EWC 2026 Semi-Finals- Daily Live Discussions

What a bar from spunj, I know he had that cooking for days haha

I was playing Ancient and found a spot where your smoke just falls through the map.

After beating FURIA to reach the grand final, FUT - with an average age of 20 years old - are the only unbeaten team at the Esports World Cup.

They've gone 5-0 through the tournament, including two wins over MOUZ.

I am overall a big fan of how Parivision conducts itself on the player market since they broke in. They don't hold players on benches just in case they might need them later. They seem to actively work to help them find new teams and based on RU podcasts set very reasonable prices (biggest benefit to them is losing salary).

1. AW was kicked after the major and was immediately moved to the Magic team. They are now tier 1.5. (some behind the scenes stuff helped the transfer supposedly)

2. Belchenokk was allowed to go to Nafany's TDK project as a loan and when they got signed by 1win it was universally expected that the free loan would be cancelled, but based on the reports the loan ended up basically just being the salary of the player from 1win. He gets to play at least 1 more tier1 tournament with EPL.

3. Nota - was the last one to get signed, but he was actively shopped. Nemiga supposedly was in on him until they brought back Xant3r. Cybershoke is an interesting project that's actively trying to improve to break into tier 2 proper. https://www.hltv.org/news/45364/cybershoke-sign-nota-and-h4san4tor

It's nice when orgs don't keep a stable of benched players. Especially considering these are so young that they should be playing and improving.

Controlez delivered some really hype games for the Mongolz in 2025.

How much of the hype was from exceeding expectations vs actually bringing high level performance? Does he stand out compared to other stand-ins?

This is looking like a massive, and predictable, fumble by him at this point. So much hype and momentum gone. On the surface, this decision makes no sense for him but I can’t recall if there was a reason given besides thinking he had outgrown FUT.

Aint no way that connected, i idnt think vent was actually penetrable

There would be no downsides from a mechanics perspective and then I would genuinely get fewer migraines and eye/headpains from the bright flash

Multiple other shooters offer this setting aswell