Jason O'Toole
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
It's something that was explained to me. And I haven't looked into tickets, so I don't know which one that is or where it's at. But that was kind of a cool feature, and I thought that was kind of a cool way to distinguish different packages onto tickets, just a cool experience to add onto it. It's pretty sweet. Yeah, okay. What else were they telling me?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Oh, we love cool graphics.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
We knew that. We also probably know that every TO is going to do those online.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Eventually, yes. It's going to be like the concept of having some of the earlier stages now have smaller crowds. Everyone wants to do it. Nobody's doing it yet, but someone's going to work their way there within the next few years.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, that would be a good question.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I don't really like the way the MRQs are involved in this whole thing, to be honest with you. What do you mean? Not even pointing it at Blast or anything like that, just when they showed the map of what Asia is split into three different MRQs, Oceania, West Asia, and China, I think it is?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And then the America side is South America, North America split, and then Europe has just one big one. But I don't know. What's the problem there? It just feels like the rules behind it are so strange. What exactly is it where it's like... the top-seeded team from the Asia region gets an extra team through to the MRQ, so that goes down to Oceania or something like that?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Honestly, I feel like, and maybe this is because I'm fucking exhausted and tired and my brain might not fully be working, but I feel like this whole start to the year, I feel like the VRS has gotten more and more complicated like every fucking week in announcement.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Like everything that seems to be like you'd want an announcement to clarify something and make things clear has actually made things more convoluted in my head.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
and alex well yeah but like of course i saw alex yeah we're on the same plane on the way home we have the same plane on the way to romania no okay i i really enjoy watching you shake your protein drink oh yeah that's good that's good shit it was inevitable it's a nice form thank you it's off camera so it looks like anything could be happening did someone say martinis um
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, they've got some, they get a flex.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Hey, well, all of our independent agencies and Counter-Strike have done great work, so let's get another one.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
You know, one thing that I heard when I was in Austin from one of the Blast guys, that shall go unnamed, had watched your episode of HLTV Confirmed with Graham talking about this stuff. And he said Graham asked a really good question that was a question that was really worthy of thought, which is, and again, I haven't seen it yet.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
So I'm like, Chad, I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but this is what I was relayed that he had kind of talked about, was how many teams are we supposed to be serving in the industry expecting to be a top team? Yeah. Is it 30 teams that we're aiming for? Is it 50 teams that we're expecting to be able to build a financially viable ecosystem for?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
What's the number of teams that we're setting this up for? Because you're never going to be able to get 100, 120 teams, 100 teams to be financially and business viable in Counter-Strike. So how many teams are we looking at to be set up to have a successful business?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Well, I think to the Tier 2 part, I would actually argue that pre-VRS, I think we had a relatively healthy kind of circuit for Tier 2 teams. I don't know how much money they were making or losing as TOs in that area, but, I mean, they seem to be popping up and having enough Tier 2 events.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I think the VRS kind of forcing them to do 16 teams now has probably made it very tough, and I think Tier 2 is going to feel the hardest, and is probably already feeling it the hardest. I know that's an area where... What do you mean the VRS is forcing them to do 16 teams? Isn't it to be like a tier two event? You have to have... Isn't there like a minimum of 16 teams to be giving VRS points?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
1.5 times that you have to have teams like 1.5 times the number you invite or something along. See, this is, I don't know.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Um, the angle is mostly like, if, if that, I mean, that's how it was kind of, that's, I had this conversation yesterday. So it's, it's funny that it's not really in my head, but I am dead tired. And it was kind of intimated to me that kind of the tier two events like are kind of at a point where you have to have like, you can no longer do like an event with just eight teams.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, but now that just doubles the cost, essentially, if you want a tier two LAN.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
To be fair, he's not far off for the first six months.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
It's also kind of, I guess, I mean, for better or worse, it's the valid way of doing things, right? They like to gather all the data before taking action, and they're going to monitor this and see where the deficiencies are. And I think, again, like they always said, they have those levers.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
They can push and pull whichever way they want to try and kind of skew things and change things and make things easier. So we'll just see what they do next.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
exactly right so it's a weird one it's not it's not ideal but when is life ideal can we talk about counter-strike what are we talking about jason it's not formats i don't know yeah it's definitely not formats i'm done with that we're talking about structures i know we've moved on we've we've elevated we've evolved uh you want to talk about katowice yeah i figured we might as well spirit looked like didn't they just in the final they look pretty cool everywhere else to be honest
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I never know how to handle it, but in retrospect, we probably should have given more weight to those interviews when they're starting to be like, we're fucking tired, and you hear Zontix and Shiro both saying in interviews, we're fucking tired.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, well, that's what they said. They're like, I know there was a break, but whatever it is. But when those are the comments in the playoffs leading into the final, that's usually a pretty good indication that a team is not fully locked in for that final.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I think as well, I think Chopper even said after the fact they just burned so much energy and emotion in the Na'Vi in the semifinals that they didn't have it for the grand final. Whatever it was, you know, I didn't, I never know how to handle those because it's like, I don't want to go up on an analyst desk and in front of the grand final be like, these guys are fucking dead tired.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
So haircut, board game, and organizing.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Like they're going to lose. Like, what is like, what is that? That's like a weird fucking way to make an argument.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Wow, you really proved yourself.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
No, man, I don't, it actually, it was, I just did crazy shit because it's crazy, but it wasn't anything all that fun. Yeah, after Poland, I came home for 20 hours. I landed at 5 p.m. on Monday. I left Tuesday at 2 p.m. And then flew down to Austin to do the launch party for Blast. Same thing they did at the Eiffel Tower for Paris.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Well, I think that's the point of what comes next for Spirit and what we want to keep our eyes on is like, okay, you just got fucking smacked in the face right after you won the major. Now you know what it's like to be the king and have everyone gunning for your position. So what's your response? What's the fucking rebuttal from the Spirit side?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
What are you guys going to look like the next tournament you step into? I think that'll be the interesting thing is if Spirit comes in.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, I don't think they'll get complacent, but I think this has got to be, I think the message probably from Spirit, the organization, the coach, manager, whatever, has got to be just like, that was a learning experience for us of what it's like to be the best team in the world and what it's like to go into a grand final not fully ready to actually sit down and fucking play it.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And that never happens again. And let's see what the team looks like moving forward.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
They did it in Austin, Texas, except there was no Eiffel Tower, obviously.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I wish that would have been fun. I did go out to a bar one night. But yeah, it was inside the Moody Center. It was at like the Dell Lounge, the Dell Booze Lounge, whatever it's called.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, that makes sense. We're live, by the way. I don't know if you guys saw the countdown going on, but what's up? Time zone check. Time zone check. I'm in Eastern time zone. I was in Central time zone this morning and yesterday, and I was in whatever Polish time zone there is.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, but I was working, man. I was on my best game. You always are, Jason. I was hosting this. I did like a five-minute intro, introduced like the mayor of Austin was there. What was his name? Kirk Watson, Mayor Kirk Watson. Did you shake his hand? I did. Mayor Kirk Watson. I said, Mr. Mayor, it's been a pleasure. Damn, look at you. Yeah, it was great.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
It felt like I was mingling with high society, you know, rubbing elbows with the big dogs.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
you know force your will onto the opponent even though they are know that you're coming or like you know it's a risk and you can still pull it off like that's what the best in the world do and that's what he did on Sunday can I ask can I ask a question of you guys no if I well I'm gonna do it anyways Chad so just sit back and relax for a second these three teams that failed to make the playoffs Astralis G2 Mals
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Now, I know we haven't seen Mouses full lineup, so we can throw Falcons into the mix as well just for shits and giggles. But which one of these is the most fucked on a scale of one to Lily Phillips?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I don't know.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Didn't I say G2?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, you said G2. Well, yeah, because those are the... I think I added Falcons in there, but those are the three teams, I think, of all the teams that didn't make it, I think that... I guess you could throw Liquid in there as well, but I don't think anyone else would say that Liquid is fucked, but those are the three teams, Astralis, G2, Mouz, where it's like... Do you think G2 are fucked?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Hello, everybody. My name is Jason O'Toole. I'll be your host this afternoon on behalf of BLAST, Live Nation, C3 Presents, the Moody Center. We'd like to thank you for joining us this afternoon to celebrate the milestone of the BLAST TV major coming to Austin, Texas.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I think G2 would probably be the lowest on the Lily Phillips scale of these three teams.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Dude, it's going to be interesting. I think this loss of the intangibles that Niko brings to the table, which we talked about in some previous episodes, it surprised me how much it felt like they were missing that.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I think Malz mechanically can go one for one for Niko, but I don't think he's there yet in terms of reading the game, and I think they were missing the impact that Niko can provide, even with one kill at the right moment at the right place. Not even him stringing together his triple kills. Just like his ability to find that one kill that opens up opportunities.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And, I mean, Heavy God was cool, but Modesty looks neutered.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, dude. I hate it. I hate those small, like standing at a podium and talking to like, I don't think it was like 100 people were there, like local media and journalists and shit. And that messes with me. And I'm like, I don't know why. Because I'm like, I can go out behind the microphone and the camera and inside the arena and chill with a crowd of 10,000. But 100 people really fucks with me.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Bro, I was casting one of their Mirage games and I watched them. I was sat there and I watched them go to the B bombsite like six rounds in a row. And in the back of my head, I was just sitting here, I was like, am I Maui Snake now? Do I have to start bitching about this on the broadcast? Like, this is insane, right? Like, why are we going to the B bombsite so much?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And I was just like, I can't do this. It was just weird. But I'm not ready to write them off because I think if Modesty finds some of his groove back, he can carry them through a rough stretch. He did the same thing last year when they all started super fucking slow. He was just a fucking monster for the first three months that carried them through that stretch.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And if he pops up again and is able to do that, cool. But yeah, I think they're the least of those teams that I mentioned as potentially fucked.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Oh, now it's about which are babies.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
So yeah, it was cool. It was fun.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Dude, in my defense, I put this on at 3.30 in the morning when I left for the airport.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And I'm just here. Just being attacked again viciously by Chad. Can I just be here?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, but I don't think that's going to happen because this is essentially the kind of Counter-Strike that Kaydeon likes to play, right? He likes to play kind of improvised, go in there and respond to situations as they come. He likes to play on feel a lot. He plays very instinctual. And if you're going to play like that as an IGL, I think that's probably how you call as well.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And I think then you're gonna go in and look at that and I would look at that and I would say there's gonna be a big clash in philosophy of Counter-Strike with someone like Device who's always played really structured Counter-Strike. So I think it's probably just very hard for that team to all get on the same page in every situation.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Holy shit.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And I don't think it's going to improve significantly over time either. I think this is just going to be it.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Let me check if it was her.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
You're also missing like fucking Shush and Tess's who we always kind of pointed out within that heroic lineup that were like secretly like the unsung heroes who allow them to do so much because they're so reliable in the roles they were playing. Like those two guys were massively valuable to that line of success and you're missing those pieces.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Fucking horses have just been roaming around in their little paddock looking for the fucking spices.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
That's not ideal.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yes.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
BP looked pretty cool, though.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Who do you replace on Furia, though?
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Ocello?
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Is that allowed through Valve?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
But like, look, this is, this is why anytime, like I'm, I'm one, I was really surprised to see Zeus.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I was really surprised to see Zeus say that. And I don't, I don't like it. And I love Zeus.
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Yeah, pretty much all of it. But, like, this comes down to, like, when you guys and, like, when guys in the Discord have been, like, you know, kind of wanting me to tell some stories from, like, the Liquid days of coaching.
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Because I know I said I would, but every time I get to the point where I'm like, okay, I'll tell a story, I'm just like, that is, like, the fucking ultimate end-of-the-day betrayal. That is, like, the final failure of a coach, I feel like, when you get put into that team and put into a position of trust to go out and air the dirty laundry to that extent. I just fucking hate it.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Like, I hate seeing it. I hate seeing twists have to take all this heat. I hate seeing them have to make these public statements. I think it's all fucking gross. I think it's all fucking drama. I think it's all fucking stupid. And I think, like, the fact that it even came out, I think, is just an abomination. So I don't know, man. It was sad to see that.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And I know the feeling because I know as, like, a coach sometimes when you feel like you've been hard done by, and especially with, you know, Zeus and I having both been fired from that position – You do take it personally for sometimes, and I'm sure Zeus felt like he was put in a shit position and couldn't really do anything with it and felt really frustrated.
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That probably felt really good to get off of his chest, but in my mind, that's just not something a coach should ever do is come out and air the team kind of environment to that extent. That's too much.
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That's kind of what I said when I was there. They were relatively cagey about it, though.
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It would be kind of funny. I actually, I would kind of laugh, because you just have to see the humor in that situation if that occurred.
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first so if that's what you're hoping to do well then fucking get out there on the blower um that's you know i bet i'm sure there's i wish he would have just presented it there there's probably some interesting stuff there was if he was able to present it a little bit better but the problem is like what did he say did he did he go after the had like a comment about the girlfriend as well at the very end
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I know. Yeah, I probably wouldn't be too happy if that came around.
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The bummer is there might actually be some truth somewhere in some of the things that Zeus said that would be cool to know or have an idea, but because it just came off like such a personal and like juiced up retelling of, you know, because of the talk show, because it just felt like it was kind of like heated up for it, put some spice on it for entertainment, it's like...
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I no longer know how to distill what you said into like some kind of a truth that could be valuable or like something that could actually change a perspective if I think about it. Instead, it's just like this just felt like a personal get it off my chest, make myself feel a little bit better, get some laughs. It's such a bummer.
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I've done every major since Cologne 2015.
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That was when... That was PGL. They asked Anders and I to do it when we were at Pro League. That was the season we did it out of Dusseldorf. And they asked us during our first week there, and it was like three weeks in Dusseldorf.
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I just want to make sure that... Can I get this out there real quick? I got to go in 10 minutes. I just want to throw that warning out there so we all know. Okay.
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But then the deal that they wanted to bring me on was like, you have to come do, they wanted all the casters to do the RMRs as well, so I would have had to go straight from Dusseldorf to the RMRs for a couple of weeks, and then I'd have a week at home, and then I'd be going off to the Major for like three weeks, and I was like, I can't do seven of eight weeks gone.
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Yeah, I did see, actually. I mean, that makes sense, too.
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He's going to start with... Why'd you attack me? Chad said no. I haven't said a thing yet.
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I like the Mongols a lot. I think they're good. I don't know if I'd put them as favorites quite yet for anything. I know they're ranked the highest, but I haven't seen their phase. Eternal Fire. I know they just beat Eternal Fire, but I think Eternal Fire has a better chance of winning the event than Mongols, to be honest with you. Unless they play the Mongols. Why?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Why do you think that long wait over in Katowice?
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I think that I think that FaZe are the favorites yes I like that Alige move a lot I hope we see it look a lot cleaner this time this event but I think that could be such a cool pickup I've said it once I'll say it again
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That actually is the craziest idea when you think about it. It's like someone showed up to practice one day and said, Kerrigan, you should anchor the A-bomb site. And no one pushed back.
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Yeah.
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Well, you know what? Could you not put Reign in those positions?
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Yeah.
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It was just like a crazy time in the schedule.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I mean, I think Elisha's... I think he loves playing... He'd probably love playing that donut position because he gives him the opportunity to make plays... Yeah, but that's the mid player's job, which is Frozen's job. Unless the mid player rotates to the B bombsite, in which case the donut player is the spotter for mid and the anchor of the A bombsite, and he just plays safe.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Which, now that I say that out loud, is probably not the best position for a heavy playmaker.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Uh, nope. I found about five different offers to make to try and get it, but they really wanted the product to have the casters on the RMRs and the major itself, so that was just how that turned out.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
think that's mine but i think it's i think it's something else i think it's maybe like an oven or some i don't know it might be a microwave no no that was my house oh it's yours yeah because dishwasher is done the laundry is done yeah my girlfriend's already on it that's how we do it in serbia
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Oh, it's got to be a horrible feeling.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
And in historical context, when archaeologists kind of dig up all the Counter-Strike history that we're leaving scattered around the world, do you think that they're going to have a harsher sentiment on Kierby leaving Astralis or Sphinx deciding to leave Vitality?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
We'll see. That one's weird. Joko is huge for them as well.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah. So, I mean, I guess maybe there was an issue within the team, but, I mean, that's going to be a painful loss, I think, that I don't think Body can replace.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Here we go, Chad. Saw Imperial Valkyries, Complexity, FlyQuest. Those are the teams I would say definitely not.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, how many teams go through? Eight?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Let's see. Yeah, why would I think Falcons?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
You know, I think Mouses can still make the playoffs in this field.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah. Well, look, that was a stupid tweet. No, it's not that I don't think they can make it.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, you said who do you think is definitely not going to make the playoffs? So Imperial Complexity, I think.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Like, I'm pretty...
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I do want to know about Bonnie Blue because then I got to take my dog to the vet.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, it's just the yearly checkup.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Bro, I've just gotten home.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
How does it even work?
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
1056.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
No, no, no. It's 56 because the first guy who didn't wear the condom is 57.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Based off this headline, I would assume so.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I'm just trying to imagine the scale of this fucking assembly line that would have to be with 1,057 people. Sounds like a Mr. Beast video.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, we'll connect over the weekend and see what's going on. And otherwise, yeah, we'll figure it out.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Don't close yet.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I still remember that bartender. She was very attractive.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, with 50 and smix stayed with us for the weekend.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Oh, there was the chief business officer of Blast was there. Jason Lake was there.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, I'm going through the list. Who else? You know, there was some liquid people there because, well, there were some liquid people there because they were doing something with Alienware. It's in the Dell Center. They had like a giant fucking laptop that was like literally the size. Actually, I don't even know what size I should compare it to.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
He was the first person I brought up on stage to give the presentation. He was the opening three slides.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, British as well. Great. Yeah, Andrew was there. Haworth, I think, is his last name.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, should maybe know that name. And then what else? Yeah, that was basically it.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Oh, Eric Anderson was there from FaZe.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
No celebrities. Uh, did a couple of Kim Kardashians.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I did. I did about a five-minute interview with Jake Lucky right after I did a five-minute interview with some local Texas radio station. You were on Texas radio? Yeah, pre-recorded, so not live. But, you know, it was pretty cool still.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I think it was K-O-O-Q? Yeah. Which I found funny at the time. I think I remember that because it kind of spells cock. That's kind of how, you know. What was it? K-O-O-Q. Something like that.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
K-O-O-Q.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
He's a good dude. I had a drink with him the other night.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
He's a nice guy.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
I wasn't prepared for this kind of inquisition. You know what? I don't know. He's a nice guy. We hung out. We had a drink for like an hour. We had a conversation.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
From my perspective? You know, actually, the most interesting part of the whole presentation was, like, when the mayor got up and talked about the economic impact of these schools. I don't care about that. Okay. Well, it was, like, it was to bring in, like, $30 million or something like that, so he was pretty fucking angry.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
They got Joe Rogan as well. Oh, I drove by the Comedy Mothership. I tried to go in. Tickets were all sold out.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
yeah well yeah i'm working on it but hey you think you are jason but you're not i like it you wish you were it is it is the right wing pipeline that i get to go down next so you know maybe one of those days i'll hit the i'll hit the mark um i don't you know the the stage design looks pretty cool i think what's um you know they had tickets sold out in six hours yeah it's another blast like spaceship stage isn't it
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
Yeah, yeah. It's like the... Yes, I know what you mean. They're pointy. Mm-hmm. And I think it's got a nice walkout. They want to have a little walkway for the trophy.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
You know what was really cool? I know there was some controversy around tickets of prices or them obviously disappearing very quickly. I'm not entirely sure what all of it is. So just keep in mind, I haven't looked into any of that. But I know when they were talking to me, one of the tickets that they were offering, because they had five different types of tickets.
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Episode 124: BLAST Austin Major, IEM Katowice reflections, Astralis and mouz and G2 oh my!
One of them was like it gave like the it's like a player experience for the fans. So they had like tickets you could buy where on the arena days when they're doing like the tech rehearsals in the morning before they open the doors, you can have like the fans can actually go in and do like the rise up through the floor.