spot on mr spunj, that’s the point of e/sports and thats what we fans wants to watch, to see the best players/teams meet at the top of the competition through process of elimination! none of that partner team, louvre agreement, marketing and politics nonesense
@@stylebreaks757 He might have overreacted a little bit, but I can't imagine what it would feel like to have somebody of semi-importance state that whatever you achieved was gained only because it handed to you, when in reality you worked your ass off to get it.
I’ve seen SPUNJ go on rants - but this was the first time I’ve seen him pissed. Hats of to cArn for showing up likely knowing this was going to be brought up and handling it like a professional. INTENSE EPISODE. Total 🔥🔥
Draken [drah-ken] means Dragon in Swedish. Draken as we know is a good player that had some "Allu-issues" with the AWP as well as some GODLIKE KennyS-flicks-in-his-prime. Went for a Valorant detour now back to CSGO. Could be quite an interesting roster if you give them some time to develop.
I think partner teams (or something similar) are important because obviously you dont want the already established top teams to have to play 80 qualifiers to play in an event they should be at in the first place. The problem with partner teams arises when they are getting paid 10x more to finish in last place. Obviously fnatic right now doesn't deserve to have their partnership stripped from them but they definitely did back in 2021 when their results were awful and nothing happened. EG hasn't had a T1 team in more than a year but they're still on multiple partnerships. Makes 0 sense. There are T2 teams out there who would beat up these awful partnered teams in game if they had the same support behind them. Honestly partner teams should only be teams that are consistently top 8 or so, and everyone else should have to earn a spot. The best system would probably be to keep all of the current partner teams but give the clearly bad ones invites to the closed qualifier (or whatever it is for the event, like conference for EPL) instead of the main event. ESL's system would work well with the above but BLAST system is a bit different. BLAST needs to make their finals way more inclusive. Having only 2 spots for up-and-coming teams is so disappointing. I like the idea of having the partner teams in a brawl first to see who is really on top and who needs to work on their game. There are 2 huge problems with BLAST though. ONLY TWO TEAMS out of SIXTEEN possible teams from the showdown (the only "qualifier" pretty much) go to the finals of a BLAST event. That means that MAXIMUM TWO non-partnered teams will get to the finals per event. That is extremely stupid. Performing well in a BLAST event doesn't even guarantee that you'll be in the next event. For example if you get #1 in spring final you get to go to the world final but you don't even get an invite to fall final or any event in years to come. (unless you get lucky with BLAST points, which is still impossible because they give out BLAST points for ESL events). If you get #2 in spring final you are not seeded for a single other tournament that BLAST has. You get some cash, a some BLAST points, but it still doesn't matter because teams like G2 already have invites to nearly every ESL event, gaining them many more BLAST points and having many more opportunities to gain them as well. I understand that having partner teams allows for players to get recruited by them (the partnered teams) and automatically have some sort of a pathway to success but it's so much harder for any new organizations to get into the scene. And some of the partnered teams don't even try (like MIBR) (I guess you could argue that astralis isn't trying but with all the roster changes I think they really are trying to get back into the scene. It is taking too long though.)
i understand he didnt do it on purpose but holy fuck carns ramble at 1:26:15-1:31:45 got on my nerves. state your damn question!! i get that its difficult to explain your macro position on such a broad topic, but you need to give some sort of clear and concise general position before you start bouncing around the various relevant topics.
Spunj: "No, it's alright. I wanna learn." Fucking legend. Great to see someone who's not just trying to throw their opinions around, but someone who's willing to listen to the other side.
ESL and Blast invites best argument is "We get more money from them so we get to pay our players more" sounds nice until you realize that they pay 5 people more and everyone else who is not in those invite teams gets paid god know how many times less than that. So yeah, it intrudes on the competitive spirit where there's less incentive to be better, it intrudes the ranking where it's simply not fair (Astralis rn should be top 80) and all that so some board investor is more sure of his investment? I get that kids and gaming sounds less serious than many other investment opportunities but I feel like we are not that far off from this being a global thing. Many "tier 2" teams are worthy of being around top 10 at least for a while if they didn't have to go trough every qualifier and get exhausted from 8 matches a day while invited team has casual prac sessions, chill life and quality working hours. I struggle to support that being a thing even tho I like CS a lot. Cause tier 1 teams are boosted, they can mess around, they can hire 12 analysts to do the prep work, they can half arse half of the events even with that and still be top 10 while team without invites has to do that on their own, prepare for teams, analyze, antistrat, work full time jobs to pay that off and live a very very unhealthy life while still being under teams that objectively do not deserve being in top 10. Astralis is example rn, absolutely dreadful for almost a year except of one Lucky run, still top 10............ No T sides, no utility, no synergy, they've got nothing and no incentive to do it. How can one be that bad and be top 10? I dislike the system that ranks it that way.
Actually the partner system makes sense if you impose certain conditions like at least be consistent top 15 or have x amount of views. Like I would enjoy a big tournament with some dignitas or imperial but because of the views those teams brings instead of a fnatic which is pretty much at the same level at this point
@@santosacosta4553 It makes sense IF ranking makes sense. But can you say it with a straight face that Astralis deserves top 10 now? So currently it makes no sense, invites make sense if it's 50% invited teams while other half of spots are qualified. It makes no sense to rate world rankings as there are handful of teams that barely stick around top 10 cause of invites and nothing else.
@@gandalfgass agreed with the astralis thing. Only reason that makes sense for them to be top 10 is cause the owner is part owner of hltv (read that on dexerto I think) . Another good idea would be if partner teams that are not good enough to play they get a direct invitation to the past qualifier before the tournament, where mostly it'll be tier2 or 3 teams that have played 3 or 4 tournaments to get there. If they are not good enough to to qualify from that invite then they wouldn't be good enough to play at events like pro League.
@@santosacosta4553 Makes sense why blameF was top 20 last year even tho he has done absolutely fuck all apart from baitF for his own stats. One fluke run is all there is, mostly on k0nfig's back cause his entry was insane. As for invites, I cannot see it being good if invite is based on the contract between parties and you can gain points for being invited. That's not legit ranking. I think invites should be for a certain point of qualifiers, like weed out tier 3 teams by tier 2 ones, then let tier 2 attempt their faith against tier 1. Still that would be bad cause I feel that there should be way more guaranteed spot in tournaments for qualifying teams, meaning they do get prize money even if they bail out early. And more ranking points, this way it's just not fair.
Love these, great content, thanks very much. It always hurts me to hear that these guys get hate online, so just to say: for every bonehead throwing puerile jibes at you there are legions of entertained fans. Empty vessels make the loudest sounds.
Back in 2019 with Nexa, KennyS, Jackz, Amanek and Hunter G2 already had a problem with a lack of consistency in their game. G2 was always the kind of team to absolutely dominate an opponent in fullbuy vs fullbuy rounds to then throw must win rounds vs a few deagles or rounds with a huge lead in general for no reason at all. Too many unforced errors and as a result of that(I'm guessing here) a lot of tilt and mindset issues. The 2 members left from that lineup are Jackz and Hunter. I'll give you a few specific examples of typical G2 rounds. In round 9 D2 vs Entropiq, Enropiq forcebuys(CT) and has 1x AWP, 2x Deagle, 1x P250, 1x FiveSeven while G2 has a fullbuy. Entropiq wins that round with 5 CT's alive, all T's are dead and 2 CT's upgraded from Pistols to AK47. m0nesy get's picked suicide by the AWP, Hunter dies upper tunnel also vs the AWP while expecting aggression but standing in the open with a bad angle, Niko runs out mid alone and get's one shot by a Deagle close door in an angle he did not check correcly. If G2 wins that round, Entropiq is broke and therefore the following round most likely gonna go G2's way too. But let's ignore that. There were 2 more rounds G2 threw in the first half d2 alone and they still managed to go up to a 14:7 lead. In round 22 in the 2nd half(14:7 lead G2) Entropiq commits towards a-long and is half way through long towards a-site and G2(fullbuy vs fullbuy round) has 5 CT's alive, 4 molotovs, 2 smokes, flashbangs and all 3 entropiq T's left are exposed. Forester, lack1 and Nickelback have 0 equipment left. No nades, nothing and G2 manages to lose that round with Jackz(b-site saving) and Niko, m0nesy, hunter and Aleksib dying while ALL 3 T's survive. You can't explain those kind of blackouts with the IGL, bad communication, being unlucky or even the opponent playing it extremely well. It's a mixture of single players doing their own thing and being not compatible to teammates like m0nesy while having a smoke, molotov and a flashbang repeeking long for no reason while hunter teamflashes him from ct with no reason at all and Niko and Aleksib playing it passiv(imo the right way) on site. I believe G2 can't handle those kind of unforced errors and tilt themselfes and then have a hard time to mentally reset and play good CS again. They are doing it to themselves. Just to repeat it once more. When G2 was up 14:7 on Dust2, up to that point they already threw 4 rounds for no reason. They're supposed to crush their opponents and the reason they lose is not necessarily the pressure created by the opponent, it's coming from inside the team because I can't spot anything on the opponents side(no offence Entropiq) that forces G2 to make those kind of horrible mistakes. Just look at the demos, I mean.. come on. How? And while you're at it look back at 2019 when they lost vs Astralis on Inferno OT. It was like that even back then with a lot of unforced errors for no reason. I could be 100% wrong but I guess that it's either Jackz or Hunter. It could be that one or both of then when on tilt stop to communicate properly and drag the team down because that kind of weirdly absurd thrown rounds were there from the start and the 2 players left from that 2019 lineup are hunter and jackz. KennyS, Nexa and Amanek are gone but the main issues are still there.
I think it's a mental block from a combination of players, not just one specifically. For example if they left I don't think the new team would have the problem. I think Rain causes that mental problem on faze even though people say he's a great teammate. Sometimes even a good teammate can just cause some mental chokes and get the team in an uninspired state.
Very quickly read over the essay (less is more sometimes) and whilst I agree hunter appears to be quite quiet at times in the facecams and micd up segments at blast you're trying to make an impossible point. Newsflash this is all in hindsight and cannot be taken seriously. again you're speaking from such an extreme position of hindsight think about that 4v3 long round from in the game as G2. Typical long take on dust 2 I can only imagine it was done within the first 20s of the round meaning if the remaining 3 players have 0 smokes again I assume it was a lower buy (lacking full nades). As G2 you have 0 idea if those players have nades left or what naded they have, playing safe like you said sounds like an abysmal idea. Here we fucking go more hindsight and hypothetical situations! In this scenario entropiq continue the long take after some time, guessing G2 having lost long by the sound of things they take short put 1 spotting mid doors with the 4th still on B. Double long smokes with the bricks molo and almost instantly G2 need to either push out Cat or fall back into the 4v3 retake. If you actually think about it for 10s you'd realise playing passive is moronic and without some individual plays actually loses the round.
So basically Smooya got kicked because he didn't fit the "vibe" or whatever? All I'm saying is they better sign poizon because that's not a good enough reason to kick your awper and if im KRIMZ or Mezii im looking at other teams rn
There's a reason international teams have historically struggle and that's culture Counter strike is a team game. You need to work together to achieve a goal. The best teams in history of CSGO were all friends, every single one of them. That's not a confidence, if you don't fit the teams culture you will be a massive problem
... not fitting the "vibe" is a lot more important that you think it is... You cannot become a top anything if the people around you are not in the same mindset as you, forget being friends or anything this is work and if you don't share a similar mentality you are never going to be in the top, i'm not even saying who is right or wrong here, just that both parties didn't mesh and it work both ways, the way fntic does things might hindrance smooya in the long run, staying in a place where no one is happy would only destroy the careers of those involved... Fntic or smooya might self destroy now, but together it was a sure thing that it wouldn't last long, regardless of the short term results
Co owner and chief sporting director at a massive global brand of course he speaks very cleanly, professionally and without mincing his words. All top people in business are similar but I think he's a chatty guy anyway.
Good to see a real man on the show for once! What a suffering he's been through on fnatic. The fact he is still in this business shows how much he really loves this shit despite having to deal with babies who want their egos re-inflated.
i don't care about your "always headshot or die trying" theorycrafting to win your faceit level 2 games, even if you were scream and have godlike 72% hs you're still playing valorant because no french teams want you since you miss so many kills by having tier 4 spray control. i only care about 3 things: 1. is the m4a1s killing faster than the old aug which itself was hard to deal with for being too reliable at winning sprayfights? yes 2. do the hltv stats show that ct sides are dominating every map with even higher round win percentages than with the old aug? yes 3. have people come out against? yes, xyp9x elige and plopski have all agreed on this if you really want to headshot with low recoil rifles then just switch to valorant and buy phantom, i don't understand why cs has to become shitty every year with a new op weapon meta just to cater to people that should be playing valorant or cod or battlefield.
@@m4a1snerfed good review! i just think csgo shouldn't try to be 50/50 sided based. personally I like the meta changes and as the game is less monotonous I also believe it won't be long before some weapon changes are made. at the end of the day I try to win every knife round and the first half is the advantage
tbf NiP played without an Awper for (what feels like) years:) When they had the OG 4 with the one rotating player f0rest was AWPing most of the time and that only really changed when they got twist, didnt it?
Not far off. They had a core, but their fifth was usually always an awper. Fifflaren used to be main awp, then allu, maikelele, then allu again, then maikelele again, then they fell off, picked up pyth, swapped him with draken. And remember the meta has changed. Awping is so crucial now, and the amount of mistakes a top 10 team makes is much lower than before.
I actually liked cArn the player back in the 1.6 days, but damn is he absolutely terrible to watch. This is what bureacracy does to you, in an attempt to be politically correct, you never really say anything of substance, or even if you do, the message is so watered down that 95% of the people won't get it.
i wanna criticise striker here. He said that phsy isnt ready for T1 cs? The dude hasnt even seen him play? he made alot of clutches and crucial frags that was very important. He had great positioning and utility useage. He is talking bullshit, please before you talk you need to know what you are talking about.
Well Phzy has had pretty shit stats on average this year, statistically easily the 2nd worst player in the team only above es3tag who is the support. In all metrics Phzy's stats have been bad especially considering that he is the awper on the team and awper should be consistently one of the best players on the team. Sure he can be explosive which gets him some highlight plays, but on average he doesn't really have any/enough impact for a tier 1 awper. I still think he does have potential to be a good tier 1 awper in the future, but don't think he is ready yet.
nothing wrong with m4s, I understand that on lvl 1 faceit it can be annoying becquae of no recoil but on lvl 10 I keep losing 1v1 against AK where we both hit the hs in the same time
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spot on mr spunj, that’s the point of e/sports and thats what we fans wants to watch, to see the best players/teams meet at the top of the competition through process of elimination! none of that partner team, louvre agreement, marketing and politics nonesense
I bet Spunj felt so much adrenaline when he was getting that beef off his chest
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@@rj7892 there are timestamps in the description
he is really petty lol, and cried over something very simple, just agree to disagree and move on, instead of trying to make drama lol
@@stylebreaks757 He might have overreacted a little bit, but I can't imagine what it would feel like to have somebody of semi-importance state that whatever you achieved was gained only because it handed to you, when in reality you worked your ass off to get it.
@@stylebreaks757 he adressed this in the vid and they are ok now, maybe pay attention before commenting
Bro, Lucas guest appearances were perfect AF 😂😂
Wow, this guy should've been a politician.
yea C4rn really dodged all the questions and pulled stuff out of his bum
cArn got that scary serious personality, where you try and mess with him and he just stares you dead in the eyes and shut you down in an instant lmao
Boss mentality and I mean that seriously not like some mafia boss joke 😂. He's in a very high position at fnatic for a reason.
I’ve seen SPUNJ go on rants - but this was the first time I’ve seen him pissed. Hats of to cArn for showing up likely knowing this was going to be brought up and handling it like a professional. INTENSE EPISODE. Total 🔥🔥
Good to have Lukas input. Also good show overall. Good guest. Also... thank's for rolling the BumpR Lukas !
carn not amused by spunj's intro
I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING Hahaha! XD Like how could you not smile at that?!? :P
Lukas' struggle to keep cArn in frame appreciation comment.
Draken [drah-ken] means Dragon in Swedish. Draken as we know is a good player that had some "Allu-issues" with the AWP as well as some GODLIKE KennyS-flicks-in-his-prime. Went for a Valorant detour now back to CSGO. Could be quite an interesting roster if you give them some time to develop.
Draken hittin them flickz is just insane
Nice thumbnail choice guys
I think partner teams (or something similar) are important because obviously you dont want the already established top teams to have to play 80 qualifiers to play in an event they should be at in the first place. The problem with partner teams arises when they are getting paid 10x more to finish in last place. Obviously fnatic right now doesn't deserve to have their partnership stripped from them but they definitely did back in 2021 when their results were awful and nothing happened. EG hasn't had a T1 team in more than a year but they're still on multiple partnerships. Makes 0 sense. There are T2 teams out there who would beat up these awful partnered teams in game if they had the same support behind them. Honestly partner teams should only be teams that are consistently top 8 or so, and everyone else should have to earn a spot.
The best system would probably be to keep all of the current partner teams but give the clearly bad ones invites to the closed qualifier (or whatever it is for the event, like conference for EPL) instead of the main event.
ESL's system would work well with the above but BLAST system is a bit different. BLAST needs to make their finals way more inclusive. Having only 2 spots for up-and-coming teams is so disappointing. I like the idea of having the partner teams in a brawl first to see who is really on top and who needs to work on their game. There are 2 huge problems with BLAST though.
ONLY TWO TEAMS out of SIXTEEN possible teams from the showdown (the only "qualifier" pretty much) go to the finals of a BLAST event. That means that MAXIMUM TWO non-partnered teams will get to the finals per event. That is extremely stupid.
Performing well in a BLAST event doesn't even guarantee that you'll be in the next event. For example if you get #1 in spring final you get to go to the world final but you don't even get an invite to fall final or any event in years to come. (unless you get lucky with BLAST points, which is still impossible because they give out BLAST points for ESL events). If you get #2 in spring final you are not seeded for a single other tournament that BLAST has. You get some cash, a some BLAST points, but it still doesn't matter because teams like G2 already have invites to nearly every ESL event, gaining them many more BLAST points and having many more opportunities to gain them as well.
I understand that having partner teams allows for players to get recruited by them (the partnered teams) and automatically have some sort of a pathway to success but it's so much harder for any new organizations to get into the scene. And some of the partnered teams don't even try (like MIBR) (I guess you could argue that astralis isn't trying but with all the roster changes I think they really are trying to get back into the scene. It is taking too long though.)
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I like these hard questions. Keep them up!
you know you have to make extended episodes standard now
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Tf Spunj! What a direct slam, I have never seen any podcast question guest in that way(Good way); love the questions SPUNJ! More power to you
hi lucas happy 69
i understand he didnt do it on purpose but holy fuck carns ramble at 1:26:15-1:31:45 got on my nerves. state your damn question!! i get that its difficult to explain your macro position on such a broad topic, but you need to give some sort of clear and concise general position before you start bouncing around the various relevant topics.
Spunj: "No, it's alright. I wanna learn."
Fucking legend. Great to see someone who's not just trying to throw their opinions around, but someone who's willing to listen to the other side.
Top player, top choice!
HLTV merch please!
ESL and Blast invites best argument is "We get more money from them so we get to pay our players more" sounds nice until you realize that they pay 5 people more and everyone else who is not in those invite teams gets paid god know how many times less than that.
So yeah, it intrudes on the competitive spirit where there's less incentive to be better, it intrudes the ranking where it's simply not fair (Astralis rn should be top 80) and all that so some board investor is more sure of his investment?
I get that kids and gaming sounds less serious than many other investment opportunities but I feel like we are not that far off from this being a global thing.
Many "tier 2" teams are worthy of being around top 10 at least for a while if they didn't have to go trough every qualifier and get exhausted from 8 matches a day while invited team has casual prac sessions, chill life and quality working hours. I struggle to support that being a thing even tho I like CS a lot.
Cause tier 1 teams are boosted, they can mess around, they can hire 12 analysts to do the prep work, they can half arse half of the events even with that and still be top 10 while team without invites has to do that on their own, prepare for teams, analyze, antistrat, work full time jobs to pay that off and live a very very unhealthy life while still being under teams that objectively do not deserve being in top 10.
Astralis is example rn, absolutely dreadful for almost a year except of one Lucky run, still top 10............ No T sides, no utility, no synergy, they've got nothing and no incentive to do it. How can one be that bad and be top 10? I dislike the system that ranks it that way.
Spot on, this issue is constantly overlooked, fully agree that it should not look like that if we want healthy and constantly developing environment
Actually the partner system makes sense if you impose certain conditions like at least be consistent top 15 or have x amount of views. Like I would enjoy a big tournament with some dignitas or imperial but because of the views those teams brings instead of a fnatic which is pretty much at the same level at this point
@@santosacosta4553 It makes sense IF ranking makes sense.
But can you say it with a straight face that Astralis deserves top 10 now?
So currently it makes no sense, invites make sense if it's 50% invited teams while other half of spots are qualified.
It makes no sense to rate world rankings as there are handful of teams that barely stick around top 10 cause of invites and nothing else.
@@gandalfgass agreed with the astralis thing. Only reason that makes sense for them to be top 10 is cause the owner is part owner of hltv (read that on dexerto I think) . Another good idea would be if partner teams that are not good enough to play they get a direct invitation to the past qualifier before the tournament, where mostly it'll be tier2 or 3 teams that have played 3 or 4 tournaments to get there. If they are not good enough to to qualify from that invite then they wouldn't be good enough to play at events like pro League.
@@santosacosta4553 Makes sense why blameF was top 20 last year even tho he has done absolutely fuck all apart from baitF for his own stats. One fluke run is all there is, mostly on k0nfig's back cause his entry was insane.
As for invites, I cannot see it being good if invite is based on the contract between parties and you can gain points for being invited. That's not legit ranking.
I think invites should be for a certain point of qualifiers, like weed out tier 3 teams by tier 2 ones, then let tier 2 attempt their faith against tier 1. Still that would be bad cause I feel that there should be way more guaranteed spot in tournaments for qualifying teams, meaning they do get prize money even if they bail out early.
And more ranking points, this way it's just not fair.
Enjoyable episode! CArn sure is wordy, but he actually gave very insightful answers. Lukas' cameos were cool too
3 hours of three guys trying to interrupt cArn speaking
id buy a basic shirt with a small logo and the hltv colour
jump scare at 2:49:17
Thanks for timestamp
Give us some red tomato spunj merch!
Was that a fart or smt at 34:11 ? XD
Turtleneck with profs picture and strikers name underneath +1
Carn ❤️
bring f0rest and heap from dignitas. real hype
Love these, great content, thanks very much. It always hurts me to hear that these guys get hate online, so just to say: for every bonehead throwing puerile jibes at you there are legions of entertained fans.
Empty vessels make the loudest sounds.
eminem has been real quiet since this dropped
2:46:00 oof that aged like milk
Omg watching cArn after a long time 😍 the legend. 🔥
Back in 2019 with Nexa, KennyS, Jackz, Amanek and Hunter G2 already had a problem with a lack of consistency in their game. G2 was always the kind of team to absolutely dominate an opponent in fullbuy vs fullbuy rounds to then throw must win rounds vs a few deagles or rounds with a huge lead in general for no reason at all. Too many unforced errors and as a result of that(I'm guessing here) a lot of tilt and mindset issues. The 2 members left from that lineup are Jackz and Hunter. I'll give you a few specific examples of typical G2 rounds.
In round 9 D2 vs Entropiq, Enropiq forcebuys(CT) and has 1x AWP, 2x Deagle, 1x P250, 1x FiveSeven while G2 has a fullbuy. Entropiq wins that round with 5 CT's alive, all T's are dead and 2 CT's upgraded from Pistols to AK47. m0nesy get's picked suicide by the AWP, Hunter dies upper tunnel also vs the AWP while expecting aggression but standing in the open with a bad angle, Niko runs out mid alone and get's one shot by a Deagle close door in an angle he did not check correcly. If G2 wins that round, Entropiq is broke and therefore the following round most likely gonna go G2's way too. But let's ignore that. There were 2 more rounds G2 threw in the first half d2 alone and they still managed to go up to a 14:7 lead.
In round 22 in the 2nd half(14:7 lead G2) Entropiq commits towards a-long and is half way through long towards a-site and G2(fullbuy vs fullbuy round) has 5 CT's alive, 4 molotovs, 2 smokes, flashbangs and all 3 entropiq T's left are exposed. Forester, lack1 and Nickelback have 0 equipment left. No nades, nothing and G2 manages to lose that round with Jackz(b-site saving) and Niko, m0nesy, hunter and Aleksib dying while ALL 3 T's survive. You can't explain those kind of blackouts with the IGL, bad communication, being unlucky or even the opponent playing it extremely well. It's a mixture of single players doing their own thing and being not compatible to teammates like m0nesy while having a smoke, molotov and a flashbang repeeking long for no reason while hunter teamflashes him from ct with no reason at all and Niko and Aleksib playing it passiv(imo the right way) on site. I believe G2 can't handle those kind of unforced errors and tilt themselfes and then have a hard time to mentally reset and play good CS again. They are doing it to themselves.
Just to repeat it once more. When G2 was up 14:7 on Dust2, up to that point they already threw 4 rounds for no reason. They're supposed to crush their opponents and the reason they lose is not necessarily the pressure created by the opponent, it's coming from inside the team because I can't spot anything on the opponents side(no offence Entropiq) that forces G2 to make those kind of horrible mistakes. Just look at the demos, I mean.. come on. How? And while you're at it look back at 2019 when they lost vs Astralis on Inferno OT. It was like that even back then with a lot of unforced errors for no reason.
I could be 100% wrong but I guess that it's either Jackz or Hunter. It could be that one or both of then when on tilt stop to communicate properly and drag the team down because that kind of weirdly absurd thrown rounds were there from the start and the 2 players left from that 2019 lineup are hunter and jackz. KennyS, Nexa and Amanek are gone but the main issues are still there.
Jackz is known to be like the least Toxic player ever. Maybe Hunter, but I still dont feel its that way. Maybe it truly is a mental block they have
I think it's a mental block from a combination of players, not just one specifically. For example if they left I don't think the new team would have the problem. I think Rain causes that mental problem on faze even though people say he's a great teammate. Sometimes even a good teammate can just cause some mental chokes and get the team in an uninspired state.
@@henryk9253 any evidence of rain being like this because I would completely disagree with you.
Very quickly read over the essay (less is more sometimes) and whilst I agree hunter appears to be quite quiet at times in the facecams and micd up segments at blast you're trying to make an impossible point. Newsflash this is all in hindsight and cannot be taken seriously. again you're speaking from such an extreme position of hindsight think about that 4v3 long round from in the game as G2. Typical long take on dust 2 I can only imagine it was done within the first 20s of the round meaning if the remaining 3 players have 0 smokes again I assume it was a lower buy (lacking full nades). As G2 you have 0 idea if those players have nades left or what naded they have, playing safe like you said sounds like an abysmal idea. Here we fucking go more hindsight and hypothetical situations! In this scenario entropiq continue the long take after some time, guessing G2 having lost long by the sound of things they take short put 1 spotting mid doors with the 4th still on B. Double long smokes with the bricks molo and almost instantly G2 need to either push out Cat or fall back into the 4v3 retake. If you actually think about it for 10s you'd realise playing passive is moronic and without some individual plays actually loses the round.
Do yourself a favour get some facts and if you can't just don't bother talking about hypotheticals.
So basically Smooya got kicked because he didn't fit the "vibe" or whatever? All I'm saying is they better sign poizon because that's not a good enough reason to kick your awper and if im KRIMZ or Mezii im looking at other teams rn
There's a reason international teams have historically struggle and that's culture
Counter strike is a team game. You need to work together to achieve a goal. The best teams in history of CSGO were all friends, every single one of them. That's not a confidence, if you don't fit the teams culture you will be a massive problem
He is fucking toxic and not that great
... not fitting the "vibe" is a lot more important that you think it is... You cannot become a top anything if the people around you are not in the same mindset as you, forget being friends or anything this is work and if you don't share a similar mentality you are never going to be in the top, i'm not even saying who is right or wrong here, just that both parties didn't mesh and it work both ways, the way fntic does things might hindrance smooya in the long run, staying in a place where no one is happy would only destroy the careers of those involved... Fntic or smooya might self destroy now, but together it was a sure thing that it wouldn't last long, regardless of the short term results
Hmm prof just predicted Faze without jks 😅
nice
SAO CAETANO
I had no idea Carn was this well spoken. N1.
Many words =\= well spoken
Hey guys look at me I use many word I am big brain speaker rite
"Now kiss" LMAO.
Why does Carn not just answer questions straight out? Never have him on again pls.
He is the king of talking for hours and never actually saying anything
Co owner and chief sporting director at a massive global brand of course he speaks very cleanly, professionally and without mincing his words. All top people in business are similar but I think he's a chatty guy anyway.
@@angus5427 bruh, did you See Carlos from G2 on here the other week? Total opposite to this bland piece of crap.
the beef thing was a bit cringe...
Yep
11:50 Hello I am source fan viewer :]
Good to see a real man on the show for once! What a suffering he's been through on fnatic. The fact he is still in this business shows how much he really loves this shit despite having to deal with babies who want their egos re-inflated.
I love cArn said that to him :D Not gonna say Aussies are shit, but if they played in EU they would play tier 3 tournaments.
It's shit region effect, they have no one to practice against. Renegades got to a major semi after been consistently in Europe.
m4a1 is perfectly balan... oh nevermind, they just don't know how to pop heads with the ak47
i don't care about your "always headshot or die trying" theorycrafting to win your faceit level 2 games, even if you were scream and have godlike 72% hs you're still playing valorant because no french teams want you since you miss so many kills by having tier 4 spray control. i only care about 3 things:
1. is the m4a1s killing faster than the old aug which itself was hard to deal with for being too reliable at winning sprayfights? yes
2. do the hltv stats show that ct sides are dominating every map with even higher round win percentages than with the old aug? yes
3. have people come out against? yes, xyp9x elige and plopski have all agreed on this
if you really want to headshot with low recoil rifles then just switch to valorant and buy phantom, i don't understand why cs has to become shitty every year with a new op weapon meta just to cater to people that should be playing valorant or cod or battlefield.
@@m4a1snerfed good review! i just think csgo shouldn't try to be 50/50 sided based. personally I like the meta changes and as the game is less monotonous I also believe it won't be long before some weapon changes are made. at the end of the day I try to win every knife round and the first half is the advantage
@@m4a1snerfed git gud kid
@@pacisking take your own advice
@@m4a1snerfed cry more
tbf NiP played without an Awper for (what feels like) years:) When they had the OG 4 with the one rotating player f0rest was AWPing most of the time and that only really changed when they got twist, didnt it?
Not far off. They had a core, but their fifth was usually always an awper. Fifflaren used to be main awp, then allu, maikelele, then allu again, then maikelele again, then they fell off, picked up pyth, swapped him with draken.
And remember the meta has changed. Awping is so crucial now, and the amount of mistakes a top 10 team makes is much lower than before.
True teams don't need an awper but I think astralis is an example of how important a competent awper is in modern CS.
@@angus5427 never have I ever heard more shite in my life, lol
Wtf is he going on about
a1s buffs bad players on CT side needs a nerf NOW
ak47 on T side: lmao
@@TozzkaXD ?????
yea, they should price it at 3100 and lower a4 down to 2900 and the balance would be perfect.
@@0L0FED I think players will buy whichever one is cheaper rn, make them both 3k no nerfs no buffs ezpz
Tbf I think the best way to nerf the A1S would be to make it louder.
I actually liked cArn the player back in the 1.6 days, but damn is he absolutely terrible to watch. This is what bureacracy does to you, in an attempt to be politically correct, you never really say anything of substance, or even if you do, the message is so watered down that 95% of the people won't get it.
i wanna criticise striker here. He said that phsy isnt ready for T1 cs? The dude hasnt even seen him play? he made alot of clutches and crucial frags that was very important. He had great positioning and utility useage. He is talking bullshit, please before you talk you need to know what you are talking about.
You are focusing on the good rounds and not the average/bad ones :)
Well Phzy has had pretty shit stats on average this year, statistically easily the 2nd worst player in the team only above es3tag who is the support. In all metrics Phzy's stats have been bad especially considering that he is the awper on the team and awper should be consistently one of the best players on the team. Sure he can be explosive which gets him some highlight plays, but on average he doesn't really have any/enough impact for a tier 1 awper. I still think he does have potential to be a good tier 1 awper in the future, but don't think he is ready yet.
He's literally the worst rated player on Young Ninjas lol
I just don't like SpunJ as a person but damn is he good at his job
What did he do?
Imagine thinking you know me as a _person_ from what you've seen online 😂
@@ChadBurchillSPUNJ internet’s gonna internet man 😂
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@@ChadBurchillSPUNJ aw and i thought i liked you as a person :(
m4a1s is overpowered and csgo devs don't care about balance therefore it's a waste of time to play csgo
get good
@@olemannen9540 take your own advice
videogames are always a waste of time to play
@@m4a1snerfed you spam all the time. Virgin
@@m4a1snerfed I'm not the one crying about something that's not overpowered but go off nigga
m4a1s is overpowered and csgo devs don't care about balance therefore it's a waste of time to play csgo
nothing wrong with m4s, I understand that on lvl 1 faceit it can be annoying becquae of no recoil but on lvl 10 I keep losing 1v1 against AK where we both hit the hs in the same time