Season ending & stock checks: NIP, ropz, Astralis, Mongolz, EF | HLTV Confirmed S6E104

The Confirmed trio talks through new NBK & smooya teams, C9 & FURIA rumors, Mongolz winning YaLLa, NIP showing promise with r1nkle, Astralis being stuck at top 4 finishes, Season champion, and BLAST predictions.
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0:00 - Intro
4:07 - Where is SPUNJ’s hair?
Recent news
5:45 - ITB sign smooya, sinnopsyy
10:03 - NBK-, Nivera in Revenant
15:16 - F1KU extends with OG
16:31 - HeavyGod to C9?!
21:30 - Cologne invites
25:27 - Are we haters?!
27:29 - EPL team list
29:00 - vorborg reiters
32:23 - FURIA show interest in felps
36:18 - YaLLa Compass
39:08 - The MongolZ win another event!
49:06 - Astralis’ semi-final problem
50:23 - Event tiers
51:52 - “It’s a great achievement for Asia CS” - SPUNJ
55:12 - Astralis struggles
1:04:02 - NIP show promise
1:16:05 - FiRELEAGUE: NIP to reach playoff?
1:20:45 - Skinionaire: NIP players
1:28:35 - Eternal Fire disappoint
1:34:51 - What is motar2k up to?
Season so far
1:37:15 - Who’s the season champion?
1:41:05 - Spirit's Katowice win
1:42:30 - NAVI Major win: similar to Outsiders?
1:48:41 - FaZe Chengdu win
1:51:11 - ropz fumbling
1:57:42 - MOUZ run
2:03:23 - G2 & TheMongolZ wins
2:04:26 - G2 without m0NESY
2:13:31 - TaZ stand-in
2:17:00 - HooXi to play worse than… TaZ? WATO
2:22:26 - BLAST favorites?
2:36:43 - Show announcements!
HLTV Confirmed is a Counter-Strike (CS2) talk show featuring Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill, Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin, and Milan "Striker" Švejda, with guest appearances from community members such as s1mple, device, ropz, Twistzz, karrigan, smooya, dupreeh, cadiaN, Pimp, and more. The show is based around interviews, breakdowns, analysis, and discussions about the esports and casual side of Counter-Strike.
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[@TonyKalashnikov]

Everyone loves the Mongolz. I expect when they hit big crowds they will have big cheers. Everyone loves a real David vs Goliath story

[@ItsNevet]

1:47:06 for the G2 +malbs email

[@Jager660x]

Thx

[@John-482]

How did lil bro know that I was looking for this?

[@abhay8437]

May you get a very beautiful wife

[@josh.c36]

Spunj haircut pog

[@slava_q100]

quick haircut by dad at the kitchen

[@beepoboy]

Man went to a Turkish doctor for his self esteem and this is the haircut

[@99999orhan]

I just seeing huge improvment from the mongolz over past 1 years

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Mongolz about to win 3 lans in a row and make top 10 next week

[@Flashv28]

They are top 10 in valve Ranking

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Mongolz era starts now

[@donniedocket1039]

Like how Striker has now put Spinx and Ropz on the hot seat last two episodes dead face. Don’t think there is any upgrades for neither of them, just gonna have to somehow get better.

[@donniedocket1039]

S tier event- an event that holds more than 5 teams in the top 12 in the world rankings. If you took away the tournament names and prize pool. And looked at the list of teams attending an event one should be able to determine the quality of the teams at the event. Majors Kato and Cologne most of times has the best teams attending and advancing. Don’t think Tournament names or prize pools should determine event tier. No event that doesn’t have a single top 5 team can be considered s tier.

[@munkh-orgila1579]

so you saying being in top 20 is easy? u do it then gl

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Yalla compass did have 3 top 10 teams so I think it still deserves the upper tier

[@donniedocket1039]

@@munkh-orgila1579 not saying that, however outside the top 6 in Hltv rankings only one team has made it a grand final in Cs2 on LAN (not a studio event) that being complexity way back in Sydney. So If I can draw a clear line between teams that succeed at the biggest level of CS which is LAN events with a crowd then there has to be a cut between tier 1 and an S tier event. Majors and Yalla compass to be considered the same level is ridiculous. This can considered a Tier 1 event not S tier. 7th was the best team in the playoffs. Every S tier event has had a top 5 or two representations in the playoffs.

[@donniedocket1039]

@@Justin-ee1mv I didn’t say it was a joke of an event, just said it can’t be considered the top 1% of CS. That is true but do you think anyone that truly knows the pro scene will say that the best of the best was at this event. Probably not, imo, not one team at the event had made a grand final at a LAN event. S-tier event to me is in an arena with all the elements going on at once. Bet boom dacha to me is not S-tier, Those who can strive with a crowd are S-Tier players. We the fans drive this ship just as much as them, so imo I hold the term S-tier event to high standards with the fact that they deserve that recognition for the work they put in. I don’t believe that 6-20 should be celebrated for their efforts while 1-5 strive for greatness. That top 1% should be recognized as so. IMO

[@xcy7240]

@@donniedocket1039 u realise to be a pro u already have to be in the top 0.1% maybe even top 0.05%? top 1% is including random global elites which have no wear near the amount of skill required for pro

[@mareksicinski3726]

41:38 It was blitz and techno at first

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Let’s gooo Mongolz

[@supaygato]

Spunj cosplaying the Toy Story 1 kid

[@dylanc9173]

Spunj gigachad haircut

[@pkotka1317]

So excited to see Mike Duncan talk about history of CS and revolutions of meta

[@thedippaeffect]

HooXi: 0.46 K/D, 0.59 HLTV., 30.4% opening kill attempts, 25.7% success rate. TaZ: 0.48 K/D, 0.63 HLTV, 17.2% opening kill attempts, 30% success. Hilariously, TaZ was the 3rd highest rated CT player for G2 (0.93), a point behind NiKo (0.94) and Hunter (0.95).

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

26:46 props to you striker, I didn't notice which means you were successful ! I really appreciate when content creators work on things like that, to me it still hurts to listen to pimp for example because I feel like he doesn't make as much effort as he could to improve his accent

[@MusicJunkie37]

The one talent I hear saying "like" BY FAR the most is heccu

[@tattvamasi5717]

I'm just here to reiterate, that Prof needs a cat. Milan, push him too please! :D

[@Flare97]

Looking fresh SPUNJ 🔥 Hope your fresh starts helps ❤

[@josephbagert7501]

Furiosa was good. Not near as good as fury road. But 7.5/10

[@squatCS]

Thank god m0nesy got his visa issues resolved last minute

[@devlequ4692]

Really is he playing in london?

[@squatCS]

@@devlequ4692hltv tweeted it this morning

[@georgbergsten6050]

@@devlequ4692yes. Hopefully in time for the first game

[@dup1ex]

@@devlequ4692he will be

[@turkeyman631]

Was really bummed for Complexity to not get that trophy as it's their best shot, but seeing Mongolz win it was awesome.

[@zagonialpar9208]

Run the BumpR Lukas!

[@Spetsnazty]

Chad, I love you. I hope brighter days are ahead man.

[@larry2281]

Sk0r was the other guy on the original IHC roster

[@biggestbronnyfanintheworld23]

Watching this while eating my Chick Fil A... feels so good

[@st4r_hunter]

2:41:30 he agrees

[@CritiqueCS]

In Switzerland, German is the "main" language, with: Roughtly 2/3rds german speakers as their main language, 20% French and 8% Italian... also some Romansh but its not very common. Typically french and German speakers, will speak both languages cause you know... if you want to work in Genève you might want to. So Rigon is very likely to both speak German and French to be honest, but he might not necesarily be equally profficient in both. Also his last name is Gashi, which is an Albanian surname, so I assume he speaks Albanian (pressumption since BNE).

[@thesilentassassin1167]

Pretty sure entire BNE was made up of ethnic Albanians whether they are from Albania/Kosovo or somewhere else

[@ithrowstuffinavideogame]

Swiss-German too (I get it's similar but it's still not the same)

[@CritiqueCS]

@@ithrowstuffinavideogame okay, as someone who Spears German, i Can understand swiss German very easily haha :)

[@chef-b3337]

Furiosa is a great movie, Spunj has no taste.

[@luxisaya2190]

Email in 1:47:06 is true haha

[@Justin-ee1mv]

Pog

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

Can somebody point me towards the yalla compass English broadcast vods ? I can only find the ones in arabic on youtube

[@Mangajazz16]

www.twitch.tv/compass_cs2/videos www.twitch.tv/compass_cs2b Here you go :)

[@vikiingen]

Vods are linked on the match page on Hltv

[@zilliq-qz5uw]

@@vikiingen thanks ! Unfortunately it links to twitch but I suppose it will do

[@Mangajazz16]

Spunj hating Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga might be his hotest take yet! Thought it was a pretty great film, fury road still better ofc but far from garbage.

[@brocksinclair66]

its dogshit movie,.wtf you talking about

[@Mangajazz16]

@@brocksinclair66 7.9 imdb ofc dogshit yeah... Whatever cant agree on everything.

[@Antidote_cs2]

Here after taz got a better rating than hooxi

[@MandeRalle]

astralis ez

[@nadesun7075]

s/o IEM Babilon 2000 B.C

[@jenson1896]

rigoN speaks german

[@rx.ar1414]

I know who motar2k is.

[@xtn7013]

m0nesy now playing in blast

[@MyYTwatcher]

Spunj looks much younger when he cut hius hair and trimmed the beard. Even as a man I hate those beards which dont have any care.

[@Spetsnazty]

Looks like dirt on his face. Long beards are better. Men don’t grow facial hair to shave it off. That’s unnatural.

[@tech4172]

The whole ropz thing isn't frozen its ropz lost interest in cs. Ik people say they gave frozen some of ropz roles but that's not true ropz is just shit now due to lack of caring

[@DocYAYAYA]

OG almost as useless as NIP and Fnatic when it comes to building rosters

[@TYLERLOVESBMX1]

You talk bout rez, look how long krimz been on fnatic....

[@MusicJunkie37]

He left briefly to go to Godsent but yeah

[@TYLERLOVESBMX1]

​@@MusicJunkie37 7 years n 7 months...

[@MusicJunkie37]

@@TYLERLOVESBMX1 I mean if we exclude the Godsent period it's like 10 years

[@TYLERLOVESBMX1]

@@MusicJunkie37 its pretty mental

[@justaneverydaycatiguess744]

g2 is fked up without m0NESY

[@thesherberto518]

Btw this podcast was recorded before today and now monesy visa got approved and monesy will be playing

[@justaneverydaycatiguess744]

@@thesherberto518 good news for g2 saved xd.

[@Charboneee]

G2 won Dallas just because of Stewe2k. other wise they would just choke as always do.

[@larry2281]

It’s okay to get a hair transplant and still shave your head. Gotta cut it sometime.

[@thesilentassassin1167]

G2 with TAZ in place of M0nesy isn’t even top 30 team imo

[@jokebowl4009]

Oh god spun j looks aged with no beard

[@nadesun7075]

ZyWho

[@justaneverydaycatiguess744]

from my perspective, replace nexa and hooxi or replace nexa and keep hooxi as an analyst. either way i see nexa as an weak link and if g2 wanna win they need to replace him.

[@ambientocclusion]

What the fuck is that thing in the middle of my screen?

[@valon_jairi3660]

Sinners cheating maybe try to stop and rematch with anticheat

[@rajivrathod132]

offlate i have lost interest in watching pro cs..dont know what the problem is but pro cs is not exciting now..