MiBR vs. Astralis BLAST Pro Series Istanbul 2018 Grand Final

very happy to present strontium launders yes that is true thank you so much Moses we are here with the grand finals of blastia Stan boule the two best teams here in Turkey and they are starting this one off so quick it is of course train that is a fast fight on the B bomb site with the vise finding those first two frags but he's lost his teammate that cippec's down over towards the other side of train and device hasn't fallen off at all in fact device is gonna come skewer this from the side there's the first and the second he's looking for the ACE and what a way that would be to kick off this pistol tarik little does he realize being wrapped from behind he's done and a straw we'll take round one it was still a clip at the end of the day one of the most simplistic execute that you can have that's highly effective for most of the time at least getting the bomb down that simple run down the ramp plant on B strategy that we see on train it's something that we're gonna see more often than not especially on those eco rounds and just to rack up those dollars but device so close to getting around on that flank and finishing off the Hayes what a sight that would have been still a beautiful point on the last right stays it nice and cool keeps himself just next to them oh yeah no doubt so it's gonna be on MIB art to decide at this moment how much money they want to invest with this round knowing that got a bomb plant means that they can fly up next round if they get a p250 on this round it takes away from a smoke that they'll have the next round so that's why we see even though they have a lot of money to spare and they'll have the aka Armour they want to have all the fixin's as well so they're just gonna stick to the Glocks and there's still a chance because some teams will play far back on the B site and allow for the plant and go for the retake so hoping for that but we've got a man spotting lower ramping as it picks is actually falling off now which is kind of interesting but still has the full intention of denying anybody from coming down nice frag grenade they strike ornate indeed device back waiting for these players to come past big question is how well is this flashbang gonna blind anybody else say is it gonna do anything at all and when at what point do they decide to throw this because you know the Dupree is just ready to strike in from behind but it looks like device is gonna get this round finished before many people even get started that was pretty great they actually tried to flash while the engagement was going on it looked like they threw it off hand but I think they wanted devices full attention so that he was definitely gonna be staring at it and it seemed like they weren't gonna throw a flash at this point and device just kind of sits there eats it and since it's so far away it's only an after image flash and he's able to just continue on and and make sure that nobody gets onto the site so I personally prefer when teams risk it a little bit and put the rifles more up front on the but on the B site because the 800 always per person is just too much to let go and so that looked good to me now we've got the rifle rounds couple of early knaves thrown over on the a site and I think zip expend Lee up the rim but has immediately fallen back only to a skort device it was now all alone here but could be offered up a couple of frags could be offered up so many I mean these kills could just come to him they could all line up unless they all go past cuz three players down ramp thanks to the flash fall and the last one in and device has all this info there's no way they assume he's still up here you'd think and it looks like device just like in the pistols it's gonna stop the plan he picks up the kills and device yet again four frags just like that I mean this is unbelievable we normally see device get off highlights and even on even on maps where he's dominating with the OP you typically don't recall what kills he got he'll get a quiet twenty and it's not often you see this just like impeccable rifling and again all headshots to e on the flank had him dead to rights there and he even gets taken out so that's that's unreal I mean they had that locked up as soon as they decided to not clear long and it was really all about the fact that MIB are or sorry Esther all's decided to post someone up there such an unexpected time around for and we're back on the D Co only man did not get a single thing has fallen obviously because he wants to save as much money as he can to make sure he can op with Nate well long ranges for these deagles the primary positions as was mentioned in the video explaining the maps one of those being teak on another top dog which that person likes tall ladder yeah yeah that's true but it's still nice and slow in this one minute mark hits the clock and Stewie two K's managed to sneak his way out into the bomb site we device finally spots it sure enough but that could have been a big entry frag for the T's that didn't try to first off Oh foot again and again it picks up these kills with ease a straw list to the 4o start this already feels very different just devising these first few rounds I mean when has he ever really been this explosive this is like really amazing to watch to be honest now this is a map obviously that MIB are gonna be happy to play but it's a map that a straw lists have shown dominance on in the past I mean famously their comeback versus virtus Pro to win you know the e League finals their first major was on this map on the T side with glaive calling it was the first sign that glaive was able to like rally the team to make a giant comeback and ever since then they've obviously seen amazing results so this is a this is a map that it's just both teams are gonna be very good as you see like even lerpiss was kind of surprised that the way the Phaedo fell in a place that you know at the very least it might be our have a chance he's wondering if we were gonna see another dust2 game seeing as they didn't ban it straight away it could have been a choice for a straw Louis obviously I mean picking up recent wins with it but this was the big question mark right what was the trick that miv are we're gonna try to use to upset in this because a lot of teams have tried to bestest trolleys and a bo3 as of late not have been successful you've got to bring something special be cut from a different cloth so T main control is something that a lot of teams are taking instead of IV and we could see that we have one player in hell just watching his back but with t-con control if they team does go outside they still have to take this otherwise they're gonna have to deal with someone in a very powerful retake position and Dupree is not being shy whatsoever the time is ticking down not much map control has been gained from MIB R and this smoke getting reflash is clearly going to be a thorn in the side of MIB R who seems like they want to get ahead with things really want to get their footing on this beast sign they're gonna have to go through fire if they want it they're gonna have to fight tooth and nail and they will pick up one kill sure but device there's just no solution to him right now Tarek okay get something towards that a sight so a little bit becomes in question but with BOM in their line of sight you think they should still be able to control this it's a smoke for fallen but he's gonna be able to plant inside of although two kills right back Tarek nowhere to be found and that's a diffuse as well I see the straw was from five they've just got it yeah I can't help but think that they had the part of the MIB ours play right there was contingent on Terok doing something within teammate because he was hanging out he had to wade out that smoke he probably had to communicate this information with his team who didn't know what was going on on that side of the map and I think if it was even something as such as a small fake either way it put them in such an awkward position having to run down the map through them through the mother ran through the Molotov it's clearly not what they intended to do out of spawn so it's been really good from MIB are done a great job not wasting time beneath time but between grenades excuse me refreshing the smokes as soon as the other ones go up using Molotov stup at the pad the experience as well and now it really seems like they're starting to get control of things but it might be our not out the record device currently eighteen and one five rounds into the game three times as many kills as the rest of his team combined I'm gonna let that one sit for a second I'm wondering if that's more dominant than we saw from the first game of the day with terrorists land Paris it's definitely a competitive stance between the two glaive his stance is just beneath that of fur and cold Sarah they'll be waiting on each side of pop dog I feel like glaive is one of these players who's just so good in this position constantly obscuring any attempts of clearing this this is one of the areas of the map that has evolved so much of any other map where you it's a complete mind game as to how you're gonna play it there's a lot of ways to spam most sections of it there's double malt hops that you can use to trap someone in and make sure that they'll at least take 40 50 damage if they want to wait one out and so glaive right now he's actually spotting for the jump so if anybody wants to just try to peek over the ramp or just make a jump across to see if a shot will come out he'll get some damage out of it and also it's actually quite easy to hit a headshot from beneath if a player looks it down into the into ladder so it looks like he's playing with fire but there's only a couple of angles that two people typically will keep you from there it is one and two beautiful just as you alluded to you those headshots connect with what looks like these device we'll take two more so welcome ash Rallis and you on fire this is just a clinic 20 frags 110 let's keep this going yeah that's unreal I mean we want to see a record right I think I was talking about my god what the heck is going on this is unreal play as you can see it's just like falling right into him yeah and you're 1 and it looks like hey why didn't they they had full nades why don't they go ahead and try to throw some all tops down why don't they do the full thing well a smoke and cancel out all that you know if you Telegraph your play too much sometimes you can attract too much attention and that's not good yeah I think you painted that picture very well launders literally the moment they attempt to come downwards it's just headshots and headshots so what's the goal now thirty five to forty three it's not it's not the critical moment where you're like we need alleles I'm out of ideas it's still only six rounds the straws are already on fire and this match and of course that's half you win five rounds in a row and I gotta say that going start looks good on fire 268 er right now oh my gosh I you know I didn't even think there was a graph for him IVR no I'm pretty sure they had to paint that bar manually at that point can I see this continuous aggression obviously MIT are not offering much of an struggle with just these pistols but nobody getting too ridiculous for mr. Ollis either if you have this dominance of a 6o stars and you don't want em IVR even finding any footing in this game we saw 16 Oh on dust how about we see one on train you know I don't want that neither do you yeah of course but if device can pull out some insane ATR stat line along with a closed competitive game on train obviously the pickup in my BR insult to injury yeah so I think we got a back sick smoke and Dupree playing up close at ybox one of the best players to do it it's got to be very mobile in this position and he loves playing by himself taps away 7-0 straw let's keep this going yeah and you can see how he fell back after some of the initial nades came out and he would have loved to if they were in a default and they wanted to have like a HD Eagle slide its way into ladder for him to just take that fight one on one and the turn his attention to t-con get some early information not let them out too far but once he saw that there was more of like a full execute coming down and he went back toward sandwich then he knew that with that that Beck's makes six smokes it was clear was gonna be some kind of light Mayo 8a take excuse me now we finally got the op on fall in the man that a lot of us called the king of Train honestly as him in my opinion invented IV as just a portion of the map that he is just a man innovated so much on I squash bang he gets the shot out of matches he paints the fire and then it's Tareq to just win the duel through smoke zip X's positions been abandoned they don't want to fall into a three versus five here that's a big rotation to everybody off of the be bomb site yeah this is tough I mean this is kind of a manic rotation a lot of people are actually moving out towards the stack with ladder control and they're gonna go pick up ivy again do mi PR play right into their read that would be the ultimate travesty for them at this point but they do have a man on flex now blade gets pushed out of position no one there to catch him but it is kind of a risk to jump out at econ so playing it a little bit more carefully in exchange they get ladder safely glaives gonna get dangerous right on the cusp of t-con he's got two players on the other side of this bomb and off included with fallen to towards pop dog and that last man Terrace lurking in through my knee but yes sure the smoke does fade to the favor of glaive picking up the first kill dropping bomb getting the confirmation now because there's 30 seconds there's 30 seconds for them to get out and deal with this bomb sight but again they can't pitch this still there's a dedicated defense from astralis over towards Ivy but now that gets pulled away and just as it does it's perfectly layered but it does fall on zip X and he jus just gets blown away welcome MIB R to the game they've caught around finally on the board maybe the first time the Brazilian team would be happy to see the 1/7 yeah earned their way actually so but in in in great fashion as well this is a clinic honestly a great round in so many respects we had the very simple trade at T con as soon as IV smokes came out they decided to look for information there but my beer were ready for someone to flash in and went one for one and that's all they needed man of the round was fir obviously as he came up on the ladder the T contraint ladder and head P Dupree Dupree didn't even notice because it was so clean it came off on a sly angle and put him to sleep there it is instantly taking it is so annoying to see that if you're on T side because even if they don't play in there you've still got to think I can't let them have that right they peed on my tree yeah I've got a pee on the tree and that's what fur is gonna try to get back in there for but right now he needs to wait for the smoke to fade and even though they've already been so proactive taking control of T Khan getting eyes and information they then immediately go into the latter room to do the same thing a straw I love to watch them in that regards they're so active constantly yeah active proactive it's definitely a hallmark of the former SK lineup but now it might be our team as well it's just there's no respect gameplay calculated risks always calling Bluffs and again refreshing that smoke putting him that awkward position once a tent once again maybe there's something about MIB ours play right now that's hinging on them having teak on for some kind of small pick if they want to do anything in or because a lot of the times now it looks like they're posturing for outside so down ladder just to find clave on the other side he had only just then at that moment burst back inwards as they fell right place at the right time can grab himself another but for now it's over towards the cyclic Dupree kicks himself - and another clean sweep on a single kill here for MI VRS favour and that's not the reset you want to see the really hard thing that the straws are pulling off right now is that they're going through multiple pieces of math control and then winning every single one of them obviously right that's why it looks so dominant but it's tough because you're thinning out numbers there's only five CTS so they're kind of taking risks but they're being so creative about the way that they're approaching it right now they're actually like focusing most of their smokes on Deepti cosmos as opposed to counter smokes a sandwich which you would use versus a regular a execute then they had to people outside ladder knowing that t-con control was gonna be relatively safe for a certain amount of time and then as soon as they tried to flash down they just walked in got that kill right there stole it back the device is still sporting over 280 R what's wild to is that and that actually Dwarfs the effects of clave I mean he's over 180 R himself but it just doesn't look nearly as significant albeit front of everything he's been constantly throwing himself into MIB RS front line anything that they attempt to do he seems to be directly on the other side and if they do get past him well it's device and bomb sites getting for his but he's been sitting out 20 kills for quite some time now which is perfectly fine because it means that everybody else is coming to life and that's the thing with the straw list the depth is there so we've got kind of a dip force up stewey 2k with just the a K in hand tarek alone in ladder but he's gotten down which is actually really huge for them I don't know if they go ahead and trade places instead Stewie turns his talents toward center yeah and it's only at this point that Astralis are actually getting defenders towards B we've got zip x over towards the oil tankard and we have device watching ramp with his off but his attention being called slightly back doesn't want to get caught out in the open pistol spam can still connect if you're not cautious shirt off with a flashbang coming out as if X gets himself the first one to a more narrow angle that's so hard for Stewie to tool from that position either you fall into the open arms or you sit back and try to duel while expose now finally we get an answer from fer it's two T's up for MI BR but they're being flanked already and it's a clean up plant all the palms you want get a single entry sure but a straw is still have your number a small consolation prize for sure but at least they get that so it might allow them to maybe think about those forceps now that's the half is pretty much run away from them they've also got money left over after this by which you could factor in the bomb plant for that as well so that's something nice at the very least but but clearly as you're as you're pointing out straws are way ahead in this match and it's it's not like this map is the Train it used to be you have to be able to put at least six rounds on T side together so it's clear mm-maybe are mi BRS plan is not going the way that they expected it to throw this offensive Molotov they can work towards ladder but there are so many things that they have to deal with and look majus is playing he's not even sitting in his chair Kohner it's not easy of course this is a new territory double op set up for mr. all's first we've seen them swing it on this defense CFM IV are expecting this kind of a changeup fallen receiving a little bit of chip damage as he patiently waits for smoke to fade and patiently waits for a good reason that's one of two offers down and I love the way that fallen repositions right I love the way that we've seen since the anko's inclusion with this lineup I feel like MIB our function around him more than they did previously I feel like fallen kind of lost himself or didn't have the same importance but now he is that mobile opera and he's so good at cracking open bomb sites yeah definitely that combat opera that new term that a lot of people are talking about constantly she's the ability to make these white golf swing flicks up close when it matters but also at times very patient like we just saw it IV now is turn attention to t-con which frank's are not always offered up here but the execute is on yeah it's just a straight up run out I mean it's not the first time a Strasse given up this real estate given miv are possibly a false sense of security because while they have been offered some footing towards the site it's not that the defense is in here I mean after all they're ready for this retaken before the bombs even planted they've lost two more bodies Dupri's position known device as well as fired a shot or two and z connectors still in firm control and all the while all the while they're winning these duels they still have that continuous wrap around from blade what could be the nail in the coffin is that flanks to e dropped and now called Sarah's down with him five deaths versus mi VR and Astralis only lose two this is continuing to look very smooth yeah its dominant - yeah they're not gonna go out of the park in every single category I mean it seems like a mi VR have some ideas of how to take things but the thing is that the straws are a sharper blade right now they're they're able to call out on Reed's what needs to be done they're also able to respond to grenades and map control takes like whenever it's either ladder or t-con or IV it's just like too much time gets burned off walk as MIB are try to sort out what might be best whereas the straws already know those seconds are what our forcing might be our into bad decisions and making it a lot easier to seal up clean grounds I also feel like I'm the artwork tested in their positions let's round him oh my god more headshots of plenty pistols up close to nothing there wasn't a case you're that catalyst rifle in this one but it doesn't get much done just a single trade device will take another death but with the kills that come with it I'm sure he doesn't mind 23 and 4 is he 16 and 2 for cleave yeah it's gonna kind of becoming kind of a contest I think okay 380 are on this round Glade was probably like yeah device you're doing so great man I can't believe it thanks for carrying me but on the inside he's like yeah I'm getting close I might actually overtake you in this device you're staying spawn this round all right yeah once you kill out and you're doing too much work sure all is putting on quite the show exciting because we got herself another gun round so that might be our have any chances at all in these final few rounds this is gonna be our chance to see them this is just a clinic man this is a monster performance or mr. all's looking as strong as ever and the two players we're highlighting just now come together for a philippe's as you mentioned in separate parts in the map like this was a total gun round and you look at the amount of damage to finish back to astrology does need to look like that Voltaire replaces the feet of fallen both of which were just there in smoke blaze potentially assuming that they had departed but they just traded places and I love the way that glaive stays so far forward I don't think there's many players that just float a loan like it does cost them this time fallen finds him Gold's got to be cautious at the flank there is that wrap up now from zip X he's feeling a little lonely at the B site he's looking to dance to v4 situation wouldn't put it past to the best players on the planet but got a whole team on the other side so you know once this gets moving forward I think that's when zip X strikes sure enough comes wide Sarah that's two beautiful headshots that puts it on fall he's gonna have to leave my example and he could unless the speak from Dupree gets it done which it does a stralla swith a 12 and MIB are still looking lonely on one there was a moment there just a shred of doubt that estrela's were actually gonna take that at all and made his way around the corner maybe took one or two bullets but then the position of Dupree was known maybe he resets that one b1 but instead they bring it close and that isn't worth anything at this point we're too far into the half the money for Ellis is irrelevant they couldn't care less we have in a default setup once again cold air is making his way across upper don't know why that Malta went down right in front of it but he goes for the fast entry maybe to make it seem like they were gonna slow it down I'm not sure try to play mind games of timing please good good position to try and lock this down but you can't finish the spray the frag won't get much done either and then he falls this could be a second for mi BR unless Dupree just throws a total wrench in the works because palm self implanted it he's already here to fight sure Tarek says good night puts him to sleep for now zip ex emerging from the smoke and looking for a gunfight of his own but he to topple Tarek doing a great job of swinging this down to at least the one v1 but look at firs health five to a hundred he might honestly bro be relieved to hear that it was an off of all things considering his HP if it's not known how much he has left and again a total reset of the situation as he goes back to Whitehall's and can pick a site device can play middle of a map that's a solid play it's kind of on fur now to get the bomb down and depending on what he does here have a good chance of winning it oh my god caught in the movement yet well caught in the movement yeah he's falling off he could have waited there it seemed like he knew device was probably gonna be in Z didn't want to put the bomb down knowing that he'd be that close and obviously if it was a second later device would have walked right into his crosshairs but why why did fur go so far as what I wonder I feel like fur did not make noise falling are just sees his shoulder just sees his shoulder in the process of falling down and I mean he knows that's that's the face of someone who knows that was a mistake yeah a crucial one as well it would have doubled up the score of MIB art and they'll have one final chance to do so but they have the chance not the money that's true it's definitely half the fight so one round last lesson that's happened it's a grand final Connor I'm not gonna I'm gonna sugarcoat it I'm not gonna put it past MIB R to put this one together and keep it competitive greater comebacks have been had I watched QB fire beat mousesports gonna come back like this yeah but I didn't see if in situ booth so did that match really happen till waiting tried to cut corners the Charlotte's are cutting it might be are down right now double op setup back up here for the Danes looking to put a 14th to the board fast exit t-con has been quite predominant he's a boys smoke feeds effects will be tested with a multi frag when she does not get only one a device he caught between smoke grenades here has afforded this plant for MIB are they still have presents over towards the a site remember forgot out very early on and he still resides just outside that t-con interesting as the clock ticks down no one making movements do prelates who respond let's go up the ladder to be very aggressive about this try to bang frags around just trying to distract maybe I mean even if he calls attention that'd be great but now it's two kills back for the favor of MIB are they have a man advantage in this after plant and you do see the CTS just trying to get desperate here running forward blanketing in its smoke and just jumping on the bomb it's a desperate deep use but it's nearly there fallen will deny it for a second but still not the best of HAP's 13 to to the favor of a straw less just proving they're good on train no matter where they end up launders they just look like the best of yeah that's true I mean it is it's a map that they've adopted as well they've our masters on it and a certain point you've been passed SK you know in their prime so as as much as they have MIB are look solid on it or in the past can expect that this is you know something that they probably wanted to talk about playing in the future it's clear that they they still have a lot of work to do but it really feels like it's the finer things that are pushing a stir all has passed them in every single round and passed every other teams to be honest you know it's really just about having just such a solid game plan if knowing how to execute all things I hate to generalize but it's hard to be very specific about these things with or in a game now you know six years in where things have become so refined it really is about those smaller details just around out right now Molly to back six to assist instead of a smoke for the players to come up IV then they put down their own smoke to the left side it's still a bit of a smoke trying to obscure this fallen ready to receive but it looks like Asher also gonna try to make the most of their opponents smoke by going into the train yard itself it's the flank around fukui push up from fallen that doesn't met him a second kill but still leaves us in this three versus two zip X having wrapped around from IV can't connect the headshot and the baby blade comes to help but he's gone so play finds himself alone and then Stewie just slays him MIB R with at least the chance to improve on this atrocious score line yeah they gave us something let's make a game of it I would definitely like to see you know them and and the thing is astralis in this in this series so in this tournament so far that we saw well win for pistols today you know that's a big deal for them and my BR on the other hand they started out in the first couple of months winning eighty percent of all their pistol rounds and then suddenly at the major lost you know for when it mattered and and have continued to lose more so it's it's been one of the one of the strangest weaknesses that I think they've had to deal with because in the best of ones when they were able to just pull out a pistol or two they haven't had to play that many more rounds to win you know they've only had it had to do a fraction of the rifle rounds necessary so it's the it's the half dqo forest all us this time nice flash great Pacific's gets one fully blind MIB are are losing bodies and giving up guns I believe that's a bomb is soon to be retrieved and topped the mp9 of zip exclave denied a flows the up good for a single kill but now it falls to Colditz do and only cold he's got three opponents ahead but it looks like they'll ejected and towards the whole squad eviscerated just like that I mean we were hyping them up and I'm sure there's a number of fans that are we're hoping for more but that was not how an anti eco should go obviously and from our perspective in the midst of the madness and all the chaos that is outside on train it seemed like just a couple of really good pistol shots that were hit there's obviously ways to mitigate that the ways that you throw grenades gonna at least buy for time but I think at the end of the day they would even expect of themselves this straight up just win those duels yeah I mean it's not like they're there they're complete and total utter underdogs you're still talking major champions across the board for MIT are their players so at the end of the day campaign but straw let's get the best of them in the previous round the 17th swings things back tarek not scared off of this position despite the utility was great I mean Tarek tried to wait as long as humanly possible for that flash to pop and glaive just waited him out just my Yoda of time more that's a big kill force to he just grabbed the UMP and he gets behind them I mean we saw device in a similar situation with no signs left me the threats been cleared for astralis and as has the Z connector to kills quickly and another firm matches the last man's revealed himself and there's nothing he can do other than maybe another kill lucky to be alive at eight health fer wants to upgrade from the mp9 the device already quickly behind his teammate so fifteen two three twelve points the difference in what has been an incredibly fast first map yeah Australis want that smoke right now they every single fight they're gonna go ahead and take it because why not they basically have nothing to lose they have so many rounds to work with and even if they lose a couple I mean it's this is the time where you take risks considering if it gets later in the half and let's say it might be our mount some kind of comeback at that point playing standard or if not playing standard might feel too scary so a couple of phases of rounds that need to be conquered from IPR on this long road back gate at five before is obviously a good start Charlotte's they know they have rounds to play with so I think it's for that reason we see this just utter aggression on both sides of the map which hasn't gotten the past the line of defense just yet Scout shots good two damaged cippec's he drops to 15 still this bump could be planted there's no utility here for MIT are to try and stop it with drags or fire so sure enough the retake will be on and two T's have already ejected their way up back into the upper halls my question is does Stewie just got blindsided yeah absolutely device goes for the pika there's nobody there to cover while tearing those plugs effects beneath that's just the ruse it calls the attention and it seems like this is it it seems like a straw Louis just dumps turd LiBr oh my god 16 to 3 on their own map choice the opening map of this series very quickly swings their way and wow what a clinic the best team in the world has the best team in the world you have to say it I mean this it must have been demoralizing to be on the team this is where Yenko comes in right just hypes him up every general they knew what to do they know what they do moving into the next map but it's really about getting the spirit that's high making sure that the the calling is decisive and they just have to punch way above their weight right now if they want to keep up yeah and that's always 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kills in six rounds yeah I mean I think at the end of it you said you had 35 kill yeah yeah he was he was hitting every single shot I know we were gasping at that latter shot that he hit I think on fur or something running back to you shuffle across yeah they weren't missing and a horseshoe it's pretty hard to play train the device is dropping 40 kills it is a long distance map unfortunately fallen never got it going and they never had the economy they just did they plant the bomb twice maybe in that house if that and so they never built up any sort of economy and in counterstrike especially when you're losing by that huge of a margin you start to make desperation plays your superstars start to over peak a little bit and everything just kind of falls apart and it takes a lot out of the in-game leader to gather your troops around again and recompose yourself and bring it back and usually we do see MIP are bringing it back but they did not today they haven't found that quality in this slider Bavarian have a slightly yeah we're down by quite a bit and I was impressed by the way that they were able to bring it back and at least tie it I believe the score was fifteen nine at one point and so it is pretty hard to when you're down by that margin to bring it back and it takes a lot of composure and so I thought that would help them coming into the tournament this is a bo3 though fortunately bread is no longer real one fortunately for us unfortunately for a mighty army because this was this is my big the whole MIB like had like 40 kills so nearly as much as yeah what device have no although is that one point in the match row is device and I think glaive who had more kills me other than the entire MIT our team combined which is just kind of that's just crazy that's really crazy that you feel that only two players can just outright everyone in a team right I mean that was that was just a comprehensive victory I guess I guess my question Yuki would be you you've been part of games where you have a map pic you feel like you have this great game plan you feel like you're well prepared and map going in and everything goes wrong what what is that like how do you how do you come back from it the thing is like she said earlier that no we couldn't me as well so you probably doesn't help if they have a plan they do started to play they probably played their game at the beginning I got a bit stumped on it and then at some point so we have like seven or eight rounds they're like we don't have anymore solutions what to do now the economy is not with them they kind of pick up the OP so they decide that they have choices to make EE Co Tady open and choice and fee on meal or just furnished rather they already have but if it's not working before what would it be working now and you have the confidence to run it and then to make it happen I guess I guess here's the best way to approach this as if we make a hypothetical we go back to those first six to eight rounds of the game where device was just going nuts what can you do as a team when you know the opposing player is just going off how what is the best way to neutralize him do you go away from his part of the map do you do some kind of an execute against an offer like how exactly do you counter the fact that someone is just playing that well I mean I think you could definitely see in the beginning of a my BRS game plan date they were prepared they did come in with some sort of plan and they didn't expect device to be just just matching the whole time what's an insane ratio right and so yeah and like I said once once it starts no ball especially versus a trellis where they're not gonna give you a lot of openings they're not gonna make a lot of mistakes your way back to your way back into the game yeah you have to fall your way back and it is not going to be easy but they have the players Keogh to overturn now they have the half cold zero they have fallen they have all these guys who've been able to make plays to ignite that comeback as we could see most of them players went under here where they were playing cold some hard like 0 7 then we had Stewie at the same thing 0 7 and : one kill like what can you do if all your stars are not showing up if the offer cannot do anything the two stars I cannot do anything what what to do like yeah you call B you call it like on the TV state and this call was silent like what we're gonna do now I don't have any solutions yeah I mean now I guess if you're if you're MIB are and you you're in this kind of a situation our backs against the wall as well your math pick and you have to move forward what do you I mean you what do you how do you tap this next map my thing is I you just forget about what happened lately like we're just gonna play best on one right now and I'm gonna be with both of them that's all they should think don't forget about this one that never happened if you're a great team and if of the grave and salty you will forget about this one because nothing went their way so there's nothing to take out of this game really yeah well in case you aren't tuned in right from the start ah we had some highlights up on the screen just very briefly to go through but it was basically just an astrologer a groovy which is which is crazy to think about it this is just domination from start to finish and even starting out with that em foreign you might be seeing a lot of device highlights throughout this one and that becomes the question now is moving forward do you feel I know you're saying forget this one but do you start feeling going into the second map which is gonna be overpass do you start feeling like you have to do something specifically for device you start feel you have to like overthink those kind of situations no I don't really think so because maybe I had a great time on this life on this map you really have a great time but it might be different on another map and they probably gonna have to fill them up differently their game plan yeah it's a new stop we can say I do start in a way continuing a this a couple maps now I mean what this is the last last few times we've seen these C teams go ahead it's what three rounds now in the past two maps that MIB ours actually put up against the Straz which is I don't know if I've ever seen the two map series that that dominance was I think like the first team to change everyone's minds in a tournament aspect they were I think LG back a few years ago and they got 60 note in the group and they came back and ended up winning that tournament and it shocked everyone because everyone counted them out and so they were kind of the first team to keep preaching to everyone you're not out until you're out you know keep your head in the game and so they're I think they will persevere and make it an interesting second map we don't keep the same mentality does the question how hard is it to hold that mentality if you know you go down five six routes to start the second map it's fairly hard because you think about everything that happened and then you just don't want to make it happen again you just want to do something different you wanna score the first round was gonna start everything but sometimes it's really really hard as we could team this game yes exactly now they have that added benefit of added woe of that flow out of map one either way before we start diving too deep in a map - let's check out the path that these teams took to get here to the final just to begin with and you can see up on the screen sister also goes five and Oh dominating everyone only ni P putting up eleven rounds of them earlier today that was a nuke surprisingly enough but still another victory first Rallis as their win streak on that map continues and loud BR had a little bit of a tougher time the tie against ni P that almost kind of that would have put an awkward tie breaking situation and they came into today and just handled business another tough loss to Australia so excuse me it's not just the 16 Oh in the 16 3 so it's 10 rounds and 3 maps this one didn't matter that much because you both qualify for the final so we cannot really count because I don't like importance in the duel really now that's interesting cuz we can actually call back to the veto process remember you know dust2 was the second ban of MIB are in that second round of bans do you think because they know obviously because they got 1602 they just played him on it is that just kind of get that one out of the way let's just not match that we played on a toy played him on it twice two very strong victories even though we weren't necessarily go 100% we destroy us on that map it's probably because if you're more confident playing inferno as the last map than just to probably more up to this than the fact that they cannot play this 2 against them again I just feel like them they're more confident inferno than this map there's the Train result make you a little bit confused and scratch your head a little bit and say maybe that you to just play dust 2 again or something along those lines no I gave it a second shot here they got 16 no at the major they came in here and like you know well let's make some adjustments it didn't work out but that's ok you know I'm sure they prepped a lot for overpass it's not a map that's actually played that often and so yeah I think they should make it competitive where the grand final syllable yeah well let's let's turn on now to overpass another map where offers can still have a huge impact on this but in a different style it's not going to be those long-range straight angles Kristine offers on overpass could have a lot of different angles a lot of different battles that they can they can actually fight and fall back into yes overpass system map that offers can look so Swift they look so snappy because it is mid to close range battles most of the time especially at the ABE a bomb site in those bathroom areas in the connector mid you'll see the CT players pushing up quite often and trying to control the map and then eventually fall back well I mean it's a good thing it's a CG said about because MIT ala is going to be starting on that CT side this is a stralla suspect that we're heading into it if you haven't seen overpass before you can check it out we have them that break down here so you know exactly what to expect over past is the newest map out of the seven being played and was fully released into the counter-strike series in 2013 the defending CTS spawn onto the a site and will therefore take additional map control immediately in the middle area the attacking T's spawn closer to the B bomb site giving them only a slight advantage the CTS are easily pushed out of the a bomb site by a fold on rush attack making grenades important for both sides for either a defense or a retake B bomb site offers early warning signs for the defending side via visual and sound clues which means backup can be called for quickly if the attacking side rush in look for action around the bathrooms and the sewer area outside the b-bomb site as they allow easy access to each on-site but more importantly the connector stairs between them allows fast rotates and fakes enjoy the match that is over past map 2 in these grand finals between mi VR and Australis and what makes me so happy as we have someone on this desk who has had a very infamous match on over past Kiel no stranger to the situation thank you had to know we were gonna go there let me just come to you and just say what's what's your favorite way to approach this map on either either side your pick what is your favorite way to kind of play this if you want to have an effective overpass the thing is I think divides gonna be a big part of actually swimming the city side for example because he's a really passive offer and on this map you can get a lot of things but he's being passive by the fact that you have this bathroom and this longer area it can allow him till I get one or two kills really easily and then on the fact that it's probably I depend also on the whole miv I was gonna thank the same tea because I know that must have seemed like to take the construction part and take it like really early so they can make like the whole city defense rotate and have kills somewhere that's gonna make everything rotate and maybe make device take some aggressive decisions right we don't see often I'd like to see it might be are really slicing them I feel like they're they're a little stale right now at the moment they're losing rounds they know they're super-sized they know how good they are but they have it won many convincing matches together right and so they're they're known I became a fan of MIB era when I saw them flashing for each other consistently pushing through the smokes going running with the flash we saw fallin making some insane aggressive all plays on inferno at the major I want to see that in my beer I want to see them pushing smokes I want to see them looking for frags and just hunting them down I don't see that right now let's see the blood in there you know yeah the blood loss yeah yeah I'd like to see somewhere though is it kind of like the same thing we said about versus programme's tournament like be the aggressors for once I get that out can I add it to to you how do you how do you do that how do you install that into your your players you've been in a game leader Christine you've been a part of those big comebacks as well like how do you convince everyone that they can actually accomplish it's a fine balance right because you're not a solo player you have four other teammates with you and so it's a fine line between doing just enough of your job and trusting that your teammates will do theirs as well and then happily somewhat meeting in the middle and a lot of the times the problems is if some players will overextend some players will not do enough and so that's where that synergy comes in and making sure your preparation is correct and I'm sure it might be ours preparation is correct but on the other side of that of course is when you start losing rounds and starts losing confidence you start not peaking the angles that you usually would because you're losing and it's so it's very tricky yeah I didn't kill for this coming into it who's who are you looking at on the MIB are side to kind of really spice things up to kind of be that player is it actually gonna be a cold zero that be falling really pollen is gonna be really important he was really impactful on this especially this map because as said he can take like really deep angles and being passive-aggressive okay you can't be killed everywhere this when you know you still Mason will get like a lot of kills that's the main thing in this map I think and the vintage fallen on this map is was a piece to watch that you know just just a year you even just a year ago how do you get that back like how you can't you know just lose that that's just confidence I feel like it's really confidence because I at some point if you're losing and losing you're not gonna take the same takes you're gonna be afraid of taking the pigs that you would usually do when you're like full confidence and it's really hard for player who's losing and losing is duels to just be like I'll be aggressive again I'll win this one when you just feel like you behind you being behind and then you don't want to take this risk it was gonna be up to people taking the right initiatives and coordinator thing even if it's not following coordinate like that attacker the difference whatever which is gonna be up to all the players to adapt of the guy taking initiatives and I think that's what they need to come back from a loss okay that's that's pretty interesting what do you do if you're huh what do you do if you're Yenko at the moment how you feeling how do you think he's feeling if you had to go through is you know it let's not even surmise about that one let's say okay yeah go to the day we'll do an interview we're gonna have a top five video on grenades the best grenades that we've seen for the players at this tournament I'm spec in however phone you know that [Music] [Music] flashing my going through ticket he's a man he's mid there's only only one poke done great guarantee Turks not that happy at the moment it has been no fun for him so far these grand finals but map to is gonna be a different piece this is where would start to ask you guys for predictions but I have a feeling that both of you would just say a sauce for to go the other way the talked about fallen what could my VR do to wid what are there wind conditions not necessarily individual players but what can they do across this map who do they need to neutralize I mean they need a neutralized Dupree glaive and and actually I think fern falling need to find their rhythm find their game with in this game and start hitting some shots feeling feeling how the game is gonna go for themselves and that should help them I think we talked we talked a lot about design but if you look at the map they displayed glaive had some great impact as well we had a lot of kills a lot of multi girls actually and on this map coming on the overpass zip X is a really good player in B yeah we could see he's like really good the wall bangs through this constriction side it's just he's a really good thing B and also the B site you can play it really constantly and it'd be a slice I'm really good at doing that's gonna be so you put these now but I might be able to win this one's gonna be really really hard task for them and they're gonna have to play the a game right now it's gonna be it's gonna be fun to watch they do indeed need to start coming out on fire here on overpass and play their a game as tuition is set either way want to go to a commercial break while the players get prepared and all set up map two of the grand final is coming up right after the break 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welcome back to the Blass Pro Series Istanbul yes all right here guys here at Blass Pro we are all about action we're all about drama what all of our suspense we're about to go into a map to and after this map we may crown ourselves a champion so we need to really take it to the next level in terms of trauma arena I think it's time that we turn the place god I love it I love it okay guys we're about to get lit map - let's hear it one more time for your blasts Pro Istanbul finalists give it up for EM I BR and Australis Maggie's coming right up back to you guys to the desk I can't wait well just a little bit longer to wait and a little bit longer for MI PR to think about things and a little bit longer for astralis to map their route towards that trophy overpass coming up and up and I don't know how they recover him this I don't think anyone really knows how to recover from this but if you had to if you had to give me a little bit of like a pregame speech just like one sentence a pregame speech yeah what would you say if you're the in-game leader of mi VR have your fallen your his shoes forget about it once one sentence is enough just forget about it and remember everything I taught you on overpass these guys have to start with the pistols I think if they want a chance of winning this they're gonna have to come in strong win both these pistols start controlling some of the pace whether it be first on that tee side or CT side they haven't controlled the pace on either side on any of their matches versus Australis as of recently and if you can't control any of that assault it's gonna take the game away from you and even if you win them as we saw in train they might just win that second hump back from you so it's it's not not a lot of fun at the moment so I mean that's the thing if fallen can get the off out we've kind of just to kind of wrap all this up with everything we've said over the past you know ten minutes or so if falling get the OP if if MIT I can get the economy going they have a chance if guys like coldzera can show up not go oh and 11 absolutely the thing is I would rather see MIT are starting T on beast maps so they can really set up the pace what the game is gonna be because as I said like in this map you can have more control about the rears then on train train is like really straightforward you go outside you go inside you don't have any like other options really on this map you can just take construction you can take control of underground you can take control of the balloons area or long so you have more to like play around and multi like think about what you can do where you can pick kills compared to the last map how do you find device without without losing a player to him you know cuz he's gonna be mobile across this map we're gonna see him at B we're gonna see him in bathrooms we're gonna see him out towards long how do you find him in nutrient like at least force him back so that you don't lose too many players I think we're gonna see for finding device a lot for for being really aggressive towards the a and middle area on this map he's always hiding in the connect they're always hiding in the bathroom some off angle baiting for letting him get that Earth fallen rather letting him get that contact and then he's gonna pop out and headshot you and so I think he's hopefully he can shut down device we'll see do you think do you think it's gonna be effective the fur is so annoying right I've never played versus him actually I have but but but yeah he's so annoying you never know where he's gonna be because of that is in the back of your mind you always check your left your right your forward your backward so it's it's it's it's annoying you've definitely played against was that yeah it is but the thing is like against opinions if eyes they're gonna have to have a great use of the utility really yeah because like they can have taken both sometimes abuse if you can device cannot be everywhere these like ones on when it's gonna be and then you have to use like the right utilities but we are wasting too much so one or two flashes maximum to be able to take control of one position and then you're gonna see it devices out here then you can keep forward I guess the big thing is it's not like what's behind door number two when you just kind of round that corner that are you just waste a flashbang just out of hopes and prayers so you guys both have a straw stake in this one yes yeah pretty it's gonna be pretty handily it's gonna be close game I'm gonna close it's probably just gonna depend on how the game is gonna start like how my bi is gonna put a pace into it if they really starting really slow enough like to say my strain if they don't take any initiative and all these stuff they're not gonna be able to have a close game yeah they play too passive they won't be able to put it on but it shouldn't play passive on this map as well there are players likes to win so that they can make plays they can yeah well we'll find out we're about to find out right now in fact map through is gonna star we gonna head you off to your casters it's gonna be strontium launders from map to thank you so much Moses Thank You indeed launders we're back and with a second map that hopefully lasts a little longer I anticipate MIB are putting up a bit of a fight here on overpass I feel like they'll be well versed and prepared yeah I definitely agree with it the thought that you might need a pistol we thought was how cold zero talked about it on the desk where you know just for the paddler seedy side just to start off with a better economy so they have more chances to win they've got to you know start off strong and then it is really a confidence game with them I think they really believe that if they're going to win if they're gonna win this map they're gonna win after getting dominated like they did just now knowing that it's a straw Louis then they have to have everything fall into place right they have to feel like it's their time and I think that part of that is winning the pistol which started stamping it in terms of strategy but it's sometimes it feels kind of a random you know who's able to come out ahead here so maybe if they're fortunate they'll feel a little bit better if it starts with this pistol see if that's the case we've got a really fast fight here inside a connector bombs actually included in this firefight Tarek wants to give chase to glaive who does get away for the time being but repeat his demise is another headshot here for MIB R and it looks like they've done it it looks like they will continue to contest the curse another pistol potentially there's unless device whoo after last game was just immaculate I can't remember a performance from him and a single map and a final like that no I don't know not to be decided yeah I mean you know my VR meeting them in a final can only happen under special circumstances but still like he just he killed Tarek's do we fall in coldzera for 34 times in a map right and like it just doesn't it's just not easy to do on an individual basis and let alone with just his team score like right behind him but overall clean headshots across the board and you know right after this right the team looks to the left looks to the right to have to ever went up starting to feel like alright if we started somewhere good so now we move into round 2 and Astral's have decided to force into it they do have armor as well as some utility and I like that this is something that um I BR haven't done they have focused on buying because it's an armor but not so much the nays flashes the supporting grenades can really take around like this a low-percentage round over the over the line it's fallen in device to make initial contact with one another deagle at a distance can be dangerous indeed but fallen and fur will be side by side here towards the washroom so a little forward presence this is gonna give some real estate over to withdrawals it's going to allow for them to work long get that info as well just start kind of pressuring MIT are in the sense that we're gonna get into the close proximity where by these SMGs versus pistols don't have as big of an advantage but there's a totem pole here on the other side that's a great frag grenade out from fur substantial damage and the fact that fallenness already picked up a kill just means this is looking good for the Brazilian core but it's not done yet and there's 45 seconds left still for it to unfold it's gonna be off that long contact keep your eyes on device for a second he is gonna be fine and Terry and sure enough he takes his head down so now these two CDs are gonna get pitched from each side and yes just like that you've got yourself around Astralis seem to have managed to at least put this in a question and sure enough with device continuing on this expedition it is gonna be another upset unless Stewie 2k has something immaculate to say but he doesn't just like on new blunders or excuse me train it's turned right around yeah just as you pointed out Connor the most salient point of that round was the linchpin that was device how he encroach all the way to the end of the choke point Tarek peered in his angle and then he activated the rest of his teammates to push through even though fer played that masterfully even though in the game of rock-paper-scissors that is utility you have of all tubes that get thrown and then smokes to put them out you can actually cancel a smoke out with another smoke and that's what fer did is as glaive through one to the site so that they can get out of bathrooms further through his immediately so that they couldn't get past his and then at that point you think alright there's not that much to DeForest Rallis and might be or have this in the bag and device comes through to make another play gets the first kill this time it was a four man cohort working up long a and MIB are immediately had thrown themselves towards the B site so trying to play close proximity trying to do something of a stack but a sure Alice will continue with another kill device just making quick work of any long player so far this round already falling apart as you can see the fire coming through the floor just to let them know that Bank is closed and now it's just these three players that have to kind of wait and play like retake frags which is never fun to do if they weren't hard enough already to come by but flick like that I mean you can make a case for it any more of those but the very least you're gonna lose rounds make them pay for it price of life but long the approach is a very common thing to do for terrorists who want to come up on overpass and and make sure that they have the least chances to lose if they want to just group up and explode it they want to move the round along quickly quickly it's actually really nice when you can have your back against a wall at any time and that means being on either the left side or the right side of the map so if you're over at B you can go on monster and everything everybody swings out nobody has to worry about cross fires or like on nuke when you come with a squeeky have to worry about heaven instead you can just kind of back to the wall there's this one close left angle on besides that they can swing out together all look at the same stuff and make sure the D trade it's a clean round for Astralis overall they lost two but they can afford it because the SMG players so it'll be the case now Stewie's gonna be able to recycle his UMP which is something I like that on the pistol they were controlling the middles of map that's a very important part of the map obviously it's just denies that seven second rotation offered up from the stairs that is otherwise you know over between ten and fifteen seconds if they want to go back through spawn something we'll see teams do on select rifle rounds cuz it is kind of a precarious spot to put C T's in when they have a lot to lose but if done right can have tremendous impact we're looking for more tremendous impact towards long this round continuing with what has worked already but there's a little bit of a slight difference to e to K up here towards the top of washrooms with the UMP a little bit of firepower it's good enough for a single kill and he knows there's others out there so he'll just hope that they trickle in and substantial damage whether that be from him or of course astrologist teammates what substantial as the clave sits on a low bar and that the rest of the pistol players still up for MIB are can get something done but straws will take a breather pump the brakes they've got a minute tend to do so and in the meantime MIB are they'll wait for no man looks like they want to make a play towards bathrooms or at least find the safety of the cover because with these positions they can actually stop the cross which would flush cold Sarah Oh to the bomb site cold can just stay here unless this happens a full extension from Dupree nobody is able to stop it his tear cast more passive angle and he's all alone now there's plenty of targets to come his way but there's also one behind and that's really gonna spell his demise he knows he's in the open I'm so astrology third yeah and that's how you play an anti eco right they do it once again they go for long and Stewie did as much as he could you know put in like almost like a couple more Dinks I don't even think he knew because he was blind but he still did all that damage and the brown was closer than they thought but the other important part of that is the fact that they leaves if it's out by the stairs and he's there to listen if someone decides to run up if the CTS decide to go out there at a spot but they don't want to go downstairs to check because of all those close angles then instead he waits for them to retake a and also all these players that are left in a since they go long are now in the fishbowl and everybody from the from the TSI that swinging along has so many advantages peeking into the sight that they are relatively safe even though there was an over stat area now we have all of our all's congregated towards be outside with the bomb it's folks ready to go do you know what's coming I'm gonna say an execute yeah certainly feels like it you typically are not gonna want to let go of the other half of the map unless you're gonna do something like this this even works it's got Stewie in an awkward spot he will extinguish the flames at his feet called Zehra by his side the Charlotte's actually haven't made much progress past the monster Stu will drop to the fragmentation alliteration the first man in and Tareq's now here to support so we do see if IPR trickling downwards and we see a straw louis limping forwards but they haven't really sustained much losses in the form of casualties or damage in fact they plant in this for before and there's so many players on this site it feels like this beat guys here zip x device they're gonna be getting these kills finally we see that big crash that crescendo of kills and they all belong to a straw list called the Kalashnikov yeah for a reason yeah they just crunch them on the site everybody folded and we're gonna see later in the next half the way that a straw let's play the be site versus execute the smoke they drop is actually similar to the one that we see right here by the pillar and it connects with the barrels to make sure that you deny vision but as we can see be this is because the smoke was actually offset a little bit device was offered up a headshot angle to go and peak the player that was gonna go and pit normally as a CT smokes that then they're gonna be able to kill the planter or make it really uncomfortable to think about planting because that area that part of the map is uncontrolled but device is able to exploit it they're just throwing themselves into short water trying to contest but the counter flashes here from astrologer group fantastic you saw how blind the cool truly was bit over extension there didn't expect were to be behind the water so he is fully exposed a wide angle wide swing costs him his life but it's not gonna cost the straw list this round they've retrieved bomb they've moved it towards be and cleared everything out in the meantime so even the bomb carrier knows it's a sprint but a safe one absolutely you know one of the intangible things that is always referenced by analysts and pro players and everything when they're trying to explain like what the feeling was is like this think of this thing about confidence right and it's so hard to quantify that and explain why that helps you win along with momentum in other words like that at least you know word clouds words that we use in counter-strike but the thing about it is that if you if you have low confidence you make decisions slower you aren't sure about your decisions right if you have high confidence you can move in a fast tempo you feel like you're gonna hit your shots you're not scared to do things and all those things factored in to help you win and I like that a straw is here I'm keeping that high tempo and making sure that they explode quite often I think they're they're they're abusing the fact that they had such a dominant map one and just trying to bleed that into map two so every round they win by exploding MIB are just get less and less home you know they start to flesh themselves more and more it makes it harder to stay coordinated when there's so many smokes and flashes and Molotov cascading over the site and instead they have to think about like just getting a lucky hold right and then instead they get dominated because astrologer feeling it already on fire and even when they burst I love to like think back to what we saw with that last gun round over towards the B bomb site we're biased Rolla the smokes and flashbangs they held off for a second Stewie was inside his own smoke he thought he was safe but then 5 10 seconds after this delayed push we get that big flurry of frag grenades and off of that it's the explosion right it's a purse and it's quick but it's well-timed it's intelligently time won't saw the end result around for a straw Liz five in a row now is they are on fire officially double up set up fallen and coldzera said it before I could be definitely the focal point of this map especially now late in the half adjustment and starless aren't gonna poke the Beast that's slowing the tempo down waiting to see if there's any movement from MIB R so that they can react and instead the clock will simply bleed down still plenty of time left to do what they need to do but it's at this point where Mr ABR who have used some grenades are gonna start thinking about falling back and that might be the worst thing they can do feel like fur is incredibly alone here very much isolated fallen would be the closest form of support but because he as well as on his own his attention entirely on how located over here towards party and oh there's a smoke up in his face but he's gonna have to get CQC and that's as close as you could get he goes right past and now fallenness in a powerful position but Tareq has to realize there could be people here spam is good for damaged fallen doesn't want to scope in doesn't want to be heard we'll find the fadeaway killed just as Terrica denied entrance towards this a site and immediately MIB are have established a man advantage in this four versus three the B site is actually being bolstered Tarek has moved down they get ahead of this rotation calling it and stopping it in its tracks fifteen seconds left and nobody moves further excellent hold from MIB are absolutely well played and it was all about getting the information there and just as you mentioned there was there was a point of weakness and fir because he was the only person in the stairs and typically you can be there as long as you have a way to fall back and as soon as fallen gets smoked out instead of actually falling back and being afraid he stands his ground waits there for information infer goes down but he answers right back and then he also pushes them into an awkward spot where now they don't have the off taken out at a and they just lost a kill for free so it was very important that he might be R stood their ground that we know that they're always gonna be good for that very aggressive squad here even even before when they were five Brazilians and now with Stewie they've got playmakers so it's good that they're keeping up the tempo and not not feigning to the aggression of a straw 'less and I feel like that result in the previous round is a different type of confidence whereby you know it's not somebody taking a very big responsibility and making a brazen play but rather sitting back and playing textbook CS we'll see if they can lock down the B site yet again it's cold and Stewie falling back off of the first array of grenades they put down a bit of their own and it does disrupt the vision Stewie and fur have gotten to this is great a straw let's just stopped in their tracks as they attempt desperately to get in but it's not all good MIB are have now lost two bodies and Stewie should be predicted here zip X home in as glebe gets the headshot and that leaves us even keel with fifty seconds left the options are open I love this the two i-gos left with Terra can zip X if X being you know maybe the best clutch player in the entire server if not the world and there's so many options for them with fifty seconds up they finished there they finish their duty at B they've left it up in the air as to what they're gonna do they can kind of reset now on force Mme BR to decide if they're gonna play halfway down or if they're gonna gamble stack and it looks like they've kind of done a little bit of both but fall in one with the OP is not going to be able to initiate contact unless a fracas just flagrantly offered up to him looks like he definitely wants a piece of the action before it's too late and he's starting to get the idea that it might be a he's got to be cautious if he holds just this angle that he needs to be wary of the fact that they could just walk right past but he misses his shot in his opportunity to stop Baum continues to duel in the meantime but cannot disrupt it from going down so they retake comes forward tarik has the kit Molotov and to flash banks also for MIB are here to work with and there's no utility for a straw Louis in the terms of staving them off so they're just gonna have to lock this down we've got one on the dice box that is glaive feeling the pressure from truck he's gonna change position and this is almond herd zip X gets him fallen peeks wide and he needs two perfect shots with this off but no one presents themselves and he tucks tail Astralis will win this 2v2 absolute tragedy of a way to lose a round and oh my god fallen dying - at the end of it meaning he could have just tried to go for the what would have been an incredibly unlikely retake but still just terrible to be able to have to lose that AWP and I don't know if it's true all this knew that it was gonna be a double op setup even though on the previous round it was because I'm not sure if they make contact with cold mistake me if that is the case but going be and and doing a contact explode is a perfect thing you want to do if they are going to invest in double lob so it made sense and it looked like it was gonna be MIB R to actually hold in spite of that stewey going absolutely bananas on the B side from the barrels position but it seemed like in the Ennis final few moments his head down he was calling to his teammates to help him out or he was trying to communicate something but no one was even close you know he could have just kept trying to fight for himself and maybe what it got more done this is gonna be quick a throwback to the most previous rounds the long gameplay with a couple of bodies stacked up into the bathrooms they don't want to line up for the Depot USP is then cleared so Stewie meant to be to confer the right but both sent packing as is the case for cold zeroes so the remaining MIB are members will be so far behind enemy lines that it doesn't even matter astrology miss 70 please again this long anti-eco rinse and repeat it's a similar setup as it makes the same man waiting for the flank and waiting for the rotate through stairs and it just works so well they can know what you're doing they over stack it long bathrooms they can still die right again there's no crossfire so the CTS abused and that's what some a lot of teams need to know but like this is one of the reasons that Yanko a long time ago talked about this on long on dust2 maintaining those long distances was one of the main features and that's similar to log on overpass just an incredibly consistent way to do something even in a situation where there's tons of mind games there's tells the preparation of those needed matches hitting up long as a super consistent way to maintain that rifle advantage and and we can see it just working flawlessly for them even better so this round then even the previous seven to two now full buys out they go right back to the double up setup I honestly don't blame them I think the thing is they're still about that weakness of B but it's gonna be honest Rawls to figure out right try to siphon out the data as to whether or not they went back to it and that could cost him a life little update with the average damage per round here we've got two players on a stralla sitting over a hundred beings if X and device yeah yeah falling it a little bit of a struggle and that's one thing it wasn't even mentioned was like critical shot he could have hit when they planted on the wrong side of dice box yep he got that one chance he got that one chance I've seen him hit wider flags from that position but not this time around and that really could have done a lot in terms of making sure they wouldn't have had to save this is another really fast setup though stralla is just throwing themselves into short water fallen will be on the other side I don't recall seeing this off down on the B bomb site sometime sure in heaven but never this close to the front line see if anybody over steps into his aim gotta be cautious when you're going for wallbang kills because zip X is in the server he is the king of those when it comes to the beach side up over faster right now is just mi PR with the kill feet to their favor Stewie gets tagged 250 in the process but what's important is we're standing at a 5 vs. 3 and a Charlotte are sort of boxed in the connector player could be clear depending on how Cleef decides to play this ball pretty locked into monster doesn't really want to go anywhere too far from this position but they also can just fall back they can wait for someone from MIB R to overstep and die yeah and you know first doing the safest route possible to take this kind of liberty to go on a big flank and honestly if if his teammates feeling the sight in this situation it's really not as fault he's a great way to seal this up too and he's playing it as safely as possible expecting this would be extremely unlikely but he misses his first opportunity he could still fall back to b12 instead I'll have the door slammed in his face but I stir all this it's understood what they're gonna do yeah they know and therefore they know that their opponents are prepared Sarah was the first one's gonna miss his second shot as he takes damage that's two hawks on the pillar not quite in a parking space for Bo's but they get the job done regardless there's a third for MIB Arne comes in the form of four players standing that's what you love to see yeah that it's just like looking like they were basically a Kimbo at that moment shoulder to shoulder on the main pillar and the B site but it's it's just because they knew exactly what's gonna happen you know fur head all that information so like let's over stack you know it also helps you focus on your crosshair you know you're gonna make less mistakes in terms of like when you throw utility when you think you could like need to peak B for something all your teammates in the site just know since it's gonna come at some point so once out goes out and they're ready so solid round for MIP art to wind up luff setup pays off for what would have been probably the last time in the half and now they're turning it up a notch yeah they're trying to get really aggressive and device wants nothing to do with it I mean you just under hands the flashbang and will join his teammates with what looks like a rapid B execution for the first time there's actually nobody for MIB are inside of this B site there they're not playing around the pillar or the barrels or even towards monster their stead back here by graffiti the numbers are there but the forward positioning isn't this is what can truly afford a straw as a bomb plant now with those small the Tom's that's actually gonna disrupt both of the CTS they put the smoke down for what could cover plan but Stewie's gonna get aggressive he throws himself into the spray frantically trying to shut it down but he's caught fumbling his hands and device just destroys Tarek sure Cole is left back towards on graffiti but with 20 HP what's he gonna do he needs his teammates to come bail him out and they've already started with fur it's put us into this equal three versus three but in order to get closer to the bomb site someone has to take an initiative and who's gonna do that I mean we've got fallen swapping to an m4 not wanting to play offs in this retake he will be the frontrunner and he's spotted by zip X already cleaned and cleared with absolute ease but cold Sarah is then the next to fall forever with a headshot makes it look so doable but now he's pulled into the crossfire he still doesn't know where the last is but he should have a good idea glazes over towards short but clave has been enough to burn off the time he's got nothing to do it no he knows that he's gonna run away so glaive goes and cleans him up - I mean it's just like they're getting a series of unlikely frags once they're in the site right it seems like I might be armed actually and I would love to hear the stats on the analyst test afterwards but in terms of opening kills they happen denying the initial rushes I'm like first frag opportunities but then afterwards like once they're in majus just opens up like Stewie's made plays he actually had a really good method to the path that he was going on the site but then just caught off on the box right now just takes him out then goes ahead gets another frag so no it feels like really like everybody is definitely trying their hardest I mean obviously that goes without saying but there's a there's smart smart decisions involved for sure we can wrestle non-live yeah this is gonna get around to chill out it's either that or the most elaborate smoke execution you've ever seen gotta love a match medic to come in clutch did you see the NRG boost from ESL New York at the T spawn the format before man yeah yeah I didn't seen that since ghosts used it yeah it's been a while I'm glad you I'm glad you gave credit card it's the okay think for a lot of people I was obviously the first time they saw that boost I think it was the first time I saw that boost but quickly learned that that was not the first time it was used that was quite a surprise it's not often you see a four-man boost not often yeah you're using a lot of resources you know there's like that triple boost that people will do with us pees on graffiti graffiti side and it's like if you do that boost and then immediately even if you get a kill the other team knows you have three people who are committed to be site you know they're far away that means there's maximum to a day that means they're probably not playing too aggressively right they're relying on this for the information so it's not something you want to do every time and it's like you can call that like overpowered if you will but there's so much information gained from doing that and it takes so much time as well so for the the sake of it we know that we know that's a straw list probably trying to buy up all their standard things are gonna have every piece of utility that they need and as for MIB are it looks like tarik I don't know if that's that was match medic and then he bought the noob tube so maybe okay no he's not gonna do it it's not too many positions that you could use it indefinitely stairs is one of them connector has that something you do the xm1014 this is probably pretty big for tarik I mean the fact that there the final is like want to say good enough I mean I wouldn't if I was her coach I would be like you guys did good enough let's go play a straw Louis get out there guys you guys did good enough no I wouldn't say that but I would I would still be proud obviously and know for tarik he's gonna be out here in front of Turkish crowd it's pretty [ __ ] oh well oh I didn't say that there are sponsors for this event you know if anybody to worry about in terms of what we say and we don't swear actually was the word I learned in another language of course yeah I'm not gonna tell you what it means don't well we can do of course still look forward to this next buy up here because I want to see if that shotgun actually does take precedent yeah I highly don't think I definitely wouldn't mind if you bought it again don't exactly have info on what exactly the hold of is but there have been many extended place never at this tournament it's never been a delay long enough to cut away yeah sorry drew and it's only know it because we're standing up and that would be a crotch shot yeah we need fair warning let's not go back to camera so it's not a bye there is we're not getting tubular here with Tarek we're gonna keep it's just the pistol single flashback always love to see it $200 can always make a difference whether that be for a single kill or not it's the thought that counts you know mm-hmm it's the belief in yourself but it's a big old stack over towards long a is anybody gonna fall into this trap it looks like it could be device they're just reinforcing it's actually a starless have kind of rerouted here so they leaving one it long to see if astrologer just gonna bite again or sorry MIB R which they have the thing is though I mean they can leave this but the fishbowl effect still it comes into play having all control is extremely powerful even with just a USPS well they'll mitigate any presence by blasting their heads off and it obviously won't necessarily come from walking all the way down long as you can see very fair fights with it for the terrorists that go out for but if the with long bathrooms control they can actually rotate in and flank so depending on how they set up if they want to let they let them take the site completely leaving a player and spawn having top bathroom control and watching the terrorists walk through the middle of a can can help them avoid but it's interesting we're seeing the anti-eco evolved for astrology in this match versus MIB are they have a good read of what's going on as the stack strengthens and MIB are realized they aren't going to go for the reverse psychology or double mind games play they're just gonna go for what works they are slowly adjusting changing things slightly still ending up in the same positions but making tiny adjustments trying showing a little tap that's so dangerous because of course being in front of a wooden panel means both the booster and boost II are susceptible to damage you can see both called Sarah and Tarek they're taking some substantial hits we saw that one round where fur was left to his own devices inside connector and this time it is fallen zero support in the setup for him he has it all to do and there's not even anybody watching up for its parties so someone could just walk down on him but that's not the case he's gonna actually wrap back up and try to get away however the peak is there prepared his device sure enough he does drop the Otpor stewey picks up another kill in the meantime to maintain this man advantage but bomb is back time is there stralla scan make up their minds and play this time for again once again taking the liberty of just kind of walking at his pace on a big flank that should be the safest route possible device is kind of tuned into this is on the same frequency and immediately kills first fare about an information gain for Astralis as well as evening up in a situation where mi PR had the man advantage so finally that costs them and that awareness should pay off in dividends is now their options are opened up twenty seconds up though that ball it's kind of in limbo at the moment well the CT is byte it looks like that's the big one that's the kill right there now zip X whips out the palm and he's just gonna close the distance to the site so 3v4 turns three v1 MIB are have been decimated just imagine Stewie hits that dink one more bullet that's the first person clocks down to nine seconds yeah that means if xscape the bomb down and he's got to do it instantly even if he doesn't get the kill right even if Stewie doesn't kill him they just flirted around with the coroners slows effects down until he has to commit to the plant and that's an easy pickup yeah even if you rush him and die you've got him off the bomb leaving Tarek to win at the a site and in this case Tarek will be lucky if he gets to hold on to his gun but he has avoided device for the time being yeah and that's been the tale of the tape it's like even though straws have been edging them out in terms of just polish with how they've been approaching everything having everything be so calculated and sensible they're still all so they're all they're so also not getting lucky but they are fortunate in rounds that seems like they're wow this is a fifty-fifty you know this is so close but then you can also put it to merit where you talked about how fallen you know misses a flick that you should definitely hit and we have a totally different story painted for you here in the blast Pro Series final half thought over three rounds here for MIB are they can still make a meal of it it's kind of a mixed by it's a goodwill by a ragtag but a straw let's turning up the heat running through the fire and flames yeah just straight forward extinguish against and Stewie caught he's so fixated on short that he doesn't prepare for the man pushing long fine the bombs been thrown out cold Sarah seems to have done it it seems as though he's slowed down his straw is enough for the time being but we've seen them in positions like this before despite it being precarious it is not impossible both teas now side by side will try to crack open some skulls Molotov will prevent any sort of a peak fallens gonna get ever the closer and they could actually go for a boost that would be a really cool play I think well they're gonna try wrapping around which is still gonna have to get kills two fights last man up goes down four to ten now is that Mikey are trying to erect some kind of a defense get as many rounds as they can as this comes to a close Kirishima on the desk said he wanted to see em IVR start off on the T side to set the precedent and take the pace even though it's the second half we know they can still reset things absolutely I mean it's really just about you if you want to start on one side or the other at the end of the day you've got to play both so I see it the way you're saying like they they can still show us what they would have had to show us on T side in the second half and it was on Turek on Terok to santa's ground in that round and that was been has been a big problem for them it's just let these be explodes have been so fearsome so well executed from a straw Liz that they just leave nothing up - question everybody dies in the sight oh and they plant the bomb pretty much every time but Tarek was able to stay there and yeah that's that's proof that he's a Turk and not a chicken I know it is and I feel like it's also so fearsome and so so tremendous when astrology over that execute that you're seeing M IVR instead of trying to hold positions on that front side of short or over towards monster you often see a MIB are trying to retreat into a deeper position in the bombsite think about how Stewie is caught with an extra pillar with his back turned it's almost like you they're thinking to themselves okay let's just try to stay alive not let's shut down this play before it happens but rather let's survive the first offensive and then see what's happening there I feel like that's some conditioning from astralis might be are falling prey to it but now they've gone aggressive they're playing their own game by just charging up through long by pushing up on the party and they have themselves something successful again a double man advantage this is how they picked up the previous round and this is how they may pick up the last yeah that's it some of the more classic seaside aggression our CD side aggression on overpass is finally coming into play and what's interesting is they pick the perfect round into it there weren't many rounds where a stralla stretch set out on their default that weren't ante eCos where they went towards a and mi BR met them halfway picked around that they knew they were gonna have rifles and decided here let's do one of our more standard some of the more like 2017 overpass a aggression where you have the double fountains push and you have a player up here in balloons who will take the brunt of the action and it obviously pays off in dividends for them so definitely well met in that situation and now it's you know five to ten the game is its it's not very close but it's also not over clay it's gonna have a kit and a smoke on this round but there is a fair bit of mount utility on em might be ours well tarik so to moldava two flashes and fall has a mall top of its own so seems like they're clearly posturing up for a be exact it's gonna drag the whole way zip X just deleted you're instantaneously Dupree follows the exact same fashion Stewie's on a tear that's three Killian skills for now he's got the fourth and students gonna pick up this ace if he chooses to device is the last man up that was near instantaneous give us the fence Dewey no all right falling I'll help them out oh my gosh you don't need the ego how much they pay you fallin how much did they pay you there it is clearing of a board from fur traps up and around so we just said how MIB are still had a chance here and the pistol is the best way to stoke the flames when you have that little ember of a chance now their goal is obviously to convert here on the anti-eco but what a 4k look at that running this guy's like Jason Bourne on the server at the moment through fire fire why not didn't even blink he's pissed he didn't get five I can imagine I'm sure he's pissed just from the first half just by the way he died in the b-site rounds and they lost even though he had so much impact like there are so many situations where I feel like he felt like he was in the zone but he still got crushed and that's power all's obviously so now pushing out to be short with lave on close angle with a CD but he's gonna fall back quickly and remember in our first half it was still MIB R to pick up a pistol round but it was the follow-up but they weren't able to convert so we've been here before I've been here all too often triple ak-47 so if I were to happen this time then the costs are extravagant I'd love to just see MIB R I mean immediately they set up some map control via three players go over towards monster in short they had two over here towards fountain - just watch for some kind of hyper astrology and now that they haven't seen that because there wasn't some expedition from astralis they've got this clumping Colonel offense a cohort of T's just working up mid and this means they're gonna effectively play the trade game and plant this bomb unless a stralla scan put all of their pieces up on this a site preemptively it seems like things may fall into place they do have that long player to tether off of Dupree be the first one to try to dig it out and he only gets one but it's still good impact Tarek's two kills are crucial for combining from long is also great because now it's that wrong assault as they get suggest the cusp of the site they'll win all their fights and do enough three up for MI BR a clean conversion with an easy round ahead so it's actually really interesting if we compare that around to the round from around from astrologer they played an anti eco now they actually it was astrology just kind of go out right away walk the entire way and they were offered up that opportunity because they knew what their plan would be at the end of the round ahead of time whereas MIB are actually went out to be and it seemed like they definitely we're thinking about me because you wouldn't send four players just to see what's going on right you don't send a whole party just to like potentially like seek seek out some information instead turning tail and bat day ended up being a right decision I think did it almost a little bit frantically you know and so there's like a mixture there there's like a really good call but there isn't that like that's decisive game plan that we've seen from a straw list and you know every round needs to be thought of as as being its own animal and obviously there might have been a sign from a straw list to make them turn their attention away but that was an interesting comparison you know cold air somebody throw in a smoke a couple of nades into the b-side leading the way even once they try to do something it's all just shut down so if every round is an animal loggers what kind of animal is this daughter and otter is actually it's a yeah in order is perfect example of it might be our because others can't break up with coconuts on their chest you know they're a very powerful animal and MIB are aren't thought of as like this world beer team but they definitely just got taught for at the major right so punching away above their weight just like an otter some fantastic analogies you think we'd had that plan but no I just like otters a lot I'm not shooting for a joke now you've changed my whole perspective on life settle down David one AWP in play and it belongs to device no utility that's the cost of it no kit either take note of that in case we get into any over after plants but I might be are having gotten that far and they're gonna play a more reserved decision again just sit back and see if a straw us overextend with no need to they won't similar scenes for loves they creep up to a and the setup phase of the round minute 26 they can encroach on bathrooms it's not gonna be an OP to take off right now and we see you know a lot of the times we see way more op impact in the bathrooms area from both sides we haven't seen that which is a really good sign you know it's not gonna be that easy as what that says Tarek is actually gonna be one on short all alone they don't have influence tears right now they don't have long control it's gonna be imperative if they want either site you think surely they don't just burst out from bathrooms based on the fact that they have these smokes down I mean they're gonna be walking right into device and that's exactly what Stewie is just done sure I'm all talk could burn him out into the open and that makes you question whether or not the timing was perfect just a moment later and maybe devices exposed could have enabled Stewie to pick up the kill instead of picking up the death 35 seconds left still Tareq's down towards that a site we could have a fallback it looks like it's at least gonna be another volley of nades up and over the smokes do go molotovs to follow suit now Tarek is applying some pressure at B and that's gonna lock two of astrologist members down there but commitments on the a site and they're gonna have 15 seconds that is it I mean they are playing this down to the wire fur needs to get these kills right here right now and you can see the CTS just looking to deny the bomb if they can deny the plant and they're good but they can't although Bob Lee left behind time is the difference maker as long as the CT survived they've got this in the bag it's it backs now left and so it's there's time launders is the biggest issue cold sarah did he know that he know he had the bob did he not know he had the bomb what happened there that was actually around similar to what we saw from his straw list where it's like times actually taking low but here's all the entries falling into place yep and yet coldzera no bomb plant what maybe he was busy on a flank I'm not exactly sure I don't want to I want to make sure that obviously you know he was aware and there was still some other circumstance tying up his attention but honestly that was a really important time to I don't recall anybody dying next to that second flower planter so I feel as though somebody chucked it there they pushed in to get the the bomb site cleared and then whoever was supposed to come behind them may have died in the process was unable to retrieve it so then that responsibility falls back on the forerunners who at that point clearly don't have any time so I was like my face at bugs caught her oh it's elaborate and so I think this pause is justified you can see fallen very animate animated at the moment yeah I think that definitely the biggest problem though is that even though you look at that round you can't you can't say that that was successful or that does that is sustainable right that's not you don't ever want to let the bomb get that close when you still have a 4v5 situation right so even though they got in the site that was no recipe for victory but it's not the kind of play that you want to start you know unpacking for them right now they're just gonna have to continue on oh that was crucial the kill falling straight through smoke no problem yeah that's not a trade you can demand of your offer but they're gonna be definitely blessed to have gotten it and last round there's a lot of casualties so it was basically Flanders field on a site so I I think that's astrology even though they were able to win it in those last few moments it cost everybody a lot of money how many kills can Dupree get here front of the rock here's the footsteps and despite the head shot versus fallen he is still denied I mean fallen he's getting kills through smoke he's surviving head shots he is keeping his team in this current round hands-down definitely it was a little bit absent on a train and I mean it's never too late to come alive until obviously the trophy has lifted so super he should be hopeful obviously that he can still turn this around there's still only a three round disparity between the two teams and they're making the correct decision by walking into a monster this is as we look at the mini-map the obviously the most open part of the entire map plays gonna spot that probably call for his teammate to rotate but all us do is stay here is a really good retake position teammates come back down device now clears over towards long a so he will start the long journey back the question remains how much are they willing to try and go for this we know that Astralis are very willing to just save to call it quits at times and it looks like that's exactly what's gonna happen I mean what they have right now is certainly worth holding on to yeah good point yeah that's one of the rounds where you'd see like probably a lot of teams just at least try it yeah but then it made me cost of life instead of straws play the long game and if your MIB are you're terrified of the fact that now that you know they're gonna recycle three rifles and let alone be able to buy two more so another round on the board for MIB are it could have been tied at this point considering that last round we don't know again how that went down and obviously even if the bomb went down there was still the chance that a straw Liz could have one length of one be one or the two on two or whatever the case was so no points sticking on it too much oh there's that wonderful stage we get to see the pyrotechnics like a spaceship complimented I'm trying to fly that away I just want to stand on it yeah one day it was a similar stage to the one at Copenhagen but now we got the double decker two layer cake yeah I believe so moving up in the world pretty cool stuff so what happens now are they they aren't gonna fortify the by instead they're gonna recycle what they have but that's terrifying right Connor yeah of course I mean and that's the beauty of it right all that decision was was let this round slip and look what they had come into this with I mean I've seen four spies from cloud nine that come in with less than that so this is great this is great miss trellis want to continue to contest it with only two rifles I like that they also decide to include some kind of an aggressive stance they they go for some attempt here it does cost him a life sure it up and the up actually doesn't pass back it's left in the water so they effectively have lost the SMG yeah at least they at least they had someone to try to recycle the extra gun that's you know a nice consolation prize and so now we've got a small upgrade for one player even though they're in total down one man device is just way up here fallen is not gonna give him any chance to capitalize and shoot some shoot some toes off and it's kind of a stillness in this round as a lot of players are in the dark all right that's there's tons of fog of war between these two teams they're holding their ground but at the same time they're not veering too far off course and so it's known soon there will be a fight that fight belongs to device three perfectly timed both frags with that seize that takes this down to even two V two because first found an entry on the a site I mean that's just perfect if as far as I might be are concerned those entries all happen fast enough for them to regain what was nearly lost or Everest Rallis they saved the trimmings from the previous round and they've managed to contest this regardless they could actually pick up the win because fur is so isolated the ball is supposed to prevent the peek but he walks into the fight regardless and with a smidgen of health device we'll take the kill the defused the round unbelievable composure from Dupree of that situation like completely unfazed from the guy who's spamming him relentlessly through the wall and bathrooms and instead just focusing down targets knowing that what he needs to do is be a martyr for his team realizing he's in a position to die but he needs to try to get as much damage and as possible and then getting the second frag so unlikely in this situation look at that first headshot immediately this - he must be livid yeah I wouldn't blame him either that's how we all know what he said something similar to I said earlier you guys speak the same language yeah yeah both learned it what are the odds damn that's that's one way for around to go on top of others these are starting to pile up straws rolled into the second that double-digits earlier than they're supposed to this is a fast one they're gonna go right through that CT smoke unfazed by an astrologist utility Stewie clears out the barrels immediately blinding flash bangs go both ways and of all time supposed to prevent any kind of a walk up from this ramp and they're doing a good job of isolating these CTS stewey he's taking the initiative on his own and it's device now all that's left a fast round from MIB are a rapid clash inside the B site and an immediate round is theirs yeah absolutely that's the that's the pace I fiery temperature fake jumping Sooey jumping through his own smoke wall across the entire site to make a move because he knows that with this many players alive he's not gonna be able to just simply win this and it's been retakes at a straw have shined in that's the Stewie I remember yeah right there we go yank Oh - firing them up I mean again it would be talked about the the resetting of composure from a round to round I mean yanker looks like a beast behind them absolutely I imagine hearing that like you actually believe someone like truly believes that you have it yeah they didn't I mean he'd be deflated I feel like that's what him and sonic have so much in common they're they're two very vocal very animated coaches and if you're if your players are getting distressed and disgruntled they're immovable rocks what is movable is all these site defenders I mean maybe are just plowing straight through them for the time being this wasn't meant to be much of a round and yet regardless as Charlotte's they're still putting up a fight - vice takes another player Lowe Stewie is dropped even though the bomb sites cleared the bomb is yet to get on it it still resides over towards long and it looks like everybody's just gonna group up Mohan we have another 2v2 yeah and it couldn't be more important I mean here's an opportunity for Astralis to completely deflate the momentum of MIB are following around that looked like MIT are we ready to just go three four in a row maybe even get on fire and now they have to play the after plant they had to play that retake that I'm sure they fear but a straws are somewhat out of position there's gonna be some time burned off that should give advantage to MIP our it's a crucial headshot magic feeling as though the flames forced them into the open the zip X could choose to walk through smoke weed is he really fancy as chances first gonna just bunker down he's got the cover to time the biggest issue because there's no kitten play there's nothing about in the equation so zip X walks away and finally after five rounds going back and forth back and forth we have two one in a row and it goes to the favor of MIP our yeah and you have to assume the crowd is like could probably I would assume like majority in favor of em over here just simply because it's Carrick alone you know their last remaining Turkish player in Turkish major champion is actually cool good point that's awesome really holding it down for his countrymen and yeah this round got scary they still landed on their feet they can wipe the sweat off their foreheads and move on ultimately we're so close towards the end we're in that same portion of the map that we were in train we're just like you know all that matters now what's is what happens next can forget about all the mistakes and they can forget about overpass after this is done as well so they've got another eco round from a straw list that they can try to capitalize on as it mixes got himself in a K which is definitely very powerful in the right hands but he is only one man so shouldn't pose too much of a threat cippec's has to be careful I mean Stewie at any moment can just peek wide and he's heard the door way that's for certain so he's probably prepared for the push clearly picking up the kilt remembers if X was the one gun wielder for a straw list the first line of offense the only threat and a threat that's been neutralized early on come on Stu pick it up you get the first ace and you won't get this one either device I got Goblin you're sitting down in the sewage but you know you do what you got to do to get kills someone's got to do the job sanitation engineer or otherwise three B to another aka kill gracing the kill feed player heard running though on this big flank enteric didn't get the memo I don't know if that was correspondent to him but I can't help but assume that I was heard by fur maybe fur just trolling him one more time that's how to do it though the grant funds costs continue to stack up and the last man has been spotted four oh he's been heard it's not gonna matter bullet between the eyes brains splattered on the back wall and Mohan we've got ourselves a tie game a game that's right that's right it didn't seem likely especially not after that first half I mean they brought it back with a pistol and now it's a brand new game like look at that or inside of the average damage per round chart light up as everybody is now in kind of just like fighting against their respective opponents across the board Stewie's actually sporting 94 ATR that is a huge come back into the game yeah kind of like a tragic first half but see his balance back part of the LeBrons hairline it's one of those things I love about Stewie is when he starts getting frustrated and angry I think sometimes translates well into his gameplay because he just wants so badly to make them pay but she's done it's also been eliminated from this round he's met device another beast middle of the map control - and my BR but down a man so you still got to give the advantage to a straw Louis that is the best peace of mind that you could have in the first few moments of any setup phase of around initial long smoke goes down and devices using it as a way to fall back so it's gonna take the shot and move off it and that can actually bait them into zip X is holding this or sorry Dupree who's holding this flat angle but again wall control imperative they can't just get this a sight for free they've got to deal with it Dupree and they haven't done it yet fur has no support as well it's playing around the smoke fully flashed is capreit Eric reads the fact that he is still nearby but no further deaths as of yet if anything I feel like this may convince them IVR to just walk away from long because if cold Zahra goes over this sure he could clear the closest corner but remember there's gonna be support from the sight not a very fun fight and still one that they will pick up device unable to cover but the repeats gonna cost Eric his head and that's the bomb also thrown out into the open with 15 seconds left they know there's no option to head towards beat so we start to get that rotation upwards and the question now is do mi VR continue on do they try to force the issue because they have to do it right now they need these kills right now and even despite getting the first one this rounds already lost for the second time we'll find em I've ER come short at the a site based on the clock yeah and it comes down to Dupree be able to get his kill use that smoke to make them hard to trade but just as you said like it seemed like a good opportunity to just be like call it quits in that moment like this is not working for us that long it's so understood what we're gonna do we couldn't be any more obvious at this moment and then you see place like that where tarik has to face the off knowing that device is there for support knowing that he just needs to hit this very lucky headshot first is a player who has a huge advantage over him because otherwise they're gonna run out of time and then obviously he goes down but they still end up trying to go for it so now it's 12 to 13 I mean it doesn't really matter I think feel like losing that round is just one more round obviously with the economy falling out of their favor that can get tricky but they still have enough for one by here and so there's still hope there still hope and this is become a seriously competitive map certainly gonna be a pocket pic of MIB are in the future it's bewildering as well is even though despite a strong as best efforts they have yet to string two rounds together on this CT side holy smokes they've been reset twice and this could be potentially about third it's not live quite an interesting stat so we're not live here we're just gonna hang out for a moment and that is that it's really interesting though to know it I mean that really means that you just might be are quite favored at this point right yeah if they can continue that trend right our big question will be like if the stralla scan can get an economy although should we really talk economy in the last five rounds then then then maybe we start to see them really I want maybe a one single time with a double op set it could be enough to just you know crush this this comeback attempt from the Brazilian court this comes down to inferno I really feel like anything goes like inferno a man that would be absolutely incredible it's you know honestly the reason why like match the great matches always end up on inferno so that every team knows they have to play it no one wants to waste a ban on it so it always ends up being the last map that's it's like alright we're not gonna banish but we're still good at it and that's why it's always like common ground for all these top teams and so it's just gonna be super competitive 100% I mean there's no doubt that a straw was in Ferno was it's totally solid and like some of their best grenade tactics that they use are there but there's there's also to thought that like that is not going to be a map that's gonna be handed to them for free right so now we're gonna get right back into the action in the closing rounds of map 2 grand finals here at blast pro series Istanbul the second blast Pro Series event and of course the reigning blast champions currently in here yeah MIB are it's true the core of it looking to retain at least one title Astralis seems to been picking up every other major title you could so I'm sure that they're hunting this scalp as well I love the fact that we've got to ops up right now device and fallen will they be able to find one another no not at this current moment only once fallen continues this expedition down long can you possibly find device whose currently flirting and floating around the a site is getting real picky with the Saab moving you can see the pace is a little bit higher here wasting less time for good reason can't risk any more time flubs not in this circumstance Oh a little bit of a boost oh my god I thought he was gonna go for that just imagine a head ripped clean off corpse thrown back into the bank I wonder what the exchange rate would be on that 45 seconds again I do not want to see them come short on time it's happened twice on this site specifically they're making good progress here though they just gotta continue with it execute sout CT is not really with enough utility to completely hold them back I mean they literally just boxed out this bomb seconds folks but they're not able to hold on too long control that's such a crucial kill for Dupree he just goes flying forward and because of that he's able to skewer the attempt at the planet sure this fire there but Dupree is single-handedly shutting this down we've got a vibe er just spread across the site it's an absolute annihilation that site is completely closed they move along to the pace they needed to they finally got to the point where they're executing with a reasonable enough time to deal with the entries on the site but Dupree comes in here from long and then continues to have impact as he as he comes back to the site the denies the plant displaces cold zeros aim by throwing them all top down on him making him run forward and then catching him holding w and finishing the spray off like an absolute master class and they've only really need one or two more of those and that's it so for my MIB R this burning question of whether they can take a or not it still may be up in the air in their heads as for Astralis they're deep their defences calcified to the point that they really just understand what everybody needs to do and I feel like the real weakness with MIB r is the way that they're approaching long only sending fur there no one to trade it's not easy to kill Dupree and there's no shame in that you know if and I'm not saying that first taking the decision like I'm gonna kill him by himself like nobody is that like juvenile in into pro level CS but the overall strategy to approach it that way to have for in bathrooms and only one it long leave so much up for question and we talked about with the long anti echoes why they're so powerful is because you can use those to approach the site if you have five long that's viable five bathrooms that's not viable so if your player dies long just because you've sent one there it doesn't matter what a passive stance here from MIT are only now getting out into the fountain possibly hoping that a charlotte's would continue with the hyper aggressive play but that is not the case instead they've stacked the B site Tarek's been tasked with this before just being that one soul floater warning sign the astrology - thrown out at B and they've done nothing this time out I'm looking at this a site defense and wondering I mean if MIB are just go for on this no long presence it is solely on device and he's already picked up the first kill but he's caught trying to overextend around the corner and M IVR they just burst and blast into the a site they've done it so it seems they finally found their footing on this side of the map and it doesn't come with long plays it doesn't come with some sort of elaborate execution it comes with a rapid pace that's how they get in and now as they fall back Carrick looks to nail them against the wall the first is two more to take but it looks like they could still get away with something but what's important launders is even though it wasn't an immediate reset there hasn't been much time for a straw lished to accumulate cash I don't know what stance they're gonna be in if MIB are clear the board let's definitely take a look we see that there's actually quite a few players who are not in the best situation on a straw list this could be a really relevant safe to keep a close eye on because it seems like an M IVR because they've lost rounds they don't want to go and be a little bit too overzealous maybe lose a kill or two but the buy ups for astralis I believe they'll be there but they're not gonna be perfect couple of players have actually converted the AKS full set of grenades on device utility belt looking all good for most people it's not full nice but it's actually not so bad so they do fall on their feet and it might be are also very healthy ya know MIB are we're able to take bathrooms into a there was no one from a straw less s long there was just no contention there whatsoever for whatever reason and an utter turnaround here from device between rounds he goes from hiding behind the a site plant box to all of a sudden going on this for a towards fountain so not wanting to give away all of that real estate as they did in the previous round it looks like a straw Louis looked to hold on to a little map control because that can be costly that's it that's a classic classic thing that happens with the a site on overpass is you may get really close they can just overwhelm but I don't know if Terra can't anticipates a man behind the sandbags got very lucky there now he was definitely spotted Matt just being so far away from the angle even though he wasn't on camera he could assume from his perspective he had info fluffed it long cleared some take a shots we'll have to ring out but the CT so far back it won't make too much of a difference and now we've got the orders it's looking like a PDA Connor he's spent a little while since we've seen MIB are go all-in on something like a monster push I got the time to possibly wrap around through short but the question is then can majus lock that down whereas if they all just charge it through monster here and now there's nobody to really stop them Magisto he could find cover behind the sandbags if he's fast enough on his feet but instead he falls back Tarek he's completely flash but still stands I mean this is another situation where by EMI VR can get the bomb down they're gonna actually start pushing through and clearing water there's three kills here for mi VR and they're tying things up at 14 they've convinced a straw less back and now now would be the time to chase kills and just crush a straw less because no matter what we're going to round 30 yeah round 30 and no money for a straw Lass's device also falls being an off that they won't be able to recover and won't be able to reap I do you and Dupree here it's the last man standing cause the time left on this bomb I mean his life is still in question fur might be the man to come by him will he spot him in this situation and this is a tense moment those of us you know it but first turned his attention away and they'll at least have one gun to take it in the next round I like the I like the way we've seen these kinds of blanketed bomb sites in terms of smokes like think back to the esight when we saw those smokes up and it was Dupri's individualistic multi-kill that actually shuts everything down right a big frag from a single player when you have those frantic fully smoked kind of 4v4 close-quarters scenarios that's all it takes is for one individual to go big and this time we see it on the B site but it's Derek who turns it not to the favor of Asher Ollis but instead steals it away for the Brazilians he gets up on the barrels a couple of headshots and this could have so easily been denied because you saw how tarik was flashed at first you saw how he's standing out in the open with nothing to do but because he survives look what happens he unleashes himself and he ties things up at 14 oh my god they're actually playing for the round 2 nd the game to end here the amount of money they had they could have decided to buy on the next round it would have been 3 round loss I I wonder the idea is here because they've at least got the one rifle they probably would have had a decent buy next round if they did attack this onto the three round long I for the amount of times we've seen a straw let's go for saves yeah it surprises me to see this happen Matt for sure we have been they have been tailoring their strategies and buys to the sames they have been very conservative with their cash and they hurt by an MIP I heard all those Nate's they they have to know that a straws are poor so this is quite interesting the anti-eco towards long similar searing scenes here for the Brazilians the Turkish and Stewie which I don't want to get where he's from me correct but yeah they have now got ton of advantages the only thing I can see happening here is is if if if you lose you know go for a complete and utter gamble stack leave a single player on the a site or be wherever it is you want to gamble and then either you have a gambled hold with a force buy or if these players you know lose a site quickly that's when you transition into an immediate save and then in the follow up around you still have your kevlar grenades and you'll be alright but it's a gamble you have to assume that everybody gets out of here alive or you just go all-in and you try to deny a 15th round for m.i.b are it would be huge to do it in such a fashion in the grand finals of the map that could push this into the astrology my BR of their title stacks at people shot this immediate rotations come out the site exec is on 28 seconds up we've seen them falter and fumble glaive could be a single handed board but he goes on top of the box and it's spotted two free connects to spray down but that's only for one kill and it looks like they've got this in the bag because there's still enough time to retrieve the bomb and get that went in cold Zahra sees it coming a mile away and device may be fantastic he can be phenomenal even but does he have it in him to win this one b3 he's upgraded into the m4 13 shots in the mag and the first kill finally connected second once up close for just on the other side of the smoke and swapping out to the sidearm leaves him on only five shots so he fades away to save Wow what is he linger a second time the clock is not even that far gone I feel like even though he's a little bit low on HP looks for the damage I don't even know if he gets away at this point potentially just under the ball but yeah it looks like he's he might be fine it comes close but the tenacity from MIB are going back to a one more time in the face of it saw seeing the Nate's right realizing that even though it's like anti-eco play like he's been around the place where they've lost the majority of their rounds on t side and they still pull it off and they stayed they say it's strong yeah I mean I feel like a straw 'lest like pulling out that by it's like obviously because they're confident I feel like they can't even remember the last time that they went to OT another cut is leaving last time they've been to OT right like I can only imagine and it's really not often you see us able I mean a force up like that it's funny like in the most dire of circumstances that they do pull one out of the Hat but very uncharacteristic but yeah not successful either and they're gonna go ahead again and have like a really mixed by here at least some players who have automatic guns but for the most part gonna be low on utility and my PR know that this is their map to lose you've come this close and a rather awful first half one that didn't make us think this third map could even really be in question whether or not they'd spring it back was all on this T side and they have done a fantastic job they have had struggles they have lost rounds to the clock they have fumbled when it comes to executions but at other times they have just shown other confidence liquid rage on these entries at time but it all comes down to this one a stralla skid still force ot and in order to do so they're playing off of the back of an m4 Scout UMP two pistols grenades are their single kit there's enough pieces of the puzzle for me to believe because it is a straw Louis at the end of the day yeah that's something to always remember because if you don't you'll get caught off guard now that that part of the plan has not been fruitful no needs have landed there decided to move on potentially back towards a Dupree the reaction grenade goes overhead but just a bit too far remember that's the one m4 for Dupree so to see him on such a forward stance makes me a little wary you don't want that m4 to go down you want him to be in a position where if he makes first contact he can ensure a fallback and play a safer kind of bunkered position something like behind Optimus Prime or floating between the dice box you want him to be able to rotate as well if suddenly it switches to the B site because remember Astralis have no forward positioning they have no information or confirmation as to where MIB are are at but they do have wind of this play and they do have the ability to lock down monster that would cut fallen off from the rest of his team who look to be excessively pushing through short but there's twenty seconds of time could be a big issue yet again they don't have control of posture they're being shot in the back but the kills are still coming their way and with Dupree caught off guard it falls on to device MIB are looking to push this to a third map and they they will not go down without a fight they'll continue to defend this title and we're not going anywhere mohanty absolutely did the impossible I can't believe it they they brought it back from such a disastrous half it made it 1614 i wild four rounds at the end three within it I mean we had that period in the second half were five rounds non consecutively one back and forth between the teams what happens if astralis is able to establish themselves in that this t side this comeback it's cut entirely short none of that even happens and we are done here on two but folks we're not done at all heading to inferno for that third decider I cannot wait yeah I can't either so we're gonna go to a break maybe back to the desk and then we'll come back with map three [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this isn't real life it's bad cash is pulled up because daddy's house [Music] it's gonna be such a fun day are you ready for me it wasn't movies or books it was games that shaped my dreams [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] how are you feeling about your day off these are father pretty rare in my opinion so whenever I have a day off I want to spend it on something really unique do the things I want eat the things I want I've known Martha for four to five years I believe that he has the right knowledge about me to pick the things I like do you trust him are you ready it's gonna be such a fun day yoga yeah yoga are we doing yoga you're gonna love it it's so great you've got to be kidding my aunt is doing it she looks pretty great so what you're seeing is that I'm and he'll lift up into high lunge inhale forward to plank exhale lower halfway down inhale lift your left leg up and back relaxing your face we're gonna do that two more times I still you think that the Myanmar tonight silly quite similar we like the same things we like to do the same things I'm really happy he's in my life [Music] well that was much different than math one over pass is complete and MIB are have done it they reset between the maps they make an extraordinary comeback a seven to one run to end that map to force us on to a third an incredible game I have Christine I've got kioshima here with me to to talk this one through and I don't think any of us really saw that that happening after map one no and after the first side as well we're just like okay it's gonna be a wrap again but somehow they managed to come back on the T side and they set up their own pace and they were just like controlling the game at some point so it's like a good feeling to see this now yeah MIB are definitely came out strong they won both pistols cleanly they want all the anti post only and that's what they need is right so it definitely helped boost into winning gazelles a little worried because the other close match versus Wallace on versus nip on nuke they it was also a close match but the last seven rounds they just closed it out where I'm all in a row and I was afraid that that's what was gonna happen here but MIB are pulled through and they ended up closing out the game and it touched on a lot of points that we had of kind of what they needed to do obviously both pistols is gonna help in cue one thing you highlighted right at the end and the pregame was they need to be aggressive they need to be assertive Kristine you had mentioned that they need to be able to control the pace of the game at both things they did on that tee side it was the North American players you know we talked about follow we talked about cold zero is Stewie with 24 kills Taric with 23 they were the initiators yeah we saw Stewie like jumping through smokes after bomb plan and getting two kills out of it it's just something that you don't usually do but somehow it worked and then it probably like hype them up as well a lot for this game and you just like keep doing it and keep having some like risky plays and it paid off at the end they want them out that might have been the best game I've seen Stewie plays since he joined this MIB our team I mean that was that was super impressive because seeing thoughts on down the to North America as being the go-to in this you know finally we're getting that aggression that they had in cloud 9 we're getting that kind of a feeling from them in this map yeah well I mean we have the smoke criminal in the content so if there's a smoke there I expect them to do something with it and make do something creative really help their team helped secure around for their team and that's definitely what Stewie did he started off a little slow but he picked it up it's really a lot at the Edmond now is this is this match when you guys watch it are you more feeling it something that like I mean I maybe are figured out a way to have success or resist a straw it's dropping the ball a little bit down there down the stretch it's not too often we see teams go on a seven to one run against them the thing is like I don't think I actually just gave up on something or they play worse it's just MIB ow just find a way to make it work we see they're like constantly dropping the grenades on Abe and then going back B we'd like just necessary utility so they have like two smokes two flashes right one more top only what they needed to take this B side late-round and that's what works for them is this the only thing that I might be did can other teams replicate this is this something that like they just had a very good game or is this like if they found maybe something they can rely on in the future against a straw Louis I don't know that this is something they can rely on versus the Schultz in the future Dupree had kind of a quiet game in comparison to his explosive games that he usually has an M IVR I think they played it pretty simple they had a lot of contact plays actually so that tells me that they weren't confident in the strategies themselves and they kind of just wanted to unleash Stewie I guess yeah I mean that obviously worked and that was one thing we we discussed as well in the pregame is you know just kind of e you have to find a way to you have that kind of success and just kind of you know come out and just be aggressive it but that's what we saw from them for Ellis now I don't think we'll have any issues of them resetting obviously it's going to blow it in anyway so they're not dealing with any kind of collapse morale but definitely need to go talk things over their problem not used to too much of a challenge recently they've breezed through this event so far once they got at the plants of the major that just cruised through to that trophy I think astrology was exactly what's but I thought it was 1414 and they forced fought that round even though they could have secured potentially secured in overtime by saving their economy getting the weapons out make sure that office of Isis and they could have tried to potentially secure that overtime but they just said you know what we're the number one team in the world we're gonna buy some CDs device as an a4 let's do it let's just close this one out and I spent the effort Q I mean we always talked about in that situation do you play for the winner do you play for overtime where do you fall in that in this situation I would have done exactly the same wise because even if they fully go for the next one they don't have any or they're gonna have to job maybe to m4 supply with famis isn't some SMG so I rather play to pies well you can potentially win then just run away and just having won by only okay yeah that absolutely makes sense so what what is it moving for now a third map is gonna be inferno which is obviously phenomenal as a third map we all love it there unless you're an opponent of astrology you know this isn't as dominant as their nuke streak but but we all know very very well what that utility can mean for their opponents I think that's gonna be really helpful in my video the thing is I know they can see it's don't it just won best of one to win so it's become easier you don't have to like you think about what happened before you just come from this map that went well for them so they're gonna be fairly confident probably going to Inferno now are they gonna be able to avoid like all the utility that police use so well when are we gonna see a team counter that that'd be push that a straw stars I feel like they don't have the same one for quite some time now is it that effective or someone gonna figure it out things like you can figure it out because it's just one smoke one mole or two flashes that is what they use and then they'd use for the grenade a different position and they rely on if they see this kind of smoke they're gonna throw a G somewhere and if they don't see it again afraid somewhere else at some point just either like let him do it or just counter it by destroying two flashes or banana instantly back turn and then you'll go you have a one duel Christine for you whatever is the kind of key of this this third Malthus infernal is some kind of a specific players at another good performance from Stewie is it a strategy you know I think Inferno is actually the perfect match for the third decider it's it's heavily Street excited I would say but it is a map that's again we talked about this earlier on in the tournament it's so thorough it requires your players to be very disciplined and check every angle and use your utilize your utility otherwise they're going to get punished for it and so this is a map where each team will feel confident coming in if they are prepared and if they're not prepared it will be blatantly obvious for the viewers for ourselves because they'll look very lost and it's because this map has three choke points throughout the entire map there's the middle there's banana and there's ABS that's it and so with these three choke points [Applause] that sees you sided see what's gonna happen happen meet the money if you want to be able to challenge that on the T side you need some utility as well but obviously things are still going wild here and Istanbul but either way and furrow is gonna be the third map you've seen it plenty of times played in this tournament and many others you haven't seen it like this before this is our map breakdown of inferno Inferno is a timeless classic in counter-strike history since its inception in 1999 it has provided some of the most memorable matches and is the second most played map in the current map pool the defending CTS spawn close to both bomb sites allowing time to set up strong defenses the attacking T's get large amounts of map control from beginning naturally unless the CTS push them the challenge for the terrorists when attacking a is the many sharp angles to check on the way in if the CTS lose control off the top of mid they will be pushed back into the bomb site opening up the entire map to the terrorists the main action will take place on the iconic spot banana as both teams want full control of the entrance to be also look for the duels at the CT end of mid and pushes into the apse enjoy the match been a bit of a wild time here in the arena just when we went into that video a proposal was was made here on the stage and I believe I hope she said yes I didn't happiness not sadness we'll say she said yes before we dive too much deeper into inferno yeah you could see here some some loving kisses this is adorable we're all clapping we're all happy counter-strike brings us all together let's check it out if you guys were tuning in yesterday we had a dream team the analysts putted oh there are five best players that were at this event attending blast Pro Series in Istanbul and here you have it you have coldzera device Terrigal avens Antares and obviously four of those playing in these grand finals right so you guys did a pretty good job I mean obviously device still having a great bid of course to be the MVP of this tournament and of the finals itself the crazy thing that I saw all five players of astrology said it might have changed it for the second matter the first map yeah all five players of a straw so after the first map were the top five players this is crazy that just show like the dominance they had through the whole tournament to have the five players mean that you have to stop literally everyone and everyone have their game so they mean it's really like a complete team all of them have like flying skills and they're just going through everything together it is it is a luxury isn't it to have five players that are able to frag in that department but Eric not doing too bad himself as he is on that dream team right in the center and they're gonna need a good performance out of him going into inferno now just a little bit deeper what are we expected we know we've we've talked about a strong Sun inferno we know the dates we not only like to play we know devices mobile with the ATP what is MIB are gonna have to do to counter this how is it gonna be more contact place are you expecting them to play a little bit more strategic because the utility that a straw is has can slow down those contact points the things gonna be way harder to play contact plays on inferno but what I want to see like the first thing that came into my mind when he saying founder with miv eyes cushy fresh smokes and never stopping he's gonna go in behind gonna he's gonna go he's never gonna stop and that's the first thing came to my mind when you just say that and I'm actually excited to see that happen again if somehow is is he gonna do it he's gonna be he's gonna feel like confident enough to do it again a Charlize right now when they know that ice is the best team or in founder right now yeah we'll see how it goes either right that is just moments away we're gonna head to a commercial break and when we come back we're gonna start getting the final map of the blast pro series Istanbul grand final underway don't miss it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this isn't real life it's bad cash is it pulled up because daddy's out [Music] it's gonna be such a fun day are you ready for me it wasn't movies or books it was games that shaped my dreams [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh sure fire in the hole I'm will Klaus and welcome to headshot the show that hits the nail on the head the cow with the banjo and sprays bullets well just about everywhere your new concise upload for all things counter-strike a hybrid of news views and noob doubt dues and it'll be an eclectic weapons crate of content - ranging from team profiles tips and killer kills it's like a bull in a china shop we've denied a lot of damage so let's switch off the safety and get this puppy fired up first on the agenda this week we're putting the ninjas in pajamas under the headshot crosshair think back to the heady days of 2012 Bowie was still with us the floss was just a twinkle in the backpack kids eye Pokemon go was Pokemon gone that's heartbreaking this was the Golden Age of the NI peas indeed stretching well into 2013 this team enjoyed a purple patch of dominance south era they make Floyd Mayweather's record look positively part-time [Music] ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the main stage inferno it couldn't be more well-timed or done a perfect word to describe what this last match in this blast pro series is gonna be all about whoever wins this next game is gonna be the blast Pro Series Istanbul champion we are incredibly excited I know you guys are at home and here in the arena r2 let's head straight over to the casters and let's find out who is gonna go home our winner over to you thank you absolutely Adam oh man launders I don't know if I've ever been this excited yeah I mean we have the map three we have what we'd hope for in a grand finals I mean an astrologist throughout this entire event never giving up even anything more than 11 rounds and that happened once and now we have it they've lost their own map choice leading us here the grand finals map of grand finals map it is inferno and I can't wait for things to get hot no there's never been a place for two teams to do battle that's more iconic than this map right here and what a great way to end it I feel like this is probably gonna be the most competitive map and overpasses not a map they should have won MIB are only the core of it might be our only beating astral is October 1st 2016 the last time it's been there you ever do it that is an unbelievable amount of time let's see if they can do it a second time tonight because in doing so they again would defend that blast championship they currently hold on to jackets coming off Conor all right let's do this let's do it he's standing folks that's how you know it's real utility looking good for a straw was still double smoke grenade no kit till he looks even better for EM IVR and nothing's been forced out of their control I mean we've seen nothing from a Sharla's I don't even know if their bodies have been spotted look at the tension now between the offense and defense the trainee gonna jump right into it the boyband of players standing in the hallway ready to triple peak I just blinded holding and burning so there he goes but he actually gets fadeaway headshot in the process dropping the bomb and delaying the platform not oh oh my I was gonna say enough but device still gets it done with one headshot he's good fur with a reload is cippec's just goes barreling through smoke glaive tried to do the same zip X took his place and then glaive just bailed yeah he's calling it early it feels like I don't think that he's gonna go for the big wraparound or is he's making his way down banana now the bomb hasn't been planted so obviously there's gonna be the seed planted in his mind that maybe there's a chance here but I think he would've told himself a bill of goods if he tried at this point so now he's actually just gonna call it and you could see like the decisiveness and those in those unwinnable situations just call it quits take the cz into the next round try to knock down an SMG it's worth way more money and don't try to win a retake versus three players with five bullets and a cz sage advice for anyone who would think is possible an mr BR with a clean exit and Dupree look like he was gonna wide swing at least get one frag but MIB are we're so incredibly ready for that and it's again pistol rounds it's been touted on the desk time and time again how important they are and this is one of two last remaining that could potentially do it accounted for them on the second half of overpass to help them bring him back me there's no way and you know there's just no way without it look like device even could have actually shut down that pistol play I mean I was amazing even crowd enough time to hide behind the box but when he peeked back up that the block ripped his hair off did lead to this t side pistol round of all things heavy strong utility sure all is still capable of the upsets in this one anytime miss Charlotte's house grenades I wait yeah where I speak and people talk about the grenades constantly now on it on inferno on banana it's a lot about these the multiple ways that they use them for different portions of the map a little bit of damage dealt as they know that MIB are have started to encroach upon car and maybe even towards the choke point but they got away clean twenty health twenty twenty-five health between two players there's nothing to scoff at especially with how dangerous a straw us are with pistols but it's it could be worse for sure so they're gonna take that on reset still no info on what site might be stacked it's always the outstanding fear on inferno to try and figure that out without risking too many people the smokes come into play right yes start burning away from the clock I mean we've got 45 seconds left and Dupree and device still hang on to those pieces of utility hole have they actually cycled back players to refresh the smokes they've got one more which means that the you know 20-second mark I could throw another oh man he's gone feces that just out in time he's blind but regardless he's dropped off 30 seconds how many times have we already seen em I've ER fall short because of time this cannot be one of them why it is looking good device and sit back two kills on the side arms colds gonna try to bail them out 15 seconds and four opponent still to find now it's down to this it has happened yet again calls era just simply does not have the time to win this you'll try to fade away but he doesn't even survive a straw list with an upset again they put out the momentum like a finished cigarette instantly stealing it back taking control of the economy putting themselves in the bet - a possible and all that talk about how important of a pistol is obviously comes contingent with a thought that they're gonna steal up the next two rounds as well as we could see a masterful use of how of the smokes that they had remaining and it seemed like they really were focusing their attention on the B side even though they were over stacking a they left all their smokes on banana yep what's wild as well is is you take into consideration normally those smoker names just keep constantly refurbished the the choke point of banana but because Dupree gets pushed rate as he throws his down it's actually an underhand up close and that enables him to just kind of work the sides of it he's got a little bit of cover once he gets the first kill they don't know if he's retreated or if he is still there and I think he did a fantastic job of continuing to burn off the crucial seconds from that thirty to you know 15-second mark that's a big difference you can leave it down to the wire sometimes that's actually very powerful to play but that's an example of when it comes back to bite you this is one of the more bare-bones eCos where they have armor they have pistols they don't have much utility however they're relying strictly on their crosshairs and being able to hit clean headshots and steel a5 before in an unlikely scenario but those opportunities seem to be passing and strollers now that they've got their own five before don't have to worry so much about the tension and the stress that is rotations on inferno the key point here is just that this long Speedway from B to a and how rounds can end with a clean double entry cusp of this psycho that's a great flashbang three arms go up Frank's go back spray damage through a claim just classically spamming shots dealing so much damage and therefore this round is pretty much comfortable both before they even get close they have no choice there's nothing that they can do right they have their their victim to the smoke they don't have a way to smoke in front of it to make a play they can't even flash through it instead they've just got to hope that Astralis aren't holding their own grenades or using them well which is those those are two very unrealistic expectations what's wild as well as remember I mean MIB are they gave away free guns in the second round for a second I thought that was gonna work but of course it's peeked and denied Khalil and to aks are actually of course the product if MIB are losing that second round so it wasn't even smg's handed over we're talking straight legitimate rifles because of that even once we get to the gun rounds they never have to upgrade I mean maybe you chuck the Galil to the wayside if you want to include an awp for device and then you trade him for as m4 but this just sets up the economy of a straw is very early on yeah and now another free round basically they have a lot to lose but they if they won't have an easy time losing it throw full blocks here for em IDR so they make their way out through the apartments into well see what happens but no one of the tighter control points that it's more attractive for pistols is obviously these hallways it can't be easy to get out with the flash as well but an a K here to stop to stop any money for getting too many ideas just do free just really shutting down any opportunities whatsoever nobody really substantial damage beautifully done astrologist moving through the cleanup right doing what MIB are couldn't converting those first few rounds now we are at round five and finally MIB r can try again they are in their comfort zone but they already lost around where they definitely had the firepower advantage obviously noted by how much money is spent and around also known as equipment value for the layman the average matchmaker yeah but this is cooler I think it's much better cuz it's true it's still true it's true deep molotovs we saw that consistently time and time again you know that this is how Astralis like to set the tempo just reroute that the offense and tippex just seeing in harm toss a grenade past them not knowing there are so many people up close looks like a statue unshakable at the bottom of it for good reason finally when Stewie offers up something he immediately takes the kill and this isn't a cut round of all places so we've got a straw 'less just cornering and boxing MIB are in the bottom of mid they've given them no map control other than apartments and even that was slightly delayed because of early presence from the Danes not dying early key key point to consider to every single round of Teesside inferno and that's something that's a box that's left unchecked for MIB R but they are still given banana it doesn't seem like there are gonna be any more surprise grenades to come and stop them from coming up any farther this small table to feign an attack on P leaving some utility behind weakening their attack on a but at least they pulled one rotation and the site that would almost always have four with the correct information holds air then hits a crucial shot as well that's a big one it's still gonna leave this defense each side of the site and majus with a good angle using the bicycle to just get his head over the wall 20 seconds left again this is a high-octane situation big pressured moment and they're not making any further progress they have a smoke to cover them and allow for the fixation on the site but look at the kills they just all trickle in 10 seconds per falling he's got no clue where they're and a straw is suffocate them into smoke I have to say fallen like if he in that situation they got that killed on arch yes it's not easy to come up Lane and try to take apart the crossfire that is paid in sight but with the time remaining there's just one imperative objective and that is to put the bomb down and there's no way to do that safely unless they make progress together and they didn't decide to push up and it really put them in a position where they ended up doing it anyways but just 10 seconds later they're running a risk of losing around and in the most embarrassing way you know time running out when you're intending on taking a sight and I can't I can't kind of synthesize why based on what we've seen but they had the entry to get them to go and now we're just getting to the bully stage right this is when device just goes charging down three applying pressure as well with any case of the traits so successful now just picking apart the very minimalistic by here from MIB are they didn't have much to work with and how they have even less because the pace the rapid tape it's all gotten a straw Louis on fire the game I think we had similar scenes the overpass actually but yeah I don't know if that's that's a that'll tell you anything positive I'm sure if your MIB are you know like one five rounds in a row we got this map but at the same time at least it's still early for them but yeah another clean anti-eco to come off of kind of a tragic attempt at taking the a site they really can't let those round slip not in an event like this in the finals and just it just there's just no room for it yeah the final stage the last hurdle whoa zip X very close now catching the first one off and he just continued the spray through the smoke Eidos there's presents here and a frag grenade underhand it could do it but the seasons even better I mean spam through and Carrick's dead as well a solid hold from zip x3 kill single headed he's got the support over the shoulder but he is the rock a movable object until finally his head is punctured bonds got something to work with but his teammates so far away stewey could actually surprise this bomb site if you were to just suddenly burst but what he needs of course is that very quick kill and now it's been figured out he's gonna get boxed in fallen completely displaced and this is a straw is just picking up another round and it all comes down to zipping he's just answered back with his with his model moving forward as opposed to away from the pressure and right here there's a Molotov a fire right behind him but he stands his ground has a smoke down for support and he knows that he can fight and nobody from nobody from MIB are had any knowledge of where he was is completely disoriented in the smoke caught completely off-guard and made it look like fools by was honestly the master banana like he is he is always a front-runner and he's not known as the most aggressive player but he just knows how to strike that balance so well and that's why he doesn't he's never talked about as being one-dimensional falling not giving a shot on Dupree who does just go parading and soaring through mid this is a big op to whoever gets this kill I've seen hawk I've seen device hold that angle for 40 seconds to see nothing and then fall back it's very rare that he'll finally take that last step and now that he's regretting it we probably won't see it for another three years yeah the next time he might be our beats to score yeah that's a real knee-slapper cutter thank you don't slap yourself too hard this one's not even close to finished yet smoke secures vision just a second later fur actually gets very close and glaive is just inviting him to challenge this he's gonna take one shot and then fade off immediately trying to reposition but the reason he's slowed is because they tagged him not that that's gonna stop him he still manages to just deny for anything else that he's up close still fallen gets the best of him in the CQC situations if X is gonna try and use that smoke so he can fixate on banana anticipating the split but the big question is the a players can't rotate because they don't know if or when MIB R will rotate back to the other side of the map zip X he's unsure as to their commitment absolutely the most salient part of the round just denying these eight players from safely being able to rotate but zip X throwing this smoke delaying the time 19 seconds left it gets one kill that could be it yeah just needs to deny his plan he's gonna get that offer first he's very good at isolating these kills repositioning and engaging in 1v1 duels somebody has to absolutely has to pick up this kill fly for the fall plant into the two players down that's it Wow that's it they actually pulled it out in those last remaining seconds they finally were able to do it and now we have a new round here for for MIB are where they are back on their feet so great round from Stewie be aware of that flank and again just as Connor pointed out the value of having the arch splint to be is the fact that it's so unclear whether or not it's safe for for the CTS to be able to come through lane or wrap through arch knowing that it might be a situation where they come through library and then they regret that so they've got to wait until potentially the bomb goes down but it still came close now that option is up for grabs in their playbook you potentially reach back in and do something similar and that's a pain point for Astralis ice now taking a new position off the wall on banana flashed off his position but not before he throws it incendiary over the wall it's actually not too afraid to stay here now smart playwright it delays it just a little bit they are still adventurous but in doing so they nearly lose a life device if he hits that shot the numbers game and instead it's as if X Lane not able to hold the corner this time tear it comes to join his teammates and this isn't all in from MIB are on the B side and they're doing it at a sooner time than they usually do whoa device goes to the top of the coffins fully exposed blades get flashed straight in the face of Stewie and these kills are coming in so quickly so rapid was that run in here from MIB our and the attempt from a straw was to just make things confusing instead they're all dead yeah and honestly you want to fight fire with fire MIB are happy to play that game right if you want aggressive entries or you want to be aggressive on the defense they're gonna get in your face they're gonna happy happy to take that fight and we do see a couple of players in the red because they were Dinks you know that's this is a situation where the aks on the entry overpowered the m4 is simply because of the more damage per bullet now it's put a my but might be our in a very powerful position however even though they are down three rounds after this acerola don't have much money left over and although they are able to oh you know what I I might be mistaken it seems like on top of these two rifles they do have they have actually built up quite a Bank so even after losing that around because they had such a clean six rounds they're still want to be able to buy maybe another two rounds excuse me Dupre also coming away with that kill I thought there were something close to depleted but I was mistaken so at the very least it might be are having this much money left over who's gonna help them you know who's gonna help it's gonna help everybody okay we're gonna be able to see more rifle rounds which is always nice no one wants to see rifles versus eCos whichever way it is and in terms of mounting a comeback I'm every I definitely have more chances in this half now look at that almost a ninety eighty are across the board Forrester Ollis that's pretty unbelievable just huge I mean magic he tends to be that Pitt player and we haven't really seen them even get close to that a sight at times so it's an understandable reason as to why he is only on three kills that's true like kind of the last year of Defense on the a sight and the one time they did go there where they almost ran out of time and just get the one headshot so yeah potentially a little bit of a John for him if Matt just doesn't have to do much is because your frontline is that successful and that has been the case maybe a good sign if your fraggin or if you're winning and majus isn't fragging and again that very expensive Molotov just to funnel the terrorists in the early round into the positions that they want though to be in my [ __ ] smoke directly on top of it misaligning one of their grenades and not actually doing the damage so this is nice for MIB are Oh close one in this case Frank goes up and over again another one of the situations where you could have lost a man but just barely get unscathed oh my god this is big fir creeping forward flame catches him though so the potential flank is cut down zip X from a similar corner it's gonna try to unfold the same situation but he spotted nice boost over they clear close and sure enough they found him that was so tricky they threw the flash over and it makes it look like they're gonna try to wide swing through the smoke and instead they go for this like more softly calculated boost and a zip X is just trained on the angle a little to honed in smokes gonna block vision towards coffins flames waiting for his time to strike and Stewie shuts him down a second time it's not the first we've seen glaive attempting to just rush through and that watch debate devices he just slings back into spawn a receding back to his teammate Maja's who just hasn't seen that much action up here on the apartments and that is such a successful round from mmm IBR I mean this is definitely looking like a real game all of a sudden it's just it's a surprise to be in map 3 let alone the thought of MIT are actually taking the series but reality is becoming possible just dodging shots magic has to be cautious I mean they could still very well shut this down and he stopped the kill from above first but the commitment is what costs it Paul and only 2080 notes he was working that hard for exits yeah you really got a hustle now and oh my gosh for every inch every penny but yeah that's five down and that eats through the economy of mr. all's who still have quite a bit saved up and sees if X just caught completely off-guard just like you know one man I mean he is just one man and sometimes it doesn't feel that way no but he they can only hold onto one angle and coldzera showing elation it's definitely the person who if you put him in a final he almost always shows up in a huge way like yeah I think the most consistent throughout finals in his career for sure but the straws are no strangers again just a server full of major champions we were just blessed to be able to talk about these two teams going to head-to-head and now there's actually the hope or the chance that MapR could potentially maybe tie in this half 1/2 that a straw already caught on fire I mean they won five rounds in a row at a certain point it has been a long grind back and this round won't be any easier small tops are everybody I'd like to see if they throw that ball tough again how they use it so it seems like they're definitely using it to funnel a lot of attention towards B but MICR did a great job of avoiding any damage that's the one thing with that consistent ball it's all we see from a solace it does expose somebody early and if the timings there if the spawns are right you've got to be extra cautious you can see Majesty almost got caught that time would have been an easy casualty that's true you can't take your spots and so some if something if you're a player doesn't have the right spot it's not like a plug where you can just pick the best spot to go throw it it's the same guy every time and sometimes he could be way in the back so there they got ahead of it now they have a different angle on banana forward stands but no smokes actually being used here from a charlatan normally when you see these forward positionings it's cuz they've got this bottom of banana just constantly smoked and flamed off but nice counter utility here am i PR reading the situation and and dealing with it swiftly by burning believe it ooh the open cutting him down and now trying to give chase to zip X who's ejected from banana and will reside from the site with support inbound it's of course gonna be device with his off to move over Stewie set it up for a very light fake you know if this even holds someone for three four seconds on be that's a win for 300 bucks they'll take that every day in this situation to on a that's gonna be a hard sight to hold especially with these positions I mean they're just so exposed they're so in the open and now they're actually gonna walk forward here so trying to catch the t's off-guard with a shadow that's a shadow angle that he's not anticipating a second player from but still successful in killing the first and putting this in a 3 B 1 device comes over to support not finding an angle as of yet if he exposes himself the knee is so susceptible to the arch push but there is nobody there so he just has the camp all hit afflict like that because the time the time is what makes the difference a straw lyst locking it down thanks to lady locks and a timing on the clutch it is just so smooth a monumental flick from device and I mean if he didn't hit that fall in wins that trade he holds down that entire lane they easily escort the bomb - the bomb plant zone and then we have a whole new round but instead just drops the hammer right on fallens face that was nasty that was nasty a round that definitely mi BR had in spades yeah what I wonder with that is is do you think that pushing two players up from truck side is actually what pulled all of mi VR down that Lane so that they figured numbers were on this side we trade frag effectively because they had no arch control and a single arch player there is gonna keep the Vice out of the equation and allow for that plant to go down so the way I see it is that in a situation where if stewey throws is light fake on banana then they have the easiest rotation would be the art player so he's at least pulled the CD spawn no halfway in between both and if that's what their goal was they should have trusted that and assumed that if they smoked moto off then they also smoked that Art's rotation and then they could have just grouped lane how the Moto smoke godown device has no line of sight and then they can just push up together and just keep trade out the whoever's left on the site if only one or two I think they kind of didn't respect their own smoke which is fair sometimes just because it's only one smoke but that was clearly as we saw it worked really well right I also feel like if the bomb carrier as well isn't caught overextending around the box a bit and it never gets thrown out into the open it doesn't need to be retrieved quite a few what-ifs some minimal differences could have spelled out a different result wonder how tempted magic is to peer around that corner oh he's probably bloodthirsty right now tomato man's yet to come into full force oh don't give him a shoulder so take it through the chest wave left alone now trying to call for reinforcements and devices coming over there's a cat but he lines it up substantial damage from glaive with a frag to follow suit but fallen fallen he's too accustomed to playing as sure all's he knows those frags are always flying matches as you said bloodthirsty and for good reason now as he tries to upgrade it to the a kafir may anticipate that there's not a second player here system really well and blade was really patient even hits the head but it's not enough cope Tara's totally ready Duprey though then come back and try to answer with his own frag leaving coldzera alone red HP has the bomb and a sight but does he know that doesn't know the rotation hasn't coming out quite yet it's actually a device to gamble on it being a be hit and as an opera it's gonna lack mobility it's gonna have to make a read this is a round caldera should never lose even though he's so low HP no device is making a hasty rotation back there's still so much time burned off the clock at this point cold air could be anywhere this is a big one as well cold lead down that smoke over towards moto side and I don't know about this he's just gonna go for the small pit this is giving a lot of space in a lot of respect to device if you can just play that whack-a-mole peek up and drop down then sure you may spot him but device it's just gonna take a single shot to place this con and he's flying as cold wins the round a big clutch from coldzera a valiant effort there from astralis to shut down that entire a play you saw everybody being tagged up in the process Glaven from behind the push up through the apps but it takes more than that to stop coldzera yeah they were constantly a nuisance in this round like as we can see Dupree playing the buddy system with matches coming up late to kill fer and then getting extra damage here even taking down fallen coldzera just barely getting that kill by the skin of his teeth such low HP could have been a victim of a spray chancellor who'd even seen that round being one but now we have around MIB are actually were able to win against all odds in a straw that still looked fearsome as ever and that was the importance of the previous round again can't be understated salt sees heads pistols a couple of bits of utilities all that's afforded here from ash Wallace and and MIB are still fighting valiantly to get themselves a lead on this first half it's possible it's not perfect and they're already managed but it's starting to come back their way and with plenty of time left over they don't have to expedite the process yeah yeah it's around a team damage I think it looked more tragic than it was though with Tarek being so low when he got shot but at the end of the day it's a man down and now Dupre been spotted blue guy on the corner they fall back and MIB are start to consider constricting around the a-site the problem is they cannot get too thinned out oh my gosh that is the definition of gypped he took as much time as he needed with ap-250 to lock that down and he couldn't get the headshot I need new glasses because that looked dead I think they're they might still be working well do you breathe oh he's up close got the element of surprise but still he dies fallen just wrapping around the box and creating the space for this plant which will just push glaive back to the save so they worked their way thoroughly and slowly enough through that a sight defense to ensure nobody's caught off guard you always have to be cautious when there's seeds in hand yeah the pocket aks I mean all it takes is one corner unchecked a couple of players go down guns picked up I mean MIB are have fallen victim to it previously with that fresh on your mind you're not allowed to let it happen again oh absolutely not it'd be totally unforgivable and now clave oh just spots a dragon lore there's some free loot on the floor he is up and out of there I wonder if MIB are were aware of what was there however they are taking more standard route out in the halls and clay finds his frag lets him know that he is wielding a big gold gun oops it moves the dragon forward and that goes to device who actually has a very nice spawn not the ultimate and this is just kind of sad I think he was down to 15 HP from magically dinked him with a cz before he was killed but always important to see how it happens to that spawn for device was really good for potential mid peak but when you're the only weapon in the round for astrology decide not to get overzealous yeah fair point now there is gonna be the need for him to at some point make a play but it's definitely gonna want to make it a calculated risk if possible just utterly denies it sticks around even though he only gets one kill that's still good enough I mean it's a two-for-one thanks to devices positioning there's the graveyard of weapons now just here at the top of halls and an unfavorable situation for MIB R who at one on one side want to try to camp these out make sure they don't recover the aks but also just try to throw them over but don't want to get caught off-guard by a waiting pistol trap who knows what's around that corner oh that could have been another that was very ballsy deagle in the back of the site sees the man drop in pit Dupree is not playing here with device this is just a commitment in the corner has been cleared Zehra not one to deal with said gimmicks just bust the site wide open that awp could still keep itself up you may throw these pistol players forward see what they can get done but again a straw Louis no strangers to the save civics he's gonna recover in a K if they didn't yeah they left them there you can still make this happen I mean a C's ed confirming the presence that's the utility man for glaives so off of his grenades we should see these bushes with the AEK and off now sip X comes Y doesn't get the man in pitfall in just two quick head on a swivel playing around the side of this wall finally will drop but again the big question is time I mean that is the most significant issue so they're just gonna go for the kills at this point bombs either gonna blow them up or the C T's pick up their frags but regardless of the kills it is of course a straw yeah actually stayed alive even though coldzera did almost 60 damage it felt like in the back of hit so we're covering that off for the last round is imperative and yeah that could have got they could have got a tricky for sure but after that all these shenanigans and hauls that amazing flick by the way just an obtuse flick up to the corner of his screen after turning his attention away magic gets traded out one for one in the frustration on the face of Dupree for good reason is this literally just the last potentially 15 rounds of this entire it's higher tournament isn't blowing my mind remember - uh listen they want six in a row that seventh round that one comes about believe it the eleven and it was instantly reset so the economy always played against them MIB are have contained them in that regards just out buying and bragging at this point we said that round it's still MIB RS to take you assume that at at a 6-1 score line Astralis would at least walk away with majority of rounds but man want to turn around a huge comeback a lot of attention has been on halls in this half that is it's been paramount to it might be our success when device offered up just a sliver of hope maybe if there was another ten milliseconds that player was on a screen he might have clicked wouldn't have put it past him to hit it either it seems like a dashing time Connor maybe they'll delayed just a bit more here Mohan because the smokes would not facilitate a push and stand up just yet still continuous utility usage still enough on a straws as well to really obscure this execution it's the advantage to MIB are on the nades the wall is up flurry of smokes have gone over the rooftops blanketing a in cover but not dealing with the players who still stand here it is a heavy defense presence the flash bags look good but the entry is denied Dupree comes in from the quarter and majus from the pit astralis will keep majority of these rounds they nab themselves an eight man that box is a place where a lot of players end up Dupree is one of the most consistent though to do it that was such an unreal spray transfer and a great round overall from majus the man that we talked about just not having a lot of action here but that's it just a sweeping spray into the face of Stewie 2k and magic as teammate in the crossfire delivering on the goods that's it that's height the tightest half you could ask for last map of the tournament last half of the tournament final 15 victories are within reach and Astralis don't feel comfortable we've got the reigning major champions and the returning blast champions here this tournament was a given yep 15 rounds let's go smoking kit for fallen four-man bracket defense from MIB R this looks to me like a read got the 2-2 for the Pitzer move and fur is actually here as a debate his teammate to wait in the smoke if they decided to jump through it fallen gets his head clapped as a quick snap on the snow they haven't rotated they just stayed feel as though again right into something here but the problem with this positioning is that it opens up balcony entirely I mean that is wide open and they've lost a player on arch now these two porch defenders become so susceptible to try and lock off this cross with bomb thrown out into the open things get tricky we've got a man advantage for miv are looking to cut back this lead and 45 seconds for astralis to try and wiggle their way out of pit they have to worry about fallen but fallen has to worry about them because remember he was good from the B site so that rotators weak but what's not weak is this man up in apps who's been spotted cippec's knows and so he's gonna plant in a safe corner cold Sarah's gonna come peeking wide of the man in pit his safe device rails them with a perfect headshot on to Tarek that's crucial now they have information it's fallen tag from the B site as a rotator and whoever's up here in hamster just comes flying outwards cold Sarah actually manages to get his feet on the ground now fallens dealt with swiftly they have cold and a pickle a pinch and he's got no way out of it other than superb accuracy six shots in the mag none of them will land it is MIB R to lose this pistol although is it unbelievable recovery from a straw list and that to v3 they had nothing going for them they had to come out of hit to get the bomb fallen plated as patiently as he possibly could and they had that big flank coming out with tarik consistently being a nuisance but not even dying they delayed for the longest amount of time possible and Astralis still snuck onto the site put the bomb down and good cover and were able to defend and hit all their shots in the two on three I was amazing from Astralis now it's not around that your stat you have any chance of winning most of the time like that is that is a great recovery Magisto viously Alain and with the importance of pistol' a stark difference here is the second round from a straw list features five SMGs remember that when MIB are flubbed their second round in the first half they gave over a Khalil and two Kalashnikovs so very different hardware here for a straw Louis I think they're just as susceptible to the potential force by win seeing as MIB are well-equipped and obviously well skilled but if they do manage to lose this it's not as though they're giving over the biggest of guns so less to lose it's still so much to gain the money the conversion rounds early the double digits so quickly secured I mean a straw Louis they've actually given up close apps to multiple teams now I believe it was close earlier today versus MIT ro and dust2 and then it was a clean sweep in the second half NIV and I see on nuke exact same scenario close first half it looked as though Astralis weren't invincible but it's all false confidence and superb second halves so let's see if this is a third example of that now we have that armored play here see Z's in hands equal distribution among the sights see T's bringing off headshots already there's another one tarek doing everything but hitting the head leaving zip x wounded but still up the sees that spam is good enough to deal some damage but the problem with the spam like that is you're left with this 14 shots the bombs been planted running out of ammunition just maybe now trying to go for the save fallen lucky pea alive at this point so yeah count your blessings tuck your tail and just save for the next one no absolutely it's not a regret if you can try it again so it obviously doesn't apply to all circumstances in life I'm just gonna say mister forward I know we have a younger audience out there but yeah having the happen to be able to not not rebuy Armour and see these in the next round it's just it's gonna cause so much fear in a straw Louis and again this is something we always talk about that they do really well is just knowing when it fights over and so a stroll is with the lead first team to get the double digits but we've seen that happen before a mac-10 recovered from fur and he'll take that into the next round as well did I read that wrong no oh I guess he didn't get the kill I guess for was the one who I don't know what happened Connor but something happened on that last round people dying and and at the end of it it's still Shaw's to the three point lead that's what's important right yeah and obviously I'm pretty into the aks now right a couple of rifles thrown into the mix because SMGs replaced and upgraded you going to rifle and they're back on fire a straw --less started to crawl away with this my BR tried their hand at stealing back in eco but I couldn't give it all as a taste of their own medicine of course remember that it was a 6-1 score line at the start this game for a stroll is so strong starts don't transition into lopsided halves mi BR when turned into a caged beast can sometimes get rabid and I'd love to see it come out now show the teeth release the claws start ripping these Danes limb from limb so not many teams in the world that can even call us so four MIB are to be being this close I'd say it's a good sign in terms of the competition but they are gonna be extremely salty if they lose this this will be a huge victory either way now it didn't come easy for either team and they obviously have that respect you know it's just and this round is not gonna come free either damage has been dealt down to 35 seconds first Oh goddess Easy's got its frag and claves here to try to take attention away from aid but they're already three people here is not much more you can do that's a big kill this is interesting 20 seconds the ball is going back to be it's gonna try to scuttle its way inwards now stewey the smoke fades just in time can't land a shot and glaive over the shoulder removes fur in the process there was a chance there a possibility with high probabilities that mi BR could have stopped that unreal adjustment actually to go back to be I mean they technically walked back into what would have been a stack but I I don't know I don't even know what what sounds were heard from both sides that helped them allude to the fact that this was the safe thing to do whether it be mi VR giving up on the stack or a straw Liz coming right back thinking that maybe they'll leave I don't think clave heard them rotate but I guess this presence was just enough what's wild to is that stewey infer were in the process they were heading out towards CT spawn so had that hit even come maybe five six seconds later they would have found only one player there in an attempt to defend so lucky to have still been near got another round for Astralis this is now a four-point lead but for the first time on this CT side MIP are have guns yeah they take this rifle they're back on fire Stewie 2k has only got to defend with just a Faunus the most most players on ma b ro lacking in frags you know in a in a situation on CT side where they will be dispersed it'll be summit a summit be some one part specifically lots on boiler who knows everybody's got to contribute no trying to lead by example as he just flies around the corner of banana to Vice happy to go toe to toe wants even more so of a duel but it is MIB are to fall back here again it's important for all individuals to step up on inferno because you are spread but it's also very important for everyone to have grenades utilities so crucial on a map like this which means once a team starts getting close to the finish line once you start forcing you're really trying to spell disaster but they fade it off it's to eat eat swine just enough to get a single kill fur pinned into the box they know he's here but that's not gonna stop him from hitting headshots not just just gets plowed on his attempt to push from the truck now look at this go it's traded yet again it's all fallen on to zip X in a one versus three the bomb sites being swarmed at he's fully blind but not dispatched he announces himself and goes for the reload the paints from Tariq is good and that is MIB R with an early gun round and a crucial win in this form three players alive and easy rebuy and a very real chance at a continuation here an incredibly bare-bones defense two people one at spools when at first oranges and as he was fur was boosted up he even got spotted falling off using his molotov perfectly hitting the shot through the wall and the player who had crossed the pool after who's flashed by his teammate everything really fell into place but he did make the most of his circumstances and then also repositioning the second oranges to mismanage the comms of the other team who tried to call out where he was three four molotovs now just being thrown every which way towards banana again that utility usage is so key in exerting early control we have device on the other side the front-runner for this be offensive what up lick the vice just sticks it to fall and Stewie retreats into the box like he has no support from first cousin single-handedly hold it down and he does steal substantial damage that's something for them to be proud of something for MIT are to work with but this is the save launders this is the kind of clean execution and just smooth push into a bomb site that gets to stralla surround that was such a disgusting flick from device and it obviously it wasn't even with it off this time it was on and off a fallen didn't even have time to click let alone react or even try to flick do that again obviously that would be something special I think one thing to note you know for people who aren't used to astrologers inferno is one thing that's special is just how often cippec's is playing at the sandbags in front of the smoke that's like one of those things that you can't really teach someone to do because they also besides learning like all these different scenarios where you have to think on the fly you've also got to put yourself in a high-pressure situation - like frag out constantly and most teams don't have that most teams are not gonna risk doing that I mean just alone the tea the amount of Nate damage that you'll have to take playing that position there's just so much improvised it improvisation improvisation third time's the charm give it the college try it and there's just so much of that involved that that takes a very special person to be able to do it only one player over 180 RN ona is believed the the outstanding player of the major finals yeah yeah yeah most certainly what's wild is if X has the same amount of kills and and you know 40 les 80 yards mm-hmm so finishing off the job someone else is working the body yeah everybody else is up there though right we've got a kill distribution of 13 to 16 for a stroll as a buddy showing up in this grand finals and that's what we talk about right the depth through and through the skill and ability is always there for the Danes and while it's never I'd say appropriate to call out individual performances that's just not the case for em I've ER their finding weaknesses yeah and the shots are exploiting if the comeback happens we'll definitely see all of those SATs exactly you don't want to live and die by them but at the end of a day do mean something they also know that so we've seen em IBR expel a lot of utility onto banana but not follow what by trying to hold or control it instead kind of loosely having fall and pick an angle work with it for a second and then maybe fall back or get one tapped by device but on this round it's been called out one more time and there's no one there at the top of banana so stand is a last line of defense to delay for time which they desperately need to do and instead are gonna rely on a very unlikely site hold between two players in a crossfire it's a matter of timing with this smoke if fallen can get it down fast enough and it's gonna delay the entirety of this execution or they have to do the very risky thing of running through it but smoke goes down at their feet looks like they're gonna try to charge past these majesty I mean is any open so that's an easy pick up first we then takes the place of the corpse looks away from the flash and the kills come trickling in MIB are attempting to lock down this site we'll have to give up a couple bodies leaving them still in a man advantage the rotators come over and claims denied any further presence from fur and zip X past the clutch an incredible player we always praise him for this ability but it's gonna have to be a cerebral play because he has no utility the bomb is planted for him and if he bails out towards banana he may think it's clear seeing as Tarek is actually a little slow on this push up but if cippec's also hides in a corner cippec's actually has a butt again unsuspecting to tear it's late lurk I like that from Tarek just play it extra cool let your other two teammates make that first move and then with the element of surprise grab your team and ninth round yeah I feel like Steven Seagal wouldn't be able to work his way out of that one that would have been a little bit too much to ask but back we highlight how well Stewie plays in the site there he's obviously got a great flash from his teammate in ct2 a system and getting his next kill trusting it tucking his face into the coffins and then turning around to finish off the player in pool and then sliding back across the the the site over to oranges to and understanding where the next bite will come from the guy who jumps up two tries to trade and that's again another type of another type of engagement that's so hard to teach someone to do on the fly but you can see how his mind was working and ended up hanging off for MI BR but again I am a little bit concerned as an onlooker of the CT defense - I want to say waste the grenades on banana without following up with any kind of presence to try to also finish a kill off on banana before allowing the 5v5 before allowing a straw list to get to the top of it and think about an execute but now we're back on a the first time we've seen this off position fully blinded was Tarek and he falls onto the head of cold they worked their way back into the safety and cover of pit rotations been pulled we can see the relay as player one has decided to over stack on a well the ball it's clearly changed its mind and course - he's gonna be alone on this B sight hit again but famously holding this B site in high pressured situations and now that he's put down a smoke this could delay it just long enough for a rotator to come over I mean at what point - mi BR give up on this four-man a stack they want to be sold a bill of goods they don't wanna think that maybe a double fake students first and he's actually able to fall back ever slightly he hasn't lost any health either this is a full bar of HP to try and contest' the sight 20 seconds left in this fight he's now done that he still ate it long enough and things are about to get frantic they just continue to fall and it looks like Stewie may have won this round single-handedly locking it down it is MIB R to double digits unbelievable that's like an eco s performance on the B side to be left completely alone on the gamble that it might be a just left destitute I buys all of his teammates stacking the site even the off leaving him and going over towards a and the hands of fallen and and still he comes up with it's the three frags at the end of the day I mean there's this is the only way that they win this this is the only way that MIB are get to double digits this early complete monster and that's not the first time that he does that right think back boston eleague major championships and who's sitting in the back of the be site zoom on a sword in their side yeah officially renamed yeah now look at the result of this the d KO cup see sets matches a barbecue and banana and here they stand in face they throw their knees down they're picking their anti eCos to make it seem as if they are giving a lot of attention to banana and that might actually work out point well furs gonna have some pressure applied but he's just fine with that tarik as well taking a fight to his own hands downing zip --ax was all thing what would be pretty much the cleanest anti-eco that we've seen from MIB arist Rawls have had no problem having clean antico's they're super solid this is a pretty big win this is a pretty big win just going ahead and correct him collecting the round win bonus along with keeping all of their utility and because a rounded end so early so much utility and the greatest sign of health on CD side is the conversion of a case we've already got three straws still have a very very decent buy they still got a lot of options I know they see an opportunity open and I feel like that still is exploitable and we haven't even seen all of their eggs yet there's there still is actually so much in the PlayBook of the straws to be seen yeah and that's what I look forward to seeing right is how they're gonna change things up because I feel like Stewie's giving them a good reason to start avoiding B and on top of that remember even when Stewie's alone it's become a difficulty so if they do happen to head out towards this a site it has more often than not had a majority presence from the defense this would be no different tarek not flashed off with his position is actually given a chance to use it this time around and fir has to let them cross the CT spawn this puts fallin in an awful spot can you lock it off his board nice flick onto the head of magic destroyed in his stance but SIF X takes his place and even now fallen still just flirting with the idea of falling back sure enough okay he's taken down but zip X is now pinned into an awkward spot he's got players coming in from all directions so he to overtaking and thus leaving the remainder of astral is split Wow there's actually a chance here depending on how if the bomb is spotted early which it actually is it device actually gets caught off-guard could have caught tarik rotating if he had known there was someone there but now it's just live just slain by tarik now starting to come to life a good multi frag for him here towards the same site I think that's what he needs everybody picking up the pieces everybody above now 10 or more kills for M IVR it's got to be a team effort if you're gonna take down the best in the world there it is Tara from his treehouse fall him back to default laying down the law started up this half with 4 frags it's been a long road back but his team has helped about Stewie winning those rounds on me everybody's contributed to give him the number of opportunities he has to get back into the game it looks like the pressure is off this is a big fast ones if X actually catches falling he's not able to retreat and so it's gonna be Stewie again contested on this B site his reinforcements come in the form of cold Zahra and a two man pushed down mid but they've retrieved at least an M before that is in the hands of gleave Stu box cleared zip X has been the difference maker here his absolute and utter aggression that's not something you look for me but [Applause] stroll is through and through oh my god what a round from a straw --less fallen has gotten killed once again at that corner that's time to a cz the explosivity of astrologist at an all-time high at the moment and clearly here zip X has a bone to pick letting them know that this is his site doesn't matter what site it is what site what side it is such a rapid pace I mean even with the smokes down that right there that's it that's a turning factor if Astralis end up closing out this map based of that it's because you cannot make mistakes that's what we say if MIB are are going to take a win over astralis and a best-of-three everybody has to perform and you have to minimize mistakes but losing to see Zed 75s in the final six rounds of the third map in a ground finals that that is just classic astrology yeah we've got more more reciprocity from the other team on the ad our score lines if more of a win up equalizer here with the amount of different levels of damage that's been dealt from either side and all players know players underperforming severely until around until the map is over then we can kind of reinvestigate but at this point we keep saying and still anyone's game back to banana not a lot of knaves expelled by the sea teas here and I actually feel like these are you - these are pieces of utility they could have just saved for the execute hey if we have enough banana after throwing their mall tops and then just falling back to the site they have only delayed for an extra five ten seconds astralis about no time or no problem executing with enough time remaining why not hold on to the molotovs potentially use them as the site players come in we saw how valuable was to fer in that situation where he held from oranges and so I like that they're keeping their options open here through the smoke Sarah just waiting for that killer headshot takes it back into the four versus four before palm is lingering around this a site as is the majority of MIB are but blink and you'll miss it because bomb has headed back with second-guesses they've left it they've left it above the tunnel and they're just gonna play for a couple frags here they do have a bit of time to try and soften up either site interesting but for a team that's been doing so well in these execute getting to the site with just enough time left over this is dangerous yeah clear and decision but the rotate back is with conviction fallen is here to stay and Dupree is out in the open perfect timing that literally drops the bomb and Stewie once again from the back of the site will be tested he has three T's inbound one defender with him and they have 15 seconds to deny this nobody's going for the feed so nobody is able to plant this bomb Stu drop but ballin stands eight seconds the differences it is planted now and zip backs denied MIB are tie yet again and the experience is farting finally starting to shine through here as they throw a late round fake towards a site and astralis typically taking off all the box and try how's it convinced them they waited time down they threw the late mala tots they go back to be and in the past and my BR have gambled towards a here they weren't gonna fall for the fake one more time they decided to stick around and fall in was the man to come back who has had a hard time holding on to this site and comes through when it matters the most and I love his I love his timing there with that first kill because when he Peaks it's not the first front runner from a stralla that actually goes down it's the bomb carrier who was second entry who had just happened to walk around the corner the first guy says it's clear it's probably Stewie in the back of the site again and sure enough just as Dupree arrives he takes an offshore to the chest and mi Villar take around because of it 13 to 13 tied up once again around 27 folks and everybody's got everything they want I mean it's like we're a no team basically we're gonna have the longest best rounds possible and the most action that you've ever seen Louis Altman saw us are on the brink of a break economically they were just hard reset with that retake this is it if they lose this round the bank accounts are bought up now 1,900 dollars is all they'll get for a loss short of any kills they happen to take it's good that it was calculated in the sense that they get all their utility this is the fullest of buys sure no op included but it's not like you need it on the T side they've been rifling just fine important to note Astralis have known a damages round you know they did a great job avoiding it device just a little bit tagged but that's it both teams have been great about that there's another instance where they're just gonna throw the clock back behind them talk about need damage fallen can't avoid it those are the offensive grenades too much harder to hit after showing their hand in the form of a couple frags they have moved back entirely towards this a site had fallen he's already taken the liberty of moving back through spawns tm-2 by zone now wants to take over our to wear fur has been consistent cold has been consistent and now it's his turn March side not yet under pressure it's looking like a complete and utter push off truck lane first looking to flash and obscure this four players blinded by that flashbang 25 seconds left in an off position tarik is not gonna get kills but it's still such a crossfire it is still a choke hold we are attempting to defend but a straw is just punching straight through right after fraggin it's bears and it falls on Stu the plant is in and Stewie has arrived it's not a good smoke and the criminals gonna walk right past it doesn't spot the man towards graveyard that will be glaive it seems like you might know and do free could easily trade this could and should Stewie with an element of surprise as the bombs now ticked one-third of the way he's trying to figure out where they're both at but nobody's showing shoulders nobody's showing skin there's the first frag and it goes right back to a straw 'lest they are one away from securing ot they made that impossible for Stewie just the way they set up clave taking the time to abuse the fact that they threw the Moto smoke down immediately get up on the car there's a crossfire where a soui activates and knows where both are he still can't get more than one without a huge mistake from the other side and so Astralis again showing us why they're so consistent and that was a sight take where MIB are had the right read they had four on a they had 3 players dedicated to watching Lane alone and they still broke through there was a moment where I thought maybe Tareq's off position could have really caught them by surprise he was just kind of sitting next to the hay bales in front of the mini pit they all lined up it was very jumbled one of those moments where you can even see team kills at times because everybody and that close-quarter situation is so frantic and so committed to gunfights honed in on heads as we forget about being on fire at this point we're going back and forth tit-for-tat at this point every round means the world stralla send believe they can taste it they can taste victory this is their tournament another title to their ever-growing collection currently hanging on to most of the major championships full passive setup format might be our dangerous territory dangerous territory they've shown a huge individual prowess between the two people that have been there even when one has failed the other has come through but you can't use that as a sustainable route for victory they have to rely on rotations they have to rely on utility big ploy is not the reliable crutch teamplay trade franks and solid holds is what they need this time nobody's over towards hit nobody's playing a gimmick position there's no boosts there's a curdled defense within in the form of turret tarik and cold we have fur here to support and he has to keep his eyes on that smoke the potential for the arch wrap is huge fallen comes over but it's do with that op alone on be one player per team still just feeling out that other portion of the map 25 seconds and it looks like a rat fur goes down for free this is going to enable the bomb wrap over towards the p-site sure Stewie he has the cannon he can fight at a distance but you've got three players so completely overwhelmed by smoke that you'd think Stewie can do this there's 10 seconds left and he's gotten himself into cover all he needs to do is stop this plant they need it now and Stewie doesn't do it it looks like a straw 'less have managed another round the save has been called and it is two more chances or an a straw and championship splitting hairs on that moment that off shot between three players who knows who it would have hit but a straw let's played that magnificently the way that they took over arch immediately exploded into CT spawn and didn't stop and didn't look black look didn't look back just completely had their blinders on just crushed him in this I mean he once again they have done a great job isolating him as good as he has been they have done a fantastic job of making his job difficult by tricking his teammates into leaving him alone over and over and over again found in time Stewie has been left alone and still performed well enough either delaying it for the rotation or just single-handedly shutting it down I mean it's been there it takes a fantastic type of player to pull that off yeah em team and they're just this is a battle of two titans right now but this could be the last round the fact that he jumps to new box is so big let's see how the kill that shuts him down there from Dupree he has a body block and everything who knows maybe he hits that maybe it doesn't even kill them and he knows how close he was but that's not around you can think about at this point they've still got to stay focused oh T's not out of the question absolutely knows his overpass absolutely not unpossible this from Taric could have been an opening fight but he doesn't want to fancy his chances he doesn't want to force the issue retreats never slightly utility is going to be so crucial in this round we have seen astralis just burn it down in time in terms of time and this angle from beneath the haystack that might actually be uncontested if cold Sarah could just get his attention up that's huge another he's inside of the pit he's got a teammate here to pinch and a rotation from fallen is already a part of the equation they just can't seem to get past so the flash does keep this back for however false glaive clearing the flank and this is a straw 'less you do not sleep on these situations you do not count them out in these scenarios we have seen it happen all too many a time and what a way it would be to close out this tournament if they can manage a two versus four on this a site they still have 30 seconds but that 30 second seems to be ticking incredibly quickly glaive hunting an angle device knowing he's gonna be susceptible once he walked out through that door he'll be on full display still all three CTS on a it's ten seconds left this is it here or now and glaive xxx round will decide things at Kosair with four frags as well to complement that amazing hold oh my god and that was like the pistol round with higher stakes better weapons but this time the team that was intended to win comes out on top and we go the full distance here and around 30 UMP of all weapons four kills all headshots so sick from cold the angles he's holding there his ability to just play upwards you can see the T's so frantically searching for his position they have so many angles to clear and he's just beneath them like the troll under the bridge he stops there entrance [Music] and they pay the price with both their lives as you said a 4k with the umph from Pitt that's big told us too high and now we're in around 30 potentially the last round of the match a stall is phased but if they've done this they know how to do this they have everything they need MIB are one that off of an amazing individual play it saved them time and time again but straws have always maintained the lead just a slight edge overall show that their playbook is deep enough that there are so many threats left over than MIT or haven't even seen you the playbook is deep in the skill even deeper some of the best here for the Danes we talk about big multi frags from cold but we know anyone on a stralla scan throw on back the other way and on top of that they have the structure a constant Challenger MIB our this would be huge if they can at least even contest but how many times have a straw is played with the hopes and dreams of a contending team only to break them at the final line that is what champions are made of the ability to stay cool under pressure to not let these round slip the true test right here and again it's going to be a isolated fawn will be that be anchor Stewie's the first to rotate if need be while we still have Tarek in the pit it's fur to lock down the arch side cold Sarah now plays from within the bomb site itself on the first box a very tricky position now as he works over top of the smoke and eats the dodge the flashes he pulls their attention away but he too pulled off this is it this is a straw 'lest with the bomb site they've managed to get past that defense they've overwhelmed it and because of that the retake is on Stewie 2k is creeping round we already have fir in position towards moto they're waiting for fallen to come in and the utility does not look great it looks even worse so for a straw Louis they are pinned into the bomb site no one's over facing the same crossfire that we saw Stewie struggle with his what now face is fur off of the flashy fly straight past fur looking for a second cut down with just one Stewie though clear spit graveyard gets him

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Published: Sat Sep 29 2018