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Yeah.

Yeah, and genuinely, Foot, like, they're actually setting him up to be, like, a star AWPer on this team.

They give him the AWP all the time.

He gets the AWP the majority of the time.

I'm that excited about this.

And of course, we can talk about the fit on foot and how Even on Heroic, they played pretty up-tempo.

On his old teams, he would play this up-tempo style that Foot play, and he was really good at that.

He was very effective at that, which is hard to do as an AWPer.

Like, someone has to have known that inside Astralis.

And as soon as Foot basically decided they were only going to play one event with St. Pius, this was a very real risk that if you had Cemetery on your roster, you wouldn't be invited to the Major.

And what they've done is they've gone to stake ranked.

They've... brought Cemetery with them, but if they play five games with Cemetery and foot losing the quarterfinals of Bucharest, Astralis won't get to the major.

That is... by no means how an organization that hopes to reach the stars again should be conducting themselves.

It almost feels like they were just banking on foot playing five matches because as far as I know, that's what this hinged on that they were going to play five land matches with son Pius, but it's almost, I mean, with, with how these Bucharest Swiss without the Swiss is playing out, you have no clue what the matchup is going to be in the, in the quarterfinals there.

Like there's a real chance they play spirit, for example, in the quarterfinals and, and, Yeah, they looked hot, but maybe we'll even talk about Foot more later.

But yeah, no, there's no way that you could bank on them playing five matches out with this lineup.

And so I think the problem people have is, I fall into this myself, is when someone's, like, on the up, I'll give you an example.

Actually, a perfect one would be Halbock Foot.

Before they signed Son Pius, they already looked like they were on the up.

But to be fair, when they had Laux and Symmetry, you could also see they had hit a plateau.

Whereas for Blade, he has an additional 120 games to judge and base that off.

So as much as we want to call for someone's head when they're playing a bad tournament or when they're doing something irrational, there may be more to it so i think that's something we always have to keep in the back of our mind so i'll buy into to your point about you know us being unfair to to some degree and again you know it comes down to to donk saivu and and who else you know fucking up with with our perception of what a counter-strike player is supposed to do when he's 18 years of age part of it as well though is that that's the way it's going you know you see the players from foot as an example i think they're very mature team given their age given their experience so you There's also part of me who's like, okay, if they can do it, if Don can do it, if Saewoo could do it, then you naturally don't have to do it to that extent or to that level.

But you also see Foote doing it, you're seeing Dukes doing it, you're seeing Kwabini come in as an in-game leader, playing like he's been an in-game leader for five years.

So more and more of these young players are being raised and being taught you know, proper counterstrike, so to speak, at a younger age.

a successful event.

Successful series against Foot.

Then they would need to do well in the next game.

With a mouse win, you have to be sensationalist because we're not going to have another podcast until later.

G2 are there.

And Foot.

Foot are there.

Don't you worry.

They made the cutoff.

Yeah.

We haven't seen Foot play in forever.

I'm sorry.

That's why people are hyped about them.

People watch Foot.

Mate, Foot literally twice beat Mouse in a tournament.

Like, these guys fucking get wins.

They get scalps.

With that said, it is obviously a mad hypothetical, but I actually liked it as a topic 'cause what he essentially got us to do was break down not just the roster move, but how we see the orgs and what is wo- what the value of players versus money is.

'Cause I'm, I'm pretty sure where he's getting this thinking from is remember I made that tweet where I said something like, "If I, if even though they claim in spirit, you know, they'd never sell Donk for any amount." I actually said on Twitter basically, "If someone offered you anything above $10 million, you'd almost be a moron not to take it." Like, remember, if you'd have done that two years ago, you'd have still had KS, Oki, and $10 million.

Like, and people just won't get that life isn't Football Manager because in real life you have to spend that money and earn that money and raise that money.

Is you had these two teams both make a step up at the beginning of the season.

You had Foot when they made the EWC final, where X-Flout was looking awesome, and everything looked like it was pointing up.

And even though they've made a roster move, I think a lot of us want, in getting the Sumpious move and kicking out Semmler, who's now with Astralis.

Actually, the problem is though, it's like, 'cause they had to get that deal done.

So I just want those two teams back in the mix as soon as possible.

I want Art to not have it to be a problem, and we're just watching Legacy and seeing the real Legacy.

And I want Foot back.

By the way, if it's an improved Foot, even more hype, 'cause surely at that point in time, all these narratives we're discussing, NaVi, G2, Falcons, surely they all just get intensified if you throw two more competent teams in that can make deep runs and maybe even beat these squads.

Um, that's kinda my read.

Like I'd like to see him outside of the NAVI system, like maybe go back to Foot, re-find where it's fun.

But I think that ship's sailed, so.

That, that-

Maybe Seagulls need to come back.

What's...

Talking about Foot, when are they playing again? I feel like I haven't seen this team for a while.

There's no reason.

Right, we're back for another episode of Snake and Banter.

Our guest for this one is going to be Koolio, who is obviously the coach of Foot and will no doubt, I already know some of the topics, obviously we will get into some topics about Foot in this episode.

But for this one, in an unusual turn of events, we're gonna start with a Maui point that's actually in the good category.

If you don't know, on this show we do the good, bad, and ugly.

What, what is good right now? What, what can I talk about?

I mean-

[laughs] Uh, clearly while we have the chance to talk to Koolio, it makes a lot of sense that, uh, we should be talking about what's going on with Foot.

I'm not gonna talk about the team as a whole, but I really did like and still like, even though we have yet to see the move take action, where Foot have obviously dropped Symmetry and now they're playing with SunPius.

hope they get back to it right out of the gate, pick up where they left off.

Remember Foot last year when they did their NA sand? With the Longs thing.

Yeah, with the Longs thing, and then they didn't look the same afterwards.

Well, talking with Longs, he did a Duncan podcast, and then he came on Confirmed.

EWC, I don't remember who they lost to.

Furia?

No, Maus, they lost to Foot, right? Oh, yes, that's right.

In like the quarter or the semifinal, they lost to Foot.