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m.youtube.com/watch?v=NXMqf0HuNvA&t=2541..
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-faze are not top 5
-their basics are shit (spacing, trading, positioning etc)
-their nades/tactics are outdated
-their coaching staff is useless
-they rely only on their aim
Overall huge +1 watching them for the past year has been painful and delsuional people still consider them one of the best for no reason
Im on my phone so you have to check timestamps in the description
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Context? I never watch desk segments
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maui has 0 cs knowledge
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He made an interesting point about fazes utility tho
He's played multiple seasons of ESEA premier as an igl, how did you come to that conclusion?
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hello maui
please retire
nobody likes you on events
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hltv.org/stats/players/events/14497/maui..
also has a dream job, stay jealous kid :DD
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MDL was just before pro league
original comment: maui has 0 cs knowledge
obviously he has CS knowledge if he IGLd multiple seasons in the division just under pro league
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what? his job isn't to be better than players lol, he's an analyst/pundit
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That was not my point, my point was he is behaving like he knows better than them. There are many analysts that critizise things in a respectful manner yet Mauisnake seems to be stuck doing only hot takes so he gets more attention.
There can be many reasons why a Team is in a slump. Faze has been a top Team for a long time and it can get very tiring to stay on top for so long and sometimes you just have to dial it back to prevent burnout. Things like this are normal nowadays and of course if you dont grind like you use to you are going to be worse thats not a big surprise. But you hear nothing like this from Maui. He will say "Their utility is just bad blalbalbla they suck others are better" No shit sherlock thats not professional Analysis that is a 5 IQ Twitchchat analysis.
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Every analyst that criticizes teams and players are behaving as if they know better.
Have you never heard YNK, Pimp, Maniac? .
he actually watches demos to come to these conclusions, the fact that you cant make sense of what hes saying says more about you than him but ok
He never gave pure analysis about the games, always said and predicted the favorite to win.
Got 80% of his predictions wrong the whole major and on top of that was trashtalking every single player / team that ended up popping off during the tournament.
Some of the things he said:
> Gamerlegion wasn't gonna make it to playoffs
> Gamerlegion would lose quarters if they made it
> Gamerlegion would 100% lose against heroic and there was 0% chance they would win
> 0% chance Liquid was gonna lose against Apeks
> 0% chance FaZe would make out of legends because they were going against Na'vi and even weaker Na'vi > FaZe ( He even said na'vi is still better than FaZe #4 )
> G2 would never lose against Fnatic
> After map 2 of BNE vs FaZe he said that FaZe would choke last map
> Monte was going to destroy GL in quarters
> Ence would never lose to NIP
Literally 80% of the points he made in that desk were pointless, even if you didn't watch desk segments, go on his twitter and you'll realise how much he was malding because he was wrong about everything 24/7.
twitter.com/Mauisnake/status/16602233841..
twitter.com/Mauisnake/status/16599847275..
twitter.com/Mauisnake/status/16596924028..
twitter.com/Mauisnake/status/16599576051..
I'm happy both maniac and professeur were in legends stage. I'm happy freya and pimp were actually there, i actually respected maui opinions, but everything he said was a pure joke whole legends/playoffs, literally wrong almost every single time and his analysis were pretty poor.
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Analysis during desk segments usually is pretty weak and lacks depth, but he made a really decent point in the linked video. Honestly i didnt know their utility was that bad
I cannot say for sure if its true but it kinda looks like mauis job was being an asshole. There is always a guy who is supposed to make spicy takes (thorin, ynk, kassad). Its just my hypothesis, dont take it too seriously
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Bro if maui is the spicy guy blast really have low standards. Thorin, r lewis, kassad and ynk are miles more spicy and entertaining.
Maui on desk just spills the average insert favourite to win.
I love him on hot take point made tho, he trolls kassad so hard.
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Overall the major had a lot of odd staff decisions and I couldnt see a single reason to watch desk segments.
+1
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both are just haters
tbf all he said was:
favorite is going to win match
its impossible that the favorite loses against the underdog
its impossible that a underdog makes it to playoffs
this will happen because it has happened before
just like most analysts out there like pimp for example, they dont really know much in depth about anything. they just are more useful for casual fans who dont know much about the scene or csgo overall, its more like ''this team hasnt won inferno for 3 games in a row where this team has only played it twice''
like i said pretty much all the things they say is just from stats and shit like that, you can see the difference between someone who genuinely knows csgo/competitive csgo when there is a pro casting with them like in epl for example, when they had pros like twistzz and hooxi alongside them. its a shame that retired pros that used to play in the very top very rarely become analysts (i know pimp is one but still) because they would give alot better insight than these so called ''analysts''
How is that his fault? CS is pure luck nowadays. It's a literal coin toss who wins with all these fluke teams. No one can predict it accurately.
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that just shows he doesn't understand cs. At the moment any tier 2 team can beat a tier 1 team so he shouldn't be saying shit like '0% chance'
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It makes sense to say it during rounds when there's like less than a 3% chance of bringing it back. Then it's hype when the miracle happens. But he says it on games that are like 30/70 and it just sounds silly.
then maybe don't say things like 100% certain or 0% chance
if this shows something... is that Maui is just a diiiiiick
I wouldn't mind as much but the guy acts like a prophet when he predicted -nafany after getting so much wrong. I also think he's one of the analysts that relies to much on 'form' when it's just variance.
quality post, respect for the effort
All of the points you brought up sound like reasonable opinions to have, and him predicting favorites but ending up being wrong isn't really his fault is it? Most people were wrong for this major because there were so many upsets, analysts can't do much more than looking at reality and telling you who is the favorite.
The clips and tweets don't seem bad to me either?
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I could add few more, those were the points that came up to my mind while i was typing that.
On top of it, it is his fault when he keeps repeating the same like a broken record.
At some point you need to stop pointing out the "obvious" go around and find something to support your argument, which he never did during this major.
Maui is a hot take clout gatherer. I do not think he has passion for the game, he has knowledge but he's so self absorbed that every sentence he says has to have hard opinion or a hot take or anything to put him self out there.
It's just not enjoyable to watch or listen. He's not entertaining, he's not funny, he has some extremely inappropriate comments like announcing news about Electronic getting divorced with a "hey guys, I have a fun one for you" which is just sociopathic at best. Anyone with a slither of empathy would never say that - man to man - electronic is losing his wife and his child. And that's a fun one to you to deliver it with a smile?
I don't get what person like him is doing in an entertainment industry apart from triggering people with extremely bad takes.
both of their opinion are
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Yeah I tried to respond but hltv mods were too fast xd
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Yeah it popped up again. I couldnt see the twitter links before tho and the post hasnt been edited so it could be a bug
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If your post is too big you get shadow banned.
he is right but saying navi c9 and ence over faze is just being stupid
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They put navi and c9 over faze for the last year? Even ence had worse rests, no?
Ence and Faze is 50/50 imo
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I love when talent are a little off the leash and can actually say what they think.
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Exactly, shame that flashpoint & beyond the summit died..
Remember this lol: youtu.be/ax6Xfbmn7uU
These guys make the game so hard if they are purely only going to spew negativity every event
I clicked on the link and the topics are -
0:00:00 - NiKo is the biggest Major choker
0:21:52 - FaZe are not a top 5 team
0:42:19 - dupreeh's Major titles are not equal
0:52:09 - cadiaN is not an all-time S-tier IGL
1:10:43 - HooXi is the reason G2 didn't make the Major playoffs
1:22:23 - Vitality's first 2 playoff series don't pass the eye test
Not one thing about how successful the major actually was
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Just watch talking counter instead, "spewing negativity every event" is these guys' M.O (following in the footsteps of Thorin and RL). People love to complain, what can I say: I play videogames for entertainment, but after many years of playing online multiplayer games I've started to think that said thought process isn't the norm anymore lol
I mean... yeah? The major wasn't some massive success.
Unless you mean that they should've had "the major was a success" as a hot take, which would make more sense.
why would you expect them to suck the majors dick when the show is literally called hot takes lmao
In a nutshell: There is no navi 2021 or prime astralis in the scene so me angry!!!! I want one team dominating everything!
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Been saying it for months.
Strats don't exist for FaZe.
People start realising that the only time they actually win is when individuals are popping off and getting multiple kills by 1 player alone in 1 round.
That's why they got far in this major, ropz(mostly) and broky kept doing all the way, sometimes(not a lot) with the help of rain and twistzz.
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I think it's simply more evidant this major, no Twistzz playing decent then its a shit ton of hard games, and when they're doing these insane comebacks, its never karrigans calls, that are sometimes decent, but its always just pure firepower as a unit working together / individual plays.
How they manage to stay at the top is really astonishing, what do you even do when you have an analyst, coach, and IGL? Are you supposed to change 1 and hope for the better or something? I still believe in keeping karrigan though due to his level of developing players.
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Saying that they are on top is just no true tho. They had only 1 good tournament this year and its almost June. The more I think about it the more convinced I am there is nothing left in the tank. They are moving backwards as a team.
Its fascinating how 1 tournament can change peoples perspective when they have been bad for almost a year now.
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kassad probably lost a lot money so he looks mad
I mean yeah theyre very lucky and only rely on individuals
Not even top 5 is a bit much considering how bad the other teams are looking (after this I'm starting to believe RL about current level of teams) but most of the things he says about Faze are correct
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Faze being in top 5 wouldnt mean that they are good, but that everyone else is even worse
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yeah that's also what I'm saying
The thing about Faze is that, like someone else has pointed out, last year they had their star players pop off. Remember Broky in last year's Kato? He was winning clutch after clutch after clutch. And then remember Broky when they lost a bo3 against BNE (iirc that was in Rio)? He was whiffing absolute sitters.
Point I'm trying to make is that if all of your star players are playing according to your sky-high expectations, regardless of strats or igl's calls (unless he does something completely moronic), they will win you matches. But what happens if your star players don't pop off? Your performance takes a free fall because there's no B game for you to rely on.
Broky has to be the X factor because the utility is extremely poor. All of them had an excellent point when it comes to that. I watched every Faze game this major. I'm a really big Faze Fan. Watching them compared to a team like GamerLegion it's night and day with how effective utility can be. Whereas Faze rely on Broky or Rain's aim to open up the site, a team like GL use 2 perfect flashes with a perfectly timed smoke to allow IM to shoot people in the face.
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>broky
>opening up a site
Choose one
Their trading and spacing is shit, hard agree on that one
maui is clueless.
his niko take on that podcast was insane and he immediately backtracked on it, the moment he noticed no one shares his opinion.
he's basically a bandwagoner. he's unable to form own opinion, goes off what other people think is good and rides it for as long as he can.
Kassad only roasted himself and thats it...
salty cunt whos just sad that hes not getting any offers
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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Kassad has been on a bender since NiKo posted 0.7 in an elimination game/
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Ignore where NiKo carried on inferno.
bro Thorin got fat ahaha
Free ROPZ!
>says faze is not top5 team
>besides vitality and heroic struggles to name 3 more teams better than faze
L take
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yeah, that's the part i was referring to. he even said "cloud9 would be 4th" when faze consistently beat them this year and faze runs were more successfull
Kassad brain malfunctioned at this part
can we agree that the current t1 talents and analysts seem to have little to no knowledge on the game? or at least they have it but lack the ability to explain it to the audience/viewers.
I really like the co-casting of pro players along with casters (I forgot which event it was). Honestly that breathed in so much fresh air than then the usual "breakdowns" and commentary. I hope they can do this more.
>say faze are not top 5
>can't come up with 5 better teams than them
kassad IQ
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yeah, that was so fucking stupid xD
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