BLAST Premier World Final 2023, Quarterfinals: Cloud9 vs MOUZ, G2 vs NAVI

The race to reach the final trophy of 2023 continues as a quarterfinals have landed here at the Etsy had arena for two teams yesterday flying high straight On Through To those semis for another two unfortunately their tanks a little out of gas myself Ry be Mari snake and

Of course Maniac are going to be guiding you through the action here at the blast Premier World Finals guys we had some banging games going down yesterday of course we saw vitality and phase prevailing on through but great counter- strike going down on day number two M that phas g21 was catching everybody’s

Attention it’s all anybody could even talk about for the next 10 hours it felt like that was a game that probably deserved an arena in a lot of ways yeah I think the The Counter Strike has gotten one notch higher than the first

Day we we got the two o’s out of the way we kind of skimmed a little bit and then yesterday we had the bangers we had the three M we had the overtimes all that you want to have let’s dive into what’s been class of the highlights of

Yesterday in our CS money play of the day as voted by you over on the blast Premier Instagram uh Maniac what have we got coming up as play num three well we have Nik with a very heroic round unfortunately the end won’t be able to convert but this incept right there

That’s illegal by the way I’m sure there are some rules out there that preclude that kind of action and of course the last four kills and then we’ve got Perfecto the stable force on Cloud9 this was just fantastic 1 V4 situation and look at the last kill the last kill he

Gets on zyu just Clos lines him boom out of the server right there that’s cross the placement in essence and finally our play of the day for yesterday will be Mani with the awp a whole lot of movements as well in that clip starting into secret de to window room blowing up

The door with the awp there’s a bit of a clever brain onto that one the flick from Mani beautiful work for as well he is definitely lights out in this SC he’s just so damn fast every single highlight we see of him it’s like bam you see him

You’re dead oh actually you didn’t see him cuz you’re just so fast only mon sees them yeah we’re just witness to his greatness actually let’s recap exactly what went down yesterday we’re going to be starting off with the group a side of things as the groups have of course

Concluded we still the top and unfortunately at the bottom team eliminated in that with Vitality managing to go straight on through to the semis they’ve only missed out on one playoffs event this year of course back at IM Sydney Apex very happy about that one and Mesi flying high too the Brit

Looking absolutely Elite in the server unfortunately for n yeah it was a game that made na’vi sweat surprisingly but they are eliminated from the tournament of course alongside na’vi Cloud9 are going to be competing today for that final semi-final spot for Cloud9 is a chance to do the double and make it to

Two playoffs in a row for na’vi uh it might be a bit more unlikely on that side of things because uh they didn’t look super stable in that game yesterday Maui we’ve still got some question marks about them right it was weird to see how badly na’vi looked on their own t- sides

When you would imagine that Alexi B should be able to put something together they just felt sometimes like a little too static a little too clumped up like it almost felt kind of Blocky the way that they played it was not really the smooth flowing na’vi that we’ve been

Used to with some of the past rosters when blad’s been uh coaching Boom for example yeah you would wonder where they’re at in this kind of collaboration between Alexi B and blade I don’t think it really has come through and then some of the individual Brilliance we were

Hoping to see I think is fading away a little bit wonderful is spting numbers without the UN Factor bit is kind of Hit or Miss imma is still chasing this peris dream that maybe we just completely made made that up so there’s still a lot to

Desire when it comes to Navi mat did you ever have it on your 2023 bingo card that a British player would be the highest rated player at a tier one event because obviously I did I always believed that Brits would come back and Prevail but Mesi the highest rated

Player so far it’s crazy to see his impact yeah I mean the improvement from Copenhagen to Abu Dhabi is out of this world let’s be real and in Copenhagen rather um very timid fragile in some of his positions but they talked about it in interviews as well that he was

Working on it they were giving him the time and the support to do so I’m going to be a little bit tame we’re talking about four Maps here but the four maps that we’ve seen holy hell it’s to the point where you you would be remissed to

Forget about majes like Mesi is coming in he’s having a very similar impact some of the positions he’s got he’s he’s the one that gets the least resources in some of the position he’s got he’s not being set up for multi-kills and still he was delivering absolutely beautiful

Counter- strikes if this goes on nobody beats Vitality yeah it’s been incredible to witness kind of how fast he’s been integrating to this Vitality Squad but but moving on to the group b side of things of course that was rounding out the day yesterday where we had two more

Best of three games is where we saw FaZe prevailing they’ll be the ones going straight through to the semi-finals and a chance for them to potentially be lifting another trophy in CS2 as we move on into the weekends action and for Frozen man this has been a great

Integration so far into the squad heroic kind of makes sense that they were the ones to be finishing last in this group because they were coming in looking wounded not exactly sure how that roster is going to be going moving on forward of course Ma they’re going to have an

Opportunity today versus Cloud9 to make it through to the semis and proove okay the loss of Frozen yeah on paper it looks really damaging but maybe they can Prevail and make it to top four but I want to talk about the game that ended out yesterday you already talked about

It Maui FaZe taking on G2 what an incredible game I’m so glad that we went to overtime in the third map because that was a bang over a series if we didn’t go to overtime we wouldn’t have had carrian first Ace since 2021 so sick exactly what a way to kick off that

Overtime and for phas and how they are looking going into this event it really was just a slight question for me how how is Frozen going to integrate into some of these positions I’d say day one he looked incredibly cohesive he looked like he was playing off his teammates

Exactly how he should have been like he was been on this team for for years yesterday a little bit more questionable in some moments he didn’t have the same sort of performance but that’s what you would expect against stipper opposition like G2 yeah I agree with you and and I

Really think that the qualities that were true to the phase with twist still remain here and we got some glimpses of that versus G2 sure it’s not perfect it’s not polished there are always moments that are a little bit inlux but when it comes down to the clutches when

It comes down to these mini comebacks of three or four rounds where you really have to hit it right on the hell this is where face shine and let’s be real G2 had multiple opportunities to win this entire series it could have been on nuke already and on Ancient newbies brother

At the end of course they were poised but if you allow face to come back to that 12 T position that’s just it the the lack or the differential of level and quality of cuse and Perfection of communication from that moment on it was night and day between G yeah of course

G2 have another opportunity to be fighting today in our second game of the day but unfortunately for two teams yesterday uh the end of the line we’re going to start off by talking a little bit about heroic because I don’t think it’s a surprise to see them eliminated

But it’s kind of crazy maniac when you look at the trajectory of this team just over this year let alone last year how the Mighty Fall I know counter- strike moves very fast time is a relative concept for us in this game you’re talking about a a name a brand that were

Champions in Washington we’re talking about the champions of the spring season here in blast and now in Abu Dhabi 6 months later barely this is a project that will completely explode that is what is going to happen the trajectory of that and that in itself is a very interesting topic in Counterstrike the

Survival the tolerance to losses and how you deal with it as a group the decisions you made this is a completely different heroic and oh that graph is actually this is that is that the graph of Bitcoin or is that what’s happening it does look like a cryptocurrencies

Fall I want to just give a light shout out though to Zeon and his performance at this event I really felt like when he was just left on his own he was a guy that was very dependable he ended the tournament with a 1.06 rating about 84

ADR and every time he was just kind of lurking around the map he was actually finding kills on teams that were pretty well structured yeah I mean to look at some of the members that you know were already existing in the old her roster um tesas what’s going to be the deal

With him going forward right well honestly I think he put himself in a bit of a particular special position with this whole hey I want to be an igl from now on like you know what tesas was bringing to the table not that he was a perfect

Or a finished product they were always some areas where there can be Improvement but now he’s operating this kind of 90° turn where I’m not just going to be a strong player or that entry Fragger Revenge player on the T I want to be a leader and from the the

Noise we’re hearing it doesn’t feel like he’s going to be given a chance anyway whatsoever in the near future so I don’t exactly know where tesas is going to land out and I don’t really know how to round out his kind of tenure because that turn happens here changes the whole

Narrative yeah and of course for exist as well we know that it’s confirmed his last game in the heroic Jersey as a coach so let’s revisit a few words that he gave James Bank just yesterday yeah it’s it’s been a roller coaster uh we could have won a few more

Events but I’m still super proud of the boys I mean we basically went from onliners if you may call us that before right and we we managed to to play some really sorry about that impressive C us uh on the big stage as well and yeah I’m super proud of the

Boys for that and you’re staying with us you want to continue coaching yeah uh definitely I want to I want to stay and uh or I want to continue coaching right um I think it’s been a lot of fun and uh I think I think I’ve uh I devel I

Developed pretty good into it as well and I feel comfortable um but I’m in no rush into making a decision so let’s let’s see what happens yeah of course we know exist is quite a private guy but I think he developed excellently into this role because just look at some of the

Accolades that hero were able to achieve over the past two years right we kept talking about the fact that they had the highest floor of any tier one team and I would say that is doing part to the system that him Kaden put together the fact that they’re always very well

Prepared going into every single opponent obviously on the big stages exist probably wishes he could do a little bit more but overall exist could easily slot on to a handful of top 15 teams I mean he he’s got the pedigree and the results to at the very least

Gner attention from teams out there and this is sometimes uncomfortable for me to stand here because since he is a little bit more discreet in interviews and and being open about the impact he’s got on the game plan I don’t really know we’re just waffling about how much he

Would have helped kadon get to that point kadon was a very out there kind of personality was taking ownership of what was happening in heroic a lot which we like for a leader but as a consequence I don’t really know how much exist was involved he’s been a successful player

He’s won a bunch as a player majors and whatnot and now as a coach but I hope he gets another platform where he can showcase once again that he can work with a different system and be an efficient coach well may you mentioned Kaden’s names obviously we get to uh see

Some of the shots back at the four finals cuz that’s quite a marked similarity when we’re looking at both heroic and an right in terms of how they’re closing out 2023 there are they are definite comparisons that can be made between the NS and the heroic trajectories it’s about being very close

To Greatness having extremely strong results finals even a trophy here and there but then teams that feel like are not cannot survive the losses at some point moments where it gets a little bit complicated and they make such a strong decision Snappy of course on his own going into a different Horizon a

Different project and then for Heroic it’s said listen K it’s not going to work out and this my is like the the most profound change of Direction you can make as a team yeah the core of a team really and the Beating Heart of it is the in-game leader and so when you

Lose that heart it’s really just a bunch of Limbs and sure they might be powerful but until you actually are able to tie them all together you can see that these teams really were not up to Snuff in any capacity without those those old leaders even glaive slotting in for ends just

Couldn’t really actually stand up to what Snappy had built with this roster the structure just didn’t feel same the t- sides were so much worse with glaive instead of Snappy and you think it’s some people might think it’s just plug and play it’s really really not at all

The the way that you have a flowchart in your head of how you’re calculating what needs to be the next play in the round glaive yeah sure he has these these vestages of what happened on astralis and what he thinks might be the meta decision in a moment but he hasn’t

Actually attained all the Reps that people like Snappy did that made Snappy or and ends such a formidable Mound team I I I really like that you mentioned that because I agree with you in that specific case of ends and heroic the leaders were so singular there was such

A very specific relationship between the leaders and how they were playing Counterstrike kadon played heroic Counterstrike and nothing else and snappy was kind of this Mastermind of always being able to plug in player a little bit similar to carrian but with his own kind of Paintbrush to it so I’m

Going to I’m just going to put it out there I’m kind of sad for glaive and how things are pinning out right now and I am not I’m not saying that glaive would have succeeded with that roster because that is a hypothesis that none of us can

Confirm right now all I’m saying is it feels like he’s not going to be given the chance to show that he could that Ruster just did not believe in that because especially when we uh look at the context outside the server as well cuz there was some there some rumors

Circulating Maui and sunp he didn’t confirm nor deny those yesterday when he spoke to Banks right the way that sunpay exited there the way that nurs exited as well it does feel like there was a lot of weight on the shoulders of the N players in terms of what’s just going on

With them they they seem to be targeted by heroic right now they that might be their next home and so they probably weren’t putting their best foot forward in a lot of ways and we had to yesterday that when they were playing in that series versus na’vi they had to play

Themselves into shape it felt like they were just going to lose with without even a single whimper but a couple individuals started popping off but it just wasn’t enough to actually get the the whole train going and it’s kind of a crazy thought because I have no idea

About the financial implications of any of the moves for either organization so I’m not going to dive into this but if that’s happening if this core is really moving and going towards a green of pastures it really means they said we believe in this other project more than

What we have currently the tools that we’re being given the whole Kuan glaive Association that you we think somewhere else can be better can lead us to a higher counter- strike and that that’s a very strong statement to make it’s made of unknown we don’t know how it’s going

To happen in this new project yeah that’s a very at point that you were making yesterday Mari right the fact that you know you have uh potentially a Ming meter and a coach to now be backing you but you prefer to kind of uh move to different pastures and maybe experiment

A little bit I don’t know it seems like it could be a handful of different factors that’s influencing their potential move it could be money it could be that they know that somebody else is locked in for the new heroic IG spot it’s kind of up for up for grabs in

Terms of what to make of that but one thing’s for certain that they clearly didn’t completely believe in the project that they’re on right now yeah and for glaive I mean aply as you said mat it’s a difficult situation for him to find himself in particularly when you know

He’s wanting to come back into CS2 and he’s going to want to prove himself that he can go hey obviously one of the greatest to ever touch CSG go but this is a new iteration I want a new team around me and in spite of an incredible

Resume right now I wouldn’t say he’s credit is to too high the last few months with australias were complicated both as a team and individually and now he might potentially have to rebuild something from the ground up so if you actually have that new page in your book

Of Counterstrike it’s going to have to go the hard way yeah of course an and heroic sadly departing the World Finals here in Abu Dhabi in last place of their respective groups but let’s take a look at what’s on the cards today because we have two very very tasty quarterfinals

Indeed we’re going to be rounding out the day with G2 versus na’vi to see who else is going to be taking that semi-final spot but first Cloud9 versus mouse Cloud9 versus Maes our first quarterfinal of the day with a spot at the semis up for grabs and for both of these squads there’s a semblance of instability I think it’s fair to to say in both camps for Cloud9 it’s the question of you know is the or really

Going to leave that much of a hole is it switching hands going to be that much of an issue for the team for ma their issu is a little bit more obvious because a frozen massive piece of the puzzle now departed and joining phase so match I

Want to get your initial thoughts on what we’ve seen of Ma so far how evident are the holes with Frozen’s departure I mean definitely from an individual ston Brolin isn’t Frozen and I’m not really bringing you any incredible statement on that one it’s just a fact M have decided

To do a position for position switch which means broland is also in positions when he needs to deliver take an example a overpass at the very tip of the defense uh with the rifle that’s somewhere where you have to have the output but I will say looking at the

Mouse roster right now you could definitely see against heroic that we had a mix versus a team and the qualities of Mouse as a team still remain they are very very well oiled and prepared in their executes how they transition from map control to actually pouncing you can see the players still

Have these sort of plans and they know how to do that so broland is in a I mean he’s got responsibility and expectations but he’s pretty comfortable because what’s around him still makes sense the structure is here and he might just have to focus on his Crosshair exactly the

Bones of ma are still strong enough that it’s going to hold the pieces together regardless if you swap one of them out and the cor and shui tzi yat I mean they have been a sight to behold they still perform incredibly well as all individuals and then with Brolin even

Though we’re seeing that he’s getting a lot of responsibility in these positions thankfully a lot of them are sort of lur spots so he doesn’t actually have to always be a guy in the pack that has to make sure oh cover my six make sure that I’m what you’re watching this I’m

Watching that he probably doesn’t even have to communicate for most of these rounds so he can focus on what he’s doing which gives him A Punch’s chance to actually have some nice impact yeah and I also feel I don’t know if you agree but I think because of these

Positions we can we can scrutinize him and how he plays because I don’t think he’s being thrown away as Canon fodo or whatever he’s been put in positions where even though he doesn’t really know the Playbook of mouse to too well I’m sure they spend time talking about it

But a whole lot of it is based on live analysis and live inition of what’s happening if I’m lurking on a overpassing the ABS I can just look at my radar here it comes I know what’s happening in the team and this is the moment where I strike so we will judge

Him on how he’s performing because of the roles and position he’s got well let’s speak to one of the youngest guns on the side of maich Yin fact curtesy of banks fact you coming into the event right now as the second highest rated player but I wanted to see because

Obviously Frozen’s come out of the team do you feel like there’s a need for you to step up more and perform better I mean I think it’s for everybody to step up in with only enough that um David left because of course he’s really good player insane player I would say and

There is no really nobody that can replace him so I would him that everybody now needs to step up individually and we look at your games it was a tough opening game you lose out don’t win a map then you dominate heroic but we kind of expect it where do you

Feel ma is at right now where do you feel this team is at what can you do I mean I think we are kind of like The Underdogs I would say in a way that um we are playing with sanding um so we didn’t didn’t have that much of un

Practice before we came to the event so we are playing Pretty loose I would say and just play with confidence and have fun it’s really important but yeah I mean I would say that many of many of the teams here they also have standings or they have new players so it’s a bit

Weird situation I would say but yeah it’s new for everybody I would say so it’s interesting now I like the fact that you said you still want to have fun right one thing I see that has not changed I look at the team and even though Brand’s here you guys still so

Happy you come in and you’re like dancing playing music having fun is the energy still the same has it changed at all no I I would say it it it didn’t change at all like it’s it’s just we have a lot of fun and I think it’s

Really important that um we have fun then we will play good CS now going up against Cloud9 you’ve not face this Cloud n we know about their Ro we know about their style and way they play but do you feel like you have enough right now with the practice you’ve had with

Broling coming in that you can take down them because they’ve been constantly getting to playoffs and looking very strong I would say that they it’s a really good team against us like we never played them at least I don’t remember playing against them so um it

Will be interesting match for sure but I also know that it’s a bit messy for them like with the rols they don’t have like op and stuff like this so yeah I’m really excited but I think it’s a really good match up for us because of that do

You you take more risks against them with them not having an Opa maybe a little bit do you think that’s how M should be approaching it going yeah might as well throw some more wrists out there definitely if you don’t have a strong op presence against you it’s time to go for

Some jiggle Pats it’s time to actually go for some dry duels rifle V rifle and there’s some great rifl on mous oh definitely and exertion probably is finally going to survive more than 10 seconds in a round I just wanted to quickly touch on Yad out there we had

Him for interview one of the best signings this last year easily and if it weren’t for the the extraordinar robs of the magic of the world this guy would blow our mind because anchors used to be discret anchors used to have low numbers it just used to be a one kill stay alive

But the new gen Generation Now does way more than that impa can be aggressive he’s got incredible mechanical skill his decision- making feels like he’s 32 years old he’s got his life he’s got a 401k already planned out he knows exactly how to do all of it he’s been

Playing so well in Mouse and this signing is pure diamond if you even compare him to just what they had before in jdc jdc was kind of that old style compos it’s just you know he’s trying to do everything right he’s trying to make sure he doesn’t mess

Up or anything like that but Yad has just gone so above and beyond when you watch him anchor a bomb site like be it just feels like he’s the most over qualif always comes up with ridiculous multi frags like 3K without any support flashes whatsoever his mechanics are

Brilliant his his positioning is just so topnotch and he has great decision- making on t- sides too and when we’re talking about you know these comparisons of of star anchors none more apt than when we’re looking on the other side of the server right because oh boy it’s

Perfecto awaiting for you and that’s a strong comparison to make because if I take you back to 2021 and na’vi winning in Stockholm Perfecto is a guy you look towards when it comes to Anchor roles and being able to clutch and have very serious moments we we had this whole

Comparison is that shush is it Perfecto and now yat is kind of skating outside he’s like move away old man this is how we do it and it’s true the numbers right now they paint a relatively Bleak picture if you’re a clown9 fan there’s no real battle here yat has got his

Number figured out in terms of output a lot and perfector has been more quiet than what we like from him because I I’ve always had very high respect for what he can do it’s been a bit more timid here in Abu Dhabi I was going to

Say Copenhagen that was two weeks ago it does feel like Perfecto’s fallof has kind of been just sort of an individual failure on his end in terms of the fact that when he’s on bomb sites or when he used to be on bomb sites he used to be

So good at dropping the right piece of utility to counter whatever exec is coming towards him and then he’s able to either pick up a multif frag or just stay alive forever but sometimes I’m just catching him dying he just he just sometimes loses that first fight

Immediately and I’m not really sure if there’s something that’s going on with him or the system of the team that’s made him a little bit more uncomfortable but I will say one thing is that on Ancient he’s the oper for them too so I think the r swaps has made Perfecto a

Little bit weaker on that end too and I mean you’re right when it comes to like the utilities and how we we used to look at Perfecto because I feel like it’s symptomatic of clown line it almost feels like because they’ve had to deal with so many structural issues and like

Deal with snipers and no snipers and all I don’t really see the same kind of inventiv or creativity from the utilities and finding new stuff new ways to react they’re a bit more stuck in the past relying on quality which they have within the team but still sometimes they

A bit behind the Met well we have quite a lot of questions about the oring situation in Cloud9 unfortunately Perfecto has some answers for us courtesy of banks I want to look at ancient where we’re seeing you pick up the or a bit here and I want to see do

You feel like this is something that can just be good CS like you can play and win like this and how do you feel like it affects your personal level you know if I play a op on all maps I can just practice hope but now I play only

Ancient so it’s hard to I don’t know train the only op on only M4 because I need to train all the guns so we just do basic things in the on the ancient I mean op looking K op looking meid it’s it’s enough for for us and we try to

Play like it but overall we’re still seeing you go deep in tournaments make playoff runs right but to go fur do you think you can keep going like this no I think we can but I don’t know we need we need something special I don’t know but

We try we we look our Damas we play good but we not have the I don’t know the special s Just One S for win so yeah the little details that needed right in moments like that for you though you guys have not faced this m and it’s a m

With broland not Frozen coming in do you see them as a weaker opponent in this sense uh Frozen it’s a good player and he have much um he shows a very strong Counter Strike so when he left mouse mouse of course a v like before but he

He have good Captain he have good system so it’s going to be good match I love that Banks posed that question about the oping situation cuz Perfecto’s reaction kind of just said it always like yeah I guess I’ve got to do this listen I mean

He’s he’s part of that team and he’s got to respect whatever they’re doing and of course he’s going to make what he’s got but let me be clear he’s pissed about it he does not like the counter stri that’s been played he’s been referred to by

Many many teammates as a genius of the game very cerebral and you can almost see within his like it’s like the meme of someone smiling in behind he’s crying like yeah I mean we do the best we can yeah it’s just how it is they have a

Limited way of approaching the game and it is not optimal which puts a bit more pressure on individuals if we want to get into the map video though really quick because we got Mirage coming up here this is boom oping yeah so I think this is going to

Be a bit curious for them I’m I’m really interested in the fact that Cloud9 definitely have some footage to go off of here Mouse have played this one in at this event already and they probably should have known that this pick was coming and so I want to see if they just

Have any real answers for what Brolin’s doing lurking towards that a side H I’m just I’m just thinking you you mentioned boish with the awp and I have some of these moments printed in my mind against Vitality where he made life really hard but I also feel like it’s it’s hiding a

Harsh truth behind which is if he doesn’t have an awp I feel like there is a lack of stability on the defense like that whole b side be crunches from short and to Mid when bage has been forced to play with the rifle it has been

Complicated at time so might be a little bit relevant or rather reliant on the economic cycle can he bring the awp can be a bit more aggressive and we’re going to have a couple of DS maybe towards with Tori or exertion if he comes from catwalk we’ll have to see if they can

Hold on as mauley said of course we’ve seen Miles playing this very map of this tournament with this roster so matchu any kind of key takes from how they’ve I guess not been switching it up because brn has switched in position for position for frozen but any differences

In approach no I wouldn’t say difference in approach but I will say that if you clown n what you cannot allow to happen is a regular map control to pounce and then for M to execute the second part of the round because this is where they have the probably play better Counter

Strike than clown 9 their Protocols are Tighter and much more oil if you let Mouse take connector control sort of ladder room control and then they can just move on to the next step in the round they do it very very well so clown9 can and have to be disruptive

Electronic has to be out there it has to be the bulldozer has been this entire event if you let shui go through the the Motions through the steps I think they have a shot well we are ready to get this quarterfinal underway Mirage The Pick of ma coming into this series and

We’ve got Henry G and Anders to guide you on through it yes indeed welcome to the quarterfinals it is going to be Mouse taking on Cloud9 we haven’t got to see Mouse yet Anders broland in the roster Frozen removed um but going up they said they have a loose play style

Today they they didn’t have much to work with but they’re having fun they look like they’ve got a a good vibe with the team go against Cloud9 who are certainly the favorites here but by Mo by no means a lock in definitely not a lock in right

It’s it’s also a roster that you know I think famously now we’ve been talking about you know lacking that main awps there there there’s some unknowns in this lineup still well on this map at least we do know boom is going to be the main awp player but whether it works out

For them I’m not sure toi is looking so good right now you f the second highest rated player in the tournament H so they’re going to have their work cut out for them as I have no idea which way this one’s going it will be Cloud9

Starting on this T side here as we set up for a fiveman execution on the a bomb site two smokes two flashes a P250 in the hands of Hobb but the jeules of the afor mention fori ready and waiting this is quick Anders in we go yeah he’s set

Up for it already going to be close and he will get the first shot taking down hob and he keeps going boom which has been blown up and it’s just going to be two people left fighting now axile on his own up in the palace looking for

Something it’s taking a sweet time that H you with the last one is very clinical on that one and just absolutely shut down the defense it couldn’t have worked any better I’m not sure you call you can call it an execution when they don’t get past the a round yeah you know didn’t

Even get on the steps um that is wild it’s toi absolutely mowing them down with with the Dual Elites four kills in total and look how much time he’s got he doesn’t even need to go for this kill but he wants that he wants that quad

Kill and there’s nothing but a head shot as well absolutely brutal from toi it’s firing the boys up has got me excited as well and we’re going to have to have the full Eco and as as we said five players once again to the opposite side of the

Map this time towards B and maybe even the underpass so we have a look at the bu you can see they’re focusing on the rifles right now Mouse know there’s a nice opportunity here to get the rifles out early and have nice utility going to get AK going forward it’ be interesting

That see towards you to the F and actually went for the or we saw that a couple of times this tournament uh but uh oh God what’s happening here they’ve got the first couple of kills Anders I I don’t even know they knew they were down there they absolutely knew that is the

Bomb on axile so a little bit unfortunate but the gun showing is it going to be the burst fire finally I don’t think J knows now he’s going to finally check it out my God that was scary a safe Pair of Hands at the B bomb

Site that’s what gy Fat’s known to be he brings it back to a three versus three bear in mind Su players tantalizingly low as well nice grenade should do some damage towards Perfecto and that great start they had is slowly but surely dwindling opening kills found for Cloud

9 they’ve recovered a Famas and an M4 but bear in mind 24 and 13 HP on Hobbit and bomit respectively and Perfecto he’s got 81 points of help and no Kev so massive advantage to kick things off but losing the bomb towards the apartment certainly slows things down 30 seconds

Here and I don’t think there’s much chance of them winning the round if they can find one more kill I think that would be great going forward considering there’s a nice strong Buy in the next round yeah that would be frustrating for uh for the CT side no question about it

It’s so confusing cuz Su and and exertion knew that there was somebody in underpass like they were they were sort of looking at each other gearing each other up to go for it and then it just didn’t work out at all it was very weird there’s the kill you were talking about

It’s boage leading it if they get the bomb PL as well that is wild 5 seconds left here Perfecto gets a head shot the spray is in for tshi but this is so crazy they will lose the round ultimately cu the time just running out

They sort of came off the bomb plan but still that is such an expensive round coming out there for Mouse yeah that’s kind of crazy actually like they’re smiling on the mouths side but they should be worried the fact they’ve given up four frags and it comes down to the

The clock that saves them essentially bear in mind sure Boomer’s got no extra money but he did save an M4 he can afford armor himself this was wild uh I thought in Counterstrike supp to have clipping of the barrel anymore through walls but that silencer was peeking

Through and almost cost him his life but Here Come Those rifles as mentioned you can see it’s quite a weak buy now for the likes of M it’s going to be shuy to try and crack things open bravely venturing through the underpass and we’ve got forg applying pressure towards

The B apartment as well good flash is being exchanged axile can feel the presence on the other side of that smoke yeah oh and he’s getting pressured on the other side too but he was aware of it good read from axile able to pick up the kill on torsi exertion here on

The bomb site quick to get rid of him and Exile goes down on the other side of gy fat there just Perfecto left here seems can do a little bit more damage there’s the head shot brings down so and he catches exertion jumping out of the

Smoke what a wild kill that was one versus one and plenty of time a minute on the clock even if the bomb is far away right now this is going to be a hard game for both players to play Perfecto had one of the best clutches of the tournament against Vitality on

Inferno yesterday the one versus four Sim scenes to this sort of situation now up against jfap one of the best players of the tournament right now and he’s got plenty of time to work with the problem Anders where’s that bomb it’s all the way back at T spawn he is a country mile

Away time is ticking and we’ve got JY fat top of middle but he of course has zero Intel as well this this doesn’t really look clear who’s coming out on top the fight will be going down in Middle oh he’s out in the middle of everything he I thought he was behind

The car but here Jimmy to pick up the head shot and shuts down the potential clutch there Perfecto but I got to say those kills were wild and again they really matter right that was about to be three people living for Mouse which would have helped their economy a little

Bit at least but um instead it’s just a one the fact they had little to no utility after suffering so many casualties in the previous round it’s a really nice play there from Mouse they’re up they’re up close they they’re personal playing on the front lines there and good trades coming through as

They win yet another round on the CT side of Mirage here very good effort there from Perfecto I was going to say that there’s an argument to be made they could force by again but I don’t mind this a nice little partial by looks likely to be another execute Play with

Some basic utility and brolan he’s got that basic gun the SMG up and towards the palace here it’s going to be a difficult fight he’s not handling it well he does get one kill but H it’s still a four on four it’s traded out by electronic and uh gives them chance to

Reset the round as they’ picked up the SMG now you know what the first sign that you’re in for a good game is when you see the player cams and you can hear the other team on the you could hear mes yelling in the background as you were

Watching Cloud9 like that’s always a good sign like all right we’re in for something here they fired up bran definitely you know probably could have had a double kill there but you’re right it was a bit awkward like once you’re dancing around those pillars it’s just

Weird yeah he wanted to try and get some information early if no one’s there he can pushing towards T spawn unfortunately he’s up against Kevlar Tech 9 and so it was a difficult fight like I said did well to even get one considering he missed the first few shots as Cloud9 reposition Rec

Coordinate uh making their way back towards B we said there was some execution potential here and that still remains true we got a couple of smokes here couple of Molly Anders and some flashbangs as well ax waiting for his teammates to arrive nice smoke from G

Here uh Maui mentioned on the desk he’s one of the best B anchors almost wasted in his position because he’s so good um it’s very difficult to catch him out but they can hear the MP9 on the other side they’ll probably be fancing their chances here 25 seconds and here comes

That execution and the commitment yeah some grenades thrown in they’re trying to get the jump down but G will get the double kill both of them head shots I think one of them was electronic midair he caught him while he was still trying to get his feet on the

Ground that is a shutdown it’s such a luxury having a good B anchor on this map it allows you to to like defend the middle much more it’s just what a great player I feel like he’s got such a reputation over there as well you just

Going to give him a miss you don’t even want to like bother looking on that side of the map and it’s a valuable assd a dead on this is the initial stages of the round brolan as mentioned I made a bit of a meal of it but it was

Absolutely fine they don’t give it the round it’s another costly one uh just bear in mind that the rounds have been so close Anders M sh have a 4 Z St but they lose one of these they’ll be reset completely CS2 economy is very harsh discussion online about it actually

Going on right now and you can see the money’s brittle they need to keep posting these rounds they want to carry on the momentum if they just give one away and save nothing they’ll be down to the pistols themselves it’s going to be shy aggressive once more this time not

Working out as boom will take him down for the first frag of the round now what’s the response from the CTS here Mouse know it as well they know they just have to or sorry Cloud9 know it they just have to win the one round and

Then they they’re right back on track so I’m sure that’s why they’re keeping up the pressure the way that they are at the moment looks like they might want to go check out the a answer to your question about the response was going to be it’s broling to get the headshot onto

Electronic back into a four on four we go still leaving jat alone at the B bomb site exertion is slowly gravitating in that direction and it could end up a really good choice it looks like they’re going to be splitting it from the catwalk position so he’s going to maybe

Have a long range battle here by the bench we’ll see if he’s up for it I’m sure he is CTS playing proactively boage though catching them off guard is still Yim fat we said he’s so good in this B bomb side but running out of bullets switches to

The USP that could be the perfect weapon though it’s Perfecto he’s got low health and they maintain the man Advantage here Mouse remain undefeated on Mirage as toi continues to find frag after frag one more to go an interesting position but smoked off they seem to be aware of this

Possibility and regardless he still finds the head shot oh that Molotov is going to be quite deep enough to burn him out in the corner no it won’t oh wow takes a fair bit of damage nice find for axile you’ve got to give him credit for

That one double kill so far and he’s in a one versus one but oh prand finds the perfect angle I thought he was going to make his way around to get the bomb PL at the very least but once again Jim fat the is the the anchor man he’s the one

That’s really making the difference here he’s the X Factor he’s so good as mentioned he’s the second highest rated player in the entire tournament beneath Mesi of course and as we all expected you want to see British Counter Strike at the top at most tournaments at least

In my book but opening frags once again for Cloud9 they the five on four they cannot convert a single Advantage so far they’re tantalizing the close handers every round seems to be a one versus one there is an argument to be made they could force by again at least the

Partial by will be coming forward but it’s another clutch it slips by the wayside on The Pick of mouse here looks to be a tactical time out of cloud n as they can’t find their first round yet you know just to glaze Jim fat some more

Here go on they he got the double kill in spite of the fact I think they were going to boost someone up on the box they got caught in the middle of the Boost like that’s where players will normally completely Panic right like you’ve been caught you have to adjust

Suddenly he takes the fight down towards cboy still hits the headshot no problem he falls back gets another it’s it’s just like I don’t know what it takes to put him out of his comfort zone like that’s supposed to be the point in time where you you do screw up a little bit

Cuz you’re panicking you’ve got caught trying to boost like he just doesn’t seem to be affected by any of itely not I’m a big fan I’m sure most of the Counterstrike Community is in my book Rookie of the Year like hands down I know everyone wanted to be donk but like

Jim fats won a pro league he’s been to Arenas I was going to say I mean ton look like a potential future candidate obviously but it’s just that yeah j’s got a little bit more under his build at the moment so and he’s playing big tournaments every every month you know

It’s like I don’t think there’s any debate to be had although donk is more exciting and fun to talk about I suppose post it’s got a fun flavor of the month so execution all five players fors a they have not posted around yet up against the T awp which been performing

Very well this tournament and in this year in general broland though he is going to be tested once again I think he goes down but somehow sneaking away a lot of pressure being applied here chewy isolated by the Flames but toi certainly not mowing them down that’s more like it

Mouse looking for a clean round here they might just find it axar in the back lines even if he gets this frag the or will be recovered but sitting in the smoke for now waiting for his moment to pounce he maybe gets one or two kills if

He gets a clean one on toi he’s going to get the awp it might be worth the knife and indeed it is and now actually get the shot as well need to be very careful on the CT side here they do get the clean round Anders but it does a nice

Injection of cash we’ll probably see a t- sided orb now considering they’ve got excess resources that’s a really pivotal round for Mouse in terms of building a little bit of an economy finally yeah like it’s a convincing round you know like you wouldn’t realize if you just uh saw the

Outcome of these round they’re up 6 to Z but nice work from shuy didn’t panic and even did ax out just securing the bag there securing the back no or and toori is going to have a field day against this tside of Cloud 9 it’s a map they do play in the last

Three months they’ve got six appearances but only won it twice and it’s a bit of a main state for Mouse there they always seem to do their best work mainly off the back of Jimmy and torsi to be honest with you as uh the latter

This time not the a bomb site push up toward short good effort very close there on the first encounter I don’t like the fact that there’s three of them behind the carts up there that’s that’s you’re just so grouped up one good grenade I mean how it’s been used to

Blow up and smokes instead but doesn’t have to be a big mistake here for everyone to get bombarded down so kind of glad they Fallen away from that position just a tiny bit still have plenty of time but yeah they’re leaving one player to take a look at it while

The rest look like they’re gring towards the a bomb it could be a more traditional a split coming up the fact Still Remains VI win one of these rounds the money is still not that established like buying back that utility it cost a lot and uh for now they’re averaging

Around $2,000 per player oh broline could screw up this round for for cloudine so bad but if he wins this fight in Palace he doesn’t Perfecto with a head shot that’s huge otherwise how do they keep going knowing that there’s someone in Palace they almost have to

Sort of change their minds but they would never have time to nice little shot from Su and he’s going to be picking off boish as well a whole arm of the attack now just gone they know there’s going to be a player in Palace and he’s low already so Perfecto he

Can’t be the main entry it has to be someone down on the low ground here electronic called up to try and get the job done but exertion making sure they’re not allowed on the bomb side 15 seconds on the clock here even a bomb plant right now it’s going to be real

Difficult yeah well he’s got 10 points of health and there 10 seconds all the 10 really and it’s another two versus one and shy instrumental you might say 10 under yeah the old saying and we are going to see the win stre continue another 5 on four though how many

Advantages do they need before they can close one out they can’t shut down shouey it seems he gets a double kill pretty much every time they come towards sa bombai overlooking position zers two kills as well and there’s nothing paeta could do he’s a clutch master but he

Only had 10 points of Health in no time you know there’s this weird psychology that happens like you almost get like clutch fatigue at one point where you know if you’re close for the first five or six rounds it’s almost motivating you’re like we we are so close to doing

It but after a while that stops being true and you think what do we need to do to win like we can’t do anything like we’re so close and it’s never working they’re in the swamps right now they’ve gone for this weird this like a half

Force F I don’t even know what to call this you got two players pretty much all in that’s boom and Perfecto a Mac 10 a deagle barely any utility here trying to save a bit of residual cash they need at least a bomb plan here to justify this

Sort of investment and we’ll see if they can get anything done they’re looking a bit desperate out there right now the rounds haven’t necessarily been bad they’re finding the openers they’re getting space and control it’s just closing these rounds out another opening kill available but brolan this time

Finding some for toi a rare Miss as they do find some access now towards the a bomb side defecto towards Tetris that is one hell of a grenade lands on top of hob and Perfecto both they’re not really enjoying it four versus five shot rings over the smoke but no

Connection on that side look at those pushing the middle though exertion hunting for axile I don’t know if he’s hearing the foot stemps but either way he’s going to be there a lot sooner than Cloud9 really are even expecting and they might not even make it through that

Flank might not even be a f all need to arrive everyone’s getting wrecked as axile will be left in a five versus one this will do for Mouse that’s the money they needed injected directly into the veins I would say that’s a very nice round once again a weird B in Cloud n

Like I said if they don’t get the Buy and they the bomb down and is the B going forward still going to be compromised uh sure you can probably get rifles and the a mixt of GS and AKs but ah this is getting really rough out

There right now shuy is just putting on a clinic at the a bomb side round after round kill after kill he is dominating them as he finds two more towards the sandwich area there taking a bite out of cloud n my God a time out been used they

Absolutely needed at this stage what are you going to say boys I don’t know what to tell you we’re going to have to talk posting a few rounds here because this one is spiraling it’s not a map they’re well versed in they haven’t got great results in they haven’t bought an awp

Once on Mirage and it’s not like that’s been a huge problem it’s not like T’s dominating them it’s the rifles they just don’t seem to have the the trade potential right now even with the opening frags the the five on fours that they’ve had in their favor I think three

Times now as you can see the score line eight and Zer is not working out for them and you can see uh the kind of sentiment we mentioned before the money is going to be compromised two Gils now in the hands of Perfecto and boage and Bare Bones in terms of

Utility nice move toward here yeah that’ll get you warmed up a little bit shot here I don’t know where the blet went but exertion lining them up it doesn’t even matter Electronics going to be going down H and boom your left oh this is a nightmare unfolding in front

Of our eyes here Cloud n they’ve been so great throughout this tournament they mean the game yesterday they put a lot of pressure but onto their opponents but this is just they’re getting slaughtered here bulit going down Hobbit on his own he’s one versus 5 and he’s one and eight

In terms of the score line it would have been better if they had taken him to eard at this point Henry for anyone watching at home that’s a Lord of the Rings reference I believe we try to get one in at least every broadcast day of every tournament we

Ever attend which is expected I suppose at this point but it’s appropriate because his name is Hobbit I think that’s the angle you’re going with right yeah it’s to me it’s personally it’s funnier because you haven’t watched them mov they just it’s always good to get

One in at least we got it on the first map uh speaking of the first map we’ve got a 80 score line here this is The Pick of mouse at the end of the day if your opponent picks up their pick it doesn’t really matter the score is you’d

Like to get a a round or two hit okay might be able to cause some damage here there’s a lowp toet would do it but wow that confidence as he completely dominates the round once again it was that nice movement he’s moving around pretty much sure A B toi’s

Has got um the kind of pep in his step right now he’s feeling confident Landing his shots and even after all this pressure towards room it’s a swing around from exertion He makes himself known on the server hasn’t had to do too much th far but closing things out the

Reposition and the tech 9 The Bravery to come and challenge once again the money just won’t be an issue at this point they’ve recovered their finances Cloud9 certainly hav these weird buys like we saw them going all in with AKs and deagles and now it’s uh has to be the

Paral I think they realize he’s got to pick up the pace hope for the best here and it’s going from bad to worse as you see brolan Finding the opening frag towards boom in game lead is being removed here but good grenades towards connector they’ve got mid control at the

Very least they’re doing significant damage towards the S unfortunately though the bomb has gone down at Short Axel dropped and rocked by zian as he gets a double brand spotted I think three of them in the middle early on so he knew exactly what was coming that Rush

Towards the catwalk normally one of my favorite strategies to be honest but um this just got completely blown out of the water Mouse then not even yelling in celebration anymore like it’s it’s two onid like we can’t even you know we’re going to look bad if we celebrate my bad

Sportsman let’s just let him have a couple of rounds guys like let’s make it competitive shall we I haven’t seen a blowout like this in years remember and as we always say no one can really ever close out a Counterstrike game it’s never this simple surely yeah I mean we

We had the 10 to return just the other day on Ancient we know that even with two rounds you could do something but what a game that was bloody hell na’vi versus ends if you haven’t watched that best of three after the tournament today make sure you check that out that’s

Right one of the games of the year just not in terms of the level of counter that was played just the drama the emotion the roller coaster that it was the the switch from it being such a such an embarrassing loss for ends into being such a competitive game it was wild

Roller coaster had they have had they won the series God I think the internet would have had a meltdown like yeah I was going pretty hard on them and will for good reason like they did look it was it was miserable to watch for a good

Long while there but um but it turned around so yeah definitely go check it out gets a Gren they have two chances here to try and do really anything it’s it’s unfortunate because for the for the first five or six rounds they were really competitive

Right it was really close down to 1 V ones 2 V2s like they look like they could have punched through the wall but now might be punching the desk in a minute that’s what it feels like never really works but still you know no okay the B execution like we said keep it

Simple at this point try and get a clutch scar oh jight such a sick position for this sort of round how does he always know he’s got his teammate baiting him in oh the molotov though maybe not as sick as you would like he’s got to try and mow them down here and

Finally they been cracked open the B bomb side but still there going to be a couple of kills here I’ll make it four before I can really build a story line and get things going here for cloud n everyone’s dropped in the blink of an eye they find the opener once again

That’s another opening Advantage I’m got to go see in terms of the opening kills what the stats say because it feels like it’s getting out of hand uh with the advantages they’re finding is unable to close them out so in terms of opening Jewels they found four of them now

They’ve had four rounds with the opening frag going in their favor that’s a big problem like there’s a strong correlation between getting those openings and winning the round um it’s bit of an issue right now yeah you could say that that’s totally fair 110 down last round ladies and gentlemen

We’re just going to rush the a bomb out at this point can we fight a single round of cloud n here it’s looking pretty good actually 111 could be possible yeah I think tortu is hyped up he’s like he’s reping into the fights over and over again probably not

Necessarily don’t really need to do it the bomb is a bit exposed here actually got to win this boys yeah you have to it’s a huge double opening for them Su is going to get one but exertion goes down here comes Jimmy trying to get the

Job done gets one there and he’s ready for the rep peek if one was going to happen exile’s a bit low on health but it doesn’t even matter strong head shot but the Gil to take one down Jim fats on his own here takes one a great follow up

Here want to get the back line trying to hold on to the round and he’s nearly swung up on but he gets the head shot unbelievable scenes here ladies and gentlemen it’s the Picker of mes and they have dominated the first half it’s 111 who in your eyes was the csgo

Greatest of all time I mean what did you say device device I I like that who we going with simple God I like this this is actually some considered answers here yeah I mean if there’s a little bit longer in CS go I’ll go for Z of course

It’s fair enough I like that it’s some good honest answers though you consider them for me I would say SAU okay fair enough I just think he’s great great at everything yeah best allrounder yeah of all time oh here we go of all time the last years yeah like Peak like Peak Peak

Like if you go back and all of true outs you would have have him in every single team why is he wrong except he didn’t play First Years of the game but if you say like CS overall I think I know who he’s going to say he number two for me

Oh really really s number three for you yeah damn well for me device the goat that’s my number one too because I think that I think that I also agree that sa is insane though but I would say that the way that device plays is like he’s

He’s not trying to be the best player in the world I think that’s it for me like I think that if he wanted to prove himself more individually he could have done that from what I’ve played with him I think he could easily play more selfish if he wanted to but he doesn’t

Want to do that he’s a humble goat I would probably say symbol yeah I think he’s both great individually also I mean he he he won a ma as well so it’s fair enough you don’t have to I think it’s a totally fair fair name

To throw into the ring um but what about you yeah I would say I would say the same uh simple for me as well I think you know he the other one is obviously SAU I I would say but simple I think Takes the Cake cuz yeah he started quite

Early as well in CS was he was there from the Beginning Coming back I’m be you I’m be you yeah one low carry L one b one b up I’m beting I I’m that’s the though I’m in kitchen one HP nice what’s up Gamers I hope you’re enjoying the Carnage of the quarterfinals here unbelievable score line 11 to one in favor of M Sports

There we heard the comms and how hyped they were to win clutch after clutch as Cloud ners couldn’t get any footing into the game at least they posted one round in the very last possible moment Anders I like that I’m baiting you as yank let I just remind you you’ve got no backup

Here I am Bai yeah well there’s a fine line between you know baiting and teamwork I think y said it’s true here we go second half is already live the dueles put under some pressure here Cloud I needless to say they must win this round M rolin already King off with

A good kill taken down electronic create some space on the bomb site here axile with a strong head shot and he wants to keep it going firing off more shots but that smoke is keeping them safe from CT spawn at least for the minute Hobbit can’t see a thing bomb plan not

Happening right now I don’t think they’re even thinking about it they’re just trying to clear space yeah it doesn’t look comfortable out there they got CT surrounding at this point they just want to make sure they isolate these fights and it’s going to be working out sh will take down Hobbit and

There’s lots of damage being dished down either side Perfecto down to 7 points of help it’s a three versus two Axel holds toward the STS he’s already hit an impressive head shot but that bomb will finally be planted here he won’t be able to stop them as that already a bit of a

Victory in its own right a leap of f from axo leads to his demise as we get map points in the first round of the F second half and that is wild what a round it was so that’s probably the most exciting round we’ve had uh it wasn’t

Clear which way it was going but M Sports stay calm cool and collected as they find that bomb and close things out I think cuz they don’t have any any smokes or flashbangs or anything to retake with axile was like I I have to just to try and be a human flashbang and

Just jump in there and see if I can shock and surprise everybody he’s not going to be working out but got to buy boys have no choice bring out the shotgun oh dear it’s ancient up next uh just to note that The Pick of Cloud 9 I

Think it’s safe to say this one is done we are going to see the opening Frack for toi probably a couple of them as yes indeed he will convert both kills sh are we playing with the new shotgun animations no on the old patch oh you would have loved to seen that

Shell fly out of the shotgun wouldn’t you I think you made all the difference here like that no I ask that very important question I like guys I need to know will I be seeing the shot and shells fly is it will change my commentary I know it’ll change Anders is

For sure yeah suddenly feels like a huge lead down like you know I was looking forward to it double double Scouts and double tags should we and zerion down low like this round okay I was about to say not conclusion but uh I don’t know I’m running out of things to say for

Cloud 9 here I think we all can agree this one’s done another Scout shot Lander still okay keep that up I might stick around AAW here we go he wouldn’t would he he wouldn’t win it like this three on one Perfecto with the max seven to clutch it out Anders you believe

In not without the shells Henry had the shells it would be different like yeah he’s throwing it away he’s realized like you know what why even use it at this point it’s not worth it what can he even do absolutely honestly go for another no scope head shot like that at least is

Like newsworthy you know if you get a couple of them here maybe somebody will put it on Reddit and you can sort of smile about that later you’re not going to be smiling about the game at all he’s he’s got no kit and he’s walking through CTS pwn like there’s absolutely nothing

That he could do to win this round it’s all already done what a map it’s been for Mouse we’ll give him a chance may maybe the server crashes I don’t know maybe something crazy go goes down but ladies and gentlemen as you might expect Mouse closed things out after posting an

111 score they post 13 Rounds in round number two of the second half a dominating performance for shy looked like an absolute Beast with 17 kills Cloud9 need to wake up if they want to stand a chance here in the quarterfinals I am absolutely stunned one solitary round from the side of

Cloud9 throughout that entire map cuz ma looked like there was nothing that they couldn’t do talk about absolute domination I was not expecting that one mat you I’m kind of pissed off I’m going to be real with you I’m kind of frustrated with the Counter Strike we’ve

Seen I was hoping for a game that game hasn’t started quite yet because for a game you need two teams playing Counter Strike and there was only one right there I think we should start at the very very beginning and the first decision for clown9 to start on the

Tside versus the CT side which in itself can be a bit of a questionable choice but if this is what you’re going to put first like is that is that an admission of guilt for how weak the CT side might be and you want to avoid that because I

Think clown9 have looked better on t- sides overall but holy hell was this terrible and weak that decision obviously blew up in their face I don’t know if it would have they would have fared that much better on CT side but that that actually does make me think

About the the fall finals when they played Vitality how they did look better on Mirage actually on the CT side even with boom opping we never really got to see that come into play but that was just an entire Ju Just An obliteration by Ma they played so much better they

Knew every answer for what Cloud9 were throwing at them that being said Cloud9 looked incredibly disjointed they did not look like the roster that I’m used to they have I’ve liked their t- sides a little bit more now that boom is coming to The Fray that was a testament against

Everything I stood for in terms of boich being the rzl Lord I mean listen we’re not going to take anything away from from M like anytime someone was tested it was multi- kills GL you could almost singlehandedly take every player of that roster and I would point a multi- kill

To you J on the B side broland on the a side of course sh he had crazy moments but I don’t think they did anything out of this world or extraordinary on their City side and how they were playing being super aggressive they were B they were going through the motion they were

Playing basic Counter Strike they were very good at relaying information retaining what was needed but it also means that at no point in time did Cline surprise them Ms were never caught with their pants down ever any it’s basically the playing Counterstrike in the most fanciest comfortable it’s like being in

A nice restaurant you know the menu like the menu is coming your way it’s a five course you know what’s going to happen you can get ready for it get in position that was a little too easy for my it didn’t even look like Cloud9 woke up on

An individual level we saw the Highlight package there from shui and he’s presented with some 50-50 dels there and yet they’re just not even shooting him back I it’s not even just the Strat calls that were bad for Cloud9 it’s that even when they were presented opportunities to try to get back into

Round it just did not feel like the Firepower was there whatsoever but Chu himself I mean I want I do want to give him some credit because that connector his timings were so strong in terms of catching Cloud9 out when they were trying to take map control he was such a

Little disruptor there when when they were trying to take that space away from him or they were executing onto the a bomb site always just had such a great sense for wins the right time to swing yeah he was very clearly feeling the rhythm of this game which for Cloud9 uh

Not at all just going back to the tside discussion of why they chose to start on it obviously we don’t know the reason but do you suspect it’s because of the oping situation is that kind of the only reasoning you could see of hey maybe we should be starting off on the aggressive

Side well Cloud9 actually have picked the t-s side on a couple Maps they they like doing it on Inferno also for example and so I know that Groove has kind of thrown this in as a curveball to teams in the past and given that for whatever reason they probably saw

Themselves as an underdog at least on Mirage they probably wanted to just flip the script to try to see if they can be the tempo Setters as opposed to letting ma dictate the pace because ma we we never really had to even see it there but they’re very good at taking mid on

Mirage no no I I’m right there with you some there is a theory out there as well if you start in the first game in the morning being on the T set as well lets you dictate the piss just a little bit more but we just haven’t seen that like

It’s it’s not like they actually did it’s not they they didn’t take the game two miles it was just it was very very fat you know who was taking full advantage of the situation as well young Jimmy boy oh boy did he have a great start he’s just been looking so fire and

It’s so great to see because we talked about it you know the context of him coming in uh back at EPL Maes lifting the trophy at no point has he ever even looked like a liability for the side of mes anything but I mean he keeps on

Delivering it and I’m glad we got a couple of these team speak moment as well that we had during the break at at halftime as well just to kind of put in context and in perspective how much they’re talking with each other in these moments because there were a few

Moments that were a little bit on a knives Edge like a just a contextual 3v3 on the BS side but it feels like they were very activated in relaying information like I’m baiting for you I’m behind you one one could be behind you brol and say yeah one is behind me they

Were just on top of any possibility that could happen that could turn a situation around and Y of course as that Baner has to be able to give that information to his teammate whoever is backing up needs to know what’s happening on the side yat

Reminds me a lot of when bit just hit the ground running for na’vi where you put him onto some kind of anchor position like I think of ramp on nuke especially for how these two players are so similar where the old era of those kinds of anchors was just you know you

You play for information you Jiggle It Out you see if they’re there throw a smoke behind you make sure that you cover Your Tracks don’t die for no reason but yat just takes fights bit took fights too when he was on na’vi and when you can impose your abilities on

Your opponents like that it’s such a luxury for your team because they don’t actually even really have to rotate CU he kills everybody yeah I was going to pose the question if um I mean with Frozen parting I don’t even think it’s worth posing the question because there

Was just clearly no holes in this right there were no holes even prodded by the side side of cloud yeah listen this is a bad example for us to dive into what’s missing when frozen isn’t here we’re not going to manufacture like a debate about this map they just were

Not tested at all let’s be a little bit more patient on that clown9 never reached a point where you could possibly feel the absence of Frozen Yeah well their M pick is on the horizon and we will be moving on to ancient but not before a quick break when we’re back

Cloud9 are going to have to wake up and shake off the rust there m pick awaits we’re diving into ancient very Shortly Is Ancient The Pick of Cloud9 coming up very shortly indeed and Redemption a necessity if they even want to dream of making it through to the semi finals here at the blast Premier World Finals ancient coming through as Cloud L’s pick um give us some Logic for that why do

You they’ve picked into this ma we it’s a map that the tside actually looks pretty solid I I think we just saw the opposite side of that where Cloud9 sometimes have difficulty staging on certain Maps sometimes taking map control be can be a little bit hard I

Think ancient and overpass have been the bright spots for me in terms of sometimes you can just simplify the Playbook they love a good a exec they love a good B exec they don’t even have to go through too many stages of mid control to do those kinds of plays I

Agree with you and on top of that it’s a it’s a map they’ve played a lot which means they’ve gone through the motions of trying to structure and then kind of reshuffling on the CD side we’ve seen it on two different iterations now where they swap around positions a little bit

So it feels like they’ve sort of figured out okay these are the pieces that we have and this is probably the most optimized way we can approach the map at least on the CDC yeah it was a you know a shake up that we saw earlier on in the

Tournament right they were coming in with some new ideas which means Perfecto unfortunately for him um we’re going to see him on the or I’m sure he’s grimacing at that for I can’t believe you’re getting the best gun in the game and and yeah you’re noty about it you

Definitely didn’t like that I don’t want this but I didn’t order this it was hob yeah something to note for people if they’ve been watching Cloud9 at previous tournaments Maybe they missed the game here for ancient it was Hobbit that was opping on this map before he was playing

That mid kind of a rotator position with it mostly and now Perfecto is doing that so Hobbit has actually taken over cave from him and him and bomit have looked disgusting as a unit together they do pretty good huh yeah they they’re so active they’re they’re always willing to

Test their opponents and I mean they’re going to start on the T the T side but when Ma actually have to play an offense it’s going to be tough to deal with that yeah that I think is something that we have to keep an eye on because if I just

Give you the context of mes versus G2 on Ancient we’ve we have seen rather here in Abu Dhabi they got pressure a whole lot towards B Lane so this kind of du you’re talking about the boage and The Hobbit that can be applying pressure on

The B Lane will be something to keep an eye on which Maes struggled as well and on the CT side Tori got caught off guard a couple of times like hookie had a very p a fast pace first degree Counter-Strike we’re talking a 6 to1 score line at the very beginning where

Two of these are immediate apop with a bunch of flashes they had better money they just went at MES and they miles kind of struggled back to come back into the game but the first seven rounds it was just a grave that was already dug up

Yeah the CT side is where mes will be finding themselves to be starting off this particular map so to kind of update people’s databases uh where are we going to be seeing broland slotting in exactly the same position position for where Frozen was pretty sure broland is just

Taking all of his spots and so since Frozen played B before for Ma I would expect broland does that um I I think that one thing that is going to be really worrying though if we’re going to continue on CT spots here is that Cloud9

Love axx and yat is on fire right now defending that a bomb site I’m terrified for them if they really want to go for that because it seems like this guy just gets three kills every single time anybody is in a 50 m radius of him I agree he definitely is the multikill

Machine we’re going to have to see if uh how many gambles Shu comes with because he he has a tendency sometimes to be very aggressive with the calls and we’re talking about just leaving the a side on retake bringing maybe from Temple being a bit more stronger towards the middle

Map middle side of the map and this is where Ma is right with the Simplicity of what Clan is going to put forth maybe just don’t overthink it whatever it is you did on the CD side of Mirage it’s not like you were ahead of the medor you

Just you listened to what was happening you made the right assumption on what was going on and you adjusted your setup I I feel like there is going to be enough basically everything is left to be desired if we’re just looking at that Mirage performance but I want to see

Electronic back in form because it was so damn good so far this tournament he has looked incredibly consistent and it’s great obviously with the wider context of him now just freed up he doesn’t have to worry about leading calling anymore great to see him previously back in the form we know In

Love from him right and when we talk about his tside positioning on this map he’s been frequently lurking a little bit more towards B trying to take Lane sometimes he’ll fight towards cave as well and I I actually think that’s a position that he could abuse if Brolin’s

Not up to Snuff if he’s not actually going to be a great defender on that bomb site that could be the Clash that we’re looking for if Cloud9 want to tip the scales in their favor yeah and that was one of the adjustments that electronic is really benefiting from

When he had that kind of IG mental he had a ridiculous amount of first duel or entry attempt which I thought was completely ridiculous when you have someone of his quality you want him to be at the end of the round you want him to be in these like mid- round sort of

Crucial kills that you need and now on the T side as ma is putting out there he’s only got the second lowest entry attempt he’s not the guy that’s trying to get the kills it’s boage it’s axile basically only perfector takes less duel than electronic so he stays alive and he

Has impact mid round well potentially a chance for cloudine to be redeeming themselves and that is going to be a must if they want any hope of making it closer to the semi-final so Henry G Anders uh do you see that written in the stars for cloud N I think I think

There’s a chance I I like I said at the start of that one it doesn’t matter what the score line is it’s your opponent’s pick sure it it was a show let’s be honest it did go in their favor but there were plenty of opportunities they had five opening frags and now first

Half they couldn’t convert the clutches and yeah if one of those went in their favor we said the money would have been resettled in a very different game maybe there was just a bit of a unlucky circumstances there I’m not sure but it is ancient up next and this is their

Pick this is where we’ve seen boom and Hobbit do some great work towards those B Lanes time and time again they’ve looked Unstoppable I haven’t watched many Mouse games on Ancient to be honest with you so I’m interested to see whether Cloud9 can bounce back after such a devastating loss um from what

They’ve put down today all signs point to know but uh I think they can probably bounce back and work this one out at least give us a good game I want to give them the benefit of the doubt as well although it does concern me that it

Really look like it was only axile that was sort of doing a lot of work there perfector had a moment where he was doing something but close to a clutch that right do you want to see the individuals get put into play a little bit of a Cloud9 we are going to head

Into the second map it is Cloud9 versus mouse and it will be Mouse starting on this CT side so yeah a little bit of an advantage maybe early on here they got a smoke already thrown out from the T side and a Molotov left on boage bear in mind

With the underdogs coming into this one the under mice I suppose as we will see them fend off this B attack it’s double jeules ready and waiting nice attempt of the pl a fake one though and gim Fat’s absolutely destroying everyone and there’s what’s going on here they’re

Losing every single player but there is a response lots of damage inflicted and there’s Julie is not quite connecting Boland he’s had a few issues this game he gets one he hasn’t had his big moment so far on the server but there’s toi that is the penultimate frag that might

Seal the deal Perfecto another clutch scenario here more than capable of winning it it’s got 100 HP Glock Kevlar and shuy and toi to deal with he’ll make his way forward oh if he gets that first kill quickly you never know there it is okay now he has got a fighting chance

And he’s got the bomb as well so playing a game he knows that there’s someone in the middle CU they get shot in the back so he’s he’s already realizing that much just not sure what to do with it yet bomb planted a very good position he can

Fall back here towards the CT spawn so for Su this will not be necessarily that easy obviously no kit no smoke or anything else have to tap the bomb a couple of times try and force Perfecto into the fight he knows where he is now but again 10 seconds my God Perfecto’s

Gone far away he’s playing it so well of the we did call him a genius earlier and this is maybe partially why just buying time and I think time is almost up for Su he’s going to be able to get the head shot there but got it he’s realized yeah

He’s out of time that’s a great yeah you can see that’s frustrating for them they had that one locked in and I feel like they were just sure you want to patrol the bomb and make sure it’s safe but they they they they allow perfector to

Have two 1 V ones and that suggest you played it like incorrectly unfortunately and that’s a first bit of success Cloud line have had this entire series only getting one round in the previous map and yeah a r smile comes through because they know that’s a bit of a heist Mouse

Shouldn’t be losing that one like let him have the bomb it’s fine you don’t have to take those Jewels especially it’s a 5 on three in your favor should have been converted and that’s unfortunate but there it is Perfecto like we said a bit of a clutch master he

Couldn’t have played it any better in the one versus one it looked like actually such a sick plan as well for Mouse like I think there are two people in Middle got murdered by by gy fat but other than that they were faking the bom

On B I think they were always going to fall back from that and then they were going to move up up in the middle like what an insane idea I I wish I could see that play out all the way this is another Slaughter including two a you

Know wrong place wrong time well there we go Mouse will have the work cut out for them now that was the the full Eco Cloud I needed this start here in the second map their pick stealing the pistol away and now having pretty much the Clean Sweep they had to just give M

Something a consolation prize there a team frag coming through not a big deal as they keep it relatively clean M4 is being brought out here the first gun round reel test for Cloud9 they’ve got a Mac 10 in the hands of boage a specialist of the SMGs if you’re not

Aware at home and it can see initial utility mid will be a big talking point here massive grenade towards exertion down to 69 points of Health already he’ll be working towards the elbow position it’s brolan haven’t been massively impressed with his performance but it hasn’t been bad by any stretch of

The imagination replacing a player like frozen can be a difficult Challenge and he’s gone down quickly one again this is looking much better for Cloud 9 here that’s locked in 3 I I think that was based on the the timing the CTS were throwing in wall bangs and then as they were reloading

Cloud just said all right we’re just joining up and they just gain all the ground that they could have needed there that’s um it’s not that there’s anything wrong with wall banging but when you have no Molotov or smoke down on the ramp there’s there’s going to be a world

In which they’re just there waiting and that’s what happened so yeah strong start you’re right three and0 in their favor it’s a bit of a bonus round isn’t it for Cloud9 so you’re going to expect something a little bit quicker a little bit looser and that’s exactly what we

Get here it is going to be 3-0 for Cloud9 on the start of anci the second map and no choice but to save the three weapons they’ve got M will have m4s at least across the board but boom he can definitely justify hunt as he starts to

Explore the options in towards a main spotted but uh probably going to go down here it’s not a big deal he’ll be absolutely fine for cash he’s got $6,400 residual well wants to bring out that tside or I don’t think it’s really required it’s not like they rely on him

To have the awp but this is exactly what Cloud9 needed brolan of of course of course that’s what exact that’s what I always say when I die and it’s like of course he’s done that all right yeah nice one great well done you’ve got me it’s always a good way to

Sort of make it seem like the people that actually beat you are idiots you know yeah that that’s that’s kind of the tone I it’s like you’ve decided to do that you great you win you’re so beneath my level that I couldn’t predict it yeah it did I’m

Super talking when I people are of me now it’s the best though isn’t it yeah all right then round four and it’s quick again Anders they they they’ve found their their Mojo again you know that these are quick rounds and they’re going to plant super early here like there’s

No defense towards a like this is a perfectly cool game from boage so far but Yap fighting back admirably I don’t know how he does it I just have no idea how a human being can just make a all the right choices all the time it’s absolutely insane to watch but you’re

Right good call coming out from Cloud9 they’ve got the bomb planted and the after plan is looking pretty terrific at the moment still a two on three in spite of little bit of resistance being thrown in here from Mouse smoke on top and everything else they do have a kit on

Gat there is a way to do this he’s trying to find the bomb inside and go straight for the defuse but Perfecto’s got the lineup ready that was probably the only way that they could have tried to Win It Again Jimmy technically I think making all the right choices but

It wasn’t enough well there we go it’s Mouse getting a taste of their own medicine I have to say it looks like it tastes quite bitter Anders he go down four and zero here they don’t like it no they don’t like it whatsoever and even with the opening F

From y Fett it felt like the round was sort of done because the bomb was parted so cleanly those smokes down so difficult to break through go I like that boo keep that coming that’s so strong isn’t it that’s the Mojo I was referencing earlier they need

Him to lift their spirits were down in the dumps forget about the first map boys move on and move on they shall as they continue their perfect game here in the second map up four and zero and it looks to be another Eco here as uh with

The maximum loss bonus it’s not quite enough on the CT side as they save nothing oh I like this from y get it get the hero M4 out there’s a player that could ever carry them through around like this it would be him that’s true

That’s a good point and they got two c set 75s is a rare occurrence nowaday it’s actually pretty sick in CS2 I think it’s got like bit of a return to form honestly a lot of players especially like to like twist to showing us how powerful it can be there’s a killer

Range Here Comes Yin looking for the double kill delivering on all fronts but good trade still coming through from Cloud9 a very winnable round for them as we do have an M4 recover for brolan he has the reload in though as well so doesn’t feel comfortable to do so might

Want to peel off this one and get the M4 to Safe ground he’s holding that 57 scary position to be because mid is uncontrolled so if someone comes at him from middle range there he’s just going to have a really bad fight exactly and

He needs a bit of Intel here can he get the M4 out I think he’s had time to do so now sticking around T’s way on the other side with the pistol so finally there’s broland checking it out confirming for himself that nobody’s at least immediately on the other side

He’s got an AK-47 now as well so we know he’s got a bit of stopping power to him towards you waiting in towards the temple they have a Molotov they could go rid of this position and just kind of get the bomb I would say they probably Molotov the default boxes but you’re

Right there’s definitely an option let’s see what they go with here they might just go for the full on contact play and not use any utility knowing they’ve got the advantage it’s unlikely both CTS are together here nice little boost up they’ll start to make their presence

Known moloto goes down towards CT sport and T’s got a chance now he can deny his plan he’s he played it so well the fact he doesn’t go for the the pl he know that money is already strong it doesn’t matter if you deny that plan but you

Take down the danger man first it takes three and a half seconds to plant that bomb of course he can’t come off he won’t be a threat so take down the defending player and that’s really well play from Tori they needed that and we said If ever there was a player to find

You some damage with a hero M4 it might be Jimmy and he managed to get the double kill here short it was frantic it was scary for them but lots of damage no one looking towards that K position when this swing comes through great little pins maneuver here and applying just

Enough pressure to set up toi and there two versus one essentially as his teammate was rotating in yeah that’s more like it they needed that the street comes to an end hell of a star Cloud 9 uh but this where things get a little bit more problematic that’s

Going to be a huge injection of cash for the CT side ring also with an assisted flash on both those last two kills there so you know somewhere along the way he threw must have been an interesting Flash yeah to see a bit more from

Bran well here we go 4 to one and in the middle should the spray through hbid trying to see coming and revenge so much conviction behind that spray this the second kill you I know you’re there I’m going to find you kid and there it is two clean frags from zerian and that

Might be the round in of itself as we’ve got five on three and in terms of the players remaining electronic axile Perfecto sure quite the trio but uh not really much to work with now they don’t have any positional control of the map you can see that they’ve lost all

Information they don’t know if the CTS have pushed down this B ramp have they got control of the B Lanes in general probably have to just take an educated guess and walk through and hope for the best I don’t even know I mean best case scenario they get exertion with a

Molotov before anything really starts here like he’s in a position low on health you could land a grenade that he sort of you know trapped in the corner so maybe that’s a way to get things rolling but it’s it’s a stretch at the moment to imagine that they can really get onto

The bomb site here three versus five 40 seconds left spotted out flashed out and killed by su there that’s enough that confirms they see the bombs there as well Anders I’m not sure it is enough I like the look at this Cloud KN something about it looks deadly if they can get

This bomb planted instead a Perfecto an axile in a two versus four they can win these rounds don’t you worry about that Soul finding one in the corner this SE now he’s the one that was low from earlier so it’s not a disaster just yet and

Where do they exit they’re going to go in towards the cave smartly they don’t fall back on the ramp there was an not waiting for them that probably would have ended badly if they can throw the incend in the cave entrance it’s a defuse it’s done that’s all they have to

Do here but of course they don’t have the Intel that both these T side players are over there there’s oh it’s a missed incend and now they might have actually ruined this round for themselves you can’t even access to bombs side they locked themselves out so kid jimy has

One but he’s on the other side he can’t cross the kid is on the ground and Tes run away a three versus five converted into a victory that’s massive I told you it’s soon as like they they gave up too much of the B bomb side there in my

Opinion they should have been challenging denying the bomb a little bit more they had two low HP players in the same position towards long as soon as those smokes are dropped uh you’re allowing Cloud n to get that bomb planted reposition there wasn’t enough pressure being applied and after this

Fantastic start as well that that’s really quite disappointing you could argue as well as shuy after getting the that kind of fourth the third frag there that would be enough doesn’t need to take the rep peek and but it was the incend whoever threw that absolute

Nightmare of a bit of utility there they he throw it directly the cave entrance job done he actually ended up molotoving outside the cave blocking offshore meaning they couldn’t swing around actually do anything with it um so yeah pretty disastrous sequence of events there for mes I’m afraid yeah they may

Be realized that themselves they’re going to go for a timeout to talk things over but that that’s the one that really tilts you like you realized okay they had a good start whatever but now we we we’ve thrown that round like sure very well played from Cloud 9 like like I said

Axxound Perfecto that sort of scenario 100 HP two smokes to them they can make that work but it was almost gifted over with the Mis utility and the kind of fumbled efforts on the retake but there’s still money in the bank it’s be a very simple execution Anders we got

One smoke in CT spawn four players making their way through the flash is being deployed Nice N from Jimmy though does a ton of damage towards electronic and he’s got a chance to mow them down he’s already softened the first one up but still The Kills can’t be found

Trading out the frag just Perfecto as he gets another another double nothing left to be said torsi in towards that Tempo it’s another four on two but this time in favor of Cloud9 hased well the flash timing for Cloud9 there was expertly played they just had the right grenade

To the right time and I don’t know what tan so could do here especially with that awp in the back pocket it’s such an expensive weapon to throw away trying to retake in a two on four that it just probably doesn’t make a lot of sense here be careful cuz already yeah he’s

Hard hunting he’s out there looking I don’t think they’ll expect this whatsoever it’s really quite smart from boom huge frag all he has to do is Patrol the awp now probably fances it for himself he’s definitely going to get this kill as well yeah I love that boage give him hell

Electronic he can’t believe it how they’ve bounced back if you’re just joining us youve already think this is a part of the course Cloud9 the favorites going to this one H you might be surprised to learn that Mouse actually won the first M 13 to one of Mirage

Cloud n broken and disjointed they couldn’t get anything over the line calling with conviction right now is electronic with low HP that somehow gets the opening frag on y perfector of a beautiful double and boage with that Killer Instinct just hunting and sniffing out his prey as he finds the

Last couple of frags there leads M Sports to yeah 5 SS deagles and MP9 doesn’t look great for them this one has Spire out of control already first Frack for there be no problem seems to be very aware of the prospect of Yim behind the

Corner as well he knows the the jig is up and he’ll have to swing they’re doing everything right it’s such a contrast what a change from the first map 6 to1 in favor of Cloud9 could be 7 to1 the way that this is playing out just some pistols left and I

Mean the one round that Mouse actually did win was a bit of a a gamble on itself with the two CC’s and the one forced M4 A1 that’s how they got single round that they have on the board here axile still holding on to it he’s aw

There could be more a quad kill for axile right here he’s he’s cleaned it up I think there was a a graph floating around of sort of the the performance change from axile early on and then into like the last couple of events just been leveling up I’m really really impressed

I think might have been uh Jacob that Wasing that out he’s on for an as Sanders he’s getting there maybe not the most impactful they don’t have pistols but still will count it nonetheless goes in the history book somewhere one of the history books probably at the back of the library back

Oh my God he hunted it down there we go I respect that you know they give him the opportunity Ace for XL probably not his first in three years or whatever like it was for carrian I feel like that’s he’s probably had a couple probably had a couple yeah probably had

A c i don’t have the stats with me I don’t know what stats I’d have to look at to find out how many aces Axel’s got but uh we’re not going to it’s not that interesting what are you doing why am I even casting I don’t know

Well like he said not the most exciting sequence of events but still you’re loving this your Cloud9 you’ve shaken off all those bad vibes from the first map as we get into it Z another double kill what more can this guy do five on two can’t get this one up Lads that

Looked so identical I thought it was a replay from the other round I was trying I was like Henry don’t cast the replay again you’ve done that twice this year but no that was that was a real round we alive and zurin looking hella strong over towards middle and perfected

Remain but uh bear in mind any damage they inflict here Anders we have a knock and effect there’s every reason to slow it down it’s going to be broland finally showing some form here that’s his second kill of this first half and it will be

Sure to clean it up clean it up it’s going to be uh five players surviving as well so that’s just what they needed I don’t think they’ll go towards middle anymore I think they’ve learned the lesson now every time they’ve gone in that area zers gets a double kill yeah

He’s he’s on point in spite of the grenade and everything else just absolutely so well so he’s got y setting up with the Flash and he’s just running backwards dodging the T flashes yeah um and he’s timed it to Perfection so he’s got a real understanding down the offense throws

That flash behind the boxes there yeah just CTS are just aren’t affected by it at all yeah very nice all right then seven to two fews remaining and we’ll see what they’ve had great success to all day but toi this time taking MD into his own hands got the awp on this side

Of the map three kills to him and holding behind big box for now will the big boss be coming after him boit setting up the utility Rand active at the B ramp shy confirms the B Lanes are clear but the bombs outside the double do so could be information

That uh need some an incorrect rotation we’ll see smokes and a bit of a fake in towards a this is a a full fake here all the CTS take the bait I kind of doubt it cuz the smoke is up on the the CT side so they don’t have a reason to Super

Rotate at the moment o almost caught off guard there but Roland’s going to be ready bit of a crossfire set up it’s a good spray down making a quick double for him and Su okay almost screwed it up you’re right but he’s back in that exertion he can’t be beat in the middle

It seems he’s just always going to get a couple of kills there yeah I don’t mind that call from Cloud9 um they’ve had great success towards a as we mentioned go for a fake you can do these like oneman executions they send a couple of players in unfortunately it’s mouse that

Don’t take the bait whatsoever well if you notice they almost started to move out of position so there was there there was like if they waited maybe a few more seconds yeah that’s actually a significant frag um if Axel smart Lo now you throw the or

Out of the map and make sure they can’t recover it 20 seconds remaining yep there’s the orb and oh and is he is a smart boy isn’t me not great at throwing but yeah he’s been Counter Strike that I graduated from as uh yeah you got to get rid of

Those ORS and uh yeah told you like guys with oh it’s gone and it’s unfortunate it’s actually a pretty important play I I’m not sure they can afford the up going forward they might be able to have a look if there’s a an option I don’t

Think there is though still that is a lot of money to sink into something that otherwise a one round he’s getting under his skin what he say joke okay uh he’s got the orb it’s fine it’s all under control yeah there’s no reason to be mad

Nice grenade in the middle that is huge that’s that’s a cool cuz they’ve been playing it the same way right it’s been that same double duo in the middle so why not just grenade them why not just say instead of fighting them straight up we’re losing that fight every time we’ll

Just throw a grenade your way what is that smoke doing don’t think that’s meant to land that deep it landed outside of the map oh yeah you’re right look at it radar oh thank you very much I call it now a failed smoke I don’t know maybe there’s something to it strategy you

Couldn’t comprehend I won’t rule it out I give you the benefit of the down Henry that could be the case sh playing on the front lines here boys getting the smoke this like a CS play like this is what used to do like get the advantage CS go remember the old

Style smokes once it fades the person residing with the smoke like maybe quar a second Advantage but Hobbit’s ready for it but his cross has not still gets the kill though as an ambitious play from shy doesn’t work out for him you see the way it dissipates the smoke

There he it didn’t look great from from his point of view did it nice little grenade ring gets softened up he is point lank range with the or which I don’t know it can still work but a lot of the times people prefer to try and

Play it at range not just even with the scope just in general four on five and they are making a quick call to rotate through are they going to be powering through the smoke it’s a lot of problems here for exertion T though in the back f

Could afford that awp suddenly a big difference Maker two shots landed deep grenade as well electronic and Hobbit in trouble right here but oh I say that it’s toi again triple kill for him he’s absolutely locked this down no time on the clock anyway here for har to do much

Win slight recovery there after losing shuy in towards the cave felt like uh they could have fallen apart once again you have to say like it was a rough start for Mouse but they’ve arguably played like pretty good counter- strike it’s just like a couple of fumbled

Rounds most notably toward that b bomb side like when they threw the incend essentially blocking themselves out of the round and allowed too much space for fecto an axile but toori stepping up here look frustrated in the previous round think he said a bloody joke but uh

We got the final round here as we see ma 10 and a couple or just one AK actually four rounds is actually it’s it could be done right it’s serviceable bro oh M down well try to run through but on the other the side he will get hunted that’s

A nice kill for axile well done make sure he can’t escape that one they don’t have a lot to work with on that t side but at least they get the bomb plant to try to do something here in the last round of the half and axile is going to

Go down boom it spray through Su get that one perfector on his own he can’t even get out of the smoke it’s a fifth round for Mouse it absolutely is Anders it was looking like they were down and out 71 deficit but Mouse are back on

Their feet it’s 75 and a half as they try and book themselves a place in the semi-finals this message is brought to you by blast London the jewel of England at blast we’re bringing a distinctly London field to Counterstrike the sights The Sounds Bing Bango boo Bish bash BOS and the pageantry

Nah the way you don’t know me I’m the win 20 seconds yeah nice nice nice Jimmy manm you see the 57 the winning 57 bro yeah man yeah why why are you doub in the 5 S Anders why you why are you a hater I feel like I’m the I’m the 5 seven hipster I feel like I’ve been been here

All along I was using the 57 to 1.6 you know oh God I’m claiming that may the Lord have mercy on your soul welcome back to the quarterfinals ladies and gentlemen we’ve got this one sudden a heat up actually it’s got a 75 score line as Cloud KN switch over to the CT

Forces ain’t slowing down though You’ think they’re on the T side here as they’re rushing down the B ramp and it’s going to be the first frag broland dropped again and toy nice reply with that P250 round back on sick but now he’s about to walk into an entire Army

The bomb is on the other side the bomb’s being planted T you if you stay alive you’re going to be a huge thorn in their side here he’s trying to escape with the smoke giggling as he runs away the bomb is planted at the a bomb sign it’s a

Disaster for cloud L they can’t spend time on this yeah they got to kill him right now cuz they need to run all the way across the map could they even be done Henry could even get there if they get every kill as soon as they arrive

Then yes bomit is there to cause some chaos but it’s lovely work you’re right he might not have got many kills but he did certainly slow them down the bomb is ticking at some pace and no kits are available they’re finding those frags but they don’t have time to check every

Nook and cranny at the bombsite here it’ have to be diffusing right here right now and find the kill someone needs to set that defuse and there it is it’s on they could actually still do this sers and I think they have no way no way they

Didn’t run across the entire map to try and get oh 0.01 seconds did you see that no way oh my goodness I don’t think I’ve seen that before it literally said 0.01 a 100th of a second oh God there’s no way so yeah he did enough there we

Need the data nerds to get on it like they can check the server logs to figure out exactly how much time you’re right CU like they get the cues in game right they get in game music when it’s possible so presuming they wouldn’t stick it unless they thought there was a

Real fighting chance there this is exactly what they had to do to Sprint get on the bomb and just hope they can find the Frags was going so well and I I going to say there’s a chance they they force by here but they go with the more

Conservative approach and we’ve got a Zeus for boage he’ll probably be toward that cave I’d imagine but yeah we’re seeing more of these slightly deeper Molotov being deployed these days to sit in that tight corner but oh here comes the Zeus he’s going to get it you know

He’s going to get it br’s been going down the start of every round and this would just be a thorn in his side I’ve seen so many Ze kills from this position in CS2 and it’s been upgraded like the animation’s way better the sound is much worse unfortunately oh

Saved he doesn’t have to live the shame with the Zeus all right Brown’s down yeah but if you go to blast. TV you can vote for for a player you’d like to see in the show match and I think those some high is is winning for now I I can’t really blame

Everyone like you said he was one of your favorite players to watch so yeah yeah I think he is my favorite like he he’s the Spanish device calling the Spanish device what a sick what a what an honorable title to have yeah so looking for some exits here they’re

In position to get a couple to be honest with you but it doesn’t know they’ll be converted maybe one as bran is low y he’ll give it up wanted to fit fine he wanted to farm some cash with the ma 10 or should make light work of him no one

Goes down to the Bomb Blast which can be an issue on Ancient it’s ridiculous how far away you have to be from the C4 but so far so good it’s been touch and go for M here they were down seven to one Anders so the fact they brought it right

Back to an even kill it’s impressive they’re looking for that two here to knock Cloud9 out of the tournament out of the quarterfinals and make their way forward tied up yeah on the second map here CL that such a hot start for them at the beginning of the second map it

Really looked like they were going to get the Revenge that I’m sure they were dreaming off from the humiliation that was happening on Mirage but now it’s all up in the air anyone can win this at the moment fight in the middle is broken out

C he was good on the CT side and pretty good opening it up on the T side as well torsi beating the smoke and the round is done the bomb is far away but they got the bomb side what are they supposed to do here two versus four I don’t know

Hold on a second there’s always a chance when there’s a will there’s a way Perfecto when he’s alive in his scenario Anders you’ve got to give him an opportunity to see what’s available because if he gets the kill cleanly there we go boage finds it the round is

Back on they haven’t planted yet sure it’s looking but they do have utility available to them they’re not completely removed to spots out perfected that might be at this point yeah I think we are just going to be saving the two weapons but nice work to at least get one kill in

The scenario but that’s going to be it for them but M taking the lead like we said 71 deficit and now Cloud9 have given up the advantage to Mouse they go eight and seven uh just to bear in mind as well this quarterfinal the winner will be playing FaZe on Saturday in the

Set which is looking like be Mouse right now but but uh this one’s still wide open well that could be quite exciting given uh who just moved to to their phase roster oh yes indeed they got a little bit of drama going on there terrorists win actually probably

Is quite significant in in the sense that you know it’s possible that Frozen’s going to be able to uh to sort of have a bit of a conversation about what they like to Old teammates like to do you know what are they think I mean yeah they

Haven’t had a ton of time to I’ve jig everything um this is kind of plug and play with bran right now you can see it’s kind of evident this series like sure they’ve been playing very well but he he has often the the player to go down first hasn’t really had a moment

Like wow boland’s back he’s just he’s just doing enough right now yeah you know which again is fine for the minute but you want to see much more out him in the future boich hoping for a head shot there but not going to be allowed they

Obviously saved the two and force on the previous rounds so I don’t mind that they’re a little bit aggressive trying to look for those opening kills just do do something really yeah that boost was going to be very obvious oh that’s T’s looking sharp is he miss some shots with the awp

But with a with a rifle man on point with it ZX out had no idea the zers had donut under his remat as they find a very clean round here it was the Eco they had two save fors and you think they find a couple of kills of that

Setup but no absolutely not battered and bruised as they try and defend the a bomb site some damage inflicted sure but no kills found Hobbit he’s sticking around it’s a promising position you’d think they pick this together shuy of taking matters into his own hands and

Rightly so as he keeps it clean finds Hobbit and uh indeed continues to lead the way lead the charge as Mouse getting closer and closer to that two score line all started here what a shot absolute slobber knocker boage can’t believe it and exertion g a bit of a free here from

Donut as well nice round good a split tactical timeout Groove being brought in trying to pick up the pieces here the Elation of the 71 has completely diminished now you can see the body language has shifted no more smiles here they can feel another tournament slipping out of their

Grasps which I L I’m a bit surprised I think we said at the beginning I certainly would have said Cloud9 looked like they were going to be the favorites going into this one they I just think they’ve been playing really well all throughout even if uh even if you know

Maybe they haven’t won any tournaments yet but still just the idea that they are you know competive early on they just looked better unfortun I don’t think that’s good enough if you if you if you ask me no one is but everyone was saying this is the best lineup on paper

When ever when Shir was in it they done really like they one single tournament in Dallas right that that was it yeah yeah I I mean I definitely agree like they they should have been doing better but yeah the Improvement has been exciting to follow didn’t expect from Al

To be the one to stop them but they are three kills to begin with an aggressive attempt from Cloud9 to take control outside of the B bomb side and it is shut down axile and perfeto are left here there’s not much they could do even even running away right now seems to be

A difficult uh maneuver axile trapped in that corner more smokes thrown just to try and get rid of Toshi looked like he wanted to try and knife him inside of here but he’s going to go find him with the AK instead the thing is about this sort of round is this is

This is what CL had known to do now in these gun rounds so the analyst pointed out that very maneuver multiple times they’re going to be pushing those B Lanes that’s what boom likes to do it’s kind of similar to what he does on Inferno I suppose but hold on a second

Perfecto’s win this round but maybe he can keep things interesting if he stays the awp but no it is going to be bra nice shot to close things out there and a rough round for cloud n through the kitchen sink towards the B Lanes but nothing in return and shiry like he said

It’s ready and waiting the analysts are calling this manuver out you can rest assur that Mouse are aware of this possibility as well yeah and it’s going to be brand that’s a really important kill be no orb saved here as it’s starting to get out of control I think

If Mouse are on fire yeah five rounds in a row 10 to S and a weak by they need a bit of a miracle here these rounds can work but it’s unlikely fast pacing in towards middle no utility received suggested no one’s here around it so they can actually maybe take an educated

Gu can walk through that Red Room smoke protecting presence towards the cave Molotov is actually pretty nice oh it’s close it’s uncomfortable on both sides here I’m un sure who’ll be coming out on top of brand tuy himself in good for the double kill here that’s probably his

Best sequence thus far and it’s an important round like these rounds can be dangerous up against SMGs and Scouts he secures that b bomb site no problem whatsoever damage on r that wide open and did another 100 damage yeah I just saw that that’s kind of

Nuts here we go again the nade this time not as successful but yeah you’re right not to be underestimated it’s important that R got those two kills they they can be around an assertive play by him uh someone who’s having rough performance might not want to take those sort of

Risks like you’re alone but using the information checking the radar and you could see the CTS were occupied elsewhere he gets some good space there gets a nice double kill and yeah that’s that’s round an important one six in a row here bear in mind it like that 71 St

But more importantly the 40 um the rounds like arguably should have been going in favor of mouse I think they they looked better most of the time like this time the clutch is just going in favor of Cloud9 but certainly not in the second half speaking of uh speaking of

Broland what what do we do to fix the Swedish scene Henry I know you’ve had you’ve kept the secret for a while I watch’s your um there some good Swedish players out they’re like North is proba my favorite right I think I think he could be a world class player in the future

Um he arguably already is but um yeah I I don’t think I don’t think we’ll see many um National based teams anymore and I just don’t think it’s viable the talent pool is too small the competition’s too Fierce uh these International Teams are leading the way

In the top 10 um now heroic stepping down as well the with the rumors that are flying around they’re going International so which Regional teams or national teams I should say will you have left you have aalas right that that’s it that is it that is it the soul

Standing one French scen is dead Swedish scen is dead maybe maybe rebuilding we don’t know about the British team no one can confirm or deny maybe it’s coming back yeah where’s Thomas going I think he was like took a break I think he’s gone back to into the breach I think I

Saw he’s back in he’s back out I think he’s standing in not sure but uh Thomas watching love you anyway yeah he is another hris player that we really Eno absolutely what of the master here we go we are in the middle and it’s uh it’s building to a

Real lead here for Mouse the two rounds away from winning the game winning the quarterfinals yeah it hasn’t really felt like a quarterfinals honest with you like the way they’re getting wrecked right now oh my God Tori combative awp to say the very least it’s so far away

But they have the bomb side again if they smoke CD4 now like it’s done the round can’t really be recovered but Molotov will have to do for now there’s no smoke available it’s not a lock in right now nice Molotov though will give them some space toward the bomb side

Itself flash Fang comes in and boom actually keep fighting back for he can’t find a shot towards CT spawn and actually this one’s Up For Debate like they’re so far removed from each other I think they might have to reassess their options and hoping to pull everyone over

To this side of the map but as score quieter look like Cloud might have an advantage but not for long toi a hatrick has been found a demon yeah he’s just fired up isn’t he 16 and N he didn’t know that boage was up close until boom

Made a step and as soon as he knew you could just tell his mental that he’s like okay I’m ready we’ve been waiting for that smoke for about 15 minutes but it finally gets delivered and you can see the AI prediction we are going to listen to our machine overlords here

Anders it looks like they they think this one’s locked in I’m not so sure but yeah I was going to say Perfecto with the or close by but you know maybe the machine does know best it doesn’t look like he’s going to go for it so we’ve

Been out done once again it’s always right just replace me just build voice model and give him a headset let’s see how he handles himself [Laughter] there get the Henry G voice board out like I said I think that’s going to be the future one day instead of

Actually having to commentate the event license out our voice and they just they just let it run for a group stage or something online I can see that happening yeah we’re not far off like I don’t I think with been 3 years it would be like okay sure we can tell it’s not

Perfect but it does the job for these smaller games maybe we can go jet skiing instead yeah I I might give I saw the boys went jet skiing this morning the other commentators and stuff like that and they went to the same place same jet skiis and I’m sure they weren’t going as

Hard as I was and they said to me oh would you like to come they went super early this morning I was like I don’t think I’d be welcomed back I think they would have probably banned me from The Establishment they were so mad is one of

Those situations like The Vibes are so good they were loving me where kind of high-fiving before and like say oh have a great time don’t worry about the rules you got this so you seem you know what you’re doing and then they just hated me when I came back like they couldn’t

Believe I’d scratched their precious machine but uh that is funny I I hope those guys had a good time with no incidents of course yeah hopefully if if people keep wrecking the jet skis maybe it’s going to be a you know just a a blast wide ban

At some point sorry you affiliated with Henry G at all right here we go possibly the last round ladies and gents five in a row from cloud N9 they where have they gone they’ve disappeared I don’t know bro this is they stopped playing on this map it was after the 131

We like okay it’s whatever that score line it happens it lost a lot of clutches but you were 71 up here and if is that that’s okay that’s 12 rounds in a row seven one up there was rounds in a row sorry yeah yeah but you’re right

Like Mouse have just run it back in the most disgusting fashion it’s ring to get the kill swing from exertion and he want to get the spray down and Exile as well he will fall but things are still looking good bit of a wall bang coming

Out with the USP Perfecto hoping to get that one but he’s not going to be quite able to they’re on the bomb side again this happened a couple of times before where they get the bomb side they got a bomb with them but this is almost over

Already a shot from gy fats taken down Hobbit and they can feel this slipping out of their hands the quarterfinals diminishing for Cloud9 Perfecto not checking he’s going to get don’t do it yeah he’s going oh heow well it is done Henry oh and with humiliation on top God

Oh that’s uh rubbing salt in the wounds there it’s done ladies and gentlemen the semi-finalist we we playing against FaZe it’s going to be Mouse tomorrow um what a game what a performance what a recovery 71 down and the reverse sweep to 137 Mouse have done it Axel good luck

My friend we’ll give you a chance here I suppose he’s got the kip maybe there’s something to be said but what a recovery what a performance even after losing Frozen this team are looking deadly across the board Tori with an MVP style performance there absolutely epic Cloud9

Dropping off the edge of the cliff suffering a 13-1 deficit and then they were up 7 to one and they lose 13 to7 that is just not good enough we’ll see Mouse in the semi-finals tomorrow yeah a thoroughly well-deserved spot in the semi-finals from Mouse because after a first half where Cloud9

Arguably looked a little bit more awake uh M swiftly put them straight back to sleep we’re talking a 7-1 Advantage for Cloud9 to start this one off 12 rounds on the Trot from ma that was pure domination Maui and a Flawless tside at that the preparation for Mau in this

Game caught me by surprise they clearly knew how Cloud9 wanted to play this map they knew it was coming in The veto and you could see on some of their rounds that the riding was on the wall they were just so ready for every kind of

Play that Cloud9 wanted to throw at them and so when it comes to this game Cloud9 surely had a great start the individuals were popping off look I look I was ready to actually go to map three in some ways up 71 but no by the end of it the game

Plan what they stuck to what they what they actually had worked on in the mean time cyon and shui we see the brains working together once again yeah I agree with you I think the the ability to handle the aggression that was coming out of clown n was so key for Miles they

Were always ready they were very patient when when they had to fight what kind of utility did they have to let go through when they would actually fight as well you have to I would like to give a mention to exertion as well because I don’t think his numbers are too much up

There but he had a couple of very ungrateful situation he was fighting out mid and he was capable of trading more than one for one while CTS are coming his way and these kills are worth their way of gold so Miles very much outclassing clown n and the look of the

Ejection we’re seeing I can understand like it it wasn’t outclassing yeah 100% loads of different looks from Miles throughout the duration of this series but there was one particular moment where they were just hella fast Maui let’s go into round 17 because this was obviously one of the plethora of Great

Tside Looks coming out from M right we’re going to see in this round I was talking about the preparation we’re talking about what it is in terms of counters this Cloud9 looked like they changed up their formula quite a bit from the last tournament that they

Played at and this is one of those aggressive plays that I was talking about that worked so well earlier in this event but Ma knew exactly what was coming exertion toy everybody chiming in exactly when they were supposed to swinging off the contact of their other teammates dodging the flashes outright

All of that stuff when you’re Cloud9 there when you run that aggressive CT play you are taking a risk but it’s a calculated risk you you ironed out that play so many times it worked in the last match that that you played and yet they

Were stuffed on it I do Wonder to what extent the fact that mes lost to G2 to a similar play style kind of kind of cemented the fate of clown9 right here because if you’re Mouse the way you’re looking at that G2 game on inchant is

Okay how do we have to deal with this like this aggression is going to come our way again clown9 like to do it we put it as a condition before the beginning of the game and they were 100% ready for it they knew how to react

Probably the comes on a lower level cuz everything is kind of planned out shout out toy not just for the oping for mostly the rifling uh in this map he was on fire T’s rifling in this series was fantastic it was uh really really such a

A pleasure to watch I wish I wish we could have highlighted some more off stuff I mean he did have a couple decent off rounds but like his rifling is what really caught me off guard he was destroying people that this this shot right here is so quick like that’s

Really hard in CS2 to do okay the the Peaks are very strong and yet he was able to lock down angles with the rifle he was getting the better of people because of his Mobility when he was on the rifle and of course he did chime in

With the op I’m not going to say it was all rifles no you’re right and I just wanted to mention that he he was was very much involved in the few first rounds that Maes won and I think it was very important to stop clown9 in their

Tracks he put the awp a couple of times on the a side on display he could play behind the bomb side right of the bomb box being ready to peek onto donut when he had to aim in when he had to and these are not that comfortable a

Position so shout out to to a strong map for him yeah and great kind of uh recementing kind of mouse in my head because I you know what I’m fully going to put myself on the table and say I was expecting M to come in here with the

Loss of Frozen I was expecting them to be walking wounded and the mental for here looked so good for M Maui you feel free to step in and tell me I’m wrong I think both of us had C I win this series I thought at the begin of the day I had

Cine winning this series and I didn’t even think it would be that close so maybe I was blinded by a couple of the very tight games that cine and against likes of Vitality where like all of the members are kicking off and boom is having a kind of good game maybe I was

Just completely blindsided but I had no idea that M would actually destroyed him this way none would you Echo that same thought Mar I mean I didn’t think that ma would be able to keep up their mid-ring as well as they have I think that’s another thing they didn’t really

Have to go to too many mid rounds say on Ancient but at the other in the other series they played at this tournament I really have liked just the cohesion is still there for this roster and when they need to actually just make a quick quick decision of where they want to go

Next they still have all of those protocols drilled yeah a great performance coming out of Miles which Nets them their third playoffs appearance in CS2 so let’s get a few winning words courtesy of Shou mes have made it to an arena with a stand in and they dominated in style

Shui I want to start by looking at this Mirage you must have been gunning for the 13-0 cuz this looked crazy what the hell happened because it seems like you made them run out of ideas really quick and they were just kind of starting to

Rush you at the end with no real game plan I mean I really wanted to finish it 13-0 unfortunately last round on CD side uh we lost the clutch uh they had a 5v3 Advantage but still we could have won the One V one clutch overall Mirage I

Think it’s a map that we struggle on at the beginning of Cs 2 uh um but we worked on a lot of it and we feel really comfortable on it now so that’s good to see from the team’s perspective and the captain is Happy do you remember what

You said to me though after the vetos had gone down you were saying like oh you think they they might have been a bit Bamboozled by The veto and what what explain it to me what happened Yeah so basically um we picked Mirage and they picked tside to start on and I think

They maybe expected to that they would pick Mirage and that’s why they prepared to start tside and uh that’s what happened there what do you think they thought you were picking um not sure actually that that’s a good question you never know you never know but this was a solid fight and even

Going into the the second half right okay Cloud n in the lead but we’re thinking okay there’s going to be a bit more battle in there what did you say to the team at this point uh un ancient uh on Ancient I mean we it was like a slow

Start for us again it’s something that we are used to in a in a way H we need to fix that for sure uh but we knew that we have a lot of good stuff on tside and we were just just waiting for that to

Come up uh on CD side we just made sure to get as most rounds as possible uh and on T side we just felt really comfortable in control of the game since round one so yeah and I got to look at this the fact that igl’s right now

There’s a big talk around them having more impact you were always someone who wasn’t like a low impact igl but are you feeling the benefit of CS2 and being able to take some more racek to to peek a bit more to fight in it yeah for sure

It’s definitely a fresh game and it’s nice that I’m able to keep up my performance also I went back to my really old moue so so that’s giving me a lot of confidence a lot of good memories so I feel really good right now and I’m

Happy that I can help the team in in statistics as well yeah great performance coming out of M and shoue obviously leading the chars um incredible in the fragging department as well during this series it was a testament kind of how well drilled M are

As a team where on the flip side um Cloud9 looking anything but that matchu yeah I think it’s time for us to do a postmortem on this clown9 situation as well um I was never a fan of the whole we won’t have an awp on let’s make it

Work anyway but I thought that on short term there was a window through which they could surprise people because they would kind of divert from the very traditional Counter Strike I could imagine a world where with electronic uh being on fire with axile playing a little bit better with the space that

Boich was creating maybe this could work I think now that window has closed I think teams have had enough time to prepare for some of the shenanigans that clown line can put forth and they don’t have the basis that all teams need to compete at a very very very high level

So as as frustrated as I am about it I think this is it this is it for the roster there’s a glass ceiling I don’t see any more success for that and I really hope we get a bit of a change moving into 2024 and I think it was kind

Of you know a lesson that needed to be learned because we were referring back to it just yesterday Mai obviously boom is saying coming out of um Dubai the event just proceding this um he doesn’t feel like you know them not having a stable or is really an issue

Everything’s good now he said I’m glad that they’ve leared that actually that’s definitely not the case no that’s definitely not the case their t- s sites have actually been fine generally speaking this Mirage was an aberration in my eyes of how bad it went went for

Them but I will say that they’ve changed a couple of things that seem to have not really benefited all of their players we see electronic at the bottom of the scoreboard there it seems like now his role has slightly shifted on Ancient and he’s now kind of lurking a little bit

More towards B other tournaments I remember he was playing towards mid he was much more in the action in the flow of things and it feels like when electronic has to be kind of more of a mid late round player that’s just not his forte in one of those five kills

It’s just when he was sent on Entry a couple of those were just entry routes so you want to see him just be explosive in the early round be a space taker and it feels like there’s kind of just jumble of who’s playing what position

Whether that has to do with the op or whether that has to do with just matching people’s skill sets it’s not finding the right success or even close to it I know he he has to be activated I think this is where electronic had some of the most historical performances when

He can actually get stuck into the action it could be alone it could be on on yard on nuk for example if you’ve been watching Counter Strike for a while we’ve seen some of these games but I don’t really think he relies on patience and waiting for the last 30 seconds to

Strike it’s someone that needs to create that needs to be involved in their trading as well and whatever they try to put forth here on didn’t work out yeah and sadly for cloud that does Mark the end of the line here in Abu Dhabi and

For 2023 at that so let’s get a few closing thoughts courtesy of GrooVe Cloud9 won’t be making it any further here at the World Finals and gr I guess I just want to start off with we can have losses we can have hard losses but a team like you have we definitely

Expected to be able to fight better on Mirage so can you explain to me from your side what you felt went wrong so uh we expected this Peck from M sports but any way we played for 20% or something like that sometimes you have such games in the early morning but it

Wasn’t the early game it wasn’t so it’s totally our fault uh we did everything wrong we made a lot of mistakes uh we just tried to play fast that is why we didn’t hear each other so it was like snowball uh from my view and what did you say to them going

Into the second M like during the the break was this trying to wake them back up cuz you started so strong on Ancient at least yes uh we did and we were pretty you know we just were pretty confident even on the first map but

Anyway uh we played the with a lot of mistakes on the second map uh everything was pretty good uh at t- side uh we know that uh sometimes we have problems on City side and CS2 uh it’s easy to play on T side so uh but to be honest I don’t know

What’s happened when we didn’t win any rounds so yeah yeah and it got rough from there I got to just finally ask the fact we we talked so much around you guys not having an AER now it’s the end of the season is this where you either

Try find an Ora is this where you put someone else to have an OP R consistently because it doesn’t make sense to us right when we’re looking at it of just just not having this and having it swap around so what do you want so we are trying to play uh without

Sniper uh we will continue let’s see how it will looks like this tournament uh uh we have one big problem because we came uh to the event in in Dubai that is why we didn’t practice for I guess 10 or 11 days in a row because in Emirates uh

You can play face it you can play any mix you can play PRS maybe uh this reason affect our results because 10 days in a row it’s a lot yeah yeah and in the future we’ll keep it in mind but now we have what we have yeah we know

That to play without main awp it’s a problem but any way you still can be on the top level but here we even didn’t show our really like level of uh the game yeah yeah Groove understandably feeling dejected after being eliminated from the World Finals um I don’t love to

Hear that he’s happy with you know looking forward into the future into the next year without having an AER on the squad I mean listen uh the major is is right around the corner I I could understand that you would think twice before making such profound changes Al

Something I just wanted to note as well he is correct when he says it’s not the only reason we lost here that that’s a fact it’s not just because they Reon and all but the problem is while they are spending time and effort and kind of

Brain power on how to fix some of these structures and finding Solutions they’re also kind of losing track of the meta and like the new utility is being put forth in this moment where players are being shifted around in roles you are losing working time while working on

Problems that is already Sol for most teams you are spending that time kind of fixing that situation and the rest is is working on their own Counter Strike they’re coming up with their own tips so this is where I feel like they’re a little bit behind and and I don’t really

Know how they’re going to bridge that Gap I I can’t see happening it’s the way that they’ve played at this tournament for their CT sides especially it just looks so desperate they have to push early on they have to get early map control they have to try to find an

Opening pick because they don’t have a reliable Opera to find opening picks for them it’s such a simple solution is just picking up an oper maybe sure like it’s hard on the market to pick or find the right person for the job right now but you’re changing your style to be so much

More easily countered which is what Ma showed us today is completely possible if you’re going to throw all these aggressive plays on CT side to mitigate the fact that you don’t have an OP presence well the the teams are just going to hold back a little bit and just

Go for the counter plays every single time yeah and of course sadly for Cloud9 that does Mark The End of the Road here in Abu Dhabi conversely we’re going to be seeing Mouse progressing on towards the semi-finals and one more spots up for grabs today that will either fall to

The hands of na’vi or the organization that lifted the trophy this time last year it’s G2 versus na’vi going down after this Our first quarterfinal going down at lightning fast speed and now one more opportunity to make it towards the playoffs that will either fall to the hands of na’vi or G2 G2 obviously looking or hoping to replicate what went down this time last year but it’s been a story of adapting and overcoming coming

Into CS2 for na’vi um it’s been a bit of a tumultuous tides for them to be absorbing because obviously with the departure of simple for the time being Alexi has got to be working with some different Tools in his Arsenal so of course we welcome Jacob down here on the

Show floor you got up to some uh Antics this morning I hear in Abu dby yeah I was uh playing my best version of jet pimp you know uh cruising around on the on the water and having a good time with the cor lers the well-known jet pimp jet

One that’s moving on uh na’vi let’s talk about them we’ve obviously been covering their games down in the group a side of things temperature check so far where are you placing na’vi at the moment na’vi right now feel like a team that is still trying to their identity despite

The fact that they are the longest standing roster that entered this tournament which is a bit concerning because I will say that if I’m looking at the pieces here for na’vi I would say that actually in terms of Firepower and individuals they’re probably on the more underpowered side which is where usually

Alexb does some of his best work when he works with rosters that don’t necessarily have all of the Superstar potential or power then usually he can work his micro work his macro to try to make them greater than the some of their parts but I don’t think he’s seeing the

Same vision that blade has for the team just yet I agree you know I’m a bit lukewarm when it comes to to na’vi I I see the team as a team that lacks that clear star you know lacks that player that can step up like the symbol used to

Be of course faav or like the niku is and G2 and the opponents today if you don’t have that star player you you kind of strive to be a heroic isk team right you have a very homogenous team where everyone can step up at the same time

And you have this fantastic Synergy in between the players I don’t see that happening right now with in Navi right so you have a team with decent players good players but you don’t have that clear star player and you also have a team with decent energ but not that

Perfection you know so they’re kind of in the middle water right now where we don’t really know where to place them I think we need to talk a little bit about eay because obviously back at the Paris Maj he was the next best thing since sliced bread everybody was jumping on em

Saying hey who’s going to be picking up this guy how well do you think he’s done so far Jacob in his entire time in na’vi not well enough let’s be completely honest he he’s been underperforming a little bit been underwhelming I expected more from Emma I think he was doing

Fantastically well obviously at the Paris major but even leading into it I think there’s a certain amount of people out there who be like yeah yet one good event that was it he was doing fine in Game of Legion for a long long time on a

Losing team a team that wouldn’t make it far in tournaments a team that would struggle a lot now coming inavi you know the the first period with simple under the lineup maybe he was feeling uncomfortable we heard himself say it that he wasn’t as outspoken as he would

Have been then after simple going out of the lineup he felt he had a bit more space he had a bit more voice within the team he’s slowly been getting better and better but not to the level that we would like him to be at he definitely

Looked pretty good back at ESL pro league back on csgo but when it comes to CS2 this is the first event where I’ve actually said to myself wow emo looks like he could be a contributing member to a winning team and that’s really disappointing and concerning because actually going into this tournament in

Terms of just CS2 rating overall Alexi B had a higher rating than EMA and so that has changed because he’s been doing so well at the World Finals but it’s taken until now for him to finally feel out the game and just looking at kind of what emay was initially having to come

Into right obviously as you mentioned simple was previously on the lineup with him and I think that’s where I was kind of scratching my head a little bit and going okay obviously you’ve got simple who is just going to be dominating as we would expect on the server then you’ve

Got bit who was kind of touted as a second star I was initially kind of worried of like how is he may actually going to fit in with this so right now I feel like this surely this is his Runway to be taking full advantage of maybe

Gaining a little bit more space right I think that’s a fair point so may if he’s not making this one successful if he can’t make this you know stin and Navi work out with with the space he has and and with the responsibility he’s given then he’ll not make it work anyway else

You know so I think imma has said it himself as well a couple of times and I think we can see it on the server he’s a comfort player he needs to players around him to give him confidence he needs to feel comfortable around the player he’s playing with and I don’t

Think he did that in the beginning of na’vi it’s starting to get better slowly but surely but we’re still not at the level where he’s worth the money he was bought for worth you know the expectations coming into it and I would like to see more from him well let’s go

Ahead and check in with eem ahead of this series courtesy of James Banks yesterday going up against NS it didn’t look like na’vi were at their best but it did at the beginning so I want you to explain to me what went wrong and why it got the way it did I

Mean started pretty confident I think on the first two maps cuz on the third map they started the with the lead but on the first two maps we stting very confidently like on a we we basically R them over we we won everything every D

Every clutch we it goes on our way so it felt good on Ancient again we started 80 or 70 I don’t remember but we started very very good and then now T this side didn’t work how we expected we did a some mistakes as well but it it happens

Like uh we knew that we are a bit stronger than them because yes they have like uh glaive rumors as well and then uh and then yeah it just happened they just our didn’t work their SAS worked like like oura worked as F and then they

Got that map as well you say it just happened but I’m sure blade wasn’t too happy with that was there a discussion you guys needed to have afterwards because if you were going up against a stronger team it probably would have not looked so so good for you guys I mean

That’s true it didn’t look nice but what can you do you just play you learn from mistakes and then obviously uh like this is our second tournament with with wonderful with Igor so we cannot prepare like all of the maps and then if for example ancient we

Prepare it but for example like like I said before if something happens in that happening official it’s going to be a bit random and then if you don’t click heads then it’s going to be something like that okay now when it looks at you personally I spoke to you last event as

Well when it’s full finals we’re seeing you start to improve again but I remember obviously the heights of the Paris major and I want to see for you personally do you feel like you want to get back to that level you’re you’re working towards that or or what is it

With you right now I mean obviously I’m working towards that like uh I know myself that it was like like I saw a lot of people say like over over performance or something like this I mean they can say so I would say probably it was over performance but it doesn’t come from

Anything you know it’s it that doesn’t happen randomly I still think like I can do even better than what I do now or in the last two tournaments I’m still working on this I’m still trying to do my best in this new environment play style uh also we have now Igor that we

Have a new guy basically and then we have to learn again again and again new stuff new new reactions and I’m just trying my best to do whatever we can to win you just touched upon this point Jacob I want to steal it I want to hear more confidence

Coming out of eay I think I think no dude you can I mean it’s cool that he thinks he can be a greater player I I know he can be we saw that in in CS go we saw that at the Magan Paris so the potential for imma is definitely there

We just haven’t seen it yet it was the same with Bolan yesterday in that HL TV interview I I still think I can be a great player no you can’t be a great player you’ve shown it before so go there and get it done this whole thinking you know that’s kind of cool

But it doesn’t work let’s think about Alexi B for a minute uh because yet again he’s going up against one of his former organizations obviously quite frequent for Alexi B because he’s been kind of around the block in terms of some of these teams quite a few yeah he

Does have quite a few but there’s a an interesting Trend that you noticed Jacob with the person that’s always coming after him yeah I mean Alexi B you see his team history right here in a couple of moments we’re probably going to see Nexus and you can see the similarities

It always feels like Alexa B is getting you know kicked from a team or moving on from a team and then next is coming in to replace him so in G saw it in sorry so it in in G2 and you know guess what in in a couple of months maybe or

Half the B PR for 2024 Nex to Leading na’vi why not been close before I don’t know if James Banks will be okay with that but um it’s kind of a fun Trend to point that out I don’t know if I actually right now actually pimp who do you

Think’s a better caller who do you think’s a better caller Alexi B 100% yeah okay I don’t think it’s much of a contest so even though next has been coming in after I think Alexi B has speaking done more and risen those teams to Greater Heights than Nexa has yeah

Cuz we just saw some of the numbers on that graph like that’s no joke he got some of the teams you know not with even you know the most amazing cast around him up to a pretty reasonably high level right I mean the it started with that an

Roster where it was just like what what who are these people other than Alo and then all of a sudden it’s like wow they’re Stars X7 looked good Ariel look good Sergey look good he makes he makes people on his team look better than they sometimes even are yeah I would agree I

Think the the only stint that wasn’t successful was G2 I think that’s the one where you think okay you had all the tools you had NCO you had you know everything you needed in order to be a great team and he couldn’t make that work but again it’s oneoff for me and I

Still think Alex B is getting more criticism that than sometimes he deserves yeah let’s round out the na’vi conversation by touching upon wonderful obviously massive shoes to fill completely different size and a completely different style than wonderful would probably want to be wearing how do you feel he’s been

Fitting in so far particularly you know with the context of it being in CS2 wonderful to me has been growing tournament by tournament in such a positive fashion that I only can look forward fondly to what he’s going to be able to accomplish into the upcoming year and maybe even at this tournament

Wonderful has such impressive mechanical ability but the thing that I’ve always cited for a way that he could improve his game is just move a little bit more around the map rotate more try to take over around try to get into the action as much as possible and at this

Tournament I’m starting to see him be a little bit more active he’s going for more clutches in the late round he’s actually trying to find where the next fight is I feel like he’s calling his own number in a way that I just haven’t seen on previous teams or even previous

Tournaments and so this is such a welcome sight for me I agree I think I think wonderful is playing better than we could expect for him coming into na’vi it’s a big task to replace simple a a big team to come into however as you said you know a 1.28 rating for

Wonderful is not the same as a 1.28 rating for simple there’s a little bit of a lack of impact sometimes where he’s saving a lot he’s getting a lot of free kills so as you said be out there be proactive take charts of the game and

See if you can dictate it a bit more with the awp okay so Jacob how is uh wonderful comparing to manlike money on the other side of the well I think man is everything wonderful would like to be at at some point in his career and

It’s it’s fun to say cuz man is of course still young but this man right here he’s adopted so well into CS 2 we spoke about it right coming into this game that the oras would struggle and oh no the or is not as great anymore this

Kid doesn’t care he’s grinding the game he’s playing the game he’s finding new ways of being impactful and we saw it yesterday against Face Clan as well despite his rating being 1.18 which is good I think he had way more impact than he showed in that regard he’s very good

At putting himself into Close Quarter combats and win those tools we saw some of the clutches on day one as well I only have praise for this young God and he’s only going to be better monasi is a person that will push the limits of not

Only the op but the game he’s going to always be looking for that next little nerdy trick where if someone else wants to just right click a nade into a smoke monesy has a way to throw that nade without damaging himself he always has that little crevice that he can toss the

Nade into the little lineup that makes it just 5% more efficient and those numbers pay off in the course of a series sometimes that damage taken sometimes that that better window you’re going to get through the smoke all of that stuff matters so he maximizes his opportunities and on top of that it’s

Impossible to ignore the fact that in terms of just putting Crosshair onto player monesy is the fastest one out there yeah he’s so fast you sometimes blink and you miss it but make sure you tune in for this one because James had a chance to catch up with monesy ahead of

This series Mony I don’t normally allow this but you asked me to ask you about your dream teams what’s your dream team what I ask you uh I mean people usually asking like uh play about my dream team but uh I mean if I would make maybe

Dream Team it would be uh my own language team like uh yeah so maybe it I would put bit in my team I would put U bum much mhm I would put electronic Perfecto and myself oo that would be very interesting okay we’ll have to wait

And see if that could ever be a possibility now you were telling me you’re loving CS2 right we’ve been seeing you grinding a lot in and out of the server why do you feel that you are not struggling as much as other opers though I mean usually I have also like some problems

With the easy shots I mean in CS but like it’s just my thing it’s just because of people like white pecking and like they actually like just why picking you and sometimes it’s tough to to hit normal shots in CS2 than it was in CS go

Uh and I mean like oper just getting used to it uh maybe I got used to it by like 85% 80% and uh I hit some shots but still you know like it’s a bit tough and people usually like they prefer to buy rifle than op opers I mean I’m talking

About Toppers yeah so they prefer to buy steel rifle sometimes as St and C but it’s also depending on the map for example Mir rash like on City you have to buy op uh and like for example on nuke like a city you have to buy op as

Well so like um depending on the M on maps now we know you are the oper you’re you’re really solid at it as well but I want to see do you feel like you sticking with the or and saying okay I want to just push and do this where some

Warpers are choosing the rifle is why we might see you have more success and maybe dominate this game really hard in the future uh I mean like I also like a bit smart with it I don’t really like to buy op on every map I try to like um

Balance it for example like on uh anent on City IE I prefer to buy rifle and fight mid maybe not on in all official games but uh I usually try to buy rifle and fight with the hunter on Mid uh also like for example on nuke St before I was

Playing lot a lot with rifle and I want to still like do it but sometimes I’m buying up as well so I’m trying to balance it up and buy an open rifle because like usually I mean before when I was playing in academy I was second

Oper you know and I like to I like to play with rifle and uh yeah so like trying to balance I’m not like fully committed to op I’m still playing a lot with rifle but sometimes you have to buy op for some specific round you know and

Some stuff round by round map by map and see how it goes now today you’re going up against na’vi I want to see how much more confident you feel as a team today because of how well you played against FaZe yesterday we are always confident and we have been always confident when

We play official games I don’t think like we La confidence or something usually like we La confidence because of individual game like for example when we play this online CCT for example you know like we just came from like kind of vacation you know and we started playing

And we were lacking confidence because of our individual game we didn’t play really good and but here like in Abu Dhabi we are really confident and uh for example as for me I always feel feel confident to play against na’vi M I’m excited to play against na’vi and Valera

So I want to smash them you like to smash on your friend I mean on the server maybe outside of the server friends but on the server need to show some good team play you can keep your friends close but your enemies closer my man team that wasn’t a hard- hending

Interview until he ended with a good team play everything else is fire yeah we should just listen to the first portion of that that was crazy um Anubis Inferno nuke if we do so need it do this make sense in your eyes in terms of maps

This is exactly how I thought it would go at the beginning but I love that actually G2 flexs into the fact that they’re kind of showing a seven map pool that fact they’re playing overpass that it came as their second veto but I think that pimp this is very very strong for

G2 they looked fantastic on Anubis yesterday vers phas obviously they didn’t win but inferno’s always been their home map and nuke is just I I think they’re very good at it too yeah that nuke game against face as well when Nik popped off you know if I’m looking

At that video I’m a G2 fan right now be very very happy it also does show the limitations of na’vi there was not anywhere else they could have gone with this video I think they did well in picking Anubis that’s their home M but apart from that I see all three Maps

Slightly favor toward T2 to be completely should we talk about Nico for a hot second because obviously people jumped the gun uh during those online results yeah rightfully so he was obviously one of the best rifl to ever touch the game um how did he adapt in

Your eyes uh versus phase yesterday in that game the game he had against face yesterday was the best performance we’ve seen Nico have in CS2 whether that being l played syney thisle but it has been roaring to see him strugle even the first at this event

He wasn’t playing well at all he was killing himself in Vertigo and and just not having a good time to be completely honest however the best to ever do it in CSO with a rifle if he can find some of that confidence again for this G2 lineup

Then we have a very scary Prospect at our hands and I said it yesterday I’ll happily say it again you know in terms of watching niik could play Counter-Strike there’s no one who’s as aesthetically pleasing to witness the greatness he can show on the server especially that nuke game was just hands

Down some of the best CES I’ve seen one of the most culturally impactful rifl Bar None just so flashy in his play and I think that he probably he just had a lot little bit of difficulty adjusting to CSU the mechanics at the very beginning of the game felt a little bit

I would say gummier it just felt a little sticky sometimes and I think that Nico has put in the effort necessary in order to now succeed at CSU on top of the fact that actually the updates over time have just made rifling in general feel a little better yeah for sure I’m

Just weighing up these kind of two rosters now going head-to-head uh now we know the maps as well who do you think has the edge in this match Maui I would go as far to say this is a g220 I I think that they are comprehensively the

Better team I even with kind of we haven’t really even talked about it the wos of the NEX of or jks thing I still think that they’re in terms of class just a level above of na’vi right now I would agree you know I would agree The

Veto looks good for G2 as well I think the only chance for na’vi is to win AIS you know and then then see if you can steal one of the following two maps however I will also say that if na’vi play the way they did yesterday and D2

Do the same then there’s no way D2 won’t with this game I think they’re going to smack na’vi out of the server to be completely honest na’vi barely beating in who’s effectively a dead team with all that stuff going on and they came so so close losing whereas for G2 played

Some of the best counter- strike I’ve seen in Seas 2 almost taken down face playing well so it shouldn’t be a match honestly one really short point before we head into Anubis is the fact that EMA has actually really upped his level at this tournament on this map his bside

Anchor hold and his b lurks have both been very effective in helping win rounds that they otherwise had no business in and one more even shorter thing before we do dive into Anubis uh you guys can have your say over on bass. TV for our show match which will be

Going down before the Grand Final on Sunday please B vertigo and please leave Anubis you heard it here if you like us go could be fun in a show match Maui I think you should leave get off get off get off please pleas please get off get

Off uh and we’re going to dive into Anubis but not before a quick break when we’re back na’vi taking on a G2 final spot in the semi-finals of for grabs Good afternoon everybody welcome back it’s SC and launders not talking to you take you through the second half of the day we’re here in Abu Dhabi the Counterstrike is Flowing the sun is not so shining a little cloudy a little cloudy which is almost more fun because

It’s never like that here right yes never like that previously before yesterday last episode Nico sucked at CS2 I said it I said it we had no real map to point at that would indicate that he even had the potential to become the greatest rifler of csgo history that is the Accolade we

Attribute to Nico coming into this new version of the game but after yesterday on nuke versus face I can say with certainty the star is shining bright he’s back one map all it took to know that Nico can go God mode ooh it’s a good day so

Can he do it backto back days that’s the big question can na’vi show us that resilience that got them into the match versus an that moved them forward through this event well they have to tap into that in the face of G2 questions to be answered tonight on the road to the

Semi-finals that was a very early move for wonderful he got out of there already into the B site and G2 narrowly missed the timing but it it works so well for them wonderful is about to walk back into middle after they see there is no explode and he’s got a passive line

Wonderful we’re needing a lot we’re going to need a lot from him today couple Miss shots and suddenly they’re staring down the barrel of camera bit’s going to use the pillar to block off line of sight but he hears them coming ooh nice head shot to drop

Nico’s got the bomb looking for a heaven push but you’re right hookie needs to get into the site itself oh but he still takes EMA with him and he’s got teammates to work with but the pressure is here from the CT so not prioritizing the bomb plant going to allow for Alexi

To put it down they’re so worried they’re going to get swarmed and honestly the threat is real bomb can be picked back up as Nexa looks to lock in heaven there’s all three CTS confirmed now just hit the head shot JL here’s the call to action NEX is looking for a

Clutch already he got three 1 V2s yes well put a fourth on the tally then he’s got 20 seconds to figure this one out the challeng is given to him and wonderful Peaks again but doesn’t full swing bomb’s going to get grabbed 15 on the clock he has to take the duel and

He’s just not going to hit it so it’s Novi with the CT side of pist wonderful could have peeled back at that point he was just over 10 seconds on the clock but he wanted to take the fight works out well for him nice clutch here from

Wonderful I don’t think hookie knew he had the bomb I mean the way he was playing this first of all he’s way out of position to get that bomb planted then he sticks around doesn’t fight and look bomb goes flying forward I agree with you entirely I

Think I think he just lost track of the bomb and didn’t think it was his responsibility I’m like an IG to make a mistake like that but oh okay they’re excited yeah good yeah good should be right good good it’s no easy feat to deny bomb

Plant versus G2 AIS of course navi’s map pick would have had a good sample size of it of course such a great game yesterday between G2 and FaZe mhm here on Anubis G2 leveled up a lot to be able to bring it as close as they

Did but in the end the NCO master class was wasted countered by the robs Master Class bits looking to make some money of course you know g2’s shortcomings on Anubis was really in the facee of Reigns just pure entry fragging and uh carrian overtime impact oh my God

Right see what they can put forward tonight but for now the Glocks get nothing no bomb plant no kill all is good for na’vi in the 20 start F’s got to be the most exciting overtime team in history even Boston even though they didn’t win right yeah thank you for your

Service entertainment name is the game looks lots of Pokémons on the desk yeah pokemoner to what is that thing a a ballon a bonor I think it’s called a bobasaur oh of course it is so not to be confused with Ivysaur Venusaur of course both of them

Grass type yes eventually you get into the grass poison subcategories and at at that point you need to look out for fire typee Pokemon cuz it’s a hard counter yeah like trip asard how many years of Pokemon now like at least 20 right 20 25 years I think it probably

They’re running out of ideas man they’re running out of ideas over there I see ice cream Pokemon typewriter Pokemon like what the hell is going on chandelier Pokemon I was happy with people Pokemon like Machop yeah sure right back in my day there was just floating rocks with two arms where my

Geod dudes at [Laughter] Maui that’s funny but I can’t talk I look like a bean sprout there’s a Pokemon for that right yep M’s into middle and there’s no presence CT’s leaning back ooh Nico ouch the fire spreads out and forces him down he didn’t want to drop but he had to

Yeah he didn’t luckily for Nai just playing passive here yeah imagine wonderful is just there to scoop it up scoop him up he’s going to walk into this hor goes for the wide swing wonderful ready for the kill that was wild to just swing like that Hook’s on a different tip right

Now well hookie absolutely pieced up Ma in their opening game in Abu Dhabi and is that their whole attack because you know sort of a boring way to go out oy got really good as a caller towards the end of the game last night trying to keep up with face are great at

Anubis they’re going to just do it again again eh you need some more nades um and again easy for wonderful pressure from the other side though Lexi’s got his back covered we said we need a lot from Wonderful Tonight Nexa good head shot but no time here unfortunately for him

If he tries to get plant Alexis right here for for it and that is going to be an easy pickup for wonderful four kills on the round op in the pocket looks good what’s the deal if they have one person swing why don’t they just swing with two

If they’re going to dry swing and they there’s an OP or something crazy like that space right there to potentially punish him but uh not even a a flashbang here it’s not the place you always find the op it’s like when we saw twist hoing for phas he’s the second op he’ll play

There sometimes yep so maybe it’s the starting position G2 expected but that was a very stringy attack certainly not ideal are the other ones actually Pokémon or no no the other ones are not okay I think one of them is just a rainbow one’s like a snail oh it’s

Rainbow got a Bulbasaur a chicken and a something or other what about Digimon did you play that didn’t play Digimon nope I was uh just watched the show right was nope not even okay that was a Pokemon Yu-Gi-Oh Magic the Gathering and then Magic the Gathering all the way to University like

The coolest of cats I mean magic is cool so I get it there were just too many words on the cards that’s why I didn’t play yeah reading huh could be challenging for some I didn’t know how to play Pokemon was 11 so I used to play it like War you

Know where you put one card if it has a higher damage put it on top of the other yeah sure and the energy cards we just throw them out what’s a stupid thing but Yu-Gi-Oh yeah that’s when I really that’s when I really at my Elementary School Yu-Gi-Oh cards got

Banned because kids keep kids steing them they kept stealing them no not even allowed anywhere on the premises we used to try to duel at lunch and there was this guy Gerald lafon he was man he had a good deck right and then he was in the

Other other classes from me so we didn’t cross paths too often and then there was a hyped lunchtime duel set up between me and Gerald and it never happened cuz the day we were going to do it the cards got banned banned so nobody really knows God

Damn w we still don’t know to this day I won’t forget what he doing these days um you checked his Facebook that’s usually how you found out I think he works in landscaping last I knew fell off or not yeah nice guy cool I had a Jinzo and a

Magic cylinder that’s all I remember that’s good Joey wheeler type beat yui boy kba I’ve stolen your grandfather’s Soul Yugi that is priceless well they get into dark for free this time no wonderful opt to piece him up and they just slide the pistols behind the smoke so they’ve gotten close enough careful

Now IM met nice head shots wary of Mony following forward here but he just had the Glock nade should he’s also on burst nope not going to clean him up get stuck in the doorway so he’ll he’ll take the tech 9 see where he can go with

It ooh finding them on the nade timing not bad considering how little they had to work with you take kill you almost got EMA we’ll see if Nico can deagle anybody out of the server man his deagles yesterday on nuke I mean that map of nuke versus FaZe if you have any

Doubts of Nico and CS2 just just go watch that watch it back yeah if they if you won that map it would be forever that as a reference game in CS2 for nco’s abilities on on on nuke that the peak that was Peak form Peak form the

Best we’ve seen of him yet in this game and unfortunately it’s a slow start for him here on Anubis I believe zero and four out of the gate so G2 they they got to get this ball rolling yeah sooner than later calling looks a little sketchy right now so see what the idea

Is next time feels like maybe sometimes when calls look bad it’s cuz someone used a nade they weren’t supposed to use or they had to you know smoke themselves out of a Molly that they were supposed to avoid or someone died and lost a kit that they needed so hard to see

Sometimes when things go wrong why exactly that’s the case but here’s a second chance for G2 d wonderful in stick long stick around long at all they just gone he’s quite risk averse like he’ll he’ll take a peak and stuff but he most of the time

He he doesn’t oh oh oh oh oh that’s a nice find from JT yes sir Lady Luck Grace’s JL but you know what I mean wonderful is like he’s got the same sense as symbol but he doesn’t have the same grit he’s not going to stick around fight through

Fire and nades and stuff like that he’ll he’ll take an attempt and fall back but he’s quite passive sometimes damn e doesn’t give a damn about your grenade we got pressure on the bights and that pressure opens a possibility for G2 smoke grenade for Alexis rotate in oh

They tagged him with that so they should be on high alert but he does have a chance to slide through Mony of two minds Hunter just gets clipped on the side of it we’re back to the 3v3 but that op towards long could get problematic for na’vi on the retake so a

Smoke grenade will solve this Monas now out of the fight for the time being Nexa has a frag if he wants to open that smoke could be a great way to catch somebody on the cross yeah true but Nexa keeps his gun out in dark it’s instead

Nico to take contact they’ve lost track of Nexa Alexi he’s got this covered and his teammates give him the cover needed as the desperate Mony push comes through for na’vi fith I think you had something there it’s sort of hard to maybe notice if you don’t notice but if Nexa had

Nated that out for Mony would have been perfect uh that would have just taken people would have been a real CS2 moment would have been a real CS2 moment absolutely and honestly definitely could have had impact right there so opportunity missed unfortunately he also you know thought he was going to get

Swung so there’s that but we see what happens when yeah nice that would have been super cool for him to Try instead just stuck in the corner of dark timeout I thought it was going to be g2o I thought it was going to be after yesterday but the mood is too good for na’vi right now m I think again that comeback versus an just that gives you like a good 24 48

Hour Buzz I guess I would be kind of pissed that it got that close versus a team that’s not real anymore but there’s still real people yeah but they’re like five seed fingers not on one hit ooh I’d be going after this win though yes 100%

I think think M said that na’vi are the longest en team at this event right that’s crazy that’s crazy but uh it does mean that there are some expectations well they just jump around the corner and take a shot to the leg this is an easy pickup for na’vi I mean

They laugh in the face of this attack fifth player in the only one that gets a kill he’ll Double Down Mony but he’s already down to a quarter HP and what this whole Playbook is very unlike what we saw yeah that that’s not yesterday’s gameplay no it’s not and it

Is a different team they’re playing against but it did just feel like they were playing fundamentally better a lot more defaults yesterday for G2 a lot less defaults here versus na’vi or maybe still defaults but like I guess a problem when they played against FaZe was also their follow

Through in the some of the early T rounds when they would take mid control and then just di a camera crazy Peak out a hookie Hook is keeping that same energy right now it’s just just on a different site so something to say about that but there should also be something

To say about the fact that they got better and stopped doing that as we got into overtime um but old D old habits die hard it looks like that’s three man but he only has three Health left that should be the end of him there only two guys yeah he’s

Going to use the smoke grenade to cut off Alexi could they mess this up 25 seconds and Mony is seeing red he wants to make it happen oh my god oh no way dude this is a one versus five straight up and he has time to get bomb

He’s he he should have this red with another smoke oh my Mony one fake the nade doesn’t come through now he’s got enough space to commit to this Mony a pure 1v5 and as emac tries to get out through that smoke Mon’s just dodging all these bullets he’s terrified EMA’s looking

Behind him for a push through time ticking away I mean how could you not be horrified Mony The Prodigy has pieced together four frags in this 1v5 Ace clutch and EMA his is on a silver platter a miracle from the Magnificent Mony holy hell just like that game

On a round that’s a write off a round that G2 blow on a full B exact and it ends up like this one last refrag through the smoke from and the 1 V3 is on three HP two players and one clutch three Health jumps into Alexi where do

Those bullets go underneath him he jumps over the stream of shots uh we the MBR was a 1v4 right I think so yeah this is a 1v5 wow okay he’s just he’s been a highlight machine um obviously since playing professional play since he’s been on any

Kind of stage wow whether it’s groups or otherwise online whatever no matter what the level of competition is Mony keeps the real going add it to the collection of miraculous Counter-Strike moments that’s the flash for G2 on the board perfect utility usage as well each step

Of the way right picking up that extra smoke that’s a thing man in the he doesn’t make mistakes no sir now what can they make of it off the back of that one ooh wonderful good trade but mon is on the angle before he even gets a

Chance to go back to the rep peek man Advantage with a deep amount of Med control from Hunter set the way back into the game I mean na’vi are the team that should have called a pause after that okay that is around your refocus you don’t just jump right back into the game

Everyone is still thinking about that clutch that one5 that just took place you can’t ignore that that just happened whether you’re G2 and you’re worried about Monas still shaking cuz he knows that highlight is an alltime clut or if you’re na’vi and you realize that you just got embarrassed you got

Posterized by the youngest player on G2 you’re just another memory in the collection for him that’s I mean that’s that’s map long trauma for na’vi now it can be absolutely nothing will test your gangster like having to survive a clutch like that and uh we’re not going to see

Them smiling for a bit even if they win a couple of rounds that is pure embarrassment on one end it’s embarrassment on the other it’s inspiration watch that 75 half come through now you know what I mean total turnaround moment we’ve got M4 and a FAS here for

Na’vi so they try to wipe that from their memory but can’t watch the kid he’s going back for another one ooh dangerous think JL is some somebody who does play a good amount a mid control keeps na’vi on their toes even though he doesn’t have support more

Often than not just the one man hold but right now he’s got nothing to work with and G2 just letting na’vi continue to Stew they’re taking kind of a pause within this round by not speeding it up too much giving themselves a chance to relax and not dying while they collect some

Map control again and maybe this can help get their protocols together because they’re looking to play some of these defaults a little bit more carefully they find the open sight successfully and G2 have two guns they want or sorry na’vi have two guns they want to hold on toomb has

So we can count him up that’s three straight now for G2 we’ll get the investment again next round from na’vi that’s tough would have been them saving too you know we’d be at 70 looking at 80 would have been a complete collapse in contrast to the action- Pack series versus phase yesterday wow

Take that moment and run with it three straight five alive at the end of round eight from na’vi Jr to 1V fing na’vi they’re like damn it plus 600k right we sell this how is that too little there really is a short list of players that make you feel like anything

Is possible when it comes to Counterstrike and the beauty of that clutch too is it’s it’s not one of those ones where like there’s like a super glaringly obvious mistake made by the na’vi members they’re just trying to dance with someone who’s two steps ahead of

Them because it was more like a 1v3 it was two kills in the beginning yep to just make it possible to begin with full big rotation they could have they could have played to trade for any one position but it wasn’t uh it wasn’t like some other massive mistakes in 1 v5s

Where everybody sort of goes out of their way to try to toss the round away I think no he just had the right tools in the one versus two and yeah I mean jumping through that smoke and then you know not being seen and then getting a first bullet kill

Like things have to line up right now they’re pelting him with utility so he can’t see and he’s softened up ooh hookie is going to fall victim to this nice nice positioning from eme then gets the dink through the smoke that’s all he needs to know to keep on

Shooting but as he falls back Hunter comes through it was Mony to open up the bomb site just wide enough for Hunter to take the push they got to think about the money now no you got to be very careful here another smoke in front of Temple as well Tails flank is everything

If they didn’t have that in position it feels like it’s already impossible but with JL pressuring monesy again this bomb site’s feeling small for G2 bit and wonderful come out with kills a piece man advantage and jl’s flank now starting to find a little more room to

Work within but Nico’s been able to fall back to dark and Nexa just tucked in here on the side of temple the spray gets away from him Nikos found out and it’s a nice 3v4 retake from na’vi to get back to winning ways dude that’s majorly

Impressive yeah but the bomb oh no they don’t have anyone on the bomb with the Kick the bomb is close oh my God and still good I thought they actually missed it wow that was the last Teck right there heard the wi of the bomb and that

Was uh that was close that would have been a little bit too much tragedy to get over I think in one half and uh Jes alen’s got you on the edge of your seat yeah someone had a kit not JL not JL oh not getting back no sir teammate

Opens the smoke for Nico and that’s even with wonderful again trying to pull back as fast as possible yeah the idea to speed up towards a it’s very tempting the op down no one holding C camera no one uh post it up besides these rifl inside the

Site and na’vi are just still split up right now o JL picks up that op eats a Flash and fires off but easy fall back confident enough to return ever so slightly to the angle Miss jump not a problem all good now he has to deal with standard protocols as they

Molly him back flash him make sure that he can’t aggressive taking a major risk but he can just try it if he wants to they leave one here to hold and Nexa was so good versus robs yesterday let’s see if bit can take him out no honestly he’s taken to this position

So well mhm just sitting in good anchor it’s going to force EMT to try and get active he catches hookie confirms bomb but then Nico slides out through smoke slices sight open JL oh no luckily the smoke grenade didn’t give Nexa the easy frag and the

The chase could very well be on but this is going to be G2 responding right back money not ideal here for na’vi luckily Wonderful’s got an extra 5K you save these guns you can put something together because J threw down that long smoke he’s been able to join Alexian

Middle let’s see if they can save very important save here for na’vi Alexi the little off angle Nico taking his time in a perfect clear and now he knows the op is going to be nearby oh shots missed and JL no bullied but stays alive he’s got an AK and

Finally Nexa will start to come for him yeah he’s got him dead to rights Nowhere to Run nowhere to hide for JL G2 responding clearing the board but again there’s still some money to tap into see what kind of bay na’vi decide to piece together oh it’s his own n too I was

Like oh someone Ned that open for him was perfect oh my goodness unfortunate there for wonderful the one bullet that comes through of course right on the Noggin Well we’d seen him fall back faster before like he took a look down river and dipped and this time he did

Stick around that half second for a shot like see guys that’s why I’m so careful right you decided to take a shot and it cost you man Advantage out the gate well these little tactics they’ve been setting up him up with have been great overall he’s 14 and five they

Bought him an OP this round he used that extra money for himself so trying to go God mode and at 14 and five why not it’s going to come down to a matter of G2 though walking into it unsuspectingly right now he’s over towards B site Two Pistols ahead of him

A completely wide open for the taking and the Rumblings of Hook’s presence could very well keep na’vi committed to the bomb site that G2 want nothing to do with see these are the defaults we’re looking for it’s so much more thorough and of course they’re only going up

Against this one op on wonderful but um it’s just looking more composed here for for G2 they basically never miss when it comes to finding the weaker site in a in a default on an NCO like they’re very good at avoiding Stacks they’ve done it twice with no casualties in this half already

Second round of this map where we’ve got 10 players alive when bomb explodes yeah again the last time they did it it was G2 had two guns oh I spoke too soon they’re going to find some pistol players in spawn as long as the op doesn’t die and it won’t so far remov

From all this so all is good for G2 some nice small bounties on those players saving yeah that’s the Mony effect I mean when we talk about X Factor and Counter Strike it’s stuff like that you know you you need to be able to have that igl’s even the greatest IG of all

Time have referenced just needing X Factor it’s something you can’t teach somebody nobody’s helping Mony win that clutch you just need someone who can do it usually you hope for a little bit of it but honestly he’s drowning in it dripper drown another slow approach towards midbridge

We’ve slowly seen JL kind of recede back from those early Bridge fights not peeking window any longer not if Nico is going to pop smokes open nice spam JL okay just enough catching Nico through the doorway at a 5v4 for na’vi as they pum in with their buy good amount of util still

They’re going to pull that rifle back we’ve already seen wonderful get easy multi-kills from this spot but he’s going to miss the first shot lands the second hookie survives and has a teammate with him he wants an angle on that dark position Hy still stays alive

He’s he’s being a problem right now Emma he could take this down easily nice double kill from em and Alexi will lose his duel towards Temple but dinking hunter in the process Mony reopens this bomb site but they still relying on EMA deep in dark they know he’s in dark but

Look they’ve completely compromised every good spot on the site it’s now a CT retake they’ve got to reorganize and then you have Mony with 100 HP op up and plenty of room to work with and you do not want to have to retake in an atypical position like this

Well they’re going to go for the double long you’ve got protocols coming in from all the natural positions no dark no Temple and Ean last scene down towards dark so if that op goes out and clears these angles first it’s going to keep monesy on high alert ready for the long

Swing we’ll see if they join forces or just kind of let e bait bit at the start of it Mony takes a bunch of damage e does swing for the trade frag and now it’s going to rely on Hunters 5 HP with the off but he hits the first shot and

He’s going to draw JL forward no kit again Glock burst betrays him but with no kit he’s going to get on that bomb not even he knows this one’s gone unless found one on the ground and again oh knock this time so close end of the half

G2 bust open the bomb site Hunter with the op to post G2 6th I don’t think I had any Idols but I had a lot of things that I wanted to be as a kid I wanted to be a bager like pastries also an actor because I was

Really good at acting as as a kid I want to cry on command like I used that a lot when I was studying maybe wanted to be an astronomer one day I really love space and that stuff so no I didn’t have any IDs at all like my friends was like

Oh I want to be like fireworker or something like this or a policeman I was like okay I was watching a lot of uh tennis and myid was navak jokovic but now I’m even bigger fan what he’s achieving so far and uh I think not just inspiring me

But I think everyone around the world who is competing in something when I was in kindergarten I want to be a basketball player and I played basketball for like eight months then I GRE up when I was a kid uh what I wanted to

Be kind of when I grew up I always loved working with the with animals I always wanted to look into maybe becoming like a veterinarian or something like that but that’s a lot of work you know you got to go to university and put a lot of

Time of that I’ve shipped it now I’m playing video games my favorite Counterstrike player to watch differs a lot honestly but if I had to pick one I would pick SAU at the moment he’s so capable of doing everything pistol AK M4 he’s like an all around really strong player and also a

Clutcher back in the days yeah I was I was looking for divice because he was close to my play style D actually it’s pretty biased he can not touch the game for three weeks and still be good I’d have to say like someone like robs we have the same initials we look similar

And we have the same roles and we play the same res it’s someone definitely I look up to as robs my favorite Counter Strike player to watch would be flusher he’s always extremely annoying I don’t really know like who is my favorite Counter Strike player to watch

Right now but like before it was Fallen when I started becoming an oper he was like the oper to look at he’s like had longevity in his career he’s been doing a lot for Brazil and I just think he is a really good role model my favorite Counter-Strike player to watch

Especially when I was growing up uh I originally was playing Counter-Strike sorus shock was a player that his play style really inspired me uh and I really wanted to be that player that can play everything every role he’s always been having like a mixed play style he could

Always play with the or and the rifle I would answer simple because he’s like U unexpected guy you like cannot predict him it’s like you never lose hope in him in like a 1 V3 1 V4 situation you’re like oh he can Win So they say the devil’s in the details this is JL looking for a kit after he gets the last frag that one step towards long instead of the immediate pickup costs him a sixth round one of two rounds it comes very close cuz of the

Diffuse yes sir last one had to be the 10 seconds so one misstep you lose another one one miss step and Mony 1 v5s yeah seriously tie game everything rested on a hair pin in that first half navi’s map pick and now navi’s tside wonderful he’s been sat on 14 kills for

Quite some time now there’s a solid CT half out of him bite defense was Stellar couple multi frags in there but obviously highlight of the event in Mon’s back pocket so far it’ll be hard to top you’d have to be pretty lucky to see something better than that that’s for sure what a

Treat JL up close they’re going to wide swing on him and his teammate e not able to get out of there tapping away but bits got the response back from dark two kills they’ve got to go and push for the bomb and this means Nico is going to have a

Nice bit of cover here good head shot angle bit makes it a little awkward now for Nico starting to slip from him as he Peaks out confirms both are indeed here but his teammates can also just take back control of the sight they’re going to push to come help Nico and that help

Looks good Mony dual Berettas for the double kill and it’s g2’s pistol as they take the lead we saw G2 very willing to swing out to uh to swing in into phase yesterday in very similar fashion and then we’ll do that on full rifle rounds again showing us another very very classy a

Kind of great read setup where the nades are going over top of them the flashbangs as well they’re running run underneath it so the timing is perfect here the happiness continues to flow here for G2 it was looking a little bit despondent in the beginning of the game but definitely the tides have

Shifted and they were defending against fa’s tside too yesterday just watch rain Unstoppable on the offense G2 going to have to put something better up today not giving any string for na’vi to pull on here in this one you think any of them are still thinking about that

Ace yeah I actually just was so same you better believe it’s Amplified in their own minds God I mean you think about it when someone does that to you if someone get a ninja diffuse versus you in a match you know it’s getting clipped you know yeah dude it’s got that lingering effect

We’re going to remind you of it oh man I’m the sucker has impact it has real impact Glocks will find some open road towards mid D Berettas huh the MP9 have it there we go extra cash for Nexa as he closes with the 3K and we’re going to

Get that nice early round three buy out of na’vi okay let’s go yeah tside begins now yeah if uh na’vi want to do this they got to show us a good tside like how they were setting up wonderful all throughout that first half on CT tside should be maybe even more

Cool depending on the way that they use him but there’s lots of openings for the t’s to get as an oper a lot that you can work alone as well but uh this round it’s not one where they can afford the op just yet that will have to be earned

Or they’ll have to steal it try it at of mon he’s cool dead hands oh you got to put him down first has not been an easy feat keep Molly to deny any rugs Peak slows down the potential for [Applause] bit man they’re nervous every check every

Corner there’s so little map control at the start of this one what’s he setting up here a grenade yep n it’s got to Splash got to we’ll get there said are you taller than jks I just can’t get up there the hell well luckily for them there was nothing

To be had no missed opportunity on that one and then nexo once the smoke fade slides in we talk about how well he’s been doing on the tside anchoring in Long a here we have it the CT push alongside niik but don’t let your guard

Down Nico also falls to bits and at the 30 second mark That’s critical Monas is about to get split from mid and long by five there is nobody to slow down the mid push he is standing out in the open no trade potential for this one it is

Bit who opens up a punishing the G2 Expedition and therefore reopening the door for na’vi to close this Gap he played in a spot that if he got cleared from above he would have died instantly but he had a feeling that they wouldn’t and he was right getting the second kill

Was a bonus but to be honest it was almost necessary time was running down at that point so monesy hit one good shot if Nico got one good trade then g2’s round is still alive but bit does everything they need and a little more hey there whoa whoa whoa HS he’s got it

Bad enough okay don’t do it man five kills on nuke he’s 3 and 11 right now all right okay put him out of his misery end it and move along na’vi no trade here from Nico only tags bit down to 50 and unfortunately monesy just like you know

Five steps too far out of the cupboard that that’s true yeah he maybe could have been right in there but also that spacing was perfect for na’vi coming in from camera I think Mony just kind of floats on bricks for a second cuz he’s thinking about holding long a instead

Right that little bit of delay in Mony step cost him oh no he couldn’t post another you know Miracle 1v3 would have taken everything from him in that one but it’s Navi very quickly making progress towards the a site yet again Alexi down to camera EMA right behind him him and only

Pistol nice and easy here good call from na’vi and Alexi I like the pace calls out an open Gap see if these USPS can get anything certainly nothing more impressive than fting an empty sight fast yeah oh you just know this pack of CTs would have

Been moving around the map looking for a kill and and a roaming pack of USPS is suddenly a little more deadly but uh JL and bit making sure the none of these guns slip away it’s n’i tied this game again but this time at eight jugle it all the way take no chances

Yeah get it out of there and leave yourself four alive for na’vi starting to grow nice comfortable amount of cash the backet and honestly a tighter game than I anticipated I thought G2 after seeing yesterday going that toe-to-toe with fazeclan bro it feels like na’vi have to

Win this game twice because of that 1v5 so they had a great lead they go to the second half they lose the second pistol they have to come back on tside but they’re they’re doing it so here’s a turning points okay everyone almost Z here for G2 is

The inv comes in one last op here for Mony before a potential save na’vi aren’t even interested in getting an OP over to wonderful they’re doing just fine he’s got 6K in his back pocket again Alexi feeling like there’s space to be Tak in middle but spam out of

Nico Lexi is fine for the time being another fast Peak bits going to fall to Nexa wonderful good trade on the first but Nico’s got better cover and a smoke down in front of the midsplit so Alexi do you take this chance he could pause here for a second he’s looking for his

Timing they got a set up push for him some kind of distraction JL smoked long too oh Nico’s so weary of this Smoke’s just a little bit too out there and EM just a couple paes too far back mid players peek out take his support down

But Alexi oh thought maybe he could wrap it around JL has the slimmest of chances here as bombs down and guns up 1v3 to go it’s a late lurk out of hookie and if they also wait for him JL could get back across what a shot into Mony holding

That angle so deep I like how he’s playing this active ready for the same fight to come out delayed looks he’s crawling JL hell of a time to post another clutch in this series and you know he has some time now n to soften up Hunter they both Chuck a frag back and

Forth but not the third Hunter’s had enough oh jl’s so pissed he knows he could have tucked he didn’t hear the bomb getting stuck but because Hunter threw that H first he doesn’t know if he missed hearing the bomb diffusal that’s partly to get some damage in partly

Tactical and it definitely draws JL forward to be a little bit more aggressive than he’d like to be beautiful shot on Mony posted on the angle they were just letting Mony clip him if he tried to cross back to long this is so unlucky for Alexi Nico’s

Waiting for him for so long but then he gets distracted and then still hits that shot and an instant head shot out of Hunter and poor frustrating and actually H also tapped the bomb so for some kind of peak JL having a rough one between

Missing that kit at the end end of the first half would have been a beautiful 1v3 he is still having an excellent game undeniably but round wins slipping through his fingers G2 back up by one JL here in dark to pressure Hunter out bombs in spawn hyper passive out of na’vi again yeah this has definitely been working for them they got a checklist

Right and if they see no baskets push and they see no long B push and uh they have maintained Bridge control and they can stay alive long enough they’ve done very well to organize a split fast enough and G2 are not being aggressive a aong they need to do

That you need to be quite persistent about that but it looks like the sort of blind stack is correct and they push a along finally so they get info I’d say this is a pretty good timing for G to but na’vi are coming in yeah and instantly finding Nico couple warning

Shots to Hunter but he stays tucked in still hanging on Nexa picks up a single frag wonderful it’s cover oh great cover from right wonderful almost killed in the process of the plant but but a big pickup from em two on the round right he is the guy who cracks

Open the back of the bomb site gives the cover for the plant easy pick up from Nex on the flank he’s been the response so far from G2 in this round slide out from JL he’ll take the head off offshot comes through from monesy and as long as

He’s alive there’s a chance no kid on these players they have to push flashbang fantastic inside of the smoke it’s going to be desperate monesy has to give this up and JL will post his round finally okay na’vi respond with a ninth yeah it has been a real journey here for

JL he’s gone through it all but another clutch for him one they can win those emotions back basically that’s a nice round here here for na’vi and this one is run won by imma though that entry pathing was perfect Nico getting taken out first is you know a huge chip off

Your shoulder and uh and then this cover as you mentioned barely saved wonderful as as you getting the plant down but didn’t didn’t get distracted he focused in on what he needed to cover for that bomb to get planted safely the only way this goes wrong is if someone Peaks from

There and so we held it I wonder if thought somebody had that long walk out right three players on site nobody saw em until he’s on jail no one spot in the cross nobody at all they yeah they just flash to let him in and then waited normally people are waiting for this

Cross Smoke on the site to enter into uh to to hop up into pizza oh man that oneoff round round 17 goes the way of G2 now they’ve got a force by here this could be a great chance for na’vi to run away with a lead but Mon’s got an OP because he

Saved because JL tried to Chase and clear it and by not fragging on Mony you know G2 have that much more of a chance however sees nothing immediately gives up his angle on dark that last round so well called from Alexi I mean they got the information

They needed they executed at 43 seconds which is an extra 10 seconds from where you would normally do it and if they had waited till the 30 second Mark that a flank would have came in so it looked like G2 were on to something they

Figured out what side it was going to be and they started moving but Nai were a little faster and uh I love to see that you know not just waiting around for the sake of it just to see if there’s a push they had enough of the details of the

Map and then they started going Molly for back site nobody to get flushed out from behind cake ooh pressure for Nexa nothing nothing at all only Hunter with the mid hold and he falls right after so this one is easy and Monas is hoping to just maybe save

It again bomb has been planted cut through like butter and there we go bit clears the board every weapon dead G2 now in for a world of hurt beenin Immaculate man on these round wins here for for na’vi there have been some kind of crazy late game situations but the staging the

Early round the mid round have been all pretty solid they are almost you know it’s almost a pacifist run in in the in the setups for these rounds like they’re they’re getting away with map control without losing any HP minimal grenade usage and G2 are not pressing

Them nothing to work with they’re the odds of their game now tank this is na’vi surviving at all and it’s got flashes of nuke yesterday right we got this Nico world class top frag and you don’t even win the map now G2 obviously you banking on that Mony 1v5 and you

Still don’t win the map it feels like your pieces are in place stars shining mentally what more could G2 have done to make this a terrible situation for na’vi so na’vi have really survived so much within this game within this event within this event yeah true yeah you

Know pressed by an down like after choking that second map to come back that was for elimination was huge so you know na’vi hanging on for dear life but the pulse is strong here as the tside three in a row guns back for G2 but smooth calls from Alexi yeah and

This is another individually like just terrible map from Hy man like he was you know nuke was a game where he had five kills he’s 4 and 17 and he does some entry work man he when when they played well the first day it was off the back

Of Hook’s entries added to the pile you can’t do that everywhere every day but it can’t be all or nothing right surely there’s a middle ground yeah there has to be like a you know a 10 kill average 12 unfortunately I think we’ve been saying that for a long time

Yeah it’s just the most boring narrative uh around one of the strongest callers hookie is actually such a fantastic caller but it’s literally his individual level that holds back his team this time the Molly does find a Target but Nexus still brings one down with it and Nico’s

Got the heaven angle all’s good CT push out hookie is just running straight into the Crosshair he has patience as a late lurk gets man advantage in the hands of na’vi as they’re about to get this 12th Nico pushes forward does not hide in heaven as smoke Fades and the t’s they

Don’t have a Molotov to get him out of here this is a huge chance for Nico but he’s going to have to do it on his own no teammates nearby and Alexi doesn’t turn he starts to run and Nico gets the double what a shot a trade back from

Wonderful a squeeze onto Mony they do manage to get into this sight as wonderful plants bomb it falls on the shoulders of Hunter who is too far away and concerned about mid because of the split that comes through from EMA great lurk work from EMA this round finding hookie finding the mid

Playay at the beginning of na’vi with imma they tried to use him like he was on gamer Legion an aggressive solo lurk on the map and that is just not how that’s just not how he can be used Nico can do that you know for years at the

Top level imma could not do that once he got figured out that was just no you got to start from scratch again you got a guy with great aim and he’s pretty good at lurking how do we use him within a team system that’s totally different it’s taking some time but this is

Looking so much better um and I I love to see him in front just as much he’s as he is lurking and here’s a good example of where he can be a good lurker earlier in this half he was a good entry this is sanity by the way yeah that’s two bullets

Out EMS sliding through did what he [Laughter] could no one even saw that yes yeah well he’s got a reason to celebrate that’s na’vi on map Point triple f spy coming out from G2 a miraculous Mony moment in this map and it may all be for Nots oh JL how

Dare you it gets worse sick just a little burst on the smoke you’ve got man Advantage you’ve got all of a sudden a b site in a world of hurt hookie does post a kill and that felt mandatory he’s alone on that b site back to the

4v4 suddenly no Panic needed to rotate and give him support he did it on his own and he did it when he had to on death’s doorstep here in Anubis this game was mr12 but emotionally it was mr20 sure roller coaster for na’vi they have truly been tested mentally throughout

This event in Abu Dhabi the depths of defeat versus an to getting stomped on by The Prodigy what’s crazy is even with hookie getting that early kill okay a second one should be enough now he needs help there’s still no rotate coming at him and he’s not going to get a third kill

In this situation and with a delayed play Nico ooh wonderful definitely saw him right no he goes unspotted he got away with it this could be a big timing for Nico they’re going to think he’s way farther back than this but still on this line but does anybody give him anything

To shoot at Nexa clears the jail position wonderful is able to press out along the pillar and there we go Nik NCO strikes one down wonderful stuck between three separate players he’s got to get into cover and he hits his shot he hits both his shots and denies modesty the

Dark push but just squeeze from too many directions we criticized hookie his total lack of frags in this map but he posts them when they have to yeah yeah and simple left na’vi and had wonderful come in it was it was just about to get very ugly there was just too many pieces

That needed to learn how to play in this team at this level um and Wonderful’s made improvements he’s definitely made strides throughout this event looking better same for Ma and G2 are just barely hanging on try to keep up here on Anubis well contained by hookie obviously they don’t know how

Close they were to spotting Nico on that flank wonderful just a pixel off straightforward doesn’t say who the point yeah can only imagine though you imagine swanie slips that on Hook’s desk Hook’s desk yeah just hey hookie let’s flip that score around so how can he claw back this game

It’s two rounds to get to over time all of his soldiers have all the weapons and utility they need and we don’t we haven’t had really an uptempo call here for na’vi it’s been rare this might be the perfect thing to actually suffocate the defense man CTS along the wall flashes

Don’t matter Hunter keeps Vision up JL in from dark triple kill from Hunter wonderful peels him off the sight but you still got hookie to deal with and utility for him to just slow them down big moments coming out of this B defense hookie in the last hunter in the

Present with wonderful Alive and Kicking can they manage to get back into the round they got a minute to try and find an opening but you know it a minute is already attempting save you know some being close to that pillar being extended out on b side it

Just feels so dangerous but it is great for blocking off flashbangs by getting underneath them it’s tough to flash anybody in that position you’ve got the pillar to use anything that bounces off the entrance it’s it it demands mechanical skill but it does up your chances of dodging all the util and we

See it here with Hunter yeah using environmental cover for dodging flashes is cuz like even if a Flash doesn’t blind you if it forces you to 180 that’s enough to win a fight sometimes just get someone’s mouse off the Center of their mouse pad so if you can use

Environmental cover to dodge flashes and uh you counter The Flash affect entirely and it it’s also something like when people swing with flashbangs they’re a little bit more Reckless than if they swing without right so that flash does nothing they’re hold the angle perfectly and they use this cover so well there’s

Just so much trust for those T coming in what they doing and no fear for the CT holding on and J just a couple steps behind from dark so not even able to kill them while they’re focusing on Long Blade wants in third and final timeout of regulation for

Na’vi I don’t think there’s anything bad or wrong about the attack I think they’ve actually spent so much of this entire half conditioning G2 to be scared to push the map and and uh that’s actually worked out very well in their favor trying to turn the speed up

Especially after a moment where G2 would be very probably insecure about how much they’ve let happen to them I think could have been a good call just didn’t go down the way they needed it to so I think na’vi still have the mental Edge right now they’re up around it really

Felt like G2 were going to score this game after their comeback in the first half and they’re surviving into the m and the into the second but I think OT still somehow feels far away let’s see if the CTS can bust out some magic dark oh my God that’s close

And dark aggro oh that’s a call yes sir saw it out of the gate monesy posting the op up hookie taking the risk they go two players pushing through the dark smoke and it works out for man Advantage but hookie sticks around I actually don’t mind this risk now my

Only worry for him is just you know alone though or should come back he’s with someone in dark who can spot it cuz they can’t approach him right cuz Mony can always Peak okay but he is at risk a bridge of course and hookie taking the responsibility into his own hands this

Round oh they’re just using this as a gimmick play now and bit almost peeling Nexa off the bomb site top mid smokes so suddenly this Cross of Hook’s angle begins to brew if they throw nades in Doo Bridge though oh oh Alexi is right there Alexi presence of mind to hard

Clear but down to a quarter HP little pressure into the dark room Monas is going to hold the angle just being toy with by Alexi he going to put him down for man advantage and Nico meanwhile pressing out towards middle does leave Nexa on his own in a Nico

Will have a chance but he doesn’t pick up the frag EMA finally falters here Nexus position is good for one and he softened up bits so much so that this feels impossible overtime from G2 Nexa hanging on and hookie stepping up that is a really Brave call to make last

Round of the game I didn’t expect it I thought that they’ve been conditioned very well to be passive to be afraid but what does hookie call a squeeze out through canals a push with monasi behind him to take things into his own hands and even him dying at the 50c mark

That’s info on top of getting a lot of damage off of his team had a lot going for him for them in this round already so well it’s been a struggle the ENT way through but they finally have earned their place in overtime and maybe a moment to

Reset the three round OT though how many more how many more does hookie have in him he was critical in the last three rounds of Regulation and again he’s going to put himself in a difficult spot but right now with so many numbers dedicated towards the other side of the

Map next up he gets one and Nico’s here to help him so they shut down the long push but there is nothing in mid to hold back Nai except a little utility and even that’s enough Alexi doesn’t force the issue I hate the way they path around that pillar they always come up

The left they never clear it properly they never Molly it ever and and uh the there’s rifl that can stand there blind three times they’ve Fallen victim to this position from G2 they haven’t moled it once by Nico twice by they’re just going to go in with the

Three-man a hit you’ve got no Molotov to burn out the back site position so Nico’s able to take a deeper angle Nexus still committed to the same spot and Nico he’s going to pull one off concerned about middle though because there’s zero presence let them in not a

Problem you can still hold them back with support they’re desperate for the bomb plant and that kill could make a world of difference a mistake from Hunter bomb doesn’t get planted though low ground they get the nades out it’s a slow crawl from Mony eventually he’ll hit this

Flank but Nico also not looking to take a chance by peeking out from Heaven this opens a door for Eman to just Blindside another frag and na’vi bouncing back in a three versus five now Monas is’s coming through this should be the end all and he will catch emat up above

Wonderful to the clutch 22 and 13 off the AK he does get off bomb site he knows that Hook’s got to be deep camera and he doesn’t get either of the two hook picks up a kill in OT and G2 the first round’s theirs and that’s not

Small it’s his eighth frag but he denies the clutch that’s a wonderful would have taken to a very favorable post plan up above if that kill had been let go so they they secure it they actually win a the first round of overtime it’s it’s definitely not easy but I think there’s

Some flawed pathing or gimmicky pathing when it comes to na’vi they’re trying to get the you know this left side left way around the pillar with that Molly that Molly comes in from the CT side side but they don’t try to Molly NEX off this spot they haven’t a few times now dealt

With it properly they haven’t respected the fact that they can be played and you can use that as really strong cover and I’m not exactly sure why good I felt like Nico gave a lot of room over to Em by never peing Heaven not pressuring it whatsoever no util up and

Then getting caught out by it like he just really banked on na’vi not pressuring up into heaven they slide through the empty space and almost make G2 pay for it but almost doesn’t count in overtime JL again looking for his impact but consistent utility here out of the defense towards

Dark Alexi is already almost dead already this time it’s Mony with OP I love that they spam this this setup like it’s been working so well um why shouldn’t they it’s a very cool boost to set up as well and they’re using this to maintain Vision over the

Smoke those default grenades coming out it’s like when you throw them on Mirage and B apps you know you throw them NAD set turn your brain off leave the site and they got the info right now full info they’re going to take the risk they’re going to push him out into the

Face of what is three T’s but Wonderful’s got a Grenade out that flash could be huge sure enough and they caught FaZe with the same plays yesterday the AGG massive Peak outside B Works timing is extraordinary 35 to spare wonderful will get the answer but Hunter’s changing guns excuse me what

Why they did they thought that attack was done all of a sudden Nexus got slacked to pick up it’s man Advantage back in the hands of Navi Hunter caught making a mistake in two rounds back to back no Molly for Nexa but he’s got a nice deep position here he throws out

The frag so now wonderful knows exactly where he’s at sure you get the kill on the back but you’ve got wonderful ready for the trade and you’ve got Mony ready for the clutch baits out the peak goes there’s the trade from wonderful god dude that is so smart for monesy to

Has to drag his opponent to the the assistance for his opponent out from dark nearly brought him the clutch good denial however out of na’vi but this play here I mean this is this is where it should have been the end good flash Dodge from from imma first of all playing anti in

That spot very aware but na’vi were very lucky to have that attack net them two more kills Hunter again small mistake hey there’s no small mistakes in overtime fair enough only if you win yeah sure open line of sights doesn’t get a second nice rifle work from JL but

Hunter switches over to the awp still switching guns under pressure but this time it pays off and how many times has wonderful found himself in clutch situations only to lose the true he picks up the last one Keeps Us tied at 13 a piece his 25th kill posts the 13th round

Win it’s nice that G2 get better as the game goes on but they started late in both halves sir na’vi almost punished them for it but now in overtime it feels like they have the steering wheel oh my God hey there Hunter doesn’t get spotted but cannot go out for a rep

Peek the very least he scrambles them though yeah it’s a full walk out with three players left on the tside na’vi just as startled by Hunter as he was by them but this regrouping na’vi has worked before so they’ll stay close together wonderful has a smoke if they

Want to block off Hunter’s line of sight that would completely counter out the oper they could block off both CTS with one smoke if they put it in the right spot but they could also take this unannounced that’s what they’re going to try to do and it could very well work

Alexi perfect gets that far ahead and the Flash finds hookie blind is a bat but no cover wa what no eyes on dark Alexi goes further towards Temple 8 seconds you can only plant in the cubby and now CT’s all around them em no bomb

Plant no round win it’s G2 to take a second to no two players to cover they plant four dark and they don’t play the number one post plant spot on the site instead they spread out cover things that they don’t even have to immediately worry about and who was planting wonderful

They totally screwed him over yep oh my goodness yes it’s I mean it’s 10 seconds left on the round a flank can come in but like this is where you should be trying to post plant from yeah not just worry about a flank coming in I mean worried about the flank but

You had a player long they had one long one Temple yeah no eyes dark yeah that’s that’s bad bad communication in the uh in the late rounds poor wonderful Mony versus wonderful has given us fireworks tonight yeah both have had great games and it seems like wonderful could have been even better

Even better somehow if not led to the slaughter what he would have done to not have hands busy on the dark Peak but there we go 1413 two rounds on the CT side of G2 in overtime it’s an opportunity for G2 again again they’re yet to have a map

Point I mean Hook is getting exponentially better more key kills coming better late than never that clutch earlier pressed again the utility is going to soften him up but gives it up as hookie takes a risk uhoh you’re going to die in the most tilting way possible and you

Know they’re about to swarm this five players two through dark three on long into the sight they go Alexi nothing to offer yet fire though Burns him out perfect spam from hookie hookie coming through with the double entry and jl’s long flank gets spotted out nice shoulder Peak for vony he’ll

Punish that one and now there is nothing really here for na’vi to do other than just hope bit can run through it’s a double as he catches him off guard and wonderful he’s got a crossfire here that he has to deal with and he looks the

Wrong direction so Hunter ends it 15 to G2 two map points a damn it’s that walk through the smoke at hookie catches off imma he tried to do that in the past and Emma had a different angle the last time that interaction happened that’s frustrating for him he knew that hookie

Was going to try to do this again for sure but uh here literally Emma’s looking to Molly in front of the smoke it’s a very it’s an early timing he’s trying to Molly the corner where everyone goes to stand because he thinks it’s going to be a slower defaults G2

Already thinking two steps ahead into the attack o That’s frustrating that’s frustrating but a good call strong call and you know what G2 got to be brave to do this late game that round 24 called to get to overtime into some of these OT calls I have to say not doing what the

Textbook says hookie has been very brave specifically right with the half he was having and then if you think back to regulation his push outside of dark his push outside long B those were round winning moments that hookie decided to take into his own hands had like six

Kills on the map he like a guy in armor that’s too big for him with a sword that’s too big for him with you know just yelling at people but he took a swing and the Claymore struck em stuck in this corner he hears him coming oh nothing back to backs that

Hookie gets ‘s head there’s a player on Plat that’s going to catch him off wonderful in the pocket could do something excellent but it’s only his one Alexi manages to survive tries to press out and Hunter’s double kill could spell disaster here for na’vi a Molotov

Onto Temple as bit has to go the long way round but you’ve got two of these three players on the brink of death a full belt of utility and every member of G2 goes for the long control post plant which means they can get smoked out but

Talk and no h is here to deny the smoke as well bit he actually has a chance but if they if they get smoked out then Mon’s got flashbangs to get his teammates back in through that smoke and they hear the Rumblings of the retake he decides to cover bomb instead and down

He goes monesy does not miss his shot and G2 do not miss their chance at a road to the semi-finals they pick up map one at times it looks desperate at times it looks flat but with that Miracle of a clutch from monesy in their back pocket Nico giving praise to The

Prodigy an incredibly competitive first map in this quarterfinal series and Connor hit the nail on the head G2 started off so cold so quiet into this one but Jacob it all came down to that Unholy Mony clutch to change the fate of G2 in this game imagine pulling off a

1v5 in a competitive Counter-Strike game at this caliber Mony is a highlight real I literally just answered a question in an interview saying what is the highlight of the year and I said pick anything from Mani while I said that in the interview he did this a 1v5 being

Down 5 against na’vi on their opponent’s map pick I don’t know what it is with this guy Maui but he always pulls up in these clutch scenarios it’s so ridiculous how much better his clutch is even gotten the fact is that this is so different than sometimes the early

Clutches we saw from Mony early on in his career he was finding these op clutches these moments where it was just based purely on mechanics and now he’s segmenting fights so well he’s using utility to make his life so much easier it’s that we’re seeing this guy’s growth

So quickly because man he’s just every single time he loses a game it feels like he learns 10 lessons it’s a rifle clutch it’s not his awp right normally we see him flicking around we see his opponents being fearful of him when he he’s having an awp in his hand this is a

Rifle clutch a one V5 from the ground and up him jumping into the smoke and just annihilating doesn’t make any sense at all but that’s mono right here he’s one of the greatest players out there and he’s showing in once more if we can just play that clutch one more time because

It’s the way that he manages you know make IMA sweat in the final moments of that oh my God like I I dread being in his shoes in that time because I feel like he gets really confused of where just enough mesy has gone perfect play in that position I I actually

Legitimately don’t know what EMA was thinking in that moment like you never want to be the last guy pimp when it’s a 1 V one after your teammates all die one by one by one but what’s crazy about is that actually EMA threw a Molly behind himself into canal and I don’t

Understand how he thought that was even a possibility at any point and so I don’t know what went on there for EMA but I think you have to look back at kind of the other moments in that why was he getting so many isolated duels I don’t think Alexi did anything wrong

Either though he just like Mony just jumped over a smoke and just shot him in the face I I don’t know what you can do if you’re Lexi in that moment it’s such a busy play and like only monesy did have the balls in that series to be

Pulling that one off and then we mov to the latest stages of that game and overtime specifically um we were rightly criticizing hookie during regulation of that game totally different story going into overtime right yeah we’re kind of kind of ready to jump on his back once

More cuz we saw yesterday on nuke against his face when Nik had that fantastic game hookie didn’t show up at all and he was a big factor as to why they didn’t win that game same happened here on the N is the first many many rounds but coming into overtime at 129

He stepped up this multi- kill he got right here was Mega massive getting the entry right here as well and in overtime you see all the highight all the wheels coming in from hookie it’s entry kills both on the CT side and on the T side he

Was the one having the absolute most impact on the server from overtime if you just looked at the last eight rounds of this game hookie was a monster but the first 20 or so so really didn’t have too much to be excited about but the

Thing is that hookie I mean he’s kind of talked about it before it’s it’s really about the impact frags for him it’s all about just when the moment calls upon him to do a little bit more he has actually so frequently done that for G2 there’s there’s one thing to be said

Though 0.62 rating simply not good enough right if you’re hookie you got to put up a little bit more presence on the server you got to be a bit more consistent otherwise you rely too much on your meses 1 v5s and your Nik popping off but you know respect for at the very

Least in this game stepping up one matter at the most can we just talk about the energy on the side of G2 for a moment as well obviously we weren’t up here when the clutch happened cuz that was quite early on in the game but when

We walked up here coming into the later stages of Regulation obviously being pushed into overtime these guys were screaming rightfully so it was incredible energy G2 feel like a Brotherhood when they’re actually playing at this level when they’re winning out clutches like that when they actually have everybody clicking and

They’re working off of each other we were able to hear the Cals the way that they were just ping ponging off of each other in terms of one guy present some information another player is able to play off of it they get the kill everybody gets so excited for each other

Everybody’s so happy for each other and I will say that’s probably the one thing where when you talked about jks for Nexa in the server jks to me is a better ranker I don’t think that’s even really like I’m not going out on a limb saying

That either but in terms of energy Nexa brings a fire to this team I think I think that’s a valid point I think that’s one of the few ways you can justify JK is no longer being in this lineup maybe they needed that energy maybe they needed the secondary voice

Within the team that could keep the mood up and you know it sounds silly sometimes to say professional environment that you need good energy and you need a hype man on your team but if they came to the realization that niku is going to perform better or the

Mood within the team is going to be better which means everyone else is going to thrive more so playing with Nexa in terms of jks then maybe it’s it’s worth taking that you know lack of Firepower lack of player capabilities and just bring in next end honestly so

Far he’s been doing all right this map was a treat for so many reasons not least because we actually got to see the oring head to head going down obviously wonderful and mesy respectively pulling in big numbers on both sides of the server Maui they were the two most

Impressive players in the server if we want to start at Round number one monesy was so incredible at making sure that every time he peaked an angle he was jiggling it out just the right way wonderful himself unfortunately wasn’t able to get the victory in this one but

Again we saw some serious impact he had some good rotations in this one and that’s really what I’ve been talking about it’s that I’ve been seeing him become more and more mobile as he’s been getting more and more comfortable on this na’vi roster and so he is of course

Locking down the positions when he’s challenged and he’s finding the multi frags but I I saw him find kills from numerous positions throughout this game I agree I think wonderful is off to a great start in n and without him playing well this game probably would have been

As as close as it is and and I also would argue that without him playing well in general foravi they wouldn’t be as competitive as they are so we got to give a lot of credit to wonderful however I just want to bring you back to

The point I said coming into the game that when you look at the scoreboard monesy and wonderful have the same amount of kills and almost the same amount of death again I would argue monesy found way more impact on the server easy to say when you pull off a

One V5 I know but even in the up grounds man not getting three kills saving his awp he’s doing what he’s doing right here either winning rounds by being aggressive in your face on your opponents or just falling back and getting nothing done so there’s a bit of

A a stylistic difference between the two and I still think wonderful can do more and achieve more impact with his skills so let’s look at na’vi in isolation here because obviously you know wouldn’t have blamed them for just getting Ted off the face of the Earth after that clutch also

For that round that was at the end of the first half where there was just no diffuse kit in sight obviously that uh went the way of G2 what do you think cost Navi in this map because it was pretty competitive and it was by kind of

Quite narrow margins that they let it slip away I want to say that when it really got down to the wire in the tail end of this game G2 were the ones that were very willing to throw out the Playbook and just start calling their own individual numbers we saw in round

24 itself where hookie just decided to push through ebox down Canal to try to find a flank kill onto an a main player I mean those kinds of moments are they remind me of people like on phas like it reminds me of what robs does on that

Team or carrian when round 24 who’s going to make make that that play that just throws the entire round out of balance but throws it into your favor and it was actually hookie it was actually people on G2 like Mony as well who are just stepping up and not and

Going beyond the game plan but the thing is if you’re on na’vi you probably are really trying to not mess up the structure there’s the system that everybody’s trying to get working in working order and unfortunately for them they don’t know when they can exceed the

Limits of it yet I think that’s a super valid point cuz I agree with you na’vi would be the kind of team that sticks to the plan a and when they have to invent the plan B on the go they don’t have as much experience as D2 have in that

Regard so fair point and I think G2 you know the closer we got into over time the more we’re getting the feeling that yeah they’re going to win this map well an incredibly exciting first round of Anubis and of course g2’s map pick lays waiting on the horizon but not before we

Jump things to a quick break we’ll be back in just a couple of minutes where Inferno lies ahead of Us Inferno up next as the pick of G2 and a chance for them to go Tuesday Z through to the semi-finals here in Abu Dhabi we obviously saw them playing up against FaZe just yesterday Jacob so what happened in that map well what usually happens when G2 is playing Inferno

Recently they win they won five in a row last time they lost it was back at pro league in CS goo so they’ve never lost in CS2 that’s one fact right there for you another one is the t- sides it’s absolutely insane how well they are playing the t- sides right now yesterday

They were up 8 to1 against fa then fa made a mini comeback the half ends 8 to4 they’ve played it against flu in the CCT online as where they got nine rounds on the TS side another game in CS 2 where they got nine rounds on the t- side so

Every single time G2 picks the map the opponent go like yeah we want to start CT side and you’re giving the initiative to G2 so there’s two things I want to say right here if you’re na’vi start on that goddamn tside you know don’t give this tside to G2 straight off the bath

And see if you can dictate the pace face tries yesterday to play aggressive on the CT side to take banana control away from G2 and they had nothing of it G2 right now to my understanding is probably the best Inferno team in CS2 I would have to concur pimp but if if I

Were na’vi and I looked at my own t-site on this map I would probably have to try to stay away from it yeah they’ve got a sub 40% win rate on tside rounds so you definitely don’t want to start on that side it’s just not going to do you any

Favors but when we talk about what na’vi can try to do to try to mitigate not uh G2 and their decimating tside I think it has to come from a couple people who have actually been doing pretty well for them JL being one he’s going to have to contest Nico especially towards banana

And not many people can hold a candle to Nico when he’s coming up banana against you but JL actually in this in this series already he’s looked impressive at this event he’s looked solid and I would say overall he’s probably been the player for na’vi that has shined the

Most in terms of just exceeding expectations yeah going up against Nico in that position uh traditionally been nightmare fuel is that something that you’re looking at that makes uh g2’s tside so dangerous is there any other aspects as well yeah I mean if n continues of course he he had a great

Game against face yesterday we already established that but up to that point D2 was still winning when niku were not showing up individually so it’s just another layer to what they do the way hookie and in particular Honda is able to control the t- side and control the

Pace on that t- side that they’re so good at it you know because they can play fast they can go up banana fast and do a fast execu in towards that bomb side they can also just wait around for a minute a minute and 10 and do absolutely nothing so I think whenever

You’re playing G2 on Inferno right now and you’re on that CT side your only response is to try to take charge of the CT side face tried yesterday they tried to take banana control they tried to play aggressive Counterstrike but G2 would just shut it down and methodically

Slowly but surely take over the map and then win out the rounds with almost ease so I I I do feel na’vi is in for a rough run if face can’t answer to to g2’s tside there’s nothing that makes me believe that na’vi have the abilities playing against g2’s tside on Inferno

Feels like you’re falling into quicksand that the more you struggle the more you try to do anything probably the faster you’re just going to die if you contest three people towards banana you’re going to fall apart your your Nico is just going to run right at you he’s going to

Destroy everybody if you play back in the bomb site if you just wait it’s like that quick Sand’s just eventually going to eat you up either way yeah uh things not looking great for na’vi it sounds like you’re saying this is a two to G2 then there’s a lot that suggest that

Yeah you know I I don’t see a world where G2 is is going to lose their first Inferno game in in CS2 to the iteration of of na’vi we’re looking at right now it it would have been different if face got another shot at it or Vitality who’s

Also a a predominant uh Inferno team but right now I don’t consider na’vi to be good enough in order to beat T2 I I don’t think that’s going to happen and yeah I’d be willing to bet on a 20 well the desk is saying this one smells like

A 20 but Connor Mo what are you guys thinking over there I don’t know what mohan’s thinking about but I can tell you I’m I’m siding with him man I think The Inferno tside is just a beast for G2 I think that na’vi unfortunately their chance was on

Anubis and it just feels like that X Factor that X Factor is all G2 at the moment if we get this uptick in Nico’s performance like we did on nuke yesterday okay that’s what I kind of came in for today that’s what I wanted I saw a glimpse of the Nico greatness and

I think there is a chance we get a little bit bit of that here on Inferno and if we do I think tip Fort pound for pound na’vi just don’t have what it takes to hold back this G2 Squad they did the hard part they W Anubis they

Could have probably afforded Anubis in this veto so the fact that they won it getting revenge from yesterday and surviving everything every Peak and Valley of last map mentally I think G2 are going to be in a much better place plus Inferno is just the idilic land of

All G2 fans they they know that g to deliver on tside and mr12 only heightens the experience I think it just comes down if they start fast cuz sometimes they just don’t let off oh we get a smoke over the top we get wonderful with a chance but a

Jumping hook he got him pressured back so he peels away smoke grenade there just in the open ground to deal with anybody who could have been in pit but it’s this apartment’s position that could actually end up being problematic for G2 ‘s able to go all the way back around

Boiler and Nico is just going to commit to the Deep site plant now this doesn’t set up hookie very nicely as he’s playing inside of pit but they go double lane and they’re just they’re just got to just got to stop the CT swing simple as that three CTS coming at this short

Side they draw into monesy hunter gets two and monesy finds his it is excellent on the hold Y and g2’s pistol round seems like a shoe in they squeezed all the map control they needed to right there put them into two sort of awkward fights but two set

Up perfectly composed and hit all their shots yeah and nothing and hookie man hookie he was he was on a on a deflating life raft okay in that first that first game he just kept getting more chances to play and by the end of it he called

Really good rounds that he also got his entries in and he finally got it together and I think the thing we can give him most credit for is that he didn’t decide to like he he kept the same he kept the same aggress Rive play style and energy that did all game he

Just made it work at the end and I don’t know maybe you just need a little extra time to get warmed up today but um I think that’s that’s essentially what G2 it would have been a it would have been the conversation hookie with five kills again the end of Inferno and

They lose even with the Mony 1v5 even with the second pistol even with all these things that went right but win the map and uh suddenly well win the map and you know double your kills by overtime okay yeah three rounds in regulation to close for g2’s CT side and of those

Three in a row from 9 to 12 poxy kicks off each of them so here in the conversion he’ll do the same get the kills when they’re easy and then you don’t need as many of them as the game goes on sad but real sad but real you know

Fill up on appetizers and you don’t have to order a main course Mac 10 will get another one mon see there for the smoke push bomb can go be planted today it is guaranteed but bits USP brings down another one not supposed to happen like that two deaths

For G2 to stomach I don’t think they give a damn so what do you think that is what do you think that is going to happen what you do that I want that I think I am what do I think is going to happen I think this t-s side’s going to

Post nine rounds oh I love that I will say it will post nine rounds okay cool they’ve done it before they can do it again coming off of a map one win sure the G2 Camp feels strong g2’s Inferno is you know g2’s Inferno with hookie is the best in best

Map that G2 as an organization have ever had in their in entire lifetime 27 the history of this or Counter Strike really their their tside Inferno is the most dominant strongest thing that they’ve ever had in their back pocket as an organization it’s a bold claim but some

Of the scores oh man stream of bullets and JL plops his pumpkin right in the middle of them all now bits going to be pinched here from Mony and from Nexa up in apps the utility coming over has got him hard fixated on the first fight Well Done by bit almost

NEX is able to get through bomb is inbound despite being somewhat delayed it’s just too problematic for Alexi to press out so the bomb’s still running come on now Hunter sprinting as fast as he can yes Alexi has an angle but no G2 don’t have a problem CT is allowing for

This plant to come through now for the retake of course EMA incendiary Alexi b a smoke but that’s assuming the retake even tries which it won’t three zero kickoff for g2’s tside one way in which g2’s tside could be better or worse post jks is that they have NEX is the Halls

Lurker that is notoriously one of the hardest positions to be effective in you have to figure out the perfect time to exit the door that door is exposed to the most amount of CT dominant angles of any part of any map honestly it’s the hardest position to try to entry out of

Unless you pick your right timing when you want to go fast when you want to go slow when there’s a 2 two split or when there’s an arch split you’re the one guy in Halls if you die it’s all over so that’s something that jks obviously was really great at uh working with

Terrorists win and uh and some some positions for Nexa honestly there hasn’t been anything that’s looked extremely uncomfortable except for vertigo bite CT side that’s it so far it’s I think NEX has clearly put in a lot of work KN exactly what he was signing up for and has uh really

Impressed in this debut in a way that I didn’t think was honestly going to be possible possible I think exceeding a lot of expectations expectations that were of course spoiled by the online games they played coming into Abu Dhabi see you down goes

Eat there’s an R8 JL has an R8 I saw it I swear to God I saw it loses Alexi eco8 playing your game I swear I’m not crazy JL has an R8 why I do not know oh he just switched this would be a good place to

Use it there is no good place to use it there is yeah it’s on his hip oh my God I don’t know why well it’s a the fade it probably looks amazing in CS2 who gives a damn who’s not using a deagle right now wow nice goldplated pile of

put lipstick on a pig I know if you’re actually like that one Nico’s going to find the B site clear for the taking all of a sudden watch him creep back from a don’t go in there there’s a Gun there’s a gun in the mix there’s an M4 in the pit there’s

Pistols on the Short Lane you don’t want to hit this a sight you don’t want to do it you don’t want to do it don’t do it don’t do it my God B is clear and the bomb is going two deaths on the G2 Camp oh poor hookie man thank goodness

They’ve got a protocol in place to get away from all this Nexus lurk in apartments we catch the M4 so still looking to clear out the CTS here deny the gun save take a fourth round consecutive gets a little squirly W Nico gets turned on nice shot by bit and he’s

The last man standing go back to the other site because yeah bomb’s like still up this very costly round coming out of G2 four deaths yeah yikes I told them not to do it the thing that makes a good Halls lurker is someone who’s very you know very shrewd you

Can’t have somebody that can be tricked easily shrewd they know exactly yeah shroud he actually funny that cuz shroud did go squeaky a lot on Cloud9 if I remember on on cash sure terrorists win so I don’t shroud anymore man come on now rud shroud baby sorry Alexi this shot

Dude later one H oh my yeah one head shot all it takes it’s a nice shot clean frag from wonderful just a reminder as to what he can get up to the terrifying things about G2 on this map Nico and banana e side yes sir then their Arch splits they always think

Like they have nine things going on basically all the time okay lots of irons in in the fire and uh being the best team that can take a means they basically got the most terrifying attacks on both sides of the map yes violence Nico off the flashbang perfect

Double entry on the B site now the bomb’s a little delayed here but they’ll pick it up they’ll run it over all is good weren’t ready for this I’d like to add something to your list of dangerous G2 elements what’s crazy about G2 tside on Inferno well you know what I wanted

To say CT side for a second oh okay go Mony mid Peaks Scouts Ops his presence in mid he was looking through smokes before CS2 yep okay he was Finding ways to to get openings on CT side as an oper yes sir you couldn’t blow up in the smokes now it’s even

Worse oh I saw how Mony won that round yesterday with the Scout on ramp through the wall into the head of broi disgusting G lad this one is just a succulent flashbang from one hookie and a superb head shot collection out of Nico two of them smashed at a

Fifth round in a row for g2’s tside blind as a bat and a not Swift Enough for the trade frag I was so scared my FL that’s what you want to hear after you swung a rle confidence trusted and Nico I have no idea if that’s going to work no well done oh

Good his concerns no problem excellent flashbang I think there unfortunately Alexi is going to be beating himself up that he doesn’t get the trade but Nico didn’t give him much time to do it got Lexi former G2 igl Nexa former G2 igl hookie current G2 igl none of their infernos ever had it

Like hookies now we got the work cut out for him inferos what got them the last World final yep at the end of 2022 into kavit at the beginning of 2023 I think we’re 13 and0 land streak on the map right around this time last year it’s Where it All Began

Couple nades Popp and swifter amount of brackets control here sight’s going to feel the squeeze good nade to soften up Mony wonderful doesn’t miss a chance oh beautiful second Kill from wonderful Hunter the only one with an answer but wonderful drops bomb in the open and he

Doesn’t see anybody just yet but down he goes to the balcony Peak now that is an easily recoverable bomb and Hunter is in a committed position and they’re coming Library this is actually good for Hunter Nate they know he’s around here yeah they’re pressing in but the flash

Blinded EMS still able to catch the frag speaking of which one goes out half of Alexi down fire he sees the whole pack all three players in full display na’vi pull it off with a pack on the push they get that retake in quick Emma ate the

Flash luckily he just started shooting I mean he had two another teammate there in library that was a good attempt and that was good timing out an Nexa as well to go for that lurk I guess the the other thing that’s great about their tsid is Hunter when he’s wrapping Arch

He’s that other he’s like that thing that makes it feel like they have nine things going on cuz you’ve got a lane split happening but you’ve got Hunter working on an arch lurk but it’s not really a lurk cuz it’s just as fast even faster sometimes than the actual Lane

Part of the attack um and he’s also solo that’s a very nice round out of wonderful out of all the ways that he played that I mean if he got a kill and fell back he probably dies to that Arch rout so had to come forward into Mon’s

Frag and I think Mony maybe bit on a shoulder Peak and missed it’s hard to say exactly again Nico looking for this banana fight but there’s more this time around and hookie almost just found that timing okay man what Nico sees another Alexi Cuts him down but this was all while hookie

Continued with that pressure into the aite it’s monesy who picks up the kill in this direction bits got too much pressure you’d think nothing monesy his second frag him and Nico two a piece and G2 right back on the doorstep of success that snapshot I mean the the first

Victim of Nico obviously thinks there’s no way he’s going to slide in between the two they they start cuz they Peak lane and then immediately went with with that window flash swing from Nico and um okay they’re working on B so I just wanted to leave this open for a second because I

Mean if he kills the guy on site it’s his yeah he’s they still haven’t come back Nexa misses his shot if Alexi gets this frag that defuse cannot be stopped if he gets the kill he cannot be stopped Alexi B slides in they had plenty of

Time to come back but they thought Nexa had it counterterrorist win plenty of time when he throws his utility they still didn’t come back honestly I I don’t even want to put this on Nexa but like if he didn’t shoot of course this is the basically the only way to

Guarantee that he could delay longer but how can you blame him when his two teammates are on the other side of the world why didn’t they come back when they knew he was up in in in library I have no idea he was throwing out grenades that’s got to be the dumbest

Way to lose [Laughter] around oh my god oh Lexi figures that one out all right get it while you can after that 2K entry spray transfer from Nico really that’s an interesting strategy three on one that wasn’t Hook’s fault okay unless he was alive why didn’t they come back I don’t

Know it’s like watching what somebody just get washed out to see oh everything’s different from G2 on Inferno yeah that’s the and then the most G2 round ever happens oh man you can’t write this stuff just moments like that the G2 social media is actually better than the main

Team man and if that gives just a little Runway to na AI remember that round now and maybe we have to talk about it in the 24th Lexi B back site it’s got a smoke to play behind good spam damage here from EAP pulls Hunter out suddenly the

Trade less likely but no trade needed hookie just hits the head shot and Nexa in between everyone’s been spotted o finishes off the little left of JL boost on CT bomb down at 10 seconds seconds player back site gets traded and now all that’s left is Nexa he doesn’t have the

Time and they have fumbled it as nobody was watching for the boost a player on back site boosted counter terrorist and the CT Peak pays off well at least they made it two in a row what’s the player is he blind watch when he gets boosted is the player back site on boxes

Blind we didn’t get to see the kill on the Boost but if we have it I’d love to see it when he boosts CT where’s the back site player at we don’t have it the technolog is not there thanks anyways production like where was hookie uh top

Of yeah like when the when the player jumps in the CT smoke you know on the I didn’t see anyone up there I guess he wasn’t up but then bit comes right through the smoke after and he is up there so maybe he was in the process of

Climbing who’s looking for like a treasure chest or something me me who all that matters it’s a third for na’vi G2 can only blame yourself oh now JL starting to get uh this head-to-head between him and Nico starting to skew back M more even scale but there’s more where Nico came

From Mony now takes to the tip of the spear and JL right there for the duel hangs on for dear life 19 health and he puts down his smoke Hunter stuck between them do they just try to continue this press into sight Alexi has no grenades JL has no grenades

They’ve got wonderful on the rotate also no grenades it’s an abundance of guns in the B site they can’t yeah like you said no grenad so mly back site smoke the cross and it’s a good chance for G2 to still follow through with this B clear it’s

2v2 right now JL needs to keep fragen but he’s low on HP well they read the double quad I I think they could still they cross over without the CT smoke two and this is going to unravel it and they have the head shot position he tried to

Take time oh that’s a mistake yeah then the smoke comes in denies wonderful his angle G2 figured it out I think JL needed to fight the cross obviously he wanted to stay alive find a good time yeah but you know the point of him was to try to

Get a kill and die at the same time cuz then they Molly it just for JL and then they find Alexi right they don’t Molly it if JL dies you know what I mean I know what you mean I get what you’re putting down that’s a great round of the G2 and yeah

That’s uh I don’t want to I don’t want to say nice things about them though why not after that I let the bomb get diffused forgiven forget Mohan don’t hold grudges grown men don’t hold grudges never move on that’s what I always like to say settled down bucko I think JL missed

Played that for Alexi G2 take their sixth the nine round T half still a possibility but we have gotten a better banana hold coming out of na’vi in the last three rounds Niko’s been turned down ever so slightly but he’s not going to shy away from it hookie leading the charge great grenade

Damage here oh Alexi he just pops Nico and the peak out jl’s prod off banana just like that G2 down to two members you got to appreciate this start to the round because man G2 have been getting the half wall within 10 seconds every single time so now they actually had to

Pay for it the iron price both are lives and a two on Five they did a three on five you know what I mean yes but this one looks bleak still another smoke as well for the B Defenders so unlike last round when G2 can just skate right by they’re

Going to have to do it blind flash for Alexi finds him ooh monesy knows where he’s at an interesting spot hey good spam through the smoke sing him up Mony traded though jl’s position now known to Hunter and of course reinforcements inbound JL just dedicated to the back

Site Hunter puts the Molly down in the wrong spot utility pressure at a spawn and a couple head shot through the box solid stuff from JL there coming through with two so at least this is the best uh the best start to the round for na’vi from the perspective of

Utility these two nades land perfectly they literally follow them up B okay leave it to actually to find something like that and they’ve taken out Nico three rounds in a row they’ve lost one of those rounds rounds and the round before they won despite n getting that 2K entry that’s when they really

Just stole all the power from G2 that Alexi 1v3 and now Tech ‘s punishment time o again the nades though early damage a little bit a third of Nico shaved off and some light peppering from the top of banana op included yes sir op makes a difference first time that awp

Has been positioned in banana and wonderful makes it SN now you could just as quickly try to slice through this a sight bit hasn’t been tested in a while but every test he’s played he’s passed 10 and five on the map sits comfortably in pit EMT on the bomb

Site and if they see the smoke come over there’s a real chance em just drops that incendiary gets Alexi a little closer here to support monesy throws his at the same time and so it is Tech 9’s in hand for the desperate G2 push sure enough there’s the response back and they don’t

Have a flashbang to come through Arch side but they do just use sheer numbers Mony now hands on an M4 35 seconds but remember wonderful it’s that bite op that suddenly to CT spawn is so dangerous yeah modesty steps into the angle Hunter presses out finds the AK-47 and na’vi

Continue to close that Gap yeah they make it a real game and there’s only one round now that G2 can win and seven to five their T side that’s actually not bad I think but now they’re going to feel lucky that they won the pistol and G2 definitely score very high on tsid

Normally and have already made a massive blunder in this half to allow this comeback to take place so na’vi need to grab that opportunity by the horns try and win this round too JL has has gotten some revenge on Nico the nades have been better this early round they’ve actually

Been getting the kill instead of just letting banana get taken and this will be the most passive start out of G2 as they finally respect the fact that na’vi can win on B you know Nico was ferocious on banana at the start of this map but uh he’s cooled off at eight Frags

Simultaneously as JL steps up I like an Alexi JL banana setup you know these two players in a bomb site I think Alexi’s grenades forever world class jl’s got that Swagger in his step when he feels like he’s being properly set up but they do allow for the t’s to

Get this close to the a site with no contact oh they look let Arch go completely oh my God they’re going to get crushed surely you think you’d think Em Dead Miss shot from wonderful it’s all on bit and they know exactly where he is crushed indeed yeah I mean you

Can’t they can’t give up Arch like that they had to be reorganizing to like retake Lane maybe they didn’t think it was a at all so okay good luck at least we’re going to see them try it yeah good luck someone’s going to Bernie if they win this 2v4 good luck

Indeed Lexi no vision just yet J L tagged up by the awp so things go from bad to worse Despair and Desperation Alexi finds another n kill as he always seems to unfortunately that’s the end of them G2 do indeed take that seventh round it’s not the most

Lopsided T half that they’ve ever had but it’s still enough to work with hey guys this is team heroic This is Nico and Hunter from G2 it’s Faz here hey guys this SP this is M I’m Dupri this is CH and we are doing head shot to

Heartache my friends and I can’t seem to agree on which map to play in Counter Strike it’s causing arguments before we even start a match how do we find a compromise so everyone can enjoy the game without feeling like their preferences are being ignored I think

We’ve all tried to play a faed match and then we we go AFK for like 30 seconds we come back and we see we play Anubis or something like who the hell just decided to play or Mirage Mirage an ancient every day all day he will talk just Pi

Mir everyone happy everyone like me because we have the same problem with this guy this guy know how to play one map pH Mir Mir Mir so when we play in the team it’s usually Mirage I have one Ru how about that yeah you B every time

The map you play so for example you play m b it for the next game so you you always change the map po the more you will play the map that you don’t like the more you will like it yeah my boyfriend is stuck in the silver R and

I’ve made it to Gan Elite in K he says it’s just a game but I’m starting to question our compatibility how do I break the news gently that we might be better as openers than teammates damn that’s rough first of all from Silver to

Global it’s a big a big up a global leag can’t be together with a Sil rank obviously course you can they’re too bad a it’s okay first of all Ser is a is a great rank you know it’s all about the personality first of all it’s just the

Game you have to have fun exactly you need to have fun you need to make sure you’re there for each other but uh it’s good to push each other to the limits so I think you you should boost them a little bit if they’re breaking up over Counter Strike then something is

Off if your life is not depending on it I think it’s pretty pointless and just get good or that my significant other wants us to have a Counter-Strike themed wedding complete with diffusing ceremonies I’m all for quirky but this seems a bit extreme how do I diffuse

This explosive idea without causing a r yeah I think I think it’s past that the bomb is already exploded I think at this point if he wants this for uh his vedding then this guy loves CS I’m a player and I would like this type of a

Weding I think you should just go with it I think it’s a great idea nice Counter Strike no I mean it would be kind of weird if you have the Grooms showing up as C terrorist and the bride going as would be would be kind of

Funny think and you are dressed in like you know CT o n t but yeah and you can do that in your wedding bro po moment in your life you don’t feel like yeah don’t do anything you’re not happy with but I think the best thing is just to be

Honest oh is good it’s good if I have problem with you I come to You g up a couple rounds at the end of this one but they left the door open for the recovery here from na’vi it was the 5-0 start from G2 go kill modesty stop stop moving stay clutch stay clutch one be easy clutch easy clutch uh well easy

Clutch the sticker it’s only easy if your monacy it seems huh monus easy so Nico out of the gate fantastic banana dominance cooled off and we get this Resurgence from na’vi it’s enough of a CT half I think to put forth a challenge because G2 notorious at times for going

Absent on the CT side of this map yesterday we saw the note in Mon’s hand that said just get five rounds CT side Inferno mhm well five would only guarantee OT we got utility here for hookie and Nico it’s the heroic setup it’s like the most popular G2 I’ve called the G2 mid

Setup when it’s them on rifles but what they do is just retake down mid versus B when the B attack eventually comes in something a little different here for na’vi they have the hallur who is just waiting an alt at the moment so here to try to cut this off

Imma shoots and they’re working on this protocol already to come down mid it’s understood now what the setup is going to be so let’s see if they can still get away with the the him yeah he knows that oh maybe he doesn’t what the down I

Thought for sure he would have seen the first person run by yeah hell I thought bit made sound when he pushed CT he definitely did yeah all right well too many variables for Nico to process can’t manage the pressure and all of a sudden the rest of his team have been

Surrounded here on banana IMA is actually very far off so they could have pushed through but Wonderful’s Glock a thing of beauty baby four kills from wonderful just like that no chance in the pistol damn xqc dud dude Four Guys banana dude dead dead dead dude dude CH they’re taking my checking my

VI you used to have a better EXC impression it’s the classic line of uh six consoles I could do excited you’re back bro he’s back he actually was there on the first map by the way he was great he got robbed because he was forced to I told

You I told you look out for it that’s literally how Mony won Inferno last time just like that huh your pistol doesn’t mean much in the face of the Mony Scout it is a 5v4 and there’s so much utility here for G2 a dangerous sign of things to come

It’s a big kill the odds of this round being one in my opinion from the T perspective on Inferno it’s like 45% now it’s not a winning position CTS can really press an advantage here some utility as well to stick with oh n’s hanging on yeah they have

The smoke for the Molly now they’re trying to delay any hes no nothing they can’t dislodge him they can’t kill him they can’t chase him but they can keep him at Bay the followup Molotov two players pushing around Arch and they catch Mony that’s the Scout down and Nexa in a tough spot

Oh they don’t continue forward oh we’re going to keep the rotations off that’ll allow for wonderful and the bomb to work its way up short instead now Nexa is in the bomb site it has yet to be cleared the support on Arch is distracted but they’re not going to come in here and

Let their guard down he’ll bring down Alexi B but there’s still enough time beautiful recovery here from na’vi damn G are really good at eching in that specific situation and with that mon kill I thought okay maybe it’s maybe it’s going to end tragically for na’vi

But they avoid it that was very nice from bit Emma hit some sharp shots baited out some good fights while they took Arch very quickly that’s not that wouldn’t even be a knock on nav you know it’s just to say on CT EOS you have lots of ways to win

It’s very hard to figure out which site is empty on this map without actually committing players or doing a full exac or sending a player into Scout and die ooh terrorist one more for the road a they’ll let him go so two up from Navi they get past what was a very

Dangerous looking 4v5 here’s the Scout shot see you nice boys nice boys indeed yeah avoiding that tragedy is not small and it gets them this round which is Nico on half armor and a deagle with a Mac 10 no one else with armor couple flashbangs for hookie sending Nico to a potentially early

Grave it’s a good flash but jl’s able to spam him down pistol comes out from the hooky Peak and Hunter’s going to scramble you know na’vi don’t want to skip protocols but oo oh my God P2000 there it is that’s enough to just deter them from following

Through they’re like do we really run from this P2000 or you’re afraid of a hookie P2000 that that second Peak Eagle frag towards B that’s guns to pick up for the counterterrorist in fact is what is over there an AK h yes nice and a Mac 10 by the looks of Things okay bomb has been planted yeah nothing more from the SMG and Mony this fight is no longer fun low health for the entire na’vi camp but honestly going to let this one slide so there we go na’vi in a lead early on in this tside and we know that g2’s

Defense isn’t perfect yes so a three- start looks real good on na’vi to extend this series yeah if they want to put in the pieces the pieces in place to perform the upset well they’re on the right track they survived the first half got five rounds one a

Pistol terrorist and na’vi tside on Anubis I think was awesome fundamentally speaking I think it it showed that I feel like Alexi is using his pieces better than he was earlier in the year that also they’ve gotten better um probably individually at making better decisions since then as

Well was it JL that got pieced up by the P2000 yeah I think so okay so his his is his experience on this tside is a Mony Scout shot down mid followed by a hookie P2000 he thinks they’re losing right now yeah from his PO be this is a terrible half so far

Luckily JL has a real enjoyment for Life Counter Strike included looky at the front of this JL locks into logs ooh we made noise Molly on him JL okay that Molotov is just a warning I I guess it literally hit JL as well yeah but it can’t pop smoke all over in

Shut down and a fall back with it it’s interesting how hook didn’t start shooting right away it’s like this almost this fear that if you start shooting and someone sees where it’s coming from you’re dead not them wonderful didn’t shoot when he was blinded Nico just toying with him

Remember when Monas used to shoot too often as soon as he got flashed yeah it was he’s not that guy anymore nope was a real criticism early on in his career kind of the same way art Frost flicks after he shoots he’s improved in that as well you

Know but if you don’t have a little Pizzazz in your play then you’re nothing special uh-oh yeah obviously Nico hears all of this that’s going to force the rotate out from Hunter and hookie CT smoke of course you could go for an immediate boost if you’re the rotators the fact

That Nico gets even more damage in before the commitment comes out it boats very well for the defense sure enough drawn into the meat grinder and that one looked real desperate for a second the way he looks makes that look so calm and the disengage instead of overc

Committing to trying to kill somebody in the cubby jumping back to Second oranges how you supposed to follow him on that fight you always fall down to First oranges then throw your flash then swing terrorist win but uh Nico makes all of those repositions look so comfortable because he does them

Early even when he does it on his own but that yeah that fumbled jump I mean you saw how emphatic Nico got you saw how quickly G2 started to rotate when they gave him those audio cues he was blind that’s why he jumped back can’t be jumping around like that

Man can’t be a bull in a china shop you talking about the guy in the cubby yeah jumping away cuz you got blinded right oh no they failed the Boost oh the t’s they failed the Boost there was two there yeah oh okay yeah yeah yeah they

Failed the Boost so when he fell off oh you talking about a run boost or something or no they were just trying to boost behind the smoke to get vision on coffins oh okay okay they messed it up and they just kept jumping okay been seeing that lately people

Struggling to get on top of each other’s heads I think so can we can we run the replay I don’t want to be wrong about this yeah it’s okay I mean I don’t know I just saw one person there so I don’t I didn’t see the Boost but no there’s a tech

Pause can’t be making mistakes the story I made up in my head was they just threw a CT CT Flash and everyone just got freaked out um but at that point G2 had all the info they knew it was going to be the bite and even if Nico didn’t do all that

They still had two rotators coming in to help him yep it’s not the lights out performance from Nico that we were privileged to on nuke yesterday but it’s just nice to know that it could happen you know it had to happen once just want to see the ceiling

As long as it happened once we couldn’t see the ceiling before for Nico there was no not even a single game where he played that well in CS2 so there was no ceiling but now we can point to that forever yeah because it happened at least once and I have a

Hunch he’s slotting into his Groove but that’s the first CT round posted from G2 mid smoke out of CT spawn and na’vi couple limitations here Alexi B notably just the tech 9 it was only a matter of time before this became the standard CD smoke halfway down mid

Instead of up top at their choke like why not why not throw it here you deny the same players the same vision and the smoke is wide enough now and straight out of CT spawn and straight out of CT spawn as well love that that’s uh huge

For Inferno nades for sure I mean they open the sky box but damn man they made these buildings really tall as well that’s true not being able to flash over apartments for the AL balk Peak yeah that’s true should be bylaws the damn zoning in this place right

They’re building too high you only get sunlight until 2 p.m. bit scouring the as sight man it’s it’s weak balcony defense from G2 right now I suppose there’s a second player short but you can see Nexa just banking on Nico holding it back if bit just falls into the pit they’ve got

Problems on short but bit doesn’t take that gamble yet 35 seconds this is Hunter’s key position and it’s even stronger in this game he plays here off of flashes to reclear Mid and tries to stop full oning Z into of the site na’vi are not oh wait

Are they going to pick the right side Hunter’s actually running the rotation out of here but the Boost pays off for the first frag still bit Al looming threat back in apartments Hunter does come back in time bomb is there in mid and the player in the bomb site’s just

Dedicated to stopping 10 seconds and Nico is in the pocket he could be a real pain he’s going to try to swing this pit player covers bits head shot are superb and with damage through the smoke towards Modo suddenly na’vi break through down to the wire and JL gives the cover finishes off

What bit started bit is the hero of this round this the this the the flash of fire that landed in front of Hunter completely off fiscated his vision no exit no save no lead it’s 9 to9 wow they could have died when he swung as they

Threw that Molly at him but it was just such a big explosion right in front of him the setup actually looks pretty good because they had a high low setup on Mid plus Hunter close by but they dealt with both of those really important threats only letting them get two

Kills I’m not too worried about this I’m G2 in terms of what went wrong that round cuz they had the people in the right place for for that attack it wasn’t a hall pop which like you pointed out would have been very strong versus that setup instead it was a lane take

Which what or yeah a lane take which is what they were looking for and they still couldn’t stop it so well na’vi have a lead I still got work to do two damage off a nothing on the fall back and JL anticipating something Ray wasn’t too far off but

Doesn’t get what he was looking for they’re waiting for the Boost behind the wall keeping Mony here on his own they just completely left the kid going for the four player a stack hookie has confidence in this call yeah I mean he has a an OP to play with and I

Think too often na’vi pretend to take things yeah they just pretended to hit the B site Mony did not fall all the way back and they make believe but hookie believe hookie believes in his own call and Nico leading back starting to get frisky towards mid

It’s down to the 25 second Mark again short Peak from Hunter this time dedicated player watching balk so bit’s job will be infinitely more difficult they do not have time to leave they have to hit the a play hookie has allowed them out he waits and he waits and he

Strikes down the offer just as Nico catches bit this time the adaptation perfect Hook’s call in response only one round later yeah it was actually perfect and they were ready for the same hit again it comes through it doesn’t look better this time around and Mony playing

On the B site is fine again if you pretend to try to push someone back then you better hope that they leave because if you don’t then it’s full information for the other team they did have one oper back on the B site they never actually turned the corner they didn’t

Actually smoke front sight to off escate his vision or force a rotation through CT they went for the minimal amount of utility on B it wasn’t enough of a fake a perfect chance now for G2 to take to the double digits we’re going to have a little powwow here for

Na’vi as they have to look in the mirror for a second and realize tough road ahead down a map and down to just a single deagle for wonderful you know two rounds where they really play the clock but just the fact that hookie rotated over that quick it’s

Like I mean he saw it multiple steps Ahead that hooky intuition no no what a waste God there goes all the wine in Italy or California or wherever this actually is it’s decent wine either way okay we got a stalemate here three rounds down to 37 seconds so can only imagine to be in teams speak with them

As they talk that through what is it that they need to change in the followup I think they need to think about bite more okay oh this one’s just going to get crunched it was always coming comfortable hooky 3K as we said pad those stats boss man 16 kills I

Think this is a moment where you maybe try to look for an arch timing I think the first thing that you call if you’re Lexi I if you you don’t do something out of Spawn as in take b control then exact B no mid anything yeah then you’ve got

To go push them out of brackets that should be easier to do than taking the actual a sight but they have to push them out of brackets if they feel like they can do that because they had G2 flash retake mid then they they’re taking a lot of time to talk about this

So they can try to push them out of brackets and then use that to go back to B to get a rotation off the bite get Nico alone or have Mony alone again and try to hit it or they try something they haven’t tried yet and that is a CT split through

Arch to the B site that’s also a call that takes a bit more time to talk through it requires a bit more time to do you don’t do that 30 seconds do that you know 45 plus um but it is something new they haven’t tried oh they’ve been

Allowed but if you ask me it’s not going to be Lane it can be Halls it could be Arch it could be a b split which page of the Playbook does Alexi flip to which member of G2 shuts it down they’re going to throw a spanner in the

Works here oh this could be big just on the edge Hunter Don’t Step on that fire or bit gets the warning he needs he can go up now I mean he doesn’t take any damage here bits concerned about it just took a glance behind him but fall back actually

If he’s not going to go peek over this oh my god oh timing missed but he gets alt oh did he get spotted no he didn’t yes bit Yeah bit’s talking bit sees it he’s found him out oh Hunter he didn’t make the play for as

Long as he did and then gets caught trying to slip the net so man advantage na’vi to tie the game at 10 we go for the splits hold from monesy and Nico has all the pressure on his shoulders at least the smoke to slow things down it’s at 50 Smoke’s bad

And there’s no rotation for Nico it’s going to have to be a heroic hold they pop open the smoke they figure him out he takes one down but Wonderful’s got the trade immediately and they should be concerned about another Defender but there’s just nobody here desperation here from hookie

Pretty significant damage on one but it’s such an easy invitation to go into the save Hunter could have won the round could have just cared them into Nico and a potentially stack sight had no idea where but he just missed the timing on bit just missed the timing yeah there

Was some kind of read right that bit was going to walk up by him and he had the perfect angle then he could Escape through that same smoke he cleared me he doesn’t know he doesn’t know that bit saw him at that last second before he went into the Hall

So that’s timing it happens a Lifeline for na’vi and I think they just go into something new because they get that kill early and they go right to B they had Nico solo on the B site terrorists win maybe they were going to try that anyway you know Hunter didn’t want to

Take too much of a risk but the timing was there to kill bit it was yeah yeah and you think um I don’t know the way he played it obviously really scared that it was being held for some reason you know uh the smoke looks very suspicious right because it’s not that deeper

Smoked it’s just a little bit deeper than normal you can see bit checking it on interval but alas three to Banana is the answer here for G2 comfortable amount of money for the last few rounds another tight map between these two teams back on a new it was hookie who

Came into his own individually to win three rounds straight we’re really looking for hunter or Nexa to kick it up a notch and Mony solo again it looks like it’s the protocol as they fall back to the a site lots of utility has been used to establish this little piece of

Control he’s got his line oo gives it up peing into this is so nuts not worried about that side up and that n is okay A little chip but you know what it look at this late smoke down to 30 seconds now before that comes up and Mony still has full vision and

They want to just disrespect this The Flash isn’t good nope Mony they aren’t even committing behind this they wanted to just get that kill hopefully they have been able to flush him back at 40 seconds four players on a still ready to go ready to press this Nexa in the pit

Last time picks up the kill towards bit out of apartments no nades now only hooky one flash hiding in the corner with another teammate on site they could very well hold this there’s the response back from Hunter it gets a little squirly peek out from pit only a little

Damage nothing more massive moment from Hunter with three kills on the play modesty and Nico versus bit the talent is stacked in this 2V1 and with that smoke towards modotto he gives himself room to work getting off of the site and buying a little time now that bomb plant in the heart of

The bomb site Mony and Nico shoulder-to-shoulder starting to press up Nico’s head almost there for the taking bit does catch one in the back site that’s Mony out of it he doesn’t know where Nico’s at now he does Dives away nco’s got the kick but the Glock

The Glock from bit in the one V2 versus the stars of G2 did he have to hit that he I think he had to get that kill with no ammo left in his primary weapon and didn’t spot Nico even though he saw both of them push just through that smoke

Oh my God they even get the 54 they have four on a and when you said squirrly was looking at Players spray transferring to people that didn’t exist next to getting one kill from the pit Hunter getting Three that one’s going to sting huh that one’s going to sting huh that was really that was really messy for the CTS there they had everything in place a 5v4 and four players on a yeah I like that smoke bit gave himself to work with as well

Yeah for sure yeah he could jump up on the on the truck like you could see both CTS on the approach but you know they they really get caught by that that was huge 19 frags for bit na’vi take a lead with an open door to 12

They had that 12th round in regulation back on Anubis weren’t able to close the map lose it in OT will they be facing a similar situation couple grenades all G2 have to work with it would take something insane so bit steps up in map two of this Series in a very important

Clutch and I don’t want to remind everybody but I have to G2 let Alexi get that defuse yep yes they did tough pill to swallow said they might we might have to talk about this at Round 24 mhm we’re almost there but I think this is an nai’s first lead

They also had a lead on Anubis they had 12 this was a 5-0 start for G2 Hunter’s 57 looking to slip into Modo ‘s turned his back to this he actually has the timing now he’s got a he’s got a kill or two in hand yes oh he didn’t see Alexi

Oh oh my God that could have been a double yeah that was very scary and then he could have grabbed the gun and then who knows what but yes sight secured by Alexi very important trade frag right there he could slip away with an AK helps the economy in the final two

Rounds of the map but this is indeed two map points for na’vi solid na’vi surviving another anti Eco that can obviously get scary no matter how good you are this map is just where things go wrong versus pistols shotguns SMGs hey there what you doing but bit’s going to

Get another couple kills so up to 21 and 10 lights out performance here on map two out of bit somebody that uh obviously we have high expectations for but you sort of forget about in this na’vi team just because we are still you know looking at em to touch back to

Paris performance we want wonderful to fill simple shoes yeah he became symbol’s right hand after electronic left but uh B has definitely been the one who everyone’s been the most worried about communication wise coming into an international lineup so he’s been given some time to get used to things and I

Mean I saw him pass a test on the navi YouTube channel in English test that was impressive and since then it’s probably gotten a lot better so and I mean listen he speaks the international language of head shot yes and face it which so everybody does have some sort of lexicon

For this game right here we go go guns back in the table for G2 it’s been a nice Slow Burn Out of na’vi couple of stressful rounds down to 20 seconds or so see what the paces out of this time NEX up he’s going to get the Flash and

Abs Dives back away from the fight versus bit yeah that bit is such a nuisance in the apartments and if you let him get into pit you are doomed NEX is looking for a good Round Here Again big shoes to fill in this position CT side gun

Out Mony careful oh Peaks into it ooh takes bit out of apartments and I mean that opens the door for Nexa to slide in so Alexi has to take the responsibility that bit had and he’s not going to do it alone they’re going to go two into Apartments three actually with JL in

Emphasis out of the apartments I don’t know if we’ve had this so many numbers he hasn’t fallen off just he can smoke right now oh my God they run out my God Nexa how does he survive that team kills him Hunter oh no but now it’s 2v4 Hunter

Slides by and again hunter in the pocket of this a sight has saved them more than once now been a monster even if he makes that a little sketchy the fact that Nexa doesn’t die to the first player Wonderful’s got a little positioning still to work with he’s got the time to

Pull this off but does he have the skills a shot toward short as he pieces together the positioning and another smoke to deny line of sight but he Peaks before it pops he gets dropped and G2 one away from overtime again Hunter look kill your teammate if you kill everyone

Else too right all good yeah and Nexa gets a little lucky there with the timing that was a tricky call from Alexi because after bit dies like you said he’s the most obvious person to be alone up in Halls so sliding off yeah it was it was unfortunate that he goes past

Unlucky or bad it’s hard to say you know that made him a huge mistake that they couldn’t afford to make but um one thing is for Nexa he doesn’t move from Top Bel when he could have dropped into pit they probably thought he went big pit or that

He was playing in mini and they’re going to have to trade him down there all right so here we are round 24 want to find out if this game is still on there’s really no calling it careful JL not afraid to Tango on banana right now I know what G2 are telling themselves if we don’t get timing we’re going to win you know but na’vi have been doing a great

Job of finding them big if J’s had a solid map lots of impactful kills despite being negative that’s a big pack of na’vi players they hear all this presence flashbang from Nico hookie takes the peak nothing there for now last time they worked back from banana like this we had that excellent

Call out of hookie to go stack four players as sight preemptively have to rearrange there this time he waits there was some power behind that punch I think they were ready to exact on an in between timing they have given up map control conceded it Hunter is ready to

Leave the a site starting to peel away yeah they’re starting to think this is for sure going to be B hookie down to a frag grenade Nico just leaning back in the sight waiting to hit his head shot as he tends to a well-timed here could

Make his job so much easier it could open up the smoke no rotation here yet Hunter scrambles but hooks he he gets a kill through the smoke for Flash it’ll certainly help bit actually changing positions and hookie slides through the sight again late game regulation hooky

Steps up but JL goes so deep around that he is inside the church smoke Fades bomb plant to the left side that player is stuck nowhere for bit to go and Mony knows he has him pinned in oh JL coming in from the opposite side starts to fire

That’s both players confirmed JL could line them up he gets the first now the second and no not going to let G2 get away with that fumble a clutch from Alexi that sets this up as a possibility late round decision making JL steps up in the final round of

Regulation no overtime here for map 2 semifinals on the line and nuke up next another absolute nailbiter of a map but this time na’vi Keep Their Heads they put g2’s Inferno CS2 streak to bed but boy oh boy did that one get close pure resilience coming out of na’vi

Right I I thought this one was going to OT after that pona round me too and and honestly I think hookie did as well I think he said what a miracle you know I think he referred to how bad D2 were playing in in some of these instances in

Some of these clutches bid again massive performance coming in here on Inferno we’re going to see the last round coming in here as well they’re actually playing it pretty well G2 niku in a great position finally the first kill hookie with a n CT spawn they find the first

Two unfortunately for Nik who didn’t get the second kill right here then something happens where bit and hookie trades position hookie finds another one and then bit comes into play already had a monstrous performance and then maybe Honda get caught off guard a little bit right here into the 2v2 Maui a player

Stuck and then Jil well the spray down it’s good but it’s not pretty for G2 yeah this spray down is a death sentence for G2 otherwise I do agree I think they played it pretty well I mean the crossfire between hookie and Nico was solid it felt like they actually had a

Good amount of information too that that b hit was coming their way they didn’t have anybody rotate early enough on it though but I will say you have to just think about that Alexi round that I think that’s really where this game got so confusing for them where where G2

Felt like they were on fire they kind of have a little mental lapse in this one and I feel like that probably lingered in some ways yeah let’s flip it on back over to that first half and here exactly what was going on in the team in that miked up moment what leave

Next fusing it yeah yeah I mean yeah you can just hear the confusion on the side of G2 with how Alexi was able to get away with that luckily obviously had a kit but that really hted the momentum from G2 we could have found two or three of these

Rounds you know the bid 1 V2 1 V3 clutch the last round here for JL as well where he shouldn’t have gotten both kills I think NEX was the one failing to spray I think that’s why hookie said it’s a goddamn Miracle it’s goddamn miracle

That we can play so poorly and lose a map like Inferno were we supposed to win now take nothing away from na’vi I think they overe exceeded our expectations they won against G2 they played a good CT side after that round right here but uh to be completely honest you know

Without bit and without his clutching ability which we’re going to see right here I don’t think na’vi would one I this was this was just crazy I I want to say that the The Vibes were obviously great for G2 on that first map and we heard it but there’s some things that

Are just left to be desired with this roster I mean okay this is this is still a great round from bit that I do want to talk about the fact that the the truck angle he makes for himself here with the smoke like one ways don’t exist in CS2

Anymore yet bit was still able to find a really nice angle onto Mony and I kind of can’t believe pimp he just pulls out the Glock and just hangs out like this this is crazy it it is crazy it it’s a wellplayed clutch by bit and I think

That you know that sums up the game for me at the very least I felt G2 as a team were better than na’vi they had a better idea of how they wanted to execute how to get into these favorable positions but when it came down to close out the

Rounds the na’vi player stepped up should should we go into another one rounds 17 yeah that’s where Nico has you know perfect opportunity to get the kills obviously defending the a bomb site and then yeah just Falls in na’vi FA yet again it is a story of kind of

The mistakes coming out of G2 and na’vi capitalizing on those I it’s another 5v3 brief in this one it’s uh and it just Falls all apart like this one’s going also in my cringe compilation for fans like Nico’s right here he’s so close to winning this one he tunnel Visions onto

The bomb planter like such a necessary Kill from bit to find that right there but all in all this was another round where it’s just like g2’s been getting I’ll say this na’vi actually to their credit are trading very well these are very brief 5 v3s even though we can call

Them as such and yet na’vi consistently are finding a couple kills in session back and so playing off of each other the way that they played as a unit that really played in their favor whereas G2 sometimes just kind of they they would get some kills but there wasn’t always

Like that fallback beat Plan B yeah and I mean if you’re an Navi fan great to see bit popping off because we had you know some questions particularly coming in with this new roster how exactly he’d be uh you know fitting in with this but this map he was looking really really

Solid Yeah by far the most impactful play on on the server not only the clutches but also his abilities in the rounds to to do damage I think he finished with above 180r on this game overall as well this round here against H timing if you remember that could have

Been another round going the way of G2 and I think that’s what they’re left with right now the na’vi were really pressured to the full extent right here yet they were still able to step up to the Lo cation bit played fantastically well and as you said it’s nice to see

Cuz he’s been fairly inconsistent in CS 2 we saw him in Sydney play fantastically well when blade was standing in then we saw him fall off a little bit the fall finals were shaky and now finally again he has a great map so it’s hard to place bit right now but

When he’s playing well that’s good I do have some questions though flipping back over to the G2 side of things and I think it’s AP that we focus upon that because we know that this is you know has been historically a really dominant map for them um obviously with Nexa

Coming into things how much of an effect do you think that’s actually had uh with jkss not being kind of that solid anchor player that we know he could be they win this game with jks as simple as that uh there was moments where Nexa was in pit

Some of his players on site were in crossfires he was supposed to be the benefactor of the crossfire he misses the entire spray doesn’t get a Kill from that position that’s what enabled bit to actually find that 1v3 game would have probably ended did there his absur

Didn’t do anything for for G2 actually um yeah there was just I mean Nexa had zero impact in this game in fact it was obviously negative impact cuz he had a really bad KD and was playing such a pivotal position I think it’s it’s one of those reasons and one of those

Scenarios where we’re going to point it back and say jks is going to be missed on the CT side his anchor roles on the different Maps that’s when he made the most impact I don’t think g2’s T side would have been any different with jks

Compared to Nexa it’s more so of the CT SES when NEX is being put in a in a static position where he had to get the multi-kill I would Bank my money JK getting more kills in those positions than than NEX any given day he would

Have got the trade on the last round this would be OT at least that’s it yeah well na’vi do manag to P push us to a third and final decid that will come down to the grounds of nuke to decide who will be going through to the semi-finals we’re going to head things

To a quick break but when we’re back don’t miss out on any of the action nuke coming up Shortly One more place in the semi-finals and one more map to decide it it all falls down to nuke in the battle between na’vi and G2 and it’s a map where we’ve seen both teams play at this very tournament with these very lineups so starting on the na’vi side of things we obviously

Saw them go up against an um it was surprisingly close Mari and it required a comeback from na’vi to se it they had a really strong tside that actually elevated them because their CT side only Ned them four rounds against ends I thought that game was over I thought

That map was over I thought ANS were going to pull off the upset but um when it comes to the CT side I’m I’m really actually pretty concerned about na’vi in this one I don’t think that they necessarily know how they need to be rotating all the time uh if I really

Want to just pin that on one person I think this is a map where simple is so sorely missed because when looking back at that game against ends wonderful had the most opening kills he had five opening kills but he only had 13 kills in the game he didn’t always know what

To do after he got that kill and that’s kind of what I’ve been talking about with wonderful and his progression as a player yeah sure he can find the opener if you put him in the right spot he’s going to hit the shot but it’s just

About what’s he going to do next and I think hookie can call circles around on this guy yeah I I agree with your point that I’m worried for for na’vi CT side and I’ll amplify it by Nik you know Niko’s performance against face on this very map on the T side was absolutely

Amazing so those of you who watch it he dropped the 30 bomb the Highlight package you’re going to see right here is him playing well both on the CT side but even more so on the T side so if you’re telling me that na’vi is struggling on their CT side if wonderful

Can find the openings and find the solutions then when this guy is fired up as you’re going to see this highlight package then what is the answer to him who’s going to shut down Nik feeling comfortable and the thing is that if if is doing that on the T side you know who

Plays outside for for the side of na’vi it’s It’s Alexi it’s not it’s not a fair match up that is not going to end well for na’vi so Alexi did very well versus ends playing outside but man Nico entirely different Beast yeah he’s been looking I mean absolutely insane on this

Map throughout all of Cs history um obviously we’re going to be knifing theid so we’ll find out very shortly where we will be starting um but if we do see G2 starting on the T side of things if na’vi are going to have to bolster a defense um what are you hoping

For them to have I mean they’re going to have to improve something right cuz n and G2 that’s two very different calibers of teams already that we’re talking about I would want for na’vi to just probably play a little bit more actively because I I find that this one

Duo that’s generally speaking so active for na’vi in JL and EMA they’re usually so good at finding little proactive plays to make something happen for themselves but they’re just stuck on that a bomb side I want to see them get a little bit more active maybe take a

Couple more risks on the CT side in general send maybe a couple rifle players leave one anchor on the site at best but you don’t need to just play the same Twan a setup every single round that’s for sure I hope alexb is is honest enough to call for help in yach

Cuz I if he’s alone out there he’s fighting against Nico he’s going to have a tough time but you could counter it you could counter it by placing wonderful out there to help him you could counter it by a couple of CT side defaults or setups so to speak that can

You know throw G2 out of it a little bit I am also worried because I do know G2 likes to switch up the pace on that cide they are not afraid of rushing inside they’re not afraid of sending niku Yad getting into and then Rush ramp as an

Example so in terms of the pacing for G2 I think there’s a lot of stuff now we have to handle and it starts with Alexian yard if they can shut that down that’s a step in the right direction where’s the oring head head looking coming into this cuz obviously Anubis

That was quite the tail Inferno not so much obviously traditionally not a super or heavy map um but where does monesy then stuck up to wonderful in this monesy has just been incredible on this map ever since hookie joined it he was so it felt like he was Shackled when he

Was playing with Alexi B that there were a couple set starters that they wanted to use for monesy but after Hook’s joined this lineup I think Mony has called his own number more times than not and to such great effect and especially after he gets that first kill

He’s always finding the next fight too his multi frag potential once he gets on the sniper is unparalleled in this match I’m going to take a while guess and say G2 won that knife at least they’re pretty happy in this moment starting on the CT side so we can flip the coin a

Bit and say okay na’vi T side what do they have to do I think inside have been a bit of a question mark for G2 for quite some time hookie is not always feeling comfortable in that position can sometimes be SED out nexite on ramp we had the discussion yesterday he’s no

Jkss maybe you want to apply a bit of pressure and see if you want to be aggressive cuz I made the point yesterday that I believe Nexa can be smart enough to play ramp he’s not going to fight as much as here he’s going to rotate lower he’s going to give up ramp

More often than not so if you’re nav and you want map control go out there take ramp and then work on from there so where are we ending up in terms of our predictions gentlemen does it make sense that G2 would close this one out can

They bounce back or do you think the momentum that na’vi have gained from that Inferno win is just going to be too much to handle that felt like an aberration for Inferno to go the way of na’vi if I have to give a score line for

I’m going to go 138 G2 in this I will be Mega disappointed if G2 is not winning this game so please don’t disappoint me well I think we are ready to be getting this game underway ja looks like he’s got his headset getting on and we can

Throw over to our casters Connor Mo where do you think this one is going to be landing I think I’m in tune with Maui snake at the moment I do like what he criticized Inferno for you know maybe just being a little bit of a oneoff the

Fact they pull out off seems like seems like all they’re going to get in this series in my opinion but I’m not the expert you are launders tell me what you think yeah I just don’t know what Inferno has to do with Muk in that regard so well it’s like a brand new

Game here for a G2 on the map I think what Nico did versus FaZe I would bet it doesn’t happen again it’s just that’s just something that you wake up one day everything’s lined up perfectly in your body you’re physiologically perfect all the molecules yeah I mean that’s just

Something that he can do but it’s just not going to happen all the time um that aside I think Nexa did a pretty good job when it came to playing on the ramp yes he did definitely good enough where it didn’t feel like he was making a problem

For the rotations wasn’t super extra like the way that robs was playing on Bas so there will be pressure on na’vi I don’t know I wouldn’t be surprised if this goes 10 Rounds Plus for na’vi I will still take G2 though further Ado map three quarterfinals returning champions in Abu

Dhabi in G2 a map away and with that performance from Nico yesterday in his back pocket the odds of it happening twice may not be high but I think there’s a lot of fingers crossed that we get to see some lights out CS out of him yet again for sure himim said it

Most best play not best player to watch when he’s on form like most beautiful or something called Nico the most beautiful player I think he said it’s happening just a beautiful man it’s starting strong two kills as Nico emerges from the stairs and the window’s already open for to try and

Press around double kill triple kill back oh it’s happening in the worst way oh EMT JL three frags right there on the stairs Hunter trying to bring it back and hookie gets popped by JL two Berettas find the trade frag bit oh you heard him Hunter dude smile just I don’t

Know man I’d be pretty tilted what happened on Inferno was not his fault and I would I’m we saw that game end with na’vi winning I didn’t see anybody happy on either team and this is post simple where you know that was like the source of the frustration or

The that was where it was most visible but uh I can understand why I don’t know thing is that Nai you know they won Inferno and they literally could have won the first map too push guys come on yeah Nico like he made that 35 he knew they were going down lower he’s

Got a point but uh yeah what happened versus FaZe was that Nico played like that and they lost mhm surely they can’t waste a performance like that twice two master classes wasted o damn he’s already down to 27 Health good pressure out from squeaky big pack of players out of na’vi

Crossing behind Red silently JL switching places through the smoke H’s gone deep into squeaky they seem aware of the possibility Hunter’s here to also make sure that they just keep spamming all this J dies right meanwhile NEX is downstairs and so they deal with the a

Problem but they’ve got issues on B not to mention Alexi B still alive upstairs will eventually make a move here that could cost G2 the conversion from the pistol 4 V3 Galil in the hands of eme and you’ve got Nico not only low but just stranded oh God no no no yeah yeah

Yeah no yeah no yeah they had head armor okay the investment comes in the split comes out G2 go down with one single kill hooks he’s still got the best gun in the round right now so they might want his head what makes that possible four player secret cross what makes that

Possible first of all is I mean they even got the they even hurt Nico and then Nico they still got the kill on JL but they didn’t damage the secret cross they didn’t m the secret cross they let the cross smoke come out didn’t n it open

Either the only thing they had that was good was this 54 and then this happened somehow Lexi got into Actually I don’t even know where he came from outside he would have been with them so he he left the three players to go down secret yeah honestly jl’s just he was

Such a presence hiding in that smoke grenade that you had Hunter hookie and Nico all preoccupied with the squeaky position that’s why Falls for free yeah yeah now the thing is that’s weird right like they they don’t know he’s there and yet three people are staring at one position so yeah that’s

Redundancy I guess there’s a slight chance that hooky bumped into him while crossing and and felt him that he wasn’t pushing through I don’t know JL is that you ramp looking clear for the taking Nexa not able to hold that back whatsoever he’s down here on control

With the P250 so Nico’s M4 is going to have to be the end all of round three o Alexi instant head shot nicely done but NEX at least grabs the M4 and Alexi from the top that’s bomb dropped on the Shelf of bite plus he gets up into control no trade plus

Hooks he 57 frag elsewhere things are going to get weird he still has a sight enemies in control they’re planning exposed to Deon not a problem Oh wonderful comes back peels one off the play now the bomb is planted back site but the post plants up here in control

It’s not for them at all and hookie is coming down from the vents so he’s going to get some Vision on site now there’s no kit which means retake has to get going wonderful one kill deep he who planted bomb made his his job hard for

Himself and with a CT right this close to his left side with pistol he’ll get the one off of the ramp but he has to press out he has to go all the way and the pistol’s going to end him G2 forced by back yeah perfectly cut off there

From hookie really didn’t you know could have swung out in end of that round but knew he wanted playing that position Hunter is definitely pissed off right now got some rrags in there got the retake and no rounds in succession yeah I mean Nico Nico definitely made a mistake by like trying

To swing out while he was crouched after he took that those first shots or it’s like betting your opponent’s back right you could do it but you did just show them where you were listen I really enjoy playing it’s fun but let’s close this rounds out okay it’s a bit too fun come

On that’s good I like that that’s oh nice to know Nico’s having fun in CS2 yeah nice smoke there to block main pops on the roof at the edge what do we call those Cascade smokes what’s that when a smoke grenade is off the ground high enough that valve made

Them extra long waterfall smokes waterfall smokes Molly ahead of the pack ooh nexo runs but that’s okay we like we like a we like a ramp player that doesn’t die we do you know okay so here’s where that like flow chart starts to Branch off in the other direction he cannot die but

They are down a player so not dying is the most important thing you can do but if it’s the only thing that you do and you don’t know how to retake ramp well you’ve stunted the rotations a lot look at the pressure on hookie upstairs by himself just trying to stay back sight

Molly to the left wonderful burning in it oh bit comes in from Heaven he didn’t see that one coming yeah but that’s the thing right it left ramp open yeah just stuck there with Nowhere to Run nowhere to hide and no support from the rest of the

Team so back and forth we go for rounds deep to be honest that’s my game plan like get next will rotate down every single time and just abuse hell he needs to level up right he needs to level up if if na’vi are worth anything at as a

Tier one team then they can they know that no one’s even going to fight me when I come ramp then I’m taking it for free every round so that’s why when you see FaZe you see Ro excuse me like one of maybe the best ramp player in the

World when he plays very committed spots and tries to frag out they need to do that because they cannot let a team think they can get away with it for free every time so in the debut it was fine but Nexa needs to show some range and uh otherwise hey na’vi why

Shouldn’t they just keep going for it doesn’t change the fact that staying lives the most important part but look at this hookie dies because heaven gets taken there’s no one watching ramp why suris well maybe the outside rotation and Mony was supposed to be there in hell to cover it we don’t

Know uh but that’s Hut squeaky and heaven or all basically his responsibility after that happened I don’t know where the second player was a just both outside up until that Tech 9 blasted him from Heaven hookie thought he had a chance at that A- hold with the molly on the

Left you thought wrong conomy on the line here FAS CZ I’ve seen worse spys but it’s an important one here and Alexi calling the right targets for the time being pressure through the smoke oh no whoa the EM is piecing up Nico at the moment he ripped him up that’s good round after

Round it is Nico dead in the opening fight two and five is his start monesy and Nexa could try to come reclaim this but a second kill for E he plays the electronic roll of new na’vi taking secret control bit jumped off Main so hookie heard him drop but

Bit’s not going to let his guard down third free frag coming out to navi’s favor em can just guarantee secret control the only thing that could stop this bomb is Hunter’s Hut push he’ll sweep away wonderful swiftly and Hunter has been playing CS if he pushes forward instead of

Falling back now he’s between the pack wow now he’s got the bomb cut off if he keeps watching t-spawn he’s just multiplied his presence and he gets the free clear ramp and maybe even come back we’ll see they’re going up to heaven now his only other teammates in

Secret sell me on this one this will be tough has avoided the secret player so is it possible is it possible oh Hunter can use this yep now three players on the bomb site though bomb itself front sight and yeah he’s just caught out in the open so na’vi slow squeeze but they

Get there two consecutive 3-2 lead and an Open Door on this tside this gets chaotic and na’vi win rounds I I think they have so much to be proud of this is a you know not an easy nuke to win but they’ve gone through hell and back between Anubis and

Inferno nice M bro you’re controlling that was uh imma I guess he was saying too really great job outside um yeah beating Nico outside obviously that’s the name of the game called imatronic if he can beat out Nico across this Half this time far less to work with so right now it’s just banking on Hunter only player putting forward frags for G2 we’ve got Mony on zero still so get this off online n pushes the Baretta back just simple a burst and it’s a fast flank from the pistols into Lobby they will

Catch one hookie not going to go down alone but this round far too easy for na’vi halfway through their tside four round wins already Terror done four up solid start and na’vi I’m sure they feel in full control dude tside it’s getting rolling this well this well this

Early you honestly love to see it you do love to see it they’ve actually provided a lot of variance in this half too they’ve attacked outside they’ve attacked ramp they’ve hit upper straight on so there’s a number of things that na’vi could do in this round

Which makes it a bit foggy for G2 what do they think is coming up next Mony can he get on the board with no kill so far an op in hand and no utility in the pouch yeah versus FaZe they were so much more liberal with their HS outside early on

Oh yes oh another lurk slipped by and imma again versus Nico this head-to-head is one-sided eight and two dodging the op shot from Mony who dives into bomb site I mean outside belongs to na’vi time and time again they’ve already set themselves up nicely for the AIT they’ll leave bit and EMA

Outer yeah rotation is actually not bad for the CTS cuz they still have Ram control and they drop Mony upstairs but it takes a frag monesy fired that up from heaven and now he has to strike something down in lobby oh man wonderful dominance Jesus just slams him against the putut

Push and now eemed looking for his next victim it’s hookie who just missed it because of the air conditioner and so EMA creeping in finds him on the ladder uh he’s not dying now no sir easy reload as he takes to Heaven yet again it’s going to be a miracle

From Hunter or another round to na’vi and he can’t get Lobby back they’re not in it right now wow and the layers on the play here for na’vi I mean it banks on everybody hitting clean shots right em two awesome frags wonderful head shot inside of

Lobby but you’re dead on that that lack of nade aggression the lack of any kind of red presence like na’vi have been playing outside a ton so how come G2 haven’t been responding as much the the lurks though I I like that the they’re using these two-pronged lurks with even

Other players coming outside whether the smoke screen is them Crossing or the smoke screen is the lurks they’re getting away with one or the other and the fact of the matter is this is a poin in click adventure it comes down to Emma beating out Nico when he’s

Alone and when Nico’s alone outside in the early round terrorists win they wanted a bit more energy on the team is what G2 were looking for with this roster move that seems to be what everyone’s implying on the team but it’s it’s easy to it’s easy to get loud when

Everybody’s winning okay so what happens when you’re losing he’s right see when you talk about JL uh that’s somebody who I see as you know he’s the Jack of our time you know what I mean yeah yeah he’s got he’s got it through thick and thin win or

Lose yeah that’s why I said it earlier you know J loves life loves counter- strike just as much can’t help people like that are extremely rare worth their waiting gold Nico’s Desert Eagle looking for something monesy still hunting his first kill but with pistols only they’ve already crossed bomb three players in secret

Stairs you’ve got hookie down ready to to hold back but it is hookie and hookie alone and the closest rotate is then Nexa just at the top of the vent and that’s of course the M4 right that solo rifle that G2 are working with here in round

Eight not in a position to hold back na’vi warning shot over the Bow looks he trying to pu his chest Nexa does have a chance to slide in here definitely could put the barrel to the back of the pack three of them and Nexa only manages the one wonderful again turning on a dime so good at B he comes out with the Desert Eagle catching

Wonderful as well as Hunter and so pistols could still work Nexus set this up with his kill and his dink controlling the weapon JL catches a glimpse of a CT upstairs but it’s working Hunter with the P250 double on the round and G2 work a little bit of

Magic to Rob away the eight Hunter’s been keeping his head down throughout this game and he has been really trying to rack up the frags solve all the problems pick up all the pieces clean up all the messes and I think at this point at least on an Eco it brings them

Something and it’s around where you gain a little bit of extra steam because you were saving so for G2 this is the lifeline it feels like there’s been a defining moment in each game that has come back to haunt either team as the game has gone on the elexi 1v3 the Mony

1v5 maybe for Hunter it’s a bit of a smaller deal here but on an Eco when things are really going south sort of mood wise and round wise he picks up an important round his kills matter hesty also gets on the board at the exact same time oh a time to get his

First here we go there we go little presentence out side a fight some punch out of G2 and look how quickly it deters navi’s opening moves gets him off top Silo has bit wounded to 43 the option coverage there is fantastic right they cross rad

With the op they put nades to Silo they have two people swinging outside so it’s been multi-pronged lurks from na’vi outside and they finally respond to it better late than never but still trailing by two got to love the rotation as well for for Mony like the most

Vulnerable next spot would be ramp exactly what they got a lot out of I could I’m positive it ends up if mon is holding here he should have a great time but where is Nexa in all of this now looks like hutter heaven yeah he’s playing Furs watching

Hut just drop back site now the trophy push another great call out actually oh he saw the leg saw a little leg yep now the three players inside a on high alert yeah unless this is Aventure they know it’s an upper hit and the time is ticking are they coming back looks

Likely monesy on the angle three players about to peek and he lines up to oh third kills his two shots three frags and a fourth round for G2 posted Mony goes above and beyond four frags on the round we saw the aggressive stance behind Red and you nailed it beautiful

Rotation moves as quick as can be now JL doesn’t have the bomb so no sweat here on the brow of G2 better late than never that wasn’t one one could call out of G2 it was two and three reactions and again right after the round where they win with pistols

They go okay I guess we can win counterterrorist win for some reason not believing it before that point but they get that X Factor round they turn it into a backto back and maybe they can start being friends again just like that the wind out of the sails of the ramp

Hit didn’t even need Nico who was standing in the corner hate to break it to you na’vi you were never getting into that ramp room so blade takes his first time out now it’s a game of now it’s a game of chess and this is where blade has to try to read the

Reaction because I think they found so many vulnerabilities but they were a little bit too obvious they got away with that already now they know that G2 are going to step up their game they need to also go to the next level it’ll be interesting to see what

Na’vi do after this call because they do have options they did an upper hit they have done lots of outside stuff and ramp I couldn’t tell you what they want to try now not the best economy ever though thin margin between na’vi and a few saves at the end of this

Half early pressure though Hunter trying to stay sharp in the face of the utility we get the tech 9 inside of Hut to lead this charge bits right behind him great flash but hookie still hits the first shot bit comes through Alexi gets his vent player though is critical oh he got

Another Hunter Nails it in the back drop but monesy misses a shot on the floor of the a sight and now Wonderful’s deagle is down beneath with a bomb plant front sight it’s secured they can’t stop it the retake they’re walking out they’re over top the Desert Eagle oh he gets

Some damage in but he’s concerned with the right side Nexa already out from heaven but he’s lost track he jumps spots he Peaks him through the silos just a couple shots on the burst and eme gets the six God damn that was a wellplayed clutch out of em he denies

That clutch from Nexa who was clutch versus phze on nuke honestly a lot of maps NEX has put up the 1 V ones and 1 V2s but how many days in a row could he do that for G2 em coming in big trade frag to Hunter

Who’s lucky to get that second kill all right in the millisecond before his death man I don’t think na’vi were fully expecting to win a round like this they come in with three guns one of their only options actually with the money that they had was

Something fast like an upper hit but it works it’s there when they need it bit top main Nico looking for a fight but leaning back as the smokes goes up and again it’s going to be that that aura of unknowingness how many behind the wall have

Crossed that was a blade call off the tack but the 1 V one means that uh na’vi have no utility they can’t go lower on a round like this surely they lit have to frag so hard to get this bomb planted nicely done Mony again same angle same success there’s I would say

There there should be way that this works for G2 even though they don’t have the low rotations yet cuz they don’t have control side and um they don’t have any smokes well you got Mon’s op down there NEX is in front of oh no reaction okay okay he gets one and Nexa traded

Immediately uh we’ve got Nico on this angle the whole entire time man Advantage for g2’s retake to come out wonderful on a Galil catches Hunter Head turned and Hunter’s down here before anybody else is in position to retake hookie and NCO have to come in together it’s got to be synergized and

Hook’s got the utility to make Wonderful’s job that much more difficult Alexi flushed out from his position and it’s confirmed wonderful looking for the impact where is Nico he’s laid out from Deon but that’s exactly what they need Alexi forced out and G2 take a fifth oh

Was good utility out of hookie but man what a situation I think Mony must have been looking at his radar right had to have been yeah like shoot yeah he he didn’t even shoot so they barely survived that situation thought it was going to be much worse

They even denied the two lurks one ramp one um outside from whoever was playing inside of a might have been Nico Navi nearly fragged their way out of this yeah you can see him ice flicking trying to process everything but a well time Peak

And a chance for G2 to tie up this half it’s going to call on their tside oo almost Mony has recovered I begin what 0 and five 0 and six to start out this half Nico again I mean em is the guy just him over Nico outer we were

Talking about ouer and Nico and we didn’t know if em could handle Nexus double kill on the ramp is enough but it’s also weapons and grenades falling into the hands of the opposition and EMC comes through with a second he’s got a third of his health the tech 9 from bit

Rips Mon’s head off and Hunter is called on again trying to keep up to eme who has 15 frags on the map bit doubles back and Hunter’s gun is now empty he’s going to try to chase this out but support up from Heaven he’s doomed and he knows it

He’s lost the bomb site has no teammates to play with and Alexi is planting downstairs he doesn’t even know it our analyst said if Alexi had his troubles on the tside outer than he needed to call on somebody else to help well it’s eme who steps up

Big for this offense and gets na’vi majority rounds hey guys it’s Alexa B and wonderful s here G2 team faer it’s m team team heroic here and today we’re looking at some CS money e cosplay entries actually really bad with skins like really bad it’s black I mean it’s

An obvious Red Line right yeah it’s AK red line with follow that’s perfect creative I love this what is that what uh ooh I know this one Emperor w oh that’s a really good one looks good the red line was I mean the left guy he look do he on

The back like a banana does the skin have a face I think we are the worst team to do this only something yeah yeah yeah easy he got it how can someone use this you have something in your mind I have nothing mate oh what brother ah brother brother it’s a good C

We are just noobs with skin could could be me so it’s a 5 monkey no no it’s the gloves the caution bro I like the cosplay at least huh is that an iguana it’s fire serpent no no no it’s Oak chameleon ah o chameleon yeah is that a real chameleon is eating

Something wow there is a skin like this what what is this eyes Nightmare this is the best cosplay we’ve seen I love it oh the Aki Aki I don’t know how you say what is he holding a cat but why is he holding a cat is it a cat Jaguar ooh ooh yeah I like the C in this one uh I don’t know like I canot even picture the skin oh it’s so hard to rec

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Vote it was all talk about Eco but uh yeah opening duels six of them only one one so nice to show not show the deaths of course in contrast to that e 4-1 in his opening duels and all of them felt to be like they were on Nico they were

All ni basically that my friends is a 16 kill 140 ADR tside from E versus Nico on nuke e is he we we go day by day here folks that’s what I was saying like you can’t you know everyone’s crossing their toes hoping Nico does what he did but

Like it just doesn’t it doesn’t happen like that shras are in line and G2 they’re going to try to send it straight into the Dual brettas em there’s two more you want some come get some he’s ready to hold back whatever else is left in the tank but G2 realized it’s

Desperate to recover a 3v5 they’re going to be down 58 and EMA straight to it 19 frag secur already he could be acing right now dude a 140 ADR half into a pistol Ace dude you just there’s no coming back from that it’s cooked they thought they were going to

Rush out Hut they thought they were G2 they thought they could just puncture through that defense like it’s nothing Molotov will make EMT uncomfortable JL picks up the fourth frag of the pistol round and Nico nowhere to be found na’vi in eighth a three round lead and a CT

Side ahead oh man yep oh yeah can’t help but feel like this is where wonderful turns up as well yeah put an op in his hands watch him shine CT op on nuke his favorite Opera is simple I mean you get to put bit on ramp as well let him do his

Thing hasn’t had to do much on this map despite him being the showstopper back on Inferno this will not be easy for G2 that’s for sure and If Only They h you know stopped Alexi from diffusing that ball honestly there’s so many things from both teams at this point that have

Gone wrong I would just tell myself there look there’s no reason to there’s no reason to think about the past our opponents are going to mess something up all right that look they’re all smiling now na’vi are going to screw something up all right yeah and G2 he’ll have a

Chance to get back in the and then they’re going to screw something up and then na’vi are going to screw something up and then D2 are going to screw and then we’re going to screw something up we’re going to screw something and the production’s going to screw something up

But somebody has to win that’s the point there will be a conclusion there is a semi-finals on the line all right Vitality waiting in the wings that is the semifinals opposition for whoever wins this map Here and Now wonderful easy pickings see youa n’s Glock gets one Nexus P250 a second blinking you

Miss it the conversion is free na’vi keep the ball rolling my God ‘s having fun he’s having fun and that’s a dangerous man yeah we haven’t always seen flashes of Brilliance from him since of course the blast Paris major where he put forth the second highest rated the sole reason it

Was in over performance like he talked about in the interview I mean it sucks for him cuz he just did an amazing thing and then everyone has to you know on you just on anyway it’s because the thing is that it’s number for performance because he had so

Much space back then you know what I mean as a star player and he wasn’t that guy going on to na’vi so of course you weren’t going to be able to replicate that level of performance well he’s doing it now but he also had a lot to learn he definitely wasn’t perfect he

Wasn’t that versatile he was very good at something that shui you know was good at calling around yes and he had a more yeah right now this this main put perfect Nico comes through they also find the frag bit was trying to get aggressive up out of the ramp push Nico

Gets his and falls back it kind of leaves na’vi scrambling to go and fight this outer they want to find the frag back but they’ve just shown their backs instead and Nico very well done just peeling them into his domain and burning a little more time off of the clock as Well beautiful oh okay that’s got to feel real good if you’re Nico versus e it’s a one tap and you couldn’t get that going on your CT side but you you know if you want to dominate a tside in contrast if you struggled out there it’s not it’s

Not probable but it’s possible they can well if they want to work hard enough you know that’s what it comes down to do you want to work hard enough today what else you got to do last event of the Year exactly returning Abu Dhabi Champions you already went through these

Two maps to get here these two arduous frightening miserable long horrifying Maps you know what I mean hell you went through to get here you can do this you are Nico you are ni you are G2 you are KU o costly bit getting traded out towards ramp Nico blop see you nice

Shot but he’s not satisfied and if they don’t win this map he won’t be satisfied and even if they do win this map he might still be pissed off the World Finals Champions coming back into this returning Champs I mean OB they didn’t they didn’t lose jks to another team

They benched jks their choice okay they made this bed so there is expectation that they make this work now Abu dhabi’s trophy lift for G2 set the stage for a spectacular 2023 one that has has fizzled out since high highs low lows but they only won those trophies with

Jks uhoh pissed he’s he’s pissed bit just softening him up and the fire starts to get him oh man and he gets back to ramp yep just like that suddenly Wonderful’s Desert Eagle in this spot not all that bad you know bit on tside didn’t have to

Talk about him too much cuz e was doing all the heavy lifting but bit on ramp could be a real problem it’s a good dink but there’s no follow up out of wonderful that’s a nice one Nexa that could have been way worse yikes oh my God not

Ideal but not the end of the world and also not the round one they only take ramp control at 50 seconds but the problem with taking ramp control on these antios really scary to think that the CTS are all willing to rotate instantly oie comes back they’re going

To hear this the CTS are still up here reads em in the corner JL comes back with a recovery and Nexa was so close to death that JL doubles down with ease bomb on hookie starts to get planted they’re concerned about heaven but there’s no threat up there it’s

Double Lobby one vent and no plant yet the CTS could swarm if they want to Hunter’s in the pocket takes one down but there’s the frags for Nai and there’s not even a bomb plant either was it a mistake to take ramp in the way in that timing I wonder on this antio

Because they tricked them they tripped themselves up there was three players upper ready to push Lobby they could have gone down stairs but I know what they were worried about they were worried about four CTS instantly being lower because they have nothing to lose and so they came back to Lobby they

Found that they had to tear through all the CTS and then there was just another one and another one and finally three more and uh Nico had no way to even fight back he had no control in this round whatsoever got hit by like four

Bullets one TAPS in a row from bit and to beir to him it was right in front of his Molotov sure he he moled the cross and caught him right behind the smoke you’re right zoned and boned and suddenly this defense looks Rock Solid G2 pick up the third of the tside

But all of a sudden money on the line an 11th looking easy for na’vi we got to see something man we’ve got to see an uptick from Nico from Mony from hookie we we can’t criticize hookie as hard if Mony and Nico have the same amount of frags for

Sure your impact players are not online to be fair to Nico that was a good establishing round this half yes he just needs to more he got a little unlucky last round he’ll have one more chance next round but he just can’t miss from there on out because he had a whole CT

Side to take the edge off and couldn’t do it bit slips down to the B site Tech 9’s coming out of quick nice split and a good head shot out of hookie but the star of the show is in position and he’s got a teammate of Alexi on the other end

There’s a squeeze within this bomb site dueling off the AK JL just jumps into his death but at least emed will catch Mony and wonderful looks to throw himself in n go through Vince as a late play here there’s no rush they’re not ready for it at all 50 seconds no

Problem but but the CTS take the initiative Alexi and EM get all the players off the site and then they’re on high alert so two a piece and na’vi shred them oh they could have planted for Decon they didn’t know it was open however Jil is very happy about that that’s a massive

Steal I call it a steal just cuz they lost a sight and the manag Vantage bit not getting a single kill and hooky chased him down they try waiting for Nico for a second but then the players on the site also just end up in duels whether they

Want it or not yeah I mean they signed up for it Nexa could have been tucked in dark the two other players could have hid behind The Silo they could have yeah they exposed themselves to doors and it costs them they just didn’t the thing is downstairs is not one without control or

Deon you have to have one or the other and they didn’t have either that’s why they were fighting control side so na’vi got lucky that they didn’t check it they checked Deon to fight through it that might have been a l round but now oh wait I thought G2 were buying

This round they invested last round they invested last round oh my God that’s it you’re telling me Nico gets one good rifle round one unlucky rifle round in this half and then he’s out that’s it that’s looking like all they get oh well and they’re just going to

Get shredded outside as well no coverage from any kind of a smoke no miraculous Desert Eagle head shot from across the map they’ve got nothing to work with here and if Mony wants a fight he’s going to have to jump into the net serving up a distraction as the

Other players try to creep forward this is na’vi securing 12 no doubt Hunter Nico a head shot a piece something but a real chance now you’ve got another frag as you press into main they’re starting to throw this CTS can just lean back and bit make sure that the a sight doesn’t fall

That’s the bomb in the open floor it is Nico with a spectacular attempt on the deag oh just like that not again he’s in the open and he knows it bits along the wall ni goes down too much to ask a 2v5 queued up but at the final frag he

Falls you could feel it but it’s too late no way hit that it is too late in this map what the hell God damn Dam there’s no doubting the potential is there but he was cancelled by eme in the first half and the runway is short in the

Second you lose the pistol the conversion and you get economically reset with a force by the economy is against G2 on this third map na’vi a single round from semifinals and well earned they fought so hard oh and N goes down again just like that 10 and 16 could be his final

Score from the brink of elimination versus an to an eight round comeback on map three just to get the chance to keep on playing to now four frags from eliminating the returning Abu Dhabi world champions utility here for G2 trying to get some kind of a guys outside but bit

Has support in wonderful and he is knock going to drop this opportunity double kill out of wonderful he’s got three on the round and he’s got bit right there to work with him so na’vi sure enough just have to push Hunter over the line and he doesn’t even have the

Bomb this is a na’vi that we considered such an ambitious project and still late results and it was ambitious when simple was on the team but to fill his shoes steps up wonderful and nobody steps up bigger than eme tonight map three by the Skin of Their Teeth they push this series to

A third and this is where it ends the yellow and black strike gold in Abu Dhabi iMed Take a Bow absolutely dismantled Nico outside and after yesterday when we see this greatness coming out of Nico we said he was back that CS2 could be his meet your maker na’vi through to the semi-finals

Here in Abu daby but comes at the expense of G2 the end of the line and the end of 2023 for them but my word what a master class coming out of em on that map three did not expect him to be picking up those sort of numbers but my

Oh my what a result for na’vi yeah what a beautiful way of of doing it if you’re imma right we spoke about Nik coming into it Nik being the world card player he is he was always doing so well in the yard and imma just shot him down from

The very first moment he could he dominated Nik onard he dominated G2 and they could never really find their footing and honestly speaking I was a little bit disappointed that there was no push back sure you can get off to a wrong start or a bad start for that

Matter as well and not really feel comfortable on the server to begin with but I always had that feeling that G2 would fight back at some point it just there was just never no response coming in from them they just didn’t have the runway we saw the almost pop off between

Hunter and Nico bringing back a 2v5 down to a 1 V one just with the deagles but it just wasn’t quite enough EMA was so fantastic in this game the way he was taking that outside yard space it was like I was watching him all again on

Gamer Legion hyped up for what he was capable of then how he was able to be the reason that that team had such a great off towards outside and it’s been such a far cry from him until now until the World Finals it feels like EMA has finally showed up once again he’s

Finally finding some comfort with this roster and I want to say something I like that this na’vi roster had throughout all of these other changes that other teams are going to they could have looked and gotten a little bit of fomo to on the whole trade window where

Everybody is seemingly trying to find some upgrade here or there but na’vi has just stuck with this project they’re the longest standing roster still at this event and it seems like they are finally bearing some fruit for their labor and it’s a point that you were bringing up

Atly so before the game yesterday the fact that you you know you look at the puzzle pieces that na’vi have short it’s not exactly ideal with simple not being in the roster for now but the mentality the attitude that they’ve shown towards the pieces that they have at their hands

Right now it’s the the coaching from blade I am sure that is helping them immensely the fact that Alexi B himself has such a strong stoic nature where he’s always just going to look at what’s ahead of ahead of him and he’s going to just say to himself and his team we’re

Working with what we’ve got you’re you guys are my teammates and he’s going to do the most to elevate them I was talking about before some of those other rosters we looked out before pimp how he’s just brought teams like OG to relevancy ones where they’re so underpowered and yet he’s doing that

Again I I still stand by the fact that I think that this lineup in terms of Firepower well behind a team like G2 there’s there’s no way if the calling were one for one in this game there’s defin definitely G2 should have been yeah you should have been the winners

You should have been if you if you have that much Firepower you should be taking it but the Alexi B the calling EMA himself had a great pop off here but the calling on top of it was great yeah I agree with that and and I think that’s

The difference right we we came into this game and we said when you look towards the na’vi lineup there’s no clear star there’s no Nico there’s no money see what in that camp but when imma is playing like the Superstar he’s supposed to be then that narrative

Changes a little bit as well CU I think you know when you look down the the na’vi roster there’s a lot of there’s a lot of Firepower there’s a lot of um I would say there’s a lot of structure in it within the lxb system and it’s not a

Team that is got fall apart from one moment to another we’ve seen plenty of games where they’re facing teams that on paper are better but they always put up a fight so if they can I guess transition into having imma being the star player being the guy that more

Times than not shows up like he did here on nuke then all of a sudden you have a new narrative that is surrounding na’vi a well structed team well coached with blade and they have that one guy maybe two guys in bit sometimes that can pop off and win games they’re not supposed

To win and that strong stoic nature coming out from Alexi B net Sumer spot in the semi-finals here in the final Tournament of 2023 so let’s get a few celebratory words courtesy of thanks Nai find themselves into the semifinals and Alexia I’m going to come on to this you’re a newus pick been

Looking so good as well it started off so strong you get the Mony 1v5 and I wouldn’t say that’s what made it crumble but a one on five yeah you didn’t know it was a one-on five he didn’t know it was one5 that’s a bit tough but it was a

Mony 105 that um started to build them back into it but did it affect you guys that much because we didn’t even expected to go to overtime it definitely affected us okay in the CT side because we were leading 5-0 and we knew it was a free round we

Even expected them to pop B and we fully owned them then I just remember the situation where I think it was one on Three like I thought it was a one on four right but a one on three he kills Valera and comes Temple yeah and it’s

Like only two alive now then I I tell M like on my contact you pick and of course like Mones is just piecing it together and he smokes me off yeah and I’m expecting him to obviously usually go around he jumps I don’t know if he

Saw me or not but he just insta kills me and uh already at that point it should never go to one-onone so yeah but you then hold off right and we see you go into Inferno now Inferno for you guys has not been looking so pretty recently

What did it take from you guys here to be able to bounce back in that because for me you didn’t crumble like the mentality we saw in previous games right in previous tournaments here you look like a stronger unit I honestly think that uh a lot went

Into it when we went outside I think that the Expressions on people’s faces looked like uh we lost the we lost the Series I tried to pump everyone up and tried to have some individual talks to to say couple nice words or just to like I was believing in the comeback we we

Last time as well I think we won the first map 164 maybe it was Inferno or not but we won them on Inferno last time on CSO both games yes and I just knew that it’s not rocket science then we were we were trailing back 05 then I have

This lucky one on four where I go Defuse The Bomb I think that sparked something but it was still super tough on T side but I’m just so glad we made the comeback and going into nuke after yesterday showing against NS I just knew that we

Have it in us to make it I wanted to touch on this nuke though was it important you started on the T side cuz they got happy I think they won the knife they chose CT but but we looked at that and we spoke as the the talent team

And thought actually maybe Alexi will be happy with tside yes I think it’s so dangerous on CS2 uh you you saw Cloud9 today pick tside on Mirage on mous Sport’s first map and they got completely dominated like I think it was 131 maybe they regret it but I think

About it differently I think sometimes like once you’re in the like once you’re in the deider you both won a map right so you’re kind of like in the game already and now if you have t side on the decider it can really bounce back

And forth like you saw us play I think four or five rounds back and forth against G2 here at the start both with Scrappy bi just taking rounds that we we should not take so it’s it’s it’s a brawl and I do think that no matter the

Side we just finally took over the momentum now I got to ask you quickly just how do you feel your chances on now and how important was this Win For You Against G2 going into the match against Vitality I’m just I’m just so happy that

Uh we finally get to play on the stage we failed many times we also beat two teams now in in a series where I think they were better than us at least ranked ranking wise and we were still a team without too much experience together and we managed to win these two teams

Obviously Vitality for us is a really tough team we had uh very tough times against them but it’s a good thing that we also played against them so we kind of know the style but I’m just so happy to be on stage and to make it to semis

I’ll see you in the arena tomorrow very insightful words coming out from Alexi b as always but you just made a very at Point Jacob think about the fashion that they had to win this one and obviously full three Maps but the maps they did take not what we expected right no we

Came in saying that if Nai want to stand a chance of winning this game they have to win a new because then Mon’s 1v5 happens and they end up losing it overtime and you think to yourself that’s it game over done dusted Inferno a map T2 have never lost as a unit not

With Nexa not in CS2 they still managed to turn it around and then the fashion they winner nuke where they dominate their opponent it wasn’t a game it wasn’t a back and forth only the first four fire rounds remained competitive from that point onwards it was just

Na’vi all over so yeah to me it’s the fashion they winning that is a testament to their character and how well they actually played tonight yeah whilst it’s a win for na’vi unfortunately it is a loss and elimination for the side of G2 so let’s get from words from Nico to

Round out his 2023 g2’s Road ends here for the World Finals and they were our previous World final Champions but it’s a different look G2 and I’m going to start with some of the positives here mate because Anubis it looks like it could have been

Down and out for you very early on there you get a little thing like a 1 V5 from mansy how much of that was a like motivating positive factor to bring you guys back into a game like that um yeah I mean obviously his round helped us uh

To get going I think even though we were down 0 five we’re still confident in an nois we feel pretty good on that map uh practice has been going very well and I think against FaZe yesterday should have been way uh I think we just won the game

Yesterday on OB as well so overall we feel really good on the map and uh obviously clutch just helped us to get rolling and uh yeah and the clutch itself was uh like one of the insane clutch I’ve seen as well of him so uh

Yeah now for Inferno this is a great map for you guys and for na’vi it’s been looking rough recently normally though when you see on your t- side like eight nine rounds as consistent that you get on it did it come into your heads at all about oh seven wasn’t enough or anything

Like that I don’t know like honestly we just threw the game away like there’s so many rounds that we just uh just literally threw it away and uh I don’t know why it happened maybe we like a bit more relaxed or something but uh I think

This was uh two Z for us any like should be any time of the of the week so uh yeah it U it sucks but uh we play some good CS but we just crumbled in some situations that lost us the The Inferno for the Alexi clutch where he got the

Ninja diffuse right well not ninja diffusing like when you were running away from the site he got the one kill right was that a bit where you were still happy still a good mood or was it a bit where you start to say okay this isn’t acceptable yeah after that round

Like like we were still fine like it was like okay it we can still break them but the problem is that the next round we left the the freeze time uh we left the spawn without a proper plan we were forgetting to drop some uh guns and

Uh we just weren’t ready for their aggression and that’s the round that got them rolling that’s that’s when they connected three rounds and uh that’s when they started dictating the pace so uh I think it’s not that Alex she’s wrong round U has lost as the the game I

Would just rather say that the rounds after that uh we just didn’t adapt properly and for nuke you guys you won the knife you’re very happy getting that CT start right I saw at least on the cameras you guys were smiling with it but I was talking to Alexia and we F

This as well their tside had looked pretty good do you feel like it’s a it’s a gamble on which side you start there are you still confident with going for a CT side start in that no we are confident in our city Side for sure I

Just think they caught us a bit off guard and uh honestly like I don’t know what team like was doing outside but he was just killing me pretty much every round and uh he has won in the game straight up like uh he has been getting

Entries outside on me I wasn’t ready for like so many crazy plays by him and uh he definitely helped them just get so many t- runs but uh overall I felt like we find our groove back into the half but then again on T side we never managed to

Get rolling and uh yeah I mean like they played better on Yuki than us but they should have been two Z and we should have won against Fage yesterday and uh we would be in a different situation so uh there’s a lot of positives to take

From this event I think we play some good event good Counter Strike and uh yeah focus on the the next year roll on 2024 thank you very much Nico yeah props to Nico for giving us a few departing words but man Jacob this has to be such a bitter way to be ending

Out 2023 for yeah cuz I don’t think NCO is wrong saying that it probably should have been a two- they probably should have won Inferno had they not threw all those clutches it probably should have been a I don’t know if they should have won against face yesterday but they

Could have at the very least the problem is the narrative changes right coming into this tournament this guy right here Nexa we were not sure where to put him and I’m still not sure where to put him this move you know getting rid of JK putting in Nexa yes there’s certain

Positives that we’ve seen already in terms of the moods The Vibes but I’m not sure I’m sold on Maui I uh this is this is a downgrade it’s a downgrade simply put it’s been a downgrade Nexa obviously didn’t have the best time on Inferno he was not positively contributing at that

Ramp defense and I want to say I think like playing on G2 does something to people man like hookie when he came into this space he had this bright smile on his face all the time he was willing to do every podcast that asked him to jump

On it and now he’s suddenly just like scoffing at the fact that his team lost he said when they lost Inferno he literally said oh it’s a miracle they won that it’s like come on dude like have some respect for your opponents because if you’re going to play like

That and you’re going to lose like that well you deserve to lose and so it with map number three as well that wasn’t even a competitive affair they didn’t change their CT side setups when Nico was getting dominated again and again by by EMA monasi finally goes out there

Maybe round seven that’s finally the time you decide to make an adjustment it’s too late man too late I think the issue for me is that it leaves more question marks right I would have loved for G2 to come into this tournament and reassure me that yes them coming into

The maor that’s going to be all right they’re going to figure it out but I am left with more question marks than you know than than answers I’d say I think they did show good Counter Strike I think they did played fantastically well against face yesterday I think up until

The point where they lost the 1 V3 against Alexa B they were also playing good Counter-Strike but it’s just disappointing and it makes me wonder you know coming into the major and Copenhagen coming into the armar is that going to be that fireman roster or are they still looking to potentially change

I’m not certain and that to me is an issue with a a team that is supposed to win trophies a team that is supposed to contest for the major yeah this time last year G2 obviously lifting the trophy right here in Abu Dhabi this year not having the opportunity to do so as

We do move on to look at our playoff bracket as we do move in to the stage and more importantly the crowd tomorrow Vitality versus na’vi again that will be a rematch of what we saw in the group stage FaZe versus miles I love this one Maru because there a little someone

Called Frozen and I’m excited to see how he fares against his old teammates uh Frozen I don’t know I don’t really want to call him a traitor but it kind makes it a little spicier doesn’t it I mean the fact that it’s kind of the fight for

Frozen right if ma are able to take down FaZe oh that’s just going to be J deserts they’re going to feel so great about themselves shui is probably like ah my star player gone well they’re in the same place tomorrow and so he has a chance to show that Frozen made a

Mistake well let’s move on to round out our CS play of the day for day number three here at Abu for the blast Premier wild finals now we’re going to be seeing a little bit of a double in this one so what are we starting off with you up

Well an absolutely fantastic 1v5 coming out from Mony I’m sure you’ve seen it already but you should watch it one more time this jump through the smoke killing Alexi b as he said he didn’t expected he couldn’t really see it coming it was an absolutely amazing clutch for man that

Saved G2 on Anubis and got them going play number two we’ve got Alexi B also from that last one and this is just so goofy this is the worst way to lose it’s the most G2 way to lose either also you you get the these couple kills this 1 V4

And what is this he just diffuses he just gets on the bomb where where is the rest of the team where’s hookie where’s Hunter oh wait they were trying to hunt him in B they’re on their way home monesy is now coming into the last of

The last one the awp the collap of course we love to see Mony play aggressive Counter-Strike pushing into radio getting the collap Mony did what he could today in order to make it happen unfortunately for him not enough to stay off the pl yeah some great highlights but unfortunately the end of

The road here for mon but James I’m curious with some kind of crazy results today how’s that shaking up our mask MVP frya I’m looking very forward to seeing how this has been shaken up because things are sometimes not making sense at least in the Vitality camp and

Phase Camp it seems to be going so well and look at that Mesi is still right on top zyu has already had his moment so who should we look at well it’s chy in there we’ve been talking about Yim fat but Mr toy right now has been showing a

Solid form this guy is genuinely very happy for playing all of these games and Mayo May in the last two series he had one hell of a fight on his hands and was still able to put up these numbers sometimes he comes on to a lot of

Criticism but I would say for right now and how he’s feeling even with a standing he knows he needs to step up and deliver and that’s exactly what he’s doing but can they take on FaZe tomorrow we’ll have to wait and see that is indeed the question James

We’ll be finding out that answer tomorrow I’m very excited to be diving into the semi-finals of the final tournaments of the year the final chance for a team to be lifting the trophy in 2023 so let’s take a look at what’s on the cards cuz we got some banging games

Coming up for you tomorrow chance for Vitality I know I have a little bit of a UK bias particularly as Messi oh oh is is top of the M MVP race at the moment and maybe a second trophy for him Maui UK could never I can’t with this if if

Okay I’m okay if Messi does well Freya I’m okay if Vitality do well but I can’t I can’t stand for Mesi winning MVP because I know we’re never going to hear the end of it from you yeah the UK guys have got to be proud when somebody finally show

Wor don’t worry about it for a second um okay I I need to shut up cuz I need to tell you guys about the uh vote over on blast TV for the show match of course you guys have been voting I’m curious to see what Maps you’ve got left in the be

Mad ver go oh is still there they did listen Anubis is still there and you know what you have plenty of hours to be voting we’re going to keep this bad boy up night so I’m going to run and go and do that make sure that Anubis is still

In the pool um and we’ll see you guys tomorrow I guess cuz we got some semifinals to get into we’ll see you bright and early for all the action and to see who could potentially getting a step closer to the trophy for

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