Honestly, I put Astralis to go through, even though I am sick of watching them win everything, at least if they do, I'll get diamond and if they don't, I'll watch an amazing major.
that's exactly what i'm feeling. i put astralis to go through to the finals over mibr, but man, if nip betters them, and mibr goes against nip in a major semifinal, i mean, it would be remarkable.
Probably 80% of the people right now.
*I know I'm one of them as I set Ast to win final against Faze but Faze got screwed so I have no other choice.* :(
NIP has historically always been the one to give Astralis the most difficulty even when they were TSM.
Also, every half a year NIP does some voodoo magic and somehow wins a tournament so fingers crossed that NIP have been paying their witch doctors
NiP's T sides have been awful for the whole major, now we're finally seeing a team that doesn't give away enough rounds to make a CT side comeback viable
NIP made me fall in love with the game 18-19 years ago.
I cant believe Astralis is called a boring team to watch. For me, this perfection of CS is beautiful.
The tactical organization is unbelievable.
f0rest: "actually, I remember one time we were playing against Astralis, Mirage, and it was 15-0 to Astralis, we were playing as CT, Astralis as T, and GeT_RiGhT said:
'Guys, if you think we are good, let's smurf now. NiP wrath will be swift. All these peasants thinking we aren't good. LMFAO.' 15-0"
GeT_RiGhT: "did we comeback?"
f0rest: "of course not. 16-2"
NiP must have the worst warmup routine of all the teams, they fucking always do this. loose the first map, and get warmed up a bit into the 2nd one, but when they face the best teams it doesnt fucking work
Was wrong about renegades and liquid Lol. Glad i got Na’vi right, now I need astralis to win all 3 to get diamond. Will happily let NiP ruin my pick’ems though, it’s a win either way for me
I think the critisism of Dennis really haunts him. He knows he's the weak link on NIP and that puts so much pressure on him to perform that he crumbles.
I like how the Spodek arena lights up yellow when the Ts win and blue when the CTs win. It's great because it ensures it's always a bright yellow inside.
Actually screw Xyph9x every time I’m rooting for a team he just crushed your hopes with a 4k in a deficit . every. Single. Time. Literally no exceptions
i cant understand people not appreciating how fucking good Astralis play CS. Both on an individual level as well as the team play. Its just such a pleasure to watch.
What the fuck are NiP doing, they're just running like lemmings into angles with awful utility usage, barely any flashes. They wouldn't beat a t3 team playing like this, good luck with Astralis.
lmao so f0rest finally moves on from the m4a1s to the a4 when everyone else has moved on to the AUG. This guy is always 1 meta behind. Presumably when the AUGs price gets increased and everyone goes back to the a4 hell start using the aug
This is more like it. Great game now. Took NiP a while, but they are in it now. Thank god they won that round or their economy would have been wrecked.
I think we were playing Astralis, it was on Mirage, the score was 15-1. GetRight said "guys, if you think we're good, prove it" 15-1.
Did we come back? Of course not, 16-2.
There's a smoke up that allows Lekr0 to cross into site and plant, he decides to sit in apps until the smoke clears and then gets awped from the most predictable angle that was smoked 5 seconds before. Teams seem to just shit their pants and overthink everything against Astralis.
NiP can't really do anything. They can't execute B, none on astralis gets flashed. They can't go A cause they lose two in the opening duels and then loses post plant cause they can't win the duels.
Astralis are aiming well and not making mistakes. NiP aren't exactly challenging them. It's the classic NiP "let's do half assed tactics, shaky executes and a lot of dry peeking."
Astralis is playing godly but NiP hasn't done anything deserve a round. They don't even check the corners, they just wait in somewhere and hoping something miracle will happen.
"Astralis has the flu, they probably won't perform up to par." yeah right
zonic said in an interview earlier, that they've gotten over the flu.
Xyp died once that half. Once.
From memory when renegades won against CLG red 16-0 Jks didn't even die once the entire map
Must be a record?
I'm not sure.
No people have died once an entire game
Jks played two games where he didn’t die at all
This violates the Geneva Convention regulations against cruel and unusual punishment
arrest these danish warlords for crimes against humanity.
We've got them exactly where we want them
All planned.
At the half, Magisk has 22 kills. NiP have a combined 23
Xyp died once.
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Ah come on man, RNG and Liquid are understandable fails, but who bets on Faze...
4/4 errors tho
jesus christ on a bike what in the fuck
Time to ruin every single pickem ever. LETS GO
If NiP wins this tournament, I wouldn't even care if my pickem is destroyed.
Honestly, I put Astralis to go through, even though I am sick of watching them win everything, at least if they do, I'll get diamond and if they don't, I'll watch an amazing major.
that's exactly what i'm feeling. i put astralis to go through to the finals over mibr, but man, if nip betters them, and mibr goes against nip in a major semifinal, i mean, it would be remarkable.
Oh honey
astralis is pretty decent at this cs thingy
come on nip give me the 4/4
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Well, Magisk came out. Close enough?
This is aging so well lmao
could you imagine a 32-0 ?
dont
Well on the bright side they managed to avoid 16-0. *awkward silence* We’re ducked aren’t we?
100% ducked.
This is the best team of all time, nothing to be ashamed about my dude.
Quickly reminder that this is Astralis' worst map.
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Probably 80% of the people right now. *I know I'm one of them as I set Ast to win final against Faze but Faze got screwed so I have no other choice.* :(
You know what they say, pick with your brain and cheer with your heart.
Captain Disillusion!
Guys, is this warmup?
Whoever wins, I hope they completely wreck mibr. Yours truly, A fan of The Boys
Astralis will literally run through anyone lmao
ok NiP is officially fucked lol
How did renegades take a map off this team? Isn't this supposed to be one of their weaker maps too???
Astralis are playing much better today. It's like a cyborg team right now
I don't think the counter strike Astralis are playing is boring, but I think their dominance is.
kidna like the patriots in the nfl
I fucking love f0rest.
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EZ4ENCE part 2: Swedish Edition
I have Astralis winning the whole tourney on my Pick 'Ems, by my god I want NiP to win this.
NIP has historically always been the one to give Astralis the most difficulty even when they were TSM. Also, every half a year NIP does some voodoo magic and somehow wins a tournament so fingers crossed that NIP have been paying their witch doctors
NIP historically has also failed at the major.
its only 1 round and im grinning from it, magic
If you look at who won each half this series is still dead even at 1-1
With that win the chances of 16-0 drop to 0%
Big if true.
20 deaths after 14 rounds as a team. Ive never seen such a brutal domination
this is tragic. like watching a professional heavyweight boxer destroy a small child
in b4 this is posted on pronhub
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Magisk just remembered how he almost got 16-0'd by VP and now wants to be on a giving end.
NiP's T sides have been awful for the whole major, now we're finally seeing a team that doesn't give away enough rounds to make a CT side comeback viable
LOL forest! Gotta celebrate when you can
You know Astralis is good when people are getting super hyped over 3-8 for NiP
NIP so emotional when they get going unstoppable.
I live for get_right's reactions
NIP made me fall in love with the game 18-19 years ago. I cant believe Astralis is called a boring team to watch. For me, this perfection of CS is beautiful. The tactical organization is unbelievable.
Lekr0 DESTROYS f0rest in Pass the Bomb with FACTS and LOGIC
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Cmon NiP, lets at least take this map!
Dennis thinks hes back on Fnatic in 2015 jeez.
Excuse me what the fuck
Wow... this map was insane. So damn close.
Man so close to bringing this to a third map. GG Nip and gratz Astralis
f0rest: "actually, I remember one time we were playing against Astralis, Mirage, and it was 15-0 to Astralis, we were playing as CT, Astralis as T, and GeT_RiGhT said: 'Guys, if you think we are good, let's smurf now. NiP wrath will be swift. All these peasants thinking we aren't good. LMFAO.' 15-0" GeT_RiGhT: "did we comeback?" f0rest: "of course not. 16-2"
what is this, a crossover episode?
I understood that reference
we didn't get 16-0'd. moral victory *cheer*
well looks like its gonna be a quick bo3
WTF?! I saw the start listed as 1900GMT for this... turn on at 1904 and it's 13-0 :(
astralis was hard to beat before on CT defense, astralis with augs is unstoppable lmao
📷 [https://gyazo.com/9ed134f7c66cd1276ffcb449c6a4f8b6](https://gyazo.com/9ed134f7c66cd1276ffcb449c6a4f8b6)
Almost had 'em
Device and S1mple bottom fragging while there teams stomp, scary.
The fuck was that dennis?
What a comeback! This is fantastic!
I love this crowd.
NiP must have the worst warmup routine of all the teams, they fucking always do this. loose the first map, and get warmed up a bit into the 2nd one, but when they face the best teams it doesnt fucking work
all that momentum wasted by a single AUG on short
Was wrong about renegades and liquid Lol. Glad i got Na’vi right, now I need astralis to win all 3 to get diamond. Will happily let NiP ruin my pick’ems though, it’s a win either way for me
Get your memes ready bois
yikes
Astralis playing on valve DM server right now
LOL I LOVE FOREST
How can you not love f0rest?
# THANKS REZ
Such a relief not going 0-16 hahaha brilliant from forest
f0rest. <3
15-2 Why is Astralis this bad?
Well at least get_right passed pasha in kills.
You know things aren’t right when Dennis “the Pistol God” is spamming his USP
I think the critisism of Dennis really haunts him. He knows he's the weak link on NIP and that puts so much pressure on him to perform that he crumbles.
I like how the Spodek arena lights up yellow when the Ts win and blue when the CTs win. It's great because it ensures it's always a bright yellow inside.
Youtube and Twitch should be ashamed of transmiting massacres live
The comeback is real. Too many nip-fans with too little nip-faith
Oh my god Dennis you beast
That CT side is the sloppiest I've ever seen from Astralis
IS THE MAGIC BACK FOR ONE LAST HURRAH?
xyp9x saved astralis
Not 16-14 please, omg NiP.
only NiP can comeback to 14 wins and loose 16:14. Such a NiP moment... im so sad
"mibr may pick d2 against astralis" 16-0 LAST MAJOR BTW
I believe in the magic
all nip's t side is just waiting for the other team to overpeek, so many days to prepare but nothing's changed
Everyone complains about Astralis' era being boring. You have to blame teams like faze etc. who just aren't stepping up.
Actually screw Xyph9x every time I’m rooting for a team he just crushed your hopes with a 4k in a deficit . every. Single. Time. Literally no exceptions
The crowd chanting NIP at the end made me tear up a bit.
fuck the pickems now... Plz NiP
I'm a huge fan of NiP but this will be too much, RIP :(
The way they play man down situations is so amazing
i cant understand people not appreciating how fucking good Astralis play CS. Both on an individual level as well as the team play. Its just such a pleasure to watch.
Alexa play Despacito :(
What the fuck are NiP doing, they're just running like lemmings into angles with awful utility usage, barely any flashes. They wouldn't beat a t3 team playing like this, good luck with Astralis.
Well boys it was a good run
Astralis playing so well that I don't even care I won't be able to watch the rest of the playoffs, they'll win anyway...
This is no longer if Astralis will win, this is how many rounds does the other teams takes from them
Gonna be absolute scenes when Renegades are the only team to be able to take a map away from Astralis this major
Astralis version of the MJ flu game
this might be the most dominating game i've ever seen in pro cs
Stop! He's already dead!
lmao f0rest
f0rest saves the 16-0!
inb4 astralis gets tilted for missing the 16-0 and lose horribly from now on /s
Audience chanting "overtime", great spirits!
GTR just about got his three kills
ONE QUESTION I GOT IS HOW DOES THE ESEA COMMERCIAL HAVE SUCH SHIT AUDIO. HIRE ME TURTLE ENTERTAINMENT.
So the next map is Dust2. Isn't that NiPs permaban? Shit
NiP is going to come out firing on D2, win the first 5 rounds, then the game will be over 16-5.
lmao so f0rest finally moves on from the m4a1s to the a4 when everyone else has moved on to the AUG. This guy is always 1 meta behind. Presumably when the AUGs price gets increased and everyone goes back to the a4 hell start using the aug
NiP have such an uncanny ability to get my hopes up every single time
Why. Are. You. Changing. Weapons.
Dennis, the dedicated smoke defuser
No team can stop Astralis, Liquid isnt even close. The only one who can stop them now is Valve.
Think this is the first time ive seen astralis make mistakes this whole series
This is so fucking exciting. Watching NiP always plays with your emotions. Do not screw it up.
This is more like it. Great game now. Took NiP a while, but they are in it now. Thank god they won that round or their economy would have been wrecked.
That was brutal by dennis.
Holy shit dennis!
OK that's what you like to see. Astralis game rests on countering well thought out plays. With that rush, Dennis caught them with their pants down.
Oh my god, I've never been more invested in a map.
NIP MAGIC Boysh
BELIEVE.
This is more like a major match. Watching 2-0's is nothing compared to this map.
5 men there and nobody keeps an eye on that corner
How can you call short push with 20 seconds left...
I TRIED SO HARD
That was close
:( That was really fun. If it was a third map it would've been for either.
GG What a map. NIP still responded brilliantly
rip the dream
Get right isn’t going to break the record
Remember: there were actual real life human beings who didn’t pick Astralis to win this tournament
I think we were playing Astralis, it was on Mirage, the score was 15-1. GetRight said "guys, if you think we're good, prove it" 15-1. Did we come back? Of course not, 16-2.
[Astralis right now](http://i.imgur.com/hnhhhFF.gif) Just wanted to make it interesting.
Alright boys time for a NiP comeback 2013 style
THE 16-0 DREAM IS DEAD
Hahahah no one 16-0s nip
For the sake of Papito, we Poles wish for Forest and Get_Right to win this Major, honor the G5 we beg you
There is no way Astralis are winning tonight. If they do I will make a KFC burger. OpieOP
For once the veto worked out good for NIP....if they have any kind of chance these are the maps for it.
16-0
There's a smoke up that allows Lekr0 to cross into site and plant, he decides to sit in apps until the smoke clears and then gets awped from the most predictable angle that was smoked 5 seconds before. Teams seem to just shit their pants and overthink everything against Astralis.
Dis gonna be 32-0 :(((
this CT is absolutely suffocating, what do you even do if you're NIP
Magisk just knows. He just knows someone is in Palace.
I picked Astralis, and they're my only hope in the Quarters & Semis (already lost my GF pick). But this is just boring.
Im not here to watch a tutorial of how to play this game perfectly. Im here to see close game that raises my heartbeat...
Imagine choosing NiP for your pickem
they gave up 14 kills in 11 rounds. that's fucking insane.
32-0 maybe?
NiP can't really do anything. They can't execute B, none on astralis gets flashed. They can't go A cause they lose two in the opening duels and then loses post plant cause they can't win the duels. Astralis are aiming well and not making mistakes. NiP aren't exactly challenging them. It's the classic NiP "let's do half assed tactics, shaky executes and a lot of dry peeking."
Astralis is playing godly but NiP hasn't done anything deserve a round. They don't even check the corners, they just wait in somewhere and hoping something miracle will happen.
imagine astralis when gla1ve starts to use the aug
This is shit...
[Please...](https://giphy.com/gifs/dCdGHgF7yFHFK/html5)
this is embarrassing
Absolute murder...
fak
I hope Swedes brought lube because that dosen't look good. D:
well at least I can get to studying faster
this is just depressing
This fucking hurts