How ENCE got EMBARRASSED by Astralis at CS Asia Championship | Pro CS2 Breakdown | ENCE vs. Astralis 

as a fairly high level chess player, 4:11 is most likely directly inspired by chess. It's a gambit. It gives the T's a positional advantage whilst basically guaranteeing that there's only 1-2 people on A, a site that is notoriously difficult to retake if a rotation hasn't started. This is the intentional trade of pieces. They may know who their A player is and have made the decision that boRUP is a less valuable player to the Ts (or is more valuable when dead) whilst NertZ is a more valuable player and is more important to be alive for the CTs. It also utilizes the concept of piece activity in chess. This situation can be viewed as boRUP and NertZ being pieces of equal value, but be arguing that boRUP is a more active piece than NertZ (who is being activated only now) and, as he is doing more things, he is more important to kill than any other piece that is presently on the board. This also clearly uses the idea of zones of the maps being their own maps to play on. They've conceptualized a fundamental difference between Connector/B and Mid/A. They're making these tiny tactical plays because it's an opening that they've developed for that site presuming that they have 5 pieces and the enemies only have 2 or maybe 3. If you have 5 pieces and they have 2 or 3, it makes a lot of sense to trade pieces off. Trading into a 4v2 or a 4v1 is an instant improvement to their odds, and trading into a 3v1 or 3v0 is also great for their odds and are measurably better (3v0 indicating a won game, meaning it would win the game of taking map control and they can carry on to the next zone). In another view, they aren't really gambitting anything, they are converting the game into an endgame with a material advantage. Your 2 top fraggers in a team are your strongest pieces, your last 3 are basically your pawns. They traded for something that could either be a pawn or a queen using a pawn. This leaves the last player(s) to be most likely their pawns. Having two queens and 2 pawns left, you're guaranteed to win the site even if they have another queen on that site.

This was an extra good analysis. More like this one 👍🏻

put out an hour long vid yesterday and still posts the next day :o

I just found your content and its really awesome! keep up the amazing work

My favorite kind of videos well done mate

Prefer this one or something around 30min over the long one as while I was able to watch the first 30 min of the long one but it took too long for the payoff for me so I wasn't able to get through all of it

Love How thorough you are with these matches!

is there a lineup for that molly? 7:23

astralis embaressed themselves there. they get a pick long to playground and 2 people just lurk in toilets. that's a waste. should've peaked agressivly towards party/connector.

It's Astralis, not Estrellis.

action clips are way quieter than your commentary

ENCE had a sub player you must be a NPC obviously they were supposed to lose.