At 16:30 i'm pretty sure Thorin is talking about JJonak, before JJkonak there was also Ryujehong who was an incredible Ana player.

Cuantas copas tenés, thorin?

Jimmy reminds me a lot of ZywOo, a quiet and shy guy who is a prodigy in his position! Imagine this two playing together...

maui is insane, with HALLZERK you know what you're getting? one map he will miss 15 easy shots in a row, singlehandedly losing it and then on the next map he'll get 30+ kills including several 1vX clutches. to even bring hallzerk up is insane. also torszi is hardly a better example. he had looong droughts already where he was playing poorly for several events in a row.

Still need the breaks between maps and matches to be reduced.

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Thorin's Good Point about Gaimin Gladiators, isnt that what happened with Heroic?

forgetting JDM during the NA awp discussion !

I respect Thorin's opinion but Xyp9x consistently put up great numbers every other game rather 1 in 15 tournaments and lets forget. MR12 has inflated stats compared to MR16. Xyp was putting great numbers 2016-2019. (I went through his stats from 2016-19 on HLTV) I do agree Jimpphat is revolutionizing Support/Anchor position by being super aggressive while being Calculative and he is the 1st Anchor/Support Superstar in CS2 but in all of CS. it has to be Xyp9x 1st then you can put whosoever want to put next.

Counter strafing with W and S is actually unchanged because you could never overlap inputs with those two keys since you're using the same finger for both. Nulls are very strong only because they remove the human error of overlapping inputs meaning as long as you tap the opposite movement key you will always 100% get a frame perfect counter strafe. If this should be considered cheating is debatable considering Valve probably never intended counter strafing to be reliant on keyboard delay and stuff anyway. What speaks for the last point is the fact that Valve allows this.

BritishTechTips as guest

s1mple=thanos 👍 👍

gyattemala - duncan thorin shields

Again, well said by thorin especially on maui's ugly point

love how maui just used a good point for his "bad point"

01:45:15 this gets my like thorin!

Plain and s1mple why w0ndeful is underrated ;)

37:40 LMAO

gr8 episode as always -- maui's point about counter strafing while moving diagonally is actually gamebreaking.

Nicodoz over wonderful with rifle ahahahhahahahahahhah 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Watching Thorin use a gluck gluck joke as part of a point is not what I expected to watch before I go to bed

big's last hope - bring back chrisJ

why we talking about mongolz "being too high", when they are always having double digit games vs any top team in every tournament since like half a year almost. always exciting games. instead talk about how spirit is still rank 3, while donk and the team is lately putting out rather mediocre performances.

Why snap tap is cheating is so easy to understand. It boils down to; the keyboard deactivates a switch for you. Thats it. Nothing to do with skill. Its a hardware script. It lowers the skill ceiling.

Not me thinking I would buy some deodorant after an episode of Snake & Banter.

Thorin saying GYATTemala was not on my bingo board for this one

Reddit's overreaction to EWC results were indeed crazy. From "G2's snax/new roster critisisms COMPLETELY rebuked" to "Navi was always the best team look at them just winning world championships this year". While the tournament itself had some of the worst cs played in it. Literally every top4 team just wasn't ready at all, they all looked like they just got out of bed in the games where they got knocked out in. That should tell you something, if top4 teams can't be arsed to power up for it even just a bit. On the contrary it was just a b1t who powered up for this.

KingT is low key one of the more funnier guests, good stuff.

Super excited to see T on this show again. Keep bringing this man on!

The shoryuken is a pretty good analogy, in Street Fighter 6 there are 1 button shoryukens but if you choose to use them, you get a damage penalty by 20% ish and you lose some of the basic moves

Still brings tears 😢😢

i wonder if IM’s ugly view model makes his eye test seem worse

Return of the goat guest!

LETS GO KINGT

We going to gyattamal with this one

"Counter strafing is such an essential part of this game", The question sould then be: why is it essential, how does it improve the game. And then the follow up: does this floor raising detract from the counter-strafing additions at all?

"To fit their own narrative" 1:33:00 say no more. So if G2 were to fail in the group stages you wouldn't be taking shit about Snax and Malbs?

I think the problem with swapping in a better player on navi is what their ability to work with the system is. There's a reason they got better when S1MPLE left.

Good episode. Well balanced.

KingT never heard of hallzerk? CoL would take wonderful any day of the week over hallzerks garbage ass

I'm nothing if not consistent but I'm always amazed that people don't mention NAF who plays ALL the same positions as Jimpphat and puts up better numbers against the same opponents and always goes up a level in arena. And yes this is in CS2 with Liquid being in a mess. And has tournament MVPs playing this role, at age 21 and this was after Taco left. (He also had MVP at 19 but that was from Star Roles) Not to take away from Jimpphat who is 10 years NAF's junior, just to point out that he is not entirely unique in his role.

The thing with nikos teams they are never winning as a team or even really playing as a team it's always individual's but it's a team game as navi showed

Jimi has the energy of a middle aged father of three from Kansas City who does the estimating for an HVAC company

as a Swede, the awp issue in NA is very relatable. Our last decent awp was probs JW in 1947

funnny hear every single analyst say Navi have fluked 2 tournament wins. Crazy if they fluke a 3rd, right? what a fluke

1:09:40 I strong disagree with KINGT here: Why do people fight for those players? Because they are fans of these players. I would never want Navi to cut b1t. Unless he becomes a tier 2 or even tier 3 player, I want him to stay. That's because I am fan of his, I loved watching him in 2021 up until now. I, as a Navi fan, am fan of the players + Coach not necessarily of the organisation. If the entire Navi lineup would switch to let's say Dignitas, I would become a Dignitas fan. Would acquiring someone who's 10% better/more consistant than b1t make Navi better? Probably. But I personally would lose interest in the team if it's just some random Danish, Swedish or whatever guy joining. It already hurt to see s1mple, electronic, Perfecto and Boombl4 go. I would rather take a Navi that's a 6/10 but with players I like than a 10/10 Navi with players I don't care about. I get it, as an analyst, commentator or journalist you are not a fan of a certain team, thus making you not caring about the indiviual players. But I, as a fan, do care about the players.

The fact we don’t need AI edits to have Thorin say zoomer shit

I like BO1's from the viewers perspective. I get to see many teams playing each other in 1 day. It probably sucks for the teams though to place their fate on a single map.

thorinn, i know that EWC wasn't a prestigious event in terms of historic counter strike events, but if all the best teams in the world attend, why can the result not be considered a T1 championship?

GYATEMALA 😂