WEBVTT 17:30.000 --> 17:58.960 Kowaro for 9.10! 17:58.960 --> 18:00.960 It's done, really. 18:01.960 --> 18:07.960 Oh my god, what a round from 9-10 and no reaction from anyone. 18:07.960 --> 18:09.960 That might be his best player in the tournament. 18:09.960 --> 18:10.960 That might be his best player in the tournament. 18:10.960 --> 18:11.960 And it wasn't late. 18:11.960 --> 18:15.960 It wasn't anything too crazy, but it's turned into him getting nice. 18:18.960 --> 18:23.960 For Stralis, if they win the pistol round, it is incredibly likely that they will just round out Mirage. 18:23.960 --> 18:25.960 No, good sharp shot. He's got the information. 18:25.960 --> 18:27.960 He's got to call the rotations. 18:27.960 --> 18:33.560 are coming through. He's got three CTs. Oh my god, he's got the knife. No way. No! Oh my god, 18:33.560 --> 18:39.400 heck no! How have you got away with that? There's a slash remu me on the B bomb site. That is insane. 18:39.400 --> 18:40.840 This plant coming in for a hook see. 18:48.120 --> 18:51.320 They're shifting a lot at the moment. Cemetery's now going to the long corner. Good jump from 18:51.320 --> 18:54.920 For many better follow-up all no way you get three there 19:00.800 --> 19:05.160 About to get over run he's got five bullets like my god. He's hitting the headshots. How's it possible? 19:05.480 --> 19:11.560 He's still got a couple that finally gets another magazine in he's trying to be efficient one more headshot somehow 19:11.560 --> 19:13.560 It's turned around 19:13.560 --> 19:23.560 The bomb's down to 15, small part of the bottom side floor, the flashbangs are perfect, I try with a lot of trouble here, but it does what? 19:33.560 --> 19:37.560 And they're pushing him, I do love this from the T side, but it almost backfires. 19:37.560 --> 19:41.940 I like the idea of catching the CTs before they can even set up a retake here. 19:41.940 --> 19:47.240 A lot of damage, it's not over yet. Stare gets the control of the second player as well. A triple! 19:50.240 --> 19:56.160 Xenia traded in not only the trade but also the follow-up kill to Tiffin in Longholster's favor. 19:56.160 --> 20:01.160 But Fuzi, that is what we're talking about! Destruction from Insight Cave! 20:31.160 --> 20:34.160 going into the site. They're taking right now. 20:34.160 --> 20:35.160 Oh, the suit! 20:35.160 --> 20:38.160 Yeah! OK, there we go. 20:43.160 --> 20:44.160 Fast flank from the left flank. 20:44.160 --> 20:46.160 You think you should have their backs turned here. 20:46.160 --> 20:47.160 Catches the planner, explodes. 20:47.160 --> 20:49.160 Very good timing on that flank. 20:49.160 --> 20:51.160 A nice activation from the left flank. 20:51.160 --> 20:52.160 Now, clear! 20:52.160 --> 20:53.160 Oh, no! 20:53.160 --> 20:55.160 Without quitspin! 21:25.160 --> 21:27.160 I 21:29.920 --> 21:31.920 Message you since the diffuse 21:32.960 --> 21:35.760 So hard to imagine you could come out alive. I mean 21:36.600 --> 21:39.100 It's hot spring. I'm having a deal. He doesn't the right way 21:55.160 --> 22:00.160 This is a great round of essential. 22:00.160 --> 22:02.160 Okay, back to the round over. 22:02.160 --> 22:06.160 You make sure that you're ready to go shut down through the smoke block. 22:06.160 --> 22:08.160 You're out of essential. 22:10.160 --> 22:12.160 Take a deep breath and make your way towards the A side. 22:12.160 --> 22:14.160 Hopefully you can overrun the CTD fence after this. 22:14.160 --> 22:15.160 Take it away. 22:15.160 --> 22:18.160 Alex, he is certainly ready to use just that. 22:18.160 --> 22:20.160 A couple of good kills. 22:20.160 --> 22:22.160 Lance, a third shot takes down NHL. 22:22.160 --> 22:25.880 on the NHL and the Frick quad makes it an ace to the end. 22:31.280 --> 22:32.880 The last smokes they just threw out as well, 22:32.880 --> 22:35.760 so they've got to make something happen while they're up. 22:35.760 --> 22:37.880 Oh my god. 22:41.440 --> 22:42.560 Getting alerted to a pattern. 22:42.560 --> 22:43.480 There's just a time. 22:43.480 --> 22:44.200 No, no. 22:44.200 --> 22:45.560 Hopefully the utility committee makes it. 22:45.560 --> 22:46.520 Ah, OK. 22:46.520 --> 22:48.320 Belcher not. 22:48.320 --> 22:51.080 There's going to be a tough retake ahead of 3D sports here. 22:51.080 --> 22:52.320 Oh, maybe not. Maybe not. 22:52.320 --> 22:55.240 Jungle kill. There's no way! 22:55.240 --> 22:56.920 How has he got away with another one? 22:56.920 --> 23:00.440 Daylight robbery from Louncacan. 23:00.440 --> 23:01.880 Stellar performance. 23:01.880 --> 23:04.600 Jay McGat needed the clutch, and he's got it in him. 23:07.720 --> 23:10.960 Greetings, Counter-Strike fans, and welcome back to PGL. 23:10.960 --> 23:15.080 Bucharest, as you saw there, yesterday was brutal. 23:15.080 --> 23:19.080 People were grabbing, clamoring, first-last playoff places. 23:19.080 --> 23:23.120 And that means that today it is indeed the start of the playoffs. 23:23.120 --> 23:27.240 And your host Richard Lewis joining me in the morning crew today. 23:27.240 --> 23:30.480 We switched it up ever so slightly. Blair is still with us. 23:30.480 --> 23:32.080 We're loving that for us. 23:32.080 --> 23:37.400 And of course, his favorite co-worker, as you can tell by how far apart they're sat on the sofa. 23:37.400 --> 23:39.200 It is, of course, Dusmurray. 23:39.200 --> 23:42.160 Lots of arguments going to be happening today and I can't wait to hear them. 23:42.160 --> 23:42.800 How are you doing, guys? 23:42.800 --> 23:45.720 I'm just going to tell my kids that this was the United Nations. 23:46.720 --> 23:48.080 Indeed, not far off. 23:48.080 --> 23:52.920 Yeah, we talk a lot and nothing really comes out of it. Yeah, I'm not the gates hot this morning. I see over there 23:52.920 --> 23:59.640 Yes, I'm topical. He's been doing scrolling in the night sounds about right. What about you though? Good. Yeah, I'm relaxed 23:59.640 --> 24:04.300 I'm good to go. Yeah, fine. I mean you survived the the Ston monologue yesterday as well 24:04.300 --> 24:09.160 Well, he was just popping off having a therapy session. You haven't seen that by the way guys definitely check it out 24:09.160 --> 24:12.480 That was great. So good to have you here in one piece and for now 24:12.480 --> 24:15.920 Why don't we take a look at how it translates yesterday? 24:15.920 --> 24:19.920 This is of course the Swiss bracket, no longer relevant, 24:19.920 --> 24:24.000 only relevant within the context of the story we will tell today. 24:24.000 --> 24:29.200 We had three incredible series, but one more than the others. 24:29.200 --> 24:32.480 I'm going to start by just talking about Paravision Wildcard. 24:33.040 --> 24:37.680 I've said it a million times that when Paravision go to overtime, 24:38.240 --> 24:41.840 that is when they're going to, that's when they'll break you. 24:41.840 --> 24:43.400 You will not break them. 24:43.400 --> 24:45.600 That is why Jay missed the time, Lord. 24:45.600 --> 24:48.440 There was so many opportunities in that series 24:48.440 --> 24:51.800 when Wildcard were up and it's one more round, 24:51.800 --> 24:54.360 one more round, and Paribasian are playing bad. 24:54.360 --> 24:57.360 They're making mistakes, but it just didn't happen. 24:57.360 --> 24:59.840 Yeah, the thing with Wildcard is though, 24:59.840 --> 25:01.880 I just wanna give a little bit of flowers where it's due. 25:01.880 --> 25:03.200 Oh, we'll talk about that. 25:03.200 --> 25:05.240 Yeah, I mean, does the team just really punch well 25:05.240 --> 25:07.480 above its weight class, but for me, 25:07.480 --> 25:08.600 the most impressive thing, 25:08.600 --> 25:10.960 impressive thing was how Paribasian had a massive lead, 25:10.960 --> 25:15.520 It was a wild card actually kind of dragging this game into overtime, but man watching this game was great 25:15.520 --> 25:19.960 It was entertaining it did almost break Moses and Binko as human beings 25:19.960 --> 25:24.520 There's the amount of mistakes being made, but you could not deny the excitement fighter 25:24.640 --> 25:28.240 Third longest official ever played in CS2 thus far 25:28.600 --> 25:31.480 Yeah, it was no nip-am call, but it was a good time 25:31.480 --> 25:36.760 I think that's what actually made it bearable was the fact that it was at least still you know some explosive exciting kind of strikes 25:36.760 --> 25:37.760 people are making some big 25:37.760 --> 25:38.760 individual plays at times. 25:38.760 --> 25:39.760 They got down to the wire and 25:39.760 --> 25:40.760 it kind of had that perfect 25:40.760 --> 25:41.760 mix of entertainment to kind 25:41.760 --> 25:42.760 of get you through the fact 25:42.760 --> 25:43.760 that it was such a marathon 25:43.760 --> 25:44.760 of a match. 25:44.760 --> 25:45.760 And yeah, you know, except 25:45.760 --> 25:46.760 you're half the wild card, 25:46.760 --> 25:47.760 you know, this is a brand new 25:47.760 --> 25:48.760 team that came together at 25:48.760 --> 25:49.760 the beginning of this year. 25:49.760 --> 25:50.760 They only just brought in 25:50.760 --> 25:51.760 the mania through the new IGL 25:51.760 --> 25:52.760 a few weeks ago. 25:52.760 --> 25:53.760 So haven't really had a whole 25:53.760 --> 25:54.760 lot of time. 25:54.760 --> 25:55.760 I'd imagine to hammer things 25:55.760 --> 25:56.760 out, but we saw some good 25:56.760 --> 25:57.760 performances out of most of 25:57.760 --> 25:58.760 their players. 25:58.760 --> 25:59.760 And that gives you some hope 25:59.760 --> 26:00.760 that maybe there is something 26:00.760 --> 26:01.760 there. 26:01.760 --> 26:02.760 No, I mean, I will say this, 26:02.760 --> 26:03.760 you know, we'll talk about 26:03.760 --> 26:04.760 powerball, you know, 26:04.760 --> 26:06.760 you know, we'll talk about 26:06.760 --> 26:09.760 Paribasian some more, but first just on the front of Wildcard, 26:09.760 --> 26:12.760 you know, go back home now and dominate NA 26:12.760 --> 26:15.760 because you clearly have the ability to do it. 26:15.760 --> 26:17.760 Very impressed with what I saw here. 26:17.760 --> 26:19.760 You pushed Mongols on a map. 26:19.760 --> 26:21.760 Could it easily been a win for you? 26:21.760 --> 26:24.760 You pushed Paribasian all the way in the series. 26:24.760 --> 26:27.760 You've got an incredible forfeit win over FaZe, you know. 26:27.760 --> 26:31.760 So, you know, so ultimately, I think it is time. 26:31.760 --> 26:36.160 time like if I'm looking at genuine NA teams not the bullshit liquid or up to 26:36.160 --> 26:40.940 I'm talking about genuine died-in-the-world NA teams your M8 ease your wild cards your 26:40.940 --> 26:44.960 NRG's I think wild card have shown that potentially the best of the bunch absolutely 26:44.960 --> 26:47.960 and for me the most impressive player obviously someone we've touched on many 26:47.960 --> 26:50.480 a time is going to be Hex I'm glad Dossos here with me because I do want to 26:50.480 --> 26:55.120 address the the the peeping in the room so to speak in a pneumonia him coming 26:55.120 --> 26:58.000 out of my questions you know but his eye-gilling start clearly is working out 26:58.000 --> 27:02.480 These teams have activated Hex, Wreck, and image L as well, very, very capable with the AWP. 27:02.480 --> 27:06.400 But Matt Peeping, he had the one good game yesterday, but he just doesn't seem to have 27:06.400 --> 27:11.200 any confidence whatsoever. Now, I have put in the Cav yet, because a lot of his roles have been 27:11.200 --> 27:14.720 changed and N'Mania doing a lot of the stuff which Peeping used to do. So now he's kind of, 27:15.600 --> 27:18.960 so to speak, doing some of the bitch roles, the utility support roles and whatnot. But 27:19.680 --> 27:23.680 at some point, he needs to wake up and kind of get that confidence going. So either N'Mania 27:23.680 --> 27:27.440 is able to inject that into him in the coming months or else, I feel like you have to call for 27:27.440 --> 27:31.120 for it changes he looked abysmal now look I'm gonna give this the glorious 27:31.120 --> 27:36.880 opportunity here peeping was the first player in the tournament and look he 27:36.880 --> 27:40.080 made a bunch of elementary mistakes that no matter how charitable Blair is 27:40.080 --> 27:44.400 gonna be you know running off with the bomb dying and when you secure the bomb 27:44.400 --> 27:49.480 site that one where he flanked them on Mirage three bats this you have played 27:49.480 --> 27:54.640 with city yeah just I'd forgive a blind panic so I'm say this I know you've 27:54.640 --> 28:00.000 about the KFM before as like a potential talent in the NAC. 28:00.000 --> 28:02.800 How have you changed your mind? 28:02.800 --> 28:03.760 Here's the thing. 28:03.760 --> 28:06.400 I thought that he looked good when he was with bounce. 28:06.400 --> 28:08.840 When it was like into 2024, beginning of 2025, 28:08.840 --> 28:10.760 he did look like a guy in the NAC. 28:10.760 --> 28:12.840 When we were desperate to try to find up and coming players, 28:12.840 --> 28:15.000 like JBA obviously eventually kind of came up, 28:15.000 --> 28:16.520 Lake obviously eventually came up. 28:16.520 --> 28:17.600 And so there was a couple of names, 28:17.600 --> 28:19.240 but he was kind of floated around there. 28:19.240 --> 28:21.320 And I got turned on to him actually by his coach Adrin, 28:21.320 --> 28:24.400 a storied NA coach, a liquid that was coaching mounds 28:24.400 --> 28:27.200 the time and he's like, hey, keep it on this guy, he's pretty good. 28:27.200 --> 28:29.240 And I thought he did look really sharp at North America. 28:29.440 --> 28:33.120 And I think that if I'm being charitable, let's be frank, the wild 28:33.120 --> 28:35.880 court organization has been his absolute absolute mess the last year and a half 28:35.880 --> 28:37.080 up until now, right? 28:37.080 --> 28:39.800 And up until now, it has been a revolving door. 28:40.040 --> 28:42.880 But now they do have stability and they've picked up good players. 28:42.880 --> 28:45.920 Like Hacks was a great pickup to catch if you're a wild card on his way out of 28:45.920 --> 28:47.880 MAD. Wreck was another great catch. 28:47.960 --> 28:50.400 No, also coming out of MAD and being left behind. 28:50.400 --> 28:53.480 So they've now brought in the right pieces to actually do something. 28:53.480 --> 28:56.100 And so from this point forward, there will be no more excuses. 28:56.100 --> 28:59.200 Either he needs to perform as his team continues to play competitions, 28:59.200 --> 29:01.800 or yeah, you might have to look at a different job at some point. 29:01.800 --> 29:06.440 Yeah, I mean, I mean, look, I think one more tournament probably in these roles 29:06.440 --> 29:08.000 that he's been assigned by Nemanja. 29:08.000 --> 29:11.200 And if they let's the biggest one is like they have given him a lot of the star 29:11.200 --> 29:14.680 CT roles and he gets to play a lot of the like secondary entry or trade 29:14.680 --> 29:17.940 fragging positions, which are the ones you generally would put a star player in. 29:17.940 --> 29:20.440 So yeah, I mean, the weight is certainly on the shoulders in that regard. 29:20.440 --> 29:21.380 Yeah, absolutely. 29:21.380 --> 29:23.180 Anyone else you'd like to talk about from yesterday? 29:23.180 --> 29:25.060 Come on, I know we've got loads to cover. 29:26.340 --> 29:28.220 From that matchup, nothing in particular, 29:28.220 --> 29:30.180 I think, like you said, you know, for Paris Vision, 29:30.180 --> 29:31.900 the big surprise is how they've kind of 29:31.900 --> 29:33.740 screwed the bracket a little bit 29:33.740 --> 29:34.940 because of them going three-two, 29:34.940 --> 29:36.300 we'll talk about that later on. 29:36.300 --> 29:37.660 And what else we got yesterday? 29:37.660 --> 29:40.620 Like, we did have, yeah, the eyeballers one. 29:40.620 --> 29:42.460 The eyeballers, that was a big surprise for me, 29:42.460 --> 29:44.900 a massive surprise because JW, firstly, 29:44.900 --> 29:47.180 coming to an eight-year event, a big event, 29:47.180 --> 29:48.580 big money event with his team, 29:48.580 --> 29:50.940 he did say, you know me, when I come to an event, 29:50.940 --> 29:54.900 come to win but realistically any other DJ say was a bit delusional right but 29:54.900 --> 29:57.720 that being said the fact that I bothers are able to make it to the playoffs on 29:57.720 --> 30:01.320 an event like this sure with the caveat that competition isn't exactly the 30:01.320 --> 30:04.340 highest of levels I think it's super impressive also just the way he's 30:04.340 --> 30:08.700 leading such an inexperienced young players like Bob XD for example even 30:08.700 --> 30:12.940 players like Rob so a hell of a game and a hell of a bit of a disappointment for 30:12.940 --> 30:18.020 me from focus they should be in a playoffs if they hadn't choked multiple 30:18.020 --> 30:21.860 times across multiple series but that being said Rich again I'm going to be 30:21.860 --> 30:25.780 very charitable pretty new lineup all together and you have someone like 30:25.780 --> 30:29.420 Cuban at the helm I'm sure is gonna kind of shape the back of the shape 30:29.420 --> 30:34.020 later on soon. Yeah I mean if I'm looking at focus first this is a team that you 30:34.020 --> 30:37.380 know brought together a brand new squad like in this era of VRS where a lot of 30:37.380 --> 30:41.540 organizations try to counter strike by buying cores and we've seen some fail 30:41.540 --> 30:45.100 we've seen a couple succeed focus went the route of trying to build something 30:45.100 --> 30:48.880 brand new and while some other players have some links from past teams you know 30:48.880 --> 30:52.120 obviously you know for example ZTR and Balt playing together on game 30:52.120 --> 30:54.560 religion back in the past there's a couple other little ties here and there 30:54.560 --> 30:58.840 as a five they are very fresh and I think you did see a lot of positive things 30:58.840 --> 31:01.600 this event you know they didn't make the playoffs I think you know some of their 31:01.600 --> 31:04.880 individuals did look good I feel like they have some good initial game 31:04.880 --> 31:08.600 planning and staging of rounds but as you said you know sometimes choking in 31:08.600 --> 31:12.120 critical rounds. Well I thought the UCL and the screen right now in these highlights right 31:12.120 --> 31:19.880 so many unforced errors, essentially, and just inexcusable and look, I mean, everyone 31:19.880 --> 31:24.600 was going, okay, new lineup, you know, been together two months, blah, blah, blah, narrative 31:24.600 --> 31:30.800 beats, etc. But I mean, that applied to Wildcard, they choked there as well. And, you know, 31:30.800 --> 31:34.640 we were counting them up yesterday and we lost count. I was talking about it with Henry 31:34.640 --> 31:40.320 and Anders back at the hotel after the games. Like, just how many rounds were there where 31:40.320 --> 31:45.560 they should have won and you know they were like well they had a 5v4 here they 31:45.560 --> 31:49.200 lost to a force by here they lost to another force by bat the back there and 31:49.200 --> 31:54.840 you know it's like wow actually they had way more opportunities to be eyeballers 31:54.840 --> 31:59.920 than you would normally get in any of the series and it's also if you go back 31:59.920 --> 32:04.240 to a lot of the players who messed up it where it was the the young up-and-coming 32:04.240 --> 32:07.160 so I'm looking at Banjo looking at Matheos these are like the star players 32:07.160 --> 32:11.860 There's a place you look at, but then when it comes to these sort of, I wouldn't say 32:11.860 --> 32:15.000 unloosable rounds, because they obviously lost, but rounds they shouldn't be losing. 32:15.000 --> 32:18.000 They are the ones who over-peak a little bit, they are the ones who play a little too scared 32:18.000 --> 32:20.220 when you need to be playing a little bit more aggressively. 32:20.220 --> 32:22.920 Just counterintuitive plays coming up from these guys, but if you look at people like 32:22.920 --> 32:25.880 Z-Tart and Volt, they're the ones who aren't messing up, they're the ones who kind of 32:25.880 --> 32:29.960 dragging them along, dragging them through rounds which they need to win. 32:29.960 --> 32:33.720 So, I feel it's just a matter of time, in all honesty, I think it's a matter of time. 32:33.720 --> 32:40.120 I feel like this is a team who is going to surprise a lot of viewers the way Foot did at the beginning of the year. 32:40.120 --> 32:42.720 Just got to give them a little bit of time. They have such really good pieces. 32:42.720 --> 32:45.320 Hey, I tell you what, Jorger's got a hell of a freaking elbow though, don't he? 32:45.320 --> 32:50.020 Like, you might want to watch out. Listen, if Counter-Strike doesn't work out, this game, like... 32:50.020 --> 32:53.820 That's the thing I have to make career ahead of them. And shout out to Secret Last Desk, by the way. 32:53.820 --> 32:58.020 They go up pretty darn well if you ask me. Let's get a replay of this action. 32:58.020 --> 32:58.820 Boom! Boom! 32:58.820 --> 33:02.620 Look at the technique on that. Like, that's some proper MMA ground pound right there. 33:02.620 --> 33:03.620 Almost went for another one. 33:03.620 --> 33:05.200 He saw how he was going for a third back. 33:05.200 --> 33:06.700 That's what's about to get him. 33:06.700 --> 33:08.380 I'm going to take everything back. 33:08.380 --> 33:09.980 I think that I need a new AWPer, because I 33:09.980 --> 33:11.140 think that was shattered. 33:11.140 --> 33:12.420 It's a million points. 33:12.420 --> 33:13.620 He kept the wrist in hand clean. 33:13.620 --> 33:14.620 It's all good. 33:14.620 --> 33:16.220 He can't move. 33:16.220 --> 33:18.100 Dropping the John Jones, bro, like 12-6. 33:18.100 --> 33:19.700 He's got office sensitivity and be a wrist player. 33:19.700 --> 33:20.100 It's fine. 33:20.100 --> 33:20.900 That's fine. 33:20.900 --> 33:22.820 Why don't we take a look at the playoff bracket. 33:22.820 --> 33:25.300 We'll obviously talk about it a little bit later on. 33:25.300 --> 33:27.540 But this is what we've got for you. 33:27.540 --> 33:30.020 This is an interesting bracket, the way it worked out, 33:30.020 --> 33:32.580 honestly, because we're going to start the day with MIBR3. 33:32.580 --> 33:38.260 3D Max. We got Astralis versus Eyeballers. Just to put it on the record, a lot of people 33:38.260 --> 33:41.820 feel Astralis is genuine contenders here in Bucharest, to lift the trophy. 33:41.820 --> 33:44.860 I would just tell this far, Astralis has no excuse to something like the Scranton. 33:44.860 --> 33:49.380 With that bracket in particular, they have a real good shot at just taking it, right? 33:49.380 --> 33:53.060 Because look at the bottom, Rich. You've got foot, you've got Mongols, and you've got 33:53.060 --> 33:54.060 paravits. 33:54.060 --> 33:59.900 Yes. The key thing for Astralis is dodging foot, who they've played like 15 times. 33:59.900 --> 34:01.660 You know, it's insane. 34:01.660 --> 34:03.140 They always seem to run into each other. 34:03.140 --> 34:06.420 But then down there, that's the interesting series of day. 34:06.420 --> 34:07.340 Not that for me. 34:07.340 --> 34:09.540 I think they're all interesting in their own way. 34:09.540 --> 34:12.740 But the Mongols and Paribas have never played. 34:12.740 --> 34:15.820 And it really is the irresistible force 34:15.820 --> 34:18.300 going up against the immovable object, you know? 34:18.300 --> 34:20.660 Well, actually, the only matchup that has any history 34:20.660 --> 34:22.220 is fate, but the other three games 34:22.220 --> 34:24.220 are games where these teams have not played each other 34:24.220 --> 34:25.140 with their current lineups. 34:25.140 --> 34:27.220 So it's definitely an opportunity to test yourself. 34:27.220 --> 34:29.460 You know, for example, for a team like Bade Brazil, 34:29.460 --> 34:32.220 the chance to finally do something in an international event because since they 34:32.220 --> 34:35.820 bought their new roster they have only played domestic events up until this point. 34:35.820 --> 34:39.260 Obviously for i-ballers there's a chance to try to continue to see if they can 34:39.260 --> 34:42.580 show us a little bit of something and you know again I think Mongols 34:42.580 --> 34:45.260 Paravigion that's a brutal one because one of these teams that was maybe 34:45.260 --> 34:48.340 supposed to win the whole event is gonna wind up in seventh eighth place and I 34:48.340 --> 34:51.700 mean that's a tough spot to be. Because if we go back to the you know the 34:51.700 --> 34:55.500 beginning of the of this event we were talking about it the favorites of this 34:55.500 --> 34:57.660 tournament right as Mongols in Paravigion and then you have Astralis and 34:57.660 --> 35:01.700 foot where the the dock was so to speak so it's kind of a little unfortunate we 35:01.700 --> 35:05.620 had a matchup early on but then hey they only have themselves to play sure but 35:05.620 --> 35:09.500 I mean also what I would think is interesting is community reactions 35:09.500 --> 35:13.540 going to be very instructive very revealing when that result occurs 35:13.540 --> 35:17.300 whichever way it goes if paravision winner not Mongols out Mongols are 35:17.300 --> 35:20.020 going to catch a ton of heat yeah and everyone's going to say well you know 35:20.020 --> 35:22.860 paravision of the form team right now they're better than people give you 35:22.860 --> 35:26.620 credit for it might have been ugly and scrappy in the groups but daddy Dastan's 35:26.620 --> 35:30.460 come in with a belt and sorted everything out. Meanwhile, if Paravision go out, they're 35:30.460 --> 35:36.540 going to go, yeah, it's every other tournament. Paravision win one, go final, go out early, 35:36.540 --> 35:40.220 you know, Mongols should win that one. So I kind of do feel a little bit sorry for Mongols 35:40.220 --> 35:45.220 in that situation. Paravision are in that sweet spot now when you're an emerging team 35:45.220 --> 35:49.420 where people will make excuses for you. Mongols less so, I feel. 35:49.420 --> 35:53.820 And I feel Paravision is a perfect kryptonite for a team like the Mongols. When Paravision 35:53.820 --> 36:04.820 Mongols make a lot of mistakes sometimes. Sometimes individuals get a little too carried away because, you know, the style aggressive in your face, good, great firepower, but PowerVision are that team who's going to punish you when you screw up. 36:04.820 --> 36:11.820 And I do feel like they would be the perfect counter, but we saw from Dawson yesterday, he's like, right now, a lot of these players make a little too many mistakes. They're not really locked in. 36:11.820 --> 36:19.820 They're looking at teams like Spirit, like, you know, the likes of Monosy and all these guys. That's when they really lock in. And against Mongols, they might put their left foot off the pedal. 36:19.820 --> 36:23.180 foot off the pedal. If that happens though, I feel longer just might run away with it. 36:23.180 --> 36:24.940 Quickly, I'll say this though, I mean, 36:24.940 --> 36:27.340 Paravigian has struggled with disruptive defenses. 36:27.340 --> 36:30.460 Teens that get in their face and don't let them kind of roll out their normal 36:30.460 --> 36:33.820 slow and steady and really, you know, fine tune game plan. 36:33.820 --> 36:36.380 And Mongols is a team that is going to play you very aggressively. 36:36.380 --> 36:40.060 So there are certainly some opportunities out there for Mongols to maybe kind of scatterbrain 36:40.060 --> 36:43.420 them a bit. Also, you gamble stacked around direction and Mongols explodes on the other side. 36:43.420 --> 36:48.140 That could be a problem. And the other thing I'll say in that series is Paravigian Mirage has been abysmal. 36:48.140 --> 36:54.620 And as a map that Moggles is definitely gonna get to play in that series and so that does give them, you know, a foot in the door in my opinion. 36:54.620 --> 36:57.340 Alright, well look, let's talk about the series coming up first. 36:57.340 --> 36:59.260 MIBL versus 3D Max. 36:59.260 --> 37:04.380 I'm almost been putting it off a little bit because I can't believe 3D Max are in the playoffs. 37:05.420 --> 37:11.020 Yeah, I mean this is a team that, you know, I used to say it's death taxes and 3D Max placing 9th to 14th. 37:11.020 --> 37:13.420 I mean that was kind of just the story of this team. 37:13.420 --> 37:17.820 The only exceptions were they did obviously do really well at CAC last year. 37:17.820 --> 37:20.820 And Masters Bucharest, I believe they also had a pretty good finish up and not mistaken. 37:20.820 --> 37:24.820 But everything else that's been, again, right on the borderline of class, were not quite there. 37:24.820 --> 37:26.820 But they've done, you know, okay, this is it. 37:26.820 --> 37:29.820 I think the first two games were a little bit shaky against Focus and Vogue. 37:29.820 --> 37:30.820 A little bit. 37:30.820 --> 37:32.820 But at least the wins against Bate and Paravigion were pretty clean. 37:32.820 --> 37:35.820 So there was some improvement throughout the course of the event. 37:35.820 --> 37:40.820 It's a tale of, you know, Dr. Jack Kull and Montsehoyed, right? 37:40.820 --> 37:41.820 Like, I don't know what to make of this. 37:41.820 --> 37:44.820 You lose the focus very convincingly into the mass. 37:44.820 --> 37:49.500 two of them as one of which you like that rich and then and then the voka game is 37:49.500 --> 37:53.260 where I was like that this is it this is this seems dead it's a dead team walking 37:53.260 --> 37:56.820 they're gonna make some changes barely scraping a window of voka coming down 37:56.820 --> 38:00.060 over time on a trip double overtime I believe in my number two or three as 38:00.060 --> 38:04.780 well and then you go against bait now sure bait have been struggling a little 38:04.780 --> 38:08.540 bit as well as we're being very up and down they make mints meet up bait go 38:08.540 --> 38:12.740 against paravision you know the the actual real gatekeepers and they beat 38:12.740 --> 38:14.540 They're pretty reasonably convincing as well. 38:14.540 --> 38:16.260 So I don't know what to really make of it. 38:16.260 --> 38:17.860 I'm going to go out and live and say this stuff. 38:17.860 --> 38:20.260 And this could have been catching a lot of break 38:20.260 --> 38:22.460 back from a lot of the French fans. 38:22.460 --> 38:24.500 I think this is a bit of a dead team energy. 38:24.500 --> 38:26.140 I feel it's just them kind of cruising along. 38:26.140 --> 38:27.420 They have no expectations. 38:27.420 --> 38:29.180 They're like, screw it. 38:29.180 --> 38:31.380 Me and Dave are just going to carry on and just play our game. 38:31.380 --> 38:32.500 And it's working out for now. 38:32.500 --> 38:35.140 But I feel the changes are going to take place after this event 38:35.140 --> 38:36.700 maybe in a couple of months from now. 38:36.700 --> 38:39.820 So just kind of this coasting energy, if you know what I mean. 38:39.820 --> 38:42.700 Yeah, and obviously we can talk about the suitor as well. 38:42.700 --> 38:48.940 real quick. He's been the guy that's kind of given them an extra dimension. I agree when, 38:48.940 --> 38:54.700 you know, Stryker for some reason is obsessed with 3D Max. And he understands them on a level. 38:54.700 --> 38:58.780 I don't think any of the analysts does because I don't know how what you can make of this thing. 38:58.780 --> 39:06.140 He does have a pain king. True. True. But Masuta since coming in has been the best player. Yes. 39:06.140 --> 39:09.700 even if they're not necessarily a better team. 39:09.700 --> 39:13.500 I think he is way above what they've had in the past. 39:13.500 --> 39:14.340 Well, here's the thing. 39:14.340 --> 39:15.860 The reason why we had some interest in 3D Max before, 39:15.860 --> 39:16.980 even though they were placing plays, 39:16.980 --> 39:18.620 because they played fun tactical CS. 39:18.620 --> 39:20.560 But I feel like when the in-game leadership passed 39:20.560 --> 39:23.180 to gravity, it kind of started to deteriorate. 39:23.180 --> 39:24.660 Now, Maka's back at the helm. 39:24.660 --> 39:27.120 And also, what they've done with the movement 39:27.120 --> 39:29.380 within the roster is now Lucky's getting more star CT 39:29.380 --> 39:29.860 positions. 39:29.860 --> 39:32.260 He's kind of taken some of the spots body used to play, 39:32.260 --> 39:33.020 being more active. 39:33.020 --> 39:34.860 He's actually performing well in those roles. 39:34.860 --> 39:36.280 And yeah, Masuda, you know, 39:36.280 --> 39:38.240 body was a big opening force for this team. 39:38.240 --> 39:39.960 You know, say what you want about the guy. 39:39.960 --> 39:41.160 He was a really good soldier 39:41.160 --> 39:42.520 and entry fragger for 3D Max. 39:42.520 --> 39:44.280 And Masuda has come in. 39:44.280 --> 39:46.520 And while he's not going for as many openings as body, 39:46.520 --> 39:48.440 he's not like a true entry fragger, so to speak. 39:48.440 --> 39:49.720 That's still very much gravity. 39:49.720 --> 39:50.920 He's a big playmaker. 39:50.920 --> 39:53.800 I mean, this is a guy who does get those active T positions. 39:53.800 --> 39:55.360 He's a very good trade fragger. 39:55.360 --> 39:57.520 He's a very good mix of like anchor 39:57.520 --> 39:59.600 or aggressor on CT side, depending on the map. 39:59.600 --> 40:01.280 And he's performing, which is kind of nice 40:01.280 --> 40:03.640 because this is a guy who got cast away, right? 40:03.640 --> 40:07.160 He was on the French version, the Falcons, he was on, you know, a version of Vitality 40:07.160 --> 40:10.480 in the past and he's been able to kind of reboot his career on this team. 40:10.480 --> 40:16.800 Yeah, and then MIBR, it also has been hit and miss, but we've liked what we've generally 40:16.800 --> 40:17.800 seen from them. 40:17.800 --> 40:22.880 I mean, we saw Insani absolutely pop off last time he was on the server. 40:22.880 --> 40:27.120 We have seen Klim live up to this hype as one to watch. 40:27.120 --> 40:32.920 MIBR are telling us in interviews, yes, watch this kid, he's sick and we've got LNZ making 40:32.920 --> 40:38.520 very well-structured European calls with some of the best of the Brazilian talent. 40:38.520 --> 40:42.960 I think the most impressive thing for me is, apart from obviously Insanin and Klim being 40:42.960 --> 40:47.000 playing at the level they are right now, it's just when they're looking good, like for example 40:47.000 --> 40:53.000 the games against i-ballers and Mirage against, I believe it was BC games as well, when they 40:53.000 --> 40:55.760 look good they look like almost world-class, right? 40:55.760 --> 40:59.840 They fight together, the comms flow so well, Insanin was saying how the comms haven't really 40:59.840 --> 41:03.020 been a problem only for Ben and Zerry's in a bit of a learning stage but when 41:03.020 --> 41:07.000 they're on you know on the same page with the calling coming from L and Z they 41:07.000 --> 41:10.260 look great but when they're playing on a map they feel a little uncomfortable on 41:10.260 --> 41:14.240 you can see the hold still prevalent in you know when it comes to the comps the 41:14.240 --> 41:17.740 utility usage and whatnot so it's kind of again a Dr. Jekyll in a high 41:17.740 --> 41:22.780 situation here but for MIBR they seem like a more consistent and more a force 41:22.780 --> 41:25.500 where you know what you're gonna expect from as opposed to 3DMAT which is just a 41:25.500 --> 41:28.160 toss and a coin. Yeah I think this is fun because this is made Brazil's first 41:28.160 --> 41:32.000 international test with this international lineup, right? With Linus coming in, with the 41:32.000 --> 41:36.080 Venomzera Swap, obviously, Clem hasn't even been in the organization that long in the grand 41:36.080 --> 41:40.320 scheme of things. And this is the big one for me is what helps made Brazil so much that they 41:40.320 --> 41:44.800 have players in the most difficult roles to find good players in. Every team struggles to find a 41:44.800 --> 41:49.760 great opera or a big entry fragger, and they do have both of those in spades. Insani has been 41:49.760 --> 41:53.680 a great entry for several years at this point. I've honestly called for him to go to the international 41:53.680 --> 41:57.600 team multiple times. Obviously, we know sometimes contracts don't allow that. And then on the other 41:57.600 --> 42:04.160 you have Clam, look the open market is starving. We've been talking about that for ages and this is a guy who looks pretty damn legit 42:04.160 --> 42:09.440 So I hope that they can kind of keep it up because that's what made in Brazil needs to be relevant and these two guys so far give 42:09.440 --> 42:14.480 Anto them. No surprises with the bands here from from the side 3D Max Mirage getting better. It might be hard 42:14.480 --> 42:20.680 They have that so-called 7 map map pool, but that's too bad about 3D Max usually go for this. I think inferno and ancient come out here 42:20.680 --> 42:24.640 Yeah, I think 3D Max definitely will be going with inferno. Both teams are willing to play anubis too though 42:24.640 --> 42:30.100 So if if I'm if I'm MIBR, I don't play an oebus. It looks so sloppy, bro 42:30.100 --> 42:32.860 It looks so sloppy against eyeballs eyeballs of all teams, right? 42:32.860 --> 42:35.580 We had people just walking all in this is the right call in my opinion 42:35.580 --> 42:38.200 This absolutely the right call it's about the 3d max of struggle 42:38.200 --> 42:40.320 They almost lost to voka by the way on ancient 42:40.320 --> 42:45.120 They got smacked by focus on day one as well, and I guess it's gonna be a newt decided 42:45.120 --> 42:50.440 Yeah, take out overpass your MIBR. It's a map where they really haven't been feeling super comfortable on and 42:50.440 --> 42:55.440 And yeah, there we go. Nuke, a bit of a shakehand map coming in, nothing too crazy rich. 42:55.440 --> 42:59.440 I feel this one is a three map affair. 42:59.440 --> 43:05.440 I feel 3D Max have shown us enough, and on Inferno especially, that they can take that map. 43:05.440 --> 43:11.440 MIBR's Ancient, that's a punish pick kind of coming in from them. I think it's all going to go all the way down to Nuke. 43:11.440 --> 43:13.440 Interesting. Does Steve concur? 43:13.440 --> 43:17.440 I agree. I think the punish pick of Ancient is true. Like, Made in Brazil has looked really good on Ancient. 43:17.440 --> 43:23.600 They've played it already a lot. Yeah, it's all mostly domestic competition, but still just the eye test kind of 33-32 43:23.600 --> 43:25.560 So yeah, I mean it's really really good 43:25.560 --> 43:30.200 Meanwhile 3d max has really kind of struggled on this map and the roster chains hasn't helped it along either 43:30.200 --> 43:35.800 So I think that is definitely if you don't punish and you know when you look at inferno, you know, maybe there's those no slouches there 43:35.800 --> 43:36.680 I think they'll put up a good fight 43:36.680 --> 43:41.520 But certainly 3d max has always kind of had that identity of being an inferno team and also really cool to let inferno 43:41.520 --> 43:45.800 If you go back to the power vision game even go back to the bait game the really cool thing is man 43:45.800 --> 43:51.160 The way they just abuse banana just with the utility and then of course you have that the lunatic right that the 43:51.160 --> 43:53.320 Aram is that that time on of the team gravity 43:53.720 --> 43:59.360 Mac 10 is running in and it's not just about blind blind horrible things. It's not a black out of stride though 43:59.360 --> 44:04.160 It's it's very well constructed. They they abuse you they they they have a reaction to your reaction 44:04.160 --> 44:08.040 They're like so far ahead so for MIBR while they do have the individual stuff 44:08.040 --> 44:10.480 They have someone like insanity on the b-bomb side 44:10.480 --> 44:15.520 I feel like when it comes to mind gaming 3d max they just look so good at least in this tournament 44:15.520 --> 44:20.240 What I'll say is this, I think Insomnias and Masuda are the man to watch, right? 44:20.240 --> 44:22.040 They're the most active pieces on the board. 44:22.040 --> 44:24.920 They're going to be either entering or trading quite a lot, and they're going to be after 44:24.920 --> 44:28.120 the prime real estate, and whoever comes up heads up in that match, it probably wins. 44:28.120 --> 44:32.840 I will give one slight edge to Made in Brazil too, is that Klim really does well with the 44:32.840 --> 44:34.000 AK-47 on the T side. 44:34.000 --> 44:36.480 He actually has more AK kills than Op kills his tournament. 44:36.480 --> 44:41.200 And so that gives you kind of an extra rifling trader on a map where T side opting can sometimes 44:41.200 --> 44:43.880 lack impact, and I don't think Maka has the same punch as Klim. 44:43.880 --> 44:46.160 So I think that that's kind of an added benefit. 44:46.160 --> 44:49.680 Even if 3D Max is the better Inferno team on paper, 44:49.680 --> 44:51.640 I think Main Brazil could put up a pretty good scrap here. 44:51.640 --> 44:54.360 You know who will also put up a pretty good scrap? 44:54.360 --> 44:56.160 I don't know where I'm going with this. 44:56.160 --> 44:57.000 I like it. 44:57.000 --> 44:58.600 It is Moses and Dinko. 44:58.600 --> 44:59.360 How are you doing, guys? 44:59.360 --> 45:00.120 Good morning. 45:00.120 --> 45:01.440 Welcome to the morning crew. 45:01.440 --> 45:02.640 Good morning, Richard. 45:02.640 --> 45:05.680 Yeah, not as good of a scrap as Blah and Dust, though. 45:05.680 --> 45:07.960 I feel like we don't even need to be on the LAD. 45:07.960 --> 45:08.800 We're not even fighting. 45:08.800 --> 45:09.920 What are you talking about? 45:09.920 --> 45:10.760 It's so apart. 45:10.760 --> 45:12.640 We could fit in the middle of you. 45:12.640 --> 45:14.040 We don't even need to be on the LED screen. 45:14.040 --> 45:15.720 You guys are so far to the edge. 45:15.720 --> 45:16.680 It's a big couch. 45:16.680 --> 45:19.560 The cushions are actually moving upward in the middle. 45:19.560 --> 45:22.120 You guys are literally cat us further away. 45:22.120 --> 45:22.960 Is that a him a leg? 45:22.960 --> 45:24.440 I'm progressively each segment move a little bit. 45:24.440 --> 45:26.160 Well, bang some cuddling for your next segment, 45:26.160 --> 45:27.280 if that makes you feel better. 45:27.280 --> 45:28.120 Blank it in here. 45:28.120 --> 45:28.960 We'll have a good time. 45:28.960 --> 45:29.800 You can do that right now, though. 45:29.800 --> 45:30.620 I hope so. 45:30.620 --> 45:31.460 Absolutely. 45:31.460 --> 45:33.520 Who do you think's going to take this one, guys? 45:33.520 --> 45:35.560 I'm leaning towards 3D Max. 45:35.560 --> 45:37.200 I know it sounds a little bit like the desk. 45:37.200 --> 45:39.240 Like you guys are kind of on the, I don't know, 45:39.240 --> 45:41.160 like a little bit leaning more towards MIBR. 45:41.160 --> 45:44.600 I think 3d max with kind of the history with this change of I think there's a little bit of a honeymoon period 45:44.600 --> 45:48.320 That's about the game is like but continue the thought. We love you. Have a great cast 45:48.320 --> 45:51.580 I love you guys too. See you have a good time in the green room 45:51.580 --> 45:56.820 I like what they were saying in terms of the fact that MIP are I think are more consistent than 3d max 45:56.820 --> 46:00.040 But that's sure you can say that but I think 3d max have a higher ceiling 46:00.040 --> 46:04.980 So if they perform that to the level we know they're capable of then 3d max should be able to walk away with this series 46:05.480 --> 46:09.920 Let's see how it goes down and I'll be on a CT side 3d max on the T side and sunny 46:09.920 --> 46:12.920 Maybe getting them self-involved in a pretty scary early fight. 46:12.920 --> 46:15.920 Yeah, risky. It looked like Mako was going to be able to lock him over towards Sandbags. 46:15.920 --> 46:18.920 Ooh, look at this bush gravity. You got a big test coming at you. Miss shots. 46:18.920 --> 46:21.920 But you got XCCs coming from behind, and he goes down as well. 46:21.920 --> 46:23.920 More miss shots from the 3D Max players. 46:23.920 --> 46:26.920 And, okay, well, we're in a 3 on 5. 46:27.920 --> 46:30.920 Blocking them or attempting to block them is Venom Zero, but... 46:30.920 --> 46:33.920 Nasuda's just going to creep on up. He is the God of the Pistol, Jason. 46:33.920 --> 46:35.920 If there's anybody who could turn this around, it would be Masuta. 46:35.920 --> 46:41.860 But he's uh, not even he can do this so it's all shut down LNZ coming as well. Makka 46:42.100 --> 46:46.960 He is in the grave leaving lucky 1v4 and we'll see my PR taking the pistol round 46:46.960 --> 46:50.640 So forget what I said am I brought one of the pistol Jason? I've got a feeling 46:50.640 --> 46:55.160 We're gonna get a lot of people gonna walk over this game now Jason. Oh, yeah 46:55.660 --> 46:58.160 Switch it that much so important. Okay 46:58.720 --> 47:04.280 But I actually have been relatively impressed by my PR like when I seen LNZ at the airport 47:04.280 --> 47:07.280 I was like, oh my God, I forgot you play for. 47:07.280 --> 47:10.280 This feels weird. 47:10.280 --> 47:14.280 They've had some interesting, the kicker was there for a while, right? 47:14.280 --> 47:23.280 Everything's been a little bit crazy over at the MIBR camp, but it's been a year for them as they've gotten this new lineup working together and underway. 47:23.280 --> 47:25.280 Done a good job, mostly regional competitions. 47:25.280 --> 47:28.280 PGL Big Press is their first tier one competition of the year. 47:28.280 --> 47:32.280 Other than that, it's mostly been localized tournaments with South American teams. 47:32.280 --> 47:37.580 Yeah, so a very important event for MIBR and an event that they would have earmarked on the calendar and pointed out 47:37.580 --> 47:39.240 I've been like we need to be able to be ready for this one 47:39.240 --> 47:43.740 We need to be peaking at this one because this is our chance to show we can do against the better teams that we don't normally 47:43.740 --> 47:46.820 Get to play again, so very important event and tournament run here for MIBR 47:46.820 --> 47:52.300 Yeah, and they get out to a very good start nice pistol from Breno two kills and that aggressive piece over towards halls 47:52.420 --> 47:57.340 And an easy mop up at the B bomb site. I mean we heard dust talking about how the AWP market is 47:57.340 --> 47:59.340 is not it's rough out there. 47:59.340 --> 48:00.500 I know it's pretty rough. 48:00.500 --> 48:01.980 He said it was starving. 48:01.980 --> 48:04.420 We've got a Clint who's on loan from G2 Eras, 48:04.420 --> 48:06.860 their Academy team, playing for MIPR. 48:06.860 --> 48:08.420 And he's been very impressive so far. 48:08.420 --> 48:10.740 He's had a couple of big performances for them. 48:10.740 --> 48:14.060 I think for G2, who have kind of an aging offer right now 48:14.060 --> 48:16.460 and some pieces that inconsistent, you know, 48:16.460 --> 48:18.300 you break in. 48:18.300 --> 48:19.460 What a way to phrase it. 48:19.460 --> 48:20.460 Yeah, that's true. 48:20.460 --> 48:22.260 You're not going to be looking at some pies 48:22.260 --> 48:24.660 and having a huge upside and upswing in his career, right? 48:24.660 --> 48:26.260 So, you know, he's a good offer. 48:26.260 --> 48:30.280 He's definitely sufficient for the role right now at G2, but you've got a young offer here. 48:30.280 --> 48:32.700 You've got in your ranks on loan to another team. 48:32.700 --> 48:37.020 You get him all this experience of MIB on and then you're like, all right, let's bring him back to the main. 48:37.020 --> 48:40.300 Also, they just watch what Molotov is doing over a period. They're like, let's go down that road. 48:40.300 --> 48:42.300 We like that road. Let's roll the dice. 48:42.700 --> 48:47.940 I think if you're an offer out there in the world, you know, maybe just hold out. I'm hearing good things about the AnimGraf 2. 48:47.940 --> 48:50.940 I haven't actually played the beta yet, but I'm hearing good things about its tracking. 48:50.940 --> 48:54.940 I'm hearing good things about offers and making it feel a little bit better in terms of shot connections. 48:54.940 --> 48:57.220 So just hold out a little bit longer, boys. 48:57.220 --> 48:57.940 We're almost there. 48:57.940 --> 49:00.140 And the AC game will be the best team in the world. 49:00.140 --> 49:01.780 Sure. 49:01.780 --> 49:04.180 And then, and then we'll be back. 49:04.180 --> 49:05.780 We got Clint on the right full. 49:05.780 --> 49:06.180 Uh-oh. 49:06.180 --> 49:08.180 Really showing his best step forward there. 49:08.180 --> 49:10.260 Is he getting out to destroy the glocks? 49:10.260 --> 49:11.500 Quite aggressive with no head armor, 49:11.500 --> 49:13.860 as it is a decision you can make. 49:13.860 --> 49:15.700 Yeah, no one's saying it's a great one. 49:15.700 --> 49:17.940 Well, it's better decisions to make for sure. 49:17.940 --> 49:19.300 Venom's out looking to make some money. 49:19.300 --> 49:20.300 Nice. 49:20.300 --> 49:21.220 Head shot there at the end. 49:21.220 --> 49:22.780 Makka, take it away. 49:22.780 --> 49:23.260 Venom's out. 49:23.260 --> 49:23.860 Bomb plant. 49:23.860 --> 49:24.660 Not going to be taken. 49:24.660 --> 49:27.580 Nope, here's the Honzi with the peak out. 49:27.580 --> 49:29.180 Guys, you should, I mean, sure, great. 49:29.180 --> 49:30.020 Nice win. 49:30.020 --> 49:31.980 Like you've lost three players to unarmored Glock. 49:31.980 --> 49:33.740 So you're gonna have to reinvest its Haunted Money. 49:33.740 --> 49:36.260 That's lots of damage to the economy of MIBR. 49:36.260 --> 49:37.580 Really nice round from 3D Max, 49:37.580 --> 49:39.740 and they pick up AK-47's gravity. 49:39.740 --> 49:41.260 Of course, go into that Mach 10. 49:41.260 --> 49:42.500 Desk touched up upon it, 49:42.500 --> 49:44.220 and when we watched them play this map earlier, 49:44.220 --> 49:46.180 the number of times gravity with this Mach 10 49:46.180 --> 49:48.260 is just pushing middle, up middle, 49:48.260 --> 49:50.460 attacking brackets through the smoke 49:50.460 --> 49:51.820 constantly throughout the half. 49:51.820 --> 49:57.420 So MIBR, that's a big glaring play when you watch the demo, when you watch the VODs. 49:57.420 --> 50:03.820 I'd say it's probably easier to deal with in theory than in reality though, when you've got ground to fly through the sky. 50:03.820 --> 50:06.620 Just holding down mouse 1 without Mac 10. 50:06.620 --> 50:11.020 Very astute observation, that's the rule of thumb with everything in Counter Strike really. 50:12.820 --> 50:16.020 But, yeah, that's beefy. 50:16.020 --> 50:19.420 Double-nade towards LNZ, just lucky to be alive really. 50:19.420 --> 50:20.420 It's just like... 50:20.420 --> 50:30.620 I have one too guys. He's like this sucks. I think for 3D Max though, the gravity Mac 10 gravity impact 50:30.620 --> 50:36.820 has just not really been there at the start of 2026. I think a pro league in particular was filmed 50:36.820 --> 50:42.020 real bad for gravity. He was just not playing very well. But finally getting some of his form back 50:42.020 --> 50:47.220 coming into Bucharest and really just seeing him elevate his performance has given me a lot of hope 50:47.220 --> 50:51.700 for 3D Max because he's no longer the in-game leader, you're going to need to step up as 50:51.700 --> 50:55.500 an individual if you no longer are burdened by the shackles of in-game leadership. 50:55.500 --> 50:58.460 That's what I was going to say, I give him a little bit of a reprieve, give him a little 50:58.460 --> 51:03.160 bit more time, like it's not easy to shift out of the IGL mindset to then a highly aggressive 51:03.160 --> 51:05.260 playmaking frontman mindset. 51:05.260 --> 51:09.180 There's the flashbang and the peek, the smoke broke and open, and Venom Zara is going to 51:09.180 --> 51:10.180 be the second man. 51:10.180 --> 51:14.540 XCC turns around to clear the cubby, good trade from Masuda, but 3D Max is getting thinned 51:14.540 --> 51:15.540 out. 51:15.540 --> 51:20.500 Took a while checking that cubby. I wonder if it was waiting for a flash, but it doesn't matter all the rest of the 51:20.500 --> 51:25.020 Peaks from MIBR coming in 25 seconds, bomb going down, Masuta, a very important kill. 51:25.020 --> 51:29.880 Now the rotation has arrived in time and the man to try and save MIBR in this round isn't Sonny. 51:30.300 --> 51:35.780 Both spawning him and both just fighting him. No need to commit to the plant when you've got that 2v1 fight. 51:35.780 --> 51:40.580 3D Max also getting the bomb plant celebrating some high fives and they've got themselves their first round. 51:40.580 --> 51:42.420 Yeah, a little bit a little bit sketchy though. 51:42.420 --> 51:46.580 So we saw the turn of the corner from 3Dmax with the Nade out, so making some assumptions 51:46.580 --> 51:50.220 and those are things you're going to want to minimize as we go on, especially considering 51:50.220 --> 51:51.940 it's kind of a longer extended hit. 51:51.940 --> 51:55.020 So the rotation's coming in, got to be prepared for those follow-up peaks. 51:55.020 --> 51:57.460 3Dmax still outlasts him at the end of the day. 51:57.460 --> 51:59.020 Good trading on the way into the bomb site. 51:59.020 --> 52:01.860 Good trading on RAP side as well, Masuda with some critical kills. 52:01.860 --> 52:06.100 Yeah, I've been liking Masuda in the start of this team. 52:06.100 --> 52:07.100 Yeah. 52:07.100 --> 52:10.940 He hasn't really had too many bad performances yet. 52:10.940 --> 52:13.300 We went from Missoula to... Oh, Missoula. 52:13.300 --> 52:14.580 Oh, Missoula. Hello. 52:14.580 --> 52:15.740 Okay. How are you doing? 52:15.740 --> 52:16.900 Ooh, la la. 52:16.900 --> 52:19.380 Yeah, I think it's been good to see them come into the team. 52:19.380 --> 52:21.700 I think they're sort of limited in terms of players they can go to. 52:21.700 --> 52:23.700 I mean, we're going out, we're finding body, bringing them back. 52:23.700 --> 52:24.860 Right. Yep, yep, yep. 52:24.860 --> 52:27.380 You know, there's not many French players out there 52:27.380 --> 52:29.060 that you really want to get inside of this roster 52:29.060 --> 52:33.500 that have enough experience to make sure you don't fall through the floor. 52:33.500 --> 52:36.860 It is just a little refresher of why so many teams have gone international 52:36.860 --> 52:39.740 just to be able to dip into a larger pool of players. 52:39.740 --> 52:49.740 Here's the consequences of losing so many weapons to those blocks in the previous round is you've got no money to really invest in anything outside of 5-7s in the MP9 on Brenno and Klim. 52:50.740 --> 52:53.740 So very rough defensive loadout for this round. 52:53.740 --> 52:58.740 MP9s and 5-7s though, we see so many round wins with these things. 52:58.740 --> 52:59.740 They can do work. 53:00.740 --> 53:02.740 But not a solo D player. 53:03.740 --> 53:05.740 Especially when they're on 40 HP. 53:05.740 --> 53:18.740 I mean, the utility in Banana from 3D Max's T-Side so far has been great, 96 damage onto LNZ last round, now you just drop an 8 on Insani down to 41, usually the utility damage is racked up on the CT side, it's in reverse at the moment. 53:18.740 --> 53:25.740 Feels like we're gonna see a save. At 3D Max you're gonna go into the B-Side, Insani's gonna die and you'll save 4 players on A, so... 53:25.740 --> 53:31.740 Can't promise you guys at home a very exciting round of counter-strike here, to be honest. Not all of them can be bangers. 53:31.740 --> 53:37.740 But unless, you know, Insani has the greatest 5-7 clip of all time. 53:37.740 --> 53:41.740 Alright, well here's the utility out. 53:41.740 --> 53:44.740 Try to block it, do what he can, but you're exactly right. 53:44.740 --> 53:48.740 As soon as he goes down, it's a save call. Everyone's kind of shifting over now, but there's no point. 53:48.740 --> 53:51.740 Yeah, so those blue dots, he's like, no! 53:51.740 --> 53:52.740 And we're turning back. Peace! 53:52.740 --> 53:58.740 Alright, let's get comfy, let's get saving, and that's going to be 3D Max with a 2-2 score line. 53:58.740 --> 54:02.740 Getting to get this T side going as soon as the guns came out. 54:02.740 --> 54:04.740 That was a nice feeling. 54:04.740 --> 54:07.740 Yeah, both these teams qualified through the group stage as well, 3-1. 54:07.740 --> 54:12.740 3D Max losing to Focus early on, but then beating out Voka, Bait, and ParaVision for MIBRs 54:12.740 --> 54:17.740 and early loss to Astralis and then a victories over BC game legacy eyeballers to make it here. 54:17.740 --> 54:22.740 So both of them having just that single difficulty on the opening day at the group stage 54:22.740 --> 54:26.740 and then snapping into shape as both of these teams were kind of a similar story 54:26.740 --> 54:30.620 of the sort of recovery where both have had some success in the past both have 54:30.620 --> 54:34.580 like shown some good signs in the past and then just kind of descended and not 54:34.580 --> 54:38.260 able to find that any longer just like kind of dropped the ball and a lot of 54:38.260 --> 54:41.860 the effectiveness of these squads kind of disappeared roster changes and now we 54:41.860 --> 54:45.580 get to see if they're gonna be back on the come-up. 3D Max getting stronger as 54:45.580 --> 54:49.980 the group stages went on as well taking the biggest win against Parabasian the 54:49.980 --> 54:53.940 only team that didn't drop a map to. That was probably one of the more 54:53.940 --> 54:58.180 surprising upsets that we had in the group stage especially because it was 13-9, 13-9. 55:00.500 --> 55:04.580 Good series out of them and hopefully filled them with confidence. That was the series to 55:04.580 --> 55:09.780 qualify for the playoffs that put ParaVision in the 2-2 game. Wildcard gave them some issues last 55:09.780 --> 55:14.660 night, seen some harsh words out of Distan, out of James about the performance. I kind of love 55:14.660 --> 55:16.740 waking up to those quotes. I think it's hilarious. 55:16.740 --> 55:29.740 There's a mistake so unacceptable to have a pager. I can't kick them right now, but if they continue, yeah, but I don't want to, I might have to, especially if you keep throwing smoke instead of flashes. 55:29.740 --> 55:33.740 Yeah, there was a lot of mistakes yesterday from KeraVision, so hopefully that gets cleaned up. 55:33.740 --> 55:38.300 MIBR obviously with that say very similar kind of situation we have going on 55:38.300 --> 55:41.820 that basically ran the exact same defense and Sony solo at the B bomb site with 55:41.820 --> 55:47.140 utility stockpile that stack up in lane with three players and one playing 55:47.140 --> 55:49.540 balcony 55:52.460 --> 56:00.460 three max being very cautious about this yeah they don't want to lose to USP 56:00.460 --> 56:05.100 round with Insani and then the rest on the save they know but that is what 56:05.100 --> 56:08.600 happened they know they're still going up against fourth okay walking into an 56:08.600 --> 56:10.900 A-stack line it up at the top left of the sea 56:10.900 --> 56:17.540 crouched uncrouch okay then that little dot right there Jason good chuck the 56:17.540 --> 56:21.380 minuscule crack it's it's right at the stack you're excited if you're I might 56:21.380 --> 56:28.220 be all right now your palms LNZ on the balcony dead now gravity of course 56:28.220 --> 56:32.220 Defying gravity really is just floating through the sky as usual. 56:32.220 --> 56:34.220 Max attack. 56:34.220 --> 56:39.220 Good for a kill. Masuta comes in for two, and there's nothing left in the rounds here for MIBR. 56:39.220 --> 56:44.220 So into the site, bomb plant confirmed, and three max taking the lead of the game. 56:47.220 --> 56:51.220 Nice little run from them, and nice job not dropping the ball against the pistols. 56:51.220 --> 56:54.220 Even though this time they come into the stack, they handle it very, very well. 56:54.220 --> 57:00.060 Heard Duss talking about how he's asked for Insani to go to international teams for a long time 57:00.060 --> 57:03.240 And I think many people have been echoing that sentiment for years 57:03.500 --> 57:07.120 So if he isn't going to leave Brazil bring international teams to him I suppose 57:08.580 --> 57:10.580 Give him a shot to 57:10.820 --> 57:12.820 players from international players now 57:13.020 --> 57:15.020 LNZ and Claremont 57:16.060 --> 57:18.340 Not the biggest names in Counter-Strike 57:18.340 --> 57:21.860 The question is did you miss like the window of opportunity if you're Insani, right? 57:21.860 --> 57:25.280 But he had like those two years of like a lot of excitement and hype around him and 57:25.280 --> 57:28.360 like his development and what he looked like early on and the excitement of what he could 57:28.360 --> 57:29.360 become. 57:29.360 --> 57:33.900 So the question is, have you missed the window where teams are like actively saying we want 57:33.900 --> 57:35.520 to get this guy on our squad? 57:35.520 --> 57:39.320 Now our team's still saying that is the question because we haven't seen those performances 57:39.320 --> 57:43.960 nearly as consistency, haven't seen the results of MIBR improve enough to make waves on the 57:43.960 --> 57:44.960 international scene. 57:44.960 --> 57:45.960 Yeah. 57:45.960 --> 57:49.640 I mean, everyone's comparing MIBR to fury in terms of like the decision making and saying 57:49.640 --> 57:52.640 You know, it might be our kind of budget version of Furia 57:53.640 --> 57:58.640 It almost extends to Insani and Kessarotto too, where it's like, for years you're asking for Kessarotto to go to international teams 57:58.640 --> 58:01.640 You ask that same question, has he missed out on that chance? 58:01.640 --> 58:05.640 Should we have gone to Liquid? Should we have taken a bigger offer? 58:05.640 --> 58:09.640 Yeah, it might be Furia, but it brought an international team to him, and now we're kind of asking the same thing about Insani 58:09.640 --> 58:14.640 Yeah, it might be ours now in that arc of like, okay, we got to build a team that makes Insani want to stay here as well 58:15.640 --> 58:18.640 He'll be playing banana at the moment, the point man, everyone else has left him alone 58:19.640 --> 58:25.640 He's got a deep smoke for cover now, about halfway through when that fades, he's gonna be backing off. 58:25.640 --> 58:31.640 Masuda legged at the start of the round, so he's very passive, holding the bomb way deep at the bottom of middle. 58:35.640 --> 58:40.640 One minute left on the clock. Two players watching wrap, including this AWP from Klim. 58:40.640 --> 58:42.640 He'll get tested. 58:49.640 --> 58:54.160 And 3D Max wants nothing to do with that AWP, so back to the B bomb site we go. 58:54.160 --> 58:58.520 And Sany is going to check out this Molotov, he's got a smoke as well to delay, so let's 58:58.520 --> 59:00.400 see how 3D Max handle this. 59:00.400 --> 59:01.400 Oh, another Molotov. 59:01.400 --> 59:06.520 So many rounds with it, just dumping a bucket of utility for Sany to play slow. 59:06.520 --> 59:10.320 They have to go to the smoke, and there's going to be another Molotov behind it. 59:10.320 --> 59:13.320 The majority of this round was Sany alone on B. 59:13.320 --> 59:16.400 So do you either have to bail out and sprint to A and hope and pray you get the kills or 59:16.400 --> 59:17.400 you have to save? 59:17.400 --> 59:19.960 This runs, I think this is, how do you win? 59:19.960 --> 59:22.720 Well, you just have to hit some absolute blinders here. 59:22.720 --> 59:24.800 Last second, the boost is a great call. 59:24.800 --> 59:25.640 Smoke missed. 59:25.640 --> 59:28.800 And Insani's got to kill, bombs down, rounds dead. 59:28.800 --> 59:31.080 The kills are coming in for a day, but. 59:31.080 --> 59:31.920 Not dead yet? 59:31.920 --> 59:33.240 No, there's not enough time to get it. 59:33.240 --> 59:34.080 Yeah, there it is. 59:34.080 --> 59:35.680 So you've run out of time. 59:35.680 --> 59:37.360 I mean, you got to give credit over to Insani. 59:37.360 --> 59:39.040 Scott, how in that utility, and I think the other, 59:39.040 --> 59:41.560 the other layer of that is 3D Max really wanted 59:41.560 --> 59:43.520 to hit that A bomb site, so it didn't apply 59:43.520 --> 59:45.840 a whole lot of pressure to Banana and to Insani 59:45.840 --> 59:46.920 throughout that round. 59:46.920 --> 59:48.400 So we got to keep that utility. 59:48.400 --> 59:50.280 So there's a little detail, 3D Max, 59:50.280 --> 59:52.200 it's gonna wanna make sure even if you're going 59:52.200 --> 59:54.360 towards A, that slow progression, 59:54.360 --> 59:56.580 you have somebody chucking out utility, making noise. 59:56.580 --> 59:58.360 You have to force some of those smokes out early 59:58.360 --> 59:59.880 if you're gonna wanna return to the B bomb site 59:59.880 --> 01:00:00.720 in the late game. 01:00:00.720 --> 01:00:04.920 I mean, I love the fact that they're not getting punished 01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:06.600 for only having one B player. 01:00:06.600 --> 01:00:08.120 And for the start of these rounds in sunny, 01:00:08.120 --> 01:00:10.280 you'd like to set a lot of credit towards him, 01:00:10.280 --> 01:00:13.600 blocking them, not really falling to any pressure. 01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:15.960 And that's gotta change here for 3D Max. 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:18.460 They're calling a timeout, going to burn their first one. 01:00:22.260 --> 01:00:25.560 Yeah, so just letting him be off the hook with a little mistake, 01:00:25.560 --> 01:00:27.060 just a week round on the T side. 01:00:28.160 --> 01:00:30.460 Timeout to talk things over to make sure that doesn't happen again. 01:00:30.460 --> 01:00:32.360 We're tied at three, money on both sides. 01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:34.760 Makka with the AWP, Clem has his. 01:00:37.660 --> 01:00:40.660 High fives are out, we get back into the action into round seven. 01:00:42.960 --> 01:00:44.660 All right then, Makka off. 01:00:44.660 --> 01:00:46.660 Alright, let's see what that can do. 01:00:50.660 --> 01:00:52.660 Alright, let's see if three maximum is some adjustments. 01:00:54.660 --> 01:00:57.660 Time out. Let's see if there's more pressure towards banana early on. 01:00:57.660 --> 01:01:00.660 If I'm not anticipating that, I've started with three at B this time. 01:01:00.660 --> 01:01:02.660 Got two players committed as well. 01:01:02.660 --> 01:01:06.660 Over towards Sandbags, and those nades are going to land right on top of them. 01:01:06.660 --> 01:01:10.660 VenomZera, 15 HP left. Insani down to 56. 01:01:10.660 --> 01:01:13.660 Okay, the Baton switch set up. VenomZera, the lowest Pplier behind the Sandbags. 01:01:13.660 --> 01:01:18.460 Yeah, but one Molotov ruins all this. Yeah, the Venom's holding the smoke just in case they're gonna use it 01:01:18.460 --> 01:01:22.300 The flash goes in great shot insani dead Lois P left on Venom Zera 01:01:22.540 --> 01:01:27.700 Got it confused with a flashbang and that's exactly what happens then he's native out by Maka 01:01:27.700 --> 01:01:30.380 But with 15 HP can't be back to two kills 01:01:30.380 --> 01:01:33.300 You know what you're okay with this if you're 3d max 2 for 2 trade 01:01:33.300 --> 01:01:36.660 You know the defense is gonna thin out likely gonna be one defender at the B site 01:01:36.660 --> 01:01:40.380 And at the moment 3d max is making the assumption that someone is shifting to support B 01:01:40.380 --> 01:01:44.140 It's actually the opposite. What a God tier read from LNZ. 01:01:45.140 --> 01:01:47.340 I'll say if they hold the 4th here in my view art. 01:01:47.340 --> 01:01:49.020 Oh, they're gonna get aggressive on rap as well. 01:01:49.020 --> 01:01:50.860 Oh, Mac is waiting for it though. 01:01:50.860 --> 01:01:52.580 How long does he hold this line? 01:01:52.580 --> 01:01:56.260 Oh, he hits the shot, but it was through the brick, so not enough for a leadality. 01:01:56.260 --> 01:02:01.020 And now he's gonna race after that trade kill and have to deal with a second player, but B has just opened up. 01:02:01.020 --> 01:02:02.540 And gravity's gonna sprint. 01:02:02.540 --> 01:02:05.180 Yeah, he's gonna have to drop a smoke behind him to protect himself. 01:02:05.180 --> 01:02:09.020 Okay, Clems taking it very, very slow, swaps out to the M4, so AWP is on the ground. 01:02:09.020 --> 01:02:12.100 If Clem's to win this, AWP not available to him to recover. 01:02:12.100 --> 01:02:14.440 That is a very bold plant spot. 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:15.720 Alright, pick the home zone, Gravity. 01:02:15.720 --> 01:02:18.400 Let's go smoke out to a CT just in time. 01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:18.900 Way too deep. 01:02:18.900 --> 01:02:20.200 Man, it's far too deep. 01:02:20.200 --> 01:02:21.600 It's unimpactful. 01:02:21.600 --> 01:02:22.440 He's got another one. 01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:23.880 So, not gonna use it though. 01:02:23.880 --> 01:02:25.320 Doesn't wanna give away his position. 01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:26.120 Doesn't wanna teleport. 01:02:26.120 --> 01:02:26.720 Clem wins this. 01:02:26.720 --> 01:02:27.440 You know, he's already beat it. 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:28.560 The timing is too good. 01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:29.760 Gravity's never gonna react. 01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.120 He's just gonna react. 01:02:32.160 --> 01:02:33.760 And Clem is too fast. 01:02:33.760 --> 01:02:34.880 So, yep. 01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:35.680 There we go. 01:02:35.680 --> 01:02:36.840 He's got... 01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:37.960 See the kit? No, he doesn't. 01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:40.360 I was going to say, he might have time to run back and get the AWP. 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:42.080 So, nice win from Clement, the 1v1. 01:02:42.080 --> 01:02:47.240 Great timing as he ships over and a good read of the play of exactly where he went off to. 01:02:49.240 --> 01:02:52.360 Looking desperately for an AWP on the ground anywhere, 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:55.360 and he's just going to leave with an AK-47, a consolation prize. 01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:57.400 He can afford an AWP as well, so all good. 01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:00.160 And not being able to seem to be putting all the pieces in the right place 01:03:00.160 --> 01:03:03.080 and making the rotations at the right time is a chance to decide. 01:03:03.080 --> 01:03:05.960 Yeah, getting away from having an Insani solo P for a long time, 01:03:05.960 --> 01:03:08.640 make the rotation stack the extra player. I ate the right time. 01:03:08.640 --> 01:03:12.040 I mean, it's a really good read of the mentality of the 3D Max side of saying, 01:03:12.040 --> 01:03:14.880 okay, well, you've seen Insani here playing solo. 01:03:14.880 --> 01:03:16.840 He's stalled you out a couple of times with utility. 01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:17.800 He's been quite a nuisance. 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.800 So stack up over there because we think you're going to try to apply some pressure 01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:22.920 so that you don't stall out rounds again. 01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:27.200 So good read in that situation, the L and Z stuffing the B hit 01:03:27.200 --> 01:03:30.320 and then rotating immediately to A is such a God tier move. 01:03:33.560 --> 01:03:35.440 Perhaps the winning move of that round. 01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:43.240 Two players through the top middle smoke, they're going to be walking into VenomZera 01:03:43.240 --> 01:03:44.240 Clint. 01:03:44.240 --> 01:03:47.940 VenomZera out from the cubby, just trying to keep the pension drawn towards him to free 01:03:47.940 --> 01:03:49.440 up Clint's peak. 01:03:49.440 --> 01:03:50.440 Alien manages one. 01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:56.000 A lot of damage done to Exocys, Breno, there's also got LNZ up towards balcony and still 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:59.360 a stronghold of this A bomb sight friend my BR had. 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:03.360 3D Max struggling to penetrate the defences at the moment. 01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:08.360 Molotov in towards the pit, Brenner. 01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:12.360 Oh my god. Okay, that's a way to die. 01:04:12.360 --> 01:04:15.360 LNZ up on... Okay, trades it off. The suit is out. 01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:17.360 It needs to be a perfect shot and it's not there. 01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:22.360 Insanity to win at the end of the day. 5-3 and 3D Max still getting stuffed. 01:04:22.360 --> 01:04:25.360 Yeah, well LNZ wins that round. Just with that double kill on balcony. 01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:26.360 Yeah. 01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:30.200 dies in that kind of strange fashion I mean obviously he thinks they're running 01:04:30.200 --> 01:04:32.980 him through shorts we want to tank the damage just to get a kill to set up 01:04:32.980 --> 01:04:38.360 LNZ in the balcony but 3D Max did not push it but I mean that's LNZ really 01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:41.360 stepping up when needed 01:04:41.360 --> 01:05:10.760 there's some comms I tell you we wondered how I might be are gonna communicate with this 01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:13.240 this international team, they don't. 01:05:14.240 --> 01:05:16.080 That's from the round obviously the Klim 1v1 01:05:16.080 --> 01:05:17.720 and you can see him giving credit over to Ellen Z 01:05:17.720 --> 01:05:19.600 for the rotation that he made towards Rapside. 01:05:19.600 --> 01:05:21.800 So MIBR super happy with how proactive 01:05:21.800 --> 01:05:23.760 they're being on the map, but they should be. 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:26.080 Yet again, I mean, you go over towards Rapside, 01:05:26.080 --> 01:05:27.960 you get two kills as 3D Max, that feels good. 01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:29.000 But if you're MIBR, you're like, 01:05:29.000 --> 01:05:30.440 yeah, but that's the B support of Ellen. 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:32.160 We still got two defenders here, we're all good. 01:05:32.160 --> 01:05:33.000 Yeah. 01:05:34.160 --> 01:05:37.860 They are a step ahead of 3D Max on Inferno so far. 01:05:40.760 --> 01:05:44.760 I'm liking what I'm seeing from MIBR. 01:05:44.760 --> 01:05:48.760 It's been good so far. 01:05:48.760 --> 01:05:52.760 Yeah, we haven't casted them at this event. 01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:56.760 So we get a little bit of a different vibe. You can watch the VODs and see a couple of things. 01:05:56.760 --> 01:06:00.760 Getting this POV from the casting booth is things looking good for MIBR. 01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:04.760 I think Insani's done a really good job so far playing solo banana 01:06:04.760 --> 01:06:08.760 for the most part in the mid-round. Only three kills, 01:06:08.760 --> 01:06:14.760 He's done a very, very good job making sure that the B bomb site is never like an easy open opportunity for 3D Max. 01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:18.760 He's more bodies coming his way. Now there's the double-nade down deep. Ooh, chunks him down. 01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:22.760 And there's the utility dump. They shall not pass. 01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:26.760 Yeah, held in place. We're going to see Insani step in behind. 01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:32.760 Top car spamming on down. It's Insani snapping away and taking gravity out of the equation. 01:06:32.760 --> 01:06:38.760 He nine steps out for two and Sonny comes back and they finish off the entire B-bombsite offensive. 01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:43.760 So that'll be six to three here from IPR, really building on the CT side now. 01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:50.760 We've seen three Max call timeouts and try to make adjustments. They just still haven't figured it out yet. 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:53.760 Thanks Gunround. Let's see how this goes. You have gravity with the Max 10. 01:06:53.760 --> 01:06:55.760 I think this might be the time where they call for that play. 01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:58.760 They haven't done that like dynamic play of gravity getting aggressive through the smoke. 01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:02.120 the smoke so I think now might be a time where gravity is saying okay the offense 01:07:02.120 --> 01:07:04.600 needs a little bit of gas it needs a little bit of some a little bit of 01:07:04.600 --> 01:07:08.240 energy pushed into it so this might be something where he tries with that mac 01:07:08.240 --> 01:07:12.040 time to create the opportunity for his team 01:07:13.040 --> 01:07:17.240 all talking towards the window utility exchange down in banana as well although 01:07:17.240 --> 01:07:21.000 the CT is holding on to it you know and Sonny and LNZ haven't really dumped a 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:24.120 whole lot deep down banana happy to let them take the first step at the very 01:07:24.120 --> 01:07:32.400 released. Here comes gravity positioned inside the smoke. Ready to party. Nobody home. Very 01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.600 passive defense for MIBR. They don't want to mess with it at the point of attack. They 01:07:35.600 --> 01:07:39.120 want to mess with it as they turn the corner. Yeah, let them zero. Sends the flash. Here's 01:07:39.120 --> 01:07:46.000 gravity swinging. Back to the kill. A clean. The lineup two and then traded. The 3v3 still 01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:49.280 stands. Three and Max have a chance to try and get into the safe side, but that rotation 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:53.480 is coming quickly and Breno is still in a strong spot inside the pit. And Sonny just 01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:57.740 sent himself through the smoke hasn't worked out for him but Breno in the pit 01:07:57.740 --> 01:08:02.480 is the biggest problem right now it's a strong spot got plenty of cover and a 01:08:02.480 --> 01:08:06.280 low HP here inside of the bomb site from a Suity could be taken out by the 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:09.980 grenade but he's a little bit too far away for that to be effective that you 01:08:09.980 --> 01:08:12.320 wish you got the grenade to break the smoke but your teammate in pit has got 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:16.320 one and now he's got the second Breno just able to chill good patience couldn't 01:08:16.320 --> 01:08:20.180 find his his fight he wanted early on during their step into the bomb site 01:08:20.180 --> 01:08:24.460 It was really awkward trying to find the timing on those peeks, but closes it out at the end of the day. 01:08:26.460 --> 01:08:29.880 Really smart play from Breno after he takes care of the hull's player, just saying, 01:08:29.880 --> 01:08:33.120 Alright, all I have to do is survive. I don't need to commit to anything crazy. 01:08:33.120 --> 01:08:35.380 Just need to live here and make sure their box get into the bomb site. 01:08:35.380 --> 01:08:37.580 Even this utility couldn't lose, it might be all that well. 01:08:37.580 --> 01:08:52.380 Now Brenner does so well on pitch, just a real threat, real nuisance. 01:08:52.380 --> 01:08:57.260 Can't get him out of that, can't force him into an unfavorable fight. 01:08:57.260 --> 01:09:01.980 30 Max, come back with weapons though, it's not great, it's a lot of Kaleels and now they've 01:09:01.980 --> 01:09:06.620 lost Kassuta, so Clem's starting to find some confidence too, running down through that top 01:09:06.620 --> 01:09:10.820 new pickin grab the opener 01:09:10.820 --> 01:09:14.260 song the player that is fracking here for three maxes all of the day from a 01:09:14.260 --> 01:09:15.980 suit up 01:09:15.980 --> 01:09:19.140 lucky attempting the challenge 01:09:19.140 --> 01:09:24.060 they've never been able to get a clean look at the people I'm sorry I'll have 01:09:24.060 --> 01:09:27.020 briskiest move we've seen in sunny make 01:09:27.020 --> 01:09:31.380 today and forces a bit of the open kill from insati man he's playing well 01:09:31.380 --> 01:09:34.380 Come in LNZ together or just a force over here in 3D Max. 01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:35.880 I like... 01:09:36.380 --> 01:09:40.880 And at 3 on 5 it almost feels like your only real option for a win is to hit the B bomb site. 01:09:41.880 --> 01:09:44.380 But this just seems way too strong for them to overcome. 01:09:44.880 --> 01:09:49.380 I think LNZ has a good idea of how he wants to play the banana on this map. 01:09:49.380 --> 01:09:53.380 I mean, even when he was on a heroic, there was a number of times where I would see... 01:09:54.380 --> 01:09:57.380 ...good banana holds and halves and when heroic are a bit inconsistent. 01:09:57.380 --> 01:10:00.380 But when you obviously see them have a good inferno game, 01:10:00.380 --> 01:10:04.380 I was generally watching LNZ and how well he was able to control B. 01:10:04.380 --> 01:10:08.380 It was always super fun to watch and carrying that over here to MIPR 01:10:08.380 --> 01:10:11.380 has got a great teammate here in Insani to make sure it happens. 01:10:11.380 --> 01:10:14.380 Three mags before they even really do anything. 01:10:14.380 --> 01:10:16.380 The key side is destroyed. 01:10:18.380 --> 01:10:20.380 We have eight rounds here for MIPR unless... 01:10:20.380 --> 01:10:23.380 I mean, a special recovery comes in on this B bomb site now. 01:10:23.380 --> 01:10:25.380 You're still exacting through a smoke. 01:10:26.380 --> 01:10:29.380 It's true. Blinds aren't making many mistakes at all. 01:10:30.380 --> 01:10:37.380 14 seconds. Blinded, good flash at least, and Sony gonna take a lot of damage, a lot of heat. 01:10:37.380 --> 01:10:42.380 Clim comes in, shot connected onto XSE, she's still getting Sony alive. 01:10:42.380 --> 01:10:46.380 Play this retake if you want, or just charge for the smoke. 01:10:46.380 --> 01:10:50.380 Clim actually switched out to the right fall, runs through the smoke, gets both kills. 01:10:50.380 --> 01:10:53.380 MIBR, full of confidence. 01:10:53.380 --> 01:10:59.380 Just another example where the B bomb site is never even really available to you in the late round. 01:10:59.380 --> 01:11:04.380 That's the second or third time we've seen with like 35 seconds left on the clock. 01:11:04.380 --> 01:11:06.380 Just one last smoke come out of MIBR. 01:11:06.380 --> 01:11:13.380 Every single execute into the B bomb site for 3D Max has been harassed by Molotovs, by utility, by flashbangs, by the rotation. 01:11:13.380 --> 01:11:17.380 MIBR is such a good read. They're playing such clean counter strike in terms of the rotations 01:11:17.380 --> 01:11:20.380 and in terms of getting a step ahead of 3D Max. Very impressive. 01:11:20.380 --> 01:11:25.580 I mean, the idea that 3D Max isn't even having looks, you know, like you're shutting down 01:11:25.580 --> 01:11:27.820 even just the opportunities to get into a post plan. 01:11:27.820 --> 01:11:29.060 On their map pick as well. 01:11:29.060 --> 01:11:30.060 Yeah. 01:11:30.060 --> 01:11:31.060 On Inferno. 01:11:31.060 --> 01:11:34.740 Their map pick, we've seen them look good on this before, but getting absolutely annihilated 01:11:34.740 --> 01:11:41.300 by MIBR right now, they're not going to have room to lose a pistol round here, 3D Max. 01:11:41.300 --> 01:11:45.060 They're ancient up next. 01:11:45.060 --> 01:11:49.540 Famously being the map that 3D Max has struggled on. 01:11:49.540 --> 01:11:52.780 With every version of this roster, that doesn't bode well. 01:11:52.780 --> 01:11:59.020 Looking for their fourth round. 01:11:59.020 --> 01:12:05.700 Three defenders at the A-bomb set, again passive. 01:12:05.700 --> 01:12:10.780 Exorcist clearing out the angles. They've got control of brackets for free. This 01:12:10.780 --> 01:12:11.900 hasn't been the issue. 01:12:11.900 --> 01:12:15.700 They've been able to maintain this position a number of times. It's what do you do from here? 01:12:20.780 --> 01:12:24.100 Sony into the top and out of peak is actually died this time. Okay 01:12:24.100 --> 01:12:27.300 That's one one time you've been able to get rid of and sound he make the most of it now 01:12:27.300 --> 01:12:30.380 Yeah, just walk it walk towards the B bombsite. He just just go for now 01:12:30.740 --> 01:12:32.180 You've all five players are here 01:12:32.180 --> 01:12:35.200 You've given up any space any standing you had up at brackets up in middle 01:12:35.540 --> 01:12:38.220 Ellen see does have another Molotov and another smoke 01:12:38.220 --> 01:12:43.380 So he's trying to puff himself and make it feel big make like there's a second defender at this bombsite with all this utility 01:12:43.380 --> 01:12:47.540 Trying to keep 3d max shy away 35 seconds and again another smoke just drops 01:12:48.940 --> 01:12:53.580 I'm surprised we haven't seen a rotation from anyone from MIBR. It's gonna come in now, but it's gonna be late 01:12:53.580 --> 01:12:55.580 So what can LNZ do on his own? 01:13:02.460 --> 01:13:04.700 Sends a flash through go to the peak 01:13:04.700 --> 01:13:08.800 Hands up taking a flash to the face himself, but doesn't die stays alive 01:13:09.800 --> 01:13:16.320 Disrupted right to the smoke. Oh my god LNC two kills through the smoke going to get all LNC 01:13:16.320 --> 01:13:20.000 Destroying them at the B site not in a time to plant the bomb 01:13:20.240 --> 01:13:28.240 And even though you get rid of Insani, it is LNC with an incredible half of defensive counter strike towards that B bomb site 01:13:28.240 --> 01:13:33.000 9-3 lead, that should be too much for 3D Max to recover from. 01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:35.440 That's so insane that he's able to do that. 01:13:35.440 --> 01:13:37.960 The only support he had, nobody else was there. 01:13:37.960 --> 01:13:42.200 It was one flashbang from a teammate who just arrived in the moment to chuck it out, 01:13:42.200 --> 01:13:45.960 with two kills through the smoke, and then you push on through a resuspected play, 01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:49.240 but knowing the time as an ally, you get that one kill, and it's done. 01:13:49.240 --> 01:13:50.640 Exactly what happens. 01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:51.960 Sunder terrorist, we... 01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:58.040 9-3, a such a strong start for MIBR, and 3D Max's offense just looked flat. 01:13:58.240 --> 01:14:02.800 You know, as he just got himself a Brazilian passport with that play, that was massive from LNZ. 01:14:02.800 --> 01:14:07.200 And really, I mean, like I was saying, there's not enough room to lose a pistol round here for 3D Max. 01:14:07.200 --> 01:14:14.800 You lose the pistol, map one's done, you got to go to ancient, and I do not feel good about 3D Max's chances on that second map. 01:14:14.800 --> 01:14:17.840 This is fantastic from MIBR. 01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:22.000 Yeah, I mean, just unreal that all every single play just seemed to work. 01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:25.680 The fact that LNZ is able to get away with all that is just craziness. 01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:30.800 All right, time to buckle up if you're 3D Max. 01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:33.640 Better be the best CT side you've played. 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:37.600 I mentioned they've powered up throughout the event. 01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:39.940 They've certainly dropped the ball here in the opening half 01:14:39.940 --> 01:14:41.800 of this quarter final series. 01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:47.200 All right, NYP off. 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:49.680 Could win the map here with his pistol round. 01:14:50.160 --> 01:14:51.480 Plenty of utility for Breno. 01:14:55.680 --> 01:15:01.520 I'm just gonna walk in out through banana and Sony doing great work on it on the CT side now 01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:06.520 Switch to the T side. He's leading the charge. See the charge move a walk up through banana 01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:15.480 Here's the difference though is I'm the CT pistol on for through for excuse me for my VR and Sony was peeking down to have some information on the scaling 01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:22.400 Yeah, 3D Max don't have that so you just get this surprise attack and suddenly appears that a lot of you tell sent to a CT 01:15:22.400 --> 01:15:27.920 So the extra man you brought over to the B bomb site is instantly dead gravity and lucky at least getting away with one each 01:15:28.440 --> 01:15:31.960 Gravity still alive can get an extra kill here really needs one 01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:34.600 But he's gonna back away and just try and play even numbers 01:15:34.600 --> 01:15:40.760 So I might be I put the bomb down clean gets that kill on gravity and now a retake seems just so unlikely because Mac 01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:46.480 Timmasuits have no utility and no kit to speak of and you've got three players to try and flush out here now 01:15:46.480 --> 01:15:51.040 You spotted the barrel. That's a free kill on that in Zara, but immediately clean peeks out from dark 01:15:51.040 --> 01:15:57.520 gets the trade so Mako with 5 HP can't win this, Paystall, MRB are going to double figures and really 01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:02.480 shoot Pia on Inferno. Flemish, sharp man, we saw some of the AK work in the first half, 01:16:02.480 --> 01:16:07.160 I mean some of the rifle work in the first half but this one is pissed around just great peaks 01:16:07.160 --> 01:16:11.920 and very quick trades. When his teammate goes down and watered by the bombsite that's lovely. 01:16:21.040 --> 01:16:27.520 I'm talking about how they're not playing very well right now and time to have a beautiful 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:28.520 CT side now. 01:16:28.520 --> 01:16:32.640 I'm sure that speech felt somewhat inspiring to kick off the half. 01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:34.960 Yeah, do you feel inspired at the moment, Dinka? 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.160 It feels better if you win the pistol. 01:16:37.160 --> 01:16:41.240 And now it's like, ah, Sacre bleh. 01:16:41.240 --> 01:16:44.800 Not happy about that. 01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:45.800 Not much to be happy about. 01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:46.800 No, you're right, Jason. 01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:47.800 That was not inspiring. 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:48.800 Not even slightly. 01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:51.840 Could it be inspiring? No, if you want to pit still, you know, you remember back like, 01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:54.080 see, I told you we're gonna have a beautiful side. 01:16:54.080 --> 01:16:56.420 That's how it starts, boys, but it didn't go that way, did it? 01:16:56.600 --> 01:16:59.020 Eight rounds in a row for MIBR. 01:17:00.380 --> 01:17:03.020 There's a wild run of dominance. 01:17:04.660 --> 01:17:06.620 Second round by for 3D Max. 01:17:07.120 --> 01:17:09.360 Three MP9s, the upgraded pistols. 01:17:11.060 --> 01:17:14.060 Makka saving a little bit of money for that AWP in the first gun round. 01:17:14.060 --> 01:17:17.620 3D Max just isn't going to have a whole lot of opportunities in this game to get going, 01:17:17.620 --> 01:17:19.940 It's a recover if they don't win this round right here 01:17:31.780 --> 01:17:34.460 Oh, well NZ 13 HP 01:17:36.100 --> 01:17:40.460 So backtracking through banana going up through middle. Yeah, I mean he's gonna be sad about that 01:17:40.460 --> 01:17:42.060 Maybe that has some consequences down the road 01:17:42.060 --> 01:17:45.100 But at the same time I think they're okay with the idea that they forced out that smoke 01:17:45.100 --> 01:17:48.540 They've actually baited out a little bit of utility. Okay, here's a mid key. Good wins. 01:17:48.540 --> 01:17:50.620 Oh, it worked out really well here for 3D Max. 01:17:51.740 --> 01:17:55.100 If you're gonna lose the pistol run, you have to win the second round and it's a good start. 01:17:56.140 --> 01:18:00.380 Should be tough to lose this one now, especially with that kill on Breno. 01:18:01.260 --> 01:18:05.180 So four rounds for 3D Max. How much damage can I have here though? 01:18:05.900 --> 01:18:07.660 How many players can they take down with them? 01:18:08.220 --> 01:18:11.180 They take steps up to mid. It's Clement and Sonny. 01:18:11.180 --> 01:18:14.220 They're still looking for the round win, of course, but look at the HP though. 01:18:14.220 --> 01:18:16.520 Very tough to imagine that happening. 01:18:16.520 --> 01:18:17.820 Clinton needs to step in. 01:18:17.820 --> 01:18:19.620 He's going to have to rotate all the way back around through halls. 01:18:19.620 --> 01:18:21.420 We'll pause. We'll pause. Here they come. 01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:23.920 Oh, Clinton giving a shot. They know where he is now. 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:26.020 AK-47 goes back into the apartments. 01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:27.820 Yeah, but he's already got two players coming up. 01:18:27.820 --> 01:18:28.820 Brackets from the flank. 01:18:28.820 --> 01:18:29.820 So this is going to be a little bit weird. 01:18:29.820 --> 01:18:31.920 He might have some issues crossing over in the bomb site now 01:18:31.920 --> 01:18:32.820 because they're going to peek this. 01:18:32.820 --> 01:18:33.620 They're moving in. 01:18:33.620 --> 01:18:35.020 Flashbang is going to go too deep. 01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:38.620 I need to be incredibly sharp. 01:18:38.620 --> 01:18:43.320 That was a small window of opportunity to try and get through 01:18:43.320 --> 01:18:48.040 to win this round and Sonny doing good damage, putting extra players down with it. 01:18:48.040 --> 01:18:51.000 Just worried about the balcony, but they're all toward short. 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:56.200 And Sonny jumps up time, taking eight seconds on the clock, so no way to win the round here. 01:18:58.760 --> 01:19:02.200 And he's just going back. He will die before the time, so at least he's got that mercy. 01:19:02.200 --> 01:19:05.720 At least he's got that going for him. Okay, fourth round for 3D Max. 01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:10.120 Able to outlast on the second round, and that was the one that really allows them to keep 01:19:10.120 --> 01:19:13.040 fighting in this game if that wasn't go by the wayside they had no chance of 01:19:13.040 --> 01:19:17.080 coming back into this it feels but now with the MIBR so three rounds away from 01:19:17.080 --> 01:19:22.120 the back map victory 3d max can look at that inspiring speech from half time and 01:19:22.120 --> 01:19:25.120 put a little bit more stock into it yeah it's kind of like a brave heart top 01:19:25.120 --> 01:19:29.160 speech to be honest like if brave heart was French yeah French William Wallace 01:19:29.160 --> 01:19:31.480 over there 01:19:31.480 --> 01:19:33.480 Laser beams from his eyes. 01:19:33.480 --> 01:19:37.480 As if you, if you, you know, if we don't come back, you know, it's fine. 01:19:37.480 --> 01:19:38.480 He's gonna lose. 01:19:38.480 --> 01:19:41.480 That's the French inspiring speed shot. 01:19:45.480 --> 01:19:49.480 11 to 4 is what we are hoping for off the back of Tec-9s and the Eagles. 01:19:49.480 --> 01:19:51.480 Now, you can get a balcony pop going. 01:19:51.480 --> 01:19:55.480 It's possible with these kind of pistols and little bit of utility. 01:19:55.480 --> 01:19:57.480 Yeah, yeah, it can be very dangerous. 01:19:57.480 --> 01:19:59.480 Not a bad timing as well as this defensive smoke comes down 01:19:59.480 --> 01:20:02.280 comes down if they want to scale behind it. Makka is shifting back. 01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:12.120 When this clears, I think MIBR, chuck out a flashbang and just kind of hit it. 01:20:15.640 --> 01:20:19.000 Makka over in library for the moment. I could isolate him out of the fight. 01:20:19.000 --> 01:20:22.280 Gravity is going to have to step into the bomb site when the execution eventually comes. 01:20:22.280 --> 01:20:24.760 And Molotov is brutal. They're going to have to step away from the flames. 01:20:25.400 --> 01:20:26.760 And I think now is the timing. 01:20:29.480 --> 01:20:35.480 He steps up towards default, teammate's gone, you love the Sand and Sonny Deagle, I put a 01:20:35.480 --> 01:20:40.480 kill feed if you're on YBR, followed up by Ven and Zera, gravity overrun, and yep, that 01:20:40.480 --> 01:20:46.080 is a teeth grinding moment for 3 Max, it's just been destroyed. 01:20:46.080 --> 01:20:48.960 The flashbangs were nasty from MIBR, I'll say that. 01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:52.840 The follow up is second layered flash that blinds that player in the bomb site to prevent 01:20:52.840 --> 01:20:57.840 him from supporting anything, but damn that felt way too easy. 01:20:57.840 --> 01:21:03.840 Andy got the entrance, the follow-ups are there, gravity, he couldn't really turn his attention and get prepared for the fight in time. 01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:05.840 He was running through a smoke, deleted. 01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:16.840 When you look at that mini-map on the CTX's that have died without perfect flashbangs, it's hard to see how you don't lose a T-player. 01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:21.840 From those positions, it's crazy how easy that did look for MIPR. 01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:28.840 Got one player in D4, one towards Soda, one towards Pit, and none of the CTs manage a single kill. 01:21:31.840 --> 01:21:32.840 You're gonna be lovin' this. 01:21:32.840 --> 01:21:35.840 Just a wild sequence of events, they can't get anything going. 01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:39.840 Like there's just no momentum to be built up, no consistency. 01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:41.840 Here's the one D, okay that came from short. 01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:47.840 Yeah, coming through the smoke, Maka had no chance, gravity on the bomb site just gets completely blinded. 01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:49.840 Oh man, just wrecked. 01:21:51.840 --> 01:21:55.840 Get them out. Let's get to Ancient. 01:21:55.840 --> 01:21:59.840 Famosas are out. 01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:03.840 Lucky as in M4, but 3D Max... 01:22:03.840 --> 01:22:09.840 I mentioned they've been getting better and better throughout the tournament. Well, this feels like they've taken a couple steps back, at least here for this opening map in the series. 01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:14.840 It's certainly going to be a stern conversation between maps as they attempt to... 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:18.840 tie the series up on Ancient. 01:22:21.840 --> 01:22:27.940 That's not over yet, but just by the way 3d max is playing it's hard to imagine that there's gonna be a turnaround where they can come back 01:22:29.240 --> 01:22:32.920 Masuda holding on to a smoke a Molotov as well on his teammate at the B bomb site 01:22:32.920 --> 01:22:37.920 These are the last two pieces of utility available a little bit stockpiled behind him, but they got to get the timing right 01:22:45.480 --> 01:22:47.960 Gonna be getting ready to go into the B site here 01:22:47.960 --> 01:22:51.680 They're going to be blocked by another smoke, just under a minute left, they can wait this 01:22:51.680 --> 01:22:55.700 one out and get your pieces put in place for an execution. 01:22:55.700 --> 01:22:58.760 While that's happening, XSS is going to rotate over, they're going to have an extra player 01:22:58.760 --> 01:22:59.760 for the defenses. 01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:01.400 Mack are also looking to join them. 01:23:01.400 --> 01:23:02.720 Yeah, good call. 01:23:02.720 --> 01:23:05.600 This means they can actually send bodies through the smoke as well, so they can actually harass 01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:09.560 this on the attack, and then you've got multiple layers of players ready for the retake, already 01:23:09.560 --> 01:23:11.480 arrived at the B bomb site. 01:23:11.480 --> 01:23:13.400 Behind the flames, Masuda takes a couple shots. 01:23:13.400 --> 01:23:16.360 Hellensee is very far forward compared to the rest of his teammates. 01:23:16.360 --> 01:23:18.880 He's on an adventure, but taking down by Masuta, 01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:20.720 XCC is getting involved as well, 01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:22.000 and a shutdown coming through, 01:23:22.000 --> 01:23:24.080 but Brenner will send the light. 01:23:24.080 --> 01:23:26.760 A small chance, if he can take down Masuta, 01:23:26.760 --> 01:23:30.080 which he's done with attack nine, then it's doable here. 01:23:30.080 --> 01:23:33.200 Still difficult with 20 HP, the FAMAS picked up, 01:23:33.200 --> 01:23:34.840 and then gravity runs over the top, 01:23:34.840 --> 01:23:36.240 he raced up through banana once, 01:23:36.240 --> 01:23:37.720 he realized it was the full commitment 01:23:37.720 --> 01:23:40.720 to that B bombsite, so a really important roundup 01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:42.040 for 3D Max. 01:23:42.040 --> 01:23:44.040 Yeah, I mean, they noticed the time on the clock 01:23:44.040 --> 01:23:45.440 and were able to cheat that rotation, 01:23:45.440 --> 01:23:48.480 kind of saying this has got to be their final play only like 30 seconds there 01:23:48.480 --> 01:23:51.400 they're gonna be coming and attacking this be bomb site shifting a third 01:23:51.400 --> 01:23:55.480 defender having a fourth close by to be there with some quickness and as soon as 01:23:55.480 --> 01:23:59.440 contact is made just the trap is sprung and 3d max collapses really well done 01:23:59.440 --> 01:24:02.920 you do lose three players so economy's not in the greatest position ever yeah 01:24:02.920 --> 01:24:06.240 well they're chasing this wind still for my PR in terms of going through the fire 01:24:06.240 --> 01:24:11.240 don't want to take an eco here so tech 9s coming out AK 47 in play here for 01:24:11.240 --> 01:24:21.240 Breno, my Mac is going to make his way down middle, he's got that opening frag here on VenomZera, so immediately you're going to have to play a 4v5, and you've got weaker guns here at my VR. 01:24:21.240 --> 01:24:32.240 See, I'm starting to see a little bit more pep in the 3D Mac step. Nice little aggressive peek towards alt mid to give yourself a man advantage 5 on 4, smoke towards left side mid. 01:24:32.240 --> 01:24:38.240 Probably feeling the sting from previous rounds where they just sat back and allowed those pistols to get into position and actually get on them with flashes. 01:24:38.240 --> 01:24:43.240 There's also that element where like when you're getting beat so bad like at some point like you just get so frustrated 01:24:43.240 --> 01:24:46.400 The pressure just kind of disappears because you're just you're just losing so badly 01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:49.000 It can be frustrating because you're also just like wow 01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:52.680 Why can't we play like this out of the gate? You know, why do we have to come back? 01:24:53.160 --> 01:24:55.160 Why do we have so many rounds to? 01:24:55.840 --> 01:24:58.360 Have to pull back to get close to time things up 01:24:58.360 --> 01:25:00.520 I'm about to need bombs still to the floor 01:25:01.080 --> 01:25:03.080 Dealing with the players already got into the bomb size 01:25:03.080 --> 01:25:07.080 He's actually under a bit of pressure, but he's got his teammates to alleviate that. 01:25:07.080 --> 01:25:09.080 And then they hunt down the final kill with the USP. 01:25:09.080 --> 01:25:15.080 So better rounds here, back-to-back for 3D Max that will force the save coming out of the T side. 01:25:16.080 --> 01:25:18.080 Just five rounds back. 01:25:19.080 --> 01:25:23.080 A good chance to close it down to four as well in that gap on the scoreboard. 01:25:23.080 --> 01:25:27.080 $2,000-ish across the board for the MIBR players, so expect a save. 01:25:27.080 --> 01:25:29.080 Maybe some, probably not even pistol buys actually. 01:25:29.080 --> 01:25:32.080 No, you might as well just get the best buy you could possibly get in the next one if you're MIBR. 01:25:32.080 --> 01:25:36.080 MIBR. Yeah, it's gonna start heating up. I mean, next round's gonna be critical. That's 01:25:36.080 --> 01:25:40.080 what makes this, that's gonna be the interesting one. A 3D Max can win that and keep this alive. 01:25:40.080 --> 01:25:47.080 Keep MIBR off 12. That's gonna make this interesting down the stretch. And I even like this. This 01:25:47.080 --> 01:25:51.080 is cool from 3D Max too. The psychological aspect of things. Go push into their face. Don't let 01:25:51.080 --> 01:25:55.080 them have any fun. Don't let them chit-chat. Don't let them feel like don't give them the room to work with. 01:25:55.080 --> 01:26:00.080 You know they have the pistols. Probably not gonna have a whole lot of utility. And it seems like such a 01:26:00.080 --> 01:26:03.440 small thing and around where they bring on the glocks and but I mean mentally it's 01:26:03.440 --> 01:26:08.240 just annoying to get pushed like this no matter what kind of around it is 01:26:08.240 --> 01:26:14.240 I love this. Get us out of this eco round. Get us to the gun round straight away. 01:26:14.240 --> 01:26:21.040 Now do that against paravision. Yeah you can do that. It really seems like they did do that. 01:26:21.040 --> 01:26:29.120 Timeout called MIVR first time out taken. I haven't had a whole lot of issues in 01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:31.880 this match this is really the first stretch where they've had to scratch 01:26:31.880 --> 01:26:36.540 their head and go back to the drawing board and have a conversation. 01:26:40.040 --> 01:26:44.300 Slow start for MIBR's offense on this T-side, winning the pistol, losing the 01:26:44.300 --> 01:26:47.800 second, returning in the third with a Deagle win and Tech 9 win and then 01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:52.040 losing the follow-up round after that. Not able to string anything together, 01:26:52.040 --> 01:26:57.080 build up momentum and now three rounds straight for 3D Max. They've built up 01:26:57.080 --> 01:27:02.580 They've got some breathing room, gravity's got 8,000 in the bank, Maka's got his AWP with 3,600 in the bank. 01:27:02.580 --> 01:27:09.080 Money not an issue for 3D Max right now. They've set themselves up as good as possible to make this comeback happen, to make it a reality. 01:27:09.080 --> 01:27:12.080 Now they just have to execute perfectly. 01:27:12.080 --> 01:27:14.080 Four rounds back. 01:27:14.080 --> 01:27:24.720 All players from a suit up, broken smoke, flash to set out up. 01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:25.720 You've lost Insani. 01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:28.560 I'm going to good start to the rounds here from 3D Max. 01:27:28.560 --> 01:27:30.600 That's what I'm talking about, pep in the step. 01:27:30.600 --> 01:27:33.240 Yeah, definitely seeing that attitude coming out of 3D Max. 01:27:33.240 --> 01:27:36.200 Now, getting disruptive. 01:27:36.200 --> 01:27:39.720 Three rounds in a row, we've seen some very aggressive stances from at least one 3D Max 01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:43.280 player. 01:27:43.280 --> 01:27:48.600 put in the pressure on them I'd be able to figure out how do you play a 4v5 you've lost 01:27:48.600 --> 01:27:49.880 banana as well. 01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:51.600 Clem's looking for the rifle. 01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:52.600 Like hello? 01:27:52.600 --> 01:28:01.080 Don't be nuts to him it's been stolen or disappeared. 01:28:01.080 --> 01:28:02.080 Probably stolen. 01:28:02.080 --> 01:28:05.880 Flash gets full and the suits are burning and dead. 01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:11.800 That's gonna be Clem worked a great headshot doesn't need a rifle if he's got the deagle 01:28:11.800 --> 01:28:13.800 And now we can get onto the AK. 01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:16.160 So that resets to a 4v4. 01:28:16.160 --> 01:28:19.800 We'll see if my Bjarke back into banana. 01:28:19.800 --> 01:28:22.600 We got Maka now stepping up to try and close this gap with the AWP. 01:28:22.600 --> 01:28:25.560 Yeah, because it's the AWP, they're confident that he can hold it on his own. 01:28:25.560 --> 01:28:26.440 They've shipped it away. 01:28:26.440 --> 01:28:27.120 Lucky's gone. 01:28:27.120 --> 01:28:31.720 Yeah, maybe he's rewarding them for their confidence with that opening kill 01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:33.200 and slowing things down with the Molotov, 01:28:33.200 --> 01:28:35.040 but they want to press the issue with the extinguish. 01:28:35.040 --> 01:28:36.120 You know, just going through it. 01:28:36.120 --> 01:28:38.680 Maka is going to miss the shot dropping back to Newbox. 01:28:38.680 --> 01:28:39.960 Spamming down, though. 01:28:39.960 --> 01:28:43.100 His ecstasy through that CT smoke is connected onto Venom's air up. 01:28:43.100 --> 01:28:45.600 He's slowing this MIBRT side down. 01:28:45.600 --> 01:28:48.860 Not looking great. Brenner's gonna send a shot back through the smoke. 01:28:48.860 --> 01:28:51.200 Makka, gotta step up here. 01:28:51.200 --> 01:28:55.760 Two bullets left in the gun before the reload and he's out of ammo, but he's got teammates. 01:28:55.760 --> 01:28:58.360 And 3D Makks starting to get something to celebrate. 01:28:58.360 --> 01:29:01.260 Yeah, both teams really strode to get good looks at the B bomb site. 01:29:01.260 --> 01:29:05.860 Every time both teams have tried to shift into it late, the site's not available to them. 01:29:05.860 --> 01:29:10.560 The off-shot, the follow-up Molotov to delay things, buys the time for the rotation to come in. 01:29:10.560 --> 01:29:15.060 Both defenses managing these late-round B attacks very, very well on their CT halves. 01:29:18.360 --> 01:29:21.760 Offenses so far in this quarterfinal, having a varied tough time. 01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:23.560 Here's the opening from Masuta. 01:29:27.460 --> 01:29:30.760 Amaka just had a relatively comfortable round. They could never get close to him. 01:29:30.760 --> 01:29:34.060 Now he's getting hyped up. Now we've got some energy coming into the 3D max side. 01:29:34.060 --> 01:29:42.060 This comeback is well and truly on. Three rounds away, MIBR has been stuck on 11 now for four rounds. 01:29:45.060 --> 01:29:48.060 And haven't even really gotten close in any of those. 01:29:51.060 --> 01:29:56.060 And it looks like this will be the third time in a half-by-round where they come back to this hull's pop. 01:29:59.060 --> 01:30:03.060 Worked the first time when Insani gets an opening kill with a Deagle from Lane from Short. 01:30:04.060 --> 01:30:10.520 They got stuffed last time they ran it, and maybe this time again. 01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:16.340 Trying to get out of the balcony, gravity, and mach out with multiple kills in quick 01:30:16.340 --> 01:30:17.340 succession. 01:30:17.340 --> 01:30:20.820 And this gap is closing rapidly. 01:30:20.820 --> 01:30:25.780 R&Z out with attack 9, good second kill out towards pink. 01:30:25.780 --> 01:30:28.740 They just have some style points and not much else. 01:30:28.740 --> 01:30:32.780 Prioritizing the AK-47s as well, because they're so rich, Marker calls them off picking 01:30:32.780 --> 01:30:36.800 up the AWP because he can afford it. He wants to make sure the strong rifles are there for 01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:43.560 his teammates. 11-9, the lead has cut the 2. Oh, so fast. Now 5 straight for 3D Max. 01:30:43.560 --> 01:30:48.040 Defense has locked in. Beautiful CT side. That inspiring speech has led them back into 01:30:48.040 --> 01:30:55.760 this game, Jason. True leader. And Maka. Let's see how this comeback continues. It could 01:30:55.760 --> 01:31:00.080 be 12 right now for Mabiyar. I just think they lost the pistol round as well, 3D Max, 01:31:00.080 --> 01:31:02.780 Which makes this really impressive if they do run this all the way back. 01:31:02.780 --> 01:31:08.000 Yeah, well they also lost the eco round in the third round too, so you can add another piece of impressive nature into it. 01:31:09.340 --> 01:31:15.400 Maybe a little bit too eager, maybe a little bit too much pep in this step now, hasn't scaled it back yet, that might not cause it in the future. 01:31:15.400 --> 01:31:15.900 Too much pep. 01:31:16.420 --> 01:31:17.420 Way too much pep. 01:31:25.880 --> 01:31:26.580 LNZ. 01:31:27.500 --> 01:31:28.380 Come through banana. 01:31:28.380 --> 01:31:35.820 and he's gonna land towards the coffins no one from 3 max aggressive enough on b for that to be an issue 01:31:35.820 --> 01:31:41.180 they're leaving lucky over here solo but doesn't feel the most comfortable so they just start gonna 01:31:41.180 --> 01:31:46.060 shift that up and bring mack over here who has shown that he's capable of holding onto that b bomb 01:31:46.060 --> 01:31:54.060 side alone oh free up lucky to go back over towards a i can see that smoke down towards ct we'll 01:31:54.060 --> 01:31:58.100 toss his own out to try and keep these players back. In fact, they might have, you know, 01:31:58.100 --> 01:32:01.580 have enough. They would be there going to walk into the stack of players. This is the 01:32:01.580 --> 01:32:03.700 best chance for 3D Max to hold on to the round. 01:32:03.700 --> 01:32:09.740 They're doing another Halls pop. Maybe they have a full, yeah, there's the bomb is coming. 01:32:09.740 --> 01:32:13.020 Clems going to come. So this will be the fourth Halls pop they call this time though with 01:32:13.020 --> 01:32:16.220 AK-47. So they clearly see something here that they think they can exploit. 01:32:16.220 --> 01:32:21.620 Oh, well, that was a good shot. Yeah, you can exploit that. Yeah, they see it pretty clearly. 01:32:21.620 --> 01:32:27.860 Lucky and Masuta trying to come back and hold this together. Lucky gets one, but both A-plies go on and Makka good luck 01:32:27.860 --> 01:32:33.780 There's nothing you can do other than save that AWP get comfortable hang on to it and that is map point for MIBR 01:32:33.980 --> 01:32:38.820 Yeah, I mean shout out to MIBR. They're dead right. There is something there they can take control of I 01:32:39.780 --> 01:32:44.660 Have 3D max might be just like okay. That's four times now. They're just gonna keep attacking us at halls 01:32:45.820 --> 01:32:51.280 Perhaps expecting something different, but MIBR just just runs you over so that's 12 finally put an end to the streak 01:32:51.620 --> 01:32:58.360 But you have to say, 3D Max has a great job getting this close, so, I mean, well, previously 01:32:58.360 --> 01:32:59.720 I kind of written off the comeback. 01:32:59.720 --> 01:33:04.560 I'm not going to write it off here because they are close enough to strike back. 01:33:04.560 --> 01:33:05.560 It's still four sovertime. 01:33:05.560 --> 01:33:07.400 They need three rounds in a row. 01:33:07.400 --> 01:33:13.360 20 kills on Clem in this game so far for MIBR, LNZ has 17 on the other side of the map. 01:33:13.360 --> 01:33:20.000 16 from Asuda to lead the way on 3D Max, 15 for Gravity. 01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:23.440 And MIBR finally gets up to 12 and that's a deep sigh of relief. 01:33:23.440 --> 01:33:26.120 Now you have the cushion, you have the parachute of overtime. 01:33:26.120 --> 01:33:31.280 You cannot lose in regulation, so you can play a little bit looser. 01:33:31.280 --> 01:33:32.960 Round 22 coming in. 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.760 Full buy for the 3D Max site, again that money was just so strong. 01:33:36.760 --> 01:33:46.640 Damn, that is not a bad shot at all and good utility on the follow-up push. 01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:53.640 map winning opportunities for MIBR that begin right now. 01:33:55.200 --> 01:33:59.080 Blocking up top mid is attempting to slow things down but there's no slowing this MIBR 01:33:59.080 --> 01:34:02.520 down. They're going to go around the corner, clear out gravity. Masuto at least getting 01:34:02.520 --> 01:34:06.840 one but into the archway towards CT Insani will run. Lucky hearing the steps, gets his 01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:13.040 rifle out and Venom Zera is slowing down just in time so he doesn't walk into a multi-kill. 01:34:13.040 --> 01:34:18.240 shot from Mac as 5-7. Yeah, Venom's probably pissed. That's a kill he should have had. That's 01:34:18.240 --> 01:34:22.640 the exact one he was looking for. He was ready for it. I mean, Pitt is such a powerful position 01:34:22.640 --> 01:34:27.040 here. XCC count 4. Oh, what? He just steps out. He gives up his life. Yeah, I don't really know why, 01:34:27.040 --> 01:34:30.480 and I don't really know why you'd jump up in that particular location. Dude, there's no reason to do 01:34:30.480 --> 01:34:35.440 that. You've given NYP all the way to close this map. Yeah, open things up. That Pitt position 01:34:35.440 --> 01:34:39.920 is just so strong to stay alive in, so huge mistake from XCC that's going to have even bigger 01:34:39.920 --> 01:34:45.160 consequences, potentially, if they go on to lose this tough retake. They've got all three kits. 01:34:45.160 --> 01:34:50.540 They've got a good amount of utility, but still a hard bomb site to retake even with those tools at your disposal. 01:34:51.480 --> 01:34:55.000 We've got to put an LNC out into the open. Can he get one before going down front? 01:34:55.000 --> 01:34:59.880 He's got to help him from pit. LNC up for it, and that mistake is going to cost him this comeback. 01:34:59.880 --> 01:35:02.960 3D Max lucky up against Breno. Can't stop him. 01:35:02.960 --> 01:35:07.640 LIPR with a wonderful first half. Finally closed things out here on Inferno, 01:35:07.640 --> 01:35:14.140 And 3D Max, to come back in this quarterfinal, they have to rely on Ancient, despite their Ancient history. 01:35:15.640 --> 01:35:19.340 Yeah, Ancient history is what they are on this map, at least, Dinko. 01:35:19.340 --> 01:35:33.140 MIBR, that's kind of what I expected to happen. I feel at this tournament, at least the individual parts of MIBR have been good, even when the macro game has been kind of falling apart. 01:35:33.140 --> 01:35:36.640 And the unfortunate thing is, Richard, we have a couple of rounds we'll talk about later on, 01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:41.660 But there's so many tiny individual mistakes being made by the 3d max players who are the more 01:35:42.220 --> 01:35:47.240 Experience side who have players who played in so many bigger events and a lot of the players that might be our that final round 01:35:47.240 --> 01:35:51.380 What was ecstasy's climbing out of pit? You're the only guy you have all the place towards arch 01:35:51.380 --> 01:35:54.680 You notice smokes coming in towards motto. I mean I smoke and deploy to cut them off 01:35:54.680 --> 01:35:56.960 He just jumps out of pit gives them a free 01:35:57.960 --> 01:36:01.480 Yes, he from when he got one bullet in by LNC in the previous round 01:36:01.480 --> 01:36:03.420 Well, they still didn't do anything that he that was a safe 01:36:03.420 --> 01:36:18.420 That was a 4v2, that's a round they had no business losing and yeah, so many mistakes being made by 3DMX because that was in all honesty a very commendable attempt at a comeback but unfortunately you slip up like that when you have that many rounds to work with you will fail. 01:36:18.420 --> 01:36:30.420 Yeah, I mean kind of a tale of two CT sides right, I mean both have started out really scrappy, you know kind of a back and forth maybe the first four to five rounds especially in the second half where you have you know the pistol victory turns like an anti-eco and things of that nature. 01:36:30.420 --> 01:36:33.460 that nature. What I will though do is give a little bit of credit to Bayton 01:36:33.460 --> 01:36:36.980 Brazil for how well they played defensively in that first half. It just 01:36:36.980 --> 01:36:40.580 seemed like every time 3D Max went for an engagement whether it was when they 01:36:40.580 --> 01:36:43.420 were wrapping you know art side or whether they were taking a flight of 01:36:43.420 --> 01:36:46.980 banana there was always that extra man there for Bayton Brazil you know they 01:36:46.980 --> 01:36:49.780 never really let someone get isolated there was always really good trade 01:36:49.780 --> 01:36:53.580 potential they had like these little micro like bait and switch setups or you 01:36:53.580 --> 01:36:56.220 know just you know good trading efficiency I think is really kind of the 01:36:56.220 --> 01:36:59.300 best way to sum it up and it was really all across the map and this dude just 01:36:59.300 --> 01:37:02.400 continues to deliver. We were talking about it pregame. This is a guy that 01:37:02.400 --> 01:37:05.160 everyone's gonna start having their eyes on real soon. And I just want to put 01:37:05.160 --> 01:37:09.800 this one out there. He's only on loan to main Brazil right now. So this is a guy 01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:13.520 who is beefing up his resume quite a bit. I'll be curious to see what kind of 01:37:13.520 --> 01:37:17.120 future he has because he's one of those operas. That's like the perfect mix of 01:37:17.120 --> 01:37:20.640 a really good opera, but has a really badly rifle to which is what you need 01:37:20.640 --> 01:37:23.720 to have in today's day and age. And he's got both and he's been looking really 01:37:23.720 --> 01:37:27.760 impressive on the spin. Yeah, we interviewed Insani when he joined us 01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:34.040 And we were talking about Clem and he just said this kid's crazy like he thinks he's one of the best opus in the world 01:37:34.040 --> 01:37:39.120 Or certainly destined to be there especially in a day and age we're finding a good offer is so very hard 01:37:39.120 --> 01:37:42.520 Right, we have a few players who you know were really good in tier 3 tier 2 01:37:42.520 --> 01:37:45.900 They come to a proper team play on a big land and he's completely crumble 01:37:45.900 --> 01:37:52.000 This has not been the case it came into this event as a heist rated player alongside Insani and it continues to deliver time and time again 01:37:52.000 --> 01:37:57.440 So yeah, I completely agree with does that CD side was not just how good they were counting with 3D Max 01:37:57.440 --> 01:38:00.400 was throwing at them, but how disruptive they were 01:38:00.400 --> 01:38:01.080 was retakes. 01:38:01.080 --> 01:38:03.360 They didn't allow 3D Max to even get the bomb down 01:38:03.360 --> 01:38:06.000 before you have two or three guys just pushing through the smoke. 01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:09.360 So all in all, just great stuff from the Brazilian side. 01:38:09.360 --> 01:38:11.360 Again, it's just how they played off each other, 01:38:11.360 --> 01:38:12.440 like the way that they were setting up 01:38:12.440 --> 01:38:14.200 playing for these grades, the way 01:38:14.200 --> 01:38:16.400 they were timing the blowing open of smokes, 01:38:16.400 --> 01:38:18.200 or just in general how they played together. 01:38:18.200 --> 01:38:20.400 Again, they're never facing one guy at a time. 01:38:20.400 --> 01:38:22.560 It's always multiple targets that they have to deal with. 01:38:22.560 --> 01:38:24.720 And so that just goes to show that made in Brazil, 01:38:24.720 --> 01:38:26.320 despite not being together for that long 01:38:26.320 --> 01:38:28.040 and not being internationally tested. 01:38:28.040 --> 01:38:31.280 They clearly have some good team play and protocols in place. 01:38:31.280 --> 01:38:33.760 And I think that, again, for a long time, 01:38:33.760 --> 01:38:35.360 what made in Brazil were just like, man, 01:38:35.360 --> 01:38:37.720 we feel like in science kind of wasting the way on this team. 01:38:37.720 --> 01:38:38.560 What's going on? 01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:40.000 They've been different in-game leaders. 01:38:40.000 --> 01:38:41.360 They had done different roster changes. 01:38:41.360 --> 01:38:43.160 They even brought Brenno back after benching him. 01:38:43.160 --> 01:38:45.680 And it seemed like this organization was 01:38:45.680 --> 01:38:46.560 missing the fail. 01:38:46.560 --> 01:38:49.520 But now you bring in Lienis, experienced European IGL. 01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:52.080 You bring in Letny, an experienced European coach. 01:38:52.080 --> 01:38:54.440 And it's inject the new flavor into the squad that's really 01:38:54.440 --> 01:38:55.320 helped them look sharper. 01:38:55.320 --> 01:38:58.640 Yeah, I think I hit the nail on the head with Linus and let me come in. 01:38:58.640 --> 01:39:03.040 Like you can see how different they look from the previous iteration with Headkicker and the lineup and what not. 01:39:03.040 --> 01:39:04.840 Like everyone seems to be on the same page. 01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:05.840 Yeah, it's organized. 01:39:05.840 --> 01:39:06.840 And very organized. 01:39:06.840 --> 01:39:08.880 And Linus said in an interview on AngelTV as well, it's like, you know, 01:39:08.880 --> 01:39:12.000 in this team people are respecting my calls, listening to what you're doing, 01:39:12.000 --> 01:39:15.200 and you can clearly see how evident it is in the server. 01:39:15.200 --> 01:39:18.120 Well, why don't we take a look at some of these rounds? 01:39:18.120 --> 01:39:21.240 I want to highlight a round a little early in the first half. 01:39:21.240 --> 01:39:23.400 And I feel like this is the turning point in the first half. 01:39:23.400 --> 01:39:24.800 This is when I ran away with it. 01:39:24.800 --> 01:39:26.420 Look at how much time is remaining here. 01:39:26.420 --> 01:39:27.820 Such less time to work with. 01:39:27.820 --> 01:39:30.140 And then we're gonna see another Molotov being dropped in. 01:39:30.140 --> 01:39:30.980 Look at the time. 01:39:30.980 --> 01:39:31.820 It's a five versus five. 01:39:31.820 --> 01:39:33.280 They have to force their way into it. 01:39:33.280 --> 01:39:34.900 That's a failed smoke by gravity. 01:39:34.900 --> 01:39:37.420 You can't screw up a CT smoke right there. 01:39:37.420 --> 01:39:38.660 The players boost it up top. 01:39:38.660 --> 01:39:41.340 They come in, they do a pretty decent job trading out, 01:39:41.340 --> 01:39:42.340 but then for aligners, 01:39:42.340 --> 01:39:43.780 that's three kills right there, right? 01:39:43.780 --> 01:39:45.620 He finds up for a skill, they don't check in, 01:39:45.620 --> 01:39:47.500 he gets a second kill, they run out of time. 01:39:47.500 --> 01:39:49.380 Small, little, tiny mistakes. 01:39:49.380 --> 01:39:50.740 And I don't wanna point fingers. 01:39:50.740 --> 01:39:52.820 I just looked at who messed up that smoke. 01:39:52.820 --> 01:39:56.220 CT in front is a very hard smoke to mess up. 01:39:56.220 --> 01:39:57.740 Sure, you might not get the smoke 01:39:57.740 --> 01:39:59.340 which blooms a little bit higher up, 01:39:59.340 --> 01:40:00.740 blocks off the boost player, 01:40:00.740 --> 01:40:02.260 but messing it up like that, 01:40:02.260 --> 01:40:04.860 and off with that, MIBR just went in a streak of rounds. 01:40:04.860 --> 01:40:07.180 So again, individual, the little dots, 01:40:07.180 --> 01:40:08.460 the little T's not getting crossed 01:40:08.460 --> 01:40:09.740 by 3D Max on the T side. 01:40:09.740 --> 01:40:11.740 Yeah, and that was another one you wanted to highlight. 01:40:11.740 --> 01:40:12.900 And this is just a highlight, MIBR. 01:40:12.900 --> 01:40:14.860 This is what Duff will start pointing out as well, right? 01:40:14.860 --> 01:40:16.180 It's gonna come down to once again, 01:40:16.180 --> 01:40:18.100 the B bomb side hit, that's what 3D Max is trying to, 01:40:18.100 --> 01:40:19.660 you know, get a lot of the, 01:40:19.660 --> 01:40:20.740 try to get a lot of the rounds. 01:40:20.740 --> 01:40:22.980 Again, Klim getting a nice opening kill over there. 01:40:22.980 --> 01:40:24.300 Now look at the re-aggression. 01:40:24.300 --> 01:40:25.700 It's a five versus four. 01:40:25.700 --> 01:40:27.620 You expect MIMBAR to play a little bit passively, 01:40:27.620 --> 01:40:29.620 but no, Nade and Rifle combo. 01:40:29.620 --> 01:40:30.980 And then they try to enter into the bomb side 01:40:30.980 --> 01:40:32.660 to blow up the smoke. 01:40:32.660 --> 01:40:35.140 Bomb gets planted and then perfect flashback. 01:40:35.140 --> 01:40:35.980 Beautiful flash. 01:40:35.980 --> 01:40:37.380 Klim comes in, gets the first, 01:40:37.380 --> 01:40:39.740 last guy one versus four, no chance in hell. 01:40:39.740 --> 01:40:42.220 Just to highlight how disruptive they were 01:40:42.220 --> 01:40:44.100 and they just never allowed 3D Max 01:40:44.100 --> 01:40:46.820 to kind of play out the game plan, so to speak, right? 01:40:46.820 --> 01:40:48.900 Being a man done early in these rounds. 01:40:48.900 --> 01:40:51.000 So if you go back to some of the Inferno's 3D Max 01:40:51.000 --> 01:40:52.600 played this tournament, it was a T-Site 01:40:52.600 --> 01:40:54.760 where they found a lot of their rounds, 01:40:54.760 --> 01:40:57.120 a lot of their success, and they had to be to come back. 01:40:57.120 --> 01:41:00.120 And if they had been allowed to win a couple of these T-Rounds 01:41:00.120 --> 01:41:01.640 with a comeback, they hadn't seen T-Site, 01:41:01.640 --> 01:41:03.000 who knows, it could have been overtaken. 01:41:03.000 --> 01:41:05.120 I mean, here's the difference though, Dust. 01:41:05.120 --> 01:41:06.960 You think back to earlier tournaments 01:41:06.960 --> 01:41:08.920 when we were talking about 3D Max, 01:41:08.920 --> 01:41:10.520 the one thing we always used to say was, 01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:13.200 well, you know, they can beat anyone on Inferno. 01:41:13.200 --> 01:41:16.160 You know, and that was like, sure, three IGLs go, 01:41:16.160 --> 01:41:18.880 but two of those IGLs is the IGL they got now, 01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:21.640 when the other guy is still playing on the team. 01:41:21.640 --> 01:41:22.920 And they just, I don't know, 01:41:22.920 --> 01:41:26.880 they just looked really flat, like out of ideas. 01:41:26.880 --> 01:41:29.520 You know, they just didn't really do anything. 01:41:29.520 --> 01:41:30.720 I mean, the identity of this team was 01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:32.720 they were always good enough to get invited to tournaments. 01:41:32.720 --> 01:41:33.560 That's step one. 01:41:33.560 --> 01:41:34.760 And then step two is they could sometimes 01:41:34.760 --> 01:41:36.300 punch above their weight in a group stage game 01:41:36.300 --> 01:41:39.000 because even if they didn't have a true star player 01:41:39.000 --> 01:41:41.920 or maybe if they were a mismatch overall talent on the server, 01:41:41.920 --> 01:41:43.440 they could get you tactically, right? 01:41:43.440 --> 01:41:46.280 And what really this team was proud of upon particularly 01:41:46.280 --> 01:41:47.760 was how well they layered their utility, 01:41:47.760 --> 01:41:50.880 how good their spacing was, how they scaled like a team, 01:41:50.880 --> 01:41:53.120 how they never really let someone feel stranded. 01:41:53.120 --> 01:41:55.160 And you're looking at these games where it's just like, 01:41:55.160 --> 01:41:57.000 even the basics aren't being met anymore. 01:41:57.000 --> 01:41:59.640 And it's tough for me because when they first moved gravity 01:41:59.640 --> 01:42:02.120 to the IGL, it actually at first worked out. 01:42:02.120 --> 01:42:03.960 Like they were a little bit more reactionary, 01:42:03.960 --> 01:42:05.320 they had a little bit more pace to them, 01:42:05.320 --> 01:42:07.040 it added a new element to their game. 01:42:07.040 --> 01:42:08.280 But we saw it deteriorate. 01:42:08.280 --> 01:42:10.040 We've now seen Maka come back to the helm. 01:42:10.040 --> 01:42:11.360 I think they were also hoping maybe Maka 01:42:11.360 --> 01:42:12.560 would increase his performance, 01:42:12.560 --> 01:42:14.680 not having the IGL that didn't really happen. 01:42:14.680 --> 01:42:16.040 And so he's now, he's back at the helm 01:42:16.040 --> 01:42:18.200 where they were at their best, in my opinion, tactically. 01:42:18.200 --> 01:42:20.760 But I'm still not seeing that same level of sharpness 01:42:20.760 --> 01:42:23.200 in the play calling that they used to have 01:42:23.200 --> 01:42:25.640 when they were actually a team that could cause a ruckus. 01:42:25.640 --> 01:42:27.880 Again, this is a team that made a CAC final, 01:42:27.880 --> 01:42:29.520 made an EPL top eight. 01:42:29.520 --> 01:42:31.240 They had their moments at one point, 01:42:31.240 --> 01:42:33.160 but now they're kind of fading back to the background. 01:42:33.160 --> 01:42:34.680 And it's also like, you know, 01:42:34.680 --> 01:42:36.280 for example, there's one round where 01:42:36.280 --> 01:42:37.480 when the mountain has come back 01:42:37.480 --> 01:42:41.040 and they knew it's gonna be a pop towards the A bombsite, 01:42:41.040 --> 01:42:42.320 three cities lying in a way, 01:42:42.320 --> 01:42:43.880 they know exactly who's coming in. 01:42:43.880 --> 01:42:45.880 They don't get a single kill against pistols. 01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:49.960 sure Insanya was hitting a nutty opening kill but the fact that not a single begin 01:42:49.960 --> 01:42:53.880 of smidgen of damage being dealt out onto that hit and you see that you're like yeah this 01:42:53.880 --> 01:42:57.800 seems like the writing's on the wall and again I'll say this Rich what happened in the group 01:42:57.800 --> 01:43:02.040 stage the win the head of a paravision everything I just feel like it's a bit of uh it's an anomaly 01:43:02.040 --> 01:43:05.240 I feel like this is a dead team walking too many small little mistakes being made you look a little 01:43:05.240 --> 01:43:09.720 too flat we saw even the the the comms right where I believe it was Mack I say come on guys you know 01:43:09.720 --> 01:43:14.440 let's let's get everything going but just look at the body language it wasn't really there and with 01:43:14.440 --> 01:43:17.720 With this map gone, I feel like it's going to be a tool for MIBR. 01:43:17.720 --> 01:43:20.040 Yeah, well, let's talk about why we've got a few minutes. 01:43:20.040 --> 01:43:23.720 Ancient, Dinko alluded to it in his nice throw there, 01:43:23.720 --> 01:43:25.720 where he's talking about ancient history. 01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:28.400 I'll try and do something with that when I throw to break. 01:43:28.400 --> 01:43:32.520 But yeah, ancient history for 3D maps, not good. 01:43:32.520 --> 01:43:33.440 No, it really has been. 01:43:33.440 --> 01:43:35.760 It's been a long, long time since they were a good team. 01:43:35.760 --> 01:43:37.640 I mean, I feel like at a time they were. 01:43:37.640 --> 01:43:40.320 Like they kind of revolutionized how you would chain flash 01:43:40.320 --> 01:43:41.960 middle for control of it on the T side. 01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:43.800 They were kind of the ones that were trend setting. 01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:45.920 but now they've really struggled with this five. 01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:47.960 They struggled the last six months with the core four. 01:43:47.960 --> 01:43:50.000 It's been a really tough one, but made in Brazil, 01:43:50.000 --> 01:43:52.000 they've been on a heater domestically on this map, 01:43:52.000 --> 01:43:54.160 even beaten a couple of decent teams you'd recognize. 01:43:54.160 --> 01:43:55.480 I think what I love about this team 01:43:55.480 --> 01:43:56.640 is it getting Sonny at middle. 01:43:56.640 --> 01:43:58.960 The dude's just nasty, but he's so confident. 01:43:58.960 --> 01:44:01.480 He's very, very strong in the entry fragging. 01:44:01.480 --> 01:44:03.960 And I think what else has been nice about this team 01:44:03.960 --> 01:44:05.720 is what I've noticed on ancient, 01:44:05.720 --> 01:44:07.160 what they've done with Insani is, 01:44:07.160 --> 01:44:09.280 they're not using it as a pure hard entry anymore. 01:44:09.280 --> 01:44:10.720 They're kind of letting them call his own shots 01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:11.560 a little bit more. 01:44:11.560 --> 01:44:13.000 Sometimes we'll like lurk middle, for example, 01:44:13.000 --> 01:44:16.720 or sometimes someone like Linus or Breno on the extremities 01:44:16.720 --> 01:44:19.480 are willing to go in first to let Insani trade frag. 01:44:19.480 --> 01:44:21.980 This is a guy that used to take over 30% of his team's 01:44:21.980 --> 01:44:23.440 opening duels, it was insane. 01:44:23.440 --> 01:44:25.080 Now he's back on more of an equal level. 01:44:25.080 --> 01:44:26.800 They're spreading that distribution out a lot. 01:44:26.800 --> 01:44:28.920 And I think that combined with the pace he plays 01:44:28.920 --> 01:44:31.600 at Breno the table, they're an efficient squad on this map. 01:44:31.600 --> 01:44:34.120 Yeah, and also like VenomZero taking a lot more 01:44:34.120 --> 01:44:36.200 of the T side opening attempts as well. 01:44:36.200 --> 01:44:37.040 I think it's really helpful. 01:44:37.040 --> 01:44:39.680 Obviously you want, as good as Insani is, 01:44:39.680 --> 01:44:41.520 you don't want him to just get an opening kill and die. 01:44:41.520 --> 01:44:42.800 You want him to get that multi-kill, right? 01:44:42.800 --> 01:44:48.720 the fact that they are kind of reinventing, so to speak, how Spain's team is really cool. 01:44:48.720 --> 01:44:51.840 But here's the thing, man, for 3D Max, this map has looked very rough. 01:44:51.840 --> 01:44:54.800 Why I'm telling the writings on a wall with this particular series is, 01:44:54.800 --> 01:44:59.760 against Voca, came down in 1916, came down to almost losing that map. 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:03.120 They lost to Bate as well, the team has been struggling so far, and opened things up. 01:45:03.120 --> 01:45:06.960 They got smacked by Focus 13-6. So I look at all of that. 01:45:06.960 --> 01:45:11.040 And despite the caveat that MIBS, a lot of the results have been with domestic opposition, 01:45:11.040 --> 01:45:13.280 They look so much better, at least from what we've seen so. 01:45:13.280 --> 01:45:16.160 Yeah, I think for me, for 3D Max, what has to happen is two things. 01:45:16.160 --> 01:45:20.160 One is they made the pivots of putting Lucky back into star CT positions when 01:45:20.160 --> 01:45:23.200 body, the part of the roster, and he had a really good tournament up until this 01:45:23.200 --> 01:45:26.560 match. I think he was like in the top 10 rated for the tournament, definitely one 01:45:26.560 --> 01:45:30.240 of the highest rated players out there. And, you know, make something of this, 01:45:30.240 --> 01:45:33.280 right? They've now kind of given you that responsibility. You're going to be fighting 01:45:33.280 --> 01:45:35.760 Insani a lot in the middle position. You're going to have to be able to come out 01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:39.040 on top. And there's also a situation where I hope they can get Masuda involved. 01:45:39.040 --> 01:45:42.040 You know, he's the other kind of more active mid-player on the team on both sides of the map. 01:45:42.040 --> 01:45:45.040 He's a guy who can really make things happen for me. 01:45:45.040 --> 01:45:49.040 And it was just tough to see him really be able to get to his ceiling in that last one. 01:45:49.040 --> 01:45:50.040 So I hope he came here. 01:45:50.040 --> 01:45:52.040 All right. Thanks a lot, gentlemen. 01:45:52.040 --> 01:45:53.040 We are going to go to a break. 01:45:53.040 --> 01:45:58.040 And as Dinko said, 3D Max is going to have to rewrite ancient history 01:45:58.040 --> 01:46:00.040 if they're going to make a series of this one. 01:46:00.040 --> 01:46:01.040 We'll see you in a moment. 01:46:02.040 --> 01:46:05.040 He said she loves you, but she can't love me. 01:46:05.040 --> 01:46:07.040 But I love you. 01:46:09.040 --> 01:46:11.040 Look at my face, I'm a crazy man 01:46:11.040 --> 01:46:13.040 I'm gonna make myself my base man 01:46:13.040 --> 01:46:15.040 I'm gonna make myself my base man 01:46:15.040 --> 01:46:17.040 I'm gonna make myself my base man 01:46:17.040 --> 01:46:19.040 I'm gonna make myself my base man 01:46:21.040 --> 01:46:23.040 I won't play window anymore 01:46:23.040 --> 01:46:25.040 What's going on? 01:46:28.040 --> 01:46:30.040 Play your role, and when it's back 01:46:30.040 --> 01:46:32.040 I'm gonna do the work 01:47:09.040 --> 01:47:16.080 built to move with, not fracketed as get one singular posture for 12 hours a day. 01:47:18.480 --> 01:47:23.920 It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Titan Evo. 01:47:25.680 --> 01:47:34.160 Ergonomically engineered for you, gamers, hybrid workers, artists, that gain your every move. 01:48:39.040 --> 01:48:41.040 I 01:49:09.040 --> 01:49:20.400 What is going on everybody, it's time to chat to some of our players here at PGL Bucharest 01:49:20.400 --> 01:49:25.920 and pick their brains on the recent changes to ammo and how magazines work. 01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:32.240 With Probeni of Fert, with Dewi of Inner Circle, with Wreck of Wildcard, Mazenio of 01:49:32.240 --> 01:49:41.040 the Mongols. Zwei of ParryVision, Moutyrus of BC Game, are you full or against the new 01:49:41.040 --> 01:49:50.280 magazine change? I am not thinking, I am full, yes. Full flanger for it? Yes. I'm full because 01:49:50.280 --> 01:49:55.840 like it's more realistic so I like it and also some loops I think we'll mess up in this 01:49:55.840 --> 01:50:01.520 one. Yeah, so you think it makes the game more tactical perhaps? I think no but like 01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:09.800 Like you know, I like all the bettas that some change like mechanics, you know, like 01:50:09.800 --> 01:50:18.240 the smokes you buy HE, I like all the new mechanics, so yeah, I like it. 01:50:18.240 --> 01:50:22.120 Yeah, I think for it, it gives more thought to the game, right, it makes it more realistic 01:50:22.120 --> 01:50:25.660 and I think some people may like that, some people may not, but me personally, it definitely 01:50:25.660 --> 01:50:29.840 really makes it more enjoyable, you know, and maybe it will affect it in the future 01:50:29.840 --> 01:50:34.720 and maybe someone I'm playing against in 1v1 runs at ammo because they don't be thankful for it, you know? 01:50:34.720 --> 01:50:36.000 Yeah, it sucks. 01:50:36.000 --> 01:50:37.120 Why? 01:50:37.120 --> 01:50:44.960 I don't know. They're talking about it's more realistic, but I don't think this changes necessarily. 01:50:44.960 --> 01:50:48.880 You don't think it's a change that was needed? 01:50:48.880 --> 01:50:58.320 Yeah, it doesn't need it. Maybe CZ is effort for peace rounds. Maybe we can see a lot of CZ on officials. 01:50:58.320 --> 01:51:10.560 I can't say that I against them, but I don't think it was needed, but it evolved things 01:51:10.560 --> 01:51:16.280 that changed something that they'll never, but I don't really care about it. 01:51:16.280 --> 01:51:18.400 I don't feel any emotions about it. 01:51:18.400 --> 01:51:19.400 I think it's okay. 01:51:19.400 --> 01:51:22.400 For me it was okay. 01:51:22.400 --> 01:51:27.200 I didn't saw my teammates complaining about that. 01:51:27.200 --> 01:51:30.200 I mean, for me, it didn't change so much. 01:51:40.200 --> 01:51:46.200 Welcome back to PGL Bucharest, 2026 quarterfinals day here in the PGL Studios. 01:51:46.200 --> 01:51:49.200 MIBR taking on 3D Max, we move on to Ancient. 01:51:49.200 --> 01:51:51.200 It's MIBR taking a one map lead in the series. 01:51:51.200 --> 01:51:54.200 And the nightmare scenario for 3D Max is that they're not very good on this map. 01:51:54.200 --> 01:51:58.200 on this map. So it's kind of an issue because they could be eliminated right here right now. 01:51:58.200 --> 01:52:03.160 Yeah, it's looking very likely. I'm really impressed by Klim obviously on that map. He 01:52:03.160 --> 01:52:06.440 looked really good on the rifle. As you were mentioning, Jason, the green room, 01:52:06.440 --> 01:52:08.520 you didn't really buy the Op as much as I thought you would. 01:52:08.520 --> 01:52:12.680 Yeah, I thought he'd use the Op a little bit more. Even on the CT side, 01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:16.440 I think he even stuck with an AK for a good chunk of it. He swapped out during a clutch 01:52:16.440 --> 01:52:21.720 and never went back. He's like, no, AK feels like home. And obviously, no complaints there. As 01:52:21.720 --> 01:52:33.400 I think a stronger win than the score line would even suggest 13 to 9, but felt like dominant for my beer all the way through that 3D Max offense never got running in the first half. The defense kind of had that stretch, but. 01:52:34.120 --> 01:52:39.440 Mistakes individually from from 3D Max players. It just was. It just did not look like a great game from their side. 01:52:40.280 --> 01:52:51.680 Coming into ancient tough to see how they're going to pull this quarterfinal back, but man, if there is one way to do it, it's supposed to go to start strong. You know, John put that inferno behind you immediately and just get the ball rolling. I mean, actually, 01:52:51.720 --> 01:52:56.040 We always give him some compliments. We talk about him as like a playmaker on this team. 01:52:56.040 --> 01:53:00.780 He can often be the X factor. Might not always be at the top of the team, but he'll find some impact. 01:53:00.780 --> 01:53:05.080 I mean, he had impact on the outcome of the game. It's just not the impact he wanted. 01:53:05.080 --> 01:53:10.320 I mean, he did make a play. Yeah, he made that play in the last round, but he really struggled here. 01:53:10.320 --> 01:53:14.280 0.58 rating on that first map, 10 and 20. 01:53:14.280 --> 01:53:18.160 Obviously, he's going to be wanting to turn that around as we get into this next map, 01:53:18.160 --> 01:53:20.840 because he can be such an impactful player for 3D Max. 01:53:20.840 --> 01:53:26.420 And I'm with you though the hot start for 3d max feels necessary not even so much for what happens inside the server 01:53:26.420 --> 01:53:29.160 But just for the mentality of the team to kind of snap them into shape 01:53:29.880 --> 01:53:35.320 Admit very quickly is Insani leading the way smoke in red room and they're gonna chuck decoy out towards done a bomb 01:53:35.320 --> 01:53:38.080 Said it towards the people I'm said a little bit of aggression, but then I'm there it tucks in 01:53:38.080 --> 01:53:41.840 He's in rapidly calling as well telling everybody that they're running down 01:53:41.840 --> 01:53:46.080 He just can't get a shot off only can get a lot off just not landing any of them exes 01:53:46.080 --> 01:53:50.360 He's gonna grab first blooded and Ellen's he straight back to it. Climb in with a clean one 01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:52.960 and we fall to two players here for 3D Max. 01:53:52.960 --> 01:53:54.440 The bomb is leaped to the end of the cycle, 01:53:54.440 --> 01:53:56.320 and as soon as they're wrapped upon, 01:53:56.320 --> 01:53:58.080 and he just can't change the outcome of the round, 01:53:58.080 --> 01:54:00.360 so the plant comes through MIBR, really, 01:54:00.360 --> 01:54:02.480 clinical pistol, they lose one player in Venom's era, 01:54:02.480 --> 01:54:04.240 but the rest of the recovery is perfect. 01:54:04.240 --> 01:54:06.040 Yeah, kind of trapped between Klim 01:54:06.040 --> 01:54:07.760 coming through the double doors in L&Z, 01:54:07.760 --> 01:54:09.240 playing out towards Jaguar. 01:54:09.240 --> 01:54:11.640 That's a rough trap to get set up in 01:54:11.640 --> 01:54:14.600 with the aggressive play, and just get deleted again. 01:54:14.600 --> 01:54:16.400 So pistol rounds at MIBR, that hot start, 01:54:16.400 --> 01:54:17.280 that's not gonna happen. 01:54:17.280 --> 01:54:19.440 So now we're gonna have to win in other ways 01:54:19.440 --> 01:54:21.520 if you're 3DMAX, we're gonna have to reverse this 01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:23.080 in a different kind of a style. 01:54:23.080 --> 01:54:25.040 It did win the second round back on Inferno 01:54:25.040 --> 01:54:26.280 after losing the pistol. 01:54:27.720 --> 01:54:29.640 Let's see if they have any kind of a plan to set up here 01:54:29.640 --> 01:54:31.280 for that sort of a trap. 01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:39.320 I'm investing anything yet on the 3DMAX side, MIBR. 01:54:39.320 --> 01:54:42.760 MAC-10 is picked up, a couple of rifles also in the mix. 01:54:44.000 --> 01:54:45.660 And they get to try and extend this lead early. 01:54:45.660 --> 01:54:47.640 It actually looks like 3DMAX is just gonna sit back 01:54:47.640 --> 01:54:48.480 on the USP. 01:54:48.480 --> 01:54:53.120 has picked up for exorcist no armor so saving a little bit of money but just 01:54:53.120 --> 01:54:56.520 wants one weapon to do some damage 01:55:05.520 --> 01:55:13.400 it's all back to shotgun yeah do that I just wanted one of the decals I'll 01:55:13.400 --> 01:55:15.400 Take it all a little bit, a little thanks on Q. 01:55:15.400 --> 01:55:16.400 Thank you, Jay. 01:55:19.400 --> 01:55:21.400 Fine work from the observing team. 01:55:23.400 --> 01:55:24.400 Well, so fine work from 3D Max, though. 01:55:24.400 --> 01:55:26.400 I don't expect anything in this round. 01:55:26.400 --> 01:55:29.400 They're gonna be stacked towards A, and M1P yard going towards B. 01:55:29.400 --> 01:55:31.400 So, you kind of have the worst thought possible. 01:55:31.400 --> 01:55:33.400 M1P yard gonna be 2 and 0 up. 01:55:33.400 --> 01:55:35.400 We're gonna buy out for 3D Max in the next, 01:55:35.400 --> 01:55:38.400 but 3D M1P yard's gonna be loving how much money they're building up. 01:55:38.400 --> 01:55:41.400 They have 3MAC 10s, I'm sure they're gonna be ravenous for some eco kills. 01:55:41.400 --> 01:55:46.660 Co-kills well it also makes you feel like that next gun round that comes in which will be the next one in 3D max buys if they 01:55:46.660 --> 01:55:50.840 Still have these three or two or three Mac 10s gonna be pacey gonna be pace you're gonna be aggressive 01:55:54.540 --> 01:55:58.480 Leo spotting him out in middle now send the eight clean 01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:06.020 Little careful you get the best weapon he's gonna be picking out trying to hunt some of those eco kills down Clims lost 01:56:07.080 --> 01:56:08.580 47 to be picked up 01:56:08.580 --> 01:56:11.620 The one from the suit, the Mac 10s do make money in the end. 01:56:11.620 --> 01:56:15.820 Cleaning up, just recover those rifles, upgrades on the Mac 10s. 01:56:15.820 --> 01:56:21.140 And so you might not have to go for that quicker play now that those Mac 10s mostly get upgraded. 01:56:21.140 --> 01:56:23.540 Yeah, you can have some different options available to you. 01:56:23.540 --> 01:56:26.580 One Mac 10 is brought into this round on the hands of Insani. 01:56:26.580 --> 01:56:31.420 Two to nothing, M4s and FAMAS, and plenty of utility for the 3D Max side. 01:56:31.420 --> 01:56:34.980 They are missing kits, so Keith and I have the retakes and the pacing of them. 01:56:34.980 --> 01:56:40.100 And the first gun around here on ancients begins now. 01:56:40.100 --> 01:56:44.920 It's going to be Insani heading over towards Elbow, all four other players from MLVR heading 01:56:44.920 --> 01:56:46.400 towards Belane. 01:56:46.400 --> 01:56:51.040 Okay, that's happened. 01:56:51.040 --> 01:56:55.480 LNZ just wants to kind of throw a mock rush into the mix, finds an opening kill, now the 01:56:55.480 --> 01:56:58.320 follow-up utility, they're happy to follow that up. 01:56:58.320 --> 01:57:03.160 And to the site, onto default, your suit is going to block out Cave. 01:57:03.160 --> 01:57:08.160 It's kind of weird, like they had so much success, I think they're almost concerned about committing to this. 01:57:08.160 --> 01:57:13.160 And Asuta going forward, he does get trended out, but Lucky's right beside him, so numbers stay even here. 01:57:13.160 --> 01:57:18.160 3G Max have the right pieces in the right place, but Insani is going to try and get him behind. 01:57:18.160 --> 01:57:22.160 And once this pause happens, you start to consider the fact that a player could be coming through Red Room, 01:57:22.160 --> 01:57:27.160 and Insani realizes he's likely going to be detected, so he uses his utility to try and isolate the fight 01:57:27.160 --> 01:57:31.160 as the bomb tries to get towards Donut. He is sprinting for this final maneuver towards the A site. 01:57:31.160 --> 01:57:35.160 No smoke or Molotov to block off the CT choke points, so bomb will get planted. 01:57:35.160 --> 01:57:38.160 That one's safe. Nobody's going to challenge a utility advantage over to the side of MIBR. 01:57:38.160 --> 01:57:42.160 Remember, there's no kits. They're here quick. They're here with plenty of time. 01:57:42.160 --> 01:57:43.160 Oh. 01:57:43.160 --> 01:57:47.160 And Breno never considered it. He didn't think they had the timing to beat him to temple. 01:57:47.160 --> 01:57:50.160 Klim going elsewhere. I think this round is just done. 01:57:50.160 --> 01:57:53.160 I don't think Klim comes back and really tries to stop it too much. 01:57:53.160 --> 01:57:56.160 Nah, he's not going to be able to do it, surely. 01:57:56.160 --> 01:58:02.160 That's too far to the right at the fusel, and he will get spammed down through the smoke by Makka. 01:58:02.160 --> 01:58:09.160 So if you're masking to celebrate, and you've got the round victory, that's a lot of hard work to be done here. 01:58:09.160 --> 01:58:15.160 It's a weird round. You get the opening kill from LNZ, and then the follow-up is kind of slow to come into the B bomb site, 01:58:15.160 --> 01:58:20.160 and then you bail out with Insani's position in red room, who dies as soon as you're making the transition. 01:58:20.160 --> 01:58:24.460 I just felt like MIBR didn't have a good way to follow up that opening kill. 01:58:24.460 --> 01:58:28.160 They get it, but then you're kind of stuck in no man's land where the smoke and the utility fades. 01:58:28.160 --> 01:58:30.660 It's not replenished, so everyone's kind of exposed. 01:58:30.660 --> 01:58:33.360 Two players far back, two players highly aggressive. 01:58:33.360 --> 01:58:36.460 A little bit disconnected in the round for MIBR, but the ideal was there. 01:58:36.460 --> 01:58:38.660 The opening kill was there. The opportunity was available. 01:58:38.660 --> 01:58:49.500 Well, Insani, punished for not breaking that smoke all the way open. 01:58:49.500 --> 01:58:53.780 They're out, A-Main. 01:58:53.780 --> 01:58:55.660 Pack of players running behind the big box. 01:58:55.660 --> 01:58:57.460 Now, good shot from Breno. 01:58:57.460 --> 01:59:01.540 Axes these top holes and so does the A-Bomb site with that kill. 01:59:01.540 --> 01:59:03.780 Rotation's here from Lucky and Donut. 01:59:03.780 --> 01:59:07.620 The plan is going to come through from Clint. 01:59:07.620 --> 01:59:11.820 Gravity moving through Jonah would be a sweet treat to deny that bomb plant, but can't do so. 01:59:11.820 --> 01:59:13.180 Oh, smoke the start. 01:59:13.180 --> 01:59:15.820 So MIPR actually able to back off into good post-plant positions. 01:59:15.820 --> 01:59:18.020 They penetrated the temple as well. 01:59:18.020 --> 01:59:19.500 That helps the CT scale. 01:59:19.500 --> 01:59:22.220 It doesn't allow them out of the donut, does it? 01:59:22.220 --> 01:59:25.660 It's even more important to hold on to the temple, which Breno's done. 01:59:25.660 --> 01:59:30.420 L and Z on the boost is hard to not see him getting one, and in fact, he gets multiple 01:59:30.420 --> 01:59:31.420 frags. 01:59:31.420 --> 01:59:36.120 Response is that MIBR lose their first round in the previous and they bounce back instantly. 01:59:36.120 --> 01:59:40.820 Really quick reaction and Sony with his aggressive play towards elbow calls out two players in middle. 01:59:40.820 --> 01:59:44.020 One was close up that killed him, he spotted the second player firing. 01:59:44.020 --> 01:59:49.920 So once MIBR realized two players in middle, they know at worst they've got a 4v1 at the A bomb site. 01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:52.460 Really decisive swing behind the Molotov as well. 01:59:52.460 --> 01:59:56.820 Makas able to grab one and keep that AK-47 alive for the next. 01:59:56.820 --> 02:00:01.320 But MIBR preventing 3D Max from getting into this game. 02:00:01.320 --> 02:00:03.120 Stop short at just one rounds. 02:00:06.320 --> 02:00:09.120 And money becomes a little bit of an issue for the CT side. 02:00:09.120 --> 02:00:11.620 It'll be a massive issue moving forward if they invest here and lose. 02:00:11.620 --> 02:00:14.320 So it's time out is taken because 3D Max need to talk over how they want to 02:00:14.320 --> 02:00:17.320 approach this next stretch of rounds with the economy that they're working with. 02:00:27.620 --> 02:00:29.820 So we are just piecing together exactly what they're up against. 02:00:29.820 --> 02:00:33.780 Sounds he looking down the lines and hey, they're not going to be at full buy right and everyone's giving him the positive 02:00:33.780 --> 02:00:40.020 The affirmation so a good sense that they're going up some whatever you say buddy. Yeah. Yeah. Yep sounds good 02:00:40.780 --> 02:00:42.780 You're the man 02:00:43.940 --> 02:00:49.340 I have it right there are there are weapons with stopping power and for AK-47 to FAMAS in an empty time 02:00:49.340 --> 02:00:51.340 There's a good amount of utility as well 02:00:53.620 --> 02:00:58.280 So there's some danger for 3d max to be able to contest in this round one kit on gravity 02:00:59.820 --> 02:01:10.980 Aids? Oh, and a lot of them land into his L and C, so not able to burst out Elbow the 02:01:10.980 --> 02:01:16.380 way he would have liked, but Insani, as Venom Zera taking fights for kills in a couple 02:01:16.380 --> 02:01:22.460 of seconds here for MIBR. 3D Max, just left out to dry. 02:01:22.460 --> 02:01:26.460 As lucky with 1B3, he says nothing he can do to change the outcome of this round. It 02:01:26.460 --> 02:01:29.220 It is 4-1 within a couple of seconds. 02:01:29.220 --> 02:01:31.500 I mean, it's aggressive in two different places 02:01:31.500 --> 02:01:32.700 on the map at the same time. 02:01:32.700 --> 02:01:36.060 So MIBR are doing a lot to just put a lot of traffic 02:01:36.060 --> 02:01:39.940 into the 3D Max comms and force them to make decisions now 02:01:39.940 --> 02:01:41.860 because you now have B defenders who have struggled 02:01:41.860 --> 02:01:45.380 with that early peek from L and Z a couple rounds back. 02:01:45.380 --> 02:01:47.020 Now you get a double out of Venom's era, 02:01:47.020 --> 02:01:48.700 have success in mid on that as well. 02:01:48.700 --> 02:01:51.700 So two parts of the map are probably calling for assistance. 02:01:52.700 --> 02:01:53.940 And you just flood those comms 02:01:53.940 --> 02:01:56.420 and there's no way for 3D Max to stop the tide of attack. 02:01:56.420 --> 02:02:02.060 And that's the economy knocked out and I would imagine that's the call 02:02:02.060 --> 02:02:05.340 LNZ makes when he looks down the line and says they don't have a full buy right 02:02:05.340 --> 02:02:08.620 they're gonna be a little bit bruised and everyone says yes he's like great 02:02:08.620 --> 02:02:14.620 let's be aggressive off that. I think that bot was probably better than they 02:02:14.620 --> 02:02:20.660 expected but it still works out. Three-round lead for MIBR T-side ancient. 02:02:26.420 --> 02:02:33.500 When the mags have it out for ecstasy's, deagles, I mean, the buy here just tells you everything 02:02:33.500 --> 02:02:38.060 you need to know about the conditions of the game right now, 3D Max, out on their feet, 02:02:38.060 --> 02:02:42.700 MIPS having a great time in this quarter final, just trying to get a much better showing from 02:02:42.700 --> 02:02:45.180 3D Max. 02:02:45.180 --> 02:02:49.700 Improbably slow start on inferno. 02:02:49.700 --> 02:02:53.580 Getting a slow start here on ancient. 02:02:53.580 --> 02:02:58.380 I missed utility from my BI towards gravity. 02:02:58.380 --> 02:03:01.860 Molotov would have forced him out of his position. 02:03:01.860 --> 02:03:02.860 He's currently in. 02:03:02.860 --> 02:03:03.860 Guard loose. 02:03:03.860 --> 02:03:05.860 He still has to fall back. 02:03:05.860 --> 02:03:10.180 I think if you're 3D max in this round, you just get a kill down middle. 02:03:10.180 --> 02:03:12.980 I almost feel like, I mean, I think they're going to come test and see if they can get 02:03:12.980 --> 02:03:15.820 a couple of gifts maybe, but saving, oh not anymore. 02:03:15.820 --> 02:03:17.620 Now that he's gotten a second kill, now you come forward. 02:03:17.620 --> 02:03:18.860 Oh, a deep from the pistol. 02:03:18.860 --> 02:03:20.540 Oh, that's brutal. 02:03:20.540 --> 02:03:21.540 Back to back. 02:03:21.540 --> 02:03:23.180 Fantastic double kills for Venom Zara. 02:03:23.180 --> 02:03:27.020 Yeah, he's really feeling it now even down to low HP 02:03:27.860 --> 02:03:31.580 Realize there's no falling back from that. You kind of only have one option 02:03:31.580 --> 02:03:33.640 It is to just stand there and fight and you're with both of them 02:03:34.740 --> 02:03:39.540 In the copy there's lots of the 5-7 can be so quick to kill that 5-7 and 02:03:39.940 --> 02:03:44.700 Climb high HP player and that I'm Sarah still confident despite the low HP 02:03:45.260 --> 02:03:48.500 I'm up here. I celebrating every single round victory 02:03:48.500 --> 02:03:51.500 Even though he sustained some heavy damage there. 02:03:51.500 --> 02:03:56.500 A round winning double kill from Venomzera in the previous and a round saving double kill here in this round. 02:03:56.500 --> 02:03:59.500 So that's that's lovely impact and back-to-back rounds for Venomzera. 02:03:59.500 --> 02:04:02.500 He's feeling real good at 5 and 4 at the moment. 02:04:02.500 --> 02:04:05.500 Quality, not quantity for him. 02:04:05.500 --> 02:04:10.500 Takes the team early as well, just stands his ground, beautiful shooting. 02:04:10.500 --> 02:04:18.100 5-1 lead, full fire has returned for 3D max. 02:04:18.100 --> 02:04:22.100 I'm all about to mount out some speed from my PR getting out through B-Lane. 02:04:22.100 --> 02:04:27.380 I'm gonna apply pressure through Jag, Amolotov goes in, flash to follow it, and LNZ just 02:04:27.380 --> 02:04:30.380 making his way in here. 02:04:30.380 --> 02:04:38.580 I'm gonna make it hit the pause button if I'm on my PR. 02:04:39.580 --> 02:04:41.580 He's decent control of the map already. 02:04:42.580 --> 02:04:45.580 VAC is expecting a Heaven Peak to come in at some point. 02:04:45.580 --> 02:04:50.580 Well, now that Lindsay knows what was curious about the economy the last time, he knows this is going to be a full mine. 02:04:50.580 --> 02:04:55.580 So you have to assume the AWP is in field, so taking his time, not swinging just yet. 02:04:55.580 --> 02:04:59.580 Oh, he's trying to look away, always a risk in that timing. 02:04:59.580 --> 02:05:03.580 Justice, he commits a little bit further into middle. Flash comes in, he gets blinded by it. 02:05:03.580 --> 02:05:07.580 So it's so important that Exorcise and Lucky get those two kills. 02:05:07.580 --> 02:05:12.100 Yeah, I mean, that's you could see that aggression and doughnut from the offer is also paired up with the aggression in red room. 02:05:12.100 --> 02:05:19.520 So nice teamwork two players close up here. I don't think that I'm got a double killing this time. No, he's going to go down clean. Couldn't get to 02:05:22.460 --> 02:05:32.940 And now Bruno 1v3 has got a bomb. I think at this point you don't plan yet. You know one's over in cave. You have the location of Missou to kind of you want to shave off one kill before you commit to a bomb plan. 02:05:32.940 --> 02:05:35.420 You want to find at least one player 30 seconds. 02:05:35.420 --> 02:05:40.300 Okay, you got a clear lucky and you can't take that always put knife out. 02:05:40.300 --> 02:05:41.300 I hate this. 02:05:41.300 --> 02:05:42.300 Why did you play the corner where you're not? 02:05:42.300 --> 02:05:43.940 I don't know, but what's with this trend? 02:05:43.940 --> 02:05:46.900 I don't know, players just pulling knives out when they're walking in these situations. 02:05:46.900 --> 02:05:49.980 I'm not a huge fan of it. 02:05:49.980 --> 02:05:53.540 Especially when you're still actively clearing the corner like, yeah, you're playing the 02:05:53.540 --> 02:05:54.540 game, my brother. 02:05:54.540 --> 02:05:57.940 I'm clearing the corner, but you know, if he's there, I can't do anything. 02:05:57.940 --> 02:06:01.580 Okay, well, that's a round for 3D Max. 02:06:01.580 --> 02:06:04.300 Don't understand that really. 02:06:04.300 --> 02:06:11.900 But whatever. Two rounds now for 3D Max, yeah, and for MIBR, I mean, you have taken some damage 02:06:11.900 --> 02:06:16.180 of the last couple rounds, thanks to Lucky, who was able to get some damage on that rifle, 02:06:16.180 --> 02:06:22.500 and you can see the effect of losing one round. MIBR are down to Galeel's on two with 02:06:22.500 --> 02:06:26.780 Tech 9, got an AK and AWP, and Klim gonna take it for a spin. We wanted to see more 02:06:26.780 --> 02:06:30.700 of the AWP, so let's see what he can do with it. Going into the peak, misses the shot on 02:06:30.700 --> 02:06:32.700 Gravity. Tough shot to land though. 02:06:35.180 --> 02:06:37.680 Horses of smoke out of gravity would be at least be happy with that. 02:06:37.680 --> 02:06:40.680 Good presence of the AWP to put some pressure on the defense. 02:06:42.180 --> 02:06:46.180 And Sonny's still just trying to be as much of a nuisance as possible over in middle. 02:06:47.940 --> 02:06:51.840 Deploys the red room smoke, starts sliding out the back wall of mid, grabbing angles, 02:06:51.840 --> 02:06:53.840 and he'll stay and play as a lurk. 02:06:54.640 --> 02:06:59.640 Good kill from Klim, good boost up over the smoke, and now, and Sonny, can start playing. 02:07:00.700 --> 02:07:06.980 They're already running over the top of that B bomb site, and Sani does activate towards 02:07:06.980 --> 02:07:07.980 the donut point. 02:07:07.980 --> 02:07:08.980 Masuta! 02:07:08.980 --> 02:07:09.980 That is what's required! 02:07:09.980 --> 02:07:11.980 A couple of kills coming in. 02:07:11.980 --> 02:07:17.260 Makka also stepping up, and it's the M&M combo taken over the site. 02:07:17.260 --> 02:07:18.260 That's a wrap. 02:07:18.260 --> 02:07:21.020 Ooh, on this round, unless and Sani can pull this one off. 02:07:21.020 --> 02:07:22.020 It's a 1v3. 02:07:22.020 --> 02:07:25.500 He's taken Masuta down straight away, and that defuse is now happening again. 02:07:25.500 --> 02:07:27.260 He's come back to the same spam. 02:07:27.260 --> 02:07:32.320 Insani not connecting it in time and or at all on the second time of asking 02:07:33.980 --> 02:07:36.940 I'll be that'll be the round here. So timeout required 02:07:37.340 --> 02:07:43.340 It's a second time. We've seen like MIBR hit this B bombsite while Insani is aggressively lurking in middle 02:07:43.340 --> 02:07:48.540 And it's the second time we've seen them actually get in fine on the first layer of attack into the B bombsite 02:07:48.540 --> 02:07:52.340 But no follow-up nades or utility to kind of close off those choke points 02:07:52.340 --> 02:07:55.840 So, 3D Max is having the advantage and the retakes to a certain extent. 02:07:55.840 --> 02:07:57.040 This time they come out on top. 02:07:58.140 --> 02:07:59.940 The lead closes to just two. 02:08:00.840 --> 02:08:02.940 And MIBR's money is taking quite a hit. 02:08:02.940 --> 02:08:05.240 So, we're going to see a couple of AK-47s brought out, 02:08:05.240 --> 02:08:07.540 but three players saving pretty much everything they got. 02:08:09.640 --> 02:08:11.140 And Sony and Klim on those rifles. 02:08:11.140 --> 02:08:13.440 So, we'll see what they can do heading into round nine. 02:08:13.440 --> 02:08:15.140 Makka still with the AWP. 02:08:22.340 --> 02:08:30.380 All right, Jason, time to find out if it's going to be three rounds, Max. 02:08:30.380 --> 02:08:33.620 Surely they got one more. 02:08:33.620 --> 02:08:38.700 Surely across the rest of this map, they get one more. 02:08:38.700 --> 02:08:39.700 You're thrown in there. 02:08:39.700 --> 02:08:42.020 You'll find the chat a little bit, Jason. 02:08:42.020 --> 02:08:43.020 They lost it. 02:08:43.020 --> 02:08:44.020 They lost it. 02:08:44.020 --> 02:08:45.020 They lost it. 02:08:45.020 --> 02:08:46.020 They lost it. 02:08:46.020 --> 02:08:47.020 They lost it. 02:08:47.020 --> 02:08:48.020 They lost it. 02:08:48.020 --> 02:08:49.020 They lost it. 02:08:49.020 --> 02:08:50.020 They lost it. 02:08:50.020 --> 02:08:56.720 I got Mako's taking Venom Zera down, so no big impactful multi-kill coming out of him. 02:08:56.720 --> 02:09:03.520 Zee hit the shot, but it was for the brick, so sounded more impactful than it really was. 02:09:03.520 --> 02:09:05.640 More intimidating than it actually was. 02:09:05.640 --> 02:09:06.640 Yeah. 02:09:06.640 --> 02:09:09.640 And Sonya hasn't been able to do anything over at elbow, been smoked out constantly with 02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:16.240 one of these AK-47s, so that weapon hasn't been able to be put into play quite yet. 02:09:16.240 --> 02:09:18.120 Two players, though, aggressive in middle. 02:09:18.120 --> 02:09:21.460 masuda's backed off but you still have ecstasies uh... chillin and now he's gonna 02:09:21.460 --> 02:09:28.460 slide his way in towards jaguar with some safety 02:09:30.220 --> 02:09:33.900 nice and clean for ecstasies dealing with both threats insani 02:09:33.900 --> 02:09:37.940 trying to keep the economy modest and damage is actually very effective on the 02:09:37.940 --> 02:09:41.940 reload getting pushed at heaven and don't have the same time here insani 02:09:41.940 --> 02:09:45.180 my gravity don't show him too much and then 02:09:45.180 --> 02:09:48.880 That implies not continuing to push, obviously, if they have possession of the box, there's no need to. 02:09:48.880 --> 02:09:53.140 He has to come back to them, and they know that, and so they make sure that they remove him. 02:09:53.140 --> 02:09:56.180 So, 3DMax actually playing themselves into this first half now. 02:09:56.980 --> 02:09:59.180 Yeah, they've done a very good job coming back into this. 02:09:59.180 --> 02:10:02.180 We'll see if MIBR's offense can scrape together a few more. 02:10:02.180 --> 02:10:05.380 There's a little bit of economic damage in that round from Insani, but nothing too crazy. 02:10:05.380 --> 02:10:10.480 So, 3DMax sitting nice with this buy, and they've got some cash built up behind them as well for the future. 02:10:10.480 --> 02:10:12.680 Three rounds remain in this opening half of Ancient. 02:10:15.180 --> 02:10:19.100 Coming into this map after after the dominant win on a different from a VR 02:10:19.740 --> 02:10:24.320 You're coming into a map where there's only a 31% win rate for 3d max 02:10:24.320 --> 02:10:28.220 So it feels very dire, but at least we're seeing them put up some resistance right now 02:10:30.900 --> 02:10:34.220 They're coming at the a bombs are relatively quickly here at my PR 02:10:34.220 --> 02:10:37.420 The only player here to deal with it is exorcise inside of donut 02:10:38.620 --> 02:10:43.060 They want I'll have the a bomb site. They haven't given a whole lot of love to the B bomb site 02:10:43.060 --> 02:10:47.560 So I don't think there's a whole lot of reason for 3D Max to put defense, but the Sony's just a monster. 02:10:47.560 --> 02:10:48.560 That's just wild. 02:10:48.560 --> 02:10:49.060 That's the round. 02:10:49.060 --> 02:10:50.860 I mean, you have just actually won the round. 02:10:50.860 --> 02:10:55.160 You've killed the quickest rotator to the A site and you've killed the only defender of the A site. 02:10:55.160 --> 02:10:58.060 Yeah, I think if you're 3D Max, it's time to back off and save. 02:10:58.060 --> 02:11:01.260 Boring, boring kind of response, but you're not getting into this bomb site. 02:11:01.260 --> 02:11:07.060 You're not winning a 3v5 and while the money's okay and you have some built up behind you, Xercese is going to need a drop. 02:11:07.060 --> 02:11:09.060 I mean, that's a great round from the Sony. 02:11:10.060 --> 02:11:12.360 Just takes the fight away from their opponent. 02:11:12.360 --> 02:11:17.920 He's gotten outside of the rounds where they've pushed aggressively and 3D max play aggressive in middle 02:11:17.920 --> 02:11:21.240 He's pretty much gotten free run. He's been able to challenge and donut 02:11:21.240 --> 02:11:24.080 He's been able to step up towards a red room as well. He's about to get another one 02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:30.680 Another one. Yeah, I mean, this is a situation where the money is not great for 3D Max 02:11:30.680 --> 02:11:34.100 He's not fully built up. Masuta and Mack have a little bit of extra cash for those 02:11:34.640 --> 02:11:39.900 Every kill really matters if they're one mistake and headed to dumb stretch here and Sonny 02:11:39.900 --> 02:11:45.900 We're going for a 4k, finally taking down one of the suits up, but the Cavalry is arriving and it's down to just a single player. 02:11:45.900 --> 02:11:49.900 Fortunately, the most expensive weapon, though, gets saved over. 02:11:49.900 --> 02:11:53.900 Yeah, and I mean, unfortunately, only one player needs a drop, and that's going to come from Maka. 02:11:53.900 --> 02:11:57.900 Everyone else can buy themselves. They'll have to drop down to FAMAS if they want utility. 02:11:57.900 --> 02:12:03.900 Stay away from some head armor as well for those extra nades. So, yeah, not a perfect buy, but it's still got plenty. 02:12:03.900 --> 02:12:08.900 However, this is kind of the round. This sort of decides if it's going to be a close affair or if it's going to be an 8-4. 02:12:08.900 --> 02:12:13.900 8-4. If MIBR wins this round taking the weapons away, there's nothing to play with in the last round for 3D Max. 02:12:13.900 --> 02:12:16.900 Well, they fight on and they go into middle with three players. 02:12:16.900 --> 02:12:20.900 Once again, A is the call. Gravity alone with an M4 off angle at the big box. 02:12:20.900 --> 02:12:26.900 I bet himself he's going to try and keep these mid players busy, but not going to arrive in time to take all that contact and keep them placed in mid. 02:12:26.900 --> 02:12:32.900 So, Gravity, let's see what you've got. Here comes the A-play. Hiving him behind the big box, Volta is going to force it back into the temple. 02:12:32.900 --> 02:12:34.940 into the temple, quick, quick kill from gravity. 02:12:34.940 --> 02:12:36.740 His team at Exorcist arrived towards the donut. 02:12:36.740 --> 02:12:38.420 He's gonna come through that smoke 02:12:38.420 --> 02:12:39.580 and actually makes the most of it. 02:12:39.580 --> 02:12:41.180 I don't know how he hasn't died there, 02:12:41.180 --> 02:12:43.900 but I think 3D Max will take it. 02:12:43.900 --> 02:12:44.740 How did he only take like, 02:12:44.740 --> 02:12:46.580 he only took like 15 damage from Brenno as well, 02:12:46.580 --> 02:12:47.500 like nothing landed. 02:12:47.500 --> 02:12:49.660 Okay, so that smoke towards CT is deep. 02:12:49.660 --> 02:12:51.380 It's gonna make MIBR nervous for the moment, 02:12:51.380 --> 02:12:53.180 so they pause as the bomb is on the ground. 02:12:53.180 --> 02:12:54.620 There's no more resmokes as well. 02:12:54.620 --> 02:12:56.340 This is an issue they had at the B bomb site 02:12:56.340 --> 02:12:57.180 throughout this half, 02:12:57.180 --> 02:12:59.300 is they don't have the follow-up layer of utility 02:12:59.300 --> 02:13:01.820 to secure some safety inside the bomb site. 02:13:01.820 --> 02:13:05.820 They're scrambling right now. No one's really sure what they can do to get out of this situation. 02:13:05.820 --> 02:13:09.420 Good pop flash, good kill. Now we have a 3 on 3 and that's workable. 02:13:09.420 --> 02:13:15.320 Yeah, I know. As this was going on, 3D Max are resetting and putting all of the forces together inside of middle. 02:13:15.320 --> 02:13:19.660 They're going to try and retake all through donut, which makes this really difficult because you've got 02:13:19.660 --> 02:13:22.660 two T's who are now in the post-plant position of CT. 02:13:22.660 --> 02:13:25.760 They've moved themselves out of position to really defend the defuse. 02:13:25.760 --> 02:13:27.960 Yeah, that's true. Look what a bomb is. 02:13:27.960 --> 02:13:34.960 Okay, well, you can wrap around the temple, get back into the site, and then you'll have a better angle, but it's going to be down to time. 02:13:34.960 --> 02:13:38.960 That's the issue. No kit available here for 3D Max. That's really important to note. 02:13:38.960 --> 02:13:44.960 Get into the site. Masuta's got two kills, but has to be Insani to save them again. Looking for impact. 02:13:44.960 --> 02:13:48.960 He's got the kills. Has he got the round? The time is going to be close to your 3D Max on it. 02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:52.960 He actually found a kit, so Mac got picking that up in the midst of all the chaos, 02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:57.720 And that will be 3D Max to get back to your retake and a real chance for a 6-6-1 half now. 02:13:57.720 --> 02:14:03.600 Small mistake with big consequences. That second player over in temple, that's a really nice bait and switch setup. 02:14:03.600 --> 02:14:07.680 They get the first kill and they're not going to expect the second one except he makes a footstep. 02:14:07.680 --> 02:14:13.360 Right as soon as his teammate dies, he swings a little bit too fast just to get to the angle as quick as he can. 02:14:13.360 --> 02:14:17.520 And that gives away the footstep that lets 3D Max know that there's a second player temple. 02:14:17.520 --> 02:14:22.240 Really negates the strength of that post-plat setup that wrap around through CT spawn. 02:14:22.240 --> 02:14:28.240 MIBR is still a decent buy, good to the last round of the half, 7-5 still possible. 02:14:28.240 --> 02:14:36.240 Maybe try and slow down that elbow attack and flash us in, it's chaotic, but it's coming out on top for MIBR. 02:14:36.240 --> 02:14:40.240 Venom, Zera, and LNZ with kills, XCC's at least getting one, but he can't get back to safety. 02:14:40.240 --> 02:14:46.240 Insani hunting him down, Breno sending bullets through that red smoke, and it will be a seventh round here for MIBR. 02:14:46.240 --> 02:14:48.240 MIBR should have just rushed every round in this half. 02:14:48.240 --> 02:14:49.240 Yeah, they could have. 02:14:49.240 --> 02:14:52.600 have like this hardcore fast aggressive play it works out there's a kill here but 02:14:52.600 --> 02:14:56.160 one of double doors that was the bomb carrier as well. Klim never had to move 02:14:56.160 --> 02:15:01.320 easy frag for him in a 7 to 5 lead for MIBR going into halftime. Big advantage 02:15:01.320 --> 02:15:06.880 now going on to the CT side. Big advantage in these quarterfinals as well 02:15:06.880 --> 02:15:12.800 looking to eliminate 3D Max from the PGL Bucharest playoffs. Move on to those 02:15:12.800 --> 02:15:17.200 semi-finals. We've been talking, I think one of the great points in the 02:15:17.200 --> 02:15:22.000 this morning is MIBR just be more consistent. The level is more consistent than that of 3D Max. 02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:27.760 Now, 3D Max, I mean, up and down, mostly down this year in 2026, but we've seen that upturn 02:15:27.760 --> 02:15:31.360 coming into this event, started really slow, obviously losing the focus, but they started 02:15:31.360 --> 02:15:35.040 getting better and better and that win versus paravision, it gave us quite a bit of confidence 02:15:35.040 --> 02:15:38.480 just in the way that they did it. I think the scary thing for 3D Max at the moment, 02:15:38.480 --> 02:15:41.520 we had this conversation on the walk in, I was like, I wonder if there's like a little like 02:15:41.520 --> 02:15:44.880 honeymoon period for 3D Max, and then I guess the question would be, would it continue after the 02:15:44.880 --> 02:15:48.360 the major, but if this is a honeymoon period, it's not a great honeymoon. 02:15:48.360 --> 02:15:49.360 No. 02:15:49.360 --> 02:15:52.200 It's a very local holiday. 02:15:52.200 --> 02:15:53.960 They've gone glamping. 02:15:53.960 --> 02:15:57.640 No shade on glamping. 02:15:57.640 --> 02:15:59.360 No, it's not quite a honeymoon. 02:15:59.360 --> 02:16:03.680 It's not quite a honeymoon, unless she's into that, which in which case, or he. 02:16:03.680 --> 02:16:04.680 Or they. 02:16:04.680 --> 02:16:05.680 Or they. 02:16:05.680 --> 02:16:06.680 It's all good. 02:16:06.680 --> 02:16:08.680 Yeah, we've covered all bases now, Jason. 02:16:08.680 --> 02:16:09.680 We're all good. 02:16:09.680 --> 02:16:10.680 We're good. 02:16:10.680 --> 02:16:12.320 Okay, second half beginning. 02:16:12.320 --> 02:16:20.320 And we've got plenty of utility available here for 3D Max, Makka, with a Molotov Smoke and a Cheep. 02:16:20.320 --> 02:16:22.320 Man, I like how fast this is looking. 02:16:24.320 --> 02:16:26.320 I think ammo will probably be happy to come with you. 02:16:26.320 --> 02:16:28.320 Yeah, they're gonna be pleased as hell. 02:16:28.320 --> 02:16:32.320 Okay, thank you very much. And no one could have won better though. Could have won better. 02:16:32.320 --> 02:16:36.320 They didn't get the kills required. Venom Zera could change that. 02:16:36.320 --> 02:16:41.320 Yeah, they will. I doubt Venom Zera is shredding them. 02:16:42.320 --> 02:16:49.020 That's a sequence. That is a sequence from Venom's era. Hey doing this time and time again talk about his impact man 02:16:49.020 --> 02:16:50.960 Triple kill on the pistol round here in the second half 02:16:50.960 --> 02:16:56.080 He had the two back-to-back rounds with double kills that secured two victories for it might be our set themselves up set them up 02:16:56.080 --> 02:17:00.600 Nicely, he's having a beast of a game and now we start to climb up the scoreboard as well with 12 kills 02:17:04.840 --> 02:17:08.240 Just beautiful shooting as they come sliding around the edge of the smoke 02:17:09.920 --> 02:17:11.920 Disgusting performance from Venom's era 02:17:12.320 --> 02:17:13.660 Living up to his namesake. 02:17:19.000 --> 02:17:21.400 Getting ready to head into the B site. 02:17:21.400 --> 02:17:23.700 I mean, 3D Max are just going to get out of here. 02:17:23.700 --> 02:17:27.560 Imagine by the MP9 here, LNZ, confident he's moved down and 02:17:28.240 --> 02:17:30.200 take gravity away and stick around. 02:17:30.200 --> 02:17:33.640 He's got Sony to back him up and that's enough to crush 3D Max in this round. 02:17:33.940 --> 02:17:36.580 9 to 5, we're seeing MIBR shoot ahead. 02:17:37.480 --> 02:17:40.780 Those are a pair of nice Glock kills against M4s. 02:17:40.780 --> 02:17:44.300 So that's a little bit weird, but still winning the round. 02:17:47.300 --> 02:17:49.860 I think they lost an additional M4 at the end of that. 02:17:52.060 --> 02:17:53.980 They were trying to juggle an M4 back to a teammate, 02:17:53.980 --> 02:17:55.380 and I think they lost an additional one. 02:17:55.380 --> 02:17:56.780 You may not see that, just went into the void. 02:17:56.780 --> 02:17:58.180 So, I mean, countered, I guess, in a way, 02:17:58.180 --> 02:18:01.220 as three kills for 3D Max or decent economic damage. 02:18:03.620 --> 02:18:05.140 Don't love to see that. 02:18:05.140 --> 02:18:07.420 It's getting weird out there. 02:18:07.420 --> 02:18:08.620 OK, let's see that. 02:18:08.620 --> 02:18:10.620 That comes back to her MRBR. 02:18:10.620 --> 02:18:15.620 We've got three Galils in play here for 3D Max and their first purchase of the second half. 02:18:15.620 --> 02:18:19.620 I want to prioritize getting utility out rather than those 8Ks. 02:18:19.620 --> 02:18:23.620 One of the 8K carriers in Masuta has taken a lot of utility damage. 02:18:23.620 --> 02:18:25.620 He's down to 45 health. 02:18:25.620 --> 02:18:27.620 The round has just begun. 02:18:35.620 --> 02:18:37.620 Very chill, very passive. 02:18:38.620 --> 02:18:50.620 I think this half will start getting difficult for 3D Max. If MIBR decide to mix in some of those aggressive plays, the smoke towards double doors that pushed down the ramp, we saw 3D Max unable to handle the overwhelming aggression in the first half. 02:18:50.620 --> 02:19:03.620 But again, a map that's not been kind to them. I imagine there's weaknesses and they're set up against that CT aggression. 02:19:03.620 --> 02:19:12.620 55 seconds on the clock, bomb is still dropped all the way back in T spawn, so Maka and Lucky went through to clear A main. 02:19:12.620 --> 02:19:17.620 Now we're going to back off and pick that up. One's going to stay as a lurker towards elbow, that'll be Lucky. 02:19:17.620 --> 02:19:21.620 And Maka's going to come join up with the team. 02:19:21.620 --> 02:19:25.620 Smoke just pops at the top of B ramp, which is certainly going to make things more difficult. 02:19:25.620 --> 02:19:28.620 It's Venom-Zero with a Molotov and LNZ to defend this B bomb site. 02:19:28.620 --> 02:19:33.180 site and the fourth plan behind the smokes and not going out too long to get 02:19:33.180 --> 02:19:37.060 they could deploy a boost. It's not a bad idea. Everyone's here, she's getting some 02:19:37.060 --> 02:19:40.260 damage, but it's not going to be happy about it. He got the crappy end of the 02:19:40.260 --> 02:19:44.060 tilda. He's the player boost thing, the player up. He's got the battle weapon, yet 02:19:44.060 --> 02:19:49.100 he gets spouted down through the smoke. He's max happy about this. They're into 02:19:49.100 --> 02:19:52.260 the site. They've got the play advantage into the post plant and it's good for LIPR. 02:19:52.260 --> 02:19:55.260 You're just gonna back away. That's a good call. That boost up doesn't work 02:19:55.260 --> 02:19:57.660 whatsoever. We don't really have the utility to come for the retake and the kill 02:19:57.660 --> 02:20:01.180 happen so quickly that it didn't really feel like you could get in position to go for a 02:20:01.180 --> 02:20:02.180 good fight. 02:20:02.180 --> 02:20:05.940 You know, maybe you didn't lose so many plays in the last round, maybe you could think about 02:20:05.940 --> 02:20:06.940 a retake. 02:20:06.940 --> 02:20:07.940 Yeah, to a clock. 02:20:07.940 --> 02:20:08.940 At least give it a go. 02:20:08.940 --> 02:20:09.940 To a clock. 02:20:09.940 --> 02:20:20.900 You know, someone's been going through my, just percolating in my head throughout this 02:20:20.900 --> 02:20:21.900 series. 02:20:21.900 --> 02:20:22.900 Okay, here we go. 02:20:22.900 --> 02:20:27.620 I'm like, I'm a little bit stunned seeing this 3D Max today come in after they beat 02:20:27.620 --> 02:20:32.100 Paravision to qualify for the playoffs, like kind of the favorite for the tournament, 02:20:32.100 --> 02:20:35.460 number eight ranked team in the world. And they also destroyed them. 02:20:35.460 --> 02:20:39.620 Yeah, and you smoked them pretty clean. And today coming in and it's a completely different 02:20:39.620 --> 02:20:44.260 squad inside the server, I think that's a frustration that I think 3D Max is going 02:20:44.260 --> 02:20:47.940 to be aware of. I imagine, I mean, every team, especially the ones kind of struggling to break 02:20:47.940 --> 02:20:52.580 into tier one, always talk about that difficulty of playing in matches, how the team does in 02:20:52.580 --> 02:20:56.620 practice but the inconsistency from being able to kind of trounce paravision 02:20:56.620 --> 02:21:03.500 to qualify to now struggling against MIVR a little bit of whiplash but you've 02:21:03.500 --> 02:21:06.860 also known that there's a vision has been playing the right game at this event 02:21:06.860 --> 02:21:11.740 so far either here's an aggressive push down middle Breno along the wall and 02:21:11.740 --> 02:21:15.500 Sonny has jumped up to look at the b-lane 02:21:15.500 --> 02:21:23.100 First kill goes in favor of MIPR, but it's the amount of space they've got within 02:21:23.100 --> 02:21:25.580 Sony down P-Lane and Brenno pushed down middle. 02:21:25.580 --> 02:21:28.860 Oh, this is suffocating and it's done. 02:21:28.860 --> 02:21:31.980 I mean, that is a very quick round in D for MIPR. 02:21:31.980 --> 02:21:33.980 No one's fired a bullet back yet from 3DMass. 02:21:33.980 --> 02:21:34.980 Yes. 02:21:34.980 --> 02:21:37.540 I mean, if you're going to save and you're going to give up that last round and not really 02:21:37.540 --> 02:21:41.740 give it a go, this is the perfect response to make you feel better about yourself. 02:21:41.740 --> 02:21:46.480 Coming to the next round and just walk away with it within the first few seconds. 02:21:46.480 --> 02:21:51.440 Yeah, I mean the boost is set up because they hear the push down middle, so they want to exploit Insani who's gone for the jump up. 02:21:51.440 --> 02:21:58.340 But I mean really the only kind of tactical play that 3D Max is looking to make here was to kind of sneak XRC's up with an aggressive stance and pop flash him to 02:21:58.340 --> 02:22:02.740 have a surprising timing on the B defenders. Just none of it works. 02:22:02.740 --> 02:22:11.040 Three kills essentially for free for MIBR and in the 2v5 3D Max is just going to be saving for a minute. 02:22:11.040 --> 02:22:20.920 Yeah, not a great feeling if you're 3D Max. 02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:23.680 So I'm just tuning in wherever you are in the world. 02:22:23.680 --> 02:22:26.200 I'm wondering if there's going to be more Counter Strike coming your way. 02:22:26.200 --> 02:22:27.800 There's going to be plenty of Counter Strike today. 02:22:27.800 --> 02:22:29.520 We've got four quarter finals. 02:22:29.520 --> 02:22:32.760 We start today with MRBR 3D Max and Astralis Eyeballers. 02:22:32.760 --> 02:22:34.360 We'll see JW back in the playoffs. 02:22:34.360 --> 02:22:35.360 Hell yeah, we will. 02:22:35.360 --> 02:22:37.480 Yeah, we'll see how he goes down against Astralis. 02:22:37.480 --> 02:22:40.760 We've got Footbaked and then Mongol Paravision around out the day. 02:22:40.760 --> 02:22:42.320 Yeah, some some cool matches there. 02:22:42.320 --> 02:22:44.560 Strauss eyeballers obviously mentioned the JW thing. 02:22:44.560 --> 02:22:46.160 We're going to be casting that one. 02:22:46.160 --> 02:22:48.680 Anders and Henry be coming in for foot bait. 02:22:48.680 --> 02:22:50.640 Tried to see what kind of a run foot can put together. 02:22:50.640 --> 02:22:53.360 And if they can make that a tough game for him. 02:22:53.360 --> 02:22:54.280 And then obviously Mongols, 02:22:54.280 --> 02:22:56.280 Paravis and the headliner of the day. 02:22:56.280 --> 02:22:57.480 I mean, that's what many people thought 02:22:57.480 --> 02:22:58.480 would be the grand final, 02:22:58.480 --> 02:23:00.920 but with Paravis and really dropping the ball 02:23:00.920 --> 02:23:03.280 in the group stage is making a lot of mistakes. 02:23:03.280 --> 02:23:04.960 Tell you what though, if you're a Paravisian player 02:23:04.960 --> 02:23:06.560 and you wake up today and go to HLTV 02:23:06.560 --> 02:23:08.320 and you see the quotes from Jayman to Ston 02:23:08.320 --> 02:23:09.400 after the conversation, 02:23:09.400 --> 02:23:13.720 They surely would have sat you down last night and had with you you're waking up today and you're full focus 02:23:13.880 --> 02:23:18.080 You're going into the server you're throwing every single smoke. You're making sure you've got it all down 02:23:18.240 --> 02:23:21.720 We're gonna up against a team that don't even practice guys and we don't win this one 02:23:23.160 --> 02:23:25.160 Now that's an inspiring speech 02:23:30.040 --> 02:23:34.800 10 to 6 timeout taken 3d max having a conversation 02:23:39.400 --> 02:23:43.240 trying to turn their fortunes here. They're investing a lot into this next round. 02:23:44.440 --> 02:23:49.480 The offense was an issue on Inferno as well. They only netted three rounds T side Inferno, so 02:23:49.480 --> 02:23:54.360 offense hasn't really been going. And I guess in a sense that shouldn't be like a terrible surprise. 02:23:54.360 --> 02:24:00.200 I'm not trying to like make excuses for them. These have been, you know, ugly T side on Inferno, 02:24:00.200 --> 02:24:04.760 and this we'll see how this one ends up. But I think these struggles can be kind of expected 02:24:04.760 --> 02:24:08.520 when you switch the IGL. And yeah, you're going back to someone who's done it before, but he's 02:24:08.520 --> 02:24:10.200 He's never been good at calling ancient. 02:24:10.200 --> 02:24:12.360 There's a different style as well, right? 02:24:12.360 --> 02:24:14.360 It's stylistically different as a player 02:24:14.360 --> 02:24:16.280 when you have a different IGL and calling the way 02:24:16.280 --> 02:24:18.760 he likes you, different setups, different pacings. 02:24:19.880 --> 02:24:21.120 So there's an adjustment period, 02:24:21.120 --> 02:24:24.160 but they're really laboring through it. 02:24:26.760 --> 02:24:28.160 LNZ waiting on the site, 02:24:28.160 --> 02:24:29.200 gonna run in towards him. 02:24:29.200 --> 02:24:31.480 Venomzera and LNZ with the first two kills here. 02:24:31.480 --> 02:24:32.920 It's shut down around again. 02:24:32.920 --> 02:24:33.760 Oh, shit. 02:24:33.760 --> 02:24:35.160 I mean, you just save for a minute 02:24:35.160 --> 02:24:37.480 and then that's the round you come in after, 02:24:37.480 --> 02:24:40.640 what looked like quite an intense timeout, a lot of conversation going on, 02:24:41.140 --> 02:24:46.180 and then you get melted and now you have to either save again or they're just going to hunt you down and not wait a full minute. 02:24:46.180 --> 02:24:50.660 So it's going to be 11 to 6 MMPR, very comfortable quarterfinal. 02:24:52.520 --> 02:24:54.420 You're going to be feeling so happy if you're MMPR. 02:24:54.420 --> 02:24:55.840 They got a lot of things going their way right now. 02:24:55.840 --> 02:24:59.420 Even, I think Venom's error in that round, he throws that smoke when he gets blinded 02:24:59.420 --> 02:25:02.020 and he's kind of like trying to move away, so it goes sideways, 02:25:02.020 --> 02:25:06.860 but it still bounces off the wall and into cave where it's actually a perfect defensive smoke to block. 02:25:06.860 --> 02:25:10.340 Like it's just, even the accidents are turning out as a positive for MIBR. 02:25:12.040 --> 02:25:13.540 Half-real accidents. 02:25:13.840 --> 02:25:16.640 But, where's the layered flashbangs? 02:25:17.000 --> 02:25:19.340 Well, where are the layered flashbangs to blind these defenders? 02:25:19.340 --> 02:25:23.940 When the hit actually comes in, the initial salvo of utility had already worn off, 02:25:24.780 --> 02:25:28.520 and 3D Maxes turn to the corner and going through that smoke to disadvantage fights. 02:25:28.920 --> 02:25:32.320 Deep utility down mid. Lucky burns to 32 HP. 02:25:34.320 --> 02:25:36.060 MIBR want this fight as well. 02:25:36.860 --> 02:25:38.860 At least Insani does. 02:25:55.420 --> 02:25:59.600 It feels like one of the most significant results for MIBR even 02:26:00.260 --> 02:26:04.900 getting to this point since I feel like pro league season 20 where they were 02:26:04.900 --> 02:26:06.900 Thanks third fourth 02:26:07.140 --> 02:26:09.420 Back at time 24 or so now means 02:26:10.020 --> 02:26:15.180 Impressive to see and I'll be I would this level and the way they're getting through this quarter-final 02:26:15.740 --> 02:26:19.900 They've gotten Sonny holding on to the donut. The suit is gonna step into him back up 02:26:20.380 --> 02:26:22.500 Getting the trade and opening up this a site 02:26:22.900 --> 02:26:26.660 But I'm Sarah trying to get back again. Mr. impact over here 02:26:27.300 --> 02:26:30.900 There's one quick kill getting pushed from a man gravity could have taken down to better Sarah 02:26:30.900 --> 02:26:34.880 It's at least allowed the chance to fall back that eventually gravity will finish his meal 02:26:34.960 --> 02:26:37.340 Okay, well, I'll see coming in the flank through donut 02:26:38.220 --> 02:26:41.920 No more nades boys keep the guns out for the moment could win from LNZ now 02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:45.380 It opens up and adds in a one-on-one. We've got marker LNZ 02:26:46.860 --> 02:26:50.260 Back on the AK all good repulse. Yeah stays on site 02:26:50.260 --> 02:26:53.220 There's no way I was he's gonna think he went back to the default boxes 02:26:53.220 --> 02:26:56.100 He steps out into the open Macca should have this clutch 02:26:56.100 --> 02:27:01.940 really good maneuvers, defuse being stuck, and Maka to confirm the headshot and the clutch. 02:27:01.940 --> 02:27:09.180 Yeah, they'll celebrate that one, Maka stepping up when they need it. Such a nice little sound cue 02:27:09.180 --> 02:27:12.900 to give to really sell the position that you're going back to Temple, you're going back to big 02:27:12.900 --> 02:27:17.340 box, and while the smoke is still up, you just completely subvert his expectations. 02:27:17.340 --> 02:27:25.500 Nice brainy win in the clutch in the 1v1, 11-7 off in Maka's hands. Now, 02:27:25.500 --> 02:27:50.980 Now Clem's got his as well. 02:27:50.980 --> 02:27:55.220 Forcing the defense back, taking a little bit of map control now. 02:27:55.220 --> 02:28:01.360 can slide in towards Jaguar. Molotov in towards the cubby and nobody's home but 02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:05.880 Venazera has a flashbang set up at prime to lay out this trap in middle. Activate 02:28:05.880 --> 02:28:10.400 Insani for a peek. He sees nothing and is just gonna back away. 02:28:11.840 --> 02:28:18.480 Just jump spotting. Cease two. Information, Clem. Gonna be aware that they could have 02:28:18.480 --> 02:28:21.680 crossed over towards Red. He's gonna call that to his teammate. Step was made so 02:28:21.680 --> 02:28:26.680 So he's going to position himself to try and deal with that threat. 02:28:26.680 --> 02:28:32.720 That one's Ian and Sonny turning the back, putting a lot of faith in that smoke, a lot 02:28:32.720 --> 02:28:33.720 of faith that nobody's going to- 02:28:33.720 --> 02:28:37.120 They'd be nervous for a second, huh? 02:28:37.120 --> 02:28:39.640 This feels like it's going to be a fake, and I think they're going to sell it, because 02:28:39.640 --> 02:28:42.840 MIBR already looks like on the minimap, like they have an inkling that it's going to be 02:28:42.840 --> 02:28:44.080 ending at the B bomb site. 02:28:44.080 --> 02:28:48.640 The execute is going to come out in that direction, but everyone from 3D Max lining up to head 02:28:48.640 --> 02:28:50.880 back to the A bomb site. 02:28:50.880 --> 02:28:53.460 I think MIBR has already bit on this. 02:28:56.420 --> 02:28:57.220 Lucky. 02:28:58.020 --> 02:28:59.180 Blood drawing. 02:28:59.180 --> 02:29:02.800 Breno and Clem entering the kill feed together here for MIPR. 02:29:02.800 --> 02:29:04.220 Really important kill from Exes. 02:29:04.220 --> 02:29:05.020 Pursuit up. 02:29:05.620 --> 02:29:06.980 Sharp to take Breno down. 02:29:06.980 --> 02:29:09.820 LNZ responds with a kill to the smoke and we're still leaving here. 02:29:10.620 --> 02:29:12.140 Maki will put the bomb down. 02:29:13.180 --> 02:29:14.700 And they try to get back into post plant. 02:29:14.700 --> 02:29:17.020 LNZ sends himself forward through the CT smoke. 02:29:17.020 --> 02:29:19.020 It puts it all on Venom's error. 02:29:19.020 --> 02:29:24.020 No, from Temple, Xercese, right on to me, Tham. 02:29:24.020 --> 02:29:25.020 Good timing. 02:29:25.020 --> 02:29:27.820 I mean, Maka's looking towards CT spawn from to come through that smoke, and then I just 02:29:27.820 --> 02:29:28.820 has the idea. 02:29:28.820 --> 02:29:29.820 Just feels it. 02:29:29.820 --> 02:29:31.940 I'm like, okay, that's how long it would take to get to the Temple entrance. 02:29:31.940 --> 02:29:32.940 Good turn. 02:29:32.940 --> 02:29:36.340 Big rounds from Maka in back-to-back performances, 11-8. 02:29:36.340 --> 02:29:37.340 Just like Inferno. 02:29:37.340 --> 02:29:41.100 It's felt like a beat down this whole way, and then right at the tail end, you see MIBR 02:29:41.100 --> 02:29:44.620 kind of slow down, and 3D Max start getting some momentum, and some things go in their 02:29:44.620 --> 02:29:47.780 way. 02:29:47.780 --> 02:29:51.580 On Inferno it got cut short, so we'll see if 3DMAX can keep it up here. 02:29:51.580 --> 02:29:57.180 Yeah, on Inferno it was just too much done by MIBR to really pull the comeback off from 3DMAX. 02:29:57.180 --> 02:29:59.180 I wonder if H&M is going to be the same. 02:29:59.180 --> 02:30:05.380 Nuke would be the third and deciding map if 3DMAX can pull off the miracle and it actually complete this comeback into a map to win. 02:30:06.380 --> 02:30:08.980 Obviously they're going to be feeling much more comfortable on Nuke. 02:30:11.380 --> 02:30:13.780 So obviously the Corfano completely reopens. 02:30:13.780 --> 02:30:18.780 If they somehow pull this off, gravity, waiting for some aggression, 02:30:18.780 --> 02:30:22.780 the number of rounds RLNZ has thrown that CT push in, 02:30:22.780 --> 02:30:25.780 got Insani now, looking out from red, 02:30:25.780 --> 02:30:27.780 and then fight down towards the bottom boxes, 02:30:27.780 --> 02:30:29.780 LNZ has come away with that early kill. 02:30:29.780 --> 02:30:31.780 Yeah, that's a disastrous kill to lose, 02:30:31.780 --> 02:30:33.780 because now they can swarm that bomb, 02:30:33.780 --> 02:30:35.780 the two players can stay committed towards it, 02:30:35.780 --> 02:30:37.780 and 3D Max have to come back to them. 02:30:37.780 --> 02:30:39.780 Insani needs to stop peeking, there's no point in this fight, 02:30:39.780 --> 02:30:41.780 there's no point, okay, well you're gonna die, 02:30:41.780 --> 02:30:47.060 that one I'm not going to lie bomb still under control though and that's the main 02:30:47.060 --> 02:30:50.580 problem for 3D Max is they rotate around Xerces gets a kill on Venom Zera 02:30:50.580 --> 02:30:57.460 it's falling apart it's collapsing yeah you're good start to the round oh my 02:30:57.460 --> 02:31:02.620 oh pin to the wall that what have you ever seen anything quite like that that's 02:31:02.620 --> 02:31:07.420 a new decoration here on the wall that's the mechanic in like half-life to have 02:31:07.420 --> 02:31:09.420 Hitting someone with a crossbow. 02:31:09.420 --> 02:31:10.420 He's just resting in taxidermy. 02:31:10.420 --> 02:31:12.420 Chilling on like the lighting fixture. 02:31:15.420 --> 02:31:17.420 This is a lovely room of death. 02:31:18.420 --> 02:31:20.420 There's my trophy right here. 02:31:20.420 --> 02:31:22.420 Okay. 02:31:22.420 --> 02:31:26.420 That's probably the most entertaining thing about the round. 02:31:26.420 --> 02:31:28.420 There's three Max moving to B. They've won it already. 02:31:28.420 --> 02:31:30.420 I might be on the save. 02:31:32.420 --> 02:31:34.420 Nice catch. 02:31:34.420 --> 02:31:37.420 Thanks again to the Observing Team. 02:31:37.420 --> 02:31:40.420 You can hear in the playoffs, oh the candle shot. 02:31:40.420 --> 02:31:45.420 Oh my, PGL Buchra is going to win Best of War for cinematography this year. 02:31:45.420 --> 02:31:46.420 I think this is beautiful stuff. 02:31:46.420 --> 02:31:49.420 Look at the way the shadow really emphasizes the disappointment. 02:31:49.420 --> 02:31:51.420 The way the head is slightly downturned looking at the ground. 02:31:51.420 --> 02:31:53.420 He knows he's made a mistake. 02:31:53.420 --> 02:31:54.420 Can we stay still for a second? 02:31:54.420 --> 02:31:55.420 I need to make this my phone wallpaper. 02:31:55.420 --> 02:31:58.420 This is beautiful stuff. 02:31:58.420 --> 02:32:00.420 Create some art. 02:32:00.420 --> 02:32:05.420 They smoke themselves off kill. 02:32:05.420 --> 02:32:10.420 Yeah, if they go B we save, okay? 02:32:10.420 --> 02:32:12.420 Okay, headshot. 02:32:12.420 --> 02:32:18.420 I have a fangirl drop. 02:32:18.420 --> 02:32:24.420 Nice shots from Klim down the screen. 02:32:24.420 --> 02:32:25.420 Yeah, he was playing headshot. 02:32:25.420 --> 02:32:29.420 LNZ had quite a one-way conversation, wasn't it? 02:32:29.420 --> 02:32:35.020 like hey guys anyone there communication is a two-way street 02:32:35.660 --> 02:32:40.620 a lot of time I'll see let me get on the mic 02:32:40.620 --> 02:32:45.500 he's probably feeling a little worried now all right guys we have an 02:32:45.500 --> 02:32:48.020 opportunity to get into the semi-finals here it's been comfortable it's been 02:32:48.020 --> 02:32:52.820 looking good but it's very quickly get out of hand three to max on the comeback 02:32:52.820 --> 02:32:56.820 trail obviously literally with some individual moments think that macro clutch 02:32:56.820 --> 02:33:00.260 really important to keep this campaign going for 3D Max. 02:33:00.260 --> 02:33:02.420 It's really what's kicked off this stretch, hasn't it? 02:33:02.420 --> 02:33:04.820 Three in a row now for 3D Max off the back of that clutch. 02:33:04.820 --> 02:33:06.420 And I'll say in those last three rounds, 02:33:06.420 --> 02:33:08.620 MBRs had a couple rounds that was a little bit scattered by, 02:33:08.620 --> 02:33:11.620 a little bit beat up and bruised in terms of their economy. 02:33:11.620 --> 02:33:13.020 No excuses this round, though. 02:33:13.020 --> 02:33:15.420 Klim has his AWP, they've got four kits, 02:33:15.420 --> 02:33:19.020 full of utility, AKs and M4s on the board. 02:33:19.020 --> 02:33:20.420 And this is exactly where 3D... 02:33:20.420 --> 02:33:23.420 I mean, this is exactly where MBR clamped down on Inferno. 02:33:23.420 --> 02:33:26.420 Once 3D Max got to nine, got within this point, 02:33:26.420 --> 02:33:30.460 Am I the arches rolled to the win after that with two quick rounds in succession? 02:33:44.780 --> 02:33:47.980 Good timing and decision-making to back away from the mid presence 02:33:50.300 --> 02:33:56.260 We do have an aggressive a main stance from L and Z so the timing when he decides to push forward is gonna be everything and there 02:33:56.260 --> 02:33:59.060 There we go, aggression in Red Room again and Sonny, all to do. 02:33:59.060 --> 02:34:01.700 Sees two more at Elbow, one up at the jump-up, 02:34:01.700 --> 02:34:03.660 and now this is when he makes his move. 02:34:03.660 --> 02:34:05.820 Oh, LNZ is trying to pull the trap. 02:34:05.820 --> 02:34:07.380 Yeah, look at this, they're considering, okay, 02:34:07.380 --> 02:34:09.780 if Bluffman is convincingly worse to reaction, 02:34:09.780 --> 02:34:11.420 it's gonna be the A main push. 02:34:11.420 --> 02:34:15.340 Lucky reads it, LNZ dies, and this game's falling apart. 02:34:15.340 --> 02:34:17.940 MIBR are starting to disappear. 02:34:17.940 --> 02:34:19.340 There's way too much aggression 02:34:19.340 --> 02:34:21.860 in the mid-round towards middle for MIBR. 02:34:21.860 --> 02:34:23.460 I don't know why they're so dedicated 02:34:23.460 --> 02:34:26.100 to taking these fights at that point where 3D Max, 02:34:26.100 --> 02:34:29.340 They've struggled getting into bomb sites, make them execute. 02:34:29.340 --> 02:34:32.660 You're giving them kills in middle, peeking red room, 02:34:32.660 --> 02:34:34.180 pushing down in the mid rounds. 02:34:34.180 --> 02:34:36.420 Especially when we're here, the top team is Disgust Ancient. 02:34:36.420 --> 02:34:39.140 They talk about how that mid fight can be a 50-50. 02:34:39.140 --> 02:34:40.980 Well, look, the both defenders are mating from right here, 02:34:40.980 --> 02:34:42.740 so there's a chance. 02:34:42.740 --> 02:34:44.580 They're going to take their time going in here through the mess. 02:34:44.580 --> 02:34:46.700 Such limited time left on the clock. 02:34:46.700 --> 02:34:47.820 Oh, they have it checked. 02:34:47.820 --> 02:34:50.900 VenomZera, MIBR up with a shot at this. 02:34:50.900 --> 02:34:52.700 All of a sudden, the kills are coming in. 02:34:52.700 --> 02:34:53.820 VenomZera is going to be cleared. 02:34:53.820 --> 02:34:56.080 The flame goes down with nothing. 02:34:56.080 --> 02:34:58.820 Exorcise saving them in the last second, 02:34:58.820 --> 02:35:00.780 and that's gonna fire 3D Max up. 02:35:00.780 --> 02:35:01.720 Yeah, it really is, 02:35:01.720 --> 02:35:03.480 because now they're gonna take a bit of an advantage 02:35:03.480 --> 02:35:04.320 moving forward. 02:35:04.320 --> 02:35:07.740 Money is a massive problem from MIBR at this point. 02:35:07.740 --> 02:35:09.440 Venom, Zera can buy, Clint can buy, 02:35:09.440 --> 02:35:11.120 but outside of that, it's real sketchy. 02:35:11.120 --> 02:35:12.800 And how do you want to invest 02:35:12.800 --> 02:35:14.760 knowing it's coming down to the wire? 02:35:15.880 --> 02:35:17.940 Easy opening kill at this point, 02:35:17.940 --> 02:35:19.420 and Sonny's dedicated to the play 02:35:19.420 --> 02:35:21.300 with that utility goes one for one, 02:35:21.300 --> 02:35:22.720 forces L and Z to move, 02:35:22.720 --> 02:35:27.820 which is predictable, and even with Venom's error giving you a double kill yet again in a critical moment, 02:35:28.940 --> 02:35:30.740 the round is won by Exercease. 02:35:32.220 --> 02:35:34.780 Confidence now flowing through 3D Max. 02:35:35.980 --> 02:35:38.120 The first time they've had it on this map. 02:35:46.400 --> 02:35:49.080 MIBR is back, number four plays, they're going for center crush, 02:35:49.080 --> 02:35:52.100 but look at 3D Max, they're ready for this count of play. 02:35:52.100 --> 02:35:54.300 The map could just put the scope up in Sony. 02:35:54.300 --> 02:35:57.380 It's gonna be taken down instantly, so will Klim. 02:35:58.940 --> 02:36:00.740 11 to 11. 02:36:03.140 --> 02:36:05.860 And the dream of a third map seems so far away 02:36:05.860 --> 02:36:08.780 for 3D Max, but starting to look more 02:36:08.780 --> 02:36:10.180 and more like reality. 02:36:11.740 --> 02:36:14.580 And I'm Xera, unable to connect anything. 02:36:14.580 --> 02:36:17.300 Not a single kill against 3D Max in this round. 02:36:18.380 --> 02:36:19.780 We've got a tied game. 02:36:19.780 --> 02:36:21.060 Where did MIBR go? 02:36:21.060 --> 02:36:22.400 They've completely disappeared. 02:36:22.400 --> 02:36:23.640 Where are they right now? 02:36:23.640 --> 02:36:26.060 Five straights for 3D Max. 02:36:26.060 --> 02:36:28.560 All right, if I'm coach, I'm taking the time out now. 02:36:28.560 --> 02:36:30.400 If they have one remaining, I don't remember if they've used all three. 02:36:30.400 --> 02:36:30.900 You have one more. 02:36:30.900 --> 02:36:33.640 And I'm saying, no one, no one try and be a hero. 02:36:33.640 --> 02:36:35.800 No one has to win this round by being aggressive. 02:36:35.800 --> 02:36:39.000 Like, let's make them execute. 02:36:39.000 --> 02:36:42.400 The last, like, real execute onto a bomb site we saw 02:36:42.400 --> 02:36:44.500 was towards that B site right before the clutch, 02:36:44.500 --> 02:36:46.240 where they just kind of got slaughtered. 02:36:46.240 --> 02:36:47.800 They hit the A bomb site effectively 02:36:47.800 --> 02:36:49.840 when they've gotten a couple kills in the middle first. 02:36:51.060 --> 02:36:54.060 Okay, they are playing more passive in mid. 02:36:54.060 --> 02:36:58.060 Come start from Donut, drop Uto, Mac up. 02:36:58.060 --> 02:37:02.060 He's leveling up now though. That's going to be another opening found from the AWP. 02:37:02.060 --> 02:37:04.060 Well the question becomes, because the slide of the bomb is towards the A bomb site, 02:37:04.060 --> 02:37:06.060 and actually they might just hit this timing off of that kill. 02:37:06.060 --> 02:37:09.060 And Sony, is he going to be ready for it? 02:37:09.060 --> 02:37:10.060 They're all cheating away. 02:37:10.060 --> 02:37:11.060 Oh my gosh, he's just left. 02:37:11.060 --> 02:37:13.060 AWP's going back, but I don't know if it's going to get in the, 02:37:13.060 --> 02:37:14.060 oh it does, it gets in position. 02:37:14.060 --> 02:37:15.060 Whoa! 02:37:15.060 --> 02:37:17.060 There's the boost up! 02:37:17.060 --> 02:37:19.060 That's the warning system. 02:37:19.060 --> 02:37:21.060 A lot of Utah landing towards it. 02:37:23.060 --> 02:37:25.060 Venom, Sarah, pushing down B. 02:37:26.060 --> 02:37:27.060 Cancels it. 02:37:27.060 --> 02:37:28.060 And Insani pushing down mid. 02:37:28.060 --> 02:37:33.060 Oh, this is a good angle to have, but is he going to be in the right spot at the right time as Makka? 02:37:33.060 --> 02:37:35.060 Now, all right, I think out towards elbow. 02:37:35.060 --> 02:37:39.060 Gravity, timing, just comes out as Insani looks away. 02:37:40.060 --> 02:37:44.060 But you should know that's possible because you just spotted them in A main. 02:37:44.060 --> 02:37:48.060 Like, you should know that there's a timing and there's a chance that they're just going to come elbow. 02:37:48.060 --> 02:37:52.300 It's like this aggression just has so many risks inherently built into it 02:37:53.740 --> 02:37:58.700 And they're just giving away free kills. Yeah, I might be off throwing this one away 02:38:01.140 --> 02:38:04.380 Had it and the semi-final in the palm of their hands 02:38:04.380 --> 02:38:07.100 Oh, you see exorcise is clearing out the eight bombs that right now 02:38:07.100 --> 02:38:12.420 He's gonna well Maka's gonna find the killover and that's it. That's 12 man. I might be ours is just I 02:38:12.420 --> 02:38:18.660 I mean, they're giving, they're giving 3D Max every single piece of, I feel like 3D 02:38:18.660 --> 02:38:22.020 Max doesn't have to do anything in this half, throughout this stretch. 02:38:22.020 --> 02:38:25.660 They just have to be set up and ready and waiting. 02:38:25.660 --> 02:38:32.340 Yeah, you'd just see, Makka in the previous round holds for the B push, and this round 02:38:32.340 --> 02:38:35.380 he goes and gets the opener. 02:38:35.380 --> 02:38:41.100 But there will be some sort of proactive play from our mobbler that will just give 3D Max 02:38:41.100 --> 02:38:42.100 an advantage. 02:38:42.100 --> 02:38:46.760 Little confidence you have to have to just play a 4v5 standard for everything to be a push. 02:38:46.760 --> 02:38:50.920 It's really starting to get to me, Dinko. I don't know if you can tell. It's just getting on my nerves. 02:38:51.920 --> 02:38:52.920 It's understandable. 02:38:54.000 --> 02:38:56.000 This is a dream. 02:38:56.000 --> 02:38:58.000 And I'm not going to have so many chances. 02:38:59.400 --> 02:39:03.600 Now I'm just tossed this opportunity out the window. I've lost everything. 02:39:03.600 --> 02:39:07.000 And this is the map where you're supposed to have the incredible advantage. 02:39:07.000 --> 02:39:08.500 Yeah, and they did. 02:39:08.500 --> 02:39:10.500 You steal 3D Max's map away. 02:39:10.500 --> 02:39:13.780 They have a 30% win rate on ancient. 02:39:13.780 --> 02:39:17.000 It's never been a map that's been in their wheelhouse, 02:39:17.000 --> 02:39:21.280 but you're making it so much easier for them by essentially playing two T-sides. 02:39:21.280 --> 02:39:29.840 Mental reset, if you could somehow force this into overtime now. 02:39:29.840 --> 02:39:33.320 Two for mass, we got MP9, actually more than that, we got three for mass. 02:39:33.320 --> 02:39:38.560 MP9 and 1M4, not looking great, not really looking great in terms of utility either. 02:39:38.560 --> 02:39:45.560 3D Max have a golden opportunity now to take this one to a third map and we've discussed how Nuke would just completely reset this series. 02:39:45.560 --> 02:39:48.560 3D Max, back into things. 02:39:50.560 --> 02:39:52.560 Two players starting on the A bomb site here for MIBR. 02:39:53.560 --> 02:39:55.560 Brenner on the boost, Clemen behind big box. 02:39:56.560 --> 02:39:57.560 Oh thank god, nobody's in red room. 02:39:58.560 --> 02:40:00.560 Everyone is playing towards B. 02:40:01.560 --> 02:40:03.560 Everyone's playing a position that you can't peek. 02:40:04.560 --> 02:40:05.560 Perfect. 02:40:08.560 --> 02:40:12.560 How are they going to force this into OT? 02:40:12.560 --> 02:40:16.560 Donut smoke and red room smoke. 02:40:16.560 --> 02:40:19.560 3D Max going to bring forces out middle. 02:40:19.560 --> 02:40:20.560 Going to start pushing. 02:40:20.560 --> 02:40:23.560 It's looking like they want to split this towards the A bomb site. 02:40:23.560 --> 02:40:26.560 XRC is joining up with gravity over an A main. 02:40:26.560 --> 02:40:28.560 Lucky and Masuda stepping out towards Donut. 02:40:28.560 --> 02:40:31.560 This B main push is going to be at a good timing to get in behind them. 02:40:31.560 --> 02:40:33.560 They're going to have quick rotations to this A site. 02:40:33.560 --> 02:40:37.560 If the two A players can do something about this, if they can take some players down, 02:40:37.560 --> 02:40:41.360 And this could be very potent shadow against the wall, nothing from Breno. 02:40:41.960 --> 02:40:46.160 Okay, 3D Max moving in to cut the player Vance, Vennem Zera and Klim stepping up. 02:40:46.160 --> 02:40:52.160 But through for gravity and lucky, Vennem Zera again, a multi-kill. He's on 5 HP, 30 seconds left. 02:40:52.360 --> 02:40:55.760 And now Max, a hunting that kill down on the Tech 9, goes to it. 02:40:55.760 --> 02:40:59.260 So it's all on Insani. It's the man you want in this situation. 02:40:59.260 --> 02:40:59.960 He made the play. 02:40:59.960 --> 02:41:02.760 He did. He went around the big box, that's gonna be the bomb going down. 02:41:02.760 --> 02:41:10.600 Mako the pressure's on, has he got another clutch? No Insani forces down over time. There's still a shot to win it in two 02:41:12.040 --> 02:41:18.520 Perfect. That is one hell of a comeback from 3d max and that is going to beat their flading the fact they couldn't close it 02:41:18.520 --> 02:41:21.800 But for mipr, it's just a huge sigh of relief 02:41:22.040 --> 02:41:25.480 Well, it's also like the first time in eight rounds where they actually played the map as a team 02:41:25.640 --> 02:41:28.520 Or like they're actually like, you know instead of instead of a single push down middle 02:41:28.600 --> 02:41:30.600 That's like 50-50 if you die or get a kill 02:41:30.600 --> 02:41:35.360 Now it's a double push through V to clear off the map to get the information to have a fast rotation 02:41:36.080 --> 02:41:39.640 Occupy the donut players force the remaining two players to hunt you down 02:41:39.640 --> 02:41:46.040 Which gives him sunny time to make this kind of a play so yeah game gets a lot easier when you're working with your teammates and making plays 02:41:46.040 --> 02:41:50.040 Off their moves as well. Yeah, 3d max immediately using their overtime timeout 02:41:50.040 --> 02:41:53.040 They want to use it for the first round here for my PR 02:41:53.040 --> 02:41:56.440 You would imagine they're not gonna go back to what they were doing for the rest of the half 02:41:56.440 --> 02:42:00.840 That's surely how I don't know why the CT side of me feels like they played it passively because they didn't really have 02:42:00.840 --> 02:42:02.000 Utility to be aggressive 02:42:02.000 --> 02:42:04.840 But now you get into overtime and the money comes back and you might be motivated now 02:42:04.840 --> 02:42:08.000 If it's a coordinated piece of aggression to start around that makes a lot of sense 02:42:08.000 --> 02:42:13.800 Let's rock and roll there for sure. I mean they did have a question in that round. Obviously, there was perfectly time 02:42:13.800 --> 02:42:18.240 They're walking down B and it was two players. Yeah, so it was looking good 02:42:18.240 --> 02:42:22.600 That's not just individuals walking and doing their own peak or walking through their own smoke 02:42:22.600 --> 02:42:34.600 I want to see how it goes down. So yeah, back to that early mid aggression with numbers here from IPR, flashed and blinded as they climb up towards Heaven. Breno looking to protect Insani. 02:42:34.600 --> 02:42:44.600 Re-Max through, get out through the elbow of Smoke, but there's another one waiting for them. How long does Breno stick around here? 02:42:44.600 --> 02:42:49.340 down to. Well, Exorcise is ready to come through this smoke as soon as the mid-ball first kill. That's perfect. 02:42:49.340 --> 02:42:52.540 Now you can turn into Dress, but you can only get the second two for two trade. 02:42:52.660 --> 02:42:55.620 We descend into a three on three. All rotates over to Red Room. 02:42:56.740 --> 02:43:00.540 Very snappy there from Insani. You get a second kill. You thought Breno might be able to get one, 02:43:00.540 --> 02:43:03.940 but it's actually Insani who kills Exorcise and deals with the L-Doy threat. 02:43:06.700 --> 02:43:09.580 Well, there's gonna be some extended quiet, so we'll see. I'm on BR. 02:43:09.580 --> 02:43:13.220 This is where they have to kind of hold their nerve. Get into some decent enough positions. 02:43:13.220 --> 02:43:17.340 And then, Venom, Zera, and Donut is nice to keep an eye on mid and listen to the A bomb 02:43:17.340 --> 02:43:18.940 site for information. 02:43:18.940 --> 02:43:22.660 LNZ playing very passive at the B bomb site as well. 02:43:22.660 --> 02:43:25.640 He's got to be cautious about Red Room as that smoke is up in Donut, but they're pretty 02:43:25.640 --> 02:43:30.820 convinced nobody's traversed that path. 02:43:30.820 --> 02:43:36.760 All three players at 3D Max just waiting passively at elbow. 02:43:36.760 --> 02:43:40.460 That's them giving the rope to M-I-B-R as they have been all half of like, yeah, push. 02:43:40.460 --> 02:43:49.900 This is the quiet period where you would. 02:43:49.900 --> 02:43:52.300 25 seconds, here come 3D Max. 02:43:52.300 --> 02:43:55.020 Shadow, spotted, Venom, Zara, let's off a couple of bullets. 02:43:55.020 --> 02:43:56.020 Oh, no, no, no, no. 02:43:56.020 --> 02:43:57.020 Oh, get your gun out. 02:43:57.020 --> 02:43:58.460 Well, he's trying to delay it. 02:43:58.460 --> 02:43:59.700 Clem just needs to land some shots now. 02:43:59.700 --> 02:44:00.700 He's got nades out too. 02:44:00.700 --> 02:44:03.140 Oh, you just got to shoot him. 02:44:03.140 --> 02:44:04.140 And now they're into the site. 02:44:04.140 --> 02:44:08.300 The plant can come through with just enough time, and it's LNZ with a 1v3, I mean, oh. 02:44:08.300 --> 02:44:13.780 Trying to delay with utility. They're not playing their life really. That is just 02:44:13.780 --> 02:44:18.220 allowed 3D Max the round win. 3D Max during that stretch in the second half 02:44:18.220 --> 02:44:21.420 knocked something out of MIBR because like the Venom's error that we saw in the 02:44:21.420 --> 02:44:24.420 first half getting those double kills combining for those throughout this half 02:44:24.420 --> 02:44:28.260 he's just swinging for a fight. Why are they so... there's like no confidence at 02:44:28.260 --> 02:44:35.620 the moment the ability to kind of hold these positions. Just 12 to 13. 3D Max 02:44:35.620 --> 02:44:40.180 taking the lead again I mean what what the time left you know I think they're 02:44:40.180 --> 02:44:45.460 gonna run through them all as well like it just I'm with you 02:44:51.500 --> 02:44:58.180 Z some of the people it's for the spam you'll throw back inside of cave 02:44:58.180 --> 02:45:02.180 Feels like it might be our barely hanging in that. 02:45:02.180 --> 02:45:06.180 Sony, we can see inside a cave, it's a strong setup. 02:45:06.180 --> 02:45:10.180 Going to play anti-flash turn against the wall, and Sony 02:45:10.180 --> 02:45:14.180 getting taken down first gravity to make sure the trade is in, so they've got the 02:45:14.180 --> 02:45:16.180 advantage now, 4v3. 02:45:16.180 --> 02:45:19.180 It might be our really struggling with multi-kills all of a sudden as well. 02:45:19.180 --> 02:45:24.180 The trades have been much more effective for 3D Max, maybe it's just them being a little bit sharper in those scenarios. 02:45:24.180 --> 02:45:30.460 areas but a big advantage in a minute on the clock still remains and this is 02:45:30.460 --> 02:45:33.740 generally where 3D Max stays pretty passive and sees if MLBR is going to 02:45:33.740 --> 02:45:36.620 move across the map. 02:45:36.620 --> 02:45:39.740 None of that happening at the moment. Two defenders at the B bomb site that's 02:45:39.740 --> 02:45:42.420 going to be Breno and Venom. 02:45:42.420 --> 02:45:45.340 Pull him with his AWP at the big box at the A bomb site. He missed a couple 02:45:45.340 --> 02:45:48.380 critical shots in the previous round as they came out of doughnut needs to nail 02:45:48.380 --> 02:45:53.300 them here but they're not going to commit it's going to be over towards B so the 02:45:53.300 --> 02:45:56.880 The utility is just a fake, but it prompts MIBR to come searching for information. 02:45:56.880 --> 02:46:00.420 Again, paired up, though, buddy system, and you might catch a perfect timing as they come 02:46:00.420 --> 02:46:01.420 out of double doors. 02:46:01.420 --> 02:46:06.460 Yeah, yeah, the elbow, he comes in, so that distracts, and they have to slow them down. 02:46:06.460 --> 02:46:08.780 Now Brennan realizes you've got 20 seconds left, get back to it. 02:46:08.780 --> 02:46:09.780 You've got Util as well. 02:46:09.780 --> 02:46:10.780 Look at Gravity's HP. 02:46:10.780 --> 02:46:13.500 Gravity's HP is low, and he's the one who kind of has to be the aggressor, the point 02:46:13.500 --> 02:46:14.500 man on it. 02:46:14.500 --> 02:46:16.780 15 seconds left, they're actually going A. They're going A, and they've just left the 02:46:16.780 --> 02:46:17.780 A site. 02:46:17.780 --> 02:46:21.180 Flash is going in, and 3D Max, you've got an open side all of a sudden. 02:46:21.180 --> 02:46:22.860 on his last day. 02:46:22.860 --> 02:46:24.180 All right. 02:46:24.180 --> 02:46:27.380 Oh, you have found the way to an empty bomb site, 02:46:27.380 --> 02:46:29.540 and now a retake gonna be forced out of him. 02:46:29.540 --> 02:46:32.580 That grenade could find gravity, but it's too deep. 02:46:32.580 --> 02:46:35.220 Gravity's sticking around, he's trying to fight. 02:46:35.220 --> 02:46:36.820 And he will get taken down through the smoke 02:46:36.820 --> 02:46:38.140 so he's caught by Klim. 02:46:38.140 --> 02:46:39.740 They move into the site now, Lucky. 02:46:39.740 --> 02:46:41.740 AK-47 up against two. 02:46:41.740 --> 02:46:44.100 The tap on the defuses, not the stick. 02:46:44.100 --> 02:46:45.500 They can be applied, Pricer to Lucky. 02:46:45.500 --> 02:46:46.540 Can he get both? 02:46:46.540 --> 02:46:48.500 There's the first and the second. 02:46:48.500 --> 02:46:50.860 Lucky steps up for 3D Max. 02:46:50.860 --> 02:46:53.360 MIBR finding every way to lose. 02:46:53.360 --> 02:46:55.000 It's the game they're playing right now. 02:46:55.000 --> 02:46:55.840 How can we do it? 02:46:55.840 --> 02:46:57.200 What a round from Lucky. 02:46:57.200 --> 02:47:00.280 1v2 clutch, standing tall in donut. 02:47:00.280 --> 02:47:01.840 Absolutely perfect. 02:47:04.520 --> 02:47:07.600 And MIBR just cannot get a grip on this game all of a sudden. 02:47:07.600 --> 02:47:09.320 It's wild to turn around. 02:47:14.120 --> 02:47:16.480 It's like I'm sitting there and wondering, how in the world 02:47:16.480 --> 02:47:17.480 is it 3D Max when this round? 02:47:17.480 --> 02:47:18.200 Gravity's low. 02:47:18.200 --> 02:47:21.780 has to be the playmaker of the 15 seconds left on the clock. 02:47:21.780 --> 02:47:24.700 It's an 8 to 1 run for 3D Max going back into regulation, 02:47:24.700 --> 02:47:26.620 and now they're feeling real good, 02:47:26.620 --> 02:47:29.380 because it's the uppercut call into the A bomb site. 02:47:29.380 --> 02:47:31.140 They've been playing these last six, seven rounds, 02:47:31.140 --> 02:47:32.940 spread out on the map, slower pace. 02:47:32.940 --> 02:47:35.140 Now it's just get in, get this bomb planted, 02:47:35.140 --> 02:47:36.300 and see what they've got. 02:47:36.300 --> 02:47:38.060 You know you've got MRPR. 02:47:38.060 --> 02:47:41.340 Just rocking on their feet right now. 02:47:41.340 --> 02:47:42.700 Not stable whatsoever. 02:47:42.700 --> 02:47:45.180 Confidence just drained from the team. 02:47:45.180 --> 02:47:47.660 Just hitting on that A site, hitting where it hurts. 02:47:48.200 --> 02:47:55.960 I'm looking for 15 to 12 3d max. I don't see how they're gonna lose this map now. Just the way things have changed 02:47:56.480 --> 02:47:58.720 It's gonna end up being nuke in this series 02:48:01.080 --> 02:48:06.880 Gonna be really important reset from my jar going into that third map a test of this 02:48:08.040 --> 02:48:11.600 Mentality and the mentality of the inexperienced squad as well playing together 02:48:12.520 --> 02:48:15.000 Can they come together do they have what it takes to? 02:48:15.000 --> 02:48:19.960 It feels like it was their semi-final. 02:48:19.960 --> 02:48:21.480 He's now going against them. 02:48:21.480 --> 02:48:24.200 Nine of the last 10 in the favor of 3D Max. 02:48:24.200 --> 02:48:25.840 They've just grabbed complete hold, 02:48:25.840 --> 02:48:27.160 marching towards that third one. 02:48:27.160 --> 02:48:29.480 It's been excellent to see this kind of return to form 02:48:29.480 --> 02:48:31.640 for 3D Max after a flat inferno, 02:48:31.640 --> 02:48:33.720 after a really rough opening half. 02:48:33.720 --> 02:48:35.580 It felt so done. 02:48:37.680 --> 02:48:39.040 So great turnarounds. 02:48:39.040 --> 02:48:41.360 And you have to give a lot of credit over to Makka 02:48:41.360 --> 02:48:43.740 for that 1v1 clutch that started it all. 02:48:45.000 --> 02:48:48.760 Ever since then 3D Max has not looked back 02:48:50.960 --> 02:48:55.860 And they got three chances to close this out now at one opportunity in regulation 02:48:55.860 --> 02:49:13.300 I'm going to go back here. 02:49:13.300 --> 02:49:14.300 Back up. 02:49:14.300 --> 02:49:20.140 With another opening frag in this AWP, this time taking a step towards Nuke. 02:49:20.140 --> 02:49:22.340 Shadow, ready for his next victim. 02:49:25.240 --> 02:49:29.700 A 3v5, MIBR have completely disappeared. 02:49:30.740 --> 02:49:32.400 And it's an incredible collapse. 02:49:35.780 --> 02:49:37.380 Three versus five now. 02:49:37.380 --> 02:49:39.020 Back to the B bomb site we go. 02:49:40.220 --> 02:49:42.740 But with such an advantage, 3D Max is just happy 02:49:42.740 --> 02:49:44.580 to just play, just play to stall out. 02:49:44.580 --> 02:49:46.740 Good shot from Klim, picking one off. 02:49:46.740 --> 02:49:47.780 Smoke doesn't go into play, 02:49:47.780 --> 02:49:49.060 so you've got the opportunity now. 02:49:49.060 --> 02:49:53.440 You can see the defender sliding over, Maka's op is on its way, good shot from Venom's era. 02:49:53.440 --> 02:49:55.920 We're not done yet, back into a three on three. 02:49:58.360 --> 02:50:02.560 Now Klim is stepping up to the mark, looking for the next shot to land. 02:50:03.820 --> 02:50:05.660 Scoped up, creeping. 02:50:06.140 --> 02:50:07.340 It's way through long. 02:50:07.980 --> 02:50:14.580 Got Masuda close, shadow, miss shot from Klim over adjustment, and Sanni taking a lot of damage on Boybet, still getting the kill. 02:50:14.580 --> 02:50:18.320 2v2, last few remaining players, BMIPR are low on help, but... 02:50:18.320 --> 02:50:24.800 and Sonny not low on ability. He pushes in towards CT, wins that fight and puts Exorcise in the 1v2. 02:50:24.800 --> 02:50:29.460 The man that lost in the last round on Inferno looking to win them, ancient. 02:50:29.460 --> 02:50:35.100 He's going into the wraparound and Sonny is low and he's dodged him and that fuse continues to burn away. 02:50:35.100 --> 02:50:45.160 But Exorcise just gets to the defuse and he's gonna hold it. 3D Max, he's got the shot, but not enough time, it'll go off and MIBR continue play for a little bit longer. 02:50:45.160 --> 02:50:51.080 Okay, they stay alive. One more round at the very least. Nicely done from Insani with such a low HP. 02:50:52.440 --> 02:50:59.920 Probably loved when Xerces steps up to play Ring Around the Rosie and the Cube. Huge advantage over to Insani who can just use the sound cue and the bomb to win the round. 02:51:00.480 --> 02:51:03.280 But a valiant effort on that retake on the 1v2. 02:51:04.560 --> 02:51:07.200 Shocking to see, I mean that's a 3v5 conversion as well. 02:51:07.720 --> 02:51:11.720 So both teams are doing a good job of giving away advantages when they've got them. 02:51:11.720 --> 02:51:18.720 Not what I'd normally want to praise teams for, but a 3D or a 5 on 3 to win the map and 02:51:18.720 --> 02:51:19.720 you can't close it out. 02:51:19.720 --> 02:51:21.480 It's not going to get much easier than that. 02:51:21.480 --> 02:51:22.480 Moving forward. 02:51:22.480 --> 02:51:24.800 Insani waiting for his time to turn. 02:51:24.800 --> 02:51:25.800 Plenty of flashbangs coming out. 02:51:25.800 --> 02:51:26.800 Plenty of geeks. 02:51:26.800 --> 02:51:30.640 One for one in middle, but LNZ is going to fall afterwards and again, advantage goes 02:51:30.640 --> 02:51:33.000 to 3D Max. 02:51:33.000 --> 02:51:40.400 Moving up in towards the A site, you've still got XCC's wedding. 02:51:40.400 --> 02:51:45.160 How many chances do you need for 3DMAX if you're getting into these advantageous scenarios? 02:51:45.160 --> 02:51:53.960 Eventually, you've got to take one of them and block a main. 02:51:53.960 --> 02:51:56.040 That's going to buy time for this rotation. 02:51:56.040 --> 02:51:59.000 3DMAX bringing extra players over here. 02:51:59.000 --> 02:52:03.320 Surely, this is it for the French. 02:52:03.320 --> 02:52:04.320 Moving up to the Dota. 02:52:04.320 --> 02:52:08.560 Oh, it's a good shot from Venom Zera. 02:52:08.560 --> 02:52:14.880 to respond the push into donut though they're separated from the site from the flames Venom 02:52:14.880 --> 02:52:18.720 Zara is not committed into the donut Masuta has arrived that plant is coming in but Venom 02:52:18.720 --> 02:52:25.280 Zara is going down and that second half was so ugly from MIPR they might have just nuked their 02:52:25.280 --> 02:52:32.880 chances of a semi. Yeah dude I don't know what to say Dinko and and Jay I mean Jason coach 02:52:32.880 --> 02:52:38.520 Moses losing his mind and rightly so because you ever want to see how to 02:52:39.040 --> 02:52:42.600 throw a game that you have already won how to 02:52:43.280 --> 02:52:50.800 Snatch the feet from the chores of victory. It's this. So I just watch this back MIPR. They were through they were in the semis 02:52:50.800 --> 02:52:52.800 I'm aghast 02:52:53.760 --> 02:52:54.840 I 02:52:54.840 --> 02:52:58.440 Don't even know what to say. They lost the sorry 3d max one 02:52:59.000 --> 02:53:01.560 10 of the last 12 rounds, right? 02:53:01.560 --> 02:53:08.560 They gave them so much. Jason kept highlighting why they just kept going through this mid-agro time and time again. 02:53:08.560 --> 02:53:14.560 And after us, Gus, Insani, our boy, what was he thinking? Just gave away so many advantageous positions. 02:53:14.560 --> 02:53:16.560 They seemed to be completely unaware of what was going to be happening. 02:53:16.560 --> 02:53:20.560 And it just a switch, which it felt like it was an unforced flip. 02:53:20.560 --> 02:53:23.560 It's not like Trudy and I said anything crazy to kind of break their mental. 02:53:23.560 --> 02:53:28.560 Instead, they themselves have completely capitulated that pretty much highlights. 02:53:28.560 --> 02:53:34.660 I mean look at that. There's a death twitch right there. That was the last death rose of MIBR right there 02:53:34.660 --> 02:53:38.860 I don't know man. That was just ugly to watch. Yeah, I mean like put it this way 02:53:38.860 --> 02:53:44.560 I think like one or two rounds when you're feeling it to have that kind of aggression go in a red room 02:53:44.560 --> 02:53:48.760 Take those long peaks have that mid aggression. I get it right do that for sure 02:53:48.960 --> 02:53:51.280 But by the fifth time it hasn't worked 02:53:51.760 --> 02:53:54.200 You've got to adapt you've got to stop doing it 02:53:54.200 --> 02:53:55.620 I just want to highlight this one as well. 02:53:55.620 --> 02:53:58.880 XS season, that 1v2, like, there's no time remaining. 02:53:58.880 --> 02:54:00.800 Just tap the bloody ball and play the 1v1 now. 02:54:00.800 --> 02:54:02.960 Like, I don't know what they're doing, honestly. 02:54:02.960 --> 02:54:04.480 Yeah, real fun. 02:54:04.480 --> 02:54:06.200 I just, yeah, kind of speechless at this. 02:54:06.200 --> 02:54:08.840 I mean, this is a game where Made in Brazil 02:54:08.840 --> 02:54:10.120 came into it so hot. 02:54:10.120 --> 02:54:12.080 I mean, they played a fantastic T-side, 02:54:12.080 --> 02:54:14.760 their ability to split pressure, and science playmaking 02:54:14.760 --> 02:54:15.520 in middle. 02:54:15.520 --> 02:54:17.920 I mean, Venom's there, multi-fragging on the B side 02:54:17.920 --> 02:54:19.960 of the map, and just leaving all their options open 02:54:19.960 --> 02:54:23.400 and making good, decisive mid-to-late round decisions 02:54:23.400 --> 02:54:26.000 to close out rounds, and then just all of a sudden, 02:54:26.000 --> 02:54:27.240 it's like they forgot that, hey, 02:54:27.240 --> 02:54:29.680 there's two bombsites these teams have to get inside of 02:54:29.680 --> 02:54:32.400 to be able to win rounds, and you're just not even 02:54:32.400 --> 02:54:35.640 really putting forth any effort to force them 02:54:35.640 --> 02:54:36.800 to have to work for it. 02:54:36.800 --> 02:54:38.960 You know, it got to a point where it was just so easy 02:54:38.960 --> 02:54:41.320 for 3D Max to sit back and just watch 02:54:41.320 --> 02:54:42.800 and not be our hang themselves, right? 02:54:42.800 --> 02:54:44.120 They just kind of hand on the rope like, 02:54:44.120 --> 02:54:45.520 yeah, sure, go ahead guys. 02:54:45.520 --> 02:54:47.400 And it's just crazy how they're destroying this. 02:54:47.400 --> 02:54:48.920 Because look, I don't mind aggression. 02:54:48.920 --> 02:54:50.160 Like if you want to be disruptive, 02:54:50.160 --> 02:54:51.880 and if you want to try to deny space to an opponent, 02:54:51.880 --> 02:54:54.640 That's fine, but A, do it together as a unit 02:54:54.640 --> 02:54:57.240 with the offer utility it's facing and support, 02:54:57.240 --> 02:54:59.960 or at the very least, learn to adapt when you figure out 02:54:59.960 --> 02:55:01.680 that that's not actually working for you. 02:55:01.680 --> 02:55:03.960 You know, it's almost like they were just so eager 02:55:03.960 --> 02:55:06.720 to finish this game, so eager to move on to the semifinals 02:55:06.720 --> 02:55:08.480 that they just failed to grasp 02:55:08.480 --> 02:55:10.840 that they were slotting downward. 02:55:10.840 --> 02:55:12.480 I mean, essentially what happened was, you know, 02:55:12.480 --> 02:55:14.360 you had Maca win that 1v1. 02:55:14.360 --> 02:55:16.120 I think there was a timeout as well. 02:55:16.120 --> 02:55:17.760 And pretty much from that point, 02:55:17.760 --> 02:55:20.360 they were just reading what MIBR were doing 02:55:20.360 --> 02:55:21.200 with that aggression. 02:55:21.200 --> 02:55:23.640 you saw there on the highlights they're waiting for them every single 02:55:23.640 --> 02:55:27.560 Yeah, I mean it's textbook counts right from 3D Max and I got to give credit 02:55:27.560 --> 02:55:30.320 words to you right even with the saying you know they pretty much have done 02:55:30.320 --> 02:55:32.760 team and everything and everything when it when it chips for a down when it 02:55:32.760 --> 02:55:35.880 looked like it might be our word we're gonna to over this little things down 02:55:35.880 --> 02:55:38.600 right they get a kills towards mid they like there must be a regression 02:55:38.600 --> 02:55:42.080 happening somewhere it turns around wins a duel but you also have to highlight 02:55:42.080 --> 02:55:45.320 the guy I've just saw right there lucky metallis man for this team and he's 02:55:45.320 --> 02:55:48.880 been a guy who through all the struggles have had so far this season he's been 02:55:48.880 --> 02:55:50.360 the highest rated player for them. 02:55:50.360 --> 02:55:51.360 And in this particular match, 02:55:51.360 --> 02:55:52.800 and while everyone had their moments, 02:55:52.800 --> 02:55:55.360 I think he was so pivotal in that comeback. 02:55:55.360 --> 02:55:57.800 Yeah, I definitely agree with that. 02:55:57.800 --> 02:55:59.040 And anything to add to that? 02:55:59.040 --> 02:56:00.920 Yeah, I mean, again, they had a conscious decision 02:56:00.920 --> 02:56:02.200 to put Lucky in more star positions, 02:56:02.200 --> 02:56:03.600 again, defensively in particular, 02:56:03.600 --> 02:56:04.600 with body's removal. 02:56:04.600 --> 02:56:06.320 And he did make the most of it, right? 02:56:06.320 --> 02:56:07.720 I mean, it was a little bit easier this time. 02:56:07.720 --> 02:56:09.040 Raoul Maybers was kind of giving it to you. 02:56:09.040 --> 02:56:10.520 And just to get back to that, again, 02:56:10.520 --> 02:56:12.160 it's just like even when they were going for mid-aggression, 02:56:12.160 --> 02:56:13.360 you're putting yourself in positions 02:56:13.360 --> 02:56:15.720 where you're having to guess 50-50 02:56:15.720 --> 02:56:17.320 if you need to be looking shell for elbow. 02:56:17.320 --> 02:56:18.760 And that should never be the case, right? 02:56:18.760 --> 02:56:21.460 You should be putting yourself in position where you only have to focus on one angle, 02:56:21.460 --> 02:56:24.080 or you should have someone covering something for you so that you can actually make that 02:56:24.080 --> 02:56:25.080 aggressive move. 02:56:25.080 --> 02:56:29.920 And again, it just, it felt to me that they were so fixated on the next step. 02:56:29.920 --> 02:56:34.560 They were so fixated on being able to celebrate this win, to finally have like a deep run 02:56:34.560 --> 02:56:36.160 in an international tournament. 02:56:36.160 --> 02:56:37.440 They just got ahead of themselves. 02:56:37.440 --> 02:56:41.440 And you could clearly just tell that they had no adjustment factor to recover once it 02:56:41.440 --> 02:56:42.440 starts filing back. 02:56:42.440 --> 02:56:47.000 And it's also like, they didn't even have the luxury of overtime guaranteed. 02:56:47.000 --> 02:56:51.480 were only in 11 rounds. It came down to the 1v1 of the very end, 1v2 I think from Insani 02:56:51.480 --> 02:56:54.640 on the on the A bombs at the very end for us to take the overtime. But just the fact 02:56:54.640 --> 02:56:59.240 that it was just shocking how they just completely lifted the foot of the pedal that early on. 02:56:59.240 --> 02:57:03.960 And I have to lay a little bit of blame on Linus and on L and Z and on Letny right there 02:57:03.960 --> 02:57:08.720 because like at that point when you had three or four rounds go their way, you have to kind 02:57:08.720 --> 02:57:11.920 of rein them in a little bit, right? I know you give a lot of freedom to players, especially 02:57:11.920 --> 02:57:16.080 someone like Insani to go for the plays he wants to. But at that point, guys, 3D Max 02:57:16.080 --> 02:57:20.080 were struggling to enter the bomb sites. They were really, really struggling, their execs 02:57:20.080 --> 02:57:24.160 weren't really good and I also think it might be a very good job of being disruptive once 02:57:24.160 --> 02:57:27.640 they're trying to get the bomb down. Let that happen, let it play out instead of losing 02:57:27.640 --> 02:57:30.520 two players early on at the beginning of every bloody round. 02:57:30.520 --> 02:57:35.440 Again, I'll refer you back to Coach Moses. This is how difficult 3D maps are finding 02:57:35.440 --> 02:57:39.200 it to get on the sites. They weren't even like layering flashbangs. 02:57:39.200 --> 02:57:41.200 Yes, the B site hit. 02:57:41.200 --> 02:57:45.560 on a basic B site execute, you know, the utility was off. 02:57:45.560 --> 02:57:47.200 All you have to do is just sit back 02:57:47.200 --> 02:57:48.760 and absorb that pressure. 02:57:48.760 --> 02:57:50.800 And then you're gonna win the rounds. 02:57:50.800 --> 02:57:53.040 I mean, you know, like I'm a noob, right? 02:57:53.040 --> 02:57:56.960 Like, I'm a chip, but like, this is textbook. 02:57:56.960 --> 02:57:58.360 And that's almost the most damning thing 02:57:58.360 --> 02:58:00.760 because 3D Max, from watching them play, 02:58:00.760 --> 02:58:03.120 you can just see how much they have regressed 02:58:03.120 --> 02:58:04.840 tactically on this map over time. 02:58:04.840 --> 02:58:07.140 Again, while they were never a super big 02:58:07.140 --> 02:58:09.160 ancient team as far as win record, 02:58:09.160 --> 02:58:10.840 they were at least a team that was trend setting 02:58:10.840 --> 02:58:13.640 how to actually take mid control, how to layer flashbangs, 02:58:13.640 --> 02:58:16.480 how to make the most out of the utility in the game. 02:58:16.480 --> 02:58:18.080 And we're seeing a game like this one 02:58:18.080 --> 02:58:19.800 where we still see that same regression 02:58:19.800 --> 02:58:21.120 that's been there for a while on ancient 02:58:21.120 --> 02:58:22.440 where they don't have the same sharpness 02:58:22.440 --> 02:58:24.120 to how they approach these site takes. 02:58:24.120 --> 02:58:26.760 But it doesn't matter if Bay of Brazos is feeding you 02:58:26.760 --> 02:58:29.080 by pushing mid at the wrong time 02:58:29.080 --> 02:58:32.320 or just walking into cave and giving a freebie. 02:58:32.320 --> 02:58:33.640 That's just easy pickings for Mop. 02:58:33.640 --> 02:58:34.680 That's in game leaders dream. 02:58:34.680 --> 02:58:35.680 I don't even have to do anything. 02:58:35.680 --> 02:58:37.680 We're lucky to let them take care of themselves, 02:58:37.680 --> 02:58:39.520 let the garden weed itself, so to speak. 02:58:39.520 --> 02:58:42.680 And a really cool thing, again, credit where it's due, Maka. 02:58:42.680 --> 02:58:45.320 You know, he's been struggling a little bit individually as well here. 02:58:45.320 --> 02:58:49.400 He started to come alive with the AWP, especially during the ladder stage. 02:58:49.400 --> 02:58:52.520 He just had that game, but also some really good mid-rounding coming out from him. 02:58:52.520 --> 02:58:55.120 Now, one particular run comes to mind where it's a 2v2. 02:58:55.120 --> 02:58:57.320 I think one of the players, 4 of 3, they're super low. 02:58:57.320 --> 02:58:59.600 There are the B bombsite, but 17 seconds remaining. 02:58:59.600 --> 02:59:00.920 Boom, just running through the A bombsite. 02:59:00.920 --> 02:59:05.440 So many good calls, a reactive calls based on what's happening in some other part of the map, 02:59:05.440 --> 02:59:08.280 just showing his veteransy, so to speak. 02:59:08.280 --> 02:59:12.420 And I think during a lot of stages of the game, that was a veteran from Maka, which 02:59:12.420 --> 02:59:14.020 gave them that edge over LNC. 02:59:14.020 --> 02:59:16.140 I mean, I'm genuinely flabbergasted. 02:59:16.140 --> 02:59:18.580 I didn't even think we would be talking about Nuke. 02:59:18.580 --> 02:59:21.300 So now we have to talk about this deciding map. 02:59:21.300 --> 02:59:25.580 And I've got to say, I mean, if you're 3D Max, you've been given a gift from the gods. 02:59:25.580 --> 02:59:28.620 I mean, it's actually crazy to still be here. 02:59:28.620 --> 02:59:29.620 It is indeed. 02:59:29.620 --> 02:59:31.140 It's actually on kind of a neutral ground of Nuke, right? 02:59:31.140 --> 02:59:34.020 I mean, it's not like either one of these teams relied on the world on fire, but both 02:59:34.020 --> 02:59:36.780 these teams do have the capacity to play at a pretty decent level. 02:59:36.780 --> 02:59:40.780 3D Max actually does have the better trending nuke if we're being 100% honest there. 02:59:40.780 --> 02:59:42.780 They'll be starting out on the T side. 02:59:42.780 --> 02:59:46.280 And again, this is a map where you really need to keep your eyes on Masuda 02:59:46.280 --> 02:59:51.280 because they do a really good job of letting him just be that trade fragger wherever they're going to go. 02:59:51.280 --> 02:59:56.280 And 3D Max is a team now, I feel like this configuration, they're a little bit more gather and go oriented. 02:59:56.280 --> 02:59:59.280 You know, they used to be a little bit more spread default, kind of slow where you down. 02:59:59.280 --> 03:00:02.780 Now they just do kind of pack up and try to make the most of the explosive lifers that they have 03:00:02.780 --> 03:00:05.780 and let Lucky kind of be that smart player picking his timings from lobby. 03:00:05.780 --> 03:00:10.220 So it's going to be at the main Brazil to figure out how to steady their defense in this game 03:00:10.220 --> 03:00:14.100 I mean on the bright side though, you know and Sonny even despite the mistakes he made 03:00:14.700 --> 03:00:19.660 Individually who was still popping off like he has not dropped off at all right and playing the position outside to a outside towards 03:00:19.660 --> 03:00:23.060 Yeah, I think a lot of these fights which is going to be taking 03:00:23.180 --> 03:00:27.660 Towards out to yard is going to be deciding how this first up half plays out if you look at the numbers 03:00:27.660 --> 03:00:28.220 I might be ours 03:00:28.220 --> 03:00:31.380 I think wind percentage is a little bit better than the side of 3D maxes 03:00:31.380 --> 03:00:33.420 But a couple of factors a couple of caveats here 03:00:33.420 --> 03:00:36.780 Firstly, they haven't played a single nuke with this particular lineup against the EU team. 03:00:36.780 --> 03:00:40.460 It's just been the local domestic opposition where they're pretty much the best team over there, 03:00:40.460 --> 03:00:43.100 one of the best teams over there, number one and number two. 03:00:43.100 --> 03:00:44.780 The momentum is completely shifting. 03:00:44.780 --> 03:00:45.660 Completely. 03:00:45.660 --> 03:00:47.260 They've got to shake that off, brother. 03:00:47.260 --> 03:00:51.980 They have to shake it off, but that's where 3D Max despite me saying they're a dead team walking 03:00:51.980 --> 03:00:56.300 and all that, they have had years, all these players individually combined together, 03:00:56.300 --> 03:00:59.820 have years of experience when it comes to situations like this, right? 03:00:59.820 --> 03:01:04.300 So, while MIBR are kind of like a known quantity, known entity, 3D Max, 03:01:04.300 --> 03:01:06.780 if they manage to bounce back the way they did on Ancient, 03:01:06.780 --> 03:01:08.940 this could be kind of a mini upset. 03:01:08.940 --> 03:01:12.300 So, one more thing I'll say that we need to look out for this game is Klim, 03:01:12.300 --> 03:01:14.860 because I feel like on Inferno, the guy was on fire. 03:01:14.860 --> 03:01:16.300 You know, he was making all the right plays. 03:01:16.300 --> 03:01:20.540 He was showing you his capabilities to also use the AK47 at a very high level 03:01:20.540 --> 03:01:23.180 and kind of be that additional, you know, trade entry type player. 03:01:23.180 --> 03:01:26.380 And even on Ancient initially, again, we were seeing that same kind of fiery 03:01:26.380 --> 03:01:28.620 Klim throughout the first half and I was seeing some big things. 03:01:28.620 --> 03:01:32.700 But if you notice the accuracy with the out started kind of waning a little bit there towards the end of the game 03:01:32.700 --> 03:01:35.660 A couple of shots that you think you would normally hit was a little bit off on 03:01:35.660 --> 03:01:40.060 You know, this is a map where dynamic CT offing can be the difference between winning and losing the game 03:01:40.060 --> 03:01:45.980 And they're gonna be starting on the CT side are just having suffered a horrible horrible loss on ancient on your defensive side 03:01:45.980 --> 03:01:52.540 I want to see if Clinton can shake that off because again people forget this guy didn't start playing lands and CS until September of last year 03:01:52.540 --> 03:01:55.860 And that they were all in Brazil. This is his first like big international 03:01:55.860 --> 03:01:59.620 European tournament with this team and this is a pressure situation where it's 03:01:59.620 --> 03:02:02.900 either I advanced the semifinals or I get knocked out of this tournament in the 03:02:02.900 --> 03:02:06.300 top eight wondering what could have been and so I want to see how he settles in 03:02:06.300 --> 03:02:08.340 because this is this is a big pressure moment for an opera. 03:02:08.340 --> 03:02:13.500 All right thanks a lot gentlemen we must go to a break we just saw MIBR blow up 03:02:13.500 --> 03:02:18.020 their chances of a semifinal. Ironically they get a chance to fix it on Nuke. 03:02:19.700 --> 03:02:23.020 She said she loves you but she can't love me. 03:02:23.020 --> 03:02:25.020 But I love you! 03:02:25.860 --> 03:02:27.860 I 03:02:38.640 --> 03:02:40.640 Won't play window anymore 03:03:25.860 --> 03:03:28.660 was built to no avail. 03:03:28.660 --> 03:03:31.900 Not directed at death, it won singular posture 03:03:31.900 --> 03:03:35.660 for 12 hours a day. 03:03:35.660 --> 03:03:38.540 It's time your chair evolved. 03:03:38.540 --> 03:03:42.900 This is Secret Lab Titan Evil. 03:03:42.900 --> 03:03:45.540 Ergonomically engineered for you, 03:03:45.540 --> 03:03:49.540 gamers, hybrid workers, artists, 03:03:49.540 --> 03:03:51.540 and my game of every move. 03:04:55.860 --> 03:04:57.860 I 03:05:25.860 --> 03:05:27.860 I 03:08:55.860 --> 03:09:22.660 3rd and final map here at the 1st quarter finals of PGL Bucharest 2026, MIBR and 3DMAX 03:09:22.660 --> 03:09:27.700 go and blow for blow on the first two maps. We're just leaving ancient where we just saw a complete 03:09:27.700 --> 03:09:32.500 capitulation from MIBR. So now they're the ones faced with the prospect of rebounding, 03:09:32.500 --> 03:09:36.980 bouncing back for this third map to try and take it away and move on to the semifinals. 03:09:36.980 --> 03:09:41.060 Three maps have got to feel like a miracle is happening right now. It looked like they had no 03:09:41.060 --> 03:09:45.940 shot at making the semifinals of the competition. Losing Inferno, getting blown out in that first 03:09:45.940 --> 03:09:50.660 half. Then over on ancient you come into that map and you have a terrible start there. We talk about 03:09:50.660 --> 03:09:55.380 how they really struggle on that map, and you have to rely on Ancient to keep your tournament dreams alive. 03:09:55.380 --> 03:09:58.980 Well, now we move to Nuke, and the only time they played it so far at this event 03:09:58.980 --> 03:10:04.100 has been a 13-6 win over Bay. 3D Max are a very capable team on this third map, 03:10:04.100 --> 03:10:06.020 and now the momentum's on their side too. 03:10:06.020 --> 03:10:10.180 Yeah, that Ancient, at the end of this map, at the end of this series, if MIBR dropped this third map, 03:10:10.180 --> 03:10:13.620 that Ancient, they're going to be looking back on it at 4. We're going to get an upper rush in the pistol. 03:10:13.620 --> 03:10:16.820 Many smoked off. LNZ is just going to back away from the fight. 03:10:16.820 --> 03:10:20.100 5-1-5 retank the strength of it coming from the lobby push. 03:10:20.100 --> 03:10:24.020 Well, that plant is being secured. Now, Mack is going to try and deal with this ramp rotation. 03:10:25.060 --> 03:10:28.340 And he stopped Runo. He's going to go again, a second player waiting, and it's Clinton, 03:10:28.340 --> 03:10:30.100 the Jorba Ruttus, and... 03:10:30.100 --> 03:10:34.820 ...move the music down, and yeah, I mean, it's pretty intense, but we've got the music to 03:10:34.820 --> 03:10:39.060 chill us out a little bit here. I like it. I need to chill out over in the MRVR side of things, 03:10:39.060 --> 03:10:44.740 as LNZ is suddenly alone, and that will be it. It's very quick, it's very convincing, 03:10:44.740 --> 03:10:50.020 not a single kill going against 3D Max, and that's another side to this that I'm a little 03:10:50.020 --> 03:10:54.020 worried about for MIBR, it's like if you have been knocked off your feet by that ancient loss, 03:10:54.020 --> 03:10:58.260 which I imagine they are, and then you go up against 3D Max who know they've got that advantage on 03:10:58.260 --> 03:11:02.740 their side and they just come at you swinging, aggressive, poppy play. I've seen a lot of 3D 03:11:02.740 --> 03:11:08.660 Max games on Nuke that'll be very, very quick. Yeah, yeah, especially if they get a good economic 03:11:08.660 --> 03:11:14.340 advantage around they sense you have low economy, those upper pups from 3D Max can be very, very deadly. 03:11:15.860 --> 03:11:18.660 And that certainly was the conversation for 3D Max, right? Like guys, 03:11:18.660 --> 03:11:24.940 You've just been given a gift of the way that this played ancient, the way that ancient played out, the way that MIVR handled that scenario in that map. 03:11:24.940 --> 03:11:30.920 We were given a gift to be able to survive the deficit they put us in. Let's capitalize on it. Now we got nuke. 03:11:30.920 --> 03:11:34.300 Oh, shit. Okay, that's fast. Excuse me. 03:11:35.100 --> 03:11:37.600 Didn't expect that to happen so quickly. 03:11:37.900 --> 03:11:42.060 No, that's bad enough. I mean, I think we could have... He was so ready for that angle. 03:11:42.400 --> 03:11:46.460 We're gonna have to deal with speed. I don't think that's gonna be, uh, certainly the name of the game here. 03:11:46.460 --> 03:11:53.100 3D Max lucky just moves up onto Insani. This is a force by from my beyond. They've lost the first two 03:11:53.540 --> 03:12:00.600 There's no real shot at getting into it now, especially the utility for 3D Max. So there you go two zero star for 3D Max 03:12:02.980 --> 03:12:04.980 We have a blade 03:12:05.060 --> 03:12:07.600 You look at when Masuda came into the team 03:12:09.060 --> 03:12:16.080 They got a 13 full win on new versus gaming gladiators back at Pro League a 13 five win versus liquid 03:12:16.460 --> 03:12:27.460 They lost the spirit but then after that it's been 13-2 win, 13-5 win, 13-2 win, close enough against Bay, but later went on to win 13-6 against Bay at this event. 03:12:27.460 --> 03:12:33.460 This has been 3D Max's wheelhouse recently, like very one-sided victory. 03:12:33.460 --> 03:12:37.460 Yeah, they're loving that, they're loving that they somehow made it this deep. 03:12:37.460 --> 03:12:45.460 Now the winner of this quarter-final series between these two teams was onto the semifinals obviously and they're on the side of the bracket with Astralis and I-ballers, 03:12:45.460 --> 03:12:48.780 will be our next semifinals. So winner of this plays the winner of the next game 03:12:48.780 --> 03:12:53.980 in those semifinals and I'd say we go into that one with Astralis as the heavy 03:12:53.980 --> 03:12:57.940 favorites. We'll dive deeper into it after this map concludes but that's the 03:12:57.940 --> 03:13:01.060 side of the bracket the trajectory these teams are on at the moment. How do we go 03:13:01.060 --> 03:13:04.980 to slightly now? I mean Dust was saying this morning that Astralis have no excuse 03:13:04.980 --> 03:13:09.140 not to make the final now. Looking at the left side of the bracket that says 03:13:09.140 --> 03:13:13.060 belief and we'll see if that is the case as we move into that game later on today. 03:13:13.060 --> 03:13:17.780 Good shot from Clint, Mac are going to be pumped out of the sky in an advantage given to MIBR, 03:13:17.780 --> 03:13:21.900 but really it should just be the one kill on 3D Max, comfortably taking three. 03:13:21.900 --> 03:13:25.980 Well, it's interesting because that one kill, they were going to go downstairs and meet up with Maca, 03:13:25.980 --> 03:13:30.140 but that one kill means there's no information, so they actually have no clue who else is downstairs. 03:13:30.140 --> 03:13:34.060 So this is more like Ancient, where all of a sudden the mid-round is paused, they made that move towards... 03:13:34.060 --> 03:13:38.620 Okay, L and Z, there we go, double-deague. Two players downstairs, they're coming for this. 03:13:38.620 --> 03:13:42.660 Lucky and Exorcist are going to be under a bit of challenge, and how crazy do you want to get? 03:13:42.660 --> 03:13:46.660 Do you make the read? Do you just drop down dense and say, okay, they're going to shift? 03:13:46.660 --> 03:13:51.660 I don't think so. 3D Max is going to go into the A side in MIBR. 03:13:51.660 --> 03:13:55.660 It's starting to get closer and closer. They're in the lobby now. 03:13:55.660 --> 03:14:00.660 If he arriving towards Lucky, he's going to think about that plant. He'll put it down towards the back of A. 03:14:02.660 --> 03:14:06.660 Insanity and Clem getting ever closer to this side now. Lucky. 03:14:06.660 --> 03:14:08.660 Getting towards the height. 03:14:08.660 --> 03:14:15.660 It should be tough to lose this now after 3D Max, I mean it's already pretty expensive but losing the round? 03:14:15.660 --> 03:14:18.660 Oh, you've got to have a lot of whiffs if you're going to lose it. 03:14:18.660 --> 03:14:25.660 I think now the time is taking a little bit too far, so Insani is going to be dropped and also climbed, meeting that same fate. 03:14:25.660 --> 03:14:26.660 So 3D Max, get the win. 03:14:26.660 --> 03:14:29.660 Yeah, really well managed in the 4v5, good conversion from a disadvantage. 03:14:29.660 --> 03:14:35.660 Yeah, it's up against pistols, but you lose your player downstairs, you lose information of where exactly you wanted to finish at a spawn, 03:14:35.660 --> 03:14:39.420 spawn and you can get a little nerve-wracking so good slide back towards 03:14:39.420 --> 03:14:43.100 lobby catching MIBR with their own piece of aggression you have a three to three 03:14:43.100 --> 03:14:45.700 to nothing start. 03:14:47.020 --> 03:14:51.780 Maka got the AWP which makes me feel like this round is going to be a little 03:14:51.780 --> 03:14:56.620 bit slower from 3D Max probably not anything too crazy off the rip. 03:14:56.620 --> 03:15:05.040 Lock us up, up on silo outside. 03:15:05.040 --> 03:15:11.260 No one home for the MIBR defense in terms of big garage, in terms of credit. 03:15:11.260 --> 03:15:29.820 But that up can cover gravity as he starts to scale. 03:15:29.820 --> 03:15:33.900 Got a decent position for gravity to have that first lag in plenty of time to let MIBR 03:15:33.900 --> 03:15:35.820 peek into this up angle. 03:15:35.820 --> 03:15:39.260 LNZ at the base of the secret stairs, Makka trained in on it. 03:15:41.980 --> 03:15:44.380 Klim with his AWP playing over towards lockers. 03:15:45.940 --> 03:15:47.940 Have the angle for the cross, no smokes up, 03:15:47.940 --> 03:15:49.940 so he's got all information. 03:15:49.940 --> 03:15:51.700 They're coming now. 03:15:51.700 --> 03:15:53.600 So it feels like LNZ is gonna get the attention 03:15:53.600 --> 03:15:54.900 that he's positioned for. 03:15:58.860 --> 03:16:00.420 All the smokes land in place, 03:16:00.420 --> 03:16:03.180 there's the, oh, LNZ's gonna step up from secret, 03:16:03.180 --> 03:16:05.180 walk right into the winning arms of Makka. 03:16:05.820 --> 03:16:09.020 So an easy kill there for 3D Max to take the advantage with it. 03:16:09.020 --> 03:16:10.660 Try and follow it up by going into main, 03:16:10.660 --> 03:16:12.540 or spot in Sani, top high. 03:16:12.540 --> 03:16:14.940 Kulim gets away with one arrow of gravity as well. 03:16:14.940 --> 03:16:16.860 So all of a sudden, 03:16:16.860 --> 03:16:19.100 I'm happy I have the extra play to play with. 03:16:19.100 --> 03:16:20.700 25 seconds as well. 03:16:20.700 --> 03:16:22.180 Final A play in Sani. 03:16:22.180 --> 03:16:24.940 Two with Molotov and the Flash, he will die. 03:16:24.940 --> 03:16:26.620 But Breno peeks out from heaven, 03:16:26.620 --> 03:16:28.340 keeps Venom Zera a secret. 03:16:28.340 --> 03:16:31.300 And the fact that he's able to stay alive is fantastic. 03:16:31.300 --> 03:16:33.580 A wall bang, he can connect onto that vent, 03:16:33.580 --> 03:16:35.780 thick enough to stop the full damage. 03:16:35.780 --> 03:16:38.020 And it will be a round with MIBR. 03:16:38.020 --> 03:16:43.060 You have a 5 on 4 and the mini player goes down with no one there to trade on top hut 03:16:43.060 --> 03:16:46.820 and then gravity misses a free kill on the AWPer who spotted him about 6 bullets 03:16:46.820 --> 03:16:49.140 before Clint could react in time but still gets the kill. 03:16:49.140 --> 03:16:53.700 So the opportunities were there, the round was there, everything 3D Max wanted came to fruition 03:16:53.700 --> 03:16:55.940 and they missed the chances when they presented themselves. 03:16:57.460 --> 03:17:01.860 That's lovely Maka perched there, baiting him out into the open, no follow up, no more pressure there. 03:17:01.860 --> 03:17:05.460 That kill is the one that seals it. 03:17:05.460 --> 03:17:09.460 Frustrating for gravity, Clem almost grabs one out of the sky as well. 03:17:09.460 --> 03:17:12.860 3D Max after three rounds straight to open up the half. 03:17:12.860 --> 03:17:18.460 Money's not good enough to get a full buy here, but they do save plenty of money with just unarmored pistols and glocks. 03:17:18.460 --> 03:17:23.860 One AK-47, I'm lucky to try and get a few kills and keep the money honest for the MIBR side. 03:17:23.860 --> 03:17:30.180 It's always a conversation when we talk about Nuke and how important that or helpful rather 03:17:30.180 --> 03:17:32.060 that T-Sod pistol can be. 03:17:32.060 --> 03:17:33.060 Yes. 03:17:33.060 --> 03:17:37.580 The fact that they converted to get those first three rounds, that's a beautiful foundation. 03:17:37.580 --> 03:17:40.340 Yeah, even if you go through like a stretch of struggles, right? 03:17:40.340 --> 03:17:44.300 You get like a one more round, like you get, just sneak like one or two more rounds in 03:17:44.300 --> 03:17:46.980 and you're going to be feeling okay on your T-Sod. 03:17:46.980 --> 03:17:51.660 Yeah, with the Quants team, not necessarily in a few. 03:17:51.660 --> 03:17:52.660 Yes. 03:17:52.660 --> 03:17:59.000 But you'll be sitting there and not feeling like you have no chance at the very least. Okay, that's awkward. It's not a completely blinded 03:17:59.000 --> 03:18:02.820 Okay, this gets dangerous now AK-47 M4 recover they can pressure underneath heaven 03:18:04.140 --> 03:18:08.780 Bruno is going to get traded out after one and then a dinkus wall on Clemes three HP 03:18:09.700 --> 03:18:14.740 Just about gets away. I like the idea that lucky to know that you think to know you've done the damage 03:18:14.740 --> 03:18:19.660 But then the suit it turns around deals of Venom's error Clemes still three HP lucky try it again 03:18:19.660 --> 03:18:22.060 And there we go. It's getting matter. She takes that 03:18:22.660 --> 03:18:27.320 And leaving LNZ in a 1v3, that is a horrible round to lose if you're in my view. 03:18:27.320 --> 03:18:33.060 Well, it's similar to what we just saw in Ancient, where you can see the brittle nature of their confidence in what they have going on, 03:18:33.060 --> 03:18:36.560 where when all the chaos is happening, everyone feels like they have to make a play, 03:18:36.560 --> 03:18:40.660 rather than settling into the bomb site and stopping the next move from 3D Max. 03:18:43.160 --> 03:18:48.960 But I mean, this is a round you came into with one AK-47 and a D.Eagle and a P250 and two Glocks, and you're about to lose it. 03:18:48.960 --> 03:18:54.960 LNZ does get that kill, he does have a kit, but we're way deep into the bomb and now they know his position. 03:18:54.960 --> 03:19:00.960 So he prioritizes the AWP and bails out 4-1 for 3D Max. 03:19:00.960 --> 03:19:07.960 And now this opens up the playbook. I would not be surprised if this next round from 3D Max is, this is the timing for an upper bust. 03:19:07.960 --> 03:19:15.960 You know the economy is going to be hurt off the one round win and then an immediate loss. They've saved the AWP, you have three players down so gravity can slide into the Mac 10, 03:19:15.960 --> 03:19:19.400 And you're letting out war cries so let's let's party. Let's rock and roll 03:19:20.680 --> 03:19:22.680 Gravity doesn't go for the Mack ten 03:19:25.600 --> 03:19:29.160 So we're going to the party without the party popper feels that way doesn't it yeah 03:19:31.080 --> 03:19:36.760 Around six you have an op on Clem m4 is picked up three of them and then an MP9 on Brenno 03:19:37.200 --> 03:19:40.440 The one kit on LNZ utility missing on a couple players 03:19:42.160 --> 03:19:45.560 The last buy MIBR will have before having to save if they can't win this 03:19:45.960 --> 03:19:59.920 All some aggressive plays here, but remember my API, they push up into the radio room. 03:19:59.920 --> 03:20:03.920 Got Masuta, he's hanging on, waiting for this push to come in. 03:20:03.920 --> 03:20:08.640 If he steps out into the open, Clems off, that's got a tight angle, let's disrupt that 03:20:08.640 --> 03:20:10.640 angle with the flashbang. 03:20:10.640 --> 03:20:16.800 So I'm not going to be as strong of a setup here, Breno. 03:20:16.800 --> 03:20:19.120 He's going to be forced into a flash. 03:20:19.120 --> 03:20:23.400 Takes his kill, Klim setting him up on the FB9, Breno going away with another one. 03:20:23.400 --> 03:20:24.960 How has he got two from that? 03:20:24.960 --> 03:20:27.400 Oh, then you don't pressure the smoke, so he's just going to live. 03:20:27.400 --> 03:20:31.280 They're going to trap him in there with the Molotov, but there's no way for them to actually 03:20:31.280 --> 03:20:32.280 take him down. 03:20:32.280 --> 03:20:35.480 And probably, okay, you're just going to go right through the other direction. 03:20:35.480 --> 03:20:38.960 So Klim gives you the AWP shotgun to the chest. 03:20:38.960 --> 03:20:43.180 This round falling apart for 3D Max, they just get pulled into rough fights and can't 03:20:43.180 --> 03:20:46.880 win anything. 03:20:46.880 --> 03:20:51.420 All five players survive for MIBR, which lets them off the hook economically speaking. 03:20:51.420 --> 03:20:58.000 They build up some cash behind them, and they get back into a very strong position 3D Max. 03:20:58.000 --> 03:20:59.760 They have to get sent back. 03:20:59.760 --> 03:21:01.000 Now we get the Mactown gravity. 03:21:01.000 --> 03:21:03.000 Now we got the party poppers. 03:21:03.000 --> 03:21:10.000 I don't know how he gets away with the second kill there. 03:21:10.000 --> 03:21:19.000 It looks like he's going to be the same old story where these MRBR players are getting 03:21:19.000 --> 03:21:23.000 caught with nades in hands, but it's going to be just a bit of time. 03:21:23.000 --> 03:21:25.000 Yeah, I can at least understand that one, right? 03:21:25.000 --> 03:21:26.000 Like getting pushed upon with red HP. 03:21:26.000 --> 03:21:29.000 He's like, well, the only chance I have is to prevent them from pushing through this choke 03:21:29.000 --> 03:21:36.520 point just switches back in the perfect moment. At a timeout called as that comes to its conclusion 03:21:36.520 --> 03:21:43.880 MIBR saddles back up for round seven on the CT side of Nuke. Two Mac 10s on Maka and Gravity. 03:21:44.440 --> 03:21:50.600 AK is unlucky in Masuda and a Galil on XRC so money is at the end of the road on the 3D 03:21:50.600 --> 03:21:52.600 3DMAX site after this it saves. 03:22:01.960 --> 03:22:06.200 But these are the kind of rounds we always see 3DMAX find a way to be competitive in. 03:22:07.160 --> 03:22:09.160 Mactanes. I love them. 03:22:09.720 --> 03:22:12.040 Actually gravity, as you were mentioning Jason. 03:22:13.320 --> 03:22:18.280 I see how they set up. So I've got one player on the T roof ready to toss him utility and that's going to be Axis-Ease. 03:22:18.280 --> 03:22:20.920 Just a little stutter step and a pop into the upper bomb site. 03:22:21.720 --> 03:22:26.840 Oh, we're lucky. It has been taken down first, so already this attack is going to be weaker. 03:22:27.400 --> 03:22:29.640 I think they might even call it off now with that death. 03:22:31.400 --> 03:22:33.720 What do you do other than that though? 03:22:34.520 --> 03:22:40.120 What's the other options? Because you've got one smoke, so you can't really create the outside wall. 03:22:41.720 --> 03:22:48.040 You can, you could try and move outside if you wanted to, and maybe try and take a stance to get into mini, 03:22:48.040 --> 03:22:51.100 and you could instead of doing an upper pop, maybe try and combine it and split. 03:22:51.600 --> 03:22:53.500 But everyone's vacated lobby as well. 03:22:54.380 --> 03:22:57.800 I think the lack of utility is going to force them into an awkward situation. 03:23:00.100 --> 03:23:04.700 At this point, if they start moving and don't have any contact outside, you know, smoke lockers, 03:23:04.700 --> 03:23:06.340 that's maybe one of the biggest angles you can do. 03:23:06.340 --> 03:23:07.380 Maybe you just walk secret. 03:23:12.000 --> 03:23:14.820 Well, let's see, blinded and treaded by gravity. 03:23:14.820 --> 03:23:20.820 So, still a lot of work to be done here for 3D Max, but 35 seconds to do it, that's the big issue. 03:23:20.820 --> 03:23:25.820 Yeah, they're putting everything in this round is on gravity. Gravity needs to have impact on this plate towards Heaven. 25 seconds. 03:23:25.820 --> 03:23:30.820 They're going to buy him the time. They're going to wait patiently for him to get into the move, but he has to find Klim here tucked into the left. 03:23:30.820 --> 03:23:36.820 Klim misses the shot. Now, attention should be drawn towards Heaven, but the reaction for Insani is to push him to hut. 03:23:36.820 --> 03:23:40.820 Leave Venom Zera here at the CT van who keeps getting away with not being checked. 03:23:40.820 --> 03:23:43.820 His teammates are providing enough distraction and support. 03:23:43.820 --> 03:23:48.820 The Venom Zera is consistently finding the impact now from behind that CT van when they come towards it. 03:23:48.820 --> 03:23:53.820 Another critical kill. He had plenty of those over on ancients, at least up to a certain moment. 03:23:53.820 --> 03:23:57.820 Four to three, that's the money gone for 3D Max, so they got to sit back. 03:23:57.820 --> 03:24:01.820 This is where we do touch back into that point you brought up earlier about winning the pistol round, 03:24:01.820 --> 03:24:04.820 getting your four rounds really quickly in the first six of the half. 03:24:04.820 --> 03:24:10.820 One more round in the remaining that you have in this affin, and 3D Max is sitting pretty with us to switch sides. 03:24:17.820 --> 03:24:21.820 Well, it's not looking like it's going to be one of those dominant 3D Max nukes at least. 03:24:22.820 --> 03:24:27.820 My VR have stabilized on the CT side enough, and they're going to take a French timeout. 03:24:28.820 --> 03:24:29.820 Yeah, just having a little conversation. 03:24:29.820 --> 03:24:36.780 I'm going to run with the Glocks, have a chat with the friends. 03:24:36.780 --> 03:24:39.180 Yeah, figure out what they want to do in the next rounds. 03:24:39.180 --> 03:24:41.780 Where's the party going to be this time? 03:24:41.780 --> 03:24:46.100 It's cool to see MIBR have this kind of resistance, though, especially considering the good start 03:24:46.100 --> 03:24:50.220 from 3D Max might have, there's a world in which that buries them, so the responses, 03:24:50.220 --> 03:24:56.620 the rebuttal, that MP9 play from Brenno over towards ramp, paired up with Klimzalp. 03:24:56.620 --> 03:25:10.780 good work. Alright, we're ready to go. Conversation has concluded. 03:25:10.780 --> 03:25:17.260 Time to melt these glocks. We're just trying to overwhelm the site. Don't think anybody's 03:25:17.260 --> 03:25:21.260 going to be overwhelmed by this. I haven't even really bled any utility out of the MIBR 03:25:21.260 --> 03:25:25.100 defense either. They've just been able to hold all the utility. There's been no sound 03:25:25.100 --> 03:25:31.100 no noises until just now. As they come into the slaughter, triple kill for VenomZera. 03:25:31.100 --> 03:25:36.100 AK will get recovered. Max or Cease, the only one remaining. 28 seconds, nothing to do. 03:25:36.100 --> 03:25:40.100 So we're tied up at 4. MIBR, bring it back. 03:25:42.100 --> 03:25:46.100 And guns come out now for 3D Max to try again. Try for a 5th. 03:25:55.100 --> 03:25:59.420 No opt for Makka this time. 03:25:59.420 --> 03:26:02.900 He's stuck on a Galil, not the money to bring out the big green. 03:26:02.900 --> 03:26:07.780 So utility being passed around, allocated the way it needs, and we'll see what 3D Max 03:26:07.780 --> 03:26:08.780 comes in. 03:26:08.780 --> 03:26:13.660 What did they come up with during that little chill Glock round? 03:26:13.660 --> 03:26:15.220 Gravity heading outside. 03:26:15.220 --> 03:26:17.620 Makka was on silo in the first gun round when he had an AWP. 03:26:17.620 --> 03:26:18.620 Now he is a Galil. 03:26:18.620 --> 03:26:21.140 I don't think he's going to want to take that perch whatsoever. 03:26:21.140 --> 03:26:27.700 If you do next to I think there's been a level of success you've had attacking outside to wrap heaven 03:26:27.700 --> 03:26:30.180 We've seen I do it a couple of times and they've been able to get access 03:26:31.100 --> 03:26:37.220 Even in around they had pistols they were able to take it and wrap around and be dangerous now more direct approach towards ramp room 03:26:39.820 --> 03:26:42.700 And they're doubled up and Sonny and Brenna ready to defend 03:26:43.140 --> 03:26:47.420 Exorcist gets in front of the utility, but his teammates are all stuck behind it. They're severed off 03:26:47.420 --> 03:26:51.820 XSC is doing a good job, not to put himself on his way until the rest of his teammates 03:26:51.820 --> 03:26:57.500 can join him, but in the end, Brenno getting two out of it, Klim rotates over and Insani 03:26:57.500 --> 03:26:58.980 is part of the shutdown. 03:26:58.980 --> 03:27:04.980 So gravity outside, all of his teammates dead over towards ramp, and no ground gain at all 03:27:04.980 --> 03:27:05.980 for 3D Max. 03:27:05.980 --> 03:27:08.340 That might be all showing a really good CT side now. 03:27:08.340 --> 03:27:09.340 Yeah, what a read. 03:27:09.340 --> 03:27:12.540 What a read to have Insani just park there and ready and waiting for it. 03:27:12.540 --> 03:27:16.940 Why is it something like they hadn't really seen a whole lot of pressure towards the 03:27:16.940 --> 03:27:22.460 Ramp room Brenner was able to hold it back with an aggressive stance earlier in an anti-eco 3d max attempted to hit ramp room 03:27:22.460 --> 03:27:24.460 But outside of that it's been left alone 03:27:25.260 --> 03:27:32.020 So gravity falls back with the only ak-47 a 1v4 and he'll spend the next 30 seconds saving and just staying alive 03:27:33.140 --> 03:27:37.260 More money built up for MIBR. They're gonna be all good for the rest of the half 03:27:37.860 --> 03:27:42.540 Three rounds remain after this as MIBR take the lead for the first time here on the third map of nuke 03:27:46.940 --> 03:28:02.100 You can just see the idea of that for 3 max, but yeah, I mean, it's just you can't do much 03:28:02.100 --> 03:28:08.420 about it when you haven't read so hard and MIBR, but so many of the resources that you've 03:28:08.420 --> 03:28:11.920 even got the AWP quickly rotating, there's no breaking through that. 03:28:11.920 --> 03:28:16.180 You might have been able to handle it if Brenner doesn't get a double kill on the slide out. 03:28:16.180 --> 03:28:18.720 If that's traded, that's a one for one. 03:28:18.720 --> 03:28:21.480 Maybe the AWP gets another kill, but you trade Insani one for one, 03:28:21.480 --> 03:28:23.940 and then the AWP doesn't re-peak, and you've at least got Ramp Room, 03:28:23.940 --> 03:28:25.180 and you can kind of work with that. 03:28:25.180 --> 03:28:30.180 But the lack of trading on the first contact was just brutal. 03:28:30.180 --> 03:28:33.900 That takes away the timing for the AWP to feel comfortable peeking. 03:28:33.900 --> 03:28:36.420 Team all it's off. 03:28:36.420 --> 03:28:38.340 I'm going to cut my through it. 03:28:38.340 --> 03:28:42.060 At least you've got a missed shot going for you over on the 3D Max Department. 03:28:42.060 --> 03:28:44.060 They're going to be running outside, crossing the smoke, 03:28:44.060 --> 03:28:47.980 getting down to a secret exorcist is taking Insani out and he's actually into the vent. 03:28:47.980 --> 03:28:50.660 So he's joining his teammates. He's got an AK now to play with. 03:28:50.660 --> 03:28:54.820 Breno got a stop gravity from getting safely to the site, but Exorcist is making the most 03:28:54.820 --> 03:28:57.900 of this AK-47. He'll toss it away. He's had enough with it. 03:28:57.900 --> 03:29:01.180 And he'll play forward with his tech 9, taking a flashbang to the mouth. 03:29:01.180 --> 03:29:05.820 Flamers held back, force back behind the smokes. 3D Max have got themselves into the lowest 03:29:05.820 --> 03:29:10.060 site. And for the first time in a long time, 3D Max are competitive in a round. 03:29:10.060 --> 03:29:13.500 Exorcist I think just won in this round. I mean, you can go for the retake. You can 03:29:13.500 --> 03:29:16.340 see if you can get a kill. You've got plenty of money to risk some of these weapons, but 03:29:16.340 --> 03:29:19.740 he's got two kills and he applies so much pressure towards Ramford to slow down the 03:29:19.740 --> 03:29:20.740 retake. 03:29:20.740 --> 03:29:25.780 Well, here they come. Exesese could be getting even more impact in this round. Waiting for 03:29:25.780 --> 03:29:29.580 them to come down through the Ramford. There's going to be one chance for Claim and Venom 03:29:29.580 --> 03:29:34.040 Zera taking kills between them. It's unlucky in Masuta to try to hold onto this golden 03:29:34.040 --> 03:29:39.500 chance for a fifth round win for 3D Max. A tap with a defuse. Masuta sees it on it, but 03:29:39.500 --> 03:29:41.060 He can't do much about it. 03:29:41.060 --> 03:29:42.360 Now they're going to hold it. 03:29:42.360 --> 03:29:44.640 An MIPR recover in the retake. 03:29:44.640 --> 03:29:46.680 Damn, very nice on the retake. 03:29:46.680 --> 03:29:48.840 So clean, so easy. 03:29:48.840 --> 03:29:50.440 No trades coming in whatsoever. 03:29:50.440 --> 03:29:53.480 The advanced position is not having impact for 3D Max. 03:29:53.480 --> 03:29:54.940 They'll be pleased with the bomb plant 03:29:54.940 --> 03:29:56.040 and the pressure that they applied 03:29:56.040 --> 03:29:57.320 and the money that it's going to give them 03:29:57.320 --> 03:29:58.180 for an investment here. 03:29:58.180 --> 03:30:00.820 But that was a winnable round that slips away 03:30:00.820 --> 03:30:02.760 from their grasp. 03:30:02.760 --> 03:30:04.060 Here's the opening kill. 03:30:04.060 --> 03:30:05.260 I love this from Xerces. 03:30:05.260 --> 03:30:06.320 Able to control vents. 03:30:06.320 --> 03:30:09.160 Everyone's got to rotate through to ramp room. 03:30:09.160 --> 03:30:12.280 But once you've come in the crossfires aren't nearly as effective as they would have liked. 03:30:12.280 --> 03:30:13.160 Good utility. 03:30:13.160 --> 03:30:16.360 Look at all the positions of these smokes to block away these angles. 03:30:16.360 --> 03:30:18.680 To prevent players from activating on contact. 03:30:18.680 --> 03:30:20.520 Really well done from MIBR. 03:30:21.160 --> 03:30:23.240 Found a little bit of a groove here on Nuke. 03:30:33.400 --> 03:30:35.000 Let's kill him here from gravity. 03:30:35.000 --> 03:30:37.240 I'm hoping they can kill to play with you for 3D Max. 03:30:37.240 --> 03:30:42.240 Oh, they can't let this one slide. You've got two men open it. 03:30:42.240 --> 03:30:44.240 Haven't been traded. 03:30:44.240 --> 03:30:46.240 Oh, VenomZero though. This might be the play. 03:30:46.240 --> 03:30:48.240 Yeah, he was spotted. He was spotted. 03:30:48.240 --> 03:30:50.240 Yeah, no luck. He should be faking it, but he won't. 03:30:50.240 --> 03:30:52.240 VenomZero wins that fight. 03:30:52.240 --> 03:30:56.240 He's blocked off Lobby, so you know that's happened. 03:30:56.240 --> 03:30:58.240 Exorcisms still moved out the door. 03:30:58.240 --> 03:31:00.240 Got another kill, and L and Z just shut that gap down, 03:31:00.240 --> 03:31:02.240 and still doable for him up beyond until now. 03:31:02.240 --> 03:31:05.240 So VenomZero tries to climb up to the T roof. 03:31:05.240 --> 03:31:09.680 T-Roof, Masuta waits for him, and just the openings are just too strong to put through the backs. 03:31:09.680 --> 03:31:13.040 This has not been a good T-Side, but they're up to five rounds. 03:31:13.680 --> 03:31:17.640 Yeah, I mean, you know, in some sense too, you have to say, like, maybe like, text book-wise, 03:31:17.640 --> 03:31:21.040 we're not gonna sit here and say this is mind-blowing strategically, but also, I mean, 03:31:21.040 --> 03:31:23.440 at some point you have to say, get five rounds in your T-Side. 03:31:23.840 --> 03:31:24.680 That ain't bad, right? 03:31:25.880 --> 03:31:30.480 Yeah, I mean, it's definitely enough to work with, instead of comfortable going into the second half. 03:31:30.840 --> 03:31:34.040 And a real opportunity as well to tie this game. 03:31:34.040 --> 03:31:36.040 I think the problem is, it's just like... 03:31:36.040 --> 03:31:38.040 AHHHHHHHHHH! 03:31:38.040 --> 03:31:41.040 We've been hitting on this angle at least in the mouth the last two maps, 03:31:41.040 --> 03:31:44.040 but for good reason I think. I feel like MBR just like... 03:31:44.040 --> 03:31:47.040 You can sit and wait. They're gonna make a play for you. 03:31:47.040 --> 03:31:50.040 You know, if you're ever in a situation, like, they're gonna move. 03:31:50.040 --> 03:31:55.040 Maka trying to get a little bit of luck on his side with the no-scope off-shot towards top hut. 03:31:56.040 --> 03:31:59.040 It doesn't pan out. 3D Max trying to equalize the score 03:31:59.040 --> 03:32:03.040 right before they switch sides to the defensive of Nuke. 03:32:03.040 --> 03:32:07.520 And once again ramp is where they call it in Breno. It just switched to utility. 03:32:07.520 --> 03:32:11.860 Yeah that quick switch just as they move in. It's gonna be ramp room for free for 3D Max. 03:32:11.860 --> 03:32:16.780 Yeah it's punishing in the sense of losing map control, but it'd be much worse if it was punishing in the sense of losing a player. 03:32:16.780 --> 03:32:18.780 So Breno just drops down towards dark. 03:32:21.240 --> 03:32:25.340 Is a second teammate just arriving right now in Breno coming down the vents. 03:32:25.340 --> 03:32:37.340 All right, L and Z coming down the vents, excuse me. 03:32:37.340 --> 03:32:46.340 Brano keeping his perch and here's the utility, here's the execute. 03:32:46.340 --> 03:32:47.340 Brano. 03:32:47.340 --> 03:32:49.340 Still alive, still kicking. 03:32:49.340 --> 03:32:51.900 Let's see if he can bring that with him. 03:32:51.900 --> 03:32:53.100 30 seconds left here. 03:32:53.100 --> 03:32:54.500 Here come through to Max. 03:32:54.500 --> 03:32:55.340 First few bullets, Lance. 03:32:55.340 --> 03:32:58.420 A lucky bit to blind side is pushed by Kravity. 03:32:58.420 --> 03:33:00.460 Moves it up, run and remove. 03:33:00.460 --> 03:33:02.740 And now LLNZ, the second victim of it. 03:33:02.740 --> 03:33:04.900 Rotation down the ramp going for this now. 03:33:04.900 --> 03:33:05.740 And my bi- 03:33:05.740 --> 03:33:08.340 Oh, it okay, Vandemzera! 03:33:08.340 --> 03:33:10.460 That is poisonous with the clutch. 03:33:10.460 --> 03:33:13.340 We've now got Masuda left and he is in a clutch 03:33:13.340 --> 03:33:15.420 that he can win all of a sudden with that tap. 03:33:15.420 --> 03:33:19.060 He's now looking down towards the decontamination door. 03:33:19.060 --> 03:33:26.500 Maybe that is the only way he can step forward, gets into the side through the flames, three seconds though, and Clem has called his bluffy backs away. 03:33:26.500 --> 03:33:32.620 Venom-Zero's work does not go on one of the plays here from the side of 3D Max as they step up. 03:33:32.620 --> 03:33:39.020 They won't get that tight game, and that is Venom-Zero. That is a huge moment yet again, more impact. 03:33:39.020 --> 03:33:46.860 Unreal, what he's just been able to do. Unreal that 3D Max not able to put a stop to this scrambling, chaotic, disorganized into bomb site. 03:33:46.860 --> 03:33:51.180 everyone panics and scrambles to get the bomb planted. They're just not ready for the peak. 03:33:52.140 --> 03:33:53.420 Unreal sequence. 03:33:57.020 --> 03:34:02.380 And a perfect timing to stick a dagger between the ribs of 3D Max just as the half comes to a 03:34:02.380 --> 03:34:12.380 close. Stu on that. A 5 on 2 dropped by 3D Max due to the quad kill from Venomzera. 03:34:12.380 --> 03:34:21.080 Yeah, incredible. Just unbelievable when Venom Zaras either has some moments where he looks a little shaky, but then there's just impact moments too. 03:34:21.880 --> 03:34:30.880 Well, they're on ancient on that first half, you know, the amount of multi-kills he was getting saving them wasn't enough and the end really fell off, but great to see him step up and around like that. 03:34:32.380 --> 03:34:34.780 Extra round to play with for MIBR. 03:34:34.780 --> 03:34:39.780 3D Max now switched to the defense. 03:34:39.780 --> 03:34:41.380 That round turned around so quickly. 03:34:41.380 --> 03:34:44.020 Yeah, just like a second and a half, and Venom's there is like, 03:34:44.020 --> 03:34:45.980 nope, you're not winning this one. 03:34:45.980 --> 03:34:51.780 Seven to five, 3D Max switches to the defense. 03:34:51.780 --> 03:34:54.380 Even with that heartbreak right at the tail end of the half, 03:34:54.380 --> 03:34:57.820 five is definitely, definitely workable as you switch over. 03:35:02.020 --> 03:35:04.340 Gravity with the P2K outside is going to get a lot of love 03:35:04.340 --> 03:35:08.820 heading his direction. It looks like they're going to turn in towards Mini, could choose 03:35:08.820 --> 03:35:11.340 to attack outside. 03:35:11.340 --> 03:35:19.020 Trap, but he under a lot of pressure, he does well to get one neck. Looks like he wasn't 03:35:19.020 --> 03:35:23.020 going to be able to make much of it at all to come in from MAPR, but again the response 03:35:23.020 --> 03:35:29.220 is immediate from 3D Max. So looking good for the Pistor on here for the French. Both 03:35:29.220 --> 03:35:32.540 halves started strong with a Pistor on in both. 03:35:32.540 --> 03:35:36.540 shooting from Masuda triple kill in the pistol as well. Yeah both pistols on the third and deciding 03:35:36.540 --> 03:35:41.500 map both pistols on nuke where you've now switched over to the CT side 3d max in a very strong 03:35:41.500 --> 03:35:45.340 position. No bomb plant as well which means you don't have to be super concerned about rifles in 03:35:45.340 --> 03:35:48.780 this round but you do have to be concerned about that helper bust against these tech nines. 03:35:51.500 --> 03:35:56.300 Here's Masuta on the rotation trading off gravity and ready to fight for more even has 03:35:56.300 --> 03:36:00.620 exorcist coming through the smoke with dualies to work in tandem just in case he was to mess something 03:36:00.620 --> 03:36:11.620 It's fast here, on towards the upper side, we've got gravity with the MP9, LNG, taking 03:36:11.620 --> 03:36:15.980 the one on the tech nine, but really important that 3D Max is able to handle that speed and 03:36:15.980 --> 03:36:17.620 so far so good. 03:36:17.620 --> 03:36:23.380 And then Zara, not going to be up to his old tricks, just gets the one kill on Maka, 03:36:23.380 --> 03:36:27.820 make quick work of Insani as he tries to move towards himself, 3D Max, yep, able to convert 03:36:27.820 --> 03:36:32.320 Both pistols this walk time important for their chances of closing our new kit 03:36:32.320 --> 03:36:37.260 That's actually a much scary around that it ended up looking like they did get the first kill on my BR on that attack into the upper 03:36:37.260 --> 03:36:38.180 Bomb so with the tech 9s 03:36:38.180 --> 03:36:44.420 That's usually problematic but good double kill inside the bomb site to settle things down and allow 3d max to close it out 03:36:46.060 --> 03:36:50.920 So you play with a couple of diggles up good at pistols here from my BR, but 03:36:52.340 --> 03:36:56.980 For 3d max the lead is right in front of them. They just need to reach out and take it 03:36:57.820 --> 03:37:04.820 and 03:37:06.500 --> 03:37:07.900 once if they don't lose anyone here 03:37:07.900 --> 03:37:10.140 just a little bit more money 03:37:10.140 --> 03:37:11.220 before you bring it out 03:37:11.220 --> 03:37:15.300 wait for someone to die to pass the m4 over 03:37:15.300 --> 03:37:19.540 though easy kill on the venomous he swings out silo the rest of the uh... 03:37:19.540 --> 03:37:22.340 the mivr attack with the Glock of the Deagles is going to come a little bit 03:37:22.340 --> 03:37:50.860 more slowly. 03:37:52.340 --> 03:37:59.340 It's round 16, we mentioned earlier in this series MIBR this is their first tier one international event. 03:37:59.340 --> 03:38:07.340 So much of the year has been spent regional competitions. They've won a couple, two first places, a second place and one early exit for 3D Max as well. 03:38:07.340 --> 03:38:13.340 This is probably one of the biggest events to close out their season as they didn't qualify for the major. 03:38:13.340 --> 03:38:22.340 There you go, you have some sort of positive for 3D Max, starting 20-26, hoping this is it. 03:38:22.340 --> 03:38:29.340 So let me final take you close out this series, looking so unlikely once they lost in Furdo. 03:38:29.340 --> 03:38:33.340 But they're now the favourites to head in to the top four finish. 03:38:33.340 --> 03:38:37.340 Oh my god, I can't believe everything's just going so right for them. 03:38:37.340 --> 03:38:41.340 Makka moves through the smoke, doesn't matter. 03:38:41.340 --> 03:38:44.380 Look at him. Look at him as a coach. You see that shit? You see what I just did? 03:38:44.380 --> 03:38:45.980 You see that? Come on, give me some love. 03:38:45.980 --> 03:38:47.980 He ain't losing this. We ain't not losing this. 03:38:47.980 --> 03:38:51.260 Doesn't feel that way, does it? Now we're starting to see smiles and confidence. 03:38:52.700 --> 03:38:56.620 Inferno, it was the pep in the step that kind of changed, that started that comeback that fell 03:38:56.620 --> 03:39:03.180 short. We saw them regain some of their mojo on ancient. That win and overtime really secured 03:39:03.180 --> 03:39:09.420 the feeling that they were going to be competitive. And now on Nuke, a map of comfort, unlike ancient 03:39:09.420 --> 03:39:16.540 3D Max, having an initial rock solid defense, MIBR yet to post a T-Round on the board. 03:39:27.820 --> 03:39:30.620 Accuracy's spawning out. 03:39:30.620 --> 03:39:32.780 Verdim's there up, doing as much damage as he can. 03:39:32.780 --> 03:39:40.680 It's just going to be in their nightmare for a long time, that ancient performance from 03:39:40.680 --> 03:39:41.680 IBI. 03:39:41.680 --> 03:39:46.560 Yeah, that, when they do a VOD review of that map, it's going to be depressing. 03:39:46.560 --> 03:39:49.680 I hope they don't have the casting on, because they'll hate me. 03:39:49.680 --> 03:39:54.220 Exorcist, okay, native hand, now you've got to get the weapon out, your teammate's gone 03:39:54.220 --> 03:39:55.720 down, nothing, just slow this. 03:39:55.720 --> 03:39:56.720 Gonna love this. 03:39:56.720 --> 03:40:02.480 Take nice, you're swarming this A site, 3D max, not able to hold onto it at all, so 03:40:02.480 --> 03:40:08.680 I might be all bursting through with an unlikely round to it save and you have to save there's no way back into this round 03:40:08.680 --> 03:40:12.200 You're not retaking this with no utility and no kids on the two remaining players 03:40:12.560 --> 03:40:16.600 That's I might be all with an explosive round when that didn't really see coming 03:40:17.320 --> 03:40:21.680 I'm a pretty back them we didn't see it coming. Yeah, they were I mean just as the utility was fading 03:40:21.680 --> 03:40:26.880 It's when I'm at the arc. I'm gonna get that execute and just as that utility is fading 3d max miss the opportunity to 03:40:27.600 --> 03:40:29.600 To re-smoke a little bit earlier 03:40:29.600 --> 03:40:34.120 So nades in hand inside the bomb site and so many of those timings today 03:40:34.120 --> 03:40:39.040 We've seen in this matchup of players just kind of pulling nades out at the worst possible moment 03:40:41.080 --> 03:40:46.160 It's been very messy counter strike at stretches and my VR get up to eight 03:40:46.580 --> 03:40:50.820 Bring this a little bit closer with this bomb explosion their first round on the T side of new 03:40:59.600 --> 03:41:02.600 All right, but just a hiccup. Just a speed bump. 03:41:02.600 --> 03:41:04.600 That's what 3D Max is saying right now. 03:41:04.600 --> 03:41:06.600 Let that one go away. We dropped the ball. 03:41:06.600 --> 03:41:10.600 Just lost a little bit of focus, but everything else has been gravy. 03:41:10.600 --> 03:41:13.600 No cause for panic just yet. 03:41:13.600 --> 03:41:17.600 It was four in a row for 3D Max to start this second half. 03:41:17.600 --> 03:41:21.600 And in that stretch, they built plenty of money to survive a punch like that. 03:41:21.600 --> 03:41:24.600 They take a time out just to settle things down and have a conversation. 03:41:29.600 --> 03:41:31.860 But another full by coming in for 3D Max. 03:41:33.920 --> 03:41:36.560 Improving the timeout here through the three Max as well. 03:41:36.560 --> 03:41:37.580 We need to make sure that. 03:41:39.400 --> 03:41:40.940 Ensure that that was a hiccup. 03:41:42.480 --> 03:41:44.560 Yeah, I think just a conversation about what went wrong. 03:41:44.560 --> 03:41:45.380 What they could do moving forward. 03:41:45.380 --> 03:41:48.860 Maka still looks like he's looking to the guys motive anyone keeping the atmosphere up, 03:41:48.860 --> 03:41:50.860 being a little bit of a presence inside the team. 03:41:50.860 --> 03:41:55.220 I think that that camera shot is great between the coach and gravity and Maka because. 03:41:55.700 --> 03:41:57.240 You know, gravity was the most recent. 03:41:57.240 --> 03:42:00.560 Jell's going to still have a lot of input, be an important voice inside of the team, 03:42:00.560 --> 03:42:05.560 Maka, Dean Kim, leader of now, and, you know, we got that trio looking to come up with ideas. 03:42:05.560 --> 03:42:08.920 It's what a bit of brain power for 3D Max to play with. 03:42:08.920 --> 03:42:12.640 We'll see if it's enough to really tighten things up here on the CT side. 03:42:12.640 --> 03:42:15.160 MIBR are going to be running towards our side. 03:42:15.520 --> 03:42:17.520 The smokes are up and they've made their way to a secret. 03:42:17.520 --> 03:42:19.120 Look at this from Maka to risk. 03:42:19.120 --> 03:42:20.840 He takes the shot, you can't get away. 03:42:21.120 --> 03:42:23.520 And then they smoke kills everybody having to go. 03:42:24.440 --> 03:42:25.200 Reload update. 03:42:25.200 --> 03:42:27.080 Not slowing the smokes, bounce down and out at all. 03:42:27.080 --> 03:42:28.880 Oh, hi, what? 03:42:28.880 --> 03:42:31.560 Yep, living up to his name, all right. 03:42:31.560 --> 03:42:33.320 Second kill through the smoke, 03:42:33.320 --> 03:42:35.640 and we now have LNC and Venom Zerot 03:42:35.640 --> 03:42:37.800 left at a 2v3 here on the T side. 03:42:37.800 --> 03:42:39.440 Lucky still feels a lot of pressure, though. 03:42:39.440 --> 03:42:40.640 You can see he's just worried, 03:42:40.640 --> 03:42:42.440 because he doesn't really have a whole lot of support. 03:42:42.440 --> 03:42:44.920 Axes can at least help him with anyone sliding 03:42:44.920 --> 03:42:46.000 through the gap in credit, 03:42:46.000 --> 03:42:48.200 but he's really gotta be worried about big garage. 03:42:48.200 --> 03:42:49.400 Now, Masuda's come outside 03:42:49.400 --> 03:42:50.600 for a little bit of support as well. 03:42:50.600 --> 03:42:52.760 Three on two, Masuda's gonna find the fight, 03:42:52.760 --> 03:42:53.760 but he's gonna lose it. 03:42:53.760 --> 03:42:55.480 Now the slide out from Lucky, good win. 03:42:55.480 --> 03:42:58.520 low on HP, and VenomZera makes his move. 03:43:00.080 --> 03:43:01.440 He sure does into the open, 03:43:01.440 --> 03:43:02.880 but he's gonna be crossing main, 03:43:02.880 --> 03:43:03.960 worried about the CT player. 03:43:03.960 --> 03:43:05.080 Surely, the Trey Kim's in. 03:43:05.080 --> 03:43:08.120 He nearly gets his cross on the right spot there. 03:43:08.120 --> 03:43:09.400 Makes him see, picking it up, 03:43:09.400 --> 03:43:12.560 and they're very happy about this one, 3D Max. 03:43:12.560 --> 03:43:14.080 He run it, kills, they copped through the smoke, 03:43:14.080 --> 03:43:15.600 which is ridiculous. 03:43:15.600 --> 03:43:17.120 Triple kill from Lucky in the round 03:43:17.120 --> 03:43:18.160 to really save the day. 03:43:18.160 --> 03:43:20.600 Huge play with the aggressive push outside. 03:43:20.600 --> 03:43:23.280 And they might be also getting smoke kills there. 03:43:23.280 --> 03:43:26.200 It was just a real brawl through that outside wall. 03:43:28.080 --> 03:43:29.680 Timeout taken here from IPR. 03:43:29.680 --> 03:43:30.720 Yeah, it makes sense too. 03:43:30.720 --> 03:43:33.320 Down by two, they're gonna fully invest into this round, 03:43:33.320 --> 03:43:36.400 but this is all the money they've got left after this. 03:43:36.400 --> 03:43:39.320 Venom's there, it might be able to drop one if possible. 03:43:42.120 --> 03:43:43.640 Or if needed, I should say. 03:43:43.640 --> 03:43:44.480 But outside of that, 03:43:44.480 --> 03:43:46.480 it's gonna be an ugly purchase moving forward. 03:43:46.480 --> 03:43:48.760 So IPR, this might be kind of the last stand they have 03:43:48.760 --> 03:43:50.480 if they can't win this one. 03:43:50.480 --> 03:43:52.800 Then 3D Max is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel 03:43:52.800 --> 03:43:57.800 in terms of a map win and a series victory in terms of the semi-finals tomorrow. 03:44:02.800 --> 03:44:05.800 Gonna be around there for lucky. 03:44:05.800 --> 03:44:10.800 Double figures for 3D Max. Still a very good buy here for MIPR. 03:44:10.800 --> 03:44:15.800 But money. There's not a lot left if they lose this. 03:44:16.800 --> 03:44:21.800 Very likely to be series point for 3D Max if they're able to pick this one up. 03:44:22.800 --> 03:44:51.300 I'll send Insani outside, we'll play it towards red while the smokes are up, oh it's going to boost the AWPer but look at this, Bakker was close to it but not able to connect the shot, Clem's going back, Clem is going back for the peek, Makker spotted it and now they both just handshake up with a little fall back and respect that, Masuta though, there's one rule of playing ramp and it's don't die like that, well he's been taking down, that's opened up completely that B-Ballside. 03:44:51.300 --> 03:44:54.660 Yeah, but there's two players downstairs. They've got to worry about secret. That's a tough loss to take 03:44:54.660 --> 03:44:57.660 So lucky can't address the bomb site to low HP players man 03:44:57.660 --> 03:45:03.540 Everyone's getting picked apart away from the action. There's the swing stop the plant but traded immediately well done from Venom's era 03:45:03.540 --> 03:45:05.900 And this round is MIBR written all over it 03:45:06.140 --> 03:45:08.900 So they survived the most dangerous round of the half 03:45:09.980 --> 03:45:14.660 And they do it emphatically with four players surviving so now they rebuild some of that buffer behind them 03:45:14.660 --> 03:45:17.540 Yeah, that round fell apart really fast for 3d max 03:45:17.540 --> 03:45:24.540 You know, a couple of chances outside for Mackie to grab the opening kill, just a bit of an awkward scenario between him and Clint. 03:45:24.540 --> 03:45:31.540 But the second Masuta dies, you're right, like two players still rotating lower, should have been able to do more to slow that down than they did. 03:45:31.540 --> 03:45:37.540 Yeah, that secret lurk was a very nice kill, and you know, one player kind of playing towards D-Con, one player trying to go control side. 03:45:37.540 --> 03:45:42.540 There's no chance to trade it, which just makes your attention is just drawn in too many places. 03:45:42.540 --> 03:45:47.740 Makka at least gets away with the AWP. Money's still in an okay place for 3D Max. 03:45:51.740 --> 03:45:56.240 Makka can drop a couple M4s if called upon with the cash he's got left over. 03:46:00.540 --> 03:46:03.040 And a second timeout called by MIBR. 03:46:03.040 --> 03:46:06.740 Not wanting to play with the momentum, wanting to pause it, talk things over, 03:46:06.740 --> 03:46:10.240 but that's equally giving a chance over to 3D Max to figure things out as well, 03:46:10.240 --> 03:46:14.400 especially given them time to manage this by in a situation where they only have one timeout left. 03:46:14.400 --> 03:46:18.640 So you could have kind of put the pressure on them to say, if you want to talk, we're fine. 03:46:20.320 --> 03:46:24.320 Yeah, I think the three max are loving the fact that so many timeouts have come through in the last 03:46:24.320 --> 03:46:27.760 couple of rounds here. Yeah, freebie timeout as well. Yeah, two of them. 03:46:33.040 --> 03:46:37.120 And just as we were highlighting in the last round that three max have the opportunity to reset 03:46:37.120 --> 03:46:41.160 set the money of MIBR, I'm on BR now, how that chance versus 3DMAX. 03:46:41.160 --> 03:46:45.240 You take them out here, they'll be down to weaker weapons and you have a shot at going up to 11 rounds. 03:46:48.880 --> 03:46:52.880 And semi-final spot, still up for Graves, with both of these teams as they head out for the fight. 03:46:52.880 --> 03:47:00.120 A full buy versus full buy, but 3DMAX realizes it's the last good one before they have to take a bit of a hit. 03:47:02.200 --> 03:47:04.400 Gravity spotted the AWPer as well, holding the angle, 03:47:04.400 --> 03:47:07.980 looking through a broken double door to see if you can pick one off crossing in 03:47:07.980 --> 03:47:13.400 from many so that's calmed out that the opposite door early. Masuda has slid over 03:47:13.400 --> 03:47:16.900 towards the secret stairs to pause and wait for his moment. Lucky's playing 03:47:16.900 --> 03:47:20.660 outside to have the information that he can pass over to Masuda. Those two 03:47:20.660 --> 03:47:25.620 communicating a lot in terms of the scaling in terms of the information. 03:47:34.400 --> 03:47:42.600 Well, the golden rule of Ramp Room, as you mentioned last round, don't die. 03:47:42.600 --> 03:47:43.600 It's on Maka now. 03:47:43.600 --> 03:47:44.600 Yep, a Maka. 03:47:44.600 --> 03:47:45.600 No problem. 03:47:45.600 --> 03:47:50.160 He's going to drop down, throw a flash out to try and hold him back, but as he's getting 03:47:50.160 --> 03:47:53.600 that first kill, they also find one L.S.W.S., who Brennan and Sony both dead. 03:47:53.600 --> 03:47:55.120 Now, here comes the reaction from IPR. 03:47:55.120 --> 03:47:58.520 They're going to try and take down Lucky, but this angle is always going to be good 03:47:58.520 --> 03:47:59.520 for one. 03:47:59.520 --> 03:48:03.120 Maybe even two from Lucky, and he will, in fact, ensure a double. 03:48:03.120 --> 03:48:08.120 Why not make it three? 3D Max don't even lose a single player. They're up to 11 rounds. 03:48:08.120 --> 03:48:13.120 Yeah, that's a perfect round for them. Obviously the triple kill from Lucky is a thing of beauty in the suit to adding one, 03:48:13.120 --> 03:48:20.120 but Maka grabbing that kill and backing away. Every step, every move that MIBR made to move forward and get some control 03:48:20.120 --> 03:48:24.120 was met with a player loss. Paying the 3D Max tax. 03:48:26.120 --> 03:48:31.120 Not able to find any openings, any kills, not even any trades. Lovely sequence from Lucky. 03:48:33.120 --> 03:48:37.080 And we're right back to where we were just a couple of rounds ago. 03:48:37.080 --> 03:48:42.160 Another buy for MIBR, that was the buffer they built up in the previous round with a clean win, but it's gone now. 03:48:42.160 --> 03:48:45.800 And a reset as 3D Max gets to 12 would be devastating. 03:48:49.800 --> 03:48:57.400 Series began with a dominant Inferno from MIBR, 3D Max looked flat, not even in the server until late in the second half. 03:48:57.400 --> 03:49:05.400 Ancient was all the advantages in the world for MIBR on a map that 3D Max has notoriously struggled on with a 30% win rate. 03:49:06.400 --> 03:49:09.400 But 3D Max came all the way back in one and overtime. 03:49:12.400 --> 03:49:17.400 Brings them to Nuke where they're much more competent and we're seeing it here as they have a two round advantage. 03:49:21.400 --> 03:49:22.400 Coming up towards hot now. 03:49:22.400 --> 03:49:25.480 Now, it's exorcise with a really important double kill. 03:49:25.480 --> 03:49:29.240 Now get off the top of that, because you've got plenty of teammates coming to try and help you, 03:49:29.240 --> 03:49:32.040 but Insani, making the most of the situation, 03:49:32.040 --> 03:49:36.160 it's just not enough, though, to prevent 3D Max from heading to series point. 03:49:36.160 --> 03:49:40.960 You are now one round win away from reaching the semi-finals here in Bucharest. 03:49:40.960 --> 03:49:45.600 Yeah, three chances to close it out, and this is going to be so exhilarating for the 3D Max guys 03:49:45.600 --> 03:49:49.160 when this one win comes in, because I guarantee you, down the line on Ancient, 03:49:49.160 --> 03:49:52.960 There had to have been moments where none of them truly believed that comeback was going to happen. 03:49:53.560 --> 03:49:57.160 The gift to be able to survive that from MIBR, bring it to Nuke. 03:49:57.460 --> 03:50:00.660 This is going to be a huge celebration from 3D Max if they close it out. 03:50:00.860 --> 03:50:02.060 And look what they're up against. 03:50:02.460 --> 03:50:05.960 Tech 9, MP7, AKs, 1 Galil. 03:50:06.160 --> 03:50:08.360 Utility is very light for MIBR. 03:50:08.360 --> 03:50:11.660 Advantages all across the board in the favor of 3D Max. 03:50:19.160 --> 03:50:24.160 LNZ, dropping down. 03:50:24.160 --> 03:50:30.160 That's a behind credit card, and yep, not going to be spotted, but Masuta making his way up secret. 03:50:30.160 --> 03:50:33.160 Just kept going, but LNZ has to reveal his position to get that. 03:50:33.160 --> 03:50:34.160 Kills with the trade comes in immediately. 03:50:34.160 --> 03:50:36.160 Smoke is up, but they move right through it. 03:50:36.160 --> 03:50:38.160 Mako can't connect the shot. 03:50:38.160 --> 03:50:40.160 And so, Amopya had to take a risk, and it's worked out. 03:50:40.160 --> 03:50:41.160 They've got down towards ramp. 03:50:41.160 --> 03:50:43.160 Really good call from Mako to just give it up. 03:50:43.160 --> 03:50:45.160 Knock over the repeat, not take the death. 03:50:45.160 --> 03:50:48.160 Play the four on three. 03:50:49.160 --> 03:50:54.360 are they going to are they just gonna go decon and try and relocate reposition 03:50:54.360 --> 03:50:58.960 oh it's gonna my work the drive-by but you can't get a fence surely you can't 03:50:58.960 --> 03:51:04.600 get a fence and now you can't go back into the bomb site either oh we'll be 03:51:04.600 --> 03:51:09.840 one back from clean gravity gonna be gone numbers even now to get a bomb not 03:51:09.840 --> 03:51:13.280 being planted yet Mack is waiting he wants you to walk through the double 03:51:13.280 --> 03:51:17.520 doors and they will provide here comes Venom Sarah as well miss shot from 03:51:17.520 --> 03:51:25.520 But he will recover and 3D Max, the renaissance here in the series, they make it all the way to the semifinals. 03:51:25.520 --> 03:51:30.520 They look down and out, but they have resistance and they pull off the comeback. 03:51:32.520 --> 03:51:40.520 From nearly losing to the worst team in the tournament to the semifinals, 3D Max remain an enigma. 03:51:40.520 --> 03:51:42.520 I cannot solve it. 03:51:42.520 --> 03:51:48.520 For MIPR, a powerful lesson in taking your chances. 03:51:48.520 --> 03:51:54.520 They're going to look back on that ancient opportunity and rue the many mistakes they made. 03:51:54.520 --> 03:51:57.520 But to the victor, the spoils. I mean, we've got to talk about 3D Max now. 03:51:57.520 --> 03:51:58.520 Great new plan. 03:51:58.520 --> 03:52:02.520 Really well done. I mean, this is a team now that's looking to make their biggest push 03:52:02.520 --> 03:52:04.520 in international tournaments. Quite a long time, right? 03:52:04.520 --> 03:52:10.520 I mean, with CAC or they took second, it's been a long, arduous road since then of disappointment. 03:52:10.520 --> 03:52:15.060 This is a chance to make a semi finals appearance and have a chance to do something because 03:52:15.060 --> 03:52:18.280 as Moses kind of indicated a couple of different times, you know this is their super bowl. 03:52:18.280 --> 03:52:19.280 They're not going to the major. 03:52:19.280 --> 03:52:23.040 And they don't really have that many big trophies in 3D Max's organization history. 03:52:23.040 --> 03:52:27.920 I mean pretty much looking at like the PS challenge I think in China they won last year. 03:52:27.920 --> 03:52:32.120 They had that Sky eSports event that they won, got out one time. 03:52:32.120 --> 03:52:35.040 But other than that, they haven't really had a whole lot to put in the cabinet. 03:52:35.040 --> 03:52:36.920 So this keeps them in that range. 03:52:36.920 --> 03:52:38.520 I'm actually super impressed with the fact that. 03:52:38.520 --> 03:52:42.200 I wouldn't lie, you know, you watch a couple of days of this tournament, you think, yeah, this seems done, they don't give it. 03:52:42.200 --> 03:52:46.760 And a lot of teams who didn't make it to the major, BC game comes to mind for example, just completely capitulated, 03:52:46.760 --> 03:52:48.680 they just, the heads were not in the game. 03:52:48.680 --> 03:52:54.520 Over 3G max being 11-6 down, and sure, MIBR, they messed up a lot around, they brought them, 03:52:54.520 --> 03:52:58.360 they allowed them back into the game, but they seized the opportunity with both hands. 03:52:58.360 --> 03:53:03.560 I mean, definitely, and an opportunity that was gifted to them, but an opportunity you have to take, 03:53:03.560 --> 03:53:06.200 and you can see from looking at the scoreboard, 03:53:06.200 --> 03:53:07.920 I mean, I have to say, 03:53:07.920 --> 03:53:10.440 was very impressed with Venom Zero 03:53:10.440 --> 03:53:12.800 across this series. 03:53:12.800 --> 03:53:14.760 Had so much impact for his team. 03:53:14.760 --> 03:53:17.320 I mean, you know, up there with the usual names, 03:53:17.320 --> 03:53:19.640 but at the end of the day, you look over across there, 03:53:19.640 --> 03:53:21.720 you've got to just take your hats off to this guy. 03:53:21.720 --> 03:53:25.000 I mean, doing it all quite well. 03:53:25.000 --> 03:53:27.480 The impact he had on the CT side in particular 03:53:27.480 --> 03:53:29.440 was absolutely impeccable. 03:53:29.440 --> 03:53:32.080 I mean, look at this heat map of outside control 03:53:32.080 --> 03:53:33.080 that he just dominated. 03:53:33.080 --> 03:53:34.880 CT side, with the AWP. 03:53:34.880 --> 03:53:35.680 Unbelievable. 03:53:35.680 --> 03:53:36.520 No, it's not just that. 03:53:36.520 --> 03:53:38.320 He was hitting some of the most ludicrous shots 03:53:38.320 --> 03:53:39.520 I've ever seen him hit as well. 03:53:39.520 --> 03:53:41.280 Just blind shots through the smoke, 03:53:41.280 --> 03:53:43.200 just being in their phase using, 03:53:43.200 --> 03:53:45.080 like just setting up his teammates as well. 03:53:45.080 --> 03:53:46.000 And we did point out as well, 03:53:46.000 --> 03:53:48.640 Dustin, it was gonna be a lot of battles of Insani, right? 03:53:48.640 --> 03:53:50.000 Who was outside and he's gonna be the one 03:53:50.000 --> 03:53:52.040 who's gonna have to kind of lock horns 03:53:52.040 --> 03:53:54.080 with a 3D Max's outside defense. 03:53:54.080 --> 03:53:56.360 And unfortunately Insani, the lowest rated player 03:53:56.360 --> 03:53:58.840 in this map, the one map that he really fell off, 03:53:58.840 --> 03:54:00.320 he was really struggling to find anything. 03:54:00.320 --> 03:54:03.600 And it also had in the first half, honestly, even though the 6-6 scoreline, 03:54:03.600 --> 03:54:07.080 it was some very well-constructed T-side rounds coming out from 3D Max. 03:54:07.080 --> 03:54:10.840 Running the CD-side by Mac. I mean, this is just BS bullshit shots coming out from him. 03:54:10.840 --> 03:54:15.920 But still, it was so aggressive, so in your face, so disruptive, so 3D Max. 03:54:15.920 --> 03:54:19.320 That's the way they want to play in your face, be disruptive, not allowing you to set up. 03:54:19.320 --> 03:54:24.120 And unfortunately for MIBR, you had a second half when, you know, we could see things spiraling out of control. 03:54:24.120 --> 03:54:27.720 I said it as well, Rich. Even though MIBR were my favorites coming to this matchup, 03:54:27.720 --> 03:54:29.520 once momentum shifted on to ancient, 03:54:29.520 --> 03:54:31.000 three demands just ran away with it. 03:54:31.000 --> 03:54:32.560 Child is lucky one time too, man. 03:54:32.560 --> 03:54:34.520 I mean, he's kind of their main yard defender 03:54:34.520 --> 03:54:36.120 aside from Mata's AWP, 03:54:36.120 --> 03:54:38.160 and he definitely had some big moments as well. 03:54:38.160 --> 03:54:39.680 And he's kind of the rock of this team, man. 03:54:39.680 --> 03:54:40.560 I mean, he's been around 03:54:40.560 --> 03:54:42.040 through all the different changes that have happened. 03:54:42.040 --> 03:54:44.200 He's ever been like the main featured player of the team. 03:54:44.200 --> 03:54:46.800 He's ever been the number one star of the squad. 03:54:46.800 --> 03:54:49.200 And his role has kind of shifted between, you know, 03:54:49.200 --> 03:54:50.640 different players coming in and out of the team, 03:54:50.640 --> 03:54:52.000 but he's always found a way 03:54:52.000 --> 03:54:53.960 to remain a consistent level player. 03:54:53.960 --> 03:54:55.160 And he did well here too. 03:54:55.160 --> 03:54:57.200 All right. Well, we've got questions 03:54:57.200 --> 03:55:02.000 on the panel about what's going on with 3D Max. The good news is we can throw you over to Paula to 03:55:02.000 --> 03:55:10.560 maybe ask them. Thank you so much guys. Yes, I'm down on the floor with Makka of 3D Max. Makka, 03:55:10.560 --> 03:55:14.720 just before we went live with this interview, I asked you, are you happy? What did you say? 03:55:14.720 --> 03:55:19.840 I said no, I'm not happy. I'm very happy. I'm very proud of this team. Congratulations on the win. 03:55:19.840 --> 03:55:24.800 Congratulations on making it through to the semi-finals. Can I get your initial reactions? 03:55:24.800 --> 03:55:33.160 I don't know, it was a very stressful game, but so happy, like I almost said. 03:55:33.160 --> 03:55:39.600 It's unbelievable the team that can go through hell, like the couple last weeks and go through 03:55:39.600 --> 03:55:42.800 this and be able to play that great thing. 03:55:42.800 --> 03:55:45.560 Yeah, let's talk about the stresses. 03:55:45.560 --> 03:55:48.680 So Inferno, quite a surprise to lose your map pick. 03:55:48.680 --> 03:55:50.160 What went wrong on Inferno? 03:55:50.160 --> 03:55:56.160 Nothing, lack of composure, overall. We didn't follow the game plan exactly the way we wanted 03:55:56.160 --> 03:55:59.160 and they clicked well and didn't go our way. 03:55:59.160 --> 03:56:09.160 Moving on to map 2, so Ancient, we ended up going to overtime. Perhaps that was a switch then in terms of composure 03:56:09.160 --> 03:56:14.160 because you were massively behind but you grinded it out and got the W. What happened on Ancient? 03:56:14.160 --> 03:56:18.900 I think we made that scenario in our head, like yesterday night. 03:56:18.900 --> 03:56:22.440 If we lose our map, we can be going through the ancient tea side. 03:56:22.440 --> 03:56:26.560 We have to be composed and very calm. 03:56:26.560 --> 03:56:29.040 I think that helped us a lot. 03:56:29.040 --> 03:56:31.340 I don't know if we played the way we wanted to play. 03:56:31.340 --> 03:56:34.240 And each other, I think this is the way we want to play. 03:56:34.240 --> 03:56:38.840 And we have to keep playing like this, calm and very, 03:56:38.840 --> 03:56:43.800 like, I don't know, like dominant on this area. 03:56:43.800 --> 03:56:48.000 Yeah, you guys looked very composed going into map 3, Nuke. 03:56:48.000 --> 03:56:50.880 What was the feeling or the mood in the team going into Nuke, 03:56:50.880 --> 03:56:52.880 and then also what were the keys to victory? 03:56:52.880 --> 03:56:54.880 To be honest, going into Nuke, we are confident 03:56:54.880 --> 03:56:56.880 because we wanted to pick that map at first. 03:56:56.880 --> 03:56:58.880 Yesterday when I watched Vitos, 03:56:58.880 --> 03:57:01.680 so it feels like we need to arm up pick. 03:57:01.680 --> 03:57:06.200 So, yeah, the start of the game was very good. 03:57:06.200 --> 03:57:11.280 We kind of came into the same mood we had on Inferno, 03:57:11.280 --> 03:57:13.600 so we are a bit scared, I think, 03:57:13.600 --> 03:57:20.600 But going on the city side, we are so confident on it, and I think they like some good strategy to counter us, so... 03:57:21.600 --> 03:57:26.600 Alright, well, Mac, a final couple of questions. Yeah, you've got the win now. You moved through to the semi-finals. 03:57:26.600 --> 03:57:33.600 You'll be playing either Astralis or Eyeballers. Who do you think will play and what are your thoughts on one of those potential match-ups? 03:57:33.600 --> 03:57:38.600 I think Astralis are the main players of this tournament. They look so sharp and great. 03:57:38.600 --> 03:57:42.680 Uh, the data was just watching me, uh, 03:57:42.680 --> 03:57:45.760 that's sort of why I passed the glance round before to see if they were coming by as a 03:57:45.760 --> 03:57:49.400 matter of fact. I think there are very good fairies in that matchup. Uh, 03:57:49.400 --> 03:57:52.060 so looking forward to play as far as we want to play the bigger, 03:57:52.060 --> 03:57:55.280 the big games. So looking to play as far as, yeah. 03:57:55.280 --> 03:57:58.720 And if you were to play Astralis the last couple of times you've played them, 03:57:58.720 --> 03:57:59.560 it's not gone so well. 03:57:59.560 --> 03:58:02.000 What changes if you do end up playing them in the semis? 03:58:02.520 --> 03:58:05.040 I think we don't need to focus on the way they played. 03:58:05.080 --> 03:58:08.160 Just focus on ourselves and I'm pretty sure we can do even better than them. 03:58:08.600 --> 03:58:10.800 All right, well, Macca, thank you so much for your time. 03:58:10.800 --> 03:58:13.280 Congratulations once again on reaching the semifinals. 03:58:13.280 --> 03:58:15.240 Anything that you'd like to say to the fans watching at home 03:58:15.240 --> 03:58:16.760 before I let you go. 03:58:16.760 --> 03:58:18.800 Thank you, everyone, for supporting us. 03:58:18.800 --> 03:58:21.200 Merci aux Français qui nous soutiennent et qui nous regardent. 03:58:21.200 --> 03:58:23.600 And see you in the semifinals. 03:58:23.600 --> 03:58:24.400 Merci. 03:58:24.400 --> 03:58:26.920 And yeah, we'll catch you tomorrow. 03:58:26.920 --> 03:58:30.080 All right, for now, let's head back to the desk. 03:58:30.080 --> 03:58:30.960 Yeah, Merci. 03:58:30.960 --> 03:58:31.800 Love that interview. 03:58:31.800 --> 03:58:32.440 Oh, la la. 03:58:32.440 --> 03:58:35.320 We didn't show M.I.B.R. any mercy diddy. 03:58:35.320 --> 03:58:36.800 I mean, let's be real. 03:58:36.800 --> 03:58:38.520 It's going to be a sore one for them. 03:58:38.520 --> 03:58:42.820 shake off. But I like his attitude. We were wondering if there was going to be changes 03:58:42.820 --> 03:58:48.360 to the team. Didn't make the major. He's all smiles. He's just like, you know what, 03:58:48.360 --> 03:58:52.720 we're just going to take each game as it comes. And if we play the way that we've set up to 03:58:52.720 --> 03:58:55.920 play, we'll beat Australia in the next round. We'll wait for the finals. 03:58:55.920 --> 03:58:59.080 It's one of those things where it's like it obviously stinks to be in that situation where 03:58:59.080 --> 03:59:02.120 you're not going to get to play the major and things aren't really going according to 03:59:02.120 --> 03:59:05.680 plan just in general throughout the course of the season. But it also kind of creates 03:59:05.680 --> 03:59:09.200 opportunity where the weight gets a little bit lifted off of you because now you know that that's 03:59:09.200 --> 03:59:13.760 gone and now you can kind of focus in on making the best of what you can with this lineup. Seizing 03:59:13.760 --> 03:59:17.760 this opportunity, a tournament like this, where a lot of the big dogs aren't here, and make something 03:59:17.760 --> 03:59:22.400 of it, you know, something to build off of maybe going into the offseason as well. Yeah, 100% agree. 03:59:22.400 --> 03:59:26.000 Well, a lot of a lot of other teams, as I pointed out earlier, who haven't made it a major, just 03:59:26.000 --> 03:59:29.840 completely come in completely checked out mentally, haven't made it to the playoffs. The fact that 03:59:29.840 --> 03:59:35.040 3D Max is still alive and kicking despite the first game lost to focus, despite almost talking to 03:59:35.040 --> 03:59:39.240 you evoke as well, your NA boys, the fact that they come in here and kind of basically 03:59:39.240 --> 03:59:43.960 just snatched victory from the Jaws of Defeat. I think it's very impressive. But for me, 03:59:43.960 --> 03:59:48.080 I feel a little gutter for MIBR, right? They've been looking so good. They were a team who 03:59:48.080 --> 03:59:51.240 I didn't necessarily expect to make it into playoffs, but it played really good CS so 03:59:51.240 --> 03:59:54.920 far. It could have easily been a 2-0 for them that it could be waiting for the next game, 03:59:54.920 --> 03:59:59.040 but congratulations to them. But that being said, I am excited about this MIBR lineup. 03:59:59.040 --> 04:00:02.240 I feel like going down the line with some of the reps and the experience that picked up 04:00:02.240 --> 04:00:06.240 but it's a bad their team who could really deal a bit of damage in a few 04:00:06.240 --> 04:00:09.200 two events. Yeah, unfortunately for them one bad half a CS we were their ability 04:00:09.200 --> 04:00:12.640 to make a semi-final and that's a harsh lesson. It is but hopefully they will be 04:00:12.640 --> 04:00:15.520 able to grab something from it. Again, I think at least we're seeing Insani still 04:00:15.520 --> 04:00:17.600 play at a pretty high level overall which is something that you can kind of 04:00:17.600 --> 04:00:21.080 always count on. Again, I think Clem is still looking like an opportunity to keep 04:00:21.080 --> 04:00:24.080 an eye on it. Even Venom Zera, he's kind of the guy you don't talk about as much 04:00:24.080 --> 04:00:27.320 because he kind of he was on red knits for a while for a few years was never 04:00:27.320 --> 04:00:30.280 really a main featured player in the Brazilian scene. This has been a big 04:00:30.280 --> 04:00:34.160 opportunity for him. He's been kind of overshadowed by some of the other guys on the team, but 04:00:34.160 --> 04:00:36.880 he definitely made his presence known throughout the course of this term. 04:00:36.880 --> 04:00:41.240 I mean that 4K on Ram comes to mind, which is so insane. So, Ben and Xero was kind of 04:00:41.240 --> 04:00:44.360 like on paper the weak link, you know, with the comms and everything, but I feel like 04:00:44.360 --> 04:00:48.120 it's been a big growth for him, especially with the opposition he's had to face so far. 04:00:48.120 --> 04:00:51.800 So MIBR, get a walk over the head-to-head high today, despite the disappointment. 04:00:51.800 --> 04:00:55.760 Yeah, well, we were talking about the majors and how that affects 3D Max, and we've got 04:00:55.760 --> 04:01:02.000 announcement about the major for all of you at home. It's also up on the PGL social media site 04:01:02.000 --> 04:01:08.000 but it's Singapore major time. The second major of the year is of course going to be in Singapore 04:01:08.000 --> 04:01:14.480 and we are going to be doing things a little bit differently out there. We fought for ages to perfect 04:01:14.480 --> 04:01:20.800 the kind of format of a major. We've finally got people to agree. Yes, let's do Best of Five finals. 04:01:20.800 --> 04:01:27.360 Well, that major is also going to have a third place to side, a bronze medal essentially 04:01:27.360 --> 04:01:28.360 handed out. 04:01:28.360 --> 04:01:34.560 And obviously that's really important within the context of, you know, VRS points and everything 04:01:34.560 --> 04:01:35.560 else. 04:01:35.560 --> 04:01:36.800 So I'm actually super stoked. 04:01:36.800 --> 04:01:40.560 I also think for the fans as well, if you've ever been to a major, I've had the pleasure 04:01:40.560 --> 04:01:43.320 of attending a few in my career. 04:01:43.320 --> 04:01:47.680 Obviously on that last day, you know, some people, they're the show matches, as fun as 04:01:47.680 --> 04:01:48.960 we try and make them. 04:01:48.960 --> 04:01:50.480 No more show matches, Richard. 04:01:50.480 --> 04:01:51.200 I'm so happy. 04:01:51.200 --> 04:01:54.480 I'm sick and tired of the team's tryharding in a show match. 04:01:54.480 --> 04:01:56.080 So that's out of the way. 04:01:56.080 --> 04:01:57.800 I think Bless is getting sick of getting on then. 04:01:57.800 --> 04:01:58.280 I think it's real. 04:01:58.280 --> 04:01:58.880 Yeah, also true. 04:01:58.880 --> 04:01:59.880 Christopher, tryharding. 04:01:59.880 --> 04:02:01.240 We're trying to have fun, guys. 04:02:01.240 --> 04:02:01.880 Listen here, bud. 04:02:01.880 --> 04:02:03.840 Like, just calm down a little bit over there. 04:02:03.840 --> 04:02:04.880 I can't be hard. 04:02:04.880 --> 04:02:07.960 But anyway, I'm very happy because the majors have always 04:02:07.960 --> 04:02:10.800 had the ignominy of kind of always trailing 04:02:10.800 --> 04:02:12.400 behind some of the big events of the year 04:02:12.400 --> 04:02:14.080 when it comes to the format, so to speak. 04:02:14.080 --> 04:02:17.000 So the fact that they're catching up to all the premier 04:02:17.000 --> 04:02:17.920 events of the year. 04:02:17.920 --> 04:02:21.400 the PGL, the big events, you know, talking about Cologne and all these events, the fact 04:02:21.400 --> 04:02:25.120 that we all have 30 to side right now, I'm glad the majors are actually catching up to 04:02:25.120 --> 04:02:26.120 it. 04:02:26.120 --> 04:02:27.880 I'm just glad that we keep seeing the major iterated on. 04:02:27.880 --> 04:02:31.640 You know, I think for a long time there, there was a pessimistic view from the community 04:02:31.640 --> 04:02:34.560 that Val was kind of asleep at the wheel and that, you know, these majors would kind of 04:02:34.560 --> 04:02:38.160 stick with the same format, they were kind of lagging behind the rest of the scene. 04:02:38.160 --> 04:02:41.400 And now we have seen with Cologne, obviously the introduction of best of threes in the 04:02:41.400 --> 04:02:44.480 main group stage, which is a huge format improvement, my opinion. 04:02:44.480 --> 04:02:48.700 Now we're seeing them level up, having a third place insider game, having a real potential 04:02:48.700 --> 04:02:52.500 for podium finishes at majors to feel a little bit more special maybe on getting that bronze 04:02:52.500 --> 04:02:53.620 medal. 04:02:53.620 --> 04:02:57.660 And I think there's one other thing, Rich, that also will be taking place at this major. 04:02:57.660 --> 04:02:59.780 Oh, do you want, do you want to share it? 04:02:59.780 --> 04:03:00.780 No, sure. 04:03:00.780 --> 04:03:02.780 The cutoff has been extended. 04:03:02.780 --> 04:03:05.780 So here's the big thing. 04:03:05.780 --> 04:03:10.300 As people know for the Cologne major, the cutoff was in April two months before the major. 04:03:10.300 --> 04:03:16.300 time around the cutoff will be in November which means that the entirety of the season will have 04:03:16.300 --> 04:03:20.940 an impact on who makes the Singapore major as opposed to having kind of this weird two-month 04:03:20.940 --> 04:03:25.420 law period where yeah people are still playing for VRS and the importance of that in future 04:03:25.420 --> 04:03:30.460 tournament invites and maybe the next major but now like the second half of this year is really 04:03:30.460 --> 04:03:33.980 going to drive the storyline of Singapore in a much bigger way and also overall when it comes 04:03:33.980 --> 04:03:37.900 to teams performances as well two months is a lot of time for certain teams to drop off in form as 04:03:37.900 --> 04:03:41.580 as well, right? So with just a one month difference, you're going to be seeing a lot more teams 04:03:41.580 --> 04:03:44.220 being more battle ready, so to speak, as a major arrives. 04:03:44.220 --> 04:03:48.780 Yes, we have to switch chairs now, Dustin, doing my job for me. One thing I can do for 04:03:48.780 --> 04:03:53.180 all you at home though is tell you about the tickets. If you scan this QR code down there, 04:03:53.180 --> 04:03:58.940 Boomer Mind can't comprehend this technology, but I assure you at home it does work. If you 04:03:58.940 --> 04:04:02.860 do that, that'll give you all of the details. Tickets are available. Make sure you get yours 04:04:02.860 --> 04:04:07.180 now for what is going to be a historic event. So there you go. 04:04:07.180 --> 04:04:14.180 25th valve made 25 we've come a long way haven't we guys but for now we must take a quick break 04:04:14.580 --> 04:04:19.500 Reset and when we come back, we're gonna be talking about Astralis versus I ballers. 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Back in your every move. 04:06:34.180 --> 04:06:56.020 I'm just gonna go ahead and say this now no one else even try that slam of the year yeah 04:06:56.020 --> 04:06:59.740 yeah really just no way to be in that yeah yeah no no you'd have to actually flip the 04:06:59.740 --> 04:07:03.300 But anyway, to do the proper setup, right, okay, 04:07:03.300 --> 04:07:05.380 and introduce segment, it is going to be 04:07:05.380 --> 04:07:07.740 Isgrales versus Eyeballers. 04:07:07.740 --> 04:07:09.740 And before we do turn our attention 04:07:09.740 --> 04:07:12.660 to the individual teams, myself and the panel 04:07:12.660 --> 04:07:14.140 would like to talk about something 04:07:14.140 --> 04:07:16.620 that maybe you've noticed or maybe you haven't. 04:07:16.620 --> 04:07:19.620 And it's something about legacy, not the team, 04:07:19.620 --> 04:07:21.580 but actually what we leave behind 04:07:21.580 --> 04:07:24.860 when things crumble to dust, you know, 04:07:24.860 --> 04:07:27.220 in the material realm. 04:07:27.220 --> 04:07:28.900 And we're going to talk about young Ninjas. 04:07:28.900 --> 04:07:32.380 And Ninjas and Pajamas, you know, historically, 04:07:32.380 --> 04:07:36.460 they've been a great organization, a joke organization, 04:07:36.460 --> 04:07:39.700 somewhere in between, and they had an academy team. 04:07:39.700 --> 04:07:42.460 I've called this graphic revenge of Shinobi. 04:07:42.460 --> 04:07:43.980 Boomers will get that reference, 04:07:43.980 --> 04:07:45.260 no one else does, of course. 04:07:45.260 --> 04:07:47.180 But think about all of the players 04:07:47.180 --> 04:07:49.660 that have played on the Young Ninjas team. 04:07:49.660 --> 04:07:52.220 Think about where Swedish Counter-Strike is, 04:07:52.220 --> 04:07:54.220 and then here they all are together. 04:07:54.220 --> 04:07:56.980 We've just seen L and Z go out of the tournament, 04:07:56.980 --> 04:07:58.300 but you've got ZTR. 04:07:58.300 --> 04:07:59.980 You've got foesie coming up. 04:07:59.980 --> 04:08:02.220 We've got Max, we've got Rolf. 04:08:02.220 --> 04:08:05.580 All of those guys came through the Ninjas and Pajamas 04:08:05.580 --> 04:08:09.980 Academy system and actually are better now than they were then. 04:08:09.980 --> 04:08:11.660 Yeah, maybe your time on Nip doesn't count, 04:08:11.660 --> 04:08:13.500 but your time on Ninjas apparently may mean 04:08:13.500 --> 04:08:15.580 that you actually have a little bit of a future ahead of you. 04:08:15.580 --> 04:08:16.980 And I think the biggest one there 04:08:16.980 --> 04:08:18.660 is definitely the Tuesday to set story 04:08:18.660 --> 04:08:19.620 that ties into our match. 04:08:19.620 --> 04:08:22.140 Because I mean, this is a guy who was wasting away 04:08:22.140 --> 04:08:23.100 on wild card play. 04:08:23.100 --> 04:08:25.140 Wedge of China before that, let's not forget. 04:08:25.140 --> 04:08:25.980 Let's not forget that. 04:08:25.980 --> 04:08:30.460 I knew to learn Chinese. Yeah, like literally the meme almost became reality on that one. 04:08:30.460 --> 04:08:33.500 Also, he did have like a brief on the main team. But you know, I don't think they really 04:08:33.500 --> 04:08:36.380 gave him a whole lot of time to flourish on that one. But now he's one of the better 04:08:36.380 --> 04:08:39.500 offers in the world within this year. I think it's been really cool to see him climb. And 04:08:39.500 --> 04:08:42.700 yeah, like you said, some of the other guys have definitely gone on to, you know, make some big 04:08:42.700 --> 04:08:46.300 waves and talk to the irony of the fact that, you know, it's a Swedish offer coming into a 04:08:46.300 --> 04:08:51.580 Danish organization, a straw list to kind of make them look good again, resurrect their life, 04:08:51.580 --> 04:08:56.740 He looked up a flying whatever and it's just kind of funny, ironic in a lot of ways. 04:08:56.740 --> 04:08:59.820 But it's really cool to say I agree with even some of the youngsters, Max's Rolf for example, 04:08:59.820 --> 04:09:02.420 who didn't really have much of an impact when he's playing the nip, 04:09:02.420 --> 04:09:06.380 and that old nip, youngster's lineup, but just the fact that they're finding so much impact 04:09:06.380 --> 04:09:10.140 in such a different way, so to speak. It's a pretty cool storyline. 04:09:10.140 --> 04:09:14.860 Yeah. Well, let's talk about what Swedish Counter Strike looks like broadly speaking now 04:09:14.860 --> 04:09:18.140 by talking about eyeballs. Obviously, we saw them when yesterday. 04:09:18.140 --> 04:09:19.860 We had JW on the couch. 04:09:19.860 --> 04:09:22.340 He corrected one narrative that we've been peddling, 04:09:22.340 --> 04:09:24.180 which was he's the CEO. 04:09:24.180 --> 04:09:26.940 He's apparently stood down so we can focus on playing 04:09:26.940 --> 04:09:29.380 and being an IGL, only temporarily, 04:09:29.380 --> 04:09:31.740 still his company, of course. 04:09:31.740 --> 04:09:35.460 And look, they have done very, very well, in my opinion, 04:09:35.460 --> 04:09:36.540 to be in the playoffs. 04:09:36.540 --> 04:09:38.540 Yeah, I mean, they're making the most out of an opportunity, 04:09:38.540 --> 04:09:40.380 right, because they were one of the replacement teams 04:09:40.380 --> 04:09:43.060 that came in because they didn't win the qualifier. 04:09:43.060 --> 04:09:44.820 So they had to kind of come in last minute 04:09:44.820 --> 04:09:46.260 and they've really seized on to. 04:09:46.260 --> 04:09:47.660 You know, we're talking about Swedish CS, 04:09:47.660 --> 04:09:50.940 They're able to beat up on that a sport and alliance to come second at the ROG 04:09:50.940 --> 04:09:52.420 journey event leading into this one. 04:09:52.580 --> 04:09:54.980 And now they're getting their first chance internationally to compete against 04:09:54.980 --> 04:09:58.700 top level teams and kind of lucky to get a freebie against FaZe in the opener. 04:09:58.700 --> 04:10:00.300 But they took care of it against focus. 04:10:00.300 --> 04:10:03.100 And I think that that was kind of like the key matchup that really kind of was 04:10:03.100 --> 04:10:05.620 like, okay, you know, maybe there is a little bit of something here to keep it 04:10:05.620 --> 04:10:08.860 on. And even against the Mongols match of the first game, the real game they 04:10:08.860 --> 04:10:12.060 played about from the FaZe walkover was the fact that despite the school line, 04:10:12.060 --> 04:10:13.500 it was a very competitive half. 04:10:13.500 --> 04:10:15.060 There was a very competitive rounds as well. 04:10:15.260 --> 04:10:16.580 And again, you got to remember J.W.S. 04:10:16.580 --> 04:10:21.460 he did say, listen, I'm a bit delusional, I'm coming in for the win, but also at the same time, 04:10:21.460 --> 04:10:24.660 if you look at a lot of the other players in this team, someone like Bob XD for example, 04:10:24.660 --> 04:10:29.060 who's very, very green, especially at this level of counter, so these are such important reps 04:10:29.060 --> 04:10:33.300 that he's able to get against a pretty solid team overall, so a lot of growth would have 04:10:33.300 --> 04:10:36.820 transpired already for this team, and of course I'm sure they weren't really expecting to make 04:10:36.820 --> 04:10:41.140 the way to the playoffs, but hey, they're here right now, and as JW said, I'm here to rock and roll. 04:10:41.140 --> 04:10:46.020 Yeah, and look, I love the interview we had with JW, so gracious with his time, 04:10:46.020 --> 04:10:50.820 even though he does have a pretty bad cold at the moment, which he may or may not have transferred on to me. 04:10:50.820 --> 04:10:54.580 We'll see. I'm happy to receive it from J. W. He's a legend, so 04:10:55.460 --> 04:10:59.100 But but I will say this he also highlighted the Bob XD as 04:10:59.580 --> 04:11:04.300 The their ex factor player and the statistics haven't poured this out yet, right? 04:11:04.300 --> 04:11:09.860 But everybody around I Paul is saying this is the guy to be fair. He plays a tough position 04:11:09.860 --> 04:11:11.100 He's their main entry fragger 04:11:11.100 --> 04:11:16.740 He's definitely one of the big aggressive playmakers and he definitely was alongside 04:11:16.740 --> 04:11:21.180 Maxter, their top performing player over the course of the last good bit of time on land 04:11:21.180 --> 04:11:22.380 and in the on-mount environment. 04:11:22.380 --> 04:11:26.260 So definitely taking on a lot of openers, it's not converting them as much as usual. 04:11:26.260 --> 04:11:29.140 But again, he's going for so many, right? 04:11:29.140 --> 04:11:33.060 Like Berlin said earlier, it's about getting those reps and getting more comfortable interaction 04:11:33.060 --> 04:11:35.440 with those situations in the land environment. 04:11:35.440 --> 04:11:38.980 But also do give a shout to Maxter because I feel like he has lived up to the billing. 04:11:38.980 --> 04:11:41.780 He's kind of the other star, quote, unquote, of the team. 04:11:41.780 --> 04:11:43.900 And he's had his moments against Mongols and Energy, 04:11:43.900 --> 04:11:46.380 and even was really great in the final map against Focus 04:11:46.380 --> 04:11:48.060 on Dust2 that got them to this playoffs. 04:11:48.060 --> 04:11:50.060 I got to say that the one guy who has really popped off 04:11:50.060 --> 04:11:51.540 from me has been JW, right? 04:11:51.540 --> 04:11:53.700 Like leading by example on Captain On-Lap. 04:11:53.700 --> 04:11:55.620 Because online, he has been an illustrated player 04:11:55.620 --> 04:11:56.580 in an AWP-ing eye gelling. 04:11:56.580 --> 04:11:58.140 It's not an easy job at all, Richard. 04:11:58.140 --> 04:12:01.100 But coming into this event, he's been so pivotal with the AWP. 04:12:01.100 --> 04:12:02.460 Even the comeback against Focus, 04:12:02.460 --> 04:12:04.460 he was the one leading by example. 04:12:04.460 --> 04:12:06.260 Tall order for him today. 04:12:06.260 --> 04:12:08.820 Taking on Astralis, some people's favorites 04:12:08.820 --> 04:12:10.820 to lift this trophy in Bucharest. 04:12:10.820 --> 04:12:15.140 Hoopsy got to cut the Deadwood from the all Danish lineup, 04:12:15.140 --> 04:12:18.140 turn it international, and so far so good. 04:12:18.140 --> 04:12:20.940 Henry really put me into a spin the other day. 04:12:20.940 --> 04:12:23.780 He said, this is the best Astralis we've seen 04:12:23.780 --> 04:12:24.940 in six, seven years. 04:12:24.940 --> 04:12:26.780 And I went, come on, bro. 04:12:26.780 --> 04:12:30.100 Like, you really saying this is better than the 2016? 04:12:30.100 --> 04:12:31.620 And I was like, oh, it's 2026. 04:12:31.620 --> 04:12:32.460 So yeah, okay. 04:12:32.460 --> 04:12:33.300 It's been good. 04:12:33.300 --> 04:12:34.420 It has been a bit, man. 04:12:34.420 --> 04:12:37.460 Yeah, but at least doing what they're supposed to do, right? 04:12:37.460 --> 04:12:43.460 the group stage only dropping one map to bait, beating Mongols 2-0 convincingly. 04:12:43.460 --> 04:12:46.460 You have some of these new players playing really well. 04:12:46.460 --> 04:12:49.460 Fusey, we've already talked about him looking like one of the best 04:12:49.460 --> 04:12:53.460 offers of the year right now, but also it's been kind of the resurgence of Yaddy. 04:12:53.460 --> 04:12:58.460 This is a guy who struggled last year. I mean, he really wasn't doing himself any favor. 04:12:58.460 --> 04:13:00.460 A million-dollar player, last week, forget. 04:13:00.460 --> 04:13:03.460 But this year it's been a different story. He has really come alive. 04:13:03.460 --> 04:13:05.460 I think it's because they've given him a little bit more freedom. 04:13:05.460 --> 04:13:08.460 He's getting a little bit better roles for himself. Now that's down is gone 04:13:08.460 --> 04:13:12.380 And he's really kind of taken that opportunity and ran with it and again 04:13:12.380 --> 04:13:17.120 I think this is all because I did a catalyst here has been a fact that stare has finally had the opportunity 04:13:17.380 --> 04:13:19.740 Shine in all these star positions all the star road 04:13:19.740 --> 04:13:24.380 He's a player you touch upon time and time again during all the metronome tribulations of Astralis 04:13:24.380 --> 04:13:29.060 He was the one rock for this team playing some in some very rough positions a very rough road 04:13:29.060 --> 04:13:34.740 But still able to deliver the numbers and now he's just consistently delivering your foes being a constant 04:13:34.740 --> 04:13:38.740 with the AWP as well, just so stable with the AWP, and that's, I feel like, 04:13:38.740 --> 04:13:42.740 allowed, alleviated a quite a pressure from Yabi to kind of be, to kind of find 04:13:42.740 --> 04:13:46.740 himself, so to speak. So, yeah, Stralis right now, man, they're looking, for me, they're looking like the favorites. 04:13:46.740 --> 04:13:50.740 Yeah, I was kind of wondering what we were going to get, right, because they did have that big third place finish at EPL, 04:13:50.740 --> 04:13:54.740 where they beat Spirit, they beat Foot, it's like, okay, like these guys are cooking a little bit right now, 04:13:54.740 --> 04:13:58.740 but this is a different situation where they were kind of playing the underdog role at EPL here, 04:13:58.740 --> 04:14:02.740 they're supposed to be one of the favorites next to Mongols, and maybe Foot, and so on, and they've lived up to it, 04:14:02.740 --> 04:14:07.220 to it and stairs been the big one because look I always thought stair was solid but he has leveled 04:14:07.220 --> 04:14:11.860 up this year in a big big way in my opinion not only just overall performance but because he 04:14:11.860 --> 04:14:15.940 is going for so many openers and converting on them that is one of the biggest things I think 04:14:15.940 --> 04:14:20.580 he's been one of the better entry rifleers this year yeah I think when it comes down to the maps 04:14:20.580 --> 04:14:24.020 right this is where Astralis despite them being the favorites that's this is what makes him even 04:14:24.020 --> 04:14:27.300 bigger favorites I was wondering if eyeball is going to ban an overpass or ancient they're going 04:14:27.300 --> 04:14:31.620 to ban an overpass a newb is going to be banned about Astralis it should be Astralis going for 04:14:31.620 --> 04:14:32.760 for the ancient pick here. 04:14:32.760 --> 04:14:34.140 I wouldn't be surprised with that. 04:14:34.140 --> 04:14:37.100 And for GW, the only safe bet you have here is Mirage. 04:14:37.100 --> 04:14:38.820 That's a map you're usually comfortable on. 04:14:38.820 --> 04:14:39.980 It's going to stick with this. 04:14:39.980 --> 04:14:41.980 Even the whole Astralis looks solid on it 04:14:41.980 --> 04:14:43.780 and comes down to the final two maps. 04:14:43.780 --> 04:14:45.380 Look, Dustin Banzar, Banner of Astralis. 04:14:45.380 --> 04:14:46.780 And whether it's Inferno or Nuke, 04:14:46.780 --> 04:14:48.100 it's heavily going to favor Astralis. 04:14:48.100 --> 04:14:49.780 Their map pool is so much deeper 04:14:49.780 --> 04:14:51.940 than almost any other team we have at this event right now. 04:14:51.940 --> 04:14:55.380 So, man, Ibalas have a tall ask ahead of them. 04:14:55.380 --> 04:14:56.540 It was always going to be difficult no matter 04:14:56.540 --> 04:14:57.700 what the map pool was going to be, 04:14:57.700 --> 04:14:59.620 especially because Ibalaj is not one of those squads 04:14:59.620 --> 04:15:05.140 like has a perma ban or a perma pick they really try to rotate around the pool and I think uh you 04:15:05.140 --> 04:15:08.500 know banning nuke is a little bit surprising to me from eyeballs I thought they'd want that the 04:15:08.500 --> 04:15:14.020 third match that is interesting because that was the map they picked if you remember against 04:15:14.020 --> 04:15:18.500 bait and they got completely smacked by them yeah I really feel inferred they feel like they might 04:15:18.500 --> 04:15:21.620 stand a chance but in all honesty I don't think there was going to be any map they're going to be 04:15:21.620 --> 04:15:26.260 happy with come come the deciding map but it's going to come down to mirage rich this is their 04:15:26.260 --> 04:15:33.620 There's a whole maps map they're comfortable on but remember last time you played this was against MIBR where in Sanin and Breno completely demolished them 04:15:33.620 --> 04:15:37.240 So uh, they gotta hit the ground running. I'll tell you that. Yeah 04:15:37.240 --> 04:15:40.980 I mean look obviously there are levels to the game right and we don't want to be disrespectful 04:15:41.780 --> 04:15:48.460 To eyeball us, but when you're down there in that like tier 2 melange you're playing a lot of online CS 04:15:48.460 --> 04:15:52.580 I think the reason you've seen the jump up in JW's numbers here is because 04:15:52.580 --> 04:16:07.580 because landing is just a different beast and when you're playing against quality oppositions at land, it really is a different world and it's very easy to get inside your head, make simple elementary mistakes and we've definitely seen that from eyeballs. 04:16:07.580 --> 04:16:16.580 Real quick, this is because we're talking about Yabbi, I just want to make the connection. Yabbi was a B rotator in the past which is a star position on the map where you get to be very active and mobile and be a playmaker. 04:16:16.580 --> 04:16:23.180 He got relegated to being an a anchor when they had the whole situation with stound and other players kind of coming in out 04:16:23.180 --> 04:16:27.220 They have returned him to this role. Thanks to relief. Exactly. That's what I'm saying 04:16:27.220 --> 04:16:30.880 Thanks to reuse ability to anchor they've been able to put you have a bigger playmaking position 04:16:30.880 --> 04:16:34.620 So keep an eye on that and I also put aside a long when the first out of straw this one 04:16:34.620 --> 04:16:41.360 It did Mongols was a 13 for drubbing for one of the best teams on this map. So yeah, it's gonna be over behind players jump scare 04:16:41.360 --> 04:16:45.460 Oh, no, oh, I will commentators are here. Who'd be going in this one? 04:16:45.460 --> 04:16:47.460 and why is it Stralis? 04:16:47.460 --> 04:16:51.460 Well, where do we begin with that kind of a question? 04:16:51.460 --> 04:16:53.460 I can see the JW romance coming from Moses right now. 04:16:53.460 --> 04:16:54.460 It's coming. I can feel it. 04:16:54.460 --> 04:16:56.460 Yeah, I'll give it to you, man. 04:16:56.460 --> 04:16:59.460 I am on some level just happy of JW here. 04:16:59.460 --> 04:17:01.460 On some level, I don't care what the performance looks like. 04:17:01.460 --> 04:17:03.460 I'm just like, JW, back in the playoffs, I think, 04:17:03.460 --> 04:17:05.460 his post-game interview with you guys on the desk 04:17:05.460 --> 04:17:07.460 just the other day, or a couple of you guys, 04:17:07.460 --> 04:17:09.460 I just love, I love hearing him talking. 04:17:09.460 --> 04:17:10.460 I think it's incredible seeing 04:17:10.460 --> 04:17:12.460 he's been able to work himself back to this level. 04:17:12.460 --> 04:17:14.460 Yeah, good to hear his mentality, but yeah, 04:17:14.460 --> 04:17:22.060 coming. But Astralis is going. Yeah, there we go. Astralis on the CT side, 04:17:22.060 --> 04:17:26.300 Eyeball is starting on the T-Saw to Mirage here. And the Desk Highlander 04:17:26.300 --> 04:17:29.700 throw our levels to this game. I think we're about to find out those levels 04:17:29.700 --> 04:17:34.020 coming into this. Yeah, well, let's give him a chance to like surprise us a 04:17:34.020 --> 04:17:38.340 little bit, right? Keep your heart open to be impressed here with the 04:17:38.340 --> 04:17:40.820 Eyeballers thing. And we'll just see how this goes. We've obviously heard a lot of 04:17:40.820 --> 04:17:46.100 good words about Bob, his performance and how much eyeballers value him. So we'll see 04:17:46.100 --> 04:17:47.100 if we can create anything. 04:17:47.100 --> 04:17:50.700 How nice to have seen it. A huge amount, but let's see. Maxir, he's been well to get 04:17:50.700 --> 04:17:56.060 one, and then Starr immediately snatching away all of these kills, and I'm starting 04:17:56.060 --> 04:17:59.380 to feel less like it's in my heart, Jason, to be honest. 04:17:59.380 --> 04:18:03.060 It's already, you're already shutting your heart off to it. It's not even, Ron, one hasn't 04:18:03.060 --> 04:18:04.060 even finished. 04:18:04.060 --> 04:18:05.060 Stone cold. 04:18:05.060 --> 04:18:10.780 You need, you need Jesus, Tinko. There we go. Get into it, Maxir. Lovely one tap. Maxir, 04:18:10.780 --> 04:18:13.220 Max, there's another name you could point out in this team that has some interesting things. 04:18:13.220 --> 04:18:15.620 We've seen him play before, we've seen some good stuff out of him. 04:18:15.620 --> 04:18:21.060 Hasn't had a wealth of opportunities at the top levels of play, but he's another guy in this lineup 04:18:21.060 --> 04:18:25.540 that I'm kind of like, given the side-eye and keeping track of his progress and performances. 04:18:25.540 --> 04:18:29.980 Her mac is saying ahead of this that Richard and that first-game interview with Palaeus, 04:18:29.980 --> 04:18:33.540 and Strauss are quite favorites for the event they're playing, the Queen of Scourge Strike, 04:18:33.540 --> 04:18:34.540 but they're a trapeze. 04:18:35.540 --> 04:18:37.980 I don't have to agree, you know, they are looking very good. 04:18:37.980 --> 04:18:44.380 And Yabi, talking point in the desk there as well about his performances and how he seems to be unlocked, 04:18:44.380 --> 04:18:48.380 he's given it a lot more space in the team, a lot more responsibility and playing way better 04:18:48.380 --> 04:18:49.980 Cowerish right now because of that. 04:18:49.980 --> 04:18:54.620 I mean if we want to go back in during this round and kind of like truly answer Richard's question of 04:18:54.620 --> 04:18:59.420 you know why like give us the reasons why Strelis is going to win, I mean yeah, Yabi is one guy you 04:18:59.420 --> 04:19:03.420 point out and say his resurgence within the team, I think you also point at Stair and say he's 04:19:03.420 --> 04:19:07.340 continued strong performance for this team that has just been consistent over the course of 04:19:07.980 --> 04:19:11.860 years, you know, like he's another player that's performing well. 04:19:11.860 --> 04:19:16.220 Fuzzi, a promising young offer who has the capacity for incredible games as we saw 04:19:16.220 --> 04:19:18.820 versus Spirit at the ESL Pro League playoffs. 04:19:18.820 --> 04:19:24.220 And then you go to Hooksie as an IGL and just a strong tactician and someone who, 04:19:24.220 --> 04:19:26.540 when we see Astralis lately come into games, 04:19:26.540 --> 04:19:29.820 Hooksie has them seemingly well prepared and everyone on the same page in terms of 04:19:29.820 --> 04:19:31.460 how they want to approach the game. 04:19:31.460 --> 04:19:35.740 So yeah, there's so many positives that go towards the direction of Astralis. 04:19:35.740 --> 04:19:41.180 Yeah, at the start of the year, at the start of the season, we've heard a lot of coaches 04:19:41.180 --> 04:19:45.740 and players saying they've been impressed with the level of structure Charles has been 04:19:45.740 --> 04:19:46.740 able to get together quickly. 04:19:46.740 --> 04:19:49.060 Let's see how long that goes towards. 04:19:49.060 --> 04:19:53.060 Hooks is the in-game leader, but also the coaching staff. 04:19:53.060 --> 04:19:55.740 Henry was singing the praises of Mighty Max. 04:19:55.740 --> 04:19:59.340 There's an ounce to be won by the assistant coaches over there. 04:19:59.340 --> 04:20:01.340 Skip the head coach, one straight to the assistant coach. 04:20:01.340 --> 04:20:05.620 I mean, here's someone that has just been recently added into the team. 04:20:05.620 --> 04:20:09.460 we know rugby for a while. Yeah, I remember listening to Henry. I'm making a little bit of a joke. 04:20:09.460 --> 04:20:16.200 He's touching on his experience of no one mighty max from the UK scene, obviously. I mean, I think it was all in the context of 04:20:16.200 --> 04:20:21.980 endpoint, all the different players that had come through that organization. Yeah. But also the fact that ruga is still, you 04:20:21.980 --> 04:20:26.620 know, he's been a part of this team and it wasn't going very well. So you know, obviously the recent changes to roster 04:20:26.620 --> 04:20:31.600 has all come together. Rug as a whole career has been on teams where things haven't been going well. Some years at OG, like 04:20:31.600 --> 04:20:35.600 trying to build lineups that we're going to be able to compete and was never able to get the players. So this is 04:20:35.600 --> 04:20:54.600 This has got to be a great feeling for him finally having a squad that is improving to the degree of being able to compete internationally and then now he's got a chance to prove his value as a coach and if he can help Astralis get over the line to start winning trophies again because this organization as Richard had said six years since we could speak super positively about the Astralis organization. 04:20:54.600 --> 04:20:56.600 Man, it's crazy. I think it's been that long. 04:21:00.600 --> 04:21:03.600 I could start here for eyeballers. 04:21:03.600 --> 04:21:05.840 Jake Delbs with that opening kill turn in the corner 04:21:07.240 --> 04:21:09.680 He's been playing ill throughout this events 04:21:09.820 --> 04:21:14.600 Let the go say hi to him for the first time in the years after their playoff qualification wouldn't even shake my hand 04:21:14.600 --> 04:21:16.600 He's just been sick wouldn't touch Anders 04:21:17.080 --> 04:21:20.500 Boxy's got a lot of attention headed this way doesn't realize the timing of sick tour 04:21:23.520 --> 04:21:26.420 Yeah, maybe he was lying the whole time maybe he was just like 04:21:27.880 --> 04:21:29.880 You just see you ever 04:21:30.520 --> 04:21:32.520 Miss you who you again? 04:21:32.520 --> 04:21:37.280 45 seconds left and hard loaders going to be going into this B bomb so we got 04:21:37.280 --> 04:21:41.120 scare on shore it's gonna be all fell into stairs right fault but Maxter and 04:21:41.120 --> 04:21:44.760 JW coming in to collapse upon this B bomb site yeah there was a chance there 04:21:44.760 --> 04:21:48.640 to hold on to it even a couple of those kills Fuzzi's brought one back no more 04:21:48.640 --> 04:21:53.040 mistakes that made gonna go a little bit deep to take down Maxter great damage 04:21:53.040 --> 04:21:57.080 onto decks but two versus three and they're entrenched in this B bomb site 04:21:57.080 --> 04:22:01.080 I think more than likely Astralis just set up and play for the exit kills. 04:22:09.080 --> 04:22:16.080 And even though it's not going the way of Astralis, so Iblos can be really happy about this first time taking the guns out for a spin. 04:22:16.080 --> 04:22:19.080 Working out very well over towards that B bomb site. 04:22:19.080 --> 04:22:24.080 Yeah, good shooting and good opening provided by JW scaling up short and just taking a hard flight on the swing. 04:22:24.080 --> 04:22:27.440 It's got that jersey buttoned up all the way to the top. 04:22:27.440 --> 04:22:29.120 It's business time. 04:22:29.120 --> 04:22:31.880 2-1 here in this quarter final series. 04:22:35.880 --> 04:22:38.360 Winner as we just saw would go on to play 3D Max 04:22:38.360 --> 04:22:41.400 in the next semi-final and really looking at the brackets 04:22:41.400 --> 04:22:43.440 as the desk has talked about a couple of times as well. 04:22:43.440 --> 04:22:45.440 Astralis has the red carpet to the grand final. 04:22:45.440 --> 04:22:47.720 It feels laid out, especially with some of the struggles 04:22:47.720 --> 04:22:48.800 we saw at a 3D Max earlier. 04:22:48.800 --> 04:22:51.280 You gotta feel like they're gonna be favorites from this side. 04:22:51.280 --> 04:22:53.800 Another opening provided by J-Dubbs. 04:22:53.800 --> 04:22:55.360 It's a little rough that it was there. 04:22:55.360 --> 04:22:56.860 It looked like it should have been able to take that kill. 04:22:56.860 --> 04:23:01.160 JW was given a lot of time to compose himself to win that fight. 04:23:02.100 --> 04:23:03.600 Oh, look at this move. 04:23:03.600 --> 04:23:04.360 Yeah, look at it. 04:23:04.360 --> 04:23:05.700 It's already out to a sandwich. 04:23:05.700 --> 04:23:08.440 That's such a surprise here for your flawless defense. 04:23:08.440 --> 04:23:11.040 That's another angle, another layer to this story is, you know, 04:23:11.040 --> 04:23:13.600 this is a team that a lot of the top squads aren't going to be familiar with. 04:23:13.600 --> 04:23:18.060 There's a certain level of familiarity you gain in the pro scene from practicing 04:23:18.060 --> 04:23:19.740 and playing so many officials against squads. 04:23:19.740 --> 04:23:23.500 You get a sense of the different players and their timings and their decision making, 04:23:23.500 --> 04:23:26.400 how they approach different scenarios, how they play in clutches, 04:23:26.400 --> 04:23:30.000 that's all information you don't have if you're Astralis against Eyeballers. 04:23:30.000 --> 04:23:34.400 So all of this is, this is gonna, this can feel like a very weird game to the Astralis guys. 04:23:35.900 --> 04:23:41.700 And that, that sort of angle of things opens it up to a little bit more of a conversation about the upset. 04:23:41.700 --> 04:23:47.800 Also the angle about the fact that Astralis is playing with the pressure of being a team that should be winning this event at this point, 04:23:47.800 --> 04:23:49.200 or at least making the final. 04:23:49.200 --> 04:23:52.800 Yeah, but you know what, if you can't handle that pressure in a quarter final against Eyeballers? 04:23:52.800 --> 04:24:01.120 Yeah, I don't know what to tell you, but what I'm saying from the other perspective is that eyeballers don't have any expectations or pressure whatsoever. 04:24:01.120 --> 04:24:03.880 Well, they'd already probably exceeded expectations to a certain degree, right? 04:24:04.920 --> 04:24:08.280 Everything from here is the cherry on top of that Sunday. 04:24:11.480 --> 04:24:15.680 We're tied at two and quickly the money for Astralis gets depleted out of that pistol round victory. 04:24:16.120 --> 04:24:19.360 Too straight for eyeballers and Astralis sits back on USPs. 04:24:22.800 --> 04:24:32.480 Yeah, it should be no problem here for I've both double smoked. 04:24:32.480 --> 04:24:33.480 That's very smoke. 04:24:33.480 --> 04:24:36.000 The window is very, very smoked. 04:24:36.000 --> 04:24:42.480 Well, now's the round to make the mistake. 04:24:42.480 --> 04:24:43.480 Smoke in towards Con. 04:24:43.480 --> 04:24:46.240 Bob's just gonna scale up short. 04:24:46.240 --> 04:24:50.760 Uh, lazy clear of lateral room, but they wanted to hustle past it and get into this execute, 04:24:50.760 --> 04:24:51.760 holds the trigger down. 04:24:51.760 --> 04:24:58.080 kill rounds done I stubble from Bob so three to two I ballers gain an early 04:24:58.080 --> 04:25:00.720 lead is here is your heart open back up yet dingo 04:25:00.720 --> 04:25:04.400 that's why it closed down halfway through the pistol but yeah I mean 04:25:04.400 --> 04:25:08.360 Bob and W have brought it right now yeah it's beating again 04:25:08.360 --> 04:25:11.760 they know what he was doing what he can yep that's stylish 04:25:11.760 --> 04:25:18.280 okay most three kills easy peasy I think it's it's good to see them getting on 04:25:18.280 --> 04:25:19.320 the border early because 04:25:19.320 --> 04:25:32.320 I think if you're an underdog like this, and you go down early and you let Astralis get going when all the gun rounds in the first five rounds, you've got this huge lead already building for Astralis, all the wind in their sails, I think it's so much more difficult to get back into the game. 04:25:32.320 --> 04:25:36.320 So at least there's some success here for eyeballs in the first few gun rounds. 04:25:36.320 --> 04:25:44.320 Well, I think they did a good job of, you know, we talk about it all the time and these kind of underdog matchups, especially the extreme underdogs, is you got to make Astralis respect you first. 04:25:44.320 --> 04:25:48.780 first and I think in these first five rounds they've done just that and you got to get the sense that you've accomplished it 04:25:49.100 --> 04:25:55.040 Forcing this early time out of Astralis. It's not any kind of like panic timeout, but certainly certainly something that a 04:25:55.720 --> 04:26:00.860 Hooksy and in rug are gonna try and put a stamp on now to get things going before this hole gets any deeper 04:26:00.860 --> 04:26:14.900 one kit on Ryu no AWP out for the CT side same for the T side though sticking with all AKs 04:26:14.900 --> 04:26:23.740 stairs stepping out through the flames having to get back he's got 31 health now it's a 04:26:23.740 --> 04:26:28.660 defending player of the connector yeah it's kind of an issue especially because he's gonna look 04:26:28.660 --> 04:26:32.020 like the next support of element over to the B bomb site when this hit eventually comes in. 04:26:32.020 --> 04:26:36.900 It's already weakened to an MP9 as well as the main defender of the B site. 04:26:36.900 --> 04:26:38.100 Oh, here they come. 04:26:38.100 --> 04:26:40.980 Running into the B bomb site, it's Yabbi who's up short. 04:26:40.980 --> 04:26:43.460 There goes Maxster. 04:26:43.460 --> 04:26:45.860 He's done well to get one, but then burns away. 04:26:45.860 --> 04:26:48.980 Stairt does die, but Yabbi's still around here with the M4. 04:26:48.980 --> 04:26:50.180 Yeah, but they know he's here. 04:26:50.180 --> 04:26:51.300 They know he's in the location. 04:26:51.300 --> 04:26:52.740 Yeah, there was no play for him to make. 04:26:52.740 --> 04:26:56.340 Fosey gets one through the smoke, but that's not going to change anything whatsoever. 04:26:58.660 --> 04:27:03.940 So Highballer is breaking through to another one on this B-Bomb site. 04:27:03.940 --> 04:27:07.620 Yeah, and I mean if you don't get a kill in the next like five seconds like you kind of got to save. 04:27:07.620 --> 04:27:12.700 Gonna try and sneak through this smoke. Bob not really paying to tell guys. Just try to spam at the angle. 04:27:12.700 --> 04:27:14.300 Do they really want to commit to this? 04:27:14.300 --> 04:27:19.620 I mean, time is really ticking and there's still so many positions to clear out. 04:27:19.620 --> 04:27:24.500 I think you should try and get away right now. Even with that kills up, out they go. Save those weapons and... 04:27:24.500 --> 04:27:27.220 Highballers are up to four. 04:27:27.220 --> 04:27:31.220 Yeah, really well done. Just a quick hit towards the B bomb site when they sense they had it. 04:27:31.220 --> 04:27:37.220 J.W. is going to try and take some M4s away at the end, but they entrench themselves on the stairs and don't go anywhere else. 04:27:37.220 --> 04:27:40.220 They can hear the footsteps of J.W. into the bomb site, nobody peeking. 04:27:42.220 --> 04:27:46.220 And J.W. goes down. Doesn't clear hard right. AK-47 given over to Fozip. 04:27:46.220 --> 04:27:49.220 So 4-2. A lead for eyeballers. 04:27:49.220 --> 04:27:52.220 Starting to be able to work the map. A couple good plays in middle. 04:27:52.220 --> 04:27:57.980 opening kills provided, scaling up short, and then you switch into just an overwhelming hit at the B bomb site through the halls. 04:28:01.460 --> 04:28:06.380 Only success that Stralis has had has been the pistol round and the ensuing. Outside of that, it's been all eyeballers. 04:28:10.020 --> 04:28:15.420 They take a timeout out of the victory heading into this next gun round, so they're going to make Stralis consider their options. 04:28:15.420 --> 04:28:16.900 Actually, see me, not next gun round, just... 04:28:19.380 --> 04:28:21.540 Couple forceps around the two saved rifles. 04:28:22.220 --> 04:28:44.820 I feel like J.W. would have had some very important words to give to his team before 04:28:44.820 --> 04:28:49.460 this went live with the position that he's in as a leadership figure. 04:28:49.460 --> 04:28:54.860 It would be cool to ask him what exactly he said to the team to get them motivated for this matchup to get them playing well. 04:28:55.860 --> 04:28:57.360 Overwhelming Palace this time. 04:28:58.460 --> 04:29:00.460 Forrest Troll has two plays charging forward. 04:29:01.260 --> 04:29:03.860 I ball is realized they've lost significant control of that. 04:29:05.260 --> 04:29:08.860 They're just going to pause. That is going to slow this round down a lot, probably. 04:29:08.860 --> 04:29:10.460 They have so much to worry about now. 04:29:12.160 --> 04:29:13.360 Just got to be conscious of it. 04:29:13.660 --> 04:29:15.660 And obviously coming back in, plenty of time to deal with it. 04:29:15.660 --> 04:29:16.960 You want to force the defense back. 04:29:16.960 --> 04:29:20.920 So yeah, gonna deploy a smoke and you aren't gonna want to pressure that whatsoever, but 04:29:20.920 --> 04:29:24.600 it's information gained and the option might be available to you later on in the round. 04:29:24.600 --> 04:29:28.200 They still have time to traverse to the other side of the map. 04:29:28.200 --> 04:29:30.880 Astralis they're doing a good job of not peeking, not getting anything over for free. 04:29:30.880 --> 04:29:34.500 So if eyeballers don't start making their move, actually I'll say this, this is a lot 04:29:34.500 --> 04:29:38.840 of resources kind of stalled out doing mostly nothing on the map while all this is going 04:29:38.840 --> 04:29:40.680 on towards Palace. 04:29:40.680 --> 04:29:45.360 So Astralis is doing a good job of chewing so much time off the clock. 04:29:45.360 --> 04:29:51.360 Well, Stair does get taken out eventually as Rolf steps into Palace to deal with that threat. 04:29:51.360 --> 04:29:55.360 45 seconds left and it is going to be an eyeball as finished towards this A site. 04:29:55.360 --> 04:29:57.360 Some split potential later on in the round. 04:29:57.360 --> 04:30:01.360 J.W. is the AWPer is just cutting rotations off towards top mid. 04:30:01.360 --> 04:30:02.360 Yeah, he's not going to be aggressive. 04:30:02.360 --> 04:30:03.360 You won't see him splitting towards Con whatsoever. 04:30:03.360 --> 04:30:05.360 He wants to stay far, far back. 04:30:05.360 --> 04:30:07.360 Good kill from Bob, providing the openings necessary. 04:30:07.360 --> 04:30:09.360 28 seconds, so plenty of time. 04:30:09.360 --> 04:30:14.360 One goes down, trades as they turn the corner and there's J.W. with an easy pounce and an easy kill. 04:30:14.360 --> 04:30:18.040 kill. Eyeballers continue their winning ways up by three. 04:30:18.840 --> 04:30:20.360 I mean you got a little bit of a loving missed start. 04:30:21.080 --> 04:30:25.160 Here comes the next level up. We've got Astralis getting the off out for Fusey, 04:30:25.160 --> 04:30:29.400 everybody else is going to have the rightful day of desire and plenty of utility now arriving for 04:30:29.400 --> 04:30:35.560 Astralis. So this is the big obstacle to see if Eyeballers can get around it over it or through 04:30:35.560 --> 04:30:40.600 it. And if they can, if they can put another round even against this full buy when everything's 04:30:40.600 --> 04:30:45.320 fully flashed out. Who knows how far they could go in terms of this initial start. 04:30:45.320 --> 04:30:47.800 Yeah, you could just get buried if you can't close this one. 04:30:47.800 --> 04:30:51.400 Astralis put a lot of focus on mid early exchange of utility. 04:30:51.400 --> 04:30:56.040 Bob's trying to find a chance at it, but Bozy from the underpass grabs the quick kill. 04:30:56.040 --> 04:30:59.800 Opening provided, Astralis up into 5 on 4. Now he's got to find an escape route. 04:30:59.800 --> 04:31:13.800 Max just bought a hook, so you're trying to put pressure on the Strollers in-game leader. 04:31:13.800 --> 04:31:18.680 Keep Hooksy down on the bomb side, he's not giving up any chances here, no peeks towards 04:31:18.680 --> 04:31:22.880 Max just as soon as he does, Max just has a few shots, so he realizes he's got a threat 04:31:22.880 --> 04:31:25.600 up in the apartment to worry about. 04:31:25.600 --> 04:31:29.600 J.W. will start making his way out through the underpass. 04:31:29.600 --> 04:31:32.600 Oh, stairs coming window. 04:31:32.600 --> 04:31:35.600 Timing I don't think would be with J.W. but he wants to peek into the A bomb site. 04:31:35.600 --> 04:31:37.600 He's alone in the middle. 04:31:37.600 --> 04:31:43.600 So again, can't imagine any aggression coming from this position. 04:31:43.600 --> 04:31:47.600 Much like Lastron, a supportive element is meant to just be a nuisance in the middle of the map. 04:31:47.600 --> 04:31:51.600 But this is a long time from to hang out having to think about a catwalk push, a window peek. 04:31:51.600 --> 04:31:56.440 peek just now resmokes window which kind of shows to Astralis a mid control is 04:31:56.440 --> 04:32:03.440 coming in. Fuzzi goes into the peek bottom connector Jw knocked away Dex is 04:32:03.440 --> 04:32:07.480 going to reply but you still got Rio being burnt out of position Dex with a 04:32:07.480 --> 04:32:11.320 follow-up kill has drawn this back to even numbers. Astralis trying to rotate 04:32:11.320 --> 04:32:15.160 over there got two players coming through CT one of them stare and he's looking 04:32:15.160 --> 04:32:18.520 for that cross into the bomb site now the plant is not committed to just yet 04:32:18.520 --> 04:32:23.000 for eyeballers. Rolf is going to put that through now and he's planted it for the Stanton 04:32:23.000 --> 04:32:27.680 Jungle post plant position. So it's strong if they can get into the spots and they are 04:32:27.680 --> 04:32:31.600 in those spots currently but they're being forced out of them. Yabbi spans through the 04:32:31.600 --> 04:32:36.360 connector and now we've got Maxter getting taken down upon the push as well. So Astralis 04:32:36.360 --> 04:32:41.360 will retake and find an important round victory here and put an end to the streak of eyeballers. 04:32:41.360 --> 04:32:45.080 Yeah, nice retake coming from CT spawn just as the bomb gets planted and you realize the 04:32:45.080 --> 04:32:48.320 The planter is going to be in a moment of transition where he's trying to find cover. 04:32:48.320 --> 04:32:51.000 Once he gets into that safety, the retake gets so much more difficult. 04:32:51.000 --> 04:32:53.000 So really good timing for Astralis to hit. 04:32:53.000 --> 04:32:55.600 Helped out obviously in the opening kill to follow up from Fozzi. 04:32:55.600 --> 04:32:58.040 The off-do and work in this round for Astralis. 04:32:58.040 --> 04:33:00.040 The perfect amount of impacts. 04:33:00.920 --> 04:33:04.360 Good protocols and good scaling and a good job from iBallers getting into the bomb site. 04:33:04.360 --> 04:33:05.760 But a better retake. 04:33:05.760 --> 04:33:08.480 Yavi, just a beast, double kill on it. 04:33:08.480 --> 04:33:10.680 Five to three for iBallers and they buy back up. 04:33:10.680 --> 04:33:14.440 There's still money in the bank for another investment in round ten as well if iBallers need it. 04:33:15.080 --> 04:33:23.080 Different story for Astralis, it'll depend on how much they can save in a losing effort if they're able to continue buying and continue fighting. 04:33:23.080 --> 04:33:40.360 to be a really strong blow to deal to Astralis if I ballers can pull it off a round win to 04:33:40.360 --> 04:33:44.520 take plenty of guns away give yourself an advantage and then you might even be able 04:33:44.520 --> 04:33:48.120 to just run away with the second half or I mean the rest of the half. 04:33:48.120 --> 04:33:56.360 This is I-Ballers map pick of Mirage showing good things on it so far. 04:33:56.360 --> 04:33:59.480 Three players in middle, Maxter just coming back from the B-Halls now. 04:33:59.480 --> 04:34:02.760 Bombers and T spawn so no decision quite yet for I-Ballers. 04:34:02.760 --> 04:34:08.160 Minute left on the clock. 04:34:08.160 --> 04:34:10.880 Now look like this split coming through Khan. 04:34:10.880 --> 04:34:12.880 Foze's AWP is here and in position. 04:34:20.320 --> 04:34:22.480 We got Dex making his way up towards Yabbi. 04:34:22.480 --> 04:34:27.840 Stare also, silencing what would be an eyeballer's attempt towards this haste-side split, 04:34:27.840 --> 04:34:32.480 but the players haven't even come out of ramp yet and the connector contingent is already dead, 04:34:32.480 --> 04:34:35.280 so much more like what we were expecting here. 04:34:35.280 --> 04:34:37.840 Astralis putting a stop to eyeballers moving forward. 04:34:37.840 --> 04:34:40.840 Yeah, it really feels like Astralis has settled this down to quite a degree. 04:34:40.840 --> 04:34:42.720 They look very comfortable in this round. 04:34:42.720 --> 04:34:49.560 So I ballers will have to go on a little bit of a run to disjoint that again if they 04:34:49.560 --> 04:34:50.560 can. 04:34:50.560 --> 04:34:54.720 Five rounds already is a good place to be, just scrape together one more. 04:34:54.720 --> 04:34:58.280 Another buy coming in moving forward, Max are going to save the AK-47, moving over into 04:34:58.280 --> 04:35:00.440 Palace for the safety. 04:35:00.440 --> 04:35:05.160 But Astralis coming right back, the early effort from my ballers is fantastic and now 04:35:05.160 --> 04:35:10.200 we're seeing the response from the favourites adapting, adjusting and clawing back into things, 04:35:10.200 --> 04:35:21.400 one round back now. Yeah, I don't think we got to be too stressed about the start. You 04:35:21.400 --> 04:35:27.200 know, you can get a hot lead on mirage and get those T side rounds going. But for Astralis, 04:35:27.200 --> 04:35:30.320 the fact that when the money came back and they got the yelp out for the first time that 04:35:30.320 --> 04:35:34.200 they went two rounds in a row, they're starting to chip away at the money. If they win this 04:35:34.200 --> 04:35:37.800 one, they're going to get that break they've been looking for. Four side ballers down to 04:35:37.800 --> 04:35:42.840 some weaker weapons again and Astralis will have a tied game so see if that is 04:35:42.840 --> 04:35:47.920 the case I've always had one last chance to really try and extend from these five 04:35:47.920 --> 04:35:51.120 rounds they picked up in a row yeah there really shouldn't be any calls for 04:35:51.120 --> 04:35:54.200 panic for Astralis so over the past month they've done on a pretty good run 04:35:54.200 --> 04:35:56.480 and I've got some pretty good wins under the belt that should let them know 04:35:56.480 --> 04:36:01.360 they're on the right path wins over the Mongols wins over Bates undefeated here 04:36:01.360 --> 04:36:05.640 in the PGL Bucharest group stage wins over foot over spirit back at ESL Pro League 04:36:05.640 --> 04:36:11.080 over Fury IDSL Pro League. They've got a lot of very strong winds, so no cause for panic. 04:36:21.640 --> 04:36:26.920 Oh, good kill from Dex at least. Had a couple of those in the last round didn't lead to anything though. 04:36:29.080 --> 04:36:31.240 Hoping that this time it's a different story. 04:36:31.240 --> 04:36:37.480 No minute on the clock stare looking to block out connector really important role here on the CT side. He can get nothing 04:36:37.760 --> 04:36:41.240 Yeah, be all transitions to the jungle player does damage to him 04:36:41.240 --> 04:36:44.740 But doesn't bring him down so eyeballers do remain competitive 04:36:44.740 --> 04:36:48.120 In fact, they keep four players up and the game to the A side 04:36:48.120 --> 04:36:53.480 So it's gonna be six to four and eyeballs loving the fact is that they win this one so cleanly too, right? 04:36:53.480 --> 04:36:57.300 They don't lose too many players just the single so they can build money up again 04:36:57.300 --> 04:37:02.560 Yeah, really cool scene as well around like this too where it's like it's not just it's not just eyeballers winning off some of that momentum 04:37:02.560 --> 04:37:05.820 It's you know, it's Rallis just rattled off to in a row start of looking comfortable 04:37:05.820 --> 04:37:09.760 And you're still able to snatch around away from them very cool stuff from eyeballers so far here in mirage 04:37:10.100 --> 04:37:14.980 Little bit of a hunt to try and find the all-puff fozy, but not ultra dedicated to it at the moment 04:37:18.140 --> 04:37:24.180 And they're content to let them have the AWP for the next round six to four two rounds remaining in this opening half 04:37:27.300 --> 04:37:42.300 I baller is making a bit of a statement that they're not just going to be any kind of a rollover squad. 04:37:42.300 --> 04:37:48.300 A double offset up now picked up for Astralis. It's actually, yep, it's passed over to Hooksy as the secondary offer. 04:37:48.300 --> 04:37:51.860 So Hooksy gonna position himself at the B bomb site which is gonna allow them to put that 04:37:52.100 --> 04:37:56.980 Fourth player on a rifle to be a little bit more mobile around the map and not be super concerned about the B halls 04:38:06.100 --> 04:38:08.100 Now moving down the ramp as a unit 04:38:08.100 --> 04:38:17.060 You've got Yabi over in ladder room, Stare there in support, taking some attention, Yabi's 04:38:17.060 --> 04:38:20.380 got the first kill, dodges the flash, but Nade in hand, nothing he can do is bob swings 04:38:20.380 --> 04:38:25.060 in, middle of the map controlled by eyeballers, in a position they can exploit as they move 04:38:25.060 --> 04:38:28.380 quickly and swiftly and decisively towards the P-bomb site. 04:38:28.380 --> 04:38:31.580 But it's Hooksie who's going to step up with the AWP and he's just not going to be able 04:38:31.580 --> 04:38:36.060 to make that happen, so he had two shots at that, couldn't take anybody down, now Stare 04:38:36.060 --> 04:38:40.540 arrived hoping his rotation is going to be effective enough but he's just spraying bullets 04:38:40.540 --> 04:38:45.060 and not really connecting any of them so you got eyeballers two players on very low HP 04:38:45.060 --> 04:38:48.820 grenade's going to go in, ball's going to dodge that but he can't dodge the plant, 04:38:48.820 --> 04:38:53.060 he's forcing the open, Fuzzi gets the frag but Fuzzi's now going to clutch. 04:38:53.060 --> 04:38:59.060 A 1v3 total would be 4 and he's uh, switched out to the right fall but there's no bullets 04:38:59.060 --> 04:39:02.060 in that and he just ends up getting flanked out by J.W. 04:39:02.060 --> 04:39:08.520 I mean, if you're eyeball is you're absolutely loving the performance you're putting on the server right now. I love seeing J. W. 04:39:08.520 --> 04:39:14.660 You still just be like a sneaky little round of a player as you know, like he has his presence. I'm sure it clears out the player the back of the side 04:39:14.660 --> 04:39:16.860 reposition through the ladder room to wrap around. 04:39:17.620 --> 04:39:20.620 Just the game IQ for J. W. is so high. 04:39:21.620 --> 04:39:26.660 Get open and kill for Yavi, but not able to build anything off of it again. It's like the quick pace. It's when that's happening. 04:39:26.660 --> 04:39:31.220 I baller is one of these teams right now that are just really trying to exploit the gaps they create as fast as possible 04:39:31.500 --> 04:39:35.020 And not let the experience in the game plan of Astralis ever kick in 04:39:35.300 --> 04:39:40.260 Astralis isn't giving any chances to read the game and get ahead of the play because I ballers is always escalating 04:39:40.620 --> 04:39:46.700 Well this time to bring the fights to the infusion instead of taking the first two kills almost immediately as soon as the round begins 04:39:46.700 --> 04:39:52.620 Real holding on and spraying away for a second. So last round the half will go Astralis's direction 04:39:52.620 --> 04:39:56.060 And we have fifth round being collected here for the CT side. 04:39:56.060 --> 04:39:59.620 I don't think Astralis is going to be too happy about this first half whatsoever. 04:39:59.620 --> 04:40:04.180 No, but at least you got something positive right at the end, right? 04:40:04.180 --> 04:40:05.980 Like, at least you scraped this round together. 04:40:05.980 --> 04:40:09.820 Still, I don't think like panic is anything, but certainly they're going to understand 04:40:09.820 --> 04:40:12.060 they've got a huge task in the second half ahead of them. 04:40:12.060 --> 04:40:14.740 What a great opening. 04:40:14.740 --> 04:40:17.540 What a great first look in these quarterfinals of eyeballers. 04:40:17.540 --> 04:40:19.900 Seven to five lead over Astralis. 04:40:19.900 --> 04:40:25.660 We're going to switch sides and see what the defense can do, see what Hooksy can marshal 04:40:25.660 --> 04:40:31.860 his troops into for an offensive campaign here. 04:40:31.860 --> 04:40:36.820 Ten kills on Bob, ten kills on Dex, nine on JW, those three leading the way, JW with 04:40:36.820 --> 04:40:40.980 plenty of initial kills, opening kills I should say, especially at the start of the half. 04:40:40.980 --> 04:40:44.820 The first two gun rounds won by all ballers were started by JW getting opening kills 04:40:44.820 --> 04:40:50.260 and middle so him as that kind of veteran leadership presence able to get 04:40:50.260 --> 04:40:58.580 them started on the right foot really cool to see and there's the ultra layer 04:40:58.580 --> 04:41:02.220 too of I mean much like what we just had with 3d max in the previous the 04:41:02.220 --> 04:41:04.980 conversation about them like the whole goal of that team when it began was 04:41:04.980 --> 04:41:09.260 revitalizing the French scene and having a French team obviously the same story 04:41:09.260 --> 04:41:12.660 over with eyeballers the entire point of this was JW starting this team in this 04:41:12.660 --> 04:41:16.340 organization to to get Swedish counter strike back on the map because they 04:41:16.340 --> 04:41:21.100 dropped off the face of the earth. Well they really did and for a while and 04:41:21.100 --> 04:41:25.460 Fusi's coming back he's kind of having his own sort of return to form in his 04:41:25.460 --> 04:41:30.060 own career obviously but bringing the Swedish player to the crowd in Stockholm 04:41:30.060 --> 04:41:34.100 and the last couple events at Pro League and he gives them a show he won a 04:41:34.100 --> 04:41:38.820 really impressive series against Spirit where he was the star of the show. It's 04:41:38.820 --> 04:41:43.820 It's good to see the Swedes entering the server again these days. 04:41:43.820 --> 04:41:49.820 We've got J.W. waiting down in the other pass, and it's off a good opening here on staff. 04:41:49.820 --> 04:41:53.820 Trying to get a second as well, reuse, applying pressure as teammates. 04:41:53.820 --> 04:41:56.820 Go on, but J.W. had one bullet left in that USP, and he's picked it up. 04:41:56.820 --> 04:41:58.820 Now he's looking for his next target towards middle. 04:41:58.820 --> 04:42:01.820 Now Hoaxey's running him down, looking to try and force him away. 04:42:01.820 --> 04:42:03.820 J.W. is handling the pressure, though. 04:42:03.820 --> 04:42:07.820 There's the bomb at his feet, and J.W. is laying down the lock. 04:42:07.820 --> 04:42:11.500 Yeah, he is. You gotta love seeing this out of JW. Okay, this one's tough though. 04:42:11.500 --> 04:42:16.220 Yabby creeping up close timing. This angle might be unexpected, but he swings into the angle. 04:42:16.860 --> 04:42:23.580 Beautiful shot. And it's JW to control the situation, to control this pistol round. 04:42:23.580 --> 04:42:28.060 This is what you're asking for, you know, coming into a game today. We're talking about JW back in 04:42:28.060 --> 04:42:32.220 the playoffs and he's actually performing really well. It's all you can ask for. 04:42:32.220 --> 04:42:43.220 Good to see him have a big pistol round here, some nice shots, even Hooksy just tries, I've had enough of J.W. getting kills in underpass, runs at him and J.W. handles that pressure too. 04:42:46.220 --> 04:42:53.220 8-5 up, I-Ballers have won the pistol round, coming into the second half. It's going to be an eco here for Astralis, they did not get close to the bomb plant there. 04:42:54.220 --> 04:42:58.220 So I-Ballers can start to pull away here on the CT side. 04:42:58.220 --> 04:43:06.300 Yeah, they really can build up some money and just bury Astralis and it's gonna be a great chance here to build up plenty of bonus money 04:43:06.860 --> 04:43:11.940 Showing the bomb towards the B bomb site trying to get a shift with that sound cue and it ain't gonna work 04:43:12.340 --> 04:43:14.260 One more comes out of Palace 04:43:14.260 --> 04:43:19.340 Two quick kills make it four and hook see alone with the bomb so nine to five 04:43:20.660 --> 04:43:23.380 Eyeballers are gonna be just four rounds away from a map one victory 04:43:24.340 --> 04:43:26.340 Crazy to think about it 04:43:28.220 --> 04:43:37.020 It feels like the engine, we've been waiting for it to start here for us all, it's just 04:43:37.020 --> 04:43:41.420 not going, it's just not moving right now. 04:43:41.420 --> 04:43:46.620 Which is interesting, you have some of your big time players with a decent amount of kills, 04:43:46.620 --> 04:43:55.940 Fuzzy's got a Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy, Fuzzy, he's got 12 kills, stairs got 10, Rios got 04:43:55.940 --> 04:44:02.140 You've got a decent amount of kills, but I think just like the impact and the pace that I ballers brought out within the first half 04:44:02.900 --> 04:44:06.980 Was really just catching him off guard. This is this that first half wasn't one and lost by frags 04:44:06.980 --> 04:44:11.980 It was one and lost by I ballers getting in before those frags even really mattered for retaking the bomb site 04:44:15.420 --> 04:44:17.420 Oh 04:44:17.460 --> 04:44:19.460 What a damaged landing towards Yabbi 04:44:20.300 --> 04:44:24.820 You know JW waiting up in the apartments. There's gonna be plenty of players come to test his site 04:44:25.940 --> 04:44:31.680 See if JW can display his might just the one kill and stare to trade him 04:44:31.680 --> 04:44:35.180 efficiently moving into the B site and yeah you gotta save. Look how far away 04:44:35.180 --> 04:44:40.020 the rest of the eyeballs are. Three MP9 still as well. Interesting them kind of 04:44:40.020 --> 04:44:42.660 stacking up I think maybe the weaker weapons made them feel like they had the 04:44:42.660 --> 04:44:48.420 group up towards one of the bomb sites and they just selected the wrong one. Now 04:44:48.420 --> 04:44:51.580 if you can set up in a round like this and get some exit kills I think you'd 04:44:51.580 --> 04:44:55.460 need a few more players over in the B halls to join up with Bob. He'd probably 04:44:55.460 --> 04:45:01.500 have to scale a little bit further. You can get some upgrades to AK-47s. 04:45:06.860 --> 04:45:09.260 If Hooksy gets distracted here, he's going to go down to Bob. 04:45:09.260 --> 04:45:11.860 Oh, he turns! What a good read, but not fast enough. 04:45:15.660 --> 04:45:18.060 Trying to get back out. We're going to make some money. 04:45:18.860 --> 04:45:22.660 And still handling Max, and Bob also going down. So that's the release valve. 04:45:22.660 --> 04:45:27.160 You can move forward, you can save comfortably enough, and carry those three rifles on over. 04:45:27.160 --> 04:45:31.360 Actually, they handled that really well, Astralis. That could have been a disaster down the stretch with the two MP9s. 04:45:31.360 --> 04:45:40.160 They got the smoke up at a pretty decent timing as well. One kill, they could have stemmed the tide coming through that smoke and sloggered Astralis, almost there for eyeballers. 04:45:40.160 --> 04:45:48.660 But they buy back in because they got plenty of cash. So, AWP on JW, MP9 and M4s otherwise for eyeballers. 04:45:52.660 --> 04:46:13.340 I think they're going to be clearing out underpass and maybe forcing back any presence in mid 04:46:13.340 --> 04:46:16.740 or any connector presence before they return to the B-bomb, but yeah with the bomb being 04:46:16.740 --> 04:46:19.820 dropped at the base of the halls it feels like that's the end point. 04:46:19.820 --> 04:46:22.580 a challenge and put some pressure on with just a single player show and 04:46:22.580 --> 04:46:26.140 execute but not commit to it look at all the counter utility they forced out 04:46:26.140 --> 04:46:30.100 Astralis is saying we've set ourselves up perfectly for the late round if we 04:46:30.100 --> 04:46:35.740 want to go to the B bomb site all the counternades are gone. Wanting to open 04:46:35.740 --> 04:46:40.300 up on some plays available through the window and looks like I've always want 04:46:40.300 --> 04:46:43.100 the information they want to see what mid is looking like but as they move 04:46:43.100 --> 04:46:47.580 forward and they take those risks both of those kills go the way of Astralis so 04:46:47.580 --> 04:46:53.580 You've fallen into a 3v5 here if your eyeball is and this is where Astralis have just a minute to work with they've got 04:46:53.820 --> 04:46:58.960 Time and they've got the advantages in the player department. So gonna be tough for Astralis to lose this round now 04:46:58.960 --> 04:47:03.020 I think I think Bob just put it together though. I think Bob just realized nobody's in there 04:47:03.020 --> 04:47:05.820 They're coming back to the B bombsite. This kill is gonna secure that piece of information 04:47:05.820 --> 04:47:11.460 So Jw a great chance to have impact. There's no smoke for this position. Jw can pick them apart 04:47:11.460 --> 04:47:17.100 Well Jw comes back to the AWP. He doesn't strike first. He waits until he can connect Bob is in position 04:47:17.100 --> 04:47:21.980 and look at good for I ballers they pulled this way back and it's Bob doing what he does best a 04:47:22.140 --> 04:47:26.620 Multi-off short and we've got hook see dropping down into the site with 15 HP 04:47:26.620 --> 04:47:33.060 He is not gonna be able to catch up Jw with further impact on the AW and this is looking fantastic 04:47:33.340 --> 04:47:38.060 From I ballers way more competitive than we thought this was going to be man 04:47:38.060 --> 04:47:39.560 Give so much credit over to Bob 04:47:39.560 --> 04:47:44.060 It's a it's a it's a risk in the three versus four to go hunting for information off short like that 04:47:44.060 --> 04:47:46.980 but when he gets it, pieces together the information perfectly. 04:47:46.980 --> 04:47:51.100 JW is shifting through CT spawn to the A bomb site, starts pulling him back. 04:47:51.100 --> 04:47:55.420 That kill secured what the information was correct, but they're already in position. 04:47:55.420 --> 04:47:58.920 With no utility left, JW's just got a shooting gallery. 04:47:59.620 --> 04:48:02.320 Double kill from the captain on the AWP, 10-6. 04:48:02.320 --> 04:48:04.600 JW's not gonna miss those easy ones. 04:48:04.600 --> 04:48:08.100 I'll tell you what, another timeout from Astralis, and I think this one is time for Panic. 04:48:08.100 --> 04:48:11.820 Eyeballer's now three rounds away, and they're not giving you any room to work with. 04:48:11.820 --> 04:48:18.220 It would be a disastrous, disastrous situation for Strauss to lose the opening map of this quarterfinal. 04:48:20.220 --> 04:48:25.420 Eyeballers, they have got to be so happy with themselves right now. 15 kills, eight deaths for JW. 04:48:27.220 --> 04:48:30.220 McFletcher rolling back to the years, but he really is. 04:48:31.220 --> 04:48:33.220 He is certainly known to be an offer. 04:48:33.220 --> 04:48:40.340 There's Charmin in, shot after shot as they come into that B bomb site and now 10, 6. 04:48:40.340 --> 04:48:43.780 Let's see if I-Ballers can keep this up. 04:48:43.780 --> 04:48:49.620 Got an AK for Fruzy. 04:48:49.620 --> 04:48:54.100 I mean look at the advantage they have in around like this, 2-Tek-9 and a D-Gull, Galilla 04:48:54.100 --> 04:48:55.100 as well. 04:48:55.100 --> 04:48:58.420 We're up in advantage over to I-Ballers. 04:48:58.420 --> 04:49:02.340 Their biggest concern at the moment is economy. 04:49:02.340 --> 04:49:06.480 It's not at a full-blown breaking point, it's not pretty in any sense either. 04:49:06.480 --> 04:49:11.120 Another round where you want to try and have a very clean victory, that's kind of a priority 04:49:11.120 --> 04:49:12.120 at the moment. 04:49:12.120 --> 04:49:19.760 It's going to be maxed around short. 04:49:19.760 --> 04:49:24.560 He'll peek off at some point to help kind of try and fight towards Con. 04:49:24.560 --> 04:49:26.280 That smoke is going to obscure his vision. 04:49:26.280 --> 04:49:28.680 Three defenders here, four eyeballers. 04:49:28.680 --> 04:49:33.340 They're in the right places. Now it's all about landing the shots. 04:49:33.340 --> 04:49:38.060 Ah, Dex pulls an eight. Fuzzi's gonna capitalize on that chance and push it towards the jungle. 04:49:38.060 --> 04:49:41.640 Now they know they have Rolf pinned. The Tec9 are gonna finish him off. 04:49:41.640 --> 04:49:46.480 Riyu primed and ready. Takes the headshot and JW having to retreat back and towards CT. 04:49:46.480 --> 04:49:51.940 But Bob is now left to get a chance there. That was very exposed up from Hoxie, but not fully punished. 04:49:51.940 --> 04:49:57.480 He loves to cancel the plant, but Fuzzi going down and 3v3 now establishes that 04:49:57.480 --> 04:49:59.080 ballpark is coming through this time. 04:50:01.400 --> 04:50:04.760 Oh, that's a huge kill and even a bigger one from Yabi. 04:50:04.760 --> 04:50:06.800 And now the off can't get away. 04:50:06.800 --> 04:50:08.840 Yabi is going to try and put a stop to this retreat. 04:50:08.840 --> 04:50:10.880 It's got utility at least blocking out the burger 04:50:10.880 --> 04:50:15.200 hole and J. W. Go to jump on by and even then Yabi spamming 04:50:15.200 --> 04:50:17.480 down his retreat. 04:50:17.480 --> 04:50:19.800 Oh, I think I think I think I ballers actually played that 04:50:19.800 --> 04:50:21.520 pretty well once it got into the three on three. 04:50:21.520 --> 04:50:23.240 You felt like you've kind of stalled out the plan. 04:50:23.240 --> 04:50:24.480 You've sold out all their utility. 04:50:24.480 --> 04:50:26.080 You have a ton of good advantages. 04:50:26.080 --> 04:50:28.600 Great kill from Hooksie through the edge of the box. 04:50:28.600 --> 04:50:30.640 And great kill from Yabi as he stands his ground. 04:50:30.640 --> 04:50:34.080 But really, I mean, a solid initial defense, 04:50:34.080 --> 04:50:35.280 but again, another situation where 04:50:35.280 --> 04:50:37.040 a Nade is pulled out after one single kill. 04:50:37.040 --> 04:50:39.040 Like, we're trying to be two-cover with utility. 04:50:39.040 --> 04:50:41.240 It's just a micro mistake in one-one player, 04:50:41.240 --> 04:50:43.600 and yeah, that just sets up the... 04:50:43.600 --> 04:50:44.960 It's the first dominant to fall, 04:50:44.960 --> 04:50:46.480 because then the underwood player 04:50:46.480 --> 04:50:47.840 is put under too much pressure, 04:50:47.840 --> 04:50:50.960 Ryu's able to peek in and take him down with attack nine. 04:50:50.960 --> 04:50:52.960 I 04:50:53.760 --> 04:50:56.460 Well look at the situation you mentioned the money 04:50:58.000 --> 04:51:00.120 You can't buy again here eyeballs 04:51:00.120 --> 04:51:00.520 Yeah 04:51:00.520 --> 04:51:04.260 Well, I mean they might have been able to force one out if they hadn't just got you know wiped out of the map 04:51:04.260 --> 04:51:08.480 Right if two weapons save you can go for but that's certainly now again with economy being such a concern 04:51:08.480 --> 04:51:10.480 I like that they haven't invested a whole lot here 04:51:11.720 --> 04:51:15.560 Couple zoos is picked up picked up on a Maxter and Dex 04:51:16.560 --> 04:51:18.560 57 on JW 04:51:20.960 --> 04:51:33.520 I was going to hear the steps going past, Dex, you just let him go a little bit too far, 04:51:33.520 --> 04:51:36.200 but that would be too effective and then you would be able to wash him connector, so... 04:51:36.200 --> 04:51:37.200 Yeah, that was too perfect. 04:51:37.200 --> 04:51:42.400 Yeah, exactly what Astralis would have wanted in that scenario, Rolf at least getting one 04:51:42.400 --> 04:51:48.500 of the USP nice reaction there from Fuzzi the deagle, just blinding Rolf, we've got 04:51:48.500 --> 04:51:53.260 Max to just wedding back. He's gonna be pushed by Sarah look at make some money on the Mac 10 and you'll do exactly that 04:51:57.100 --> 04:52:04.220 All right, it's in the Swedes getting hyped up a little bit of internal smack talk to get the energy up a notch 04:52:05.980 --> 04:52:12.340 It's 10 to 8 I think Peter just called for a time out as well could see them lean in put the mic down conversation. He's got something 04:52:13.100 --> 04:52:15.580 He's got an idea that he's gonna relate to the team now 04:52:15.580 --> 04:52:21.080 closing end of the map often where we see the underdogs struggle the most is 04:52:21.080 --> 04:52:26.600 that understanding of how to close out games so Astralis with another thrust 04:52:26.600 --> 04:52:29.920 here to close the gap on the scoreboard it's 10 to 8 a two-round lead for 04:52:29.920 --> 04:52:35.740 eyeballers coming out of this timeout no open the field for JW no kids on board 04:52:35.740 --> 04:52:40.640 for eyeballers either and three the last four in the favor of Astralis means 04:52:40.640 --> 04:52:43.240 it I mean much like the first half it feels like this is a stretch that 04:52:43.240 --> 04:52:47.080 settles them down. Now in the first half they didn't last very long as the problem. 04:52:47.080 --> 04:52:50.240 So what comes next? 04:52:50.240 --> 04:52:59.720 Well, fist bumps in. As I bowlers saved for this one, they wanted to get a better vibe 04:52:59.720 --> 04:53:04.760 and instead of wasting one in the last round and forcing out something that was not very 04:53:04.760 --> 04:53:10.200 likely to work. So let's see if that conservative approach pays off. 04:53:10.200 --> 04:53:15.480 Strollers have got to feel like this is an opportunity to finally get into the game. 04:53:15.480 --> 04:53:19.280 It feels like they're doing just enough to stay alive in it, but it's never felt like 04:53:19.280 --> 04:53:21.280 they're fully here yet on Mirage. 04:53:21.280 --> 04:53:25.640 Yeah, they haven't really, yeah, I know what you mean. 04:53:25.640 --> 04:53:28.200 Or maybe this is the turning point. 04:53:28.200 --> 04:53:32.960 I think a round win here surely, because you'd take over in terms of, you'd break the economy 04:53:32.960 --> 04:53:35.920 yet again, you'd start going on, you probably have a four round streak. 04:53:35.920 --> 04:53:38.280 You've also got a load of money. 04:53:38.280 --> 04:53:44.200 You're looking at a 5k on Fuzi right now, real with 5k as well. 04:53:44.200 --> 04:53:45.200 And you have a Hoaxi. 04:53:45.200 --> 04:53:49.640 And you have a Hoaxi, who's always wanting to take your head. 04:53:49.640 --> 04:53:54.520 So smoke up into the apartments, gonna haul a shot back from now, a bit of a fake towards 04:53:54.520 --> 04:53:57.800 the A bomb site, we'll see if that adjusts to the fences. 04:53:57.800 --> 04:54:02.000 Well that kill is certainly going to help that, so JW all getting the trades is really 04:54:02.000 --> 04:54:04.520 important there on Fuzi. 04:54:04.520 --> 04:54:06.960 A re-smoke coming in to block the apartments for Bob. 04:54:09.120 --> 04:54:10.720 Looked like they were just about to move through too, 04:54:10.720 --> 04:54:12.880 so good timing on that smoke. 04:54:12.880 --> 04:54:15.440 I break it, oh, big fight, big fight for JW to win. 04:54:15.440 --> 04:54:16.880 That's the mid player, Hooks, he has a lurker, 04:54:16.880 --> 04:54:18.360 no longer involved in the action. 04:54:18.360 --> 04:54:19.800 Yep, 3B. 04:54:19.800 --> 04:54:21.160 Yeah, he's got the AWP out, 04:54:21.160 --> 04:54:22.920 and I think it's for us to have to figure out 04:54:22.920 --> 04:54:24.360 how do we actually win this round? 04:54:24.360 --> 04:54:25.200 Where do we go? 04:54:25.200 --> 04:54:26.600 And it is a backtracking. 04:54:26.600 --> 04:54:29.880 It's the AWP, it's JW with another one. 04:54:29.880 --> 04:54:32.520 JW with heavy impact on the server today. 04:54:32.520 --> 04:54:33.360 Off to the ace. 04:54:33.360 --> 04:54:37.860 Here he is, and he's working out connector now utility dropping 15 seconds 04:54:37.860 --> 04:54:40.860 They've got a go so he's throwing all his utility to try to slow them down 04:54:40.860 --> 04:54:42.860 Jake W off of the edge! 04:54:42.860 --> 04:54:43.860 There he is! 04:54:43.860 --> 04:54:45.860 He does it with some style! Really rolling it back! 04:54:45.860 --> 04:54:51.860 Jake W with flair in the server, returns to the playoffs for the first time in years 04:54:51.860 --> 04:54:54.360 and still styling on the tier one stage 04:54:54.360 --> 04:55:01.860 Welcome back, Jake W, putting your mark on this opening map, a strong ace in a must-win round 04:55:01.860 --> 04:55:06.420 The equalizing kill, finding Hooksy late in an unexpected fight, but then picking up the 04:55:06.420 --> 04:55:09.300 AWP and doing your best work. 04:55:09.300 --> 04:55:10.800 It's classic J.W. 04:55:10.800 --> 04:55:11.800 Yes it is. 04:55:11.800 --> 04:55:16.340 He is going to be loving this experience, we've heard him talk about how much he's 04:55:16.340 --> 04:55:19.380 missed being here, he was tweeting when he got to the event, how excited he was to just 04:55:19.380 --> 04:55:22.780 play it to one event, so now he's really making the most of it. 04:55:22.780 --> 04:55:27.620 He's dead here at the start of this round though, who's he getting some revenge? 04:55:27.620 --> 04:55:30.900 Great to hear his mentality about how he doesn't feel like he needs to show himself to the 04:55:30.900 --> 04:55:32.760 the wall up anymore, he's already done that. 04:55:32.760 --> 04:55:34.900 He wants to be the level, had the experienced player 04:55:34.900 --> 04:55:37.500 for this roster so the youth can really show up, 04:55:37.500 --> 04:55:41.520 but my goodness, J.W. is showing himself off right now. 04:55:42.660 --> 04:55:44.180 20 kills for J.W. 04:55:44.180 --> 04:55:46.180 Out of action here, four on five for eyeballers, 04:55:46.180 --> 04:55:47.860 so can the inexperienced team put it together 04:55:47.860 --> 04:55:49.420 without the experienced player? 04:55:49.420 --> 04:55:51.340 You need this kill, good job, Dex, hunting it down, 04:55:51.340 --> 04:55:52.660 showing some courage. 04:55:52.660 --> 04:55:54.500 I hear they come and stroll us into the A site. 04:55:54.500 --> 04:55:55.780 It's only Rolf at default. 04:55:55.780 --> 04:55:57.660 Yeah, you better hope that he can step up here 04:55:57.660 --> 04:56:00.860 If your eyeball is this utility in place, 04:56:00.860 --> 04:56:01.780 this shot's a roll. 04:56:01.780 --> 04:56:02.980 Hasn't been able to do anything now. 04:56:02.980 --> 04:56:04.140 Re-e clears him out. 04:56:04.140 --> 04:56:05.700 So the A site is open. 04:56:07.500 --> 04:56:09.180 KW is hard working the previous round 04:56:09.180 --> 04:56:10.300 about to be undone. 04:56:12.700 --> 04:56:14.620 You need Bob to get a couple kills from this position. 04:56:14.620 --> 04:56:15.780 Trying to swing a little bit wider. 04:56:15.780 --> 04:56:17.300 Open up the angle, he had the opportunity. 04:56:17.300 --> 04:56:18.140 They weren't paying attention. 04:56:18.140 --> 04:56:20.220 And now he knows one's over at the boxes as well. 04:56:20.220 --> 04:56:22.700 Nate towards Ryu, deals tons of damage. 04:56:22.700 --> 04:56:23.740 Here's the flank around the back. 04:56:23.740 --> 04:56:25.020 Maxim needs both. 04:56:25.020 --> 04:56:25.980 He needs both kills here. 04:56:25.980 --> 04:56:28.900 Fusy reacts, turns around, but Max just got both kills. 04:56:28.900 --> 04:56:30.260 Oh, no, it is! 04:56:30.260 --> 04:56:32.500 Max did with a beautiful triple kill. 04:56:32.500 --> 04:56:35.820 And Yabbi up in Palace, as strong as Catcatcher breaks, 04:56:35.820 --> 04:56:39.420 they are not meeting the firepower of high ballers. 04:56:39.420 --> 04:56:41.660 J.W. loves it, looking down the line. 04:56:41.660 --> 04:56:43.380 The kids are playing so well. 04:56:43.380 --> 04:56:45.820 The information pieced together from CT spawned, 04:56:45.820 --> 04:56:47.980 so Max is ready for the third fight. 04:56:47.980 --> 04:56:49.420 A disgusting reaction. 04:56:49.420 --> 04:56:51.660 He very easily could have been distracted by the AWP, 04:56:51.660 --> 04:56:52.900 just kind of sticking out, 04:56:52.900 --> 04:56:54.980 and not been ready for that first fight. 04:56:54.980 --> 04:56:56.860 What an incredible triple kill. 04:56:57.900 --> 04:56:59.500 Incredible work for Max. 04:57:00.380 --> 04:57:02.700 And this is where J.W. going down first. 04:57:03.780 --> 04:57:05.980 Max, the recovery is coming in on the flank. 04:57:05.980 --> 04:57:08.660 The second's beautiful, but the third is perfect. 04:57:09.860 --> 04:57:14.020 And Max just goes on to secure the 4K as well onto Yappy. 04:57:14.020 --> 04:57:16.620 But Stralis, every single time they think they're out of the woods, 04:57:16.620 --> 04:57:18.180 that they finally got into the game, 04:57:18.180 --> 04:57:20.380 the eyeball has shut that door in their face. 04:57:20.380 --> 04:57:23.300 It was J.W. with an ace, and now Max with a 4K. 04:57:23.300 --> 04:57:29.460 incredible firepower on display from i-ballers and they are charging towards the first map victory in this quarter final 04:57:29.940 --> 04:57:36.580 They've got the opening kill astralis trying to get on towards the ace side, but texas got another he's just following up 04:57:36.820 --> 04:57:41.460 Everybody's on the server having a great time from i-ballers and all eyes on the swings 04:57:41.540 --> 04:57:45.940 They take the opening map astralis left stunned to kick off the quarter final 04:57:47.700 --> 04:57:49.700 I think we're all stunned uh 04:57:49.700 --> 04:57:55.700 incredible scenes. JW rolling back to his. He said yesterday he was delusional. Maybe he's not. 04:57:55.700 --> 04:58:00.660 Maybe he's a genius. He's got it, baby. Sometimes, sometimes a little bit of madness is what you 04:58:00.660 --> 04:58:07.380 need in life, Rich. And I'm all for it. JW on land. I don't think that that ace was that was it. 04:58:07.380 --> 04:58:12.980 Right there. You knew this game's done. This map's done. Imagine the year of our war 2026. JW 04:58:12.980 --> 04:58:18.100 on land, distant to Astralis. I mean, good Lord. If someone would have told you that years ago, 04:58:18.100 --> 04:58:20.100 you'd be wondering what the heck had happened in life. 04:58:20.100 --> 04:58:21.540 Man, he's crushing. 04:58:21.540 --> 04:58:23.340 This is something you say in 2016. 04:58:23.340 --> 04:58:25.660 You're like, yeah, this could happen 10 years later, 04:58:25.660 --> 04:58:27.220 and he's still giving them the beams. 04:58:27.220 --> 04:58:28.940 This is insane for my ball. 04:58:28.940 --> 04:58:29.620 Oh, man. 04:58:29.620 --> 04:58:31.580 You got a little bit of everything from him, too. 04:58:31.580 --> 04:58:33.540 The classy, quick switch nose scopes. 04:58:33.540 --> 04:58:33.940 Yeah. 04:58:33.940 --> 04:58:35.020 This is a little bit of everything. 04:58:35.020 --> 04:58:37.300 Hitting the easy shots and the hard shots. 04:58:37.300 --> 04:58:40.460 Also, while we are glazing on JW quite a bit, as we should, 04:58:40.460 --> 04:58:42.180 I do want to give a shout out to Bob FD. 04:58:42.180 --> 04:58:43.380 You're going to build up this game. 04:58:43.380 --> 04:58:45.220 We were kind of hoping he would have his moment. 04:58:45.220 --> 04:58:49.540 He was a big star for them and some other competition and he did our eyes on this one 04:58:49.540 --> 04:58:54.020 Bro that that fly for Maxxer as well. This attack he fights all four kills without anything is ridiculous 04:58:54.020 --> 04:58:56.860 But look, I know JW kind of stole his show right there rich 04:58:56.860 --> 04:59:02.300 But for me it was a team effort everyone was dialed in decks in the first half on the T side finding so many 04:59:02.300 --> 04:59:06.620 Openers Bob XT we touched upon him as well and even Maxxer who was Maxxer was very quiet 04:59:06.620 --> 04:59:09.480 He only had like I believe like six or five kills to the very end of the game 04:59:09.580 --> 04:59:13.540 He had that pretty much game-winning flying coming in from ramp as well 04:59:13.540 --> 04:59:18.180 so an incredible showing. I didn't see this coming. Also, I feel bad. Analyst 04:59:18.180 --> 04:59:22.100 curse towards talking up Yabbi and how he's been back in this new star role on 04:59:22.100 --> 04:59:26.420 the CP side and it's been really good. Not today. Unfortunately, really didn't 04:59:26.420 --> 04:59:30.220 show up. I mean, no one really did have been staring Fuzi. It was a tough day at 04:59:30.220 --> 04:59:33.020 the office for the favorites on this one. Yeah, I'm gonna just say it though. I 04:59:33.020 --> 04:59:37.140 mean, I think I ball is they just look sharper, right? I mean, you know, they had 04:59:37.140 --> 04:59:42.300 very clear idea ideas about what they wanted to do on the map. They had, you 04:59:42.300 --> 04:59:46.140 The aim was just so unbelievably crisp even when they had the wrong read 04:59:46.140 --> 04:59:49.400 They brute-forced their way through shots like there was that one around on the A side 04:59:49.400 --> 04:59:52.540 And you were talking to me about in the green they kill hook see and you know who sees a B player 04:59:52.540 --> 04:59:57.220 They still walk into a stack of just a wreck like jw was crying there with the graphic on the side 05:00:00.660 --> 05:00:06.740 He's crying for all the strawle fans right now rich good. Listen jw would just be doing everything. It was everywhere, bro 05:00:06.740 --> 05:00:09.240 There it is again. I'm sorry 05:00:12.300 --> 05:00:16.320 just see it man like this is what he does and it what you have given credit 05:00:16.320 --> 05:00:22.580 for at the tender age of 31 years old is like his wife Lynn's actually been 05:00:22.580 --> 05:00:27.220 crazy bro that's he looks good like he looks sharp and I mean again like when 05:00:27.220 --> 05:00:31.100 he was beaten up on you know maybe smaller sweetest teams or you know 05:00:31.100 --> 05:00:34.460 doing it online maybe you don't really glance at a bunch and the reality is 05:00:34.460 --> 05:00:37.860 he's actually playing better at this event and it's better opposition than he 05:00:37.860 --> 05:00:40.540 was playing and some of the other stuff that I've always done in smaller 05:00:40.540 --> 05:00:44.620 events and that's just like you know a guy who aged like fine one who shows up when the pressure's called 05:00:44.620 --> 05:00:49.100 You know normally young teams that play aggressive play styles they get titted whenever they go up against the big apartment 05:00:49.100 --> 05:00:54.060 Not when you got JW at the helm. Let's look at this. This is it. This is I remember JW nosco, baby 05:00:54.460 --> 05:00:58.940 The only thing missing here was a knife. You know, just a flying knife. That's the only thing missing from the price 05:01:01.420 --> 05:01:05.420 If we don't talk about it's easy if you bring the cc back JW might be fully on my best player in the world 05:01:05.420 --> 05:01:09.860 Look, listen, I'm pleasantly surprised, I'm pleasantly shocked. 05:01:09.860 --> 05:01:11.220 This was such a great game. 05:01:11.220 --> 05:01:14.900 And even like, you know, ignoring some of the fragging out from the team, you can talk 05:01:14.900 --> 05:01:19.380 about a couple of rounds, but it had such good, like this one round in particular, this is, 05:01:19.380 --> 05:01:21.340 I believe, five versus four. 05:01:21.340 --> 05:01:22.940 You're going to get the opening kill on the Jw. 05:01:22.940 --> 05:01:23.940 I forget who it was. 05:01:23.940 --> 05:01:24.940 They get another kill. 05:01:24.940 --> 05:01:26.940 Look at what Bobax does here. 05:01:26.940 --> 05:01:27.940 Single hand lead goes for a risky. 05:01:27.940 --> 05:01:29.140 He's like, I need to go for a risky play. 05:01:29.140 --> 05:01:32.700 He calls it a guy's mid-NT is probably going to be a B hit. 05:01:32.700 --> 05:01:35.940 They find the lurk towards A, JW, calm, patient. 05:01:35.940 --> 05:01:36.940 They're walking through the trap. 05:01:36.940 --> 05:01:38.980 Bobbockx, he does such a good job here, 05:01:38.980 --> 05:01:39.820 playing around at the pillar, 05:01:39.820 --> 05:01:41.220 getting the second kill as well. 05:01:41.220 --> 05:01:43.380 And if he didn't go for the play towards mid, 05:01:43.380 --> 05:01:45.100 find the info, this round's lost, right? 05:01:45.100 --> 05:01:46.660 But the moment he knows there's no one mid, 05:01:46.660 --> 05:01:47.540 there's no one short, 05:01:47.540 --> 05:01:49.220 the most obvious hit is gonna be B, 05:01:49.220 --> 05:01:51.020 because otherwise you're gonna be having someone 05:01:51.020 --> 05:01:52.740 coming out of connector, there's gonna be an A hit, 05:01:52.740 --> 05:01:55.100 they kill the lurk, JW immediately pivots back 05:01:55.100 --> 05:01:56.340 towards the B bomb site, 05:01:56.340 --> 05:01:57.460 doesn't even take the flick shot, 05:01:57.460 --> 05:01:59.660 waits for the easy kill, beautiful stuff. 05:01:59.660 --> 05:02:01.100 Yeah, I mean, just kind of like dig deeper 05:02:01.100 --> 05:02:02.140 into what you're talking about. 05:02:02.140 --> 05:02:03.900 It's just like good team play across the board. 05:02:03.900 --> 05:02:06.020 You know, it's taken initiative when you're behind in the round. 05:02:06.020 --> 05:02:08.100 You know that you have to do something as you've indicated. 05:02:08.100 --> 05:02:09.940 But it's also a rulf, like getting the communication, 05:02:09.940 --> 05:02:12.980 understanding what he needs to do to get the information on a ramp. 05:02:12.980 --> 05:02:15.740 The fact that JW now knows he can freely rotate with the opt-to-be. 05:02:15.740 --> 05:02:18.300 The fact that Astralis had no utility left to block off his op. 05:02:18.300 --> 05:02:22.140 It's little things like that that sometimes young teams just don't have, right? 05:02:22.140 --> 05:02:24.940 The ability to communicate intense moments in the mid-round. 05:02:24.940 --> 05:02:27.020 And they were able to just play clean CS. 05:02:27.020 --> 05:02:28.580 We can look at the ace again. 05:02:28.580 --> 05:02:29.460 I want to see that, yeah. 05:02:29.460 --> 05:02:30.420 Yeah, I want to see that. 05:02:30.420 --> 05:02:32.580 I brought his highlight up, not to break it down, 05:02:32.580 --> 05:02:34.820 I just want to watch it again, that's all. 05:02:34.820 --> 05:02:37.700 He does it with the rifle, gets the ARP out, 05:02:37.700 --> 05:02:39.380 they rotate into him, and of course, 05:02:39.380 --> 05:02:43.020 the nose scope, the cherry on top. 05:02:43.020 --> 05:02:46.460 Just, I mean, again, like you saw him laughing after that 05:02:46.460 --> 05:02:49.380 because it's like, you know, it shouldn't be happening, 05:02:49.380 --> 05:02:52.660 but it is, and you know, he said that he wants to get back 05:02:52.660 --> 05:02:55.780 to play him in stadiums again, you know. 05:02:57.020 --> 05:02:58.620 It's the same, maybe you know something we don't. 05:02:58.620 --> 05:03:03.620 And it's also, again, you got to contextualize it with the fact that he was the first MVP 05:03:03.620 --> 05:03:09.200 winner, champion and MVP, right, in 2013 December, it's been 13 years and he's still 05:03:09.200 --> 05:03:12.420 popping off like this against a team right now who is probably, you know, top seven, 05:03:12.420 --> 05:03:14.020 top eight in the world. 05:03:14.020 --> 05:03:16.020 Just build high his imagination, Rich. 05:03:16.020 --> 05:03:17.020 All right, we got to do it. 05:03:17.020 --> 05:03:18.020 Like our heads are in the clouds. 05:03:18.020 --> 05:03:19.020 We've been celebrating. 05:03:19.020 --> 05:03:20.020 Let's talk about ancient. 05:03:20.020 --> 05:03:21.020 What's up with ancient now? 05:03:21.020 --> 05:03:22.820 No, we got to talk about a paddling on extra Alice, bro. 05:03:22.820 --> 05:03:23.820 Like, what are you doing? 05:03:23.820 --> 05:03:24.820 Yeah. 05:03:24.820 --> 05:03:25.820 What are you doing? 05:03:25.820 --> 05:03:27.500 You're on the top end of the bracket against the weaker side of the opposition. 05:03:27.500 --> 05:03:29.340 You are one of the favorites to win this tournament. 05:03:29.340 --> 05:03:32.580 You have zero excuses not to make this grand final considering the field that you're up 05:03:32.580 --> 05:03:34.820 against on the side of the bracket and hold the phone. 05:03:34.820 --> 05:03:38.060 You're one map away from getting eliminated on the weaker side of the bracket top eight. 05:03:38.060 --> 05:03:39.780 I mean, that's unacceptable if you're a Strasz. 05:03:39.780 --> 05:03:40.780 Not after what we saw at EPL. 05:03:40.780 --> 05:03:42.340 Well, not after what we've seen all year long. 05:03:42.340 --> 05:03:44.220 What did you observe that they were doing wrong though? 05:03:44.220 --> 05:03:45.580 They just look so cold. 05:03:45.580 --> 05:03:50.180 Like I mean, just for one, you know, they're other than stair and a couple of rounds from 05:03:50.180 --> 05:03:51.980 Fuzzi like they just look totally off. 05:03:51.980 --> 05:03:57.260 I think even whenever they had the right positioning, they still weren't able to capitalize. 05:03:57.260 --> 05:04:04.740 I'll give one example, JW in the second pistol round in underpass by himself with a USB gets three kills doesn't get traded 05:04:04.740 --> 05:04:07.420 Barely takes any damages. Well, that should never be happening, right? 05:04:07.420 --> 05:04:09.620 And he talked about yeah, be sure he got unlucky a couple of times 05:04:09.620 --> 05:04:13.660 But he was just I agree with it just completely cold everyone on the side of eyeballs looks so very sharp 05:04:13.660 --> 05:04:19.140 And there's one round I think hooks it with a secondary AWP towards a B bombsite whiffs an easy shot and right there 05:04:19.140 --> 05:04:20.700 I'm like this is not looking good guys 05:04:20.700 --> 05:04:26.460 It looked like a desperation play coming out as well and sure it is eyeball is mapping, but he just go back the last time 05:04:26.460 --> 05:04:31.080 Sorry, it is eyeball is my pick but look at last time Astralis paid Mongols, right? 05:04:31.080 --> 05:04:36.060 They look the domineering dominant on this particular map and it just seems like a completely different team here 05:04:36.060 --> 05:04:40.860 So if they don't wake up despite the fact that they are heavily favorite and ancient things you get very messy here 05:04:40.860 --> 05:04:46.580 Well, let's set up ancient men. I mean obviously we've still got Astralis is the favorites 05:04:46.580 --> 05:04:47.580 Oh, absolutely 05:04:47.580 --> 05:04:52.020 Especially for this map. I mean they're undefeated on this map so far with this five and they've beaten some really good teams 05:04:52.020 --> 05:04:53.660 seems to be in paravision, 05:04:53.660 --> 05:04:55.000 foot, Mongols spirit like they 05:04:55.000 --> 05:04:56.360 have really been crushing it on 05:04:56.360 --> 05:04:57.600 ancient new laws for eyeballs. 05:04:57.600 --> 05:04:59.100 Even against lesser competition. 05:04:59.100 --> 05:05:00.600 It's been kind of a 5050 math. 05:05:00.600 --> 05:05:02.100 If you kind of look through the 05:05:02.100 --> 05:05:03.660 results in what we need to see 05:05:03.660 --> 05:05:05.120 from Astralis to make sure they 05:05:05.120 --> 05:05:06.660 can keep themselves alive in this 05:05:06.660 --> 05:05:08.060 series that we need to continue to 05:05:08.060 --> 05:05:09.600 see stair playing well because this 05:05:09.600 --> 05:05:11.000 guy dominates mid on both portions 05:05:11.000 --> 05:05:12.600 of the map and all the ones that 05:05:12.600 --> 05:05:13.640 they've had this year. 05:05:13.640 --> 05:05:15.200 He's been so efficient and I think 05:05:15.200 --> 05:05:16.580 what's also helped is that hooks. 05:05:16.580 --> 05:05:18.140 He's allowing himself to kind of 05:05:18.140 --> 05:05:19.640 come in and sacrifice four stare in 05:05:19.640 --> 05:05:21.140 some ways and the other big thing 05:05:21.140 --> 05:05:26.820 They just have such a dynamic defense, but one of the teams will like throw four riflers at middle defensively issues like really crazy antics 05:05:26.820 --> 05:05:32.020 So I just need to see them come out, you know in form and play the way that we're used to seeing the way when the payments 05:05:32.020 --> 05:05:35.060 Mongols they were actually they had a very very slow starter T side 05:05:35.060 --> 05:05:36.940 I think was eight one up for the Mongols or something 05:05:36.940 --> 05:05:41.780 But when you switch over to the CT side is when they just completely locked it down getting the win against the Mongols as well 05:05:41.780 --> 05:05:44.180 So the city side very very solid, but I agree with Dustin 05:05:44.180 --> 05:05:47.960 They don't get off to a decent start on the T side even though the defense is very good 05:05:47.960 --> 05:05:51.020 You need to have a little bit of buffer to work with so I still 05:05:51.140 --> 05:05:54.980 I still feel that Astralis are going to take this map, but I ballers are really making things interesting. 05:05:54.980 --> 05:06:01.140 I mean, the thing that I'm worried about right now is, if the eyeballers are just aiming like this... 05:06:03.140 --> 05:06:08.820 I think the worrying thing is for Bob XD, because he's had so many cold maps throughout, 05:06:08.820 --> 05:06:12.660 if he kind of cools down here again on this map, I feel like it's going to be rough for I ballers, right? 05:06:12.660 --> 05:06:16.900 He's playing at star position, playing towards mid, you point it out there, it's going to be Bob XD, 05:06:16.900 --> 05:06:20.660 and there's just going head to head as well. But if he's able to continue to form he had on Mirage, 05:06:20.660 --> 05:06:22.000 That's when things get interesting. 05:06:22.000 --> 05:06:23.460 That's when it gets a little bit more spicy. 05:06:23.460 --> 05:06:24.900 And speaking of interesting, I mean, when you look at a 05:06:24.900 --> 05:06:27.500 Stralis and you look through their resume of ancient matches 05:06:27.500 --> 05:06:29.340 and you look at the film, they're a super diverse team. 05:06:29.340 --> 05:06:30.640 Like they have a very deep playbook. 05:06:30.640 --> 05:06:32.180 They can do the fast plays on a spawn. 05:06:32.180 --> 05:06:33.820 They can play heavy and been controlled. 05:06:33.820 --> 05:06:35.780 They can do all the stops that you would expect 05:06:35.780 --> 05:06:37.040 they'd get ancient team to do. 05:06:37.040 --> 05:06:39.180 But it's about actually executing it on the server. 05:06:39.180 --> 05:06:41.320 And now a dire situation where you're a map down 05:06:41.320 --> 05:06:42.480 and a map away from the nation. 05:06:42.480 --> 05:06:44.160 Meanwhile, I've always just said type of team is just gonna 05:06:44.160 --> 05:06:45.960 play scrappy CS and draggy in the mud. 05:06:45.960 --> 05:06:47.360 And, you know, we saw a lot of that. 05:06:47.360 --> 05:06:49.060 What's with our brute force plays on the T side of the 05:06:49.060 --> 05:06:53.060 We could see it again and if 5xc and company can keep it up, this could get spicy. 05:06:53.060 --> 05:06:58.060 Yeah, I know. One thing I really like about iBall is where they go for the trade. 05:06:58.060 --> 05:07:01.060 We saw it in Mirage as well. The player dies and they're like, oh, I'm going to run into the flims. 05:07:01.060 --> 05:07:03.060 I'm going to get that kill. I'm going to get that trade. 05:07:03.060 --> 05:07:06.060 They really do live and die by JW's calls and that sort of cohesion. 05:07:06.060 --> 05:07:10.060 Winner of the big underdogs going up against team like Astralis. That could be the winning factor. 05:07:10.060 --> 05:07:13.060 Alright, thanks a lot, gentlemen. We go to a break. 05:07:13.060 --> 05:07:17.060 Astralis need to win this one to get into the semi-finals. 05:07:17.060 --> 05:07:20.900 But the way JW is playing maybe today belongs to the ancient ones. 05:07:20.900 --> 05:07:22.100 We'll see after the break. 05:08:17.060 --> 05:08:36.740 The human body was built to move, not trapped at a desk in one singular posture for 12 hours 05:08:36.740 --> 05:08:37.740 a day. 05:08:37.740 --> 05:08:45.540 It's pruning your chair evolved, this is Secret Lab Titan Evo. 05:08:45.540 --> 05:08:49.540 The ergonomically engineered for you. 05:08:49.540 --> 05:08:50.540 Gamers. 05:08:50.540 --> 05:08:51.540 Hybrid workers. 05:08:51.540 --> 05:08:52.540 Octas. 05:08:52.540 --> 05:08:55.540 And back in your every move. 05:09:45.540 --> 05:09:47.540 I 05:13:45.540 --> 05:13:47.540 and 05:14:10.540 --> 05:14:12.840 Entering these playoffs of PGL Bucharest made high 05:14:12.840 --> 05:14:14.840 expectations for Astralis, 05:14:14.840 --> 05:14:16.840 looking like the best playing 05:14:16.840 --> 05:14:18.840 team at the event with ParaVision, 05:14:18.840 --> 05:14:20.840 kind of slacking the last few days. 05:14:20.840 --> 05:14:22.840 But then we have to ask ourselves what year is it? 05:14:22.840 --> 05:14:24.840 Because JW's just dropped 20 kills on him. 05:14:24.840 --> 05:14:26.840 He just battered him into submission on Mirage. 05:14:26.840 --> 05:14:28.840 Now we move on to Ancient, 05:14:28.840 --> 05:14:30.840 where Astralis has to have a recovery, 05:14:30.840 --> 05:14:32.840 because this would be an incredibly disappointing 05:14:32.840 --> 05:14:34.840 defeat and elimination. 05:14:34.840 --> 05:14:36.840 In a bracket where it feels like the red carpets 05:14:36.840 --> 05:14:38.840 laid out for them to make it all the way to the Grand Finals. 05:14:38.840 --> 05:14:40.840 I mean, yeah, you're planning to get his eyeballers 05:14:40.840 --> 05:14:58.840 I was like, I should be pretty easy for us to get through this one, you know, and I was expecting a 13 eight for Astralis on the opening map, but strong start from, from high ballers. Great work in the gun rounds and then down in that second half, it was just so many individual moments. 05:14:58.840 --> 05:15:02.840 You're a JW ASEAN, then you had a Maxter 4K, then Dex to close it out. 05:15:02.840 --> 05:15:04.600 Everyone was just popping off. 05:15:04.600 --> 05:15:07.800 Yeah, JW's going to take the highlights, he's going to take the headlines, 05:15:07.800 --> 05:15:10.840 but man, Maxter has that retake at the A bomb site. 05:15:10.840 --> 05:15:13.000 So critical, Dex closing things out. 05:15:13.000 --> 05:15:16.360 The individuals, the youngsters of eyeballers, able to step up 05:15:16.360 --> 05:15:19.400 and deliver some impactful performances to close out the map. 05:15:19.400 --> 05:15:21.480 And now, Astralis backs against the wall. 05:15:21.480 --> 05:15:23.800 A loss here on ancient, and you're eliminated. 05:15:23.800 --> 05:15:25.640 It's going to start out very well for Stair. 05:15:25.640 --> 05:15:28.520 Two quick kills, and Maxter backs away into the bomb site. 05:15:28.520 --> 05:15:32.200 Now, important to say, that was I-Ballers' map pick of Mirage. 05:15:32.200 --> 05:15:35.560 Now, we move on over to Ancient, where Astralis wanted to take this fight, 05:15:35.560 --> 05:15:38.840 and this is where the more inexperienced teams, this is another issue of theirs, 05:15:38.840 --> 05:15:40.840 is how deep does your map pool actually go? 05:15:42.840 --> 05:15:48.440 Astralis are hoping not for a deep at all, but obviously Ancient has been a great map recently 05:15:48.440 --> 05:15:55.160 for Astralis. They've beaten Bay and the Mongols on it so far at this event, 05:15:55.160 --> 05:15:57.660 not letting them get into double figures. 05:15:57.660 --> 05:16:00.160 So hoping they can bounce back into the series here. 05:16:00.160 --> 05:16:02.360 Got JW looking to kick off the pistol round. 05:16:02.360 --> 05:16:04.360 He's got a good pistol over on Mirage. 05:16:04.360 --> 05:16:06.460 He's looking to do the same again here for the CT side. 05:16:06.460 --> 05:16:08.960 It's Yabby that has gone down in that kill. 05:16:08.960 --> 05:16:11.660 Actually, even things out on a 3v3. 05:16:11.660 --> 05:16:13.160 Oh, Max, we're almost ready for that fight. 05:16:13.160 --> 05:16:14.160 Oh, he's got it. 05:16:14.160 --> 05:16:16.160 Yeah, just picks the head of Riu off. 05:16:16.160 --> 05:16:18.460 Okay, Astralis is just getting whittled down due to indecision. 05:16:18.460 --> 05:16:19.460 Hunter, now the bomb. 05:16:19.460 --> 05:16:20.460 The bomb's out in the open. 05:16:20.460 --> 05:16:23.660 It's JW and Max for again and again. 05:16:23.660 --> 05:16:41.660 pistol round for eyeballers. Yeah, that's another pistol round. So like they have a great opportunity again in front of them to make the most of this and go on a run and do what they did on Mirage, which is get good starts and really force the straw is to have the hard work ahead of them from the get go. Yeah, you don't, you don't want to be in this situation if you're a straw. 05:16:41.660 --> 05:16:50.660 As you mentioned in the first map, all the pressure, considering the way this bracket has kind of panned out, looking at it for a straw is with the rise that they've had recently with some of the weaknesses of the other teams. We've noticed. 05:16:50.660 --> 05:16:54.900 Man, like this is where if eyeballers get out to a hot start here on the elimination map, 05:16:54.900 --> 05:16:56.580 that pressure gets cranked up a notch. 05:16:56.580 --> 05:16:58.500 Gotta be real careful for Astralis. 05:16:58.500 --> 05:17:00.580 First gun round gonna be important as hell. 05:17:00.580 --> 05:17:04.500 Yeah, if you're eyeballers, you would absolutely love to somehow ride that wave, 05:17:04.500 --> 05:17:06.580 infomerize seamlessly into ancient. 05:17:06.580 --> 05:17:09.860 Playing with no pressure, playing from the front, playing with momentum, 05:17:09.860 --> 05:17:12.020 all things that underdogs generally need to win, 05:17:12.020 --> 05:17:14.340 and eyeballers have them at the moment and look at this play. 05:17:14.340 --> 05:17:14.980 Bomb. 05:17:14.980 --> 05:17:17.540 Trigger discipline as well. J.W. wants four kills. 05:17:17.540 --> 05:17:19.380 He's like, alright, I'm gonna get him behind and... 05:17:20.660 --> 05:17:24.460 Attracts his bomb all the way back, loads the donut, play it to it, now J.W. is going to accelerate. 05:17:24.960 --> 05:17:28.660 They're going to hit it in the sense they know they're being flanked now, but dealing with him is a whole other problem. 05:17:29.260 --> 05:17:36.460 Now Yabi's going to hit the pause button, the bomb lies down in the floor in front of him, and he's got multiple targets coming at him, he's reloading and exposed to both sides. 05:17:36.460 --> 05:17:40.760 So, too many threats, and eye-bollers don't let that round get scary at all. 05:17:40.960 --> 05:17:43.660 Yeah, Strahls at some point is going to have to fight fire with fire. 05:17:43.960 --> 05:17:48.260 Thank you, I think there's a world in which because this team has so many advantage, a few more game plans, and you got Hooksley, 05:17:48.260 --> 05:17:51.260 If they try and fall into playing too much of a tactical game, 05:17:51.260 --> 05:17:53.340 I think some of these bold plays that I bought, 05:17:53.340 --> 05:17:55.060 this early push, obviously, against Glocks, 05:17:55.060 --> 05:17:58.180 but start seeing some of those more individual efforts mixed in. 05:17:58.180 --> 05:18:00.100 I think Astralis can get caught off and disconnected. 05:18:00.100 --> 05:18:01.900 We saw in the pistol rounds, they kind of got pulled 05:18:01.900 --> 05:18:03.900 in between two or three different ideas. 05:18:05.260 --> 05:18:06.940 I think this competition started for Ibole. 05:18:06.940 --> 05:18:11.100 He's with a four-foot win versus FaZe that didn't shock the event. 05:18:12.860 --> 05:18:14.900 And they made the most of it, 05:18:14.900 --> 05:18:16.460 all ramp up in the quarterfinals. 05:18:16.460 --> 05:18:21.980 I'm gonna be spraying down through elbow getting traded by yabbi eventually hook see having to deal with a man aggression 05:18:22.060 --> 05:18:24.480 Two players coming out and hooks he's got information 05:18:24.480 --> 05:18:28.600 But he hasn't got his life and they just ship to shift it over to a man to join up with hook see so 05:18:28.820 --> 05:18:34.300 You've lost him now the staging area is kind of gone and time has wasted us you have to come back in and reclear this I 05:18:36.020 --> 05:18:40.100 Love the confidence of my bowlers right now getting an astralisks faces 05:18:40.100 --> 05:18:43.940 Oh, they're gonna walk right through the smoke dex is ready for it 05:18:43.940 --> 05:18:49.340 Fuzzi not wanting to give away the he's there either if he pauses any weights. Maybe yabby can 05:18:50.260 --> 05:18:53.200 Sort of adventure over here and join up with him with a minute left 05:18:53.200 --> 05:18:58.980 There's no need to rotate in a way that leaves huge gaps at this point in a five on two place safe positions to gather 05:18:59.260 --> 05:19:03.420 Information slim gaps make it tough to go to die to a shot to an incredible shot 05:19:03.420 --> 05:19:06.540 Just play information and play for the retake now with the advantages you have 05:19:08.900 --> 05:19:13.740 Astralis are the ones that have to commit into a flight if they want to 43 seconds left on the clock 05:19:13.940 --> 05:19:23.380 Jack's not panicking as that smoke comes in. It's J.W. who makes the move. He says, 05:19:23.380 --> 05:19:26.660 okay, your line of sight is taken away. I'll just shift over towards donut just in case. 05:19:26.660 --> 05:19:30.620 Now down to 30 seconds and a 1v4. I'm loving how eyeball is it playing right now. They're 05:19:30.620 --> 05:19:37.380 just moving, constantly being proactive, closing the space down on Astralis. They just don't 05:19:37.380 --> 05:19:41.900 have the map to work with. Fuzzi's got to clutch this and 15 seconds left, you'll head 05:19:41.900 --> 05:19:44.340 into the A bomb site, but Dex is in the perfect position. 05:19:44.340 --> 05:19:46.340 He's in the checkmate spot. 05:19:46.340 --> 05:19:49.420 There's no way, surely, that Fuzzi can win this. 05:19:49.420 --> 05:19:51.020 And he will go down. 05:19:51.020 --> 05:19:52.340 Dex to pick him up. 05:19:52.340 --> 05:19:54.380 Raps are on the default boxes. 05:19:54.380 --> 05:19:56.740 My ballers do come out swinging here on ancient. 05:19:56.740 --> 05:19:58.620 You know, there's another layer that we haven't touched on too 05:19:58.620 --> 05:20:01.420 much, but you can't underestimate the impact. 05:20:01.420 --> 05:20:04.620 Winning a map one is going to have for a team like my ballers. 05:20:04.620 --> 05:20:06.740 You know, you come into this, you know you have the underdogs. 05:20:06.740 --> 05:20:08.060 You know it's unlikely that you're 05:20:08.060 --> 05:20:10.220 able to kind of steal away a victory. 05:20:10.220 --> 05:20:11.460 But you're going to come in and try. 05:20:11.460 --> 05:20:14.780 And then when you're able to come out on top in that fashion and do it so dominantly, 05:20:14.780 --> 05:20:19.260 man, the confidence swing is you're just like, okay, these guys are within our realm. 05:20:19.260 --> 05:20:21.180 These guys, we can definitely beat them here. 05:20:21.180 --> 05:20:24.780 So there's, I ballers have no reason to be afraid on this map. 05:20:24.780 --> 05:20:33.220 Taking a bit of an aid to the feet there, hoopsie, it slows them down. 05:20:33.220 --> 05:20:35.420 And we'll still move into Jag. 05:20:35.420 --> 05:20:37.420 So we cleared that one out with Molotov. 05:20:37.420 --> 05:20:43.420 We're in the middle with multiple players here. Bob XT just jiggling to gather that early information, but he smoked out. 05:20:43.420 --> 05:20:47.420 He has to call to his teammates. They could be pushing into the red room. We'll see eye ballers adjustment to this. 05:20:47.420 --> 05:20:52.420 Okay, it's the best chance that Astralis has had to actually win around here, but this is a long angle for JW's AWP. 05:20:52.420 --> 05:20:56.420 Nobody come in temple. He's going to shut them all down. However, Bob has fallen. 05:20:56.420 --> 05:21:00.420 JW is going to have to be a little bit more passive here. Mischot on the jump, but he needs to stay alive. 05:21:00.420 --> 05:21:04.420 Teammates have arrived. He backs off all the way. 05:21:04.420 --> 05:21:10.360 Yeah, he does he gets out of danger at least but he's just waiting to join up for his teammates right there coming back into helping 05:21:11.140 --> 05:21:14.340 You're gonna go for this obviously if you're eyeball as you go all the better weapons 05:21:14.840 --> 05:21:16.700 You're just trying to put them in the right place 05:21:16.700 --> 05:21:21.620 It's good consideration here from Jack's good timing to look behind him because that flank was coming in from Fousey 05:21:21.940 --> 05:21:26.180 You have be playing in the doughnuts the only player that's got his hands on a better weapon here the rightful 05:21:26.180 --> 05:21:29.420 But stare do what he can on the T. Go. It's just a single kill so yabby 05:21:29.420 --> 05:21:34.220 And don't take it down by text and yeah sharp shooting again here for my bowlers 05:21:34.220 --> 05:21:37.760 They get anyone to retake they lose a single player and it's four rounds in a row 05:21:37.760 --> 05:21:41.760 Here's another layer for you think our ancient for Astralis is an 85% win rate 05:21:41.760 --> 05:21:44.200 It's the best the map they want to go to in the veto process 05:21:44.200 --> 05:21:49.080 It's a map they're gonna select in most of their series and as you're turning that corner into the major you all the sudden lose 05:21:49.080 --> 05:21:51.080 Some confidence in your map pick. That's an issue 05:21:54.580 --> 05:21:56.580 Guys you're trolling me right now 05:21:59.420 --> 05:22:06.380 Do you know what it can certainly feel that way sometimes you gotta be trolling I I think anyone who's tried to 05:22:06.820 --> 05:22:09.920 IGL for a game can understand that emotion that feeling 05:22:11.100 --> 05:22:16.340 Well things are looking pretty sour on the Australian cap. There's still no sweet things 05:22:17.020 --> 05:22:20.780 Coming out of double kill on ball back Steve max. So that's what stare can do 05:22:20.780 --> 05:22:24.060 He's gonna get you a couple rounds like that running through med with those openers 05:22:24.060 --> 05:22:27.940 Yep, and you just saved fear if your eyeballers keep your feet planted up over at the B bombsite 05:22:27.940 --> 05:22:31.320 No need to move you're not recovering this round those kills are way too fast down mid 05:22:31.980 --> 05:22:34.380 So at least stare decides to stop trolling 05:22:35.940 --> 05:22:40.080 Let's start rolling so if they can keep it going here as flawless 05:22:41.260 --> 05:22:43.260 Those midfights could be 05:22:43.700 --> 05:22:45.180 50-50s 05:22:45.180 --> 05:22:47.180 obviously stare 05:22:47.220 --> 05:22:53.020 That on a lot of players in the world in terms of how much impact you can get him out in those midfights when he gets the spawn for it 05:22:53.020 --> 05:22:53.960 Oh this time too 05:22:53.960 --> 05:22:55.680 I think he both came through smoke as well. 05:22:55.680 --> 05:22:57.760 So a little bit of fortune going into his side, 05:22:57.760 --> 05:23:01.000 but definitely stairs going to be a force you would imagine throughout this half 05:23:01.520 --> 05:23:04.160 as long as the straws can keep this up. 05:23:04.160 --> 05:23:08.040 Now, we've seen eyeballs be proactive and make aggressive plays. 05:23:08.560 --> 05:23:11.560 I just I'm kind of scarred from the last quarter final, watching. 05:23:12.360 --> 05:23:15.240 It's a question to what I was actually thinking about that, too. 05:23:15.240 --> 05:23:18.120 When J.W. was kind of pushing down mid to wrap around for doughnut. 05:23:18.880 --> 05:23:22.520 I'm just wondering, is there a point in this game where we see eyeballs 05:23:22.520 --> 05:23:27.520 Start giving us flawless chances by walking into them. 05:23:27.520 --> 05:23:36.520 It'd be great to say, okay, we got a good start playing this way, but if it stops working, I'd love to see the adjustment come quick for my ballers. 05:23:36.520 --> 05:23:43.520 I think a lot of it's going to, I mean, you lose two opening kills like that. There's nothing you can really do. It'll be interesting. 05:23:43.520 --> 05:23:47.520 But I mean, you know, even going back to Mirage, they handled the retakes so much better. 05:23:47.520 --> 05:23:52.240 You know part of the issue with those pushes from MIBR is it just felt like there was no like big picture concept to it 05:23:52.240 --> 05:23:55.120 Well, it was just kind of like I'm just gonna pick here make an individual decision, right? 05:23:56.160 --> 05:23:59.760 Eyeballers have felt a little bit like there's there's some plans behind it or at least some orchestration 05:24:00.400 --> 05:24:06.440 And how to coordinate that JW goes for an early peek with the alt towards a just misses his timing as he gives away the scope 05:24:07.480 --> 05:24:12.120 And they are playing more passive a mid instantly here. I bowlers. I think they're a little bit less than about 05:24:12.120 --> 05:24:17.620 He's getting bashed by Stare, but then the break of the red smoke has to be a trade from Barbex D and he's got it. 05:24:17.620 --> 05:24:23.120 So, Shunning Stare down before he can get a multi-token flash, and that's real bad. He gets stuck in the open. 05:24:23.120 --> 05:24:26.120 Give him one back. 05:24:26.120 --> 05:24:30.120 Well, now let's see what the reaction is, because J.W., you imagine, is going to want some help at some point. 05:24:30.120 --> 05:24:34.120 He's playing over in Donut, there's relative safety, but what does the rest of I-Ballers do? 05:24:34.120 --> 05:24:38.120 What does Rolf and Dex actually do over at the B-Bomb site? Because they haven't budged. 05:24:38.120 --> 05:24:45.520 And if they're going to come in for this retake, JW probably needs at least two kills out of 05:24:45.520 --> 05:24:46.520 this situation. 05:24:46.520 --> 05:24:50.520 If he can survive and donut after that, it'd be excellent, but you need to thin this out 05:24:50.520 --> 05:24:53.520 and buy time for your two teammates to join up with you. 05:24:53.520 --> 05:24:55.840 To the A site, they moved. 05:24:55.840 --> 05:24:56.840 Miss shot from JW. 05:24:56.840 --> 05:24:57.840 Hooks, he stopped short. 05:24:57.840 --> 05:25:05.320 JW not finding himself the perfect position to deny that bomb plant, so. 05:25:05.320 --> 05:25:09.000 Well, now you have to do one of two things if you're the other players. 05:25:09.000 --> 05:25:12.240 You have to kind of push and help JW get out of this scenario. 05:25:12.240 --> 05:25:14.720 If you're not going to go for the retake, JW needs to try and survive. 05:25:14.720 --> 05:25:17.320 Going to use the cover of the smoke to work his way towards Red Room. 05:25:17.320 --> 05:25:23.560 Yabi hasn't found any of these players at the B bomb site moving. 05:25:23.560 --> 05:25:28.760 And Astralis going to get a pretty chill win again into the A bomb site. 05:25:28.760 --> 05:25:32.740 Five players survived in the last round for Astralis, four surviving in this round, starting 05:25:32.740 --> 05:25:38.020 to see that Astralis ancient T-side building up. 05:25:38.020 --> 05:25:42.060 Yeah, it's the mid success coming in from Astralis, again, back to back rounds, two 05:25:42.060 --> 05:25:45.180 kills from middle that lead to a round one of the A site. 05:25:45.180 --> 05:25:49.020 I've always didn't even play aggressively in mid this round. 05:25:49.020 --> 05:25:51.060 They go for a JWPK main. 05:25:51.060 --> 05:25:53.060 It's the mistake from Bob that does it, isn't it? 05:25:53.060 --> 05:25:55.020 Yeah, I mean, I didn't even mind it. 05:25:55.020 --> 05:25:57.900 It looked like he was just going to reposition into the cubby and play for them to walk in 05:25:57.900 --> 05:26:02.020 towards donut, but I think his brain was like, no, this is a bad idea. 05:26:02.020 --> 05:26:06.860 He makes it worse by trying to leave in the wrong moment and then just get stuck in the middle of indecision and 05:26:07.660 --> 05:26:13.380 Get stuck on the wall. Yeah, you're gonna have to live and die by that with with the younger players as they gain experience for sure 05:26:13.380 --> 05:26:15.880 That one you get the crappy end of things 05:26:16.860 --> 05:26:18.660 round seven 05:26:18.660 --> 05:26:22.740 Deep utility down mid this time. There's a little bit of presence not swinging behind elbow 05:26:22.740 --> 05:26:27.780 But Bob's gonna jump over towards doughnut smoked out Max you're playing in red room smoked out 05:26:27.780 --> 05:26:30.500 Yeah, really taking the spawn this time. He's gonna head out 05:26:30.500 --> 05:26:37.500 towards the boxes. J.W. is all positioned over towards Jaguar as well. So Astralis is happy with 05:26:37.500 --> 05:26:42.060 this first step of map control that they've taken. All it's off down is going to force Ryu into the 05:26:42.060 --> 05:26:47.580 open, flashbang as well, but no commitment to the fight. Maybe some conditioning from losing that 05:26:47.580 --> 05:26:52.980 previously. Yeah Ryu, gonna be happy enough he didn't take any fire on that retreat back towards 05:26:52.980 --> 05:26:58.140 elbow. J.W. trying to be dynamic with his AWP is selecting a lot of different positions, 05:26:58.140 --> 05:27:01.220 but Bob has stepped out and taken a death. 05:27:01.220 --> 05:27:02.980 It's going to be Fuzzi taking that one. 05:27:02.980 --> 05:27:05.340 Another advantage in middle found by Strauss. 05:27:05.340 --> 05:27:06.600 Now it's starting to look a little bit like 05:27:06.600 --> 05:27:07.940 I'm on the RCT sides. 05:27:07.940 --> 05:27:09.380 Yeah, you're just giving them chances. 05:27:09.380 --> 05:27:10.740 Now, Strauss hit the pause button. 05:27:10.740 --> 05:27:11.540 You walk into them. 05:27:11.540 --> 05:27:14.900 JW, oh, the unscope as well. 05:27:14.900 --> 05:27:17.580 I'm starting to look a little rough now for eyeballers. 05:27:20.980 --> 05:27:22.780 Timing on that is so unfortunate. 05:27:22.780 --> 05:27:24.900 Yeah, Abby's just going to take it as well and move on up. 05:27:24.900 --> 05:27:27.740 JW's going to walk right into the cross hat. 05:27:27.740 --> 05:27:31.340 And this is more like it from Astralis, getting comfortable. 05:27:31.340 --> 05:27:34.640 Time for a timeout, if you're eyeballers, and I think Pita's got to get on the mic and just say, 05:27:34.640 --> 05:27:36.140 alright guys, stop, stop moving, you know. 05:27:36.140 --> 05:27:37.040 Giving them kills, yeah. 05:27:37.040 --> 05:27:40.140 It's the same thing we were talking about in the previous series, it's just, hold on, hold on. 05:27:40.140 --> 05:27:46.440 It's not over yet, they're forcing Pita to smoke, and Maxster punishes them for every step they take. 05:27:46.440 --> 05:27:50.540 How's he gone away with that? That is incredible. Now, Hoocsi has to 1v2 this. 05:27:50.540 --> 05:27:53.640 15 seconds left, Maxster turns and finds him as well. 05:27:53.640 --> 05:27:55.640 Look at the rage as well on Hoocsi. 05:27:55.640 --> 05:28:01.320 so disappointed how are they losing this round when their timeout immediately coming in it's 05:28:01.320 --> 05:28:07.160 going to be a strawler's call and this one they flipped on a banana peel gotta make sure they 05:28:07.160 --> 05:28:12.200 don't knock themselves out that is a huge round from max through a disastrous moment from a strawler 05:28:12.200 --> 05:28:18.040 so they're gonna get their emotions in check how are they giving this one how is it just one by one 05:28:18.040 --> 05:28:23.160 through the smoke that's what he's gonna be pissed about that that was terrible it could not have 05:28:23.160 --> 05:28:25.160 Easier for Maxter I 05:28:30.000 --> 05:28:34.560 Think that I mean even if even if you didn't even if you didn't feel like you had to go through the smoke 05:28:34.560 --> 05:28:38.540 You had time to wait it out. Yeah, I mean who's he's really got to feel like they're trolling him now 05:28:44.040 --> 05:28:46.040 What a disaster 05:28:53.160 --> 05:28:57.160 Yeah, what are they doing? I don't have no idea. 05:28:57.160 --> 05:28:58.160 Hooksie doesn't know either. 05:28:58.160 --> 05:29:00.160 That's firing up high ballers. 05:29:00.160 --> 05:29:05.160 But Strahlus, I mean decisions like that might just lose them this quarter final. 05:29:07.160 --> 05:29:10.160 I mean that's just going to knock you off kilter. 05:29:10.160 --> 05:29:15.160 We already knew it felt like the way it opened and the way Hooksie reacted that. 05:29:16.160 --> 05:29:17.160 It felt like it hit the hill. 05:29:17.160 --> 05:29:18.160 Oh, that's fabulous. 05:29:18.160 --> 05:29:20.160 It just had on top. 05:29:20.160 --> 05:29:24.160 This is just like a stress test of the mentality of Astralis in this early run. 05:29:26.160 --> 05:29:28.160 No, they are getting picked apart. 05:29:28.660 --> 05:29:31.160 Don't give anything back now. You don't need to do anything here. 05:29:31.160 --> 05:29:32.160 Five on three. 05:29:32.160 --> 05:29:33.160 Just ride this wave. 05:29:34.160 --> 05:29:38.160 Make sure you just take this opportunity and really humble Astralis. 05:29:38.160 --> 05:29:40.160 Pile on the pain, pile on the tilt. 05:29:40.160 --> 05:29:42.160 It is looking great right now. 05:29:42.160 --> 05:29:44.160 Ryu getting one, but instantly replied to. 05:29:44.160 --> 05:29:48.160 Bob XT holding stairs attempt, but it's not going to work out for him. 05:29:48.160 --> 05:29:50.160 you know, you can bounce back 05:29:50.160 --> 05:29:51.160 from around like that. If you 05:29:51.160 --> 05:29:53.160 come out and you win the next 05:29:53.160 --> 05:29:54.160 round, Astralis come out and 05:29:54.160 --> 05:29:55.160 they just get absolutely melted. 05:29:55.160 --> 05:29:57.160 I mean, that's just going to 05:29:57.160 --> 05:29:58.160 make it even more tilted than 05:29:58.160 --> 05:29:59.160 he lost the last round. Things 05:29:59.160 --> 05:30:00.160 were starting to line up for 05:30:00.160 --> 05:30:01.160 Astralis. They felt like they 05:30:01.160 --> 05:30:02.160 were starting to build what was 05:30:02.160 --> 05:30:04.160 going to be a really strong T 05:30:04.160 --> 05:30:05.160 side. Look like they're putting 05:30:05.160 --> 05:30:07.160 into eyeball is you're like 05:30:07.160 --> 05:30:08.160 calling for a time on it. It 05:30:08.160 --> 05:30:09.160 definitely felt like we're 05:30:09.160 --> 05:30:10.160 hitting that point in the game. 05:30:10.160 --> 05:30:12.160 And then all of a sudden it's 05:30:12.160 --> 05:30:14.160 trullers give a golden chance 05:30:14.160 --> 05:30:16.160 back over the eyeballers. Yeah, 05:30:16.160 --> 05:30:21.680 are the eyeballers yeah this is this is brutal it looks like he's actually going to try and go 05:30:21.680 --> 05:30:27.840 for this and the one which is fair play yeah he's caught jw yet again nine and two what a start 05:30:27.840 --> 05:30:36.960 from jw what a start from eyeballers shocking everyone today hey it might it can be called a 05:30:36.960 --> 05:30:41.200 start but it might just be the end coming up here the straws are knocked off their feet at the moment 05:30:41.200 --> 05:30:44.340 Yeah, they are they do feel like they're just kind of swaying standing up 05:30:45.460 --> 05:30:48.900 And if you're eyeballs, you know, we can start getting ahead of ourselves a little bit 05:30:49.940 --> 05:30:52.860 Magnally when this is the center you go to the semi-fals you got 3d max 05:30:52.860 --> 05:30:58.060 That's a beautiful team in the semis. I told you dingo keep your heart open for a surprise. He's got to be ready 05:30:58.900 --> 05:31:04.300 Especially when jw's in the mix. We had a little conversation between maps you casted jw once 05:31:04.660 --> 05:31:09.060 And your very first event of commentary and never again and now you're getting the treat 05:31:09.060 --> 05:31:13.340 Yeah, many many years ago. I couldn't really call that cast me either back then but I 05:31:13.980 --> 05:31:18.180 Was giving a microphone and we're now a ball xd 05:31:18.220 --> 05:31:24.940 Let's go break open that smoke and start tapping away as foosies starting to cross over the bomb does make it safely at least 05:31:24.940 --> 05:31:27.180 But you've got to be aware that that's a gap that's been opened up 05:31:27.180 --> 05:31:31.940 Yeah, I'm surprised no one's falling back from the people could find dexter's comes out of the smoke and now now the map just shrinks 05:31:31.940 --> 05:31:35.260 Yeah, therefore Bob you're being held good shot from stair now 05:31:35.260 --> 05:31:37.820 they feel like the B bomb site is opened up and off trying to pick them off 05:31:37.820 --> 05:31:41.260 closing misses the shot. He's gonna cut them off though, sever them off from JW. 05:31:41.260 --> 05:31:45.820 Alright JW, you're on your own. You're on the island on this A site. And the 05:31:45.820 --> 05:31:48.420 inexperienced players have to make a decision if they want to bail him out 05:31:48.420 --> 05:31:51.020 and alleviate some of this pressure on him. He's got three different choke 05:31:51.020 --> 05:31:55.100 points, four different choke points he's got to be concerned about. 05:31:58.660 --> 05:32:04.500 What a five seconds hearing the steps. JW cast away alone on this site. Plants 05:32:04.500 --> 05:32:05.500 is coming through. 05:32:05.500 --> 05:32:12.240 Team makes rotating over J.W. making sure he doesn't step out and make a mistake. 05:32:12.240 --> 05:32:14.280 He wants the numbers to be even. 05:32:14.280 --> 05:32:18.440 When the attempt is retake, this is giving time for us Charles to get back into position. 05:32:18.440 --> 05:32:22.200 Fuzi, he knows you're going to have to deal with temple players, so he's got the scope 05:32:22.200 --> 05:32:23.200 up. 05:32:23.200 --> 05:32:24.200 He sees the shadow. 05:32:24.200 --> 05:32:25.200 His prime zoom shot, he's ready. 05:32:25.200 --> 05:32:26.200 Stairs taking the kill on Rolf. 05:32:26.200 --> 05:32:27.200 J.W. 05:32:27.200 --> 05:32:28.200 and Texter with kills. 05:32:28.200 --> 05:32:29.200 Fuzi missing shots. 05:32:29.200 --> 05:32:30.200 It's all on Fuzi. 05:32:30.200 --> 05:32:31.200 And he missed one again. 05:32:31.200 --> 05:32:36.280 Utility and that deep use coming through I ballers retake of strollers can't hold on 05:32:37.160 --> 05:32:41.600 Piling on the pain piling on the pressure and piling on the round wins 05:32:41.600 --> 05:32:46.260 I hope y'all didn't forget about Jw because he's a champion here holds on to temple the whole time 05:32:46.440 --> 05:32:54.160 Orchestrates that retake brings a teammate over with him trades every kill that comes out from Astralis and pins down fuzzy in a main 05:32:54.480 --> 05:33:00.400 An incredible performance from one of the all-time greats and they've primed themselves for a huge upset here in PGL 05:33:00.400 --> 05:33:06.560 Brucker has playoffs and he's got the rest of his teammate showing up as well. Max through the decks doing some real heavy lifting at the moment 05:33:07.040 --> 05:33:10.160 Obviously Max through it with the player that had the turning point 05:33:11.200 --> 05:33:14.000 Shutting down that a main person. They're all coming through the smoke 05:33:16.160 --> 05:33:18.160 I've just killed Astralis 05:33:18.480 --> 05:33:23.840 There's Yabbi trying to force himself into the fight but Max through the decks again. Okay, it's just over 05:33:25.120 --> 05:33:28.080 They're just dead. They're making them look so pedestrian aren't they? 05:33:28.080 --> 05:33:35.080 They're making Astralis just look sooo mid. This is what I thought. Astralis were gonna do to iBall. Exactly. 05:33:35.080 --> 05:33:41.080 I mean, it's clear that Astralis has just been so knocked off their game and out of any mentality. 05:33:41.080 --> 05:33:48.080 You know, Astralis may have one sweet on the team, but iBall is the sweet they want to lose to the Danish organization right now. 05:33:48.080 --> 05:33:52.080 They're bringing in the pain. And this is fantastic to see. 05:33:52.080 --> 05:33:58.240 Fuxi's just, I mean he's just got to be feeling so disappointed in the performance 05:33:58.240 --> 05:34:04.360 this team's putting in right now. You got one kill on Ryu, two for Fuzi, two for 05:34:04.360 --> 05:34:08.120 a Fuxi, they're just not hitting back. 05:34:09.840 --> 05:34:16.320 The only player that's had impact here is Stan. True. One kill on Ryu, two on Fuzi. 05:34:16.320 --> 05:34:21.160 Yeah this is, I mean you kind of mentioned the engine on the previous map 05:34:21.160 --> 05:34:24.580 had not come online and you hit tab and like they had the number of kills they had the 05:34:24.580 --> 05:34:30.420 Quantity just not the quality here. They don't have either. Yeah, like you said pedestrian. They don't have an engine. They're walking 05:34:34.600 --> 05:34:39.240 This is exactly what hooksy does not even one and they're not even celebrating anybody guys. It was actually 05:34:40.280 --> 05:34:42.280 Easy right now 05:34:42.440 --> 05:34:45.820 Let's go. They're having so much fun on the eyeballer side of things 05:34:46.080 --> 05:34:48.840 Especially when another time out comes in you just know the pressure 05:34:48.840 --> 05:34:53.960 You probably you probably aren't even talking too much about tactics right now. If you're eyeballers, it's all mentality 05:34:53.960 --> 05:34:55.960 It's all about keeping those vibes up 05:34:57.920 --> 05:35:03.000 This team is just rolling with momentum leaving her maca it is post game interview Apollo 05:35:03.000 --> 05:35:05.800 He was like yeah, the Stralis the heavy favorites in that game 05:35:05.800 --> 05:35:09.860 They look like the best team here at the event favorites for the tournament 05:35:09.860 --> 05:35:16.900 They should get through eyeballers. Well, they clean swept the Stralis the group stage beating MIBR being bait being Mongols 2-0 for eyeballers 05:35:16.900 --> 05:35:20.940 I mean they labored through it even even with the even with the forfeit went over phase 05:35:20.940 --> 05:35:22.900 They had to play in the last day to qualify through 05:35:24.740 --> 05:35:27.140 Well my ball is knock out a straw list then 05:35:28.260 --> 05:35:33.220 They've saved us from having to watch the possibility of foot versus the straw list again later on in the tournament 05:35:33.220 --> 05:35:35.220 So I think that's also a small way 05:35:36.220 --> 05:35:38.220 Like eight times 05:35:38.220 --> 05:35:40.220 Yeah, we've seen that one a lot 05:35:43.620 --> 05:35:51.860 Look at this situation for a straw for the real tell you what watching eyeballers how they're playing right now against foot would be a very fun game to watch at some point 05:35:54.060 --> 05:35:56.060 Not gonna happen here most likely 05:35:58.420 --> 05:36:06.380 Be the grand final, but I don't know like would would you sit here and say that eyeballers can't beat 3d max in the semi-final? Nope exactly so 05:36:08.220 --> 05:36:12.820 High ballers. Okay, that's an awpness. We're gonna we're gonna give that one up jw 05:36:13.180 --> 05:36:17.100 Just narrowly off maybe just moving a little bit, but the bullet whizzes past there 05:36:17.100 --> 05:36:22.900 So again the man who's been having impact first Charles finds another opening kill flashbang in good turn from yabby playing antsy 05:36:26.220 --> 05:36:31.780 At this point because you've given away couple of kids you kind of have to keep going at them I pull something back 05:36:31.780 --> 05:36:33.780 So Rolf gets himself 05:36:33.780 --> 05:36:37.780 position at the bottom of the B ramp and he's gonna watch as Ryu walks onto the open and then 05:36:38.340 --> 05:36:44.820 folks he was waiting for that trade attempt. No, Sasha shouldn't let this one go. But Max there, 05:36:44.820 --> 05:36:50.100 he's going on over and I guess when he's alive there's always a shot. They have the money so I 05:36:50.100 --> 05:36:53.460 think they're just saying why why wouldn't we come over here at bombs not planted. Let's go let's 05:36:53.460 --> 05:36:57.140 go see if something can happen. Even if we don't win the round to do the damage. Well considering 05:36:57.140 --> 05:36:59.860 the way they've been playing I'm not even against the idea of them coming and fighting for this. 05:36:59.860 --> 05:37:02.900 You don't necessarily you don't need to save the AK would be nice to have but not the biggest 05:37:02.900 --> 05:37:06.980 you on the world like go see if you can continue creating the magic you have been all half long. 05:37:06.980 --> 05:37:07.860 Yep, there we go. 05:37:07.860 --> 05:37:11.220 Go on Plant and Isle, 15 seconds left. Now Panic Stasis for Astralis, 05:37:11.220 --> 05:37:15.140 Max draw around and now they're planting again. He comes out of the open, needed that fight if 05:37:15.140 --> 05:37:20.340 he was to win the round. But Bob XD, we've heard great things about him. Maybe this is the moment 05:37:20.340 --> 05:37:24.420 he shows us it. It's gonna be three. It's gonna be coming through the Jag. 05:37:24.420 --> 05:37:27.060 Position of Fosy makes this pretty much impossible. 05:37:27.060 --> 05:37:30.740 Well, I mean damage would be good too, right? Like Astralis don't have a... 05:37:30.740 --> 05:37:34.580 Yeah, they'd be fine. They'd be fine regardless. This is this is I mean that's some tech nines in this round 05:37:34.580 --> 05:37:39.220 So they've gotten some free upgrades as well. They're gonna be all good in terms of their investment Bob's just gonna try and be a hero 05:37:39.220 --> 05:37:41.220 There's the first skill. All right, Bob 05:37:41.780 --> 05:37:44.420 Howdy goes and dad's the ace so 05:37:45.140 --> 05:37:48.740 With a side take in and a good round to pick up here for a straw list 05:37:49.780 --> 05:37:54.900 You can't leave the half after that turning point, you know if max was a shut down not winning a single round after that 05:37:54.900 --> 05:37:56.900 I would have been absolutely devastating 05:37:57.380 --> 05:37:58.420 Yeah 05:37:58.420 --> 05:38:01.620 I was primed and ready to pop off if Maxtor made those plays. 05:38:01.620 --> 05:38:04.140 If he got that one more kill, that would have been very doable. 05:38:04.740 --> 05:38:06.780 Eight to three, final round of the first half. 05:38:06.780 --> 05:38:08.260 Full buys for both squads. 05:38:08.260 --> 05:38:09.860 JW is back on that AWP. 05:38:09.860 --> 05:38:12.060 Four kits for the CT side, well-equipped. 05:38:12.420 --> 05:38:14.220 For anything that happens in this round. 05:38:14.220 --> 05:38:16.060 Yep, last round of this half. 05:38:17.020 --> 05:38:18.820 Let's see if I baller to get a ninth. 05:38:19.620 --> 05:38:21.860 Ninety-three on the CT side of ancient. 05:38:22.860 --> 05:38:25.540 Four rounds, definitely enough to pull back here for Astralis. 05:38:25.540 --> 05:38:26.140 Ryu. 05:38:26.140 --> 05:38:29.340 In the opening fight, in the middle, Yabbi is pushed up through the smoke. 05:38:29.340 --> 05:38:31.900 A lot better here towards the end of the half with Astralis. 05:38:31.900 --> 05:38:33.460 Again, it's a similar conversation though. 05:38:33.460 --> 05:38:36.380 It's all about punishing aggression rather than creating the opportunities, 05:38:36.380 --> 05:38:38.260 which is obviously still very valuable. 05:38:40.140 --> 05:38:43.540 OK, well, our ball is stalled out towards the end of the half. 05:38:44.100 --> 05:38:46.100 Four rounds to play with for Astralis. 05:38:46.100 --> 05:38:47.460 Ice by the time out. 05:38:47.460 --> 05:38:50.860 Yeah, I mean, four rounds is definitely enough here for Astralis. 05:38:50.860 --> 05:38:53.100 Win the pistol and you can close that gap pretty quickly. 05:38:53.100 --> 05:38:54.420 I mean, it's definitely enough, right? 05:38:54.420 --> 05:38:57.820 But these two rounds is just gonna be like the sigh of relief. It's gonna be like that's more like it 05:38:57.820 --> 05:38:59.180 That's how we should have been playing this whole half 05:38:59.180 --> 05:39:04.120 I don't think they've gotten over the mental hurdle and the focus that they've been like clearly knocked off of right like that's gonna 05:39:04.120 --> 05:39:07.620 Take a little bit more time and a little bit more confidence to build up through a string of rounds 05:39:07.620 --> 05:39:13.720 They're very brutal as well. So if there's any other rounds, yeah, they've already they've already experienced enough heartbreak 05:39:14.520 --> 05:39:17.700 Backbreak whatever you want to call it devastating turn of events 05:39:17.700 --> 05:39:22.700 It's J.W. 05:39:22.700 --> 05:39:24.700 It can't be another moment like this. 05:39:24.700 --> 05:39:25.700 Yes, it can. 05:39:25.700 --> 05:39:26.700 It can't be another one. 05:39:26.700 --> 05:39:27.700 Yes, it can. 05:39:27.700 --> 05:39:29.700 Smoke is up, J.W. goes inside of it. 05:39:29.700 --> 05:39:31.700 35 seconds left. 05:39:31.700 --> 05:39:32.700 Okay. 05:39:32.700 --> 05:39:34.700 Well, you know, you have to make that move if you're J.W. 05:39:34.700 --> 05:39:36.700 So, because after the smoke can die. 05:39:36.700 --> 05:39:38.700 So, Max, 1v3, here he comes. 05:39:38.700 --> 05:39:40.700 Last round, all of the half. 05:39:40.700 --> 05:39:42.700 He's going to give it a good go. 05:39:42.700 --> 05:39:45.900 Yeah, Fosey's watching this smoke walk out. 05:39:45.900 --> 05:39:48.020 He should be dead before he even sees anything at all. 05:39:48.020 --> 05:39:51.740 Astralis playing a little game of cliffhanger. 05:39:51.740 --> 05:39:55.420 Fingernails dug in and just barely holding on throughout that first half. 05:39:55.420 --> 05:39:57.980 At one point, just getting ran over eight to two. 05:39:57.980 --> 05:39:59.860 Thank God they won those last two rounds. 05:40:02.300 --> 05:40:05.820 They better have some performances to open up their CT side 05:40:05.820 --> 05:40:07.860 that get some energy and life back into this team. 05:40:12.700 --> 05:40:23.220 Well, Eyeball isn't a good epistorence, in particular J.W. who's been doing a lot of 05:40:23.220 --> 05:40:24.700 work in those. 05:40:24.700 --> 05:40:29.500 Inferno would be the third in deciding map in this series if Astralis managed to take 05:40:29.500 --> 05:40:30.500 us there. 05:40:30.500 --> 05:40:33.420 Still quite the campaign they're going to have to run, although switching over to the 05:40:33.420 --> 05:40:35.700 CT side, I think they're going to be pleased about that one. 05:40:35.700 --> 05:40:40.020 However, remember on the first map in this series, it was Eyeballers getting an opening 05:40:40.020 --> 05:40:41.460 kill and escalating. 05:40:41.460 --> 05:40:45.580 They were playing in front of Astralis's rotations, in front of Astralis's protocols. 05:40:45.580 --> 05:40:49.220 They were so decisive that Astralis could never have a good timing to cheat over to 05:40:49.220 --> 05:40:52.020 a bomb site, to stack a bomb site as well. 05:40:52.020 --> 05:40:57.260 Let's see what eyeballers come out with. 05:40:57.260 --> 05:41:01.460 Mentioned it earlier, this is the map in Astralis's pool that they want to play. 05:41:01.460 --> 05:41:07.260 For eyeballers, it's a 46% win rate, and it's a 46% win rate against like tier two or three 05:41:07.260 --> 05:41:08.260 teams. 05:41:08.260 --> 05:41:11.340 It hasn't been a great map in their pool. 05:41:11.340 --> 05:41:13.420 So crazy to see them have this kind of a performance 05:41:13.420 --> 05:41:15.420 against Astralis at the moment, but they still 05:41:15.420 --> 05:41:16.940 need to continue it on this T side. 05:41:21.620 --> 05:41:23.180 All running straight through middle. 05:41:23.180 --> 05:41:25.140 They're becoming at stair with that USP. 05:41:25.140 --> 05:41:27.540 He spots the targets, and he gets back to safety. 05:41:27.540 --> 05:41:29.220 Wanting to be in a position where he can actually 05:41:29.220 --> 05:41:30.900 play with his teammate, Thuzi on the foos. 05:41:30.900 --> 05:41:32.900 He's been taken away immediately. 05:41:32.900 --> 05:41:33.540 OK. 05:41:33.540 --> 05:41:35.740 Eyeball is breaking into the A bomb site. 05:41:35.740 --> 05:41:41.660 plant is in, JW is cutting off the rotations. There is no losing this pistol round. 05:41:43.580 --> 05:41:49.660 Dax gonna get contacts. Two players here in temple hasn't swung yet. He's holding them out. Yeah, 05:41:49.660 --> 05:41:53.580 but now you know, Interolfster to shut one more down. Hooksie in the 1v4. 05:41:55.180 --> 05:42:03.100 Yeah, not one in this zone. 9-4. 9-4 pry ballers. I mean, having the strength of being able to win 05:42:03.100 --> 05:42:06.940 pistol rounds like this has got to feel amazing. You're getting good starts at every half. 05:42:07.980 --> 05:42:12.700 We'll see what Strauss decides to do, whether at this point the 9-4 down, do you force buy or do 05:42:12.700 --> 05:42:17.020 you prioritize getting the first buyout quickly? I think you prioritize getting the first buyout 05:42:17.020 --> 05:42:22.380 quickly. You can't go down 4-11 and then get your first buyout. You have to save here. 05:42:24.620 --> 05:42:29.580 You absolutely have to. 20 kills on the first map for JW. He's got 13 here and good impact, 05:42:29.580 --> 05:42:35.500 but really the star on ancient so far has been Maxxer it was his quad kill behind the smoke at the A bomb site on defense 05:42:35.500 --> 05:42:41.140 That saved the day for eyeballers from when that half was about to spiral out of their control. He just re-established dominance 05:42:48.380 --> 05:42:52.820 On the stack of pistols counter B landfall next to the information 05:42:52.820 --> 05:42:57.620 He's gonna get overwhelmed the better weapon now available to his trawlers on the ground. Yeah, good first kill 05:42:57.620 --> 05:43:02.920 It's all good. This shouldn't be any kind of a significant problem. They have control of the a bomb site bomb is being planted now 05:43:03.220 --> 05:43:08.600 There's a Molotov. There's a couple smokes they can use and obviously the rifles at range are just gonna be far superior 05:43:08.600 --> 05:43:11.920 Yeah, you get that bomb planted for the donut post plant position too 05:43:12.980 --> 05:43:17.540 That should be the insurance policy here to lock any 10th round for eyeballs 05:43:19.180 --> 05:43:23.040 They get a send all the pistols at this see what they can do, but it's just gonna get far 05:43:23.040 --> 05:43:29.080 There's a healthy crop here for eyeballers and one of those Mac tens will get upgraded to the AK-47 as well 05:43:29.080 --> 05:43:34.680 Rolf grabs that 10 to 4 6 round lead by the time the first buy comes in, but it's gonna be a little bit labor 05:43:34.680 --> 05:43:40.100 There's no op available to the side of Astralis so all in fours no kits good amount of utility 05:43:40.920 --> 05:43:44.840 But they're starting the CT side campaign comeback on the back foot 05:43:53.040 --> 05:44:02.220 Got a win immediately. You just have to start winning instantly if you're an Astralis, so 05:44:02.220 --> 05:44:07.580 bring some attitude to it. It's the move that gets up onto the legs, sprints for the first 05:44:07.580 --> 05:44:13.160 timing to catch J.W., ball XD also taken away. So, Astralis have rose to the occasion. They 05:44:13.160 --> 05:44:16.620 have won the first two fights without getting traded and they get it backed away. 05:44:16.620 --> 05:44:20.700 I think this is going to be the recipe for Astralis' success as well. Executed pieces 05:44:20.700 --> 05:44:24.340 of aggression like that, especially pressuring towards the B lane. 05:44:24.340 --> 05:44:27.460 The inexperienced teams on this map and the teams that haven't really figured out this 05:44:27.460 --> 05:44:31.940 map to any crazy degree, it can feel very suffocating on your T side if you're not able 05:44:31.940 --> 05:44:32.940 to control B lane. 05:44:32.940 --> 05:44:36.500 So depending on how Astralis plays this and mixes those pieces of aggression into their 05:44:36.500 --> 05:44:40.380 CT game plan, eyeballers can encounter a lot of difficulty in this half. 05:44:40.380 --> 05:44:44.820 So yeah, it looks like eyeballers is marching towards this victory, but Astralis is going 05:44:44.820 --> 05:44:47.660 to start putting up some resistance now that the guns are out. 05:44:47.660 --> 05:44:54.980 Yeah, and if you're forcing the less experienced team into 3v5, expecting them to play the mid-round, 05:44:54.980 --> 05:44:58.500 it's more likely going to go the same for all the Skullish, but then a couple of kills 05:44:58.500 --> 05:44:59.500 coming right back. 05:44:59.500 --> 05:45:00.500 Maxter, it's a 1v3. 05:45:00.500 --> 05:45:04.500 He taps, they're running him down, they really shouldn't let this look on! 05:45:04.500 --> 05:45:05.500 Yo, help! 05:45:05.500 --> 05:45:06.500 That is incredible! 05:45:06.500 --> 05:45:08.860 How has Maxter come away with it? 05:45:08.860 --> 05:45:10.940 He can't even believe it, look at him! 05:45:10.940 --> 05:45:13.700 Everybody's having their moments and that is surely it! 05:45:13.700 --> 05:45:15.700 I saw this can't survive that 05:45:15.700 --> 05:45:21.940 It's all eyes on the bollars because everybody's having a moment, but it's max to time and time to get it 05:45:22.980 --> 05:45:27.020 What are they doing? How is there no trade? Look at his face, man 05:45:31.940 --> 05:45:38.020 Bro, he's he's not even put himself in a good position to win it they can swing on both sides of the box 05:45:38.020 --> 05:45:40.020 He should have no chance 05:45:40.020 --> 05:45:43.780 What a transfer of the spray! 05:45:43.780 --> 05:45:48.300 This hook's he stole on the server man, like, I feel like he's just, if he was mad about 05:45:48.300 --> 05:45:52.940 that first half, like that's two of them now, you've just bet Max to two massive rounds 05:45:52.940 --> 05:45:56.180 that you just can't lose if you're a strawless. 05:45:56.180 --> 05:45:59.700 I'm like, oh my lord, this is rough. 05:45:59.700 --> 05:46:04.060 Oh my god Max, what the fuck is that? 05:46:04.060 --> 05:46:05.060 Ah! 05:46:05.060 --> 05:46:07.700 I saw what I had to do, you can speak a little bit. 05:46:08.700 --> 05:46:10.220 I thought I put it on the saw. 05:46:12.620 --> 05:46:16.020 You're taking the time to let them stew in it as well. 05:46:16.420 --> 05:46:18.420 I love that. I actually love that. 05:46:18.420 --> 05:46:21.340 But, I mean, you get JW on it, like saying that to you. 05:46:21.340 --> 05:46:23.020 You make a play that gets JW saying that. 05:46:23.020 --> 05:46:25.180 That's going to make you feel so good as Maxter. 05:46:25.180 --> 05:46:26.900 And yeah, dude, call all three. 05:46:26.900 --> 05:46:29.140 I mean, do you remember they used to do that, though? 05:46:29.140 --> 05:46:31.580 Like, back in the fanatics house, when they were the best team in the world, 05:46:31.580 --> 05:46:32.780 they would have one of these tilts. 05:46:32.780 --> 05:46:33.380 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 05:46:33.380 --> 05:46:35.780 that we just call the time on let you just sit in that. 05:46:35.780 --> 05:46:38.780 I believe it was they did that at the Columbus major, 05:46:38.780 --> 05:46:39.180 wasn't it? 05:46:39.180 --> 05:46:41.380 It was at the Danes who might have done that one. 05:46:41.380 --> 05:46:43.580 Either way, the Swedes are doing it to the Danes now. 05:46:43.580 --> 05:46:45.980 So it's absolutely crazy. 05:46:45.980 --> 05:46:47.280 Oh, this is insane. 05:46:47.280 --> 05:46:48.080 Now, I'll say this. 05:46:48.080 --> 05:46:49.380 We were talking about like it's funny. 05:46:49.380 --> 05:46:51.480 However, Astralis called the timeout first. 05:46:51.480 --> 05:46:53.980 And I'll tell you right now, that timeout had probably 05:46:53.980 --> 05:46:54.980 no substance to it. 05:46:54.980 --> 05:46:56.780 That was everyone mentally checked out. 05:46:56.780 --> 05:46:58.580 That timeout was to get them checked back in. 05:46:58.580 --> 05:47:00.680 Eyeballers do call the follow up timeout, 05:47:00.680 --> 05:47:03.000 But that timeout probably had a conversation to it. 05:47:03.640 --> 05:47:09.160 Alright, walk 11-4, Eyeballers, looking like the semi-finals is theirs. 05:47:10.680 --> 05:47:14.440 I don't know how you come back from this would be Astralis, I just don't think you do. 05:47:14.440 --> 05:47:18.840 Eyeballers is doing to Astralis what Astralis did to Spirit just like two weeks ago, probably. 05:47:21.400 --> 05:47:25.240 Just lifegames across the 43 and 5. 05:47:26.920 --> 05:47:28.680 Oh my gosh. 05:47:30.680 --> 05:47:38.080 A straw is just stacking the wrong side of the map. 05:47:38.080 --> 05:47:39.640 It's just Yabbi and Donut. 05:47:39.640 --> 05:47:44.080 Well, they're figuring it out at the very least. 05:47:44.080 --> 05:47:45.080 Stairs on his way over. 05:47:45.080 --> 05:47:46.680 It's just like once again, what are you going to do? 05:47:46.680 --> 05:47:48.520 All you really have is these tricky plays. 05:47:48.520 --> 05:47:51.320 The Hooksy Flank is going to take attention away. 05:47:51.320 --> 05:47:52.320 Okay. 05:47:52.320 --> 05:47:53.320 Now into the A bomb site. 05:47:53.320 --> 05:47:54.320 They haven't found Stereo yet. 05:47:54.320 --> 05:47:55.320 He's waiting patiently. 05:47:55.320 --> 05:47:56.320 One player and Donut. 05:47:56.320 --> 05:47:57.320 They're going to go, put Yabbi down. 05:47:57.320 --> 05:47:58.320 Good kill from Yabbi. 05:47:58.320 --> 05:47:59.320 Holding strong and Donut. 05:47:59.320 --> 05:48:05.760 Everyone can't transfer over to stair. Astralis survive a little bit longer keep eyeballers off series point 05:48:05.880 --> 05:48:09.520 Okay, that's why they bounce back from that fair enough, but 05:48:10.720 --> 05:48:12.720 Bob what can you do to them? 05:48:13.600 --> 05:48:15.400 No round is 05:48:15.400 --> 05:48:20.040 Unloseable no, and this is around where I mean yeah, you had to feel that way certainly 05:48:20.040 --> 05:48:24.760 I see where you're going with that one if this is around though any damage you can do to the economy is huge 05:48:24.960 --> 05:48:26.960 All right, Bob. Let's see what you got 05:48:26.960 --> 05:48:31.700 Nothing, nothing so far. He's getting at least one. You think so? He's getting at 05:48:31.700 --> 05:48:41.300 least one. Unless he saves. Doesn't count. Technicality. 11 to 5. It had one on the 05:48:41.300 --> 05:48:45.940 round. Yeah, that counts. So Astralis survived a little bit longer. They get 05:48:45.940 --> 05:48:49.460 some free upgrades to AK-47s which is which is so nice that's gonna alleviate 05:48:49.460 --> 05:48:52.060 some of the pressure on the money in the economy that they're gonna be working 05:48:52.060 --> 05:48:58.860 with down the stretch and that's just the first healing step of many that they 05:48:58.860 --> 05:49:03.140 needed this second half six rounds back 05:49:06.900 --> 05:49:10.500 it's eyeballers who hit the economic issues not able to convert against the 05:49:10.500 --> 05:49:14.740 low by here I'm gonna look at it from the other perspective imagine a straw 05:49:14.740 --> 05:49:19.340 despite all these BS rounds and all these mistakes and how terribly they 05:49:19.340 --> 05:49:23.900 plays from these situations and the pop off my ballers. Imagine they still pull it back. 05:49:23.900 --> 05:49:28.620 Jason, sure. Then the faith you get in your team that you've okay that we've hit an old 05:49:28.620 --> 05:49:33.740 time low of that, but we come back and find themselves to win. I think it I mean, I think 05:49:33.740 --> 05:49:37.100 it's very possible. I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility at all. Second time 05:49:37.100 --> 05:49:40.780 out for eyeballs. They talk things over might want that third one back that they used to kind 05:49:40.780 --> 05:49:46.620 of humble Astralis on the other side might have even been, you know, we were printing it like 05:49:46.620 --> 05:49:48.740 like they tried to like, you know, really let Astralis do it. 05:49:48.740 --> 05:49:50.500 Maybe they're trying to calm themselves down as well. 05:49:50.500 --> 05:49:54.060 That's a ton of adrenaline going course and through the team. 05:49:54.060 --> 05:49:56.420 Second one burns, so one remaining for eyeballers. 05:49:56.420 --> 05:50:00.060 They can hold onto that for quite some time. 05:50:00.060 --> 05:50:02.700 Ball to save the AK. 05:50:02.700 --> 05:50:03.900 Yeah, and he's got the armor, which 05:50:03.900 --> 05:50:05.580 is why he's keeping it rather than passing it off. 05:50:05.580 --> 05:50:06.420 It's not the hero, OK? 05:50:06.420 --> 05:50:07.540 It's the one brought forward. 05:50:07.540 --> 05:50:10.500 So any damage he can do with that is going to be important. 05:50:14.300 --> 05:50:16.420 But not picking up any utility to go along with it 05:50:16.420 --> 05:50:19.560 to try and activate that AK so it's just gonna be Bob trying to find his 05:50:19.560 --> 05:50:29.220 fights and over to the A-bomb site we go. It would be Yabbi he's up against and 05:50:29.220 --> 05:50:32.320 Astralis doesn't want to sit back and wait in a round like this. They push and 05:50:32.320 --> 05:50:36.320 find JW and now they're gonna start shifting over to the A-bomb site. This 05:50:36.320 --> 05:50:39.580 move has got to happen right now. Max is the Eagle. Is he gonna do it to him? 05:50:39.580 --> 05:50:45.460 Yabbi? No. Okay. He's all good. Bob though, certainly going to find one of the AK-47 05:50:45.460 --> 05:50:49.460 Get back, get back to safety to hunting him down and stares at a protective. 05:50:49.460 --> 05:50:53.460 Yeah, that's that's due to the information that they had with that B push earlier to allow that player to be there to for some backup. 05:50:53.460 --> 05:50:55.460 So really good timing on the rotation. 05:50:56.460 --> 05:50:58.460 Astralis creep up to six. 05:50:59.460 --> 05:51:01.460 And eyeballers this is the next round they buy. 05:51:02.460 --> 05:51:05.460 AK-47 on Bob and Max, there are Galil on Rolf. 05:51:05.460 --> 05:51:15.780 I just have a feeling, even though there's been some crazy moments, I still have a feeling 05:51:15.780 --> 05:51:18.780 these last couple rounds are going to be really tough for eyeballers to find. 05:51:18.780 --> 05:51:22.340 It's just weird, it feels like every time Astralis, they're still pretty far back. 05:51:22.340 --> 05:51:25.500 But every time they win like two rounds in a row, it's like the momentum feels like it's 05:51:25.500 --> 05:51:26.500 been taken away. 05:51:26.500 --> 05:51:29.740 This is usually when eyeballers get it right back, but again, this is what I mentioned. 05:51:29.740 --> 05:51:31.660 When do you mix in this disruptive style? 05:51:31.660 --> 05:51:32.940 It can be so effective. 05:51:32.940 --> 05:51:37.660 for one over and B lane with that push. Such an important flash to come in there. Oh, walking 05:51:37.660 --> 05:51:43.020 through the elbow smoke, Riu's ready for Max dirt. So, 3v3. Been two for the Dex here. 05:51:43.020 --> 05:51:46.380 Can he get another one? He's coming over the top. They're sandwiching the players for Yammie's 05:51:46.380 --> 05:51:50.540 hand over pressure, and Dex can't get back to Riu. So, Rolf is in a 1v2 with Winnable. 05:51:50.540 --> 05:51:55.260 He's jumping up though, and that's a really important round for Riu. Having to dig deep 05:51:55.260 --> 05:51:59.260 and handle pressure from multiple sides, but he makes sure he stands up. Those are the 05:51:59.260 --> 05:52:03.580 rounds there to get Astralis locked in though. A lot of pressure, one for one, a lot of activity 05:52:03.580 --> 05:52:07.820 coming in the direction of their aggressive play down middle, and both players in mid handle it 05:52:07.820 --> 05:52:11.500 perfectly. Playing off of each other, making sure you're recovering each other's back, 05:52:11.500 --> 05:52:15.100 that's going to start getting Astralis fired up, especially now that it's a third round in a row. 05:52:17.820 --> 05:52:23.420 Excuse me, second round in a row. How often have we seen another team get to the finish line though, 05:52:23.420 --> 05:52:26.620 Jason and just stumble. I know and eat the dirt 05:52:29.620 --> 05:52:34.720 Concerning back to pistols hoping they could keep level heads 05:52:39.200 --> 05:52:41.360 It's that factor too with the underdog of 05:52:42.560 --> 05:52:49.780 As you talked about during first map through the series you get to play without a whole lot of pressure as eyeballers as you've already exceeded expectations 05:52:49.780 --> 05:52:54.780 With that pressure comes roaring back when you're in a position to actually win the series. 05:52:58.780 --> 05:53:02.780 Comes back tenfold, so I baller sitting back with pistols waiting for the pushes behind these smokes. 05:53:02.780 --> 05:53:21.780 folks. Fuzi drifting the ult back over towards CT. Watching for the A main play. It's got 05:53:21.780 --> 05:53:29.300 Yabi with him. Should be strong enough to deal with any pistol antics. Even if Fuzi's 05:53:29.300 --> 05:53:34.580 to miss a shot or rotate off and leave yabbi alone all right you got to rely upon the yabbi 05:53:34.580 --> 05:53:42.020 then with the rifle shouldn't be making too many mistakes here so it's basically the exact 05:53:43.300 --> 05:53:48.580 low buyer oh my god what the hell that was over at b that's gonna pull all the attention to the 05:53:48.580 --> 05:53:54.740 b bomb site is he gonna go for one more yeah he is okay oh shit here we go dex finally called by 05:53:54.740 --> 05:53:57.320 but they're coming down. Yabbi has to step up. 05:53:57.320 --> 05:53:58.960 And yeah, he will get four kills. 05:53:58.960 --> 05:54:00.620 So yeah, you start to worry a little bit. 05:54:00.620 --> 05:54:01.940 Now Yabbi is left in an island. 05:54:01.940 --> 05:54:03.820 The rotations are very far away. 05:54:03.820 --> 05:54:06.100 If Yabbi misses and goes down there, 05:54:06.100 --> 05:54:07.540 then you have a tough round ahead of you. 05:54:07.540 --> 05:54:08.380 Shout out to Yabbi. 05:54:08.380 --> 05:54:09.700 He never even thought about moving. 05:54:09.700 --> 05:54:10.940 He never even budged. 05:54:10.940 --> 05:54:13.140 So much confidence in the three players already stacked up 05:54:13.140 --> 05:54:16.580 at the B bomb site and rightfully so. 05:54:16.580 --> 05:54:20.340 Quad kill and shuts down any attempts at snatching away 05:54:20.340 --> 05:54:21.220 arounds. 05:54:21.220 --> 05:54:23.380 OK, that lead is cut to three very quickly. 05:54:23.380 --> 05:54:26.940 Eyeballers running out of real estate to work with in this map 05:54:28.700 --> 05:54:30.700 Four in a row now for Astralis 05:54:35.380 --> 05:54:41.440 Heavy play towards the B bombsite it feels Jw wants to punish this aggression that Astralis has been dealing with them 05:54:43.500 --> 05:54:45.700 And there's the first kill double swing 05:54:45.700 --> 05:54:57.700 Jw has the angle, Fuzzi was to step back into it but he won, he's transitioned over to his 05:54:57.700 --> 05:55:03.320 cave, hooks it, his kill is good, and forcing them away, eyeballers now no longer hold the 05:55:03.320 --> 05:55:12.500 player advantage, the bomb site feels impenetrable, got some nades left, they don't have a molotov. 05:55:12.500 --> 05:55:16.180 Look how concerned they are with the amount of aggressive looks they've had to play against 05:55:16.180 --> 05:55:17.180 from Astralis. 05:55:17.180 --> 05:55:18.180 They're so worried. 05:55:18.180 --> 05:55:21.340 Someone has just kind of camped out and ready to pounce on them from behind, but Astralis 05:55:21.340 --> 05:55:24.020 has just disappeared from middle. 05:55:24.020 --> 05:55:25.620 It's chewing a lot of time off the clock. 05:55:25.620 --> 05:55:28.100 It's going to be alleviated by Bob as he starts peeking elbow. 05:55:28.100 --> 05:55:30.660 He's going to see that it's clear and let him know there's nothing to worry about. 05:55:30.660 --> 05:55:32.220 The defense has spread back out. 05:55:32.220 --> 05:55:35.740 At the moment, Astralis, it seems like they feel like eyeballers has gone back through 05:55:35.740 --> 05:55:37.780 T spawn, readjusting elsewhere on the map. 05:55:37.780 --> 05:55:40.100 It's just going to be a re-exec at this B bomb site. 05:55:40.100 --> 05:55:41.540 So all eyes on Fosy and it's off. 05:55:41.540 --> 05:55:46.640 He's just starting to backtrack so he's gonna be behind the utility once it comes in and the smokes are now arriving 05:55:46.640 --> 05:55:51.440 Oh Jw's been so patient he's waiting all rounds long for that opportunity 05:55:51.440 --> 05:55:56.360 He takes it, hooks he's playing away getting one in point kill, but then Bob gets caught Ryu flanks him out 05:55:56.360 --> 05:55:59.320 So a 2v2 and you know where they're coming from 05:56:01.160 --> 05:56:03.160 Jw and Dex 05:56:03.160 --> 05:56:08.600 Yabbi and Ryu now arrive. 05:56:08.600 --> 05:56:09.920 They've got the health advantage. 05:56:09.920 --> 05:56:12.880 Yabbi's also moved deeper than J.W. would expect. 05:56:12.880 --> 05:56:13.880 He's beyond the scope. 05:56:13.880 --> 05:56:14.880 Oh, my God. 05:56:14.880 --> 05:56:15.880 He's going to take the shot. 05:56:15.880 --> 05:56:16.880 The barrel. 05:56:16.880 --> 05:56:20.680 The barrel's shown, and J.W. going back into the peak, but now could be exposed, so he's 05:56:20.680 --> 05:56:22.680 letting Dex play next. 05:56:22.680 --> 05:56:26.400 J.W. waits down the ramp, here comes the peak. 05:56:26.400 --> 05:56:27.400 Yabbi with the headshot. 05:56:27.400 --> 05:56:28.400 It's all on Dex. 05:56:28.400 --> 05:56:29.400 He's burning. 05:56:29.400 --> 05:56:30.400 Time ticking. 05:56:30.400 --> 05:56:31.400 Can he get the lineup? 05:56:31.400 --> 05:56:32.400 He's not spraying yet. 05:56:32.400 --> 05:56:36.400 He's playing yet, he's off the mark, and he will get taken down by Ryu. 05:56:36.400 --> 05:56:38.400 Astralis coming on the retake. 05:56:38.400 --> 05:56:40.400 And they really are fully back now. 05:56:40.400 --> 05:56:47.400 J.W. never had the information that Yabi stepped through the smoke at short and got that advanced position. 05:56:47.400 --> 05:56:49.400 And they didn't know where the second player was. 05:56:49.400 --> 05:56:52.400 I thought maybe they did because he was going through CT spawn. 05:56:52.400 --> 05:56:54.400 That was where the lurk was supposed to punish. 05:56:54.400 --> 05:56:55.400 That player got killed from behind. 05:56:55.400 --> 05:57:00.400 I thought that information would be too there, but you have no idea if they split up. 05:57:00.400 --> 05:57:08.640 So during all this, there's no chance that he can be involved, Dex, and kind of helping J.W. and never spotting out Gabby himself. 05:57:08.640 --> 05:57:15.040 Alright, there's a quick punch towards the people. I'm sorry, I worked out here for Eyeballers, but we're gonna find out because here they come, running up the ramp, into Ryu. 05:57:15.040 --> 05:57:27.400 It's a one for one, not exactly the start to a homebola. Here comes Hootsy, good flash out, one kill, traded again, and Eyeballers move in with three, but the bomb is loose, and that's the double kill from Stare that'll pull it right back and rein this one in. 05:57:27.400 --> 05:57:45.400 11 to 10. Astralis on fire. They're completely back in this one and I both of us have stalled out effective initial punch on that attack trading one for one into the bombsite. But then you see the missing details of that kind of a fast paced play. No smoke towards short gives there the exact angle the line of sight he needs for a multi kill. 05:57:45.400 --> 05:57:52.400 Bring that round back under Astralis' control. And now they've built up to the Astralis we expected to see. 05:57:52.400 --> 05:57:56.080 Now I'm just curious from your perspective, Jason. We have that big round from Maxter. 05:57:56.080 --> 05:57:59.920 There hasn't been a round win since then, but you called a timeout right after that. 05:57:59.920 --> 05:58:03.520 Do you feel like there's a world in which maybe you don't call that timeout and you just keep 05:58:03.520 --> 05:58:07.120 rolling with it? You might have been able to continue the win into a 12th round. 05:58:07.120 --> 05:58:11.280 That's what I would have expected to be honest with you. That's why I don't know if it was actually 05:58:11.280 --> 05:58:15.040 meant to like kind of like, I don't think I'm always the team at this stage in their career to 05:58:15.040 --> 05:58:18.640 really let them do it. Yeah, to let them do it. I think it was more to calm themselves down because 05:58:18.640 --> 05:58:19.940 because the clutch is so incredible. 05:58:19.940 --> 05:58:21.980 Well, they're coming to B again, they're rushing in again, 05:58:21.980 --> 05:58:23.340 starting to run thin on ideas, 05:58:23.340 --> 05:58:25.420 and really starting to run thin on kills 05:58:25.420 --> 05:58:27.180 because Ryu just pops out, 05:58:27.180 --> 05:58:29.020 as well as do not care about the pace change. 05:58:29.020 --> 05:58:31.180 They were handling it easily. 05:58:31.180 --> 05:58:34.140 Another kill comes through, at least a 2v3, 05:58:34.140 --> 05:58:35.420 but it's just the damage done, 05:58:35.420 --> 05:58:36.620 and the fact you haven't got the site, 05:58:36.620 --> 05:58:37.500 you haven't got the plan. 05:58:37.500 --> 05:58:39.300 This is the right call though from JW and Rolf. 05:58:39.300 --> 05:58:40.580 If you actually want to try and win this, 05:58:40.580 --> 05:58:41.820 you've got to back away from that, 05:58:41.820 --> 05:58:44.260 back away from where they expect you to be attacking into, 05:58:44.260 --> 05:58:46.900 and let the time and the lack of information be your ally. 05:58:46.900 --> 05:58:49.900 Let's see if you can find a really nice timing to surprise somebody. 05:58:49.900 --> 05:58:51.900 They're gonna get over to A-Quick, but Yabbi's already here. 05:58:51.900 --> 05:58:53.900 And he's been playing excellent at this bomb site. 05:58:53.900 --> 05:58:54.900 21 and 15. 05:58:54.900 --> 05:58:56.900 Yeah, he's not gonna miss you here. JW's running knife out. 05:58:56.900 --> 05:58:58.900 It's gonna be an easy kill for Yabbi. 05:58:58.900 --> 05:59:00.900 And we got a tight game. 05:59:01.900 --> 05:59:03.900 All right, Bolo, is there a choke in this one away? 05:59:05.900 --> 05:59:08.900 I don't think it's... I don't think it's... I'll tell you, I don't think it's a choke. 05:59:08.900 --> 05:59:09.900 It's just a strong force feeding him. 05:59:09.900 --> 05:59:11.900 I think it's... I think it's like... 05:59:11.900 --> 05:59:12.900 It's pretty good. 05:59:12.900 --> 05:59:14.900 I think more than anything, it's just... 05:59:14.900 --> 05:59:18.980 They got to play with momentum and they got to play with a lot of energy and they got to play with a lot of excitement and now 05:59:18.980 --> 05:59:19.780 That's been stalled out 05:59:19.780 --> 05:59:22.240 You go back to remembering that this is not a good map in their pool 05:59:22.860 --> 05:59:25.660 40% win rate against tier two and tier three opposition 05:59:26.180 --> 05:59:29.620 They should have they should have never even been into the position in some sense 05:59:29.620 --> 05:59:34.260 It's incredible clutches individual efforts a wild 1v3 for Maxter 05:59:34.260 --> 05:59:35.500 That's what got them here 05:59:35.500 --> 05:59:40.020 But now that Astralis has locked in you actually got to beat him at counter strike and it comes back to what I was saying 05:59:40.020 --> 05:59:46.020 after that big maxed around was, if Astralis can have terrible rounds here, terrible start, 05:59:46.020 --> 05:59:51.220 so many mistakes, and still come back all the way and win it, I mean that's just got to make you feel like, 05:59:51.220 --> 05:59:55.220 despite the fact that we're playing badly, we still have such a high level that we can 05:59:55.220 --> 05:59:56.260 pull back any game. 05:59:56.260 --> 06:00:00.660 And then what does it lock you in for in that third round, which would be Inferno when you come in for Astralis? 06:00:00.660 --> 06:00:16.380 11 to 11. A seven round run from Astralis to cool off this eyeballers team. Back to 06:00:16.380 --> 06:00:22.140 back B rushes. I'm with you running out of ideas that playbook not deep enough. Since 06:00:22.140 --> 06:00:24.980 they might have had some opportunity since there was some space something they could 06:00:24.980 --> 06:00:29.380 work with over there but Astralis just keeps shutting it down regardless of what happens. 06:00:29.380 --> 06:00:34.080 Yeah, now you've forced them into a long, drawn-out round with weaker weapons. 06:00:34.080 --> 06:00:37.980 It's going to be pretty easy, but that Glock kill comes in, that's an M4 available to Rolf. 06:00:37.980 --> 06:00:40.580 They've been able to find that kill on Hooksy a number of times in rounds like these. 06:00:40.580 --> 06:00:42.580 It feels like at this point they're just kind of targeting it. 06:00:42.580 --> 06:00:45.580 We saw Dex get that 1D, got him a few rounds back, kind of an eco. 06:00:46.580 --> 06:00:48.680 So they came into this with a single AK-47. 06:00:48.680 --> 06:00:51.080 At the moment, they've got two rifles with that M4 recovered. 06:00:51.080 --> 06:00:54.480 The issue is the A-bombsite feels closed with how good Yabi's playing, 06:00:54.480 --> 06:00:57.480 so you almost feel like you have to go elsewhere. 06:00:57.480 --> 06:01:00.480 Hey, Natsur was playing pretty good at one point as well. 06:01:03.480 --> 06:01:04.480 There he goes. 06:01:04.480 --> 06:01:05.480 Pressing decision. 06:01:05.480 --> 06:01:07.480 Yeah, that's a bit too risky for Fuzzy. 06:01:07.480 --> 06:01:09.480 At this point in the game, you're making that move. 06:01:10.480 --> 06:01:12.480 That has given iBallers the advantage. 06:01:13.480 --> 06:01:15.480 Starr is inside of the smoke. 06:01:15.480 --> 06:01:17.480 This is a tense, tense moment. Max is going to kill. 06:01:17.480 --> 06:01:20.480 Starr tries to turn around, but Bob has got the tech-knight kill. 06:01:20.480 --> 06:01:23.480 And like this, that's how iBallers find my point. 06:01:23.480 --> 06:01:26.480 Oh my goodness, that is still... 06:01:26.480 --> 06:01:33.740 well the eyeballers are looking for the fact that you have one rightful and they've managed one extra round out of this 06:01:34.960 --> 06:01:37.120 Okay, eyeballers series point 06:01:38.240 --> 06:01:42.880 And this is the best chance to do it with how many issues they've been creating 06:01:44.200 --> 06:01:46.200 for a straw list 06:01:46.560 --> 06:01:49.280 Nothing is just coming nothing is coming easy for this team right now 06:01:49.280 --> 06:01:52.940 There's always gonna be one more thing you have to overcome the jump from foesie man 06:01:52.940 --> 06:01:55.420 and that's a brutal way to give up a kill. 06:01:55.420 --> 06:01:57.620 I think if this goes to overtime, Astralis win it. 06:01:57.620 --> 06:02:00.660 So this has to be the opportunity for iBallers. 06:02:00.660 --> 06:02:03.380 They have just had nothing on this T side, 06:02:03.380 --> 06:02:05.620 but magical moments. 06:02:05.620 --> 06:02:08.460 They get one extra, gotta take this chance now. 06:02:09.300 --> 06:02:10.740 Astralis have a good bye. 06:02:12.260 --> 06:02:15.020 And we might be saying goodbye to Astralis. 06:02:15.020 --> 06:02:17.260 We'll have to wait and see. 06:02:17.260 --> 06:02:20.100 iBallers, they've got JW out middle. 06:02:20.100 --> 06:02:22.660 I dare you to give JW another chance. 06:02:22.660 --> 06:02:26.820 Double dog, there you go. 06:02:26.820 --> 06:02:29.620 All the time it doesn't spread to Stare though, so he's going to get caught off guard, you 06:02:29.620 --> 06:02:30.620 imagine. 06:02:30.620 --> 06:02:31.620 KW taking point through Rudd. 06:02:31.620 --> 06:02:32.620 Yabby, there he is. 06:02:32.620 --> 06:02:34.100 Michelle, oh, JW's missed it. 06:02:34.100 --> 06:02:36.940 Astralis have come through charging with a triple kill. 06:02:36.940 --> 06:02:38.980 Kim Axter saving him again. 06:02:38.980 --> 06:02:41.340 He's had so many of these miraculous moments. 06:02:41.340 --> 06:02:45.780 Wait for your teammate, he's coming for the jump up, oh no, you can't get there, Rolf. 06:02:45.780 --> 06:02:47.420 Not ready for the swing. 06:02:47.420 --> 06:02:48.860 Bomb has dropped here, he must come in. 06:02:48.860 --> 06:02:51.700 And Astralis, they have brought it all the way back. 06:02:51.700 --> 06:02:56.980 seem to lost multiple times. They had to go on an incredible streak to even have a chance. 06:02:56.980 --> 06:03:02.400 A seven round run, eight of the last nine rounds of play in their favor, just to make 06:03:02.400 --> 06:03:03.400 overtime. 06:03:03.400 --> 06:03:07.800 Yeah, Fuzzi looks so stressed right now. He thought he was about to be the MVP, sweet 06:03:07.800 --> 06:03:11.700 for eyeball as well. They're giving that up. I mean, that kill was just ridiculous up 06:03:11.700 --> 06:03:17.540 in red. I mean, you're just so happy that your team actually able to close into overtime. 06:03:17.540 --> 06:03:23.700 This is Yabi's good start, all going down, Yabi able to get the second, he's just reliable 06:03:23.700 --> 06:03:27.340 once it comes towards him. 06:03:27.340 --> 06:03:30.740 But I do stand by what I said, I do feel like now it's going to be... 06:03:30.740 --> 06:03:34.860 I mean I think it's already some kind of an indictment on Astralis that has gotten to 06:03:34.860 --> 06:03:40.780 this point but if they don't win it in overtime now, it's a real question. 06:03:40.780 --> 06:03:44.420 Another deep smoke, eyeballers want to pressure mid. 06:03:44.420 --> 06:03:51.620 To be fair, it didn't bounce off the wall, but the way they wanted it to. 06:03:51.620 --> 06:03:55.820 Oh, you know, it's tense, needs some comedic relief. 06:03:55.820 --> 06:04:01.420 Ooh, stepping around, Hoaxy, as you mentioned, that's been a real problem here for us trawlers, 06:04:01.420 --> 06:04:08.740 him going down inside of Jack, and he's going to be forced back by the Molotov this time. 06:04:08.740 --> 06:04:16.420 He's gonna re-clear mid. This is all on bomb. He's got to be very careful looking for this exact piece of aggression 06:04:16.420 --> 06:04:20.780 But how long does he keep his focus here? He's gonna start making his move. Oh turns back and that had to be a kill 06:04:20.780 --> 06:04:23.460 Had to be one. Yeah, they're losing fights now as well 06:04:24.220 --> 06:04:26.220 That's what I was looking sharpened 06:04:27.340 --> 06:04:29.860 Clean cuts right through the attack 06:04:30.820 --> 06:04:33.460 Don't step in front of the scope Jw's looking for the shot 06:05:03.460 --> 06:05:08.160 you breaks down Ryu it doesn't matter like I said any round is 06:05:08.160 --> 06:05:12.820 unloosable for Astralis this is insane the patience and confidence they have in 06:05:12.820 --> 06:05:17.060 those scenarios JW and Maxter just waiting not trying to overextend not 06:05:17.060 --> 06:05:21.300 trying to swing too much and be the hero this is so perfectly played you get a 06:05:21.300 --> 06:05:25.540 little bit of JW magic mixed in there ducks beneath the follow-up shots quick 06:05:25.540 --> 06:05:32.940 response cleaned up and this former NIP player of Maxter is just dominating 30 06:05:32.940 --> 06:05:36.940 He kills now, he's got in overtime in this elimination map. 06:05:41.940 --> 06:05:46.940 Gonna start from Yabi. Can the train come in from Taks? Yes it will. Ryu, it's a silence max. 06:05:46.940 --> 06:05:51.940 And then if follow up, okay, that's a bit too easy for Ryu to get away with three there. 06:05:51.940 --> 06:05:57.940 No, but this is what I was talking about, that aggression, just attacking them, being disruptive, especially towards that point. 06:05:57.940 --> 06:06:01.940 Very tough sometimes for these inexperienced teams to handle it, and it's been a problem for them all throughout the half. 06:06:01.940 --> 06:06:07.260 throughout the half they're not gonna solve it today and look there's been 06:06:07.260 --> 06:06:13.740 some cool magic and some cool clutches it's not happening surely not he's 06:06:13.740 --> 06:06:18.860 getting flanked out at the moment there's a timer on this yeah that the 06:06:18.860 --> 06:06:23.940 flank is the winning piece it and Ryu is going to confirm it around the back 06:06:23.940 --> 06:06:29.660 good round from Ryu being quiet but showing up when we're quiet he had an 06:06:29.660 --> 06:06:33.020 important round where he shut down the B rush. Now he's got one here. 06:06:33.300 --> 06:06:36.540 It's got to be one of the most stressful games. This is Stralis lineup has played together. 06:06:37.100 --> 06:06:41.060 Absolutely. I mean, for eyeballs, they've got a map under the belt. 06:06:41.700 --> 06:06:44.180 It's one of those games where it feels like a Stralis is like winning in like 06:06:44.180 --> 06:06:48.340 the strategic department, but then eyeballs is winning the clutches, you 06:06:48.340 --> 06:06:49.020 know, the magic. 06:06:52.500 --> 06:06:55.620 Just winning some of those clutches has just kept them so alive. 06:06:56.300 --> 06:06:57.700 20 kills on decks now. 06:06:59.660 --> 06:07:05.260 Timeout taken from eyeballers. They really really want this final round of their T side campaign 06:07:05.260 --> 06:07:08.020 I bet they got to be pumped to switch back over to defense 06:07:13.340 --> 06:07:17.660 Yeah, I think just get another round somehow on this T side 06:07:20.460 --> 06:07:26.980 I'm gonna be loving indeed fast place towards the B bomb site haven't really worked. I don't think we'll see them go there 06:07:26.980 --> 06:07:34.260 I think the quicker and aggressive A attack would be available to them, but I think you've 06:07:34.260 --> 06:07:35.780 made the point earlier and you're probably a little bit right. 06:07:35.780 --> 06:07:38.180 They might be dissuaded from that dude, Yabi, having played so well. 06:07:38.180 --> 06:07:40.740 He's shot them down a number of times and they've come in that direction. 06:07:40.740 --> 06:07:42.240 27 kills on Yabi. 06:07:42.240 --> 06:07:44.140 Yeah, here they come anyway. 06:07:44.140 --> 06:07:45.140 One player stepping into A. 06:07:45.140 --> 06:07:47.260 I think Yabi senses it because it's been so long. 06:07:47.260 --> 06:07:48.260 Oh, I mean, this is good. 06:07:48.260 --> 06:07:49.260 Look at the setup. 06:07:49.260 --> 06:07:51.060 They're so ready for an A play. 06:07:51.060 --> 06:07:52.060 Dex is clearing this. 06:07:52.060 --> 06:07:53.060 I mean, yeah. 06:07:53.060 --> 06:07:54.060 But it doesn't matter. 06:07:54.060 --> 06:07:55.060 Yabi's still gonna win the fight. 06:07:55.060 --> 06:07:58.280 I mean, if dodge the scope, so the setup isn't as deadly as it could have been. 06:07:58.280 --> 06:08:00.600 No, but you need the donut portion of this attack to get into place. 06:08:00.600 --> 06:08:02.280 If you're actually going to continue and try and finish here, 06:08:02.280 --> 06:08:03.780 you need the other players to be in position. 06:08:03.780 --> 06:08:06.580 But actually, I thought there's this happy to gain control of mid. 06:08:06.580 --> 06:08:07.460 Careful now. 06:08:07.460 --> 06:08:08.620 Fuzi goes into the main. 06:08:08.620 --> 06:08:10.420 That's an important fight to win for Bob. 06:08:10.420 --> 06:08:12.060 Puts pressure here on Fuzi. 06:08:12.060 --> 06:08:16.260 Huxi having to try and release the pressure by coming out through Heaven. 06:08:16.260 --> 06:08:18.860 Oh, he's got a deep wrangle and J.W. is ready for it. 06:08:18.860 --> 06:08:23.980 So Huxi takes that kill and Rolf just hasn't shown enough to really believe this is possible. 06:08:23.980 --> 06:08:24.860 Oh, there's a headshot. 06:08:24.860 --> 06:08:28.620 Maybe, just maybe, some more magic left in him. 06:08:28.620 --> 06:08:29.620 1v3 total. 06:08:29.620 --> 06:08:31.540 There's the second, and OK, maybe he 06:08:31.540 --> 06:08:34.700 doubting off a little bit early as he brings it down 06:08:34.700 --> 06:08:36.660 to just stare in the side. 06:08:36.660 --> 06:08:38.020 Oh! 06:08:38.020 --> 06:08:40.020 So close. 06:08:40.020 --> 06:08:44.140 So, so close to an unbelievable clutch again. 06:08:44.140 --> 06:08:46.020 That would have been the individual heroics they've 06:08:46.020 --> 06:08:47.500 been riding throughout this whole map, 06:08:47.500 --> 06:08:49.220 and that would have been a critical second round 06:08:49.220 --> 06:08:50.220 to get an overtime. 06:08:50.220 --> 06:08:52.300 Oh, he was one bullet away from that, too. 06:08:52.300 --> 06:08:53.940 Yeah, now they've got to do it the hard way, 06:08:53.940 --> 06:09:00.820 over to CT. You can see Yabbi shaking his hand like he's just got away with one again. 06:09:00.820 --> 06:09:06.140 These guys can shoot man. Mastralis having such a tough time containing them. Ran over 06:09:06.140 --> 06:09:11.500 on the first map. An incredible comeback here on ancient and still not done with the battle 06:09:11.500 --> 06:09:14.500 yet. Well the defense is where they did their 06:09:14.500 --> 06:09:21.380 better work. Still possible to win. Just need three rounds here but Fuzi goes out middle. 06:09:21.380 --> 06:09:28.340 start. That's Max, they're gone. You know that's the A player. Remember that all too well. Now here 06:09:28.340 --> 06:09:32.580 comes Rolf down the bottom of the B ramp. Yabi ready to punish that aggression. Eye ballers 06:09:32.580 --> 06:09:38.740 providing them the kills. Dex trying to pull it back. He gets the dink. Come back to back rounds. 06:09:38.740 --> 06:09:45.220 Now they've come so close to getting essential kills at 2v3 now. And I think the position 06:09:45.220 --> 06:09:50.580 and the kill from Yabi really sold a fake. Eye ballers believe the ending play is going to be 06:09:50.580 --> 06:09:57.580 towards the B bomb site where Yabi was positioned. Utility is chucked out elsewhere. Bob now calling it out now. 9 HP. What's he supposed to do? 06:09:57.580 --> 06:10:04.580 No chance he's going to set up a launching pack for this retake. That spam was maybe the only hope, so it's all on JW. 06:10:06.580 --> 06:10:12.580 Sponsor target. Now they're going to be so primed for this. Astralis, you can be letting this one go at all. 06:10:12.580 --> 06:10:18.580 How do you fight your way out of the temple? Time ticking on the bomb as well. Not able to get the shot off. 06:10:18.580 --> 06:10:25.580 So Ryu on the clean up, final couple of kills came in, and Astralis reach map point. 06:10:25.580 --> 06:10:31.580 Two chances to lock things out and take us to map three. 06:10:31.580 --> 06:10:33.580 That roll of clutch, man. 06:10:33.580 --> 06:10:39.580 That might have been the one, not only the win in the round and two for one in the first stage of overtime, 06:10:39.580 --> 06:10:41.580 but just the momentum it gives you. 06:10:41.580 --> 06:10:45.820 And again, it feels like with the way this happened, the first two maps have played out 06:10:45.820 --> 06:10:49.500 as strong as I feel like they're just like one stiff breeze away from just another mental 06:10:49.500 --> 06:10:50.500 collapse. 06:10:50.500 --> 06:10:54.140 But they've been playing so well that they've avoided it. 06:10:54.140 --> 06:10:57.980 It's been some time since they had to encounter and deal with that, and now against their 06:10:57.980 --> 06:11:00.140 same lineup he had to get the double kill earlier. 06:11:00.140 --> 06:11:01.140 This time that's one. 06:11:01.140 --> 06:11:05.420 Yeah, great map for Counter Shrike, lots of magical moments, but it's not enough. 06:11:05.420 --> 06:11:06.420 Surely. 06:11:06.420 --> 06:11:07.420 They're not done. 06:11:07.420 --> 06:11:08.420 They're not done. 06:11:08.420 --> 06:11:11.460 Every time I go to say something, Rolf just steps up and does something special. 06:11:11.460 --> 06:11:17.740 I know three kills coming in for Rolf. It's now going to be Fuzzi and Starr on the back foot. They still can close this 06:11:18.060 --> 06:11:22.140 But very difficult now. They've been smoked away from the bomb like that. They're far far away 06:11:22.140 --> 06:11:25.460 Yeah, you need to you need to back off and find a new angle of attack at least for the moment 06:11:25.460 --> 06:11:29.660 You know, Fuzzi is gonna stay stay here with the off and make sure nobody pushes once that smoke clears 06:11:29.660 --> 06:11:34.740 But stare he can create the opening Jw just tucks his head down. I don't think you want that fight 06:11:34.740 --> 06:11:39.540 No, you definitely don't get away Rolf. There we go. Well, I feel off of the ace. He's off of the ace here Rolf 06:11:39.540 --> 06:11:49.140 this is one of those rounds you don't chase it though don't give him chances 06:11:50.340 --> 06:11:54.860 can spit can stare pull something special there's three targets coming at 06:11:54.860 --> 06:12:00.420 him so single kill for him in the end Rolfe does very well 4k everyone is 06:12:00.420 --> 06:12:04.180 stepping up here for eyeball has happened the moments and okay one more 06:12:04.180 --> 06:12:07.900 round left the the issue for eyeballers is it's been a long time since I feel 06:12:07.900 --> 06:12:10.980 We've been able to watch them get consecutive rounds. 06:12:10.980 --> 06:12:15.140 They have a moment like that, but that Ashrafs have been able to answer back quite consistently. 06:12:15.140 --> 06:12:19.060 And Ashrafs are going to use their overtime timeout to make sure they close it here and now. 06:12:23.180 --> 06:12:24.860 That is beautiful from Rolf. 06:12:24.860 --> 06:12:25.980 It's a lovely sequence. 06:12:25.980 --> 06:12:31.780 I mean, we're getting a glimpse throughout these two massive play of every single member of eyeballers contributing in some significant moment. 06:12:32.500 --> 06:12:34.860 Rolf here to keep them alive, almost with the ace. 06:12:37.900 --> 06:12:48.900 The feeling of relief Astralis will have if they win this, it's gonna be immense as they head off into the reset for the third and final map. 06:12:48.900 --> 06:12:55.900 What are we gonna call here? There's one overtime timeout for Astralis. You call your best round, the round that you're most confident in getting you the victory. 06:12:55.900 --> 06:13:05.900 Early smokes out towards elbow and window room. Early Molotov down to prevent any peeks from elbow. And Astralis send in number of bodies towards B lane. 06:13:05.900 --> 06:13:11.900 Smokes are in already, not going to be hitting the site just yet on this first timing. 06:13:11.900 --> 06:13:15.900 Waiting for some responses. Get trying to get Fusey up. 06:13:15.900 --> 06:13:21.900 Now, he hasn't done much on this map. He's eight kills now at the end of overtime. 06:13:21.900 --> 06:13:24.900 He needs her off, but to chime in a little bit more. 06:13:24.900 --> 06:13:26.900 Risky jump from Rolf. 06:13:26.900 --> 06:13:29.900 Closing nose all about those. Dex is going to back off in towards Cave as well. 06:13:29.900 --> 06:13:32.900 So the defense while it postured a little bit more aggressive, 06:13:32.900 --> 06:13:35.900 aggressive, now happy to fall back at about the minute and twenty second mark. 06:13:38.400 --> 06:13:39.900 He'll gain control. 06:13:41.400 --> 06:13:43.900 And on top of the boxes, Dex is going to make his stand. 06:13:45.900 --> 06:13:49.900 He's got Rolf here, not paired up with him underneath, but he is going to swing into the fight. 06:13:51.400 --> 06:13:53.900 Rolf and Dex, that's two. 06:13:53.900 --> 06:13:56.900 Three kills away from another overtime, Ryu still fighting. 06:13:56.900 --> 06:13:59.900 Trying to get another one, Ryu has stepped up and he's grabbed the bomb. 06:13:59.900 --> 06:14:02.620 They're gonna try and slip away and that A bomb site's just opened up 06:14:03.740 --> 06:14:07.700 Bomb has moved off. It's a double hop. Can Bob get one? No 06:14:08.460 --> 06:14:15.460 Denied by Stan Bob dead. Perhaps the dreams of another overtime with it. Hey, hold on. Max is arriving right now 06:14:17.020 --> 06:14:19.020 Putting himself in the right spot 06:14:19.940 --> 06:14:23.540 Who's he caught stare looking to try trading damage done to his back 06:14:24.460 --> 06:14:26.460 stare looking sharp 06:14:26.460 --> 06:14:32.460 Maxter low HP, that Grenade won't finish him off though, and it's JW and Maxter coming back. 06:14:32.460 --> 06:14:34.460 What a combo this is being. 06:14:35.460 --> 06:14:38.460 Stare sparing down through the smoke, saving Astralis. 06:14:39.460 --> 06:14:42.460 Another only player that could do anything about this is JW. 06:14:42.460 --> 06:14:44.460 He's gotta hurry up before Stare gets into cover. 06:14:44.460 --> 06:14:47.460 Out of temple, must pray that he can win this one. 06:14:47.460 --> 06:14:49.460 And Stare knows where he is now, jumping out. 06:14:49.460 --> 06:14:52.460 JW can't do it. Stare saves Astralis. 06:14:52.460 --> 06:15:01.860 Astralis, they will take it to map through size of relief. Astralis pressured the entire map. Magic was not enough for iBallers to close it. 06:15:03.860 --> 06:15:15.160 I tell you, we're always blessed with these crazy games at PG Elements and this one, no difference. iBallers, they're going to be feeling super disappointed here. 06:15:15.160 --> 06:15:18.160 I think there were 11-4 at one point. 06:15:18.160 --> 06:15:20.640 I really had to get that one over the line, 06:15:20.640 --> 06:15:24.080 but Astralis, they just kept battling and battling 06:15:24.080 --> 06:15:26.520 and clawed their way back into that one. 06:15:26.520 --> 06:15:28.760 We got overtime, and even there, 06:15:28.760 --> 06:15:31.000 I thought double overtime was on the cards. 06:15:31.000 --> 06:15:33.640 Bob sort of had to hit that upshot at the end, 06:15:33.640 --> 06:15:34.720 and here we are. 06:15:34.720 --> 06:15:36.320 That was a lot of shots, Bob, needed to hit this game, 06:15:36.320 --> 06:15:37.160 if we're honest. 06:15:37.160 --> 06:15:39.680 I mean, the thing is, is like, credit where credit's due. 06:15:39.680 --> 06:15:41.440 Eyeballers make a show of this. 06:15:41.440 --> 06:15:42.880 They nearly two other series, 06:15:42.880 --> 06:15:44.520 but it's one of those situations 06:15:44.520 --> 06:15:46.420 where to me it came down to kind of two things. 06:15:46.420 --> 06:15:48.260 One, when it came to eyeballer CT side, 06:15:48.260 --> 06:15:51.620 it was really reliant on big individual playmaking. 06:15:51.620 --> 06:15:53.460 And Astralis making some huge fumbles, 06:15:53.460 --> 06:15:54.860 peeking one by one through smokes 06:15:54.860 --> 06:15:57.380 or just not playing situations appropriately. 06:15:57.380 --> 06:15:59.620 And if we're honest about it, when we switch sides, 06:15:59.620 --> 06:16:01.740 eyeballer's T side, it was lacking. 06:16:01.740 --> 06:16:03.940 Like they ran out of patience and play both pretty quickly 06:16:03.940 --> 06:16:05.540 and they were kind of trying to force the finish 06:16:05.540 --> 06:16:08.140 to that game by going for like these KC plays. 06:16:08.140 --> 06:16:10.340 And you know, Astralis as bad as they were playing, 06:16:10.340 --> 06:16:12.540 they're a, you know, poise enough ancient team 06:16:12.540 --> 06:16:15.020 to be able to handle simplistic things like that. 06:16:15.020 --> 06:16:17.420 It's kind of reminiscent of that Mongols game again, 06:16:17.420 --> 06:16:19.100 where Astralis went down, excuse me, 06:16:19.100 --> 06:16:21.780 8-1 on the A-T side, and CD-Side completely turned it around, 06:16:21.780 --> 06:16:22.620 right? 06:16:22.620 --> 06:16:25.020 And 1, what was it, 39 or 13-10 is something of that nature. 06:16:25.020 --> 06:16:28.300 So my worry for me is not that Astralis wouldn't be able 06:16:28.300 --> 06:16:29.300 to bounce back, that's like an half. 06:16:29.300 --> 06:16:32.380 It was just the individual messing up, 06:16:32.380 --> 06:16:33.500 coming out from a lot of the players. 06:16:33.500 --> 06:16:34.660 They screwed up so many times. 06:16:34.660 --> 06:16:36.900 There's our foe Z jumping over the red smoke, 06:16:36.900 --> 06:16:38.060 getting picked off as well. 06:16:38.060 --> 06:16:39.380 So many individual mistakes. 06:16:39.380 --> 06:16:41.020 But then on the flip side, you have Max, 06:16:41.020 --> 06:16:46.460 performing the way he did, but our boy Stare and Yabi, the two players we touched upon DUS they 06:16:46.460 --> 06:16:50.860 really did deliver and they really had to. Yes, I mean it took them a while to get going, 06:16:51.580 --> 06:16:56.540 but when they got going they were going. I mean Stare less so, Yabi had a bit of a slow start, 06:16:56.540 --> 06:17:03.180 but this is why they have pretty much put him in the positions they put him in. They believe on 06:17:03.180 --> 06:17:06.700 this guy to deliver. Yeah, Stare's the star for this team. There's no question about it. He's had a 06:17:06.700 --> 06:17:09.380 a huge blow up, already a solid player before, 06:17:09.380 --> 06:17:12.420 but what he's been doing this year has been a level above. 06:17:12.420 --> 06:17:14.540 And when you look at this heat map, you can just see, 06:17:14.540 --> 06:17:15.940 you know, how he's dictating the pace 06:17:15.940 --> 06:17:17.180 at middle on both sides of the map, 06:17:17.180 --> 06:17:19.740 how he's able to rotate into these retakes 06:17:19.740 --> 06:17:23.060 on the A bomb site or help them with these entries on A as well. 06:17:23.060 --> 06:17:25.060 And just be that flexible rifling star 06:17:25.060 --> 06:17:27.580 that put up a crazy rating in ADR set 06:17:27.580 --> 06:17:28.460 throughout the course of this game. 06:17:28.460 --> 06:17:31.220 He was there one constant force that kept them in the game 06:17:31.220 --> 06:17:33.100 with all the different things that got thrown at them. 06:17:33.100 --> 06:17:34.420 Yeah, he was absolutely solid. 06:17:34.420 --> 06:17:35.780 This is the first round they get on board, 06:17:35.780 --> 06:17:37.580 which is a crazy space for this smoke. 06:17:37.580 --> 06:17:39.220 Getting a couple of kills, getting them on board. 06:17:39.220 --> 06:17:41.860 But yeah, overall, he was just a very solid rock. 06:17:41.860 --> 06:17:44.260 Gotta say though, even though Fozy was extremely quiet, 06:17:44.260 --> 06:17:45.940 I would say even the liability on this map, 06:17:45.940 --> 06:17:47.660 Ryuu had some very, very important kills. 06:17:47.660 --> 06:17:48.500 He warmed up, yeah. 06:17:48.500 --> 06:17:50.500 Especially in overtime, what looked like 06:17:50.500 --> 06:17:52.260 it was gonna be another round going the way of Eyeball, 06:17:52.260 --> 06:17:53.980 as we're thinking overtime number two's coming in. 06:17:53.980 --> 06:17:56.740 He gets us two very crucial kills inside the cave, 06:17:56.740 --> 06:17:58.700 allowing them to win out the round. 06:17:58.700 --> 06:18:00.940 So yeah, I feel like Eyeball has definitely 06:18:00.940 --> 06:18:02.820 had their opportunity switch to close this one out, 06:18:02.820 --> 06:18:04.780 but as I pointed out, you know, 06:18:04.780 --> 06:18:09.780 If at the end of the first half, they hadn't let those two gun rounds slip, it would have been the game. 06:18:09.780 --> 06:18:14.780 But they gave a little bit of buffer to Astralis to work with, and that's all they needed at the end of the game. 06:18:14.780 --> 06:18:19.780 Yeah, I mean, I do want to say as well, I haven't watched Astralis for a long, long time. 06:18:19.780 --> 06:18:25.780 I do feel that if this was the previous iteration of Astralis, they would have just let that one go. 06:18:25.780 --> 06:18:31.780 They were very brittle in terms of mentality and very easy to kind of break. 06:18:31.780 --> 06:18:34.060 That is an unreal comeback. 06:18:34.060 --> 06:18:36.220 I mean, you are going out of the tournament there. 06:18:36.220 --> 06:18:39.140 It's not like you're just losing a Swiss game. 06:18:39.140 --> 06:18:39.900 You're out. 06:18:39.900 --> 06:18:45.020 And you're 11-4 down on a map you're supposed to be dominating. 06:18:45.020 --> 06:18:47.340 You can see here, the round history, 06:18:47.340 --> 06:18:49.540 to sort of get your way back into it. 06:18:49.540 --> 06:18:52.260 And also, so convincing, because you look at Astralis' CT side 06:18:52.260 --> 06:18:52.900 over there. 06:18:52.900 --> 06:18:55.100 They got the bomb down only the one time, right? 06:18:55.100 --> 06:18:56.140 For the side of Ibalis. 06:18:56.140 --> 06:18:58.820 So very, very convincing shutdown coming out from them. 06:18:58.820 --> 06:19:01.180 But yeah, like, they just get the job done. 06:19:01.180 --> 06:19:02.440 And that's what matters. 06:19:02.440 --> 06:19:04.320 Because coming to map number three, 06:19:04.320 --> 06:19:05.620 look, Inferno is a map, 06:19:05.620 --> 06:19:07.060 not very much mistaken over here. 06:19:07.060 --> 06:19:09.100 It could still be kind of 50-50, 06:19:09.100 --> 06:19:10.140 but at the same time Astralis, 06:19:10.140 --> 06:19:11.980 they might have a little bit of winning the sales. 06:19:11.980 --> 06:19:13.260 But I won't lie, Matt, 06:19:13.260 --> 06:19:16.020 till the second half of map number two, 06:19:16.020 --> 06:19:17.940 they look so flat individually, 06:19:17.940 --> 06:19:20.420 tactically in every department you could think of. 06:19:20.420 --> 06:19:21.940 I mean, the thing that worries me as well, 06:19:21.940 --> 06:19:23.900 more so than anything to do with tactics, 06:19:23.900 --> 06:19:26.900 is the adrenaline dump that's involved 06:19:26.900 --> 06:19:29.460 in something like a game like that. 06:19:29.460 --> 06:19:31.420 You know, you heard it on the comms, you know, 06:19:31.420 --> 06:19:33.780 when you feature PGLs brought in where we're, you know, 06:19:33.780 --> 06:19:36.460 translating so you can hear what people are saying. 06:19:36.460 --> 06:19:38.820 And, you know, they're screaming, they're shouting, 06:19:38.820 --> 06:19:40.660 they're so hyped, they're saying like, you know, 06:19:40.660 --> 06:19:42.580 we can't lose here right now. 06:19:42.580 --> 06:19:44.900 All of our clutches are coming off and everything. 06:19:44.900 --> 06:19:49.140 And then you, Stralis, take a timeout, you take a timeout. 06:19:49.140 --> 06:19:50.820 There's this weird little pause. 06:19:50.820 --> 06:19:52.940 You know, all the adrenaline's gone now 06:19:52.940 --> 06:19:54.280 and you've got to get it over the line. 06:19:54.280 --> 06:19:56.220 And unfortunately as well, 06:19:56.220 --> 06:19:57.820 you've now got to go to a third map. 06:19:57.820 --> 06:20:00.620 So it's like how can you get yourself back up there? 06:20:00.620 --> 06:20:05.860 You know, how can you find something to give you a boost because I've seen this time and time again 06:20:05.860 --> 06:20:11.260 You have an epic middle map and then the team that you know essentially blows their adrenaline 06:20:11.580 --> 06:20:14.620 They're gone in the third map. They don't make it competitive true 06:20:14.620 --> 06:20:19.520 But again, you got to remember you got to contextualize it with the pressure you touched upon as well rich light for 06:20:19.940 --> 06:20:21.140 JWN is men again 06:20:21.140 --> 06:20:23.500 This is zero pressure game right obviously they're looking to win 06:20:23.500 --> 06:20:26.360 and they have Astralis shook, that's a thing. 06:20:26.360 --> 06:20:28.260 And overall from the context of both the maps 06:20:28.260 --> 06:20:30.820 put in together, sure, they ran out of pages 06:20:30.820 --> 06:20:34.020 in the notebook over time for the side of eyeballers, 06:20:34.020 --> 06:20:36.220 but individually everyone still looks very, very sharp. 06:20:36.220 --> 06:20:37.660 They still look very honed in. 06:20:37.660 --> 06:20:39.540 So I wouldn't necessarily say the danger's done 06:20:39.540 --> 06:20:41.980 and dusted for the side of Astralis here. 06:20:41.980 --> 06:20:45.180 No, definitely not, and obviously JW knows 06:20:45.180 --> 06:20:48.820 a thing or two about inferno, so let's kind of set 06:20:48.820 --> 06:20:49.780 that one up then. 06:20:49.780 --> 06:20:56.880 What's the record like how are they doing on this right now? Yeah, I mean, this is one of the less played maps for Astralis when it comes to this five 06:20:56.880 --> 06:21:02.580 I think they've only played it three times ahead the win over gamer Legion and then they lost to energy and 06:21:03.020 --> 06:21:06.980 I think they had a close lost or Aurora if I'm not mistaken. So it's not been the best 06:21:06.980 --> 06:21:15.040 I would say for eyeballers good, but obviously not the same level of competition right playing more small Academy teams regional lands things that nature 06:21:15.040 --> 06:21:17.040 But they are a well versed team on this map. 06:21:17.040 --> 06:21:18.600 And I think that, again, this mask 06:21:18.600 --> 06:21:19.960 is going to come down to Bob for me. 06:21:19.960 --> 06:21:22.640 I mean, Bob has had a really good game on Mirage, 06:21:22.640 --> 06:21:24.840 really poor on Ancient, plays really critical roles 06:21:24.840 --> 06:21:25.880 for them on this map. 06:21:25.880 --> 06:21:28.480 I think his entering and then Max's ability to trade off 06:21:28.480 --> 06:21:30.960 of him is going to be what really kind of dictates 06:21:30.960 --> 06:21:32.000 how well they're able to play. 06:21:32.000 --> 06:21:36.160 It's also just for me, are they able to have any more fuel 06:21:36.160 --> 06:21:37.280 left in the tank? 06:21:37.280 --> 06:21:38.520 Like you said, the adrenaline rush, 06:21:38.520 --> 06:21:40.800 but also it's just like the dumping of all the different 06:21:40.800 --> 06:21:42.720 things that you have in your game plan. 06:21:42.720 --> 06:21:44.280 Are they able to have that reset and come 06:21:44.280 --> 06:21:50.200 into Inferno looking polish. I'm looking at I'm looking at Rolf for me particularly because I've always yesterday against a focus game 06:21:50.200 --> 06:21:53.000 Where the amount of that comeback right? I think with trailing massively 06:21:53.000 --> 06:21:56.760 They they came back all the way on the T side as well. It was Rolf kind of leading the charge 06:21:56.760 --> 06:21:59.600 He was so he I think it dropped over like a 1.5 rating or something 06:21:59.600 --> 06:22:04.440 So he's gonna be very pivotal but also one thing you notice yesterday on the T side was JW again 06:22:04.440 --> 06:22:08.160 T T side arping on inferno very very hard even for the best out there 06:22:08.160 --> 06:22:13.320 But he was doing such a good job as finding his opening picks abusing top banana getting early picks towards mid 06:22:13.320 --> 06:22:19.160 So that's gonna they have to replicate that and they will have to replicate that early on instead of allowing Astralis to get up to a 06:22:19.760 --> 06:22:25.820 Monumental lead. Yeah. Well, I mean, how do we feel about it? We've got about 30 seconds before break. So I 06:22:26.360 --> 06:22:29.480 Mean, you're betting favorites those rows. Obviously, I mean 06:22:30.600 --> 06:22:33.560 My heart says JW my heart says JW 06:22:34.440 --> 06:22:39.800 If you I just want JW to kind of get back in amongst it and you know, all all seriousness 06:22:39.800 --> 06:22:43.740 You look at the VRS rankings. I think they were 26 the last time I checked 06:22:43.740 --> 06:22:49.680 It makes every step of the way they go and boot the rest gets the minute contention of being at more events 06:22:49.680 --> 06:22:55.200 Yes, but the second see look a Strauss has not played this map very much and they have lost to energy another weaker opponent 06:22:55.200 --> 06:22:57.800 So like it's in the cards and what we see on the series 06:22:57.800 --> 06:23:00.720 We can indeed see about our viewers do it and yeah 06:23:00.720 --> 06:23:06.120 I've already gained a lot of ground but a lot more could come of this for sure. Yeah final thought blood for break 06:23:06.120 --> 06:23:09.920 Look, it's all that's good, but not the best, J.W. Best. 06:23:09.920 --> 06:23:10.920 Okay, there you go. 06:23:10.920 --> 06:23:12.420 That's all we needed to say. 06:23:12.420 --> 06:23:13.420 Of course. 06:23:13.420 --> 06:23:14.420 And with that, I'm just gonna leave it there. 06:23:14.420 --> 06:23:15.420 We'll go to break. 06:23:15.420 --> 06:23:18.420 She said she loves you. 06:23:18.420 --> 06:23:20.420 But she can't love me. 06:23:20.420 --> 06:23:21.420 But I love you! 06:23:21.420 --> 06:23:23.420 I 06:23:35.820 --> 06:23:37.820 Won't play window anymore 06:24:21.420 --> 06:24:31.420 The human body was built to move, not trapped at a desk in one singular posture for 12 hours a day. 06:24:32.420 --> 06:24:39.420 It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Type Nevo. 06:24:40.420 --> 06:24:49.420 Ergonomically engineered for you, gamers, hybrid workers, artists, backing your every move. 06:25:51.420 --> 06:25:53.420 I 06:26:21.420 --> 06:26:23.420 I 06:26:51.420 --> 06:26:53.420 Oh 06:29:21.420 --> 06:29:22.420 Come on. 06:29:51.420 --> 06:30:09.340 This quarterfinal decided on Inferno, Astralis managing to scrape their way here after two 06:30:09.340 --> 06:30:13.500 rough maps, gaining momentum on Ancient taking the win in overtime. 06:30:13.500 --> 06:30:16.860 3D Max waits in the wings in the semi-final for the winner of this to see who they're 06:30:16.860 --> 06:30:20.940 going to face off for for a spot in the Grand Finals here at PGL Bucharest. 06:30:20.940 --> 06:30:25.100 And after the first two maps of play, I gotta say, I don't know, it all seems up in the air. 06:30:25.100 --> 06:30:26.100 It does. 06:30:26.100 --> 06:30:29.220 I think the positive here, I mean, it was pointed out by the desk as well, and we were 06:30:29.220 --> 06:30:33.580 kind of saying it during the cast, the fact that if you come back and you're a straws 06:30:33.580 --> 06:30:37.760 and you're 11-4 down at one point, you come back, you have to deal with all those crazy 06:30:37.760 --> 06:30:42.060 rounds and clutches going against you, you're in Ghibler's asking you, are you trolling 06:30:42.060 --> 06:30:43.300 me? 06:30:43.300 --> 06:30:44.540 And you still come back to win. 06:30:44.540 --> 06:30:50.580 I mean, it's got to show that you can get through anything, but also, I guess the positive 06:30:50.580 --> 06:30:54.060 is for eyeballers on one side is that they have good starts. You know winning 06:30:54.060 --> 06:30:57.020 pistol rounds they can get good starts so if there is any way to shake that off 06:30:57.020 --> 06:31:00.020 and the most likely reality being a strawler is coming in and winning this 06:31:00.020 --> 06:31:02.660 one at least you can have the opportunity for some good starts. Yeah 06:31:02.660 --> 06:31:05.820 this third and deciding map so frequently where the underdogs stumble 06:31:05.820 --> 06:31:09.620 well same that second one right they win the first map and the close affair in 06:31:09.620 --> 06:31:12.260 the second and normally we see the favorites come in and just kind of 06:31:12.260 --> 06:31:16.100 batter them on the third and get everything back to normal but Maxter 06:31:16.100 --> 06:31:22.100 having an incredible day. JW is having an incredible day. Dex also is having very good impact for 06:31:22.100 --> 06:31:29.380 eyeballers. This has taken so long and they've decided to make an audible JW. Oh my god. 06:31:30.980 --> 06:31:34.420 He's just chilling in the underpass. He's going to be cleared. Yeah, but burst fire. 06:31:35.860 --> 06:31:42.580 Old school. Say 1.6. Good kill from Rolf. Three more players to find, but no one's really being 06:31:42.580 --> 06:31:46.020 aggressive on coming back from the ramp and now oh now Astralis is trapped oh 06:31:46.020 --> 06:31:51.040 yeah but Ryu and foosie fight the way out of that trap putting Max turn to 1v3 06:31:51.040 --> 06:31:54.780 and that positive I was talking about winning the pistols getting good 06:31:54.780 --> 06:31:59.140 stars eyeballs not gonna be fine the pistol here to kick it off but you can 06:31:59.140 --> 06:32:03.380 get to the B bombsite that even that is denied for the smoke through shots 06:32:03.380 --> 06:32:06.100 coming through so Astralis the fist monster happy enough they won the 06:32:06.100 --> 06:32:11.460 pistol round they can get this rolling now yeah they can that's I mean that 06:32:11.460 --> 06:32:13.700 That had to have been a conversation for Astralis in between. 06:32:13.700 --> 06:32:15.620 I imagine Hooksy, Raga, someone just said, 06:32:15.620 --> 06:32:16.500 guys, can we win a pistol? 06:32:16.500 --> 06:32:17.660 Can we get out to a good start? 06:32:17.660 --> 06:32:20.060 Let's not have to play this comeback game. 06:32:20.060 --> 06:32:21.340 Just all the stress of ancient. 06:32:21.340 --> 06:32:24.300 Just avoid it by starting out hot and just carry on 06:32:24.300 --> 06:32:27.820 with the momentum from map two victory. 06:32:27.820 --> 06:32:29.540 Wanted nothing and not even close to the bomb site, 06:32:29.540 --> 06:32:31.740 so eyeballers stick back on two clocks. 06:32:31.740 --> 06:32:33.580 Because if you think about it overall in the series, 06:32:33.580 --> 06:32:35.620 you kick off Mirage, and what happens there? 06:32:35.620 --> 06:32:37.940 Eyeballers come out hot, get a good start. 06:32:37.940 --> 06:32:40.500 Everybody's fragging, JW in particular, he gets an A. 06:32:40.500 --> 06:32:46.260 So you have everyone have a big moment and you ride just a great game of counter strike all the way through to the wind on 06:32:46.840 --> 06:32:50.840 Ancient another good start also when things start turning as Charles's favor 06:32:50.840 --> 06:32:56.700 You have a pivotal moment where Maxter shuts down a terrible as draws play where they all walk through the smoke that they're on 06:32:56.700 --> 06:32:58.700 The game is clutches here and there 06:32:58.960 --> 06:33:02.660 What happens if it's draw let's get out to a strong start and they're just in control of the game 06:33:02.660 --> 06:33:04.180 You don't have a big clutch like that 06:33:04.180 --> 06:33:04.780 That's the point 06:33:04.780 --> 06:33:10.060 I mean we saw what happens if they build up to that critical mass on the CT side of ancient where it was just like you guys you guys 06:33:10.060 --> 06:33:12.460 because you guys aren't the answer for this. 06:33:12.460 --> 06:33:14.700 So Iballers is going to have to be able to disrupt the streak 06:33:14.700 --> 06:33:17.100 and put a stop to any momentum building. 06:33:17.100 --> 06:33:19.980 Easy kills in this round for Astralis, two to nothing. 06:33:19.980 --> 06:33:22.540 That is the, they won the first pistol round of the series 06:33:22.540 --> 06:33:24.740 back on Mirage, lost the ensuing three. 06:33:24.740 --> 06:33:27.600 This is the first pistol round they've won since then. 06:33:27.600 --> 06:33:30.780 So looking to carry this one into a strong beginning. 06:33:30.780 --> 06:33:32.500 AK is coming out for Iballers. 06:33:37.340 --> 06:33:39.700 For Astralis, he's still up two MP9s in a FAMAS. 06:33:39.700 --> 06:33:43.900 So I wonder if we'll see some aggressive banana play pushed down towards the bottom with one of those MP9s. 06:33:43.900 --> 06:33:47.700 Risk the weaker weapon to see if you can get a cheeky kill or a cheeky positioning for later on. 06:34:00.700 --> 06:34:03.700 Nothing yet. Looks like Eyeballers wants to get a mid-quick though, coming right at Fuzzy. 06:34:03.700 --> 06:34:04.900 He's just jiggling the corner. 06:34:04.900 --> 06:34:09.420 They're going for the tap, Foosie. 06:34:09.420 --> 06:34:11.920 They're going to start backing off here. 06:34:11.920 --> 06:34:15.540 They're going to keep some range between him and his opponents. 06:34:15.540 --> 06:34:18.660 Hey, really economical take of brackets for eyeballers. 06:34:18.660 --> 06:34:20.540 Don't use a single piece of utility on that swing. 06:34:20.540 --> 06:34:23.260 They didn't have a lot bringing into this round, so good that they're able to save some 06:34:23.260 --> 06:34:24.760 there on the initial take. 06:34:24.760 --> 06:34:27.780 Yeah, smoking up the archway as well. 06:34:27.780 --> 06:34:31.700 Let's see Dex start to progress up through long, Foosie. 06:34:31.700 --> 06:34:35.700 This guy's just waiting, he's chomping at the bit trying to get involved with the fight here. 06:34:35.700 --> 06:34:37.700 Finally Flash is going to come through. 06:34:37.700 --> 06:34:40.700 And it's not really all that effective, Rolf is able to turn away. 06:34:40.700 --> 06:34:42.700 And Fuzzi goes down without a kill. 06:34:42.700 --> 06:34:45.700 Now Ryu's turned off the balcony, they nearly line up for him there. 06:34:45.700 --> 06:34:48.700 But yeah, he's now under pressure, eventually cleared out by Maxter. 06:34:48.700 --> 06:34:50.700 And Eyeballers move into the bomb site. 06:34:50.700 --> 06:34:53.700 Maxter's no joke with his AK-47, he's so sharp today. 06:34:53.700 --> 06:34:57.700 Unbelievable performances he's had for Eyeballers, especially on map 2. 06:34:57.700 --> 06:35:02.700 42 kills total and the two completed maps for Maxter. 06:35:02.700 --> 06:35:05.700 Reading the way for eyeballers and stairs just going to grab the AK. 06:35:05.700 --> 06:35:09.700 Hooksies able to upgrade as well and they're contempt with those upgrades moving into the next round. 06:35:09.700 --> 06:35:14.700 So CT side bolsters their defensive loadout with a couple of AKs. 06:35:14.700 --> 06:35:18.700 Those instant headshots could be so effective but eyeballers is going to steal this round away. 06:35:18.700 --> 06:35:23.700 So two to one, they're on the board early and Astralis they can't get out to that crazy hot start. 06:35:23.700 --> 06:35:26.700 So plenty of money in the next round and they'll have the AWP out as well. 06:35:35.700 --> 06:35:38.700 So first gun round is taking brackets control with relative ease. 06:35:38.700 --> 06:35:41.700 Two players attacking rap side smokes and arch smokes and library. 06:35:42.700 --> 06:35:45.700 And being able to constrict around the A bomb site. 06:35:53.700 --> 06:36:01.700 So, Fuzzi has his AWP out. Stare with an AK, hooks you with an AK. We go live into round 4. 06:36:01.700 --> 06:36:07.700 I mean, I'm glad to see Fuzzi having a better stark 4-1 right now. He was pretty much non-existent over an ancient. 06:36:07.700 --> 06:36:12.700 Of course, the end had a couple more impact kills going into the Overtimes, but we're good to see him firing from the get-go. 06:36:12.700 --> 06:36:15.700 He's going to be under a little bit of pressure now. Actually, he doesn't realize it. 06:36:15.700 --> 06:36:17.700 Bob XT should have walked around the half wall. 06:36:17.700 --> 06:36:21.700 I'm actually kind of surprised that Bob hasn't taken that timing to a little bit more aggression. 06:36:21.700 --> 06:36:23.700 Gonna test it over the top, okay. 06:36:23.700 --> 06:36:25.200 Yeah, but he forces him back. 06:36:25.200 --> 06:36:27.700 No one's gonna clear this boost, so it should be an easy, at least one kill. 06:36:27.700 --> 06:36:28.700 Not easy. 06:36:28.700 --> 06:36:29.700 They did spray it down. 06:36:29.700 --> 06:36:30.700 It's a stack, two players here. 06:36:30.700 --> 06:36:31.700 J.W. with the trade. 06:36:31.700 --> 06:36:33.700 Now a player in Boiler as well. 06:36:33.700 --> 06:36:34.700 Are they ready for Hooksy? 06:36:34.700 --> 06:36:35.700 Coming around the back. 06:36:35.700 --> 06:36:37.700 Now J.W. is the bomb carrier. 06:36:37.700 --> 06:36:40.700 He can separate his teammate off and put J.W. in a clutch. 06:36:40.700 --> 06:36:43.700 J.W. is actually just gonna go and prioritize the plant. 06:36:43.700 --> 06:36:45.700 He's got plenty of utility here. 06:36:45.700 --> 06:36:47.700 Hooksy trying to make things a little bit uncomfortable, 06:36:47.700 --> 06:36:49.700 but J.W. goes out into the open. 06:36:49.700 --> 06:36:52.100 It's one quick kill here on Hoaxing, 06:36:52.100 --> 06:36:54.180 with the series he's having. 06:36:54.180 --> 06:36:56.180 I don't believe in a JW chance. 06:36:57.220 --> 06:36:59.860 Fuzzi behind that motor smoke, 06:36:59.860 --> 06:37:00.980 knocks himself in the cubby. 06:37:00.980 --> 06:37:03.420 JW feeling very suffocated now, 06:37:03.420 --> 06:37:05.140 trying to somehow isolate these fights, 06:37:05.140 --> 06:37:08.020 but Fuzzi, as soon as he peeks out from the cubby, 06:37:08.020 --> 06:37:09.780 lands the shot in the AWP. 06:37:09.780 --> 06:37:12.260 Yeah, JW, I guess, never felt the safety to move, 06:37:12.260 --> 06:37:13.860 despite the Molotov in towards short, 06:37:13.860 --> 06:37:14.820 the smoke in towards short. 06:37:14.820 --> 06:37:15.940 He had some cover to get away. 06:37:15.940 --> 06:37:17.900 He had a short timing before that smoke faded, 06:37:17.900 --> 06:37:21.580 but I guess it didn't feel like he could make it in time. 06:37:21.580 --> 06:37:23.420 Hooksy may be a little bit early on his attempt 06:37:23.420 --> 06:37:26.380 to keep JW locked down inside the bomb site, 06:37:26.380 --> 06:37:28.180 almost puts him in a winnable situation, 06:37:28.180 --> 06:37:31.700 or does put him in a winnable situation, thankfully bailed out. 06:37:31.700 --> 06:37:33.620 Three to one, and with the bomb plant, 06:37:33.620 --> 06:37:36.380 Eibullers can squeak together a buy right on the edge, 06:37:36.380 --> 06:37:40.660 but Mac 10 on dex, AK-47's coming in, 06:37:40.660 --> 06:37:41.900 and JW dropped one over. 06:37:41.900 --> 06:37:44.260 He'll sit back with no armor and just utility. 06:37:44.260 --> 06:37:46.940 He's the supportive element for the team leading from the back. 06:37:46.940 --> 06:37:54.620 Oh, well, that's a great start for us, Shrullers. 06:37:54.620 --> 06:37:58.500 Sharsh is whizzing down through the banana smoke stairs to collect him, and trying to 06:37:58.500 --> 06:38:05.100 speed things up into A's dex, Maktan being sent forward, but just handled. 06:38:05.100 --> 06:38:09.460 And early, you know, I think he's trying to like be kind of first layer and then have 06:38:09.460 --> 06:38:13.020 the halls players kind of pop out as he's going, but the Maktan's not going to be able 06:38:13.020 --> 06:38:16.100 to create you all that space on its own. 06:38:16.100 --> 06:38:18.580 They were probably a good three to five seconds behind him anyways. 06:38:18.980 --> 06:38:20.260 So three versus five. 06:38:20.260 --> 06:38:25.700 I'll tell you what, the first initial gun rounds here on Inferno haven't started out looking too clean for eyeballers. 06:38:30.420 --> 06:38:32.820 No, it's just being really easy for Astralis. 06:38:33.500 --> 06:38:37.940 Picking them apart and we're starting to get into that gang that we were worried would happen. 06:38:38.500 --> 06:38:42.980 Astralis coming to map three, a clean start, keeping eyeballers in control, keeping them in line. 06:38:42.980 --> 06:38:47.980 Fosy looking much more comfortable here on Inferno as well. Mischot there, but it's all good. 06:38:47.980 --> 06:38:53.980 Yeah, Rolf just couldn't find any sort of opening. Astralis not letting that happen. 06:38:53.980 --> 06:38:57.980 He backs into the apartment, so there's going to be a 4-1 lead for Astralis. 06:38:57.980 --> 06:39:01.980 Saving in the next round regardless, he's going to have to just go try and find some kills. 06:39:01.980 --> 06:39:06.980 Go take some of these weapons away, force the revise out, see if you can start setting up that economy for a break. 06:39:06.980 --> 06:39:08.980 25 seconds on the clock. 06:39:08.980 --> 06:39:13.660 stairs pushing down banana so there's going to be no escape for Rolf so he 06:39:13.660 --> 06:39:16.340 pushes forward 06:39:21.340 --> 06:39:26.020 and he dies at the hand of Yabbi 06:39:27.060 --> 06:39:32.540 Yabbi's had a good game even over on ancient there he was the player who 06:39:32.540 --> 06:39:36.340 highlighting just when they went towards A he was so reliable yeah he was 06:39:36.340 --> 06:39:41.980 It felt like he kept them his presence alone and his performance alone and just a couple rounds kept them from attacking that a bombsite 06:39:41.980 --> 06:39:48.060 He's got a long of that half so he continues his good play same with stair on the T side stair was the one really kind of the only one 06:39:48.060 --> 06:39:52.900 At least in regulation having impact finding some initial kills giving them opportunities to win rounds 06:39:55.180 --> 06:40:01.260 Which bodes well for Astralis you combine that with foesie having a good start and having the off out early and having impact with it already 06:40:02.220 --> 06:40:05.700 Things looking good. That feels like for the first time in this series for Astralis 06:40:06.340 --> 06:40:11.620 Yeah, I think this is for the first time. This is the Astralis we expected to see coming into this game 06:40:13.260 --> 06:40:16.700 Fuzi was a top mid pick. Wolf walks right into it 06:40:17.580 --> 06:40:19.620 Do you think what we've seen from Astralis today? 06:40:19.620 --> 06:40:24.180 Obviously it worries you a little bit, but you know if they get through eyeballs, which looks like it's gonna happen now 06:40:24.580 --> 06:40:26.580 Do you think it's something they can just 06:40:26.980 --> 06:40:32.420 Fix going into the next day. Yeah, I mean, I think sometimes we make too big of a deal of like individual bad games 06:40:32.420 --> 06:40:36.460 Like you're just gonna have those with the amount of counter strike that we play at the professional level teams players 06:40:36.460 --> 06:40:39.940 We're all just gonna have they're just straight up gonna have bad games or bad decisions are made 06:40:39.980 --> 06:40:42.940 This shots happen and it just occurs now 06:40:42.940 --> 06:40:48.140 I think it'd be a bigger issue if maybe like this trend sort of continued if they make it to the semi finals 06:40:48.260 --> 06:40:49.420 Yeah 06:40:49.420 --> 06:40:54.820 But I think you know if Astralis kind of go through and kind of clean things up and handle 3d max get into the grand final shows 06:40:54.820 --> 06:40:57.580 It like we're gonna forget that this particular performance 06:40:58.300 --> 06:40:59.820 Was this bad? 06:40:59.820 --> 06:41:05.300 Okay, so we're not going to have Rugger have come through a podcast on the couch after this game and say some levels and mistakes 06:41:05.300 --> 06:41:08.140 Well, except the ball and we have the major and I can't kick them right now 06:41:08.140 --> 06:41:09.540 You know what? He might and good 06:41:09.540 --> 06:41:12.300 I don't even think it'd be out of line and after this particular series 06:41:12.540 --> 06:41:18.260 But we also I mean look we I think we have to say there's shocking performance from eyeballers in terms of them playing some of the best 06:41:18.260 --> 06:41:22.100 Counter strike you'd imagine this team has played certainly like the toughest opponent they've played 06:41:22.460 --> 06:41:26.800 And then on the other side of things for Astralis not not a great day in the office 06:41:26.800 --> 06:41:32.520 But look at teams at this level everyone's got to find all the teams when you when you get to this point have to find ways to 06:41:32.520 --> 06:41:39.540 Beat teams on your B game on your C game sometimes and they're certain currently in that search right now Astralis and looking good for it 06:41:44.120 --> 06:41:46.120 You know time out for eyeballers 06:41:46.920 --> 06:41:50.440 And I mean I think I think to like focus on the positives to some extent as well 06:41:50.440 --> 06:41:52.720 And that's what you'd want with Astralis at some point 06:41:52.720 --> 06:41:55.640 There's a lot of things to clean up so in that sense you do have to touch on the negatives 06:41:55.640 --> 06:42:01.320 But focus on the positive that you brought up multiple times is yeah, you guys did outlast all the crazy rounds 06:42:01.320 --> 06:42:05.640 You guys that's so much stress placed on you on those crazy 1b3 clutches from Maxter and 06:42:06.600 --> 06:42:10.720 Outlasting it all to force it to a third map. That's a great positive to hang your head on out of this series 06:42:10.720 --> 06:42:16.000 Yeah, there was actually never a moment on it. You know, they could relax. No, it's a even take a breather at all 06:42:16.760 --> 06:42:18.760 It was just pressure the whole way through 06:42:20.200 --> 06:42:22.200 We they were stewed 06:42:22.200 --> 06:42:25.860 Now they're looking to send foosie into middle to try and grab it open and kill 06:42:25.860 --> 06:42:28.200 He'll drop back in behind the smoke when he doesn't find it 06:42:29.800 --> 06:42:33.580 Couple of smokes down in banana, but they're actually gonna boost their up on the half wall from the CT's 06:42:34.180 --> 06:42:39.840 Perspective and he's gonna walk away with one kill basically to he drops JW down a seven HP 06:42:39.880 --> 06:42:42.080 Yeah, being really disruptive similar to ancient 06:42:42.080 --> 06:42:45.000 I mean shaving a player off bringing JW down low before 06:42:45.160 --> 06:42:49.040 Eyeballers is really even able to make a call or get into a position to execute 06:42:52.200 --> 06:42:54.200 Really good start from Astralis. 06:42:54.200 --> 06:42:56.200 Does that net go deep enough to catch J.W.? 06:42:56.200 --> 06:43:01.200 Yes, it does. So J.W. Down, they've lost two players in banana here, eyeballers. 06:43:01.200 --> 06:43:06.200 Max is a lurk over towards the A bomb site, but none of that's going to matter if they can't find a kill here at the B bomb site. 06:43:06.200 --> 06:43:09.200 If you don't do anything to pull those defenders in, because now Max is in a position where he can't wait. 06:43:09.200 --> 06:43:11.200 He has to help make a play as well. 06:43:11.200 --> 06:43:13.200 Close it with one kill. 06:43:13.200 --> 06:43:16.200 And Max has already been spotted. There's no progress there. 50 seconds left. 06:43:16.200 --> 06:43:21.200 All you got is to join up with Maxster and try and break into this A bomb site where you have a two on two. 06:43:51.200 --> 06:43:57.700 Now you know where the players are, it's just about dealing with them, so you get rid of Yabbi, but dealing with Ryu, it was a little bit too difficult. 06:43:57.700 --> 06:43:59.120 He survives on 5 HP. 06:43:59.120 --> 06:44:01.280 Even he had a little exhale after that one, he was like, oh, 5, huh? 06:44:01.280 --> 06:44:01.840 Survived that one. 06:44:01.840 --> 06:44:02.880 Yeah, a little bit close. 06:44:02.880 --> 06:44:05.120 Yeah, well, not close right now at all. 06:44:05.280 --> 06:44:07.400 No, I mean, the Eyeballers haven't really... 06:44:07.400 --> 06:44:10.920 Outside of the one round they win in round 3 with those AK-47s, they haven't got any... 06:44:10.920 --> 06:44:14.800 They haven't really gotten any great openings. The kills are all going the other way to start, right? 06:44:14.800 --> 06:44:21.360 Just at the top as you're about to chuck utility to start taking past half wall to put some 06:44:21.360 --> 06:44:25.640 pressure on the B bombsite, peeked and tons of damage done, one cleaned up by the grenade. 06:44:25.640 --> 06:44:31.240 And then every option you have after that is not a very good one, just disadvantage 06:44:31.240 --> 06:44:35.720 fights all across the board. 06:44:35.720 --> 06:44:44.560 And I've always been super impressive in the first two maps playing with the lead, 06:44:44.560 --> 06:44:52.240 from the front playing with momentum, but now that you have none of those three things, 06:44:52.240 --> 06:44:58.380 they're struggling to kind of break Astralis' grip on this map. 06:44:58.380 --> 06:45:02.200 And now you start feeling the pressure of having to make some heroic plays and heroic 06:45:02.200 --> 06:45:12.080 moves and overextend to be the one that alleviates the pressure. 06:45:12.080 --> 06:45:17.520 out of the balcony. Yabbi and Ryu seemingly impenetrable right now on this A site. 06:45:17.520 --> 06:45:21.520 You're running out of bullets. Yabbi's actually died as soon as I say that. 06:45:21.520 --> 06:45:25.520 There's too much of a perish. Get into the site. Fruzzy pulls out the side on, 06:45:25.520 --> 06:45:31.040 dealing with a low HP on the P2K. And I said, well, let's come in on the rotation to make sure 06:45:31.040 --> 06:45:35.280 that one doesn't get out of hand. Yeah, shout out to Fuzzy. Just sacrifices his life to protect 06:45:35.280 --> 06:45:40.160 his teammate over in pit. Good kills with the P2K. They don't recover the off because Fuzzy had 06:45:40.160 --> 06:45:43.360 like 13,000. So he's just like, keep the AKs. I'll, I'll rebuy it. It's all good. 06:45:43.440 --> 06:45:45.840 Seven to one, six round lead and, uh, 06:45:47.280 --> 06:45:49.880 an unfortunate turn of events to start out this third map. 06:45:51.400 --> 06:45:54.320 Pita is going to try and rally the troops, give JW a break from having to 06:45:54.320 --> 06:45:56.680 come up with all the ideas. Timeouts called Rugga. 06:45:57.080 --> 06:45:59.720 Brian, the first time he's been pleased with what he's seeing inside the server. 06:45:59.720 --> 06:46:03.280 Although I betcha, betcha he's not comfortable in any sense. 06:46:05.440 --> 06:46:06.160 All right now. 06:46:10.160 --> 06:46:15.480 Just exactly what we were expecting coming into this map and 06:46:18.800 --> 06:46:22.960 Really hoping the eyeballers could have come into this one the pistol been able to convert it 06:46:22.960 --> 06:46:25.440 Look, I think the conversation during this time out for eyeballers 06:46:25.440 --> 06:46:28.520 I mean outside of any tactical conversation of strats 06:46:28.520 --> 06:46:31.520 They're gonna call has to be something along the lines of like eyeballers saying 06:46:32.520 --> 06:46:36.720 Like Astralis is T sides and this aren't like God tier we've seen them struggle on the T sides of this map 06:46:36.720 --> 06:46:43.400 So give yourself a chance in the second half to recreate and reignite some of that fire that you had on Mirage that you had to start out ancient 06:46:47.720 --> 06:46:52.120 Put a Stralis in a situation where they're gonna have to put a good amount of rounds on the board on the T side to win 06:47:06.720 --> 06:47:12.880 Gonna move comfortably into the mid-round now with all 10 players still alive a luxury eyeballers haven't always had a 06:47:13.520 --> 06:47:18.040 Luxury JW hasn't always had to be able to call a tactic with five players surviving 06:47:18.720 --> 06:47:21.780 And one's picked off first to get an opening kill the foes he's up 06:47:27.320 --> 06:47:30.700 Minute on the clock yabbi backing off into the arches 06:47:30.700 --> 06:47:37.700 Astralis is setting himself forward, it's going to be Hoxie who has taken Dex out of this, and the full-on kills him Yabi. 06:47:37.700 --> 06:47:41.700 So, no breaking through for iBallers, even after a timeout. 06:47:41.700 --> 06:47:43.700 Bob looking for his first kill off the map. 06:47:43.700 --> 06:47:50.700 He's close to it, committed to it, and unfortunately for Bob it will be a woeful start. 0-8 for him at the moment. 06:47:50.700 --> 06:47:52.700 Can't catch a break. 06:47:52.700 --> 06:47:54.700 No, I mean Astralis is coming to the show switch. 06:47:54.700 --> 06:47:57.700 I mean look at the teamwork on Rapside. 06:47:57.700 --> 06:48:01.700 backs away until his teammate arrives at library library takes contact yabby 06:48:01.700 --> 06:48:06.180 swings after the fact library swings with it for the follow-up flights it's 06:48:06.180 --> 06:48:10.060 perfect and eyeballers isn't finding a clean look at any one single individual 06:48:10.060 --> 06:48:13.300 player they're turning corners either either at the opera two-man setup or into 06:48:13.300 --> 06:48:18.420 utility getting shut down all across the map at the moment 06:48:20.300 --> 06:48:24.580 six rounds in a row for a strahles 06:48:27.700 --> 06:48:46.900 Blocked at top mid, and Fuzzi is just going to take this time to fall further back. 06:48:46.900 --> 06:48:52.380 Now, what do you get close up and personal against what could potentially be tech nines? 06:48:52.380 --> 06:48:55.580 You don't want to be in that scenario where you're the AWPer, you get overrun or you don't 06:48:55.580 --> 06:48:58.380 to be anybody on the Astralis defense and be an overrun by these tech 9s. 06:48:58.380 --> 06:49:03.980 So, Fuzzi begins his rotation, he's drifting over towards B, but the execution's coming 06:49:03.980 --> 06:49:05.420 in towards this A side again. 06:49:05.420 --> 06:49:08.860 Breaking open that smoke, you're going to see players trying to get through the archway 06:49:08.860 --> 06:49:12.100 so you pull Fuzzi's attention over towards Arch trying to deal with it, but once you 06:49:12.100 --> 06:49:16.260 get that kill on Yabbi, you actually just think, okay, why don't we just try and head 06:49:16.260 --> 06:49:17.260 towards the A side. 06:49:17.260 --> 06:49:20.820 Fuzzi just moved out of pit, it's like a wild decision, but it's worth out for him. 06:49:20.820 --> 06:49:24.420 He's dropped back to a bigger pit position, but it hasn't been able to get a second kill, 06:49:24.420 --> 06:49:27.820 but Fuzzi, edge of the smoke, gets one and then they overwhelm him. 06:49:27.820 --> 06:49:29.820 So into the site here, eyeballers. 06:49:29.820 --> 06:49:32.220 Yeah, good rebuttal to make sure that kill comes in from Rolf, 06:49:32.220 --> 06:49:34.920 swinging wide enough to make sure that kill is secured. 06:49:34.920 --> 06:49:37.120 2 AK-47 salvage for eyeballers. 06:49:37.120 --> 06:49:38.820 Looks like a second round. 06:49:38.820 --> 06:49:42.120 Yeah, I mean, that starts with Yabby going down and then it's all unravels. 06:49:48.620 --> 06:49:50.220 They're gonna give this a look. 06:49:50.220 --> 06:49:52.820 Halfway through the bomb, here's utility out to activate. 06:49:54.420 --> 06:49:59.260 Back in the heartbreak you way to lose and they have they've just lost it 06:49:59.260 --> 06:50:03.260 They can't have to break it all now for I ballers seems like the shoes on the other foot 06:50:03.260 --> 06:50:09.820 Hey, yeah, now. Let's see. See how you guys like a taste of your own medicine clean easy retake. I 06:50:11.300 --> 06:50:14.860 Really enjoyed the failed run boost into the block. I don't know if you caught that 06:50:16.660 --> 06:50:20.300 Try to run boost over to library and the bottom guy didn't realize it failed 06:50:20.300 --> 06:50:24.340 Top guy tries to get back and the bottom guy is just standing in his way 06:50:25.500 --> 06:50:28.180 Well, a little bit of coordination practice needed that 06:50:28.700 --> 06:50:31.940 But nine to one up for Astralis. I know 06:50:33.020 --> 06:50:39.580 No, no, we wanted to we wanted to enjoy the JW nostalgia just one last time. Hey, we got it on Mirage 06:50:39.580 --> 06:50:43.660 We got it on ancient. No, but I always want more. Yeah, that's fine 06:50:44.220 --> 06:50:46.100 look, I mean 06:50:46.100 --> 06:50:47.620 Well, let's see all this half turns out 06:50:47.620 --> 06:50:51.820 Let's see if Iballo's can scrape together these last two rounds. Good opening kill provided by JW. 06:50:54.320 --> 06:50:55.320 Five on four. 06:51:11.320 --> 06:51:12.320 And no... 06:51:12.320 --> 06:51:18.320 Opportunity to trade here for Astralis just yet. They're going to hold this crossfire towards top middle between Ryu and Yabi. 06:51:19.320 --> 06:51:23.320 Hooksie is going to jiggle, look to pull attention and some information towards him. 06:51:24.320 --> 06:51:29.320 It should be enough for Yabi and Ryu to shut down Eyeballers if they were to pounce through top middle. 06:51:30.320 --> 06:51:32.320 They're getting hungry for a little bit of information. 06:51:33.320 --> 06:51:39.320 Yabi is going to peek out with the grenade. Then they're focused on Yabi so they walk in and don't consider Ryu. 06:51:39.320 --> 06:51:43.560 in a Ryu, but he's worried about the balcony, so he looks away, J.W. is able to punish that 06:51:43.560 --> 06:51:48.280 for a second, and then going back out for the peek is Hoopsy, he gets two. So Bob XD 06:51:48.280 --> 06:51:52.760 still gets the frag, steps into the smoke. Now, he's going to be looking for his first kill. 06:51:52.760 --> 06:51:55.800 I mean, that's going to be a small victory in this scenario for Bob. 06:51:55.800 --> 06:52:00.120 Oh, he's got Yabi at low HP. I mean, Yabi's taking a gamble that he's going to move in 06:52:00.120 --> 06:52:04.520 in front of the default boxes, and that gamble is going to pay off. Oh, he does not. 06:52:04.520 --> 06:52:06.520 Rich off from Yabi. Yeah, Bob can't find it. 06:52:06.520 --> 06:52:07.480 Oh, poor Bob. 06:52:07.480 --> 06:52:09.480 Yeah, a tough game to start for him 06:52:11.740 --> 06:52:18.340 Ten to one nine round lead. It's just a sponge right now. Yeah, well, this is the Astralis we expected today. I 06:52:20.160 --> 06:52:24.940 Think this will go a long way seeing them snap into place on this third map to dominate to the point 06:52:24.940 --> 06:52:30.340 You were talking about earlier is how much does this actually change perhaps your line of thinking or your feeling about Astralis? 06:52:30.340 --> 06:52:32.340 I think the dominant win like this on that third map 06:52:32.340 --> 06:52:38.100 Just goes to share they still got it first two maps a little bit rough first two maps 06:52:38.100 --> 06:52:42.060 I made great performances from guys like Max or from JW that they had to contend with 06:52:43.100 --> 06:52:48.980 But Astralis strong enough to outlast all of it good kill from Hooksy to open things up got it back away with 14 health 06:52:48.980 --> 06:52:59.900 Oh, they're about to come out of the balcony. 06:52:59.900 --> 06:53:00.900 No one's looking at it. 06:53:00.900 --> 06:53:01.900 So, hello. 06:53:01.900 --> 06:53:02.900 Surprise, Stralis. 06:53:02.900 --> 06:53:03.900 There's Max there. 06:53:03.900 --> 06:53:06.500 Ryu, trying to get back to the top mid-flight. 06:53:06.500 --> 06:53:11.340 Yeah, but he's going to deal with that, but the A side's still open up for grabs here. 06:53:11.340 --> 06:53:14.260 Yeah, but this is the payoff of Hooksy getting the open and kill. 06:53:14.260 --> 06:53:18.500 Even though the trades here in this portion of the attack are in the favor of eyeballers, 06:53:18.500 --> 06:53:23.300 still down a man up until that point good job from Max serve gonna back away 06:53:23.300 --> 06:53:27.100 and disappear down mid two more coming on wrap side one low HP and they're 06:53:27.100 --> 06:53:30.540 actually just gonna go back and attack in for the retake JW holding strong with 06:53:30.540 --> 06:53:36.300 the AWP posted up here blinded down cuz up for the peak gets the one so stare 06:53:36.300 --> 06:53:39.580 now won't be one up against Max so thinks he's gone towards the balcony 06:53:39.580 --> 06:53:42.940 it's got some utility to make this uncomfortable but Max is wrapped around 06:53:42.940 --> 06:53:47.380 long and stare will be knocked over so a second round secured here for i ballers 06:53:47.380 --> 06:53:51.440 Nice play from Maxter as well, wrapping around the exact position Yavi didn't expect. 06:53:51.440 --> 06:53:55.300 A little bit dangerous with timing, if you miss that and he's in front diffusing inside the smoke, 06:53:55.300 --> 06:53:58.640 you really don't have a whole lot of chances to spray that down and win that round. 06:53:58.640 --> 06:54:04.480 But they at least have two. That's as much space as they could carve out in this half. 06:54:04.480 --> 06:54:06.960 Astralis just so dominant. 06:54:06.960 --> 06:54:11.160 Fundamentally strong setups in great positions. 06:54:11.160 --> 06:54:17.720 Fosey's AWP gets tons of impact throughout the entire half. 15 kills he ends on. 06:54:29.720 --> 06:54:34.600 J.W. gonna try and rally the troops for one last push. They get to switch over to the CT side, 06:54:34.600 --> 06:54:36.760 Get a look at how this defense is going to operate. 06:54:39.760 --> 06:54:42.280 And it is going to fall all on JW, not only as the leader, 06:54:42.280 --> 06:54:44.720 but I mean, just as the CT center point with that AWP, 06:54:44.720 --> 06:54:47.200 I think he's going to need to kind of be everywhere, 06:54:47.200 --> 06:54:49.720 at least at the start, at least to get these guys 06:54:51.680 --> 06:54:53.960 clicked back into this game and locked back in. 06:54:53.960 --> 06:54:56.680 But I mean, it might be a while before you get there. 06:54:56.680 --> 06:55:00.160 Pistole round, all important for eyeballers. 06:55:04.600 --> 06:55:15.600 One last good go. 06:55:15.600 --> 06:55:21.600 I think we're all very excited to see iBallers make it to this event. 06:55:21.600 --> 06:55:28.600 It's been a long grind of online counter strike to get into the VRS positioning to be invited to tournaments of this level. 06:55:28.600 --> 06:55:34.240 and certainly the name for themselves. Bob pistol out. He's got his teammate JWM 06:55:34.240 --> 06:55:39.320 roll right beside him. I'm going to try and take a kill to start off this pistol on his JWM that's falling 06:55:39.320 --> 06:55:45.240 first. Bob will get his first kill and then we see roll take two right like that. Maxter has put 06:55:45.240 --> 06:55:49.140 themselves in a position where they could win this out and start with a pistol bang with a 06:55:49.140 --> 06:55:54.880 Maxter steps into the open and sets up Fuzi. That's such a sick read for Fuzi like realizing you 06:55:54.880 --> 06:55:58.560 have time because that fifth player is going to be coming from the B bombsite to just be patient 06:55:58.560 --> 06:55:59.960 as Dexter's walked through it. 06:55:59.960 --> 06:56:00.460 Yep. 06:56:00.460 --> 06:56:01.120 Yes, he does. 06:56:01.120 --> 06:56:02.720 And Fuzzi's just waiting for it. 06:56:02.720 --> 06:56:04.000 So confident. 06:56:04.000 --> 06:56:06.040 A much better map here from Fuzzi. 06:56:06.040 --> 06:56:09.240 Night and day compared to a second map performance. 06:56:09.240 --> 06:56:11.960 And that's the difference here for Astralis. 06:56:11.960 --> 06:56:14.160 11-2 up. 06:56:14.160 --> 06:56:16.080 With Eyeballers losing their pistol round, 06:56:16.080 --> 06:56:20.360 that seems to be the final nail in the coffin. 06:56:20.360 --> 06:56:22.440 Eyeballer's going to have to invest in this round. 06:56:22.440 --> 06:56:24.720 They just have to fight for it, obviously. 06:56:24.720 --> 06:56:27.120 Trades the whole way through came right at the format stack 06:56:27.120 --> 06:56:31.660 at the A bomb site, just fozy as the difference right at the end. 06:56:31.660 --> 06:56:40.000 Double kill to clean up the round and potentially close out this series. 06:56:40.000 --> 06:56:43.320 3D Max awaiting the semifinals. 06:56:43.320 --> 06:56:48.600 Probably starting to leaf through the opposition research binder and find all the Astralis 06:56:48.600 --> 06:56:49.600 pages they have. 06:56:49.600 --> 06:56:54.200 Honestly, are they 3D Max to be pretty happy with how Astralis played today? 06:56:54.200 --> 06:56:59.080 I don't know, I think you'd rather get that Astralis when you're playing them. 06:56:59.080 --> 06:57:02.560 I think now that they play like this, okay, well, we use just killing anything that happens 06:57:02.560 --> 06:57:04.280 on a screen, hooks, you get sprayed down. 06:57:04.280 --> 06:57:07.240 Well, like to know that they can drop to that level. 06:57:07.240 --> 06:57:11.480 Well, also, I mean, and then rise to this level, you could see them snapping into shape 06:57:11.480 --> 06:57:16.120 on this third and final map, you know, you can imagine there's going to be a very intense 06:57:16.120 --> 06:57:19.000 conversation about this, about how the first two maps were played. 06:57:19.000 --> 06:57:22.640 I think if you're 3D max, there's no way you're going to ever think that you're going 06:57:22.640 --> 06:57:27.280 to get that kind of Astralis from Mirage, the Astralis from Grum ancient to show up in your series tomorrow. 06:57:29.200 --> 06:57:33.600 Astralis is thinking and hoping that this kind of a the slow start to this series is the the 06:57:34.400 --> 06:57:37.920 bucket of cold water splash on their face, wake them up for the rest of these playoffs. 06:57:39.520 --> 06:57:43.360 Because as an organization and as a team they have to be thinking trophy, they got to be thinking 06:57:43.360 --> 06:57:48.160 championship. It's right there for them for the taking. I love being able to listen into the 06:57:48.160 --> 06:57:52.800 calms as well because every time we do so and it shows you playing badly hook see is not the kind 06:57:52.800 --> 06:57:57.760 of leader that is just gonna mince words right he just tells you straight up he's got that apex 06:57:57.760 --> 06:58:03.040 quality too yeah guys this is terrible are you trolling me right now without we're playing it 06:58:03.040 --> 06:58:07.840 and you know we heard it back at pro league when rug it was asking him not to stop whining he's like 06:58:07.840 --> 06:58:11.520 i'm not gonna stop whining because there's so much to whine about you know so he does demand 06:58:11.520 --> 06:58:16.560 excellence out of the squad and i mean it's great to get that insight and putting the pressure on 06:58:16.560 --> 06:58:21.480 on the players to perform and they are performing very well now as they reach 06:58:21.480 --> 06:58:27.680 a series point. And on the other perspective as well for eyeballers you 06:58:27.680 --> 06:58:31.200 know elimination here is gonna sting it's gonna hurt but I don't think if 06:58:31.200 --> 06:58:35.000 you're the players the coaching staff anyone involved in the organization I 06:58:35.000 --> 06:58:37.200 don't think there's anything but pride you got to feel about the run they've 06:58:37.200 --> 06:58:40.560 had so far at this event exceeding expectations getting into the playoffs 06:58:40.560 --> 06:58:44.640 showing an incredibly good level against Astralis on these first two maps. I 06:58:44.640 --> 06:58:48.120 I mean, you just plan online tournaments after online tournament effect. 06:58:48.120 --> 06:58:52.080 You get to come to a land of this level, then make it here and have a real shot at 06:58:52.080 --> 06:58:55.200 taking down a Stralos to move into the semifinals and seeing the performance at a 06:58:55.200 --> 06:58:59.040 Maxter, seeing the performance at a Dex, the way Rolf and Bob have been able to step 06:58:59.040 --> 06:59:01.720 up in various isolated situations. 06:59:01.720 --> 06:59:03.080 J W getting back here. 06:59:03.440 --> 06:59:05.840 This is one of those runs at a tournament that I think for a team like 06:59:05.840 --> 06:59:08.560 I've all ears and the someone at the helm like J W is only going to make this 06:59:08.560 --> 06:59:09.320 squad hungrier. 06:59:09.920 --> 06:59:13.560 So yeah, sting of a loss and certainly the quality of the loss here on this third 06:59:13.560 --> 06:59:14.040 map, but. 06:59:15.640 --> 06:59:18.640 Positives for them, increase of the VRS points throughout their run here, 06:59:18.640 --> 06:59:21.640 the good showing against Astralis in these quarterfinals, 06:59:22.640 --> 06:59:26.640 the confidence and belief that you're going to gain out of a performance like this. 06:59:35.640 --> 06:59:40.640 And perhaps most importantly, Bob will not end this third map on a goosehead. 06:59:40.640 --> 06:59:41.640 Team kill. 06:59:42.640 --> 06:59:43.640 Don't do it to me. 06:59:44.640 --> 06:59:52.360 that is the most small victory we take it where we can the side storyline for 06:59:52.360 --> 07:00:00.160 side show ball here when you're done 12 to you take it all under a minute on the 07:00:00.160 --> 07:00:05.680 clock made landing towards JW 07:00:06.600 --> 07:00:10.880 Stroll is getting ready to play the eyeball is off as they get ready to go 07:00:10.880 --> 07:00:14.800 to be out through banana they will go ball team put under pressure balls is 07:00:14.800 --> 07:00:19.240 gonna die and now the site is wide open max you're trying to come over and 07:00:19.240 --> 07:00:22.760 patch up the gap you just can't do it 07:00:22.760 --> 07:00:27.000 okay there's a little bit left a little bit left in the eyeballers looking like 07:00:27.000 --> 07:00:31.640 Laura coughed out there yeah just gunslinging on an adventure straight 07:00:31.640 --> 07:00:36.440 through that smoke but still a 3v3 I mean you have damage that hoaxy as well 07:00:36.440 --> 07:00:40.280 he's 17 health but they're just gonna sit back in banana now bomb is planted 07:00:40.280 --> 07:00:44.420 They're just going to organize themselves and get ready to make sure this one doesn't slide away. 07:00:44.420 --> 07:00:47.080 They want to close it here and now they want that 13-2 win. 07:00:49.360 --> 07:00:53.520 And they're going to the semi-finals to play against 3D Max Astralis. 07:00:53.520 --> 07:00:58.920 It was a stressful quarter-final here against the eyeballers, but eventually they get it done. 07:00:58.920 --> 07:01:04.680 A 13-2 win handling business on in furrows, snapping into shape just in the nick of time. 07:01:04.680 --> 07:01:10.080 But it was damn good to see JW back on the server and see that there is a little bit of that wonder child 07:01:10.080 --> 07:01:18.640 still in him. Yeah, not enough, unfortunately, for them, but Astralis, they bounced back 07:01:18.640 --> 07:01:24.320 on that third map and showed why so many people had fancied them to potentially lift the trophy. 07:01:24.320 --> 07:01:30.160 It's a rough one for iPallers. It was within touching distance to get to the semis. They 07:01:30.160 --> 07:01:35.200 should have got it done on ancient, and then as we sort of anticipated, you come on to inferno. 07:01:35.200 --> 07:01:38.880 There was just nothing left in the time. You can also look at Immuted Celebrations from Astralis 07:01:38.880 --> 07:01:42.720 as well, then you it shouldn't have to come to this. And I'm glad to be better. Oh, they're 07:01:42.720 --> 07:01:45.800 going to be definitely reviewing what went wrong today because a lot of things went wrong. 07:01:45.800 --> 07:01:49.720 But I'm glad to see that they woke up after they come back. They took care of business. 07:01:49.720 --> 07:01:53.120 Disappointment you could see in the faces of the eyeballers side. But yeah, they had 07:01:53.120 --> 07:01:56.920 to get it done on ancient because this was as well as finally waking up and showing his 07:01:56.920 --> 07:02:00.640 boss on a server. Yeah, good resilience from Mr. House to shake off those first two maps 07:02:00.640 --> 07:02:05.160 and shake off the almost O2 elimination and just be able to, you know, put nose to grind 07:02:05.160 --> 07:02:09.320 Stone, take care of business on ancient to turn the tides and then how the turns 07:02:09.320 --> 07:02:12.320 table here on in front of because it was an absolute dominant performance from 07:02:12.320 --> 07:02:16.040 start to finish. I've always could get nothing going on the T side is stalwart 07:02:16.040 --> 07:02:21.320 defense across the board for the Shalas organization and they will be moving on 07:02:21.320 --> 07:02:24.800 to the finals. Commissarations to eyeballs. I'm sure right now this hurts 07:02:24.800 --> 07:02:27.880 a lot because of how close they were to making the cities and two on the 07:02:27.880 --> 07:02:33.200 series. Yeah, there on JW space, but I I bet you this I bet you after some time 07:02:33.200 --> 07:02:37.360 passes and they'll realize that hey we made top eight we made playoffs we have a chance to 07:02:37.920 --> 07:02:44.080 Now use this VRS game to get some more tournaments like there is still a positive I know the image is 07:02:44.080 --> 07:02:48.160 really hard right now watching JW being so dejected and disappointed but I love I also love the fact 07:02:48.160 --> 07:02:52.080 that it means so much to him right coming in right you everyone's like yeah you don't want to just 07:02:52.080 --> 07:02:57.280 put up a no key fight even if you lose it's okay no it still matters a lot to JW and you got to love 07:02:57.280 --> 07:03:02.640 to see it look at a scoreboard man look Bob he had a good map one but there's this less more XD 07:03:02.640 --> 07:03:07.680 one and a 13 and we've seen too many of these sort of scorelines from Bob in a lot of the maps 07:03:07.680 --> 07:03:12.160 have seen so far. I haven't seen what all the hype is about at this event which isn't to say 07:03:12.160 --> 07:03:17.920 there isn't something there but didn't really come to life for me. He's like the Swedish peeping at 07:03:17.920 --> 07:03:23.600 his farm at this point right? Well let's not let's not be harsh. Let's not curse Bob that. 07:03:24.160 --> 07:03:27.600 Joseph's side it's been a bit of a learning experience for iBallers. I've been genuinely 07:03:27.600 --> 07:03:31.440 impressed with what they've done so far so yeah hope to see them in more events down the line. 07:03:31.440 --> 07:03:34.840 They have indeed got all those VRS points right and look Ryu 07:03:35.320 --> 07:03:40.440 Getting his flowers having a good map of solid hadouken there on this map for sure 07:03:40.440 --> 07:03:40.980 Yep 07:03:40.980 --> 07:03:42.600 We've definitely 07:03:42.600 --> 07:03:49.020 Highlighted some of the other maps that he has high impact on and I guess moving forward you can see from the heat map 07:03:49.020 --> 07:03:52.960 This is someone to watch on inferno when his father's a planet moving forward 07:03:52.960 --> 07:03:53.120 Yeah 07:03:53.120 --> 07:03:58.080 I mean re is an interesting cat because I mean obviously he was kind of the new additions to the team that people didn't know as much about 07:03:58.080 --> 07:04:00.080 You know coming over from Monty 07:04:00.080 --> 07:04:03.120 obviously did a couple of things there, but nothing super notable. 07:04:03.120 --> 07:04:05.920 And when he first joined this team and he kind of had his debut, he was very 07:04:05.920 --> 07:04:09.120 interesting to watch because he was a guy who's a side anchor defensively. 07:04:09.120 --> 07:04:12.640 But even though he kind of plays the more passive rifling positions, he was 07:04:12.640 --> 07:04:15.680 actually going for a lot of openings and going for a lot of big plays and 07:04:15.680 --> 07:04:19.360 he could really trade frag wall. So he's definitely still want to keep an eye out for. 07:04:19.360 --> 07:04:23.280 All right, guys, I'll just put a pin in there because we're going over to Paula 07:04:23.280 --> 07:04:28.880 and he's with Hoopsy. Thank you guys. Yes, down on the floor with Hoopsy of 07:04:28.880 --> 07:04:32.080 Astralis Hootsey just before we went live. What did you say to me? 07:04:32.640 --> 07:04:38.080 You were you were perhaps thinking of doing a disdain right now and doing a 15 minute monologue of what just transpired 07:04:38.880 --> 07:04:43.680 Yeah, I mean we have the major coming soon. So I can't kick anyone. She probably stopped by kicking myself 07:04:44.480 --> 07:04:51.920 But yeah, just so everyone does okay. Okay. Yeah, Hootsey. This was a very interesting best of three 07:04:51.920 --> 07:04:53.520 I think a lot of us 07:04:53.520 --> 07:04:58.080 Saw you guys going into this as clear favorites. Maybe a two zero 07:04:58.880 --> 07:05:03.480 score was possible, but that's not what happened. What went wrong firstly on the Raj? 07:05:04.520 --> 07:05:10.600 It's hard to say as a B-player what exactly went wrong on the CT side because I'm just standing out there jumping and then 07:05:10.880 --> 07:05:14.040 I'm not really exactly sure. I think we lost them to us early and then 07:05:14.840 --> 07:05:18.640 That could have like swung the round in our favor or at least like made different situations for us 07:05:19.320 --> 07:05:22.760 Then I think we didn't adapt fast enough to how they played. They played really fast 07:05:22.760 --> 07:05:26.200 And I think we should have maybe shut them down in the middle a bit more, but yeah 07:05:26.200 --> 07:05:32.980 was the quality of eyeball is a surprise at all who see no no there was no no 07:05:32.980 --> 07:05:37.680 like underestimating from our side I've been preparing all night yesterday and I 07:05:37.680 --> 07:05:41.840 know that they they know how to play and it's my former coach in pizza as well I 07:05:41.840 --> 07:05:46.600 know he's a smart guy so no no we were not surprised at all then you go into 07:05:46.600 --> 07:05:50.880 ancient one little down it's your map pick but at one point eyeball as well 07:05:50.880 --> 07:05:56.960 11-4 ahead. You really had to grind to get the W on map 2. How did it go from your perspective, 07:05:56.960 --> 07:06:02.720 Hoeksee? I mean, I think we lost some very unfortunate rounds on T, to say the least. 07:06:04.080 --> 07:06:07.600 We've had some trouble on our T side, both now and against Mongols, but then we show our 07:06:07.600 --> 07:06:11.520 quality on CT and I think that we are very confident that no matter the scoreline we can 07:06:11.520 --> 07:06:17.760 come back. So yeah, I think it's just good resilience from the guys and I'm happy we pulled 07:06:17.760 --> 07:06:21.840 control. Yeah, and then we get on to map three in front of finally a very 07:06:21.840 --> 07:06:26.560 comfortable affair. How much of that was momentum from ancient? How much it was 07:06:26.560 --> 07:06:31.740 just being the better team? I think it was maybe a bit of both. I think not so 07:06:31.740 --> 07:06:35.760 much momentum for us, but more like loss of momentum from their side. And then I 07:06:35.760 --> 07:06:41.100 think that yeah, maybe they don't feel as comfortable of the map as we do. And I 07:06:41.100 --> 07:06:44.640 think that showed a little bit. All right, final couple of questions. Hootsie. 07:06:44.640 --> 07:06:48.240 I've got to say congratulations on making it to the semi-finals. 07:06:48.240 --> 07:06:51.280 What are your initial reactions to knowing you secured top four? 07:06:51.280 --> 07:06:56.720 I mean it's of course nice but as I told you in the interview we did before the tournament started 07:06:56.720 --> 07:07:00.640 it's not so much about what placing we get but more how we play and I think right now 07:07:00.640 --> 07:07:04.080 none of us are happy with how we how we play and what we show. I think we throw away a lot 07:07:04.080 --> 07:07:09.680 of advantage rounds that we should close out so we'll have to go home and do better tomorrow and 07:07:10.560 --> 07:07:13.040 yeah hopefully I'll have a bigger smile on my face tomorrow. 07:07:13.040 --> 07:07:15.840 Yeah, and Hoekse, you'll be playing against 3D Max. 07:07:15.840 --> 07:07:19.240 It's a team that you've beaten a couple of times recently. 07:07:19.240 --> 07:07:22.040 What are your thoughts on them as opponents for your semi-final? 07:07:22.640 --> 07:07:25.640 I mean, I think they can be night and day, they can be super tough to play against, 07:07:25.640 --> 07:07:28.440 but they can also have days where they're just not showing up at all. 07:07:29.040 --> 07:07:33.240 So I think if we meet them on a day where they are feeling it, 07:07:33.240 --> 07:07:37.240 it's going to be super tough and, as I said, we have to be more ready than we were today. 07:07:37.440 --> 07:07:39.840 Awesome. Well, Hoekse, thank you very much for your time. 07:07:39.840 --> 07:07:42.040 Anything that you'd like to say to the fans watching at home? 07:07:43.040 --> 07:07:48.980 Well, sorry for maybe giving some hot problems. It was a bit of a shit show 07:07:49.380 --> 07:07:50.540 but 07:07:50.540 --> 07:07:52.540 Yeah, hope you'll keep supporting and 07:07:53.180 --> 07:07:58.680 Yeah, I hope you enjoyed the game. Definitely a stressful best of three for Hootsie and the strong spot 07:07:58.680 --> 07:08:00.680 They make it through to the semi-finals 07:08:01.820 --> 07:08:06.700 Yeah, if you're a glass half full kind of person you go look man 07:08:06.700 --> 07:08:10.380 We played like trash today on two maps, but we were still in the semi-finals 07:08:10.380 --> 07:08:16.380 If you're a glass half empty you go wow if we play anyone better than eyeball is wearing big trouble 07:08:16.380 --> 07:08:19.220 I think this is just an anomaly of a performance of Astralis 07:08:19.220 --> 07:08:22.020 I think the one thing I've got to give them credit to if you look at the recent results 07:08:22.020 --> 07:08:24.500 I've had not just over here, but over in EPL as well 07:08:24.500 --> 07:08:27.280 They've just been they've been beating really good teams consistently, right? 07:08:27.280 --> 07:08:29.480 So sure they got choked on Mirage 07:08:29.740 --> 07:08:32.480 Ancient they bought the comeback in and in front of just completed demolish them 07:08:32.480 --> 07:08:37.020 I'm not really worried for them heading into the semi-finals and 3D max is unknown entity 07:08:37.020 --> 07:08:39.140 I guess we'll see pointed out can be very up and down. 07:08:39.140 --> 07:08:41.300 But Australia should still be backing themselves 07:08:41.300 --> 07:08:41.940 as a favorite. 07:08:41.940 --> 07:08:43.620 Yeah, some of those things where when 07:08:43.620 --> 07:08:45.180 you get some a new show of what happened on ancient 07:08:45.180 --> 07:08:48.500 and how they were losing, evitator situations are peaking one 07:08:48.500 --> 07:08:50.060 by one and just making basic errors. 07:08:50.060 --> 07:08:51.700 Like, yeah, that is a little bit worrisome. 07:08:51.700 --> 07:08:54.140 But if you look at it from a more zoomed out view 07:08:54.140 --> 07:08:56.380 and how just they generally approach the game, 07:08:56.380 --> 07:08:57.660 there's a good game planning there. 07:08:57.660 --> 07:08:59.180 There's definitely good thoughts there. 07:08:59.180 --> 07:09:02.060 It's just about tidying up some of those little pressure 07:09:02.060 --> 07:09:03.460 moments and things of that nature. 07:09:03.460 --> 07:09:05.900 I think this team still displays a lot of the same promise 07:09:05.900 --> 07:09:07.540 that we've seen throughout the course of this year, 07:09:07.540 --> 07:09:09.180 but just a bit of an off day. 07:09:09.180 --> 07:09:10.020 Right? 07:09:10.020 --> 07:09:13.220 Just on running through smokes in a 4v2, 1v1, 1v1. 07:09:13.220 --> 07:09:15.060 Simple things, easy to fix. 07:09:15.060 --> 07:09:18.140 Yeah, so we've had a theme for today, guys. 07:09:18.140 --> 07:09:18.940 It's regret. 07:09:18.940 --> 07:09:22.140 Obviously, the underdogs in both of the series so far 07:09:22.140 --> 07:09:24.780 were so close to victory, and then were beaten 07:09:24.780 --> 07:09:26.460 by the favorites. 07:09:26.460 --> 07:09:29.060 Let's see if that trend continues. 07:09:29.060 --> 07:09:30.700 We're going to be bringing in, well, 07:09:30.700 --> 07:09:33.620 it's HLTV confirmed minus sponge plus tech go. 07:09:33.620 --> 07:09:34.980 So it should be a banger. 07:09:34.980 --> 07:09:36.660 Make sure you join us after the break. 07:09:38.420 --> 07:09:41.380 What is going on everybody and welcome to Wingman, 07:09:41.380 --> 07:09:44.780 where myself and a CS Pro play Wingman together 07:09:44.780 --> 07:09:48.300 and we get to know our pro friend a little bit better. 07:09:48.300 --> 07:09:51.100 Today I'm joined by Grim of NRG. 07:09:51.100 --> 07:09:52.380 Great to see you Grim, how are you? 07:09:52.380 --> 07:09:54.180 Good man, I'm ready to get in here. 07:09:54.180 --> 07:09:55.020 Excited? 07:09:55.020 --> 07:09:55.860 I'm gonna farm up again, yeah. 07:09:55.860 --> 07:09:58.820 For you it's around one month now in NRG, right? 07:09:58.820 --> 07:09:59.660 Yeah. 07:09:59.660 --> 07:10:01.580 How's the experience been so far? 07:10:01.580 --> 07:10:03.260 Well, actually firstly let's go back to the very start. 07:10:03.260 --> 07:10:04.780 How did you get involved in the team? 07:10:04.780 --> 07:10:12.780 Yeah, so my agent, Richel, just said energy might be interested in exploring options and then I spoke to Babs a bit, figured stuff out. 07:10:12.780 --> 07:10:19.780 Yeah, I mean, I just decided I think it'd be best for me just because I was getting a little mental burnout from the option schedule. 07:10:19.780 --> 07:10:25.780 I also think they're great players. I would really want to play at Nitro for a long time now and just see how he is. Captain America. 07:10:25.780 --> 07:10:30.100 America. That would feel like at least from an outside perspective, you've 07:10:30.100 --> 07:10:33.940 just seen that's like every younger American player's dream growing up. 07:10:33.980 --> 07:10:34.300 Yeah. 07:10:34.300 --> 07:10:35.300 To play with someone like Nightmare. 07:10:35.300 --> 07:10:38.740 I did. I watched Nightmare when I was like 14 and I was playing this game. 07:10:38.740 --> 07:10:40.540 So yeah, that's something very interesting. 07:10:40.540 --> 07:10:44.300 Yeah, the team from now, let's talk about stuff from the past. 07:10:44.300 --> 07:10:46.340 So at this point, you're 25. 07:10:47.500 --> 07:10:51.180 You sort of entered the scene at the highest level in what 2021? 07:10:51.180 --> 07:10:51.940 Sort of when we met. 07:10:51.940 --> 07:10:53.260 It's late 2020. 07:10:53.260 --> 07:10:55.100 It's like a real day when COVID started. 07:10:55.100 --> 07:10:55.900 Yeah. 07:10:55.900 --> 07:10:58.340 At the hotel events. 07:10:58.340 --> 07:10:59.660 Yeah. 07:10:59.660 --> 07:11:02.540 Talk to us about how you got into that position. 07:11:02.540 --> 07:11:05.780 You know, your kid, how'd you find out about Counter-Strike 07:11:05.780 --> 07:11:07.140 and then start playing it and stuff? 07:11:07.140 --> 07:11:09.500 Give us like the real primordial, 07:11:09.500 --> 07:11:12.580 the story of your genesis in CS. 07:11:12.580 --> 07:11:14.580 Well, I was in middle school 07:11:14.580 --> 07:11:17.100 and then a friend of mine asked if I wanted to play CSGO 07:11:17.100 --> 07:11:18.340 after school and I was like, 07:11:18.340 --> 07:11:21.580 at the time I just played like Cod and like GTA IV. 07:11:21.580 --> 07:11:24.820 So, yeah, I played for like 10 hours, and then I'm like, 07:11:24.820 --> 07:11:27.660 I don't know if I like this game because I can't scope in 07:11:27.660 --> 07:11:29.140 because I just like, I'm caught. 07:11:29.140 --> 07:11:31.540 So I quit for like eight months after that, 07:11:31.540 --> 07:11:33.460 and it started up again in 2015. 07:11:33.460 --> 07:11:36.540 And then, yeah, I was like watching a switch stream 07:11:36.540 --> 07:11:38.180 and it was like Nip versus Fnatic or something 07:11:38.180 --> 07:11:39.020 for some event. 07:11:39.020 --> 07:11:40.340 And I was like, wow, this is actually kind of cool. 07:11:40.340 --> 07:11:42.100 I don't know if you can play this game on a stage. 07:11:42.100 --> 07:11:43.900 And I like, I kept playing it more 07:11:43.900 --> 07:11:45.100 and just kept grinding. 07:11:45.100 --> 07:11:47.780 And then when I got global, I joined ESEA 07:11:47.780 --> 07:11:49.420 and then basically joined my first open team 07:11:49.420 --> 07:11:50.380 and got up from there one main 07:11:50.380 --> 07:11:56.460 one premiere my first season playing both and yeah basically got it from there yeah oh here we go oh 07:11:56.460 --> 07:12:04.780 wingman nuke all right um so then you've got yeah you get good you join a esa team um when you 07:12:04.780 --> 07:12:10.620 start getting attention from some of these bigger guys or like bigger teams etc i say well my friend 07:12:10.620 --> 07:12:15.180 group actually was really good at the start because i knew like uh the old guys like motm 07:12:15.180 --> 07:12:18.180 and voltage, all those guys back then. 07:12:18.180 --> 07:12:20.740 But yeah, basically I got like, 07:12:20.740 --> 07:12:23.980 I was averaging like 14 RWS or whatever in pugs 07:12:23.980 --> 07:12:27.500 and then people based here like game off that. 07:12:27.500 --> 07:12:29.380 And then I just like joined the main team 07:12:29.380 --> 07:12:30.620 and played with the same core people 07:12:30.620 --> 07:12:31.660 for like months, four years. 07:12:31.660 --> 07:12:32.980 Yeah. 07:12:32.980 --> 07:12:34.220 That was basically that. 07:12:34.220 --> 07:12:35.500 Oh, whoa. 07:12:35.500 --> 07:12:36.820 All right, we'll have to lock it out. 07:12:36.820 --> 07:12:38.300 And off of the story right now, 07:12:38.300 --> 07:12:40.140 we've let's lock in for the first round. 07:12:40.140 --> 07:12:41.140 We gotta, we gotta. 07:12:41.140 --> 07:12:43.540 Bro, I'm like, holy cow, man. 07:12:43.540 --> 07:12:44.380 Yeah. 07:12:44.380 --> 07:12:46.380 I can bait for you, let me just run. 07:12:46.380 --> 07:12:47.380 You can jump across. 07:12:47.380 --> 07:12:48.380 I don't know, where are you even at? 07:12:48.380 --> 07:12:49.380 Where do they spawn? 07:12:49.380 --> 07:12:51.380 I think they spawn a ramp. 07:12:51.380 --> 07:12:53.380 I don't know the correctly, I'll play just a one. 07:12:53.380 --> 07:12:54.380 Let's see, let me clear a double. 07:12:54.380 --> 07:12:56.380 I don't have a headset so it's gonna be a chance to hear. 07:12:56.380 --> 07:12:58.380 I don't know where it was going on. 07:12:58.380 --> 07:12:59.380 Get up and seek. 07:12:59.380 --> 07:13:00.380 Yeah. 07:13:00.380 --> 07:13:01.380 Right side ramp. 07:13:01.380 --> 07:13:02.380 Ooh. 07:13:03.380 --> 07:13:04.380 Yeah, right side ramp. 07:13:04.380 --> 07:13:05.380 Big ramp. 07:13:05.380 --> 07:13:06.380 Alright, let's see what happens here. 07:13:06.380 --> 07:13:09.380 Now I can jump on board and watch you do it for real. 07:13:09.380 --> 07:13:10.380 Let's go. 07:13:10.380 --> 07:13:11.380 Oh, dude! 07:13:11.380 --> 07:13:13.380 Man, these guys were on point. 07:13:13.380 --> 07:13:15.380 These guys are messing around man. 07:13:15.380 --> 07:13:17.380 It's gonna be tough to like chat watch. 07:13:17.380 --> 07:13:19.380 We've got to win but we're gonna give it a go. 07:13:19.380 --> 07:13:20.380 Yeah. 07:13:20.380 --> 07:13:21.380 Maybe that's what we need to do. 07:13:21.380 --> 07:13:22.380 Maybe we need a stage. 07:13:22.380 --> 07:13:23.380 Yeah. 07:13:23.380 --> 07:13:26.380 Yeah, so let's fast forward a bit now. 07:13:26.380 --> 07:13:30.380 Like your first big team was 2020. 07:13:30.380 --> 07:13:32.380 My brain's going blank now. 07:13:32.380 --> 07:13:33.380 Complexity. 07:13:33.380 --> 07:13:34.380 Liquid. 07:13:34.380 --> 07:13:35.380 Liquid then complexity. 07:13:35.380 --> 07:13:36.380 Yeah, yeah. 07:13:36.380 --> 07:13:38.380 What was that experience like getting on that team? 07:13:38.380 --> 07:13:41.380 How huge of a moment was that for you, etc? 07:13:41.380 --> 07:13:45.260 I mean it was crazy because obviously they just won the Grand Slam when I 07:13:45.260 --> 07:13:49.720 would know. They just won the Grand Slam when I joined and I was really nervous 07:13:49.720 --> 07:13:54.500 when I started playing because obviously I've been watching them for so long so 07:13:54.500 --> 07:13:59.740 it was an experience for sure. That was really nice they're all very 07:13:59.740 --> 07:14:03.360 welcoming and I had a good time there. I won a lot. And that's where you spent the 07:14:03.360 --> 07:14:07.260 majority of your career so far? Four years there. So it's very weird leaving the 07:14:07.260 --> 07:14:11.260 I've been enjoying energy as well since I spent all the time there. 07:14:11.260 --> 07:14:16.260 How do you feel like you've developed as a player as a past lover that longer period? 07:14:16.260 --> 07:14:21.260 Yeah, I mean I joined, I feel like TC helped me a lot, mature as a person. 07:14:21.260 --> 07:14:27.260 He's just a really good, cares-not guy, and it's nice being around him for so long. 07:14:27.260 --> 07:14:33.260 And yeah, obviously there's a lot to learn as a player too, because we were all basically rookies on that team. 07:14:33.260 --> 07:14:37.260 So, I'm gonna smoke him. 07:14:37.260 --> 07:14:41.260 Oh my god! Dude, I'm even getting mated. 07:14:41.260 --> 07:14:43.260 I think it's my last one. 07:14:43.260 --> 07:14:46.260 Oh, nice shot. 07:14:46.260 --> 07:14:49.260 Alright Paula, it might be time for a headsets, man. 07:14:49.260 --> 07:14:51.260 Yeah, yeah, let's get the headsets on. 07:14:51.260 --> 07:14:52.260 I don't know what's going on, but... 07:14:52.260 --> 07:14:53.260 Yeah. 07:14:53.260 --> 07:14:54.260 Alright, let's see now. 07:14:54.260 --> 07:14:55.260 We're not gonna lose this thing. 07:14:55.260 --> 07:14:57.260 This is probably one of the hardest interviews I've ever had to do. 07:14:57.260 --> 07:14:58.260 It's just... 07:14:58.260 --> 07:14:59.260 This is tough, man. 07:14:59.260 --> 07:15:00.260 It's tough. 07:15:00.260 --> 07:15:01.260 Well, we got two more rounds. 07:15:01.260 --> 07:15:04.660 Yeah, yeah, maybe we can make it come back here, dude. Let's see if I can you here these guys 07:15:04.660 --> 07:15:09.700 I mean they're trying pretty hard so they might be walking around everywhere. Yeah, I think we should rush 07:15:10.140 --> 07:15:16.700 We can rush something next round. What are just double smoking everything. I'm like peeking double. Oh, dude 07:15:17.540 --> 07:15:20.020 He's a toxic on your list. This is tough 07:15:21.100 --> 07:15:23.100 probably right now 07:15:24.620 --> 07:15:29.780 Yeah, dude, I mean, all right, you know these guys honestly they deserve it 07:15:29.780 --> 07:15:37.780 Yeah, they won it pretty bad, I mean, they're, uh, yeah, I'm gonna leave it there, I'm gonna flash out. 07:15:41.780 --> 07:15:43.780 Let's see if we get our first round, that's nice. 07:15:46.780 --> 07:15:48.780 I see, we're in! 07:15:48.780 --> 07:15:51.780 That's it on, locked in, they're coming back, coming in. 07:15:52.780 --> 07:15:53.780 Alright, I have an idea. 07:15:53.780 --> 07:15:54.780 Have you got an idea? 07:15:54.780 --> 07:15:56.780 We need you to get a smoke, Paula. 07:15:56.780 --> 07:15:57.780 Smoke? 07:15:57.780 --> 07:16:01.300 Five seven armor five seven. Yeah, Alma 07:16:01.980 --> 07:16:07.900 Yep, and then we need you to smoke double door. Okay, and then I'm gonna go close single and hold for you 07:16:07.900 --> 07:16:09.900 I don't rush out 07:16:11.820 --> 07:16:13.900 We're doing with the whole you're holding this 07:16:19.860 --> 07:16:22.900 Dude, I mean honestly, I'm global ring and I don't know 07:16:22.900 --> 07:16:25.860 and I'm like, this is so hard. 07:16:25.860 --> 07:16:28.620 Honestly, I just year of some saying that. 07:16:28.620 --> 07:16:29.460 I mean. 07:16:29.460 --> 07:16:31.220 Ha, ha, ha. 07:16:31.220 --> 07:16:32.580 What was it like leaving complexity? 07:16:32.580 --> 07:16:33.420 Was that tough? 07:16:33.420 --> 07:16:36.380 It was because, I mean, I've been, 07:16:36.380 --> 07:16:37.940 I was at the same core for a while with Halzerik, 07:16:37.940 --> 07:16:39.620 but then he got benched. 07:16:39.620 --> 07:16:42.940 So it kind of sucked, because I really liked him, 07:16:42.940 --> 07:16:45.780 and I thought he was a good player and a good person. 07:16:45.780 --> 07:16:48.180 But obviously, it sucked leaving JT and TC as well. 07:16:48.180 --> 07:16:50.180 Have we seen the best of Grimm yet? 07:16:50.180 --> 07:16:51.740 Like, where'd you see your ceiling? 07:16:51.740 --> 07:16:55.880 like, because you're still young bro, 25, like, I guess I'm asking your general 07:16:55.880 --> 07:16:59.780 thoughts on yourself and where you see yourself going in terms of individual 07:16:59.780 --> 07:17:02.820 performance. I mean, I personally think it's not for me, but for everyone, like, 07:17:02.840 --> 07:17:07.340 you can get better every year than you were last year. Like, last year, I feel 07:17:07.340 --> 07:17:10.340 like 2035 is my best year individually, especially towards the early 07:17:10.340 --> 07:17:15.860 start of the year. Like, this year, I obviously want to try and improve on 07:17:15.860 --> 07:17:18.700 that and be a little better, but that might take some time since I'm like 07:17:18.700 --> 07:17:22.660 adjusting from being with the same core for like four years now and you know I 07:17:22.660 --> 07:17:25.740 don't know what my prime would be if I'm in it now or when I'll peak but 07:17:25.740 --> 07:17:29.740 hopefully uh someone's in turn as soon I know it's really close so few now. 07:17:29.740 --> 07:17:33.660 Well is there anything else that you'd like to say to the fans at home? 07:17:33.660 --> 07:17:39.580 Um especially um just thank you for supporting and hopefully I can do better 07:17:39.580 --> 07:17:44.220 than I did last year this year and we can do good things for the North American scene 07:17:44.220 --> 07:17:50.540 and do get on energy and you know we have a also have a lana I think coming up and that'd be great 07:17:50.540 --> 07:17:54.460 to make play upstairs so you guys better show up as we're making it. There we go you heard it here 07:17:54.460 --> 07:17:59.820 fast everybody uh grim once again thanks for being here and best of luck to you personally and to 07:17:59.820 --> 07:18:01.020 your team energy. Thank you. 07:18:01.020 --> 07:18:13.020 guys, thank you. Ladies and 07:18:13.020 --> 07:18:14.020 gentlemen, boys and girls, 07:18:14.020 --> 07:18:15.020 Counter Strike fans around the 07:18:15.020 --> 07:18:17.020 globe. Welcome to another 07:18:17.020 --> 07:18:19.020 episode of HLTV Unconfirmed 07:18:19.020 --> 07:18:21.020 Prof and Striker on the couch. 07:18:21.020 --> 07:18:23.020 And if you ordered sponge the 07:18:23.020 --> 07:18:25.020 podcast host from Timur, you 07:18:25.020 --> 07:18:27.020 get me. James, is this the 07:18:27.020 --> 07:18:29.020 first time you're on an 07:18:29.020 --> 07:18:34.140 or couch together. This is true. This is true. What is the first time we're on a couch together? 07:18:34.140 --> 07:18:38.220 Yeah, we definitely have shared couches before. I don't know if you've seen, we've reworked the 07:18:38.220 --> 07:18:43.820 branding of your show. This is just a pitch for me. If you ever decide to get rid of sponge, 07:18:44.380 --> 07:18:50.620 just saying that the job pitch is there. Pretty good job. Great work. And I also love that 07:18:50.620 --> 07:18:55.500 striker is like this picture of striker with a beard. It's just the only one that is being used 07:18:55.500 --> 07:19:01.820 ever. Even though I would say I have had more beers in the last three years than you but 07:19:01.820 --> 07:19:05.420 you know I feel like you stole in my thunder in this way. You've probably had more beers 07:19:05.420 --> 07:19:10.140 in the last month that I have in my entire life to be honest. I'm requesting the champagne 07:19:10.860 --> 07:19:15.820 shot. There's a great one on HLTV for the for the next PGL announcement. Thank you very much. 07:19:15.820 --> 07:19:20.140 Okay we're ready for that one. We'll make sure that's sorted. You need three of these, 07:19:20.140 --> 07:19:24.140 so three analyst castles together and then you can become a casting duo and follow in 07:19:24.140 --> 07:19:25.620 and Spongy Machines Footsteps. 07:19:25.620 --> 07:19:28.620 I'm just planting those career seeds there for you. 07:19:28.620 --> 07:19:29.460 But before we do that, 07:19:29.460 --> 07:19:31.820 we do actually need to speak about the quarter final 07:19:31.820 --> 07:19:34.540 that is about to take place here at PGL Bucharest. 07:19:34.540 --> 07:19:36.540 Bait up against Foot. 07:19:36.540 --> 07:19:39.460 And I've really got excited about watching Foot, 07:19:39.460 --> 07:19:41.260 the last few events. 07:19:41.260 --> 07:19:43.060 But what I've started to see is obviously 07:19:43.060 --> 07:19:44.540 a lot of other fans like me, 07:19:44.540 --> 07:19:46.380 we don't really wanna get behind this team 07:19:46.380 --> 07:19:50.140 because the general consensus is after the major, 07:19:50.140 --> 07:19:52.780 this team is gonna be picked apart by the bigger teams. 07:19:52.780 --> 07:19:54.340 Do you think that that is the case? 07:19:54.340 --> 07:19:54.780 I don't know. 07:19:54.780 --> 07:19:58.220 I'm not 100% sold on this idea. 07:19:58.220 --> 07:20:00.460 Obviously, it could have maybe happened already, 07:20:00.460 --> 07:20:01.140 but it didn't. 07:20:01.140 --> 07:20:03.900 They seem to have fended off some approaches. 07:20:03.900 --> 07:20:05.620 And together, they have definitely 07:20:05.620 --> 07:20:08.180 this year been the breakout team of the year, I would say. 07:20:08.180 --> 07:20:11.700 Like Super Young line up with a lot of interesting pieces. 07:20:11.700 --> 07:20:14.060 Late last year, for me, Demon was a standout. 07:20:14.060 --> 07:20:18.700 Now, maybe Long's, Jude's are other players 07:20:18.700 --> 07:20:19.980 that are standing out a bit more. 07:20:19.980 --> 07:20:23.580 but definitely there is potential for other teams to look into this. 07:20:23.580 --> 07:20:27.460 This is something that I was setting up when we had our first segment on this tournament, 07:20:27.460 --> 07:20:31.700 where I thought that foot are under actual real pressure to actually win some of these tournaments, 07:20:31.700 --> 07:20:32.900 exactly because of this, right? 07:20:32.900 --> 07:20:36.620 Because a lot of teams will come and try to pick this team apart. 07:20:36.620 --> 07:20:39.900 And they've spoken at the beginning of the year how much they enjoy playing together, 07:20:39.900 --> 07:20:41.300 they really wanted to stick together. 07:20:41.300 --> 07:20:47.500 That's why nobody ended up saying yes to any of those approaches in the season before that, right? 07:20:47.500 --> 07:20:50.900 But obviously, for that, it kind of needs to continue along that path. 07:20:50.900 --> 07:20:53.700 Like, in this season, if they pick up a tournament like this, 07:20:53.700 --> 07:20:55.500 that could be another reason why they were like, 07:20:55.500 --> 07:20:59.700 okay, why would we go to a struggling phase or a struggling mouse now, 07:20:59.700 --> 07:21:03.100 or whoever would be coming to approach them, right? 07:21:03.100 --> 07:21:06.500 The only problem I see is, you know, if it's Navi coming, 07:21:06.500 --> 07:21:09.500 then those guys, considering they came from the academy, 07:21:09.500 --> 07:21:11.900 I wouldn't be surprised if they had a clause in the contract 07:21:11.900 --> 07:21:16.100 where Navi have the first approach or the right of the first approach 07:21:16.100 --> 07:21:20.100 and maybe a slightly better buyout, that's what I would be maybe worried. 07:21:20.100 --> 07:21:26.100 Yeah, I mean also, I mean you're saying a struggling phase, but Kerrigan is the highest rated player of the tournament, I don't know about that. 07:21:26.100 --> 07:21:28.100 That would be pretty exciting to join that guy. 07:21:28.100 --> 07:21:32.100 Do you know how that just threw me off? I can't, I'll just admit this because now we're having a good time. 07:21:32.100 --> 07:21:36.100 It came up and I still was like, did they make a mistake with that? 07:21:36.100 --> 07:21:39.100 And then I remembered, but in a moment I was like, why is Kerrigan doing that? 07:21:39.100 --> 07:21:44.100 He did drop a pretty good rating in that one game that they played at this tournament against Inner Circle. 07:21:44.100 --> 07:21:48.860 Two of the four players obviously in the top four in the top eight or nine 07:21:49.080 --> 07:21:55.780 So pretty much everyone is doing a great job on foot them. They're having a great time here 3-0 in the group stage obviously so 07:21:56.460 --> 07:22:02.300 Heading towards that title. I think the the issue for me for this team is like the big games 07:22:02.300 --> 07:22:09.380 I've seen them in the in the games that qualify them for the playoffs or in a in a big playoff third place the side or even in 07:22:09.380 --> 07:22:13.140 In some scenarios, when they have a lead, they let the lead go. 07:22:13.140 --> 07:22:16.620 It's 11-11, they lose a round that maybe they should have won. 07:22:16.620 --> 07:22:20.140 That is where I'm trying to see a bit more development from this team, 07:22:20.140 --> 07:22:23.740 but I don't think this game is that kind of a game for them. 07:22:23.740 --> 07:22:26.100 I think this is a game where they're a huge favorite, 07:22:26.100 --> 07:22:29.780 even though it's like only five spots in the VRS between them and Bate. 07:22:29.780 --> 07:22:33.220 I think they're huge favorites, both individual, form, map pool, 07:22:33.220 --> 07:22:35.060 everything is going in their direction. 07:22:35.060 --> 07:22:38.020 Yeah, I mean, this tournament has been a lot more convincing 07:22:38.020 --> 07:22:41.700 than some of the previous ones. Obviously, you know, we have to take it in the context of the 07:22:41.700 --> 07:22:45.380 opposition that they've had to face. It hasn't been top team, but even the pair vision game 07:22:45.380 --> 07:22:49.300 that they played to qualify for the playoffs was pretty convincing, and that's kind of 07:22:49.300 --> 07:22:54.100 sold me on the idea that foot are ready to take that next step. Yeah, we still haven't seen them 07:22:54.100 --> 07:22:58.100 tested though, which is the part that worries me a little bit, because exactly when we saw them 07:22:58.100 --> 07:23:02.580 being tested, they didn't really withstand under that pressure, as Prof was talking about. So, 07:23:02.580 --> 07:23:07.220 I could see that happen here, to be honest, because I think as much as, yes, foot are the 07:23:07.220 --> 07:23:12.420 favorites. I do think that Bates results at this tournament are maybe a little 07:23:12.420 --> 07:23:15.100 bit better than the score suggests because the only game that they really 07:23:15.100 --> 07:23:19.740 let out was the 3D Max one. Okay so if you were a top team and you were about to 07:23:19.740 --> 07:23:24.340 try and steal someone from foot which player are you taking? I mean take your 07:23:24.340 --> 07:23:27.580 pick. Yeah Longs. Longs has been fantastic and if you need like an 07:23:27.580 --> 07:23:32.380 aggressive hype man on the team both you know delivering the frags, delivering 07:23:32.380 --> 07:23:37.540 divides. I think he is a fantastic piece. Krabeni has the IGL, but also a pretty good 07:23:37.540 --> 07:23:42.740 traggler for the IGL. Now the question is, you know, what kind of team can he fit in? 07:23:42.740 --> 07:23:47.660 If we're talking about the Navi side, I don't think he really fits in what the Navi is doing 07:23:47.660 --> 07:23:53.500 right now and how Blade likes to play, but he's definitely someone that has a good career 07:23:53.500 --> 07:23:54.500 in front of him. 07:23:54.500 --> 07:23:58.660 Yeah, I mean, again, take your pick. No matter what position you would like to fill, you 07:23:58.660 --> 07:24:01.380 you would find a replacement in this foot team. 07:24:01.380 --> 07:24:04.020 The only realistic kind of question mark still for me 07:24:04.020 --> 07:24:06.860 a little bit as demon because a couple of years ago 07:24:06.860 --> 07:24:09.340 he was the one that even blade was kind of happening up 07:24:09.340 --> 07:24:11.260 when he was around 16 years old, 07:24:11.260 --> 07:24:13.700 that he could be the next big thing to come out of Ukraine. 07:24:13.700 --> 07:24:16.140 Since then he hasn't necessarily shot it up to service. 07:24:16.140 --> 07:24:18.500 So I think there's still a little bit of improvement 07:24:18.500 --> 07:24:20.420 made from that side, but I do still think 07:24:20.420 --> 07:24:22.340 that he's a very, very solid anchor 07:24:22.340 --> 07:24:23.820 in a lot of those positions. 07:24:23.820 --> 07:24:26.740 And then cemetery, I think he's more of a stable 07:24:26.740 --> 07:24:28.940 and more reliable upper than anything else. 07:24:28.940 --> 07:24:31.220 He's not going to be a star that you're going to build around. 07:24:31.220 --> 07:24:33.260 So it just more depends on what you're looking for. 07:24:33.260 --> 07:24:35.220 They are obviously going up against Bait. 07:24:35.220 --> 07:24:37.820 This was the previous matchup that we got to see. 07:24:37.820 --> 07:24:41.340 Yeah, I mean, this is what I'm talking about also in the veto part, 07:24:41.340 --> 07:24:44.740 where Bait are one of these teams that are kind of like playing seven maps. 07:24:44.740 --> 07:24:48.460 And I generally dislike this, especially when you're not like the best team in the world 07:24:48.460 --> 07:24:52.060 or the top three is like, what are you even trying to do with playing seven maps? 07:24:52.060 --> 07:24:54.740 You're not even good on four, most of them, right? 07:24:54.740 --> 07:25:00.140 And in this case, it's Anubis and Overpass that they both play, but don't play well. 07:25:00.140 --> 07:25:04.580 And in the last matchup, it was just a pick from Foot, 07:25:04.580 --> 07:25:08.020 and it was an easy win on Anubis, and then 2-0 after that. 07:25:08.020 --> 07:25:09.660 So, a rough situation for them. 07:25:09.660 --> 07:25:13.220 It's been really weird, because nobody's even been calling them out on it. 07:25:13.220 --> 07:25:15.940 Whenever they ban one, nobody picks the other against them, 07:25:15.940 --> 07:25:18.220 because they just run into the right position, 07:25:18.220 --> 07:25:22.300 where that map hasn't necessarily been a strong suit for the opposing team. 07:25:22.300 --> 07:25:39.300 I do think that this, we'll get into the veto a little bit later, but I do think that in this match-up we might be in that same position, you know, because Overpass isn't necessarily a map that Foot is particularly well known for, but I do think that they could easily punish it, punish Pickett, you know, and putting Bait on a pretty bad backfoot already. 07:25:39.300 --> 07:25:51.300 I think Prof is right though as well, like if you're not a top tee contesting for a best of five grand final, like maybe you should be focusing when you're trying to climb the VRS, you're trying to get more invites to these tournaments on really perfecting a smaller map pool. 07:25:51.300 --> 07:25:54.540 smaller map pool? Yeah, I mean, you don't really have that much time to practice as well. 07:25:54.540 --> 07:25:57.620 You know, their schedule has been crazy at the park in Challenger. 07:25:57.620 --> 07:26:00.900 I think they played like 13 games over three days, right? 07:26:00.900 --> 07:26:03.380 That's an insane amount of games that you're playing. 07:26:03.380 --> 07:26:04.580 And then you're coming straight here. 07:26:04.580 --> 07:26:06.740 There's no practice between these two tournaments for them. 07:26:07.060 --> 07:26:11.900 You don't really have any time for like refresher map pool or like work on maybe maps that are not that good. 07:26:12.100 --> 07:26:15.180 Or maybe if you are, then you're not working on the maps that are good. 07:26:15.460 --> 07:26:17.740 So generally speaking, I'm not another big fan. 07:26:17.740 --> 07:26:19.900 Rarely do I see teams pull it off phase. 07:26:19.900 --> 07:26:23.340 We also tried to pull it off this year. We saw how that went. 07:26:23.340 --> 07:26:26.060 So I would advise moving away from it. 07:26:26.060 --> 07:26:28.540 Maybe behind the scenes they are moving away from it, 07:26:28.540 --> 07:26:30.940 but we need to see that tested, right? 07:26:30.940 --> 07:26:32.420 I think realistically they might be, 07:26:32.420 --> 07:26:35.060 because they have been tending more towards the Anubis ban lately, 07:26:35.060 --> 07:26:36.740 and the only time that they do let it through 07:26:36.740 --> 07:26:39.020 is against the teams like Astralis, who don't play it, 07:26:39.020 --> 07:26:40.700 and then later they let the other team ban it, 07:26:40.700 --> 07:26:42.340 because they effectively have to. 07:26:42.340 --> 07:26:45.460 They know they can play it, they don't play it to a high level, 07:26:45.460 --> 07:26:49.340 but it's better to have it in your map pool than not play it at all. 07:26:49.340 --> 07:26:54.500 So it's always going to be a risk if you're coming up against them to try to pick or to try to let it let the map through 07:26:54.500 --> 07:26:57.860 You know if you're not put up if you're a team that perma bands one of those two 07:26:58.420 --> 07:27:03.760 Yeah, realistically, I do think that they've probably focused more over paths because that's been the map that they've been letting through way more than 07:27:03.760 --> 07:27:07.780 Than an oobus just again haven't been called out on it. We'll take a look at the Vita in a bit 07:27:07.780 --> 07:27:09.780 But first I mean I asked you this question about 07:27:09.820 --> 07:27:15.860 Forth so I'll ask it about Bates as well if you're a top team trying to find some new talent. Who are you stealing from this line up? 07:27:15.860 --> 07:27:20.900 I'm not sure. Ascentiel definitely had a good tournament. I just wanted to highlight here 07:27:21.140 --> 07:27:26.740 There's a lot of numbers a lot of things but the key thing is he had one bad map one kind of 07:27:27.140 --> 07:27:30.100 Not great ancient other than that everything has been great 07:27:30.100 --> 07:27:33.620 And this is a guy that's not really used the usual suspect for them 07:27:33.620 --> 07:27:40.120 He's kind of lurking gank ring, but he came up really huge in a lot of key moments yesterday against legacy had a 07:27:40.500 --> 07:27:44.660 MP9 4k right and stuff like that that he's winning rounds 07:27:44.660 --> 07:27:48.900 they shouldn't be winning, which is helping them close out games pretty easily. 07:27:48.900 --> 07:27:51.460 Other than that, it was always MPL for me on this lineup. 07:27:51.460 --> 07:27:55.260 But I don't know, since he moved away from the IGL role, 07:27:55.260 --> 07:27:57.420 I don't think he has... he's been okay, 07:27:57.420 --> 07:28:00.780 but doesn't have as much impact calling around himself like he used to. 07:28:00.780 --> 07:28:03.900 And he's a good player, but they don't have, I think, 07:28:03.900 --> 07:28:08.540 that depth of talent to move up on the rankings. 07:28:08.540 --> 07:28:10.220 Obviously now the Vita are coming in. 07:28:10.220 --> 07:28:12.420 You saw that in Nuvus Band, which you mentioned was going to happen. 07:28:12.420 --> 07:28:15.900 Yes, ancient pick from Betis was expected. 07:28:15.900 --> 07:28:17.340 They've been picking it pretty consistently. 07:28:17.340 --> 07:28:18.260 They've been really good on it. 07:28:18.260 --> 07:28:19.820 So that doesn't surprise me. 07:28:19.820 --> 07:28:21.820 I'm curious if we're going to see the overpass punish 07:28:21.820 --> 07:28:22.460 and there it is. 07:28:22.460 --> 07:28:25.340 So that's exactly what I was looking for from Foots. 07:28:25.340 --> 07:28:26.940 They not necessarily one of the maps 07:28:26.940 --> 07:28:28.300 that they have high up in the map pool, 07:28:28.300 --> 07:28:31.020 but knowing that Betis had played it twice, 07:28:31.020 --> 07:28:33.180 I think, in the entire season, and they've lost both maps 07:28:33.180 --> 07:28:38.500 pretty convincingly, then it's kind of an easy pick for them. 07:28:38.500 --> 07:28:41.340 Yeah, and just moving towards Nuke then. 07:28:41.340 --> 07:28:46.420 Yeah, and so it's a Mirage. It's a handshake Mirage. Both teams really like it. So that's again, very, very expected to be, too. 07:28:46.700 --> 07:28:58.260 Yeah, I think a huge, huge advantage there with the overpass coming in for the second map. And I mean, the rest of the map will pretty good for foot as well. So it is leaning that way. I mean, nothing, no real surprises there. 07:28:58.260 --> 07:29:06.900 I think I want to say for Bate, realistically, it's a domestic lineup that has been pretty stable in the top 15-ish right in the world. They're going to the Major again. 07:29:06.900 --> 07:29:13.780 They made a swap for the for the upper with a super new guy that has pretty much no experience coming on loan from Spirit Academy 07:29:13.780 --> 07:29:15.780 That's dizzy. He had a good showing yesterday 07:29:16.420 --> 07:29:19.120 But they're they're quite limited you also have to think about 07:29:19.500 --> 07:29:24.780 Trying to find Ukrainian players when you have now the Navi Academy who's gonna be by default where people want to go 07:29:24.940 --> 07:29:29.420 Spirit Academy is also picking up some of them. There's inner circle also offering chances 07:29:29.420 --> 07:29:33.740 There's not that many options that they can go for so that's kind of where they are right now 07:29:33.740 --> 07:29:37.220 Hedrick didn't really move the needle for them. They tried out 07:29:38.660 --> 07:29:44.120 Segu Kava, right? That was horrible that they went for Sizi and now they're finding some some footing with him 07:29:44.120 --> 07:29:49.620 Which is proving to be okay. I guess I think this is a good tournament for Sizi really to get a little bit more experience without having 07:29:49.620 --> 07:29:55.880 The crazy amount of pressure on him because obviously you're not playing all the best teams all the early teams were they're gonna be prepared for everything 07:29:55.880 --> 07:30:01.200 That you do they're gonna look into all of your tendencies and they will know exactly how to shut you down in this kind of level of 07:30:01.200 --> 07:30:07.000 competitions. He's actually found a couple of really good games. And yes, that's great, 07:30:07.000 --> 07:30:11.440 but the problem is you are now going up against Foot, who we do consider to be on the brink 07:30:11.440 --> 07:30:15.120 of becoming one of the elite teams if they can just break through the glass ceiling. 07:30:15.120 --> 07:30:19.440 So I am looking towards him because I think it is going to be hingeing on whether he can 07:30:19.440 --> 07:30:23.040 provide the sort of output that he has been so far at this tournament, because I do think 07:30:23.040 --> 07:30:26.880 without him that depth is probably not going to be there against the Foot that is just 07:30:26.880 --> 07:30:28.880 top to bottom, really, really strong individually. 07:30:28.880 --> 07:30:30.880 We have a quiz. 07:30:30.880 --> 07:30:32.880 We always have a quiz. 07:30:32.880 --> 07:30:35.880 People that are on PGL in chat, if they want to win, follow from me. 07:30:35.880 --> 07:30:38.880 And the fun fact, if you get all three correct. 07:30:38.880 --> 07:30:41.880 So we have three questions, ABC answers. Let me find it. 07:30:41.880 --> 07:30:45.880 Hold on, we've actually got Henry and Anders with us. 07:30:45.880 --> 07:30:47.880 So let's all get involved in the quiz. 07:30:47.880 --> 07:30:49.880 I want to get involved in the quiz. Yeah, let's do this. 07:30:49.880 --> 07:30:50.880 Take it away. 07:30:50.880 --> 07:30:51.880 Question number one. 07:30:51.880 --> 07:30:54.880 Highest rated player of these two teams at this event? 07:30:54.880 --> 07:30:55.880 Cemetery. 07:30:55.880 --> 07:31:04.680 Long's essential or semi-chips correct 1.29 rating and the offer is delivering Henry is on fire. Okay great question number two 07:31:05.880 --> 07:31:10.680 Obviously two young teams. What is the oldest player on these two teams longs? 07:31:11.440 --> 07:31:16.440 NPL longs Alex 666 or Krabeni. Maybe we want to think about this together 07:31:16.680 --> 07:31:22.000 No way. I'm just gonna go with Henry's answers. He's never really wrong. I'm with Henry. Whatever he says longs 07:31:22.000 --> 07:31:25.440 That's what I'm going for. I think it's not any. Yeah, I think it's Krabeni 07:31:25.440 --> 07:31:26.720 Both of you are incorrect. 07:31:26.720 --> 07:31:27.220 Really? 07:31:27.220 --> 07:31:29.080 Lance is 20 years old. 07:31:29.080 --> 07:31:32.320 Krabbenik21, Alex666 is 24. 07:31:32.320 --> 07:31:32.680 He's not 66. 07:31:32.680 --> 07:31:33.600 Oh, Boomer. 07:31:33.600 --> 07:31:33.960 OK. 07:31:33.960 --> 07:31:34.400 There you go. 07:31:34.400 --> 07:31:36.840 The Boomer on this line, for sure. 07:31:36.840 --> 07:31:38.800 And the last one, which group of teams did 07:31:38.800 --> 07:31:40.000 Lance not play on? 07:31:40.000 --> 07:31:43.720 Sprout, Falcons, and Bleed, Game Agents, Infinite, and Nexus, 07:31:43.720 --> 07:31:47.240 or Revenant, Bleed, and Into the Breach? 07:31:47.240 --> 07:31:49.920 I think he played for Sprout almost certainly. 07:31:49.920 --> 07:31:52.320 I think everyone played for Sprout at one point. 07:31:52.320 --> 07:31:53.800 So yeah. 07:31:53.800 --> 07:32:01.220 I'll go see whatever that one was that what that is that's correct you did not play on into the breach you played on all of these other three different Romanian line-ups Falcons two times 07:32:01.720 --> 07:32:05.960 Fantastic, well, what a great quiz. What a great way to throw into the quarterfinals Anders 07:32:05.960 --> 07:32:07.840 I hope you guys are ready at home 07:32:07.840 --> 07:32:12.140 We're gonna try and bring this one the level of excitement it deserves as we will see you foot 07:32:12.360 --> 07:32:18.240 Starting on the CT side here bait the underdog that has to be said. I'm looking for more on a scissorlanders 07:32:18.240 --> 07:32:21.000 I want to see him pop off. I want to see that star power 07:32:21.000 --> 07:32:27.400 I've been told so much about well now would be the time to deliver that's this is where it gets really real for Bates 07:32:27.640 --> 07:32:33.720 They've been improving throughout the tournament. They came in looking a bit flat perhaps, but um, let's see if they could do something here 07:32:33.880 --> 07:32:39.000 Stack of the B bomb site as foot. They have a really good read at the moment 07:32:39.680 --> 07:32:45.520 Cemetery playing towards that cave long so the bottom of the B ramp the bomb is alone and that's gone down 07:32:45.920 --> 07:32:50.440 Alex 666 the first casualty here at the quarter finals 07:32:51.000 --> 07:32:55.720 That is not exactly great, now they have to slow it down and they're going to try and push anyway. 07:32:55.720 --> 07:33:02.040 Kevani gets one, Sementree with the follow-up, and MPL and Sizi left the whole plan. 07:33:02.040 --> 07:33:06.440 Has come undone here as bait to get caught even trying to get to the site. 07:33:06.440 --> 07:33:10.680 They don't even see him shooting them! Nobody dies on the foot side. 07:33:10.680 --> 07:33:15.640 I think we're going to see a lot of that. My prediction for this game, Anders, might be a 07:33:15.640 --> 07:33:18.200 hot take, a controversial opinion here. No one. 07:33:18.200 --> 07:33:19.560 foot to blow them out of the 07:33:19.560 --> 07:33:20.560 proverbial water. 07:33:20.800 --> 07:33:21.880 Well, I hope it's going to be a 07:33:21.880 --> 07:33:23.400 slaughter. Henry, because I 07:33:23.400 --> 07:33:24.800 picked foot to win the tournament. 07:33:24.800 --> 07:33:26.080 You did. And I picked the 07:33:26.080 --> 07:33:27.080 Strahlers. And you picked the 07:33:27.080 --> 07:33:28.040 Strahlers. That could be the 07:33:28.040 --> 07:33:29.400 final. There's a chance here on 07:33:29.400 --> 07:33:30.400 different sides of the bracket. 07:33:30.560 --> 07:33:32.320 OK, well, that would be what a 07:33:32.320 --> 07:33:33.400 great final that would be. I'd 07:33:33.400 --> 07:33:34.560 be very excited. The thing is to 07:33:34.560 --> 07:33:35.560 add is the winner of this game 07:33:35.560 --> 07:33:37.080 goes on to play Paravision or 07:33:37.080 --> 07:33:39.280 Mongols. Oh, that's rough. 07:33:39.480 --> 07:33:40.920 So either way, that's rough. 07:33:41.360 --> 07:33:42.840 Just bear that in mind, but 07:33:43.960 --> 07:33:44.680 they've already taken down 07:33:44.680 --> 07:33:45.920 Paravision. So that's it. 07:33:45.920 --> 07:33:47.360 Yeah, it's a week of 07:33:47.360 --> 07:33:52.400 Paravision, we'll see how long Dostan will let that live like he's coming for them, his own team that is. 07:33:52.400 --> 07:33:56.640 That is the next quarterfinal, the one that closed out the end of the day, ladies and gentlemen, Mongols. 07:33:56.640 --> 07:34:00.160 That's the Paravision game of the day for sure, so make sure you stick around. 07:34:00.160 --> 07:34:05.600 For now though, no force by, I'm afraid, it's going to be one of those rounds where we can just say 07:34:05.600 --> 07:34:10.320 they're trying to bleed down that CT utility, fill out the map, see if any mistakes are presented. 07:34:10.320 --> 07:34:15.360 We've got an MP5, my favorite weapon in the meta right now is good to see it make a heroic comeback 07:34:15.360 --> 07:34:22.720 from the 1.6 days, that should be quite a simple and clean procedure here for the foot boys. 07:34:23.440 --> 07:34:27.120 Well, I've got some stats for you Henry. What kind of stats before we get into it? 07:34:28.080 --> 07:34:33.360 Just statistics on, let's call it, map tempo. Okay, so going then. Where do you go? Both these 07:34:33.360 --> 07:34:39.600 teams are about 10% rushes on this map and it's about both for the A and the B ramp obviously. 07:34:39.600 --> 07:34:43.120 They just, just to say both teams on the C side, they love rushes. In the meantime, 07:34:43.120 --> 07:34:46.560 It's been a lot more damage than anyone expected here. They don't get the bomb hunt. 07:34:46.560 --> 07:34:50.120 But it's just to say, there could be some of those B-Rap pushers. 07:34:50.120 --> 07:34:53.760 Sometimes it'll be the A-Bomb side instead, where you throw the smokes and everything else, but 07:34:53.760 --> 07:34:57.960 it's a lot more than some teams. There are some teams in the world that almost never do it. 07:34:57.960 --> 07:34:59.800 Like, they just don't like the idea. 07:34:59.800 --> 07:35:04.680 Well, I love the idea. And I welcome the rushes here, and hopefully we'll see a lot of them. 07:35:04.680 --> 07:35:07.560 This is the sort of round where you might deploy that sort of method all of the time. 07:35:07.560 --> 07:35:10.240 It's because, you know, it's a bit of a bonus situation. 07:35:10.240 --> 07:35:13.200 Not much of one considering they get a couple of kills there with the Glocks. 07:35:13.200 --> 07:35:15.760 We've got AKs across the board here, round number three. 07:35:15.760 --> 07:35:19.040 Let's see which kind of game we're going to get. 07:35:19.040 --> 07:35:23.440 Will Blake Bates get absolutely smashed here, or will they start posting rounds early? 07:35:23.440 --> 07:35:27.520 It's all about his mid control and his D lane fights and jugues going to town right now. 07:35:27.520 --> 07:35:30.720 He's got a nether player isolated, a demon will find a second killer around, 07:35:30.720 --> 07:35:32.400 and it's an absolute massacre. 07:35:32.400 --> 07:35:37.360 I'm afraid we have got a five on two before we can even get into the analysis of the opening sequence. 07:35:37.360 --> 07:35:43.060 just a really a perfectly executed protocol here from from foot they've got 07:35:43.060 --> 07:35:46.200 two people that are holding the T side in the middle then they got dukes like you 07:35:46.200 --> 07:35:50.320 said running in towards the B bomb site and taking that fight and they had also 07:35:50.320 --> 07:35:54.760 Kravani who's pushing this ramp all at the same time bait get blown out the 07:35:54.760 --> 07:35:59.640 water now I've heard we've got a lot of audio only listener fans that's so I'm 07:35:59.640 --> 07:36:02.840 gonna make sure that they are very well informed as to what's going on today 07:36:02.840 --> 07:36:07.960 Beautiful. So this is the map pick of Bates. It's ancient right now. They're playing on the T side 07:36:07.960 --> 07:36:11.880 They're currently in a 5-1 one and it's going to be a 3-0 in favor of 07:36:12.480 --> 07:36:19.240 Foot, it's not a great start lots of money. That's gonna be three AK-47s recovered on the CT defensive side here 07:36:20.120 --> 07:36:24.240 Bates are yet to really make a dent. This is not looking good at all 07:36:24.240 --> 07:36:28.680 And they've had a pretty rough tournament. They've had some pretty terrible maps. It's great 07:36:28.680 --> 07:36:35.240 They're in the quarterfinals, don't get me wrong, but the way they got here, there's been some very questionable performances from Bates. 07:36:35.240 --> 07:36:41.000 It feels to me like a lot of those maps that they ended up winning after all, it was NPL that sort of dragged them through the map more than anything else. 07:36:41.000 --> 07:36:48.200 Yeah, and I don't want to see that. I want to see the whole squad come together. Like you said, Sizi has to really show us something here. 07:36:48.200 --> 07:36:53.160 Just because I had to hide around him. Before I ever got to play, you've got to see this kid with you. 07:36:53.160 --> 07:36:59.120 Like he's the next Monosir. I was like, okay, well, let's see it, but I'm not saying he's played bad or anything 07:36:59.120 --> 07:37:03.420 I just don't think he has that star level of someone like Mologoi or Monosir, for example. 07:37:03.420 --> 07:37:05.420 I would agree with that. 07:37:05.420 --> 07:37:09.060 Incendiary down, I was worried for Deming because he was very close to the entrance of that A bomb site. 07:37:09.060 --> 07:37:12.760 They are going for it and they'll get the opening. They even take down Jutsus coming in next. 07:37:12.760 --> 07:37:15.960 Cemetery finds a kill for the smoke, so it is a 3 versus 4 now. 07:37:15.960 --> 07:37:20.160 The bomb being brought a bit closer to a plant here, but they have nothing really going into this round. 07:37:20.160 --> 07:37:22.960 Shocking that bait were able to just walk out here. 07:37:22.960 --> 07:37:26.760 In spite of the fact that the demon saw it coming, he threw down the incendiary. 07:37:26.760 --> 07:37:29.360 He still couldn't land the kill, needed launch. 07:37:29.360 --> 07:37:32.360 A ridiculous line up through the smoke, just guessing. 07:37:32.360 --> 07:37:33.960 But it was the perfect guess. 07:37:33.960 --> 07:37:36.360 Ascential goes down, 3 vs 3. 07:37:36.360 --> 07:37:40.160 And now lurking in from the same A-Hallways that bait just came through. 07:37:40.160 --> 07:37:41.960 It's Grubani with an AK. 07:37:41.960 --> 07:37:43.560 He goes down to NPL. 07:37:43.560 --> 07:37:45.960 There's that work I was talking about. A second bait! 07:37:45.960 --> 07:37:47.160 Wow! 07:37:47.160 --> 07:37:49.760 He takes down the last remaining player of foots. 07:37:49.760 --> 07:37:51.760 That is stunning. 07:37:51.760 --> 07:37:56.120 No problem for MPL, the Desert Eagle to mow them down at the end there. 07:37:56.120 --> 07:37:58.920 The partial by victory in towards the A bomb site. 07:37:58.920 --> 07:38:01.880 Core, their trousers round the wrinkles there. 07:38:01.880 --> 07:38:06.560 One kill, and that snowball turns into an avalanche very quickly in towards the A site. 07:38:06.560 --> 07:38:07.560 They are locked out. 07:38:07.560 --> 07:38:09.240 The PG-50s are reigned. 07:38:09.240 --> 07:38:10.800 Cemetery managed to get one through the smoke. 07:38:10.800 --> 07:38:14.360 I believe they got an upper as well with long spurts. 07:38:14.360 --> 07:38:16.720 No way near enough as MPL takes them to town. 07:38:16.720 --> 07:38:24.580 Move the Desert Eagle and now a bit of a force by on the other side of the server two pistols with even a cemetery three rifles in total 07:38:24.580 --> 07:38:30.500 Jugs feeling they heat that not the best spray with the five seven couple of kills now for bait coming to life here 07:38:30.500 --> 07:38:31.700 They can look for many 07:38:31.700 --> 07:38:35.100 Not gonna be able to find much the Desert Eagle runs out of bullets. That's unfortunate 07:38:35.380 --> 07:38:38.500 And it's a pretty clean finish in the end as a chaotic round for sure 07:38:38.620 --> 07:38:41.780 But it will be bait now posting potentially three rounds in a row 07:38:41.780 --> 07:38:49.520 It's three and two overall, but that's the money drained from the bank accounts of foot on their CT side. So now fully go 07:38:49.520 --> 07:38:51.520 It's the only option going forward. They'll be getting 07:38:52.440 --> 07:38:56.740 $2,400 into the next round. So sure you can justify a few upgraded pistols 07:38:56.740 --> 07:39:02.660 But even a 5-7 might be a stretch around as I'd say a p250 is probably where you're at if you're going to invest anything 07:39:02.780 --> 07:39:06.740 They look way more focused than some of these early rounds how they got the the the rifles out 07:39:06.740 --> 07:39:09.660 I'm excited because this is one of the things that I feel like they've been lacking 07:39:09.660 --> 07:39:15.060 that early firepower, that early feeling like they're really in the game but it 07:39:15.060 --> 07:39:21.540 looks that way at the moment and I appreciate that, so we all, I don't want to 07:39:21.540 --> 07:39:25.700 see Bates you know sleeping their way into the quarterfinals here, I want to 07:39:25.700 --> 07:39:30.500 see them sharp like they are right now, Alex you see a bunch of people you don't 07:39:30.500 --> 07:39:34.060 really have to commit to this fight, Sensual's on the other side, yeah just bring the whole 07:39:34.060 --> 07:39:37.620 team in if you're gonna fight them, exactly what they're doing, shutting it down in the 07:39:37.620 --> 07:39:41.860 middle like you said can't even afford to invest into anything here not a single 07:39:41.860 --> 07:39:46.100 casualty on the bait side they take a bit of damage but nobody dies and that 07:39:46.100 --> 07:39:50.820 will tie up the scoreline three to three wow that's it's changed so quickly 07:39:50.820 --> 07:39:56.300 it is very one-sided at the beginning now bait kind of in control again 07:39:56.300 --> 07:40:02.020 kens is all at five at MPL at five and then goes down a bit from there they 07:40:02.020 --> 07:40:06.500 cannot afford the AWP on the CT side either so seven trees gonna be without 07:40:06.500 --> 07:40:13.500 that. This is a bit of a shame really. He's pretty good with it. 07:40:13.500 --> 07:40:18.500 Sissi will have his T side AWPing on Ancient. Do you like it? 07:40:18.500 --> 07:40:23.500 Well there are plenty of options for it. You have the option to pop open the smoke towards 07:40:23.500 --> 07:40:27.000 middle. Your teammates can provide multiple HEs to keep looking. Obviously you can boost 07:40:27.000 --> 07:40:32.500 him towards the B bombsite with the big box outside. So yeah, I think to answer your question, 07:40:32.500 --> 07:40:36.420 yes I do Anders. I like the AWP on the T side of Ancient. I think it'd be very impactful 07:40:36.420 --> 07:40:38.340 You're not going to be having the highlight moments. 07:40:38.340 --> 07:40:41.540 It's only if the opening kill and then closing round out with the clutch. 07:40:41.540 --> 07:40:43.460 So we'll see whoever you can have some impact. 07:40:43.460 --> 07:40:48.260 And as we said, yet to really see one of those magnificent moments from Sizi. 07:40:48.260 --> 07:40:49.300 He's a capable AWPer. 07:40:49.300 --> 07:40:51.860 Don't get me wrong, but we get to see that star power. 07:40:51.860 --> 07:40:54.100 Let's see what he can bring to the table here in round number seven. 07:40:54.100 --> 07:40:56.740 He lay new till, not necessarily landing here for boots. 07:40:56.740 --> 07:40:58.580 And in my constant, there's the opening kill. 07:40:58.580 --> 07:41:00.100 Towards the Cape, he goes. 07:41:00.100 --> 07:41:01.860 You will find Krebbeni to open things up. 07:41:01.860 --> 07:41:02.660 That's Sizi. 07:41:02.660 --> 07:41:04.340 Five out of four advantage here for Bates. 07:41:04.340 --> 07:41:09.340 3-3 overall after posting 3 in a row on the T side here. 07:41:09.340 --> 07:41:14.340 That incendiary landed behind him, so he could just stand still with the up ready, then they monitor 07:41:14.340 --> 07:41:17.340 off out Krabani and it worked from there. 07:41:19.340 --> 07:41:23.340 Turning your time around, I think Alex is waiting for a potential push out of the hallways. 07:41:23.340 --> 07:41:27.340 That is something that that foot loved to do. They love the aggression in those A hallways. 07:41:27.340 --> 07:41:33.340 So it's good, it's good research, good homework for Bate to know that that could be happening. 07:41:33.340 --> 07:41:36.300 and that's why they've called this big freeze in the middle of the round here, just saying, 07:41:36.300 --> 07:41:39.740 let's just see, is there going to be someone demon or somebody else pushing? 07:41:40.460 --> 07:41:45.020 Well Counter-Strike protocols suggest you need to start reclaiming territory, 07:41:45.020 --> 07:41:50.220 need to get some information, or you turtle up on one bomb site and go for a gamble stack. 07:41:50.220 --> 07:41:53.580 It looks like they might be going for the latter here, three players cemented here, 07:41:53.580 --> 07:41:59.580 into order B bomb site for foots. In terms of residual utility, quite a lot to be fair for 07:41:59.580 --> 07:42:02.860 bait, they've got a ton of control, three players towards a cave, two towards a ramter, 07:42:02.860 --> 07:42:07.260 So it will be that B finish, smokes to be deployed, or maybe it's a straight up contact play here. 07:42:07.260 --> 07:42:11.160 But longs, cemetery, nice crossfire. We'll see if it works out for Amanda's. 07:42:11.160 --> 07:42:13.660 He's ready with the AK, needs the first shot. 07:42:13.660 --> 07:42:15.560 You'll get it, actually, to the M4. Sorry about that. 07:42:15.560 --> 07:42:19.160 It's essential. He'll take another one down, but Dukes has shown up in the meantime to stack. 07:42:19.160 --> 07:42:22.760 At least it works to even up the numbers a little bit there on the bait side. 07:42:22.760 --> 07:42:24.160 The bomb is being planted. 07:42:24.160 --> 07:42:26.760 There's not a single grenade on the CT side. 07:42:26.760 --> 07:42:30.260 They just have to cross their fingers and hope that someone's going to work out Dukes. 07:42:30.260 --> 07:42:34.740 He managed to get through, which is actually impressive that he even lives through the smoke to begin with. 07:42:34.740 --> 07:42:38.740 Sizi was there, finding himself a second kill as he goes into the cave. 07:42:38.740 --> 07:42:40.020 And just a demon now. 07:42:41.060 --> 07:42:43.620 Too far away, like I said, no utility. 07:42:43.620 --> 07:42:46.420 Even in the 4v5, they had no grenades on the CT side. 07:42:47.140 --> 07:42:48.420 He's gonna make a run for it. 07:42:49.380 --> 07:42:51.140 8 with 4 in a row. 07:42:53.220 --> 07:42:54.180 It's just really good work. 07:42:55.300 --> 07:42:56.340 It's very good work. 07:42:56.340 --> 07:42:57.380 Getting that opening pick. 07:42:57.380 --> 07:43:03.440 we said we wanted to see a bit of star power from Sydney. That's how you get it done. He 07:43:03.440 --> 07:43:07.980 certainly likes the open to the T side here. So one more kill for demon, but he's the only 07:43:07.980 --> 07:43:11.060 player that survives. This feels like tactical time out territory now with the lost bonus 07:43:11.060 --> 07:43:15.520 accumulating all five players going down. Maybe not so much anymore. If you say that 07:43:15.520 --> 07:43:20.520 1 and 4, there's definitely a buy available, but now it's just going to be partial territory. 07:43:20.520 --> 07:43:25.500 We're talking five sevens, maybe an MP nine or two. So probably will forego the tactical 07:43:25.500 --> 07:43:29.900 time out of this particular round, but it is bait as you mentioned with four rounds in a row here. 07:43:31.580 --> 07:43:37.980 T side looking quite good. Nice change of pace. The B lanes looking very comfortable. I'm seeing some 07:43:37.980 --> 07:43:43.740 missed U2 on those B lane. Grenade for a city analyst. And there's incendiary. 07:43:46.060 --> 07:43:52.300 But in terms of investment as we mentioned, just going to be seeing five sevens. Cemetery 07:43:52.300 --> 07:43:57.100 going to be saving his pennies for the AWP. It's demon on the MP9 and they're trying to look 07:43:57.100 --> 07:44:01.020 for a bit of a backstab here. Not the reference for the shot but he certainly makes it work. 07:44:01.020 --> 07:44:06.380 Will be Crebeni with the P250 backstab. Finding MPO and there's the USP. Okay now it gets very 07:44:06.380 --> 07:44:12.060 interesting. Maintain that man advantage. Cemetery gotta be found out here from the elbow. Trying 07:44:12.060 --> 07:44:16.780 to stay alive. Ducking and weaving. This is the moment here. This decides the round. Ascentiol 07:44:16.780 --> 07:44:21.020 will be finding the shot. They know multiple players in towards B so you can take an educated guess 07:44:21.020 --> 07:44:24.020 that A is wide open, and KZZOR would be right. 07:44:25.620 --> 07:44:28.420 Longs with a 5-7. He's close. 07:44:28.820 --> 07:44:32.620 Maybe if he can get around the corner, they don't have any more smokes here. 07:44:32.620 --> 07:44:36.220 They do have a flashbang, and in a pinch that'll do just fine. 07:44:36.220 --> 07:44:39.620 I think it's double-flashed. It longs. No chance to activate on that one. 07:44:39.620 --> 07:44:43.820 Now the bomb is going to be planted, and surely this AK is worth more 07:44:43.820 --> 07:44:46.420 than the attempt to try and do this 2v3 retake without a kit. 07:44:46.420 --> 07:44:48.220 I just don't think it's going to be possible. 07:44:48.620 --> 07:44:50.620 Maybe Dukes wants to take a bit of a look. 07:44:51.020 --> 07:44:57.220 Big fan of this guy myself, but I feel like this is going to require some kind of a miracle if he could do this. 07:44:57.220 --> 07:45:04.120 Taps away, doesn't get the hedgehog in the box, pens his own, he gets one of the turn, he's going to go down, but yeah, the time has already run out here. 07:45:04.120 --> 07:45:06.720 No kit, so five in a row for Bates. 07:45:07.720 --> 07:45:11.920 And I'm noticing on that mini-map now, you sort of even try to push out. 07:45:11.920 --> 07:45:12.420 Yeah. 07:45:12.720 --> 07:45:19.020 He's, they were looking for it again. I think Beta had a real big conversation because I remember some of the games here from Foot earlier. 07:45:19.020 --> 07:45:19.520 Yeah. 07:45:19.520 --> 07:45:24.840 They love being impressive in rotates always and I think they notice like I think they'd know yeah 07:45:24.840 --> 07:45:28.120 That's a very good point actually they'd love to go for those back stabs 07:45:28.120 --> 07:45:30.560 You can see they are on high alert each and every time 07:45:31.160 --> 07:45:33.600 And they're round deciding kills as I mentioned as well 07:45:33.600 --> 07:45:39.960 You get that back stab you find that rotating player back towards T spawn and that's it and it all starts in PC 50 and a dream 07:45:39.960 --> 07:45:42.040 The USB getting stuck in as well at this range 07:45:43.120 --> 07:45:45.880 That is the knowledge but still 07:45:45.880 --> 07:45:50.360 No one near enough, I'm afraid, to find the round of victory. 07:45:50.360 --> 07:45:55.360 Still pretty decent efforts, he did some financial damage, but the headline will read, 07:45:55.360 --> 07:46:00.220 5 rounds in a row for Bate here, he underdogs for short, there's the B-Lane utility, that's 07:46:00.220 --> 07:46:03.720 landing nicely, not too much damage, and we are going to see a crash in here, and it's 07:46:03.720 --> 07:46:09.200 going to be punished, MPL, we're alley-euped by Alex, and his flashbang, but Jukes fighting 07:46:09.200 --> 07:46:11.120 back, what a round, this is so far. 07:46:11.120 --> 07:46:15.160 Rockham, Sockham, Counter-Strike, 3 vs 2 though, in favour of Bate, it's going to be 07:46:15.160 --> 07:46:20.760 Sizi finding control on the B-bomb site, brave manoeuvre with the AWP as well. 07:46:20.760 --> 07:46:24.760 He cuts sound, he knows his players all around him who go into a 2 on 2. 07:46:24.760 --> 07:46:28.080 Yeah, he's no idea that demons would be here either because why would he be? 07:46:28.080 --> 07:46:34.000 He was so quick to rotate from the A-ank position, so the fact that he's already over here. 07:46:34.000 --> 07:46:38.120 I do like the attempt from Sizi, I mean like he says, very brave to be doing that. 07:46:38.120 --> 07:46:41.680 But in spite of getting a double opening, he was a sick flashbang into the world's cheetah 07:46:41.680 --> 07:46:43.480 to get that double opening bait. 07:46:43.480 --> 07:46:44.880 Yeah, absolutely. 07:46:44.880 --> 07:46:49.460 They try to change things up there for going for a hyper aggressive maneuver in towards 07:46:49.460 --> 07:46:50.460 the cave position. 07:46:50.460 --> 07:46:52.880 It looks like they were punished but they are on their feet. 07:46:52.880 --> 07:46:56.300 MPL with three kills but Kendi's on the two on one clutch. 07:46:56.300 --> 07:46:59.180 Plenty of time to work with with 45 seconds. 07:46:59.180 --> 07:47:00.180 Cemetery unsculpted. 07:47:00.180 --> 07:47:03.340 Exactly one second before Kendi's all peeked up out of the ramp there. 07:47:03.340 --> 07:47:05.660 Otherwise, I think he just has to kill straight up. 07:47:05.660 --> 07:47:08.180 So, gonna drop the smoke. 07:47:08.180 --> 07:47:09.700 Yeah, go for it. 07:47:09.700 --> 07:47:11.700 Get that bomb planted quickly. 07:47:11.700 --> 07:47:18.060 Okay, he's gonna plant inside which means it's a nice open plan, right? Yeah, you probably can't go back and play the ramp 07:47:18.060 --> 07:47:20.420 Well, it'd be hard to do that, but he can play like this 07:47:21.020 --> 07:47:25.460 And it might throw them off waiting back there cemetery great relations good communication 07:47:25.460 --> 07:47:27.660 He's waiting for demon to come in from the other side. That's a good point 07:47:27.660 --> 07:47:29.020 We always talk about the fundamentals 07:47:29.020 --> 07:47:31.940 You never want to be exploring these sort of clutches by yourself 07:47:31.940 --> 07:47:38.920 No, hold a tight line make sure you can't claim territory like the back finds there and it will be foot bouncing back there after 07:47:38.920 --> 07:47:44.400 recovering a 5-on-3 scenario. Crazy work to make that round work, considering that they 07:47:44.400 --> 07:47:47.860 lost two players towards Cade after their aggressive maneuver. 07:47:47.860 --> 07:47:51.200 Maybe worth pointing out for anyone that's joining us here in the middle of the game, 07:47:51.200 --> 07:47:54.200 the second map is overpassed and that is very interesting. 07:47:54.200 --> 07:47:56.000 It's a very big punish, isn't it? 07:47:56.000 --> 07:47:57.000 Yep. 07:47:57.000 --> 07:47:59.800 Baytou only played it twice and they've lost it twice and it's a very comfortable map, 07:47:59.800 --> 07:48:04.320 generally speaking, for foot. So I feel like this has to be where it's won, at least to 07:48:04.320 --> 07:48:06.400 decide what we're going to get for the third map. 07:48:06.400 --> 07:48:10.920 bait can convert this we have right now I think we almost certainly go to three 07:48:12.040 --> 07:48:17.120 Let's see though if foods managed to bring it on this one back. I would say two zero is looking very well 07:48:18.240 --> 07:48:24.080 Yeah, that should be the case unless baits have some sort of genius move in the back really maybe 07:48:24.480 --> 07:48:29.880 Practicing it nobody knows about it something like that. I guess you're right. There's a lack of data like a tape out there 07:48:30.280 --> 07:48:35.680 That's what I've played it twice. I'm a secret weapon. It's very hard to do that kind of thing obviously very rare 07:48:35.680 --> 07:48:37.680 We always talk about it almost never happens, but 07:48:38.440 --> 07:48:42.700 Maybe we could be wrong. I would love to be wrong and see bait come out with a strong overpass somehow 07:48:43.360 --> 07:48:44.920 somehow some way 07:48:44.920 --> 07:48:47.440 One round game here for now though. Yes 07:48:47.960 --> 07:48:53.040 This is the pick of Bates. There are five to four on their T sides, but even Stevens 07:48:53.520 --> 07:48:58.060 We'll see the orb on both sides of the server here as then the on high alerts 07:48:58.360 --> 07:49:02.760 He knows how aggressive this foot team can be and that's about to say playing for the pixel gap 07:49:02.760 --> 07:49:07.200 It's always risk you in an orbs out on the field. That should be enough to win the round here 07:49:07.200 --> 07:49:09.680 It should should be the operative word but says could be Sizi 07:49:10.280 --> 07:49:16.780 Confirming things there as you go into a five on two for Benny and longs nothing to do nothing to say I but to save 07:49:17.280 --> 07:49:23.020 essential got the kill on the all-per-n-b with an AK like you just keep the straight up look at this 07:49:23.520 --> 07:49:29.500 The desk were talking about it. He's had some very good maps in this tournament so far 07:49:29.500 --> 07:49:35.820 Deadly accurate getting the double CZ picking up the other two obviously the first kill very important to open up that 07:49:36.520 --> 07:49:39.580 Donut position which controls like half the map at this point 07:49:41.140 --> 07:49:42.940 Brownie back here 07:49:42.940 --> 07:49:49.440 Just would love to save well, you're gonna let him we are seeing some very influential high impact kills from CZ 07:49:49.440 --> 07:49:52.220 Yes, that's what we wanted to see as you got another one in him 07:49:52.220 --> 07:49:57.420 He at least takes the aggro away from the penny there to finish things off six to four and money 07:49:57.420 --> 07:50:02.180 somewhat broken. There is actually a decent buy available. There will just be concessions. 07:50:02.180 --> 07:50:07.740 So this might be a tactical timeout we were looking for as we enter round number 11 here. 07:50:07.740 --> 07:50:11.460 Foot's feeling a bit of pressure. They will be fully investing into it. Let's have a look 07:50:11.460 --> 07:50:17.020 at the replay though. Sizi, he sets, playing that pixel gap. Deming gets punished. A couple 07:50:17.020 --> 07:50:22.900 of frags found. And for Betty going down with the AWP as well. So I have to make do with 07:50:22.900 --> 07:50:27.020 the Famous in the anti-Semetry. This round is not too bad otherwise. Like we said, if 07:50:27.020 --> 07:50:32.020 a few concessions in terms of grenades, they've got one to fuse kids, and here's that boost. 07:50:32.020 --> 07:50:34.020 Yeah, instant boost up. 07:50:34.020 --> 07:50:39.020 They get a kill, they've got four people here, so they could just jump on the bomb site almost immediately. 07:50:39.020 --> 07:50:43.020 It is a three-man defense though, so you've got to be a little bit careful. 07:50:43.020 --> 07:50:46.020 Duke's holding middle for only a while longer. 07:50:46.020 --> 07:50:51.020 He's going to have to back out eventually, forward in the cave. 07:50:51.020 --> 07:50:53.020 It's been easier. 07:50:53.020 --> 07:50:56.020 And he's going to smoke it up. 07:50:56.020 --> 07:50:59.380 slows down the T side maybe a little bit but they don't probably can because they 07:50:59.380 --> 07:51:02.620 are busy waiting for this they still have kensasaur who's holding for any of 07:51:02.620 --> 07:51:06.820 those long pushes over from the A bomb site they're well aware that could be 07:51:06.820 --> 07:51:10.100 coming it's not gonna be in this round but just the fact that they are aware of 07:51:10.100 --> 07:51:16.060 it shows you they've been they've been in the lab for a bit under a minute now and 07:51:16.060 --> 07:51:20.900 the utility on the CT side Henry it is non-existent they got one smoke one 07:51:20.900 --> 07:51:25.260 flash left that's pretty rough if you're gonna retake or anything else like 07:51:25.260 --> 07:51:28.780 that. Well that means you can't really allow a retake to even be initialized. You have 07:51:28.780 --> 07:51:37.300 to play on the front foot as it were. I like that. It's really good work. 40 seconds. So 07:51:37.300 --> 07:51:44.540 you're back here. Zero defensive utility available. 30 seconds remaining. We've got plenty of bits 07:51:44.540 --> 07:51:51.020 and pieces here on the T side. Double smoke going in. Molotov towards the pillar. CTs 07:51:51.020 --> 07:51:54.620 have been said to have to play in front of this Util. They can't afford to retake this. 07:51:54.620 --> 07:51:57.280 They wish they had just one smoke right now to slow it down. 07:51:57.280 --> 07:52:00.440 17 seconds, they're running in very late though, Bates. 07:52:00.440 --> 07:52:01.820 This is risky. 07:52:01.820 --> 07:52:03.380 I know there's no grenades on the CT side, 07:52:03.380 --> 07:52:05.480 but now they finally planted the bomb with 11 seconds 07:52:05.480 --> 07:52:07.820 on the clock, NPL with the opening in towards the cave 07:52:07.820 --> 07:52:08.980 and cemetery. 07:52:08.980 --> 07:52:11.100 Gonna be shot in the back by Asentheal. 07:52:11.100 --> 07:52:12.420 They did have a lot of time, 07:52:12.420 --> 07:52:14.740 but they executed this one to perfection. 07:52:14.740 --> 07:52:17.660 We've seen some very ropey performances from Bates 07:52:17.660 --> 07:52:18.740 throughout this tournament. 07:52:18.740 --> 07:52:20.140 It's great they're in the quarterfinals, 07:52:20.140 --> 07:52:22.340 but this is the bait you like to see. 07:52:22.340 --> 07:52:24.380 Let's see if this read is for anything left to say 07:52:24.380 --> 07:52:29.100 and apparently not it's very clean it's very concise a comprehensive victory 07:52:29.100 --> 07:52:33.100 there for bait we go seven four recovering the huge deficit they found 07:52:33.100 --> 07:52:36.540 themselves in there was zero three down there's only been one follow-up victory 07:52:36.540 --> 07:52:42.940 four foot since the pistol they better pray that overpass is still weak 07:52:42.940 --> 07:52:48.620 for bait to this point because it's foot that hasn't really shown up so far 07:52:48.620 --> 07:52:53.620 Yeah, not at all. They won the pistol and the first couple of rounds. 07:52:53.620 --> 07:52:58.620 One of which was a full eco and they won the third, fair enough. That was a gun round. 07:52:58.620 --> 07:53:03.620 Ever since there's one-way traffic, that's a nice opener, though. Desperate for that aggression. 07:53:03.620 --> 07:53:08.620 It worked out before. We'll see if Jigs can find a double kill once again. Does he dare push the smoke? 07:53:08.620 --> 07:53:12.620 With any he's thinking about it, he's just gonna pass through them and find a sentheal. 07:53:12.620 --> 07:53:16.620 Another player, though. MPL behind enemy lines, Anders. 07:53:16.620 --> 07:53:21.740 They lose kensis or for this to work for MPL. He does need somebody else in esteem to be alive 07:53:21.740 --> 07:53:25.200 They're picking up the ball now in T spawn. They have no idea. It really don't 07:53:25.580 --> 07:53:29.740 It's trying to wait. He wants to wait because the bomb is coming and he wanted to make it a double 07:53:30.240 --> 07:53:35.000 Jukes knows everything gotta convert this first last round at the first time 07:53:35.760 --> 07:53:39.780 And it looks like they will four versus one Alex 666 with the bomb in his back 07:53:41.580 --> 07:53:46.420 That means it's really not over like five rounds on the CT side, it's not amazing, but you are still gonna be 07:53:46.620 --> 07:53:50.420 in this one Alex. He'll take down Dukes who was walking through the smoke. He 07:53:50.420 --> 07:53:54.540 was no one health already. Now another three left here for Alcatra and do this. 07:53:54.540 --> 07:53:59.100 He actually has grounds to win this. Okay. That Molotov guarantees a plan, locks off 07:53:59.100 --> 07:54:03.660 the rotation, allows him to focus on the CT spawn fights. See if he can move in. 07:54:03.660 --> 07:54:07.740 Once again, playing it very disciplined down here. The backup is showing up. Very 07:54:07.740 --> 07:54:12.220 good to see that. Five rounds to secure for foot. We've seen it plenty of times 07:54:12.220 --> 07:54:15.540 today. If he rushed those sort of sequences, saw it in the Astralis game. 07:54:15.540 --> 07:54:22.340 Yeah, obviously against max to right unless you wait for your teammates and actually coordinate the retake even in three versus one 07:54:22.340 --> 07:54:27.660 It can fall apart very quickly need to be very disciplined even in those moments where it feels like an absolute lock-in. Yeah 07:54:28.500 --> 07:54:30.000 Max the water 07:54:30.000 --> 07:54:32.780 What an ancient yeah water names what it's already 07:54:33.660 --> 07:54:39.300 Sounded off quite slow, but it's a water lot of stages the last group case group stage game and the quarterfinal 07:54:39.300 --> 07:54:41.300 Wow, we're already made a name for himself 07:54:41.460 --> 07:54:43.420 By the way, Susie peeking into the middle there 07:54:43.420 --> 07:54:50.300 I actually think it makes a lot of sense to pick around like this one to do it in because there's a good chance that CT's just wouldn't have the economy to get all those grenades out. 07:54:50.300 --> 07:54:54.780 But they did, so he gets grenades instead, but I kind of understand why he'd pick this round to do it in. 07:54:54.780 --> 07:55:01.420 I felt like Foots needed that one. They remain combative here. There is a water difference between 8, 4 and 7, 5. 07:55:01.420 --> 07:55:03.660 Here's something to look for in the second half, Henry. 07:55:03.660 --> 07:55:05.180 Okay, what have you got for me? 07:55:05.180 --> 07:55:09.420 Foots have this really interesting way that they attack the B bombsite on this map. 07:55:09.420 --> 07:55:13.660 Yeah, and they're on the T side sometimes when the CTs throw down a smoke at the top of the ramp 07:55:13.660 --> 07:55:18.820 Yeah, if that smoke is too far on the CT side foot immediately notice 07:55:18.820 --> 07:55:23.880 They'll essentially use that smoke as a platform to jump through and they'll jump in and at like three different directions 07:55:23.880 --> 07:55:28.180 They're so hard to stop so they don't even pop it open with the age. They don't even pop it open 07:55:28.180 --> 07:55:30.580 It is jump through. Yeah, we'll use that smoke 07:55:30.580 --> 07:55:35.740 So I've noticed a lot of teams make this mistake that they'll throw the smoke like way too far on their own side instead of a little bit further 07:55:35.740 --> 07:55:40.380 down the ramp. Okay, interesting. Something to look out for as foot do switch over. It's 07:55:40.380 --> 07:55:45.100 going to be a B-side attack here. More of the same relief, but the molotov for the pillar 07:55:45.100 --> 07:55:49.500 or the cave entrance, two smokes for a long and short couple of flashes, splitting things 07:55:49.500 --> 07:55:53.020 through cave, you'd imagine. It all comes down to this initial fire. It got joules on 07:55:53.020 --> 07:55:57.660 this side of the map. Sizi baited in and showing that presence. They're going to slow things 07:55:57.660 --> 07:56:01.260 right down. They are set up for the execution. You can see Semature will be providing the 07:56:01.260 --> 07:56:08.260 utility from the double doors. That's smoked for long. Molotov deployed as well. He'll 07:56:08.260 --> 07:56:13.460 be fighting the flashes as they make their way forward. Oh, they've double smoked. Sure, 07:56:13.460 --> 07:56:17.020 I'm not for sure that's a problem, man. I don't think it is. I think that is a mistake 07:56:17.020 --> 07:56:21.780 for sure. Now, they don't get shut down immediately from it and they get to refrag as well. Lots 07:56:21.780 --> 07:56:25.700 taking down a senthyle. Oh, no, you really would like that smoke here. Yeah, that's exactly 07:56:25.700 --> 07:56:29.780 the problem, isn't it? The bomb is going to be planted, so half the battle's won. Once 07:56:29.780 --> 07:56:32.020 trying to see if he can get these two ones activated. 07:56:32.020 --> 07:56:35.020 It's actually Krivani's going to get the kill, MPL and Kenzo sword. 07:56:35.020 --> 07:56:37.020 They don't have a kit. There's not one anywhere on the ground either, 07:56:37.020 --> 07:56:38.520 but they've got plenty of time for it. 07:56:38.520 --> 07:56:40.020 Oh! 07:56:40.020 --> 07:56:42.820 We had the double headshot to watch the end saving the team. 07:56:42.820 --> 07:56:45.320 They needed this one desperately. 07:56:45.320 --> 07:56:48.780 Absolutely. Fumble the Util, but they stick to landing. 07:56:48.780 --> 07:56:50.620 I was going to say, normally in those tactics, Anders, 07:56:50.620 --> 07:56:53.420 you have the player who was cemetery at the back there behind the double doors. 07:56:53.420 --> 07:56:54.520 He can throw both smokes. 07:56:54.520 --> 07:56:56.820 I guess they're trying to be as efficient as possible, 07:56:56.820 --> 07:56:59.480 having one player from the Molotov and the short smoke, 07:56:59.480 --> 07:57:03.960 but I guess they got their wires crossed as it were and double smoke towards shore. 07:57:03.960 --> 07:57:06.680 That's not what they were going for at all. Enable this sort of peak coming in. 07:57:07.320 --> 07:57:10.280 Very close, very dangerous and it comes down to a two versus one. 07:57:10.840 --> 07:57:15.720 Thankfully though, Krebbeni in-game leader, very capable fragger has to be said. 07:57:15.720 --> 07:57:17.560 He saves the day as sigh of relief. 07:57:18.840 --> 07:57:23.000 Huge fumble on the execution but we'll take the round victory all day long. 07:57:23.000 --> 07:57:25.160 It's going to be the quickest minutes. There's only one player here. 07:57:25.160 --> 07:57:27.960 This could be a really good call. Smoke goes down and it's deep enough that 07:57:27.960 --> 07:57:32.600 They can't just straight run through like, oh, they're doing Alex on the other side, punishing them! 07:57:32.600 --> 07:57:34.920 Double headshot with the 5-7. 07:57:34.920 --> 07:57:37.640 A little bit too eager to get through that smoke, apparently. 07:57:37.640 --> 07:57:40.680 Yeah, well, Alex threw it perfectly. This is the smoke you want every time. 07:57:40.680 --> 07:57:40.920 Yeah. 07:57:40.920 --> 07:57:43.320 Don't want it to be too far to the CT side. He's done it again. 07:57:43.960 --> 07:57:47.720 It's such a small detail. It's really worth watching in high level Counter Strike. 07:57:47.720 --> 07:57:50.200 You get punished so hard for it. This was beautiful. 07:57:51.320 --> 07:57:51.720 Okay. 07:57:53.320 --> 07:57:55.400 Really sure why you're taking that sort of risk. 07:57:55.400 --> 07:58:01.400 got a huge advantage you're trying to bleed out that CTU tell you've given 07:58:01.400 --> 07:58:07.040 them a double kill in the 5-7 the man advantage is 7-6 overall or 6-7 07:58:07.040 --> 07:58:12.440 depending on which way you're looking at Anders nice and 50 seconds remaining 07:58:12.440 --> 07:58:17.880 here bait trying to hold on to their lead another smoke push is on the menu 07:58:17.880 --> 07:58:20.920 if any with the bomb on his back I would not recommend that right now my friend 07:58:20.920 --> 07:58:24.640 I think you should have smoked to pick up the bomb yeah you actually had to there 07:58:24.640 --> 07:58:26.640 There we go. Recover's up. 07:58:26.640 --> 07:58:33.640 And now, lots to play. 30 seconds. Don't really have the resources to go back towards A. 07:58:33.640 --> 07:58:37.640 I think they just have to continue with the pressure into what's B and it's all three through the cave. 07:58:37.640 --> 07:58:42.640 They're flashing it. That could have been a bit of a mistake potentially. They know there's some miles of the sights. 07:58:42.640 --> 07:58:46.640 They'll know that there's two and there's still a really mean crossfire to be set up here. 07:58:46.640 --> 07:58:51.640 On one side the pistol goes down, jumping through. We talk about that jumping back to it all the time. 07:58:51.640 --> 07:58:55.640 It's all about averting in the crosshairs, making sure multi-kill potential is minimal. 07:58:55.640 --> 07:58:57.640 Now they are low on health. 07:58:57.640 --> 07:59:01.640 So Kensesaw, it's not easy to watch this one, it's already tagged down. 07:59:01.640 --> 07:59:04.640 Yikes, it's down. It's such a long spray. 07:59:04.640 --> 07:59:08.640 Look at what it means to them. They're loving it here on the foot side. 07:59:08.640 --> 07:59:13.640 But with a sigh of relief there. Not only did they fumble the utility in the pistol and get away with it, 07:59:13.640 --> 07:59:17.640 they lost two kills there to start going through that smoke. 07:59:17.640 --> 07:59:23.280 You said they would give this a go. I don't think that's the play you really want to be bringing to the table in a 07:59:23.800 --> 07:59:27.280 Second round against the force by both still winning another clutch 07:59:27.800 --> 07:59:32.760 Coming out on top it does not matter as we always say no harm no foul 07:59:33.120 --> 07:59:37.440 So up against the eco here a chance of foot to take the lead at 7-7 07:59:38.760 --> 07:59:42.560 The leader of the squad top fragging into server number 13 kills 07:59:42.560 --> 07:59:50.920 I think he is one of the best fragging gameleaders we have right now, kind of nuts to think, 07:59:50.920 --> 07:59:56.140 but some of the things he did, especially at EPL, you go back to that scout ACGOR, one 07:59:56.140 --> 08:00:01.680 of the craziest sequences, if not the best play of the year so far in 2026, you inspire 08:00:01.680 --> 08:00:05.880 the whole new generation of IGLs to play with the scout, yeah, we'll back, officially 08:00:05.880 --> 08:00:09.940 back again, let's get into it shall we, is there anything left to be said about round 08:00:09.940 --> 08:00:15.300 15 as we mentioned foot an opportunity here to take the lead first time they 08:00:15.300 --> 08:00:19.860 have really since their pistol conversion in the first half four on three 08:00:19.860 --> 08:00:25.700 just a few deagles no Kevlar so nice clean finish here but any extensive 08:00:25.700 --> 08:00:28.660 fractures of the 15 08:00:31.260 --> 08:00:35.980 yeah just a formality they're looking for some exits with the beagle maybe you 08:00:35.980 --> 08:00:38.980 I'm going to use the rifle, demon will not allow it. 08:00:39.980 --> 08:00:41.980 And Schwann play left. 08:00:41.980 --> 08:00:43.980 I'm enjoying this game so far though. 08:00:43.980 --> 08:00:45.980 No blowouts here. 08:00:45.980 --> 08:00:48.980 Some chaotic moments, a few mistakes. 08:00:48.980 --> 08:00:51.980 It's foots with quite a bit of stage experience. 08:00:51.980 --> 08:00:54.980 Now they are making these deep runs, 08:00:54.980 --> 08:00:56.980 it feels like each and every tournament they attend. 08:00:56.980 --> 08:01:01.980 They really are a contender for the trophy here, to be honest. 08:01:01.980 --> 08:01:03.980 They're putting so many teams for the test. 08:01:03.980 --> 08:01:08.980 And with this being a studio event as well, I think that probably helps him in our regards. 08:01:08.980 --> 08:01:10.980 No pressure at the big stage, it surely does. 08:01:11.980 --> 08:01:14.980 Let's have a look whether they can hold their own though. 08:01:14.980 --> 08:01:16.980 Still anyone's map here. 08:01:16.980 --> 08:01:20.980 Quarterfinals here, PGL Booker has 20-26 been a great tournament. 08:01:20.980 --> 08:01:24.980 Lots of chaos, lots of exciting games, unexpected results. 08:01:25.980 --> 08:01:28.980 Top teams dropping off in form. 08:01:28.980 --> 08:01:30.980 Honestly, they keep running at it right now. 08:01:30.980 --> 08:01:36.820 Long she hasn't got a kill but he's he's dragged so many people under this mid-fight at the moment contact playing towards a yeah 08:01:36.820 --> 08:01:41.620 I think this is a really good call. They know how many people were there. They even take the time to boost up 08:01:41.620 --> 08:01:43.620 There's nobody home right now 08:01:43.900 --> 08:01:49.300 How do you make the most of this for now smoking CT spawn Molotov behind to stop anyone pushing through 08:01:49.660 --> 08:01:51.980 Trying to get a cheeky alley you play with the flash bang 08:01:52.340 --> 08:01:57.780 Okay, and it all comes down to this fight MPM is multiple kills gets one can't find the second does damage 08:01:57.780 --> 08:02:00.780 The bomb should be planted no problem here. 08:02:00.780 --> 08:02:07.780 It could be risky trying to take full control or do nothing like that, but also the downside is if you don't do it, you could shut down trying to plant the bomb. 08:02:07.780 --> 08:02:10.780 So there's no risk-free way to do it. 08:02:10.780 --> 08:02:12.780 Four versus four now. 08:02:12.780 --> 08:02:15.780 Bait. They're starting to lack some round-hanging. 08:02:15.780 --> 08:02:19.780 See, that is massive on the kensasaur before they even really set up that retake. 08:02:19.780 --> 08:02:20.780 Longest going down. 08:02:20.780 --> 08:02:22.780 Now it's a three versus three. 08:02:22.780 --> 08:02:24.780 Spray down Krippani, he's taken two. 08:02:24.780 --> 08:02:30.380 So ascent, oh they're trying to run away, they can't even do that, Kens is all shot in the back by Cemetery and Ascentiol 08:02:30.780 --> 08:02:33.580 Last one left. This is gonna be 9 for Futs 08:02:33.900 --> 08:02:37.780 The call I think Longs and Kravani, they realize how many people are in middle 08:02:37.820 --> 08:02:43.660 Yeah, and they made that walk to the game on site. Worth noting this is both pistol victories going in favor of Futs 08:02:44.260 --> 08:02:50.300 Conversion number 3-0 on either side and now 4-0 on their T-Sat campaign of their opponent's pick. We're now at 9-7 08:02:50.580 --> 08:02:52.580 They saved one rifle 08:02:52.580 --> 08:02:58.580 With maximum loss bonus, sure, there's definitely a buy there, but take a timeout, discuss your options here. 08:02:58.580 --> 08:03:01.580 This is like a crucial moment in this series. 08:03:01.580 --> 08:03:05.580 Going on to overpass, Bates did not have a great track record on it. 08:03:05.580 --> 08:03:10.580 They played it twice and lost it twice with this lineup in its entirety. 08:03:10.580 --> 08:03:14.580 You're not feeling too good about their prospects going into that second map. 08:03:14.580 --> 08:03:19.580 They have to win here in ancient, currently down in the mud financially and with the scoreline. 08:03:19.580 --> 08:03:26.360 It's such a it's so dangerous when they throw in that second map because the handshake map between the two would have been dust to 08:03:26.360 --> 08:03:30.680 Yes, right, and so they would have played ancient dust to mirage all like both teams play those three maps 08:03:30.680 --> 08:03:35.260 Yep, but a big fake out for foot to instead 08:03:35.960 --> 08:03:42.060 Go for the pick of overpass. That's exciting. Well, these sort of rounds even though you're up against the little guns 08:03:42.700 --> 08:03:45.760 There is a big opportunity for bait to steal it away 08:03:47.280 --> 08:03:48.920 calculated aggression 08:03:48.920 --> 08:03:50.920 Pins are maneuvers required 08:03:51.400 --> 08:03:57.040 We'll see if they can find the gaps here as first will be hoping there's a mid control smokes down towards don't have a red 08:03:57.640 --> 08:03:59.640 vaulting up towards the heavens as long as 08:04:00.240 --> 08:04:04.080 No, real aggression just yet. I'm just adopted for or there it is okay 08:04:04.080 --> 08:04:07.680 I'd like to say this this is the kind of place you do need to be making but obviously you'll be watching 08:04:07.680 --> 08:04:12.880 You know that money's like you're aware of that possibility. Yeah, the oldest trick in the book 08:04:12.880 --> 08:04:19.040 But even if you fail on some of those fundamentals right, that's where you can get punished. 08:04:19.040 --> 08:04:22.800 So, I guess good to see that they're on top of that as well on the T side here. 08:04:22.800 --> 08:04:23.800 Oh, you love to see it. 08:04:23.800 --> 08:04:27.360 They're going to try and retake middle here on the CT side. 08:04:27.360 --> 08:04:32.660 The 1 and 4 tip the spear, sent the ult. 08:04:32.660 --> 08:04:36.160 Trying to find an advantage here, but it looks to be like the B bomb side will be their final 08:04:36.160 --> 08:04:38.960 target here, but they're taking their sweet time. 08:04:38.960 --> 08:04:44.040 molotovs in towards a cave trying to flush out that close range position that's a 08:04:44.040 --> 08:04:47.140 good idea but it also tells them that they're coming like sure you don't get 08:04:47.140 --> 08:04:51.020 shut down by the 5-7 in the corner but they have an ass warning that's the M4 08:04:51.020 --> 08:04:54.760 yeah I'm gonna call it out immediately you notice everything launched turning 08:04:54.760 --> 08:04:58.840 around the communication flowing very fast here on the foot side not being 08:04:58.840 --> 08:05:01.960 allowed to run in the backs have anybody Alex should the smoke of the A box 08:05:01.960 --> 08:05:04.560 So let's run out of bullets as well. 08:05:04.560 --> 08:05:07.760 Karine's up to 18 and 10. 08:05:07.760 --> 08:05:10.520 He's doing very fine work on the server tonight. 08:05:10.520 --> 08:05:13.600 Yeah, we call this captain's performance. 08:05:13.600 --> 08:05:17.200 Yeah, he's doing it right now. 08:05:17.200 --> 08:05:18.960 And like you said, what are the best 08:05:18.960 --> 08:05:21.000 fragging in-game leaders that we have on top level 08:05:21.000 --> 08:05:21.800 at the moment? 08:05:21.800 --> 08:05:23.880 For sure. 08:05:23.880 --> 08:05:26.320 Difficult to think of any other names that. 08:05:26.320 --> 08:05:27.760 Well, that is in-game ability. 08:05:27.760 --> 08:05:29.160 I mean, that's a quick shout out. 08:05:29.160 --> 08:05:30.760 I will say this for this tournament. 08:05:30.760 --> 08:05:36.760 I feel like Namani approved, maybe not at the same level, but that's totally fair, he really surprised me with his individual level. 08:05:36.760 --> 08:05:40.760 He was the one person in the Hero8 games and more often than not finding one or two kills. 08:05:40.760 --> 08:05:43.760 Very good to ShadowMounders, I like that. 08:05:43.760 --> 08:05:48.760 Unfortunate for them, didn't make the quarterfinals, but they certainly impressed us, they're playing some good CS. 08:05:48.760 --> 08:05:49.760 They could have. 08:05:49.760 --> 08:05:50.760 They should have. 08:05:50.760 --> 08:05:51.760 Yes, they could have. 08:05:51.760 --> 08:05:52.760 Quite frankly. 08:05:52.760 --> 08:05:58.760 Too many mistakes, they're a new team, but they are neither the team or them, so we'll move on. 08:05:58.760 --> 08:06:03.720 on. We've got the round of rating here. It's currently 10 to 7 for Foots and it's going to be 08:06:03.720 --> 08:06:08.040 Bate desperate for a round here. Get to post one in a second half, but they have got a nice 08:06:08.040 --> 08:06:13.640 man advantage. Shutting down his B lane should be a nice clean victory here. 4-1, Jugs will have 08:06:13.640 --> 08:06:18.840 it all to do here with 62 points of health. Plenty of time, but no bomb. That's the first round 08:06:18.840 --> 08:06:25.640 that Bate pick up on the CC side. Yep, and it's a clean one. It's very clean. And you know what, 08:06:25.640 --> 08:06:28.280 Credit to bait for doing this foot were actually ready 08:06:28.280 --> 08:06:32.160 They were anticipating that there could have been a B-Wrap push there because they could see that I think 08:06:32.280 --> 08:06:35.120 Corbini was the first one he was looking towards the bottom of the ramp 08:06:35.120 --> 08:06:39.200 So he definitely knew that someone could have been walking down. They just win every single fight. That's well played 08:06:39.200 --> 08:06:41.200 That should spawn some confidence here 08:06:41.280 --> 08:06:43.920 They're not really known to be a team that is 08:06:44.600 --> 08:06:50.440 Celebrating wins shouting, you know in that sense like that. They're a little bit more muted, but hopefully 08:06:50.440 --> 08:06:54.560 the comms inside of the server are going to be a little bit happier, people are going 08:06:54.560 --> 08:06:57.520 to be a little bit more ready to go because they look so sharp at the beginning, it's 08:06:57.520 --> 08:07:02.060 really delightful to see when they were on the T side but they've been quieted down 08:07:02.060 --> 08:07:08.360 a bit now. See, getting the coach activated too. It's still a close game, right? A 10-8. 08:07:08.360 --> 08:07:15.680 Oh, it's very close. It's far from over. But the money reserves are strong. Futs will 08:07:15.680 --> 08:07:20.720 have plenty to work with here at round number 19, 10 to 8 on that T side of their opponents pick. 08:07:21.600 --> 08:07:26.960 We'll talk about countermeasure regression, this is a perfect display of it, punishing this B lane. 08:07:26.960 --> 08:07:30.320 Fantastic work from Ascenti, all good spraydowns there with the M4A4. 08:07:31.520 --> 08:07:32.960 Let me get into round number 19. 08:07:35.520 --> 08:07:41.760 Up来 this could be a fantastic series here. Foot, not looking their absolute best, 08:07:41.760 --> 08:07:46.480 That's for sure, mate. Not looking that worse, which we've seen a few times 08:07:46.480 --> 08:07:51.020 throughout the story when some massive evidence came up. Yes, I think that was 08:07:51.020 --> 08:07:57.840 that's exactly the feeling that I had at one point. So Duke's, look at the 08:07:57.840 --> 08:08:00.320 smoke at the ramp, they're walking right through it, they're setting up inside of 08:08:00.320 --> 08:08:03.600 the smoke. This is pretty much what I was talking about. That's the CT smoke that 08:08:03.600 --> 08:08:09.000 they're running through, especially the way over. It wasn't even a bad smoke, but 08:08:09.000 --> 08:08:13.000 Foot, love, exploiting the CT smoke against them. 08:08:13.000 --> 08:08:16.000 You caught that early and that's exactly what they did. 08:08:16.000 --> 08:08:19.000 And there is zero chance you're winning this round. 08:08:19.000 --> 08:08:22.000 If you're very careful, hold onto that AWP. 08:08:22.000 --> 08:08:25.000 It's Sizi that had that impressive first half. 08:08:25.000 --> 08:08:29.000 Yet to really post anything in the second, 7 and 13. 08:08:30.000 --> 08:08:32.000 Looks like that's all he can do right now. 08:08:32.000 --> 08:08:34.000 Hold off the hunt. 08:08:34.000 --> 08:08:36.000 Hold the wolf from the door. 08:08:36.000 --> 08:08:40.680 I mean if they can hold on to the two AKs in the AWP they will be competitive in the next round 08:08:40.680 --> 08:08:41.880 They can do some damage with it 08:08:41.880 --> 08:08:47.400 But the problem is there aren't that many more rounds left here before foot walk away with the victory on ancient 08:08:47.880 --> 08:08:49.880 pick-by-bates 08:08:51.880 --> 08:08:54.620 Bomb's gonna go up here. Obviously no one in existence 08:08:55.680 --> 08:09:00.480 The whole team though is playing well. It might be that the leader is ahead with 19 kills 08:09:00.480 --> 08:09:03.280 But nobody's lacking so far behind that they're letting the team down either 08:09:03.280 --> 08:09:08.000 and really enjoying this tea side so far from foots. 08:09:08.000 --> 08:09:11.200 Krobeni chomping at the bit to get through that cave. 08:09:11.200 --> 08:09:13.680 He heard the reload on the other side. 08:09:13.680 --> 08:09:17.000 Yeah, it's himself an absolute freebie of a kill. 08:09:17.000 --> 08:09:18.920 At the side of the outcome of the round, 08:09:18.920 --> 08:09:20.680 as we see round 20 coming up next, 08:09:20.680 --> 08:09:23.680 never tactical timeout baits can feel this one slipping away. 08:09:23.680 --> 08:09:26.560 As mentioned though, and as they saved two AK-47s, 08:09:26.560 --> 08:09:28.560 yes, they have the AWP. 08:09:28.560 --> 08:09:31.280 They need to show us that they can hold their head 08:09:31.280 --> 08:09:36.640 above water. Sissi, like we said, hasn't really got going in the second half. How do we set 08:09:36.640 --> 08:09:40.320 him up? How do we find some impact from him? Does he just go tar at the A bomb side by 08:09:40.320 --> 08:09:44.120 himself, enabling us to stack our resources in towards B, which is being a massive issue 08:09:44.120 --> 08:09:49.280 right now? Or do we go for a boost at the back of B with the orb? Try and get him online 08:09:49.280 --> 08:09:53.840 at some point. But plenty of options. Let's see which one they go for. Yeah, might be 08:09:53.840 --> 08:09:59.640 it. Yeah, it's gone to war day. This is a nice call. It means you can spread the resources 08:09:59.640 --> 08:10:04.360 around and have a much stronger middle and on the bomb side. Yeah you're right you're 08:10:04.360 --> 08:10:07.600 right they've got three people basically fighting for the mid position right now one of them 08:10:07.600 --> 08:10:13.840 from the B bomb side but I like that. They set up that smoke that's potentially dangerous. 08:10:13.840 --> 08:10:18.000 Oh they're going for a double boost there above the smoke. It's a really cool idea. 08:10:18.000 --> 08:10:22.480 Okay we don't get to see this all the time Henry but you're exactly right. On top of 08:10:22.480 --> 08:10:27.480 it he's got a fight visible back there but he could have been close. NPL putting one 08:10:27.480 --> 08:10:33.000 Those same AKs to great use shuts down really and then walks back. I love the disconnect from that fight 08:10:33.000 --> 08:10:37.840 You've already won that you've got the lead don't do any more than this disengage. Yes 08:10:38.360 --> 08:10:40.640 So what I was looking for. Yeah, I got you 08:10:42.480 --> 08:10:44.480 Always always Henry 08:10:44.640 --> 08:10:50.560 So one minute remaining we did say that all that is over towards the a bomb site. He's got a nice aggressive angle 08:10:50.560 --> 08:10:54.720 We're not too aggressive. It's enough to take that one shot. Thank you for that. Let's have a look at it 08:10:54.720 --> 08:10:58.140 they walk into him he's just going to go for one kill knife out try and get 08:10:58.140 --> 08:11:00.500 towards donor that's all he's playing for right now and you can see he's deep 08:11:00.500 --> 08:11:04.620 enough that he will get the advantage on the wide swing as well so he can handle 08:11:04.620 --> 08:11:08.060 both he also gets a shadow advantage on the left side so it's actually the 08:11:08.060 --> 08:11:11.300 perfect angle to hold for this sort of play it makes a question there's a 08:11:11.300 --> 08:11:16.900 shadow advantage this is it this is it Sizi play one you step it up oh it's an 08:11:16.900 --> 08:11:20.060 easy kill on the first one throws down the incendiary they are hunting down though 08:11:20.060 --> 08:11:23.980 he stayed too long he did stay too long he did one double take it seems running 08:11:23.980 --> 08:11:26.620 That's enough of them to hunt him down, unfortunately. 08:11:26.620 --> 08:11:31.060 Had the knife out, jump into the smoke, you want it to maintain control, slow them down, I get it. 08:11:31.060 --> 08:11:36.180 You now have, like this bomb site, collapse and there's a chance that they can win this three or four. 08:11:36.180 --> 08:11:37.820 See what they can do there. 08:11:37.820 --> 08:11:42.420 Almost had a grenade, just one on the T side here, it's connected to the wall, flying A-kid with a headshot on Jukes. 08:11:42.420 --> 08:11:47.820 All the retakes looking hot right now, Jukes the last one, left piece also running out of bullets, trying to reload. 08:11:47.820 --> 08:11:49.820 It gets the triple, it doesn't get the round. 08:11:49.820 --> 08:11:52.580 They're gonna go pick up everything, got the kits. 08:11:52.580 --> 08:11:55.780 Oh, that is very close to falling apart there. 08:11:55.780 --> 08:11:57.140 Good shot from Sisi at the beginning. 08:11:57.140 --> 08:11:59.300 We'll give him that, but in Counter-Strike, 08:11:59.300 --> 08:12:02.500 the margins are so small that one millisecond is enough. 08:12:02.500 --> 08:12:03.220 Absolutely. 08:12:03.220 --> 08:12:04.900 I think he's absolutely fine. 08:12:04.900 --> 08:12:06.260 If he went with the original plan, 08:12:06.260 --> 08:12:09.180 my foul dive into the smoke, I don't think he's taken down there. 08:12:09.180 --> 08:12:10.740 But the fact he second-guessed himself, 08:12:10.740 --> 08:12:13.620 brought out the incendiary, 180, try and drop it. 08:12:13.620 --> 08:12:16.100 Sure, I can understand what you're trying to go for there, 08:12:16.100 --> 08:12:17.460 but there was a real world where 08:12:17.460 --> 08:12:19.100 Futs went out in that clutch. 08:12:19.100 --> 08:12:21.140 But again, no harm, no foul. 08:12:21.140 --> 08:12:22.340 Absolutely fine. 08:12:22.340 --> 08:12:25.700 We go 11-9, and it will be foot now. 08:12:25.700 --> 08:12:28.740 We've still plenty of resources going into run-up at 29, 08:12:28.740 --> 08:12:29.780 but it's a two-round game. 08:12:29.780 --> 08:12:30.900 Bait desperately needed that. 08:12:30.900 --> 08:12:33.060 We said we needed a change of setup as well. 08:12:33.060 --> 08:12:34.420 Yes, she does a nice remedy. 08:12:34.420 --> 08:12:36.100 Coming city over there towards the A bomb site. 08:12:36.100 --> 08:12:37.300 Now you don't have to do that. 08:12:37.300 --> 08:12:39.220 Now you've already suggested that he's over there. 08:12:39.220 --> 08:12:41.380 He probably won't be contacting that bomb site. 08:12:41.380 --> 08:12:43.500 So now you want to move him around again. 08:12:43.500 --> 08:12:44.820 We want to see him in a different position, 08:12:44.820 --> 08:12:45.660 going for an opening pick. 08:12:45.660 --> 08:12:48.020 We need high impact from the young sniper, 08:12:48.020 --> 08:12:49.340 this time towards Donut. 08:12:49.340 --> 08:12:57.340 I'd like the picture you painted for us move around that the x-factor of where the AWP is. 08:12:57.340 --> 08:12:59.340 Oh, this is a classic, though. 08:12:59.340 --> 08:13:01.340 Yeah, foot-doodle like this. 08:13:01.340 --> 08:13:05.340 They, they, they, what, think the third-mooshu strategy on this map is that A-split? 08:13:05.340 --> 08:13:07.340 What they do love going through this red room. 08:13:07.340 --> 08:13:12.340 It should be a B-finish considering the position of Demon, trying to get in towards Cave. 08:13:12.340 --> 08:13:16.340 And it all comes down to this MPL very well of their Antwell Cemetery. 08:13:16.340 --> 08:13:21.640 No problem at all. The world is their oyster right now. They don't even have to go B. Alright, they can choose wherever they want to go. 08:13:21.640 --> 08:13:26.540 They've got so much control. This is a nightmare. Alex, what have you got for a small top in the face for now? 08:13:26.540 --> 08:13:32.140 Shut down. He's alone back here. There's nothing you can do. They're coming in as well from the cave. Demon's about to be there in a couple of seconds. 08:13:32.140 --> 08:13:34.740 Yeah, this is so tough. Look at the comms. Look at the play. 08:13:34.740 --> 08:13:36.140 Just so good. 08:13:36.140 --> 08:13:40.440 So much discipline there. Instead of rushing in, they're like, oh, we've got two kills. Let's get in there. 08:13:40.440 --> 08:13:43.140 They wait until they clear the angle from the cave position as well. 08:13:43.140 --> 08:13:43.540 Yeah. 08:13:43.540 --> 08:13:46.140 That is textbook counter strike coming in there from foot. 08:13:46.140 --> 08:13:55.140 That really didn't look more like it was somebody who had been studying chess, playing, sort of like, they just move all the pieces and you can't do anything, you're just locked in in the corner. 08:13:55.140 --> 08:13:57.140 Yeah, that was really, really nice play. 08:13:57.140 --> 08:14:00.140 Guaranteeing the victory there, not taking any chances. 08:14:00.140 --> 08:14:04.140 A lot of teams would just run through with those couple of kills and they might just trade them out, whatever happens. 08:14:04.140 --> 08:14:13.140 No, they confirm the cave is clear, they clear out the angle correctly and give them no option to find even a single frag there as they find a map point. 08:14:13.140 --> 08:14:16.060 It's 12-9 to Foots here on their opponent's pick. 08:14:16.060 --> 08:14:19.980 Overpass up next, where we no bait a week. 08:14:19.980 --> 08:14:22.060 This is the ticket into the semi-final 08:14:22.060 --> 08:14:23.860 in the palm of Foots hand right now. 08:14:24.820 --> 08:14:26.220 Yeah, they put it together nicely, 08:14:26.220 --> 08:14:28.100 and it was a tough first half for them as well. 08:14:28.100 --> 08:14:29.860 Seven to five, like you pointed out, 08:14:29.860 --> 08:14:33.380 that's, it's not great getting five rounds on your CT side, 08:14:33.380 --> 08:14:35.420 but then you swap over here, 08:14:35.420 --> 08:14:37.180 and you see the kind of comms 08:14:37.180 --> 08:14:38.980 and the kind of calls that have been made 08:14:38.980 --> 08:14:40.980 for the 08:14:40.980 --> 08:14:42.980 for being a make it work 08:14:42.980 --> 08:14:44.980 placing the foot soldiers as a 08:14:44.980 --> 08:14:46.980 were Henry into great positions 08:14:46.980 --> 08:14:48.980 OK that's your best work yet that's 08:14:48.980 --> 08:14:50.980 all the prep I did for the day really 08:14:50.980 --> 08:14:52.980 like those are the lines you've been working on 08:14:52.980 --> 08:14:54.980 I love it. I've got more don't worry 08:14:54.980 --> 08:14:56.980 OK. Launch very aggressive out 08:14:56.980 --> 08:14:58.980 towards middle speaking of aggression 08:14:58.980 --> 08:15:00.980 we're going towards a main it's going to be 08:15:00.980 --> 08:15:02.980 ready to open things up but he is shut down 08:15:02.980 --> 08:15:04.980 four and four I would say favorites of T-Sat 08:15:04.980 --> 08:15:06.980 especially the way photo playing right now 08:15:06.980 --> 08:15:13.180 It's a sponsor from MPL, the star player of Bates, keeps him in this one, Man of Vantage, maintained by Sizzzy. 08:15:13.980 --> 08:15:18.680 MPL, this is an audacious maneuver, one that's not required, I would say. 08:15:19.680 --> 08:15:22.880 Yeah, he was so smart, there's a disengage as you pointed out. 08:15:22.880 --> 08:15:25.480 Yeah, I feel like that maneuver right there. 08:15:25.680 --> 08:15:26.480 That could cost a map. 08:15:26.480 --> 08:15:27.480 It could cost a map, yeah. 08:15:27.880 --> 08:15:28.780 You because now- 08:15:28.780 --> 08:15:32.780 You can let them have the A-bomb side, especially if you have no intel as to what's going on there. 08:15:32.780 --> 08:15:38.360 Yeah, you'd much rather do a 4-on-2 retake than whatever this is. 08:15:38.360 --> 08:15:42.380 It's the minute of the clock, the boar's been planted, and cemetery, he's got the line. 08:15:42.380 --> 08:15:45.540 He's gonna get shot at the back, you're right, oh, they make it work. 08:15:45.540 --> 08:15:48.220 That's gonna make it 12-10. 08:15:48.220 --> 08:15:53.740 They need one more round, Henry, but that last round, what do we normally say? 08:15:53.740 --> 08:15:55.860 The hardest one of them all. 08:15:55.860 --> 08:15:59.860 Number 13 is the hardest round in the world to pick up. 08:15:59.860 --> 08:16:03.060 I noticed Dinko and Jason didn't mention that. 08:16:03.060 --> 08:16:04.780 No, they don't believe in Henry's law. 08:16:04.780 --> 08:16:05.660 They don't believe in it. 08:16:05.660 --> 08:16:08.260 We're trying to bring them around to it. 08:16:08.260 --> 08:16:11.180 But bear in mind, I said it many times before, 08:16:11.180 --> 08:16:12.740 I've commented on a lot of football games. 08:16:12.740 --> 08:16:14.660 They are not closers. 08:16:14.660 --> 08:16:15.980 You have pointed this out. 08:16:15.980 --> 08:16:18.740 They are not a team that does well at finding round number 13. 08:16:18.740 --> 08:16:20.700 I've seen it many, many times. 08:16:20.700 --> 08:16:22.020 And I guess now we're later in the tournament, 08:16:22.020 --> 08:16:23.700 the pressure is even higher. 08:16:23.700 --> 08:16:25.620 So that could affect it even more. 08:16:25.620 --> 08:16:32.340 And the money's not great either. 08:16:32.340 --> 08:16:36.980 Speaking of Jason and Dinko, if you guys missed the game they were doing earlier, with J.W. 08:16:36.980 --> 08:16:39.980 and Maxter and all the rest, so if you go back and watch it, the guys did a great job 08:16:39.980 --> 08:16:42.620 and obviously, you know, the game was really fun. 08:16:42.620 --> 08:16:44.820 It was, it warmed your heart. 08:16:44.820 --> 08:16:48.580 You're saying J.W. on the server, Moses casting it, what more could he want? 08:16:48.580 --> 08:16:50.740 And it went to a three map barn burner. 08:16:50.740 --> 08:16:53.740 And apparently the first time Dinko's casting J.W. as well, which I mean. 08:16:53.740 --> 08:16:57.220 That made me feel very old when he said, oh, I've never even casted a J.W. games. 08:16:57.220 --> 08:16:58.860 Oh, man, I built my whole career. 08:16:58.860 --> 08:16:59.860 Commentate tonight, guy. 08:16:59.860 --> 08:17:00.860 Don't say that again. 08:17:00.860 --> 08:17:01.860 Yeah. 08:17:01.860 --> 08:17:02.860 Don't bring it up. 08:17:02.860 --> 08:17:07.820 Partial biver looks things here from Foots as we will see Tech Nines and a nice galil. 08:17:07.820 --> 08:17:11.740 So not all is lost, but it's looking very likely that we go to round number 24. 08:17:11.740 --> 08:17:12.740 All the rounds here. 08:17:12.740 --> 08:17:13.740 They said they're not closers, Foots. 08:17:13.740 --> 08:17:16.140 They're going to be going for another A-play here. 08:17:16.140 --> 08:17:17.660 It is kind of open right now. 08:17:17.660 --> 08:17:22.100 We have Kendi Zaw in towards a donor and Mork's going to try and deal with them as the smokes 08:17:22.100 --> 08:17:26.340 goes down, but speaking of smokes, NPL will pop them open and find the opening kill. 08:17:26.340 --> 08:17:27.940 That's good work at the moment. 08:17:27.940 --> 08:17:33.180 Ensar saw towards the donut, NPL takes four in very rapid fashion. 08:17:33.180 --> 08:17:37.020 By the way, he's up to 24 kills behind his round. 08:17:37.020 --> 08:17:41.860 So once again, it's another game where NPL is trying to drag the team through it, trying 08:17:41.860 --> 08:17:44.500 to see if he can get everyone else to follow. 08:17:44.500 --> 08:17:47.180 Somebody's got to help him out. 08:17:47.180 --> 08:17:48.180 Can't just be him. 08:17:48.180 --> 08:17:49.300 I mean, it's impressive. 08:17:49.300 --> 08:17:52.820 speaks well of him as an individual for the tournament it's the fact that I've 08:17:52.820 --> 08:17:56.940 seen like three or four maps so far whether it's been the case but if they 08:17:56.940 --> 08:18:01.940 really want to win then somebody else is to get locked in final round of 08:18:01.940 --> 08:18:07.300 regulation but one to get the hell out of here they're missing their mid smoke 08:18:07.300 --> 08:18:11.860 you don't love to see that they will have no idea as well they got a wide 08:18:11.860 --> 08:18:16.980 swing out not knowing the CTs will have full vision here they take that time 08:18:16.980 --> 08:18:18.980 There is an option to re-smoke it I suppose 08:18:19.500 --> 08:18:21.500 You know they're gonna keep from all sides though 08:18:21.860 --> 08:18:24.140 Beanie's gonna be here as well. Oh, it doesn't even matter. 08:18:24.140 --> 08:18:27.060 Long struts him down the laser from the middle 08:18:27.500 --> 08:18:30.540 And this is not gonna get one of a turn but now all the grades are running in there 08:18:30.540 --> 08:18:35.180 They can't burn him out because the smoke is up but demon he's taking the backline. He's on the A bottom side 08:18:35.180 --> 08:18:36.380 Oh 08:18:36.380 --> 08:18:37.900 Double headshot 08:18:37.900 --> 08:18:42.320 Sizi lands a good kill on the juke. He's back around the corner. Let's see if he get activated. 08:18:42.320 --> 08:18:47.040 Fenty's dead. We've talked about it so much. You're right. He's super dead. Now it's all on Sizi. 08:18:47.880 --> 08:18:51.240 He's half HP. They know exactly where he is. That should be GG, Anders. 08:18:51.240 --> 08:18:54.520 It should be on any normal day. You can't really get through this smoke, 08:18:54.520 --> 08:18:57.560 because you just walked straight in. Demon to headshot him. 08:18:57.560 --> 08:19:01.680 And foot. You thought they were going to get cold feet on this opening map, but they didn't. 08:19:03.560 --> 08:19:07.200 Okay, he has a fun drinking game for anyone watching at home. I don't encourage this, 08:19:07.200 --> 08:19:09.180 but it could be a good time. 08:19:09.180 --> 08:19:13.880 Get your favorite bottle of hard liquor, make it tequila. 08:19:13.880 --> 08:19:16.120 Prof, if you want to do water, it's not as fun. 08:19:16.120 --> 08:19:17.320 Get yourself some tequila. 08:19:17.320 --> 08:19:22.760 Every time Anders makes a very dad joke foot pun, 08:19:22.760 --> 08:19:24.040 take a shot. 08:19:24.040 --> 08:19:25.920 You won't know how this game finishes 08:19:25.920 --> 08:19:28.320 or who makes the same finals because you'll 08:19:28.320 --> 08:19:31.320 be blackout drunk, but it could be a good time. 08:19:31.320 --> 08:19:33.520 There was no good ones. 08:19:33.520 --> 08:19:35.640 I actually enjoyed the Henry 671. 08:19:35.640 --> 08:19:39.160 down down was good this kind of subtle it was kind of throwback to a mean 08:19:39.160 --> 08:19:43.880 like he was shaking his head a few months ago but because of that I feel like he 08:19:43.880 --> 08:19:49.680 found that it's like playing meta that's like two years old it's perfectly dated 08:19:49.680 --> 08:19:53.040 to be to be reintroduced and catch people off guard and that's what he does 08:19:53.040 --> 08:19:57.720 perfectly fitting for Henry and Anders casting me yeah yeah that's all throwback 08:19:57.720 --> 08:20:02.880 two or three years off meta talking about this game though for me this this is a 08:20:02.880 --> 08:20:08.460 game that describes foot to fate as a benchmark team. 08:20:08.460 --> 08:20:11.220 They're a team that has like a level that's pretty solid. 08:20:11.220 --> 08:20:14.000 We saw the T side, they lose the pistol, but they get back into it. 08:20:14.000 --> 08:20:16.600 They have some decent frags, NPL has a good round, 08:20:16.600 --> 08:20:18.660 and then they have, you know, they call a bit around it, 08:20:18.660 --> 08:20:20.720 but they lose both pistols. 08:20:20.720 --> 08:20:22.320 And also in this last round, we just 08:20:22.320 --> 08:20:25.040 see Krabeni taking some heads off, also longs. 08:20:25.040 --> 08:20:27.200 And that's just going to be the difference maker. 08:20:27.200 --> 08:20:29.400 They don't have maybe that next level that 08:20:29.400 --> 08:20:32.360 is necessary to win a game against a top team. 08:20:32.360 --> 08:20:37.720 But realistically they had the upper hand when the kit came down to the gun rounds, especially in that first half of course. 08:20:37.720 --> 08:20:41.840 But even second, if they don't go down with the pistols, that could have been a really dangerous game. 08:20:41.840 --> 08:20:45.000 It could have been even fairly one-sided going to Bates, right? 08:20:45.720 --> 08:20:50.840 I thought just first half they did a really good job kind of limiting foot in terms of... 08:20:51.280 --> 08:20:54.920 You know, they're just the type of a team that on the CT side, they would like to make these aggressive plays. 08:20:55.120 --> 08:21:01.640 Bates were always doing a good job waiting it out and then just making their plays towards the sides of the map late round, right? 08:21:01.640 --> 08:21:07.800 when Foot have no no no utility to work with to stop those pushes I also thought that Foot 08:21:08.520 --> 08:21:13.800 went for some kind of uncharacteristic plays some of these retakes like 2v3s, 3v4s that 08:21:13.800 --> 08:21:18.120 you normally don't go for and that actually ended up binding them towards the end of the half because 08:21:18.120 --> 08:21:23.000 they didn't have the money to defend against some of these pushes from Bait right so actually you 08:21:23.000 --> 08:21:28.600 know in the end I thought Bait could have won this. Do you think Bait could have won it as well? 08:21:28.600 --> 08:21:34.600 Yeah, I mean, I think overall a pretty good game. Again, it's the details, it's the pistols that make the difference in this one. 08:21:34.600 --> 08:21:41.600 But, unfortunately for Bay, this felt like a must win considering the map, considering the overpass is coming in. 08:21:41.600 --> 08:21:45.600 So that's why it feels even worse that they couldn't make it happen. 08:21:45.600 --> 08:21:50.600 I think also Sizi was highlighted as a guy that is needed for them to win this game. 08:21:50.600 --> 08:21:53.600 I feel like on the T side, he had a few good rounds on the CT side. 08:21:53.600 --> 08:21:58.120 and as the game progressed he was kind of getting a bit colder and that could 08:21:58.120 --> 08:22:00.120 also have been the difference maker in this game. 08:22:00.120 --> 08:22:03.480 Let's have a bigger conversation. You brought this up in the pre-show and 08:22:03.480 --> 08:22:07.160 Henry mentioned in the cast as well this idea that foot struggles to finish and 08:22:07.160 --> 08:22:10.840 it is something we see time and time again. Hell we almost saw it there as well. 08:22:10.840 --> 08:22:14.720 What do you think it is that's causing them to not be able to to push to that 08:22:14.720 --> 08:22:19.360 13th round? Well I think it's a classic young team problem right? I don't 08:22:19.360 --> 08:22:43.360 I don't necessarily think that this game, this map was a map of choking, I think it was just a game that went close, because it was, but obviously they also missed us more kind of late in the game, which shows that the problem that young teams have is like, pressure comes, they're like, okay, we need to win this, we're favorites, and then the communication is a bit off, the trade is a bit slow, the aim is a bit shaky, and that's what causes some of their problems. 08:22:43.360 --> 08:22:49.200 I also do think that beta are the type of team that you would think would have a problem with because they're quite slow pace 08:22:49.200 --> 08:22:51.420 They're always gonna play for their utility and all these things 08:22:51.420 --> 08:22:55.200 They're gonna be good at limiting some of these some of these aggressive pushes from from foot 08:22:55.280 --> 08:22:59.920 So yeah, I don't think this was necessarily any sort of a problem in terms of closing 08:23:00.560 --> 08:23:05.820 Otherwise, yeah, I mean it's it's it's more proffsets today if they look this is the youngest team at the tournament 08:23:05.820 --> 08:23:09.700 You know, obviously we think of them as kind of one of the favorites to win this 08:23:09.700 --> 08:23:14.820 but they are still based haven't won anything so far you know they don't have the experience of of a lot of these other teams 08:23:15.180 --> 08:23:18.620 Frankly, they don't even have the experience of baits who have been around for an extra season 08:23:19.140 --> 08:23:23.160 Compared to foot you know other than Sizi at least I just came in for this season 08:23:23.160 --> 08:23:27.700 They went to two majors these guys haven't been long has been to one and that's that's pretty much it for me 08:23:27.700 --> 08:23:29.700 He said it was the rear major as well. Yeah 08:23:30.700 --> 08:23:32.700 Yeah, yeah 08:23:32.700 --> 08:23:39.680 See the kisses there for a part of it. So that's how long it will go. I have so many jokes, but I'm just gonna move on 08:23:40.020 --> 08:23:43.500 Let's leave moving on. Let's leave moving on. It's not even good on that road 08:23:43.500 --> 08:23:48.120 Let's talk about that overpass now though because you mentioned time and time again. This is a problem for bait 08:23:48.260 --> 08:23:55.660 It's here. They're gonna have to play a planet. Why do we think it is such a problem? Well, the problem for bait is they played it two times this year 08:23:56.820 --> 08:24:02.620 13-2 against Furia was the last game that they played the 13-10 against Aurora. That's that's it, right? 08:24:02.700 --> 08:24:06.700 They haven't really been, it hasn't been in their map pool for long. 08:24:06.700 --> 08:24:12.700 We don't know how much they played it on the other hand, foot played it 11 times, 5-6 win-loss. 08:24:12.700 --> 08:24:17.700 Which isn't amazing, but all of their, pretty much all of their games are against top 10 teams. 08:24:17.700 --> 08:24:20.700 Astralis, G2, Fury, or these kind of squads. 08:24:20.700 --> 08:24:24.700 And even if they lose, they play them, they get like 10-11 rounds, right? 08:24:24.700 --> 08:24:30.700 So think overpass for them is a pretty decent map, and on the other hand, pretty much we don't know what to expect from Bate. 08:24:30.700 --> 08:24:32.620 I think that's the key part, though, for Bate. 08:24:32.620 --> 08:24:33.980 What do you even expect out of them? 08:24:33.980 --> 08:24:36.060 If you're a foot, how do you prepare for them? 08:24:36.060 --> 08:24:38.300 If you're a Culeo, yes, you have these two games. 08:24:38.300 --> 08:24:40.420 One of them, they didn't even get to play one half. 08:24:40.420 --> 08:24:43.180 So you have three halves to look at from this entire season. 08:24:43.180 --> 08:24:44.860 And the last one that they played is a month ago, 08:24:44.860 --> 08:24:46.140 and that was the 13-3 game. 08:24:46.140 --> 08:24:48.100 The previous one is two months ago, 08:24:48.100 --> 08:24:49.820 that they played a 13-10 game. 08:24:49.820 --> 08:24:52.940 So whatever Bate comes up with, foot 08:24:52.940 --> 08:24:54.780 are just looking to play whatever they have, 08:24:54.780 --> 08:24:56.420 rather than trying to play reactionary. 08:24:56.420 --> 08:24:58.660 And a thing like that, that is a strong suit for foot, 08:24:58.660 --> 08:24:59.140 to be honest. 08:24:59.140 --> 08:25:02.300 I don't think they're a particularly heavy anti-strap team or anything like that. 08:25:02.300 --> 08:25:03.300 We saw it even on ancient. 08:25:03.300 --> 08:25:05.740 A lot of the rounds that they run are very simplistic. 08:25:05.740 --> 08:25:09.460 I mean, it is very strong solid counter-strike, but it is very simple. 08:25:09.460 --> 08:25:14.540 I mean, if I pick out the round where they got match points or map points, it was the 08:25:14.540 --> 08:25:16.620 one that they got the smokes in middle. 08:25:16.620 --> 08:25:19.380 They pushed the red room smoke in four people. 08:25:19.380 --> 08:25:22.660 They just got to pick off on B. There was a lurker working from the other side. 08:25:22.660 --> 08:25:23.660 You have the bomb side. 08:25:23.660 --> 08:25:25.580 Very, very simple round, but very effective. 08:25:25.580 --> 08:25:27.260 And that's just how foot plays. 08:25:27.260 --> 08:25:33.260 So I think, regardless of them maybe not having the most review possibilities for this map, 08:25:33.260 --> 08:25:35.560 I think they're going to be comfortable regardless. 08:25:35.560 --> 08:25:37.060 Yeah, I mean, it's over fast. 08:25:37.060 --> 08:25:41.560 You can just pretty much win the T side by just doing B hits, if it works, right? 08:25:41.560 --> 08:25:45.260 Especially if you get the pistol and you do like three success ones. 08:25:45.260 --> 08:25:49.760 That's, you know, five rounds on the T side, I would say is one T side on the overpass. 08:25:49.760 --> 08:25:53.760 So I think it's going to be a hard battle on that side, right? 08:25:53.760 --> 08:25:57.320 if they can stop that, then the game can open up and actually be, you know, 08:25:57.320 --> 08:26:01.040 oh, what is up? What is Sizi doing on A with the AWP and how are they kind of 08:26:01.040 --> 08:26:03.760 countering the map control and stuff like that? Because I feel like Foot could 08:26:03.760 --> 08:26:08.040 just, could just go to doing a super simple, you know, wait around a bit, 08:26:08.040 --> 08:26:13.080 execute B, rush B, and then, you know, and the eco go to A and mix it up like that. 08:26:13.080 --> 08:26:16.880 It's not down and dusted for Foot though. I mean, this isn't going to be a very simple 08:26:16.880 --> 08:26:20.000 close out in 2-0 because like you said, we don't actually really know what 08:26:20.000 --> 08:26:24.240 fate could bring to the table here? Yeah, I mean that's kind of the I don't 08:26:24.240 --> 08:26:27.560 want to say the scary part but they're going a bit in the unknown and that's 08:26:27.560 --> 08:26:33.160 always the the can be the problem when you're picking into a weak map that is 08:26:33.160 --> 08:26:38.440 available but 90% of the time it just ends up being a dub and also the fact 08:26:38.440 --> 08:26:41.520 is they're one all up already so they have nothing to really fear in worst 08:26:41.520 --> 08:26:45.800 case scenario they're still a third that they can bounce back on. Yeah I do think 08:26:45.800 --> 08:26:49.200 that this is a foot to zero coming to be honest just because as much as they 08:26:49.200 --> 08:26:52.500 don't know what's coming there. It is a comfortable map in terms of how much 08:26:52.500 --> 08:26:55.640 they've played on it. You know, it's not like low and on the low end of their 08:26:55.640 --> 08:26:59.720 map pool. Well, it is, but they just play a lot of maps in this season already. 08:26:59.720 --> 08:27:03.280 So they're just comfortable across the board really. So yeah, I just think 08:27:03.280 --> 08:27:06.900 it's it's going to be fine for them. Let's see if Striker and Prof a right 08:27:06.900 --> 08:27:10.900 how this is going to play out. Foot up against Baytia at PGL Bucharest in the 08:27:10.900 --> 08:27:14.240 quarterfinals. 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Welcome back to the playoffs here at PGL Booker S 2026. You joined us in the 08:34:11.220 --> 08:34:16.100 third quarterfinal of the day and it's looking very good for Foots. They might be booking themselves 08:34:16.100 --> 08:34:20.660 a place in the semifinals, joining the likes of 3D Max and Astralis and there's a movement 08:34:20.660 --> 08:34:26.820 to Overpass and that doesn't seem like good news for Bates. We have very little data but the little 08:34:26.820 --> 08:34:30.420 we have is not looking good. They're probably hoping that they were going to play Dust 2 here 08:34:30.420 --> 08:34:35.540 instead but it's turned out Overpass. Surprise pick for Foots. It's actually their best map 08:34:35.540 --> 08:34:38.460 But like the desk were pointing out. Yeah, they're plenty enough 08:34:38.460 --> 08:34:40.540 I think they got 11 maps last three months with this one 08:34:40.540 --> 08:34:43.180 So they've they've got some drills on this they know what they're doing 08:34:43.300 --> 08:34:47.600 Well, whichever way you look at it. The good news is I suppose that's starting on the CT side 08:34:47.620 --> 08:34:52.940 Okay, they can set the bar things if you lose a pistol and things get out of control. We go down zero four 08:34:53.380 --> 08:34:56.900 That could be a death sentence in its own right kind of like a must-win pistol here 08:34:56.900 --> 08:35:02.980 When it's a mapping all very experienced on and we're getting ready now to get into the second map between a foot and baits 08:35:02.980 --> 08:35:07.320 feels like a foregone conclusion would love to be proven wrong maybe they've 08:35:07.320 --> 08:35:11.920 been in the lab all week working on the potential of overpass being played here 08:35:11.920 --> 08:35:15.580 in the quarterfinals but time will tell. Fertz will make their way over to be 08:35:15.580 --> 08:35:20.760 bombed side setting up smokes for heaven flashbangs available as well four of 08:35:20.760 --> 08:35:25.640 them in fact handers. So here come the smokes, they get a bombarded with flashes 08:35:25.640 --> 08:35:28.840 make their way through we'll see whether this three-man stack can fend them off. 08:35:28.840 --> 08:35:33.580 It has to because the other two are so far away. Senki or that's about perfect, isn't it? 08:35:33.580 --> 08:35:39.180 Another headshot. Kensazor will take down Demon. And now Krabini, cemetery on the other side. 08:35:39.180 --> 08:35:42.900 Two versus five. Bombers lost the towards the monster tunnel. 08:35:42.900 --> 08:35:47.220 The setup is great. The whole plan is there. The execution like all the grenades are landing. 08:35:47.220 --> 08:35:52.300 But once you run into those headshots coming through that choke point, it is over. 08:35:52.300 --> 08:36:01.540 Rubinius here. It is one versus five. Yeah, well whatever they had in mind they're completely 08:36:01.540 --> 08:36:06.940 shut down. They said it might be a must win pistol and they certainly deliver. It will 08:36:06.940 --> 08:36:11.780 be baited with a flawless first round here. Five players surviving and a senthule mowing 08:36:11.780 --> 08:36:16.340 down three of them. No problem whatsoever. No bomb planted. Should be the full eco. So 08:36:16.340 --> 08:36:21.900 crisis averted. Should be two zero no problem unless a surprise force by presented around 08:36:21.900 --> 08:36:29.040 Which I doubt you probably want to be ringing out the AKs in the third on a map like overpass. It's a very large and long-range map 08:36:29.040 --> 08:36:32.180 I don't think the tech 9s are that weapon for the job right now 08:36:33.800 --> 08:36:35.800 You know that's a good point 08:36:36.360 --> 08:36:37.860 so 08:36:37.860 --> 08:36:42.260 It's one of those rounds where you're hoping for mistakes in the CT side to be presented 08:36:43.180 --> 08:36:48.920 Should be no problem here the baits to zero all day long just one deagle to 08:36:48.920 --> 08:36:52.360 to take down here, it's in the hands of Krebbeni. 08:36:53.640 --> 08:36:56.560 Yeah, just don't give over any kind of a rifle 08:36:56.560 --> 08:36:58.960 and then everything will just fine. 08:36:58.960 --> 08:37:02.140 MPL briefly investigating, he's aware that in theory, 08:37:02.140 --> 08:37:04.360 if they'd run long, then they could be walking out. 08:37:04.360 --> 08:37:07.140 That is important to know that timing on the TT side 08:37:07.140 --> 08:37:09.320 because you don't want to be giving it up. 08:37:09.320 --> 08:37:11.000 It's gonna be easier to get my kill with the MP9, 08:37:11.000 --> 08:37:11.840 that's good news. 08:37:11.840 --> 08:37:13.160 It's gonna buy the AWP later on, 08:37:13.160 --> 08:37:15.360 which surely is gonna be a big factor here. 08:37:15.360 --> 08:37:16.640 The bomb is by party, 08:37:16.640 --> 08:37:18.880 so they won't be planting that necessarily. 08:37:18.880 --> 08:37:23.200 maybe there's a chance of some around the world antics either way found out 08:37:23.200 --> 08:37:26.880 Del we've just one kill given over its MPI I think it's dropped not a big deal 08:37:27.520 --> 08:37:31.920 and to zero confirmed in a clean fashion foot though as mentioned taking that 08:37:31.920 --> 08:37:37.120 full eco all have the AK 47s going to run over three the true test now you've 08:37:37.120 --> 08:37:40.240 got a bit of a bonus situation but they're actually taking some upgrades 08:37:40.240 --> 08:37:45.680 here under cities bringing out the early AWP I like it he orps again we don't 08:37:45.680 --> 08:37:47.400 don't have a lot of data, but he does, like, 08:37:47.400 --> 08:37:49.240 open towards the restrooms on this map. 08:37:49.240 --> 08:37:50.080 Okay. 08:37:50.080 --> 08:37:52.160 And then everyone to know, I think we have the B pillar 08:37:52.160 --> 08:37:53.000 and the B bomb sites. 08:37:53.000 --> 08:37:55.240 Like, those are two of his big positions. 08:37:55.240 --> 08:37:57.040 Well, we noted it on ancient. 08:37:57.040 --> 08:37:59.880 He has to be active, nimble. 08:37:59.880 --> 08:38:02.880 It is gonna have heavy amounts of impact here. 08:38:02.880 --> 08:38:04.120 Good grenades at the start. 08:38:04.120 --> 08:38:05.720 They're gonna swing off that. 08:38:05.720 --> 08:38:08.000 Z's one ready for it, but Crepelli will be able 08:38:08.000 --> 08:38:10.800 to find the trade, at least with a little arrange. 08:38:10.800 --> 08:38:11.840 Four versus four. 08:38:11.840 --> 08:38:14.320 It doesn't take much damage for his troubles either. 08:38:14.320 --> 08:38:17.120 So now the CT defense, a little bit questionable. 08:38:17.120 --> 08:38:20.320 Not Sizi, not in towards the flowerbed right now. 08:38:21.720 --> 08:38:23.000 Yeah, needs to be careful. 08:38:23.000 --> 08:38:24.760 Knows he's exposed for as long as well. 08:38:24.760 --> 08:38:26.840 Can't hold that at this position. 08:38:28.080 --> 08:38:29.000 Jump peeking. 08:38:30.440 --> 08:38:33.440 It's having a look around, wants a bit of intel. 08:38:33.440 --> 08:38:35.720 Always nervous when the CTs are jump peeking 08:38:35.720 --> 08:38:37.600 the boxes on the site itself. 08:38:38.560 --> 08:38:40.920 You're more, you're higher up than you think. 08:38:40.920 --> 08:38:42.240 Easily shot out of the sky. 08:38:42.240 --> 08:38:44.360 That's a flick, that's what we want. 08:38:44.360 --> 08:38:46.580 Launce goes down, 08:38:46.580 --> 08:38:48.580 Sizzino that looked clean. 08:38:48.580 --> 08:38:51.780 I want to see more from him exactly like that. 08:38:51.780 --> 08:38:53.460 He's the only one defending for a minute. 08:38:53.460 --> 08:38:54.760 He misses the next one though. 08:38:54.760 --> 08:38:56.260 At least Kanzo's all shown up. 08:38:56.260 --> 08:38:57.620 And nobody's checking the bomb site. 08:38:57.620 --> 08:38:59.120 That seems very careless. 08:38:59.120 --> 08:39:00.760 Cemetery gonna go down. 08:39:00.760 --> 08:39:02.760 Surely you want to be able to check the rest of it here. 08:39:02.760 --> 08:39:03.760 Ascentfield. 08:39:04.760 --> 08:39:07.260 Crab spraying against Krobini. 08:39:07.260 --> 08:39:10.500 And Duke's grenade forced into the fight. 08:39:10.500 --> 08:39:14.340 Look like he was ready to take that follow-up, but he won't and that means 08:39:15.100 --> 08:39:21.020 Bates are gonna pick up his next round very nice shot there from Sizi has to be said slows them down 08:39:22.140 --> 08:39:24.700 This allows the pounce and towards the a bomb site 08:39:25.900 --> 08:39:29.280 Overlooking the CT defense behind the default boxes there 08:39:29.420 --> 08:39:33.980 Let's them down and there will be three in a row now for Bates on their CT campaign here on our opponents pick 08:39:33.980 --> 08:39:37.820 I brought up something that I enjoyed about fruits tea side on ancient 08:39:37.820 --> 08:39:40.940 Okay, I've got some criticism for them on this map. Oh, right. Let's hear it 08:39:40.940 --> 08:39:46.980 I don't know why but they have a tendency to not Molotov the barrels on the B bombsite when they go for those executes 08:39:46.980 --> 08:39:50.940 Okay, look at they don't throw that Molotov and I think that could be a big mistake 08:39:50.960 --> 08:39:55.160 Give me could be risky to not throw that Molotov. Well, let's see if that trend continues 08:39:56.240 --> 08:40:00.300 For now though partial by maximum loss bonus round the corner 08:40:01.580 --> 08:40:04.220 Yeah, they can make a dent with the tech nines and 08:40:04.220 --> 08:40:08.820 single pt-50 in the hands of cemetery is trying to save his gold for the AWP 08:40:08.820 --> 08:40:13.700 going forward. That's some decent map control here but the CTs are allowing 08:40:13.700 --> 08:40:18.940 them to have it so partied under their remits. Two players it's time towards A 08:40:18.940 --> 08:40:25.900 it's gonna be Sizi joined by MPL the star player of the squad and then we go 08:40:25.900 --> 08:40:31.060 one quick kill on MPL. Things can get off hand very quickly but seeing the 08:40:31.060 --> 08:40:35.140 utility fly over the rotation to the cool down that's what we're talking about 08:40:35.140 --> 08:40:38.660 overwhelmed by those pistols and there's been a chance not to get a bomb planted 08:40:38.660 --> 08:40:42.780 as they recover the orb trying to give in the hands of cemetery as well that's 08:40:42.780 --> 08:40:46.620 full plate throw it over yeah the fact that they got the long range shot there 08:40:46.620 --> 08:40:51.700 with the tech nine that's unbelievable it's even cemetery with no kevlar yeah 08:40:51.700 --> 08:40:57.620 they trust him so much here do well the sniper they say yeah here you go we have 08:40:57.620 --> 08:41:01.060 all the weapons on the bait side but they're a man down 08:41:01.060 --> 08:41:04.660 sprays looking good nearly could have been the double I can't believe that's the 08:41:04.660 --> 08:41:09.220 the other side cemetery but that's stolen AWP will bring down Alex and it 08:41:09.220 --> 08:41:13.020 leaves essential he's got the kit and basically all of that smoke is not going 08:41:13.020 --> 08:41:17.380 to be good enough yeah he knows it as well it has to land on top of the bomb 08:41:17.380 --> 08:41:20.500 everybody knows that 08:41:22.020 --> 08:41:25.860 that's not the round you want to be losing cemetery will get out with the AWP as 08:41:25.860 --> 08:41:32.260 Well, Longst goes down with the explosion, but that was their partial by, we talked about, that pounce mentality. 08:41:32.260 --> 08:41:37.360 You can get close enough towards the 8 bombsite, drop a couple of smokes, overwhelm the defense, it's exactly what happened. 08:41:38.060 --> 08:41:42.460 First kill was no problem, a little bit of response there, but as soon as the AWP is recovered for cemetery, 08:41:42.860 --> 08:41:47.460 he holds the defensive angle towards Long, hits the money shop, and they are on the board. 08:41:48.060 --> 08:41:50.760 Good news is for Bayfans, they've got plenty of cash in reserve. 08:41:51.060 --> 08:41:53.460 Say plenty, they've saved an AK-47, 08:41:53.460 --> 08:41:56.780 Kendi's all have to make do with the MP9, there's no orphe to scissi. 08:41:58.460 --> 08:41:59.580 He fought around here. 08:42:00.460 --> 08:42:01.460 Loads of money. 08:42:02.220 --> 08:42:03.460 Now for the footside. 08:42:03.740 --> 08:42:04.700 Fully equipped. 08:42:05.420 --> 08:42:07.300 Full speed ahead for MPL. 08:42:07.580 --> 08:42:10.620 Pushes in towards our party position, smoked down towards the T-steps. 08:42:13.140 --> 08:42:15.860 Wanted to show that he was out there. 08:42:16.700 --> 08:42:20.980 Could slow down launch quite a bit, like he's on the other side of that smoke that went down. 08:42:20.980 --> 08:42:25.980 So he has to be aware that someone could be out by the fountain, that could be anywhere in the playground. 08:42:25.980 --> 08:42:28.980 We'll make it a little bit harder for him to clear out that part of the map. 08:42:28.980 --> 08:42:33.980 The rest of them are the sewers outside of the B bomb site, cemetery waiting for a mistake. 08:42:33.980 --> 08:42:38.980 Alex is playing on those barrels like they talked about. They actually double-nade him. 08:42:38.980 --> 08:42:41.980 If you're not gonna molest off it, double-nade is a pretty good alternative. 08:42:41.980 --> 08:42:43.980 Significant damage. 08:42:43.980 --> 08:42:47.980 MPL will have to try and inflict some of his own. 08:42:47.980 --> 08:42:54.100 waiting towards long looking for that backstab but aware he could be backstab 08:42:54.100 --> 08:42:57.580 himself in the bathroom sir all comes down to this frag if it's clean from 08:42:57.580 --> 08:43:03.580 foots I feel like I'll be a real chance they convert this round at least MPL 08:43:03.580 --> 08:43:08.300 gets one nice shot from cemetery though they nearly lined up for MPL to get the 08:43:08.300 --> 08:43:13.420 double there oh certainly did but unable to convert it a little bit of a fake 08:43:13.420 --> 08:43:16.460 towards beaver looks thing smoked down towards heaven flashes going over but 08:43:16.460 --> 08:43:20.060 it's all a ruse. We're focusing our efforts towards long with the bomb. 08:43:20.780 --> 08:43:22.340 And Jigs will join them from the connector. 08:43:22.340 --> 08:43:24.300 CT's not biting down on the fake at all though. 08:43:24.700 --> 08:43:25.900 They're ready, I'm waiting. 08:43:26.380 --> 08:43:28.300 Yeah, Crypto Ghost, CZ's back in. 08:43:28.300 --> 08:43:30.380 Not with EWP this time, he's gonna get the spray down. 08:43:30.380 --> 08:43:32.380 Oh! Two for one! 08:43:32.380 --> 08:43:34.620 Cemetery! Put some in the ground! 08:43:35.060 --> 08:43:37.580 And now Senthiel is a bit closer. Eight seconds on the clock. 08:43:37.580 --> 08:43:39.020 You have to fight, we win the fight right now. 08:43:39.020 --> 08:43:40.180 Otherwise you pop down the bomb. 08:43:40.460 --> 08:43:41.700 And that's not gonna happen. 08:43:41.820 --> 08:43:42.700 That was a moment. 08:43:42.700 --> 08:43:48.540 essential he shuts them down he's up to seven and oh he hasn't died yet in this 08:43:48.540 --> 08:43:54.140 match holy moly though the double kill the collat of the AWP yeah and you're 08:43:54.140 --> 08:43:58.140 right he knew he had to go for that kill which is certainly possible his teammate 08:43:58.140 --> 08:44:01.620 able to frag as well if he finds that shot with a tech nine the round is over 08:44:01.620 --> 08:44:06.100 didn't even need the bomb part of that stage true it all started here and the 08:44:06.100 --> 08:44:10.380 elder well to get one in that push but going above and beyond their cemetery 08:44:10.380 --> 08:44:15.860 Finally, binding the collat. Nice try, 4-1. Their money's still pretty good as we mentioned, 08:44:15.860 --> 08:44:20.260 but concessions to be made. We've got a Tech 9, Anamak 10. Suggests we see him something 08:44:20.260 --> 08:44:26.820 a bit punchy, a bit faster. But he's pushing through the util. Very important round in terms 08:44:26.820 --> 08:44:31.660 of the finances on both sides of the coin here. It'll be an easy frag for Krebbeni. 08:44:31.660 --> 08:44:35.220 Makes a bit of a meal of it. Take to Dinkford's troubles. The long-range spray works out though. 08:44:35.220 --> 08:44:37.260 Five on three. Round certainly not over. 08:44:37.260 --> 08:44:38.260 They're going to push out. 08:44:38.260 --> 08:44:42.860 push out for sure. And if they find a couple of kills here, the round can be turned on 08:44:42.860 --> 08:44:47.860 his head, but everyone is waiting on the other side. That's unfortunate. And like we said, 08:44:47.860 --> 08:44:53.140 such an important round, the money is now busted completely for bait. They have to save 08:44:53.140 --> 08:44:58.380 its AWP. It begs the question, do you go on the hunt or do you maintain your own finances 08:44:58.380 --> 08:45:01.860 here? You know it's in the AWP. We know that for a fact. 08:45:01.860 --> 08:45:06.740 Yeah, it's tempting. I mean, it's a big weapon, especially on a map like Overpass to be left 08:45:06.740 --> 08:45:12.820 out there in the wild. They are hunting. Cibani's already out looking for him. Yeah, he's gonna get it. 08:45:13.540 --> 08:45:18.500 Cizzi goes down. They will cover the orb. I'm glad he brought it up. The same would have been 08:45:18.500 --> 08:45:22.420 true the other way, right? You have the T side had lost this one. They would have had no money. 08:45:22.420 --> 08:45:27.940 Yeah, that's the most important round of the game so far and it will be foot to find it. Probably 08:45:27.940 --> 08:45:32.020 get some a couple more on the board here. You're at bottom of the barrel loss bonus, 08:45:32.020 --> 08:45:35.620 which means you do have the four spanners. If you only enter with $1400, even if you take the full 08:45:35.620 --> 08:45:41.620 is sent and partialed by territory. Either way, so you might as well force by into this one, 08:45:41.620 --> 08:45:46.620 which is exactly what they're going to do. So, fantastic opportunity, some open runway here for 08:45:46.620 --> 08:45:53.620 Foots to tie up this game 4-4. Previous round had so much weight behind it. It's launched, 08:45:53.620 --> 08:45:58.620 and we said, Mac 10 and Attack 9, they caught that smoke open, get a couple of openers here. 08:45:58.620 --> 08:46:04.620 There was a chance, the four players waiting to have a stab at the smoke, and they removed the AWP 08:46:04.620 --> 08:46:11.460 DANGER going forward as well. So what have we got to work with? No MP9s, 5-7s and D-goals, 08:46:11.460 --> 08:46:16.660 but...foots? There's definitely a world where they can lose, as they'll have to push smokes, 08:46:16.660 --> 08:46:22.020 they like to take risks. They enter 5-7, but that would be a disaster. Speaking of which, 08:46:22.020 --> 08:46:23.020 they're going straight in. 08:46:23.020 --> 08:46:27.420 That is so mean. You know they're not going to have anything defensively, just jumping 08:46:27.420 --> 08:46:33.060 in with the SMG was a main for this kind of an entry. Good work from Longs. They'll take 08:46:33.060 --> 08:46:37.940 to and the round is already over perfect weapon for the job is enough yeah 08:46:37.940 --> 08:46:42.460 that's that's the dream isn't it mp9 running gun a few players of our helmets 08:46:42.460 --> 08:46:46.620 as well mulling them down another clean sweep here for foots on there in that 08:46:46.620 --> 08:46:51.420 pick we did say if ancient doesn't land in favor of baits feels like a golden 08:46:51.420 --> 08:46:55.540 ticket opportunity for foots to book themselves a place in the semi-final yes 08:46:55.540 --> 08:46:59.500 so far that is looking to be true it's going to be 4-4 after this one it's full 08:46:59.500 --> 08:47:07.260 eco into the next round. Sissy hang around if you want hope maybe someone exits this way but 08:47:07.260 --> 08:47:14.540 that is not going to happen either. Good call. So far from what I can tell they're actually 08:47:14.540 --> 08:47:19.500 not big fans of doing that for the Russian generals. Obviously this is based on the on the economy on 08:47:19.500 --> 08:47:25.420 the CT side but in normal rounds they they try to shy away from it which is interesting a lot of 08:47:25.420 --> 08:47:34.860 teams do love it even was clinical yes what do you want okay can they get back 08:47:34.860 --> 08:47:42.020 on top here CT side they do need a big win at the start T side for foot as 08:47:42.020 --> 08:47:48.060 well as their weaker side on this map as it is with everybody just means 08:47:48.060 --> 08:47:51.700 they're gonna be better this oh yeah this is by far the most CT-sided map we 08:47:51.700 --> 08:47:57.420 have the pull. 4 already feels like enough. Again, you know they have nothing. 08:47:57.420 --> 08:48:04.180 Russian B again. Krebeni doesn't need to open this door. You don't know what's 08:48:04.180 --> 08:48:10.300 behind it. Just hold the position. Oh dear, it does fanciest chances, it does come out 08:48:10.300 --> 08:48:14.420 on top, it takes a lot of damage on route down to 13 points of health. That's the 08:48:14.420 --> 08:48:19.060 round though, so as mentioned it will be 4-4 guaranteed. This begs the question now 08:48:19.060 --> 08:48:23.380 as to whether they can find a few exit kills, but they seem to be very aware of this prospect of 08:48:23.380 --> 08:48:29.860 CTs hanging out in T-Sport, using that MP9 to great effects. It's gonna say you've got a lot more 08:48:29.860 --> 08:48:34.660 to lose than that, you know they're full eco, but it's not a problem recovering a deagle and keeping 08:48:34.660 --> 08:48:41.140 four players alive. The nightmare scenario for Bait after winning the pistol and are going up three 08:48:41.140 --> 08:48:46.340 and zero. Now it's up to four four on a map you're not comfortable on. 08:48:49.060 --> 08:48:54.740 Can't stress enough. Such a CT-sided map, allowing them to have this great start-up. 08:48:54.740 --> 08:48:58.580 Losing the pistol does not bode well for their prospects here on Overpass. 08:48:58.580 --> 08:49:02.260 Yeah, in the last three months, right, this team has played 24 rounds of Counter-Shank 08:49:02.260 --> 08:49:06.500 on Overpass for Bait. It's really not a lot to work with. 08:49:07.060 --> 08:49:10.980 They're going to have the AWP back on Sizi. They lost it earlier when he was trying to save it. 08:49:10.980 --> 08:49:13.700 I think it's a big deal that he can bring it out once again. 08:49:13.700 --> 08:49:15.380 Going fast and towards B again. 08:49:15.380 --> 08:49:16.380 Yes they are. 08:49:16.380 --> 08:49:21.380 They are in the most of their barrel position but caught off guard a little bit deep. 08:49:21.380 --> 08:49:28.380 Yeah I think he just got pressured off the angle, just trying to do some chip damage here with the AG grenades and going to back off. 08:49:30.380 --> 08:49:33.380 Now the grenades have been very good. 08:49:33.380 --> 08:49:37.380 Once again they prevailed down to 8 points of health, Alex having a nightmare in that spot. 08:49:38.380 --> 08:49:42.380 Yeah, maybe we're learning why they don't molotov it all that much. 08:49:42.380 --> 08:49:43.380 Yeah exactly. 08:49:43.380 --> 08:49:47.620 I'm in that fair play, if that's the case. I don't know, that could be. 08:49:47.620 --> 08:49:52.780 He double-naded instead. It's a very popular position to try and shut down those B rushes. 08:49:52.780 --> 08:49:55.780 Speaking of Alex, he's 0-5 at the moment. 08:49:55.780 --> 08:49:58.280 True, didn't even notice that. 08:49:58.280 --> 08:50:01.280 Not had a fun time whatsoever. 08:50:01.280 --> 08:50:03.580 Are they double-set up on the barrels now? 08:50:03.580 --> 08:50:08.680 So Alex is going to try and get himself... if they showed up, right? Alex dies, and you hope that Ascentiol isn't checked. 08:50:08.680 --> 08:50:11.480 That's the mind game. Not that it matters, because they're not going to be bombsite, but... 08:50:11.480 --> 08:50:13.080 that's worth noting that 08:50:13.080 --> 08:50:15.360 in theory 08:50:15.360 --> 08:50:18.440 we have to let you know that eight of the p of scissi 08:50:18.440 --> 08:50:20.160 he is poised 08:50:20.160 --> 08:50:22.680 so i'm a little bit more aggressive this time 08:50:22.680 --> 08:50:24.240 smart man once said 08:50:24.240 --> 08:50:28.120 ganko ponovic so fine line between bating and teamwork 08:50:28.120 --> 08:50:30.560 he did say that 08:50:30.560 --> 08:50:33.360 the other time he eludes scissi 08:50:33.360 --> 08:50:34.600 got the pressure from long 08:50:34.600 --> 08:50:37.160 he didn't get a deeper angle so he didn't get shot in the back 08:50:37.160 --> 08:50:39.720 fortunately he was shot in the side of the head instead 08:50:39.720 --> 08:50:42.960 and that will be round they've stacked to be bombsite hoping the tarot at the 08:50:42.960 --> 08:50:44.400 wp would be enough 08:50:44.400 --> 08:50:47.720 but we said the grassy stars from scissor that 08:50:47.720 --> 08:50:51.120 how do you plan the bombsite itself jumpy king one of had 08:50:51.120 --> 08:50:52.600 more to work with 08:50:52.600 --> 08:50:55.760 more time available to cover rotations he goes out with nothing enough 08:50:55.760 --> 08:50:59.160 that's just around 08:50:59.160 --> 08:51:00.720 it's getting out of control now 08:51:00.720 --> 08:51:03.720 just to say when you go look at the positions again it's only twenty four 08:51:03.720 --> 08:51:06.400 rounds so don't want to travel it too much but the position that they find him 08:51:06.400 --> 08:51:07.300 in there 08:51:07.300 --> 08:51:12.500 That is his number one position. Number two is the flowerbed like talked about back on the A bomb site and three is down at the B pillar 08:51:12.500 --> 08:51:16.320 So he's got like those three positions basically that he's that he's really in 08:51:17.820 --> 08:51:19.820 Good find what can you do? 08:51:20.020 --> 08:51:22.920 Goes down they're gonna save the rest. I guess that's the good news 08:51:22.920 --> 08:51:26.620 It's a problem. You're there or lower the AWP you can see him on higher light hearing you 08:51:26.620 --> 08:51:28.360 So let's keep him deployed for the long area as well 08:51:28.360 --> 08:51:30.520 He had to push deeper so he wouldn't be shot 08:51:30.960 --> 08:51:34.760 Right in the back of the head, but then misses the timing as he tries to get into what that divide up 08:51:34.760 --> 08:51:40.880 down he goes and sometimes that's the way she goes as one kill can decide the 08:51:40.880 --> 08:51:44.840 outcome of the round and you just have to save as you know you're not taking a 08:51:44.840 --> 08:51:47.800 bomb aside back 08:51:50.400 --> 08:51:57.020 well Cropini is he's giving the orders now yeah he's got a solid game plan in 08:51:57.020 --> 08:52:02.800 mind they do say four weapons talked about smoking getting stuck in Sizi 08:52:02.800 --> 08:52:06.800 They're going for the boost, it's a nice idea. 08:52:06.800 --> 08:52:07.800 Don't hate it. 08:52:07.800 --> 08:52:09.800 Yeah, they took a little bit too much damage. 08:52:09.800 --> 08:52:10.800 A lot of sound cues there. 08:52:10.800 --> 08:52:14.800 Should be the kill for Longs, if not the double teammate cemetery there too. 08:52:14.800 --> 08:52:15.800 Pick up the pieces. 08:52:15.800 --> 08:52:17.800 Five on three, round on necessarily over. 08:52:17.800 --> 08:52:20.800 Both teams will be high-tailing it towards the A bomb site. 08:52:20.800 --> 08:52:21.800 Can they catch him on the rotation? 08:52:21.800 --> 08:52:22.800 I don't think so. 08:52:22.800 --> 08:52:24.800 It doesn't seem like they're there in time. 08:52:24.800 --> 08:52:26.800 Kenzie's all the linchpin of this operation. 08:52:26.800 --> 08:52:28.800 Maybe he can find a couple of kills in the back, 08:52:28.800 --> 08:52:31.800 but it'd be terrible to think that no one's considering this push. 08:52:31.800 --> 08:52:35.800 and he hits the leg shot nullifies his efforts and he wants a bit more of the action 08:52:36.360 --> 08:52:42.200 high-risk maneuver from cemetery spots him yeah i guess it's fine he gets the head shot he knew 08:52:42.200 --> 08:52:47.640 he liked them yeah i mean fair play but that says someone about it's a wild maneuver yeah 08:52:48.680 --> 08:52:51.000 like unnecessary but i do like it 08:52:53.480 --> 08:52:58.520 essential he is the one with the kids because i've had to say alex is close to the site at 08:52:58.520 --> 08:53:03.320 at least, but he doesn't have a kit, so even any late and diffused scenarios immediately 08:53:03.320 --> 08:53:04.320 wiped out. 08:53:04.320 --> 08:53:10.840 Well, if you are just joining us today, it's Playoffs Day at PGO Book Arrest 2026. 08:53:10.840 --> 08:53:14.360 We've already found ourselves with 3D Max and Astralis at the top end of the bracket. 08:53:14.360 --> 08:53:18.120 This is the lower end of the bracket right now, but Foots will go on to play the winners, 08:53:18.120 --> 08:53:20.760 if they win this map, I'm maybe getting a bit ahead of myself. 08:53:20.760 --> 08:53:24.000 Foots will go on to play the winners of either the Mongols or Power Vision, which is our 08:53:24.000 --> 08:53:27.600 last quarter final of the day coming up next, which, let's be honest, that's game of the 08:53:27.600 --> 08:53:31.680 That's what everyone's waiting for game of the day. Yeah, we're all waiting to see what's gonna happen there 08:53:31.680 --> 08:53:36.560 They're starting out some hard words for the team crazy one of the best things. Yeah 08:53:36.560 --> 08:53:42.360 No, it was amazing interview just saying like if I could cut them now. I would but I've got the major around the corner 08:53:43.960 --> 08:53:50.280 Lighting a fire beneath his team. I suppose those young guns. Yeah keeping it real. Yeah for 08:53:50.760 --> 08:53:56.040 No doubt about that. But then the side Mongols have not looked perfect either super fun team to watch 08:53:56.040 --> 08:54:01.180 Yeah, that's gonna be really interesting in this one. It's six to four in favor of 08:54:01.180 --> 08:54:02.600 foot 08:54:02.600 --> 08:54:08.000 Round number 11 is coming up again. You're the end of the year to be fair and as the wheels have already fallen off you are up 08:54:08.040 --> 08:54:14.680 Three and zero you've posted one for the round of the six rounds on the T side is already a bit of a death then death sentence 08:54:14.680 --> 08:54:15.920 And we're not even at the end of the half 08:54:15.920 --> 08:54:20.960 So they could be an eight four score line on the T side which is in my book GG 08:54:20.960 --> 08:54:27.280 I wish I could have disagreed, I'd love to see someone more out of Bates here, they started 08:54:27.280 --> 08:54:31.120 so well in Ancient Blood, I'm not seeing it at the moment, yeah he is running straight 08:54:31.120 --> 08:54:35.180 to the L-Bend down to the B bomb site, scoped up with the AWP. 08:54:35.180 --> 08:54:40.080 Not uncommon for the CTs to simply miss this flash on over, Alex getting blown up, he is 08:54:40.080 --> 08:54:44.400 one in seven right now, there's one defender left who's right now getting Molotov'd out 08:54:44.400 --> 08:54:45.560 of the back of the site. 08:54:45.560 --> 08:54:48.800 He has got the gap in the smoke to work if I suppose. 08:54:48.800 --> 08:54:50.800 That is true. They're trying to get there. 08:54:50.800 --> 08:54:51.800 There we go. 08:54:51.800 --> 08:54:54.800 Alright, there's the spray down against Duke's at least. 08:54:54.800 --> 08:54:57.800 And trying to help out here, CZ, up on the high ground. 08:54:57.800 --> 08:54:58.800 He really wants to have an impact. 08:54:58.800 --> 08:54:59.800 They know his sentient needs help. 08:54:59.800 --> 08:55:02.800 Someone surely has to be on the bomb site to get him. 08:55:02.800 --> 08:55:04.800 A bit of a hand here, and he gets shut down. 08:55:04.800 --> 08:55:05.800 Good try. 08:55:05.800 --> 08:55:06.800 Bring him towards the end, a good double kill. 08:55:06.800 --> 08:55:08.800 About 1,000 on knife's edge. 08:55:08.800 --> 08:55:11.800 So many players low HP, all it took was one nice spray down. 08:55:11.800 --> 08:55:14.800 Now it's going to leave MPL, not known to be an all-part, 08:55:14.800 --> 08:55:16.800 trying to save the sniper here. 08:55:16.800 --> 08:55:20.200 as they will be ducking and weaving around CT spawn. 08:55:20.200 --> 08:55:22.360 Three versus one, round already over, 08:55:22.360 --> 08:55:24.320 seven on the board for Foots. 08:55:24.320 --> 08:55:25.480 Just great coordination. 08:55:25.480 --> 08:55:27.780 Good alley-oops, as we call them, the flashbang. 08:55:27.780 --> 08:55:29.720 You could see how blind Alex was. 08:55:29.720 --> 08:55:31.880 Zero chance of finding a kill there, 08:55:31.880 --> 08:55:33.200 and for me, the round was already over 08:55:33.200 --> 08:55:34.920 as soon as he goes down with nothing. 08:55:34.920 --> 08:55:36.360 Because he can't play that barrel's position, 08:55:36.360 --> 08:55:38.000 because he's getting double-naded each time. 08:55:38.000 --> 08:55:40.380 So he has to play at a different spot. 08:55:40.380 --> 08:55:42.560 This time, completely blinded. 08:55:42.560 --> 08:55:44.680 And NPL, they do need this AWP. 08:55:44.680 --> 08:55:45.680 They don't have enough money, 08:55:45.680 --> 08:55:47.120 even with the lost bonus or whatever. 08:55:47.120 --> 08:55:48.720 He can't even really scope right now. 08:55:48.720 --> 08:55:49.720 Oh, it's over anyway. 08:55:49.720 --> 08:55:51.920 Oh, they knife him as well. 08:55:51.920 --> 08:55:53.400 So sad. 08:55:53.400 --> 08:55:55.400 He didn't need to do that. 08:55:55.400 --> 08:55:57.080 Oh, man. 08:55:57.080 --> 08:55:58.120 He was going to get him. 08:55:58.120 --> 08:56:00.160 And that's unfortunate, because now they're 08:56:00.160 --> 08:56:01.560 going to have to play this round. 08:56:01.560 --> 08:56:05.560 They can't foot the bill, Henry, for another AWP. 08:56:05.560 --> 08:56:08.360 That's another shot for you playing along at home. 08:56:08.360 --> 08:56:10.840 Yeah. 08:56:10.840 --> 08:56:11.920 Do we keep going? 08:56:11.920 --> 08:56:12.800 Oh, yeah, dude. 08:56:12.800 --> 08:56:14.000 There's not going to be many more rounds there 08:56:14.000 --> 08:56:20.720 overpass I'm afraid. Spend all night. You can see that's in front of replays. Zero chance, 08:56:20.720 --> 08:56:23.600 essentially all trying to use their smoke against them, trying to find a few gaps, 08:56:23.600 --> 08:56:29.280 but some beautiful shots. Krobeni, as we keep mentioning, one of the highest skilled in-game 08:56:29.280 --> 08:56:35.520 leaders we have in CS2 right now. Fantastic game. Oh, quick battle. Wow. And light work, 08:56:35.520 --> 08:56:40.400 made about a 666. He's been removed from the B bombsite, and this is it. Look, try and go 08:56:40.400 --> 08:56:45.240 towards long. Yeah, give that a go. I need a new position. Yeah, I'm getting 08:56:45.240 --> 08:56:50.480 destroyed. And so are baits in general here. 8-4 looking likely, but longs is low. 08:56:50.480 --> 08:56:54.340 So there is a threat that this one could fall apart. They've got maximum loss 08:56:54.340 --> 08:56:58.840 bonus, but still that's only yielded a Desert Eagle for Kensley Zaw, Famous for 08:56:58.840 --> 08:57:04.400 MPL and a 4-3 in general. Desperate, ravenous for information. They will push 08:57:04.400 --> 08:57:08.400 forward in towards shore, but jukes with the perfect little off angle here. 08:57:08.400 --> 08:57:14.920 spots one he knows they're out of the B bomb site now. Good intel of the very least. He's 08:57:14.920 --> 08:57:18.720 going to pump the brakes around us, let them play themselves, see if they'll explore their 08:57:18.720 --> 08:57:25.120 options further on the CT side. Almost feels like they have to surely. Back towards B we 08:57:25.120 --> 08:57:30.040 go. If they're going to go for it, still got 45 seconds. They can fully execute into the 08:57:30.040 --> 08:57:34.160 B bomb site. And who have we got defending here? It's going to be Kandizor with a deagle 08:57:34.160 --> 08:57:36.360 and it will be a sentiel with the smoke. 08:57:37.160 --> 08:57:39.260 The thing is, you can't really smoke monsters in this position, 08:57:39.260 --> 08:57:40.360 and that's where they're coming. 08:57:40.760 --> 08:57:42.860 Yeah, they're already walking in there. 08:57:42.960 --> 08:57:44.260 It's gonna come down to this smoke. 08:57:44.260 --> 08:57:45.160 Can he get it down? 08:57:45.160 --> 08:57:46.360 Duke's up the play in front of them. 08:57:46.960 --> 08:57:48.760 Oh, that's the eagle chap, dude. 08:57:48.760 --> 08:57:50.160 That's done plenty enough. 08:57:50.160 --> 08:57:51.360 That's how he's done. 08:57:51.860 --> 08:57:54.160 Like we said, that smoke is the only thing that's gonna save them. 08:57:54.160 --> 08:57:55.360 He's ready to play in front of it. 08:57:55.360 --> 08:57:56.160 Double kill. 08:57:56.260 --> 08:57:57.360 Like, nothing you can do. 08:57:57.360 --> 08:57:59.360 Eight full, as I mentioned, a few rounds ago. 08:57:59.760 --> 08:58:01.060 I don't think they're recovering from this. 08:58:01.060 --> 08:58:02.260 You've got one single gun round. 08:58:02.260 --> 08:58:03.560 You are up three and zero. 08:58:03.560 --> 08:58:10.560 You needed a pistol victory, you got that, and you can just see they're not ready for this calibre of play on Overpass. 08:58:10.560 --> 08:58:16.560 Yeah, the brief dream that we had, that maybe Bait had something up his sleeve, been secretly studying and practicing this map. 08:58:16.560 --> 08:58:19.560 It's not feeling like it at the moment, an 8-4 half. 08:58:19.560 --> 08:58:26.560 Yeah, real masterclass there, no crazy clutches required, no massive mistakes made by Bait. 08:58:26.560 --> 08:58:31.560 They were just getting thrown around the server, walloped in every single duel. 08:58:31.560 --> 08:58:35.560 And, yeah, there it is. You go up 3-0, you end up losing 8-4. 08:58:35.560 --> 08:58:39.560 I don't think they fancy their own chances here. That piece of paper. 08:58:39.560 --> 08:58:41.560 Better have a prayer on it. 08:58:41.560 --> 08:58:43.560 Yes. 08:58:43.560 --> 08:58:45.560 That is what they need right now. 08:58:45.560 --> 08:58:47.560 We are looking for a miracle. 08:58:47.560 --> 08:58:50.560 Bates' second half is coming up. 08:58:50.560 --> 08:58:56.560 Their opponent's foot looked destined to make the semi-final. 08:58:56.560 --> 08:59:03.120 This is the golden ticket opportunity into the semi-finals here. It doesn't get much better than this a map your opponents don't play 08:59:03.560 --> 08:59:05.560 You've just finished the tea side of eight rounds 08:59:06.920 --> 08:59:09.760 You should be closing this one out. No problem. They've got a 08:59:10.680 --> 08:59:17.840 Key player of theirs Alex 666 MIA. He finishes the half one in eight morale is low. We've seen it a few times here 08:59:18.200 --> 08:59:23.000 Bait some maps that is don't turn up. This is one more forgivable considering that just don't play it 08:59:23.000 --> 08:59:29.280 But yeah, if your Vito has that many gaps in it where he could be punished like this in the quarterfinal 08:59:29.880 --> 08:59:31.880 probably not ready for 08:59:31.920 --> 08:59:33.920 trophies just yet. I 08:59:33.920 --> 08:59:39.000 Think that's an important take away here for Bates. They must broaden the map pool a little bit 08:59:39.000 --> 08:59:44.280 Yeah, being vetoed like this is really hard to deal with. Well, let's see how this one goes ladies and gentlemen 08:59:44.280 --> 08:59:49.200 We're into the second half now. It's gonna be on the CT side, Bate on the T side of our second map here 08:59:49.200 --> 08:59:54.960 the third quarterfinal. What have we got then? Smoked towards heaven, flashes to go over, we saw a very 08:59:54.960 --> 08:59:59.280 similar approach from foot in the first half, it's a nice smoke but not quite deep enough, 08:59:59.280 --> 09:00:03.040 there's still that vision when they come through. Comes out of that first kill and 09:00:03.040 --> 09:00:08.320 Krobeni is an absolute beast right now, finds MPL. Jumping as well inside of the tunnel, 09:00:08.320 --> 09:00:11.680 I can't believe he hit that hatch, it looks so casual. Now they're boosting on top of the smoke, 09:00:11.680 --> 09:00:16.880 that's a good smoke they've baked through down here, but bomb plants can they get it. Alex now 09:00:16.880 --> 09:00:20.000 picked it up and they're running right through. They want to find him as he's planted the 09:00:20.000 --> 09:00:24.800 bomb. It's uncomfortable to find a kill at least. They can't keep it alive. 09:00:24.800 --> 09:00:28.960 Hens is ought to go down. Rabini, that first shot was everything to them. 09:00:30.160 --> 09:00:36.640 It really was. He did the double. Moments. There, it felt like they maybe could pull 09:00:36.640 --> 09:00:40.320 off the pistol victory. Now they will have to force by in the second. If you don't win this 09:00:40.320 --> 09:00:46.720 round, I'm afraid it is over. Out of a run from Bates, managing to make it to the quarter final 09:00:46.720 --> 09:00:52.320 here but it all comes down to this. You'll collose your tech nines. Oh, Trebeni, that was a very nice shot. 09:00:52.320 --> 09:00:56.320 Well, handed this while boosting up on the sandbag there when he smoked off. You don't see that coming. 09:00:56.960 --> 09:01:01.200 A little bit closer but uncomfortable. If Kenseth's all gets one there, maybe there's a chance 09:01:01.200 --> 09:01:05.360 to close things out. But yeah, they can feel this one slipping away. Morale is going to be very low 09:01:05.920 --> 09:01:12.960 in the bin. In fact, one of the golfers here must win round once again. Said that a few times in the 09:01:12.960 --> 09:01:16.360 in the first half, now more than ever. 09:01:16.360 --> 09:01:17.880 If you don't convert this four spy, 09:01:17.880 --> 09:01:20.840 it's 11 to four on the T side of the bus. 09:01:20.840 --> 09:01:23.280 This is also where I think Bate as a team just, 09:01:23.280 --> 09:01:24.240 I think on all maps, 09:01:24.240 --> 09:01:26.920 this is where they have a big problem with their lineup, 09:01:26.920 --> 09:01:29.040 because there are some squads where even if you're down 09:01:29.040 --> 09:01:30.800 like this, you have one explosive player 09:01:30.800 --> 09:01:32.240 that could suddenly turn up, but you're sure. 09:01:32.240 --> 09:01:34.360 Well, we've got a MacAze, and we're gonna send him out, 09:01:34.360 --> 09:01:35.920 and he's gonna solve everything, 09:01:35.920 --> 09:01:37.560 or at least he's gonna give it a chance to get back in. 09:01:37.560 --> 09:01:39.440 I don't see that right now for Bate. 09:01:39.440 --> 09:01:41.520 Thurts used to have a MacAze. 09:01:41.520 --> 09:01:42.520 That is a good point. 09:01:42.520 --> 09:01:46.620 And the fact that they brought longs out of what almost looked like a sort of soft retirement 09:01:46.620 --> 09:01:51.860 into this high level counter strike because he was really hot topic at one point, it's 09:01:51.860 --> 09:01:58.540 been years now but replacing Makaze and still looking this good is kind of crazy honestly. 09:01:58.540 --> 09:02:03.540 Krapeni, this is a wild maneuver, I'm not sure he comes out on top here, yeah. 09:02:03.540 --> 09:02:08.540 Little bit unnecessary, first fumble there for Foots, you can see the idea, you spot 09:02:08.540 --> 09:02:11.980 one of the tech nine trying to overwhelm him but there's no back out plan there 09:02:11.980 --> 09:02:15.820 there's no no retreat available and he kept the term from the flashbang and now 09:02:15.820 --> 09:02:20.220 you've offered up at m4 and Amanda's advantage here and you're the IGL you're 09:02:20.220 --> 09:02:22.540 supposed to try and stop the other people on your team from doing this kind 09:02:22.540 --> 09:02:26.860 of thing yeah will it come back to horn them that is the question still 09:02:26.860 --> 09:02:29.980 advantage four-footers in this round even in five on four don't get me wrong 09:02:29.980 --> 09:02:34.340 okay but let's see whether they can make their way into all the A bomb site 09:02:34.340 --> 09:02:38.260 smoke denies water bank nice little headbutt there at the cemetery can he 09:02:38.260 --> 09:02:43.900 find a few heads of his own though but it's not good enough damage is 09:02:43.900 --> 09:02:48.680 significant though they are so low there are no grenades on the CT side the 09:02:48.680 --> 09:02:52.840 bomb has been planted here and let's see if they could do something Sizi I don't 09:02:52.840 --> 09:02:56.320 hate this idea he's in front they're trying to bait men and it works on nice 09:02:56.320 --> 09:02:59.800 that's what a spamming the smoke wise standing in that position they know he's 09:02:59.800 --> 09:03:03.520 low HP but it looks like they've done enough here as we said foot not known to 09:03:03.520 --> 09:03:08.760 closes and that's around they could come back to horn them here for Benny 09:03:08.760 --> 09:03:12.960 getting a little bit too carried away there and towards the underpass position 09:03:12.960 --> 09:03:19.640 you know we go down as well nice yeah we'll take down that's how rounds are 09:03:19.640 --> 09:03:23.280 lost often you know that one little thing spirals into another and suddenly 09:03:23.280 --> 09:03:29.080 it's all over and I was a fool reset at the economy as well now that's their 09:03:29.080 --> 09:03:35.800 to get back into this game. This series is quarterfinal. That round right there. Over-aggression 09:03:35.800 --> 09:03:40.280 for the in-game lead-up, sets him up, with man advantage, and so much damage inflicted 09:03:40.280 --> 09:03:44.920 is unlucky that Furt don't convert those kills. Have an usual five members, and now, 09:03:44.920 --> 09:03:49.320 bottom of the barrel-off bonus. Bay wants to make do with the pistols. 09:03:49.320 --> 09:03:54.440 It's not really a conversation right now, but Furt map on Mirage is a map that they feel 09:03:54.440 --> 09:03:59.040 feel very much at home on foot or fine on it too, they're good on it even, but just to 09:03:59.040 --> 09:04:05.280 say that if someone to fight for here if you're baited, if you could somehow get through 09:04:05.280 --> 09:04:10.480 this one, it's very hard to see how it's going to happen, but if they can, there is a potential 09:04:10.480 --> 09:04:15.620 reward in playing a map that you're going to feel much, much better on for the decider. 09:04:15.620 --> 09:04:17.520 You never know. 09:04:17.520 --> 09:04:26.360 I need to go over Alex setting up some of the utility here trying to burn up some of these 09:04:26.360 --> 09:04:32.520 positions this corner by the bench Henry go on you give me sort of a you know one to 09:04:32.520 --> 09:04:38.520 ten rating how often is it over look oh it is one of the most overlooked positions in 09:04:38.520 --> 09:04:43.200 all of Canada's track up there with shadow on the watch okay so those are it those are 09:04:43.200 --> 09:04:48.000 the two that even after ten years of commentating those two maps no one ever 09:04:48.000 --> 09:04:54.140 seems to check it is funny there's nobody immediately there now but they 09:04:54.140 --> 09:04:58.580 are actually starting to stack this bombsite quite a bit there's a chance 09:04:58.580 --> 09:05:03.600 it cemetery is known to have a dastardly eagle set up his teammate there 09:05:03.600 --> 09:05:09.160 fortunately goes down eagle won't deliver the 5-7 similar story I tell a lie 09:05:09.160 --> 09:05:12.840 there's a double kill the round is alive and well sure you've only got the 09:05:12.840 --> 09:05:18.680 the pistols remaining, where it's coming in left and right, but still a dangerous moment 09:05:18.680 --> 09:05:24.480 there. Bates will weather the storm and keep themselves going here on overpass. 96 surely 09:05:24.480 --> 09:05:31.760 going to be 97 here with the full eco on the agenda here to Foots. 09:05:31.760 --> 09:05:36.720 Just even surviving that round, I mean, yeah, that's a big stack even if they're just pistols. 09:05:36.720 --> 09:05:42.680 You never know what could happen. So good job Bates. This way you need some of that leadership 09:05:42.680 --> 09:05:47.480 On the on the bait side you have to keep the leaves not out of the question 09:05:47.480 --> 09:05:50.620 This could be done again the fact that it's a bit of a punish pick is cool for foot 09:05:50.620 --> 09:05:54.920 But it also means they're not playing a map that's super strong on the better than baits, but 09:05:55.760 --> 09:06:00.840 You know, it's not the whole map here. So there's a chance that foot could also sound to be uncomfortable out of no 09:06:00.840 --> 09:06:07.840 Well comes out of preparation as well. It's not much you can do to understand their tendency for this one's getting a little bit wild 09:06:08.920 --> 09:06:10.520 MPL though 09:06:10.520 --> 09:06:16.680 Closes things out in style spray down gets a double kill and we go into a tactical timeout gun unavailable 09:06:16.680 --> 09:06:20.720 But they certainly won't have the AWP in the hands of cemetery 09:06:21.280 --> 09:06:24.600 Can they solidify their chances at the semi-finals? 09:06:25.200 --> 09:06:29.000 Right here right now start getting back into this second half 09:06:29.000 --> 09:06:33.220 They win the pistol, but they lost in a second run force, but that's three rounds in a row 09:06:33.220 --> 09:06:40.700 So, four baits. So, Blink, can you miss it? MR12, a massive 8-4 lead is now a two-round 09:06:40.700 --> 09:06:41.700 game. 09:06:41.700 --> 09:06:46.380 That's become a lot more interesting. Again, like I said, they're not really a team that's 09:06:46.380 --> 09:06:51.540 not a celebrate a lot. They're locked in right now, focused on the next round. It's going 09:06:51.540 --> 09:06:58.180 to be round number 17 coming up. Timeout is just fading out here. Let's see. Don't have 09:06:58.180 --> 09:07:04.300 the AWP on the CT side. That was not going to be an option. Sizi does have his. And you 09:07:04.300 --> 09:07:08.500 know, he landed some really good shots on ancient. He's up to 11. He's not waiting. 09:07:08.500 --> 09:07:12.580 On the team down. On the T side, he did. For sure. CT sides didn't really have any 09:07:12.580 --> 09:07:18.040 influence. That's true. But yeah, Stoad, I'm not taking anything away from him. T side, 09:07:18.040 --> 09:07:24.500 he looked very good. And well, there it is again. Opening kill found. He finds his rival 09:07:24.500 --> 09:07:31.580 Sniper in the former cemetery gives them a nice five and four here. This map is alive and well for baits. What's the response for Benny? 09:07:32.260 --> 09:07:34.260 Bravely pushing the underpass once again 09:07:35.260 --> 09:07:37.260 Does he take off the ladder though? 09:07:38.260 --> 09:07:41.140 So risky if you do it early could be really bad 09:07:41.780 --> 09:07:46.660 Seems like he's found perfect timing in fact you just making it look easy like it was hard as nice at all 09:07:47.100 --> 09:07:51.420 He's gonna be walking up straight behind and could even be a double kill. Hello the first one 09:07:51.420 --> 09:07:57.020 Oh, that's a nice turn around. He takes Praveenie down, but two versus three. 09:07:57.020 --> 09:08:03.200 Now you have to completely reset. How do you win out when you're completely disconnected from each other? 09:08:03.200 --> 09:08:07.480 Recovering the bomb and T spawn, they have plenty of utile between them. 09:08:07.480 --> 09:08:15.480 And skill, it would seem as well. What a shot that is, and why Jigs is offering himself up in this sort of scenario is beyond me. 09:08:15.480 --> 09:08:21.380 I really couldn't tell you either. I was gonna say the fact that he's still there. They even have the incendiary and the HE here on Daemon. 09:08:21.380 --> 09:08:26.660 Now you've potentially given them free passage in towards B. Demon has played very defensively. 09:08:27.780 --> 09:08:31.460 Just this first one, maybe it's on, but he doesn't. Alex will take them down. 09:08:31.460 --> 09:08:35.860 He's got some revenge to dish out here. It was a miserable first half for him 09:08:35.860 --> 09:08:38.980 getting double-naded down to the B bomb site, but now he's up to six. 09:08:38.980 --> 09:08:42.100 They're going to win that round as well, and that was a two on three. 09:08:42.100 --> 09:08:44.980 It was a five on three to kick things off as well. They got the double kill here. 09:08:47.300 --> 09:08:50.020 Well, look at them go. And then you got this kill as well. 09:08:51.380 --> 09:08:58.340 damn but yeah I don't know why you're taking that pitch ute I have I couldn't tell you what the 09:08:58.340 --> 09:09:03.140 the reasoning is behind that one the round is yours if you just played the crossfires the 09:09:03.140 --> 09:09:06.900 fundamentals has been the key word of this tournament a lot of teams lacking them 09:09:09.060 --> 09:09:12.340 and taking that sort of race sure you you've got the hot hand you're feeling good you've 09:09:12.340 --> 09:09:17.940 got a double kill towards sure you want to lock it down I understand but you are the reason you've 09:09:17.940 --> 09:09:22.260 lost that round in the end. Well add that to the Crebini round where he was pushing 09:09:22.260 --> 09:09:25.140 connector. Yeah those are two rounds that are worth thinking about. I think you're 09:09:25.140 --> 09:09:27.380 absolutely right, the deeper you go in a tournament, the more you're going to be 09:09:27.380 --> 09:09:31.380 punished for those mistakes. And yeah, you'll be kicking yourself. That's sort of 09:09:31.380 --> 09:09:34.260 advantage and you just offer yourself up. We talked about they're gonna have to use 09:09:34.260 --> 09:09:37.620 the utility, they have to link up. How do they isolate the jewels? You don't even 09:09:37.620 --> 09:09:40.980 have to, the jewels will come to you. 09:09:41.380 --> 09:09:46.580 Well it's of probably not that important when there's not going to be an 09:09:46.580 --> 09:09:51.940 on the other side but you know trying to push out some of those positions so we're gonna go for 09:09:51.940 --> 09:09:57.860 a pounce round long here on both sides. It's a very deep flash and behind two of the players yeah 09:09:57.860 --> 09:10:02.340 you want to get out of there a lot of people at the SU don't actually have to. I'm gonna call 09:10:02.340 --> 09:10:09.460 fighting. Yeah it's gonna keep going. I love it. It does work out. It's okay it's all fine in the end 09:10:10.260 --> 09:10:15.460 a little bit scary but only one player goes down. Seven three, full eco on this one no 09:10:15.460 --> 09:10:21.140 Kevlar, no nades, no upgraded pistol. It's very unlikely he finds a double kill here. 09:10:22.820 --> 09:10:26.260 30 seconds though, that is one thing going in their favor. Maybe there's a world 09:10:27.540 --> 09:10:32.100 with all three players coming out of long. If they can find a bit of chaos here, 09:10:32.100 --> 09:10:37.060 and there is, I suppose, a chance. Yeah, I'm already nervous here. 5-7 there's the first one. 09:10:37.060 --> 09:10:41.300 USB on the follow-up, you know what? It's a pretty good round, right? They get a couple of kills for 09:10:41.300 --> 09:10:47.460 So they put an exhausting fight at long that is five in a row now after losing the pistol. We are all tied up 09:10:48.660 --> 09:10:51.980 Futs are now sweating this felt like 09:10:53.060 --> 09:10:57.500 The red carpet into the semi-final a map your opponent doesn't even play 09:10:57.500 --> 09:11:03.020 They've never even won it with this lineup before they've played it twice and lost both times you get eight rounds on your t-side 09:11:03.540 --> 09:11:05.540 Which as I said is a death sentence 09:11:06.020 --> 09:11:08.560 No team should be recovering from that especially a team 09:11:08.560 --> 09:11:13.680 there's not strong on the map and you've let them back into it with some silly plays. 09:11:13.680 --> 09:11:17.960 The fundamentals weren't there in the advances you had when you were talking the advantage 09:11:17.960 --> 09:11:21.080 towards underpass when you had the weapons against the tech nines. 09:11:21.080 --> 09:11:22.840 You've given up a rifle for free. 09:11:22.840 --> 09:11:27.360 Then in the three on two, you've peaked monster for no rhyme or reason at all and let them 09:11:27.360 --> 09:11:29.760 into the B-bombside around collapses. 09:11:29.760 --> 09:11:33.440 You have no one but yourself to blame right now for this position you found yourself in. 09:11:33.440 --> 09:11:35.200 Sure, you're still on the CT side. 09:11:35.200 --> 09:11:36.680 You now have a full buy. 09:11:36.680 --> 09:11:41.680 It should still be fine, but no way should they have 5 rounds in a row at this stage. 09:11:41.680 --> 09:11:49.480 I mean that's a perfect summary of how we got to where we are right now, but we've got 09:11:49.480 --> 09:11:51.000 to show something more. 09:11:51.000 --> 09:11:54.120 I'm expecting a boost on the other side perhaps. 09:11:54.120 --> 09:11:57.800 Cemetery, not gonna get it, but I love the thought anyway. 09:11:57.800 --> 09:12:02.040 Yeah, wait here to see if anyone's gonna be showing up. 09:12:02.040 --> 09:12:06.480 They're taking these rounds, very similar openings all the time, which is, I mean, it's 09:12:06.480 --> 09:12:11.960 It's an all-time classic anyway on the T side of Overpass, the 4-1 split. 09:12:11.960 --> 09:12:15.280 Well, I guess 1-1-3 if you want to be super technical about it. 09:12:15.280 --> 09:12:16.600 You sent the older one. 09:12:16.600 --> 09:12:18.040 I would like to be super technical. 09:12:18.040 --> 09:12:20.000 You do like that. 09:12:20.000 --> 09:12:22.760 It's good to be completely accurate. 09:12:22.760 --> 09:12:23.880 Let's have a look. 09:12:23.880 --> 09:12:25.280 Very important rounds here. 09:12:25.280 --> 09:12:29.800 If Bates somehow take the lead after being then 8-4 and losing the pistol, 09:12:29.800 --> 09:12:32.520 I'm not sure, 4 or a cover. 09:12:32.520 --> 09:12:35.520 We've said it a few times, we're known to be closers and right now they're choking. 09:12:39.520 --> 09:12:40.520 Yeah, there you are. 09:12:41.520 --> 09:12:45.520 On a map where they have the advantage, I think it's going their way, cemetery. 09:12:45.520 --> 09:12:48.520 That's good intelligence, you know, the observatory towards A. 09:12:48.520 --> 09:12:50.520 That's a good point, yes. 09:12:50.520 --> 09:12:52.520 Kansas all gets to live. 09:12:52.520 --> 09:12:54.520 Time is not on their side, though. 09:12:54.520 --> 09:12:55.520 Yeah. 09:12:55.520 --> 09:12:58.520 30 seconds and you're just about to try and make your way towards B. 09:12:58.520 --> 09:13:01.520 Incendiary drop, that's at least five seconds you won't be pushing through. 09:13:01.520 --> 09:13:06.480 through and if God's flashbangs well it comes a peek this is deadly beam and wide 09:13:06.480 --> 09:13:10.120 swing with a lot of money the one launches back here trying to buy some 09:13:10.120 --> 09:13:13.760 time behind the barrels he's shut down as well that's not bad all right you see 09:13:13.760 --> 09:13:17.920 just step up here sent fuel cemetery actually the one to do the job instead 09:13:17.920 --> 09:13:23.160 you okay that's right there and that will be enough my god I suppose wasn't clean 09:13:23.160 --> 09:13:27.480 wasn't comfortable but by virtue of the clock there's no way to kenzie's or can 09:13:27.480 --> 09:13:32.800 even imagine going for this one there's a human rubble that remains by the monster 09:13:32.800 --> 09:13:38.080 tunnel it's actually a rat so longs in that barrel's position none of none of 09:13:38.080 --> 09:13:40.680 them are CT's that have helmets and normally we don't care about that because 09:13:40.680 --> 09:13:43.280 they're against AK's but he got shot for the wall in the head it's one of the 09:13:43.280 --> 09:13:46.680 rare times so he gets gushed yeah where it actually makes a bit of a difference 09:13:46.680 --> 09:13:50.720 that there's no CT helmet so probably not what made any real difference there 09:13:50.720 --> 09:13:54.180 but it is fine I think about the problem is Anders let's have a look back at the 09:13:54.180 --> 09:13:57.200 round timeline here the rounds have been relatively close are any surviving 09:13:57.200 --> 09:14:01.920 two players each time. They have no loss bonus established whatsoever. They have the previous 09:14:01.920 --> 09:14:07.200 round where only two players survive. Now they bring an AK over into this one, but my point being 09:14:07.200 --> 09:14:12.080 you'll have a buy here, lose this round, it's 11-9, you'll get $1,900 into the next round. 09:14:13.200 --> 09:14:18.880 So this is the moment where it's decided if Foots will close this out cleanly, no problem at all, 09:14:19.680 --> 09:14:23.280 or if there's something left to be said here, you can see they're entering with a couple of 09:14:23.280 --> 09:14:28.400 the Galils there. AWP for Sizi is great. They have to save AK, which is a saving grace. 09:14:28.400 --> 09:14:32.320 But you have to win this round. If you'll bait, tie things up. Shut down your opponent's 09:14:32.320 --> 09:14:35.720 money. Otherwise, it's cartons for them here at PGO Book Rest. 09:14:35.720 --> 09:14:39.280 Okay, I'm glad you painted that picture. The economic forecast here for baits, you have 09:14:39.280 --> 09:14:41.520 to score off the rails. It's just not going to end good. 09:14:41.520 --> 09:14:45.120 You don't have the firepower, right? It's downstairs to those Galils. And there are 09:14:45.120 --> 09:14:49.440 two players at our helmets. We always keep track of, so the Galils could have some potency 09:14:49.440 --> 09:14:55.920 CZ AWP has looked very good here on the T side of the pass finding influential pics 09:14:55.920 --> 09:15:00.720 Krobenny has been aggressive throughout their overpass campaign finding himself 09:15:00.720 --> 09:15:07.520 by the T steps and Zoridzeb can't find the shot opening advantage now means they 09:15:07.520 --> 09:15:10.040 have to go B and there's no two ways about it they know they're gonna be 09:15:10.040 --> 09:15:13.440 backstabbed at this point while he's still aggressive he might have all heard 09:15:13.440 --> 09:15:16.620 this is very dangerous if he dies it opens up the map but he's done one more 09:15:16.620 --> 09:15:22.200 kill he's done very well risky but this time there is a big payoff at the end 09:15:22.200 --> 09:15:26.340 massively aggressive but if you get super one you get into there's another 09:15:26.340 --> 09:15:31.740 player there in towards T spawn worth its weight in gold here we've stressed the 09:15:31.740 --> 09:15:37.100 importance of round number 20 here on the finances of baits longs will hear 09:15:37.100 --> 09:15:41.060 them towards long he might be able to get a free kill out of this one he knows 09:15:41.060 --> 09:15:44.460 he can't just run into war day he's got a free kill a free backstab the bombers 09:15:44.460 --> 09:15:48.380 in T spawn. They're picking it up right now. Lawrence is going to get to put it out there. 09:15:48.380 --> 09:15:51.180 Where do you even go? You've got nowhere to go. You have to hope a cent. You'll get this 09:15:51.180 --> 09:15:56.380 killed quickly and you can just run knife out in towards A. We've talked about the fundamentals. 09:15:56.380 --> 09:16:00.860 It's up to foot. The throw is round the way now. They've done that a couple of times on 09:16:00.860 --> 09:16:04.060 the second half. You can even not then plant the barn. That sounds crazy, but you can even 09:16:04.060 --> 09:16:08.860 miss a shot here. Let them plant and win the four on two. Okay. Well, let's see. Cemetery. 09:16:08.860 --> 09:16:12.940 You've missed a shot. Yeah. There's some damage to Sissy, but doesn't quite kill him. 09:16:12.940 --> 09:16:17.340 12 seconds now, peeps into it, misses another one, is Sentiel hunting them down! 09:16:17.340 --> 09:16:22.940 Back into a two on two, bomb being attempted on the other side, is Sentiel landing a third, 09:16:22.940 --> 09:16:27.180 and seconding headshot, juke's us out of the round and demon, he wants to hunt him down, 09:16:27.180 --> 09:16:30.140 in the smoke, he knows he's in there, he's got nine bullets. 09:16:31.340 --> 09:16:36.700 But already Sentiel is relocated, oh this is a big mind game for him, so smart as Sentiel, 09:16:36.700 --> 09:16:42.140 he's got to spray down the quad kill and the clutch, he might have saved this map for bait. 09:16:42.940 --> 09:16:48.540 A four versus two, we said if the shot was missed there should be protocols in place. 09:16:48.940 --> 09:16:53.660 Let them plant the bomb, don't overcommit but unfortunately they go wide swinging into it. 09:16:54.180 --> 09:17:02.780 Hearing game leader Krobeni set you up a success here, huge advantage, all the information, no time available, this kill here, you've got a four on two, that's it. 09:17:03.420 --> 09:17:06.140 This is not required for long to kill, he's trying to save the AWPer. 09:17:06.620 --> 09:17:12.020 I think you let him go down here, you attempt to retake that with a massive advantage but you've given them... 09:17:12.020 --> 09:17:21.020 The game here. You've led them back in. We talked about the financial ramifications if you just close that round out and they've absolutely thumbled it. 09:17:21.020 --> 09:17:32.020 One missed shot from the AWP has let bait back into this one. Crazy round to give up. Pressure getting to them. 09:17:32.020 --> 09:17:38.020 A lot of mistakes presented here on overpass from Foots. And now they'll take the tactical timeout, discuss their options. 09:17:38.020 --> 09:17:40.020 their finance is not great either. 09:17:42.020 --> 09:17:44.020 Did they save any weapons in the previous? No, they did not. 09:17:44.020 --> 09:17:49.020 So right now I can see a Krebbeny M4, but like I said, if there's win that round, it's GG. 09:17:49.020 --> 09:17:52.020 There would be no way back into a debate. 09:17:52.020 --> 09:17:56.020 Oh man, the desk are going to have a lot of rounds to think about, to highlight where, 09:17:56.020 --> 09:17:59.020 like you've been saying, foot, they could have just wanted, it would have been fine, 09:17:59.020 --> 09:18:01.020 and then we're already there. 09:18:01.020 --> 09:18:05.020 Almost unforgivable that you give that round over. 09:18:05.020 --> 09:18:09.740 Yeah. Well, add it to the list. The matches paused at 10-10. 09:18:09.740 --> 09:18:13.940 It's that wide swing from long as well. Not so unnecessary. 09:18:13.940 --> 09:18:19.340 Well, it was. It's been happening more and more. 09:18:19.340 --> 09:18:21.820 Because he'd already molotov the bombsite at a default spot. 09:18:21.820 --> 09:18:25.260 Leg Europa go down. I know that's crazy to say, but you've delayed the plans. 09:18:25.260 --> 09:18:29.340 They had like 12 seconds to work again, and they were taking these fights. 09:18:29.340 --> 09:18:31.500 It would have been an uncomfortable plan. You wait for your teammates. 09:18:31.500 --> 09:18:35.860 The shot's been missed, Sematri's turned that to himself, he's going down. 09:18:35.860 --> 09:18:41.500 That's already happened, but Long's trying to over commit to the fight might have cost 09:18:41.500 --> 09:18:47.500 him the map here, because they'll be entering with, let's see if it's a 4-spy, it's not. 09:18:47.500 --> 09:18:53.580 So a hero M4, partial investment otherwise, as we enter round number 21, this was 8-4 09:18:53.580 --> 09:18:55.620 on the T side for Foots. 09:18:55.620 --> 09:19:00.100 They have picked up two rounds, one of which was the pistol, they should have been converting 09:19:00.100 --> 09:19:01.100 that previous as well. 09:19:01.100 --> 09:19:04.740 The good news is I suppose, no one survived on the bait side of the previous round. 09:19:04.740 --> 09:19:07.820 If you do somehow win it, they're back to $1400 lost. 09:19:07.820 --> 09:19:11.020 Yeah, so the money's still in the shoe for baits. 09:19:11.020 --> 09:19:15.360 So, the thing is though, they are very likely to win it against four pistols and a Hero 09:19:15.360 --> 09:19:16.360 M4. 09:19:16.360 --> 09:19:19.020 Lots of boosts you can do on overpass and we're going to see one of them right now. 09:19:19.020 --> 09:19:23.200 This is an old classic and there's I believe one of your favorites. 09:19:23.200 --> 09:19:24.440 One of my favorites. 09:19:24.440 --> 09:19:26.340 It's actually one of the boosts I hate the most Henry. 09:19:26.340 --> 09:19:27.340 Yeah. 09:19:27.340 --> 09:19:30.140 because I spend a lot of time coming up with this 09:19:30.140 --> 09:19:31.100 and you know who did it? 09:19:31.100 --> 09:19:34.180 Like one day published it before I did. 09:19:34.180 --> 09:19:35.380 Shroud of all people. 09:19:35.380 --> 09:19:36.220 Shroud now. 09:19:36.220 --> 09:19:38.180 I haven't, like, why? 09:19:38.180 --> 09:19:39.100 Why is he doing that? 09:19:39.100 --> 09:19:42.260 Well, it'll always be the Anders' boost in my heart. 09:19:42.260 --> 09:19:43.100 I can't claim it. 09:19:43.100 --> 09:19:45.700 I wish, if I got the first to publish it, I'd claim it, 09:19:45.700 --> 09:19:48.220 but it's the Shroud boost, I guess. 09:19:48.220 --> 09:19:49.320 Whatever, enough. 09:19:50.460 --> 09:19:54.460 So the gimmick play, the poi, no one home. 09:19:54.460 --> 09:19:56.220 It's gonna be that A-split, 09:19:56.220 --> 09:19:58.780 slow and steady, confirming the connect up. 09:19:58.780 --> 09:20:02.780 It's indeed clear that boost will not be doing anything. 09:20:02.780 --> 09:20:04.420 They'll dismount. 09:20:04.420 --> 09:20:06.780 Time has been a bit of an issue for Bates. 09:20:06.780 --> 09:20:09.500 Been a few scrambles into these bomb sites, 09:20:09.500 --> 09:20:10.860 but they're setting up the execution now. 09:20:10.860 --> 09:20:13.820 One man, uh-oh, good work. 09:20:13.820 --> 09:20:15.140 Good cover from Ascentheal. 09:20:15.140 --> 09:20:16.100 Could have been a double kill, 09:20:16.100 --> 09:20:17.580 but the backstab's coming in from long. 09:20:17.580 --> 09:20:19.260 Should shut this one down. 09:20:20.540 --> 09:20:21.780 I'm clearly trying to do anything 09:20:21.780 --> 09:20:22.980 without all of the informed. 09:20:22.980 --> 09:20:25.500 That was the real weapon that they handed around. 09:20:25.500 --> 09:20:29.500 A real moment of horror when they double swing that position and it didn't look like the T's were quite ready. 09:20:29.500 --> 09:20:36.500 But they do hold on, everything is fine, they're going to be up to 11. Bait in the lead now on Overpass. 09:20:36.500 --> 09:20:42.500 A map, just to reiterate, they've got 24 rounds on this map in the last three months. 09:20:42.500 --> 09:20:46.500 They've only played the map twice and got bodied. I think it was one of them. 09:20:46.500 --> 09:20:49.500 Admittedly, losing a few rounds on this map, not the end of the World Fury, very good on this map. 09:20:49.500 --> 09:20:51.500 And this is one of the practice. 09:20:51.500 --> 09:20:53.900 practice. I know we're talking a lot about the money right now, but it's the 09:20:53.900 --> 09:20:57.500 real trade now. We're having four players survive there, and it's not so much 09:20:57.500 --> 09:21:00.620 compensation. Even if you lose this next round, you're going to be fully equipped 09:21:00.620 --> 09:21:05.940 going forward. And we'll be the final tactical time ahead for Foots. Trying to 09:21:05.940 --> 09:21:10.900 dig their heels in here on the CT side, but unfortunately, too many mistakes, 09:21:10.900 --> 09:21:16.100 too many thrown advantages. I hate to say it, but they are choking the CT side. 09:21:16.100 --> 09:21:21.460 Very nice play from Bates, running away with those opportunities, converting to 09:21:21.460 --> 09:21:22.980 Two on four situations. 09:21:23.980 --> 09:21:25.260 Can't believe it. 09:21:26.380 --> 09:21:27.420 Just can't believe it. 09:21:27.420 --> 09:21:29.020 And there's a stats on screen right now. 09:21:29.020 --> 09:21:30.300 Zero wins. 09:21:30.300 --> 09:21:31.500 They've played it twice. 09:21:33.180 --> 09:21:34.580 Never won the map. 09:21:34.580 --> 09:21:37.620 How are foot only got two rounds on the CT side? 09:21:37.620 --> 09:21:39.060 One of which was a pistol. 09:21:40.740 --> 09:21:41.820 And one of which... 09:21:41.820 --> 09:21:42.860 And that was the round. 09:21:42.860 --> 09:21:44.660 And that second round, that's where Krebbenny got. 09:21:44.660 --> 09:21:45.500 But the clock ran out. 09:21:45.500 --> 09:21:48.940 Or Gages in towards that lower or connector area. 09:21:48.940 --> 09:21:49.780 Things this way. 09:21:49.780 --> 09:21:59.160 Very wrong since then. Our wall bang at the starts. 5 on 4, Longs goes down. This is unraveling 09:21:59.160 --> 09:22:06.500 at the seams for foots. Mirage looking likely now. That's some real thing to say, all things 09:22:06.500 --> 09:22:12.020 considered. That's so unreasonable. The round starts with Longs. I'd love to see the camera 09:22:12.020 --> 09:22:16.620 of him and his reaction to it. I'm dead. I think he was going for the counter wall bang. 09:22:16.620 --> 09:22:19.300 There's a line-up he could do there. You jump on the sandbag and you can spam towards 09:22:19.300 --> 09:22:24.220 sure as they're coming through. Yeah. That's what I assume he was going for. And yeah, 09:22:24.220 --> 09:22:28.460 he gets punished for it. 09:22:28.460 --> 09:22:32.180 They're out long pretty quickly. 09:22:32.180 --> 09:22:37.380 Krabini's the one who's going to be up in the A bomb site. 09:22:37.380 --> 09:22:42.740 When he spots them though, got to be careful as well. There's no up back there. 09:22:42.740 --> 09:22:47.460 He's very, very calm and calculated from baits. Happy to run the clock down. I've 09:22:47.460 --> 09:22:51.540 opted for a four-man attack from Long with the cover of Sizi and the AWP. 09:22:51.540 --> 09:22:55.460 Bear in mind he's got the bomb in his back and, oh, lucky to be alive. 09:22:55.460 --> 09:22:58.420 Krabani will drop the incendiary, try and slow them down, but they're not gonna respect it. 09:22:58.980 --> 09:23:02.740 Wow. Not gonna respect it at all. That should be round five on three, map point. 09:23:04.020 --> 09:23:08.660 What are we witnessing? They look so defeated, Pete, on this map. They look like they were 09:23:08.660 --> 09:23:15.700 gone and out of it. And eight, four first half, it was misery on the opening. Couldn't defend 09:23:15.700 --> 09:23:20.680 any part of the map really when the cells are on the CT side, but now they look revitalized. 09:23:20.680 --> 09:23:24.100 Asentheal with 19 kills, Kensesaw with 20. 09:23:24.600 --> 09:23:26.000 And now they're on the hunt. 09:23:26.300 --> 09:23:28.400 Asentheal will find the first of three. 09:23:28.400 --> 09:23:31.260 If he got anything left in the tank, he better believe he does. 09:23:31.260 --> 09:23:31.900 Oh my god. 09:23:31.900 --> 09:23:33.400 Going for the hat trick here. 09:23:33.800 --> 09:23:35.500 Already got three kills to his name. 09:23:35.500 --> 09:23:36.500 Can he close things out? 09:23:36.500 --> 09:23:38.500 The grenade might even touch the demon here. 09:23:38.500 --> 09:23:40.000 It actually hurts him significantly. 09:23:40.500 --> 09:23:41.700 Not happy with three. 09:23:41.700 --> 09:23:42.800 He wants all four. 09:23:43.200 --> 09:23:44.100 And there we have it. 09:23:44.100 --> 09:23:49.340 Bates will wipe the board here and find map point. This is unbelievable. 09:23:50.700 --> 09:23:53.580 They'll have maximum loss bonus, nothing saved and foot. 09:23:54.100 --> 09:23:58.080 So many opportunities to close this game out, so many advantageous positions, 09:23:58.580 --> 09:24:00.780 but Bates have pulled the rug from underneath them. 09:24:01.740 --> 09:24:03.740 Yeah, he was okay. He was going for that stab lineup. 09:24:06.080 --> 09:24:08.380 Well, this, I suppose, is the other side of the coin. 09:24:08.380 --> 09:24:13.500 When you try one of these prize vetoes, you sneak in a map that nobody was expecting. 09:24:14.100 --> 09:24:18.260 And then suddenly you discover, well, wait a minute, we maybe not the strongest on this map either. 09:24:18.260 --> 09:24:19.260 We've got some holes in our defense. 09:24:19.260 --> 09:24:22.460 But they were A4 on the T side and win the pistol. 09:24:22.700 --> 09:24:25.020 Yeah, that is true, and they have... 09:24:25.020 --> 09:24:26.340 It's crazy. 09:24:26.580 --> 09:24:28.820 They've undermined themselves with some of the previous rounds. 09:24:29.220 --> 09:24:31.660 Your morale is gonna be in the gutter after this one. 09:24:31.660 --> 09:24:33.940 How you gave this game up, I will never know. 09:24:34.180 --> 09:24:37.620 And now we can have the conversation about whether or not, you know, Mirage is the third map. 09:24:37.620 --> 09:24:41.860 You're right there. Analyst Eskiger gonna have a plethora of rounds to talk about. 09:24:41.860 --> 09:24:47.320 Whether there's enough time to uncover them all on the rounds and advances they gave away is yet to be seen 09:24:47.320 --> 09:24:52.720 I can think of three or four off the top of my head. It is ten to twelve Henry 09:24:53.440 --> 09:24:57.520 It's not over yet. We're maybe getting a bit out of ourselves. Go to be careful here 09:24:57.800 --> 09:25:02.460 This should be an easy round a weaponry there on the CT side. It's not very impressive 09:25:02.460 --> 09:25:06.540 They're setting up outside of the monster tunnel another smoke flows down from the CT side 09:25:06.540 --> 09:25:12.660 Dukes just taking a peek but that's a lot of the CT utility that was left is 09:25:12.660 --> 09:25:16.140 already used. I think Dukes has 1 HE on the B bombs and that's it. 09:25:16.140 --> 09:25:20.620 Cemetery though is running in with the last smoke so he's coming just let's see 09:25:20.620 --> 09:25:23.700 if he can get it down in time. That smoke could be everything just like in the 09:25:23.700 --> 09:25:28.100 first half. You get the timing down right maybe it's fine. They're on the other side 09:25:28.100 --> 09:25:33.220 35 seconds. It's smoke. Smoke shows up. It goes pretty shallow. They're running 09:25:33.220 --> 09:25:35.880 right through into the meat grinder on the other side. 09:25:35.880 --> 09:25:37.840 It's a lot of damage, demon with a double 09:25:37.840 --> 09:25:40.560 and cemetery, he can't find the bullets. 09:25:40.560 --> 09:25:41.840 Anything would have done it 09:25:41.840 --> 09:25:43.400 as they would have been dead immediately, 09:25:43.400 --> 09:25:44.320 but he can't land it. 09:25:44.320 --> 09:25:45.840 Hedge shot through the smoke though 09:25:45.840 --> 09:25:47.640 and sees these out of the round and can't store. 09:25:47.640 --> 09:25:48.920 Right. 09:25:48.920 --> 09:25:49.760 Yeah. 09:25:49.760 --> 09:25:52.720 Fundamentals here boys, play together. 09:25:52.720 --> 09:25:55.080 They haven't been able to do that all half long, 09:25:55.080 --> 09:25:56.400 but you're right. 09:25:56.400 --> 09:25:57.560 They gotta wait for it here. 09:25:57.560 --> 09:25:59.880 Longs, very passive. 09:25:59.880 --> 09:26:01.560 He's got no chance here. 09:26:01.560 --> 09:26:04.120 That's the fundamentals we're hoping for. 09:26:04.120 --> 09:26:08.640 They'll get another round, but one step closer to overtime. 09:26:08.640 --> 09:26:10.960 Yeah, absolutely right. 09:26:10.960 --> 09:26:12.960 In the nick of time, they arrive on the server 09:26:12.960 --> 09:26:14.840 here on the CT side. 09:26:14.840 --> 09:26:17.840 Absolute calamity from Foots on their defense, 09:26:17.840 --> 09:26:20.880 but that's around. 09:26:20.880 --> 09:26:22.800 They convert comfortably. 09:26:22.800 --> 09:26:25.520 Bear in mind, we mentioned that the finance is no longer 09:26:25.520 --> 09:26:27.640 a problem, even if I've got a loss bonus, 09:26:27.640 --> 09:26:30.080 they come in fully equipped. 09:26:30.080 --> 09:26:36.580 AWP recovered, AK-47 as well, so FOOT will have everything they need to take it to overtime. 09:26:36.580 --> 09:26:40.580 The fact we're even having a conversation though, that they're playing for overtime. 09:26:40.580 --> 09:26:46.080 On a map like Overpass where you post that many rounds is just kind of unbelievable. 09:26:47.080 --> 09:26:51.580 Now that's how it looks, once the smoke goes down, it defies explanation at the moment. 09:26:53.080 --> 09:26:57.080 One more round here, FOOT, they would be in love with a few more. 09:26:57.080 --> 09:27:02.500 like you pointed out the mental game of this if you lose the surprise pick that 09:27:02.500 --> 09:27:05.620 you're the giant lead on and then you have to go in and play Mirage which 09:27:05.620 --> 09:27:09.140 again is a great home map for baits but they're into that they're going to be 09:27:09.140 --> 09:27:12.980 very excited would have been a very different story you posted the A4 09:27:12.980 --> 09:27:16.500 scoreline in the CT half that's pretty powerful the course we we wouldn't 09:27:16.500 --> 09:27:21.740 really be talking too much about it nope that is on the T side that's the 09:27:21.740 --> 09:27:27.260 the biggest factor here. That's actually a really cool arc for the Molotov to land 09:27:27.260 --> 09:27:30.540 way down at the bottom of Connector. If that helps that MPL, if anyone was there, they 09:27:30.540 --> 09:27:35.780 would have been forced forward and it was thrown from the balloons. That's kind of cool. Classic 09:27:35.780 --> 09:27:40.300 crossfire in towards the bathrooms here from Cabernet and Longs. Now, they shouldn't be 09:27:40.300 --> 09:27:44.940 walking into this lineup that Cemetery's got, right? They should be flashing this one out. 09:27:44.940 --> 09:27:48.660 It's such a common position with the AWP, but they've got to get past this first or they 09:27:48.660 --> 09:27:53.360 Alex opens up. Frank comes in from Kensa-Saw and now Sementree alone. 09:27:53.360 --> 09:27:54.660 They need to line up for the double. 09:27:54.660 --> 09:27:55.660 Oh! 09:27:55.660 --> 09:27:59.160 That takes down Kensa-Saw. Is it enough to get this one into O2? 09:27:59.160 --> 09:28:04.460 No. He's baited out on this one. Sizi hunts him down with a Tech 9, 2 vs 2. 09:28:04.460 --> 09:28:07.960 Oh, Demon, he might just have it here. 25 seconds. Another one for the... 09:28:07.960 --> 09:28:08.960 Oh! 09:28:08.960 --> 09:28:15.160 Sage them. The celebrations are in and overtime is going to be in effect. 09:28:15.160 --> 09:28:21.120 It wasn't clean. It was by no means pretty, but foots have done enough to get a reset at least whether they deserve it 09:28:21.120 --> 09:28:23.120 It's another question entirely, but 09:28:23.680 --> 09:28:26.880 They managed to get it to overtime two rounds posted at the end 09:28:27.920 --> 09:28:31.760 The all-percentetry saving the day here was an opening five on four 09:28:32.000 --> 09:28:37.640 Look what they were done for here this kill the second frag. Kendi's all finds it. We're going to a third 09:28:38.760 --> 09:28:43.760 Cemetery holds his nerves and we go into overtime a mental reset 09:28:43.760 --> 09:28:48.280 that will raise morale you know you're back into this one you're on the CT side 09:28:48.280 --> 09:28:51.560 let's let's look for a 2-1 here that's let's try and show we actually can't 09:28:51.560 --> 09:28:54.960 buy the CT half and it's an opening kill from Juge so you'll find Sizzy orb goes 09:28:54.960 --> 09:28:59.040 down early nice grenade towards shore there was no early smoke from the CT 09:28:59.040 --> 09:29:03.720 side I wonder if that's completely you it's made Sizzy think something else like 09:29:03.720 --> 09:29:09.120 I'm really confused Alex trying to go for a bit of a spray gets grenade in return 09:29:09.120 --> 09:29:14.680 damage or the damage he just wants to throw that same grenade that they were 09:29:14.680 --> 09:29:21.200 throwing against him yeah but doesn't have the same effects 09:29:21.200 --> 09:29:27.080 really we've been talking about quite a bit and he's been very aggressive you 09:29:27.080 --> 09:29:30.560 brought it up multiple times and if you look at him again he's on a bit of a 09:29:30.560 --> 09:29:34.720 mission one more time and I don't mind it but don't push further than this would 09:29:34.720 --> 09:29:41.340 be my recommendation. Well he's taking you up on that bomb on the ground. I don't know 09:29:41.340 --> 09:29:45.220 how you get back in this round, he abates. Now you've done enough. No one needs to make 09:29:45.220 --> 09:29:48.820 any crazy maneuvers, let them have the bomb site, you've got the bomb and T spawn and 09:29:48.820 --> 09:29:55.780 there's no one has to commit to any fights here. Turtle up. Yeah. Say together. Looking 09:29:55.780 --> 09:30:01.960 much better now. Krobeni single handedly wins a round with that nice aggressive maneuver 09:30:01.960 --> 09:30:04.480 But not too aggressive was the point there. Yeah 09:30:05.200 --> 09:30:10.160 Doesn't go all the way in a T spawn doesn't go further than that. They've got the lead once more 13 to 12 a 09:30:11.080 --> 09:30:13.200 Wake-up call perhaps here on overpass 09:30:13.920 --> 09:30:17.440 They've managed to crawl across the finish line of regulation to get us to overtime 09:30:18.200 --> 09:30:19.420 It's all the way back here 09:30:19.420 --> 09:30:24.160 You're gonna be so surprised when you run into Caribbean this position. Yeah, why is he back here? 09:30:24.160 --> 09:30:29.240 He was just holding the bomb on the inside nice round triple get those AKs 09:30:31.960 --> 09:30:39.760 very nice round that's more like it more of the timeouts still quite curious 09:30:39.760 --> 09:30:44.200 about the first kill on CZ because it's tradition to throw the smoke into the 09:30:44.200 --> 09:30:47.720 the monster tunnel every time and as far as I could tell there was no smoke in 09:30:47.720 --> 09:30:51.960 the monster from the CT side and maybe that's how I think CZ dies right 09:30:51.960 --> 09:30:57.200 outside of it so maybe that was just a bit of a mental error on his part maybe 09:30:57.200 --> 09:31:01.080 it was part of an elaborate plan for foot regardless they are now in the lead 09:31:01.080 --> 09:31:10.760 again in overtime first team to 15 well 16 but you're right I like what you did 09:31:10.760 --> 09:31:19.160 that subversive expectations I'll be honest with you know numbers just don't 09:31:19.160 --> 09:31:29.480 do it leave the numbers to me on this I guess thank you right let's see there's 09:31:29.480 --> 09:31:31.480 That's the Smokin Monster tunnel. 09:31:32.480 --> 09:31:34.480 Oh, he really did. Right, let's lock it. 09:31:35.480 --> 09:31:36.480 Let's go. 09:31:40.480 --> 09:31:41.480 Shot him in the foot. 09:31:42.480 --> 09:31:44.480 He's down to 17. 09:31:45.480 --> 09:31:48.480 There we go. There's the numbers. Now I've got it. 09:31:48.480 --> 09:31:50.480 Now I'm on top of my game. 09:31:50.480 --> 09:31:52.480 Lots of damage inflicted. 09:31:53.480 --> 09:31:55.480 Looking much more promising here at the start for foot. 09:31:55.480 --> 09:31:57.480 We're not seeing any wild maneuvers. 09:31:57.480 --> 09:32:00.660 Wild maneuvers and I think that was by virtue of them having such a great start 09:32:00.660 --> 09:32:03.200 They were going for the disrespect plays. They were trying to 09:32:03.720 --> 09:32:09.740 Drive the the point home that the better team perhaps put their foot on the throat of their opposition very nice. Take it up a shot 09:32:10.040 --> 09:32:11.240 Yes 09:32:11.240 --> 09:32:15.800 Keep going Alex. He wants to punch this one down and he will be successful 09:32:16.160 --> 09:32:18.760 I really knew he was in a little bit of trouble so he threw down the smoke 09:32:18.760 --> 09:32:23.880 But they were already on top of him, but maybe you're right that would that could have been the mentality coming in for foot here 09:32:23.880 --> 09:32:27.040 Saying which great start. It's our map. You guys don't really know how to play it 09:32:27.040 --> 09:32:30.320 We're gonna crush you with a lot of aggression and it just didn't work out 09:32:31.240 --> 09:32:33.240 Well, I mean it did it was the 09:32:33.800 --> 09:32:38.040 The buddy four on Tuesday couldn't convert. They're the opening aggression was actually fine 09:32:38.520 --> 09:32:43.440 Okay, it was it was the basic fundamentals that let them down towards the end of these rounds 09:32:43.440 --> 09:32:50.100 But that's a different point entirely as we get into the dying stages here a round of a two of the opening half of overtime looking for 1412 09:32:51.520 --> 09:32:53.840 Smoke with them hiding before 09:32:57.040 --> 09:33:04.000 What a sequence that happened so fast. He couldn't have got the spray any better if you try it is 09:33:05.120 --> 09:33:07.120 Come for Alex now 09:33:07.640 --> 09:33:09.640 Fundamentals like you said 09:33:09.800 --> 09:33:14.400 I could hear you losing your mind Henry, you know the backstab was always there 09:33:14.400 --> 09:33:21.360 It was gonna be fine either way and we go to and zero and finally they've shown us they they can play the CT side of 09:33:21.520 --> 09:33:23.520 Overpasses looking very promising now 09:33:23.520 --> 09:33:28.400 Great set up there from Longs. Can't ask much more than that. 09:33:28.400 --> 09:33:32.160 Cemetery to find the open-nose. A five-four disadvantage there in mind as well. 09:33:32.160 --> 09:33:36.240 Opening kill is there for Bates. And then Longs set up towards the bathroom. 09:33:36.240 --> 09:33:39.360 His teammate, the key detail there, has kept firing off all shots as well. 09:33:39.360 --> 09:33:43.280 Spanning smokes. Trying to suggest they were holding defense through on the bomb site. 09:33:43.280 --> 09:33:46.400 They walk straight past him as they've missed a bit of utile. 09:33:46.400 --> 09:33:50.640 But still, doesn't seem to matter too much. Opening kill, that does matter. 09:33:50.640 --> 09:33:52.960 Cemetery should be hitting that all day long. He knows it. 09:33:52.960 --> 09:33:57.560 They want to put the pressure on. They're actually moving through the smoke to catch him. 09:33:57.560 --> 09:33:58.560 That's more like it. 09:33:58.560 --> 09:33:59.560 That's too much. 09:33:59.560 --> 09:34:02.960 Kenzo saw. He thought he had him weak. He missed that shot. He missed the utility. 09:34:02.960 --> 09:34:05.960 Thought I'm going to hunt him down through the smoke. 09:34:05.960 --> 09:34:12.720 Oh, my God, you didn't feel comfortable, but he gets the job done. Five on two. You're 09:34:12.720 --> 09:34:13.720 round to lose, Furtz. 09:34:13.720 --> 09:34:17.520 The bomb is still really far back. I mean, you have times you can look for a kill and 09:34:17.520 --> 09:34:21.680 still go back, but you found an opening. You couldn't really just jump on it. 09:34:21.680 --> 09:34:24.800 Nice shot from CZ, but it is way too late in the round. 09:34:24.800 --> 09:34:26.640 Where was this in regulation? 09:34:26.640 --> 09:34:27.880 I don't know. 09:34:27.880 --> 09:34:29.480 Where was this level of gameplay? 09:34:31.280 --> 09:34:34.300 They just weren't feeling it, I guess. 09:34:36.280 --> 09:34:37.280 Very, very different. 09:34:37.280 --> 09:34:40.360 I mean, I guess when you lose that big of a lead 09:34:40.360 --> 09:34:41.640 and you're playing the CTs out of Opus, 09:34:41.640 --> 09:34:43.600 that will make everyone focus up. 09:34:43.600 --> 09:34:44.960 For sure. 09:34:44.960 --> 09:34:47.320 They're all gonna be ready now. 09:34:47.320 --> 09:34:51.480 Well, scheduling fans will be appreciative of the 2-0 here. 09:34:51.480 --> 09:34:55.320 been a long day we have one more game to go it's a banger as well mongols versus 09:34:55.320 --> 09:34:59.280 paravision which could go the distance let's be honest 50 rounds in the first 09:34:59.280 --> 09:35:06.760 map yesterday for paravision that was a crazy game a real slobber knock up is 09:35:06.760 --> 09:35:12.440 the booster essential take down seven tree they need three in a row here to get 09:35:12.440 --> 09:35:15.000 this one up into the blue tee otherwise they're gonna get knocked out of the 09:35:15.000 --> 09:35:20.440 tournament and it will be foot instead to go to the semi-finals he's up here 09:35:20.440 --> 09:35:27.240 Oh, and he's got shut down MPL. There we go a double for him this round. It's already washed away 09:35:27.960 --> 09:35:31.200 You've spit of a spray longs now put into action 09:35:33.440 --> 09:35:35.440 It's gonna say longs does enjoy a clutch 09:35:35.440 --> 09:35:39.320 But that one a little bit out of his reach if he gets that third kill 09:35:39.320 --> 09:35:43.320 Maybe he was on the something the two remaining players were over towards the a bomb side, but that's cool time 09:35:43.320 --> 09:35:45.320 I has been called now 09:35:45.880 --> 09:35:48.000 Surely Alex is not gonna get double native again 09:35:48.000 --> 09:35:52.200 surely not. If I'm the T-shutter foot right now, I'm calling a set piece. I'm 09:35:52.200 --> 09:35:56.100 saying that we've got an opportunity here to go for the knockout blow. Let's just go 09:35:56.100 --> 09:35:59.040 with something simple. They're going to be hyper aggressive across the map. Why don't 09:35:59.040 --> 09:36:06.000 we just go for the out of the spawn, be execution, get a bomb planted. That's what 09:36:06.000 --> 09:36:10.600 I'd like to see. Let's keep it simple. Let's try and apply that 09:36:10.600 --> 09:36:16.960 pressure, force out a clutch situation, but we'll see what they opt to go for 09:36:16.960 --> 09:36:21.940 here second round of the second half of overtime as Anders mentioned its first 09:36:21.940 --> 09:36:30.160 16 almost mentioned that you must as you get into a chance to have a paper 09:36:30.160 --> 09:36:34.840 they're on the CT side their CT performance was not great in regulation 09:36:34.840 --> 09:36:38.600 but they got the wake-up call as well they got warmed up here on overpass we'll 09:36:38.600 --> 09:36:42.400 see whether they can actually deliver the goods and post a 3-0 themselves still 09:36:42.400 --> 09:36:45.000 very possible 09:36:46.960 --> 09:36:49.760 Going for the motions early on, clearing out the connector. 09:36:50.460 --> 09:36:53.960 Demon there with Molotov. Molotov on the other side, so... 09:36:55.460 --> 09:36:57.460 Krabini is throwing that one down. 09:36:59.260 --> 09:37:03.460 Very far back on the map here, bait. Unlike where Krabini was pushing all the time. 09:37:03.460 --> 09:37:05.460 Bait much more of a passive setup. 09:37:06.660 --> 09:37:07.960 He's smoking monster. 09:37:08.960 --> 09:37:11.460 Alex in the position. Oh, I think I'm gonna need him again. 09:37:11.460 --> 09:37:13.960 Okay, he's a little bit... Maybe he's there a second ago. 09:37:13.960 --> 09:37:18.120 That is very nice timing. He's gonna be so happy. He's low on his last zone. 09:37:22.040 --> 09:37:25.560 Okay, well they cleared out all the map they need to go for this BX. 09:37:25.560 --> 09:37:29.240 You said you wanted more of a set piece. Now they've gone through the fundamentals. 09:37:29.800 --> 09:37:36.360 Yep. They've beat it out some utility. CTs starved of information, but they're gonna flash over what a flash it is. 09:37:36.360 --> 09:37:40.840 But we cemetery do open things up, paint it into a corner, cemetery will get the double. 09:37:40.840 --> 09:37:43.100 That's the cue now to make their way out towards Mondays. 09:37:43.100 --> 09:37:45.400 It's enough, and this is where they close things out. 09:37:45.400 --> 09:37:46.700 Man advantage. 09:37:46.700 --> 09:37:48.980 Nice shot from Duke, since he's already low. 09:37:48.980 --> 09:37:49.980 He will go down as well. 09:37:49.980 --> 09:37:50.980 Gotta be Gigi. 09:37:50.980 --> 09:37:51.980 Headshot. 09:37:51.980 --> 09:37:52.980 It surely is. 09:37:52.980 --> 09:37:53.980 30 seconds. 09:37:53.980 --> 09:37:54.980 Sizi back here. 09:37:54.980 --> 09:37:55.980 The bomb's on the other side. 09:37:55.980 --> 09:37:56.980 They're gonna plant on A. 09:37:56.980 --> 09:37:59.860 They're just leaving Duke's down here on 2 health. 09:37:59.860 --> 09:38:02.700 If they want already winning, this is such a shutdown. 09:38:02.700 --> 09:38:05.220 This is, yeah, and they've also got to cut off the rotation as well. 09:38:05.220 --> 09:38:06.220 Yeah. 09:38:06.220 --> 09:38:07.220 Oh, this is everything. 09:38:07.220 --> 09:38:08.220 It's shot in the back of the head. 09:38:08.220 --> 09:38:13.220 Probeena takes the kill and Foot marching into the semi-final here in Bucharest. 09:38:15.220 --> 09:38:18.220 Okay, it is fantastic news for them. They are making the semi-finals. 09:38:18.220 --> 09:38:24.220 That's a big move for this team. However, we do also have to be realistic and discuss what we just saw. 09:38:24.220 --> 09:38:27.220 There was a very real world where they lost that map, 09:38:27.220 --> 09:38:31.220 and it's concerning some of the holes that we saw in Foot's gameplay. 09:38:31.220 --> 09:38:35.220 That CT side was as stupid as all of them having a number 10 on the back of their jersey. 09:38:35.220 --> 09:38:37.220 What is that about? 09:38:37.220 --> 09:38:38.220 What is that about? 09:38:38.220 --> 09:38:40.220 That's what I was saying the whole season side. 09:38:40.220 --> 09:38:41.220 What is this about? 09:38:41.220 --> 09:38:43.220 I'm kind of tilted, to be honest. 09:38:43.220 --> 09:38:46.220 Good for them to win, but they're not beating the allegation 09:38:46.220 --> 09:38:48.220 of kind of being hard to... 09:38:48.220 --> 09:38:50.220 struggling to close out. 09:38:50.220 --> 09:38:54.220 Yeah, the second half was riddled with that. 09:38:54.220 --> 09:38:56.220 The guys we're talking about on the cast, 09:38:56.220 --> 09:38:58.220 about how many rounds we would have to go through. 09:38:58.220 --> 09:39:00.220 There will be like six in the second half alone, 09:39:00.220 --> 09:39:03.220 where the game should have been over at like 13-4, 13-6, 09:39:03.220 --> 09:39:08.780 whatever it would have been at that point, you know, so so many four weeks to be forwards thrown away 09:39:08.780 --> 09:39:13.160 You know after they've set themselves up for success in the first half with such a big T side 09:39:13.360 --> 09:39:18.360 Just kind of a big wake-up call for foot with anything, you know, obviously great that they ended up closing it 09:39:18.460 --> 09:39:23.540 But there's definitely going to be a conversation after this again. I don't want to I want to be clear 09:39:23.540 --> 09:39:29.560 I don't think that anything that happened in the city side is like all baits surprise them because we don't have tape on them 09:39:29.560 --> 09:39:35.760 If this is simply foot being in great positions and throwing it away and also crab any like 09:39:35.960 --> 09:39:40.640 Bro the position underpass doesn't mean you need to go all the way to the end of underpass 09:39:40.640 --> 09:39:44.620 You're a city side player you can you know be there for a bit and then fall back 09:39:44.620 --> 09:39:49.960 Why is he three three four times in this half on the edge of in T spawn? 09:39:49.960 --> 09:39:54.660 You don't need to be in T spawn like the first round that they lose to make this comeback even possible 09:39:54.660 --> 09:39:58.700 It's 9-4 so they win the first half amazing win the pistol 09:39:58.700 --> 09:40:02.820 They have a full buy preventing on them for solo and underpass gets a dual 09:40:03.460 --> 09:40:07.940 The dual doesn't go either way. He's like now I'm going all the way in of course dies 09:40:08.100 --> 09:40:13.340 Donates them for and then the comeback starts that kind of round we're talking about oh, maybe they can go to Navi 09:40:13.460 --> 09:40:15.460 That's gonna get you in like in jail 09:40:15.620 --> 09:40:21.260 We'll put you in in jail for a month after that kind of around that's the one talk to you for for three weeks 09:40:21.260 --> 09:40:22.860 I think that was yeah 09:40:22.860 --> 09:40:28.860 But I'm curious, do you think that this team, they are very young, they're somewhat inexperienced? 09:40:28.860 --> 09:40:32.860 Almost lucky to have had this happen against Bates, who also is a bit inexperienced 09:40:32.860 --> 09:40:38.860 because I worry against stronger opposition, they would have been punished so fast for that. 09:40:38.860 --> 09:40:41.860 We've seen that in the past, you know, when they've thrown away some of these leads 09:40:41.860 --> 09:40:46.860 and that's when they lose these maps like this, you know, where they don't take the opportunity 09:40:46.860 --> 09:40:48.860 to close it as fast as they possibly can, right? 09:40:48.860 --> 09:41:05.860 And so this will definitely cost them, this has cost them in the past several times, you know, as I think against Miles where they had a massive, I think it might have been over the past, I can't remember now, which map it was, but it was something like 12-3, they were leading and they ended up losing the map from there, you know, like 9 rounds straight. 09:41:05.860 --> 09:41:17.860 So, yes, better teams will definitely punish them and that's something that they're going to have to fix or make sure that doesn't happen again, because next round they are playing one of the top teams, they're playing a parry vision or the mongol. 09:41:17.860 --> 09:41:22.620 Okay so here's my next question and I suppose if you knew the answer you would 09:41:22.620 --> 09:41:27.420 have Krulio's job but why do you think they're doing this time and time again? 09:41:27.420 --> 09:41:33.020 I mean this game really felt like they're just trying to kind of show off a bit 09:41:33.020 --> 09:41:36.300 and everything was going so smoothly for them and at some point it felt like a 09:41:36.300 --> 09:41:41.020 deathmatch you know along so just you know going out there finding some duels 09:41:41.020 --> 09:41:46.380 killing there's someone else to trade there everything looked so easy but I 09:41:46.380 --> 09:42:03.380 I don't know, aside from that, I think it's just like an ego, a bit of an ego in this particular game that costs them the sharpness that, for example, on the pistol round you're like, oh, look at this, they're falling back and then they're retaking as a team and then the next round it's like, one guy just goes completely off and is trying to be like closing out the round. 09:42:03.380 --> 09:42:14.380 I mean, this is it. This is the round that you see how many little duels Krabani takes here. Like, why does he need to go so deep? And then he gives away, that's the first kill in the round, right? 09:42:14.380 --> 09:42:27.380 They're trading out on the bombsite now. It's a 4v2 and it's like, okay. Well, now this is a huge advantage for Bathe and they win the round. What else to add here? 09:42:27.380 --> 09:42:36.380 But why is he alone there in the first place? Because his teammate was like back to where he went back to the bombsite. He's literally left alone against pistols and so like if they swarm you, that's a gun. 09:42:36.380 --> 09:42:38.380 That's a gun. That's a gun donated or whatever. 09:42:38.380 --> 09:42:41.380 So in a sense, I understand why he then felt like he needed to push, 09:42:41.380 --> 09:42:46.380 because he needed to play for himself, because he could have been getting pushed from upstairs as well. 09:42:46.380 --> 09:42:50.380 He had no idea what the information was there, but then, just don't be there in the first place. 09:42:50.380 --> 09:42:54.380 Just play it back, play the anti-Eco, because it's a forced buy. 09:42:54.380 --> 09:42:55.380 But play it together. 09:42:55.380 --> 09:43:00.380 Play it to the advantage of having a teammate with you, play the crossfires, overpass. 09:43:00.380 --> 09:43:04.380 You have so many opportunities to fall back, wait for your teammates, wait for the anti-flashes, 09:43:04.380 --> 09:43:08.380 all that stuff. That's why it's such a heavily seated-sided map. Don't do that against pistols like 09:43:08.380 --> 09:43:13.500 it's just so unnecessary. One of many examples that we have. We don't have time to get through all 09:43:13.500 --> 09:43:17.660 the examples though because Pala is with the footplayers now. Let's hear what they have to say. 09:43:18.780 --> 09:43:25.340 Thank you guys. Yes, I'm down on the floor with louse of Fert. Congratulations on making it through 09:43:25.340 --> 09:43:31.340 to the semi-finals. Can I get your feelings? How is that? How does that sound? I mean it feels good, 09:43:31.340 --> 09:43:37.940 But I can't be too excited about it, because we talked about it, we kind of expected these results, right? 09:43:37.940 --> 09:43:40.940 So we want to take it one by one and see where we can end up, right? 09:43:40.940 --> 09:43:47.940 Because, I mean, yeah, after we beat Paris Vision, and it is for me, I think it's pretty clear what I want from this tournament. 09:43:47.940 --> 09:43:51.940 Longs, is the Romania buff real? Tell us. 09:43:51.940 --> 09:43:57.740 I mean, yes, but I see now it applies to the team, because today I had an off-game completely, mentally and individually on the server. 09:43:57.740 --> 09:44:01.140 I was not there, but the team got it, so I'm happy. I'm really happy. 09:44:01.140 --> 09:44:07.140 Is that considered by yourself a poor performance in what way? 09:44:07.140 --> 09:44:15.140 I mean, I felt I lost many duels. I think mentally I crumbled again in some specific situations where I shouldn't. 09:44:15.140 --> 09:44:21.140 Especially in the situations where I lost a lot of endules or I died just stupidly through a smoke or in some random scenario. 09:44:21.140 --> 09:44:25.140 I shouldn't get affected by it, but I think that's what I need to work on right now. 09:44:25.140 --> 09:44:32.260 I feel that's a very self-critical way of seeing things, because at least from an outside perspective, 09:44:32.260 --> 09:44:35.620 it looked like everybody was pulling their weight at times, including yourself. 09:44:36.420 --> 09:44:40.100 Yeah, I mean, of course, I pulled myself out of the trenches, if I can say it like that, but 09:44:40.820 --> 09:44:44.420 it's not enough. I feel I didn't do enough. I feel I let my team down again today 09:44:44.420 --> 09:44:47.620 on a mental way, which is not good, because that's one of my strong points. So yeah, 09:44:47.620 --> 09:44:50.500 I just need to work on it and keep it on a constant level. 09:44:50.500 --> 09:44:58.500 Great thoughts. Let's quickly go through the map. You managed to win on Bates pick, but it didn't start so strongly. 09:44:58.500 --> 09:45:04.500 You only got five CT rounds, but then you guys really came together on that second half on the T side. What happened? 09:45:04.500 --> 09:45:10.500 I mean, I feel on the CT side, everything started being a bit bad after we lost that eco. 09:45:10.500 --> 09:45:17.500 Of course, I'm not sure what it was, but I think after we lost that round, we kind of got in our head again. 09:45:17.500 --> 09:45:23.340 over thinking what they're going to do and in many situations I feel we kind of had a good call, 09:45:23.340 --> 09:45:28.540 we knew what they're doing most of the time but yeah it's just over thinking some situations by 09:45:28.540 --> 09:45:34.300 each individual and yeah. Then we go into Overpass and the script was sort of flipped, 09:45:34.300 --> 09:45:40.060 you started with eight T rounds but then going to the second half you only got three CT rounds, 09:45:40.060 --> 09:45:45.660 what happened there on Overpass? Well I feel like I think that's the thing, I feel again it's the 09:45:45.660 --> 09:45:50.620 mentality. I feel we lost some bad rounds. Again, we lost the advantage rounds. We lost some 09:45:50.620 --> 09:45:55.660 impossible rounds, but you know, it's a game. Anything can happen, right? But yeah, I think that 09:45:55.660 --> 09:46:01.820 was the biggest flaw of us today. It was the mental game because we had good preparation and when 09:46:01.820 --> 09:46:08.060 we could play our game and be normal, we did what we do best and that's winning. Awesome. Well, 09:46:08.060 --> 09:46:12.220 Lance, couple more questions before I let you go. So you've got the win now. You're playing 09:46:12.220 --> 09:46:17.080 Mongols or Paravision? What are your thoughts on the potential semi-final matchup ahead? 09:46:17.080 --> 09:46:21.060 I mean to be honest I would like to play Mongols not because I don't want to play 09:46:21.060 --> 09:46:23.780 Paravision I think it would be a good matchup to play Paravision but I never 09:46:23.780 --> 09:46:27.500 played Mongols in my life and I would like to play them so yeah I'm excited for 09:46:27.500 --> 09:46:31.460 the semi-finals I think it's great opponents for the team so I think it 09:46:31.460 --> 09:46:35.320 would be a good game indeed. Awesome. Lounx always a pleasure to chat. I had one 09:46:35.320 --> 09:46:39.940 final wild card question. I don't know if you've ever seen the old sort of viral 09:46:39.940 --> 09:46:44.180 very well-known video of the CS player Shox, the French player, where he's talking about 09:46:44.180 --> 09:46:46.900 five fingers on one hand. Do you know the video? 09:46:46.900 --> 09:46:47.900 Yes, of course. 09:46:47.900 --> 09:46:51.460 What about for you guys the five toes on the one foot? 09:46:51.460 --> 09:46:56.180 I mean, you can call it like that, I guess, yeah. I don't expect it, but yeah, you can 09:46:56.180 --> 09:46:57.180 call it like that. 09:46:57.180 --> 09:46:59.900 All right, great to know. I just wanted to run it by you. All right, Lax, anything that 09:46:59.900 --> 09:47:03.220 you'd like to say to the fans watching at home before I let you go? 09:47:03.220 --> 09:47:06.420 Keep watching, guys. I don't want to say anything because I might jinx it, but keep watching. 09:47:06.420 --> 09:47:09.380 Real Dorbis and maybe we'll win the tournament. 09:47:09.380 --> 09:47:14.380 Well, we will indeed keep watching. Congratulations once again on making it through to the semis. 09:47:16.380 --> 09:47:18.380 I can't deal with all the foot puns. 09:47:18.380 --> 09:47:22.380 I'm kind of sad that day one, just because of that, to be honest. 09:47:22.380 --> 09:47:24.380 We were going to struggle through another day of that. 09:47:24.380 --> 09:47:27.380 Get out of nowhere, that one. That one is a bit more elaborate. 09:47:27.380 --> 09:47:29.380 There's some layers. 09:47:29.380 --> 09:47:32.380 There's historic references. 09:47:32.380 --> 09:47:34.380 Shout out to Sharks one time. Great guy, great player. 09:47:34.380 --> 09:47:36.380 I'm so tired of it all. 09:47:36.380 --> 09:47:39.460 So yeah, they're through, we're gonna deal with them even more tomorrow. 09:47:39.460 --> 09:47:43.300 I mean, I also like the confidence of being young, you know, going, well, 09:47:43.300 --> 09:47:45.220 the mental game wasn't great, but we won. 09:47:45.220 --> 09:47:45.980 But that's it. 09:47:45.980 --> 09:47:49.780 I don't want to jinx it, but maybe we'll do it. 09:47:49.780 --> 09:47:51.820 Well, I mean, also good for him. 09:47:51.820 --> 09:47:55.100 I mean, acknowledging that he didn't play a great game. 09:47:55.100 --> 09:47:56.100 He didn't play a horrible game. 09:47:56.100 --> 09:48:00.660 He had some good moments, but definitely I would put it on a team collapse 09:48:00.660 --> 09:48:03.980 and some like team setups more so than him personally. 09:48:03.980 --> 09:48:07.520 I don't really think Overpass was his bad map in any way. 09:48:07.520 --> 09:48:12.680 I would definitely see some other players making some weird moves that ended up costing them more so than 09:48:12.680 --> 09:48:17.480 obviously if Long gets three kills and around then you just win, but you can't really expect that every time. 09:48:17.480 --> 09:48:24.680 Yeah, I think that just speak to the youth of this team, you know, because the mental game is something that they've spoken about several times, you know, 09:48:24.680 --> 09:48:31.980 but it's going to take them a little bit more to get over some of these situations, you know, because we have seen it time and time and time again. 09:48:31.980 --> 09:48:34.860 If you had an older, more experienced player in that interview, they would have been like, 09:48:34.860 --> 09:48:36.460 they were some problems and overpassed. 09:48:36.460 --> 09:48:39.380 But the youngsters are like, we won, we're into the semi-finals. 09:48:39.380 --> 09:48:41.780 And to be fair to them, that is all that matters. 09:48:41.780 --> 09:48:43.180 That's exactly what has happened. 09:48:43.180 --> 09:48:44.980 There is one more spot remaining. 09:48:44.980 --> 09:48:47.980 I would say it's the blockbuster game of the day, coming up next. 09:48:47.980 --> 09:48:50.780 Paravision, up against Mongols, don't go anywhere. 09:49:01.980 --> 09:49:03.980 I 09:49:13.020 --> 09:49:15.020 Won't play window anymore 09:50:01.980 --> 09:50:08.980 Not trapped at a desk in one singular posture for 12 hours a day. 09:50:08.980 --> 09:50:12.980 It's time your chair evolved. 09:50:12.980 --> 09:50:15.980 This is Secret Lab Titan Evo. 09:50:15.980 --> 09:50:19.980 Ergonomically engineered for you. 09:50:19.980 --> 09:50:20.980 Gamers. 09:50:20.980 --> 09:50:21.980 Hybrid workers. 09:50:21.980 --> 09:50:22.980 Artists. 09:50:22.980 --> 09:50:25.980 That game your every move. 09:50:31.980 --> 09:50:48.980 MUSIC 09:50:48.980 --> 09:50:50.980 You're gonna die. 09:50:50.980 --> 09:50:52.980 No! 09:50:52.980 --> 09:50:54.980 No! 09:50:54.980 --> 09:50:56.980 No! 09:50:56.980 --> 09:50:58.980 No! 09:50:58.980 --> 09:51:00.980 No! 09:51:00.980 --> 09:51:02.980 No! 09:51:02.980 --> 09:51:04.980 No! 09:51:04.980 --> 09:51:06.980 No! 09:51:06.980 --> 09:51:08.980 No! 09:51:08.980 --> 09:51:10.980 No! 09:51:10.980 --> 09:51:12.980 No! 09:51:12.980 --> 09:51:14.980 No! 09:51:14.980 --> 09:51:16.980 No! 09:51:16.980 --> 09:51:17.980 Nice! 09:51:17.980 --> 09:51:18.980 Nice! 09:51:18.980 --> 09:51:28.660 I'm never going to not win that Jorco one man, that was so hard. 09:51:28.660 --> 09:51:31.620 We saw that live and we were all just speechless after that one. 09:51:31.620 --> 09:51:34.300 Love diary, like really committed to it like that. 09:51:34.300 --> 09:51:39.260 Anyway, welcome back to PGL Booker Race, it's the quarterfinals and ParaVision is up against 09:51:39.260 --> 09:51:40.660 Mongols. 09:51:40.660 --> 09:51:44.500 We have so much to discuss when it comes to ParaVision and it's all thanks to them really 09:51:44.500 --> 09:51:50.100 because they were very open yesterday. Dastan was here on the couch sharing so much. 09:51:50.100 --> 09:51:56.020 James went and did an interview with HLTV, also shared a lot. So I want to start with the conversation 09:51:56.020 --> 09:52:02.020 around power vision plays better against better teams. Obviously Dastan and James have touched 09:52:02.020 --> 09:52:06.260 on this, but the reason I wanted to speak about it is because I think this is actually a bigger 09:52:06.260 --> 09:52:10.820 conversation at the moment in competitive Counter-Strike. We've seen it with FaZe. We saw it today 09:52:10.820 --> 09:52:14.980 with a lot of these underdogs getting rounds unexpectedly, this is something that is going 09:52:14.980 --> 09:52:20.340 to have to change for these teams that are used to playing the more experienced teams because 09:52:20.340 --> 09:52:25.620 now with VRS you never know when you are going to find yourself at a tiny land having to fight 09:52:25.620 --> 09:52:30.820 for points. Yeah I mean this is a team that's generally been playing up to the level of their 09:52:30.820 --> 09:52:35.140 opposition all throughout their history or even since they entered the tier one circuit really 09:52:35.140 --> 09:52:41.220 because they enter the season with a bounty that they end up winning, and from there it 09:52:41.220 --> 09:52:46.660 just goes up and down, up and down, no matter who they play, they effectively play up the 09:52:46.660 --> 09:52:51.300 same score line. We saw one of the explanations from James was that whenever they play the 09:52:51.300 --> 09:52:56.260 top teams, it is more what they expect, it is more readable of what they're going to expect 09:52:57.220 --> 09:53:01.060 as opposed to the lower tier teams, they just do sometimes things that they're not prepared for. 09:53:01.060 --> 09:53:05.000 right? That makes sense, but I do think it's also kind of a byproduct of their 09:53:05.000 --> 09:53:08.260 playstyle in general because because Paravigian is very reactionary in how 09:53:08.260 --> 09:53:13.140 they play and kind of play up play to their opponents in terms of pace as 09:53:13.140 --> 09:53:16.960 well sometimes you know so it's just it's something that they can't seem to 09:53:16.960 --> 09:53:19.660 get over really it's it doesn't necessarily matter I think we have a 09:53:19.660 --> 09:53:24.940 graphic as well along the same same lines you know where the only difference 09:53:24.940 --> 09:53:28.580 when they play up to their opposition in terms of round win is against the top 09:53:28.580 --> 09:53:32.580 And the only reason for that top 5 number being different is Vitality. 09:53:32.580 --> 09:53:35.580 Against everybody else, they effectively win half of the rounds they play. 09:53:35.580 --> 09:53:39.580 You can see 50.4% against top 10 teams, 50.2 against top 20. 09:53:39.580 --> 09:53:42.580 And no matter who they play, it's like 50.8%. 09:53:42.580 --> 09:53:45.580 And it just tells you everything that you need to know about Paris 09:53:45.580 --> 09:53:47.580 and them playing up to their opposition. 09:53:47.580 --> 09:53:49.580 I mean, this is all, it's a cool storyline. 09:53:49.580 --> 09:53:52.580 It's really nice to hear from Dastan, from James, 09:53:52.580 --> 09:53:57.580 that the problems are kind of what we were presuming they were, 09:53:57.580 --> 09:53:59.900 That's also kind of not an excuse, right? 09:53:59.900 --> 09:54:03.420 It's a team that has won a big tournament this year, 09:54:03.420 --> 09:54:04.900 has made another final, 09:54:04.900 --> 09:54:06.780 and now they're here again as favorites. 09:54:06.780 --> 09:54:10.220 They themselves are saying our goal was a playoffs 09:54:10.220 --> 09:54:11.340 and they achieved that. 09:54:11.340 --> 09:54:14.940 Okay, that's fine, but you need to be moving forward. 09:54:14.940 --> 09:54:16.260 You need to be getting better at this. 09:54:16.260 --> 09:54:18.500 This is kind of the part of being a competitor. 09:54:18.500 --> 09:54:20.420 You can't always be the underdog. 09:54:20.420 --> 09:54:22.060 And when these opportunities show up, 09:54:22.060 --> 09:54:24.260 it's like, let's make the most of it. 09:54:24.260 --> 09:54:27.060 I think this is where this Paradise and team 09:54:27.060 --> 09:54:29.300 we'll kind of make and break, make or break. 09:54:29.300 --> 09:54:31.700 And Dustin has already alluded at that, 09:54:31.700 --> 09:54:34.260 is like, we're going over the same mistakes 09:54:34.260 --> 09:54:36.340 so many times, we're tired of it. 09:54:36.340 --> 09:54:38.020 We can't really deal with this anymore. 09:54:38.020 --> 09:54:40.700 I can't make player changes because the major is coming. 09:54:40.700 --> 09:54:44.980 But after, yeah, that's on the cards as well. 09:54:44.980 --> 09:54:46.380 I think James said this as well, 09:54:46.380 --> 09:54:49.060 where he mentioned something along the lines of like, 09:54:49.060 --> 09:54:49.900 well, sometimes when I call, 09:54:49.900 --> 09:54:51.260 I don't know if they're gonna make mistakes. 09:54:51.260 --> 09:54:54.780 And I was like, there is clearly a headache 09:54:54.780 --> 09:54:56.740 that coach and IGL are having 09:54:56.740 --> 09:55:01.300 with these young players and they are young and they are inexperienced. If you think about how 09:55:01.300 --> 09:55:05.940 fast they've sort of risen up the ranks and become a team that we're talking about that is 09:55:05.940 --> 09:55:11.060 meeting vitality in finals, it is a lot of pressure to put on such inexperienced players. 09:55:11.060 --> 09:55:15.780 Yeah for sure and sometimes even though the round that Dustin was talking about yesterday that he 09:55:15.780 --> 09:55:20.260 just wanted to somehow bring up we were looking at that round and we're like it is kind of harsh 09:55:20.260 --> 09:55:24.420 to look at it that way because you know regardless of what if whether he did what Dustin suggested 09:55:24.420 --> 09:55:27.500 if he would do, he could have died both ways, just as easy. 09:55:27.500 --> 09:55:30.540 So he felt like, maybe you do need to lay low, 09:55:30.540 --> 09:55:31.860 let him hit the lay back. 09:55:31.860 --> 09:55:33.860 I think that just shows what, how 09:55:33.860 --> 09:55:36.140 Paravision is as a team and Dastan and Jame 09:55:36.140 --> 09:55:39.060 as the coach, IGL, do where the expectations are. 09:55:39.060 --> 09:55:42.060 Like, what is considered a mistake 09:55:42.060 --> 09:55:45.860 and to what degree it is criticized is huge. 09:55:45.860 --> 09:55:48.460 You can't be allowed to make mistakes. 09:55:48.460 --> 09:55:50.460 And I think, honestly, that one was so small, 09:55:50.460 --> 09:55:53.260 but there are some moments where Nolta, where Zelo, 09:55:53.260 --> 09:55:56.380 are giving away rounds and advantages in a way that's 09:55:56.380 --> 09:55:57.140 unacceptable. 09:55:57.140 --> 09:55:58.820 But now we move to Mongols, who, one, 09:55:58.820 --> 09:56:01.100 were the team that used to upset these top teams 09:56:01.100 --> 09:56:02.700 because of their erratic playstyle, 09:56:02.700 --> 09:56:04.180 because a lot of top teams didn't 09:56:04.180 --> 09:56:05.780 know how to deal with them. 09:56:05.780 --> 09:56:07.660 They're also a lot more experienced now, 09:56:07.660 --> 09:56:10.020 so they're going to punish those mistakes. 09:56:10.020 --> 09:56:12.500 This could be really tough for Paravigion. 09:56:12.500 --> 09:56:13.500 You don't think so, Stalker? 09:56:13.500 --> 09:56:14.900 I mean, you're saying experience, 09:56:14.900 --> 09:56:16.180 and they're going to punish those mistakes. 09:56:16.180 --> 09:56:18.100 To be honest, they make a lot of the same mistakes. 09:56:18.100 --> 09:56:20.220 They are a very dynamic team in the sense of, like, 09:56:20.220 --> 09:56:21.820 they will just go for a play sometimes. 09:56:21.820 --> 09:56:24.700 and it doesn't matter whether it actually makes sense on paper or not, 09:56:24.700 --> 09:56:28.060 they will just be in your face a lot of the time, you know, 09:56:28.060 --> 09:56:31.060 so that experience doesn't necessarily help them in a lot of situations. 09:56:31.060 --> 09:56:35.260 For me, these are two teams that are obviously there in a similar ranking position 09:56:35.260 --> 09:56:37.140 and similar results this year. 09:56:37.140 --> 09:56:41.940 Obviously, supervision a bit better, but I think their approach is completely different. 09:56:41.940 --> 09:56:47.860 I think Jayme and Dustin have this like we're bootcamping 160 days out of 170, 09:56:47.860 --> 09:56:51.100 and we're at every tournament and we're working hard in the bootcamp 09:56:51.100 --> 09:56:53.020 when we're arguing and we're yelling at each other, 09:56:53.020 --> 09:56:55.500 or mostly the stun, it seems like. 09:56:55.500 --> 09:57:00.260 I don't think the other way would be quite allowed. 09:57:00.260 --> 09:57:03.100 But every time we talk about with Mongols, 09:57:03.100 --> 09:57:04.020 it's like, did we practice? 09:57:04.020 --> 09:57:04.980 Oh, we didn't really practice. 09:57:04.980 --> 09:57:06.380 We didn't boot camp for a while. 09:57:06.380 --> 09:57:07.380 We didn't do anything. 09:57:07.380 --> 09:57:09.780 I was watching the other day, Blitz was streaming. 09:57:09.780 --> 09:57:11.660 He was playing some game called Geek. 09:57:11.660 --> 09:57:14.580 It's like a climbing co-op simulator or something. 09:57:14.580 --> 09:57:16.220 He's just playing that with Holbrein. 09:57:16.220 --> 09:57:18.620 I think Techno and some of the Mongolian guys, 09:57:18.620 --> 09:57:19.460 they're just vibing. 09:57:19.460 --> 09:57:23.140 Meanwhile, you could imagine your head just like cutting from that to where 09:57:23.540 --> 09:57:27.260 Paravision is in their like bootcamp room just like why do you throw the smoke? 09:57:27.260 --> 09:57:31.660 What is going on? You need to do you flash for me? You didn't communicate this in the end of sound is like 09:57:31.660 --> 09:57:33.260 Why did you what did you do here? 09:57:33.260 --> 09:57:35.660 And he's like, I don't know and there is like a hundred percent 09:57:36.220 --> 09:57:41.100 Tension in the room while mongols are just like chilling. I mean at least mongols they were playing a game 09:57:41.100 --> 09:57:45.500 So they were still doing a bootcamp with PCs. Yes, we know other teams have trapped 09:57:45.500 --> 09:57:49.100 Let's talk about this on our screen right now, Jack. 09:57:49.100 --> 09:57:53.260 Yeah, I just wanted to point out, you know, I feel this has gone kind of under the radar, 09:57:53.260 --> 09:57:58.060 but Mongols have kind of slowly become one of the worst T side teams out of the top 20. 09:57:58.060 --> 09:58:01.260 I mean, 40.5 percent, it is like the second worst after phase. 09:58:01.900 --> 09:58:04.460 So that tells you kind of a lot about their two sides. 09:58:04.460 --> 09:58:07.980 Yeah, exactly. And we were saying, we saw even the 5v4s, 4v5s, like, you know, these, 09:58:07.980 --> 09:58:10.460 you know, these factors, they're effectively one of the worst teams. 09:58:10.460 --> 09:58:14.780 And it is just down to, they are just very over exuberant, you know, if they're opening move, 09:58:14.780 --> 09:58:18.940 doesn't really play out. The second guy will then try to make a play to make up for that, 09:58:18.940 --> 09:58:22.620 but then they go down even further, you know, so a lot of the time they just kind of set themselves 09:58:22.620 --> 09:58:26.940 up for failure on their two sides. Yeah, I mean, they lost Senzu obviously. Blitz is now taking the 09:58:26.940 --> 09:58:32.780 most entry duels. Coppers here is doing some of it as well, but it's not to the same quality, I would 09:58:32.780 --> 09:58:39.900 say, as Senzu had. That's without a doubt. He's a solid player, but it's not the same. I think we're 09:58:39.900 --> 09:58:41.900 I think we're heading for the same thing. 09:58:41.900 --> 09:58:43.900 Yeah, we're going then. 09:58:43.900 --> 09:58:52.900 My notes were like hoping for Overpass Ancient maybe to be picked by at least someone, but no, it's Dust 2 and Mirage once again from Peravision. 09:58:52.900 --> 09:59:01.900 They're showing it. Do you think that by doing this, if you are a top team watching who's maybe concerned about Peravision, you're very quickly seeing that their map pool is not exactly deep. 09:59:01.900 --> 09:59:04.900 We're kind of in like a little splash pool at the moment. 09:59:04.900 --> 09:59:08.900 I don't even know what to say about it. It's not like when they play these two maps that they're like fantastic. 09:59:08.900 --> 09:59:14.020 Like every time they've been losing on them regular well in this tournament at least yeah 09:59:14.020 --> 09:59:17.200 They've had quite a few losses on dust to amirage yesterday 09:59:17.500 --> 09:59:21.900 We all know how that went like it was a victory, but it wasn't a pretty one 09:59:21.900 --> 09:59:23.900 They got a lot of review out of that though. I 09:59:25.180 --> 09:59:29.660 For rounds to go through that's that's a lot to turn to look at but it's like one of the things 09:59:30.340 --> 09:59:35.820 James said in the interview as well. It's like it doesn't matter which map which opponent we can lose any round 09:59:35.820 --> 09:59:43.100 any game at any point. It kind of doesn't really matter. I would think of it from a positive side, 09:59:43.100 --> 09:59:46.180 it's okay if they played a lot of Dust2, therefore they're getting better on Dust2, 09:59:46.180 --> 09:59:50.060 they're getting better on Mirage, but it's different things happening all the time. 09:59:50.060 --> 09:59:53.740 I kind of noted that their T sides were looking super horrible, but then against Wildcard the 09:59:53.740 --> 09:59:58.100 T sides were, I mean the CT sides were bad, but against Wildcard the CT side was fine, 09:59:58.100 --> 10:00:02.980 the T side was more problematic. It's just new issues popping up because it is just about 10:00:02.980 --> 10:00:07.220 individuals and the small details. We've seen three teams now, two of them take 10:00:07.220 --> 10:00:12.980 Paravigion down on Dust2 and Mirage, one of them wild card for goodness sake. 10:00:12.980 --> 10:00:18.100 There's like four and a half players in the server going so close with this team. 10:00:18.100 --> 10:00:21.860 I think the half is generous to be honest sometimes. It's trying to be nice peeping, 10:00:21.860 --> 10:00:27.940 but the Mongols is a very different level of team. I am concerned for Paravigion 10:00:27.940 --> 10:00:29.940 and I don't know, should I beat them? 10:00:29.940 --> 10:00:32.940 My kind of positive side, in terms of like, 10:00:32.940 --> 10:00:35.940 oh yeah, Mongols looked better, but like their opposition was, 10:00:35.940 --> 10:00:40.940 let me note, Wildcard, BC game, and iBallers, these are the three themes that they beat. 10:00:40.940 --> 10:00:46.940 Number 102, number 71, and 36 on VRS coming into the tournament. 10:00:46.940 --> 10:00:49.940 Like iBallers is like the most impressive win that they had so far, 10:00:49.940 --> 10:00:53.940 and like half of these maps were like either super slow start, 10:00:53.940 --> 10:00:56.940 but then they come back into it, or kind of close until the end. 10:00:56.940 --> 10:01:00.660 till the end so it's not like Mongols did some amazing job so far either. 10:01:00.660 --> 10:01:03.980 And they got slammed by Astralis in the one time that they did play one of the top teams 10:01:03.980 --> 10:01:09.100 so yeah I'm nowhere near considering them anywhere near a favourite you know. 10:01:09.100 --> 10:01:15.300 Okay so Henry, Anders, Striker and Prof have not had a nice thing to say about either teams. 10:01:15.300 --> 10:01:17.220 I'm concerned, what is going on? 10:01:17.220 --> 10:01:21.300 I was hoping for another game show to be honest with you but yeah we can get to the analysis as well. 10:01:21.300 --> 10:01:23.980 I totally agree with the writers, I think both teams are looking shaky here. 10:01:23.980 --> 10:01:26.660 Mongols for me. Yeah, they've got the results. They've had some good ones 10:01:26.660 --> 10:01:30.260 towards the end of the group stages, but overall looking very shaky. I think 10:01:30.260 --> 10:01:33.120 the same could be set for Parisian. Yeah, that's probably true. So the game 10:01:33.120 --> 10:01:36.400 of who can make the least mistakes once again is my favorite game. I'm 10:01:36.400 --> 10:01:40.820 glad we did a lot this time tonight. I'm still counting. Well, yeah, the way I 10:01:40.820 --> 10:01:43.820 think we're gonna have some fireworks on the server and hopefully a very good 10:01:43.820 --> 10:01:47.340 quarterfinal winner of this one goes on the plate. Foot's ladies and gentlemen, 10:01:47.620 --> 10:01:51.740 buckle in because this could be a bumpy ride and a long one at that 54 rounds 10:01:51.740 --> 10:01:54.140 played on Mirage yesterday against Wildcard. 10:01:54.140 --> 10:01:56.100 Paravision always go the distance, 10:01:56.100 --> 10:01:58.860 and they will be starting on the T side here. 10:01:58.860 --> 10:02:01.100 Dust 2, it's an all-piz paradise. 10:02:01.100 --> 10:02:03.340 And just to know, we have got Cobra Zera, 10:02:03.340 --> 10:02:05.660 who's been fantastic on the secondary all. 10:02:05.660 --> 10:02:06.780 I'm glad you bring that up. 10:02:06.780 --> 10:02:10.020 That is, this is a map where that could be a really big factor. 10:02:10.020 --> 10:02:12.380 Sello's going to be walking into the smoke there. 10:02:12.380 --> 10:02:16.140 Old school Xbox smoke, no fancies on the door, 10:02:16.140 --> 10:02:17.860 and they're moving right into MC Neal. 10:02:17.860 --> 10:02:19.300 He's got the dualies of the corner, 10:02:19.300 --> 10:02:21.180 but Squay will open up and get the first kill 10:02:21.180 --> 10:02:26.380 the quarterfinals here on the side of ParryVision. And they slow it down. They're coming up long 10:02:26.380 --> 10:02:30.620 at the same time. Belchinox just wiggling that corner trying to see if he could find a killer 10:02:30.620 --> 10:02:34.780 yet somebody. Again, it's very disciplined right now. ParryVision, they're setting up both arms 10:02:34.780 --> 10:02:41.020 of this attack, but it's also buying time. And 9-10, at least gets one. Smoke up towards CT spawn as 10:02:41.020 --> 10:02:45.980 they jump across everything. Has gone according to plan here for ParryVision. No mistakes this 10:02:45.980 --> 10:02:51.140 This time looks to be a clean and concise pistol round, three players survive and Cobra 10:02:51.140 --> 10:02:56.060 Zera nothing he can do, you're thinking about the save of the dual elites already I'm afraid. 10:02:56.060 --> 10:03:00.140 Hoping that a mistake is made but yeah that's going to be a nice A-split coming from Power 10:03:00.140 --> 10:03:04.160 Vision, very clean opening kills towards Short, the players remaining on the A-bomb side being 10:03:04.160 --> 10:03:08.900 pincet and Cobra Zera will not be saving the dualies, he'll give this one a look in and 10:03:08.900 --> 10:03:12.800 yeah he's no longer this world as it will be a Power Vision. 10:03:12.800 --> 10:03:18.360 nice opening pistol best way with four kills there. Very good. Something to 10:03:18.360 --> 10:03:23.120 highlight. Oh go on I like this. So well this is a basic stand but I think it's 10:03:23.120 --> 10:03:26.720 so impressive. So the Mongols they played this map three times or nine times 10:03:26.720 --> 10:03:31.840 last three months. For paravision they played us to 25. They do love it out there. 10:03:31.840 --> 10:03:37.400 That's an absurd amount. A lot of experience and it does have a lot of tape 10:03:37.400 --> 10:03:41.200 available on this and we do know that paravision are polar opposites in terms 10:03:41.200 --> 10:03:45.520 of the way they prep. Mongols don't even go to boot camp. They don't even bring a coach 10:03:45.520 --> 10:03:47.720 to most tournaments. They just turn up and play. 10:03:47.720 --> 10:03:49.760 They're apparently streaming peak in there. 10:03:49.760 --> 10:03:56.600 Yeah. So, yeah, different ends of the spectrum here. But we do know that Mongols pack a punch. 10:03:56.600 --> 10:04:00.840 I would say pound for pound in terms of mechanical skill. They've got power vision beats, but 10:04:00.840 --> 10:04:04.560 we'll see if that's going to be replicated on the server today. 10:04:04.560 --> 10:04:08.680 We are going to see a force buy from the Mongols. Talk about double orbs. I'd say about double 10:04:08.680 --> 10:04:15.280 scout. There'll be 9, 10 and Blitz, firing off shots and connecting, at least towards 10:04:15.280 --> 10:04:20.600 Zelo taking him down to 28 HP. That's how it starts. You get those scout body shots 10:04:20.600 --> 10:04:25.560 in, it makes the vehicles much more powerful. There's a lot to work with so right now it's 10:04:25.560 --> 10:04:33.280 just a Mach 10, not the end of the world. Some utility towards the catwalk here, Blitz 10:04:33.280 --> 10:04:39.220 Revealing the other scouts. He does have some backup in Cobra Sierra who even has an HE 10:04:39.600 --> 10:04:43.640 So after getting very close, I don't think you might have enough time to throw any grenades here 10:04:43.640 --> 10:04:49.400 Okay, there we go around the corner. It's a really serviceable HE. It slowed them down. It's tagged them up a bit 10:04:49.400 --> 10:04:52.780 They still have MCNEO on long and he has been really cool 10:04:52.780 --> 10:04:58.120 I love watching him play if you can shut down the push from the Mac 10 and saw suddenly interesting geltion up's gone down 10:04:58.200 --> 10:05:01.320 They'll find blitz though and now some backups needed 10:05:01.320 --> 10:05:03.920 If you can see them senior try to get there with a deagle in time. 10:05:03.920 --> 10:05:04.420 Oh! 10:05:04.420 --> 10:05:07.320 First shot by the second is a straight banger. 10:05:07.320 --> 10:05:08.620 Takes down Noether. 10:05:08.620 --> 10:05:10.120 Twenty seconds now. 10:05:10.120 --> 10:05:12.420 And unfortunately I think the scouting of the bomb on here is... 10:05:12.420 --> 10:05:13.920 Oh! Wait a minute! 10:05:13.920 --> 10:05:15.420 Techno's taking down James. 10:05:15.420 --> 10:05:17.120 The bomb is planted, yes! 10:05:17.120 --> 10:05:19.420 Paravision reeling a bit from this one. 10:05:19.420 --> 10:05:21.120 They've taken way more damage than they wanted. 10:05:21.120 --> 10:05:24.220 And those earlier scout shots could now come into effect again. 10:05:24.220 --> 10:05:26.520 9-10, he just wanted the top of his head. 10:05:26.520 --> 10:05:27.920 He can't land the shot though. 10:05:27.920 --> 10:05:29.420 It's a low already. 10:05:29.420 --> 10:05:33.860 I still get so they get it across the line here, but that's a scary round 10:05:35.740 --> 10:05:37.740 Very scary indeed 10:05:37.900 --> 10:05:39.900 Comes down to the two-on-two 10:05:40.580 --> 10:05:45.420 Paravision players tantalizingly low Mongols knew it as well, but the round will not be converted 10:05:45.700 --> 10:05:51.740 You're on the CT side. I think it'd be foolish to attempt another force by here even though you came so close to winning it 10:05:51.740 --> 10:05:59.140 Two zero power vision should be the full eco, but that time will tell techno 4k will bring out the desert eagle 10:05:59.140 --> 10:06:04.660 We've actually got three of them make it four as blitz will join them as well. So looking for those one deeks 10:06:07.220 --> 10:06:10.700 Body blocking the smoke towards middle does give them a bit of vision 10:06:14.180 --> 10:06:15.780 They are not 10:06:15.780 --> 10:06:20.860 Immediately getting anything I like it was brought up on the desk this idea that at any given moment 10:06:20.860 --> 10:06:24.140 They could lose a round like to anything on the Paravision side. 10:06:24.780 --> 10:06:27.460 You can see how close it was in that last one. 10:06:28.740 --> 10:06:30.340 Obviously fine when you win it. 10:06:31.180 --> 10:06:32.820 But it speaks to the comfort on the scene. 10:06:33.220 --> 10:06:36.820 So taking that vision away from middle, denying a push from short, 10:06:36.820 --> 10:06:40.340 it will be a five man assault in towards the A bomb site from long. 10:06:41.140 --> 10:06:42.100 You have to commit to this. 10:06:42.100 --> 10:06:44.300 You've lost territory across the map now. 10:06:44.300 --> 10:06:46.220 So no turning back at this point. 10:06:46.780 --> 10:06:48.860 You will have to face off against the Desert Eagles. 10:06:48.860 --> 10:06:50.340 It should be absolutely fine. 10:06:50.340 --> 10:06:51.340 but let's find out. 10:07:20.340 --> 10:07:26.260 Oh, might be the end of the ride here, Cobra gets one, but surely now with the bomb being planted in front of him 10:07:26.820 --> 10:07:30.540 Should have no business. He doesn't have a kit as long as they wait 10:07:30.540 --> 10:07:35.420 He can't easily get up here. Confirm that he's there. Jane will take him down. It's a pretty good triple 10:07:35.420 --> 10:07:40.060 He got that kill for the smoke as well. It's another much more scary round than it should be 10:07:40.060 --> 10:07:45.060 I mean if you're the mongols you're thinking well, he's done some damage. We've kept their economy a bit low. Absolutely 10:07:45.500 --> 10:07:50.220 You invested into a few deagles. You managed to get three kills. You've kept power vision very humble 10:07:50.340 --> 10:07:54.980 financially speaking. We talked about double orb setups on the CT side. That 10:07:54.980 --> 10:07:59.120 won't be available to them just yet, but 9-10 will bring his out and looking 10:07:59.120 --> 10:08:03.300 pretty strong overall in terms of their setup. But first going round coming in 10:08:03.300 --> 10:08:10.100 here now as we enter round number four. Dust 2 entering that B bomb site. James 10:08:10.100 --> 10:08:14.900 made a call out of spawn here looking for a B execution. There's a contact play. 10:08:14.900 --> 10:08:19.940 Zelo to lead the charge here and take the 4K just playing for the information. 10:08:19.940 --> 10:08:22.580 He's very careful his next jump, jame could take him. 10:08:23.380 --> 10:08:28.900 They might be in trouble anyway, trying to rush it down, the flashbangs in the sky are just so good at techno. 10:08:28.900 --> 10:08:31.140 He needs backup in the back of the bombsite. 10:08:31.140 --> 10:08:33.780 Oh, it's a dink as well and now blitz running in. 10:08:33.780 --> 10:08:38.100 A little bit one at a time here and jame jumps up on top of the box, they're gonna have to save this. 10:08:38.660 --> 10:08:39.460 I like that lead. 10:08:39.460 --> 10:08:41.780 Oh, they actually go back for it. They were running away. 10:08:42.580 --> 10:08:44.420 Maybe they know that one of them is low. 10:08:44.420 --> 10:08:47.540 The grenade not in the right corner there, no one's waiting. 10:08:47.540 --> 10:08:52.820 Another smoke available for D'Orza which just goes down, makes this one so much more difficult. 10:08:52.820 --> 10:08:57.580 You have no kits, you have an open arena take, I think you have to give this one up. 10:08:57.580 --> 10:08:59.500 Really nice call though from game. 10:08:59.500 --> 10:09:03.020 Textbook Dust 2 really, it's the first gun round they forced in the second, 10:09:03.020 --> 10:09:05.780 they won't have that double orbs set up for sure. 10:09:05.780 --> 10:09:08.100 Wait for your timing, wait for your opportunity. 10:09:08.100 --> 10:09:10.380 There was no smoke down, he's the incendiary instead. 10:09:10.380 --> 10:09:14.660 They flash over and it will be the Mongols called juggling grenades at the back 10:09:14.660 --> 10:09:16.660 and unable to fend them off. 10:09:17.860 --> 10:09:21.060 So you can see Leo could get some exits. He's hearing the steps. 10:09:21.060 --> 10:09:23.060 Okay, they've set up the right side. 10:09:23.060 --> 10:09:25.060 Yeah, maybe. Grenade in as well. 10:09:25.060 --> 10:09:28.460 Belcher not dies to the bomb, and that's actually not bad at all. 10:09:28.960 --> 10:09:35.360 So I have to say, both teams here, Henry, they love this heavy, upper-dark B-splits. 10:09:35.360 --> 10:09:39.060 It's one of the things they love to do, especially the Mongols from there on the seaside. 10:09:39.060 --> 10:09:43.560 They love doing the crisscross smokes, and then they do, essentially, what Caravision just did. 10:09:43.560 --> 10:09:50.880 Yeah, this was one of our all-out B assaults with one player lurking towards middle. 10:09:50.880 --> 10:09:54.320 He got found out, but the damage was already done, three on two advantage. 10:09:54.320 --> 10:09:58.080 They considered going for it, and well, 9-10 considering his options towards middle. 10:09:58.080 --> 10:10:01.320 He'll find in-game leader, Jame here, and give him the first advantage. 10:10:01.320 --> 10:10:04.120 I think they've had so far here on Dust2. 10:10:04.120 --> 10:10:08.360 Five versus four, and this is what it's all about, falling back, retreating. 10:10:08.360 --> 10:10:12.000 Going back into a deep hole setup, now you have the man advantage. 10:10:13.560 --> 10:10:20.880 I mean if 910 comes to play in this series that will change things significantly for the Mongols. He is a monster 10:10:20.880 --> 10:10:25.380 He really is one of my favorite orpas to watch right now so consistent 10:10:25.540 --> 10:10:28.580 Yeah, and that's the really important part. He hits all the flashy shots 10:10:28.580 --> 10:10:30.820 But he'll always get you one or two on the shots 10:10:30.820 --> 10:10:34.640 He has to land if he isn't for you watching at home one of your favorite job 10:10:34.640 --> 10:10:38.120 But you haven't been watching enough you need to watch more 910. It's really cool. Nice 10:10:38.640 --> 10:10:40.640 It's an HE on top 10:10:40.640 --> 10:10:47.640 Got Basira at the back, by Goose, and it's a lot of bullets through here, and Selo just walking out in front. 10:10:47.640 --> 10:10:52.140 He could have caught one of them off guard. He jumps down into CT spawn, and it's almost ready to take the fight there. 10:10:52.140 --> 10:10:56.340 With the people in the B bomb site miles away, the bomb is back down in the middle here. 10:10:56.340 --> 10:11:00.140 So they're going to try and turn this into a B attack while he's holding CT spawn. 10:11:00.140 --> 10:11:02.140 Yeah, locking off those rotations will be key. 10:11:02.140 --> 10:11:05.640 They seem to be very aware of this prospect. 9-10, there he is. 10:11:05.640 --> 10:11:11.320 It's going to be Zello trying to leap out of spawn, but it has been found out and now with two players remaining. 10:11:11.960 --> 10:11:16.200 You know the drill by now with Paravision, it's going to be a lovely long save. 10:11:18.440 --> 10:11:19.080 Yes. 10:11:19.600 --> 10:11:22.920 It makes sense under the circumstances of 2 vs 5. 10:11:25.720 --> 10:11:27.160 But that will be more than four board. 10:11:27.720 --> 10:11:31.960 All five players went down before. We talked about against those Deagles losing three players. 10:11:31.960 --> 10:11:32.400 Oh yeah. 10:11:32.400 --> 10:11:38.680 And then in the second round forced by lost three again, so money is going to be pretty much broken 10:11:38.680 --> 10:11:42.720 They will get $1400 into the next round. That's what they have to save really 10:11:43.240 --> 10:11:45.960 No criticism at all and that decision, but 10:11:46.620 --> 10:11:52.580 Yeah, money will be very very low you decide to open the AK which will be enough and you'll be joined by I guess tech 10:11:52.580 --> 10:11:57.000 Nines and some basic Kevlar barely any utility bear in mind no turner in his way 10:11:57.000 --> 10:12:00.840 sure they save the weapons but you get no further cash. They'll take a tactical timeout here 10:12:00.840 --> 10:12:04.040 and work out how they actually operate. Like they might have to even sacrifice the players 10:12:04.040 --> 10:12:07.480 carefully to actually have a few grenades to work with in this following round. 10:12:07.480 --> 10:12:12.600 So enough with this next round Henry, but in general, that catwalk position or short position 10:12:12.600 --> 10:12:17.560 leading into the A bomb site, why is it important for the CTs to hold that right now in the current 10:12:17.560 --> 10:12:21.560 meta? Like do they need to hold it? I guess another question is important. Do you want to see the 10:12:21.560 --> 10:12:26.520 mongrels fight for this or can they relax in the A bomb site a bit more? I guess it depends. Like I 10:12:26.520 --> 10:12:28.700 I like the CT aggression on Dust2 currently. 10:12:28.700 --> 10:12:30.340 I like players getting in towards low or B. 10:12:30.340 --> 10:12:32.460 I think there's really good viable options 10:12:32.460 --> 10:12:34.160 of incendiary towards top or middle, 10:12:34.160 --> 10:12:35.740 smoking it off, applying that pressure, 10:12:35.740 --> 10:12:37.100 and disrupting the T side game. 10:12:37.100 --> 10:12:40.740 Not allowing them to run their default strategies 10:12:40.740 --> 10:12:42.340 is what it's all about for me. 10:12:42.340 --> 10:12:43.620 And especially a team like PowerVision, 10:12:43.620 --> 10:12:46.300 very regimented, very reactionary. 10:12:46.300 --> 10:12:48.220 Not allowing them to have free reign of the map 10:12:48.220 --> 10:12:49.940 and just go through the motions of the default. 10:12:49.940 --> 10:12:52.100 I think that's gonna be crucial here 10:12:52.100 --> 10:12:53.940 for the Mongols in the CT side. 10:12:53.940 --> 10:12:56.940 So I'm going to keep in mind them, we'll see if they follow that idea. 10:12:56.940 --> 10:13:03.940 Missed incendiary, not a big deal. This is going to be that 4 man B tunnel set up again, but bear in mind the bombs on the back of Nota. 10:13:03.940 --> 10:13:10.940 So I don't think they finish up here. This will likely be a volley up towards Short through Lower B. 10:13:12.940 --> 10:13:14.940 Let's have a look. Anything could happen. 10:13:14.940 --> 10:13:16.940 Anything could happen. 10:13:16.940 --> 10:13:19.340 Jame has got the AWPer, that's got me worried. 10:13:20.340 --> 10:13:24.640 We taught about 9, 10 as an AWPer and he's definitely one of my favourite AWPer's to watch as well. 10:13:25.240 --> 10:13:28.840 But Jame has got to be one of the smartest players in the scene. 10:13:28.840 --> 10:13:29.440 Oh for sure. 10:13:29.440 --> 10:13:35.440 And whenever you're in the server against him, like you can just, you can always tell by the people that play against him that 10:13:35.840 --> 10:13:39.440 they're always a bit nervous, especially when he gets down into the clutches. 10:13:39.940 --> 10:13:42.140 He's just got this aura around him. 10:13:42.140 --> 10:13:50.140 So far, hasn't managed to find anything flashed out in the middle. He's got the right read, but I think Blitz is smartly disengaging from this one. 10:13:50.140 --> 10:13:55.140 Bomb will join him towards upper B. James will be smoking off towards CT spawn. 10:13:55.140 --> 10:13:56.140 Yeah. 10:13:56.140 --> 10:14:02.140 Popping it open as Blitz should be able to get a bit of freebie here. There it is, takes down Noether and it's James now isolated. 10:14:02.140 --> 10:14:06.860 top spot, his teammates don't take the opportunity to pounce towards that beat bombsite 10:14:06.860 --> 10:14:09.660 hoping jame can find something, gets the intel on one 10:14:09.660 --> 10:14:13.340 he knows he's got a window of time now to get close towards the bombsite 10:14:13.340 --> 10:14:15.060 there it is, doesn't find the kill 10:14:15.060 --> 10:14:18.140 missed opportunity, that cost them everything, yeah 10:14:18.140 --> 10:14:21.660 they wanted to get through, they needed jame to open it up or they needed to be through 10:14:21.660 --> 10:14:23.900 when they were already fighting glitz in the middle to begin with 10:14:23.900 --> 10:14:26.140 nice shot from jame but it doesn't matter 10:14:26.140 --> 10:14:28.540 they are all coming for him down the middle here 10:14:28.540 --> 10:14:36.540 And no further casualties, the Mongols, slow start, but I mean now they're picking it up, they're stealing the AKs, they could even steal the other AWP I think, if they want it. 10:14:36.540 --> 10:14:41.540 Just goes back to that point of every kill in Counter-Strike has a knock-on effect somewhere down the line. 10:14:41.540 --> 10:14:50.540 The Deagle kills they found, those close rounds they managed to lose, sure, but they were close, means that there's absolutely no money left after that 4-spy. 10:14:50.540 --> 10:14:54.920 zero impacts really there from ParaVision a chance now to really bolster the 10:14:54.920 --> 10:14:58.020 defenses you've got AK's you've got the AWP and there you have against just 10:14:58.020 --> 10:15:02.900 Glocks here so we'll go 4-3 for short and we are here on Dust2 the pick of 10:15:02.900 --> 10:15:07.580 ParaVision where the Mongols waking up at 9-10 feeling himself as he goes with 10:15:07.580 --> 10:15:10.820 that early information knowing there'll be no utility no Molotov down towards 10:15:10.820 --> 10:15:15.580 shore he has free reign at the map. I want to overcook and we have got an 10:15:15.580 --> 10:15:19.140 interesting boost there hoping a CT will push those double doors but why would 10:15:19.140 --> 10:15:23.940 you and this sort of round you know there's nothing on the other side you're 10:15:23.940 --> 10:15:29.460 the ones with rifles to lose it grenade and damage towards belch knock that's 10:15:29.460 --> 10:15:33.780 up overall I can't even imagine a wild receipts considering that push right 10:15:33.780 --> 10:15:36.540 now well we've been talking about it and the desk we're talking about it how 10:15:36.540 --> 10:15:39.900 both these teams have made mistakes so far in the tournament and we want to see 10:15:39.900 --> 10:15:43.540 those mistakes minimized and pushing into this definitely would be one of 10:15:43.540 --> 10:15:46.700 those on the list and see those those downs actually some pretty good 10:15:46.700 --> 10:15:50.540 glock shots coming up but they're gonna be careful in 910 yeah I'd say so 10:15:50.540 --> 10:15:54.260 Jane if he's here I mean if he just stands up and gets a head shot there 10:15:54.260 --> 10:15:58.460 the round is open again bomb being brought back this sway in the B bomb 10:15:58.460 --> 10:16:02.860 site with just a glock and now he's flashed okay head shot they wanted to 10:16:02.860 --> 10:16:06.780 be in the bomb back it's not easy holding it I suppose this all comes down 10:16:06.780 --> 10:16:11.500 to blitz they've got an incendiary to flush him out of the car position they 10:16:11.500 --> 10:16:18.700 stole that no armor though jame dies quick notar he's picked up the ak wants 10:16:18.700 --> 10:16:21.420 to carry on the fight here see if you get the incendiary down in the corner 10:16:21.420 --> 10:16:25.540 might not be easy smoke goes up preemptively so now you're not gonna be 10:16:25.540 --> 10:16:32.340 doing much it's back here he got a cow this is getting weird now they had five 10:16:32.340 --> 10:16:38.020 glocks there's no way you should be losing the five blocks over a zero he 10:16:38.020 --> 10:16:42.580 He gets that one on cello and now it's noted with 10 seconds left, they're pulled from the catwalk. 10:16:42.580 --> 10:16:47.580 There's one looking for the headshot, 5 seconds on the clock, makes the jump up, and send the area out. 10:16:47.580 --> 10:16:54.700 He peeks into it! If he would have stood in the corner, he would have been fine, Henry! 10:16:54.700 --> 10:17:00.620 What's on Earth is that? I assumed he thought he was going to be hunted down, knife out? 10:17:00.620 --> 10:17:03.180 Or what? He thought he was going to burn alive in one second? 10:17:03.180 --> 10:17:05.460 I have no idea why he peeks at angle. 10:17:05.460 --> 10:17:08.780 That is an absolute horror show of a round for the Montblancers there. 10:17:09.420 --> 10:17:12.140 Does the incendiary even land? No, it doesn't even connect. 10:17:13.740 --> 10:17:14.540 Oh, no! 10:17:14.540 --> 10:17:17.140 If he had just AFK'd in the corner, he wins the round. 10:17:17.140 --> 10:17:18.300 There was no time to plan. 10:17:18.980 --> 10:17:21.220 I guess he thought he was going to be pushed. 10:17:21.580 --> 10:17:24.300 Hunter down and War Bank potentially. 10:17:24.300 --> 10:17:26.780 That's all I can really imagine was going through his head about, 10:17:26.780 --> 10:17:28.060 yeah, that's a massive fumble. 10:17:28.060 --> 10:17:29.500 You've lost to Glocks there, boys. 10:17:30.940 --> 10:17:34.380 Five Glocks and a stolen AK in the pits. 10:17:34.380 --> 10:17:37.380 Oh, calamity. Wheels falling off now. 10:17:38.380 --> 10:17:42.380 Yeah, that's crazy work to give that round over. 10:17:44.380 --> 10:17:52.380 Techno, as we always send us to, you lose a frag, you lose some control, you need to react, you can't stay static in 9-10. 10:17:52.380 --> 10:17:54.380 Bringing the fight to them as short. 10:17:54.380 --> 10:17:58.380 Great shots on these rifles, recovering nicely, they got the man advantage here. 10:17:58.380 --> 10:18:01.380 9-10 though in a difficult position, James you find him no problem. 10:18:01.380 --> 10:18:07.380 As you're going to a 2 vs 2, long plants here, couple of flashes, and they're going to try and flash over and get to a long. 10:18:07.380 --> 10:18:12.380 Yes, exactly what he's going for. Belchnock knows they won't have much in terms of diffuse contenders. 10:18:12.380 --> 10:18:15.380 So if you can get a nice long position, you've got the perfect plan to defend from the pits. 10:18:15.380 --> 10:18:19.380 The technos coming in, he's made the long rep around. I still love the move. 10:18:19.380 --> 10:18:24.380 And I think they're hearing Belchnock out there. He's had a bit of a rough tournament the last game for me. 10:18:24.380 --> 10:18:27.380 It's parry against a wild card, wasn't quite good enough. 10:18:27.380 --> 10:18:31.620 The Cobra Zero are making the jump up here. They are a bit low, but the problem is they'll 10:18:31.620 --> 10:18:36.500 keep no smoke, no nothing to get this done with, and all they have to do is wait it out, 10:18:36.500 --> 10:18:39.500 and he knows it as well. He's hunting for the kill still. I mean, maybe he could find 10:18:39.500 --> 10:18:44.820 Jayman, at least get the AWP away, but ultimately, it will be another round here from HarryVision. 10:18:44.820 --> 10:18:50.660 They... there he goes. What a comeback for them. Five glocks then into this one. I guess 10:18:50.660 --> 10:18:54.700 for the Mongols, the rounds that they won, the two rounds, they had so many people alive. 10:18:54.700 --> 10:18:56.700 Well, let's see what they have to say, Henry. 10:18:56.700 --> 10:18:58.700 Good. Oh, fuck. 10:18:58.700 --> 10:19:01.700 The game is over, but fuck. 10:19:03.700 --> 10:19:04.700 Okay. 10:19:04.700 --> 10:19:07.700 Well, I kind of agree. You lose to Glocks. 10:19:07.700 --> 10:19:08.700 That could be... 10:19:08.700 --> 10:19:13.700 In that sort of fashion, and the fact that you literally had to be AFK in the corner to win the round. 10:19:13.700 --> 10:19:15.700 That's gonna hurt. 10:19:15.700 --> 10:19:18.700 Nice opening kill, that was elo, but, uh... 10:19:18.700 --> 10:19:20.700 Yeah, that's a huge right to win. 10:19:20.700 --> 10:19:22.700 There is still money available for the Mongols going into this one, 10:19:22.700 --> 10:19:26.620 this one, but they lose everyone going forward. James, just to know you went down on the blast, 10:19:26.620 --> 10:19:30.740 but the C4 blew the AWP all the way back to the pit, or where it could be recovered. 10:19:30.740 --> 10:19:34.180 That's a good detail. Yeah. And you brought up another good detail, the idea of flashing 10:19:34.180 --> 10:19:40.100 your way into that long position so that they could get out. I like that. I think Bell 10:19:40.100 --> 10:19:43.940 Chalk is a promising player. Every once in a while, he disappears. But like you pointed, 10:19:43.940 --> 10:19:48.700 you said against Wildcard, he was, I mean, the style was not happy. 10:19:48.700 --> 10:19:53.900 was a rough game to watch. The fact that Mirage is 54 rounds and no disrespect to Wild 10:19:53.900 --> 10:19:57.900 Cards, they're doing what they can. Weren't supposed to be at the tournament, but the 10:19:57.900 --> 10:20:03.780 fact you had them on the ropes was very impressive. We talked about that double orbs setup and 10:20:03.780 --> 10:20:13.540 it's Cobra's error, sinking his fangs into game. 5 on 4, opening advantage. Mongols now 10:20:13.540 --> 10:20:15.540 I need to convert this one. 10:20:16.540 --> 10:20:21.540 The fact that you can imply the double up after two round wins says something about how much they won those two rounds. 10:20:22.540 --> 10:20:24.540 Then they give it back to Glocks. 10:20:25.540 --> 10:20:28.540 Yeah, are we going to revisit that same heavy upper dark push? 10:20:29.540 --> 10:20:33.540 This is the third time, and again, statistically, both teams love doing this. 10:20:33.540 --> 10:20:37.540 You might see Mongols through the same thing. They're really big fans of it as well. 10:20:37.540 --> 10:20:39.540 There's a smoke for the middle. 10:20:39.540 --> 10:20:41.540 Flash going over. 10:20:41.540 --> 10:20:44.540 D-Bolotovs towards the back of that plateau with the B bomb site. 10:20:44.540 --> 10:20:45.540 As the Cobra. 10:20:45.540 --> 10:20:46.540 Nobody's there. 10:20:46.540 --> 10:20:47.540 Yeah, he's ready. 10:20:47.540 --> 10:20:48.540 He's got the USP out, Techno. 10:20:48.540 --> 10:20:51.540 It's actually going to be Cobra Zero who lands the kill against Belchinov. 10:20:51.540 --> 10:20:53.540 They're back to winning again. 10:20:53.540 --> 10:20:54.540 Okay. 10:20:54.540 --> 10:20:58.540 Well, those couple of picks there from Cobra's error. 10:20:58.540 --> 10:21:00.540 I bet you have a nice clean round there. 10:21:00.540 --> 10:21:01.540 I think no one went down. 10:21:01.540 --> 10:21:03.540 Yeah, all five players surviving. 10:21:03.540 --> 10:21:04.540 Now you're kind of recovering. 10:21:04.540 --> 10:21:06.540 Like, sure, you lost a glock. 10:21:06.540 --> 10:21:11.580 Nightmare scenario, about as bad as it possibly gets, but having those clean 10:21:11.580 --> 10:21:16.020 double or browns, this is their best and final form here on Dust2, Cobra's 10:21:16.020 --> 10:21:19.660 there it seems to be an absolute beast on our secondary AWP, he always goes with 10:21:19.660 --> 10:21:23.860 a mid-pick and more of a novel final kill, there it is. I'm glad you brought it up 10:21:23.860 --> 10:21:26.020 right at the start of the game Henry because it's one of those things that 10:21:26.020 --> 10:21:30.180 is worth watching for, makes this team a little bit more interesting when you got 10:21:30.180 --> 10:21:35.340 that potential. Here we go again. Going to be very fast, Techno in the corner, he's got 10:21:35.340 --> 10:21:41.880 The AK and they're coming through on the other side first killers brilliant the next what is taking all the bullets 10:21:41.880 --> 10:21:44.500 But yeah, he did a job try to put down the smoke 10:21:49.060 --> 10:21:54.980 Jumping around the flames 10 HP another clean sweep depth in the Mongols recovering 10:21:55.540 --> 10:21:58.200 From that previous plumbed up well, then 10:21:58.980 --> 10:22:03.140 And that's gonna be the money busted now for Paravish and they have to take the eco over the final round yet 10:22:03.140 --> 10:22:07.140 felt like they were done. James said it was over. 10:22:07.140 --> 10:22:10.140 Yeah, they're finished. Yeah, that's it. 10:22:10.140 --> 10:22:17.140 But since CobraZera brought out the secondary AWPs up to 11 and 6, a solid B-hole, not a great spray from Techno, 10:22:17.140 --> 10:22:21.140 a lot of chaos, a lot of flashes going on to be fair, but he survives, gets himself a double. 10:22:21.140 --> 10:22:24.140 Yeah. Can't really criticize that at all. 10:22:24.140 --> 10:22:30.140 Double Sniper, he's very meta right now to disavow the CTs popping it open and see he'll pop it up in CTop the middle, 10:22:30.140 --> 10:22:37.780 can't see towards short yes one of those pieces of technology that had to be 10:22:37.780 --> 10:22:44.700 invented once we got the volumetric smokes out mm-hmm so catwalk no one's 10:22:44.700 --> 10:22:49.060 fighting for it I asked you question earlier it is glocks again it is glocks 10:22:49.060 --> 10:22:52.820 again but just to say the Mongols aren't controlling this part of the map 10:22:52.820 --> 10:22:55.140 maybe it's a good idea this time you don't want to be too close maybe to the 10:22:55.140 --> 10:23:01.700 pistols. Okay, Molotov. Nice shot from 910. That's the beginning. 10:23:01.700 --> 10:23:04.500 They come. Jump down. There's still a rifle there if you can. 10:23:04.500 --> 10:23:07.900 There you go. Game gets a shot. No, please. It can't happen again. 10:23:07.900 --> 10:23:10.940 Surely, MCNEO. He wants to hunt it down and Jim knew that. 10:23:10.940 --> 10:23:14.820 Bombing planted on the other side. Shuei is in CT spawn with an AK. 10:23:14.820 --> 10:23:17.900 If the Mongols usually lose another round just the pistols, 10:23:17.900 --> 10:23:22.020 that is going to be unacceptable. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, he's low. 10:23:22.020 --> 10:23:29.460 James got you he's so smart and Shway gets a headshot Henry how could they keep doing this he hunts one more down and 10:23:29.460 --> 10:23:37.220 I'm senior oh he's low on health just unacceptable trying to get here you got the opening kill against four glocks in a p250 10:23:37.220 --> 10:23:44.820 and you just lost the round Shway with four kills in this one it's about time we send the stand to talk to the mongols 10:23:44.820 --> 10:23:49.780 on that like they need to borrow him and this bring this ties into the question of 10:23:49.780 --> 10:23:57.220 the snort but my god you've lost to glocks and a pg-50 twice in one half you get the opening 10:23:57.220 --> 10:24:06.660 pick yeah no are you looking blitz what are you up to that is just it's really nice 10:24:06.660 --> 10:24:10.580 it's like don't get me wrong like he really has come into his own since he joined this squad but 10:24:10.580 --> 10:24:13.340 just an absolute disaster. 10:24:14.340 --> 10:24:16.340 Two rounds in this half. 10:24:16.340 --> 10:24:18.420 You've lost a Glocks and a PT-50. 10:24:18.420 --> 10:24:19.820 Well, to bring it back to... 10:24:19.820 --> 10:24:21.300 And a 5-on-4 advantage. 10:24:21.300 --> 10:24:22.420 Just to reiterate that. 10:24:22.420 --> 10:24:26.100 It's so crazy that they could do it twice in one half. 10:24:26.100 --> 10:24:27.700 But what is happening today? 10:24:29.020 --> 10:24:30.140 But again, it goes back to the conversation 10:24:30.140 --> 10:24:31.300 about controlling Cowork. 10:24:31.300 --> 10:24:32.420 Yes, true. 10:24:32.420 --> 10:24:34.260 They let them have it. 10:24:34.260 --> 10:24:35.340 And the job follows. 10:24:35.340 --> 10:24:38.100 It shouldn't be a problem still. 10:24:38.100 --> 10:24:39.900 They have nothing to work with. 10:24:40.580 --> 10:24:46.480 Yeah, blitz has caught napping down in CT spawn looking at the ground. I guess he was trying to dodge flashbangs. I had no idea but 10:24:47.320 --> 10:24:52.640 Your protocols in place to disallow that five and four advantage. That's how you lose it 10:24:54.040 --> 10:24:56.120 Final round of this first half what a half it's been 10:24:56.120 --> 10:24:59.340 I was curious if Mongols were gonna over commit to defending B 10:24:59.880 --> 10:25:03.720 Because that need to well be split speaking of which power vision 10:25:03.720 --> 10:25:06.560 You're gonna see them stack the B bombsite so much in the CT side 10:25:06.560 --> 10:25:12.580 Jamal Culver at almost every gun round that are three players tucked inside the V-bomb site. It's one of their cooling cards 10:25:13.120 --> 10:25:18.600 Well, I look forward to but here we have again the Mongols not controlling catwalk not knowing what's happening and 10:25:19.160 --> 10:25:24.960 Paravision are big fans of executing from this position. They're gonna throw the smoke into CT spawn and there's been so many B 10:25:24.960 --> 10:25:26.960 pushes in this one that 10:25:27.360 --> 10:25:33.440 Mine has to keep two people over on that side still three on the A side of it very quick with the setup here 10:25:33.440 --> 10:25:38.000 I'm Celio's calling it out now. 9-10 trying to get back in position. It's an easy kill on the first one 10:25:38.000 --> 10:25:42.640 But Jayman noted they're very fast on the return and now 9-10 out on long 10:25:42.640 --> 10:25:44.720 No one's flanking you yet. Tresa's holding the position 10:25:44.720 --> 10:25:50.680 He knows no one's coming catwalk as they're crouching busts tell seconds on the clock and the bomb is going to be planted 10:25:50.680 --> 10:25:56.640 I can't believe he got there by ducking his head down low double open the retake really not what you're looking for here a 10:25:56.800 --> 10:26:02.040 Backstab coming in eventually as well from Zway towards those long double doors more itself to make it a little more uncomfortable 10:26:02.040 --> 10:26:07.640 the ball yeah take no one be forced to jump up but notice holding it he's 10:26:07.640 --> 10:26:12.720 waiting you want somebody to show the top of the helmet here how long miss 10:26:12.720 --> 10:26:17.160 spray on the first one but the flank from long shway comes in one more double 10:26:17.160 --> 10:26:21.800 for him notice it takes the last and that is gonna be a very very strong start 10:26:21.800 --> 10:26:27.480 here of Harrogation just looking good I mean sure that's accurate that statement 10:26:27.480 --> 10:26:30.360 is correct you saying there's another side of this coin there is another side 10:26:30.360 --> 10:26:35.320 of this coin, quite an ugly one. You've done some analysis, tell me about it. I just feel like it 10:26:35.320 --> 10:26:39.000 writes itself. The fact that you've lost twice, like you've had some, all the gun rounds, you've 10:26:39.000 --> 10:26:43.320 had a double-orbs set up or cover as errors by being able to find your opening picks, have gone 10:26:43.320 --> 10:26:47.400 towards being a shutting that down, that's no problem. That's great. When the blocks come out, 10:26:47.400 --> 10:26:52.840 you've lost to them twice. Like once and a half, sure, it happens. Like it occasionally 10:26:52.840 --> 10:26:58.840 rounds can slip by, things can escalate. But the fact happens twice and you're not playing a great 10:26:58.840 --> 10:27:04.840 and you're not known for your preparation and you're up against one of the most well-prepped teams in CS2, 10:27:04.840 --> 10:27:09.840 you will be punished for those mistakes. And those are crucial mistakes. 10:27:09.840 --> 10:27:13.840 Opening kills against Glocks and you can't handle it. It's too much for you. 10:27:13.840 --> 10:27:17.840 A P250 at four Glocks shuts down one of the world's best teams here. 10:27:17.840 --> 10:27:20.840 This is not a good look, but the game is not over. 10:27:20.840 --> 10:27:26.840 You're going to have to mentally reset here. Four will have to do for the Mongols. 10:27:26.840 --> 10:27:30.200 I'm curious if they're going to be allowed to play enough rounds here in the second half. 10:27:31.560 --> 10:27:36.440 But if they do, watch how much Mongols can enjoy the crisscross smoke in the middle. 10:27:37.080 --> 10:27:41.960 Let's see whether Paravision wants to get a little bit wacky with it. 10:27:41.960 --> 10:27:45.640 Aggressive towards middle, but looks at things like the body block, the Xbox smoke. 10:27:48.040 --> 10:27:50.680 Okay, not going to happen, but still 10:27:52.920 --> 10:27:55.400 it comes to Molotov towards short, pushing back any... oh. 10:27:56.840 --> 10:28:03.080 Maybe he did body block it enough. I'm not sure. Should it have been yeah, maybe either way the monitor doesn't work 10:28:04.040 --> 10:28:06.120 Doesn't make a massive difference, but still 10:28:08.280 --> 10:28:13.180 Here we go very important pistol here for the Mongols need at least a bomb plan out of this 10:28:15.640 --> 10:28:17.640 They're on the catwalk right now 10:28:18.200 --> 10:28:20.880 They have one more smoke which is on blitz 10:28:20.880 --> 10:28:25.880 He's in the middle, so that could be the split coming out. 10:28:25.880 --> 10:28:28.880 It's only Nota that's on the side of the map. 10:28:28.880 --> 10:28:32.880 He's alone. Sorry, not Nota. Belchinok. 10:28:32.880 --> 10:28:35.880 Nota showing up now. Flashes through. 10:28:35.880 --> 10:28:39.880 He's got the dualies, but the entire team is coming for him. 10:28:39.880 --> 10:28:42.880 9-10 gets the first one, but falling back off the box. 10:28:42.880 --> 10:28:44.880 He's only good for the one. Techno. 10:28:44.880 --> 10:28:47.880 He was coming in from the upper dark position. 10:28:47.880 --> 10:28:51.880 Have they really saved it on the pistol? Okay. Respect. 10:28:51.880 --> 10:28:53.880 They really are. 10:28:53.880 --> 10:28:55.880 You don't see it too often, but the round is done. 10:28:55.880 --> 10:28:57.880 To be fair, you're not going to win him. 10:28:57.880 --> 10:28:59.880 I'll say the Kevlar in force in the second. 10:28:59.880 --> 10:29:01.880 9-10, aware of these antics. 10:29:01.880 --> 10:29:04.880 Will be on the prowl, on the hunt here. 10:29:04.880 --> 10:29:06.880 Known for his precision. 10:29:06.880 --> 10:29:10.880 Quite interesting round from Paravision, having four people at the A-bomb site, 10:29:10.880 --> 10:29:13.880 but having absolutely no map awareness at all. 10:29:13.880 --> 10:29:15.880 Like, they had no idea what's happening anywhere on the map. 10:29:15.880 --> 10:29:20.840 So they do have quite a unique approach to Dust2CT side. 10:29:20.840 --> 10:29:23.080 As I mentioned, they like to stack bombsites, 10:29:23.080 --> 10:29:25.320 they like to take gambles, and they're more than happy 10:29:25.320 --> 10:29:27.520 to save on rounds, even pistol round. 10:29:27.520 --> 10:29:29.600 And there's that we're saving. 10:29:29.600 --> 10:29:30.800 He's not saving. 10:29:30.800 --> 10:29:32.320 That was one of the Kevlar's gone. 10:29:32.320 --> 10:29:33.520 BEEP BEEP BEEP 10:29:33.520 --> 10:29:34.880 Damn it, that's a rest. 10:29:34.880 --> 10:29:36.200 Rest are going to be fine. 10:29:36.200 --> 10:29:39.120 But you said the Mongols had to win the pistol round. 10:29:39.120 --> 10:29:41.200 And they did so convincingly. 10:29:41.200 --> 10:29:42.040 Very convincing. 10:29:42.040 --> 10:29:43.280 It's good work. 10:29:43.280 --> 10:29:45.800 But saving, to be fair, they saved two players, 10:29:45.800 --> 10:29:48.560 but only one had Kevlar's, there's not like a huge deal. 10:29:48.560 --> 10:29:51.280 Zwei did just save the USB, no Kevlar. 10:29:51.280 --> 10:29:53.400 So they don't have the force by here, 10:29:53.400 --> 10:29:57.440 but I imagine they will with scouts and MP9s, 10:29:57.440 --> 10:30:00.720 but an opportunity now to recover, 10:30:00.720 --> 10:30:03.760 to wake up perhaps on the Mongol side, 10:30:03.760 --> 10:30:07.640 some unacceptable rounds presented in that first half, 10:30:07.640 --> 10:30:08.480 a couple of them. 10:30:09.600 --> 10:30:11.440 Yeah, we hope that's the last time 10:30:11.440 --> 10:30:13.520 that we have to see Mongols do something like that, 10:30:13.520 --> 10:30:15.760 or we're just at the start of the series. 10:30:15.760 --> 10:30:17.760 There's still space to make more mistakes. 10:30:17.760 --> 10:30:20.760 It's been the theme of the tournament, to be honest with you. 10:30:20.760 --> 10:30:22.760 I think that's true. 10:30:22.760 --> 10:30:27.760 Just try and make as few as possible easier said than done. 10:30:27.760 --> 10:30:30.760 Catwalkie in Belgium, he's thinking about it. 10:30:30.760 --> 10:30:37.760 He's got Jane behind him, so if the scout could do anything, there's no flash to set it up either. 10:30:37.760 --> 10:30:44.760 The best case would have been for a bit of a swing there with Jane getting the body shot and then the SMG following it up. 10:30:44.760 --> 10:30:50.700 It's been nullified for the moment, flashes around, they actually recommit to this fight 10:30:50.700 --> 10:30:51.700 here. 10:30:51.700 --> 10:30:59.800 There's plenty of time and they've got MCD off holding long, they can do whatever they 10:30:59.800 --> 10:31:00.800 want. 10:31:00.800 --> 10:31:06.600 Stack at the B-bomb side this time, three people on over there with this force by. 10:31:06.600 --> 10:31:09.640 What are the Mongols gonna be doing right now? 10:31:09.640 --> 10:31:10.640 Who knows Anders? 10:31:10.640 --> 10:31:13.640 Oh, Veltranos got an idea though. 10:31:13.640 --> 10:31:19.620 This is the second round force by bear in mind pick a paravision first map 10:31:20.480 --> 10:31:22.240 8 5 up 10:31:22.240 --> 10:31:24.240 Loosen the pistol 10:31:24.400 --> 10:31:29.920 Has put them in a compromised position and they've got the opening kill if they they run right into the stack though 10:31:30.040 --> 10:31:34.240 There's another piece that I told you you did tell us did warn us Henry at the start 10:31:34.400 --> 10:31:37.800 Bell Chinook and then Shway to follow it up the bombers down in the middle 910 10:31:37.800 --> 10:31:40.720 You've got 18 seconds on the clock if you want to do something 10:31:40.720 --> 10:31:46.180 It's gonna have to be very fast at this point still three people inside of the B bomb site just relaxing the bombs down 10:31:46.180 --> 10:31:48.560 So yeah, it's round over save your AKs 10:31:49.880 --> 10:31:56.100 And there it is you're gonna see a lot of that Anders mark my words you're gonna see plenty of three-man be holds I 10:31:56.800 --> 10:32:01.340 Don't know if they even realize how many people are on the B bomb side of the Mongols when they go back and check the dome 10:32:01.340 --> 10:32:04.500 It's not gonna feel great like it's a I don't think they go back and watch demos there 10:32:04.500 --> 10:32:07.500 I don't think they do that. 10:32:07.500 --> 10:32:09.500 I think they just turn up the blade. 10:32:09.500 --> 10:32:11.500 That's kind of their whole M.O. 10:32:11.500 --> 10:32:12.500 Kind of genius though. 10:32:12.500 --> 10:32:13.500 They dodged the hard ache. 10:32:13.500 --> 10:32:14.500 Yeah. 10:32:14.500 --> 10:32:16.500 You know, the later I'm going to show you now. 10:32:16.500 --> 10:32:17.500 I'm joking, of course. 10:32:17.500 --> 10:32:20.500 I'm sure they're still there. 10:32:20.500 --> 10:32:25.500 Well, they're forced by Comparavision, 10:32:25.500 --> 10:32:28.500 working very well for them. 10:32:28.500 --> 10:32:31.500 They're going to steal a Galil and a Mac 10. 10:32:31.500 --> 10:32:33.500 They got all the weapons now on the CT side. 10:32:33.500 --> 10:32:35.500 Oh well 10:32:36.200 --> 10:32:41.160 We sit there's a must-win pistol the follow-up conversion though left a lot to be desired 10:32:42.100 --> 10:32:44.000 Round number 15 here 10:32:44.000 --> 10:32:51.540 Staving two AKs are very important for the Mongols. We know they're a hard-hitting team 910 and techno 4k to operate with the heavy artillery here 10:32:54.500 --> 10:32:57.940 Whoever they can make this one work you're gonna have to keep it simple 10:32:59.280 --> 10:33:02.440 Scouts in the hands of Cobra's error. We know he's capable sniper 10:33:03.500 --> 10:33:10.500 Big shoes to fill after Senzu departed for reasons unknown, still to this day. 10:33:10.500 --> 10:33:11.500 That's true. 10:33:11.500 --> 10:33:13.500 We have no idea why. 10:33:15.500 --> 10:33:18.500 Now, that port everybody off guard. 10:33:18.500 --> 10:33:23.500 The Cobra Zera has been very good, especially in the secondary sniper role. 10:33:23.500 --> 10:33:24.500 Very impressive. 10:33:24.500 --> 10:33:26.500 Seems like a nice kid too. 10:33:26.500 --> 10:33:34.500 Yeah, many people have said impossible shoes to fill with Senzu, but I agree, I think he's done a remarkable job so far. 10:33:34.500 --> 10:33:38.500 And it's still early on. Techno, walking up on the catwalk. 10:33:38.500 --> 10:33:42.500 Oh, they really didn't know, no Tegi could have gone down right then and there. 10:33:42.500 --> 10:33:47.500 Now they realize, what is the plan for the Mongols here? 10:33:47.500 --> 10:33:51.500 It's gonna have to be some sort of a finish, that's not bad. 10:33:51.500 --> 10:33:57.820 Bad, we talked about the prowess on the sniper from young Cobra, stepping up, you will find 10:33:57.820 --> 10:34:02.380 Jane, he had the M4 as well so, whether they want to change into a B-Split here, try and 10:34:02.380 --> 10:34:04.380 recover that rifle, I think that's going to be the approach. 10:34:04.380 --> 10:34:07.420 It's the repeat from the Saint from the last round, they throw the waterfall smokes on 10:34:07.420 --> 10:34:10.620 Cat 4, last time they went down middle but now they've been slowed down with the smoke 10:34:10.620 --> 10:34:14.980 going up, they're shuffling around back and forth so much, I don't love it, there's still 10:34:14.980 --> 10:34:20.260 an incendiary here on Selo, and there's one on Belchnock, in theory they could hold this 10:34:20.260 --> 10:34:25.100 off for a very long time. Chwey is pushing through middle, there's the one in Sendiri 10:34:25.100 --> 10:34:28.820 into upper dock but there's another one behind it. The Mongols, they're waiting it out thinking 10:34:28.820 --> 10:34:31.740 that must have been the last grenade. Now MCNU is going to be called. I think they could 10:34:31.740 --> 10:34:35.740 lose this round to that one last Sendiri. We'll see. It's just gone up again. 10:34:35.740 --> 10:34:38.300 They're going to have to fall back to Lava. Yeah, they have to run away. 10:34:38.300 --> 10:34:42.020 So much noise. This is disastrous. Notes are going down. They're running and not even 10:34:42.020 --> 10:34:47.460 wrapping with weapons out. Chwey is taking the round away surely. Two versus two. The 10:34:47.460 --> 10:34:50.460 The bomb is in lower dark, there's 15 seconds on the clock here. 10:34:50.460 --> 10:34:52.460 Even if you get this kill, doesn't think it matters. 10:34:52.460 --> 10:34:53.460 You've got no time to plan. 10:34:53.460 --> 10:34:54.460 Zwei can just run away at this point. 10:34:54.460 --> 10:34:55.460 Perfect. 10:34:55.460 --> 10:34:56.460 Wow. 10:34:56.460 --> 10:34:57.460 Get the Molotov, survive. 10:34:57.460 --> 10:34:59.960 They can't win, even if it's a 1-1. 10:34:59.960 --> 10:35:00.960 Get out of there. 10:35:00.960 --> 10:35:01.960 Run. 10:35:01.960 --> 10:35:02.960 Run for the hills. 10:35:02.960 --> 10:35:03.960 Yeah. 10:35:03.960 --> 10:35:06.460 Just don't pull the Mongols and die when you've already won the round. 10:35:06.460 --> 10:35:07.960 That's a good point. 10:35:07.960 --> 10:35:08.960 Don't do that. 10:35:08.960 --> 10:35:12.960 Xwei has got 17 and 70, just won this round to time. 10:35:12.960 --> 10:35:13.960 And he's doing everything. 10:35:13.960 --> 10:35:16.460 It just seems like utter calamity for the Mongols. 10:35:16.460 --> 10:35:22.460 It seems like they're so disjointed right now, like with the time, the positioning, like Zwei's already got a kill on low B 10:35:22.460 --> 10:35:27.460 and you're running knife out into the same position, making all that noise, assuming he's just vacated the premises. 10:35:27.460 --> 10:35:32.460 Even before that, right, they get the kill on Jame in the middle, then, like you said, they wanted to turn it into a B split 10:35:32.460 --> 10:35:35.460 but then a smoke goes up in the middle, so then they say, okay, well, it's turning into an upper dark push, 10:35:35.460 --> 10:35:39.460 then the incendiary's keep landing, then they say, well, we'll go back, like, they're just getting pulled around the map 10:35:39.460 --> 10:35:45.460 due to the utility of parry vision. That's not how you want to play, like, where's the commanding presence here for the Mongols? 10:35:45.460 --> 10:35:46.460 for the Mongols. 10:35:46.460 --> 10:35:50.620 It's to be seen right now, they know Zealots towards those mid-doors, going to try and 10:35:50.620 --> 10:35:54.580 punish him, he's going to drop the incendiary and tuck tail in towards CT spawn, they're 10:35:54.580 --> 10:35:58.340 taking a lot of damage on route, should be able to trade him out there, but no two arrives 10:35:58.340 --> 10:36:02.500 in the nick of time to find the second kill of the round, five versus three, Grenade being 10:36:02.500 --> 10:36:06.220 exchanged pushing them back, that confirms that no one else is home, they'll reclaim territory 10:36:06.220 --> 10:36:11.140 towards middle as the Mongols desperately scramble in towards the A side here, hasn't 10:36:11.140 --> 10:36:17.980 been a great showing from the Mongols so far. The scoreline tells the whole story. 11-5, 10:36:17.980 --> 10:36:23.100 that was their eco, bear in mind, but no success found whatsoever. They get a couple of kills 10:36:23.100 --> 10:36:27.300 sure, but that level will read 11-5, power vision, touching distance, picking up their 10:36:27.300 --> 10:36:31.020 map pick of Dust2. 10:36:31.020 --> 10:36:37.460 It's convincing at the moment. It is 11-5, they've got so many cases as well, and they 10:36:37.460 --> 10:36:42.740 They got more important this way with 19 and 7. 10:36:42.740 --> 10:36:45.600 He's so far ahead of everybody else. 10:36:45.600 --> 10:36:49.140 And this is a player that looked like he couldn't keep up with tier 1 and Team Spirit, right? 10:36:49.140 --> 10:36:50.700 That is true. 10:36:50.700 --> 10:36:51.700 Game is done. 10:36:51.700 --> 10:36:52.700 Absolutely. 10:36:52.700 --> 10:36:55.060 Wonderful work. 10:36:55.060 --> 10:36:59.140 Bringing him online, activating his ability that we knew he had. 10:36:59.140 --> 10:37:00.140 Yeah. 10:37:00.140 --> 10:37:01.140 He was... 10:37:01.140 --> 10:37:05.740 You know, something's a-continous on point with pro players saying who's the next up 10:37:05.740 --> 10:37:09.340 coming and a bunch of people had swayed like yeah our stonk or anybody else like 10:37:09.340 --> 10:37:12.940 he was saying you know obviously Kisuke was the other one that people were 10:37:12.940 --> 10:37:17.260 bringing up but many many pros thought Shwey's got something there we were 10:37:17.260 --> 10:37:21.340 super disappointed we was running spirits and yep it felt like a right to 10:37:21.340 --> 10:37:26.580 remove him but James saw that opportunity saw the potential in this young man 10:37:26.580 --> 10:37:31.940 and he stepped up time and time again for them that round was no different he's 10:37:31.940 --> 10:37:39.340 He's won them a few here, notes up, up against him now he's towards middle, but he's yellow. 10:37:39.340 --> 10:37:42.780 Mowing them down he's got backup in the corner as well, but the pre-fire through the smoke 10:37:42.780 --> 10:37:44.780 I think they might actually win this round with the Mongols. 10:37:44.780 --> 10:37:48.820 Looking very good if you get one more kill maybe not, but yeah through the smoke and 10:37:48.820 --> 10:37:51.620 the CT spawn as well, noted a go down. 10:37:51.620 --> 10:37:59.100 That was nicely played, and for once the Mongols they disrespect the CT utility, they just 10:37:59.100 --> 10:38:00.860 decide to enact their will in the round. 10:38:00.860 --> 10:38:03.260 I think that's one of the things that's been really missing. 10:38:04.700 --> 10:38:06.700 It's always weird, but I feel like they've been playing 10:38:06.700 --> 10:38:08.900 this very polite kind of Counter-Strike, 10:38:08.900 --> 10:38:10.660 where it's like every time somebody throws down 10:38:10.660 --> 10:38:12.200 an incendiary or a smoke, they say, 10:38:12.200 --> 10:38:14.540 okay, well then, we'll go somewhere else. 10:38:14.540 --> 10:38:16.740 And then they show up again and there's more utility. 10:38:16.740 --> 10:38:19.720 Like, at some point you have to make a choice. 10:38:20.700 --> 10:38:21.980 Jane will find a kill. 10:38:23.020 --> 10:38:24.820 Mongrel's gonna be up to six here. 10:38:27.180 --> 10:38:29.520 And Jane just wants to save the orc, obviously. 10:38:30.860 --> 10:38:33.740 Money, not incredible on the Paravision side here. 10:38:33.740 --> 10:38:35.620 Brown-Los-Bolish, not really there kicking in. 10:38:35.620 --> 10:38:37.020 They've got two players that could maybe put 10:38:37.020 --> 10:38:38.220 something together, I guess. 10:38:38.220 --> 10:38:41.340 With the ult of Jane, you can try and play around that 10:38:41.340 --> 10:38:43.740 in the next round, see if you can find something. 10:38:45.940 --> 10:38:47.740 Plenty of runway to close this one out. 10:38:47.740 --> 10:38:49.540 A lot of work to be done on the Mongols side, 10:38:49.540 --> 10:38:52.660 but that was a decent play-in towards that B-bomb side. 10:38:54.340 --> 10:38:58.860 Around 18, money's okay on the Paravision side. 10:38:58.860 --> 10:39:03.080 We'll have the AWP to work with of course safe in the previous round 10:39:03.080 --> 10:39:06.340 They will be fully investing as you can see the rifles appear on the right-hand side of your screen 10:39:07.200 --> 10:39:09.700 11 to 6 in his first map our final 10:39:10.260 --> 10:39:15.960 Quarter-final of the day better reminder. We had MIBR versus 3D max earlier 3D max surprise 10:39:15.960 --> 10:39:19.560 And they're coming out on top in the semi-finals considering their run this year 10:39:19.560 --> 10:39:25.140 I've been surprised a lot of a lot of pundits out there and they might be a look better than I thought a lot better true 10:39:25.140 --> 10:39:29.060 Very good point as well. We had Astralis take on Eyeballers much closer 10:39:29.380 --> 10:39:34.260 Then you might imagine like Astralis arguably should have lost that second map. That is probably true 10:39:34.260 --> 10:39:36.740 I was ancient they managed to win out though 10:39:37.060 --> 10:39:42.740 So we're 3d max and Astralis waiting in the upper side of the bracket and the semis and we've got foots waiting for the winner 10:39:42.740 --> 10:39:47.700 Of the Mongols of Paravision, which could be a rematch Paravision probably wants some revenge 10:39:47.860 --> 10:39:51.700 Yes, I think I'm against foot back to be very fun. Yeah, absolutely 10:39:51.700 --> 10:39:59.700 day. That grenade goes very deep on long. This way there, just wanted to check if anyone 10:39:59.700 --> 10:40:03.060 that made his way out probably doesn't know 100%, but other than that, a bit of a default 10:40:03.060 --> 10:40:10.940 start here for the Mongols. Business as usual, nothing out of the ordinary. Early stack towards 10:40:10.940 --> 10:40:21.140 the B bomb site again. Set up on the scaffolding for the Nota. Hard position to clear out sometimes 10:40:21.140 --> 10:40:29.820 If they go for those B splits, which again, just something both teams have been drawn towards. 10:40:29.820 --> 10:40:31.860 I felt like that's the way to do it at the moment. 10:40:32.820 --> 10:40:35.700 Taking past the minute mark, it is looking like another B split. 10:40:35.700 --> 10:40:40.780 See if they do the crisscross this time or if they just settle for the CT spawn one. 10:40:44.420 --> 10:40:44.820 There we go. 10:40:44.820 --> 10:40:45.020 There we go. 10:40:45.020 --> 10:40:45.540 There we go. 10:40:45.540 --> 10:40:45.700 There we go. 10:40:45.700 --> 10:40:46.180 There we go. 10:40:46.180 --> 10:40:46.820 Yep, you called up. 10:40:47.060 --> 10:40:47.860 They enjoy this. 10:40:47.900 --> 10:40:50.500 The smoke we deployed earlier is another three-man stack. 10:40:50.500 --> 10:40:52.120 Paravision 10:40:52.120 --> 10:40:57.320 We all know it. We all love it. Oh my god. That's chaotic. He ran through shooting inside the smoke 10:40:57.320 --> 10:40:59.320 Oh 10:40:59.960 --> 10:41:03.360 It's it going this bomb site is on lockdown 10:41:04.680 --> 10:41:06.240 Again 10:41:06.240 --> 10:41:11.480 Paravision will stack three players of the piece of the map every single rounds and you keep trying to test them 10:41:12.760 --> 10:41:15.000 I don't I don't know why teams always do it 10:41:15.000 --> 10:41:19.040 They insist on trying to do these mid to be splits against them, but that will happen most of the time 10:41:19.040 --> 10:41:26.560 Yeah, haven't learned yet and they're not gonna have a lot of time to learn now because it's 12 for paravision 10:41:27.000 --> 10:41:29.000 Or it's about to be 10:41:29.560 --> 10:41:33.760 You might die at the time. Yeah, that's a really will they're everywhere 10:41:34.280 --> 10:41:35.440 Yep 10:41:35.440 --> 10:41:43.600 So no money for 910. He'll enter potentially the last round of the game of 700 dollars his teammates averaging two and a half K 10:41:44.240 --> 10:41:46.240 He can't even buy Kevlar 10:41:46.240 --> 10:41:52.120 He's opted for smoke and two flashes. He'll have to be dropped like a PC50 or something should be GG here 10:41:52.440 --> 10:41:56.600 If you get a key running into the three-man stack, I think you deserve this outcome 10:41:59.740 --> 10:42:03.360 Dying after time really is the icing on the cake 10:42:04.320 --> 10:42:07.380 So you got pistols pretty much across the board nine ten with no Kevlar 10:42:07.880 --> 10:42:09.320 Well, good luck 10:42:09.320 --> 10:42:13.160 Paravision have shown us though that you can win these rounds with pistols. Um, good point 10:42:13.160 --> 10:42:18.480 I suppose I forgot that was the thing I'm trying to forget that in general 10:42:18.480 --> 10:42:24.380 Trying to forget a little bit traumatized after those rounds miss smoke we'll see if it still does the job 10:42:24.380 --> 10:42:32.060 Maybe it does. I don't think so though. No, so not only do you have nothing to work with you've missed a key piece of utility 10:42:32.060 --> 10:42:34.060 It's costly the first frag and 10:42:34.320 --> 10:42:38.920 He's like you as well. So one miss smoke has called the GG moment 10:42:38.920 --> 10:42:44.920 What is going on this tournament? Why can't we throw a basic U2 right now? 10:42:44.920 --> 10:42:48.920 I love it Henry. They are trying to take the joy away from you. 10:42:48.920 --> 10:42:52.920 This is one of the world's best teams and that's the way you lose it. 10:42:52.920 --> 10:42:55.920 I love it because you show up every day and you've got the great energy. 10:42:55.920 --> 10:42:58.920 You're ready to watch good Counter-Strike. You've got the energy for it. 10:42:58.920 --> 10:43:02.920 And then they start making these mistakes. 10:43:02.920 --> 10:43:06.920 It's not wrong. You're right to criticize them. These mistakes really cost them. 10:43:06.920 --> 10:43:12.040 them like right here like you said get shot down on the Xbox nice shot from 10:43:12.040 --> 10:43:16.120 Jane that they just need three more and they walk away to win the first one here 10:43:16.120 --> 10:43:20.720 no tough yet the rifle out he was gonna be ready for it 9 10 a senior no way 10:43:20.720 --> 10:43:24.160 they could do anything at this point just a formality as they look for the 10:43:24.160 --> 10:43:29.160 final one 13 to 6 paravision with a very strong performance in the Mongols 10:43:29.160 --> 10:43:35.120 which is a little bit of mistakes on this opening map okay that was a 10:43:35.120 --> 10:43:40.000 different paravigance yesterday. That's a little bit more cohesive as a team. Also Dastin didn't 10:43:40.000 --> 10:43:43.920 start at Noda at the end there. So obviously he must be happy as well. 10:43:43.920 --> 10:43:48.480 I saw he was going towards someone. I was like, is he actually upset again? No, it was just a high 10:43:48.480 --> 10:43:53.760 five. He walked away, everything fine. Techno is, Techno and Blitz are queuing up the peak game, 10:43:53.760 --> 10:43:59.680 I think, because, you know, what else to do after this match. Honestly, nothing really went their 10:43:59.680 --> 10:44:05.280 ways and most of it is just their own fault. Yeah it was a pretty rough look 10:44:05.280 --> 10:44:09.000 for the first half especially the couple rounds that they threw second half I 10:44:09.000 --> 10:44:11.720 think was really well put together put together from pair vision from that 10:44:11.720 --> 10:44:14.800 force by went on I don't necessarily think that was that was a big misstep 10:44:14.800 --> 10:44:18.120 from Mongols as much as you know pair vision doing what pair vision does 10:44:18.120 --> 10:44:23.280 does best which is kind of subverts expectations and yeah honestly a little 10:44:23.280 --> 10:44:26.500 bit of a misleading scoreline because of that because obviously first half 10:44:26.500 --> 10:44:30.660 have Mungo's lose 2-2 basically for Ecos. 10:44:30.660 --> 10:44:34.900 Entertaining game, entertaining in some ways, you know, maybe frustrating in some ways, 10:44:34.900 --> 10:44:41.000 maybe not some perfect CS that we're expecting when you have two rounds of practically no 10:44:41.000 --> 10:44:47.500 Kevlar, a pair of vision winning on the T side of Dust2, but entertaining and very dominant. 10:44:47.500 --> 10:44:50.740 And we were talking to the green room, it was like, is this now just going to be a pair 10:44:50.740 --> 10:44:52.240 of vision stomp? 10:44:52.240 --> 10:44:59.360 it just feels like we saw them struggle so much across this game that suddenly they're just going to turn around and make this game 10:45:00.080 --> 10:45:05.940 The easy one against Mongols. We'll get into the map and the rounds, but I think just to touch on that 10:45:07.240 --> 10:45:09.240 Some professionals cope 10:45:09.680 --> 10:45:16.160 Well with having your coach sit on a couch and very publicly announced that heads on the chopping block 10:45:16.160 --> 10:45:20.600 It's great motivation others kind of collapse into themselves 10:45:20.600 --> 10:45:26.600 apparently for ParaVision, the best way to get results from these young guys is to threaten to kick them all. 10:45:26.600 --> 10:45:30.600 Yeah, get a little whipping and some people respond to that. 10:45:30.600 --> 10:45:35.600 It's been a huge point of discussion on the forums. It's like, how can you do this about young players? 10:45:35.600 --> 10:45:38.600 It's like, you know, it's a different culture thing. 10:45:38.600 --> 10:45:43.600 This is kind of what is expected from a coach in Eastern Europe and that's what he's doing. 10:45:43.600 --> 10:45:49.600 that's kind of what he knows to bring the best results and honestly sometimes it is better to 10:45:49.600 --> 10:45:54.080 remove a player early on and then just move on if you see this is not it you can't really 10:45:54.080 --> 10:45:57.520 bring this to get results. I mean at the end of the day you know sometimes maybe you just need to 10:45:57.520 --> 10:46:02.960 go to a different environment to blossom and Zwei did that. Zwei this this was a great game for him 10:46:02.960 --> 10:46:08.640 as well sometimes where you are just isn't it and you can find more success elsewhere. Let us talk 10:46:08.640 --> 10:46:14.880 about what we saw in the first half from the Mongols. We have some rounds that greatly illustrates 10:46:15.920 --> 10:46:20.000 some points that I don't know if you want to make. Yeah, I was just trying to remember the first 10:46:20.000 --> 10:46:25.040 one. All right, so Paris vision takeout. Take this long with basically four blocks. They overwhelm 10:46:25.040 --> 10:46:30.080 the Mizzino and the lower bombs in long. They leave Jane behind and then they go B because 10:46:30.080 --> 10:46:35.120 suddenly Zwei has taken control of the B-bombside without anybody dying there. You know, then 10:46:35.120 --> 10:46:40.160 Obviously, there's some suddenly turning back too long because because Zwei dies and B what happened here 10:46:40.160 --> 10:46:44.760 I don't understand zealot just drops the bomb to Dota who doesn't pick it up. The note that goes back to pick it up 10:46:45.640 --> 10:46:49.920 Mongols are ready for this to be one and then somehow family because first of all cobers here 10:46:49.920 --> 10:46:54.200 I just completely whiffs in that to be one and then he just peeks out even though the ball 10:46:54.200 --> 10:46:56.920 He's not actually going to reach him with two seconds left on the clock 10:46:56.920 --> 10:47:01.560 I even even if dropped directly on him it will take five seconds probably to kill him 10:47:01.560 --> 10:47:07.640 He was full HP and he was just like I don't want to get wallbang to be like another get-right highlight compilation video 10:47:07.640 --> 10:47:11.960 But literally there is no way for nota to win that if you just stuck in that corner 10:47:12.600 --> 10:47:17.300 Unfortunately covers there are a bit of lack of experience in that one. We have another one 10:47:17.560 --> 10:47:22.940 Yeah, like we're just pouring salts on those mongols wounds. Yeah. Yeah, and it's it's also the timings of these obviously 10:47:22.940 --> 10:47:28.100 You finally break the economy if they're eco this is like two smokes in mid and then just dropping 10:47:28.100 --> 10:47:32.260 you know, just dropping down in CT spawn, Blitz is looking in the floor for some reason. 10:47:32.260 --> 10:47:36.920 Then, you know, the crunch comes out of long because Mizzinho and 9-10 are trying to handle this 10:47:37.700 --> 10:47:44.860 short push. 9-10 is missing everything on the off. It's just too slow on the retake as well, not putting enough pressure on the 10:47:45.020 --> 10:47:48.380 player in CT spawn. It just falls apart so easily. 10:47:48.380 --> 10:47:54.300 And I mean, it is, we've seen these block rounds on Dust2 happen, but it is also a bit of just 10:47:54.300 --> 10:47:58.740 not being on point individually from from the Mongol side even when Blitz gets 10:47:58.740 --> 10:48:02.620 caught off guard you still have Mazzini in 9-10 on a long angle against blocks 10:48:02.620 --> 10:48:06.260 and they get they get traded two for one that doesn't make any sense. Yeah I mean 10:48:06.260 --> 10:48:09.540 realistically it should have been a pretty comfortable CT half for 10:48:09.540 --> 10:48:13.860 Mongols once they got out of the 0-4 start because they actually did a 10:48:13.860 --> 10:48:17.500 really good job keeping Paris money low because a lot of the forcebites before 10:48:17.500 --> 10:48:20.860 that they actually kept them on one guy or even the first gun round that went 10:48:20.860 --> 10:48:25.980 the other way they managed to pick everybody off right so the money's suddenly gone after one round you win 10:48:25.980 --> 10:48:28.980 You set yourself up for the double up which we have seen from Cobra zero 10:48:28.980 --> 10:48:34.500 What has worked really well, and then you throw a couple rounds to gox and the whole half falls apart like realistically 10:48:34.500 --> 10:48:37.500 This should have been a much closer game. It wasn't all Mongols fun balls though 10:48:37.500 --> 10:48:42.100 I think that there was some good counter start coming up from para vision. Yeah, and this is this is one of them 10:48:42.100 --> 10:48:46.260 I mean the main one as an after the pistol round they lose it 10:48:46.260 --> 10:48:52.700 They force by they just make this gamble stack in terms of two players being towards short getting the opening kill and then after that 10:48:52.700 --> 10:48:54.840 Just falling back into this 10:48:55.580 --> 10:48:59.780 Anti mid to be set up essentially three guys on B two guys trying to challenge 10:49:00.340 --> 10:49:06.780 For the mid to be and that's exactly what happens the mid to B comes in and they just get the kills one by one crunching on the CT 10:49:06.780 --> 10:49:11.300 But we actually missed a little bit at the start word word that I wanted to point out in terms of 10:49:11.300 --> 10:49:14.660 of Paravision being really able to subvert expectations. 10:49:14.660 --> 10:49:18.100 Because we saw them aggress shorts early in the rounds. 10:49:18.100 --> 10:49:21.380 They even got contact with Mongols who knew that was coming. 10:49:21.380 --> 10:49:24.140 The Mongols do the classic control of shorts. 10:49:24.140 --> 10:49:26.220 They go, they do the Molly, they do everything in rights. 10:49:26.220 --> 10:49:28.540 They got, I think it was Techno who actually ended up 10:49:28.540 --> 10:49:30.740 on the, through shorts. 10:49:30.740 --> 10:49:32.500 He sees nothing there. 10:49:32.500 --> 10:49:33.780 You think short is clear. 10:49:33.780 --> 10:49:35.900 And then five seconds later, Paravision repush it. 10:49:35.900 --> 10:49:37.300 They pick up, pick that guy off. 10:49:37.300 --> 10:49:38.700 They know it's not a short push anymore. 10:49:38.700 --> 10:49:41.140 There's one person who's about to throw the fake. 10:49:41.140 --> 10:49:46.140 They know it to be split immediately, they fall back to CT and this is actually really well put together. 10:49:46.140 --> 10:49:50.140 Yeah, good utility usage also to block B when they're supposed to go B. 10:49:50.140 --> 10:49:54.140 Whatever Mongols were doing, Parisians was one step ahead. 10:49:54.140 --> 10:49:59.140 This is exactly the type of round when you see them pull off against Falcons, against Vitality. 10:49:59.140 --> 10:50:05.140 Damn, this Parisian team is kind of good. They're really reading the situation, they're playing the macro game really well. 10:50:05.140 --> 10:50:09.940 But we didn't really see much of this throughout this tournament and it's the whole story 10:50:09.940 --> 10:50:14.340 We've been repeating about how comfortable are they against teams that don't know I mean Mongols 10:50:14.340 --> 10:50:16.820 They don't know this two teams have never played against each other 10:50:16.820 --> 10:50:22.940 So in terms of knowledge from actual experience, there is none but obviously the preparation has been there 10:50:22.940 --> 10:50:28.940 There's the presumption that Mongols are gonna follow the protocols that Jane expects them to which is what he said 10:50:29.500 --> 10:50:31.780 Maybe didn't expect them to fumble as much as they did 10:50:31.780 --> 10:50:36.580 probably not. But that's what I'm talking about in terms of reactionary counter-strike. 10:50:36.580 --> 10:50:42.580 Like, Jim is really, really happy to not commit to anything until he knows it's the right thing to do. 10:50:42.580 --> 10:50:45.580 And that will be so even in the first eco that they won. 10:50:45.580 --> 10:50:50.380 You know, guy takes over B bomb site, the bomb goes all the way from long one to go to B. 10:50:50.380 --> 10:50:53.880 The guy on B dies, they're going back, it's like, okay, that's not working. 10:50:53.880 --> 10:50:57.080 Jim gets the kill and they're still kind of fumbling like, are we going for this? 10:50:57.080 --> 10:51:00.380 Are we not going for this? They're happy to take the entire round 10:51:00.380 --> 10:51:02.580 before they make sure that that's what they want to do. 10:51:02.580 --> 10:51:05.380 Yeah, but overall still, at least the utility was on point 10:51:05.380 --> 10:51:06.380 unlike Mongols. 10:51:06.380 --> 10:51:10.080 I mean, Henry is losing his mind watching those hinge smokes 10:51:10.080 --> 10:51:12.480 and those door smokes just failing round after round. 10:51:12.480 --> 10:51:14.380 That's the Molly also on the pistol round. 10:51:14.380 --> 10:51:15.980 That didn't really matter in the end, 10:51:15.980 --> 10:51:19.480 but it's just like these small things add up quite quickly. 10:51:19.480 --> 10:51:22.980 We're going to Mirage and as much as we've hiked Paravizion, 10:51:22.980 --> 10:51:26.080 it hasn't looked pretty for them on this map. 10:51:26.080 --> 10:51:26.980 I mean, what are you talking about? 10:51:26.980 --> 10:51:29.780 The last time they played, they won 28 rounds on this map. 10:51:29.780 --> 10:51:32.420 It must be pretty good, no? 10:51:32.420 --> 10:51:35.820 But no, before that, so that's a wild card game, 28-26. 10:51:35.820 --> 10:51:37.980 That's like two maps there. 10:51:37.980 --> 10:51:43.860 Then, lost 6-13 against Foot, 10-13 against Legacy, 7-13 to Navi, right? 10:51:43.860 --> 10:51:50.860 They haven't been exactly world beaters on this map, but again, it is less... 10:51:50.860 --> 10:51:53.780 I mean, it is to some degree about the map, because I feel like the city side, 10:51:53.780 --> 10:51:57.380 the A-splits, they've been super susceptible to those. 10:51:57.380 --> 10:52:00.340 but I do believe what I've seen on the first map now 10:52:00.340 --> 10:52:01.420 is giving me a bit of confidence 10:52:01.420 --> 10:52:02.860 that's not gonna look the same. 10:52:02.860 --> 10:52:05.460 Yeah, I do think that there is a very, very big 10:52:05.460 --> 10:52:06.620 comfort map for Mongols. 10:52:06.620 --> 10:52:09.700 They pick it almost every time that they have the chance to. 10:52:09.700 --> 10:52:12.940 So it is one that they have some of the most famous 10:52:12.940 --> 10:52:14.840 wins on as well in terms of, you know, 10:52:14.840 --> 10:52:16.820 even being able to be vitality on the map, you know, 10:52:16.820 --> 10:52:20.060 towards the beginning of the year, I think. 10:52:20.060 --> 10:52:23.780 And like it is just one that they really thrive on 10:52:23.780 --> 10:52:26.140 because of their, you know, super high dynamic playstyle. 10:52:26.140 --> 10:52:28.980 They're always ready to fight from multiple angles. 10:52:28.980 --> 10:52:30.620 They're always ready to come back together. 10:52:30.620 --> 10:52:34.980 So it is still one that I do think they have an upper hand on. 10:52:34.980 --> 10:52:38.500 Do you think that Jayme will be able to call them on this map 10:52:38.500 --> 10:52:40.380 because he's got so much that he can look at? 10:52:40.380 --> 10:52:43.780 Or do you think Mongols is evening out the series? 10:52:43.780 --> 10:52:46.340 I, after seeing just two, I feel like it was, 10:52:46.340 --> 10:52:47.740 it was not very pretty, 10:52:47.740 --> 10:52:50.500 but we also know Mongols to be volatile, 10:52:50.500 --> 10:52:52.020 you know, from one map to another sometimes. 10:52:52.020 --> 10:52:54.860 So I do think that it's going to be a tall task. 10:52:54.860 --> 10:52:59.460 I don't know, I'm feeling more comfortable with the Paravision, I feel like this is going to go their way. 10:52:59.460 --> 10:53:07.260 I feel like they're just turning it around after yesterday, after that tight game, the talks a bit of you know, publicly, for sure. 10:53:07.260 --> 10:53:08.660 Public pressure and everything? 10:53:08.660 --> 10:53:17.260 Going on HLTV to check her stats and just saying like, I might kick some players, it's just like you're no-tire, just like okay, I need to get my shit together. 10:53:17.260 --> 10:53:22.060 I can't ever peek over a smoke again, always need to reveal the smoke first. 10:53:22.060 --> 10:53:26.900 I think some things will stick a bit more and I think they played well off of each other. 10:53:26.900 --> 10:53:29.020 Communication looked on point. 10:53:29.020 --> 10:53:34.180 You don't win these eco rounds also without being close, trading properly and everything. 10:53:34.180 --> 10:53:37.500 So yeah, high hopes for Paris. 10:53:37.500 --> 10:53:40.940 This is the poster child for negative reinforcement apparently. 10:53:40.940 --> 10:53:41.940 Sometimes it works. 10:53:41.940 --> 10:53:45.780 ParaVision has taken the first map here in this quarterfinal of PGL Bucharest. 10:53:45.780 --> 10:53:47.940 Mongols now needs to even out the series. 10:53:47.940 --> 10:53:51.540 We're taking a break and when we get back we'll be jumping right back into the CS action. 10:53:51.540 --> 10:53:57.780 She said she loves you, but she can't love me, but I love you 10:54:11.980 --> 10:54:13.980 I won't play window anymore 10:54:51.540 --> 10:55:06.780 The human body was built to move, not trapped at a desk in one singular posture for 12 hours 10:55:06.780 --> 10:55:07.780 a day. 10:55:07.780 --> 10:55:08.780 It's time your chair evolved. 10:55:08.780 --> 10:55:09.780 This is Secret Lab Titan Evo. 10:55:09.780 --> 10:55:12.580 It's time your chair evolved. 10:55:12.580 --> 10:55:16.900 This is Secret Lab Titan Evo. 10:55:16.900 --> 10:55:20.500 Ergonomically engineered for you, gamers, 10:55:20.500 --> 10:55:25.180 hybrid workers, artists, and many of every move. 10:56:25.180 --> 10:56:27.180 I 10:59:55.180 --> 10:59:57.180 Oh 11:00:25.180 --> 11:00:44.500 expectations were high for the game of the day it's Mongols taking on para vision and 11:00:44.500 --> 11:00:50.780 the former not showing up whatsoever on dust 2 absolute calamity and many many rounds they're 11:00:50.780 --> 11:00:56.680 losing to multiple full e-codes the Mongols do not look ready or poised for a semi-final 11:00:56.680 --> 11:01:01.440 Anders. Not at the moment but like the desk we're talking about it was a real struggle 11:01:01.440 --> 11:01:06.680 yesterday for Perry Vision to make their way through Wildcard on this very map. It took 11:01:06.680 --> 11:01:12.480 I don't know how many over times I stopped counting it was 54 rounds. 54 rounds. I can 11:01:12.480 --> 11:01:16.880 always count on you to actually count him. Yeah I've always got the numbers in my back 11:01:16.880 --> 11:01:20.800 pocket somewhere. We'll see what the Mongols have got in terms of utility. Two smokes, 11:01:20.800 --> 11:01:26.640 two HGs, you'd imagine those are the CT spawn-anders. Okay. And a couple of flashes, so it's gonna 11:01:26.640 --> 11:01:31.040 be an execution. There's only one defender. They're stacking on the B bomb site in the middle of 11:01:31.040 --> 11:01:36.640 a little bit. No one's looking for it. All right, the smokes are up. Oh, massive gas in that smoke. 11:01:36.640 --> 11:01:41.200 There is a bit of a gap. You could definitely see that. Double HG on the T side. That's very 11:01:41.200 --> 11:01:46.320 interesting for pistol round. I don't think I've seen that. MCMio goes down. Where is the bomb 11:01:46.320 --> 11:01:50.820 plant they've got those two HEs for a reason what's the play at the end of it 11:01:50.820 --> 11:01:55.720 here the bomb is finally planted there is a kit as well on the CT side so 11:01:55.720 --> 11:01:59.280 everything is in play at the moment let's see what they could do with it 11:01:59.280 --> 11:02:03.560 maybe they try and stop the bomb okay there goes one no damage does nothing 11:02:03.560 --> 11:02:08.560 at all second one comes in there is no connection and they're coming around the 11:02:08.560 --> 11:02:11.400 corner you've run they've got the confused kit headshots are good though 11:02:11.400 --> 11:02:15.880 Oh, Techno with two, Cobra gets one more, takes down Beltianock. 11:02:15.880 --> 11:02:17.960 He wasn't a good start to the round for the Mongols. 11:02:17.960 --> 11:02:20.880 They lost the player, and they failed all of their grenades, 11:02:20.880 --> 11:02:24.000 including the smokes, but they still land their headshots. 11:02:24.000 --> 11:02:25.680 And that's enough as it turns out. 11:02:25.680 --> 11:02:27.360 Oh, it's more than enough. 11:02:27.360 --> 11:02:28.880 Looks like they had no chance there. 11:02:28.880 --> 11:02:31.840 They were isolated into the CT spawn area. 11:02:31.840 --> 11:02:33.320 You thought the trades were coming, 11:02:33.320 --> 11:02:34.640 but they never arrived there. 11:02:34.640 --> 11:02:35.920 And it will be the Mongols picking up 11:02:35.920 --> 11:02:39.680 a very important pistol here on Mirage. 11:02:39.680 --> 11:02:44.340 Paravision now begs the question if they want to force by in the second nothing too flashy for that based on the Mongols 11:02:44.340 --> 11:02:46.340 As you said execution is massive gap 11:02:46.820 --> 11:02:49.540 Did allow notes to get the opening frag but this 11:02:50.180 --> 11:02:53.840 Tandem play into a CT spawn nothing by a headshots 11:02:54.380 --> 11:02:56.380 Mumbling them down cobra and techno 11:02:56.940 --> 11:03:00.260 Fantastic work from them and indeed we do see a force by here from Paravision 11:03:00.820 --> 11:03:05.720 Mongols have not looked themselves as tournament especially in the previous map and they're going for the palace pop 11:03:05.720 --> 11:03:08.720 As you see, three players make their way towards that position. 11:03:08.720 --> 11:03:12.720 It's time to defend this. It's going to be poor old Belchnock alone once again. 11:03:12.720 --> 11:03:14.720 The baby squirrel will have to deliver. 11:03:14.720 --> 11:03:18.720 It's a sweet. He's already realized, yeah, they're coming everywhere. 11:03:18.720 --> 11:03:20.720 Not ideal. 11:03:20.720 --> 11:03:23.720 Oh, he's looking down. 11:03:23.720 --> 11:03:26.720 I hate to say it, but you almost want to say this is your vision. 11:03:26.720 --> 11:03:28.720 Yes, you will. 11:03:28.720 --> 11:03:30.720 I'll be cool if I say it right now. 11:03:31.720 --> 11:03:34.720 Another most exciting finish to the round from a viewership point of view, 11:03:34.720 --> 11:03:36.560 point of view but it makes sense 11:03:36.560 --> 11:03:41.680 probably not going to get five kills and a ten second defuse 11:03:41.680 --> 11:03:42.880 so there we go 11:03:42.880 --> 11:03:45.920 i don't know if i mean yeah belchak could have thrown a bit of smoke but 11:03:45.920 --> 11:03:47.000 ultimately 11:03:47.000 --> 11:03:50.920 it wouldn't make a difference probably wouldn't make a difference no 11:03:50.920 --> 11:03:52.640 okay 11:03:52.640 --> 11:03:55.560 better start for the mongrels 11:03:55.560 --> 11:03:58.160 this is their map pick and 11:03:58.160 --> 11:04:01.560 you know they're pretty good on parry vision played plenty as well 11:04:01.560 --> 11:04:04.280 they were having a hard time as wild card i think they lost it 11:04:04.280 --> 11:04:08.720 Right at the start of the tournament to foot and it was like a 13-6 type victory for foot 11:04:08.720 --> 11:04:11.920 They blew them up on this one. It's our Mirage specialist 11:04:11.920 --> 11:04:18.640 That's to be fair and they took that mouse board famous theater on EPL. Yeah, good point. But yeah, the point still stands 11:04:18.640 --> 11:04:22.780 It's maybe a bit of a weakness for paravision generally speaking 11:04:24.600 --> 11:04:26.360 But they do save 11:04:26.360 --> 11:04:28.200 multiple guns here 11:04:28.200 --> 11:04:35.340 In terms of players surviving, I think it was four, right? Yeah, four players. So still some bites here available in round number three 11:04:37.160 --> 11:04:39.160 Well, I like the foot 11:04:39.280 --> 11:04:43.260 You know perspective on it because they're waiting in the semi-final right now for one of these two teams 11:04:43.760 --> 11:04:49.380 Yeah, no doubt Paravision would love to get back and like they lost that match two or the order to at the start of it 11:04:50.000 --> 11:04:52.000 So they'll be looking for some revenge 11:04:52.600 --> 11:04:54.600 They have some of the prep for I 11:04:54.600 --> 11:04:58.600 I love the idea of that matchup in a semi-final. 11:04:58.600 --> 11:05:04.600 Cropini, it's a very exciting idea at the moment. 11:05:04.600 --> 11:05:07.600 James obviously one of the smartest that we have. 11:05:07.600 --> 11:05:09.600 Again, Belch, not in the same position. 11:05:09.600 --> 11:05:11.600 Just as tough on him this time. 11:05:11.600 --> 11:05:14.600 He does get back from the HG. I think they would have killed him. 11:05:14.600 --> 11:05:17.600 The bomb is in T-Spawn though. So right now it's off the show. 11:05:17.600 --> 11:05:20.600 The bomb is indeed right back there. 11:05:20.600 --> 11:05:23.600 Parking up Techno at the top of the air ramp. 11:05:23.600 --> 11:05:29.020 Realising they've made a bit of a mistake here getting the bomber over, but it's absolutely fine. 11:05:29.020 --> 11:05:32.660 They're recovering. A is technically wide open. We've got three players in towards the connector. 11:05:32.660 --> 11:05:39.600 They get four now, dropping a defensive smoke to allow some punky play to use there as an extra angle. 11:05:40.160 --> 11:05:44.420 Smoke's going down from the T side here. See if these ones land correctly. 11:05:44.420 --> 11:05:48.420 It looks absolutely fine to me. Yeah, that's what we're looking for. 11:05:48.920 --> 11:05:53.200 Corporal Sierra's gonna be in the middle watching for reinforcements. 11:05:53.200 --> 11:05:55.440 Boosts on two different positions here 11:05:56.140 --> 11:06:00.980 They're gonna get anything for it is the big question techno getting very close. Oh, that's so flashed, but 11:06:01.480 --> 11:06:06.060 Tracel takes him down. So first casualty of the round is techno going down 11:06:06.680 --> 11:06:10.240 Bombers planted and here comes over zero opening nice 11:06:10.240 --> 11:06:13.640 Knocks out a couple of people towards the connect to grenade around the corner 11:06:14.240 --> 11:06:16.240 Offer up one of them 11:06:16.280 --> 11:06:21.840 Looking for the kill he gets it a triple and that will be the round so the long goals 11:06:21.840 --> 11:06:26.840 They start this map with three in a row, things are looking a little bit better. 11:06:28.840 --> 11:06:32.840 Very clean in the end, thought a bit scary for one moment there. 11:06:32.840 --> 11:06:36.840 Feel like the CT pounds through the smoke was coming any moment, but CobraZero at the back stab 11:06:36.840 --> 11:06:41.840 managed to find three impressive frags, third one a little bit laboured. 11:06:41.840 --> 11:06:47.840 He was completely blind. You can see the first kill did go in favour of Paravision, 11:06:47.840 --> 11:06:53.400 but ultimately, this is the moment here, nice shot of a second, quick whip around, 11:06:53.400 --> 11:06:58.960 find that third, and see me to close things out, things going much better here, no massive fumbles, 11:06:58.960 --> 11:07:03.520 bit of rage from Paravision as well. As we get into the first gun round here, 11:07:03.520 --> 11:07:07.280 James of course, of his trusty AWP, but there's a bit of a bonus round here, you've got Mac, 11:07:07.280 --> 11:07:11.360 Tent and Galils, and there are two players of our helmets, notably Belch, Knock and James. 11:07:11.360 --> 11:07:19.360 See whether that's a reality. Knock on effect. That kill certainly will. No, it goes down with nothing. It's 9-10. 11:07:19.360 --> 11:07:23.360 Up to his usual antics, goes for a quick pick towards the palace. 11:07:23.360 --> 11:07:27.360 Finds that opening like a king. 11:07:27.360 --> 11:07:34.360 Yeah, we highlighted him. Didn't get to see quite as many op shots from him as I would have wanted on Dust2. 11:07:34.360 --> 11:07:38.360 But they kind of collapsed, so maybe that's the reason why. 11:07:41.360 --> 11:07:45.360 Sello here. Not a bad conversion. 11:07:45.360 --> 11:07:47.360 J.S.C.S. 11:07:47.360 --> 11:07:50.360 Bombs on the A ramp, Harlan, so this is where they're going to be coming. 11:07:50.360 --> 11:07:53.360 It'll be Belchnock close to the ramp to look for the fight. 11:07:53.360 --> 11:07:57.360 He's 0-3 right now and already looking a bit frustrated. 11:07:57.360 --> 11:07:59.360 Flashbang going in towards the A ramp momentarily. 11:07:59.360 --> 11:08:02.360 Gotta go for a swing off this. See what's available. 11:08:02.360 --> 11:08:05.360 Belchnock doesn't quite commit to the angle. 11:08:05.360 --> 11:08:07.360 Could cost him. Need some backup here. 11:08:07.360 --> 11:08:09.360 Could cost him one. 11:08:09.360 --> 11:08:12.760 Yeah, James on the ticket booth as well. He goes down. The flash is amazing. 11:08:12.760 --> 11:08:16.960 Well, she's not just taking down one more bullet with a hand against Shway at the big party. 11:08:16.960 --> 11:08:22.460 He takes two. Once again, Shway, the only one here on the Paravision side that seems to be able to do any kind of damage. 11:08:22.960 --> 11:08:26.460 And now, how do they make this happen? The boost on over. 11:08:28.160 --> 11:08:30.860 Smoke fades, and they want to reposition. 11:08:31.160 --> 11:08:33.760 Not quite trying to bomb yet. Just testing it out. 11:08:34.160 --> 11:08:36.560 We're down to 13 seconds, and James alone. 11:08:36.560 --> 11:08:37.560 Giving him nothing. 11:08:37.560 --> 11:08:41.960 Really, yeah, I'm not showing you have to appreciate that 11:08:42.600 --> 11:08:45.200 You know, James could be dangerous in these clutches 11:08:45.200 --> 11:08:47.120 I don't know if there's a kid anywhere on the site 11:08:47.120 --> 11:08:51.500 But he certainly doesn't have one at the moment trying to get up on the ticket booth trying to elevate this position 11:08:51.500 --> 11:08:54.040 I'll see if you could look around the box. He does get the first one 11:08:54.760 --> 11:08:57.800 He actually hit some of that one as well, but there's no reason to peek here 11:08:58.040 --> 11:09:00.400 Wait for the bomb to tick away Jane now 11:09:01.760 --> 11:09:04.640 He could have landed that flick this is dangerous nine tests 11:09:04.640 --> 11:09:06.640 Up the clock, we'll deliver. 11:09:06.640 --> 11:09:08.640 My God, that's a close round. 11:09:08.640 --> 11:09:10.640 But now the Mongols are off to a very good start here. 11:09:10.640 --> 11:09:12.640 Yes, they lose a lot of rifles, 11:09:12.640 --> 11:09:14.640 but it's four in a row for them. 11:09:14.640 --> 11:09:16.640 That's a good timeout called by Dastin. 11:09:16.640 --> 11:09:19.640 Not happy with what he's seeing so far. 11:09:19.640 --> 11:09:22.640 That's four-zero close around this time, 11:09:22.640 --> 11:09:25.640 and it all starts at a 9-10 pick, finding those two tools to connect to. 11:09:25.640 --> 11:09:27.640 I said I pulled one back though, four and four, 11:09:27.640 --> 11:09:29.640 but it's all about that flash picking towards the round, 11:09:29.640 --> 11:09:31.640 and he goes just an inch deeper, 11:09:31.640 --> 11:09:33.640 just to see where he can find out 11:09:33.640 --> 11:09:38.480 And there's a player tucked away. He could have been a very different round. He goes down with nothing and Jane 11:09:38.640 --> 11:09:42.640 left in a very difficult clutch gap. 9-10 displaying fantastic discipline. 11:09:42.640 --> 11:09:48.640 Didn't give him anything to work with. Made short. He lands that leg shot in the glock to finish things off. 11:09:49.640 --> 11:09:52.640 And now maximum loss bonus for ParaVision. 4-0 here. 11:09:53.640 --> 11:10:02.640 In the second map, the pick of the Mongols. And this is looking much better than Dust2 where, quite frankly, it was quite ugly from them. 11:10:03.640 --> 11:10:08.920 Yeah, more mistakes than they could even cover on the depth. They didn't have time to go through everything that went wrong. 11:10:09.720 --> 11:10:12.120 Would have needed a whole podcast just to do that. 11:10:12.520 --> 11:10:17.640 Well, let's see whether this partial buy will yield any sort of success for paravision. 11:10:17.880 --> 11:10:20.040 At the top end they have his way, M4. 11:10:21.160 --> 11:10:27.560 Pistols and MP9s. Otherwise, some basic utility, mainly smokes trying to rot that clock. 11:10:29.800 --> 11:10:33.160 Still got a chance of winning this one. It's gonna have to be down to his way though. 11:10:33.640 --> 11:10:35.960 Interested to see where he's positioned right now. He's in the connector 11:10:37.040 --> 11:10:40.520 Three-man stacking towards B. It's a calling car to power vision 11:10:44.440 --> 11:10:48.960 Look at these molotov-ing off towards our ladder. Yeah, a bit of a classic 11:10:50.880 --> 11:10:55.060 Everybody home, Trey gets one, top of the smoke on Cobra Zero 11:10:56.360 --> 11:11:00.920 Puts down on the smoke as well. This M4 is really what they have to fight back with 11:11:00.920 --> 11:11:05.980 that in the stack and the fact that he gets this kill they could try to push 11:11:05.980 --> 11:11:11.620 them or they could be pushed in towards the site here the Mongols losing to this 11:11:11.620 --> 11:11:15.980 kind of a buy here could happen the Korean towards B could happen walking 11:11:15.980 --> 11:11:20.780 into the stack although that's very nice 910 surely pick that up 40 seconds 11:11:20.780 --> 11:11:24.660 yeah there's nobody on the B bomb or in the A bomb shot at all right now if you 11:11:24.660 --> 11:11:29.060 run you're gonna be fine techno though he's low on health just back on slowly 11:11:29.060 --> 11:11:34.060 He's nearly at the site but he decides to wait. He's hearing them running over. 11:11:34.060 --> 11:11:38.060 Do you want to change your mind right now? I understand that he's here. The footsteps, that's fine. 11:11:38.060 --> 11:11:43.060 But now you're running back into this B bomb site with 19 seconds on the clock, maybe less than that. 11:11:43.060 --> 11:11:48.060 I feel like this is a very dangerous call for the Mongols. No tear in the back. He's seeing them already. 11:11:48.060 --> 11:11:53.060 10 seconds on the clock. They're trying to get closer. The time is running out. That bomb plan has to be right now. 11:11:53.060 --> 11:11:56.060 If they get interrupted, the round is over and that's exactly what's going to happen. 11:11:56.060 --> 11:12:01.660 happen. James, that's all he had to do. We'll get the spray down on the third four kills for him, 11:12:01.660 --> 11:12:08.460 but that one killer the bomb planter, that was it. Absolutely true. They saved their weapons. 11:12:09.500 --> 11:12:13.660 They gave themselves another chance in this partial buy and well, it worked out very nicely. 11:12:13.660 --> 11:12:19.340 Indeed, it was way, yeah, the M4, you open things up. It's gonna be a good recovery though, 11:12:19.340 --> 11:12:24.300 but just again, the mid-round call is very chaotic in and out of both bomb sites, 11:12:24.300 --> 11:12:28.540 to the side where they were finishing up and this with 15 seconds you have to scramble get that 11:12:28.540 --> 11:12:32.460 bomb planted no to did very well just to survive you get the opening information as they're coming 11:12:32.460 --> 11:12:37.260 in towards B doesn't challenge any further calls for the backup they deny the plant and power vision 11:12:37.260 --> 11:12:44.220 are indeed on the board now recovering and AK-47 and Jane back on the AWP round six here 11:12:46.060 --> 11:12:49.180 first nightmare round for the Mongols they had plenty of them on dust too 11:12:49.180 --> 11:12:59.180 Yeah, we don't really want to see more of them, but I am glad you bring up the mid-rounding there for the Mongols because I think chaotic is the attack of what we're seeing here. 11:12:59.180 --> 11:13:04.180 Overcalling it, overcooking it, perhaps. And towards here we go. 11:13:04.180 --> 11:13:11.180 And for James Reddy, he's got the AWP this time. Picked up the first one, way down in front. Good for the kill, but they're taking down Beltranok. 11:13:11.180 --> 11:13:18.180 Oh, trying to wrap around now. One armour, the attack is already gone. 9-10. He's pushed up. He misses the shot. They didn't even know that he was there. 11:13:18.180 --> 11:13:22.180 And soon I will take him down. Good stuff. Double kill. 11:13:22.180 --> 11:13:28.180 Paravision started to wake up a bit themselves now. The money weird on the T side. 11:13:28.180 --> 11:13:32.180 Recovering more and more AK-47s, that is a huge deal as well. 11:13:32.180 --> 11:13:38.180 You've broken the bank of the Mongols, you've got three AKs, AWP, your own money's starting to swell. 11:13:38.180 --> 11:13:44.180 Jane, even while blind, calm on the shot, doesn't pull the trigger instantly as a confirmed kill available. 11:13:44.180 --> 11:13:49.180 Excellent work of the individual jewels here as well, Zelo. 11:13:49.180 --> 11:13:51.180 Wrapping around from short. 11:13:51.180 --> 11:13:53.180 Guarantees a third on the board here. 11:13:53.180 --> 11:13:55.180 We're not expecting much. 11:13:55.180 --> 11:13:57.180 They do not fully invest. 11:13:57.180 --> 11:13:59.180 This is another ECO. 11:13:59.180 --> 11:14:03.180 Blocks, Teagles, Tech Nines, 11:14:03.180 --> 11:14:05.180 and one smoke and a flash to work with here. 11:14:05.180 --> 11:14:08.180 And Sandro goes down, flashes out one. 11:14:08.180 --> 11:14:11.180 It does give a thing to be fair to it, but shouldn't matter too much. 11:14:11.180 --> 11:14:17.060 Jane and Zello fighting towards top of middle, but they have lost one player 11:14:20.180 --> 11:14:22.180 Say it's worth wanting out 11:14:22.260 --> 11:14:28.460 By rating this is the best position for cello on any map. Okay on this short position on on Mirage 11:14:29.260 --> 11:14:32.300 So hopefully he'll feel comfortable bit of a shame with the deal in that round 11:14:32.300 --> 11:14:37.060 I suppose but otherwise he's had some some decent defense over there Belchnock. She's yet to get activated 11:14:37.060 --> 11:14:41.060 He's 0 and 5. We know that he's already on the chopping block Henry 11:14:41.180 --> 11:14:43.180 I mean, except for the major, of course, but... 11:14:43.180 --> 11:14:44.180 Hmm. 11:14:44.180 --> 11:14:45.180 But in theory... 11:14:45.180 --> 11:14:47.180 Let's see whether they can fend them off. 11:14:47.180 --> 11:14:49.180 It's noticeably low, given the orb. 11:14:49.180 --> 11:14:51.180 Not known to be an orb, but... 11:14:51.180 --> 11:14:53.180 I'll bet I won't slip by. He's probably going down here. 11:14:53.180 --> 11:14:57.180 Need some backup, and backup will arrive in the nick of time. 11:14:57.180 --> 11:14:59.180 42nd remaining, blitz will have the Glock. 11:14:59.180 --> 11:15:04.180 And like we said, should be a comfortable third round on the board, and that's exactly what we've got here. 11:15:05.180 --> 11:15:07.180 Right, defend that AK. 11:15:07.180 --> 11:15:09.180 Give them nothing. 11:15:09.180 --> 11:15:14.580 vision fully online now. Money is going to be in a very comfortable state and you might 11:15:14.580 --> 11:15:18.460 be considering the tactical timeout if you're on the Mongols side. I see the microphone 11:15:18.460 --> 11:15:22.740 being flipped down so it looks like that's going to be the case. As we get into it, round 11:15:22.740 --> 11:15:27.240 of rates, it was a great start for the Mongols. They were up 4-0 but now it's a one round 11:15:27.240 --> 11:15:32.220 game. Paravigian looking to make a statement performance here today and booked themselves 11:15:32.220 --> 11:15:36.580 a place in the semifinals against Foots, which will be going down tomorrow. We've had four 11:15:36.580 --> 11:15:41.580 quarterfinals today. Two semis tomorrow than the best of five going down on Saturday. 11:15:41.580 --> 11:15:47.700 Alright, you are a tournament where a bunch of teams that we normally don't get to see 11:15:47.700 --> 11:15:51.980 have had a chance to play and I think many of them have kind of surprised. I think a 11:15:51.980 --> 11:15:56.980 lot of people have maybe never seen focus play before. They look a lot better. Wildcard 11:15:56.980 --> 11:16:00.180 suddenly in spite of looking very out of their depth suddenly they look good again. 11:16:00.180 --> 11:16:01.180 Eye ballers. 11:16:01.180 --> 11:16:04.780 Eye ballers. Can't forget about J.W. he's out there. 11:16:04.780 --> 11:16:12.780 Oh, absolutely. Anyway, very good showing today as well, ready for the playoffs. Probably should have won the game, to be honest. 11:16:12.780 --> 11:16:15.780 11-4 on our second map. Yeah, they were way ahead. 11:16:15.780 --> 11:16:21.780 Yeah, that's going to be a frustrating way to leave the tournament, but they can leave with their heads held high, in my opinion. 11:16:21.780 --> 11:16:29.780 Absolutely. And I don't know if you saw, but GAW immediately on Twitter saying, it's my responsibility as the IGL. 11:16:29.780 --> 11:16:32.780 It was my mistake. I'll take it on me. I think that's great leadership. 11:16:32.780 --> 11:16:36.900 Hey, they don't get to play these sort of tournaments very often. In fact, they even got to the playoffs 11:16:37.580 --> 11:16:39.740 Pretty remarkable achievement in the process 11:16:40.700 --> 11:16:43.580 We have got MCNL up in the palace 11:16:43.580 --> 11:16:47.900 I feel like we see that a lot when Mongols are playing this map. Mm-hmm. He loves it 11:16:49.620 --> 11:16:54.300 They're in mind now we talked about the AK-47s and save James Orton 11:16:55.060 --> 11:17:00.540 Step up here was aware of this possibility, but a lovely flash bang means they get past the angle 11:17:00.540 --> 11:17:07.840 Mongol's looking to bounce back after giving up Kui in a row that Nadal tickled down blitz there, but it's gonna be Cobra's error 11:17:07.840 --> 11:17:10.140 Good flash bang in towards the ladder again 11:17:10.860 --> 11:17:16.340 Almost gave it up, but he checks his angles correctly and Zelo goes down. That's the slowest peek of all time 11:17:16.340 --> 11:17:19.920 Yeah, he was so flashed. It just didn't matter that looks so funny 11:17:21.000 --> 11:17:23.360 The bomb is back towards the a bomb site 11:17:23.360 --> 11:17:24.360 Oh! 11:17:24.360 --> 11:17:25.360 Oh! 11:17:25.360 --> 11:17:38.880 Hit the head shot, that double kill almost gets them back in the round, there's 20 seconds 11:17:38.880 --> 11:17:39.880 left here. 11:17:39.880 --> 11:17:42.280 Wow, it's always about the time and it's paravision. 11:17:42.280 --> 11:17:43.840 Yeah, that is very true. 11:17:43.840 --> 11:17:46.440 That's a huge miss for Jane though. 11:17:46.440 --> 11:17:47.440 Another miss. 11:17:47.440 --> 11:17:51.160 He had chances to hit both those shots, they've lost sway at the same time. 11:17:51.160 --> 11:17:54.820 plans it and that should be enough to win the round James a one HP I don't 11:17:54.820 --> 11:17:59.300 think you're going for this yeah James hits that shot on the first encounter 11:17:59.300 --> 11:18:04.940 it's a very different story it's on well Belcher not that is part this time you 11:18:04.940 --> 11:18:09.380 can't really criticize that he gets a lovely double spray down towards the 11:18:09.380 --> 11:18:12.860 connect up or felt like around that was already over brings it back to life and 11:18:12.860 --> 11:18:19.140 James can hit his shop they probably win it but not meant to be long rules 11:18:19.140 --> 11:18:23.380 after giving up three. We've got five to three now here on the T side of that map pick. 11:18:27.700 --> 11:18:32.340 Well, hoping this goes a distance. This is a great matchup. Definitely game of the day in terms 11:18:32.340 --> 11:18:37.060 of the quarterfinals. Yeah, these are some of the highest rated teams in the world right now. 11:18:37.060 --> 11:18:42.580 Yeah. But like a lot of other teams, you know, it's the mistakes, it's the inconsistencies. 11:18:43.220 --> 11:18:48.740 It's been said many times that there's vitality, then there's a real gap in the world. 11:18:48.740 --> 11:18:52.340 it's so true and then there's everybody else 11:18:52.340 --> 11:18:56.260 if you want to catch up to a team like vitality these mistakes that we're seeing 11:18:56.260 --> 11:18:59.540 from these teams they just they can't keep happening 11:18:59.540 --> 11:19:02.500 look at the replay unfortunately it's jame 11:19:02.500 --> 11:19:06.340 you think by his standards especially on the second peak looks okay 11:19:06.340 --> 11:19:09.540 looks like it's dead on him yeah maybe he was moving slightly 11:19:09.540 --> 11:19:14.500 slightly moving i think they're probably right about that well then 11:19:14.500 --> 11:19:19.700 The Mongols, they're on the T side, in that context Henry, 5-3, half-looking. 11:19:19.700 --> 11:19:23.780 Oh yeah, it's looking very good, if they're reminded you could have a lovely start at the 4-0, 11:19:23.780 --> 11:19:28.100 pistol conversion, but to be fair the pistol round was so good and so comprehensive in their favour. 11:19:30.100 --> 11:19:34.180 You can't really argue with the result, but half vision, still a long way to go, they can still win 11:19:34.180 --> 11:19:38.820 this half, so a lot of counter-strike yet to be played, it's time Jane positioned himself towards 11:19:38.820 --> 11:19:44.700 short. See if he can make up for his shortcomings in the previous round. Flash over towards 11:19:44.700 --> 11:19:45.700 top middle. 11:19:45.700 --> 11:19:54.420 I'm seeing you back in the palace. Like I said, watch any amount of Mongols on this 11:19:54.420 --> 11:19:58.740 map. You're going to realize he's there very, very often. So often that sometimes teams 11:19:58.740 --> 11:20:01.980 will try to find him there. They should, you know, say, all right, well, we know you're 11:20:01.980 --> 11:20:07.420 probably going to be there at the start of the round. So we can, we can double push you. 11:20:07.420 --> 11:20:12.260 always easy. I would like to see more of MCD. I feel like recently he's been 11:20:12.260 --> 11:20:18.060 looking a little bit better. I haven't seen it yet in the quarterfinals, him 11:20:18.060 --> 11:20:24.380 really popping off, but it's still time. Under a minute here, we've got the bomb 11:20:24.380 --> 11:20:29.180 in the B always. Trying to see if they can push down, Jane. The flasher on the 11:20:29.180 --> 11:20:31.780 corner is actually really good. That's gonna put some pressure on right now. 11:20:31.780 --> 11:20:35.580 You're absolutely right. Shrey also feel the pressure. He's forced back from it 11:20:35.580 --> 11:20:37.640 and it's a double entry. 11:20:37.640 --> 11:20:39.280 Notus managed to rotate it very quickly, 11:20:39.280 --> 11:20:40.120 but he's got no back up. 11:20:40.120 --> 11:20:40.620 Oh! 11:20:40.620 --> 11:20:41.980 My techno! 11:20:41.980 --> 11:20:43.820 OK, this is more like it than the Mongols. 11:20:43.820 --> 11:20:45.340 This is the team we know and love there. 11:20:45.340 --> 11:20:48.960 Brutal aim, good coordination, overwhelming their opponents 11:20:48.960 --> 11:20:50.220 with the mechanical skill. 11:20:50.220 --> 11:20:51.820 And you can see there is nowhere to run, 11:20:51.820 --> 11:20:53.740 nowhere to hide on that B bombsite. 11:20:53.740 --> 11:20:55.340 A couple of missed shots, and no one 11:20:55.340 --> 11:20:57.060 goes down for the Mongols here. 11:20:57.060 --> 11:21:00.420 Five on Super now, Anzelo and Belchnock are preying. 11:21:00.420 --> 11:21:02.100 They can hold on to the little they have. 11:21:02.100 --> 11:21:04.940 A couple of rifles remain as they both tuck themselves away 11:21:04.940 --> 11:21:09.180 towards our palace position, a perfect round for Mongols and I don't think we've said that once 11:21:09.820 --> 11:21:15.500 in the entirety of their campaign here in the quarterfinal. That's actually true, yeah. Finally 11:21:15.500 --> 11:21:19.100 something that we really celebrate. Yeah, that was a lovely round of CS. 11:21:21.100 --> 11:21:25.260 Droping incendiary for self-preservation, we'll get a smoke down on top of it, gives us that 11:21:25.260 --> 11:21:30.380 position, sure, but maybe a madman would run through this smoke. Surely not worth it. 11:21:30.380 --> 11:21:39.500 I notice as well that last round also around where they don't have a lot of mid-round calling 11:21:39.500 --> 11:21:43.600 they make a plan and they stick to it and they get the flashes around the corner the 11:21:43.600 --> 11:21:46.700 entries under the site like it's not as complicated as some of these other rounds they're trying 11:21:46.700 --> 11:21:51.860 well some of the rounds and dust to where they were in and out of both bomb sites running out 11:21:51.860 --> 11:21:55.740 of time yeah I feel like this is keep the game plan simple in our shot so that's probably 11:21:55.740 --> 11:22:00.300 what they're going for right now shame in that right no absolutely not especially when 11:22:00.300 --> 11:22:07.820 as talented as these Mongol players. Yeah, that is definitely true. Okay, spotted it out, 11:22:07.820 --> 11:22:17.380 just hoping for the shots, but maybe we'll note it. The corner here. They've got Jing 11:22:17.380 --> 11:22:21.820 down in the middle, waiting for a mistake. He wants Blitz to peek this and he's going 11:22:21.820 --> 11:22:28.700 to get exactly what he wants. Patient as ever. Opening in favour of parry vision. It's all 11:22:28.700 --> 11:22:32.540 we've got left. We have MZinho towards the palace. 9-10 was top of middle, but a nice 11:22:32.540 --> 11:22:36.940 alley-oop set up there from Notus Flashbang. We'll set up James for a second kill at the 11:22:36.940 --> 11:22:41.340 round. MZinho makes his position known from the palace. He's got to kill that, to be 11:22:41.340 --> 11:22:46.300 honest, on the drive-by, but looks to be absolutely fine here. Power vision bouncing back, looking 11:22:46.300 --> 11:22:51.260 for a six scoreline. Can't imagine a world where they give this one up, but let's see 11:22:51.260 --> 11:22:55.660 what the Mongols can make of it. Sub one minute, it's down to Cobra's error. A very capable 11:22:55.660 --> 11:23:02.740 Sniper is with one but this time no dice. 5 on 2, Techno and MZNEO, left with nothing 11:23:02.740 --> 11:23:09.480 to do. Interesting switch up with Nota playing the short position this time and Celo playing 11:23:09.480 --> 11:23:16.480 inside of the bomb site. Makes it a lot harder than nameplate anybody if you actually find 11:23:16.480 --> 11:23:22.760 them. Jame, third kill. Pretty much one around on this zone at this stage. Still not going 11:23:22.760 --> 11:23:27.840 walk out. No bomb plant being allowed for Parisian. One more round, like you said, half is not 11:23:27.840 --> 11:23:33.640 over. They can still get this little 6-6 scoreline, still be competitive at that stage. We know 11:23:33.640 --> 11:23:36.080 they love to play in overtime or two on this map, so. 11:23:36.080 --> 11:23:41.040 They certainly do. If you missed it yesterday, it's a game that Parisian probably wants to 11:23:41.040 --> 11:23:47.560 forget. Playing this wild card, they got the 2-0 victory, but it took 54 rounds on Mirage. 11:23:47.560 --> 11:23:49.040 And shout out to Wreck. 11:23:49.040 --> 11:23:51.760 Yes, he was playing very well. 11:23:51.760 --> 11:23:57.680 was a life performance given them hell yeah very cool yeah I think Wild God have got a 11:23:57.680 --> 11:24:02.320 really decent team for the future now with the new lineup I feel like they're gonna cause some 11:24:02.320 --> 11:24:08.640 damage on the international scene deepest ages of 2026 yeah hope with a bit of luck it pushes them 11:24:08.640 --> 11:24:12.480 to get more invites when they when they you know go a little bit deeper in these tournaments so 11:24:12.480 --> 11:24:18.320 we'll see we'll see time I called we're back in the mix here James this is a good start like you 11:24:18.320 --> 11:24:23.320 You said the flashbang over from Nota, but you want to point it again, he was playing in a short position. 11:24:23.320 --> 11:24:29.320 It's not where he normally hangs around. He's normally a jungle top connector, right? 11:24:30.320 --> 11:24:32.320 Or window, but... 11:24:33.320 --> 11:24:35.320 Isn't that really just another part of jungle? 11:24:36.320 --> 11:24:39.320 Let's have a look then, shall we? Notal arounds here. 11:24:39.320 --> 11:24:41.320 Six to four, anyone's game still. 11:24:41.320 --> 11:24:43.320 That's what we like to see. 11:24:43.320 --> 11:24:46.900 We need to control Grants at this time. 11:24:46.900 --> 11:24:48.900 There's Paravision. 11:24:48.900 --> 11:24:51.500 If you're aggressive towards the end of the path in the previous round, Jane finally 11:24:51.500 --> 11:24:52.500 got open up. 11:24:52.500 --> 11:24:53.900 Let's put them on high alert. 11:24:53.900 --> 11:24:57.420 They're dropping all the util now, deepening towards Connector and in towards Window. 11:24:57.420 --> 11:25:01.180 Molotov down towards Short, suggesting we're going to boost in towards the Window room. 11:25:01.180 --> 11:25:03.380 Okay, I don't hate it. 11:25:03.380 --> 11:25:05.300 Note to back in his position. 11:25:05.300 --> 11:25:07.380 The money for the Mongols is very bad here. 11:25:07.380 --> 11:25:10.540 If they lose this round, then it could keep Paravision two rounds essentially. 11:25:10.540 --> 11:25:12.540 Yeah, you're dead on. 11:25:12.540 --> 11:25:17.260 9-10 hoping for a ticket booth beat coming in from Jane, but he's not there 11:25:18.060 --> 11:25:24.900 Hard or put to read. Oh, he walks your back pedals into it. I don't even think he was necessarily he looked like he just kept on running 11:25:25.860 --> 11:25:32.900 No, sir, sprays down one and now belt you're not back here finding his third kill off the half so far 11:25:32.900 --> 11:25:39.140 Oh, no nearly gets the double that might have done it that might have brought them back into this round here 11:25:39.140 --> 11:25:40.740 but he couldn't complete it. 11:25:40.740 --> 11:25:42.820 Seller goes down and Tweet. 11:25:42.820 --> 11:25:44.260 He's picked up the AWP. 11:25:44.260 --> 11:25:46.660 Don't think it matters that much. 11:25:46.660 --> 11:25:48.420 There is some money. 11:25:48.420 --> 11:25:50.180 Jim could rebuy the AWP. 11:25:50.180 --> 11:25:52.020 If he wanted to go for the clutch, he could. 11:25:52.020 --> 11:25:52.980 And he wanted to. 11:25:52.980 --> 11:25:54.980 9-10 that will take him down the Mongols. 11:25:55.860 --> 11:25:57.940 They win that round, but I don't know. 11:25:57.940 --> 11:26:01.220 It seemed like there were a few mistakes on that one for Paravision. 11:26:01.220 --> 11:26:02.660 We'll see if they can recover from it. 11:26:02.660 --> 11:26:04.420 It's the final round coming up next. 11:26:05.140 --> 11:26:07.860 It was all about Techno getting him to a window position. 11:26:07.860 --> 11:26:19.060 As soon as the aggro was taken away there, he comes in for the back stab, it looked like there was an opportunity for the shadow to get that double kill, to bring the round back to life, but techno shuts down that prospect. 11:26:19.060 --> 11:26:23.260 As indeed we get into the final round of this first half. 11:26:23.260 --> 11:26:29.060 Third map there are my ancients, which might be required at this stage to get the A4 scoreline, but there's still plenty of money as you mentioned. 11:26:29.060 --> 11:26:31.660 They have a power vision, this one's much quicker. 11:26:31.660 --> 11:26:35.860 Much more aggressive on the T side as they try to dominate this mid control once again. 11:26:35.860 --> 11:26:41.340 Cobra's there are more than willing to take the fight towards the con and he'll come out on top taking our notes up 11:26:42.820 --> 11:26:46.900 Bit of a shame that it was no more of a set up there some sort of a flash over a wall or anything 11:26:46.900 --> 11:26:50.060 You can throw those flashes of the B bombsite in theory if you if you run 11:26:50.060 --> 11:26:55.360 I don't know about it. Belle Chinook's gonna win the fight against them. Celio's finally made his way out of the palace once 11:26:56.460 --> 11:26:58.460 They're in the middle 11:26:58.460 --> 11:27:03.840 Bomb picked up and spawned just about now with 910. He's got the AWP looks like they 11:27:03.840 --> 11:27:09.860 We want to investigate that B bomb site, but with this window position, I mean you could 11:27:09.860 --> 11:27:13.680 even flank through the market, it's such a variable position to be in. 11:27:13.680 --> 11:27:15.600 The bomb's in towards the apartments right now? 11:27:15.600 --> 11:27:16.600 Yes. 11:27:16.600 --> 11:27:17.600 They've got one minute to work on it. 11:27:17.600 --> 11:27:21.080 You can go towards the underpass, they don't have to finish in towards B, but it's great 11:27:21.080 --> 11:27:23.200 positioning from Blitz. 11:27:23.200 --> 11:27:26.560 Does he dare go through the murder hole? 11:27:26.560 --> 11:27:27.560 Named for a reason. 11:27:27.560 --> 11:27:31.280 So I'm not playing in front of the smoke, we'll find Cobra. 11:27:31.280 --> 11:27:32.280 That's smart. 11:27:32.280 --> 11:27:33.800 That should be enough to win this round now. 11:27:33.800 --> 11:27:37.040 It should be. Oh, they have no idea the back-seller's potential there. 11:27:37.040 --> 11:27:41.540 Yeah, but the bomb's parked on the other side. That smoke is up for another 10 seconds at the moment, so... 11:27:41.540 --> 11:27:43.720 Can you get the bomb through on that AWP? 11:27:43.720 --> 11:27:48.700 James, nice cap. Shway is here. The bomb surely gonna be dead. Shway's just waiting for it. 11:27:48.700 --> 11:27:52.380 25 seconds, Techno. The last one, but he does actually pick up the shot here. 11:27:52.380 --> 11:27:56.880 And now he has to go back and find it. Belchenok, can you save your team on this one? 11:27:56.880 --> 11:28:01.760 It's a clutch that's coming up. The jump over, he did pick up the bomb even though it was a bit slippery. 11:28:01.760 --> 11:28:04.400 10 seconds left, he's faked it, and now he's walking out. 11:28:04.400 --> 11:28:05.600 Did he see the gun barrel? 11:28:05.600 --> 11:28:07.160 I think he's around on a time here. 11:28:07.160 --> 11:28:09.480 Belchlock on the clutch, he gets the head shot, 11:28:09.480 --> 11:28:11.720 and Paravision pick up another round. 11:28:11.720 --> 11:28:13.320 It's been scrappy. 11:28:13.320 --> 11:28:15.840 But you know what, it's not bad. 11:28:15.840 --> 11:28:19.480 That final round felt like a necessity for Paravision. 11:28:19.480 --> 11:28:22.240 Belchlock had a very slow start, but had some massive impact 11:28:22.240 --> 11:28:25.040 towards the end there, and especially that final round 11:28:25.040 --> 11:28:26.440 there, made it to perfection. 11:28:26.440 --> 11:28:28.200 Knew he had the advantage in terms of the spacing, 11:28:28.200 --> 11:28:30.040 the time, fake plan comes through. 11:28:30.040 --> 11:28:37.300 he was aware of the possibility of Belchino being close but just run out of time and we will get into a 7-5 scoreline here 11:28:37.720 --> 11:28:39.440 but still 11:28:39.440 --> 11:28:41.440 Very good challenge. We see a third map 11:28:42.320 --> 11:28:44.020 You bring it up 11:28:44.020 --> 11:28:46.940 Ancient is that's a bit of a nightmare for the Mongols 11:28:47.560 --> 11:28:48.200 Really? 11:28:48.200 --> 11:28:53.460 Paravision I think are significantly better like the win rate of Paravision on that map with 11 maps played is 82% 11:28:53.840 --> 11:28:56.920 For the Mongols this 8 maps is 38% 11:28:57.480 --> 11:28:58.760 so 11:28:58.760 --> 11:29:06.260 Maybe that would well, but because they've already won the first one paravision even because the third match they should be in a very strong spot 11:29:09.080 --> 11:29:13.060 Third once they lose the bomb up there that just that would have been the end of the round 11:29:13.060 --> 11:29:15.060 But it took belcher not to clutch it 11:29:15.060 --> 11:29:17.060 Hey, I have a clutch 11:29:17.360 --> 11:29:22.040 Double dualies indeed long goes with a convincing pistol victory in the first half 11:29:22.240 --> 11:29:26.000 Dominating a bomb site will see or paravision have out their slaves 11:29:26.000 --> 11:29:27.680 We'll see if we can work it out from the U2. 11:29:27.680 --> 11:29:30.040 Double smokes would be deployed early. 11:29:30.040 --> 11:29:31.800 So just something thick and fast, maybe 11:29:31.800 --> 11:29:33.920 in towards that B bomb site, trying to get up towards Short. 11:29:33.920 --> 11:29:37.480 The split, smoking our connector and window position. 11:29:37.480 --> 11:29:39.920 So it will be the B finish, but as Affle mentioned, 11:29:39.920 --> 11:29:41.960 Joula leads, ready and waiting. 11:29:41.960 --> 11:29:42.720 It's down to Cobra. 11:29:42.720 --> 11:29:45.560 We know he's got Faruta lane, but overwhelmed towards Short. 11:29:45.560 --> 11:29:47.640 And as the bomb will make its way in towards B. 11:29:47.640 --> 11:29:48.760 Lits in the back. 11:29:48.760 --> 11:29:50.240 Can you get one of those early headshots? 11:29:50.240 --> 11:29:52.400 They're already jumping through their Soul fast, 11:29:52.400 --> 11:29:53.400 just down on the site. 11:29:53.400 --> 11:29:55.040 But here come the Joules. 11:29:55.040 --> 11:30:02.340 A kill for either player, no turn, Belchenok, always getting shot in the back at this stage, the bomb, no one's picked it up right now. 11:30:02.340 --> 11:30:07.900 They're fighting for their lives instead, they're provisioned if they lose this round, and they might not have a chance on the map at all. 11:30:07.900 --> 11:30:12.200 Tecna with one more kill, Aulac's a nice gush, they're very low on health. 11:30:12.200 --> 11:30:17.140 He could do this, Belchenok, he clenched into the last half, can he do it again now to open it up with? 11:30:17.140 --> 11:30:20.900 That might actually make a difference, he's just outdulled unfortunately. 11:30:20.900 --> 11:30:24.740 Pistols on either side and the Mongols win this one. 11:30:24.740 --> 11:30:29.580 CT side looking good. Oh, absolutely came down to the minutiae that 11:30:30.660 --> 11:30:37.580 Gush is all around everyone low Belchnock could have been the hero but unable to find a bomb plant power vision now 11:30:38.140 --> 11:30:45.400 Presumably take the eco and run number two extending the lead of the Mongols to nine to five here in the second map of play dust to 11:30:45.980 --> 11:30:51.380 Pretty woeful by their standards, but they are bouncing back admirably as we now do at the full eco 11:30:51.380 --> 11:30:54.040 is one people and how he lost 11:30:54.040 --> 11:30:57.740 each people felt you know already must have stopped each other 11:30:57.740 --> 11:31:01.820 as a miss some sort of massive deep grenade i think they did 11:31:01.820 --> 11:31:06.020 miss all give a little slash in the back that little love stuff 11:31:06.020 --> 11:31:09.860 the punishment in the map of the truth is pretty well i don't know what again 11:31:09.860 --> 11:31:11.500 and is 11:31:11.500 --> 11:31:16.540 but it cannot be allowed it just cannot be allowed to happen one more time 11:31:16.540 --> 11:31:21.680 For context, if you're just joining us, they lost to Glocks and won P250 twice on Dust2. 11:31:21.680 --> 11:31:27.760 There was no Kevlar, and they had a 5-on-4 advantage and they still lost to it. It was crazy. 11:31:27.760 --> 11:31:29.260 That was twice too many. 11:31:29.260 --> 11:31:32.540 Yeah. For now, though, this looks like it's stable, at least. 11:31:32.540 --> 11:31:35.660 They haven't recovered any rifles there. Sure, you've got a bit of a dink on Cobra's error, 11:31:35.660 --> 11:31:39.240 but unless Belchnog finds another ridiculous headshot, it should be fine. 11:31:39.240 --> 11:31:44.240 Speaking of rifles, Jayme extends his grasp and will be able to find one. 11:31:44.240 --> 11:31:49.240 There am I, no Kevlar. Brown's still very much alive for them though. 11:31:49.240 --> 11:31:51.240 Look at, I'm seeing him out. 11:31:51.240 --> 11:31:56.240 Yeah, he's all the way tucked in towards that A ramp and will boost Jame up. 11:31:56.240 --> 11:32:03.240 Very far forward, but at the same token, very far away from being able to reinforce anywhere else on the map if he needs to. 11:32:03.240 --> 11:32:06.240 It was going to be a long run over here, Cobra Sierra started to get there, Jame. 11:32:06.240 --> 11:32:10.240 He slipped the net, walked in behind. Techno seems to know, but he's looking the wrong way. 11:32:10.240 --> 11:32:14.500 He's dead automatically, all the supply fails, and then the aim punch on top! 11:32:14.820 --> 11:32:18.860 Jane can't find it, was the access points to the round victory. 11:32:18.860 --> 11:32:21.820 That would have been it, I think, at a minimum it would have secured the bomb plant. 11:32:21.820 --> 11:32:23.360 Now there's a lot more trouble here. 11:32:23.360 --> 11:32:27.280 Coming in with the last pistols, 15 seconds on the clock, the backup is coming in now. 11:32:27.280 --> 11:32:30.060 MCNEO's 5 seconds away from shooting them as well. 11:32:30.060 --> 11:32:31.440 Yeah, they needed this. 11:32:31.440 --> 11:32:31.940 Felt shot. 11:32:31.940 --> 11:32:33.440 Oh! 11:32:33.440 --> 11:32:34.240 Okay, back pass. 11:32:34.240 --> 11:32:35.440 That's a quad! 11:32:35.440 --> 11:32:39.100 They're gonna get the bomb plant, and there is no way this could work. 11:32:39.100 --> 11:32:47.100 Oh my god, they've done it again. One eagle, four glocks and the Mongols have given it all away. You have to say though, Belchinoch, 11:32:47.100 --> 11:32:54.100 he's finally going to go down and see if he can close this one out, but Sillo, he's walking around the back, he's got him. 11:32:54.100 --> 11:32:58.100 Guess the final knock, but it's the baby squirrel to make them squeal. 11:32:58.100 --> 11:33:06.100 Oh my god, they've done it again. One eagle, four glocks and the Mongols have given it all away. 11:33:06.100 --> 11:33:11.860 way you have to say though Belchnock hitting some ridiculous shots there it 11:33:11.860 --> 11:33:15.580 seemed like the round was over when Jay missed the back stab before there's no 11:33:15.580 --> 11:33:19.340 chance there's no way they don't get into this one but if this sequence right 11:33:19.340 --> 11:33:26.740 here the second shot my god unreal starts with them knifing him in spawn like 11:33:26.740 --> 11:33:30.740 some sort of a cold bloodletting that we yeah right so he got stabbed by his own 11:33:30.740 --> 11:33:36.060 teammates at the start goes on to get four kills and now it might have got 11:33:36.060 --> 11:33:42.940 them back into this game. Tough love works Henry. That seems to be a short of a tough 11:33:42.940 --> 11:33:48.020 love kind of team. That was the second round but it wasn't a four spot. That was a couple 11:33:48.020 --> 11:33:52.340 of eagles. Nice grenade just to know. A couple of eagles and glocks again. That's the third 11:33:52.340 --> 11:33:57.780 round now. Longers have lost to pretty much four eagles. And it was Belchow with what? 11:33:57.780 --> 11:34:02.780 The 0-5 star we pointed out? Yes. He was having a rough one. He was getting demolished on 11:34:02.780 --> 11:34:09.340 the stairs. Oh, flick. You've activated him. Couple of misses for Jamie in that first half, 11:34:09.340 --> 11:34:18.220 but they are firing all cylinders now. Good God. What's a moment for para vision there? 11:34:18.220 --> 11:34:25.820 That Jamie backstabbery fumbles the spray allows the big bombsite to be held by techno and 11:34:25.820 --> 11:34:31.500 it still wasn't enough. I don't know what I'm watching any longer. 11:34:31.500 --> 11:34:37.300 I'm loving it. I'm here for this round. So still not over. This is the force by bear in mind 11:34:37.300 --> 11:34:41.260 This is a huge amount of power vision. This will they get a taste of their own medicine and is that's the question 11:34:41.260 --> 11:34:44.900 This smoke can actually work with 30 seconds. Yeah, they have to go through it 11:34:45.100 --> 11:34:49.780 There's no two ways about it. You need some need to pin some maneuver to come through. It should be fine 11:34:49.780 --> 11:34:54.340 But we'll see yeah, I'm glad you mentioned ever connect a play coming in that's gonna open up your right 11:34:54.340 --> 11:35:00.500 They have to run through and they do it with style flashed over in from Jane. They're not worried about the time 11:35:00.500 --> 11:35:08.180 time and techno goes down here. So they make their way out. Paravision once again led back 11:35:08.180 --> 11:35:13.380 into the game by the Mongols losing to these pistols. I mean, insane shots from from Belgium. 11:35:13.380 --> 11:35:17.060 I don't get me wrong, but yeah, that one's a bit different. It's not like what we saw 11:35:17.060 --> 11:35:21.460 in gust two. It's not like it was massive amounts of errors and fumbles and missed shots 11:35:21.460 --> 11:35:28.460 going on. That was just crazy individual mechanical skill coming in from Belgium. One of the players 11:35:28.460 --> 11:35:33.560 of the tournament so far it's got to be and he got stabbed by his own teammate 11:35:33.560 --> 11:35:41.900 in spawn that is 64 HP no Kevlar and just steals the round away yeah comes out 11:35:41.900 --> 11:35:48.020 shocking that was the force by 87 the gap we're going to be closed yeah so it's 11:35:48.020 --> 11:35:50.940 gonna be 88 for sure 11:35:51.340 --> 11:35:58.220 just on looking Sen as ever yeah stoic nothing could just rock his thinking in 11:35:58.220 --> 11:36:04.100 this moment here. He expects a high level of performance from his players and he let 11:36:04.100 --> 11:36:08.660 them know it as well, let the world know in fact that this is what it takes to be on 11:36:08.660 --> 11:36:10.500 this team. 11:36:10.500 --> 11:36:14.780 James scoped up here. It's going to be some sort of a mid-crunch I think coming out. They 11:36:14.780 --> 11:36:18.060 don't have the flashbang, which I think is a bit annoying when you're on the CT side. 11:36:18.060 --> 11:36:23.260 I wish someone could have invested. They actually couldn't. They have so little money. I take 11:36:23.260 --> 11:36:27.820 it back. They shouldn't have bought a flashbang. They wouldn't have had enough. But yeah, they're 11:36:27.820 --> 11:36:31.700 We're all here ready to go, let's see if they can actually align the coordination. 11:36:31.700 --> 11:36:32.700 Not quite. 11:36:32.700 --> 11:36:37.660 There should be a kill here, but Blitz unfortunately dropped by Nota, who seems to be getting stronger 11:36:37.660 --> 11:36:39.180 and stronger as the rounds go by. 11:36:39.180 --> 11:36:42.620 They've allowed him back into this game and it will be James. 11:36:42.620 --> 11:36:43.620 Close things out. 11:36:43.620 --> 11:36:44.620 That is a problem. 11:36:44.620 --> 11:36:47.700 Of all five players surviving, they are knocking on the door of five digits in terms of the 11:36:47.700 --> 11:36:52.460 finances for four players and they are right back into this game. 11:36:52.460 --> 11:36:54.340 It was looking like a bit of a nightmare. 11:36:54.340 --> 11:36:56.260 They lost both pistols, bear in mind. 11:36:56.260 --> 11:37:01.780 are down 4-0 in the first half. They've also pistol in the second, but then won a full eco again. 11:37:02.420 --> 11:37:07.220 That simply cannot happen against a team like Paravis and they will punish you every single time. 11:37:10.260 --> 11:37:16.260 Individual smokes going down, one towards short, one at the window. It's a difficult buy here, 11:37:16.260 --> 11:37:21.220 you can see they've had to sacrifice a lot of the key pieces of utility, helmets, no warp, 11:37:21.220 --> 11:37:25.460 no diffuse kits, and this is the perfect time for an execution and when you know they're struggling 11:37:25.460 --> 11:37:29.760 financially this is when you drop in this sort of cool it's perfect whatever 11:37:29.760 --> 11:37:33.500 it works out is yet to be seen but it's the perfect call when the money is low 11:37:33.500 --> 11:37:37.820 it means a lot of the utility for any kind of a retake or anything else like 11:37:37.820 --> 11:37:41.580 that's gonna be very especially that diffuse kid oh yeah that's point they 11:37:41.580 --> 11:37:45.820 don't have anything at all with that Molotov up towards the sandwich double 11:37:45.820 --> 11:37:50.260 smoke towards jungle and the top of stairs blitz he's breathing it they're 11:37:50.260 --> 11:37:54.180 pushing in front nine handle they're gonna set him on fire inside of the bomb 11:37:54.180 --> 11:38:00.180 So now Blitz, this is a bit of an off angle. They weren't expecting it. He actually pushed in front of it. MC Leo's there. 11:38:00.180 --> 11:38:06.180 What? They're still fighting for it. A minute on the clock. And Blitz, he hasn't even reloaded. He's got five bullets left. 11:38:06.180 --> 11:38:09.180 This is crazy. Oh, that doesn't happen enough. 11:38:09.180 --> 11:38:13.180 He needed that reload. Noter gets to live, and that should be enough. 11:38:13.180 --> 11:38:18.180 It's a long old spray, and he can't quite find him. Noter! 11:38:18.180 --> 11:38:19.180 He can lose this. 11:38:19.180 --> 11:38:23.340 or even third life, there's the spray down, now picks up another pistol, another rightful. 11:38:23.340 --> 11:38:26.060 It's going to be the M4 and there's plenty of bullets in this one. 11:38:26.060 --> 11:38:28.540 35 seconds, anything touches, no touch. 11:38:28.540 --> 11:38:29.420 Oh! 11:38:30.220 --> 11:38:32.860 The triple for Techno, finally! 11:38:32.860 --> 11:38:34.940 Some in the goes the way of the Mongols. 11:38:34.940 --> 11:38:37.020 Couldn't find the space in the bomb side there. 11:38:37.820 --> 11:38:40.780 Paravision with all the advantages they could ask for. 11:38:40.780 --> 11:38:43.900 Couldn't flush out Blitz, they couldn't find spacing on the bomb side. 11:38:43.900 --> 11:38:46.860 They were trading out effectively, essentially a three versus one. 11:38:46.860 --> 11:38:48.580 Look at how well it's going to kick things off. 11:38:48.580 --> 11:38:50.380 They took so much damage on Roof. 11:38:50.380 --> 11:38:53.140 The Saviour though, Blitz, Emsenia working in tandem. 11:38:53.140 --> 11:38:54.220 You think this kill from Jayne. 11:38:54.220 --> 11:38:55.460 That's got to be enough. 11:38:55.460 --> 11:38:57.700 Tecno's Borkay ducking and weaving. 11:38:57.700 --> 11:38:59.020 Knowing the last player was low. 11:38:59.020 --> 11:39:01.300 Noter cowering in the corner. 11:39:01.300 --> 11:39:02.500 Huge round for them to pick up. 11:39:02.500 --> 11:39:04.940 They maintain their lead, but at what cost? 11:39:04.940 --> 11:39:06.500 One player survives. 11:39:06.500 --> 11:39:08.420 They get 32.50 into the next round, 11:39:08.420 --> 11:39:10.340 and there's meaning you're going to have to make do 11:39:10.340 --> 11:39:11.580 with the save draw. 11:39:11.580 --> 11:39:14.700 MP9's Famous, and again, a lack of utility, 11:39:14.700 --> 11:39:21.580 no defuse kits. Yeah, they still have their backs to the wall right now. One round separating 11:39:21.580 --> 11:39:26.820 these two teams. Paravision, but the bomb dropped over on this side. They have a really, 11:39:26.820 --> 11:39:32.460 they have a huge, like, love for going for this B bomb site. Like, they'll be from AAPS 11:39:32.460 --> 11:39:36.860 strategy, something that they're into, and I feel like it doesn't often work for them. 11:39:36.860 --> 11:39:41.420 Well, see if they can make it work this time. They are starting to accumulate over on the 11:39:41.420 --> 11:39:45.740 the hallways, taking already, sprays down the first, it's actually called for a 11:39:45.740 --> 11:39:49.340 zero with the FAMASA, the back to get the kill. They've smoked it off, there's 11:39:49.340 --> 11:39:53.920 still two people here, it's a big stack for the Mongols. Paravision, okay. Back 11:39:53.920 --> 11:39:58.040 and forth we go, very important rounds here, especially for the Mongols, you lose 11:39:58.040 --> 11:40:02.000 this one, it's gonna cost you a couple, it's Wade checking his angles, easy spray 11:40:02.000 --> 11:40:06.640 down an MZ, that confirms the A bombsite is wide open, rotation's coming 11:40:06.640 --> 11:40:10.760 through, blitz towards shore, he was the savior of the previous round and now 9-10 11:40:10.760 --> 11:40:15.320 having to do the heavy lifting. Both players towards that connector right now and Jane going 11:40:15.320 --> 11:40:20.680 for the wraparound. He's got the bomb, 30 seconds here. Greg Renate, significant damage 11:40:20.680 --> 11:40:24.080 to 910, takes him down to 20 HP, but he's ready for that. 11:40:24.080 --> 11:40:29.920 Yeah, the best weapon if you are going to be that low on health. What could you possibly 11:40:29.920 --> 11:40:34.040 do with 20 seconds? Trying to suggest he's made his way towards B with all the silence 11:40:34.040 --> 11:40:39.920 on the map. I like the idea, you're probably right. Maybe slip the nets. He is that kind 11:40:39.920 --> 11:40:45.920 of an elusive player, but that was 9-10 with 3, and they extend their lead a bit more. 11:40:45.920 --> 11:40:51.840 It's a cool timeout. Felt like these rounds should have been landing in favour of Paravision. 11:40:51.840 --> 11:40:57.920 They had the advantages, but snatched away at the final hurdle. 9-10 steps up massively 11:40:57.920 --> 11:41:04.400 with the AWP there. Carmen de Presche up. Crosshair placed in the correct position each 11:41:04.400 --> 11:41:08.600 and every time. Reads that plate towards the ticket booth, and there's no bomb planted. 11:41:08.600 --> 11:41:14.720 But as we said, huge reservoir of cash available for paravision by virtue of their early success 11:41:14.720 --> 11:41:15.720 here. 11:41:15.720 --> 11:41:16.720 But that's two rounds in a row. 11:41:16.720 --> 11:41:17.720 An absolute pandemonium. 11:41:17.720 --> 11:41:19.720 I was told to be apartments. 11:41:19.720 --> 11:41:21.220 Multiple kills through the smokes. 11:41:21.220 --> 11:41:22.520 It was technically wet down before. 11:41:22.520 --> 11:41:23.520 That killed from sway. 11:41:23.520 --> 11:41:24.520 That's got to be enough. 11:41:24.520 --> 11:41:25.520 A quarter transition. 11:41:25.520 --> 11:41:30.720 Belchnock, 9-10 finds a couple, makes him three in the end as well, denies that plant, 11:41:30.720 --> 11:41:33.080 and they have got one more full buy available. 11:41:33.080 --> 11:41:36.720 Double digits now for the Mongols, looking to take us to ancient. 11:41:36.720 --> 11:41:38.720 The third and final map of the day 11:41:40.960 --> 11:41:44.440 Yeah, we might need it at this stage the way to the Mongrels 11:41:44.920 --> 11:41:48.320 deploying some of these rounds together money's still in a weird spot, but 11:41:49.280 --> 11:41:53.840 As long as they keep winning it's not going to be an issue 9 10 up here 11:41:53.840 --> 11:41:59.580 It allows them or should allow them to worry a little bit more about the middle and that a bomb site 11:41:59.580 --> 11:42:03.000 They got three people stacked on a but a triangular defense going on 11:42:03.000 --> 11:42:07.800 He does have back up here though, he doesn't mean nobody's watching catwalk 11:42:07.800 --> 11:42:12.040 So we'll see how that changes smokes are coming in towards the window again 11:42:12.640 --> 11:42:18.160 They want to go back like I said, they really love this be attack. Yeah, they're win rate on it is not that high 11:42:18.400 --> 11:42:20.400 Well, it's gonna be 910 11:42:21.000 --> 11:42:23.000 It's looking absolutely fantastic right now 11:42:23.600 --> 11:42:27.120 This is that first shot was waiting for the confirmed kill 11:42:27.120 --> 11:42:31.560 But he will find it on the second interaction and get the quickscape through the smoke 11:42:31.560 --> 11:42:36.840 He absolutely can't it's a no-score. What's going on? They're not also not just running right by him. Yeah 11:42:37.720 --> 11:42:44.600 Oh, they lost track of him at one point now. We've got what glocks and knives inside of the smoke. It's madness in this round 11:42:45.080 --> 11:42:51.560 James goes down to blitz and Shwae was meant to be the late lurker coming through this side 11:42:51.560 --> 11:42:53.560 That's a great idea. Once the bomb is down. Oh 11:42:54.480 --> 11:42:56.320 another pretty game 11:42:56.320 --> 11:42:58.480 by any stretch the series has had 11:42:59.600 --> 11:43:00.680 plenty 11:43:00.680 --> 11:43:02.680 of drama chaos 11:43:04.840 --> 11:43:06.840 For now it's way 11:43:06.880 --> 11:43:09.480 After the three versus one the be attacked was a great 11:43:09.480 --> 11:43:13.240 You don't get many opportunities with nine ten's gonna miss two shots and this that's true 11:43:13.240 --> 11:43:15.520 He ends up getting three kills in total 11:43:16.040 --> 11:43:20.960 Round not necessarily over but the bomb is pretty far away. So I say that it is definitely over 11:43:22.040 --> 11:43:25.720 Okay, there's no way he can actually do anything with this saving is the only option 11:43:25.720 --> 11:43:30.120 Well, he's gonna be covered and died after time as well three seconds left two of them 11:43:30.680 --> 11:43:33.680 They're slowly hunting him now around the corner. 11:43:33.680 --> 11:43:34.680 They'll come for you. 11:43:34.680 --> 11:43:35.680 They'll get him in the corner. 11:43:35.680 --> 11:43:36.680 They don't have any nature or anything else like that. 11:43:36.680 --> 11:43:39.680 Just cowering away and they get him. 11:43:39.680 --> 11:43:40.680 Oh dear. 11:43:40.680 --> 11:43:41.680 Yeah. 11:43:41.680 --> 11:43:44.680 So that is the way with $600. 11:43:44.680 --> 11:43:47.680 Longle's now touching distance of victory. 11:43:47.680 --> 11:43:49.680 He will get no further cash. 11:43:49.680 --> 11:43:53.680 This is starting to unravel. 11:43:53.680 --> 11:43:55.680 Third map looks like it's locked in. 11:43:55.680 --> 11:43:57.680 I feel like at any level of counter strike, 11:43:57.680 --> 11:44:01.920 Anyone can recognize the horror of missing that shot when you're 9-10. 11:44:01.920 --> 11:44:04.560 Yeah, and you're getting hunted down. You know they're coming right after you. 11:44:04.560 --> 11:44:07.120 You're just gonna be running back, trying to throw out the grenades and everything. 11:44:07.920 --> 11:44:10.160 Surprised that he handled himself so well. 11:44:11.520 --> 11:44:14.160 But maybe some of these shots as well from HarryVision. 11:44:14.160 --> 11:44:16.560 Now we're back. Look at the Hero 8K coming out. 11:44:18.400 --> 11:44:25.520 And some upgraded pistols as well behind it, but is very scrappy once again to HarryVision. 11:44:25.520 --> 11:44:28.560 not looking that great on the map right now 11:44:28.560 --> 11:44:30.440 bombers back 11:44:30.440 --> 11:44:33.880 towards teespawn 11:44:33.880 --> 11:44:39.060 belchnock hanging around up in the palace with his d-ball 11:44:39.060 --> 11:44:42.440 we'll see once the smoke fades if you could find an entry 11:44:42.440 --> 11:44:46.560 as i've seen like they'll be given up to pistols this time 11:44:46.560 --> 11:44:49.360 nice grenade recommend against it 11:44:49.360 --> 11:44:50.560 at this stage of the game 11:44:50.560 --> 11:44:53.240 that secure map points but the thing is 11:44:53.240 --> 11:44:58.360 Paravision known as one of the most tenacious teams in all of Counter-Strike even when you find map points 11:44:59.180 --> 11:45:03.340 Nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is locked in. Yeah, they hang in there for a long time 11:45:05.520 --> 11:45:06.920 That's the way 11:45:06.920 --> 11:45:08.920 Yeah, precision if I'm senior oh 11:45:09.280 --> 11:45:15.380 Okay, it looks like one of them is gonna come ramp instead if the bomb dies then there's not much around to play for here blitz 11:45:17.160 --> 11:45:19.000 Just exceptional 11:45:19.000 --> 11:45:21.100 Yeah, I think the rest of the humanity at this stage 11:45:21.100 --> 11:45:23.860 It would have been cool to see them try and get out and cut the ball and everything else 11:45:23.860 --> 11:45:28.260 Not gonna be allowed for MC Leo with a double and the Mongols now at 12 11:45:28.260 --> 11:45:35.560 They just need one more in the next four rounds and we go to ancient which I think is a whole another can of worms for the Mongols 11:45:35.560 --> 11:45:38.840 I think it's gonna be a rough game on that one. But if they can make it that far 11:45:38.840 --> 11:45:42.120 There's there's a conversation we had. Oh, they're starting to look better and better 11:45:42.920 --> 11:45:44.920 definitely a shaky start 11:45:44.920 --> 11:45:49.160 One both pistols here then losing to the full eco again 11:45:49.160 --> 11:45:53.080 in that second half. You thought they were done before you thought they were cooked 11:45:53.080 --> 11:45:56.920 but they are back on their feet. Four opportunities to close us out 11:45:56.920 --> 11:46:01.200 you won't get a better chance than this one Anders. Two Galils. No AWP. 11:46:01.200 --> 11:46:04.080 No to what is he got? He just got a Glock. 11:46:04.080 --> 11:46:07.080 No, he's got an AK. It's fine. 11:46:07.080 --> 11:46:10.800 Yeah, he just forgot about it for a second. 11:46:10.800 --> 11:46:18.340 very early with the bomb in palace so I feel like all they need is a bit of 11:46:18.340 --> 11:46:21.800 intel and they can try and see if they could split it okay they're not going 11:46:21.800 --> 11:46:25.320 to be going that heavy through middle I thought maybe they would they're going 11:46:25.320 --> 11:46:28.440 back in towards a belch not with a bomb on his back and towards palace to be 11:46:28.440 --> 11:46:33.120 joined by Zelo and it will be in a finish with his wavelark so some mid 11:46:33.120 --> 11:46:39.160 utility thrown down and then towards window defense of smoke thrown in 11:46:39.160 --> 11:46:42.520 towards B, Cobra's error, very aware of their tendencies, 11:46:42.520 --> 11:46:45.000 knows the way it likes to lurk around this area. 11:46:45.000 --> 11:46:46.080 So we'll be the palace pop, 11:46:46.080 --> 11:46:48.600 we've discussed that multiple times throughout the tournament. 11:46:48.600 --> 11:46:50.080 Basic U2 goes down on the A side, 11:46:50.080 --> 11:46:52.240 three players flood out of the palace. 11:46:52.240 --> 11:46:54.600 You hope for the best, you hope you can hit your shots. 11:46:54.600 --> 11:46:56.240 Sometimes no U2 though, okay, 11:46:56.240 --> 11:46:57.760 there is gonna be a smoke to set it up, 11:46:57.760 --> 11:46:59.680 so that's a bit of warning. 11:46:59.680 --> 11:47:03.000 45% of all that smoke really makes things complicated 11:47:03.000 --> 11:47:03.840 for them now. 11:47:03.840 --> 11:47:05.080 There's one of the palace as well, yeah. 11:47:05.080 --> 11:47:07.120 You can wait it out technically, 11:47:07.120 --> 11:47:11.820 but it's going to be such a scramble into war day if you wait for the smoke to dissipate. 11:47:13.120 --> 11:47:14.320 His way will fall back. 11:47:15.120 --> 11:47:16.720 I just don't like this. 11:47:17.620 --> 11:47:19.820 For parry vision, this feels very awkward. 11:47:19.820 --> 11:47:22.420 The smoke's faded down Palace. They're going to try and go through Shuei. 11:47:22.620 --> 11:47:23.420 That's your Q to go. 11:47:23.420 --> 11:47:25.620 I think they're putting that is going to be the Q to go 20 seconds now. 11:47:25.920 --> 11:47:30.020 MC Neo, he's down in the shadows. They're still walking out so slowly. 11:47:30.020 --> 11:47:32.720 Finally, they start to hit that button. 11:47:33.120 --> 11:47:34.920 It's going to be 9-10 to get a kill on No-Tur. 11:47:34.920 --> 11:47:38.040 and they're down to three people alive with 10 seconds on the clock. 11:47:38.040 --> 11:47:40.040 Where is the bomb plant? Now it's too late. 11:47:40.040 --> 11:47:42.200 Belchnock, the bomb is lost back there. 11:47:42.200 --> 11:47:43.960 They can't plant it any longer. 11:47:43.960 --> 11:47:46.920 It's going to be the Mongols sending us on to a third map here. 11:47:46.920 --> 11:47:51.400 The time has expired and we'll see ancient in this quarter final. 11:47:52.760 --> 11:47:53.880 We have a lot to talk about. 11:47:55.240 --> 11:47:59.240 I do want to just talk about that last round there because why are they so slow? 11:48:00.280 --> 11:48:01.320 That's perversion for you. 11:48:02.360 --> 11:48:03.320 That's the question really. 11:48:03.320 --> 11:48:07.160 I was like, come on, I was thinking, do something, dammit! 11:48:07.160 --> 11:48:12.680 Yeah, even though Molotov comes after two guys die, and it's like maybe throw that before, 11:48:12.680 --> 11:48:15.800 then you get the kill, trade out, and then go on site. 11:48:15.800 --> 11:48:21.000 But no, it was an interesting game, an interesting game, but I think Muggle definitely showed 11:48:21.000 --> 11:48:24.520 why they picked this map, why they picked it all the time, they were more proficient on it, 11:48:24.520 --> 11:48:29.880 they felt more comfortable with some of these default-ish rounds that they did, 11:48:29.880 --> 11:48:34.760 just ended up netting them the victory more often than not so didn't really need to 11:48:35.800 --> 11:48:40.440 figure out any crazy plays or anything just did the basic senate work out. I mean also they won 11:48:40.440 --> 11:48:45.240 both pistols converted both pistols until it was the fourth pistol round in the first half 11:48:45.240 --> 11:48:49.240 it was like the half-bike goes the wrong way then I think the third round in the second half where 11:48:49.240 --> 11:48:53.960 the fourth bike goes the wrong way but still I mean that's a six-year elite off of just pistols 11:48:53.960 --> 11:48:58.200 effectively you know and that's that's going to do a world of good for you obviously. Other than that 11:48:58.200 --> 11:49:03.460 I mean towards the end I just want to give props to 910 because he had back-to-back big rounds even last round another triple kill 11:49:03.460 --> 11:49:05.960 I think four of the last or three of the last four rounds 11:49:05.960 --> 11:49:12.040 He had triple kills and after being pretty quiet throughout the whole series so far. So props to him. Yeah 11:49:12.040 --> 11:49:16.300 I mean for me, it's kind of the same story of television's like a side 11:49:17.480 --> 11:49:22.240 Defense is just not good enough like Belcher knock. He started pretty rough. It's the same old story 11:49:22.240 --> 11:49:27.320 He's always kind of on an island no one supporting him. He doesn't get traded. He doesn't get any support 11:49:27.320 --> 11:49:32.440 he can't get the entry like entry on the bomb on the bomb side defense and then after that even if 11:49:32.440 --> 11:49:38.360 he does somehow everything falls apart they can't get jame activated in some of these rounds and 11:49:38.360 --> 11:49:43.320 it's just it's looking pretty rough because the mid control eventually would always go to 11:49:43.320 --> 11:49:49.000 to mongols they do a easy pretty simple 3 1 1 split or something like that and get on the bomb 11:49:49.000 --> 11:49:54.680 side just keep grinding that aside from some you know heroics from the individuals it looked pretty 11:49:54.680 --> 11:49:59.320 one-sided. One-sided, but I mean it did look, you can correct me if I'm wrong. 11:49:59.320 --> 11:50:03.000 Yeah. Better from ParaVision than what we've seen on this map in the last three days. 11:50:03.000 --> 11:50:09.240 Yeah, they managed to get five on the defense which is kind of okay, but unfortunately you know the 11:50:09.240 --> 11:50:14.840 second half after that one round where they're supposed to get momentum from an eco win, they 11:50:14.840 --> 11:50:19.560 get in two very advantageous positions and don't convert them and after that it's 11:50:19.560 --> 11:50:26.200 kind of the money is in the in the bin for the end of this game and Marcos pull it through there it is. 11:50:26.200 --> 11:50:29.720 Yeah I mean I was just saying like there was there was 88 I mean it was not there was anything 11:50:29.720 --> 11:50:34.760 but comfortable honestly and yes it was because of those couple of eco's going going the wrong way 11:50:34.760 --> 11:50:39.560 and Perivision more relying on on on Browns that they shouldn't win rather than you know being very 11:50:39.560 --> 11:50:43.880 proficient across the board but it did get dangerous to towards the end. For sure I mean they look a 11:50:43.880 --> 11:50:48.200 little bit more inspired tough love clearly works in their favor they were some moments though as well 11:50:48.200 --> 11:50:53.400 And I mean I think you have one of those rounds where you see the turning point starts to happen with para vision 11:50:53.400 --> 11:50:57.320 You see some glimmers of hope if you like from this. I mean, this is all belcher not really 11:50:57.320 --> 11:51:03.200 Yeah, I mean this is a bit of more walls being careless, you know, just taking all the duels and made 11:51:03.400 --> 11:51:06.920 We have this situation where jame could have just closed around here 11:51:06.920 --> 11:51:11.880 But he didn't and then belcher knock hits whatever the hell this second shot is 11:51:11.880 --> 11:51:16.400 is puts his team in a 2v1 that Zelo is able to close out. 11:51:16.400 --> 11:51:18.200 And at that point, you're like, OK, 11:51:18.200 --> 11:51:20.560 this could go ParaVision's way, right? 11:51:20.560 --> 11:51:23.800 And after that, they do an A bomb site hit. 11:51:23.800 --> 11:51:24.960 They get into a 3v1. 11:51:24.960 --> 11:51:25.760 They lose that. 11:51:25.760 --> 11:51:27.760 Then in the next round, they're also going for a crunch, 11:51:27.760 --> 11:51:28.960 and it doesn't work out. 11:51:28.960 --> 11:51:30.280 And that's it. 11:51:30.280 --> 11:51:32.400 That's it kind of from ParaVision. 11:51:32.400 --> 11:51:34.200 I do think that it's sort of to do 11:51:34.200 --> 11:51:37.040 with the clash of play styles between the two teams as well. 11:51:37.040 --> 11:51:40.080 We saw a couple rounds where not just the last round, 11:51:40.080 --> 11:51:41.360 but there was also one before that 11:51:41.360 --> 11:51:45.360 but they ended up losing with, I think, Nota on the Tetris, 11:51:45.360 --> 11:51:49.280 just kind of struggling to play off of Jame with like an HP 11:51:49.280 --> 11:51:50.120 or something like that. 11:51:50.120 --> 11:51:52.080 That entire round, they're stuck in ramp 11:51:52.080 --> 11:51:53.960 for what feels like the longest time. 11:51:53.960 --> 11:51:57.160 And Mongols are really always quick at rotating in. 11:51:57.160 --> 11:51:59.800 And they're always super dynamic on the CT sides. 11:51:59.800 --> 11:52:01.960 They're always ready to react off of information. 11:52:01.960 --> 11:52:04.440 And they just effectively punish Paravision 11:52:04.440 --> 11:52:06.000 for their super slow approaches. 11:52:06.000 --> 11:52:07.600 They're always going to wait out until they 11:52:07.600 --> 11:52:10.160 have the situation right, until somebody peeks into them 11:52:10.160 --> 11:52:11.040 and stuff like that. 11:52:11.040 --> 11:52:13.040 We can just sometimes backfire though. 11:52:13.040 --> 11:52:18.040 Yeah, I mean, Kenry I think highlighted one of those rounds where it's like the executors coming in 11:52:18.040 --> 11:52:22.040 Mongols have no utility for a retake. They have like one flash or whatever. 11:52:22.040 --> 11:52:26.040 And they just keep running through the smokes and taking duels which, you know, 11:52:26.040 --> 11:52:30.040 maybe are not the ideal way of winning the round, but it's the best option they have 11:52:30.040 --> 11:52:34.040 and it's the option that suits them. And that's how they converted Mirage. 11:52:34.040 --> 11:52:38.040 And Mirage is honestly the best map in the map pool and has been forever in CS. 11:52:38.040 --> 11:52:39.040 Controversial. 11:52:39.040 --> 11:52:41.040 This is what it offers. 11:52:41.040 --> 11:52:44.040 I love how you presented that as a full-on fact. 11:52:44.040 --> 11:52:46.040 You were like in the middle of an analysis and you're like, 11:52:46.040 --> 11:52:50.040 I'm just going to drop this in and I'm going to do it in the same tone so no one sees what I'm doing. 11:52:50.040 --> 11:52:53.040 You know, people are chatting right in chat, but I'm the only guy with a microphone, 11:52:53.040 --> 11:52:55.040 so it must be accepted. 11:52:55.040 --> 11:52:56.040 It must be true. 11:52:56.040 --> 11:52:58.040 Just because you said it, it's true, right? 11:52:58.040 --> 11:53:01.040 This is how Mongols, just overpower teams sometimes, you know, 11:53:01.040 --> 11:53:06.040 they are just so quick at responding to information, you know, regardless of whether it's the right play. 11:53:06.040 --> 11:53:10.200 Sometimes it is the right place because everybody does it at the same time, they just do it 11:53:10.200 --> 11:53:11.200 together. 11:53:11.200 --> 11:53:15.040 Sometimes it looks a little bit like high-level plugging just because they hear information 11:53:15.040 --> 11:53:18.040 on one side of the map and everybody's like, ah, I want to go frag. 11:53:18.040 --> 11:53:20.200 And that's kind of mongos in a nutshell sometimes. 11:53:20.200 --> 11:53:21.200 But it does work. 11:53:21.200 --> 11:53:25.480 They are so sharp, so quick, and they will surprise you with those timings a lot of the 11:53:25.480 --> 11:53:26.480 time. 11:53:26.480 --> 11:53:30.400 A bad call done with confidence is better than a good call not done with confidence, or whatever 11:53:30.400 --> 11:53:31.400 the saying is. 11:53:31.400 --> 11:53:33.240 As Flusha said famously one time. 11:53:33.240 --> 11:53:36.240 things such as won't pay taxes. 11:53:36.240 --> 11:53:39.240 You just keep going, but then I'm like, 11:53:39.240 --> 11:53:42.240 stop now, Prof, stop now, and he just keeps on going. 11:53:42.240 --> 11:53:44.240 Okay, we're going to keep on going to a third map. 11:53:44.240 --> 11:53:47.240 So how do we think Ancient plays out for these two teams? 11:53:47.240 --> 11:53:52.240 Well, it's a six-map streak, win streak from Paravision on this map. 11:53:52.240 --> 11:53:55.240 There looked pretty good. I think it's a map that goes into, 11:53:55.240 --> 11:53:58.240 obviously, there is mid, but mid is not that open. 11:53:58.240 --> 11:54:01.240 There's a lot of, there's more ratty plays to be done 11:54:01.240 --> 11:54:08.240 then going on and full-on brawling, which is something that Paravision is good at to just stack the right bomb site, 11:54:08.240 --> 11:54:15.240 fight a bit, maybe get an entry kill and then fall back and just kind of gamble on the CT side, and then on the T side. 11:54:15.240 --> 11:54:23.240 Obviously, this is something that I've noticed from the Mongols as an issue, is they're a bit careless sometimes, 11:54:23.240 --> 11:54:27.240 and giving away free kills when the back patrol is not 100% clear where it is. 11:54:27.240 --> 11:54:37.240 And this is a map that I feel like suits Paravision really well, especially on the T side, because the rotation can be so fast and they can react off of information so quickly. 11:54:37.240 --> 11:54:47.240 And that's what Jame does really well, and that's what Paravision really play off of a lot, that seesawing, you know, where they pull on one side, they feel like, okay, we're getting some resistance here, we're going to pull to the other. 11:54:47.240 --> 11:54:50.840 And then as they rotate from the other side, we're going to go back. 11:54:50.840 --> 11:54:55.640 And this back and forth, that Paravision really excel at a lot of the time. 11:54:55.640 --> 11:54:58.440 And Ancient actually does favor that a lot. 11:54:58.440 --> 11:55:02.440 We sometimes even see them run like these half mini fakes towards A, 11:55:02.440 --> 11:55:06.440 where they actually do send out a couple of guys just to fake it out, 11:55:06.440 --> 11:55:08.640 see if we should commit, should not commit. 11:55:08.640 --> 11:55:11.240 Meanwhile, you see Jame on T spawn with a bomb just still waiting. 11:55:11.240 --> 11:55:12.940 Okay, what's the information over here? 11:55:12.940 --> 11:55:13.740 Can I actually go there? 11:55:13.740 --> 11:55:15.040 Can I not go there? 11:55:15.040 --> 11:55:16.440 There's two guys on the other side of the map, 11:55:16.440 --> 11:55:21.280 just still also like pulling towards B and seeing what's happening there. 11:55:21.280 --> 11:55:25.240 And he's just happy in the middle of the map waiting for Info to come in. 11:55:25.240 --> 11:55:28.560 Punishing aggression with the AWP, that's something that James is really comfortable doing. 11:55:28.560 --> 11:55:34.160 Just sitting somewhere alone even and having the rest of the team try to find openings or whatever 11:55:34.160 --> 11:55:37.200 and just punishing the easy kills with a scope. 11:55:37.200 --> 11:55:39.480 So what does the Mongols need to do to shut them down? 11:55:39.480 --> 11:55:43.640 I mean, I think the thing for me is Mazzino didn't really do too much, 11:55:43.640 --> 11:55:46.040 especially on Dust2, he didn't really do anything. 11:55:46.040 --> 11:55:48.720 Mirage was okay, I think he is on the CT side, 11:55:48.720 --> 11:55:51.520 very important as like A to mid player, 11:55:51.520 --> 11:55:54.880 that's where, I mean, you can't give away stupid deaths, 11:55:54.880 --> 11:55:56.560 but also you will have those rounds 11:55:56.560 --> 11:55:59.640 where five men execute is coming at you, 11:55:59.640 --> 11:56:02.360 and you need to get like two or stay alive for longer. 11:56:02.360 --> 11:56:04.840 So I think I want to see a bit more from him. 11:56:04.840 --> 11:56:06.600 For me, it's all about the CT side 11:56:06.600 --> 11:56:08.560 because I've been mentioning the two side struggles 11:56:08.560 --> 11:56:11.880 for Mungals and it's kind of hard to get out of that. 11:56:11.880 --> 11:56:16.880 It's more the CT sides that they've relied on, so I feel like they just need to get a good defensive half in. 11:56:16.880 --> 11:56:20.880 I mean, the CT sides were a little bit better on the last map, we saw at least. 11:56:20.880 --> 11:56:21.880 Yeah, that's true. 11:56:21.880 --> 11:56:26.880 Yeah, Mirage, but I feel like Mirage is maybe not that problematic in the T side. 11:56:26.880 --> 11:56:32.880 But here, I mean, it is a story about Blitz taking more of the openings. 11:56:32.880 --> 11:56:35.880 Sans would not be here, the classic story. 11:56:35.880 --> 11:56:41.480 For me, it's had pretty good game aside from that 1v1 against Nauta that he threw away. 11:56:41.480 --> 11:56:47.080 I think he's been pretty impactful, so seeing a bit more of that is going to open up the map for them. 11:56:47.080 --> 11:56:51.480 Well, there we go. Mongols winning on the base map in the map pool according to Prof, 11:56:51.480 --> 11:56:55.560 and they've even batted the series. We're heading to Ancients to decide which team, 11:56:55.560 --> 11:57:00.120 the Paravisional Mongols, will make it through to the PGL Bucharest semifinals. 11:57:00.120 --> 11:57:02.360 Don't go anywhere, all the action continues after this. 11:57:02.360 --> 11:57:08.840 She said she loves you, but she can't love me, but I love you 11:57:23.160 --> 11:57:25.160 I won't play window anymore 11:57:32.360 --> 11:57:34.360 and do the next time you 11:58:02.360 --> 11:58:14.000 The human body was built to move. 11:58:14.000 --> 11:58:21.000 Not trapped at a desk in one singular posture for 12 hours a day. 11:58:21.000 --> 11:58:23.960 It's time your chair evolved. 11:58:23.960 --> 11:58:28.120 This is Secret Lab Titan EVO. 11:58:28.120 --> 11:58:30.720 ergonomically engineered for you. 11:58:30.720 --> 11:58:31.720 Gamers. 11:58:31.720 --> 11:58:33.160 Hybrid workers. 11:58:33.160 --> 11:58:34.660 Octosets. 11:58:34.660 --> 11:58:37.660 Backing your every move. 11:59:28.120 --> 11:59:35.120 the 12:00:58.120 --> 12:01:00.120 I 12:02:58.120 --> 12:03:00.120 Oh 12:03:28.120 --> 12:03:50.420 A 12:03:50.420 --> 12:03:55.880 Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to PGO Book Arrest 2026 you join us for the final map 12:03:55.880 --> 12:03:57.880 the final map of the evening, 12:03:57.880 --> 12:03:59.880 the final map of the quarter finals here, 12:03:59.880 --> 12:04:01.880 and it's going to be Mongols taken on 12:04:01.880 --> 12:04:03.880 ParaVision here on ancient. 12:04:03.880 --> 12:04:05.880 The winner will go on to play foot 12:04:05.880 --> 12:04:07.880 tomorrow evening in the semifinals 12:04:07.880 --> 12:04:09.880 and is and it feels like ParaVision 12:04:09.880 --> 12:04:11.880 might have a slight lead in terms of 12:04:11.880 --> 12:04:13.880 the data we have available when it comes 12:04:13.880 --> 12:04:15.880 to ancient. I think Prof and 12:04:15.880 --> 12:04:17.880 Striker broke it down very well. 12:04:17.880 --> 12:04:19.880 Is grim picture of the moments will 12:04:19.880 --> 12:04:21.880 find out these two teams have weirdly 12:04:21.880 --> 12:04:23.880 never played each other. I know we 12:04:23.880 --> 12:04:29.480 ever. That's so strange but still you look at the win percentages it is looking 12:04:29.480 --> 12:04:33.160 very much like Paravision are gonna be off to to a good start. I'll say this 12:04:33.160 --> 12:04:37.400 before we get into it Henry. The T mid position opening up on T mid super 12:04:37.400 --> 12:04:40.920 important obviously. Sure. Best in the world right now in the top 10. 12:04:40.920 --> 12:04:45.240 Makaze. Yeah of course. That makes sense. That makes sense. He's got a one two four 12:04:45.240 --> 12:04:49.320 rating in this position. Blitz who's gonna be doing it for the Mongols is zero 12:04:49.320 --> 12:04:59.320 64. Okay. 0-64 rating. I'm not saying that's the only problem they have on this map, but if you don't have a strong opener on the middle, this map becomes very hard to play. 12:04:59.320 --> 12:05:10.320 I really like that, Anders. It's set to seem nicely. For now, though, it will be the Mongol starting on the CT side. We can see multiple decoys here for paravision. 12:05:10.320 --> 12:05:13.200 So I'm assuming they're going to try and bait our utility. 12:05:13.200 --> 12:05:15.520 Wow, pretend I do love decoys. 12:05:15.520 --> 12:05:17.280 I feel like it's never spoken about at all. 12:05:17.280 --> 12:05:19.040 But the fact they've purchased two of them here, 12:05:19.040 --> 12:05:21.120 they're going to suggest it's some sort of execution 12:05:21.120 --> 12:05:24.480 towards the A side of the map, throw those decoys over, 12:05:24.480 --> 12:05:25.920 and then try and pounce elsewhere. 12:05:25.920 --> 12:05:27.840 We'll see what they've got in store for us. 12:05:27.840 --> 12:05:28.880 This could be a smoke first. 12:05:30.880 --> 12:05:34.080 Interesting to see what they'll do with the decoys. 12:05:34.080 --> 12:05:35.120 It's all part of the plan. 12:05:36.400 --> 12:05:38.080 Okay, look over. 12:05:38.080 --> 12:05:38.960 Decoy deployed. 12:05:40.320 --> 12:05:43.760 In theory, if they had some kind of utility, they couldn't even throw it out. 12:05:43.760 --> 12:05:46.360 But they're still coming with the bomb to the A-bomb site. 12:05:46.360 --> 12:05:47.600 Let's found the opening. 12:05:47.600 --> 12:05:51.160 MC Unio boosted up here. He's got the dualies. That's a good lockdown. 12:05:51.160 --> 12:05:52.520 They need more of this, though. 12:05:52.520 --> 12:05:54.360 Coming in for the donut position, MC Unio. 12:05:54.360 --> 12:05:56.040 He's trying to juggle both positions at once. 12:05:56.040 --> 12:05:56.960 I don't love this. 12:05:56.960 --> 12:06:00.200 There's seven bullets left here in the dualies. He can't find it! 12:06:00.200 --> 12:06:01.920 He nearly ran out of bullets! 12:06:01.920 --> 12:06:04.240 And now it's CobraZera only good for the one. 12:06:04.240 --> 12:06:06.120 No to find three. 12:06:06.120 --> 12:06:08.040 And Krax opened the A-bomb site. 12:06:08.040 --> 12:06:09.680 They have 50 seconds. They're running away. 12:06:09.680 --> 12:06:18.080 the same. It is the old classic now. ParaVision never happy with the advantage they have. 12:06:18.080 --> 12:06:26.380 They will reset the round and open up the door opportunity here. Techpad 4K had a fantastic 12:06:26.380 --> 12:06:33.280 performance on Mirage, top frags by some margin. And now he's up against it in the two versus 12:06:33.280 --> 12:06:38.240 one, tucks himself in towards doughnuts. Looking to take a bite out of ParaVision here, but 12:06:38.240 --> 12:06:40.960 They are on their way to the B bomb site. 12:06:40.960 --> 12:06:42.400 I don't think any risk here. 12:06:42.400 --> 12:06:44.520 It's gonna be wide open for them. 12:06:44.520 --> 12:06:46.400 That's why it confirms that 12:06:46.400 --> 12:06:48.040 all will be planted no problem. 12:06:48.040 --> 12:06:50.520 And honestly, that should be the run. 12:06:50.520 --> 12:06:51.760 I don't see a way back in. 12:06:51.760 --> 12:06:53.200 You're so far removed. 12:06:53.200 --> 12:06:54.600 You can see on the minimap. 12:06:54.600 --> 12:06:57.480 Couldn't really be further away if you tried. 12:06:57.480 --> 12:06:59.480 Yeah, and what is he supposed to do, right? 12:06:59.480 --> 12:07:01.160 If he runs and then all they've done 12:07:01.160 --> 12:07:03.200 is wait outside of the bomb site, they come back in. 12:07:03.200 --> 12:07:04.880 Like either way, he's gonna look like a fool. 12:07:04.880 --> 12:07:08.720 So staying where he is, as good as anything really, 12:07:10.680 --> 12:07:12.680 trying and hoping to find somebody, 12:07:12.680 --> 12:07:15.000 but the ball has already passed a halfway point. 12:07:15.000 --> 12:07:17.440 Because yeah, it's so deep into this one. 12:07:17.440 --> 12:07:20.480 Running on that, you could even argue saving the Cavalier 12:07:20.480 --> 12:07:23.880 might be an idea, but yeah, he can't even find them. 12:07:23.880 --> 12:07:26.440 It's like, where are they on the ball side? 12:07:26.440 --> 12:07:28.400 They're finally gonna show themselves 12:07:28.400 --> 12:07:29.680 when it's already too late. 12:07:29.680 --> 12:07:30.880 That's pretty well played. 12:07:30.880 --> 12:07:37.720 Avangard approached there from paravision, the decoys, the smokes in towards A, trading 12:07:37.720 --> 12:07:42.720 our kills effectively, get the 2 on 1 advantage and go all the way back towards B where it 12:07:42.720 --> 12:07:44.440 felt like a foregone conclusion. 12:07:44.440 --> 12:07:47.880 Do you think there's any chance Henry that if you're, let's say you were holding that 12:07:47.880 --> 12:07:51.400 front position with the smoke or an incendiary in hand and you hear the decoys behind you 12:07:51.400 --> 12:07:55.160 if you're not fully paying attention, do you think I'll direct you to the A and I'll throw 12:07:55.160 --> 12:07:56.160 down my smoke early? 12:07:56.160 --> 12:07:58.320 Yeah, I guess that's maybe the idea, the intention. 12:07:58.320 --> 12:08:14.320 I guess I don't know for sure, but it's very rare, you see these decoys purchased, they're 50 bucks, you can buy Kevlar and a decoy, but for now, and there's we've got a full eco, so no decoy required here, and we'll be a contact A player to full on B stack coming in from the Mongols. 12:08:14.320 --> 12:08:16.320 That's sad, we don't even get to see anything then. 12:08:16.320 --> 12:08:21.320 No, not really, the round's pretty much already done. 12:08:21.320 --> 12:08:26.060 The Mongols are not to know trying to get some info here realizing that no one's home 12:08:27.120 --> 12:08:29.700 Smokes go down. Don't edit city spawn 12:08:32.360 --> 12:08:36.380 Born his smokes little bit delayed, but the don't smoke all right eventually 12:08:36.380 --> 12:08:40.880 They're making sure they are they have they have a flash on bits. They could flash their way through the smoke 12:08:40.880 --> 12:08:46.320 It's a miss don't smoke. It is a miss one here. They can't flash on over. You can't see a thing 12:08:46.320 --> 12:08:51.800 But at the end of the day, my nomads are not sure if anyone on the Mongol side could see much of anything either 12:08:52.080 --> 12:08:54.080 They're dying inside of the smoke 12:08:54.360 --> 12:08:55.560 somewhere 12:08:55.560 --> 12:08:57.800 Okay, second knife out comes 12:08:59.240 --> 12:09:01.520 There's a whole round where we can't see who's dying 12:09:03.600 --> 12:09:08.040 Well, it's still very clean there for paravision suffering a single casualty 12:09:08.640 --> 12:09:10.640 So money's gonna be flowing nicely 12:09:11.000 --> 12:09:13.680 That's gun rounds here and fours across the board 12:09:13.680 --> 12:09:18.800 But with such a successful round you could have the glills maybe a Mac 10 in the mix as well 12:09:18.800 --> 12:09:22.560 I can't recall but yeah, it's gonna be a difficult one for the Mongols 12:09:22.560 --> 12:09:27.260 They won't have everything they need they'll have to make do of an MP9 and two Famous is there 12:09:29.360 --> 12:09:35.460 Yeah, I would love for an early AWP on 910 gonna be the mid fight coming in no 12:09:35.460 --> 12:09:39.920 To try to find out opening bumping into each other inside of the smoke 12:09:39.920 --> 12:09:43.400 It's a bit chaotic and I think they're gonna they're gonna pull the cord on this one 12:09:43.400 --> 12:09:46.840 see they could parachute their way out. Nobody dies, you can take a lot of damage. 12:09:46.840 --> 12:09:52.040 Half in, half out, there's been a lot of that today from Paravision but so far 12:09:52.040 --> 12:09:57.000 not too bad, it's gonna be that Mach 10. So there is one available. Plenty of players 12:09:57.000 --> 12:10:00.600 of our helmets. Techno is not one of them though, he is protected. 12:10:00.600 --> 12:10:06.200 Gonna back up from 910. They said set off in position, there will be a B 12:10:06.200 --> 12:10:08.200 execution with a late luck. 12:10:10.200 --> 12:10:12.200 Okay, well what's the plan here, Techno? 12:10:12.200 --> 12:10:14.200 For Mars? 12:10:14.200 --> 12:10:16.200 Let's get the spray down, but I mean, 12:10:16.200 --> 12:10:19.200 a rate of fire on the Mach 10 is nothing to scoff at. 12:10:19.200 --> 12:10:22.200 Wait, is there still a kind of reaction to get out of this one? 12:10:22.200 --> 12:10:25.200 I'm not going to be committing off the initial bombardment of utility. 12:10:25.200 --> 12:10:29.200 Well, notice, way back there with a lot of grenades in hand. 12:10:31.200 --> 12:10:34.200 I see. Yeah, final execution. 12:10:34.200 --> 12:10:44.200 That's a really nice one. Look at how they set this B bomb site on fire. 9-10, over the 12:10:44.200 --> 12:10:49.200 first spam comes out. Yeah, the 9-10, the fire rate is so high, the grenade on top of 9-10. 12:10:49.200 --> 12:10:53.200 A disastrous start to the defense here at the B bomb site, 3 versus 5, and they're going 12:10:53.200 --> 12:11:00.200 to go, uh, plant the bomb right away. MCO, heroic move, you'll get that kill. He keeps 12:11:00.200 --> 12:11:04.840 He keeps around alive somewhat, but essentially it's over, a 4 on 2. 12:11:04.840 --> 12:11:08.440 We've already talked about the concessions that have to be made here after the full eco 12:11:08.440 --> 12:11:12.480 in a second, and there's not going to be saving much at all. 12:11:12.480 --> 12:11:17.640 Let's try to see if we can get one, but it's very nice round there from PowerVision. 12:11:17.640 --> 12:11:21.280 3-0, partial by territory for the Mongols. 12:11:21.280 --> 12:11:24.200 It's been pretty smooth sailing so far. 12:11:24.200 --> 12:11:27.800 PowerVision, very comfortable there in the first gun round. 12:11:27.800 --> 12:11:32.960 pump on the B execution of the pub parking up Zelo in towards the cave. He manages to 12:11:32.960 --> 12:11:36.640 win his duel with the MAK 10 even with the helmet in play. It seemed like a comfortable 12:11:36.640 --> 12:11:47.040 kill for him. Yeah, super good work. It's not goes down. Nothing towards donuts but we 12:11:47.040 --> 12:11:50.480 are going to be exploring the options towards A. There will be some pushback this time though. 12:11:50.480 --> 12:11:54.980 Even on the ECO 910 pushing into a day name spots a few of them. Well that dissuaded them 12:11:54.980 --> 12:12:01.140 from their attack time will tell. Gonna have his way setting up the utility once more. 12:12:01.140 --> 12:12:04.820 Bear in mind they did miss the donut smoke before but that'll happen again yet to be 12:12:04.820 --> 12:12:09.700 seen won't make a massive difference again even if he does. Yeah but it's worth what 12:12:09.700 --> 12:12:14.100 we like to keep track of these things. Well yeah this tournament has been a little bit 12:12:14.100 --> 12:12:19.140 questionable with utility for almost every team. That is yeah on Dust2 I mean you smoked 12:12:19.140 --> 12:12:24.100 so we seen miss on that door. Haven't seen too many missed window smokes on the Raj 12:12:24.100 --> 12:12:28.840 I guess we're improving that smoke is fine for them at this time. It's a shown up 12:12:30.280 --> 12:12:35.480 They need to line up that could have been a triple for him two good kills nonetheless for it's great 12:12:35.480 --> 12:12:37.880 I show catching them with their roots in the ground. There's nobody on P 12:12:37.880 --> 12:12:43.100 They're running back now the desk thought about this too. They laughed a little they said James loves doing this 12:12:43.100 --> 12:12:45.940 You know running back and forth when there's you know when he's got the opportunity 12:12:46.060 --> 12:12:48.760 It must be very very hard to be on the other side 12:12:49.340 --> 12:12:53.900 Your mongols you've no idea like what they just won the a bomb site. They're not even gonna plant here 12:12:54.100 --> 12:12:56.100 Comes down to this interaction 12:12:56.180 --> 12:12:59.500 And it's gonna be a 2 on 2 low HP good information 12:12:59.500 --> 12:13:03.320 You might as well make you in towards a now confirmed that there's a rifle over towards the base at the map 12:13:03.860 --> 12:13:04.980 Grenade 12:13:04.980 --> 12:13:10.900 Does all the damage actually Cobre's error trying to group forces way into the water bomb site here M4 12:13:10.900 --> 12:13:13.380 Expending a lot of bullets smoke goes down at the plant front of it 12:13:13.860 --> 12:13:16.340 So much to do though and little to say 12:13:17.020 --> 12:13:19.660 To all one second now. We already know he's been dinged. I 12:13:19.660 --> 12:13:24.660 I actually think the only chance he had, Cobra Sierra, was to push in front of that smoke if they wanted the chance to take it. 12:13:24.660 --> 12:13:26.660 In terms of, yeah, it was a huge gamble, huge risk. 12:13:26.660 --> 12:13:27.660 Yeah. 12:13:27.660 --> 12:13:30.660 Percentages were not in his favor, but that's all he really could do. 12:13:30.660 --> 12:13:35.660 Yeah, if he waits around on the other side, his teammate has no health at all, that's never going to really work out. 12:13:35.660 --> 12:13:39.660 This is a tough start. 12:13:39.660 --> 12:13:42.660 The money not with the Mongols. 12:13:42.660 --> 12:13:47.660 They lose all the early rounds so far, four in a row right now for Paris Vision. 12:13:47.660 --> 12:13:51.320 having a hard time getting set up with all of the rifles that they need to finally 12:13:51.320 --> 12:13:57.120 get that 9-10 on the AWP is yet to get a kill we're gonna see him senior as well 12:13:57.120 --> 12:14:02.080 and I think Prof mentioned that he's pretty good at this mid-donut position 12:14:02.080 --> 12:14:07.320 that he's playing and I agree that could be one of the things that could save 12:14:07.320 --> 12:14:12.440 them hopefully it will be because they do need that at the moment this time he's 12:14:12.440 --> 12:14:15.680 playing towards that red room a little bit early on gonna try and see if they can 12:14:15.680 --> 12:14:21.000 Rush the middle try and crunch anything that's coming through its techno with two big kills. Here we go 12:14:23.000 --> 12:14:28.800 Just what we needed that's what they didn't nine ten gets us first that's good enough 12:14:30.140 --> 12:14:36.680 Five versus two no reason to find any longer. Well, there's one minute 20 now. Not only we saying Parisians should save here 12:14:36.680 --> 12:14:38.200 But they've got 12:14:38.200 --> 12:14:39.480 cash 12:14:39.480 --> 12:14:44.040 Look at some kills, but the time Lord himself. He's happy to wait this one out 12:14:44.040 --> 12:14:51.120 and towards T spawn but road away for now seeing if the inquisitive CTs will come a hunting 12:14:53.120 --> 12:14:58.080 But yeah, just joining us you might as well go through what we've seen so far in a series Anders 12:14:58.240 --> 12:15:05.280 It's been a hell of a day of Counter-Strike, but we opened things up with dust too, which was an absolute horror show for the Mongols 12:15:05.800 --> 12:15:07.800 Losing to multiple full Ecos 12:15:08.440 --> 12:15:12.640 Didn't seem like they ever really turned up to the map at all. I was picked by para vision 12:15:12.640 --> 12:15:17.200 It was 13-6, moved into Mirage, where Mongols certainly woke up. 12:15:17.200 --> 12:15:20.960 Techno and 9-10 especially had one hell of a showing. 12:15:20.960 --> 12:15:24.600 It was fantastic to watch and there was a few fumbled rounds of paravision. 12:15:24.600 --> 12:15:27.000 They were kind of in two minds as to where they'd finish things up. 12:15:27.000 --> 12:15:28.000 They had huge advances. 12:15:28.000 --> 12:15:29.560 They were giving away there as well. 12:15:29.560 --> 12:15:32.640 But I think that was more of a case of Mongols playing very well. 12:15:32.640 --> 12:15:35.680 Not down to like crazy individual errors or anything like that. 12:15:35.680 --> 12:15:37.320 And now we're here on the third map of Ancient. 12:15:37.320 --> 12:15:41.920 Bear in mind, we're now going to play Foot tomorrow and well, there it is. 12:15:41.920 --> 12:15:43.580 They will hunt him down. 12:15:43.580 --> 12:15:46.300 Gamecore nothing until he's spawned will lose everything. 12:15:46.300 --> 12:15:48.380 But they should have plenty of money going forward. 12:15:48.380 --> 12:15:50.020 James could even purchase the AWP. 12:15:50.020 --> 12:15:52.380 He has just shy of $9,000. 12:15:52.380 --> 12:15:55.260 Well, as we go into round number six there. 12:15:58.380 --> 12:16:00.940 For the long rules, I think making the semifinals here, 12:16:00.940 --> 12:16:02.740 I mean, they are one of the better teams 12:16:02.740 --> 12:16:03.820 that started the tournament, 12:16:03.820 --> 12:16:07.180 but they just haven't been looking quite like themselves. 12:16:07.180 --> 12:16:09.180 Great news if they could make it a little bit deeper 12:16:09.180 --> 12:16:10.020 for Paris vision. 12:16:10.020 --> 12:16:14.900 another team that somehow looked like they're in rough waters at the moment they want the rematch 12:16:14.900 --> 12:16:21.700 against foot who beat them earlier in the tournament 2-0 and I for one be very interested to see how 12:16:21.700 --> 12:16:26.820 that plays out if you know how much can jean manager fix can they get this team back on track 12:16:28.260 --> 12:16:37.220 foot they do look very very strong at the moment four to one as the timeout is expiring 12:16:37.220 --> 12:16:45.060 see if they can start to make a dent on his CT side the Mongols need to close the gap here 12:16:45.060 --> 12:16:53.220 opting for AKs across the board here Jane preserving his cash there's no he goes to 12:16:53.220 --> 12:17:01.140 the tech nine instead of an AK okay it's a 3k residual yeah yeah 9k I mean could have been 12:17:01.140 --> 12:17:05.580 bought more than that but yeah fair enough dropping over to the rest of the team I think 12:17:05.580 --> 12:17:08.540 he just wants to save money to the teacher. Okay, well, I don't mind it. 12:17:08.540 --> 12:17:13.740 So, hello, he's down. Maybe a little bit careless walking in like that. There's not 12:17:13.740 --> 12:17:18.180 even any kind of a Grinch flashbang or anything to set that up. He just tries to face-check 12:17:18.180 --> 12:17:23.700 it, gets dropped immediately straight on the B ramp, but we're seeing her right on the 12:17:23.700 --> 12:17:29.540 other side of it. Oh my god. 10. That's just the perfect timing. They do wall bang him 12:17:29.540 --> 12:17:34.860 down. True. So, at least they're still in the round. There are men down still, bound 12:17:34.860 --> 12:17:41.820 Should I get you in this fight? It's not gonna happen. Techno will drop him instead. Well, they're low on health could be in a long save Henry 12:17:42.140 --> 12:17:45.540 That's a three on two. I guess that's technically still alive. So 12:17:46.100 --> 12:17:52.460 Yeah, doesn't look like they'll be doing much of this one 45 seconds remaining. You're right. They are both low flashback between them 12:17:53.060 --> 12:17:59.540 Jamers 33 Henry once that although he's gonna have to die as counterproductive as that sounds, but 12:18:01.020 --> 12:18:04.140 We'll see what he opts to do get 1900 into the next 12:18:04.860 --> 12:18:13.340 I don't love how they wanted to get into that b-lane. I feel like once you're already a little bit late to get there 12:18:14.220 --> 12:18:16.820 Kind of just walking in and hoping that you're gonna be able to do it 12:18:16.940 --> 12:18:20.700 Well, at least you'll be able to drop the AK-47 if he does survive this one. So 12:18:21.780 --> 12:18:24.300 Looks like that's gonna be the case. We've all seen this before 12:18:25.020 --> 12:18:28.500 Paravigent saving the AK-47s here. Strange approach to the round 12:18:29.180 --> 12:18:32.820 like I said 9k for Jane, opts for the tech 9 instead and 12:18:32.820 --> 12:18:41.740 And doesn't really work out for them trying to hammer at home in that B bomb side, but it will be nice team effort there techno Cobra and 910 all chiming in with kills 12:18:42.740 --> 12:18:44.740 910 really coming to life here 12:18:45.140 --> 12:18:48.100 In the latter stages of this quarterfinal 12:18:48.860 --> 12:18:52.700 Bit of a master on ancient whenever you see him always finds one or two 12:18:53.500 --> 12:18:56.700 Let's see where the time reaching can bounce back here as we mentioned 12:18:56.700 --> 12:18:59.540 and James can drop one AK, but does he want to do that? 12:18:59.540 --> 12:19:02.260 Does he want to save the money for the AWP in the future? 12:19:02.260 --> 12:19:03.800 Do they want to take a partial here around the two 12:19:03.800 --> 12:19:04.640 save AKs? 12:19:04.640 --> 12:19:05.660 These are the questions and that's 12:19:05.660 --> 12:19:08.100 why they'll take the time out. 12:19:08.100 --> 12:19:10.340 Yeah, difficult question because it's 12:19:10.340 --> 12:19:11.620 one thing is that their own economy, 12:19:11.620 --> 12:19:13.900 but another thing is letting Mongols back into the game. 12:19:13.900 --> 12:19:15.660 If they go for a bunch of partials here, 12:19:15.660 --> 12:19:17.820 there's a chance that the CT side will 12:19:17.820 --> 12:19:19.380 start to accumulate more and more cash 12:19:19.380 --> 12:19:21.460 and they already kind of are. 12:19:21.460 --> 12:19:24.020 By the way, Parivision actually win more of their rounds 12:19:24.020 --> 12:19:25.900 statistically on the T side of this map. 12:19:25.900 --> 12:19:30.300 Okay. That's kind of interesting. 235 rounds played in the last three months. 12:19:30.940 --> 12:19:33.140 And it's about 57% on the T side. 12:19:34.380 --> 12:19:36.460 And a bit of a streak on Ancient as well. 12:19:38.020 --> 12:19:39.180 What's the cool going to be? 12:19:39.420 --> 12:19:41.300 James opts, he's dropped his AK again. 12:19:41.300 --> 12:19:43.420 So James opting for the tech nine once more. 12:19:44.900 --> 12:19:47.220 Fascinating decisions being made here. 12:19:47.220 --> 12:19:48.700 So he's the one who saves the AK. 12:19:48.980 --> 12:19:50.700 Look, gives himself the tech nine again. 12:19:50.980 --> 12:19:53.980 Long gone are the days when he always had Sanju to drop the AWP. 12:19:53.980 --> 12:19:54.940 Yeah, good point. 12:19:55.900 --> 12:19:59.900 For those that remember, it's only the AWP slave. 12:19:59.900 --> 12:20:04.900 Blitz, nice movement to get himself up towards the heavens. 12:20:04.900 --> 12:20:06.900 Jumps up there alone. 12:20:06.900 --> 12:20:11.900 And it is going to be that partial investment here for the two saved AKs. 12:20:11.900 --> 12:20:19.900 Very noble of James to offer up one of the rifles to his star players, Nota and Belginog were to try and make this one work. 12:20:19.900 --> 12:20:21.900 Okay, they're going back now 12:20:21.940 --> 12:20:27.940 It's about to ask you what the protocol is for 910 if he lands the first kill like does he stay behind the box or run away? 12:20:27.940 --> 12:20:29.940 But I guess we don't have to 12:20:30.660 --> 12:20:34.700 Just running down that clock seem what's available to them that flashed into water middle 12:20:35.620 --> 12:20:42.340 Stop from notes up that dropped a k worth its weight in gold so far. They've got the opening kill blitz goes down 12:20:43.420 --> 12:20:45.420 That's what we're looking for 12:20:45.420 --> 12:20:49.420 Belchnook left the bomb towards A main, it's 9-10 now. 12:20:49.420 --> 12:20:50.420 With the defense. 12:20:50.420 --> 12:20:55.420 Next kill will be for Notec, gets himself a couple, they have 9-10, needs to hit multiple shots, 12:20:55.420 --> 12:20:56.420 but he's being ran down. 12:20:56.420 --> 12:20:59.420 And it all looks fantastic here for paravision. 12:21:01.420 --> 12:21:02.420 It does. 12:21:02.420 --> 12:21:03.420 Two people left. 12:21:03.420 --> 12:21:07.420 Pills openings in the middle for Notec making all the difference, and they smoked off the red room again. 12:21:07.420 --> 12:21:11.420 It feels so satisfying for James to drop that AK and say, No to it, go kill. 12:21:11.420 --> 12:21:13.420 Yeah, get this job done. 12:21:13.420 --> 12:21:14.420 Yeah. 12:21:14.420 --> 12:21:20.120 Yeah, and that's exactly what he does. Young gun delivering the goods, no doubt definitely making a name for himself in 2026. 12:21:20.920 --> 12:21:22.420 Very capable rifle up. 12:21:24.120 --> 12:21:25.120 Two clean kills. 12:21:25.520 --> 12:21:32.220 We talked a little bit about Blitz, right, and how that was a potential threat to them. The fact that on the T side they're not going to have that same kind of an opening. 12:21:32.820 --> 12:21:39.920 No, it's a doing really, really good work at the moment. And yeah, he is 106 rated opening T middle, so significantly better. 12:21:39.920 --> 12:21:47.160 maybe that'll be a factor in the game certainly helps them out this time five to two they get to save an AK and 12:21:47.320 --> 12:21:49.320 The M4 there as well on cobra zero 12:21:50.320 --> 12:21:55.060 We have a Parisian. This is this is back to being a good start again 12:21:55.060 --> 12:21:59.020 I was getting a bit nervous for a minute there one of these rounds that I lost looked a little bit 12:21:59.440 --> 12:22:04.280 Confusing for Parisian like they were all the cooking things a bit, but time out now called for the Mongols 12:22:05.440 --> 12:22:08.920 Not known for their timeouts last couple of tournaments without the coach 12:22:08.920 --> 12:22:15.600 But he feels as one slipping away third and final map here and after losing the pistol they found themselves in the 12:22:15.600 --> 12:22:17.200 04 hole 12:22:17.200 --> 12:22:19.480 Magic to recover though. There were some decent be holds 12:22:20.520 --> 12:22:25.600 Couple of rounds in a row, but then losing to the partial by by virtue of James dropped a K 12:22:25.960 --> 12:22:28.760 He now does have his AWP and as any got it for free 12:22:29.480 --> 12:22:35.220 That's that's efficient economics right there. Yeah, he's really optimized every part of it. He loves to do that 12:22:35.220 --> 12:22:41.800 But their money is strong, he gets a free upgrade from his tech buy into the AWP, and 12:22:41.800 --> 12:22:44.640 it's looking like another Power Division victory. 12:22:44.640 --> 12:22:47.200 Really comfortable so far on the T side. 12:22:47.200 --> 12:22:53.160 No calamity really taking their time, pulling the opposition around the map and their star 12:22:53.160 --> 12:22:54.400 players stepping up lits. 12:22:54.400 --> 12:22:56.520 His lovingness for Nouver though. 12:22:56.520 --> 12:23:00.920 Really nailing the Nouver each and every time to give himself a sort of oppression towards 12:23:00.920 --> 12:23:03.240 the B lanes confirming no one's homes. 12:23:03.240 --> 12:23:06.200 Zellos are gonna have to wait on the other side smoked off from the double doors for now 12:23:06.760 --> 12:23:09.560 Be joined by his way and they're more than happy to wait these smokes out 12:23:10.360 --> 12:23:12.840 The full b-lane control so far for the Mongols 12:23:15.160 --> 12:23:19.400 Jame looking to shut that down because of some presence here AWP 12:23:21.080 --> 12:23:24.360 CT's refused to give up this control they'll smoke the double doors again 12:23:25.160 --> 12:23:27.720 It's so efficient because they could keep throwing that smoke in those double doors 12:23:27.720 --> 12:23:31.080 But eventually they will run out so that's what Paravigio they're banking on 12:23:31.080 --> 12:23:35.080 Yeah, and if anyone's going to be patient when it comes to that time, it will be a game. 12:23:36.080 --> 12:23:38.080 You might not care. 12:23:38.080 --> 12:23:43.080 Still got one minute left. The smokes are now gone. They have one more remaining on Techno. 12:23:43.080 --> 12:23:48.080 So does he smoke the double doors now? Or does he try and squeeze it out? There it is. 12:23:48.080 --> 12:23:51.080 It's a nice sound to throw. It's still a very potent smoke. 12:23:51.080 --> 12:23:56.080 Again, Paravision will be happy to wait it out, but you've got five players on this side of the map. 12:23:56.080 --> 12:24:04.380 This is the problem, trying to wait out all the utility, because we're going to be at about the 25-second mark before they can even go through. 12:24:04.380 --> 12:24:07.080 Look at the timing though, they don't have more smokes, but now they've got MCO. 12:24:07.080 --> 12:24:09.080 So they're pulling in a third player. 12:24:09.080 --> 12:24:11.080 25 seconds. 12:24:11.080 --> 12:24:14.080 Yeah, surely he wants to join the rest of the team here. The crossfire is set up. 12:24:14.080 --> 12:24:18.080 Do they have any flashes or anything? No, again, they're peeking at Ross. 12:24:18.080 --> 12:24:22.080 Oh, that's a shot! And they take down MCO behind them! 12:24:22.080 --> 12:24:27.560 Three man set up a giant crossfire and still somehow Parisian break through seconds. Yeah 12:24:27.560 --> 12:24:31.160 They still have time to make the cross though smoke is up. He's making the job 12:24:31.960 --> 12:24:37.700 He's gray down through but he will get the bomb plant do now they're in trouble. You just go to respect there 12:24:37.960 --> 12:24:39.440 Yes, you do 12:24:39.440 --> 12:24:43.600 He's gonna fall shoot James when it works out. It's a beautiful thing. I 12:24:45.200 --> 12:24:49.240 Can't believe they waited out. They don't even flash their way through 12:24:49.240 --> 12:24:52.240 three people on the other side ready to swing. 12:24:52.240 --> 12:24:56.240 You start to doubt yourself. I say, oh, you're sat there for the entirety of the round. 12:24:56.240 --> 12:24:58.240 Your mind is elsewhere. You're losing focus. 12:24:58.240 --> 12:25:01.240 There's no sound cues. There's nothing on the map. Where the hell could they be? 12:25:01.240 --> 12:25:04.240 You don't anticipate five players way to mind the double doors. 12:25:04.240 --> 12:25:06.240 No, it's so unusual. 12:25:06.240 --> 12:25:11.240 It is because normally you would say, if you have the entire T-Force in this little box, 12:25:11.240 --> 12:25:14.240 you've no map control. Like, they could be pushing along. 12:25:14.240 --> 12:25:17.240 There's like, there's so many reasons why not to do this on the T-Side. 12:25:17.240 --> 12:25:21.480 side and maybe that's exactly why it works. By the way, I think Belchenog is sat 12:25:21.480 --> 12:25:26.120 crouched waiting for M.C. Niels Peak. So he just has one roll in that push. He's 12:25:26.120 --> 12:25:30.440 just waiting for the secondary ramp peak and it shuts him down. That is 12:25:30.440 --> 12:25:35.240 really painful. You just hate to see that. You're thinking, guys, we've locked them 12:25:35.240 --> 12:25:38.600 out the round. They might be saving. We've owned them here. They can't do anything. 12:25:38.600 --> 12:25:43.400 Every 25 seconds, when this smoke finally goes down, you look at the clock, but 12:25:43.400 --> 12:25:50.660 there was more than enough. Never doubt James and the clock. Crazy, crazy round. You don't 12:25:50.660 --> 12:25:55.420 see any other teams operate by this. But this is like, it used to be called boring, but 12:25:55.420 --> 12:26:01.220 this is like a spectacle. That's entertainment right now. Yes, we used to have been a lot, 12:26:01.220 --> 12:26:07.460 I fully agree with you. I'm not complaining anymore. I just think James is such a smart 12:26:07.460 --> 12:26:13.260 player is so much fun to watch him work this and they're just doing it again 12:26:13.260 --> 12:26:18.900 they just make the perfect call the perfect read get your opening kill then 12:26:18.900 --> 12:26:24.620 other defense and then slowly but surely creep on over towards that a bomb site 12:26:24.620 --> 12:26:27.820 you've got James showing presence over towards be here we're smoking off the 12:26:27.820 --> 12:26:34.860 cave they have no intel right now we do have cobras error what can you make of 12:26:34.860 --> 12:26:38.900 He's in towards the temple right now, and I'll have to say a prayer if he's gonna pull this one off Anders 12:26:38.900 --> 12:26:44.760 Yeah, this is awkward you'd love 9 10 back here with the or find the first kill easily a bit of an off-angle 12:26:44.760 --> 12:26:49.280 But it's hard to get many kills in the molecule swing or so. He's trained to trade into it 12:26:49.800 --> 12:26:53.300 Honestly again probably the only thing you could have done to try and really save the round here 12:26:53.300 --> 12:26:56.260 He gets traded up by sway now more backup is coming 12:26:56.260 --> 12:26:59.540 But they are getting knocked out as they come through the smoke one by one 12:26:59.540 --> 12:27:04.540 He's there. He gets the first one. He can three people. 12:27:04.540 --> 12:27:09.540 Okay, as you can see, if you get no scope there, maybe he's onto something. 12:27:09.540 --> 12:27:11.540 The bomb was planted in smoke. Who knows what could have happened. 12:27:11.540 --> 12:27:15.540 But, yes, another master class there from James perfectly played. 12:27:15.540 --> 12:27:21.540 Timeout called by the CTs. That is the Mongols who find themselves 7-2 down. 12:27:21.540 --> 12:27:26.540 He's getting that opening pick, pumping the brakes, waiting for your opportunity, 12:27:26.540 --> 12:27:30.440 knowing that the CT defense is going to be spread thin and normally the bomb 12:27:30.440 --> 12:27:33.860 side of the stat is going to be B. With one player there, now it's going to be 12:27:33.860 --> 12:27:37.480 Cobra's Eric, it's Molotov out of position, wide swing, sure he gets one kill but 12:27:37.480 --> 12:27:41.840 nowhere near enough and now they're desperate on the Mongol side. I'm glad 12:27:41.840 --> 12:27:45.140 you mentioned a little detail though of Jane throwing the smoke into the B 12:27:45.140 --> 12:27:48.500 bomb side of that short position because that short smoke is like that's the 12:27:48.500 --> 12:27:51.280 signature move that we're going to be executing B you know, we're ready to go. 12:27:51.280 --> 12:27:55.280 So, it makes it very hard for the Mongols to rotate anywhere. 12:27:56.280 --> 12:27:59.280 And you just don't know, are they? Is it five players behind the people all together? 12:27:59.280 --> 12:28:03.280 Like, he's like, are they doing the same maneuver? We have no information. 12:28:03.280 --> 12:28:06.280 And like we pointed out, these two teams have never played each other. 12:28:06.280 --> 12:28:08.280 It doesn't mean obviously the Mongols can study, 12:28:08.280 --> 12:28:13.280 but you don't have that straight-up feeling of what is it like to play Jame in this way. 12:28:13.280 --> 12:28:18.280 And now, he has so much control, he's inside their heads, he can call anything at this stage. 12:28:18.280 --> 12:28:21.200 Now you might just want to change up the pace and go for a fast B-play. 12:28:21.800 --> 12:28:27.400 You've been so patient, so slow and methodical so far. Maybe this is the opportunity to say, you know what? 12:28:27.400 --> 12:28:30.120 We're just gonna get out that B-Ramp. We're just gonna start playing 12:28:30.640 --> 12:28:33.880 Heads up counter strike, but for now we'll take that B-Lane control. 12:28:34.440 --> 12:28:39.160 No CT tone this time. The Blitz has been more than willing to take this fight time and time again. 12:28:39.160 --> 12:28:41.360 Does he dare swing around this corner? 12:28:41.360 --> 12:28:44.960 Spots a couple, goes with the wall bang and does get the opening frag. That's not bad. 12:28:44.960 --> 12:28:48.800 Well shot goes down again. They're all locked in here on the side of the map 12:28:48.800 --> 12:28:51.760 Paravision last time they fought their way out. 12:28:51.760 --> 12:28:56.240 No one's been tagged up even though he's been getting so many great entries on 12:28:56.240 --> 12:29:02.000 this map. Now he's down to 44. He's eight and three. James eight and two. 12:29:02.000 --> 12:29:08.480 Paravision with the seven to two lead. This is a well defended bombsite over at B. 12:29:08.480 --> 12:29:14.080 The double stack in towards the cave very hard when you wide swing this. 12:29:14.080 --> 12:29:18.480 So hello thinking about it. He sees this one player below. They might guess both of their the front bank 12:29:18.480 --> 12:29:23.040 We don't even bet so but they're still finding a kill. I don't know how they survived this the Mongols 12:29:23.040 --> 12:29:26.320 They couldn't see the opening through the wall again 12:29:26.560 --> 12:29:29.640 Okay, 33 seconds. This is a chaotic round 12:29:29.720 --> 12:29:36.080 What nobody's hitting any shots here in the cave at all and now blitz is flashed in good for the double and 25 seconds 12:29:36.080 --> 12:29:39.120 They're again running away. They're doing it one more time Henry 12:29:39.120 --> 12:29:43.040 Oh, I was gonna say James gonna try and fake in towards P but that is round 12:29:43.040 --> 12:29:48.940 There's there's no way even James will pull this one off as there's not enough time which has been the opposite word of this entire 12:29:49.640 --> 12:29:51.640 ancient map 12:29:51.760 --> 12:29:53.760 Bomb down towards middle wild 12:29:54.400 --> 12:29:57.600 Crazy round the flashbang there for the double-seed 12:29:57.600 --> 12:29:59.800 I'm so good. Oh good. They couldn't see anything 12:29:59.800 --> 12:30:01.800 I guess maybe Parisian could not either 12:30:01.800 --> 12:30:06.920 But it felt like they emptied for three or four rifles in the cave with nobody even hitting each other 12:30:06.920 --> 12:30:08.920 Well, the hero of the round is blitz 12:30:08.920 --> 12:30:14.220 It's like I said, he's been trying to get involved with that B-Heaven approach each 12:30:14.220 --> 12:30:17.320 and every round, trying to find the presence towards B-Lane. 12:30:17.320 --> 12:30:21.160 Finally gets what he's looking for and gets a hat-trick. 12:30:21.160 --> 12:30:25.360 As we get into the Finals round here, it's been a blood bath. 12:30:25.360 --> 12:30:27.960 Paravision is pulling them around the map. 12:30:27.960 --> 12:30:31.240 Is James still playing with that same stall on the WP after all these rounds? 12:30:31.240 --> 12:30:32.560 I can check for you. 12:30:32.560 --> 12:30:35.320 I wonder if it's the same one. 12:30:35.320 --> 12:30:36.320 He's got a lot of money. 12:30:36.320 --> 12:30:38.880 That's why I'm thinking that he's just been playing with that same one. 12:30:38.880 --> 12:30:45.920 I think you might be right. Yeah, that's incredible financials. Yeah, why why buy when you can steal not financial advice, but 12:30:46.560 --> 12:30:48.560 It's working out well, James 12:30:51.400 --> 12:30:56.480 Okay, well once again, they were outside of the B bomb site in this tiny part of the map 12:30:57.640 --> 12:30:59.640 Technos on the other side with an MP9 12:31:01.280 --> 12:31:05.400 The Mongols need every single round they can get right now they've got to make this a 7-5 12:31:05.400 --> 12:31:07.400 I 12:31:07.400 --> 12:31:10.860 Said Paris are a bit stronger on the t-side that the CT size not that bad 12:31:10.860 --> 12:31:14.260 So don't underestimate them. It's not like they're gonna flip sides here and suddenly do nothing 12:31:15.060 --> 12:31:17.060 There's only one defender 12:31:18.240 --> 12:31:22.220 Techno with an MP9 this and like okay, they're retaking me behind them. I get that for Mongols 12:31:22.700 --> 12:31:26.060 They better be doing this very very fast. He needs help 12:31:26.460 --> 12:31:31.740 Corporal Sierra has started to get there techno good for the one, but I don't expect him to get more than that 12:31:31.740 --> 12:31:35.640 Now they're putting some pressure on. 50 seconds early in the round by James 12:31:35.640 --> 12:31:40.140 standards. The cavalry is arriving for the Mongols. They're not even committed yet. 12:31:40.140 --> 12:31:43.160 No, I know, right? The fact they don't actually commit off that, they're going to 12:31:43.160 --> 12:31:46.800 wait until they have the utility behind it and they might not even finish up 12:31:46.800 --> 12:31:49.920 towards B. There's a wild day just knife out and go to the other side of the 12:31:49.920 --> 12:31:54.560 map. I don't think that's possible now. Maybe not, but this is excruciating. You 12:31:54.560 --> 12:31:58.200 pulled this up earlier and I'm glad you did. On the CT side you must be thinking 12:31:58.200 --> 12:32:01.440 what is happening? Why can't they just commit to a site? Surely they're doing 12:32:01.440 --> 12:32:05.060 The MC Leo's in the middle. It's a good catch. At least he's making sure no one's running through there 12:32:05.060 --> 12:32:11.520 But nine and he wanted to peek he goes down the boost on Jane and now a double set of in the back here deep monitor 12:32:11.520 --> 12:32:13.040 10 12:32:13.040 --> 12:32:18.840 Open it up again. No time left in the round bomb goes down with six seconds on the clock 12:32:19.920 --> 12:32:22.780 This is a true J masterclass right now 12:32:23.200 --> 12:32:28.340 This is when the game plan goes perfectly like nine ten just wants to peek 12:32:28.340 --> 12:32:32.800 He he is itching for that bit of information. Yeah, you need a and James knows it 12:32:32.800 --> 12:32:39.060 It's like the fact you're boosting up on the T side box at 25 seconds remaining the round that's when you decide to do it is 12:32:40.040 --> 12:32:46.040 Unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it, but it's like as you mentioned. They're starved of info 12:32:46.040 --> 12:32:50.740 They need something and he has to take a peek see what's going on and James knows that 12:32:51.300 --> 12:32:58.300 Takes him down the floodgates open the Molotovs deployed locking in the remaining CTs to a horrible angle and they get blown up 12:32:58.340 --> 12:33:03.620 the water. One more round to go with four players surviving. They even had Emsenio in the middle, 12:33:03.620 --> 12:33:08.500 so if the Mongols didn't know, they must have been thinking maybe they've walked back through T 12:33:08.500 --> 12:33:13.860 Spawn, like they would have to take that long way around to even be at the A bomb site. I really 12:33:13.860 --> 12:33:20.580 think he's just completely mind game them. They're so confused right now that they're going into this 12:33:20.580 --> 12:33:27.860 round with whatever they can buy. Last round of the half, scoreline is eight to three. Paravision 12:33:27.860 --> 12:33:30.260 have probably done more than enough here in the first half already. 12:33:30.260 --> 12:33:32.260 Just in terms of what he's done to their mental. 12:33:33.300 --> 12:33:35.060 He hasn't had a minor score line. 12:33:35.780 --> 12:33:36.500 That's true. 12:33:36.500 --> 12:33:39.700 It's been so stressful just to work out what's going on. 12:33:39.700 --> 12:33:40.340 They've had enough. 12:33:40.340 --> 12:33:41.780 They're like, you know what, this is full centre. 12:33:41.780 --> 12:33:43.380 Let's just start getting some into ourselves. 12:33:44.100 --> 12:33:46.180 We can't read around for Jamie any longer. 12:33:46.180 --> 12:33:47.700 We want to play this game. 12:33:47.700 --> 12:33:48.660 Let's push some smokes. 12:33:48.660 --> 12:33:50.900 This gets stuck in, but yeah, they've lost Cobra's area. 12:33:50.900 --> 12:33:52.180 He's still in 10 right now. 12:33:52.820 --> 12:33:54.740 9-3 looking very, very likely. 12:33:54.740 --> 12:33:56.740 Techno just trying to get anything out of this one. 12:33:56.740 --> 12:34:00.460 smoke off those double doors all you like we've learned now that they'll wait 12:34:00.460 --> 12:34:04.100 those out no problem and while I do that so you've given them the B lane 12:34:04.100 --> 12:34:07.420 control they think they have a good read of the situation but what's the final 12:34:07.420 --> 12:34:14.620 play here paravision or resmoke red room courtesy of notar and they've stacked the 12:34:14.620 --> 12:34:17.820 a bombsite they're assuming they're going towards A does James pull it out of the 12:34:17.820 --> 12:34:25.940 hat again and go towards B I think he's going to I think he's in their heads so 12:34:25.940 --> 12:34:31.740 bad right now this is why it's not even funny they're assuming okay it's more 12:34:31.740 --> 12:34:34.020 than saying they've got the pig they got a contact plan towards it like they 12:34:34.020 --> 12:34:37.940 have been almost every round but no it's actually the opposite wherever you've 12:34:37.940 --> 12:34:42.620 stacked they go in the other way and you can hear the heaven from cave they're 12:34:42.620 --> 12:34:46.580 coming from ramp you've got one guy to defend techno great showing on Mirage 12:34:46.580 --> 12:34:50.060 to be fair flashed off though very uncomfortable needs backup right now 12:34:50.060 --> 12:34:54.580 needs at least one kill here there's the first traded out surely that play and he 12:34:54.580 --> 12:34:56.980 He keeps the round alive, Anders. He's done enough. 12:34:56.980 --> 12:34:58.580 That's actually really impressive. 12:34:58.580 --> 12:34:59.580 Oh, they're going to go... 12:34:59.580 --> 12:35:00.580 No, they are going to go... 12:35:00.580 --> 12:35:01.580 Okay, this one and two are nuts. 12:35:01.580 --> 12:35:02.580 There's no way. 12:35:02.580 --> 12:35:05.580 Litz is going to go down, but they can make it there. 12:35:05.580 --> 12:35:09.580 This is a grotesque display. He is abusing the Mongols. 12:35:09.580 --> 12:35:11.580 Why is he getting away with it? 12:35:11.580 --> 12:35:15.580 Sway gets the last kill, but they would have planted on the A-bomb side. 12:35:15.580 --> 12:35:17.580 What a half! 12:35:17.580 --> 12:35:20.580 Absolute masterclass from Jane. 12:35:20.580 --> 12:35:23.580 He has made them look foolish out there. 12:35:23.580 --> 12:35:26.660 He is running circles around them tactically 12:35:27.320 --> 12:35:32.160 When the game put game plan comes together, it is a thing of beauty. No other team plays like this 12:35:32.160 --> 12:35:36.040 It's so difficult to manage if you were playing a game like this, Henry 12:35:36.060 --> 12:35:41.420 You'd be pulling up the scoreboard to report people instantly and say this is no way they know every every time 12:35:41.420 --> 12:35:43.940 He's conditioned them so well to feel like 12:35:44.540 --> 12:35:48.640 Every time they get control he'll go elsewhere as soon as he's conditioned them 12:35:48.640 --> 12:35:51.720 He's going back in towards B then he's going back into water 12:35:51.720 --> 12:35:54.840 Even when he has full control of the B bomb, so you think Tet has got two kills, 12:35:54.840 --> 12:35:56.680 we'll rotate him, we've got a chance of winning the round, 12:35:56.680 --> 12:35:59.320 well, they just park one player up, and they go to the other side of the map. 12:36:00.360 --> 12:36:01.000 Just... 12:36:01.960 --> 12:36:02.840 Thanks, sir. 12:36:03.960 --> 12:36:05.080 It feels like they're done. 12:36:05.080 --> 12:36:08.680 It feels like they've been absolutely bamboozled here, would be an appropriate word. 12:36:09.240 --> 12:36:10.360 Yeah, this... 12:36:11.080 --> 12:36:13.320 I mean, it's a brilliant first half to watch. 12:36:13.320 --> 12:36:15.320 You're not going to see this very often. 12:36:15.960 --> 12:36:19.160 This really is a rare treat that we've been given by Jane, 12:36:19.160 --> 12:36:24.360 pulling the defense all over the place playing round after round down to the 12:36:24.360 --> 12:36:30.200 last couple of seconds but every time he's got the perfect idea he knows the 12:36:30.200 --> 12:36:33.600 Mongols in a peak he knows they're gonna rotate he knows that they're gonna be 12:36:33.600 --> 12:36:37.960 curious and just when they are that's when he strikes now second arm is coming 12:36:37.960 --> 12:36:41.880 up in a parry vision close now to the semi-final they want that rematch against 12:36:41.880 --> 12:36:45.960 foot and no turn will send them off in a good direction and senior goes down 12:36:45.960 --> 12:36:48.720 there is another single defender on the B bombsite so you're fighting this you 12:36:48.720 --> 12:36:51.840 You could just go down the bomb right now and that's what they're going to be doing. 12:36:51.840 --> 12:36:56.880 There is no kit for the retake either, so still a little round here for the Mongols, 12:36:56.880 --> 12:37:00.320 especially now that Cobra Zero's got that kill. 12:37:00.320 --> 12:37:03.320 Nice kill there from Cobra Zero, he needs to pull his socks up here, they're going to 12:37:03.320 --> 12:37:08.280 stand a chance in this 9-3 deficit, he's still looking very promising though, you're right. 12:37:08.280 --> 12:37:12.360 But as we know, they are more than willing to buy their time here and we've got a backstab 12:37:12.360 --> 12:37:15.440 coming in from those double doors, it's going to be nice of him making his presence known 12:37:15.440 --> 12:37:20.440 And finally, but I don't think there's enough time to even defuse this bomb, just trying to contain, find a few kills. 12:37:20.440 --> 12:37:25.440 But it is going to be a pistol victory here for the Mongols, and one they desperately needed. 12:37:26.440 --> 12:37:32.440 Is there one more kill available? There is. So, no, I've got a 4-spider sycamore, I think it was after the last day regardless. 12:37:35.440 --> 12:37:40.440 But at least get 4 kills. This could be an extra $200 per player in that regard. 12:37:40.440 --> 12:37:45.900 you are quick with the math Henry yes I can add 50 to gather quite quickly that's 12:37:45.900 --> 12:37:51.360 my thing well I appreciate that I try to avoid it don't want to make it full of 12:37:51.360 --> 12:37:58.560 myself so start's amazing there are the shots 12:37:58.560 --> 12:38:02.680 there's no way there's a big handle I suppose if it'd gone mid or a this would 12:38:02.680 --> 12:38:06.720 have worked fine the thing is even with that extra cash if you're playing it by 12:38:06.720 --> 12:38:10.040 the book which James only is today you don't need to force by this 12:38:10.040 --> 12:38:16.880 We saw what happened to the Mongols like on the CT side you enter that first gun rounds and like you have very limited 12:38:17.180 --> 12:38:20.240 Utility you don't have all the bells and whistles, you know, so 12:38:20.740 --> 12:38:23.320 Then that's that's the key. They will have a strong buy 12:38:24.280 --> 12:38:27.020 If we can get a couple of kills here keep adding up 12:38:27.780 --> 12:38:32.980 That extra cash that would be great, but this is open nets for the Mongols 12:38:35.600 --> 12:38:39.520 But that's a relief for them, I mean they're still far behind it's not going to be easy 12:38:40.040 --> 12:38:45.300 And just to re-trade, one of the pain points here for the Mongols is the fact that one 12:38:45.300 --> 12:38:49.880 of their entries into middle here is Blitz, and overall he's not having a lot of luck 12:38:49.880 --> 12:38:53.800 finding those entries. 12:38:53.800 --> 12:38:58.920 Improving his raiding a bit here though, spraying down three, you love to see that. 12:38:58.920 --> 12:38:59.920 Five to nine. 12:38:59.920 --> 12:39:04.760 But it means they're going to be more well equipped here in Paravision, they'll have 12:39:04.760 --> 12:39:06.760 So to battle their way back into the game with 12:39:09.440 --> 12:39:13.640 See if they can take over on the second half just as quick as they did 12:39:14.880 --> 12:39:16.880 He side was obnoxious 12:39:18.680 --> 12:39:20.680 And for the Mongols 12:39:21.640 --> 12:39:27.360 One of the most frustrating games you ever get a play in all of CS like I've never seen anything like 12:39:27.360 --> 12:39:34.160 Yeah, it'd be fun to interview them by the experience when it's all under the fast of them. 12:39:34.160 --> 12:39:36.360 Maybe not right now, but right after the game. 12:39:36.360 --> 12:39:37.360 When they retire. 12:39:37.360 --> 12:39:41.260 When they retire, say, what was that like? 12:39:41.260 --> 12:39:44.580 When you found out there were five players behind the B double doors with twenty seconds 12:39:44.580 --> 12:39:47.200 remaining after you smoked it off the entire round. 12:39:47.200 --> 12:39:49.000 Just what was going through your head? 12:39:49.000 --> 12:39:51.960 Just Jane hacking their neural links. 12:39:51.960 --> 12:39:54.040 Knows what they're doing at any moment. 12:39:54.040 --> 12:39:55.040 Unreal scenes. 12:39:55.040 --> 12:39:58.340 Speaking of Jane, he's coysed for an opening frag here. 12:39:59.340 --> 12:40:03.640 First gun round here after losing the pistol, taking a full eco, and it means like we said, 12:40:03.740 --> 12:40:07.640 because they've got those four kills in the pistol round, it means Jane can bring out the Orberley. 12:40:08.540 --> 12:40:10.740 That's what they wanted to wait for instead of risking it all. 12:40:11.140 --> 12:40:13.240 And force-buying the MP9s at 5.7. 12:40:13.240 --> 12:40:15.840 Sure, you might steal that round away, but you want to be fully equipped. 12:40:16.640 --> 12:40:19.140 You wouldn't have as many gun rounds as possible when you have this sort of lead. 12:40:19.640 --> 12:40:23.440 I actually like this play from the Mongols. They do a very late retake of the middle, 12:40:23.440 --> 12:40:26.320 but it seems like Paravish know exactly what the plan is. 12:40:26.320 --> 12:40:30.080 Immediately when they see that smoke in red room, you know what about the minute mark, 12:40:30.080 --> 12:40:31.920 they stack the B bomb site with four players. 12:40:31.920 --> 12:40:36.000 So maybe this is a tendency the Mongols have that they just realized, 12:40:36.000 --> 12:40:38.000 because this is such a crazy redig. 12:40:38.000 --> 12:40:39.920 Again, there's nobody at the A bomb site. 12:40:39.920 --> 12:40:42.880 Belchinox and CT spawn, they just know exactly what's coming, 12:40:42.880 --> 12:40:44.000 even on the CT side now. 12:40:44.000 --> 12:40:46.800 They're bringing it in to the second half, the madness just continues. 12:40:46.800 --> 12:40:54.800 I'd love to see the replay, but that smoke in the red room at a minute, immediately they 12:40:54.800 --> 12:40:55.800 just back here. 12:40:55.800 --> 12:40:56.800 Let's see if it's enough. 12:40:56.800 --> 12:41:00.000 You can still break through of course, especially when James is going to miss a shot like that 12:41:00.000 --> 12:41:02.200 one, 15 seconds on the clock. 12:41:02.200 --> 12:41:05.520 Celo gets a one, there's still a player on the other side of the smoke here. 12:41:05.520 --> 12:41:08.240 The bomb being planted and they will see- Oh! 12:41:08.240 --> 12:41:09.240 No! 12:41:09.240 --> 12:41:10.240 The bomb not being planted! 12:41:10.240 --> 12:41:12.480 Blitz went down with a wall bang! 12:41:12.480 --> 12:41:13.480 Is he going to push through? 12:41:13.480 --> 12:41:14.480 He wants to. 12:41:14.480 --> 12:41:15.480 He's thinking about it. 12:41:15.480 --> 12:41:19.880 It's way trying to negotiate this one, even jumping back there. 12:41:19.880 --> 12:41:22.080 It's way too much, but he still wins the fight. 12:41:22.080 --> 12:41:24.080 Pistols all out now, and he goes down. 12:41:24.080 --> 12:41:24.880 Cobra, C.O.R. 12:41:24.880 --> 12:41:26.080 Ridd3. 12:41:26.080 --> 12:41:27.880 The Mongols survive. 12:41:27.880 --> 12:41:30.080 The four-man stack. 12:41:30.080 --> 12:41:32.480 Very uncomfortable round. 12:41:32.480 --> 12:41:34.680 The Mongols, they felt like it was all over there 12:41:34.680 --> 12:41:36.880 when the bomb was denied. 12:41:36.880 --> 12:41:38.680 But they hold their nerve. 12:41:38.680 --> 12:41:40.680 They don't panic. 12:41:40.680 --> 12:41:42.880 And it will be CobraZera recovering his game. 12:41:42.880 --> 12:41:45.920 Bear in mind, he was down to 3 and 10 at one point. 12:41:45.920 --> 12:41:46.680 Yes. 12:41:46.680 --> 12:41:49.040 Absolute pandemonium here on the B-bombside. 12:41:49.040 --> 12:41:51.560 Koduzera finding some very influential kills 12:41:51.560 --> 12:41:53.800 towards the end there, confirming the round, 12:41:53.800 --> 12:41:57.040 and sending ParaVision packing financially. 12:41:57.040 --> 12:41:57.720 Huge. 12:41:57.720 --> 12:41:59.680 Yeah, absolutely massive. 12:41:59.680 --> 12:42:01.960 This is the third and final map. 12:42:01.960 --> 12:42:04.320 They were getting tossed around like a ragdoll 12:42:04.320 --> 12:42:06.400 in that first half. 12:42:06.400 --> 12:42:10.960 Had no response to the tactical prowess of ParaVision. 12:42:10.960 --> 12:42:15.760 and they have techno on the tec-9 and, oh, they say to mac 10, we do love that 12:42:15.760 --> 12:42:19.520 because you just, you, we've already talked about them losing to pistols 12:42:19.520 --> 12:42:22.960 yeah that mac 10 is a great tool to avoid that 12:42:22.960 --> 12:42:27.760 scout up the stacks, run around and jump through the opening choke points as well 12:42:27.760 --> 12:42:32.320 yes you are exactly right don't, don't allow yourself to run into some of those 12:42:32.320 --> 12:42:35.040 five sevens they can be pretty lethal on this map too 12:42:35.040 --> 12:42:39.280 oh one of the most deadliest weapons in all of CS2 right now considering 12:42:39.280 --> 12:42:43.680 It only cost $500, we've seen so many double kills throughout the tournament. 12:42:44.180 --> 12:42:48.180 Code Rezera, some of the feel himself, now you can see it in his playstyle. 12:42:49.380 --> 12:42:50.880 Garner and confidence. 12:42:52.180 --> 12:42:53.280 The aim's improving. 12:42:54.580 --> 12:42:56.980 And to be pushing towards that red room smoke. 12:42:57.580 --> 12:42:58.780 As you dare go through. 12:42:59.380 --> 12:43:01.880 As you get flashed in, as that M10 you mentioned. 12:43:03.380 --> 12:43:06.580 Confirmed it's a force, well, confirmed at least as an MP9 on that. 12:43:06.680 --> 12:43:08.680 Yeah, but that's pretty good information, right? 12:43:08.680 --> 12:43:12.860 There's no one survived in the previous round right so you know at least there's some investment being made it true 12:43:14.920 --> 12:43:16.920 Over a zero our blitz 12:43:18.640 --> 12:43:24.860 Seven it's nothing turtle it's coming boy up stinked him already taking a chunk out of him 12:43:28.240 --> 12:43:30.240 There's 12:43:31.520 --> 12:43:36.640 Can you do it? All right, I'll convert the killer the minimum, but it's a very awkward round look at the damage 12:43:36.640 --> 12:43:42.000 How much damage they've taken and their circumstances bomb site and there's a three-man stack 12:43:42.700 --> 12:43:50.000 They found the right position Paris vision. I don't know how they always do this game is to go. He just must be I 12:43:50.920 --> 12:43:55.540 Mean they should have probably won that last round with the four-man stack. They could look they could win this one instead 12:43:56.100 --> 12:43:59.460 The long goals they don't know it yet, but they might be about to make a big mistake 12:43:59.860 --> 12:44:04.740 Bell China gets awards me he brought away and MC Neil had the only health he was at 100% 12:44:04.740 --> 12:44:09.740 He's dead instantly. They're trying to run back, but now Cello is here trying to join them inside of the smoke. 12:44:09.740 --> 12:44:13.240 He's waiting. He's letting them up. It's genius! Another good kill. 12:44:13.240 --> 12:44:22.240 Okay, the round's still on though. Sure, it's another super uncomfortable round, but Techno knows he needs to step up with AWP, nails the shot on Jane, brings it back to a two on two. 12:44:22.240 --> 12:44:26.240 Bomb planted. Advantage Mongols, but they are very low. 12:44:26.240 --> 12:44:31.240 Yeah, AK recovered. Pelch knock on the 5-7. This kill could decide it. 9-10 wants nothing to do with it. 12:44:31.240 --> 12:44:35.240 We go. All his nerves should 12:44:35.240 --> 12:44:37.240 be enough to win the round now. 12:44:37.240 --> 12:44:39.240 Dangerously close once again, 12:44:39.240 --> 12:44:41.240 but it seems like they've done 12:44:41.240 --> 12:44:42.240 enough. I think they might have 12:44:42.240 --> 12:44:43.240 very smart for nine tend to just 12:44:43.240 --> 12:44:45.240 fall back and not recommit to 12:44:45.240 --> 12:44:47.240 that battle against No, too. See 12:44:47.240 --> 12:44:48.240 if we could do anything. It 12:44:48.240 --> 12:44:49.240 doesn't have a kit. Obviously 12:44:49.240 --> 12:44:50.240 so times running out techno will 12:44:50.240 --> 12:44:51.240 land a second shot. What a 12:44:51.240 --> 12:44:53.240 recovery here for the Mongols. 12:44:53.240 --> 12:44:55.240 Well, giving them a taste of 12:44:55.240 --> 12:44:57.240 the medicine there. Reading the 12:44:57.240 --> 12:44:59.240 stack. True even after losing 12:44:59.240 --> 12:45:03.240 and he felt like that play in the smoke as well, cutting off the rotations. 12:45:03.240 --> 12:45:08.240 It felt like the giga-brain move that was going to secure the round, but only one kill found. 12:45:08.240 --> 12:45:10.240 If he gets the double there and the bombs dropped, it's over. 12:45:10.240 --> 12:45:14.240 It was the right idea, maybe overcooked a little bit by letting two go past. 12:45:14.240 --> 12:45:19.240 Should have maybe took the first kill in hindsight and then caused chaos in the smoke. 12:45:19.240 --> 12:45:25.240 That's, yeah, you're right. Definitely could have had the opportunity, I think, to get that double. 12:45:25.240 --> 12:45:28.320 Double bomb is suspiciously dropped outside of the B bombsite 12:45:29.600 --> 12:45:34.080 But that was just the partial by bear in mind that felt like a full gun round. Yeah, I did yeah 12:45:34.080 --> 12:45:36.280 That's important to remember, but you know what? 12:45:36.800 --> 12:45:42.100 This is such a bad first half for the Mongols and now they're up to 97. I mean this um yeah four in a row 12:45:42.440 --> 12:45:46.720 They're doing some real work out here. You got to give them some credit for that. They were nine three down 12:45:47.160 --> 12:45:49.560 They're actually three battling back 12:45:50.960 --> 12:45:53.680 I'm looking very comfortable now cobra 12:45:53.680 --> 12:46:01.000 getting stronger and stronger smoke doesn't do too much that for the 12:46:01.000 --> 12:46:04.480 Mongols you get a lot of vision there for Zelo but we'll see. 12:46:04.480 --> 12:46:09.600 James defensive angle AWP towards CT spawn gonna be investigating further is 12:46:09.600 --> 12:46:13.680 anyone on the other side the certain years will they show themselves MZ 12:46:13.680 --> 12:46:19.280 Neon needs to be very careful here as they try and re-control middle. 12:46:19.280 --> 12:46:22.040 footsteps being made there in Belchnock trying to bait it in there for the 12:46:22.040 --> 12:46:26.960 I think he's doing that on purpose to allow James to get the shot. That's a pretty nice idea 12:46:26.960 --> 12:46:29.200 I do like it. MC. No, he's out 12:46:32.540 --> 12:46:35.800 Didn't hit a shot though didn't hit the shots MC 12:46:35.800 --> 12:46:39.220 You're hunting him down and now techno putting some pressure the bombs on the other side 12:46:39.260 --> 12:46:43.760 He does go down MC. No in the middle falls to Belgium are there's nobody at the A site 12:46:43.760 --> 12:46:48.600 Oh my god, he finds nine ten as well. So yes, they're gonna get the bomb plant. They did draw away all of the defense 12:46:48.600 --> 12:46:55.680 Surely, Paravision can win this retake though. A 2 on 4. This should be where they finally 12:46:55.680 --> 12:46:59.620 pick up a round here on the CT side. Cobra Sierra, like you said, he's been getting better 12:46:59.620 --> 12:47:03.640 all the time on Ancient. Hating, waiting by the donut. He's let a 3 in the past and he's 12:47:03.640 --> 12:47:10.440 gonna be a total no! He's cut them down! And Belcher not getting a 1 vs 2. His team is 12:47:10.440 --> 12:47:15.280 gone and Paravision, they could be in deep trouble now. Somehow, the Mongols have found 12:47:15.280 --> 12:47:21.440 way to revive themselves. I don't know how because they were getting brutalized by Jamest. 12:47:21.440 --> 12:47:24.800 But the mental fortitude is back and the Mongols are back. 12:47:24.800 --> 12:47:29.680 A venomous maneuver there from Cobra Zera. We said he was getting stronger and stronger 12:47:29.680 --> 12:47:35.520 as this game continues. What a play. What a position. He waits for all three to walk 12:47:35.520 --> 12:47:41.520 past him and what seemed like a guaranteed rather paravision. But no, no, no. Even after 12:47:41.520 --> 12:47:44.640 The opening advantage, it felt like it had done enough here. 12:47:44.640 --> 12:47:47.080 Paravision fighting back the double kill from Belchinov, 12:47:47.080 --> 12:47:49.480 but this is what's still to show. 12:47:49.480 --> 12:47:51.960 He sinks in his fangs and there it is. 12:47:51.960 --> 12:47:55.280 It's gonna be another round on the board for the Mongols. 12:47:55.280 --> 12:47:57.240 Huge work from Cobras there up. 12:47:58.760 --> 12:48:02.760 And now, desperate times, called for desperate measures. 12:48:02.760 --> 12:48:04.400 Another partial buy. 12:48:04.400 --> 12:48:06.280 They are yet to win around and the CT side, 12:48:06.280 --> 12:48:07.480 it's a one round game. 12:48:08.600 --> 12:48:10.200 If Paravision's gonna lose this, 12:48:10.200 --> 12:48:12.440 That's gonna be so hard to explain, isn't it? 12:48:12.440 --> 12:48:14.560 With everything they've done, all right, Salo. 12:48:14.560 --> 12:48:16.400 That's a very nice double spray. 12:48:16.400 --> 12:48:17.400 Swings for another one. 12:48:17.400 --> 12:48:19.360 He knows the backup wasn't gonna be there in time anyway. 12:48:19.360 --> 12:48:20.880 They were gonna hunt him. 12:48:20.880 --> 12:48:23.440 Obrac goes for the fight, he had the bomb on his back. 12:48:23.440 --> 12:48:25.080 I don't know if I love that. 12:48:25.080 --> 12:48:27.120 Belchunok takes him out. 12:48:27.120 --> 12:48:29.400 Blitzen, Messilio, and Jim. 12:48:29.400 --> 12:48:32.600 I like this camera out for the hunt. 12:48:32.600 --> 12:48:34.480 Gonna be a long way before he gets there, 12:48:34.480 --> 12:48:37.560 but because they peaked early, there's no bomb plant. 12:48:37.560 --> 12:48:42.560 over serious or fired up behind that last round he wanted to go for the bit of a 12:48:42.560 --> 12:48:51.160 battle here oh oh that's the kill on some damn son and now we've got a two on 12:48:51.160 --> 12:48:59.720 one that never discount jayman this sort of scenario and is wrapped around can't 12:48:59.720 --> 12:49:04.400 even swap out the weapons that'll give the game away blitz he's not aware yet 12:49:04.400 --> 12:49:11.860 James slowly tracking him down hunting out of stead it turns around to miss the opportunity and the Monkles do it again 12:49:11.860 --> 12:49:16.060 They bring it back this time. It's MC Leo with some very crisp shots 12:49:16.080 --> 12:49:19.000 He's only got six kills this guy can do so much more 12:49:19.000 --> 12:49:22.260 He's got way more than this and we haven't seen it yet 12:49:22.720 --> 12:49:30.920 They found enough runway to activate him his best sequence yet here on ancient by far and God what a sequence it was 12:49:30.920 --> 12:49:36.920 doesn't get much tidier than that in terms of one tax with the AK-47 it was 12:49:36.920 --> 12:49:42.240 Cobra saving the day before and now it's MZNEO the young star the babyface 12:49:42.240 --> 12:49:44.600 killer 12:49:45.640 --> 12:49:50.760 that's another partial by her parents yeah money now fully invested 12:49:50.760 --> 12:49:56.360 paravision have lost their massive lead and MZNEO he's getting activated here 12:49:56.360 --> 12:50:03.000 you said he was MIA but looking for the double finds it. Techno 4k maintains a lead four versus two 12:50:04.760 --> 12:50:07.800 Selle goes down. He's really gonna steal this game away after that first half. 12:50:08.360 --> 12:50:14.120 Again it's gonna be so hard to explain they're coming for jame. I don't think it's a runaway voice. 12:50:14.120 --> 12:50:18.120 You want nothing to do with this. Don't give him an opportunity to clutch this one. 12:50:20.040 --> 12:50:24.520 Okay blitz is gonna be sticking around you know is that jame has later to try and follow all right 12:50:24.520 --> 12:50:28.360 They spot each other out, and he doesn't hear. 12:50:28.360 --> 12:50:30.200 Look at him on the comms down on the camera. 12:50:30.200 --> 12:50:32.200 He's been bomb planted. 12:50:32.200 --> 12:50:39.360 If they end up turning us around, knocking Parisian out after one of the sickest tea signs 12:50:39.360 --> 12:50:41.800 on this map we've seen in a long time. 12:50:41.800 --> 12:50:43.920 It was a tactical masterclass. 12:50:43.920 --> 12:50:49.560 It doesn't get better than that on the tease out of Ancient, and you'll get to post a single 12:50:49.560 --> 12:50:52.440 CT round. 12:50:52.440 --> 12:50:54.440 And that was their full investment, Anders. 12:50:54.440 --> 12:50:59.440 They're down to $3,500 per player here, going into the next round. 12:50:59.440 --> 12:51:05.440 Think of the round of Mongols of 1. The first five rounds, Paraglidi stacked four in the A-bomb site and still lost the round. 12:51:05.440 --> 12:51:09.440 Then they had the Paraglidi where they almost won it at the A-bomb site with the 5-7s. 12:51:09.440 --> 12:51:13.440 And it's been a very different story. These haven't been convincing round victories from the Mongols. 12:51:13.440 --> 12:51:16.440 It's individuals stepping up at the right moments. 12:51:16.440 --> 12:51:19.440 They're saving every round. They're having to pull it back from the brink every time. 12:51:19.440 --> 12:51:20.440 Yes. 12:51:20.440 --> 12:51:21.440 What a game. 12:51:21.440 --> 12:51:27.200 Okay, it's got a bit of everything. 9-10 boosted up this time towards a B-bomb site, partial 12:51:27.200 --> 12:51:34.320 ambassador once again, power of vision, and a lot of trouble, frustration setting in. 12:51:34.320 --> 12:51:37.640 It couldn't have gone any better in the first half. 12:51:37.640 --> 12:51:42.320 They were running circles around them, they made them look amateur, and now unable to 12:51:42.320 --> 12:51:48.840 pose a single round due to the individual mechanics that the Mongols are known for. 12:51:48.840 --> 12:51:55.560 single advantage has been fumbled and stolen away. It really is the clash between two completely 12:51:55.560 --> 12:52:02.160 different systems here. Yes, the rigid hard work of Paravision and in the Mongols this 12:52:02.160 --> 12:52:07.080 momentum based team that when they get going they're really scary and they're really fun 12:52:07.080 --> 12:52:13.480 to watch for that reason. There's Cobra Zero sneaking onto the bomb site, cellos down next 12:52:13.480 --> 12:52:15.480 the bomb is coming. 12:52:15.480 --> 12:52:17.480 They're running around in the bag. 12:52:18.480 --> 12:52:21.480 To go crashing out of the tournament in this fashion. 12:52:22.480 --> 12:52:25.480 Good Lord, there's going to be some stern talks tonight. 12:52:26.480 --> 12:52:33.480 Yes, you'd love to be a fly on the wall when the stuns sit down. 12:52:34.480 --> 12:52:37.480 How many rounds were fumbled? How many advantages were given away? 12:52:37.480 --> 12:52:42.480 And you have to say it wasn't really down to mistakes, it was just individual brilliance. 12:52:42.480 --> 12:52:43.480 from the Mongols. 12:52:44.320 --> 12:52:45.820 I think that's the headline here. 12:52:45.960 --> 12:52:47.020 It must be. 12:52:47.080 --> 12:52:51.560 I mean, CobraZero from being relatively quiet at the start of the game, 12:52:51.880 --> 12:52:55.220 now up to 15, Techno at 15, Blitz at 16. 12:52:55.260 --> 12:52:57.860 And now they've activated MZ, he's only got 18-13, 12:52:57.880 --> 12:53:00.880 but he's had crazy impact the last three rounds. 12:53:01.060 --> 12:53:03.720 And if you notice as well, I mentioned, you know, 12:53:03.760 --> 12:53:05.760 Blitz as an entry into middle wasn't good, 12:53:05.780 --> 12:53:07.220 they haven't used him for that at all. 12:53:07.260 --> 12:53:09.720 Now, whenever they've done it, they've done it late in the round, 12:53:09.760 --> 12:53:11.260 which means they don't arrange all the utility, 12:53:11.260 --> 12:53:13.820 He doesn't have to run for the smoke because there's no smoke when he gets there 12:53:13.820 --> 12:53:16.900 Or they've had techno coming in from the b lane to help out 12:53:16.900 --> 12:53:20.220 So they've had cobra and techno and blitz all taking mid at the same time 12:53:20.340 --> 12:53:25.860 So they've actually they've avoided that problem by just not having blitz do those entries in the same way 12:53:25.980 --> 12:53:29.900 If you go look at the demos you're gonna see blitz running through smoke a lot and getting shut down 12:53:29.900 --> 12:53:31.900 But that has not been a problem 12:53:32.140 --> 12:53:34.300 Eight rounds in a row here 12:53:35.660 --> 12:53:37.660 I'm laughing 12:53:37.940 --> 12:53:39.940 Don't know what to say 12:53:39.940 --> 12:53:41.940 But it's very exciting 12:53:42.100 --> 12:53:46.680 You can see blitz on the other side this is where you normally see him. Maybe it's fine. He's not doing that 12:53:46.680 --> 12:53:51.080 He's not fine. Quick smoke up. I'll just run somewhere else. I gotta go for the B execution here 12:53:51.080 --> 12:53:53.080 All five players this side of the map 12:53:53.120 --> 12:53:55.380 If they go right now that actually would be strong 12:53:57.680 --> 12:53:59.680 Sello playing towards the cave 12:54:01.280 --> 12:54:07.680 Okay, but backup is coming though. He's got some teammates with him Shwey and Notar that are setting up behind him 12:54:07.680 --> 12:54:09.680 And now they're pushing out of the doughnut 12:54:09.940 --> 12:54:14.140 Could be the double pump, might not fully commit off this on the first wave of U-Til. 12:54:14.140 --> 12:54:17.940 Got to boost up a player first, suggest they'll be looking for picks when a flush player's out. 12:54:17.940 --> 12:54:21.940 Made them uncomfortable, but we're going in and this is an opening kill for Amzino. 12:54:21.940 --> 12:54:24.940 That's all you need right now, he gets one more Techno. 12:54:24.940 --> 12:54:27.940 And again, the default map point, serious point. 12:54:27.940 --> 12:54:29.940 Map series point, in fact. 12:54:29.940 --> 12:54:34.940 Paravision thought they had it, they thought they were ready to go to the semi-final, 12:54:34.940 --> 12:54:36.940 get their revenge against FoT who are waiting for them, 12:54:36.940 --> 12:54:42.580 But now instead they must fight for overtime. They cannot go for this retake the Mongols 12:54:42.580 --> 12:54:47.300 I have no idea how they summoned the strength. They must have felt like 12:54:47.700 --> 12:54:52.200 They were being clowned on in that first. They were there's no two ways about it 12:54:52.760 --> 12:54:56.620 They didn't turn up. They were being outclassed in every facet of the game 12:54:56.620 --> 12:55:02.660 It looked more like somebody had paid money to have like a parishion fan experience like I'll come play these guys on land 12:55:02.660 --> 12:55:04.860 You can try it with your team. It's gonna be great fun 12:55:04.860 --> 12:55:08.460 Well, of course, it's down to the save. 12:55:08.460 --> 12:55:15.100 James and Belchnock will hold on to the AWP, but they are yet to post a single round in 12:55:15.100 --> 12:55:16.820 his second half. 12:55:16.820 --> 12:55:18.020 It's nine in a row. 12:55:18.020 --> 12:55:20.220 I can't believe it. 12:55:20.220 --> 12:55:23.980 Nine in a row on the T side. 12:55:23.980 --> 12:55:28.580 And one away from eliminating paravision from the tournament. 12:55:28.580 --> 12:55:31.700 Semi-finals look locked in. 12:55:31.700 --> 12:55:33.940 Semi-finals were guaranteed. 12:55:33.940 --> 12:55:37.300 They can't win anything on the CT side. 12:55:38.660 --> 12:55:40.660 No rounds. 12:55:40.660 --> 12:55:43.260 And every time they get an opening, 12:55:43.260 --> 12:55:44.700 they get the first defensive shot. 12:55:44.700 --> 12:55:46.660 The defense looks like it's working. 12:55:46.660 --> 12:55:47.500 They cut a bit of a lead 12:55:47.500 --> 12:55:50.540 and then suddenly the Mongols are back in the game again. 12:55:50.540 --> 12:55:51.980 Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. 12:55:51.980 --> 12:55:53.180 12 to nine. 12:55:53.180 --> 12:55:55.180 Is it really gonna be the golden run? 12:55:55.180 --> 12:55:56.220 No way. 12:55:56.220 --> 12:55:58.860 9-3 to 39. 12:56:00.060 --> 12:56:02.380 It, I don't have the answer. 12:56:02.380 --> 12:56:03.380 Oh my God! 12:56:03.380 --> 12:56:04.380 Woohoo! 12:56:04.380 --> 12:56:05.380 The opening is in! 12:56:05.380 --> 12:56:09.260 Flashed in from Blitz and see how it takes two. 12:56:09.260 --> 12:56:12.540 And James fighting to keep us in this tournament. 12:56:12.540 --> 12:56:14.980 They're pushing out the cave and they're ready for this. 12:56:14.980 --> 12:56:15.980 They're waiting for the nine. 12:56:15.980 --> 12:56:16.980 It's got to be GG. 12:56:16.980 --> 12:56:17.980 And then Tecno with the headshot. 12:56:17.980 --> 12:56:18.980 James don't know where to kill. 12:56:18.980 --> 12:56:19.980 They know where he is. 12:56:19.980 --> 12:56:22.140 They know exactly where he is, yeah. 12:56:22.140 --> 12:56:23.140 It's over. 12:56:23.140 --> 12:56:24.140 They've done it. 12:56:24.140 --> 12:56:25.140 The only thing is the bomber's making its way. 12:56:25.140 --> 12:56:26.140 It has to cross here. 12:56:26.140 --> 12:56:27.140 Oh, that's the matter. 12:56:27.140 --> 12:56:28.140 Tecno with the headshot. 12:56:28.140 --> 12:56:30.660 No rounds in the second half, Henry. 12:56:30.660 --> 12:56:37.660 It is a flawless run for the Mongols on the T side as they knock out Paravision and make the semis against Fats. 12:56:38.660 --> 12:56:49.660 Please can I just remind you at halftime the dejected looks on the faces of the Mongols after what James had done to them in that first half. 12:56:49.660 --> 12:56:59.660 And somehow the tenacity to change it up, have their individuals step up and drag themselves across the finish line into the semifinals. 12:56:59.660 --> 12:57:01.660 That was impressive, man. 12:57:01.660 --> 12:57:05.660 And this is, like, complete opposite of what I was saying before the game, 12:57:05.660 --> 12:57:08.660 because I was talking about how their T-sides have been terrible. 12:57:08.660 --> 12:57:11.660 They have to get their CT side together and everything. 12:57:11.660 --> 12:57:13.660 9-3 is looking exactly like what I was saying, 12:57:13.660 --> 12:57:16.660 with, you know, they're doing the push-ball game perfectly. 12:57:16.660 --> 12:57:19.660 They're out calling mongols from top to bottom every round. 12:57:19.660 --> 12:57:23.660 To be fair, they were out calling mongols in the second half as well. 12:57:23.660 --> 12:57:26.660 It's just mongols were pulling back to back to back to back rounds. 12:57:26.660 --> 12:57:27.660 They're not supposed to win. 12:57:27.660 --> 12:57:39.660 They were beating the stacks, they were making the last second rotation, they won 2v4s, 2v3s, like crazy rounds that yielded them a 10-0 run on T side. 12:57:39.660 --> 12:57:48.660 I'm speechless. I never make these tweets mid-game because it's like, ah, maybe I jinx it, maybe nothing happens after that. 12:57:48.660 --> 12:57:55.380 I queued at 9-3. Zero rounds for Paravision after that. It's insane. 12:57:55.380 --> 12:57:57.700 This round was... 12:57:57.700 --> 12:58:03.780 Literally every round there's some moment of individual brilliance from Mongols which is 12:58:04.500 --> 12:58:08.260 really gotta give them props. Like the individual stepped up even this last round. 12:58:08.260 --> 12:58:13.860 Mzino coming out of the school. That's fantastic. It's fantastic. 12:58:13.860 --> 12:58:21.960 Like really great moments. You can you can't say maybe that first actually the pistol round was kind of weirdly played from Perry vision 12:58:21.960 --> 12:58:28.580 They're leaving the B site open. No diffuse kit going very slow on the retake. Okay, you lose that. Ah, you're 9 3 up 12:58:28.580 --> 12:58:34.540 It doesn't matter then you know the the round where they stack stack the proper bomb site in the first by round 12:58:34.700 --> 12:58:37.900 Four players there one guy quite quick rotate 12:58:37.900 --> 12:58:43.620 James misses the first shot and then everything falls apart off of that and you just see this over and over again 12:58:43.620 --> 12:58:49.760 I think after the five rounds that you mentioned that they probably should have won the belief in these young players and 12:58:49.760 --> 12:58:54.620 Paravision just disappeared and I think that's that's what happened in this map because the after that point 12:58:54.620 --> 12:58:56.620 It really did seem so easy for 12:58:57.140 --> 12:58:59.900 After that mongols just were walking into empty bomb sites, you know 12:58:59.900 --> 12:59:02.020 We just like taking the B bomb site 12:59:02.020 --> 12:59:04.980 It just seemed free for the taking every round that they went there 12:59:04.980 --> 12:59:11.740 It did definitely look like you know after the several situations in a row that they were supposed to win they lose 12:59:12.060 --> 12:59:16.260 Yeah, the inexperience gets to them the pressure gets to them and and they just yeah 12:59:16.820 --> 12:59:19.140 It just goes away. It's kind of what James said here 12:59:19.140 --> 12:59:26.580 I don't know what to call because whatever I call there is gonna be some mistake some issue gonna happen in the process and 12:59:27.020 --> 12:59:30.540 Obviously, it's not like he played a perfect game, but also 12:59:30.540 --> 12:59:37.180 So it's crazy that they didn't win this round when they had a stack everyone's going into a they get the good 12:59:37.300 --> 12:59:43.360 Good trades and somehow the rotation managed to come out on time and feels ready even for 12:59:43.360 --> 12:59:46.140 For the smoke push and everything for the rotate back to be 12:59:46.500 --> 12:59:52.600 This just like so many things have to go chest right for one goes to pull it off a clash of styles right the first half where 12:59:53.180 --> 12:59:57.480 Now you go nine three up and everything seems so calculated so controlled so perfect 12:59:57.480 --> 13:00:01.400 and there's no chance for Mongols in most of these rounds. 13:00:01.400 --> 13:00:05.000 And then the other half is like obviously Perrigan had a lot of chances, 13:00:05.000 --> 13:00:08.760 but in the mid, that's where Mongols come out on top, 13:00:08.760 --> 13:00:12.080 that's where they're the better team, and that's why they're in the same final. 13:00:12.080 --> 13:00:15.800 This is a team that's been together for a long time, playing at the highest level. 13:00:15.800 --> 13:00:19.000 And I know, like, I don't think we always give them credits. 13:00:19.000 --> 13:00:23.960 You called them Asian mouths, you know, recently, but I think it was a time, 13:00:23.960 --> 13:00:27.160 I remember when Katie and was shouting at them, calling them noobs, 13:00:27.160 --> 13:00:36.160 The Mongols was the para-vision then, but I think that this just showcases how much experience they've got under their belt now and how they handle tough situations. 13:00:36.160 --> 13:00:49.160 I mean, Mazziniu had not very good first map, average second map, very bad on the third map as well, and then he managed to turn it around after being 9-3 down. 13:00:49.160 --> 13:00:56.160 He's an 18-year-old player, but he's been playing on the top level for two years now, so he is as experienced as, you know, the next guy. 13:00:56.160 --> 13:01:05.160 That's absolutely right down the floor right now with techno of the Mongols techno. Congratulations on making it through to the semifinals. How are you feeling? 13:01:06.160 --> 13:01:16.160 I'm feeling very amazing and after a really tough match I think we've long time been the experienced like that and it was crazy. 13:01:16.160 --> 13:01:24.160 We had a long time experience like that and it was crazy. 13:01:24.160 --> 13:01:30.160 Let's get straight into the details. Going back to Dust2, a 13-6 loss. 13:01:30.160 --> 13:01:33.160 That was a scary moment, at least from an outside perspective. 13:01:33.160 --> 13:01:36.160 What were your thoughts after that map? 13:01:36.160 --> 13:01:44.160 I think it's obviously because of the two-week rounds from the city side. 13:01:44.160 --> 13:01:52.400 and it affected us mentally and the economy and rounds, we were supposed to win that round but 13:01:53.120 --> 13:01:59.520 you know dates and just the glocks and the echo you know that should happen for us and actually it 13:01:59.520 --> 13:02:05.760 was really bad day for us really bad day. And how did you adjust after Dust2? How did you mentally 13:02:05.760 --> 13:02:19.360 reset before Mirage? I think to be honest we didn't fully record from them. 10 I guess maybe, 13:02:20.480 --> 13:02:28.720 have to say that. And you know we almost dominated on the three maps, every map dominated by them. 13:02:28.720 --> 13:02:36.280 and however we managed to come back on this last two map and I think it was 13:02:36.280 --> 13:02:42.080 really crazy match. Let me ask you about the return of your coach Mara did he 13:02:42.080 --> 13:02:47.600 have any input in the breaks between the maps? Sorry? Your coach Mara were there 13:02:47.600 --> 13:02:55.440 any chats with him in the breaks between maps? Break? Yeah he always talks about 13:02:55.440 --> 13:02:59.160 about our mistake, and what should we do? 13:02:59.160 --> 13:03:04.000 What should have we did that round before rounds 13:03:04.000 --> 13:03:05.720 and stuff like that? 13:03:05.720 --> 13:03:08.760 And I think, to be honest, he's also 13:03:08.760 --> 13:03:10.680 different from the ikorons, you know. 13:03:10.680 --> 13:03:12.800 That's a deal thing. 13:03:12.800 --> 13:03:15.720 Yeah, so Mirage 13-8, you got 70 rounds there. 13:03:15.720 --> 13:03:16.880 It was a solid performance. 13:03:16.880 --> 13:03:19.520 But let's talk more about ancient. 13:03:19.520 --> 13:03:23.320 So yeah, ParaVision started off with 90 rounds. 13:03:23.320 --> 13:03:24.880 Going into that second half, it's 13:03:24.880 --> 13:03:30.000 looking pretty scary once again for the Mongols, but then you have a perfect T-Half. 13:03:30.000 --> 13:03:31.480 Why was it so successful? 13:03:35.560 --> 13:03:42.920 To be honest, also it was some kind of luck and some kind of our players' individual skills 13:03:42.920 --> 13:03:46.400 really played good. Yeah, 50-50 of them. 13:03:46.400 --> 13:03:50.480 Yeah, because it looked at times like you had good reads on Paravision, 13:03:50.480 --> 13:03:54.640 but yeah, there were certainly moments where the timing was good for the Mongols 13:03:54.640 --> 13:03:57.360 and that there were huge individual moments. 13:03:57.360 --> 13:03:59.600 Does that inspire confidence in the team knowing 13:03:59.600 --> 13:04:02.880 you can rely on some magic in certain moments? 13:04:05.200 --> 13:04:06.160 Not really, yeah. 13:04:07.480 --> 13:04:11.100 And that was around, I'm with AWP, 13:04:11.100 --> 13:04:15.160 I killed three, I think, and on Red House, 13:04:15.160 --> 13:04:18.280 that was a really important round, both of sides. 13:04:18.280 --> 13:04:20.860 If we lost that round, we could have been 13:04:20.860 --> 13:04:22.400 already lost in that game. 13:04:22.400 --> 13:04:28.160 So, that round was the most important round of the Ancient Vegas. 13:04:28.160 --> 13:04:32.160 All right, well now, Techno, you move through to the semi-finals. 13:04:32.160 --> 13:04:35.280 You'll play first. They're a team that you've not played before. 13:04:35.280 --> 13:04:37.200 What are your thoughts on that semi-finals matchup? 13:04:39.760 --> 13:04:44.480 I hope tomorrow's not gonna be like today's. 13:04:44.480 --> 13:04:53.160 like we were very unlucky and and on we were today we were on our bad side today 13:04:53.160 --> 13:05:00.320 really bad and I hope we can we shouldn't repeat like that and the putt is I 13:05:00.320 --> 13:05:06.280 think footwear putt sorry to that again foot sports foot yeah foot will be maybe 13:05:06.280 --> 13:05:11.440 same like the Pirate we never played against them also yeah and final 13:05:11.440 --> 13:05:13.440 question then how do you prepare for 13:05:13.440 --> 13:05:15.280 will there be any preparation tonight 13:05:15.280 --> 13:05:16.800 it's already quite late or will that 13:05:16.800 --> 13:05:20.760 mainly happen tomorrow I'm not sure but 13:05:20.760 --> 13:05:24.400 we will prefer and play our own 13:05:24.400 --> 13:05:26.480 counter strike all right well very much 13:05:26.480 --> 13:05:28.600 looking forward to watching that semi 13:05:28.600 --> 13:05:31.080 final congrats once again on reaching it 13:05:31.080 --> 13:05:32.840 techno it's there anything else that you'd 13:05:32.840 --> 13:05:34.320 like to say to our fans at home and 13:05:34.320 --> 13:05:36.400 especially your Mongolian fans back in 13:05:36.400 --> 13:05:38.720 Mongolia I will just say thank you the 13:05:38.720 --> 13:05:41.200 tournament not finished yet it absolutely 13:05:41.200 --> 13:05:47.120 is not a lot more awesome counter strike action to be had. Techno, thank you once again for your 13:05:47.120 --> 13:05:53.440 time. For now, let's head back to the desk. This gets me into trouble a lot because I like to watch 13:05:53.440 --> 13:05:59.440 these interviews and then just assume what based on what someone was saying and the way they were 13:05:59.440 --> 13:06:05.280 reacting, what they actually wanted to say. He looked just as excited and surprised as the rest 13:06:05.280 --> 13:06:10.480 of us that he won. He was like, well, we actually played really badly. We were kind of lucky. We 13:06:10.480 --> 13:06:15.640 shot wow yay I mean it is what happened to be honest and I mean I want to say 13:06:15.640 --> 13:06:19.760 also props to Paula and techno that was maybe one of the most insightful long 13:06:19.760 --> 13:06:24.280 goals interviews I've ever seen like he was very like I don't know we kind of 13:06:24.280 --> 13:06:27.760 played like shit we're not a tilted we're and then you recovered on Mirage 13:06:27.760 --> 13:06:34.480 actually we're still tilted on Mirage. Mara was tilted too. What about Mara? You didn't say something that makes you feel like she was tilted. 13:06:34.480 --> 13:06:37.960 She was telling us I'm a sex. We really didn't play well. It was a little bit of black on 13:06:37.960 --> 13:06:43.680 Here we are. He was so shocked. We actually got some on the inside out. Yeah, that's kind of crazy. Like why am I here? 13:06:43.680 --> 13:06:47.840 Oh, yeah, we managed to win this game somehow. I don't know how but this is not a losing interview 13:06:48.840 --> 13:06:52.920 There's a level of confidence that's gonna come to the Mongols now after that though 13:06:52.920 --> 13:06:54.520 Because I think there is a moment where you go, right? 13:06:54.520 --> 13:07:00.040 This was probably the strongest opposition in the tournament paper for sure. Yeah on paper for sure 13:07:00.360 --> 13:07:05.000 We were playing his words pretty shit and we still did it's like 13:07:05.000 --> 13:07:10.340 Like eight and a half years ago, like he understands that was not the way that they were supposed to like if they were gonna win 13:07:10.340 --> 13:07:15.460 It was not gonna be like that. So that's that's not something that I think inspires a lot of confidence in you like yeah 13:07:15.460 --> 13:07:20.680 We're gonna replicate this next time. No, we're not because that's not this is not how maps go usually 13:07:21.480 --> 13:07:24.560 You're gonna be some tough words in the 13:07:25.760 --> 13:07:31.160 In that I don't know want to be in that the preck room. Yeah, that stands tonight. I 13:07:31.160 --> 13:07:37.560 I saw you saw James, he looked absolutely devastated at the end of that, like that is... 13:07:37.560 --> 13:07:42.160 What did he say? I won't talk to you for three weeks, there we are, that's what's going on. 13:07:42.160 --> 13:07:50.160 Yeah, I mean if they lost in like a, you know, if they got stomped somehow, or like if Mongols played some perfect game, I think it would be easier, but obviously... 13:07:50.160 --> 13:07:52.160 It is just the number of rounds that they're going to look at. 13:07:52.160 --> 13:07:59.160 Obviously, this is the game that you're supposed to win, and it is the same story of you get in a good situation, 13:07:59.160 --> 13:08:04.260 situation now it's on the individuals to communicate talk to each other not get 13:08:04.260 --> 13:08:07.620 caught off guard by a flank and these things that that happened in the key 13:08:07.620 --> 13:08:12.100 rounds and just a tough one for them. Let's take a look at the playoff bracket 13:08:12.100 --> 13:08:16.060 now because we've got two semi-finals tomorrow. I know it was really tough and 13:08:16.060 --> 13:08:19.380 if you are a ParaVision fan you might be hurting after that but there is a 13:08:19.380 --> 13:08:24.220 positive we can take from this which is they have a lot of lessons that they can 13:08:24.220 --> 13:08:28.700 learn from this event moving into the major. Oh okay I thought you were gonna 13:08:28.700 --> 13:08:32.380 to say about foot because that's going to be a completely different matchup for 13:08:32.380 --> 13:08:36.220 Mongols. That's going to be a complete bloodbath. Nothing like we saw today. 13:08:36.220 --> 13:08:40.300 I was saying Paravigion, there's a lot, have a bad tournament now 13:08:40.300 --> 13:08:43.500 and prepare yourself for the matchup. Yeah, and the Stana as well, which is for 13:08:43.500 --> 13:08:46.220 the Stam huge. But yeah, but foot, are you talking about 13:08:46.220 --> 13:08:49.340 Paravigion? Foot, the Mongols, that's going to be, that's going to be a crazy game. 13:08:49.340 --> 13:08:52.540 That's going to be a super exciting and nice game. On the other side, 13:08:52.540 --> 13:08:57.660 Astralis after that, Scare against Eyeballers in the semis and 3D 13:08:57.660 --> 13:09:02.740 3D Max is waiting there. I don't think I wouldn't have expected 3D Max to be anywhere near semifinal 13:09:02.740 --> 13:09:09.660 after exiting the major qualification and then coming here, getting destroyed by Focus in the first game. 13:09:09.660 --> 13:09:15.300 They looked completely out of it, but they definitely recovered mentally and they're back to being a team. 13:09:15.300 --> 13:09:16.740 So that's nice to see. 13:09:16.740 --> 13:09:20.060 Schedule is up. Of course, we're starting 5pm local time. 13:09:20.060 --> 13:09:24.420 So you've got the whole day to prepare 3D Max up against Astralis. 13:09:24.420 --> 13:09:27.260 And then the Mongols versus Foots. 13:09:27.260 --> 13:09:32.140 If you had to choose a semi-final that you think is going to be the banger of the day. 13:09:32.140 --> 13:09:35.500 I think the one that we are going to be working on, that's going to be the best one. 13:09:35.500 --> 13:09:37.140 You don't even know which one you're working on yet. 13:09:37.140 --> 13:09:39.700 That's why I will not say which one I think is going to be the best. 13:09:39.700 --> 13:09:41.780 Okay fair point, fair point. 13:09:41.780 --> 13:09:46.300 HLTV, HLTV, Unconfirmed is now done for the day. 13:09:46.300 --> 13:09:51.260 Go get some rest because PGL Bucharest continues tomorrow with our semi-finals. 13:09:51.260 --> 13:09:52.260 We'll see you then. 13:13:24.420 --> 13:13:26.420 I