Thanks for adding timestamps! I know it might be a bit tedious, but they’re essential for viewers and make a huge difference in improving the overall experience.
Appreciate the timestamps. As a viewer it is so helpful having them. Hopefully you can add them on every episode moving forward. I wouldnt mind getting the timestamps made for yall in the future too if none of yall can do it.
13:20 - 15:00 bros 1 major in cn/asia after every 20 majors? Even 10 majors like ynk said, once every 4/5 years is terrible... It's one event, not a whole year of being there and waking up early or late... if it's in australia spunj is ok but in east asia it's so bad that you freak out? Damn...
Imperial Fe also shouldn’t drop out. That’s a ridiculous take honestly. They did nothing wrong and have been afforded a great opportunity. The type of basement dwelling weirdo’s you guys are talking about that are gonna mock women talent are going to do that no matter what. It doesn’t matter what they do. Every time TechGirl would speak at the analysts desk these guys would show up even though she did great.
I actually celebrated when I seen this video in my recommended
2 дні тому+2
Isnt Imperial playing an exclusive event basically the same as the blast partner teams playing the group stage? Both are bad but in the end a lot of teams got kinda exclusive events
Getting wins now. After watching every match since Poland, I noticed they were finally peaking at the right time again. Donk plays the hardest position and smokes anyone alive. 1 in 5,000,000
The discussion around the female tournaments not contributing to VRS was wrong. Tier 2 events can be only women Valve tournament operating requirements: 3.1.1. Direct VRS invites For Tier 2 Events, Licensee may apply additional filters (e.g., "North America") insofar as they do not lead to the specific targeting of individual Teams or Rosters. For the avoidance of doubt, filtering by country or gender is permitted.
I agree with Moses completely. The female teams should absolutely accept the invites and play as hard as they possibly can. The entire argument of "they should reject because some people might think/say mean things about female CS" is bad. As a simple rule, just invert the genders. If a tier 2 male team somehow does well and gets into an S tier lan, then it's a celebration. Female teams if they do get the chance should absolutely play in the leagues, and strive to be better than everyone else. Also, "I'm not a woman so I can't know what they think" is a weird exercise anyway. They're competitors, and they shoule be expected to want to win.
ynk's whole argument around @01:40:00 is kind of weird. If w only were so hard to play against, why doesn't art, who Janko himself mentions, dominate the scene? The fact that female teams lose against Jimmy from Sussex's full send into smoke is by itself strong evidence that they don't have skill or understanding anywhere near enough to replicate tier 1, contrary to what Janko says. In a competition "I'd be good if not for that glaring weakness that each of my opponents abuses and that I don't fix" doesn't work as an argument.
I'm just glad for once i dont have to wake up in the early hours of the morning to watch a major. got to watch it all live RMR to Final, that alone made Shanghai a great major for me. overall id say with the various storylines and highlights made this major fucking insane and i cant wait to see the changes going into next year. Of the storys to come from this major the notable ones i liked were, - The mongolz and Heroic making it all the way to playoffs. Mongolz were 8-0 this major till playoffs and heroic had to fight tooth and nail to get as far as they did. - G2's heartbreaking loss to Faze and mouz getting donked. - Rip faze that 12-10 clutch was goated. - PassionUA making it as far as they did, honestly one of my new favourite teams. - Gamerlegion 2.0. - Rip the navi Era, just as it was about to be crowned they fell at the worst possible time. - God I hope Blast Austin is nothing but Cinema, Surely Complexity rebuild and take the next one, if its faze in final again that would be peak.
Chad is actually wrong about the female only tournaments not getting points in 2025. these tournaments will still qualify for VRS points. messioso pointed that out 2 weeks ago in a reddit thread.
My rebuttal against Moses defense of imperial not declining the invite is that based on how the format plays out, because of Imperial fe being rank 25~, their gonna get a very highly ranked opponent (so no 3Dmax, SAW, Pain picks). This means that imperial is forced to pick teams like Furia/TL/EF or maybe Astralis, even with all of these teams flaws (TL and Furia lacking star power, EF in awful form, Astralis being Astralis), they all would devour them 13-2, 13-4.
"can magix deliever on such level that he did in the final" has to be the most frustrating phraase to me, like why the fuck do l have to answer either no, meaning l totally disregard that performance, or say yes meaning that he's gonna be the next donk. such a dumb fucking question, why can he not just be an okay player who might have games like these once a year? why do we all have to say that magix is terrible, when, per role, he's doing an okay-ish job
Because when your two best players HARD CARRY and you still lose games then the finger needs to be pointed somewhere. He has been sub par a lot of this year which begs the question, can he be replaced and if so, by who?
@@chriswilson4103he was great in the first half of the year, then he started trolling the past few months. There was a period he was one of the best cheap players to pick for fantasy because his support role and boosters like Kobe, kast, knife/zeus/shotgun kill, and assist would trigger every damn time. Don't know why he became ass this season.
I think Spirit still needs a change. If Magixx doesn’t have the playoffs run of his life, Spirit don’t make it. It’s that simple. And he isn’t even supposed to be the third best player on the team. Zontix and Shiro both disappeared and I think you need someone much more consistent that Magixx to pick up that slack.
Quite frankly, Spunj, when you are talking about how the Imperial.FE team should never had accepted the invite because of the potential piling on and backlash they will receive if they get owned, I think you are off base because obviously the team accepting this have considered the rammifications and its not your place to decide on their behalf whether or not they should or should not play. They have likely already faced tremendous amounts of backlash and hate in their careers, and this is an opportunity for them, however unlikely it may be, to be competitive in the circuit at large, and start working towards the goal you said of it just being about good players not women and men players. Even as an American I still respect your opinions, but I think they have likely considered the possible outcomes already, and have made their choice.
i hope that comment about ropz and spinx swapping places was purely hypothetical rather than some insider info you guys are privy to. people call ropz a baiter, spinx is the worst baiter in t1 by a country mile, the man is utterly shameless. maybe you can make an argument that playing a site with mezii or retaking with apex staring into a wall until they start shooting is justified but he'll do it to anyone at any time. he'll routinely stop dead on a push if he thinks he'll be first contact in a way that would make astralis blamef blush and sell zywoo out like he's a silver rando in mm. the most selfish player in t1 right now, any team he joins the other players will start "underperforming"
Real n true, i want beered up burgers going into random Usa chants we never have that in europe since all teams r technically interational even tho the diff between norge n denmark is minimal
Downplaying Team Spirit’s run in the major is one thing. But hey maybe you forget something about this they didn’t decide who are they going to face, this type of take is always gonna be stupid. And if you do a 2 minute research about TS vs Liquid this year. It’s team liquid who always got the upper hand they always beat them, TS always struggles playing with MOUZ this year. And it’s not TS fault that your favorite teams like G2 and Vitality didn’t won their matches. Btw it’s Team Spirit who beat the team who beat y’all teams lost to. Its sucks that your team lost but thats the point of having a tournament there’s always gonna be losers and winners. And we should give the utmost respect to those who win and not tarnish what they accomplish coz if we just downplay what they have accomplished then what’s the point of having a tournament.
ccan we get Spunj on more of these talk shows, the man randomly pulls out a USA chant for no good reason, and make it spectacular is hilarious , we love your rant Spunj! :) LOL
Imperial FE will be golden since it's totally because Imperial themselves sucked ass this year. If they loose it's expected and if they win against some higher tier teams it would be incredibly funny
I still don't see how Valve allowed the sexist tournaments and leagues to count towards the global ranking. At least it should be (hopefully) fixed for next year 😀
jesus learn how to alter your sleep schedule already. It's not rocket science. 2 days before it starts, stay up all night. Then your sleeping all day the next day. There now your on an overnight schedule. Im in CST in NA. Never had an issue watching all games.
@@joseblua6566 Honestly? Pure recency bias. I loved what I saw him do with players like acoR and iM in Paris. As well as taking a brand new lineup to another Major. Man has an eye for talent on his own, as well as a pretty hefty amount of new knowledge the top teams are sifting through from the Tier 2-3 teams (i.e. new setups, lineups, boosts, strats, metas, etc.) I would imagine someone like ashhh and somelike siuhy being paired together to combine a vision together for a team would be immensely successful with the likes of a star AWP in m0nesy as well, because like I said, just go look at what he did with acoR and iM, now imagine that as m0nesy and malbs.
"Whats the difference between a bad player and a guy who's been playing bad for a long time" is fire. YNK spitting 🔥🗣
as always
Potential?
Thanks for adding timestamps! I know it might be a bit tedious, but they’re essential for viewers and make a huge difference in improving the overall experience.
Not
FACTS. Hugely appreciate it
@@Manellyslatternt spunj
Real Talking Counter fans dont need timestamps bc they watch it all no matter what
I watch it all but I fall asleep then need to go back to thr last section I remeber
This is great but i wish there was a bubble or something to reassure me mid podcast, maybe a floating thumbs up
oh you think you're so funny
Appreciate the timestamps. As a viewer it is so helpful having them. Hopefully you can add them on every episode moving forward. I wouldnt mind getting the timestamps made for yall in the future too if none of yall can do it.
Yes please
It would be nice to get a verbal credit in the video as well
RAAAAAAAAHHHH WASNT GONNA LAST MUCH LONGER WITHOUT THIS ONE BOYS
MOUZ. CANT. PEE.
bronze coin gang
chad talking, moses typing, janko staring
I really need to get off youtube I should not be this early to a video
18:43
Jason: “They only open investigation if there is some evidence of neglect”
Me: “And your child dying is not evidence?”😂
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH THE BEST DAMN PODCAST
Chad Burchill is there any chance you can get the ESL overlords to announce IEM Sydney/Melbourne? Cheers.
ESL Sydney please. It should be annually IMO.
thanks for the epsiode, always good to hear from the boys. happy holidays
Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
moma spegeti
Chinese viewership was 51million peak. but this is heat score, which come around 6-9m.
thanks for the time stamps
I LOVE TALKING ABOUT COUNTERTOPS!!!!!!
13:20 - 15:00
bros 1 major in cn/asia after every 20 majors? Even 10 majors like ynk said, once every 4/5 years is terrible... It's one event, not a whole year of being there and waking up early or late... if it's in australia spunj is ok but in east asia it's so bad that you freak out? Damn...
Imperial Fe also shouldn’t drop out. That’s a ridiculous take honestly. They did nothing wrong and have been afforded a great opportunity. The type of basement dwelling weirdo’s you guys are talking about that are gonna mock women talent are going to do that no matter what. It doesn’t matter what they do. Every time TechGirl would speak at the analysts desk these guys would show up even though she did great.
nothing against sam but Imperial Fe should drop out
I dont think they should drop out either. Let them get 13-0 'd so people can stop saying they can beat a top team.
Honestly im for imperial fe to go to t1 tournaments and see how they do.Even through I think they will get demolished.
Finally a timestamps! Thanksss!
currently sitting in the hospital holding my newborn so mom can sleep. Thanks for the episode fellas.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH I LOVE YOU 3 PEOPLE WITH ALL MY HEART FR FR THANKS FOR THIS PODCAST RAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Nothing better than 3 grown men talking about counter and house painting RAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH LFG
Also you guys all killed it at the major, Spunj you and Machine absolutely bodied the cast as usual 🕺🕺🕺
thanks for the content and Merry Xmas to you and your fam boys
I actually celebrated when I seen this video in my recommended
Isnt Imperial playing an exclusive event basically the same as the blast partner teams playing the group stage? Both are bad but in the end a lot of teams got kinda exclusive events
Nice podcast, these guys should cast for Counter strike!
BANGER!
Am I crazy, or did Moses say before that his wife is Potter. As in,coach of the EG valorant masters runner up and winner Potter?
No, Although his wife is friends with her
Scream if you love talking counter RAAAAAAAH
Jason with beard, instant gigachad.
I followed Sh1ro to T Spirit ; )
Getting wins now. After watching every match since Poland, I noticed they were finally peaking at the right time again. Donk plays the hardest position and smokes anyone alive. 1 in 5,000,000
Thank you for the content... was getting a bit dry with a certain terrorist 😂
Are any of you planning on making a full top 10 or top 20 video? If you're not in some grey area HLTV NDA
Man as a faze fan i just feel bad,
Chad motivational speech for Imperial Fe was SO HYPE.
The discussion around the female tournaments not contributing to VRS was wrong. Tier 2 events can be only women
Valve tournament operating requirements:
3.1.1. Direct VRS invites
For Tier 2 Events, Licensee may apply additional filters (e.g., "North America") insofar as they do not lead to the specific targeting of individual Teams or Rosters. For the avoidance of doubt, filtering by country or gender is permitted.
love this show!!! :D
Spunj sounds and looks so happy. Is it the beer or Australia air?
Do navi not have first options on m0nesy… I’m sure I remember reading they had conditions written into the contract???
They sold him before the war started
He’s Russian as well, not sure if they’re signing Russian players given they’re a Ukrainian org.
@@MyFluXx must be tempting though…
@@mattycee5412 yeah I wouldn’t blame them at all
I agree with Moses completely. The female teams should absolutely accept the invites and play as hard as they possibly can. The entire argument of "they should reject because some people might think/say mean things about female CS" is bad. As a simple rule, just invert the genders. If a tier 2 male team somehow does well and gets into an S tier lan, then it's a celebration. Female teams if they do get the chance should absolutely play in the leagues, and strive to be better than everyone else.
Also, "I'm not a woman so I can't know what they think" is a weird exercise anyway. They're competitors, and they shoule be expected to want to win.
Nothing like watching Chad off of 3-4 beers while drinking 12-14 myself
JERSEY LOVES YA SPUNJY
P.S. BETTER PIZZA THAN NY, BETTER CHEESESTEAKS THAN PHILLY
ynk's whole argument around @01:40:00 is kind of weird. If w only were so hard to play against, why doesn't art, who Janko himself mentions, dominate the scene? The fact that female teams lose against Jimmy from Sussex's full send into smoke is by itself strong evidence that they don't have skill or understanding anywhere near enough to replicate tier 1, contrary to what Janko says. In a competition "I'd be good if not for that glaring weakness that each of my opponents abuses and that I don't fix" doesn't work as an argument.
I'm just glad for once i dont have to wake up in the early hours of the morning to watch a major. got to watch it all live RMR to Final, that alone made Shanghai a great major for me.
overall id say with the various storylines and highlights made this major fucking insane and i cant wait to see the changes going into next year.
Of the storys to come from this major the notable ones i liked were,
- The mongolz and Heroic making it all the way to playoffs. Mongolz were 8-0 this major till playoffs and heroic had to fight tooth and nail to get as far as they did.
- G2's heartbreaking loss to Faze and mouz getting donked.
- Rip faze that 12-10 clutch was goated.
- PassionUA making it as far as they did, honestly one of my new favourite teams.
- Gamerlegion 2.0.
- Rip the navi Era, just as it was about to be crowned they fell at the worst possible time.
- God I hope Blast Austin is nothing but Cinema, Surely Complexity rebuild and take the next one, if its faze in final again that would be peak.
I can't wait to watch imprial fe's match 😅
Noooooo….. gave in to the Time Stamp pressure. GG
Chad is actually wrong about the female only tournaments not getting points in 2025. these tournaments will still qualify for VRS points. messioso pointed that out 2 weeks ago in a reddit thread.
1:35:31 i just know spunj was about to bring up DEI hires😂😂😂
When are we getting the pig chair back?
My rebuttal against Moses defense of imperial not declining the invite is that based on how the format plays out, because of Imperial fe being rank 25~, their gonna get a very highly ranked opponent (so no 3Dmax, SAW, Pain picks).
This means that imperial is forced to pick teams like Furia/TL/EF or maybe Astralis, even with all of these teams flaws (TL and Furia lacking star power, EF in awful form, Astralis being Astralis), they all would devour them 13-2, 13-4.
RAHH TALKING COUNTER
I'm sure one day YNK will grow up and have some good thoughtful takes instead of spewing whatever verbal diarrhoea comes from him mouth at present.
1:30:58 plenty of people called out ohne pixel on it
"can magix deliever on such level that he did in the final" has to be the most frustrating phraase to me, like why the fuck do l have to answer either no, meaning l totally disregard that performance, or say yes meaning that he's gonna be the next donk. such a dumb fucking question, why can he not just be an okay player who might have games like these once a year? why do we all have to say that magix is terrible, when, per role, he's doing an okay-ish job
Because when your two best players HARD CARRY and you still lose games then the finger needs to be pointed somewhere. He has been sub par a lot of this year which begs the question, can he be replaced and if so, by who?
@@chriswilson4103he was great in the first half of the year, then he started trolling the past few months. There was a period he was one of the best cheap players to pick for fantasy because his support role and boosters like Kobe, kast, knife/zeus/shotgun kill, and assist would trigger every damn time. Don't know why he became ass this season.
Spunj Axis, Axis of uh.... EVIL, then goes on to actually explain :D
LETS FUCKING GOOOOO YEAH THE BOYSSSSSSS YEOOOOOOOOOOOO UP YA
5:05 sopranos refrence
i would p my pants if i saw donk right now
I think Spirit still needs a change. If Magixx doesn’t have the playoffs run of his life, Spirit don’t make it. It’s that simple. And he isn’t even supposed to be the third best player on the team. Zontix and Shiro both disappeared and I think you need someone much more consistent that Magixx to pick up that slack.
Quite frankly, Spunj, when you are talking about how the Imperial.FE team should never had accepted the invite because of the potential piling on and backlash they will receive if they get owned, I think you are off base because obviously the team accepting this have considered the rammifications and its not your place to decide on their behalf whether or not they should or should not play. They have likely already faced tremendous amounts of backlash and hate in their careers, and this is an opportunity for them, however unlikely it may be, to be competitive in the circuit at large, and start working towards the goal you said of it just being about good players not women and men players. Even as an American I still respect your opinions, but I think they have likely considered the possible outcomes already, and have made their choice.
I expected a 3 or 4 hours video, i am beyond sad :(
WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT NJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chad the goat
i hope that comment about ropz and spinx swapping places was purely hypothetical rather than some insider info you guys are privy to. people call ropz a baiter, spinx is the worst baiter in t1 by a country mile, the man is utterly shameless. maybe you can make an argument that playing a site with mezii or retaking with apex staring into a wall until they start shooting is justified but he'll do it to anyone at any time. he'll routinely stop dead on a push if he thinks he'll be first contact in a way that would make astralis blamef blush and sell zywoo out like he's a silver rando in mm. the most selfish player in t1 right now, any team he joins the other players will start "underperforming"
As an American in Europe currently. Fuck yeah Chad you right .
Only issue is EU sucks as a chant compared to USA
Real n true, i want beered up burgers going into random Usa chants we never have that in europe since all teams r technically interational even tho the diff between norge n denmark is minimal
Maybe I’m cooked but -broky +s1mple would go crazy just saying
Jannkooo😊
After, Cloud nine disappeared.
ef tier 1? yes i think
18:30 holy shit spunj
Imperial FE Sweep?```???+
Downplaying Team Spirit’s run in the major is one thing. But hey maybe you forget something about this they didn’t decide who are they going to face, this type of take is always gonna be stupid.
And if you do a 2 minute research about TS vs Liquid this year. It’s team liquid who always got the upper hand they always beat them, TS always struggles playing with MOUZ this year. And it’s not TS fault that your favorite teams like G2 and Vitality didn’t won their matches. Btw it’s Team Spirit who beat the team who beat y’all teams lost to.
Its sucks that your team lost but thats the point of having a tournament there’s always gonna be losers and winners. And we should give the utmost respect to those who win and not tarnish what they accomplish coz if we just downplay what they have accomplished then what’s the point of having a tournament.
yo
Can't even pump your own gas in New Jersey.
ccan we get Spunj on more of these talk shows, the man randomly pulls out a USA chant for no good reason, and make it spectacular is hilarious , we love your rant Spunj! :) LOL
720p super quality
MARC!
Moses.. I wont take the NJ slander, I know a guy who knows a guy..
Imperial FE will be golden since it's totally because Imperial themselves sucked ass this year. If they loose it's expected and if they win against some higher tier teams it would be incredibly funny
jersey is the armpit of america.
YNK is so off about Sh1ro lol, Blud is clueless
If you want to win us NA fans over you have to put some respect on shroud’s name.
Just don’t search his name on HLTV and select LAN matches…
Less timestamps next time
its more likely that people would simp for women in the lobby than to be sexist
Here before 100 views? 👀
Here after 1 million viewers
rah
To provide balance, I believe timestamps are for the weak. Listen to the whole thing through or you’re not a true talking counter fan RAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
they cant play and they dont belong here and yes they should have declined the invite
donk looks like a small child trying to get into his parent's discussion.
Aussie should blabber less loudly and let baldy do more talking
Ditch the Joe Rogan, Chad. It's shite.
I still don't see how Valve allowed the sexist tournaments and leagues to count towards the global ranking. At least it should be (hopefully) fixed for next year 😀
jesus learn how to alter your sleep schedule already. It's not rocket science. 2 days before it starts, stay up all night. Then your sleeping all day the next day. There now your on an overnight schedule. Im in CST in NA. Never had an issue watching all games.
This doesn't apply to any adult with a job. If we all had no schedule like you this would work 😀
Yeah, it’s a thing you can do if unemployed lol
The whole convo about the women invite...this is why normal counter-strike players hate these english "talent" people , absolutely insufferable.
Feel free to elaborate
[G2]
malbs, m0nesy, Jimpphat, siuhy, huNter - Coach: ashhh
Why would they get ashhh instead of sycrone though?
@@joseblua6566
Honestly?
Pure recency bias.
I loved what I saw him do with players like acoR and iM in Paris.
As well as taking a brand new lineup to another Major.
Man has an eye for talent on his own, as well as a pretty hefty amount of new knowledge the top teams are sifting through from the Tier 2-3 teams (i.e. new setups, lineups, boosts, strats, metas, etc.)
I would imagine someone like ashhh and somelike siuhy being paired together to combine a vision together for a team would be immensely successful with the likes of a star AWP in m0nesy as well, because like I said, just go look at what he did with acoR and iM, now imagine that as m0nesy and malbs.
TIME. STAMPS. W.