NAVI vs FaZe Clan: THE WHOLE THING! IEM Cologne 2022

but i think they uh they have more interesting matchup between liquid and moisture riders yeah so if you could like because both both the matchups in the quarterfinals have a team with some veterans like you know australis or claim zippex liquid has a legion of nitro and they have a team of you know rookies in mouse and a team that never played on stage like this to movie star would you actually prefer playing like the veterans because you know them a bit better or do you prefer playing the quote-unquote weaker team in in mauser moisture i would prefer to play our bracket you know i mean i think movie star riders is because i can show better performance if they catch this moment on stage their strong opponent because i think they cross this line after they won the tournament in valencia so they can beat good teams and that gives them confidence like they gain this confidence and uh while they're playing they have a lot of early aggression rounds combinations is it new in-game some of them i don't even see any before and that's why i think it's a pretty decent team right now how about you guys laughing about the pencil obviously it's for me it's more like play styles which kind of style you're going up against and do have some experience with previous teams right so we have a lot of experience with liquid even the the older liquid right it wasn't and also we had played against them few times this year or last year as well so movie stars is always very interesting to practice and and to play i i'd like to have this aggressive style and they don't shy away from it what they do in official games are doing practice and and that often turns into a good result because then when you come on down and you play just arena matches and they still play the same in the group stage then i expected to really good in playoffs so and i took a map off navi right and had a great run so far so definitely i think if we meet movie stars that's a more tougher opponent and we will have less experience playing against that kind of team i think also for you guys specifically right the experience you had in 2018 with big in the semi-finals right and you guys being the the you know massive favorite there things aren't going your way do you think you two specifically were there does that like help you now to you know make sure the team is has the right mindset right that you're not thinking about the final and navi and whatnot already in your head there's still a game that has to be played before that i think it's very hard to compare this team with the whole team um our team also wins scenario we didn't practice with crowman we knew olof's going to come back within a month or two and cologne were the chance to win at the grand slam and i think that was one of those tournaments suddenly at that point of stars was the best team in the world or about to make an error and now we beat them and that kind of created a situation yeah and then we had to play the the big game after and i think we got too excited about navi beating maybe astralis because it was tough to play stratus back then right and suddenly we lost too big and i think it was the mentality of the team wasn't good and our mindset back then and where we were as a team was really bad and it just takes five percent less individual skill uh energy and we lose all the games you know has there been any like uh difference in like your guys approach for you three specifically randy kerrigan and simple it took you guys a long time of your career to win to win the major and obviously with stockholm and then antwerp now you guys have it is there any kind of like a change in how you approach things or your philosophy on how you practice and prepare or just as a player that lack of pressure of needing to win the big trophy i think for me especially in 2022 uh i've changed the way i portray game okay mainly because of getting kerrigan and robs as well and seeing their work ethic that they brought with them it's something that i didn't really have in my team before i think the only one that was under 11 was nico right yeah and other players i've played with they never really had that work ethic and the amount of time you need to put into your game and uh it just helped me this year for sure it's like a motivating factor the extra guys coming in yeah and the young guys as well you know me and gary is the old guys now on the team and he's a little bit older than me but that's okay but uh so yeah having them in the team and it's it's a good motivation uh boost for me yeah about for you guys that mentality shifted now that you've won the major at all i mean i think i because of experience you know better how it's how it's for you better to prepare before games before important games as well so for example i know how much time i need to warm up before game so i don't over play before game because it comes with time and i think it's very important some people don't play for example i stopped to play some fpl games before the game game game day because i can overreact on some yeah not like tire one players you know or i can play the same style on official games and i would think it will work but it's less less better players you know yes you're saying low by rushing through smoke doesn't help you prepare for the kind you're just playing and you know that lope will come out right now and you're just staying it's fun if you kill him you know but you don't practice anything for him so yeah overall yeah especially before big games like major and other tournaments cologne katowice i think it's a really good experience when you know how to approach the game yeah have you had a change in your approach to the game coming into a team that now has all this experience and has the major trophies have you picked anything up from guys like simpler electronic yeah to be honest first of all like the time of preparation and time when you're practicing warm up and things like that it's less than it was for example in spirit for me okay but it's more efficient like it's you spending less time but it's a better quality like we're doing a lot of things that i never seen before and when you took it really serious and go deep into it you're updating your game and your game sends like every hour for example so it's pretty cool yeah i was gonna i was gonna ask you something similar you know you you joined the team obviously you know two of the best players for the region the best coach as well who've won a lot so once you first came in and you started first couple of practices how big of a difference was it to the way you viewed the game and the way it was like was it pretty much aligned but you just expanded on that and learned more or did a lot of things change for you like in the ways you started seeing the game yeah in a big picture it was kind of the same but everything was in small details and i did a lot of scripts they give me a lot of scripts to understand what i should do and first of all i just learn it then after i do it for sometimes i start getting another things that was like what they said in the small details basically cool um let's talk about the grand slam a little bit now because we just touched on 2018 where you had a chance to start going down that road or complete that path and now you have another one here you've already missed one opportunity in dallas um i mean this is another chance that onto it but this is gonna be a much tougher road do you do you feel yet like you missed out on dallas or is it just kind of focus on cologne forget about it i mean we all knew what went wrong and that's right like as a captain i know i wasn't there 100 percent um based off like how much time we put into for the major and and the bootcamp right so we did our best and the tournament was very strange in itself with a lot of standards and results left and right so yeah when we lost to the winning team uh cloud9 uh they played really great right and i'm not that worried i mean there's a lot of chances too in the grand slam and it's very like hard to think about the grand slam when you stood two tournaments away it's very different when you actually play the final tournament and you know like okay you have to win one out of four tournaments or one out of five tournaments then it's very different for now i just see cologne as cologne and and not about the grand slam at all at this point no it's going to be very tough right and we have some some things we needed to learn from blast against navi right that we need to be the 100 percent because if if you're not there 100 everyone else is going to take every win away from us right so so yeah i think for now just telling me my tournament game my game round by round when we when we spoke in lisbon you and i um we talked about electronic kind of shifting into the in-game leader position and how it can sometimes be tough to go back to it but now that you have also gotten to see navi play here in cologne at least in the group stages you still impressed with what you're seeing out of out of electronics in a game leader yeah for sure i mean it was very tough to kind of get aggressed from from the outside how electronic was calling a blast right because they were about just smashing everyone and i know that that's a caller in new york when we smashed everyone you don't really need to call when they were just shooting left and right right and and you can do some good things there but um we have also to see if if now if navi has a tough game can he find a solution or is the team good enough to find a solution together but so far so this will look really good right and and i'm impressed did you expect his switch to end the in-game leader to be this kind of uh like he would just step into it so seamlessly so easily like having played with him for so long did you see this quality in him in the electronics yes as a game leader yeah yeah he has quality to do a really good mid goals i think it's his skill to do mid calls yeah but overall i don't think that we had to like perfect start even if we won this bus tournament i mean we still need to work a lot on keysight to uh forget some rounds because a lot of roles change and a lot of nades changed as well okay yeah i think the interesting part as well as you you are electronic along with the core of the sk team are the only guys who have won cologne two times meanwhile here we have two guys who've been at every single one but didn't make the final they didn't make the final right so so do you think that maybe gives you like a small edge in a way since also it's been three years since we could even get into the languages right so it's been a long time forever brocky wasn't even playing you know for example [ __ ] wasn't playing you know in the tier one scene back then so you think that a little bit of extra experience from your electronic will will help you guys out it's just another tournament wow she's nice but just just another great tournament with great audience i had a chance to win it three times with liquid that's right you did that the good old days we called it was fun i just wish we could see that one with two live from your pov [Laughter] what is it about this tournament because you you simply once again playing a tournament such a crazy love do you can you tell when you're going to come into a tournament and be this dominant on an individual level like do you have a feeling that you're just like oh this tournament i'm going to be on no no no i don't have this i mean i'm just we have a lot of days to prepare okay i will tell it on last day before games sure yeah but yeah right now we're just trying to fix all these mistakes we had a lot of mistakes okay and uh it should be less mistakes to the other team you always feel that way there's always lessons there's always mistakes should have won 16-0 [Laughter] i mean you guys obviously met two times recently blast the major right uh and you split the series obviously there do you feel like you know the reason why i went was that just the other team peaked at the right time right and that you had your own issues obviously you had you know still some issues with blast and for you guys at the major it's already been a long road and some of things was probably maybe new already that some changes might have to happen and so on so do you think now you're in a like decent spot with both teams where actually you feel like if you met it would be a good close game there's no like asterisks like that jason moving on next question it's fair oh perfect um i don't even know how to rephrase that anymore you know of course they overtook our spot number one you have it back then yeah exactly all three tournaments against one and yeah it's uh i mean it's obviously that they really close and it's more interesting to play against you know yeah you're more trying to understand or learn opponent because it's uh these games is more harder to win when you win them which is more it's more you know it's more nice inside yes when you exist bigger satisfaction i'm teaming group stage like the first game best of luck how does the difference if you guys are like the dream final is obviously navi versus faze in the grand final how does uh how does it change you guys have played each other in two best of threes this would be a best of five that's great you like then being the best of five yes from fans for it's like uh it's new experience yeah not everyone has chance to play best of five on stage in front of 15 or eighteen thousand people yeah no fpl before best of five if it happens right i think also it's like we're so even on so many maps right there's gonna be a lot of clutch moments left and right and in the end if if it gets to a fifth map it's all about who has that had had this fatigue the best mistakes yeah listen many mistakes on on on fifth night because i think that is that is what best of five finders about you know it's a long road and you can also be behind two zero it's very hard to come back from that yeah it's like uh first phase phase b h a yes okay face its face yeah it messes up [Laughter] we lost that as well now you've been enjoying your time with navi so far stepping up to this level and playing within this team uh learning experience obviously but it's a good time yeah basically it was always my dream to play tier one counter strike and play for navi and like when you get to that point uh you're trying to focus on every moment that you have like in practice in games like whatever everything that i'm doing i'm pretty excited about it and i'm trying to put that much effort that team needs i have a question for you simple last year you guys were the best team in the world obviously and uh you know you almost kind of got a little bit robbed of your era because of everything that happened you had to make changes but in all that time did this phase the hardest team you had to play like this phase nice last year played out against g2 for example hello finals didn't lose any of them but it was the hardest to play gambit yeah it was the hardest games i mean i feel like this flamey and when beat just came instead of him i think everything what we did they just were copying not copy like this is the same strats but they did it better like for young players for the structure and follow this and i mean we knew game better but they just uh did everything mechanically better you know as a team they they catch this rotations you know great diamonds and axel was doing a lot of headshots shiro yeah without and yeah i think it was the first one the hardest one it's not g2 at all [Laughter] [Music] like how they always managed to go in finals and i don't know they beat some teams so easily you know even i remember in cologne they beat the gambit yeah but yeah now i think i mean now g2 maybe is not stronger as a team but yes i have much better players you know individually but maybe maybe no no yeah is this phase more difficult to play than gambit was last year or is it let's say we played around like 10 or yeah even more games and this face we played like three games two at major no one at major one at katowice and uh one at plus yeah probably no probably probably two two we forget about that one too it's fun yeah we'll just leave it again so we are turning no semi-final was the same one yeah we played fewer semifinals final oh yeah we played cloud nine in nine to twelve place but we got first place is it not direct to semi-final no no yeah so it's total but this game because it was like uh this online uh era mark qualifiers you play against them all the time all the time i mean speaking about that there's a big conversation with like uh with liquid going on that's bringing yakundar in and the conversation from all those players is that yekandar is bringing in so many ideas from the cis region and that play style and updating them in terms of the new meta do you as an in-game leader character when you look at it do you feel like there's like the current meta is like a very like cis influence style of counter-strike compared to where it's been previously yeah i think yes and no i think if you look in in like the top six us and sends very the same dna and how we see the game very explosive a lot of moves around getting to the freedom freeze and try to play them down where we're now with the cloud9 they're playing this very good basic sears and reminds of the old sk and try to play the basics the best right now is the way if if cloud9 is the best base best team in the world to play the basics we're not gonna challenge on the basics you have to find another way to make them sure to to make them uncomfortable right so i think it all depends who's on the top and and obviously now it's been on the top for so many years and months right that many will copy them more than us um but it's just good to see that someone else have kind of found the same style as we did and had success with it against right so i mean that that's where i see us and hence is very close to each other when when it comes to that and that's also why it's very strange to play them sometimes because it is mere match very yeah explosive and and i think that's the same navi and gambit head right it is kind of the mirror match of of the same style but if they do it better than you then it's very tough to win in the same style do you see that as well simple do you see like or the sui as well do you guys see like cis counter-strike influence like kind of leaking out into like european the north american counter-strike when you look at some of the other teams do you see things they're taking from gambit and navi in the spirits yeah i think everyone taking especially from the lower tier counter strike everyone trying to take something from tier one and you can see it in the rounds you can see it in mid games call someone trying to copy even your like even your refracts for example some people doing things five versus three five or so for that you will do in the in these matchups okay so basically everyone copied something from everybody yeah i remember fnatic it was the easiest thing to play against because they never respect you you know yeah and every time i play against them they like like to overpeak over peak and i never understand why they does this just wait that makes it easy yeah yeah but yeah i think uh you said explo exploded right playstyle yeah it's it's actually cool it's uh i mean it's great when you play fast you get trade like one by one you take side and all what you need to do is just to win against retake and it's uh for individual good teams like faces it's really good it's very good yeah so you're better to do more than one kill there's also when you run into a stack it's not so good to play you have to make the right call right time yeah yeah but i've i just had that that's right i've seen this and i love you for 20 years this is never the right solution to how you play yeah there's always you can always improve your style right you can always change your startup so but yeah when when gambit won everything online you could see how many people copied them and and it was insane intellect stream masters cologne is brought to you in part by intel legion by lenovo dhl us air force one x bet and monster energy [Music] [Music] [Music] raphael really making history absolutely phenomenal and ace is the champion of the intel extreme master world finals storm's still not quite done if he is going to take this fight though three seconds left last two rounds and [Music] [Applause] wow the lanxis arena they call it the cathedral counter-strike and you'd be wrong to call it anything else i'm ready to kick off today's grand final a lot of things to discuss a lot of activities however to also check into here if you find yourself the lenses my name is trace and i'll be leading the show as we get started though i've got to tell you we've got a bruiser on hand today that's navi on one side faze on the other and a discussion that's going to carry us right into the player break i can tell you in all of esports this weekend this is the place to be this is the intel extreme masters clone 2022 grand finals [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] creeping they've seen with the off now the desperate play into the guardian has got everything going for him he knows where the bomb is [Applause] and gets the shot great mid-round calls three man stuck on this side device just had a really rough [Music] out middle of the airport [Music] [Applause] and now reintroducing the intel extreme masters championship trophy please welcome 2019 cologne winner an intel grand slam champion from team liquid please welcome nicholas canella it is nitro [Applause] in an unprecedented 63-day run of dominance in 2019 beginning at iem sydney team liquid set what is undoubtedly a record time for achieving the intel grand slam and have never ever left their mark on cs in a bigger way today a new champion will raise this trophy here in the cathedral of counter-strike so [Applause] the chalice has arrived and in style nonetheless communion wafers on the concourse cologne what's up but nonetheless i was dude and we are ready for a grand final and that is what we're here for best of five one separating that of phase and na'vi we are ready to party in the lancast if they aren't already i'm joined right here on the desk right now with maniac and ynk for a grand final boys we made it a championship sunday my heart is pumping like crazy that's what's happening after that i am traumatizing actually full of adrenaline right now this is insane yeah the atmosphere palpable palpatine even absolutely and you know it's been a long event we started with the planes group stages and whatnot but it feels like from the beginning all the ways all the paths were leading to this one right to have faze and navi finally in the grand finals square off against each other in a best of fire yes a best of power there we go here we go hey can you hear me now hello here we go thank you my goodness it can only be so traumatizing especially at this point since we have arrived on sunday you have to talk a little bit about what navi has done up to this point as two-time winners here in cologne they look for the three-peat maniac they absolutely do look bi and perfecto could have their second title but there are two men who could write history today electronic and simple could be the first players to have three cologne championship in the cabinet talk about being legends yeah and the first one unexpected so in 2018 i think last year there were no surprises there they were the most dominant team throughout the year but now they have their biggest challenge yet in front of them phase awaits yeah faze clan now looking to make another notch they've got a whole intel grand slam thing going on for faze clan this is a different battlefield uh and looking at just about everything that navi's done up to this point you have to think about some of the things that they now have on their cards and that's sdy of course i mean sdy is going to be here again very much likely playing his future determining his future here in lancaster arena in the main stage in the grand final what he's done with navi nothing sort of phenomenal but we know counter-strike can be harsh can be a cool mistress of sdy is everything on the line yeah counter-strike definitely doesn't discriminate and obviously when we look at this one we we have quite a bit on our plate uh ynk we try to take it all in but really can you well i i think it's tough but you know we see here the recent best of five is for navi and they got to face g2 i mean as an org they're just 0-3 in every best of five across all esports so you know i think today it's going to be a bit of a tougher challenge but i don't think there's a better career in esports than being a rookie navi cs go right now you just come in first we have it wins everything last year now have sdy show up first two lands they won't blast a couple of weeks ago now he's playing in the grand final stage here in the cathedral uh yeah and in the cathedral seems like i don't know i don't know if we have everybody's attention it seems like everybody is shocked that they can hear us maniac do you get that vibe too yeah we get to talk to people how's it going guys give me some of that german you've been learning there we go i'll get ez oysters in hey that was nice that was real good and if you didn't know maniac speaks multiple languages now your turn yeah we might discover the whole day okay there we go i think that's a good one around here um yeah so obviously uh in consideration with phase on the other side a little bit of a battle uh they go from winning a major and up to this point and now where do they find themselves maniac look i think phase has so much to prove today because you have to think of the chronology of the last 12 months where counter-strike returned to where it was supposed to be on land first it was navi dominating everyone and everybody they were no sharing and then we know what happened in the world face swooped in they took that throne but in the back of their mind they must think but what if we could actually face navi full force but it was today that they go up against the ogre the navi that is full dominance and they can prove it they can make a statement that they are the best team in the world because this is what we are fighting for right now we are fighting to find the best team in the world you know and talking to to both faze and na'vi in the piece that we did with jason and i'm thinking best of five they're gonna say oh it's a bit too long you know it's a hard series but they're both loving it they love the fact that they get to square off against each other in the best of five you know there's no excuses at that point you get to go through all the maps pretty much and i think definitely the feeling is we're going to go all the way yeah and in a sense you look at it for multiple different reasons right there's obviously two maps not being played but a test of endurance perhaps maniac think about electronic think about what electronic could accomplish today when he stepped into that role and he became the igl we had a lot of questions a lot of doubts he swooped them all aside at their last event but now you get to actually showcase in the best of five which is the truest and deepest test of any team any map hole in any igl speaking of igl he's got a bit of experience out there yeah he's seen a thing or two now in terms of the long run here yanko uh can kerrigan outlast tactically when it comes down to a best of five i think i think he absolutely can i think he has the experience and he understands you know playing in these long series in best of fives against a really good team that you need to conserve some energy as well as the in-game leader i think the first map is gonna be crazy you know everyone's gonna soak in the proud and the vibes and but you understand that if you're going to beat navi here it's not going to be a 3-0 it's going to be a long series and that you need to keep your cool you need to keep your composure because you have to be able to outplay what has been the best team in the world for a long time look navi's level has been a little bit up and down at this event we've had a couple of terrifying performances likes of nip in semifinals as well of course but if you're faced i like that you talk about the first map think back think about antwerp the major that very hard-fought battle in the first map phase just slightly edging in with the overtime and then running away with it i think they have to do exactly the same here they have to win that first map and i think for robs right there is very kind of characterization of what we see in phase of this tournament they haven't dropped the map yet janko no they're undefeated so far it was very it's very reminiscent of navi's run at the stockholm major right like they've been the whole major without dropping a bap now faze here being extremely dominant as well still facing their toughest opponent yet but yeah robson and the rest of phaser drives been all on point right the one difference that you have is they've truly win by committees like three of the players have the same ranking 1.16 right which is makes kerrigan's job a little bit easier but you understand on the other side you have the goat so that kind of evens it out i would say the goat he really is at this point it's it's almost like uh it can't even be disputed by most if any because people have tried and yet they have failed for us though we're going to be checking in with our commentators it's gonna be machine and it's gonna be sponge round of applause ladies and gentlemen please and thank you oh boy thank you lang says this is going to be something quite special chad you don't really get many opportunities like this in counter-strike this is exciting right i think this has potentially one of the greatest counter-strike ground finals of all time right you look the context that we're talking about here the way the desk is building it up and the fact that we get navi with all the problems out of the way here a bit more focused from them and a chance to well be the best team in the world going into the break for either of these teams this one is going to deliver did you hear that did you hear that boys at the des did you hear that lang says this has the potential to be the greatest counter-strike final of all time the teams the players we are going to sit here and find out together who will leave and end the season as the world number one undisputed i can't wait yeah i can't wait either because we're gonna have to and unfortunately for you that means we go to a quick break i know that everybody just wants to know what maps they want to know where we're going well like i said we're going to a dang break and when we come back it's going to be that best of five grand final cologne and lancaster it's the intel extreme masters we'll be right back after this [Music] it's happening foreign [Music] [Music] quite significantly and fallen obstacle strikes looking for the quadra see what's on oh clone man i haven't been there in ages hello yeah i'm kind of busy right now what's up i am cologne that could be fun see you there [Applause] all right clone i'm coming for you [Music] is [Music] there's something magical about cologne i just don't know what it is [Music] maybe the city the people the vibe everything i experienced when i was here when i've been on stage those are some of the best memories of my life [Music] [Applause] ice cold [Music] hello hello you know what we've got you here yeah i know do you still think that you can do this i've never been more sure of anything in my life long time no see ready to go [Music] oh okay looks like you got yourself ready all right let's go [Music] hey nothing what's up good to see you good to see you guys [Music] well here we go cologne it is time to get this party started i'll get jungas god dang it all right that's it i'm done for the day nonetheless we have arrived finally we get to find out all the things the nitty gritty that we need to know between navi and faze and a best of five that means we get to determine which two maps will be played and most importantly what order some of these maps will go down but toe to toe pound for pound we've got a fight on our hands yanko yeah trace this truly is unstoppable force meets immovable object right and all of that is for the number one spot in the world i think there's no doubt throughout this tournament we've seen it time and time again they're just on a different level when it comes to the game individually they have the best players really in the world and they made everyone else look silly really so far during i am colon yeah there was obviously a difference it was smiling waiting that's a new one yeah that's a new one there's no tally light there so i wasn't quite sure but uh yeah there it is um so anyway let's talk about what kerrigan said coming in here anything but finals for this phase clan team would be disappointed wouldn't be where they wanted to be and now they've arrived but can they capitalize on it that's gonna be the question of the day i mean talk about expectations right that's really really high demand but at the same time the quality of the team that they have and the counter strike they've played at the beginning of 2022. yeah hell freakier be extreme beat them and then demanding with your level yeah i ran into kerrigan this morning i was like exciting he's like man i'm pumped i you know yeah it was hard to sleep a little bit right he knows that it's going to be a great game i think for everyone here right it doesn't you know you can be a navi fan you can be on face fan i think a lot of people here all of us are counter strike fans who are going to get some of the best counter counter strike we've seen so far these teams are playing on a completely different level yeah and you know for someone like kerrigan i actually saw him yesterday his parents are here like he's got some of his extended family i think here uh this is a big moment for these guys just think about kerrigan his journey right go on a journey with me for a second go a year back when he was struggling with face clan when he didn't have his lineup and we said excuses excuses what do you mean you need time what do you mean you need a roster sure prove what you can do the man has done just that ever since rob's joined it's been fantastic he's wrote he's written a new page in his book in his career and you can see here when we say we have the two best teams in the world we're not exactly lying that's seven trophies that they come back between these two well who else do you put up there you know if you talk about yeah it's it's kind of impossible it's kind of a it's not very likely we already had two of the top 10 teams make it to the playoffs and that kind of speaks volumes for itself yanko yeah definitely and also the fact that i mean when either of these two teams attended in the tournaments that we won they were the ones who would win it right the couple of teams that won some trophies was because either navi wasn't there right and or faze wasn't there so really impressive undisputedly the two best teams in the world and i think they're also really hyped about this rivalry that kind of came out that's purely counter-strike based you know there's no really ex-players on each team or something along those lines right it's just about yeah these guys are actually legit good as much as we are so it's going to be great to beat them yeah and is it even comparable i mean when we look at the numbers it's it's a little neck and neck almost yeah absolutely but when you look at the matrix in itself right and navi having 0.9 multi kills that means basically you know nine out of ten rounds a player gets two kills three kills per round then you have their 5v4s they're 85 percent on the other side phase 4v5 is 40 so a lot of that a lot of this game is going to be about finding the opening kill and then playing some of those situational counter strike rounds because you see flash assists not not too many their maniac it's all about the gunfight yeah it's all about the skill that's what it is look we can dive in the numbers as well the ct sides of these two teams have been nothing sort of crazy i mean we're talking about seventy percent round one across the board from coast to coast and navi and phase multi-kill ratio above one what it means is that on their defense every round there is a multi-kill every round there is a player that stands strong and makes the difference gets one two or three it's going to be a battle of t side it's going to be about of the width for the rgls and unsurprisingly their sits simple with the one in his name at the top of his game that's what janko was talking about look at the difference that's exactly what the pinky we're trying to paint here it's symbol on his island on his mountain mount olympus that's where he is on the side of face is distributed across the board by committee as i said and the force is broken with 1.11 rating he isn't lagging too far behind kerrigan at 0.99 right so that's the strength of phases no one needs to carry on his own everyone has their role they execute it almost to perfection and that's what also makes them so damn hard to play against right there's no holes there's no gaps and navi sure has has simple right but also the other players have been playing with bit the head hunter i love that i love that from alex and electronics still maintaining a really high level despite having to pick up that in-game leader mantle yeah they they absolutely do the high level stays with us because we need to talk about our coalex players to watch and i'm sure you're gonna be shocked to find out who it is we're about to witness an era defining match meaning we have to feature simple the titan that can single-handedly turn games in his favor we won't need to look far to see him put on a masterclass and positioning and aim he's once again on stage in the cathedral to show us what it means to be the greatest of all time [Music] and then we have twists the rising star power for faze who sees yesterday's semi-final victory with a spectacular 1v3 he was on track to obtain the first mvp trophy of his career in iem dallas with a second chance at it today expect the explosivity to continue only one can inscribe their name on the trophy let the spectacle begin a spectacle to say the least uh wow was that it's not myself i don't think it was you okay uh yeah so we'll well we've got our colleagues players to watch that's pretty simple it's pretty identified no plot twist there what's very important though again maps this is where it gets interesting trace this is what i wanted to see what this his phases ban going to be because neither team plays vertigo but they're actually a team that has played it before so they can ban something else they go for does too they have a super crazy deep map hole right their most played map they played it 11 times the leafs played one they played it nine times so that's what you want a deep map pull there it is that's a curve one and a half as well just for history for context here last three times these teams faced faze elected to remove mirage here they make a different choice they allow mirage to go through which obviously is going to be prepared what's interesting as well is that navi is not jumping on that mirage first up the overpass actually has a pick maybe picks overpass like what's up with that they played it three times only in the last three months that's with sdy and boomage in the lineup right they're undefeated but faze has really been pushing this map even they played an online cup simply to get more practice in in on officials on some of these maps and their overpass has been looking really strong so that's going to be an interesting one that could we were talking about in best of fives all maps are in play but the order of maps matters yes so if this turns out to be you know a mistake from navi and phases up to all that that could change completely the dynamic of this final yeah and it's just something we're gonna have to sit back and relax and enjoy because you know what that sound is it's time to go one more break just one more then we come back and we kick off a grand final of epic biblical proportions [Music] it's cloud nine versus navi map two coming up now the first semi-finals this is gonna be one hell of a game cloud nine they've picked up the first map let's get this show on the road throughout the years cloud9 surely had many ups and downs however in 2017 at esl one cologne many did a double take when they witnessed them in action no utility at all for nip they want to go hard at this but already automatic with one second as well automatic unbelievable after taking care of nip in the quarterfinals it was now navi's turn to face the speeding american train and face it they did forcing cloud9 to fight hard in order to secure the first map then history later repeated itself on overpass but initially nadas vincere were on the run thanks to one player and that player was like shrouded had actually come out on top there what a flick coming in trout getting one of the headshot he's tapping away shroud could he do it again he's up to 11 kills and looking for number 12 are you kidding me shroud can anyone take this man down he's got 12-0 he's a one-man army [Music] two rifles here for fnatic moving into the second last round they had a chance to break the economy of liquid they still have a chance going into the last round but this one's not going to be easy and surely we're going to see a fast play from fnatic [Music] look at this they could want to get more aggressive in the middle there not giving everybody space to breathe but the spray now comes into play it will be the flames to finish off all of meister but he's done crims and dennis still stand and they cannot be counted out at the moment as they are holding on to some pretty dangerous weaponry they don't have utility to aid them in their eventual push but what they do have going for them right now is time they're very spread out at the moment and flight should be able to get engagements what is that long-range shot connected by crims jw is history and maybe there's a chance now for fnatic in this round two players in that poor fanatic just holding up again they're waiting for the peaks who's going to be the recipient and it's going to be hiko that's a big frag simple is creeping they've seen with york now and a desperate play into b comes in let's see if double smoke's in the same place there's simple just jumping casually to the side he's going to fall down together what is this simple are you serious what is that you can't do that simple that's not allowed this is not fbl this is a major he didn't even he had one bite on his mouth he had one button there was no zoom with the form that both navi and faze have shown coming into the playoffs this should be the highest level counter-strike of the year given we have yet to see these two teams compete in a way where they're unabated by other factors we have the chance to have the world number one take on the world number two in the grand final and that is what everybody deserves before we go into the offices going forward okay have separated themselves from the rest of the field and they just play a different brand of counter strike compared to some of these other teams that we have in the top ten i think you don't need any better proof of that at the fact that nabi and phase are the only two teams from the top ten that are in the playoffs here we're both teams i went directly to the semifinals for a reason we want another notch in the grand slam and their goal is to solve us for winning the grand slam even if you look at the ranking you know it's a 20 point difference between us and navi and it kind of goes back and forth and it gets closer and closer [Applause] both teams have a claim to the throne their history over the last 12 months since returning to the pandemic you can cite why one team should be the favorite or the other but i don't think anybody can truly tell you who's going to win iem cologne on the road to recovery for na'vi the addition of sdy and electronic taking over the in-game leadership role it seems to have solved a lot of their problems there's no issues when you have the greatest player in the world and right now there seems to be no issues with anybody in the team butting heads they look to be harmonious they look to be back on track and they look to be maybe better than ever perfecto is the ideal role player for navi he's going to do everything that's needed in the most efficient way possible and he's going to over perform in situations where other people in his role might under deliver i don't think we really realized the nickname had shot machine until bit showed up fazer started to carve out a reputation to be a big tournament team right they peak at the right times and they're here for the big event kerrigan knows how to read the atmosphere in a way that he can make what call would make the most sense for his players not just tactically but emotionally too and then you add to that the supporting cast of rayne who's here he will do anything the boss man says but he also delivers on the stages and shows that he can still be a star of this team you add to that rob's twist and brokey a core trio there will be one to remember there'll be one that'll be playing together for many many years if things continue to go right for phase [Applause] we have more convincing results they've lost some maps we haven't lost a map yet in this event if you look at current forum i would say that we're the better team but of course i think sunday evening could be all decided if uh both teams make it there this would be kerrigan and faze winning the triple crown of the major katowice and cologne in the same year nobody has done that before as for the side of simple and electronic this would be their third cologne and own the cathedral [Applause] [Music] to actually keep this bombsite he's got confidence in his name [Music] somehow the american sniper you have to be kidding me that is the most insane round they heard the plan happy and tried to go aggressive trying to rattle the shots through but as you saw mbk he's going full on he's just ready to pounce on through knew that it was a possibility a player would turn around and check it zeus tries to hold off they knew he'd gone into the corner they find him edward's in the sight but they already pushed back through tunnels they completely surround him the original days they're thrown by nip to try and hold them back old moisture will find the shot on they exist fryer does return picks off next he's still here though and he's going for more that third man is here and private has to back off [Music] single-handedly my god automatic another you have to be kidding me that is the most insane round it's a one versus two nose ones close as well based on the name doesn't really have the range on the cc and now it's all on for jdm destroying sk there's the flash mvk gets one but crips with a spray down twist even gets one at range damage is two ak available he's going to grab it on the run alex is close twist he baits him out somehow rpk's gonna try and swing around the back side twist switches back to the deagle and he's [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] the bell tolls for cologne this city this building this cathedral a cathedral that is stacked from the earth to the heavens with the greatest of all the fans of esport the most passionate here today to witness a grand final a best of five to see who will be crowned the 2022 iem cologne champions those teams the first wanting to lift that trophy for the third time containing the goat please welcome your first team cologne it's lovely [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] they take on a team that has won everything recently counterfeits to the pro league the major but they want this because they've never won that trophy in their own words not only does the winner here win this they become the best team in the world please welcome his face [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] these are your intel extreme masters finalists a best of five on this stage in this cathedral to see who is the champion and who is the best in the world at counter-strike are we ready who's winning this one cologne is in navi is it face one more time is it now thee is it face are you ready i said are you ready let's get it on [Applause] now the chalice has arrived it's in style nonetheless communion wafers on the concourse and repentance perhaps on the cards we look toward a much anticipated player break navi look to grab a third clone title faze just want to end this season strong and perhaps grab a title in katowice and cologne in the same calendar year for them that would also be a way to end it out but this this is the culmination of everything in 2022 up to this point uh and yanko it doesn't get any better than this it absolutely doesn't matter and this the atmosphere here is just electric it's out of out of control amazing i'm so hyped just for to get this final going you know like i agree with chad 100 it's impossible to tell you who's going to win right that you're going to see some insane levels of counter strike i am just a little bit surprised with the overpass pick i can't get it out of my head man it's like it's not tanabe pick i know so if you talk about best of five it's about momentum inferno and you're gonna say yeah but blast at blast they beat them 16-1 right that's an outlier that's that's not a norm that's an outlier their t side is their t side is really solid so if they win if navi funds on overpass all the sudden phase is two up things can change real quick trace real quick it's a sprint and it's a marathon at the same time you don't want to let that first map go away you might just find yourself running after the title well it's definitely so out of control that it's hard to even put a pin into who wins this you know i think for you two you do have to pick at some point phase three two okay he stole my prediction phase three two there we go why sounds so like hillbilly right there what just happened i thought he's gonna say look i don't know you guys can't sleep on on simple and navi like it just simply isn't the way to be uh and i have to put my eggs in the basket of naughty i think they've come in here and they've shown that they can devastate lineups even though they can't go down 12-3 at some point and make sense of it the consensus among talent was 3-1 rv so i thought i was the only one who thought i i'm not there but it's really with you the two guys who are here in the final are telling you it's a phase thing tell me it's a coincidence or not the biggest brains here on the stage yeah you know what you've got a point there there is a lot of knowledge the knowledge is power especially in this moment look we we're playing a best of five we're gonna go down to nitty gritty we're gonna go down to the bottom end of what these teams can bring to the table and this is where in the game of millimeter and milliseconds you have to think that phase is the more old machine the more complete machine right they have the roster they have the pieces the tenure the experience with electronic be able to do something even better and more that we have seen now sure i can dream of it but i'm a man of reason my recent test phase yeah and both teams had a good semi-final in a sense of they were tested at least a little bit navi had a bad mirage you know face had that little mini comeback against movie star on ancient that almost happened but didn't then they closed it out so just a little bit of a scare to be 100 ready for this game and also to know that it's a marathon not a sprint so even if one game go one map goes terribly wrong anything can happen you have to stay confident i think they've shown that they've shown that they're in it until the end sometimes we get these grand finals and obviously after a third map it doesn't just end there there is a little bit of a a break before we start the fourth one but for these two teams they're gonna have to play up to that point as well you see simple like this hyped up you know just before usually he's just like chilling you know he knows that he's the best he knows like his team is the best that they're gonna get it done right now he just wants to get this started he wants to prove against the best in the world that he's the gold that there's him then five empty places he wants to destroy broke him on the other side he shouldn't even be on the same server with him in the grand final i can't remember janko i cannot remember the last time a game had so much at stake a game a single series would decide so much would have such a big impact in counter-strike it feels like we are you know when you have this incredible boot you're reading and you're about to turn the page you're about to know who the killer is right behind you're just waiting for anticipating you phil this is where we are right now at the bottom of the page and the next chapter is insanity yeah and then you have to kind of sit there and stew on that for an entire player break so you know whoever comes out on top here they're gonna have to go back and watch this demo probably multiple times if i had a guess just to kind of soak it all in twice and pick up some on some of the stuff they didn't get the first time around guys i know you both pick phase and you both think 3-2 it's oh don't backtrack now no no no no i'll say three two i have maps in my head but which phase is going to win i have been a little bit bamboozled by that dostu end to mirage situation uh but i'm going to stick to my gun i think we're going to five i think we're seeing the best counter strike the most enduring counter-strike and i think faze at the very end lived the trophy i think you know also as a fan just i want to see all five maps this is going to be some of the most incredible counter-strike we've seen especially this year and i just want to get to enjoy that and soak that in yeah i think the best way to soak that in would be just sitting out here the place is electric and it is actually going to get louder in here as the day goes on we're filled all the way up to the rafters ladies and gents if you haven't noticed well now you do because there's absolutely no denying what's on the line here at this point there isn't you want to make i want to go down that line again we want to explain all that's at stake on one hand of course navi looking to do or two players looking to do what has never been done in counter-strike which has been put on three times and there it is oh baby and cologne he could be doing it right here right now well we're gonna do the damn thing and we're gonna do it in style we have faze on one side navi on the other in a grand final of proportions out of this world inferno overpass ancient mirage and nuke should we need them all we're gonna see them and in doing so the story is told by our commentators chad and alex oh my god [Applause] we're off the first round of this grand final so much anticipation and we get to watch that first frag of our grand finals go down starting on the defense the defending champions navy phase poised to do what no one's done before chad are you ready for this i'm expecting a nice slow start about things here taking their time feeling it out getting used to the atmosphere but this is the place both teams they love they thrive they're going to show us their absolute best kerrigan and the troops corralling up mid here very passive stance from na'vi across the map waiting to receive don't want to get anything aggressive you till about to be deployed here that's a lot a lot of nades in the sky still no one's spotted first contact smoke's actually into the pit sty's blind as well he needs to reposition he's not allowed to a quick flick from twist glock and he's not done one more to find on the side and he's twists again arrives in style for the phase clan plan the site occupied bits already making a case for the retake it's mutual here armor on perfecto 2v3 and caragoon dancing dies brokey next victim dancing around the side time ticking it's only be he doesn't have the health for this he'd need two queen click head shots it's not to be you can see what it means to him wants to start strong first pistol probably thought about that for many a night coming into this grand final yeah master sherman right there kerrigan with a nice one see the util towards the side here you highlighted the smoke towards pit it pushed simple wide they didn't consider him early but they didn't consider twist look at this three just locking and loading taking the sight and broke he chimes in for the final two but navi they're not gonna relent here take you back to antwerp we saw inferno there we saw the weakness we saw what carrigan wanted to exploit it was archside simples domain what's changed this time round oh he's feeling confident eats the flashbang but takes a part shot down mid it's a lot of five sevens clearly look in that pistol of choice for the black and yellow plenty of smokes here as well these five sevens behind the smokes they can mow them down 20 bullets of damage coming through but top mid control already taken and simple he wants to see what he can find flash not good but brokey he's gonna clean house solid start into the side again sd white fate likely sealed garrigan's hunting him down is the five seven though close oh no a fumble a colossal fumble range trying to reel it back in long range back 10. and trade oh raps has kept them in it they tried to finish it right there and then and they know where sdy is this round's done there's no way out of this they know he's in the pit twist can drop back with the bomb they can take to the other side and well faze recovering there got dicey for a moment i mean rops really did save the day there posted up on that library fight you could see reigns fate nearly sealed think about the navy we saw yesterday in the early stages when they'd lose the site they'd say here you got to think about their atmosphere they're going to get stuck in as much as they can take advantage of a little bit of extra noise back to the rafters as trace was mentioning we'll just let this one simmer out for the next 40 seconds sd we're going to see what he can find in his hand carrying it through and they're actually trying to close the door in his escape rain's position is perfect if he pushes down mid dead if he tries to go over towards that arch side rops and twists are also going to remove sdy from the server here navi's newest name let's see if he can hold on to this gonna give them something to operate with into the next round of play rain starting to have a look and that's good from sdy giving himself a way out of dodge here they really want it don't want any threats into the next round of players that's perfect clean sheet 2-0 they convert against those threatening second-round force you mentioned clean this is what we're looking for a modern-day counter-strike the pistol round against the force fight and then you get yourself a bit of a clean eco round here so this is the perfect start for faze surprised to hear the crowd favoring phase little more so the navi thought they were going to be the favorites here it's hard not to uh support this phase clan roster as you know the individuals have all had their stories now all under one roof oh that's a very early top mid smoke right you want to be deploying that normally after the first 20 25 or so seconds then they have invested in four so there's also a bit of doubt there right if you're going to extinguish towards sandbag it's normally there's a heavy banana presence right there so that's just trying to bait them into staying away from top banana you'd be expecting at least three players if on an eco round you'd be playing top banana like that so playing mind games early here ah navi not just mind games they're doing some gymnastics as well you can see that with limited resources they're trying some hijinks and some gimmicks you cross crosshairs certainly not gonna be placed there around this corner well they're coming oh rain how aware is the norwegian today hello and goodbye successful from this dastardly duo and simple's got just as things looked a little hectic again he saves them but that ak has fallen into enemy hands the potency of navi's defense though non-existent he's actually throwing that over for perfecto to scoop up he might just want to save that as if sdy can find a bit more damage with this deagle or maybe another gun that'd be nice to take into round number four here so that's fantastic work to get simple activated early with a couple of clean shots but rox he's been on bailout judy in back to back rounds here really saving fazer's hide like it's not there's no denying navi really have had two opportunities in two rounds to immediately post their first ct round and we're already getting a bit of a violence against the chickens here two and then this nade look they're getting the ak about to double swing rops just puts it right on the money and talking to money that's gonna do wonders for navi look what they've managed to bring through there's a couple of pistols initially but leaving with an ak a galil and likely a good intention for their first defensive round kit still kerrigan's called a good game here bit getting called out by the bomb there right we know that the adjustment with the radius the bomb is going to play a factor here potentially as well if we're playing out for saves and post-plant situations when we try and punish phase leaving the sights i'm gonna get straight into the rifle rounds here and simple got his weapon equipped the same for brokey so we're not messing about here we're gonna be getting into the big rounds immediately remember what i touched on over there at the major they used arch early they were trying to target the position where simple rotates to help out the b bomb side we're now bits holding b boom it's no more very volatile on this banana holds was boom bit likely much more of a potent pair but not with twists there already that's the two headshot heroes of either team going toe-to-toe early here that is great from twist he had the pistol and now showing he could do it in the gun rounds he's been here before he's lifted the trophy here before wow now this is quite the setup look at that that's uh effective three man defensive hold and asking questions early broke he loses the battle head to head and kerrigan still there should be dead jumping hoping and down to the simple orb two on its first presence in the server mort could be found i'm not sure if they saw sdy up on the boost i don't know if he can test it or if he was even spotted but it has sent them back searching towards b smoke there what is perfecter going to do with this does he want to gamble towards the a site or does he believe there's a little bit more behind it because the bomb on reign is making its way into the site robs is just containing this and perfecto out of position means navi might have to save you did pick up some util but would it perhaps lean towards a retake but as i say that with the bomb going down perfecto is going to show some presence rain safe oh oh oh they're coming they're having a look they're investigating it's time to set up that post plan now navi come and knock in timer ticking this has to be perfect if you really want to go you go on the flash twist has vision counter made strong slows him cut perfecto down in half and that's another one for twists alive now and a kick in nice breaks out of everything needs to get on it only needs to stop it i don't think there's time there's no time for this at all a headshot as well for good measure wow navi they put everything into that yeah really really they did simple look holds on to the awp here but the fact you're seeing them going for retakes like this early i mentioned a bit uncharacteristic yesterday they were more than happy to say doing it very by the book and the fact that they get two here you can see pinned towards the top here carrigan just staying alive but when you see a heavy mid setup like this and you know that simple is on the short side you know that the rotation is likely going to be far away from b electronic frustrated with that yeah and then on stark contrast faze just seemed laser focused well they don't want to start the same way they did the major remember they had a pretty abysmal ct side and they had to come back they gave us a bit of false hope that that was a competitive final it really wasn't it was faze running away with things taking that trophy away from the defending major champions so let me ask you this chad what makes this different same teams big final big crowd why are we now saying we don't know i think that this team right now they've definitely been able to deal with some of the issues internally that existed with birmingham right let's not beat around the bush let's not be around yeah you were talking about big things well sdy just seems to be the player keeping everybody cool keeping everybody calm just doing his job letting the stars of this team function now the save dog means to buy back still opting for the 2-3 spread on this and face going through the paces already getting brain up in towards that boiler room two avenues of assault procedurally clearing territory gained no answers up banana for either squad yet [Music] lying in way this will be a great call here save from the flash is electronic you may have to do a lot here sd-wise already revealed himself into the side he said garrigan on the mid-fight and another back and forth they are into the side though simple what does he wait for the rotate because that bomb is going down surely they save this sun right i know it's a three on three situation here but again locked out posturing for it still they've got kids they've got a bit of util for this smoke molly they can use one of those over towards the people we need to get past carrick in the flash forward kerrigan steps out nobody blind the kerrigan's down a big catch jumps into their jaws this retakes on twists and rain now have to partner up crossfire established a great headshot oh keep this up canadian keeping his call here massive rounds for him the pistol round the entry and the other gun round top banana and now stopping this retake from coming through we really need to talk about the setups that navi are throwing their way and the reason i said this is a great call is again carrigan's game plan looks perfect he's aware that the adjustment is not going to allow the mid control you cannot get that arch side control if they lock down mid well guess what we're coming out apartments and sdy up on the balcony that is a terrible position to have to defend against the pit it looks so uncomfortable for now that's a very deep ct smoke you can see paranoia spread immediately they're just happy to weight out this util and i say wait it out they copper ouch big chunk of damage there twists and kerrigan low and coming through carrigan he's not afraid at all oh he's feeling good about this quick smoke that's a lot of pressure now onto the cts changes his mind a white screen and pushing through electronic good for the first on the pistol but resource is limited players as well advantage phase and advancing now into perfecto's domain a quick one across the bow are you smoked coffins staring at the gray screen simple cannot contribute oh spotted phase starting to choke him out it's simple though who does give us something to talk about another headshot and he does it [Applause] on the triple gives navi life in the very first round of the grand final this is what you want to see you don't want to quiet simple you want him here loud in the cathedral showing up early every round is being competitive here no matter what the buy is and they're still just imposing their will onto phase through the coffins appropriately this is delivering already we're only six rounds into the game here every round has been back and forth tight affairs going for retakes none of this saving none of this putting the crowd to sleep they're here to entertain i think it's just a byproduct of these two groups of players doing what they do best but look at what it's done right you have to look at the ramifications of that this is showing you how close it was a 5-0 start and you're down to pistols you have not had an easy day of the office so far phase sure the game plan's been working but the rounds have been close yeah this is where the scales start to start to tip in favor of navi they're set up perfect to handle what's likely been thrown their way it's gonna be strength in numbers from phase you can tell that navi don't quite understand what the buyers here but they're coming their way could be a mop up here from beard up close and personal with the mp9 he's gonna take two perfecto's got one back but this is all beard one more with the usp and he's gonna farm some cash there with the mp9 now the reason you could tell they didn't know what type of execute or what type of rounds to expect that was super passive on a but they have banana control but you've worried about a bit of an apartment's waterfall in a situation like that a couple of flashes maybe some tech nines but it was just an eco so now establishing where the finances are at now you will know they're up against dubai but take a look at the cheeky purchase from roxia watch this one back again and this is great for bit he was an absolute monster yesterday on mirage i mean he saved them he really did in the absence of simple it was bit this is a set piece it's looking very set piece heavy with the early util yeah it's landing simple trying to disrupt you can spot it out flashed out and chase down look at carrigan seeing red and simple while seeing white puts one down it's rain on the trade electronics spotted out rain advancing his sdy forced into defensive stance and a good catch phase now humbled a little may want to continue this charge of suspicious smoke on the short side how do you handle that and if you don't get through perfecto it was a second into electronic was right there poised should he be required those last two have been the cleanest rounds in the game so far right the eco understandably so but the gun round there you can see the pace change carrick really trying to work that crowd here you're going to see at some point he's going to try and get them on his side a little bit more a bit of a trickster's old kerrigan you can use a bit of that sound here to help with faster rounds but this is good perfecto with a clean double and great stuff from sdy on the side there just to handle business yeah right sdy in this situation this guy gets plugged into na rv he's in the grand final right now he's got seven kills to his name and he's hanging with the big boys yeah definitely some parallels with sdy and bit and both of them have handled that in terms of being thrust to the very forefront of this competitive practice looking for that deagle headshot the only real hope in this one that's pretty much a full deco yeah this is kerrigan just allowing his troops to use their aim right we talk about the spread on this team being very very even to get to this point but they're all stars in their own right the thing is nobody's elevated to the level of simple and they don't have to they have not dropped a map so far yeah the run in cologne completely spotless sure there's been a couple of close games some double digits but faze have not lost a map and the desk was saying three players of the same rating this star trio this orion's belt of phase carrigan has got still time to get up to no good as the navy electronics on the way over here they're gonna have the stack towards the right side are navi crosshair is bang on the money as well it's perfecto let's raise them down a bit close round as well flash should enable another peak and phase just falling by the wayside it's rob's dig arriving last will it be another spotless navy round the answer is yes bit of a problem as well that bit's comfortable on an mp9 he's just holding on to it farming so much cash here and starting to establish a huge ct economy time out taken on the phase side just to discuss how the game plan is going to start to simmer forward because it worked well early but navi being able to adjust through some heroics remember this streak of four started with simple over towards b with a deagle and imagine where we would have been had he not given them that life so necessary from simple it's crazy to me you said he's confident enough to stick with the mp9 he has so much cash in the bank chad he's keeping it look if it was booming we understand he likes to use it he's over aggressive he'd maybe get one and done exactly exactly this is the newly dubbed headshot machine oh okay he's gonna throw it away there you go all right maybe in that timeout that phase call blade said listen mate you've had your [ __ ] [ __ ] yourself treat yourself you're stacked we're stacked here in the lancast back underway what's the change going to be a faze going to take a bit of pace out of this slow things down try and milk the economy here oh there's a bit of a glimmering lock of carrigan advancing fast flames will lick him down counter util strong and presence taken so na'vi now unknown but it's going to keep navi moving so this is just about playing rotation there was so much thrown into that but they still have residual utility for the next minute and 30 seconds there's no dramas for them they're just hoping to keep navy moving maybe over peak and you can see this back in simple is is an embodiment of navi's certainty you can see he's floating back and forth throwing nades into nothing that is evidence of phase with a job well done in these opening 30 seconds what they've been able to do here is push navi into the dark because of that rotation no banana info no top mid info so they want to take this back they haven't really prodded just yet a flash forward with no nothing behind it at least gives the indication set piece coming out here smokes over towards the long side pit again they did this on the pistol counter you two look at that a smoke one side flame the other do you really want to brave it oh eats the flash that's space to be taken a simple break sty sets him up but oh ahead of it rain knocks the head off a simple and now it's sdy's turn just the one as they do start just choke them out electronic has to be a hero here and still two of them finding it what an adjustment snaps into carrick and it should have been won and done but electronic finally falls and fades knocks the head off of the headshot machine that is nutty clothesline cop that robs i said he's been bailout judy again two big kills later he's electronic from the pit he's doing work too check out this adjustment one more time i don't know how he catches brokey there but that one to kerrigan is beautiful this this is quite the shot to be hitting on a grand final stage drop and bob right there bang [Applause] couldn't even couldn't even release his keyboard in time think about the intensity think about the level of these games this isn't just get the kills and the rounds done constantly fighting constantly biffing neither team given an inch here this is map number one yeah ten rounds deep of a best of five the death discussed it this first map is a key indicator the fact that faze haven't dropped a single map so far chad it's baffling to be walking into a grand final without really remembering what it feels like to lose a map if anyone's gonna make him bleed it's not v they've had their struggle see they've lost a couple but both teams destined on a collision course for this final and we got it how often does that happen you get the collision and collisions are set the course not yo yeah not yet actually gonna be manifesting take a look at that it's presence it's posturing brokey dispatch to pick up the objective yeah just continue to offer reactions here and you can see navi no longer playing that heavy mid setup now they've opted for this like a little bit more standard here but the b setup is quite retake within its nature the boost plane towards spawn perfecto trying to paint them into this limb smoke front sight it's gonna mean a couple of questions but in this setup they have it's actually quite nice for navi here a lot of information remains work smoke from rops here and now that we're down to the final 30 seconds the hit's coming yeah great time to drop the smoke sdy you'll have that up for the hit something to play around chips away at brokey it's simple long range forces carrigan down into the dirt still the setup is potent what can you do to break they haven't got the time they haven't got the time and they're running out of players navi mow them down upon arrival it's only twists and robs and now just got to accept his fate goes down with the ship blades happy with that one keeping the cash in the coffers four still alive as navi immediately shut down that phase streak yeah fazer in a bit of rough spot with the money right if they can't get the bomb down in all these situations gonna be harder to stimulate the economy here for the final few rounds of half number one so likely just to see the deagles again and that's really working in navi's favor not having to be up against gum round after gun round it's gonna make things a little bit easier for them because you think about this if they end up on six rounds here three of them will just be against pistols and that's fantastic work that's half of their rounds so far and robin on the mark here having a bit of a chat with carrigan second timeout called ending the season with the two major champions of the year stockholm champions versus antwerp champs here in the cologne and there is not an empty seat in the house fazer cooking something up here they've opted for a little bit of utility around the purchase right they know the lost bonus starting to build in their favor so some deagles with as i say little it's just a light smattering a couple of smokes a flash of hg so these need to land picture perfect for them to get the most out of it and a change navi willing to start three top bananas simple in sdy to defend against a we're back underway as they trundle quite quickly up second mid here the utils already being deployed yeah navi happy to get that util deployed in the early game when aware of funny business in the buy it is just going to be that last smoke deployed here it comes phase but their resources towards the a site sdy panic stations looks for a safer place to roost the key here is they haven't followed through with the xq but they've given themselves some room to work with here electronic needs to be extremely careful they plan through the fade he's going to get one and he's even seen the second that's what you want from electronic they're taking care of business and now it's sdy and simples turn the combination on a clean [Applause] some incredible craftsmanship on that we even had jesus here like yesterday yeah i mean we've got royalty in the building i don't know if you have to buy a ticket or if they let him in for free but it was great to see him perfecto reactionary flash pull just in case bit requires the help it doesn't seem it'll be the case look at the health on the canadian early doors unconfirmed but bleeding out is twists here's one of those new elements those wall bangs from short side and abs i'm sure we might get to see it throughout this first map of our final simple lines it up trying to chip further away and it does connect what an aid certainly softens them up for this weapon in sdys hands and good for it simple sdy again combined to win out the opening exchange on a where the bomb is alex they've gone to hit the outside and left the bomb at spawn and the man coming back to get it is twist now bit oh but wait this could be a bit of an issue here especially now that broke his taken one twist with 40 seconds left can grab the bomb and this is completely wide open but he has such low health if he was to brave it yeah none the wiser but he's running into the stack oh and a roll reverse and it's bit that knocks the head off for brokey from his advance and now it gets real spooky bits wise he's smart but will he ever consider this a foot fault from phase may lead to a way back in round 13 bit and okay what i'm sorry he checks it and twists all of that for nor rops could do nothing too quiet for too long and now they know he's in pit are they going to try and take this gun away after time rob's needs to fight for his life here four seconds left on the clock and electronics steps out not afraid or nothing seven now for navi they take the lead and this is a difference in their ct side this started one way and it's ending another i mean what a slew to start the pistol the first gun bit look at this you can't see much knocks the goggles straight off of his face i talked about the headshot uh heroes of either team here bit with 72 percent and twist with 75 percent you've even got carrigan look not as many kills here but he's got a 75 trying to keep up with the big boys yeah i looked at his event headshot 68 for bit it's certainly an efficient way to get the job done well this is an efficient buy from face right they've leveled out the cashier they've gone for a half by with the max loss into the last round of play so this here with a couple of tech nines it can tell of something that they want to be a bit quicker a bit nimble maybe a b execute right i really haven't seen them lean towards that side of the map all that too much but navi are one step ahead simple finally bringing out the awp again right it was the early stages the orbs came out but since then brokey and simple haven't really been wielding the big greens now i thought it was going to be b maybe it's going to be crap over towards the long side here is util being lined up still a couple of smokes a couple of flashes left over but the time again simple has rotated back perfectly he's got the finger on the pulse they're coming his way trying their luck well placed incendiary limits their options they'll be channeled close and oh there's so many what a flare can oh the usp doesn't even need the big green to pluck the head off of twists bit looking for answers one slipped the net and he's been found kerrigan down narvia really cleaning house here though look i mean these aks are still in play these electronic bit no better candidates and an eighth to win out their ct half just a couple of clicks away they have to know this is possible navi right they've intentionally given up the space here now bits position he doesn't have to worry about it just yet and the footsteps starting to come his way the sound queue i think bit has finally realized in combination with perfecto looking to close this one down brokey wants to find something here and he can't that's eight there's only have one real spot on the record of this eight really good stuff four and then four again from navy the final gun round to play the purchasers are coming in and brokey getting the weapon of choice back in his hands but we'll be light on the util here now look i'm comparing this to the major final but if we're going to compare this with inferno at the moment actually drink alone it's a t-sided map it's the only map in the pool that we have that has been t sided so is six gonna be enough i'm sure they would love to get seven here well they've got everything they need to do it and it's aggression from bit brokey prepared and he cuts down another tags up perfecto he is working on the scrap of elf one it doesn't get closer low as hell perfecto wants to send twists there too well footsteps would have been heard there from twister backing off that relinquished top and under control twist would still be brave to go around this corner without a flash the difference here from now obviously a bit more forward over towards a rob's job is to contain this make sure they can't get too much information as kerrigan and the rest of the troops set up towards banana here for what should be hail mary b execute so many nades on the belt of electronic he can react and delay and they sail through the skies a smoke nade and a whole team coming his way perfecto an electronic established can they defend the site nine looms there's not clear in the boost perfecto and electronic oh he runs out of bullets he needed one more in the mag and now just a little bit of hope props and twists these boys are spicy an electronic perfect timing on the push the flash it sets him up but only twists and only one [Applause] five rounds in the first five and then it's all navi a magnificent start to our grand finals the first half of the best of five concludes and we're just gonna take two so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] nine major champions in the server tonight here in the iem cologne 2022 grand finals electric start from phase you can see the frustrations bubbling high in celebrations as well for phase it was twist leading the way in that department and then the other superstar in the other jersey made his presence known yeah since simple showed up had that massive round on the b bomb side faze were struggling the game plan early it was tidy it was nice but right now avia poised get to 10. looking into the pistol rounds here the buyers coming through it looks a lot different to phase clans lot less smokes a lot more armor navi now on the attack oh deagle this time around here from simple just gonna be the p250 and handed it four man a lean from faze out the gates here and a slight lean to navi in the bookies they want to finally he's going to get this fight perfecto spotted out it's long range that's what that extra pistol is for oh glock to the dome drops on notice and run down a big opening oh a fingertip spotted re-jig in the defense phase one one back and all twist goes looking and all he finds is death destruction brokey carrigan on the side sd1 has slipped through carrick is aware he's got a lot of targets on his screen and he has reign in support as always his trusty companion brokey not done a double more required as rain rains it down we will see the seventh both pistols now that's both pistols for faze clan [Applause] calling out your friends it's crazy how this one started felt like rob's had absolutely no idea they could be behind him just kept busy in that fight for long enough but as i mentioned it was a four-man lean from phase they wanted them to run into this site twist gave away his life there which i think made them feel that the site was gonna be a little bit weaker and carrick and happy with that one so the pistol rounds great stuff from faze let's see if they can continue here well they certainly should it's not a force fight it's just it one upgrade for simple with the deagle but remember that's where it all started to go wrong for faze in that first half now this is where counter strikes got to every way you can find that information safely you can see that the tensions were quite high there with the reactions we had from the players coming back in from the break and you can even see simple talking very intently down the line there right they're just discussing what they're likely going to do in the next gun round of play because this one's a wash right if you can get a kill sure but we all know what they're up to here right milking through this utility making sure that faze have to buy the extra nades into the next round of play now if they can get a kill or too late or a plant that's exceptional working around like this but you can see here they're just hanging out really just taking a bit of pace a bit of source out of this one when simple was asked about you know electronics integration as a leader and how you incorporate that with a brain like blade his answer is whether those mid-rounds are coming from electronic but there is a clear game plan handed to them by that sixth man standing behind them yeah and i think that's why the conversation about booming no longer being in the team it hasn't felt like a big one it's like okay well we haven't lost someone just giving away the opening deaths now and electronic gets to take care of business but that's exactly what goes down on banana brokey and kerrigan quick succession knock them down navi made and wait now we get back into the guns i mean we get to see the same situation right we saw what the game plan was from phase early but it was quite clear the type of setups they were going for and navi wanted to lock down top mid it didn't work for them great within the early stages they had to adjust now where does navi want to take the fight here so they want to try and punish towards this top banana position it is against the bonus buy those smgs carried across three loads of nades deep mid smoke with the incendiary from roxy to try and keep them at bay yeah super interesting simple really prioritizing that t-side orb he's not fully invested he wants that early in the piece and this is a lot of early control perfecto combined with simple are going to try and wrestle back for something in the meantime up mid hot shots brokey was smoked and sdy has escaped that's enough they've seen enough they're trying to make it as jarring for each other when they've taken this territory you saw the nades thrown at rain now that it's throwing top mid they don't want them allowed to just set up and explode here but broke you will have to relinquish control of that arch side you can see how passive he's had to drop back here by that divider smoke towards long rain as well and this flash is set up so we can repeat the half wall kerrigan's got something in his back pocket here it's all about his timing of it rain is right there waiting to strike flash jump headshot they can't finish him running him down at a quick d another opening it's gonna be on twists and rops here they're coming their way the bomb now slinking up top mid broke he doesn't know where to go five versus four conversions are high but in 30 seconds still legs to this if brokey the biggest gun in the server for phase left the gap now big gap a gaping chasm as these two cower it is twists and rops though under-equipped for time on their side they just need to pitch up away the swing comes in no trade available a big catch from robs more required rops gets two on the famous finally shut down with just two seconds to spare the bomb will go down can i give this one a look in here remember it was a bit of a bonus round there's residual cash for most they've got kids perfecto is low can't believe perfecto after those initial dings gets away with his life he may not get away with his life as this bomb explodes kerrigan sticking around and trying his luck there you have it and an ak as well that works out nicely okay making the best of a bad situation there is carrigan gives a bit of a parting gift on the way out the door now he won't walk away with it as clean as they'd like but two ak-47s one for electronic for simple and they will just stay alive those new changes i think players are still adjusting you gotta remember where you planted the bomb the different range is also worried about whether the players could be trying to contain your exit but this was great here it looks really specky from rain right on the jump it's a bit of a different way to play for that information but simple there just lays him to rest in banana and rox does his best in that situation you can see twist having to worry about all the angles as well the navi fans love around like that again they're back in with a curious looking buyer now the bit with a tech nine interesting always the one sacrifice didn't hold him back in the previous that all being noted now navi will be on notice for the rest of this round about the way that they have to peek these corners flash a jiggle a teammate just swinging into brokie here who needs to heat up 12 kills to his name he's definitely started to put it in the conversation but mainly twists in the early stages of this map to put the damage down rain but robs up on his favorite little balcony here we remember what he did in katowice it's quite the pairing on their a defense phase and they're coming knocking on the door drops and twists trying to poof cut down before they arrive and they take out the super starch simple humbled bits take nine turns into an ak so that's lovely for him but they need to go back and scoop up this bomb faye's still in this 2-3 spread twists to be the man to rotate over for the next note they're going to knock on here will be rain and brokeys over towards b that awp has been repositioned final decisions to be made and here comes the nades broke he cannot contribute already gaps are closing bit pre-aiming in an old what rain down already what's brokey to do a good tag they want to run him down and they will you can see bodies all over the site what not far off just through the corner electronic plants it's safe and now phase this has got to be alarm bells a couple of very close but no cigar on the spray [Applause] rops is coming as a flash here that's the only way back in they have to wait for this flash from robs there's kids for this smoke banana that will deny sdy and now on the push this is so last minute this is so late just pushing in they need to win every jewel navi established strong as they defend their ball rocky ain't getting away with this awp they're not gonna let him live here he's trying as hard as he can in a no-scope but there's still one more hunting him down cut down chase down and bomb concludes the 11th for navi that was even with the opening top mid remember twist took out simple so that was the number disadvantage situation yeah this is traditionally where phase do they're better work in the number disadvantage situation here but that was so explosive rain was really caught off guard by that and so was brokey the shot looked like it should have been on right there just a slight bit of damage but brokey showing us something special before he loses his weapon of choice and now just down to the pistols fazer really back up against this they're the ones who need to come back into their map choice to lose your first map of the tournament in the first map of the grand final this is gonna put them on notice right the thing is i don't think either of these teams know who is better right you're gonna believe that you're the better team coming into this you're preps there you're better players you have to have that bravado you have to have that confidence if you want to play at this level of counter-strike but if you sat them down and you truly asked them to be honest about which team is better you'd have a really hard time separating the two you could point out weaknesses and strengths for both teams you could talk through the run up into this point [Applause] okay twists again from the outside nice shot but that's the only defense you'll need to get another simple tag down and bit he'll step on out happy to oblige it's like oh we're repeating are we okay but this is the thing right navi when they've been in best of five finals they traditionally do speed running right we talk about marathon sprint they do it in the sprinting fashion a 3-0 whereas phase when you see them in the best of five is a bit more labored they're used to going the distance and that's why i think the desk when they talk about who's gonna win this series if it does go a little bit deeper than three maps you start to question the navi have enough in the reserve how are they gonna deal with this one going to four or five well you talk about the sprint chad no better way to start that sprint out of the blocks by taking your opponent's map pick exactly overpass next and the desk was also asking the question there how is this map coming so early into the best of five ancient to be the third okay options are going to become few and far between for faze a stunning defensive haul out of nf in that first half and now faze do have to match it they did take both pistols but didn't take long for na'vi to once again look to be reigning supreme some sacrifices for faze again not a kit in sight for round 21. that b bomb site can't be a weakness again right and you've mentioned about sacrifices for this one the fact that there's a famous for twist here and he's been one of the most potent players so far could be some big issues but this is where faze need to really step up individually right if they come one's not enough you can't go one and go down you need to get the two in a bye like this navi it's like they're pulling teeth pulling you around the map and being able to convert rounds even when they lose that opening kill that's going to attest to the fact that one is not enough it's very direct again right they're keeping these two players planted on the b bomb site and the rest of them just start to come boil the holes up mid a minute 28 left on the clock and they can come very quickly osdy caught out brokey given a gift and can they continue to peel apart the four remaining arrogant dangerous game he's playing spots it out has twists in tow flash might be required to take that fight because electronics hitting every shot he takes back to a four on four and so much time still available where did his health just go shot on down still punishes one face trading evenly roxas provided a nice one onto bit but it is simple there's so much time to work this they left the bomb safe the bomb has not even been spotted to this point simple we'll have to go back and pick it up but he knows that robs is the a defender and likely reign has been trying to cut him off of the past to make sure that he cannot get back towards that b bomb site so now scooping up the bomb 39 seconds left on the clock and this fight towards rops he is very low positioning the name of the game reigns gambling here he's gambled correctly simple cuts noise looking for his first engagement opts for the molotov strafe quick from rain rewarded for the gamble and just when things became compulsory phase do provide we talked about the fact that the players they needed to make sure they were getting more than one in those trades they get the opening kill kerrigan goes down but then from twist getting the kill towards that arch side rob's grabbing one bro broken grabbing the other it wasn't necessarily multi kills right they were chipping in together in this situation and they were handling business but you can see once they get the space they're looking for both teams are just happy to stand and fight you want to pick all right our aim's just as good as yours but this is great from phase here need to do it again and well the buy for them still a little bit struggle some carrigan now taking a couple of chances barreling down mid hasn't been noted but twist he's taking the push kerrigan behind the kills are coming their way navi on notice already just throwing aggression an offensive defense carrigan recovers a rifle a nice upgrade his life more important and valuable as he holds the access point to one half of the map look how small the map looks right now they're boxed in here deep smoke back turned sdy who brokey little sloppy on the spray still converts in its bits turn equal amounts of time an extra man to deal with and contend with carrick and broke he admittedly wounded but this is all about the info here right not giving up not over peaking a corner just play for the info allow him to take the space that he wants and regroup make sure you have a buddy system going rops is making sure he can't go through halls broke he's making sure it can't go here and kerrigan on the jump he must have spotted in there broke he's starting to rotate but carrick's hanging around bit knows he needs to run him down and deny by the smoke straight through and great from kerrigan perfect by the book play to get 10 now for face bit of a ballsy one as well he knows that bits charging towards him he's the only man on that beast's side kerrigan opts to take the fight i think that's important for kerrigan to do here right we know that he needs to step up in certain situations hope it's tasty counter-strike certainly is an early dinner or a late lunch or a really late brunch we're all feasting our eyes on this one right now as harvey have been humbled here just down to a couple of pistols and the fact that fazer battling into this now in a bit of life in this just a two-round game and showing more confidence taking more fights and reigns straight through flash stuff he's got no idea they're past he's got him another one as well oh okay okay that is the most dominant defensive round we've seen from faze it's quick it's clean oh he sees you he sees you and he hears you the greatest showman in counter-strike yeah no one does it like carrigan no doubt in the game out of the game kerrigan does it his way and you can see this they just run past it both of them blind as bats hand over face and hand over fists phase take a very quick one oh this last one's beautiful just swinging around the premonition from rain how many of his actual kills did he see there i mean one maybe here on electronic and then the third just a real extra spicy meatball beautiful there is a timer has been taken played an opportunity to bring out the novel see where they're at what chapter are we on i love the way they put on the desk talking of chapters i think it was matthew you know you're reading a murder mystery and we're just as we've stepped into this grand final we're on that page before the killer is revealed we really do not know that uncertainty in unity with everyone here we we all want to find out who will be the champion of cologne and i think it's time we do another check who expects to see navi lift the trophy it sounds similar to oj because what happens next as i say and who thinks faze clan jesus and i'm not talking about the dude in the toga well uh look kerrigan asked them to go full gas today i think was the translation yes let's see what they've got in them here as we're back underway the timeouts have concluded crazy to see the amount of gun rounds here without awps really in play i'm on for simple no one for broke into around 24. very heavy baleen from phase in the early stages maybe expecting something a little bit faster to fight for this map control it's passively holding onto a flash here to enable a car fight and as more youtube comes forward it's probably going to stand and why the molly's burning at his toes and yeah he will have to dip back so not too much damage unless they use it as a shield oh they really are off the leash phase think about it's a late banana take so not do they have control within the first you know 10 seconds they have control where the minute on the clock so this is perfect right this takes away a component of navi's take hang on they're coming right trying to help kerrigan out it's one from him reign responsible for b and will turn tail sweat electronic comes in within the mid round it's one for one he needs to move these pieces of the puzzle around the map a 2-2 split of the defenses right now twists again he's been great from this position that's gonna deny vision he has full information right now that smoke means nothing to twist no doubt no questions oh he's concerned about that second letter of the alphabet povector dropping weapons faking out the sounds and oh boy rv it's very light on time can rops really get away with this one 15 they still aren't sprinting now they got a flash flash isn't bad needs one it's the bomb carrier perfect perfect from robs target selection and just with a second to spare that bomb will go down can't do anything about it brokey and rain her head to head two on two electronic on the jiggle rain across the line to tie us up he knows what he's doing getting paid to play since 2008 he used to bring up a cowbell to the events now he just uses the crowd that right there is perfect that is what counter-strike is all about trading right off of each other the teamwork those details that is what we love to see and back in with the brittle bayern navy this time the pace change quick up banana looking for the space electronic is going to take it he's going to get it for free free is a bend of the word perfecto losing limbs and so is bit two members of navi walking wonky they've been explosive on this b site before but this is the issue now the rotations come through phase are wise of their tricks twisters fortifying this b side not only fortifying flashing forward for a fight and they set simple up he's healthy he's the star and he's dead quick one out a bit that's the trades we talked about but trying to get away as rain feels the void is twisting down despite the low hp twist couldn't finish his meal and rain now calls upon brokie i'd have to be rops again here alex this top mid smoke is going to start to subside the work slinking down banana bit hasn't moved to muscle here so much time on the clock to still make decisions for navi do they want to play for input electronic cast definitely looks so here he's waiting for them to go glance down mid this is the fight he's been waiting for a head shot angle fight very hard oh elbow a tiny glimpse of information but it makes the world of difference surely now they can't be behind all of them [Music] [Applause] knocks them down look at that come on what a play man down mid push the ball's on brokey this is what you need to see one and then the whole team melt at the hands of brokey oh look at them just cowering in the corner happy with that one isn't he oh boy back in the lead now one round game and another timeout for now v they get installed they're getting stopped a streak for faze up to five on the trot reminding us why it is their map choice and starting to look a little bit happy with himself do we shower brokey in the praise as well or was that na'vi also getting a little hesitant on the commit i don't think that they thought anyone would be brave enough to push down in a man disadvantaged situation that's a risk to take and just the timing that he caught they were glancing top mid they were ready for the play the perfect timing from brokey in that moment pushes now b down to just a couple of upgraded pistols and bit with an ak in his hands how many times have navi been in this kind of scenario they get batted by the utility robs through the smoke this time round that was the ak they have armor it will be juggled but still it was bit that was so good digging navi out of the dirt in their semi-final [Music] sdy and perfecto tend to be a little bit quieter here on the t side so you still have to turn towards the trio of electronics simple and bit to try and crack open the rounds remember the orb hasn't really been a key component of na'vi on this t side not at all yeah what was i talking about not a single investment necessary kerrigan does track well it's those two carrick reign constantly a nuisance a problem oh how the tides have turned a nine six half from rv and being matched by phase phase up in the crowd and well phase up in the game two rounds away from taking their map pick and force into the final timeout here now v right blade going to have a conversation this is fantastic utility from robs throughout remember that double dunk note over towards the arch of the early stages to deal with the force by the graduation from rv so rob's here is stepping up in a big way cut himself up to 16 kills leading the charge is broken with 23. feels like a pretty quiet 23 kills he's just one behind simple here and in the head to head that's where they're matched up but blame blade with the final marching orders here what's the answer going to be how do they get themselves back into this game a mac 10 alphabet here he doesn't even have a good spawn to use this quick up banana they've been taking and sustaining so much damage within the early stages think about banana running through molly's mid copping nades getting spammed just getting bowled over here now v and we're talking about faze losing their first map so far of cologne guess what they've got different plans one of the few remaining opportunities as it's quick out of perfecto great flash rain out in time it's rops that's actually been caught out sdy catching his glancing apartments but look at carrick one tries his luck he's going for three come on one shore two okay three navi running short of players and rounds again their corpses litter banana same position same place their demise and 15 it looms simple and sd white what can they do about this they're just taking it in turns to farm some frags in a grand final no less will they really remain undefeated on their run to the trophy navi the best candidate to push their limits simple's gonna have to push his if he wants to have anything to say about this one again this duo veterans reign not simple down in the last it's just a formality because we're up to 15. the combo of kerrigan and reign they've been to every cologne and this time they're in the grand final putting on a show no finals come on you know you've gone to so many and as you are reaching you at the peak the crescendo of your career the accolades they're showered upon you you've got a very clear nemesis in navi and they're arriving with them out pick and now they've got some opportunities folks three map points for faze to stay supreme and undefeated here in cologne trying their luck again into rain oh they're both down electronic slaps the veterans out of the server and continues to take space this is huge from electronic but brookie trying to respond to this here look at the bomb it hasn't been scooped up sdy might have to but rops if he pushes into boiler he might catch him here this is the bomb carrier he's not going to go down sdy and back to back sits robbed on his ass rob's could have done so much with that sty just closing out the head to head and now yeah options very few and far between for faze to dig themselves out of this opportunity we've seen what he's done he might even go for and play here he might offer something aggressive then they could be good cool simple chipped away at the bomb is gonna get planted here the smoke redeployed and twists has arrived to the party a flash and an incendiary to get them in no reason not to go even damage here right just take away these guns you do not have to win this round you just need to keep navi with weapons out of their hands keep the compromises coming bomb half gone two members low on navi bit was healthy past tense broke he ensures it simple needs to get out of the site electronic close and sold na'vi passed their first of the three tests so more rounds now but face you like the play you understand the play damage was name of the game you can see carrigan likely gonna after they go down to this beautiful double from electronic here great round from him right they needed something from their in-game leader pushing through the smoke they're lining up it doesn't get easier than that and that's an actual very important kill because sdy on the way back he was the man that well needed to help the troops out as they were getting over towards that b site but they can buy the finances are there for both teams i wonder if those two head-to-heads with sdy and robs are going to perhaps take the luster out of rops his aggressions will you really try it again when you're so close to victory good nade one shot headshot available now onto simple oh definitely as he tries his luck flame smoke territory maintained navi are in no rush this is a bit of a different round here faze loses sight and they do not trade efficiently likely to see a bit of a save here to go into round 30. we need to start worrying about the finances here is the lost bonus bottom of the barrel or near enough zone four players in banana sty just dealing with any aggressions keeping them busy over towards a forcing communication out flashes are being used but on this b bomb site there's some key utility carrigan still with a smoke and an incendiary to his hands and as i say it out comes one key piece they're gonna extinguish and go here this is all in yeah here they come carrogan needs one rain to support and to frag bit down holds down mouse one kerrigan as well they get the openings but here comes perfecto to sweep him under the rug reigns stubborn caught now it's perfecto who's given them away in still a man advantage but that bomb will go down a wall bang from twists achieves nothing but that works straight through the smoke dropped onto sdy and perfecto demanded to do it all or we are closing out inferno phase remain undefeated the first of the grand final phase take them out pick and this is just the beginning chad so much more counter-strike ahead of us [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] and even exchange leaves us with a four on foreign this is brave the flash is a bit of an indicator for perfecto to be on high alert there goes navi just chipping away at the fully bought up vitality yeah that be splitting now they know shocks is isolated on that side curtain can't push long stretches foreign foreign foreign so [Music] so [Music] [Music] well it's a scorcher all across the summertime here especially in cologne but the real burner is this first map an inferno even as we take a look and start to talk a little about all of this i welcome you back to the intel xtreme masters we're in cologne 2022. inferno done it's dusted face pick it up but where we leave off is now looking into overpass will be the next map of the series but as it stands let's get some housekeeping out of the way so uh together with one x bet we are looking for the best clutch of the group stage and in doing so we have to narrow down the candidates just a little bit so let's take a look at it the follow-up it's all one simple it's one quick kill on to torsi he notices a player trying to pull his attention away and he goes into the no scope at middle smoke is up he spots it out bitmaps goes down it's more victim needed simple gets it done two good crossfire good baiting peak from fury on cap [Music] oh no and he wants more on the bomb on the stick 10 seconds oh no stop and there's no kid he checks alex is going to do it simple gotta force it and he's dead oh man now i'm not entirely sure that i'm supposed to tell you what i would vote for but truth be told i'll tell you how to vote which is go ahead and use the twitch poll in the chat right now to find out who our one expect clutch is of the group stage it's kind of hard to look past uh what simple did there on overpass that was actually kind of kind of sickening trying to influence votes not what you're trying to do right now i'm just saying i saw what i said putting out there okay it's out there now to the whole world uh speaking of which inferno now out of the picture so let's discuss this a little bit i'm looking at you well what he did on overpass what's he been doing the whole tournament and he's done it here in map one in the grand final still the best player it's going to be hard to beat him for the mvp regardless who yes who wins but you know what a banger to kick it off here in the lang cesarena 1613 for faze but they won both pistols and they had some heroic individual rounds in the second half it was a hard fought battle for phase clan it's very reminiscent of the antwerp major starting on inferno back and forth battle they just itched away ever so slightly at the very end you talk about simple hit would face in the ground in the first half his legal action was the starting point of a crazy momentum that navi had and then kerrigan had to find it within himself to fight back yeah and i think that even takes us to uh you know we could start to look at some of these rounds in a bigger depth um in all reality there's so many to pick from considering how much of a climb back it was for the side of face i just think the level of counter strike has been insane the individual plays right you don't have more than you know a split second really to react right you don't get a kill in the first couple of bullets you're dead you won't get a second chance right and i think even from this round that you guys are seeing on your screen the electronic play from pitt is simply unbelievable you're thinking okay he's got it and then in a matter of two seconds drops is down finishes it off with a one tap and it's just impressive what we've been seeing so far it's the time to kill the time to kill is so low that basically any mistake will have your death that's it you have a split second to find a kid right look at what is doing right there but what is he supposed to do you can't do anything in that moment you just kind of accept that because that's what happened there was no coming back from the one click uh or at least in that notion round ten what about uh we look at it now because phase one obviously with round 22. yes round 22 is a very interesting point for me i think it's a key point of that story that kerrigan told here it's a very aggressive push that is gonna come down from phase you can look at the score line it's 12 to nine at this point navi is in control but faze accept the fight they accept to get muddy they accept accepted it dirty and i love that goal from carrick carrying simple dies there you saw his pov he dies to kerrigan in the back because perry kerrigan is pushing down middle and he's jumping over their own incendiary right to help in that banana fight brock is moving down mid to hold the angle for second minute right he throws his incendiary to buy time and that aggression just completely changes the narrative this was after phase lost around yes this was a reset round for them so to call this being down 12-9 thanks a lot of gods it's kerrigan saying to his teammates listen it's going to get dirty like if we don't put everything on the line we're going to lose this game so we're going to aggress now maybe we might need to regret it maybe we'll lose this round but if we win this is the way forward but we have to take the fight this is who fazes are i mean they've been playing like this in big games before in finals as well you know this is their identity and it's just awesome to see that they're not shying away from it now in the grand final on this massive stage yeah and then the massive stage still set i believe we have just one more round even kind of consolidating massive stage means massive plays hey everybody if i want to take that one you want to talk to us about this crazy move talk to him this was just unbelievable because first we have some fast trades in banana right it doesn't really go faze his way they're gonna trade one for two here and then brocky he's like in a three before we need to take a risk going to take a risk if he doesn't pan out and you can see him he pushes down mid the timing was perfect electronic was holding it as soon as he's moving to join his teammates rocky pushes down they all line up for him and he just takes them all down you're a navi fan you're watching this your first reaction is man he's so lucky the guy's just turning around but you have to understand that the call is perfect there is one way to win this 3v4 is by gathering information and taking a risk you're not just going to sit back and wait for the round to come to you yes he got lucky he had success at the end four kills and that's it that's a map winning move right there well at some point you know it's not luck you got to think about the positioning you know the crosshair placement uh the timings and all the other stuff that is worked on by some teams more than others and it shows right here this is the fruits of your labor um so putting a bow on inferno guys i think that was a great comeback for phase great stuff this is where you get scary right you get one zero down i still can't wrap my head around this overpass pick for me it's better when you're in the grand final right what you want to especially these great teams with great players you know pick something i can't remember when navi picked overpass with any lineup since blade was coaching right like that it just doesn't sound like it's not a classic navi pic right here you're thinking it's the best of five maybe we can get away with it early but if that's true you know you're 20 down the final is not over yet if they lose it but coming back reverse sweeping from 20 down against the phase yes i think that's going to be extremely difficult so really they have to have a lot of confidence if this was going to be their pick yeah and it does set us up beautifully for more counter-strike you can't go wrong there speaking of which this isn't the only grand final going on today a little bit of a colex rush segment maniac what's your lineup what's it look like yeah i'm going to talk to you about some of the players i had i have naf of course from liquid we have our boys simple that makes sense rob's the absolute machine i had the leaders here great resurgence of work and blamer because we can't forget about blame it what you got what do you care you can get beat me well man i i always think i can beat you there's no doubt about that i have some similar prayers i'm surprised you had the legion there you know i had him as well i have my boy reign right he was the mep at the major he stepped it up here unleash different form with the kinder on the team electronic right the new igl fragging igl you have to have one of those and i'm going for the trifecta yeah you got it man i'm going for electronic bit simple i feel like they've got this the triomphe rate of doom they've got this in the codex rush maybe not in the actual game yeah there's a lot of stuff actually going on still on the stage but hey let's play the game uh i'd ask you guys to commentate um but uh you know what the first few seconds for me i'm always about figuring out what map i'm looking at yeah because you have an idea i already got the entry kill right 5x4 situation it looks like we're going to go for a mid-split here this was decided all in the preparation maniac preparation right i'm waiting for you to go for an information play bill is going to do it on the lurk bit is on blame oh my god rob's first game he's one of the most solid look at the b defense look at the b difference i have and i know what i picked these players that's it in the bag man 4v5 man get out of my face and you know and it's because you played your game today then there's absolutely no way we can just turn guns maniacs man yeah congratulations uh and anything that you want to say in this moment about winning moments rush segment i think my family you know they always supported me i think this is the peak of my career and something for the fans in the arena in germany yeah absolutely that's true make sure that when they hear me all righty thank you so much for that brief flashback into what was terror uh we can talk a little about what is going into overpass now janko you've got reservations you think that this one could be a little bit of a troublesome water and i look at you maniac and i wonder if you're feeling the same uh i do feel the same for a very simple reason i think rain is going to be a focal point for phase they're going to start on the ct side we know the work he's been putting in and the first half of inferno was nothing sort of abysmal he had five kills only he was very weak he was struggling but he got back to it he got back into form he finished at 20 kills he had a very strong ct side carries that over good luck navi i mean i was only i was mostly being negative but let's focus on the positive so if they're picking this that probably tells you they have a lot of confidence that they can beat phase on this map pace did put a lot of work in it and they played a lot of times that robert tries to get official practice in but that probably means they've shown this information more of most of the stuff that they have right so now if you're navi you're feeling okay we see how they like to play the map we feel like we match up really well against it no reason for anyone to feel uncomfortable right and let's bring it back into a one one-on-one suit yeah and let's let's try it let's try to get it there because that's where we need to be we also need to review what our 1x bet clutch of the group stage was we had the vote in the twitch poll and now we're going to take a look at those results right before we jump in overpass this is the intel extreme masters grand finals he walks right into it oh simple's going for it okay oh [Music] oh no looking to get more out of your cs go fan experience introducing csgo bingo event pickums and fan club showdown flame free bingo cards to win amazing prizes predict the winners of esl events with pickums for prizes and glory show your favorite team you're the biggest fan by winning matches in the fan club showdown check out csgohub.com today to take part in all of these and more [Music] [Music] bless me father for i have sinned a familiar voice you're back again so soon my son tell me what is troubling you i feel many urges i fear temptation it's getting better of me go on four thousand seven hundred fifty dollars how can one resist such a power for such a little price imagine this my hands for every round one is dropping me whenever i want it's just not possible it's it's simply not viable with the current in-game economy wait they can alternate monazi and alexie b no no no buy around every round genius these are dark thoughts my boy we've been here we've done this these are dark thoughts that you must expel two easiest roles in the game if i could just fuse them eco the swing i'm sorry i'm sorry you must promise to rid yourself of these thoughts swear it to me swear to me now okay i'll do it close your eyes with me pledge allegiance to being a pure rifler and all your sins shall be forgiven okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] service is in session on this sacred ground we're live for our second map [Applause] looking to consecrate a king in corn we need to go again now narvi and faze already showing us both on that first map what we have to look forward to is this a rider passage i haven't learned about here in cologne yeah i mean you know you aussies do it one way this is the christening i suppose here communion wines just a little bit more coal sheet oh boy i just seen the sign we are ready to jump in lances are you ready for map two i'll take that as a yes and so will the admin team we're jumping into overpass the desk is highlighted overpass raised eyebrows and chad i'm sure yours were up as well i can understand why but with sdy in the roster 100 on this map so far but they've started on the ct side this time round on the attack so let's see what blade and the boys have in store as per usual the armored p250 to equalize the range for these long-range engage it's rain that will take a pot shot or two not supported in fact he's actually posturing to try and get be the early warning sign fans have gone for a four to one division and reign responsible to call when he feels a little too pressured this is where rain does absolute best work over towards this a position right on the pistol round a little bit different they've gone for a four-man b lean that rotation starting to posture and head back over now but rain cannot get caught out of position the bomb still over towards the b side they pushed him if any plays for info here and simple looking for exactly that the jump spot towards the dice box he's gonna get faded in the flash is no good but rain he still gets the kill number advantage here for face can they build upon the advantage they could even tap one here oh what a shot just as the money lands he still hits it into bit now navi are really struggling kerrigan extends their lead but the bomb will go down cash in the coffers at the bare minimum and it might just be that yeah phase quick to get back onto the site is that three for three in pistols yeah looking real good for faze in that column great way to kick off the choice of now v here we know we have ancient coming up next is the third bomb does go down likely to see a force bar behind this it's great from rain to take down simple but that one from twist that is beautiful i mean you couldn't ask for more right you boost them up there you have about one second before you have to dismantle but the utils destined for that position so just ahead of those flames right there costing bit his life and navi have some questions to ask himself here i say likely of force well i guess they want to get the aks out as early as they can and well as early as they can yeah once again simple gonna be equipped and we've seen this time and time again gonna be gifted by electronic remembering the zeus days they've had success with that man in this very place you don't just want to throw away this ak purchase right you want to make sure that it's hidden until you can guarantee yourself a jewel so waiting to see where they'll be blocked initially connected presents forced back by the smoke the flash on sdy is interesting we have to keep our eyes on that and how it gets used later within the piece and i mentioned brain his presence alone when you go and you watch some phase demos is aggressive either long bathrooms up towards party pushing into playgrounds he's a nuisance you want to make sure that you can reign him in early pardon the pun make sure he can't get away with his usual hygiene because he will cause massive issues so we will have to see if that's a part of navi's game plan here early on the t side but repositioning once more electronic now parked in the upper bathrooms with information back towards b and plenty on the other side for simple here he's certainly present in the grand final made that clear monster smoke is fading sdy to facilitate twists blind carrick are dead oh they're gonna get them both simple the hero aka heroic into the sight they were counting on him and now he's down bomb needs to be too a messy spray broke he could get overrun but it's only pistols around them sdy punching in the code it's rain as well from the top rope they'll peek in unison the shadow he's aware still catches him and a quick reposition two different angles of assault now hunting him down what a shot electronic no armor on that but he pulls the trigger first and look what it's done get out of the sight simple with one flash i said it might come in handy enabling that monster push setting up the superstar the greatest to ever do it cracks open b and we're back into the force by wars here get that ak get out of dodge i don't think they're gonna be scooping that one up and m4 will do for electronic but what more can you ask for the man you give him the ak and he's going to deliver he's just the player we all want to be give me the ak who cares if we lost the pistol we spoke about this yesterday if that type of perch is going to come through he has to find something right one kill great but look at this you don't even see the guy on the great has time to readjust twist goes down and yeah you want to come take the fight i'm still here electronic the hand to the king with the kill that seals it and the frustration sure after you do so much hard work but they do get the round on their side and force phase into a bit of a tail spin the eagles around the save then fall for brokey reign up to his usual tricks the deag will spot them across we're gonna go for a sandbag boost we've seen this before out of phase they might be able to catch sdy if they boost on up the foot or the feet as it were could be spotted if he pushes too far forward they flap that one and probably worried about sound cues if anybody's close towards monster they would have heard that they have to call it off but look at this interesting purchase from bit into the creek here 100 accuracy on that first bullet so with a accuracy like that the player like that so it could certainly be quite the combination deep smoke now that already gets the alarm bells ringing well last round we focused on the ak of simple this round's it's not just the m4 of brokey the deagles need to get the info allow him to rotate in position right here so far so good it definitely saw a leg there they're coming for you broken needs to be set up backs are turned bodies are dropped electronic down brokey not out needs another does deliver bit gone simple spotted but they're into the side he's getting swung on shut down two from the rafting if he could have just found the center of mass still this mass is not done carrigan preaching pushing one and done simple holds on to that phase do humble them though and we don't continue with the force by wars they deal with it immediately and this t side has to be the conversation maybe a fan favorite here crimbo in the building but this is messy on the side look at how much damage they're able to do here right it's the ct side you will have to concede simple making sure to mop up the spray and an important round to win because they know that that likely means a third round here a third consecutive round for navi and they want to keep this one a little bit cleaner than the last two it's a little floaty but i don't often see blades celebrating rounds in the background he really was uh happy with that and you know for the reasons you've outlined well think about where we're at right now in the meta it's very ct heavy anything that they can post here on the t side past this point well there's a couple of kills defecto and simple in combination looking to clean out the b site rob still alive was still alive and now it is just rain the usp about to be run down by bit he could use an extra 600 and that's exactly what the mac 10 kill will provide well this is where a couple of issues for phase within the early stages really start to mount because you will not be able to afford the awp on brokie into the first quote unquote gun round which means that these ct side walls could continue here and we talk about it often but there's no map quite like overpass in terms of ct or finding openings being dynamic especially player like brokey right who isn't afraid to take those risks and those type of picks that he can take are ones that could really catch navi off guard oh you wanted to catch him off guard this is a complete change up from the ct they're bringing the fight too simple to perfecto [Applause] it's normally just rain but he's got two in support and already navi cut down to just three bit happy to upgrade they have to convert this one now we mentioned the fact that there's no open play here so they do it with bodies they throw themselves into that connected position the electronic going to play the number advantage here is taking this space quite quickly we should stay on board with electronic here he's going to pass them like ships in the night you can see the reposition from rain and drops up towards the bathroom position it's just bit who needs to hold the line here and not go down unfortunately the timing favors him but look how far forward electronic is during all of this yeah the internal timer and rain he's between the two of them they've split them up oh this is going to be some real fruity jewels bit brave back turned none the wiser you won't see rain electronics forward electronics so close and rain he doesn't realize just how close he is to utter destruction rob's got nothing to report rain catches bit but it's electronic and he's got the sight to himself and rob's is still going to be behind him here a second element of aggression that maybe navi won't be accounting for here his name could be destined to take electronic out of the rounds instead towards sdy isn't going to land on the market but a 2 on 4 on the side this is not going to be easy you need kills you now twist obliges and sd why i can get nothing done we will see phase close that gap and convincingly so off the back of that aggression overpass is notorious i remember the og's forging a path with aggression on the ct side and it still works to this day and three aks saved yeah that's gonna have to look at this yeah yeah we talk about the fact that they were able to split that on the timing it was perfect but rain was aware that electronic could have pushed up so the position he played with the late glance taking down bit who could have been a real issue in combination so the aggression towards connector really set phase up for that second round of play and navi had so much money to opt for an awp simple even has residual cash to buy one okay the flash i think modesty wants to have a word sure is quick though as is that made rain down the gullet of two you're certainly not gonna have that same exchange in underpass now look at this this is very brave just creep into a smoke when you know how much teams like to spam through the boards over towards b it's been quite brave with the pathing here but a lot of space taken they're gonna poke their heads up quickly here and this is where rain is gonna be put on a lot of pressure yeah brokey on high alert now he spotted them doesn't consider a repeat just safe looking to confirm the numbers i try and squeeze here onto rain bits coming towards long but brokey too car crash oh broke he's providing perfect support oh dear what a shot at a bit fast bullet into the jumping brokie but rain still here and well that might change he's pinned he can't get hunting him down yeah reigns under so much pressure perfecto has been caught out the flash has been eaten and this should be bit it's not and rain gets his bullets in in time another chance and more damage electronic deep into the site borrowed into bankrupt twists trying to forge a path back into the site 25 it's navi's round if they can just get it down planting on the dice smoke's a bit scuffed there they can actually use that if they want to play behind it here and rob says flashes if they wanted to do this by the book phase they should save this isn't a round that they can really contest no residual cash on brokey nothing for rain but they're currently hanging around here to see if they can find anybody from navi overstepping the mark carrigan's called them off and that'll be the round for navi see how much that was all on that fight towards rain in upper bathrooms because brookie knows that he's on his own he can't really assist him as much he has to play a little bit closer can't play any off angles and the fact that bit hits that shot right it's a scorcher of a shot it's on a jump that's all broke he did for this round jump dice box jump long dead he doesn't even get a chance to fight so i'm bit with a really big opening there and talking to big openings navi t-side overpass losing the pistol here it is again yeah that's the shot yeah show us that one one more time you can even see that he's trying to strafe in the air away from that so he's not giving away too much the real g's don't put down on their mouse to scratch their face no that's ah glued onto his palm and that was the last death from faze important saves great for phase they are playing it by the book here they facilitate themselves another bye but navi can break them here take everything away remove all the rifles and this time it's a clear change of pace a clear change of intention nades being lined up twist currently not jumping all right he's going to cop him they're coming over i thought he was going to edge closer 65 plenty for him to operate with that information doesn't mean a whole lot early right you know there's three players back towards the backyard of b sure it helps simple get a little bit more forward and it's forced phase into more of a passive stance getting louder in here it really is [Applause] a bit of lull in game play here unless phase the ones who want to take a bit of initiative getting kerrigan fortified to the post monster position got to give credit to sdy as well he's keeping a lot of ct's feet planted with minimal presence the job that doesn't get a lot of credit being an anchor right you have to relay a lot of information you have to lock it down and when they come your way you have to silence the aggression simple there's a hole in that door you will need to swing it open just having a glance in combination with perfecto now 40 seconds left in late round rv look at all the nades they have left with 35 seconds on the clock smokes flashes molly's and someone might just go dry get the info and gets a bullet between the eyes twist plucks his brow rotate on its way now electronic he's gonna have to try and open up here brookie spots them out util flies through they are gonna be so light on time sd white he's at the back of the pack good util but here comes stabs them in the back navi to lose it all electronic as well spotless from phase clan necessary rounds and especially in the way that they've won that there remember the financial troubles they were going to find themselves in that is a huge round and the fact that it's no casualties whatsoever of course that's going to force blade into a timeout i'm sure he didn't like how that went down it looked like simple was being set up with a flash probably took matters into his own hand said i'm just gonna peek you can't peek into twists like that maybe getting a bit of a telling off here with how that one unfolded maybe a stern talking to in the early stages because remember the financial situation if you keep phase under the thumb early and you don't let them build a residual bank they're gonna have big issues but the fact they get away with this one and in the individual jaws as well the phase squad rivaling the firepower of navi looks like a symbol who knows he made a bit of a mistake right there doesn't yeah they obviously put a lot on him and in the early stages he did get them going think about the two rounds that he's one that are almost oh i don't want to say game defining because they didn't win inferno but he got them started he got the party started for navi over there with the deagle round on the ct side of inferno he does hold himself to a high standard he almost looked upset after the three that it wasn't for where the hell are the orbs throughout this whole grand final so far it's been very few and far between yeah off angle bit not ready for that brokey mixing it up the trade hunted down electronic meets his demise and they're trying to kick open the b site this is a time sensitive mission it forces util the whole squad here without the bomb so unlikely to see a full commit that's a lot of ground covered but they want to take that turf back sdy oh he just looked into it stared into the sun but alive and kicking that's happy to oblige with these jewels carrick tickles defecto oh he doesn't oh dear the bodies are dropping and brokey finds himself alone on the site now he clears our sdy and nothing else it falls silent an opportunity now rain has gone around the world cleared out long seen absolutely nothing whatsoever trying to contain the rotation back but they're happy to give up the site brokies position they want to play retake b giving navi this room simple responsible for the plan versus perfecto they're starting to warm into it perfecto two crucial kills puts robs on notice playing re take sure but now it's just the one man estonia's finest you want to get to perfecto you have to get through simple and robs yeah some damage sure but he's not allowed to exit [Applause] three kills from perfect one around like that and not only three kills it was a 3v5 situation and on the t side yeah so it's really going to put a lot of context to win around like this right they just stayed three of them fighting at b this was fantastic in combination sdy was actually able to grab one there that facilitated the 2v3 situation and then perfecto bodyguarding simple it's not offered you see symbol the man getting the bomb down yeah faith in perfecto but the op we were calling for it brokies has come out here to play faze against the ropes as far as the finances again here this is an important round for them as navi they have a two round lead here on the t side of overpass the game plan involved it and now brokey oh he's got one but surely dead oh brokey shutting navi down with the double electronic and necessary trade and look at this knife out charging he knows there's gaps an orp likely indicates it was a solo hold reigns arrived now and oh in the open rops extends that deficit to two-man advantage and it's very early doors roki manufactured this do they want to try and retain the awp and save it or do they want to hide the all right they could they could pick this up they could remove it from play they know where the finances are at here back to an sd why try their luck you're gonna have to walk in a twist and he's been more than handy he does absolutely everything for this team and still remains a star a lot of grip work from a player like twist 45 seconds on the clock worried they've been boxed in you can see just how tender they are about all the corners all the pushes all the problems with the best out of both these teams bouncing back into situations inferno was a great introduction to that for this best of five series i think now we'd likely see them just gonna retain these weapons three seconds on the clock scooped up i think faze have done enough here or broke he has done enough here it's great when you see it come out and it immediately finds impact i think they're aware that if they limit this going forward broke you won't be able to make another maneuver like that the win bonus is great still problems there as faze will once again make this one a one-round game still haven't seen anything consecutive from this defense here it is again for brokey right the second one is great and it's simple he takes down you think simple would be pretty good on the trade in that situation here this is the only real issue you pointed out how quick electronic wanted to take that space back but two players to deal with that we're all now in simples hands they're like a relay race here more than happy to hand the baton over let's see what he can get done oh she took a lot of damage there and fit still braves the flames 35 that's a oh that's a lot of damage that will certainly limit his options and that gets worse for navi over the smoke by his own design reign catches perfecto and look at this information smoked off sdy and they confirm control control oh yeah long fountain they're condemned basically to t spawn it's really not what you'd be looking for here if you're an rv and especially with bears the walking wounded bogdan's law comes into play they were so cheeky there they used a one-way smoke for broccoli looked through towards fountain and they did the same with rain and connector so they were looking for the openings there they weren't just using those smokes to block felt so good with the double out of brokey now carragher clotheslines electronic he should go down bit with the low hp uses that all well just twist here right now it could get awkward especially with only the mp9 simple's coming circling in twists holds his nerve and the trigger sdy will get them back into it but they're so low 71 points of health between the two remaining navy players i'd be more of the same from the last rounds here unless they can walk through monster and find a kill it's not going to be easy this is a great combination a great little set up you can see here just spotting for the top of the dome and then robs will swing will they change positions it's pretty quick on this and the head shots in sdy pays a heavy blood price solo in a two on two brain trying to play a dangerous game bit is posted trying to deny he knows they're low susceptible to a single bullet but he doesn't know an sdy damage means nothing with bit on the awp can he do anything with this so young and not enough a quick trade well spaced and that's broken he's low too but punishing that bolt it's four consecutive rounds right now actually could even be five here where opening kills have gone in the favor and that's an old school one rain really rolling back the clock there just playing over the cusp of the smoke in the connected position but opening deaths are a real problem for na'vi or opening kills are a real promising sign for phase here as they start to rebuild this ct half five five we're all leveled up here and we'll just have to be pistols that's what navi gonna be looking to change hey when we see these smokes when we see these games we cannot be giving away those openings we need to make sure that we're keeping all five alive for the map control because it's difficult to do on a map like overpass yeah we're gonna have more contact early again it's ballsy from rain it's more ballsy from broken they've got pistols he's gonna get run down orb falls into enemy hands but that's it rox ensures the round is there's perfecto known unloads his mag and a nice finish only three more of those required perfecto no armor a little bit of hope and it's taken from him but are you talking about openings the fact that they're still trying with these aggressions chad there is a clear formula at play here yeah they have confidence in the numbers there right so the fact that they're so far forward i think in a high-level game of country like this pistols whatever you know that you're susceptible in every single round so the fact that they're here together as a unit locking this down i love this from kerrigan he's only doing that to help out robs right he's making sure that if there's anybody in the smoke rops can continue to swing it's gonna be the second time out for blade again direct eye contact right blade's looking at you he's giving you a clear message here this isn't a coach taking a time out so you can have a discussion he's letting you know how things need to proceed forward here five is great for navi early but faze they're making a real conversation for this they did it over there on inferno right they felt down in the dumps and kerrigan stuck to the guns with his calls and he got them back in it they're back in it now taking the lead first time in this game yeah i mean you think about the muscle on this phase roster sure threatening on the t side but when the ct side is charging at you you feel it here as well right you can't be serious he wants another go he wants another taste an egg and an escape its presence it will rot the clock a little maria grass as well from phase look at this every different part of the map a new protocol to retake that control and now with that door open simple's options are limited not posted up on it and they can slink past them more access into this battle for banana it's kind of how their game plan started early finale ryder was making sure rain couldn't get up to the aggressive maneuvers and now they've been gifted that again without a death so for navy this is exactly what you want within the early stages the difference is brokey being a nuisance with the awp if they want to pivot back late twist and brokey i don't think they're going to relinquish this position they'd have to be spammed they'd have to be mollied maybe that's exactly what electronics lining up here feels like a big take upon the initial arrival of util sdy will ensure that they believe it wow what a spray they really needed that from him and normally he's anchoring he's been facilitated there for a fight and he delivers some massive stuff from sdy rops does not budge and simple has been clear in every corner in the game 25 rob's on the jiggle pushing up on rain across he's going to go down to bit he's not okay some collateral damage simple aware of brokey bomb down but broke he does pluck it from the pack at all whistles past the year of electronic they hold on nasty wide going to be there to confirm look at you look at twist smoke molly flash a nade for brokey here it could all be well placed there's legs to this lines it up drops it down limits the options of navi and go they were flashed but still electronic prevails and that marks the end of round 12 we tie things up sdy solved a lot of problems there he gets the opening kill but he also flanks all the way through spawn it means they know that the players have to be coming through the bathroom or long position a really important round there from sd white you need to sing his praises when he's able to contribute like that because this is a new environment for him and it feels a lot easier for faze if they aren't dealing with a dead carrigan and the potential that sdy has company just got his vision the crowd wasn't impressed by that spike i don't know anything from that i think that's very standard yeah if you can't be doing that one you gotta watch rush for these future pro tips okay well we know how this script goes it's broken with four here a lot of early navi bodies over towards this part of the map short water that's a great call from kerrigan look at where they're currently congressman oh perfect rob's just as the crosser pulls away he reveals himself cuts sd wide down but the fact he's so proactive and forward the b anchor already in short water you can see fazer working it out they're so committed to be here face they understand or at least they're trying to stay a step ahead and a different boost a different look notice how rain is always the pedestal he's not the one on top and the reason is if they know that reigns over towards this site they'll know that it's likely a stack so the little details here from face navi cut noise pushing there might be a flash ship really carrick whoa snaps into simple levels the odds charging forward bomb retrieved chipped away at by rain angles solid another crossfire they're keeping it so dynamic and here comes perfect they're trying to right the ship not good for at first simple ask to close a one versus three he'll start to play the games as he tightens his laces and he there's a good chance he's going to be hard you can smoke he can molly he can get himself into the sight he's broken this thing for the steps he's just going to throw a bit of a weird one here to get the bomb down oh spotted does finish with the no scope got a little scary there a team ace for faze every member with the frags a roller coaster of emotions navi it's a t hall sure but they just keep throwing new things into the mix look how proactive they were right you could see so many different multitude of ways that they were getting sucked in and broken that is a risk that is a massive risk the fact that he's taking that chance i understand he wants to deny the plan that's one thing but if that went horribly wrong if he goes down simple reposition still a bit of utility you know that robs are still likely rotating in and again a chop and change this time three towards a simple awp is out we're getting to the dying stages here oh they're gonna clash head on two titans on the zoom banger posted now does he really brave it yeah simple's got you booked as the navi compulsory opener is provided by simple it's 13th we'll get to see if this is the difference maker i remember that spree of rounds i was talking about phase finding the openings well in the previous they just won they found it through that nifty little boost drawn back as bit they know that rain likes to reside here but you know who doesn't normally hold this position as twists yeah and they're set up perfectly accounting for the flashbang clear bit down and this becomes a four on four simple does not necessarily guide and push navi into a site with that opening this might free reign up here he can actually start looking for a bit more information could be extremely crucial but the next man who looks to be tested here is carrigan the leader he needs to step up the phase right now because navi they are surrounding him oh it's a power play carrigan got so much in front of him looking what an adjustment perfecto has might maybe sealed the seventh and he's not here has to be it has to be they've really just been keeping them in the dumps here navi right i know that in the last couple it's really been better from phase but this is about recovery on the ct side of a ct-sided map navi's map choice and we're going to be tied up seven seven and all started with a simple opener so as we go into round number 15 again it's gonna be out who's gonna draw that first blood and we'll remind you face still yet to lose a map here at cologne their run in 2022 sure there's been a couple of close ones but it's been spotless and there were a couple of seeds of doubt planted fresh out of antwerp into dallas and absent but phase clearly i mean when you've got this much talent this much respect this much pedigree and lifting that major trophy marking the start of phase being in this conversation for world number one this is very simple for simple i think some of the keys here right you talk about phase that doubt post major hangover you know you get that out of the way you're able to get the biggest trophy in counter-strike you've already won katowice earlier in the year with the whole rain drops substitute situation with jake ass coming in but if you take katowice you take the major you take cologne they're the big trophies they're the ones that matter they're trying their luck sd-wise done a lot of good work from this position and there's a lot of pace on that i think sdy's called for backup too many uncertainties too many question marks rain a little more aggressive than usual as well there's gonna be um clash on multiple fronts at the same time hard to track perfecto ready how does he anticipate that but there's the payoff of this aggressions on to be they know it's two so they can really start getting a move on now over towards a knowing the rotation's gonna be extremely far away twists and kerrigan hightailing it back to help out this a defense brokey and rob stand tall on the side and now we are coming to break them on the first jiggle ropes has his lights snuffed out attacked back it's just a scout broke he can do nothing more with it arrogant trying his luck fit fakes out on off to merce nice shot but twist what is possible with 20 hp heard noted perfecto in the off angle collecting navi's map pick still yet to break phase but it's a good good haul into the second half of play [Music] i [ __ ] love overtime people are getting a little bit shaky as [ __ ] go boys man i think they started forecast b i think they started longer now i'm going to figure okay i'm going to fake b now no response there from shiro and the 4v5 advantage they accelerate towards a [ __ ] push uh truck truck truck oh pushing they're just keeping gambit moving right now kerrigan's about to walk in to be no one's there hop it we'll have a look out still gets the frag one guy must have pushed him monster right there over time kicks off and broke he steps up that is insane we [ __ ] up so [Music] the reigning champions on their map pick our second map of a best-of-five grand final and it is quite the grand spectacle a guarantee of confirming who the world number one is upon its conclusion reigning champions against the first colon final for faze nine times kerrigan and rain have headed to this event never before have they walked out on the sunday we're heading on into the second half now we've swapped sides navi to show us their defense it's faze clan carrigan pulling the strings of their t side well this is where navi did the absolute best work on this map sdy he's joined the team they played it three times they're currently undefeated away sdy catches a long-range glock he looks for more interesting brokey confirms at least one long break he's really found himself on this stage it's fantastic they're on inferno still happy to go for some of these aggressive maneuvers faze looking for their fourth pistol in two maps good point yet to see nafi actually convert one of these and they're usually discussed as a 50 50. got the space they're looking for here but navi reading the play correctly with the stack he saw something modem out there from simple communicating information divider ops is on the lurk it's electronic the man tasked with dealing with dapper here comes the execute the gucci's they're huge from rain how are they using their glocks like this looks like they've got the long barrel brokey finishes off the sdy and bit not long for the world either broke he strings together two it's electronic to try as hard as he might now perfecto is the unknown entity phase feel like they just have to putt it in at this point but they're not ready for this that's all perfecto misses it misses his chance still strikes into kerrigan rain on notice concerned and on the reload his options start to fade start to dwindle the kit needs to be retrieved but it's rain that's peppering him down a quick click though and a kit retrieved drops can close this but he's not planted for him twist has to be careful with his life p250 outrage run down four pistols out of four you'll take those you will gladly take those and just striking with accuracy faze beautiful stuff from brokey just an sdy packing but rain this was just beautiful it's exactly what you want from him they storm into the side they deal with the stack and when you know that you're coming into the stack and you're dealing with it it feels even better to win the pistol ground in that fashion perfect cam to summarize the options were available that were available to him and you actually get the best out of all the players there rain and broke you on the way in finding the entries in the damage robs to close the round exactly what kerrigan needs from his team but look at this now v they trust simple with their life and they're gonna give him a famous to work with is connected looking to be locked down kerrigan's gonna throw the flames they will have to fight this is oh it's meant to spread the smoke they might not clear there's two molecules into that do they assume kerrigan clears it's surrounded run on down the mag 10 does profit electronic reveals himself rain staring at it still oh a lovely angle over jumping it's hectic and no bullets and no hope we just have five seven and a deagle to get through chew through phase set for collection of their ninth yeah look good like electronic could have stayed lying in way but he wasn't to know it he's trying to contribute there make sure that they don't just get past him and get over towards that a site but they're coming back in towards this dying perfecto with pistol upgrades the door's about to swing open no slouch good flash one down sdy with two now they know immediately what that means oh i thought he's gonna hop the suit there carrick is just gonna run to the side and get the bomb down now if this was simple you might see him go for this one-on-two situation but likely just to see him save and carry this through the next round the most exciting finish but now it's just holding on to this ak did a lot of damage there look at something khalil's left over and sty worried about somebody dealing with his position so damage done sure but faze will get the round to continuing to get these pistols last time around the first half they won the pistol lost the force this time round at least they deal with the force and it's actually going to put navi in a bit of a precarious position now on this ct side phase is going to have an opportunity to build in and it could get worse if twist gets ever closer towards sdy looking for a safe haven worth mentioning as well how closely matched they are you know we've watched phase we've watched na'vi in their semi-finals and at times they make their opponents look trying to find an appropriate word foolish there we go i mean it looks just like two very different levels of play when they're on their raid game uh we saw it in both of those semis at the time this is the conversation when you come into a bracket like this and you have the world number one the world number two and then the other reigns are all outside the top ten right the conversation at that point has to be destined for this final one electronic his frustration is starting to build here he's i think he's becoming more and more animated as this in-game leader role really starts to take its toll i'm sure you can empathize yeah it does get uh very frustrating sdy is going to be allowed to retain this the flash forward from bits of facilitate the peak and sdy steps up with one but it's done immediately simple he's gonna get it out of his hands but carrigan a swift kill onto simple problems dealt with his awareness of that situation was pinpoint precise it's only bit and well he's caught out kerrigan finishes in with the usp and still alive wow he'll be dead here look at these pins what is he doing oh he hits the shot brokey blind just just gets away with that that nearly bit makes a lot out of a little a flashbang and a usb starter pistol trade required how is this getting so costly well past each other he can see him see you later it looked dicey for a moment there but as soon as rob's got one of those awkward timings again yeah i mean credits a bit how blind was brokey here right because this kill oh yeah pretty damn flashed that was actually very fortunate you don't see that out a bit you don't see that out a bit okay well i imagine when you're in-game leaders venting his frustrations it's easy to kind of follow suit but that's very uncharacteristic phase are clearly under their skin right now pulling hangnails and rv sdy tries his luck at the wall bank this is so fast they're just up in the face kerrigan has a lot of space here he's surely noted the sound cues a bit's really really concerned a lot of question marks he has the support structure now it's rotated through simple sdy to provide a barrage of util upon request electronic may go looking for answers here he may hear things as well but lines up the monster smoke it's well timed you can see rox was just digging his heels in and now so and rv setting up to receive electronic perfector have to stop them here the rotation is quite far away you need a multi-kill great contribution from electronic but perfecto blind electronic a double but the site is lost and simple he's not done trying to get his squad back into this second map back into this b bomb site he's got info on two of them one planted one short he says he decrees as damage into the box sdy already on to robson osdy [Applause] called upon and delivers to close this gap twist has been magical concerns the sound is there the spray is two he's got a second ak and he hits bin off the bomb they have to run him down simple's posted twist you've got no hope [Applause] no way magic [Applause] and an orchestra of cheers created by one man and his mouse [Applause] look what it's done to their mental they were already tilted he's just kicked them off the face of the planet that's a back breaker right there from twist trading into the site here tooth and now electronic with two they battle forward simple they continue to tag sdy gets them a double here with the m4 and it should have been enough but twists he's been in this arena before he's lifted this trophy before and he wants to do it again the second ak he just gets two bites of the cherry i cannot comprehend how that reads 11 to eight look at their reactions they play this game every day they haven't seen that before what is this should have been how to handle it here right the first year he gets it through the smoke simple with the orb it's not the weapon for the job a miss shot it facilitates it and the transfer on to sdy get out oh okay and that echoes into our next doesn't it it's gonna be a four round lead here for faze unless navi can pull themselves back together cobbled together at least a couple of purchases with the lost bonus now starting to build to scout some deagles some five sevens pistol that's in vogue right here but phase remember this is the map choice of navi now they're undefeated in maps and spotted simple with a big one on terrain i've never seen that as well looks like simple not happy with how the last went down wants to make it count on the scout everyone's here they're conservative and look face crumbling run down a half by navi haven't taken a single point of damage look at this three from the perfecto pistol and just when you think they're out they pull themselves back in look at the fans right there for navi they know that's a massive round it's their first round on the ct side you just lose a one on three sure watch this you want to come at us we'll come at you with everything we got simple opens it up and these pistols so pesky so gangster perfecto three when they needed him on the ct side and we just talked about the ramifications well straight back at your face they're the ones with pistols in their pockets this is the game the counter strike we all signed up for this is the one we deserve the best two teams locking horns right now and we're getting everything bask in its glory this only happens once an appropriate coliseum for this battle of champions look at the upgrades from there how does he hit the ding simple brought low still hits the shot though this is only a p250 and two deagles right rain and brokey are both very low whatever they can get done here is gonna be a positive but surely surely not a lot shadows spray bit good for the double should be wrapped on up here unless kerrigan's got something crazy yeah he's shut down and sewn rv i cannot comprehend how quickly they screw their heads back on i mean you have to be a professional talking about the tilt factor right navi evolved up there he is again tizzy and back [Applause] a lot of love for that guy in here but you're right the the fact that na'vi of old you think about the they'll be bickering they'll be arguing with each other this time it's all right we'll half bye did they call a timeout i think we went straight back in yeah well i think they're more than happy to get this one underway guns out here no awp available and forward is simple taking a shot put on notice and kerrigan this is the in-game leader trying to take the space they flash to facilitate bits in a bit of trouble here nobody wants to bite too hard on this you know that incendiary allows simple to stay posted you can see he's concerned about long they don't have any answers there and just slinking in his four-man wolf pack who is the alpha who leads the charge remember there's a timer on this at one point simple we'll have to worry about long right now they're using the clock in their favor there's no rotation back to jump and spot that as bit does start to make his way over simple to be smoked it's a bit of a lurk front sight he wanted to try and play around it but this one doesn't have a gap they can worm their way closer and boosting over simple thinking on his feet and on bits head he's going to get the opening kill brokey down and the opener here for navi that's lovely just thinking on the fly and there's another one to be plucked as simple connecting shots all over the shop faze running into this awp one at a time and the whole squad is here in support i see no way in neither just simple sdy falls but still you have to get past the line drawn by the goat another into the scope trying to find something as simple as racking him up get the ace denied as robs tries his luck only 14 seconds just going to jump into their jaws crossfire is established navi's firm stubborn and down 11 11. i'm so impressed with the reaction time to that front sight smoke simple calls for the boost immediately bits there he understands exactly what he needs to do because this boost here if they don't get this they're scaling so quick and imagine if he misses the players were just on the other side they could have run them down but simple warns them away with the magic wand and they tie things up they die to their own sword you know bits hidden in that smoke simple just poking out over the top they are pushing you saw kerrigan's yeah yeah impressed by that oh that's cool he's going to have a couple of those look you have a couple of names here simple and zywoo they get their rounds and when it happens you shrug it off you know what these individuals can were into action and again phase just have to sit on these pistols split second decision making reacting to your opponents next move the conversation now needs to begin where do phase go on this t side right they can still start to get an alt for brokie lost bonus building do the defaults make sure you don't give up the opening kills buy the book but have you been pretty fluid in these last couple right you've seen them show aggression show stacks there's a kill happy to just munch away on these we got simple upper 20 kills leading the server but on the other side reigned with 19. oh 21 now 18 for brokey they both had a great showing on the first half and the kills just keep on coming too much of resistance being put up from faze here and after the earth shattering clutch exactly right you think of your twists and you have a round like that you could now be at breaking point as we saw by the type of buy they realistically should be on 12 right now and navi actually the first ones to get there so twisted a lot but if that's the only way that they're going to be able to convert these t rounds then you do have issues because remember we had pistol we had conversion we had eco and the twist clutch to get four on the board for faze in this second half of play phase they played this map quite a lot but they've only had it one time they've ever kept their play at their opponent so i think it's like less than 12 rounds it's always a close affair for faze on a map like overpass maybe a reason the navier picked this one an aggression from beard he gets to stretch his legs he gets to more than stretch his legs he's in business class right now yeah and look at twist does he really have the presence of mind to tap at the head it's bit that bests him twist had the crosshair in the right place but bits just bet up stagnates find nothing they can take that position now because i think they've cleared it so if navi want to trot forward maybe a flash to facilitate a monster fight because kerrigan's coming kerrigan line supported but missed the shot broke he makes up for it with the one but someone has to tip the scales further they've got a full minute to work it out group puzzle solving saw navi win a similar round in the first half and just thanks stubborn over towards b looking for fights who's going to overstep the mark next drops being facilitated by the broken awp and reign working up dropping back into a retake set up actually dropping back completely it's just sty and perfecto here that's why you cut noise oh simple does find himself in the right place at the right time perfecto tapped away at robs diligent sdy next up on the chopping block it's simples all from up the heavens brokey back turned and the bodies drop in sync does that sinking feeling for faze three rounds away from conceding their first map in iem cologne 2022. oh there's a shirt hang on someone's cooking up something for the celebrations should navi close out their map pick a map pick that was you know avant-garde in some of our analysts eyes i think the ct work that they've done in the three times that they've played this with sdy they had the confidence here right to bring it to this map and know that they could put up a solid defense but they did all the hard work on the t side they did all the hard work on the t-side now it's just about connecting the dots and confirming this map taking us to ancient at a 1-1 you do need an in-game leader so here it is a double chewy this is technical very technical stuff [Applause] pink guys german cousin these are actually considering future rounds here broken doing a bit of a simple he's only kept the deagle so we can get the op out into the next round to play kerrigan again pep in the step space take and buying broom for his team and look at the pace on this guy yeah he's already got a lot of answers i mean he swept through with zero to report how much he's making free jig look at the radar look at all the blue dots just moving back and forth they've left perfecto pretty much on his lonesome here yeah just changing the moving and shaking the resources and reigns probably got a lot to say is he's got no contacts the nades in perfecto all that trajectory may betray his position reigns cross says there he's trapped clears his corners perfecto has some support now but the site is lost we've got a 5v5 without our hands and that bomb might go down before he drops simple flips the script and look at that a flurry of frags out of navi they strike in unison puts rops on the back foot plain retreat tapping heads can't post anything and kerrigan with the tut of his tongue accepts that 14 may be out of reach they really needed to get that bomb down there to face the cache is going to be a little bit light on but that's very well handled from now if it looked like they were all in the wrong place at the wrong time but the rotation back in and what facilitated this was the lack of utility i wanted to say the perfecto they couldn't really make him squirm they only had flashes well they couldn't make simple squirm either they could not deny the vision towards heaven and that's where god does his absolute best work okay well this is it for phase i thought they were trying to try and get out the awp on brookie here but no it's rifles two galil's and ak a couple of upgraded pistols harvey looking destined to be the team to take the map off of phase the first team here in cologne to do so it's a lot in the sky right now perfecto wants to return fire exchange of blows all unconfirmed as space to be taken kerrigan cautioned to the wind as he rounds corners dry again late utility is an issue here so gonna have to do it with the bullets as navi continue to be active in this hunt for info and still oh look at this 24 likely one in 25 trying to get stylish with it navi they got their foot on their throat right now and they're ahead of the rotation sty's on his way back a chance but it's the ak of brokey that does give him something to work with he hasn't been able to get to the site sty's a problem perfecto is as well so much resistance so close here as faze into the site step one of many required if they want to post the 12th here look at the damage wall back down sprayed on down it's just a p250 what's the man to do [Applause] dead silence from faze since that 1v3 remember how we got here remember the follow-up round the 1v3 that was special twists won't forget that one but five seven exactly the low bite seven consecutive rounds since and this is looking to close it out in a clean sheet now they're going to be very happy with this yeah we lose both pistols and the scoreline is looking likely to be 16 to 11. yeah you can take that that's more than happy finally brokey that's saving the money the investment's gonna come through here but this is the last opportunity for faze they're about to bleed yeah evidence evidence that phase can concede and of course it's rv that demonstrate no better time than now in the grand finals to tie things up a map apiece sets us up for one hell of a grand final is there anything left to be said from phase look at simple he has got new air of confidence about him the undertaker looking to tuck in five members of phase you can see the tip of the head they might run him down he's getting info he's so nimble that carrigan with a golden gun takes down the golden boy roshi's set for success here yeah can i get it done without simple that's the question more than enough chances they're brokey unaware so glued flashed back and having to have residual cash they have so much money left over so they can try and contest for this round but look at what electronic has called for the squad here get on over towards the b site monster smoked likely to see either a boost or a crawl as they push on in towards the sewer position as soon as robs gets this information they're so set they think he gets a b play as i said there's a lot of excess cash here i don't know if you want to go for a retake now that both bank and ct have been smoked a couple of missed molly shaw flash two nades maybe they can deny the plant here oh they could with the nades he's a little late gets it down gets it done now you've already mentioned that navi have the facilities to give it a go brokey already though onto a bit navi might just have to accept that this one is gonna slip away faze demonstrate that they are not quite finished with this t-half you will continue to have to work for this to show that phase can bleed maybe simple getting a bit ahead of himself there right you saw him just get sidelined by carrigan and that was the round in itself because we saw the way that they tried to rejig the defense they made the wrong call it's clear to me that carrigan is having a fantastic breed in a lot of these rounds and the way that i want to apply the game you think of that on inferno as well whereas navi it feels a bit more like brute force that will punch you in the face right we'll win a force by and then we'll leave you shocked for the next couple as you stumble around this is the shot look at that just a flash of simple well-tracked and that was the only kill necessary to get them into this site this one's just you know some chump change on top and blade does once again request to be on the microphone he just wants to remind his boys of what's at stake here you don't let it get out of control as well the same kind of situation for faze when they were looking to close inferno you don't want to allow too many rounds back because the confidence will be and they know they can go to overtime you all caught that fancy little piece of phase on this exact map when olof was in the server he uh trucking loves overtime and i'm sure the rest of phase do too well that's the only way out on overpass 15 already in the bank on the favored side demanded to find three it's bit interesting same aggression that simple went for here stack nades are set up as well nobody home to receive these a deeper variation trying to catch the player off of the boost i think bit now knows he has a bit of room to breathe unlikely to have too many players coming his way when those nades sound down that's a setup isn't it simple looking to see if he can find a kill to give them an early indication sdy trying to facilitate any pressure and presence over towards a with that flash bid is on his lonesome here this is a gamble call from navy within the early stages as soon as bit starts to feel pressure which he has to call over now a rotation has to come he's isolated bit it's a lot of responsibility on this 19 year old and he peeks straight on into the orb brokey a quick walk in the park leads to an opening phase start as they mean to go on and must go on if they want to remain undefeated in cologne the last of reigns flashbangs twists as well exhaust their supply nothing built upon immediately navi starting to cheat players over but it's a little too late but the fire's electronic oh not sure didn't clear electronics still sprays into the one but that's enough phase twice with convincing t rounds just as it looked like they didn't have a solution the civil's coming he's not saving he's making his way over here he's talking a lot seconds past that flash is available is this about limiting the guns we had the same conversation in the first map of play and he's out he's made it through the smoke they're not ready for this the no scope misses and surely that's enough kerrigan again two big kills the in-game leader in back-to-back rounds with big impact here we might not feel that impact immediately but the fact they take away those guns now as we get into what could be the final round to play around 30. harvey might not have a whole lot of cash to spend the lost bonus starting to build for them the loss bonus it doesn't matter for phase three wow a couple of more cracks in the navi machine i saw some nerves there in some of the sprays as well right it didn't look as crystal clear as it traditionally has but the final timeout for navi called you saw how proactive in the dying stages of the first half it got for phase they were doing all those backyard pushes with the set smokes team plays looking for info as a unit so far from navi it was set up simple for a fight then it was bit going aggressive this guy's just working through his portfolio should pretty twitter handle there if anybody wants to hire for a bit of the photoshop cannot be silenced this now the phase comeback oh let's find out chad it could end any moment a lot of damage for twist to stomach and it's a quick exchange bit reveals himself but brokey catches electronic toeing the line a little too far at the moment it's an island for perfecto abandoned oh and not far off on the part shot into the smoke broke he wants to maintain the advantage he doesn't want to overstep the line and that line we saw a simple profit from it on the scout thinks better of it now those exchanges happened so early faze can use the clock the number advantage in their favor look at the util left over for an execute twist over towards a has room to work with carrigan in connector robson broke he waiting for the reagress the navi go knocking for answers or they sit back on their haunches and think they can defend in a 3v4 situation for round number 16. yeah you could see they were flustered they thought that would commit was coming simple he burns his last smoke and just an underhand one way that time has passed and faze continue just to pause they can send twists forward here right you can sacrifice him he's on low hp you send him forward see what he can find if the orp's there if bit's there if the information is there for phase the other three can knuckle down i love this from twists why not on the look on the low hp get your nades out bit of a fumble but all the same the presence is shown and that was what it was about keeps navi scratching their heads and very much so they're limited numbers even less now as perfecto once again on his b-side island simple scampering over to provide some degree of support spots out one there's only two on the side they scream two maximum might change now as with 15 seconds phase they need to get this bomb down they're held at bay by the flame oh what a connection brokey gets safe passage for the plot still perfecto stubbon he wants to end it here and now two on two decision making imperative trying to find an established crossfire perfecto trying to break on through partnered up with bit already two frags grouped onto carrick good info good connection and it falls to brokey to force us into the 30th round or can perfecto close he's quite the clutcher low hp he did it once could he possibly do it again brokey cool keeps his call is there time is there time i think there is i think there is chad again he does it such low hp and it doesn't matter who you are perfecto pulls navi into the equalizer in the grand finals we tie things up a valiant effort from faze but this grand final is on like donkey kong navi take the first map off of faze clan what no one has done before is now locked in 1-1 ancient next and i can't bloody wait [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] father i can't go on like this trist he spends more time on his head than demos raps believe me father behind that innocent smile many dark thoughts don't even get me started on broken free superstars free musketeers more like free baiting [ __ ] everything around i'm in first together with my boy rayne shout out to my boy rayne there needs to be some give and take father the time has come my time i must bait i cannot resist do not resist father do not resist [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] what a hell of an ending is going on here you have to ask yourself at a certain point where are they going to do it or they're going to cross the line and faze clan just miss out here at the very end of overpass that's going to be scoring us up at 1-1 in our grand finals i'm welcoming you back the intel extreme masters we're just getting started now a level playing field almost does navi do pick up the second map janko maniac hey hey he's going have a good time i'm having a good time i'm just thinking about how stressful that must have been what a roller coaster away i mean we'll get into the nitty-gritty but that second half i mean the the clutch from twist just have to mention it off the bat you know showing his mechanical prowess once again only to lose two pistols right after and navi managing to bounce back they lost both pistols again but luckily in the first half they won the second round and got some early momentum that's what i wanted to mention the backbone of navi right this resilience because there were times on that overpass where it felt like faze had reached cruising altitude and they were just going through the motions very dangerously their city side was very polished they were assertive they had the movement they were proactive they were reading the game and navi had to rely on some crazy navi-esque ground to come back into this yeah uh well let's start looking at these rounds we talk about nitty gritty and yanko i think now is the time to shine uh you can draw us a picture perhaps yeah man so talking about round 10 some of the high level stuff we see all the time and the attention to detail right default round there's a double molly here from phase it's standard but bit he doesn't really turn it off he leaves with three hp again one-way smoke from rain i'm surprised perfecto gets caught by this this is a standard play from him meanwhile this is all happening once after the other thing guys incendiary here smoke here flash flying over from robs this is a combo play to clear out deep monster so that this guy would have to move out of position because it's hard to clear coming out of tube they get the information here now what's interesting is what happens basically from this point on some lesser teams and less experienced players they wouldn't come back to this area at all really right it's you get the deep smoke you have to clear so many corners navi knows phase they're going to do that and most likely go back and that's exactly what happens now he comes back into the monster area their trade one for one with kerrigan they're gonna get the trade here on twist as well and you know they make it workable right they end up this round ends up being a 2v2 that they end up losing but the name of the game here the most important thing was they kept putting pressure on faze's economy in the long run this was going to help them really on this map that's what we like to call the mind games between igles right you know that i have taken this part of the map i know you know you're expecting me to bounce back hell no i'm gonna leave a player over here and that's the beauty of the game you have to call the bluff of your opponent you have to take the tail end of the snake and bite him in the face to see face had three players on ace it was the perfect call to do to come back right it was a tough situation because they were 45 and bit had three hp if he had you know if the first thing that happened was him burning if he didn't burn i think they could have even been won that round yeah and you guys are exactly right counter-strike is a game of taking space and giving up space uh and doing it in sort of a harmonious fashion it can be a very beautiful thing it can also get kind of messy uh i believe around 19 we could start to examine as well yeah let's talk about heartbreak uh let's talk about roller coaster that's the names you were mentioning first of all i want to take a minute to congratulate twist on what is one of the craziest 1v3 i've seen in a long long time it is close to perfection using the smoke as an advantage to get some damage along to the planet the diffuser rather and then once he gets it he knows he's basically playing against time all he's got to do is bait dash off him simple he does it and then he pings swings wide now here is the thing emotionally speaking at that point phase peaks at 200 percent the problem is it's really hard to stay focused yeah they basically broken a yanker you know how it is you win some of these rounds and maybe just maybe your focus goes down a peg and what does happen you get absolutely blown into oblivion around after that yeah it was just soul crushing really simple with a great headshot there the navi picks up great timing really to push on phase as they were setting up to split v on their own and they win a flawless round which was basically a half-by and their money goes through the roof after this right they all have guns with 6k in the bank and you look at the 15-14 round if there wasn't for the second that would have been pistols and scouts for navi and faze would have probably gotten it into ot seven rounds after that seven rounds off the back of this phase just out of it you can just see it you can see the way they play exactly dejected how they looked after that yeah well we don't have much time to harp on the dejection but instead i'm gonna go ahead and inject into the twitch chat to get you activated let's talk about our dhl mvp [Music] all right so let's let the votes fly obviously there are some guys flying around the server right now you can talk about simple you could take a look at any of these candidates everyone's showing up today does it look like they're a game janko yeah man everyone has their moments right you could see you know maybe if you look at the stats and so on bet is maybe a little bit more quiet than what we're used to you know robs was great on the first map second not so much but you know you have to remember his team's vetoed overpass for a long time as well yeah um and again with the dhl mvp obviously brought to you by esl pro tour use your twitch channel points to vote and we will catch up with the winner at the end of the grand final as an appreciation of the spectacular performance dhl invites the eso pro tour dhl mvp of iem cologne to the formula one excuse me formula one pirelli grand primeo come over here man i know you know how to read this the pirelli is probably a race i wouldn't say pierre d'italia that's exactly what i said italia which is a pretty sweet thing there pretty sweet i mean i can tell you this much yeah if you know you if you use your instincts it certainly sounds much more italian yeah uh anyway we didn't have that when i was playing i guarantee you this no one was taking us to monza yeah that's pretty cool absolutely i'm gonna go regardless but uh yeah spoilers is going to be simple so uh well perhaps i'd say perhaps we're good friends with him trace maybe he takes you with him yeah if i'm lucky uh which as it as it turns i'm not what we are going to do is hunk not so much i mean i picked navi so maybe it's starting to turn around also i picked maui what do you got to say perhaps not they're all so good throw so good took everyone off guys zero two down which is really important and you could tell they were feeling pretty comfortable on the map right face with that mini comeback towards the very end i think it was very important for navi to close it out in regulation let it go to ot right and now now we have a final right it has to be at least four maps being played and i'm just hoping for that nuke decider right best map for both teams that would be sick we're starting to see some glimpses of the real navi that we want to see what about the glimpse of ancient that we just have a little bit of time to peer into at this moment you start to think about uh where this series starts to go it starts to take a shape uh listen all i'm gonna say is that i think we have more questions than answer when it comes to navi and ancient i've only played it once with sdy so i'm still yet wondering how he's being utilized how well he fits into the system on the other side of phase i think it's a map that they've not really tried to pick but they've accepted to float quite a lot and i think they've got to experience they'll be my favorite movement into map number three and the few times it came as a pick it was a polish pick when it made you know it was the most obvious uh map pick for faze so yeah i think this one again i'm leaning towards them uh on asian but when you have players like this on the server simple especially the way he's playing anything is possible yeah some of the best that counter-strike has to offer and all under one server 128 to get that now for us we look at a break we've got ancient on the other side navi v faze clan if you're joining us your pick the opportune time 1-1 in the series this is the intel extreme masters grand finals of cologne 2022. off-kids outfits it's happening [Music] oh my god what a play [Music] these gary as well burning quite significantly and fallen's obstacle strikes looking for the quadrangle foreign [Laughter] foreign [Laughter] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Applause] oh [Laughter] [Laughter] foreign foreign [Laughter] [Laughter] is tickets i am rio this is gonna be such a good event they're sold out what do you mean they're sold out i gotta figure out a way to go [Music] what is this the dhl drop ty and rio trace dude i just want a trip to i am rio yeah dhl dropped they gave me a ticket to i am rio what do you mean this is for a fan all right i guess i'm good with that we're giving it away at the arena i guess that sounds pretty cool [Music] this is the intel extreme masters cologne 2022 and we are back with another dhl drop now if you guys didn't see uh we have a very special prize to be giving away and of course we've got to have a very special guest yes to give it way to our audience jordan nothing gilbert how does it feel to be back in the cathedral account of stroke i just got here as you saw in the commercial i just filmed that actually that was live there we go it's a pleasure to be in the cathedral yeah and you have a wealth of experience in this very venue as well what's your favorite moment what's your favorite moment in history uh how to reenact my favorite moment it would be my shirt flying off right now simple slamming his keyboard 2017 sec you know we got second place but the shirt off moment is probably one of the best who do you think's gonna be winning this grand final here now simple once again he's up on that grand final stage this is the first time in a while that i haven't felt like it was easy for na'vi so i'm just looking forward to a good match phase looks like they have a chance here yeah it's been absolutely incredible so far now if you guys missed out on exactly what this prize is in the dhl drop a trip to iem rio the first ever brazilian major that's a big one full flight everything i think even a meet and greet with stunna behind the scenes he just he promised it to me i don't know yeah that was a green room talk uh we're definitely gonna hold him accountable to that correct but uh i think it is time to select our winning sign so let's uh get effie involved in the action and let's pick our winner of this dhl drop okay have you ever commented this before oh mate it's so it's so good to see jordan as well on the red carpet now jordan sign number one impressed happy with that quick pivot on the swivel nothing he just stands up what's he looking for though you know what impresses jordan that's not that i'm not you know i hope he's more diligent than i was in mine i tell you that there's a lot of good suggestions i don't know how jordan feels about cobble okay that's a freakazoid shout out right there so that one's close to his heart i understand that look at this getting through the hordes of people we want to see my croc i've seen your croc has an eye okay yeah all right bit of a play on words there we can see what you've done there how you meant to pick one but you're staring right in the eye here yeah no then there's a lot of good suggestions there's a there's a little coordinated team effort there as well they had like three of them yeah you can see that at the back they're going for a team effort look at this but also this is the biggest prize that's been in that box save chickens all right oh okay fair enough shout out to ryan yo congratulations to that guy he's got a full expenses paid trip to rio de janeiro that's in 106 days 106 days the major kicks off yeah man guaranteed off to the major oh hold the sign now you probably want to keep that sign i would imagine imagine yeah get on the wall i golden ticket charlie in the chocolate factory you're hard out couple of goodies in there that's the one [Applause] wow thank you very much jordan freya you guys are gangsters and congratulations to the lucky fan off to the major you said 106 days wow well i'll tell you what's happening in about 10 seconds we're heading into map three lancaster arena i would love to hear you cry are you ready for map three they decree it's time for ancient navy draw blood from phase stalwart until the grand finals and now we've got a best of five you're a little bit worried there this is going to be a quick 3-0 for face rv they're going to extend us to at least a fourth and let's see how they fair hill on the newest map to the pool top mid smoke it's out and fast rain leading the charge spamming through electronic isn't going to find anything but bit he's up to the plate he's got a lot across the line he's actually letting them go element of surprise on the first peak twist his objective taps the head still bullets in the pistol two from bit it's rain that matches and now surging into the site limited util sdy on to broke he's spotted the cross and damage inflicted he's had his bell wrong as rain gets that bomb down again simple armored and equipped to the teeth sd wise flash here oh another goose into the head still rain dead down and out carrigan low his teammate lower still low brokey how is he supposed to do this they will defuse and he's been caught on the cross navi with their first pistol of this grand final so the bit to the three for perfecto they're in your right that is going to be the changing of the tide here and ever so important on a map like ancient and look not the most ct sided map throughout this event here at iem cologne but definitely a ct sided affair even with the recent adjustments and perfecto he closed map two and he opens map three well we're about to get into round two and take a look at the buy for phase here the fact that they are able to get out four gallons and an ak they can just wait out the early util for navi in a round like this they actually have the better firepower sure utils not there simple didn't buy kevlar alex simple has 800 bucks left over oh he didn't have any kevlar he could have definitely bought it he can still not aware okay well this is interesting in itself they've got enough util here this is gonna should be a donut smoke from rops a flash and a go bit you're on your own truly isolated his beard he doesn't need assistance on the first chipped down and executed electronics famous finishes what he started in simple unarmored but unafraid as he plucks brokey from the plant phase all those rifles and nothing to celebrate electronic and simple get the job done dirty an extra cash now in the back it didn't cost him a thing well this is the thing with a play like that from phase you want to play very open once you get out onto a but there were so many bodies getting lobbed their way bit with the one out the door immediately was great but look how jarring this is simple not respecting the smoke electronic not expect respecting the space and they'll get this one back no monitor punch this time from bit and no need a 2-0 start likely to be the 3-0 as the meat cleavers of the deagles come out for all five a phase here oh twist getting very hot under the toes there i have to respect yeah you're gonna take some risks in a round like this that was a risk from simple and immediate punishment from that rain desert eagle don't get too worried initially but it's about the space that faze can take where did navi leave open perfecto flash forward preemptive spam see anything whatsoever sdy the next man to be challenged with the ump carrigan and twists about to round this corner this is a crucial part of the map sdy tasked with it spots him out and wide swung oh he doesn't get anything done faze taking leaps and bounds towards a threatening third round albeit just on a couple of deagles they do have time if they want to go all the way back towards a but it feels like they're sticking to their guns here perfecto next to be challenged the smoke it is going to fade momentarily we'll have to relinquish control of cave and that smoke has been scooped up and thrown out now by twists yeah he gets the reload in time and actually the backup's there as well electronic now staring at a smoke carrigan gets the info but how do you swing on him oh there's so many bodies rain does provide another but there's nothing left of phase just robs a desert eagle and a dream closing in on the fade maybe the ump could work well 10 bullets and run on down wow vicious out of navi well handled really they gave away two kills there for naught it gets very very close would have loved the plan it's not going to be a big issue as the buy is coming through for phase regardless but they're keeping this one interesting in the early stages and in the center of the stage untouched brought out by nitro of course the last victor in this arena and navi is the last victor of cologne remind everybody that uh simple and electronic looking for their third cologne trophy the first to ever do so here a lot of firsts ahead of us with these two teams buying for that top spot this is a late mid control take here smoke to top ledge only towards the cutout smoke top mirrored and they'll take it after the initial exchange they've just waited for those initial bits of utility to subside and you'd think a bit more damage being done through there but both walking away with almost all their health i like this look so twist has thrown a deep smoke electronic has to be ahead of it he has to heavy supportive cast for that info clear they would look to answer questions of red house yeah but that's key the fact that you're saying they have to be ahead of it it means the b defense is weaker electronic will need to cheat back the you two coming now they're continuing just to make navi squirm here smoke and a molly for this hit that's all they have smoke is great electronic options very limited cut into the site now the whole assault on the way electronic oh no one no one can touch him he gets all three bags are turned only garrigan and low and doug lower by simple simple love that one there electronic walking on water as he pushes through with the flash beautiful stuff a heads up play you don't want to play retake on that site what do we say options limited he finds a brand new option goes hunting for rain and they assumed with rain's presence that was not an option look at this the whole team armored to the teeth cut down by electronic spotless for an rv they haven't actually started a map like this yet yeah and this is a key right the fact that the bomb went down on the pistol but nothing since the phase it is going to be a bit of an issue here as they limp in with a half by tech 90 equals util and faster over towards cave gonna apply a bit of pressure with sdy the us name the navi jersey is going to be tested here a very key component of this map and rain nice to work this position this smoke that you see is is one that is actually thrown by phase to facilitate a bit of space the mid jump up not possible you'd have to brave it as again testing a and electronic well he's the hero in the last round looking to be the hero again alongside a bit eight eight frags already from electronic the turret the hand to the king one and done but bit remains and prevails there's a slight slither he heard it and finds it rain that is something back he'll take the space he'll take the weapon and now navi just a little less certain okay nade solves it all a nice click but that is still five on the trot now faze you were describing them to me when we were watching ancient that they were one of the teams you were most impressed by and t-side ancient they were starting to innovate upon the change and looked like one of the front-runners to do damage and to tip the scales of what was looking like a ct buyer's map so far empty-handed could be the blessing and the curse for them though right if you're going to be using that in an online event to be really rifling through what our t-side playbook could be you've shown a lot and rv they're going to study that demo so here's the key how much more do they have in the back pocket here they've got the double infinity molly that they like to throw out to get this mid control might be something they look to do here taking care of business keeping my keen eye on t-spawn right now just to see what type of approach that fey is gonna be looking for here nothing crazy fast out of spawn they're gonna throw that ledge smoke again to help divide and conquer as they look for be lane control with carrick and brokey and rain twists and rocks to hold down mid at a for now and sdy remember he's going to be tasked with a lot here interesting tee smoke at the mouth of ramp ct sometimes deploy it but kerrigan is burrowed into it very brave here from white yeah they just want this be lane control because you can't execute towards that site without it and it also helps you facilitate the mid control so very key they did use a lot of utility to get exactly that mid control now twist waltzes out rob's not too far behind bit however completely containing this a pressure and this smoke it's gonna fade electronic collects and navi you know what's gonna happen now this is one of those teams when they get that advantage a five versus four converted eighty percent of the time on ancient and still have the number advantage on the site perfecto flash forward again nothing home 50 seconds you till reigning forward and not much left for phase here they have to go in towards this site the odds are stacked against them now someone has to step up and to break the site broke he might be that candidate especially now he's gonna get swung on doesn't get the pistol out in time still though sdy remains a nuisance he'll accept the bomb plant wait for the three components to be within touching distance of this retake it's actually going back around to group up simple has util here you can smoke off top ramp or cave they can flash forward and fight drops and broke you're gonna have to deal with this okay brokey wants to be the first contact reveals himself let's robs remain unknown hosted executed broke his options now non exist and what's he to do holding the bomb they continue their spree navi running [Applause] you can see he's starting to feel himself he is celebrate celebrating harder than we've seen so far i think the evidence of overpass continues and the son of simple in the crowd there yeah we're in the presence of greatness and it's not that man on your screen it is simple they do take care of business here right there's a couple of moments where you can see this one getting worrisome and now he's really starting to heat up and well fast out mid speaking of heating up rain he's out the thick of the flames the double molly's you see it there they get the mid control look at that runs him down bit has no chance playtime cancelled that does a lot here for kerrigan's mid round they have mid control oh never mind carrigan gonna have to be the puppet master from the grave he's confined he's a slow start for him into our third electronic this is his turf he made that clear initially can he maintain control or will he forego it like the angle they've gone for there won't find anything immediately there's three responders available here electronically the first looking to catch a timing strike when the iron is hot certainly hot now over the top of the flames it doesn't touch him he can get that info on the fight flashes in so a phase established now will they contest perfecto tries his luck a quick spray through the smoke distraction set electronic slaps two and the rest can be finished off nicely twists was a master of his craft on this very box to secure this very map to get themselves here can he do it again not today says perfecto and navi continue to be undaunted untouched unsullied one great needs a lot more rain oh wait low hp love hp on that defuse if only he could get back into the line of fire so you can see how hard navi were to bodyguard there it's really good stuff here from navi just a little details that electronic has to be posted as the hero right now 12 for him and you can see just how poised he is but there's flames under his feet he doesn't win he doesn't worry and that is even with that rain opener it's great that sdy finds one back initially here the phase they need to stop this streak 7-0 continuous rounds here just being piled on and this could mark the shift in this final look we're going the distance we definitely have to see four maps at play but up next is going to be navi's map choice of mirage faze picked into this for a reason and we need to see why again the mollies hit the deck out mid twist taking the space and straight into a blind simple i broke his next on the chopping block phase as soon as these rounds begin they feel against the odds navi playing a perfect ct side right now electronics does overstep the mark but rob's instantaneously catching the flak of the nade and simple now well positioned rain aware but he's not ready for both of them oh no oh hard shot but he still connects and carrigan quiet this shot nice try we go to eight they've won the half in the first eight rounds of play this navi this na'vi the desk we're discussing it the version we got glimpses of on overpass is very much still here and they are making phase run out of options oh maybe run out of timeouts two timeouts in the first eight rounds of play they need to crack this code a conference with robin the coach here to have a bit of a chit chat on what they can do right now you've got kerrigan on one kill you're talking about him giving up opening deaths i think he's so far stomach two of them as a minimum you've got two kills for twist two kills for rob now twist was great on inferno he found a lot of impact there as well on the second map of play it was mainly the rain and brokey show but who's going to be the difference maker for face who's going to be accountable we talk about the spread of this team but the team needs to elevate now rain on eight everybody else very shy of that mark this is the type of round to get the mentally back in at the time to fire them up the time to get kerrigan on his feet you need one of these in a game of this magnitude with a lead like this an electronic is not interested but he's so blind so blind carrigan has all the time in the world to collect it this time not an opening death an opening kill a deviation from the norm flame exchange kerrigan has to respect that the whole floor laden with flame they just wanted this control now the execute's flying on over the youtube coming carrick and barrelling forward a second for the in-game leader two from carrick and make it three a triple from the dane to put the first in the phase tally just when you started questioning who would step up it's kerrigan there's money to go for this here but it's still pretty early considering the ct side here for navi posturing around hoping to find something perfecto and simple in combination here they have broke he locked he can't move it either side of the death cube but he does have backup he does have bodyguards that's one for perfecto get scary now they're smoked off staring at the smoke and a smoke at the bone onto the bomb we'll get more concerns rob's might have to activate because simple just crawling forward he's just gone he's hitting it all of that locked on down those twists they weren't limited options the smoke was up simple takes a gamble but it was twist to save him a quick tech nine to put a bow on it yeah that's the thing right you talk about kerrigan stepping up here is massive right i was looking to maybe somebody like twists or rops to get them into a round no it's the in-game leader this is massive he's just rolling forward with the momentum and twist here to clean her up there's a lot of panic in this moment there's a lot of panic in this moment and twist he's going to silence the comms of navi here they'll buy back the cash already starting to look shattered if phase when a consecutive this scoreland is going to grow ever close up so that was compulsory and that was magnificent but you got to do it again does lightning strike twice on this t side in the lang says bucking the trend building upon it now this is the goal sdy wants answers facilitated by the flash reign blind executed [Applause] and the quick opener extended sdy above and beyond he won't be bullied here but maybe it's bitt's turn to do a little bit of that up mid towards the red house here with two they're boxed in they're aware i say that as he's scratching his nose with his knife out maybe not certainly a gap they've outlined jumping across on his jiggles a fired shot now the reaction twist is committed with the bomb here he doesn't want to cross back he doesn't want to cross back at all and they don't have to bit traded now brokey trying to find a way in the simples turn yeah there should be no way in now navi quick to their winning ways twists on the chopping block perfecto provides a nice attempt but broke gonna be run on down quick ak switch is nice but there's just too many members of navi they do push the issue force the fight and confirm at ninth not the only way they can win rounds here on the t-side if kerrigan barrels forward and gets them three big kills they're going to have a rough day of the office here on their map choice and i said sdy won't be bullied this is great for his confidence we've already highlighted the key component of the map being cave b lane the fact that he's not just falling over letting them pick him off or push him back he's happy to fight he's doing his job and most teams put you know the safest pair of hands in that spot but we'll see when we get on the other side it's actually rain who holds that position someone who's great in those forward angles taking the early fights and it is very b centric again this time with four change out brokey up and simple sit him down that was such a rehearse start and simple just cancels on down but supported again navi's defense it's so nimble just when you think you have an advantage there's a second rifle ready for you you see them like tethered to the hip there's always a buddy system there's always a trade there's always an understanding this team is on the same wavelength right now and they're looking for 10. and it enables these calculated risks to constantly pay off phase i'm sure morale now being tested the desk discussed how much that pistol around an overpass the three hour perfecto the great shot out of simple it really rocked them dejected was the word they used and i think dejected continues they're just gonna push out here gonna come out temple yeah flash for now but electronic can go wide oh rain might do it for them he's just gonna put his head right in the vise timings everything oh he gets his crosstar in the right place and with a bomb plant cash injected but there should be no hope his twists and robs certainly capable individuals but navi working as this team this unit procedural into the taps twist with two insane insane and rocks actually handed something he can chew on twist has done so much leg work a perfect molotov though his objective is just to tap the bomb he doesn't hear it the flash was on the nose he's 40 hp oh they could do it but he owned the reload he doesn't go and saved by simple twisted something rather grotesque and still navi extend their lead that was an opportunity and it falls by the wayside look at the headhunter here right you mentioned it before what he did for them on this map and they just keep coming it's aim map for twist it's fantastic work and this is but the molly the flash the smoke it's too good they had to chop and change who was diffusing that bomb there because [ __ ] got on at first didn't have the kit and massive work simple the presence of mine from bit as well just throwing his body on the line a little bit of an extra cushion to the taps they are charging now round 12 could be a quick one as bit again first name in the feed electronic ate that flashbang and carrick and across everyone's already here a minute 30. all the bodies are on a perfecto's got another the fights are going to keep on coming she's got a plan in plain sight evades the spray into the fight now it's navi again on this retake instantly sdy forced off the fight a trade at least but it's looking great for navi only rops can save phase and try and find this second they know where he is one of the three and that is crazy 11. one of the quickest rounds we've seen on ancient and just handled someone's got to put a restraining order out on navi right now because they're just harassing phase they're not able to get the bomb down they're not able to set up in the post plants it's jarring it's in their face the fights they just keep coming and the fact that navi had everybody all the bodies on a site with a minute and 30 on the clock faze had absolutely no chance it it bears repeating that all of the individuals are having their moment in the sunshine oh look at that it was a second off on the spray the second bullet of it just doesn't connect and rob's forced to reload tiny margins chad they can still work with four right they can still work with four here face they're not done just yet it's looking bleak it's looking miserable they're looking down and out right now but this is the late mid control one more time fighting forward electronic ahead of the flash he's gonna get one but simple still here yeah and he does not intend to retreat he brings the fight to phase and twists obliges with the ak smoked off bit no info silence in the jungle and perfecto 17 and counting as he adds another to the tally gap to work with here rayne can be the linchpin of this they're actually rotating over towards the b side they're no bit mike's to play over towards a looking to box in sd y2k but he's not home a two on three situation has phase waltz in they recognize the situation that they have their second round it's in the palm of their hands always an uphill struggle on the attack but navi have made this so dicey and it seems this one has been enough the leg work of the brokey but also twists that fight in mid electronic he was full blind but he still took one it was up to twist to really tip the scales and take him down electronic and simple a good way to win a round and this is the thing twist has really been the one to ignite the flame here right he's the one to get them going think about the clutches he's had the impact rounds his head just have to go back to map number one where he get those three kills on inferno on the first round here for the grand final he can be a difference maker he's given the team something to work with you understand why the save comes through the money's not there simple can drop one bit can do the same the guns for navi it won't be done just yet but phase if they can walk out of this half if they can get into the two minutes the two minutes a piece that they'll find themselves just to regroup regather they can do the exact same thing on the ct side and to counter that if na'vi find these last two if they can continue to feel like an indomitable force an unbreakable defense then the red carpet is rolled out for this navi momentum to be built to almost unprecedented levels if you didn't think that was important enough the fact that phase take their third time out they're going to burn it here on round number 14 with two rounds left to play in this half that really adds the gravitas carrigan knows that the marching orders need to be clear everybody needs to understand what they do right now because if they win this round and they take all the guns away from rv they'll be broken and we've seen na'vi win a couple of lighter by situations you want to put him down to that to try and make your life as easy as possible [Music] take a deep breath here because perfecto he's the one to operate with the least right now just a five seven and that shouldn't be too many dramas for him everybody else with the m4s and simple with the big green not the same for brokey on the other side three-man dispatch towards middle simple at the forefront of the pack but that's not kerrigan's intention early look at this he's stubborn again he loves this corner burrows in t smoke up uncertainty brews and util already in the hands they want to just pop navi have rejigged ready to receive perfecto worked his magic on this pistol before can he get away with it again twists one and done reign in it's carrick in the meet simple first but that bomb will be planted backs are turned and here comes simple knocks the shoes off a rain broke he defends him and now head to head in the smoke electronic prevails he doesn't have the help for this he's finished off and navi running to the fourth map gotta be don't take another do you take another time you can't you can't now you know for the second half but frustrations really have to be building now because they were able to trade into the site efficiently they picked the right bombsite this is great from twist you can only continue to speak praises of him simple comes back he denies a bit of space he gets the leg shot an electronic finding broke in the smoke there's no real safe haven on the side they know that sdy's over the cave and just not enough space here again when do you get an opportunity to set up in a post plant against rv they're the quickest responders out there they're always ready there they're always on the site you must just feel like they're they've got the x-ray as well you know they're always getting here aren't they always in the right place there's the molly's electronic just walks straight through he doesn't care and it still works carrigan was so isolated he was the only one that committed and wasn't expecting contact like that electronic sacrifices his health for an opening and kerrigan forced to watch with that death carrigan has given up four opening jewels here only one to his name on the other side electronic has one out five both in-game leaders have been extremely active trying to fight tooth and now for space on the map and with that death it also marks kerrigan's death in every round of play the full 15. can his team dig themselves out of trouble navi we talked about their ability to close these advantages phase up against it all now unlikely to see electronic move too far from here as i say that he makes me eat my words i didn't think he'd brave walking behind a smoke on low hp but rain he's actually being lured in look at this retake setup in the blind spot pivots in time sdy will note the presence here and you can see the three players trying to deal with this the cave smoke's great but rain he could be a difference maker he has to be they can flash him forward here a lot of communication twists providing the support the site set retake on navi they always seem to have an answer what will it be a five on four retake as that bomb goes down and a potential totem pole to be mantled they are hesitant they are low electronic perfecto wounded on the fade ray takes a lot of damage it's still sdy and rain will fall meets a similar fate twist has to find a pair and he does quick in succession two closing down the final round of the half phase just trying to hold on for a third robson twist should have it but bit only the one we will see it a third just something for faze to celebrate a compulsory pistol ahead of us and this third map delivers for the natives vincent side 12 in the bank because they head to the t side [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it works for an rv they seem to get on the bomb side and hit their shots that's really what it's all about [Music] so ah [Music] [Music] first bound twist aggressing they have to double peak he's getting his shot he's heading over [Music] this is a shooting gallery for simple it's practically death match just the greatest simple with five get out of my server face glam early innovators on ancient that first map of ancient history is navi come in a swinging into our third of this best of five 12 rounds 12 on the defense we've swapped sides it's faze's turn but they have to match that tenacity otherwise narvi do seem to have fully awoken shed their skin reborn in pursuit of glory in cologne this is the navi we're used to in the best of five finals normally they get done in 3-0 fashion this time a map down but here to play now looking to close this one out nice and quick and take us to mirage nuke as the fifth map both of these teams very good and new but we need to get there first and out the gates twist he's gonna be early and the pressure's coming his way yeah he's not gonna be able to react to this no help smoked off pressure now usp with two barrelling towards him jumping into him wow perfecto one drops keeps it level it's brokey blind through the smoke as it fades but bit into the sight with the bomb on his back and apparently they are completely trapped and drops it's another scorcher bit though good on the pistols good on the head shots one into rain he lives on but that'll give him room rejigging now a phase surely they can't fumble this advantage there's another jump another headshot bid and perfecto are getting it all done and robs can't get anything they know they dinked him navi about to bulldoze the face clan advantage bit and perfecto what a potent pair bit doesn't let it go 13 certainly unlucky for face i'm almost certain that on the first pistol they got here it was both bit and perfecto as well that got all the kills yeah this time round they've done it again look i'll double check look rops is with a couple of nice tidy kills to alleviate pressure carrigan even called the gamble stack on the right side but it felt like roxa's kills that he got over towards that a bomb site sent them spiraling elsewhere the goose on terrain massive problems here and this could be the quickest map of the final so far smg's are plenty four of which up against the force by this is do or die right now for faze clan otherwise they're going to be up against it reign gonna be mulling out of position here the flames will tickle he gets a tag has to give up the room and this is the thing you come into this best of five final you win your map choice and now you're down two to one that's the thing with lance yes as well the players will tell you themselves sometimes you get in the server you get into the map you blink and you miss it you black out and it's over the positive i suppose for phases they get about a 20 minute break they can take their momentum out of now but there's a bigger break now between the maps because we're going from the third to the fourth have a breather have something to eat reset the series isn't done but quite the contrast right i mean this was picked by faze clan overpass was more competitive than this and that was navi's pick well this is the problem you spoke about they're being innovative since the update came out they did show a lot online in rubeck cup of what they were working on on this map and rv navidad had plenty of tape to watch to counter strap for blade to mull over how they wanted to approach it on their ct half and it was almost spotless perfect work for the ct side led by none other than electronic but his rops again towards a the mp9 gets one but immediately traded the team works there broke he's here to do what he can but the bullets are shy and everything just falling in the favor of navi faze can't stop him and it phase can't who can navi making a very strong case on our third here remember the word dejected i think if you look at the body language here we haven't seen carrick and playing with the crowd how can you you don't have any rounds to work with one of the key rounds they were able to pick up in that first half of play was carrigan doing the heavy lifting three kills and then twist mopping up the mess but this is the crowd favorite phase no doubt i think what's more impressive as well for navi is over the years it's always been described as you know individual brilliance out of some superstars but everyone takes their turn here perfecto's at the top of the table carrick does take two of them down on the hunt they want to take it all away and it's just rain keeps hold of a 700 pistol a lot of love for him bit taking on to our screens his rookie year winning the major and now here with navi in hot pursuit we're seeing though there's still an intensity from rv right i think everybody understands the job's not done it's business as usual right we need to win the three maps to convert this here sure they're going to set themselves up on that pedestal but look at phase they understand there's no way they're going to bring this back from a 15-3 scoreline so again all the chips shoved into the center of the table m4 mp9 scout and we're russian b nade not bad on the nose we'll soften them up for these smgs and it is two of them kerrigan brokey making it work simple wants to change that he's been tagged and fragged kerrigan the zip on the body bag and it's clean find those rifles if you can a little bit of life out of phase and the lang says here have you been doing a good job of keeping this one-way traffic throughout but just into a blender yeah i mean i described this as you know one step on your climb up everest with a deficit like this and you were talking about how drilled na'vi would be in slight signs of life from phase sure but this is yeah the first step a barefooted step up everest i'm gonna relinquish consecutive rounds here to face that has eluded them this entire map to navi gonna force by when they know that the economy's still a little bit brittle want to finish this one early and creeping through the smoke reigns not looking blindsided by perfecto and the b bomb site is open for business yeah he's handling business kerrigan's got no chance perfecto does catch the flash carrigan one and done but at least a little resistance there are still rifles for the retake and the bomb planted so that is on very clear responsibilities in the setup sdy one and a lot of damage on to twist an easy finish and as we said one step up the mountain but immediately the mountain reminds you 15 frogs can do nothing a nice head shot a rifle upgrade and they're kind of another snappy one okay that's why that's why navi is so good at what they do even when you're you've got rops hitting every shot positioning and timing favors them the immediate trade out a bit he never lets that go back down to the doldrums here and this is easy from perfecto look at the game perfecto has happened 22 kills 20 for electronic bit now up to 18. this is navi firing on all cylinders and he's getting happy with that one look at sdy he's the one keeping his cool the most out of the squad here and they look to break phase right now bend him over the knee give him the back breaker as the undertaker is out mid and he's laying down the law chad it doesn't matter what you bring what you buy simple's got your number an opening on terrain again forced to watch as what could be the last round of ancient transpires before him significant damage fast chance on the ct or because broken got anything to contribute the answer a resounding yes a miss though between the wickets of perfecto and here comes the spray incredible damage it's robs with a spray of equal magnitude it's giving faze something to hold on to but hold on very loud big gap he's just going to creep through this he's not going to respect us at all and well when the blind side may be baited forward another one but still spotty consecutive rounds now and guess how many 11 10 more necessary if you want to take ancient to overtime and you have to think navi are going to crack through at some point here look good from simple out completely blind with that brokey bounces backward this kills keep coming the question is is it too little too late for faze 10 ct rounds in a row rops is on his own here the rotation twists through donut quickly he should hear some of these footsteps and broke he can respond but they're coming yeah drops panic stations finds a new angle long range against the pistols wise from the estonian taps another supported by twists navi still have three and they're swinging through they want to level at tables and he does put props on his back but that should be that [Applause] really have to point credit here to twist for putting up consistent resistance in key rounds for the team the impact he's been having he knows what it takes to win on this stage and still a very young man twist he's uh a rock for this squad he doesn't even play any of the superstar positions really yeah i think he has the highest support stats for his squad so keeps the minute and eventually it is two on the trot here but how many more can we really ask a phase it's down to pistols here for navi yeah a young man but achieved so much it's crazy intel grand slam a cologne part of what i think most would say is the best north american team of all time i don't even know how much of that is up for conversation yeah kerrigan will continue to farm up some frags i don't think we saw too much invested other than that sdy deeg 700 round from navy they'll have also used this time to talk it through you know you've got so many opportunities in front of you and it just feels like a probability that that navi one of the five names is gonna do what they do best and we're gonna be looking at a navi advantage heading into that four don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves here but if it remembers mirage yesterday against australis it actually got pretty dicey for navi that's true very close game the bit had to step up massively remember reminiscent of the one we just saw on overpass it's unlikely he has a bad mirage two days in a row but it was bit that really did save those boys from that third rob just needs to just need to hit some shots they're getting the bomb down electronic in plain sight knocked off by brokie ready for the fight and still sdy with two [Applause] all right well they get brokey back his big gun here and a timeout guess what the first finale and you can understand why a 12-3 ct half the pistol and they're sitting pretty it's an eight-round game in their favor and you said it someone is eventually going to close this game for now the otherwise phase will claw us all the way back into ot and that would be something special if they're able to pull it all the way back you can only imagine the mental devastation that would be in the na'vi camp i mean there's a lot of mental devastation at stake in this game that denial of the plant is much more important than as it seems because in this next round of play bit and electronic compatible go a case they've had to go for khalil's here to get the u2 out and a bit of despair from some of the phase fans in the house they know this is gonna be a long journey back if they really want to celebrate but maybe the double orbs is going to be part of that brokey and rob's equipped here i'd argue even a near impossible journey if anyone can do it it would be faze but robs called upon lovely angle they're ducking under the scope and now with his legs exposed rob still flicked through and punished lovely work from navi they are so good at returning the favor we're pushing out dusty eye right now he's ready for this still goes down nice one back from face they'll hold on but for how long this is looking good for a fourth consecutive year they've dealt with the biggest threats that were on the map electronic simple and perfecto congregating now just outside the b doors more crowd control utility being lobbed and the most they have is a smoke on the other side of things quite a lot for navi to use to execute over towards that b bomb site but rain he's the only one here he's flashed he's gonna allow them past perfecto's already got big box control and starting to scale up quickly kerrigan's rotating in can they stall this one out ct's would arrive kerrigan ahead wants to try and take the fight go from firm's bodies into the side smokes plume all tagged just through the spray of carrick and simple will go down a combination of their force knocks him off the bomb and again carrigan puts his name in the feed twice phase with a very clean shutdown of their navi attempt there it's one of the intangibles right but we always talk about the mental if you want to be a championship level team you believe that you can always run this one back right and you know that what they just did to you you can do to them this are the two best teams in the world there's no doubt about that lovely lineup from rain you can see they're working that out if kerrigan could just hit a couple just on your approach or as you arrive on the bomb it makes reigns drop so much easier and that default plan with these changes maybe will be shifted if they can consistently contest with the smokes up now we spoke about the fact that one player is going to have a round eventually for navi well eventually blade will find the right call it'd be very remarkable scenes if this coach coach of the year last year doesn't find a solution and oh we've got maniac standing by a thousand yards there i think he's thinking about mirage 2014 okay well call's been made and quick is sdy straight into the spray of rain he's repositioned but on the reload he's down swung through twists responsible and capable carrigan supporting smoke enables him to focus on the task at hand mid shut down they'd almost look perfect too he's just gonna tuck on in right now and kerrigan still quite over committed here smoke on the fade carrick needs to be careful no he doesn't and carrigan starting to wear into action here this is really good signs the in-game leader feeling some confidence not shying away from any fights that'll be five consecutive rounds right now as faze continue to claw this one back in but think about how these rounds have started to follow through denying the plants relatively clean only a couple of casualties where did we see this one before first half i think there was somewhat of a run in fact we didn't get to see a phase round until what round nine we're about there now heading into our tent for the second half already chipped away at his electronic you can see perfecto he's starting to take space early roki tasked with holding this choke point look at it like charlie hasn't seen anybody yeah he's on three hp what is this just all rounding the corner and not ready for that flatlined perfecto condemned to an early grave struggling with the opening kills now navi four consecutive i think that five consecutive rounds now that faze have been able to find the first blood they still can fall back on saving their pennies getting out the orb options oh i actually did hit that it's starting to feel a bit flat now for now the electronic on three and perfecto already in the grave feels like they're operating their three on five number disadvantage as opposed to the four v5 yeah you could use electronic as a little bit of a smoke bomb rob's is on somewhat of an island right now donut smoke here ct smoke also deployed rob's gonna call for backup they know where he resides typically and bits already confirmed he's there hiding and twists long range in support drops head on a swivel so many options but his team is doing all the work for him a full team effort phase repel the invaders without taking a single casualty and about this point you start thinking just how much of a lead they had a 12-3 half a pistol a silver platter for sure i don't think one of those smokes landed its intended destination i thought ct and donut well it was temple and what was meant to be done out there again another partial investment here and this is aggressive reign another opening for phase navi just trying to use pace trying to catch phase that find a gap the conversation has changed completely now it's about how does navi break through to get their 16th because phase this is just going to keep coming their way not backing down in their face happy to take these fights and as carrigan continues to call them into position he's going to find more and more confidence that this is possible staring down with another barrel of another double-digit game another one that is most on the cusp of an overtime and twist well he's very up close and personal now everybody from faze is here to respond to this yeah this is reactive defense simple does have his dig and ready as his twists misses his chance they might run him down strength in numbers turns to flash still sprays down it's sdy good on the first but tap and a rops profiting from the bonus of that ak now the flash is a few and far between now that was the last for navi and where have they got what territory do they have yeah it's good supplementary work here by phase right the fact breaking rotates back you can help out robs they would either run run down and head straight towards a but they're still coming b and carrigan flat line by simple they're gonna waltz in yeah rayne's got an a lot on his plate here good damage but it's his responsibility to finish the nade does it perfecto into the site looking the wrong way and phase again they've definitely got something to say and all of this with the margin for error set to zero backs against the wall here can't trip up can't make a mistake [Applause] it's a full team effort again chad it's been the case throughout the tournament for phase there's a discussion around this team they're stars yeah but as a team is how they're getting to this point how they have put themselves in the conversation how they won the last major how they want to finish the season as the world number one [Applause] the lancast willing them on here the cathedral was blood they won overtime but the state of play has not changed for navi one round one opening kill and you know how you might find one you give the goat his gun [Applause] can this be the change simple with the or we knew this was coming we knew there was an eventuality for this cave smoke in mid util deployed where are they gonna set simple up util just biffing looks like banana right now flames laid in the floor mid control taken the one way yeah that limits electronics options and gives a lot of freedom to twist an aggressive mid hole the resmoke to facilitate and it's all about the reed don't forget rain typically the cave player another change up simple's been posted for this he wants to break and buck the trend a single opening navi closed them more often than not sdy the pointy end trying to be the spear to break through carrigan face of adversity another opening because twists juking it out with na'vi immediate trade from rain and look at the sliver gap simple puts his head in the vice broke he slams it shut as i was so doubtful it felt like an impossible task but phase of convincing us every single round on this defense perfecto stunning performance from him but another near spotless ct half right back at navi oh can you hear that raw in this spree not a single plant not a single bomb plant what does that tell us they just can't get in look at how proactive and look at the stance around middle here there's just no way forward it's like a chess game you want to smoke off here we're going to smoke off there and just constantly buying in that u2 it becomes a premium as the round time trickles down you have to remain so cognizant that something new could be thrown into the mix at any time any round on your pursuit of this ridiculous comeback roxas use a lot of early utility here they're going to try again the thing is if they can get rops and get out they don't have to commit because the backup has been there for rops even if he gets one and goes down twist is able to contribute broke he's there with the awp the smokes are lined up this time three of which not going just yet sdy starting to make his way back over doesn't matter what the guns are now we just need one more round and phase three to take us to overtime here and what would be come back of the tournament game of the tournament rocks ready support twist the bait the switch the spray a lot of damage lethality secure and now running down is simple just the one on the b250 dragged him down navi sent back to spawn unless perfecto's got anything left passes the test on the a bomb site he says try again come up with something new it ain't working over here two rounds the difference now we got a couple of believers in the house because look at this response time i praise navi round after round well anything they can do faze can do just as well this is without pistol rounds withstanding the test denying the plan oh wow and breaking some hearts right now this run from faze the eyes are twisted they read belief he's starting to believe as he takes down simple first in pursuit of overtime oh it gets worse from the flames they spread electronic condemned is he done brokey will help out as well good lord there's nothing here no b we'll have one more chance one more chance chad or this is going to overtime [Applause] oh no and it's not pretty those tech nines and armor throwing them into the site they've tried everything 15 4 15 to 4 and the score now reads 15 14 faze they're not giving up they're not letting this one lie i described the task at hand as climbing mount everest and now this entire arena believes the impossible is ahead of us [Applause] one more round of regulation have navi got anything left in the tank or do we wipe the slate clean into mr3 what a run what a run 10 consecutive rounds 11 required [Applause] it's khalil's but still as we said one member one member of navi just has to have one round one moment in the sunshine and there's proactive play oh at stake there's another opening knocks sdy either round reign again aggressive and shadow betrays them they keep forming twist is taking us to overtime three kills 29 frags twist is coming into his own man possessed in the cathedral perfecto would have to do something ridiculous as the impossible proven otherwise on the ct side kerrigan playing to contain here perfecto we saw what he was able to do in the clutch when he was had his thing manageable on overpass now needs to get past this awp drops over towards a carrigan containing the b push he is boxed in he has 50 seconds to stew in his juices right now once in the semi-final once in the grand final perfecto stepped up in those impossible odds that would have turned he understands the situation as it is and brokey broke he's giving him a way to lear forward okay is this indecision or is this his brain whirring into action as the crowd tries to will us into overtime perfecto there is no one cooler in a clutch ice cold but up against robin cool it's his sight he's proven it time and time again but perfecto a good bullet nine hp the first is provided there's no way there's no smoke brokey just has to click and we're going to overtime the grand final delivers in grandiose proportions i truly cannot believe the counter strike we are being given chad this is a gift savor it [Music] [Music] i [ __ ] love overtime people are getting a little bit shaky let's [ __ ] go boys yeah let's go you so bad think they started focusing first place i think they started longer now i'm going to figure it out okay i'm going to fake p now no response there from shiro and the 4v5 advantage they accelerate towards a they're just keeping gambit moving right now kerrigan's about to walk in to be no one's there hop it we'll have a look out still gets the frag one guy pushed to push them no no that's good okay savage me water water heaven need to kill him [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and you thought ancient was gonna be over at the start of the second half we're still here and we go to overtime incredible individual performances the cathedral is in elation in celebration of the impossible comeback becoming a reality twist to the top of the scoreboard honestly russell van dulken and company up against navi and we head to overtime chad navi surely still on this t side so few and far between could they post the rounds three is the magic number and that's all they've got to play with well this is 11 consecutive here from faze let's see if they can keep the ball rolling you've had time to talk it over a little bit what wasn't working out of the game what's the answer oh an opening kill it's twists down and out and just off of the react shot he was completely blind no sound and now twist just has to watch that has to be the difference maker for na'vi there's no way around that twist has been a menace the opening kills have eluded them round after round now they bought themselves something it's been so elusive now they've got it in the palm of their hand around too late maybe and it gets worse for faze clan carrigan's aggressive adventure cut short options few and far between gamble stack here from face they want to deal with sdy and perfecto's presence towards b drops in mid that smoke will fade oh this is something the fight's gonna come their way here this will send navi elsewhere reigns got one back they should start taking space they deter perfecto spot him out and sh we need someone to the rotates coming back the longer navi take face could still claw this one back rox is gonna be in position but perfecto says no they're still coming without the bomb they want to see if there's any resistance here and nothing not a peep rain spotted out on b catches the perfecto lurk robson rain looking to disrupt but simple he started this round we said someone would step up and find that opening well it's him and he might as well close as well it's only rain mvp of antwerp and well a quick headshot on the way into the site this is for the ace an ace clutch come on now navi bound the opening can he flip the script electronic hiding in plain sight on the bomb site molotov wrong choice of the 50-50 time ticking one chance one opportunity and bits there to stop it [Applause] i'll leave them at 11. the streaks ended it's all level now in overtime and navier that wants to draw first blood that's the first kill yet again an sdy only 14 kills to his name but that is a solid frag nothing else matters at this point everything will be decided here does that deter twist he was such a dominant force he forced na'vi away from mid through his prowess on the clicks he's back with support immediate seizure of lane look at this sdy ahead of the play this mid extinguish is a bit of an issue here spamming through you you said would it deter twists i don't think anything will deter twist right now he's sitting on a heater he's feeling it he's not going to back down the canadian will then forward here into another round this time no freebie for simple yeah backing his aim rocking the m4a4 headshot to rival that a bit taking the pace out of it remember now be in the early stages how often they were taking damage giving away kills they've reset this break it's evident already rain this time has been tagged on down with a nice place wall bang smoke time fades and electronic keeps it conservative that will force a reaction out of phase he's ahead of it he's just gonna choose to fight for the perfect flat forces them to turn tail tuck and relax this is the chess game it's just for info right now navi know they have to expend that much utility just to buy the space they still don't even know completely what lies on the other side but they have a pretty good idea as sdy his favorite little hole alongside of rain and kerrigan the bomb to be scooped up 35 seconds left on the clock and it has to be a b finish phase is still concerned still scattered across the map and navi landing it up this is going to be really down to the wire though kerrigan has to focus and broke he enables him to do so still looks away averts his gaze as sdys splash the two of them there's no hope unless brokey really tries his luck and yeah sdy first simple now some die young to secure the 17th these elusive t rounds in the bank a triple kill from the newest addition [Applause] robs is being stared at perfecto lets it go they're both low they're so low still simple though on the orb robs handed a clutch he can handle so low on time as well rob's one bullet could do it he's counting in his hair he peeks out and sdy closes up quad kill to push navi closer to glory in our third map of this grand final earning his stripes right here on the biggest of stages sdy gets na'vi their second t round in overtime and watch this one back this stack perfect this is what you need from sdy he is alone in cave he not only opens the site a double on to the veterans he closes in the 1v1 and look what it means to the whole squad simple pumping his fist into the air as those long evasive tu rounds are coming his way is there anything carrigan could say what is he up to what is that into perfecto with a quick slap and reigns right there too and a convincing round completely smashing navi in one of the quickest ct rounds we've seen what a shot from carrick in there just to our celebrating sdy in that performance to get them another round carrigan he's having none of it but chad both of these teams had 12 ct rounds and here in overtime it's a it's a t side majority surely that's a leg up for navi the t-side was so long ago the t-side was so long ago can they replicate that two of the three it's a very tall order look at this man this man wants to secure it right here on his own volition calls it off let's fire the shot over towards b lane immediately here congregating in a main bit right now he has support of simple bit of utility left over there's a smoker hey to try and stall this one out but they're looking to play the trade towards a simple will be smoked off here does he want to play ahead of it he'll be ahead of it plenty of time plenty of time counter insandery already chipping away kerrigan leading by example the front of the pack over the smoke navi filling the feed spraying them down a double from bit over the smoke hope dwindles for face still a little glimmer in the position of rain they clear the side close quarters on the orb they regroup attention drawn towards donut hesitant is simple he has the bomb in his sights and leaping to retrieve it is the brave norwegian you got to get it down now no smokes no nades it's just guns for these two to recover the round simple posted up for that on the crawl away and crawling away oh no no no look what they planted if he tries to get a move on here brokey because a little bit quicker on this look where they planted look what they're planning he's gonna sit at the brook he doesn't know brookie doesn't know they're gonna refuse he's not gonna get there in time the around the world maneuver they call the bluff and that's 18. against the wall on the ct side shore but again on the ropes battered and bloody face find themselves discombobulated and asked to once again do the impossible they've been up against it now and this as you mentioned this is this is harder this is impossible oh this is mythic difficulty i mean look at this navi have just dispatched the whole squad to contest and end the round immediately in that mid-fight simple lick by the flame and abandoned by the squad he is now solely responsible for this crucial part of the map carrigan really stretching his legs early as well up the lane smoke buys him time and respect oh oh electronic perfect trigonometry gets the knee in the crotch this is very very difficult being used here and just to hold them back to make them think it's a close mid-fight navi again trying to stay ahead of the rotations symbols rotate it back the mid control still comes through falling water falling off of the ledge carrigan in contribution with twists here and that nade lands right between the two of them softened up there's no way you expect a setup like this navi put their pieces in place to take the lead in this grand final carrigan oh just looked away and he's getting shot in the spine twists can not reply he's got nothing to provide into the sight down and out navi 3v3 a quick one out of brokey twist is there as well we're in a two on two that happened in the blink of an eye and in the drop of a hat simple puts his up on his back and a deagle right to the temple falls down to twist space recover off the back of the canadian sensation and rookie of the year could try and close a 1v2 but i smoke in a kit chad is quite a pairing they're going to group up in case here oh twist on the jiggle confirms his position smoking kit i remind you that's going to get the nerves going around the world he's baited him in they can't find him twist distracted if he could just do it again he's on it and he's tapping it rox nervous in the big stage as [ __ ] closes it out a monstrous clutch as the rookie keeps his cool and pulls navi into the lead of this grand finals [Applause] that's two clutches to close two maps but navi sees the lead [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's hard to imagine the playoffs in cologne without nadas vincere and 2018 was no different however it wasn't just navi making it to the grand final that made that year in the cathedral of counter-strike special the german team big and their almost miraculous run throughout the whole tournament made na'vi the antagonists of the event and some fans will say it's a shame that big cinderella story didn't receive a happy ending big may have leveled the score line by taking dust too left nothing to be desired knew that it was a possibility a player would turn around and check it zeus tries to hold off they knew he'd gone into the corner they find him edward's in the sight but they already pushed back through tunnels tasian gets the shot but navi's electronic became a herald of what was soon to come great mid-round calls now it's on to electronics trying to isolate here we go they completely surround him how the hell do you turn that around you do nothing about this what is what the hell just happened there [Music] it's as if the big man himself came down here and blessed us with a grand final for the ages not even close right not just kidding my god if you were here in the arena you definitely know just how extreme that this one was came all the way down to the wire what was a very one-sided game turned into a very close game somewhat seemingly fast and that's right out of control what an incredible turn of events what an incredible third map in this best of five started as if na'vi were just one two three five hell six leagues above face but i was little would you know that phase was gonna mount an incredible comeback just to see their dreams and the dreams of about 12 000 people being crushed stepped on stomped on absolutely stomped on man that was cruel sorry this is not as sturdy as you always you might think tracy whoops please didn't mean to do that we're sitting there it's like you know navi wins both pistols 15 four up this is what happens when they win both pistols in a row on the t side and of course of course it goes all the way to ot they lose 11 rounds in a row as t then they win the first two notes of course they do azlek would have it yeah as they would have it i mean you can't even really take stuff from regulation without even talking a little bit about iot right away i don't think that there's much more to grab i'm thinking about the second round of ot most oh yes absolutely i wanted to give an absolutely public shout out to sdy for this round right here that w3 is worth so much but it's around where he gets a 4k but it's the context it's the moment 1615 both teams have struggled to find t-sided rounds and what does he do he gives a second round to electronic with a beautiful 4k right here he's at the opening he's at the closing that was majestral from sdy what a time to show up and you know crunch them do the damn thing absolutely he was struggling right you know and this is the moment where he takes matters into his own hands that's spray transferring cave it was absolutely crucial right most of the attack was coming in through banana right so he was it was he was the one that the splinter there in a way and yeah i think also tale of two halves obviously with in-game leaders yes they both had like awful t sides right like uh in terms of individual performance as well just three kills on electronic and kerrigan or four on carrick and two of them came in one round which was one of the three that they won so he stepped it up there but they were both the highest rated players on their ct side for both respectively it's all about all about momentum trace and honestly what i would have loved to know what i'd love to see maybe we could catch up with them after the fact is what did blitz say to his players between regulation and overtime because the reset is incredible right the reset is crazy there's 12 rounds or 11 rounds in a row and the show completely show up differently timeout is 30 seconds right and he had three minutes there but he used four timeouts in the last eight rounds and they still couldn't get anything done really i mean obviously the ct side from phase they stepped it up individually they were getting a lot of openings there was always four with fives three fives for navi simple tried a couple of rounds like aggressive peaks right almost taking matters into his own hands nothing really worked out for navi twist tried to take it into his own hands as well obviously there were some ridiculous uh series of events that happened for this year the one the first accuracy from twist is something out of this world and you cope that with a good cross replacement and the dynamism that he showcases in some clutches and then you end up with crazy moments we were all on the edge of our seat in some of these clutches and for perfecto i think statistically over the years incheon has been one of his best maps and he continues with his antics he'd had a phenomenal first half he was one of the main reasons why navi got up to such a good start he was perfecto he was electronic the one-two punch put them on the map the wombo combo well that maybe as well uh but definitely i i don't think i've ever gotten chills quite like i just did that that's crazy that was that was something special yanko yeah absolutely man again the the crowd in the cathedral delivers because you could tell everyone was cheering for face for the comeback because you want to see the comeback happen of course the hardcore navi fans but then once you know it got to ot and now he was winning and there were cheers for them as well right so we were saying we were saying like not sure who's gonna win the final but we're going to get some high caliber counter strike yeah and so far the final is absolutely delivering yeah just like paula's delivering behind yeah paula's back there sounded like uh stone cold steve austin what what welcome back just kidding we're gonna actually go down to the sidelines just now because we do actually uh we're gonna get your wish we're going to hear from sdy right now i've got sdy with me here and i've got to ask you these games they're intense they're long they're drawn out how are you feeling right now personally i feel bad because i almost lose this game i did a lot of mistakes but in the end we win it so we need to focus on the others and i need to step up in the last maps and maybe you need to focus on the positives because you also did some great stuff towards the end there in overtime but okay this is tough this is a game like this against faze do you feel like you can end it here going into the next map actually i don't know and i don't think about that i think we just need to play round by round and then we can play really good and do you think there's a lot of mind games going on in the game like this because it's so back and forth i didn't see any mind games yet but it seems like they just destroying us or we destroying them like poor headshots even not so many nade usage or something like that just headshots everywhere and what's blade been saying to you between the brakes what's the game plan now uh we have gameplay basically for every map so it's a lot of view it's a lot of small things that can change everything in the game well let's see if they do sty thank you very much for your time good luck and what he says right there we own them they own us thoughts no mind game only headshot put that on a t-shirt that's it sell it ship it just ship it send it to the presses it does look like it right if you go back and rewatch some of these games and you just look at the amount of highlights we've had individual prowess really and it always comes down to it when it's a grand final and you have two great teams yeah i think we were just talking about this in the green room which was you could make a highlight reel out of simple plays within the playoffs themselves right and we're definitely getting things like that within this matchup uh speaking of which i do believe we're gonna hear from the faze side it's gonna be kerrigan giving us those words i've managed to grab carragher and thought a couple of words after the third map of ancient and now i just want to ask obviously you guys unfortunately do lose out on that but coming out of that first half you guys were down 12 to three what were you saying to the boys coming into that second half to push it to ot yeah i said if you're coming back from this it's going to be legendary and it's going to go in the history books unfortunately we didn't do the comeback and twitter is not in the end and i felt like uh we we played a little bit different what time c decide onto the last round where we started playing disrespectful cs so i think we should just keep pressuring them so yeah unfortunately i didn't finish it and we know that best of fives is really a test of stamina for any team coming into things how do you guys keep up the mentality keep up the form particularly coming into what will be the fourth map of mirage yeah we just have to play our game right we have to trust in the process we have done before this tournament during this tournament so this is the first map loss for us but these two firsts here now so you have to try to recover from it and if you win the next map it's gonna be an insane new game so the next two maps is good for us but we just have to show the best mentality which i think we have done the two might be lost speaking of this next map of mirage what should we be looking out for from facetime if we have any hope of pushing it to that fifth yeah i think we kind of surprised them a little bit in the veto so we have prepared them to rush really good so hopefully the progression pays off and uh we can turn this game around to to end the nuke well thoroughly looking forward to seeing exactly what you will be delivering thank you so much carrigan let's do it let's pick it up right there what he said yanko i'm gonna look at you when i ask this he just talked about disrespectful counter-strike what the hell is that all about well just means you know don't overthink it right play towards your strengths utilize your players individually get in their face you know don't think about it it's all it's simple i have to be careful and what not no just play your game stick to it but i love the nugget he gave us about the veto as well you know he felt that that's maybe when they were face to face so he saw the reaction during the veto right that now he probably expected a mirage ban yes and that's two to go through so that they prepared heavily on the map and you know you look at mirage just the way the map functions you see it as a place towards phases strengths i mean navies as well right so i think they have a good chance of uh stealing navi's mapping kuwait and taking us into that nuke as a 55th decider you guys you actually hit the magic word we talked about mirage we will talk about mirage but first i want to hear maui talk about mirage one of the stats that i love the most about navi in this tournament is that they're not only the best ct team but they are the best at trading they have the highest trading percentage of any team so you're going to see how even though on a map like mirage that people say is generally very individually focused they're able to come together and group because they are devoid of information one minute left on the clock this is usually a time where a lurker might strike and so navi they group up here actually and you can see that they move together they group up towards middle at this point and because of that they are able to work in tandem and they are able to strike and take out those astralis players taking out one end of the pincer in the astralis attack this is why the navi defense has been so potent because they are always playing off of each other they don't only have strong individuals and to say that would be a way to discredit how strong their team play is they're able to make this death ball here at the mid section of the map and because of that they're able to steal a round away from astralis when they were devoid of so much info in this one maui bringing up some excellent points there shout out to the maui snake the one and only i think that's what they know him maui wowie that is actually the most perfect name for the guy speaking of which uh mirage he made a good point there about trading within uh navi and company how do you feel about that mania i agree i think just also to balance on the anchor's point i think if you phase you bring movement to the map right now you bring movement you bring aggression you have to bank on the fact that navi maybe wasn't exactly ready for that mirage to be slipped then maybe it does too what's going to be the case so you push them you'd be out in their faces that's how faze actually picked up the pace on ancient as well that's how they mounted that come back um i just wanted to quickly mention a name we haven't really touched on right now bit has had a relatively quiet grand final by his number but remember the clutch he just had that 1v2 was a masterpiece can we expect him to pick up his level as well and bring it to mirage and have all these jewels from catwalk that could be just the end and the fine nail in the coffin i think it feels difficult for anyone not named simple in this grand final to have like a massive game you know even statistically wise because the games have also been so close i feel like in different rounds everyone has their moments that disappears a little bit and so on but mirage man face has not played mirage at cologne that was weird i just had to check that right so they probably had some stuff that they worked on especially in this four days five-day stretch where they had just time to to practice meanwhile navi unders other side played it three times astralis miles movie star lost it two moves gave away a comeback a ct these are not world beaters you know by any stretch of the imagination and all of those games were super close the astralis one obviously going into overtime so i think actually face has something here yeah and i mean i think we heard even kerrigan say just now they had prepped a little bit of mirage when in you know anticipation for say a liquid or whatnot uh maniac what do you think at a surface level you look at this i know you guys were big in the faze clan camp but now you get to backtrack a little bit very obviously navi taking our ancient is a masterful operation for them it's beautiful it's a map that i would have given to phase at the beginning of this best of five so what's it gonna require if we go to fifth is a reaction something that i didn't expect i think navi is probably the better team on mirage but i want to hope that this comeback instilled something put some fuel put some fire under the ass of the phases players they could see they could do it i think they can i still believe they could i want to see how navi changes their t side or if they change if they make some adjustments from that uh astralis game right because what worked for astralis was aggression on mid right the blame conflict barley had a couple of big rounds with also mid aggression so are they just going to tighten up in their default right maybe send an extra man maybe be a little bit more patient or are they maybe going to come out with some faster hits towards the bomb side that's going to be the name of the game for navi on the t side which is where they'll have to start yeah and getting a jump start you know we just heard kerrigan talk about we should have just kept our foot on the pedal yes um and that's something they can't afford to come out slow start no you're definitely right and i think when we mention you know test of stamina it's a marathon and yada yada it's not just about physical energy it's about mental energy it's about mental fortitude how do you handle these situations i think the fact that navi was able to sustain that comeback from phase on ancient is a huge testament to their backbone and the resilience that they have now face have to show the same kind of characters after being swept under on that ancient and despite winning ancient the the map was extremely draining for both teams mentally right so even if even if navi won 16-5-6 this extended break would have still helped you know pace to bounce back it wouldn't have been as big of a factor but now that it got all the way into ot it's it's an unnecessary thing to have yeah they're just everybody just needs to calm down for one second let's all recompose ourselves but relax terry back on up back on terry back up tear it no i'm just kidding hey navi faze clan we're going to be going to mirage we're going to see the first time he can shut this one down because as it is this place is out of control this is grand finals intel extreme masters y'all looking to get more out of your cs go fan experience introducing csgo bingo event pickums and fan club showdown flame free bingo cards to win amazing prizes predict the winners of esl events with pickums for prizes and glory show your favorite team you're the biggest fan by winning matches in the fan club showdown check out csgohub.com today to take part in all of these and more [Music] [Music] looking at cologne and his history it all started in 2014 and the first team i went with was kamehamehas i remember that it wasn't the big land sex arena we know by now but it was a small arena with crowd and we lost to navi i think and without a tournament right before playoffs if i remember correctly so yeah it all started there and then obviously next year we started getting the big arenas and it became like a dream to to win cologne [Music] 2015 was was a big step in in csgo history uh we're coming into some of the big tournaments like cats with cologne and big arenas and from there on they just kept coming every single year right so i think that's where we realized how big this is gonna be and i remember myself going into the arena in lansing and boxing and females like boxing mats and it's just an awesome feeling to play in front of ten thousand people in an arena in germany right it was just like this first time i realized this is actually what we've been fighting for for so many years and and this is just the first step and it's going to be many more events to come i think everybody who played the first cologne in 2015 with big arena just knew every single time and every single year comes we just want to win that tournament because it became a really important step in cisco history that we actually could fill up arenas with with 10 000 people 2016 it was like the first cologne major and i remember coming to the tournament we had obviously changed the player cab we couldn't play so we took glaive as a stand-in and i think we just managed barely to to go through the groups and it was against another danish team arrival we just took cabbie from that team who couldn't play with us and that he didn't play with dignitas [Music] by winning 16 14 and qualifying to get debate and and like i said this i directly invite for the next mate it was so big to make we had the sticker capsules we had everything was very new at that point right that was really important moment for us because it's like when you go through a lot of stuff during a tournament losing a player playing with a stand-in you're just trying to do your best and and i think there's just like happiness at that moment that we managed to to do it and obviously we lost to pee during that tournament he was hospitalized um so yeah we had to play the virtus plow in the in the quarterfinal with sonic our coach back then so tough times but we almost beat the vp or very two very close maps and all time and stuff like that so yeah we did the best we could back then and i'm just proud of that that we managed to go through with the circumstances i think there was a big step in my career in after the australia this time ended and my time in in astralis azor i went obviously to to face clan i've set out for my for myself through to win a major with the international team knowing it would be a long road and and but it was like exciting project i love what face was doing and they were just coming to cs go at that point i had some of the stuff i wanted i couldn't get in australia so i just felt like a match in heaven and obviously coming to cologne i think we made the semi-finals and lost to sk or something like that the style of the metro was very different that that what we had tried they played a very new style of cs very slow and playing the percentage and i think at that point we couldn't find the solution and i think we tried four different maps four different picks but it always kind of ended the same i think that was a mix of everything i think the style the style we had to play against them was tough and also like in the end it was a mental thing at some point i was like 17 lost map loss against sk and only four map wins so it was a really tough one i think to this day it was the toughest match up in my whole career to to find the solution because every time we played them it was tough to to try to reinvent ourselves and try to think what we could do different right but i also learned from that not to overthink it because sometimes you have to just believe your style will at some point overwinter the enemies so in 2018 was obviously ups and downs for our team coming starting the year reducing the boston major final coming into to catch with losing the final and katowice right but somewhere along the line we lost olaf to some circumstances and had to play with standing and suddenly we went around for the grand slam [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we went to events with promen and exist and and that meant coming to cologne 2018 we had a chance to win the the grand slam it was a very turbulent time for the team we didn't practice much we didn't know when olof would come back but there was a feeling about that team once we hit the stage to send arenas you knew that people will play really really good because it is players like niko and guardian and once they hit their arena days they are that's a different beast could get a couple more out of this one [Music] what's going on that's one of those times where you realize don't be too happy uh before you actually play the game because i think that was the feed in the team we're actually going to play big in the semi-final and if we win that we are one game away from winning the first grand slam ever right we're not losing too big right and they play a fantastic tournament but yeah that's one of the times where you wish you would have a different thinking and and maybe respect enemies you play in a semi-final but yeah listen learn for sure i always felt like and always said like cologne is a tournament where everybody has fans they're all cheers for great see us but obviously we have never tried to have a german team in the playoffs [Applause] playing big in that cologne arena was something very special it was like normally it's 50 50 crowd on both sides but here was like 90 german friends suddenly right and i think it was a cool experience and a life experience for the for the big players they played great and they they won against it made the final [Applause] i think my career has been three trophies i always wanted to hunt that has been the catalyst the cologne and the major so that would mean there's four big trophies prestige events where you know everyone is giving that 200 to win that tournament everybody's boot camping everybody's preparing new stuff and make sure that's at least two weeks before cologne that you have time to prep i come into this year winning tattoos that was like a big prestige under circumstances after that winning the major and then i sat down with myself after the major like if we can win cologne we're the first team ever to win catch with cologne and a major in the same year i would say that's an error because that's the three biggest tournaments of the year [Applause] right now we're aiming really hard to to win that cologne and and hopefully in some way we're going to have some stupid losses before so we don't feel like a machine or inhuman at the cologne because i think we need to be able to hit a good balance between an overconfidence and respect of the enemies [Applause] having a target on the back it is what it is we have to able to withstand that as best as possible people work really hard and we have to work even harder now when we're on the top not everyone can stay there for a long time [Music] so well hello cologne how are we feeling we are three maps down grand final are you not entertained yes well we have seen some of the greatest counter-strike ever seen we've seen two teams going at it 2-1 right now who's gonna win this who who's that i said who's winning it whoa i tell you it is going to go off we've had our little break we've taken a bit of time we've reset ourselves i know what's about to happen in here hey guys i know what is about to happen in here it's gonna go off we've got about a minute to go before we get the teams playing again but i want to try something let's try something new you can hear my voice all the hollering and the shouting i want you guys to do the are you ready so the guys over here let me hear you say oh you guys at the back say you my friend's over here say ready here we go [Music] here i am baby here i am so we're gonna do it one more time because we can do it louder are you ready okay here we go [Applause] oh my god this is the greatest crowd in the history of esports you guys rock it every single time we've got potentially two maps more to see who is gonna be winning the title here in cologne let's see who's gonna do it is it narvey is it phase it's time to get in to our next map boys it's over to you you've got to love oj he's always an innovator that was special and so is this game chad i really feel like we've been given a gift here a spectacle to behold they're in their huddle now i mean we are in the final stages before we launch into map four we are really at the pointy end of this best of five now [Applause] discussion at the start of the day could go down as one of the greatest counter-strike finals of all time currently living up to that hype [Applause] and the reason that's the conversation is because so so rarely you have a number one and number two where they don't even know who's better and the only way you can separate them the only way you can decide who is the world's best counter-strike team is your juke it out a million dollar tournament a sold-out arena and everyone holding their breath in the ebb and flow that is the beautiful game of counter-strike it looks like we're waiting to get this one started we've got bums in seats oh and we're nearly there i hope you guys are fed and watered we have we could be here for a while we really could because that sound means only one thing lang says [Applause] it's game time map four mirage navier up two to one faze clan forging the impossible comeback only to have it taken away from them by navi and a 1v2 from bit brutal let's ride ct side phase clan navi start on the attack and already lining up something special is electronic brokey investigating he's got rain alongside for the ride he's got caught out oh molly in hand and executed kerrigan panic stations pulls the smoke out that will delay trying to find him spray of glock bullets leaping into him wow he gets simple that's something a four versus three trying to level the odds is sdy reign very low and oh no brokey ouch that's a quick one the glock finds time to get that bomb down still loose on the side for now sdy and bit separate bit looking to separate twists from his head long range the glock a goose twist needs to do a lot here and he's losing health fast and one bullet will do and it's bit that provides it rops an opportunity for redemption but how how he'll be cleared and that is it be starting to take their pistols and that man on your screens s d y does what so few could and have he's starting to come into his own he's just continuously being this safe pair of hands and every bullet out of the clock a goose that one is gonna leave a mark what a way to kick this off an opening kill for faze he's gonna get back with the pistols and no no no down to a force by their own now they want to pick up where they left off want to get this one done want to get this one dusted soda phase they want to force right back and bring the fight to navy early here early stages early doors immediately wrestling for control of the economy and investing their pennies into the sharpest tools in the shed simple perfecto electronic equipped an old bit just a mac 10. that's all he needs to farm up ahead sdy one in terrain but he's alive and kicking for a moment longer simple into the sight and phases hopes fade not the start you're looking for here you just take this 20 minute break you cool off you said we almost brought this back it was a valiant attempt we're in this and then you lose the pistol you lose the force five and it's a familiar feeling does it hurt more to get to overtime and then have engine taken away or did it get the juices flowing i think i guess the juice is flowing i would not want to go into that break getting dropped yeah losing 16 to 3 16 to four i would not want to sit there and have to stew and know all the mistakes we made right you can sit here after the fact when this is all done and dusted if you lose the best of five final you can sit there and go hey we probably should have been able to pull ancient back into ours but it's not a thought right now you pushed rv you've kept them mentally unstable here yeah they were undaunted by the zero margin ferrera but now they have it in the series as well navi need one of the two remaining maps remind me of the navi marauders that we had against g2 in those finals right the three o's to get the hell out the nika who this right now after the comeback kind of snuffed that flame just slightly but faze if they want to prove that they're the best team in the world resilience is part of that battle the individuals are here they've definitely stepped up they've definitely had their moments kerrigan got a timing shadow will lead to his demise there are all eyes on feet a couple of bodies here and they are dropping like flies twist can't even hit the shot bit starts and closes book end frags of the round a third for navi support network is always there for navi but the same thing for phase in a lot of these situations right just the body system the utils on point the understanding of how they want to approach these rounds are bounding forward is bit beautiful work right there and i'm loving the head-to-head between him and twists but he's going to be twists again who really is the driving force of this team broke he's been having a great series so far as well he'll get the awp [Applause] now we spoke about some of the weaknesses from na'vi yesterday against astralis their t-side was kept very very meek they already want to change that tune with a pistol win being able to get the boost early it's not a big deal for phase they're not under the pump they're not under pressure and kerrigan with the jump he will secure brokey and this push head of the smoke here simple just going to walk straight out wow but only for a moment major mvp first in the feed first gun round of our fourth twist looking mid that's brave oh and it leads to another four-phase clan turn spotted it just the face emerging from the smoke bit still wins the jaw a two-man advantage but that's no object forbid it is a problem now because rain the turret on this a site he stands and delivers a triple kill from the norwegian on the first real test of this map now plenty of cash left over but one of the keys in a round like this is faze being willing to take the fight stepping out getting him done here it is from rain just pivoting around this default box wow and there was a chat there about conserving energy right in the best of five if you are gonna go the distance if you are going to go all the way do you need to make sure you have something in the tank at number four not familiar territory necessarily for navy push here perfecto he's gonna get just absolutely blindsided by this he seems to be aware the jiggle he cannot repeat this needs to back off forward position of those round players touched on it yesterday perfecto wasn't very proactive over towards a when he was anchoring and it actually allowed astralis to play very far forward in the same fashion reign and robs are doing right now so if they've studied the demo they looked what astralis was able to pull up with config and farley just battering them with openings both teams preparation heavy that's the reason they're the number one and two we're finding out which one is at the top of that list and oh oh info broke is going to struggle to find him and yeah reset not electronic cancels his plans foiled by just the tip of his finger and you can see that simple's posted for a quick scope should you try your luck electronic established for later into the piece he can arrive scope's heard here that's audible a t-smoke as they charge through he's not ready at all completely flattened i think rain's been spotted out but it's robs from the box laid it down but reigns with him simple trying his luck as well it's only simple 20 seconds three kills too much to ask and it's gonna be a real confidence booster as well for rops just with that round alone it's very clear to me faze have identified some of the weaknesses of navy how so well just with how forward they get to be on the a side if you want to come through connected towards a we're not worried about your a-ram player or your palace player that's fine we'll play aggressive and you can see how many different angles they have to check as you come up connector if you have to worry about tetris you have to worry about palace site ticket jungle the list just goes on right that's just a couple of positions there's definitely many more that they can be standing and waiting to deliver here so humbled immediately are now v sure the pistol rounds great now having to operate just with a couple of deagles simple tweeted yesterday after the australis game on this very map you know he said a lot of mistakes a lot of stuff to fix overnight as big nade lands i'm curious to see if that's something they identified as an issue in the way they approach the map does take balls when your back's against the wall to expect the same from na'vi they've had time to think about it too and here broken this is very forward very forward to miss that shot they're going to hunt him back turned hoping robs can save them and he does deliver when he needed to off alive and kicking twists finishes with a style and so after that 3-0 start face responding kind you can see look how much faith broke he had there he's just back turned you got me bro the steadies his aim there right you looked at angel a couple of sketchy moments with spam all over the shop for this break you can think about how mentally you can reset phase two more maps to win fernandi just the one pressure on both sides of the server you two deployed as style bit looking to try and sell a bit of a fake over towards v smokes are gonna bloom that's blind pressure twists and carrick in here stalling him out with util of their own right now not forcing out a rotation they're well aware of these plays and perfecto's actually been able to find a massive gap here out towards tetra simple overseeing business rops can't overstep this mark without a flash of smoke for a quick little jump past the scope does he consider that i might get spotted if rops is not careful but a very diligent man is robs oh he knows his angles better than most simple saw the nade trajectory there broke he doesn't have anything to report pincering in connector still occupied despite brokey's opening yo info barrel needs that back from bit and brokey down in the process faze completely detached from the bomb site oh just his toes yeah we'll have to rethink that plant spot but faze unable to contribute as navi waltz into the site i can see what he's gonna find here thanks sandra gonna say a little bit of intent is coming their way but is it about damage or they really want to go for this round his back pedal now confirming what i think we all knew the best decision for phase being made [Applause] navi will break through on the gun rounds 4-3 now yeah this kid seven frags already up to no good in mirage he had a great mirage up against astralis let's hang with kerrigan here he might be hanging around to pick up this all where's it gonna blow to he might get his hands on this just in time massive save big stuff from kerrigan he's thinking here he's still got his finger on the pulse not letting brokey go without this is how he lost it just a solid long range spray out of electronic everyone is here everyone is firing everyone is up to par that's this full well potential five map affair wages on so yeah yeah unfamiliar haven't seen much of this rox doesn't mind a secondary and shown a bit of flare here the double orbs for farley and config was a key component as part of their ct side and you talk about them having early info hey dude well no better way early warning system applied perfecto often a little lazy on the way in will he consider this oh he's got support aware that there could be the palace push everybody from navi just around this corner is starting to line up the smokes and flashes and this could be the perfect way to deal with a double orb setup so forward on a if they execute and broke he gets caught out never mind you won't expect this if you perfecto absolutely no way how long does rob stay here as long as he wants and he wants to kill bovento immediately as he rounds the corner rookie getting a bit greedy into simple scope but rob's ready for electronic bit swings through keeps it competitive he's losing health he's losing health and hope 1v3 demanded of simple he'd love the bomb but he needs a frag first and kerrigan lacks an asicle around the corner could lead to a plant safe haven in the smoke on the default box he's evaporating oh come on twists unprepared rain has to save him good damage into the box simple doing simple things looking to clutch up he's reading rain and rain a veteran of this stage he knows he's got him trapped but such low hp the margin for error on simpler bullet from rain would do it harvard night guard wise to the trick simple stubborn to clutch up for navi who blinks first 10 seconds he's on simple he has to plant rain is so wise to his tricks now he gets the sound and he springs to action and oh i missed shot one bullet is all it will take from both of them closing this gap rain holding his nerve against the greatest to ever do it on the grand final stage rain can stop this and shatter the dreams or will simple truly do simple things he goes for the noscope that's a thinking man's shut down from rain the restraint on rain i have never seen anything like it simple had him pinned simple had him dead to rights and the restraint on these jiggles is absolutely insane absolutely insane i've never seen anything like that before simple always gets those he gets those when he's got you he's got you locked on but rain knew there was a second or rather a third component to this and it was the clock simple used every second he had to try and isolate that fight but rain plays it to perfection what a pleasure what a joy to witness gap in the smoke navi will not necessarily no they might have heard the extinguishing yeah they're thinking better of it simple's not going for anything early both teams in precarious positions here now we've invested quite heavily into this everything in the kitchen sink brokey has his simple on the other side pistols for the likes of perfecto and electronic to wield just allowing the clock to simmer on down again this forward presence on a continue to keep tabs on this continue to keep notes on this rops is the best connected player in the world but definitely one of them right in that conversation for sure and he's nowhere to be found twist used to play this position he'll take it and now put broke his off towards b kerrigan over towards short well there's more power of restraint but first you don't succeed wait and smoke again now mid control is established broken responsible for half of the map they're giving them so much space here look at how worried now vr about aggressive mid plays but it hasn't even pushed up the underpass here and anything gets spotted from brokey here yep some info now tiny flash of it but down goes bro they're splitting yeah but twisters handle business in mid that's the frag he needed only one remains simple spots the drop brokey too quick on the draw faze advance sees the lead [Applause] one blip on the radar this is quite the run from faze now one spotty round this was twist it nearly got very dicey if he didn't do this chad very worrisome right it looked like that b split was on and as soon as kerrigan goes down the fact is you're all pinned in this position having to worry about two key choke points coming his way he handles this he handles this with poise and it's what they need to do a conversation needs to be had from navy though their first time out taken they will be on pistols now unable to invest to have to take an eco and try and buy into the next blade barking orders motor mouth needs to get as much out in that 30 seconds as he can but here's the key how many times on big stages have we seen simple lose a clutch on the a side of mirage right big clutches that he has almost done the hard work to get through just hit that echo through his brain does he remember the x7 one that he lost all those years ago with the lead reigns clutch may continue to be discussed it's broken but an immediate open up navi conservative into this one rob should have simple should have simple doesn't and a weapon short-lived in hands of one but there's another man with a one in his name bit hunting now no armor no margin ferreira quick tap to the head but twist is low he does get another into the shoulder a costly round shore but it shouldn't manifest into a navi fifth faze look to calm things down advantage firmly for the ct's reign wants to play off of his team-mate they've been able to get away just in time the clear from rain comes through sdy bit nowhere to be spotted a minute on the clock questions to ask and answer from faze now he heard him bit info does that incite a commitment to the site brokie he seems to be aware what's the read how they got this brokey was talking and harvard nygaard believes him setup is perfect not a whisper and now a scream a quick two-man spray down as we secure a sixth threatening though i mean that's navi reminding us what they can do with a little yeah bit also giving us flashbacks to yesterday the guy went nuclear on this map and connector was his playground on the t side consistently just pushing down under the window taking fights destroying blame f simple did open that one up there was a bit of a labored fight here and bit continuing to use that aim but just the line up there for brokey nine kills for broke you ten for rain the two of them have been very very good in this final i can list off the names of either side they've had their moments but now we turn our attention to a all five and a different look again from the ct side rain tucked in twists to contribute drops from the window and it's broke his aggression here that we really need to keep tabs on i mean rain really does need everything everything he can take a first frag immediately traded but twists rounds on the bench a double face to face with brokey and he sniffs him out with a no scope navi tried pace on for size and it doesn't fit it's perfecto in a clutch again this time the oh it's not so hype no game to close right now but would love to get himself a couple more kills a bit more traction and broke he's going to cut him off at the pass broke he's starting to vibe starting to feel himself now he's one of those players that has a swagger about him when he's on he's on and finger on the pulse of navi's attack right now faze is starting to really get into the swing of things i mean we saw their ct run on ancient they they can put up the wall break by brick you know yesterday you had a massive ct site it was your teaser that was an issue so how many have you set for yourself today four five i think would have been better than what yesterday's performance was for sure mean two of the best defensive teams he's gonna go down here he's modern day straight just no way known to clutch his perfecto but look how little they give him this is counter-strike right now is a display of restraint understanding team-based country understanding exactly how to deal with it and allowing brokey to come around the world the usp in the back of the head blindsided now with faze up to seven remember that remember what you just saw the way in which that they solved that clutch there was nothing for him to do remember that i don't think simple saw or anything there but keep that in your mind when those clutches happen because that's how well they can be played finding a way to manufacture a victory out of the jaws of defeat can be magical has been magical on this final stage we're springing some aggression into the mix it could go wrong you don't want to be feeding the beast a weapon to apply his trade simple dancing with him only a b250 twist no slouch and he gives it up couple of taps it's rain that fills the feed first util expended oh flash down here yeah he's hiding in plain sight on the reload he could get run down may not be expecting this all the toes poking out a cheeky they left the bombings pinky uh oh well the execute was good they had side control but the bomb in spawning collision course bit on terrain robs he's right behind them the bombs gonna get dropped oh he's screaming now he's screaming bonty spawn that's an unforced error that's an unforced error in a low by round it's gonna be four consecutive rounds now of denying navi the plant that's actually huge and the exec was good your words unable to get that bomb down even the extra cash would have been welcomed as the eighth is welcomed by faze [Applause] a lot of talking to be done navi they they've got four a a hall not a great one but opportunities here to close out strong is that another blade timeout he really you can see he's he's efficient with his use he only gets 30 seconds 30 seconds to summarize and to prophesize what's coming next and that time has elapsed same situation from perfecto again he's clearly not comfortable on the t side with the role he has we saw it yesterday had a real rough go of things again only one kill to his name sdy as well i think there's a bit of a comparison between sd1 perfectos performances on the t side compared to the ct on the ct side when the kills are coming their way these guys are going to get the multi kills they need but on the t side have to turn to bit electronic and simple to do the heavy lifting is there anything more fernatus vincea here all the guns all the gear info for carrigan's orp yes you heard me correctly and you're seeing this correctly as well initiative taken sdy responsible for this a head-to-head a battle of wits and rops aggressive on the defense perfecto is just a non-issue right the fact that they're able to get past the mirror more than happy to push his side of the map and either find the gap or find the fight sd wise could be screaming to go down in that situation it's almost condemned rv to just one side mid b the best they probably have to offer up here and again the forward presence on a faze have been doing it more often than not and then when they know it executes coming their way they tuck up they play retake it's perfect so is that a little angle twist not gonna be giving him anything striking that balance of aggression denying bit any progress perfecto trying his luck the one that got away waiting on the other side of that nade drops a good game on mirage here kerrigan the puppet master pulls the strings nades tickle two it's electronic into b but no bomb he needs to push forward into kitchen simple could make his way back there's nobody trying to cut him off towards underpass here twist has actually gone up towards the bedroom times the biggest issue and one back for electronic they need to do with twists over towards short that's the way in he could stop him electronic trying to bail him out look at that elevated to tap the heads an electronic the naval simples plant triple kill in the face of adversity and he's going to do more he's going to do more this is special electronic and quad kill and rv they have been dead silent for far too long electronic gives them something to celebrate those two those two have been here before they've done it before and they're looking to set history today electronic and simple chasing down their third cologne trophy doing it for themselves doing it for navi and that is a massive round all it took was the one kill and they were in either way this final end something will be done for the first time a third trophy lifting cologne for navi or the major cato and cologne in the same year simple puts rain down early sent to bed and now with rain dead navy have that advantage to get this gap even smaller what's the response here rob's playing up close and personal towards a twist and broke you're trying to stay stomach and connector but this is the mid-round for electronic where does he want them to end kerrigan on his lonesome on that island of the b bomb site so they want to try and exploit this one more time it's a battle on two fronts right now i mean electronic just won the round with his walk out v and here they come clear in corners hesitant of course 50 seconds you have that advantage you cannot afford to foil it or squander the few and far between opening kills unresponded to and there's contact rops will level the odds there's a difference maker this time round electronics into b but look at twist twist could cut this off twist can win the round right here right now 30 seconds though simple has to make a decision right here and right now twists puts the bomb down and navi doesn't matter what you do you need to retrieve it bit demanded to do so twists chips away at him further they do retrieve it but twist is not done there's more damage secures a ninth an extension of their lead here on the defense he knows electronics there a bullet to the brain finished by rocks [Applause] nine to five the score reads and it's not sunshine and rainbows from the navy accountant into the 15th the difference maker here it has to be twist there's no other way to have the conversation simple gets a freebie the amount this guy's getting while blind on the awp ridiculous scenes but he can be stalled he can be stopped he was on his own they're trying to fake it out they're trying to be tricky nothing builds camaraderie like that you go down you give something up and then your teammate clutches up twists with the impact only gonna boost morale last round of our fourth maps first half a discussion has been had will faze find the double digits let's find out together smokes are in flash is two progress quick spray a little tickle i'm so simple a delicate balance to be struck [Applause] more chip damage is simple here it's only a deagle in his hands but still a battle in the server and a battle in the arena divided in half as they chant for both of our grand finalists and contacts coming [Applause] looking for the opening it's rops drops bit and through the flames sdy tries to prevail he has help flame on the floor dark is clear rops still alive and kicking looking to build upon this rain ready to fight ready to biff he can't do nothing but robs can a triple and brokey there to stop the cross there's nothing but a deagle in simples hands it would take something beyond comprehension to post a sixth here brokey ensures it and a sigh of relief has another break is on its way ten to the good phase looking to push us all the way to the fifth map of this best of five navi heading to the defense [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] tough tale and run he's back to spa and probably find it oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it started well on mirage a pistol it's conversions 3-0 up not a care in the world hello it's 10-5 phase take to the t side navi upper map in this grand final it had all the trimmings that every fight that came before this simply an undercard for this bout between the two titans inseparable incomparable who is number one the question and the game providing the answer second half fourth map how you doing over there chad i want the fifth yeah i thought you would i want the fifth i want this to go the distance this has been a treat this has been a dream we're back underway here now v they did it yesterday against astralis on this very map yeah i think every map that passes this crowd has got louder another reason to ask for a fifth i've never heard something quite as loud as that and i'm sure there's more to come [Applause] sdy a lot of responsibility and a quick entrance into the site reign already bouncing around on the default box they're into the sight and not a frag inside he's flashing okay eats it turns it nice electronic to be clear he still hits his head shot reign thinks better of it he buys time for the plant though can they establish a post plant twist equipped with a p250 perfect for a fight like this a fresh clip a group a whole bunch of navi the whole squad advancing into the meat grinder that is the p250 of twists rain chips in drops for the jerry on top [Applause] is that a sign of things to come a shrug of the shoulders there from carrigan it started so well they dispatched that aggressive maneuver it's fantastic work they were reading the play here but they come out into the blender of the aim from phase and one after the other they all tumble eleven to five right now and navi back up to their usual tricks the four spies with the five sevens the scout and the dig can they stall them out here is looking to run to nuke it is insane to think that new could be the fifth and deciding matt both of these teams in recent history looking very hot on that very map carrigan first one in and testy first one out locked out just simple great scope no scope necessary but a save or a full investment of your resources limited at that carrick and he's happy to just biff with him you want to fight bare knuckle brawl in spawn concedes a mac 10 and investigating further short-lived [Applause] sign of the times when they're celebrating the mac 10 retrieval five sevens an investment 12 locked in we had a similar score line on ancient though i feel like this is going to be a bit of a tougher task i think here sdy getting caught out expecting that to be covered off trying to look away from the flash but carrigan was very bloodlusty here and he had a pretty rough go of things on that defensive side hello trouble praise be that lord [Applause] all right well threatening again here have another close map yeah this would be the first oh my goodness simple slaps carrigan back to spawn on the first click of his mouse as a start four navi's threatening now waning presence on this a side bit gone tracks still here yeah they're grouped up and simple steagle still spicy still want to be feared the imposing brown it falls into the bodies of phase and how has this happened in the blink of an eye navi with nothing invested rain commanded to save the day one man on a mission and a minute to do it the warning shots there give away is absolutely no idea where these last three navi players reside they can batten down the hatches ak's equipped they're looking to do it again an absolute menace on these low buys the molly forward short it might flush one forward sdy steps out there's another still two to five plenty of time for rain can he bail them out he's a thinking man we saw it once in the clutch on simple denied the goat investigating what is that he jumps to him was investigating the ramp oversteps the line a triple out of simple a double on electronic there's a bit of a recurring theme here when it comes to these ridiculous navi rounds and this is the thing that's not the force by that's the retained weapons let me see look at this one look he's jumping he plucks him out of the air a couple of pixels bang bang try again next time and then that mac 10 let's watch that look electronic he gets two early in the round we won't see it immediately but still it's now faze humbled four spot back here front face you mentioned similar to ancient yeah similar scenes as they running in towards a sdy having a rough game only four kills for him but the zt side is where he can do better work simple smoked off they're ahead of this oh carragher again meets simple and already it comes tumbling down one by one two back from brokey a pipe dream a bomb is nice gets it down simple posted up to hunt him and finish you can't do this brokey this is not possible it shouldn't be with 30 hp and just a desert eagle to his name he's already done something insane but perfecto and bit healthy armored and on the bomb wants them to challenge him out in that individual jewel there's no time for this as they do just call this bluff it's in very impressive work but he's happy to maintain an m4 takes three players from na'vi down with him we really have in these last two rounds this has just been perfect examples of the gamers we have on the stage today and what they're capable of you give them an inch he will take the full mile this is a lovely shot onto simple and that's where it starts to get crazy because once he's hitting those type of bangers you normally heat up it feels like they're going to hit the next the next the next but calling the bluff we've had a lot of these where they're just sitting the diffuse they trust their teammate to ativa m4 back aggressive middle simples already dissuaded from this and look at carrigan charging straight down into electronics crosshair there so more to come in the favor of navi electronic he's really turning things on 20 kills leading the pack by a country mile here for navy on the other end of the spectrum perfecto the closer responsible for securing some of those na'vi notches that's a good question though that we've posed there with perfecto only having one kill to his name do they ice him out right and know that when he has to retake the a site it's gonna be a little bit more difficult or when we get into future gun rounds they think well he's not warm he's going to be one kill two assists 14 deaths do we punish him do we use him as a weakness didn't work so well for astralis yesterday it's the two extremity players that they can really start to lean on sdy passed a bit of a test just there on the a side and now over towards b perfecto playing retake has simple alongside for the ride chipped away out here they're gonna make their way in simple blocking one but brokey there for the trade defecto you can see quite tentative here doesn't want to get stuck in allowing the rotation to come over first you'll take the plant broken could make things interesting don't forget that m4 he didn't go for the 1v2 and now he has it in the after plan still some legs to this as perfecto takes them from him a good spray options limited twist equipped but it's only him four barrelling towards him options limited and navi on the path to closing that gap both of these sides just so solid on the defense you really have to find those tiny gaps those tiny mistakes the unforced errors and they'll compound two competitive back-to-back rounds here that haven't been full buyers that can buy a bit of hope here for faze wanting to take this to a fifth map of play i wanted to stop navi here now they will equip everything they need and broking 17 for him 17 for twist 17 for rain 18 for rops this is exactly what you want to see for faze that spread this team quick moves and aggressive all across the map navi giving fazer taste of their own defensive medicine looking to take early engagements sailing through the air now is the utility vision denied fit fragged up quick it's twist that provides and now navi on the back foot chipping away good nade on terrain progress into the connector a lot of territory [Applause] reaction out of navi and they are on collision course with the man that clears every corner every nook every cranny one between the wickets it's two frags out of an rv phase closing the gap though [Applause] he provides simple solo a glock will do brokey can he come up clutch against perfecto [Applause] looking for info that's a banger from brokey thirteen right down to the 1v1 right down to the wire it could have gone either way the coin is in the air heads or tails brave to jump braver to strafe straight on in and perfecto he's going to start feeding the beard of the tilt that's there that's around for him meant to come on through and be able to convert those types around that's where his impact could have been felt here can they course correct now three rounds necessary for phase they have the better bite getting stronger here into round 22 time to make navi squirm nothing makes you squirm more than being kept guessing phasing a position to poke and prod both extremities at the same time simultaneously they're going to look for answers limited means in doing so though nothing aggressive here and absolutely no information towards middle whatsoever for navi they're in a 2-3 spread operating in the dark the u2 coming over they're happy to call the bluff this is where the lion's share of the forces reside brokey and rops cannot lose the bomb over towards a this is real 4d chess because now the contact comes in to be do you rotate that is the question simple's blinked he's right headed away it's enough it pulls the biggest gun away from the final objective the final point of call twists crawling in look at this it's just two bomb site takes simultaneously navi lose out one bit hunting now into the b site perfecto founder so brokey down it let's do both of them from sdy important crucial frag from rain two wavy ones on either side of the map and simple says play on you've got nothing no hope because the bomb is lost and twist he's trying as fast as he can he's running in simple playing hide and seek eight seconds no time to plan twist just has to find him simple hiding in plain sight on the side twists no hope and it's sdy the reason that bomb lies idle what a hero what a hero again the mp9s perfecto and sdy both getting crucial kills in that moment electronic walked back into the trap brokey strikes the site looks open simple out of position and still rb just hang on it's this double here this is the difference maker oh i mean rob's his job right swing out and trade we've seen it time and time again over the course of this full map affair and simple you know he's just hiding he knows there's no time i haven't seen around a counter strike like that that was peculiar that's the thing they're putting so much into this in the restraint of both teams we've discussed it about rain in the first half in that clutch against simple right you see it there from everybody on both sides of the map nobody willing to give up an inch they're happy to play the clock right down and both teams back in with pretty broken buys okay well the saved ak for twist sure simple he retained his awp but not out of hot water just yet an rv this is an a-go here they're set up for this quite swiftly smokes they're out flashes to follow electronic out of position flashed off but not checked no one clears an immediate turn from twists he stands up he needs another can't do it because sdy has got this a sight unlock a double from the new navi boy it's a quick one from rops he goes for the orb already two kills to the good and now that bomb is down the highest of stakes in this 2v2 juking it out barrel on the reload and he will connect drops likely securing 14 with that pull of the trigger we talked about perfectos clutches bullied in the first half top of the head spotted cannot track trying to close the gap no kit and in a couple of seconds no hope one on two brokey damage is something 14 for faze two rounds away from a five map spectacle live from iem cologne 2022 we all got out of bed this morning expecting some good counter strike but a full five map affair twists spinning on a dime here look at the wrists right there from twists and this is great from robs isn't it a huge round from him another battered by in that regard yeah it's forced by wars that's all it's going to be to close this one out navi again we'll buy back and even if they lose this i'm sure they'll do the same how much can you ask them this time it's just bit on a and they're coming again they're coming knocking one more time i said would they ice out perfecto it seems likely and last bit can continue to do what is demanded of him look how quick they're into the site carrick and already teleporting to the triple three smoke solid will limit options and he's already checking the spawn phase do need to plant but in absolutely no hurry the smokes are starting to fade and rain the bodyguard facilitates good damage confirms our suspicions the 15 a couple more clicks to secure it simple accepts his fate with a one-bang to the dome but that's 15 here in the cathedral phase wanna take us the distance this was the conversation could navi go the distance in best of fives they can get it done in three we've seen that before but now we're deep we're map number four are they out of gas here because guess what phase aren't 24 for rops 22 for brokey 21 for twists 19 for rain this is what faze need and this is the opposite of what navi need defending their honor on the fourth with pistols shotguns and pocket lint [Applause] denial of information navi have gambled push all of their chips and dips into the a site again just turning the screws with this default crawl bit the deagle robs sat down he's been a hero in the last couple denied his electronic ahead of this captain the smoke the flames took you expected do you expect it he's thrown in some cursory glances it's rain that comes in and just looks to oppose the game electronic doesn't have the health pressure from both fronts finished by the pistol and simple with only a shotgun a great head shot surely he hasn't got the weapon for this carrigan proves it and i will see you at map five of the grand finals it's secure all the way baby it's what this matchup deserves tell your friends tell your pets be here for map five this only happens once [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] come back to the cathedral ladies and gentlemen this is a final of biblical proportions grand slam on the line this will be one for the history books it's time ladies and gentlemen [Music] the first part of 2019 was all about team liquid and for good reason as this north american roster plowed through most events without breaking a sweat and it was no different in the cathedral of counter-strike oh [Music] nearly got knife smokes down he has to get around them somehow and he gets it through the window as favorites liquid went all in during the tournament and soon found themselves just inches away from the trophy and the prestigious million dollar intel grand slam only vitality stood in their way and even though the battle ahead would be tough twists set the tempo almost instantly doesn't want to let them go that far this time he takes the fight to them twist even gets one at range damage is two how does twist find the second he's got the bomb he's going hard he baits him out somehow a third and he's looking for it all the ways rpk's gonna try and swing around the back side twist switches back to the deagle instead confidence in his navy he's in his rpk's team liquid that's what he means to them esr one cologne under the belt and a million dollars bonus unreal [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] an absolute scorcher mirage goes the way a phase and now we've got a series that takes us into five maps we're going the distance and we're not necessarily doing it with all the speed ladies and gents welcome back it's the grand finals of the intel extreme masters cologne 2022 and as it stands just one map separates us from crowning a champion and man this is a tough one already still to the side yes trace yes yes yes we finally got there we're getting that five mapper that we've all wanted in kerrigan man he didn't lie they were prepared i know mirage they came in all guns blazing yeah they they absolutely basically look how many times do you have on paper an amazing final that turns into like a souffle it just disappoints you right i should play when a souffle is a cooking term we can talk about it later okay but when was last time we had the best of five that gave us exactly what we wanted and more exactly what we wanted and more this is the freaking highest level of counter strike i've seen in such a long time yeah we can pinpoint dozens of rounds with intrications details clutches decision makings hell the the simple versus rain duel is the most intense i have seen in like recent history of counter-strike and it's beautiful and it keeps on delivering and it just doesn't stop and if you're a face fan this is exactly what you wanted to see first getting a chance to go into map five right but you have four guys all four stars performing extremely well yeah you absolutely do and speaking of which we should illustrate that in some way and by doing it on the telestrator yenko what'd you cook up all right so this is actually one of the things that navi did extremely well and how they changed their game compared to the astralis showdown right so we'll see they will kick it off with a top mid smoke pay attention here to electronics you have sdy and beat towards b right all this utility flying towards the b bomb site smoke here smoke from sdy that's all about pressure because if you look at it look where perfect an electronic car look where simple is and bit is also going down underpass and what they have at this point simple is holding this angle bit is going to try and come sneak up into con and perfecto is using this timing of the fake to walk through the smoke right he understands that's when he needs to go if he dies he dies simple will activate then to play it further against astralis what they did with the same small combination they had two guys go through the top mid smoke and another guy coming through lower but what happened was farley gets a flash he jumps out gets the kill on the underpass guy and then gets two crazy kills on the guy's top mid a bit lucky the round fails so they switched it up a little bit this time around we're gonna see them now speed up reset smoke window again that was also the sign forbid to go and then some basic utility to end it all with the flash coming in for bid so he can get out of con amal is going to be missed as well for deep jungle you have a shadow amali for shadow as well so simple can start peeking out he doesn't have to worry about that position either guard maybe coming up the ladder they're going to get the two entries and that's it 4v3 round is done and dusted they have great after planned positions and pace has to save rounds done job job done jobs close real close hey man for all intents and purposes tell me about what you saw from navi on this map look i think i think navi really tried their hardest to push faze out of the comfort zone and i think this is a great example you just brought up we have another one we have round 14 we can kick it in soon as well it was about playing the whole map and keeping your opponent in an absolute smoke screen that's what happened in this round as well starts off with simple punishing the aggression that's going to come his way towards top middle and then na'vi just spread across the map they have two players with a very active and intense fake towards the a side you see a couple of utilities gonna be spotted but twist reacts well he eats away the map control that simple gave away and he cuts the rotation from the bomb from this point on we move into the fourth dimension when no one has any idea what the hell is going on it's about individual decisions and phase maneuver that beautifully robs here smells blood in the water pushes towards the abs grabs the kill on to perfecto and twists very cleverly knows that by 17 seconds he's got his opponent committed he's got him in the ropes this was such a high level of counter-strike with movement we're moving away from the known patterns of hey that's all going to be in three or five flashes hell no we're playing across the map and we're forcing individuals to make mistakes and make live decisions that was a crucial round because if navi wins that phase has almost nothing for the last round and goes from being 10-5 for face to an 8-7 for na'vi and maybe we don't even see new trace uh you know who we didn't see a whole lot of from the navi side you know not the harp on individuals but we're going to have to take a comparison here it looks a little bit like this uh maniac going to take charge looks like uh listen as you know i i have a degree from university and my my math knowledge is extremely high i can tell you that left hand side is much better than a right hand side perfect because a performance on ancient and he literally disappeared he goes this way through a mirage and you gotta hope for the sake of the navy's fan that it doesn't weigh annoying too too much because they're gonna need him on nuke that inside ain't gonna defend himself no it's not hey we talk about newt we have to talk about nuke in fact we heard kerrigan talking about it beforehand he said that hey we want to go to nuke we want to see what these two teams have to offer on absolutely phase is ten and one on this map in the last three months navi five and two haven't played as much still a very very high win rate the losses were to face and to heroic one time a long time ago but listen here's the thing simple cannot beat phase navi has to beat phase correct because everyone except for kerrigan is playing extremely well individually and he's not even you know he's not letting the team down that's just his role is like that right and bit he has to do more so far in this series he hasn't done enough to really cement himself as that third star that he usually is right in phase is beating navi now with firepower and you hear you heard that's the way i say in the interview there's not too much crazy stuff going on with nades it's mostly about headshots that's where navi needs to snap that's where bit usually chimes in maniac oh yes and that's where he is needed he was the main reason why navi went from being a very good team to certainly being a championship team that's when bit found his thrive i also think that we have to take a moment to talk about sdy and i think for him it's a very special situation to be in right he's currently at the bottom of the stash i think he had a few maps where he became the liability we didn't want him to be had a few moments where he was a little bit fragile it's the best of five think about how much is on the line for this man right here just not for navi but for this man as well and moving on to nuke and that is going to be the greatest test that he ever had to live through and i want to see how kerrigan sets up the t side right now with in mind how the individuals are playing for navi after four maps perfecto is the a anchor he saw a lot of action in the semi-final bit is the ram player right we all know how important yard is on new that's where electronic is and simple as the rotator right so does the game plan change a little bit compared to what they had in mind before with that in mind to put pressure on some of these younger players to perform yeah and you know we we are using some best of fives just go quick 3-0 we're out of here right uh and in this regard i think we can disregard whatever predictions we had beforehand i i'm still going to go the navi way i just feel like the 3-2 phase prediction that me and me yeah yeah yeah you gotta get it i mean now you wanna disregard it you wanna disregard it he knows he got him in the ropes okay i didn't necessarily specify maps uh but i you know i do have it in uh in navi i got my stock there the way we put this prediction forth was that there was a world in which navi would just overwhelm phase they would eat them and i think we had a we had an inkling of that on ancient in a few moments but that didn't happen we said if phase can actually push it to the distance if phase can make it a marathon if they can push deep into the mapple they should be primed and i think this is where we're battling right now faze is in the driver's seat as far as i'm concerned phase survived the onslaught the initial onslaught and now it's their time you saw how everyone had their moments especially on mirage they stepped up props with some signature rounds broke with some almost two incredible clutches right which release putting the pressure on twists every single map there's a mad highlight from him you know some crazy headshots going on and reign has been the most consistent throughout the series playing on that anthrop mvp level and that's what makes this decider so scary for navi yeah absolutely scary is an understatement where we find ourselves right now the intel extreme masters is that grand final that big map at the end of the best of five which is what's going to be separating these two teams at the very end of the road 2-2 we go into a break we come back and we determine who's gonna win the whole damn thing [Music] it's happening [Music] oh my god what a play [Music] it might be the last but he's gonna go in style you can see what it means to get right these gary as well burning quite significantly and fallen obstacle strikes looking for the quattro [Music] esl one cologne the trophy sits in the center of the lancas arena 15 000 esports fans gather to witness countless drug history being written [Music] [Applause] [Music] of counter-strike history don't touch the ball it's over call it close but we all know what this is is [Music] welcome to the cathedral of counter-strike wherever you're about to experience this [Music] i can't think of a better way to kind of cap this off than to sit here and watch as a fan with the fans down slam [Applause] [Music] thank you guys without you i wouldn't get this emotions we are one this is esl one it is a chapter in the years of counter-strike every single time [Music] hello everyone mahone here to show some of the key tactics tendencies and positions we should expect from fazes nuke starting on the t side let's take a look at the key positions which are outside and lobby to see who plays them we should expect props as the lobby player and reign as the outside player the first thing we want to look out for that's more present in the mid round are these mini and hell smokes faze love to throw these smokes in the mid round to draw rotations and create space for rain to work outside these two smokes make it difficult for the cts because it opens up the opportunity for faze to be in the big garage next is a very special tactic we need to look out for and it comes as a result of this smoke from rops the smoke lands just in front of the hut and is meant to facilitate an upper rush as flashes are thrown from above the smoke is meant to provide more space for the first player entering it also extinguishes molotovs that land just outside of hut we've only ever seen phase around this once will we see it again over on the ct side when it comes to positions we should expect rain as the outside player broke he has the opt towards heaven and outside drops as the ramp player and lastly twists and kerrigan as the players holding the upper bomb site something to look out for on the ct side is rob's at ramp he likes to mix up what he does but when he wants to get aggressive he usually likes to have rain throw this flash through the smoke to allow him to push see if you can spot these tactics and tendencies the next time you see faze play on nuke we have gone the distance here in cologne three years completely locked out of allan cess back in business and so are faze and navi we came into today chad you said this could be one of the best of all time a grand final that meets that grand prefix and i think we might be there this grand final is is just so special biblical proportions ahead of us as we head into nuke familiar territory chad for the fifth and final map this is where faze won the major over now v in antwerp this is where they got it done this is where reign cemented his mvp he was an absolute monster there and looking to do it again they won the knife they get to start on the ct side and it's navi are the ones who have to dictate the pace of this the best team in the world will be decided after nuke after this one map of counter-strike the culmination of iem colon 2022 is now [Applause] narcissist on the attack the fifth and final map dead even in the odds all the way brokey spots three on the cross bomb included as he chunks perfecto down to a singular point of health rain reads it rops ready and clicks oh a little shy of the mark whistles past the eardrums sdy draws first blood and they can go wherever they want with this electronic can fit already didn't clear their corners and so carrigan still has top side supremacy sdy kicking up a fuss in the low side who wants blood wants to build upon what he found reign supported now navi to pivot carrigan still a wrench in the works you've got to get past him just as he looks away averse his gaze they're closing the gap he's running out of it snaps them back perfecto still frags it's brokey twists four bullets in the chamber it doesn't matter sd why is it in every shot on this pistol round [Applause] some die young with three nothing for rain he closed the game over in antwerp on this map and he's gonna have to replicate that performance here navi will not go quietly cannot get over sdy and these bloody pistol rounds think about miranda she did the same thing just devastating and this guy has so much on his plate here bit as well loved his lines loved his lines you don't say that about bit too often here but sdy no issues just roman and diamond and sets them up on a silver platter to confirm the second round of play but faze they want to have a conversation about that carrigan with a scope and a bit of hope as he posts over towards yard here to take an exchange early against electronic this would be a massive battle yard electronic versus rain game defining jewel and we all saw what happened to the major when rain was on form he ruined navi on that nuke we're all tied up faze looking to make it the same here round two advantage now v but three mack tens couple of helmets in the mix they're gonna execute either back towards the top or ramp here they're just hoping to play with the rotation so far so good down towards the lower side is broken twist starting to respond to the smokes as well any of molly's left here to laden the top side and well there you go the opening reign down and out it will gladly take that one twist needing to be very careful here season 75 not a bad weapon for the job if they do come his way but sdy continuing to do damage that was carrick and scout removed and the top side should be theirs oh man broke hiding behind the vents and what is that from twists to in quick succession robs has been spotted out on the lobby crawl roki 2 in the vents is known an sdy not putting any punches his first environment like this the fifth map and five frags to his name to secure the conversion of that pistol that he got the majority share of frags within yeah the dust brought this up right there they definitely highlighted perfecto and his performance from ancient over more than raj and him going missing but having sdy if you continue to find this impact that maybe they can do without yanko said simple can't beat phase now we have to so all components need to be here but this is the start they're looking for no force by loss taking care of business here brokie saving the deagle short the three players staying alive both ak's carried through and a stable start because this is what it's about what is left in the tank for navi how much juice do faze have left the conversation was it gets screaming when she gets to map number five this is nuke what's screaming about nuke especially because these two teams are the biggest new geeks in the biz and that is where we separate them navi it's a gift to be taking that t pistol on a map like nuke faze will likely take this one on the chin unnecessary evil in the cathedral a quick 3-0 na'vi no this one is theirs for the taking so much so bringing in the mag 10 to farm any extra cash for the coffers for the longevity to come there needs to be some bangers of shots here out of these deagles to really make too much of a fuss about this yeah you don't need to smoke it might advise it otherwise rain will keep taking those pot shots not anymore he won't combination of bullet shrapnel rain03 an absence of frags in the face department it'd be hard to keep him quiet when the rifles come out just how much of a nuisance he can be spamming through the smokes very forward of any walls oh spotted in there kerrigan quickly tucks back in his team is on the way to run him down and it's sdy again six and oh yeah someday young apparently he doesn't die what a great start for him in the early stages and up just as i say it the caster curse comes into fruition brokey levels his dome and oh it's just rops here with a five seven in his hands four to find on the other side and it's coming his way wow that's one click crispy crispy it seems after this final goes the distance finding the troops on navi piece by piece blade has built this super team and just as the era was about to be established a new challenger emerged time has passed back on land a fifth map between all of these star-studded rosters rops in a phase jersey carrigan and rain nine times they have been in attendance here we go getting into the business now guns around broke his awp in play no smg's carried through here for navy aka's are plenty of glue for electronic and this is where the battle really starts the minutia of this game the details to separate the two what's the approach going to be limb smoke thrown out towards squeaky molly plays top half very standard stuff here from navi out the gate the smoke ball has been deployed it's already forced the rotation off drops down towards the lower side oh this is quick and it's the perfect call no resistance nobody home a deliberate space provided and yeah broke he wanted to have a look the flames wore him off of that someone needs to get towards lower to help out drops it rain might be able to do so through secret but doesn't want to leave yard they know that electronic likes to creep and crawl over towards the heavens broke you're just keeping this one jarring another molly will drop this really is just on rops because nobody wants to drop down the vent worried about bit squeaky lurk here they come they're asking an awful lot of rops nose to the screen and a bullet between the eyes as sdy does not relent seven how many of them are openings carrick dinks a bit but the ak reigns supreme in a dink exchange so low broke he could put one on the bang and he doesn't hit it more damage inflicted by bit and every passing second that bomb securing a fourth for navi doing things by the book here very impressed by the poise of navi right now but the details are still there you saw when the teams are in the huddle oh elbows spotted here from simple then punishing them now you're not going to save anything brokey the only one standing and simple wants to hunt him down trying to get on the chase for this he's looking the wrong way that was elegant he's coming over broke he's low we'll just survive here those huddles the teams had the chats they were having the analyst for faze had reigned to one side at the laptop out and we're showing him the details what do you need to look out for with these yard crawls well apparently you need to look out for sdy showing up in the best form we've seen yet this is beautiful stuff out the gates here a 4-0 clean sweep to start i mean it's the opportunity of a lifetime and if you don't grab it by both horns you'll regret it for the rest of your life sdy grand final best of five seven and one stating a claim as bit claims carrigan again opening the account for navy reign a good read but more damage and destruction from navy as this one already concludes likely gonna just get one and done here the awp up close and personal seeing if he can find anything here oh they know where he is now but a slight slip up simple wasn't expecting that broken is trying to go away stay up there the twist is gone broke he's trying to stay ahead he's already rotated over surely he has to save in this situation a one one-on-four survival the name of the game an sdy wise to these tricks he will not stop he will not relent only faze clan can make it so an absence of frags they have combined the entire phase clan side the same amount of frags as right well he's doing a great job here early but another key component to all of this is the fact that every single opening kill in the first five rounds of play have fallen in favor of na'vi this has caused karrigan and rabanne to take a bit of a time out here to have a chat the first time out of map number five this can run away from you think about how quick that trophy lit at the center of the stage right there their eyes are on it their eyes are on that price and this is a great start 5-0 out the gates i'm sure navy remember what it was like to lose 2-0 in that major final and it wasn't that long ago wanting to ride those wrongs an incredible five months for carrigan doing things he's never achieved in his career back to back kato lifts that curse major lifts that trophy cologne first final after nine attempts just the tip just the tip electronic rain yard oh they're both blind no one knows and the trigger discipline from rain that is a veteran fragging opens up the account for faze first opener there that's exactly what they need here talking an awful lot calling the troops trying to get out squeaky here they're just turning out front squeaky smoke there might be a molly towards top hat there will be so this is at least going to hint the fact that somebody could have dropped down vent they're trying to weaken this top defense hopefully they rotate away nobody towards the lower side just yet other than broke his awp he's out of the picture but twist is on hot he's got one gets away look at the bank damage no only two now phase for the clean sheet low hp but five alive perfecto changes it flips the script needs the double twist low vulnerable but bailed out by reign as he brings home a quad kill started in yard finishes up the top [Applause] faze clan post their first and it cannot be their last a marathon there's such an awkward fight here right they facilitated this with a flash electronics didn't completely clear the corner there and then completely blind brain this is what you want to see from him right with this discussion reign versus electronic i'm not talking about simple i'm not talking about brokey i'm talking about two of these key components of the yard control on the ct and the t sides respectively for both teams well yards gonna get very smoky a barrage of utility and oh a quick straight from electronic areas again pure futility reign already another spots him on the crosses sdy though and he's ready for the fight he's welcoming it with open arms the smoke looms long enough to facilitate across but rob's forward position on secret simple spanked desperate quite the contrast to the opening five yeah and very clear here from faze understanding how they want to punish navy you can see their robs comes up secret he gets that kill simple tries to take the space ramp but broke his already there this is the mind games right now at this level of counter-strike in map number five it's not getting messy it's not getting out of control both teams they're prepped they're ready and perfecto still crisp a minute on the clock four to find pin point for the first of the five ready for broken stilt avoiding a little glimmer of it but brokey adjusts [Applause] recovery now well and truly on two rounds from faze two casualties one in each round of rain he's providing the openings this is the flashbacks for na'vi i was just talking about them wanting to ride the wrongs how many times is rain gonna punish them in this type of a position i know it's only two to five i know it's early stages but very reminiscent and immediately now now v well they're the ones who go we've lost two rounds to take a timeout let's have a chat let's get blade back on the mic because both teams right now are playing high-level chess how are we going to maneuver how we're going to change because the buy it's available here there's still plenty of cash right now for rv to purchase in five rounds on the attacking side of this fifth map already blade probably reminding them it's not done but we've got a good haul in the pocket five it's workable more likely ahead of us as cash is splashed about to clash round eight in our fifth and final not opting to go to the awp here so you can see the rifles track down to a galil against the bike this is the fire power slightly better for bays here but it's rained one more time we just have to wait and see what he's able to fight you can see electronic on one side rain on the other the clash of these two the clash of the openings the smokes trickle forward you'll see electronic start to initiate as that smoke arrives the second indicates rain's got no answers unless he takes them by force i'm flashing him forward here you're actually allowing the space or at least the mystery to continue so how do faze want to deal with this simple we've seen him throw this molly time and time again for you thrust forward forces them back it's a lot of smoke and mirrors here this is just jostling for control justin for position hoping someone gives away a step too far [Applause] it's sdy again [Applause] breaks this battle breaks the silence on the back foot now off kilter reign stable as ever for the first two still twists with the one into the top side electronic handed a clutch and he fancies his chances brokey with a cancellation close quarters on the orb let's face continue their spree there he is again just such a nuisance sd white doing what he's done so far in the early stages gets them an open ashore but rain bounces back a double kill exactly what you need the multi-kill to stall them out through the smoke firing brimstone that one from brokey quick as you like neither team giving up hope just yet and kerrigan you can see what that round means he knows what's likely to buy on the other side this time now v with the ak for simple sure but does it go back to more of a yard play very lobby centric within these early stages oh cool on the jump rain will not have anything to contribute into this one and the mantle falls onto rocks as does the bullet not as simple as kalashnikov sasha castillo the only rifle in play advantage navi he can play late lurk here if they go down towards secret try and draw a rotation get some information okay bit has to do an electronic cosplay let's twist roaming on the hunt another rifle retrieved brokey in support transitioning now twists alone oh bit deleted but that's not the one they want still on the hunt sdy stubborn into the tenth frag of this fifth map and on the walk kerrigan clears out secret that is a lot for faze a two one two and they pivot right into brokey's domain plus gets around the corner and now the best simple in the clutch hold your breath hold your horses we got 30 seconds and simples playing mind games in the one-on-one brokey the stone face killer holding it down simple does it for navi it was three from faze but simple the only ak in play [Applause] we'll see this one again trying to round this corner and then simple he doesn't finish it but he's so ready how is he ready for that so focused on the hunt on towards brokey gets away with it you know that will reignite the fire in the bellies of navi yeah it's really just put a stop to phase right that was three on the truck from them fantastic work to at least string science together on the ct side but robs we saw in the plan of attack video likes to mix it up towards rap he's getting info electronic drops in twists not ready the trade there simple one back the biff continues towards yard robso look at this into the lobby he finds some fire aggression immediate and he's not done robs pulls out the orp one to the belly sdy down perfecto to clutch the bomb on the floor and the whole round ahead of us perfecto starts to think this one through rocks will not overextend he will not give away the advantage he created and spraying in rain's got nothing done closes the doors they want to combine and take him on force the three of them closing the gap now perfecto hunted it's rain [Applause] immediate response a rebuttal from faze throwing hail mary's now both teams just swinging for the fences and you just see the trades going on everywhere rops surging into lobby electronic it's a minute 40. he's dropping in towards maine and taking fights but here's rob stalling this one out playing with the door playing with himself perfecto there and a lot of comms right because they understand all the info they need to relay as fast as they can well because the ramp player was in lobby six now we discussed earlier with five yeah it feels like enough on the t side of a map like newport another timeout blade does not think so and this right now can set up the remainder of their half enough cash for a simple ak perfecto can do the same a couple of lighter buys you don't want to allow faze to run away with things so it's about making sure that you invest extremely wisely in this situation get a couple of kills keep them light on maybe even go all in well they made it count and they fancy their chances [Applause] it's definitely not the all in here but they won around just like this only moments ago simple the ak tech nines for the rest you till there they think they can get it down with the smaller guns single rifle to disrupt phases run on their defensive side this could be quick oh and it will be because kerrigan just holds on just holds on sdy will not post the opening now and they want to keep going those smokes will only be up for so long a full unload of the mag re-smoke they'll use it and no getting a bit caught out here carrigan and navy they're both lost the bomb slips through where's the rotates where's the cavalry perfecto makes it clear electronic he's pushing the issue he wants to get up close and personal and ready to do him dirty drops he's known to clear his corners but does he consider the pace of this heavy advantage for phase but the bomb is down and simple is alive against the odds phase retool reposition and ready for the chaos about to ensure coming through they considered it perfecto trying to catch a timing simple already good for it he's got one electronic for the clothes lets it go and that should be a defuse accepts defeat three in the feed from carrigan well now biter right there that one is close they took their time on that retake they were worried about a yard look they're worried about some presence elsewhere that's an in-game leader type save here from electronics right another player would have potentially gone for this but this is him knowing that retaining the awp with the plant where the money is at simple gets his gun they can get back with a buy it's still a one-round game in their favor here but they're forcing phase in all of these situations to have to fight that was tight that was tight we go again game plan set electronic pulling the strings now smokes will obscure view a change up of the guard though carrigan spots a cheeky bitter shoulder we'll delay the squeaky door advance as the decibel levels raise in anticipation faze need to string together something consecutive for the defensive hall and rv hold fast [Applause] hanging in the balance here do they want to test him they want to test them both drops on ram brokey holding on to secret the first responder to this low side access time wearing thin decisions must be made electronic steps out brokey does get the kill still doesn't feel like they have an idea this is where navi are looking a little bit lost this is where you have to stand vigilant advantage is yours navi trying to flip the script losing their heads in the process is bit on the squeaky door and carrigan racks up the double spraying them down all five alive phase reign supreme as we tie things up the whole crowd on their feet we'll recap that one so brokey he was so cool that that handles his job and then kerrigan he does more than was asked of him yeah this is them being ahead of the play here right we could see they had space but because of the forward position of brokey the fact that kerrigan was more than happy to poke out towards yard they had all the info they needed a ladder by again here we've seen this one once we've seen it again this will be the third consecutive when the lighter buy comes through they turn to simple with the ak rops is addressing this one and he can't go down electronic eliminates him an opening right and bits in the vent there's no way lower the bomb can make it in towards the side it's on brokey so close he lets it go electronic leading from the front of the pack flattens the defense and immediately that bomb will go down and faces hope will wayne detach from it accepting a seventh this is quite the hall and again with limited rifles so we're talking about just the cream on top of this right the cherry on top of this tea huh they did the hard work out the gates five consecutive of the last seven rounds of play navi only won one that's how the phase have gotten up to the six now we're about to make that two is this enough it's going to be a big question mark is they're looking to pick up the freebie of this awp it lies idle on the floor here look at the hesitance just in case anyone was overwatching that to punish but they came in with pistols and a rifle they leave with a round i'm sure we'll see this again from electronic just the pace on that right and the tech knights i can't remember the last time we saw so much and especially getting away with so much right they're taking so many fights they're in the face that's a massive opening kill for him to get and the second is even better the smokes were up it was molotov and robs i think he was just a little off on the timing he was expecting to have time to establish himself but electronics pace leads to a round credit to him top of the scoreboard with sdy what did yanko say simple can't win nuke but navi can a team effort across the board ak's the same across the board will electronic get it down unresisted again rayne tries his luck a little chip damage a gap established an sdy none the wiser two from phase electronic to respond and bit to slink rain advancing oh oh rain dead meat fate sealed and already back to the three on three how does this go wrong for faze there's still so much time on the clock for navy here they've got real estate they've got utility now they find themselves in an even man advantage look at the orbs rocks brokey a double orb set up here this is going to make it very difficult if they lose the sight they hot have to hold the wolf at the door they can't allow navi to get into the lower site how are you going to retake with the double up setup you can't get into the top and the man that has to do it is carrigan his first final and he cannot cross or stop that cross neither can brokey humbled on the first peak and eliminated on the second electronic back-to-back rounds being the difference maker hunter the king one thing but he is pulling navi tooth and nail into a one t side of nuke look how diligent they are with all the youtube not allowing robs to have anything suffocating them right now big electronic right first in best dressed entering with style opening up these rounds rob's just has to save he's got their number [Music] and a full team effort across a five map affair we talked about navi and the potential for the endurance the battle of a full five maps would that perhaps favor phase i think the sec this first half has answered that question they've been able to limit rain as well a massive talking point how could rain stall out this navi onslaught how could he stop them from getting control of yard well electronic has been all the conversation here and he's the man on the other side that reign is meant to tame so electronic is doing his job and then some right now one more round in this half and then one more half of counter-strike here in the lancaster arena before we crown the best team in the world it's been up for debate for two weeks straight whispers in the hallways of a navi phase final for the undisputed world number one and the final round of the first half of this final map for cologne 22 a deviation from the norm brokey trying to give faze that opening that has eluded them rain has support navi have nades they'll start to sail over clips the wings of electronic and okay reign keeps brokie's heart beating although it may quicken in pace as they do two knob swing through and no scope knocks the shoes off a simple still bouncy though elusive safe and a cross rain 20 more bullets where that came from but not willing to take it as the smokes fade they are slinking down simple walking knife across as the smokes faded here now into carrigan's domain pound ender if you can get one more one more perfecto down only sdy [Applause] to close this gap keep the half as competitive as possible with the cards that have been dealt posted oh was rob's past tense courtesy of sdy and these can play some wicked games here the crowd demands navi's newest but he's never ever gonna consider this it's twists to secure a seventh and it's game faces on for this final half still up for debate [Music] [Music] there's one guy that'll lock this whole thing down so this is definitely doable for electronic no armor though they've got the kits they can't do this [Music] a triple [Music] [Music] here comes electronic into the bomb site taking two heads and coming in big [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] we've spent all day in this cathedral trying to answer the question of who is the world's best counter-strike team we don't know and hello lances i have one question for you you've been here all day are you not entertained this colosseum [Applause] two gladiators one more half to put it all on the line one goes home empty-handed and dejected the other undisputed champion of the counter-strike world it's the t-side for faze clan na'vi to defend their honor and their title [Applause] the last half it ends here that is the only guarantee we have as to play begins and bit to be tested blind void of vision not a point of damage bit turns tail tucks it tight and hits down early bullet lodged in his skull perfecto a nice find elsewhere but it's electronic that's hiding in plain sight being found out but still tucks in broken tight simples there as well back and forth this pistol it still hangs in the balance of two on two with major ramifications rain poised perfecto door swung open playing wicked games here crawl bomb still not planted and he gets informed on both he's got to stay alive there is a chance here is still damage inflicted both ways nades scavenged away rain twists tagged desperate for lethality but so much time this will feel like a lifetime as that bomb ticks further and phases favor forcing the issue sdy down face to take the eighth round tie us right up there into our final half [Applause] some would consider that compulsory for this to go the distance we tried pistols here the trading towards the lower side the counter-strike the level of this game it is not letting go so lots of work to be done here faze no they have to get past this navi four spike both teams locking horns again nobody willing to give an edge here simple gonna be denied any sight lines there towards yard has to take a risk to the smoke if he wants to go rain we discussed just how important he was going to be on the ct side the equivalent factor was electronic he got his space he got his now it's rain's turn to do exactly the same it's gonna be put under a lot of pressure here kerrigan looking for answers again towards bit will he slap oh he does but garrigan's gone better working with a point of health but now rotations must be accounted for no one's dropped lower hit i think navier calling the bluff on this one if they go lower maybe just say maybe we try again the second bite of the cherry we've seen this once it worked for them earlier throughout this series no point trying to tuck down the vent because you already know that rain had gotten across towards secret or at least you had a good idea that meant the vent rotation was cut off so you can understand the decision making here they're allowing faze to take this round giving them the lead the knife to be secured and looking to at least get a kill or two how tight a phase gonna be on these exits and how much of a trend will this be back to back onto bit it is a pressure point perfecto also up for discussion here only five kills was quiet on mirage has become a non-factor late in the series it doesn't mean the whole team has gone shy come back number five but if one piece of the puzzle is missing so could be that title back to back for navi for cologne it's still eight rounds away in phase they're the ones who edged closer five alive for faze in our fifth this was the dink and there was a trade coming either way but mid-air and some love for our button pushes first ones in last ones to go home [Applause] to make it all possible much love to them but the game continues and focus drawn now to navi's second bite of this cherry let's see what they can get done here is it sweeter let's just be with the usp right is he gonna be the pressure point again because if faze test the water one more time oh no no info suspects don't forget he was shown tendencies he hunts him down electronic mantle's up and gets shut down again back towards ram simple he was close a moment ago but back towards locker he's out of position unless he has a premonition this is gonna start feeling like groundhog day for bit again flashes again forced to rotate off give up his turf his territory simple kept at bay by the flame bit tucked in and morphed mollies follow him still stubborn on that usp cuts off the head of the snake but it's just deagles an mp9 rain still resides to contain push bomb's not planted yet coming down secret it's gonna be sdy if he clears the hard corner here might be a kill for him twist is waiting for this and we'll deliver on that promise should be no more dramas in a round like this for phase ten double digits first for the international squad [Applause] you know in eight seven half we looked at it even after the first five saying now if you've got a good good handful but throughout this game our expectations have been put in the bin and phase we'll start as they mean to go on in our final half of play [Applause] wow [Music] time to put up or shut up for navi they've got the money for the bike defector more than happy to hold on to the mp9 carry that one forward simple no awp into the first gun round to play and well the same for brokey he's going to just operate on this mac 10. he's got the best spawn here alex they might try and continue to either punish him over towards the ramp position or at least send him in somewhere forward first electronic it's his turn to be tested on yard look at that instantaneous wall of smoke scarring plucked from the forefront of the pack it will not stop they are down oh it will look at that smoke perfect and that was sdys handiwork he's low taking a big chunk of damage here early and actually relinquishes control comes back up doesn't believe his eyes has blocked them for now and he's hoping that sends them back towards this yard position that's not to be the case phase clearly within the early stages of nuke want to punish the lower bomb site whether the avenue is ramp or secret bit again he needs to stand up tall he can change the whole dialogue here he's calling for cavalry spots out the toes rain and rocks gone limited resources for phase as the bodies keep dropping broke he pulls one back a plant is nice twist though oh simple thought he finished his meal and they will finish the round clean navi their first defensive round in response just the one forbid normally you look into him to get a couple more there and i know there's no dramas i know it's no problems but maybe they want to have the continuation of this this game still has many rounds of counter-strike to go we'll draw it back to a one-round game that was a bit of a bonus scenario there because how easy it was for faze in the two previous so plenty of cash for their bite defuse confirmed oh and just having a stroll here late from electronic simple there yeah also not being as crispy as what we would love you saw it there on the replay as well i think rob's is really going to be punching himself the only thing he was responsible for was catching that very late descent of secret and electronics aware of it well you mentioned rob six kills to him right now oh okay had a very good showing over their mirage but so did all of them this time round is carrigan more towards the top of the scoreboard alongside of rain 17 kills for him 14 for carrigan on the other side electronic 16 frags sdy and simple not too far behind the electronic again different position wants the same result here the delicate beauty of counter-strike any individual can make the difference whilst also being incredibly team driven you have to work together he won't spread oh he will forces him straight in ah he still gets a kill shuts down rain in the head to head but it's kept level very diligent stuff though with the uteo with them heading on over but glued on in on that position they go one for one back towards lobby with the bomb on the back is carrigan lots of time for this a couple of flashbangs a single smoke they don't have much left in that defensive utility department this is the squeaky smoke so wanting to at least give the idea that the vent drop is possible hopes to limit the rotation cargo will need to molly top hut to make perfecto move and will now it's bit he needs to pass this test the biggest one so far the squad barreling through one slips the net and a bullet right on the forehead domed by twists simple though levels us up before they can access the site kerrigan has got this cut down symbols are the best avenue of assault and perfecto he pulls it off the flashbang drop kerrigan down and out watching now is now responded boys try and level the odds simple not ready for that twists pulls us back brokey can extend it with the spray it's sdy it's perfecto and they melt he smites them both brokey a triple to return phase to their winning ways one navi round a blip on the radar so far look at this from perfecto it's all for naught but a gorgeous bit of counter strike carrick just touches his movement key as he eats the flash brokey committing to the spray breaking point now for now oh wow you don't see the fire in the belly every day it's not like that orp's out the bison everything invested right here for navi they lose this one face can really start to make a case to get this rain carrigan they've been here nine times every single time in cologne never a grand final and right now they're basking in the glory of the best of five savoring every single moment of this as is the sold out arena before them an appropriate venue for this glorious display of masters of their craft smokes are up time they will start to fade ray it's the naughty game right electronics being tasked with going towards lower here to deal with this and this time round rain will find the avenue this is trying to facilitate simple he spotted him here on the slipper cross rain takes the fight simples low they know where they're all pissed carrigan can work with this that's a lot of information and again they come trundling into bits domain asking him questions it's simple shutting down rain he can move now and they relinquish control back to top makes sense there's no symbols isolated no bit is towards that lower side but simple he's up the heavens exactly where he needs to be kerrigan's out the door but here comes rob straight into the mp9 at perfecto he needs one here to seal the deal to guarantee it berkey gone a quick trade they need sdy dead to rights he's down simple though from the heavens gets nothing as he sent there himself oh spotted okay that will cancel any ideas he had this could be the beginning of the end right now bit's not going for this the punishment it continues and you know what that means how can they plug these gaps fazer playing with the pays are toying with them the rotations it's perfect the information every decision made they don't over stay the welcome they don't push the issue too far a three-round gap [Applause] carrigan on to simple again yeah he's been doing an awful long time hasn't he yeah and this is a great opportunity for him to step up people question the contributions of this in-game leader in the fragging department right now towards the top of the scoreboard his presence is being felt and you can see that reflected on the face of blade he only has one more opportunity after this and they're really running out of them four more rounds required for faze to lift the cologne trophy and navi are the ones squirming how do you tackle all these problems how can you do with ramp and yard both hemorrhaging control and information time and time again a couple of light purchases this is a real statement right now carrigan staring navi in the eyes and saying anything you can do i can do better drops alongside responsible a whole lot on his plate here as his team looked up were into action on yard not the weapon you desire for these long range engagements he's not going to do anything here at all simple just being chipped down going to rotate towards the lower side to address this would have loved to have a bit more hp with the deagle here to take a fight or two [Music] the only one with the big gun bit electronic equipped with a compromise [Applause] you can see the intention's now laid out carragher does go down he'll be calling the shots from the grave electronics on the boost criminally under checked electronic not gonna be cleared no one knows no one looks one should be a response twist will adjust but still navi an advantage and 25 you start getting sweaty palms you don't have the territory you've got the bomb on your back you had the weapon advantage 20 it gets worse simple ease the flash executed as the door swings open rain to enable the plant 10 seconds they can't afford to get them knocked off of this safe plant uncontested rain elevated looks away for a moment [ __ ] with a trade brokey needs this and he's all shut down long range from perfecto twist bounds into the sharks oh he catches up two fights two angles and twists will remain supreme what a shot from perfecto simple getting frustrated now yeah getting very frustrated now how often do you see simple get off caught off guard with the back turn he had no idea that rain could be coming through decon and twist watch this again his impact throughout this series it has been immense the trade it's not there unable to swing unable to hit the shot cannot put the crosshair in the right place and this is map number five the pressure is on twist shows no signs of pressure in the final stages of a grand final of epic proportions [Applause] all the way every round [Applause] locking horns these titans of counter strike making a strong case on the attacking side looking debate reactions here yeah it feels like navier chasing ghosts with a lot of this faces are doing a great job of seeming bigger than they are across the map there's so many things for navi to worry about puffing up so many problems in this again twist he's around to round the corner all of these needs all of these moves to set him up the closer of the previous set up to open this and in the process shatter the navi fifth map dream who's accounting for this there's so many issues for perfecto he's having to watch this from top hut he's kind of been hung out to dry oh doesn't spot him on the cliff as soon as he glances away twist can start to appear on in the pressure's coming all the way again sd why and a quick snap into the top hop player only sdy can stop them and he does rain down hell fire from the squeaky just as faze were about to throw the final blow oh he sees you he sees you alright he wants you sdy gets them to 10 and keeps them alive perfecto was in the worst spot possible the main push the heaven play the shot from twists but sdy doesn't go down and delivers again impression moments for this team he has stepped up what a shot from twist there but just continuing to lock them down from squeaky the silence then four one after the other they fall incredible to hold your nerve and play your game he's hanging with the big boys now they're getting out played they have genuinely been getting out played they sent simple towards ramp to deal with the hole that bit has been leaving this is a phase clan timeout so blade again let's see if he can recognize the same holes and where they are across the map here this will not be a phase by they are not purchasing in here with anything other than deagles maybe a couple of smokes maybe a flash or two oh never mind like a little for robs it's a curious purchase here that might if he spams it early it might be a little bit telling you're trying to sell something here over towards now v but this is mandatory right now for now v if they want to contend here in map number five it's going to defend their title they cannot lose to a round like this no way electronic will not allow it to happen the gill's been heard robs rattles off a shot to no avail brokey taking a chance simple welcomes this dance he's posted up electronic for the other side of the container and just long range taps into one drops one and done simple can finish it here as can sdy oh wow bling can you miss it rain a scorching deagle headshot 20 frags this is his map but not his round narvey close that gap two rounds is all that separates them in our fifth and final money back into the face clan ranks get a chance to breathe here right it's more a question how are they handling this this has gone the distance we only had one map that was maybe considered a bit more of a blowout everything else has been now bitingly close and the fans know it it's only a two-round game now now v are extremely difficult to put away but the same conversation can be had for face brokey a tech nine instead he can buy again in the next round maybe a safety net for the awp wouldn't be the first time in the series we've seen that type of maneuver they've thrown the yard smokes it's all the ruse electronic thinking to rotate down but they're setting up for what could be a top play rops has been sent back to grab the bomb last minute they conditioned them so heavily about that lower sight successfully as well it's three on eight though electronic towards that vent position it really is about how far he can go and i think he's starting to tuck in and batten down the hatches navi might be starting to read the plate are they a step ahead of kerrigan now nades into the side knee jerk reaction ready anticipate kerrigan traded twists in down perfecto as well this is mad sdy on the top part again the difference maker brokey to clutch in the dying stages of this grand final he's presented an opportunity to do it for his boys bit and simple the two most potent pairing and don't forget that bomb far from ideal for brokey pros do not fake and he does get it done just a second shy and that's the effect of this arena your internal clock it's just a little off your expectations subverted time and time again wow great trading again look at this electronic gets the first twist with the trade defector gets one rain back sdy the difference maker that could be the guy's nickname right now look at the time as well if he just just found that head a second sooner it's a very different round well the faith right there in simple you've got the overwatch of the god of the game bit trusts and right now phase thrust quite quickly straight over towards secret down they go the bomb the tail of the pack on twists here but look at all the space they're going electronic blindsided kerrigan he's taking him out here he had so much pace on that electronic completely caught off rob's just needs to tap that head summons bit from the depths noted hunted rops trying to keep the proactive because rain is advanced cuts down bit advantage phase just on the half by rifles recovered this could be it sdy with nine hp to close the gap [Applause] this is madness so much time still alive and robson twist can pull this one out of the hat the white rabbit should have been impossible carrigan started this can his boys close it down twist another round one on one right down to the wire again and again perfecto when they need him most he closes three kills and a clutch to tie it all up in the fifth he's been quiet mirage an absolute non-issue but perfecto now ties them up 13-13 again and again kerrigan did so much look what face hardly before them rain as well keeps rops alive this is such an amazing game of counter strike just sit back and behold bear witness to the beautiful game at its best oh my god just a usp and the time on look at this another now another now he does his best work when the times against him clutches away alive for perfecto here and he shows us once more in the biggest of stages we're all tied up it doesn't get closer it cannot mathematically and otherwise who's gonna break who's gonna break right here this is the entertainment we all signed up for this is the best way to decide who is the top of the pops and this is where you really do get to the nitty-gritty five maps round 27 you've laid it all out there you put every piece of your soul into this five map series and still we're no closer to finding our champ sdy playing dangerous games here confident though given the state of play it's twist though that shifts the odds in phases favor will they clear their corners and rob bit immediate as he dispatches the two phase off kilter wobbling now as navi look to see he's the lead quiet at times bullied as well towards his part of the map but bit gets one when most would go down electronic secures it and navi take the lead from faze rip it out of their hands with five consecutive of their own design last time out for phase now we're in the pressure cooker [Applause] a bit recovers late twist gets the opening short but look at bit this kid is the [ __ ] they needed him late and they got him right when navi wanted how do you find a talent like this who can handle the pressures of this immediately upon arrival and not once but twice sdy is doing it as well is that the uppercut though is that it is that all she wrote what a face got what if he's got left in the tank right now there's only one way to find out chad lang says who will be your champion is it navi or is it faze clan let's [ __ ] fight shall we head and shoulders above the rest these two mouse and keyboard in their hands and a dream in their mind it's not far away now twists what is this this is so smooth so aggressive unchecked unscathed into the side face knocking for six navi evaporate they can do nothing but sit and wait as we tie it up again just when you think the lead may be extended they really need to save here alex they really need to save they have to sit and wait 40 seconds now with these two aks but the money bottom of the barrel the lost bonus it's gone broken late on the ct side is the worst place to find yourself and the close nature these clutches it leaves them in the pit of despair electronic and bit they have to fight for their life right now with these and reign is coming he's coming and he's hunting ready waiting found sprayed down electronic defense his prized possession these aks are necessary and it seems they've done enough to prevent and preserve [Applause] it's giving a glimmer of hope here a glimmer of hope with those served a case a couple of drops can come through but twist this guy's impact is remarkable one absolutely remarkable two see you later that was fast the pace of these rounds is up and down volatile unpredictable and i can't believe it but ladies and gentlemen there is a tech pause the players will not be allowed to speak but you can [Applause] i can't imagine what's running through your mind as you're forced to sit in silence at this stage in the game when did we start this match 4 p.m we're heading towards midnight we talked about the marathon it's certainly not a sprint and now just forced to sit in an involuntary moment of reflection staring out to the expansive sold out arena it's up to the rafters still bums in seats as we burn the midnight oil in pursuit of crowning a champ that trophy still up for debate [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i really can't imagine the back in two rounds counter-strike separates one of these two teams navier just holding on with a buy here just holding on with the bye and carragher just had some extra time what is the call with so much at stake navi dig their heels in to defend the 15th to be secured but by whom this is a huge info play from electronic here we haven't seen him operate this up close and personal sure he's like the aggression but he's been found out before and twists to talk about his impact this would be some time to find out the right in the hole do you consider that he did it and he slaps him down back in the skull breaks now these backs in the dying stages of regulation as they're gone fifteen twists he just stands up and he tells naomi to sit down this has to be it now that has to be it they got nothing chad look at this doesn't hear he doesn't he doesn't know a single thing and in the back of the head twists with two no one can see him the invisibility club for twists and he takes down bit mischief managed navi one rifle on the greatest of all time and one round to separate phase from doing what no one has ever done before and knock knock here they come again bit what do you got ramp lost is this where the grand final ends [Applause] the last of the smokes leaving the fingertips of navi apprehension at an all-time high five aks one objective and one round who will buckle first hesitance apprehension aggression one from simple needs more from the heavens and robs has taken him down navi nothing nothing faze clan looking to do it tanked up both low bit just finding an ak catch his knees catches flak and now the bomb ticking against him he did it once surely he can't hold his nerve in another impossible clutch three members of phase they won't let this go they will not go quietly all of the rounds all of the maps and face cloud complete the triple [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what a spectacle there's no more question there's no more doubt faze clan are the best team in the world nine attempts this is the first final for kerrigan and reign first against all odds in catawiza [Applause] they clash with navi in antwerp for the major trophy in the cabinet [Applause] [Music] ladies and gentlemen you're undisputed world number one confirmed in cologne [Applause] [Music] and closed by the man on your screens twists two trophies for him led by the captain of our hearts lag says i want to [ __ ] hear you never before seen your champions [Applause] it's faze clan [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] twitch camera [Applause] it was the grandest of grand finals a final worthy of the name worthy of being a best of five man i wanted best of seven it was so good it was emotionally draining to watch what was it like to play him [Applause] people say best of five is not good i think if you look at this match two great teams two who wants to be the best team in the world and what i met what a finish to to this season i'm so proud of my guys and of course we are facing now we will play the crippled world and oh it was a long game who's the best team in the world we are fierce club you've been here to every cologne you and rain nine times you've been here you've never made the final how much was that playing on your mind it didn't really play a fact that this is a team a completely different mentality so of course being here with my boy rayne me and him always going in first you know um and then with these guys it's different and i'm just proud to to call these my teammates when twist picture that clutch in that penultimate round what was going through your mind i was full crazy some of these clutches stressed everybody played brokey with this spray down it was and then one of these 14 frets around he drops down main move the crowd goes wild it was uh insane just to throw flashes from t roof it was insane to watch it was insane to listen to it's insane to be here for what was one of the greatest finals no the greatest match of all time um you now have another notch on the belt towards an intel grand slam how much we'd be thinking about that through the rest of this year i'm gonna go on vacation and then we're gonna figure out how we're gonna win the last grad slam uh we're gonna do everything and that's our main goal next season to to finish off the work that we did this season so i'm looking forward to the vacation now but grand slam is on the on the ultimate goal next season carrigan this crowd loves you anything you want to say to them [Applause] they are your intel extreme masters cologne 2022 champions put your hands together it's faze [Applause] the energy in here is out of freaking control oh my goodness we have a champion of the intel extreme masters cologne yanko this wasn't just a grand final this wasn't just a best of five this was history in the making hey i'm with oj on this one man i i would have gone in for a best of seven what an incredible series what a comeback from faze as well key side of nuke to win it all 16-14 everyone stepped up as kerrigan said it was a team effort and we said it you have to be a team to beat faith and they were the best one the best in the world base plan one of the greatest grand final i have been blessed to witness face this was absolutely incredible so many moments so many key round clutches called hell that move from twist towards the very end gets electronic drops down into main and you can see it flashing right in front of your eyes they have done it maui snake said it and i'm gonna reiterate it a triple crown for faze clan you know what that means genko we're talking caddo antwerp and now cologne beautiful stuff a historic achievement trace never done before really we've had some great champions we've had some great eras in counter strike but this definitely is a team for the ages incredible incredible what phase has been able to accomplish we have kerrigan on our stage and 2022 has marked a new chapter in his career for a man that's been around for so long he had to buy his time he had to be patient to write the most incredible pages of his book my man winning caravid secular now the major and he said that he's surrounded it's a team effort and commiseration scenario of course they played absolutely i think there's you know no doubt that number one is phase right now there's no doubtfuls number two i think after that there's five empty places you know simple played an amazing tournament electronic as an in-game leader right with only a couple of tournaments under his belt really moved his team forward pushed face until the very end i think these guys have nothing to be ashamed of only proud of their performance here yeah they have no reason to hold their head after this one they've just delivered some of the best counter-strike terror i say i've ever seen in my life and between the three of us there's been a whole hell of a lot of counter-strike played so pat's off and a whole lot of emotions a whole lot of volatiles to watch this game i think oj borg said it best it was draining to watch these guys fight it out battle it out never giving up any rounds and i'm with janko on that one if you're navy sure tonight's gonna suck tonight's not gonna be a great night but in the end in retrospect you realize you've still done something great you've put up and you've given up the best grand final i've been blessed to see in a long long time yeah they've given us a lot to think about and a lot more to talk about we're going into a player break and i'm telling you right then and there this is the topic of discussion and i have to give a shout out to twist as well he had an amazing final right how many highlights have we seen from him he's been doing it all clutching entering just mechanically crazy rounds rain as well seems like he decides only for the biggest tournament to play his best game kerrigan one of the most legendary in-game leaders we've had shout out to my boy robin as well there is the coach i think he's done a great job keeping the these guys up in what's you know a marathon of a game can you imagine what it was for him can you imagine what it was for robin to be behind these guys watching game we were losing our minds and you know who the who had the most tracks in this grand final chase go on brokey brokey second you know second year and a half of playing tier one counter strike this stage is not too big for him man well check this out i've got one just a little bit sweeter for you all it's our esl pro tour dhl mvp and it's simple [Applause] unfortunately not taking home the trophy but you are awarded our esl pros or mvp and you put up an mvp level performance today here in the access we can see all the crowd here out for you um can you put a few words to your performance throughout this year throughout this tournament yeah overall it was a good performance by us through the whole tournament but uh last two games i think our city side was so bad and uh it felt like we had this comeback on nuke but at the end they had some crucial rounds they did few executes on a and at the end we lost just in terms of the team as well you've overcome so much adversity as a squad coming into 2022 i'm talking about the roster changes obviously electronics stepping up as the igl sdy coming in as a stand-in can you put a few words to the performance of a team and how proud you are of them as man yeah he's uh very calm he learned a lot but he forgets some things you know and uh because he forgets some things our combination is destroying but it's only a matter of time if you're gonna keep this player i'm pretty sure we're gonna play better in future we are coming out to the end of the season and we can hear the crowd still out for you full force i want to give you a moment to address all your fans here in the lan access arena all the fans rooting for you at home what do you have to say to them cologne i love you you know you know there was no cs event for three years and i hope you enjoyed this final thank you everyone for support thank you guys thank you it is absolutely incredible to see the fans coming out in full force please give it up one more time for your dhl mvp it is simple [Applause] i'd say we're trying to regain our composure here guys but uh wow you know it really is hard to quantify it's kind of hard to put into words so you know some of what we just witnessed because it was just so it was out of control at moments we're talking about a mirage game that wasn't close until it's too damn close when you have a best of five that is as tight as close as it is right here it's not about explaining what happened it's about appreciating what happens about a couple of rounds that turn everything on its head as the balloons are popping you hear that right i do hear that okay the over there is not hey uh nonetheless uh you know we did give commemorations to navi right there is this the start of a new series so to say a new legacy of match-ups that we could see going head-to-head time and time again well i mean i think we have the pieces for a rivalry that could withstand for as long as these two groups want to have it right we see sdy has obviously got a bright future if he remains in that spot they're gonna fill some of the gaps that they've had i think bit sometimes we tend to forget that he also has a path that he has to walk and he's definitely not a finished product and as yank alluded to i think these two teams play a counter-strike that is very far away from the rest of the counter-strike planet at this moment yeah now it has a couple of things to figure out first if they're actually keeping sdy right or not uh then if not whoever comes in like to to get something with uh with his player but uh i think also you know we first i think this is the first time we see bit really tested in a way where you can tell that he's being targeted almost right so how how does he respond in that sort of a situation and i also have to praise kerrigan we were talking in the pregame about about one thing in particular right we were saying the t side the new what's the focus going to be is it potentially going to be on bit it started and then and upper side on perfecto because he hasn't been playing so well and what did phase win most the crucial gun round a splits up with twists more points for fast romaine and some rounds where they kill bit on ramp and then you know either finish yeah b bomb side or just play play the round out from there and i'm pretty sure it was maui that was talking about that uh at least you know uh you know it's a tough one for that side obviously with faze this has got to be a huge weight off their chest going into what we know as time off this is what i tell you trace like you know this is why i say it's about the players because both teams are strong there's good team played there and simple said he feels like they made a lot of mistakes i'm sure if you talk to the phase guys or they will say they were making you know mistakes too right that's that's going to happen but in the end it comes down to the individual performances in a sense that the four players from faze played like pretty strong props so and so you know disappeared a little bit on the last night this team kind of bailed them out and then on the side of nabi it was mostly electronic simple right bits was really missing in this series check this out right so it's a pretty sweet deal we just witnessed something very incredible happen also going on the intel grand slam for faze they're really just one shy of where they want to be and grabbing that that big bag talk about a target on your back that's what's happened that's what's going to happen for faze in this second season of the year everyone is going to be gunning for that bonus that 100k if you kill a bonus the real major counts as well so it could be broly which is the you know yeah one of the first events back from the player break or at the major imagine that you win a major and a grand slam so you won both majors cologne katowice and the grand slam in one year crazy i don't i i'm not sure that could be repeated any time soon and as if there would be any question about this but having won here phase will qualify for the upcoming kadavitsa in the next year yeah so i mean we were wondering if it was going to happen they don't have to worry about that yeah anymore uh if they ever did yeah and 2023 really isn't that far away is it maniac damn it does feel forward right now first in this moment at this very moment it feels like eons out of it we have a few weeks ahead of us to relax and take a few deep breaths and i'm sure face and nabi would just do that yeah i'm sure they would as well um before you let's go trace i i want to give a special shout out to this guy right here on your screen yeah to kerrigan because you know he is at the late late stages of his career he's been through it all he's been in a couple of great teams that weren't able to get you know to that number one stroke for a prolonged period of time you know took a step down went to miles made that team really good comes back to face face has the worst year in the organization's history last year right and after such a downfall to be able to with one change get the team back on track make something that is definitely going to be pace's best year in counter-strike this year to have the persistency to keep the hard work up to not lose faith in your own ability as an individual player as an in-game leader and that you can still play at the highest level that you can lead the team at the highest level i think that's that's inspirational to me and i think it can be inspirational for a lot of young guys out there yeah because it's a lot larger guys maybe yeah old guys too it's a lot larger than commendable uh it's admirable to say the very least for us it's been quite the journey here in cologne every year delivers something sweet and this year was absolutely nothing shy of that i have uh i've been looking forward to this one for a long time i'm not gonna lie to you all so thank you very much for joining all of us all the way from production back to my talent friends and colleagues 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Channel: ESL Counter-Strike

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Keywords: ESL, Counter-Strike, ESL CS, ESLCS, ESL CSGO, ESL Counter-Strike, IEM, IEM CS, IEM CSGO, CSGO, iem cologne, iem cologne 2022 grand final, iem cologne 2022 Navi vs FazE, NaVi cologne, faze Cologne

Id: 5qmLPi-BjBc

Length: 520min 56sec (31256 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 18 2022