Cologne Was F@*king Insane 

Same here, I'll be back next year

Same here!

I had the same with Antwerp major

Same here it was fucking amazing!!

Same! Next year again!

by far my dude

Don’t disrespect stew like that

@@kamikazee stew is washed

no he didnt. its like comparing device to pre major winning s1mple. EliGE has been a top 20 player since 2017, he was the first and still is the only NA player to be top 5 in the world, and also carried Liquid during their IGS win. Twistzz has skill, but he's not as good as elige, he just wins in the achievement department.

NA GOAT and he still young

he got better since he play with Faze, he was a jerk and so stiff back in lolquid (maybe bcs the environment) just like everyone else in that team lol. Faze is a chill team, so it got into him, not just that he got better in game but irl too as a person.

@@spacey9707 l0lquid relegated him into a support rifle and still wins liquid some crucial rounds. like on inferno 14-15 against vitality. now he can do what he wants. hes a flex rifler btw. can main rifle,entry, support, lurk. he was that consistent.

@@spacey9707 funny u say that as he is playing a lot of support roles right now in FaZe.

@@unsungheroes8556 support roles are the best clutch since they are the last players to live, in most cases

Same the crowd was so good.

I was in the crowd cheering for faze it was so insane I started hugging the random guy next to me and shit. We went absolutely insane

The beauty of sports u are a true sportsman

Same. See u all next year guys

@@wtbdarkness2900 hey been thinking of attending next years event and was wondering is the premium tickets worth it?

Nobody doubted twistzz

@@TalesByAJ You ain't been on the HLTV forums then lel, every day was at least "omegalul twistzz"

@@BritishAdam never take what hltv forums say too seriously, most threads like that are baits

@@1atem some of them yeah, but all of them? hell naw. He had some doubters, everyone has doubters, even s1mple has doubters lol, no one has full 100% of everyone behind them

You where not in the arena 2018, right?

Not a chance dude, this is by far the best grand final every since cs go was created, literally , thats why the b05 was good because both team are almost equal in strenght. The other b05 are just meh, i just turn it off half way because its so predictable

@@willisbronze9984 This and the Astralis vs Navi reverse sweep were the best finals for me

@@onigiri_19 Yup that one aswell, but what hold me back is because that tournament was shit

I don't like bo5 either. It's way to long and it's difficult to build stats around the map pick, because both teams have one permaban and the rest is being played. I don't need a third map, if one team dominates on the first both

I think he meant "finals"

Sadly he had a poor series with respect to his usual performance. He ended it with 1.09 rating where usually he'd be 1.2 or higher almost all the time

with a stand-in lul

@@xeln1419 sdy went nuts for a moment then disappeared in some moment as well. We will have to wait to see them practice more I guess. Perfecto on Ancient was God like lol

@@xeln1419 stand in excuse is bad,faze won Kato even with stand in too. Just except the fact faze r better than Navi right now. They even defeated Navi with bloomb14 both in epl and majors too.

Machine and Spunj are the best caster duo rn

Wait, CS Major finals aren't BO5? What the fuck?

Its criminal that major finals are bo3 and that cologne isnt a permanent major. It has proven itself countless times

the problem of bo5 is that, online viewers are most likely not to watch the whole thing because of its long ass duration (ex: final of cologne is 7 hrs). It is also unhealthy and draining for players like, imagine focusing for 7 hrs straight

@@frostedleaff5586 also cs might not be the best game for that for the amount of maps played in the map pool but yea definitely draining for the players

@@carlosmillan5568 imo its better that is was a bo7, otherwise it wouldn't be so exciting and thrilling.

And faze probably maintained a lot of confidence after the comeback. They maybe would've been broken if they would've lost 16-4 on their own map pick.

That’s what destiny is brother! When you are destined to win, you make impossible comebacks and clutches and nothing, not even the GOAT can stop you.

no u wrong

Also love how both teams respect each others skills and capability.

Nice. Reminds me of how I got into CS esports was because of S1mple. Now I've been following CS pro scene for a long time now and each tournament didnt disappoint me, unless my fav team Navi got eliminated or not part of the event and some shit xD next tournaments will be lit asf, we got ESL Pro League Season 16 next month and the Rio major on October-November sheesssh

Also yeah the productions in CS what makes it more entertaining to watch

canadians on top as it should be

Praise on canadians

Yep, the noise of the crowd was at least double that loud and in 2018 it was even more crazy. Who cares about the commentator, give us the pure crowd feeling at home.

it's because he's Canadian :)

The only time I remember him being "toxic" was the 1v4 clutch against Mibr where he said "Shut the f*** down!" XD

@@a5hen a bit of trash talking isnt toxic. but constantly doing it or even trashtalking your teammates is.

@@fishermansfriend6726 That is why I mentioned toxic in between quotation marks, friend.

@@a5hen my bad didnt see that lol

100%

NA CS is just bad, if you count out brazil. And it was never good.

@@flortrupp 2019 Team Liquid won a Grand Slam so idk about never but certainly hasn’t been good since then

@@thenightmancometh93 in a phase where cs was on a low level, between astralis and navi. The liquid from that year was the same level the actual liquid is and they got recked and had luck to reach quarter finals. Its like Bayern München playing a bad season, so the Bundesliga title goes to a different team after Bayern won it 10 years in the row. Most of the time US CS is low t1 niveau if you rate it in european standard. If liquid had to qualify against european teams for the major they would often enough fail to qualify. If US CS really wants to improve consistantly they have to get on the EU market instead of staying in the US Open bubble

@@flortrupp so it wasn’t that Liquid was good, it’s that the entire EU scene was so bad that no team from the whole region could beat them for months? Alright lol

@@thenightmancometh93 they where good, but not nearly ASG good as teams where at astralis era or now with navi and faze. Thats a fact.

Niko is overrated and "karrigan was the problem" Lol

It's nice to share your hobbies with your gf

No

Not to mention the rains..

SUIIIIIIIIII

LMAO

That zaza🤩

Nah

Too bad there'll be no BR teams on stage lol

So there's different hosts for tournaments. Blast runs their own tournaments ESL runs their own IEM runs their own Certain ones happen each year and are huge events: Global finals (blast) Majors (valve sponsored) Cologne Katowice. Each determines points on hltv. Better placements in higher tier tournaments give more points. (Major win is more points then winning Dallas, ect) Its confusing at first but honestly it doesn't matter all that much. Just know what is an S tier event and what isnt. But even then the most important thing is who is playing at the event

It's similar to tennis. Each team has a ranking that qualifies them to take part in a tournament. If their ranking isn't high enough, they can try to make it to a tournament through open qualifiers.

sure, I'm not the most familiar but I can give you the basics. CS:GO operates on a circuit system where different tournament organizers hold various events and leagues. These tournaments are completely independent of each other, but can earn you circuit points which can earn you an invitation to the Valve-sponsored majors. There are also various qualifiers which allow you to earn access into the bigger tournaments, but some are just invite-only. There's also leagues like ESL Pro League which have longer periods of play and then a large playoff tournament finale. The "Grand Slam" refers to winning 4 S-tier events within a certain time period, and comes with a bonus $1M, which has only been achieved twice by prime Astralis and prime Liquid so far, with Faze possibly closing in on it now. That's the basics as far as I know. I might have gotten some things wrong, since I only watch CS casually, but hopefully gives you an idea of things. The way CS esports is structured is very different to something franchised like League, Overwatch, or Call of Duty, because the only thing Valve actually involves themselves in are the majors.

@@psych0CS2 Im also new too and have a question. Ive seen a lot of people bring the term "Tier 1 Team/Player" what exactly does that mean? and how do you check that? are there lower tiers?

@@90enemies yeah tier 1 basically is the top 10/15 team that plays in a big arena like cologne/katowice/etc.

Yeah, I think the focus needs to be changed to- there should be a separate award for Finals MVP. Because when it comes down to it, Twistzz wound up being one of the biggest reasons FaZe raised the trophy in Cologne, and Navi didn't.

@@MaFiaMediaHD Twistzz had great final, but Broky would get that finals mvp. But Twistzz had great semis too, S1mple didnt have a amazing play offs he dominated group stage

@@bizarro4587 Broky definitely wouldn't have. Twistzz had the most impact by a mile. Broky narrowly had the most kills total (6 more than Twistzz), but MVP isn't based off of kills. After that Nuke, there's no doubt a finals MVP would've gone to Twistzz. Spunj talked a good bit about it on the Globally Offensive podcast.

The actual issue was the got the MVP title and 10 seconds later took a shit on sdy. Also, taking off your medal and being a sourpuss is disrespectful, not just to the public but to the organisers and the 3 people you shook hands with on the stage.

@@AB-cg9np , I agree with you, but it is a different topic what he did after getting the MVP. It is not related to the topic of getting the MVP itself.

7 hours 💀

Zywoo will surpass s1mple once he get good team. Till than s1mple is better.

1 in his name, #1 in the game

Facts brother

@@viperdragz4403 dev1ce? B1t

he was talking about best of all time in North America

@@Crocophantu he already is the best of all time in NA there is absolutely no doubt about it

It's a tournament wide MVP which confuses a lot of people, it's not just for the final match. I was rooting for my boy Twistzz to get it as well, but yea, s1mple honestly makes sense.

I think Broky or Rain should have got it

S1mple's stats for the whole tournament are crazy. Twistzz's stats are nowhere near. So a deserved MVP for s1mple.

They should get a Grand Final MVP and a Tournament MVP

S1mple was dominating outside the finals, that's why he was awarded for MVP of IEM Cologne. His stats dont say otherwise