Hello, everyone, I am Starix, Na'Vi coach, and today we will discuss demo of our game against Liquid in Cologne.
This game happened in semi-finals, unfortunately we lost that game, and one of the maps was Trains.
Now we'll watch it closely and analyze it.
We'll start from the pistol round, as you know it's one of the most important rounds.
Mostly if you take pistol round, you take 3 more rounds.
Let's start.
The situation is: Denis buys armor and goes towards Ivy with Flamie, to control Ivy rush.
Our goal is to control the map, take over connector.
We know that S1mple plays aggressively there, so we wanted to hold it with 3 people,
then wait for Ivy push and group up for B push, let's see.
Almost everything went as planned, S1mple played at B near Long Hall.
He we control the connector and prepare to attack.
Vanya checked that the guy moved from B to Ivy.
Here Elige is pushing towards Ivy, 2 of our players were waiting for him, but it wasn't quite simple.
I'll explain what went wrong from the start, watch how we analyze the replay.
We took control of the connector, showed our presence and pushed Ivy.
2 of our guys were controlling the Ivy, it was a part of our plan, here are those players, Flamie and Denis.
There were holding the same angle to kill the pushing opponent instantly.
But Flamie decided to check, and the opponent pushed at the same time, the angle was screwed and it went wrong.
What was the next mistake? Denis wasted Smoke grenade that we expected to use at lower B to plant the bomb.
He wasted it near the Ivy, missed it accidentally and we had a moment of panic, the round went wrong so we rushed B.
We rush B here, CT are holding the distance, they kill Guardian in lower instantly, so Denis can't enter Lower anymore.
Our teammates didn't wait for him, so we didn't have any chance.
Now we have eco, we didn't plant the bomb so we don't have any money, 1400-1500$.
We decided not to force, but to plant bomb.
We have a signature round for this, the thing is one player throws smoke into Lower, and then dies there.
CT says that Lower is smoked and 1 guy was near B, at the same time we rush the Ivy,
we planned to do that, but CTs pushed the Ivy again and stopped us with their aggression, so our plan failed.
Then after their push we decided to smoke Lower and try to plant the bomb.
Here we wait for the last guy, throw smoke, enter the site and... we plant the bomb.
We earn some extra money to take AKs in the next round, but the buy was bad, we didn't have AWP,
but we had a plan, as a coach I plan actions for different scenarios,
depending on whether we plant the bomb or not,
so that during the game guys won't have any unnecessary questions and waste time.
The plan was to rush Connector, control it, while Denis makes noise at the Ivy,
Vanya killed S1mple, who tried to push Long Hall.
He knew that we were rushing and decided to go up there.
Here we take control of the Long Hall, hold, hold, hold.
Denis is throwing grenades at Ivy, we show that we are playing default, but instead we rush towards Upper.
With the grenade it's pretty unexpected for CTs, so that's what happened.
To be honest the round is very simple, I'll explain it one more time.
We had a bad buy, without AWP, without full grenades,
we didn't have Smoke grenades to take over certain positions and then defend the plant.
Here S1mple made a mistake, we understood that Hiko was probably alone at B,
we planned our round and we rushed with Guardian's smoke and flashbang, that blinded Zeus.
It was a miscommunication.
Ladyslav had to throw flashbang, and after that 3 people should've entered the plant form Upper and kill CTs.
In our case it was almost the same, but the flashbang blinded allies, however we won the round anyway.
However if there were 2 counter-terrorist, it would've been more difficult, thanks to S1mple.
Now we understand they have a tricky situation money-wise.
They couldn't buy M4s, they could only force buy, and they did so.
They played default and we understood that, we took control over Long Halls,
it's the key territory to control enemy movements and manipulate CTs.
We can throw grenades towards B and enter A, or throw A and enter B, it's a key position for terrorists on this map.
So we play default, control Long Hall, plan to enter B, we are making noise and waiting for Flamie.
Zeus and Edward killed S1mple, who likes to be aggressive in the Upper.
We understood, that there might be only 1 guy at B, but we didn't hurry.
Here Ladyslav hardly kills Elige, who pushed from the Up-Down and we decided to attack on A.
Two guys killed Denis behind the Train, we understood that 2 CTs were playing on A, so we decided to go B.
But while we were doing this, they understood our plan after Denis' death and moved towards B.
We faced almost 3 of them , but we had AKs so we won the round,
but logically we didn't play that round quite well, we entered the plant with 2-3 enemies there.
Next is the first buy round in the game, the score is 2-2, JDM for CTs has an AWP,
once again they have one player at Lower and S1mple is playing aggressively in the upper again, that was probably their plan.
Edward came here, spotted S1mple, at the same time Ladyslav wasn't careful and JDM killed him with an AWP.
Ladyslav probably expected the sniper to be there, he had to throw flashbang and kill his opponent,
but as you can see he was too bold, as if he didn't expect it.
We understood that 2 guys with AWP and M4 were playing at B, and we decided to push A slowly, to avoid the sniper.
In our default Flamie and Denis control Ivy, they walked up closely and pushed with their grenades.
We must push from Up-Down now, we move...
No, not exactly. We wait for some exchange near Ivy, we have one minute left, and we have time to hold.
We wait for them, they wait at the Ivy, the bomb is moving towards Middle, he will be killed now.
Not quite, he kills one, but there's exchange, the guys come from the Ivy...
Once more we made a wrong decision, because 4 people were holding A and the bomb through Mid,
he was killed, 2 guys entered the Ivy, Vanya was alone in Up-down, CTs had the bomb and the round was very hard for us.
You need only 16 rounds to win, and every round can be the key in this game.
This game consists of a lot of mistakes, lost rounds, the winner is whoever makes the least mistakes.
If we watch any replay of any team, we will find mistakes.
The fewer mistakes you make, the higher is the chance of winning the game.
Let's analyze the situation where Na'Vi loses to eco buy.
We know that they have eco, we play default, 3 people hold Long Hall as usual, and 2 people control Ivy.
Here are 3 guys, they have an AWP.
Here's what happens: CT from Up-Down decides to push, kills Zeus and takes his AK and runs away.
In general we understood that CT was in Up-Down, the last info on him was that he took AK and ran away.
We had an idea that they could push Middle aggressively.
Denis and Flamie pushed Ivy, we understood that, Guardian was holding the bomb,
I told him to towards Ivy and so he did, because they could've pushed Middle.
They pushed Middle, Vanya is waiting for the Up-Down, meanwhile Flamie and Denis entered A,
It was empty, so CTs were probably defending B, but that's what happens:
Flamie shoots Denis, they had a miscommunication, meanwhile AK from Up-Down killed Vanya and stayed upstairs, we didn't check him.
We planted bomb and Guardian was surprised to face CT's AK there.
We were afraid to face that AK in the Up-Down, so Vanya was just waiting for him.
We thought that A was empty, the guys from Ivy had to kill someone and provide info about CTs.
But we were nervous, they almost killed each other at the Ivy.
So we lost eco round because of that.
So guys, we analyzed a few situations from our Train game,
you'll see more reviews like this from Na'Vi, from Starix and HyperX, good luck!