The Greatest Counter Play in the History of Counter-Strike
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- Astralis vs Team Liquid from the Quarterfinals of the Berlin 2019 CS:GO Major Tournament was the highlight of the event. Astralis showed top tier gamesmanship with their 200IQ Map Veto pick of Vertigo. Here's how they won:
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Spoiler: It was the end of the age of liquid.
Didn't expect to see you here, love your content.
LOL bro.They never had any age or era or time
@@rohitbhakta4348
they were dominant for a bit though, they completed the grandslam in no time, which is really impressive.
Ayy the guy who fixed a ransomware I had
liquid never had an era.
They don't even have a major.. just a grand slam.
Look what the other teams achieved in their era.. lol
Liquid were just tr1 for a little while cus astralis were taking a break, but definetly didn't have an era.
Just look what NIP-FNATC- SK achieved in their areas, and compare that to liquid's grand slam
4:46
WarOwl: "Through brilliant use of utility and positioning"
NAF: Imma molly Elige and then jump off the building
"Best team in the world"
@@djarlian6913 EG: Boi, you aren't even the best in NA.
@@mihirx27 EG LUL
@@mihirx27 EG LULW jahaha
@@mihirx27 eg have fallen off, complexity right now are probably the best na team rn but that's 3 EU so they are not even really na
Guess you could say that they got... counter-striked
:) ily
@@jibreelkureshi2858 YOOOO IT'S APPL
metallicweeb lol who are u
@@jibreelkureshi2858 im actually dwayne barack johnsohn undercover. im a big fan!!111
Get out
more analysis! this was so good man!!
Kugo the Mighty only 6 likes??? Oh no what happened to your clout my man
Kugo the Mighty kugi what the hell happened to fitz's yt career
Monkey Scream fax
@@Swordonator katerino
I love you being so passionate about this topic! Haha
complete and utter fanboy xD
@@marlinmaas it's okay to be a fan of something.
It sure is :)
@@marlinmaas stfu
Owl is very clearly fanboying Liquid tho, im a nip fan but this is such a partial analysis, making it seems like Liquid are the kings of cs go, from winning tournaments for 4 months, and getting swept at the major by the team that was taking breaks, you know, the team that dominated a whole year? yea, lets act like Astralis didnt win Liquids map pick, which is exactly what Owl just did, because he is trying to make Liquid seem like the best team ever to play the game. What a joke
Pick their 100% map win rate, thats more than 200IQ. Cerebral play even before the game starts, thats astralis.
Well they did play Vertigo once in Proleague so they analysed their tactics and created counters
@@Kypris_ 250iq now
@@flanbenflen9069 Tbf the game was like 16-14
@@Kypris_ no, they kicked liquid's ass tbh
@@Kypris_ It was 16:8 and Liquid literally picked up ONE T-side round lmao Wasn't close at all.
In before Star-ladder copyright strikes anyway...
0:21 uh oh stinkyy poooyyyy haha
Can we copystrike starladder
*inb4
I’m your 1,000th like.
That was my profile pic for over 5 years of my life, that beautiful walrus
interesting how Astralis won all the majors on "age of liquid"
Guilherme PA age of astralis sounds better
Era seems better
@Dwell In The Ashes intel grand slam?
@@arinkharkar7928 can't win a major
@@musix3197 true but 4+ events in a row is more impressive imo
No one:
NAF: ight imma head out
He's like "Fuck this shit I'm out."
Lmao
Lemme do a quick 9/11
And out he goes...
LOL
"This could be the beginning of one of the interesting rivaliries in the history of game."
Astralis never lost to Liquid again beating them five times in a row after this game.
And still winning after 2 years. And NA CS is officially dead =))))
Aged like milk
LOL and now liquid knocks astralis out and makes them miss their first major ever haha
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funny to watch this video 4 years later and hear, "This isn't the end of liquid." oh man. That aged like MILK.
Astralis is like that cool uncle showing up when needed.
And then running away to Bahrain or something.
@@idkthetime alright too soon
idkthetime I knew someone was gonna say something like this
@@idkthetime actually they're Danish, not American
@@idkthetime LMFAO
It never ceases to amaze me how much of a mental game Counter-Strike is.
There's a bunch of shooters out there that can go much further in their serious competitive community, but they're not as big as this is.
@@pudie8952 yo name some of them for me I need some new games to play
@@cheesypoohalo tbh the closes thing i can think of is rainbow six siege. But im completely ignorant to the r6 meta and pro scene so i cant really say anything
For the most known, R6 Siege would be a nice example, while as for least known, Insurgency series would be also a great example.
Pudie but csgo is the most popular game because it doesn’t have 1000 weird quirks or random variables that go into deciding the outcome like mobas or bg games or even siege.
There is something special about crafting a game with 20 years of balance and meta that evolves with 2 very simple overarching themes: Tactical meta, and individual skill. It’s the reason the Japanese game of Go is infinitely more complex than chess, though in go all pieces have exactly the same value, it has less rules and generally is the ‘simpler’ game.
Sure games like siege are technically more complex, but the nuance of csgo is that its simplicity is its strength. It is easy to watch and understand, easy to pick up and play but incredibly difficult to master. I would even argue that the simplistic nature of the game creates an even more diverse ecosystem for competitive play. There is no OP position, or class, or single strategy. Cs strikes a beautiful balance between simple rules, a soft meta, ridiculously high individual skill cap and if you are creative enough, never ending new possibilities for strategy to outsmart your opponents.
Not to discount those other shooters and their metas, but IMO sometimes less is more. In CS and competitive shooters I think this is the case.
Who would've forgot that warowl is able to memorize words through arbitrary drawings
You mean WHOOOOOOOOO 🦉
He always shows the paper being completely unrelated lmao
DxBlack lmao
i think he holds the paper but he reads it from monitor over the paper... (maybe its obvious and i just realized...)
no
This is not the revival of astralis, this is not the end of Liquid...
Oh boy.
Funny how we don't even think of Astralis of having been dead now
Liquid is Dead now tho
@@lastkayleeuw6706 oh man no, not yet ! it's just online wait till next LAN event and you'll see.
@@ghadafilali7460 NA will never win a major or Liquid
@@sunclonkt7839 they already did (c9) and how tf would u know xD
Guys just go and rewatch the clip where astralis picks vertigo and look at liquids face
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Thx Boy
One Alexander helping another. World peace achieved.
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@@alexandrudinca3080 youre a god amongst men and women
lliquid be like " what idiot pick vertigo" , 2-0'ed
Astralis must be like
OOOOOOOOOOO
GET REKT
GET REKT!
I hope Starladder never host's the major again.
@Vinicius THC It was just poorly done
@Vinicius THC Starladder, also known as "startlater" "starlagger" hosted these epic majors. Hired best observators and started every game in time. Banned couple of streamers whom they thought were pirates or something trying to steal their content
The only good thing they did were the lack of technical issues from the players PCs and they listened to hire Sliggy as the observer later on.
Other than that they're really bad at every quality.
They even played ads in the middle of a play and in the end when Astralis won. Shameful.
Amen
I know this is an older video but this is one of my favorites of all time. I love watching pro analyses and your videos are always such great quality. I’ve been a sub from right around the time this video was released, and you never fail to make amazing content. Your videos are always an easy way to brighten up my day and I love coming back to older ones to watch the evolution in your style of editing and cinematography. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your craft, Warowl.
4:45 "astralis commited to that bombsite take and through outstanding nades they got some brilliant wins"
*meanwhile naf falls off the map*
yeah and mollied his teammate who had a good position too
What about overpass when astralis won the series by going B ?
Their b takes on overpass were insane, they basically just dropped their balls on the table and told liquid to try and stop them on b
I wanted to keep the video to one topic, but I think that Overpass game is legendary as well!
@@lamakicker69 they kept it simple rush b
@@danny102m
Not simply push b,it's a suicide without perfect flash+nades
danny102m it’s astralis....nothing about them is “simple”. If anything they are the one team that is more known for teamwork and strategy and team liquid is known for their fragging. Astralis isn’t winning hat game if they just “rush b” every time. This ain’t MM
This is like the 4th time I've watched this video. I goddamn love this vid, warowl. I love how you highlighted this, it definitely deserved it.
Agreed, wish he'd do more videos like this
Im doing the same thing
I remember the face of Elige when Astralis picked Vertigo
Starladder is actually really nice to players
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Haha, too late your *fuckin* *memory* has been claimed
@@ghassbomb9910 they didn't execute this properly. I get that it's their first time but they should've asked for people who is experienced in this sector to give advice and guidance like months or weeks before it actually started. plus hiring people that actually know what they're doing (friggin observers)
@@ghassbomb9910 1 word: ADS.
So many fucking ads, it's was fucking insane. I just stuck to highlights after that. Cause it was that stupid. They even played an ad after astralis won. Lol.
I dont even understand what tactics hes talking about, I just like watching the video
Strong defense on terrorist side even though t side isn't supposed to be defensive. Strong offense on ct side even though ct side is supposed to be defensive. It only worked because of how long it took for T side to push forward
would love if u did more in depth videos like this.
astralis has always been the best team in the world. liquid literally had one chance when astralis took a break. there was not even a liquid era at all.
you people have pathetic ugly ego issues
@@yareugae638 i am not even danish etc. I am just being objective
That round that deevice was hiding behind sand bags on A he knew that liquid are low on money and they already have used 1 or 2 molotov so he guessed that they maybe wont use it for that common spot
good point!!
GOOD POINT!!!!!!
The way he says astralis hurts my heart
AssTralis XD
Ikr, make it fkn stop
Yeah its bad..
Will there ever be a final season of SoloQ? :(
Only if Liquid Wins Major .
@@mihirx27 so that's a no?
He already teased that he is global now
@@leokal457 yeah but not with soloQ. He got Global with his Team/Friends
@@TheRuediger1111 at least in his uprank game he was soloqing (i guess, the people who are talking do not sound like they know him) its in last 5 secs of his howling alpha vid.
Thing about Astralis is, that they don't play events, cause they don't want to share secrets.
It's possibly more due to dev1ce having been told to reduce the number of events he plays. He has a medical condition which is related to stress. I watched a video on this recently
@@GabeStott Oh nice.
Now I know.
@@mikejameson7678 i can link you the video i watched it we really interesting. Has changed my view on astralis and dev1ce massively
@@Rahlskie ... No, quite the contrary. I love all teams (especially Astralis and Liquid), and this was simply a joke that got over your head.
@@Rahlskie how you take that as "salty" lol. really nothing salty about that comment
"This is not the end of liquid, This is not a new era of Australis" thats exactly what hapenned
PepeLaugh he didn't know PepeLaugh
It was just a butthurt NA fan talking lol. Team liquidated
It was the end of liquid. It wasnt the revival of astralis (kinda)
1:57 he missed the chance to say "to knock team liquid out of the water"
liquid got evaporated
Liquid fried
I predict liquid to beat astralis on nuke in the next major.
JK LMAO
I need to remember this comment xD
Man I wish that happens....
I'mma find you when ESL One NY hits playoffs.
@@mihirx27 k and do what?
@@-MankoMan And wait for an Astralis vs Liquid match. If Liquid Wins nuke, you're a madlad!
I think device knew liquid had to be atleast on partial tilt so since liquid knew astralis just dedicated to a ramp crunch and device was the only *Known* survivor who fell mustve fell back after that moli, devices play was counting on them assuming that he would go back and play a loose hold since he was awping. No way he would sit at the concrete after we [liquid] just beat your [astralis]ramp crunch. Either he would be at a close angle kennyS raid boss style looking for another pick to then run to another angle to pick another, or he runs to get a loose hold and wait for a rotate or more info of a push.
Oh and like i said. WaRoWl cUrSeD nA
twitter.com/TheWarOwl/status/1153060291837648896?s=09
oh. shit.
Spoilers : It was the end of Liquid's era
Spoiler 2 : It was the come back of Astralis dominance
What im noticing so far with NA teams is that they are heavily momentum-reliant, whereas EU teams such as Astralis and ENCE (other EU teams as well, im just giving examples) maintain around the same lvl of play, no matter how hard they are getting outplayed and losing. They always manage to adjust mid-match and keep their calm. Even if they dont end up winning off of a bad start they make it competitive. When I watch NA teams winning the first few rounds they get hyped up and confident, but when they lose the first few rounds , they usually decline so much from their usual strategic play and just passively rely on smn from the team to pop off individually. I think that this is why NA teams are so inconsistent. Liquid is the 1st team I have seen from NA that have managed to be somewhat consistent when it comes to mental momentum, but they still need a lot of work to reach EU teams.
Liquid almost ALWAYS won second rounds after losing the pistol. Before they botted out at the major that is.
@@gautamvaze1101 Astralis too op soz
@@gautamvaze1101 Obviously it's Liquid's fault for having a 77.3% pistol round win rate instead of losing the pistol round
@@Kypris_ sorry. I messed up.
From watching a few streams of NA players, it's obvious why, they like to dramatize allot, more so than EU players, and drama doesn't go well with mental game, since every single thought you have affects you more than you'd think, when you start overthinking your death or start thinking you're falling behind, you're fucked, that's most likely what goes trough their minds and is probably the reason they are so momentum based, because when you switch it around and they're winning, and over dramatizing their win, they'll be in a really good mood and they'll play better because of it.
And this is great advice for everyone who plays, make sure you keep your train of thought clean, stay focused on the game and don't think your thoughts are meaningless and don't have any impact on you, because they are literally you, so make sure the only thing going on inside your head is the game and how to win, you have to "become" counter-strike to be truly good at it :)
Casters: The daring pick is Nuke.
Astralis: Are you sure about that?
Dude I watched this video when it came out and I've watched it a few times since, and I think this is some of your best content. The choice of match, pacing of the video and the balance between good points and personality are all spot on. Great stuff, please do more like this.
Old vertigo was a shitty map
Awesome video WarOwl, I don't even play CSGO anymore but your analysis of pro-games will always be interesting.
"lowest viewcount since 2014"
Yeah I wonder why... *Cough cough* viewerpass, starladder, fucked up souvenir drops *cough cough*
I literally chocked when naf fly from the building
Fake choked* chocked sounds funny 😂
The reason it's so hard to stay on top in any competition is that all of your strategies are studied by every opposing team. They are not only looking for ways to counter your play but also things to incorporate into their own. Hoping TL will bounce back after some rough losses because it's much better for fans to have two superpowers (Astralis/Liquid) than just one.
I love how you didn't even mention LIQUIDS PICK that astralis also won haha. So easy for Astralis
Liquid was out of form. I am a diehard liquid fan and even I can admit they didn't play well.
Thank You! Hi I'm the warowl and I make YT videos while being partial to non-NA teams.
Ah yes the inevitable astralis fanboys that instantly forgot last 4 months even existed.
@@glueplay months were rough but Astralis always win the majors ;)
Actually Liquid did kind of put a fight unlike Ence and Avangar
Brilliant video. Just shows how good a map Vertigo actually is - if you have a perfectly prepared team working together.
More Solo Q to Global pls!!!
Foxy 47 ur wish has been approved
"To device a plan"
*TO DEVICE A PLAN*
are you kidding me?
No?
Devise and device sounds the same
Liquid got the aim and flicks but Astralis got dem brains
10/10 Thumbnail, and great analysis.
That Warcraft ii music in the background! I will thumb myself up for being an old fart school player. Huhu!
This legitimately makes me think of chess at international grand master level, people targeting specific matchups and training like crazy to counter them - sometimes even just for the show.
"one of the most interesting rivalries" - that didnt age well lol
I’m disappointed this video isn’t called the greatest counter strike in the history of counter strike.
Matchmaking CSGO is mostly about being the better player and
CSGO Tournamnets are basically chess matches with guns,grenades and bombs
What on earth is that flash at 0:55? No room for that in the big leagues.
What Liquid era man? Thanks for the video though!
I miss this Astralis 😭😭
ASTRALIS LITERALLY GOT NO CHILL !!!
Bunch of try hards...
@@sameer5548 They're pro players lmao
@@sameer5548 lol cry some more. The point of professional csgo teams IS to try hard
bruh 1 million dollars were on the line
@@buakawbanchamekdd2793 and yet beat everyone and won 4 championships
"liquid best team in the world" 😂😂
LULW
WarOwl saying "Astralis" sounds like a British person imitating an American.
8:56 - if that's not the flick of the fucking century then i don't know what is
2:05 It just shows how much Thorin knows about Counter Strike
He didn't read off of the paper, he read from a screen behind it.
"Not even by professional analysts"
Shows tweet of professional guesser and backpedaler.
A prediction is a guess so technically everyone guessed if you’re going to play that game
7:34 dupreeh threw that to jump to the box with the molly stopping TL , he missed the jump but the molly there might make TL think that no ones gonna push and pull flashes out
Welcome to your monthly rewatch
Thanks
2:01 "... worked hard to *dev1ce* a plan, to ..."
You're clearly a liquid fanboy from your video calling them best team every damn minute and bad pick em choices.. just remember they lost 2-0.
No shit. It's not like he's an American that is rooting for an American team or anything. I mean showing off that his pick-ems is TL doesn't mean anything... Nope...
Poor NAF lmao
"This does not mean the end of the age of Liquid"
Yea chief idk about that
nope，liquidhave stock shift and the team shatters
I think you are forgetting the legendary OLOFBOOST :P
fast forward to the coach cheating scandal
2:09 we have the EXACT same pick ems
Team Liquid: 100% winrate on Vertigo. It would be foolish to pick this particular map to play on against these guys.
Astralis: Aight, all I heard was "don't come at me" and I'm gonna go test that theory out real quick.
"Age of Liquid" oh boi
Honestly it is a pretty boring rivalry. Astralis won 6 out of the 8 BO3s against Liquid this year, and currently Liquid is not even a top3 team anymore. And it was pretty much the end of the age of liquid TBH.
4 years ago man
I come here once in a while to just re-live the memories of seeing astralis being the greatest of all time✨
Have already screen recorded this just in case it gets taken down.
Why not just download it
@@JonasTisell Oh yeah forgot we could do that
Why screen record? Just download the video with 4k video downloader. smh
@@Sujay95 OI, I know I'm primal AIGHT!
you know, why the fuck are liquid and astralis always playing on quarters or semis. like i get they could be sorted by some unbiased system. but come the fuck on we have yet to see a liquid v astralis major finals. talk about anti climatic finals.
Team Liquid era is over. Period. If any team other than Astralis won the major, I'd say its a minor hiccup. But Astralis has won three straight majors. There's no place for TL. How can you even say TL is the best team in the world when another team, their biggest rival, is miles ahead of them?
This is no rivalry. This is a beat down. What's even the H2H record bet the two teams?
TL disappoints me so much. I tried to understand what you are all hyping about. What did we get? An Astralis loss. I'm sorry but this is an irredeemable disaster.
@@caleb179 liquid has literally only won against astralis once in EPL finals not multiple times and it was 2-1,Astralis crushed TL every time except that time and has now not dropped a single map in 3 major playoffs straight
@@caleb179 sorry mate but majors are better than other tourney
Now make a video about Team Spirit vs. Astralis 15-0... isn't this the greatest Counter Play in history?
why does WarOwl sound like Astralis is nothing in front of Team Liquid, Astralis was able to win because of some cheeky plays otherwise Team Liquid would have squashed them like a bug?
btw the video was very informative
this comment is confusing in so many ways
@@spilledbeansrecords5685 yeah you're right its confusing, I updated my comment. I'm sorry I made a mistake while typing .
Wait a sec. "This is not the end of the age of Liquid". What age? Liquid didn't win a single major. There is no Liquid age.
Sydney?
@@xroach9282 lol, Sydney wasn't a major.
Me don't know what to say.
Great Vedio as always warowl
Liquid ain’t the best anymore
guess you can call it a "counter-strike"
The ending of the video aged badly unfortunately, Astralis would just effectively dissolve and liquid just fell off to the bottom :(
yeah... it sucks.
@@sadmanpranto9026 astralis was so op I wonder how did they dissolve overnight
@@alexandrekuritza5685 Device left... then Dupreeh, Magisk and Zonic left.
Device should return. He doing practically nothing in NiP
astralis pick Vertigo to prove that they are the best team
Agree
Watching a 10min Video to get told dat EU play with more IQ and NA in CS. Shocking news.
This is perhaps one of the greatest TH-cam videos I have ever seen. Not because I enjoyed it more, but of every video I have ever seen, this is THE. Highest. Quality. Video I have ever. Seen. It’s strange, it’s not anything special, but... it’s the absolute greatest quality video I have ever seen. I can’t quite explain it, it just is. There’s others I like better cuz they’re funnier, but this is hands down the highest quality 10 minutes and 33 seconds of TH-cam content ever made.
I come back every so often and watch it again. To see what I think. And it’s still the same. This is the single best video on TH-cam. This is what this platform is about. There is something very, very special about this video, and I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Liquid are the best team in the world? Well, too bad, cuz Astralis are the best of all fucking time
So recently I was at mirage A site as T on tetris my teammates have all died killing just 1 guy. It was round 7 and I had UMP, call was to save but unfortunately they saw me. Killed a guy in front ,heard a footstep on stairs, jumped there killed another, jumped back when one guy came from palace and killed him with hp-20 left then another guy came from stairs who jumped down and shoot me had just 5 bullets left when I had killed him. And there bois I did a 1vs 4 clutch with a UMP in 7th round. My proudest moment
It was 14-15 and I pulled of a ace clutch with a Mac 10 and Drew the game lmao
@@myjeeaccountsmh2625 damn that would have been epic
15-14 ace clutch deagle force here on mirage as CT had to do b retake. Team was like gg and left... I won that round with 1 clip 3 Juan's and 2 doubles.
3 guys pushed into kitchen. 1v2 1 short 1 apps trying t crossfire
You can make something as mundane as "fast aggressive CT side positioning" sound so epic. Best voiceovers on TH-cam
Starladder: Can we copy strike Warowl?
Really?
Lol liquid imploded after this major 🤣