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FNCS Major 1 | NAC | Finals Day 2

04-26-2026 · 4h 07m

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[00:10:30] I can't hold it back, damn I'm not too bad
[00:10:41] These mountains are dumb, those troubles are rolling
[00:10:44] No bridges, I'm tired, came in this fire with diamonds
[00:10:47] I've backed off the city, not really, just kidding
[00:10:50] Many taxis taken from me, this one right here's only for me
[00:10:53] My courage to ride, you're living in a hide, bet you bet on my odds
[00:10:56] If I had a fly, I'd have to stop the minute I got on my bed
[00:10:59] Stand to y'all to stand to give it a hundred percent
[00:11:01] Cause I'm a beast all over your head
[00:11:03] I, right, I stand
[00:11:04] Now you want it out, if you want it out
[00:11:07] Like a moon don't show that I'm under
[00:11:10] Now it's like it out, if you want it out
[00:11:13] Don't stop, move on, get down to the ground
[00:11:16] Take a step, cause I've been bouncing back
[00:11:20] Now I'm bouncing back
[00:11:22] Now I'm bouncing back
[00:11:25] I keep on the back, I keep on the back
[00:11:28] Yeah, I'm coming back
[00:11:30] It's, it, it, it, it's just a mission
[00:11:32] I do it in my sleep, no commission
[00:11:35] I like assigned quest
[00:11:37] Love's opposition
[00:11:38] A philosophical profession
[00:11:39] They make losing their tradition
[00:11:41] Yeah, they talk
[00:11:42] When they talk about what they say to me
[00:11:44] I'm chewing on
[00:11:45] It's taking my job
[00:11:45] The way that I see it take
[00:11:46] I'm building a wall
[00:11:47] None of these towers
[00:11:48] Between your feet
[00:11:49] I'm at a space
[00:11:50] I had a piece
[00:11:50] This is different thing
[00:11:51] I might at least be asleep
[00:11:53] I don't want to die
[00:11:54] I don't want to die
[00:11:55] I don't want to die
[00:11:57] So I put a monster in my collar, take it out
[00:12:00] There's no one to die, no one's done for the love
[00:12:03] It's a revolution, take it back, take it back
[00:12:05] Take a step, cause I've been back
[00:12:07] Oh, just like that, maybe you don't crank up back too fast
[00:12:12] Oh, oh, just like that, I see it's all up in my future
[00:12:17] Oh, oh, I know what I think you can go
[00:12:21] The dark outside my, my mask is my phone
[00:12:54] I'm so super sad, I'm so sad I'm so, so sad
[00:12:58] I just wanna love, I just want you to love
[00:13:02] I can't, I can't see, I can't find a chance
[00:13:08] I'm coming back, I'm coming back
[00:13:14] I keep coming back, I keep coming back
[00:13:16] I'm coming back, I keep coming back
[00:13:19] I'm coming back, I keep coming back
[00:13:22] Y'all got the back, got the back, got the back, got the back
[00:13:29] Y'all got the back
[00:22:22] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[00:22:24] I can hold it back, now I'm bouncing back
[00:22:26] These mountains, I'm telling them
[00:22:28] Those rebels are rolling, no bridges
[00:22:30] I'm claiming to destroy your autonomous
[00:22:32] I've left all, my city, not really
[00:22:34] Just kidding, 90 times, they've taken down me
[00:22:36] This one right here is only for me
[00:22:38] My powers are raw, you're livin' it all
[00:22:39] I bet you bet on the odds
[00:22:41] And if I had a fly, it's all about
[00:22:42] The minute I got him right back
[00:22:43] Don't need your stunts, you got some stunts
[00:22:45] To give it a hundred percent
[00:22:46] This time I'll beat you to the limit
[00:22:47] With your head, eye, right, eye, right
[00:22:49] Say you want it out, if you want it out
[00:22:52] I could move to a stop and wonder
[00:22:55] Gotta take it out, cause I want it out
[00:22:58] But what's done for the world, keep on too bad
[00:23:01] Take a step this far, then bounce it back
[00:23:05] Yeah, bounce it back
[00:23:08] Yeah, bounce it back
[00:23:11] I keep on the back, I keep on the back
[00:23:13] Yeah, bounce it back
[00:23:16] It's just a mission
[00:23:17] I do that in my sleep, no commission
[00:23:20] I like a side quest of opposition
[00:23:23] With physical precision, they make lose on their decision
[00:23:26] Yeah, they talk, and we talk what they say to me
[00:23:29] I'm chewing on setting my jaw, the way that every shoot is nice
[00:23:32] I'm building a wall, 90 stars, but you know me
[00:23:34] I'm out of space, I had a piece of this different game
[00:23:36] I'm out of peace, peace, peace
[00:23:38] I don't want to die, I don't want to lose
[00:23:40] Make you, don't stop, I don't want to lose
[00:23:43] Gotta take it out, I don't want to die
[00:23:46] No one's done for the love he gets
[00:23:48] I wish we'd go
[00:23:49] Take a step, take a step, take a step
[00:23:51] Cause I've been back
[00:23:52] Oh, just like that
[00:23:54] Maybe you can crank up that too fast
[00:23:57] Oh, oh, just like that
[00:24:00] I see it up in my future
[00:24:02] Oh, oh, I know what I think you can go
[00:24:06] New dark house outside my, my mouth is my soul
[00:24:09] It's lovely, it's fishy, and sometimes it's gone
[00:24:11] No way, now watch me get this phone
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[00:26:14] And of course, who's going to qualify in the top 13 spots going on over to the summerland.
[00:26:38] Also breaking news in case you didn't see the updates to the summit.
[00:26:43] Go check out fncom on socials and there's a lot to break down on that and we would love
[00:26:47] to take time to do that but we have six games ahead of us today.
[00:26:51] There's still so much story to be told in the right here in the right now.
[00:26:54] I don't bring in Kelly link and vivid friends day two obviously big announcement comes out
[00:27:01] but right now we're looking at a close race and of course if we're going to start
[00:27:05] us anything it's it will be four nights crazy things will happen players will win
[00:27:09] We lose, we lose, we lose, game players will rise and fall.
[00:27:12] And we have six games to determine it all, Kelly.
[00:27:15] Ooh, man.
[00:27:15] I mean, we've just wrapped up EU, and it's so exciting over there.
[00:27:19] Sky and scroll walk away as our winners from major number
[00:27:22] 1 for EU.
[00:27:23] And then obviously over at OCD, four crazy things
[00:27:26] happening, Alex being the first ever seven times winner
[00:27:30] for the FCS finals, also getting seven-victor royals.
[00:27:33] I mean, those are the other regions, though.
[00:27:35] But we are here for GA Central.
[00:27:38] anything like what we got to see from yesterday is that we are in all some
[00:27:42] crazy. Oh yeah NA will definitely deliver and yeah you mentioned that right EU
[00:27:48] kind of popping off earlier today it was so funny for me to sit there and watch
[00:27:51] you because you're kind of reminded that hey listen yeah we've got this race
[00:27:55] that's going on at the top every single game matters for those guys because
[00:27:58] they're so close at the top but then decisions made by those type of players
[00:28:02] those top of the leaderboard players like pushing somebody who's in like
[00:28:05] 20 second plays, two spots away from qualifying to the land.
[00:28:10] There's just so much at stake here.
[00:28:11] And we got to keep reminding ourselves that, yeah,
[00:28:14] we are looking to crown an FNCS champion,
[00:28:16] but we're also looking at some of these players
[00:28:18] and making it to the land.
[00:28:20] Oh, man. Oh, man. Let's take a look.
[00:28:22] We have a little graphic here for the players
[00:28:24] who have already qualified on through to the summit.
[00:28:27] They take a nice little look now.
[00:28:28] Obviously, some of the regions are all done, right?
[00:28:31] They've got themselves wrapped up,
[00:28:32] But we still need to see how things unfold for ourselves again as Kelly pointed out sky-scroll congratulations over in
[00:28:39] EU
[00:28:41] NAC Brazil still waiting to happen, right?
[00:28:44] Like especially NA West lots of big names and stories to conclude
[00:28:50] Well guys obviously we only have so much time before the game start
[00:28:54] Why don't we get into it? Why don't we start off with this lobby list, right? We are the leaderboard rather
[00:28:59] their top 13 is what we're targeting.
[00:29:01] If we want to hit the summit right now,
[00:29:05] QK and Khan at 1.97 are in that top 13, right?
[00:29:09] And even if I look at just one more placement,
[00:29:11] Kamaz and Sphinx only a point ahead.
[00:29:14] So you know, Kelly, coming into today,
[00:29:16] a lot of these players either have to just put it all on the line
[00:29:19] and hold on to this top 13,
[00:29:21] or if you're outside that top 13,
[00:29:22] you really need to do everything you can to break through.
[00:29:25] I mean QK and Khan in our final game from day number one was a great example to show just how crazy
[00:29:32] things can shift in a single game. They were gone from our stage two for our standings and to get
[00:29:38] that final victory royale up that they rocked them up to that coveted 13 spot because that is where
[00:29:44] the doodle-dorff tickets are earned but of course we still have six more games to go and there's
[00:29:49] still some big names outside of that range vivid and anything can change when it comes to Fortnite.
[00:29:54] the second page is scary. It will be interesting to keep tabs on this to kind of see how this is going throughout the day. Obviously, we know how yesterday went towards the top of the standings. One point separated first and second place and who better than a current bolt and cold and rapid to go ahead and fill those spots up now.
[00:30:14] They just had an incredible run yesterday, both of these teams, and it was all about consistency.
[00:30:20] And obviously, you know, we're in this new little bit of competitive 4-0 where storm
[00:30:24] charges change and all these players are going to have to keep adjusting their strategies
[00:30:28] and everything like that.
[00:30:29] But what made it possible for these two teams to be all the way towards the top
[00:30:32] of the leaderboard was how consistently they were able to make it into the end game.
[00:30:36] And as we know exactly how that starts, it's going to start with some of the damage
[00:30:40] down.
[00:30:41] That's right, man.
[00:30:42] Let's take a look at some of these numbers.
[00:30:44] So we took a look at these, we were like,
[00:30:46] wait, hold on, you said how much damage?
[00:30:48] But yeah, I mean, as we compare the two duos,
[00:30:51] I think what's interesting is when we look at zones
[00:30:53] one to seven, eight point of bolts,
[00:30:54] they have more damage, right?
[00:30:56] But Kelly, when we flip on over to those later zones,
[00:30:59] it actually flips again, right?
[00:31:00] Bold and rapid now have more damage.
[00:31:03] Well, it's definitely indicative of their style,
[00:31:05] eight point of bolts, like to rotate early,
[00:31:07] establish themselves so they can get storm surge tags,
[00:31:10] whereas bold and rapid are definitely end game players
[00:31:12] destroying that mid and low ground.
[00:31:14] It is what they are known for.
[00:31:16] But Acron Bolt definitely has a different play style.
[00:31:18] If we can see it right there, first and foremost,
[00:31:21] zone one through seven Acron Bolts
[00:31:22] have more damage dealt than in the moving zones of the game.
[00:31:26] Like, that's crazy.
[00:31:27] Usually, you know, you're box to box with people.
[00:31:29] You're doing all that shock and damage.
[00:31:30] But what kicks it off is Acron Bolts
[00:31:32] are laying all the way on the north side of the map.
[00:31:33] They have access to a launch pad.
[00:31:35] They're, of course, going to combine the effects of a miss
[00:31:37] and an overdrive grenade to make sure
[00:31:39] they can fly as high as they possibly can.
[00:31:42] What this allows them to do is even though they're landing all the way on the north side of the map,
[00:31:46] they can kind of fly all the way across the map and still secure themselves a very good position inside of the zone.
[00:31:53] What this kind of allows them to do is base up, just deal all the damage that they need to do,
[00:31:57] like we saw in Zones 1-7, it's an incredible amount of damage that they are able to do.
[00:32:02] But because they're so safe, because they're able to land in those high priority spots,
[00:32:06] they don't really take any damage.
[00:32:07] And with the way that the new storm surge works,
[00:32:09] they're able to consistently make it through every single one
[00:32:11] of these end games.
[00:32:12] And that's why they're towards the top of the leaderboard
[00:32:14] right now.
[00:32:15] It's so crazy.
[00:32:16] We got to look at the other side then, right?
[00:32:18] We talk about the current bulls.
[00:32:19] We talk about cold and rapid.
[00:32:21] I think it's insane that we are coming in a single points
[00:32:25] difference.
[00:32:25] But for these guys, they're landing middle of the map,
[00:32:27] right?
[00:32:28] So talk to me about their strategy.
[00:32:29] What has led to them being so successful?
[00:32:32] I mean, it's cold, right?
[00:32:34] I think you just put that name right there
[00:32:35] and that everyone can see the pathway to success.
[00:32:38] When he is locked in, he really locks in.
[00:32:41] And cold and rapid have really shown themselves
[00:32:44] of kind of being able to just handle this mid-ground.
[00:32:47] They have the center of the map with 1,000,
[00:32:49] and they have these easy rotations in it.
[00:32:52] Yeah, it's gonna be a similar strategy
[00:32:53] to what Acron and Bolts are doing.
[00:32:55] A little bit different, right?
[00:32:56] Because they're not gonna be utilizing a launchpad,
[00:32:57] but because they do land center of the map,
[00:33:00] they're usually pretty close to all of the zones, right?
[00:33:02] They can kind of just walk over, face up,
[00:33:04] And again, from there on out, it's pretty much just the same thing.
[00:33:07] You've got this tall tower.
[00:33:09] You don't really take damage while you're in it,
[00:33:10] but you're in one of these high priority spots
[00:33:12] where a lot of teams are going to be rotating by.
[00:33:14] So you can get all the damage dealt that you need to
[00:33:17] and wrap it in cold.
[00:33:18] They're focused on one thing,
[00:33:19] and that's going to be getting cold to the end game finished.
[00:33:22] Day number one with the most eliminations.
[00:33:24] Guy was absolutely popping off.
[00:33:25] If it wasn't for that game,
[00:33:26] six little fumble between them and Venom and Curve, man,
[00:33:30] I think they would have a big lead right now.
[00:33:33] Oh man, it's a time for redemption, right?
[00:33:36] Day two will bring new things.
[00:33:38] A lot of players have taken time to just bottom review,
[00:33:40] take a step back, refresh themselves.
[00:33:42] And now we're thinking in six brand new games,
[00:33:44] anything can happen.
[00:33:46] Now before we continue the conversation,
[00:33:47] why don't we go meet up with our casters,
[00:33:48] Jacob B.R.s, MDF.
[00:33:50] Say hello.
[00:33:52] Well, today is gonna be a great day for sure, monster.
[00:33:55] We crowned FNCS champion,
[00:33:57] but as well as some of our duos are playing,
[00:33:59] I need to point out the individual factors
[00:34:02] that are going down in some of these games,
[00:34:04] these solo impact points that some of these guys
[00:34:06] are clutching up.
[00:34:07] We talk about the one point differential in first place.
[00:34:10] Well, look at that man on top of the list,
[00:34:12] Bolts, 88 solo impact points.
[00:34:15] You also got Curve and Peterbot, who are also in the top 10,
[00:34:18] OZ and Viv, who are also neck and neck on that meter board.
[00:34:21] So I'm even wondering when things don't go your way,
[00:34:24] you got to fill the plans out the window,
[00:34:26] how will these solos perform?
[00:34:28] Yeah, what's incredible about this
[00:34:29] is Bolts is the only one of all those players
[00:34:32] show there that is currently obviously in first place coming into day two. And what's
[00:34:36] more interesting is this is again a notorious duo that when Acorn comes back on day two style
[00:34:43] finals format he's usually better than we've ever seen him before. So he's still doing
[00:34:48] what he normally does. He had a relatively underperforming day one but Boltz is just
[00:34:53] going crazy really putting the team on his back really playing exceptional Fortnite
[00:34:58] And the highlights speak for itself there, Jacob.
[00:35:01] Yeah, and this is that was only day one action so far.
[00:35:04] Peterbot kind of at the bottom of that top five list, 50 points.
[00:35:07] And he's the one that kind of made those exciting clutches
[00:35:10] popular in the past couple of seasons.
[00:35:12] Will that change?
[00:35:13] I don't know.
[00:35:14] We still got six games to find out, Zeke, Kelly, and Vivid.
[00:35:17] What do you guys think?
[00:35:19] Jacob, you know, I love that you bring up
[00:35:21] their solo impact points, right?
[00:35:22] We think about if we, you know,
[00:35:24] pass our minds back to yesterday, game six.
[00:35:25] For a moment, I thought, is this a solo competition?
[00:35:27] because it's just every high-profile duo are all solos, right?
[00:35:31] And they come in to game number six,
[00:35:33] and they put on such a show.
[00:35:36] But we'll have to see, right?
[00:35:37] Like I said right before, with a brand new day,
[00:35:40] anything can happen,
[00:35:42] and we're excited to see what these players
[00:35:43] have prepared for us,
[00:35:45] because again, top 13,
[00:35:46] and we're also playing for an Axe of Champions.
[00:35:49] Now as we continue this conversation,
[00:35:50] why don't we talk about some of the players?
[00:35:52] We are excited to see visual and braids
[00:35:55] immediately comes to mind.
[00:35:56] fourth place currently with 311 points.
[00:36:00] Talk to me about these guys in the lens of life.
[00:36:03] What do you think they prepared coming in for day number two?
[00:36:05] I mean, for visuals and braids, I think they're just gonna,
[00:36:09] this is such a silly thing to say,
[00:36:11] but I think they're just playing standard Fortnite
[00:36:13] to the best.
[00:36:14] Bruce Lee once said,
[00:36:16] I don't hear the man that's done a thousand kicks one time.
[00:36:19] I hear the man that's done one kick a thousand times.
[00:36:21] And I feel like visuals and braids
[00:36:23] play the same game over and over and over again.
[00:36:27] They kind of have a little bit of a passive early game
[00:36:29] that they make sure to get a few tack.
[00:36:31] They go into the end game with just a little bit
[00:36:33] above storm damage, but they make sure to always enter
[00:36:36] the good, smart engagement, and then they disengage
[00:36:39] when they need to, and then they have a ton of heals
[00:36:41] because they didn't enter these early and mid engagements
[00:36:44] so that they're able to survive
[00:36:45] and make it all the way to the end.
[00:36:47] And although they're not able to grab
[00:36:48] a ton of eliminations, they are still able
[00:36:50] to get those placement points, but this right here
[00:36:52] is the number that I wanted to talk about,
[00:36:54] that they have played 10 consecutive FNCS finals together,
[00:36:59] more than any other team that we have in our region,
[00:37:02] and that would be hard press
[00:37:03] to find any other duo in the world.
[00:37:06] However, vivid, fun fact, the only other duo
[00:37:09] that has been on an FNCS finals together
[00:37:12] for 10 FNCS finals is you and me.
[00:37:18] That was really, I was really wondering
[00:37:20] What team that could have made
[00:37:27] it in? We have been here for a
[00:37:29] long time. Shout out to my duo
[00:37:31] partner here, Kelly. And of
[00:37:32] course, Zeke always keeping us
[00:37:34] on our toes. Man, I didn't know
[00:37:35] what I was going to say after
[00:37:36] that one. Visual brains fourth
[00:37:38] place on the lead. We're right
[00:37:40] now 28 points behind the first
[00:37:41] place. And I got to tell you
[00:37:42] K. I'm happy that you kind of
[00:37:43] broke it down because we
[00:37:44] talked about all the chaos
[00:37:45] kind of kind of me into the
[00:37:46] season with all the new
[00:37:47] duos. The fact that these
[00:37:48] guys have stuck together and
[00:37:49] out. And I gotta tell you, I'm looking at their match history over here and their last game yesterday was a 46 place with zero elimination.
[00:37:56] They got zero points that game. If they had a good game like they did in all the other games, it'd be in first place right now.
[00:38:04] For now, I hope you see that what what me and Vivid see all the time going to be threat of the broadcast is that Kelly is a menace.
[00:38:09] OK, what are we talking about? One last do it's hobby and I'm managed, you know, they're currently in fifth place, right?
[00:38:16] 270 points but again what can we expect from these guys right a brand new day
[00:38:22] new strategy time to vaude review what are we thinking well you say the word
[00:38:26] new and that immediately makes me think of how this team formed and it's such a
[00:38:30] beautiful story to be written in conjunction with visuals and greats
[00:38:33] the diminished is the third of that trio that we saw them compete all last
[00:38:37] year together and we know that hobby was officially played with three throughout
[00:38:42] a four major one dropping literally the week that major one was starting. So to see Bobby and
[00:38:47] Aminish form together and be this new duo with that juxtaposition, but juxtaposition of visuals
[00:38:53] and braids being this long lasting duo and to see them still doing well playing to what their
[00:38:59] advantage is and once again that is just making sure that they are making it to the end game
[00:39:04] and I know that sounds silly vivid but when it comes to the FNCS sometimes that's the most
[00:39:09] It's the fourth thing.
[00:39:10] Does it sound silly at all?
[00:39:11] Consistency is key when it comes down to Fortnite.
[00:39:14] And right now these guys,
[00:39:15] they have an average time alive of 20 plus minutes.
[00:39:18] So they're kind of consistently making
[00:39:19] to those later stages of the game.
[00:39:21] A couple of fumbles I did see when I was kind of looking
[00:39:23] at some of our top teams
[00:39:24] and how many times they've been struck by storm surge.
[00:39:27] Unfortunately for Javi and Aminish,
[00:39:28] they were kind of up there.
[00:39:29] I think they each took like 20,
[00:39:31] around like 20 each,
[00:39:32] where some of our other top teams,
[00:39:33] I saw visuals and braids,
[00:39:34] zero times for both of those guys,
[00:39:36] acre and bolts, zero time.
[00:39:37] So, Albina managed just a couple of fumbles
[00:39:40] when the concerns storm surge,
[00:39:42] but if they could fix that, man,
[00:39:44] they could make a run for that top three,
[00:39:45] top two, they could win it too.
[00:39:49] Another duo we actually didn't talk about
[00:39:51] is currently in third place.
[00:39:52] Ages and Ritual, 331 points, Kelly.
[00:39:55] That's only eight points behind Acorn and Boltz.
[00:39:58] I mean, come on, we're gonna make this happen, right?
[00:40:02] Yeah, it's ages and Rituals.
[00:40:03] They already got a big group royale.
[00:40:04] They already got a second place.
[00:40:06] There's a few games where they're making it to the very end,
[00:40:08] and they're just not being able to stick together
[00:40:10] and survive to the very final moment.
[00:40:12] We'll talk about that.
[00:40:13] 21st and 17th place game that we saw from yesterday,
[00:40:16] butagers and rituals are definitely where they can teach.
[00:40:18] It's crazy.
[00:40:19] Looking at this later board, literally any of our top eight
[00:40:21] could make some crazy plays today, David,
[00:40:23] and jump into that first place spot.
[00:40:25] I'm happy that you mentioned Toppy.
[00:40:26] What about Top seven?
[00:40:27] I see Klicks and Higgs sitting in seventh place right now.
[00:40:30] They started yesterday so hard.
[00:40:31] It looked like they were gonna run away
[00:40:33] with the competition.
[00:40:34] They're high again. It was so clean.
[00:40:37] I want to see them return to form today.
[00:40:39] Have a good six games and see where they end up.
[00:40:42] Good game. Will the rivalry continue, right?
[00:40:44] They're right behind Peter Bodd and Pollo, right?
[00:40:46] Only six points behind them.
[00:40:48] So there's just so much that can happen today.
[00:40:52] Six games to determine it all.
[00:40:54] Fortnite fan, we hope you are as excited as we are,
[00:40:57] but that being said, game seven is ready.
[00:40:59] Let's kick off the competition.
[00:41:01] Gassers, over to you.
[00:41:02] you know, coming into today monster, I'm looking at the leaderboard trying to get a
[00:41:07] feel of who actually has a chance to win. I went in my head all the way down to 8th
[00:41:11] place, Reed and Cooper, then I thought Cole and Madden, they're playing well, then to
[00:41:15] incur, they know how to take over games, threads and beer, they have been performing
[00:41:19] phenomenally. So when I come in today, I'm like, who do you really think can pull
[00:41:23] off the win? And that's the thing, you know, we have these teams that are notoriously
[00:41:27] better on day two, but then again, anything can happen. You see that breakaway performance.
[00:41:32] teams just get a little lucky. Some players just outperform play above and beyond their
[00:41:37] usual selves like we saw with bolts yesterday really taking it far here. So Jacob, I mean,
[00:41:41] I'm with you. I do think obviously if you're in the 300 point range, you got a great shot.
[00:41:46] You got to prove it first.
[00:41:53] Throughout day number one monster, we've seen big games over a hundred point games almost
[00:41:59] Every single one by at least one of those teams so I kind of agree with you
[00:42:03] It'd be crazy to think a lot of these teams can't catch up
[00:42:06] But with a day break in between a chance to bot review fix some of these mistakes
[00:42:11] You got a new chance at life the dragon pre on Jack and then they're still going head-to-head after split drop
[00:42:17] It is gonna be a 50-50 instead of trying to take two different sides and then getting tagged up down to 26 HP
[00:42:22] Jack as well they get the first stop on the dragon. He can't clean it up though
[00:42:26] He just falls short of that mark. Now it's gonna be up to end pen to try to push in when he gets taken down as well
[00:42:32] Creon really clutching up. Yeah, this is just on back and forth, you know
[00:42:36] Each team having their individual moments essentially, but
[00:42:40] Creon and a dragon in the end are gonna win and they go right into Electro and then he exposed himself
[00:42:46] And no, you know, they're gonna push here, especially after seeing the shield crack
[00:42:49] There's no reason not to and not only that don't forget Electro was playing really good yesterday
[00:42:55] I mean, they even got the best of them, knowing Earth at some point.
[00:42:58] So this is not a team that you could just push over.
[00:43:00] Yeah, I'm going to talk about adjustments from day one to day two.
[00:43:04] I'm sure one of those teams, they landed up here.
[00:43:06] They landed up Battlewood.
[00:43:07] They came back up here.
[00:43:08] So already you can see the feeling to start their day.
[00:43:11] We're going to do better off towards the top.
[00:43:13] Let these two teams fight it out.
[00:43:14] And let's try to crash as a third party and clean it up.
[00:43:17] Paper and Rezzi.
[00:43:18] A few struggles yesterday.
[00:43:19] Paper going down to a little bit of fall damage in the off-spawn fights.
[00:43:22] But one thing I've learned about paper over the last two years is he's someone I feel like you could never count out
[00:43:28] No matter how bleak it looks he's somebody that usually ends up inside of the bubble
[00:43:32] Yeah, he finds his way man when there's a will there's definitely a way in paper is a vet that's been around the block
[00:43:39] quite some time
[00:43:40] And all their teams I want to you know see a little bit more from today is obviously Venos team in the end game
[00:43:46] We saw how much of an explosive early game they had finding all those extra eliminations
[00:43:52] Rotating into teams like these that are lurking on the outskirts
[00:43:56] Coming in with a routine fight right now is the first for Neo noisy have zipped the down right now void
[00:44:02] Just playing roll around here trying to stay in the game right now
[00:44:05] They might have given a little too much space to work with here
[00:44:09] Being a 1v1 is a very interesting position.
[00:44:15] I truly don't want to let him get that red sod, but it's kind of hard.
[00:44:19] You almost need yourself open to getting tagged up.
[00:44:21] Once you play a little bit too aggressive, the third parties are all around on this side.
[00:44:25] He always can be up to clean up that first knock.
[00:44:27] The other nation side quickly goes in, gets the materials.
[00:44:29] That could be the difference maker in him surviving and going down to Nio is looking to impress him this fight.
[00:44:35] Definitely like what I'm seeing right now, but you know, the end of the day,
[00:44:39] Neo gets a little opportunity to back off and it's good for him to do that.
[00:44:43] You know, they understand the general area dynamic is that there are other duos here as well, right?
[00:44:49] This is no surprise to them at least, obviously.
[00:44:53] Given yesterday, they had all types of third parties show up.
[00:44:56] Tyler and Chance on the other side seem to be doing things a little differently here.
[00:45:00] From Battlewood they know that team is towards the south that's gonna be
[00:45:05] slipped into a pronto they're lurking up on one just a little cheeky shot not much
[00:45:09] confidence they realize they have the numbers advantage they're trying to take it
[00:45:12] while they can and instantly get that first knock on the slips without even
[00:45:16] taking too much damage monster that's one thing we always point out in
[00:45:20] moments like this it's great to get the elimination but how much damage did you
[00:45:24] take back because of surge threats veer winning their off-spawn fight as
[00:45:27] but you got to be careful, Vier was down to a sliver of HP.
[00:45:30] You know, talked about that damage exchange.
[00:45:32] That's not the kind of position you want to be in
[00:45:34] when you're finishing it up.
[00:45:35] A lot of it obviously gets it right back to the opponents.
[00:45:40] Such a different dynamic the way Serge plays out.
[00:45:44] Chance and Tyler doing a good job right here, though,
[00:45:46] pushing down Toronto, Toronto, missing those important shots
[00:45:49] that are at least going to buy him a little bit of room.
[00:45:51] Gets one kind of fire off, but in the end,
[00:45:53] Tyler chance to find themselves
[00:45:55] with a clean elimination here.
[00:45:57] and Jacob a lot of players are now officially eliminated this game
[00:46:02] we're down to just 76 or so you see even Peterbott there recognizing that they
[00:46:07] have to play for a big big game right now you know Peterbott someone that
[00:46:11] yesterday towards the tail and I did last two or three games seemed to be
[00:46:15] playing really aggressive in the early game. Yeah I think you kind of realized
[00:46:19] especially with a lot of these teams like Snagg, Peterbott, Boyle and even saw
[00:46:23] Acorn and Bolts in some instances, where they were either on the line of storm surge
[00:46:27] barely ahead or in some instances below that actual damage threshold, so sometimes
[00:46:32] you're gonna have to think differently and probably pull out one of your tricks.
[00:46:35] We know Peterbot can get aggressive and flip that switch in a moment's notice,
[00:46:39] but I think a lot of players are feeling that same way, whether they're
[00:46:42] contested or not. I think Kelly was one of the ones that spoke about the
[00:46:45] point differential in eliminations from a 1-point format, a 3-point format.
[00:46:49] This is four points for elimination.
[00:46:51] We've opened down yesterday.
[00:46:52] The very last major that we had in NA Central
[00:46:55] was decided by three points.
[00:46:57] That's one elimination.
[00:46:58] Honestly, that's two placings difference
[00:47:01] to winning the actual FNCS.
[00:47:03] Yeah, we saw like there was a moment yesterday
[00:47:05] when Klicks was going for that victory.
[00:47:07] Yeah, that they knew and he knew he had to risk it all.
[00:47:10] And he was willing to go into the storm
[00:47:12] just to try to secure those extra limitations.
[00:47:15] He knows better than anyone how close things
[00:47:17] You can get towards the end.
[00:47:19] You want to put it all on the table for G-Monster and Magma though, you see there.
[00:47:22] We have officially been exposed here.
[00:47:25] Yeah, that breaks all the bills. Get you a little bit of shield, but it doesn't really help when we're already full of shield.
[00:47:31] G-Monster is trying to go ahead and move in and help out Magma.
[00:47:34] Even he takes a big shot, takes the base, and that goes one attack from the other side.
[00:47:39] Once he's there, still trying to put pressure, playing a little bit more careful.
[00:47:42] It doesn't have shield to easily get one shot of here instead of using it
[00:47:46] He's just trying to put down pressure with that go but now the bagma and G money have healed up
[00:47:50] It might be a wise decision to finally pop those yields
[00:47:54] Eventually that wave will burst through this area and break all the bills if you're ready for it
[00:47:58] Plenty with a cheeky angle landing some good shots on the G money yet again
[00:48:02] This is such a cost-serf over by year with 20 a neck goes to having a huge advantage
[00:48:06] Great angles however they've already gone through two of their flowberry miss so big investment so far this has to come to a
[00:48:15] screeching halt here soon or it's not gonna be looking good for anyone involved in this
[00:48:20] fight right now
[00:48:21] G money jumps back over get some of those extra deals and
[00:48:25] They're trying to find the exit strategy
[00:48:28] It's not every day you see fights going down
[00:48:30] Underneath in these tunnels where there's kind of the two ways in and out that you kind of work through the news
[00:48:37] They want exit
[00:48:39] So we'll see if that fight does continue on either teams do try to disengage now
[00:48:43] But about the oil this time around I know you talked about that one elimination
[00:48:47] This is my teams are getting more and more comfortable rotating towards really short
[00:48:51] Maybe I feel count for yesterday one of the big focal points of their strategy was building that massive search
[00:48:56] tower just outside towards the gas station. The teams are maybe saying, hey, we can go in,
[00:49:01] sneak some, maybe try to get out. But a different change of pace for Peter Bottenpoio. They're
[00:49:05] actually going in, looting up the entire POI. So for CDZ and Raven, this might be a chance for
[00:49:10] them to lurk or get caught off guard. Yeah, definitely. Or you can think about how aggressive
[00:49:15] they were playing. They were actually leaving their PO out to try to fight other teams. So
[00:49:20] for CDZ and Raven, maybe some of their strategy revealed to them like,
[00:49:23] We can kind of come around, they might not even be here.
[00:49:26] Clearly not the case here in the end of the 1.
[00:49:29] Virtual Agers can quite catch a lurk onto visual embrace.
[00:49:32] That would have been a massive elimination right there.
[00:49:35] One that would have surely shaken up the leaderboards.
[00:49:38] Even that bow team's are neck and neck right now.
[00:49:41] Visual embrace, getting lucky enough here,
[00:49:43] and don't let their guard down.
[00:49:46] Yeah, this is the end.
[00:49:48] The blessing and the curse for visual embrace, though,
[00:49:50] is because in the last game of the day yesterday,
[00:49:52] they went down to a team lurking on this exact spot.
[00:49:56] Visual braids for the most part since they land just outside of Dark Dominion on this
[00:49:59] split drop and there's mountains.
[00:50:01] And then on top of that monster at center zone, how much better can it get?
[00:50:04] They usually stay here for the first four to five zones depending on where it pulls
[00:50:09] and consistently gets damaged because no matter where the zone goes, north, south,
[00:50:12] east, or west, the chances are very, very high.
[00:50:15] Teams will have to rotate around visual braids in order to get inside of the
[00:50:19] zone.
[00:50:20] Just make it a huge focal point of their strategy. So if you guys watched review yesterday coming in today
[00:50:25] You can kind of see that in terms of visual upgrades
[00:50:27] Maybe you can try to plant around it the acorn and bolts
[00:50:30] You'll be fit breaking down their rotation from the backside of their PLI that long launch pad that they mixed
[00:50:36] Utility and another instance of that as they put to get to the
[00:50:40] One of two teams that had a near perfect day for the most part
[00:50:44] Not really dropping on rounds, but uh-oh, Huckabelle team is falling short right now.
[00:50:49] You have three fallen here.
[00:50:51] Off from a team in the distance, Muzzins Finks recognize the danger immediately after the
[00:50:55] Flauvering mist comes down and in they go to get the finish up right there.
[00:51:00] It does seem like they are now rewarded with all that extra loot.
[00:51:04] Cooper rotates right into CDC Raven, puts down some good pressure onto Raven there.
[00:51:10] Do they recognize there could be just the solo here on the other side of the wall?
[00:51:14] That is the question here. I think Cooper knows that he's a big danger here, so off he goes and it's just continuously getting worse
[00:51:21] Look at where he's rotating into Peterbot and Boyo and they're one team for certain if they know you're a solo
[00:51:27] Especially isolated like this. They're gonna go they see Cooper trying to rotate in big damage coming out from the boat
[00:51:33] The bum Cooper backed up against the wall. They continuously tried to create in just one of those shots
[00:51:37] He needs to breathe through the build in order to connect, in order to get that elimination.
[00:51:41] But Cooper is lifted, moving in and outside of these builds, dropped the fizz,
[00:51:44] is able to get minimal amount of shield.
[00:51:46] At least they have to help him survive this onslaught, at least for an extra couple of seconds here.
[00:51:50] But Peterbottenpoio continuously on the look again.
[00:51:53] They know this player, Cooper, is a solo, so they're not going to stop it.
[00:51:56] So they said pure that elimination.
[00:51:58] Four more points for Peterbottenpoio in a game that's looking very, very accelerated.
[00:52:03] Gifted. Gifted that time around as well.
[00:52:06] just landing right on them as they were trying to finalize their metal reserves for the
[00:52:11] mid game here. Meanwhile, look at this, Venom in curve. No Elums just yet. This is definitely a
[00:52:15] huge surprise to us as we've seen them be overly consistent when it comes to Elums in the early game.
[00:52:24] What does Venom gonna do? Is he gonna chop this down? Like I'm curious at this point.
[00:52:28] It's much easier to chop than some of the metal and brick faces that we're seeing. He's going
[00:52:32] for it doesn't look like a beaver king got the signal yet after they're dropping down
[00:52:36] this is it's actually Venom yeah this was actually Venom's maze so maybe they had an
[00:52:40] inkling he was gonna lurk on over not sure if they got the audios or not but it would
[00:52:45] survive a potential disaster there is Venom just scurries away reunites back curve already
[00:52:51] has his base set up at one of the main buildings north side of the battlewood boulevard but
[00:52:55] you see where the zone is actually pulling so you see why Venom and Curve are taking
[00:53:00] at a different mountain or a different approach to this game than usually every other.
[00:53:03] It's definitely interesting here, almost edited the whole base down, just have to break the
[00:53:09] extra piece of wood here.
[00:53:10] We're working out though in the end.
[00:53:13] Brett's beer on the other side, there's two Elans here, have them set up and it's
[00:53:17] a bit of a different end game for us, right?
[00:53:19] We have riptides in the zone right now.
[00:53:22] See how this ends up playing out.
[00:53:26] All the zones that came this way pretty much Klicks and Higgs performed absurdly well.
[00:53:32] See if they can continue to pick up the pace here and propel themselves back into a top three position.
[00:53:37] Cold and Rapid on the other side were the team that was finding all those eliminations in the end game, right?
[00:53:45] The amount of success Cold and Rapid managed to string together when it came to end game eliminations.
[00:53:50] Clearly showed understanding Jacob given that he had just an insane amount of points based off the Elim's alone
[00:53:57] Yeah, in five games much that 30 eliminations with their worst game being a seventh place
[00:54:04] Unfortunately that last game of the day. They got one elimination. They went down in 26 place
[00:54:09] So outside of placement points all they got is those Elim's
[00:54:13] Acorn and bolts who've been consistent all of day one to get that one point lead with a victory Royale
[00:54:19] See how things continue to shake out.
[00:54:21] Javi and a Minish here, sitting on the leaderboard.
[00:54:23] Fifth place going into this game.
[00:54:25] And this is where there's a little bit more of a gap.
[00:54:27] Everybody in the top four has 311 points or more.
[00:54:30] Javi and a Minish are sitting at 270 points on the overall tournament.
[00:54:35] You can see 15th place with four eliminations.
[00:54:38] What's going to be their starting game and each and every one about better.
[00:54:44] Minish Javi here on the move.
[00:54:46] Playing the outside.
[00:54:47] I kind of like this right using this storm to tank here and go for the north side definitely is a strat now
[00:54:53] This is team that didn't tank storm early right today
[00:54:56] Actually have the luxury Jacob here to take a little bit of storm right other teams will find themselves more and the storm sickness
[00:55:02] Kind of danger zone, but where they are zone is right into them now, and you have relatively strong positioning here
[00:55:10] On that mountain so you can easily pull off of that mountain, but if you're up there
[00:55:14] You can shockwave off, you can go ahead and take high or just simply use the running shockwave for a couple of distance.
[00:55:19] Fit zone, going into 6, so it is going to be a 2-tick of damage if you're inside of the storm.
[00:55:24] You can change it to a 5 in about 20 seconds when it does close.
[00:55:27] But you're seeing why a lot of these teams are staggering themselves so long into the storm.
[00:55:32] They have extra white HP heals and they just want to dodge all the chaos of this mid game.
[00:55:37] Particularly, you will take damage from other players trying to rotate in.
[00:55:41] Visual and brave, they spot out max, they spot out mobbings in the distance, you see them kind of building and butt rotating parallel, they actually don't take too much damage.
[00:55:49] Bucky and Xen, though, they're in the fray in the mix, you see them either targeting up and down below that damage threshold.
[00:55:54] As the dust settles, they're gonna fall below, but Xen once again takes some damage, 103, and he gets a good shot coming up from Bucky on the power.
[00:56:02] Fact of fact, to get the elimination as well, that sends them flying up that dorm, search lead board.
[00:56:06] That was crazy. Big performance, big opportunity there for Bucky to keep his team in the game now.
[00:56:11] They went from danger territory to well above and safe now.
[00:56:15] They just have to survive the onslaught and look at this.
[00:56:17] They eliminated that team long before they can even get situated
[00:56:20] and start digging into the heels that they were pretty much saving up here in the reserves.
[00:56:24] But Ritual, it is not looking good for him right now as he is down and out.
[00:56:28] This is all up to Agers now.
[00:56:29] He's putting his team on the back here.
[00:56:31] It picks up a little bit of the loot that was left over,
[00:56:33] but couldn't quite get the extra heal here.
[00:56:35] We'll see if he ends up having time to double back now as the zone is pushing there, there it is.
[00:56:40] And luckily for him, I mean, the pressure eases up.
[00:56:43] Now, we are in the endgame, right? So, Agers is positioned just well enough with shockwaves,
[00:56:48] all the extra mats and heels here to actually clutch this out
[00:56:51] and turn this still into a positive sum game for them.
[00:56:54] Yeah, it's 264 above the damage threshold.
[00:56:57] That can teeter-totter, but ten more of the dome goes.
[00:57:00] Easy try to go ahead and grab shots on the players rotating through the sky.
[00:57:03] It's not the only solo there, you see Salt and some others on that side of the map.
[00:57:07] Probably easing the tension though, since they're all soloed, the games are getting pressed on hard to be very, very slim.
[00:57:13] As opposed to this side of the map where you have Peterbot play on a few other duos positioned 600 above the damaged threshold.
[00:57:19] And you're seeing almost a different approach to start the games yesterday, to start the games today.
[00:57:24] Yesterday they were elevated pretty high up in most of these end games, going from zone to zone.
[00:57:28] this time around they're gonna start at the low ground and probably elevate
[00:57:31] themselves with each and every passing zone. Gonna have to definitely find some
[00:57:37] new positioning not sure if I've ever seen Udvah and all you'll be so passively
[00:57:41] tucked in the low ground on the backside of zone here. Look at this, the zone's gonna pull far into way.
[00:57:47] Now again they have that natural terrain to play off of here so they're
[00:57:50] gonna get a lot of value for their shockwaves. Real catch is if opponents
[00:57:54] start to base up sooner rather than later and get pretty much a bit of that high ground they will
[00:58:00] be able to be opened up to a bunch of fire, threats and deer find themselves below the
[00:58:06] serves they're actually trying to out survive this waiting for the moving zone here as opposed to
[00:58:09] taking for a fight right now so is the team that's going to be fishing for damage here on the
[00:58:13] moving storm? Yeah, 126 below even with that contested off spawn fight you got to imagine
[00:58:20] Since it is off spawn, 100 HP if they took damage,
[00:58:24] they saw some spears down to a sliver of HP at one point to start the game.
[00:58:27] So, just because you're contested,
[00:58:29] just because you win doesn't mean it's all joy at the end of the day.
[00:58:32] Like duo right doesn't look like their first attempt is going to be down-fielder,
[00:58:35] but 17 players need to go down.
[00:58:38] They're just on that line. 45 damage.
[00:58:40] The spot skidler and his duo above are trying to get one of those shots to bleed through.
[00:58:44] They have the Thunderburst with consistent pressure, but no luck on their side.
[00:58:47] 60 below taking damage.
[00:58:49] They have no extra heels monster in this moment. They are going to jump above
[00:58:54] It's not going to be a thing but they need to persist and try to put down the pressure
[00:58:57] It's just because they're ahead here doesn't mean they're gonna be ahead in the next zone
[00:59:01] Peter Bob Boyer though continues to do what they do
[00:59:04] He said that they were looking uncharacteristically position on the backside of zone
[00:59:07] You can see it's ending up playing out in their favor
[00:59:10] They find it Elon here and then they rotate in smoothly right afterwards
[00:59:14] But when you start looking up towards height when you start looking at who's trying to position for the big win once again?
[00:59:19] here, it's Klicks and Higgs. I love that they're trying to take on this identity as a high ground
[00:59:25] team and one that's willing to put everything on the line doing it. Yep, you don't know, you've seen
[00:59:31] so many instances yesterday with team after team after team sending it for that high ground trying
[00:59:36] to fight. Agers was one of them but it's not going to be one of them in this game 77 below the
[00:59:41] damage threshold by himself tries to sneak a shot in on the jargon and Corillian doesn't
[00:59:45] find any luck there. He needs to be persistent because he is out of yield. 165 HP. He can only take
[00:59:51] about eight ticks of his zone total. Even if he was full health, those ticks are being a huge
[00:59:57] difference. Make sure you're forcing him to try to make a play here. 145 is going to be able to make
[01:00:02] an above on that last one because the shock wave up somebody else and out of his turn to try to
[01:00:06] shock wave any. He takes that same amount of damage. The blessing here though monster for
[01:00:10] him is Storm surge just deactivated. That's right. We are inside that top 40 from the
[01:00:14] The high ground though, Klicks and Higgs doing exactly what they do best, already finding several sets of elimination, little extra damage onto what look to be curving Higgs there, but while we look away, Zen tries to come up here.
[01:00:26] This is of course Bucky and Zen trying to make a play for Hyatt, but Klicks and Higgs shut it down and they remain successfully in control here at the moment now.
[01:00:35] Do keep in mind, they committed very early here and they didn't have Max material.
[01:00:39] All that they're trying to do right now is show that they are willing to dominate Hyde here and play for the win.
[01:00:46] Yeah Higgs finally getting that elimination getting cleaned up for Buzzy. Look towards the back side of the zone trying to find the move.
[01:00:51] Instead he finds Tyler Chance. Not sure if they see Peter Bottenpoil either. They're going to shockwave to the front. Not just yet going for Hyde.
[01:00:58] We still got a few more zones. That's the possibility but if we look at their material counts they might have to get an elimination first.
[01:01:04] Muzzles need to be above.
[01:01:05] Acorn and Boltz down below in the mud.
[01:01:07] Find themselves two more eliminations here.
[01:01:10] Acorn not getting one, so no sight for Gramps.
[01:01:12] We have to be a lot into the zone.
[01:01:14] Not a lot on the Chug-Chug either,
[01:01:16] so a dangerous position here for Acorn to be in.
[01:01:18] And there's opponents in the storm as well.
[01:01:20] Boltz is someone left behind here trapped in the build.
[01:01:23] Meanwhile, Cold and Rapidoe, a single elan,
[01:01:26] but this is where we've seen them do best.
[01:01:27] I won't count Cold out any further
[01:01:29] as I've done that once before
[01:01:30] I mean the mistake by saying so Venom curve on the other side have four eliminations
[01:01:35] Fresh we're coming in here. This is what we wanted to see from Venom and curve yesterday
[01:01:40] Just couldn't quite figure out their end game and find their footing
[01:01:45] But now here we are seeing a stronger than ever venom
[01:01:48] And they have almost maxed out materials compared to everybody else here Bob Boyle running out trying to get into the box
[01:01:54] They don't find any opportunities there so they just continue on get into the front side of the zone chug chug
[01:01:59] Higgs being forced out of the zone, it's Salt and a Duff, a whole new team entering into the mix, ready to make day number two count here.
[01:02:09] They already have those three eliminations, they're looking up, making sure nobody else is up there. They don't see anybody, so they immediately set their eyes back to down low.
[01:02:17] And that was the distraction. That was the mistake. Flying from outside of the zone, Curve and Beto are now our new teams on high ground.
[01:02:24] curve and Beto are now our new teams on high ground.
[01:02:27] Excellent execution as well from practice
[01:02:30] to putting it into play here.
[01:02:31] Curve and Beto have the high ground here.
[01:02:33] No heels though, so we'll keep an eye on them.
[01:02:34] Oyo is down and now Peterbott left to clutch us up by himself.
[01:02:37] He makes it right into the top 10.
[01:02:39] It's a little bit of HP there, but unfortunately
[01:02:41] we'll fall just short.
[01:02:42] Now curve and Beto assessing the situation here.
[01:02:45] They have matched the play with.
[01:02:46] They have the height and the distance from the rest
[01:02:48] of the opponents, but can they put the pressure down?
[01:02:50] Yeah, coming into this game, intense plays on the lead
[01:02:53] on the lead of board.
[01:02:55] That's where they have hoped.
[01:02:56] And one thing we were both questioning
[01:02:57] is what is going wrong in their mid to end games.
[01:03:00] Because if they can make it there,
[01:03:02] they can make the plays happen.
[01:03:03] And they're showing it here early in game number one.
[01:03:04] Cold and Rapid get pushed.
[01:03:06] Poe goes down.
[01:03:07] A sacrifice for Rapid.
[01:03:09] He gets the heal, and he's trying to get out.
[01:03:10] Wagers goes down to Muzz and Speaks.
[01:03:12] This is just chaos ensuing on the low ground.
[01:03:15] And for Muzz and Speaks, they might be the only duo
[01:03:17] left alive down below, because Rapid goes out.
[01:03:20] Alo goes down.
[01:03:21] They have full control of the bottom side of the map.
[01:03:24] Now they can just get a little bit of material
[01:03:25] off one of these refreshes.
[01:03:27] They'll be in huge shape here.
[01:03:28] It's actually fight for the win right now.
[01:03:30] There it is, the most important elan.
[01:03:32] Venom and Curve are really down and out.
[01:03:35] They're pretty much down bad here.
[01:03:36] This is gonna come down to all of Hector's seat.
[01:03:39] See Venom just trying to use the audio visual.
[01:03:42] The mythic pump takes down Sphinx, gets the siphon,
[01:03:46] or at least he's trying to keep himself alive,
[01:03:48] playing disruptor against Maz, Curve, and Beto.
[01:03:52] Start day number one, game seven on fire.
[01:03:55] And Beto is that guy, he's the guy that we knew
[01:03:58] that coming into a second day,
[01:04:00] he's gonna tweak the game plan,
[01:04:03] he's gonna make sure he's gonna be able
[01:04:04] to perform here, Jacob.
[01:04:06] And they did just that.
[01:04:08] Let a win for them right there
[01:04:09] to go and wrap up the first game here on the second day.
[01:04:12] Game seven, Z is now officially wraps.
[01:04:15] I can't believe this guy's eye.
[01:04:25] I thought to myself game one has
[01:04:27] to start strong right like the
[01:04:29] game one of six today has to
[01:04:31] start strong and curve in the
[01:04:33] Venom get a nine Elim victory
[01:04:36] Royale Kelly
[01:04:39] Oh, yeah, Kelly, I'm loving it.
[01:04:44] Yes, you are, but they are.
[01:04:45] And I think that there was a lot of us wondering
[01:04:47] if they were losing it after day number one,
[01:04:49] ending the day off in 10th place,
[01:04:51] which, you know, reasonably isn't that bad of a position.
[01:04:53] But when it's curve and then oh,
[01:04:54] we were kind of expecting them to be in the top five
[01:04:57] after day number one.
[01:04:58] But if they continue to play like this vivid,
[01:05:01] they're able to run that mid game
[01:05:03] and then wait for that opportune moment to steal height
[01:05:05] just like they did in game number seven.
[01:05:07] Then I can imagine we'll be seeing Curve and Venno climbing up that leaderboard as the day goes on.
[01:05:12] I mean Venno coming over to NA, he was one of those players that people were kind of expecting to see up on the high ground
[01:05:18] and that conversation kind of fizzled out. It felt like kind of coming into these grand finals, clicked an eggs, beat a bottom player.
[01:05:24] It was the two main contenders that everybody was kind of talking about.
[01:05:27] And it feels like finally in game number seven, we get to see exactly why those initial thoughts of Venno looking to control the high ground
[01:05:34] the higher gun were even a thing to begin with and I gotta tell you this is very very scary for
[01:05:39] this grand finals and everybody that was above Venno and Curve at the start of today because
[01:05:44] yesterday and day number one they did not have any singular game but they got better than 10th
[01:05:51] place this was their first time jumping into the single digits of placements and they win it
[01:05:56] and they look disgusted I mean that shot right there from Venno you guys couldn't see me my
[01:06:01] Jull was literally as far down as it possibly could go it looks like he's in form right now
[01:06:08] duo's looking good
[01:06:09] They made it to the end game all the way and they were on the higher ground. I don't know. I'm scared
[01:06:15] Oh my gosh. This is why sometimes we talk about like day two teams right day two take out back even stronger
[01:06:22] Has venno been set free is he off the leash is he going crazy? Oh wow, okay, okay
[01:06:29] Don't worry, we still have five games left to go.
[01:06:33] We're going to take a short break, but when we come out, come back, you know we have to
[01:06:36] take a look at those savings because there's been some changes.
[01:06:40] We'll see you in just a minute.
[01:07:59] Oh
[01:08:29] I'm just...
[01:08:31] I'm gonna hit you.
[01:08:33] I'm gonna get my...
[01:08:35] I'm gonna get my...
[01:08:37] I'm gonna get my...
[01:08:39] I'm gonna get my...
[01:08:41] Wait, it's your mistake.
[01:08:43] I'm good!
[01:08:45] I'm good!
[01:08:47] Oh, my God!
[01:08:49] I'm good!
[01:08:51] And I don't know how to feel about it!
[01:08:54] You're not used to losing.
[01:08:56] Going beaten?
[01:08:58] These players are just so locked in.
[01:09:01] Could it be the milk?
[01:09:04] Mm-hmm.
[01:09:06] Pfft.
[01:09:08] Aah!
[01:09:10] Aah!
[01:09:13] It's okay.
[01:09:15] Aah!
[01:09:17] Aah!
[01:09:19] Stay there.
[01:09:28] game one of the day. Seven
[01:09:48] overall goes over to curve and
[01:09:50] Venom not in the he limb
[01:09:52] victory roll out now I mentioned
[01:09:55] before the break.
[01:09:57] These standings are gonna shift.
[01:09:59] Kelly called out, yeah,
[01:10:00] Curvin' Venil were in the top 10.
[01:10:02] You know, that's kind of crazy.
[01:10:03] But you know, Kelly, it just takes one game of Fortnite
[01:10:07] to kind of change everything around.
[01:10:10] And of course, wouldn't you know it,
[01:10:11] Curvin' Venil have actually jumped up
[01:10:13] from that 10th place.
[01:10:15] 327 points, I guess, Kelly,
[01:10:18] without spoiling it.
[01:10:19] Where do you think they landed?
[01:10:20] I'm gonna answer for you, top five!
[01:10:22] that's just what we were talking about and you can see that calling from sundown for many
[01:10:29] years ago, the chupaning is happening right now from first to fifth place, we have around
[01:10:33] a 71 point difference and we know that 71 points easily gained in a single game vivid.
[01:10:39] So to see Curve and Venom who are at the bottom of this list and page number one, jump
[01:10:43] up all the way. I feel like not only inspires me, but also inspires the rest of the lobby
[01:10:47] to do the same. Yeah, huge for them to go ahead and do this and come into today,
[01:10:52] I kind of already talked about how many points they are behind right now coming into the day after the first six games on day number one
[01:10:59] Irvin Venom when they were sitting in 10th place and corner up and we're sitting in first
[01:11:04] 113 points was the difference between Venom curve and first place after day number one like how you mentioned
[01:11:10] They're now 71 points behind which means that they closed the gap that game by 42 points
[01:11:16] So technically speaking if we were to run that exact game number seven back two more times
[01:11:23] Curvin Venno would be in first place right now
[01:11:25] And it thinks possible these standings are a lot closer than it currently may seem and Zeke
[01:11:31] Can we just talk about this elimination column? How in the heck are these guys leading right now?
[01:11:36] They have 40 eliminations
[01:11:39] They are getting active vivid. That is what's crazy, right?
[01:11:43] The overall placement they have may not be the craziest right, but I mean when you have four
[01:11:50] 40 eliminations 40 they have an average placement of 17, but it doesn't matter right
[01:11:56] This is what that difference maker was that additional point from elives
[01:11:59] But guys also just look at this leaderboard right look at the little numbers right next to their placement right
[01:12:04] We see bold and rapid a corner bulls they swap places
[01:12:07] but everyone else besides Beno and Curve have not moved.
[01:12:11] Right, that top six, right before they jumped in here,
[01:12:14] are all pushing forward together.
[01:12:17] It's so insane.
[01:12:19] I mean, even looking like Peterbott and Pollo
[01:12:21] and Klicks and Higgs, and now we also have to look
[01:12:24] at Javi in a minute because Klicks and Higgs
[01:12:27] are now tied with them points-wise,
[01:12:29] but Peterbott and Pollo are only 10 points ahead of them.
[01:12:32] I just can't believe how close all of this
[01:12:35] has become after a single game Kelly. Yeah, and I mean, we're taking a quick
[01:12:41] look at Peterbot and Paulio right now and that looked actually like that
[01:12:44] could have been a very successful game for them. However, Peter was a solo
[01:12:48] player towards the end right there and did go down, I believe, in ninth place.
[01:12:52] There was a moment in that game though where it looked like they were
[01:12:54] taking a peek up onto height. They saw that it was clicks and higgs and
[01:12:57] for sure I thought they were gonna go and steal for height again, but it
[01:13:00] didn't look like it went that way for them to did it. However, it does
[01:13:02] seems like they're already starting to change up their strategy just a little bit
[01:13:06] from what we saw from day number one. So I can expect some more changes as well
[01:13:09] as the day goes on.
[01:13:10] I saw a little bit more aggressive plays out of them. I mean we're kind of used to
[01:13:14] that and past season did look like they were going for a couple of extra fights.
[01:13:17] But once again we jump over them when they're in the end game and they just
[01:13:22] have nothing you know no builds to kind of work with. Not sure what's
[01:13:25] happening on some of those rotates to where they have to invest so much
[01:13:28] stuff but we have not been able to see Peter Barton play would be healthy
[01:13:32] enough in the endgame to kind of push for any of these victory royals.
[01:13:36] You know, and that's, it's tough because this is just the first game of the day.
[01:13:40] We have five more, but we also can't really skip a beat.
[01:13:43] Can we move it?
[01:13:43] Like we need to make sure now more than ever, we are minimizing those little mistakes or whatever.
[01:13:49] Like again, look at the top of the leaderboard, right?
[01:13:51] We came in, Acorn and Boltz was one point ahead because of this last game.
[01:13:55] Acorn and Boltz fell in 12th place with only two Elans.
[01:13:59] You look up, hold and wrap it, a fourth place with three.
[01:14:03] This is gonna come down to this over like the next five games, right Kelly?
[01:14:07] A single mistake. Everybody is taking steps farther and farther up the leaderboard.
[01:14:13] The single mistake will suddenly shift everything and enough of those chains
[01:14:17] together, suddenly the point thresholds are gonna see that patented
[01:14:21] shoofening like Sutton down called out.
[01:14:23] Well, you say these single mistakes and I think in a reflection of that is
[01:14:27] is that you can't just have these teams
[01:14:28] that are kind of playing a little passively
[01:14:30] by the placements.
[01:14:31] Maybe they get a hand full of elimination.
[01:14:33] You need these teams that are able to pull out
[01:14:35] these pop-off games.
[01:14:36] And that is why Cold and Rapid,
[01:14:38] although they might not be having these wins
[01:14:40] that all these other teams in our top five are having,
[01:14:43] they did have that 11 elimination second place.
[01:14:46] So these pop-off games are now what's gonna be
[01:14:48] separating our top from the rest of the lobby.
[01:14:52] Cold and Rapid, man.
[01:14:53] They continue to be consistent.
[01:14:54] They're trying to pull away.
[01:14:56] a couple of teams are on the hunt,
[01:14:58] five more games to do it.
[01:15:00] Oh man, let's get right back into a game.
[01:15:02] Eight is ready, so casters, take it away.
[01:15:07] Monster, they're talking about five games left.
[01:15:09] It almost feels like that's a lot of time.
[01:15:11] You and I both know these games will go quick.
[01:15:15] We already seen accelerated game one
[01:15:16] in terms of eliminations.
[01:15:18] Yeah, definitely that game one started off so fast.
[01:15:21] We looked up, 76 players were eliminated
[01:15:23] or left in the lobby.
[01:15:25] There was no first kind of surge warning
[01:15:27] that we're really used to seeing with AD+,
[01:15:30] so we just kind of jumped into the mid game
[01:15:32] and things were so different.
[01:15:33] The dynamic, you can tell, is already shifting,
[01:15:36] you know, to something new in the air here
[01:15:39] and our top team just starting to break away.
[01:15:40] So let's just go on the battle bus one more time.
[01:15:48] Standing's are just getting so much closer
[01:15:52] than ever before and you can even look down
[01:15:54] That qualification spot into the top 13 that is as stacked as the race at the top with leaderboard
[01:16:00] So have our eyes peeled up both the top and those qualifications funds throughout the day
[01:16:04] But curve and then oh when I was kind of looking at some of those stats
[01:16:08] There are five the top five players in damage curve and Venno are two of those five players
[01:16:14] Both of these guys are firing all cylinders and this is when we were going into the heat sponsor
[01:16:19] I'll talk about the naked but this team obviously the accolades aren't there on curve
[01:16:23] but it reminds me so much of that 3D and Venom duo that dominated EU for so long.
[01:16:28] Yeah, I could definitely see it and you know, we called it out at several different points last time.
[01:16:33] Game 1, Kermin, Venom's ability to ambush multiple teams of different vending machines was honestly commendable
[01:16:40] and then we tuned in like 8, 3, 4 and they have like 7 ELIMS in the early game.
[01:16:44] So clearly they have figured that part out and if today it's all in games with Venom and Kerv,
[01:16:50] I mean all they've been doing all season long is practicing
[01:16:54] Psycho and Freight in dominating right and in late
[01:16:57] This is the third time now then it'll basically makes ending two of which he went for high ground
[01:17:02] So he's showing us if he's got a shot at it, they're gonna take it
[01:17:06] Seen so many teams are the kind of a merge and their game plan set in stone
[01:17:10] These quick off spawn fights really proved to kind of be the difference
[01:17:13] They're taking Mafia against Jack and N-Pen already
[01:17:15] One of the nations being cleaned up by N-Pen
[01:17:18] Mafia is going to be the one going down but they kind of switch up their drop spot a little bit.
[01:17:22] It's not too far away from the split drop towards the left but they're actually cool committing to
[01:17:26] the south side of Bridget Fortress this time around. Not sure if it's a bus path change or an
[01:17:31] overall game plan adjustment but for Jack and N-Pen that might be the difference maker but
[01:17:36] you got to be careful because you got Minnish on the other side, you got Oason and Scare on
[01:17:41] the north side so it's not going to be as free as it seems. There's a lot going on here
[01:17:45] Definitely, they're kind of in the mix here now. They do have, like you said, that early healer here, so the single player left in the duo
[01:17:52] just gotten out trying to buy his time here. Seems like he finally finds an opportunity to jump back in the mix.
[01:17:57] Jack has to come through the rescue.
[01:17:59] And he's getting way in. There it is, but oh my gosh! What a shot by the tick here!
[01:18:07] And this is, this is what, you know, this is what happens at the highest level of play, right Jacob?
[01:18:12] Like, anything can happen.
[01:18:14] Pros do have their moments where they end up clutching up.
[01:18:17] And although he does get full finish here,
[01:18:21] it doesn't matter.
[01:18:22] N-Pen is now in a much worse position.
[01:18:24] Yeah, N-Pen is just hoping.
[01:18:26] Hoping that O's Siv and Scare get bored.
[01:18:28] They don't look for him.
[01:18:29] And you can kind of see in the feed
[01:18:30] that N-Pen did not get eliminated.
[01:18:32] But in comes Dragon and Freon.
[01:18:34] This might be a blessing for N-Pen to try to get out.
[01:18:36] He does have the zipline, though.
[01:18:38] Leaves you open to take a shot.
[01:18:40] Cree on Dragon, not slowing down.
[01:18:42] Big shot on Ozy to push him back into the box.
[01:18:45] They have to try to find a way out.
[01:18:47] Cree on there on the other side.
[01:18:48] They even get the roof, Dragon,
[01:18:49] and pull a brush on this fight.
[01:18:51] It gets Ozy to scare.
[01:18:52] They already get the first dock.
[01:18:54] Cree on with the other angle.
[01:18:55] They get a pull on White.
[01:18:58] They play that perfectly as well.
[01:19:00] Even that weakened wall there,
[01:19:01] Wild Dragon distracted from the high ground
[01:19:03] and then takes it at the prime time there.
[01:19:06] The timing just couldn't have been better.
[01:19:07] looks terrorist trap, caught with his pickaxe out.
[01:19:10] Just not much you can do here.
[01:19:12] Meanwhile, Falcons, Peterbot and Boyo back at it.
[01:19:16] This time up to Chris and Drew.
[01:19:19] We've seen this fight happen before.
[01:19:20] The last time Chris and Drew were left,
[01:19:23] almost inch channels chased across
[01:19:25] a big section of the map.
[01:19:27] And it seemed pretty similar when the zone was
[01:19:29] kind of keeping squiggly in play.
[01:19:32] They essentially went for the battle.
[01:19:34] I think Peterbombo's early on are willing to take some of these risks because Peterbot
[01:19:41] takes a big shot course to back up.
[01:19:43] They didn't necessarily win the trades here when it comes to Serds because they're going
[01:19:47] to have to go back on over to Squibby where in essence they do have almost infinite yields
[01:19:51] that do spawn up over towards that rip.
[01:19:53] But Riptide saw threats in beer.
[01:19:57] Win the fight in that last game.
[01:19:59] Beer almost going down.
[01:20:00] You can see it kind of led into them being affected by storm surge, but
[01:20:04] Mako and Planks, a team that qualified out of frigid fortress with a victory royale
[01:20:10] And just changing up their drop spot here again today
[01:20:12] And that's sometimes what you have to do from day one to day two. You hit the bot. You forgot what changes you can make
[01:20:18] Threats and veered successful in the last game this time Threats is left to play this one out by himself at least here at the start
[01:20:25] And once again though Jacob I'm looking at that overall player count 78 remaining so
[01:20:31] It seems like the early day jitters are out the window here and now here's back to curve and Venom playing
[01:20:38] Similar to the last time it made sense why there was that big wooden basis. It's just that early game strategy
[01:20:44] Committing here to play for a search tower
[01:20:46] We're going to give up all the loot to Curve right now, you know Curve is kind of I wouldn't
[01:20:54] say the mastermind by any means, but he's the main guy, the main source of their early
[01:20:58] game damage, trying to get Surge, you see them break and open the tops of buildings and
[01:21:02] that way nobody can safely lurk nearby and and I think that's one thing for certain
[01:21:06] because we saw Venno try to make that attempt in that last game, lurk back towards
[01:21:10] a Surge base that was momentarily stolen and I just wonder if that's why you
[01:21:14] You see a lot of these search bases, monster, metal, brick.
[01:21:18] Rental and Curve for the most part, they built it in wood.
[01:21:21] Yeah, they know it's temporary.
[01:21:23] They don't want to track too much attention.
[01:21:26] And maybe when it's wood, it kind of signals to other people,
[01:21:29] no one's going to be based up in wood, right?
[01:21:31] Surely not.
[01:21:33] So a part of the strategy.
[01:21:34] Mine games I play here.
[01:21:35] HQ been cryptid due to everybody up there.
[01:21:38] So from solo now, back to the lobby there.
[01:21:43] A little update here, holding rapid.
[01:21:51] Our threat's going down, though, and we're in that huge boss, you know, coming into this game alone.
[01:21:56] They're in a leavened place.
[01:21:58] They're 20 points ahead of the line 13th place for that summit land spot.
[01:22:04] So they're going to have to really hope the rest of the competition doesn't fare as well in this game,
[01:22:08] kind of giving them a couple of chances to close out the day before more games left for them.
[01:22:12] Five over all including this one for cold and rapids kind of business as usual set up center map over at dark dominion
[01:22:19] Cold was able to get the mythic chaos reloader
[01:22:22] And you can see all sorts of goodies that they have multiple pizzas medkits
[01:22:27] So they can honestly stay here just like they normally do rotate late and just kind of have that search that yeah
[01:22:33] At least four or so games yesterday. I think whenever we tuned in essentially they had a mythic shotgun or AR or otherwise
[01:22:40] So they have had a fair amount of success and a little bit of luck
[01:22:45] running their
[01:22:46] Loadout situation
[01:22:48] Molten acorn in a fight against
[01:22:51] It's a bit of a messy when you see other teams, but they're influence into the mix here
[01:22:55] They're on their ammo into the bucket if you will
[01:23:00] Electro man just sneak out the side though
[01:23:03] Put some stuff in between those firing shots
[01:23:10] They don't want to overstay their welcome here shockwave outside of range for acorn and
[01:23:21] bulls, so they end up in the range of Poland that possibly performing well so far on day
[01:23:26] number one.
[01:23:27] It's like that ultra looking to get aggressive here, making for some early surge or elimination
[01:23:31] depending on what they're looking for, they want to try to fly up that leaderboard.
[01:23:36] There are four teams directly in this location,
[01:23:39] 8-point and bolts all the way towards the north,
[01:23:40] and a couple teams stacked up in between.
[01:23:42] All of that information,
[01:23:45] did the past couple of shock waves,
[01:23:46] and I do think they're making the right decision.
[01:23:48] Focus on getting into zone,
[01:23:49] instead of staying on a stack range.
[01:23:51] Especially if they're loadouts.
[01:23:53] Yeah, they don't have nothing.
[01:23:55] A couple of fished up floppers already,
[01:23:57] they're gonna have to get their material count back.
[01:23:58] But you saw there,
[01:23:59] they thought they were spotted out,
[01:24:02] that's why they based up,
[01:24:03] almost defensively out the gate,
[01:24:05] which gave a lecture to the signal.
[01:24:06] Yeah, wait a second.
[01:24:08] These dudes are hiding from us.
[01:24:09] Maybe we should take this fight.
[01:24:12] Things that he's out though.
[01:24:13] Peterbot and Pollo back at it right now,
[01:24:14] finding CDZ and Raven here.
[01:24:16] It's like the worst nightmare for CDZ and Raven.
[01:24:18] You know, we gave them a lot of grace yesterday
[01:24:20] as we watched them continue to improve game to game,
[01:24:23] but whatever they're doing right now,
[01:24:25] they're ending up in the war path with Peterbot and Pollo.
[01:24:27] I don't like it.
[01:24:29] I'm sure they don't either.
[01:24:32] Hey, they almost got the down onto Pollo.
[01:24:34] That's an immediate non-factor.
[01:24:36] He does get that elimination.
[01:24:37] It almost makes you wonder,
[01:24:38] is he just integrated and rotated in towards Swibly
[01:24:40] in that last game?
[01:24:41] They did not fight Peterbot and Foyle.
[01:24:44] So they're probably thinking like,
[01:24:45] Peterbot and Foyle, they're not going to be here.
[01:24:46] They're going to rotate on out.
[01:24:48] This time a whole different plan for Pete and Foyle.
[01:24:51] They stay around Swibly short.
[01:24:53] They spot out, the team rotates in,
[01:24:55] and they just fight for those elimination.
[01:24:57] Eight more points for them
[01:24:59] as they continue to rise up that meter board.
[01:25:02] They closed the gap already with game number one.
[01:25:04] And they're already close to the gap again depending on how many eliminations that curve and bento have been able to get so far
[01:25:11] This game started with a 13 point lead between fifth and sixth place. Well, they've already cut it down to five
[01:25:16] Put some pigs want to do that as well. I mean clearly the number one problem with their entire
[01:25:22] Situation right now so they need way more eliminations
[01:25:25] They came into this with roughly 15 or so if you look at all the teams on the top 10
[01:25:29] And they are definitely towards the bottom, the Elim activity.
[01:25:33] Their placement points are exceptional, you know.
[01:25:38] And I mean, they even do have those two wins.
[01:25:40] Like, let's not forget that, right?
[01:25:42] That's super impressive all in all.
[01:25:46] For a moment yesterday, I had me believing the Plex Higgs,
[01:25:49] first time FNCS champions.
[01:25:51] It's good to be able to channel that.
[01:25:53] They're not going to get high elimination games.
[01:25:55] They really start picking up consistent placements.
[01:25:57] It's inside of the top five is ages and ritual uncontested at Sandy's trip for the most part. This is one of those people
[01:26:02] Why we don't see very very many teams
[01:26:05] Rotate in and around. I think they know how aggressive
[01:26:08] Ritual ages and how long they actually stay at this POI to protect that many machine get some early surge
[01:26:14] And avoid rotating around so they don't take any free damage to some of these other teams rotate late the next couple of
[01:26:20] Zones, but for hobby and a minish they've already made it priority to rotate in towards the zone not too far away
[01:26:25] If you look at the main map, those little blue arrows, yep, that's visuals, that's braids.
[01:26:29] Kind of taking a page out of their playbook, elevate themselves on a mountain in the center
[01:26:33] of zone and hopefully teams make mistakes rotating by.
[01:26:36] Yeah, their strategy hasn't changed.
[01:26:37] I mean, even last game was not too bad and they could have just pushed it a little bit
[01:26:41] further.
[01:26:42] They'd be sitting still inside a third, but 16th is still an end game, you know,
[01:26:47] overall.
[01:26:48] However, the big points have to really add up if you break into the top 10,
[01:26:53] Most of that top five.
[01:26:56] I'm in Sphinx here.
[01:26:58] Don't see Sphinx.
[01:26:59] Yeah, looks like he must have been caught
[01:27:01] in some of the action here.
[01:27:04] Look, Jacob, we were talking about how fast, you know,
[01:27:06] the first like two zones have played out,
[01:27:08] and then from then till now,
[01:27:10] it's almost as if no one's been eliminated.
[01:27:12] We're still at that 76th player mark.
[01:27:15] That's almost the feeling of
[01:27:16] somebody's contested drop to the surrounding lands
[01:27:19] with a little bit of freedom
[01:27:20] because everybody has that time limit
[01:27:22] They have to drop they have to get their move they have to mad up. They have to grab their resources
[01:27:26] So maybe that's the little window of opportunities some of these teams are going ahead and taking for their
[01:27:36] Way out here
[01:27:38] He's going to be the name of the game if you're looking to make up with some of those points
[01:27:41] You've seen Venom and Curve already doing it we've seen Peter bot come online with doing it in instances
[01:27:46] We talked about some of the solo punch in fact points monster
[01:27:50] Agers wasn't necessarily on that list
[01:27:52] But if we would have kept the list going for these last couple of games added on top of that
[01:27:56] Agers did move I believe into the top five of solo punch players
[01:28:01] This is a great kind of position to start catching up how about visual and bridge is a journey right look at this
[01:28:06] The zone's pulling south and it's actually favorable for them because they have some distance from the edge
[01:28:11] And they can see all of these potential opportunities of teams that have to move long before them
[01:28:17] So they have their clear pathway to success to overdrive out
[01:28:20] And then they have teams all in the distance here to kind of pick a part in the process meanwhile though clicks
[01:28:25] It's actually a world of trouble why in the world when he ended up out of dark dominion
[01:28:29] Wolves just have to figure that one out here in a second these lost clicks in the process
[01:28:34] Higgs
[01:28:36] big part of their game plan here and you can see it almost looks like they might have been rotating underneath not sure
[01:28:42] Why rapid and cold could be down there, but you can see why they're getting aggressive
[01:28:46] There's me
[01:28:48] Above the damage threshold makes actually push it right back in. Let's go on the offensive
[01:28:53] I'm not sure if this is the plan right now or just to simply try to push them back for the free reboot card either
[01:28:59] Way a great play coming out from clicks
[01:29:01] probably knowing that cold was weak a lot of HP missing and he's actually going to be able to steal away a pizza out of
[01:29:09] the hand of mold and a rapid
[01:29:11] It's just a matter of folding rapid rotating out clicks probably checking to make sure and now everybody is out of dark dominion
[01:29:17] So even though in this moment monster, it looks like disaster strikes
[01:29:21] They're gonna have a breath of fresh air and time to breathe if you can get that reboot off
[01:29:25] The only thing I can think of it if we will have to go to a replays to find out he had to have been fighting for Higgs his reboot card
[01:29:32] Right. There's no way he's just gonna go challenge a team like that
[01:29:36] I think like not for no reason at least not as a solo
[01:29:40] In the end though, it plays off. He ends up doing exactly what he needs to do and he comes out ahead
[01:29:44] You know the extra pizza boxes definitely gonna be a huge one for them, especially given that they're in the zone right now.
[01:29:49] Peterbot Puyo though, in a bit of a standoff right now, and they have the zone, okay, this is actually perfect.
[01:29:54] 800 damage above, material count not exactly maxed out however though, they have everything else going for it.
[01:30:02] They're all T-next home, who flexes his light on the other side, trying to put down pressure.
[01:30:07] Possibly fours Peterbot and Puyo back, but we're gonna have some time here in a moment as they drop down a whole another layer.
[01:30:14] a five tick zone and we tune into Reed right now.
[01:30:17] No Cooper in sight.
[01:30:19] Up to burn through his materials.
[01:30:20] Multiple teams looks like they spotted him out as a solo.
[01:30:23] Send some fire his way,
[01:30:25] trying to put down pressure with his own.
[01:30:26] Max will get again away from Reed.
[01:30:29] Try to see if he's gonna actually try to go
[01:30:31] for the revive here with very little materials
[01:30:33] or play it out as a solo.
[01:30:34] I think he has no other choice
[01:30:36] but to play this one out as a solo.
[01:30:38] It's not enough time to get the revive open
[01:30:41] and we'll end up going down.
[01:30:42] So read, a lot of pressure on your shoulders here
[01:30:44] to finish this game.
[01:30:46] Parch on Bolts and Acorn as well here.
[01:30:48] The mode is surged.
[01:30:49] We were highlighting the fact that seems like Acorn and Bolts
[01:30:52] didn't have problems with the Storm surge at all,
[01:30:54] at least doing damage to them.
[01:30:56] And then we come in now and already that's not
[01:30:58] the same story here at all.
[01:31:00] Acorn, so much pressure here.
[01:31:01] Doesn't even have time to go and heal.
[01:31:03] But Bolts comes in to back him up here.
[01:31:05] This is onto paper.
[01:31:07] This is really gonna come down to whether or not
[01:31:08] Bolts can buy his teammate a little bit of time.
[01:31:10] He's done it so far.
[01:31:11] He finds paper there, and paper goes rolling the way off
[01:31:14] to decide, Rezzy now, and I want to get to Acorn, Acorn.
[01:31:17] You got to fend for yourself, son.
[01:31:19] This is gonna be tough.
[01:31:20] Rezzy's trying to hold it down.
[01:31:21] Acorn, no!
[01:31:22] The big Acorn is here!
[01:31:24] And he does what he needs to do to stay in the game.
[01:31:30] Both have to shoot him!
[01:31:31] Oh my gosh!
[01:31:35] My, I can't believe that zero of a vent.
[01:31:40] A corner Boltz forced to fight the shockwave away.
[01:31:43] Boltz tries to make a row with play,
[01:31:46] but just gets cut a little too short.
[01:31:49] This one, this game right here
[01:31:51] in terms of a leaderboard monster,
[01:31:53] they are going to feel for sure outside of Elim.
[01:31:56] Those are the only points they got.
[01:31:58] See, Prasky going down around 29, 30th place.
[01:32:00] No points for that effort.
[01:32:02] Peterbot and Boyo, those surviving a little bit
[01:32:04] of an onslaught, not only able to get elimination,
[01:32:06] but a little bit of cleanup,
[01:32:08] some actually for them to perk with.
[01:32:10] It's something I think cold and rapid need.
[01:32:12] We saw them getting chased by clicks underneath
[01:32:15] trying to get revenge for Higgs.
[01:32:16] You can see what that has done
[01:32:17] to their position in this game.
[01:32:19] Barely three above the damage threshold.
[01:32:21] Cold with a huge chunk of shield missing.
[01:32:24] It's put them so far back.
[01:32:26] I'm just thinking like cold and rapid
[01:32:28] have a chance to break so far ahead of the competition.
[01:32:31] It's gonna be a huge problem for the whistle-out
[01:32:32] right now.
[01:32:33] If they have a big end game right here.
[01:32:38] No one's played perfect though.
[01:32:41] I feel for him here just taking damage from storm taking damage from storm surge
[01:32:46] No extra HP is 9-3 below. It's deactivated for a moment and oh my god only
[01:32:54] moment he needs
[01:32:57] Literally if it was still actually active monster, he would have been ticked down for sure
[01:33:01] But Reed making a play four more points in this game two teams need to go down
[01:33:05] And he's gonna start getting rewarded with placement points. Hey, man, he's back like he never left right here
[01:33:10] It's got two big pots as well to bounce back in the game pressure on Briggs and visuals from the side here
[01:33:16] These are his walls too. You can get in and make some pretty dirty plays here
[01:33:20] But talk about a way to claw your way out of the grave for a second visuals and braids up
[01:33:25] Look at what happened here just shortly before they made that roadside
[01:33:28] They actually find an elimination there an important one as well at 3 HP the siphon is what's gonna keep them in the game
[01:33:34] Remaining competitive. I saw the while we were hopping around clicks actually eliminated too
[01:33:39] So we have some pretty big top 10 teams now fully out the game
[01:33:43] This is gonna shake up everything as we know it to stay below though
[01:33:48] Visuals braids in a little moment to breathe, but it's not gonna last very long
[01:33:54] See braids have some extra shield allowing him to take the tick
[01:33:57] I'm not sure he's gonna be able to find the damage especially in his own like this curve in Venom
[01:34:02] So shockwave from the back side of the zone to contest the high ground. Nobody's really making themselves known as the team above the rest
[01:34:10] They're not necessarily ready for eight zone. Sometimes we say it's a little bit too early
[01:34:15] I think everybody has that same sense in the back of their mind saving the material saving the shockwave make a play for it
[01:34:21] Maybe in the next couple of zones, but for now ages of ritual
[01:34:24] Looking at what's in front of them. That's let's see. That's wages. We've put down damage trying to spray through the box
[01:34:28] A couple of those are gonna connect, but not enough to give them the green light to go
[01:34:32] Yeah, it's one thing about the way Clicks and Hicks play,
[01:34:33] that they play these single towers
[01:34:35] and not really over commit with the tarps.
[01:34:37] And I would love to see teams do that,
[01:34:39] because high ground is completely free right now.
[01:34:41] Even Grituals and Agers are looking up like,
[01:34:43] wait a second, bro.
[01:34:44] No one's up here, and you saw them kind of break off for it.
[01:34:47] Braids on the other side, though.
[01:34:48] Just popping off right here,
[01:34:50] playing the edge of zone, gets a little siphon going.
[01:34:53] And now, look, you look up.
[01:34:54] Agers finally secures it.
[01:34:55] Beautiful, I'm going to come in.
[01:34:57] They were just waiting for someone to build the foundation.
[01:34:59] And now they come in to try to take the investment
[01:35:02] away from them and then it actually works off.
[01:35:04] Yeah, massive damage on the Agers, on the Bridge.
[01:35:06] Well, force them away, but you still
[01:35:08] got to be careful for Kurt Beno, full HP, front-side of zone.
[01:35:11] Agers gets left by himself, talked
[01:35:13] by him moving possibly into the top five,
[01:35:15] and turns to solo impact points in this game.
[01:35:17] And this is another chance for him to do just that.
[01:35:20] There's a bunch of points in terms of placement
[01:35:22] still left on the board.
[01:35:23] Four points per elimination if you can clean those up.
[01:35:25] But yes, to watch out, the Peterbott
[01:35:26] and Foyo, not only they have the high ground,
[01:35:28] they notice him at second high,
[01:35:29] put down a little bit of pressure,
[01:35:31] forcing them down to hold another layer that set their focus on to 20 a deco and 12.
[01:35:35] They're building up step by step, taking a lot of the focus from Peterbot and Foyle.
[01:35:38] Holdin' Robin may not have won a game this weekend, but they've been playing low ground very well.
[01:35:42] But look at this, as I'm about to celebrate their key positioning,
[01:35:45] they get rolled up on from behind, meanwhile, curve.
[01:35:48] Venom doing the same thing they did before, play deep side of storm,
[01:35:52] come bouncing way on in with the flowberry miss that just support them here for the high ground safe.
[01:35:58] Venos have to be careful. He's right outside the box.
[01:36:00] The Peterbomb, Boyo, it seems like they've conceded to give away the high ground.
[01:36:04] And it is theirs now.
[01:36:05] Veno in curve here, Jacob, but trying to play from back to back.
[01:36:08] Boyo's down and out in the storm.
[01:36:10] It's all up to Peterbomb to clutch it up to.
[01:36:13] And back to back is 100% certainly possible, especially with the tough competition.
[01:36:17] Out of the lobby is brilliant.
[01:36:18] Takes out Cole. Their run has come to an end.
[01:36:21] Midlick was talking about if they could repeat that same game,
[01:36:24] they could close the gap.
[01:36:25] But now with first, second, and third place out of their way,
[01:36:29] this is an opportunity to do it.
[01:36:31] The Peerbot by himself, six HP and a dream.
[01:36:34] Finds a little crevice there to hold on to down below.
[01:36:37] Not able to get the elimination though, he gets taken out.
[01:36:39] Top six situation, three solos running around.
[01:36:43] Three duo still in attack.
[01:36:44] Penel and Curve are still up above, raining down fire.
[01:36:48] Not really giving anybody a chance to breathe.
[01:36:50] And sneak outside of the box,
[01:36:52] which is forced to seek to take this storm damage.
[01:36:54] It's his only play here to try to get some extra placement points.
[01:36:57] A little bit we're seeing right now, Venom coming down here.
[01:36:59] No material, just forced to play.
[01:37:01] Chest to chest here while Curve's got eyes from the top down.
[01:37:05] There comes the mist.
[01:37:06] Just give them a little bit of a relief here.
[01:37:08] But Tyler comes up.
[01:37:09] Those for the pop shot, doesn't quite hit it.
[01:37:11] And Tyler's got enough max to actually do work here.
[01:37:14] Jacob, this is not a safe end game by any means.
[01:37:18] It really is going to come down.
[01:37:19] So whether or not Tyler wants to contest them on height
[01:37:22] Or jump down low for some elimination points.
[01:37:24] Yeah, it's not just the build that I'm looking at.
[01:37:27] It's that mythic chaos reloader that can turn the tides and fight the blink of night.
[01:37:31] But he's getting pushed by the solo down low.
[01:37:33] See, he gets the elimination siphon, getting up to 200 effective shields and HP more builds to work with.
[01:37:38] But up above, Kermit, Venom, they were fusing to drop down low.
[01:37:41] They were fusing to give him a chance, so Tyler has no choice but to go up above.
[01:37:45] Big shot on the perv!
[01:37:47] Tyler is trying to make dreams come true.
[01:37:50] He lands another shot on the fettos down below,
[01:37:52] trying to deny the back-to-back.
[01:37:55] Tyler, he just needs the one chance,
[01:37:57] but he is already down.
[01:37:58] He's by himself once he won, so it is closing.
[01:38:01] Three HP!
[01:38:03] Tyler clutches up!
[01:38:06] You know what?
[01:38:06] That might have been his biggest play of his career,
[01:38:09] and he definitely deserves it.
[01:38:12] There's one thing you cannot deny.
[01:38:14] a professional player with build is dangerous.
[01:38:17] No matter who you are, well played to Tyler and Chance there.
[01:38:23] What an exceptional game number eight there.
[01:38:26] We just saw Jacob.
[01:38:27] Yeah, I was saying Tyler, he needs a chance.
[01:38:30] But as Duo takes chance, he's down.
[01:38:32] We got that second opportunity.
[01:38:34] And he ran away with it.
[01:38:36] See, are you not excited?
[01:38:40] Doubt.
[01:38:41] What?
[01:38:43] I'm sitting there like, Tyler's walking around,
[01:38:46] taking these shots, I'm like, oh, oh, myself.
[01:38:48] You know, I'm thinking like, oh, get out of the way, get, no.
[01:38:51] I just, you know, it's one of those situations, right?
[01:38:55] When you're like, dude, this is Kermin Venom, right?
[01:38:58] Like we're about to see the back to back day two grand.
[01:39:01] And in a moment, the moment we pop over to Tyler
[01:39:04] and you just look at his build,
[01:39:05] she's like, this guy has 90 builds.
[01:39:07] Like, GG, just kidding, it's all fine.
[01:39:10] Like, Kelly, I, and then just to hit those shots,
[01:39:13] to hit those shots in again,
[01:39:14] like in a 1v2 in a grand sloppy.
[01:39:17] Oh my gosh.
[01:39:18] Oh my gosh.
[01:39:19] I know no one wants to be stuck in the low ground
[01:39:21] when there is so much chaos going on,
[01:39:23] but having 90 builds in the final moment right there
[01:39:26] where there was literally only three other players alive
[01:39:29] just goes to show that maybe getting those refreshes
[01:39:31] can be so beneficial because you just say so stuck,
[01:39:34] you stay so stucked up, but man, Tyler there,
[01:39:38] he played that low ground so well,
[01:39:39] and that's not to the detriment of Venom,
[01:39:41] They played height really well too. You could hear our casters talking about it
[01:39:45] They don't want to drop down
[01:39:46] They don't want to give them that chance so that gives you that kind of understanding that they know and perfect
[01:39:51] We're aware of the position that Tyler was in
[01:39:53] Look at this even in these moments he didn't have any build
[01:39:57] Right there look at that
[01:39:58] Right there vivid is what made the difference. We tuned in. He was at 11
[01:40:04] So did he have one build and skip ahead one elimination
[01:40:08] When's the last time you saw anybody in any competition with triple digit builds in the final zone of the game?
[01:40:17] And I mean listen
[01:40:19] I wanted Venom and Kurt to go ahead and win this game because the surgeons up the leaderboard
[01:40:22] Yeah, that would have helped them just that much more
[01:40:24] But as soon as I saw a hundred plus materials hundred plus builds on Tyler
[01:40:29] I was like this one he's gonna be an absolute
[01:40:31] absolute
[01:40:33] Castle the takedown and he absolutely proved it don't defend with that because even with the odds stacked against some look at down to
[01:40:39] Three HP it was close. It was man. I cannot believe how much day two is delivering
[01:40:47] 280 points and now we are looking to cement ourselves in that top 13 shout-offs
[01:40:53] The Tyler and chance. Okay, we're gonna go to a break. Let me return again
[01:40:58] We've got to take a look at these standings how are things developing?
[01:41:01] More after this crack. Stage.
[01:41:31] I
[01:42:01] Oh
[01:43:01] Wait, you can't miss me.
[01:43:03] Okay.
[01:43:05] Okay.
[01:43:07] Oh, my God.
[01:43:09] Oh, my God.
[01:43:13] And I don't know how to feel about it.
[01:43:15] You're not used to losing.
[01:43:17] Getting beaten?
[01:43:19] Not like this.
[01:43:21] These players are just so locked in.
[01:43:23] Could it be the milk?
[01:43:25] Mm-hmm.
[01:43:27] I
[01:43:42] Stay there
[01:43:57] I
[01:44:15] In case you missed it welcome back to the fncs it is great day to be watched or night
[01:44:20] we just watched an incredible game but carbon, Venom almost got
[01:44:26] I'm not another Victor Royale second place nine Elim I told you we have to look at these standings right because I'm telling you game to game it feels like it feels like I have no sense of stability Kelly it feels like every time
[01:44:40] I have a semblance of like this must be the way this is going right raw.
[01:44:44] Is that new for you?
[01:44:45] You know what, what?
[01:44:46] Oh, I'm sorry.
[01:44:47] I feel like instability is part of your lifestyle,
[01:44:50] seeing I don't think that's anything new whatsoever.
[01:44:52] But for the FNCS broadcasting,
[01:44:54] our leaderboard shake up this much,
[01:44:56] vivid might be a little bit new.
[01:44:58] I definitely thought the leaderboard
[01:44:59] was going to be ready.
[01:45:00] Why there we go.
[01:45:01] Okay, vivid take it away.
[01:45:03] Curve and then no.
[01:45:07] Start of the day in 10th place.
[01:45:10] I talked about it.
[01:45:10] 113 points behind first place after just two games. They're now 27 points behind first place
[01:45:23] and that elim column it just keeps getting crazier as you can talk about it. It was at 40 now
[01:45:27] it's at 49. I am just shocked you know like I something that Kelly said at the start
[01:45:35] of like yesterday right we kind of like we're hinting at this extra point right
[01:45:39] And again, it's like, one point really doesn't sound like a lot, but when you put it in the
[01:45:44] hands of like a Kervin Venom, who want to get aggressive, they want to get in these
[01:45:48] bots, they want to take these fights, I mean, look at how it's paying off, we have, just
[01:45:54] after two games, we started the day, Kelly, in ten, we are now second!
[01:46:01] And it's not even like they're just kind of running on the low ground getting these
[01:46:04] eliminations, no, they're also making sure that they're stealing high, checking
[01:46:07] high ground making sure that they're taking away other opportunities from other teams so it's not
[01:46:12] again what are they doing right but what are they taking away from everyone else and curve and then
[01:46:17] we're doing a great job with those sneaky height steals that we love to see a corn do and to see
[01:46:21] them use that strategy to be able to even just punish height obviously coming into this final
[01:46:26] moment the 1v2 against chance or against Tyler probably not the position that Benna wanted to
[01:46:31] be in right now but regardless of that they are pushing themselves up the leaderboard right
[01:46:36] right now. And, you know,
[01:46:37] I'm looking at EU the most
[01:46:39] eliminations we saw out of a
[01:46:40] team coming from Europe with
[01:46:41] Sky and Scroll with 57
[01:46:43] elimination and looking to see
[01:46:45] 49 for Curve and Venno and
[01:46:48] considering the game or the
[01:46:49] day that they had yesterday
[01:46:50] to the day that they're
[01:46:51] having today, I wonder if
[01:46:53] they're going to end up with
[01:46:54] more Elimps than them.
[01:46:57] See, what a weird lobby that
[01:46:59] was to with like the high
[01:47:00] girl, like at one point
[01:47:01] there was like nobody up there
[01:47:02] and all of a sudden, you know,
[01:47:03] Peter bottom player kind of
[01:47:04] going for it. And then when
[01:47:06] and then I went for it. It was nobody up there as well. Like Peter bottom boy. I had to cook the fall down and did that huge
[01:47:12] Overdrive grenade again, right where they're all the way up in the sky. I was looking up. I was like, oh my gosh
[01:47:16] Look at that a bird. It's a plane. No, it's the plane that brought Venom over from you to NA all the way up there, man
[01:47:22] That's that's how high they're getting for some of these height retakes
[01:47:25] I mean it's incredible game seven game eight and what the exact same way they took I had the exact same time and
[01:47:30] Like I mentioned man game seven they look like a different duo game eight
[01:47:34] They repeated it four more games side. These guys look like they're gonna win this thing. Oh
[01:47:39] Man guys, we can't forget that right cold and rapid. Look at them up there right now
[01:47:43] Of course not a ton of points ahead
[01:47:46] But what strikes me as crazy as cold and rapid this last game they hit a 10th place with four Elan
[01:47:53] They have only had one game
[01:47:56] Outside of the top 10 only one game and that was that 26 and one that we called it quote-unquote mistake, right?
[01:48:03] like the little, the blunder
[01:48:05] that kind of cost them all
[01:48:06] of these additional points.
[01:48:07] But even in these situations
[01:48:08] where they're fighting themselves
[01:48:09] in shambles situations,
[01:48:11] we're still pulling off 10th places,
[01:48:14] top 10 with four elims.
[01:48:16] That's scary stuff, Kelly.
[01:48:18] Yeah, and that is exactly
[01:48:19] what Cold and Rapid are doing so well
[01:48:21] is that even though they're not,
[01:48:22] like even if they don't get their pop-off game,
[01:48:24] they're still making sure
[01:48:25] that they at least make it
[01:48:26] to the very final moment
[01:48:27] to get those placement points.
[01:48:29] And then when they do have everything right,
[01:48:30] that's when they pull off the pop-off game.
[01:48:32] So I'd love to see another game like that coming out of them.
[01:48:35] Hold on, Rapin.
[01:48:36] They keep trying to build some sort of a lead,
[01:48:38] but teams, they just keep keeping themselves close.
[01:48:40] They're like, what the heck, where did Curve and Beto come from?
[01:48:42] I thought we were fine.
[01:48:43] Red Acre and Bulls are doing a little bit worse today.
[01:48:46] Oh, man, these guys got to be sweating,
[01:48:47] but they're cool, com-collected.
[01:48:49] We're games left to go.
[01:48:50] Hopefully they can hold on.
[01:48:51] Oh, man, game number nine.
[01:48:53] Only four left before we conclude the grand finals.
[01:48:58] Castors, we're going to send it your way
[01:49:00] to prepare us for game number nine.
[01:49:04] Well, as you guys had a little moment to breathe and relax
[01:49:07] there, one thing's for certain, Jacob.
[01:49:09] Two games can change so much of the dynamic right now.
[01:49:13] Kerman, Beno proving that every team that is due for a pop-off
[01:49:17] will have it.
[01:49:18] But to go back to back like that, it's so impressive.
[01:49:20] It's definitely going to be tough.
[01:49:21] But one thing that I've learned from Fortnite,
[01:49:24] I've heard from Fortnite over the years,
[01:49:25] high ground, they might win games.
[01:49:27] but low ground tends to win championships.
[01:49:30] And I'm not sure we've seen cold and rapid on high ground
[01:49:33] once throughout this week.
[01:49:35] And I'm not sure how much that would change,
[01:49:37] but the next game is ready.
[01:49:38] So let's jump right into the action.
[01:49:45] The major one finals game nine begins here and now.
[01:49:50] You're just tuning in.
[01:49:51] You've missed quite the weekend.
[01:49:52] The ups, the downs, the emotional roller coaster
[01:49:55] We have been going through is all coming to an end here soon.
[01:50:00] Just four games ahead of us now, Jacob,
[01:50:02] as we're getting into the deep end, the deep water
[01:50:04] of this Fortnite competition and Curve Invento
[01:50:06] just proven to us that, hey, yesterday,
[01:50:09] they clearly had everything on lock.
[01:50:11] Things just didn't quite line up for them in the end game.
[01:50:14] But today, it is starting to click.
[01:50:17] Tyler Enchant, right?
[01:50:18] This is a team that's had a lot to deal with as well.
[01:50:21] But Tyler popping off right now,
[01:50:23] really getting his money's worth.
[01:50:24] And don't forget, they haven't been perfect either,
[01:50:27] but they found themselves inside the top 10
[01:50:29] off of that monstrous performance.
[01:50:32] Big moments here, kind of closing out the day,
[01:50:35] four games left.
[01:50:36] Might seem like a lot, but it definitely isn't threats
[01:50:38] and fear, probably, of feeling it.
[01:50:40] In that last game, they were inside of that top 13 bubble.
[01:50:43] They went down relatively early
[01:50:45] and fell all the way down to 15th place
[01:50:48] because of these off-spawn contested fights.
[01:50:51] So with Langston Mako, you can see they're trying
[01:50:53] to make a last ditch effort towards the top of the leaderboard, the threats and
[01:50:57] veers there right there. So we talk about mind games. What does that do to a team
[01:51:01] like threats and there? Do you play aggressive? Do you try to go ahead and
[01:51:04] disengage split the drop? There's a lot of decisions to be made. That's a
[01:51:07] bear. There's not a lot of time to make those. And last game, we survived for
[01:51:11] five minutes. Five minutes means they fell in 41st place. They were on
[01:51:15] track to remain in qualification range, of course, for that land spot, the
[01:51:21] prestigious land spots that are available and now they slip down to 15. So that 20 point gap that
[01:51:27] you talked about, I mean that was given in Mensum. Now it's an uphill battle for them to find their
[01:51:32] way back into the race while you'll eat a box on the other side. You know, we're trying to figure
[01:51:38] out what's going on with this team here. They've had overall, you just look at overall performances
[01:51:44] pretty good. However, the best of the best, right? Those that are up at the very top
[01:51:50] are just outpacing them by a significant margin as far as overall consistency.
[01:51:55] So will Peterbot and Foyo get their moment to finally win a game is the question.
[01:52:02] Especially, you know, you kind of look at some of these teams at the top of leaderboard and
[01:52:06] and their overall match history and you kind of look at it from from anybody else. You're
[01:52:10] like, man, that's a good match history for the teams like Peterbot and Foyo,
[01:52:13] the teams like this Clicks and Eggs. When you start off the first three games for Clicks
[01:52:17] with victory Royals. It kind of sets the tone and the pages for the rest of the tournament,
[01:52:22] but then things don't necessarily go your way.
[01:52:25] One of the best POIs, they got four games left. I think anything is possible,
[01:52:29] especially since the last couple of games to start today.
[01:52:32] They have their head on straight. They're still staying to their plant,
[01:52:35] going for high ground when they can.
[01:52:37] It's just unfortunate that more and more teams are ready to make the risk
[01:52:40] with everything on the line today.
[01:52:42] For me, I still can't be the only one who's wondering
[01:52:44] Why in the world today end up at the dark dominion against golden rapid?
[01:52:49] We are clearly playing that's cut above the rest of the competition right now
[01:52:53] So we'll keep eyes on this. This is obviously one of the stronger draw spot teams tend to rotate into for metal
[01:53:00] Let's give this little highlight here some action
[01:53:03] Noisy and Mio just holding down the sanctuary once again finding this little lurk play there
[01:53:09] Meanwhile Tyler and Chan survived the Boulevard looks like Curve and Venno have not decided to push down south towards his team
[01:53:15] And instead they end up disengaging it out. We're just southern edge of the map
[01:53:23] This is something we saw Tyler and Chan's doing that last game
[01:53:26] They landed the south side of battle would time that can be a little contested
[01:53:30] So they immediately go towards the south and try to cut off the loop half of any of these teams
[01:53:35] that are on this portion of the map.
[01:53:38] Gonna be plenty of opportunity
[01:53:40] depending on what your timing is,
[01:53:41] but it seems like Tyler and Chance
[01:53:42] barely missed their window.
[01:53:44] Players gonna go ahead and rotate
[01:53:45] around 4-3, Aviv and Kingo.
[01:53:47] Another team, Aviv, you're talking about solo clutch
[01:53:50] and big impact point.
[01:53:51] Aviv was one of those players on the top of the leaderboard
[01:53:54] and then you take into a fact
[01:53:55] like the eval finals right before FNC has started.
[01:53:58] They're really the only team to win two different games
[01:54:01] so they have the blueprint.
[01:54:02] Just unfortunately, we haven't seen the success
[01:54:05] that we'd hope for from a team like this
[01:54:08] and seeing if they can really bounce back in today's tournament i think there's
[01:54:11] plenty of time and opportunity there at a hundred and seventy four points though
[01:54:15] about eighty points down away from that top thirteen window
[01:54:18] yeah it looks like every other game they're making somewhat of a semblance
[01:54:22] towards the end game but not quite
[01:54:24] being able to push the boulder pass
[01:54:27] peak of the mountain there
[01:54:29] get that momentum going but
[01:54:30] I think they might just go for a straight chop, but magma's dropping down low, so he's
[01:54:49] probably going to wait for the window to open, and he goes ahead and disengages out, G-Muddy
[01:54:53] gets spotted out on the other side, don't take your pick at this point, this Vettel
[01:54:57] The curve are ready to go all in boxes up one slides into the box on the back
[01:55:02] Now they're gonna go ahead and take down G money a quick two
[01:55:06] Elimination's Venom and curve. They're not slowing down
[01:55:09] And I've worked with Venom enough times to know exactly where his stall process there, right?
[01:55:13] Put the pressure down in the other one if the other one's gonna get risky
[01:55:16] He plays the switch reverse card lanes on a box to month before he even recognizes
[01:55:21] He's actually the one that's the target
[01:55:23] Venno is just playing different right now.
[01:55:27] And again, this is no different than what we saw yesterday.
[01:55:31] They have been overly successful in the early game.
[01:55:35] And now that they're finding the end game kind of formula,
[01:55:38] right, the solution to their problems,
[01:55:40] that's why they've been able to close this gap so fast.
[01:55:47] Not sure how many teams can really take them on
[01:55:49] head to head with the way they're playing so far.
[01:55:51] So you maybe have to catch them on a rotation.
[01:55:53] We get a lobby focus, but Bolton acorn talked about their strategy vivid broke down that long launch pad towards the back
[01:55:59] They combine both the fizz and the shockwave for easy rotations just like this
[01:56:04] We jump on board Cree on dragon third party to fight to start the game yesterday
[01:56:08] Recon Cooper as well
[01:56:09] We're talking about threats and fear falling outside of the bubble reading Cooper are surely close to that same situation
[01:56:15] Not sure how people went down in that last game
[01:56:17] But we saw read by himself in some of those later zones struggling to get out alive
[01:56:22] So this is gonna be a little bit of a makeup game little bit of redemption. It kind of build that confidence back up
[01:56:29] Back in exchange there a few times. So just giving away some of that damage that they're of course hard-earning
[01:56:38] People was lost like we mentioned really early last round right so there is some
[01:56:42] It's more work to be
[01:56:45] Desired here like impressing them already at two evens and look at this
[01:56:48] It's just gonna sneak up on another player here look in the box
[01:56:52] Cleaning things up here, Visual's brains finds himself under some serious pressure here.
[01:56:59] Now as I mentioned, normally by now, they're already situated in a monster search base.
[01:57:05] I haven't quite gotten to do that just yet.
[01:57:07] You can see he is cap metal though.
[01:57:10] You know, I'll back on over the rituals of leaders here, what's happening now?
[01:57:14] I'm not sure if they heard the noise from Blake and Preston.
[01:57:17] Maybe a reboot, not sure, but they see Preston by himself.
[01:57:21] himself. I mean, look at the mini map. I don't see Blake anywhere inside. That'll map easy.
[01:57:25] They're gone or outside of the lobby, so pressed in on a clock inside of the zone. It's only
[01:57:29] going to be a one-take here, but they are tracing him down. He gets the patch up, which is
[01:57:33] huge. Back-to-back 50 HP being regenerated. No time to pop the shield, though. So you
[01:57:38] find yourself a good amount of time. And they're longer to stay in the zone. If
[01:57:41] Age and Ritual don't feel up, they could be one shot away, but they sneak the
[01:57:45] shot through in yet again. And the numbers advantage work in their favor. Age and
[01:57:49] solidified their second elimination year my only question monitor is how much
[01:57:54] damage they took overall chasing out the town. Definitely wasn't the cleanest fight.
[01:57:59] S.G. Dlser, it's Acorn and Boltz right now on the edge of storm here.
[01:58:03] Dlser, S.G. looking to rotate out right now, little bit of a bell though.
[01:58:08] Seems like there might be a duo here watching this little table. It's actually
[01:58:12] Raven and CDZ who have a bit of a choke point here down in the low ground.
[01:58:16] 8 corner bolts hold strong they want to maintain position here in the bush
[01:58:21] CDC had no idea they were there there it is they get a couple of tacks
[01:58:26] there you go
[01:58:29] good rotation here break corner bolts putting them much ahead of the curve
[01:58:32] but one thing I noticed kind of looking at that leaderboard got cold and
[01:58:35] rapping first then I would curve in second place which are thinking both
[01:58:39] big teams right but remember the reason why Venno came from EU to play on NA
[01:58:46] in the first place. It was to play with Cold. They had a bunch of lackluster
[01:58:50] performances which caused them to split different ways. At one point you saw the
[01:58:55] Peterbotton-Poyle split up, Venom was gonna play with Peter, but then he went
[01:58:58] with Curve. Cold was like, ah, I'm going with Rapid. They already qualified for the
[01:59:03] reload Elite Series finals, so they already had that chemistry. I think
[01:59:06] the community saw that one coming from a mile away. So it's interesting to
[01:59:09] see two teammates who broke up now fighting for first and second place
[01:59:13] on the leaderboard.
[01:59:14] That's right, the Minish has that land experience as well, right?
[01:59:16] So bringing something totally new to this game here, and if they continue to continue
[01:59:21] to do what they're doing and stay on track to make it to land, that's going to pay off
[01:59:26] for sure.
[01:59:29] Think about this position here from Bucky and Zen, underneath the bases of Noise
[01:59:36] and Leo.
[01:59:41] I like it to not take too much damage or too much focus.
[01:59:44] Kind of makes it a little bit easier to rotate
[01:59:46] without shockwaving a high distance away to take damage.
[01:59:50] But they're not gonna get as much opportunity to get served.
[01:59:53] Team above is gonna get first strike at that.
[01:59:55] And by the time they can even open up their walls
[01:59:57] and try to get their own shots to connect.
[02:00:11] You see the zone not too far away from dark dominion at the current time cold and rapid
[02:00:18] position up above and honestly there's no real reason for cold and rapid to stray away
[02:00:23] from their strategy you know you don't fix what isn't broken if their worst placing is
[02:00:28] going to be a 26 and kind of an outlier game and after that it's a 10th place honestly
[02:00:33] it'd be a crazy to switch things up for no reason I'm just starting to think you
[02:00:39] Now, should we be upset if Venom flies in from EU and then wins an FNCS here in NA?
[02:00:43] You know, now we got to start like asking these types of questions here.
[02:00:46] I don't know how to feel about it.
[02:00:49] It's getting pretty contentious up at the top.
[02:00:53] He's definitely going to help his case, and you know how he feels about the comparison for EU2 and A.
[02:00:59] And he's just right there, honestly, less than 20 points away at this current time.
[02:01:04] Closing the gap as the game does go on.
[02:01:07] See reten cooper on the distance trying to make up for that last game
[02:01:14] You see them kind of waiting biting their time and this is where a lot of teams
[02:01:17] You know if you look at the strategy from clicks and Higgs and you're asking the question how did Higgs go down?
[02:01:21] You almost imagine a situation like this coming in using the wonky wheel and a lot of these teams just like you know
[02:01:27] Reeten cooper cold and rapid our position high up in their surge tower bases
[02:01:32] So you're not going to be out of render distance as you think
[02:01:34] Yeah, they got eyes on the foxes, right?
[02:01:38] I really kind of called this before.
[02:01:40] Teams that are positioned up in these bases do tend to wait things out and try to look
[02:01:46] for opportunity for those that are going to rotate past.
[02:01:51] Damn, this is game number nine.
[02:01:54] 12, two-day format here, always keeping us on our toes as things are starting to
[02:01:59] heat up.
[02:02:00] The 50-50 zone's going to pop, and it's coming up this way.
[02:02:04] You know, this is kind of risky, right?
[02:02:05] You know, Jake, when we talk about teams that
[02:02:08] kind of play deep into the storm right here
[02:02:10] and then the zone pulls your way
[02:02:11] and you just stay here, right?
[02:02:13] You kind of tank all of this storm.
[02:02:15] Now, what you're doing is you're opening yourself up
[02:02:17] to potential sickness, but also,
[02:02:19] obviously it's gonna cost you a lot of heals.
[02:02:21] Yeah, a lot of the resources,
[02:02:23] that's kind of the give and take of a game like this.
[02:02:25] You talk about a similar scenario
[02:02:26] when somebody is getting struck down
[02:02:28] by storm surge, do you outheal it?
[02:02:31] Do you try to get eliminations?
[02:02:33] So hopefully with their position here,
[02:02:34] they do both zone, Reed and Cooper,
[02:02:36] they're gonna go through their splashes,
[02:02:38] maybe some pizzas to try to maintain their position.
[02:02:41] Not only on high ground,
[02:02:42] on the north side of the map,
[02:02:43] where it's gonna open up,
[02:02:44] it's gonna be a little bit slower to travel through.
[02:02:46] Muds and Sphinx Storm Serves does activate 175
[02:02:49] above the damage threshold.
[02:02:51] You're seeing they're only peeking
[02:02:52] for small opportunities to their level with the ground.
[02:02:55] So they're not gonna get as much information
[02:02:57] from all the teams rotating in.
[02:02:59] Confused for a second,
[02:03:00] look like something literally fell out the sky.
[02:03:01] Like do we have an in-game event happening right now? What was that?
[02:03:06] Spinks of muzz just kind of hanging out right now
[02:03:08] I like the spot that they're in you know 150 above not too bad not exactly safe
[02:03:13] However, it can go either way
[02:03:16] See curve then out now. We've already
[02:03:19] Found themselves pretty content right they find their elimination
[02:03:22] They get the the big cleanup here and they haven't quite left and just took the surge base and have turned it into their own strategy
[02:03:28] and now the zone is continuing to pull this way.
[02:03:30] I'm going to have to shockwave out here shortly, here it goes.
[02:03:33] I don't want to have to team, but someone's waiting for them to make that move.
[02:03:37] A little bit of damage on the curve, but then on those untouched.
[02:03:40] Yeah, those are the risks versus the reward that I kind of look at in situations where
[02:03:46] you're shockwaving off a pipe.
[02:03:47] You have a good bird's eye view when you're able to kind of be up here, monster,
[02:03:52] but once you shockwave down, you kind of leave yourself open to taking the shots
[02:03:56] Just like you saw there, but they were very very proactive in the early game
[02:03:59] They're able to pad that cushion when it comes to storm surge, so they can't take minimal damage just like that
[02:04:05] I see clicks and Higgs still rotating in from wonky land a little bit of slower rotation than others
[02:04:10] They're taking a lot of the focus and this is what happens when you fall behind with the rest of the pack
[02:04:17] I was wondering if we're gonna do a little update on clicks and Higgs here
[02:04:21] performance
[02:04:22] Definitely coming up short from what we expected
[02:04:27] Parts live up to that hot start look at this though sleep
[02:04:31] And waiters there tries to go up and over
[02:04:34] They get caught in the process also find themselves below the search
[02:04:37] So there's just all types of problems here to deal with me. Well, I don't think school again is that they get the refresh that they need
[02:04:43] They might
[02:04:45] Might even build into the zone here with a monstrous metal base if they wanted to I was gonna say they obviously have enough
[02:04:51] Master do so
[02:04:54] Let's take a look at it. It's Venom next there Jake
[02:04:59] Just big damage not sure what Slepsie was thinking, but I saw 500 below the damage threshold
[02:05:04] He's probably charged trying to drop on anybody with a surprise attack tries to get the one pump
[02:05:09] But I did see you know the teammate just kind of go down right behind paper who is looking
[02:05:14] Not even in that direction probably after the elimination got cleaned up the loop kind of made itself
[02:05:20] No paper looks around. Oh, what is this?
[02:05:22] Kind of gets rewarded there, cold and rapid.
[02:05:24] See them continuously staying on these mid layers.
[02:05:28] They don't want to have a target on their back,
[02:05:29] going for high ground, especially since they're already
[02:05:31] in first place.
[02:05:32] They don't have to change up anything here, 313 damage
[02:05:36] above the threshold, just waiting for the next zone
[02:05:38] to pull in more than half of the lobby.
[02:05:40] Just got a max pull over towards Humboldt.
[02:05:42] We have it, things are about to start hitting them real quick here now for approaching the
[02:05:51] final moments of game number 9.
[02:05:53] Endgame is on, Sturm Swords is here, and Clicks and Higgs are 150 below right now.
[02:06:00] Still plenty of room of damage to be had here, so they have to play aggressive into
[02:06:05] the box to go.
[02:06:06] Higgs gets a monster shot, Clicks into the box.
[02:06:08] Wow, Clicks does what he needs to, but no.
[02:06:11] and rituals are here to clean it up.
[02:06:14] And they take out some of that close,
[02:06:17] close competition there in clicks and Higgs,
[02:06:20] and the runway is starting to open up now.
[02:06:22] Meanwhile, Curvin' Venom, Clear as day,
[02:06:25] Blue skies for the team over here.
[02:06:26] They have high ground, it's max material once again.
[02:06:30] This just doesn't get better for them.
[02:06:32] Yeah, I'm not sure if these were all of their bases
[02:06:35] or not, but essentially shockwaving from base to base
[02:06:38] to base in the last couple of zones
[02:06:40] to make sure they maintain their presence up above.
[02:06:43] You see him walk all that extra blue building out where not
[02:06:45] necessarily to hold the tarp just to get
[02:06:47] their edge inside of the zone.
[02:06:48] Peterbot and Pollo fill in the same struggle
[02:06:50] for a moment, one below the damage threshold.
[02:06:53] They could be dropping themselves back up 89 above.
[02:06:56] Pollo looking towards the backside of zone
[02:06:57] trying to get some easy damage.
[02:06:59] Peterbot on the hunt for some of his own.
[02:07:01] Almost writes out more than he could chew in that moment.
[02:07:04] But either way, Pollo's able to clean up at least
[02:07:06] one elimination and continue to build up
[02:07:08] on that storm surge.
[02:07:09] Only three players need to go down before it deactivates,
[02:07:12] but as they get elimination, so do cold and rapid.
[02:07:15] There goes another one for cold and into his total.
[02:07:18] It's crazy, man.
[02:07:19] The amount of elimination they manage to find
[02:07:21] in the endgame is so impressive.
[02:07:23] And they're in the lead, mind you, right?
[02:07:25] So this is really gonna give them that run
[02:07:27] to run away with it.
[02:07:30] We start looking at players like rapid,
[02:07:31] we start looking at players like curved.
[02:07:33] Having an FNCS championship under your belt is one thing,
[02:07:37] but having it on NA just hits a little different too.
[02:07:40] So for some, they're looking to unify the belts.
[02:07:43] For others, they're trying to put this stamp on their name.
[02:07:46] And for folks like Herb, talk about really showcase
[02:07:50] in one of the greats now of the new era.
[02:07:53] First, you gotta do it.
[02:07:54] Rapid and cold, continue to play the strat.
[02:07:57] The one for low ground, front side here.
[02:07:58] Now, this time they do have low material counts,
[02:08:00] so they will need a big refresh.
[02:08:03] Honestly, didn't worry me just one bit.
[02:08:06] finds one though.
[02:08:07] They have eight eliminations already,
[02:08:09] continuing the pressure on the lobby.
[02:08:11] Absolute destruction here on NA.
[02:08:14] And really have to take note,
[02:08:15] if Beto finds himself in first place
[02:08:17] when the tournament is over,
[02:08:19] he will be a new two region champion EU and NA Central,
[02:08:23] R&B two of the hardest regions
[02:08:25] to win a championship on.
[02:08:27] But he's still got a quarter of the tournament left to play.
[02:08:30] Tyler, forced by himself, loses chance.
[02:08:32] Backside and Zoni's getting pressured by Jack.
[02:08:34] N-Pen and a few other teams.
[02:08:36] Everybody forced to rotate in finds a fizz trying to take advantage of that
[02:08:39] But he runs into Peterbock foil on the other side of the wall
[02:08:41] Let me for him looks like Peterbock foil have their hands full so they don't even look back
[02:08:45] But I'll be tuned back in the cold. He's by himself. No extra healed. Don't build
[02:08:50] This is what the entire lobby needs to have a chance and they're only in top 20 right now
[02:08:55] Like barely holding on here for cold to fall the runway really starts to become available now for everyone else
[02:09:01] So look at this, Venom, lost in the process,
[02:09:04] Curve forced to play high ground by himself.
[02:09:06] Meanwhile, Acorn and Bolts find a two set elimination now low,
[02:09:10] and then we jump right into Boyle,
[02:09:11] who also has a refresh of their own,
[02:09:13] and everyone is clawing back into this competition now.
[02:09:17] Yeah, with first place, Kyle, we got Curve by himself.
[02:09:19] We got Agus Rich with Acorn and Bolts,
[02:09:22] even Peterbot and Boyle,
[02:09:23] that all could be our first place team after this game,
[02:09:26] and they're ready to make it so.
[02:09:28] Big Elim up towards the top.
[02:09:30] Peterbot and Pollo, they send it up towards height.
[02:09:34] Give themselves a huge advantage.
[02:09:35] And another four points for those eliminations,
[02:09:38] even more with the placement as it comes in.
[02:09:40] But down below the counter part,
[02:09:41] Adres and Ritual still running wild.
[02:09:43] Five eliminations of their own.
[02:09:45] They have pizza, they have splash,
[02:09:46] they have materials on top.
[02:09:48] They don't even necessarily need a lead of elimination.
[02:09:51] You line it up, they will knock it down.
[02:09:53] Bolts and Acorn here, four eliminations,
[02:09:55] now on the low ground.
[02:09:56] Peterbot and Pollo, we already know how,
[02:09:58] solidified their high ground position.
[02:10:00] Bolz just continuing to do what he does best.
[02:10:03] That's a monstrous refresh,
[02:10:04] and he picks up everything here.
[02:10:05] Gets the Chug Jug as well.
[02:10:07] He's just living off the Siphon, but no Acorn.
[02:10:11] Gets caught there by Javi and a Minish.
[02:10:13] Tyler's still holding on here as well.
[02:10:15] Somehow finds his way into top five.
[02:10:19] When we last checked in, it was 20th place,
[02:10:21] and Tyler is just clutching up,
[02:10:23] showing us how badly he wants it.
[02:10:25] Bolz, you know the world ground though.
[02:10:26] Javi in a minute here, pull 2-0 versus, of course,
[02:10:29] Peterbot, while your pressure from the top,
[02:10:30] it's not looking too good here.
[02:10:32] Yeah, well, it's just getting fresh from all angles.
[02:10:34] Both of the duo sandwich and eat him alive,
[02:10:36] but there comes the drop down coming in.
[02:10:38] Peterbot realizing it's going over recycle builds,
[02:10:41] they can maintain their present,
[02:10:42] but a blessing for them is the same blessing
[02:10:44] from down below.
[02:10:45] Javi in a minute are able to utilize that same scenario,
[02:10:48] and rightfully so, look at their material count once,
[02:10:50] so they were almost out of mats altogether.
[02:10:53] And if Peterbot knows what to do here,
[02:10:55] He's just got to keep that relentless pressure coming down.
[02:10:58] Hopefully he can pull for the win.
[02:10:59] But Javi comes up, finds a little cheeky angle
[02:11:01] from the side there, but he's got no mass.
[02:11:03] Peterbot also punished two.
[02:11:05] Aminus has got nothing, but Boya is coming down
[02:11:06] to finish the job.
[02:11:08] Peterbot's already got the full conclusion there,
[02:11:10] and now Jacob, it's just looking like a 2v1.
[02:11:14] Yeah, basically Javi's living on borrowed time there.
[02:11:17] He might know it as well.
[02:11:19] No extra material, zone pulling on over.
[02:11:22] Yes, he can farm up a little bit,
[02:11:23] Double Thunder burst up above the mythic AR. They're gonna melt through those bills
[02:11:28] And that's why you see layer by layer Peter button poyo dropping down
[02:11:32] They just don't want to take any big risk here because they know this one is definitely in the bag nine elimination so far and if they're
[02:11:39] Able to clean this one up get that elimination on the hobby
[02:11:42] This could be a double digit elimination victory for a owl they catch fire at the right time Peter button poyo on top
[02:11:50] You know they were due for a win. It totally kept Sam we're looking at their performances
[02:11:55] We're seeing make these any game, but the biggest question that was remaining was when are they gonna get that victory out?
[02:12:01] You know what they couldn't have done it in a better time and add a better game right when you have cold and rapid there
[02:12:07] Take a fallen early to that right there is gonna conclude game number nine now Peter bottom boy. You'll see to finally done
[02:12:14] It's happening. It's happening.
[02:12:19] Peter, my boy. Oh, okay. Okay.
[02:12:22] It's no Kelly. It's happening.
[02:12:25] We knew it was going to happen.
[02:12:26] We didn't know when we knew we didn't know why or how,
[02:12:29] but it's happening right now.
[02:12:31] Three games left to go game number nine.
[02:12:34] They finally decide, you know what, Zeke,
[02:12:36] you know what, we've been quiet.
[02:12:38] We've been under the radar.
[02:12:40] We've been consistent, but on the DL,
[02:12:42] you know what, Zeke,
[02:12:43] We're going to perfectly overdrive all the way up in the height.
[02:12:46] We're going to shut that down, take it over.
[02:12:48] And you know what, Zeke, we're going to get ourselves a victory royale.
[02:12:50] Kelly, they're doing it.
[02:12:51] It's happening.
[02:12:52] It's happening.
[02:12:53] You know, they say that there's two inevitabilities in life.
[02:12:56] Death and death.
[02:13:00] We're in the final games.
[02:13:02] It is just inevitable.
[02:13:03] Hereby, employ you.
[02:13:05] You see them do it time and time again.
[02:13:07] There it is.
[02:13:08] Popped up time and time again.
[02:13:09] They're lost.
[02:13:10] Over.
[02:13:11] Theaterbots done.
[02:13:12] And then they wrap up day one, always still in the content by the way.
[02:13:16] But day two is where they come, show how they do it time and time again.
[02:13:23] Peterbot doing this crazy height steal to go onto a curve who was a solo four guy
[02:13:29] had no chance when you have Peterbot and Poyle flying up the sky.
[02:13:34] I mean, you know, there's kind of a conversation amongst us saying, yeah,
[02:13:37] you know, they've been pretty quiet this grant and they really have been.
[02:13:41] I mean, their best place up was a fifth place.
[02:13:42] We're used to seeing these guys just win games,
[02:13:44] take higher ground convincingly and just has not happened.
[02:13:48] But that being said, they kept themselves in contention, right?
[02:13:50] Even though they weren't having these pop-up games,
[02:13:52] even they weren't having those performances
[02:13:54] that we're used to seeing out of them.
[02:13:55] They were still in like sixth place going into that game,
[02:13:57] right? Just close enough to the first place
[02:13:59] where it's like, okay, technically it's possible
[02:14:02] for them to kind of catch back up.
[02:14:04] You know, there's still, there's like,
[02:14:05] they're just always flying around, always buzzing around.
[02:14:08] And then it happens, they win the game.
[02:14:09] It's like we literally brought it to fruition by speaking it into existence.
[02:14:14] These guys are back.
[02:14:16] They win the game and I saw how many points they have.
[02:14:18] I can't wait to see the leaderboard after we come back.
[02:14:21] Oh, vivid.
[02:14:23] You stole what I was going to say.
[02:14:25] Four hundred and eighty five points.
[02:14:29] We knew going into that cold and rapid had four forty six.
[02:14:33] But where did they end?
[02:14:34] Have they overtaken the number one spot?
[02:14:36] Let's find out after this short break.
[02:14:39] Don't you go anywhere.
[02:14:40] We'll see you right after this.
[02:16:42] Wait, get you on the plate.
[02:16:45] Oh, my God!
[02:16:53] And I don't know how to feel about it.
[02:16:55] You're not used to losing. Getting beaten?
[02:16:58] Not like this! These players are just so locked in.
[02:17:03] Could it be the milk?
[02:17:05] Mm-hmm.
[02:17:07] Pfft.
[02:17:10] Aaaaaaahhh!
[02:17:12] Aaaaaaahhh!
[02:17:16] It's okay.
[02:17:19] Aaaaaahhh!
[02:17:21] Stay there.
[02:17:37] Welcome back, my family, Ethan. Game number nine. Eat a bob polly to the side. You know
[02:17:51] what, Z? It's time to get active. We're going to get ourselves a little victory out with
[02:17:55] 10 points. They end that game with 485 points. Kelly, of course. Of course it happens like
[02:18:05] this. I know I let you write the script for this major. Um, and man, oh man, of course,
[02:18:11] of course, with three games left to go, we get a VR out of Peterbott and Pollo. Now,
[02:18:16] now of all times, Kelly, now. This is when they always do it. They always like to build
[02:18:20] a little bit of a story because we always go into every major thinking that Peterbott
[02:18:24] and Pollo are going to run away with it. That's just boring writing, Zeke.
[02:18:28] So instead they make everyone sweat a little bit. They have a little bit of a struggle
[02:18:31] through day one and then it's day two in the second half of day two where they really start to show
[02:18:37] everyone why they are the demons of North American Central Peterbott and Pollo. Now with just a six
[02:18:43] point lead over curve and then oh but more importantly vivid I'm looking at cold and rapid
[02:18:50] dropping down but again that drop is not that far. All of these teams are close enough I mean
[02:18:55] 30 points separates first and fifth place but I mean Peterbott and Pollo it may have taken
[02:19:00] nine games for them to finally go ahead and take that throw up there in the number one spot on the
[02:19:04] leaderboard. But from an individualistic standpoint, Peterbot is still playing like we're used to him
[02:19:10] seeing like I'm looking at the damage out over the course of these nine games. He's currently at 8,300.
[02:19:15] In second place right now is actually Aizures with 7,300. So Peterbot's a thousand damaged
[02:19:21] out ahead and that's exactly what we were kind of used to seeing. Sure, he's getting beat out
[02:19:25] out right now by the likes of, you know,
[02:19:27] Eager's, Curve, Venno in the Elimps category,
[02:19:30] but he's still up there with those guys,
[02:19:31] top four, the individual Elimps.
[02:19:33] These guys are doing good all of a sudden.
[02:19:35] Finally they get that win and now they're at the top.
[02:19:39] I just can't believe it.
[02:19:40] I, it's like, I just, the story is what it's gonna be.
[02:19:44] And of course, right now is when Peter Bonapoi
[02:19:47] would decide to pull out a win
[02:19:48] and take over the number one spot.
[02:19:50] Well, let's start to look at this, this top three, right?
[02:19:53] Kerb and Benno.
[02:19:54] We see them in this last game get a 12 with eight Elins,
[02:19:58] right?
[02:19:59] And it's funny because Levin joins our call
[02:20:01] and he's like, ah man, that's crazy.
[02:20:03] That's not a guy.
[02:20:04] Where's that guy from?
[02:20:05] He's from NA, right?
[02:20:06] We're just like, okay, buddy.
[02:20:08] Okay, Levy-Poo.
[02:20:09] Oh man, these guys are going crazy.
[02:20:12] 57 elimination, Kelly.
[02:20:15] You called out a number not that long ago
[02:20:17] on the over on EU, what their record was.
[02:20:19] We're right there.
[02:20:20] We're right there with three late games.
[02:20:22] Let's go!
[02:20:23] That is great.
[02:20:24] And we can imagine that if a little misstep happened over here with Venno, if that misstep
[02:20:28] did not happen, that they would probably even have more limitations if not win that game.
[02:20:33] But unfortunately, Venno did go down to this.
[02:20:35] Oh!
[02:20:36] Right here.
[02:20:37] Uh, however, her was able to hold the high ground for just a little bit, but once
[02:20:42] some of the other teams noticed that her was a solo on high ground, obviously it
[02:20:45] was going to be stolen.
[02:20:46] But regardless, still having that many eliminations is going to keep them up in our leaderboard.
[02:20:53] We're going to ignore that, okay?
[02:20:55] Let me poo his wild, by the way, Zeke, but I mean, yeah, the standings are just going
[02:21:01] absolutely crazy.
[02:21:02] It would be a lot different right there if, I know, did not get bumped off of the high
[02:21:06] ground.
[02:21:07] He's going to be kicking himself for that one, but close on their heels, man.
[02:21:10] You know, I talked about this first through fifth place, only separated right now by
[02:21:13] 30 points, cold and rapid for the first time.
[02:21:16] We kind of see them slip out of that top two spots.
[02:21:20] It's been a while since we have not seen them towards the top.
[02:21:24] Rough little go for them in that game right there.
[02:21:26] But still, here's the crazy thing.
[02:21:27] All five of these teams going into the last three games,
[02:21:30] any one of them could win it.
[02:21:32] Yeah, I mean, even looking eight years in ritual, right?
[02:21:34] 467, right behind cold rapid, a single point.
[02:21:37] Even Acorn and Boltz, 455.
[02:21:40] and Acre and Bolts get a third place 5 E-Limps in that game.
[02:21:45] Right? Like, this is absolutely going to come down to the wire right now.
[02:21:49] There is no clear in that way like, hey, you know,
[02:21:52] this team is ahead by our point, they're just flying.
[02:21:55] It's like every team right now on NA in this Top 10 is shining, right?
[02:21:59] For different reasons and at different times.
[02:22:01] So I'm almost wondering, like, now that all of these trios are duo, excuse me,
[02:22:05] the Top 5 are firing on all cylinders,
[02:22:08] where do we go from here, Kelly?
[02:22:10] with three games left. I mean
[02:22:15] for a corner in Bolts, I think
[02:22:16] that today for the start of the
[02:22:18] two weeks, it was a little bit
[02:22:19] rough. We saw them only place
[02:22:20] out of 11th yesterday and then
[02:22:22] today starting it off getting a
[02:22:23] 12th and then a 32nd place. And
[02:22:25] we actually saw them for the
[02:22:26] first time getting storm
[02:22:27] damage, which we didn't take
[02:22:28] out all for day one. So
[02:22:30] obviously having these tiny
[02:22:31] changes that we've already
[02:22:32] seen them make and now
[02:22:33] seeing them back in the
[02:22:34] leaderboard vivid. That's
[02:22:35] what I want to see out of
[02:22:36] a corner in Bolts. Yeah,
[02:22:37] we'd love to see them kind
[02:22:38] of make some sort of
[02:22:39] time to talk. I'm excited. I want to get back into the games. Oh man. Jacob here,
[02:22:44] MDF. We got a competition on our hands, boys. Take it away. Bring the hype.
[02:22:50] We definitely do. And I mean, we have the best jobs in the world. We have to sit here and watch
[02:22:55] this go down in real time. Y'all see it in about three minutes delay, Jacob, but my gosh,
[02:23:01] it is so good right now. Now, it's definitely been exciting for sure. Our last three FNCS
[02:23:07] this major's before this. We're decided by four or less
[02:23:11] eliminations. Yeah, the point is a little bit more spread than
[02:23:14] that. But the way this one is edging out to people got another
[02:23:17] photo finish on our hands. I'm strapped up ready to go. I'm
[02:23:20] literally at the edge of my seat right now. Yeah, that's right.
[02:23:23] You know, my attention is really starting to shift
[02:23:25] towards that top six. We are looking at a 50 point
[02:23:28] difference between six in first place. Javi and
[02:23:31] Adminish, one of the most underrated teams now are
[02:23:34] somehow finding themselves in the conversation for a
[02:23:36] championship run and no one is playing perfect so far.
[02:23:40] But I hear the battle, boss.
[02:23:42] So let's see it one more time.
[02:23:49] Three games left, monster.
[02:23:51] Just three games remaining in this tournament.
[02:23:54] And already for the last three games that we've seen,
[02:23:57] we've seen that leaderboard shuffle up so much
[02:24:01] from Golden Rapid being in first,
[02:24:03] Curve and Benno having a chance
[02:24:04] that now Peterbot and Boyo being on top.
[02:24:07] And even that race at the bottom for the bubble,
[02:24:10] the top 13, two points separate, going to Dusseldorf
[02:24:14] and having to go and try one more time.
[02:24:17] Yeah, it's so crazy, man.
[02:24:18] Teams like Klicks and Higgs now
[02:24:20] are suddenly finding themselves
[02:24:21] in a whole different type of scenario, right?
[02:24:24] Where they have to fight for being in the top 13
[02:24:28] at this point, trying to get the championship.
[02:24:30] Wayne is starting to be pushed out of the question.
[02:24:33] Curve and Venom though, switching up their strategy of this.
[02:24:36] I'm gonna go a little bit more aggressively to the north side,
[02:24:39] trying to see if there was something here to be...
[02:24:42] Or there, but look at this, finds Lil' Lamo.
[02:24:45] You happy about that one?
[02:24:47] Was Curve contested, or did he get those out of the sky?
[02:24:51] That's just my biggest question.
[02:24:52] I don't know.
[02:24:53] Either way, it's just a testament of whether it's
[02:24:56] the beginning, middle, or end of these games.
[02:24:58] I don't know what they ate for breakfast,
[02:25:00] but I need to order me two of those
[02:25:02] because they are just firing on all cylinders.
[02:25:05] QK, contract, they had such a great moment
[02:25:09] to end the day yesterday.
[02:25:11] Most of us didn't even know where he came from.
[02:25:14] That first place, eight elimination,
[02:25:16] that burst of them inside of the bubble.
[02:25:18] Today, however, hasn't necessarily been going their way,
[02:25:21] but they are still so close to contention.
[02:25:24] They just need to close out strong.
[02:25:26] You know, what I'm thinking about is Venom and Curve.
[02:25:29] Venom's probably telling Curve like, bro,
[02:25:31] on the lookout to not be surprised if you don't pull your lens you know because
[02:25:34] they're drop keys technically big enough and if you know Venom he's got that main
[02:25:39] character energy right so does Peterbot like Peterbot the way he treats clicks in
[02:25:45] a finals or any other rivalry that's neck-to-neck he will definitely land on
[02:25:50] someone like Venom as well just because the storyline would be so exciting to
[02:25:54] watch and they're all that close right 20 Neco just trying to go ahead and
[02:26:00] get out of a bad spot both of them kind of separated like Lex got a good opportunity here
[02:26:05] took too long to go ahead and execute on that chance so they're going to be forced to disengage
[02:26:09] us next week on 20th trying to push them back further and further and that's the thing about
[02:26:15] these split drops to air if you don't go ahead and get those eliminations on the contested drop
[02:26:19] it makes fighting that move that much harder and after a blanks go ahead pressing on the
[02:26:23] musk outside of the riptides we have a good 2v1 opportunity here continuously trading shop
[02:26:28] Must not going down without a fight.
[02:26:30] Another chance there is Levin.
[02:26:32] Author, big tag, 26 HP.
[02:26:34] Even the knock on the blanks, he has a chance to 2v1.
[02:26:37] In comes Liquid, his duo fondly arrived.
[02:26:39] They clean up that elimination that the party does not stop here.
[02:26:43] Threads and Veer, who are once inside of the bubble,
[02:26:45] fell out or ready to make up for those mistakes early on.
[02:26:49] They have the fizz, they have the shockwave.
[02:26:51] They're trying to close the gap and figure out exactly where he went.
[02:26:54] He heard the noise onto Mako, so they're just going to drop down
[02:26:56] and try to clean up his email.
[02:26:58] They're doing a great job chasing them down right now.
[02:27:00] Beers got some sights here.
[02:27:02] Thorets got control of the coast as well.
[02:27:05] Should be another tag.
[02:27:06] And, fortunately, they don't quite find it,
[02:27:08] but this is still great damage,
[02:27:10] and they want these points right there.
[02:27:12] Again, found themselves in the top 10
[02:27:15] and then fell within around that 15-place range
[02:27:19] after slipping out.
[02:27:20] So, Beer and Thorets still have some big, big games
[02:27:22] to be out here.
[02:27:23] Just getting more and more crowded over here towards the riptives though.
[02:27:28] Got Nick and Skinnycat moving on over.
[02:27:32] Threads and Veer kind of gave up positioning, chasing for that Elim.
[02:27:35] Then you have Mus and Liquid on the other side of riptives.
[02:27:38] Even though they were able to get the one couple of eliminations there,
[02:27:42] I don't think they advanced that position. All two left takes and clicks.
[02:27:45] They get the legendary drop this time out of Wonkyland.
[02:27:48] Better chance at those rare chests, more gold.
[02:27:52] And already at their POI, they almost get maxed to mats at that mini-game.
[02:27:57] They have the wonky wheels, so they have everything they need in terms of finding success.
[02:28:01] And early on, obviously, it is only the first zone.
[02:28:03] It seems like it is moving on over the western side of the map.
[02:28:10] Last time we saw them pull a zone like this, though, they did win the game, right?
[02:28:13] If it came this way, put some pigs,
[02:28:17] calling on some Kinects here to try to pick something big happen at this point.
[02:28:22] Cold and Rapid. Have you gotten that feeling of deja vu at all?
[02:28:29] I can agree. They're not changing up their strategy. They don't even go underneath Dark
[02:28:35] Dominion unless they have to. It kind of builds up towards the top. Now he doesn't have to
[02:28:40] aim with those shotguns. He's going to be the primary source of finding their surge.
[02:28:45] Rapid the big brain. The IGL of this team so far has been rotating them very,
[02:28:50] very well in the good portion of the games but the last two I think those those
[02:28:54] are the ones that hurt the most 10-place four elimination 17-place with one
[02:28:59] eliminations kind of giving up that top spot on the leaderboard
[02:29:05] the other side here a quiet rotate for them right now but close to this dark
[02:29:14] the minions. I have a curious strategy here is the coming moments. They've almost continued
[02:29:21] to position themselves around some of that. Competition up on the standings. Acorn and
[02:29:27] Bolt on the other side. Bolt is very situated right now.
[02:29:30] Yeah, I think he looks down towards Wonkyland, but you can kind of see that big base over
[02:29:40] towards the fairsville, it's fully blocked off for that direction so no easy peeks from there.
[02:29:44] Pass the look elsewhere, over towards Glottane landing though where power and pen to make
[02:29:48] their selves known. After Reek and Cooper drop spot, back on Orbert towards that launch pad,
[02:29:53] typically where the primary source of rotation goes through, Cooper down below, tries to
[02:29:57] look for a cheeky shot onto power, but here Reek's back one momentarily, pressure continues
[02:30:01] to fly his way, but Reek was able to find an opening onto power, getting the shield
[02:30:05] on just like that but it took us so much damage from the storm itself yeah they
[02:30:09] have to go in the same box heal up with those flashes because they were one
[02:30:12] shot away from going down you know separate them from the top of the main spot
[02:30:16] right now you cannot afford to fall here we think we could do enough to push
[02:30:21] this team off but at what cost you saw them again healing up a bunch so we
[02:30:26] can't even tell if they're actually out positive after this exchange right
[02:30:30] They don't want to get us, they have to go for free.
[02:30:36] They get the good damage on the power, they shockwave, they fizz, they close the distance
[02:30:40] and now they get the knock.
[02:30:41] Instead of cleaning up instantly, they know they're going to take damage from the storm,
[02:30:46] let the siphon do its thing, Rete's going to go on the chase.
[02:30:48] He's trying to run away and he's just trying to follow suit.
[02:30:51] Only thing is, he only has one shockwave left, so yep, he's going to have to use
[02:30:54] the fizz to really make that shockwave worth it.
[02:30:57] up on top of that mountain. That's gonna give them a huge bird's eye view to try to figure out where
[02:31:01] Pentel actually ran to. Spots the builds in the distance, safe landing into the water.
[02:31:06] He is so far away from Cooper now that gives Pentel a 1v1 if you can just figure out it
[02:31:10] actually is a 1v1. There's no way he's off. He's already going right back to the bodies
[02:31:15] thinking if they came together. Cooper's here waiting to catch him. More big damage here.
[02:31:21] Now this is sort of an extract. It seems to be other duos here in the area that are just
[02:31:25] I'm just going to stick into the usual mode,
[02:31:27] just going to be careful, but there it is.
[02:31:29] Finally, they clean things up here,
[02:31:30] the latte landing.
[02:31:32] Be a great two-piece elimination for them,
[02:31:35] giving them that little bit of cushion
[02:31:36] that they were looking for here.
[02:31:38] They're not quite safe again inside the top 13 just yet,
[02:31:41] but they are there now after the eight points paper
[02:31:45] in there.
[02:31:46] You know, all visual and braids.
[02:31:47] What is this?
[02:31:48] This is a completely different strap.
[02:31:50] here we got me shaking my head scratching it trying to wonder what right
[02:31:56] wrong typically we see in the team like this spread out on these mountain ranges
[02:32:00] that you see there in the mini map and that's how they get a lot of their
[02:32:03] serves this time around maybe try to wait for somebody to lurk in late find
[02:32:07] something hopefully they make a mistake timing if it doesn't work out though
[02:32:11] might put them behind the rest of the curve is QK and con find themselves
[02:32:15] elimination over here towards painted bombs instead of going on a wild
[02:32:18] Goose chase though. They're gonna let that solo player run away. Maybe they could turn back and get the elimination later
[02:32:24] We know we're gonna go for reboot eventually, but for QK and Khan man
[02:32:27] This is gonna be a good start to the game get that damage early and once you got that storm surge damage early
[02:32:32] It kind of opens up flexibility be able to focus on the rotation instead of just getting damage
[02:32:40] Yeah talk about those eliminations too
[02:32:42] I'm gonna be keeping close eyes on visuals and breeds too because like you said that is such a
[02:32:46] massive risk for them to take here waiting inside the base hoping to ambush
[02:32:50] someone and then you look at the map look at how much these stints there is
[02:32:54] between other players it and from here looking at it might not pay off we'll
[02:33:00] just have to see Peterbott boy are they'll back to the same trusty strategy
[02:33:05] keeping this huge surge tower this just seems to work out a lot better for
[02:33:10] them and then pushing things that they spent a weekend on the way
[02:33:14] There's an aiders one of the tree down here at the Dark Dominion, so we saw them rotate past this.
[02:33:18] Didn't go around to actually contest full to wrap the course.
[02:33:23] Shots coming in from Peterbot's duo at top.
[02:33:30] Yeah, they spotted that one out quick. Saw the surge phase.
[02:33:33] Saw the window open. Unlike some of the other surf faces where there is no top on their face,
[02:33:38] you can kind of, you know, crouch, uncrouch, peek over, not really give yourself away.
[02:33:43] But Peterbot built it in a way to where it's impossible to get shockwaved on for free
[02:33:48] So usually we always talk about Peterbot and foil hunting teams down
[02:33:52] I'm getting in the back of my head. Maybe they're prepared if worse comes to worse that happens to them
[02:33:58] They are the team to beat after eight games so far
[02:34:01] I should say nine games for here in game 10. Let's see if that lead goes away
[02:34:06] Muzz and Sphinx over towards Humble Hills zone moving on over towards squibbley short
[02:34:10] You talked about last time Clicks and Higgs had his own move over in this favor
[02:34:14] I think everybody here on this side of the map
[02:34:16] It's just been gifted a little bit of opportunity which includes Muzz and Sphinx who's currently position 8th on the leaderboard
[02:34:21] I'm really good today too second place in that first game 12th in the Nintendo
[02:34:26] lot of in-game
[02:34:28] appearances so far for Muzz and Sphinx
[02:34:31] Bucky and Zen
[02:34:34] Pace right now great opportunity
[02:34:36] The zone is going to be coming in shortly so I'm going to make quick work of this team
[02:34:43] here and get going themselves.
[02:34:51] You know watching this sometimes is going to have a lot of patience because there's a
[02:34:55] lot of moments to where you typically would think I got to rotate the zone, I don't want
[02:34:59] to take the damage, I want to beat other teams there but sometimes it's just more
[02:35:02] beneficial. First you'd be off the white HP heals to go ahead and survive through your
[02:35:07] time, let the storm do its thing, force other players at their hands depending on what situation
[02:35:11] they're in. You have a little bit more control of your games, curve and bento. A different
[02:35:16] approach already, you know in the last couple of games you see them very very early on
[02:35:20] trying to be the team on the high ground and really condition the rest of the lobby.
[02:35:23] This time around just like we saw visuals and raids taking a whole different approach.
[02:35:28] and just minimizing the risk of them actually getting eliminated.
[02:35:32] They do already have two eliminations, do some.
[02:35:35] They're feeling pretty good about their overall damage,
[02:35:38] but as we start talking about the way this zone played out,
[02:35:41] it's going to be clicks and hags.
[02:35:43] You have this monstrous base set up here at the wonky land,
[02:35:46] as the zone has...
[02:35:48] ...stayed them for quite some time here.
[02:35:50] I mean, it's plenty of extra kills to work with as well,
[02:35:53] so he's going to have to pick and choose here what they want to take on the road with them.
[02:35:57] Plenty of time to wait, the zone is pulling towards the south, they have their wonky wheel,
[02:36:07] they have their combination of both the fizz and the shockwave.
[02:36:11] So really dodge a lot of the teams, the earlier portions of that zone, kind of move out of
[02:36:16] render distance, make it easier for them to move in, and you see the zone is kind
[02:36:19] of pulling off the shores of Squibbly over into more of the mainland, and this
[02:36:25] This is where you do have a few different mountain ranges that will be in play.
[02:36:29] It's a rotation, it's being quick, that is of the essence here.
[02:36:32] That's where you see now for all those other players that are waiting to have this zone
[02:36:36] to try to move their way in.
[02:36:38] You're seeing cold and rapid, they're pulling that edge of the zone.
[02:36:40] Instead of straight, going straight in, they know this side of the map is more than
[02:36:44] likely uninhabited by a lot of the players, so they're just going ahead, taking the
[02:36:48] slow approach yet again.
[02:36:50] They don't seem to be in a worry and they don't seem to be desperate to make
[02:36:53] any big plays.
[02:36:54] And they got little bushes to play with as well here. So with the zone coming back, they have a nice little ambush set up there.
[02:37:00] All the teams rotating in.
[02:37:02] Peterbot still finds himself safe in the positioning here. So long as they found their damage, they'll be just fine.
[02:37:08] Ragers and Rich will have it really moved either since rotating their last position here.
[02:37:15] They're only 83 above, so this is a much more precarious situation at the end.
[02:37:22] It might look good. It might look good now with the damage being above the threshold,
[02:37:26] but you know as well as I do the way that some of these games have been going.
[02:37:29] You'll be a pub in one zone, and then instantly fall below in the next.
[02:37:34] We need to get down to a certain minimum of players for each and every one of these zones
[02:37:38] that the team does progress into it. Eventually it does turn off down to 40 players overall,
[02:37:43] so they're really playing tiptoeing with that line when it comes to surge,
[02:37:47] Cold and rapid similar situation, only 143 above, and it's not easy for them to rotate from point A to point B.
[02:37:54] About 30 damage is going to get taken off that surge.
[02:37:57] One thing to note though, they were maxed material coming out of that storm there, so they are in the prime position here.
[02:38:03] Don't let that material count fool you.
[02:38:06] They are getting late into the endgame here, a little bit of storm, full luck here, and you'll be in a great spot to be in.
[02:38:12] Overall though, Peterbot and Playa could seem to be separate of them.
[02:38:15] They have this high ground base. They've had to zone this entire time.
[02:38:17] They're finding a tremendous amount of damage from this advantageous spot.
[02:38:21] And now they get to shockwave out and play into the Dark Dominion.
[02:38:25] So this is actually called a rapid-draw spot.
[02:38:27] And again, normally when you get the draw, obviously, we've seen those teams
[02:38:31] turn these opportunities, if you will, into huge wins, if not better.
[02:38:38] And again, that is to be determined as now we're starting to first end game.
[02:38:42] Then on curve, no pressure so far.
[02:38:45] They've just been sitting on the bending machine,
[02:38:46] trying to see if anyone was willing to come this way.
[02:38:48] Clearly, some people got a little too close to the fire
[02:38:51] and got burned here.
[02:38:52] It's magma in G-Monster.
[02:38:54] This is another Ben-No and curve elimination
[02:38:57] off the same team.
[02:38:58] They just can't catch the first one.
[02:38:59] Yeah, and I know the game's still going on,
[02:39:01] but with those eliminations there,
[02:39:03] they take first place in the tournament.
[02:39:06] Place of points happens so close.
[02:39:08] And it's going to continue to jumble,
[02:39:09] but it goes to show how close the leaderboard actually
[02:39:12] is through and through my my watching a replay of my watching another computer
[02:39:17] bomb player just finding opportunity after opportunity and it's on to beer
[02:39:21] that is going to be a heartbreak right there if threats cannot clutch out some
[02:39:26] good points in this game he has only four points away from that bubble yeah
[02:39:32] they were doing so well after finding those two e-lands and he has to make
[02:39:39] At least 20 or 30 points as you're jumping away. I think I saw Venno find another elimination there too
[02:39:45] So the rotates are clearly looking well. Yep. Here it is. We get some jumping with that
[02:39:49] They're at five elims now Jacob things are just starting to get really pieced together for them
[02:39:54] Take a look here. They find the lobby focus onto Jack. They get the elim credit
[02:39:58] It just can't work any better for them now
[02:40:01] So all that matters here for them is just gonna be key positioning playing for the endgame
[02:40:06] No one's in that base up top either
[02:40:08] Somewhat of a vacant storm surge base from before.
[02:40:12] He's on his mouth back.
[02:40:12] Acorn and Volts are still in this game as well right now.
[02:40:15] Barely holding on to us.
[02:40:16] They found themselves only 20 of all.
[02:40:17] I see clips and haze there in the distance too.
[02:40:19] Meanwhile, Yiderbaugh continuing to find eliminations.
[02:40:23] Yeah, to start the game, Venom and Kerbs,
[02:40:25] two off-spawn Elims, put them in first.
[02:40:27] Yiderbaugh gets Elim.
[02:40:28] They take first back.
[02:40:29] Venom and Kerb get a couple more Elims.
[02:40:32] That pushes them in first.
[02:40:33] And now they take it right back.
[02:40:35] We're literally ping ponging.
[02:40:36] As this game goes on between first and second place,
[02:40:39] we still got cold, rapid, ages and rituals.
[02:40:42] Eight-point impulse, all still in the mix.
[02:40:44] You can't forget about clicks and hicks.
[02:40:46] All it takes is one moment to catch fire
[02:40:48] in these next three games
[02:40:50] to really kind of shut everything up.
[02:40:53] They do have that gold chaos.
[02:40:55] They got the purple APR.
[02:40:57] They got slap pizza.
[02:40:58] They got fizz.
[02:40:59] They got shockwave.
[02:41:00] They got all the resources necessary
[02:41:02] to have a good game here,
[02:41:04] but this zone might play a huge role
[02:41:06] depending on where it goes.
[02:41:07] I see it moving towards the south.
[02:41:08] We're going back in and through Darkville Minion.
[02:41:11] So even though we got those buildings,
[02:41:12] we need to worry about it.
[02:41:13] It's not as drastic as a North Pole
[02:41:15] and all those mountain ranges.
[02:41:16] Jacob, I also saw visual embrace though live as well.
[02:41:19] So it seems like their risky play did pay off there.
[02:41:22] And the bottom right there is still fully healthy.
[02:41:24] Clicks and Higgs often to go for high ground here.
[02:41:26] Once again, this time as early as the eighth,
[02:41:29] so wild teams are playing pretty close to second height.
[02:41:33] This is extremely risky.
[02:41:35] Javi in a ministerial in the game as well, but Klakes with the big Elimons enough there, he doesn't get too risky either, right?
[02:41:41] He allows the move to fall there.
[02:41:43] Comes to back up his teammate Hicks here up top.
[02:41:45] It's Bucky and Zen who are trying to fight for it though.
[02:41:48] Yeah, and this is another reason why I think it's just a little bit too early sometimes in the game.
[02:41:52] Oh, Foyo's down only because of the material, but it's because everybody's sending it up above.
[02:41:56] He sends it to himself. Foyo's down. That is a lot of pressure here.
[02:41:59] On to Peterbott to maintain their position on the leaderboard.
[02:42:02] Quickly peeks up, steals some of that move away.
[02:42:04] Curve and Venom are on the other side,
[02:42:07] literally first in play, staring at each other through the wall.
[02:42:09] I think Peterbot knows that danger's around the corner,
[02:42:12] tries to go up.
[02:42:13] Shockwave of my pick.
[02:42:14] Stop play onto Zen.
[02:42:16] Nobody, nobody does that as a solo.
[02:42:20] He's even backing down Bucky.
[02:42:22] They have the confidence to go up.
[02:42:24] The challenge clicks and Higgs,
[02:42:25] but now it's falling short with Peterbot storming him down.
[02:42:28] Just doesn't get better, you know?
[02:42:29] He's just sticking to the game plan.
[02:42:31] He's like you know what we want to come into these games and play for a high ground. It's what's gonna open up positioning for me
[02:42:36] I'm just gonna go ahead and do that but clicks and hicks of course have the same strategy to
[02:42:41] Your box rise to bill off of course, but it's not gonna be enough clicks has just got his number this time
[02:42:47] This is an opening curve and Benno needed bolt is by himself down below eight Gordon
[02:42:54] Another talk he's sent back to the lobby not only curve and Benno's chance to increase that lead for first
[02:43:01] plays even with cold rapids to live up for clicks and Higgs to play catch up here
[02:43:05] They have the high ground a lot of the teams are already out of their path
[02:43:08] But another one sends it towards the north another team is trying to battle up above for the high ground meanwhile
[02:43:14] Cold and rapid has let all the dust settle you guys can have it up above
[02:43:18] We'll smoothly walk through that finish line. Don't forget hobby and a minish were in sixth place coming into this
[02:43:23] They have a chance to fight for first as well
[02:43:25] And they're trying to just show us that they have life in them as they go up
[02:43:29] but Klicks and Higgs will in a battle it back on over into their head.
[02:43:32] They're really just wrestling for high ground right now,
[02:43:35] and it's cost them so much material.
[02:43:37] Klicks and Higgs have almost given away the win condition at this point
[02:43:41] if they can't catch this refrag.
[02:43:43] Yeah, you see Curve and Venom just waiting in the shadows.
[02:43:46] So, a spur of moment just like this.
[02:43:48] Everything up above is expended,
[02:43:50] but they're actually looking down below
[02:43:51] because the material count, the lack of resources.
[02:43:53] They might have what they need to take the high ground,
[02:43:56] so Klicks and Higgs have to give it up.
[02:43:58] Hoppy in a minute. You set it yourself from top six to start this game.
[02:44:02] This is our chance to increase their positioning, but Venom backs up against the wall.
[02:44:05] Six builds, tries to find his way to the frontside zone while using the bare minimum.
[02:44:09] Curve ends up in a scuffle against Klicks. No builds left.
[02:44:12] He's going to have to reposition and now Klicks is by himself.
[02:44:15] Two HP, a quick peek from Venom.
[02:44:17] He returns back to the scene of the grind to take down his former teammate.
[02:44:21] Unfortunately, he did lose Curve in the process.
[02:44:23] He finds Prommier as a solo, but no nut comes to back him up,
[02:44:26] and then he has to back off here completely.
[02:44:28] Look at this, Venom didn't even get to pick up any of Max either.
[02:44:31] So now he's down to four bills.
[02:44:33] But hey, look, inside the top 10 now,
[02:44:35] still earning points, but you have Colvin Rapid making up
[02:44:38] for time loss, but Venom's still going.
[02:44:40] Down goes Taki too.
[02:44:42] And now he's at nine eliminations here, Jacob.
[02:44:45] This is a legacy at its finest.
[02:44:48] And Venom is really trying to put on, not only for himself,
[02:44:51] not only for Curve with entire EU region,
[02:44:53] and say, hey, look, it could be that easy.
[02:44:56] Cold and rapid though, still a big pain in their side,
[02:44:59] but rapid goes down.
[02:45:01] Muzz and Sphinx drop down from above.
[02:45:03] This is literally chaos at its finest.
[02:45:06] This is crazy.
[02:45:07] The points here being added up,
[02:45:09] meanwhile, Venom's just soaking up placement points
[02:45:12] because the lobby's doing the hard work for him,
[02:45:14] and he goes for the monster shot!
[02:45:17] Onto ritual!
[02:45:19] Oh my gosh!
[02:45:20] Venom just continues to do it.
[02:45:23] Time and time again!
[02:45:24] Don't count him out just yet!
[02:45:26] That's another huge shot.
[02:45:27] The full beardiness drops too.
[02:45:29] Can he get some time to pop it?
[02:45:30] There it is.
[02:45:31] Tries to break out through the top.
[02:45:32] Look at the game since the awareness
[02:45:34] to break out of the dangerous layer.
[02:45:36] Venom is firing on all cylinders right now
[02:45:38] and he is still going.
[02:45:40] I can't believe what we're witnessing,
[02:45:43] Venom is taking over in this end game,
[02:45:46] but he has to be careful.
[02:45:48] The only solo left,
[02:45:49] Oh, I'm finished on the other side.
[02:45:52] And you charge 35, a minute goes down into 2v1 monster.
[02:45:57] How is he still doing it?
[02:45:59] How is he managing to earn these points?
[02:46:02] He's trying to get it back in blood.
[02:46:04] He might actually get this elimination here, too.
[02:46:06] Zip the falls down, voids all weak.
[02:46:09] And he gave us the performance.
[02:46:11] We were looking for their Jacob.
[02:46:14] I had.
[02:46:15] Gosh.
[02:46:16] Oh my gosh, Bonsai.
[02:46:17] I needed a moment to breathe there. My heart is pounding.
[02:46:20] I'm not even playing in this game, but Benno came to NA.
[02:46:25] He is taking over. He picks up Kerb,
[02:46:28] and this team is a bulldozer in these NA lobbies.
[02:46:32] They're single-handedly taking down top team
[02:46:36] after top team by themselves, but Zythe's a void.
[02:46:40] They deserve all the praise in the world, Zeke.
[02:46:42] I
[02:46:45] I
[02:46:47] I'm at a loss for words
[02:46:50] I
[02:46:52] Wanted obviously we want to talk about that but we need to highlight
[02:46:57] so as I said and void oh
[02:47:00] My gosh the chaos
[02:47:03] that was that game and
[02:47:05] and literally Venno is just mowing down players last and right and at the very end it is a 2v1
[02:47:13] sight to avoid they take advantage of that right they say hey look if it's just you even gods can
[02:47:20] bleed sometimes we'll walk away with the victory Royale 219 points these guys are looking to
[02:47:27] secure themselves a spot going to the summit with only two games left to go this puts them
[02:47:33] I mean, I think that's a good
[02:47:37] spot. Kelly. Yeah, I mean,
[02:47:39] considering how crazy the low
[02:47:41] ground was to have a full duo
[02:47:43] in that moment, being able to
[02:47:45] take on Venno. I mean, six
[02:47:46] eliminations definitely going to
[02:47:48] help them up the leaderboard.
[02:47:50] Oh my goodness. That looked
[02:47:51] like that. I don't want you to
[02:47:53] invent us favor, but again,
[02:47:55] shout out to that duo for
[02:47:57] getting the ninth or the 10th
[02:48:00] They had a lot of time to
[02:48:04] play and they were kind of
[02:48:05] just hanging out right we saw
[02:48:07] how many solos that were in
[02:48:09] that lobby and amongst all of
[02:48:11] the cast amongst better just
[02:48:12] bowing down all the lobby
[02:48:13] that do it there at the end
[02:48:14] they just kind of look like
[02:48:15] wait for everybody else go
[02:48:17] right where I got one player
[02:48:19] to take out for the win all
[02:48:21] of a sudden they go ahead and
[02:48:22] they clutch it up they take
[02:48:23] the win as well so there'll
[02:48:25] be interesting to see how
[02:48:26] that win right there shakes
[02:48:27] up the leaderboard. Oh man
[02:48:30] That solo clutch was incredible.
[02:48:34] We'll see you guys in just a few minutes.
[02:48:36] Don't you go anywhere.
[02:50:38] Wait, did you have a thing?
[02:50:40] Oh, my God!
[02:50:42] Oh, my God!
[02:50:48] And I don't know how to feel about it.
[02:50:50] You're not used to losing.
[02:50:52] Getting beaten?
[02:50:54] Not like this!
[02:50:56] These players are just so locked in.
[02:50:58] Could it be the milk?
[02:51:00] Mm-hmm.
[02:51:02] I
[02:51:16] Stay there
[02:51:32] The game number 10 with one of the greatest solo clutches we have ever seen guys look at
[02:51:52] this leaderboard.
[02:51:53] He got a polio just got a VR last game right we thought oh my gosh I can't believe it Peter
[02:51:59] about poyo they're taking over it's crazy in a single game. Beno solo clutch is
[02:52:04] here for a second place with 11 eliminations. Callie Lee we are at 68
[02:52:11] eliminations on the day. I mean and that is a solo clutch off of curve and
[02:52:16] then oh having a eliminations before curve went down so it wasn't like it was
[02:52:20] just been oh in that game but regardless even with a eliminations having
[02:52:25] curve go down. Vinno was not done yet. He is never done vivid and to see him play that
[02:52:31] I for a second I thought this was game 11 Peterbott solo once again because we've seen
[02:52:36] that in North America but Vinno wants to show that this is not just the NA show. EU is
[02:52:42] here to represent and these eliminations vivid insane. I mean it's like you can't
[02:52:49] miss right now. If this guy has a shotgun out there is somebody anywhere near him
[02:52:54] on his green able to go ahead and he's hitting the shot every single time and how chaotic some of
[02:53:01] these end games are. I mean he is just switching layers when he needs to. He's using the overdrive
[02:53:05] grenades to fly up and even mid-air opponents are moving. He's still hitting the shots and
[02:53:10] everybody that was watching this must have believed that it was possible for him to win this 1v2,
[02:53:14] right? Like this, I can't, it looked like he was unstoppable. Everybody's like,
[02:53:18] heart proves for a second watching that right there and I gotta tell you the rest of the
[02:53:22] The lobby right now is in absolute trouble.
[02:53:24] We kind of saw it after game number seven.
[02:53:27] We were like, wow, wait, whoa, whoa.
[02:53:28] These guys look absolutely different.
[02:53:30] Take a look at the individual
[02:53:32] What?
[02:53:33] Eliminations over the course of the 10 games
[02:53:36] that we've witnessed for Gran Fano today.
[02:53:38] Venno is leading the pack with 37.
[02:53:42] What is possibly a little bit even more impressive
[02:53:46] is that his duo is ready to find them with 31.
[02:53:50] This isn't like a solo shot.
[02:53:52] I mean, obviously, yeah, the
[02:53:53] soul clutches came out, but
[02:53:54] they're both just performing
[02:53:56] on an incredible level right now, Kelly.
[02:53:58] I for sure thought that
[02:54:00] production was wrong, but this
[02:54:01] was incorrect and that they
[02:54:02] misplaced Curf's name.
[02:54:03] That is insane.
[02:54:06] These numbers represent
[02:54:07] everything and I feel like I'm
[02:54:08] going to have to add a fourth
[02:54:10] star to this airplane real soon
[02:54:12] because this is what I want
[02:54:15] out of North American Central.
[02:54:16] And you know what?
[02:54:17] Maybe in a central was
[02:54:18] getting a little bland and
[02:54:19] you just got to add a little
[02:54:20] bit of spice from EU and
[02:54:21] That's what makes everything just taste so much better.
[02:54:26] I am just shocked by what we just witnessed.
[02:54:29] We have two games left to go.
[02:54:32] Let's bring up those standings again.
[02:54:36] Wow.
[02:54:37] As we look at these standings as well,
[02:54:39] I mean, guys, even look from first to fifth, right?
[02:54:42] Only 75 points, separating Curb and Venom
[02:54:45] from Javi and Aminish.
[02:54:47] I mean, I am just in awe.
[02:54:49] Again, this is why we call out, right?
[02:54:51] A single game of Fortnite can change everything, man.
[02:54:54] You just string together eliminations.
[02:54:56] The way Renault just hit even a second place.
[02:54:58] You don't even need to get for you.
[02:55:01] You can find yourself climbing the standings.
[02:55:03] Oh my gosh.
[02:55:06] Agers in ritual as well.
[02:55:07] Look at this.
[02:55:08] Jumping up two whole placements right now, Kelly.
[02:55:12] Off of a sixth place with seven Elimps.
[02:55:15] Now Kelly, right now, more than ever.
[02:55:17] These eliminations are so critical.
[02:55:20] There's so many points locked behind these eliminations.
[02:55:23] That's what these players need to be targeting.
[02:55:25] I mean, Agers and Ritual, like you said, they got eighth place
[02:55:28] with, I'm sorry, they got sixth place with seven eliminations.
[02:55:31] Cold and Rapid, that game only went down in eighth.
[02:55:33] They only got three eliminations.
[02:55:35] And that is why Agers and Ritual are jumping up.
[02:55:38] Literally, you could be doing really well,
[02:55:40] making it to the end game, making, grabbing elimination.
[02:55:43] But if you are not just pushing yourselves above
[02:55:46] just a little bit more than everyone else,
[02:55:48] that is literally gonna be the difference
[02:55:49] tens of thousands of dollars and being able to say that you are the best in North America Central.
[02:55:54] As I've been wrapped up in the entertainment that we have been presented with this absolute
[02:55:59] domination, I blank that I was like, wait a minute, we've played 10 games. There's only
[02:56:04] two games left. We are approaching that point now where it is possible that some of these other
[02:56:10] teams that are in the top five could potentially be thinking about, okay, listen, they're playing
[02:56:13] way too good right now. How do we stop them? I know we kind of, we kind of talk about this
[02:56:18] a lot. We saw it on you earlier, the attempt to potentially stop them early on. Does somebody
[02:56:24] have what it takes to land on Curve and Venno to stop what seems to be unstoppable? Whoa!
[02:56:33] He's speaking something into existence. Kelly, we saw this over in EU and it went a certain way.
[02:56:39] Do you think it's happening? Do you think it's happening in Game 11? No.
[02:56:44] Probably not. Well, we can hope.
[02:56:48] Two games left to go here before we say goodbye.
[02:56:52] I cannot believe what has transpired so far.
[02:56:56] The two games left to go.
[02:56:57] All of these dudes are thinking the same exact thing.
[02:57:00] How do we either get in the top 13
[02:57:02] or fight for that number one spot?
[02:57:06] Castors, it is time.
[02:57:07] Game 11 is ready.
[02:57:10] Take it away.
[02:57:12] Monster, I don't know if Curvin' Venom
[02:57:15] will be contested off-drop,
[02:57:16] I don't think it's going to be a smart play because something you notice first off is when they were the best team in some of these lobbies
[02:57:23] It usually starts in the early game on day one
[02:57:26] It was the mid and end game where they lacked a little bit of preparation, but now that that's solved. I'm not sure
[02:57:32] Yeah, I don't think everyone wants to get sky and scrolled here in game number 11
[02:57:37] So let's see if things are getting hype now
[02:57:39] the game. Now. Two games left
[02:57:50] monster to exciting chances
[02:57:52] for anybody to rise up the
[02:57:54] leaderboards and before this
[02:57:56] moment, we had a very, very
[02:57:57] close tournament six points
[02:57:59] difference, but after curve
[02:58:01] and Venom and Venom is just
[02:58:03] phenomenal solo play. They
[02:58:06] have almost a 50 point gap.
[02:58:08] speak he was actually saying curve was due for the pop-up curve is gonna have
[02:58:12] this moment little did we know the wolf was in sheep's clothing he has been
[02:58:19] playing so crazy it's looking like like young Venom the Venom that we knew to be
[02:58:24] one of the most dangerous fighters when he was up and coming we're just seeing
[02:58:28] them just outperform like a breeze right now and you love to see it too
[02:58:31] because it's well deserved and the competition overall is extremely close
[02:58:36] But okay, Jacob, let's get to some of this action here.
[02:58:39] Paper and Rezzi are still fighting for a qualification spot for themselves.
[02:58:44] That was a great two-piece of them.
[02:58:45] Yeah, it's just unfortunate.
[02:58:46] That side of the map isn't necessarily my favorite,
[02:58:49] whether you're contested, uncontested,
[02:58:51] or simply just win the fight.
[02:58:52] It doesn't make it any easier at all.
[02:58:53] Lake Preston's still on this side of the map.
[02:58:55] Don't get to the tick.
[02:58:56] And Mafia on the south side of the Frigid Fortress.
[02:58:58] Good damage on the Preston, though,
[02:59:00] giving a huge advantage on over to the other side.
[02:59:02] But Mafia, a huge chunk of HP missing as well.
[02:59:05] This is where the Lurks are starting to come in, but the longer you lurk, the longer you fight, those third parties will become a huge factor, and Pen and Jack already making their way on over.
[02:59:13] Yeah, Pen and Jack have been all over these fights here. They've had success, they've had some failures.
[02:59:21] So, as Mafia, I'm looking for a place to protect it. Just trying to get this one out, can you see?
[02:59:27] This is the most important shot though, any little touch there. You could have seized on the tick and it would have been a big up.
[02:59:34] And Preston didn't even see him run past Ryder, so they just seem to be a little out of it here for game number 11.
[02:59:40] And Pen and Jack, not too content with the extra shots they're hitting inside of there.
[02:59:44] I think they learned a lesson last time. They're off to disengage now.
[02:59:51] You still got Skaern, Ocid at the actual Frigid Fortress just towards the north.
[02:59:55] They were the ones that, essentially the last one standing after everything had settled,
[03:00:00] but literally one room away, Preston.
[03:00:02] And like, I have to imagine they know each other are here.
[03:00:06] Even the tick as a solo,
[03:00:07] they only saw one elimination in the feed.
[03:00:09] It's about where is he at.
[03:00:11] And every single person in this scenario monster
[03:00:13] is one shot away from going down or getting eliminated.
[03:00:17] And that's why you see the careful approach,
[03:00:18] but maybe Preston hears something
[03:00:20] on the other side of that wall.
[03:00:21] He's trying to tiptoe, take his time.
[03:00:23] There's a full window open, a clear shot.
[03:00:25] Big double attack from both sides.
[03:00:28] That was actually a smart way
[03:00:29] approach that from Preston and Blake. I'm thinking Preston was looking through the cracks in the brick
[03:00:33] like yep I see an angle bro he's in here let's go for it. It ends up working out squibbly.
[03:00:40] I'll lock it close by through the bottom foil. Let's see if they end up doing a big surge base
[03:00:45] or rotating out early. Try to get a fight for some surge maybe even some points of course.
[03:00:53] All in all though oh they're going back to that strat where they just push
[03:00:57] And honestly, unless you think something
[03:01:01] unordinary is going to happen with Venno going down early and a lack of
[03:01:04] eliminations, one of the big ways to come back is especially for a team like
[03:01:07] Wibbop, the foil is through eliminations here, talk about it yourself, they
[03:01:11] fought this one before against Kristen Drew, they got an elimination, but they've
[03:01:14] also went down or down to low HP, making this search not necessarily worth
[03:01:19] it, there goes another example, they're a hundred damage gone just like
[03:01:22] that, the foil has to stay on the ground, and they're going to
[03:01:26] Boy will have to slow things down trying to heal up a Peterbott for a necklace pressure gets the double-edged sword at the top
[03:01:31] Or she drew to fall down yet another layer, but we've seen this happen a few times throughout the weekend offensive Peterbott and boy
[03:01:39] Oh do disengage, but I'm not sure that's gonna necessarily be the case
[03:01:42] They trade shots again another hundred damage landing on the P
[03:01:46] Yeah, one thing person drew done is played defense very very well like every time we've watched this fight go down
[03:01:53] They actually haven't fully eliminated this team.
[03:01:56] They have managed to defend themselves more than well enough.
[03:01:59] And Peterbot and Boyo say, you know what?
[03:02:01] Yeah, I got it, bro.
[03:02:02] Once again, and they just give it to them,
[03:02:04] because they know too that going back and forth
[03:02:07] is not worth it.
[03:02:08] They wait until they're ahead, and they say, all right,
[03:02:10] we're going to take the serve positive and dip out.
[03:02:15] Time to go take the little victories.
[03:02:17] Hopefully they accumulate into a massive victory
[03:02:19] at the end of the game.
[03:02:21] jump on board threats and beer to start the day off they were inside of that top 13
[03:02:25] they slowly fizzled out but as it stands now 14 plays 264 points 13 place only six
[03:02:32] points away so if they were able to clean up those eliminations they would move
[03:02:35] inside of the bubble as the game does progress one side of the map you can kind
[03:02:39] of see what is on the line for some of these players and they really just
[03:02:43] trying to put it all out there and they leave no regrets left on the table
[03:02:46] Corillian seems to be by himself, not sure where Jarvan's at, possibly eliminated by Qtay, but they break into the same box.
[03:02:52] Qtay almost goes down, but he's able to not only survive, but get the elimination onto Corillian and basically tell him what he really feels.
[03:02:58] Yeah, I was trying to find Corillian on the standings. Definitely is one of those teams on that bubble area.
[03:03:04] They haven't had enough time really focusing on their performances, but either way getting eliminated now in game number 11's and being a massive setback for any team here and now.
[03:03:13] Jumping back to this right here, Peterbot.
[03:03:15] Boy, I don't think we've seen them actually fight Skittles' team at all.
[03:03:18] So Skittles...
[03:03:20] Taught out of position here and into the drop.
[03:03:23] Okay, this is exactly where Peterbot wants to.
[03:03:25] They know they're not going to have teams here, not this early.
[03:03:29] Just like that Skittles rotates out of one problem and into another one.
[03:03:34] That's just a...
[03:03:36] Literally Peterbot and Boyo went from finding Chris and Drew.
[03:03:39] I don't know why they disengaged.
[03:03:41] Christian drew wet one way Peter pop like the other and basically attacked two different players on one team
[03:03:47] Sent them right back to the lobby another heartbreak moment here in game 11
[03:03:51] Basically leaving it all to the 12th and final game for some of these teams have been eliminated early on
[03:03:57] And as you can see 74 players up monster this one looking to move at a little bit of an accelerated fashion than some of the other games
[03:04:03] We've seen so far
[03:04:05] Okay, I did find Carillion and Jargle on the status. They're actually in 13th holding the line with 270
[03:04:14] Points there Jacob now the jump above them is re and Cooper who have a 30
[03:04:19] Point cushion it seems like for 12th, but it is super close from basically that line up and down
[03:04:28] Teams below you probably even some of the teams above just hoping they go down early
[03:04:33] kind of ease the pain, but you can see the big difference here from wrapping cold and some of the other teams wrap it literally buying out the
[03:04:40] Mending machine and then they kind of bring all the heels up towards cold
[03:04:44] So you can kind of watch them kind of leaving scraps essentially for anybody else that tries to rotate through and grab that many machine
[03:04:51] Just jump on board boy. He's like he's getting chased down by a beam
[03:04:55] Now we're near his teammate just yet, but he's trying to use those shockwave to close the distance
[03:04:59] Just look at this points too.
[03:05:02] Overall today, having quite the performance here.
[03:05:06] Obviously after that splash, Victor Real in a fifth place before that,
[03:05:09] they've propelled themselves right into a potential land qualification spot.
[03:05:15] Now they still have a little bit of a ways to go, but if they can continue to play well,
[03:05:18] they will be up towards the top here in the next two rounds.
[03:05:22] Bizzards and braids slipping down the totem pole.
[03:05:26] They were holding at their strong were so long.
[03:05:29] These last few rounds have just been a bit tougher.
[03:05:32] Yeah, they have a bit of a cushion almost almost a hundred point cushion going into the last two games, but most leaves you scratch your head.
[03:05:40] They vastly changed up their strategy from day one going into day two where they were typically set up here for a long time.
[03:05:47] Just getting little tags that adds up to a good amount of surge by the time they rotated towards those moving zones.
[03:05:52] It made it look more free to do what they want.
[03:05:56] more and more teams rotating over even to close the day out yesterday lurking on them getting those
[03:06:01] limitations forcing in the back of visual the braids mind different things to go out they're
[03:06:06] going to go ahead and get that drop early on just at the edge of zone and this could be a blessing
[03:06:10] here with the zone moving towards the north they're already set up on one of these mountains
[03:06:14] and every team south of that line has to rotate either through visuals and braids or to the left
[03:06:19] or the right and this is definitely the better spot to be in and you know this is arguably the
[03:06:23] the best spot to have a monster surge face but they seem to have gone to keeping
[03:06:28] more of a low profile so trying to mix things up and if I had to guess teams
[03:06:34] just changed their rotation strategy right maybe that's why I disagree to
[03:06:39] have it a bit of a harder time whereas yesterday while everyone was caught up
[03:06:42] guard just that worked a little better but to beat about for you they're fighting
[03:06:46] for points here it's this good way towards obviously their domain you're
[03:06:50] They're doing a good job.
[03:06:52] Peterbot's using a couple of resources that are around.
[03:06:55] Taking that spicy fish, getting a little bit of a movement boost
[03:06:58] that can help him try to break into some of these boxes
[03:07:01] to pressure out musk from two different angles.
[03:07:03] One shot can connect from oil.
[03:07:05] Peterbot's still holding it down,
[03:07:06] leading some of those Thunderbirds shot through,
[03:07:09] getting him down to just HP.
[03:07:11] You don't hear, yeah, it might only be a one-tick,
[03:07:13] but it's going to increase the worry, poor musk.
[03:07:15] Liquid tries to go up and make a play onto beer bot,
[03:07:18] but he gets cut short as well.
[03:07:20] He has no choice but to try and disengage.
[03:07:22] He basically gave up any hope of him and his duo
[03:07:25] either taking down Peterbot or surviving.
[03:07:27] So he moves towards the north,
[03:07:28] saying, hey, if you're gonna live at him,
[03:07:30] I probably already have the goal.
[03:07:31] Let's just start working on Plan B.
[03:07:34] Yeah, look at that.
[03:07:34] And little did they know that he actually
[03:07:36] fully dipped on his teammate.
[03:07:37] So he could have stuck around and finished it,
[03:07:40] but not worth the risk.
[03:07:42] Really showing you too that, like,
[03:07:44] Peterbot and Foyle are really trying
[03:07:45] to play for an end game right now.
[03:07:46] They know that the points will come, we just got to keep winning.
[03:07:54] Muzz and Speaks, you know, Muzz, at least, you know, in the last major three in trios,
[03:08:00] qualifying in the last game of the day to make it to Global's much better position.
[03:08:06] Seventh place, 430 points on the leaderboard, just need to be able to close it out strong
[03:08:10] in the last two games. Listen and Alo in the mix as well, just trying to float
[03:08:15] Above one of these teams, they're going to be in 23rd place, 214 points.
[03:08:20] I want to say roughly like 56 points away from getting inside of that bubble.
[03:08:24] That's definitely going to help in 10-fold. Raven does go down.
[03:08:27] Although I'm already trying to shockwave over,
[03:08:29] CDC realizing the shockwaves are coming in, he's going to try to disengage himself.
[03:08:33] Can't be the hero in this situation that started so fast.
[03:08:37] Unfortunately, a turn of events here for CDC and Raven.
[03:08:40] They find themselves at the bottom of the standings here.
[03:08:42] But hey, all of this is experience gathered and effort learned.
[03:08:49] So, Hager's there finding G-monster in the feed.
[03:08:51] So, Hager's continuing to do what he needs to earn himself some points.
[03:08:54] He's continuing to fight his way back into first.
[03:08:58] It's neck and neck up at the top.
[03:08:59] No teams can make a mistake now.
[03:09:01] If you're acorn and bolts, you're going to need to have those big game wins as well.
[03:09:06] Otherwise, the dream is out.
[03:09:08] Yeah, which is surprising to start this day. We're talking about phenomenal play from bold solo impact
[03:09:16] Him and acorns ability to remain consistent in each and every one of these games
[03:09:22] It's just something went wrong today
[03:09:25] No compared to yesterday
[03:09:26] They had a 32nd place in 19
[03:09:28] They didn't make up for it a moment with a third place with five eliminations
[03:09:32] But now that 98 points away from first place two games left
[03:09:35] They almost have a little bit of control over their destiny.
[03:09:40] They really got to hope for Kurt Beno, H, Ritual, Holden, Rapid,
[03:09:43] whole slew of players to have a much worse performance than they've had so far,
[03:09:48] even on average.
[03:09:49] H is a Ritual rotating back on over towards Sandy Strip,
[03:09:52] another team uncontested drop.
[03:09:54] They really have conditioned a good portion of this lobby
[03:09:56] to stay away from this Mending Machine.
[03:09:59] You know, and I'm just thinking, Javi and Aminish actually jumped up
[03:10:02] a placing point last game as well.
[03:10:04] Their average placement so far in the tournament is 8.6, the best of all the teams right now inside of the top 5.
[03:10:14] That is a pretty impressive stat, just kind of taking a surface glance at it right now.
[03:10:20] Everyone else though, clearly though, has way more elums, that's why they have the...
[03:10:25] ...high of points overall.
[03:10:27] But still, Javi had been explaining exceptional right now, so great time to just start checking in with them.
[03:10:32] What's going well with them?
[03:10:34] Why can they keep making it work here?
[03:10:37] It seems like a project fortress is treating them very well.
[03:10:40] And honestly, an unlikely duo coming into this one,
[03:10:43] you know, at one point it was Riet and Javi
[03:10:45] and Minish with a whole other player.
[03:10:47] And Riet goes ahead and says, hey, Cooper, you want a duo?
[03:10:50] We're not playing as well as we hoped.
[03:10:52] So he goes a separate way.
[03:10:54] Javi and Minish, they formed just in time
[03:10:56] to have a phenomenal performance in play-ins.
[03:10:59] They followed up with a good performance in heats
[03:11:01] and already continuing that trend here
[03:11:03] with a top five position on the leaderboard.
[03:11:05] 75 points away, but could be both those players
[03:11:08] first FNCS championship.
[03:11:10] But again, when you look at the leaderboard on the right,
[03:11:13] it's just so close, not only for the actual first place
[03:11:16] on the leaderboard, but for the top 13 overall,
[03:11:19] where you see 13 and 14 plays
[03:11:21] have already been eliminated out of this lobby.
[03:11:24] And honestly, you don't want to look back
[03:11:26] at this moment, monster saying,
[03:11:27] hey, I had the chance and I wasted it.
[03:11:30] Yeah most definitely and I'm actually looking at the standings just for like
[03:11:33] Javi and the Minish's you know placement performances. They actually have two
[03:11:36] second places in there and last game obviously pulled that third so they have
[03:11:40] come close to a win multiple times now. We will be keeping eye on them.
[03:11:46] But with Cold and Rapid here from the Dark Dominion now to this new draw
[03:11:49] spot so far it seems to be playing off relatively well. They have 400 damage
[03:11:54] of all plenty of material and they actually pulls them.
[03:11:57] Okay, this is really good for cold and raptor here.
[03:12:01] They actually need a little bit of luck
[03:12:03] and it seems like it's playing off.
[03:12:05] Yeah, I'm thinking in my head,
[03:12:06] the only thing they're missing is a little bit of high ground,
[03:12:08] but it's cold and rapid.
[03:12:09] When do they ever?
[03:12:10] On the way on the high ground, exactly.
[03:12:12] They get what they want.
[03:12:13] Just like Peter bot employee over.
[03:12:14] And that was pressure throughout the entirety of this game.
[03:12:17] They're almost a thousand above the threshold,
[03:12:19] but you wouldn't think that to be true.
[03:12:20] They only have one elimination so far.
[03:12:23] So they're going for it.
[03:12:24] They're going for these high-eathed games
[03:12:26] just to not finding any success on the actual eliminations
[03:12:28] up until then, where they take down both Jack and N-Pen
[03:12:31] before they got to rotate to the next zone.
[03:12:33] So that's going to replenish a lot of their builds
[03:12:35] that can pick and choose what resource they
[03:12:37] want to take with them before they finally
[03:12:38] make their way on out.
[03:12:40] This is crazy, because they're really
[03:12:41] playing to their strengths right now.
[03:12:43] It was a full-breed miss, so they're
[03:12:44] just going to be shockwaving their way all the way
[03:12:46] into the zone.
[03:12:47] Shoot, they might even end up on some high ground
[03:12:49] here shortly.
[03:12:49] They have to mess the play for it.
[03:12:50] Peterbock gets caught in a spider's trap right there.
[03:12:53] gotta be careful on the other side as we were watching that though we missed what
[03:12:58] was happening over here. Vlex buddy you're looking the wrong way. Venom knocks him
[03:13:03] upside the head and then they get the follow-up in the finish.
[03:13:13] Equipment bolts quickly rotating in towards the zone and they're using that
[03:13:17] as a quick second here to look back seeing anybody that still has the
[03:13:21] a journey to make like Dole's air and Eshu outside of the zone.
[03:13:24] They're just pressuring it.
[03:13:26] Trying to make it harder for them to not only make it in,
[03:13:28] but even if they do, they're not going
[03:13:30] to make it in healthy.
[03:13:30] Another elimination towards the side.
[03:13:32] Slepsi and Wager is able to pick up one.
[03:13:34] They push paper and Rezzi back as Curve.
[03:13:36] Looking like he's trying to approach in that direction.
[03:13:38] You see Venno peeking through the cone,
[03:13:40] gathering vital information for their team.
[03:13:42] You see Venno and Curve are the only team
[03:13:44] who haven't been hit by any surge so far in each
[03:13:47] and every one of these games.
[03:13:49] They're just going to show that that early game presence by Curve and Venno is paying off 10-4.
[03:13:53] It's just been the most aggressive thing, again, been clearly the most successful in the early game.
[03:13:59] This game's a little bit slower for them in the early game, but their mid game is just taking off right now.
[03:14:05] They are in another prime situation to play for high ground here in the end game, and we know what they do well.
[03:14:11] They play it late. They let people get their first, you know, little taste of hype,
[03:14:17] And then they come in and put their influence to the test wrapping in cold though much different strategy for them
[03:14:23] We've seen them play low ground time in time out front side
[03:14:27] Inside you name it. They'll be there
[03:14:30] From the roadtaste though. This is still a difficult terrain to play with right they have to go up and over this mountain
[03:14:36] Peterbot and for you now completely positioned up and then you have clicks and games already based on the opposite side
[03:14:42] Some of the time we've seen teams take it early.
[03:14:47] Clint's and A's were able to hold it early on in day number one,
[03:14:50] but since then, honestly, it's been changing hands.
[03:14:53] They're reaching out to one of these zones here in the endgame.
[03:14:55] They position themselves above Peterbott and Boyle.
[03:14:57] Half the bloodshed read to stagger themselves back.
[03:14:59] Look down, rain fire from above.
[03:15:01] Not necessarily getting eliminations here,
[03:15:04] but they are just perting every single player they connect shots with
[03:15:07] as they rotate on over.
[03:15:09] Curve and Venom position down below.
[03:15:10] Hopkins and Minish towards the side.
[03:15:12] clicks any Higgs seen in previous games them try to go ahead and claim high ground as their own
[03:15:16] They don't necessarily have that luxury up in the cell now
[03:15:18] They pull so in their favor and they immediately build up saying hey if you want high ground come take it from us
[03:15:25] That's crazy, and that's so different than anything else. We've seen from clicks makes they've been building single straight
[03:15:32] Standing towers, but now Higgs is putting up this huge flex right now with a monster's face that I'll incur here
[03:15:38] have no issues fighting their way to the new zone though.
[03:15:42] That was almost a fresh Elim.
[03:15:43] Oh, actually it is an Elim.
[03:15:45] As things catch up there, Venom finds another one.
[03:15:49] He was already in the lead, Jacob,
[03:15:51] with the most amount of Elims,
[03:15:52] and he's continued to do so,
[03:15:53] but look at this, not looking good.
[03:15:55] Boyo's down, Peterbot comes through the clutch up.
[03:15:57] He finds one, can he get the follow-up here?
[03:15:59] He's doing so much damage,
[03:16:01] but he can't quite get the finish, but it's okay.
[03:16:04] He's bought Boyo enough time to get saved here.
[03:16:07] Yeah, and they have the splashes and they're gonna have NC start to use those along the pizza, but the zone is moving in.
[03:16:12] Ten takes of damage, instantly pop with a big pop.
[03:16:15] Really trust in Peterbott, get those splashes out in time.
[03:16:18] You have to be careful though, right above them, clicks and hicks.
[03:16:20] Even in front of the zone, we got Curve and Beto.
[03:16:23] We got Muzz and Spinks as well.
[03:16:25] Honestly, the storylines couldn't do you be any better here in this game,
[03:16:29] because you got first place right now, Curve and Beto.
[03:16:31] Could be the first time a player has won in both EU and NA.
[03:16:36] two of the hard old regions, and they find a big elimination on the Peterbott,
[03:16:41] taking one of the hardest teams out of their path to the finish line.
[03:16:44] Folio's down and out.
[03:16:46] The full elim comes through right there, Jacob, and he gets the finish as well.
[03:16:53] And just like that, they're up in the lead.
[03:16:55] Now Klicks and Higgs though, on high ground, doing exactly what they need to do.
[03:16:59] They have solidified the positioning here.
[03:17:02] He's doing a good job of sacrificing a little bit of HP so that way they can go deep into
[03:17:08] the zone, reconnect on that eye ground, it's going over Fort's bridge and Fortress that
[03:17:13] gives him the luxury to look towards the backside of the zone, seeing players late to shockwave
[03:17:16] in.
[03:17:17] But they think it's all smooth sailing, but Curve and Venom wait for these perfect moments.
[03:17:21] They've elevated themselves step by step and they're waiting until they least expect it,
[03:17:25] but Peter Box still going on his rampage, big down onto Dragon trying to figure out
[03:17:28] But Curve and Venom, they're matching in blow for blow.
[03:17:32] Eight elims now.
[03:17:34] Venom is really starting to heat up here.
[03:17:36] And they're not even interested in jumping down for maps.
[03:17:38] Notice that.
[03:17:39] They want to maintain this positioning.
[03:17:40] And they're still trying to time for high ground here
[03:17:43] and try to play for another win.
[03:17:44] Higgs, though, is the only one up top.
[03:17:46] They send Clicks down low.
[03:17:48] Clicks finds Peterbot, finishes him up.
[03:17:50] Sweeps him under the rug.
[03:17:52] And now Venom and Curve.
[03:17:55] Here comes the setup.
[03:17:56] Off they go.
[03:17:57] Curve's got no maps, though.
[03:17:58] They have to concede to go lower and lower here, and this terrain's not helping.
[03:18:03] Look at all these old builds as things are moving back and forth,
[03:18:06] but Venom, Curve, are still neck-to-neck with Clits and Higgs right here.
[03:18:10] Yeah, Curve and Venom, I feel like they know they don't even necessarily need the high ground.
[03:18:13] They don't even necessarily need the win.
[03:18:16] They just need to remain consistent.
[03:18:17] That slows them down a little bit.
[03:18:18] Big Shot is going to land on the Venom.
[03:18:20] Pressure coming from up above.
[03:18:22] Thank gosh that Curve is there to alleviate some of the pressure,
[03:18:25] holding on to the build.
[03:18:26] But if you blink, you might have missed it.
[03:18:27] Higgs has went down.
[03:18:29] Klitz trying to go for the revive.
[03:18:30] Curve and Venom realize nobody else is up there to contest it.
[03:18:34] They use the fizz.
[03:18:35] They use the shock waves.
[03:18:37] They instantly take away the high ground.
[03:18:38] Six teams left monster.
[03:18:40] And everybody at least has to do it by their side
[03:18:42] unless it's cold.
[03:18:44] He goes down.
[03:18:45] Rapid is now left by himself.
[03:18:47] And he has the awareness to the awareness
[03:18:49] that keeps shooting back at them.
[03:18:50] Venom tries to keep the pressure,
[03:18:51] but the shock waves put Klitz and Higgs up on high ground.
[03:18:53] And they know we don't have enough mats
[03:18:55] to hold this one down.
[03:18:56] Hlixin Higgs managed to have just enough HP though
[03:18:59] to go ahead and heal back in this game,
[03:19:00] but then you have Rapid.
[03:19:01] Look at this, just so low surviving right now
[03:19:04] as a player here in the mid-ground right now.
[03:19:08] Trying to evaluate what he wants to do here,
[03:19:10] but he's got pressure coming in
[03:19:12] from potentially Venom and Curve here on the layer.
[03:19:15] Right behind, he comes and he actually finds Curve.
[03:19:18] It's gonna be Muzz who jumps in
[03:19:20] and they get the full finish.
[03:19:21] Yeah, but still, that's no worries to me.
[03:19:23] Fennos is taking his time to heal up.
[03:19:25] Quickly go ahead and spur his outside of the zone still.
[03:19:27] Almost a full chug chug left.
[03:19:29] The Higgs is quickly on the chase.
[03:19:31] Gets a good amount of damage.
[03:19:32] And so the zone does the rest.
[03:19:34] Clicks and Higgs have finally woken up from their slumber.
[03:19:37] From day one to day two, they finally found their form back.
[03:19:41] Five eliminations here.
[03:19:42] But Rapid is still up, trying to close the gap.
[03:19:44] Pin it down onto Sphinx, separates him from Muzz.
[03:19:47] But you see he has no feelings.
[03:19:48] He probably feels in the back of his mind.
[03:19:50] He has to get this elimination.
[03:19:51] But underneath Braids takes it down gets the elimination and move one step closer to purge
[03:19:56] Oh
[03:19:57] Oh, we say talk about the slumber Bolts in the eight corner were down low now
[03:20:01] They're the sleeping Giants starting to wake up here putting their influence in the mix
[03:20:05] But you have a lot more players to worry about Braids and visuals are here to mess around as well
[03:20:08] They also need the refresh to as they're out of material
[03:20:12] So they're gonna be forced into this fight here whether you like it or not and then of course clicks and hicks have to come down
[03:20:17] down and jump in this battle as well.
[03:20:20] Bolts uses the shockwave to go up.
[03:20:21] Someone gets eliminated in the sky.
[03:20:23] It's actually Klitz.
[03:20:24] He couldn't touch down in time.
[03:20:26] And Bolts and Acorn all of a sudden
[03:20:29] now find themselves in a winning position,
[03:20:31] and the shock goes through.
[03:20:33] And just like that, Bolts manages to do it again here.
[03:20:37] Yeah, Bolts and Acorn pop off in the second to last game
[03:20:42] of the day, becoming the second team to win
[03:20:44] two different games this weekend.
[03:20:47] in a leaderboard monster in a world that is so stacked and closed.
[03:20:52] This one is surely going to move them one step closer to contending for
[03:20:56] another FNCS championship.
[03:20:58] Seek one left game to go.
[03:21:00] Let's do it.
[03:21:03] I keep thinking, man, like I've got a handle on it.
[03:21:07] There's like, you know, Zeke just followed the action.
[03:21:09] It's all cool.
[03:21:10] And no, man, we literally just talked about the top five right before this,
[03:21:15] right. And Acorn and Bolts were that sixth place team. They were the team on the outside
[03:21:19] and they said, Zeke, I'm sorry. Did you forget about us? We can now be in the top five. Why
[03:21:24] did you forget about us? And now they are fighting for our love and affection. I cannot
[03:21:28] believe this game 11 with so many Titanic duos all doing the same thing. They can grow.
[03:21:34] We can do it. This is our chance with two games left. We can fight for an axe. Acorn
[03:21:39] and Bolts say, you know what? We'd like to toss her name in the head. Little
[03:21:43] put on the hat. There you go, Zeke. Go ahead. Shuffle it up. I don't know. I don't know. Kelly, I'm losing it. I'm breaking it out.
[03:21:48] I mean, this really was the game for our teams in that six to 10th place spot. Everyone that was in our top five having some issues that they're going down to a solo situation or going down early, you know, unless you're bent out.
[03:22:01] But this acorn and bolts that were just right outside of that edge making sure that they're just playing the low ground. They're playing what they do best. They don't need to be disruptor.
[03:22:09] They don't need to be getting all these eliminations.
[03:22:11] They just need to make it to the endgame right there.
[03:22:13] And Boltz once again going to a solo,
[03:22:15] improving that he is going to make sure
[03:22:17] that him and Acorn stay at the top of our leaderboard.
[03:22:21] So funny. Game 11 now.
[03:22:22] I mean, we're just watching all the chaos kind of unfold on night.
[03:22:25] Oh my gosh, Peter Botts, Shynohoda, Flix and Higgs,
[03:22:27] they go up for it.
[03:22:28] Manu and Curve, they start to get active.
[03:22:30] All the subs happening.
[03:22:31] Elim, Elim, Elim.
[03:22:32] And then we take a look
[03:22:34] where everybody else is at.
[03:22:35] Acorn and Boltz on the low ground.
[03:22:37] the game. They're going to
[03:22:45] have around 100 100 full
[03:22:47] healthy duo. And they finished
[03:22:49] the game just like that as a
[03:22:52] duo. Incredible stuff for them
[03:22:54] to kind of re enter the
[03:22:55] conversation, not in that game
[03:22:57] specifically because they
[03:22:58] didn't even know they were
[03:22:59] alive in that game. All of
[03:23:00] a sudden, it's like, Oh my
[03:23:00] gosh, they're chilling on the
[03:23:02] low ground. But now I can
[03:23:03] only imagine how close they
[03:23:04] are to keep themselves back
[03:23:06] tiny little corner was the difference maker, 574 points.
[03:23:13] Fortnite fan, we have one game left to go.
[03:23:17] We're gonna go to a break, okay?
[03:23:19] I need a moment to breathe, okay?
[03:23:20] I need a moment to breathe.
[03:23:22] When we come back, we start setting up
[03:23:24] because this is a close run, okay?
[03:23:28] Go find some popcorn, find a drink, use the bathroom.
[03:23:31] We'll be right back, okay?
[03:23:31] We'll be right back.
[03:23:33] We'll be right back.
[03:23:34] This is my world, watch me arrive, watch me arrive
[03:24:04] I
[03:25:04] Oh
[03:25:34] I'm gonna sleep.
[03:25:35] Okay.
[03:25:37] Okay.
[03:25:38] Oh my god.
[03:25:39] Oh my god.
[03:25:43] And I don't know how to feel about it.
[03:25:46] You're not used to losing, getting beaten.
[03:25:49] Not like this.
[03:25:50] These players are just so locked in.
[03:25:53] Could it be the milk?
[03:25:56] Mm-hmm.
[03:25:57] I
[03:26:11] Stay there
[03:26:27] Okay, all right. I'm fine. I'm calm. He's not. He's not everything. Everything is O. A case
[03:26:45] you're joining us. Welcome. This is the FNCS Grand Finals. No big deal. One of the most
[03:26:50] important moments in the FNCS. We have one game left to go. You know, Hey, crazy stuff
[03:26:55] happened in that last game. Acorn and Bolt's got themselves a victory on that last game.
[03:26:59] That's crazy, right? Yeah. Why don't we go and take a look at the standings? Because
[03:27:03] it gets crazier because right now, Curve and Venno are in harsh place with 659 points.
[03:27:13] Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[03:27:15] Kelly!
[03:27:16] They have 78 eliminations, more than a single
[03:27:21] bite of acorn and bolts.
[03:27:24] Venom and Curve have showed today what they do best.
[03:27:30] Those early eliminations going into mid-game,
[03:27:32] making sure that they don't have to worry about storm surge,
[03:27:35] and then controlling the mid-ground,
[03:27:37] either chopping people from above
[03:27:38] or eliminating people down below.
[03:27:40] They do it time and time again.
[03:27:43] And you know what, maybe day one wasn't third day,
[03:27:45] but it's better late than never.
[03:27:47] Then showing everyone why he is not just moving states
[03:27:51] like we see a lot of these players do in North America.
[03:27:53] No, he's moving countries to claim this as his own.
[03:27:57] Manifesting destiny, it's all about America's history.
[03:28:00] And he's showing why Brandon did it first over here.
[03:28:03] Please put an absolute huge exclamation point
[03:28:07] on the fact that these guys were in 10th place
[03:28:12] coming into the day.
[03:28:13] We have played five games and they now have an 85 point lead over second place.
[03:28:21] I don't know what kind of crazy stat or how this is going to look on paper,
[03:28:26] but this has to be one of the most incredible day two performances, day two
[03:28:30] comebacks, whatever you want to call it, that we have ever seen.
[03:28:34] I mean, 78, how in the what's even going on?
[03:28:38] These guys, every single time we watch the game, it's just just a highlight
[03:28:42] real for them, dude, you know, we were talking about it during the break there.
[03:28:47] And it's like, at a certain point, this is going to become mathematically impossible,
[03:28:50] right? Like, at a certain point, we've tuned into them at like the early stages of the
[03:28:55] game and they have four or five or, you know, even three elims, right?
[03:29:00] They just have to do what they've been doing all all day long, and they will walk
[03:29:05] away as the winners. Now, we only have a minute and a half.
[03:29:08] I really quickly just want to flip on over the top 13, right?
[03:29:12] Yes, we are absolutely playing for a first place and an Axe of Champions, right?
[03:29:16] But we also can't forget Top 13 or right now playing for their spot at the Summit.
[03:29:21] 298. Do not forget that number. Going into this game, 298 is the current cutoff.
[03:29:28] Seek and Taki are holding that.
[03:29:30] But guys, we have one game left to go.
[03:29:32] Let's like even just look at Scare and Osid, right?
[03:29:34] We saw Scare and Osid pop off earlier on, like not even just a few weeks ago.
[03:29:39] They could try and play for that spot.
[03:29:42] Look at Jardu as well, right?
[03:29:44] Even Zytho, we saw them get a victory out.
[03:29:47] I mean, Kelly, there's so many players.
[03:29:49] This goes down to 20, Kelly, it's possible.
[03:29:52] It's literally like 42 points that separate 13
[03:29:54] from 20th place, and I'm guessing it's even closer
[03:29:56] down below, so we could probably get to page three,
[03:29:58] see teams in our 30th place spot.
[03:30:00] And if they have that pop-off game,
[03:30:02] and we know that there is a possibility
[03:30:03] of some teams just kind of sliding by,
[03:30:05] making it into the top five,
[03:30:06] and just grabbing a handful of eliminations.
[03:30:08] That right there is 90 points and could be the difference maker of going to Düsseldorf or not vivid
[03:30:14] This is what NAC is all about. We have so many big names in the top all the teams that we have been talking about are finally showing up right now
[03:30:22] And this is the final game
[03:30:24] It's crazy. I mean, there's so much stuff going on in that leaderboard so much we could break down
[03:30:30] But there's only one way to find out who's gonna walk away not only champions
[03:30:35] who's gonna get second who's gonna get third who's gonna qualify to the land event and that's just to play the game Z
[03:30:42] vivid the last game of the day right now or knife and lock in every single thing that these players do
[03:30:51] Whether they get an elim or get eliminated. This is it the last game to make the impossible
[03:31:00] possible
[03:31:01] For the last time today MDF Jacob PR. Take it away
[03:31:05] I've never seen so many story lines go down the lead of board so far curve to win his first FNCS champion
[03:31:15] Beno could win two titles on the hardest regions with EU and NA and at his fourth overall a quarter
[03:31:21] win another major one both could be a West and Central champion cold back on top rapid wins
[03:31:27] this first I could keep going all day but it just goes to show the stories are endless today
[03:31:32] This is what makes NA one of the best regions to watch.
[03:31:35] It's what is really the pinnacle of what Fortnite's all about.
[03:31:39] And we, of course, have the privilege of calling all the action here.
[03:31:43] You've been watching it go down.
[03:31:44] Let's see if luck is on their side.
[03:31:52] Coming into a game 12,
[03:31:54] but honestly, the most recent FNCS is almost a year now.
[03:31:58] People always have that same conversation.
[03:32:01] who will land on first place.
[03:32:05] And right now, it looks like we have
[03:32:07] an interesting situation breaking down.
[03:32:10] Peter Bottenpoil looked to contest Kurt and Venno,
[03:32:13] but Kurt and Venno already see that one coming.
[03:32:16] They leave, they go to Squibbley Shores,
[03:32:18] and they get another early game elimination.
[03:32:22] Zeke said it, monster.
[03:32:23] Eventually this will become mathematically impossible
[03:32:26] for anybody outside of Kurt and Venno to win.
[03:32:29] I called it.
[03:32:30] I already knew this was gonna happen.
[03:32:31] I knew that Venom was someone that Peterbot and Foyo,
[03:32:35] like respect at such a competitive level,
[03:32:38] they would be willing to contest them.
[03:32:40] They would be willing to try to throw their tournament off.
[03:32:42] But Venom is one of the smartest players we've ever had
[03:32:46] and he will see it from a mile away.
[03:32:48] So even now, them just mix it up.
[03:32:50] It's just a safety strap.
[03:32:51] It's to say, hey, who wants to battle us?
[03:32:54] Come bring it.
[03:32:55] We're not afraid to mix it up.
[03:32:56] We're not as afraid to stay dynamic
[03:32:58] here in the last game.
[03:33:00] like Peter Bottenpoil going into this game though.
[03:33:02] With that elimination, of course, with Beno and Curve,
[03:33:04] they are 98 points away from an FNCS champion.
[03:33:08] And that's only playing catch up to Curve and Beno.
[03:33:10] They still got so many big names in their path
[03:33:13] as they're looking to take it.
[03:33:15] They probably noticed that Curve and Beno weren't
[03:33:17] at the battle would.
[03:33:18] They immediately turn around.
[03:33:19] They got to handle what's going on.
[03:33:20] Maybe they think this is them, but it's Raven and CDZ,
[03:33:23] a whole other team that gives a huge moment
[03:33:25] here for Curve and Beno to look on over, possibly engage,
[03:33:28] possibly disengaged, the choice is definitely theirs, especially since they've taken it a little bit longer than we told.
[03:33:33] Peterbot lands a shot, the Boyle goes down, Raven is escaping back inside the building, that puts Peterbot at 1v2!
[03:33:40] Oh no, and the finish comes through as well, and that is not the way you want this to start going down right here.
[03:33:46] If you're Peterbot or Boyle, you need so many more points, you cannot afford to be this far behind.
[03:33:51] Peterbot though, in a world of trouble here, playing at enemy builds, he's gonna have to back off, shot through the wall as well.
[03:33:57] This is, of course, Raven and CDZ's one chance to go on and pounce on them.
[03:34:01] Peterbot's back in the next year, fully healthy.
[03:34:04] This is an important shot here, and things are looking pretty south now for him.
[03:34:10] His biggest thing here was Peterbot was able to get the materials from Boyle,
[03:34:13] but Raven lands another monster shot, getting the shield gone out from Peterbot.
[03:34:19] He has the mini still there, but he's running out of builds.
[03:34:21] CDZ and Raven really don't have no materials down below,
[03:34:24] so they can't not fight upwards, so he has to drop down low.
[03:34:26] Peterbot again trying to take the fight to them as CDZ get dropped to this less than 50 HP
[03:34:32] But a third party's coming in monster a third party from the east from Dark Dominion looks to interrupt this play
[03:34:39] I'm sad wouldn't be surprised
[03:34:42] Give it a second here Raven CDD even a little too passive now
[03:34:46] They had an opportunity to finish up this Elon they back off and said rapid and cold show up and they are cleaning up house
[03:34:54] faster than ever they find two quick elins even chewing the down body just to
[03:35:00] show and flex that they're here as well and look at this they are hunting for
[03:35:06] poor Peterbot who's now hiding inside of the factory just unprecedented type of
[03:35:14] endgame right now you never see this level of clash go down here definitely
[03:35:19] not for the likes of Peterbot he's normally the one hunting now he's
[03:35:22] being hunts. And they probably saw on the beat that Pollo did go down so they
[03:35:26] immediately left their drop spot to be line gone over. This is a team that's on
[03:35:30] their tail cold is in third place you see it there Peter Botten Pollo in fourth
[03:35:35] place and really was asking the question is anybody gonna be brave
[03:35:39] enough with the point gap so close you would really risk your spot on the
[03:35:43] leaderboard if you're looking to go on the chase but then no curve they not
[03:35:47] only left their drop spot at battlewood they left their second drop
[03:35:51] fought at squizzly and they're already going on the hunt for these elims they
[03:35:55] don't want to win after game 12 monster they want to win during this game so they
[03:36:00] could take a much needed victory lap well this is crazy you know if you just
[03:36:04] allow them to continue to get elims like this which they have done extremely
[03:36:09] successfully way more successfully than any other team here on the weekend they
[03:36:13] will be too far ahead we would be asking so much of cold and rapid we're
[03:36:19] talking upwards of 10, 15 Elans and a Victor Royale.
[03:36:25] Give this a second now.
[03:36:25] So from one team wipe onto another now,
[03:36:29] dozen Escher cannot fight.
[03:36:31] He fired up Venno in curve here.
[03:36:34] Meanwhile, curve has been live this entire time,
[03:36:36] by the way.
[03:36:37] Do not sleep on him.
[03:36:39] This is again, nothing like we've ever seen before.
[03:36:42] Yeah, especially for mom and Peterbot's dinner.
[03:36:45] Imagine it.
[03:36:46] He is eliminated by cold and rapid Peter bot goes down in fourth place
[03:36:51] Tied with aegers and bridge will only get worse from there
[03:36:54] But then oh takes a big shot, but he is not backing down
[03:36:57] Issue gets eliminated the siphon comes in much needed build get replenished by Beno
[03:37:02] Curve not slow it down trying to alleviate the pressure lands a huge shot on the socier and the elimination one as well
[03:37:09] Five elims monster five eliminations here
[03:37:13] This is domination at its finest in major one on NA central
[03:37:19] Looking so good for them right now wrapping cold right now on the hunt to just trying to figure out what is going on here
[03:37:26] They're already at three elims as well. So rapid and colder playing
[03:37:30] So aggressive to you gotta give them credit right here. We know what the what the task at hand is
[03:37:36] We know what needs to be done and it what it really does feel like the impossible
[03:37:41] It's asking them to pop off right now and go into the upper double digit elimination territory
[03:37:48] And potentially win the game because for them it's about the championship victory
[03:37:55] Brilliant and jar who don't play me a little bit of storm fight right here keeping us busy right now
[03:38:00] now. Essentially two sides of the coin. We're watching the battle for first. Oh, down, down.
[03:38:09] Benno is down, but Curve saved the day. Oh my gosh. Are we witnessing? This is a montage
[03:38:16] performance. I don't want to call it too soon, Monster, but this is beginning to look
[03:38:21] like a victory lap for Curve and Benno. The writing's on the wall. You just have
[03:38:26] have to read it brother. All right. It's when whenever you're ready, just let us know they're
[03:38:30] at six eliminations now. Aquin and bolts, a little cheeky here though, trying to see if
[03:38:36] anyone's willing to kind of sneak on by to find a couple of elims right now. And let's
[03:38:41] just paint the bigger picture. Obviously, Kurt and Venno off to the races right now,
[03:38:46] a 100 point gap separating them from the rest of the competition. And then you
[03:38:51] You have so many other teams trying to fight for a land spot to the global summit.
[03:38:56] It's right around the corner.
[03:38:58] Who is going to be in Germany?
[03:39:00] Only the top 13 will make it.
[03:39:03] As it stands right now, in order for cold and rapid to win the tournament, this is
[03:39:09] as it stands right now, they need Curve and Venom to go down outside of top 25 with
[03:39:14] not a single elimination more.
[03:39:17] And then they need to win the game with 10 or so eliminations in the double digit.
[03:39:22] So it's going to show how much of a runaway this is turning into.
[03:39:26] And that's where you see a lot of lurks going down because it's not only the battle for
[03:39:29] first.
[03:39:30] If you look at Tyler and Chance here, 391 points on the overall leaderboard.
[03:39:34] They're in 10th place.
[03:39:36] If they go down early, they can kiss their summit spot.
[03:39:39] Goodbye.
[03:39:40] Definitely be really close for them.
[03:39:43] They'll be holding on to a thin margin.
[03:39:47] Taki and Zeke on the other side.
[03:39:50] Same can be said for these teams here.
[03:39:53] 2-8 points in the number 20.
[03:39:55] So you are seeing moments of greatness here coming out.
[03:39:59] Some of our competitors here on the two-day format.
[03:40:03] It's not going to make a quick clean glide here.
[03:40:10] They're just trying to dodge all the noise down below, having to worry about surge, having
[03:40:15] to worry about others rotating in your path.
[03:40:17] It would be a good plan for a seat in Kentucky here, 13th place, they just need to hold
[03:40:22] on to their current spot on that lead aboard.
[03:40:24] Looks nice though, a moment ago did see them in the feed, they picked up at least
[03:40:27] one more elimination here, they too have a little bit more of a cushion than some
[03:40:31] some of the other counter parts, 430 points in ninth place.
[03:40:35] They just need to make sure to finish strong.
[03:40:37] It's more of a confidence thing than anything else.
[03:40:39] I feel like at this point.
[03:40:42] Yeah, gotta find their move, but you made it this far.
[03:40:46] They had such exceptional moments of greatness,
[03:40:51] but in the end, everything has to come together.
[03:40:54] And then how do you account for having the curves,
[03:40:57] the cold, those types of performances that we've seen.
[03:41:03] Stuffed ass, all things have to come together.
[03:41:05] Cooper and Rito, they're still fighting
[03:41:07] for their qualification seats.
[03:41:10] Not fully safe just yet, not, that's how I feel.
[03:41:13] Let's take a look at the standings here.
[03:41:16] This is gonna put them at 12th place there, Jacob.
[03:41:18] So close.
[03:41:20] Now let's say they have a 22 point gap from 13th,
[03:41:23] which is actually the line.
[03:41:25] And then about a 44 or so fun gap between them and falling outside of the bubble, which
[03:41:30] means anything could be possible if they go down, let's just say, 15th place and anybody
[03:41:34] else kind of is able to secure a top eight or better.
[03:41:38] They can certainly overtake him on the leaderboard, but definitely so many different possibilities
[03:41:43] here as the tournament continues on.
[03:41:45] Brett's been here, a team that started inside of the bubble on the day, shortly fell
[03:41:50] out of it and is trying to work their way back.
[03:41:52] Even King another similarity here 17th place coming into this game, which means those eliminations eight more points
[03:41:59] He's definitely gonna boost them up the leaderboard just a little bit
[03:42:02] I think that almost puts them on the line outside of that bubble around 14th place with those evens
[03:42:07] Yeah, leaving King the last two games in place really well actually making it to end game
[03:42:12] And this time they actually have four total elim so just a monstrous performance so far definitely stepping up
[03:42:18] and doing what they need to when it matters most.
[03:42:21] Anolph and Sol kind of see what's going on here.
[03:42:23] They end up backing off.
[03:42:25] You have Ocin and Scare, another team that's very much
[03:42:28] in the conversation right now.
[03:42:30] Looking at how they've played, you
[03:42:32] have a fourth place as far as their best performance so far
[03:42:35] in last game, roughly 15th for them with a single e-room.
[03:42:40] So not too bad, definitely earning some placement points.
[03:42:42] If they can queue that up, you
[03:42:44] might just be doing enough to jump up and in this is going to be an interesting
[03:42:52] lobby slash end game because if you look at like day one we were getting what
[03:42:57] fourth fourth zone surge sometimes even earlier because I'll stack the lobby is
[03:43:02] to start the day we were getting big zone maybe six zone search there's only
[03:43:05] 60 players up there's only three teams left in this lobby right now in the
[03:43:10] fourth zone so it's rather thinned out moving at a much more accelerated
[03:43:14] pace. So you have to be careful on some of these rotations. So instead of being able to
[03:43:19] rotate stacks with a bunch of other teams, hoping they choose them instead of you. Now some of these
[03:43:23] rotations would be a little bit more bare with you and maybe one or two other teams being the
[03:43:27] only one rotating in that direction. I mean, when you have cold, rapid acorn bolts,
[03:43:32] Irvin van El looking for Elins, right? Trying to either push the gap, close the gap. Like
[03:43:38] this is what happens. The lobby will tend to thin out and then everyone else of course
[03:43:42] trying to fight for their qualification spot.
[03:43:46] Look at this, the bento curve inside the storm right now.
[03:43:49] They surely know they've been enough, right?
[03:43:52] So now it's just time to chill out, hang out,
[03:43:54] enjoy the storm for a little bit.
[03:43:58] Here on the beach, they have no reason
[03:44:00] to really put themselves in any danger here.
[03:44:04] I'm done at all, especially with the zone moving on
[03:44:06] over towards the south.
[03:44:07] They know they can essentially ride the shoreline,
[03:44:10] whether they try to make a little shortcut
[03:44:11] and go on top of the mountains.
[03:44:13] They can go all the way towards the south.
[03:44:15] They do got one zone though,
[03:44:16] that they really have to worry about.
[03:44:18] So going from zone four to zone five,
[03:44:19] it moves from a one tick of damage
[03:44:21] into two from zone five to zone six.
[03:44:23] It moves from a five or two tick damage into a five.
[03:44:27] So even though they do have a lot of time on their side,
[03:44:29] they don't want to use all their resources
[03:44:32] just getting into zones.
[03:44:33] So you can kind of see on the map there
[03:44:35] on your left side side,
[03:44:36] that so many other teams are also outside of the zone
[03:44:38] and inside of their path.
[03:44:39] That could certainly cut them off.
[03:44:41] They're definitely been moving really quickly.
[03:44:42] Wagers and Sleeps, you know.
[03:44:43] Look at this, a little bit of a high ground position right here.
[03:44:46] Still, though, no surge warnings in sight.
[03:44:48] This game is moving so fast right now,
[03:44:50] it's a lobby starting to pin out.
[03:44:52] This is a pretty congested north side
[03:44:54] of the Battlewood Boulevard, so kind of a new site for us,
[03:44:59] if you will.
[03:45:00] You're going to have the names that are in play here.
[03:45:01] Jack, N-Pen, Acorn, Boltz on the other side.
[03:45:04] Ocean, Scare, Scare, though, gets fully finished right here.
[03:45:07] One of our bubble teams is out to the hands of Sikantaki.
[03:45:11] This is super important.
[03:45:13] Actually, it was way just from up top.
[03:45:15] It wasn't Seekentalki, but they're
[03:45:17] right next to the collateral damage.
[03:45:23] It's all the same, though.
[03:45:24] Seekentalki, that 13th place scaring Osyd.
[03:45:28] Or I should say just one Osyd by himself.
[03:45:31] It's going to be in 14th place.
[03:45:32] He has a bit up, eight gap, two overcome.
[03:45:35] Anything is possible.
[03:45:36] 29 teams still up.
[03:45:37] So four more go down.
[03:45:39] You'll start to get those placement points.
[03:45:40] and they'll cascade in with each and every team that does go down.
[03:45:44] Contracts going to fall and already one less team to worry about here.
[03:45:47] Fifty-five players left in this game.
[03:45:48] So there's only one solo running around and that's going to be OSID.
[03:45:55] That's what you've got to do, though.
[03:45:56] It's really close yet so far now.
[03:45:58] It's all going to come down to, can you earn your way towards the positioning placement points there?
[03:46:05] Still see Rhee and Cooper up in the distance.
[03:46:07] Pagers and Ritual here, sitting pretty.
[03:46:10] Box open, eyes on Acorn and bolts, little did they know.
[03:46:18] Oh, look at the zone there, full snore.
[03:46:20] Okay, so this is gonna be working against the legs of Kurt and Beno, obviously,
[03:46:24] trapping far from the outskirts.
[03:46:32] Trying to get him.
[03:46:33] Not necessarily damage for Surge, as it does turn on.
[03:46:36] 14 players do need to go down, but you can see where they stand. 400 above the
[03:46:40] damage threshold. This is the right next to the zone monster. They don't have to do
[03:46:43] much movement at all. Just kind of focus on getting that damage. We'll not receive
[03:46:46] in much. 8 corner bolts. Try to land some shots on the end pin and jack in the
[03:46:50] distance. Inadvertently kind of alleviating some of the pressure. End pin and
[03:46:54] jack could have looked to get aggressive. 8 corner bolts. 132 above the
[03:46:58] damage threshold. They sit in third place on the leaderboard. Amir six
[03:47:02] points out of second. Huge chunk of money differential. I'll talk about bolts. If somehow,
[03:47:07] some way, America can happen. Acorn and bolts keeps the major one magic alive. Bolts will become
[03:47:12] another player on that short list of two region champions. I know Venno is certainly in line to
[03:47:19] become another player on that list in two of the hardest regions in Fortnite and NA Central and
[03:47:24] to you. You're definitely looking to make history here and now reincuper, sitting pretty strong
[03:47:33] right now guys. 340 damage above, safe in the zone, plenty to work with right now. That's
[03:47:40] the type of position you want to see reincuper in if they're going to land. See Kentucky
[03:47:45] on the other side, same can be said for them. So I have a couple of shockers to
[03:47:49] work with, not too many to make it toward end game but hey, enough to at least stay
[03:47:53] in the race here for quite some time, so I'm going to come down to a repressor to see Kentucky
[03:47:58] though, see if they can time the rotate.
[03:48:02] Looking at who's positioned up though, Klicks and Hage trying to end this one with a splash.
[03:48:06] Already you can see them poison up for that high ground here, David.
[03:48:09] Yeah, still no matter what's been going good or bad in some of these games, they're
[03:48:15] just continuously one of the teams that, you know, if they make it this far into
[03:48:18] the game, they're going to contest for that high ground being in a beep just
[03:48:22] outside of that bubble,
[03:48:23] sees two teams with a little bit of a scuffle going on.
[03:48:26] They try to land some shots before they go ahead
[03:48:28] and make their way on over.
[03:48:29] They just try to pressure them
[03:48:30] so that way they don't make any beats,
[03:48:32] makes the rotation that much safer.
[03:48:34] That was reading Cooper in that distance,
[03:48:35] they're 193 above the damage threshold.
[03:48:37] Inside of that qualification ring,
[03:48:40] they just need to be able to hold on here,
[03:48:41] especially more so now
[03:48:43] with Avi and Aminus looking to walk them down.
[03:48:45] The lead close announcer earned some position points here
[03:48:47] as well, 28 teams still standing.
[03:48:50] Curve finds Kindling there in the feet.
[03:48:52] Venno super hit up off the rotate here.
[03:48:55] That brings them up to seven eliminations.
[03:48:58] And Curve finding his moment, finding his footing now.
[03:49:02] These last couple of games, I mean, it's been the Venno show,
[03:49:05] but Curve has stepped up what it mattered most,
[03:49:07] even in this game clutching,
[03:49:09] even after even now, finding the follow up
[03:49:12] in the refresh that they need to succeed here.
[03:49:15] Klixson Higgs though,
[03:49:17] just want to do what they can do best.
[03:49:20] Oh, not the best spot to be in for team in second place below the damage threshold, oops.
[03:49:29] Persistence there is able to lead some shots through underneath that cover.
[03:49:32] Get them above the damage threshold, a mere five, but at least it's something they're
[03:49:36] not taking active surge for 25 damage every seven seconds.
[03:49:40] Play compressed and try to put down some pressure, but only for a short moment.
[03:49:43] The bolt's gonna be able to hold off.
[03:49:45] It is a condo getting this information is going to be final, but buzz gets the down on to clicks
[03:49:51] I see it in the feed speaks even gets the cleanup here high ground changing hands
[03:49:56] But it's not buzzing speaks right now. It looks like a beam. It looks like curved and Venom are all fighting for it
[03:50:01] Yeah, if you look at a curve then I'll come in out of nowhere
[03:50:05] Just trying to time that high ground and up they go meanwhile threats and beer still fighting to stay in the tournament
[03:50:10] Life as well Higgs on the left side clutches up a nice little elan for himself
[03:50:14] That's gonna drop team monsters send them back to lobby. You might not have enough to make its land meanwhile
[03:50:19] High drop is solidified by muzz and space for the Higgs gets swiped out this sky
[03:50:25] Hanging up for a little too long a corner bolts fighting for second at this point
[03:50:30] If you can't take down curving Venom now, it'll just be too late
[03:50:35] Yeah, literally. This is the moment right here as soon as they get into the top 15
[03:50:39] I almost think it's a wrap, mathematically impossible.
[03:50:42] Fred drops down low outside of the bubble.
[03:50:44] I'm not sure he secured an up point before finally going down there.
[03:50:48] Muzz and Sphinx up above, Reeth and Cooper sacrifice the HP, staying outside of the zones.
[03:50:53] That way they can fizz, they can shockwave, and hopefully get to the front side,
[03:50:56] but they're just taking so much damage.
[03:50:58] They don't have the heals to get up to full HP and shield anymore.
[03:51:02] Muzz and Sphinx still putting pressure from up top.
[03:51:05] Cooper, Reeth trying to stay alive, seeking toki,
[03:51:07] fighting their way towards a qualification and teams are dropping
[03:51:11] Faster than you can even realize we're already up into the top 17 now
[03:51:15] Curve and Venom are not stopping though another team falls to their hands
[03:51:19] It's a militant hobby a top five performance was valiant for them on the standings coming into this
[03:51:26] But it's Curve and Venom we're fighting for the championship win now and look at his jacob
[03:51:31] I mean they are breaking away
[03:51:33] but they huge leap.
[03:51:34] Yep, and even when it looks like it's bleak,
[03:51:36] Benno gets dropped down to a sliver of HP.
[03:51:38] There's surviving bolts trying to do the same thing.
[03:51:40] Five HP loses Acorn though,
[03:51:42] so we need another big solo clutch performance.
[03:51:44] A hopeless runs into curving Benno all along the way,
[03:51:47] but he's able to slip past them as Curve and Benno
[03:51:50] find another elimination before Benno finally goes down.
[03:51:53] Curve, it's out of builds here,
[03:51:55] trying to use the shock to splash and keep himself as
[03:51:58] full of HP as possible.
[03:51:59] Even finding a biz to utilize here on the side,
[03:52:03] Curve I think has done enough inside of the top 10.
[03:52:06] He's got another elimination onto Cooper.
[03:52:09] Curve might have gone down, but they are your FNCS major one champions.
[03:52:15] They've done it.
[03:52:16] They've done enough to be up at the top, to sit on the throne now.
[03:52:20] Venno is the conqueror of two regions here in Curve.
[03:52:25] His first time ever gets to taste that victory here.
[03:52:29] But for now, Muzz and Spiggs are trying to find their victory lap.
[03:52:34] This is all battle for money. This is all battles for seats at the LAN event where the story will continue.
[03:52:40] Chargu needs this. Chargu needs this game here.
[03:52:43] They were 15th place, two start at all, and now he's the only solo left in this game.
[03:52:48] The two teams that are left alive, Monster, both of them already have their spots secured.
[03:52:53] So this is everything for Chargu by himself.
[03:52:57] tried the shockwave and he gets tagged up left to right down in third place.
[03:53:02] Did he do enough to qualify for Dusseldorf?
[03:53:06] Well, it's going to be really close for now though.
[03:53:08] The action's on.
[03:53:09] Buds here who finds elimination.
[03:53:11] Rich will get tagged up.
[03:53:12] Big Tom Spinks looking for his moment and he does it in the end.
[03:53:17] And that's going to be a nice, wonderful way to end the FNCS here.
[03:53:22] That was more than just a wonderful way.
[03:53:24] Curve and Benno's complete and utter domination of a region.
[03:53:30] Congratulations for Curve, his first FNCS champion.
[03:53:34] We always remember our first and Benno, probably the most important FNCS title,
[03:53:39] dominating a whole other region.
[03:53:42] Muzz and Spinks win that game.
[03:53:43] But Z, Kelly, and Vivid, we have a new champion.
[03:53:48] Let's go, Muzz! Let's go, Muzz! That's right, baby! Let's go!
[03:53:53] Sorry, I had to get that out of the way. Sorry.
[03:53:54] Anyway, first off really quickly, MDF, Jacob, thank you guys so much for the cast.
[03:53:59] Fantastic day, as they called out, it is true, Venno and Curve are your champions and NAC,
[03:54:08] a fourth title for Venno and a first four curve.
[03:54:12] I mean, Kelly, Vivid, you know, Vivid called us out right last game.
[03:54:17] They came into the 10th place.
[03:54:18] I think for most people, you probably look at the standings at that point, you're like,
[03:54:23] Okay, yeah, like maybe they're not probably that big of a board.
[03:54:25] Didn't like it end like top five or something, but Kelly,
[03:54:29] Benno turned it on and there was just game after game
[03:54:33] where he's solo clutching, getting, you know,
[03:54:35] at one point a second plate to 11 elims,
[03:54:38] a second plate to like seven elims,
[03:54:40] he's just firing on all cylinders on,
[03:54:42] and no one can stop him, no one.
[03:54:44] And on the back of this carry right now,
[03:54:48] now we're looking at Benno and Curve,
[03:54:52] at the NCS Champions.
[03:54:54] I mean, you're saying no one can stop them,
[03:54:57] but we saw at the start of this game
[03:54:59] that a few players did try to stop the run.
[03:55:01] They tried.
[03:55:02] They tried, and Venno, they tried, but they failed.
[03:55:04] Because Curve and Venno were prepared.
[03:55:06] They were aware.
[03:55:07] Because Venno, he's not just an incredible fragger.
[03:55:09] He's also incredibly smart and aware
[03:55:11] when it comes to Fortnite,
[03:55:12] when it comes to the mindset of other pro players,
[03:55:15] he has them downloaded.
[03:55:17] And so he knows what these players are going to do,
[03:55:19] and he knows exactly how to respond
[03:55:21] how to respond to it. Curve and Venno showing everyone that they deserve this spot. They deserve
[03:55:27] first place and honestly just watching them climb up the leaderboard not necessarily through
[03:55:33] placements of it, but to get Elam after Elam to get so many. I honestly don't even know where
[03:55:39] they are at the end of the day. I'm excited to see our leaderboard. Socials are going crazy.
[03:55:43] Talking about, oh my gosh, Venno has entered a second prime, his third prime, his fourth
[03:55:47] I mean whatever you want to call it the guy is absolutely popping off and I couldn't agree more
[03:55:53] I once regarded Venom as literally the best player in the world and so did a lot of people right?
[03:55:58] This is back at like chapter 3 chapter 4 around that era where I remember VataVue in this guy and being like oh my gosh
[03:56:04] Everything he does is just so perfect and this I don't know what he did between day one and day two
[03:56:10] I don't know how good of sleep that he got
[03:56:13] not overnight, but I got to
[03:56:17] like that. Venom once again
[03:56:21] Venom curve was right there
[03:56:23] statistically speaking, always
[03:56:28] day together just stopped
[03:56:35] I'm sorry, I was just going
[03:56:36] to say that it's crazy to
[03:56:37] weeks ago. This would have
[03:56:37] been a very different stori
[03:56:37] this would have been a very different story because it was going to be Vino and cold for a while and it wasn't until cold
[03:56:42] and they're playing with a rapid that Vino ended up picking curve. So the fact that that is how this came to fruition and then they end up winning the major is just so amazing to me.
[03:56:50] Yeah, I mean, if you're if you're cold, you're thinking, did I make a mistake? Did I make a mistake? But you know what? It is what it is. We were talking with Lev and Lev was saying, you know, man, I'm so happy for Vino, you know, for a moment he
[03:57:03] forgot who he was, but today, today he remembers. Congratulations, Beno and curve FNCS champions.
[03:57:11] We can take a look at those standings because man, they just put on an absolute clinic. Let's
[03:57:17] look at this 727 points ahead of ages and ritual. Man, you know, again, congratulations.
[03:57:26] I do want to highlight this top five though as well. Shout out to ages and ritual acorn
[03:57:30] of bulls cold and rapid and
[03:57:33] who show up in that last g
[03:57:36] into that top five. That's
[03:57:39] out. That's why I'm frieking
[03:57:42] funny too because they've
[03:57:44] hiding in the shadows a li
[03:57:46] necessarily been playing p
[03:57:49] few games where I start t
[03:57:51] just a little bit more. Th
[03:57:53] They're getting eliminatio
[03:57:55] playing what they want to
[03:57:57] didn't really worry about
[03:57:59] didn't worry about making a showing for height.
[03:58:01] No Muzzins, Spinks played what they did best.
[03:58:05] Vivid, this is just the top 10 though.
[03:58:07] We still have a few more teams to look at.
[03:58:09] Absolutely, and that'll be the big question, right?
[03:58:12] Who actually went ahead and clinched up that qualification?
[03:58:15] I mean, Jacob was screaming, he was yelling,
[03:58:16] Jargu needed that game.
[03:58:18] He needed that game for sure.
[03:58:21] Jargu and Carillion, the solo clutch
[03:58:26] to sneak in to top 13 by just two points to knock a seek and talk
[03:58:32] you out to go ahead and qualify for do so.
[03:58:37] Dorff.
[03:58:37] We could also see if they're colon mad and clutch up.
[03:58:40] They were hanging around 10 plays throughout the entirety
[03:58:42] of grand finals.
[03:58:43] It kind of felt like bump down to 12,
[03:58:44] but still qualify in there.
[03:58:46] And then we got Reed and Cooper, who I think
[03:58:48] needed that game as well to go ahead and clinch up 372 points.
[03:58:52] So they did well.
[03:58:53] And there we have it, Zeke that rounds up all of the NA teams
[03:58:57] that are going to be going to Dusseldorf
[03:58:59] from these grand finals.
[03:59:01] And that's why you can't give up, right?
[03:59:03] Babe, that's exactly why in those final moments,
[03:59:06] just think about it, being in that situation,
[03:59:08] it's just you, the last game to make something happen
[03:59:12] and Jark you does.
[03:59:13] Christ. And now he's gonna keep his FNCS dream alive.
[03:59:17] He's gonna be going to the summit.
[03:59:19] Oh my gosh.
[03:59:20] what a fantastic day here in
[03:59:25] and you know, I just want to
[03:59:26] really quickly just double back
[03:59:27] to current then, oh, I think
[03:59:28] probably my favorite part of
[03:59:30] that game, Kelly and vivid was
[03:59:32] the fact that like in that last
[03:59:34] game immediately, then no sniff
[03:59:36] something out. He's like, you
[03:59:37] know what? This lobby is going
[03:59:39] to try and hunt me down.
[03:59:40] They're going to try and stop
[03:59:41] me from winning right here
[03:59:43] right now and then make a
[03:59:45] last second pivot. I mean,
[03:59:48] it feels very appropriate that
[03:59:49] that Venom would be able to sniff out Peter by feeling they kind of have the same mindset when it comes into competitive FNCS.
[03:59:55] But more importantly, I want to talk about the numbers vivid because we already looked at it, but to round things off almost 50
[04:00:03] eliminations just for Venom. I mean, what was it after game 10?
[04:00:07] We took a look at this and Venom was on 37 curve was on 31.
[04:00:11] So it's just still picked up so many eliminations ended the day on 49.
[04:00:16] and had to go ahead and show this
[04:00:18] because there's the individual performance.
[04:00:20] Obviously, Venom, standout player.
[04:00:22] Yeah, usually when we see a duo that has so many eliminations,
[04:00:26] for whatever reason, it's kind of like one-sided.
[04:00:27] You know what I mean?
[04:00:28] One person to do is just finding all the eliminations
[04:00:30] that day, and the other one kind of, you know,
[04:00:32] is a couple of 10, 20 behind or whatever.
[04:00:33] But Curve is literally like right there next to them.
[04:00:36] I mean, on the individual leaderboard,
[04:00:38] first and second place, what an incredible way
[04:00:40] to win an FCS.
[04:00:42] Well, I will say we have been hearing this discourse,
[04:00:44] especially when we shifted from trios to duos
[04:00:46] that the setup, the makeup of a duo is a little different now.
[04:00:50] We don't really need an IGL, a fragger.
[04:00:52] We kind of need two fraggers and two players
[04:00:54] that understand the game at an IGL level.
[04:00:57] And maybe that is Beno and Curve.
[04:00:59] Oh my gosh, yeah.
[04:01:00] And I'd love to see that from Curve,
[04:01:02] because I feel like I can already see now.
[04:01:04] So many players are gonna just be like,
[04:01:06] yeah, you got carried from Beno, but it's like, no.
[04:01:08] No, Curve actually put in work, right?
[04:01:11] They made this happen together.
[04:01:14] And yes, there was times where Beno was solo,
[04:01:16] But Beno having all that experience is like, hey, don't worry, man.
[04:01:19] Like, we're getting this win.
[04:01:21] If we're getting it today, what a phenomenal day of Fortnite.
[04:01:26] We do also have a look at our qualified to the summit list.
[04:01:31] Let's take a look at some of this, right?
[04:01:32] We got to take a peek at this at the very beginning of the show.
[04:01:34] And now we can go ahead and add the names from NAC to that list as well.
[04:01:40] Guys, this is starting to give us a more complete picture of Summit.
[04:01:44] And as I started to just pan across and see some of these things,
[04:01:49] this is just the mini-global, right? Like this is just going to be some of the
[04:01:53] craziest or never going to see.
[04:01:56] And given the context of the news we, we, you know,
[04:01:59] heard before NAC even started now three days. I mean, guys,
[04:02:03] this is good. That's going to be crazy.
[04:02:05] I thought this was going to be crazy, Kelly. And it was,
[04:02:08] it is going to be a whole different level.
[04:02:09] It's just going to be crazy. Crazy now, crazy before, crazy later on,
[04:02:13] You know it's for tonight.
[04:02:14] That's what we loved about it.
[04:02:15] But most crazy of all, Zeke, is that we have not given
[04:02:18] Vinno the proper accolade that he deserves.
[04:02:21] And I'm very proud to be the one to do that.
[04:02:23] The fourth star onto the Vinno play, everyone.
[04:02:27] Congratulations on the Dreamline.
[04:02:31] Now you're going to have to add a picture of Curve up there.
[04:02:33] Get him the star up there as well.
[04:02:36] Conversation of some, it's going to be crazy.
[04:02:38] You talked about kind of filling out that picture.
[04:02:41] we are a month away. Like this has been a crazy week. We've had FNCS flying each just
[04:02:47] last week and then all of a sudden Dusseldorf is right around the corner. I'm sure there's
[04:02:51] drop maps so we're going to start filling up and we're going to be getting a picture
[04:02:54] of what the storylines are going to look like for there, but it's going to have me excited.
[04:02:58] Oh man, what a day. What a day. Portacam, we're done. We're done until Dusseldorf.
[04:03:06] We hope that you guys have enjoyed all of the action.
[04:03:10] If you have time, go give a massive congratulations
[04:03:14] to Curve and Venom, right?
[04:03:15] Your new FNCS champions in NAC.
[04:03:18] Give a shout out to all of the teams in the top 13.
[04:03:22] And most importantly, do not forget,
[04:03:24] Tuesday starts the second chance lobby, okay?
[04:03:28] So if you're thinking, man, I want that opportunity.
[04:03:30] I want to fight for my second chance.
[04:03:33] Go check out socials, fncomp on Twitter.
[04:03:35] They've got all the information you need.
[04:03:38] And then the next time we'll be seeing you guys.
[04:03:40] This is Duzel Dorp.
[04:03:41] I can't believe it.
[04:03:42] Kelly, before we say goodbye,
[04:03:44] just want to give you guys the floor
[04:03:45] to kind of give your closing thoughts.
[04:03:47] As always, a big thank you to our players
[04:03:49] for making this one of the most entertaining majors ever.
[04:03:52] I feel like I say that every major
[04:03:53] that they make it so much more entertaining,
[04:03:55] but you guys just write the story itself.
[04:03:56] As much as Zeke wants to say
[04:03:58] that he's writing the script,
[04:03:59] it's really up to you guys.
[04:04:00] So thank you guys for making it
[04:04:01] so entertaining every time.
[04:04:04] absolutely couldn't agree. Mark. Congratulations to Venno and congratulations to everybody that qualified for the summit.
[04:04:11] I'm excited to jump back into the action when we see you guys next time. Thank you, everybody at home.
[04:04:17] Attuned and watched. And of course, massive. Thank you to NDF and Jacob PR for casting all of that.
[04:04:23] And of course, our EU crew, right? There's so much different action happening.
[04:04:27] And now we get to come together on one bus to fight for our shot on the summit.
[04:04:32] Oh, man, Fortnite fan, as always. We love you. Keep yourself safe, and we'll see you on that battle bus.
[04:06:02] I
[04:06:32] I bet you're better than my odds
[04:06:34] If I had a fly, it's nice to rob the minute I got to my bed
[04:06:37] They need to send to your consent to give it a hundred percent
[04:06:39] Because I'm a piece of land with your head
[04:06:41] Right, right, right
[04:06:43] They don't want it all
[04:06:44] They don't want it all
[04:06:45] Every move don't show
[04:06:47] That's what it's like
[04:06:48] Gotta take it out
[04:06:50] Cause I want it all
[04:06:51] No one's gonna move around
[04:06:53] If I'm too strong
[04:06:54] You're stuck
[04:06:55] Cause I've been bouncing back
[04:06:58] Yeah, I'm bouncing back
[04:07:00] Yeah, yeah I'm something bad.
[04:07:04] I'm becoming bad. I can't hold it back.
[04:07:07] Yeah I'm something bad.
[04:07:08] It's, it's, it's, it's just a mission.
[04:07:11] I do that in my sleep. No commission.
[04:07:14] I like a side quest love. I play session.
[04:07:16] I'm such a good person. They make rules and they're just a show.
[04:07:19] Yeah, yeah they talk. We talk.
[04:07:21] What they say to me. I'm true to us.
[04:07:23] They make other with it.