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Thank you for coming after such a long time,

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I hope you liked yesterday's match.

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Good?

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There we go. So, today things are a little bit different. Before we get to the main event and the main matches, we've got some people you might know and love, ready to throw it down, put their pride on the line for a show match of all things.

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Before we start our official match with Spirit vs. Maus, we have a show-match between two streamers.

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Hello Team Strogo over here. Different looking Strogo. Welcome back Perfecto. You can talk

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in your language. How are you? So what a draw. Question. Who is better? You or Strogo?

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Actually me or Strogo. I think me, but one is good again.

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So do you think that he sabotaged his team? He just said, okay, I'm not playing, so he can make sure you guys can get the win.

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Thank you very much. That's how I want to see it going on. I had to get the information, I had to understand things, if you could explain it to everyone.

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Yes, guys, they asked who is stronger, Perf, or Strog, and they didn't put Strog specifically in their team in order to win with Perf.

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There we have it. Our teams have taken to the stage. Adren, come join us up here.

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Nieland, come join us. Same team, different sides. I see what this is

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looking like over here. Nieland, this is like young versus old and retired and

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useless. Sorry my friend, I couldn't see you there. Old, retired and useless, right?

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So this is an easy game for you. Well they have a replacement of Perfecto so

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That's why they had to do it, right? Because he's going to be dead weight.

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Yeah, 100%. But the thing is, the horse, they came back.

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Okay!

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Our next question is from Niu. Will it be easy to fight Fadron, as he is already old?

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I don't know how to pronounce it on the stage next to you.

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But you made a change in the form of a perfect, and now it will be easier, right?

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Of course, it would be easier, but it would be even easier from the beginning.

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Okay, they just want more rounds, more time on stage.

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Nina, I'll give you an opportunity here for the crowd, the fun show match, all the viewers at home. Anything you want to say?

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Thank you all for coming. It's a huge celebration for Kazakhstan.

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Yes, thank you.

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This is a great celebration for Kazakhstan. Thank you for coming.

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Saliva Astana!

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Let's cheer for our team and defeat the opponents together.

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Let's cheer for them, let's light up!

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in this one. So if you are a fan of team Strogo, make some noise!

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So, who came here to support Booster?

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Maybe a little more? Let's try. Team Strogo!

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Everyone alright?

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Yeah, I can even see there's a Strogo flag out there. I'm impressed by that. Good going little man over there.

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What about Team Booster?

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Maybe a little bit more.

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But either way, let's get into the game, let's get into the show match.

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Scorni and Launders, take it away.

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Ooh, you know, the rumor on the street was last night was the game of the year.

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Well, little did you know, it was actually this morning, Mohan, that the fireworks were saved for.

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So here we go, show match on the big stage.

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And, uh, wow, we got some old dog back in the server.

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We got some fresh faces in the server.

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We've got we've got breaking news journalists in the server too. Yeah, that's right

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We'll see if the rubber meets the road here for everybody in this show match

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I am personally really excited to see actually the substitution of perfecto playing and how high level the game becomes now because of it

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It's a question. We always have to ask ourselves with each and every show match

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Who's gonna end up being the sweatiest a guy like a dren letting kneeling pick the score line still just as you know

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Honorable and humble as ever, but well, it's true that all show matches go all like the full distance every time first up

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Whatever reason they almost always tie and if not go to overtime

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Checking with production mohan to double check whether or not there is over. Oh, there definitely is their possibility. Absolutely

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First of 13 wins, like every other game of Counter-Strike.

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Now the real beauty of this show matches, we are delving into the depths of what, Mohan?

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We're delving into the depths of cash. The best North American map of all time.

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It's two North American commentators, and from what I can see on the player list,

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player list, Stannis Laws in the server.

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That's one of the greatest North American in-game leaders

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of all time.

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That's good luck to have that, for sure.

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Cache is going to be awesome.

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We've been waiting to be able to watch it, to be honest.

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And I think, yeah, as James said, this is Adrien's era.

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I don't think there's any hairs left, man.

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Got to make sure.

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I like it.

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Yeah, you got to stay fresh.

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Perfecto drove over here immediately.

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He's setting up his PC.

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Isn't that always the classic?

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But they're still Team Strogo.

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That's cultural impact.

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Oh, Strogo.

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I thought it was Team No Show.

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Oh.

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Got a bunch of showmen on stage.

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And then life happens.

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It must be nice to be in a place where you can just

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pull out perfecto.

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And they have a major MVP as well.

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A lot of people forget Adrian's got the major MVP.

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What would have happened if this show match was taking place in North America where cash belongs?

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We would have had to call in who is the stand-in.

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We would have gotten like, Flam or something.

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Eric, I think maybe.

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Oh, well, okay, that one not so bad.

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Yeah.

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Stand perfecto ready to hit the server.

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Well, not quite ready, clearly.

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But last second stand-in.

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So respect for being able to roll out of bed and get ready for the big game.

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Because this is going to define whether or not Perfecto gets to come back to tier one counter strike.

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It is all based on this game and this game alone.

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I hope we still let him in anyways, but yeah, it could be that.

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It is non-boarding to Cash since Cash is coming back in.

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Overdrives into the show match because he's looking for the next big thing.

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Yeah, exactly. We're going to do some scouting. It'll be up to him if we can get Perfecto back on top team.

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whoever kills overdrive the most gets the joint spirit I heard this guy's an

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unbelievable talent

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damn it I used all my jokes before the game started oh my goodness I don't know

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what that means for each of us there in a half

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Shadowkek, Stannis Law.

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Oh, you're going to have fun with this, Mohan.

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So you claim to know how to speak French, and, well,

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I'm going to see whether or not you can nail,

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by the end of this show match,

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Crotton.

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Four-time?

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Crotton.

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Crotton.

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Crotton.

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Give me that side-style.

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That's French.

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Crotton and Adrian, and for Sorzor,

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Overdrive booster try to kneel in I like that

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You know we're supposed to kind of keep a limit on the amount of actual pros slash expo players on this team

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But we threw that out the book or at the window in the final five minutes before this one happened

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I would have liked to have rolled out a red carpet for perfect over maybe tangled them in from the ceiling

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You know we do this fake tech pause

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Strogo know where to be found like Lady Gaga from the ceiling. Yeah head first like that straight down in a dress made out of meat

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The real experience.

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I just want to see this map right now.

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I want all the wave of nostalgia to come back.

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Cachry make a long time coming,

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although not too many changes.

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What, no new boxes about all that's changed?

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Yeah, is that it?

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Yep. As far as I can see, I haven't had a time to-

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Put that window out in mid.

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I have- Yep, no window.

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That ladder to that window was not good.

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Still white box, still the south-boost middle.

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Still your favorite call-out of any map?

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Useless. It's just such a nice call.

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Yeah, because we can think of a useless on every single map,

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like Shrek, for example, in Ancient. It's useless.

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It's one of those broad terms.

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We should be able to apply to everything,

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but we just don't get a chance to.

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The only problem with it is every time I play Cache and somebody says,

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useless, I'm not sure if they're talking about the part of the map or me.

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Oh, I see. You got to stop standing there just to make sure.

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What's the useless part of Mirage?

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The entire thing?

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Don't say the whole thing.

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Ah, I jest.

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If you did that for Inferno, it'd be okay.

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If Perfecto knew this was actually a show match, we could probably just give him any

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other players' SSD.

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Yeah.

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Stick Donk's SSD in there.

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See what happens.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That'd be a boost.

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I'd do anything for Donk's SSD.

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Like it's almost certainly got to be the settings right go ahead change it up for as long for the first semi-final later

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Want to know what overdrive's crosshair is crosshair says a lot about you. Yeah, true

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follow recoil

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He's a follow recoil Maxi no, okay. Yeah, but I am

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The people are out there. It's actually on the up and down you guys exist for sure

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You know, it's on my default now when you first install the game

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Oh, yeah, that's good.

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Oh, right.

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Oh, it's happening.

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Let's get it to it.

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It's new.

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The start of the show match begins.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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This one's for all the marbles.

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Oh, I already love it.

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We've only got about four marbles, so it's really...

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mistakes, except for your reputation.

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This thing of beauty, isn't it?

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Yeah, I think it's...

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Yeah, it's perfect.

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Looks great.

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Oh, we still know our crossbows.

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Nade's excellent.

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Orzorzor in the back of the site with a very clean tap.

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Could make it two.

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Oh, the lateral USB, huh?

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Lateral USB headshot in the show match on cash.

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It's not every day.

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Get a little flank from Tride.

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The old Tride and Test, if they call it, the flank around A-Mane.

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Perfecto.

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Little up the clutch.

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But it will be Team Booster with the first round.

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Yeah, that's big energy over here from booster

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We've never seen that strategy we should do that from now on headbutting your teammates when they win rounds

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I'm giving them high fives. Yeah, this bumps are so outdated any fear or nervousness that you have could just be hit out of you

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Your classic tech paws into pistol into tech paws perfecto's got to do two more settings

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Going up one kill that round

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Team No Show, let's go.

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Fortunately, Strogo can join us today.

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Healing under the weather.

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This tech pause is actually for overdrive because he just realized he actually has to play.

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Thought he showed up today to just be a coach.

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He came to scout, yeah. I thought he was keeping an eye on the roster for talent.

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You're pushing buttons, buddy.

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We have Prius observing this match today.

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Yeah, we flew them out just for this one specifically.

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Hopefully we don't miss anything.

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That's the biggest 6-7 I've seen.

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Perfecto, it's not that deep, brother.

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Just let it go.

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This is what we need in the grand finals of the tech pause.

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You can just yell at your opponents.

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You can't talk to each other, though.

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I could still be able to.

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Think about how much more fun Apex would be if you didn't have to kind of shackle him in these moments.

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Yeah, the era wouldn't have ended last night.

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I think in show matches, you should also be allowed to throw things at your opponent.

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Yes, definitely.

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So, PGL said that one was a safety concern, so we weren't allowed to bring it to you today.

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But on the mask, actually, that's funnier.

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Yeah, that is funnier.

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Yeah, I want to see you in game chat, too.

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got two. We get a North Americans we have Neal in. Yep. The second best North American

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in-game leader in the server right now. Okay. Second only to Stanislaw. Okay. Timebreaker.

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We're not friends anymore.

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Voided riffles.

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Kill up next.

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Is overdrive scrolling Twitter?

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Yeah, I want to see a tweet about his teammates at the end of the game.

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I want a full review.

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I think he's just grateful that he didn't have to pay to play with them today.

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Second round, shall we?

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Nope.

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The one's got a Zeus in this round, and we got the deco bike because it is a show match.

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Tell me Jay Rads is still trying in the show match.

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He's got to practice this, obviously.

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Yeah.

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He's not saving this for upcoming majors.

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Yeah.

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Come on, man.

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Singapore's around the corner.

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See, but this is what I want to see.

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All right.

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They're not here to play optimally. They're here to buy Desert Eagles.

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And it's Overdrive dead. He goes for the ego peek into B main.

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He was fueling himself after all that tech pause.

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And while his momentum comes to a quick end.

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Well, Deagle upside the head will do that to you.

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Stannislaw wants another one because he's already got a hit.

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Addicted to the Deagle. Can't blame the man.

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We've got a good crossfire here. Flash, tactic, everyone's blind.

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That's the level of CS we're going to bring. Neal and calling.

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Adrien and Katam. And they're not going to find anything, but he thinks he might, so

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he takes an extra second. And now he's going to come running at AMN. He's going to eat

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a flashbang. Booster's got it. Yeah. Oh, well, that's okay. Yep. That's vigorous.

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Oh, they have to decide. That's love right there.

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They're playing next to Degster. Don't find a bomb plant. Flashbangs make the most of

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that one. Flash into B main. Flash into A main. Tees can't fight around, but they will

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You'll find guns at least, coming at around three.

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Got the booster up.

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And overdrive up to that.

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I'm going to count the amount of times that overdrive dies first.

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So far, it's one.

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But you have to respect a man that looks to take space.

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Speaking of which, if you get a push outside of the A site, you're not allowed to escape.

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Perfecto's got you.

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And they've also got a little mid control here.

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Each Drogo, or past the attack, or Zorzorzorzorzorzor, is able to get the kill back.

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No, he isn't.

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It's an off kill from his teammate.

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Oh.

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Oh, you hate to see it.

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It's a kickoff.

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boasters got adjourned again and we're gonna find an empty B bomb site CT's

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forgot there's two bomb sites on this map I'm loving how it's looking so far

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yeah this is this is a free plant just needs to actually go over here

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shadow kek I mean he's gonna get caught off oh yes and of course this oh okay

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it's too hard to get that you can't get down there silently you know they made

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that way bigger, eh? Yeah. Yeah,

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that's the call out. Oh,

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where do you think you come from?

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There's only one guy left. Perfecto in a one on three.

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Play from it in the site. Yeah. Oh, boy.

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Perfecto fans salivating at the thought that he's going to pull this off.

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Oh, that's a good one. Booster comes through with a second off kill.

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And that's going to be a third in a row.

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Oh, they're not doing it all one more time.

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You want it? You want it? Come get it.

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On the mouse hand? No, it's keyboard hand. We're all good.

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Hey Jayras, can we get a fly by of the catwalk on A site real quick?

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I want to show Launders how it's changed.

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Look, it's not only thicker from the wall, but it's made of solid concrete.

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Okay, different. Yeah, it's not metal anymore.

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I don't know how often you go for floor bangs, Mohan, but it's made all the harder.

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And also the railing is way less intrusive.

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Just run off of it.

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So that's like kind of cool.

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It's also nice and grassy up there.

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Nothing like some city foliage.

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Here comes the fast A-play though.

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Team Strogos already got players out.

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Run through a smoke grenade.

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Neal in at 4 ZorZor.

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And 4 ZorZor again.

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So down to the Tech 9s.

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Fork with player.

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Gets one back.

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That's my gold stat.

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But it is 4-0 and they're getting laughed out of the server.

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of the server. This is quick work to kick off semi-final Saturday.

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It's end of the round. We need a slap.

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Almost dislocated his shoulder doing that.

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I don't think we've ever had an injury in a show match yet.

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They are real sports.

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We're looking to break new earth here in Astana.

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Double-op setup, so now this is the biggest sign of sweaty nerds in a show match.

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If you pull out the double-op setup in a show match, you're a part of the problem.

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Yeah, I thought the 13-11 superlamp was promised, but I'm not sure.

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I like the idea there.

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Another great flash tactic.

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This goes from bad to worse, from strogo.

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The agent said this was going to be easy and made even easier now that they have Perfecto.

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Well, I don't see anything easy about these first four rounds, but he also said that they

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can choose the score line.

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So maybe it's just letting Buster get to 13 before they get there 11, but I don't know

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if he realizes.

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I've got an answer at some point.

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Yeah, this would be nice for Stroko.

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They've got mid, they're starting to go for the A-crawl.

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Welcome right up my way, but Nelen is taking out Adren easily.

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Orzo, it's a tight spot. He can't really move a lot.

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Oh, he'll get cleared, but he nails that trade.

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Expecto's got one pack, but Nelen with another headshot.

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It's a 1v3 attempt for Stannislaw this time around.

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You got low health on two, and Overdrive's got an on.

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Okay, let's watch that overdrive off. I know we're all supposed to watch the clutch

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But it's been a while since you've observed counter strike Prius

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Actually, he just did the Ludwig land he said man that was hard

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Let's go back to Valorant. Okay

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Okay.

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Mopper misses it, eats the flashbang, and it's all a bait and switch.

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I like that.

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Overdrive misses on purpose, so that the terrorist pushes out Amain into Nieland.

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It's a much safer play.

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A really big brain move for the 5-0 start.

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Oh my goodness.

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Didn't go for the slap this time.

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Have we ever seen, is that Tom Cruise?

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Have you ever seen a 13-0 in a show match?

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the

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the

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the

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the

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the

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the

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The bombs look at that B site.

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I think they've identified a weakness, but little do they realize Overdrive's about to start his playing career off this showcatch.

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Ooh, and he's gonna have some pressure on him now.

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He was trying to set him up.

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I was clean.

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Yeah, that was good.

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Not a bad shot.

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Ooh, a 2k!

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Although that under heaven player's got the answer back.

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2v4 coming together.

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Booster's gonna stop it with a 5-7.

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Give himself a flat.

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Oh yeah, he's doing it.

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Ah, he's got a red.

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He's thinking about it.

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about it he's thinking about it last five shot oh man not everyone can do it

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like simple it's nice try though there's lots more rounds to try that I

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would need to see it happen

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oh and still for a source or with the impact yeah but he's coming up big 6-0

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shout out to overdrive for the big 2k off in the back of the site three off

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It was first one had him flustered. He's still reacted. Right. I mean he's putting his money where his mouth is here

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He's got the Twitter fingers and now he's here in the server. So

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You know what they say Mohan seventh times the charm

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Yeah, where did they say that?

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Oh, it never hurt that one.

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Oh, I see.

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Yeah, went for it.

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Locked down.

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That's a great flash.

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Out of perfecto.

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He can do support still.

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But the ops are just raining down.

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We've got three ops on the CT side.

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Of course we do.

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Oh, seriously though.

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Not quite connected.

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Quite like the others.

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And now you got two ops trying to keep you inside of this midbox.

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And, well, smoke grenades, try to alleviate that.

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You're already committed and Tride's gonna come through with another headshot.

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Stannis Law waiting for another 1v3 attempt.

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Oh, it's a 1v4 in fact, but hey, you'll peel half of them off of the midplay.

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Problem is he's gotta get that bomb.

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And the bomb player already pushed out middle.

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He knew the rifleman was over here.

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What's overdrive gonna get up to?

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Forzor, so low on health.

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Hey, that's Forzorzor to you.

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Forzorzor dies and now overdrive has to deny this clutch, a 1v4 brought down to a 1v1 by Stanislaw.

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He's trying to make the read. Oh my god, he's setting it up. He's got the op up in heaven.

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Then Brake gives him what he needs.

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Oh, please.

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Opper up in Heaven, goes for the P250 kill!

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Oh!

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It gets it!

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Okay.

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Overdrive another multi-kill!

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Okay, he's playing the win.

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And his first clutch.

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He's not trying to make the moment.

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He's playing the win.

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He denies that 1v4.

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He gets a clutch.

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Do you think he'd like, you know, maybe smile or celebrate or...

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No?

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It's all business.

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Take a lot of bullets.

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Take a lot of bullets.

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It's got the job done, though.

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Oh, okay, the last one.

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Not a bad clutch whatsoever.

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Once you're going for the wallbangs, you gotta respect that.

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Major 1 and 7, he'll have his pop-off movement soon.

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But look at him so charitable, he's dealing with a tech knife.

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Trying to find somebody in these smokes, he's got a whiff of it, but there's that

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healing M-force still locked in the corner.

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In fact, they're looking to get lucky.

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Oh, and it happens.

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They finally bring one home. I don't know. Buster's gonna make this hard.

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And that AWP finds the man advantage back. CT's gonna just really twist the knife in this wound, but that aids well plays.

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Big try down a little bit. Not just kind of queues him up for his head shot.

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You don't poke the beast like that. Now overdrive another multi-kill.

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Oh, the Nights out!

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On a moment's notice, suddenly it's fun and games!

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That's a crazy guy!

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I love that.

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This is the same guy who hasn't looked up from the screen,

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AWPing as soon as he could.

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He's got a multiple, multi-kills.

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He's got a clutch to his name and a knife-frag.

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Overdrive star of the show, the perfecto on for an ace.

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Ah, denied by Tribe.

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Oh my goodness, from snacks, Overdrive gets the knife kill, and that sounded like a team frag.

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Oh, Team Booster have so much money to work with.

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Get on the terrorist's wing.

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Protectors thinking, God damn it, I should have rolled out a bit earlier.

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Let's roll back that knife kill.

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He like just turned enough that I think it was a back step.

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Got him.

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Perfecto's good and all, but to ask him for the ace, I don't think so.

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Overdrive making that money, right back onto his op.

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Buster, losing money via team kills, still back on his op.

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Almost smoking, Adel.

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Gotta be careful with the op up.

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But almost only counts with frag grenades, not smokes.

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Overdrive under pressure, it's because his teammate's all over him.

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Get the hell out of the way.

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Going for the full V8 pack.

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I like this move from Tri.

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It's on.

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Oh, no.

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Or maybe, yeah, okay, get on him to fall back.

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Oh, Oster keeps the wallbangs going.

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That's tried dead to a teammate.

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How did that one happen?

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Not sure.

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It's a retake utility looking like, not much left over.

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You know what they say, ninth times the charm.

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Nielsen's flank starts to make this retake happen.

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Please, not the 4v5 retake.

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Oster dies to Shadowcat.

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That's a clean wallbang.

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And Neon still trying to buy his time, help out by that beating player, goes for the dual, and by God team, Strelto on the brink of it!

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Finally!

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They broke it through!

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The round hits the scoreboard.

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Nine rounds in.

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You know what they're gonna do next.

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B-pop.

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How many ops?

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On the CT side.

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On the CT side?

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They actually don't have money.

57:39.620 --> 57:43.620
Somehow, they must have mismanaged their economy a little bit.

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This is the way in for Strogo.

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I've been having a real idea.

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Shadow Keck looking for more, and it is a massacre out middle.

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tried leftover he was hoping they'd come be yet again but that's not the case we

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got team Strogo all over that A site bombs a little bit late but better late

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than never they're calling for it they thought it was gonna be a repeat B pop I

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did too but Strogo they have range they're not one no

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We got a spotty record in calling these corner, so how many kills does Tride get?

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In this one versus five with the bomb down?

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Yeah.

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Nine.

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Okay.

58:54.420 --> 59:01.220
Are you sure everyone's getting softened up?

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It's true, they're really trying to give this to him, aren't they?

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Saving, of course.

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Oh, all of it.

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Five alive.

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I can only get predictions correct in show matches, not real games.

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You're not supposed to ever save in a show match, it's actually, it should be made illegal,

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you ask me.

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I think either find them.

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Oh, and they're forcing every round.

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Full tilt.

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Nades go over top and try to cast the HB bush.

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It's gonna be taken. Strogo keeping it simple.

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Good idea.

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They just don't find the damage.

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Desert Eagle kill on the spam doesn't line up.

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The Tom is looking for the mid-hold.

01:00:02.940 --> 01:00:08.900
Kill is always going to find shadow kek's blind.

01:00:08.900 --> 01:00:15.580
You'd be a madman to believe in this retake, but let's get a little crazy.

01:00:15.580 --> 01:00:17.580
Meal and fighting one.

01:00:17.580 --> 01:00:21.420
Try against the next one, and it's all a big distraction.

01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:22.920
It's all about for Zor-Zor.

01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:28.420
Flanking around with that P250, he'll kill Stanislav, looking for Adrien, but nah, can't

01:00:28.420 --> 01:00:29.420
stop him.

01:00:29.420 --> 01:00:30.420
That's tried shot.

01:00:30.420 --> 01:00:32.420
We go 1v1, bomb 12 seconds.

01:00:32.420 --> 01:00:36.880
There's a world where he does this and then he decides to stop trying

01:00:37.380 --> 01:00:43.040
Yeah, catch this one down. He dies and struggle pick up another around it's four deaths for them

01:00:47.660 --> 01:00:50.140
Actually the bomb goes off to wipe the board but

01:00:50.820 --> 01:00:55.660
Because they force team Buster they got tilted. They lost one round. They lost all their money. They bought

01:00:55.660 --> 01:01:05.660
but one M4 in the previous round, now they're going for close to a max loss by, they've a scout, an autoshotty, an M4.

01:01:19.660 --> 01:01:21.660
And here it comes, as promised, the B-Play.

01:01:21.660 --> 01:01:31.660
There's a will, there's a way, that shotgun's getting set up to catch you off guard, you think it's just the M4, but here it comes, the new tube, the XM-1014!

01:01:31.660 --> 01:01:45.660
Perfecto loses his head to it. He's gonna try to draw the man he wants to get him done for, but Shadow Keck and Stannis Law know that a fourth round is much needed here for Team Strogo, because this win is so important!

01:01:45.660 --> 01:01:49.260
Most important round of their lives.

01:01:49.260 --> 01:01:56.260
So don't worry. Walk away. Take your time. It's not like we have anything else to do.

01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:10.600
They have the utility to try to sneak this one out. The smoke is too shallow. They can't

01:02:10.600 --> 01:02:13.360
dip it for the bomb. They're flashing. They're hand-watching the flank.

01:02:13.360 --> 01:02:15.360
Not getting tunnel vision.

01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:24.360
He'll switch a roof. Shadowcat holds the flank.

01:02:24.360 --> 01:02:26.360
And that one fizzles out.

01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:29.360
Okay, the Buster can't really improve on this half.

01:02:29.360 --> 01:02:31.360
Nine to three.

01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:36.360
Overdrive's gonna take the range. He's calling the next pistol.

01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:43.360
It's fine tuning the team. You said, hey, walk in kids.

01:02:43.360 --> 01:02:48.360
Yeah, yesterday's game, that was something else.

01:02:48.360 --> 01:02:53.360
I think I prefer this one.

01:02:53.360 --> 01:03:04.280
Maybe I'm just a romantic.

01:03:04.280 --> 01:03:09.320
I like that we give them the full minute to really talk things over.

01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:12.560
You know, you got to make sure that you're coming into the second half ready to go.

01:03:12.560 --> 01:03:13.560
Game is game.

01:03:13.560 --> 01:03:16.600
God forbid you get caught off guard in the pistol round.

01:03:16.600 --> 01:03:22.680
This is a make it or break it moment.

01:03:22.680 --> 01:03:27.720
Buster gets to 12 rounds.

01:03:27.720 --> 01:03:31.360
They should unlock Molledoy and have another sub over for Strogo.

01:03:31.360 --> 01:03:33.360
We also dangle him in from the ceiling.

01:03:33.360 --> 01:03:34.360
Please.

01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:35.700
I'll speak of which.

01:03:38.200 --> 01:03:39.400
Get me the crane.

01:03:48.600 --> 01:03:51.300
Alright, let's see how CT-sided this map is.

01:03:54.300 --> 01:03:57.600
I never recommend doing terrorism in shorts and sandals, but...

01:04:01.240 --> 01:04:02.940
Is that like when you wear shorts on the plane?

01:04:02.940 --> 01:04:04.140
Yeah, basically.

01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:14.360
Buster not sure where he wants to take the team, but he will lead the charge and I got to respect that.

01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:21.360
Adrian catching first blood in the CT hold, that's gonna flush Team Buster over towards the B site.

01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:24.360
Stanislaw looking a little bit nervous, shaking in his boots.

01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:29.360
As the B main peeks come through, that bomb's looking to cross underneath it. Stanislaw shooting the first target,

01:04:29.360 --> 01:04:32.980
And that's just the perfect setup for for Zor-Zor-Minor

01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:38.200
Trying to get that bomb on site Overdrive wants to plant the bomb because he's the main character and

01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:45.280
His a-drone's getting closer to the retake for Zor-Minor gets another 3k no quad no ace

01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:51.440
It's Neelan's job to try to shut this down. They're on the brink of double digits Overdrive sees his name up in the big lights

01:04:51.520 --> 01:04:54.280
Goes for the bush misses all his shots

01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:55.920
Uh-oh, the Knives are out!

01:04:55.920 --> 01:05:00.720
And Overdrive ruins the fun to make sure Boaster get double digits.

01:05:00.720 --> 01:05:03.720
That's not the first fire in the back line with the Knives approaching.

01:05:03.720 --> 01:05:07.280
I can't think of a scarier situation than being a 1v3.

01:05:11.720 --> 01:05:14.880
The economy's going to be in shambles for the rest of this game.

01:05:24.280 --> 01:05:35.720
Oh, we did it!

01:05:35.720 --> 01:05:36.720
What?

01:05:36.720 --> 01:05:37.720
Oh, we did it!

01:05:37.720 --> 01:05:38.720
Yep.

01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:40.720
Time to go for a clean shave.

01:05:40.720 --> 01:05:45.720
That's how I always feel when I get a wall bang scout headshot.

01:05:45.720 --> 01:05:48.320
Nothing hits, like a wall bang and a fresh upper lip.

01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:49.320
Oh, that was...

01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:50.320
Hey, hurt the way.

01:05:50.320 --> 01:05:51.320
Oh, it's...

01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:57.160
Oh, it's all going south real quick.

01:06:01.080 --> 01:06:02.600
That scout's got a mind of its own.

01:06:05.120 --> 01:06:06.840
Neon likes to live dangerously.

01:06:08.520 --> 01:06:12.800
Shadow Keck found out on the main push over drive, making sure he holds off on that flank.

01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:15.360
Every team needs its pillar.

01:06:15.440 --> 01:06:17.600
And that is what overdrive is.

01:06:17.600 --> 01:06:20.400
11-3, Team Boaster League.

01:06:20.400 --> 01:06:22.400
Might be Team Strogo home.

01:06:22.400 --> 01:06:23.400
Cool.

01:06:34.600 --> 01:06:37.200
We're both on a frag, right? So you get for a game like this.

01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:40.000
Ah, none.

01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:54.400
When you get the kill once, you gotta be doing that for the rest of the game now.

01:06:54.400 --> 01:06:55.400
Just a wallbang battle.

01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:57.400
That's where this one should end.

01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:02.480
You know, like the good old American Civil War.

01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:05.120
Line up.

01:07:05.120 --> 01:07:06.120
Straight shots.

01:07:06.120 --> 01:07:08.840
Ten paces and all that.

01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:11.080
You know, that's what I'm all about.

01:07:11.080 --> 01:07:16.080
If you're not packing gunpowder down your musket in between every single shot.

01:07:16.080 --> 01:07:17.080
Okay.

01:07:17.080 --> 01:07:18.840
It's just really lost its class.

01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:19.340
Sure.

01:07:23.340 --> 01:07:24.340
Oh!

01:07:24.340 --> 01:07:25.480
See ya, sucker.

01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:26.680
And that's a good split.

01:07:26.680 --> 01:07:29.080
Last Knives out, another one coming.

01:07:29.080 --> 01:07:32.840
Never mind, it's a no scope instead, just as stylish.

01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:35.540
And Team Strogo.

01:07:35.540 --> 01:07:38.740
Or like, Stroganoff, the way they're getting served up on a plate.

01:07:38.740 --> 01:07:40.040
Okay. Okay.

01:07:41.340 --> 01:07:41.840
More Knives, be mad.

01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:43.240
Not another Knives, early.

01:07:43.240 --> 01:07:44.440
Yeah!

01:07:44.440 --> 01:07:46.040
Yeah, stick them like a pig!

01:07:46.040 --> 01:07:50.240
Team kill in the middle, but be careful or else Perfecto is going to win a round.

01:07:54.840 --> 01:08:00.540
To be honest, I thought that was the last frag, but I guess Perfecto is still alive on the other side of the map, still with this Desert Eagle.

01:08:00.540 --> 01:08:02.540
And remember, this is his tryout game.

01:08:03.540 --> 01:08:08.540
He thinks he's going to get back on Cloud9. He doesn't realize that, uh, well, they're not playing anymore.

01:08:08.540 --> 01:08:12.540
Henry was giving. Oh, okay. Before he's even done peeking.

01:08:13.540 --> 01:08:15.040
Get the soul patch.

01:08:16.040 --> 01:08:18.040
I can't call this guy, Macbeard.

01:08:21.040 --> 01:08:23.040
I need to know the lore.

01:08:27.040 --> 01:08:29.040
It's called Psychosis.

01:08:33.040 --> 01:08:34.040
They've done it, Moe.

01:08:34.040 --> 01:08:36.040
Believe your eyes.

01:08:36.040 --> 01:08:38.040
Also, that's just...

01:08:39.040 --> 01:08:41.040
That's just...that's fair enough.

01:08:41.040 --> 01:08:45.040
Team Boaster 12-3. They could end it here, but instead they decide it's gonna be real volvers.

01:08:46.040 --> 01:08:46.740
Oops!

01:08:47.740 --> 01:08:49.240
Nielin was asking for it!

01:08:52.940 --> 01:08:55.240
You could get kicked from the server for the team damage.

01:08:55.240 --> 01:08:57.740
It would be the funniest way to lose this game.

01:09:01.540 --> 01:09:03.240
Just when you thought it was over,

01:09:03.940 --> 01:09:05.740
we're gonna bring you a little more.

01:09:08.240 --> 01:09:12.040
And if Team Strogo were to just push down these last two R8s,

01:09:12.040 --> 01:09:15.240
we could get into round 17, but they're gonna hold a default.

01:09:16.040 --> 01:09:18.040
I haven't even seen the Gav yet.

01:09:18.040 --> 01:09:20.040
Imagine.

01:09:20.040 --> 01:09:22.040
Bait him in.

01:09:22.040 --> 01:09:24.040
Oh, there is one.

01:09:24.040 --> 01:09:26.040
Jesus Christ.

01:09:28.040 --> 01:09:30.040
Up and over it goes.

01:09:30.040 --> 01:09:32.040
He tried to, it's the bait switch.

01:09:32.040 --> 01:09:34.040
There's actually an AK on the field.

01:09:34.040 --> 01:09:36.040
Now he's going to give himself the 1v5 attempt.

01:09:36.040 --> 01:09:38.040
Because he knows they're going to try to knife him.

01:09:38.040 --> 01:09:40.040
You get one, buddy.

01:09:40.040 --> 01:09:42.040
The switches are great. One is all you get.

01:09:42.040 --> 01:09:44.040
Oh, there's three! The revolver's back!

01:09:44.040 --> 01:09:49.040
They're low! A quad! Off for the final! Nice fight denied!

01:09:49.040 --> 01:09:52.040
It could have been gentlemanly.

01:09:52.040 --> 01:09:56.040
The Dren's had enough. He robs away that R8 as well.

01:09:56.040 --> 01:09:59.040
Yeah, the gun came out. Just gotta finish the job.

01:10:00.040 --> 01:10:03.040
Only eight more rounds until overtime.

01:10:08.040 --> 01:10:11.040
By the time this game's done, that kid's gonna be an adult.

01:10:14.040 --> 01:10:31.400
You know the actual name of the T-side auto sniper and a few less letters G1

01:10:31.400 --> 01:10:33.400
That's it.

01:10:33.400 --> 01:10:35.400
Now I'm second guessing my set.

01:10:35.400 --> 01:10:37.400
G3S G1?

01:10:37.400 --> 01:10:40.400
For the ZEUS,

01:10:40.400 --> 01:10:43.400
aka the X27.

01:10:43.400 --> 01:10:46.400
Aka the Zeus X27.

01:10:52.400 --> 01:10:54.400
G3S G1.

01:10:54.400 --> 01:10:56.400
That was pretty close.

01:10:56.400 --> 01:11:03.400
The old overdrive Nova, a gun as old as him.

01:11:03.400 --> 01:11:10.400
It's the closest thing we do have to a musket.

01:11:10.400 --> 01:11:18.400
Now this is a sweaty position.

01:11:18.400 --> 01:11:23.400
No shotty drop in.

01:11:23.400 --> 01:11:32.400
The sector is starting to get a feel for the game, but the Stanislaw over here in the sunroom has got the bomb in front of him and I... come on, bro.

01:11:32.400 --> 01:11:34.400
Yeah, we'll see about this one.

01:11:42.400 --> 01:11:44.400
You really want to save that thing?

01:11:47.400 --> 01:11:50.400
See, he can do this because he actually has nothing better to do.

01:11:53.400 --> 01:12:01.320
This is content right here.

01:12:01.320 --> 01:12:06.280
Overdrives idea of a fun time.

01:12:06.280 --> 01:12:17.800
Twitter guy comes out in real life.

01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:19.880
Seven rounds to overtime.

01:12:19.880 --> 01:12:24.640
See, but this is how you know that they're all still a bunch of try-hards, because where

01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:27.240
was all this antics during the actual rounds?

01:12:27.240 --> 01:12:30.720
Remember when we had a triple-op setup on Team Buster on their CT side?

01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:31.720
Yeah, the CTs were sweating.

01:12:31.720 --> 01:12:32.720
They played the win.

01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:36.920
Oh, now it's all fine in games.

01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:46.360
Now it's Novos, Zuses, and Knife Kills, because you think you've got it in the bag, but little

01:12:46.360 --> 01:12:53.960
do you realize you got Stanislaw on an op here for Team Strogo?

01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:59.160
This guy camped some room the entire round and tries to 1v5 again.

01:12:59.160 --> 01:13:06.160
i'm gonna let change banks up on that stage

01:13:29.160 --> 01:13:34.240
Zorzor is trying to bait him into Overdrive who has the

01:13:34.240 --> 01:13:38.540
radiest, most hidden angle of all of cash.

01:13:38.540 --> 01:13:41.740
But it's a great setup because he gets this headshot.

01:13:41.740 --> 01:13:44.540
Now that bomb is thinking about going to plant over on the A site.

01:13:44.540 --> 01:13:46.760
It's suced out of it.

01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:47.260
Here we go.

01:13:47.260 --> 01:13:50.260
It's going to be money, finally, for Team Booster.

01:13:50.260 --> 01:13:50.960
Okay.

01:13:50.960 --> 01:13:53.560
And Tried will be given a chance at a 1B3 with a Desert Eagle.

01:13:53.560 --> 01:13:57.760
This is a legitimately winnable round, all set up by Overdrive

01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:00.600
Because we know he sets up every team for success.

01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.800
He's the reason spirit, one Shanghai,

01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:06.720
but he's not the reason that they'll win this show match.

01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:07.840
Not yet anyways.

01:14:07.840 --> 01:14:10.560
Maybe with one more Nova kill from the Sun Room.

01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:16.320
Six rounds.

01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:17.480
They let it perfect.

01:14:17.480 --> 01:14:18.240
They let it perfect.

01:14:18.240 --> 01:14:19.080
They'll get warmed up.

01:14:25.280 --> 01:14:26.400
See if they live to regret it.

01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:34.640
That's what they needed, Mohan, an injection of money.

01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:39.200
Looking at AK-47s on all of Team Boaster, except for Overdrive's Nova.

01:14:39.200 --> 01:14:41.520
Because now he's addicted to the thrill.

01:14:41.520 --> 01:14:46.160
Okay, there we go, he goes for the AK.

01:14:46.160 --> 01:14:54.480
They step in, they say, enough fun and games.

01:14:54.480 --> 01:14:58.960
Both teams seem to realize round 19 is going to have a more serious note.

01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:01.960
Overdrive, entry fragger of the year some call him.

01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:06.120
He eats a flashbang on the approach as teammates all still stuck behind him, but he gets his

01:15:06.120 --> 01:15:08.120
job done by any means.

01:15:08.120 --> 01:15:09.120
Oh, what?

01:15:09.120 --> 01:15:14.880
So Tom hits that no-scope onto him, boasters got his kill out middle, and this house of

01:15:14.880 --> 01:15:22.120
cards of Team Strogo seems to start crumbling, but then the perfecto curve ball.

01:15:22.120 --> 01:15:27.480
Neal in with advanced tactics, drops the smoke, we've got the first one who's the 10th.

01:15:27.480 --> 01:15:29.320
Oh, that would have been amazing.

01:15:29.320 --> 01:15:33.040
It goes south and now they're stuck in the back of the site, no chance to pull it off

01:15:33.040 --> 01:15:38.080
again, the retake utility comes through, the Tridescott Sanctuary in the back of this site,

01:15:38.080 --> 01:15:45.960
Heaven Players dead, Neal is locking it in, and the clutch shut down, 13-6 as Astana goes

01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:46.960
wild!

01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:57.960
It's a very clean close. Perfecto could not get warped up in time. Deep Boaster with this clean shaven.

01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:04.960
Off nose scopes, scout headshots, wallbangs. That gets this match at it all.

01:16:04.960 --> 01:16:10.960
Everything you could ask for, everything you don't want, and a little more.

01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:18.520
And at the end of the day my MVP medal goes to overdrive. I'm talking about Nova kills, Zeus kills, knife kill,

01:16:18.980 --> 01:16:23.720
op holds, entry frags, momentum for that final round.

01:16:24.160 --> 01:16:26.160
Maybe this guy does know what he's talking about.

01:16:26.800 --> 01:16:33.120
Sending it down to James Banks to get a word from our victors of the PGL Astana 2026 show match.

01:16:33.120 --> 01:16:41.000
Thank you very much for the wonderful scrawny and lordless I can see from your faces that

01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:44.600
you had the most enjoyable time almost as much as I did but wait to see who we're gonna

01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:50.560
get over who's gonna work this out from the team that got the victory in here team booster

01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:58.640
is there hello hello that looked a little bit too easy for you guys at the beginning

01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:00.640
Stop, Oleg!

01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:06.640
What language do you need to speak?

01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:08.640
You can speak whatever you want.

01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:09.640
I can translate.

01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:11.640
Very easy.

01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:13.640
Very easy.

01:17:13.640 --> 01:17:15.640
Very easy, very easy.

01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:16.640
I don't know.

01:17:16.640 --> 01:17:18.640
Thank you for the reception.

01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:20.640
Really, Rahmet, it's very good.

01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:22.640
The second year is a great event.

01:17:22.640 --> 01:17:23.640
More and more.

01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:25.640
We are waiting for the major to stop.

01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:27.640
Major to stop. Let's go.

01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:31.320
Yeah, yeah, let's go, let's go. Very good vibes.

01:17:31.320 --> 01:17:35.160
Thank you for this opportunity to play here on this show much.

01:17:35.160 --> 01:17:36.520
Really appreciate.

01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:41.320
I really appreciate my mom and take care of your parents too.

01:17:41.320 --> 01:17:44.920
This is the most important thing, guys. Family, esports.

01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:48.040
That's it, that's it. As they say.

01:17:48.040 --> 01:17:50.680
Keep your family close and safe.

01:17:50.680 --> 01:17:52.840
Thank you to your mama.

01:17:52.840 --> 01:17:55.400
And yeah, I'm seriously...

01:17:55.400 --> 01:17:57.320
I got one other question for him.

01:17:57.320 --> 01:18:01.320
I need predictions from him on who he thinks is going to win our next game.

01:18:01.320 --> 01:18:03.720
We've got Maus coming up against Spirit.

01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:07.960
Is he siding with Spirit to go to the grand finals, back to back years in Astana?

01:18:07.960 --> 01:18:10.760
Or can Maus do it? Give me his opinion.

01:18:10.760 --> 01:18:18.200
My opinion is very interesting because I don't know who will win.

01:18:18.200 --> 01:18:20.280
He doesn't know who's going to win.

01:18:20.280 --> 01:18:23.320
But I think next match he will win Spirit.

01:18:23.320 --> 01:18:34.960
Yes, and after we'll be close to the game, but magic versus Falcons, it will be a very

01:18:34.960 --> 01:18:42.280
difficult game for magic, yes, but maybe something interesting will happen.

01:18:42.280 --> 01:18:44.440
But maybe something good will happen.

01:18:44.440 --> 01:18:45.440
Yes, yes, yes.

01:18:45.440 --> 01:18:50.280
Well, thank you very much, congratulations on your win and for playing on the show, Matt.

01:18:50.280 --> 01:18:52.280
Thank you very much, everything is very cool.

01:30:50.280 --> 01:30:52.280
I

01:31:50.280 --> 01:31:52.280
I

01:38:50.280 --> 01:38:52.280
You

01:47:20.280 --> 01:47:25.280
Make some noise! It's mouse!

01:47:31.280 --> 01:47:34.280
Let's hear it for Aurora!

01:47:44.280 --> 01:47:46.280
Now there is a chance for the retake.

01:47:46.280 --> 01:47:49.560
Shouldn't be but walk take your right all of a sudden under pressure

01:47:49.880 --> 01:47:53.620
It's got three players coming up from tunnels behind him soul flies down to 14 help

01:47:53.780 --> 01:47:56.740
Madger's gonna be a late arrival out from middle so I'll fight

01:47:58.960 --> 01:48:00.960
It's still costly

01:48:02.840 --> 01:48:04.840
Cash for your efforts

01:48:06.080 --> 01:48:10.240
He's got two players occupied insertions had enough a peek out of nowhere for Madger

01:48:10.240 --> 01:48:15.440
So Matt would love to try to test this smoke so he gives himself that underhanded flash gets spades off the line

01:48:15.440 --> 01:48:17.440
Molotov to the back of sight.

01:48:17.440 --> 01:48:19.440
Wakadia will take it down.

01:48:19.440 --> 01:48:22.440
It's got a smoke to cross, and they found their opening.

01:48:22.440 --> 01:48:24.440
Madger trying to take his sweet time with this.

01:48:24.440 --> 01:48:26.440
Wakadia just needs to survive.

01:48:26.440 --> 01:48:29.440
And as they sit outside of the window, there's the flight for Madger.

01:48:29.440 --> 01:48:31.440
Perfectly timed.

01:48:31.440 --> 01:48:33.440
And with this amount of time, it's not going to happen.

01:48:33.440 --> 01:48:35.440
Aurora.

01:48:35.440 --> 01:48:38.440
Four players with rifles versus Soulfly.

01:48:38.440 --> 01:48:40.440
He's got a pistol to try to play with.

01:48:40.440 --> 01:48:41.440
They give him these duels.

01:48:41.440 --> 01:48:43.440
He's still working with 50 health.

01:48:43.440 --> 01:48:47.440
JL's low, multiple body spotted, he is drawing them into perfection.

01:48:48.440 --> 01:48:51.440
Now they're starting to consider it, all the line up there.

01:48:51.440 --> 01:48:53.440
Exertion's full health dead, still flowing.

01:48:53.440 --> 01:48:55.440
P.J.L. don't leave!

01:48:55.440 --> 01:48:57.440
Think of the value that got out of this!

01:49:09.440 --> 01:49:10.440
Saviour looked close.

01:49:10.440 --> 01:49:11.440
First blood.

01:49:13.440 --> 01:49:21.020
Torsi finds his Zelex as well, it's just a sea of kills out of house.

01:49:21.020 --> 01:49:23.520
Everybody putting in their work.

01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:34.520
Please give it up for Niiiine Zee!

01:49:34.520 --> 01:49:44.520
to give it up for magic.

01:49:44.520 --> 01:49:58.520
That's kind of a tier two old lead to Rush.

01:49:58.520 --> 01:50:00.980
ZGT TechKnight, Boss Ball's dead.

01:50:00.980 --> 01:50:02.780
It's gonna be on Moon to stop it.

01:50:02.780 --> 01:50:04.900
And despite his best efforts with the double kill,

01:50:04.900 --> 01:50:07.420
Luchov's TechKnight also presses in.

01:50:07.420 --> 01:50:08.260
What more can you do?

01:50:08.260 --> 01:50:10.700
It's a low health top player that's coming.

01:50:14.220 --> 01:50:15.780
There's an AK still out here on the field,

01:50:15.780 --> 01:50:17.620
hunting heads and it's just not gonna happen.

01:50:17.620 --> 01:50:20.460
A little lost to the saws this round.

01:50:20.460 --> 01:50:22.100
Our magic and they better not die after.

01:50:22.100 --> 01:50:23.420
Wait, they caught it.

01:50:23.420 --> 01:50:24.260
No!

01:50:28.520 --> 01:50:33.240
It doesn't look like you're gonna stop magic from getting inside of this A site.

01:50:33.240 --> 01:50:34.240
Bomb gets dropped.

01:50:34.240 --> 01:50:35.240
He'll try to press his slide.

01:50:35.240 --> 01:50:39.240
And from the bottom of the health bar, three kills up there!

01:50:39.240 --> 01:50:44.040
It's the exact bomb for Mayer.

01:50:44.040 --> 01:50:45.040
Just all off the audio.

01:50:45.040 --> 01:50:47.040
Madamella has no idea what he's done.

01:50:47.040 --> 01:50:50.720
He's gonna cause AW to scramble.

01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:53.720
He will find at least his one.

01:50:53.720 --> 01:50:55.720
And then Tensey's catching Lucho.

01:50:55.720 --> 01:50:57.720
Oh

01:51:00.160 --> 01:51:03.600
He's gonna try to press in the boss wall and obviously loses

01:51:25.720 --> 01:51:32.360
Pressure on to the captain takes one of the dome straight away, it's on their way over

01:51:32.360 --> 01:51:35.380
but the lead will dislodge Hunter.

01:51:35.380 --> 01:51:38.760
More damage put down range from Madness, there's a lot of low players here, that's his bit

01:51:38.760 --> 01:51:39.760
of a headhunter.

01:51:39.760 --> 01:51:43.480
Looks for his second, learns about the long player in Taneer as well.

01:51:43.480 --> 01:51:48.540
They can't flush him out because still looking at Madness could be a difference maker on

01:51:48.540 --> 01:51:51.880
for the ace in this four-spy.

01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:58.120
7 has treated him well on that swing. Let's look down, but don't cut some pies to make sure it's not in vain.

01:52:03.640 --> 01:52:08.280
One man made it across pitside, they don't know about heavy guard Joker in the pack.

01:52:09.320 --> 01:52:11.480
That evil, don't make him pay.

01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:19.640
Lock smoke to slow them down, the rest of the play is coming up short. Right in, the dog stall

01:52:19.640 --> 01:52:21.640
Barrett is

01:52:22.040 --> 01:52:26.200
Highest p2 from afar to do the dove he's born down low that p2 pit

01:52:26.200 --> 01:52:30.380
He's gonna be a bit more considered now you've got Matt is tucked in taking next contact

01:52:30.380 --> 01:52:36.520
And it's done with all the kills in this pistol round and there's the fourth is it really gonna be a dump

01:52:36.520 --> 01:52:39.520
Oh! That is well applied!

01:52:43.520 --> 01:52:46.520
To get him to B. Right now they're up the rampside. It's tight.

01:52:46.520 --> 01:52:49.520
It's okay. It causes them problems.

01:52:51.520 --> 01:52:55.520
It won't come to matter if the next death is Mattis out towards K.

01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:58.520
Looking for this trade, Teneer will not let him get it.

01:52:59.520 --> 01:53:04.520
And Spirit, two players ready to receive. Teneer is all that's required.

01:53:06.520 --> 01:53:36.080
you gotta worry about Kiyosuke clean entry onto fuller.

01:53:36.080 --> 01:53:39.080
Oh, there's the double-up.

01:53:39.080 --> 01:53:40.080
Swing out for me, kid.

01:53:40.080 --> 01:53:42.080
I won't be able to punish before it really fails.

01:53:42.080 --> 01:53:45.080
He's all firing off, but they know they've got Karagin trapped here.

01:53:45.080 --> 01:53:47.080
Oh, that's a lot of it!

01:53:51.080 --> 01:53:54.080
Going a long way to try and make this feel recoverable.

01:53:54.080 --> 01:53:59.080
The replay on the cards keeps Sukei top performer right plays right time.

01:53:59.080 --> 01:54:01.080
Oh, he's hitting shots!

01:54:01.080 --> 01:54:03.080
There's all of them!

01:54:06.080 --> 01:54:13.080
Pace, disrespect, pissed off, your kid just had it up!

01:54:13.080 --> 01:54:17.080
Oh, where's this come from?

01:54:17.080 --> 01:54:22.080
Okay, William trying to play it safe for your kid now!

01:54:22.080 --> 01:54:25.080
Last time they went over, able to stop him.

01:54:25.080 --> 01:54:27.080
This time, it's a different story.

01:54:27.080 --> 01:54:34.080
Line up into the tunnels, big damage from the rifle.

01:54:34.080 --> 01:54:37.520
tries to be the guy fighting first, scared back from the window.

01:54:37.520 --> 01:54:40.800
Side by side, we're falling, as this is for all the Marvels.

01:54:40.800 --> 01:54:42.720
This is for those settings.

01:54:42.720 --> 01:54:44.040
You're my whole family.

01:54:44.040 --> 01:54:46.760
You're my whole family.

01:54:46.760 --> 01:54:49.400
Welcome back to PGL Astana.

01:54:49.400 --> 01:54:52.200
If yesterday was anything to go by,

01:54:52.200 --> 01:54:54.520
you're not going to want to miss today.

01:54:54.520 --> 01:54:57.680
I'm your host, Richard Lewis, joining me on the desk,

01:54:57.680 --> 01:55:01.760
having to try and summarize the historic moments

01:55:01.760 --> 01:55:08.480
that we saw. It is Maui Snake, it is Dursmere. Guys, I was up late last night like everyone

01:55:08.480 --> 01:55:13.960
else watching what many are calling the greatest series of the CSU.

01:55:13.960 --> 01:55:16.640
You said yesterday, I think you mean earlier today.

01:55:16.640 --> 01:55:17.640
Yeah, today.

01:55:17.640 --> 01:55:18.640
That's stretching to 1 AM.

01:55:18.640 --> 01:55:19.640
You are correct.

01:55:19.640 --> 01:55:22.920
I mean, that was unbelievable that we got those quarterfinals.

01:55:22.920 --> 01:55:26.800
I think that's a little bit of hyperbole. It was just Pain vs. Gamer Legion, right?

01:55:26.800 --> 01:55:27.800
Oh.

01:55:27.800 --> 01:55:37.060
No, I meant the other series, Maui, what a match between Falkens and Furious.

01:55:37.060 --> 01:55:42.580
I think that it's easily within the running of top three series of all of CS2.

01:55:42.580 --> 01:55:46.540
I feel like if it was in, I mean, I think the arena lit up for it in the way that you

01:55:46.540 --> 01:55:47.540
would want them to.

01:55:47.540 --> 01:55:50.860
You saw so many incredibly tense moments.

01:55:50.860 --> 01:55:51.860
Production brought this one up.

01:55:51.860 --> 01:55:58.660
fact that monos to send it to double overtime was 281 milliseconds away from

01:55:58.660 --> 01:56:02.700
actually getting that bomb or really fallen that is getting that bomb to

01:56:02.700 --> 01:56:07.460
explode so the margins were razor thin and everybody was on the edge of their

01:56:07.460 --> 01:56:10.660
seats in the Barras arena yeah I mean you look at new can you think of all the

01:56:10.660 --> 01:56:13.220
crazy individual plays that you saw the one that you're referring to where

01:56:13.220 --> 01:56:16.780
monos he just hits that falling off shot and lower and pulls off the clutch you

01:56:16.780 --> 01:56:20.380
know you had this is where Nico nearly pulls off a 1v4 but just not quite

01:56:20.380 --> 01:56:24.620
enough time to get the bomb to explode. You think about the Akindar speedrun 4k

01:56:24.620 --> 01:56:29.100
into the upper bomb site. You know there's just so many crazy moments that

01:56:29.100 --> 01:56:33.460
you could pull from that nuke match. So many individual impact plays, so many

01:56:33.460 --> 01:56:37.260
clutches. It was just one of those games where let's just get out there and scrap.

01:56:37.260 --> 01:56:42.300
And I mean it was such a fun game to watch. Yeah two veteran IGLs calling a

01:56:42.300 --> 01:56:47.460
great game, two great squads with incredible players, but ultimately you

01:56:47.460 --> 01:56:52.980
You know, either one would have been worthy winners, but at the end of the day, it was Falcons.

01:56:52.980 --> 01:56:55.540
That's the best they've looked here in Astana.

01:56:55.540 --> 01:56:57.580
I mean, it's got to be said.

01:56:57.580 --> 01:57:00.700
So how are we feeling about them overall as Contenders?

01:57:00.700 --> 01:57:03.740
Temperature check is red hot for Falcons.

01:57:03.740 --> 01:57:09.220
The variety of looks that Kerrigan threw out there on those T-sides was exceptional and

01:57:09.220 --> 01:57:10.220
unprecedented.

01:57:10.220 --> 01:57:15.340
He was going through so many different opening formations that I've never seen Falcons run

01:57:15.340 --> 01:57:19.740
calling by off by the seat of his pants. I saw players in positions that I don't

01:57:19.740 --> 01:57:22.620
even think they were ready to necessarily fill. But that's kind of

01:57:22.620 --> 01:57:27.340
speaking to testament to how excellent those guys on Falcons are, how complete

01:57:27.340 --> 01:57:30.780
some of those players are that even when Falcons comes up or Kerrigan that is

01:57:30.780 --> 01:57:34.780
comes up with something just at the spur of a moment, everybody can follow and

01:57:34.780 --> 01:57:38.340
put together a plan. Yeah, Tess has called it on the HLTV interview with

01:57:38.340 --> 01:57:40.780
note I believe it was where he talks about this Kerrigan taking them under

01:57:40.780 --> 01:57:43.780
the wing when the pressure gets high and they're in those crazy moments and

01:57:43.780 --> 01:57:48.020
just trusting in him to navigate through those turbulent waters and, you know,

01:57:48.040 --> 01:57:52.420
past the obvious, you know, of monosidus going absolutely freaking bonkers and

01:57:52.540 --> 01:57:55.820
looking like, you know, a top three player in the world outside of the fact that

01:57:55.820 --> 01:57:59.820
Tessus was also really a big factor in that one. I think Kiyosuke also got

01:57:59.820 --> 01:58:02.660
rained in. So there was just so many things that went their way.

01:58:02.740 --> 01:58:05.580
And I think the biggest shot I'm going to give aside from Keringen's leading is

01:58:05.580 --> 01:58:09.100
to someone like Tessus, who definitely a lot of scrutiny on this guy about the

01:58:09.100 --> 01:58:11.940
courts of the year. I'm not going to lie. I was one of the ones that was kind of

01:58:11.940 --> 01:58:15.380
doing it there for a bit, but man, did he really show up yesterday to help dragon

01:58:15.380 --> 01:58:18.900
through some tough spots. My favorite Falcon. My favorite Falcon. So clutching so

01:58:18.900 --> 01:58:22.940
many of those moments. Best round swing from the series actually doesn't always

01:58:22.940 --> 01:58:26.420
have the greatest output, but a guy that we know that he's not going to create

01:58:26.420 --> 01:58:29.260
losing conditions and he's always going to do what's necessary for the team to

01:58:29.260 --> 01:58:34.220
move forward. Yeah, and look, obviously Molodoy did give it his best here in his

01:58:34.220 --> 01:58:38.420
hometown. It didn't quite work out for him, but I mean at the end of the day

01:58:38.420 --> 01:58:45.740
Nobody could point the finger at him or all the star players. I mean, I mean obviously if you're will be saddened

01:58:45.740 --> 01:58:47.440
Yeah, get knocked out in the quarterfinals here

01:58:47.440 --> 01:58:50.240
They don't have a chance to have my boy playing for the serene anymore and like a

01:58:50.560 --> 01:58:54.340
Grandfathers appearance or third place to side or whatever it may be and following out early

01:58:54.340 --> 01:58:58.140
But I think the one thing that you can really latch on to is that this guy's back in shape

01:58:58.140 --> 01:59:03.340
This guy's back and he is a true knight for cosmic stand a guy who is putting up, you know

01:59:03.340 --> 01:59:07.300
Well improved numbers in this tournament looked a little bit better in Rio as well at times

01:59:07.300 --> 01:59:13.260
And so if you can get back to this level consistently this year all of a sudden fury gets back into that title contender conversation

01:59:13.260 --> 01:59:19.140
And look, let's also talk about the other quarter final which I think has produced a very surprising result

01:59:19.420 --> 01:59:26.700
We felt like in the groups who say 90 the best team that we had seen just in terms of delivery

01:59:26.700 --> 01:59:31.540
How well drilled they were everybody hitting their levels and then they lose to magic

01:59:31.540 --> 01:59:36.140
you. Chalker results, yes, but one that I think a lot of the fans here are happy

01:59:36.140 --> 01:59:40.100
about the fact that Moon was able to help them get over the line there and I'm

01:59:40.100 --> 01:59:43.420
gonna feel I feel bad for Mayeron because I think map 1 and 2 he did an

01:59:43.420 --> 01:59:47.780
excellent job for them but map 3 that dude was completely swallowed up by the

01:59:47.780 --> 01:59:52.820
stage missing a guy with the AWP. Oh yeah. Lanting the bomb not even moving he just

01:59:52.820 --> 01:59:56.100
tried to flick too fast you could see in those moments that the pressure was

01:59:56.100 --> 01:59:59.340
getting to him and he just couldn't hold his nerve. Yeah it's a tough one for

01:59:59.340 --> 02:00:04.500
9z because they were having such a great story in regional play. They obviously beat, you

02:00:04.500 --> 02:00:07.980
know, they had the hardest path to these playoffs, right? They'd be three top 10 teams in the

02:00:07.980 --> 02:00:11.620
world to make it. So they did a lot of good work, but look over at magic and they're just

02:00:11.620 --> 02:00:15.700
so fun, man. Like watching matches, they just do the most crazy bullshit you'll ever see

02:00:15.700 --> 02:00:20.220
a team do. I mean, there's such unorthodox plays, but you also saw some more refined

02:00:20.220 --> 02:00:23.780
calls as well. I think as fade, you know, the in-game leader of that team is actually

02:00:23.780 --> 02:00:27.060
steering them in a crazy direction, considering where they came from, what they've accomplished

02:00:27.060 --> 02:00:30.500
already in Astana so they're gonna be fun to watch it against Falcons a little bit.

02:00:30.500 --> 02:00:37.060
Yeah and look obviously Falcons clear runaway favorites in this one but sometimes you just

02:00:37.060 --> 02:00:43.940
can't prepare for crazy you know that's how I feel when I do desks but anyway let's talk about

02:00:43.940 --> 02:00:49.140
what we're going to be preoccupied with which is our semi-final it's going to be of mouse first

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spirit a lot of people have spirit as favorites for this one our talent predictions think only one

02:00:54.420 --> 02:00:57.740
One person picked Falcons to win, everyone else, and Spirit locked in.

02:00:57.740 --> 02:00:58.940
And I think that was bless.

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What we're talking about, what we're talking about crazy.

02:01:03.020 --> 02:01:09.460
But no, I gotta be honest, Spirit did impress me yesterday.

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I have to say it, that was the best day of luck.

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And I hadn't really been paying attention to what you'd been paying attention to, which

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was this new utility, this soft era of coaching.

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It is clear that with Softfig coming in, and probably a little bit from Magix as well,

02:01:28.100 --> 02:01:30.400
they're using Utilities so much better.

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The fact that with Softfig, they're now getting Flashesist 0.27 times per round, versus last

02:01:37.020 --> 02:01:41.820
year, where they were the worst Flashesist team in all of Tier 1 Counter-Strike, they

02:01:41.820 --> 02:01:47.180
are 50% more likely to use Utility in a round at this point, and it's just setting up their

02:01:47.180 --> 02:01:48.580
players so nicely.

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so much better to see instead of Donk, who is still the best rifler in the world,

02:01:52.820 --> 02:01:56.180
have to fight up against a mountain every single time.

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It's just a little bit easier.

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They're paving the way for him with some better utility,

02:01:59.780 --> 02:02:01.420
rolling out the red carpet a little bit more.

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He's getting easier kills.

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And I feel like that actually helps preserve some of that mechanical strain

02:02:06.420 --> 02:02:08.540
that he's always going through every single game.

02:02:08.540 --> 02:02:10.020
It's nice to just get some freebies here.

02:02:10.020 --> 02:02:11.540
Yeah, I mean, Donk is just a crazy weapon.

02:02:11.540 --> 02:02:14.260
And when you add this flash assisting that you're talking about to the mix,

02:02:14.260 --> 02:02:16.100
you just hone it that much more.

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And I think that it has been incredible to see Spirit

02:02:18.260 --> 02:02:21.140
looked so revitalized, you know, in Rio and now in this tournament.

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Because remember, this is a team that last year won a

02:02:23.100 --> 02:02:24.100
prestigious event at Cologne.

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They won a couple of bounties.

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You know, they won, you know, Cluj last year as well.

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I mean, they had some titles on the cabinet and a year was very hard to get.

02:02:31.020 --> 02:02:32.660
Because Vitalio was one of most of them.

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And you come into the major, they placed top four in Budapest.

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And they didn't think that was good enough.

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So they completely revamped the team.

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And we saw in Rio that it finally bore fruit with the finals appearance.

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And we're seeing it bear fruit here again as they're now in the semifinals

02:02:42.780 --> 02:02:44.540
with a really good shot to make another final.

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And we're seeing great performances.

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Again, not a dog, obviously.

02:02:47.380 --> 02:02:49.460
Shiro seems like he's back in shape as well.

02:02:49.460 --> 02:02:51.420
And that time tier is looking more activated.

02:02:51.420 --> 02:02:52.900
And those are the big things.

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Yeah, and you can see the numbers here.

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But the big storyline for me is how he's not here.

02:03:00.140 --> 02:03:01.980
He's at home watching this.

02:03:01.980 --> 02:03:04.060
A lot of people have been critical anyway.

02:03:04.060 --> 02:03:05.620
They say he's too structured.

02:03:05.620 --> 02:03:07.540
And when you have a team like this, maybe

02:03:07.540 --> 02:03:09.140
structure is the enemy.

02:03:09.140 --> 02:03:11.220
Let these guys off the chain.

02:03:11.220 --> 02:03:12.620
Let them go crazy.

02:03:12.620 --> 02:03:15.780
You know, you don't cage the butterfly, so to speak.

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And obviously now he's took this period of leave.

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And the team, I hate to say it, they're looking better without it.

02:03:25.420 --> 02:03:26.260
It's true.

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I mean, that's why for me, especially if they win here in Asana,

02:03:31.580 --> 02:03:34.700
and they decide for the major to go with Sopfic behind them,

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I'm not sure how VRS rules work through those kinds of substitutions.

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But if they could, and they do, I would not blame them in the slightest.

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I think that Sopfic has put a greater emphasis on utility for these guys.

02:03:45.540 --> 02:03:48.500
I feel like he's also freeing up some of the individual players,

02:03:48.500 --> 02:03:53.100
like Teneir, who now just looks like he has a little bit more autonomy,

02:03:53.100 --> 02:03:56.140
a little bit more agency in how he controls his side of the map,

02:03:56.140 --> 02:03:59.380
because Holly, to me, ruled with more of an iron fist.

02:03:59.380 --> 02:04:02.740
Even looking back at his way and his experience with Spirit,

02:04:02.740 --> 02:04:06.540
it was more about not messing up more than actually playing to win,

02:04:06.540 --> 02:04:10.060
and now you can see that Teneir no longer is shackled,

02:04:10.060 --> 02:04:12.340
and he's free to do what he wants doing around.

02:04:12.340 --> 02:04:17.980
Yeah, I mean, you're taking a spirit squad that was already so well known for playing that death ball style of Counter Strike, where

02:04:18.180 --> 02:04:25.780
Don could just be this unbelievable, you know, haymaker guy, you know, just being able to throw that crazy strong slug right at your face and take you out.

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But now that jab's there too to open him up. It's the utility uses you're talking about as well as support from the rest of the team.

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And you can just see, I mean, again, these numbers just speak for themselves. It's actually astronomical. He's the best rifler I've seen play Counter Strike.

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It's the way that he goes for so many opening attempts the way that he succeeds at so many of them as well as obviously all the rating and the all the other

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Nuts and bolts that go into being a skilled player that is trying to make a push or so challenge for number one

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Yeah, I mean look that's be real the kid is a phenom. You know, we've been around the block for a long long time

02:04:57.260 --> 02:05:03.020
I remember all the greats coming through and I can't remember one that I would put on my Mount Rushmore

02:05:03.020 --> 02:05:07.420
That's had the immediate impact that this kid has as I said one of the great

02:05:08.220 --> 02:05:15.140
Tragedies when we get to the end of Counter-Strike history whenever that may be is we're gonna look back at 2025 and realize

02:05:15.340 --> 02:05:20.860
We should have given him the greatest player that year, but that's fine. Can't fix that now

02:05:21.660 --> 02:05:27.900
You know into a got off to a rough start in 26, but with this new look spirit. He is back to his best

02:05:27.900 --> 02:05:33.420
easily the best rifler that we've had in the game ever since he joined spirits

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that's continuing into this year I like what you bring up there that

02:05:37.140 --> 02:05:40.700
historically also it's just so unprecedented we never really saw

02:05:40.700 --> 02:05:44.620
players get one kill per round and now we've had multiple instances where

02:05:44.620 --> 02:05:50.040
Donk is practically at that level through these I mean he in these kind of

02:05:50.040 --> 02:05:54.900
HLTV sort of heat maps of what these players are good at we never 100 fire

02:05:54.900 --> 02:05:59.560
is so many different metrics. It kills per round win, it's damage per round win,

02:05:59.560 --> 02:06:03.320
it's total damage, entry frags, all of these things, and he's the only guy that

02:06:03.320 --> 02:06:07.880
is always at 100. Like this guy, even in a down slump, it's almost that everybody

02:06:07.880 --> 02:06:11.760
just gets closer to 100 where he still sets the benchmark at that number.

02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:15.320
Yeah, and you want to talk about rejuvenation, so let's talk about miles.

02:06:15.320 --> 02:06:21.240
Obviously a lot has changed. They brought their own rookie in, change in leadership,

02:06:21.240 --> 02:06:24.840
you know, Brawland's gone out, Zershyn is picking up the reins.

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I will always quote this every time I talk about it,

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but the second interview, I want to usher in an era of fragging IGLs, right?

02:06:34.400 --> 02:06:38.160
Because let's be real, a lot of in-game leaders, they do get to coast, don't they?

02:06:38.160 --> 02:06:41.160
I'm not having kills, not putting up numbers.

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Well, let me tell you, I think I looked at it this morning.

02:06:43.520 --> 02:06:49.360
Zershyn might be number two behind Donk at this event, which is insane.

02:06:49.360 --> 02:06:53.520
Yeah, indeed he is. You can look at these numbers and he is just leading this team to new heights.

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Remember, this is a squad last year that made five grand finals.

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They won a title, obviously, in Cluj.

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They had so many other top four finishes and they basically played second fiddle to the Vitality era for the first half of the year.

02:07:05.100 --> 02:07:07.780
But the second half of the year, other teams started passing them by.

02:07:07.780 --> 02:07:09.320
Furio won four titles.

02:07:09.320 --> 02:07:12.360
Right. Spirit were out there winning the first two titles of the season.

02:07:12.360 --> 02:07:14.520
They all of a sudden were no longer the Bridesmaid to the Vitality.

02:07:14.520 --> 02:07:16.520
They were just another team in the mix in the top five.

02:07:16.520 --> 02:07:18.480
They have ambitions to do more than that.

02:07:18.480 --> 02:07:23.280
That's why they made these drastic changes even with the major coming after this where they're gonna have to swap that to some

02:07:23.280 --> 02:07:27.040
You know their older players to see them take this risk and it's paying off

02:07:27.040 --> 02:07:29.960
You know in dividends in my opinion like they've looked very very sharp this event

02:07:29.960 --> 02:07:31.840
But it really has been a lot of zershin

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That's the only thing I would bring caution to is the fact that his numbers are so well and above what you would think an in-game

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Leader would be and above what he would be when he wasn't even the in-game leader

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It's actually crazy how he's performing

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But some other people are going to have to step it up if they're gonna challenge here on that stage

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I've got some good news for you. Maui spent all late last night watching Maus Beavos

02:07:51.360 --> 02:07:54.720
to see if Zerzion is actually legit a good caller,

02:07:54.720 --> 02:07:57.080
or if it's just some bizarre honeymoon period.

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And wait till you hear what he's got to say.

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I mean, I would just say that, obviously, the T sides were strong for them in that matchup versus Aurora,

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but I would say that in realistically speaking, you break the rounds down,

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look at the starter, look at the middle of the round, look at the finisher,

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All but maybe one round that was successful for Maus

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was just based off of the fact that they got entry kills,

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that they were able to convert off of the map control that they got.

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To me, that's just going through the motions of what is already a great structure.

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So we have yet to really see exertion pushed as a caller.

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And I feel like that's going to happen a lot more here

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because when he's putting up great numbers, that's fine.

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You're always going to be able to get in the zone,

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be able to figure out what's to come next

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when you're still alive and getting kills.

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But Spirit is one of his worst opponents, historically speaking.

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The only tier 1 team that he has a lower rating against with above 15 maps is Vitality.

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So this has never been a comfortable matchup for him,

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and so you're not expecting him to put up those kind of

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blistering numbers that we've seen throughout this event before facing them.

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Well, I'm glad you're bringing up the history, because historically,

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this is where Maus usually stumble, right?

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We're in the semifinals of a big event in a stadium.

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Stopping even for this before, guys,

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and they're taking on the likes of Team Spirit,

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and here's what we're talking about when they do.

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Yeah, this kind of showed you a little bit of the last season

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that we had starting in Cologne

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and kind of running you through the rest of it

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where it really has kind of been the spirit show.

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And even, you know, you go to more recent times

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throughout, you know, the end of 2025

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and what we've seen so far in 26

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and spirit are just so dominant.

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Obviously, you know,

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Mouser now a much different team

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than the last time they played spirit.

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You know, now is version of in-game beatings up

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coming up in the academy team.

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JL coming in for what seems to be a trial period to figure out what the long-term vision of mouseports will be

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But again as you've already kind of indicated a lot of it has come down to their entry success

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I mean Zershin's putting up equitable numbers to talk as far as how he's able to create openings and rounds on the T side

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We've seen flashes from Alex at times. I'll give him that we've seen in pet moments from JL at times in the quarter final

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Those are good

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But my bigger concerns are the fact that Spinks has been kind of shaky overall if I'm honest

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He used to be the pillar of this team.

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That needs to be addressed.

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And the other one for me is that I thought Torsi was kind of a recovery.

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Remember, he played his worst two events of his career with Mousesports at Rio and Rotterdam.

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It was like 0.88 or something like that.

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It was a ridiculous rating for an offer.

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To Rota a lot of this tournament, he seemed to be back on the right path.

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But he was a little bit shaky in that last match that this played in.

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You can't afford to be that when Dolph and Shiro are in top form right now.

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Not only has Spinks changed up some of his positions to Slot, Zelex and JLN,

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But he's also communicating a lot to become now seemingly in my eyes the secondary caller for this team

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Yeah, that little comms clip we got to that demonstrated or it really showed round 24 versus Aurora on dust 2

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Spinks was micro wing exertion

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So I think it almost is that exertion is I'd say he's the beneficiary

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Weirdly enough even though he's donning the title of IGL of everybody else coming together and in the aggregate

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feeling out where they need extra help in the mid-round. So it's typical to see

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someone fall off a little bit for those couple of reasons. And just quick

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because obviously we will be going on the stage soon. For me JL is the X-Factor.

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I've got to mention him. If he ever gets back to what he was on Na'Vi, this

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mouth team will be formidable. Yeah JL has come in and done pretty well

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considering the circumstances of such a limited amount of time with the squad. In

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some instances he gets to be featured in roles he used to play on Na'Vi when he

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He was one of the best teams in the world and winning a major, you know, I think of like Inferno Banana for instance or some of the stuff that he does, you know, and some of these other maps as well, Ancient and other one, you know, but other times he's had to sacrifice, be more of an anchor, be a more supportive element, but he's doing a great job and yeah, he's going to be needed today.

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He's certainly going to be needed today.

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Get a temperature check because we're off to the stage right now.

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Astana!

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Well, yesterday you were treated to one amazing game of Counter-Strike.

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This arena showed the world why we love to come back to Kazakhstan, to see great Counter-Strike

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in great moments exactly like that.

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But there is still so much more to come, and oh my, when we look at these semi-finals we

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we have on our hands, we have a team that could go for back to back finals here in Astana.

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We have other teams looking to challenge and cement themselves as teams that deserve to

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be lifting a trophy, but have been eluding them multiple times.

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So before we get into today, let me ask you, are you ready?

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Well, you certainly sound it.

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For our first team taking to the stage, they made an impressive comeback against Aurora.

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They've been through their changes, they've got new players on the team, but their leader,

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not only has he developed, being able to lead a team, he has fragged out and done better

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than we've seen in any recent times.

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We've had a new level of confidence, but this confidence will be tested.

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The team they are facing is a familiar foe, who they have struggled against for nearly

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a year, unable to win a series.

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So let me hear it, it's Maus!

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And their opponent, with a new coach standing in behind them, familiar to some of the players.

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This team, they are dominant.

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This team are the reigning champions here in Kazakhstan.

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But Shirro said just yesterday, the way they are playing is disgusting.

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we've seen flashes it improves 50% but that team work it looks better than ever

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and when you've got donk on the team it can be the scariest thing to face for

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even the very elite so let's make some noise for Team Spirit!

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Jail, come on up here. Donk, come join us. Yeah, yeah, you Jail.

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Donk, for you right now, looking at how you guys played yesterday and what the team showed,

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What does it do to your confidence and understanding right now of the team's level, how you are playing together, how you are communicating together and working towards this trophy?

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So, it's not gonna be so hard against Marius, we're prepared.

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Okay, I like that. So, in terms of you performing better than even in Rio,

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we had that second place, it was vitality.

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Tell me what difference we are seeing in spirit.

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What is it that is enabling you guys to play this better?

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A lot of people have said positive things about Sofik.

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He obviously was your old coach on the academy.

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Can you break it down for me?

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I don't know, we're just playing better than Diablo. I'm in normal form.

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Ah, something about the software?

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Something has changed, we're coming to it. Something has changed with the software.

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A fan favorite, a crowd that loves you wherever you go.

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Did you enjoy yesterday just being back on the stage, feeling it all again?

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I'm sure you missed it.

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Yes, of course, 100%.

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And looking at your performance.

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Still not the best jail who's the big game player.

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Is this here where it changes?

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Today is a big game, sir. We'll see.

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There's a lot of time.

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We've been seeing this throughout the tournament, I'm not looking at ratings, but I'm looking at impact.

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You've had multiple, multi-kill rounds, you've been doing what the team needs you to do.

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But if I look back at history, Navi struggled against Spirit, Malz struggled against Spirit.

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So how does that change today?

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I mean, another team had Xersion doing 150 ratings throughout the whole tournament, not dropping a single negative rating.

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So, I mean, if we keep that up, we're going to win.

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We had such a great performance during the group stage that we could win with him, even though we had problems with Spirit and Muzak and Ignite.

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But I know this arena is probably going to be maybe more on the spirit side,

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but I would like to think that Mao's got some love.

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So if there are any people supporting Mao's in the house right now, let me hear you!

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Okay!

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Okay, that I was expecting, but I just need everyone to have good energy.

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You know, we had such incredible games. We saw what this arena could do.

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So, Crystal, man, can you help me get this arena going a little bit?

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Back in about...

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Now, guys, I know that you love Counter-Strike.

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These guys are fighting for a chance and a spot in the grand final.

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Give it to me. All your energy, all your noise.

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Are you ready?

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Already indeed, and you heard it there from JL.

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Today is a big game. We wonder which version of JL was going to turn up.

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We were talking about that before we went to the stage.

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He's looking confident, and then let's turn our attention to the veto.

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We're probably going to see a dust deal with Supercut and Dry.

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Well, what else is going to happen to us?

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Yeah, I mean, I think the Dust 2 is going to be an obvious one.

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I think that Mouse will likely pick Nuke,

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which I think is actually a smart play

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because it has been a vulnerability of the Spirit side

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since they made this new roster configuration we've seen this year.

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And so, yeah, the Permabands are coming out at this point.

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Obviously, we know we should be seeing Mouse come out with the Anubis,

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and then from there it should be straightforward.

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I agree, totally.

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I don't even feel like this has even that much suspense to it.

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It'd be just a total shock if we get anything other than the maps that you listed does.

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Both of these teams have clearly outlined what their favorites are in terms of picking.

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We do get the Dust 2 to come out on the Spirit side.

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If you're right, I'm right.

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If really the stats are right, then it's going to be a new pick here for Maus as it is.

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And I'll just say, I mean, I feel like that when it comes to this series,

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obviously JL brings up the fact that, you know, it's a big game and everything like that.

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Unfortunately, Rich has been pretty for JL in the past for Spirit.

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I think that's why he was a little bit timid there on the stage.

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In the entire time he played for Novi, they faced Spirit 11 times.

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He never beat them in an arena, not a single time, only won two games.

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One's a studio, one was a seating game.

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So this guy has no experience feeding Donk when the pressure is actually on.

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Yeah, and look, Donk said today you've got no chance.

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Also was kind of keeping his cards close to his chest about how they've changed.

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He said, look, we're just playing better.

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We're just getting better in the 2026.

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We're just vibing right now.

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Yeah, Dust2Dust, you're like no chance to kick off this experience.

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It's been the second most dominant team on Dust2 next to Vitality's incredible resume.

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14-2 record on this map with this five, beating the best in the best time and time again.

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Again, it comes down to just their deathball style of Counter-Strike that obviously is headed

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by Donk's amazing entry power, but this is also one of those maps where Taneer has really

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come online.

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You know, they pull him off of the Xcerny rolls a lot and allow him to be more of a trade

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fragger on their executes.

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I think he's also done very well as an anchor defensively.

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I think this is the map you're seeing. Chiro get back into shape with the op-width and having loads of impact,

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you know, particularly in kind of holding passive lines and anchoring down locations with the AWP.

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But then it goes into what Maui was talking about earlier as well, the superior utility usage that Spirit's been using in this tournament

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to help these attacks have more potency to them. They make it a little bit easier onto Nier and Balthus create these openings and close down rounds,

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but they are vicious on this map.

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So let's talk about the specifics, Maui. How can Maui's possibly get an edge on this thing?

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I mean, nothing has really actually spelled that to me, right?

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So I could try here, but I'll tell you what they need to improve on, okay?

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Because from the group stage, Zelex and Spinks were a very porous duo

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when it came to B site defenses.

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Teams have just been running at them because they have not found a way

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to play off of each other as well as you would hope, which is expected.

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I mean, Zelex is in a new spot himself, but at the same time, they need to just be better.

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I think that Spinks needs to play a little bit more on the bomb side.

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He needs to stop pushing into lower every single round

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because why are you inviting a fight against Spirit who through their map control procedures are just vicious?

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So I feel like this has got to be a little bit more hunkering down and getting towards these off-involved to wouldn't hurt.

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Yeah, it's gonna be huge because again, you know, Spirit are really good at mid-b attacks and just, you know,

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standing 4-5 into B tunnels and just popping onto the site.

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That's gonna test Zellets who's, you know, a rookie in the stage environment aside from their game yesterday.

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And so that's gonna be a huge test.

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Then also, Zershin has to continue to be the X-Factor.

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Well, he certainly will be, but for now we're going to throw you over to our commentators.

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Maus are in the house, so I'm going to bring you a couple of cool cats.

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It is Koss, Launders, and Scrony.

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Yes, thank you so much Rich, and another fantastic desk.

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This is going to be an amazing matchup.

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Now, obviously, from what we understand, Maus do not beat Spirit, but it's a new circumstance.

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and Magix is still learning it as an IGL.

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Zershin has had some time as a secondary caller.

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They're going to try to throw this up on its head.

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Nuke coming into the veto is something interesting.

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Dust2, if that's an upset, everything is out of the window.

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So we're looking for Zershin to be able to be a better entry than Dong today.

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Yes, his stats throughout this tournament have been fantastic,

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but Dong still clears him by a mile.

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Yeah, and then beyond that Zershin top performing on the side of Maus,

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We have four Maus members that are barely beyond a 1.0 rating

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It is gonna have to be all-zersion as it has been and it's gonna be Astana's action-packed

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semi-final Saturday coming to its start

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Spirit on the attack Maus on the defense

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This one is going to have to supersede the stats and I think Doc said it cold-blooded murder

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No chance

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The team spirit, we'll see if they can actually tap into it right now, the long fight comes up Shiro and Dawn.

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We've got damage here for Torsi to have the stomach, so certainly not ideal.

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But Jail's gone unnoticed, and she shoots too.

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Who is it that's going to step up alongside Zershin?

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That is what we're asking ourselves as we come into the semi, a shot from Torsi that somehow finds the kill.

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And as he just jumps back down into the CT spawn, springs on the departure, this actually spanks to try to creep up.

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Does he get wild here? No. Just doesn't want him to know about the position.

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This is a very long rotation coming out of Torsi, but he's also springing at the entire time.

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They don't know if Magic slaps the site, but he's sitting on default, so surely he's just gonna get killed?

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Yes. Torsi takes him out. A fantastic round for Torsi.

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That's also somebody who we're looking for to play better than he has previously.

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At this tournament right now, this team is so top-heavy,

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with Zershin carrying so much, so much G-side impact overall, but Torsi, we know the op that he can be,

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we know who spanks the star player that he can be, we know the potential of a player like JL,

02:27:02.780 --> 02:27:06.600
it's just that ball in the face of Spirit, they have to be in rare form.

02:27:07.300 --> 02:27:09.300
Not what you can normally count on.

02:27:09.300 --> 02:27:13.820
So, Trades look pretty good, best thing about this round for Spirit is that bomb plant of course.

02:27:13.820 --> 02:27:19.820
And it's a kill from Torji in the end.

02:27:19.820 --> 02:27:21.820
Bye comes back instantly.

02:27:21.820 --> 02:27:23.820
Donk, Scott, the AK.

02:27:23.820 --> 02:27:27.820
One to Leal to support a good amount of utility.

02:27:34.820 --> 02:27:37.820
I think this is a map where someone like Xalex, we kind of said,

02:27:37.820 --> 02:27:39.820
okay, you know, you can be the fifth guy on this team.

02:27:39.820 --> 02:27:40.820
You're coming in.

02:27:40.820 --> 02:27:46.420
lots of last pressure on him but this is a match now everybody on this team knows

02:27:46.420 --> 02:27:51.980
how hard it is to win. Zellix hasn't had that experience yet but very well get

02:27:51.980 --> 02:27:56.860
thrown to the walls. Or step up to the challenge. You can talk about how in the

02:27:56.860 --> 02:28:00.180
head-to-head it's just always coming up team spirit and Zellix doesn't know that.

02:28:00.180 --> 02:28:06.860
He's not a part of that struggle throughout 2025 and Maus does just

02:28:06.860 --> 02:28:10.540
kind of have this bit of a shield around them and that it's the first outing with

02:28:10.540 --> 02:28:13.060
Zershin as this head of the projects

02:28:15.700 --> 02:28:22.500
Now there's no wounds on this mouse that's what they kind of shake off by having two players cut from their previous struggling roster

02:28:23.540 --> 02:28:25.540
Fresh face Zershin

02:28:25.900 --> 02:28:29.580
Leaps and bounds above the rest finds the first one. Oh jail dies the fact

02:28:29.580 --> 02:28:33.300
It's a big kill for Don but expect more of it not this round now

02:28:33.300 --> 02:28:36.900
They go as shiro kind of chirps through those players down beneath them

02:28:36.900 --> 02:28:41.380
It's gonna be the Torsi 1v2 with both these players over towards the site still but the bomb is just gonna leave

02:28:41.380 --> 02:28:46.300
Yeah, it's out of here, and it's easy for magics to leave as well Torsi can start running around

02:28:46.300 --> 02:28:51.020
But once they get this ball planted Torsi's got it off and he doesn't have any utility

02:28:51.020 --> 02:28:55.220
The best case for him is to try to find the rotation if you can't find that

02:28:55.860 --> 02:29:01.060
Okay, he's gonna try to find a place to save because that's about all he'll be able to do and oh

02:29:02.420 --> 02:29:04.420
Okay

02:29:04.420 --> 02:29:08.420
Ah, he will just walk right into the kill, and now there's actually...

02:29:08.420 --> 02:29:12.420
Wait, he torches, doesn't know that it's the B site. Oh, okay.

02:29:12.420 --> 02:29:14.420
Oops.

02:29:14.420 --> 02:29:16.420
Yeah, that just turns into an off-save.

02:29:16.420 --> 02:29:21.420
The Spirit will pick this round up, they get all the trades, they run aggressively over Cat,

02:29:21.420 --> 02:29:25.420
they're all willing to peer over the railing, everybody who's trying to rotate up through CT dies.

02:29:25.420 --> 02:29:29.420
We see that Zershin puts himself in a good spot to catch the first guy dropping down.

02:29:29.420 --> 02:29:34.140
jumping down, that sets his teammates up to feel confident that they can all rotate through CT.

02:29:34.140 --> 02:29:39.940
What they're not ready for is Spirit being comfortable, and actually everyone from Spirit dies.

02:29:39.940 --> 02:29:41.740
I'm really committed to the cause on that one.

02:29:41.740 --> 02:29:43.060
Shiro did the escape.

02:29:43.060 --> 02:29:44.060
Respect.

02:29:54.860 --> 02:29:58.820
It's good to see that Spirit are making improvements on T-Sides with the calling.

02:29:58.820 --> 02:30:03.740
Don still, you know, the best player on the team that's, things still look pretty good.

02:30:03.740 --> 02:30:06.460
There were definitely a lot of doubts, but you look at their recent matches, like they're

02:30:06.460 --> 02:30:07.460
winning every game.

02:30:07.460 --> 02:30:10.340
It's just they're losing vitality, as everyone, most people do.

02:30:10.340 --> 02:30:21.980
You can say that now.

02:30:21.980 --> 02:30:22.980
Not wanting to just sit back immediately.

02:30:22.980 --> 02:30:23.980
We're going to get this move, right?

02:30:23.980 --> 02:30:28.780
You don't want to be a scared version of yourself, but unfortunately a little labored there.

02:30:28.780 --> 02:30:30.780
I guess it's got multiple targets.

02:30:30.780 --> 02:30:32.780
Zershin's going to be held in by Zontex.

02:30:32.780 --> 02:30:33.780
They'll wear it.

02:30:33.780 --> 02:30:34.780
Ooh, that's fast.

02:30:34.780 --> 02:30:35.780
Donk with the Galil.

02:30:35.780 --> 02:30:37.780
Just going to clean up Torsi out of the window.

02:30:37.780 --> 02:30:39.780
And doing what Maus couldn't,

02:30:39.780 --> 02:30:41.780
we've got a conversion around Q'd up.

02:30:41.780 --> 02:30:42.780
The Donk Opswap.

02:30:42.780 --> 02:30:45.780
Now, of course, this should be the gift for Shiro moving forward,

02:30:45.780 --> 02:30:46.780
but maybe we get a Donk shot.

02:30:46.780 --> 02:30:47.780
Yeah!

02:30:47.780 --> 02:30:49.780
Enjoy it while you can.

02:30:49.780 --> 02:30:50.780
No clutch attempt offered up.

02:30:50.780 --> 02:30:52.780
You see this kind of electricity out of Donk.

02:30:52.780 --> 02:30:54.780
He just moves out through the tunnels, clears out that site.

02:30:54.780 --> 02:30:56.780
I think with, you know, Donk kind of saying,

02:30:56.780 --> 02:31:00.300
kind of saying and keeping his cards close and saying we just got better. He didn't give us a lot

02:31:00.300 --> 02:31:04.700
in terms of like pulling back the curtain as the wise spirit improved, but I like that the final

02:31:04.700 --> 02:31:09.900
note on stage is just no chance. No chance. He believes that. He said they're really well prepared.

02:31:09.900 --> 02:31:13.740
I got the feeling I didn't want to despair Italian in any way and just said like you know this is

02:31:13.740 --> 02:31:17.420
something that we we've worked on where we're getting better but they still have that environment

02:31:17.420 --> 02:31:22.460
where they're still a team. Everybody has contributed to building the system and I think you know

02:31:22.460 --> 02:31:27.420
for magic that can be the same whether it's chopper who's a previous ITL the remnants of that have still

02:31:27.860 --> 02:31:30.520
Resulted in the system that we see for the most part

02:31:31.420 --> 02:31:34.880
They're trying to build on top of it not necessarily tear it all down

02:31:36.020 --> 02:31:42.380
It's a very valid point actually doc has always been a player that has taken time to appreciate those that built him up from the

02:31:42.380 --> 02:31:46.540
Very beginnings of his career on that first year of HLTV awards

02:31:46.540 --> 02:31:49.900
I mean he made sure to kind of give respect to those people who were there first

02:31:49.900 --> 02:31:58.900
You are right. In a community that's maybe kind of looking to kind of add a little drama to the situation or to criticize Ali or whatever their motivations.

02:31:58.900 --> 02:32:01.900
I'm not going to be that guy. I respect that.

02:32:03.900 --> 02:32:05.900
Never speak ill of your friends.

02:32:07.900 --> 02:32:15.900
This pistol stack up through the mid-doors out of mouse who would have loved to have carried forward the pistol win momentum but are now in a dash in reality.

02:32:15.900 --> 02:32:21.140
This could be a real moment of exposure because now we've got, you know,

02:32:21.140 --> 02:32:24.020
Azershin who's going to be really over-encumbered. Number one,

02:32:24.020 --> 02:32:27.420
Malus as a team have not proved that they can take out spirit. Number two,

02:32:27.420 --> 02:32:30.900
his individual form as at an all-time high as a caller. That's worked for

02:32:30.900 --> 02:32:34.460
everyone else because he's probably been a little bit more comfortable, but now,

02:32:34.460 --> 02:32:38.740
as Malus brought up, the team that he struggled with second most is spirit as

02:32:38.740 --> 02:32:42.340
an individual too. So he's got a lot weighing on his mind, he's got a lot of

02:32:42.340 --> 02:32:48.780
responsibility as a caller. It's very possible that both those things fall apart or he shows us that like, you know

02:32:48.780 --> 02:32:51.780
This truly is his calling to be the ideal of the team

02:32:52.460 --> 02:32:56.860
And that he's found a way to set himself up so well that he can hand to go cramity

02:32:57.380 --> 02:33:03.300
One of their most important head to head which I'm sure is one of the reasons why roster moves happen to mouse in the first place

02:33:04.220 --> 02:33:10.540
While we can sit here and talk about how Zershin's really found his groove statistically in this run up to the semi-finals

02:33:10.540 --> 02:33:15.880
It's also still been a talking point this week that there is a downtrends from some other pieces, right?

02:33:15.880 --> 02:33:20.600
You've got Torsi who can't quite get his game going. Spinks, who's meant to be a pillar, also not quite there.

02:33:20.600 --> 02:33:24.060
So if Zershin's pop-off is getting you wins, that's fantastic.

02:33:24.060 --> 02:33:27.220
But at some point the rest of Maus are gonna have to find that groove as well.

02:33:27.220 --> 02:33:30.320
And we can talk about time. This is an incredibly fresh roster.

02:33:30.320 --> 02:33:35.260
Maybe many didn't think that it would hit the ground running as much as it did this week, but now it's crunch time.

02:33:35.300 --> 02:33:39.300
We're talking semi-finals, and a beast in front of you in spirit,

02:33:39.300 --> 02:33:42.600
due to all the accolades, like you mentioned, in the head-to-head skew.

02:33:42.600 --> 02:33:45.100
But, Maus, it's a blunder in round two.

02:33:45.100 --> 02:33:46.900
They have to wait and they've got their guns back,

02:33:46.900 --> 02:33:48.800
and Spirit don't want to play any waiting games.

02:33:48.800 --> 02:33:50.600
It's an immediate long A-take.

02:33:50.600 --> 02:33:54.300
They're going to use Dock, as they do, as the weapon up front.

02:33:54.300 --> 02:33:56.100
Yeah, full-on long take.

02:33:56.100 --> 02:33:58.400
All the CTs are going to feel back.

02:33:58.400 --> 02:33:59.600
Reset spot here.

02:33:59.600 --> 02:34:03.400
A little bit dangerous, because Maus don't come into this round with a kit.

02:34:03.400 --> 02:34:13.160
And it's very hard to win by elimination versus a full-on long control take.

02:34:13.160 --> 02:34:17.360
You get a couple of kills early, you can maybe force a save, but if they start scaling then

02:34:17.360 --> 02:34:23.800
there's a very high likelihood that this is maybe some kind of 3v2 retake that time

02:34:23.800 --> 02:34:28.440
could be an issue.

02:34:28.440 --> 02:34:30.440
No further info has been taken.

02:34:36.440 --> 02:34:38.440
Oh, I saw a phone.

02:34:38.440 --> 02:34:41.440
Yeah, that'll be very effective.

02:34:42.440 --> 02:34:46.440
But they're looking actually to draw some burst to your utility. What mouse can do is save it now.

02:34:46.440 --> 02:34:51.440
Problem is they just needed to block that because they don't have a lot of utility to fight against this.

02:34:51.440 --> 02:34:54.440
Ooh, jail. Man, no flash. Really?

02:34:54.440 --> 02:35:00.680
Trying to call out. Oh, and they left this gap to go die as well. Oh, no too late Donk over top

02:35:00.680 --> 02:35:04.200
Yeah, you're dead right off that jail. I will love the way I mean

02:35:04.880 --> 02:35:09.880
It's not a news flash. It's more the same the moment Donk senses blood in the water

02:35:09.880 --> 02:35:15.080
He just jumps on that one and you see mouse kind of scrambling around but a question mark around jail going for the fight

02:35:15.080 --> 02:35:16.400
No, you look at the utility

02:35:16.400 --> 02:35:21.360
They had no kits and they had no way to get info back. They could have gone for a tunnel squish earlier

02:35:21.360 --> 02:35:26.260
in an active prophylaxis, they could have tried to push into lower tunnels early.

02:35:26.260 --> 02:35:29.260
Something to make up for the fact they're very low in utility.

02:35:29.260 --> 02:35:33.660
Ideally for the CT side, they can match the amount of mollies and flashes

02:35:33.660 --> 02:35:37.060
so that when the cross comes out, they can break that smoke open constantly.

02:35:37.060 --> 02:35:38.360
Instead, they body block.

02:35:38.360 --> 02:35:41.960
So they give themselves a chance to use their own vision as a resource,

02:35:41.960 --> 02:35:43.060
sort of as a utility.

02:35:43.060 --> 02:35:45.460
And I think in the back of JL's mind, he's hoping,

02:35:45.460 --> 02:35:47.060
well, we don't have a lot of utility.

02:35:47.060 --> 02:35:51.060
If I check and there's no one long, maybe that can allow us to rotate out of this.

02:35:51.060 --> 02:35:57.580
But it's the full punish and I think they did at least have a flash to support that which they didn't throw so too much of a risk

02:35:57.580 --> 02:36:00.380
That one falls apart way too easy for spirit

02:36:01.420 --> 02:36:06.260
It's like best case you catch one worst case that happens and spirit are ready to go

02:36:07.380 --> 02:36:09.460
Not just the one-off duel it is Donk just

02:36:10.700 --> 02:36:12.700
slams the hammer down long

02:36:13.700 --> 02:36:18.940
Confidence extremely high now for spirit as it kind of felt coming into this game and justifiably with the start

02:36:18.940 --> 02:36:23.940
They've got pistols back for Maus. They're looking to interrupt this momentum, give Spirit something to chew on.

02:36:23.940 --> 02:36:27.440
And that'll help. Donk only getting one kill is always a silver lining.

02:36:27.440 --> 02:36:30.440
These are guns to be grabbed for the 5-7s to upgrade into.

02:36:30.440 --> 02:36:33.940
And we'll see Team Spirit in the meantime still just transition away from it.

02:36:33.940 --> 02:36:37.940
It's a little awkward because they just smoked themselves out of mid to support their lurks.

02:36:37.940 --> 02:36:41.440
So they're at a disadvantage. The CTs can actually roam frame now.

02:36:41.440 --> 02:36:43.440
And they know they have a little bit more time.

02:36:43.440 --> 02:36:45.900
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

02:36:45.900 --> 02:36:48.700
But still tying up 2-0 and long.

02:36:48.700 --> 02:36:51.440
It looks like Malus want to believe

02:36:51.440 --> 02:36:53.440
that they're just going to go for this late.

02:36:53.440 --> 02:36:55.740
It's very flimsy defense over here with Zelex.

02:36:55.740 --> 02:36:58.440
He's only got Desert Eagle.

02:36:58.440 --> 02:37:00.340
Desert Eagle, okay.

02:37:00.340 --> 02:37:01.440
New kid on the block.

02:37:01.440 --> 02:37:03.940
Desert Eagle versus 2.

02:37:03.940 --> 02:37:06.100
There's an AWP trained on him if he gets flushed out,

02:37:06.100 --> 02:37:07.800
but he's still just hanging onto this angle.

02:37:07.800 --> 02:37:09.000
Hit that headshot.

02:37:09.000 --> 02:37:10.400
And this round still under question.

02:37:10.400 --> 02:37:12.700
If the mid hold also goes well,

02:37:12.700 --> 02:37:16.140
But he misses his chance, a little damage there for Shiro, that's all they've got of Stubbick.

02:37:16.140 --> 02:37:21.500
And now Zontics makes it even harder for Zelex, this time the Nade is well placed because they know exactly where he is.

02:37:21.500 --> 02:37:23.100
Yeah, he was just going to die eventually.

02:37:23.100 --> 02:37:27.740
Trying to, you know, find that home and really did hinge on him, heading the Desert Eagle headshot.

02:37:27.740 --> 02:37:30.220
Maybe you get that mid kill simultaneously.

02:37:30.220 --> 02:37:33.100
Oh, Zontics can actually hunt this down and make it worse.

02:37:33.100 --> 02:37:35.100
Two guns, they'd love to save.

02:37:37.180 --> 02:37:40.380
Instead, doesn't feel like that AK is getting out of here.

02:37:40.380 --> 02:37:45.380
or rather M4 on Torsi, they will slowly come and find you.

02:37:46.380 --> 02:37:49.380
And so Spirit, even though they lose Donk over towards Long,

02:37:49.380 --> 02:37:52.380
even though there's an uptick here for Maus working with Lest in this round

02:37:52.380 --> 02:37:57.380
and still getting some kills, you're not going to expect Spirit to just collapse.

02:37:57.380 --> 02:38:03.380
Systematically, Team Spirit have a protocol and we see them just put that squeeze on the B site.

02:38:03.380 --> 02:38:06.380
Anything left for Maus to contend with just fizzles out.

02:38:06.380 --> 02:38:11.720
Zershin, it's gonna be a hard fought battle here with this AK, but it'll be valuable if he's able to save it.

02:38:11.720 --> 02:38:16.600
Round is spirits, 5-1 the start on their map pick. This T-side going swimmingly.

02:38:16.600 --> 02:38:21.020
If anything, it's insult to injury, you lose pistol, and you still go up 5-1.

02:38:21.020 --> 02:38:28.040
Definitely. Yeah, they're over, they're teaming with confidence. They look really good, and I think that we needed to see a couple more moves there, because this is awesome.

02:38:28.040 --> 02:38:30.040
Okay, that's fantastic.

02:38:31.740 --> 02:38:34.240
Definitely an uncured matchup when you look at it like that.

02:38:34.240 --> 02:38:40.240
But Mauser used to be the underdog.

02:38:40.240 --> 02:38:43.240
Unfortunately used to being the underdog and then this head to head used to losing.

02:38:43.240 --> 02:38:48.240
This is where Mauser is supposed to kind of break out of those shackles.

02:38:48.240 --> 02:38:51.240
That's why it would be so unexpected.

02:38:51.240 --> 02:38:55.240
And it's so fair to me like they still need more time. They've taken some good wins here,

02:38:55.240 --> 02:39:00.240
but we have like some things to flag and I mean, again, if they're going to be building,

02:39:00.240 --> 02:39:08.240
Let's use a magic reference of Voltron, sort of exertion, where everything is called around him and his individual level goes up.

02:39:08.240 --> 02:39:10.240
What kind of counter is that to someone like Donk?

02:39:10.240 --> 02:39:16.240
He's walking out the mid-doors. I like that exertion gets active on the catwalk, so there was something gluing for Maus.

02:39:16.240 --> 02:39:19.240
We saw that fall back at exertion.

02:39:19.240 --> 02:39:24.240
A concern about middle now is Zontics on the side of the smoke. It's the kill on Spinks.

02:39:24.240 --> 02:39:25.240
That clear is insane.

02:39:25.240 --> 02:39:34.240
And it's going to be another moment where Zalix has a ton of pressure on and he goes for the midfielder, Zontix collects another, he is 12-3, 7 rounds into this game.

02:39:34.240 --> 02:39:43.240
It's absolutely perfect out of Zontix. It's just so careful. And even though Spinks is also careful, his crosshair placement's a touch better.

02:39:43.240 --> 02:39:53.240
That edge of the smoke didn't matter at all. Zalix gets shown to the door, bomb gets planted, and Mauser's saving again.

02:39:53.240 --> 02:39:58.440
quickly and easily this is a level that we didn't even think they would

02:39:58.440 --> 02:40:02.840
necessarily need to tap into to win today but it could be a win condition to

02:40:02.840 --> 02:40:06.120
stomp again the last four times last four maps they played against spirit

02:40:06.120 --> 02:40:09.560
single-digit losses each time

02:40:09.560 --> 02:40:23.960
Come on now. Third time to the charm. Resertion just makes the job all the easier. So we get

02:40:23.960 --> 02:40:29.160
two, three Ks from each team. Pressure still on. The JL is allowed to hang on to that off,

02:40:29.160 --> 02:40:32.360
so we'll see Torsi with it in the next one. They have so much money, but it's such an

02:40:32.360 --> 02:40:36.440
unfair position with the AWP and rifle working together. They decide to save it. So keep

02:40:36.440 --> 02:40:43.440
Take your guns, to be honest, every time they've been taken a site, they've been allowed to get a kill or two and force like a two or three player save.

02:40:43.440 --> 02:40:49.440
If Mel's aren't building more connection, their rotations aren't a little bit better than they're going to consistently lose this easily.

02:40:49.440 --> 02:40:57.440
But when Xantix walks out mid, like that, in the middle of a round, there's not really a mid-b-play coming, towards you gets cut off.

02:40:57.440 --> 02:41:05.440
Your plans are revealed. The CTs have no way to coax you into believing that they're actually stacked towards B or something.

02:41:05.440 --> 02:41:07.600
Clearly, we're thinking it's going to be the A site.

02:41:07.600 --> 02:41:09.060
Torridge has already made his rotation.

02:41:09.060 --> 02:41:12.400
You know, we've already seen Donk kind of off the leash at times for entries.

02:41:12.400 --> 02:41:13.400
Oh, my.

02:41:13.400 --> 02:41:14.400
Good.

02:41:14.400 --> 02:41:15.400
Off the leash?

02:41:15.400 --> 02:41:16.400
Off the leash right now.

02:41:16.400 --> 02:41:17.400
Magic has a P90.

02:41:17.400 --> 02:41:18.400
Oh, okay.

02:41:18.400 --> 02:41:19.400
Magic has a P90.

02:41:19.400 --> 02:41:20.400
Well, here's the thing.

02:41:20.400 --> 02:41:24.480
I was about to say, Donk off his leash, you know what that looks like.

02:41:24.480 --> 02:41:26.280
That's his version of confidence.

02:41:26.280 --> 02:41:30.840
I think that walkout from Zontics in middle is his version of confident counter strike.

02:41:30.840 --> 02:41:32.280
And he also sticks the landing.

02:41:32.280 --> 02:41:35.500
So now you're just getting different flavors of spirit. All of them are lethal.

02:41:35.500 --> 02:41:40.500
Thank goodness that P90 gets sold, but it is still gonna be Magic's version of confidence.

02:41:40.500 --> 02:41:42.000
He calls for the All-In Rush.

02:41:42.000 --> 02:41:46.500
Zalex, this time with a multi-kill, wasn't ready for that third, but Dog did instantly kill him.

02:41:46.500 --> 02:41:49.640
Plays with his food a little, hunts him down into the corner,

02:41:49.640 --> 02:41:55.640
and even though that 99 damage done on Dog is secured, he is still alive and kicking.

02:41:55.640 --> 02:41:58.840
Ham's busy on the bomb plant. Surtian wants to get in on this. They know that play.

02:41:58.840 --> 02:41:59.980
Oh, he got another kill.

02:41:59.980 --> 02:42:03.420
It's going to be a little late, and yet Dong is still able to bring one down with him.

02:42:03.420 --> 02:42:04.980
This is Timir's chance now.

02:42:04.980 --> 02:42:09.740
He's got two in front of him, takes damage, and it will indeed be Maus' second round win.

02:42:09.740 --> 02:42:13.820
It is an all-in aggressive Maktan entry towards that B site.

02:42:13.820 --> 02:42:17.980
It seems to be going well, but we finally get a chance to see Zellix's praise.

02:42:17.980 --> 02:42:21.260
He hangs on to two kills and sets up Dong's death too.

02:42:21.260 --> 02:42:24.780
Yeah, definitely. I mean, yeah, a headshot for headshot there on Dong's enough,

02:42:24.780 --> 02:42:26.380
even though Dong gets another kill.

02:42:29.980 --> 02:42:32.980
Let's go boys, let's win this fucking run and let's go 6-6, okay?

02:42:34.580 --> 02:42:36.540
Yeah, it's good energy out of Torsi.

02:42:36.540 --> 02:42:40.380
We didn't really get the comms listening in from him and it felt like his performance so far.

02:42:40.380 --> 02:42:44.700
I feel like he's been kind of in the dumps a little bit, so let us see him looking alive.

02:42:45.140 --> 02:42:49.780
Especially with back and even the brolin mouse, there was that moment where Torsi kind of became the leader of mouse

02:42:50.380 --> 02:42:55.740
spiritually, running into Budapest, etc. So trying to stoke the flames here off of mouse.

02:42:57.420 --> 02:42:58.900
Another Molly.

02:42:58.900 --> 02:43:04.080
Step one of two secured. They did win that round now gunning for the six six hats

02:43:05.180 --> 02:43:12.340
Shoot for the stars. That looked like a very convincing attack that was gonna come in no matter what so a lot of utility users response

02:43:12.460 --> 02:43:18.080
They've got two kids to work with we're you know, like you can't armor it just to show you that now they're spending

02:43:18.900 --> 02:43:20.900
Pretty much to their bottom dollar

02:43:22.300 --> 02:43:24.300
Got a few bucks left over

02:43:28.900 --> 02:43:42.780
Second falling utility coming towards the B site and it doesn't really elicit too much.

02:43:42.780 --> 02:43:46.100
It's a good moment to go mid B. Insertion won't have any utility here.

02:43:46.100 --> 02:43:48.100
There won't be a need to break open this mid B smoke.

02:43:48.100 --> 02:43:50.980
You might have to do something a little crazy.

02:43:50.980 --> 02:43:53.420
See if it comes his way.

02:43:53.420 --> 02:43:57.060
Kind of a moment he can have here facing four players out middle.

02:43:57.060 --> 02:44:02.820
Spirit right now, and you can hear the ruffling of it if your Zershin, Matt, he tries to hold it, he'll go down with one,

02:44:02.820 --> 02:44:06.820
he's not behind it again, it's gonna need to be Zealots, he's been called on far too many times!

02:44:06.820 --> 02:44:11.780
And this one again, just added to the pile of Black Luster impact from the B site.

02:44:11.780 --> 02:44:16.580
But if anything, Zealots has gotten away with more than Spinks, and that's not what you've come to expect.

02:44:16.580 --> 02:44:21.300
That's true, he should be kind of leading the way on the, on the Franks, but it's the, the style of attack,

02:44:21.300 --> 02:44:24.020
and again, we saw Zershin have to push through his smoke, no utility.

02:44:24.020 --> 02:44:29.480
No one behind him to break that smoke open no flash to try to come through it no way to punish at all

02:44:29.480 --> 02:44:34.680
And he knew that this is gonna be a mid-beat. It's a great call from magics identifies another weakness here on the mid-beat

02:44:34.760 --> 02:44:36.640
Finds a good time to do it

02:44:36.640 --> 02:44:41.680
It's very vulnerable and you see the difference in the firepower too don't gets the trade on Zershin

02:44:41.680 --> 02:44:44.000
Don't gets the trade on the entry and that's gonna happen

02:44:44.960 --> 02:44:46.960
basically every round

02:44:49.160 --> 02:44:51.160
Proof is at the pudding

02:44:51.160 --> 02:44:54.360
This kill is just to be cracking up her spirit out of the bag.

02:44:54.360 --> 02:44:58.260
Slot 6 is going to get that bop down, so no sniper for Toraji moving forward.

02:44:58.260 --> 02:45:01.660
And the dream of the 6-6 half has just gone up in smoke.

02:45:01.660 --> 02:45:03.560
Five rounds, best case for Mous.

02:45:03.560 --> 02:45:05.860
A spirit lead, 7-2.

02:45:05.860 --> 02:45:10.160
I really want to try to win out, but I can't believe it's maybe half the battle.

02:45:10.160 --> 02:45:11.660
At least they've got that.

02:45:11.660 --> 02:45:23.660
But if you're spirit, can you really fault them for, you know, really putting a lot of pressure on the new player over on that side of the map?

02:45:23.660 --> 02:45:27.660
And that new combo too, where Spinks has to figure out how to build chemistry with him.

02:45:29.660 --> 02:45:31.660
Flash is out and you find JL trying to approach.

02:45:31.660 --> 02:45:32.660
Oh, that's not me.

02:45:32.660 --> 02:45:33.660
Smoke.

02:45:33.660 --> 02:45:40.660
Extra follow-up flashbang doesn't find Dawn, so he stares at it and will find a second kill mere seconds into this round.

02:45:41.660 --> 02:45:46.220
The 10th not looking any more comfortable than the majority of this T-side so far.

02:45:46.220 --> 02:45:49.420
Spirit are absolutely having a field day in this semi-final.

02:45:49.420 --> 02:45:51.900
And while Sontex is yet again crept out towards middle,

02:45:51.900 --> 02:45:55.020
he will catch Zellex, the solo B player, dead already.

02:45:55.020 --> 02:45:56.380
And now they have that side of the map.

02:45:56.380 --> 02:46:00.460
So long control, options to go and avoid these last two players.

02:46:00.460 --> 02:46:01.740
They know they're A players.

02:46:06.460 --> 02:46:07.900
Still got them just surrounded.

02:46:07.900 --> 02:46:11.100
Team Spirit hit the pause button and they're just going to let Donk go and confirm it.

02:46:11.660 --> 02:46:17.560
On Tsar, you still survive the gunfights versus Donk, so you don't need to move a muscle if you're the rest of the team's spirit.

02:46:17.560 --> 02:46:22.660
Just let Donk do what he does best, tear heads off shoulders,

02:46:22.660 --> 02:46:25.260
chases down the AWPer and will get cut down.

02:46:25.260 --> 02:46:30.760
That's going to get that bomb moving over to the B site, all but guaranteeing the rounds here for the A2B.

02:46:30.760 --> 02:46:34.160
Literally all they're looking for is to be doing a terrible supply right now.

02:46:34.160 --> 02:46:39.060
They know that they're going to win this round, and as soon as he knows it, he's getting approached from every position.

02:46:39.060 --> 02:46:41.060
Spirit are running through this game.

02:46:41.660 --> 02:46:54.220
We have that absolute battle between Falcons and Furia yesterday in a quarterfinal.

02:46:54.220 --> 02:46:57.380
Just trying to find momentum as this game and the event goes on.

02:46:57.380 --> 02:47:00.980
Team Spirit don't look for that kind of match today.

02:47:00.980 --> 02:47:05.860
They are looking for a different essence and that is a total stomp in the semis.

02:47:05.860 --> 02:47:07.500
They look insanely focused.

02:47:07.500 --> 02:47:11.220
They have done everything correctly so far.

02:47:11.220 --> 02:47:18.100
fraggers are online. It's actually like just looking like a nightmare matchup for the time being.

02:47:19.060 --> 02:47:26.180
I'm not even really seeing the ideas for mouths that are so good at creative to tell us that like

02:47:26.180 --> 02:47:30.260
they can outsmart spirit and make up for it. And that was the worry I think coming into the

02:47:30.260 --> 02:47:35.140
game. Again as soon as there's an individual level drops off a little bit, which I'm not praying on,

02:47:35.140 --> 02:47:39.940
but it's just that it's so new and it's like crazy that it's been so consistent. This is the kind

02:47:39.940 --> 02:47:44.500
team that's going to make that way that's going to expose it essentially so

02:47:45.540 --> 02:47:51.280
And I think in a way unfortunately JL maybe subconsciously kind of revealed the plot in that pregame

02:47:51.280 --> 02:47:56.260
He said if Zershin can get another 1.5 rating today, then we can win this

02:47:56.260 --> 02:48:03.580
But that's a huge in in the face of a team spirit that has absolutely hit the ground running also a 1.5 rating sounds really impressive

02:48:03.660 --> 02:48:08.140
Until the only other player at the event has a 1.6 rating across the entire event

02:48:08.140 --> 02:48:12.140
Yeah, that 1.6 player is off to the races again in this one.

02:48:12.140 --> 02:48:18.140
It is Donk, Magix and Tenir to open up with what was a 5 versus 2.

02:48:18.140 --> 02:48:20.140
And it all gets shut down so quickly.

02:48:22.140 --> 02:48:24.140
Absolutely called.

02:48:25.140 --> 02:48:29.140
This is a 16 and 7 Donk, a 14 and 6 Zontics.

02:48:30.140 --> 02:48:35.140
Yeah, of course he gets to the top of the board anyways after Zontics started off so well.

02:48:38.140 --> 02:48:48.220
I want to mouse-crack in 10 kills as we get into round 12 to round down the half.

02:48:48.220 --> 02:48:49.900
Every little bit could matter.

02:48:49.900 --> 02:48:51.900
You know, maybe.

02:48:51.900 --> 02:48:57.780
With that 6-6-1 half, you're not going to find it, but at least Daunt is dead in this

02:48:57.780 --> 02:48:58.780
one.

02:48:58.780 --> 02:49:04.700
We'll see if a 5v4 to Mouse's favor can actually put at least that third round on the board.

02:49:04.700 --> 02:49:05.700
You said it.

02:49:05.700 --> 02:49:07.120
One could matter.

02:49:08.720 --> 02:49:10.400
That is also to preserve the spirit.

02:49:10.400 --> 02:49:11.840
It'll have struggles once they swap,

02:49:11.840 --> 02:49:13.560
but that's still the unknown entity.

02:49:13.560 --> 02:49:15.400
That was half made one comeback and it was great,

02:49:15.400 --> 02:49:17.240
but it was also one of the clearest chokes

02:49:17.240 --> 02:49:18.480
I've ever seen from a aura.

02:49:18.480 --> 02:49:20.660
So, it would take more than that.

02:49:21.680 --> 02:49:24.480
And now Torres, he's gonna get himself a second kill here

02:49:24.480 --> 02:49:26.680
and insertion on the cat push.

02:49:26.680 --> 02:49:28.960
So at least something a little fresher out of mouse

02:49:28.960 --> 02:49:32.120
in the dying moments of the CT side.

02:49:32.120 --> 02:49:34.840
They take a swing at it and it could come up

02:49:34.840 --> 02:49:39.120
for their third, but this 2v5 is under way with Taneer catching his fifth kill of the

02:49:39.120 --> 02:49:43.440
half hasn't had to really be called on, with Donk and Santic being so top-heavy at the

02:49:43.440 --> 02:49:47.200
moment. They've got all the time to try to embarrass Amauze in this twelfth round of the

02:49:47.200 --> 02:49:48.200
half.

02:49:48.200 --> 02:49:54.440
I mean, Sphinx coming up 2-11 to round up the half is just not something you normally see.

02:49:54.440 --> 02:49:59.360
And problematically, I mean, a key piece to that early pressure, you know, if he did decide

02:49:59.360 --> 02:50:01.880
that this was going to be the game that he would kind of find his groove.

02:50:01.880 --> 02:50:05.720
They actually have a chance to catch rotations on both ends of this because they're not coming up cat

02:50:05.720 --> 02:50:10.400
They're actually walking potentially out mid and there's a beef layer who needs to watch B. So

02:50:11.560 --> 02:50:15.880
Man long control surely they walk into this fight. Okay, but Taneer does not win it

02:50:15.880 --> 02:50:21.380
So like catching rounds done. And now we can talk about Zealots actually having a moment or two again

02:50:21.380 --> 02:50:26.040
That B site still kept crumbling. We're gonna grasp it straws to discuss mouse's chances

02:50:26.040 --> 02:50:32.000
Zontics 10 seconds left over just kind of forced to get active. They really needed that farm obviously not to die

02:50:32.000 --> 02:50:37.480
So fighting every step of the way mouse three CT rounds all one-offs

02:50:38.160 --> 02:50:41.040
The first the last and one sprinkled in the middle

02:50:41.360 --> 02:50:46.520
Feels like team spirit have total control of this semi-finals, but I think the start is happy about that one

02:50:46.920 --> 02:50:52.760
Nine rounds deep and they will switch over to see if the CT side can also take early control

02:50:52.760 --> 02:50:58.680
Scariest part is mouse have a pistol as one of those three rounds and then got completely blown out

02:50:58.680 --> 02:51:04.420
So even if they win the next one again, you know spirit on dust to it's just home turf. They're gonna be super comfortable

02:51:05.360 --> 02:51:07.900
Spinks just has to have a better day today because his average

02:51:08.240 --> 02:51:14.140
Consistency is so high and he's not someone who's like an entry fragger who if they have you know a few off-baps

02:51:14.140 --> 02:51:15.720
It's just a high volatility position

02:51:15.720 --> 02:51:19.960
No, he actually puts himself some spots to take his fights as slowly and carefully as possible

02:51:19.960 --> 02:51:24.460
possible, you expect him to consistently have impact even if it's not going to be top of the board.

02:51:25.460 --> 02:51:28.960
Across this event, unfortunately, he's not been himself.

02:51:37.960 --> 02:51:42.460
Around history, one last reminder of how bleak that was felt for Maaz.

02:51:42.460 --> 02:51:52.900
Go JL, smoke grenade for the T-side pistol.

02:51:52.900 --> 02:51:57.500
Raid boss Donk with two Berettas, Kevlar.

02:51:57.500 --> 02:52:00.460
Him and Zontics just basically having a race to the top of the scoreboard.

02:52:00.460 --> 02:52:02.860
We'll see who finishes first.

02:52:02.860 --> 02:52:11.980
Essentially playing mini-games in such a flat first half, and that made Cujara have placed

02:52:11.980 --> 02:52:15.340
better on Spinks. That's the other thing they said they're well prepared. It's not just the

02:52:15.340 --> 02:52:24.380
frags. But the frags sure as hell help. That's true. But frag grenades.

02:52:28.300 --> 02:52:33.180
It's actually a good-looking position here for me as despite taking that nade

02:52:33.180 --> 02:52:39.060
square between two people. Flash is out, utility pops. We're gonna drop down to

02:52:39.060 --> 02:52:42.400
to get instantly, so no entry allowed by Zershin.

02:52:42.400 --> 02:52:44.300
Tanir holding on to the long doors

02:52:44.300 --> 02:52:46.900
means it's a 5 with P3, and so that just

02:52:46.900 --> 02:52:49.500
means you know Team Spirit will come barreling it this week.

02:52:49.500 --> 02:52:51.300
What in the crowd is he doing?

02:52:51.300 --> 02:52:51.900
How does he do it?

02:52:51.900 --> 02:52:53.220
I don't know if he saw anything.

02:52:53.220 --> 02:52:54.500
Explain yourself.

02:52:54.500 --> 02:52:55.340
Go for fights.

02:52:55.340 --> 02:52:56.780
It's the only way you're going to win here.

02:52:56.780 --> 02:52:57.660
Spinks and Zelex.

02:52:57.660 --> 02:52:58.580
You turtle up too much.

02:52:58.580 --> 02:52:59.500
They're coming at you.

02:52:59.500 --> 02:53:01.900
It's those two B defenders from the first half

02:53:01.900 --> 02:53:03.660
trying to hang on to a bomb site again

02:53:03.660 --> 02:53:04.860
with the plant in front of them.

02:53:04.860 --> 02:53:05.940
Donk is going to pop up.

02:53:05.940 --> 02:53:08.940
Everybody's already got five players up for spirit.

02:53:08.940 --> 02:53:10.940
Double-digit secured.

02:53:10.940 --> 02:53:18.940
Throw in the towel, unless you can win potentially this force by Naxx because Team Spirit are sprinting to Grand Finals.

02:53:18.940 --> 02:53:24.940
Just like no heroes today here, unfortunately for Maus. Absolute dominance for Spirit.

02:53:24.940 --> 02:53:27.940
Maybe there was a question if Maus won the pistol.

02:53:27.940 --> 02:53:31.940
But we have yet to see if Spirit will fail the conversion.

02:53:31.940 --> 02:53:33.940
He just looked so perfect.

02:53:38.940 --> 02:53:57.340
That's just that guy every day.

02:53:57.340 --> 02:54:07.460
There should going up against the only individual that has outshot him here at Asana.

02:54:07.460 --> 02:54:12.460
One player that has outshot him is also propped up by some strong performing teammates.

02:54:14.460 --> 02:54:19.460
Magic's Shiro and T'Nier haven't been called on too often with Zontecs being right there alongside Donk, but...

02:54:20.460 --> 02:54:24.460
Haven't had to call out a whiff. Haven't seen a bad call from Spirit.

02:54:28.460 --> 02:54:34.460
It really is difficult to speak any ill of Spirit so far on this opening map, and so justified pick.

02:54:34.460 --> 02:54:40.460
And a struggle of a start. CT smoke pops right in front of this 5 man pack.

02:54:40.460 --> 02:54:42.460
And we'll see if it's shred of bust down through it.

02:54:42.460 --> 02:54:45.460
Magic's got a nade that's going to land amidst the pack.

02:54:45.460 --> 02:54:48.460
One player soffin. Skeleton the back drop.

02:54:48.460 --> 02:54:50.460
Bomb is ready to go. He's blinded in the process.

02:54:50.460 --> 02:54:53.460
And still Magic's will be able to mow down too.

02:54:53.460 --> 02:54:55.460
Taneer takes some damage in the process.

02:54:55.460 --> 02:54:58.460
But all this does is sets up Shiro to be the closer.

02:54:58.460 --> 02:55:01.460
And that'll be made all the easier with the bomb down in front of him.

02:55:01.460 --> 02:55:04.020
in front of him, and towards you left 1v4,

02:55:04.020 --> 02:55:05.260
dying through the smokes.

02:55:05.260 --> 02:55:08.300
This is untouchable team spirit.

02:55:08.300 --> 02:55:10.740
Yeah, you don't see a reaction except Magic's smiling here.

02:55:10.740 --> 02:55:12.460
They're just having fun.

02:55:12.460 --> 02:55:14.340
This is the important round for them.

02:55:14.340 --> 02:55:16.220
Now his money is now totally screwed.

02:55:16.220 --> 02:55:17.860
They're getting brutalized here.

02:55:17.860 --> 02:55:20.620
Third, three rounds to 11.

02:55:20.620 --> 02:55:21.740
Almost 13, Mohan.

02:55:21.740 --> 02:55:23.060
Yeah, it feels like that.

02:55:23.060 --> 02:55:26.300
We're almost there.

02:55:26.300 --> 02:55:27.300
We're almost there.

02:55:31.460 --> 02:55:36.460
Analyzer has got a 7280 RS because of the exit kills, really like.

02:55:41.460 --> 02:55:45.460
Long swing, right into the Desert Eagle, goes down with nothing.

02:55:45.460 --> 02:55:54.460
Our analysts barely had time to sit down before they're going to have to somehow try to revive the storyline of how Maus can make this happen on Nuke.

02:55:54.460 --> 02:56:00.460
Counter-Strike to map to map, but this is the sort of individual level from Spirit right now

02:56:00.460 --> 02:56:02.700
that almost feels untouchable.

02:56:03.980 --> 02:56:05.940
That does feel like it's gonna transcend the veto.

02:56:05.940 --> 02:56:07.740
Right. Sometimes.

02:56:07.740 --> 02:56:10.460
Those expectations aren't always accurate,

02:56:10.460 --> 02:56:12.620
but we'll soon find out, I'm sure.

02:56:12.620 --> 02:56:13.460
And this one.

02:56:13.460 --> 02:56:14.620
It doesn't transcend the veto

02:56:14.620 --> 02:56:17.220
in terms of such a lopsided score again.

02:56:17.220 --> 02:56:18.940
It's still gonna be at least five rounds

02:56:18.940 --> 02:56:20.780
before Spirit are gonna have to take a step back,

02:56:20.780 --> 02:56:21.660
look in the mirror and go,

02:56:21.660 --> 02:56:23.220
oh, maybe we need to evolve.

02:56:23.220 --> 02:56:25.000
Maybe we need to kind of settle down.

02:56:25.000 --> 02:56:27.180
You just know that off of a win like this,

02:56:27.180 --> 02:56:30.620
They are going to try to steamroll Maus on Muke.

02:56:30.620 --> 02:56:34.920
But they're still playing to win, they safe, they have the tech pause excuse me, they've

02:56:34.920 --> 02:56:45.500
got Cyclone to try to come in and contribute an idea, like they just need to try to pry

02:56:45.500 --> 02:56:51.380
back some dignity rounds here, that's the very least they could do for themselves.

02:56:51.380 --> 02:56:59.540
Even if it's not a full comeback, any kind of comeback, I think, honestly, is worth it.

02:56:59.540 --> 02:57:08.340
Sometimes there is a thought just get it over with, but Felix has been really shown the

02:57:08.340 --> 02:57:10.340
true power of spirit right away.

02:57:10.340 --> 02:57:18.060
First match for spirit, wants to be a kind of part of changing that storyline, but maybe

02:57:18.060 --> 02:57:25.540
Maybe it's going to take more time.

02:57:25.540 --> 02:57:29.700
We talk about the upheaval that Maus have gone through coming into Astana, new in-game

02:57:29.700 --> 02:57:35.900
leader role for Zershin, two new players in the team.

02:57:35.900 --> 02:57:42.980
Despite Cyclone's reputation as being able to move the system from one piece to the next

02:57:42.980 --> 02:57:47.780
and keep teams afloat, Maus hitting the ground running in Astana's group stage, bodes well

02:57:47.780 --> 02:57:53.940
for the future of this roster, but slamming into a brick wall of reality here in the semis.

02:57:56.740 --> 02:57:59.860
Because Team Spirit have gone through that transitional phase, right? You know, even a

02:57:59.860 --> 02:58:04.820
guy like Apex has talked about how the criticisms of magics who can probably see a bit of himself

02:58:04.820 --> 02:58:11.460
insertion shoes right now, fresh to the roll, trying to make it work immediately.

02:58:11.460 --> 02:58:14.460
All easier said than done.

02:58:14.460 --> 02:58:17.460
Let's drop it into this.

02:58:17.460 --> 02:58:18.460
So Spirit here to win.

02:58:18.460 --> 02:58:21.460
Five kills from a 13-3 close on Dust2.

02:58:21.460 --> 02:58:25.460
And Zershin just the one man move out through that cat drop.

02:58:25.460 --> 02:58:27.460
Zellex will activate with the headshot.

02:58:27.460 --> 02:58:29.460
You've got that mid hold at least going your way.

02:58:29.460 --> 02:58:31.460
But Donk is now on the scene.

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Beautiful sequence from Zellex with that triple kill this round.

02:58:34.460 --> 02:58:35.460
You've got Tenir.

02:58:35.460 --> 02:58:37.460
Two kills in, needs another double.

02:58:37.460 --> 02:58:40.460
And as he goes over top to the ramp, that's his next frag.

02:58:40.460 --> 02:58:47.460
frag, bomb is down here for him, he got a confirmation of the CT walk up, and he will just chew through what's left of you.

02:58:47.460 --> 02:58:55.460
13-6 is the score of Tenir as he finishes. This was nothing short of domination.

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She said she loves you, but she can't love me!

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But I love you!

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I

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Won't play window anymore

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hours a day. It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Titan Eva.

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And in your every move.

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Yeah, welcome back to PGL Astana.

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Me if you've heard this one before semi-final big tournament spirit versus miles miles nowhere to be seen

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And indeed caught in the trap. Yeah, they were muddy mouths up until this point looking like dead mouths after that game

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I mean

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Listen they were kicking their ass so bad that's not just going for headshots. I know it's hit

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The body shot master's like, you know what screwed I'm gonna go ahead and clip some head myself

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And look, I mean, getting away from some of the jabs there,

03:02:49.060 --> 03:02:50.540
we kind of set this up in the pregame

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about how that mid to B defense was going to get tested.

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And that was going to be the big moment where Spirit could

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really overwhelm their opposition.

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That's exactly what happened.

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Brozontics was pushing out double door,

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sometimes getting a multi frag.

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Dalk was obviously having the freaking field day

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wherever he felt like it.

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Senators getting the entries through the window.

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And then, because they put so much pressure there,

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it weakened up some of the other areas of the map later

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on in the half, where, again, Dalk and Company

03:03:14.220 --> 03:03:16.100
just absolutely dominated.

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This is what Spirit look like when they actually know how to throw nades.

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I don't care in that pregame interview about how Donk said that Softfit changed absolutely nothing.

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You don't go from being the team that is the lowest Flashesess in the world to then the best.

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Like what they're doing at this tournament with Utility is unprecedented for them and even for other teams.

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The number, if you took what Spirits Flashesess were at Astana, compared that to everybody last year,

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They would be the world number one team by a significant margin.

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Like, about for 30% better than what Vitality was doing last year.

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That's how much of a difference the utility is making.

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And people will look at this and say,

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oh, it's just Maus, everything's working.

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The reason it's working so well is because the people on Maus

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are so consistently blind on all of these Spirit entry attempts,

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like Xelix was blind, Spinks was blind.

03:04:06.400 --> 03:04:09.160
Torsi got one opening duel this entire game

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because he's getting flashed off of every angle

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that he wants to take a fight on.

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Yeah, and look, let's also be real. I mean, sometimes blind or not, you've got to be able to just have those moments

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unplayable on this too right now, Spirit. You can see Donk there with a 1.9 rating.

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We said what's interesting about the Siteration of Spirit is, because their utility's so good, they don't have to rely on Donk.

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Well, Donk's decided to show up today. And that's bad news for Mouse, unfortunately, because look at that kill feed.

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We call him the destroyer for a reason because he absolutely wreaks havoc on the server.

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No matter where you put him at, he is going to find success.

03:04:46.440 --> 03:04:50.580
And again, it was just a situation where Don could do whatever he wanted in this game.

03:04:50.580 --> 03:04:56.540
And the entirety of Spirit could really just send it wherever they felt was best and find, you know, success ultimately.

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And yeah, you're right.

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It wasn't just off this time, although he was the leader on the scoreboard.

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Again, this is probably one of the best games I've seen Xoptix play since he came back.

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Yeah. So I was kind of getting that.

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And then again, I'm loving that Taneer just keeps getting a little bit more and more invest.

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I think it was kind of fun. He got the finish off the game.

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What was a pretty cool kind of clutch moment there on the A platform.

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And yeah, you're seeing him kind of express himself more because I'm telling everyone right now

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if Taneer is able to build himself up to be a true consistent third star player for spirit,

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they will challenge vitality. It will be for real.

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Yeah, that's what's getting exciting about watching this tournament unfold is the way that spirit just looks like

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they shipped it into a new gear, one where they've just thrown out the tactics book from last year.

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They've completely developed a new one and now they are just so much sharper. They're cleaner. Their t-sides are so there's so much more

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Even though last year they did run some similar plays. It's just the precision with utility makes such a big difference

03:05:52.300 --> 03:05:54.920
So then a team like mouths that's still in a fledgling state

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They just look like they have no chance because they already were gonna probably get outdulled in 50-50 gunfights

03:06:00.020 --> 03:06:04.700
But when Spirit are finding all of these edges on their own terms because of all those nades

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Well, then it's just lights out perform. It's also just a synergy which makes their spacing so tight

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You know you're never facing one spirit guy at time

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It's bad enough if you got a 1v1 against off

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But it's even worse when you're got a 1v1 against off in the 10 year

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It's about a half second away from swinging you to and that is what we did not see from our sports

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There's a lot of rounds where it was kind of one guy being isolated a little bit out of position

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You know the few t rounds we got to see them play was kind of one by one counter strike

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Where it was easy for spirit to take tools just like holding position. But yeah, this is a

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a zontics that you know is interesting this is a zontics that did look like a

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very solid player when he was on this team before his departure for a season

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and yeah and if they can keep getting this firepower clicking that just makes

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them more and more dangerous I mean I'll be real like I was never a fan I

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thought he was like mr. mediocrity you know if you asked me like who is the

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most guaranteed 1.0 rating can't remember a single thing they did in the match

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player he would have been right up there and then when he came back I was like

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Well, we'll see how long that lasts, but I'll tell you this, I've always liked these interviews.

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Sure, sure.

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I love his stoicism.

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Get more than one word out of them, actually, so that does help.

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I would consider them precocious or just wise beyond his years, but those are for things

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out of the server.

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It's funny, thinking about Zontics' highlights, even within a spirit jersey, a lot of them

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are just kind of like bowdowns with body shots.

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Yes.

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Kyosuke literally plays some of the same spots this guy plays, and they're the best highlights

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you've ever seen, with Zontics, you're almost thinking,

03:07:31.820 --> 03:07:33.140
how's he not dead already?

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That's like every highlight I see.

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But I'll say this, if they can get him to perform like this

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with frequency, that is terrifying for all you

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of the teams out there.

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Yeah, I mean, I think Zontics is kind of an interesting story

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because he came up at the same time as Doc.

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You know, there were both rookies coming in that 2024 year.

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And obviously, Doc goes on to be.

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The rookie of the year goes on to build himself up

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over the last couple of years into the greatest

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swifel of ever seen.

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Zontec just didn't quite have that same level of, you know, phenom, I guess you could say, in him.

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But there's still a lot of time for this guy to develop. He is still very young.

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He had to take obvious sitting, sitting break. He's come back to the team.

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They've given him all his old spots back. They've pivoted to near to make that happen for him.

03:08:11.740 --> 03:08:15.420
And I think part of this year has been working off for us and trying to get back into

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sake of the meta and how to approach the situations that he hasn't had to face in a long time.

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And you're absolutely right. If he can, I'll say this, you don't even have to be that good.

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If you can just be like a 1.1 level player or something like that, it's not just Tenere's popping off, you having a firepower now to challenge anyone.

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Well, let's talk about Tenere as well. Obviously, a player that was earmarked for greatness and then came in the spirit, it was a little bit shaky to begin with.

03:08:41.420 --> 03:08:46.320
Got to say, his development, his trajectory, very impressive indeed.

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It is because it's a bounce back. When he was on Heroic, it felt like such a natural fit to put him on a team-like spirit where you have a little bit more of an X factor on his extremity lurks, because that's what he was so good at with Heroic, that he could just be a turret, sometimes even create his own fate by making some kind of play on the other side of the map.

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and you saw that in little doses, but it felt like that's why I'm highlighting the whole

03:09:10.680 --> 03:09:17.000
soft fit for Holly difference here is that in Rio, we saw this guy taking so many duels on

03:09:17.000 --> 03:09:21.960
extremity plays. In fact, he was so desperate to get spirit into that grand final versus

03:09:21.960 --> 03:09:26.760
vitality. He started just challenging Robs head to head frequently on the A side of the map of

03:09:26.760 --> 03:09:31.080
Mirage. Not going to happen today, obviously on Nuke, but we're still seeing that he has a little

03:09:31.080 --> 03:09:35.160
bit more flair that he's just going to poke and prod a little bit more that he recognizes

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He's one of the sharpest individuals in the world.

03:09:37.160 --> 03:09:39.160
And so he's willing to take those kinds of fights

03:09:39.160 --> 03:09:40.660
that can frequently upset the balance.

03:09:40.660 --> 03:09:42.460
But now, I would even say in this tournament,

03:09:42.460 --> 03:09:43.860
now he's in the flow of things.

03:09:43.860 --> 03:09:47.160
He was constantly on aggressing routes with Donk,

03:09:47.160 --> 03:09:49.460
throwing the flash above to the side of them

03:09:49.460 --> 03:09:52.160
so that they can just scale with extra utility

03:09:52.160 --> 03:09:54.660
on top of the fact that his trading spacing was great.

03:09:54.660 --> 03:09:56.460
Yeah, I think it's kind of a twofold thing for Taneer.

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For one, with him being an extremity playmaker,

03:09:58.460 --> 03:10:00.160
all of a sudden that gives you an opportunity

03:10:00.160 --> 03:10:01.860
to open up two fronts on your opponent.

03:10:01.860 --> 03:10:03.560
That split pressure that all of a sudden

03:10:03.560 --> 03:10:04.860
makes you really question what's happening

03:10:04.860 --> 03:10:07.000
because if you're facing Dawkins on the mid-portion,

03:10:07.000 --> 03:10:08.600
you got to know your attacking extremity.

03:10:08.600 --> 03:10:09.920
Now the options are open for spirit.

03:10:09.920 --> 03:10:11.560
It makes it very hard for you to rotate and understand

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what's coming your way.

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And then the second thing is exactly what you said.

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The fact that they have really made a concerted effort

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in these last two tournaments with Sotfic behind them

03:10:19.280 --> 03:10:21.400
as a coach to get to nearer and more trading positions,

03:10:21.400 --> 03:10:23.840
to pull them off the extremity, to get them into the pack,

03:10:23.840 --> 03:10:25.400
get them into these punchy plays.

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And that's why I think he can kind of come in,

03:10:26.880 --> 03:10:29.520
second, third guy out with Dawkins leading in front of him.

03:10:29.520 --> 03:10:31.240
And then yeah, he's just gonna feel super comfortable

03:10:31.240 --> 03:10:33.280
to use his mechanics to be able to get those trades.

03:10:33.280 --> 03:10:36.040
So we've got to set up Nuke, obviously Maus' pick.

03:10:36.040 --> 03:10:39.080
I mean, just forget all about us two at this point.

03:10:39.080 --> 03:10:40.840
Like that's one of those.

03:10:40.840 --> 03:10:43.360
Couldn't have gone worse in many ways.

03:10:43.360 --> 03:10:46.200
But Nuke, they're a good team on this map,

03:10:46.200 --> 03:10:48.140
been very competitive here in Astana

03:10:48.140 --> 03:10:49.840
with this new lineup.

03:10:49.840 --> 03:10:51.000
Tell me about it.

03:10:51.000 --> 03:10:53.200
Well, it's a map that Maus at the beginning

03:10:53.200 --> 03:10:55.640
of this tournament lost actually to 9Z.

03:10:55.640 --> 03:10:58.200
I mean, we saw the polish that 9Z had in the group stage,

03:10:58.200 --> 03:11:00.200
but then Maus started actually tinkering with it.

03:11:00.200 --> 03:11:02.520
They were able to beat Aurora a couple of times now,

03:11:02.520 --> 03:11:05.320
And it's one where the starters are just so good for them.

03:11:05.320 --> 03:11:06.360
They're so varied.

03:11:06.360 --> 03:11:09.120
There's so many different variations of smoke walls

03:11:09.120 --> 03:11:10.640
that they use towards outside.

03:11:10.640 --> 03:11:13.640
JL has been such a crazy extractor player for them

03:11:13.640 --> 03:11:16.080
as well, just kind of filling in, slotting in.

03:11:16.080 --> 03:11:18.680
And that's what you get when you bring in an experienced big

03:11:18.680 --> 03:11:21.160
stage guy like him, that even if Zellix

03:11:21.160 --> 03:11:22.920
dies on that initial entry outside,

03:11:22.920 --> 03:11:24.080
and he will, don't get me wrong.

03:11:24.080 --> 03:11:26.440
That head-to-head versus Donk is never going to be easy.

03:11:26.440 --> 03:11:29.600
JL is able to recognize, read defenses,

03:11:29.600 --> 03:11:31.280
and be able to pull off flank plays.

03:11:31.280 --> 03:11:33.080
That's what he did versus Aurora yesterday.

03:11:33.080 --> 03:11:35.920
And so I think that that's going to be really your win

03:11:35.920 --> 03:11:36.360
condition.

03:11:36.360 --> 03:11:38.800
Can Jail make great live reads because they need some kind

03:11:38.800 --> 03:11:39.960
of X factor in this game now.

03:11:39.960 --> 03:11:41.800
The reality is you're not going to be knocked straight up

03:11:41.800 --> 03:11:43.200
with just the fire powers left in search.

03:11:43.200 --> 03:11:44.880
And yeah, search has been an X factor all tournament

03:11:44.880 --> 03:11:45.080
long.

03:11:45.080 --> 03:11:46.000
He's had a crazy rating.

03:11:46.000 --> 03:11:47.160
He's had crazy entry success.

03:11:47.160 --> 03:11:49.480
But now all of a sudden you're up against the best

03:11:49.480 --> 03:11:50.720
when it comes to that role.

03:11:50.720 --> 03:11:52.880
And so it is going to come down to what we saw them succeed

03:11:52.880 --> 03:11:54.880
with in their nukes throughout the Crushers tournament.

03:11:54.880 --> 03:11:57.440
Like despite the fact that this has been a roster that's not

03:11:57.440 --> 03:12:00.080
been together long, their upper set pieces and some of these

03:12:00.080 --> 03:12:02.880
heavy utility plays they make are actually very fine tune.

03:12:02.880 --> 03:12:04.040
That's going to what it's going to take.

03:12:04.040 --> 03:12:05.040
Dislodge with these players.

03:12:05.040 --> 03:12:06.840
Make them uncomfortable with your utility,

03:12:06.840 --> 03:12:08.240
and then find a way to get your trades.

03:12:08.240 --> 03:12:09.680
And that's going to be the big thing for me.

03:12:09.680 --> 03:12:11.600
That's going to be a big text for Zellox's insertion.

03:12:11.600 --> 03:12:13.040
Meanwhile, when you go to the other side, Spirit,

03:12:13.040 --> 03:12:15.400
they've lost all three new games they played with the five.

03:12:15.400 --> 03:12:16.480
That must be said.

03:12:16.480 --> 03:12:18.400
It used to be such a strength for them

03:12:18.400 --> 03:12:21.360
because of someone like Daunt being such a menace

03:12:21.360 --> 03:12:23.880
in the yard on both CT and T side,

03:12:23.880 --> 03:12:25.800
but they just kind of lack a little of the finesse

03:12:25.800 --> 03:12:28.520
and some of the play calling to have other options

03:12:28.520 --> 03:12:29.360
they could audible to.

03:12:29.360 --> 03:12:32.400
It's no longer the case now. Now you're seeing them look a little bit more diverse.

03:12:32.400 --> 03:12:35.840
We've been hyping up their flash assist and how they use utility better.

03:12:35.840 --> 03:12:39.120
And also Shiro is just such a nuisance with the AWP on this map as well.

03:12:39.120 --> 03:12:42.080
I think, you know, Torsi is really struggling in these playoffs.

03:12:42.080 --> 03:12:45.160
So I think all those things really do put it in Spirit's favor,

03:12:45.160 --> 03:12:46.960
even if they haven't won the map yet as a five.

03:12:46.960 --> 03:12:50.720
And JL with the right smile there, as well he might have.

03:12:50.720 --> 03:12:53.560
I mean, it's good that they asked the label to smile.

03:12:53.560 --> 03:12:57.520
Miles in these situations in the past, we've seen them capitulate.

03:12:57.520 --> 03:13:01.480
Where about to find out if this is the next stage in mouse history?

03:13:01.480 --> 03:13:06.560
Well, I feel like mouse at least have a little bit of proof in what they've done in the past.

03:13:06.560 --> 03:13:11.200
A reminder, back at the Austin Major, spirit against them.

03:13:11.200 --> 03:13:15.280
I mean, Nuke was mouse's coup de gras, the way that they were able to outcall Donk.

03:13:15.280 --> 03:13:18.960
And given how Donk has been trending as an individual, we saw it on the screen briefly there.

03:13:18.960 --> 03:13:20.600
Nuke's just not one of his favorite maps.

03:13:20.600 --> 03:13:25.160
He's just not having a great time trying to ascertain what the opposing team is doing

03:13:25.160 --> 03:13:27.240
when they use those varieties of smoke walls.

03:13:27.240 --> 03:13:28.960
And a lot of teams now that are just using

03:13:28.960 --> 03:13:31.560
NAID after NAID after NAID to maintain information,

03:13:31.560 --> 03:13:33.440
that's not always, that always doesn't set up Donk.

03:13:33.440 --> 03:13:34.920
I mean, if Torsy's on the other side

03:13:34.920 --> 03:13:36.680
with the T side presence op,

03:13:36.680 --> 03:13:39.800
then he might break the smoke and it's to his own demise.

03:13:39.800 --> 03:13:40.640
All right, then.

03:13:40.640 --> 03:13:43.480
So we're going a nuke after a mouse,

03:13:43.480 --> 03:13:45.240
a meltdown on just two,

03:13:45.240 --> 03:13:48.200
and that means I hand you over to the ever explosive,

03:13:48.200 --> 03:13:50.320
scrawny, Anne Launders.

03:13:51.760 --> 03:13:54.520
Just the most daunting task at hand now for Mouse,

03:13:54.520 --> 03:13:56.200
to have to look yourself in the mirror,

03:13:56.200 --> 03:14:00.040
Pick yourself up piece by piece in order to just go up against this spirit now.

03:14:00.040 --> 03:14:03.060
We'll hope that maybe their comfort zone of Nuke can turn it around.

03:14:03.060 --> 03:14:08.340
We'll hope for Maus' sake that, yes, these struggles with this five team spirit squad

03:14:08.340 --> 03:14:11.500
on this map specifically comes through right now.

03:14:11.500 --> 03:14:15.740
But there's a lot of, I think, unquantifiable energy in the server

03:14:15.740 --> 03:14:17.540
after what we just got at a team spirit.

03:14:17.540 --> 03:14:19.700
That's the kind of confidence that could boil over

03:14:19.700 --> 03:14:22.540
and just absolutely smother Maus out of Semi's.

03:14:22.540 --> 03:14:27.940
Normally I don't like to go from map to map and assume that it's all going to go wrong.

03:14:27.940 --> 03:14:30.780
In fact, I always bet that it changes pretty drastically.

03:14:30.780 --> 03:14:35.420
But in this situation with the storyline of Zershin and Dong, I'm just starting to wonder here.

03:14:35.420 --> 03:14:41.020
Now, obviously the game that they brought back versus Aurora on Nuke was really impressive,

03:14:41.020 --> 03:14:46.380
and that speaks to their mental resilience, just kind of flat out.

03:14:46.380 --> 03:14:51.540
But in terms of the tactics and depth of the T side come back, I'm not totally convinced still for Maus.

03:14:51.540 --> 03:14:57.300
So, on their Nuke alone, they're happy to play it, they've busted it out four times here at Astana, 1-3,

03:14:57.300 --> 03:15:03.780
lost to 9-Z, obviously. I know they're going to feel a little bit better than Dust2, but that might not be enough.

03:15:03.780 --> 03:15:10.020
That's a question of how much better they can feel and also how poor Spirit might feel about this map in particular.

03:15:10.020 --> 03:15:16.340
You know, this isn't where they do their absolute best work, but I think with how easily the Analyst Desk was able to just kind of put a pin in this exact beat,

03:15:16.340 --> 03:15:18.340
map to map, mataboo, matabing.

03:15:18.340 --> 03:15:21.340
There's no doubt in my mind, Spirit, have something for this.

03:15:21.340 --> 03:15:24.840
So if we're going to get this kind of upwards trend for Spirit, moving back,

03:15:24.840 --> 03:15:28.840
on the brink of getting into back-to-back Grand Finals here in Astana,

03:15:28.840 --> 03:15:32.340
well, year-to-year, they're looking to do exactly that.

03:15:32.340 --> 03:15:36.840
So, you know, what they bring to the table, whether Maus can kind of shake them off their back,

03:15:36.840 --> 03:15:41.840
it just seems like a massive ask on top of having to find this new individual level.

03:15:41.840 --> 03:15:44.840
Huge rebound needed here by Maus going into Map 2.

03:15:44.840 --> 03:15:50.780
Nuke could give them a little comfort to work with but they will be on that T side and so if the economy starts to go against them

03:15:50.780 --> 03:15:56.540
If the CT advantage can be flexed by spirit then Maus may be still in shambles

03:15:57.140 --> 03:15:59.140
second map of the first semi-final

03:16:00.260 --> 03:16:05.420
And we will have spirit on the defense leaning back waiting to see if Maus can answer at all

03:16:06.220 --> 03:16:08.220
In this game. Yes

03:16:09.880 --> 03:16:14.460
That's fucking go boys, that's fucking go we going on here two more mess yeah

03:16:14.840 --> 03:16:21.640
Since the start of Shiro's Beretta slide off the hook, and it is a rock solid hook, and

03:16:21.640 --> 03:16:26.600
four kills, or rather survivors on Spirit's side.

03:16:26.600 --> 03:16:30.240
All that pep talk there for Torsi, I'm glad we sprinkled it in, because as much as you

03:16:30.240 --> 03:16:33.640
may want things to go well, welcome to reality.

03:16:33.640 --> 03:16:37.640
You're gonna have to force it up too, and I will say that no matter how good the CT side

03:16:37.640 --> 03:16:43.000
starts to look, we won't necessarily have a good idea of the outcome of the match.

03:16:43.000 --> 03:16:45.640
For Malus, they're going to be expected to win some rounds here.

03:16:45.640 --> 03:16:48.760
It's just that spirit, if there's one thing that's good about their nuke,

03:16:48.760 --> 03:16:50.560
it's their CT side is incredibly strong.

03:16:50.560 --> 03:16:54.080
It's just that their T side is kind of the opposite.

03:16:54.080 --> 03:16:57.280
This is where magics might also struggle to call a good game.

03:16:57.280 --> 03:17:01.200
So I think like a pistol to kick off can make a difference

03:17:01.200 --> 03:17:03.480
when we get into the later hours of this map.

03:17:03.480 --> 03:17:08.000
A lot to be learned as things go on.

03:17:08.000 --> 03:17:09.680
We'll have to take it one round at a time.

03:17:13.000 --> 03:17:24.520
You limp into this one with your Glock's, and his spirit that just looked to continue

03:17:24.520 --> 03:17:28.840
to roar their way forward through the playoffs.

03:17:28.840 --> 03:17:32.560
That's going to be an invitation for Donk to come over and try to feast.

03:17:32.560 --> 03:17:33.560
Pistols at this range?

03:17:33.560 --> 03:17:35.200
I don't think so.

03:17:35.200 --> 03:17:40.760
It's that Zershin Desert Eagle that they're hoping hits any kind of headshot.

03:17:40.760 --> 03:17:45.560
low and even lower now that that thing's gonna have to be picked up off his corpse so

03:17:45.860 --> 03:17:50.620
Everybody ready to just kind of flex their advantage. You do rush the box though. You try to skip a step

03:17:50.620 --> 03:17:53.480
That's what mouse we're hoping for if Zershin doesn't get the headshot

03:17:53.480 --> 03:17:55.480
And maybe somebody gets a little too confident

03:17:55.960 --> 03:18:01.300
So an MP9 to the wayside at a tenir and that is all mouse will get for their efforts in round two

03:18:01.300 --> 03:18:02.940
Well, it's been a little nicer

03:18:02.940 --> 03:18:08.480
You know it's near gets the MP9 kills instead of it being going to the M4 but the fact that that's the only gun

03:18:08.480 --> 03:18:12.240
they get dropped. It's just no sweat for Team Spirit. They handle that one nicely. It's not really

03:18:12.240 --> 03:18:18.640
enough kills for Maus and around like this to make this one as scary. A little bit saved up,

03:18:18.640 --> 03:18:27.360
but the buy comes back. It looks nice. Now let's see right away an establishing shot of the game

03:18:27.360 --> 03:18:29.920
for mouse for exertion calling this T-side.

03:18:30.800 --> 03:18:31.920
What is the plan?

03:18:47.920 --> 03:18:49.920
For now it's going to be Donkervating Thimble.

03:18:50.640 --> 03:18:55.840
And they've used their AGs preemptively to try to soften up the player's crossing.

03:18:55.840 --> 03:18:57.040
This one comes out late.

03:18:57.040 --> 03:18:59.660
Right now, I mean, it's going to be time to move.

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Donk to talk in the turn, this is going to mini or...

03:19:03.420 --> 03:19:04.960
Here's that movement up top, right?

03:19:04.960 --> 03:19:05.820
Zershin,

03:19:05.820 --> 03:19:07.820
announced to Donk,

03:19:07.820 --> 03:19:10.060
will have him fade back and play behind on breakable.

03:19:10.060 --> 03:19:11.400
This is drawing attention over.

03:19:11.400 --> 03:19:12.500
Really just all going.

03:19:12.500 --> 03:19:14.300
Okay, and they get the vent drop at the same time.

03:19:14.300 --> 03:19:15.140
This is kind of nice.

03:19:15.140 --> 03:19:16.660
It's hamstrung the rotations a little bit.

03:19:16.660 --> 03:19:18.900
They'll have to quickly get out towards ramp.

03:19:18.900 --> 03:19:20.900
Sontak's already down lower.

03:19:20.900 --> 03:19:22.700
Trying to take over control panels.

03:19:22.700 --> 03:19:24.200
Zershin will be left outside.

03:19:24.200 --> 03:19:26.640
Given CT's a little bit of time to get organized,

03:19:26.640 --> 03:19:31.920
But still moving into positions on six years. The door starts to swing

03:19:31.920 --> 03:19:35.080
He's gone unnoticed up in the rafters good for the double

03:19:35.080 --> 03:19:41.120
Xalex emerges with a double kill back. That's what they needed now is having a moment off of the newest piece

03:19:41.240 --> 03:19:45.200
And it's Xalex goes wide for a triple kill. He's got doc at bat next

03:19:45.200 --> 03:19:50.640
This is a man advantage in a post plan all made possible by Xalex to near gets that kill back

03:19:50.640 --> 03:19:52.920
They're gonna know that the bomb planters got to be on this site

03:19:52.920 --> 03:19:56.360
So Doc is just gonna go like a hound dog and hunt him down.

03:19:56.360 --> 03:19:57.960
Oh, this lurk is a little bit too late.

03:19:57.960 --> 03:20:00.120
It looks like they could stick this inside of the smoke.

03:20:00.120 --> 03:20:01.320
This is Doc with the kit.

03:20:01.320 --> 03:20:03.080
Wait, the smoke fell in the water.

03:20:03.080 --> 03:20:05.000
Oh, this opens the door for Zershin.

03:20:05.000 --> 03:20:06.120
They're not sure where he comes from.

03:20:06.120 --> 03:20:07.560
He'll have to announce himself.

03:20:07.560 --> 03:20:08.200
Yes, this week.

03:20:08.200 --> 03:20:11.080
D.T.U.S. down to a second and the cover's good.

03:20:11.080 --> 03:20:12.600
Doc comes up with the kill.

03:20:12.600 --> 03:20:15.080
That is Doc off of the D.T.U.S. with the headshot,

03:20:15.080 --> 03:20:16.360
just to go back onto it.

03:20:16.360 --> 03:20:18.200
Has ample time to do so.

03:20:18.200 --> 03:20:20.680
And so Team Spirit, all they had to really face

03:20:20.680 --> 03:20:24.440
is this nice triple kill sequence out of Zellix, that gives you hope, maybe.

03:20:24.440 --> 03:20:28.600
Yeah, a little bit. It was really good to see his individual level shine through on this round.

03:20:29.400 --> 03:20:34.120
The round itself is just so uncomplicated. It's a lower walk, they get everyone to cross,

03:20:34.120 --> 03:20:38.200
they have Zershin hanging back. I mean, the cool move they made was sneaking,

03:20:38.200 --> 03:20:41.160
spanks down the vent in like this mid-round timing, not early on,

03:20:42.840 --> 03:20:46.280
but it just, it wasn't enough. They didn't, Spirit didn't necessarily need

03:20:46.280 --> 03:20:51.040
everyone to rotate through secret through through the vent which I think

03:20:51.040 --> 03:20:57.560
miles are hoping for instead really also oh was it on Zontics who was sitting

03:20:57.560 --> 03:21:01.760
there at Zanteris who got the two kills of lower the rafters he only has one for

03:21:01.760 --> 03:21:08.520
some reason my head's safe oh shiros okay it was an assist on the second oh

03:21:08.520 --> 03:21:10.520
Oh, okay.

03:21:10.520 --> 03:21:12.520
But I did say he didn't get both.

03:21:12.520 --> 03:21:14.520
Oh, I thought so too, so...

03:21:14.520 --> 03:21:15.520
Yeah.

03:21:15.520 --> 03:21:17.520
Just a couple filthy liars.

03:21:19.520 --> 03:21:21.520
He's shooting.

03:21:21.520 --> 03:21:22.520
It's an air.

03:21:22.520 --> 03:21:24.520
On spanks, opens up.

03:21:24.520 --> 03:21:26.520
They're doing the same round, but with worse guns.

03:21:27.520 --> 03:21:30.520
And so that's gonna be a better result?

03:21:30.520 --> 03:21:32.520
It's gonna...

03:21:32.520 --> 03:21:36.520
Yeah, we'll see. We'll let them prove it one way or the other.

03:21:36.520 --> 03:21:40.120
But it is quite literally the same round.

03:21:40.120 --> 03:21:43.920
Zershin is the second lurk, spanks, couldn't get down the vents.

03:21:43.920 --> 03:21:45.720
Ooh, doors off the hinges though already.

03:21:45.720 --> 03:21:49.920
Oh, spot that.

03:21:49.920 --> 03:21:53.720
Oh, Zellex again is going to find his mark on this lower bong site.

03:21:53.720 --> 03:21:55.920
And then they get Shiro tagged low.

03:21:55.920 --> 03:21:57.320
Doc isn't going to be afraid of you though.

03:21:57.320 --> 03:22:00.520
He just puts that pressure on and Torsi continues to crank out this damage.

03:22:00.520 --> 03:22:02.920
Although there's going to be a double door peek in a second.

03:22:02.920 --> 03:22:04.920
Zershin's revealed himself upstairs.

03:22:04.920 --> 03:22:09.880
That'll be held by Tenir inside the vents and he will close shot triple kill Tenir

03:22:09.880 --> 03:22:15.620
And so there are supported pieces of team spirit already coming forward with the impact you've got dog and

03:22:16.080 --> 03:22:18.660
Shearow with six frags to near on five

03:22:18.780 --> 03:22:21.980
We already talked about Zontik back on dust 2 doing his thing

03:22:21.980 --> 03:22:26.360
So we are really having to watch mouse handle all of spirit throughout this series

03:22:26.960 --> 03:22:30.580
Yeah kills are coming down. I mean the same round working again in the same way

03:22:30.580 --> 03:22:33.780
They do have secret open they get the lower cross of course

03:22:33.780 --> 03:22:38.540
They don't have great guns, so Spinks isn't always going to be able to steal the vets away, but Spirit weren't playing in there

03:22:38.540 --> 03:22:41.520
They didn't have the early rotation lower either, so

03:22:42.380 --> 03:22:45.500
It's pretty fine. They get the bomb plant. They're just backing some kills now

03:22:47.860 --> 03:22:50.220
Zelek stop fragging by a mile here for maps

03:22:57.140 --> 03:23:01.220
The thing about Zershin as well as you know the other half of his job is

03:23:01.220 --> 03:23:06.220
He can play better, but he's got to make sure everyone can still play the same and activate that balance.

03:23:13.220 --> 03:23:18.220
Donk waits a little longer for the NAVE, does get confirmation. Oh, Spray gets away from him!

03:23:19.220 --> 03:23:24.220
JL with his second kill of the map on Donk for the 5v4 in Maize's favor.

03:23:24.220 --> 03:23:31.220
And Spinks has looked to have slipped the net inside of Ramp, but now as he starts to look over towards Outer instead,

03:23:31.220 --> 03:23:37.220
what is he going to make of this moment? Can he really find that line on Shiro towards Bronze?

03:23:37.220 --> 03:23:43.220
Because Zontec is going to get a Ramp kill. Spinks' position has been revealed, but worth it with the kill,

03:23:43.220 --> 03:23:48.220
but you've got players downstairs to the air, almost able to snap that onto JL. Instead, he's got his double kill.

03:23:48.220 --> 03:23:52.140
double kill. The bomb's lower. Spinks is up in heaven. And they know that he got this

03:23:52.140 --> 03:23:58.460
kill here. Surely a little bit scary. But the other CTs haven't made it down. Zontics

03:23:58.460 --> 03:24:02.820
is low. Of course he plants the bomb. I think they're just going to be trying to running

03:24:02.820 --> 03:24:06.700
from Spinks. It's just too many layers on this round for I think Spirit to keep a clean

03:24:06.700 --> 03:24:15.780
idea as to what the hell exactly just happened. Yeah. They'll be scratching their heads. Looking

03:24:15.780 --> 03:24:19.220
to soften the blow if they can get away with the Zontics and Magic save.

03:24:19.220 --> 03:24:24.940
So, Maus go back to it again and again, and this time it is going to rack up a round win at least.

03:24:24.940 --> 03:24:29.580
I love a T side round like this that involves a lot of lurks, because on Nuke there's tons of timings.

03:24:29.580 --> 03:24:35.820
If there's not a bally blocking ramp, and you take a risk of your operon on coming turnpike,

03:24:35.820 --> 03:24:41.540
and you drop down lower because you heard a vent dive, then there's a lot of places where someone can just walk out for a phrase.

03:24:41.540 --> 03:24:48.460
Mouse find one of these with Spix. They tried to do it in these previous couple of rounds getting lower, getting bent control and having Xershil mark outside.

03:24:48.460 --> 03:24:53.260
So, extremely lurky and up until this point, Spirit have dealt with it quite well.

03:24:55.260 --> 03:24:58.460
But here's a moment where the game plan looks good.

03:25:05.700 --> 03:25:06.580
Heh heh heh.

03:25:09.300 --> 03:25:10.340
Can't be trusted.

03:25:11.540 --> 03:25:25.780
I saw Donko down empty-handed last round. We'll see how many times that might actually happen.

03:25:25.780 --> 03:25:28.660
Sphinx catching a kill, but Shiro's got the answer.

03:25:28.660 --> 03:25:37.260
Ooh, top name held by Donk. Not this time, JL. That head-to-head tips back in Donk's favor.

03:25:37.260 --> 03:25:40.780
Ooh, Zershin's really hanging back with the bomb right now.

03:25:40.780 --> 03:25:43.780
Could make this round very awkward if things get very stringy.

03:25:43.780 --> 03:25:45.780
You've got a player downstairs in the form of Torsey,

03:25:45.780 --> 03:25:46.780
but what do you want?

03:25:46.780 --> 03:25:50.140
An AWP lurking lower on its own with that AWP.

03:25:50.140 --> 03:25:51.140
And it stinks.

03:25:51.140 --> 03:25:53.220
He goes out of her, but he peels back instantly,

03:25:53.220 --> 03:25:56.980
and now he's got them searching for ghosts.

03:25:56.980 --> 03:25:58.180
This round starts to get weird.

03:25:58.180 --> 03:26:00.100
Shiro's on the line.

03:26:00.100 --> 03:26:02.380
Shot goes between the two, still recovers.

03:26:02.380 --> 03:26:05.100
Under pressure, up close and personal.

03:26:05.100 --> 03:26:13.100
Zershin's on the corner, doesn't expect Shiro to go that wide, and now sure enough, Torsi has been roped up and just left downstairs.

03:26:13.100 --> 03:26:19.100
He gets just really chill here, it's gonna be lonely, it's gonna be cold, maybe a little bit damp down here.

03:26:19.100 --> 03:26:22.100
It'll be hard to kill with time, but that's what it'll have to do.

03:26:23.100 --> 03:26:33.100
So it's nothing but a one-off round win previously four miles. They pick up the fifth, after two consecutive bomb plants downstairs, they win one round.

03:26:33.100 --> 03:26:39.900
We'll see the money be in an okay state, but it is spirit right back to winning ways and doing it with four alive, right?

03:26:39.900 --> 03:26:44.900
Not banking on clutches yet, not banking on these kind of back-and-forth trade frags, just another shutdown.

03:26:44.900 --> 03:26:49.600
There's been no real free passage outside except the one round they win when JL kills Donk.

03:26:49.600 --> 03:26:53.900
But the thing is, it's going to be very hard to keep Donk pinned down, and we see that this round.

03:26:53.900 --> 03:26:59.600
Always happy to sign up for those fights, clears the player top name, and gets spirit right back to winning ways.

03:26:59.600 --> 03:27:08.600
I wonder if they're using this as attack or assertions this thinking, but maybe it's a moment where the Cyclone could contribute a little bit before they get into the next round.

03:27:09.600 --> 03:27:12.600
This T side again, it's so imperative they get something.

03:27:14.600 --> 03:27:17.600
And yeah, so they'll jump into a timeout.

03:27:19.600 --> 03:27:23.600
Right now it's feeling a little bit one dimensional, which is where they're going.

03:27:23.600 --> 03:27:29.040
going. The secret works. I think it kind of sucks for them because they're getting two or three guys down

03:27:29.040 --> 03:27:34.000
secret safely even one time when they cross jail. Got a kill on Donk at the very least so feels like

03:27:34.000 --> 03:27:40.800
when you get all that space like finishing the round is not the hard part and it might be a bit

03:27:40.800 --> 03:27:45.600
of some cost in the sense that they think all right well we've got two third of the rounds in

03:27:45.600 --> 03:27:49.360
place we just need to make sure we figure out how to entry better into the B site but

03:27:49.360 --> 03:27:56.560
It's tough. Zershin is, you know, new to this position. He's got a lot on his plate.

03:27:59.840 --> 03:28:03.200
And now we're starting to watch him taper off too, right? Yeah. Comes into this

03:28:03.200 --> 03:28:07.920
semi-final as the second highest rated player at the event. I'm glad he's still prioritizing

03:28:07.920 --> 03:28:14.480
how to call the best round possible, but they were relying on him to frag. We were wondering what

03:28:14.480 --> 03:28:18.880
the calls would kind of turn into when you're not the guy that's getting all the frags.

03:28:18.880 --> 03:28:23.380
We've always discussed about how you can kind of just enter that flow when you're taking over a server.

03:28:23.880 --> 03:28:27.880
Each call comes easier than the next, when you're the guy putting up all those frags.

03:28:27.880 --> 03:28:30.880
Now you're 1 and 6, map 2 down on the big stage.

03:28:32.380 --> 03:28:36.380
And a head-to-head that you simply cannot win either over Spirit.

03:28:37.380 --> 03:28:42.380
While the new pieces of Maus may not know what that curse feels like, Zershin does know damn well.

03:28:42.380 --> 03:28:44.380
Just how badly they get trapped.

03:28:44.380 --> 03:28:46.380
Shiro is going to get blinded off the line.

03:28:46.380 --> 03:28:52.380
We have a little peek from the back of that. He lets a lot of his health go shero, but it's worth it if you drop JL.

03:28:52.380 --> 03:28:54.380
Selleck's on the answer.

03:28:54.380 --> 03:29:00.380
He's trying to beat that beacon of hope, but Donk activates from deep inside a garage and Torsi was too pretty occupied.

03:29:00.380 --> 03:29:02.380
He's now sitting one at five, and it's man advantage.

03:29:02.380 --> 03:29:05.380
Re-secured by Spirit, a nice push forward by Magix.

03:29:05.380 --> 03:29:14.380
That one's gonna net and open a kill inside of Lobby, and so the pressure just continues to mount here on Maus as this round count continues to favor Spirit.

03:29:14.380 --> 03:29:18.220
It's turning into pretty much a full fall apart. This is off the tack pause and

03:29:18.620 --> 03:29:20.780
The idea to take ramp could have been good

03:29:20.780 --> 03:29:26.820
But shiro was willing to sack some of his HP in order to get a chance to get that off shot. It's the right play

03:29:28.820 --> 03:29:30.820
Everything working too well

03:29:30.820 --> 03:29:44.580
So, let's see if they're going to be so fortunate as to allow a ball flat.

03:29:44.580 --> 03:29:50.660
I mean, as it stands right here, the near, oh, if he goes down, well, actually, they've

03:29:50.660 --> 03:29:53.860
got an interesting chance now.

03:29:53.860 --> 03:29:58.500
They don't have control side.

03:29:58.500 --> 03:30:03.500
They don't have Dekon, they have to play reactive, but there's still a chance.

03:30:08.500 --> 03:30:11.500
Thor, Zelex, knows that this retakes now, happening.

03:30:11.500 --> 03:30:13.500
We're down to 20 seconds on that bomb.

03:30:14.500 --> 03:30:18.500
Spinks is going to let them exit through the control panel, great tracking on Magix's head.

03:30:18.500 --> 03:30:21.500
But it's going to need to be Zelex for the last two bombs in 10 seconds.

03:30:21.500 --> 03:30:25.500
Oh, the fallen dog, a quick run over top, that's 7 on the clock.

03:30:25.500 --> 03:30:30.500
Block, his defuse is secure, and that is Team Spirit to the 6-1 lead.

03:30:30.500 --> 03:30:32.500
Oh, okay. Clean stuff.

03:30:32.500 --> 03:30:35.000
They played it properly. Perfect to trade.

03:30:35.000 --> 03:30:38.000
Didn't know where the positions were, but knew they had a fair amount of map control.

03:30:38.000 --> 03:30:40.000
Didn't hear the Dekon door string open.

03:30:40.000 --> 03:30:42.000
Odds were not on Maus's side.

03:30:43.500 --> 03:30:45.500
At least this time they find a bit of footing, right?

03:30:45.500 --> 03:30:46.500
And opening in a bomb plant.

03:30:46.500 --> 03:30:51.500
We can look at these silver linings, but you're not just looking for a nice, friendly match

03:30:51.500 --> 03:30:53.500
of close counter-strike rounds at this point.

03:30:53.500 --> 03:30:55.500
That's great in the group stage.

03:30:55.500 --> 03:30:57.500
This is do or die on the stage itself.

03:30:59.500 --> 03:31:04.500
You trail by five on a difficult T side after getting it smoked back on Dust2.

03:31:04.500 --> 03:31:07.500
Team Spirit's high hopes. Never higher.

03:31:07.500 --> 03:31:11.500
So it's going to be a fast flurry instead, changing the pace and hoping that will be the solution.

03:31:11.500 --> 03:31:14.500
But it's three deaths on the side of Maus already.

03:31:14.500 --> 03:31:18.500
A bit of an answer back by JL. This will confirm the last two pieces of Maus.

03:31:18.500 --> 03:31:21.500
They swing and JL trying to do it all here.

03:31:21.500 --> 03:31:26.940
His two kills in has Donk on 17 health, but an unknown saunt takes still a part of the problem.

03:31:26.940 --> 03:31:32.300
JL, the funniest thing about him as an entry fragger has put up some of the best clutches in big games.

03:31:34.140 --> 03:31:39.180
Not often you're seeing him alive and alone in this position, but here's one.

03:31:39.980 --> 03:31:45.820
James Banks asked him about his struggles in this event, whether in the big games he was going to find his groove.

03:31:45.820 --> 03:31:48.300
He said, well, this is the big game.

03:31:48.300 --> 03:31:52.440
And so this would be a hell of a time for him to collect and double mouse his rounds

03:31:52.440 --> 03:31:57.720
We thinking about making this into a lower play. He has enough time to actually walk anywhere. He wants

03:31:58.620 --> 03:32:00.620
Not seeing a push so far. Oh

03:32:02.620 --> 03:32:06.180
Yeah, and he is gonna try to drop down but look who's already waiting for him

03:32:06.180 --> 03:32:08.740
He's hoping that utility would keep them busy little does he know

03:32:08.740 --> 03:32:10.740
hook, line, and sinker!

03:32:10.740 --> 03:32:11.740
Jail smiles.

03:32:11.740 --> 03:32:14.740
Zontics just locked in on that B bomb site, not too worried about it.

03:32:14.740 --> 03:32:17.740
It was a tough spot to be in low health, but yeah.

03:32:17.740 --> 03:32:20.740
A site versus 17 HP versus Donk.

03:32:20.740 --> 03:32:22.740
That's where he maybe had a chance.

03:32:22.740 --> 03:32:25.740
Instead, it is Spirit to lead 7-1.

03:32:25.740 --> 03:32:28.740
It's just a bit of a Greek gift to give him that much space

03:32:28.740 --> 03:32:30.740
to make all those decisions.

03:32:30.740 --> 03:32:32.740
And it could have been a moment where he planted upstairs

03:32:32.740 --> 03:32:34.740
and we actually saw an exciting finish

03:32:34.740 --> 03:32:36.740
and a clutch for Jail on the stage,

03:32:36.740 --> 03:32:43.740
But instead, it's just more of just two so far here for Spira.

03:32:53.140 --> 03:33:00.140
We're trying to make it out of the hood.

03:33:00.140 --> 03:33:07.140
I know those closing thoughts from Dawn were pretty gangster.

03:33:07.140 --> 03:33:10.340
The jail.

03:33:10.340 --> 03:33:11.340
No chance.

03:33:11.340 --> 03:33:20.380
I wondered if it was just fighting words, but the reality is, at this point on Nuke,

03:33:20.380 --> 03:33:24.820
with Dust2 the way it went, no chance.

03:33:24.820 --> 03:33:28.660
It's feeling like a very apt description of what Maus had been able to bring in versus

03:33:28.660 --> 03:33:30.660
spirit in the semis.

03:33:37.300 --> 03:33:41.540
Miles go to sleep last night and they think, oh man, we're just on it right now. Everything's changing.

03:33:41.540 --> 03:33:44.980
The tides are turning and then spirits show up and say, well, we've got our own story to write.

03:33:48.580 --> 03:33:50.580
And we don't have to do anything new.

03:33:50.980 --> 03:33:55.620
This is fresh, trying to play the smoke wall. We'll see if Magix gets ahead of it, but it's into the credit card.

03:33:55.620 --> 03:33:59.320
It's like slips. Yeah, they're nervous about all the right things there

03:33:59.320 --> 03:34:03.380
You can see they're watching on both sides of it. No, it's great comes as well. Great trade

03:34:03.980 --> 03:34:09.860
Yep, upper play wasn't in place yet. Still a few steps off and so Tiniere given a chance to just lock in

03:34:19.780 --> 03:34:23.300
Literally couldn't have better positioning for that strat exactly a double layer of work

03:34:23.300 --> 03:34:27.080
That's like an old fury of play to get into many first guy could take contact get traded

03:34:27.080 --> 03:34:30.380
You don't expect the second guy to walk in like everybody else upstairs

03:34:30.380 --> 03:34:34.540
But they weren't ready to pop out of the hut just yet and spirit were so active outside

03:34:34.540 --> 03:34:40.980
They weren't expecting it spotted at that moment. So called out from where the smokes landed another great round for spirit

03:34:42.660 --> 03:34:44.660
I don't forget tired of saying that

03:34:46.100 --> 03:34:49.220
Because also this could have been a game where magic showed that he couldn't you know

03:34:49.220 --> 03:34:54.620
he hasn't really evolved that much as an ideal or something like that's a lot of that's a narrative a lot of people are thinking is

03:34:55.140 --> 03:34:57.140
Real right now as well, but they have had

03:34:57.780 --> 03:35:01.180
Considerable strides and right now they're winning almost all of their series

03:35:06.980 --> 03:35:13.420
Just hoping to get by crossing your fingers looking for a little luck our mail pistols lower

03:35:13.420 --> 03:35:20.260
Flush Magix off the top of right. Teniers going to confirm.

03:35:20.260 --> 03:35:22.300
Bodies downstairs almost gets them off.

03:35:22.300 --> 03:35:26.620
But Torres, you will give him something to think about while Don blocks down that ramp.

03:35:26.620 --> 03:35:28.580
Exits, optics off the present.

03:35:28.580 --> 03:35:32.260
Downstairs is just here to take your hopes away.

03:35:32.260 --> 03:35:36.300
Again, you tried to play with just the timing, thinking you could get downstairs.

03:35:36.300 --> 03:35:43.300
Lo and behold, it is another round for Team Spirit to scoff at Maus's attempt.

03:35:43.300 --> 03:35:48.300
And I know it's just a debut and I want to give them a lot of grace, but they're really shriveling up here.

03:35:48.300 --> 03:35:53.300
I mean, even when Prolin joined the team immediately after Shuhei, same doubts for him.

03:35:53.300 --> 03:36:00.300
But actually, the debut in the honeymoon was really strong and it wasn't just one player who was delivering all the kills.

03:36:00.300 --> 03:36:04.300
They had a faster start, but not all starts are made equal.

03:36:04.300 --> 03:36:13.300
And even though they never achieved what they wanted to with Grollen and breaking that semi-final barrier,

03:36:13.300 --> 03:36:17.300
they still had an incredibly high level average pretty much the entire time.

03:36:17.300 --> 03:36:21.300
Yeah. And at least, you know, by the way, it was even higher in the first game.

03:36:21.300 --> 03:36:23.300
Starting with the wing and Cluj.

03:36:23.300 --> 03:36:24.300
Yeah.

03:36:24.300 --> 03:36:29.300
Kind of set your hopes like anything's possible. This is a dire reminder.

03:36:29.300 --> 03:36:31.640
of the struggles Maus has on stage.

03:36:31.640 --> 03:36:35.640
Shirou opens up, it's a Zellex wall bang death to put him down.

03:36:35.640 --> 03:36:37.400
Tenir starts to get active.

03:36:37.400 --> 03:36:40.440
We're at that point in the half where Spirit know they can see the finish line.

03:36:40.440 --> 03:36:43.440
And because of that, with so much money in their back pockets,

03:36:43.440 --> 03:36:47.440
it's not a shock to see them get a little wild and send Tenir into his death.

03:36:47.440 --> 03:36:50.640
Could have been the 10-1 lead off of that push.

03:36:54.440 --> 03:36:57.940
There's that devilish voice in the back of Spirit's mind just whispering,

03:36:57.940 --> 03:36:59.940
You've done enough

03:37:01.740 --> 03:37:03.900
But in a 4v4 they'll slow back down

03:37:04.700 --> 03:37:08.720
We're gonna have a pack of players coming dogs away nice headshot on JL

03:37:09.340 --> 03:37:14.500
The rifle work does allude him and so a single kill all he winds up finding

03:37:16.780 --> 03:37:21.860
Now Torsi on the brow outer using that AWP we see the crossover is on takes good to tap away

03:37:21.860 --> 03:37:26.140
The sniper trades back and there's one versus three with a second kill to Torsi's name

03:37:26.140 --> 03:37:29.700
Don't do anything drastic and try to drop that someone's waiting for you

03:37:29.700 --> 03:37:34.860
Gotta wait this smoke out is looking like an open a site, but it's not actually

03:37:35.620 --> 03:37:38.820
Because they are quick to respond if you try to go for that plant

03:37:38.820 --> 03:37:41.580
There's a bit of distance between spirit and the bomb site

03:37:44.140 --> 03:37:48.140
Of course you wraps around so that lobby now that he knows all of this is clear

03:37:48.660 --> 03:37:51.140
Eventually towards these hands are tied. He has to put the bomb down

03:37:51.140 --> 03:37:54.860
So won't be any more checking this flank don't know if there's gonna be a fake plans

03:37:54.860 --> 03:37:57.500
And it's wide open.

03:37:57.500 --> 03:38:00.580
It's, you get that scrambling magics quickly moving.

03:38:00.580 --> 03:38:02.180
And if he offers up an audio distraction,

03:38:02.180 --> 03:38:05.380
it's all for the hot guy to exit, but Shiro just missed it.

03:38:05.380 --> 03:38:08.740
Korsy sitting back side thinks there's a problem in the heavens.

03:38:08.740 --> 03:38:11.380
Praise to his god that he can pull off this one

03:38:11.380 --> 03:38:13.780
and give Maus at least a chance to double the rounds

03:38:13.780 --> 03:38:14.540
on the attack.

03:38:14.540 --> 03:38:15.940
Quick scope connects.

03:38:15.940 --> 03:38:17.100
And Shiro dead.

03:38:17.100 --> 03:38:20.420
Magics almost next, but he survives it.

03:38:20.420 --> 03:38:21.500
Off the reload.

03:38:21.500 --> 03:38:23.180
It's going to give a space over to Magics,

03:38:23.180 --> 03:38:26.480
He confirms that he's pushing in fourth kill right here for Torsi.

03:38:26.480 --> 03:38:30.260
And it's a quad kill needed, but a quad kill delivered.

03:38:30.260 --> 03:38:30.760
Wow.

03:38:30.760 --> 03:38:32.480
Mows will take that second.

03:38:32.480 --> 03:38:33.140
Oh my goodness.

03:38:33.140 --> 03:38:34.940
I can't believe he actually found the gap.

03:38:34.940 --> 03:38:38.240
Getting out through hot, Chirol was right behind him the entire time.

03:38:38.240 --> 03:38:40.280
Missed him by just a couple of frames

03:38:40.280 --> 03:38:41.920
as he wrapped around the back of the site.

03:38:48.240 --> 03:38:49.840
So a second off of a clutch.

03:38:53.180 --> 03:39:02.180
I mean, genuinely, one more, and they actually do put a little bit of pressure on Spirit to close on T-sided.

03:39:05.180 --> 03:39:12.180
That's so far, I mean. The one pistol, they won. We got converted against them. The second one went to Spirit. The third one went to Spirit.

03:39:23.180 --> 03:39:30.180
First half of Dust, who also had a really low frag count. It's the same thing right now for Maus.

03:39:41.180 --> 03:39:44.180
Let's see if they can make it three.

03:39:44.180 --> 03:39:48.180
Oh, hell of a gap.

03:39:48.180 --> 03:39:54.180
Going towards the ramp, they'll roll, trying to maybe draw attention outer, but that's not what they get.

03:39:54.180 --> 03:39:56.180
Shiro has moved onto this line.

03:39:56.180 --> 03:39:58.180
Ooh, wallbangs.

03:39:58.180 --> 03:40:00.180
They did you a lot, but oh, Zershin finishes that off.

03:40:00.180 --> 03:40:01.180
Take that one you can.

03:40:01.180 --> 03:40:04.180
Sontics is going to be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of Maus.

03:40:04.180 --> 03:40:11.180
And you said it, one more for the road, and maybe just maybe Maus will be able to try to contend what they do swaps sides.

03:40:11.180 --> 03:40:15.260
It puts pressure on Spirit if they don't get double digits in this first half.

03:40:15.260 --> 03:40:16.760
Look at the kill, man.

03:40:16.760 --> 03:40:18.920
It has four kills immediately back.

03:40:18.920 --> 03:40:22.320
Just when it starts to feel like thousands of found momentum,

03:40:22.320 --> 03:40:25.820
Spirit ripping from their cold, clammy hands.

03:40:25.820 --> 03:40:29.320
Even just Donk pushing in through that Molotov, getting Torsi.

03:40:29.320 --> 03:40:31.020
They were forced to exec right away.

03:40:31.020 --> 03:40:32.120
Not a comfortable spot.

03:40:32.120 --> 03:40:33.080
They had to go forward.

03:40:33.080 --> 03:40:34.960
They wanted to come back to try to fight Donk.

03:40:34.960 --> 03:40:36.220
He's got the high ground advantage.

03:40:36.220 --> 03:40:39.120
So just in front of that Molly was the big thing.

03:40:41.180 --> 03:40:49.180
10-2 half-map to Team Spirit.

03:40:49.180 --> 03:40:57.180
There are trends coming together as we look to conclude the first season of 2026.

03:40:57.180 --> 03:41:04.180
Spirit take the flight to Astana and look to not only defend their title here,

03:41:04.180 --> 03:41:10.180
but also find their game and look to improve on the run to the Major.

03:41:10.180 --> 03:41:17.860
It is important the team spirit find victory here versus the rest of this opposition to really thrust themselves forwards as a genuine contender a

03:41:18.100 --> 03:41:21.740
Frontrunner and a team that can do it with magics at the helm

03:41:28.380 --> 03:41:31.980
The people in the crowd just want more spirit action

03:41:35.540 --> 03:41:39.660
Unfortunately for those of you in attendance this one might be done quick you'll have to come back tomorrow

03:41:40.180 --> 03:41:45.860
more spirit. That's what it's starting to feel like. Mao's a much-needed pistol to give themselves

03:41:45.860 --> 03:41:52.260
a little self-confidence, to give themselves any hope of extending the semis, to just not walk away

03:41:52.260 --> 03:42:01.380
from the stage feeling so small. A feeling that this roster, this organization, was hoping to shake

03:42:02.660 --> 03:42:08.660
with the change-up of two players ahead of the Major. Sellex, that, Tenir, on the climb-ups,

03:42:08.660 --> 03:42:10.020
He's got another one in front of him.

03:42:10.020 --> 03:42:12.180
Thought he was going to get that over his shoulder.

03:42:12.180 --> 03:42:14.060
And so a double man advantage.

03:42:14.060 --> 03:42:16.740
Eyes set forward towards this A site.

03:42:16.740 --> 03:42:19.860
Hope set forward to a trophy lift two.

03:42:19.860 --> 03:42:23.780
That is what Team Spirit are here for.

03:42:23.780 --> 03:42:27.260
Not just to make a meal out of Maus, but to win it all.

03:42:27.260 --> 03:42:29.420
And this is the kind of counter strike

03:42:29.420 --> 03:42:31.620
that could damn well get them there.

03:42:31.620 --> 03:42:33.180
They're a team that can see Grand Finals

03:42:33.180 --> 03:42:36.180
no matter what tournament that they attend.

03:42:36.180 --> 03:42:38.340
And Maus have always just hit a bump in the road

03:42:38.340 --> 03:42:44.660
for them. They're here to scare whoever their opponent is going to be about that grand finals tomorrow.

03:42:47.460 --> 03:42:51.460
I'm scared to look at the kills after this. These two maps are over for Maus. He's going to

03:42:51.460 --> 03:42:56.100
absolutely spoil the stats for Zershin. And what was other, a pretty incredible

03:42:56.900 --> 03:43:02.900
debut as an IGL dragger for the team. But that's three pistols, one in these two maps for Spirit,

03:43:02.900 --> 03:43:05.540
and the one they lost, they converted anyway.

03:43:08.340 --> 03:43:18.460
You guys want radar?

03:43:18.460 --> 03:43:19.460
I'll talk to my people.

03:43:19.460 --> 03:43:20.460
I gotta know.

03:43:20.460 --> 03:43:33.140
Maybe it's better if you don't watch this.

03:43:33.140 --> 03:43:34.140
Yeah.

03:43:34.140 --> 03:43:36.700
Unless you're a spirit fan, then enjoy it.

03:43:36.700 --> 03:43:46.620
true. This is what you're paying for. The rest of the world that would hope that

03:43:46.620 --> 03:43:51.660
Maus could try to get back to their contending form and while again the group stage and

03:43:51.660 --> 03:43:55.420
Zershin being able to pick up the reins and still find good individual level,

03:43:55.420 --> 03:43:59.980
it's a good sign of those things to come for Maus. Assuming that the rest of the pieces of

03:43:59.980 --> 03:44:02.980
that this roster will be able to find an uptick in performance.

03:44:05.980 --> 03:44:11.980
But it is quite simply put, not enough to contend with the likes of this team spirit.

03:44:11.980 --> 03:44:14.980
It wasn't on Dust2, it wasn't here on Nuke.

03:44:15.980 --> 03:44:20.980
And a force by Hail Mary in round 14 of this second map is all that Maus are hoping to bank on.

03:44:20.980 --> 03:44:26.980
Maybe a gap in between some of these players. A chance for JL to turn heads with that Desert Eagle.

03:44:26.980 --> 03:44:31.060
That's the perfect position in this default. Look at the gun that's here to try to search back and

03:44:32.020 --> 03:44:35.700
I'm really gonna tie it up inside a secret. They're trying to wait this out, but I'll get spotted

03:44:36.260 --> 03:44:38.260
I don't know if I want to go for that push now

03:44:40.180 --> 03:44:42.180
There's really no reason for Tineer to move. No

03:44:43.380 --> 03:44:46.100
Oh, okay, actually that's um

03:44:47.940 --> 03:44:49.940
It's good use of that mp9

03:44:52.180 --> 03:44:54.820
That's one's a bit more up for grabs maybe

03:44:56.980 --> 03:45:03.480
So you can stay down there. We're not gonna let you get up bent either. Zellix could be an easy kill for him.

03:45:03.480 --> 03:45:07.380
He's wide on it. Finishes off the little left of Magix.

03:45:07.380 --> 03:45:09.580
Committing to the spray down, Shiro.

03:45:09.580 --> 03:45:12.280
Mac 10 of Zontics pressed into the hut.

03:45:12.280 --> 03:45:14.980
He's gonna find you trying to get scurly from the corner.

03:45:14.980 --> 03:45:18.580
Spinks late to the scene. Lines up those two but can't get anything out.

03:45:18.580 --> 03:45:22.280
A team spirit have absolutely taken over the stage.

03:45:22.280 --> 03:45:31.580
We'll give themselves 10 map match and Grand Finals points, inspiring the crowd to believe

03:45:31.580 --> 03:45:36.920
that not only our spirit now fighting back to back Grand Finals in two events but also

03:45:36.920 --> 03:45:40.120
year to year here in Astana.

03:45:40.120 --> 03:45:43.560
Of all the teams that could have gotten blown out at this tournament so far, could have

03:45:43.560 --> 03:45:48.040
been Magic, it could have been 9-Z and instead those teams are some of the most impressive

03:45:48.040 --> 03:45:52.000
but this matchup right here, this is going to be the one.

03:45:52.000 --> 03:45:57.000
And watch the way they'll just try to bounce immediately down that vent.

03:45:57.000 --> 03:46:01.000
Big pressure on Maus. A Maus that is trying to keep this game afloat.

03:46:01.000 --> 03:46:03.000
Trying to keep their system alive.

03:46:03.000 --> 03:46:06.000
They've got Fursion in the bomb site. Get it in instant.

03:46:06.000 --> 03:46:10.000
Team Spirit have not skipped a beat. They've not skipped a step.

03:46:10.000 --> 03:46:14.000
They have given Maus every piece of the protocol.

03:46:14.000 --> 03:46:18.000
And from start to finish, this has been a battering.

03:46:18.000 --> 03:46:21.000
Maus we're just looking to get some motion on the big stage.

03:46:22.500 --> 03:46:29.200
Trying to evolve, trying to find their game, trying to rebuild, and instead Spirit looked to stuff all that progress

03:46:30.500 --> 03:46:32.000
into their back pockets.

03:46:33.000 --> 03:46:34.700
Torsi and JL to the retake.

03:46:35.700 --> 03:46:42.500
Amolotov to the back side, now Flesh Sonic's into the open, but with the form that he's brought to the table, he is looking for these kinds of duels.

03:46:42.700 --> 03:46:46.000
More and more utility sent out. JL will get that first one.

03:46:46.000 --> 03:46:47.800
Stuff right there in there!

03:46:47.800 --> 03:46:57.300
And Astana has always been home to the Dragons, but this form in 2026 leaves Maus as nothing but scorched earth.

03:46:57.300 --> 03:47:03.800
And so they move back looking to defend their titles and looking to impress the world on the run to the Major.

03:47:03.800 --> 03:47:05.800
This is exactly what they need.

03:47:05.800 --> 03:47:11.800
Step by step, piece by piece, Team Spirit return to form.

03:47:11.800 --> 03:47:15.800
They don't give anything back. They make Maus look small.

03:47:15.800 --> 03:47:19.020
They spoiled this debut from Zershin, unfortunately a little bit.

03:47:19.020 --> 03:47:23.720
Not that there isn't good things that came from it, impressive things that you couldn't expect.

03:47:23.720 --> 03:47:26.960
And they're still new, they're still time to grow with JL overall.

03:47:26.960 --> 03:47:29.920
But if you're spirit, you didn't even let a fake comeback happen.

03:47:29.920 --> 03:47:34.000
You crushed them. You pulled off the biggest upset of the event and weren't semi-finals.

03:47:34.000 --> 03:47:38.020
Sorry, not even upset. Just crushed your opponent away, no one else has.

03:47:38.020 --> 03:47:40.260
You leave no room for doubt.

03:47:40.260 --> 03:47:43.320
They didn't even get to play the second half of either of those maps.

03:47:43.320 --> 03:47:46.320
And they go into Grand Finals feeling like they've already won the event.

03:47:52.320 --> 03:47:56.320
Spirit absolutely dominate their way to the Grand Finals.

03:47:56.320 --> 03:47:58.320
Estana makes the noise!

03:48:03.320 --> 03:48:06.320
Sokri, Spirit are playing amazing right now.

03:48:06.320 --> 03:48:09.320
Looking at this they do seem unstoppable.

03:48:09.320 --> 03:48:17.320
When you're looking at this game, how are you prepared? Does it come down to preparation? Does it come down to the reads? Or are you just better?

03:48:17.320 --> 03:48:29.320
I think we're just not on the team ourselves, we just play our game. We can play like this, we're on the stage and we just play our game.

03:48:29.320 --> 03:48:42.320
We were playing our own game and he said that they didn't think about how it was like in the previous series.

03:48:59.320 --> 03:49:10.320
much stronger, and I think we believe in ourselves more, because even if we play bad series, sometimes we have like...

03:49:10.320 --> 03:49:21.320
I would say when we lose pistols and when we lose close rounds and we have no economy, anyway, I think we want to win, no matter what.

03:49:21.320 --> 03:49:27.320
We show very confident counter-strike when we doubt ourselves the most difficult moments.

03:49:27.320 --> 03:49:31.320
Even if you lose a pistol or some kind of a match-round, it doesn't matter.

03:49:31.320 --> 03:49:37.320
Now also when I've been talking to some of your players, they've been praising your work and what you've been doing.

03:49:37.320 --> 03:49:43.320
What approach have you been taking with them when you're trying to stand in for Halley right now and help the team out?

03:49:43.320 --> 03:49:45.320
What is maybe different between you and him?

03:49:45.320 --> 03:49:54.320
I don't really know what would be the difference. I just let players do whatever they want together and that works.

03:49:54.320 --> 03:49:55.320
It does work.

03:49:55.320 --> 03:50:02.320
All I do as a coach is to do everything they want on the server.

03:50:25.320 --> 03:50:29.520
such individuals, he's public art.

03:50:29.520 --> 03:50:34.520
And he is developing and he is doing very good right now.

03:50:35.020 --> 03:50:36.820
The question is, how do you like Boris now?

03:50:36.820 --> 03:50:39.120
He's a major as an EGL, as a team leader.

03:50:39.120 --> 03:50:45.220
The thing is, when you're in a team with such skilled players,

03:50:45.220 --> 03:50:47.220
it's very difficult to control them,

03:50:47.220 --> 03:50:50.320
but he's doing a great job in the perfect environment.

03:50:55.320 --> 03:51:00.320
Thank you very much for the ball, thank you for the game, I'm going to pass it to you.

03:51:25.320 --> 03:51:32.320
I don't know what rodent is smaller than that, but that is one of the most perfect semi-final displays I've seen.

03:51:32.320 --> 03:51:36.320
It's a good thing we're not paid by the hour, because we'd be freaking broke after just asking.

03:51:36.320 --> 03:51:39.320
I've just got it in my ear, you are indeed paid by the hour.

03:51:39.320 --> 03:51:43.320
That is tough. I guess I'll be homeless when I move back over across the ocean.

03:51:43.320 --> 03:51:46.320
No man, I mean, this was just an absolute battering by spirit.

03:51:46.320 --> 03:51:49.320
Just looking superb in every aspect of the game.

03:51:49.320 --> 03:51:51.320
It's exactly the type of sharpness that you want to see out of the squad,

03:51:51.320 --> 03:51:53.320
out of the squad because obviously,

03:51:53.320 --> 03:51:56.040
nobby just beat Vitality the best of three.

03:51:56.040 --> 03:51:57.720
And then they have the number one contender

03:51:57.720 --> 03:52:01.200
to an era-defining squad that is now the vote in Vitality.

03:52:01.200 --> 03:52:03.440
But the other teams that we pegged as teams

03:52:03.440 --> 03:52:06.720
that would be potential suitors to try to challenge Vitality

03:52:06.720 --> 03:52:09.480
at the major or just in general was Falcons

03:52:09.480 --> 03:52:10.960
because of all the talent they have on paper

03:52:10.960 --> 03:52:12.320
and then this Spirit Squad.

03:52:12.320 --> 03:52:15.520
They were kind of cool a lot of this year adjusting

03:52:15.520 --> 03:52:19.000
to Magix coming in and IGL and Slotix returning off the bench.

03:52:19.000 --> 03:52:20.720
But now Rio, they made a final.

03:52:20.720 --> 03:52:26.160
They've just made another one and they're beating everyone that they're supposed to be so you really have to be excited if you're a spirit

03:52:26.160 --> 03:52:27.840
I agree

03:52:27.840 --> 03:52:33.120
What we'll do now is I think we can go back over to the stage and we're gonna hear from Cyclone

03:52:34.320 --> 03:52:38.240
Thank you very much Richard. I do have Cyclone the coach of mouths in here

03:52:38.240 --> 03:52:43.160
And it's a lot of changes a lot for you guys to to deal with and handle you had such an impressive

03:52:43.800 --> 03:52:48.240
Group stage but this again spirit it didn't even look like the same team

03:52:48.240 --> 03:52:55.100
Can you tell me what you see is the difference? Is it just getting shot out the server? Is it as simple as that? Or is there more?

03:52:56.160 --> 03:53:01.840
That's definitely a big part of it, right? I think Spirit Farm momentum on Dust2, they were winning all the M-fights

03:53:01.840 --> 03:53:04.880
I think many of their players had good moments even SunTex

03:53:04.880 --> 03:53:08.480
I think any chance he got he he shut us down on Dust2 and

03:53:09.600 --> 03:53:12.800
Yeah, I think in terms of the reads of the prep we were had going into the game

03:53:12.800 --> 03:53:14.800
It was still very similar to the previous days

03:53:14.800 --> 03:53:20.800
But we lost a lot on the aim factors today, and once that team has confidence, it's tough to beat them.

03:53:33.800 --> 03:53:36.800
Now, we've obviously been talking a lot about Xershan taking over the calling, right?

03:53:36.800 --> 03:53:39.800
And he's had a great individual performance at the same time.

03:53:39.800 --> 03:53:46.800
What is it in particular maybe that you saw in him as a player, as a chance of him being an in-game leader,

03:53:46.800 --> 03:53:50.800
and how do you see it translating already in the few games you've played?

03:53:50.800 --> 03:53:57.800
With the search and I've tried to convince him for a couple of years now to try and take up this mantle.

03:53:57.800 --> 03:54:03.800
I think he has a really good ability to communicate and facilitate around him.

03:54:03.800 --> 03:54:05.800
He's the fastest thinker I've ever worked with.

03:54:05.800 --> 03:54:12.800
At the very moment something happens, he instantly has an idea about it, and it's to a level where it impresses you, right?

03:54:12.800 --> 03:54:17.800
And I think he's had a flair for that. He has other things to conquer, right?

03:54:17.800 --> 03:54:20.800
Part of it is also the mental game. If you have to lead the boy, you should be mentally strong.

03:54:20.800 --> 03:54:25.800
You can't weave that much in your composure, so there's still steps to go and ways to go there.

03:54:25.800 --> 03:54:27.800
I think this was a good starting point for him, right?

03:54:27.800 --> 03:54:33.800
I don't think it could have turned out better for him, and I'm excited to do the work and prep going into tomorrow with him.

03:54:33.800 --> 03:54:47.800
Sarkron has been asking Sergius to become captain of the team for two years, because he has great communicative skills and great ideas that come to him immediately, and he is ready to perform from start to finish.

03:54:47.800 --> 03:54:53.800
And he thinks that it was a great start at this tournament in order for Sergius to find himself as a new role.

03:55:03.800 --> 03:55:06.080
I think overall the team was a bit flat on energy, right?

03:55:06.080 --> 03:55:07.840
And if you lose that many aim duels,

03:55:07.840 --> 03:55:09.680
probably there's something to watch that,

03:55:09.680 --> 03:55:12.800
if you look for the conclusions.

03:55:12.800 --> 03:55:14.720
I think we didn't lose that much mentally this game.

03:55:14.720 --> 03:55:16.040
I don't think the pressure was that high.

03:55:16.040 --> 03:55:18.280
Also, the expectations are different for us now, right?

03:55:18.280 --> 03:55:20.760
We wanted to try and fail in different ways

03:55:20.760 --> 03:55:21.640
that we've done before.

03:55:21.640 --> 03:55:25.200
It's been maybe 15 plus playoff runs in a row for us.

03:55:25.200 --> 03:55:27.440
And it's nice to have different things to look at.

03:55:27.440 --> 03:55:30.080
I think also Justina and Adrian go

03:55:30.080 --> 03:55:31.760
for a bit different mental profiles

03:55:31.760 --> 03:55:32.600
than what we had before.

03:55:32.600 --> 03:55:35.100
and it's exciting to try something new, right?

03:55:57.300 --> 03:55:59.500
And looking at JL as an example, right?

03:55:59.500 --> 03:56:01.460
Obviously, what your expectations were of him

03:56:01.460 --> 03:56:05.420
coming into the team. Is he meeting it so far? Is he bidding your expectations?

03:56:05.420 --> 03:56:07.420
Like, are you getting what you need from the man?

03:56:10.060 --> 03:56:12.060
With Juicy, it's more about the intangibles.

03:56:12.060 --> 03:56:14.460
You know, it's about looking for someone who can be a glue guy,

03:56:14.460 --> 03:56:18.060
that when the pressure comes to us, I don't expect it to be at this tournament.

03:56:18.060 --> 03:56:20.460
But if he can show up, you know, he can be there for us,

03:56:20.460 --> 03:56:24.060
he can be a team-first kind of guy, he can create the vibes and energy.

03:56:24.060 --> 03:56:28.660
Because I think for years now, Adam has been the only one trying to pull us over the line.

03:56:28.660 --> 03:56:37.660
And I think we need one or two more guys who can do that when it's needed, because it's a tough job, you know, and it should be on all of us, but someone's got to do that job as well.

03:56:37.660 --> 03:56:43.660
I think that's what I'm looking for from him. I think you see him on the street, he's smiling, he's happy, you know, he brings a good vibe and atmosphere.

03:56:43.660 --> 03:56:54.660
In terms of the gameplay, I think he said it himself, he is maybe a bit rusty, but to be honest, he also has a lot of new positions, and you're not supposed to be sharp and deliberately super confident yet.

03:56:54.660 --> 03:57:06.660
Their new player showed himself in the best way, although of course it was expected that he would be very nervous, but this is exactly the person with whom Sikron is ready to develop together and achieve the highest.

03:57:24.660 --> 03:57:26.660
once again you cracked the code.

03:57:26.660 --> 03:57:29.180
Thank you for the compliment as well.

03:57:29.180 --> 03:57:31.380
It's more the questions maybe than the answers here.

03:57:31.380 --> 03:57:35.300
So I think Adrian for 17 years has a really good head on his shoulders.

03:57:35.300 --> 03:57:37.500
He's very smart and calculated.

03:57:37.500 --> 03:57:41.540
The other day he was out with JL for food and JL came back and he told me,

03:57:41.540 --> 03:57:43.340
for a 17 years he's a smart guy.

03:57:43.340 --> 03:57:46.060
And the game we had just now and played,

03:57:46.060 --> 03:57:48.820
we're not playing our best, I think you can all see that.

03:57:48.820 --> 03:57:50.540
But in one of the moments that guys,

03:57:50.540 --> 03:57:53.060
I didn't know he was behind me, he used to call Defconn's better.

03:57:53.060 --> 03:57:58.660
So, I think being able to do that and understanding what the game takes at that age is pretty impressive.

03:58:12.860 --> 03:58:17.160
And lastly, I know it was massive spirit-favorite in this arena, but there was still a pop for you guys.

03:58:17.160 --> 03:58:18.860
There were still a lot of cheers coming your way.

03:58:18.860 --> 03:58:21.460
And if you want to say to everyone in the arena and the mouse fans back home.

03:58:21.460 --> 03:58:25.620
Thank you for sharing. I promise you guys gonna come up. We're gonna come in fighting tomorrow

03:58:25.620 --> 03:58:27.420
We're gonna do everything we can to win first place. Yeah

03:58:29.100 --> 03:58:36.220
We're gonna give this jar on a fetish is much as a pretty nice day. I'm still I'm so much to the brite of Richard back to you

03:58:37.020 --> 03:58:43.740
Thanks a lot James and look Cyclone one of the greatest coaches. We've ever had in CS

03:58:43.740 --> 03:58:48.540
I have nothing but respect for the man and now I'm about to say look, okay?

03:58:48.540 --> 03:58:51.720
You've gone through a lot of changes. You've changed a lot of protocols

03:58:51.720 --> 03:58:57.960
But what we saw today same old same old and to get like having a bar them in no country for old man

03:58:57.960 --> 03:59:01.980
If all your changes have brought you to this, what was the point? Yeah

03:59:01.980 --> 03:59:05.840
I mean we used to say the guarantees in life were death taxes and mouse falling in Sydney finals

03:59:05.840 --> 03:59:09.400
I mean that's just kind of been the trajectory for the last year here in a few months

03:59:09.400 --> 03:59:12.780
However, you want to call it but they used to have a negative connotation to it

03:59:12.780 --> 03:59:16.080
You know, we're always just like they just can't win right there consistent top five squad

03:59:16.080 --> 03:59:18.480
Look, Havana team's out on the top five envy them.

03:59:18.480 --> 03:59:20.240
They'd love to be in that position.

03:59:20.240 --> 03:59:22.640
But this, I come at it with more of a positive light

03:59:22.640 --> 03:59:24.440
when I see it, because I think it's

03:59:24.440 --> 03:59:27.360
nice to see that mouse haven't necessarily lost anything

03:59:27.360 --> 03:59:28.680
in this transition.

03:59:28.680 --> 03:59:30.440
They haven't gone down.

03:59:30.440 --> 03:59:31.840
They haven't had poorer results.

03:59:31.840 --> 03:59:34.080
They haven't suffered from the roster changes

03:59:34.080 --> 03:59:34.840
that they have made.

03:59:34.840 --> 03:59:37.800
In fact, they have looked a little bit sharper, in my opinion.

03:59:37.800 --> 03:59:39.680
I think we did see a lot of positives throughout.

03:59:39.680 --> 03:59:41.440
And yeah, it is going to take some time

03:59:41.440 --> 03:59:44.040
to embed Zelex in the tier one level

03:59:44.040 --> 03:59:48.600
to figure out what's going on with JL, to get searchin' up to speed on being the primary

03:59:48.600 --> 03:59:52.560
car. That is a lot of moving parts, so it's a semi-final run, not too shabby for given

03:59:52.560 --> 03:59:53.560
that context.

03:59:53.560 --> 03:59:59.120
Eventually, I expect that the novelty of this lineup will wear off. I don't necessarily

03:59:59.120 --> 04:00:05.520
see this iteration as pure contenders to the other big four that I'm looking at in

04:00:05.520 --> 04:00:12.440
CS right now. Falcons, Vitality, I would even say Furia to an extent, but definitely this

04:00:12.440 --> 04:00:14.080
this version of Spirit and Navi.

04:00:14.080 --> 04:00:17.560
Those four or five teams definitely look sharper for me

04:00:17.560 --> 04:00:19.720
for individual sake, but I'm glad to see them

04:00:19.720 --> 04:00:20.560
make this kind of change

04:00:20.560 --> 04:00:22.200
and I'll also throw it back to Cycro.

04:00:22.200 --> 04:00:24.920
I mean, he's the coach that I voted for number one

04:00:24.920 --> 04:00:29.760
of last year and I'm glad that after a contract extension,

04:00:29.760 --> 04:00:32.600
he decides that he wants to take matters into his own hands,

04:00:32.600 --> 04:00:35.280
doesn't like the results that they've been having

04:00:35.280 --> 04:00:38.360
and he goes for kind of a home run swing here.

04:00:38.360 --> 04:00:41.520
And to me, even though they fall to Spirit

04:00:41.520 --> 04:00:46.080
same fashion that they always have. I'll pick up where dust left off there that doesn't feel like

04:00:46.080 --> 04:00:51.440
this is any different, but it gives you hope for the future that you should look at this team who

04:00:51.440 --> 04:00:56.480
is now going to learn. They're going to get a little bit better. Zellix is going to get more

04:00:56.480 --> 04:01:00.480
used to playing this level of opposition. I'd say the whole tournament, Zellix has actually been

04:01:00.480 --> 04:01:04.320
pretty bad on the T side of Nuke, despite the fact that it's become their pick. And that's

04:01:04.320 --> 04:01:09.520
something that he'll get better with with more reps. Playing tier one T side Nuke is an immensely

04:01:09.520 --> 04:01:14.440
hard task, especially when people like Donk and Spirit are running every single set up

04:01:14.440 --> 04:01:15.720
possible to counter you.

04:01:15.720 --> 04:01:21.360
I'll get production and just run a repeat of the last death segment we did talking about

04:01:21.360 --> 04:01:23.760
this guy once again.

04:01:23.760 --> 04:01:25.680
Because what more can be said?

04:01:25.680 --> 04:01:31.800
I mean every single time he's tested, every single time you think he might take his foot

04:01:31.800 --> 04:01:37.920
off the pedal, he's back and he looks as good as he ever did and you really start having

04:01:37.920 --> 04:01:43.780
ask yourself, you know, when is it gonna end? Like, is it ever gonna end? Like, how much

04:01:43.780 --> 04:01:48.860
more is this guy gonna do in his career? It's actually terrifying.

04:01:48.860 --> 04:01:52.700
Yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things where he's so good it's not even cool to sound

04:01:52.700 --> 04:01:56.780
cocky anymore. It's kind of a fun line that I kind of think about. It's just, it's actually

04:01:56.780 --> 04:02:01.500
kind of tough because we run out of words. Like, we run out of things to say. It almost

04:02:01.500 --> 04:02:05.340
kind of dulls the impact whenever you explain how good he is, which is unfortunate because

04:02:05.340 --> 04:02:10.340
The reality is what he is doing is something that no other entry rifle is really done

04:02:10.340 --> 04:02:13.780
And this is all up to date by the way what you see on your screen there

04:02:13.780 --> 04:02:19.420
So look look at the players. He is clearing by magnets. Oh, yeah

04:02:19.420 --> 04:02:21.420
I mean he's been doing this for a long time

04:02:21.620 --> 04:02:25.740
Especially in some of those, you know opening tea rounds is really kind of the biggest one

04:02:25.740 --> 04:02:29.620
But just in general a star CT player a guy who's self-sufficient

04:02:29.620 --> 04:02:33.140
But now he's got a team around him who's bringing in more support to make him even better

04:02:33.140 --> 04:02:35.640
Now they have other weapons where he doesn't have to be the guy

04:02:35.640 --> 04:02:39.880
We have seen games throughout this tournament where he started a little bit cold and some of the other guys were able to be a

04:02:39.880 --> 04:02:42.200
Little bit more on the spotlight and still keep this team in the right direction

04:02:42.200 --> 04:02:46.140
So I think we all knew that thought we'd be able to maintain a very high level

04:02:46.140 --> 04:02:51.000
I think the more exciting thing for spirit fans should be the fact that some of your other guys are coming online

04:02:51.040 --> 04:02:55.880
And the team plays getting better and their playboats getting deeper and that's gonna make them a real content

04:02:55.880 --> 04:03:00.840
I was a little bit worried for Don this year. His playoffs have actually been pretty bad throughout throughout this

04:03:00.840 --> 04:03:06.620
by his stand in a bad bad actually bad like barely above a 1.0 rating for a

04:03:06.620 --> 04:03:10.240
handful of the playoffs that he's played this year so it was easy for me to

04:03:10.240 --> 04:03:14.640
actually say in my list of the top 20 players today of the year played thus far

04:03:14.640 --> 04:03:18.960
he was fifth I mean all these other players have much better playoff

04:03:18.960 --> 04:03:22.880
ratings so to see him here in Astana hit this level of form off the back of a

04:03:22.880 --> 04:03:27.200
team structure that seems to have been elevated and refined that's a welcome

04:03:27.200 --> 04:03:28.800
site, but also, again...

04:03:28.800 --> 04:03:30.500
Reptip default now?

04:03:30.500 --> 04:03:34.040
No, he's probably second, if not third right now.

04:03:34.040 --> 04:03:36.440
It's hard to look past some of what Vitality's guys are doing,

04:03:36.440 --> 04:03:38.800
but for keeping the conversation here,

04:03:38.800 --> 04:03:41.640
I mean, what Donk's gap between the second best player

04:03:41.640 --> 04:03:43.800
at this event is probably along the lines of what

04:03:43.800 --> 04:03:45.880
Molo-Doy looks compared to someone like Zelex.

04:03:45.880 --> 04:03:50.000
Like, that's how vast it is and why even going beyond at all,

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I mean, it's not even just the best entry fraggers ever,

04:03:52.600 --> 04:03:54.280
it's the best players of all time.

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That's what we're talking about when we have Donk,

04:03:56.800 --> 04:04:01.900
at a tournament, every single successive game, you are watching a guy who will eventually

04:04:01.900 --> 04:04:05.280
lay claim for the best player in Counter Strike history.

04:04:05.280 --> 04:04:09.540
So stay strapped in, be sure to tune in for the Grand Finals because it's all history

04:04:09.540 --> 04:04:10.540
in the making for him.

04:04:10.540 --> 04:04:15.740
Yeah, and look, I've got to say as well, overall, some of the changes that have been made vindicated,

04:04:15.740 --> 04:04:16.740
right?

04:04:16.740 --> 04:04:21.400
There was this mockery of like, oh, they're the vibes team, and then things didn't click

04:04:21.400 --> 04:04:22.400
immediately.

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They brought Magic's back.

04:04:23.400 --> 04:04:24.400
They brought Zondling's back.

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We all really know what's going on behind the scenes.

04:04:27.120 --> 04:04:30.600
It's not like these were the only players available at the Spirit.

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These are dunks, guys, right?

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And so it turns out you keep him happy,

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give him the team around him he wants,

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you get some extra support staff, some new ideas.

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Spirit can get right back to being title contender.

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It was a free experiment, is the way that I look at it, right?

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You're just bringing guys back off the bench

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that you already have under contract.

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You didn't go have to make a huge transfer

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to bring in an outside in-game leader

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to try to put this team in better suiting,

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you were able to go internally and do it.

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And so far, it seems to be trending in the right direction.

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Again, they've now made back-to-back grand finals.

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Vitaly's the only team that's really toppled them

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in a big playoff moment thus far.

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They're beating everyone that's ranked at their level

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or below them.

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And they've been the most dominant force so far

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in this tournament.

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I think they've only dropped one map the entire tournament

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in what is now like five series played.

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So it is remarkable the improvement we have seen

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on this squad in the last month or so.

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Yeah, I mean, look, I'll ask you as well,

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do you think we could be at a pivotal moment?

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Because I was up late last night,

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I was one of the handful watching what was happening

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in Atlanta as well as keeping my attention on here.

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And, you know, obviously Vitality,

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it was a bonus event for them, they said as much.

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It was really just to secure that grand slam

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if it was possible, but, you know, a loss is a loss is a loss.

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And Spirit, I wasn't that impressed with them

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on day one in Astana,

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I thought they looked a little bit scruffy,

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But, I mean, if that is the spirit to come,

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if that is the ghost of Christmas future,

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everyone should be pretty terrified.

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Without a doubt, this is now leveling the playing field

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for what's to come at Cologne,

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where we're getting, at the same time,

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a Vitality team that looks like it's getting

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to the end of its rope in terms of burnout.

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I mean, they just have to take a vacation again,

04:06:12.320 --> 04:06:14.520
or everybody's talking about how tired they are

04:06:14.520 --> 04:06:17.320
on that team, whereas you have an incredibly hungry spirit,

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a Falcons team that has everything to play for,

04:06:19.440 --> 04:06:23.480
even though they've care against giving the excuse of targeting a later date.

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I don't buy that at all.

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That's just a ridiculous thing to say.

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And then you also have a Navi team that finally has drawn blood themselves.

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So to me, you have a four-way contender kind of bout here

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between a handful of teams that are vying for the crown.

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Obviously, Vitality is going to still stay the favorite.

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Nobody's going to doubt that.

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But if Spirit is actually going to make market improvements,

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not just in individuals playing better,

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but very clear and obvious and statistically significant,

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Just structural changes.

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Then you have a team that is leveled up in a way

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that Vitality hasn't even played before.

04:06:55.280 --> 04:06:56.480
You're at a point now where people

04:06:56.480 --> 04:06:58.440
are getting bored of this Vitality era.

04:06:58.440 --> 04:07:00.320
This chase of being the greatest of all time,

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which I think they've already achieved.

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People are like, man, I really want

04:07:03.040 --> 04:07:05.080
to see someone else have a chance.

04:07:05.080 --> 04:07:06.400
It's beginning to happen.

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It used to be that the gap between Vitality

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and everyone else was so vast.

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And you're starting to see that gap shrink a little bit,

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because you're right.

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Navi has been a true number one contender to them for some time.

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And as you said, they drew blood in Atlanta.

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And so that's a big moment for them.

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So they're kind of sitting maybe your number two slot, but spirit and Falcons are fighting for third and both of them have looked very impressive spirit

04:07:24.840 --> 04:07:27.140
You know probably have the longer ten years

04:07:27.140 --> 04:07:28.440
So you probably give them the slight knob

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But what we saw what happens to yesterday in those overtime games against Furia and the fact that Furia are still fiery in their own way

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Like you're starting to see more and more contenders start to line up and things to get really interesting

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Well, don't you see all that happening? I mean one of things interesting just to talk about Falcons before we got a break

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I think what's interesting in is we're seeing spirits. They're becoming more polished

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Falcons yesterday were just winning in chaotic fashion

04:07:52.920 --> 04:07:55.800
It was like sheer force of will and then you had two

04:07:56.440 --> 04:08:01.960
Interviews you got tess s and monocie both saying it's caragon like we don't know what he's doing

04:08:02.280 --> 04:08:09.080
But what he's calling is just somehow getting us through these rounds and if they really start to believe and can pull out

04:08:09.160 --> 04:08:11.160
what we used to call

04:08:11.160 --> 04:08:18.000
professionally, the FaZe Bullshit. If you add the FaZe Bullshit to the Falcons mix, Falcons are a scary team too.

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They got magic today. They really should be in the fight.

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That's pretty clear. It's Kerrigan bullshit. That's what it really is, right?

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I think people need to realize that. I think, look, if Falcons already look this good with such limited time with Kerrigan,

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you're already starting to see, hey, they have some clutch factor to get through some tight moments.

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I think eventually they're gonna clean things up in some of these early and mid stages,

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and then they're gonna be even more damaged down the road.

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So I think so far, if you're a Falcons fan,

04:08:40.520 --> 04:08:42.120
I know there's a lot of hate watchers out there.

04:08:42.120 --> 04:08:44.520
You're about to start not eating so good here very soon.

04:08:44.520 --> 04:08:48.000
I mean, like, you're starting to get real nice over there,

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you know, with Kerrigan being the right guy

04:08:49.880 --> 04:08:51.080
to wrangle in those stars.

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So they keep improving.

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Yeah, they are very, very dangerous.

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I'm not sure what I could attack this one.

04:08:55.320 --> 04:08:56.120
I don't know.

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The semantic discussion of Kerrigan BS versus FaZe BS,

04:08:59.160 --> 04:09:02.880
it wasn't Kerrigan that 2V4'd Spirit with a jumping

04:09:02.880 --> 04:09:05.440
opshot when it was raining robs on the retake.

04:09:05.440 --> 04:09:07.240
But did he call to do it?

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He definitely didn't call to do that.

04:09:09.480 --> 04:09:12.120
It was Faze also carrying that torch there.

04:09:12.120 --> 04:09:14.600
But Kerrigan just keeps you guessing

04:09:14.600 --> 04:09:15.920
on what's the next look to come.

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That's what I noticed in the Fury game

04:09:17.720 --> 04:09:20.840
is that the opening formations were drastically different

04:09:20.840 --> 04:09:22.200
round to round to round.

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He is every single round coming up

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with something in the spur of the moment

04:09:25.240 --> 04:09:26.720
that's going to upset the balance,

04:09:26.720 --> 04:09:28.680
and that Fury is going to be left scratching against.

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I mean, when Apex even mentioned what he thinks of this move,

04:09:33.480 --> 04:09:34.600
he reveres Kerrigan.

04:09:34.600 --> 04:09:36.960
He knows he is such a tactical mastermind,

04:09:36.960 --> 04:09:44.860
Because he has such a brain that's at this point just been completely molded and pressed to just play counter strike and command

04:09:44.860 --> 04:09:49.860
The only person who didn't reveal him was Nico and he's had to eat humbuckers

04:09:49.860 --> 04:09:50.660
Exactly

04:09:50.660 --> 04:09:56.660
I'm glad you picked up on that by the way because obviously I think a lot can get lost in that new game that they played against you yesterday

04:09:56.660 --> 04:10:01.160
Because it was down to a lot of individual playmaking and clutch moments and just utter chaos unfolding

04:10:01.160 --> 04:10:04.460
But really when you look at that Dust 2 double overtime game, you're absolutely right

04:10:04.460 --> 04:10:06.980
like they had a lot more variance in how they approached them out with their

04:10:06.980 --> 04:10:10.060
openers and then they were able to throw a lot of misdirection make these huge

04:10:10.060 --> 04:10:13.340
rerouting moves to the other side of the map. And that's where Kerrigan

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thrives. He thrives in those chaotic mid-round moments where he is the one

04:10:16.100 --> 04:10:19.740
that sees the vision of where things need to go. And he's also a guy who can

04:10:19.740 --> 04:10:23.540
get tricky in the pick-band phase of a series as well. And so this is exactly

04:10:23.540 --> 04:10:27.820
the guy that you need to mold a young up-and-coming player in Kyosuke, wrangle a

04:10:27.820 --> 04:10:31.700
bunch of star personalities. You know, Xonak assist there and grabs the bag and

04:10:31.700 --> 04:10:33.140
This guy takes them to big things.

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Yeah, well, that might be happening.

04:10:34.700 --> 04:10:36.380
Let's see if they can overcome magic.

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I got a feeling they might.

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Guys, great talking to you.

04:10:39.380 --> 04:10:42.460
And yes, as I said, magic will be in the building

04:10:42.460 --> 04:10:44.660
in more waves than one because they

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will be taking on Falcons in about an hour.

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But their panel will be coming in in about 45 minutes.

04:10:51.700 --> 04:10:54.100
That'll be Tech Girl, Prof, and Blair.

04:10:54.100 --> 04:10:57.620
So make sure you join us then.

04:10:57.620 --> 04:11:00.900
She said she loves you, but she can't love me.

04:11:00.900 --> 04:11:02.300
But I love you!

04:11:16.620 --> 04:11:18.300
I won't play Windu anymore.

04:11:18.540 --> 04:11:19.580
What's going on?

04:12:00.900 --> 04:12:05.900
The human body was built to move.

04:12:05.900 --> 04:12:11.900
Not attractive desk in one single posture for 12 hours a day.

04:12:11.900 --> 04:12:19.900
It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Titan Eva.

04:12:19.900 --> 04:12:29.900
Ergonomically engineered for you, gamers, hybrid workers, artists, and back in your every move.

04:13:59.900 --> 04:14:02.740
So blind, everyone's been blind.

04:14:02.740 --> 04:14:06.660
Oh, yeah, Zellex with a swing!

04:14:06.660 --> 04:14:09.180
And he's on for the ace.

04:14:09.180 --> 04:14:12.340
Zellex just gets mopped up straight away

04:14:12.340 --> 04:14:13.780
as he rounds the corner.

04:14:13.780 --> 04:14:15.260
This is an Aurora round.

04:14:15.260 --> 04:14:16.500
Diffuse attempting.

04:14:16.500 --> 04:14:18.820
Oh, wait, JL with a cover!

04:14:18.820 --> 04:14:20.180
I line up right.

04:14:20.180 --> 04:14:21.660
Oh, that's so good.

04:14:21.660 --> 04:14:29.540
JL scrapping and Torsche looking down the barrel of this hole.

04:14:29.540 --> 04:14:33.300
Oh, that's a lovely flick! Torsche, why stop there?

04:14:33.880 --> 04:14:39.360
Sampias is living on borrowed time and that time's expired and another 4k from Torsche.

04:14:42.240 --> 04:14:43.460
And the light is worse.

04:14:43.460 --> 04:14:43.960
Oh.

04:14:43.960 --> 04:14:44.540
Is it Will?

04:14:48.880 --> 04:14:52.540
Now Modesty looking for the refrag back sight has just enough time.

04:14:52.540 --> 04:14:53.540
Bomb plants?

04:14:54.080 --> 04:14:54.580
Oh.

04:14:54.580 --> 04:14:59.740
that he's there, he's going to sit on this position and end it through the round, four

04:14:59.740 --> 04:15:02.340
kills to his name.

04:15:02.340 --> 04:15:09.620
Niko runs through that molly, it does find a cave player.

04:15:09.620 --> 04:15:14.620
Niko able to shut him down, V-Mas dead, climbing up through heaven.

04:15:14.620 --> 04:15:19.620
You've been able to claw this one back, there's 2v4 and you're 2v2 and you've got the bomb

04:15:19.620 --> 04:15:20.620
planted.

04:15:20.620 --> 04:15:23.620
Niko low on health, doesn't care.

04:15:23.620 --> 04:15:26.220
On absolute mission!

04:15:31.180 --> 04:15:34.300
Ugly spray for Tessus. One more where that came from.

04:15:34.300 --> 04:15:36.500
But is it too late? Apparently not.

04:15:36.500 --> 04:15:39.660
Kiyosuke has kept the dream alive and now a chance at that plant.

04:15:39.660 --> 04:15:41.980
Kiyosuke just staying gun on.

04:15:41.980 --> 04:15:43.500
The late plant for Monosie.

04:15:45.780 --> 04:15:48.460
Easily done. The double or post plant.

04:15:48.460 --> 04:15:51.500
2v5. 4k from Kiyosuke.

04:15:53.620 --> 04:15:55.620
Come on, cancel it!

04:15:55.620 --> 04:15:56.620
Oh!

04:15:56.620 --> 04:15:58.620
Come on!

04:15:58.620 --> 04:16:00.620
There's still time for it!

04:16:00.620 --> 04:16:02.620
Oh, you can just cancel it!

04:16:04.620 --> 04:16:05.620
Molotov-D.

04:16:05.620 --> 04:16:07.620
Oh, he hit!

04:16:07.620 --> 04:16:08.620
Boy!

04:16:08.620 --> 04:16:14.620
It'll have to be Yuri to try to clutch out 1v2, X-Floward's hands, busy Yuri ops, not to jump out through the window immediately.

04:16:14.620 --> 04:16:18.620
But this is 52 health for Nylo, and he is sitting back by bench now.

04:16:18.620 --> 04:16:21.620
Yuri's got to figure out where he's at.

04:16:21.620 --> 04:16:25.620
Oh, oh, he's a high enough, you're out!

04:16:29.120 --> 04:16:33.120
Time is a big problem, 10 seconds left, one kill in the right.

04:16:33.120 --> 04:16:34.120
Oh, that's it!

04:16:34.120 --> 04:16:35.620
And you could win this!

04:16:36.620 --> 04:16:40.620
Doc is just out in the open looking for duels as he dies, and that is why.

04:16:40.620 --> 04:16:45.620
The bomb has been picked back up, but we can see the damage that's been done on all the Furia player, dude.

04:16:45.620 --> 04:16:47.620
Clean up on the box site.

04:16:47.620 --> 04:16:51.780
The way he's just out of your swing, in case Rado could still deal with this, if not for dog!

04:16:54.180 --> 04:16:57.860
Ah, nice distraction. Offers up the Molodoy line side.

04:16:57.860 --> 04:16:58.580
Nice shot.

04:16:58.580 --> 04:17:02.340
Shiro's got the recovery under way as he drops down pistol in hand.

04:17:05.380 --> 04:17:07.300
Giving more and more time for your kid, Dark.

04:17:07.940 --> 04:17:08.500
Shiro.

04:17:08.500 --> 04:17:09.620
Oh, you get the kill?

04:17:09.620 --> 04:17:10.500
Line side it.

04:17:10.500 --> 04:17:12.660
Oh, you messed it up!

04:17:12.660 --> 04:17:13.460
Oh, no!

04:17:17.620 --> 04:17:31.300
It's what multiple players coming up on banana now.

04:17:31.300 --> 04:17:35.620
He really wants to lure them in to this position for Luchov and he's gonna come out shooing

04:17:35.620 --> 04:17:38.060
and he did get Molotov.

04:17:38.060 --> 04:17:42.180
And Lutter is gonna be putting a bit of a wrinkle in this round as he wants to try and

04:17:42.180 --> 04:17:43.180
get closer.

04:17:43.180 --> 04:17:45.180
Flashbang is good but Luchov falls in position.

04:17:45.180 --> 04:17:54.380
Third player company that's now one ever perivision if you want a chance to get in here but Luchov

04:17:54.380 --> 04:17:59.220
is just estimating them. Another headshot looking for another ace in this first half.

04:17:59.220 --> 04:18:03.740
He is 17 and 2 hunting for the ace and he gets another one in the first half.

04:18:03.740 --> 04:18:10.660
Maxim might be able to find a kill here on Cecello who's playing up by the church position.

04:18:10.660 --> 04:18:14.820
You're very deep towards church as well, all but it's a bit of a sloppy fight at the moment.

04:18:14.820 --> 04:18:19.180
Runs out of bullets, knife is out, and on the other side too, it's all around highs!

04:18:19.180 --> 04:18:20.180
Okay!

04:18:30.180 --> 04:18:34.540
Wallabong will force the Bay Day out at the very least, it's now it's the open and no man's flying.

04:18:34.540 --> 04:18:38.340
But they're gonna call upon him, I'm gonna stick an 8W through your hollow!

04:18:38.340 --> 04:18:42.500
He goes to 4 and it's all of the soldiers of 9-10 as AWP!

04:18:43.620 --> 04:18:47.380
So it'll be sort of an execute but a cow the smoke is coming out, they're bumping into each other!

04:18:47.380 --> 04:18:50.180
Matt, listen, the smoke moon, is he going to be able to find anything?

04:18:50.180 --> 04:18:53.180
He's joined the T side somehow but now he's dead instead!

04:18:53.180 --> 04:18:55.220
Tensy with 3 kills!

04:18:55.220 --> 04:18:58.180
Oh and a headshot straight through! How has he done that?

04:19:00.180 --> 04:19:06.100
He can be the insurance policy, Tensy's made a kill for P's, he's out all on Tensy!

04:19:06.100 --> 04:19:10.540
Time is ticking here, though. Five seconds, you gotta get this kill and take it back in two!

04:19:10.540 --> 04:19:13.340
Oh my god, heroic! How have you let that slip?

04:19:18.340 --> 04:19:23.540
The steps heard by G2, and you're not mistaking the sound of NERDS picked up without a kill,

04:19:23.540 --> 04:19:28.100
and it's chased with JL, finds Hunter back in the spawn. Matt is playing through the smoke.

04:19:28.100 --> 04:19:31.100
EZ is here a moment, wrestles with the...

04:19:31.100 --> 04:19:34.100
OHHHHH! Matt is knocked some down!

04:19:36.100 --> 04:19:38.100
Oh

04:19:54.740 --> 04:19:58.820
We're gonna get away with the multi-kilber the bomb was dropped there on that spam out of a target

04:19:59.700 --> 04:20:03.860
Close he won't follow up on a belcher knocking now the dualies firing back

04:20:06.100 --> 04:20:06.940
Yeah!

04:20:10.360 --> 04:20:12.200
Oh, they just got hit!

04:20:12.200 --> 04:20:13.820
Oh, no!

04:20:13.820 --> 04:20:15.380
We're cardiac!

04:20:15.380 --> 04:20:17.860
Soulfly attempted the clutch, but with the AWP here,

04:20:17.860 --> 04:20:20.380
it should be a safe round for paravision.

04:20:20.380 --> 04:20:21.220
Thank you.

04:20:21.220 --> 04:20:22.860
Tom's not parking for long.

04:20:22.860 --> 04:20:24.340
It's his, Belchinock.

04:20:25.340 --> 04:20:28.780
Soulfly knows on that deep view, it's Belchinock.

04:20:28.780 --> 04:20:30.300
Can't do it.

04:20:30.300 --> 04:20:32.260
What a weird round.

04:20:32.260 --> 04:20:33.100
Crazy.

04:20:36.100 --> 04:20:50.500
Some of the other maps, well that's an eye for the party here.

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Make some noise!

04:20:51.500 --> 04:20:52.500
It's mouse!

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Let's hear it

04:21:12.620 --> 04:21:17.500
The real chance of the retake shouldn't be but walk's take your right all the sudden under pressure

04:21:17.500 --> 04:21:21.740
He's got three players coming up from tunnels behind him, Soulfly's down to 14 health.

04:21:21.740 --> 04:21:24.140
Madger's going to be a late arrival out from middle.

04:21:24.140 --> 04:21:25.820
Soulfly dropped him forward.

04:21:27.020 --> 04:21:28.220
It's still costly.

04:21:28.220 --> 04:21:29.420
Oh, he got a flying knife!

04:21:29.420 --> 04:21:31.100
He got a flying knife!

04:21:31.100 --> 04:21:32.460
Cash for your efforts.

04:21:34.300 --> 04:21:38.300
He's got two players occupied and Zershin's out enough, but he got a nowhere for Madger.

04:21:38.300 --> 04:21:38.860
Saw that.

04:21:38.860 --> 04:21:42.300
Would love to try to test this smoke, so he gives himself that underhanded flash,

04:21:42.300 --> 04:21:43.500
gets Spades off the line.

04:21:43.500 --> 04:21:44.860
Mola talk to the back of site.

04:21:44.860 --> 04:21:50.380
Wikadia will take it down, he's got a smoke to cross, and they found their opening.

04:21:50.380 --> 04:21:53.620
Madre trying to take his sweet time with this, Wikadia just needs to survive.

04:21:53.620 --> 04:21:57.820
And as they sit outside of the window, there's the flight for Madre, perfectly timed.

04:21:57.820 --> 04:22:01.580
And with this amount of time, it's not going to happen.

04:22:01.580 --> 04:22:06.180
Aurora, four players with rifles versus Soulfly.

04:22:06.180 --> 04:22:09.300
He's got a pistol to try to play with, they give him these duels.

04:22:09.300 --> 04:22:11.020
He's still working with 50 health.

04:22:11.020 --> 04:22:13.900
JL's low, multiple body spotted.

04:22:13.900 --> 04:22:15.900
He is drawing them into perfection.

04:22:17.180 --> 04:22:19.780
Now they're starting to consider it. All the line up there!

04:22:19.780 --> 04:22:23.620
Exertion's full health dead, still low HP, J.O. though!

04:22:23.620 --> 04:22:25.620
Think of the value they got out of this!

04:22:25.620 --> 04:22:27.620
And he's dead on the wall!

04:22:37.740 --> 04:22:38.740
Saviour looked close.

04:22:38.740 --> 04:22:39.740
First blood.

04:22:43.900 --> 04:22:49.860
Tourist he fights in Zell X as well. It's just a sea of kills out of mouse everybody putting in their work

04:22:54.740 --> 04:22:56.740
Please give it up for

04:23:08.220 --> 04:23:10.380
Give it up for magic

04:23:13.900 --> 04:23:15.900
Oh

04:23:23.420 --> 04:23:27.360
Awkward kind of a tier 2 always let the rush like that DGT tech 9

04:23:27.740 --> 04:23:33.340
Boss balls dead. It's gonna be on moon to stop it and despite his best efforts with the double kill loot chops

04:23:35.020 --> 04:23:37.760
What more can you do it's a low-health farm player that's

04:23:37.760 --> 04:23:38.260
Whoa!

04:23:42.260 --> 04:23:44.420
There's an AK still out here on the field, hunting heads,

04:23:44.420 --> 04:23:45.620
and it's just not going to happen.

04:23:45.620 --> 04:23:48.300
A little lost in the sauce this round.

04:23:48.300 --> 04:23:50.060
Our magic, and they better not die after.

04:23:50.060 --> 04:23:50.860
Wait, they caught!

04:23:50.860 --> 04:23:51.360
Help!

04:23:51.360 --> 04:23:51.860
No!

04:23:58.360 --> 04:24:00.180
Doesn't look like you're going to stop magic from getting

04:24:00.180 --> 04:24:01.060
inside of this A site.

04:24:01.060 --> 04:24:01.860
Bomb gets dropped.

04:24:01.860 --> 04:24:04.760
He'll try his to press his bomb, and from the bottom

04:24:04.760 --> 04:24:07.260
of the health bar, three kills left there!

04:24:07.260 --> 04:24:09.260
Jackpot for Mayer.

04:24:11.460 --> 04:24:14.780
Just all off the audio. Baszler has no idea what he's done.

04:24:16.180 --> 04:24:20.300
He's gonna cause AW to scramble. He will fight at least as one.

04:24:21.380 --> 04:24:23.880
And then Tenz he's catching Lucho. Voss Voss Voss.

04:24:23.880 --> 04:24:24.880
Oh!

04:24:24.880 --> 04:24:26.880
Oh, got himself the double.

04:24:28.140 --> 04:24:31.580
He's gonna try to press into Voss Voss and obviously loses.

04:24:37.260 --> 04:25:03.260
It's on their way over, but the Needs will dislodge Hunter.

04:25:03.260 --> 04:25:12.860
More damage, quick down range from Mattis. There's a lot of low players here. Mattis, but if a headhunter looks for his second, learns about the long player in Taneer as well, they can't flush him out!

04:25:13.160 --> 04:25:18.920
You can still look at Mattis to be a difference maker on for the ace in this 4-spy.

04:25:19.800 --> 04:25:26.160
5-7's tweaking him well. On that sweep, let's get down, but he can't survive to make sure it's not in vain.

04:25:26.160 --> 04:25:36.160
One man made it across pitside, they don't know about heavy guard jokers in the pack!

04:25:36.160 --> 04:25:38.160
Oh, that evil!

04:25:38.160 --> 04:25:40.160
They'll make him pay!

04:25:42.160 --> 04:25:46.160
Walks smoke to slow them down, the rest of the play is coming up short.

04:25:46.160 --> 04:25:48.160
Right in! The dog stalker at us!

04:25:50.160 --> 04:25:53.160
As P2 from afar, two to the dirt, he's bought down low.

04:25:53.160 --> 04:25:58.360
That P2P he's gonna be a bit more considered now. You've got Mattis tucked in taking next contact

04:25:58.360 --> 04:26:01.160
And it's Donk with all the kills in this pistol round

04:26:01.160 --> 04:26:04.160
And there's the fourth. Is it really gonna be a Donk?

04:26:04.160 --> 04:26:07.160
Oh! That is well applied!

04:26:11.160 --> 04:26:15.160
They get in to B right now they're up the rampside. It's taking it back home.

04:26:15.160 --> 04:26:17.160
It causes them problems

04:26:17.160 --> 04:26:23.980
It won't come to matter if the next death is Mattis out towards Cade looking for this

04:26:23.980 --> 04:26:25.380
trade to Nier.

04:26:25.380 --> 04:26:27.180
Will not let him get it.

04:26:27.180 --> 04:26:33.380
Spirit 2 players ready to receive to Nier is all that's required.

04:26:33.380 --> 04:27:01.300
Caravans selling this, but it is the b hit, and you're going to worry about Kiasute,

04:27:01.300 --> 04:27:03.300
Kinsuke, clean entry on the fallen.

04:27:05.300 --> 04:27:07.300
Oh, guys, they double up.

04:27:07.300 --> 04:27:09.300
Swing out from your kid, don't want to be able to punish,

04:27:09.300 --> 04:27:11.300
but finally will be all firing off,

04:27:11.300 --> 04:27:13.300
and they know they've got carrying traps.

04:27:13.300 --> 04:27:15.300
Yeah, that's it.

04:27:19.300 --> 04:27:21.300
It's a long way to try and make this feel recoverable.

04:27:22.300 --> 04:27:24.300
The replay on the cards, Kinsuke.

04:27:24.300 --> 04:27:27.300
Top performer, right plays, right time.

04:27:27.300 --> 04:27:29.300
Oh, he's hitting shots.

04:27:29.300 --> 04:27:30.820
There's all of them!

04:27:30.820 --> 04:27:32.020
AAAAAAAAGH!

04:27:36.180 --> 04:27:39.100
Pace, disrespect, PIST OFF!

04:27:39.100 --> 04:27:40.620
You can't just hand it off!

04:27:41.420 --> 04:27:42.420
Oh!

04:27:42.420 --> 04:27:44.020
Where's this come from?

04:27:45.100 --> 04:27:45.900
Okay!

04:27:45.900 --> 04:27:49.300
I'm trying to play safe on a kickoff!

04:27:50.540 --> 04:27:52.860
Last time they weren't able to stop it.

04:27:52.860 --> 04:27:55.100
This time, it's a different story.

04:27:55.100 --> 04:27:56.780
Line up into the tunnels.

04:27:56.780 --> 04:27:58.900
Big damage from the rifle.

04:27:59.300 --> 04:28:06.820
Try to be the guy fighting first scared back from the window side-by-side with forward

04:28:06.820 --> 04:28:10.820
This is for all the marbles. This is for those sevens.

04:28:10.820 --> 04:28:12.820
YAY!

04:28:12.820 --> 04:28:38.820
I have Lutrov with me from 9Z. I've got Gentlemates Martinez with me here, JL from MAUS.

04:28:38.820 --> 04:28:40.700
We're going to be looking at Inferno.

04:28:40.700 --> 04:28:45.300
So three things are not correct on this image.

04:28:45.300 --> 04:28:46.700
What could it be?

04:28:48.860 --> 04:28:51.820
Okay, I saw one already.

04:28:51.820 --> 04:28:52.420
Okay.

04:28:52.420 --> 04:28:54.300
This is easier, I think.

04:28:54.300 --> 04:28:59.860
Okay, on pull, pull that sandbox is not good.

04:28:59.860 --> 04:29:01.780
The...

04:29:01.780 --> 04:29:07.260
In pull, there's something that usually don't...

04:29:07.260 --> 04:29:08.740
What is it?

04:29:08.740 --> 04:29:10.740
That thing, I don't know.

04:29:10.740 --> 04:29:13.740
On the, yeah, so we call them like sandbags?

04:29:13.740 --> 04:29:16.740
You enter B and the right side.

04:29:16.740 --> 04:29:19.740
Yeah, where should it be? Where it should be somewhere else?

04:29:19.740 --> 04:29:21.740
Yeah.

04:29:21.740 --> 04:29:27.740
The easiest of them all. 100% locked in guest towards the pool.

04:29:27.740 --> 04:29:30.740
There's a sandbag that doesn't belong there. Move it back, please.

04:29:30.740 --> 04:29:33.740
Thank you. Thank you, big boss.

04:29:33.740 --> 04:29:36.740
Oh my God! It's so easy. I've got to figure it out.

04:29:36.740 --> 04:29:44.180
And triple, like, it's not the pillar, it's like a wall on triple.

04:29:44.180 --> 04:29:50.180
The bench of triple? I don't know how to say, but five of them, I think.

04:29:50.180 --> 04:29:56.180
The bench is not supposed to be there, I know, because I've been on that bench.

04:29:56.180 --> 04:30:02.180
It's not there, it's supposed to be in, I don't know where it's supposed to be, but it cannot be there.

04:30:02.180 --> 04:30:04.980
Move that bench now.

04:30:04.980 --> 04:30:05.980
Thank you.

04:30:05.980 --> 04:30:07.380
Oh, so that was the change.

04:30:07.380 --> 04:30:10.980
I thought it was going to be bench there and the triple box missing, so that's three.

04:30:10.980 --> 04:30:12.700
Okay, then I need one more, right?

04:30:12.700 --> 04:30:13.700
One more.

04:30:13.700 --> 04:30:14.700
The stairs.

04:30:14.700 --> 04:30:18.180
They joined the wall on this side.

04:30:18.180 --> 04:30:20.140
Yeah, there's no entrance.

04:30:20.140 --> 04:30:24.620
It's like you have, I don't know who to say, but yeah, close to the ball, you have to

04:30:24.620 --> 04:30:25.620
cross the side.

04:30:25.620 --> 04:30:26.620
When you go in the side.

04:30:26.620 --> 04:30:27.620
Yeah.

04:30:27.620 --> 04:30:28.620
There you go.

04:30:28.620 --> 04:30:29.620
Yeah, the wall missing.

04:30:29.620 --> 04:30:30.620
Boom.

04:30:30.620 --> 04:30:31.620
This one is easier.

04:30:31.620 --> 04:30:32.620
That one's easier?

04:30:32.620 --> 04:30:33.620
Yeah.

04:30:33.620 --> 04:30:55.180
I've got Aurora's newest member with me, Soulfly.

04:30:55.180 --> 04:30:59.140
Yukinda with me from Furia, G2's Maddy's with me here.

04:31:05.580 --> 04:31:07.860
Three things on here that have changed.

04:31:08.780 --> 04:31:11.260
Okay, so I need to go closer to the monitor.

04:31:15.340 --> 04:31:17.700
Is it the A on the city part, looks weird.

04:31:17.700 --> 04:31:18.740
That one has to be...

04:31:18.740 --> 04:31:20.620
Okay, is the A thing?

04:31:20.620 --> 04:31:21.060
Yeah.

04:31:21.060 --> 04:31:21.780
Not there?

04:31:21.780 --> 04:31:25.020
The elevator, the sticker, I think, right?

04:31:25.020 --> 04:31:26.300
Yes, correct.

04:31:26.300 --> 04:31:27.660
And we're done.

04:31:27.660 --> 04:31:29.540
But we're done?

04:31:29.540 --> 04:31:30.860
You can't say, and we're done.

04:31:30.860 --> 04:31:33.900
Wait, so are there like all these ones?

04:31:33.900 --> 04:31:37.180
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, what else?

04:31:37.180 --> 04:31:40.740
Is there any small info?

04:31:40.740 --> 04:31:42.420
No.

04:31:42.420 --> 04:31:45.620
OK, my eyes is not the best, first of all.

04:31:45.620 --> 04:31:47.660
No, no.

04:31:47.660 --> 04:31:49.340
Books are fine.

04:31:49.340 --> 04:31:52.820
There is a tree window on the wrong side now.

04:31:52.820 --> 04:31:54.300
No, that is not the one.

04:31:54.300 --> 04:32:00.460
Oh, okay. The sticker on the left, no? It's supposed to be down, or it's supposed to be there.

04:32:00.460 --> 04:32:04.700
What are you talking about, sticker? What is it exactly? Tell me the thing you're talking about.

04:32:05.980 --> 04:32:09.660
The culture, no? The goose should be from the right side, I think.

04:32:09.660 --> 04:32:14.380
Okay, so the goose is on the... It's not on this side, I think the goose is on the other side.

04:32:15.180 --> 04:32:19.500
I don't... Oh! But I said it! This is the back or what?

04:32:19.500 --> 04:32:20.860
Oh, yeah, it's a goose.

04:32:20.860 --> 04:32:21.980
Oh, it's a dog!

04:32:21.980 --> 04:32:27.260
Bro, I saw the sticker, I told it's a cultured on Mirage, you know, jumping and killing people.

04:32:27.260 --> 04:32:27.820
Really?

04:32:27.820 --> 04:32:28.780
I saw the sticker.

04:32:28.780 --> 04:32:31.420
On the go, you know, like if you go here, we call it goose.

04:32:31.420 --> 04:32:31.820
Yeah.

04:32:31.820 --> 04:32:33.340
What is it in Turkish?

04:32:33.340 --> 04:32:34.620
It's a goose as well.

04:32:34.620 --> 04:32:36.060
So how did you not know it was a goose?

04:32:38.060 --> 04:32:39.180
A goose, but it looks...

04:32:41.980 --> 04:32:42.220
Yeah.

04:32:43.340 --> 04:32:44.380
You see what I mean?

04:32:44.380 --> 04:32:45.500
Yeah, I get it now.

04:32:45.500 --> 04:32:46.460
Oh man.

04:32:46.460 --> 04:32:47.660
Okay, so one more.

04:32:47.660 --> 04:32:47.900
One more.

04:32:47.900 --> 04:32:48.860
Difference, right?

04:32:48.860 --> 04:32:50.220
This one's really hard though.

04:32:50.780 --> 04:32:51.660
Is it a hard one?

04:32:51.980 --> 04:32:52.940
Or am I missing something?

04:32:52.940 --> 04:32:54.380
I think it's hard.

04:32:54.380 --> 04:32:56.060
You think it's hard, right?

04:32:56.060 --> 04:32:57.580
Maybe the sign on the right, the blue one.

04:32:57.580 --> 04:32:58.620
I'm not sure.

04:32:58.620 --> 04:32:59.820
No, not the sign.

04:33:00.700 --> 04:33:02.820
And then, then, then, then.

04:33:02.820 --> 04:33:04.100
The red windows or something?

04:33:04.100 --> 04:33:06.140
No, no, no, no, that, that, that's...

04:33:06.140 --> 04:33:07.140
Ah, no clue then.

04:33:07.140 --> 04:33:09.060
Is there something in the background that I'm missing?

04:33:09.060 --> 04:33:09.900
Car is fine.

04:33:09.900 --> 04:33:11.260
There's nothing above.

04:33:12.780 --> 04:33:14.780
Do you like driving?

04:33:14.780 --> 04:33:16.220
Oh, the car, yeah.

04:33:17.180 --> 04:33:19.860
The car is, they move to do much more, right?

04:33:21.980 --> 04:33:25.980
There is something with the car, why don't things are moving?

04:33:25.980 --> 04:33:27.980
There is a lot of more space, no?

04:33:27.980 --> 04:33:28.980
The car is moved.

04:33:28.980 --> 04:33:30.980
There we go!

04:33:30.980 --> 04:33:32.980
I was expecting it to start.

04:33:32.980 --> 04:33:34.980
Maybe a little push in the direction, you were like, the car is fine.

04:33:34.980 --> 04:33:35.980
I'm like...

04:33:35.980 --> 04:33:39.980
Let me reveal it to you and see if you've noticed how deep the car was.

04:33:39.980 --> 04:33:40.980
See?

04:33:40.980 --> 04:33:41.980
Okay.

04:33:41.980 --> 04:33:43.980
I was not even looking that direction.

04:33:43.980 --> 04:33:46.980
I thought this was a great map for you guys.

04:33:46.980 --> 04:33:47.980
They're going to...

04:33:47.980 --> 04:33:48.980
You really?

04:33:48.980 --> 04:33:52.140
bad verse to me, I believe it.

04:33:52.140 --> 04:33:54.980
Yeah, the cars, you know, like I'm thinking, oh, the car is there, the car is there.

04:33:54.980 --> 04:33:56.340
Yeah, the car, it's a nothing show.

04:33:56.340 --> 04:33:57.340
Yeah, right, exactly.

04:34:13.340 --> 04:34:17.020
Cash is back in Counter Strike and I got someone who's definitely got a lot of cash

04:34:17.020 --> 04:34:21.340
experience under his belt of it I want to ask you though in terms of what you

04:34:21.340 --> 04:34:24.700
would like to see if cash was added who would you like to see be removed which

04:34:24.700 --> 04:34:28.820
map would go it's hard not to say an Ubi's honestly because it's a map that

04:34:28.820 --> 04:34:32.420
people are avoiding to play like you can see on every matchup it's not even

04:34:32.420 --> 04:34:36.420
picked sometimes it's video seconds sometimes you go first so I think that

04:34:36.420 --> 04:34:41.180
people really don't really like a map that can be so one-sided and even with

04:34:41.180 --> 04:34:44.780
the upgrades that Valve came with I think it added something but I don't

04:34:44.780 --> 04:34:48.460
I still don't think it really changed what needed to be changed.

04:34:48.460 --> 04:34:52.700
Not that I know what needed to be changed, but it didn't really get to a point from the other maps.

04:34:52.700 --> 04:34:54.060
I don't like Inferno.

04:34:54.060 --> 04:34:55.100
Oh, you don't like it?

04:34:55.100 --> 04:34:57.580
I don't like Inferno. I hope it's going to be replaced.

04:34:57.580 --> 04:35:01.740
And it's going to be more, you know, some actions, I think, like this.

04:35:01.740 --> 04:35:05.340
Because Inferno is about, like, macro, nades, something like this.

04:35:05.340 --> 04:35:09.500
I'm thinking if cable mint in the apps, you know.

04:35:09.500 --> 04:35:19.100
Honestly, two weeks ago I would say Mirage, but now we are playing much better, so I think

04:35:20.700 --> 04:35:27.340
overpass, because I mean for example Inferno, I think they will remove Inferno, but bro, how are

04:35:27.340 --> 04:35:31.260
you gonna remove Inferno? The only thing that you have to do is just remove the building on banana,

04:35:31.260 --> 04:35:37.500
so that this can play and can just do things around there, so I don't know, it's gonna be

04:35:37.500 --> 04:35:43.100
overpass or inferno but I think it's gonna be inferno but I would like to be overpassed.

04:35:43.100 --> 04:35:50.220
Yeah I could see it coming into the map pool maybe instead of Anubis or yeah.

04:35:50.220 --> 04:35:55.580
Mirage, definitely Mirage all day all long like because it has been here for a long time

04:35:55.580 --> 04:36:01.020
if Cache deserved it if Cobblestone deserved it Mirage deserving to you know like go out

04:36:01.020 --> 04:36:05.660
bro go out and come back later you know like you have been there for a long time one one thing

04:36:05.660 --> 04:36:11.220
added like a bench and stuff and that's it like they need to some like they

04:36:11.220 --> 04:36:13.940
need to do some really adjustments anything like different like you know

04:36:13.940 --> 04:36:20.060
back in the days I played the 1.6 with my friends like I don't know maybe half

04:36:20.060 --> 04:36:24.340
then like one year I don't know one year before I think we play like I casual

04:36:24.340 --> 04:36:30.100
Mirage and we played like kind of five versus five bro everything is same like

04:36:30.100 --> 04:36:34.860
now you know like bro that that map has been there like for decades maybe more

04:36:34.860 --> 04:36:40.860
And now this is still the same, nothing changed, I think it has to be gone.

04:36:40.860 --> 04:36:44.860
Thank you very much for sharing Voxic, there you go, some moments when it comes to cash.

04:36:44.860 --> 04:36:48.860
I do agree with Voxic as well, no mirage, bring cash in, that'll be the best way to do it.

04:36:48.860 --> 04:36:49.860
Let's see what happens.

04:36:49.860 --> 04:37:09.060
I have Luchov with me from 9Z. Falcons, Munisey with me here today. JL with a gold mouse logo.

04:37:15.620 --> 04:37:19.540
Overpass. Three changes. This is what you're looking at, what you cook them with.

04:37:19.860 --> 04:37:22.100
Oh no. You've been playing more than once?

04:37:22.100 --> 04:37:24.020
Yes. Too much.

04:37:24.020 --> 04:37:26.580
Okay. Oh my god, I don't play this map, man.

04:37:26.580 --> 04:37:29.380
Okay, no battles, no battles.

04:37:31.540 --> 04:37:33.700
Barrio. The easiest of them all.

04:37:33.700 --> 04:37:39.140
The 100%, 100% of the 100% they're barrels on the left are missing.

04:37:39.780 --> 04:37:41.460
Yes. Yep. Yep.

04:37:42.100 --> 04:37:42.660
Two more.

04:37:45.620 --> 04:37:46.660
I don't see anything.

04:37:46.660 --> 04:37:50.660
No graffiti, right?

04:37:50.660 --> 04:37:53.660
Help you. Okay.

04:37:53.660 --> 04:37:56.660
Something on the wall?

04:37:56.660 --> 04:38:00.660
Ah, okay. In the dildo.

04:38:00.660 --> 04:38:03.660
Ah, you're correct on that. On the pillar?

04:38:03.660 --> 04:38:04.660
Yes.

04:38:04.660 --> 04:38:08.660
Painting on the dildo pillar is missing.

04:38:08.660 --> 04:38:13.660
Painting on the dildo is what you wanted to say, but you quickly corrected yourself.

04:38:13.660 --> 04:38:19.260
yourself. I can't say it's against my rules. If I say you just say religion I know

04:38:19.260 --> 04:38:24.220
you're lying. I guess my PR training you know what I mean. Oh against the PR training okay

04:38:24.220 --> 04:38:28.780
but one more and it's very obvious that you're gonna be like what the hell. What the hell. I don't

04:38:28.780 --> 04:38:35.900
need to help you. And the looky barrels back graffiti is back something inside right in the

04:38:35.900 --> 04:38:43.500
middle or I'm mistaken. Nope. One more very obvious one. Crazy bro it's huge. Nasty. Like me.

04:38:43.660 --> 04:38:44.660
Sorry.

04:38:44.660 --> 04:38:47.660
This one's an added and moved, it would not normally be in this position.

04:38:47.660 --> 04:38:48.660
Oh my God!

04:38:52.660 --> 04:38:54.660
It's on site next to the sandbags.

04:38:54.660 --> 04:38:55.660
No.

04:38:55.660 --> 04:38:58.660
The graffiti behind is not...

04:38:58.660 --> 04:38:59.660
Where should that be?

04:38:59.660 --> 04:39:01.660
Yeah, where does it normally...

04:39:01.660 --> 04:39:02.660
Behind.

04:39:02.660 --> 04:39:03.660
Exactly, on the monster.

04:39:03.660 --> 04:39:05.660
On the monster, but the T-Site.

04:39:05.660 --> 04:39:09.660
You need to remove something that is not there normally.

04:39:09.660 --> 04:39:11.660
Like this thing close monster?

04:39:11.660 --> 04:39:12.660
Yeah, but where should it be?

04:39:12.660 --> 04:39:13.660
What should it be?

04:39:13.660 --> 04:39:16.460
I'm like, yeah, man.

04:39:16.460 --> 04:39:17.460
It's a monster, right?

04:39:17.460 --> 04:39:22.860
Ah, oh my God, it has to be opposite of a monster, like, towards the T side.

04:39:22.860 --> 04:39:23.860
Yeah, above the...

04:39:23.860 --> 04:39:25.660
Yeah, exactly, man.

04:39:25.660 --> 04:39:28.660
What is... oh no, oh my God!

04:39:28.660 --> 04:39:29.660
That painting on monster!

04:39:29.660 --> 04:39:30.660
Yeah!

04:39:30.660 --> 04:39:34.660
It's supposed to be above the monster tunnel.

04:39:34.660 --> 04:39:36.660
Yes, that's what it's called, the monster tunnel.

04:39:36.660 --> 04:39:37.660
Yeah!

04:39:37.660 --> 04:39:38.660
Not the monster wall, you know what I mean?

04:39:38.660 --> 04:39:39.660
Exactly.

04:39:39.660 --> 04:39:40.660
God damn it.

04:39:40.660 --> 04:39:41.660
That took me a little bit too long, so I checked.

04:39:41.660 --> 04:39:45.140
That was, that was, sorry chat, you're not streaming bro.

04:39:45.140 --> 04:39:46.140
Am I?

04:39:46.140 --> 04:39:46.980
That's not streaming.

04:39:46.980 --> 04:39:47.820
It's live streaming now.

04:39:47.820 --> 04:39:49.820
You're a chat that can get a W please.

04:52:41.660 --> 04:52:43.660
I

04:56:41.660 --> 04:57:02.020
Welcome back to PGL Astana, Spirits has speed run their way through to the grand final

04:57:02.020 --> 04:57:04.300
and now we're about to find out who will join them.

04:57:04.300 --> 04:57:06.860
Will it be Magic or Team Falcons?

04:57:06.860 --> 04:57:12.340
Before we do that though, I have a little message for real CS followers, the ones that

04:57:12.340 --> 04:57:14.260
have been watching for a long time.

04:57:14.260 --> 04:57:19.800
You've probably heard the story of the curse that Blair and I have on the second analyst

04:57:19.800 --> 04:57:20.800
on a table.

04:57:20.800 --> 04:57:24.700
Because it would appear in the last two years, every time you put Blair and I on a desk,

04:57:24.700 --> 04:57:28.780
the third person either cancels themselves or never works again.

04:57:28.780 --> 04:57:33.240
However, I knew it needs to point out that I believe the curse may be broken because

04:57:33.240 --> 04:57:39.960
Prof made it all the way through the group stages and he made an epic epic game

04:57:39.960 --> 04:57:45.200
yesterday in this arena and not once has he got cancelled yet. Well it's in

04:57:45.200 --> 04:57:48.120
tour was not done yet right we still have the finals taking place tomorrow so

04:57:48.120 --> 04:57:52.080
let's let's wait on that Sam but yeah no listen epic game I think that's what

04:57:52.080 --> 04:57:56.880
we'll have to touch upon yesterday listen I feel I was having some sleep I was

04:57:56.880 --> 04:58:00.480
having dreams of some of the rounds we saw in that particular match of a Prof

04:58:00.480 --> 04:58:06.840
What a game we're blessed. Yeah, I mean the adrenaline was high after that one and I feel like my position

04:58:07.120 --> 04:58:12.280
The cancel ability not high unless play you leave our messages from this morning or any other

04:58:12.600 --> 04:58:14.600
But that aside

04:58:20.360 --> 04:58:24.460
You wouldn't believe what's going on between the two of us it's very a lot of a lot of good stuff

04:58:24.480 --> 04:58:26.480
Yes, generally sharing our outfit

04:58:26.480 --> 04:58:31.000
I didn't want to know about that because I was like I didn't get the memo that we were

04:58:31.000 --> 04:58:34.240
tracing similar no one no one in here to me in that chair.

04:58:34.240 --> 04:58:38.560
Well the guy that used to do that is he's also cancelled so you know maybe we shouldn't

04:58:38.560 --> 04:58:42.200
be going down that path.

04:58:42.200 --> 04:58:47.600
Talking about the games today we have I was looking at the schedule it says Falcons Magic

04:58:47.600 --> 04:58:50.360
but I thought we saw that yesterday so what the hell is going on.

04:58:50.360 --> 04:58:54.400
Well played there I like that one I mean that is the truth though what is kind of funny

04:58:54.400 --> 04:58:56.800
We have to point out, obviously, we finished quite late last night.

04:58:56.800 --> 04:59:00.640
I think we were all in the shuttle, heading back to the hotel at like two in the morning.

04:59:00.640 --> 04:59:03.440
Delirious after a hundred rounds of counter strike.

04:59:03.440 --> 04:59:06.480
But one of the things that we all started giggling about is,

04:59:06.480 --> 04:59:12.240
we said, if there ever was a team that could lose in a semi-final,

04:59:12.240 --> 04:59:16.240
after the game we just saw, it would be Falcons.

04:59:16.240 --> 04:59:17.360
Yeah, I can see that.

04:59:17.360 --> 04:59:23.280
But listen, coming into this match, I know what's been happening with Carrigan's face recently.

04:59:23.280 --> 04:59:29.760
every losing it virtually everyone even freaking fanatic or crying out loud right so that was it's been a rough time for them for sure overall

04:59:29.760 --> 04:59:32.640
But I feel like this is a different falcon what we saw from them yesterday

04:59:32.640 --> 04:59:33.960
I looked at some of the numbers

04:59:33.960 --> 04:59:37.600
I looked at all the games that falcons have played in the previous line-up

04:59:37.600 --> 04:59:43.460
They had where they start off a best of three with losing the first map and against like a top 20 a top 30 team

04:59:43.560 --> 04:59:48.000
They've lost they've only managed to pull up the reverse sweep only three times

04:59:48.240 --> 04:59:50.240
Which is kind of crazy to think about it

04:59:50.240 --> 04:59:53.960
So, honest to God, I feel like yesterday was the turning point for this Falcons team.

04:59:53.960 --> 04:59:57.440
So, sure, there is a chance, but I think it's minuscule.

04:59:57.440 --> 05:00:00.360
I mean, also just add to that, this year in playoffs,

05:00:00.360 --> 05:00:02.400
teams they have been losing to, uh,

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Paravision in the final of Bounty, they won a few games in Bounty,

05:00:06.160 --> 05:00:10.520
but other than that, any real arena, they have not won a game in playoffs.

05:00:10.520 --> 05:00:12.880
They lost to Paravision two times, they lost to Spirit,

05:00:12.880 --> 05:00:14.280
Spirit who they've been dominating.

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Falcons versus Spirit, Donk versus Niko and Monosy.

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Niko and Monosy always had the number.

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they go to an arena, they lose.

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That's why when people say, like, oh, you're glazing,

05:00:22.760 --> 05:00:24.880
care again too much, you look at the stats

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and all of these things, this kind of a performance,

05:00:27.280 --> 05:00:29.520
that this, he brings something they need.

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And it might be in tangibles, it might be tangibles,

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but without them, they wouldn't be winning that game.

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We can talk about the intangibles for days,

05:00:36.680 --> 05:00:39.160
we'll never know, but there is always a personality shift

05:00:39.160 --> 05:00:40.840
when you remove a piece at one

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and those personalities change.

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But there are some tangible things we saw yesterday.

05:00:44.680 --> 05:00:46.440
There were actual things happening in the server

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where we went, that could be the addition of Terrigan.

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Yeah, I mean, I think the obvious one

05:00:51.600 --> 05:00:53.960
has to be young old Kiyosuke, right?

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Like, he was being, he's been having his woes.

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We touched upon how his playoffs performances

05:00:59.160 --> 05:01:00.880
is more Kyosuke than Kyosuke.

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But yesterday, he was the difference maker.

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Sure, they were around this,

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and I had to throw it in, right?

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It's been in my head.

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I've been waiting, because I've done this.

05:01:08.800 --> 05:01:11.000
Blaine drops these things quite a bit in the green room.

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And I've been waiting, because I was like,

05:01:12.480 --> 05:01:14.600
it's gonna drop on the desk at some point.

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So I wondered when it would come out.

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No one did it, so I had to drop it down.

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Anyway, the thing is, yesterday, sure,

05:01:20.000 --> 05:01:22.520
there were rounds which he single-handedly threw

05:01:22.520 --> 05:01:25.800
for his team, but at the same time,

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there's so many impactful moments,

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and this is the game, by the way.

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This is a series where he put up

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one of the most impressive arping performances

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I have personally ever had a chance to witness,

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and despite that, he was just completely all out.

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This obviously starts across the entire tournament,

05:01:40.920 --> 05:01:43.880
but Kyosuke, I think that's the immediate effect,

05:01:43.880 --> 05:01:46.000
The immediate kaugen effect that we're seeing, right?

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I mean, it's easier to call him Kyosuke after he puts out a performance like this, right?

05:01:50.000 --> 05:01:51.000
Then it's kind of like a joke.

05:01:51.000 --> 05:01:55.840
But if it was two days ago, it would sound a lot meaner, right?

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And I mean, for me, definitely the main of the match yesterday, despite the fact that

05:02:01.400 --> 05:02:06.800
Monasi was obviously a superstar, and you have to look at the series all together.

05:02:06.800 --> 05:02:11.440
And Kyosuke was putting in a huge performance, in my opinion, his best playoff performance

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ever in his career and his first step towards greatness.

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And I was promised when this guy was signed.

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And especially as well considering how heavy the pressure was as well, right?

05:02:21.400 --> 05:02:24.920
When the chips were down, when it's looking super rough, he did deliver when he really had to.

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So I feel for me, that's him starting to finally break out of his cocoon.

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There's something very artistic and almost poetic about the fact that when you see this team on the stage,

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Kerrigan sits in the middle and he places these two young superstars on either side of him,

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Kiyosuke and then Manasi as well, who yesterday, my gosh, like, where has that, I know Manasi

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consistently does well on a stage, but it's been a long time since I think we've all been

05:02:51.600 --> 05:02:55.600
speechless and had our breath taken away by his performance and that was what he did yesterday.

05:02:55.600 --> 05:03:00.440
I mean that was the flash in his peak, right, first map, Molodon had his number, but on

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Nuke and especially on the T side, how difficult it is to up on the T side.

05:03:04.680 --> 05:03:08.040
When I think about the best offer you think about, Saiwu, he's not even going to pick

05:03:08.040 --> 05:03:12.340
pick up the AWP, some halves on the T-side, he's just an rifle, because it is so difficult

05:03:12.340 --> 05:03:17.020
to find picks, but this guy was finding a left-righted center, the Tessus interview that came out

05:03:17.020 --> 05:03:21.060
later, he was like, yeah, I didn't, like, he couldn't really explain what happened on

05:03:21.060 --> 05:03:24.940
the T-side, he was just like, I'm honestly, he picked up the AWP and somehow he just found

05:03:24.940 --> 05:03:29.300
openings round after round, and that made it for such an entertaining game of Nuke, and

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a game of Nuke that I don't think we'll see repeated maybe ever.

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It's also like, we had X-ray on, we had the radar on, and even then we were wondering,

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Wait, how did he even get the kill?

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One round comes to mind, which is still bamboozled to me,

05:03:41.940 --> 05:03:44.980
where he buys the AWP, kind of a four-spy from him,

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one deagle for his team, three glocks,

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and he gets four opening kills,

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and there are single-handedly, that was superlative,

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like an incredible showing,

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which I don't think even Monosy

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will be able to replicate anytime soon, honestly.

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That was once in a, I don't want to say a lifetime,

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but once in a blue moon performance.

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Do you think that like, if Zonic is watching these discs back,

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there is a level of frustration now,

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because he's been putting this team together for how many years,

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and then you just bring in Karrigan and suddenly we're like,

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oh, well, that's actually all you needed.

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It kind of feels a little bit like we're saying,

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well, hey, Zonic, you're not really needed.

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You just needed this good IGL.

05:04:20.020 --> 05:04:21.820
Honestly, if anything, I think he should be happy

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we're not mentioning it more,

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because he had most of these pieces for the longest time,

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and he couldn't make it work.

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He couldn't figure out the positions.

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He was trying with Kixxan.

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I mean, all of these players, in some ways,

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were decided by him, right?

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He had a big say in bringing in the players.

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Maybe Kyosuke wasn't as ideal, but that is a superstar player

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that you're bringing in a rookie of the year to be,

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which he wasn't.

05:04:45.380 --> 05:04:47.180
It was stolen away by Molotovic.

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But he was in control of this lineup.

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And if anything, seeing how good they look with Kerrigan,

05:04:52.180 --> 05:04:54.860
how some things are clicking that Zoni could never figure out,

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I feel like it's a bit of a rough look for him.

05:04:57.820 --> 05:04:59.460
It's also, I mean, yes, sure.

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I'm going to pick that up.

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He lifts the trophy, no one cares.

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That's not his goal.

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Of course.

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Of course.

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End of the day, if they're winning, then everything's fine.

05:05:05.100 --> 05:05:06.340
then they're going to be like, well, you know,

05:05:06.340 --> 05:05:08.780
is he really doing anything if they're winning so easily?

05:05:08.780 --> 05:05:11.100
The classic exit task conversation comes into play.

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Listen, it's different from being a coach.

05:05:12.660 --> 05:05:14.020
You might have the best laid plans,

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but then in the server itself,

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it's a whole different ball game, right?

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And I feel that's always the thing that gets overlooked.

05:05:18.740 --> 05:05:20.540
You can be the coach, you can have the best plans.

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You can try and tell them what to do,

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but when it comes crunch time, you can see them crumble.

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You can see them struggling, and that's a character thing.

05:05:27.500 --> 05:05:29.420
He's in the server in the moment,

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make telling them this is how we're going to approach things.

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Also, can't forget, you know, Tessa's mentioned in interviews,

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Well, I think Monosy as well where he's like just the that energy that vibe he brings to the team

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This is something we never saw in a previous iteration the Falcons right when the chips were done

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He could say everyone looking grim even you know

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You could see even kicks and be a little bit quiet

05:05:47.480 --> 05:05:48.860
It was on you trying to hype them up

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Kagan's gonna hype you up every single round till the game ends and I think that's a big difference

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I mean, this is one of the things I wanted to touch about because you talk a lot about in tangibles with with Karrigan

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but there are also some tangibles that he brought in into this specific line-up

05:06:02.580 --> 05:06:04.380
in setting certain roles.

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And what Tessus was saying after the win yesterday, he was like,

05:06:07.140 --> 05:06:10.820
yeah, we, Kerrigan decided Niko needs to be the closer.

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He's going to take that role, and Tessus is going to be,

05:06:13.420 --> 05:06:15.980
sometimes needs to be selfish, sometimes Niko needs to wait,

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but sometimes he'll be the sacrificial player as well.

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And it is a much clearer definition with Kerrigan and Kyosuke taking point,

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and then Niko being on the closing part of the game.

05:06:28.380 --> 05:06:31.580
Sometimes kinda invisible, but sometimes doing the key stuff.

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Okay boys, I think we've glazed Falcons enough.

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Time to move on.

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Let's talk about magic now.

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A team that came into this,

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I think this was their third LAN as a team together.

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And now they are here in the semifinals.

05:06:46.780 --> 05:06:48.980
I mean, I love the line that's groaning used

05:06:48.980 --> 05:06:50.860
where he said it's not a miracle, it's magic,

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but does the magic run out now?

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I actually was looking at some of the numbers, crunching some numbers, lying my head, wondering what I'm going to be wearing, and I'm like, all right, I want to take a look at how many land games, not big event games, how many land maps that these young four or five players have played, combined in total, not the lineup, right?

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And then I compared that to Karrigan, and the difference was just ridiculous. I think Magic combined, they have like 220 maps played, land maps played, in the entire careers, total up in different teams, different lineups.

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Karaklan's got about 2,000 just by himself. Not bringing in Niko, not bringing in Tessus and all these guys.

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So when you're talking about just the Gulf sheer disparity and experience, I don't think I've ever seen something like this.

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I mean, that is true, but Moon is playing on LAN every weekend because he is in Kazakhstan.

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But it's not HLTV?

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It's not, it's not. But there is also something to, I don't know, it's not the same, it's not the same, it's not the same for sure.

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but I want to say there is a certain element that these young guys are bringing to the table

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that does show that in some ways they don't care.

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Moon, he said it in a quote, he's like, yeah, our internet is so bad that we can't really play online,

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so we just play local LAN tournaments all the time and we get experience like that.

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And obviously it's a completely different ballgame playing in front of thousands of people

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and playing in a little LAN cafe in Almaty, but it does really feel like they brought something

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from bad fearlessness and left it on stage yesterday against 9z. Hopefully they can do

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something similar against Falcons. You know what sound this reminds me of? There's a certain player,

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the first Kazakh superstar and I'm sure everyone remembers. Also a major winner is one of the form

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of Adren, right? He came onto some of his old guys radar back in 2005 WCG when it was Counter

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Strike Source. No one really talks about that game but still he placed second in the tournament WCG

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coming out of nowhere and that was the recurring trend for all the players in this country and

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how much they struggle when it comes to the ping and it's not something you can fix you can't

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fix ping it's just pure distance it's pure geography right but the fact that we're still

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finding such a healthy land culture here the playing amongst themselves where we're finding the

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likes of a moon the likes of a Maldodoi the future of counter-strike in this country is bright.

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I think back now to last year and the buddhapest major and and what we saw from

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Karrigan leading phase and how in the group stages against lesser known teams

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Pretty dismal and then yes

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They go on to make the final when they when they play better opposition it drastically improves

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And then I think about the phase we've seen in the last few months having to go to these small lands and really

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Struggle against these tier 3 tier 2 teams

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Magic is one of those teams. You don't know what you're getting from them

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There's no protocols in place, it's kind of just an empty space.

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Maybe Karrigan's kryptonite? Could it be?

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I don't want to say there's no protocols, but it's pretty much outside of the box of regular Counter-Strike,

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modern meta or what the top teams play. They're really happy to do whatever they feel like,

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can give them a win in a certain moment.

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And we saw against 9C how it worked sometimes, and then how it would backfire completely.

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The thing is, I think what can help Falcons here is they have a back room staff that is huge.

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That can actually even, you know, before they were back in the hotel, start preparing for Magic and get, you know,

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get Sonic and Keregan a full brief of what's going on.

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How much time? Let's be realistic. I know it's time we all got to bed.

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Those players hadn't even eaten. How much time, realistically, have they actually had to prepare for this matchup?

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That's hard to say, but I think I agree with Prof. I think there's a very fair point you bring up where you know

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They're like listen, you're gonna have a backup stuff and tell you this is what you're gonna

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This is what you're gonna do, but if I'm faculty's coming in you're not over prepping for this matchup

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You're not gonna be looking at magic demo even if you had time you're not going to be going in deep to see oh

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This is complete bullshit. We don't know what the hell they're doing right?

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You don't want to deal with that just go in with your game plan

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You are the better team you have the stars you have the major winners you have everything going for you

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You're coming in as a favorite and they should be playing this game like they are the favorites

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Do you think that will?

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It should.

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Yeah, I mean, for me, Magic have an opportunity to do something very funny.

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I know it, right?

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It could happen.

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It could happen.

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It's not going to happen.

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It would be the funniest thing ever.

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It would be such a 180 in the community after what Falcons brought yesterday,

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the win against Heria, that's super memorable.

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It would just put such a damper on all the mood.

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And it would definitely take away from that game that we watched yesterday.

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They're now saying like, game of the tournament, game of the year, but if that's, you know,

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if they just lose now, what do we make of it?

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Falcons hate watches, you just gave them a little bit of hope that might be crashed in

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a little bit.

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Okay, we've had a lot of fun here, but the real fun is happening on the stage.

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Let's go check it out.

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Salam Astana!

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Our next semi-final game is about to get under way, and for one team, they are massive underdogs.

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The magicians, by name, by nature, are players who have shown that they can fight their way

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up.

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But this is their toughest test yet.

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They play a game of chaotic counter-strike, but this is also where their opponent thrives,

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and that is what they must be careful of.

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away they deserve your respect for getting this far so please make some

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noise put your hands together it's MAGIC!

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And on the other side, we have a team that yesterday played what could have been better.

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And on the other side, we have a team that yesterday played what could be a grand final.

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They played the best game we've seen so far this year, with a new leader, Manasi doing

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the unthinkable.

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Kioski looking stronger than we have seen him.

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But they are still two games away from the goal and lifting this trophy.

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they know better than many other teams that it is certainly not a given to win

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even against opponents they are favored against. So let's hear it for Team Falcon!

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AW, come on join us up here, everyone else can get down to their seats.

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Nico, a smile on your face as you enter this stage, but I've got to ask you, how much did you sleep?

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How did you reset in terms of how crazy were that adrenaline and everything that was flowing yesterday for that game?

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Yeah, it was definitely one of the craziest games I have ever played.

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It was too intense and obviously we tried to get as much rest as possible.

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I got enough sleep, I feel rested and I think it's important that we put a game behind us

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and we just collect the confidence from yesterday and we need to bring the same energy that we had yesterday,

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maybe even more. But we are feeling very good.

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First being for us and the players this season as well, so we are feeling good so far.

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So far.

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I know it was only one game on the stage, but it is a game with Karagun.

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Is that the difference that's being made already?

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Is that what you would quantify as?

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Or is there more to it that you might be able to explain?

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I mean, I think Finn is known for shining on the stage.

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He definitely brings different type of energy

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than any other player we know that he strives.

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And he's here to help us to get over the edge.

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And he did an amazing job yesterday.

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He kept us in the game.

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And yeah, we have full trust in him.

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He has full trust in us.

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And it's good to share a stage with him after eight years.

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Playing with Karrigan after 8 years of break-up, Karrigan gives a lot of team, especially in terms of energy, ideas and calls.

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That's why he gave a lot of impact for yesterday's victory.

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even if maybe they're not as big known names, they can certainly prove to shoot hard and be difficult to play against.

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Yeah, I mean, they have a really impressive run, you know, it's not easy coming, I believe, all the way from qualifiers.

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There are 0-2 down in group stage, so they show some very good resilience so far at this event,

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and we can't underestimate them at any point in the round.

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Yes, as you said, they can bring some chaotic CS, but we try to prepare as much as we can for it,

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This is also very, very striking, at least with yesterday, hopefully, with today, and yeah,

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just hoping maybe for a little less rounds today, so you can get some good rest tonight.

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I'm joking, I just hope it's going to be fun, it's going to be very fun.

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AW, following on from that. The chaos that we see from your team and how you guys play,

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how does it work, who is making the calls? We know Sv8 is the leader, but how much input,

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how much of the other team members are being vocal throughout this?

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I would like to say Salam Astana!

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I asked how many...

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How many impacts your teammates have had? How many did they have yesterday? How active were they?

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Oh, we have all the active teams, and I think everyone has an impact on this victory.

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I don't know what else to say. Today will definitely be an easy game for Falcons, and we will try to win them.

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For everyone on the team, this is the biggest stage, the biggest moment.

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It's the biggest team these players have ever faced up against.

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What mentality needs to be brought to this game? How do you handle all of that?

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How do you manage to get on stage and play against one of the strongest teams you've ever met?

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How can you prepare for that and what do you need to do to win?

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I think we don't have a choice. We have to play with them to death.

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And this is all our mentality, just playing every game.

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in magic now let's find out

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okay okay but what about falcons

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that's that's hard that's kind of close try again okay

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And what about Falcons?

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Alright, what I need from everyone here though, you're going to help me out with this crystal

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mate, to make sure everyone understands, we're going to cut our way through this and get

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ourselves closer to the game.

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Let's go!

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Let's go!

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I just really quickly, I mean two shoutouts. One, PGL for the Sun and the Lightings that I've seen in the stadium. What a way to just make it rock before the game.

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And also two to Crystal May, because now we have that translation, we can get a little bit more out of it.

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I mean all we got is this is a deathmatch, but there you go, I mean at least it's more than most.

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Also, what is the banks joining us for karaoke? That voice could go hard.

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That was some crazy sustainment.

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Actually, that was a Linkin Park, you know in the end. Yeah, you could do that. I do like the I do like what you you know

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Some fighting words here. I like that from a deputy is not like yeah, that's all for the good games

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I know we're gonna get that much baby. So he's saying fighting talk, but where was the last time you heard me gurgle

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It's gonna fun day like they look excited to play counter-strike the game

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Joy has a way of returning

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I saw my thoughts on Falcons after Kerrigan joined the lineup and Niko reunited with him.

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He says eight years, seven and a half years since their last playoff game together.

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It was a loss to Liquid in 2018, but yesterday I think they mended a lot of the old wounds.

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Okay, the video is coming up, but let's be fair, how much are we actually putting into this?

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There's one question.

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We don't know anything about these two.

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Do Magic try something weird here, right?

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Go for an August.

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Go for an August.

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This is the only question I have about the Vito, but that ancient...

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Alright, no. They look good yesterday on it, right?

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I do believe it's becoming a drug magic.

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I'd be extremely surprised if Falcons went with Mirage, right?

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Even though Duster makes a little bit more sense,

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I guess it's going to be a bit of a shake hand on Mirage.

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I don't see magic banning it out,

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and I do believe Anubis should be banned out by Falcons.

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They really would not be looking to risk anything on this.

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So a map pool, which I think if I'm magic, you're kind of happy with this.

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Yeah, actually going to Inferno for the last.

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I think that's kind of nice because Mirage has been a staple for Falcons,

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even though it has been really good for magic.

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They also showed a lot of weakness and readability against 9z,

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who dominated them on that map.

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So a bit of a curve wall maybe there at the end,

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but I think Ancient Dust 2, Inferno and Mirage, those were the four maps

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and it wasn't going to be like a big surprise.

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I would have loved to see a curveball of Anubis being thrown in, even though the only wins Magic has.

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It's against lower hero position, but it's not a map that Falcons historically liked a lot or won a lot on.

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I'd never really liked it, I guess, and they had so little time together,

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but I think they just wanted to go with what they know and what they practice rather than being completely random.

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They're not being gimmicky, and here's the thing though, Sam, there's a problem.

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I said they like dragging their opponents down into the mud and wrestling, but they got mud wrestling champs on the other side, right?

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You've got Karrigan, you've got Modesty, you've got Nika, so it's not going to be easy for these young Davids here.

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Can we just also give a little bit of props to Tessus, who I think yesterday was great.

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I still think the comments that I see where they say we need one more superstar, they should get rid of him.

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Hello, that guy is a workhorse of note.

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I said that quite a few times, but also I love this as a human being, I love him as a player.

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I just think he's in such an unenviable position with the expectations that Falcons has.

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And also the fact that this guy has been changing roles every six months,

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because whoever new comes in, it's like, oh, well, Renee, now it's your turn to make space for this guy.

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And it's really difficult. And now he's again finding himself playing, he's playing beyond us too.

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He said he's dying in a way a professional player should never die.

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and then on Mirage as well, so it's a tough adaptation.

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I don't know what world we're living in,

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because I'm starting to feel a little bit like a Falcons fan.

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So there we go.

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I know that the Kazakhstan audience might be concerned.

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They've already taken down Molotoy.

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Moon, another Kazakhstan player,

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stands in their way before they can make the grand finals.

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Let's find out if the Falcons are going to do it.

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One of the biggest underdog stories

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we've ever seen on a stage in Counter-Strike,

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Magic with local Kazakh moon all the way from the online open qualifier now to the semi-finals taking on team Falcons

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This is David versus a team of Goliaths a superstar stacked roster in Falcons versus a squad that shouldn't even been here

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I mean the best team they beat was 9z to get to this point. So for the idea of magic

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There's no expectation for Falcons. It is steady. So it's time to see if they can deliver once again

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the game. It's been the brand

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of CS the magical played

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throughout the groups and into

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the playoffs. And it's chaos

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that Falcons look to instill in

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that quarterfinal yesterday.

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They thrived in it.

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Promising start here in the

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pistol. They've got themselves an

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an MPB site. If you can get a couple of comfort rounds early on, that would really help quell

05:27:32.240 --> 05:27:40.800
any nerves you have ahead of this semi-final. Hawkins on for the retake, but a lot of space

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has already been taken away. Asfalt gets out with the first, Monocy will start breaking

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through on these goal foretters. Talk about a hell of a start for Monocy, three for him,

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It's down to this 1v1.

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This is the kid AW knife, Paul's knife sound.

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Oh, he'll stab him to death.

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This star is heavy.

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What a way to open.

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AW studied the blade.

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And maybe fans of Falcons here, but I think the arena

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are going to enjoy every round.

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The magic pick up, it's the underdog story.

05:28:16.960 --> 05:28:18.260
It's hard not to love.

05:28:18.260 --> 05:28:23.760
They have the home crowd hero of the Molotovs elimination.

05:28:23.760 --> 05:28:32.760
And so AWP, that single most experienced piece of magic showing up when they need him here in this pistol.

05:28:32.760 --> 05:28:38.760
Boon has brought a lot of energy to these games of magic, especially on the stage.

05:28:38.760 --> 05:28:45.760
They were taking for a ride against 9z, it was high, low and then a high again to finish off the job on this very map.

05:28:45.760 --> 05:28:49.760
And they will beat them in the middle, ace for Tentie in the second round.

05:28:49.760 --> 05:28:53.760
This semi-final has kicked off.

05:28:53.760 --> 05:28:55.760
We said to expect chaos.

05:28:55.760 --> 05:28:56.760
Knife kill already.

05:28:56.760 --> 05:28:58.760
Ace in the second round.

05:28:58.760 --> 05:29:00.760
What's next?

05:29:00.760 --> 05:29:04.760
I don't know, but I'm here for it.

05:29:04.760 --> 05:29:09.760
A right smile on Magic's coach.

05:29:09.760 --> 05:29:12.760
This whole event likely felt like a bit of a fever dream for Magic.

05:29:12.760 --> 05:29:15.760
Let's not forget, they would just stay game away from elimination

05:29:15.760 --> 05:29:17.760
all the way back in the groups.

05:29:17.760 --> 05:29:20.680
Two, having to come back for an 0-2 down,

05:29:20.680 --> 05:29:22.760
backs against the wall the entire time.

05:29:23.840 --> 05:29:25.300
And now they're in the semis,

05:29:27.800 --> 05:29:29.520
playing not just any roster,

05:29:31.080 --> 05:29:35.100
the multi-million dollar super team Falcons project.

05:29:36.440 --> 05:29:38.440
Very nice to see them get off to a good start, right?

05:29:38.440 --> 05:29:40.640
At the end of the day, they are still underdogs,

05:29:40.640 --> 05:29:42.160
but giving them a fighting chance

05:29:42.160 --> 05:29:43.840
with his pistol getting converted,

05:29:44.840 --> 05:29:46.800
not even the T side, calling their own shots.

05:29:46.800 --> 05:29:49.220
They didn't seem nervous in their quarter-final.

05:29:49.220 --> 05:29:53.100
That's one thing that they work in their favor on a C though.

05:29:53.100 --> 05:29:56.420
Reddy and Middle, it is a clash and a bash for the Falcons,

05:29:56.420 --> 05:29:59.000
and they come up ahead chasing down onto Niko.

05:29:59.000 --> 05:30:00.100
He wants that fight.

05:30:00.100 --> 05:30:01.200
He will deliver dead.

05:30:01.200 --> 05:30:06.180
AW takes the trade or picked up in a 2v2.

05:30:06.180 --> 05:30:07.860
Chaos ensues.

05:30:07.860 --> 05:30:10.340
And they're going to try to get weird with it around this smoke.

05:30:10.340 --> 05:30:11.460
Good timing found.

05:30:11.460 --> 05:30:12.900
Heals for AW at the back.

05:30:12.900 --> 05:30:14.780
And we'll go on a double up.

05:30:14.780 --> 05:30:16.540
Karagan doesn't need the help there.

05:30:16.540 --> 05:30:18.540
gets it done on his load soon.

05:30:20.640 --> 05:30:22.040
Oh, Synergy's back now.

05:30:22.040 --> 05:30:24.240
And then Sonic's struggling with the fistbombs, but...

05:30:24.840 --> 05:30:26.040
No problem now for Falcons.

05:30:26.040 --> 05:30:28.640
They had enough rounds on this very stage yesterday.

05:30:29.040 --> 05:30:31.840
A hundred round best of three.

05:30:32.540 --> 05:30:34.540
With over times aplenty.

05:30:39.840 --> 05:30:42.240
So Falcons break in early in this game.

05:30:42.240 --> 05:30:45.040
No celebration for Magic. Their money is on notice.

05:30:46.540 --> 05:30:49.540
The late mid pop last round was ready for a three strong.

05:30:49.540 --> 05:30:52.540
It's time they play towards their bombsites.

05:30:56.540 --> 05:31:01.540
I don't know about you, but I think in a underdog matchup kind of as apparent as this one.

05:31:01.540 --> 05:31:05.540
If you're magic, you want to kind of win with almost shock and awe, right?

05:31:05.540 --> 05:31:10.540
I don't think in a long game, if we get something even close to resembling to what we had yesterday,

05:31:10.540 --> 05:31:13.540
that's where things can fall apart very, very quickly.

05:31:13.540 --> 05:31:20.160
This is the youngest team of the entire playoffs, hands down the least experienced squad in this type of environment,

05:31:20.160 --> 05:31:24.820
up against a team of veterans, really, with the exception of Kiyosuke,

05:31:24.820 --> 05:31:31.180
even then, you think about his rise, all the hype around him, feels like a young veteran in many ways.

05:31:33.740 --> 05:31:37.580
At the info, spotted on the ramp, the Falcons with a Flock,

05:31:37.580 --> 05:31:41.140
Oh, middle-loss, that's a bit awkward, they can just abandon ship.

05:31:41.140 --> 05:31:45.740
Back to the bomb site with you. Falcons in this 4-on-4 will stay moving.

05:31:45.740 --> 05:31:47.240
We commit in the cave.

05:31:47.740 --> 05:31:50.240
Magic outside of B with that bomb.

05:31:54.940 --> 05:31:59.740
With Monosy, back on the A side, Falcons are fine to play heavy on B.

05:32:01.340 --> 05:32:06.140
Tenty found that mid-pick. There is fear of a lurker. Right now, only two players in this site.

05:32:06.140 --> 05:32:16.140
He block is nice from Tess as a means for they're going to try and come through it gives him a bit of an edge in these fights huge multi-kill for Tess as and you'd like to think that's done enough.

05:32:17.140 --> 05:32:25.140
And he might have been ace to his name already, but he's in no fighting shape here six points of health shot away from death. It's the or to face him first.

05:32:26.140 --> 05:32:27.140
That needs to do it.

05:32:29.140 --> 05:32:31.140
Honestly doesn't need to overthink that one there.

05:32:31.140 --> 05:32:38.700
that one there. You told us all the work for him. And so an early equaliser here out of the Falcons, a shut down for

05:32:38.700 --> 05:32:43.980
Tessus right inside of the group stages. I was getting a little worried sometimes on ancient because when you see that this

05:32:43.980 --> 05:32:52.140
B site has caragon and Tessus on it typically. It's, you know, not the strongest pieces of Falcons right now. It's okay.

05:32:52.140 --> 05:33:00.380
Getting very involved on this B site, though, at least Tessus puts on a big double kill to hold down. And he was for

05:33:00.380 --> 05:33:05.020
sure a surprise factor in that series yesterday in very limited positions put

05:33:05.020 --> 05:33:09.020
on a lot of multi kills. I think he bailed Falcons out of so many rounds.

05:33:12.020 --> 05:33:16.660
We saw teams try to abuse that people on site in the group stages.

05:33:16.660 --> 05:33:18.380
Maybe Magic will do the same.

05:33:18.380 --> 05:33:31.220
Let's see what type of honesty we're getting in this semi-final.

05:33:31.220 --> 05:33:32.860
Is it going to be a slow start?

05:33:32.860 --> 05:33:37.020
Omri is to build up into it or does he just hit the ground running right away?

05:33:37.020 --> 05:33:39.140
A couple of swings and misses here.

05:33:39.140 --> 05:33:43.020
It's all the magic way back here in Maine.

05:33:43.020 --> 05:33:44.940
I think still you've had that all fire off.

05:33:44.940 --> 05:33:45.940
You know who's wielding it.

05:33:45.940 --> 05:33:47.940
You know who you're going into.

05:33:48.940 --> 05:33:50.940
Huge kill out there towards mid.

05:33:51.940 --> 05:33:52.940
Tensy's feeling it.

05:33:54.940 --> 05:34:01.940
Mechanics have really shined for Magic. In the group stages that was one thing. Keeping it up in the playoffs has been nothing short of impressive.

05:34:04.940 --> 05:34:09.940
Malcon's have reclaring that this timing is awkward. If Magic were to just walk out right now, they're going to have a lot of space.

05:34:09.940 --> 05:34:14.940
Converting this round is a whole different question. But element of surprise perhaps in their pocket.

05:34:15.940 --> 05:34:19.780
One of the problems you're going to have here is, where do you go when you get the site control, right?

05:34:19.780 --> 05:34:23.140
You kind of want that donut space, but it's occupied.

05:34:23.580 --> 05:34:29.220
Monacee sits back here with the AWP, and he's anticipating, well, they want this area, they want this space.

05:34:29.220 --> 05:34:31.140
He's just going to try and hold on to it.

05:34:31.780 --> 05:34:35.660
And if you just get trapped in at the site, it feels very claustrophobic.

05:34:36.100 --> 05:34:38.260
You don't really feel that there's many places to hide.

05:34:38.260 --> 05:34:41.860
Monacee's AWP continues to cut through this post plot.

05:34:41.860 --> 05:34:45.860
The rest of his team show up and it's only AW with this eagle.

05:34:46.860 --> 05:34:47.860
Shot won't connect.

05:34:47.860 --> 05:34:51.860
Big multi-kill for Monosy, and Tess says mopping up two more on that retake.

05:34:51.860 --> 05:34:52.860
It's not a problem.

05:34:52.860 --> 05:34:56.860
Yeah, so it's steady. Monosy goes fishing, and all magic takes the worms.

05:34:58.860 --> 05:35:04.860
Easy round for the Falcons, despite conceiving A, able to pick it up clean and clinical in that retake.

05:35:04.860 --> 05:35:07.860
Leave this game three to two, three straight rounds on the CT side.

05:35:07.860 --> 05:35:10.860
We've got a four by now for Magic back on this T side.

05:35:11.860 --> 05:35:15.240
Moon has definitely been hit and miss with the AWP,

05:35:15.240 --> 05:35:19.040
but I enjoyed watching his recovery towards the end of the 90 game

05:35:19.040 --> 05:35:22.940
and a couple of massive kills, impactful kills and clutches

05:35:22.940 --> 05:35:25.700
towards the end of the game, even if his numbers weren't there,

05:35:25.700 --> 05:35:26.940
it was kind of undeniable.

05:35:26.940 --> 05:35:30.740
So, on this very map, Magic's pick, Moon brings out AWP in.

05:35:30.740 --> 05:35:31.940
He's actually sold it.

05:35:32.440 --> 05:35:33.600
No armor, so...

05:35:33.940 --> 05:35:36.540
And a stick of rifles, Magic's want to play combat.

05:35:36.540 --> 05:35:52.540
It's better than having an armless AWP, I think on T-side Ancient it's already a hard map for AWPers, when you consider the U-Till Falcons are throwing an elbow. It's a painful map as well.

05:35:52.540 --> 05:35:58.540
Hi Renne, we see him through the RAP side, has a teammate with him, carrying and hoping for the trade.

05:35:59.540 --> 05:36:08.540
Flash is good, and this is really trying to get some value out of this RAP push. AW feasts upon the Falcons.

05:36:09.540 --> 05:36:16.540
That smokes a problem, they would have loved it on short, gives Falcons Rift across, but doesn't matter what stage ups you down like that.

05:36:16.540 --> 05:36:23.540
That's a good stuff for magic,

05:36:23.540 --> 05:36:25.540
right? I would just repel a part

05:36:25.540 --> 05:36:31.540
for the course ramp take. Ends

05:36:31.540 --> 05:36:36.540
up being a birdie feast for a W.

05:36:36.540 --> 05:36:37.540
That's explosive element. Some

05:36:37.540 --> 05:36:39.540
of these magic players right

05:36:39.540 --> 05:36:44.780
That's an explosive element of some of these magic players, right?

05:36:44.780 --> 05:36:48.580
Hot hand, Pharisee. When they get one, they just go right back in.

05:36:48.580 --> 05:36:51.620
That's why they were set up as this chaotic team,

05:36:51.620 --> 05:36:53.580
this team that could catch you off guard,

05:36:53.580 --> 05:36:56.780
but Trep will only get you so far against.

05:36:56.780 --> 05:36:59.340
Magic will run at you. They will not respect you.

05:36:59.340 --> 05:37:03.060
Listen, they kept hunting for this AK. Niko is fouled.

05:37:03.060 --> 05:37:06.700
Magic maximum damage.

05:37:06.700 --> 05:37:31.220
I think how we're here in Astana Falcons benefited from a bit of relief and expectations, right?

05:37:31.220 --> 05:37:33.220
I think it's one of the things with this squad.

05:37:34.700 --> 05:37:36.700
With how much money has gone into it.

05:37:37.500 --> 05:37:39.500
The names you have in this roster,

05:37:39.500 --> 05:37:41.700
there's always been expectations and results.

05:37:41.700 --> 05:37:44.200
And they've at least been able to take some of that pressure off

05:37:44.200 --> 05:37:46.060
of the idea that they've changed IGLs.

05:37:46.060 --> 05:37:49.500
This is a bit of a warm-up, a chance to see where they're at.

05:37:49.500 --> 05:37:51.000
Good job, well done.

05:37:51.000 --> 05:37:53.200
You're doing great, Andrey, well done, guys.

05:37:56.700 --> 05:37:59.540
But in this game, they are the heavy favorites.

05:37:59.540 --> 05:38:04.940
And so those expectations are kind of back again. Let's see if that causes them to buckle in any way

05:38:04.940 --> 05:38:10.960
I mean after BC Fury in the way they did there's no way you can have any doubts on Falcons making the final

05:38:12.180 --> 05:38:15.020
How much for magic believe it might not matter?

05:38:15.820 --> 05:38:17.980
Eco shuts down a double in a main

05:38:21.620 --> 05:38:23.620
Turn of control

05:38:23.620 --> 05:38:26.860
Here are the AWP, Tensy not committing.

05:38:26.860 --> 05:38:28.420
Montesy's actually rotated CT.

05:38:28.420 --> 05:38:31.020
There's a gap in that push timing for Tensy.

05:38:31.020 --> 05:38:33.900
He walks out into the site, smoked behind him.

05:38:33.900 --> 05:38:36.700
Would he go? Would he really go all the way through?

05:38:38.700 --> 05:38:41.340
Putting a lot of trust in your read of this situation,

05:38:41.340 --> 05:38:43.300
the idea that you're here on a forward timing

05:38:43.300 --> 05:38:44.780
and the Falcon just aren't ready for it.

05:38:44.780 --> 05:38:48.140
Tensy, this is such a bullsy move.

05:38:48.140 --> 05:38:49.340
He goes check against...

05:38:49.340 --> 05:38:50.340
Oh, no!

05:38:50.340 --> 05:38:53.260
Eko has just saved Montesy's life.

05:38:53.260 --> 05:39:00.620
he hit his keyboard or something he just knocked his trigger that is so

05:39:00.620 --> 05:39:05.200
awkward that was the rounded up arm of his hand two entry kills the orb can't

05:39:05.200 --> 05:39:07.540
save them

05:39:08.660 --> 05:39:11.820
might be a save

05:39:11.820 --> 05:39:28.460
to get into that position.

05:39:28.460 --> 05:39:32.860
What a check for Nico, though. He still walks back in clear CT. I don't even know why he

05:39:32.860 --> 05:39:36.860
would do that. Realizing there's a very small window, small gap. They find a play retake

05:39:36.860 --> 05:39:41.660
on A, clearly based on the some of the moves we've seen from Falcons in the late round.

05:39:43.980 --> 05:39:49.260
So Warp still has the threads, will hold his own for a second, Montessy is chasing it down.

05:39:59.500 --> 05:40:01.260
Falcons still in full control.

05:40:06.860 --> 05:40:36.820
We've had noticeably less show voting from Carrigan, I would say, here.

05:40:36.820 --> 05:40:37.320
Yeah.

05:40:37.320 --> 05:40:39.860
Series yesterday didn't exactly give you a lot of breathing room

05:40:39.860 --> 05:40:41.300
to do so.

05:40:41.300 --> 05:40:43.740
Got more to focus on, I'd say, in this event.

05:40:43.740 --> 05:40:45.860
You mentioned the pressure being on or off,

05:40:45.860 --> 05:40:47.940
or wherever it's at, where Falcons are feeling.

05:40:47.940 --> 05:40:49.740
I mean, Nico was saying, coming into the playoffs,

05:40:49.740 --> 05:40:52.300
like, I don't think the expectations, maybe

05:40:52.300 --> 05:40:53.460
trying to diminish them somewhat,

05:40:53.460 --> 05:40:54.980
I don't think the expectations are on us

05:40:54.980 --> 05:40:58.220
to take the trophy at our debut event with the same game leader.

05:40:58.220 --> 05:40:59.820
Well, now they are.

05:41:06.820 --> 05:41:11.020
Tenshi trying to get out through middle, Faustin's looked to be in here.

05:41:12.220 --> 05:41:15.220
And it's a very commanding start to this game out in the eco.

05:41:15.220 --> 05:41:19.020
He's hoped to be hyperactive, very involved all across the map.

05:41:20.020 --> 05:41:21.620
Now he's given a bit more freedom.

05:41:23.220 --> 05:41:24.820
He's got all his own shots here.

05:41:25.820 --> 05:41:29.420
And then Kiyosuke put a real bit of hurt on this mid-take,

05:41:29.420 --> 05:41:32.020
and so you've shut Magic's early game down.

05:41:32.020 --> 05:41:37.540
That deep smoke from Karagin towards Cable also just threatened Magic so much.

05:41:37.540 --> 05:41:41.060
They don't have the confidence to walk through it and go to heaven.

05:41:41.060 --> 05:41:44.300
That would have been the only way to punish Falcons in that setup.

05:41:45.540 --> 05:41:48.100
There was a chance, but Svay doesn't take it.

05:41:49.940 --> 05:41:52.180
Holly in middle, Magic will recommit later.

05:41:54.940 --> 05:41:58.900
Feel like a more standard game of ancient here with the mid control.

05:41:58.900 --> 05:42:03.520
I see on the cross. There is a smoke to block him. Do you want to use it?

05:42:03.520 --> 05:42:05.240
So he's saving it for B.

05:42:05.240 --> 05:42:08.740
Oh, you can't afford to pay the monosy tax. You've seen the shadow.

05:42:10.740 --> 05:42:13.940
And if just trying to skirt by in mid, it's going to cost you a player.

05:42:13.940 --> 05:42:16.100
You don't have the numbers to deal with that.

05:42:16.740 --> 05:42:22.460
Monosy, sure that shot sails on past, but it doesn't do a lot for Magic here.

05:42:22.460 --> 05:42:24.260
Monosy's given a second chance.

05:42:24.260 --> 05:42:28.660
Heaven is no tax haven here for Magic. Monosy just knocks him out.

05:42:28.900 --> 05:42:34.900
You're seeing magic now sort of stumble into these setups.

05:42:36.900 --> 05:42:40.900
Modesty and Niko are picking them apart on this CT side.

05:42:40.900 --> 05:42:42.900
Honey now broken.

05:42:44.900 --> 05:42:47.900
If you're Falcons, you've got to be cooling, especially for that next round.

05:42:47.900 --> 05:42:49.900
Watch out for one of these fast calls out of spawn,

05:42:49.900 --> 05:42:52.900
because that's how magic got in this game to start off.

05:42:52.900 --> 05:43:00.900
It does feel like the best way is to catch Falcons off guard and overwhelm them when sight hits.

05:43:05.900 --> 05:43:09.900
Either that, or you go into Niko, Honesty and Kiyosuke in middle.

05:43:11.900 --> 05:43:12.900
I'd rather not.

05:43:18.900 --> 05:43:21.900
Kiyosuke has been very active on these B rotations.

05:43:22.900 --> 05:43:25.900
Always ready to help.

05:43:29.900 --> 05:43:31.900
No threats yet.

05:43:40.900 --> 05:43:42.900
Hero AK for Tenzi.

05:43:52.900 --> 05:43:54.900
They're going to take a swing at B.

05:43:57.900 --> 05:43:59.900
He says in Carrigan bombsite.

05:44:01.900 --> 05:44:04.900
Only one that's giving you any doubt for the Falcons.

05:44:04.900 --> 05:44:08.900
Price has no rotation. He can't stick it over here. ASAP starts to move.

05:44:09.900 --> 05:44:13.900
They'll get here in time, so now a triple stack and they're not playing back.

05:44:13.900 --> 05:44:16.900
They're not playing retake here. It's two players in the site.

05:44:16.900 --> 05:44:19.900
He says concealed and tucked it up close.

05:44:19.900 --> 05:44:28.060
and a convincing shutdown over this be hit. No worries for the Falcons. Two B site players

05:44:28.060 --> 05:44:34.900
with all five kills. Kiyosuke just there. Lay down some suppressive fire.

05:44:34.900 --> 05:44:38.380
Magical waiting for the smoke to bloom in cave so they can come out together. But yeah,

05:44:38.380 --> 05:44:42.700
the atmosphere, the quiet on the map, they haven't shown anything. It feels all too

05:44:42.700 --> 05:44:48.100
obvious Falcons move their third man into position. Barely required. Shutdown on the

05:44:48.100 --> 05:44:53.700
The eco now comes a fire out. If magic want to make anything of their map pick, it's got to start now.

05:44:55.780 --> 05:44:58.900
Pudas not had his AWP on his T side. That is a shame.

05:44:59.500 --> 05:45:02.340
His elbow smoked and monosy punishes again.

05:45:03.260 --> 05:45:08.220
He sat in that molotov. I don't think their smoke put it out. They tried to pre-smoke it. It didn't even matter.

05:45:12.500 --> 05:45:13.620
It's a monosy day.

05:45:13.620 --> 05:45:17.620
Lost like one of your five starter players here, right?

05:45:17.620 --> 05:45:22.620
Tenzy gone. Gonna look elsewhere. A-W tries to open a backdoor.

05:45:22.620 --> 05:45:25.620
Another route for Magic to use in this round.

05:45:25.620 --> 05:45:27.620
He's gained a lot of space out here towards B.

05:45:27.620 --> 05:45:29.620
Let's see how he's rotated over.

05:45:29.620 --> 05:45:31.620
They last saw him out here in middle.

05:45:31.620 --> 05:45:34.620
What were you expecting in the cave so quickly?

05:45:36.620 --> 05:45:38.620
It's got the early warning system with Karagan holding the other side.

05:45:38.620 --> 05:45:42.620
Although giving away that fight, Monacee now has a lot to bear in mind.

05:45:42.620 --> 05:45:44.620
He's getting backstabbed.

05:45:44.620 --> 05:45:46.620
Oh, he doesn't even check it.

05:45:46.620 --> 05:45:48.620
Honestly, he just gets to look ahead.

05:45:48.620 --> 05:45:51.620
Niko's walking right in to AW on this smoke.

05:45:51.620 --> 05:45:53.620
You can feel it.

05:45:53.620 --> 05:45:55.620
That's a really awkward team flash,

05:45:55.620 --> 05:45:57.620
but honestly, he tried to help.

05:45:57.620 --> 05:45:59.620
It made matters worse.

05:45:59.620 --> 05:46:01.620
Now he's got something to make up for.

05:46:04.620 --> 05:46:07.620
Honestly, getting pincid there on both sides of him.

05:46:07.620 --> 05:46:09.620
Mood's got his weapon of choice.

05:46:09.620 --> 05:46:11.620
And so you're left looking at Kiyosuke in this clutch.

05:46:11.620 --> 05:46:14.420
clutch, AWP on the line, Moon lets him have it!

05:46:14.420 --> 05:46:16.580
Dude, the patience for AW in that round.

05:46:16.580 --> 05:46:18.180
I think everyone realised what was going on.

05:46:18.180 --> 05:46:19.300
He's hiding in the smoke.

05:46:19.300 --> 05:46:21.060
Niko is calling, I'm walking into something.

05:46:21.060 --> 05:46:23.140
There's something going on, and that flash time,

05:46:23.140 --> 05:46:24.100
he couldn't have been worse.

05:46:24.100 --> 05:46:27.620
That smoke fading, Niko hung out to drive by Monosy.

05:46:27.620 --> 05:46:31.860
Of all people, I don't often see something like that occur

05:46:31.860 --> 05:46:32.660
between these two.

05:46:33.540 --> 05:46:35.220
And Monosy cannot make up for it,

05:46:35.220 --> 05:46:37.300
because AW refuses to give him the kill.

05:46:37.300 --> 05:46:38.100
They go together.

05:46:39.220 --> 05:46:40.660
Nice and magic, win that round.

05:46:40.660 --> 05:46:45.660
Now we can see these moves going to pick up an AWP, and now we get to see what he's made of on this T side.

05:46:46.660 --> 05:46:50.660
It's a really frustrating B-Hit. It could have ramifications.

05:46:53.660 --> 05:46:56.660
The thinker just comes of AWP running through the smoke.

05:46:56.660 --> 05:46:59.660
Magic of Fearless and Niko is counting on it.

05:47:02.660 --> 05:47:05.660
It's wild to see the type of player AWP is in this team,

05:47:05.660 --> 05:47:08.660
compared to only last storm in Paravision as well.

05:47:10.660 --> 05:47:13.940
You can see they've always played James Extreme style.

05:47:17.780 --> 05:47:20.660
They're here, very prone to risk-taking.

05:47:22.220 --> 05:47:25.420
Looking like a completely different guy to the one you've seen already.

05:47:25.540 --> 05:47:27.620
Space taken out here towards A.

05:47:27.740 --> 05:47:29.220
And this is a big round for Magic.

05:47:29.340 --> 05:47:31.420
If they're able to find it, chances splitting in half.

05:47:31.540 --> 05:47:33.500
Falcons won't have a lot of money going forward.

05:47:33.620 --> 05:47:36.180
Oh, they're not committing because they've got Tensin in position.

05:47:36.300 --> 05:47:38.540
They're hoping he can get a kill before they jump in.

05:47:38.660 --> 05:47:39.780
Look at that bomb.

05:47:39.780 --> 05:47:44.380
It's eventually going to edge its way over, but this is tentative here for Magic.

05:47:44.380 --> 05:47:46.740
Missed-owner smoke could be punished.

05:47:47.340 --> 05:47:49.780
Trying to goad Falcons into a peek.

05:47:50.780 --> 05:47:52.820
Trying to get that opener on Tensy.

05:47:53.340 --> 05:47:55.380
Hasn't come through, but offered nothing.

05:47:56.340 --> 05:48:00.220
So it's Niko, edge down around this smoke, taking the first down.

05:48:00.420 --> 05:48:02.180
Room will respond with one.

05:48:02.420 --> 05:48:03.780
Not alive for long.

05:48:05.580 --> 05:48:07.980
Just got to get past this other donut player.

05:48:07.980 --> 05:48:10.300
Niko dealt with cleanly.

05:48:12.780 --> 05:48:15.460
Burke is perfection for this post plan.

05:48:18.180 --> 05:48:19.500
Maybe play around that bomb.

05:48:21.860 --> 05:48:24.740
Honestly, Karigan all could round in front of them here.

05:48:24.740 --> 05:48:26.420
Money on the line for the Falcons.

05:48:28.940 --> 05:48:29.940
They want it.

05:48:32.540 --> 05:48:33.540
How bad?

05:48:33.540 --> 05:48:38.540
He's looking for a way in, Temple's side is Tensy to contend with.

05:48:38.540 --> 05:48:45.540
He's not biting down on these footsteps and so nothing given to the Falcons, even a hunt at the end for AW.

05:48:45.540 --> 05:48:48.540
He wants to make this expensive!

05:48:49.540 --> 05:48:54.540
And that's magic! Well on their way to break him back in at the tail end of this half!

05:48:54.540 --> 05:48:57.540
So many ways that round could go wrong for magic and I thought they already did.

05:48:57.540 --> 05:49:00.540
Tensy off the angle, Nico gets through that failed donut smoke.

05:49:00.540 --> 05:49:02.460
I thought that was going to be a punish for magic.

05:49:02.460 --> 05:49:04.340
They had to dig so deep.

05:49:04.340 --> 05:49:08.540
But man, do they make Falcons nervous, rooted in place,

05:49:08.540 --> 05:49:11.900
even in positions where Falcons know where magic are.

05:49:11.900 --> 05:49:12.940
They just won't peek.

05:49:12.940 --> 05:49:14.140
They will stay still.

05:49:14.140 --> 05:49:16.980
Why are they still?

05:49:16.980 --> 05:49:20.660
Why are they still?

05:49:20.660 --> 05:49:22.580
It's all going down at the start of today.

05:49:30.540 --> 05:49:33.200
Whoa, Karrion is very blind!

05:49:34.880 --> 05:49:39.700
Much to Falcons this May, because it's given up two of these openers out towards the cave.

05:49:40.640 --> 05:49:43.940
And again, you're left wondering, can Ilya be a difference maker?

05:49:44.440 --> 05:49:50.040
As we say, can he get called in a question? Falcons still not rotating over, they've got faith in the Monosy Orb.

05:49:51.940 --> 05:49:54.240
It's Monosy versus the World.

05:49:55.740 --> 05:49:59.040
They're gonna find him, up rampside, Tenzi with the entry.

05:49:59.040 --> 05:50:02.940
Magic just two kills away from splitting this half.

05:50:02.940 --> 05:50:05.240
What an explosive game for Magic.

05:50:05.240 --> 05:50:07.240
If they didn't get bogged down,

05:50:07.240 --> 05:50:09.740
you're trying to fight for middle for four rounds in a row.

05:50:09.740 --> 05:50:11.740
What this half could have been?

05:50:12.440 --> 05:50:15.240
But staring down the barrel of six,

05:50:15.240 --> 05:50:18.140
Moon waits patient, the Kazakh connects.

05:50:18.640 --> 05:50:21.440
Niko 1v4 not to be.

05:50:21.440 --> 05:50:24.540
And Magic are here to play in this semi-final.

05:50:24.540 --> 05:50:27.140
They are here to threaten the Falcons.

05:50:29.040 --> 05:50:54.040
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

05:50:54.040 --> 05:50:56.040
in the air.

05:50:56.040 --> 05:50:58.040
You just got to soak this in.

05:51:01.040 --> 05:51:03.040
Very surreal experience.

05:51:03.040 --> 05:51:06.040
The idea that already for someone like Moon, right, the

05:51:06.040 --> 05:51:10.040
Kazak player inside of this magic

05:51:10.040 --> 05:51:13.040
squad, he's made it as far as Molledoy ever has here in Astana.

05:51:13.040 --> 05:51:18.040
True. Wouldn't it be wild if he's the guy to go on and make the final first.

05:51:18.040 --> 05:51:21.040
Oh, we're getting on this early. Still a ways away from thinking about it,

05:51:21.040 --> 05:51:25.280
but this resilience they've showcased here right Falcons had them right where they wanted them

05:51:27.360 --> 05:51:31.040
for a little while it looked like they could have been just a one rifle round half right you

05:51:31.040 --> 05:51:36.320
were six three down hadn't had a lot of success since the pistol and then you get you your breakthrough

05:51:36.320 --> 05:51:40.720
yeah I mean this is magic's pick in the series but keep in mind the core of Falcons Nico

05:51:40.720 --> 05:51:50.000
Tess as a monosy are 23 and six on this map alone from early in 2025 this is not unknown ground

05:51:50.000 --> 05:51:53.080
to Falcons, this is a great map, they've even put win streaks together.

05:51:53.080 --> 05:51:59.400
So are they ready for this pistol, T side rush into a main fake deny by Bruce Jules?

05:51:59.400 --> 05:52:01.120
And they see the bomb outside of B.

05:52:01.120 --> 05:52:02.480
Magic won't fall for it.

05:52:02.480 --> 05:52:05.920
Flashback in, offers a kill, offers a chance.

05:52:05.920 --> 05:52:07.240
Falcons don't take it.

05:52:13.320 --> 05:52:18.280
Now that the kill is falling how they did, it's unlikely Magic have shuffled the defence around too much.

05:52:19.080 --> 05:52:20.600
Moon's making moves.

05:52:23.280 --> 05:52:26.680
With that push from Moon, it's allowed everyone else to move over here to B.

05:52:26.680 --> 05:52:30.440
Falcons are going into a stack. Missed U-Till in the pistol.

05:52:30.440 --> 05:52:31.960
Long angle left open.

05:52:31.960 --> 05:52:34.280
Inks on two. No kit.

05:52:39.880 --> 05:52:41.720
Gotta be perfect on these peaks.

05:52:42.680 --> 05:52:44.760
Ending time to Moon on his back stab.

05:52:44.760 --> 05:52:49.760
He'll now arrive with the door barrettas, putting pressure on Ramside.

05:52:49.760 --> 05:52:53.760
Only choice for Falcons is to battle forward, and Niko will take the space.

05:52:53.760 --> 05:52:55.760
Moon now needs the ace clutch.

05:52:55.760 --> 05:52:58.760
Talk about it, trial by fire.

05:53:02.760 --> 05:53:06.760
Forget the Moon, the Sun is set on that round.

05:53:06.760 --> 05:53:10.760
It's Falcons securing the pistol, three on five.

05:53:10.760 --> 05:53:13.760
Yeah, Carrigan knows how to play on a stage, he hears a bit of a pop from the crowd.

05:53:13.760 --> 05:53:18.480
apart from the crowd. He goes swinging out in that two versus one, but there is no stick in sight.

05:53:18.480 --> 05:53:24.480
There is no chance for magic, despite Moons' best efforts, some good dinks from Falcons' blocks,

05:53:24.480 --> 05:53:28.960
and Nico and Monacee swing long at just the right time, right before Moon can play.

05:53:29.520 --> 05:53:34.800
So that was a really nice try for magic, but it's not meant to be. They come down to a 4-spy in round 14.

05:53:34.800 --> 05:53:43.940
He's got his mid control flashes, Lee Falcons blind, you had to capitalize while you had

05:53:43.940 --> 05:53:47.100
Kiyosuke out in the open.

05:53:47.100 --> 05:53:54.660
Kiyosuke 3 intact, I mean hard to call him a playoff choker when he had.

05:53:54.660 --> 05:54:00.060
Game of his career yesterday showed up across every map of the series, even the one that

05:54:00.060 --> 05:54:02.060
Falkens got trounced on on Mirage.

05:54:02.060 --> 05:54:04.060
Look at AW and Moon.

05:54:05.060 --> 05:54:08.060
They've gone all the way through AMA, double push.

05:54:10.060 --> 05:54:14.060
Ready for one guy, sure, but you've got no idea AW's in behind enemy lines.

05:54:14.060 --> 05:54:16.060
You still need something on this B site.

05:54:16.060 --> 05:54:18.060
Even if spade can just stay alive, right?

05:54:18.060 --> 05:54:21.060
You can put some stock in this flank, you can afford to wait for it.

05:54:21.060 --> 05:54:23.060
So far away.

05:54:24.060 --> 05:54:28.060
They need some pressure, flank is still moving, but Falkens get that bomb down,

05:54:28.060 --> 05:54:30.220
and it just feels like an impossibility.

05:54:30.220 --> 05:54:32.220
Nico's even going to go back and check it.

05:54:32.220 --> 05:54:35.120
AW with one, punished from Tessa's out middle.

05:54:35.120 --> 05:54:36.660
This is getting scary.

05:54:36.660 --> 05:54:39.020
Ring around the rosy, dancing to the site,

05:54:39.020 --> 05:54:41.220
and Karagun back-to-back closes,

05:54:41.220 --> 05:54:43.960
denies clutches on this B site.

05:54:43.960 --> 05:54:45.620
All right.

05:54:51.620 --> 05:54:52.960
Kiyosuke may be struggling,

05:54:52.960 --> 05:54:57.320
but Karagun making up for it right now.

05:54:57.320 --> 05:54:59.320
Joint second top of his team

05:55:10.560 --> 05:55:12.560
They must say we're carrying it certainly feels like

05:55:13.560 --> 05:55:19.640
Individually, it's kind of a performance that they used to seem to grade over the course of the series right not uncommon for him to start off

05:55:20.160 --> 05:55:24.820
Looking pretty fine. It's by the time he gets about three that he's relying a lot more on the team

05:55:24.820 --> 05:55:31.100
So I think for now you can almost forgive the slowest off computer suitcase, but you can't do this all series long

05:55:31.100 --> 05:55:35.040
Well, yeah, the question is will there be three maps in this series? I think

05:55:36.460 --> 05:55:39.440
It's ancient just a requirement for magic

05:55:46.900 --> 05:55:49.800
But at the same time see a squad's on dust to

05:55:49.800 --> 05:55:55.800
based on the few rounds we've seen in this first half, I'm counting nothing out of this series.

05:55:59.800 --> 05:56:07.800
How can some stabilised looking for a three round lead here before the guns come back out?

05:56:08.800 --> 05:56:11.800
It'll be a good time just for Kiyosuke to get some kind of confidence building kills,

05:56:11.800 --> 05:56:15.800
try and build himself back into the series early on, only up against the pistols.

05:56:15.800 --> 05:56:22.800
pistols and be playing in tandem with Karrigan on that Mk10.

05:56:22.800 --> 05:56:39.800
Ambulance, blurring, running forward.

05:56:39.800 --> 05:56:41.800
Another triple from Karagin!

05:57:01.680 --> 05:57:08.480
This gun round is gonna tell quite the story here for Magic, whether they can hang or not in this first map.

05:57:08.480 --> 05:57:12.200
You've only got two more four-pies, and Falcons keep this up.

05:57:12.200 --> 05:57:16.240
Yeah, you can very quickly run out of runway here.

05:57:21.040 --> 05:57:23.000
Curious what type of a round we get from them,

05:57:23.000 --> 05:57:26.480
because we know this team prone to taking risks like the chaos.

05:57:26.480 --> 05:57:30.480
Do you feel the freedom, if you're spaded to call something like that,

05:57:30.480 --> 05:57:33.480
at this scoreline? Or is it going to be a bit more standard?

05:57:34.480 --> 05:57:37.480
I think if you're the Falcons, you're almost hoping for the latter.

05:57:38.480 --> 05:57:47.480
I think crazy off the rib, which is the 2-1-2, it's all that AA main aggression in the previous round.

05:57:47.480 --> 05:57:49.480
Maybe looking to go back to it.

05:57:49.480 --> 05:57:50.480
Honestly, put up on a boost.

05:57:50.480 --> 05:57:53.480
They're here ready for that, and that's one hell of an opening.

05:57:53.480 --> 05:57:55.480
You don't think twice about this one.

05:57:55.480 --> 05:57:58.480
They start looking to take the space here, moving up rampside.

05:57:58.480 --> 05:58:03.480
Honestly, to control these rotates doesn't stop the spillover, but Niko will.

05:58:03.480 --> 05:58:10.480
Good catch for Kiyosuke Ogre in cave, and this B site crumples under the weight of the Falcons.

05:58:10.480 --> 05:58:13.480
The opener from Monosy just rolls out the red carpet.

05:58:13.480 --> 05:58:18.480
That just feels like prep, right? That's the power that having support staff, having analysts can get you right.

05:58:18.480 --> 05:58:23.480
He pre-aimed for the jump spot. That must be something Maswell's doing along.

05:58:23.480 --> 05:58:25.480
Monosy's been told to watch out for it.

05:58:25.480 --> 05:58:32.480
Instantly boosts our first gun round, shuts down the B player, and Falcons just surge ahead.

05:58:32.480 --> 05:58:37.560
So a nice bit of homework paying off here for Falcon surely to find their 10th round

05:58:46.880 --> 05:58:48.880
Preparation pays off

05:58:48.960 --> 05:58:50.280
Magic

05:58:50.280 --> 05:58:56.800
You just want to play with this AWP on moon. You'll have to hold off just a kind of potent reminder as to why this is such a

05:58:58.200 --> 05:59:00.320
Underdog type matchup for magic

05:59:02.480 --> 05:59:07.980
difference in experience, difference in support staff. Hell, you look at the highest earning player on the Magic roster.

05:59:07.980 --> 05:59:15.180
It's AW coming in at $35,000 total in his career. I would wager Niko gets more a month in the Falcon.

05:59:16.580 --> 05:59:20.680
I would, yeah, I would take you up on that bet and you're onto something.

05:59:21.780 --> 05:59:24.880
Look at that for you, and that just instantly for the boost.

05:59:27.180 --> 05:59:30.580
We'll just slot into place here as Magic walking to crosshairs.

05:59:30.580 --> 05:59:40.580
Straight out middle here for Magic looking to fight this time they gave it up.

05:59:40.580 --> 05:59:45.580
Oh spotted on the jump careful, deep grenade to keep Valkyrie's honest.

05:59:45.580 --> 05:59:50.580
Getting out with relatively little damage.

05:59:50.580 --> 05:59:55.580
He goes to look for these kills, he's starting very strong at this map.

05:59:55.580 --> 06:00:01.400
Magic pullback.

06:00:01.400 --> 06:00:06.520
He's earned a lot of utility, establishing control of the head-middle.

06:00:06.520 --> 06:00:11.520
He has been good-standing with one smoke left. Moon holds for Monocy. Who's quicker?

06:00:18.520 --> 06:00:19.480
Gonna molly him out.

06:00:19.480 --> 06:00:23.480
Oh, the flash instead, rather. Pushes Moon back. Monocy gets the line.

06:00:23.480 --> 06:00:27.200
They mollyed themselves, they missed it.

06:00:31.700 --> 06:00:34.100
Hensie's thinking about getting aggressive.

06:00:34.100 --> 06:00:36.580
All this moon looking over his shoulder.

06:00:36.580 --> 06:00:42.700
A site's been completely vacated for magic. They're relying on the Reed here.

06:00:42.700 --> 06:00:47.140
Tess is looking for a smoke. He's meant to do an A fake, I guess, but he can't find a smoke.

06:00:47.140 --> 06:00:49.140
Someone's dropped, have they even dropped it?

06:00:49.140 --> 06:00:53.340
Oh, there it is, a bit late. It's going to get a C2 smoke here instead.

06:00:53.340 --> 06:00:57.740
30 seconds and Magic aren't buying it. They've still got three players on B.

06:00:57.740 --> 06:01:02.620
AWP starting to lean away and maybe Magic biting down on a single smoke player.

06:01:02.620 --> 06:01:03.900
How could he get?

06:01:03.900 --> 06:01:06.860
Speaks to the nerves, right? All it is is one piece of Util,

06:01:06.860 --> 06:01:10.620
but it's dragged the setup out of position and properly cleared the cave.

06:01:11.180 --> 06:01:14.700
House fade allowed to hang out there. It's Tessa is controlling these rotates,

06:01:14.700 --> 06:01:15.900
proven to be a nuisance.

06:01:17.100 --> 06:01:18.940
Now he's got to care about that heaven look.

06:01:18.940 --> 06:01:27.020
He connects on that shot, AW bought down low, and Matisse closing in cave side, doesn't even

06:01:27.020 --> 06:01:31.660
need to play it forward here. He knows Fade is in an uncomfortable position, looking for

06:01:31.660 --> 06:01:39.540
a clean sweep on this round. No chance to save, no money going forward. Falcons dominate

06:01:39.540 --> 06:01:47.020
on this T side. Just playing off each other so, so well. Everyone just one-two punch.

06:01:47.020 --> 06:01:50.460
No one making individual moves, no one getting caught off guard.

06:01:50.460 --> 06:01:54.100
Great jiggle for Tess's punish, it's that retake from flank.

06:01:54.100 --> 06:01:56.700
And Magic just can't get their foot in the door.

06:01:56.700 --> 06:01:58.500
At Pistol felt like the best opportunity,

06:01:58.500 --> 06:02:00.500
getting those advantages up on a main,

06:02:00.500 --> 06:02:02.540
but Falcons win out a 3v5,

06:02:02.540 --> 06:02:04.980
another on a hot streak on this T-side.

06:02:04.980 --> 06:02:07.260
Five straight rounds.

06:02:07.260 --> 06:02:09.180
Magic putting money in.

06:02:09.180 --> 06:02:10.660
An act of desperation.

06:02:10.660 --> 06:02:36.140
We get to really without on any area of the map in the second hall.

06:02:36.140 --> 06:02:38.940
mid-round activation.

06:02:38.940 --> 06:02:41.500
Magic feel like they've been flying blind in these rounds,

06:02:41.500 --> 06:02:44.700
so push down rampside, it's going to give them info.

06:02:44.700 --> 06:02:46.700
Info that they're in the wrong place,

06:02:46.700 --> 06:02:50.220
on the wrong end of the map.

06:02:50.220 --> 06:02:51.740
As you try and remedy this,

06:02:51.740 --> 06:02:54.380
you might go walking right into Niko.

06:02:54.380 --> 06:02:57.980
Start back in this corner of the cave.

06:03:02.620 --> 06:03:05.340
It's actually leaving.

06:03:05.340 --> 06:03:07.900
And Nico heard him drop, he's called to bomb back.

06:03:10.040 --> 06:03:13.100
Svay, might catch players here, but they know about his position,

06:03:13.140 --> 06:03:16.100
so they're going to be hyper-vigilant in this clear.

06:03:16.140 --> 06:03:19.100
4v3, and Magic pushed to the wrong side of the map.

06:03:19.140 --> 06:03:21.800
What a great mid-round call here from Falcons.

06:03:22.340 --> 06:03:23.900
He still needs to group and cover that bottom.

06:03:23.940 --> 06:03:26.100
They don't know, certainly, that he is clear.

06:03:26.900 --> 06:03:29.700
All they know is Magic have over-rotated, 30 seconds remain,

06:03:29.740 --> 06:03:32.900
and Magic are just rooted in place in the wrong place.

06:03:32.900 --> 06:03:40.820
have won this round. And it just feels rough, you know, you try to find solutions, that's

06:03:40.820 --> 06:03:45.640
faith that the captain looking for answers right? What in town a bit more info is how

06:03:45.640 --> 06:03:51.280
to approach that round as it really starts to grow desperate here on their map. And that

06:03:51.280 --> 06:03:56.740
information leaves him in the wrong place that. One noise heard from Nico over in the

06:03:56.740 --> 06:04:02.740
The cave just tees up Falcons to take that point and they get to do so with no resistance.

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Ego could have hunted that kill, he didn't need to, he just told his team to watch out.

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Threat of a retake here, but that smoke falls short.

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Magic will be walking away with their three rifles, Falcons onto that point on the magic pick.

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We're seeing great cons, and Falcon's not flustered at any point in this T-side.

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There was a window of opportunity, Magic certainly seized it in that first half, but past that point, is it one-sided?

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Falcon's don't need to worry about money, that's for sure, 12-6 up.

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And at this point, it's a fight for survival, you know, you no longer thinking about taking

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this map if you're magic, Balkans are right there ready to cross the finish line, they're

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eyeing up a grand final appearance.

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Far is there concerned, the big match was yesterday and I don't know if they came into

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this underestimating their opponents by any means, they've seen what magic are capable

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They know they hit hard, that's why this falcon squad was put together, they hit hard as well, clean trades out here in middle

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Kept to the advantage of magic, maybe a bit more before the door closes on ancient

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These are the rounds I want to see Falcons try and put together, see how they deal with a difficult situation

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Magic is not out of the woods yet, Monacy is still alive

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On this slide, Monacy just creeps right into the crosshair, it's an ICZ shot

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looking for the triple. He might have been

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carrying it at no challenge up against that AWP.

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Great to see Moon getting his highlight here on the stage.

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Showing up in his home country individually in a big way.

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But a near impossible challenge levied against Magic

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to find his six round streak into overtime.

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Full A rush for the Falcons.

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You're out of position. It's a test of your retake.

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Test of your protocols here in a high pressure situation for Moon.

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Will led to Hell helping hand.

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Hell of a shot onto Monacy.

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Karrigan backstabs closing in and he'll get his value from the captain.

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Okay.

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Tessa is clawing back even more ground here and the advantage flips around.

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They've got Karrigan isolated, they're not able to deal with him.

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Karrigan!

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Niko looking to deal the killing blow and there it is!

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Falcons!

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A decisive victory on Magic's map pick.

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And while this Cinderella story for Magic come to a decisive

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of clothes as Falcons and now a map away from those grand finals.

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I won't play Windu anymore.

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What's going on?

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Play your role, run its path.

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The human body was built to move, not directed to death in one singular posture for 12 hours

06:08:41.600 --> 06:08:51.600
of day. It's time your chair evolved. This is Secret Lab Titan Evo.

06:08:51.600 --> 06:09:01.600
ergonomically engineered for you. Gamers. Hybrid workers. Artists. Back in your every move.

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During the group stages of PGL Astana, Niko said in an interview that it was unrealistic

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to expect this team to lift a trophy here at PGL Estona.

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In fact, they said it was unrealistic to expect trophy lifts

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in the next few months as they get ready to change

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and adapt with their new IGL Karrigan.

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And then yesterday, they went to Toy with Furia,

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arguably one of the top teams in the world.

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They beat them, and now those expectations are there.

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There's no doubt in my mind that the crowd here in Kazakhstan

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and many people at home now expect this team to lift the trophy,

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but standing in their way is magic.

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And in this first map, Magic's pick, they make quick work of them.

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Yeah, I mean, like, I honestly had no doubt about it, in all honesty, right?

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Sure, Magic, they won the pistol round, where there's a knife in the smoke, little chaotic.

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And then there was a moment in the first half, when they rounded out, like, three rounds in a row,

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and you're like, okay, this is very reminiscent of the game against 90 yesterday,

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but switching over to the second half, the sheer gulf in the individuals,

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that's what's shown through, right?

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We're talking about modernity, profligate, from the tests, having great time.

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Niko. However, I want to touch upon Karrigan. People are talking shit about my man.

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But they're like, yeah, they're like, oh, he got frag, he got frag to save his life.

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I'm sorry, he was just popping off there, just getting all these kills while Kyusuke just had

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five, so it's good to see Karrigan flexing a little bit against weaker opposition, but I'm sure

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it's going to help his confidence as well, heading into tomorrow potentially.

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Yeah, and I mean, when you think about magic, I mean, that's one of the rounds that the Magic

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1 team fought from Monosy on Niko in a very winnable situation. As you mentioned, the kind

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of recovering at 6-6-1. Overall, pistols split equally 1-1, and the conversion

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were fine. 10-10, then the opening kills, clutch went magic's way. Like, there were

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there some things that were good for them, but at the end of the map, you look back

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and you're just like, oh, that's worth 3D in control throughout, and I want to give

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some more props for the T side, and then Scarecrow definitely slowed it down and

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just waited it out and made magic so uncomfortable. They are looking for info,

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they are looking for a duel that they couldn't find, and they are falling for

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or the simplest of fakes that were being thrown from Falcons.

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And I think that's, even though there's always been a caveat

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that it is against magic and all of that,

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Sam, just the fact that they were able to look so convincing

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and so calm and composed.

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And that's something we were talking about,

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Fioria yesterday.

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So yeah, very impressive performance from the Falcons.

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Can we just give a shout out to Moon?

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Obviously, this is his home country.

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He is the last Kazakhstan player standing here

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in this event and he was trying.

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And that's the thing, like he is really fragging out.

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We spoke a lot about how he didn't step up

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during the group stages, a very different story here in playoffs.

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Yeah, pretty strong performance on the CT side.

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Unfortunately, I don't think he got going that much

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because of just how out-positioned Falcons were.

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He wasn't really able to get that much impact.

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But overall, a good showing gives him some hope

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moving into Dust2, obviously, on Alper's paradise.

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Yeah, no, I think for Moon as well yesterday,

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even though it was super close game against 9C,

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we had a map where it was a little bit quiet.

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but overall Mirage comes to mind, for example.

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Not Mirage, I think it was on Dust2 as well.

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It's finding a lot of opening kills as well.

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So it's good to see that he's continuing to deliver

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in the arena, you know, the pressure reset,

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the pressure might get to him.

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So it's gonna be cool to see how he's gonna deliver

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in Dust2.

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Still looks like losing effort for me, Sam, again.

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I'm not trying to hate you, I'm a realist,

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but it's cool to see another Kylezak,

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our kind of shining under the bright lights.

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I do think we have to be realistic.

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And that is the fact that we've spoken about this before.

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We'll say it again, Magic has played

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total of three lands, including this one, as a lineup. They have never been in playoffs,

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and I'd argue that as a team, they have not played this level of competition.

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I mean, also there's one aspect about it that Moone spoke about in interviews previously.

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You know, the IGL and the coach of the team preparing in-depth, not sleeping, you can't

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really prepare for thousands that much. They don't have that much tape with Kerrigan.

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You don't really know what they're going to be doing to be able to throw in these curveballs

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that they have been very successful at doing in earlier games.

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So that's just a thing that they had to, you know, just be okay with.

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Unfortunately, they couldn't win on the individuals.

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And in the fog of war, they weren't able to find the right information once it was needed.

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And even if you're going to look at a table of Dust 2 from Falcons yesterday,

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are you really going to be looking at that map against Fury and be like,

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yes, that's what we're going to be trying to target?

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There is nothing to gleam from that.

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There is nothing you could take from that, surely.

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other than be scared of monosy.

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Yeah, I mean, I think everyone's scared of monosy.

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Okay, fine. Let's try to pretend to be a little realistic here.

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If they're going to be targeting something, I think Tessus,

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you know, he mentioned the interviews while he was.

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The B bombsite was a bit of a problem for the side of Falcons.

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And I feel like that's probably the only jink in the arm

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or they can try and, you know, take advantage of.

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But yeah, overall, just getting outclassed and honestly,

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there's no comment that, like you're being,

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you look at the names on the server against you as well.

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So yeah, it would be interesting though, Prof, because yesterday they were found out, they were kind of exploited on this particular map.

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Yeah, I mean, you're just touching on the B site, I want to touch on that a bit more for Falcons, because it's not like Kiyosuke and Tessus are bad,

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it's just about specific situations where they don't deal with it that well.

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I feel like mid-to-Bs are that area they're fine with, but actually being, even when they're in the position to just hold a B direct site hit from the tunnels,

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tunnels, they just don't connect in the right way.

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And that's been a problem for them.

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Similarly, as Maus, with Zelecs and Spinks earlier

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in the tournament.

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Yeah, I mean, if you look at the map over there,

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look at Tessus and Kyusuke.

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And we saw so many moments yesterday, for example,

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against Furia.

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They had the right read.

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They had three players on the B bomb site.

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And you had Niko tucked in towards a car position, right?

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And you're expecting them to kind of set up the trap,

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set up a crossfire.

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What does Kyusuke do?

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Sings out why.

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Just goes through a spray, into the smoke.

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And I get it.

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you're trying to kind of get a couple of multi-kills.

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Instead, if you play a little bit more smart,

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you set up a crossfire, peak on Niko's contact,

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you've won the round.

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Instead, that round led to overtime, right?

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And we saw the same mistakes being made by Tessus as well.

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So again, it's a bit of a learning experience,

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I guess, for Falcons.

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And what worries me for Magic coming into this map is,

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yesterday, they got to win against 9-Z,

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because they said they've been working a lot

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on the map overall, but that's 9-Z.

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And historically, it's a map that they have kind of

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struggled on quite a bit.

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So if you take the two teams out of the server

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and you just look at Dust2 as a map,

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what is the win condition?

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Well, I mean, it's definitely playing with the rotations,

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getting first the map control.

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That's going to be a question mark.

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How much will Falcons let them get into short,

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get into mid to Bs, all from the T side, right?

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And then on the CT side, just not being pushed too much.

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Falcons, I think when you have monosy patrol in top mid,

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you're really limited from the opposing side.

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Like how much aggressive plays you can pull out because this guy is on form and he will punish you for any little misspeak you have.

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And also, I think one thing they were good with against 9-Z yesterday, across all the three maps actually was how they were able to manipulate the rotations as he said, right?

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Instead of playing super fast, they would try to go for this mid-fights and whatnot, and then try and get a pick towards extremities, and then try and catch opponent off guard.

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We saw that in ancient as well yesterday, but that's a problem when you have someone like Kyosuke towards mid.

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You have Montes is going to be potentially anywhere on the map.

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And then of course you have something you don't could be carried.

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It could be Nico trying to be a little bit more cheeky.

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Getting this opening kills is going to be so very hard.

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So suddenly you're down five versus four.

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What do you do? What's your plan B?

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And I don't really feel like they have a plan B on this.

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Let's talk a little bit more about Falcons in the bigger picture here

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because we saw tests in the court that we brought up during the pregame

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mentioning some of the changes that they've made.

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They've got Nico now being their main closer.

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I mean, what do we think about these changes so far that we've seen?

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I think that's super interesting because you look back a few years

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then Nico was 2022 opener of the year, 2023 opener of the year,

06:18:28.020 --> 06:18:32.380
2024 finalist for opener of the year, so top three in that category.

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And now the last year has been like somewhere in between,

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depending on who came in, they're moving him all over the map in different positions.

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They're trying to figure out how they want to use them.

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And you know, now they came out and said we want him to be our closer,

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wanted to close our round clutch to lurk.

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And this is not something that Niko has never done before, obviously he's been 10 years in a role at top 20 players,

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he's played with many different iterations of different lineups, and he can do it, but it's not really what he's been doing recently,

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and the meta has shifted, so it's a new experience for him as well, to be just the guy lurking around.

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And I feel like he would be the right pick, right? The other person I would have is maybe Tessus,

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but I feel like Tessus works better working in the pack, for example, right?

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Yeah, he's a sacrificial lot more.

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of Karrigan, who is literally the sacrificial lad himself or a sacrificial captain or whatever

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you want to call it. But I feel for Nico, considering the experience he's had, and he is a cerebral

06:19:24.380 --> 06:19:27.740
player, right? He's not like just a brain that guy is just running on in. I feel like

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this could be the intermediate step to what will eventually be him becoming an IGL at

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the end of his career. So I 100% agree. I feel like it's a worthwhile investment, especially

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when you have someone like Kyosuke, when you have someone like Karrigan is going to be

06:19:40.780 --> 06:19:44.420
just running on in. Why do you want someone like Nico? Because he's the guy who's not

06:19:44.420 --> 06:19:45.420
going to make those mistakes.

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Yeah, I mean, in some ways, it is a sacrifice for Niko.

06:19:48.380 --> 06:19:52.880
It's not like this is a sacrificial role necessarily, but it is recognizing who else

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on this team has more experience than him, right?

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Who do you want to leave in a 2v2 towards the end of the round?

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Do you want it to be Monosia Niko, or do you want it to be Monosia Kyosuke Riteses?

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I think Niko makes the most sense out of the people that they have, and then just letting

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the rest do the crazy work.

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Also the fact that those two have been playing together for the longest time, right?

06:20:12.860 --> 06:20:16.860
Like, you couldn't mind saving together some of the G2 days, so it just makes a lot of sense.

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I can't like that yesterday against Furia, to be fair.

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Like, I think there were moments where I could see what the thinking was, and it looks interesting.

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Yeah, I still feel like Niko had a good event, has been playing pretty well, the last map, you know, MVP of the map.

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But it feels like you watched the game and you're like, I didn't really see too much of him.

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I think this is something that we need to get used to, that this is now where Falcons will be using him more.

06:20:44.200 --> 06:20:49.360
Just like sometimes, you watch Robs, you don't really see much, but then at the end of the game he has like one or two key rounds

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and you're like, that's the annoying guy that you, at some point, will pop off when you do the crucial round

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and that's kind of the position where Niko will be moving forward.

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I do also want to touch upon someone we haven't had to say much about, perfect, this guy right here on the screen, right?

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Kevin had to say much about him because he's basically just dominated the scoreboard.

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But the really cool thing is after yesterday's performance where he was just going above and beyond, even by his super high standards,

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I was like, you know what, if he starts off today being a little slow, a little quiet, you know, a little bit hungover from the game he had yesterday,

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I feel like it'd be understandable, but then he picks up the AWP and just hits that insane shot, and he was just hitting so many shots,

06:21:27.600 --> 06:21:34.400
I'm like, alright, you know, he's not slowing down, and if he continued to get his monosy heading into tomorrow, if they make it to the grand finals,

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Going up against Duncan Chiro, my oh my, I'm ready for that.

06:21:37.840 --> 06:21:41.120
We'll get into that. We don't want to jump too far ahead, because we do still have...

06:21:41.120 --> 06:21:42.400
I'm jumping in the bits!

06:21:42.400 --> 06:21:47.600
...and possibly a decider. But the truth of the matter is, when we see what we've just seen on Ancient,

06:21:47.600 --> 06:21:52.080
when we look at what this form of Falcons looks like, they should be closing this one out.

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Yeah, 100%, and they're super relaxed going into the second map, right?

06:21:55.680 --> 06:21:59.280
Even if something crazy would happen, they still have a decider to play.

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Everything went pretty well on the first map there, that little, as you said, streak of rounds,

06:22:03.280 --> 06:22:07.560
where Magic was looking dangerous, but overall they are comfortable, they are in control,

06:22:07.560 --> 06:22:11.200
they know that individually they're better, that tactically they're better, and that

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they should just close it out here on Dust2.

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And also Dust2 is a map that played, I think, the most so far in this tournament as well,

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right? They've been playing almost every single series, and we've seen a T side gets better

06:22:19.160 --> 06:22:23.080
and better the more we've seen them play. Yesterday was pure chaos, sure, but overall

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this should be where it kind of comes together and where they close this one out.

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Unfortunately, Magic is somewhat finite, and it does run out. I do believe Falcons may

06:22:31.560 --> 06:22:35.160
have emptied those coffers. Let's find out if they can make it through to the grand finals.

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Falcons arriving this semifinal looking at laser focus. They're thinking about one thing and one

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thing only and that's getting into that grand final versus team spirit tomorrow. They dispatch

06:22:48.600 --> 06:22:54.120
of magic with ease on Magic's pick and now we're going to what is becoming home ground for the

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Falcons. A bit of dust too as their pick in this series a map away from those finals.

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Monosy firing on all cylinders, cooling rings around this magic squad.

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They don't just need magic, they need a miracle.

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Topaga's paradise here on Dust2, magic can shoot hard,

06:23:15.320 --> 06:23:19.320
but Falcons showed yesterday it's not just brawn, it's brains as well.

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Paragon cooling, a litany of rounds to get through Furia in multiple overtime on this very map.

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Niko tap and Falcons make their intention clear of the dawn of this pistol round.

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No respect from Niko.

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5v4 and they settle back into their site. They even take tunnels as well, so your safety is not guaranteed.

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That's a bomb spotted.

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Katsuki back to B.

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How long? Up short, but Moon still investigating and they're getting pulled into these short retters.

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This is almost messy, saved by Monosin.

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This is all full, you feel like you got a bit of room as a result, but Niko's still here and still a threat out on the short side, stops this from getting weird.

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I'm dropped and away from Magic, Mass Val cut down at Falcons.

06:24:12.420 --> 06:24:18.420
And these pistol rounds today, even though they've been a bit of a contentious point for the Falcons, they've hit hard.

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They just got picked apart, didn't they, Magic?

06:24:20.700 --> 06:24:22.700
And yeah, Falcons were the worst team,

06:24:22.700 --> 06:24:25.260
or had the worst record on pistol rounds

06:24:25.260 --> 06:24:27.980
in that group stage of all the playoff teams.

06:24:27.980 --> 06:24:29.980
The only team below them, Fisher College.

06:24:33.980 --> 06:24:36.420
Falcons have learned their lesson here in the playoffs,

06:24:36.420 --> 06:24:41.060
splitting with Furia and now running away here on Dust2.

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Magic got a full eco.

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I do like how as it goes on and you know we're getting the grips with this new falcons a little bit more we're hearing more and more of kind of the philosophy they're arriving at inside of this team.

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out of this team.

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That says in the interview talking about how the idea is to kind of have Niko as more of a closer.

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Just nice as well to see, you know, for a guy who is so quick to be willing to kind of give everything away to

06:25:24.420 --> 06:25:31.420
give so much to Kiyosuke and really buy into the idea that he's the X-Factor piece, that next generation.

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Nice to see more of a limelight put on Niko in this squad.

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Obviously, there is that history between him and Karrigan.

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I think with that comes a lot of mutual respect.

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You know, they've been learning about each other all over again,

06:25:50.220 --> 06:25:54.220
nearly a decade on from when they last played together on that phase T.

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Clean sweep here, up against the pistols.

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So no early road bumps, but the gun round gets to come out early for magic as a result.

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Sonic sitting in the background laughing right now. That's the pressure. The Falcons are feeling none of it at the moment

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after a quick dispatch on ancients

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Have expectation of more of the same here on Dust2. Modesty's AWP. I'm waiting for it

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was

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Incredible to watch on this stage yesterday

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Magic for now just full AKs

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Falcon's still on their bonus round

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So, a good opportunity for Magic to strike while the iron's hot.

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I'll be keeping a keen eye on Tess's.

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Had a mixed bag of results on Dust2 across this tournament.

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I think it's, for me, it's Karrigan, because he was, without a doubt, really weak individually

06:27:04.100 --> 06:27:06.300
on those CT sites specifically, right?

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When Cat Splits came in, when Long Takes came in, there were few and far between.

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It was a very B focused game, but Karrigan really struggled to hold his own on CT sites

06:27:13.980 --> 06:27:17.380
specifically, so you'll see if Magic can try and exploit him.

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For now, he's doing everything he can to waste time, hit a good nade, bounce the smoke,

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and now he's climbing back up as they have to cross.

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There he is with the opening.

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Monesty able to help out from the short-sided.

06:27:30.600 --> 06:27:33.900
Oh, problems right now. There is a player out through B.

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This relies on the bomb being able to get out of there.

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Niko's got it trapped. His backstab closes in and tightens the net around Magic.

06:27:41.900 --> 06:27:43.900
And this is where you just see the gap, right?

06:27:43.900 --> 06:27:48.400
Falcons and Magic on a head-to-head, on a team level, on an individual level.

06:27:48.400 --> 06:27:52.900
So many moves being made by the Falcons. So much confidence on show.

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Eco collapses upon them, and Magic can't even pull back to play off that lurker.

06:28:00.000 --> 06:28:01.000
Who's it at long?

06:28:02.000 --> 06:28:05.800
They also missed that re-smoke on the cross. That made matters worse.

06:28:07.700 --> 06:28:09.500
A simple start to this game for the Falcons.

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Put some three to the good, and we have an Eco for Magic move with a scout.

06:28:16.000 --> 06:28:17.500
Honestly, we'll meet him there.

06:28:22.900 --> 06:28:24.900
Why not try it?

06:28:29.080 --> 06:28:33.300
That's why you don't if there's one guy you don't want to meet in this big fight. It's monosy

06:28:34.240 --> 06:28:36.240
Speck of all

06:28:39.640 --> 06:28:41.640
Feels like they are just

06:28:41.760 --> 06:28:43.760
Cycling this out to look to fight him

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He is right in that assumption

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Honestly already two kills to the good on this partial buy out of magic

06:28:50.680 --> 06:28:54.360
It's already left him in what should be an unwinnable position.

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I don't have any util here as they make their way up short, but they are being given a bit

06:28:58.640 --> 06:29:00.480
of room with Niko tucked in.

06:29:00.480 --> 06:29:02.720
Honestly, you could go down there.

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Steps made on short, and Tenzi never got the info.

06:29:05.560 --> 06:29:10.640
It's a shame there was definitely a window opportunity, but how Monoski eyes on and Niko

06:29:10.640 --> 06:29:13.720
can swing, that you're going to go out in the mid to beat.

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No smoke makes this very difficult indeed.

06:29:16.320 --> 06:29:21.280
If you try to show some cat presence first to get Monosy off this line.

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Monosy ready and waiting.

06:29:33.280 --> 06:29:36.280
He's got the angle now, or perhaps rather, but...

06:29:37.280 --> 06:29:40.280
Swing for the king, you better not miss.

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Okay, he will.

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Now we're even ready for Nico here. That was a very drawn out bait and switch

06:29:48.280 --> 06:29:52.280
Nico just really hoping to go over look the damage won't come to matter though

06:29:52.280 --> 06:29:55.280
is it's only mass file left

06:29:55.280 --> 06:29:57.280
Karagan's got his number

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Yes it says get down Mr. President

06:30:01.280 --> 06:30:08.280
Body blocks Karagan but it's still a nice clean start before the guns come out for magic

06:30:08.280 --> 06:30:10.280
That's okay, I'll take the spot.

06:30:17.720 --> 06:30:24.680
Boon's off, and I don't know, do you want to risk it, your first AWP on this T-side, do you want to take that mid-fight, or C?

06:30:25.880 --> 06:30:29.480
It's late to it, with the Nade, but honestly nowhere to be seen.

06:30:30.600 --> 06:30:32.280
Aggressive round for Valkyries.

06:30:32.280 --> 06:30:34.200
Honestly, I absolutely love this fight.

06:30:34.200 --> 06:30:38.880
this fight in particular, going out Catwalk early, scoping up with the AWP,

06:30:38.880 --> 06:30:41.400
looking for these alternate angles into suicide.

06:30:41.400 --> 06:30:44.720
This time, though, he's got his teammates creeping up top mid alongside him

06:30:44.720 --> 06:30:47.920
and expecting this reaction in through the lower tunnels.

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Sure, the shot misses. Kiyosuke here to keep the advantage belonging to the Falcons.

06:30:53.160 --> 06:30:54.440
You lose Karigan alongside.

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It's a magic they've got a small window here to try and pick up the pace.

06:30:57.280 --> 06:31:00.760
This flash plays through, might disrupt everything.

06:31:00.760 --> 06:31:02.280
Kiyosuke online.

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And with a hat-trick of kills, one on a Karagin can be forgotten about.

06:31:11.200 --> 06:31:17.200
It's Moon's first AWP of Dust 2, and it's left in a very tricky spot.

06:31:17.200 --> 06:31:19.200
Important pick up onto Monacy.

06:31:19.200 --> 06:31:21.200
They hear this runaway.

06:31:26.200 --> 06:31:29.200
I think she's being tricky right now.

06:31:29.200 --> 06:31:35.200
Falcons aware of the fullback and wait here for a while, see if Moon appears. It doesn't.

06:31:38.200 --> 06:31:40.200
So he can get one step ahead of this.

06:31:40.200 --> 06:31:44.200
Isolated, though. Are they not convinced? Tessas is low. This is suddenly winnable.

06:31:45.200 --> 06:31:48.200
So here's the footsteps. Could just go late. Moon thinks he has space.

06:31:48.200 --> 06:31:53.200
And so you can chase him down on that pop top. Very well handled from Tessas.

06:31:53.200 --> 06:31:58.200
Scary, though, splitting up in that position. Falcons no worries in the end, able to convert him.

06:31:58.200 --> 06:32:02.540
able to convert it. We're seeing magic with a tendency to take long right now, not looking

06:32:02.540 --> 06:32:07.980
to abuse B. Unlucky for them, B was the weak point in that round. To be fair, Falcons haven't

06:32:07.980 --> 06:32:12.620
really played heavy long or denying this position, right? Even in the Fury game, we weren't seeing

06:32:12.620 --> 06:32:18.140
three or four man setups, very common on long. So, Karrigan is keen to just give it up and

06:32:18.140 --> 06:32:23.380
play for flashbang through the smoke. It does work, it punishes magic, it'll get full blinded.

06:32:23.380 --> 06:32:31.540
But it's often just Karrigan on his own, throwing utility and then conceding the position if

06:32:31.540 --> 06:32:32.980
Magic really wants it.

06:32:32.980 --> 06:32:37.860
I think we're very, very close to that point of no return for Magic.

06:32:37.860 --> 06:32:41.860
What a get going soon.

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I think there's a certain point where you kind of just lose the initiative, you lose the

06:32:47.020 --> 06:32:51.940
intrigue, you start to feel deflated, remember this is the first time for these guys that

06:32:51.940 --> 06:32:54.860
They're experiencing many of these emotions.

06:32:55.700 --> 06:32:57.900
That's time making it to a stage at this time.

06:32:58.780 --> 06:32:59.980
This size, rather.

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That's time playing versus a team of this caliber.

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Even AWM Parabasian, they went on that run back in Budapest.

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They didn't play a team like this.

06:33:08.180 --> 06:33:10.380
They'd beat a top squad.

06:33:14.180 --> 06:33:16.740
So this is still a new test for every single player.

06:33:18.300 --> 06:33:19.540
On this magic side,

06:33:19.540 --> 06:33:23.460
Hasn't helped us to realize, but Karagin clears his corners.

06:33:23.460 --> 06:33:28.020
And Moon, not long for this world, 1B5 Modesty Flick.

06:33:28.020 --> 06:33:29.660
And he is loving it right now, looking

06:33:29.660 --> 06:33:34.700
to make a quick game out of this semi-final.

06:33:34.700 --> 06:33:37.860
It's reassuring to see Falcons make quick work of them, right?

06:33:37.860 --> 06:33:40.340
I think everyone was still holding onto this idea

06:33:40.340 --> 06:33:42.220
that maybe Magic can surprise.

06:33:42.220 --> 06:33:45.100
Maybe this Cinderella story isn't over.

06:33:45.100 --> 06:33:46.940
They could shock Falcons, take a map.

06:33:46.940 --> 06:33:53.140
the pressure of having to win this game, but all of that is dissipating pretty quickly

06:33:53.140 --> 06:33:54.380
in this series.

06:33:54.380 --> 06:33:57.860
Falcons are good for it.

06:33:57.860 --> 06:34:03.420
Honestly, that's been so keen to take this mid-fight.

06:34:03.420 --> 06:34:08.180
I mean, he was willing to do it versus Moldedoi all throughout the quarter-final.

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That's a very fast, very knowing quantity, doesn't feel the same level of threat from

06:34:15.020 --> 06:34:27.940
moon right now. Back to this long control, back to Karrigan's half of the map. Flash

06:34:27.940 --> 06:34:33.560
put the fear in him. Now one shot leads to his downfall. They come out, just laser focused

06:34:33.560 --> 06:34:40.780
on his position pushed up at the doors. Getting past Karrigan hasn't been the issue. That

06:34:40.780 --> 06:34:44.700
says aggression out through the tunnels that gives away the advantage. This has to be the

06:34:44.700 --> 06:34:49.180
start something for Magic first time in a very very long time that they've had the advantage.

06:34:49.180 --> 06:34:54.060
A reader and a regroup here in a 4v3 absolutely don't waste this opportunity they still have

06:34:54.060 --> 06:34:58.380
a player faking long that bomb goes back around the world to join up on the entry.

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So as Fade's going to reunite Mazval's going to try and fake he's got no more nays to do it though.

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Really wants a gunfight here Falcons aren't taking it double cat side even Kiyosuke moving out of B.

06:35:10.220 --> 06:35:17.220
So if Magic walk-in right now, this is their first round on the board, lying in wait.

06:35:17.220 --> 06:35:22.220
As Vell Fakes starts to move.

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He hasn't got any contact yet.

06:35:24.220 --> 06:35:28.220
And so right now, could be paranoid about a stack over towards B.

06:35:28.220 --> 06:35:30.220
His team aren't moving as a result.

06:35:30.220 --> 06:35:31.220
He really is to get a move on.

06:35:31.220 --> 06:35:33.220
They're creeping out into the B site anyway.

06:35:33.220 --> 06:35:35.220
He cleared it, he'll play late.

06:35:35.220 --> 06:35:42.900
The way Falcons are aware that he's here, you should put this bomb down, you go to clear

06:35:42.900 --> 06:35:45.220
long nice check for Kiyosuke man.

06:35:45.220 --> 06:35:47.420
Falcons are really out of position.

06:35:47.420 --> 06:35:49.540
I don't know if you go for this, you're too far.

06:35:49.540 --> 06:35:54.820
They have a lot of money though and they are dominating in this game and that can sometimes

06:35:54.820 --> 06:35:56.620
lead you to do wild things.

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I'd rather the AK's on Niko and Kiyosuke at this point in the map.

06:36:00.220 --> 06:36:03.700
You can concede one, they're going to hang around and look for an XL, I really don't

06:36:03.700 --> 06:36:05.700
I don't think Falcons will force end.

06:36:07.700 --> 06:36:11.700
It is a late round move. Hope Magic leave.

06:36:12.700 --> 06:36:15.700
No mistakes being made by Magic, they're hanging on.

06:36:16.700 --> 06:36:20.700
Go creeps in, down a try, down and give it a go.

06:36:21.700 --> 06:36:26.700
But Magic at the dawn of what will be their first round on Dust 2, 7 rounds deep,

06:36:26.700 --> 06:36:28.700
but not going to leave anything to chance.

06:36:28.700 --> 06:36:31.700
No mistakes made there for Magic, really well played.

06:36:31.700 --> 06:36:33.700
They just walk right in,

06:36:33.800 --> 06:36:36.300
Mazzo doesn't even have to play on long.

06:36:36.400 --> 06:36:40.400
And that bomb goes down, signaling the end of the round.

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Double AWP.

06:36:54.600 --> 06:36:56.600
Said they got money, let's use it.

06:36:56.600 --> 06:36:58.600
They got money let's use it

06:37:13.480 --> 06:37:16.640
This UK intentionally firing this off through the mid smoke

06:37:17.680 --> 06:37:24.100
Just the sound can be enough but there it is ringing out with a kill and they get forced into the second door out on shore

06:37:24.100 --> 06:37:27.100
Just pick the car by the AWPs.

06:37:34.100 --> 06:37:36.100
Really nothing you can do against this guy right now.

06:37:36.100 --> 06:37:40.100
11-2, if you're not double flashing him, you are dead.

06:37:45.100 --> 06:37:49.100
And it is relieving that this is no issue for the Falcons.

06:37:54.100 --> 06:38:07.860
I think he's always done his best work when it's a little unexpected and struggles with

06:38:07.860 --> 06:38:08.860
being the favorite.

06:38:08.860 --> 06:38:16.860
I'm thinking back to Copenhagen major right at the start of their CS2 campaign where Faiz

06:38:16.860 --> 06:38:17.860
in every final.

06:38:22.860 --> 06:38:25.860
Wandsori, that's the players, the underdog.

06:38:25.860 --> 06:38:27.860
Yeah, it'd be quite a change in the narrative.

06:38:27.860 --> 06:38:30.860
If the Falcons could level up now, not just at the start,

06:38:30.860 --> 06:38:33.860
but right ahead of the Major as well, also be a contender

06:38:33.860 --> 06:38:36.860
to take that trophy, just sort of like Talisman in Atlanta,

06:38:36.860 --> 06:38:38.860
knowing that they can bleed.

06:38:38.860 --> 06:38:40.860
Falcons historically have had a great head-to-head

06:38:40.860 --> 06:38:43.860
in that matchup at the same time, so there's all these factors

06:38:43.860 --> 06:38:50.860
in for Falcons to level up just at the right time.

06:39:13.860 --> 06:39:16.180
Bob skip and a jump with the knife pulled

06:39:17.540 --> 06:39:19.540
It's his down over to be one

06:39:20.660 --> 06:39:25.420
Strong position for moon if he takes his back, you'll know where they're coming from. This is a winner ball

06:39:29.620 --> 06:39:36.900
Vacu-raying here because if you let them cross into the site, they've got an orb to cover this can become a very tricky round indeed

06:39:36.900 --> 06:39:46.900
and he's got a clutch in front of him.

06:39:46.900 --> 06:39:48.900
Moon swings, takes the fight early.

06:39:48.900 --> 06:39:53.900
Honestly, he replies and Moon gets eclipsed.

06:39:53.900 --> 06:40:00.900
Monacy's shining bright all the way towards those finals.

06:40:00.900 --> 06:40:04.900
14-2, an absolute monster here for the Falcons.

06:40:04.900 --> 06:40:09.100
body has shown up, but Monacee is still taking the headlines.

06:40:09.100 --> 06:40:15.460
A nice try from Moon, the young Kazak on his home soil,

06:40:15.460 --> 06:40:18.180
but too hot to handle, a fight he had to take with that bomb

06:40:18.180 --> 06:40:19.580
position.

06:40:19.580 --> 06:40:22.140
And Monacee is more than willing to beat him there.

06:40:22.140 --> 06:40:25.340
Eight-one game for the Falcons right now.

06:40:25.340 --> 06:40:27.380
I think we're well past that point of no return.

06:40:27.380 --> 06:40:29.740
I think the question now becomes just how dominant

06:40:29.740 --> 06:40:33.620
can Falcons make this statement ahead of a team spirit

06:40:33.620 --> 06:40:34.820
in a grand final.

06:40:41.140 --> 06:40:45.180
It's not just Falcons levelling up in time for a major.

06:40:45.180 --> 06:40:47.260
This is a Falcons who won a trophy,

06:40:47.260 --> 06:40:49.580
something they'd never accomplished with this roster

06:40:49.580 --> 06:40:52.200
ever since Niko and Monosie joined.

06:40:55.940 --> 06:41:00.420
A team that has fumbled on the big stage

06:41:00.420 --> 06:41:03.460
in the big moments, even when they're the favorites.

06:41:03.620 --> 06:41:10.940
And they will absolutely have to earn it if we see them against Spirit, because this

06:41:10.940 --> 06:41:19.260
is no sleeper in Team Spirit, leveling up themselves to defend their title in these

06:41:19.260 --> 06:41:21.740
last two tournaments of the season.

06:41:21.740 --> 06:41:31.740
I'm going to try and get him.

06:41:31.740 --> 06:41:33.740
Garaguin that punished again.

06:41:33.740 --> 06:41:41.740
They found him a couple of times in his T side, but it's a B-Hit brewing.

06:41:41.740 --> 06:41:43.740
2K first to arrive.

06:41:43.740 --> 06:41:45.740
Tess has here to back him up.

06:41:45.740 --> 06:41:46.740
Swing out.

06:41:46.740 --> 06:41:48.740
Both players give the fight to Magic.

06:41:48.740 --> 06:41:51.340
Cross on a damage taken though in these exchanges,

06:41:51.340 --> 06:41:53.780
Tenzi will keep things in their favor,

06:41:53.780 --> 06:41:57.020
brought down to one HP with that tag.

06:41:58.180 --> 06:42:01.740
Once he's suspicious, doesn't know where the second man is.

06:42:03.220 --> 06:42:05.420
Really trying to bait a reaction out of the flank.

06:42:05.420 --> 06:42:07.140
You see he's always looking over his shoulder.

06:42:07.140 --> 06:42:09.300
AWS have been spotted throughout this round,

06:42:09.300 --> 06:42:11.100
but that knee dropped right there.

06:42:11.100 --> 06:42:12.900
Could prove to be a big problem.

06:42:12.900 --> 06:42:14.900
One point of health on Tenzi.

06:42:15.740 --> 06:42:17.060
He's not gonna find him.

06:42:18.740 --> 06:42:27.180
So, Monace is going to have to hit one hell of a transfer, they're swinging together.

06:42:27.180 --> 06:42:28.820
Still got fundamental some magic, right?

06:42:28.820 --> 06:42:32.940
These guys are here for a reason, nice to see them play that position as well as they

06:42:32.940 --> 06:42:36.780
possibly could, not allowing Monace to isolate a single duel.

06:42:36.780 --> 06:42:40.700
He has to face them together, even with the M4, it's too much.

06:42:40.700 --> 06:42:44.420
Magic again, converting their second round off of the B side once more, it's the only

06:42:44.420 --> 06:42:47.900
position they've managed to find success in.

06:42:47.900 --> 06:42:53.560
Often just due to Kiyosuke rotating out and supporting middle would like to just see hard anchoring here for the Falcon

06:42:53.560 --> 06:42:56.320
And it's the only site that you really can't concede

06:42:57.740 --> 06:42:59.740
It's cost Falcons two rounds

06:43:00.900 --> 06:43:03.280
No cause for concern of course, but

06:43:04.520 --> 06:43:09.640
So Falcons still just trying to make this one a quick day in the office make up for lost time last night

06:43:14.200 --> 06:43:16.200
It really would be you know both extremes

06:43:17.900 --> 06:43:27.900
100 round series versus Furia, only to go on and breeze through this one in under two hours.

06:43:32.900 --> 06:43:37.900
BO3 yesterday longer than any BO5 we've had this year.

06:43:38.900 --> 06:43:40.900
That's vitality's fault.

06:43:47.900 --> 06:43:55.220
I'm aware, whether Magic would cross or not, there wasn't smoke down on the long side so

06:43:55.220 --> 06:43:57.220
Falcons are feeling fearful.

06:43:57.220 --> 06:44:01.060
No block there, Kiyosuke is going to have to try and do this with the flash.

06:44:01.060 --> 06:44:02.860
He was a flash for him.

06:44:02.860 --> 06:44:05.860
Kiyosuke sent out wide, Moon's got the cover.

06:44:05.860 --> 06:44:07.860
He's locked down, they've got to commit.

06:44:07.860 --> 06:44:11.780
Honestly, this is the timing on that first player getting in, but the spot there from

06:44:11.780 --> 06:44:14.780
Niko at least gets the gun on in the right place.

06:44:14.780 --> 06:44:15.780
What?

06:44:15.780 --> 06:44:16.780
What?

06:44:16.780 --> 06:44:20.780
Monacy never even saw him, that's just a feeling.

06:44:23.780 --> 06:44:27.780
Moons in with the reply, he'll be able to match Monacy.

06:44:31.780 --> 06:44:33.780
What about heading away?

06:44:33.780 --> 06:44:36.780
With how he's playing, he's been called back.

06:44:36.780 --> 06:44:39.780
Even the rest of the team egging it on to give it a go.

06:44:39.780 --> 06:44:42.780
You've got to give it some magic right now, they're all putting everything out there.

06:44:42.780 --> 06:44:46.100
They are grabbing every opportunity they can,

06:44:46.100 --> 06:44:48.740
punish on Karagun again on the long side,

06:44:48.740 --> 06:44:52.300
and this time Antifas are able to trade out effectively

06:44:52.300 --> 06:44:54.060
as they're learning from their experience,

06:44:54.060 --> 06:44:55.420
massive stage experience,

06:44:55.420 --> 06:44:58.540
playing some of the world's best players

06:44:58.540 --> 06:45:00.300
and still seizing a couple of rounds

06:45:00.300 --> 06:45:02.540
down the tail end of their T side.

06:45:32.540 --> 06:45:38.140
But alright, Magicab bought themselves a bit of breathing room and a chance now to play

06:45:38.140 --> 06:45:45.740
Falcons while they don't have that monosie AWP freedom for Moon.

06:45:45.740 --> 06:46:01.580
W tries to take space away on Short, he's got a lot of ground very very quickly.

06:46:01.580 --> 06:46:08.260
to set him up for it and you're putting a lot of pressure over here towards a

06:46:08.260 --> 06:46:12.380
Alcans haven't entirely bit down on it yet with two players floating around

06:46:12.380 --> 06:46:16.440
middle Tess is still anchoring they have more bodies available on this B

06:46:16.440 --> 06:46:21.420
side of the map than they do at the A bomb site the magic to somehow put that

06:46:21.420 --> 06:46:25.340
one together they might feel like they've done enough

06:46:25.340 --> 06:46:32.340
No utility for Falcons. A single flash adorns his entire team.

06:46:32.340 --> 06:46:36.340
He'll be down to a big individual moment.

06:46:36.340 --> 06:46:43.340
Enough. This is the team meant to provide exactly that.

06:46:43.340 --> 06:46:47.340
Short left entirely open and playing retake on A.

06:46:47.340 --> 06:46:51.340
Falcons are hedging their bets.

06:46:51.340 --> 06:47:01.340
This triple setup, two on the car, Moon is looking for a kill and no one's giving him anything, he's going to have to work it through the smoke at the time, it could not be worse for NazVal.

06:47:01.340 --> 06:47:09.340
You lose NazVal long and with it, you want to go B now, you're going into the stack, you're playing right in to the hands of the Falcons.

06:47:09.340 --> 06:47:15.040
Tess says, clamping down on the first, Kiyosuke swings up to that contact.

06:47:15.040 --> 06:47:19.140
And every one of these peaks, there's so much intent behind them.

06:47:19.140 --> 06:47:24.140
Just decimate that B-play and get out with a very clean half.

06:47:24.140 --> 06:47:27.340
Reality hits hard here for Magic in this semi-final.

06:47:27.340 --> 06:47:31.140
It was always going to be an uphill battle, and the Falcons have leveled up.

06:47:31.140 --> 06:47:35.140
clinical CT side on Dust 2.

06:47:35.140 --> 06:47:40.140
Six straight rounds before we even see Magic show up.

06:47:40.140 --> 06:47:44.140
But it might be too little, it might be too late here in this playoff match.

06:47:44.140 --> 06:48:04.380
I will have a lot more time to kind of digest, you know, what this means for the Falcons.

06:48:04.380 --> 06:48:10.220
There, the team will see play again tomorrow in those finals if they're able to complete

06:48:10.220 --> 06:48:14.460
this this domination on dust who for the magic run I still think you know even

06:48:14.460 --> 06:48:17.860
though this has been a rough showing in the semi finals you've got to sit up and

06:48:17.860 --> 06:48:21.660
take note of what this team was able to accomplish here in Astana right they

06:48:21.660 --> 06:48:24.860
were a game away from elimination back in the groups they were playing in that

06:48:24.860 --> 06:48:28.940
dreaded o2 position all the way into the playoffs they seize one hell of an

06:48:28.940 --> 06:48:33.980
opportunity in the court of finals versus 9z they recognized that the chance

06:48:33.980 --> 06:48:39.020
that they had to make this deep run happen squad where the kind of most

06:48:39.020 --> 06:48:45.160
No one quantity and the most familiar piece was a w the guy that wasn't good enough to be on paravision

06:48:48.780 --> 06:48:50.780
So it has been an impressive run

06:48:50.780 --> 06:48:57.360
Let's see if they can stay on this stage any longer monosy with the pistol out long side whole team in behind him

06:48:59.060 --> 06:49:04.900
Alkins looking for both pistols on dust 2 and that would spell the end of this magic run

06:49:04.900 --> 06:49:08.200
It puts Falcons so close to those finals.

06:49:08.200 --> 06:49:09.200
Oh, he saw him.

06:49:10.200 --> 06:49:13.700
Tessus waits, but Mazver with the jump does take his head off.

06:49:13.700 --> 06:49:15.300
There's a 2v2, but it's Monosy.

06:49:15.300 --> 06:49:16.100
It's Nico.

06:49:16.100 --> 06:49:18.000
It's Tensey maybe having the jump shot.

06:49:18.000 --> 06:49:20.200
Denies Nico. Monosy over the top.

06:49:20.200 --> 06:49:25.300
And he could put that bomb down, but does he even want to find that final player?

06:49:25.300 --> 06:49:32.800
Mazver falls closer, and Monosy looks for his 20th kill in just 13 rounds.

06:49:32.800 --> 06:49:35.040
Over the top, Monacee awaits.

06:49:36.040 --> 06:49:39.280
Mazval, heart beating out of his chest.

06:49:39.280 --> 06:49:42.000
Monacee, oppressive over the top of the site

06:49:42.000 --> 06:49:43.520
and you don't know where he's gone.

06:49:43.520 --> 06:49:45.240
Slips back, goes forward.

06:49:45.240 --> 06:49:48.200
Monacee moves and Mazval survives.

06:49:48.200 --> 06:49:51.640
A very scary pistol indeed for Magic are still here.

06:49:57.640 --> 06:49:59.240
To step in the right direction

06:49:59.240 --> 06:50:02.160
in what would have to be a marathon comeback for Magic.

06:50:02.800 --> 06:50:31.800
You know, you mentioned Magic being 0-2 in the group stage, and the dynastic shows to even get into the playoffs from that point, let alone the semifinals, keep in mind, this very team started in the online qualifier, right?

06:50:31.800 --> 06:50:36.200
brutal they are, and this is a team that's talked about the difficulty of playing online,

06:50:36.200 --> 06:50:42.920
ping, having bad internet, the difficulties that have gone down there out of a shot.

06:50:42.920 --> 06:50:50.360
And so, to not just do that in a single elimination format, but to make it to a semi, I think we'll

06:50:50.360 --> 06:50:53.080
be seeing more of this team, more of these players.

06:51:01.800 --> 06:51:06.800
I hope now on the CT side, feeling like you kind of have nothing left to lose.

06:51:06.800 --> 06:51:08.300
They hope to go out on their terms.

06:51:08.300 --> 06:51:11.800
This has been a bullseye start to this anti-eco round, running it up mid.

06:51:13.800 --> 06:51:20.800
Magic's certainly feeling a little more tempered in their aggressive moves

06:51:20.800 --> 06:51:24.800
in this semi-final series. It comes with the occasion.

06:51:24.800 --> 06:51:26.800
Comes with not wanting to feel like you throw this away,

06:51:26.800 --> 06:51:30.800
but at this point, the hour is desperate, the score line is against you.

06:51:30.800 --> 06:51:36.320
You weren't the favourites coming into it, and so I hope they elect to go out on their terms and they show some of these

06:51:37.320 --> 06:51:39.320
more aggressive tendencies

06:51:41.800 --> 06:51:43.800
It's time to shine

06:51:44.320 --> 06:51:46.320
And a hits

06:51:46.440 --> 06:51:51.920
Nico's even got a rifle on that long position. He's gonna find his way through a W moon pressure on right now

06:51:51.920 --> 06:51:59.680
But this could be Falcons finding an eco win unless moon steps up big that scout and the bomb in the slope moon comes hunting

06:51:59.680 --> 06:52:01.880
No, right. It's a hell of a shot.

06:52:01.880 --> 06:52:03.240
Can Nico bail him out?

06:52:03.240 --> 06:52:04.840
Still want to win this fight on mom?

06:52:04.840 --> 06:52:06.800
Tensy Sharp deals with him.

06:52:06.800 --> 06:52:08.400
And 10 seconds, Karagun.

06:52:08.400 --> 06:52:11.200
It's not realistic at all.

06:52:11.200 --> 06:52:13.600
Tensy keeps his one under lock in key.

06:52:13.600 --> 06:52:16.080
And Magic got his skin in their teeth.

06:52:16.080 --> 06:52:17.080
Deal with the eco.

06:52:47.080 --> 06:53:01.880
up until now you've been riding the higher the success in the pistol this is the real

06:53:01.880 --> 06:53:10.200
test obviously so confident in his speed he's got an awkward helmet not fearful of those

06:53:10.200 --> 06:53:11.920
A4's, A1S's.

06:53:15.080 --> 06:53:16.920
Let's use Quicker on the trigger.

06:53:20.120 --> 06:53:23.280
Magic giving nothing, a nice gamble being made in a round like this.

06:53:23.760 --> 06:53:24.760
Putting three together.

06:53:25.520 --> 06:53:26.600
Even two on the bomb site.

06:53:26.600 --> 06:53:29.400
Karagin lurking long, will have no fight for now.

06:53:30.440 --> 06:53:33.800
Falcon's uncertainty, but Niko out mid and Tessa still back up B.

06:53:33.920 --> 06:53:35.600
This Catwalk control could just be a fake.

06:53:35.600 --> 06:53:36.800
What's Karagin cooking?

06:53:40.200 --> 06:53:45.920
They're so good, Sal and something. Are they buying? He burns alive.

06:53:47.920 --> 06:53:51.280
Hear that tick as well. This Triple B couldn't be better placed.

06:53:56.120 --> 06:53:59.000
It says coming back and we're carrying it out on the long side.

06:53:59.000 --> 06:54:01.560
Oh! All right. Tell it to catch for monosy.

06:54:02.440 --> 06:54:03.440
Gotta go back.

06:54:03.960 --> 06:54:04.960
Just gotta commit.

06:54:04.960 --> 06:54:05.960
No one watching!

06:54:05.960 --> 06:54:08.240
I was here, but back turned there on Masfell.

06:54:08.240 --> 06:54:15.200
hands over another in the eco the play still coming up through the catwalk right now falcons are playing for all the space all the fights

06:54:16.560 --> 06:54:22.480
They'll take down they are all of them s fade the only guy left standing and really it's those chaotic rounds of carragans

06:54:22.480 --> 06:54:25.660
The carragans cells in right they had multiple options available

06:54:25.660 --> 06:54:30.580
They are just calling from the seats of their pants grabbing the opportunity when it presents itself

06:54:31.240 --> 06:54:33.620
And it's not a set up strat

06:54:33.620 --> 06:54:43.620
That is, Falcons pure reactive and they were able to bail out of both plans and still end up on catwalking 20 second rounds, it clutched out.

06:54:46.620 --> 06:54:48.620
Just all over the place.

06:54:52.620 --> 06:54:58.620
So those rounds that Kerrigan brings to this team and full faith from Falcons to follow his plan.

06:55:03.620 --> 06:55:13.620
It's just so hard to get a handle on that, if you're magic, I think obviously having your back turned on the mid to be is a big problem, elapsing communication, that's how one come falling down.

06:55:15.620 --> 06:55:18.620
So give Falcons guns, they'll give you rounds.

06:55:19.620 --> 06:55:24.620
And how expensive that round was versus the one scout pistols for Falcons.

06:55:24.620 --> 06:55:31.180
Falcons. It's not like Magic get a triumph and second try here and save day K. They got

06:55:31.180 --> 06:55:36.100
one more rifle alongside it. They're all in in this round. Falcons poised to deal the

06:55:36.100 --> 06:55:43.580
killing blow.

06:55:43.580 --> 06:55:45.580
play down into wards lower.

06:55:45.580 --> 06:55:47.940
Karagin leads the charge, Kiyosuke in behind him,

06:55:47.940 --> 06:55:48.940
playing a trade.

06:55:55.340 --> 06:55:56.820
I lost out on this long control,

06:55:56.820 --> 06:55:58.740
but Tess says he's floating around over there

06:55:58.740 --> 06:56:01.380
and heard them take it, flash played it,

06:56:01.380 --> 06:56:03.220
try and bring you into a fight here.

06:56:04.140 --> 06:56:05.660
Dodge.

06:56:05.660 --> 06:56:09.100
More good engagement than one that Spade just doesn't want.

06:56:10.260 --> 06:56:11.660
It's for the best, I mean.

06:56:11.660 --> 06:56:14.660
That says, I saw that one coming.

06:56:14.660 --> 06:56:17.660
That's fair, I would not have gotten away with that kill.

06:56:18.660 --> 06:56:24.660
Toys of this mid control, magical crossfire can't be open forever, especially that lurk smoke down.

06:56:24.660 --> 06:56:27.660
This is Falcon's barely out middle.

06:56:27.660 --> 06:56:34.660
At a minute on the clock, they have more util and more opportunity to go wherever they want and that mid to be is tempting.

06:56:34.660 --> 06:56:51.460
In fact, it's the weakest weaponry of magic on this B-Site, 257s to stop all the Falcons.

06:56:51.460 --> 06:56:52.860
Here we go.

06:56:52.860 --> 06:56:57.660
It's something on the first fight.

06:56:57.660 --> 06:57:02.740
If you don't get it, this becomes so claustrophobic, one man can't withstand this, and Tess has

06:57:02.740 --> 06:57:06.180
Spine served the perfect timing there, spot for Karagin.

06:57:07.180 --> 06:57:10.140
They know that Tensi's here, so it's only a matter of time.

06:57:10.780 --> 06:57:13.180
They just choke out that B bomb site.

06:57:14.420 --> 06:57:17.500
And the two rifles last to get to play,

06:57:18.140 --> 06:57:21.980
left to save on the extremities, not even that's a guarantee.

06:57:22.140 --> 06:57:25.660
Clinical for Falcons. Nice to see them looking comfortable on Dust2 as well,

06:57:25.660 --> 06:57:27.380
right in a B05 final.

06:57:27.380 --> 06:57:31.140
I mean, it's Spirit's first pick, every match of this series.

06:57:31.140 --> 06:57:32.860
Oh, dear, what a turn.

06:57:32.860 --> 06:57:38.460
So, it's expected to see it very early in that B05.

06:57:38.460 --> 06:57:41.540
Spirit are not going to feel scared of the Falcons on this very map.

06:57:43.540 --> 06:57:47.060
So, Falcons know they need theirs looking good, looking strong right now.

06:57:48.700 --> 06:57:50.540
The Illuminous are in chaotic moments,

06:57:50.540 --> 06:57:53.900
but right now, just pushing Magic out of this match.

06:57:53.900 --> 06:58:11.220
Magic, no money, they're gonna take the eco and over at the final point.

06:58:11.220 --> 06:58:15.280
Moon's gone, a little quiet but he's not really had the opportunity to pull this orb into

06:58:15.280 --> 06:58:17.140
this game all too much.

06:58:17.140 --> 06:58:22.460
Picked first in this round.

06:58:22.460 --> 06:58:26.780
I think this series has just been a matter of kind of getting to sit back and appreciate

06:58:26.780 --> 06:58:31.980
Monacy, what he's capable of and God doesn't it feel good to see some of these big performances

06:58:31.980 --> 06:58:35.900
just not going to waste?

06:58:35.900 --> 06:58:38.220
Almost did yesterday.

06:58:38.220 --> 06:58:46.580
But Monacy is still here, still playing, still surging towards a final and we are just lucky

06:58:46.580 --> 06:58:48.300
we get to watch it.

06:58:48.300 --> 06:58:51.800
25 and 6, it's just been deathmatch.

06:58:51.800 --> 06:59:18.600
And whatever we get out of this game, it's still nice to see another Kazak player into

06:59:18.600 --> 06:59:25.000
the arena from the obsession of some of the people we've met here in this city,

06:59:26.680 --> 06:59:31.880
Kazakhstan with a bright future in Counter-Strike, so many young players.

06:59:35.320 --> 06:59:42.040
But today they meet their makers, they met their heroes and Falcons right there on Grand Final Points.

06:59:48.600 --> 06:59:52.600
And just to say they did it without even breaking a sweat.

06:59:55.600 --> 06:59:59.600
12 rounds total for Magic in the entire series.

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They're a very rough set of cards by the Falcons.

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Comes down to this final by-round.

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The Falcons close it clean on their map pig.

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The Grand Finals just around away.

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Just one monosy highlight away.

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A very different game to that quarter final.

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And now, not jumping the gun right, keeping it low, slow, know that they're in full control.

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Not the guys feeling pressure here.

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As Falcons posture out towards A, that's going to keep three players here.

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Looking to be another solid call.

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and misdirect early, keeps attention on the wrong side of the map.

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And now bracing themselves for this mid to be here.

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This is it, the beginning of the end.

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Smokes down, Spain might have to go through

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because his team are crumbling in nappy bombsite.

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Maswell's all that survives and not for long.

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Falcons with all five coming in together.

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Niko double entry and an excellent map from Niko to match Modesty

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as they want to punch all their way to the Grand Finals.

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Valkans do it in two, they do it with ease,

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and they take down the Cinderella story of magic.

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Yeah, breezing into those Grand Finals,

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setting them up for a head-to-head

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versus the reigning champs of Team Spirit.

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This is their first outing with Karagud

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and their first Arena Final all year.

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That's on top of showcasing that amazing resilience,

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the best they ever have in a playoff game,

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Just yesterday, things are really starting to look up for the Falcons.

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Yeah, eight years on from Karaghan, deemed the problem and removed from the phase roster,

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reunited with Niko, looking like the solution on the stage,

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dealing with chaos, dealing with match points against them.

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Falcons stay resilient, they persevere, they go all the way,

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and this is a Falcons with a great head-to-head against Spirit,

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who get to take them on in a best of five tomorrow for all the Marbles.

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Joining spirit in the Grand Finals, it's the Falcons!

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Kiosk, it was, I would say, a comfortable game for you guys, but looking at what you

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went through yesterday, coming back into this game, was there any worries for you or any

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nerves at all just because you went through so much and maybe not as much sleep or preparation

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I think it was just an unusual game for us. It was a hard game yesterday, but today it wasn't really comfortable for us to play.

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We had some mistakes and some good issues, I would say, but we still managed to win.

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Yesterday was a very difficult game. Of course, after such a short period of time, it was not difficult at all.

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Today, from the nerves and pressure, we just played our normal game and showed the class and won the opponent.

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Now, I spoke to you when you qualified for the playoffs, right?

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This is off camera, but you were very happy.

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You were talking about Karagun.

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You've now played with him on a stage as well.

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What does he like for you as an in-game leader?

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How does it help enable you more?

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Bro, he's insane. I would say he's a fucking crazy guy.

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I would say two things that I like about him.

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It's mid-round calling.

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I think he's really good at it.

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You can just recall everything.

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You see him with, like, micro-detail and he can recall because of his detail.

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And second thing, I think it's the atmosphere and energy inside of the team.

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He brings a lot of jobs and energy, and I really enjoy to play with him.

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It's fucking amazing.

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Awesome.

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Kergan is incredibly good.

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He brings a lot of energy, a lot of humor,

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and also gives great calls in the middle of the round.

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Now he has the smallest details.

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So it's the most fun to play with him.

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And looking at that, what you're talking about with Karagin,

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how much does that help you, this mood, this understanding,

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And how much do you, as a young player, just believe in everything he's saying?

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Bro, I believe in Hader Krochen.

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Everything he's saying, I just trust it.

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Everyone in the team just trusts him.

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In every mid-round, in every round, we just trust him.

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And it works.

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It does work, it's been working.

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And looking at this now, you're in the grand finals, you're facing spirit.

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How ready is this Falcons?

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How ready are you for that challenge in a best of five looking at this trophy tomorrow?

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Pro, we are ready. Scandal person, we are ready.

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It's going to be a good fight against Spirit, yeah.

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I'm sure it will be.

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Tomorrow we are going to have a great fight against Spirit, we are 100% ready for this battle.

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Now, I've spoken to you in other events and stuff before.

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I'm feeling a different energy right now, it's a very positive one.

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But what do you want to say to this crowd, to all the people at home, everyone supporting?

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I want to say thank you to everyone who supports us and my team, we love you very much and thank you for your support, you guys are amazing. We love you.

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They called him the next don.

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They said he was a superstar in the making.

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Massive amounts of money allegedly spent to get him on that Falcons lineup.

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And then we spent a good few months asking where he was.

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And now he stands on the stage smiling, confident, swearing into the mic, no issues.

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Suddenly talking, something we never really heard much from him at all, smiling.

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And all I want to say is mark this moment in your calendars.

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Because in a year's time, if he does become the best player in the world,

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It will be this moment that we will remember when Kerrigan took him under his wing and allowed him to fly.

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Have you ever seen that spark in his eyes before?

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No, all the interviews have seen from him every time.

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I saw it only when they were in China dancing and then one after party came on a scene.

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Fair enough. That's the only time I saw him this time.

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And that's the party night of vibes that Kerrigan brings to the team, I guess.

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But I've never seen him so... Did he see how he immediately...

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Animated. Animated.

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Animated. He's like, all right, it was a good game. What do you think about Kerrigan?

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Oh my god, he's fucking great. He's straight up, right?

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And I think that is exactly what we've been talking about, right?

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We've talked about a couple of things that brings to the table here.

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Number one, the mood.

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And number two, just overall, just grabbing control, taking the reins off these four little

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weapons we've got, and trying to just drain them in and turn them into the force they

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were always destined to be.

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I mean, if people want to say that we glazed here again on the desk, that amount of glaze.

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That's a real glaze.

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Yeah, that is glazing.

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And I don't know what to say about it.

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I don't care what people say.

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I will glaze the whole lot of here again.

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There is a difference between an IGL.

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There is a difference between an IGL and a captain and I think this is something that

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CS fans can sincerely misunderstand.

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He is fourth and what Falcons was laughing was a captain.

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Yeah, I mean, and he looks also a rejuvenator.

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I feel like he looks three years younger than he did three months ago when he was trying

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to qualify for the major.

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But winning does.

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Yeah, it does and just rejuvenated.

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Swai Apex was younger every month.

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And also the confidence, Kisuka said, talked about the confidence that he hasn't cared

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that confidence that Kerrigan didn't have in Kerrigan anymore.

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It doesn't matter the fact that he left, maybe, unexpectedly in all of these things.

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Kerrigan instead of seeing himself, he doesn't think he would last long on that phase roster.

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He comes over here and he brings something that was sorely needed,

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that injection of confidence, of mood, of vibes, and just being a guy that doesn't really care.

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I feel like everyone on this Falcon's roster kind of has this aura of like, we're kind of cool.

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Kerrigan doesn't need to be cool.

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He can be the idiot in the room, he can be the smartest guy, and he can do it both at the same time.

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Honeymoon's a romantic. That's where we're at. We're at that romantic stage. Everyone's in love.

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It's feeling really great. I'm curious about what happens when we get home and suddenly someone has to wash the dishes, because it's coming.

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The event's not even done yet. You're not supposed to bring this up, Sam. Just let them enjoy it right now.

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He was looking at Nico smiling again, it's been seemingly ages since we've seen this from almost all these players actually, right?

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Even Sonic being like, you just sit down, relax and be like, yeah, he's got this.

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Yeah, I mean, just a great showing going into the grand final, right?

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We saw them be super resilient yesterday against Furia and then now against an underdog, just clear house.

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Of course, Magic has had this miraculous run through this event.

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They were two games down in the group stages, they clawed themselves back and were able to make the semi-finals up against Falcons.

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We're also not saying goodbye. They could still finish third in this event.

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I'd love to hear though how they felt about that matchup and how they felt about the experience so far.

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And that's exactly what I will try to find out for you, Sam. I've got Mazva with me here from Magic.

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First of all, this is obviously a tough game for you guys, the hardest team you've ever had to face.

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What differences do you see and feel when you're going up against a team like Falcons compared to the other teams you faced in this tournament?

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Of course, there's a big difference between the teams we played before and Falcons. They give you control of the map, pressure constantly on you. It's very difficult to play against them.

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It's been a damn and another thing that we've played already.

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Now looking at the run you've had here, you were 0-2 down, now you've made it all the way to the semi-finals.

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How has this experience been for you and how much are you growing as a team from each and every game, just being on the stage, everything involving in this event?

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We had a lot of experience from this tournament, a lot of sports, so we find new mistakes for us,

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so we're going to fix it more, a lot of material to learn about.

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And that's really vital for a new team, a younger team as well, trying to come up.

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Tomorrow though, you still got one more game to go, a third place decider against Malz.

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Malz is a team with a lot of experience, they've been in this situation before.

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Do you feel like your team and you are hungrier for that win?

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that win you want it more than them yeah we are hungry and we we can beat them 100%

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oh I love that I love that man I like that confidence as well all right anything you want to

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say to the final amount of fans in here and everyone at home thank you very much we hear

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everything in everyone I love it I appreciate it I like the confidence we're seeing from this young

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man as well. Sam, let's go back to you to close out the game.

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It's the mighty duck story that Blair has hated on since the group stages and here it

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is. I mean, even though they are now taking the fighting for third place, it's still, it's

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just as romantic really as the Falcons then considering the lack of experience.

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I mean, it's a great run altogether from the online qualifiers going down 0-2 in the grand

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final to K23, winning that 3-2 K27.

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K27, not correct, K23. K23 even cooler because it's a Kazakhstanity indeed.

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But yeah, then they come here, they go 0-2 down in the 3rd stage, make it to the playoffs, then beat 9-Z, also a crazy game there.

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So top 4 and tomorrow potentially a chance to get some more VRS on the line.

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There are 46 in the world on VRS before this tournament, 20 seconds right now.

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And that's such an overall cool story.

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And listen, I know you think I hate it on Mighty Docks, but Mighty Docks is one of my favorite movies ever.

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It's just that I just don't want us to get too carried away, but I agree with the VRS points that matter.

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But also more importantly just getting these reps against top tier opposition in an arena like this when it's going to be the next

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Opportunity they can really get that right. We don't really know. I'm sure they don't as well

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So a hundred percent going in tomorrow. They're not gonna be rocking up being like yeah

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It's a third place aside or no

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I think I think it's very seriously and be looking to go in for the kill

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That's the beauty of VRS right because if they do a deep run here

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They set themselves up after the major and then more opportunities on land become available to you

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And that is kind of, I think, what Val was hoping for when they introduced the system.

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Obviously, we've seen it's the abuse, liquid quite a bit.

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But for the most part, it is meant to allow these young teams to rise up.

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Just catching strays, aren't they? All the time.

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It's just so easy.

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Realistically, like Magic played the same amount of arena games as Faze this year.

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I mean, when you put that in the context, it's a crazy thing to think about, to quantify.

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So obviously, happy to be here and one more game to gain more experience tomorrow.

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Let's take a look at what you can expect tomorrow.

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We've got two games.

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Of course, that big grand final, a best of five,

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spirits up against Falcons.

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That is the one that everyone's going to keep their eye on.

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Of course, can Karagan lead those gents to victory?

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Will they be able to lift a trophy?

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Or will Don the destroyer do just that?

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We'll find out.

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And then, of course, Miles up against Magic,

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that brand new lineup facing off against these young guns.

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I think for both of those teams, a very important game.

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sometimes right off that third place game but it is actually extremely important

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for both of these teams. One for Maus from a confidence point of view and for Magic those last two.

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And Naviera's points for Maus as well. I think for a lot of teams you saw the

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the scramble of this season when the cutoff was coming in we had even Aurora who were

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guaranteed you know the stage one invite. Oh no we need to play a few more lands so I think

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every game indeed does matter but I think he also had that nail on the head there for Maus

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especially with his very young new lineup. I know they're going to be playing CSE

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in just like about a couple of days, somebody want to get as many reps as possible,

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even if it is against a so-called lesser opposition.

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Yeah, I mean, we saw some great games from them, but mostly it was just exertion,

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carrying them throughout the tournament.

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Where is the rest of the team? How can they activate the rest of the team?

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Because that's not a sustainable way of winning.

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We know exertion has a lot of potential.

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In the past, it was a great star for them. This year kind of fell off.

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But where are Spinks?

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Whereas, how can we use that?

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Like, is JL the guy for this team?

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There's many questions to answer.

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Lots of questions.

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We'll be able to talk about some of them tomorrow

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when we lead into that game.

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But for now, from all of us here at the arena,

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thank you so much for watching.

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We're giving you an early night, so you

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can make sure you're well-prepared for tomorrow

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as more Counter-Strike is underway.

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PGL is starting.

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Make sure you're here and watching, and we'll see you then.