Who're the Major favorites? IEM Rio Special 1/5 (ft. hooch, guerri, Apoka) | HLTV Confirmed S6E35

hooch, RyanAtDust2, guerri, and Apoka join HLTV Confirmed for the 1st show of 5 from the Rio Major! In topics, the Legends Stage surprises (FaZe, Vitality, Liquid), Playoffs bracket predictions, the problem of NA, coach bans, and more.
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0:00 - Podcast intro
2:31 - The naughty part
5:13 - What is hooch doing in Rio?
9:45 - hooch’s future
Recent news
11:21 - device to skip first event; Kjaerbye to Astralis?
18:26 - Skinionaire: the panel & HLTV-theme
Rio Major
25:50 - Major in Brazil
35:35 - SPUNJ on degster’s critique towards ESL
42:00 - The issue with the format?
49:27 - FaZe disaster
59:32 - Cloud9 are now favorites
1:03:45 - Vitality not living up to expectations
1:11:56 - “NIP went the wrong path” - hooch
1:18:11 - Liquid fall out; Ryan comes in
1:20:41 - N1 Moment: EliGE signs despite being crushed
1:24:06 - The role of age & experience in CS:GO
1:27:05 - NA: what’s wrong with it?
Playoffs Pick’Em
1:48:20 - MOUZ vs. Cloud9
1:59:20 - FURIA vs. NAVI
2:07:06 - fnatic vs. Outsiders
2:16:16 - Heroic vs. Spirit
2:21:35 - Semi-finals and Grand final
Apoka & guerri
2:24:52 - Brazil Major impressions
2:31:22 - Having Brazilians cheering in the arena
2:35:07 - FURIA in the Playoffs
2:38:47 - ESIC coach bans
2:53:44 - Final words
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[@delsix1222]

hooch should become 4th constant member of this show, he is so entertaining and just a cool guy

[@Bisaflor82]

I wanted to say the same thing. He is amazing. Please invite him more often.

[@illastration1]

He has great takes. I feel myself agreeing with him a lot.

[@hammedburgerOG]

Hooch is hilarious but is also really knowledgeable at the same time

[@tesseract_uk]

should get Hooch on Talking Counter. then you’ll have Spunj who loves ESL Moses who loves NA Hooch who loves CIS and JNK who hates everyone

[@CZPC]

"What's your favorite thing" Hard-cutting fact based interview reporting here.

[@darklordinateur]

I'd say it's probably Faze, G2 or Vitality. Perhaps Astralis as a dark horse who knows. Wait a minute...

[@cagey300]

Love the live episodes. Hooch was a great guest and I really enjoyed his perspective.

[@mortti361]

Thank you for clarifying the pronunciation of Espoo. The "S poo" was surprisingly funny, never even thought of that :D

[@aaron71598]

hooch was fantastic

[@rajivrathod132]

Can we have a 3 hr show on deek size of all pros and a detailed analysis of it

[@crusher1337]

To be honest a Bo3 format like you talked about would fix a lot of problems but lower the chance for upsets and chance for smaller teams to make it through. I mean people only complained about it because FaZe got blown away 0:3. They played two strong teams which is fair imo and lost both so they get a decider match vs a team much below their skill (there is no possible rational execuse for losing as a supposed number 1 team vs Bad News Eagle, and obviously no disrespect to bNE they are a very potent team but should not be able to win a Bo3 vs the „best“ team in the world. NaVi had to face 1,3,5, 17, 14 (according to the updated version of HLTV Ranking after the Challenger Stage) in order to make it to the playoffs which is very fair.

[@kihitomi]

Would something like Valorants last champions format make sense? Weren't there 24 teams?

[@reap4k]

CIS couches are so interesting to listen to

[@aaronenzersberger5908]

Hey I love your podcast but i never have the chance too watch it live soooo can you add the twitchchat ? Would be funny too see the reactions some times 🙂 Just a small idea.

[@lukaswiinholt711]

You can see the vod on twitch. There you can see the chat replay

[@ELGUAPOIV]

NA CS isn't a thing because the player base is small, and the ones who do play just play casually. Most younger people play Valorant or other BR shooters.

[@am7ha7]

44:00 The UEFA European Championship has 24 teams

[@optimalpowersimracing6625]

Prof's wording sometimes is absolutely horrible for how long he's been in this field. A team like BNE, Sprout and Spirit qualify for the Legends, the top 16 in the world... Not Greyhound /IHC qualifying from their region sub-par region in the RMR to 1st stage of major... but actually qualifying as a top 16 team at the tournament, and you get off calling them a bad team? Stop it... No one up there besides him continuously uses the most disrespectful words to label professionals... a bad team? In the legends stage of the major? Show some respect. Far from bad teams brother. BNE a bad team, but sent how many good teams home? Prevented Niko from even showing up.

[@davidcirovic8620]

I understand spunj defending his colleagues but this is really on esl to hire more/better people. There have been lots of technichal problems with esl the past few years that werent there before and other companies like blast do better, wich is even worse because esl has almost a monopoly on cs events. I also understand degster that in the heat of the moment playing on the biggest tournament pc crashes and weird refereeing decisions can make you angry. Esl get the biggest tournament of the year yet there is pc crashing and hours of tech pauses, what are we doing here guys this is amateur lan level.

[@leod9968]

Of course ESL can do better, considering they have the vast majority of the events, they have the experience and resources; however, it's important to say that, in this case, it was degster's fault as he was using a faulty configuration file (customized by him) that crashed the game every time. Once the ESL technicians checked the config file and noticed the problem, no more crashes occurred.

[@airbreyaresports5871]

not gunna lie would be pretty wild if Outsiders pulled off an upset win lol won the whole major... obviously navi's too lose but how conflicted I would feel when my greatest CS go memory would be Cloud 9 winning the Boston Major but one of my least favorite being Cloud 9 winning the Rio Major lmaooo

[@ColeInTheRough]

mouz have a shot if they keep up their t side form, they have the potential to beat both outsiders and navi, outsiders/furia/mouz/heroic could all upset navi, kinda hype

[@WesleiMB]

#FREEGUERRI #FREEAPOKA

[@moze_-]

Boy, English conjugations really are something lol

[@cagey300]

Was it originally Whore?

[@rajivrathod132]

xtqzz to astralis?

[@iwnl_vale]

LIBERA O GUERRI

[@tylershapiro2964]

VAMOUZ

[@madcrusader123]

Sleeping on Spirit I see.

[@qBeYcarpet]

Love it or hate it they be spitting fax about NA

[@rollingthunderinho]

Cope

[@qBeYcarpet]

@@rollingthunderinho lol

[@iwnl_vale]

Troca troca do Apokão

[@MyYTwatcher]

Huge respect for Hoochi for publically express his opinion on the war. I have some Russian friends. I know that most of them are not supporters of Putin (although some of them are), but with one exception none of them dared to express their opinion about the war. I think they are too scared.

[@pgn42]

If navi beats furia, they still wont beat heroic

[@l1ghtningcs]

Xyp is getting baited tho. Yes his results are good but you have the core you had all these years and if blamef becomes an entry fragger the team will work better cz most teams will be scared of blame going in

[@liam3104]

S1mple is more likely to turn into a support player than blame being an entry

[@Flynnly]

The NA practice culture has destroyed NA in almost every single esport.

[@jdc6354]

Where the fuck is this furia overconfidence coming from.

[@cm386464]

GAMBITO HOOCH +1

[@Japixx]

Kjaerbye to Astralis would be big W Glaive, Device, Blamef, Xyp and Kjaerbye damn what a danish power lineup

[@davidcirovic8620]

lol

[@chillarttalks]

Man I can see a lot of people like hooch but I can't stand him always interrupting people wheneer... super uncomfortable

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

Bro Australia has ONE player in the playoffs, and he's on a European team and mechanically the worst player in any team there. When was the last time an AU team or even AU player has won any event, let alone a major or grand slam

[@liam3104]

2017. And so what? We have a population like 15 times smaller than NA. Csgo isn't popular here either. When you think about it Oceania actually have a lot of similarities with NA other than population so obviously we will be shit lol.

[@liam3104]

And you realise Oceania is an amateur scene? There are probably 3 Pro teams and the salaries would be less than 50k USD a year

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

@@liam3104 Oh no I respect the hell out of the Australian scene. Same with South Africa. Middle of nowhere, and basically no money. But SPUNJ was hyping up dexter as an example of what NA should do when this major is basically a cherry picked example with no NA players in the top 8 teams

[@thanhtrungle9221]

Last time Australia Team had a chance to win an event was IEM Beijing 2019 where they lost 0-3 to Astralis 2018-2019. The last player to win a big event from Australia was jks at IEM Katowice 2022. However, it still cannot denied that SPUNJ take on this was kind of delusional and biased. Australia scene was good back in 2019 with Renegades being competitive and Grayhound constantly having a spot in Pro League, Major and Big Events. But know with all the seperation, they have fallen to be worst than Asia CS scene

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

@@thanhtrungle9221 Ah fair. I forgot about Katowice somehow. But yeah, covid really screwed over a lot of scenes that weren't Europe. Like their options were basically work for a rich org and move to Europe or not compete for 2 years. Ofc a bunch of NA players went over to the greener pastures in Valorant. NA cs is in a bad place rn, but so is AU and SA relative to pre-covid. What SPUNJ did back in 2016 has a completely different global context than today

[@esoteridactyl]

not spunjs rant again about not being able to have a life if you want to play cs

[@bartallen7023]

why is it that HLTV, solely hltv, these 3 guys rate clown9 so high when all they do is choke... Im talking about back even when they were gamb0t.. they always choke... after their online era, they never stopped choking... its amazing how much credit they have.. compared to teams like vitality, who consistently perform, at least better than these guys.. even when electronic played his heart out in stockholm major, HLTV rated 3 onliners above him. So much clown9 favoritism, even now its going on..

[@user-cc3ef7qh1x]

It's not hltf but still 5/8

[@qBeYcarpet]

Because a team of complete rookies becoming a #1 team in the world in under two years is pretty insane even if it is online. And they still remained top 5 team in the world when the LANs came back. Vitality for one haven't done shit either, again not even making major playoffs. At least Cloud9's Dallas trophy was won in front of a crowd unlike Vitality's EPL.

[@bartallen7023]

@@qBeYcarpet remained top 5? they were 10th and below 10th on multiple occasions and for a period of time too.

[@qBeYcarpet]

@@bartallen7023 LANs came back in Cologne last year and the Gambit roster remained in top 5 fir nearly a year after that. They were in the semis of PGL Stockholm. Meanwhile Vitality has been out of top 5 most of this year.

[@bartallen7023]

@@qBeYcarpet see, they choked again.

[@runawaytohide.com_watistisname]

Navi vs cloud9 is Ukraine vs Russia part 2

[@IchigoKurasaki666]

This just lame lad

[@flavaa9494]

why do you have to go political?

[@kayr6688]

There's really no reason to bring up unpleasant shit stfu

[@RecklawTheAmazing]

And Russia got clapped by the rest of Europe before even getting to Ukraine. Accurate