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Yeah, a lot of upsets on the B stream. We started off with Sentinels up against Team Secret and Team Secret was over at MSI.
They were looking quite strong actually, coming from one of those regions that you don't always expect to be very strong,
but they showed some really good stuff. Sentinels though, in that best of one, were able to take them down,
and I think that was a really good showing for the Sentinels so far.
That's right, that surprising fifth seed out of the LCS.
Jamata, you got to watch them during your co-streams. Who jumped out at you the most in that upset?
Honestly, Dark Wings, like actually being able to stand up at international competition
I think was a big deal for him, especially just because he's by far like the least experienced
on that lineup as far as other leagues concerned, so a really, really good job from him.
And the Sentinels' career as a whole, they did really good domestically and just kind
of sticking and playing to the level of their opponents.
I feel like they did that by just Team Secret Wales.
Right, Dark Wings from my hometown, national team mid laner 4-E-N-C as a substitute.
Sentinels weren't the only upset though when we take a look at the lower side of the
bracket, a couple teams out, surprisingly, Emcoy no longer here in the winners of the LCS
Lion, also out here, Jamada.
Yeah, I mean, the Emcoy one was really surprising.
I think even though teams like Gam often come to international, it's been surprised a lot.
Just the level of play for Emcoy was just really low, comparatively to what they were
showing domestically back home at the LEC, and yeah, unfortunately, El Capitano couldn't
really rally the troops to keep the ship straight.
Yeah, Kiaia having himself a great series. Glory in the mid lane as well on the RE and then yes, yes
Representative falling short here against MIBR Brazil wins yet again in another big matchup
I think a lot of us after seeing Lyon also at MSI and the fact that they were just three we expected a lot from them
We knew they were slow starters
They lost the first best of one, but then they went up against MIBR and we said oh big favorites probably gonna take this down
No, they got 0-2'd and I think that a lot of those guys weren't exactly playing to their top level
They didn't look like they were coordinating well as a team or as MIBR
I think there weren't a lot of expectations. They were able to come in and shut them down pretty easily
Well, we've got some big matches today
And who knows what the results will end up being given the fact that day one brought some chaos
But for a behind-the-scenes look at EWC, let's take a look at this
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The bed.
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I don't understand how this is going to work.
It's getting allowed to take control of the space and nothing is done about it.
We're going to get fine.
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First KC fans try to sabotage me.
Now my own fucking stages.
Thank you very much, Obli.
We take a look at that content later on
as we welcome in the reigning world champions.
It is T1 entering the building.
They brought the circus yesterday.
Let's see what they do yet again today
against their fantastic rivals.
It is a story that we love to see.
BLG, the winners of first stand,
falling just one game short at MSI
and looking for redemption here.
Viper on that roster looking to do damage to T1.
Yet again, as we take a look at the Group C bracket,
was BLG defeating Moby Stark boy, and then GAM eSports
fallen to T1 despite a fantastic and fun early game.
And now we have our uppers match.
It is Billy Billy gaming against T1 in a best of one
to advance into the playoffs as a two zero seed.
And the loser will play GAM eSports
as we welcome you back to the analyst test.
Deagon here alongside Ox and Wded.
And it is yet again, the tale is old as time
as we welcome you to the Crunchyroll story of the day.
It's T1 and BLG as they do battle as the Titans as they are.
This is a matchup that's expected in this group
that it'd be used to in the winners bracket,
but we could have seen this way deeper in the tournament.
It won't be surprising if they match up again there.
Tension of finals, these teams have gone head to head
so many times, there's such big moments
at international events, and it's always a banger.
I think they did play against each other
in a lot of BL3s or a lot of BL5s, but this time around it's BL1 and I think anything can happen.
They always make epic storylines, but it is BL1 and anything can happen.
And I think between these two teams, it's always going crazy.
I mean, you take a look at it over the last three years.
They've played each other nine times.
You can take a look at the game totals as well.
They played more than a whole LCS season right there.
There's the best one there.
Actually, T1 got it over BLG.
I think a slight edge right now for T1 in terms of this head-to-head, but BLG obviously winning that most recent matchup at MSI
Very competitive between these two teams T1 obviously getting a ton of trophies when it comes to worlds
I felt like BLG despite being so close
I think the one that really gives for them was that worlds
2024 when BLG had this series lead and T1 thought it out
I think that one really stung for the organization and the fans are always looking to get revenge on them for that
Yeah, I mean the reason why believe the gaming looks so strong is it's just flexibility, you know, I think
Especially from the bit lane and I think he's really flexible. He's always there down to go for some good skirmishes
He's always done to pull the trigger by himself and also from bot lane
I really like to see Viper playing more
surprising picks, something like Valkos. And I think those kind of picks are opening up
for the team as well. I love that you bring up Viper because Viper pays going to be a
fantastic matchup at the bot lane. And thankfully we're being joined by one of the greatest
bot laners to ever do it. Please welcome to our show. It is Doublelift joined by Yankees.
I was talking about bot laners Yankees. I didn't, I didn't know your, I could have talked
about junglers too. What's up, Doublelift? How's it going, brother?
Hey, what's up? What's up guys? Doing great. You're starting to stream obviously. And
And yeah, enjoying it.
The crowd is filling out pretty nice today.
Yeah, I mean, look, amazing.
But why do you say Doublelift joined with Yankos
and not Yankos joined with Doublelift?
Because he understands the package.
No, I feel like we should know.
We have this NA against you, Rivalry,
and actually we are getting more.
Yankos, are you co-streaming live right now too?
I was just wondering.
Yeah, we are.
We are both co-streaming live together.
That's a great question.
Yankos is my sidekick today on the co-stream.
That's an amazing question.
And he is my sidekick today on the co-stream.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, how's it been so far for you, Jankos?
That way you feel, you know, I've actually appreciated it.
I think it was amazing.
I'm very disappointed that Mkoi lost and is out of the tournament already,
but I'm very much looking forward to today.
G2's game, of course, and KC, whatever both things can make it to Corpus.
I mean, it's gonna be a tough one.
We are gonna probably see an air against you again.
Yeah, I mean, we'll probably see, let's be real here,
probably gonna see Sentals versus KC at the end of the day.
They're probably not going to be GenG, but I thought the most insane thing about yesterday was that Lyon.
It was crazy that Mpoi lost, right? That they got too owed, but I thought it was more insane that Lyon lost to MIBR.
They're like, close. I mean, they just were top three in the world, essentially. They're obviously super big high.
And then for them to kind of just get demolished by, you know, Second C Brazil, it was really surprising.
So, I don't know.
I would kind of feel like we failed when G2 beat T1 and then lost to Lyon.
We also got an elite to check right and now you guys got like full trade as well. Yeah, but that was I don't know
I thought that was what a really ridiculous upset
I just makes me kind of excited to see more of Los like that team is pretty good
So I wanted to ask obviously the matchup ahead of us is to you on BLG
That's always been a super contentious super close matchup. What are you guys thinking going to that one?
Well, I mean BLG had a great series against a chilly right the thing is a pure one
So it's very hard to predict which team is gonna win. I have my money on to one
I feel like they should have adapted their draft since MSI and I think they can take the cities against BLG
Yeah, I mean when you whenever I believe in T1 they just play horrible and draft horrible
And whenever I think they're kind of like not that good then they end up winning. Okay, can you say that BLG is gonna win then?
Can you can you say that now? Can you say that?
What? No, dude, I'm gonna curse at them, but like because I think T1's not in the best form
They're gonna win. It's just a paradox. I don't know
I'm also a huge T1 fanboy, so I'm gonna go T1.
Alright, then I think let's make it simple.
Who's your key player from each team?
Well, for me, I'm gonna start with bot lane.
My key player is gonna be Pace.
I think he performed so well.
He's so versatile.
He plays both mages, ADC.
I know he cannot really show it off without fearless draft
and because it's just one game.
But I just think that makes T1 drafts very flexible
and he has these great games, even though he has G2
with like 80k damage in the Caitlyn game.
Again, the 4th game has G2 that they lost in the end.
So I'm looking forward to see more of Paze, more of Keria. I think the bot lane will be the difference maker.
Yep, that's pretty fair. Paze is the best on T1 and for BLG, I don't know how much versus, but I think Shun's kind of their key player.
I think when Shun's having a good game, it's kind of GG. Like BLG is like just unstoppable, but when he's having a bad game, they look kind of slow.
I see the synergy is already on point. The jungler calling out the bot laner, the bot laner calling out the jungler.
Yeah, thank you so much for joining us here on the broadcast enjoy the co-stream y'all. Thank you guys
All right
I think a great call out there to lead us into the matchup
Joan and the rest of BLG have been a huge force not only recently
But all year long and we showed the graphic of the recent match history
They are constantly leading the line here for the LPL and I feel like for me when we came into MSI
We've seen a meta for the early portion of the the year which had been bot lane centric bot lane focused
We've gone to MSI you sort of changes leaning more towards the solo laners
It's not like a big benefit for BLG night and being have just been absolutely stellar
But it's weeks. I feel like the meta still isn't settled
We've had a lot of time in this patch
We've seen a lot of gameplay on our MSI but like in the finals up against BLG HLE was playing through bot
So I'm interested to see because of the t1. I've had a good amount of time to reflect but also HLE
taking down BLG has forced them to also assess what they're playing through how
they're playing and obviously with Viper in the bot lane, he's always a viable
player to go through. I mean I want to see how Honor deals with this kind of risk
that he have right now. I think he's really inconsistent in his jungle
pathing. I think many times in the early game he kind of tried to like a
jungle path normally but whenever like enemy jungle comes like he kind of
Panics right? I think that's where T1 early game kind of falls off
But I think whenever you play against you and he has such a great early game plan
And also in the draft you have always to always you have to think about his pocket pick something like Kendred
And it already got proven a lot in the many games
So I think there's a lot of questions towards the jungle as well including yesterday where emcoy got shut down
Oh, yeah, one of the best to do it for you
but really didn't have a lot of opportunity because BLG's aggression with Joan was able to set up here
Yeah, I think the target selection as well from BLG in this one. Elliott just got ready to play the game
You can see he's just locked in place. He gets my asthma on top of him gets focused down
And Knight on picks like a colleague always been such a big specialty for him domestically internationally
It's just such a pleasure to watch this team when they're in the 5v5s. Yeah, and also, I think I already mentioned this before as well
It's not about the objective. I think you always have to think about how your team fight is going to go because I think
Especially in EWC, there's a lot of stream issues a lot of versus high fights
So I think a more than objective you have to really think about how you're gonna win the fight
How are you gonna set up for the team fight?
All right
Well, we'll see what BLG are able to do here and what their plan is against their familiar foe
MT won the reigning world champions one of the reasons why all this exists
It's because of how much success that they've had, but they've had to go through such tough teams like BLG and
Prevent upsets like yesterday that gam started with a 4-0 start for the team from Vietnam
However, T1 then settled on in and were able to come back and I'll say gam honestly had the best performance of the tournament
for the first five minutes
T1 completely took over it was a
2,300 gold lead for Gam at 5 minutes and then T1 completely chained it round by 16 minutes.
It was 3,600 in their favor.
Gam sort of looked for options here trying to go for the Baron
and it felt like T1 just had their number time and time again.
The target selection, torn flashes from carrier and just their map movements were so stellar.
It felt like constantly members of Gam were just falling down again and again
and again this is coming from an fantastic early game
but they had such a substantial lead.
It was the duo from T1, the pace and carrier saves the day, but again, I think it's also the picks as well.
I think Taliyah Shen now becoming more priority in the bot lane.
I think those champions are really mobile and I think with the global ultimate, you can always snowball through the early game.
So I think it's even more higher priority than the Ziggs right now in the bot lane.
I think as a duo on the bot lane, it's just so strong.
Well, if we know anything about Viper, he's more than willing to pick up any champion,
including the mages. We saw the Vel'Koz, we've seen, it was a cast earlier,
all these mages popping on up with it. You brought up a fantastic point yesterday in terms of like,
feels like teams have forgotten how to punish these solo bot laners under tower, specifically
mages by themselves. You just got to go dive them and punish when you leave your ADK or your bot
I think whenever you are behind in tempo, you should not try to match enemy support or like ROMs.
I think you can always go for the opposite side and punish the bot lane.
I think the teams are still figuring it out and also trying to adapt on the stage.
But I feel like the more players are getting used to it, I feel like the punishment is going to come.
I think this ROM kind of playstyle of the macro is not going to work just like yesterday.
I think one of the problems though is that a pick that's really stood out as being the Ziggs who was obviously met it before we get this point
But they want a wave play you have if they ever set up a way to dive you can just ult it with the satchel the minefield
It's a hard dive and it was kind of fun yesterday because we had the two games going on the same time
Yeah, look at the one one screen. I see Ziggs being picked other screens. It's being picked
He's just here teams are really starting to understand how to get the value out of him
And it's it's just so hard to punish and if you do leave him alone, you'll take towers so quickly as well
We've got some time before we head on into that T1 vs BLG matchup
So I wanted to turn our focus to our second best of one qualifying on in today, which is G2 vs AGAL
Obviously we have a G2 homer right here in Wadid
How do you feel like it's gonna go Wadid?
I mean I couldn't actually watch G2 games
But I actually talked to it BB about his performance and the games and I think he said that I think we are in control
I feel like we have to be more precision though because they're really versatile and also they are not afraid to
Take the fight in the river in the early game
So I think with G2 they really got to think about how they're gonna build up from the early game because whenever skimoid is in control
When he gets a favorite matchup in the jungle champion that it hits online
To me
I feel like one of the struggles one of the reasons that we saw this G2 line of go home from a side was
was not Robin Schumann just not being able to sync it up.
But yeah, I think in this game that we had yesterday,
they are in phenomenal form.
I think the growth of this duo has been such a big talking
point over the course of the year.
And if we see them linking up and impacting the map,
then I think G2 has the potential to take down basically
any team in the tournament.
And on the opposite side for AGAL,
this is a squad made it to finals last year,
kept the roster the same,
and then haven't hit those same heights yet, right?
Obviously they won their last match,
but now here comes a much tougher test
energy to who's proven this year is different and they're willing to step up against the
biggest teams. Yeah, as we can initialize a bit and he was talking about how AGAL really
suffered from lane stops being removed. That was a style of play that they'd really adapted
well to. And we saw that last year. How many times was this team close to being able to
make it to a tournament win when it came to things like EWC, MSI, Worlds, going so close
in series against the tournament winners? And I think adapting to this new meta has taken
them a bit of time but they're here still a very formidable roster with a lot of talent across all five roles.
Yeah and also when Tarzan and Kyle works together for the macro they're really precision about what they're making
and also speaking about Kyle I think he really wants to play something like
playmakers on the support when the Enchanter was meta. I think he was not really happy about what's
happening on the bot lane but right now he's having Leona, Camille which is like really proactive in the early
the game with Tarzan. I think that makes AJL even scarier in here as we're two minutes away
from the action. We have two more best of one qualifier matches over on the B stream.
It is the underdog story in Sentinels. They have the opportunity to shock the world against
Gen G. Kind of tough to do that, but that is what is they're going to try to do there
on the B stream. And then also after that, you have JDG going up against MSI champs.
Honwell like these boards between those two matches give me one point. I feel like both of these green seeds in pretty good position
I think they're gonna be the happy favorites in that regard JDG
This is a team where the players have a good amount of international experience and also with it being the best of one can never disrespect them
What priority I think
Some teams that play the victory into Zeke's to get the priority against Zeke's as well
So I feel like whenever you get the priority like both pressure the games gets a lot easier
So I feel like that's the key point for me
All right, so we'll see what happens here.
It has been so fun in terms of these best of ones
and the early on magic of best of ones.
And unlike some other tournaments,
you do have another opportunity if you lose.
That was the gift if you win.
If you win, you're done for the day.
You can move on.
And specifically today, if you win your first match,
you're in the playoffs as the number one seed
for the teams that fell yesterday
and then were able to win.
They did their double matches.
So a bit of a competitive advantage as well
in terms of this format.
If you've already won, you win, you don't have to worry about anything, you lose, you've got to play two matches today.
Yeah, definitely think so. I mean, this is also a ruthless format. You don't have much time to adjust, you don't get many second chances.
We saw that really hit Lionheart. It's a marathon.
It is a marathon. BLG and T1 about to do battle yet again, both these squads with legendary players and new additions specifically this year.
this year, Viper leaving
Honwa-Lite Esports, now joining BLG,
trying to do damage against his
LCK former brethren.
Pays joining this roster now
from JDG on to T1.
It is a lot of fun to watch,
a lot of storylines.
You can't miss it.
It's T1 vs BLG to kick off day two
at the Esports World Cup 2026.
And it's another day at the office, ladies and gentlemen, my ladies and gentlemen,
Hello and welcome to the day 2 of the Esports World Cup League of Legends!
It's a pleasure for me to welcome you here.
Yesterday we already had a good meal, Carmen Corp has survived and the LCK has won.
And today we're already going to have world-class matches.
It's our last day of groups and tonight we will know our top 8 teams competing for this trophy at the STC Arena.
But Ian and Tyler, it's about to go wild!
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with victory yesterday. Now the six-time world champions face the team that ended the MSI
world less than two weeks ago with an EWC play on place and a cheeky side of revenge on the line.
And it's like one of us, they beat T1 last time they faced them but do they have what
it takes to take them down in Paris in the best of one?
One of international League of Legends defining modern rivalries.
T1 and Billy Billy Gaming meet once again with a place in the playoffs waiting for
the winner it's legend stein set to win
the perfect day the perfect way to start
I'm starting out by trouble for this best one ball at a best of six because after
MSI I'm going the distance in a five-game series we get the follow-up and the
first qualification match of the day outside of Gen.G's
that was a mainstream, we'll see where we'll be going
into the knockout stage.
That's the best of six, that means that T1 control,
therefore, maybe they're gonna get in playoffs
to solve it once and for all for this year, for now.
Well.
We'll have other tournaments that can solve this one again.
But this is the one for now,
this is the follow up before we go to the regular season.
That's the best of one.
Yes, sadly, I think a lot of fans,
sad that we're not in a B03 at the very least
to see this one play out, because every time they meet,
It feels close, it feels personal, so many times we have seen these individual lanes step up to the pinnacle of League of Legends.
And the craziest storyline here is that Faker is undisputedly forgot the best mid laner of all time.
However, ever since Night 1 MSI, he has always, always been in the conversation for the best performing mid laner.
every single year since then yet he has not been able to solidify that with the win.
The biggest part is that Knight was always under his shadow, his faker had the titles.
Knight had the skill, but it looked more domestic than international.
Knight was known for choking on the international stage.
And as you said, up until recently, up until recently,
I personally didn't even see Knight as a top two because people like Zeke came through.
Obviously winning is international as well, I don't know where.
The RX title will always go down as one of the greatest in history.
Recently coming second, Humble Lamp also five games,
BLD coming off the back of needing to show career,
but they are worthy of being here and worthy of being the first in the qualifier.
It was also a really tough loss for them at MSI.
Always getting the extra game and then end up losing it all was pretty heartbreaking for them.
And I feel like their journey has been kind of incredible as well,
changing jungle primarily a lot then came with jungle sorry they had a
carry change with Viper stepping into the roster and then Shun comes back again
in a meta that suits him so much he can play his Vi, he can play his Kindred, he can play
his X-Chantan, play a bit more aggressive which is a hundred percent
his playstyle and it feels like when you bring that breath of fresh air with Viper
with Shun returning VLG seems to be back before.
I really do, I'm going to invite someone who, I think as well has been adjusting to the
nage meta really well, just talking about what we're going to see in the draft.
I think you could say the same thing about a lot of Korean AD carries right now, Paze
for me is someone who I have a lot of reliance on.
You know, I think the T1 AD carries are going to be good at that, you know, like, you know,
Gummer and Kelly were in classic.
It's like Penta kill them, lost the G2, that's the five.
Paze, most Pentas as well, he's kind of unreal.
See what he can pull out here, we're about to go into pick and ban, so we're going to
you waiting too long. The start of day two, you do not keep that man waiting long. He's got places
to be. He's probably got a lunch reservation. What's the place for someone? Win it? Get out.
And that's it. And then move on. In this draft so far, or at least for day one, the drafting,
I should say, priority has been on things like the Lee Sin. First to be banned away on Redside
as you see the BLG. First pick is going to go to BLG on this Redside as well as they have
their first selection. Things like the Orianna have still been first big worthy, hence to
be banned away. Trouble that Casio, I mean, has to be looked at, is so far in day one
it has been top tier.
Yeah, those midlaners absolutely, that Poppy has gone through the draft, and we saw it
almost perma-bumped through on the side, we saw it almost perma-bumped yesterday.
Yes, they saw.
And Poppy has gone through. However, midlaners choose the Casio, they choose the Orianna
into it as well. It seems like VLG are looking to go towards that Casio, something that Nigh
my husband pretty comfortable on recently.
And it's one of the better champions
because he doesn't necessarily have
any like heavy counters in the mid lane.
If you play your matchup correctly,
if you hit some cubes,
you can make a pretty favorable matchup favor.
I would expect Faker to pick the best of the bad,
or the best of the bats I should say,
which might be that Syndra option that we've seen
with either the Zinzal or any other kind of skirmishing jungler.
That's a hard lock here for Faker.
I expect either priority, Eddie Cary for Paze,
or something that does set up for something like the Siegs.
We have seen Camille in early rotations
has been ultra successful, but when you're talking about
carry-up, you just have to throw that in the air
as the Jarvan for owner is gonna be locked in instead.
Really liking the Jarvan right here.
So it's apparently nicer with the Sin Jar
for the one to make jungle.
Let's see what Shun's gonna have in mind right here.
Usually, we're talking about time these junglers,
we're looking towards more aggressive champions
like Lona Fiori right here.
I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing the Poppy
come through from Shun.
for the best poppies that are in the LPL and since he has been left open, it's a hard counter to Jarvan as well for the flag and drag
and he has been locked in again, a perma-bunt pick, has been left open and Shen has got any sense.
Yeah, and again, seeing Poppy here kind of nice running into the Jarvan, Camille going to be locked in as well,
stolen away for a potential flex option, 4-T1, but mainly as well for Kerri's bottom lane.
Again, we're expecting that Ziggs to come through, especially in a best of one.
best champions you have to offer, when you already have poke and range, it does feel like for T1,
you might need to add that to the bottom lane. So things like Jhin as WorldTrouble, I'm just going to throw in as an option here.
As a potential, see where they end up. T1 for now though, looking for that flex, that could be Doran Shen, also, again, most likely, it carries.
Keria was an absolute chef yesterday, playing that Shen down bot lane, together with Pays and Taliyah.
Actually, they turned around in early game from Gumball, really pushed them to the core.
There were about 3,000 gold down in Keria,
literally wrong from me to jungle to top and to solve the game in about three and a half minutes for them.
So a really nice flex right here, but I really don't mind seeing that Shen going down bot lane
into the Camille, it could be a great defense for whatever pace chooses to hit right here.
And the Ziggs can be found out in the second rotation right here as it is very strong both with Jarvan and with...
And it might be BLG that banned that away as well because on 4, T1 could slam that and then look for the flex
for that top lane or at least
solidify after keeping that Shen up in the air.
So Gwen's gonna be taken away as well. Could mean anything right now. Could also mean that Doron might just end up on the side
and all the Cassante too. That's what I was thinking. Like I don't want to see Doron on a side or Cassante.
However, if they do want to pay more attention about bot lane for pays,
I'll be honest this split right now and the way the MSI went I wouldn't mind seeing Doran on a take because I think on anything else
I'm a little bit sus right now. The fans definitely gonna share the sentiment
All I'm gonna say is that you're right about the T1 series
However, Bin is not coming from that grade of a series in DHLE
So maybe Doran's going a little bit more confidence from that
Maybe
Maybe also we get a Bin counter pick. Yeah, that's a taken away a
A lot of the time, just kind of fishing for some of the reliable setups that will come through the poppy,
because poppy's a bit of disengage here. They do need more reliable engage and follow through from BLG right now.
I love the Akali back right here. They're thinking that Sinja could also end up being a flex.
Yep, the people on the backside, well said.
And we did see Akali yesterday absolutely pop off into Cassiopeia, so you want to take that threat out if you are BLG.
For bot lane, I'm looking for anything that can pair up together with the Camille.
It could be an aggressive type of bot lane, Viper plays super aggro AD carries,
or he can probably flex towards things like the Zeke since he's done that before,
and he hasn't been banned out unless he gets picked by Paze.
It would be a pretty good pick up from the allergy.
Let's see which direction it goes.
Syndra, I like again that you pulled up the flex.
I mean, this is just the meta we're in right now.
There are so many high priority flex picks, NMP01.
Those flexes are so much more valuable.
They're gonna take it away obviously there's gonna be the Doran top scion
But we're left with a question syndrome it syndrome bot
Because that Shen is definitely going towards support. It's just about pairings right now
And usually with the Camille we see a zix pairing here trouble. It would add a little bit of range
They need a front line
Versus Doran is going to be what casante versus scion
Okay, so I know you know what?
But it's a B01, they need frontline,
they need a bit of follow through.
I'm not really surprised.
It's a heritage, no!
What is this?
It's a Kassate for bin, up top lane.
And let's see, Viper is actually gonna be locking in
that zig that we've been talking about for so long.
I don't think there's enough AD damage on this kind of BLG
for Viper to lock in a pure AP kind of champion.
Ezreal has been hovered,
he's one of the best Ezreals in the entire world.
he wants to play towards that kind of jump in but I think I would like to see AD
proper AD down the bot lane for BLEG. It's gonna be the Ezreal in the end there's
some of that AD threat but maybe so the Camille can run I mean Ezreal very
self-sufficient AD carry right now we're gonna find out where that Zymbra is
gonna go to fake her auto-pays or is that Ziggs gonna be locked in as well so
about there's one AP damage threat with a mixed bag of Shen there's a bit of
engaged, bit of front line seems pretty reasonable from T1 so far.
2xT1 is missing now a little bit of more consistent damage.
On the bot lane, we love that.
Sivir will absolutely close that gap for T1.
It's a very classic approach to that composition.
We love this engage-engage, your front line tank.
We love Sivir with the ricochets later on.
So T1 have finished up their composition really nicely right here,
running it up with that Sivir that's going to be providing that consistent damage that we were missing.
Both are back to front damage as well.
I do feel like supports are going to be changing this game.
The first 15 minutes are going to be about carry her on
and how they sync up with jungle because that's sharing that Camille.
They're going to be out of lane level 2, level 3, looking towards mid.
And the really cool part is that owner is a super aggro jungler.
However, Shun was rated the best jungler at MSI overall.
So it is going to be his job on his Poppy to try and mark
and sort of stopped the early game aggression, particularly towards knife on the cashier.
Super immobile for the snake.
If all of us live in a garag, let's come to a place that will help you to class.
Then it gives a pretty free lane paper.
That's the cashier going to survive. Jarvan good at exploiting immobile carries.
And he's got at least one of them in the mid lane here.
PLG versus T1, only at best of one.
After we got the full run through at MSI,
Only three weeks ago, I think the matchup was at the start of that stage, but it's a long-heated rivalry
And it is one again that always delivers, you know, world finals in London in 2024
I was there watching it go to game five yet again
And the crowd loves it. It always keeps league of legends
It always hit the high level of play and even though it's only a best of one
and hopefully it delivers again.
As we jump on some of the ripped open-up day tour of EWC,
our first qualification, T1 will be the one
who is making it through to the elimination bracket,
and who will have to fight their way out
of the law of fortune to qualify another way.
We get our answer in hopefully not under 30 minutes.
Winner here only has to play that one game,
loser however has a best of three series in front of them to make it out to the playoffs.
Just want to remind everyone, lovely guys on the desk, highlighted it as well,
T1 vs BLG 17 to 15 individual games.
It's close.
T1 vs each other, BLG has a chance here to close it up just a tiny bit.
They do indeed, and as you said, I mean the only bad thing about losing this game is they won't
We have to get a lower bracket. Half the burst gam who knocked out Mpoi only yesterday.
European fads absolutely riveted about that as good shatter-dash from Carrier.
A full shot wall shot, a release of commitment from the sweep rather.
I have to get tagged a little bit here, but you're expecting that shen to land and taunt?
Damage to come through? While on, he maybe has a little bit more burst with Halo Blade taken on the Camille.
With Ignite in this lane.
You do have both of junglers sort of starting or heading towards different sides.
We have the full clear coming in from Shun, heading towards us, up through the map.
whilst we see a different completely passing from owner. He started birds, ended up topside.
We could be seeing a wrap around Cassiopeia on that level 2, level 3, not expecting that
Jarvan to have swapped all the topside of the map right after the Raptors. He hasn't been spotted
level 1 either, so the whereabouts of the Jarvan are a bit unknown. Now Knight is going to walk
topside river and play some war. Yeah, I like that war, especially if he goes and reaches out
to scuttle in a minute, a little bit over a minute rather.
Actually spawn is just showing now as well, not missing Noxious Blast, but they can not
miss in the orb, get double three first of all, so scouted the week definitely up and
available.
Walken has spot out this raptor camp, start on the edge, Shun is there, ward is going
to expire so now that he knows that he's been spotted, his owner looks to clear towards
bot.
I guess I'm not sure yet who made this exact matchup.
Nice.
It's Kangin.
Training comes through, fetching my gaze, oh rather excuse me, it's that cheery faker
that gets scouted of a weakly weak focus.
Nox just blasts again, dodge Faker thinking about the flash, looking for the Q, scouted of a weak flash by Knight.
Oh my lord, it's heating up in the mid lane, both flashes now down.
It's a flash, flash, but I feel like the owner...
Fifer just eating the face of Paze and Carrier.
Shadow Dash must not have been up and available,
On is now coming in, level 3 picked up by Paze and Carrier.
He'll heal up a little bit after the poke.
Where is Rabbidi's hands right here?
It's like, hmmm, Castor Pea has to push down Midland Wave.
No Flash!
I was like, yes!
Sorry, super distracted, what were you saying?
He's such a silly dad!
A cute baby on the screen, I...
And good, a W parents.
E-muffs in the crowd, it's very loud.
Everyone's packed out to see.
Sorry, Trouble, what were you saying?
No, it's fine.
He was a super cute baby.
I was just saying that I wonder, it's probably like Rabbidi's hand
and it's not like Castor Pea does not Flash.
It's a pretty easy target,
especially when N9ve has been playing pretty aggressively trying to get those trades onto Faker on the Syndra.
Both the junglers will trade a skullstrap each.
Owner hasn't had his back yet, and he gets a three skullstrap plus the raptors right here.
He will be able to come up with a full component.
It's going to be nice.
As shouldn't, he tries to make himself. There's no flash in mid, so both of them are also making the gank as well.
gonna be a three man, but he is being channeled and matched by T1.
Carrier coming in, should now bring a setback presence, there's no wall there to ground
him, slow down Faker, blasts on him, dead, Ones damage, and up with Hale of Blade, the
uppercuts are on it, send him away, and first blood will be delivered to BLG.
It was a three versus three, but BLG brought more damage, because this come middle base
damage, so much in the early game. Faker, no flash, chasing the solo kill previously
on tonight ends up being punished. No TP, no flash, an entire wave being lost, plus his life,
kill over however to Camille, which for early game, it's a good thing because she's going to be
roaming with that Camille. Right, we're looking at it again trouble because Shun tried to set up,
doesn't need the wall, just send Faker closer to on. Yeah, I feel like Faker played really well,
he tried to move away from the wall as much as possible to not get stunned by Shun,
but once on, has still flashed, it's a little bit disappointing here right here from Faker,
You see is it a little not expect the Camille flash are there a little bit annoying for fake as you said on
We'll pick up that first blood. I think Ruby Crystal picked up. I believe was
Pick up the four be curious to see what on is on in terms of gold as he goes to try
I spot that carrier so it's gonna be used and just get that handle by croc as well
Without finding that up a cup that carries is gonna walk back to letting so he's on so for now small goal lead here for Belgi
Thanks to not only that kill that went through
But a small lead that has come through from gold, I think from 9 to 9 those minions have been sold for.
And I feel like PLG is really happy to get that early gold on their one moving piece after that, if it's not the jungler.
It's a poppey, it's fine if poppey is fed, but you do want these extra items early on, on that Camille.
You've got the extra 2 crystals, which pretty much gets your survival ability super high up in that early game.
It's really hard to burst through HP that fast.
And as you can see, he's just perma roaming, and that's what we talked about with the Ezreal as well.
Ezreal as well. He's done Ezreal down bot lane, he's super sufficient, not scary at all for him to get dived, and he just allow on to perma roll.
Ezreal is going to try and do it again, Faker still without a flash, he's going to get camped, he's got level 6, but a hookshot, wallshot is going to find him.
Halo plays damage as well, let's sweep out and fake in here half HP as there's a wall present, so going to be taken here by Bane, he all outs, doesn't care if it's a turret shot, flash over the wall.
Doran now summoning on us as Binh finds an angle.
We expected that matchup to be boring, Binh is making it non-boring.
It's not anything
It's not anything, but versus Sion
Not really the Newton's flight we expected, but Bane is bringing some spice up the top of the map
as PLG are grabbing the second scouts up to the point to be level 6 right here
Oh, soon, I've started the dragon at the exact same time
Four members strong in the river and he won with the reasons coming through, they're not going to be contested
Both making the topo strikes in order, was well trying to channel Bane, has run out of mana
He has enough for a Q, remember it's only 24 in the topo strike, but Doron gets the hell out of dodge
as he walks around he's going to pick up the lettuce from the river and
Siren and I are going to check this brush and Tullmouth and Finn still not enough
mana for him for rotation so he ease out using the last bit to get out while
Dragon does go down to BLG in the meantime, Kerry making a roam, getting
action in the mid lane again, Knight giving in trouble, Graves get a leak from
Faker's Flash from Carrier and all the damage contributing, Knight's down,
Oner dumps down, we pass with him on, time to get out, he had no hookshot,
Watch out for Abel, you hit will be a double to Arna with carries perfectly timed run.
Because if that falls apart, that Shen is who saved him yesterday versus Gam.
And he's doing again versus BLG, Caria uses his fluster of the taunt exactly the same way
on Faker, on the Camille, and they get revenge, double kill, and the great part is that both
All of these skills go to Jarvan, who can truly make a difference around the map.
This is why I'm talking a lot about moving gold.
You want it on Jarvan, because he's the one that's going to be making the plays that make the difference.
Owner as well.
While he didn't get something out on it, it wasn't available.
He didn't get it out at night, which is now available.
He would be able to look for the 3p.
A few of those summoners, because it has been about the mid lane.
We talked about it in draft.
What's very neutral.
A bit of scaling from the Sivir, the Ezreal self-reliant.
He supports moving with junglers have made the game so far first in BLG's favor now and T1s as they crest over and complete that lead to make it neutral
On is moving towards me again carry with a small EXP lead with a huge shadow dash
Abusive from onto walking to this hookshot walkshot owners looking for the follow-up
But I don't have to get a hell out of there while Chun tries to cover as crud stuff the owner crazy roam by Paze as well
Completely leaves that boss out of the map walking up the hall now owner's gonna smite one
Shun wants the rest.
Deadbuff presence is annoying here as well for both of them.
Keep his verdict up in the air.
Only gonna flash, but it's a match!
Bit flag and drag.
Shun's got his number.
Kill goes over to nine.
Faker stands and delivers, but even though Shun's at half HP,
BLG threatening back to lane.
Bin solo killed Doran in the meanwhile,
as the camera pans back.
It's a big BLG win as Knight up against the wall.
Cares not.
He stands with a twin bang.
He finds an Oxyz Plastal 2.
and might have a pain for the Shen as BLG bounced their gold lead right back in their favor.
Very well played right here from BLG, Shun understands that Paze is heading back down
bot lane so their gold numbers advantage in the river because BIM is taking care of the science,
the scion can never join. Let's watch this one more time, will Lampic Q3 right here in Doron
abduct him on the other side of the wall. Beautiful flash. Lass is in front of his
all to stop the escape and kill some with another kill. And remember we saw that the last all-out
took the flash from Doran so being happy advantage didn't burn his summoner, abuses it there and a
solo kill for bin is massive. Yes the 700 gold lead for Xandei is not going to be as exciting as a carry
but still it's kind of showing you the the state that BLG solo laners are in that is a bread and
butter for BLG throughout the years doing a great spot in this vessel one. The great timing as well
and eliminating the threat of Sion walking down that river and disrupting the void graph.
So, not only was it the solo kill that we mentioned, the extra kill in the river, but the two void
graphs as well, which is going to give them that extra neutral objective.
And with G, looking towards this setup, in advance, in the bottom lane towards this next
dragon, TP is going to be used by Faker, Knight, not towards that Rota Vages yet. I'd be curious
about his gold, as he's got two stacks on the Darkseal, classic Knight might turn into a Magi's,
and 9 out of 10 games usually does.
But for now, we pause.
We wait for this next objective.
Vildje already started with 1.
And a great spot here is...
Keria will be level 6.
I want to add that caveat in trouble because
Keria at level 6 adds a bit more defensive capabilities
for the all-stacking dive that this Jarvan is going to offer.
And talking about the Jarvan, actually.
Great man to think I like.
Sundar's guy completed.
There it is.
Owner before anyone else.
Shun is going to match it just now.
And they're going to look to 5 but on!
I mean, there's damage, you've got to adapt to defenses,
owner's not going to fully commit over the wall.
Does it affect dragon as the biggest question?
On we'll have to back now if you want to get some health.
That's the most important part,
you could not get a war down behind that Vex.
Hello Vex.
Sard's no longer in the met.
So Vex is cool.
No, Vex's don't smile though.
Vex's don't smile.
We've got to fix this costume.
Vex's don't smile, don't smile in the wild.
Sort of commits.
Vex is always sad.
And very, you know...
Emo. Yeah, super Emo. Cool, I'm listening to her.
And she likes Viego, fun fun.
Oh, getting all the lore here in, brought those down.
We haven't even seen Delivery so far.
As, onto it, just go back to lane. He healed up.
Not sure if he got the river of fruit or not, but
Dragon priority is giving it over to T1 for now.
One or two wards placed down as you see on our screen right now.
Okay, unable to spell shield.
That mystic shot, the all-in from on.
We set up their big, shouldn't think about going in as well.
Keep his verdict up and available, but
Center-way, his T1 through this, and there's the standing out of Faker finds Emily's power, as well as the Pacifying games!
Knight stands carry in the face, a shuttle-dash ever faking can't contribute, he has to run out of the fight.
Knight following up with the twin fingers, Nox Splash up, Nox Splash connected.
What a steadfast move from the Midlander at BLG.
That was absolutely, beautifully timed by Knight, the second carry alliance.
All some balls in the face.
chases them down creates time for this dragon to go down the one versus two
carrier pops the ult onto faker the place super aggro their second lands that
timing was absolutely insane and if Kerry didn't get that that that shadow
dash I think faker's dead there as well or at least has to burn the flash so
for night big threat doesn't lead to the dragon the answer is yes off the back of
that BLG do find dragon as well as that 3v3 play down bot side that forced away the bolt
of T1.
And the very important thing right here is that you've got a Rotov-AIDS champion over
in the mid-limit of BLG and a 3v4 champion down bot lane who's also stacking from Ruramana
later on.
So the fuck that you're winning the early game but you also got stacking champions that
really want their items finished and stacked up with that fight in a few items is absolutely
incredible.
And T1, particularly when looking at Keria, you might have to step up right here the same
the way he did versus Scatterash there.
The hard task, this is the Shatterash there on to on.
Power that adaptive defences, that nice shield
that comes up every 30 seconds as well as,
just backing away from now.
He's got level six, he's got his Rollcrest done as well.
Scatterash gonna be dodged meanwhile.
Terri's gonna make an angle here.
Knight has Flash in five seconds.
Look at the timer from T1.
This is crazy.
Five seconds, maybe 10.
He sniffs it.
On the Flash.
And Knight, yeah, definitely knows something's up.
Haha, he's literally just possessed.
Yeah, he's just...
He's super overstepping.
There's no way he's neutralizing his play.
Like, I know you know I know you.
So don't waste your time right here, which team one are you not going to do?
I'm going to set up some vision in that try brush.
Put Barthas from on.
Scout of the week, almost finding a target.
Kera's around as well.
The Janna set as much vision as possible to try and keep Faker safe.
That's like his flash available, but they don't want to have him burn it, especially when he's put on a side lane.
So I really like how T1 are really bundling up right here, sending care through that big side gap.
Owners through the both side, throws the tides, was trying to establish a little bit more deeper vision into BLG's jungle.
Shun going to find me the lens that fakers over the wall. If only Jussie didn't hug the wall tight enough.
Owner going to be losing the last end of his Krugs.
By the way, Shun is up a level. We can see now, yeah, it's actually a level and a bit, so advantage here for the Poppy.
Shun has been putting on a jungle performance of the ages as he walks towards the rapids now,
where at least looks for a bit more insight into when Shun goes next.
I just want to remind everyone that this is so refreshing to see from Shun.
Shun was with BLG in their high highs and then with their low lows.
Got replaced, Wei came in, Beichang came in.
Circle.
He started working with them as well and then he went full circle back to Shun.
back to Shun and the fact that he was able to shine the way he did over at MSI
he's just a little bit of a comeback for him as well so how he can be one of the
greatest junglers among the greatest junglers in the world as they are
chasing Keria so like Keria is like really trying to push the limits here
trying to find some angle and opening he's been putting wards everywhere getting
some vision for T1 and now they're gonna start that reef trail
Lots of resets coming through from BLT.
Yeah, Ong's on a ward though, as he walks in.
All they know is that you might have to do that to reset.
There's a late from carrier. Long comp played very nice here.
Four different that thing you'll play for sure is...
Edward goes over to T1. A nice objective.
Try and break some of these mids. Sidelanes open.
I think right now, you want to have...
I think they're all rolling a little bit.
A minute 30, you talk about the resources here in this game,
obviously there's a Syphro style and it's not like playing fast is a necessity for them in this game.
Three items, clock sticking.
Yeah, Casio is a threat though, I'm going to say.
As for now, Yntar picked up first here by pace. Just decide not.
Oh, can you see that item?
What kind of candy do you have here?
We can stroke this game.
It's dragons up in a minute. The big ticket item, BLG on two.
to trouble. This is where our eyes gonna look next and those item, uh, Alice Black's break
point, you see it pays on two before we get towards that objective.
Also about Black Cleaver, on owner, he's so, so close. She's got the page, she's got the
HP, just missing the completion right there. Excuse me. And they are looking for that third
dragon. It would be huge appeal, G-Manus, to collect soul points for Cloud Soul right
here. How fast this come in, we'll be moving around them up. It's gonna become so annoying.
for players like Faker and Pace who are on mobile carries having to come in so fast around the map
it's going to be very problematic for them and you have seen how much effort owner and carrier have
been put around the map to set down that vision so that carrier a certain pace and Faker can actually
farm a bit more safely but right here T1 are going to have to try and find a way inside that river.
He's going to get a hard push on this like 10 seconds of great perfect timing as well.
Doron's gonna have to push that out and then think about a TP angle, been moving into fog of water to do so.
But now it's T1 who have Paze and Kerry moving from topside into this dragon, and then from the bottom angle
is Oner and Faker. T1 gonna be burned here by Doron while the walking is done by Bin.
Mid wave gonna be the priority, and Paze obviously now with two items, he just picked up a little Navori.
Has quick wave clear, so T1 have the chance first.
T1 first in the river, they do not have a lot of deep vision behind enemy lines, fake as well.
On almost dead, Unleashing power has to go on in, gets the adaptive defense flushed away from Honor.
He commits hexagons automatically from Honor as well, though he's dove it in, that's a three man!
And he keeps his verdict from Sean, T1 a wife, they don't know what just hit them.
The Storen flashes away, Knights ulti, Sean sends them back, it's perfectly orchestrated by BLG.
Oh, did this exact same thing yesterday on the Camille.
Absolutely insane how he knows how to manipulate the kit of Camille the shield.
The invulnerability to press in old, to buy as much time as possible.
Faker finds a potential huge pick for D1, and on and BLG turning completely around.
On was the biggest bait piece here, as Faker thought he had an instant kill.
I mean, he almost did, he's on 1 HP, but the shield you get from the magic damage uses the vulnerability from the old boss owner that's in, and then a beautiful Poppy ult to isolate paper.
Shouldn't use the owner's wall against him as well.
You love to see it for the Poppy mains as...
Breath taking play, BOG two and a half thousand gold up on the sore point, that was a massive one, but will it decide for the game, or rather decide?
Keep right now, that was BOG in a huge position, only looking to use that Herald finally to break some kind of turret and open up the map a bit for T1, they're trying three stack top.
I feel like T1 are very happy with killing right here.
Scatter fall in, Poppy can't press W yet, Unleashing Power Shun, he's dead, nice play from T1, they're gonna continue on his on, has to use the turret, hookshot, wallshot, there's a Sivir coming up as well, Black and Dragon finding Camille, B.O.G of Oath, dropped a little bit here,
Shadow has to take it, take it from the bar, he scatters the weak, and on drops.
On, play the pitch of Confiner right there, you give them an arm, they take everything, T1, 4 of them, strong toflin, force the Cassante TP.
But Doran is left alone in the bottom lane.
Knight will have to commit his TP if he wants to match.
And that's going to be double TP burn from BOG or plating loss.
T1 with the macro here.
Just changed our minds about the last dragon play.
We do not expect Pace to roll toward the top side of the map.
To play a little bit more aggressive thinking it's just a 2 vs 3 that they can play around.
But Pace, the leader finds the deal right there.
Let's watch this one more time.
Shun tries to scout the tri-bush, so Nive jump push after offlane.
Three members of Team One in there, surprise!
Pace has already started walking, we're looking to minimise.
On, thanks, it's just a two versus two for the time being.
Pace takes the last one, makes it to the three.
Unlucky, so that's life.
That's also disrespectful for Mon.
Yep.
No one was coming up, I'm not sure if he was trying to get information on,
just wanted to be cheeky, but regardless, it backfires.
BLG's two and a half thousand gold leaders minimized by 1,500 back over to T1's pockets.
Faker with two items here for a develop third sudden he's built from Hayes.
Harold is going to time out and be used mid, but mid is not the worst case scenario is
BLG trying to find Kerri, it's going to be knocking the connect.
There's a flag with no drag.
Chun trying to mitigate this engage.
On jumps in, there's X, they got him on Faker, Kerri pops him out.
Kerri going to survive with Faker or not, it's that ulti again.
the verdicts been given and shouldn't we find faker?
They are throwing everything to try and eliminate the threats of the guy from the summoner's
rift and no syndrome in but T1 can actually no pressure with that refueled unfortunately
had to be brought down that mid lane.
We'll take a couple of play things and with that mid lane tier 1 super low but T1 need
to wait for the resports to come through as bin and knights on the other side of the map
are pushing out those waves.
You notice the potential of maybe turning that into a baron wasn't there because Nile is down the bottom side of the map.
We didn't want to commit the TP and this BLG didn't want to over cook.
Dyn's going to find top tower regardless so Nile's going to reset and now has a Leandri's picked up.
So two item Cassiopeia as well.
This game might have a BLG lead but it is still close.
It's a minute 30 to this soul and that does feel like a cloud soul.
Not only being denied from a Sivar but being added into a Cassiopeia and a Camille.
It does feel like that would help BLG solidify this best of one.
I feel like this is the time where BLG truly is fighting.
Because the two items from Casio need to wait for four more stacks,
so that we have a fully stacked Rota of Ages Ezreal fully stacked Mormanna,
so this is your time to actually fight and play,
and luckily for them one minute or so,
Ben has gone faker.
Big mistake, he flashes away, Pint doesn't have his own flash,
he's gonna try and run after Faker, but Faker's already getting out.
But now, he's brought a belt down, but on and shown.
He's gonna say that's dead fast presence, he's gonna come through,
no keepers verdict up in the end, not even need to fake her up against the wall.
Finn's gonna all out and fake his gonna be first to drop,
squishy is he, but Finn doesn't care.
Ownership doesn't know if it's LTP, PLG, like those are so.
The LTP from Doran, beautiful to find on, and the Tirecetalise.
Text Frank Edge on the slot.
A wall presented for Doran, meanwhile the look of Paze, trying to 1v1.
Play bar.
Paze running for it, it's like he stands,
so Paze is fine with it, he'll boomerang play.
He'll get close to fight for meanwhile.
Doran is getting charged down, he gets a solid kill, but Doran dies.
It's a messy fight across Summoner's Rift with two dying in the bottom side for BLG.
Remembering, Faker and Doran will join the chamber as well.
Oh, Sean!
Flag and Dragon, Broom, Rain, Blade, Sean is running to this one, tries to find Paze.
That Mammoth Shock does it!
On the look for the chase, the flag is down for the trade, and we have decided to let chaos reign.
That was the longest scene fight of the feel we've had this entire two days.
I would think so.
And it starts with just Bin fencing his chances versus Faker forcing his flash
and then all hell broke loose. A venture started flying from every side of the rift.
All a build. He's gonna come into the same fight tonight.
Should I take some space in this river?
Right to side step. He's okay. Holds onto his flash.
Faker sees Finn and walks back himself as well, T1 hopping around, this soul for BLG is still on the menu.
No jungler.
The threat is there, they're trying to buy time in BLG and they do have River, remember they also have Strength.
Onlook with the engage one, Slowhex they got him on, Faker through drop right, Genekan act!
And Faker's down, Doris blocks a wall again, right in the way where Bin needs it to be.
BLG had taken down the goat and Dragon looks possible.
Beautifully played by On, Faker I feel like has been the only viable target for this Camille.
He's the only one who's so immobile, doesn't have any shields or any way to escape.
So taking him down right here on a 4 versus 5 and he won't have to defend the soul.
His own control versus Nite is going to be hard with the poppy in the mix as well.
Snipe for Onah needs to be brilliant.
Finn in the way, so is the miasma, the flipback at 5k.
T1 its owner or nothing its Doran, well shot, well shot a threat it's been in the
way a POV with Seoul taken a flip and T1's dreams of qualifying first looking
to fall out the window it's a follow-up from Sean it's Ezreal he's still spacing out
owner jumps in but not on him. It's easy for Viper. Now he turns attention to the revenge of Pai.
That's two who find his mark as they get respawned just to say goodnight.
It's an A from BLG and a wipe against T1.
Absolutely gorgeous. Gameplay by BLG.
It was a four versus five that T1 had to play with to try and save
That's all from going over to BLT. BLT will take the soul, they'll take the ace, and they'll take the Baron.
The Baron, the soul, it is only a best of one.
And BLT, they know this one is done.
I'm keen to see a replay because that five-minute for a little bit to chase down, T1 got desperate.
How to make a move, how to play for it, on-vade them with the roof shut as well.
Let's walk this one more time, then force them into the choke point, T1 go, they can no longer cast phase walkthroughs at mid lane.
The hookshot carry is going to bait them, walks back out, come on, and this is where phase go is impossible to walk back in.
And I'm supposed to walk one more time, carry a dice instantly right here.
The owner will find a great angle, but look at the miasma from Nite here.
Stop any progress from T1.
If they want to come into fight, they have to walk around in a tight choke point.
We're going to fight again, Oren has got no choice, he's going to cataclysm on a bit of an earth as best target.
Flushing over the wall, at least Finn is out there, but Shun presses W, T1 have an angle.
They found the target and Shun is dead.
DARREN was used for a heavy pop-side push, but now Shun is down and T1 are fighting back.
Great catch, it's just Cassante over in the mid lane, so T1 are here.
Can't use the baron against BLG and take a tower for themselves.
DARREN threatening demolish there, I believe, or at least one more hit would do it.
regardless he gets out of tanking range, and Inatar is going to drop on down.
Even Tracer T1 versus Baron is commendable, with some objective bounties picked up as well on these objectives.
Baron Powerplay is going to minimize to even for now, not a bad thing to say when T1 just got wiped.
Especially when you get a bunch of gold from Baron itself.
Got it Ash, he's got enough damage from Pace, Life is behind as well, on the hunt for Pace,
been in trouble, has no all out, running for his life,
owner finds a knock up, no path,
making a save as I can bend his down.
Want to shut down from T1 as BLG, getting clumsy.
Dolan looking for an angle to a shot for I can attack,
the heels of owner.
Fly park and just almost punished by Faker.
Half HP through the go, walks it out.
T1 getting out of his straight point on,
and found Pave, the brightest bell shield.
Scatter the week from Faker and Dolan
has found a Camille, but by Gage this is as well.
BLG won, didn't ever count the mouse.
Sean on the backside, he's made life far from Faker.
It's life on a dark end shift in,
but Kerry got his number as well.
BLG went one by one, by one, by one,
as Viper's the only one left in his top side
with Sean running for his life.
No objectives up, but the goal again, massively minimized.
BLG are throwing chaos on C1.
Their TP'd behind them on the side lanes
to wrap around and T1 is ready with the answer. Those teamfights are incredible. The spell shield from
Paze on the Camille Hall was gorgeous. Three items, Sivir. It doesn't matter about gold as you get,
let's say another 10, 15 in the game. T1 will have options. There's Bin here. Base checks and T1 are ready.
Look on your minimap, Casio appears already, Tiki Knight has a great angle, but Bin folds the zipper item so damn fast, that Knight does not have the time to shop and when he does, Dora blocks his way with his own Tiki.
You might have to re-align Viper, who almost gets Arcane Shift stunned, but then this, this.
They have their eyes on Haze right now, they keep on casting Haze.
He's a cool guy, doesn't look at explosions, just walks back, presses shield,
never gets ulted by Camille with a T1 to just follow up.
Shun does manage to somehow solve this the play by dissuading and splitting up our T1 Viper gets to kill finally onto Faker, but that's about it.
And here's the ulti, you know, it's a blonde sword.
The angle is perfect, it's either on or it's night, and on, and it's sacrificing life, but night dives anyway.
With Doron getting a purpose destination, it's nice to follow.
Hot damn, it doesn't matter what form T1 are in, you still never doubt them.
Might have been a 3-2 at MSI with BLG getting their number, but it was still close.
That was with T1, people saying not in the best form.
Hearing this game, they're down, but not out.
Sol is in the hands of BLG, but elder in a minute.
I just want to remind everyone, all-time games, T1 vs BLG 17 and 15, these teams, when they meet, they are so evenly matched.
They give us some of the best series, some of the best games, and this one is so close.
And it could be game-ending in just 40 seconds, when that elder spawn.
Fizzle item just picked up Pazes and Infinity Edge, 4 items with the LDR as well.
That must be it.
Crypt bloom for Faker.
Gryla's for Naut, I'm seeing, but he's got a lost chapter, wanted to evolve a fourth item, but he's not really there yet.
He will not be, it seems like with this game, Gryla's grudge for Viper, a bit of pen for him too, to get through these front lines.
Very importantly also, an owner with the GA to play with you more aggressive, over extent, five time, four pays, leaving those auto attacks.
Okay, thanks for showing that. That was his option instead. Wanted to be fast.
Said fast presence needs to be perfect to engage. T1 hugged the left side up mid.
Viper trying to get some quick down. Scatter the League, not bad from Faker.
Faker trying to engage, he's down Faker.
Johnson backline, Parkmaker. That guy's in trouble.
That was a six-shot. Not gonna find his target. Cataclysm used by Onah.
Onah tanked.
Doran also whipping the ult. T1. That was horrible.
Doran gets popped away as well. Two man getters verdict.
but shouldn't get tagged out of Faker.
He's dead!
Got my decent roar for night.
He charges down, twin bang, erupts,
and BLG returned to the scene of the climb.
Another team fight, another objective.
There's again.
T1 throws all their ults of BLG and nothing sticks.
Bitboss presents, and he won't get out.
Kerri is dead as well.
And T1,
Junho caught out,
messy fight.
That was not all we saw, three minutes ago.
And it gets worse here, hysterics.
That is a tower into an elder, into Baron.
And Pace is dead.
And Pace getting caught.
But Pops gets all knocked out.
No choice all out.
He too will burn GA first, then his wife.
And that might be game trouble.
Only the Baron.
We're gonna run it down mid, fight for God like indeed, spacing in five fantastic on-fine faker.
He will die at ninth time, but no more. Another ace for BLG.
And trouble, I think it's time to pull out the stats.
BLG, all-time versus D1, 17 for D1, 15 for BLG, making 17 and 16 with this one.
Well, it's only a best of one, but B.O.G. only needed one.
They'll continue their streak from MSI to find another win versus T1,
and they will be the first team to qualify to the elimination bracket of the AWC 2026.
What an incredible performance by both of those things.
A healthy impression from both sides.
Kerry are trying to make the plays all trying to counter them, make his own.
I will say, this was a very hard 4-5 from both sides, but one thing about the LPL, they never break.
They do not.
There's only gas, there's no break.
I think what we've learned is that a lot of teams, you can flip up, giving you Cassio here first,
but BLT's not one of them. Not getting Cassio, getting comfort, is so ridiculous.
It was solved on the channel, solved.
It was just, it started there, it started with On getting aggressive in mid.
The well-timed game punishing Faker, and he's like a flash after he almost solo killed Night.
But then Night really took charge.
And I think we're going to be honest as well, like, Bin had solo kills.
Flight bats and good teamfights. It did feel like BLG were firing on all fronts.
Absolutely.
while it became close, BLG still maintained a goal-leaf for the majority of the game.
And I will say it's always mesmerizing. Everyone talks about T1 and how they always turn it around.
Even the gyrus times on the rift just feel like they always seem to have an answer.
But all it takes is just 1-15-5 versus BLG, where Doron, who is old somewhere in there,
all of their thirties are old onto the Sunday of the league and it just isn't a mistake.
And if you're all some steak and if you don't make the correct engage into BLG
They're just not turning around instantly because that's what they were known for their team fights
I mean also in this comp they're really good at denial, right?
Hex they call to madam a poppy steadfast presents that W like and it's crazy
It wasn't like we saw insane poppy Ws
But I think the alties from shun were game-breaking in some of those fights
The T1 mistake mid when they're starting to come back into the game that poppy disengage
Denied after yet on this the ulti, but they were trying to run on in
and denied by BLG has been to Cassante Gold apparently standing on stage for an interview.
Thank you guys, what a showing indeed from BLG as we welcome Bin to the stage.
Congratulations Bin for this victory of course.
And we saw that T1 were starting to come back at the end of the mid game
yet you decided to step up.
So I want to know how you handle those moments where when you start losing the lead
is there someone in the team that takes the lead in the comes for example?
Today we are very honored to welcome our players to the stage.
We know that the previous situation is that we saw you leading our team to get such a promotion.
What do you feel about today?
I am very happy to be able to win T1 today.
We will prepare well for the next game.
I'm really happy, excited, and I'm looking forward to the next match.
Well, you are through to the quarter-finals. The question I have for you is really simple. How much do you want to win the e-sports World Cup trophy?
We have entered the semi-final and we are confident that we can win this match.
Indeed, we are confident that we can win all the matches soon.
We are happy to be in the quarter-finals and we are confident.
way of VLPL's pride. This was an absolute battle and the sort of matchup we've come
to expect when we see these two teams down to the wire but BLG ultimately the
ones able to win out in those big fights and get control of the game in the
later minutes. Yeah and also I think it's really crazy to see like Bean still
managed to win the lane even though Teal tried to ban four champions of the
top lane he still managed to solo kill and be impactful in the game. Yeah he had
those words. About door and over at MSI now backing it up here at EWC as BLG despite a
little bit of shakiness in the mid game. You can see that bit of a dip there around 30 minutes
able to close it on out here. And I think Pays really trying to make things happen. He was such
a focal point in this composition on the server but Vipe is Ezreal. It's just so hard to match up
to Knight and the Cassiopeia as well. So much threat and with the composition they had,
Kerry and Ona just certain to really have the impact they want into a poppy intercast European.
I think it was really hard to reach on those damage dealers. Knight and Viper they always
have some safety in their positioning so that's why like even though BLG was kind of like throwing
the game like in the mid late game but unless like your damage dealers not dying for that like
they're safe. Yeah again and it was so nice because we were talking earlier about potentially
more mages in the bot lane, but we got a classic AD carry battle, the Sivir in scaling on the side of T1,
the Ezreal and the skill expression for BLG, for Viper, they showed it off, and there was a lot of fighting
in that mid game early on here. There was so much scrapping, so much fighting between these two teams,
lots of picks, lots of people getting taken down, focusing here on that dragon fight which had a
pretty explosive start. Yeah, they didn't have to mid practice though, so they had to go through the
both sides on here looking really juicy target for T1 but he managed to survive with the thunder sky
and I think that made an insane Kassia ulti angle and then Poppy ulti chain CC as well so I think in
general BLG had such a great plan in terms of the teamfights. Yeah absolutely and it was just fun
because a lot of the times you get a lot of macro and that's all you get you know a low kill game
It did start a little slow here, and then we had these explosive fights like here
We get to see it from Viper's point of view as you get to see one of the best in the business in this team fight
Yeah
Don already chunked out and T1 not able to get a dragon so they're trying to back the way household in the movement speed to chase and
Viper is just so consistent with the shots the team of that has set him up
But just be able to see his point of view this facing is so good
He's constantly at this angle where he's able to connect on a few targets, but not able to be threatened to himself
Just flawless play. Yeah, there's nothing that it threatened for his Ezreal and Knight besides him as well
Everything looks so clean from the BLG one of the coolest things here at EWC those live
POV views during the team fights and really an understanding of what's important into those fights
Following an AD carry in those big ones always a good call here ox. Yeah, 100%
I mean, I think it's super cool the fact that we go live into this point of views a lot of times
We get the sort of replay point of views male to just zoom in on that moment on the big carries
The big players and see it unfold
It's nothing like it
I wish we could have had it here for our final fight as it was a great little juke there
I guess
Dorn misses his ult and then T1 use all their olds BLG absorb the blow and then turn it around on T1
Yeah, I think in this situation
Darn's trying to create space for Faker who's getting focused down
But the ult gets carried away from and he starts getting shredded and then this ult comes in for Shen in the moment
I was like do you want enough away?
Darn who's low was a target, but it leaves the backline
I say look how low Faker is that ult flashed from the night to punish
We have to see Paze flash away and BLG can just chase them down
The mid lane is already dead the goats already down and they sense blood in the water and with that our group see Bracket
It has one of them already filled out in the upper side of it.
It is BLG moving on as our 2-0 victor.
That does mean later on today, T1 do battle yet again a rematch of the opening match.
T1 and GAM Esports who have been waiting in the wings.
Yeah, it's going to be a 3 in BL1.
T1 looked great, but I think again, like GAM Esports have been such a great series against
I have to call you.
So you got to prepare for that series.
Yeah.
So that phenomenal five minutes in game. Oh, yeah
You know that they can play well in the early game and build a lead
But I think you really have to respect T1
They will make these proactive plays finding numbers advantages and if you disrespect that they will just demolish you once again
I mean for T1
I think they're gonna change their plan either they want to go for full all the game or they want to play the macro because for me
It was really good to pick up Syndra into Camille because they want to play for all their skirmishes
So Faker was kind of baiting, but he was not really baiting for anything, you know, he was just dying for the Camille
It was free target for all as well. And also the topside Doran, obviously
He's the one most struggling in that roster, but even though they had the like focus draft for him
He was not being able to do the impact for the team as well
So I think they're gonna fix some issue for that. Yeah, that was group C over on the B stream
They also had group B the winners match there. It was sentinels the surprised winner over Wales against Gen. G
Close in kill score not very close in gold. This was a grinding loss here for sentinels
This Gen. G they had fun with their food and made sentinels feel the might of the tiger
Yeah, this just feels like you know the sort of Gen. G game we see so often where again
Not much of a difference in terms of kills
You look at the towers, you look at the objectives, the grubs, the gold, everything in favor of Gen.G.
And yeah, a tough opponent, four centinals, and ultimately Gen.G. just a bit overwhelming.
Yeah, good to see Ruler picking up as Ziggs, Bult lane with Camille as well.
I think one of the weak points for Gen.G. right now is like being the AP Bult lane, but I think Ruler is adapting what it's holding for.
There is the group B bracket as team secret already out falling short against
Carmen Corp yesterday in the elimination best of three matches.
Gen G the reigning title defenders holds on to that top spot they will qualify on
in with BLG as a 2-0 victor and now that leaves us the decider Matt. The blue
wall have been waiting they will get their match against NA later on today
that's gonna be a rockin' rockin' match up here Ox. Yeah I'm interested to see how
this goes because I think KC not having the performance they want to the MSI
despite the fact that they got that win against Team Secret I feel like it was
only really game 3 where I really felt convinced by them so I think KC in their
best form with the crowd behind them definitely capable but what KC will we
see on the day? Wait wait wait it's again EU versus NA and we all know what
happened before in MSI I think this is a redemption day for KC. Yeah team look
with BKC, right? That's what happened at MSI, right? Exactly. Redemption data, you know.
We'll see what happens there. It is G2 though, an EU squad about to go off against AGAL last
year's finalists here after their short piece of content. Don't go anywhere. You're watching
EWC 2026.
I'm here with the G2 faithful now as an EU
yeah really excited passionate people listen guys if I recall in a recently beat G2 right
What is the airport bro? Lion got kicked out!
That was a fluke man!
That was a fluke man!
Fair point, where is it at?
Now listen guys, you guys won yesterday, got a game coming up today.
How are we feeling?
Easy, easy.
We're waiting for us on teams.
We're winning it all!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
I'm gonna be honest guys, I said it for KC, which you guys aren't too friendly with.
We do it to be...
Oh, jeez, that is only one team in EU.
G2, G2, G2, G2!
You know, you heard it from them.
What I'm hearing with the Yankos, we're about to have a little bit of a challenge called a Screamoff.
Let's see who can get a bit louder.
Yeah, I think I'm finally able to expose Styler 1 for being a fraud.
Absolutely deluded.
We're about to find out.
We actually have G2 Cat here who's gonna be holding the sound meter for us.
How do you feel about that?
Oh bro, I'm so excited.
I can't wait to hear who loud can you be, bro?
Who do you think said win?
Uh, Yankees, sorry, I'm biased.
He's one of my subscribers, guys.
Don't want to buy it.
I hired him to help me win.
Actually, I don't need help to win against this guy, but...
Definitely not rigged, by the way.
Anyway, we've actually done pre-Walking for scissors.
You're going first, bud.
Good luck.
Are you ready?
I'm not ready. I just woke up. I learned about this five minutes ago, but I'm gonna try my best
It's not excuses. He actually stalled
Did it work out was it even loud?
Okay, you got 129.4 129.4 is that loud? I don't even know a little trumpet or something
So it's not that loud okay, so you can do better. I'll do better here. I'll do better here. I'm absolutely ready
Damn the red face I like it wait. Did you beat me?
Shit, well, it's 0.9 difference 130.3
One
It's fine we thought he much next year he much next year
That's big team baby back to you
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Esports World Cup 2026,
presenting League of Legends as AGAL are in the building last year's finalists looking to redo and reclaim that form up against
MSI's darlings in G2 with the big upsets and then eventually fall short to a team that's already out of BWC and Nile.
That's okay, let's get past that part. G2 looking good. One of these teams will move on in the uppers as the winner of their group.
you got here alongside Wolf and Jack Spectra.
And let's start with AGL, y'all.
The LPL squad coming on in, we've talked about it.
Same roster, not a lot of changes,
but results have been so, so close,
just never over the hump.
I mean, yesterday against DK,
I was really surprised at how well they played,
especially with Flandre on the Shen.
I think he finished the game with like 10 kills.
He was doing so much damage in the teamfights
as we're watching it back here.
Just how well AGL was playing the skirmishes.
I feel like normally you would have maybe expected
that DK would be able to maneuver this better,
but AGL kinda just outplayed them every single team fight.
Yeah, I think T-plus really had some pretty narrow
win conditions in their team fights.
I think that AGL drafted better
and played better in these team fights,
but it was Flandre's performance on the Shen
that was the standout, not only in fights like this,
but also in side lanes.
Really flexible player in the top lane.
They've got star power in the mid lane.
I think solo lanes is where I'm really looking here
for AGL coming into this one.
Star power in the audience as well.
I got to see a couple of Flandre jerseys out here.
It was awesome to see this team get the recognition
that they deserve from last year
and back it up in their first match.
They're up against the kings of Europe.
It is G2 looking to bounce back
and continue that form from MSI.
I mean, as well, Flandre playing to Shen
with the same build that Broke and Blade played.
I feel like it's definitely very hyped this match up.
I'm really curious to see if either top laner will cook
because I feel like both of them are willing to go
outside of the normal meta that we see from other tops.
Alright, well, speaking of Broken Blade, he's standing by right now. Let's toss over to that.
Bibi, welcome to Paris. Another international back-to-back after MSI. So first things first, how are we feeling after that one?
Feeling great, especially today, playing as AL. I think it's the first time we ever played them, at least me, I think so.
I have very high hopes in our team, especially since I think we've been quite a lot of good
teams this year already, so I'm going in with nice expectations.
Okay, I'm looking forward to that as well, but I want to talk about the changes that
we've seen as well coming through, especially with Perks now on that coaching slot.
In your experience, what do you think is going to be the approach or the differences that
he'll be able to bring to the team?
I think Perkz is very skilled in specific detail in terms of how we play the game.
And I think that's going to elevate us in terms of our team play and how we play the map and stuff like this.
So I think there was already a major improvements from like internally, and I was very happy with that.
I'm excited what the future has to bring.
I think a lot of people are looking forward to the future and we're also just looking in general at you individually
you had a phenomenal MSI tournament. Some of the picks we're seeing, some of the builds we're seeing
on Shen for example coming through that. We're seeing other players now also implement. What is
it about coming up with a specific build? Like how do you do it? What's the flop process behind it?
I mean we have our analyst Rodrigo who helps me a lot in finding the best item builds. And for
Shen specifically you would never see like this weird item build where you go Titanic Hydra,
It's an AP item and then into a support item like it's a very mix of like items
But it actually ended up being the best build for him because he has a lot of damage with it and a lot of cooldown and the tech speed
It's like everything he really wants
So it ended up being very strong and I was very happy that I was like kind of the first one to do that
So I it's really cool to see other people also played
Yeah, if you had to give it a name, what would you name it?
We call it the Frankenstein Shen. Yeah. Frankenstein Shen. I look forward to see more of that as
well in the tournament. Thank you for your time. I'm going to let you go. That's it for
us. Back to you, Deagon. Thank you very much, Ginny, with broken blade there. I know he's
talking about the Shen in the build. One thing that jumped out of me, the big change
that just happened with G2, Perkz joining the squad, BLG, or I mean not BLG, anyone's
taking former BLG coach big way.
So new heads in terms of the strategy there as well
in terms of leadership.
What are your thoughts?
I mean, I think that obviously bringing someone like Berkson
is gonna really reinvigorate this team
in terms of strategy.
It's a big change.
It's a controversial change, I think in a lot of ways.
But it's still a lot of time I think we're gonna need
to see how it's gonna actually impact this team.
I think especially moving to best of fives later on,
that's when you're really gonna see
how those changes really come into play.
Every scene G2 make controversial changes.
I mean, replacing Yike, replacing Miki.
A lot of people were doubting this.
Even placing Jankos back in the day was a huge decision,
but it's always paid off.
And I think today, we're gonna see more of that payoff,
especially with the mage bot lanes,
and that's why I think G2 will take it today.
All right, the EU copium is in full effect here by Jack,
but most of you at home voted for AGAL 58%
compared to the 42% for G2.
It is AGAL and G2 doing battle for a spot in the playoffs.
Let's see how it all goes as we send it to the stage.
What's up, Harry? Welcome back to League of Legends at the eSports.com, where you can
to the League of Legends at the Esports World Cup.
This stage, the STC Arena, truly is the land of opportunity.
And these opportunities are coming thick and fast.
One more best of one to be played here on this stage, Lou.
That will define which of our next two teams gets that direct spot
into a crucial quarter-final.
One last BO1 to find out who will go in the playoffs
and one win there will get you one step closer to the two million dollar prize pool.
La Moula.
Losee, Litun, to the glory and to the important club championship points.
It's time for the LPL and the LEC to hit the stage.
This is the best of one that carries a lot of weight.
Welcome on to the stage, A-G-A-L!
Some called them last year's surprise finalists, but they are proving that that run was no accident.
After defeating DK yesterday, AGAL now have the chance to secure another deep run in this tournament with one single victory.
After a victory, they can still confirm today and go get their tickets, but their opponents, ladies and gentlemen, G2 INSPORTS!
from the players, they are a victory in the playoffs, but between them,
they are dressing up as the lpl of the lpl.
One is the magic number here, one spot in the quarter-final, one step closer to the trophy,
and it's the best of one. Should we do this?
Let's get it!
FET DU PREE!
Thank you very much those on the stage. It is now time to get into this game. AGL taking
on G2 and Atlas. I'm joined by Orcs here. Howdy. Yeah, howdy to you too. And we are
very excited to get into this one as G2 sort of fresh off an MSI with some high highs and
some lower lows. It's sitting undefeated right now. AGL seeing whether they can take it down.
I think, honestly, for a lot of Eames fans, I know this because Brigitte is a mega G2 fan
winning against T1, riding, and they're just losing lines.
Things around about, I think ultimately G2 many times have these fantastic performances
because it's been a long time since we've been able to get an international win.
You know, we look at first hand, able to get that shoot performance against the LCK,
You look at MSI, able to get that huge performance against the LCK.
It's kind of a theme there, but not able to go through to the end of the tournament.
Yeah.
Not able to win out against BLG at first, and not able to beat out Lyon at MSI.
Honestly, similar for HAL who last year just kept being so close to taking down the tournament
winners, the eventual tournament winners, and just unable to make their way through,
but were really competitive all year long.
Yeah, they were amazing.
Even up against Gen.G in the final last year as well.
not a whole lot of change moving into this year as was mentioned on the desk. Just previously
just coaching staff change up and obviously when you lose tarbet things are going to change quite a
lot because he has had a bit of a reputation when it comes to concocting drafts and things like that.
Big way is certainly no stranger to the big stages either. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this
one is going to play out and speaking of coaching stuff. I mean it's it's just a story of that right
in today's matchup as Perks does come in, as was mentioned earlier on as well.
We've already seen some somewhat eclectic drafting out of G2 in their first best of one,
but not a lot of sample size moving into this one.
Yeah, you know, we saw Ian on the stage talking about one being the big number sample size of one.
Exactly. We did see Hans Summer playing Cendr, Hans Summer, I feel like it's in a similar vein to
not the player you associate with mages,
but start to see him sort of break up in a champion pool a bit,
and I feel like that's the place we are right now in the bot lane meta.
It's not all mages, it's not like you're only playing mages,
but every top level AD carry needs to be able to play these as well,
especially in fearless when we get to the tournament.
The fact that they're bringing it out in best of one environments
shows that they're feeling a lot more comfortable with it,
and in fact, AGL even banning away the Ziggs from him.
Yeah, no zigz, no knock turn as well, which we have seen as a bit of a mainstay on the
ban list.
The Poppy going to be taken away here was a bit notorious in the last game that we just
saw on this stage as the Vi and the Vard will be answered then by Ascindra.
So all of these bans coming through it very, very quickly, let's see what's going to be
picked.
We've seen a lot of Casio appear first things.
It's been a bit strange.
A lot of priority on that one, Orianna as well, another one with big priority.
Poppy, we recently saw her jungle clear puffed back to what it was when she was in the meta
before and especially when you have picks like Camille running around, just a ton of
values from the Poppy as you saw in that previous game, now for G2 where you look, I feel like
mid lane is likely here but they end up instead going towards the Ezreal and obviously just
so Viper have a phenomenal game on that pick.
Yeah.
And I guess they're willing to take whichever is left over out of that Orianna casue we've
seen traded quite often.
Yeah, seeing which one of the matchups they are going to get, but Jarvan Casio is a pretty powerful duo
if they do want to lock that one in for Tarzan and Shang's.
I'm not hugely sold on the Jarvan when the only thing he's seen in the enemy team is Ezreal.
The perfect answer to the Jarvan already there quickly. Let's pick Jarvan.
Yeah, not the highest amount of value, and I just feel like handsome is going to feel so comfortable
in this situation and just not going to be threatened that much.
It does make it harder to pick things like Orianna and Victor,
because they can be very susceptible to the Jarvan.
I hope, thinking about it, Varus will lock that one in immediately here.
Could be Flandre, towards the top side.
We know that guy's happy to play basically everything it has
for what feels like a decade and a half.
But it feels like, I think it basically is a decade and a half
that Flandre has been playing at the top level in the LPL.
For you, Jarvin, you've been feeling pretty happy so far
with the fact that Ezreal and Jarm feels good.
Varus has been nipped quite heavily multiple times.
So not a pick, you feel a huge amount of threat.
If we get the Nibir coming in, a pick that can do well into the likes of Casio Pierre,
but it can be flat to top lane as well.
So that's the versatility.
And now for G2, I imagine they could just pick a jungle in this situation to match up into the Jarvan.
I think they barely send both options that do pretty good in that matchup.
Yep, I wouldn't mind the Lee Sin, I think that's a good option.
You could also take the Karma if you want to have a half bottom lane,
But they're listening to you, Aux.
They've been listening to the broadcast, I assume.
And Scumon's going to say, wow, that's a great idea.
Daniel, I think I'm going to choose the least in.
And he does.
And then Orianna coming in to pair up with that Jarvan.
So again, not the biggest start on to that Ezreal,
but into the Nivir and a mobile mage pick.
I know who can often keep enemy teams at bay.
But if you dive in with that Cataclysm with a shockwave
after, definitely going to cause issues
for that a mobile mage.
Yep, and also pretty comfortable when it comes to a blind pick as well, so even if they are going to do some shenanigans, moving the Nivir around, you don't necessarily need to be too worried about it.
So, another round of bands to come on through here, and we'll see whether AGAL are a little bit worried about that mid lane, and it looks like they are as the Akali is going to be taken away.
Yeah, respecting the threat of the Akali, Karli Lee Sin being able to come through, there's also picks that pair up well with Lee Sin like the Annie, that you can bring out in that mid lane.
What I am surprised a little bit about is, you know, we've so often seen Camille just so heavily prioritized in the early rotation.
I know it's often paired with mages, but I feel like teams are pulling away from it a little bit just on the fact that it can be volatile,
just leaving the right situation.
Do you see that Nautilus band away?
Obviously not sure which fan are playing Nautilus into in Nivir, but still just going to take that one away,
and then Na'ban comes through from Broken Blade.
That's Shen, still available, which both Laundrie and Broken Blade have pretty phenomenal games on.
If that Inivia does get cut mid, see Broken Blade bring it out, or Laundrie could take that in the top lane.
Here, one final ban here, 4G, 2 to round out the full 5 on their side.
Might be looking towards that bottom lane once again, but...
...Laundrie has already taken away, and the brawl will be the augmented ban.
So now, AGL, what are they going to be picking here?
And will they be showing exactly where this varus is going to be going with the top lane pick potentially for flaundrae
And shen like you were talking about is going to be there and honestly shen's kind of fun because it's a flex pick as well
Kyle could be playing that towards the bottom side of the map
They could flex shen top they could flex the varus top and you don't necessarily know where everything's going to be that will be locked away
Just not quite sure where it's going. I think it just doesn't give the information to G2 in this position
There was an alternative story where you end up picking something like a realm of support
role that's very telegraphed and G2 have a lot of information, but keeping their cards
close to their chest and now G2 really have to show everything before they get to know
where the Shen and the virus are going.
We'll see if they opt to put that in the top or mid, obviously spoke about the likes of
the Annie that can come through.
We do eventually get the Camille coming in, pretty late in the draft compared to what
we've seen, but we'll have like a true shop Raj Khamber with the ultimate, but I feel like we've often seen Camille not doing too hot into Shen.
Shen being a match up, you feel comfortable taking Camille.
Yep, we've also seen a lot of the Ezreal Camille, especially from, I guess, less practice teams in MSI moving into this tournament as well.
I didn't like it quite as much this lane.
We'll see what G2 can make of it, because we do have confirmation that that Anivia is heading towards the top side of the map.
It's going to be the Ari Lee Sin combo in that mid lane.
And there is a Leona consideration for Kyle.
He has a huge fan of this champion, I believe, played it the last time around as well, into the Trundle support from DK.
Yeah, we've seen a lot more Leona into Camille as well.
And I think in this situation, Bob's going to have a tough game.
There's a lot of things that can just lock you down and explode you on this Camille.
Yep, and now it is time to throw it over to Llew, who's got some huge brains
alongside her in Doublelift in the Angles.
Yeah, what a pleasure for me to be now with the two, of course, legendary streamers of League.
Thank you for joining me, boys. I mean, I am the one who joined you.
But I want to have your thoughts on this draft, of course, in the early time.
No AP bots, no APs, so are we happy about it?
Because I heard a lot about it so far.
I mean, I felt like we kind of had the right idea
with, you know, banning the poppy and trying
to play a bunch of dashes.
But I think this is going to be a very hard draft
for G2 Esports.
I feel like Skimoone doesn't always
have the best confidence on this one.
And I'm looking forward to whether he can prove himself
or not.
I think anyone's 11 comp is just easier to play.
They have a clean dive.
They have Shanto playing with the old Jarvan Orianna.
That is the play-com, but it's straightforward. We might struggle a bit.
Let's see. I'm not necessarily going to exaggerate, but he's in the VXQ, he's a little bit of a confidence in the stand-in scene.
And on your side, I want to ask you, like, who are you going to have your eyes on this game, and are we feeling confident about the drafts?
Who am I feeling confident on? I was actually talking to Yankos, and he said, you know, he's not that confident, he's human, he's Lee Sin, so...
I was hoping that would be, like, kind of the X-Factor for G2. I think that will be the most important thing, because they're complex, engaged.
Camille goes in, suicides instantly, that's what we've seen a million times, especially against a defensive comp like that.
So, Skiumen kind of needs to have a lifetime game, or I think Jiu-Jitsu is really out-drafted.
Wow, so we have the impression that we both have a little bit of a draft here, so Skiumen will have to take out a big, big game,
because it actually lacks a little bit of engagement.
Let's see who is right most. Thank you so much again for the interview, and back to the casters, back to the game.
Thank you very much, gentlemen, for giving us all of that information so that now we
know exactly what is going to happen.
But I have a feeling that, Danny, you had a similar idea moving into this one that what
Jankos presented there, and we'll see whether AGL can follow through.
Yeah, I think the Lee Sin, honestly, the Lee Sin Camille, these picks volatile into what
AGL have prepared.
It's a one-way trip.
You go in, you make the play, or you die.
And sometimes you make the play, you die anyway.
You hope that your team cleans up, so...
Yeah, I've heard, uh, we did talk about it.
Here, Jankos talked about it as well.
Skumond, not being the most confident on Lee Sin,
and as Double had said, he needs to have a massive game here,
I feel like, and be that big push.
Of course, he is a good matchup into the Jarvan.
We often see Lee Sin picked into it.
We've got to have our play with all that mobility, the flag and drive.
But we'll have to see if he can pull it off.
Into Tarzan, who is just an old-time legend of the jungle.
He certainly is, and no stranger to Jarvan, as every jungler is no stranger to Jarvan.
I do think that G2 have a bit of an advantage when it comes to mid-game picks and things like that,
creating some chaos and a bit of a mess, so maybe they can get themselves an advantage there.
Little bro, going in here, Kyle with that aftershock is going to be alright.
And the broken blade going to at least frustrate Flandre a little bit here.
Oh, has he's gone the Hextech bird? I really like this skin.
That was one of my favourites back in the day.
Pretty good one.
Yeah, appreciate you, Broken Blade.
Shanks, taking some damage here from Caps.
He's giving me Ari into the Orianna.
I don't have a lot of strong feelings about Ari into Orianna as far as a matchup.
In the early stages of the game, I have a feeling it's pretty neutral.
I feel like Ori can.
I also have some nerfs, got an MSI.
I typically have the pressure in the 1v1, but obviously there's great ganks set up in the Ori.
That has to be respected.
I think Orianna is just sort of noxious at the mid lane.
just been able to spam or kill the W constantly.
Captured pretty well, so far in this lane though.
Yeah.
It's, um, I think Shanks given it as good as he gets.
Yeah, both of them going down to about 200 health.
Now Potion going to start getting drunk by both of them.
Azl'Brog, moving himself back towards Hans on the side on this bottom side.
Having a look at where the junglers are,
we have Sku-Mon grooving towards the bot side of the map.
Hans finished his full clear on the top side.
The same thing mirrored on the other side for Tarzan,
who will end up towards that top side.
Might need to pay a little bit of attention towards Caps and Changs.
Caps takes the turret shot, and even out those health bars.
I feel like he had a bit of an edge with the wave position and the health advantage,
and then the telekinesis kind of reverses that,
but obviously a lot of sustain from the already in the passive.
Engel prepares for the Orianna, doesn't really have it.
Caps, oh dear, here's a bit of a pincenmove.
As Caps may have to use the flash, Tarzan lying in wait here.
And even if he flashes, the flag and drag is going to follow him.
All cats realizing besides going for Hail Mary, and workers be dodged.
I think honestly, that's kind of the worst case scenario,
because he was walking towards the Fog of War,
and as soon as he sees Tarzan, he knows, I'm dead.
I don't think the mind-side was just saved the flash, just back away,
and then Shanks walks a little bit closer, and he's like, wait, I have a window.
It was a very small window, he couldn't fit through it.
And unfortunately, that means not only does it go down, doesn't have the flash as well,
sets up a protruding gang,
potentially before he hits that level 6 point, so a good practice play from AGL there.
We saw how low the health bars were in this mid lane,
that definitely felt like the first one to make the practice move would be rewarded.
Yeah, you were talking about the return gank, Tarzan back here once again,
decides not to go for it, as LeBron's going to show up,
and just joins Kyle and Changsir in this mid lane 2v2.
What can end up being crucial is if Changs gets a bit of an XG lead on the back of that kill,
when he gets his ult before Kapsas is, that could be devastating.
Well, probably actually taking a fair bit of damage here,
because we've got Ezreal versus the Varus on the bottom side of the map.
Going okay for Hans-Homer at the moment.
But right now this is not the tempo of the game that G2 were looking for.
I think they wanted to have a little bit more of a front foot at this stage of the game.
I guess on the top side, Brokeblade having to do his time
as far as farm is concerned into the Shemba Flandre.
I don't think he's too worried about how this laning phase is going to go.
He is going to be pressing stand united helping out his teammates and then catching side lanes being a nuisance and quite annoying around this map as there's a nice chance to connect.
Brog is trying to make sure that Kyle is going to be punished for going in but Cap's taking so much damage, no teleport available and it's going to be a bit of a worry here.
Yeah with how even this lane was now Cap's really feeling the pain down in terms of experience as well so this is a scary position to be in.
Kind of like if mid starts to bleed out, everything really is going to fall apart for G2.
This was the answering pick as well, for G2 in that mid lane.
Perhaps on the R8, the Orianna was already there.
Not quite working out, obviously, some external factors at play.
But I believe from this point on, thanks is going to be very, very comfortable.
We all know that Orianna is extremely happy just to sit there and collect minions,
So a few items are completed.
No plunder going back for a plate, having a very good time shoving this wave in.
And Skimon is on the dragon.
So G2 still making proactive moves, still with pressure elsewhere on the map.
The eyes certainly have been glued to mid lane.
Bandy Knight now available really fast.
A lot of pressure, his favorite AGL.
The pressure G2 gets a window to grab this dragon.
Despite the fact they have that depth to admit, feels really good.
really good. You actually saw a chance to get level six for then reset and that actually
allowed half to catch up again. So here on the screen now has that spirit rush. It's
a lot safer in the mid lane matchup. It doesn't have to worry so much. It looks like he's
fishing down there to see if he could find something. But you see the cows back away.
Nothing to come from it. Yeah. Alright.
Vondre back towards that top side. Broken blade. Catch it this way. There was a bit of an annoying
spot there for the Shen. I don't think he's going to be too bothered about it. Splash
still not up yet here for Katz, who does get knocked up.
The Chom is gonna connect to try and eat a little bit of that damage.
The electric field does come out. Katz able to get out with the spirit rush,
but still, I feel like he's been at 150 health this whole laning phase.
Oh, he has level six in this situation.
Yeah, might be able to get a little bit of a kick back there,
as the Zenith plate does come on through.
Great hook shot, the flash out of the way off the job.
Katz just fishing over the wall.
Kyle in a lot of trouble command protect does come in there's the stun
But skumont still gonna be able to find it takes down Kyle to even out the kills on the MVP
There has to be broken blade who stopped to stand united channels
So I can help flashing in to try and set up the Shen the Shen that never arrived
Speaking of a flash on the Shen broken blade going to go down to his egg
Let's see whether the DPS is going to be there
And I feel even after he does resurrect things aren't going to get difficult that crystallize
That's going to have to be in the perfect spot, and look, ladies and gentlemen, it is not great stun to come through.
There's Andre, we'll be able to find out that.
There it is.
Walks down Broken Blade, who was softened up by taking some turret shots to interrupt the stand tonight.
I think it just shows how much damage the Shen does, the fact he has so much DPS through the lag.
But also, Flounder punishing Broken Blade, who just before stopped that channel, getting a bit of a revenge for that play.
So, we'll get a replay here.
With the Lee Sin having level 6, G2 feel very confident, but they had to deal with the Stun United, but see here, the flash in to set up Shen, Shen never arrives.
Kyle just ends up looking a little bit silly in that situation, he actually wasn't even committed from the Lee Sin, still had that one in the pocket.
Yeah, I was looking for a bit of an angle there.
I thought maybe he kicked Kyle to finish the kill off, but thankfully he didn't do so because he was dead to rights.
I mean, I think it does work.
You don't need to use it. Then don't.
It's still down to play. Still has it in pocket.
Obviously in a position where if they challenge again
it's such a tough play with it.
Has that flash still available in the chance?
It's not having flash. I think definitely a very good target
for Lee Sin to punish with the T-Labrov.
Schumann caps moving together as a trio.
This is what we want to see for them as players,
but also for that composition.
They have the setup, they have the Lee Sin,
and it's like one bit of CC hits, and then everything hits.
I also feel like this is a composition that, like, winning fights around Herald, around Grubbs,
things like this, at this exact stage, is going to be how they're going to get themselves into a winning position.
I want to go back to the fact that we did think that the win conditions were a little bit narrow here for G2
in comparison to what AJL has, moving later on into the game.
Simon is going to be able to grab these Grubbs as LeBrov.
Now, sort of stuck in the back of his hip, maybe G2 like this angle, in they go,
Shockwave going to connect as they take down SQM before he can do anything.
Tarzan in a lot of trouble though, as the stun lands on to Caps,
but he gets over the wall and will be able to take down the Jarvan.
LeBronk now with that hookshot, now has the backup of Caps moving on in.
Brokenblade just trying to kite Flondre again, but we know how that one goes.
And Flondre shoots you out to finish that one off,
as Brokenblade is going the wrong direction.
Caps now looking for that over deception as the Demi-flate does go wide.
LeBronk does he have the damage?
The answer is no, and Blondre, he's lost at hitting people again, ladies and gentlemen, as Changs, no mana, no health to speak of, but Brokenblade in a very similar position.
It will be the double for Capstar, as G2 even out that scoreline.
Cap's just cleaning up the fight, and it felt a bit awkward, because there's ult times out, but he just walked around, altering the map, getting the kills.
Wait, no one had any resources, we were just hitting each other with our auto attacks.
It was a little bit funny.
A good start to the fight from AGAL, but G2 ended up coming a huge it now caps 3-1-1 on the RE.
We see the replay. The target selection from AGAL is pretty phenomenal.
A few months we talked about this leasing with the Dragonrage at big points.
And you have to immediately jump down as he goes in.
He doesn't get to play the game, he gets to have some disabilities.
The follower, oh, we're going back to life.
We're going in a bit of trouble.
Yeah, broken blade.
What's he having on the stun? The answer is no. So the Stance United will just get Flandre to the river and he will be alright.
Hopefully the river's warm, so there's a little bit of frosty there towards that top side.
Yeah, I think Broke of Blade, the fact that he used the stun and the walls obviously set up him getting that low, but then had nothing left for the channel.
It's still a big win for the side.
I feel like getting the ulti is about as valuable as killing it.
Yeah, I mean it's gonna shut down his ability to assist on the map.
And honestly, if you're the Inivir, you're much happier just trapping the Shen in lane and denying him the ability to help the team.
Even if you can stop the channel, the shield still has value, so the fact that he doesn't have that available gives you a lot more freedom on the pop-side of the map, and they'll use that freedom to pick up a dragon.
Yep, see what the solo is going to be, and this Temtek is going to be taken down. Shen's going to get electrocuted momentarily, and Caps is going to be able to get this wave in a very good spot.
should mean that Skiwondry comfortably takes down his streak.
And it is going to be a CloudSold.
Yeah, very nice. I believe it was a back-to-back CloudSold so far today.
That's been a little bit of a windy one. I do like it.
And Shanks still just trying to scale into this game, but he's 600 gold in the hole.
D2 in general are only ahead by about 200 though.
So the rest of the team doing absolutely fine.
And as we mentioned before, this is kind of an okay spot for AGAL to be if they can stabilize.
I will say though, absolutely currently is in too much of a strong position.
Malignant is completed, is a massive one-I-am-spike for the R-Rate.
I'm obviously profit-so-much so many times in a fight.
Gives you that lower O'Foolback and six stacks on that Dark Seal already in pocket.
Puts him in a pretty phenomenal spot.
I think obviously we talked about chance-gaming more time.
The Flandre as well in the Shen has been a very real threat in these fights,
but we've seen that build definitely come online more as he gets a few more items.
gets that Duskin Dorm for the real damage threat.
Well, see how it does come along, Ms. Blondre?
At least he can move away from his turret, but he kind of doesn't want to.
This wave will now make its way down towards his top lane,
and Brokeblade able to maybe even get towards yet another plate.
Not fair, this Amivia is very, very annoying,
as we've had a fair bit of experience with Ox,
as Zayas really does like playing this one over in the LCK.
And Broken Blade also making it look very very very frosty.
As you saw though, Flounder had picked up the Titanic.
I think this is why they felt comfortable putting Shen into the Innivere.
Because despite the fact you're not having to find the Master, you're getting pushed in.
Once you get that Titanic Hydra, the wave clear, you can just nuke the wave basically extremely quickly.
And if Broken Blade can't walk up the tower because of the thread of the taunt and the wave just getting deleted,
then you're just fine holding on.
Well, see whether that does work out as the first item has been completed.
Don't hang it out in the mid lane as the raptors have been taken.
Jank's going to just get dove on by Hansama.
He needs to get down here.
But every mystic shot is landing.
Has to flash out of the way of that one, but he's not out of the woods just yet.
Stand United has to be invested.
And Hansama will back away and respect it.
But Indos cap will be able to take him down a rampage for the Aria.
The kickback is gorgeous.
Cataclysm there for Tarzan, it's a lot of damage on the caps, and he will be taken down, but it's Han-Sama!
Oh, not quite able to kill Tarzan here, but he is a sitting duck underneath that bottom turret!
Harkinship phenomenal there from Han-Sama, and Skew on him, LeBronpa looking for hope, hookshot lands,
and he manages to pick up the kill before going down. Hextech sweep is enough to do so.
As Tarzan, yeah, they are going to turn around and look to see whether they can take down the drop as well,
which they should be able to do.
Flag goes down, some alcove gaming.
Oh, there is the mystic shot of man.
This unsalmaged calmness.
Actually put the flag down for Shanks to keep him,
but now he's in trouble.
Oh dear, Shockwave is going to connect though.
Esquimon will be taken down by the clockwork windup.
And Caps, he'll turn up.
Kyle moving down here though.
The orbit deception goes wide.
There goes the charm as well.
And Caps is in a lot of trouble.
The orb comes in, but the orbit deception doesn't land.
And now Kyle, he should be able to set this one up
Up for Shanks, down! He will go!
And Caps immediately teleports to his demise.
Absolute chaos, a player that started so well for G2,
I don't think it's over yet, actually, LeBrov's coming in!
And the bodyguard, Kyle, is looking to try and save Shanks here.
And I think he will be able to do so, LeBrov,
not going to go too deep after what was an absolute mess of a fight before.
This was a play that I think G2 started off,
feeling really happy about it.
Handsome is slamming everything onto Shanks, so Shanks has the flash last mystic shot and then with that HP they have to fall in the shuttle but it's cancelled by the Anivia again.
So it's just a shield, Cap moves in to pick up the kills, then he gets the pick kill because he ended up getting the huge volume to change the corruption, Cap ends up getting closer down here.
They don't kill Tarzan, it's so close, he just survives!
And then the whole sun drowns him.
See, I hope he's able to turn this play around as well.
It's a great dodge from Han's armor, but...
Focus hites back to the tower with the flash, ends up trading here.
And I think at this point...
Gigi got a little bit greedy.
Yeah!
This is still okay, this is still okay, right? They kill Tarzan, he's dead.
And the TP comes another flag, and they could have just left.
Yeah, if we cut the video here, I think things are fine.
But a lot of things start to miss.
The first Sonic Wave misses, then we end up seeing a missed shot there, not connecting.
Then here we have the Orb reception, the pullback not connecting, the charm misses.
This is a very skillshot-based composition that you do. If you're missing the skillshots,
you're doing nothing. I'll tell you I missed a whole bunch of the end ones.
Landed so many in the previous skirmish, so we're going to give him a little bit of a pass.
However, that last bit, we preferred we just didn't watch, so 200 gold is going to be the advantage for Jitsu still as they're looking for sole point.
Great Crystalize comes down here from Broken Blade, it's Tarzan. We're going to make this a 50-50. It is secured by Skumongo.
There's Blondre in the back of this pit. We'll be able to shadow dash over.
Nice little slope as the chains of corruption do go wide. I think that means that AJL just going to get out of here.
I think great move from Chichi. You're playing into a poke, Varus.
The best response, don't give him time to poke. Just start up the objective as quick as possible.
AGL, bring the stance, you're not at your time to test.
But against Elise Zen, he's still good at securing these objectives, oh no.
Odin, safe guard, going to be able to get SQ-Mund out of there momentarily
as there's a kickback underneath for Taro. SQ-Mund survives for a pretty long time.
And Han Solo, now trying to sink his fangs into the Leona. She goes down.
Hextech ultimatum is there as there's caps starting to get the kills.
Tarzan taken out but LeBrov is also dead and Shanks gets jumped but we'll be all right for now
Ultimately despite the fact that Schumann dies first. He's won being targeted
G2 trade evenly in terms of kills and that's a broken blade not even there. It's just pushing the side lane so yeah
G2 feeling really good about that one ends up being pretty favorable to them
And they're starting to build up a bit of the edge in this game
Looking very good
And a thousand gold something like that is getting towards those numbers that we do want to see from G2
If they do want to remain a threat in this game as it goes forward
It's feel like stand United adds so much
Flexibility to how you play up the latest stages of the game
G2 do want to keep up the pace keep up the chaos
Make sure that this Shen is being tested at every single stage
This was the beginning of this fight
The big thing is you've got the safe route off to get away from the initial damage from Shanks
and then the kick from Tarzan low into an Aries with a low health bar.
It's so scary to reset stuff from through.
And then here we end up seeing a Jisangie from Caps and Hansama.
They know they're fine with the Anivia pushing the side lane.
They don't have to do anything more.
Well, Rift Carried has now spawned.
Tarzan gonna be able to grab some permanent vision here or at least some irremovable vision
As the Rift Scuttler does go down, broken blade back to its favorite place, and that is alone in a side lane.
Skiumon is going to be joining him though, so maybe I spoke a little too soon about the alone factor.
This is risky, because Shen takes a long time to kill, and you're showing him the bot side of the map.
Yeah, this Herald should be the answer. From Tarzan you'd expect, he is beelining over towards that Herald head.
Skiumon just takes this moment to take down the, uh, Krog camp.
I don't know whether that's necessarily worth it if they do manage to take the Herald.
I think Doron would say yes.
He would. He is the Krog Lord though. That is very different story.
And now we see...
Human able to move at a time that look and crush it as mid lane tower can.
APL put a stop to this.
Razzat is not looking too afraid, but maybe he should be.
Sanjay Knight, it does come on in. Headset ultimatum is there from LeBrog.
He gets taunted up though and taken out.
Solar Flag gonna get avoided by Broken Blade, but now the bird does not have the flash.
And it is a five versus four, not gonna get the stun and he's down to the egg.
AJL just taking them one at a time out of the game.
And that Rift Herald is not going to G2, change the corruption to a wide, but I don't know about that cleanse as the Shockwave will just tear Hansalmer apart.
Absolute disrespect from G2 and AJL do not hesitate at all. They pick apart the European affairs seed and just get a handful of free kills.
And it just felt so forced, I think, from G2, I think hands on in particular on the Ezreals.
There was no reason for them to arch in and shift forward.
It feels like, you know, they're having time for a twerk for G2,
but they're constantly setting up these situations where they don't have the full team there.
And then AGL just saying, okay, we're going to challenge you. We're going to look to engage on that.
Sometimes it hasn't worked out, but this time it definitely did for them.
still I mean it is a stack of three dragons here for G2 that is going to be very valuable
bit but there's one minute left to go and this was the wrong time for AGAL to get full
control of this game we have a look at how they did it once again
you know Cass is company's equal he doesn't want to be there so the grove goes in and
then they flash out and they still try and hold position broken blade is just doing his
He's still standing there.
Jarvan can catapes me, don't you need to use the kill shield?
And then Han's Summer,
Arcane shifts forward onto the reign of Arrows,
which he's already slowed.
It was just a very weird passage to play,
to mistake after mistake after mistake,
and HAL 0 hesitation in the punish.
Exactly right.
Fighting without the Ari definitely seems like a little bit of an error,
but now Kaps is with the rest of the team,
They're looking towards this dragon, Ansama in that mid lane. We'll be able to take control of the wave
at least for this moment. He's got a shield there from the quest out of Broken Blade
as he's got two items now complete, very close to that run of ages.
Four shanks on the Orianna, so how do targets punish?
Well, HAL have a lot of vision here in this brush, as you can see. That was, yeah, probably too much.
You could say, but they can really see it, I can confirm it.
Strujaparaj is going to land on the Kyle, he will not be too worried about it.
AGL now moving forward as they understand that giving away this Drake will be a dangerous one.
Paps on the ramp around will be spotted on this ward and does know it.
That's the important part of the brawl. Now on a bit of a flank angle,
but it's a little awkward when he is such a squishy Camille in hope.
Has a bit of an idea to take him down. Chains of corruption go entirely wide though,
as the crystallize is going to block off Tarzan for the minute.
Has to use the flag and drag to get himself in there.
Or just wait out the wall. Cataclysm comes in, and the kick out just to move him back towards the Drake.
I don't know about that one as there is no way for Rokenblade, no life for him at all either.
Now Flandre just walks after Katz to bring him out of this fight. Hansama now down to about a third health.
Tarzan still hunting for him, and he's already taken down the Drake, and I do really feel like AJAL have just moved the game back in their direction.
Now in a position where these team fights, they have the engaged tools, they have the comfort.
We heard Jankos and Double have talked about it.
You have the ability to dictate these fights and for the side of G2, they don't win the poke war into this virus.
They don't have an easy time setting up the fights as well.
So if you don't find like a great blank angle, you're kind of just struggling.
And even though we saw the broad burning, the chain's erupting from the virus, it just wasn't enough.
Tarzan's so decisive here, she's like,
I'm just gonna go in, we know the Anivia has no flash,
I can charge forward, and then the follow-up comes through,
the kick comes out, but it's too late to stop laundry,
he appears right in the cataclysm of the dispose of the pawns,
the bob then looks for hold, but I can't even connect on to him
because his body's blocking the mystic shot.
Yeah, at least Han Solo was able to get out of the way of that shockwave,
there was being worn by Tarzan, and as you said,
I mean, the fight was kind of already over,
Maybe that kick needs to be used a little bit earlier, but I feel like I'm getting a bit hindsight-y.
And this is now AJL moving the needle back in their position.
2,000 gold at 24 minutes or something like that is not a huge deal,
and there's going to be another opportunity for G2 to get themselves a soul.
Flandre, maybe in trouble, does actually have to use the flash to get over that wall.
Great charm going to connect to it from Capso as he's not out of the woods just yet.
I'm not going to quite land those now.
Flounder, we're going to turn this to Cap's taking so much damage, we'll find the Foxfire in order to get rid of the Shen,
but they've used so much in order to do so.
There's now Tarzan, moving down towards the bottom side, won't have that big shield from the Stance United though if he does decide to go in.
Now Cap's moving himself out of the way. Skimon down here as well, just trying to help them out,
but there's not a whole lot to fight for right now.
Honestly, that felt pretty close to AGL being able to punish, but just in the disengaging time,
I think if anything missed from the side of broken blade and caps that could have been a pretty bad time for them
Obviously are you about resetting to get out of that sticky situation?
And I still the pick up this will drastically change the state of the game
But G2 still try to be proactive and look to these picks where they can
Yeah, post just quietly doing the most damage in this game so far feel like the
Varus hasn't been the main character that has been getting a lot of work done throughout this one
The search up garage will be eaten by the edge of night shield and three items now complete for her
Jamir and Anna immediately transforms
And he's now
Very very deadly. Yeah on this virus if you wasn't enough already
Yeah, you know we saw poke virus to fight the camera band every person general camera band in the early stage of the year
They get near a good amount
I think it's more important now. She had to care, but he's got three flights completed and the time is put now very relevant
Feel to poke out champions like Ezreal, who normally are the ones poking you, feels pretty good for APA out.
Oh yeah.
Taylor Barra is just going to help push this wave forward.
And the edge of knight also just really gives you so much added safety.
Against a composition like this where they're going to be fishing with sonic waves, fishing with charms,
there are so many of these sort of single spells that are trying to catch you off guard,
and they will not be working onto the Varus.
and so very comfortably able to sit in this mid lane and just farm it up move forward to the later stage
so they're feeling comfortable with Kyle going to join him for the minute.
The Baron is up and available and has been just over 5 minutes, but neither team feels like they have a massive amount of Baron.
Yeah, I think for HAL, neither team were more for control.
Yeah, they have the tankiness, G2 has the damage, but they need kind of a bit of both.
They could make a business deal and do it together, but it's not going to happen.
That's um, yeah, I don't know here to broker it. I mean, maybe they could they could figure it out in all chat
Something like that. It seems a little dangerous as Tarzan moving on over seeing whether he can steal away a blue buff
50 seconds on the dragon is going to be in the back of their minds as well as broken blade holding onto the midway
Perhaps is on the top side of the map teleporting hand
She too will see whether they are gonna go in early one more time
Or whether they have learned from that previous mistake wait for cast to get over there and make something happen
and Taunt is gonna connect here onto the Arri though.
As Flandre meant, these auto attacks with the Q
just hurt so incredibly much.
Foxfire does come on in as the Taunt is gonna connect
with the dash, he's going to be there with the Spirit Rush.
Now Broke of Blade makes his way forward
and that is going to be the Shen falling.
It is a good idea to chase down the Shen
because he's AGL utilizing that time
to take down this Atatard in the mid lane
and they will have the inside track towards the Drake.
Cap really did not want to commit the ult, which will be a sin, but he'll be able to get a kill for it.
Oh dear, the rough just gonna get flashed on there by Tarzan and taken out!
Shanks dominating! Absolutely! So now it's a 4v4!
Hansa, I'm moving over though and I think G2 pretty happy about the 4 that they have available to themselves.
But no ult on Cap, just a big hit to the fight here.
Now we'll have it, oh it's still half way done, so not gonna happen for this fight whatsoever.
Now just trying to burn down this dragon where he can into the pit, they go and Tarzan steals away the dragon!
But now the fight is on, the kickback onto the Jarvan, but Tarzan not too worried about it.
Janks now looking for the angle towards the Lee Sin, and Tsumon just trying to get himself out.
Does have the little shield from the safe guard, and they do take down Honsama in the meantime.
The Egg once more will be scrambled on the Rept, and they jail every teamfighter feels
Over the last few minutes has belonged to them absolute domination in these fights 18-12 now in the school
2400 ball lead and it feels like Tarzan just sees target kills target
Despite the fact he's playing into an Ari and Ezreal typically
Champions you're gonna struggle into as a Jarvan he's just playing it so well
Yeah, 15 out of 18 kill participation here for the Jarvan Tarzan just kind of getting everything done
This stage of the game and AJL thinking that they'll use that tankiness who we're talking about to head over towards this Baron
If Hansaum are dead, Brokenblade also down
And no teleport to speak of this should be something that AJL can lock down especially with the way Tarzan's been smiting today
They should be able to keep their eye on Skumon though as into the pit goes LeBron and out he goes via the death chamber
Skumon skill over that wall though as the Q is gonna get locked there by Kyle
Well, let's see how they're going to be able to make sure that they lock this one up.
The talk comes in, and that is going to be the Baron secured by Tarzan, but he's immediately taken down.
And G2 actually grabbed Flandre as well, so three still alive with the Baron.
I mean, that's almost close to even.
Yeah, I mean, and also on the AKL, I think the patrol just secured the Baron was good,
but at the end of losing two members for it, and they lose a lot of time with the Baron as a result as well.
So due to getting a bit of an answer back there, I'll have to see what AGAL can do with that arm of two members.
This is an initial fight though. I think just Hats is unable to really participate in this fight without the ultimate.
And without the Aries, you're such a pivotal piece of your team. You're not getting those resets, you don't have to thread onto some of these quicker members.
Hats is kind of just playing in a similar way to Hand Sammit. He's almost bringing us up to fight, getting damage down.
and Tarzan is just on the Linenty.
Yeah, and as soon as Wanderer respawns, he is on top of Tarzan,
making sure that Hansama has absolutely no way of dealing with him.
And here is the Baron fight as well, so we're checking out live,
and he's going to be G2 taking that bottom in at Tarzan.
So it was getting a lot going very early, trying to set up some of this damage,
and they do nearly kill Tarzan in the back of it.
Wanderer then goes for this pawn to secure the Baron by denying Skiumon,
But with the calls flash coming in, there's no way of getting out again.
We are back to life, though.
Hang on, who got the Baron again?
Yeah, G2's.
Roofing is 5 and pushing, and AKL getting caught off guard.
They have the H-Aryan mid, not present here.
They're clear.
They're clear. Absent.
Hang on a second.
Now the Nexus terrorists are on the fire.
Ah, Shanks! You need to come home, buddy!
He is going to be able to do so, but...
Maybe he's just, uh...
He's made friends with these siege minions, and they're going to be his, uh...
His favorites at this point in time. He's not going to be able to go back home, but with this bottom inhibitor down
This is not the play that a jail were looking for
Yeah, I'm trying to find that way in remember they have this time tonight. It's so if he'll reach is someone everyone will be there
Instantaneously, there's TPM have so so if you need to come back he can the things are coming out a jail of home for it
Yeah, Kyle is going to land on a broken blade first
This is what Bob looks for Tarzan. There is that stand united and he's human-waste no time.
This time kicks him away immediately.
Zenis Blade brings Kyle back into the fight and look at the AoE damage.
The Catapults are from Tarzan. Catapult no longer and Hans-Sama's also dead.
Both carries eliminated immediately.
And G2, I mean, it was a cute map play, but they may have just lost the game.
I think from this position with only the Anivia alive, the Baron buff as well,
they can look to end this.
20 seconds for the Baron buff.
Oh, dear.
The bomb is packed up in a bit of a ball, but it's five members of HAL.
Will they try to switch to the end? They're looking for the Broken Blade.
Yep, that's going to be the knockup on to Broken Blade.
He does go golden, but I have a feeling he is still very, very dead.
GA's going to pop onto Tarzan, and he will be back for the photo as they take down this Nexus.
HAL looking absolutely fantastic. They bided their time and then won the game in the end.
Staying alive here at EWC in G2, down to the wall bracket.
I think the setup, the coordination, these team fights,
following the charge of Tarzan was just stellar from this team.
It felt like a hit-up point of the game when we're getting those 5v5s,
and it was just hit after hit after hit from this roster, from the LPL.
And honestly, if they're in this form, they were one game away from winning last year.
It looked like they could be in the form to challenge once again.
Yeah, I mean, EWC really feels like the AJL tournament.
They have been very, very good at this.
Obviously, weren't able to win the last Best of Five,
but they looked so dominant throughout the rest of that one.
I remember talking to Wolf, he was like,
these guys are going to win the whole thing, the entirety of EWC last year.
Genji were able to get over the line,
but maybe this time around, it's not going to work.
They've all said that, that's what they didn't know.
Ah, he cast it first.
Yeah, well, maybe he's not going to be saying that this year.
They will be free.
and they'll be able to take them down.
Looking brilliant though.
At this point, you'd have them as a pretty deadly team
here at this tournament, but I feel like
EWC especially is where they really do shine.
And that is looking to continue here
as they look on towards the playoffs.
Yeah, and I think honestly, Flounderay on the Shen
is something we had briefly talked about how
you know, we had this Shen build,
we still had like great result of first-arm.
And Flounderay is like, this is yours?
this is my. Exactly. But we
now have Tarzan standing
alongside with and for a bit
of an interview. Seeing Tarzan
successful on an EWC stage is
familiar territory. A. G. A. L.
book their spot in the quarter
finals. Tarzan. I'm standing by
with June as well. Our
translator here. You played the
initiator, the playmaker role
there. You were assisting your
teammates a lot. How much do you
to succeed.
We prepared for this match for about 2-3 weeks. We did a lot of training.
So yesterday and today we came to the match. We came to the stage. We really enjoyed the match.
Yeah, that's very obvious to see. You came agonizingly close to lifting the trophy last year.
Do you think that your team is better here in Paris than the version of you that we saw in Riyadh?
We know that you may be very eager to get such a champion award.
Just like last year, you had a chance to become a champion.
Do you think that compared to last year and this year, your team is better?
In fact, it is very difficult for us to get a champion when we come to the EWC.
but our goal is to make sure that we are ready for every match and every match.
business is about to begin that is the end of the best of ones when we move
forward we'll be crushing kings here on the stage. Congrats again, thank you.
非常感谢你,感谢你,谢谢.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
谢谢,感谢你,谢谢. Thank you very much, the man of multiple languages. Tarzan gets the job done here for AGL despite lots of creative and unique questions as expected from G2,
Especially at the end when they were behind they try to find a way into a base race and instead they got corraled into fish in a barrel
And it's just so sad to see as a new uf I because it was so close
But I do need to say can we drop the Camille?
I have yet to see this champion work apart from like there's like maybe three players in the world
I can make this champion work, and I'm sorry LeBrop. I don't think you're one of them
Look at how useful that Leona was like Kale was see-seeing and setting up the fight so damn well
We see this matchup so many times and when games get this chaotic and we go super far into the game
The Leona is more durable. The Leona is more flexible
Whereas the Camille is just kind of a one in did we win the fight off of my play great
If we didn't that's so great, and he's trying to flag right getting caught just too squishy
I think a lot of this game came down to D to G2
Running out of win cons running out of control and having to make desperate plays only and the mechanics were good
I mean, I think they they made the plays as best they could in some of those moments, but the draft kind of ran out of steam
Yeah, I completely agree. I think if we can watch one of the I mean actually the early Flandre solo kill
I'm not to watch that as well
I think the fact that he pulls out the Shen up against BB and then solo kills him on the pick does his build again
And this is that Frankenstein Shen
And he's just kind of styling out
It just talked about it in the interview we had with him as well.
He was like, I was the first one to do it, cool to see him do it.
He's doing it again.
He's killing the man who made the build.
And this is the first time these teams have faced off against each other.
It's the first time Flandre actually meets Broken Blade directly here
and takes him out here.
So I think this is a pivotal moment, right,
when you look at the overarching storyline between these two teams.
Yeah, again, just kind of tough there
because it was an immediate engage under the tower.
And then also the wall doesn't quite protect him as well.
and that surprise killer instinct there by Flandre proven to be a great start for AGAL.
But that wasn't the whole story. There was a ton, a ton of fighting here in this last game.
And here on the bottom side of the map, it's like, okay, we caught you AGAL.
And then AGAL like, no, we caught you. And then hysterics is in the back losing his mind.
But this was what we wanted to see here at EWC.
I mean, it starts off really strong for G2. They get it in an initial pick
and they kind of want to keep going. I think Cap's goes a little bit too deep. He didn't have to go
for the old charm, kind of just charm from range. And Tarzan living on like 5 HP, buys them so much
time, he can then clear the wave, hope being able to live for so long and trading one for one with
LeBron. And neither team is willing to back down, right? G2, they want to kill Tarzan, but not just
that. They want to kill Shanks as well with Cap's TPing in, and that's when they go too fast.
I mean, Shanks is also, the fight has gone so long,
you can TP back in.
But the battleground, the initial battleground for G2
is between AL's turrets.
So that means that they have the inherent advantage,
they have the ability to chase down,
they can use the Jarvan flag, get Shanks back in here.
And these scrappy fights and how many we saw of them
were AG AL despite the rough start,
like you mentioned in the fight,
fighting their way back in, keeping it to a close game
so they could have those later fights
where they turned it around later.
Yeah, Kat's misses the charm.
Dodged is the orbit deception there by Shanks.
Those were two pivotal moments in that fight
that you want to see from G2 Tech.
Like, hey, let's try to create our own advantage
from these hands fights where if we win,
we're massively ahead.
If we fail, let's not think about that.
And when we got to see what the result ends up being,
they then start to lose a little bit of control there.
But they were stacking Drake's really well here,
Jack and I had multiple opportunities.
Close it out.
Yeah, I feel like if one of these Drake fights
go G2's way, they could have mounted a comeback
and actually won the game.
Because once you get the Clouds Hole
maybe on S-Roll, you're so mobile, but you see the power of the Jarvan and the Leona.
It's so easy, especially when you've already blown the Flash from the Anivia, to just go down on them,
and once AGL have control, they have a really easy time turning on whoever they want,
because Jitsu's front line is just simply not tanky. Both of these fights,
LeBrav is the first to get focused down, right? In the first Dragon fight, he doesn't die,
but he's pushed out. Caps is trapped on the left side of the Dragon pit twice,
like both times trying to flank. You have two flankers, put the core set up with this Leona,
It's just so much stronger in these fights for a GL if you can't get that collapse if you can't get that flank to work
And both fights caps just surfing on the edge of the fight. He doesn't find his in
There's no setup with the Camille and it's really easy for a GL to just chase you down with this Leona and Shen combo
And just CC people to death there was never a formation for G2
They were just kind of around
Orbiting the fight whereas a GL were right where they wanted to be especially when you have that in Evia
you got to be at a spot first if you want to utilize it to its full potential and so G2 back
to the drawing board they will play in a best of three later on and AGAL last year's finalists
finding their form they will qualify on in as our number one seed from this group A our 2-0
candidate here. I mean G2 going up against DK this is scary it was a scary match to lose against
AGAL here I think they they overcooked a little bit I feel like the fact that G2 went for the Camille
and the Lee Sin. It's very like we are going to outplay you in the skirmishes and snowball
based on that. And as much as I love G2, I don't think they're quite at that level where they can
just have a really good early game and just instantly turn it on. So I do think a more standard
normal front to back is going to suit them better and when trying to abuse Yvuh, maybe that could
be an angle up against DK. I cannot stress enough how many times showmaker across his career has
talked big about G2. He loves the team. He loves studying caps. He loves their play style. He's
always been super interested in watching the LEC, but specifically G2. So it's fun for me to see
this matchup just because I've heard Showmaker glaze this team so many times. And it's funny
that you bring up that because yesterday we saw Showmaker Lucid smurfing on Ari Lisen and now G2
tried to do the same. So for sure there's some inspiration going both sides though. And unfortunately
only one of them will be able to move on. On the B-Stream we had our Group D matchup and it was
was Honolite, these ports and JDG both winning their first game. This one, another tight
affair until Zeus calls game here. Yeah, I mean, we didn't actually see this fight.
So I'm watching it for the first time right now here, HLE versus JDG looking like the
final pivotal moment here cannot be going in. Oh, huge smoke up there. I mean, it looks
like Honolite, they were just able to stack up all the dragons. So despite the kill score
remaining very equal, you see them just out playing in the team fights. They got this
This was the Cloud Soul that G2 needed.
It makes it so much easier to maneuver around all the threats from JDG, and then you can
just run them down after you win the theme fight.
Uzzeus.
And Uzzeus Kenavi doing so much work in these clips.
Obviously Kenavi, most known for his Jarvan this year, it's been the pick that has defined
his play and defined Honwa Life Esports.
So to be able to pick that up in a B01 feels nice, and that will of course advance them
on here to the next round.
That's right.
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It's a scene.
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The woman is still here.
Where are you going?
Who is the right one?
Now, move down the camera.
Wait, don't hold the camera.
Oh, it's there.
It's there.
Okay, move forward.
It's okay.
It's 10 minutes.
I'm done.
Stop stop stop stop.
You have to take the camera.
A little bit.
A little bit.
You're done.
Ok.
Put your face down.
Ok.
He's going a bit slow.
Slow, slow down.
Ok.
Go faster.
Go slow.
Ok.
Go faster.
We're not going fast.
Not at all.
I'm going to have to push it, push it, push it.
Hit it.
That's it, you're going to have to push it.
I am going to have to push it, don't be so fussy.
FF, GG bro.
Are you sure you're not going to push it?
Yes, yes.
You know what, I'm going to push it.
I'm going to push it up, push it up.
Oh, push it to the left.
Oh, push it, push it.
I'm going to push it, right?
Yes.
It's done.
the right someone
hit the right leg
on the right?
yes, on the right
stop
press the left one
move in
this horse is forced to go down
come on, stop
can I?
stop
It's a bit down here.
It's down there?
It's right here.
It's a bit down here?
It's a park.
Come on!
Park!
It's reallyising.
I'm very disappointed because I saw that I couldn't do it.
It's so hard.
Thank you for watching our show.
Thank you, everyone.
Bye bye.
Welcome to the mid-way solo-mode challenge.
Next, we will break through the rules, and make the first point as the second point.
One person makes the keyboard, one person makes the mouse.
Will the two players and the other two play together perfectly?
The result is 1-2. One player is playing the keyboard, and the other is playing the mouse.
Will the two players and the other 2-1 team have perfect cooperation?
Don't scare me. I'm scared.
Hey, I think he's playing the keyboard.
Of course, he's playing the water ball.
He's playing the keyboard.
Don't forget to play the game.
He's playing the keyboard. He's playing the keyboard.
I'm playing the keyboard. You're not sick.
One, one, one.
You can't win.
Who should be playing?
I'm so sorry. You're so fast.
I was about to say it.
The door is too slow.
You're the only one.
Where do you want to go?
I'm just turning that off.
Is that weird?
Why is it off?
Where is it?
It's too slow.
I don't know.
Don't show up too slowly.
Don't worry.
Just go in.
Go here.
It's not working.
I want to press it.
It's too stupid.
Don't push me.
Don't push me.
You guys like that?
Yeah
Oh, you missed it
Perfect!
Come
Come
Now A9
Come
What are you doing?
AW
He's inside
Wow, he's still Q
He's dead
He's a bit hard
Let go of him
He's coming back
He's coming back
He's coming back
He's coming back
I can't pull you
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Go back to your room
Let's go back to the room
Go back to your room
I'm going to destroy the base
What is this? Is this a long-distance fight?
It's a long-distance fight
It's a long-distance fight
It's a long-distance fight
It's a long-distance fight
I'm going to use my ult
Let's go, let's go, I'm not good at this
What are you doing?
I think you're really bad
Go!
Go go go!
I'm going to use my ult, I'm going to use my ult, he's out of the range
I don't want to use my ult
What are you doing?
You're going to use your ult
I can't use my ult
I can't stand it, I have to fight first
I feel like I'm running out of oil
Yes!
I'm running out of oil
I'm running out of oil
I'm running out of oil
Hahahahaha
You're running out of oil, you're not running out of oil
It's over
It's over, we won
No
Alright, I'm here with T1 fans, I'm not gonna lie guys, we are looking a bit rough, I don't
wanna say I'm worried, greatest team of all time right, not gonna say I'm worried, but
I might be a little bit worried.
What can we do, we do, to bring this back?
I think I should replace Keria and play Bunch and we wouldn't like this, okay?
By the way, you're speaking I can tell your bronze
Disregarding that one
Okay, how about you? I would like like I would say we need
Ahrid to go on support
There's on med we need assassins and full tank on top. That's the new metal
This guy reinventing the legal edges better. Okay, and how about you?
I think we need to ban Cassiopeia. She's way too strong
But I believe in Korea curious kami and every place he does is actually really good
I love this guy is insane and he's gonna bring everyone to the win because we need to win
You need to win for T1.
Ahhhh!
Yeah!
One guy wins!
Ahhhh!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!
T1!
T1!
T1!
T1!
T1!
T1!
Thank you very much, Coach Tyler won for T1 as they're going up against the surprise
semi-finalist, quarter-finalist, whatever finalist we are, bottom side of the bracket,
appearance here. For GAM eSports they were able to pull off the upset against M-CoA yesterday
and looking to do the same thing today. I mean if you're a Tion fan you're not that surprising.
Always Tion with the lower bracket, they're going to break some back and yeah but still I feel like
whenever you play against GAM you're going to be careful about what you're doing in the early game
because they really want to take the five, really want to put the trigger in the early game as well.
Honestly we said that we wanted a best of three, a best of five of those two teams. GAM pushed them
so hard in the early game and honestly seeing them against BLG as well, I feel like BLG is
like the most polished version of Gam. So if they can just pull it back a little bit
to find their limits and still play that aggressive Gam have a chance.
Again this was the Baron call that could have gone their way, they make it out, but not
all in one piece as Paze on that Taliyah showing up. His mage mastery in the bot lane
cut them off and then cut down the chances for Gam earlier in day one.
Welcome back to the analyst, Des Deagon, alongside Trouble and Wadid and y'all
this one does feel yet again like a, I guess a Goliath, David and Goliath kind of
match up. What is the key here for Gam if they want to find any sort of success?
I feel like still play aggressive, push T1, force them to potentially make mistakes
because I think that's what BLG did really well, the best of all.
Well, Dave, we'll get your thoughts in just a second.
Standing by right now is T. Clay Nguyen, the CEO of GAM with Ginny.
Thanks, Zygon. T.K., yesterday was an incredible day for GAM.
Incredible, incredible.
It was a historic day for us.
So many milestones, so many achievements.
We got to collaborate with so many different people all around the world.
But I want to talk about the League of Legends
because Stolo, Kilo, Faker and the Midlane, by the way, up 4-0.
You're a verse sweep encore, you're kicking out.
EU, what's going on?
So, okay, I gotta say, so Glory's our newest mid laner
and for him to solo queue the goat, solo queue,
sorry, solo kill the goat, I mean, come on guys,
what a way to start off, GAM and T1
and that was peak viewership for day one from what I saw.
So, 4-0 for a second there,
I was believing all of our dreams were gonna come true.
We might just upset right here on the EWC stage
in Paris, the world champs.
So that is your prediction for the series against T1 today?
Of course.
I mean, look, everybody loves T1, including myself.
We've got so many fans from Vietnam that admire and adore
T1.
But you know what?
Everybody also loves an underdog.
And that's who we are.
And that's who we're coming here.
Hopefully, we'll surprise you.
Take a few games.
Let's see.
I'm looking forward to the competition.
You're hyping it up so well, by the way.
The fans have been incredible.
So thank you so much.
That's it from us and Dagon, back to you.
Always great to hear from DK,
the eternal optimist of the underdog.
Now we did, what do you think's gonna happen here?
As we're 20 seconds away.
We just made one simple plan from each team, you know,
that you can't just flip around between the games.
So I just wanna see what they can bring it to us.
All right, well, my analysts will be here
to break down this matchup.
It is a rematch of day number one,
the underdog versus the world champs.
It's T1 versus GAM eSports as we send it to the stage
for the introductions.
We are down in the mix!
with the GAM fans and let's be honest we have been way too soft on this day here
the STC Arena we need to start crushing some keys at elimination time and these
GAM fans are feeling nervous. Yeah they don't look nervous actually that's why I
was gonna ask you DK are we feeling stressed because this is elimination
game as the CEO how are you feeling right now? We are definitely not stressed
because you know what we had some fun we are here to show you guys it's GAM
time let's go
The Vietnamese squad, driven by passion.
Puffed seal, to make an exploit.
Love set, to get out of Taiwan.
The Lisbon World Cup.
To welcome their opponents, there's only one man for the job.
Winner stays, loser goes home.
This is what it is all about.
This is what they are built for.
Make some noise for T1!
Talk about an introduction!
After suffering defeat earlier on, the legends find themselves with no room for error.
One more victory keeps their title hopes alive.
Siwan, les grands favoris, mesdames et messieurs, vous pouvez les applaudir!
It's David versus Goliath, 3-2-3!
T1 versus can it is an underdog story, but the underdog story David Techman won
However, this one doesn't feel like David vs. Goliath because despite T1 losing the BLG earlier
It is a much higher uphill battle bigger. Yeah
Well, it's lovely to be here Jake this is my first time casting T1, so I'm gonna say it
Faker
I like you said it. I got the same. You got the same. Anything else you want to say?
I also want to say a fun statistic. So T1 just lost to BLG and I noticed Faker had nine deaths in that game
And I thought to myself, wow that is a lot of deaths and then I looked it up and that is his record death count
The only other time he also had nine deaths was versus the Burroughs. Really? Yeah, but they actually won that game
So this is the highest death count he's ever had in a loss up against BLG. Like transitive properties
Bro is as good as B.L.G.
Yes.
That's my takeaway.
That's my takeaway too.
We get a bro shout out before we go into T1 versus GAMP.
I respect that, Jack.
That is a fun stat.
The LC casters are all with us, you know, they're influencing me.
That's right.
We're hanging around in the...
I'm going to call them degeneracy, lack of a better word.
They're obviously better than that.
They're lovely degenerates, those guys.
Obviously, as we go into this game, quicker reminder, best of three, so we are going into
field of strife.
I think another reminder for people as well, this was a B.O.1 if you missed out.
the game first 10-15 minutes. We're very strong from Dan, but after that the sweeping through
T1 as a five-man stack. I mean, it's a generous way of putting it, Jack, but it did feel like
T1 and kind of enhancing.
For sure. I think what Dan wants to do is replicate that early game's success, and hopefully
they kind of, I think they had some time to review that game, see what went wrong in the
macro department, and try to figure out how can we be more on the same tempo. Because
a lot of the time when we see these weaker teams go up against some of the top teams,
It's usually due to how well they play tempo, how fast they play, that you get outmatched
on the map.
Suddenly T1 has Dragon control, they get the Herald control, and they can just start to
snowball those objectives onto you, and you can never kind of grasp that control of the
map back.
So I think that's really what I'm looking at for GAM, because we saw yesterday that in
the individual lanes, they can't compete.
Even had a solo kill on Faker.
That's right.
I mean, it was a flight, you knew two times over.
Oh, sorry, I'm thinking it was a different game.
It was so glorious.
It was glorious, you know what I'm saying?
Because I was in a very similar mind with the entire live game.
So I'm going to have to apologize.
If I still did also solo kill second.
Yeah, that's right.
So we had a couple of solo kills on some Korean goats yesterday,
but both those games weren't enough.
Now we go into a best three.
Okay, Gambler versus T1, it is going to be first pick here.
For the side of T1 on this red side,
which has kind of been a common theme so far at this EWC,
where red side has been the preference,
but first pick has also come with it.
The first three, Vayne-Bando, is very interesting, it indicates that they want to put Doran just on this weak side,
relaxing Tank, and kind of leave him on his own, because we've seen Vayne do incredibly well when she has a good matchup.
We saw yesterday Zest go 14-0, I believe it was against Leon on the Vayne, so it's a pick that can be incredibly dangerous for Left alone,
and T1, they don't want to deal with it.
So especially with Doran, with the Tank setup that you think is probably going to come through,
It's like it's preparation for Doran maybe coming for this game one as well. Jay's gonna go with nocturne 2. Orianna still up and available here, Jack
Yeah, I'm throwing out things like the virus. Although not super optimal. Rumble gone instead. Yeah
I'm gonna be damn fishing for what bruiser top matchup as well
And I do think if T1 now first pick the Orianna, it's gonna be damn looking for the Jarvan
Okay, and either the Tassio or the Cinder answer
I would expect to go into it. Jarvan really good into Orianna due to the fight that she's immobile
Maybe they also go Jarvan Estrel to take away that mobility away from T1 or they're gonna go to Camille
I'm a big Camille hater. I'm not a lot
I have yet to really see the value that this channel unless it's someone like on or I mean
I think it's incredibly difficult to make it work
I think some supports can do it and some teams can do it and I do think when you're the underdog
Going for this hyper aggressive playstyle. They went to Camille Lee sin
They're gonna try to outskirmish T1 at every step of the way
But if this game goes to 30 minutes and T1 is not far behind it's gonna be comfortable for T1 to play
I was gonna say the major problem with the Camille Rind is how do you get yourself in the mid game?
Do you have a lead or not? That really dictates how well she's gonna play it out
Leasing gonna go with it as well so a lot of skirmishing here already for game other side pretty stuck stand up for T1 owner on a
Fire always good news with fakers Orianna is the pivot gonna be towards top or a support match
I think in our pick makes a lot of sense there. You have a very comfortable blind pick. You have a really strong topside
It's really all about scaling, being the name of the game here for T1.
Well, as you see, if Glory, you remember Thirstana yesterday that Zest tried to pull out,
it didn't quite work against Seos, but maybe they want to try to pull out against Dorn.
Currently, they're having the Zoe, which would be pretty crazy.
We haven't seen that champion in a while.
I think his Syndra pick is a lot more standard.
It makes a lot of sense.
You really want to have some CC to set decent Q up for success.
Oh, yeah.
And they look in the Syndra as we have in the second bounce.
It means that the setup so far for GAM is pretty good, right? Again, an aggressive comp.
If I was looking at the LPL, I would say that, you know, this is a very style, a BLG AL style of comp.
Yeah.
But running into T1, maybe that's just the magic, isn't it?
We already talked about Doran picking up the gnar on the top lane.
Taliyah is going to be taken away, which means that GAM are kind of assuming
that Pays is going to be pulling out of my spot, and at least something with more CC control, the layer for game 1.
Yeah, I think especially when you have the Vi and the gnar, you have enough AD damage
that allows to pick any sort of AP bot.
We saw a pace on the Taliyah yesterday, up against Gamm,
doing incredibly well.
They played the Taliyah Shen and made that work,
and also why Taliyah such a good combo
since Vy sets up the Taliyah shuffle so well.
They actually chose to ban out both the Taliyah and the Shen,
the exact bot lane that T1 played against them yesterday,
so they didn't want to play against that at once or more.
Watching through, they're like,
no way are we going to carry out and make those roams again on that Shen.
Respect it over to Gamm as Ambess is taken away.
Usually I'd be saying that they're just getting rid of some of the pairing options, but
Does feel like options into now right now giving Doran a bit of comfort ability when I think he has been the weakest link
Yeah, excluding Faker's last game, but overall is a big priority here for T1
Makes a lot of sense to just take away some of those more aggressive top laners
That's gonna try to punish that NAR and best of being really good in general into T1's comp to give them more reach
More follow-up left to see what Artemis looks in here
I could see something like the gin to just have more follow-up for the rest of his carries
You kind of want some sort of utility because you have very little CC thus far
I think Caitlyn Camille while you can't have a strong bully lane with it
I think it can be difficult gin Varus both make a lot of sense you have that CC you have that long range and you have the utility
That'll pay like it so far from gam really playing off that they're gonna have counter pick as well
And that counter pick is gonna go towards top lane remember again
That this can be a virus top as an option into the nah in the past has been a really good option
So I love that. We're leaving on a flexible pick here for Gann on the other side T1
What's gonna be in the bottom lane? Remember Ori can also play bot but I mean a syndra could also play both if it's
That's all that's this matter. There's a lot of flex potential here as pace looks in the Casio Pia
We've seen it pretty good success so far this tournament
I feel like a lot of the castles have been very strong even though
I don't think they've actually been winning a lot
It's just been a very strong champion really good early game really good scaling and pairing it up with the Leona
We've seen the Leona so much now into the Camille and I feel like the Leona always is looking favored
You just outscale so incredibly fast once you get that level six
You have so much CC so much setup and cast you're being really good into Camille as well
Just being able to lock her down with the vias and the question is gam as they finalize the draft
How are they gonna stay out of that lockdown?
Is it any far spot or singra bot or something else? They have a lot of options here. I would assume oh
Oh, the Varus top, isn't it?
Varus top, yeah, Varus top, Seeks, Pult, and Syndra mid, so they're trying to punish Doran.
That seems to be their game plan here, they're definitely playing up towards top side.
I would assume that in the early game, Taki and Artemis might fight a little bit,
just due to the fact that Taki's playing the Camille, but then after level 3,
especially after Artemis gets that lost chapter, that's when we're really going to see Taki just roaming around on the Camille,
Trying to punish Fager, trying to punish Doran, maybe an in-vade owner alongside Dragfront.
Let's see how these lanes go. You can see them very lay-independent here, Jack, for the game.
Running into T1 for game number one, shocked them, bring those 15 minutes into fruition, like they did yesterday,
and turn this best of one into a game one start for them. They're the underdogs, but T1 haven't been on their best legs recently.
MSI, you could say the same thing, you know, losing to G2 was unexpected for a lot of the fans.
BLG going to a five-game series, and then dropping it at the very end.
T1 have to prove that they're still up in the top leagues
because right now if they cannot take this elimination series,
questions will be asked going into summer.
And Gamma's picked an incredibly explosive composition.
They want to snowball in the early game,
put Doran behind, try to gank Faker,
try to make things happen around this weak early game by,
and just in general get themselves ahead
so that they always either have a numbers advantage
or a gold lead going into the skirmishes
because if we go into teamfights at 25 minutes, 30 minutes,
and the gold is equal, it's going to be incredibly difficult for Gam to be able to find their victory.
For Gam, their key crush on the line, so is T1's loser. Loses the key and all merits.
Faker on Orianna for game number one. He is 91 and 33 historically. Faker always has a better win rate.
You know that, but Orianna had one of the best at 73% after 124 games.
There is no one else like him, never has been in the nipple will be as we get on
the summons for a T1 versus Gaird. And would this be the greatest upset of all
time? This would be up there in the rankings. This would definitely be one of
the greatest upsets of G2 versus T1, was one of the greatest upsets in an
international of all time. No. Don't you think? I mean it was an upset but they love
They love the lower bracket. T1 don't care. They love the lower bracket.
But it's T1 at MSI. It's not T1 at Worlds. If it was T1 at Worlds, I would agree with you.
I mean, yeah, okay. That's completely fair, and that means...
Oh, Taki wants to faker.
He's got the hookshot, wall strategy, he's got the hail of waves, he's got the knockdown faker.
That's the flash away. A level one game from Hell itself came knocking at Faker's door.
And Gamba understand their team composition so incredibly well.
They cannot rest on their laurels. They need to continuously fight no matter what.
Taki is going to miss out on a lot of XP, and I think even Artemis is getting zoned a little bit and bot lane here as well.
So that is going to put them behind, but if Chunks faker out, he loses his flash, and now he's incredibly vulnerable if Dragfile wants to go for an early gank.
Glory's got a good opportunity here. Let's see how that lane develops. I mean, it's going to be under wraps for now as Artemis.
Beautiful start that lane solo as Taki came down. I don't think Taki missed too much experience here, Jack, because I see XP bar is the same.
Down in that 2v2.
They definitely missed a bit. The question is, if Artemis was able to get all three melees,
I do think...
Did he miss?
We'll have to see if this ends up being worth it. I think...
It could end up backfiring for Gam, with how far they might fall behind in both.
Especially with the fight that since you're playing with Camille,
you really want to be able to continuously fight.
But now you're putting all the eggs into the mid lane basket, and top lane, I suppose.
Let's not also forget that with mid going well, we also have the dilemma of top.
More pressure points on the map for GAM is always going to be better when you have these winning lanes.
Yeah, yeah here wants to continue to poke down door and get those plates.
Watch out wallshot, nice engage. Paze takes the chunk, it's a set of charge as well, Artemis lay it, good.
Great trade from GAM, chunking down Paze.
Paze gets a little bit of return damage on the party, but it's not too much.
So they recover very nicely here, even with the roam, with the fact that they're a little bit down in the XP.
But they're able to get those trades, makes it so that the lane is a little bit more equal,
and they can start to fight again.
Spacing from Faker, nice as we return back to mid. Glory with the Darksfield not able to land on the target.
Faker remembers that flash to be abused, but also Glory still has TP.
It's refillable for the back for Faker as he returned back into the mid lane,
where Glory still has the versatility, where he still has the reset yet to go.
Gamm needs to be careful here, owner knows about the ward, still gets spotted.
I can gam they realized this
He's face checking in the tri brush owner spotted out hookshot wall shot
Lucky people you can get on out and he does but he gets chunk heavy
Good play from talk you there. He realized that owner was coming but that he would still be fine with the hookshot
It does however mean due to the fact that he got chunked that drachtar is gonna have a hard time contesting these Raptors now even pace moving up
Looks like Draktar is just going to have to get over the Raptors, which is a pretty
tragic start for the Lee Sin, especially the Lee Sin Camille that really want to skirmish
early up against this Vi Leona.
Yeah.
But a really nice early game for Monor.
I mean, when we get back to Doran, he just walks back in, Hail of Arozoa, and instead,
what is Doran doing?
Freyka messing out from the Sonic Wave, he's alive, but now he's going to get flashed on
the damage shield, enough for him, he has no flash, he runs away, out of mana as well,
They get the worry on the return, but his gank looks for the chase.
Sonic Blade misses, it takes an auto, but now three versus two with T1.
Refine themselves in the middle of glory themselves, and they ain't talking about the player.
Double kill already picked up as T1 has ordered him to pay for the chase.
The fight's up, he's dead and played.
Target with the hookshot, wall shot out.
He tries to run to Artemis, but Oner matches him.
A ball break at down, and T1 sink their fangs into gank.
And his pace has moved at pace off there for T1.
He gives them the numbers advantage, so despite the fact that Faker does not flash,
they're still able to make it a winning fight for T1 and get those kills onto owner and Pace.
What a play. Jack will get a replay. It's going to be up to you to take me through that,
because Pace and owner getting gold value here in this game. And again,
it's something to play. I want your opinion on this, because it does feel like I'm at the
And after the flash that should be reviewed from Faker, he lived too damn long for that.
Yeah, the fact that Faker was able to buy so much time, really hurt them.
The bright light for Gamm is this top lane with 700 gold.
Let's watch the replay as it starts up with Terrier, getting onto Glory with the Senate Blade.
He stuns him down, but Faker has no flash, but the drag from missing the Q makes it so that he has to flash onto Faker,
He splashes over the wall, gets the Q onto two, and is able to just spam those twin fangs.
And able to do so much damage, takes down Draktar as well, and then carrier with little cherry on top, splashes forward, but now we're watching top.
This is POV.
It's just greedy from Doran, walking back up here, wants to go for the XP.
This is the replay POV, by the way, are you wondering?
It's really well played by the GAMP top laner.
This obviously happened before the big play in Bob because I feel like T1 really found their way back in the game from that.
Jack gets oldies even as well by the way, so Woltop is 700 and the lead pays Moose to 400.
Owner with a huge lead over Dractha right now and that least in missing a couple of Q's really caused Gampi.
Yeah, the fact that Pace as well, even though he moved for a minute straight, is up in CS.
Oh yeah.
Really hurting Gama's Puck, it might be in trouble here.
Your daybreak, Dennis, they're gonna follow up as well.
The owner finds him with a vault breaker in,
Taki Gunn hook shot out, and owners at three.
Drafter over the wall, just watching while Glory gets shockwaved.
It's a shielded daybreak again, Kerry looking to the zen of play, but Glory getting hit hard.
Faker with no manner to follow up for another round of rotation as Kerry is roamed.
He's big, and owner is now dominating.
They're not beating the Camille as useless allegations, I'm afraid.
It's too hit or miss, it's so difficult to pull off as how Glory's in trouble.
He's doing it to Cam again. He's getting the best of one now starting the best of three glories feeling
It's deja vu as Faker's just getting the cockwork wind up. He's gonna do it command attack unleashing power
But does not unleash a kill on the Faker
And Kariah, he's everywhere on the map setting up T1 for success
It's only called playing left for gum
The rest of the map is on fire as T1 pick up the mountain garden
One thousand lead here for owner mountain to start
Doran's probably like at least the rest of them out. He's going fantastically now the team one
That does allow
Doran to eventually get some respite as we'll see carrier and owner open up towards that topside now
And I do think they can just leave pace alone and try to help Doran recover
Jaya still does not have the flash for
Another 30 no 60 seconds. Yep. Let that be could be an angle
if Keria and Oner want to look for it.
Glory is playing mega safe, waves in a horrible state, Jack.
Taki's coming down to match the roam constantly out of lane,
but Keria's going to find in the first end of the plate,
mixes up for the hookshot, wall shot,
and Oner's here for the vault break,
expecting Taki to take the upwards route.
He goes down instead and that saves his life.
Keria just keeps cancelling these hookshots,
making it so hard for Taki to play Adoren,
all leaning onto Artemis.
Okay, he's getting some autos down,
Such a charge can save Artemis's life. Meanwhile, Ping is going down in the top. T1 want to keep this game fast paced.
Gamm will be in a match.
If you want her looking, Gragther might be in trouble.
Keria Hicks flashing if you're going to go for it.
Blue buff and steal take away start the grubs. Kiaya moving in, change the grubs and misses.
Tries to find it over the wall. Gamm's top laner now without a charge in that ulti.
If you want her split, Keria has no flash here.
He might just get stuck in the pit.
Yeah, I can just hit him over those...
He's poked.
Oh, he got his flash just up.
Just came up then.
The point, Jack, is that GAM do get the grubs in the meanwhile,
but Darn is left isolated against the turret bot.
As three grubs, four drag cars,
the door unable to close that gold lead now, getting those plates on both.
So despite the fact that GAM make a good proactive play,
still a cross map 41,
continuing to build that gold lead now 1000, about 31.
It's a different maker. Gold lead for thousands of mentions.
He's sitting largely on owner.
He just hit level 7. Half a level above Tractar right now.
First item's not on the board just yet.
We're looking at KiA to be one of the first, but owner, there you go.
Of course, he will be the first with such a lead.
Sundered Sky picked up. Big Vi here.
Nine-minute Sundered Sky.
It's kind of crazy, yeah.
This is a very scary Vi here.
I think any sort of skirmish is right now for him.
If the owner is involved, it's going to be difficult for them to win it.
You really need Draktar to match that item.
Glory to get his, or you can try to pivot and just play around Tiaia.
Which I think would make the most sense for Ganon to try to match any equal numbers, fight around mid lane.
Looks pretty damn difficult right now.
I'm taking the Shockwave.
Yeah, I guess just hard push the wave, neutralize.
He's got TP, he's going to back away.
Probably get closer to lost chapter plus components here, Jack.
It's a pretty low cooldown, and still 2 minutes to dragon, so just invest that to chunk Tarky out a bit, and I'll base his TP back.
And we're gonna take Scuttle, CS lead as well, throwing into the jungle, looking a little bit deep against Tarky.
This came out constantly on the ground when we talked about it.
Bot ladders have been left isolated, still pays his favor, equal in CS, but the kill's making the difference of 300 in a bit.
And then Jack, 145, second dragon for T1, gonna be on the horizon here as owner, tries to abuse the Sieg.
Artemis looks like he's in trouble here. They have full vision of enemy jungler and they know where enemy support is.
I mean Artemis is gonna be a miracle. Try to play this one.
He tried to clear the wave, he does so, but they're not gonna need a wave.
Season to sit for a six-hundred-tar, petrified gaze, puts him in place, locks him down, and Arona is jungle-diffing. Game one.
It's an easy play. If you want to have full information, they know where Gamma is. Artemis is stuck under tower, no way out.
Well, he takes it, T1 is still here, stunned up, not just Blast from Paze, he's low on mana, they have a ward to spot that out.
He went and running away, Gamm's still on the pursuit, facing the tail versus three, Faker's gonna make four.
In the thick of it, that's not where they want to be, Arndon's gonna take another, the miasma of pain for Gamm to deal with.
They commit double TP, but T1 still have numbers. Scatter the week, not bad on the Faker,
Drag down with the sonic wave will not be concluding for the resonating strike. It's T1 who walks away heads held high and down
They feel the desperation
Investing both teleports after talkie dies. There's just no play. You have no CC once the Camille falls
They still try to go for it
Yeah, yeah, not in trouble. It's a TP now he is
High spot, Seth.
And as he runs back, he's not that fast. Taki gonna come and help out.
Transcruzion got Paze, what a corner belt.
Demires for down the poison, lay-bear, the twin fangin.
Exhaust helping out, makes it a trade for a shutdown.
Taki now right in the middle of Doron, but he's gonna go mega, even though Glory's coming in.
I am scared of the plus wave, the only power.
Klot, here from Taki to survive.
The Doron leaks out before Glory can get another rotation.
A great escape by Doron there.
Kyaa being able to trade one for one against Paze, getting that shutdown.
Oh, Faker didn't check the other bush, Megalons on a bomb, he's at half-HT, Faker in trouble with minefield, that's top-bops him back, and Drac-Tar is gonna clean house, a rough day here for Faker, and he finds his second death, 11th in total for day 2 at EWC.
Okay, some good return plays for Gam here as they're able to get some gold on the board, equalize that gold lead, but it's still 2-1 with an advantage as they pick up their second dragon, will watch the replay of this whole fight, a beautiful proto belt by Pace to get away,
away but the Aya has the exhaust, he has the damage, the trade one for long with Taze and
then Taki trying to bait Doran in, poor Glory to set up the scatter of the week but Doran
flashes, he dashes and he gets out.
Great reaction time though from Taki that was really pixel perfect here from the Camille.
As for now, Dragon was taken in the replay but it was 2 for T1, or rather is.
And so it must mean owner who walked down, we didn't get to play, I see that one, but
I'm assuming we can get up again.
Can you see it?
No, I have to blind.
Oh, oh, and we're going to get for a pause.
Glory is not going to get shockwaved by the way, Faker has half the cooldown on that remaining,
so no shockwave to follow up, but the mini wave is left with two I think.
Yeah, and it's not the start that Gammor looking for with this team comp.
It's been an explosive game, but mostly in T1's favor, and especially considering how
the compositions function against each other, it's going to be difficult for
Gam to teamfight as the game progresses later and later. I think their biggest
silver lining is Kiyah, he still holds onto his gold lead and can look to play
the side lane, can look to be the teamfight threat. I actually carry Gam to the
corner. I've been going for he has a mouse problem so that's what we're waiting for.
We're just gonna fix that one. He walked up maybe he's right-click his stuff
Because you clicked the turret.
Could be, yeah.
You didn't want to click the turret, I know.
Sometimes my mouse...
...makes out a bit, and it's just like, doesn't register a click.
Could be something like that.
Uh...
...that's the same problem.
Especially if it's like a Bluetooth mice, that can happen.
Are you not bringing Bluetooth mouse mice on the stage, or are you?
Isn't it optimal? Are you?
I am, yeah.
Isn't the optimal performance wired, though?
Yeah, but I think these days it's nearly the same.
It can't be.
But if it's so minimal, if it's like...
...a hundred milliseconds, more or less, I don't know how many...
Maybe that's why I was about at LSE, I was using Bluetooth mice.
That's right.
I need to ask Kansai what's he using.
He's definitely not using Bluetooth, bro.
You don't see something?
He's wired in with those fiber optic cables that NASA has.
Bro, if you want to play perfectly, you're letting me go.
I think that's Viper.
I don't know if Files on was done.
True.
That's the difference.
That's the gap between the regions.
Yeah.
Mice problem.
T1, they always use fiber optics mice.
I'm assuming that's fast.
I don't really know much about cable.
I don't think it matters.
I think it's like one millisecond anyways.
Surely, for someone like Faker, that matters.
He's played for so long, if something's off by like a millisecond or 10, let's say more realistic, he would 100% play different.
Don't you think?
10 millisecond?
He's done the same thing for about 100,000 hours at this point.
But one millisecond is like, they're still way.
I don't know bro, I think you doubt Faker.
I don't doubt Faker, I'm just saying one millisecond is such a small amount of time.
I did say 10, I said 10 milliseconds.
You said one and then you said that.
Yeah, I got changed because one millisecond is stupid.
Yeah, one millisecond is stupid.
But I think like for example, if you go from 40 ping to 50 ping or actually that one is not as good as well
If you're on 0 ping to 10 ping probably you would have more egregious than 40 to 50. Yeah, because that's a smaller percentage difference, right?
Okay, yeah, I get it
Well, I think we 0 to 10 would be do you like stayed like you prefer because I've heard some people prefer a bit of thing like on stage
Just land right so it's zero so it's perfect timing to feel weird coming from solitude. I mean I was always talking like crystal stage
So that you were the thing that was just me. I was just like nervous and
We should have had a cast in that you could have yeah, I mean for me. I I always felt like my mouse was wrong on stage
I don't know if it was a mental thing or if there was actually wrong and you
I used the same mouse at home
But it was just a refresh rate on the monitor for me
It just felt always something always felt off, but I think it was just a mental thing
You know like Dopa used to have like he would measure everything with like a ruler
I think some pro players still do that.
Really? Yeah.
You have to see it.
Glory's mouse issue rather has fixed itself, so not sure what happened there, but yeah, Glory's all good now.
Walks away from the turret, there's no shot-wave available before we left you in the pause.
Glory does have a CS lead for what it's worth.
20 CS when he has been bullied a little bit in this game.
So, Junior K vs. Spaker here as Draktar is seeing contests from owner in his own jungle.
Yeah, you can see how scared Draktar is.
He smites the Gromp even though it's 100 HP.
Has no smite available for the blue buff now.
D1, they look like they want to contest.
Carrier is level 6.
And if I just use, Paki's going to go in.
Hookshot, Walshaw, Carrier, half HP, but it's OK.
He's in his plate, 10 solo players look for an escape.
Pages there, cutting off the escape route.
Ki, a 10, Grumpson.
Land is top, not brought it out.
Fiora attacks the nut, as well.
Gannett, nut with advantage.
And Pages left alone to die.
And D1, a little bit overeager on this play.
They're not able to match the numbers due to the fact
that Doran's TP is still down for a few seconds, so that allows Gam to pick up another kill
on the pace and Doran gets a plate in return.
And there is some big gold to take away before it was Faker who lost his gold I believe.
And the Pona still, you're assuming Shatana's not a quake.
He can be hitting, Pona can catch a wave in the meantime as well.
Still a big jungler to the S-League and gold leaders.
So the win is towards top, Shockwave is going to be used, that helps get the cannon as well
I believe.
at the back end. Quite a few poking shock waves used by fake-ball this game.
Just trying to trunk Lori down, get some lane pressure.
As we watch the replay here,
it starts up with T1 wanting to go for this blue buff,
and it's just the fact that Zoran has no temp
while Jaya has his, it allows them to get a 5 vs 4
pace, tries to protobelt the Varus ultimate once again,
not able to get away from the chain of direction,
and he ends up falling down.
This indeed he does. So, state of the game. Dragon coming up in 2.30 minutes. Harold now the contestant. 10 seconds.
Being pushed through mid. Here's Gamm. And there's three Pongregate. Let's see what they do next.
Probably being dealt with before. Here's the TG flank. Kiaya up against the wall. It's clean from Doran.
He doesn't stay to chat. He knows the Varus with uptime. He's gonna win out in the long run.
So now Doran's here with a shield on his head. Chance crops. He's gonna be used. The fake is nowhere near.
Kiyai is a free kill. Topside might have to be Gamm caught a call, because Bot is now open.
Great play by Faker there. TPing behind Kiyai, takes him down.
And Gamm, they want to try to go for the cross map Herald, but they don't have time.
T1 has already moved all the way back up, for now TPing him.
There's no Mega Narva. He's going to be small for a while. He has a big shield, but Herald's going to reset after Gamm.
Give it up, but Bot is going to go with it as well.
They get the much needed goal while the top push from Glory is going to have to TP out of there after finding himself, not the turret, but close to, goes to mid instead, as T1 are going to start off as Herald.
But T1 are controlling every side of the map right now. They make their ball play, Faker gets his B push, and they still defend the Herald, force Glory to TP away.
They're pushing in every single lane, just choking Gamal, making it so incredibly difficult for them to play while getting plates all across the board.
I feel like we saw this in the BOG game as well, even though it was a loss, like it's this 15-20 min mark when lanes end and people start roaming.
T1 always faster on the play, their rotations and their resets always better.
T1 macro is incredibly good. I remember back when I was still playing, we studied a lot of faker votes to see how he overloaded on side, how well he used his tempo.
I think he's one of the smartest players. I mean pretty self-evident, I'd say one of the smartest players we've ever played.
It's hard bro. Somebody people have talked about him. It's just, we're always just overlapping.
Yeah.
The hot women's army, and Doran, he's going to be in our own, just coming up, caught him on the ward.
Hopping forward, Doran having to take the damage, threatens out Ki Aya,
and includes the ward and now hovers in front of the ward.
He's coming to roam and match with the Hextech ultimating now as well.
Automated now as well, carry illusion for an angle, dragged by Mr. Sonic Wave,
sped up by the distance from Faker, Gory, drops his spear, but Gamm have more here for now,
Oner, he moves around, and this is because Dragon's up in 5 seconds,
third drag for T1, Gamm need an angle.
T1 have full control here, and Taki does have the Sundered Sky, but he still has no boots.
So he gets CCed by Tariya, no Merc dreads, he's not moving anywhere,
as T1 decide to pull.
Sonic Blade kick, oh it's into the wall, Paze dodged it out from the proto belt, now Dracar is in the middle of no man's land.
This sets up the play in the third drake, I feel like Zap Charge is going to help out the mid from what I saw, but Dracar as he takes a couple of turret shots, he's dead, it's just a who at this point.
Kiyah gonna try and get away with him to help, Glory's there, I'm wrong Jack, he's okay.
Thanks to Gan getting topside pro, they're gonna move out, but they are gonna lose his third drake.
Paze's proto belt this game has had such incredible value.
Very true.
Dodges out on the Insect there.
We've seen him close to chains of corruption.
And it just allows him to play so much more forward,
because he doesn't have to worry about all these threats.
It's not Artemis in trouble.
Please, you can see his round of petrifying gaze
paged on the Casio.
Absolutely venomous.
I don't know what Artemis was thinking there.
He wanted to go both lanes, right up for him.
I mean, going into the jungle at this point
when your team is all dacing.
And when they were just pop-side as a full man group
getting deep vision as well, right?
Yeah, think the St. Martin is there,
that decent to Harold on mid lane,
and a lot of damage onto that mid tower
that Sticks so desperately wants to protect.
Where is your spot at?
The draft is on these walls.
Get deep vision around this top side now
to cover for Faker's entrance towards us out of turret.
Mid almost dropping, one more plate and a bit,
left to remaining, and Gold Pt.1 only 2,000,
but a very dangerous game right now for Gamm,
as they face Solve Point in four minutes, as Baron comes up so that one moment's sake,
we slice the head off of this series.
Yeah, there's two big dangers for GAM right now.
First of all is the team comp, GAM.
Yeah, T1 has such an easy time engaging.
You have the Viult, you have the Lionel.
While for GAM, it's a lot harder to pull off.
You need a great scatter the week.
You need Taki to be able to find someone.
Draktar to find an insect.
Or Tia has to be able to find a great chain of corruption or make a play on Sidelane.
And then you're also staring down a solo point for T1.
If you can get that cloud solo, it makes it even harder for GAMP to be able to get any of those wind conditions down,
which then also forces GAMP to constantly match T1 and look to teamfight them,
which prevents Kiaya from being able to be that split push threat and try to go 1v1 against G1.
I'm getting turned blue buff, down, down, down, that's all the players gonna get Draktar as well.
One and a six and a six on the Atomship, one and a half on the Trab and a Hextech mine, good.
Well, only just help a bit. One and a still tanking out the Vulpreaker.
Tying him to Draktar, they need a sonic wave to connect.
Draktar with a Q, enough energy to find so as a bouncing bomb does a bit of damage, but it's not enough.
T1 get the hell out of dodge after trying to be a nuisance in that blue side jungle again.
An odor is a magician, getting out of the tower there.
He was so deep after Draktar kicked him deeper in,
But he was able to get out with how tanky he is, he's so strong, two items completed, already allows him to survive so many tanky, so many power shots, and then get out only burning the flash.
Own it with the Escher health, it's Black Cleaver.
It's really helped probably save the day, that second item already.
He's gonna back now, and he's on a longsword only.
Hopefully we have a little bit more, but I guess Black Cleaver was only just completed.
And speaking of two items really for everyone in T1 outside of Doran, I'm gonna be standing there, Baron now up, two minutes till that dragon is all for them.
And Dan, struggling relentlessly to try and defend and clear their own side of the jungle.
Two minutes to this Cloud Dragon, that's what T1 are waiting for.
No real Nash Thread, I do say that, but T1 do have an attendancy to just randomly rush the Nights, they do have a lot of damage.
They have a Casio Pio.
There we can't go beyond. Even Nara as well, they're quite a bit high as well, so they can't look towards the Nush.
They are pinging it, I think they might just start a jig.
You know what, Jack? Your timing cannot be better.
Dracda is on the bottom side of the map.
I don't know if he's spotted out, but if he pops out of that bush, they're all having enough information.
And they will go. Taki, it's gonna be a blind boltbreaker if it's anything.
But Owen is gonna walk away, carry with him as well.
The CCG won't just take a step back.
T1 have an incredibly low outage and Taki has a wasp.
Half HP, you burst it out, bit of a top push.
Pressure's still there, but we hope for now and Races they've come through because of a minute to break.
Yeah, really easy for T1 to just play for this dragon.
They now have full top side control, which also then allows them to pressure both the Nash and the Drake at the same time.
So if Jamgoo 2B for Drake control here, T1 can say, oh we don't care.
That's the cloud lane for you guys, and then we go Nash ourselves.
But it's so difficult for GAM to try to facecheck here, they're putting five people on mid.
But both Taki and Draxtharr are not tanky enough to survive the initial engage from GAM.
Ball breaker into Taki.
Flashing into that hexagotle man and will take play on his honor and merits.
Mega-footed bombs off power, but they're tanky enough.
One and taken to Wild Nivez, five members to the solo-clad.
Set up for T1 for attribution.
End of the wall, presents a Mega-Nar.
Pays upon the killer, fly for all the shockwaves.
Glory now called underneath his pocket dredger in gauge, but T1 have done the job. Yes, it's messy
But more members stand on the red side a great fight for T1
Baker got a little bit too high to their flashing forward under a tower
But they should be able to back off and Baker TP back in and play for this dragon
The only thing is owner being down means no smite for T1
So they need to either zone Greg Tharov or just wait for owner to respawn five seconds
It's going to be a slow start, T1 trying to flinch, or at least make Cam flinch in the process,
but they're not walking down, they're not checking.
And now spotted on the topside, Cam.
An easy soul here for T1.
And Pace is just waiting.
Ractar is trying to clear topside.
But owner instead of going for the smite says,
you know what, I'm going to stop this guy.
No business being here.
Tuck, you're going to run into Pace.
Scabbley's been worrying not too bad.
Sonic Blade connects.
Tuck, Ractar gets not used.
Instead, it came through as he's dying.
Ractar's looking for the fight.
Instead, it's Orange taking the basket.
what Karrie runs up with, he's lost helping out a milestone in his carry out, trying to survive it up to his limits.
Kiyei needs an auto and he'll find that single-handedly, walking away from the turret, at least for the cost of soul.
It's an explosive fight for Gann.
But do you want Treadigope for two plays at the same time?
They lose two members, Gann, they need to convert this into a mashup.
It's going to be a game-saving play, because if you're losing the soul and you're only getting two, it's not good enough.
But they want to keep fighting. They're keeping behind with Glory.
If you want our Q pass with the Cloud Soul, you need to go for this Baron Asher.
We'll see if the owner can be able to try to get a steal or get into the set.
And then Pigs are going down on him and Freyka walking very quickly towards that bottom side of the map.
Morrigan is scattered a week.
Freyka with the low mana bar to take no-divers.
Gamm trying to be resilient around his Baron.
Keep P1 from stepping in, Doran.
The MegaNar bar is building up ever so slowly.
Hexic mind-field as well at 5k, going MegaNar soon.
Gamm maybe bitten off more than they can choose.
He's ever played after the soulmate in the short grave,
dragged out of there, a wall, a dam.
It's easy as that for Doran,
as Artemis gets stung up in the process,
and Arna going forward without a bit of damage to his name.
Glory scatters one, but not the other.
As Arna cares not for your turret,
a double back in his pocket,
and Baron and T1 will not be defeated.
And Gav knew that they needed to go for the Nash.
It was their only play, but T1 are inevitable.
They take down four, they will take down the Nash, and now with Baron Nashor with Sol, it is looking dire for Gammas.
We watch for here, with a huge make-up, and our jumps to kill it to shockwave, gets it onto three, hits the rock, throws a little house, he's doing everything.
I just watched his plays on the radio mirror, where Paze was following up, a big accident, he pressed on you, and he's petrified Gaze was good as well.
But, it's just antics here, T1, using that jungle lead so well, Paze is clawing through the enemy composition.
And Jack, 4.5x gold lead, Baron now acquired. It does feel like all the resistance from Dam has unfortunately led to T1 being in the dark.
Yeah, it's
Trying to find a certain line here for GAM
Yeah, I looked good. I mean I think at this point to be fair yeah
I'm thinking about game 2 just as much as we are. Yeah, I mean to be fair mid was a bit of a slog
Yeah, and it wasn't like the game was over until
Well
Now very different very different pieces
Owners just safeguarding the mid push and top push alike
What is going to be run through by Kiya, but Doran is now in the base.
My Nexus turret will rather inhibit a turret for fall first.
That soon will be the only fight himself since he's on top of the glory.
He can't move the tinder with no mobility.
Ted first.
T1 running through the front door as Tarky is going to join him.
Artemis flashed away from the sole plate and the Xenoblade in the wheel survived,
but he needs to start getting kills fast.
Mikan put him on the chuck the way by Doran.
And the sonic wave again.
He just hasn't been connecting this game.
This DracDar's Lee Sin leaves a little bit to be desired with the base's fall and crumble in T1's favor regardless of the TP in with Baron.
It's T1 trying to end this game on here.
They won't want to end it right here right now.
They have the Baron minions. They have the numbers. It's high versus three.
Flash.
Shockwave. OK, connects with DracDar on the way through Keria. It's good enough.
T1 right through 5, never still alive, Karrion is standing in front, hoping to watch the Nexus fall in person, with a petrifying gaze from Paze to Petra on top, he still dies, it still looks messy, but at the end of the day all that matters is the Nexus fall, there's one down below right now, he's in the Baron minions, T1 running for their lives, low health bar is enough for Gamm to hold on for yet another fight.
They can't survive. They defend the Nexus.
Although fake rescue team, they're going for a round three.
They've got another minion wave soon to beat out of nowhere. It's going to matter at all.
Tractor runs on in, carry with low health, part of his damage.
Ladies get a wink of that, I'm making power. Glory gets a return kill.
The T1 will get the Nexus. The 50 gold that goes with it as well, Jack.
And get one step closer to qualifying here.
As Doran gets a pullback, takes a fountain laser.
T1 messily took securely Tape Game 1.
They fought valiantly, they tried to find their way back into the game, but T1 had control from minute one.
They stacked up the dragons, they got the soul, they got the mash, and they finished in clean. Pretty clean.
Clean enough. I think it was messy because of the comp, but also...
Fessy, but convincing, I would say.
I like that. I like that. And I think overall, I mean, you can be happy that
Like Doran had a much better performance soon, what we've kind of been saying so far, this
play especially Jack was a big move for Doran, but we set up from T1 and had no waves, can't
give up.
Yeah I think it.
Doran got solo killed which was his biggest mistake and after that he recovered well, he
didn't fall behind anymore, he was able to have some good T5-41 to secure them the victory.
One step away in qualifying and knocking down out
M quite was one thing to be a one, but he won something else as they find a victory game one
Thank you very much hysterics is yes, it is T1
Getting game one under their belts against game e-sports
Gantt time was there for a little bit and it stuck around for much longer than what a lot of people thought
But ultimately they fall in 27 minutes in a fast-fast little shark, go grab a sharp little dip there.
I mean we asked for Gam to play a little bit more aggro to keep basically the theme that we've known them and push
T1 to their limit BLG maps to take them down with the exact same way and Gam tried their best
But I feel like the discipline is what makes T1 come up on top
But for me it feels like the draft plan from Gam was kind of wrong you know in terms of like
how do you want to play through the bot lane?
Because I feel like people kind of figured out how to play against Ziggs bot lane.
Because I think if you're playing Ziggs, you kind of want to make the bot lane boring,
and you just push the lane, delete the lane, and you let your support just play the mid lane.
But I think if this time around, we already figured out in the EWC that Casio Pia bot lane
is the answer into it, and they make the game really hard for Ziggs bot lane.
Yeah, nice to see that little adaptation here by the squad in terms of the draft.
and we start with a replay that you had requested.
You wanted to see a specific play in a specific moment.
Yeah, absolutely. I feel like Honor popped off with Vi,
but it was a very great deal from Draxther
on what he did on his listen.
So if we can play the replay right here,
thank you so much for the production.
You see, Draxther has actually cleared as we play this one.
He's cleared his bot side jungle heading towards the top side.
What we don't see right here is that he has an extra longsword in his inventory,
and Honor hasn't actually backed.
So what Draxther is thinking right here is that
Owner is going to fully clear like we know him and with the extra longsword on that leasing
He's looking for potentially a fight if leasing can open a vine not from fog of war
He has advantage on a 1v1 or 2v2
So in theory he really wanted to take the fight of the bot side
But in the fact as I said this cannot outpush the Cassio in lane
So he won't has the bot priority here
So they cannot really actually fight for the bot lane here and if you look at a minimap as well
Leona all the way pushed in the jungle Cassio as you mentioned all the way pushed in the jungle
So Traktor was really looking for that fight versus owner's fight not allowing him to pop off light
He did but he just didn't have that chance
No, didn't wasn't quite able to do that then later on it was a Baron fight and a Baron call here
That was our next big moment in this match up between T1 and GAMP. Oh, man
I mean it was just didn't work out that well because the Nashor was slow initially and also T1 were
ready for the fight and that was insane chain CC from faker shock way and the
follow-up from owner it's just playing up one of the chances of down loses to T1
the same way in the best of one and here in the best of three game one it was
that baron into the team fight ending the game fantastic point there and we
take a look at the thing you were talking about earlier here with did it is
Cassiopeia having a huge huge presence at EWC we knew mages were going to be
shown up in the bot lane, but now 5-3 so far in the tournament.
And maybe the reading rate doesn't look that great, but I feel like Casio Peja gives a
lot of space in the draft as well because he can flex on the mid lane and the bot lane
as well.
And I think nowadays the players really want to take a fight no matter what, even though
you are like less number, it doesn't matter, just take the fight, take the risk.
And I think the Casio Peja is the pick that you wanted for that one because I think whenever
she's on the rift, it doesn't matter how much you have, it just gives a lot of like power
spike for the team. So I feel like Kaisa of Paris being really high-rate and the valuable pick for
EWC here. They have blind, have blinding power is incredible. And obviously one pulled the two in one,
two A tier mid laners out in game one, almost played both in one mid lane,
but Kaisa and Orianna no longer in the pool. Yeah, definitely not. It did stunt glory in the
the mid lane. He was part of that success that Gan had earlier. I think a player under a lot of
fire who had a nice play there after bouncing back from the solo kill was Doran, found the big
play there in the team fight. And it feels like Doran is always under the microscope here,
which did someone who when he does something right, it's like, oh, set up by the team when
he does something wrong. It's always his fault. That isn't always the case. I feel like Doran is
a guy who makes a lot of space and does a lot of things that doesn't show up in stats. I mean,
I think he's just still struggling to find out what the matter is because I think he's trying
But he's still getting the counter picked on the top side, you know
So I feel like even though he's not performing good
But also the t1 is like sacrificing him a lot in the draft
So that's why he's been struggling
But I still believe in him because he's shown up a lot of like moments where like everyone is
Tristecizing him, but he's gonna pop up randomly. What's up?
All games ended with his mega and our versus Gams. I think he's been super influential. It has been hero moments to close it out in this series
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I think that's a good point.
Is a big stinger for them and
an opportunity that they really
did have. As mentioned for
Falcons, they're in a great spot.
The opportunity was there. It
seems like we're going to quit
for teams like versus broke and
they did not take it a little bit
of an unfortunate situation for
them. Then we'll see how the
things are going to be playing
out on our stage. But that's it
for us for now. Bye.
T1 victorious in game one but it is the best of three.
GAM underdogs but not out just yet.
Elimination match where the winner goes to qualify into our elimination bracket and then
the loser goes home.
GAM a one step away from being said at Loser, but it's an organization that always full
of surprises here, Jack, as Group C is about to finish.
Yeah, I think Gamstrap was too difficult to pull off.
Camille plus Lee Sin, we saw G2 try it out as well.
It's just very little frontline, very little real CC,
like you have the tiny knockback from the Camille E
and the look down on the Camille Ultimate,
but it's not something like an Autoless, like a Leona, like a Rakan.
And I think it's just too difficult for these teams
that are not able to transition cleanly from the early game into the mid game.
And even in this game 1, between P1 and Gam here,
We didn't even see real much value in the early game from the Camille pick
They tried to do a little cheese on the faker
He got his flash, but the later on skirmish didn't play out in their favor due to Pace's move
Which is an indirect consequence of the fact that Taki chose to sacrifice bot lane
Giving Pace and carry a full control of that lane. No domino effect really. Yeah, what you're selling to us
And I think as well, you know for that fight as soon as faker by about five
seven seconds in without his flash. Yeah, kind of you was doing here for
game a couple of fights where they come back as possible but I think
realistically first fight at level three level four the stipulated again from
there T1 I didn't hear sides Jack I didn't see sides but it shows red side
last time your first pick Jack is going to use technology to find that out so
that I don't have to choose well we know we see it on the screen first pick for T1
blue side so it's first big red side again first big red side blue side for
T1 and I do think that if them are to take a game here they really need quite
hard out draft T1 like they need to have winning lanes and I'd say better
scaling too which for me that's like the prerequisites of a big out draft is if
you have both of those because you usually shouldn't be allowed to get both
you should not scaling yeah like if you have if you're winning both early game
and mid game and late game, probably your draft is your better.
You're winning the game.
You're saying you should win the game to win.
Win the draft to win the game.
That's also just complete.
I want to win the draft because then we win the game.
No, but what I'm saying is they need to win the draft.
I think T1, even with a subpar draft, I can win.
I'm getting people to doubt.
But I think if I look at another draft from Genversus T1 here, where I feel like it is
favorite for T1. It's a real big uphill battle for Gamble.
Okay, I get it, I get it. Sorry to make fun, but I definitely understand.
So for Gamble, let's go through some of the picks that are going to make a difference here as we
are about to pull up the draft on your screen right now. That's what that camera means.
So, Jack, feel us on the top side of both respective teams.
Tilly's going to be the first to go as well, especially against Pace at that bottom line.
I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Shen early rotation band here from Gamble as well as Rumble
joins the pool for Gamble. I'm curious if we're going to see the Vayne band make its return
for T1, it could be an option for KIA, it's been the most explosive top laner that we have seen
in the tournament thus far, and I do think that if there is one weak link that we could see
in T1's early game last game, it was Dorne up against the Varus, so trying to replicate that
success that KIA had on the Varus as he was the standout performer for GAMBLAST game, I think that
would be really good to set him up for success, as now T1 takes out the Jace, they take out the
the rise and an early to Leobann and a Zebra.
And it's a target Faker-Bann as well, I guess also taking the rise out and stipulating what
could be a B1 here, sorry, what could it be in the B1 and 2, as Gamm had first pick here.
So what is up and available, Barra's already been picked away obviously for last game.
Syndra, Ori, both off the table with Casio, Bard's going to go in case there was going
to be some Caitlyn Bard lanes, remember Elise is also there, Gamm want to explode the lanes
and set up all the success.
Yeah, you could look for the Elise, Caitlyn combo
with the Bard being taken out.
You cannot pair that up with the Caitlyn.
Estrel is still up and available as well.
There's the Jarvan, if you wanna go for that
real nice and early as Gamar taking their sweet time
to decide their first pick.
Smiling about it.
Or maybe there's a bug.
Yeah, there's a bug.
That's why we're smiling.
Okay.
All right.
We're back in the client.
So we're gonna work out what that was,
apparently because just a bug happens
in chants like every so often in the tournament realm.
I think the Jarvan first pick would make sense.
That's all I know.
The Astralis still often available, so T1 could grab that one away to have an escape up against it.
Yeah, but you are just picking a really strong, solid front line, bruiser, has engage,
can always ulti in and then flag and drag out to be able to lock in any carry.
The only thing that's removing a bit of value from it is the fact that the Orianna and the Syndra are already out.
So you're not being able to play into those involved on carries. I was just holding my head misclick. That was the only word
Oh, which is funny. Maybe they've missed like that
I mean, yeah, I think we're still gonna re-nate because
It's not a 4v5, it's not how the rules work. I think pretty bogus if it was
Yes, so we're just gonna work that out. Well game discuss amongst themselves. I mentioned Jarvan bloodsins out
I'm gonna pull out. I mean Panjana is really dropped in prior. I haven't seen it this tournament so far
from what I can understand. Obviously guys there's two streams going on at the same time.
It is funny like how popular T1 are because this is the main stage here.
Yeah. The other stage KC vs Sentinels is happening. Yeah. So the French crowd must really be surrounded by that
but this crowd is full of packed. It's choppers. Yeah. It's
It's it's especially crazy because we are in Paris. Yes. Like this is KC's home.
This is KC's home. You know, this is where all the KC's have come from.
There are so many French T1 fans.
There are so many French T1 fans and also so many dedicated T1 fans that are willing to fly all the way over here and celebrate T1.
And for good reason, I mean it's the greatest organization in League of Legends history.
All the time.
All the time?
It's the tagline from what MSI, make them believe.
Was that our recent MSI?
No, it was last year.
Or the year before.
I think last year was the five.
No.
Or the year before.
Make them believe, yeah.
them leave and then bring home the glory. That is an older one. Is that older yeah. I don't remember
the last year it was. There's some taglines but there are a lot of taglines. We have had a lot
of LoL eSports over the past 16 years. That is true. It keeps on going and Jack I'm going to put a lot
of picks. Not the picks that we've seen because obviously they haven't happened yet. I'm going to pick
out the picks that we have or not. Actually had a chance to talk about and the theory we pulled out
Lee Sin's already been picked, Jarvan's already been picked with Vi, there's Wukong, there's Poppy, there's Zimzal, there's Nocturne, there's Skarner.
I believe T1 banned out the Poppy, I think it was banned out at least.
Is that the final ban?
Let's take it off for sure.
Yeah, Ryze is out, there's not a whole lot of mid laners, my priority mid laners.
I guess we could have like Moa Kali, Galio, Victor matchups, the Anivia.
Yep.
Kind of flexes around there, we've already had an Anivia bot.
So, I think FlexPix right now, again, we've done that full curveball where maybe two and a half years ago
Flex is dominating, I'm just throwing a number out because it comes around every two years
I think FlexPix are a breath of fresh air for graphing in the lead
It makes it a lot more fun to both experiment more and also when you're watching the draft
you're always on the edge of your seat, not really knowing where any of the picks are going
Are you upset by Majors Bot? Are you complaining?
I
Think some ages are unfair. I think mel I hate I think mel as a champion sucks
I think mel is really annoying
I think cindra is really annoying because her scatter the week is so difficult to play around I think six for example
I don't mind playing in six
I feel like if you play in six you just get to free scale and then if I put a few fights better
I can carry as well as to abusing like you know hard-brained CC. Yeah, I mean it's hard to get on it. It's more complicated
Yeah, yeah, but I understand I'm sympathetic to my fellow ADC friends that hate the mages, but I feel like
for me, it's kind of like a
Cry wolf situation. I feel like easy players are always complaining about mages even when they aren't and then we'll come back around
I'll be 80 carries only and then we'll start crying about virus again
Yeah, you know a cry about an 80 carry although to be fair virus has been met up for like since the dawn of time
I mean he has but he goes through waves of like oh my god
Let me ask you are 80 carries the biggest wingers as an 80 carry pro player yourself. Are you the biggest winger?
What is that white like why they're whining do you do you think 80 carries wine the most?
Oh, maybe I maybe maybe I mean his top laners don't talk to anyone, right?
Junglers they've got music on these. I think junglers are actually the biggest winters because junglers face the most
Actually the biggest wengis because junglers face the most
Drama they get flamed every game. That's so true
They get flamed every game no matter what so they just like unleash it and get so upset. Okay, all right
Well, I thought if I could talk to the I'm not sure who speaks English in the crowd
I was gonna talk around and just get some aoe's
Talk to other people the crowd. Yeah, why not? I think mid laners mid laners that are so cooperative the team
Oh, you're gonna ask them who do you think you were top laner?
I don't think top laners. I don't think top laners complain. I think we're chats
I think supports are the nicest supports are definitely nice. They have to clean up everyone's mess. Yeah
Yeah, they're usually for me mid laners are usually they can get the center of attention or what because they lane literally
I think they're usually fine. I think there's usually fine. I think top jungle and ADC are the most most complaining
We are apparently setting up an interview in the crowd. I am watching some guy on his handheld play a different game right now
He's just he stopped waiting for this pause again
We're trying to fix big band if you're just shooting in there was an issue and
I'm just seeing what everyone in the crowd is gonna do. This guy's got his he's got which open on his phone
What are you watching in the meantime? I'm talking to you. What are you watching?
He tells me
Which one? The B string. He's watching the KC at the same club. See that's tech. He's watching on his phone at the same time
So he doesn't miss a strike. Are KC winning? Are they winning? No, he's gone. He's gone. I hope KC isn't winning.
Sorry guys, we don't have a third one. We have a third headset, but I cannot vet the people yet. It's been a disappointing
What? Tournament for EU thus far. Oh, we I mean KC is 1 game 1 and then winning game 2. Yeah, but in general like
What do you mean? Disappointing tournament for NA?
Yeah, it can also be this one for E.
Furious guy.
We lost to AGAL, GQ has lost, Mkoi lost to Ga.
What we're gonna win because Lou is standing in the crowd, Jack, quickly before we come back to Ramblin.
Yes, thank you guys. Tech pause, tech pause.
You know the little tech pause.
We're breaking.
But I'm honored to be with two T1 fans.
And you're gonna have a good surprise.
I'm with two T1 fans.
You mean, and don't be here with me.
And the first question I'm going to ask you, it's going to be in French, because you speak French.
Can we applaud please?
My dear, you mean, you are in France, you are Korean, you speak perfectly French,
and you support Taiwan, can you explain a little bit how it's done, and are you happy to be here?
Because I'm from Paris, I work as a tourist guide.
and I'm also a fan of Faker, and I've been a tourist guide here in France in 2018,
and I'm sure you'll do a lovely guide, of course.
Here we go, back in English.
I want to ask you, of course, who's your favourite player, but you can't say Faker.
You can say Faker and someone else, because I want to learn a little bit more about the other players, of course.
Yeah, so honestly, yeah, I'm also a big fan of Faker, but today I want to support
Doran
I think that's a good answer, obviously I'm a big fan of Faker, but today I want to bring support to Doran
And I think he will need it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for joining me
And hopefully we get back to the game very soon. See you there
Thank you very much Lou and the I was gonna say the one Doran fan but everyone else cheered so if there's a lot of love for Doran
Doran has a lot of he does he does he's a very he's a cute he's a bit of a rat you know and it's good and that's a positive thing
It's compliment. It's not a compliment to call someone a rat. It is you can't just say you called the LCGA
SK guys the generats and then you said in a good way you can't just say something
That's not a good thing. I can't he's literally good on the mode. Doran is in a mode and he's
He doesn't have that emote. He didn't make that.
No, but it looks good.
Okay, now Doran has copped a lot.
And you know what? He's a bit of a rat because sometimes he has insane games.
And sometimes he has absolute stinkers.
Yeah.
And you know who else was a rat?
The shy.
Okay, you're comparing Doran to the shy right now, is that what you're doing?
Why would I not?
I think.
Okay, what about Nuguri?
What about Nuguri?
Ladies and gentlemen, I've been told, no, I still have my job, but other stream be streaming right now, we might have a look at KC vs Sentinels in the meantime.
I want to do that.
We can, I mean, I know the other guys are casting it on the stream, I guess we can cast it if we don't have the audio, or we can listen in.
Depending on what version we get, while they try and get in pick and ban for GAM vs T1, small delay.
As soon as we get the thumbs up, we'll let you know and we'll switch back to this pick ban because this stream will be focused on T1 vs GAM.
But, Sentinels vs KC wouldn't mind it.
That guy probably doesn't need to be on his final, he can just hover over my shoulder.
And we'll see. If we bring it up on your screen, we will see.
Put the nails.
Now we're looking at owner.
We're looking at owner.
Oh no.
You know I got a picture with Faker?
You do?
I got a picture with Faker.
Probably a highlight of my week, month, maybe year?
Ah, year's department.
Month?
Definitely, I'm still happy about it.
Like when I think about it makes me smile.
I'm still happy about it. Of course you are. Yeah, he's a nice guy
You know what every time without without fail if at international events whether it's going into an elevator passing always bows always small smile
Always so respectful. Yeah, you know, I love and by the way, don't worry casey can sit in casey right now
I'm probably close to two zeroing
And a because we are the better region while
Jack
We're better go to pick van you don't have to ramble anymore
And we can take you into T1 versus GAM game to not sure specifically why pick-ban was so bugged
But I'll be a lot of refreshers involved. Yeah, it's happening now
The league client isn't exactly known to be
But eight of all stable you client next year. You're client next year. You're client new me new client means
amazing amazing time in the league of legends world
I like my job. I was gonna set us up for failure. I don't like the client. I just didn't want to take it out
I don't want your first cast of T1 to be your only one
So far it's looking like a date now
Yeah, sorry about that. I'm calling Doron a rat
Waiting for this big band to go on, complaining about the client. Is there anything else you want to get off your chest before we go into this big band?
Because I've been baited. It's not here yet. It's not here yet. I think
That T1 is a good team.
That's good. Wooo!
Very good. Well done, well said.
We talked about junglers before, we talked a lot about the Nathiri, the Jarvan, the Wukong, the Poppy.
Now go and look and see if that Poppy was the third and final band.
Those bands will be the same as what you saw if you tuned in at the very start of this game.
Since out also on the board with a nocturne scarner possibility.
Those are the junglers so far we've seen.
I think I was a little about the Jarvan, but I think maybe the Nathiri might be a higher priority.
I've seen a lot of teams have a lot of success on that champion with how much damage it provides
and he can just play so well as a carry jungler.
With the Ryze being out though, I think Ari looks like maybe the best Premier parent pairing
with the nefiri because he really wants something to set that nefiri up with some CC.
Or Akali is an option to follow up with support on top, kind of facility frontline.
So yeah, I mean the Camille's gone, which Jack if I'm getting this camera, hang on.
We get the Pog Drone Cam down, which means only one thing.
What does it say, Jake?
Oh, I know production, and I know good looking cameras.
It was a big pick.
So even with the Orianna out, Gam still
decided to go for the Nocturne.
And T1 answered with Jarvan of their own.
And we'll see what ADC, I presume,
they look to pair with it here.
It's going to be the Seraphine for T1.
They can look to do the App Seraphine,
or they can have Pace playing the Seraphine character.
Take away the ash though ash Aurora is my question mark because parents with nocturn Aurora has been one of the best
And you're kind of alluding to before like what else we could see in the mid lane maybe also there are we also there with another
Diving jungler that's gonna be slammed like Lori with the Nordless squad. Yeah, North was really good into this Seraphine
Makes me think that probably T1 might look to send it as Seraphine ADC and put Karya on something like the Alistar
something like the Brom that can just receive this hard engage from GAM because if you look in the ash here
You're playing ash Seraphine to immobile carries into nocturne Ari Nautilus
Incredibly dangerous ultimates from the side of GAM
I can gap close and get onto you super super easily
So I do think that pace is gonna be the one taking the Seraphine here. Well said
Seraphine Brom have been options in the past, but that's me speaking about vitality Jack probably
I would say 99% of this Silas is going to Faker, it's quite an easy matchup into the
RE.
You are getting pushed in a little bit but you can start to trade, you can start to
threaten.
And once you get that level 6, the RE ult is fantastic, the Nocturne ult as well, even
the Nautilus ult.
A lot of good options for Faker here.
Now allows T1 to put two bands into either the ADC for Gamp if you want to take out something like the Kaisa for more follow-up
Or they could choose the band for Dor. I saw that time ago to zero scared me with the climb
I did something mischievous again, but Nell's gonna be taken away
So Jack doesn't have to complain about that one for this game, but with vayne gone as well
Maybe we are just gonna get Kiaya on a tank top as Sion comes to mind Cassante comes to mind
those are some of you right now that are up and available.
Ambesa is still up and available for Gam. I think that would be by far their best pick if they could get it.
Otherwise, I do think we're probably looking at just a tank for Qiyaya. Maybe the Qusantin would make sense for him.
As T1 decide to ban out the Olaf, they might be looking for the Ambesa themselves.
I think both teams really like the Ambesa here. We'll see what Gam decide to ban out last.
Because Jace is gone, that's what the Olaf would suspect, but a lot of top lane is now banned away.
Too lucky we are, going on that ambassador angle. A little bit banned by Gamm.
Remember, next pick out of his ban phase would be T1 on the blue side.
Ashe is going to go, they're thinking maybe still the possibility even with this comp.
You think it's a wasted ban?
I think it's a bit of a wasted ban. I think T1 would not look for it.
It's going to be the Renekton pick for Gorn, so a really strong blind pick here.
We'll have to see what gamme answers does key. I feel confident playing cannon
I mean is it too much AP damage? I think Shen I really like for gamme
Pairing up with the nocturne you can ulti in with him
It's a decent matchup into the renegotis you could dodge out on the stun. Yeah, it is gonna be losing but
We'll have to say and looks like you might go for the cat. Oh my voice. I hand. Okay, I'm gonna show him
But regardless as I and so we're gonna get locked in
And I think the biggest question now to ask is, how do you compliment this?
Because we're building a bit of a dive.
You said the worst voice career of all time.
We'll see what Taki here looks in.
I think, what?
I didn't notice with that.
I thought he would go Kaisa for sure, as it would make a ton of sense, but they decided
to go for the Lucian.
Braum?
Although he doesn't have the Milio.
What do you want here as a support?
I think it's either Alistar or Braum for Keria, 99%.
Anything else I would be very surprised by.
This carry has something crazy cooked up. You just want something that can receive this engage and
Peel for the T1 carries
Okay, well three seconds and it's locked so engage peel
And as you said Jack else spotted it's gonna be pays on that seraphine bot
So the ash didn't get to not play the game. Yeah game to makes a lot of sense carry the science go for the Alistar over the
Braum as well because you're pairing up with the mage
So you're not going to be able to prop that Brom pass it too easily.
So I do like this from T1.
You have a really strong frontline here.
You have the Seraphine healing and shielding to keep things going and Faker as well is
going to be able to do quite a bit if the fight goes longer.
While Gam have a bit of a different strategy, they really want to blow you up as soon as
the fight starts.
Lucian, all about that burst, R.E. the same.
While Nocturne and Nautilus have great ultimates, but if the fight goes for longer, they're
going to get outmatched by their counterparts.
What do you think about weaving in and out of the fights if again the commitment is not, you know, as hard as one sided like a
Malfight old but it's still once you're in you kind of staying in with versus Alistar versus Sylas versus the chain CC
That T1 can lock you with. Yeah T1 want to keep the fight going. They want to make the fight long
Yeah, well Gamma need to find that initial pick need to find that blow up with the RE charm with the nocturnal T
And if they can find that and they can take T1 down make the fight on their own terms
but if T1 are able to kite them back, re-engage with the Seraphine, movement speed, healing, shielding, CC.
There's a lot of tools for T1 here and I'm afraid to say I think I still prefer their draft.
So we're coming back to the draft-gap discussion of Game 1 then.
Yeah, the thing is T1, they have a really easy way I think of receiving the engage from GAM.
I think as long as Pace is not the one that gets engaged upon, it's really hard to make anything happen on Jarvan, Renekton, or Silas.
So your only real threat is the Seraphine and I think Pace is a good enough player that he
Recognizes that he's the only real target for gap. So if he plays back and is healing and shielding his team up
It's gonna be very difficult for them to find an opportunity
They're gonna have to work hard to be able to find it. Well, we've watched one Seraphine from Korea
Dominate the competition only yesterday and he comes another match point for T1 in his best of three to qualify
to qualify for the elimination bracket at EWC 26.
And it is Gamm who have to commit to the dive
and find themselves the pick.
All hell will break loose with T1 in this game.
Conqueror for four with a glacial augment for Keria.
And as you said, Jack, they keep the fights going.
They get massive value here.
Yeah, four Conquerors, as you said, Jack.
Conqueror on Seraphine especially.
Pace wants to go for those long skirmishes.
Artemis choosing to go for the Doran's bow here
Means he's a little bit. Oh good. Okay for now
You might not have audio at home as Kerry gets a headbutt away Taki and stretch line starts off nice on the pace
Well, this he fixed up for you in a second as they assume people at home are experiencing the same thing
Chuck there you go
Right this engage comes through headbutt away. You're gonna be used as well carry can't do much
It's a level one Alisa. What do you expect stretch line in nice auto-tuck as well Artemis?
Close, hang on, he flashes away, and Nautilus obviously better at the start of this game.
Oh, Keria there having to flash away.
I thought for a second that he might be dead.
Artemis had the W backed up, but it was still a little bit on cooldown.
It's a great start for a gap here as they force both sums from Keria.
They force his recall, so he's stuck at level 1.
And talking now, it's going to be sitting at an X-speed lead for the majority of this early game.
His owner wants to go for an inlaid.
Spotted.
Baylight's going to be dropped on down.
And, oh no looking for the gank, while meanwhile KC have just 2-0ed Sentinels, so NA, officially, out of the competition.
Wow, that's crazy.
Oh, and connect, flag and drag, Glory gonna flash, White Faker takes the ignite and flushes himself, Chains gonna land as well, Glory.
Close to finding the kill, Faker not dead though, and the top meanwhile talking a bit of trouble, but look, better hit by Artemis, Kari has no flash.
A dredged line already used, and will not be reused here from Tarky in the 2v2.
And a shield from Pace there was so clutch you could see how Artemis was fostering that he was
Flash left 4th, try to go in
Pace gets him under turret, oh fuck you now, an auto attack and down he drops
Pace stands in his place, another turret shot, Pace already uses it
Oh my god
Oh no
Oh no
Gamm have just been scalded in the 2v2
And how does T1 do it as Seraphine Alistar they find a double kill off of Gamm's mistakes
and they are snowballing this early game.
Oh man, and top might be another bridge that Gann cannot cross.
Doran gets a bit of cleave here with a call to me.
A lot of Ruz and Predator about to come up. Wait for that.
Yeah, you're running for Ruz.
Oh no, he gets an all-attack down from the close.
Like, it's like a defining match.
It's a flash, and T1, the star points, cannot be greater.
There's that Ruz with Predator, and Doran gets a kill across the map.
It burns for Gann.
And T1, they're making place across the board here.
Gap 1 to try to match and dive Pace.
And Karrie is going to try to run here as fast as he can.
Gammus on the timer.
It all comes down to this.
Ice is not outflashed, he has nothing to battle,
but gets launched on the turret as well.
Direct line-out as well.
Good dive from Taki, and a shut-down over the track top.
It's a mistake from Karrie there.
He overrobes on mid lane.
He's not in time for the wave crash to the front pace.
So Pace ends up dying.
No teleport, so he's going to lose a lot of minions
as he walks his back.
It starts with like flashing trying to get off the pace, but he doesn't get the hook pace. I said well
Then Lucian takes the power shot and then pace lands off with the minion
We dropped at max range. I have to say paces monotone. He's very bright Jack true brightness is at max is again
Yeah, he came a little bit upset by that one laughing it off as he has to his fake
I might be found out but he gets saved up by carry up all price travel and heal from the Kingslayer
The king will not be slayed as Faker finds himself the kill.
In retribution mid lane will not get anything.
It's Glory who wants that all-but deception, but Faker is too far.
Great play by P1 there. Faker gets the W off.
So damn close with Gamma not able to take him down.
Sean able to continue pushing in this top lane, getting plates for himself.
The one lane that Gamma had last game is evaporated.
There's no winning lanes anymore for Gamma.
They need to use Drakthar, get him level 6, and try to play around that muffin ultimate to get it back into this game, but Artemis is 2 levels down.
It's about to hit level 4, but not the start you wanted, especially considering the fact that you're playing Lucian.
I mean, yeah, it's all about the lane, it's all about that first time. It's like, how quickly do you get there?
Yeah, so this game is going to be very different.
You try to return from Ki, you're not going to land. Doran has Dominus available, and he's dominating the lane with it as well.
We got the kill earlier, and he went straight for the heal cut.
Jack, that's an 800 gold spend here from Doran, and it's gonna play Divided against P.I.O.
Yeah, he wants to get finished noveling this lane.
He's also off the flight of XP.
Cross the board for T1 here.
Only person with an XP to distract from.
Yeah, it must carry a pageback.
The pulverized carry, looking for the transom.
Get the first one in, two mag flag, and drag on.
It goes in deep though, versus three now.
It's Artemis, this could carry her.
Maybe taking him out was the wrong move though, his owner.
He's got to separate the pack.
I think Artemis made a crucial game-breaking EWC loss-making mistake.
Artemis, he had the right idea. He wanted to continue fighting,
but he overcommitted on Caria, flashed forward, and Fager had the move.
Gloria was not able to match, so it's the numbers that went for T1.
Artemis now falling even further behind. Level 6 on pace, still level 4 on the solution.
So difficult for him.
Now, maybe not as disastrous as it once was, but the charge is going to be used by Faker, he's all that charm dodge as well.
He gets the change on top of Glory, Keria coming in to help out, but...
Glory still had that ult, he doesn't pull that off.
Great chunk by Faker there, as we watched this replay of the fight,
and Keria face checks a little bit early, so he gets really trunked, and that's what fakes Artemis to continue going forward here.
He dashes forward, he thinks he can take down Keria, but Keria holds the heals, Artemis is then forced to flash,
Faker's wrapped around. Glory's not there.
He had a free kill on Tarzan.
I could get the kill.
Big good play on us.
Maybe not as devastating as the one thought, Jack.
Obviously the wave was held by Tarky
as we saw at the end of that play.
So he does get some CS and fall in as much behind as I thought he would.
But it's Gann trying to put the pace on there, looking towards the topside.
Keria's moving up. Tarky's gonna join in with Draktar.
Paranoia is up. So in range is this knock turn.
As Keria sits on a waltz.
Draktar is up. Half a level on Honor here.
This could be a good timing for a gank to fight as Draktar is level 6 and
owner still stuck at that level 5. But Pace is here, Pace is here.
You're right, Paranoia gonna be used, Pace the advantage, gonna be there, he has the
on-call waiting to use the Draktar, about to find a kill, but the on-call comes in clutch.
Clutch, different Draktar, he stunned up, I'm gonna take some wilder dives like the last
play where Gammath to commit so much and it ends up being a trade with Pace
picking up his third kill. And again we see Pace moving just like you didn't
game one and being the difference maker. I think he wants to go for the long run.
He's got damage here, he thinks of the hexagon, now he knew it, Culling right in Malay, right, but Faker's his batter!
Pace walks up to Taric, trying to turn Fakht away from, while T1's diving, Kiaya doesn't work out.
Taki, his opportunity strikes now, as Kari behind the crotch, is going to try and drive it, Glory gets an open deception, and can get one back.
D1 wanted to go for the dive on Kiaya there, wasn't he quite able to get it, Pace being forced to flash and Kariya falling,
But still, it's a solo kill for Faker. He's gonna be able to push in this bot wave, accelerate himself, as T1 are dominating across the board.
This is who they are. We keep seeing trades. We subtract our getting gold.
But in the end, what has it been from the map? The biggest question is 2000 gold up. We look at the replay here and the attempt to die.
BK is here being forced to flash. Away from the Xion, Iteria has nowhere to run, surrounded by Toski and Glory.
The guys to the electric use
It's just a life of a cow the at the end of the world to support falling
Just gonna throw your paper here use solution
And you just a bit more damage than the enemy Lucian. They just kind of matrixed each other, you know, you can dodge the best
If I could looks like he's having a good time
That's what you gotta
I got a photo with Jack
Next place, or rather, Platinum picked up on the top side, but I was gonna say, pretty well picked up by Faker as Kiyaya looks to the dive again,
owner's here with the Cataclysm, and Kiyaya, how safe is he?
Three members.
Kiyaya looks either back out here, or Ryze flagging, Ryze is up, I don't even need to flash, he's got the trample from Kiyaya as well,
but stun up, Kiyaya just trying to move, for him delivering stuns, it's not available either, Cataclysm down,
the stun up, the slow down, the passive G8 is there, Kiyaya is just gonna be a potential kill, but not just yet.
As Doran attempts to dive in, we're responding to commonances.
He takes a 1v2 on the Taki, there's a paranoia.
Doran flashes away, but Faker's here to help out.
The Q healing, the wave's gone, Faker's pounding on!
A double for the Silas, Doran was baited and a third waits.
Faker at five, he gets the change down, takes his third,
and Faker with six and zero returns.
And Faker is the saviour for Doran as he roams bot lane,
And he gets three kills and seals the fate of Gam here with a 3000 Gold lead and 10 Dark Shields.
Carrier as well trying to get that ulti out. It's just a nice combo. Use the minima to get there.
Is he in trouble though from the back end of it? Glory misses the charm. Carrier walking away with trample.
Headbutt Poggerized again. Glory's about to run out of the ulti.
Use the last to get over the wall before T1 arrive with backup.
Really intelligent move from Faker there. He realized that Gamm wanted to go for the
course map, tried to dive Doran, so he moved preemptively to defend him, and he arrived
just in time to save Doran and pick up three. Now Gamm are staring at a 3,000 gold lead
at 10 minutes. They do have the ocean dragon at least. He watched the replayer from Faker's
POV. Even despite checking Esmol vision with the Muffinals, he's still able to arrive,
He takes down the Lucian, dashes forward with the Orioles, gets the W, dashes forward,
whips the chain, lands that, takes him out with the Kingslayer.
Doesn't even blink. Triple kill for Faker. 6-0.
Silas is unleashed. Already was, and now even more so.
Jankos is gassed. Maybe Doublelift not looking too happy because he just lost his keys.
So...
Has to be said.
You know, taking the trade off here.
No first item for Doran because he went XE first, so a little bit behind, but make Doran again remember
He used that that cold to make Jack on the minion wave and got some champion damage
So the healing was enough. Yeah, that he was no longer a kill under that turret and he cleared the wave
That was a good power defense by Doran. You see continuous trades on top here favoring Doran
I think all of these four
If he's able to hit that power and get that blade, he does need to be careful though.
Dragthar is still beside here with the Nuker Ultimate, so if he gets ready to hit the
power, it could be an angle, or an angle to go in.
Dominus is available, Predator's going to find him there, that's what he's forced
about, and he's still not used as yet there.
That Dominus gets a healing out, looking for the 1v2, but the passive from Kiyaya, going
to keep him safe.
He brings in the Grim Deliverance orders now here, stuck in the middle, but he doesn't
care because he plays along the way with the Zoom and Cataclysm as well, and a knockup
from Kira.
of kill of it. Kiaya GA pops, but Gann cannot support his return. It's threaded, it's Faker
running in for number 7 as T1, the chase on top of this Dauntless needs simply but a
trample. Threadsline, the door from Carrier! No cow on the making hills of Ida Walk it
out while Faker claims a glory again. Ida gets ignited, glory time for the kill, but
and a depth charge stolen, and Faker is running Paris and Gabb in the ground!
Oh my god, T1 are just running circles around Gabb.
Pace somehow always shows up where he needs to be to save them alongside Faker.
9 and 0 on this Silas here. Maybe he even picks up the Medjais to celebrate.
He had 10 stacks at the Docksfield for a while.
Jack, having gone back and forth on this one is fake if I extract the chains around.
Doran's coming to help me out as well, the fear not going to matter too much here in Doran.
Puts with the Suns up, find a chain, that's going to be plus away from Drac-Dog's pace.
Teleported in the Culling Close, getting killed with Faker in the way. Interrupt the chain.
That's dead! This guy's silenced! Unreal!
Pan kills on the board. Another chain, and that is League of Legends right there.
No, this faker guy is kind of good. He's just styling on him, 10-0, continues to find the
fights. He's either moving first to the play, or he's the one starting it as he did there
against Raktar. He won't, they just don't want to stop. They keep the tempo going. Glory
has no ult, and he's in trouble.
It's going to be Polbra. Flagged and dragged. Owner has his number. The cataclysm is not
up. He's under the auto. The charm interrupt. He will die. The trade killer's carry up.
Managers slither his way out after Dracar turns off the lights.
As they return back on, Keria is left to no man's land, so he will die with a try to return, pulling him back.
Gan find a couple back after the Overeager dive, but they need more than that.
T1 went a little bit too crazy there, wanted to just keep fighting and keep fighting,
but two kills is not enough to get Gan back in this game, as you say, Jake.
Although, they are going to be able to pick up the Cloud Dragon now spawning in five seconds,
with owner and carrier still being fed.
So that is a silver lining.
Two dragons for Gam.
And all they need now is to kill the king.
Two items here.
That's a tough task, especially.
A thousand gold, Jack. A thousand gold as you shut down.
And you're telling me it's a tough task.
Yeah, owner is able to make it.
I'll do it.
In times of the drake.
Unfortunately for Gam, they just didn't quite have the damage.
Here he comes, inevitable as always as an R.E.O.D. has an angle, finds the chain, last once again the 10-0 serve, returns back in,
the finish the job, he makes it 11 and he's got a reset. The angle over the wall, not going to be found, he goes to the camps instead,
thinks hang on, who else is here? Chainlash into the abyss, but it's not needed, he already found the blood and now he corners off the top laner of dam.
He won't want to keep going, they want to take down Chiaya, therefore.
Everyone in the kitchen seeing just wait for the chains to connect once again grip deliverance
Get a good amount of dodge with faker finds his number this guy has blue tooth on his D button
Catech isn't to finish the job going to take one more T1 are inevitable again
T1 are just diving them. They're dominating
It's impossible for gamut to find any respite. It's now Artemis wants to make a play on the pace. He has no flash
There have been on Corbin coming through and the spell shield is enough as well. Trac, that gets a shutdown
Gammar finding something up top place. Yeah, top place, but it's a uphill battle here as they
have yet to take down Faker and oh no Kalinga gonna come out on him this is melee range
lethal from Taki you're gonna be blocked chainlice oh it's a no he's trying to set records again
and chainlice he's taking on the whole band Gamm owner comes in to save gracious faker if you
can't take all the kills he runs and he gets turned up finally shut down with faker's skin on
Glory I'm trying to cut away threat of return brings him back in all deception is enough damage with a bit more gold going to
Can he won't lose about two thousand okay a pretty big gold swing program here as they were able to finally take down
Faker they got a little bit over agree with stuff under tower got CC change the rooms take him down
We'll see if it's able to make the difference here is now talk. He might be in trouble
Taki, Threads line doesn't give him the right way, Paze corners off his escape, Karrie is on top of him, his Alistar has been so big this game, it's still a T1 glazing session, but because of the way he's playing.
Taki, Bolt, he saved by Karrie, with the team becoming out of the flush as well, Karrie, he's gonna pull himself out of the unbreakable will, the stun up from Paze, nicely done.
I felt like a personal from Karrie, he just flashed to kill the 0-6 homeless.
I feel like they buffed him over the wall, he was like, you're not getting away now.
Herald's still up, this is a 34 kill game in 17 minutes, it's not even Baron yet as T1 controls top.
He's Doran dead.
Doran is here to cover him.
Oh my god.
Doran, slow down.
Strikebreaker, here's Faker, the chain's going to be blocked.
Paranoia, stolen but not used.
Our faker though with the paranoia be so so deadly
Sidelanes and wherever he goes honestly
Baker is
Very scary player for Gamta face right now. They need to rely on a CC chain
So they cannot get the healing because we get those key players off
It's gonna be healing
Way too much for Gamta to be with you
so
Dan, 5000 gold on the ball right now.
Glory got a lot of gold for NetLish, Bane, and now they're looking for Onar.
They're set up there with Cataclysm, Artemis layers him down, and Petla's in with the Culling.
Hayes can't help it now. Onar caught out again, and this for T1 has been a recurring scene so far as a tournament,
but more so here in this game, it's starting to build.
Dan does have a lot of damage in their team comp.
When they're able to layer that Ori ultimate and the Nocturne Paranoia, they're able to do...
So much so fast that owner is not prepared for it, now Doran wants to go for the 1v1 used to dominate it.
I mean it's just a scammership, Chaos frenzy here in this game, Slythe is going to be used,
Kya gonna try and TP out without the Rusell's Predator available, close to dying but he does not.
Kya teleports out, and Doran can't get the kill.
Still though, CP used from Kya here, we'll see if they can try to transition that into a Baron pressure in the next one minute.
I would assume that he was looking to try to do this Baron national spot.
The only thing is they don't have great damage on the Baron national.
Faker using that because the hijack is timing out.
Yep.
He's going to reset it.
Also just confused maybe Dan a little bit more.
As he backs away and Faker sitting on a Seekers now.
So Zondre is going to be the third item here.
As yeah, so far for this guy it has been, I would say,
I can't say generational gaming because that is just false.
There's so much BS.
Yeah.
And Faker has many generational games.
But it is a doozy right now with Faker as hard carry along with the setup of the big one.
Oh, alright.
Fred's line, he doesn't have the dominoes fell when he's shooting instead.
Gamma getting creative and it is working.
Gamma have so much burst.
We'll have to see if T1 want to fight this 45 or give up the infernal dragon.
No one T1 is knowing this game.
I think they want to try to fight the 45.
I think Faker's going to get the wave and then pick an ulti.
He's got a lot to choose from here as Gamma is moving to the river.
Tucky using the basket and trying to get an angle when Jack dragon begins.
Not to see our Faker's up on the fight, but Glory is trying to watch him here, trying to get the charm.
Faker, who's he gonna find? We go to the POV camp, he's in the bottom of the fight, looking for an ulti to steal.
He'll chain last year, the ult will come through as well.
Darkness is the time, it doesn't matter if not because T1 has numbers of damage and the stroke gets ushaken.
Faker, the angle of the jump stick is in time.
He's dead, can't find the fight, even though T1 is so far ahead.
It's their moment, Glory missing the charm, but not they came here to send out an over deception.
finds a kill, earn a run for his life with the Herald, but Glory has a reset and a chop.
All he needs to do is find what he does and a Dread Spline to burp.
Gamm take all, but one to the death now and this game's still going.
And Gamm gets mashed. G1 with a mega throw here. They get too cocky, contesting a singular dragon for Gamm.
4 vs 5, they think that they're way too strong, Faker has no time to press the seekers, he goes down,
and I will have to see if Doran can try to get something in the back end of Faker creeping in.
He gets over the wall, he's 1v5 at the time being Baron goes down, but the bodies are going to drop the gas!
Doran into the fight, doesn't care! He'll take one for the next, fake a look at the depth charge,
he won't get the reset here on Kiaya, he gets the next depth charge on Artemis, he will die!
Baron 4-3 and Doran took on the world!
A heroic play from Doran here to get T1 back in the gold lead, takes down 3, removes the Baron power play for GAM
and it puts T1 firmly in the driver's seat here, we'll have to see if they can try to siege or do anything with 3 dead from GAM.
Now this is not a clean game, this is not perfect League of Legends but hot damn if it's not, spice.
43 kills in 21 minutes
What do you reckon Jack?
A lot of kills!
I think we're going for more
I think we're going for a lot more kills
So at this rate, I don't think any could be talking too much
You could do all the time
I don't think we're going to be down there
Not going to be here for the rest of the day
That is right
Let's look at the replay
Which one is this?
The Doran
Versus the Calamity
So much AOE down the careful Doran
With the Dominus
With the Q
With the Strike Breaker
It's able to take down the Uftar
Take down the Nautilus
and Faker takes out Lucian at the back end.
So where are we at? What actually matters in this game, Jack?
What the hell are we talking about now?
What we've seen is that GAMP have incredibly high points.
So if T1 make a mistake, if one person makes a misstep,
it doesn't matter if it's Dorne, if it's owner,
the only person is Terrier who can lift her a little bit longer,
but the rest of them die so damn fast,
that if Gamma is able to pull it off, they can just one-shot someone and then win the fight.
So it really comes down to execution.
You want T1 to be the ones engaging first, because if they're engaging first,
then it's really hard for Gamma to coordinate their nocturne, their ari, their zaheann,
all together to go on the same target.
While if Gamma get that preparation time, get to use that paranoia with the Spirit Box glory,
They can be the one, one-shotting a member from T1 and starting to fight on their own terms.
3,000 gold if we're to separate T1 from GAM, and they come back to move to a game-free and in elimination.
That's the three at AWC 2026.
GAM, unspeakable horrors of what we're gonna wait them with this Silas,
moving into now 14 kills, but the fact that they're back in this game,
the fact that T1 made so many mistakes to GAM's credit, that shotgun,
Wenders ago, or rather Wenders, they get played out next.
This game using his armor to try and get his ult here. They are down in the tower play because they lost three members after it, but
Still they've stagnated the game chat. Yep
And also my pace has the magi at zero stacks. So that feels pretty bad for him as well
Faker he was sitting on the 10 stack Dark Seal he was forced to sell that
While it's actually glory now with the 10 stack magi himself
so a lot of throws here for T1 that has definitely cost them a lot, but they are still ahead
Make no doubt.
No one's gonna get ganked here.
He's in the window for Gamm.
He's gonna die from getting dodges away and gets back out Glory looking for the dive or potential damage, but he's just like, slating instead.
All the attention from team one right now. His focus around is mid lane.
Well, Faker is solo leveling up in that top lane.
He's taking the turret here, and Jack, this is gonna be a trade for Gamm.
Gold is gonna be shared, yes, but Faker getting in the turret is obviously gonna be more worth.
Yeah, Faker getting you further out here.
He's going to be looking complete as Sonia's on a finely basis and what we talked about earlier in the champ select
Well, I like the T1 comp more
Yeah, but I didn't realize how much damage that would happen to be honest
because what I thought was they really could only go on the Seraphine and if they were ever went on the Jarvan
They were neck the Silas it would be hard for them to win the fight
but what we've seen is as long as they
Have a little bit of distance between the T1 carries
They can blow someone up in two three seconds so fast that the rest of T1 can actually not react and now Dorn is
Really deep here, but he's gonna be fine
As T1 want to get full control of this infernal dragon
Interceptional dragon would be number two for T1. Gamm get this and move to Sol point
Does feel like a nail biter that could be beneficial
But are they gonna go for the mid turret instead trying to open up their map?
It seems like four members can at least get the mid bush here as T1
Faker trying to find the chain, Pais matching the wave clear with Faker clearing the rest.
He won't be in this dragon area first.
One holding control, Gam need to find some way to break their formation.
Taki can't really face check, they're having Kiayas do it.
Pais with the damage as well, Kiay takes a little bit, not too much to speak of though.
Shrakhthar has an angle, not being spotted out there, another control wall there.
They're thinking where is this knock turn, Paranoia turns the lights off at 2K,
Carrier phase checking, looking for the engage, depth charge in, up T1 gets the drake.
Owner teleports a little bit weirdly as Carrier's already jumbled in with the Brakeman World Kiaya.
Now has a grim deliverance! Perfect AOE!
And the strike start just walks in the melee range.
T1 are they losing his fight? I'm looking, I'm seeing FAKE AT DAD!
Thorin heals up on the time being though, trying to carry the rest of it.
Well meanwhile, owner gets some auto's down, pays attention a little bit, but it's not enough.
T1 have thrown it all in the sink as DAD find themselves deliverance!
And Gamma have ulted teamfought T1 in the 5v5.
T1 pick up the drake, but Gamma pick up 5 kills for 3.
They're gonna get the mid tower, they're gonna push him both to get that as well.
And finally, they will equalize the game with the gold.
A 14 to a Scylus couldn't do it, but apparently the R we could.
Gamma gonna move to the inner turrets now, both in mid and bot.
So much gold on the menu and it's gonna be equalized even more so.
So Gamm are gonna find themselves in a gold leaf the first time in this game and Baron is coming up in 10 seconds as we look at this spot where he's playing.
D-Wang, while they were able to get the drake, Keria goes too deep. You see here, he has those, but actively flashes in to try to get onto Archimedes.
But Archimedes has the flash flash, he can get out and now Keria has the ult, he has some falling and this Sahan is doing so much, healing so much and just wrecking havoc in the back line here.
Four gum, as you said, shotguns.
Triggered ball by Gav, but working the charm is not enough therapy and the only one left alive that is the...
That is a rough fight for T1, they could die at the start of it.
And Jack, we could be going for three.
We could be going for three and it feels like a lot of this is due to T1's hubris.
Oh yes, I think very much so.
They decided to continue fighting, no matter what, they never wanted to put on the brakes, even the 4 vs 5 when Doran got caught, they still wanted to keep fighting.
And it's cost them dearly now, in a 51 kill, 27 minute game, gold is completely equal, two drakes apiece, it really all comes down to execution at this point, but you can see how strong this Sahen is now.
The Sahana's outscaled disrenecing is going to do a lot more in these teamfights,
and it's becoming harder and harder for Faker, even though he has 14 kills, he's down and gold!
He's indeed somehow faking down and gold as Hilarity.
T1 here in this game for a lot of the fans, it's going to be Hilarity and Disappointment for them.
If T1 go to a Game 3, there'll be one step away from Gam Eliminating them.
Gam's already beaten in Koi. The story of this tournament is that
But the number three seed from EU couldn't put up a fight against Gamma, who remember,
they didn't actually qualify through here, they're part of the organization, Jack.
So, they're not the best the region sent for Gamma here, nonetheless, putting up a fight against T1 of all teams.
They're here to play.
Very respectable, yes.
But they're gonna put up a much bigger fight than Team Teaker.
Oh, yes.
A great, great showing from Gamma thus far.
competitive game one yesterday against T1 and taking down MQA as you said Jake and now a great game
two from them as well. Off the back of the gap topside. Real stellar performance. We'll have to
see how T1 can navigate these later fights now. As Faker's advantage has evaporated he needs to
be able to find a flank or a great ultimate takeaway to be able to make the difference in the fight
Just seeing him get continuously CC-chain and taken down too quickly.
If he wants to be able to manage the door, it looks like he might be far.
Yeah, he's super deep here, doesn't have the flash available.
Three item crock has to run.
Damn, aren't going to commit resources to it though.
Faker also has the TP that would have exploded with Paze being able to join as well.
They back away. Dragons up in a minute.
Kill a piece. Third means everything.
Baron there also, but...
That's an afterthought I feel like right now.
It's so important in the game, where infernal for a shotgun can't be given.
You see T1 now, they're keeping in the mid lane, they want to get full control of this dragon here.
And Gav was able to break their formation.
In the last fight, now they're tasked with doing it again.
As Faker is basing on a ward here, this could be the time that Gav wants.
Maybe it's a fake, Paranoia gonna be used, he runs away with the chains, jumps back in, Paranoia in response as well.
as well. Oncourt not bad, Faker will take one. Glory is down, Tractor up next to the
August and background. Grim deliverance on Kiaya. He's in the middle of three, but with
the Flyer and Dragon, Faker healthy. I think Gamma's gone too far. A double for the GOAT,
as three with the Dread of Return, yes. Kiaya with the GA, yes. But will he live? You know,
the X's gotta be noticed. Cataclysm brings him down, he's gonna try and aureate rush
out of there, but the Flyer and Dragon, he takes so long to die.
He raises the racks at full HP, Faker's going to try again, he brings those chains right into his infernal space,
he's ready to return on back, somehow, someway, he's championing the game,
driven deliverance, Faker will finish the job after doing nine and a half thousand damage.
At both top laners were absolute great bosses in this teamfight,
Doran takes out the gap bot lane, while Giya bought so much time for a gap, but it was not enough.
T1, they ace gap, they're gonna pick up the infernal dragon, they're gonna get the mid tower, and they're gonna be looked to set up this baron after us.
But is the game over? No, definitely not. I don't trust it.
Jack, I definitely don't trust this 58 kill game, so look at the replay.
And that 10k damage came purely, I think, from Tiya, and a little bit of a jungle.
Yeah, I mean it was a great engage with the Pace, but it takes so long for Pace to die, they actually got to one-shot Glory with the Nautilus ult that Paker took.
took that could have been the difference
tanker for Gavis, but what he's able to make
that a longer takedown pace with a whole
different fight. Gavis left with 1v3
and he's a scary guy. He can 1v3, he flashes
onto Gavis, he buys so much time, he's
nearly able to take down Faker with the
healing, with the damage, with the dashes
that Faker is able to survive on
incredibly low HP and takedown Gavis.
And at this point in the game he heals up to
full pretty much, so they got to do it again.
It's like a second phase of the boss jack and you're like, oh my god
The raid boss has two faces. Oh, I'm gonna come through caught out is faking. No, not quite an up HP
Damn and there's four man in party all around all about five through mid T1 have an angle up in topside
They're gonna look for the push up there. Maybe or the steel cam member Baron is the only objective up now. So
Yeah, maybe just lost his flash in that place not gonna have that up and available
But T1 they don't care. They're starting the match.
Faker's TPing in. T1 want the fight.
What ult is he going to steal?
Hijack up and available.
Keria with an angle. Gann move in through this side brush.
It's dragged out with the lights to turn off.
It's Doran with an angle spotted out.
He's got Lensley, knows Kiaya's there.
Backline as well. And 8k.
Keria starts it off. Honam looking for his angle.
The on-court not too bad as well.
Onto Kiaya. He's versus Doran.
Honam tries to jump in and they dive out of midst of the turn.
We want to make a fly-through before he's open we're going to do this again.
Kiya is going to resurrect, but instead of three this time, there's four, he'll die quicker.
And T1's team buddy, when it comes to the tooth and nail of the game, is going to be better.
At T1 they start the nashir, they know they have the advantage with the ultimates, the
gap burn, trying to take down Faker and with that they seal Gam's fate, they're going to
They're looking to end this game, running down mid, and what better way to do it?
With 20 kills for the GOAT himself.
It was messy, it was convoluted, but 20 kills for Faker.
I'm not going to say this is a generational game from him, Jack, but I am going to say that he still started this,
and now he'll finish it, next start number one, and then two.
Baker ends with 20 kills on his Sylas.
Still the ghost always will be.
T1 survival elimination, survive dance, knock them out,
and continue to the elimination bracket at EWC26.
What a wonderful game from Baker.
I mean, always the Sylas, it's a picky's non-farts,
a picky's made the difference on.
I brought back to BLG versus T1 Worlds Finals 2024 game four.
Oh, yeah.
where he had the incredible silence play on mid lane
to win that best of five and win that world's finals
and it feels like a player that always when it matters most, he steps up.
He's going to be the one to be in the clutch moments and bring the victory for his team.
I think the takeaway from this is T1 have that spark, but they do not look super clean.
They're going to move on, there's a better team, but Dan gets them the run for their money.
They will be eliminated here at EWC, and not that emcoy they can be proud of them, that's the one, but I think...
Oh sorry, that's the three, but I think the best moment in that second game, when we saw the fire the game had in the NACCON,
made a lot of sense when we got to extensive fighting, we definitely got the old FUSIES way of playing for GAM.
GAMP showed a ton of lives today.
And throughout this whole tournament, the fact that they were able to
nearly take down T1 Game 1.
But not enough faker on stage, 20 kills on Isilas.
Still the best of all time.
No doubt about it, the GOAT standing by T1,
booked their spot in our quarterfinals here at EWC.
A big thanks of course goes to the unkillable Demon King himself.
Parry, set to breathe for Faker!
A real standout performance from you, you went big.
Did you feel the pressure to step up today, knowing that your team's backs were against the wall here with potential elimination?
Did you feel any pressure or pressure during that crisis?
I was worried about the game today. I was not well-developed.
But I'm trying to do my best.
It's not enough right now, but I think I can improve during the rest of the game.
we just tried on what we do what we can and we're trying to stick our place as much as possible and we try to be improved as much as possible here
First question, August, is it true that you felt the pressure? You were hanging from the wall and is that what made you feel like a step-up?
Well, indeed, we felt the pressure, we were a little bit in a hurry, we came back, we managed to get better during the game and I'm obviously happy.
Welcome to Paris, Bienvenue à Paris!
Evidemment, my question, you've made everyone agree.
You are the legend of the game. Everyone knows that.
So it must be hard sometimes to have self-criticism.
But if you had, you know, to have maybe something you want to improve about your game about yourself, what would it be today?
Faker is the best player in the world, and everyone knows that he is the best player, but despite that, there are still some things that he has to show.
So, I think it's going to be hard for him to play as a player, but if he continues to develop, what do you think he has to do?
I think the best way to play is to think of the past as a game and think of the past as a game.
The important thing is how good the game will be in the future.
They have to game, they have to day. That's a big humility from you, Faker.
So the question is obviously, when everyone dictates the game,
when everyone dictates the legend of the game,
it's always about questioning what you still want to improve today.
I don't focus on the past, on trophies.
I try to improve game after game.
And I think it's alive today.
It's time for another key crush here in Paris.
Anything more iconic than a faker key crush.
And look who's standing by in the distance. I'll leave you to it.
It's time to go, Faker Maddox, you can come with me to the key,
Crusher, one of your first time, crushing a key,
and who better than Tyler won to welcome you in that thing?
So excited for you, bro.
So excited.
Good job out there.
They were like, maybe we should have root for him.
I'm a T1 favorite.
He killed it, by the way.
Anyway, sorry, guys.
We're going to be crushing the key right now.
He's going to brief you.
This is going to be GAM's final goodbye.
Congrats.
I think right before Faker crushes the key, do we have Ian?
I'm going to wait you for one sec.
I think Ian is checking in with some T1 fans.
Do we have T1 fans in the building?
Yes, yes we do.
Of course we do.
T1 fans, how are we doing?
Are we ready to crush a key?
Oh, let me get you there.
Yes, he's ready.
He said he's ready.
Yes!
It's a rush, dead key!
Yeah!
Make some noise, yeah!
Baker, Maddox, I'm going to welcome you back onto the stage.
We're going to go see some T1 fans here.
I think everyone can congratulate you on this.
I'm going to ask you one more question.
You have fans all over the world. You have fans here in France making noise for you.
You have fans coming from Korea here to cheer you up.
And you don't deserve this. Do you have anything you want to tell the fans going on to play off?
What would you say to the Korean fans who came to watch the match?
Our team is in the 8th place, but we have a lot of shortcomings.
But I think our team always has the right to win.
I will show you the game that the fans like during the game.
Thank you so much.
There he is, the goat walks off after crushing the hopes of Gammysports and as Lou said, another
match in just a little bit, but first we gotta break this one down, 40 to 23, it sounds like
an American football score, touchdowns and field goals abound and it started off super
one sided and all of a sudden got so so messy.
Absolutely, I felt like this was an absolute bloodbath and you can't expect anything else
from Gam, we asked them to go pedal to the metal, trying to confuse perhaps T1, push them
to their limits, but I don't think there's many teams that can truly push them there.
It was most dominant game from T1 by far in the AWC and it was insane performance and
now we're prepared for the interview.
Yeah, again a huge huge victory here, lots of fights, lots of scrapping and I think something
to be proud of if you're a Gam Esports fan, glory with multiple opportunities, Kayaya
seems unkillable in a lot of those fights but 40 to 23 that's a spectacle you don't get to see
too often as we take a look at the scoreboard one more time 40 25 excuse me as uh lots of gold
that gold graft was all over the place but there is one man joining us here a very very special
guest from t1 please welcome world champion owner owner senseu hello thank you how are you
How have you been?
I've been doing my best in the tournament.
Yeah, like we're playing now. It's kind of rough.
Yeah, Trouble had a question about the schedule given all the success that he's had.
Yeah, so usually when you lose in a tournament, you take some time to like bask in your loss.
Think about it, move forward. But your schedule is so packed.
MSI, EWC, back to LCK. How do you deal with that?
After the tournament is over, we have some time to recover from the loss.
MSI, EWC, and the LCK after this, the schedule is really hard.
How do you deal with this situation?
Well, the schedule is a tough schedule, but I think it's better than not having a tough schedule in a pro-game.
So I think it's a tough schedule to enjoy it with such a mind.
You only have that schedule because you're always winning.
So definitely a blessing.
What did you have a question about the meta?
Yeah, because I really want to ask how the meta transit
to EWC because MSI and EWC is the same patch,
but it seems like everyone has a different idea.
In fact, even though MSI and EWC are the same patch, the meta has been changing.
What do you think about the meta now?
The meta now is a meta with a lot of B1s, so I think it's a meta that has to be played mainly in support and jungle.
I think that's the most important part in this current meta here.
You had a question here about specific junglers.
Yeah, I feel like it matches really nicely with that question into the meta,
because not only do you have to play versus different bot lanes or with different bot lanes,
it's also different junglers.
Now, for Shun, you played him on MSI,
but now you have to prepare for both Shun and Draxthar.
What is the difference in the way you prep to face different types of junglers?
Not only the champions, but also the players,
as a jungler, Shun, and Drax,
they have different types of players.
So I wonder how they prepared differently.
First of all, there is a special feature of each player.
I think I've seen a lot of what they do while watching the game.
So I think they prepared well for the game.
I was a bit disappointed, but if we meet again, I think we can win.
I've been watching how they play because everyone has different kind of playstyle and personality on the rift.
So I've been watching their games and again, even though we lost against BLG,
I'm pretty confident in myself that I can play better against BLG.
This schedule has been very, very busy, but we are here in Paris, France.
How has Paris been for you so far?
It's a great honor to be able to participate in a competition with so many fans in Paris.
I'm glad to have so many experiences and memories as a teacher.
It's packed, but it's always been an honor to share these kind of memories with all these fans here.
And I'm really happy that I can share this kind of memory with my fans.
So I'm trying to be more glad that I can actually share this thoughts with my fans here.
And then finally, with this victory against GAM, you finished as a 2C.
Who do you want to play in the next round?
Would you rather play Gen.G, Honwa Life, or AGL?
Cannot play BLG because they're in the same group.
I'm curious to know which team you would like to meet.
I don't have a team that I would like to meet, but whatever it is, we have to do our best to win.
Thank you everyone owner from T1. We'll see you after this short piece of content to set you up for a second knockout match
We're over at the Allianz Vault where we got some MLBB action going on and we've got
Trap Talks to underscore to give us a bit of a rundown of what we are seeing today.
Yeah, so we just finished up our group stage in MWI, obviously we're in the Women's International
Competition of Mobile Legends, bang, bang.
the expected people have got through vitality still leading the charge at the moment and
obviously need those points for the club championship as well after a pretty disappointing week one
in fatal fury. Falcon's however though do have two teams through and one of them bit of a spicy
quarterfinal will be going off against vitality. So big big quarterfinal for both of those
organizations trying to get points on the board for the club championship. Navi made it through
as well with a successful first week obviously winning fatal fury and getting the points on the
the board there. They're in a great position to go far in the club championship.
It sounds like everything's going well according to plan. So to say here over at this stage,
that's it for us from now. Back to you.
I'm going to show you how to
a lower bracket after the loss yesterday against AGAL. Could you give us a rundown of what you think went wrong in that game?
I think overall teamfight was a little bit sloppy, and our picks and bans have been actually very difficult to play, but I think in that sense, I think we should have been more careful and more cautious doing the teamfight and teamfights.
Well, G2 is a team that when we're looking at their drafts and their team fights, it feels like they have been getting a lot better, especially at MSI.
They were able to take away the series from T1. Does that make you a little bit worried at all?
Or do you think that after the game from yesterday, being able to learn from your mistakes that G2 is not going to be a threat?
I'd like to ask if it's going to be difficult for the opponent to play against them.
Well, there are times when we have to take a look at G2, so we have a problem with all the teams,
but we've been using some very unique ban picks to make the opponent in trouble.
We've been aware of that, and we've talked about ban picks a lot.
So I think we'll be able to fight well.
And in the game against AL, the players have a lot of experience and the tension on the current stage.
I think we've learned a lot from that, so I think there's enough victory.
in mind about their great team fights and their picks and bans so we'll have to adjust to that
to counter it but also that from the match against AJL we have learned a lot and made a great
experience especially playing in front of the crowds so yeah I think that experience will help us
getting into the G2 match. Yeah it's going to be a game in front of the crowd against today there
are so many people here already you will be playing against an EU team so I'm not sure which side
the crowd is going to be leaning towards but this also being an elimination match does it the crowd
and the pressure maybe add on to it a little bit?
I'm trying to enjoy the pressure and I think I'll enjoy it as much as possible as many fans come and cheer for me.
I think it'll be a very fun experience.
Yeah, we want to show our best performance there.
Well, thank you so much.
I'm really looking forward to the good luck to you guys today.
And thank you Maddox for your translations.
That's it from us.
Back to you.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to the Esports World Cup.
We're here at the Analyst Desk with Aught joining myself and Wajid.
And, you know, I just got to give big props here.
to what did for that last interview translation, live with owner on the spot.
What did I say? What did you have number one?
Honestly, I've been practicing with Korean. It's really good.
Thanks. I'm working on my Korean skills, you know, like it's been working out. Thank you.
Well, we might have to use that again because we are next match is G2 versus D plus Kia here in group A.
One of these teams in the lowers will be going home in this best of three.
One of them will be moving on to the knockout stage as the number two seed alongside AGAL.
And I think this group A when we first saw it, it was always going to be difficult to see who makes it out.
I think there was a lot of competition we've seen already.
And the fact that it's G2 up against D plus Kier, two strong teams for that last spot.
It could be sad to see either of them go home.
Yeah, for sure. And also, like, I'm really hyped about this matchup, by the way, because whenever they play against each other,
There's so many storylines and this time around I really want to focus on the mid lane especially because it's
Caps versus showmaker once again because they play against each other so many times
They know how they do it and yeah this time around. It's all about the feel three
It's a elimination match that feels alone and in terms of series score
It's three to two and match scored six to five
It's sandwiches back in the first time that they met it was cats getting the victory and the most recent time
I can't believe it was three years ago in this with stage one zero for G2 and a chance today for caps to
Beat that record sure maker totally has the advantage in kind of for sure maker
He can really just get a healthy leader ahead of them
Lot of pressure on this one and obviously for G2 played in that best of one earlier
I feel like a best of three something we saw from the MSI was a lot of flexibility in the draft
And we also saw that at first hand as well
I think more space to innovate made them in the best of one especially with fearless now a play 20 seconds
left before we go to stage. Who you got?
Well, you know, as an LCK representative, of course I'm going with them, which I assume
both you guys would as well, right?
Right for G2.
Oh!
The trail.
The trail!
We'll see if we did as a job after EWCE, but right now we're going to see who continues
on in this matchup. It is G2. It's D plus Kia for the final spot in the playoffs.
The game is about to start!
Bonjour Paris, Commencez-à-Val to Le Monde!
They can do better than that.
Guys, seriously.
Paris is starting to fall!
Now, every time I step on this stage, I think to myself,
how can we do something even more incredible?
Does it get any better than watching Faker crush a key at EWC in Paris?
That was crazy.
I think that was pretty amazing indeed.
But you know, we still have two teams to go on stage.
G2 and DK.
And since Carmen is here, I think G2 doesn't want to stay behind,
because KC qualified.
And I'm sure that G2 doesn't want to be left behind,
so they're coming for it.
They're coming for a lot of things.
Number one, they want the lion's share of that $2 million prize pool.
Every single team here is competing for those vital club championship points,
and of course, to be the next to raise this trophy up in the air.
We bring out our next two contenders. Yeah, you got it. The stakes are high and it's time to welcome our two teams to the stage
Please welcome DK
Athoma World Championship winning organization now finds itself fighting for survival
One more defeat ends the run here in Paris
This one victory keeps alive the hope that this new lacrosse that can still make its mark on an international stage.
Coups va me casser showmaker aujourd'hui après avoir explosé la clé et la machineière.
And it's time to welcome G2 Esports!
The Europe's leading force, incredible talent, they carry many hopes, and they don't want
to be left behind in the Battle of Regions.
We are the top of Europe, and we must prove that we deserve the place of freedom.
The DK is a chance to prove this new chapter still has life in it.
But G2 is another opportunity to show that Europe belongs among the world to lead.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, please.
FET DU FRÈRE!
Thank you so much, Lou and Ian, for the introduction of both of these teams.
We have two more spots remaining.
We do have JDG, seeing whether they can make their mark as well against ML over on the B-stream.
And now G2 versus DK.
And when they brought up a history between these two teams, Wolf,
I was so surprised that it was so long ago that we had the last one,
because this was like a marquee matchup for so long.
Truth be told, D plus Kia have not been attending very many international events since 2023.
We had them obviously play in that little side special tournament we do,
where for the teams who didn't get to go to Worlds right,
we saw them go to Hong Kong, which is an international tournament,
but we were able to make it to the very end of the LCK Cup.
But EWC has been something special for this team this year,
the qualifier run they had.
She used eclectic picks in the top laner, how they got here.
But G2, I think in a lot of ways, are the favorites.
In a lot of people's minds, they have such a strong roster right now, they're looking very informed, broken blades, top lane match, looking much stronger than the performance we've seen from Shino thus far.
And, you know, when you look at some of the other matchups, you're looking at Hans against Smash, very close, very contentious, showmaker, depends on his form, against Caps has been a lot more consistent.
But the thing that I focus on most here when I look at these two teams coming to this best of three is draft.
Because both of these two teams have been drafting outside of the box with D plus throwing the trundle bottom lane
The double support there the victor being played in the bottom lane and with Camille as well just yesterday
We're seeing some some cops here from the side of g2 that have been very here miss right?
We saw the Ari Camille composition not really find its footing earlier today
Which why they ended up calling to a GL to find themselves in this matchup in the first place
And the thing that I am paying the most attention to as an LCK representative is the Grim Reaper at the core.
You know, it's the death note that G2 have put together for themselves.
First it was B and K Pyrrhex out of a tournament.
Gen G out of a tournament.
T1 out of a tournament.
And the next one on the chopping block, just headed on over to see whether this axe is going to fall on them as well, is D plus Kier.
It's only been Hummellite Esports that's managed to get over the line
It's as far as survival against G2 in a tournament as an LCK representative
It is absolutely crazy how much our region has suffered at the hands of G2 in
2026 it really has been as we jump into this one one of the picks I have my eye on is the syndrome
I am not a huge fan of right now
I think has really left a lot of teams with not very many options if they do lose control of the game
Even though it's showmakers favorite when you think about him down historically
We'll see if that is what they want to do in this trap for if they're gonna adapt a little bit here
Dr. And Poppy gone here smash or whether I lose it losing his Lee Sin and the Jarvan
So I'll focus on the jungle here from G2. Yep jungle Vayne also gonna be taken away. So five junglers now have been
That's a joke everyone, game is likely to be top lane answer, we'll see what that means as far as what she wants to be playing or whether he is going to be blind picking something like an art towards that top side of the map.
One more band to come through here for G2 and the Orianna up and available Cassiopeia, there's a lot of these things that have been very first pickable and the Orianna will be the decision here for G2.
Victor first week is actually kind of a good idea for D plus once again based on that flex that they did down straight does kind of work
It works really well
Cinder first pick would make me worried buys up never buy is as available and with all the other jungle bands
We have here it is very very strong and at this point to grab it early
There's so many different archetypes you could build this fly with in terms of bottom lane follow up top lane with shoes and Bessa
He's super well known for
Let's see what the response is going to be here for G2 if they look for a prior mid here or
For what's likely to be played here in the bottom lane with our awesome dude meta here
Yep, it's gonna be the first to go. Yeah, it's it's cameo could just be the lockup right away
I think you would lose the Camille if you didn't lock it in here
But what if they want to play it?
Yeah, LeBrov's Camille hasn't been as impressive as I think a lot of our other Camille players in this tournament thus far
and it is a risk of scuba-
Oh, okay!
Susan right away!
I love this, and this is what we were talking about.
All MSI, we didn't get any Susan.
I know that it was played in the LEC,
it was played in the LCS as well, thanks Griffin.
And I'm so glad that we finally get an opportunity,
because I think the last time I cast
Nasus being played in the jungle,
it was like Spirit playing it,
or Peanut playing it all those years ago.
And so this is a huge treat up against the buy this time around seeing whether those winners are gonna be real good
Okay, Victor that we're talking about is going to come in. Yeah, Victor flex does come through
I think Leona feels fairly strong here because it's great to the Camille denies the Leona ziggs
But they're actually looking for the Camille themselves
This just just allows LeBrov to block in that Leona third though. Yeah answer
So I'd rather see the Leona side of this matchup
has been doing so well this tournament. It also works well with the Vi, but instead
Rear is going to be picking this Camille up right away, and I think that means this
Leona is almost guaranteed for LeBrov in this
final spot. You will not have the opportunity to pick it if you let's it through.
Yeah, the other option is to take a Vi, sorry, an Ari or something like that
if you do want to deny it, but I guess you do have some fans for that one. So I would expect
the Leona should be coming on through here, and there it is. It's also color coordinated
with the Ziggs, which I think is, you know, somewhat important to get that synergy on the bottom side.
It's just such a strong lane, it always has been.
Now, the Victor Camille is specifically what we saw from D plus Kia just yesterday,
and their matchup against Furia, so definitely have been working on that one, have been scrimming it.
Yeah.
Given the history of LeBron thus far in this tournament, and the skepticism we have,
I'm surprised, especially with how well Leona's been doing, that D plus opt this way rather than the other way around,
around because this Victor could have still been flexed me to now it feels less like
Yeah, and I wonder whether it's because they feel like Victor Indelina is kind of alright
I believe that was what they that was the same matchup. Yeah the last time around so maybe there's something to do with that
Not entirely sure that game didn't have a lot to do with the 2v2
As it turned out as the game went on it was largely about Smash just sitting in the bottom lane getting a whole bunch of money
And then using it all to destroy
But we are going to be taken away from showmaker and they are assuming that that
Victor is once again heading towards the bottom lane, which I think is a good idea.
We don't know what the mid lane picks are going to be just yet again assuming this
Victor and Zeke are going to the bottom lane, but one of the things that is a
little bit scary to consider is a NAR pick when the Vayne is banned away.
It's very blindable, very safe, strong in the side lane. I think it would work well
with either of these compositions so I definitely want to have on my mind right now as a safe
one as the renekton has taken away the imbeso which is great for fall up on the camille
and the vi here makes a ton of sense especially with as mentioned before she used proficiency
on the champion yep well then we'll see whether it is going to be like there is still varus
and things like that if you do want to be playing something that's susceptible to an
80 carry towards that topside maybe that's where they're going to look they could still
Flex this victory mid and play metal Camille in the bottom line or something crazy like that
You know, there's a lot of different possibilities here. It's a very tricky draft to navigate. I'll see you the Cassiopeia now
removed as well so a lot of
trades here, but one top ban a piece one mid ban a piece
Or take the bottom. Yeah, exactly. One, two mages and two top laners. Yeah, I was gonna say two of mage bans
I think he's fine. The
rise going to be a consideration here
Theoretically blind, there is an Anivia up and available if you would like to on the side of Showmaker.
I think this Ryze is a great pick, can help move the Nasus around the map,
can help empower the long range engage of both the Leona and the long range ultimate there from the Zeke's.
And it's been a pick, I've been calling for this from, I think it's still very good.
Yeah, and it is going to be Taliyah, so keeping still a bit of a mystery in this bottom lane,
but I think likely to be mid to be able to follow the rotations of this Ryze.
So the last question now is what is that blind top pick going to be for you could just be the gnar
Yeah, that's what I was thinking perhaps the non-pick, but that's a trundle. Where is everything going guys?
If this is actually gonna be a trundle pick then I'm it's trundle support for the Camille jungle
That makes sense
You can use Ming skin, you know because that was that was used in the jungle in 2018 the blind Olaf
Okay, the choice that looks a little bit more like a top laner or a jungler. I guess pretty good into masses as well
To be able to just ignore the slow and get on top of him
And you can also ignore a whole lot of what we are not to do as well
There's a lot of CC that can be very annoying the satchel as well is the only way that Ziggs is going to be keeping himself live
Outside of shooting himself away with said satchel. So I think the Olaf value is definitely going to be high
This is something that we have since you play many many times broken blade actually thinking of going for the nods and the answer
I kind of feel like when I look at this draft a
Lot of the choices that D plus gave to G2 are super obvious, right?
Yeah, the rise isn't that common
It was available
It is going to be very strong to give a little bit more rotational power here
The Leonel was straight up, you know the easiest pick for LeBrov in the world
And then they blinded the Olaf with the Nara available
So, Birkenblade could try to play around that with spacing.
Obviously, if you get hit by a few of those under toes,
you can get slowed down and run down by the Olaf,
but it's an otherwise fairly good matchup here for the NAR,
especially early on.
I do think it's hard to play, though,
because many NAR is very susceptible,
if you are, as you say, hit by those under toes.
It played perfectly, it's fine,
but I do think that there's a lot of people
that would like the Olaf in this matchup
if they're feeling confident about their skills.
Q, though, has had a little bit of a rough time
so far at the tournament, reaching quite a few deaths.
Come on in to Jace in their previous series against AL.
So just have to see whether we can get back on the horse
and figure it out.
I mean, he's not too upset on the camera.
I had a very different read going into this series
that a lot of what we had seen from D-plus
in our previous series were experimentation,
especially in the match against Furia,
where we were thinking,
okay, these are some unusual ones, they're feeling it out.
But now I feel like this is D-plus's read on the meta.
They want to be playing these Victor bottom lanes.
They want to be playing around these eclectic picks,
whereas G2, similar vibes, but it feels to me like they got a better,
more well-rounded composition that plays well into D-plus's style.
They look very prepared.
Yeah, and they've also had a lot more experience in this meta as well,
especially on big stages as the patch has not changed since MSI.
And I love that, because you do get these scrim bubbles clashing, right?
And sometimes they just merge into one, and other times one of them explodes.
And I don't know whether the merge into one thing is ever going to happen with a team like D plus Kier.
They often just decide that their ideas are the best, and we're going to see whether it works until it doesn't.
And right now, it could just not immediately.
As we are going to be starting with a little bit of a delay,
He did say that we were almost under the rift, but that was a lie.
We're not quite there just yet.
And we'll make sure that we get everything sorted out.
The best time for a pause is before the fountain opens.
Oh yeah.
You know, it's not, there's never really a great time for a pause,
but if there were ever to be one, it would be right now.
Yeah.
Before anything happens.
Make sure that you get everything sorted out.
Does that, that doesn't necessarily give away what has happened.
And in fact, it's like nothing happened at all.
as we are getting onto the Rift immediately.
You can see some nice getting moved around Nouses.
Sorry, everyone.
Nouses getting moved around.
DK, can we head onto the Rift here?
Well, game number one of this best of three.
Keep themselves alive at EWC.
I was casting with Hysterix at the end of the day yesterday.
It feels like it's been a while since you and I
have cast together as a result.
Yeah, it's been a day.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a long time, Wolf.
I know.
really really long time I missed you I missed you too I really did glad that
we're reunited here Victor bottom lane with the Camille as Lucid is going to
cross the jungle and grab this ward early and start raptors on the other side
here those scum on coming over with Lebron off to potentially stop this
level one as smash is very far away from the wave yeah Korea is moving over here
as well though and this is kind of frustrating to G2 because they were
trying to go for the other side jungle and you can see they've got a Vi just
doing whatever she wants in the enemy side of the map. DK will be out of push
G2 away. So they end up getting a lot of damage on LeBrov. Now Siumon's jungle is
delayed. Lucid is already working on his second camp here. He's cleared the Raptors
completely and is now working on this red buff so I don't think this level one
worked out the way G2 were hoping unfortunately for them. Yeah and there's
There's another Hookshot to come down, LeBrov taking even more damage, does have that aftershock to help him out.
But this is DK playing with a lot of tempo in this early game, and it's working out very, very nicely.
LeBrov is just going to go home right in front of them, and Korea going to clear out some vision.
LeBrov actually going to eat the ignite as well, that's actually high value, wasn't able to interrupt.
As the Hookshot is going to be able to land on Han Solo, the Korea tanking a turret shot is not exactly optimal.
Extex wait for a little bit of damage, we could bounce around there from the zigz.
Kansama just unable to get level 2, so has to wait for his name skill to get a little closer to his leech as much experience as possible.
We talked about how it can't be quite tricky for the NAR, if hit by undertow's level 1, also going to have to be a little bit more timid.
We'll see what Berkeley can get done now that he has a few troubles under his belt.
LeBrov, going to the mid lane here to try to punish this immobile Taliyah, maybe get a flash, but Shoemaker is playing incredibly respectfully knowing that Taliyah Leona shouldn't have been back in the bottom lane by now and is hot, so LeBrov is called out here and we'll just have to walk away.
Yeah, Showmaker actually, I'm probably pretty happy with Taliyah finding her way back into the meta here after the MSI patch.
As it developed, the Taliyah was picked up as an answer to the Ryzen.
There's always been something that Showmaker has enjoyed.
Karir, really going for a wander here through the jungle.
Maybe looking for an opportunity top side to be on the toe going to get picked up the issue.
Not going to be able to find the next one.
And Karir making his way over.
Let's see whether he can actually get an angle towards Broken Blade. It looks like he feels like he cannot.
This is clearing. I think he's three buffed so far. We'll be trading scuttles.
This could be a huge win here. 4d plus if you get Broken Blade, if Karir can actually set this up.
It doesn't look like it's going to happen here though. We'll see that back come through Lucid.
Going to go over here and try to control this camp a little bit further.
Obviously, NASA scales incredibly well, more than most junglers, but because camps keep getting taken away,
He's gonna really slow that down as LeBrov comes over to help.
Yep.
So that strikes a little bit harder to stack up if there's nothing to hit as LeBrov gonna get stunned up
multiple times. Caps makes his way over, Petromica going to see it out. LeBrov down to 100 health as the punch goes through from Lucid.
Not enough to kill him, but still G2 gonna get pushed away from that top side of the jungle. Once again,
full popcorn chickens come over at least he gets a Q-Stack from that one, but Lucid will get rid of the rest.
And this Nassus really is having a lot of time in the early game.
He's starving, Alice! He's not eating at all!
And this has been one of those things.
You know, throughout the years of League of Legends, Nassus not good early game.
Afterwards can get good.
But right now, having a tough time.
Broken Blade moving on over here as the Vault Breaker will get lucid out.
Good size makes sure they're onto caps from Showmaker and Lucid.
Should be able to get a Vault Breaker in here at the same time
as the Ghost is going to be used from caps to get him out of the way.
Korean moving towards us as he flashes to pick it up first blood for the Camille and sure making an aside step
Into the wall face first
Not gonna hit the zenith on the flash either double fail flash from G2 and g plus walk it off
After the kill goes in the bottom lane skumann is starving
400 gold behind nearly here over Lucid in this early game is really in a lot of ways a
Result of the dominoes that start falling with Lucid starting rafters and their level one going badly
As career here even going to get the overgrowth to proc and we'll grab looks like a plate here
We're up pulls the minions away
Maybe not gonna actually pick that one up
But let's go back to this play here the flash from career denying the satchel
great reaction time there to make sure Hans could not get out.
That was really, really well done from the career.
Just kind of reading the play from Hans-Hammann.
He obviously needed to walk to the other side of the satchel, and so understood.
Needed to flash, make sure that the hookshot is going to be able to work out.
So very, very nicely done.
Secured that. Hans-Hammann now getting pushed out by Smash,
who looked very comfortable in this matchup.
The first time around is continuing to look so up against Hans-Hammann's
towards the bottom side, and we're expecting to see a lot of just 1v1 between these two.
Arm's not exactly psyched out of that whole scenario as the arcane stall comes down on his head.
Lucid now looking for the first dragon of the game as well, and D-plus, this is a phenomenal start.
But if we know anything Wolf, a good start means nothing when it comes to D-plus Kia.
Everything can go wrong, and we'll just have to see whether they can keep it stable,
Keep it all right and finish it off.
We saw a pretty incredible start for them against Fury yesterday,
and then Fury kept it pretty interesting for the first game.
Game two a little bit different, but either way,
the level one's really working out so disastrously here for G2.
I mean, Caps has no flash.
They're just going to continue to threaten him here.
And LeBron comes over a level down,
trying to help keep his jungler fed,
you know, to get him any money he can.
Oh, Xenothlade comes through with a great buffer there on the hookshot.
Sharmik with a threaded volley, trying to find LeBragh,
but he's just gonna throw him around a little bit.
He's going to be skumong locking down his red buff.
That is something, at least.
But Lucid is just kind of manhandling G2 right now.
This was Lucid's most famous pick, coming straight out of Challenger.
He had an entire year where they just did not lose.
If he got this champion, he would not die.
He would kill everyone.
He would be everywhere.
It has since not necessarily been as much of an ace in the hole, but as we can see here, he's still going back to Lucid's Challenger days.
I think anyone who faces D plus key better hope that Elise jungle doesn't come back.
Yeah, it's a crazy one as we do have a bit of a ward here to deny career from making a second play here on the Han Sama.
And those Han Sama is kind of constantly set up in this zone.
He doesn't know full information about where everybody is, he has to play defensively, but it's cost him a lot of farm.
He's 530 gold behind right now, and several waves of farm have been denied from him, so here comes the citizen all in.
Yeah, he's ghosting. Welcome to the angle towards the mini, now Broken Blade gonna have to flash it out of the way, that under Toa's shoe has to buy.
Just take a little bit of a detour in order to pick up the axe, but Broken Blade is in so much trouble, still charging the Nava where he can.
And you can see the axe is a long way away, still trying to catch up as Hansama makes its way in.
But there it is! The last hit with the Q and down goes the gnaw from 0-8 to solo killing Broken Blade.
A much better look here for Shuu.
Much, much better here.
They don't need the Zig's TP, he's gonna do Hansama, he favors by the way.
Bottom lane completely open right now.
And this is the problem. I mean Lucid's taking the grubs, there's a free turret there for Smash.
I mean, consider also, if Broken Blade hadn't run left there, which makes his, basically,
it's guaranteed he's going to die, he's doomed, then maybe, on some, actually gets run down
post-TP from this whole- Oh god, yes, right.
It's very scary.
Uh, this is just so much control right now, 4D plus, 2000 gold leaf, but I feel like the
way is happening.
We're- How well the money is spread across every lane right now is such a problem.
This competition is not necessarily going to come online, so he hits the slow, and he
He knows he can go ahead and commit the ghost for the play here, has his ult, forces the flash here.
HanSama is like, I gotta come up here and try to bail him out, so he commits the TP.
And this means that, you know, Lenar is just stuck in this office while he has to run left.
HanSama is just not gonna be able to save him.
And you can see she actually had so much support, so many teammates on their way up.
As you can see, Broken Blade, yeah, unfortunately getting run down, has been a fun matchup.
For some of our Olaf's and it looks like she is going to be joining that club in this particular game
And this was I'm trying to remember that because you were there with you
Well was this one of she was like first champions that he played in the Kessbeck up. Yeah, and he debuted for D plus
I'm pretty sure what I think it is. So that I think it was one of those eclectic picks
We had so many of them. Yeah, I'll we most recently I think is it's most notable
But before we could talk about it further might have another orange buff situation here is career
Okay, we'll be seeing on this war broken blade. This is gonna have to back away, but at least he won't die here from this ganking Camille
Okay, we're still gonna be rotating over and they should be out to get the crash the undertow will land
I think difficult to stand underneath the tariff at least the Nambar is in a good spot here for broken blade
So baby going to live by just hanging out and taking down these creeps G2 gonna try and slow this game down
Two and a half thousand gold is not the end of the world, but it's getting there especially this early on
3 grubs are being taken, the first Drake is being taken, the second one is going to be 1 minute away
and I don't know where the G2 are going to be fight ready at that stage
a 30 CS gap in the jungle as well
that is so many camps going over to Lucid, but at least the Protoclasm harness has been completed
here for the Nascence
so these guys have that really eco first item here
eco friendly first item, yeah I like it
it's a budget item, it's what you want as assets in the early parts of the game
but it's made out of fully recyclable materials.
Absolutely.
And it's good for the environment.
And that's why I'm here in the jungle.
Gold here, at least, too, it's a struggle,
overall, for G2 right now.
But this game is not by any means over.
It's just a really, really tough time
as the Bob will be able to eclipse and walk away here.
Think for G2 right now, you need to find your moment.
You need to find an opportunity, or otherwise,
just simply give up some early objectives.
The fact that three grubs have gone over
to this D-plus roster is a huge problem, Smash is pre-hitting this turret for so long here.
But you don't want to try to, for example, contest this dragon right now with no control whatsoever, surely.
Yeah, surely.
Well, Skimon is going to walk on down, gets a control ward in there as well.
Hey, they're starting to break through a little bit here.
The non-brush control is going to be there for G2, but LeBron is kind of out of position here.
The death... Oh my god, Smash does so much damage to the Arcane Storm.
He's following the Leona, the Hawkshot.
From career is going to work out and there goes the Nassus.
Haps is going to get career out of there as he does find another Q to take him down.
But that might be all they're going to get as it's a double kill for Lucid.
Haps now gets closed in on and I don't think he's getting away with that round off.
As it's a double for Showmaker.
She was fighting against on Summer in the top lane.
And while the disaster is happening around the dragon.
That was a bit of a rough one.
And I think, from our perspective, right, you know, the casters had a full vision, full information.
It just didn't look likely that G2 were gonna be able to pull off the contest here.
I mean, I would contest, Wolf, that even with the amount of information G2 had, it probably still looked like a bad idea.
Just trying to be nice, Atlas! I don't think it was a good play here.
Now, you have Realm Warp to play around in this fight, but unfortunately, they're not set up to use it.
So, when we do see Scumon bounce over the wall here and go in, he's just instantly locked down.
And the harness isn't going to be strong enough to actually keep you alive.
So now there's no step-slam drag.
Lefavre was a ragdoll in this fight, and Taps gets the kill onto the Kameel,
but can't actually do otherwise any damage to broken blades and trebles.
Yeah, the Hexhex ultimatum comes down, and Showmaker is going to be able to finish off this nerf.
Man, the Kameel combination with this Taliyah, the hookshot getting the stun from
all over the rift, and then adding to that the seismic shove from this Taliyah, not to mention
the Vider we've seen used alongside this so so many times from these two players.
D-plus just looking so extraordinarily comfortable here in this game which,
Wolf, I was just not expecting based on what we'd seen in their previous games.
AGL really made DK look very uncoordinated and in this one they're like a well-oiled machine.
I mean, you could almost make the argument about that last dragon fight that G2 knew they were in a bad spot,
trying to go for the element of surprise, trying to play through that Schumann blast cone engage, right?
But, just, D plus were so ready, so much of this game was about the level one.
So much about this, uh, so much of this game was about the early jungle pathing, where Schumann got nothing,
and Lusa got everything, and then this Nassus was put so far behind that they couldn't actually keep up with the tempo in the lanes.
And speaking of, like, Caps can't farm here, can't defend this turret, he asked the back away,
And now I think this is an insurmountable, like we have now reached critical mass here for D plus this gold lead has tripled
And I just don't know if there's any coming back here. I mean, I'm a real long game
I think for caps at Han's Alma. Alright, you want to come online? So this game is pretty one-sided
I'm gonna take this opportunity to say something potentially controversial. Okay. All right. I'm ready for yeah, sir
So, I, and-
Let me look at the graphic of Grisha.
This is gonna be really good.
I think, okay, Lucid is going to come on over
and look to see whether he can get some of his popcorn chickens.
He's going to survive.
I think that this was a really smart drafting choice
and practice choice for the CD-Maps.
Yeah.
I think that their read on the meta looks good.
I'm not ready to, I'm not 100% sure yet.
I know, it's controversial!
That's a bit of a result-based
No, it's outcome focused okay, okay, there we go. Yeah, we hate results-based analysis
No, that's that's a lose. That's where I found out focus assessment over here. It can be it can be a little bit better
I
Don't think we've seen the power of what G2's comp could do on even footing and
You know in some ways
I don't know if we even saw D plus's comp do what it's supposed to do in this game the Camille Camille
We saw a lot. We saw the vibe a lot
But I'm more just thinking the way that they piloted it just shows that this style of composition has been practiced a lot by this team
And so the practice working out here for D plus and my read when we came into the draft was I thought G2 had the better one and
And D-plus came with not only the draft, but the early strategy, right, the invade of the Raptor camp, the defense of Scumon, which they were 100% ready for.
How well they handled that.
We've got some D-plus fans here in Paris.
I want to D-plus, Jersey's actually here to the audience as well, which is really great to see.
Some classic Damwon jerseys, I think, from that World Championship win, but they got so much in play.
He was up two levels to this Mega.
He isn't going to scare him too much, but LeBron might.
He's going to go ahead and use his Ragnarok and Caps.
He expected that. He's going to walk away.
But now Caps is in no man's land.
Yes, Jimon is going to come down as well.
That's a great solo-flat career.
Exceptionally dead.
He's going to be taken out here.
That's a great pick-off for G2.
And maybe the Caster Curses finally kicked in.
I mean, we've been trying real hard.
So hard, man.
I feel like I had to compliment C.V. Max's drafting.
Like, there were so many things that I had to do
In order to get G2 going.
The closest game I've cast so far this tournament was when
Convent Corp. Alito and Gen G were like
I'm just trying to get a good one here.
Well, see where the G2 can find their way back.
It's a decent start.
They've got a Nassus.
When it came to scaling, this is where we learned what scaling was,
is when Nassus was in the meta.
And so you learn, he does stack up Q, everything's fine.
His Hextech ultimatum comes down, career is in.
He's gonna flash his way out as Q-mon with the ulti running. He's just not that tanky.
Season assist is, it's gonna be Lucid back over the wall. Great jump on a 2 there.
As Q-mon's going to have to deal with this threaded volley and he cannot do so as...
Oh my goodness, the Olaf has found his way back in.
The under-total will take down the Rives and there goes LeBrog.
Q just cannot miss with these axes by the way as Han-Sama's gonna have to get himself over the wall
But he's running the wrong direction and I have a feeling the referee is going to find him
There's another boss go and then make a cones in this game as well
So it is taking him quite quite a distance. So he will make it play out
I notice that even cowbell cow man
Who often appears in dire times, you know when we have long policies
I don't know where he's the actual choice. He appears on camera, but he had his cowbell sheathed
He's not even, he's not even ready to say that this game is playable.
I completely missed it because I was focused on the Ziggs's great escape, but that really
is, um, it's really depressable.
Sheathed Cowbell is not something that you went along.
No, G2 needs a pointy game.
At least get it out.
Now in Defensive G2 again, a lot of this game happened early and it's now at 18.5 minutes
Very difficult to make choices that make you look good that that make that make you be able to get back into this game
Right, but it's trying to farm it out
They're trying to scale up a D plus are being aggressive and I'm just letting G2 sit back as we're gonna go to this play here
for a moment to go a little bit aggressive from career and
Caps is able to walk it off and the re-engaged comes through see a shoemaker here on the bottom side
Trying to push the ball away this shot
Really nice and so they could actually save the bottom part of the fight for them.
But D-plus trusted it. They were already pushing towards the top side.
And then she hits these under toes. He does not miss.
Look at this from career.
Okay, we've got some drifting going on here.
Oh man, alright, straight to Tokyo then.
And Lucid going to be able to get a secondary charge on that inner turret.
Inner fell down on the top side of the map. It's a 9000 Goldly.
So in the last series we had Baker on like 12 and 0, but Goldlee never got to this.
Like it's kind of ridiculous.
Baker, he was winning a lot individually.
There were some other problems around the map here and there.
It was from back in 14 fights.
That was a very fun series.
We're not seeing back in 14 fights.
We're not seeing, you know, it's not just, okay, well,
ShowMaker's got a 2.5 thousand gold beef, but Hansama's ahead.
No, they're not ahead anywhere.
They don't have a jungler in this game.
Fuck, there's an early skimon's fault, it's a good plan for DeepLoss.
No, the poor little zig-stripped on a rock and he just fell over.
Oh, Showmaker is just having the best time.
I swear, Taliyah is so frustrating to deal with if you're a Nasus as well.
I feel like it's a genius pick on that front.
It's because you're trying to get a race like this large target that's very applicable
and thrown around.
He was, you know, it's kiting that can be the real problem for the Nasus.
And it's continuing to be an issue here as Broke of Blade flashing out of the way.
D plus moving everyone towards this inner turret on the bottom side the band is 27 seconds old
So it might be an option for a little bit later on but right now D plus gonna have to siege the old fashioned way
As G2 just trying to pick up the pieces as best they can they're gonna save at least this next plate on this inner turret
And D plus gonna go home and spend all of that money and showmaker
He is no stranger to the desired soul skill and he's stolen 14 souls so far
He just when you when you see that item and should make his inventory
That's when the plus fans know that it's safe to you know get up and I don't get some out of the fridge
You know, you don't need to watch the rest of the game. I'll surely be fine
Yeah, that was that was one of those times and then I woke up with no hair wolf
He didn't buy a magi's that came he was playing Renekton or Jace I think I was playing Jace
It was like Jace. Yeah, so there was no magi's so I guess it's fine. There's no broken blade right now
I have a feeling
Well, Korea is going to not find the Hextech's wave and then walk away.
So, Brooklyn Blade is gonna be alright for now.
They're making this pushing this wave up and they are doing such a good job just keeping this pressure up.
They've touched that before and that has been a bit of a downside of DK's.
Often they push their luck, but not in a good way.
This time around, they are suffocating G2 and making intelligent plays around the map to avoid G2 having any opportunities
to get back into this game outside of Korea, just randomly tanking the turret there.
He's just trying to keep Broken Blade from backing, and, you know, I said there's no Broken Blade, he didn't die,
but he has been put down several times, he's 0-3 right now, denied his back twice, pushed out of the lane,
and unfortunately for G2, it's gonna take, I think, 20 more minutes of survival
if we are going to see some sort of comeback from them in this one.
Attempts to contest the dragon for example were valiant, but they failed right?
So that's the risk they took that puts them at a 10,000 gold deficit had they just sat back
Maybe they lose too much and the game is out of hand
But I don't know if it would have been 10,000 gold out of hand
But that's the choice they made from the deficit and they are really feeling it now as caps is and not like a shulk
I don't think so.
No, they're not feeling it like that.
Oh no, I don't think so.
They're not feeling it like that.
Oh no, I don't think so.
I'm gonna have to put the Minato away, I think.
That's alright.
Ski Mon, I'm gonna be tanking up this turret a few times.
Caps takes one as well.
That's a nice little stunt onto Careers.
The Solar Flare is going to extend it.
Ski Mon makes his way over.
Saffroning Strike, starting to do a bit of damage.
The Realmwarp is not great, and the Undertow slows three people,
and Career is just gonna try and do his very best to wander his way up.
way up. Broken Blade gets on in here as Caps is going to be able to cut off this Camille
and on some up gets himself over there and we'll be out of satchel Korea back. So Rear
is going to be dead for the third time. A story into picture and pictures meanwhile with the
going mini and fans surprised by the teleport. Yes. But he did end up getting over there. He
did end up picking up the kill so it ended up being worth it. Although it's not normally how we
we've seen our teleporter in this case made a lot of sense.
And it's six turrets to zero as a result of that play as well.
You can see Chima get towards that bottom side trading the turret.
And that is why the gold lead has now equipped to 10,000 mocks.
I know we had a bit of a, you know,
it's actually an all LCK broadcast right now with the desk being fully LCK
and us being LCK here on the caster desk.
And I know they were giving,
we did a lot of grief for saying he thinks Juju's going to take it,
but I really expected it.
No, I didn't do it.
I'm still in favor. It's 100%.
Okay, that would be the kill shot.
We're taking it. Yeah, that was a very uh, I
mean, what do you do this in a lock that's
pretty pretty significantly fed
And a lot of times coming up like for about half a second
I'll take it and then we saw the weaver's wall
They killed Lucid that was really that was a good bug. Yeah
D plus did kill the parent no more hold on
I mean she is pretty killable here as well as Baron is going to get taken down that is gonna be crazy
somehow that manages to get that one because they didn't have a jungler still
broken blade coming on over and the rest of DK gonna look to try and escape
remember you don't have to keep everyone alive, sure making this goes up into the
sky for some reason instead of using the blast going in order to escape
controlled by his teammates I assume as Lucid out of the death chamber maybe
straight back in but the Zenith blade will not connect maybe luckily full of
rough as it would have followed him underneath the inatorate but that is a
a very deep telepore, smash making his way over as well and she wants to cut them off.
Caps, oh dear, he's extraordinarily dead but can Han stay alive, that is the question.
Lucid gonna be left to 1v1 him and that is not a very fair one for the Zeke's.
Down will go to the Leona as well and now D plus they're gonna break over in the base
and is this just the end of the game?
It looks likely because they've got Baron Bump, they've got a lot of damage here and
They're just sweeping through this inhibitor,
Broken Blade Level 14, just kind of running back
to the fountain here as the onslaught of D-Plus hits,
and it hits hard.
It really does.
There's the ball break,
and the season assist there as well.
Ascumon is just going to get eviscerated.
Down will go to the NAR as well,
or at least onto the fountain,
as the Nexus turrets fall one after the other.
The Nexus to follow, and D-Plus,
they do not want to be eliminated from EWC.
That was an absolute shellacking.
Team game number one.
It all started in the early game,
but the most impressive part of D-plus's win
was how they gave G2 no quarter constantly,
applying the pressure.
An amazing game of Camille from career who was ahead
and had agency, but always used it.
He was never going to let these guys get anything
as this is a pretty picture picture here of the vibe.
Yeah, Lucid just having an absolute day out
on this fight, did fall down that one time,
they still managed to win the team fight
and all across the rift.
I mean, D plus, it was what looked like
an extremely well-practiced draft
and then exceptionally well-utilized
into what G2 wanted to play.
And I was expecting that this was gonna be
a very different story.
Desk, how about you guys?
What did you think?
I thought it was a shell hacking there,
Mr. Max Anderson Atlas and Wolf on the call.
Thank you so much for that one as D plus Kia
really take it to G2 who did not have any answer
for the aggression throughout the game.
Yeah, I think we're seeing more and more adaptation
in the bot lane.
Like we've seen the Leona into Camille going really well,
but it's Victor into Zeke's.
Having that early prior doesn't allow him to sit back
and get to that point where he has the manner for wave clear.
And we saw the early pickup of the Nassar
since Q1 never really get off the ground, so that gold grafts smooth as you can get basically.
Yeah, basically I think Jungle Nasus is all about can you actually clear the first pathing,
but I think this time around DK had such a great plan, invading enemy red side as jungler
and then defending their jungle with their bot lanes, because this is the power of the
victory and Camille in the early game, because even though it's the 2v3, they can definitely
just fight back and force them out. And after that, Schumann had no chance to bounce back
because he can't counter jungle, he can't go for the fight, he can't go for the gank.
That's the downside of the Nasus jungle. He just signed the brush for a bit. That's all he can
really do. And then when the camps started to respawn, this is the big thing, right? Getting
that first red side jungle from Schumann is obviously massive, but contesting on the
re-clear, D plus made sure they were there in numbers and getting this initial focus down on
Labrov forcing him away. At the ensq. the result of this, he got one little chicken, one little chicken
from this, the rest of the camp went over two Lucifs. I think just playing really well around the
Nasus and shutting it down from the early levels. I really like how they play on Lucif here. I think
even though he had the insane advantage, if he didn't have his teammates around him, I think he
couldn't be able to snowball this fast. But I think Showmaker and Keria being on form right now
with him is like looking great. You know, for those of you that don't know what did and our
fellow co-streamer Yankees recently had experience with the jungle Nasus during the Chidetic Legends
match. And I promise it did not look like this. It did work. Griffin as well used this over at the
LCS from FlyQuest, but when it gets stuck behind, there's just not a lot you can do. Yeah. I mean,
I honestly thought focusing down the Nasus with the Protopause and Fist might remove some of the
pressure but like caps is chasing clear up to the side already two members down
and I just think smash free hitting here showmaker free hitting the DPS is
constantly coming out and lucid on this guy was such a prominent thread we've
talked extensively about lucid on this pic how he said when he first came in
the LCK that he thought he was the best guy in the league and he's demonstrated
again here I also was just much easier for a D-plus here here because I think
also they had the mid-pride and the bot-pride at the same time and again
like Ziggs versus Victor is all about like the matchup that he happens in the mid lane as well.
I think Ziggs wants to be boring in the lane, but Victor always goes for the trade,
so he can't really do anything that he wanted to do on the point lane. So I think in general,
really great draft idea from Diploscare here. And I think G2 has to think about different plans
coming up to this game too. Aux, I feel like in a best of three, when you are coming in as maybe
a perceived underdog, when you go for a risky draft like this, I feel like that in itself was
strategy. Hey, we're playing around this and if we fall behind we're pretty, uh, uh, you know,
in a lot of trouble. However, it does feel like an intentional decision by G2 here.
Yeah. I mean, the thing is with Anastas, there's a lot of conditions that need to enable this.
I'm fine with you going for a bit of a riskier drafting game, one of the best of three,
but the conditions have to be met and I just don't think they achieved that.
All right. We'll see what else G2 has concocted for us in this best of three.
their EWC tournaments on the live in game number two, we'll see you after this.
I think it's super hard, and you can just play support and be fine.
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I'm not sure what to do.
I'm not sure what to do.
When I compare to the other role, I think top lane is so much harder. Playing the champion
is very technical. You have to 1v1 the guy. Basically every lane, and jungle is super
hard. You can just play support and be fine. When I play autofill, I play support and I
feel like I'm just winning. It just feels that way. You don't need to be super good
that farming, people's farm, it just roams you, you feel free.
Yeah, I can look it through, kind of agreeing with Hans.
I think the other lanes, you need to think about more stuff and support that and you
have a bit more free time in general.
Well, I have the same answer, because I'm an ADC, I think I have a lot of knowledge
on support and also some of the support champs.
I used to play it on ABC.
If I would be able, I would be support.
For me, it's very different.
I think bot lane and top lane, the lane phase is a bit similar.
How they work.
And if I played a lot of top lane, I think I would also be good at it.
And also the fact that it's one versus one.
I think if you are better at enemy top lane,
you will have a lot of impact in the game.
What do you think of yourself?
You mean?
A lot.
Okay.
You were kind of like a common answer, right?
I was thinking Hans would say this, but for me, I played a bit against this one, and it looks very, very okay.
I think it got nerfed, so maybe it will be worse now.
I didn't really see that change too much, so I can't really comment on that too much.
But you me, definitely, it's like, when you play this champ, you instantly feel like it's very different than other champs, when you play with it or you play it yourself.
And I feel like the gameplay is like, there's not enough gameplay for me to feel like it's like a champion.
Really?
I feel like, really.
I think everyone has their own sense of humor.
I think I connect more with his own sense of humor.
It's quite fun.
I think he's a very special guy.
If you guys know him personally, you would actually lose it.
But in a good way.
It's quite fun.
Yeah, I mean I love to be with him because I think he's a very funny guy as well.
It's easy for him to make you laugh.
He will figure out what's funny for you and he will just imitate and like, yeah.
Yeah, so I've shown a lot of methods on some states, like led, yasuo, and trust me in
scrims, he has also played some really fast chance as well.
We didn't show on states, but yeah, he's really eager to try new stuff.
And some of them really work well, some of them... no.
Ha ha ha!
Can I be right?
Tear?
Yeah.
Peacaxe.
Oh.
I mean, Peacaxe because I'm a survivor, right?
Like, yeah, I'm alone in the island.
I mean, I could, like, craft the Peacaxe myself, but I'd rather have a Peacaxe from my build,
you know, like, how can I craft the Peacaxe from nothing?
Yeah, I probably need to get some wood, you know, right?
Makes sense, yeah.
I wrote tear so I can have unlimited water, you know.
I don't know what you're doing.
What did you write?
I wrote actor.
Actor?
Yeah.
Architect and manga.
And when I was a kid, when people were asking me what I would do later, it would be, I would always answer them, architect or tennis man,
but I got really fond of manga later on, so I was actually doing my own manga.
In a different world, I would like to try being an actor.
I think it's a cool job and making people laugh and just yeah in general I think it's very fun.
Will you be right?
You will start.
Oh I wrote for given, you're right.
You will start, I have high respect for forgiving.
I'm still waiting for the thing we had to do.
Yeah I mean I wrote for given for the Greek senior general and I think he was really really
It's a really good start on his prime, but if you travel sometime, it will be very insane.
When I was starting League, Lústar was a pro player and looked up to him.
And yeah, for sure, on his peak, playing League Lústar, he might do some damage.
Welcome back to the cosy desk ladies and gentlemen, we are ready for game.
That number two to see whether D plus KIA can do it again because they are a team that
don't often do back to back really good performances.
And I have to say, I'm a little bit worried about this game.
Number two, if you are thinking on the LCK side of things, G2, I think that they are
definitely going to be capable of bouncing back, but we'll see exactly what does happen
because like we often talk about fearless and like it's going to take away all of these
key picks.
They can't play Nasus, they can't play Olaf, they're still a whole lot less available.
There's no more Victor Flex pick.
Yeah, exactly.
I think that we could still have a very, very normal game of League of Legends here, and
I think that G2, if they just bring it back to basics, it should be alright to bring us
to a game number three.
That's what I'm feeling.
Perhaps we'll see our bottom laners use the attack damage profile.
Ah, maybe.
That is very strange.
I know that I think it was pays that has been playing a bit of Jason the bottom lane
So yeah, there could be some attack damage champions down there
Yasuo was a bot laner as well. I was gonna be for a little bit. Yeah, I really liked the Yasuo Sajwani bottom lane. That was a good one
I
Have not necessarily enjoyed this meta that much myself. It has been
You know what some dude kind of guy sometimes when there's not a whole lot of you know, 80s carrying
Tanks just live forever and then you have teamfights where there's four champions on two pixels
Crawling it out like at our team one game. We just watched
Whereas Ahin is also just impossible to kill it takes 20 minutes for a team fight to end
Yeah, I don't I don't like that either
Mainly from a health standpoint because I feel like I cannot do my job after a team fight like that happens
Maybe if it does happen in the next game wolf
I know that you just said that you didn't like it so you probably don't really want to actually ask my request
But if you could just play by play for a little bit
Let me get my breath back and then I can stop backing again. Yeah, oh something like that
I think that would be a really good idea in order to try and see it my biggest fear going to the second game
Spiders
Is well if I were in Australia right now
Though I'd be like looking around, but I haven't seen any spiders in Paris yet. Okay
But now you may be a little worried. So my second biggest fear next to a spider crawling on this casting desk
is
Syndra being picked up early against Shemaker and then not necessarily being able to draft around that.
Yeah, I haven't been a big fan of the Syndra either. I have to admit
I mean it is it is Shemaker right like human B2D in the LCK have been our Syndra guys
for many many years
I'm trying to show you as well, I guess, sprinkled in there, but yeah, I would agree with you.
I think that it's not one of those sort of ace in the hole style of picks, but here we are into the draft and already
we have a first pick. BB gonna lock down the Jarvan for Skiumond and now D-Buzz here to try and figure it out.
You know, he got put down by the early levels and Lucid out jumbling him in that early game,
but this pick, his Jarvan in particular, inspired me when I watched him at first hand.
It was so good on this champion, and he destroyed our region.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yeah, I wasn't even gonna say that.
No, come on, man.
I told you I was worried about it, and there was a reason.
Oh, my...
You wielded into existence.
You just manifested this syndrome right here into a Jarvan.
Are you kidding me?
Well, he's got at least the Zins out to keep him safe.
Alright, thanks.
Okay, well, I can keep that.
Is it possible that I keep that Jarvan away?
Okay, well, in theory, yes. Okay. Now G2, what are they gonna augment this Jarvan pick with?
Orianna is banned, of course, so we won't be seeing that pairing here. A lot of our mages will play a good Jarvan.
Could be good. Although I guess the idea is pretty good.
I guess the idea is pretty good.
Yeah, but it hasn't worked that well in the early levels, so you can see actually a completely different take here on this with the early Lucian.
Those work well with Jarvan, one of the really easy setup for Lucian in all of the fall of Burst 4 Hans, and they're also going to grab this Nautilus.
Done are the days of the Lucian Nami.
Yep, the Lucian Milio as well has really fallen out of favor.
Lucian Brom? Forget about it. Forget about it.
We did see Lucian ban!
Lucian ban? No way!
Yeah, I hope not.
We did know that there was going to be no Yumi because of that piece of content that we had prior to this, and Hans-Sama said that he didn't like it.
And so that's going to be alright.
going to be alright. The rel consideration here for Korea, which is not what I was expecting.
I kind of thought that they would lock something away for she and then protect it in the next
band phase. It's quite a splitting the bottom lane.
Quite a weird pick. A lot of engages gone though Camille, Liliana, right? So with the
Nautilus also taken away. They're playing as Syndra, you know, it ends up making sense.
I think it's a pretty easy Jin ban for G2 at this point. Jin works really well with
Syndra. Yep, I would ban Jin as well.
Yeah, you just hate Jen, but yeah, I think it also makes sense from a strategic. Wow, okay, okay
There's multiple reasons to ban stuff as we'll see what the first fan is going to be
I imagine still may be looking towards the top lane, but never mind. It's actually a bit of a
Bit of in the Kali situation
They're trying to protect the Syndra pick which I just realized which is why I had that sort of inflection in my voice that the
Syndra could be heading towards bottom lane
Smash it could has been playing the victor, but he could have also been playing the syndrome down there as well
I don't know about the syndrome Lucian matchup
The last time I saw it was in mid lane about five years ago
I don't remember showmaker play both sides of that matchup a lot. He definitely did
So we will see the York now taken away which
Could lead towards a Jace pick up here or broken blade in the top lane
But you're a call specialist from silent champion. It gives D plus people didn't move
G2 around the map. Cassiopeia feels like a strong two-list band here for D plus
Kiev that's going to be the focal point is the mid lane. Yep, wouldn't mind
something like that just to try and remove a string from the bow of caps and
the LeBlanc is another great option. One of the shared champions between both
caps and showmaker. Both of them absolutely fantastic on that pick. It might be
just even a showmaker decision. So in CB Max I just don't want to deal with this.
Yep in this matchup caps is great at it. I am a great little block there myself. Yeah, I know how I
Matchup can be exactly
It's probably his call on that one again the gym kind of out there and lurking as a strong pick here
That is
Expecting the syndrome bottom lane
I don't mind it or just banning away the Cassiopeia bottom lane, which was something
That's a good point, just a few different options there and it can be really annoying as well
If you want to try and play the Nautilus the miasma is just frustrating to deal with so getting that one out of the way is a good
Idea, I think we are gonna see the bottom pick here
Oh dear. Oh, not gonna hold that flex. Third time's a charm Wolf. Third time is the charm
I thought we were gonna see that and then we were gonna see a potential
Counterpick for the top side but instead just gonna hold that cinder flex here and keep g2 guessing
They did ban the York so that'll be easier as it's going to be a
Grumble to come through here for broken blade and we're going to find out now
What caps will be piloting here in this mid lane?
Silas that's a back again on one and silas into zinder is something that we've been seeing quite a bit
It doesn't feel like it to be great
Just because scat of the week can get him out of there if he does dash his way forward
But with the chains you just find your way back in so comfortably and that is a Zoe
Are we consideration here for Shoemaker?
He did like to play this back then when also the Syndra was meta,
and one of his favorites, again, BD and Shoemaker from our region,
being the ones who love to pilot these the most.
And it's another poke comp to come out from D+.
So Shoemaker's world famous Zoe,
and that does mean that Smash is going to be playing the Syndra
on the bottom side of the map,
and all of a sudden it has become a poke composition with a rel.
There's so much that gets in the way of the Silas trying to actually get backline access
to this chase between the rail, the scan of the weeks, the trouble bubbles on the ground
that can actually be really frustrating to navigate around.
Same with the Jarvan, we'll have to navigate through a lot of this too, but I think in some ways,
because there's so many different tools, including the Nautilus here for G2,
all you have to do is hit one of those CCs, once the cooldowns are down here for D+,
and you get in there, the rumble equalizer gets set up, you have the cataclysm.
I am really worried about this comp from D plus because it doesn't have any form of consistent damage.
It's all skill shot based damage. You have the Q's come on the ground from the Syndra, right?
You have the Zoe trying to hit those paddles, but you also have the chase and the shock blast,
which has been a bit of a pain point for us.
Hey, 1-1, okay?
He's managed to win one of them.
Um, did have, of course, that stinker that was what we were referring to earlier.
I just think it's a really hard composition of play.
Oh, yeah.
Plus, it is incredibly difficult.
I'm not saying that it cannot work, and I was fairly, uh, a quite large doubter, I would say,
if the Game 1 draft compared to what G2 had, the early game went pear-shaped for them, though.
And we did end up seeing a very one-sided game.
I think what happens here in the second one?
No matter what happens in this game, there is always a chance for G2 to come back.
I think almost in every single scenario, just because if their hard engage works,
D-plus will collapse like a house of cards.
But here we are, onto the riff for game number two,
seeing whether G2 can bring us to that coveted third game decider
to keep themselves alive here at EWC.
Remember, we only had two more slots remaining.
I'm not entirely sure what was happening with the other match just yet.
It looks JDG favourite at the moment,
but still too early to call in that second game, the leading one and zero.
We'll see whether it is going to be another LPL representative joining.
That would mean that the only Western team to go through,
so far the Common Corp. hasn't been happening in G2,
become the hope here in this one.
And we did expect that G2 would have a pretty good showing
in this particular match so far, D plus being able to navigate their loss dropped very effectively.
And this one, completely different story, and yes, they out-range, and if they can actually disengage from D2 effectively,
then there could be some opportunities, but man, it is such a tight road to walk here for D+.
Now, if Karir sets up some CC here, it's very easy for Smash to follow up and do a lot of burst damage.
Karir's going to connect here, as Karir is going to try and keep himself alive with that heal.
sudden that is now on cooldown chains going to connect their showmaker does find the trouble bubble wants that paddle stop
It has to proc the extra damage with the auto attack and there is that paddle stop down to a hundred health
Obviously, it's a silence right does have that Kingslayer coming back up so can get some of that health bar back
caps
healing up as you say a
big difference in the bottom lane compared to the these two
80 carries is that Han Samba doesn't need to necessarily
hit abilities to actually do damage. You could just right-click whenever there's an opportunity.
So if career and smash miss, then it is going to be very difficult to play out what happens next.
But you can see right now, control in mid and top, bottom lane is definitely G2 favor.
Yeah. And based on what we're seeing out of smash, I'm like wondering whether actually he wanted to be a mid laner.
Because he's just been playing mid lane champs over and over again, LeBrov.
Let's take a cheeky turret shot there as they do get the shove in checking out all of these lanes though
It's caps that's really drawn the short straw in this one having to blind pick the Silas does have a bunch of
Ultimates that can work out like Cresengard for example is a brilliant one
Not to mention the Magnet storm as well if picked up in a teamfight can do a lot of damage
But the portal jump and being Jace is just not as effective
Yeah, it used to be that being Jayce Silas was broken. I remember Pony's always played that one and it was very very dangerous.
And it looks like JDG did by the way. They were operating that series. I mentioned they were leading when I last checked in, but it's finished already.
Gala just absolutely obliterating that key. As you can see picture in picture. So another one bites the dust here. JDG find themselves in the knockout.
This is the last spot the last opportunity here for any of the teams just to update you
I will I do have the list here in front of me
I was just having a look to see whether any team fights are gonna break out
They are not we've got a jail from the LPL already through PLG already through and JDG already through
as well as Casey as we mentioned before Gen G and
And T1 40 in there as well, DK trying to f*** that, that's not going to work out as fast blood goes over to LeBrog, and he will not be dying to the turret this time.
The angle on the dredge line was perfect, and he is able to get that last bit of CC through as well as the damage required there to take Showmaker out, so a very nice early lead here for G2, and done without Skiwant's help.
Yeah.
Beautifully done.
Do you now? Moving back towards that topside was a very aggressive teleport.
And in they do go, oh, picks the Flash!
That was somewhat skew-mots.
Yeah, a little bit of skew-mots.
But one of them went one way, the other one picked the Flash, like, it's beautiful.
It's like, let's just take both exits to see who can stop him.
They absolutely managed to do so, very, very nicely done here by G2.
Really, you know, difficult as well to gank this lane without a setup like that.
They played it really, really well.
Jamekra now down flash also, importantly because he absolutely is.
There's gonna be a lot of damage from Broken Blade, but he does get booted away.
And she's just gonna go even in that trade basically.
Ten CS going to be the advantage for the Jace though.
And one thing can be said to she is that the laning phase, he's been fine.
He's just been overextending and dying over and over again in some of these matchups.
The anchor is going to be...
And once again, Smash forced the Flash out of the way, does manage to escape.
So let's see where the Broken Blade is going to be so lucky,
as there is the Shattering Strike Flash out of Korea, picks up the turret,
heals himself back up again, and down will go Bibi.
So the answering kill is going to be there for D-plus.
Broken Blade was able to get a lot of that wave,
was hoping that maybe he could clear it before the dive happened,
but at least was able to pick up the money from most of those minions before going down.
does not have teleport quickly so shield up there gonna be able to get some
additional value we'll be able to deny some more farm and experience
allies that's people to make her gonna need some resources to deal with him as we
saw before they were able to get killed on him but when he's left to his own
devices will feel naturally strong on some of dashes here forward there's a
lot of damage and then it's a hex flash gauge tricky angle there on the bridge
line almost looked like it was gonna hit the turret but I was able to hit smash
Smash there, and Tsukumon comes over, all the way out.
Smash, not going to have a whole lot of fun here.
Those managed to get the scatter, but Smash will just keep dancing around, gets oddly blazed,
and will be taken out of that one, his broken blade also going to suffer on the top side.
It's level 6, clear the wave, but not quite through to do it in time, of course.
Alright, so, it does mean that the gold leads on the map are Shu, on the top side of the map,
and Hans-Sama who is in a great position towards his bottom side on the Lucian as
LeBrogh. Let's see whether these heat-seeking anchors are gonna continue
working because he has really started this game on the right foot this time
around. And D-plus was coming towards that bottom side, not exactly the greatest
of times, and you know that a support is having a great time when they're just
Hex splashing around the lane.
Yeah.
And that is generally the state that you want to be in
if you're in control and it's just threatening non-stop.
Because you have that temple across,
about to get his Hex flash back.
And he's going to go for it one more time.
Yeah, there he goes.
They did have that control ward in there,
but Karir is still just going to get caught out.
Crash is down in order to keep himself alive.
But sacrifices a lot of his health bar.
Now Caps is potentially in trouble here as the Battlestar
will push him away.
still have his teleport back, so we'll just have to chug through one more refillable here.
And sure make it doesn't have damage items yet, right?
Like he's got a sapphire crystal and some cooldown boots, so it's not really the deadliest of zoes at this point in time,
really does want to pick up the Ludens for that extra burst damage to really take control of this mid game.
The maker had a really good board there, so it was not going to be caught,
You're trying to look for a kill there on the cap, some runs, face first, into the skewmon, so he's being fined there.
The ward is clear, and when the board is shoot, it's broxying the wave here,
clearing this up as fast as possible, trying to further his lead on the top side, so we have the way Grubbs is spawning.
He wants to deny some farm here from Berkambliv at LeBrov. Again, he's ready to hex flash potentially over this wall,
and run the face first into the ward instead.
He's going real fast. There's the flash over the anchor. Is Lucid going to need to come up?
Doesn't actually have to.
He's two back away pretty quickly.
Skim on now, finding career in the river.
We'll be able to get that knock-up onto the horse pants, lady.
Caps coming on over here as Showmaker was fresh off a reset.
This was not the time to roam the career, unfortunately.
Even the hijack coming through as the Magnet Scorn is picked up for the Silas.
That's a phenomenal ultimate to Caps to have for the next little while.
See whether he finds an opportunity to use it.
We're trying to look for a little bit of information or maybe even try to hold the weight there for showmaker
But unfortunately for him. He has found the worst possible time as
Like you said showmaker was on that back and now scumon is gonna be able to pick up this dragon
So we'll be g2
Getting further ahead in this early game. It's really only you and as that gold lead right now and
It's a json this coff is like I said before so complicated to play and the center is so tricky
If it doesn't get resourced and if it actually isn't tempo ahead in whatever lane it's playing often a mage versus mage
And this matter but into the Lucian you're just constantly getting pushed out
You're you're unable to farm properly as you guys could see in the CS. He's a level down
Practically on Han Samo right now is about to hit level 8
G2 are kind of just winning everywhere with the exception of that top side
And we'll see whether DK can actually play through Shear this time around because we know he is a man that does tend to
overextend
The run is unintentional, but the meaning was ended
Scream towards his bottom side to try and keep smash alive as the anchor is going to greet him crashes down towards his
Awesome dude carry guy. I'll shoot need some help, but lose it's very far away. He's gonna be a little bit more time here
Gonna run off, that is gonna be a shock blast to come on through the pub. Q is set up here for Xiu, but steps to the side
And we'll be able to get out of the furnace for now. Xiumo not quite capable of tanking that turret for long enough
The teleport brings Trumaker over to make sure that they are gonna be alright as smash.
Walls of Will comes down, but there is the great starter to cancel the calling and the Unleashed power dodge this
Says smash and now Xiu, he's teleporting down. There's gonna be another one and this Magnus Storm picks them up
It's capsule locks down career though, but she he's got the auto attacks
He's able to find the damage and G2 they flash away to keep themselves alive now
They do end up getting away
They're very narrowly as that scatter was not quite able to connect there and shoot it out
Had a struck blast back to look for another it's going to be a
Teleport now committed down here to the top to the bottom side
It's Han Samus did take it in this match up
into the Syndra, who was leaving it.
Now, there you know, and it's the paddle star, Stunderhurst,
now that at least a book is being picked up for Showmaker.
Still doesn't quite have his lost chapter yet, right?
Like, do you feel like if that first item spike comes in,
it broken blade gets caught like that again?
He could just die.
Flash out of the way from Hans-Arma, though, is lucid.
Let's find a good angle with the wind that comes lightning,
and Smash makes his way back in.
I'm gonna get the kill or anything like that,
but a flash from ADC, he feels fantastic if he plugs.
Long back to this play here, Dimash, ending up walking this off, and Han Sama holds his ground.
This eats so much damage from that Q, and the ult comes through, he just is deleted.
And there wasn't...
I mean, caps was so far away.
I don't know if Han Sama would have been able to buy further time for caps, his TP had he just walked back there,
but it definitely did not work out the way he wanted.
LeBron's flash here is fantastic, but it still ended up losing out on the exchange in a big way.
Han Sama's forced to flash on return as well, so...
D-plus down on gold right now, but only 900 and got a big win back.
Yeah, and the Flash Scatter was really weird there from Smash as well.
I didn't quite have North down in order to set up any sort of stun,
but what happens as this game continues.
Most gold in the game belongs to Caps, Hans and Skumond,
and they have got a 1000 gold advantage due to that one.
D-plus still kind of fine in this game for now.
We mentioned it's a bit like a tightrope to make this composition work,
And if you continue to find the hot engages, the Nautilus is pretty good at a job, and it's pretty good at
Then it could be real difficult. It's okay need to try and keep them at arm's length
It's just they can't pick up here for lucid. So now the other match
Scumond in that regard to big items really this these two drafts when they collide together
I think the best way to put it is quite volatile, right?
There's a lot of
Stuff that can happen that doesn't go the way you expect because it's just not the way traditional League of Legends
as played and we have, you know, a Zoe Syndra comp here, but it's very fragile and very
bursty and if you don't end up getting those picks Zoe can too outlast you.
Pretty interesting stuff here, Shumaker will not pick this sleep, yeah.
The portal dump though will keep him safe over that wall.
It isn't too much of a glorious, champs just wandering around this mid lane.
He does have 450 gold advantage on this Silas, LeBron once again having a real good time
with his Hex Flash, and Showmaker, going to get caught out here, does pull a little bit asleep those caps,
but Showmaker gets the worst end of that trade.
It doesn't have TP either, Lucid's going to come over here and try to make something back of this,
but caps is already way out of there, so he's going to have to go through the jumble.
Now Lucid actually realizing, maybe getting the call from Showmaker that he has to stick around and lock that one down.
Ludens is completed here for Showmaker, and is certainly great news.
We'll start to do a febative damage if those sleeves do connect.
That's the big one. He's already doing a lot of damage to, you know, some of the pushier champions here on G2's roster.
Now, has the ability to fight in this upcoming dragon if they can get control of it,
or at least some space controller to allow him to get in there.
Right now, they have a lot of space to work with here.
As you can see, there's a control ward in the pit.
Dragon just shoves to the entrance as G2 are not there yet.
So maybe we could see that earliest Kermis here for D plus around this double mage composition
with that spike coming through for Showmaker,
turning this into a lot closer of a game
and putting us on a one-to-one Drake score.
G2 could not have a great entry point here,
so it looks like this time around, unlike Game 1,
they will simply give it up.
Yeah, Showmaker also picks up a locket,
which is kind of a ridiculous item.
Grab has the Zoey, that's a real good one.
Could be used quite nicely in defense,
but Lucid just going to be able to take this one down,
and I'm going to be able to utilize that locket.
Just the other Showmaker is just going to throw it down
as he wanders towards his bottom lane caps.
Looking for an angle.
The chains do not land as he still decides to go on top,
but that bubble was gorgeous!
He picks up the Unleashed Power and throws it at Smash!
But this does a dash out of the way.
He's gorgeous.
LeBrov comes down towards his bottom side of the beach ball,
not gonna land on the caps.
G2 keeps their mid laner alive.
It's just so...
The League of Legends looks so weird when you've got
the Syndra and the Zoe playing in tandem like that
in a side lane as caps
is unable to make that paperwork. It was so close.
Those chains landed is a completely different story,
but you will just have to walk away back off.
And we're trying to reset to, again,
a fairly normal game state here.
One dragon apiece of his infernal soul,
which would be insane for either of these compositions,
but especially with the burst power
in this Sengrisowie composition.
G2 definitely want to make sure they can lock down
the rest of those four of this game.
Broke of Blade stabilized in his lane
before the rocket belt.
So, a little bit more of a defensive option here in this match.
I've actually used it to stop the back of their shoes,
or if you could see on the minimap.
Yep, also gonna get the Steel Caps as well,
to make sure that this case is not gonna be too much of a problem.
But, speaking of problems here,
Showmaker looking to move towards that top side of the bubble,
is not gonna quite connect on the broken blade.
Who does decide that he's probably going to die,
so he's going to just get rid of the minion wave
before he does fall down.
Korea locks up the kill, not exactly ideal here for DK,
But they'll take whatever they can get at this point.
Sometimes the difference maker in these types of picks is that he used his rocket belt to actually stop him back.
He doesn't have it defensively, can't get away there.
And it was a quick rotation up from D plus.
This Goldfinch is so small here for T2.
They had so much control, but it is becoming very quickly a very even game here.
We're gonna see Lucid take the Herald on cross map here.
She will be able to walk away.
They look pretty thin, so I don't think they can get the full turret either.
Yeah, not quite.
So I actually thought that they were gonna get that last plate, what I was about to say, but it does not actually happen.
So first turret does go over to DK, the Herald goes down as well, that means that they pull the gold back in their direction just slightly.
I still do think that that tightrope that we were talking about before still exists, and as this game goes on, the team fights just make a whole lot more sense for G2
and will be very, very difficult to pilot for D+, but it is a style of composition that they have made work in the past.
And we'll see whether they can do it yet again.
But this game is so close is...
Well, I'm gonna have to do my thought on this because we are gonna have a bit of a pinch of follow-up here on the sleep, plus the hit.
Yeah, that's...
I'm gonna lose a lot of health on his turret and on his own health, but...
We've lost 15 to the river, 2 minutes on the drake, so we're not fighting over that one.
We're just looking for a risk on the great knock-up there, onto his Demarsium brother.
is now Han Solo possibly in a little bit of trouble getting a little sleepy as well as now Smash makes his way in
She locks down the prop now Skimon could be in a little bit of trouble the cap shows off massive health bar
He's also got the zinza ulti running and she has to get the heck out of dodge
And this is the problem G2 if they're in melee range, they will kill you
That's the problem. There's just no durability here outside of the Crescent guard for Lucid
I mean, sure, career kinda tanky on the support here, but isn't going to last very long when there's that much firepower there for G2.
And if caps have been there a little bit faster, you can imagine how much worse this could have gone for D+.
And the Crescent Guard is on their side as well with caps stealing that one away.
And this turret will finally go down here.
The second turret of the game is the first to go over to D+.
But it puts a much larger lead here into G2's hands.
So it's very messy here for D-Pulse initially. A lot of CC goes down, but Cresticard buys face,
Smash rotates over, right? You have that TP and J's.
There's no backpull, and Bull's opposition, once they end up getting control over Loosen as Cresticard is down,
Caps heals it, and there's just no way out. She was forced to flash, and D-Pulse end up losing out in a big way.
Yeah, and they didn't even really have Smash and Showmaker available for that fight either,
either as it was just kind of the other three having a little bit of a skirmish for themselves great collapse from G2
Make sure that they could get that advantage
However, the advantage is not really even a thousand gold just yet the game is exceptionally close at 19 minutes
My problem is that maybe that's not going to be enough if DK
They do definitely want to start a snowball or rolling to make this poke composition happen
3-0-1 though for caps on this Silas as you can see here as we follow him out of base
It's not quite Faker's 17 kills, but it's a pretty good spot. Yeah in this one and
You know, I think that G2's comp scales better gear
So so many different ways to fight a team fight you can play through a pick with Han-Sama the burst he has
You can play through the Silas setup. You can play it slow
And now they have control over this dragon so D plus they've been the ones have to aggress and it's so much tougher with a poke
confident you don't have vision as you could see your d-plus just cannot see
where these two two members are outside of Han's Saab on LeBron's going in yeah
how can you put if you don't know where as now LeBron gonna take a whole bunch of
damage battle Shelly comes on through as well and the Nautilus is just
destroyed and it's going to be Shelly making her way over at the same time as
Smash decides that Shelly should not charge and we'll just give her a headache
against the wall. This is such a good way to take down this dragon.
Frustrating turning point potentially in this game because Harold's crashing mid they got that one on any man's game
And you're getting this turret down to turret's fall gold lead over to T plus
This equalizer isn't gonna necessarily help broken players and probably starting to go for the all-in. Yeah, he does manage to get the sounds off
This man, okay, that's a lot of ass damage and consider this is an elimination game if G2 lose it
They are out of this tour they had so much control
They had control of the dragon pit. Labrov's engage was a disaster. Now the Herald gets an additional charge here on the inner.
It looks like based on the minimap there, it might have been piloted by Lucid over there to get him not actually even sure.
I have no idea. Shelly did move from the mid lane to the bottom lane though.
And the wind becomes lightning coming through here at the same time. Labrov unfortunately doesn't find the anchor into the wall.
wall. He just fall apart.
Yeah, exactly. This is not looking very good.
After the early game was played out beautifully, right?
And if they just kept it stable, it was probably going to be alright.
And honestly, a thousand gold, it's not over just yet.
Certainly, some issues starting to fall.
You know what I want to say, and I haven't, I haven't
hold it in.
Okay.
You know when you're playing Zoe?
Now mid turret goes down, Atlas.
Oh, this is Zoe.
Terrible. That was your first color play.
I don't know, I know, it's been like 8 years ago or something.
It's been like 5 million years since we got to talk about it, but when the Spirit Turret goes down and you have a Zoe comp,
especially when you have Syndra also in your bottom lane, which isn't normal, but for D plus it's what they have.
It's hard to be on the map. It's hard to be Sku-Mann trying to clear your camps.
It's hard to be LeBraw trying to set up vision because if you don't have those birds to fall back on,
it becomes incredibly oppressive what D plus is comped to do.
They have that ward deep up in the middle lane. They have wards on the left and right side of the river.
And now if anyone on D2 is alone, they will be collapsed on the pick to have to move as a group on Sama alone!
Oh dear, the scat of the week comes on through, the Flash has to be used for the Shattering Strike, the Magnus Storm is there!
The only player who's not quite enough though on Sama creates enough distance, and when Lucid is there with the Audacious Charge,
it's a one-for-one trade though if the AD carries his career, it's going to get chased out!
Great equalizer does come down as Showmaker! Oh dear, this is not where he wanted to show up, Lucid is going to die,
G2 is going to turn up as well as Korea making his way back in to the anchors there from LeBron
and immediately G2 are back on the board.
I say that, they're getting a little sleepy as Q-mon makes his way over and Q is allowed to live for now.
A push and pull in this game, it's 22.5 minutes game.
The pendulum swings more.
Exactly, and G2 I don't think can take this Baron right now.
They have too many members in the back, don't have TP to rejoin so it's not going to be a Baron on the play
on the play, but it will be Coldseed back in G2's hands.
I said Hans was alone, but he wasn't alone.
He was just isolated, and G2 thought they found that target.
Smash is zooming here, but I don't think
he'll be able to do anything on his own.
But he was able to buy enough space.
The rest of the team shows up.
The TPs come through, and G2 are able to fight this one out.
So Cap2 comes in here and makes the huge difference
as he shows up on this Silas.
And they're able to get over here,
So that the Crescent Guard Lucid is alone trying to come back over and is pushed back and then this Jace just can't get it done
There wasn't enough burst damage in the initial salvo for D plus and that's where the problems can start
You don't get the initial pig then they have more consistent damage than you now the T2 side
Exactly and what you really don't want is for them to be able to engage at all
It's not really about a team fight that you want to look for it's about softening them up
And then you can use your engage in order to finish them off if you're starting at full health on both sides
I think G2 should win almost 10 out of 10 times
And so it's going to take some pretty creative teamfights to be set up here with these shock blasts connecting the paddle stars landing and
These all just being thrown around effectively here by D plus
Now moving into the D plus side of the map
I really need to defend this turret by any means necessary that cannot get that one up
That's what they want to play through here in this big game right now is a big push in the bottom lane from shoe is going to pull Broken Blade back.
Broken Blade does not have TP, so a little bit of a tempo advantage to get Baron vision back for D-plus.
We finally have an even game here in this series.
You know, as anyone's out on the take right now, G2 keeping it interesting after it looks like maybe they were starting to fall by the wayside,
but D-plus now getting a lot of vision around this turn. A lot of map control still there. They still have that mid turret.
As we're looking for that third item for Hanzama, that is the main focal point here for G2, once he has the IE complete he is going to be a monster.
He really will.
Smash is also looking to his, and Caps just gonna immediately engage, binds to the Creshinga, trying to get able to create enough space to get out, but the Death Charge is doing so much work.
Caps diving on forward, that is gonna be Lucid falling.
Crashdown gets him out as there is the Unleashed power. One kill back here for D-plus as the scat of the week
I don't think should work on G2 right now. They ain't looking weak at all. Well, I don't think so
Jungler's down though taking this dragon with enough damage here from Han Sama and a retreat from D-plus.
He's looking very difficult to contest here.
We'll decide to D-plus and they can't do anything cross-map.
There isn't any cross-map to take so even though they got a kill back
D plus are not going to really be able to get anything in exchange. So that's going to be to a piece on the dragon pretty close game here on
Some of it up some additional gold in the fight when all the cooldowns are gone
That's when you to this thing. All right, we're gonna force this fight. There's no more threat
There's nothing that you can do on some I get stunned here by a scatter. He's like, all right. That's it. Everything's out
I'm walking forward few months going he's gonna trade in his life here for all that damage on the shoe
And that's all G2 need to go over and take effect
And DK, I feel like they need to slow things down, right?
I feel like they need to find a pick, find an angle before these fights happen, but Caps isn't letting it.
As he dives over and starts the fight immediately,
that's precisely what we were saying, D plus cannot let happen.
And like you were saying, the Infinity Edge is done also, has some Mertreds as well,
which is great to see from Han's armor, keeping himself alive against all of this magic damage.
I think it's going to be a very, very good idea.
And it's one of the things that's the most terrifying for D plus is that consistent damage up with Monsama.
The next thing they'd be worried about is if they lose vision control to this parent.
Because the turn is fierce from G2 and they can't poke what they can't see.
And this turret in the mid lane is so important.
And they are going to keep it alive a little bit longer, but it is very very very low.
Top turret completely gone as caps will wipe that off the map.
Now looking to push down is a little bit of a stun on the broken blade on Sama.
Broking his head in, the Double Bubble is gonna go wide.
Now Shiyu is gonna walk over vision, the rest of G2 are gonna respond to Zatama, takes that shot,
gloss, flash out from LeBrav, as G2 just trying to escape.
Bubble is fantastically placed, but G2 are just gonna split and walk away.
Fighting without caps is not what G2 wanna do.
He wants to hold onto that teleport in order to play these side lanes and allow that Baron's threat to remain.
Really nice play here from D plus getting over there getting back in full of mid
pushing G2 off the map
vision
Maintaining that mid turret so that they can still play around the poke
So much thirst if it can you know be set up properly
And if you could see where G2 are and you could soften those numbers up like you said
That's how this is going to have to be played here for D plus and incredibly tough composition to pilot especially the game state like this
2000 gold down. Yeah, I bet the turrets still up is a testament to how much practice D-Post put in this type of car
Well, I'm gonna have to say goodbye to the turret this time around as a Brock could be in trouble
He tried to anchor his way out a showmaker moving on down
DK not going to be able to lock down the Nautilus
We'll have to back away into this fog of war one more time this these controllers are going to fall as well around this baron
And at least they're just wanting to clear out his camps, get things ready for a potential setup around the Baron.
The thing is, I don't think G took him through Baron either, I think doing Baron into Zoe and Jace just sounds like a really horrible thing to try and dodge.
They have a great turn though, because they've got a stylus rate, they have this Jarvan.
They have to turn instantly, and if they make their way over.
If they get vision control and D plus have to kind of walk towards it and they don't have any poke, it's so easy to turn because D plus just don't have any answer to the turn.
if they're face checking, they're doomed.
So that's why right now, the D plus link,
we have to put everybody on Baron,
get all these wards cleaned up,
get our own wards in there.
And so G2 can play around getting vision
but getting the rest of the map.
Getting vision on Baron, but getting the rest of the map
because D plus always have to answer that vision.
So G2 are doing such a great job
of pulling D plus around the map right now.
And she answering that bottom lane push,
you can see Broken Blade actually moving that one up,
does have his teleport as does she,
Jormaker encamps as well, with theirs available in fact, there are quite a few with these summoner spells up on both sides of the rib.
I'm waiting for Smash to have his.
Ooh, that bubble!
Almost forcing a flash there at a Hans if it was at a different angle.
And there's only, I mean, sometimes can do absolutely nothing in a fight, other times solo win.
And we'll see which version Jormaker is going to be able to be as we get further along as getting a little bit sleepy is the Nautilus.
A lot of damage out for Broken Blade finds his way in, she's diving on forward, caps!
Get Sleepy and Ghost Golden at the same time as now!
Hans-Sama trying to kite this one out doing a lot of work, the Kully cutting them up!
And he has to get himself out of there, the only power comes in the last auto attack!
It's now a showmaker dancing around the battlefield!
And a Sleepy Rumble is going to get taken out by a Battlestar!
There is the ZOE I was talking about, and Showmaker making it look easy!
That last auto there from the showmaker to take him out and just basically leading him off the map
We saw in the initial engage from career because career was always fishing
He was looking he's like I really really really want this flash out of Han Sama because then the fight becomes somewhat more playable
Respect will dodge this one, but Lucid still here at stone flash get sure maker over that dash cannon in there is
The ulti to come on through from Lucid
Where it's by, Caps here, he's gonna be taken down, and Shoemaker looking for another one.
Unfortunately, the minions are here, so that paddle star is not going to land.
The cap shows up, manages to get the Crescent God, and then just dies.
Shoemaker, Jess, taking over this game suddenly, Atlas, G2 fans.
Is it 2020, man? Is it 2020? Like, pinch me! Which year is this?
It feels like it is. And so, watch this setup here as Hansama doesn't have eyes on Korea.
has to flash and barely gets out, but now he's flashed this.
And with those cooldowns there, G2 are like,
all right, there's some play here.
There's some wiggle room, HanSama's kiting back.
And then you see, as this fight goes on,
more and more of these skill shots coming out
for Shomaker, HanSama has no flash.
And then, boom!
Smash gets the hit on him.
He has no flash, he's slept,
and Shomaker will take him out with that final auto.
And Broken Blade is just left by the wayside.
It was a good turn there from G2 after the initial salvo
for Jamaica and Smash, the double mage has played it so well and once Ansama is down, the fight is awash.
Yeah, there's nothing that they can do. I have to say, the equalizer left a little bit to be desired, right?
DK never really wanted to be where it was, and Caps found himself just right in amongst it.
And I like the idea, I like the plan, because they do not want to give DK time to poke them out.
The problem is, you also need to have a good setup in order to make these teamfights work,
and D-plus holding them at arm's length, utilizing Lucid and the Crescent Guard, the Magnet Storm
to the extra CC, and then Smash able to get these Orbs down and scatter the G2 members
all over the mid lane.
It was beautiful to watch.
And we said, like, D-plus has practice with compositions like this, the thing is, it's
just always quite difficult to play, the thing is, they are managing to walk it, they are
still on that tightrope, and they are taking down the structures on their way.
A small point with Infernal Soul, with Al-Shamaikr's plans with double void
staffs, you know, we're pushing towards deathcaps coming through here for these mages.
So much damage on the table here. Han-Sama still flashless, right? He needs to be incredibly
careful. G2, they're gonna come over here and clear up some barricades, and they'll never be
able to clear that scuttle. So the same sort of ring around the rosy that I'm playing isn't
necessarily going to be an option here. We're going to connect that onto the Nautilus. They have to
stand in front in order to save him as the battle starts. Somehow goes wide. That is a massive amount
of damage. That is also a sleep onto Han. He thankfully gets back into the fog of war in order
to keep himself alive. And well, at the back of all of that, they managed to pick up the Drake as
well. And I think Drake controls so incredibly important for our post compositions because
Otherwise, you're gonna get pulled around the map. Soulpoint now picked up the DK, and they are the ones with that tempo control.
It's just the fact that they were able to get all that gold back. Get that dragon, games that G2 just don't have the same choke hold control.
Oh, for this game, his career is a bit too far forward trying to clear this ward.
Yeah, gonna get chained up. There is the Magnus Storm as well, as he's looking to try and escape.
He's relatively tanky if he flashes out of the way, but that does mean that this cataclysm is going to hold him in position.
Equalizer, that equalizer, so much better!
They got to go straight to Baron!
And Tata gets the laser beam out to take down the Jace!
They just got to go straight to Baron here.
Look rough, hot though!
Yeah, getting a little bit sleepy.
Flashes over the wall there as D-plus.
Remember, they do have a lot of very annoying poke, especially if Showmaker is alive.
Is they giving up time though?
Those picks were not necessarily valued, but they are going to now put on Sama with this
four item Lucian to work on the Baron, and I don't think D-plus can get tasked easily.
So that's GA and he is heading over.
He has to do some vocation, but Rob is so low.
I'm looking for the turn, but this Baron is so incredibly low.
Getting a little bit sleepy as Cap's, but he goes golden.
And Shroomaker able to flash out of the way,
utilizing the flash that he stole earlier.
And so the Baron going to be picked up by G2.
Not a whole lot of response here for DK.
It's a minute and a half left on this dragon.
Means that it's a free reset.
Back out onto the Rift for G2.
They should be out of guarantee.
Six elemental drakes taken.
A response attempted here from Lucidus, maybe steal a blue bluff away and try to take some of those camps.
So it all starts off here, but this is the first dominant fall, is career...
This is what we were talking about, you don't have vision control on this Baron, you have to get it.
Career is over here trying to take it, but G2O is thinking one step ahead, they are able to capture Israel.
Now, at the cost of a lot of these abilities, including the Scumon's ultimate, but when they get this pick here on the shield,
on the other side who's trying to set up a flank, it's the go button to Baron.
And even though LeBron was low, they were able to secure it.
They're looking for more. They get a pick or two here.
They could potentially bring us to three right now.
Yeah?
We're 35 minutes into this game.
There's a lot of crystals on these turrets as well as caps.
They're going to get this mid lane pushed in.
They're clearing out the jungle at D plus as well.
And they always had the gold lead, but it had been really shrunk.
Right. And now it is starting to extend one more time.
Q1 though takes about a billion damage.
As the poke is still very scary from Showmaker and from Shew.
This push is pretty thwarted right now.
They're just simply going to have to back away and reset, so D plus a little bit of extra wiggle room, which is huge because the dragon,
which is an infernal soul for them, spawns in 15 seconds, so G2P's a rush over into the eye, G plus his take of this important dragon.
He's going to field up and ready.
The thing that I'm scared about, well, is that there's a rabbit on Zepzap, on Shremika.
If he hits anyone with that sleepy trouble bubble, and the battle style lands,
Hey, Masha's died.
Masha's about to buy his Eskald TP.
Gonna grab that one and head straight over to this fight.
This might be the last fight of the game.
Yeah, the bubble is on the ground.
Is there is that deathcap you were talking about?
The teleport right into this mid lane.
There's Caps. He's got that Crescent Guard once again.
It's going to be very dangerous.
Hex flash, Getsla Brom in there.
But the Scatter comes on down.
Grey Magnus on there from Korea.
Hanzo down!
Caps got this guy as he goes and haunts.
He is dead. Caps find the angle as well.
The two for two so far.
And they do eliminate.
And now, Shoemaker's trying to dance around the battlefield.
He finds the angle, he picks up all of these flashes, and Lucid is there.
The three-talent strike, Caps knocked up Mid-Dash.
And now, Shoemaker, able to make it look silly, and the ace is picked up.
D plus Kier make it happen in the river.
And they're gonna see whether they can walk up this mid lane and break open the base.
They absolutely will break open the space.
The shake of the head of that G2 fan in the audience that they can be felt around the world
This Han Sama is deleted in the fight death timers here 40 seconds for caps 20 on Hans
They get this inhibitor absolutely, but they may even put some damage here all these nexus turrets the broth
They're gonna come up here try to buy time
Yeah, they're gonna look to try and end the game when the dragon is up and available
I imagine DK can just head on over towards this infernal remember like an infernal soul for a poke composition
That's kind of ideal and so DK gonna get on over there and see whether they can grab that one
I really thought that it was going to be a G2 freebie, and I didn't even know.
I want to watch that fight back again, but I don't know if we have time to, because we're
going to go straight into this infernal soul.
Potential contest here for G2, and it's not an ideal situation, but they're going to
try something.
TP in from Broken Blade as they are going to try to stop this dragon from going over.
Skiimon in good position here.
That's an aggressive teleport here from Katz.
Those pickups, double-double as Ruparov is already down to about a third health, and
maybe nothing!
And he is immediately put down towards that GA.
As Hans is going to respawn, it's a double for the Jarvan.
For the rest of DK, they'll find the angles and look at Shoemaker just skipping around the battlefield.
And they will kill him once again and now stop that walkover.
Yeah, they have the super minion wave here. No infernal soul needed. Double mage cop is going to work here.
Four D pluses. They will knock G2 out of the Esports World Cup in 2026 with a 2-0.
What an unbelievable performance in back-to-back games. Different styles and just made it look so incredibly good.
True Make is Zoe, we were transported back to when he was that world champion in 2020
when he was so dominant in 2021.
It was off the back of champions like this and since then he has had games like this
spread throughout, but man I was not expecting it here on the EWC stage.
Nobody had a part to play.
The Scatters coming through from Smash on the singer, the Sleeps from True Make,
showing me the career, getting a flash on the house
and that critical mid-fight constantly finding the right
angles and they got Monsama twice in those really important
moments here to close out the game.
G2 played a great game too, obviously game one,
not gonna be their most favorite, not gonna be memorable
for anyone but in game two they had a good showing
but D plus were just better on the day.
They were, I thought the early game went nicely, right?
LeBron finding so many of these angles but afterwards
found himself getting caught out
And it is very sad to say goodbye to G2,
the team that was able to take down so many of the LCK teams.
Throughout this year, I really did think
that D-plus was just going to be another name ticked off their list.
But as it turns out, it's not to be the case,
we have Lucid alongside with you.
Thanks, guys. What a day for DK at EWC.
I'm standing by with Lucid.
There's some big fans out here.
And G2, a tough opponent. They took down your South Korean counterparts in T1 and MSI.
How did you prepare for them knowing that they were so dangerous?
I was confident that I could win if I was good.
And I didn't think that Jitsu was that good.
So I think I won easily.
We had a great shot to win if we just showed our full potential.
Well, you guys are definitely formidable opponents for anybody.
However, at the start of this tournament, you had a tough loss to AG LS.
And now you've just come off the back of two dominant best of three wins.
Do you feel like you're growing into this tournament?
I'm wondering how you feel about the game.
I think I'm doing well in the game.
I personally think that the form is really good.
I think I can even win the game.
I think I'll have to play more in the future.
You'll find out if you can get revenge over AGAL a little bit later on but for now as you can see behind us
The final key will be crushed here in Paris today
Would you like to come with me to crush the key?
Okay, we've seen some absolute banger key crushes of the last two days. Let's see how this one shapes up
Lucid if you just take your position here in front of the key crusher Paris, are we ready to crush the key?
here we go this is it just come and stand right here for me as you watch the key
crushed the end of every journey the EWC sounds like this G2's key crushed
completely brutal I call it beautiful brutality to be honest it's one of the
Key things not put intended that makes this tournament so unique and so special.
Lucid, we've got fans out here in front of you.
Is there anything you'd like to say to everybody watching?
I believe that they will support us in the next game.
So, I will try to win.
Okay, you'll be looking to find out who you'll be facing in the quarterfinals, as will everybody
else will be doing a live draw right here on stage very shortly, see you soon.
Thank you so much, Ian Chambers, as we will see you very soon for the draw show.
Why are you looking at me like that, Ox?
I just, I have to look.
I can make sure it's you and not Ian.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
You know, I do a good Ian Chambers impression just like Lucid was doing a fantastic impression.
of what a world champion can look like.
A great, great game here, all over the place in the jungle.
I mean, he was playing as classics.
The Vi in the Zinzau,
we've had some stellar Zinzau performances
from him domestically, but seeing him bring it out
against G2 and just take over that late game fight.
It was, it was not an easy fight to be fair
because you have to play against a classic AD carry,
which is going to out-skill you.
But I think Lucid and Karir managed to reach
to the AD carry and I think that was crucial and the teamfights synergy between the D plus Kia players is just
Finally is hitting there. It took a little while though because this was a very close take close game g2 with multiple
opportunities here and that unique
dichotomy in the bot lane it was the traditional ad carry Lucian for Han Sam and he had multiple moments there to pull it back on in when
we take a look at the damage that he did, but Smash and Showmaker and Lucid stepped up when it was needed.
Man, so much damage. It's rare you see the jungler be in the most damage in the game in pro at least,
but this is not the first time Lucid's had a performance like this, but the team really have to come together on this one.
Showmaker on the Zoe having some monstrous moments and being able to help shut down captain as late-game teamfights,
because he was on a tear for a good portion of this game.
even look at the gold graph, it was all over the place and for all of the time not in the
favor of D plus. Yeah, and I love this kind of match up here. If you are G2 going out like this,
because you had two mages that were your primary damage dealers on the opposite sides where if
they stun you, you will die. But you do have a very mobile AD carry illusion to move around and
dance around it. If you were something that was like a varus, that was a lot more stationary,
it feels tough. I felt like they got a pretty good look at it here with did. Yeah, but the thing is
His Lucian is, again, the showed range AD carry who can't really play against Syndra.
That's why Smash kind of flexed it into the bot lane.
I think nowadays it's just really hard to play the classic AD carries on the bot lane
because you don't have the power spike.
You can't really reach to the point where you can actually outskill because they're
going to just snowball and end the game.
And when you get swept and knocked on out, then the punish comes on in, which is what
we have a highlight of in that mid lane.
At 29 minutes, a show of the power from Showmaker.
And Hans-Sama evades the initial engage quite well from the career
and starts to pump out a good amount of damage in this fight.
Actually, it looks like maybe
you two are going to be able to take this one when he starts putting out the damage, but
unfortunately, Shoemaker has something to say about it.
Oh yeah.
And the sleep that comes through.
And look at the HP bar!
Like, if Hans-Sama finishes this off with the calling, then I think they could win the fight,
but they are all 1 HP, but they don't have enough damage to finish that off.
I think the problem is Han Sam is doing what he feels he needs to, he's being on the front line getting the damage down because you're a short range AD carry.
Well that puts you at threat, the Syndra and the Zoe are so hard to deal with and that's why I felt like this was such a difficult game for him to navigate and the Syndra pick worked really well for D plus.
Yeah and as you said there were multiple fights that they escaped on when HP did D plus and here in the final fight this was after a huge huge team fight already basically in the same area.
Yeah, again, this is the fight where Korea finds the way with his flash engage because Han Sama had the GA
So he could actually won the 9-5 but here again Zin Zhao and Korea looks for the target and Han Sama couldn't do anything
He just gets his health bar white and then it's like well, I've got GA and then he just gets Lucid jumping on him
Taking him out and Lucid is just thriving in this environment getting so much work done credit also to Korea
This is a player who sometimes was struggled with confidence
He was so confident on this stage on this round making some big engages in those late game fights
D plus Kia and Lucid crushing the hopes and dreams of G2 and all the G2 faithful right there in the most
brutal trophy ceremony in all of these sports
and Lucid
Yeah, I think it really better
Goodbye hopes and dreams
I mean we could really overcome the issue that we had like G2 Esports because I think
They were not being able to have the, you know, AP ball lane and I think that was the main problem for that.
Chad, you heard that, right?
You said we.
You heard that too, right?
We?
I don't think he's part of the team.
I mean, you know, I was. I mean, I am.
That's true. That's true. That's true. That's true.
It is AGAL and D plus Kia moving on here in that group A.
Why is that important?
Because we're about to do the draw show in just a little bit.
little bit. Let's go ahead and rifle through some of these brackets to show the results
that we had. We just saw group A as we take a look at group B. These are the teams that
kicked off the tournament, kicked off with Gen G and KC as the opening match. It was
Sentinels with the upset over Team Secret, then Team Secret falling out to KC and KC
getting the revenge for against NA for MSI. They qualify on in as the second seed. LSE
We got one team at least right there you go. There we go. Yeah, there we go KC in the blue wall
How many teams as you can have let's go. Okay, so you know there there's the MSI champions
Yeah, all these boards. Okay. There is the reigning title defenders Gen. G. Yeah, okay
um and there's D plus Kia we just saw D plus chaos
else. I feel like, you know, I might just be missing one raining champions. Oh yeah. Oh
yeah. That's right. That's a full. That's four. It is all four teams. How many teams
are the four? Wait, how many did we have at the start? There's four. Oh, there was also
a full. Yeah, there was four. Okay. That feels pretty good. Yeah. That feels pretty good.
Yeah.
LCS is out too. They got knocked out later on. We'll get to that bracket just a second.
Let's take a look at group C. Group C was that my favorite, the group of death here
as you had T1 and BLG in the same bracket,
Movistar, Koi and GAM eSports felt their wrath.
GAM felt it multiple times here after a pretty good start
and a huge upset against Movistar, Koi
in the elimination match.
Yeah, I credit to GAM for putting up a fight throughout this,
but this was just a tough situation to be drawn into.
I think growing up against T1 and BLG,
I think a lot of people have them cemented
as a team to make it out, and they did.
Yeah, when it comes to mid game macro,
it's just really rough.
You know, I think T1 and BLG are the team
who actually can just bounce back even though they lose some advantage from the early game,
they got the macro. So I think even though it was a lot of B01s, a lot of B03s that it gives a
lot of random situation, they're the team where they can like just bounce back from the downside.
So if we start Koi, getting knocked out here might feel bad, but I think what feels worse here
for the West is Lyon here in group D. They were bounced pretty early on in this tournament,
a huge upset here by M I B R Los the combination organization from the CBL all knocking out
the third place finishers over at MSI. But then JDG did not make any mistakes in the
lower qualifier match. They defeat M I B R to zero after 100 like these boards breezed
in with two best of one victories. I mean, here's the crazy thing based on the performance
that lion had at MSI. I haven't said this at the start. I don't think it would have been
crazy if they actually beat Haleena best of one and made out of this fairsuit. That seemed reasonable
based on the MSI performance but this is so far from that. I think a big underperformance for them
unfortunately for the LCS but JDG a very formidable team and very deserving of the second spot.
Now this group A here we just saw D plus Kia qualify on in but it was AGAL the squad that
made it in earlier through the best ones as the number one seed from group A as we take a look
at some of their highlights from earlier today. They just look so solid right now. Flandre quite
on fire and so consistent for this squad. Yeah, I think ultimately for this team,
I think having the shift away from the Enchanters and more to the melee engage supports has
definitely suited them. You've seen the jungle support Tarzan and Hale just running around
as a pair and being so effective. And Flandre, stealing some of the Broken Blade Tech and putting
it to great use in this 1v1. Oh yeah, I mean that's kind of illegal to get solo killed by Top Shen.
By the way, he blind picked it and an aviac can really punish it. And also in the late game,
I think the synergy between Tarzan and Kayle is on point. Whenever they land, they engage,
always there's a follow-up. I think all the players from AGL has so much confidence in
themselves right now. So every fight that they're taking right now is like so much easier for them.
And the thing is right, when we had the LPL playoffs, they weren't playing with all the changes that pushed Malay support back into the forefront.
And I think AGL, this may be their time to sort of rise up and show a level of form we haven't really seen since last year in tournaments, like last year's EWC.
And again, like here you could see Skillmod was looking for a 50-50 on the drake, but as I said, I think this matter is not a part of Jaktib.
It's about teamfight. If you cannot set up for the proper teamfight, then you can't really get anything else.
So even though you don't need to have the cycle and the drake as long as you win the fight
You would get the win that felt like such a proper metaphor a while here would did where you would calculate
Is this steel worth one kill two kills plus momentum?
How is our wave state currently at as you said not the case here?
It's about the fights Tarzan with the steel and the team fight win
It is a GL moving on as the number one seed, but that's not the only team looking great here from the LPL
We got treated to one of the best rivalries in all of these sports
It is BLG and T1 yet again and this time it was BLG coming out on top into that matchup
It was just the best of one, but it looked real good. I mean BLG have been in terrific form
Obviously the finals against HLE MSI did not go their way
But for so much of it, they've just been honestly a very hard team to match up into
I'm excited to see what they can do in the rest of the tournament
We'll be able to see that in a second.
But for me, BLG were so close to winning that finals,
going T1 up against HLE, and you credit to HLE
for bringing it back.
But we had the earlier win against HLE in the bracket,
and this win, matching the win they had against T1 at MSI,
I think BLG, we've seen this rivalry against T1
many times before, many big matches between these two teams.
Seeing it again was an absolute treat.
But BLG wants more, having their number
with some great team fight plays.
That Casio ultimates into Poppy ulti, that Chains CC is right there and whenever we see VLG taking the T5, they're so confident in themselves and here is Viper, POV, when he picked Ezreal into T1, it looked so much easier in the draft as well because he just picked up Ezreal in the earlier phase and I think he felt really great about it because we saw him crying as we mentioned about how great AP bot lane is but Viper is so at the table, like he's always going for the champion when it's right to him.
moment and here again I've been cleaning out with the Ezreal player is it's so
pleasure to watch. I think if there's any player that we thought of when this
matter started to come in with these AP mages but it was Viper. He's had a history of
playing so many active picks in the bot lane and the fact that he's still
bringing out the classics like the Ezreal and just demonstrating this
insanely high level of performance it's so great to see it honestly it's a little
sad the fact that he left the Alcacada I'm gonna see this as often in the region
I'm casting, but mind as you know how to put on a show.
Yeah, and I just love specifically his as real
just gliding around on the edge of danger
and then stepping on in when it's time for the kill.
He was so fun to watch.
You got to see some classic gigabit as well.
You heard his interview.
We thought that we would do well.
We're expected to win in the quarterfinals
and looking into the semi-finals.
On they go as the number one seed here in a group B.
However, T1 got to play an hour later.
It was a rematch of day number one's match against GAM eSports, and yet again it was
another game where the circus was in town.
They were up 21 to like 4, and all of a sudden what did?
The game ends at 40 to 25!
Oh man, look at Payne playing Seraphim Ballin here.
How can you imagine that you can actually get the double kill against Lucian Lutlis?
He baits it out, and he gets the double kill, and that made T1's novel even huge in this
only doing. Yeah and I mean Paze has just really brought all these picks into his pool. I feel like
some eddy carry players, the ones you get in solo queue, they don't want to play mages, they want
to play eddy carries. Paze is like I want to win. I will play whatever it takes to win these games
and you know bring out a Seraphine here especially compared to his typical carry picks who's so
often seen him on. Faker also on the Silas was on an absolute war path and it's obviously a pick
But he's had some amazing moments on including in the world finals, but he was just dropping triple kills all over the place in this one
Yeah, again a great performance by T1.
Gamm, nothing to hang your head on as it was awesome
I got to see with TK Nguyen, the viewing party that was set up in Vietnam in
Association with Gen.G to support the Vietnamese squad who did find a way back in this game despite those
those overwhelming odds because a lot of those kills were so early on the gold
he wasn't that big. I'm gonna be honest based on what we saw from Gam I think in
a different group we could have seen them go for sure for the finals I think
they showed a lot of potential it's just such a hard matchup at T1 because you
have to really just consistently make good play after good play because even
though they made some great plays and punished T1, T1 just have so much
resilience to come back in his later fights. And also when it comes to BF3
you got to think about the fearless draft as well because there's some pigs
that you can't pick up. And I think in the game too, they couldn't really have a great
synergy between the big jungle. They had Ari Nocturne, which is kind of off a meta, I would
say. So I think it was just the kind of experience difference. But I felt like we're going to
see a lot more from Gambis, first and then later on the international stage.
That's right. We'll see how they continue to grow over in the LCP. Number one spot seems
to be locked down by Team Secret. But that second spot has flipped between teams. We'll
We'll see who steps up there in the future for that squad.
Now let's move on over to what we saw over on the B Stream
and we go with JDG.
They qualified on in defeating MIBR Los
and it was big, big plays by the young duo
where we fell in love with Plastia, the CFO duo
in Junjia and Honkyu doing it here for the LPL squad.
I mean, those two were so good to watch internationally
when we saw them just taking names,
but once again, being a big driving force
for this JDG roster.
And yeah, unfortunately, just a bit of a tough matchup.
I have to give credit to MIBL loss for taking down Lyon,
but unable to match up in this powerhouse on the LPL.
I mean, even though the draft is so random,
you can't really expect anything
or like predict anything.
I feel like you're going to be careful
about LPL, Poppy jungle.
I feel like whenever like any other LPL teams
gets a Poppy jungle, it gets so, how do I say it?
It's like versus how, you know?
I think they're really just good on how they pulled the limit on the champion.
And I think that makes every other team look so much better on the champion.
And to me, with the fact that Camille is now filming the meta and Morty's engaged support,
if you get the posture clear, I think it's definitely got a firm spot.
So, 3-2-3, Gengi bringing that out and having a great impact.
And Gala as well on this gin, this angle on this ultimate, just able to get a lot of damage down.
Not enough to win this fight, it doesn't seem, but yeah.
It was enough to go ahead and close it out there on M I B R Loose. I had the opportunity to talk to coach
Anatron former dignitas and a coach
Bounced around in the LEC now finds himself over at CDL. He said this was going to be a great experience for us
regardless of the result with veterans like Ackerman who's won LLA before feisty who spent time in
the LCK and
and young prodigy ad carry doodoo who is trying to fill those shoes where Brazil was known for
pumping out some ad carries that were fearless. The biggest thing to me about their performance
this tournament is it is just extending this argument between the americas north and south.
It's just been ongoing. We had the americas cup and then obviously we had the struggles at MSI
from South America and now the bounce back. It feels like if there's just a lot of back and
4th, but that win of a line definitely a meaningful one for the fans. Yeah, a lot of damage there
done by JDG as they're looking good moving on to the next round. And then let's show the reigning
MSI champions, why don't we? It is Honwalife Esports who looked solid yet again and the
champ pool continues to just overflow with skills across the board here for Honwalife Esports.
I mean, when the AP bot lane started to come out earlier this split, we thought it was really playable to play against,
because I feel like you can just always dive a bot lane, you can always dive the AD carry, who just stands next to the turret,
but I think Guma Yushi was the player who can just handle 1v3 easily on the bot side and able to delight to roam around the map.
And I think even though we all know how how like e-sports player on the map
You can't really punish them because you have so strong inside lane with Zeus and Zeka and the way how they play for the earliest
Novel is just on the another level. Yeah, and I think as well
You know she's shown with his multiple will championships
He will do whatever the team needs where the team asks if he needs to be on the weak side and absorb pressure
Well, but we just saw an MSI finals was much more playing through bot and setting him up that
of their satiety with Phyllis being a play is super valuable with this bot lane meta as well.
It's really allowed him to shine. I mean, he's already shown many times his career,
but right now he's looking in phenomenal form. And finally, let's take a look at the reigning
title defenders in Gen G. I had the chance to talk to my hometown hero in Dark Wings,
who faced him in the mid lane and said, I had Shelby for about three minutes in the last
That was about it as Gen.G dominated their matches.
I mean, even though we couldn't see Gen.G in MSI, this isn't...
I feel like Gen.G is one of the teams where you can always expect them to play good
because you have Chovy in the mid lane.
He's going to simply pull off the best performance out of it.
And I think Gen.G is still one of the threat when it comes to either we see you.
I mean, as well, Gen.G obviously not making it to MSI, having some time to adjust things,
the issues they had but also screaming against the teams who were at MSI, taking the extra time
and getting a lot of preparation for this tournament and so far looks to have done a lot of good
work. Alright so time for some of the rules here of the draw. You cannot play the same team from
the same group until the semi, until the grand finals. So if you are drawn A, B, C, D, A cannot play
Hey, it has to play C or D if it goes in that order. You cannot be on the same side as the
Winner of your group and it's basically how it's gonna go. So we're gonna draw all the pool one teams and
Then if you are a pool two team, you cannot be drawn on the same side of the group
Which means that pool one draw is kind of what dictates a lot of these matchups on an example
Which I think really emphasizes this is Bilge and Q1
So BLG T1 cannot be on the same side of the bracket. The BLG is drawn on the top of the bracket
T1 has to be the bottom
They won't face each other again until the finals which feels phenomenal for BLG because you know when you look at the teams in that pool
One it's AGAL, BLG, HLE, GenG. One of those teams would be facing down T1
It won't be BLG which I think you know after that performance of the group they've earned that
But it's a benefit of the bullet dodge to save that matchup to later
You know who else benefits from this? It is Carmencourt because they don't have to face Gen G, the reigning title defenders and to speak a little bit more on that
We're standing by right now with honor of KC in the heartbeat of French eSports in gaming. It is Camero Camero
Welcome brother. I hope your co-stream has going well congrats on making it out of the play-in stage now into the knockouts
What team do you want to play against? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm happy that we made it
But I want to play against BLG because I think they are the strongest team and we are here
to play against the strongest and that's why we are participating in international events
is to play against the strongest and I want to face BLG.
The match upsize me.
How do you feel now that you're the last LEC team standing in the tournament and having
all the hopes of Europe on your team's back?
I don't feel much about it, like I think the team is focusing on herself.
We don't really care about the other teams of Europe, NA or anything like that.
We just want to have success, so yeah, it doesn't matter for us.
It's been really great. How do you think about the arena itself?
Because it's all about the blue wall, your fans are here to support your team, how does it feel?
It feels so great because we had such a bad run in the MSI, so the team was not feeling
quite confident coming into this tournament.
And by seeing the fans, when I talked to them, they were so happy, they were so hyped to
play in front of our crowd.
So yeah, it makes me feel happy.
Alright, any final words to your fans who have come out and supported and shown a fantastic
audience here for EWC?
Can I say in French or English?
Of course!
Thank you guys, as usual, to all those who have moved, you already know Dicton,
that it's going well, that it's going badly.
Thank you very much for supporting the club, without you, there is no club.
So thank you guys.
a couple minutes more as you could see on stage getting some of the preparations ready,
the players ready for all the events that are going to be thrown at us again.
And I want to run through the rules one more time.
You cannot be drawn in the same side of the bracket as the winner of your group.
So if you are a pool one seed, you will not play the pool two seed from your side of the
bracket either in the quarterfinals nor the semifinals.
So that group, that pool one draw is going to be very important here, Rox.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I mean, I look at the pool one teams, a lot of strength, a lot of analysis.
And I think the mindset that we hear that from Kometo is, is accurate, right?
You have to beat every team or be capable of beating every team.
If you want to get to the top, there's no easy matchups if you're going to win the
whole thing.
So he was like, you want to play BLG, but ultimately be nice if some of those teams
not get to the top.
You face them.
And that's real.
I mean the thing is we got seven Asian teams in quarterfinals right and I think as you said
There's no easy matchup at this point
And I think it's all about how you know build up your team how you know build up your as synergy between the players because
even though the meta kind of
Keeps continue from the MSI
I feel like there's some small things that you can pick up from like something like Taliyah Shen bot lane is like kind of popping off
But the Casio is still there to have some like pocket picks as well
So I think there's a lot to go but again, like there is so many good teams here. There's no favorite
I think what's really cool is we saw obviously the MSI meta
Shake out develop and then now we're seeing on the same patch it fear they get developed and more teams come in that
We didn't necessarily see an MSI their take on it. I just really extending
I was like when we have a lot of time on one patch to really feel out especially because this was quite a different patch
compared to what we had domestically for a lot of regions just making things
interesting especially with that added mix of feel as there as well yeah I mean
you just pick what are you want to play you know I think it's really hard to
predict what are they gonna their first big in the like first phase you know I
think for me I have to predict some things but it's really hard to like do
that in especially in these either we see yeah and that's why I love that last
game to match up there between G2 and D plus Kia it's the bot lane specific are
Are you going mage or do you trust yourself with one of those mobile ad carries to play on through it?
Yeah, maybe don't go. You should know the list. We've seen that a couple of times I'm not a huge fan like I get it
Nami is no longer a thing with leech and the mandate doesn't work as well. Don't go leech and northerless
Especially not in the cinder it's not a into cinder Casio pier these things not a fun time for leeching
So I think put that one to rest with these final eight teams here
Let's take a look at the prize pool and the breakdown of it all because these eight teams making it this far have
have cashed on in part of that $2 million prize pool, $600,000 going to first place,
and each position further up you go, that's more cash.
And if you make it to the semifinals, you'll be playing in that third, fourth place match
at best for an even larger chunk.
I mean, look, just a third, fourth match alone ends up getting an extra $80,000.
There's so much at play here, and just any extra win in the tournament is going to make
such a big difference.
It's a lot of money and it's so fun because we've had a in Valorant.
We had a number one seed.
It was 100 thieves from group A make it on out and we had the two seed qualifier and
our G as our two finalists here.
So it doesn't matter whether it was a number one seed from a group or a number two seed
from a group.
Every single team has the opportunity to make it on out and get a big part of that cash
prize.
only about the prize pool, but also about the schedule that they're going to have, it's
all about the momentum, right? After the EWC, they have to play the regular split right
away. So I feel like if you cannot achieve anything in the EWC, I think it's going to
keep continue throughout the regular split as well.
I'm not lying. I went back to the regular season with an extra $600,000. I think I would feel
better. I mean, a better mind for sure.
For sure.
For sure.
Otherwise, yeah.
Let's take a look at the club championship as again,
EWC's major chunk of the prize pool
comes from the club championship.
Earlier in the tournament,
we had Dark Angel from Fatal Fury win here for Navi.
That's why they're on top 100 Thieves
winning first place for Valorant.
And those clubs now have their championship win.
Remember, part of the EWC club championship,
not only is it about points,
but you have to win in one of your game titles.
Yeah, and notably, 12th is T1, so obviously looking to get a big win in League Legends to push themselves up the standings.
Yeah, and also we could hear from Ruler that the last year when Gen.G got the 7th place in the club rankings,
the League of Legends winning the title meant a lot for them, their organization, right?
So even though the rankings are not looking like last year, if some teams can win out the League of Legends pool, then I think it's going to be changed a lot.
You can see on stage right there.
Oh, can we go back there?
That's Yankees' head, and that's Doublelift's head.
I feel like we're getting...
Trusting those here?
I know, I'm nervous.
I mean, you know, their hands were pretty good
when they were playing.
Now we're gonna see how they're doing.
Pull in some of the teams.
Again, KC, that's the team there
that all this crowd is waiting for
and wanting to see who did they end up playing against.
Don't have to play against Genji,
but a lot of those tough tough outs.
Hanwha Life is what PLG.
Thank you, you don't have to play against Genji,
but now you have HLE.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Thank you.
That's a huge advantage, right?
I mean, that's the thing about the WC.
It's all about the best teams in the world
compete against each other,
so you're going to be good if you want to compete.
And again, you have the benefit.
If you won your match, you were done that day.
Even though it was best of ones, you win it,
you're good to go.
If you lost, you have to start grinding out
these best of 3s a little early, start showing your hand in the drafts, were you up to date
with what the meta was or showing your comfort. And so I feel like it's a huge, huge advantage
for these number one seeds coming out of the groups, especially the number one seeds who
went at MSI. We have so much footage on HLE, but Gen.G, we don't have much on this patch
and in recent patch in just a recent time. So I feel like they've kind of been able to
keep that cards really close to chest on that one. And if you're going up against Gen.G,
going to be hard to figure out what they're going to go for.
I mean, for example, Ruler was not the one
who wants to play the AP Bot lane mage, right?
But I think he adapts and he pick up some picks
that he didn't want to play.
And now that kind of makes Gen.G even more into the draft.
And I think that was the main issue for G2 Esports, you know?
And you know, that's a saying you can't teach
an old dog new tricks.
I guess they figured it out.
They did figure it out.
I had heard, I've been told, promised,
that we're not that far from the draft.
So, or from the draw show.
So I want to ask you, what is your dream matchup here?
Give me one.
Oh, my dream matchup.
I think it has to be T1 AGAL, I think, that matchup.
We saw that be a pretty high matchup last year at Worlds.
I think AGAL looked in better form here.
And also it means we don't have an LCK vs. LCK,
which is, thanks for originating as well,
but I think that'll be a banger.
To be honest, T1 against any of those first teams
would be a banger, but I think that one,
We didn't get to see AGAL play against T1 recently, obviously.
HGLE and Gen.G played against them a lot, both domestically and usually in Snatchcalls.
What did?
Don't get me wrong, but I feel like LCK vs LCK could be epic as well,
because we had so many international tournaments, right?
So we couldn't really see how LCK vs LCK works.
So I think it's going to be epic, because it's going to be happening most likely,
because we've got four teams in quarters.
You know, I'm actually a big fan of LCK against LCK. I actually see that a lot. Oh, yeah
I actually watch it quite a bit. So yeah, pretty good. I'm sure we're pretty good
I think for me because we got a little taste of it and a best-of-one format and all of our quarterfinals and
Semifinals are best of threes. I want a best of five heaping of that T1 and BLG matchup yet again
I love seeing the continual adaptation by these players faker died nine times into that match
wasn't afraid of making plays happen and still was going back to the well it
feels like it always gives to me one of the best rivalries in eSports.
It's always been buying us right back that willed finals with T1 managed to get so
many times we've seen that match at the liver all right the play in stage is done
it's time for the playoffs and it's all with the draw show who will make it on
out let's find out together. We are gonna find out together Paris are we
Are you ready for the quarter-finals draw?
This is where we lock in the bracket, the playoffs bracket.
This is where it gets real serious, Lou.
That's real business indeed and we have two very familiar faces here to help us with the draw.
We have Jankos and we have Doublelift. Thank you for being with us.
Legends.
Because of course in case you don't know them, legendary European jungler and of course a figure of American League of Legends.
It's a pleasure to have you here. Of course, we're here with Yankos and Doublelift for the draw.
How are you feeling about this, boys, since G2 are out?
Who do you see as maybe runner-up for the trophy?
I mean, at this point, I believe in KC right. I'm still European. I hope they all do well.
Doublelift?
KC, last hope of the worst. Got a cheer for them.
Alright, that's what I'd like to hear now. The way this is going to work.
Lou, on your side, you've got the high seats. On my side, we've got the low seats.
We're going to start off with Yankos drawing out those four consecutively.
Exactly.
We're going to start with the six of them who will be placed in the bracket and Yankos
will be drawn out here one by one and just a quick reminder of the rules, two teams coming
from the same group cannot be paired for the first quarter final nor can they be on the
same side of the bracket.
So let's get it.
You ready?
Let's go for the first one.
A lot of pressure.
Okay, first one.
First one is Hanwha Life East Wars, actually, on top of the brackets.
Wow.
Wow.
It's your MSI with it right there.
Pretty solid.
Up next.
Let me have you with that. Up next, A, G, A, L, A, G.
They'll be feeling really confident this year.
Third up, there's not much suspense left, who is it going to be?
Is it Gen G third position?
So it's easy to guess who's the last one, but still...
Jankos opening it to show us.
Of course, Billy, Billy Gaming!
So, good news, we have HLE and BLG on different sides of the bracket,
so we could have a rematch. How does that sound?
Well, I mean, the last time these two teams met, right,
in a BOT3 at least, BLG was winning an HLE on the series.
I'm very excited. I think there is some MSI exhaustion setting in,
and whichever team can take it, we'll see.
That's going to get crispy,
We could have a rematch of the MSI final of the WWC.
T1!
T1 as the first C2 team.
So the matchup is gonna be HLE vs T1.
Wow.
We can welcome HLE T1.
Wow, wow, wow.
That's an awesome game.
Matchup.
How does that sound?
That sounds really exciting. I mean, please come on, you should.
Oh, I can't wait for that. We'll take that, right?
That's, uh, I mean, that's Gimba going after the guy that took his job.
So, I mean, that's, it's a crazy matchup. It's a crazy matchup.
Can't wait. Let's go.
What's that, Lou? What's that?
Everyone waiting.
JD Gaming!
JD Gaming as the second team to be picked.
They are going to be facing Gen G vs. JD Gaming.
Wow.
And Gala with a fist bump.
JD Gaming with their workout for the national.
Yeah, I mean, all these masks are crazy because it's Sombate at the tourney, so that's an exciting one.
Should we keep going?
Yeah, let's keep doing it.
Let's keep doing it.
How does that all?
Que des top teams, évidemment, dans cette fente braquette.
Deuxième match, JDG, face Agenji.
Kamiko!
So it's going to be AGL versus Carmichael!
Listen to the crowd in here!
That is a tasty quarter-final.
I think I gave him the easiest match possible.
What? Do you agree with him?
Absolutely, I think this is doable.
I think like, you know, KC should be happy with this.
We take it. As Western team, we take it.
With all due respect, obviously.
Well, we know who it is, but let's just do the honours anyway.
With the final team to be drawn out here.
It's DK!
So, final matchup, you got it.
It's Asura, D plus Kia versus...
Billy Billy Gaming, BROG!
We've got a lineup of the lifetime coming up in this quarter finals bracket, banger after
banger after banger.
Let's get some final thoughts from you guys.
Firstly, I'm going to really put you on the spot.
Who do you think is winning this entire thing?
I'm going to be honest, it's probably HLE again.
Like they, it's either they revealed to you, it was the finals at MSI, but if you're a
KC fan, you owe me.
I give you the easiest match of possible.
Well, do you agree with him or do you have something a bit more crispy for me? Who's winning it?
I hope KC will make it all the way to Semais. It's possible, it's definitely possible.
As for the whole thing, I'm going to go with most likely HL as well. I think they're still in shape after MSA
and they are very flexible and draft so hard to beat.
Yes indeed, who will win, on the other hand,
both of them are a bit slow,
the MSAs have come to favor them, they are in shape,
but we want to believe that Carmine Korn can go up to the semi-finals,
and that's all we want from them.
The best in the world continues to compete for this trophy.
We'll see you tomorrow for the quarter-finals.
Thank you very much Lou and Ian,
help from Yankos and Doublelift as we have our completed
breakup. No team from the same group will be playing until the
grand finals if they make it all the way, which means a banger
right off the top. It is Honwalife Esports vs T1, AGL vs
Carmencorp, Gen G vs JDG and BLG vs D plus Kia. Wow. Yeah, I
feel like the HLE T1 matchup. An exciting one and a crazy one to have already in the
quarterfinals but I think the T1 being the second seed we're always going to get a crazy
matchup in that first portion of the bracket. But I think here, you know, they said on the
stage KC, there was no easy team to be drawn against but I think based on what we're seeing,
AGL probably the best hope for them would you agree with it?
Yeah, for sure, but what about the bracket though?
I think they have to play against one of the best team in the LCK in the semis,
but I think it is what it is, and it's not a B05, you know?
Is it?
You know what I mean?
I think if they won the other side of the bracket, maybe not just one.
It's true.
You know, you hope for a good quarters.
The semis, it's just harder and harder.
It's very tough.
Again, when you take a look at that, I think the Aiglerly T1 has to be the one
that jumps out at everyone.
The storylines are all there.
Where she captains that were sent out for the draw.
It was Guman, Paze with the fist bump
and a little bit of the smirk.
It's going to be so awesome to watch.
I'm most excited for Gen G, JDG and BLG D plus
because you know, these are obviously powerhouse teams
but not matchups we typically see.
And the expectation is Gen G, BLG are favorite
but I think D plus JDG can definitely put up a fight.
And also BLG versus DK.
I think we might think it's his favorite to BLG
whenever we see showmaker playing against Alpil team. He brought up some some over count whenever he
played against it and I'm expecting more from him as well so it's gonna be amazing quarterfinals.
Absolutely. Storylines across every single match appear. The dates are locked. The times of each
matchup will be posted very very soon across EWC socials to make sure to look for that but the
matches will start tomorrow. All the teams will be playing. It's going to be a huge, huge day of
best of threes on behalf of everyone here at EWC. Thank you so much for watching and we close the
day with the STC Rewind.
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Look at the AWP damage! The Cataclysm from Tarzan caps! No one long dead! Han Solo's also dead!
And in goes Lucent, but doesn't actually find the whole breaker immediately exposed.
Heal it boys, maybe it's a chance for Jesus and the backline may go
It's the ultimate of his career
What do you want to play?
Come here, now walk with that engage
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And...
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