Yesterday afternoon, Team Liquid faced off against Mythic for the Intel Extreme Masters Group Stage.
It’s strange to consider that Mythic typically stomps around the T2/3 scene with Erik Flom advocating and encouraging growth in the scene with Mythic League, and Liquid has gone toe-to-toe against the best teams that the world has to offer. To say that it was a lop-sided match-up is putting it as lightly as possible.
Mythic was invited into the Intel Extreme Masters due to how little competition there is at the moment within Counter-Strike for North America; there would be roughly four teams competing for IEM if not for Mythic, along with other teams, being invited to compete.
It has resulted in some bizarre matches where the casters and hosts struggled to put a positive spin on things, and yesterday was arguably no different: Mythic managed to put up nine rounds across two maps before Liquid closed them out in a clean sweep.
2-0 over @MythicRebornGG! fun game, strong showing from us 😛 ggs
— Jonathan Jablonowski (@EliGE) October 8, 2020
Yet the history of the teams doesn’t stop there: Liquid’s organization has brought on Moses as a new coach replacing Eric ‘adreN’ Hoag, and Eric is playing on Mythic team for the interim while he decides his new place within Counter-Strike, or esports in general.
The two teams are rather familiar with each other, although they typically fight in the server together during PUGs and the like, or at least know of their presence within the Counter-Strike sphere of influence.
So when the two teams clashed yesterday in a relatively fast match-up, it was tremendously enjoyable to watch if you understood the history between the two long-standing cultivators of their respective tiers. So it’s almost expected that people would want to see the chat logs of both teams throughout the server as they play through a competitive match; one of their first head to head matches ever.
Jake ‘Stewie2K’ Yip came forward on Reddit and offered fans just that; a complete chat log from the two teams as they poke and prod each other, and it’s worth the read if you want additional backstory and understanding of the two. What follows is a transcript of the match:
Stewie2K : .ready
Grim : ( ︶︿︶)_╭∩╮
NAF : hfhfhf @ADREN
Grim : hf @davey
NAF : (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.
Polen : hf boyz
adreN : hfhfhafhasfh
DAVEY : ty i was about to ask what about me
DAVEY : hf mike
Grim : i gotchu bro
DAVEY : ur just better
Grim : bro..
Grim : know u too well
DAVEY : LMAO
Stewie2K : WE ARENT SCARED OF UR 5 PING EVEN IF U HAD IT LOL
DAVEY : he dies if im on 5 ping
DAVEY : coach diff
DEAD fl0m : Gap or did i get ****ed that hard just now
DEAD Twistzz : whoever threw it has a pooor smoke DEAD fl0m : ****ing davey
DEAD DAVEY : thats toxic
Achievements disabled: demo playing.
Stewie2K : .ready
Keiti : gh
Keiti : .ready
Stewie2K : .notready
adreN : **** yeah we got 1
fl0m : EZ
NAF : eric awping my b rotate from
NAF : lil shiet
NAF : (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.
NAF : halls
NAF : xd
adreN : hahaha
Stewie2K : .ready
NAF : hf
EliGE : hfhf
NAF : (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.
adreN : HFH
adreN : f
Twistzz : hf @fl0m
fl0m : not even close
DEAD fl0m : FBI
DEAD EliGE : lmao
DEAD EliGE : FBI OPEN UP
DEAD fl0m : mans out here just vibing
DAVEY : ♿
Grim : ns..
Grim : ♿
DAVEY : LMAO
DAVEY : ♿
DEAD DAVEY : gg
DEAD EliGE : gg
DEAD Keiti : ggs
—Inferno—
EliGE : .ready
NAF : hfhfhf
Grim : hfhf
DAVEY : hfhf
fl0m : no gl?
fl0m : gl hf
EliGE : glhf
Grim : GL @davey
fl0m : im a mad man
EliGE : gl @ fl0m
Twistzz : gl @flom
fl0m : ok now im scared
Stewie2K : BACK HALL?
DEAD Twistzz : ns
DEAD fl0m : ty
DEAD fl0m : 1920
fl0m : f
DEAD Stewie2K : SIT DOWN
fl0m : woah man
Stewie2K : love u 🙁
NAF : (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.
NAF : (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.
fl0m : well
EliGE : oh hey
DAVEY : .ready
Stewie2K : .ready
EliGE : hf
NAF : hfhf
EliGE : god damn davey
DAVEY : i was so close
fl0m : nade smoke ninja
DEAD adreN : :[
DEAD EliGE : ROFL
DEAD adreN : haha
DEAD EliGE : musta been some commsss
adreN : WOW P90 RUSS
Twistzz : new meta
EliGE : fkin bm
Keiti : can u guys wait to end until i have 10 assists
DAVEY : guy watched 1 furia demo…
EliGE : tyty eric
EliGE : ez assist
Keiti : BRO
fl0m : LOL
adreN : LOL i was frozen
EliGE : LOL
Keiti : I WAS ABOUT TO POWERSPIKE
fl0m : HE ****ING OWNED HER
adreN : hahaha
DEAD NAF : yoyo
DEAD adreN : why hello there
DEAD fl0m : u cray
NAF : 😀
NAF : (˵ ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°˵)ﾉ⌒♡*:･。.
DEAD Keiti : ggs
EliGE : gg
DEAD Grim : gg
The post-match interview had the analysts reaching for Davey of Team Mythic, where he offered one of the strangest courses in dialogue that Counter-Strike has likely ever seen; a feat that Davey is known for.
https://twitter.com/elgreatodavid/status/1314309401981775872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The casters played along with the tongue in cheek humor, where Davey stated that Liquid got ‘really lucky’ in being able to beat Mythic, and that Mythic wasn’t using the full extent of their power so no one would be ashamed.
The chat logs are interesting enough to read, but it should put to bed any speculation that there is growing unrest between the two teams for North America.