don't go back okay yeah we will we will let's do the sponsors first let's see if we can remember their names duncan so we've got nordvpn our vpn sponsor good on our URL_TOKEN rls to get NUMBER_TOKEN off the vpns that will sponsor us uh great sponsor to have been with the sages now uh love having them and of course obviously steel series they've resigned so we tricked them tricked them into thinking they wouldn't be associated with our vile views uh so you can go to the steel series store you can just put exclamation point steel series in the chat and you can type my name with no space and you get uh NUMBER_TOKEN off anything in the store really good ahead of christmas obviously get some gifts treat yourself treat your loved ones uh right let's uh let's do it then obviously we were at the major weren't we there was a big cs tournament uh called the major the cs go major uh the most viewed in history yes yes NUMBER_TOKEN million we've more than doubled the record uh that we previously had from uh boston with NUMBER_TOKEN and um you know uh it was in it was called pgl stockholm and nearly none of it was in stockholm but it was in the end we did go to stockholm didn't we i remember it distinctly uh on our day off and um you know we we we got the winner we all expected but we're not gonna start there we're gonna basically start at the beginning and talk about the storylines right from the very first week which obviously the challenger stage that used to be the minor back in the day now obviously it's attached on um quite technically yeah yeah yeah the qualifier um and so there was a couple of big names that dropped out that probably worth talking about uh first as we talked about on the broadcast was big the german team obviously that have recently brought in geared we said we didn't really know what to make of them they went into uh pgl stockholm and we thought you know they could be a dangerous opponent at that stage but ultimately uh when it got to the best of threes they got found out including a very sort of surprising loss to mouse uh which really sealed their fit so we're now for big obviously we just saw them get battered as well in the dreamhack open final um against uh fnatic um saw the last stream hack open as it happens so uh you know how are we feeling about big do they need to continue to shake up this roster and maybe add more german speaking dins yeah the trouble i have with this roster is even if i just do normal counter strike analysis they obviously don't have enough star power it's like firepower like raw skill like all the basic terminology essentially they just aren't good enough at shooting people in the game which obviously with their hit team's history isn't all the games about like i actually do appreciate what they've tried to do with all the iterations of bigfoot they've tried to go on a tactical approach it's why people will forget as easy as it is to look at the zantara's cut and go like what were you thinking like these were also the guys who kicked out smoothie and by the way it were
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