CS:GO - Astralis vs. Team Liquid [Nuke] Map 2 - GRAND FINAL - IEM Chicago 2018

to kick off a grant file surly living up to its name and that we've got so much more in this grand final to cut asunder help me understand exactly how it happened it's Charlie pick it up the first in a fall fall stressful best of three of excuse me 30-round game we do have sponge we do have nervous joining myself machine and I think gentlemen we have to actually focus on the fact that this was so damn close he was even a strong star Tommy from Team Liquid I mean they were off to a pretty comfortable CT side I mean ending on nine could have been double digits but not too bad the worrying time for liquid here is that they did get the good start they lost the first pistol but they instantly we can control by winning the third round you didn't get reset anytime to half until the very end basically on T side they started looking good we're up thirteen eight I think 14 10 looked like they were gonna run away with it as we said they needed to to stay in this series but then astrologist did what a Charlize does they came back you look at these wind conditions right I said that they were one of the best teams of T sided pistons they were 12 wins one loss on the teeth of the piston I was 13 you know so they continue with it the wind conditions firm now had two big punches coming in here sitting that defused the other one where he was able to get four kills in the round with the Khalil there the rounds which should win you games they're the ones which get you across the line especially when you've had everything else going away sure they lost that one b2 to zip Nix on that bomb site but clutches went either way in this series the decision-making they were dictating to Australia's everything was good really good but right now Alex I'm pretty sure that's not only the map but that's the whole series slipping through the fingers are liquid it feels perhaps like it is doomsday for liquid just because of the fact that this is we know what's coming up you know you've got a weather the storm of do and inferno if you want to have a another shot get this right Peter from a treaty veto or just tweeted liquid now have to make history in one of these ways break Australia's 23 no record on nuke or become the first team to ever come back from a 0 2 in a big event best of 5 final never happened before and it's gonna be up against Australia's who do seem to be keen on momentum this is so signature Australis by the way the fact that they were always especially gets good at POTUS like this though they just don't ban I they're 14 10 down and every time it feels like without fail they seem to stabilize how much more than that I think its signature liquid which is you here it's happened so many times and even though even the way it started right those couple of bee hits it just seems like when Lake would run out of ideas on their T side that is default to these quick hits into the smaller side because if you can just just trade those two kills you have a really good chance of winning but he becomes so obvious when you're playing against a smart team in astrology we're just ready for it and it really didn't seem like liquid even came close i mean nitro would be paralyzed in that final one to be won he had the smoke cover he could have moved around could have made a play and he was just afraid to even move and Duprey seemed to read that like a book I was so surprised with the smoke up he could have been tripled could have been anywhere Dupri's just walking around that corner preemie he has a very good read on nitrous and absolutely destroy that and that was I guess the heartbreak right there and then no overtime for us but we did highlight lots of good things that they were doing you selected something specific and this was one of those rounds early the casters were talking a lot about and these were the smokes towards middle this is something we've seen come into the meta of mirage a little bit more of recent time so as we can play it out I want everybody to have their focus we're gonna bring up the map here in a nice zoomy face for everybody it's the smokes going it was the top mid you can see they want to go for a default mid control right now but the smokes is gonna land and we're gonna zoom back out so you can see the action coming down that smoke means at this point you need to drop back unless you want to push through and you have a protocol for how to deal with that you can see immediately right here if we keep looking at the radar they're now positioning for a B execute I think what the trigger is is when the second top mid smoke which we'll just see get dropped right there from taco it's going to allude to the to the t's that they can probably execute on B versus one defender as we can see we'll zoom in again they have three people on this bomb site ready to deal with this and early responder who can rotate through window room quite quickly because the tower it happens they come into the blender of three players this round does get closed and it does need some heroics of twists but I really like the use of this they use those mid smokes they don't linger around they actually rotate back and Australia's game plant early was to actually bully that be bomb site see what they could get out of taco taco had a fantastic first half he stood up strong towards that be bomb sir and I was actually forcing his charts to go back to what they his pistol Walker that USB I think he got four if not five I think he'd were the famous at the end there he had some spectacular rounds and actually I mean I hate to be that person pointing fingers on the scoreboard but Alisha is definitely in the conversation of players that have to perform to do what many consider impossible beating Australis in a grand final and he is also unfortunately one of the long-standing liquid members so you know if to some extent when we talk about liquids issues issues in big games they don't really applied they definitely don't apply to taco they don't really even apply to twist fully not to NAV but it's Nitro and Allegiant they're the two players at the bottom of the scoreboard just didn't do well I didn't have a lot of the impact the rest of the team played well they got it within you know striking distance but it just wasn't enough to pull them over the finish line personally one of my criticisms was that I want to see more from Neff just because he hasn't been that star admitted a great game yet finding space can be difficult and perhaps in the absence of Ally she did have more room to maneuver but 28 frags that's a positive sign I mean there are not many but that's only one coming into the next man definitely a takeaway though what you could have learned from fnatic and phase in both of their games against an Australis is if you just give us trash room to move then they're gonna beat you every day of the week if you make it while they're in limbo trying to set up for the best tactical decision and then you get your face and you sort several times coming out from liquid that you're able to disrupt them and you're able to make them look silly in a lot of occasions because when you're Australis you demand a certain level of respect it's like you're not going to push this position now because that's not the correct decision if you do it we're going to destroy you now teams are going with that kind of play again and they're getting away with it because when teams are giving you that much room as a Strasser you can start to get a little bit complacent and that's where they a lot of these situations you know I said they're normally so good at converting to five be fours when teams are just making unorthodox plays these are very difficult things for a strass to read this is more random more problematic for them to deal with it has to happen in the heat of the moment and I'm sure it got pretty heated down on the audience floor during that game lots of cheers and jeers were being exchanged here in Chicago and tres he's not too big huh go hunting for some lucky fans you know I've got some lucky fans down here Alex more importantly I've got some we got some tools and attendance we also got a hair at attendance and I think we've got some other family over here you guys okay or oh my god they didn't have anything to say for themselves obviously anyway moving for we do have hair here you might know him as Moses his brother or the brother of Moses anyway to look around it first of all happy to see you in attendance secondly what's your diagnosis of liquid here on Mirage I think liquid liquid played great they just need to kind of brush off first match second map is nuke so I don't I don't really know how they're gonna do with that but third map they just need to grow up and put a couple ways together growing up putting wings together it could be that easy but yes we're fast-forwarding to nuke now and I feel like Jason would give us some top to your analysis I feel like you'd give the direction that liquid needs do you think you can one-up him probably not Jason's a man now you're not a boy any longer Jason if you're hearing this that was directly at your heart either way it's time to get into nuke and before we do that I think we raise the roof in here we got any liquid fans in attendance tonight I'll take it I think it's a slow start it's a smooth start let's kick it back to the desk so we could start getting in the second map while that just sounds like Jason that's that's kind of freaky that's the Barrow tool sound of the shiny so he was unique apparently not he's funny I'm almost identical one of many most identical there's many other tools with equal counter strike knowledge is you know I like Silas I was ready to give liquid a chance on nuke I was talking to you in the green room I was saying you know when it was a 14-10 thought he was gonna be like a 16 16 10 half of like you know maybe this is it this is it like what's gonna break the break the record gonna finally take a showers down no that's that's done and over now I just could almost fast-forward a map at this point is it really good you know you're both gonna bounce up into the montage of liquid 16 I hope I hope I get proven wrong I would love it I want sides to stand up you know how I'm on your frequent flyer program seen things like the three-month challenge why don't we just take like a five round challenge on astrology just go 5-0 we just call it a map don't bother with the record yeah I think that's what we do all right you got making it all doom and gloom but previously charged you framed it as trying to contain the t side of Australis the CT has its fair share of holes but keeping it within 5 does the same a rule apply here I think so if you can keep them under 5 are under then you have a very good shot at winning I still think they're gonna push you the distance I think if you can keep them under 5 rounds on the T side of nuke that you have a really good shot at this Astral's have elevated the level of play of Counter Strike this year they've brought everybody to a new era a new way of approaching the game it's a nice hybrid now of individualism we've got the tactics we have the strategy we've got the understanding of the mid rounds counter-strike is at a point that I don't think I've ever seen it out before Anna Strasser on nuke are so far ahead of the matter Australis unbeaten for so long on liquid they have got the closest 30 rounds was their last attempt we'll see how this one shakes up with your cactus Australia click with two of the best of five moisés take it from here thank you Alex liquid one amount down to the grand finals now nuke is gonna be coming up with a desk speed they did set a little bit of a stage for this game I feel like not a lot of faith in liquid coming from the desk what do you think Moses still got faith we've seen them actually being mother to challenge the straws on this map even I mean it was it's a little bit obviously begun beaten but they've had some close games I mean if you look back to mirage they had the players able to challenge the players able to keep up and strategically as well at times now on nuke it's gonna be a tougher test but taco one of the best performing players for Team Liquid on Mirage he's gonna drop down from ramp room spots it out they're not gonna slow down look what has to get here and that's a good start ten seconds to even get him killed and they've lost three in all of that I can't believe that he managed to live through all of that and even get two kills on top now make himself nitro and unleash I don't know what's happening in this pistol round I don't know why they did that you don't need to chase down I think maybe the bomb lured him into that aggression but let him get into the sight let him find that where you have them surrounded and that's a huge mistake that changes the nature of this round still advantages for Team Liquid but there's so much time for Astral's to be able to figure out and zip Nix is still alive yeah we always make a bit of a joke of it but if you look at the scoreboard in these two V 2 to 1 V 2 s and it's sip on the other side just know something bad might be coming 40 seconds what are the pressure on Australis now to put the bomb down eventually there is a kit and a smoke on twist which you can have a an impact on the end of this round potentially they really want to find one more kill they're not really sure where to go with this bomb either 22 seconds maybe it's gonna be the one to plan with 17 health that could be a real risk but he's gonna be able to do it no problem and liquid giving them so much respect at the moment that it's gonna be perfect for a straws to find great post plant positions liquid has no idea where they're heading out to they were just so focused on keeping them in that lower bomb sight that big mistake pushing magic for no reason one by one not able to trade it off and we go look like a one-round two verses fall and naff not checking it this could be a real problem bomb now being smoked off for the minute and now flanking in it's right there but he's gonna catch the kill and twist is now home in a lot of trouble he's gonna be running in for the smoke just trying to see if he can get the defuse and simple shut it down as Charlotte's gonna pick up the pistol round in a two on four that and doesn't mean it was already looking a little bit grim just because of the map that's a problem wild over aggression at the start and then way too passive to finish it off and liquid those this is a huge mistake trying to force the issue a minute 15 seconds you know he's there just keep him locked in and nitro knows it immediately after that frustrated and not getting the kill but more importantly giving a strong too much space and too good of an opening on nuke team liquid still so much of this brand finals left that you really don't want to start to have too many heads shaking or too much despair in the lineup but obviously you know it's gonna be a rough game this one in leash just Freddie on the secret stance picking out with the demon timing was perfect for that it really was special slaves kind of thought he had thrown it out a little bit of mistake and throwing out the mall top but they don't take any damage don't take any losses from it's a no big deal I love to get some kill some damage through this smoke but nitro is not even going for the guests and mr. Ellis quietly marches along that smoke wall outside a leash down low with that deagol and with the flashbang but I don't think he's got anyone nearby to help him out quite yet still this is a great setup for getting headshots gonna tag glaive mid NR the other Canadian comedy stay and fight it still alive taking ten damage it is absolutely fine so far from his point of view now if we're eating back here really really want somebody to come and pick him so they can maybe surprise eventually they're gonna finally use the bomb will go down and I think never needed for Elyse to stay alive now he needs a distraction to be able to get more than one kill in this scenario he needs some sort of fight to be happening the device knows to freeze up there that's gonna be the kill can you follow it nearly tags me is there gonna be any while this is happening one more headshot for now fly setting up for the flashbang where a nitro and twist they should know they're not even anywhere nearby try and save the scout was kind of hoping the maybe they could use that distraction but see if anyone goes up with a bomb that would still help out a liquid a little bit if they could do some more damage twist this here gonna take any damage from it so that was a long time that nav stayed alive and with a double kill there's just no way of them actually win in that round without a kill Scout can't really take those battles very easily and retaking that lower sights so just back off put a little bit of damage nothing to be too pleased about to zero and they're gonna go for that third round investment on the liquid side of things waiting for the rifles to come the question is gonna be as it always is for astralis on this map is can anyone actually stop them from having success in this outside yard what they're taking right now that is the map that is a portion of the map that is most important to an offensive side I mean you can call so many different tactics off of the fact that you're able to take it able to hold it from the T side mister all's are masters of it nitro and he wants that headshot I think he's got a pretty good idea they would have crossed then he kind of has to fall back yeah you're absolutely right I mean down towards the B bomb so do you need someone to be in those hallways shot on the feet and not enjoying it go down and twist he's in trouble they're both on a bomb site but pretty much locked in two versus five here and what health as well in other words nothing else to do we go for that three to nothing nobody falls that round for a straw less and they've got a decent amount of money built up to those two and sueing wins after the pistol but now liquid can fight back they all gotta leash the m4s and boy do they need a good game out of a leash they had taco deliver they had Nath deliver at map one in a losing effort yeah I think I think naff especially towards the end of the half of that game on Mirage he had so many impact rounds it was really kind of ridiculous fourth round liquid with the orb and the m4 there and plenty of grenades no defuse kits though a problem you want to diffuse inside that be bomb site especially is not always easy to sit for 10 minutes seconds and just wait pretty decent made from chocolate looks like a straw want a testimony and did off the poster all they're coming now the spam just covering the footstep progression and taco you can read it to play great return from Nitro that's outside but now ramp room has been lost in liquid they need to scramble they need to get into this lower bumps away things good fine formally SHhhh not just not ready for the angle and now what a four-on-three window is spotted up from the leash as well great place to use the scope cuz that's a very narrow gap there and he's just able to scope in and pick up at least one player gonna be closing the door off the smoke bomb is down now that diffused kit full liquid is that the thing that's gonna come back to haunt him does cut the defuse time in half so who you really really want to make sure you have one otherwise you're gonna have to be trying to get the shot through to the pre but not enough to actually get the kill on him and that bomb is so far ticked already there in a lot of trouble right now leaked what they need to move it's not gonna happen they take down separately one in return time and the Molotov on top of the poem that finally gonna smoke it up with Lee and they get all the kills they still can't get the round destroy everything so far too long a little bit because Team Liquid just trying to get in the proper position but also great utility again for astral a small table on the stairs to allow some safety that's followed up by a smoke so what additional 17 seconds into that bomb timer is eaten off and move so close but just not close enough for Team Liquid that was maybe the entrance that liquid wanted to make this happen but just not leading themselves enough time getting a bit too passive after that van lead at four versus three well they managed to save two rifles and they've been fine for the rest chance here to make an impression Lovelace was saying five rounds that's that magic number that they need to stall us on this first half and they're at four right now again the wall of smokes and they're walking behind nobody's even seeing them that just gonna be down with no trouble at all Nigel may be the first point of contact here smoke was pretty well-timed but that's also his last foreign aid to try and stop them with he's not gonna have anyone there to pair up with them any kind of a crossfire we saw previously stralla slaying them all top of those stairs so that defender cannot feel comfortable and has to back away not sure liquid entirely knows what's happening across this map naff and mini might have a chance but they're gonna challenge against nitro here here's that ball thomsonite sure won't be able to get a fight he's got a foul out of that that's gonna give them access to vents and the other Avenue around these vents into the lower bomb set and again since it's just nitro here you only have the one two fed and he's gotta watch behind him they're gonna pinch him from two different angles Alicia's here actually they want to combine this is so tense if they need to win one or both of these fights right now 35 seconds to leash close to taking down to free the smoke behind him really hard down and make us comes blasting right out of the smoke to take it on the leash it's not bad at the follow-up grenade I think did a lot of damage to him do you read that very well they should be down he will be this is looking better full equip this device in the wrong way and all on me just get a one versus three and he's just gonna be dropped by twist much better this time for liquid saving three people and also defusing the bomb they don't Stross doesn't make it to that five-hour scoreline so i guess i guess we will continue with this map of the grand finals first round for Team Liquid hopefully that can get them on their feet they have the money behind this and we're gonna get a really quick tech pause for a sound issue will be it a little bit delayed but players cannot speak during this I've gotta ask Moses when down next to your brother I I noticed like a little on your face I feel I didn't you could have gone much worse for you hey could have got much worse I've got I've got confidence though and my brother not to give away any of the family secrets really we'll see we'll see after map four and maybe five more beers one two four for Team Liquid trying to keep themselves into this almost doing a cliffhanger impression we actually also walked by some of the liquid the liquid fan section as we came back to the desk between maps and we had that conversation that liquid even despite that map one loss still feeling pretty comfortable pretty confident they've they've been here before they've had some cutting losses to astrology and I mean I guess that is also one of the advantages of having a best-of-five finals is that you know that that first map doesn't immediately put you you know on the edge you've you've got more still to fight for because it best of three this new map might just be the finish it yeah it could be the end of it isn't it but I mean you put that into the context of the fact that that Mirage loss can just come back to haunt them you're going into a map now it's you know it's trois is an insane undefeated record on this map so if you're if you're in like all of a sudden if you lose this which you're expected to then all of a sudden you you download two and you're one map away from elimination from another second place if you win mirage you at least give yourself that breathing room to where nuke doesn't necessarily matter in the grand scheme of things since it's so a straws heavily favored well we'll see if they can find a way to make an impression here liquid winning that first round on the CT side is gonna help out a little bit there are still some big problems is I mean the thing you mentioned which is the most glaring obvious problem right now for liquid is that yard control it's great that they can win the fight once it's on the b-bomb side but if that keeps happening and again and again as trolleys are gonna start to win more and more of those rounds as well and you just need to try and keep it away from them that whole option yeah you need to do something to put them on the back foot make sure they can't gain control of it look at this round six flanking through the actual ramp room yeah if they don't catch that sip just walks in and kills two people as they're trying to like it there's so much happening in their own I think it's something that lik would have noticed though in researching astrology is that round where they they retake the lower bombsite without kids and lose due to the time part of the reason why that was so slow and coming to fruition is my show stayed in ramp room for an extra you know 10 12 seconds as he was waiting for some kind of a flank making sure nothing was gonna come for the backstop so perhaps something that they've noticed in their research that they want to make sure they don't get punished by sorting at the last of the tech issues and then we'll be right back into the game here on nuke yeah just a headset being issued I believe issue replacing everything obviously got spare headsets lying around plenty of them plenty of them oh well that's it that's it that would be a great statistic if not for the fact that they're playing his trial right it gets anyone else that statistic would make so much better high fives all around and they like oh the strata zone it's like cool thanks to yourself out there with straw us 100% wouldn't hit him damn for how many maps now I think it's some like twenty three twenty four low 20s it's really absurd but I'm not sure liquid could have made a much better choice in like if they had banned nuke they would have had to have played saying yeah train instead we she's also pretty tough yeah I don't know this is kind of I mean least one of the reasons why nurse trotters have been so hard to knock off this post for for much of the year it's just that a deep mantle sip looks like he's snow recharging running for all the algorithms what's in sleep mode yeah plug in the battery low power performance in the homeland just say USBC kind of Android well the time out the tech pause comes to an excuse me as the as the sound issues are figured up so we're gonna get right back into this it's four to one getting some screams yeah I feel like we've been we've been missing some of the chance here in the arena Moses liquids USA something like that something to get them back on their feet couple more round wins I think for Team Liquid I'm actually right out of this tech pods just maybe to troll us Zeus probably thought of something during the tech pause it decides to take a timeout to talk it over it's not a bad thing as well because you want to win right after that first win you can't get reset here of your team lick but you need to build upon this you need to have a decent CT half so getting some last-minute thoughts and conversations out of the way for both sides as this free time comes to an end and here we go Chicago are you still with us well there we go round number six gonna be coming up we do have a lot of weapons and useful as you're both team so very good challenging the squeak door and taking down nitro that's a very dirty play he was even standing on top of the Molotov to try and get that working in it absolutely works he gets the follow up as well on after aggression and look at Dupree I mean he took the opportunity with that first pick to hustle it up and get aggressive and this is an astral out of a timeout from the opponents maybe even out of the tech pause frequently you just pick up the pace you kind of shock them you change the style you're playing to spell that they're trying to counter and I think Dupree is gonna have the perfect back stab twist is gonna have no idea what's coming for Dupree gonna transition over the toes going down as well and between debris they made it look easy this is so unreasonable just managed to walk all the way behind them it's a little distraction at the dorm he just slips right past on the other side it's it's a great play it's great heads-up from Dupree because you know exactly how the rotation works outside and probably even if you did your research in a liquid for that sure they have for one of the 20 times they've met this year you all of a sudden realized that pick comes in for the next person who's gotta look over towards door is that player in mini who generally watches outside it's a perfect opportunity for Dupree to make his move now a rush now the shock and awe begins actually they hit pause just zip Nick's being aggressive getting down vents yeah business I mean there are only the only of pistols now but still once those whole holes in the defense start to to open up you could see a strata stay just so ready for it Mississippi is gonna be picking off nitro and they were ready to sneak back in device maybe could have got caught there actually twist still in the position where you could sneak it around the corner and it's gonna go back and check this way instead so it did just gonna miss each other super cold flank but unfortunately the lesions already here as well so you know there's not really anything to do and even Astralis just just being jerks about this they're gonna actually go to that upper bomb site all of liquid has rotated below excuse me now two kills are the deagle Alicia's taking Ella now is still alive here and he's giving him a chance a three on three if he gets anything more out of this it would be miraculous Dupree up the fight he wants but a desperate situation he had to stay aggressive and now it's worse this flank gets swatted aside go down on the low ground man I think everyone was holding their breath for now to find one more headshot that would have made a difference now instead noting that taco can really do to get back in this round being very careful even in this one versus three they're sort of making sure that there aren't gonna be any surprises tacos sneaking on up maybe he could find a rifle somewhere that would that would help out but I mean the reset if it happens so early after liquidus picked up one round it's just very hard and simple drop him triple for him on the other side and six to one lead now for Australis another weird money situation for Team Liquid to make a decision I don't even think they can buy into it no one can get comfortable with an m4 and utilities there we have pistols one more time that is a very very harsh reset after the win one point six this way you said you said everyone out in the yard on the CT side and your one guys on bloke round one guys on the you know second highest roof and one guys although in the railings they're all the same angle but at three different heights with usps I don't think that works in csgo I think it's as effective but here we go aggression from the defenseman pick from Nitro but one on top that's gonna be the guy who kind of Dupree two kills for him and now it's claves turn to make a movie set around the world twist and Taco combined four kills a three-on-two for liquid they must have this they must take advantage of their success at least they have the bomb with them inside here Estrada's but what a weird round to be finding yourself a man up considering what they had going into it you think and make this one work three buses to make iske making a fair bit and always falling back out and he could actually get almost crossfire yeah they've heard him Neff is waiting for and taco is there now sip of course hits him in a one versus two they might be able to land this grenade on him he's gonna walk around the other side of ready and waiting for taco taco was trying to combination teamliquid stealing around very unlikely that they could have picked that one up they absolutely needed that dinner without needs as well frequently with that kind of a push outsider to see a couple of a cheese coming but I mean phenomenal work with the USPS even fighting to three-way up top I thought debris would be the one to save Astralis from getting punished that's a reversal of fortunes only one ak-47 is brought for but plenty of money after the defuse and still liquid it's not it's not so much about avoiding the reset now it's just meeting rounds you need to pull these together off on night shows hands they have plenty of kits as well as those retakes they can be patient as we seem like we do with it they've really given themselves as chance now in the game there's absolutely a chance that they could extinguish the economy of astronomers maybe then they could have a better first half but it's right on that limit standing - you still got me got one man holding in ramp right now taco so it looks like a straw wants to test that again they've done it a couple times so far they've had some success with it earlier and I think taco might be forced because that losses just fall away he's lost the angle he needs to back off that Molotov is too deep they've already gotten past it so he's at least survived and this is the benefit of being the ramp player if you feel uncomfortable you don't have to take the flight you can just bail out so they've not taken any damage but they have given math control of ramp room over to their opponents well the leash certainly far away from the action if anyone's gonna walk that way I'd be impressed if they do check it and the shot is just calling a freeze now it's alright as well the lesion is that far out of the flight he can spot them going up the ladder he's still watching he'll have a great angle if they get to the top with a dog it's outside it's away from the action that three man take towards ramp room and glaive left outside he's got a lot of space to work with as a liquid the entire defense is pulled over to that side of the map and he can make so much so much chaos happened from this position nitros got to be very careful because even device is gonna posture like it's an upper take liquid this is gonna be really tough for them to read yeah well but there's only 25 seconds if they see the bomb early on maybe that could be enough 20 seconds now as they start to make their way down sip with the opening dropping taco nitro now let's drop the bomb carrier so they're gonna have to pick that up again 14 seconds now and they're on the side they need right now nitro gonna shut it down Oh buddy on scopes at the wrong time leaving Dupree alive for a second leaves there to pick it up these defense looking so much better and a lot of it to to nitro with that AWP down to the hallways Palmer's planted but devices in a one versus four and he's not gonna make it work nitro third kill completing the sequence well done those are some pretty sick off shots that he's almost fortunate get out of that one had to be some very quick scopes and he always we've been able to stop the plant nice job from liquid and a tenuous hold of that lower bombsite the plant is gonna give a straw love so much money the extra $800 they can buy into this round they're gonna take a time out I think as it runs down they want plenty of time to talk this over this would be their last buy if they invest you this kill that's huge blame on that flight he was biding his time and just a little bit off word couldn't find the bomb planter there's a job well done they need they really need nitro to be hitting those shots and we absolutely know that he can about eight kills right now and the money for a strongest I mean they can find this round partly due to the bomb plant even if they lose now there's finally a chance for liquid to start to establish and control in this game even in losing the Australis is doing a very good job three of those all three losses that are all sand they've planted the bomb so they're getting that bonus money repeatedly it's giving them so many more tools in the future to play with open devices hands for aks around it and we'll see what Astral's can switch into they have so many different looks on this map but they've been setting up that door explosion for a fast-paced play towards upper for that all pick if they want to go that route now goodnight Dupree device brought down low that's outside the legions gonna have to defend but clave he's already ready to wrap around the corner somehow he gets the kill I thought he was dead for sure without any kind of a reply is still a great because they've lost all of the yard control but it could have been much worse I think for a leash taco wants to go vegan glaive was expecting it but he still does not win the fight and that's a nice pick again nitro there to save his team now device in me he's got all the time in the world but this is hard to win if you're on the T side I chose down here but he's out in the open if he's looking the wrong way at the wrong time smoke comes out towards door he hasn't seen anyone he's gonna get behind it maybe try and stop this plan he's gonna go for the knife it's out he's gonna get it he stabs Majesty nitros to the line [Applause] then got the crowd fired up amazing from Nitro no people the knife is great this is absolutely absurd he's feeling it at the moment no indication that's coming here we go finally denying a bomb plant in a victory might roll again outside he's dueling he's got a long rusher from different angles up top and I think he just wants to give up this fight he knows they can down road he's ready for the angle he's gonna go back for more a little bit of a heat check for a nitro here and why not some fine shooting man the look of a man right now who wants to carry his team back into this game nitro caught fire here in the first half on you all of a sudden hitting every single shot with the AWP she's trying finally they do but he was just feeling he wasn't he just wanted the style on them no but this is where it gets dangerous is when you get into that mindset because now there's an all passed over to Glaven just two kills the money of liquid is still not set if he's able to pick one or two more players off this becomes costly even if a straw were to lose they can do the economic damage and that's what was such a disaster on Mirage liquid down the stretch losing control of their money so the great chance here for Astralis to inflict damage that the liquid simply cannot recover from clave is gonna be sneaking at awp up on the high ground and already a bit of a free fire there goes to cross am told on sip 19 seconds he's actually gonna get the kill on nap so as you said a little bit more economic damage now they just need to avoid him here there's a bit of damage the follow-up is great though ilish with one kill liquid at five to the sixth of Australis and the deans able to pick up rifles yet again well like we're calling back into it now they can at least feel comfortable with the money they have behind this purchase they just need Moses these need night try to get a double or triple every round from here on out and it's that easy four in a row right now for Team Liquid starting to make this into a very competitive first half looking to do what teams have not done for some time and that's take a straw us down on nuke they've been undefeated in recent memory on this map I'm not even sure what that would do to the grand finals if you if that happened it makes us all look back at mirage and feel a little bit worse yeah that's true that's true what could have been yep that's a really good point always looking on the dark side Moses that's me and well we'll see could put the whole grand finals right back in contention if it works out here for Team Liquid now they're ready to open the door and just pop in the grenades they've got to be Mullins hoping I think the hut as well and they're gonna be really really quick about a twist in him in leash doing a great job holding on to it thought maybe there would have been a grenade there now he's gonna smoke it off and sip oh wow still coming back for the big double kill in nitro he's about to cross the line that device is covering he scoped up the device time to take him down one more kill for sip and now now fly one versus three bomb is down as well no way to really get back and retake this one I think he knows well the device gonna hit the head shot long range just seventh round for astralis it's a bit of a gut punch the first two kills kills going to twist an elysian it seemed like they were gonna handle that great frags from zip Nick's coming in this time not the clutch providing the entries into the bombsite it all falls apart sets up perfectly for device to be patient watching the flank just so many places to get cleared out yeah tough shot the hit finds a lesion the follow-up he knows exactly where Chris is even a little bit blind that's pretty dirty tools now on the defense seven to five and here we go device can open the door take some nade damage as well that's toys outside flava Dupree and even the bolts off gonna force to have divisive way like we're doing a good job of avoiding the early damage but look at how far down the towards the stairwell or on the other side they just ran the whole distance I don't think I don't think liquid realizes Alicia's still looking for the roof outside they have not got eyes on this and that is going to be tough tacos waiting he's very passive though so he can't really get punished cuz they didn't even smoke it they didn't put up the wall of smokes cuz at least if you saw that you would have some sort of thinking that said alright we got to be careful but they just ran the gauntlet now they might have been expecting that someone who only code would show up here eventually and you could sort of get the fight against them that isn't happening so now they're just gonna slowly move on more than a minute he liquid knee to win the last three rounds he have a real shot at doing this I'm so interested to see where glaive and Dupree are gonna go with this position split towards the ramp room it's not taco here as it's been in the past it's nitro with at all he's been great with the positioning and the timing is everything for him and his smoke I think is gonna scare him away to the upper bombsite it turns into a split a lesion in perfect position he missed the initial pass of Dupree in clay but he can stop it here though he's gonna allow them to pass twister with one kill but he's got to do so much and he delivers three from behind the round as well with the old that was well done from twist almost thought that they were gonna make gillies irrelevant that smoke that they used to get into mini was really scary I didn't think I didn't know that was gonna combat threw me for a loop yeah cuz he probably would have shot both of them in the back if they hadn't done that six to seven though round number fourteen coming up well they've got some star players delivering in good positions twists nitro putting some work and even a leash back on the scoreboard after a tough one here comes the upper run go straight for it quick trade in the bomb site now but the high ground is nitro if he dies there's so much control and they're gonna start to back off a little bit still three smokes left on the Australia's side but the other laying the bomb plant for a couple of seconds finally goes down can they get this retake three of them I'm gonna be coming in from the same direction but this this could be smoked forever once more there's still one more waiting I don't know liquid are they just gonna try and flash their way through they almost can't give up on this round there's not that much on the other side now they've respawn and look what you realize it's simply time to go all or nothing right now let's just go through and setting up for it and they come charging right up high ground too slow they needed to be very fast behind that flashbang and they weren't able to dance it's a stolen round by Stratis they were pretty fast taco comes through quickly but the other players get caught a lot of smoke kind of lose track of their positioning and that is that's what makes them so dangerous so many rounds a little bit slower pace they were waiting for the correct round to call for an upper rush in that fashion and just one player defending a lot of the attention for Team Liquid out on yard where they've been attacked repeatedly that one catches them off guard oh it's gonna put us in the 15th round find their way out into the open and it's just got to be laughter that makes it so much easier knowing they have to set up throw their flashes and get their bearings all coming through smoke all the advantages that round for astralis to defend the retake aggression formerly she spotted one around the smoke it's not gonna be a clave clave knows this place coming he heard the footsteps and they have people on the high ground too so eventually she was gonna run out of space to play around with down that nitro was sort of trying to cover him from you know all the way from the couch with the AWP but wasn't able to talk we're gonna make the jump past he knows they're coming and they continue and that's a ridiculous headshot on Nova's shotgun against one kill that will be some super interesting timing sister Ollis that are tough to deal with if your nitro you're thinking all right if they're on ramp room they're gonna slow things down make sure they have control maybe slowly clear some of these angles I don't have to worry about a peak for another three four seconds in the gym they just hit that timing on you where you can't do anything about it so 9 to 6 for Australis is gonna be the score at the end of this first half I mean it's a good recovery all things considered for astralis at one point they were down 6 to 1 able to you know scrape something respectable out of this and see what they'll do on the second half when they get on all offense let's all task no chance for taco there nuke starts off kind of as we'd expect it solid offense from Australis yes some real opportunity I think for liquid in that first half but as Charla still looking very powerful on this map let's see how the second half is gonna unfold once we get back after the break stay with us [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back ladies and gentlemen Astralis versus Team Liquid it's the grand finals here at IEM Chicago we're on the second map second half study the Justin now and it's a best-of-five soul could be plenty of counter-strike to come had a very very good shot having a much better post-op but as Charlotte's are they're ridiculous team on this map I you you can't give up the rounds of liquid gave up remember that for our two in the pistol round that went the way of a straw that was down first actor and a couple more of those throughout the hafen you can see why strong us is a nine round lead heading into the stronger half or what is commonly believed to be stronger out here we go right up the gut for Team Liquid they want to go smoke as two players on defense but device up top still monitoring fumble nobody's gonna see where they're going he's gonna call it out yeah he knows what's up now trying to run down the vent and the bomb is gonna be pounded really quick this is a strategy for Team Liquid taco making up one kill now it's a three on three fighting long range and sip you could see is feeling very uncomfortable but they do have device on the other angle and eventually natural peaks in taco goes down and they're losing control Twitter he's gonna drop one he almost catches it but yeah he has to come in and sip it on the low ground that was a beautiful strap from liquid but astral is just able to get the kills and they're gonna have enough time for the D views as well ten rounds on the board here for Astralis it was a great great strategy to get that ball planet but afterwards lick we're looking a little bit disconnected from each other all the 1b ones after that going the way of Australia could split across three players no way for them to help each other let's try let's just able to windows plants gonna help team look would get a strong buy that extra although they're gonna sit this one out deagles in hand on all five players for Team Liquid once these rifles come out though they're not gonna have a whole lot of opportunities to stay in this game last week it's really scary isn't it see if we can learn something about how Astralis hold a yard on the CT side maybe there could be something to look at there for future reference if they do a better job than liquid did that was definitely I think you pointed that weak spot around and it wasn't really ever patched out the way that we would have wanted though Alisha will pick up the killing device something to smile about that's a good start if they can find this follow-up aggression if they can punish glaive I'll play up top that's choice is gonna at least force him back all they can really do is throw the Nate Allen it does actually very good damage on to Elysian nature brings them down very low and now with one player missing for this Ostrosky offense they have to consolidate group up in those bomb sites that are vertical their rotations between them can be so quick it's a bit of a shame that at least two of them are so low on health with only deagles you know those fights I'm probably gonna be a little bit costly 45 seconds it's very lucky that was a flashbang and not a Nate cheek Renee because that was three people stepping on it follow up not gonna do much wrong either this MP fire might be great in this position though and it's only 35 seconds as they try and make it out that Bucks gonna shoot one of them up and they are gonna fold the two low health players already out of the round and the rest will get shoot up so they hold on to it a triple for Maggie step double for Dupree and 11 rounds now on the board first Rallis that's a great crossfire as well you could see a straw so those players they weren't gonna peek in towards hot they were letting Team Liquid come out you do not want to peek into those deagles were the ones holding the angle so let them do what it's unwieldy it's not designed to be that kind of an aggressive entry weapon and it takes a lot of the danger away from the deagles 11 to 6 and here come the ak-47s liquid they need to get started right away AWP on device clave is gonna be the defender outsider he's so good at this I mean really a whole lot of tricks outside of glaive just being incredible on this map and playing in MIDI that's the leash to get dropped by the off they don't even smoke it off didn't go for that kind of a cross and device is gonna get a freebie definitely didn't seem to be ready for it maybe they didn't think he'd have it or they think they'd be somewhere else but yeah damage done to the Neff it's very very annoying even in the four buses five but if I jump there from nitro up in a facepalm moment if you could have hit that jumping shot one of the differences look at how much damage just cause every step of the way for Team Liquid when they want to get this outside control out of this bump site they've lost a player now at 22 nitro at half HP how are you supposed to break into this bomb site in that kind of a situation they are paused at the moment because they know astralis have rotated perfectly in a position yeah they're really in a suffocating defense down here the B bomb site there could be a lot of people here in a couple of seconds thinking about going back on out instead but you're right it's cost them a lot just to try and get to this part of the map it doesn't seem like they're gonna use it for much here device picks up one more bit of a shooting gallery for him on the other side of the box Neff flashbang in and actually he's gonna win the fighter but they've lost taco in the meantime in its own Oh on the ladder a 12th round here for Astralis you know maybe maybe I don't know what he's talking about after all Moses not too often do we say that but yeah this this case seems to be correct at the moment I mean that that's just great rotations right theory from astralis I mean liquid could have probably tried to battle for that lower bomb site they were all there but you just know it's a losing effort and it's so amazing that a straw was able to get to those positions each and every time with safety no team is able to take that lower bomb side the way that a stralla scan on their offense rush out through the already a grenade lands ep5 getting a little bit of action in that round they're gonna not even bond this time nitro would have been fun to see him thank mini if the bomb had gone down and the fight had continued inside but now well deagle looking for it and he's gonna beat up in the wrong way put up an uppercut shot there coming out from the free this whole map has been an uppercut from Astralis I don't see liquid recovering from this one this is uh that just been dominat kind of flying out the way we'd expect 13 to 6 and showing no signs of slowing down and liquid showing giving us nothing on this tee half just yet the coolest thing we saw was that mr. on execute that they just kind of got they got wiped out of the face of the map and a three-on-three is very rough at the back of my mind I was kind of hoping that there would be you know out of the blue upset feel like that would have been with a good storyline Bullock would you try and bring it back right now Australis they're looking me every bit as great on this Memphis we were all kind of remembering I still feel like when you see do you think can't be real you know somebody must be able to break them at some point well I mean the funny thing is liquids the only thing that's really willing to challenge them these days on this map one of the few teams willing to play a straw less on it it just hasn't got well you saw it on stat 8 to 16 back in London this is on the verge of being an even worse loss than that six rounds on the board 14 mukha at the moment will see what they've got another by coming in to us is forgot to pick up an ak-47 so he's gotta run all the way back and pick up his weapons Dupree is already in this wicked order over which is an absolute nightmare he's done damage but thankfully taco is able to kind of force that back a little bit of life a little bit of Hope for Team Liquid in this round am an advantage for them something going their way now need to hold on to it creeping up with that SG is device the great musicians have that stroke weapon and he's gotta be back and stepping up early in the round as clay will take down a leash and they're cutting for the ramp it's only gonna get the one good spacing between those players they weren't stacked on top of each other he wasn't gonna be able to transfer that very easily now device in position they tried that Oh device shutting down miss Clavin he's gonna close the round here is looking beautiful right up until that point Moses no but as this is so good even Magisto and it's just number one kill it's an early warning system so I mean liquid goes down to the lower bomb sight but a straws already knows exactly where it's coming and this is what the minute left difference with one minute remaining in the situation the straw would have hit the pause button just waited they would have made the defense that can guess itself but if you go that fast paced it means Maja's can pass along the right information and liquid get caught in exactly what it's tossed once you think it puts the pressure on the door now counter Molotov comes out sometimes people will peek behind that but Australis not doing it this time slightly off on top of the box but Nitra was ready for it gonna rese ma come in e instead and now makes he's gonna be down after the first killed the very low on health for the rest of liquid right now one of these grenades do a lot taco you must win this fight against sip it's three on four yeah but three of them combined don't even have a right now on taco is gonna win that headshot that's beautiful oh my god I cannot believe they've been able to get into the bombsite the HIV it's just so low finally a straw 'lest backs away that's a losing battle for them obviously can't see the HP values seventh round now for Team Liquid and a couple times the pries been caught first aggression in towards squeaky door this time wanted to get a deep peek into the squeaky door room and all of liquid was waiting for him I don't know if this is success you can replicate that for Team Liquid yeah I mean just come up with straight sixes for a long time too I mean it's you know you have to do that like ten times in a row no it's it's not a good good solution I mean the first the first goal for Team Liquid if they want to make this comeback happen is they they have to break the money they have to take a control of the economy they have to kind of win in that fashion for the rest of this map timeout being called Australis is gonna have one more Buy in this round and I think we'll be able to buy the next one as well a favor if they choose to they'll have the money for it I believe and it definitely should 14-7 lead is doubling the round score of team liquor we knew this is gonna be a rough game and I think liquids probably knew it as well always hoped that this would be the one time that they could make that breakthrough yep you're right if they can break the economy of Starla's then things to change a little bit and we'll see if they can get their charlie liquid on a just the first round that they want in this half and would absolutely be a disaster if they cannot follow up on it maids outside and that's done so much damage again and again it's just played being the aggressor behind the smoke still there right at the corner as well that's a lot of information they know exactly another trade but look we can't afford this they really can't to 1/3 round right down I think I don't think Glade was ready for all three of them to be jumping like they did that was just very confusing for him no but it's fine that he does the damage a Dupree there with him device was ready to come up the stairs as well this distr all's defensive and you kind of asked how do they hold yard glaive is so good at being aggressive on his own a lot of the lot of the moves you see him do are just by himself the thing about that is when he chooses to be aggressive towards the boxes there's no indication it's coming it's not like they're setting up that play 23rd around can't sit by here for liquid obviously putting everything into it with a map or one round away from going in favor of Australis that would put them at 200 in there and finals and they would just need to win one of the last three maps they're definitely making it hard on liquid right now are they also said our bets towards the Hut inside counting the time as nitro does put it in Spray coming through twist down without anyone being able to see each other the best way to get started and a lot of damage on the taco as well yeah but I think it's trawls knows this they heard the running inside the vents where is the rotation gonna come in Li's just waiting for someone to drop down it's not gonna happen to change at the fatigue Allah it's a fickle mistress but math eventually makes it work zip dick Sal rotating down to the lower bombsite to hold on to this portion of the map and ilish still hasn't made his move lay we're gonna be taking down f that was a quick fight as well Elysian nitro 2 on 4 to try doesn't seem realistic caught with a grenade in hand ass it picks up a double kill and Lee he's gonna be the one versus 4 here you need to do an enormous amount of homework you need to have the best game of your life to play against Australis on this map it's there's no no wonder why so many teams just decide it is not worth it let's just not even do it they're just too good on it 16 7s try that's picking up the second map of the ground [Music] they're gonna be looking back on Harrah's and wondering how they let it knocks against the wall now - instead of a potentially tied up situation faster get they're gonna have to go reset and see if they can do anything to break this Australis wall we're gonna be right back with the desk after the break [Music] you

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Published: Sun Nov 11 2018