Talking Counter
Episode 136: IEM Dallas, s1mple hath returned, mouz peak, Falcons shaky, Vitality still haven't lost
Fri, 23 May 2025
moses, YNk-, and SPUNJ are back in Dallas enjoying the weather and some nice, cold, crisp American beer while Talking Counter.Join our Discord it's a PARTY! Discuss the episode with other listeners, join watch parties, and Talk Counter!https://discord.gg/VYWH5nJD00:00 Intro, 10:50 Furia/Aurora in Astana/Dallas26:00 BESTIA situation42:00 Chad’s apology(i stopped making time stamps for a little bit)1:24:00 Liquid(aw shucks it happened again)
Chapter 1: What happened during the audio troubleshooting?
Absolutely born ready.
I should be celebrated.
Celebrated. Nice opening. Bro, it took us 20 minutes to start recording this episode, to troubleshoot it, but we didn't give up.
We handled the audio issues. We did not force the record with crappy audio conditions. And I feel like we all learned something today, which is that sometimes you just need to delete a setting in OBS and re-add the exact same one, and it works.
Yeah, look, without my troubleshooting, we wouldn't be here right now. And that's why I should be celebrated. Whose water is this? Yours.
I brought three.
Someone's already drunk from this.
Okay, then it would be Yanko's because I haven't taken a sip yet. All right.
I took a sip before you guilted me into getting us beers. And now you're having a protein shake. Can you tell us about your...
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Chapter 2: Why should the FURIA team be concerned about their performance?
Last time we recorded one in this room, Josh was in the room. Yeah, that's right. Josh could also maybe end up in the room. And I think it's cute that Dinko has a whole room to pick. And when he set up, he set up right next to Josh.
That's true. Yeah, he did have his choice of 20 computers spread out through the whole conference room.
But it is nice that he did decide to sit right next to... He hangs on on you like lice. Who, Dinko? Yeah. And you always like to have someone watching, at least in Dallas. Well, there is a cock chair.
It's a nice cock chair in this hotel.
It's a cock table. Yeah, I heard it got a big workout last year, Jason.
Yeah, a couple. From what we've heard, a few of them. Absolutely. Even like an upgrade cock chair situation as well. I'm a regular room to the presidential suite. Are you sweeting again? I'm not sweeting again, no. I didn't get it this time. I don't have a membership at the Omni properties.
That's a shame.
Yeah.
Could have used it.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of s1mple's return?
And to what, where we're in America?
Oh, Dallas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Malta to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Dallas. And then as we're going to go through, then you get ready. And I was in this line, Alex was in this line, and I saw about five or six people ahead of me. The woman that had just gone up, she gave her passport and she was getting asked a few extra questions. And I was like, I know what's going to happen here.
She ended up getting pulled to the secondary screening. So I like shifted line and jumped in with Alex. I was like, because the border agent leaves, like closes the queue. And I was like, I've already been waiting for a fucking hour. I jumped in with Alex. I was like, let's get out of here. And then I got up there. Alex went before me.
And Alex and I have the same travel plans while we're here in the US. So whatever Alex said is probably similar to the story that I said. But I went up and he goes, what are you here for? And I went, oh, it's a gaming event. And then I'm going to go see a friend and stay with him in Michigan. And he was like, oh, where in Michigan? I was like, oh, Grand Rapids.
And he's like, oh, yeah, there's a presidential library there. If you're bored, you can go and check it out.
And I was like, oh, yeah, really?
Which president? Gerald R. Ford.
the only president that wasn't elected yeah yeah and he explained that to me i didn't i didn't know that and then we spoke about the weather how come he wasn't elected because nixon got uh yeah but he was the vice president the same way linden he got elected as his vp are you questioning kramer the border agent yeah that could be his last name but his name he was an old bloke i reckon it's probably in his 50s
And then we were talking about the weather because I was like, yeah, I don't know how sunny it's going to be in Michigan. And he was like, do you have a device that can access the internet on your phone right now? And I was like, yeah. And I was like, what is he going to make me look up? And he's like, yeah, type in weather.gov. And I go to like the weather thing and I show it to him.
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Chapter 6: How does team travel impact performance?
This means he has 1.6 million followers on Instagram. He's changed his fucking Instagram picture. off the radar on the mission.
I like it.
It's fucking good.
I like it. I really do. I feel like there's this sense that I want him to fail and I don't. I want him to succeed. I think Counter-Strike is in a better place, as you just outlined, if S1mple is doing better. This is the first thing I've seen that makes me think that mentally he's actually trying to get into it.
It's also funny, they sounded pretty confident in interviews talking about how their practice went with Rain, you know, which is... Easy to say when rain's not here.
Don't you hate the fact that it's like Kerrigan, Simple, and these guys with all the experience saying, practice is going great. Isn't there like something that's making... No, but that's the reason I'm buying in.
I think that's twofold. First of all, things have been going so poorly for FaZe that actually having good practice is a positive. And the second one is, it was such a wild card. It's such a Hail Mary. Like, you didn't know what to expect from s1mple. So the fact that you're getting some positive feedback early on is like a great sign. Like, you might get hopeful.
And what we said about it, that's the same thing. FaZe needs two best of ones and a best of three to be in the playoffs.
No, they're in stage two. They are? Stage two, yeah.
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