karrigan on Astralis, Vitality, NIP & FaZe live from BLAST | HLTV Confirmed S5E65

Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: 00:00 Podcast intro Hotseat with device 2:47 - device on the situation in Astralis 4:40 - How did the events in 2020 affect the device’s team? 7:35 - How to know if a player (gla1ve) needs to take a break? 9:30 - Was the initial 2020 calendar easier comparing with previous years? 11:30 - Did Astralis recover from 2019 travel and competition? 13:33 - Decision to sign es3tag 16:00 - device's honest opinion on the extended roster 18:17 - Pros and cons of just five players vs. expanded roster 20:55 - Was device at the point of needing a break? 25:00 - Playing with JUGi and Snappi, DH & BLAST 28:43 - device on community pressure, Twitter comments 30:50 - device dismisses player contract requiring 37-48 hours per week 35:05 - Who decides the roster shuffles in Astralis? Recent news: 38:00 - Update to Dust2 45:20 - Teams handed ownership conflict ultimatum 50:05 - Snappi to c0ntact 55:18 - BIG win DreamHack Masters BLAST Premier 1:01:25 - Evil Geniuses, Complexity surprise with wins 1:08:01 - device talks about mentality 1:11:30 - FaZe’s 3rd-place mental block 1:17:37 - Learning new things from the upcoming stars (Maka, farlig) 1:21:25 - SPUNJ’s emotional speech on the MIBR - FURIA controversy 1:29:35 - Players’ involvement in the decisions on the rules 1:34:35 - “We all need to be more responsible at how we use Social Media” - SPUNJ World ranking 1:36:50 - Striker explains why the ranking looks the way it does 1:41:20 - Are HLTV rankings a driving force for Astralis? RMR Summer 1:44:50 - Upsets in cs_summit 6 qualifier; is the current qualifier concept viable? 1:50:20 - Striker talks about potential Major Qual. system abuse Playtime 1:53:25 - The key to Astralis’ online success 1:56:25 - device on excusing losses to formats 1:58:05 - “When will gla1ve and Xyp9x return. They will return, right.....?”

23 Jun 20202h

➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed 📺 Join the discussion and watch live: https://twitch.tv/HLTVorg 🎧 Listen to audio podcast (Spotify, iTunes, Google): https://anchor.fm/hltv Timestamps: 0:00 Hotseat with smooya 3:18 - Playing with steel in Chaos 7:12 - Is steel still invested in the game? 8:52 - What was smooya up to during the coronavirus? 12:25 - smooya's offers: Sprout and a top12 team 14:35 - Current situation with TIGER Recent news 18:05 - ImAPet joins 100 Thieves 22:11 - smooya’s experience with kassad and 100T 24:16 - Sharing opinions on ImAPet as a coach 28:28 - Gratisfaction’s role in 100T 32:18 - Xyp9x takes leave, Astralis bring in Snappi 38:10 - CS without breaks 48:40 - 5+ players roster 52:00 - Would smooya be a backup player? 54:44 - Maikelele's ugly breakup with GODSENT 1:00:13 - The origins of the story, looking into the tweetlongers 1:08:40 - HECTOz completes Copenhagen Flames MR12 playtest 1:12:50 - SPUNJ starts MR12 talk 1:15:30 - Thoughts on the Gamers Without Borders matches and MR12 viability 1:24:25 - Is BO3 too long for a player nowadays? Dreamhack & BLAST 1:32:20 - DH Masters: Can FURIA win it? 1:44:40 - BLAST Showdown: who will make it through? 1:47:10 - Ties, round-robin groups viability 1:54:30 - Are we spoiled with ‘good’ formats? Playtime 1:58:10 - SPUNJ on keeping up with personal level as an observer 2:03:30 - Visualizing step sounds (learning from Valorant!) 2:05:50 - Final words

3 Jun 20202h 7min

➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed 📺 Join the discussion and watch live: https://twitch.tv/HLTVorg 🎧 Listen to audio podcast (Spotify, iTunes, Google): https://anchor.fm/hltv 0:00 Recent news 3:40 - Stewie2K takes over as Liquid IGL 10:45 - “If you’re taking thing seriously, and one of your teammates isn’t, it’s gonna lead to the changes eventually” - Striker on the roster changes 13:25 - Is Stewie the right guy to call? 15:55 - Making NA dream team 20:00 - DH Masters: mouz struggling 25:15 - The reasons behind the team’s performance downfall First impressions on roster changes 33:00 - JUGi in Astralis 38:00 - “What is the point… What is anything at this point?” - Professeur on Astralis roster 40:35 - Kristou with North 45:50 - trk on MIBR Confirmed, but unseen changes 50:40 - hampus replaces Lekr0 on NiP 58:20 - olofmeister takes a break, Bymas jumps in 1:03:00 - Will olofmeister come back? To be a part of a six-man roster? 1:12:10 - Farlig on GODSENT, Maikelele benched 1:22:35 - buster takes break, YEKINDAR joins VP 1:27:20 - NEO, TaZ reunite Rumors and reports 1:31:10 - smooya, Snappi to TIGER 1:35:00 - ALEX ponders return Rankings time 1:37:40 - Ranking the roster changes that happened 1:45:00 - Top 3 changes we would do right now 1:50:00 - Getting ZywOo and s1mple on the rifle? 2:00:40 - Picking the top-3

25 Mai 20202h 4min

In a special episode of the HLTV Confirmed podcast, we delve deep into the current CS:GO competitive format, examine its potential flaws and explore solutions for issues such as map length, the coin-flip nature of pistol rounds, and the comeback mechanic within the new economy. SPUNJ presents his ideas on overtime, while Rejin chips in with mouz's experience with the latest changes. HLTV Confirmed: Gamechanger is the first of a series of in-depth shows focused on theorycrafting and further improving CS:GO. ➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed 📺Join the discussion and watch live: https://twitch.tv/HLTVorg 🎧 Listen to audio podcast (Spotify, iTunes, Google): https://anchor.fm/hltv Timestamps: 3:20 How long does a CS:GO map take? 8:40 Argument against long matches by Rejin 12:00 Viability of BO1s in early stages 16:45 What do casual CS:GO viewers want? 19:12 Fixing the double freezetime mechanic 25:00 How long should a map last? 30:00 Rejin's idea for OT only on map 3 39:00 The effects of the new economy 47:30 Why are we talking about MR12? 55:10 MR12 kills the "Blue Shell" mechanic 58:00 Tweaking the old economy for MR12 1:02:00 "Pistol rounds are a coin-flip" argument 1:07:10 Potential changes to pistol rounds 1:15:30 SPUNJ: "Maps should be CT sided" 1:18:20 MR12 won't shrink the playbook 1:22:00 Drawing conclusions from first half of the show 1:31:00 What's the best overtime format? 1:38:00 Tennis-style overtime in CS:GO 1:44:50 How many tournaments should a team play? 1:54:00 Hunting rankings and burnout 2:00:00 "Make the tournament 2-3 weeks, but give players time off" - Rejin

19 Mai 20202h 5min

➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction Hotseat with pronax 3:20 - Reading pronax biography 4:40 - What does pronax do now? 5:58 - What’s pronax role in the team? 7:55 - Looking back at the history of initial GODSENT 10:45 - Rebooting GODSENT 16:20 - How much does being a CS legend help pronax’s business? 19:25 - Book recommendation by pronax 20:40 - History of the GODSENT’s CS:GO squad 23:35 - kRYSTAL’s role as IGL 26:20 - How did pronax know that it was time to retire? 29:35 - Why pronax decided to not pursue coaching? 34:18 - Did pronax trial for FaZe? 36:45 - Has the game accelerated in terms of individual plays? VALORANT effect 38:50 - pronax shares his opinion on VALORANT 40:20 - Who has switched to the game and why? 49:50 - How does GODSENT look at VALORANT? 53:30 - VALORANT as a chance for those who are not able to compete in CS 55:20 - The business reasons for mostly American players quitting Recent news 59:20 - Astralis to sign JUGi and go to seven 1:04:25 - pronax’s take on the Astralis’ strategy 1:12:55 - MIBR gave up on meyern 1:16:55 - Is it hard to remain at the top? 1:21:40 - Dilemma of a team dropped from being top-1 1:24:45 - HUNDEN join Heroic 1:31:00 - SPUNJ on how online affects the scene 1:36:23 - Touching on why pronax hasn’t tried being an analyst ESL One: Road to Rio 1:39:42 - Addressing round-robin issues 1:45:40 - Reviewing RMR system 1:53:40 - The 20% points loss rule and reasons behind it

12 Mai 20202h

Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed 0:00 Hotseat with MSL 1:47 - Welcoming MSL 3:00 - Running through the MSL’s history at Rogue and OpTic 7:11 - What were MSL’s goals in NA and what MSL experienced there 9:20 - MSL talks about rejoining North 12:40 - The role of the performance coach in the game 14:37 - MSL on AWPing 17:55 - MSL about device, acoR, and JUGi and their applications in the game 20:49 - MSL’s approach to using a coach 26:40 - North’s results at EPL and Road to Rio Recent news 29:27 - Major coaching rule vote 32:30 - Is bigger involvement of coaches an issue? 34:40 - SicK retires from competitive play 38:50 - ENCE add Jamppi as sixth 40:10 - 6-man rosters - do they make any sense? 42:05 - Conflict of interest ruling 47:50 - SPUNJ smashes Valve for throwing TOs under the bus Danish scene 49:57 - What is the Danish secret to success? 54:42 - Does a high recognition level among the general population of Denmark play a role? 56:47 - Danish scene power rankings 1:00:45 - What’s the potential for HUNDEN? Smarter than the Twitch chat quiz 1:02:24 - MSL vs. the Twitch chat Map pool 1:09:40 - MSL’s take on the map pool 1:11:40 - Discussing Dust 2 1:17:00 - Which map should be removed from the map pool? 1:21:00 - Which map should be brought to the map pool? Discussing Cobblestone Playtime 1:29:45 - FPL drama 1:35:34 - MSL about sports psychologist 1:37:35 - What does North need to become championship contender? 1:41:12 - MSL on salary speculations 1:45:04 - Why are mousesports dropping off? 1:51:00 - Some last words from MSL

28 Apr 20201h 52min

Gen.G in-game leader Damian "daps" Steele joined the HLTV Confirmed podcast to talk about the recent updates to CS:GO, Valve's relationship with the game and how the coronavirus has affected North American Counter-Strike. The tenured leader also spoke about his removal from NRG, the relationship with tarik and stanislaw, as well as the coach change in Evil Geniuses, as they replaced ImAPet with zews. Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

19 Apr 20202h 4min

➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed 📺 Join the discussion and watch live: https://twitch.tv/HLTVorg 🎧 Listen to audio podcast (Spotify, iTunes, Google): https://anchor.fm/hltv Timestamps: 0:26 - Welcoming issues and sharing corona experiences Hotseat with maLeK 1:57 - Introducing maLeK 3:07 - maLeK’s origins in Counter-Strike 4:42 - maLek's experience as a butler for royal families 6:09 - Who did maLeK play with during the Source times? 8:00 - What coaching means to maLeK? 10:00 - Transition to the international roster 11:55 - Working with ocelote - how is it? 14:25 - “When we’re rolling, there’s not even one percent problem with English” - maLeK 19:22 - Talking notorious "Bambolero" and other terms 21:40 - Talking about G2’s EPL results 24:14 - maLeK on his team’s preparation Recent news 26:35 - Evil Geniuses: -ImAPet +zews 30:50 - maLeK’s take on the conflict in EG 38:20 - Heroic changes 41:46 - Weapon balance: AUG is back, Krieg is dead? 44:30 - “Why did they wait so long to destroy SG?” - Professeur 47:40 - Is FAMAS actually usable? 49:35 - Talking about Tec-9 and Revolver 52:17 - Who will suffer the most from the weapon change? 58:10 - Discussing Deagle’s new jumpshot capabilities EPL and the online play 1:02:12 - Talking about the NA season results 1:05:50 - maLeK on issues of working online 1:08:30 - Will EU teams dominate when corona is no more? 1:11:11 - “This is like a reset button for the teams” - maLeK on the lockdown 1:17:20 - Discussing Astralis’ 6-man roster move 1:22:09 - maLeK vs. Twitch chat Major changes 1:29:00 - Striker explains what happened 1:35:40 - maLeK shares his opinion on the changes 1:38:33 - Winners and losers of the changes Playtime 1:47:47 - How HLTV ranking is adjusting to the move to online play? 1:51:10 - Does Scream have a chance to come back? 1:52:50 - Where could ImAPet go?

12 Apr 20201h 59min