So far nearly all of the comments I've seen are morons who didn't even manage to listen to what I said and simply want to argue utterly futile points. This is why I rarely waste my time reading the comment section. You can shout at a brick wall from now on, it would be a fitting conversation partner.

Enough noodles were spammed to help skadoodle win major

The storyline is just literally the sickest timeline possible. I think that's what made this win so fucking amazing. > C9 drops n0thing and shroud, two legends in North America > Builds what many would call an NA dream team > Wins a bunch of small events, but can't seem to put the pieces together against tougher opposition, getting decimated by FaZe multiple times > Gets through First stage pretty easily > Goes down 0-2 in the second stage and then reverse sweeps to make playoffs...breaking skadoodle's group stage curse at majors > Proceeds to beat G2 and SK, the #3 and #2 favorites to win the event, but has to beat FaZe, inarguably their biggest threat in the finals > Ska goes fucking nuts in the final with probably his best performance in the past year. > Cloud9 loses map 1 (their map pick no less) to beat FaZe on what i'd say is their best map. Then the decider goes down super early to have some absurd comeback to win in double OT (in what i'd probably say is a top 3 map i've ever watched). Winning the first Major for an NA team...and they fucking do it in North America no less. If this was a story it'd be some mad cliche...except it's not...

Tarik is composed under pressure and that is a skill that is very underrated. Not to mention being IGL, he rallies his team. Good work all of c9.

Love how Thorin can call back games and situations at will. Example: Starseries S3 Faze vs Astralis Double Awp Set up This is why he is unrivaled as the Esports Historian.

intro was godly

When did thooorin start paying for the heat? Miss those winterjacket days.

People saying it's cloud 9s era now lol. It's no one's era. It's the top 4-6 CS teams fighting tooth and nail for the championship. Cloud 9 have tho earned the right to call themselves Top 3 world now.

Yes, finally! I was waiting for this video that entire final was crazy af

(As a C9 fan) They're not number 1 now. Definitely established them as tier 1 without a doubt.

Thanks for great content, Thorin! Really impressed that C9 won. Those guys play like monsters and that final gave me several heartattacks. Im a huge FaZe Clan fan but im happy that those two gave an amazing final. GGWP C9 and FaZe have another chance next time!

Couldn't wait for this episode

Alternatively titled 'Cloud 9 Open NA's Gateway to the Promiseland'

It was fun seeing ska doing things he would never do with the old roosters. He is aggressive, re-peeks, holds off-angles, takes risks. He has had a huge revelation in his mentality finally being able to trust his team to clean up after him and secure the rounds when he cant. This trust was a sub-conscious reason why he is somewhat inconsistent at time imo. I would enjoy to watch him develop more and more into a kennyS type of awp'er where he can change the flow of the game by himself. And with his consistent shots he is scary as fuck. Glad a underdog won, but at the same time i feel for FaZe.

I do love this video though, helped me see the more deeper side of CS in regards to the minute details of each team and player. Love it. Subscribed.

Great video Thooorin. You're analysis was very insightful throughout the whole tournament.

I'm so happy I watched the intro before starting to play DM

karrigan crumbled under the high pressure, these late b calls were fazes downfall

Been waiting for this video since yesterday

Take a shot every time Thorin says "funnily enough"

Great breakdown :) appreciate it

This man knows what he's talking about - Approved by someone on the internet

Great vid thorin, keep up the great videos!

Congrats on 250K!

I can't believe NA won a major. I was so happy.

Now I think back to your video about how favourites rarely win the major....history repeats itself. This was a miracle run from Cloud 9 and will go down in history, but we have to wait and see what else can they accomplish in the future to truly weigh how great a lineup they really are.

Awesome rundown and summary Mr. Shields

Wow man you make great videos with your opinions. Honestly this video is very informative. Nice job man

45 minutes later and the fact remains, C9 outplayed Faze as a team on the final two maps to win the major. Towards the end, Faze was the team that was too reliant on with individual plays and clutches. C9 has shown themselves to be improving rapidly as a team, playing aggressively still, but not overextending. Faze was winning clutches they shouldn't have, getting silly kills through walls, smoke and they have a more skilled roster. C9 won because they were able to adapt, execute and have some damn good aimers of their own.

NA dream finally completed

i could listen to Thorin for 1 hours straight and not get bored, What a journalist.

Great and insightful video

Best major final of all time.

They played really well can't take that away from them Stew went from a pub God to a major champion that's a pretty amazing story

That intro is amazing

Great recap of the major

Great video. Very good points and hearing tariks interview after the win, the team also knows that they had a really good run and that they still have room to improve. By the way, I predicted both Gambit and cloud9, do you think I'm a fanboy or someone who can analyze the team form?

So fucking happy for Cloud9 especially Ska

Good job Thorin. Straight fire.

Seems like Thoorin has been learning video editing. Great, better quality intros.

@Thooorin I am a C9 fan... Now that that is out of the way, I have to agree with almost everything you said. The only part of this whole video i disagree with is that for a day C9 was, in fact, the best team in the world. Do I believe that C9 is better than Faze Clan? Nah.... Not by a long shot. Do I believe the stars aligned for C9? Not that either. I honestly see the results for what they are...for a day they played the best CS. They fashioned their own incredible plays and won as well as taking what the other team gave them and won. Period. It's a dreamy thing to want to see more of this high caliber playing from C9. Thank you, Thooorin, for sharing your thoughts.

i have never played CS GO, i have never watched CS GO professionally, and the only person i knew was Niko. I saw this was the number 1 viewed stream on Twitch and i was rooting for Faze because i hate C9 (im a big League and LCS fan). After yesterday, i think i might want to start following CS GO professionally

I love how thorin is wearing all the different Liquid outfits in the beginning. I think Richard won the bet.

good stuff thorin. you're the goat.

Gotta give it to C9, they played a hell of a series. Probably the best bo3 series I've seen in awhile. The nail bite factor was 10/10

My third favourite series ever with number 1. Being Luminosity Vs G2 ECS (I think) and number 2 being Gambit Vs Astralis PGL Krakow

Hearing you call Stewie and Tarik "money" just warms my heart, idk why

i've been waiting

That intro was s1mply amazing.

I see C9 going on to be 3rd best team in the world, maybe 2nd. I don't see how anyone can really challenge SK as they are so consistent, but C9 can probably beat them once or twice in BO3s. It will be interesting to see C9 vs Faze in the future, and if it was a mental block that C9 overcame so they can start winning consistently (unlikely). I do think they will beat G2 and Astralis more times than not, and as they tend to not get upset too frequently, C9 should more than likely continue their form of getting top 4's and getting to finals, hopefully including the next major.

Really liked your commentary about NiKo, sounded accurate to me. I hope he somehow becomes an even better player after this

Exactly thanks for reiterating what I said on yesterday's video you da man.

What impressed me most is how young the C9 roster is. They are probably the youngest roster to win a major. Or at least pretty close

Best intro ever.

Intro legendary again with the Liquid merch

That Final was HYPE

Usually disagree with Thorin's thoughts, but this time I like it. I like the analysis and the points he's making are making sense. Liked :)

Would you say that Skadoodle was a dark horse player who showed up big under pressure?

This series and the g2 vs luminousity series were my favourite series since I started watching csgo

Loved the video man! I know comments can be annoying but I really enjoy the content you create. I hope you have a great day.

That intro was gold

Thorin, what do you think about Lurrpis saying faze need to make a change after losing the final? Seems a bit of an over reaction to me.

I have never seen a team (especially from NA) have an adaptive style against the top 3 teams in the world where they were able to isolate the star players and minimize their play. Props to Tarik, valence, and the c9 players for executing the clear preparation done for their opponents

This is why I fucking love Thorin, he's so honest and passionate

Wow that intro!!!

Does this mean we have to stop calling c9 the poor man's g2 or does that still qualify?

On overpass I actually seen a lot of good things from them in terms of tactics. I think the biggest thing I've seen is that they actually used strats that a lot of the best teams in the world use on it like astralis and some of the flashes that G2 like to use on it. I think it will die down a bit and sit at about their 3rd or 4th best map depending on if they can also keep up their form on inferno.

Was probably the best series I’ve ever seen. What. A. Game.

My guy needs to iron his clothes

That intro LOL.

This is my first thorin video somehow, and that intro cracked me up

great analysis

Respect the thumbnail game.

Funny seeing all the fans that were triggered over Thorin calling this a fluke now after some years. How right he was.

I thought that c9 looked really good in this tournament because they had extremely good teamplay. It seemed to me they weren't relying on sick individual play to win rounds (apart from the semis and finals). They were clinical and decisive in their play and yes they got out aimed sometimes but it was excellent the way they traded into sites and were disciplined on ct side. It is for this reason I think and hope that they can have good showings in other tournaments as well and be a legit top 5 or top 6 team and in the convo to win.

Big fan thoooorin :D I think you are right at wheb you said this was the best single map run ever, because Cloud 9 also won the major in home soil,which kinda has a good "storyline" as they were the dark horses as said by Moses that major.

just wondering... why is he wearing a headset when no one else is talking to him and he doesn't need to listen to anything... xP

"This Stewie pick is actually high risk low reward"- Thorin after C9 picked up Stewie2k

didnt Tarik and Rush make it to quarters with Optic? :O or is my memory cloudy? :S

Can u do a best major final ever? My 2 favorites were either the astralis vs virtus pro one or the cloud 9 vs faze one. Both insane comebacks to win

They have to be at least 3rd in the world, no?

Faze relied way too much on gaurdian and Olof to get them out off shit niko choked they will either crumble now or be motivated to crush everyone

11/10. Top notch edit.

I don't have much history watching these teams / this game but to me as an outsider, I felt like the c9 double AWP setup was key to them winning. When they changed that up they started to lose momentum, when they brought it back, they did great.

@Thorin I wouldn't say you are wrong on one point but not completely accurate. You said stewie and tarik seem to have the same philosophy on crazy individual plays. That's not entirely accurate, at least not in the final. There was a highlight clip where stewie says "we don't need to make individual plays, we can win as a team" and I think that was important. They really played as a team and I think that made the difference. When they made individual plays it was with a teammate pop flashing etc. Trading well etc.

Legendary intro, don't even need to watch the rest of the video tbh

The thumbnail is the reaction of everyone who thought that Stewie2k wasn't cut out for c9 and then witnessed their win in the major

Bruh, I'm so fucking hype still.

did u find that shirt in a dumpster? tf is up with that collar and those wrinkles

Niko tbf has choked in the last 3 finals hes been in

What u think about stewie right now? I remember what u said in the past... your thoughts about him

As a player whos just getting into playing counter-strike, and the esports scene, i find this very interesting. And also i dont know why but the way he talks about teams and players in terms of analasys, for some reason i get this "NBA" vibe analasys. Does thoorin as a esports analytic has interest in some other traditional sports, maybe aside from esports?

GuardiaN, the greatest player in csgo history to yet win a major.

Just great team play from c9 and great revelation from ska

That thumbnail, probably as close to a ThoChamp as we'll ever get.

Already missing this team 😓

Why are faze so bad in tight finals? Doo thay have comunication problems in inportant ronds

first time watching a csgo major... mainly cuz it was the first time NA made one i heard.... was fucking sweet to watch... i might actually start watching your csgo content

35:20, skipped over stewie's near ace to win the major, stopped by karrigan. Huge, killer moment, then tack on the Guardian 1v2, for two rounds that would normally absolutely crush a team mentally.

Talks about c9 wears team liquid merchandise only thorin