about a second? Oh my god, it's not exactly a bad effort, but a one versus two for what's taking the Scout?
It's not gonna happen and that was your moment unfortunately, but again, they settle very very well
And I think Navi just realizing it's like let's not give any fights. Let's not give any early kills drawn back pulled away and
playing very very well
In the end there were some moments, you know the Mac 10 also found Alexi like immediately
He was coming in as the support of Emma and he just gets slammed
So, you know there were a couple moments, but again, Navi it's similar to the first half already
Just can't put foot wrong man like they're always
Able to find the winning moment and you can see how I'm kind of bleep the the picture is here
It's as we hit the 12 to score line
We've seen the first player from Aurora go into double-digit kills like we've just then got wakadia up to his 10th
That's as good as it gets
We look at the flip side and it's
everyone bar lexie
How did it?
But how did Emma ever get that man? She pushed up short, but no no there was a guy she looked where this guy is
He must have come lower tunnels and they just not like checked each other at all and you see wakadia fully catches off
off. Oh, he defends. Okay. All
right. There you go. He gets
himself a highlight moment.
I'm not dead just yet. But
yeah, there was I think Emma
comes through lower tunnels.
Maybe look short, but they
missed each other. They
definitely missed each other.
There we go. That's a second
time where we can talk about our
new found phrase of the hair
effect. Yes, you get to you'll
be hearing that one for years,
guys. Yeah, we've been looking
just letting know for a phrase
mayo and script started it.
Yeah, okay. All right, we heard
it from a producer. Yeah, but we do want to give him a
grandast of it. You know, yeah, we we're getting it out into the
world. Yeah, give it a year and I'm claiming I invented it.
Just fully
air effect, though, is you know, when you get to that finish
line, but yeah, maybe take your foot off the gas a little bit,
get a little bit too comfortable, overconfident, however you
want to put it. I feel like when we're doing, you know, tattoo
games or whatever, we see it all the time, maybe every time.
It's insane. You know, one in 100 games, it just doesn't. Yeah,
Uh, it doesn't happen and they close out cleanly and it might be worth something, you know, just get the notepad out, get the tallies out and see if it's, uh, the case at the top level as well.
Yeah, that slight mental check out or thinking, yeah, I'd stand it, especially on a scoreline like this. Yeah, maybe you test one of the riskier angles or riskier flashes that you might have.
Yeah, because you know that ultimately like their chance of them getting back in towards this game is all but zero.
Alexi, what have you got for us? One. Not quite the second.
Information gather on towards Antares, but I've just fallen to wonderful on the Scout.
Surely we're not losing to this round. Surely not.
Bit. Backside on towards the round. Scout will fall. Bit needs something a bit more active.
But will they expect the second player to lose? They are going to clear him thankfully as in the fall.
So there was a brief moment there. A little window. My car's a-tapping away,
but he just can't line up the heads.
Sire reliefs are still alive for Aurora,
but it was a moment that I could have fallen flat.
Yeah, even in like the lost round,
I don't want to say the losing round,
there's never really been any of them.
But even in the lost round, Navier there,
Navier have presence.
But we are going to be going for a little longer here.
I think, again, the chance of the gap closes all too likely.
Aurora, with the consolation rounds, feels slightly better about themselves, there's no future tournament to come, no future map to come.
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, there's a lot of them here, there is a lot of them here.
Oh my goodness, McCarthy with the eagle coming in from behind us.
WOOOOO!
OH IT'S HAPPENING!
How would they want it like that? I just, I don't believe that, I mean, that sums it up to absolute perfection,
the aurora just did not know where the winds were coming from and they were a total shadow
of themselves on that third map. Insane, absolutely insane. Navi playing a great game there and
you know, when they're on form. It's a very scary side. So yes, there's a conversation
on the high level. We saw Falcons beat out by Taliti where we went streak ended and all
this, but Navi, I think there could be a dark horse-ish given the form of this team at the
moment.
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, just insult to injury, rubbing salt in the wound, however
you want to put it, losing to a full eco. It was one deagle of four USPs. That is such
a poor round to lose. But it's also a really kind of horse series from Aurora. You actually
kind of zoom out a little bit.
Oh, yeah.
Map number one, they got destroyed. And then the same thing happens towards map number
They have a close map to Sean. There's something in terms of stock take away from that. But in the more macro side of that series, there is a lot more to want from Aurora.
They go out of a whimper, right? That's really awful. They would have wanted in their mind that early goal for Rio get to playoffs and then let's see what we can do from there on out.
And they can't even tick off the first box.
first box. I think the average game from Navi throughout the series is a lot better. Yes,
they lose a map and it does come very, very close. I think there are a lot of mistakes
made and we'll definitely, you know, get the opportunity to ask about it a little bit.
But I think Aurora of like giving it their all onto map number two, they really had to
bring their level up and perhaps just stressing themselves out and a lot more energy than
they were maybe wanting to expend or expecting. And it just leads to some indecisiveness and
some very, um, messy rounds on map one, but into map three, like it was just insane. Every
single round had Navi written all over it. And then maybe Aurora were able to, you know,
find an individual that had a flank or the, uh, lucky missing the smoke or something
along those lines, right? But, um, I don't think it was a single round where you were
like, okay, Aurora, great. Five versus three, five versus two. There may have been one of
them if, you know, people want to correct me out there, but it just didn't feel that
way throughout. No, no, yeah, I think you're absolutely spot on. Really, really well done
by Navi. And I think what you were kind of talking about, like I would consider this
side one of the major dark horses for this tournament. Obviously, you've got a Falcon
side that looking very scary. You've also got Fury and home soil that you can never
discount. And that could be really, really interesting too. But Navi quietly cooking,
and it's actually, you know, so far a really decent tournament or things like that. Yes,
they lose to Fury. They still take a map off them. And at the Fury side, that of course
have a lot more stake with them specifically on home soil with this tournament, but also a side that also are really scary.
So I'm really interested to see how they kind of pan out.
I'm liking what I see from Navi because he's looking so sharp, like he's relentless on those seasides.
Bit was brilliant as well, especially kind of in kind of the brief window that we got on the towards that CT side.
Wonderful looking, quite clean.
Of course, he's been a real point of contention with his Navi side, but I thought he had some really good moments.
in the end, you know, fantastic work from Navi all the way back, even from this first map, it was just such a dominant display in this 13 to 4. And I mean, I was hating the picture for the series, really. Yeah, no, 100%. 100%. And it's a little bit of a shame to see Aurora capitulating such a fashion. But I think that at the end of the day, the Navi team is just that more complete package and Aurora are lacking some of the punch that they had towards like the start of the game.
last year, but once in a while we do get to see it. You know what I mean? Like they make a final
and you know they're able to maybe use the bracket in their favor
pro league, but ultimately it doesn't happen for them here in Rio. We do have an interview ready
with Alexi, I believe, so very much looking forward to again to pick his brains. Yes,
thank you very much for joining us. Congrats on the win. Congrats on a really clean finish there as
Well, talk me through this Aurora match-up for you guys.
Obviously a team you've met quite a lot in the past couple of months, it's safe to say.
So what do you make of them in general? What do you make of them in this series?
First of all, thank you. Second, I think that there's just something that we have against them.
Maybe it's mental that I feel like when we win an important round, they might feel twice the
pressure. Maybe they understand that it happened too many times that they lost against us and
they're getting super frustrated about losing important rounds. So I think we are just kind of
steaming on the momentum and for them it's very hard to come back into the game. At least it feels
like that from my perspective but who knows. Talking about Mirage as well, like such a close map
obviously there was a very very near kind of comeback as well right down to the wire but what
What were the feelings as that map was progressing of Mirage, very back and forth?
I felt like neither side really got momentum for a long, long time.
But then also to follow that, what was the talk like in between Mirage and Dust2?
Because it looked like we got a completely different Navi in towards that beside her.
Yeah, I think we played maybe a tad bit too fast on Mirage T side.
The game was 3-3, I believe, and we kind of played super fast rounds,
And they ended up having the right stack, I believe.
They played 4-8 two times when we went there and completely shut us down.
They were not overthinking.
I think they just sent four players there at the start,
and they just thought that we're going to hit the side, and they were correct.
So looking back into the T side,
I would have wished that we played a bit more slowly,
because I feel like the slower rounds, we were kind of in control.
Yeah, we ended up trying to make a comeback on CT, but they closed out the map.
But when we went outside, we spoke that, hey guys,
it's pretty rare that we win this guys 2-0,
and over all this tournament,
we've been dropping a map on every series,
except for Hotu, that we understood,
we played a lot of maps against them,
and a lot of matches ended up 2-1.
So it's the same thing now, it's 1-1,
and we are always a step ahead on the decider,
and that's what happened again.
I think we were fully in control,
like you said, on Dust2T side.
Maybe we always need that extra momentum of beating the first pistol just to get things going.
But yeah, it just seems to be a tendency for us that versus them.
No matter the decider, we seem to be one step ahead.
Yeah, definitely felt that way.
I think even, you know, in moments where they were getting back in,
it was rounds that you guys were sort of letting slip a little bit
or you always had a presence in kind of thing with retakes, etc.
I wanted to ask, like a more
general question on how you feel
Navi are doing at the moment.
Obviously, you've bagged a win
this year, um, and you know,
you're looking in good form, but
then when you meet one of the
scarier sides, you know, you've
met vitality in the B05. Sometimes
it can be difficult for you guys
in those types of matchups. And
now, you know, we got this
Falcons that are maybe coming up
behind people a little bit with
the kicks and dead team, whatever.
We're feeling pretty confident thus far. I think that we have a lot of things up our sleeves.
And I think the final boss for us is Vitality. We ended up beating Falcos last time we met them.
Right now they seem to be more solid. We ended up taking Vitality.
So I think our next match is going to be against Vitality actually.
And we need to be... I think for us it's a good thing.
If we want to win this event, we need to win Vitality.
And I don't care which part of the playoffs we play them, so better earlier than later, I feel like.
And yeah, we see a couple more teams playing with better CS than we saw on previous matches.
Furia has been playing well, Mouse kind of, like they both reached the playoffs now.
And as you said, Falco seemed to be super strong here.
And yeah, we're going to play play fighting the next and I think it's got to be an interesting game and rematch from the grand final
Yeah, really kind of spicy side of the bracket as well with fury awaiting behind
I want to kind of ask on my side how you feeling
Heading in towards the playoffs, right? Of course, you know, we always talk about Brazilian crowds and kind of this sort of tournament
Specifically that the love for counter strike out in that country
What does it mean for you guys and how excited are you to get to play in front of what is you know?
one of the loudest crowds that we get in CS.
Yeah, we are excited.
I mean, we lifted the trophy here two years ago
and it was something special.
I feel like the crowd is just something extra,
something you have to play in front of
and something you're waiting to play in front of.
So that's super exciting for us.
And I hope they're gonna cheer for us
when we play against Vitality.
And I hope we're gonna see a stronger Nabi
than we saw on the previous Grand Final.
And then we'll lose in 0-3,
even though we had our chances,
But now we need to be more confident and try and go into the game without second-guessing ourselves.
Yeah, awesome. Well, brother, thank you very much for joining us.
Absolute pleasure to have you on as always.
Congratulations on the win and booking your spot in towards playoffs and buddy, best of luck.
I'm really excited for you.
Thank you guys.
Thank you. See you.
Yes, take care, man.
Always good to check in.
Vibe seemed very good.
Counter-strike seemed very good, but he knows it.
Everybody knows it.
right now, enemy number one is vitality.
And for that to be the first round in that quarter final,
oh, that's good.
And not only that, it's then you follow up with Furia,
hometown heroes, like that side of the bracket,
you know, no disrespect to the other side,
but this side of the bracket is the cool side.
Like that is an insane start things.
Novi, arguably kind of one of it,
not the best contender that we've got at the moment,
because we know what this side can do
against enemy number one,
and then Furia waiting in the wings in the semi-final,
that's sick. I mean, it's just
crazy, though. It's like the
perfect six teams. You know,
it is. Maybe you might want the
Mongols in the conversation
a little bit, but obviously,
you know, not the tournament,
and I think really it's like
these are the teams that if I
tie here all the way at the top,
they've just taken a loss. Still
in the playoffs. It was a
semi final game. Whatever, right?
You talked about saving strats
a little bit. Maybe, um, but,
you know, I think that all those
teams there, they're all capable
of winning this. Which version
it feels like every single game in the playoffs is going to be an absolute banger with the crowd as well. It's fallen very, very nicely for the world of Counter Strike. I think it's safe to say. Yeah, this has all the makings to be, honestly, potentially one of the best playoffs we get, maybe even all year long, like we very rarely get such a stacked playoffs and especially with so much at stake, just prior to the major as well. This could really be an absolute
the game. We're going to be
absolutely bomb on a of a
playoffs. But with that being
said, Mati, we hate to say it.
We really do. But that's the
B stream done. It's honestly an
absolute honor that we get to
kind of round it out. We've got
some really new games to see out
the day as well. But only a
quick B stream here as we move
in towards the playoffs, of
course, and that arena we know
how good the counter strike is
there. We're very, very excited
to watch from the wings. But
thank you very much for joining
stream. It's always an honor from us. Thank you for joining us and until next time, take care.
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Still not quite done as he is going to take this fight for three seconds left.
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And this is an excellent move this is, but he's not content with just the Nexus kill.
He just got shot down!
SHIT!
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Unbelievable run!
Winning 4-0 victory over Classic!
And they did it again!
In the backfire!
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