Forum thread: Maui

That is not true

2023-06-02 20:15

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Hmmm, i have a quite different opinion from him since last major. Was pretty disappointing. I used to like him, but he was very weird

2023-06-02 20:17

+1 pimp is way worse

2023-06-03 00:01

tf? he is the only one who actually has the balls to say stuff that isn't generic, are you trolling?

2023-06-02 20:15

9 replies

+1 he must be trolling

2023-06-02 20:22

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+1 what?

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2023-06-04 14:52

maui can be a great talent if he were to hide a bit of his biases

2023-06-02 20:16

He is trying hard to have hot takes and what not and you call him generic lol

2023-06-02 20:16

He is a bum Has 0 idea about upcoming teams or players Always with biased Takes, guy is a fraud

2023-06-02 20:16

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Watch 'Hot Take Point Made' or 'Snake & Banter' series on youtube and you might change your opinion. He is far less biased than Thorin, Kassad or YNK

2023-06-02 23:40

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I watched the interview with niko ynk spunj etc. Ynk straight up sucked NIKOs d*ck for 1 hour

2023-06-02 23:47

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YNK even said in one of the post match analysis in EPL S17 that ZywOo was the most disappointing HLTV top 1 because he doesn't have ego and not as assertive as other top players

2023-06-02 23:54

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NiKo very assertive. Very 0 major too :))

2023-06-04 14:59

the point was that he has so much potential because he never takes the game by the balls when he is clearly head and shoulders above every player in the server. he plays not to lose most of the time but because he is so fucking skilled even then he can topfrag consistently. it's just that he can do even more and win games by going for riskier plays when the time calls for it. not really a disrespect to zywoo by any means

2023-06-04 15:00

i kinda like him. he tries to have an original take and he's not afraid to say he's wrong

2023-06-02 20:16

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2023-06-02 20:25

the people love maui

2023-06-02 20:17

hes not good yeah basic man has basic takes, someone like pimp actually points out things your normal csgo watcher wouldnt know, which is the minimal effort that should be put into your job imo

2023-06-02 20:18

That's not true and you just described 99% of "talent". Name one original thought they have or one unpopular opinion they have the balls to say.

2023-06-02 20:18

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2023-06-02 23:48

Henryg, Moses, launders, maniac and even pimp. All undoubtly more quick-witted and original than Maui.

2023-06-04 14:53

disagree, he says non generic things which are hot takes, yet none of them come to fruition

2023-06-02 20:19

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he always picks the favorite to win, and his reasons are the most superficial ever. thats why he is basic

2023-06-02 20:20

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Picking the favorite to win is literally his job

2023-06-02 20:22

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no? even pimp of all people picks non-favorites sometimes, and often when he picks the favorite, he doesnt just say "yeah they are just the better team, the should just win" no nuance in his predictions and analysis, which is bad thing to say about an analyst

2023-06-02 20:23

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Contextualizing who the favorite is in a matchup and why is literally what the analysts are there for, if you don't understand that then maybe you're not the best person to criticize analysts

2023-06-02 20:25

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no, they are also there for actual analysis. he is barely competent at best at his job, terrible and incompetent relative to people like pimp and maniac who actually have more depth and knowledge to point out things in between match ups and teams playstyles

2023-06-02 20:30

He is. But watch something externally like Snake and Banter and he has some absurd concepts that immediatly get shut down by thoorin and kassad, saying G2 would win the grand slam over faze after kato, stuff like that

2023-06-02 20:24

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yeah, which shows to me his actual intuition and knowledge in his analysis and predictions is garbage, and because of that he has to always resort to the safest, most obvious predictions and analysis every seasoned csgo watcher could tell you when push comes to shove

2023-06-02 20:26

He called out nafany before anyone and even when c9 won Dallas :) Edit: I do like nafany and disagree to certain extent with him in that one.

2023-06-02 20:26

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A broken clock is right twice a day, what about the other 100 absurd takes he has xd

2023-06-02 20:27

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Which takes? Most are right to some extent.

2023-06-02 23:32

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I don't go off listening 24/7 just to savour them simply to cherry pick. The latest I recall is him saying G2 will win the IGS before FaZe which in its own, is an absurd idea when it boils down to it.

2023-06-02 23:44

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Show was hot take point made btw. Pretty sure he said that g2 will win igs because he said faze was terrible. He also called apex top 5 igl before rio or after rio. Still before major.

2023-06-02 23:46

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Yeah top 5 IGL in who's world, don't see that being a true take

2023-06-02 23:53

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Who's better rn then? Karrigan (maybe), snappi, cadian.

2023-06-02 23:55

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karrigan, Snappi, CadiaN, kyxsan, siuhy, TabseN, Jame, niko (debatable)

2023-06-02 23:57

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Kyxsan, siuhy not enough sample size. Tabsen, jame have not done anything as of recently. Jame losing to 1win online. Niko lol. Just because og is doing good because they have stand in doesn't mean he is better. They haven't defeated any top opponent.

2023-06-03 00:00

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I am not saying there aren't more talented igls than him but they either have shaky results or not enough sample size.

2023-06-03 00:01

Well who logistically is his possible competition, if those are your terms, then there's only like 7-9 teams that can possibly even have an IGL in the debate, obviously he's gonna get top 5 IGL then.

2023-06-03 00:03

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There's hooxi, nitr0, art, dexter, electronic

2023-06-03 00:05

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Yeah, not exactly the biggest sample size...

2023-06-03 00:09

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Hooxi played all top tournaments except for Rio. Same with nitr0. Art, dexter and elec played all ESL events. What more you want? Siuhy and kyxsan played only one big event.

2023-06-03 00:12

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Sure, but the statline is just saturated. If you're top 5, in a sample size of only like 9, you're like top 58%. Like when you think of the best AWPers you still mention dev1ce and degster even though you don't see them nearly as often as others at the top.

2023-06-03 00:17

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What top 9? You can consider top 15 teams and no 5 igls are undoubtedly better than him

2023-06-03 00:26

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Ok, top 15, so siuhy, snappi, karrigan, kyxsan, cadiaN top 15, your words, not mine

2023-06-03 00:27

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My words siuhy and kyxsan only 1 tournament. Do you understand?

2023-06-03 01:57

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Before you said top 15, again. literally no sample size to go off lol literally half of top 15 excluded then.

2023-06-03 02:00

maui is a bad tool, microsoft is always trying new things and always screwing up. we developers are always left to hang dry

2023-06-02 20:20

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Average .NET enjoyer

2023-06-03 00:19

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feels bad, man :'(

2023-06-03 02:09

+1 he is by far my least favorite person at the desks.

2023-06-02 20:21

+1 he is total ass

2023-06-02 20:22

eh he called cadian a failure on his last major kkkkkkkkkk

2023-06-02 23:35

you should go through what he did to get there and we can then see how you fair up 👍

2023-06-02 23:36

most analysts just state obvious stuff. Mahone is the only one i can remember recently going into the intricate details of a teams strategy.

2023-06-02 23:37

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Pimp also, watch his pre analysis before the monte vs navvi match as a great example, predicted woro would kill navi on nuke Maui was also right next to him, which stated like always the most superficial facts ever

2023-06-03 00:25

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You are 100% wrong. You obviously didn’t watch anything and just make stuff up. Flag checks out.

2023-06-04 04:12

mauiiiii >:(

2023-06-02 23:45

let him cook you bozo

2023-06-02 23:54

budget Thorin

2023-06-03 00:04

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Thorin can be interesting, and the few times he makes me laugh, I laugh hysterically. But thorin is too obsessed with mocking others to create a joke, something I despise.

2023-06-04 14:57

i dont maui that much but thats literally the opposite of what he does lol he makes some punchy predictions, he isnt one of the generic "ooo im gona go for the favourites or say stuff that everyone already knows" typa guys

2023-06-03 00:05

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Ok then give me more than two examples where he didn't predict the favorite to win off the top

2023-06-03 00:27

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He just pick Ence and picked the exact teams that would each would win literally picks the underdogs so often which is why his prediction rate is low. You are blind.

2023-06-04 04:24

At least he's funny? Remember his joke when..... when..... did he ever tell anything funny? He's just a discount version of Tate, saying edgy things to trigger people and mixing in some basic truth anyone knows. Real waste of airtime, no offense Maui but that stick do be deep up and hunger for personal cloud do be looking pathetically high.

2023-06-03 00:12

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Average 12 yo tate enjoyer

2023-06-03 00:18

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I used Tate as an example of people who tryhard to get clout by saying outrageously stupid things and simple things everyone agrees with. Alex Jones is another example.

2023-06-03 00:20

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My bad i misunderstood your phrasing in the last part of your comment im the idiot. I dont think maui is quite that bad, but i think he has been edgy lately, more reactionary and less analytical

2023-06-03 00:23

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He's not that bad because there's a thicc sticc somewhere deep inside him. But he's using the same model, says something that's baseline knowledge and then makes a silly claim that like Cadian is not a good IGL or stuff like that. I would take it if he had a sense of humor tho, him and Pimp together made major desk so dry I could not watch it.

2023-06-03 00:25

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Did he say Cadian was a bad igl? I remember he questioned his legacy in CSGO and how he failed to cement himself, which after that GL series was pretty fair.

2023-06-03 00:32

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Exactly. Never ever said Cadian was bad. Haters gonna lie because they are haters.

2023-06-04 04:26

cant be most generic desk when YNK exists.

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2023-06-03 02:11

Anyone that says Maui picks favorites often has zero clue. He has said before he will pick underdogs to have a back and forth on the desks. He just picked Ence and picked the maps each would win and was 100% right. He is the only analyst working today that has the balls to critique players ( until Maniac started copying him). Your choice to hate him but please stop with the lies. Just say you can’t handle someone criticizing your favorite players or teams because you have a weak mind - thanks.

2023-06-04 04:18