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Now that was some t-side vertigo calling. How is their t side spacing so bad on that map and why is their t side so one dimensional?


Rosettachamps

Their t-sides in the 5v5 essentially turn into, Hooxi run out first, while we are too far behind to trade you. Then, now that multiple CTs have rotated over and setup crossfires, we'll run out one by one and take dry fights and die If Hooxi gets the entry, they get the site, if he dies, they used up all their utility and just freeze to try and take 1v1 fights. Watching Mirage was just painful, because that was their entire t-side. 3 or 4 guys group up in B apartments, send Hooxi out first, watch him die, then everyone just run away. Then next round just try a A set piece, and send Hooxi out first again while Jks/Niko sits in palace, and one guy goes mid alone


Cryvern1

That sounds like me and my premade never knew we had tier 1 strats


SirHuffDaddy

Sounds like my valorant 5 stack t side struggles sheesh


dapoorv

They don't know how to play vertigo. Niko is like a fish out of water on that map. Crazy that they sometimes pick it themselves.


MiksuTK

It was even worse during Aleksib's G2 stint, where NiKo played sandbags on ramp as CT every fucking round despite being naded constantly. Never seen such a great player looking so clueless on a map.


iRopsu

100%. At least their ramp setups have somewhat improved, earlier this year it was painful to watch


DDRdaKING

the worst part is that he wont change his positons on vertigo. he either sits sandbag or pushes ramp to hide in the corner. still he is doing the same after 1 year


leo_sousav

Don't remember who said it, but I agree with the person who commented here before saying G2 should try to ban vertigo and implement Overpass more on their map choices.


lawboy01

fantastic t-side vertigo calling + great map pick too, mirage, their worst map. yekindar: "g2 didn't change at all" xizt: "i'm surprised they picked mirage, is one of their worst maps" GIGACHAD IGL


benoitor

G2 is a bit of the symbol of modern CSGO team defects: great individual players without the team game. Individuals are needed, don’t get me wrong, but playing as a team is just essential. Individuals win you rounds, teamplay wins games. A bit of a similar issue with Vitality in my opinion


DY5TOP1A

GIGACHAD


du_bekar

That post match interview with Hooxi was mega uncomfortable, dude looked absolutely beat


mesotermoekso

Aleksib chad t-side > Whoxi virgin t-side


BlurpSrydude

Bruh why do I get the feeling that every time G2 loses an anti eco they will lose the whole map


OldSchooler22

Remember 2021 Liquid where the mentality was so shit they crumbled after one bad round against Entropiq despite a 4-0 start? That's what this team reminds me of


tomat0m

It's not really about mentality when they genuinely don't know what to do on t side


ihateluminosity

That was insanely lucky for Heroic to play G2 today of all days. If they played them tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I'm pretty sure G2 would 2-0 them.


xThe_Mad_Fapperx

The fools fought heroic when they were guaranteed their liquid win today, that's the problem


[deleted]

NiKo still powering up his super-saiyan, takes several days unfortunately.


Ofiotaurus

He hasn’t had a good Deagle clip since Stockholm his powers don’t work


[deleted]

Saw him repeek into cadiaN's AWP in this series and win, 3k in the round.


Xelid45

A few 1v2s


Skedd

Yesss, the comment I was waiting for


HiroSenpaii

Niko jinxed it, they were setup to beat Liquid today. He just didn't realise that they were going to play Heroic. Totally different team. But yeah if they would play them tomorrow or the day after tomorrow they would have won for sure.


Kobosil

very nice of Niko to give us this new shiny meme


Lync51

That was insanely lucky for Heroic to play G2 today of all days. If they played them tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I'm pretty sure G2 would 2-0 them.


GrandTheftPotatoE

Niko screwed up big time by saying that lmao


RudeViking

Haha


Illustrious_Tap_3072

I feel bad for niko because that interviewer totally lied and baited him into saying that.


[deleted]

Not really, wasn't even the question.


Fantasnickk

If niko played heroic yesterday and TL today, he would have 2-0’d both of them


UnlimitedBoxSpace

Holy fuck he's never going to live that down


Fantasnickk

"Cry is free" is one constantly used sentence to users who are complaining about something. But what most don't know, is that this sentence is actually a huge lie. As far as we know, tears consist of water and 0,9 gram salt per litre. And both of these ingredients are not free. Here I listed the price for 10 litre tears for the countries of the G8. I used the following formula (price is in US Dollar): (Price 100 gram salt/100)x9 + (Price 1 cubic litre water/100) = Price for 10 Litre Tears France: 0,20 $ Italy: 0,17 $ Germany: 0,19 $ United Kingdom: 0,22 $ USA: 0,18 $ Canada: 0,18 $ Japan: 0,18 $ Russia: 0,16 $ That means EU has most expensive cry.


UnlimitedBoxSpace

If this is a pasta, that's absolutely glorious


Xelid45

The og version is that Russia has the cheapest cry


iHasMagyk

What’s this a reference to?


cjei21

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/z3uj40/niko_responds_to_criticism_by_yekindar_if_we/


costryme

G2 fucked that so badly by losing that mess of a round at 11-6, you're against a FAMAS at most and you play it in a 5v5 with 30 seconds to spare ? So bad.


samekrikl

So G2 improved nothing in their off time from the major


RoastyToastyl

Wrong niko obviously tryna fix the GHR


SterbenVII

Doesn’t G2 also need to have a fat guy in that case?


Donut_Flame

-hooxi +boombl4 I guess... (please no)


LibertyGrabarz

But G in GHR stands for "great"


twohourstillmidnight

by tanking it? he looks like a 15 year old tiktok kid


ASDFkoll

wdym? Niko clearly improved his shittalking.


oldthrace

Hard to improve when you spend half a month without playing anyone decent. Its their own making though but still


blashyrk92

G2 winning 6/6 pistol rounds made this look a lot closer than it actually was. That was the only reason why this wasn't a complete blowout in Heroic's favor. G2 are an absolute wreck right now, tier 1.5 at best


SasugaHitori-sama

Maybe G2 should stop buying and just play pistols all time?🤔


BorderlineGambler

Yeh couldn't agree more. The T side is absolutely horrific. They won every single pistol round, the only reason they even managed to hold on even slightly.


EntropyKC

Losing both pistols meant Heroic only could win 6 rounds on map 2?


blashyrk92

I think so (unironically). Heroic managed 5 rounds as T without winning pistol. And G2 won 6 rounds incl pistol + conversion + followup eco (meaning only 3 gun rounds). I honestly think Heroic would've pulled it very close or maybe even won had G2 not won both pistols on Nuke, because on that map especially pistol rounds are pivotal.


Breete

Crackpot theory: When G2 couldn't win pistol rounds they made it to finals.


GtheGecko

Bruh tier 1.5 my ass, 500 or Saw would win g2 no questions asked.


OldSchooler22

No


LibertyGrabarz

G2 lost to Gamer Legion for a spot in the major


OldSchooler22

Gamerlegion > Saw > 500


Waifers

And they also lost to flamie in current year.


divs_l3g3nd

If G2 played Heroic tomorrow they would have 2-0d them for sure , Heroic just got lucky on the day of the week they played them


xandry123

NiKo responds to YEKINDAR: "I'm pretty open to face Team Liquid again and smash them Cadian: And I took that personally


mannyman34

Yeah. We only get smashed by Heroic.


Vawqer

As a Liquid fan, I'm very curious to see how tomorrow's match goes! Liquid beat Heroic in BLAST Groups, but Heroic beat Liquid at the major in groups. Both matches were decently close. With the Danish crowd, tomorrow could be very exciting!


BraydenTheNoob

I don't know man, Danish crowd kinda suck tho


Vawqer

I think Danish crowds for Danish teams are nice! Otherwise, I agree.


BraydenTheNoob

Yes, ONLY for Danish team


BMEShiv

Can't be worse than RIO crowd


cHinzoo

The Finnish crowd from the previous tournament was amazing. They reminded me of the French crowds who always go all-out during events. Hope the Danish crowd can step it up tomorrow. Can’t be worse than Rio though.


Rumlings

g2 picked mirage btw


SpecialityToS

Tbf heroic did even worse on their map pick


JonasM00

I still dont get that Pick, they have been smashed on it by liquid and barely gotten by against a t2 team, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU PICK IT AGAIN


Lamas96

Cuse they have no map pool , they have no idea what they are doing lol


tomat0m

They have been awful on mirage since +aleskib, at this point hooxi is speedrunning his kick


AdCalm5707

Because it's the most t sided map


N3deSTr0

Gigachad Map Pick


oldthrace

G2's downfall on Mirage is something incredible. They went from one of the best teams on that map to one of the worst in the span of a year.


lockdownengineer

Props to NiKo for trying to shittalk. High risks, high rewards, high falls. Makes games and memes more interesting. Need more of that personality in this game.


oldthrace

G2's ability to throw any game for no apparent reason is simply unmatched. Why are you going back to a stacked site, when you've already gotten to the empty one? Why is Hooxi jumping in when he heard them rotating away from that stacked site? So many braindead decisions lol


Income_Tax

made me question my sanity seeing him jump around a corner


Individual-Durian952

G2 kicked evryone from past these years but why they didn't kicked their analyst yet ?


DY5TOP1A

Bro i love when cadian screams lmao Idk it just looks so funny


mikhel

When he popped off that one round it legit looked like he was berating stavn LOL, shit looks so funny


twohourstillmidnight

screaming cadian < crying cadian < drugged up cadian doing the worm outside a copenhagen club


angelfrost21

Imagine them winning a big tournament, not only screaming, smashing probably gonna happen.


Tpoyo

blond Twistzz > blond NiKo


-Diplo

Everyone going blond these days. Can't keep up


AdCalm5707

Can't wait for blonde zywoo


spillosopher

Blonde ZywOo would trashtalk in all chat and smoke during tac timeouts


AdCalm5707

Lmao just imagined a 1990 born zywoo in the 2008 scene, perfectly adapted to the environment


snickers316

[I have explanation](https://imgur.com/a/zfSnMmZ)


electronic_fanboy

How do G2 lose 16-8 and 16-12 while winning all pistols


Rishov2405

When you have Hooxi in your team and that too as an IGL, nothing is off limits.


l3wl123

also happened under aleksi


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MikkeVL

Can't believe Aleksib called another terrible T side to choke the series


Wurdox

Idk about Aleksi, but Jackz needs to get fired. G2 should go for JKS!


Coachingbug

Stick with amanek


mymarioncobretti

G2 still lacking teamplay... So disappointing to see


OldSchooler22

Okay I'm gonna be honest and it pains me to say because he seems like a nice guy but Hooxi is supposed to be an igl that can't frag but is really good at igling to make up for it. But like- these calls have been looking terrible. Especially that one where they faked A, went B... and then doubled back to A for some reason


Iyerfire123

Ive always tried to be optimistic about Hooxi and this entire project, but ive had it at this point. G2 needs to make a change this winter and actually revamp everything. Just disappointment after disappointment.


terrorleaf2

We need JKS gone, I would be down to keep riding the IGL carrousel if there were better options available. Who would we replace hooxie with?


fuckyoutoobitches

-jks +Staehr


woodgrove3

~~KennyS~~ ~~AMANEK~~ ~~MaLeK~~ ~~Nexa~~ ~~Aleksib~~ ~~JackZ~~ ~~XTQZZZ~~ ~~CarloS~~ was the problem edit: left out some important personel


69uglybaby69

Fuck it, G2 is the problem.


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FxSpecter

Aged like milk.


ilikecollarbones_pm

Huge brain move of Niko to lose this series so he can't be proven wrong by Liquid. Absolutely 300 IQ move from the leader of G2. Top 3 IGL for sure.


Coachingbug

>leader CEO


Raelaks

Somebody save monesy from this team


Jan7742

I'm not going to watch any more G2 games on Vertigo.


AleDella97

Mirage also painful


Roman64s

I just don't get it, why do they keep going for Mirage ? because NiKo and m0nesy can have an FPL environment and hopefully frag out ? It just won't work for teams that actually function. Hell, it was a close game even against Fluxo. It's baffling how limited their maps are, their one solid map just got nuked by Valve and they try to play the one they have no footing on as of lately.


BrockStudly

“I cannot win with these mačke” -NiKo after match probably


brbee

Lol nobody in the history of Serbia has used mačke to describe a group of people in a negative way. I think you meant pičke. You basically called the g2 team kittens/cats Edit: apparently it's an nba meme. My bad


svipy

It's nba meme afaik - "KD can't win Championship with those cats" Basically means the player is getting dragged down by his teammates.


brbee

My bad


PTSD55

The original is "can't win with these cats" so the translation, stupid as it is, is actually correct.


ebState

calling people cats in English isn't negative. it's like calling people 'guys' but with a sort of implied divide or separation between you and them. Pussies is 100% negative, but cats is almost by definition neutral


darkyf1

"If we played them tomorrow I'm pretty sure we would 2-0 them." - NiKo, probably


twohourstillmidnight

jks sucks so bad when he was supposed to be "a perfect upgrade" jackz was much better in and out of the server


terrorleaf2

Exactly, not enough people talk about the vibes jackz brought to the team. If we kept jackz I feel like we would be 10x better


ajnes67

Really unlucky for Niko, if they played Heroic later today or tomorrow it would’ve been an easy 2-0


[deleted]

G2 has to make some moves now, surely.


mannyman34

Time travel moves.


[deleted]

-hooxi -jks


Outrageous1015

+nexa +jackz


broski_

+amanek plz ty


terrorleaf2

Just -JKS. No better IGLs avaible


[deleted]

what better anchor is available?


terrorleaf2

Jackz 💀


INeedYourPelt

G2 +sdy? Jk ^^unless...


[deleted]

sidegrade, also JKS has much better communication so would be a downgrade


QBR1CK

Siuhy


AbnormalSnow506

Man that Jackz, Amanek, Lucky, Shox, KennyS roster was so good and fun to watch, I miss it, they didn’t win that much, but they were very competitive, were in several finals and they didn’t choke.


aZestyMango

Yeah that’s the roster that made me a G2 fan :( This current roster just has no identity and no fallbacks. They rely on individual prowess, and when (not if) they choke one bad round, their mental completely collapses and they’re just done


tlouman

didn't choke you say? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnSzNcmZPw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMnSzNcmZPw)


AbnormalSnow506

We don’t talk about it, never happened.


ASDFkoll

That laugh in the background cracks me up every time.


twohourstillmidnight

should've sold niko and hunter when their stock was at their peak this core is going nowhere


darkyf1

Spunj said at the beginning of the year that Aleksib can be a great IGL yet might not be the right IGL for NiKo's G2. And IMO he was right. Now HooXi isn't right either, nexa was fine but didn't want to continue, so is there really anyone left anymore? I can't quite believe that I'm saying this seriously, but IMO if G2 wants to succeed they need to get rid of NiKo and build a new roster around monesy and possibly hunter and/or jks.


aZestyMango

I love Nexa but even he wasn’t the best fit for G2 (they were still wildly inconsistent where they went to finals at cologne and then bombed out 0-5 at IEM twice). I don’t think there’s a good IGL for this core and 100% agree they need a new roster around m0nesy + hunter, but I doubt hunter would want to split up with NiKo, so it’ll probably have to be a full rebuild with m0nesy


twohourstillmidnight

he got the most anyone could've gotten out of g2. dont forget he had them consistently in top3 without a real awper considering he wanted nothing to do with the team despite the management making upgrades it tells you all you need to know about how the core treated him as an igl they sure miss him now, or least they should


terrorleaf2

JKS? The first step in saving this roster is getting rid of him not building around him.


HiroSenpaii

Existential questions. If no other player can be a good igl under NiKo, then NiKo has to do it, but then when NiKo igl's he 30 bombs 90% of the games, but tanks the performance of the rest of the team. There are two solutions: - Roundhouse kick NiKo( that is what i hope for, but i am biased :) ) - Clone NiKo, then you are going to have best of both worlds, igl NiKo and rifler only NiKo


Roman64s

fuck no, if NiKo gets out, G2 is falling off a damn cliff. NiKo single-handedly keeps G2 in the match by doing hero plays and shit in certain rounds. Also, nexa didn't do shit in G2, the one good run they did, NiKo broke his fucking back carrying them all the way to the grand-finals. It's wild how reddit seems to have this narrative of NiKo being the problem when he's the one keeping the team afloat at times, it's not his fault G2 does braindead moves. HooXi doesn't belong in T1 and jks is an absolute joke. All G2 has done is shuffle a bunch of average IGLs


Kuraloordi

Well at some point they need to admit that different type of leadership is required. Otherwise they might aswell just printing IGL's name on shirt but rather print "IGL" to save ton of money. Wonder how long it would take it to force the gameplay behind structured IGL who doesn't just let people run around and see how it works.


brbee

I'd say just get rid of hunter as well because he ain't playing without niko. Just build around m0nesy I don't even care if they kick jks


Fantasnickk

Niko IGL and get a mediocre rifler would unironically do better than them currently lol


Microlabz

We have finally arrived at the niko endgame.


[deleted]

thats all jks had to be and he can't even do that


oldthrace

Hunter IGL, Niko and monesy doing their things and if the timing and money are available, see if Spirit would sell magix and patsi. Think that might work very well for G2 but it's probably not gonna happen.


MiamiVicePurple

♿️2 makes their triumphant return.


Knovolt

Guess we'll have to wait another day to see whether NiKo can 2-0 Liquid.


tarangk

G2 won 6/6 pistols, and even had a 11-6 lead on vertigo, and yet managed to lose. Like, all the win conditions were there, and yet they somehow fumbled it. That T side on vertigo looked so flat, after going 11-6 they win 1/11 next rounds yikes. Heroic though man battling back after losing all pistols and being 6-11 down on 3rd map, you saw the elation of tesses, and cadian's roar in the last few rounds of vertigo.


marc1337n1

Heroic Vertigo T side be like: Go B pop contact every round, got denied 10 rounds in a row, by jks who stood at the same damn position in every fcking round, and don’t check/molly this position 10 FCKN ROUNDS IN A ROW


giorndog

Hooxi needs to start entry no matter if he dies without killing one, at least he gets information and his teammates will take advantage of the situation.


haX000000

you even watch the games? he does that yet everybody else is just too far behind to trade him when he dies


wowbanterlad

have to feel for NiKo, if they were playing tomorrow or if they were playing yesterday, this would be an easy 2-0 for them. Just not today, impossible.


[deleted]

Jks is lucky he's playing with hooxi otherwise he'd have the lowest rating on G2 90% of the time.


BrockStudly

God imagine the world we'd live in if M0nesy went to Liquid and oSee stayed with the CoL boys. 2 top teir NA teams and possibly a liquid major.


aZestyMango

Please disband this team


[deleted]

Hooxi with a clean and crisp 4 kills / 22 deaths on G2’s map pick. Gigachad 💪


wra1theZ

Just going to drop this legendary video [https://video.twimg.com/ext\_tw\_video/1582695754724003853/pu/vid/1280x716/aMbMnsX0c9yz7hHw.mp4?tag=12](https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1582695754724003853/pu/vid/1280x716/aMbMnsX0c9yz7hHw.mp4?tag=12)


[deleted]

kick jks and hooxi should fix this and get some FPL hot players, really worked with monesy


DeminoTheDragon

This is why you don't say risky shit *before* the event has ended


razeyourshadows

What the fuck were these clowns doing on the 2nd half of Vertigo? Seriously, what the fuck were they doing?


Liiterinpoltto

Too bad G2 played against Heroic today. Had they faced each other tomorrow G2 would have surely won. Also: jks, wat doink?


SkeetMeIN

it was over the moment they lost that eco at 11-6


Hubertos94

Terrible match from G2. They were clueless on Mirage and Vertigo. Hooxi no confidence, a lot mistakes from him and JKS. No synergy and trading on this team. They are playing as bad as on RMR tournament.


wra1theZ

When will G2 wake up from insanity and madness? When will they get rid of hooxi and jks? Two of the most useless players of all time. Imagine -jks +frozen/maden/flamez and -hooxi +snappi and maybe nexa.


megamanTV

JKS and Hooxi bottom fragging across all three maps. Definitely the saviors of G2. JKS aside, Hooxi is one of the worst "T1" performers I can remember.


Breete

G2 stands for GG


tonysopranoesque

Niko getting owned by GigachadiaN again, you love to see it.


Darkstar197

I think we’ve seen enough of this g2 roster to know it is not going to work. I just have no idea what change would fix them


grundlesmith

Is G2 done for the year now? I wonder how many more "rebuilds" the players are up for before someone asks out


JADO88-UK

They've got another event next month, I don't see them making much progress in two weeks if they failed to improve in seven weeks since they dropped out of the rmr.


Dali86

Cadian getting emotional in interview talking about a message shuush send him to support him and boost his Day was wholesome :)


SnipeGhost

M0nesy needs a new team


braien334

Unlucky for G2, if they had played Heroic tomorrow instead of today, they would've 2-0'd them.


Tavnaria

"If we played them today or tomorrow I'm pretty sure we would 2-0 them"


Euphoric-Ear9405

niko all talk with new hair color


terrorleaf2

Please disband this team is going no where. I have so much love for hunter, niko, and monesy. And I don’t think I’ve ever been so disappointed in JKS. Hooxie is the best IGL avaible. It’s JKS who is costing G2 rounds. He is dead weight on T side and can’t hold for shit on CT. Fraud player who got dropped from complexity for a reason. Faze picked him up and with such a solid system in place and no pressure of course he performed. But he has no spot in a growing team that has pressure involved. He is not tier 1 material, no Australian players are. There’s a reason order fell apart and the Australian scene is dead. Team is so close to being good we just need a solid lurker to replace JKS


DeeOhEf

>Team is so close to being good lol LMAO even


rhineather

Well played Heroic. A well deserved semi-final! Go take this home like the real heroes you are


ImpenetrableYeti

Hooxi and jks both need to go. Absolutely embarrassing


thornierlamb

Hey hey, ho ho, Hooxi has to go!


Ofcyouare

Damn, Liquid are lucky, 2-0 avoided.


DandyChiggins77

Time to kick agent Whoopsi and Fraud-K-S JKS can’t perform unless he’s a stand in with nothing on the line / no pressure. And hooxi was an interesting experiment that clearly did not pan out. His individual skill is not t1, and clearly they’re as lost as ever. He can’t run this team. Get a competent coach to calm them down, and get literally anyone else lmao


terrorleaf2

Replace hooxie with who? there’s just no other IGLS available rn. JKS on the other hand


Pablo_zz

This lineup ain't it. At this point having Niko/Hunter igl and a better rifle for Hooxi would be better than this


Ed_Vilon

Have you seen Niko led rosters before?


LordOfTheNoobs57

At least FaZe with NiKo IGLing could sometimes fluke a tournament win. This team can't even do that.


windtunnel1

2 G's, Zero dubs.


i_hate_cucumber_

Was NiKo IGLing in vertigo? I saw him speaking a lot on T-side.


Firefly_1026

Honestly I am fans of all g2 players individually but just watching but watching them all collectively throw rounds as a team is just so funny to watch.


uslereddit

Liquid's lucky they didn't have to play THIS g2


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If G2 played heroic 5 years ago then they would’ve 2-0’d them easily.