i can't with this woman

i love when events go really normally

listen this is so deep into spinoffs of spinoffs of extended media of doctor who that i could not even begin to tell you what is going on or what it has to do with anything but this cover looks UNCANNILY like something drawn by a tumblr tgirl as the cover of a lesbian low fantasy fic

update

going through a recipebook from the 30s that my english great grandmother had and i think this is the only important recipe in the entire book

tl;dr

to this day, we don't know why he got benched, but they managed to make the playoffs of the budapest major with stand-in controlez from the depths of asian tier 2, a testament to how deep the mongolian talent pool is for such a tiny country, getting dumped out unceremoniously by vitality in quarters

and, finally, the recipient of the one asian stage 3 invite, THE MONGOLZ. the mongolz became cs2 folk heroes in 2024 when they emerged from out of nowhere to skyrocket into the top 10 with an all-mongolian roster

by most metrics, mouz have been incredibly successful since 2023. they've never left the vrs or hltv top 10 since entering the hltv top 10 that september, and have spent most of that in the top 5. they made semifinals in 14 out of the 16 events they played between pgl cluj-napoca 2025 and 2026

MOUZ are not only another old-guard org, active in top tier cs since 2002 and heavily competitive for most of those 24 years. they're also one of the more experienced rosters in tier one CS, with a majority of the lineup having been together since 2023

xantares ping-pongs between one of the best riflers in the world and hopelessly underperforming map to map and aurora just aren't capable of beating the true top end of the pool without his contribution, which has left aurora hard stuck in the lower half of the top 10

speaking of teams that are simultaneously dead and top 10: AURORA, who have spent most of the last 2 years in the top 10,,,, somehow? aurora are firmly dedicated to an all-turkish roster, and might be even harder chokers than falcons

recently, though, navi have showed some fire, decking mongolz and battling past a red-hot FUT on the way to winning pro league and fending off falcons and parivision to earn the honour of losing to vitality in the finals of blast open rotterdam, which has earned them #2 in the world in a weak top 5

soon after forming, the roster that comprises 4/5s of navi's current lineup won the copenhagen 2024 major, coming away with three other trophies that year, but a slide in 2025 and the (temporary?) retirement of lithuanian rifler jL left most considering them a dead team overdue for a rebuild

the current navi core stretches back to late 2024, led by finnish twink mastermind and professional tax evader aleksib and coach B1ad3, who parlayed a pretty decent 1.6 career and maybe the worst higher tier cs:go career of all time into what is now pretty indisputably the GOAT coaching career

but where one team goes down, another must go up. NATUS VINCERE are one of cs's old guard orgs, forming at the tail end of the 1.6 era and having a long lineage of success in csgo and cs2 including 2 major trophies

as it stands, furia have come out of the last 3 events with a quarterfinals exit and then two consecutive missed playoffs. they're in freefall, and some question whether this roster will even survive past the major with how hot a commodity molodoy is. their fate may depend on their major performance

despite the ludicrousness of the entire endeavour, furia was REALLY good, and in light of vitality seemingly collapsing down the stretch, were seen by many as the best team in the world. but they suffered disappointing exit to navi in the quarterfinals of the budapest major playoffs

the addition of two time major winner FalleN was supposed to revitalize the team, but they instead sank further into the muck of tier 1.5. they hit the panic button halfway through 2025, shocking everyone by signing molodoy (kazakh, actual baby) and then YEKINDAR (latvian, just looks like a baby)

finally escaping europe, we have FURIA, a team that shouldn't have ever worked. brazil has probably the best claim of any non-european country to being a counter-strike superpower, and furia emerged as the dominant brazilian team in 2020 before slowly collapsing out of the top 10 by 2024

to their supporters, falcons have the most raw talent of any team in the world. to their detractors, falcons are incapable of consistent teamplay or good decisionmaking and are doomed to remain chokers. they are also, again, a deeply evil organization which is bad for both the world and CS

falcons have managed to stay high in the global VRS rankings by consistently making playoffs, but always get dumped out by a team with better chemistry. they have a bad habit of losing unlosable situations, leading to the widespread meme of the "Falcons radar" being posted whenever this happens

several times now, they've bought out entire cores of successful teams, jammed in expensive and recognizable talent, and bombed. last year, they finally found some stability, and with time have managed to somehow gain real fans and become a LITTLE less despised

next up: FALCONS, the lolcow of tier 1 CS. falcons are nakedly a saudi sportswashing venture and were at one point the supervillains of CS for trying to buy their way to success instead of actually building a team or growing talent

despite the hot start, parivision have run into trouble maintaining consistent performance. they got dumped out of iem krakow without making playoffs, rallied all the way to finals of pgl cluj-napoca before getting domed by vitality, then bombed out of stage 1 of pro league