I witnessed this collapse, too. I was watching the match at the time, and I was saying, Aurora beats Mongolz on Mirage damn, Aurora really played well. Until the second half, when Aurora switched to T-side, T-side could have played just as poorly. Aurora's only problem is Maj3r. I think he could have won a round early with a proper call, but he couldn't do it. I think he'll be kicked out of the team soon.

The second map also went to OT after Team Liquid failed to convert the last two rounds. They found another opportunity to seal the deal in the first OT, but Vitality always turns it up on map point, and gained momentum heading into OT2 to wrap it up.

The Spirit vs. VP series only became interesting in Ancient after Spirit struggled to win T rounds, then VP did worse on their T side by losing rounds while having a man advantage.

Even though all the quarterfinal series went 2-0, I must say all the top four teams looked beatable in their current form, or maybe it's just the game state being so CT-sided recently.

They're finally getting tested in these rough situations, and MongolZ just ran away with it. One of the crazy parts during that second map was the 1v1 between Zywoo and Blitz, where Zywoo had the angle for the kill, and Blitz somehow dodged it just at the right time.

Despite another win from Team Spirit, it was nice to see the other players stepping up. Their IGL chopper bought enough time on Ancient for donk to come alive, and then zweih turned it up on Mirage.

With zont1x leaving after this, i'm thinking they'll win this one to end things on a high note.

Yes, it really was a huge upset yesterday as even if I like Mongolz a lot they are still a bit far from what they can achieve but beating Vitality 2-0 ? that was masterclass from them.

Unfortunately all that hype around them since yesterday until today didn't last long because Spirit 3-0 them in the final and Zweih really looks like the best transfer in CS2 in a while right ? he adapted instantly and already 2 trophies for him with Spirit. Also Donk was unstoppable today and Zont1x played great and I doubt they will drop anyone for a long period of time in Spirit. 

I also hoped for some competition between Spirit and TheMongolZ but 3-0 at the end... Still I really appreciate their rise in the last 2 years.

This year they've been very consistent. I wonder how much longer they'll be able to keep it up. 



Up next, there is Esports World Cup 2025 (starts on August 20th). The prize pool : $1,250,000

https://www.hltv.org/events/8039/esports-world-cup-2025

The last winner is NaVi. Who do you favour for this year's tournament?

Figured this would be the easiest pick because its gotta be Team Vitality against Team Spirit MOUZ. I picked Vitality in the end because they are literally the best this season although I gotta point out that Team Spirit is better recently but yeah obvjectively picking Vitality seems to be the best choice.

Anyway it looks like I was spot on, like a week or two I asked you about this as well because I had a hunch that this might appear in BSFL. Turned out it was, Im hoping that my luck would be as good my hunch this week 

It was a great day with amazing series and I'm glad no one made huge trows today and games looks clean and very tight.

Yep , Liquid where the only one who managed a draw and that was because Satanic picked Meepo against 4 melee heroes and that eventually cost Parivision 1 game. The other series were great too, especially BetBoom vs Gg where we finally saw what BetBoom is capable of when they really want to play because they made GG look like a tier 3 team in both games and I'm not even joking .

BetBoom is really strong, I am starting to think about GG that they're out of this patch and they're no longer the same GG that we used to know last year. Where they're winning majors after majors and I consider watson as a strong carry but havign no dyrachyo and seleri really changed a lot from the team. I know that you're not joking, with BetBoom having TI winners is totally different experience and they've got an upperhand based on their experience and they're like a Team Spirit version 2.0. IMO.

Mine would be Team Spirit since they are on a recent tear with their last win for a major.
And I mentioned this previously on the last page, they will be facing Heroic so before the player transfer this will be a good match to watch when they face off against each other.

Current match is Navi vs 3DMAX and they just equalized on maps.
Next on tap for today are:
Team Vitality vs Liquid, TYLOO vs Astralis, Faze vs Aurora and the matchup I was just mentioning about Team Spirit vs Heroic.