I respect you immensely for empathizing with s1mple and highlighting all the struggles he must be going through, while the rest of the scene has been shitting on him for not giving valve feedback about cs2
FINALLLLLYYYYY, been waiting for this one, love all your content rich but you calling orgs stupid for their roster decisions will always hold a special place in my heart
also can't forget about steel's stint on chaos. they were looking extremely promising in a time when na cs was about to get the life support machine unplugged
Genuinely think getting wonderful is a good move for navi. S1mple hasnt been playing well the last couple of months and I think if he didnt dodge out on Sydney his recent rating would just keep skydiving. Wonderful has a 1.3 rating and so assuming he doesnt have a massive drop off from t2 to t1 and he can maintain a 1.10 or 1.15 they really arent losing a ton of firepower statswise since simple been hovering at 1.15 himself recently. Then you add the fact that the pressure is dropped, the atmosphere is likely better, blade and aleksi can implement what they want without catering to s1mples wishes and I really think it could turn out to be a legit upgade
So excited to get back into CS now, hopefully the he order will get shaken up in a good way, it has been sad to watch the Virtus Pros of the world take over the meta
Not sure what to think since Niko's axed the falcons deal. On one hand it's great to see him dick over the Saudis, on the other it's crazy to me that he's decided to renague on playing under Zonic to continue with fucking Hooxi. While it's a decision I'm happy to see since he's given the finger to the blood money and has likely prevented the Saudi super-team for a short while (can't say I see Monesy moving now either), it has potentially damaged his chance at finally getting his major. I'm presuming that G2 have made some promises to keep him on, and there's loads of time for transfers before the major, so hopefully this choice will lead him to some success.
I watched a bunch of 1win demos coming into the blast major. And I used to watch a lot of NAVI demos back in the boombl4 days. I learned a LOT from those demos. Boombl4 has always been a fantastic igl with a dynamic and adaptive style that was hard to play against and hard to read. Especially when it's leveraging s1mple and electronic. And he's a great individual player man. He's not Twistzz or NiKo, but fuckin hell he holds his own. After I watched those 1win demos I knew he still had it in him. 5 rounds into a Nuke demo and I saw the man still had his mega brain turned to 300% power. Personally I'd love to see him and s1mple reconnect some day!
If Steel doesn't Coach, it would be great to see him Observing again. He was one of the best, if not the best, before he was banned. It would be good to have another quality observer in the scene.
I love hearing you talk about political, important stuff like the saudi takeover. Sometimes the quick and easy rostermania session is nice aswell though.
S1mple taking an unspecified break at the peak of his powers is crazy, but it's kind of happened before. Shox used to switch between Source and 1.6 on a whim, and it was never obvious at the time he'd come back. Was he S1mple level at the time? Maybe yes, maybe no, but he'd have been in many people's convo for top 10 across cs versions (unless you were a 1.6 purist that hated source).
Valve is so fucking cold for what they did to steel. Like yes he fucked up, but damn... 10 years taken from what should have been an incredible asset to the scene. And I feel for Richard too, to have this unexpectedly ruthless outcome and then have to toss and turn with it over the years. A lot of lost sleep I'm sure. 😢 Sorry to ramble on but just huge respect to you both
but bit is on some insane shit last few events, he's had a couple of maps when he has these insane k/ds of 1.8, 2, 2.1, he seems to be getting more comfortable now that the igl knows how to coordinate the team and there's no liability in the team
As a Faze fan (but mainly just because I'm a Karrigan fan really), i am so curious who Faze will bring in when Twistzz leaves, and it doesn't really need to be a star rifler, Faze is winning tournaments without Twistzz godly form.
I'll be interesting to see where fnatic go now, I like the rumour that they might be returning to Swedish CS, even though I did like the Afro signing. We need national orgs and I also like that if they do that and go better than NiP, it's just another chapter in that rivalry. Hampus, Brollan, KRIMZ, maxster/ztr Add Nawwk, who can return after getting cucked by devve would be adding another chapter otherwise pick up a young AWPer like Phzy
You run streams ? Hard to catch people live - but have a job I can pop a headphone in thank fuck , even though I love my work tbf - what times ? Id love to catch this commentary live even though I wouldn't watch the vid.
I have a feeling es3tag's there just to do all the support roles and the NIP roster will just be their mediocre self as they had been, just with less jarring role overlaps.
I think oSee can still get his time. He came in performing alright, but it looked to me like he just had too much to think about. But in the last 5 events or so, he was the only member of liquid that looked like he actually joined the server, even carried them through some games looking like his old self. He needs some time and ideally some more reps, sadly unlikely with the absolute state of na cs…
Twistzz coming back to a Liquid "without big egos" ? Stewie + Elige vs Cadian, Yekindar AND Zews. Yeah, nah. If Skullz can't adapt quickly, this lineup implodes.
@@avnanismos. I was just asking because G2 released a troll vid of Niko leaving, but it would have been wild if Niko actually double crossed G2 after that video and gone to falcons. That's why I was asking, and I'd rather be a paralyzed two year old than write sentences like a redditor, buddy.
@@sleepytattoos Pretty sure you can't just edit a video while it is in TH-cam jail waiting to be released. Sure, maybe he could add something in pinned comment or description, but people are gonna complain nonetheless. Would guess he will be making another video about this for sure, so that will fix it.
I wonder how much better G2 would've done with the m0nesy and jks pick ups had nexa chosen to stay. Ofc it would be fun to imagine karrigan or cadiaN pulling the strings there, but nexa probably would've been the most realistic and available pick up there. Nexas G2 looked the best tactically (although I'm just going off of memory, that was years ago now). Aleksi's had some ideas but looked gimmicky and felt flat, and hooxis G2 is just like aight. Copenhagen success was the result of the team, and hooxi has had a million chances over to prove that he can get G2 to win. Times up. He doesn't hold up as an individual, let alone an in game leader.
I feel like brollans just had a tough break. It's never fair to entirely blame a players performance on the team and the in game leaders, but... NiP has been smoking crack they found in the movie theater dumpster for the last 4 years. Even device didn't work, girl dumped him and his mental dropped. And other than a couple streaky golden igl fnatic lineups, who tf had been there to lead Fnatic?? I think brollan is a pack player who will rise up to the strength of his environment. Unfortunately I can't say he's truly gotten that environment. And I have seen plenty of TALENTED players lose confidence in themselves playing in dumpster fire team after dumpster fire team. I could be totally wrong, brollan is not a player that I've spent time demo reviewing, but I've always felt eye test he was a great player. I feel like he played his best early Fnatic because he actually had experienced players who he could play core positions in sensible ways and adapt with them on the fly to make solid plays. He was a great fucking bathrooms player (prolly with JW, but I don't remember who!). NiP has est3ag hampus and rez? Sorry, where is the fkn experience. To me those are just unproven average stat pros (rez played pretty good on old nip, sry for the slander rez). Could be talking out my ass though. Super bummer. I think brollan should grind his ass off and try to get a shot on a team with an actual igl with a rifler he can actually get chemistry with.
Gotta love Richard for following ‘the cuckold in the closet’ with ‘obviously I’ve got a lot of respect for the guy’
What's the story behind this? Laughed a little to hard at that 😂
he got kicked out of teams he created by stanislaw like 2 times@@johndouglass4471
He gets cuts every other day@@johndouglass4471
@@johndouglass4471 It's a running joke/callback to all the times stanislaw took his spot in teams over the years.
I respect you immensely for empathizing with s1mple and highlighting all the struggles he must be going through, while the rest of the scene has been shitting on him for not giving valve feedback about cs2
Which Richard also did 😂 but yea I agree with you
Zews is back and I'm officially excited about Liquid again. Hopefully he's coming back with fresh ideas and new perspective.
Oops
Ah, the soothing voice of Richard Lewis to guide me through. I want to hear you voice some videogame characters.
He would be awesome in cyberpunk
FINALLLLLYYYYY, been waiting for this one, love all your content rich but you calling orgs stupid for their roster decisions will always hold a special place in my heart
also can't forget about steel's stint on chaos. they were looking extremely promising in a time when na cs was about to get the life support machine unplugged
I really appreciate the rostermania intro having the TF2 unusual crate unbox sound, it's a really cool sound.
sh1ro is so talented i really hope he lands on a good team that suits him, it's been sad seeing him lose a lot while consistently performing so well
Malta really dropped the ball in choosing his name. Should've picked dickstacy or something and the kids would remember him fondly.
"Malta? Is he aware that is a place ?"
Genuinely think getting wonderful is a good move for navi. S1mple hasnt been playing well the last couple of months and I think if he didnt dodge out on Sydney his recent rating would just keep skydiving. Wonderful has a 1.3 rating and so assuming he doesnt have a massive drop off from t2 to t1 and he can maintain a 1.10 or 1.15 they really arent losing a ton of firepower statswise since simple been hovering at 1.15 himself recently. Then you add the fact that the pressure is dropped, the atmosphere is likely better, blade and aleksi can implement what they want without catering to s1mples wishes and I really think it could turn out to be a legit upgade
Seems to have worked out quite good lol
@@mvn4337 xd
Love the editing style on these videos
Zews is my favorite coach of all time. Ups and downs but I always felt like he added a lot to CS.
So excited to get back into CS now, hopefully the he order will get shaken up in a good way, it has been sad to watch the Virtus Pros of the world take over the meta
Can't wait for simple to get through the bad boy phase
Wishful thinking. He's come far but yeah...
If this is the amazing pace of content your dishing out while you are retired from counter strike reporting im very happy about that
Niko has decided to stay at G2! Can you give us some context on how the deal with Falcons turned sour?
i think it has something to do with Falcons not been able to buy out m0nesy so Niko sad no and used tye whole situation to get a better contract at G2
What do you think about this. Nip drops es3tag and gets jks. Glue player for glue player but better
Not sure what to think since Niko's axed the falcons deal. On one hand it's great to see him dick over the Saudis, on the other it's crazy to me that he's decided to renague on playing under Zonic to continue with fucking Hooxi. While it's a decision I'm happy to see since he's given the finger to the blood money and has likely prevented the Saudi super-team for a short while (can't say I see Monesy moving now either), it has potentially damaged his chance at finally getting his major. I'm presuming that G2 have made some promises to keep him on, and there's loads of time for transfers before the major, so hopefully this choice will lead him to some success.
What if -hooxi is coming though. I can see it happening.
i only watch these videos for the fart noises! thank you richard and griff!
I watched a bunch of 1win demos coming into the blast major. And I used to watch a lot of NAVI demos back in the boombl4 days. I learned a LOT from those demos. Boombl4 has always been a fantastic igl with a dynamic and adaptive style that was hard to play against and hard to read. Especially when it's leveraging s1mple and electronic. And he's a great individual player man. He's not Twistzz or NiKo, but fuckin hell he holds his own. After I watched those 1win demos I knew he still had it in him. 5 rounds into a Nuke demo and I saw the man still had his mega brain turned to 300% power. Personally I'd love to see him and s1mple reconnect some day!
Behold "the great CS2 Shuffle"
richard your analysis of twistz is sooo spot on definitely became more well-rounded and a better player under karrigan
If Steel doesn't Coach, it would be great to see him Observing again. He was one of the best, if not the best, before he was banned. It would be good to have another quality observer in the scene.
I love hearing you talk about political, important stuff like the saudi takeover. Sometimes the quick and easy rostermania session is nice aswell though.
IIRC isnt the major in march not may?
Yes. I don't know why I said May. Biden moment.
legends never fall off
steel is the LS of CS
are u gonna upload the gop debate?
love rostermanias that are delivered by you.. all this twitter checking trash is brain melting
hey, the first 2x! finally winning something
The w0nderful House of the Dragon reference got me.
S1mple taking an unspecified break at the peak of his powers is crazy, but it's kind of happened before. Shox used to switch between Source and 1.6 on a whim, and it was never obvious at the time he'd come back. Was he S1mple level at the time? Maybe yes, maybe no, but he'd have been in many people's convo for top 10 across cs versions (unless you were a 1.6 purist that hated source).
Valve is so fucking cold for what they did to steel. Like yes he fucked up, but damn... 10 years taken from what should have been an incredible asset to the scene. And I feel for Richard too, to have this unexpectedly ruthless outcome and then have to toss and turn with it over the years. A lot of lost sleep I'm sure. 😢 Sorry to ramble on but just huge respect to you both
but bit is on some insane shit last few events, he's had a couple of maps when he has these insane k/ds of 1.8, 2, 2.1, he seems to be getting more comfortable now that the igl knows how to coordinate the team and there's no liability in the team
Will glave do well without zonic? Will apex improve with xqtzzzz. Maybe zonic has a big influence
I thought this wouldn't be coming this year based on the Mauisnake Show 😌
Steel still absolutely bangs out FPL and ECL...NO DOUBT will be a talent in 2025
I doubt anyone will want to associate with that prick.
If he was from and living in South Korea, he would have been arrested for it.
@LukeSawardMusic gambling skincel alert!!! Keep making shit music to cry to after losing your skins
The Steel comback 🥲
My favourite series
Your comments on NaVi aged like fine wine
As a Faze fan (but mainly just because I'm a Karrigan fan really), i am so curious who Faze will bring in when Twistzz leaves, and it doesn't really need to be a star rifler, Faze is winning tournaments without Twistzz godly form.
Niko staying on g2 tho
You know why Twistzz didn't become like an NA asshole? Simple, he's Canadian. It's in there blood to be wholesome.
HexT exists…
I'll be interesting to see where fnatic go now, I like the rumour that they might be returning to Swedish CS, even though I did like the Afro signing. We need national orgs and I also like that if they do that and go better than NiP, it's just another chapter in that rivalry.
Hampus, Brollan, KRIMZ, maxster/ztr
Add Nawwk, who can return after getting cucked by devve would be adding another chapter otherwise pick up a young AWPer like Phzy
Sad to see a rostermania without Duncan
I've done about 4 by now mate.
Hope we get to see Boombl4 sing again
Missed jks getting benched, the roster mania doesn't stop
Curious where falcons go without niko.
They aren't going with Niko. Apparently he turned down the offer.
That's what he said
enslaved to build NEOM The Line
NRG should rebrand to NTR and introduce daps as their manager
You run streams ? Hard to catch people live - but have a job I can pop a headphone in thank fuck , even though I love my work tbf - what times ? Id love to catch this commentary live even though I wouldn't watch the vid.
he doesnt have a strict schedule, but usually he starts streaming 9-11 pm CET
you can follow his twitch and turn on notifications on your phone for his twitch
I have a feeling es3tag's there just to do all the support roles and the NIP roster will just be their mediocre self as they had been, just with less jarring role overlaps.
I think oSee can still get his time. He came in performing alright, but it looked to me like he just had too much to think about. But in the last 5 events or so, he was the only member of liquid that looked like he actually joined the server, even carried them through some games looking like his old self. He needs some time and ideally some more reps, sadly unlikely with the absolute state of na cs…
YES YES YES YES
600k for skullz!? In what world?
Twistzz coming back to a Liquid "without big egos" ? Stewie + Elige vs Cadian, Yekindar AND Zews. Yeah, nah. If Skullz can't adapt quickly, this lineup implodes.
NOOOO this was done before the JKS news hit
Niko is leaving G2? Didn't they make a troll "Thank you Niko" were he says at the end that he isn't leaving? xd
Richard's videos are sitting in hold for quite a while before they are published, so the information has changed on the way. Niko isn't leaving.
@@avnanismos. I was just asking because G2 released a troll vid of Niko leaving, but it would have been wild if Niko actually double crossed G2 after that video and gone to falcons. That's why I was asking, and I'd rather be a paralyzed two year old than write sentences like a redditor, buddy.
Yet he's won more IEM events than ZyStreamSniper@@avnanismos.
Niko didnt wanna leave his cousin to play with Hooxi, Bymas and Poizon
@@sleepytattoos Pretty sure you can't just edit a video while it is in TH-cam jail waiting to be released. Sure, maybe he could add something in pinned comment or description, but people are gonna complain nonetheless. Would guess he will be making another video about this for sure, so that will fix it.
Yay
Ok, now do a rosternania 1.5
48:55 I agree and surely most of these people are insecure kids
Dastardly Dan is gay for RL
I WATCHED THE 4 1/2 HOUR VIDEO
RIP G2
Support Comment.
es3tag is shite, simple as.
I wonder how much better G2 would've done with the m0nesy and jks pick ups had nexa chosen to stay. Ofc it would be fun to imagine karrigan or cadiaN pulling the strings there, but nexa probably would've been the most realistic and available pick up there.
Nexas G2 looked the best tactically (although I'm just going off of memory, that was years ago now). Aleksi's had some ideas but looked gimmicky and felt flat, and hooxis G2 is just like aight. Copenhagen success was the result of the team, and hooxi has had a million chances over to prove that he can get G2 to win. Times up. He doesn't hold up as an individual, let alone an in game leader.
I feel like brollans just had a tough break. It's never fair to entirely blame a players performance on the team and the in game leaders, but... NiP has been smoking crack they found in the movie theater dumpster for the last 4 years. Even device didn't work, girl dumped him and his mental dropped. And other than a couple streaky golden igl fnatic lineups, who tf had been there to lead Fnatic??
I think brollan is a pack player who will rise up to the strength of his environment. Unfortunately I can't say he's truly gotten that environment. And I have seen plenty of TALENTED players lose confidence in themselves playing in dumpster fire team after dumpster fire team. I could be totally wrong, brollan is not a player that I've spent time demo reviewing, but I've always felt eye test he was a great player. I feel like he played his best early Fnatic because he actually had experienced players who he could play core positions in sensible ways and adapt with them on the fly to make solid plays. He was a great fucking bathrooms player (prolly with JW, but I don't remember who!). NiP has est3ag hampus and rez? Sorry, where is the fkn experience. To me those are just unproven average stat pros (rez played pretty good on old nip, sry for the slander rez). Could be talking out my ass though. Super bummer. I think brollan should grind his ass off and try to get a shot on a team with an actual igl with a rifler he can actually get chemistry with.