On the Spirit hot take. I think donk may have already or will soon, usher in an era defined by the AK, unless the awp gets a lower price, it's a huge investment compared to the fast paced peeking that donk can do with the AK
G2 will make playoffs of every event but win none Navi will cut a player before 2026 EF winning something this year this was after a few bevs so imma wake up with no clue what i've written tbh
My hot takes: Liquid: Twistzz will be off of igl at the end of the year and they will sign a proper igl to replace jks. Falcons: It will be another clown fiesta just like last year and the heroic trios will be kicked like the ence core before, zonic will continue to make excuses and they will get monesy next year. Mongolz: They will win a major this year, this will be the new dawn of Asian CS EF: They will fluke one or two events but they will completely bomb out in the BIG 4 events Mouz: They will disband and the players will be picked up by all other top teams Faze: They will do absolutely nothing this year. Frozen will jump ship to join g2/vitality in the middle of the year and Elige will regret his decision to join Faze in the end. Vitality: They will replace mezzi with someone else in the middle of the year only to achieve one mere trophy this year again and either apex or xtqzz will be fired at the end of the year. Navi: They will slowly decline from last year’s glory and they will replace wonderful with simple at the end of the year G2: They will be G2nd like in 2021, monesy solo-carries the team to almost every final just to lose to spirit every time. Spirit: They will be the team of the year, donk wins back to back top 1 player of the year, chopper wins best igl of the year
Saying W0nderful NEVER really excelled is s big stretch. He has had some insane clutches in important games, even though he sometimes misses a few easy shots.
18:04 Man s1mple is the GOAT but why do people just brush over the fact Electronic was a top 5 player? Bro was the best rifler in the world behind NiKo in 2018-2021
My hottest take for this year is that the VGS system is going to make things worse, and we’ll see that towards the second season of the year. The death of open quals and the reduced number of T2 events will send a lot of smaller orgs under, leaving a pseudo-franchise of the top 15 ish teams. And also that the Austin major is going to be a godawful viewing experience because of all the Swiss stages. 99 games before playoffs :)
Liquid - nah, not that he doesn't pass the eye test but the rest of the team isn't good enough. Every other player has been really underwhelming recently Furia - Is that a hot take lol Falcons - Yeah, I genuinely don't see how they could screw up. Their pieces are good enough and even if it doesn't work out, they're only one swap away at most. Mongolz - my hot take is that they will cool down and drop out of the top 10 Eternal fire - pretty much, yeah. Mouz - my hot take is that they will continue to perform really well and Brollan will prove everyone wrong. FaZe - Karrigan can go on for another 4 years if he wants to, but rain should've been kicked since the summer of 2022(and at any point between the faceit and antwerp majors). Vitality - nah cmon, he's one of the best igls of the 2020s. They almost had an era in 2023 NaVi - I think -iM is still more likely but I agree that w0nderful is a bit of a low-energy player G2 - I doubt it will happen because the ex-vp maffia seems to hold a solid grip around the g2 management but that would easily be the best move of the year Donk - Watch out for zywoo
My hot take for team spirit is just sh1ro wins just as many rounds as donk against big teams and I feel like without sh1ro donk doesn’t win as much. I feel like I’ve watch spirit get bailed out by sh1ro in late rounds disadvantage just as much as donk just win rounds so I guess what I’m saying is I think sh1ro beats out the woo in the rankings this year if spirit wins more tournaments and vitality lose
believing in simple in the big 2025? cmon now... wonderful is a better awper right now, a lot of awpers are better than simple right now. this aint csgo anymore, simple just doesnt have it anymore
I don't really think that Mouz take is really a hot take lol as a mouz fan I'm sure I'm with everyone here that we're all very skeptical with Brollan IGLing and now Torzsi is on Fraud watch since the narrative around him was that Siuhy was the Torzsi whisperer. Where the only IGL Torzsi had was Dexter and he was below average under him. Who knows maybe Sycrone helps Brollan to be a decent IGL and they won't be as bad.
please let this be a one time thing with the whole 'the last one is insane' way of baiting people into watching the whole video. I don't think the cs community is waiting on this sort of psychological trickery. I wanna watch this video and if I like it I'll watch until the end because of the high quality content. I don't want to be left there thinking to myself "yeah I'll sit through this shite part and hopefully the end won't be disappointing". It just doesn't seem like the right approach to me
sorry, first time watching and I have some criticism/feedback - turn down the light, or put it farther away from your face - fix audio/video desync, your lips move later than the words we hear - clickbait, I expected "Every team" to be something like idk top 30 hltv? I wanted your opinion on fav my underdog team, I don't really care about top 10 teams but that's just me being weird good luck with your content!
0:11 Liquid
1:20 Falcons
2:38 Mongolz
4:37 Eternal Fire
5:56 Mouz
8:30 Faze
11:11 Vitality
13:32 Navi
15:19 G2
17:08 donk
hero, thank you
some of these are wild.. can't wait to react to them at the end of the season lmao
Mouz not making any playoffs is the craziest take I’ve heard this year 😂
On the Spirit hot take. I think donk may have already or will soon, usher in an era defined by the AK, unless the awp gets a lower price, it's a huge investment compared to the fast paced peeking that donk can do with the AK
donk having the best year ever is probably the least controversial take ever
G2 will make playoffs of every event but win none
Navi will cut a player before 2026
EF winning something this year
this was after a few bevs so imma wake up with no clue what i've written tbh
-snax +siuhy | greatest move in history
Holy moly that's got to be the move. No chance G2 are doing it
If the move is that obvious then count on G2 to not make it at all. Their management is downright ret@rded
The hot takes are hot all right; one may even say they are "fire". But the real fire is DJ Hawka's dj skills
17:27 s1mple 2021*
What tunes are you mixing?
My hot takes:
Liquid: Twistzz will be off of igl at the end of the year and they will sign a proper igl to replace jks.
Falcons: It will be another clown fiesta just like last year and the heroic trios will be kicked like the ence core before, zonic will continue to make excuses and they will get monesy next year.
Mongolz: They will win a major this year, this will be the new dawn of Asian CS
EF: They will fluke one or two events but they will completely bomb out in the BIG 4 events
Mouz: They will disband and the players will be picked up by all other top teams
Faze: They will do absolutely nothing this year. Frozen will jump ship to join g2/vitality in the middle of the year and Elige will regret his decision to join Faze in the end.
Vitality: They will replace mezzi with someone else in the middle of the year only to achieve one mere trophy this year again and either apex or xtqzz will be fired at the end of the year.
Navi: They will slowly decline from last year’s glory and they will replace wonderful with simple at the end of the year
G2: They will be G2nd like in 2021, monesy solo-carries the team to almost every final just to lose to spirit every time.
Spirit: They will be the team of the year, donk wins back to back top 1 player of the year, chopper wins best igl of the year
Donk's 2024 was already the best individual performance ever
Saying W0nderful NEVER really excelled is s big stretch. He has had some insane clutches in important games, even though he sometimes misses a few easy shots.
18:04 Man s1mple is the GOAT but why do people just brush over the fact Electronic was a top 5 player? Bro was the best rifler in the world behind NiKo in 2018-2021
My hottest take for this year is that the VGS system is going to make things worse, and we’ll see that towards the second season of the year. The death of open quals and the reduced number of T2 events will send a lot of smaller orgs under, leaving a pseudo-franchise of the top 15 ish teams.
And also that the Austin major is going to be a godawful viewing experience because of all the Swiss stages. 99 games before playoffs :)
Sound being like 50ms off again, pls fix it my mind can't take it
Bro is trash talking Teses as if he didn’t carry Niko last event xD
bUt It WaS oNlInE!!
Using that insider information giving away the Faze script.
Doomer take: G2 doesn't replace snax this year and instead cuts malbs or heavygod tanking the team
Hot take, Chopper is an extremely good igl maybe even the best of all time
Make it a series and name it “Hawk Takes” it will be sooo coool ❤️❤️
What did you smoke before recording this video?
Liquid - nah, not that he doesn't pass the eye test but the rest of the team isn't good enough. Every other player has been really underwhelming recently
Furia - Is that a hot take lol
Falcons - Yeah, I genuinely don't see how they could screw up. Their pieces are good enough and even if it doesn't work out, they're only one swap away at most.
Mongolz - my hot take is that they will cool down and drop out of the top 10
Eternal fire - pretty much, yeah.
Mouz - my hot take is that they will continue to perform really well and Brollan will prove everyone wrong.
FaZe - Karrigan can go on for another 4 years if he wants to, but rain should've been kicked since the summer of 2022(and at any point between the faceit and antwerp majors).
Vitality - nah cmon, he's one of the best igls of the 2020s. They almost had an era in 2023
NaVi - I think -iM is still more likely but I agree that w0nderful is a bit of a low-energy player
G2 - I doubt it will happen because the ex-vp maffia seems to hold a solid grip around the g2 management but that would easily be the best move of the year
Donk - Watch out for zywoo
iM is doing very well on Navi rn. And he is a second caller which is hard to replace. But possible
Between antwerp majors? Bro he was the MVP lmao
@AstroSully Yes but between that major and faceit london in 2018, he was barely even above 1.0, sometimes even below that
Why are you saying s1mple is a superstar player in 2025? He’s washed he will never be what he once was. Wonderful is just better than s1mple
Read the title it's called a hot take you dumdum
True that he won’t be the same, not so sure about washed… w0nderful definitely not better
Probably. Also if he is underperforming m0nesy would probably lobe to come back and play with bit again. And that's an obvious upgrade
clueless
Need that FaZe take to be true 😭🙏
Why did mouz bench their IGL?
My hot take Astralis will be top 8 in Major in Austin
Btw guys does this team have online srcims???
what's your hot-take about furia?
irrelevant and will continue to be
siuhy monesy malbs heavygod and if hunter locks the fuck in we can see the g2 best team of the year
My hot take for team spirit is just sh1ro wins just as many rounds as donk against big teams and I feel like without sh1ro donk doesn’t win as much. I feel like I’ve watch spirit get bailed out by sh1ro in late rounds disadvantage just as much as donk just win rounds so I guess what I’m saying is I think sh1ro beats out the woo in the rankings this year if spirit wins more tournaments and vitality lose
ast????
believing in simple in the big 2025? cmon now... wonderful is a better awper right now, a lot of awpers are better than simple right now. this aint csgo anymore, simple just doesnt have it anymore
yes sir, clearly falcons is better than furia kkkkkkkk
I could definitely see the -w0nderful move. I hope that they somehow get m0nesy because of the b1t and m0nesy friendship but that is major copium.
I don't really think that Mouz take is really a hot take lol as a mouz fan I'm sure I'm with everyone here that we're all very skeptical with Brollan IGLing and now Torzsi is on Fraud watch since the narrative around him was that Siuhy was the Torzsi whisperer. Where the only IGL Torzsi had was Dexter and he was below average under him. Who knows maybe Sycrone helps Brollan to be a decent IGL and they won't be as bad.
Dexter back to mouz.
Falcons top 10? Looooooool
Predition 😀😀
JKS is getting benched soon, Write it down.
S1mple will not come back because nobody will sign him
please let this be a one time thing with the whole 'the last one is insane' way of baiting people into watching the whole video. I don't think the cs community is waiting on this sort of psychological trickery. I wanna watch this video and if I like it I'll watch until the end because of the high quality content. I don't want to be left there thinking to myself "yeah I'll sit through this shite part and hopefully the end won't be disappointing". It just doesn't seem like the right approach to me
shut up. it's not even in the title and he's clearly just going without a script
@cicolas_nage even if you're right, why do you feel the need to tell me to shut up? I'm allowed to voice my opinion, no?
@@penguintheratherslowlad2356 because you're making a fuss about nothing and i would strongly prefer you keep it to yourself
@cicolas_nage i don't really care what you prefer tbh. I'm free to write a comment as much as you are free to reply. Doesn't mean we have to agree
@ exactly
To me donk already surpassed simple considering he did it in like most competitive year
sorry, first time watching and I have some criticism/feedback
- turn down the light, or put it farther away from your face
- fix audio/video desync, your lips move later than the words we hear
- clickbait, I expected "Every team" to be something like idk top 30 hltv? I wanted your opinion on fav my underdog team, I don't really care about top 10 teams but that's just me being weird
good luck with your content!
Make s1mple come back😭😭😭😭
wtf hawka... big fan and big furia fan. would like a "normal" hot take for furia :(
Naf 3k on dust2 while NertZ didnt show up today🫥