T side is incredibly weak this major on mirage, 36% of rounds won

deadass might ngl, I still remember watching alvarez vs mcgregor when I was a kid

I mean, yeah, I know he has quite a reputation in UFC, but just seeing this was ''meh''. The other was ankalaev vs pereira 1, didn't really enjoy it

not with papa fallen. professor, kscerato, yuurih, yekindar and molodoy winning the major with this best furia roster of all time is an opportunity they cannot miss

last time I tried to watch a ufc main event gane poked aspinall in the eye and main event was cancelled. Just, not even bothering the next time, would rather watch highlights

10x better is an overstatement, but fucker had a stint of 50 maps with 1.50 rating

pretty sure #6 refered to niko being a cologne and kato winner, and mako sadly doesn't have masters

mr Jonathan E 404's and 10 year's for funsies

tbf I wanted this matchup because of an absolute banger these two teams gave the CS scene at astana. https://www.hltv.org/matches/2394152/furia-vs-falcons-pgl-astana-2026 The crowd was just absolutely 50/50, the highlights were insane, m0nesy was an absolute demon on nuke

''Karrigan is hated by cs community for same reason you say there (can’t shoot and choke)'' just sounds like ''the vast majority of the cs community hates karrigan'', I am sorry if I misunderstood you.

did you even read the comments? most of them disagree with the op lmao. Also the OP is wrong, astralis didn't become the greatest team of all time after -karrigan +gla1ve, they just won their first major (and with quite some luck), they became the greatest of all time with -kjaerbye +magisk

I mean sure, but just so unfortunate for him. Also big respect to magixx, according to these same rumours he was just streaming faceit and they just called him ''look, boris, wanna IGL for spirit?'' and he agreed and Spirit have been better and better with every tournament

swept prime astralis once with a stand in, that says A LOT.

I mean the problem with spirit is that, according to CIS insiders, this roster is an actual on the fly change. Magixx wasn't even supposed to be back. when they signed tn1r in august 2025 from heroic, the initial plan was for him to become a secondary caller and then become an IGL when chopper would leave at the end of 2025. The other part was to see how good zweih would be, and if he was bad they would call back zont1x. Problem is that in december 2025, at the very last moment tn1r said he wasn't ready, so they called up magixx. It worked out just fine, but it's just that he kinda ruined the whole vision for the org. hence why zont1x is inconsistent AF, he had some health issues and his return was rushed because zweih wasn't what spirit needed. So, for me just personally, I respect donk as a talent, and it just hurts me that his own teammate kinda threw a spanner in the works

the core of magixx-donk-sh1ro is amazing, but holy shit zont1x and tn1r just cannot be consistent for shit. tn1r goes from ''3rd star on the level of sh1ro'' to ''worthless bot'' in the space of 2 maps, and zont1x goes from ''serviceable anchor'' to ''free site'' from round to round

The only shit game was aurora vs betboom ngl, and just cuz betboom choked nuke, then it would be a great watch as well

https://www.hltv.org/matches/2394152/furia-vs-falcons-pgl-astana-2026 bro I will fucking be there when they play. Please, give me even 80% of what these 10 guys did at astana and I will be drooling during the fucking game

bro I genuinely pray he will be a coach, watching what he does will be so fucking entertaining

bro karrigan is the fucking goat of controlled chaos. He doesn't play these cuck full on executes, he relies on bullshit, he produces magic, he can troll for 13 rounds just to call 8 rounds in a row of perfect counter strike. I genuinely do not know how he does it. I am a navi fan and I hate him with a passion for how many times he fucked up my day, but holy shit he is entertaining.

yeah if zont1x learns how to hold fucking B site maybe

THE KNICKS CURSE HAS FALLEN
THE ARSENAL CURSE HAS FALLEN
NIKO MY BOY WIN YOUR FUCKING MAJOR

bro watching karrigan is a fucking fever dream, the guy always produces entertaining games

LITERALLY SAVED THE 11-11 ROUND

the game is pure bullshit I love it

I cheer for falcons to get a cinema bo5 because their matchup at astana in may was pure fireworks

not furia's fault navi, mouz, mongolz and fut decided to shit the bed :)

in the current football tactics positions are kinda just names on the spreadsheet because you have strikers like Harry Kane who can drop deep, wingers like mbappe who are always inside all the time, or laterals like hakimi or nuno mendes who are really high up the pitch. Most of the time you just shift from something like 2-3-4-2 in attack to 5-4-1 in defence and then back again

niko and m0nesy historically do well against spirit, but not in the recent times, lost at rio with kyxsan and were swept at astana at the first time with karrigan. tbf I just want a cinema semifinal and I am glad we will get an interesting grand final tommorow (no disrespect to Aurora but that would be a snoozefest)

well maybe these people just like the whole ''WORLD CUP AND CLUB STANDINGS AMONGST 30 GAZILLION DIFFERENT GAMES'' format, but for example CIS dota players straight up say ''yeah we only care about EWC cuz TI payout dipped, so that's why EWC is kinda important for us.''. In CS, it just has a weird format with 16 teams and single elim. Apparently this year they have 32 teams with 4 groups and I genuinely do not know how they will make it work. All the partners just lick EWC's ass for extra cash because even writing posts with #EWC gives you benefits afaik, so maybe they just thought that 50 different orgs claiming EWC is important = EWC is actually important

american-majority core playing for a brazilian organization

EWC is important only for orgs and players because of cash and EWC club benefits, that's why they force the whole ''ewc is important'' narrative. Dota players straight up confess that EWC is just a good payday, nothing more, nothing less.

won't using the term ''LATAM win'' just satisfy everyone?

oh, got it, so basically they prove they are not just easy bracket abusers, ty!

might honestly just give out an average cs frog take, but is the difference between top 2 and top 3 at masters that big? Like a chinese team is top 3, that's still good

football and valorant were sacrificed to power up papa xantares and get the cologne major, believe in turkiye

I mean I get viewership, but why would game parity care if lev or edg make it?

why?

dialogue as corny as blue lock, wow

fucking mad man

I think he is already set to go to Bayern

bro he cannot catch a break. His IGLs back in g2 were hooxi and snax, who also cannot shoot back

skye's dog if it was a player

bro map 3 of this, then spirit vs the winner tommorow, and then most likely one of these three teams against furia in a bo5, holy shit cinema banger (aurora fuck off do not dare fluke a final)

I mean, yeah, banter can bite back, but imo that's the beauty of it. I don't say that they NEED to be like apex just for the sake of being an entertainer, everyone is different. Personalities is also one of the many issues I have with VCT

1. crowds are dead, either vct's production just doesn't show them, or they are actually dead. Just, night and day with cs
2. I dislike franchising as a system, imo systems where teams can stay even if they go 0-11 is just wrong.
3. I dislike that patches and updates come every 4 months and drastically change the game. Sure, new winners all the time, but the teams people cheer for the most are EDG and PRX Who almost never change their rosters. There is no villain, there is no hero. VCT says it's parity and skilled league, I think it's just random
4. I feel like the skill level is just not that high. Best players change, best teams change, there is literally no consistency
5. The meta and the gameplay is just weird af to a new viewer. Especially the util spam rn, just, feels like the game is won by abilities and not actual skill

but isn't that heat index? Like, it's not exactly the number of viewers, no? It's a bit weird

bro what both finals are on sunday

inferno will be extremely tough (because kyousuke just cannot play inferno if his life depended on it), but on dust 2, vitality lost 2 dust's this event. once to 9z, and once to MOUZ. Falcons won g2 and navi there, but lost to monte (who are absolute tier 2 grinders btw), so it is 50/50 imo.

I swear karrigan trolls for 50% of the map and just locks in and produces a GOATed T side out of thin fucking air. Always. Copenhagen 2024, Shanghai 2024, Budapest 2025, now Cologne 2026. Like my guy, just call like this all the time and you would be the undisputed goat

I feel like with all the insane ways falcons/g2 lost the games since like 2022 there are like 65 different pictures of niko circulating around hltv

https://www.hltv.org/gallery/view/235440 - face of a war veteran I swear