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is the biggest tournament.
The best teams from every region.
Everybody's prepared for a year straight.
The level of preparation needed is next impossible.
It has the biggest prize to it, that's the most hype.
Everyone always wants to win it.
To be a global champion, it takes being resilient.
Off of it, you have to have that knowledge and the force.
If you win, you go home for trophy and the legacy.
The competition is at an all-time high.
Yours especially, they look at people
who stream tournaments as not as good.
I'm here to prove it wrong.
I'm happy to be here with you.
I'm happy to be in the world with you.
I'm not the best at this tournament.
We are the best at winning the big stage.
I'm tired of being perspective and I want to prove that I'm strong.
Ocee is a very underrated region. We're going to prove that this weekend.
We're the best in the world when it comes to chemistry-wise.
I'm happy for the moment when it comes to talking.
We could stay with the same person sometimes.
Winning!
Lifting the trophy on stage is like dreaming a whole career.
I'm not intimidated by stance growl...
We're from close to winning a man.
A few times now and I think this can be the one.
We're one of the best fighting teams in this tournament.
And we are here to win.
We're not an exhibition mind, I think, but we must have the individual.
We came close in a lot of major tournaments.
It's finally time to just take the title home.
The world's watching all we need to do now.
So once again, we're the greatest when it comes to dance.
Every year the throne room opens.
The location may change, but the goal remains the same.
Some of these players have weathered more storms than others on their way to this moment,
but the only thing that matters now are the next 12 games.
Antwerp, are you ready to crowd some new kings?
Welcome to the 2026 Fortnite Playbook Championships.
Frankie, thank you so much, Fortnite fam.
Belgium, how we doing?
Welcome to the FNCS Global Championship.
I can't believe it.
We're here after a long year of so many different events,
so many different majors and qualifiers.
Global championship time.
We've got Kelly, we've got Levin.
Guys, how are you feeling?
We finally made it.
I am so excited.
I feel like every year I say the same thing,
how I am just so excited that I cannot wait
from the last global championships.
I have been waiting a year for this moment again,
this story that we have built up all the way
from major one into the Summit Land
where we found our first 15 teams.
and then of course through the last our major two and the last chance major we found our final 35 the last couple of
days in the player room have just been so electric 11 I cannot wait to get these games started my favorite weekend of
the year I mean it's what every single game every season every tournament every stream built up for this weekend
all the amazing fans that always join us to participate in it always add to the emotion the feeling
Speaking to players throughout this week, I mean, Zeke, people are feeling it, you know,
they feel the magnitude of the moment and that's the biggest thing.
It's so good to be back in this context, right?
International stage, so many players from around the world.
I mean, has there been a moment for you guys that it's been like, man, this moment, this
is what global is all about.
Oh, the global is all about, I mean, the games haven't even started.
I feel like we can't have that moment just yet, but listen, for me, it's all about
the solo clutches.
Obviously I'm a little biased here in North America.
That summit land where we got to see the polo solo run.
I would love to see that again, Levin.
I hope we get lots of solo coaches, absolutely.
I think, honestly, he's just chatting to the players
and the leader, you know.
You get to see a lot of these, you know,
we've got a lot of young talent
that has come through this year in Fortnite
and getting to meet a lot of them,
getting to speak to a lot of them,
seeing just how down to earth and humble these kids are.
It makes it so hard.
You want to support all of them, you know what I mean?
But you can only see one winner.
But yeah, I think that's what's been the most special thing for me.
I love that.
Well, guys, obviously I'd love to quickly touch on the fact
that though we are coming to end here with the global championship,
today's the last day to vote for the Battle Royale format of next year.
Hop in right now.
Legends landing.
Fortnite fans, do you want duos?
Do you want trios?
You let us know.
Today is the final vote.
I can tell you right now, we are just under 400,000 votes.
jump in. Can we break 500,000? That would be the craziest thing ever. Please do us a
favorite jump in a boat. Okay, let's focus back in on the competition. Obviously, let's
kind of kick things off easy. Let's kind of start with some of the things we have to
touch on, like the prize pool, right? $400,000 to do the walks away in first place.
That is life changing money, huge amounts of money. Anyone that is competing here
today is going to be walking away with something, but beyond the $400,000 for
first place, 11 for me, it is the disparity between first and second place
and we have seen how close these lands can be. We can see how even a single
elimination can separate first and second, $160,000 on the line. Every
little point matters. Every little point matters and regardless of where you
are on the leaderboard, right, you want to make sure you're leaving
with as much longer as possible, right? You don't want to leave any money
you're going to get a lot of
money on the table. Don't
leave any self pride on the
table, right? You want to give
you as much out of it as you
can. Yeah, and of course can't
forget that trophy this year.
They decided not to let me near
the trophy. I don't know who found
that footage of me wearing the
crown. That was don't know
anything about that, but still
obviously the prize money
spent task but have that
trophy on the man to be like
I'm a global champion would be
pretty cool. You know, Kelly
as well wanted to highlight
points for elimination. Oh yeah and we definitely have some WQ teams here that
can easily get double-digit eliminations and also want to point out
that you have to make it to the top 25 teams to even be able to get any placement points
and obviously we have teams that kind of prioritize placement or prioritize
eliminations but in reality you need to do a little bit of both.
Well, after you know age old game we've watched it in grand school and that's over the years many
a time you see how important it is to have those elimination heavy players but
regardless, just get the points on the board.
However you do it, get the points on the board.
That's all that matters.
This is that time, right?
We'd love to also take a look at some of the players.
We'll be seeing compete here today.
Man, stacked is a word we tend to use a lot,
but man, look at even just this first stage, Kelly.
I mean, we have Seido Monsi, Kringin, Lusha.
We got so many different.
Pablo Ingo, Peter Bob, Roy Reed, Cooper,
everyone that you could think of,
all of the biggest names from around the world
have made sure that they want everyone
to be screening their name.
They want to make sure that they are the top team here.
Yeah, I mean, we don't have the flags on the screen,
but the regional representation players
from so many different nations, so many different corners
of the world competing on this stage.
It's been a pleasure to watch a lot of them
on their home regions over the course of the year,
but seeing them stack up against some of the other top dogs.
Sometimes you look at a player in your region,
you think, yeah, he's pretty all right.
Steps on the global stage, he gets one punch
by somebody else from another region.
I hold on a minute.
I've got to re-calibrate my thinking here.
So we're going to learn a lot about these players today.
You've got me so excited.
But obviously with so many players,
we've got to maybe ask the question,
do we have predictions, right?
Who do we think could walk away in the top five?
Kelly, would love to come to you first.
This was somehow the easiest
and one of the hardest decisions I've had to make.
I think for top five it was definitely easy.
I got Shark and Peony, Malibu,
Kaviko, Vino, and Agers, Pixie, Swizzie,
and why in cringe was the final decision
I made for my top five?
But I mean, for me as an NA representative,
it feels a little rough to have only one duo here representing NA and even that
that's an asterisk to it because Fano is a part of that duo but Levin I think we
actually share a similar top five. I'm surprised I thought it'd be a bit more
regional pride from you here Kelly but I think honestly when you look at how
things are shaping up a lot of the EU boys are looking good we have a lot in
common I think the big thing that we have in common is our winner Sharkin
Tini. I think most people in the building today are predicting Sharkin Tini
to be that team to win.
They are the favorite.
It's crazy how much they are the favorite
when you factor in the fact that
none of these players have ever won an FMCS.
Charlie's playing at his first global championship
and somehow walks into the door
as the overwhelming favorite to win.
It just goes to show how impressive he's been this year.
And how beautiful would that story be
with the start of this season
where they're contested at Golden Grove
and then they go and fight.
Chappan, Flixty-Fort.
It goes down to a 10-8,
but they do able to claim their spot
and they have so much respect from other players
that no one even thinks to even try and land on them at Golden Grove.
I mean obviously I love that call out but I've noticed another duo up on that top five, Viko Malibuca.
Could we see the first treble? Is it that time?
I mean if anyone's gonna do it you've got to think it's them.
It is astounding to me how these guys have won both the FNCS Lens we've had this year
and still come in almost like somewhat of an unbelievable right where like
They don't have that many people to make them to out, like, win the whole thing, but they have shown us that even when they aren't the favorite to win, they can go and get the job done.
And that's what matters. The LAN experience these guys have is unmatched, right? Nobody is one as many LANs as these two guys.
And to speak on that, actually, no team in here. There has been five LANs since the Invitational for the FNCS, and the only duo here where both players have been to every single one is this team right here.
Oh my gosh, I mean guys, if they work or win, right?
Remember they went to Summit one Summit, went to EWC one that if we won here.
This makes them the greatest of all time, right Levin, that's it.
I mean it puts them up there in terms of the accolades, right?
It'd be hard to argue.
I think the key thing for these guys is they're not going to be playing the game
we've seen them play this season, right?
When you watch them in EU a lot this season, they land at the east of Nifty Lodge
and they love to WK the West team.
here at the global championships, Higgs and Curve are the team landing on the West.
You're not going to just be able to run down Higgs and Curve.
Those two are very, very good fighters.
And so whatever Viko and Mani got kicked up today,
it's going to be different from what we've got to watch this season.
I love that. Well, hey, listen, guess what?
Obviously being on land allows us to tap directly into the players.
Frank, you're standing by with them right now.
Thank you very much. Malibuco, I want to ask you first.
There's been some up-and-down results recently.
20 of for example in major two you came back fighting in that last chance
qualifier what do you put that down to? We didn't really prepare the grand finals
so it doesn't really matter for us all the other events that you prepare for we won
or got like top five at least so it's going to be the same as well. And so how
do you manage to lock in so successfully online because you could do the
treble today? I mean you know we just we just don't care you know we're
always like pulling this humble natural on gimmick even though we care
I mean, what we do to prepare is, like, you know, we sleep well, we eat well, and then
we just do what we do at home, you know, we just have our fun, and that helps us lock
in.
I'm not going to lie, Vika.
I think you might be the least nonchalant person I've ever met.
Malibu, on the other hand, are you able to keep your call out there?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, I will.
And that comes so naturally.
What do you say to Vika when you need to calm him down?
Uh...
Why are you laughing?
You can't repeat what he usually says, that's fine.
Okay, well I think that's given us all the insight we need to know about that situation,
but let's talk about Lifty Lodge.
You're no stranger to heading west and keying your opponents,
but now we're in an international land going up against Higgs and Kerb in that position.
Are you gonna give them some peace and leave them alone?
Oh, we'll see what happens, you know, maybe, can't delete, you know?
Well, like, maybe something happens, maybe something doesn't.
I don't think anything's gonna happen at Malavika.
I can't leak as well, but can't leak anything.
Okay, well, we'll just have to see what happens when you guys bought the butter bus. Let's head back to the desk
Thank you so much for that Frankie. You know, it's interesting
I always like to try and look at Vico in these types of moments, right? Because again, this is Lansing
We can see them we can see what he's thinking Vico is playing the very calculated Vico right now
It's not always on stage and I see him kind of dancing after the game
Even if he's last place on my okay, that's the Vico that I know
I'll be real guys. I
Don't listen to no players in the intermise. I think all the players lie. They laugh. They lie
They deceive.
I think clearly there is a question mark for them, right?
Because I think it comes down to, you know,
on the question of are they going to WQ?
Are they going to try fight Higgs and Kerl?
They might not have the choice.
They might get to a point in the tournament
where like things aren't going that well.
We just need to make something happen.
We'll have to see, we'll have to see.
Let's talk about some other players though.
We got I like Swizzy and Pixie here.
A global champion already.
Maybe looking to bring a second title.
You can already hear the crowd.
I mean, Kelly, if this could happen, this would be legendary.
I mean, not just to be a global champion, but also to get second place as well.
Swizzy has been, Swizzy and Pixie have just been performing so incredibly well.
But at the start of this year, it was a little bit of a different story.
Starting off a little rough major one, they got 16th place.
But turning that into major two, third place, such a huge change there, Levin.
But obviously there was a pretty big change.
So yeah, of course we got to talk about when they joined forces at the start of the year.
And we all thought, yeah, they're gonna win everything.
It's gonna be over.
Swizz, he picked up the IGN in Mantle,
which we thought would be natural for him
because he'd been successful in that role in the past.
It didn't quite work out.
They made the switch to Pixie IGN,
Pixie IGN for the first time in his career,
but everything seems to be clicking.
They started the year pretty poorly.
Now, all of a sudden going into the World Championships,
they looked like one of the better teams
with a better chance of winning.
And one of the dialogues we had at the start of this year
when we switched from Trio to Duos was,
how are these roles really gonna play out?
Obviously, we have the IGL, we have the Fraggar,
But as the seasons kind of developed,
we kind of got into this mindset
where maybe both players need to be fraggers.
And then I know some people were talking about,
no, you need two IGLs.
Well, both of these guys can be IGLs
and they can be fraggers.
And I think that they are able to encompass
any kind of situation that they run into.
And frequently we see in these end games,
these guys go down to a solo situation.
And I think either of them can handle that.
Look, it's good to see Swizzie in a role
where he can be that fragger sitting the top, right?
At Global's last year, a lot of people thought he was
the MVP while playing in that way.
I'm looking forward to seeing what these guys
click up here from Bowell.
Okay, all right, I like that.
Let's talk about another duo here
that was actually not on your top five, Led,
but it was on Kelly, Cringe and Twi.
Why?
And then we'll come to you, Levin,
to maybe say why you didn't.
Well, I mean, look at all the Div Cups that they've had.
They got ninth place in the first one.
And then in the last three Div Cups,
they have placed top four and even winning one of them.
They have been one of the most consistent teams
that we have seen.
And more importantly,
are one of the best low ground teams in EU and we know that we don't really get
to see them that much to dominate in the low ground because they're typically
going up against Sky and Skrull who also love the low ground but Sky and Skrull are
triple contested we might not see them at the end game every single time but
you know that cringe and fly are gonna take advantage of that. Yeah these two I'm
so happy you put them on your list Kelly because honestly I didn't want to
put them on a jinx. I want to see UK Fortnite on top and I think these
to be the team to do it. When you look at how they performed in major two, they were so, so
impressive on that first day. We thought they were going to be going head to head for the whole
championship on day two. They slipped through their fingers. Again, it was a very new experience for
them to be in that type of position. They felt that pain. They felt that sorrow. They felt what
it feels like to lose a deaf and see as to watch it slip through your fingers. I'm hoping
that experience today is enough to motivate and give them the confidence to keep fighting
in the process of all 12 games.
Listen, listen, I, you know,
they got this kind of northeastern split.
The only concern that I have for Quentin
twice who's going to be landing next to them.
Of course that's arc and canada.
And if there's one player that you don't want to run into
in the early mid game, it's gotta be canada, man.
Yeah, I have bad flashbacks to canada and agents
contestant Thomas and Malibuco many years ago
right at global.
So canada is a proven great off-spawn player.
Okay, all right.
Well, guess what? We've got Frankie standing by right now with pretty twi.
What are they thinking right now?
I could ask them that and I'm going to ask them to answer some of my questions
about what's going to be happening at Larte landing.
Currently, it's looking like you're uncontested.
Are you confident that's remaining the case?
Oh, yeah. I think we're on call.
I think we've got a good chance to win and, yeah.
Do you have any concerns about Ark and Canada playing you a visit?
No. I think we're good. I think they're scared of us.
I think we're good off the wall.
And why do you think people are so scared of you right now, Twy?
I mean, I'm first on every kinch, that every time I play, I play to kill.
And yet, people seem to underrate you.
I mean, I wouldn't say so anymore for going into this weekend.
Yeah, definitely, they don't think we're going to win, but we'll prove them wrong.
I wonder if that's anything to do with what happened on day two of major two,
because you were sailing through day one, so what happened on day two?
Day two, we got caught by a couple more teams, so it was a bit harder.
But we eventually found ourselves doing it again, so we'll just have to adapt and...
And how confident are you in your off-sport abilities?
Because we don't really know exactly what's going to happen when we go into game one.
There are always rumours flying around that people are dropping where we don't expect them to.
So for you, how do you prep for a situation that you're not expecting?
I mean, we just take how it comes.
Like, every game we just have to adapt and play differently and see what happens.
And tell me now about adapting to the low ground in your end games.
I mean, the Div Cup results have shown that you do phenomenally well on the low ground.
Doing a bit of Sky and Skrull action there.
Why is that something that's so comfortable for you
when so many other teams are fighting for hype?
Well, low ground is easier and it's easier to get kills as well.
So we play for eliminations because we're not as good as all these smart low ground players.
But as long as we get the kills to match it up, it's all good.
But do you think, though, that a low ground team can actually win the global championship?
Yeah, 100%. Sky and Skrull should have won the last one
and we plan on wearing this one.
OK, well, let's see what these guys can get done
from the low Grand Zeke.
Ha-ha-ha.
I love it. I love it.
That's what I want to hear from my boys, you know what I'm saying?
They know their strengths, they want to play to it.
Look, I knew Ty was special
when he was qualified for Grand Finals with Jalen.
Shout out to my brother Jalen wherever he is in 2026.
He's been about for a while.
Cringes especially over the past year.
Any solo competition that there was,
you'd see his name up there in the standings.
He's been proven he's a top player.
I've seen them so confident, going into their first globals here together. I'm very optimistic.
I love that. Okay, let's talk about another duo, Kami and Hari.
Kind of like a little bit of underdog. Is it sleeper? I don't know where that is, but often underrated, Levin?
Yeah, unfortunately, I think it's always just a bit of a boring pick.
I mean, you know what to expect from Kami on these stages.
Historically, he's just been one of the better players.
He's able to pull results out of nowhere, even when people aren't predicting him.
You look at last year in shrills, how well they were able to do.
And I think what's amazing about these two
is yes, we know they're more than no elimination team, right?
They're not a team that's going to be, you know,
fragging W key in everybody.
But if they need something, Hari.
Hari has a bit of a something that I think
goes a bit underrated.
I think he's one of the smarter fraggers out there.
One of the players who doesn't make too many mistakes
in the end game.
Hari I think is going to be a big key to their success
today.
And that is going to be so important in today.
tomorrow's games because Ari and Kami are surrounded by some of the craziest fighters that you could
potentially go up against. You got Cole, Arc, Josh, French, Venno, Pixie that are all literally
neighboring their drop spot. If anyone needs to be smart about the fights that they're taking
while their rotations are going on, it's this duo right here. I mean, dude, I just feel like
anytime I see Kami's face, I'm like, dude, that guy's going to win something. Something's
just gonna happen, but you know, Lev to come back to it, obviously he has experience. Yeah.
And we saw how heavy those points are over on eliminations.
Could they find that group to find those eliminations?
Is that all just on the back of Hari?
No, I think it's just up the back of consistency.
This is a team who, you know, they're making almost every endgame, right?
I think the only thing that really I think is a weakness for them
is that there's certain zone pools where their game plan just can't work, right?
They're going to have to figure something out there.
But some decent zones across the 12 games and they're just to me,
I like that listen listen I want to give some other regions some love
okay we gotta why don't we come back to a smaller region is there a duo from a
small region both you guys are excited to see Lev what about you smaller you
know we can't let me cancel his best colors the smaller region let's go
canada right you know let's play you know I mean the canada is an easy
choice a bit of a cop out for me I know. But plenty of experience has done well on this stage.
I'm looking at his teammate though. I'm looking at Ark. The last time we saw Canada on an FNCS
stage obviously he was playing with Victor V and he was the best NA player at EWC in the reload right?
Yeah. This time around I think he's got the chance to do it again with Ark by his side.
Shout to Ark. Ark obviously had a bit of an up and down year. He looked incredible last year
at Globals. We thought it was going to be the year of Ark. He's going to dominate. Spent
half the year playing with Lacey, shout to Lacey every year, but I don't think he was
learning too much playing with Lacey. Back with Kanata, top experienced player, I think
he's going to do him some good.
You say Kanata was the best performing NA player in EWC. He was also one of the best
performing NA players at the last lovels in the season. So yeah, man, everyone kind
of, you know, because he's no longer 31 out of 31. I don't know, Kanata's washed
now, man. Kanata can still easily come out as the top NA player here.
They go. Okay. What about you, Kelly? Do you have a smaller region deal you'd
like to highlight?
Can I highlight all the regions?
Well, no.
How much time do I have?
Production?
30 seconds.
80 seconds.
Perfect.
11.
What?
You hold on to this.
Around the world in 80 seconds,
let's start the timer production.
So let's start off with Asia.
Obviously, we all know Coyota and Yuma.
Coyota called the Peterbot of Asia.
But more recently, all eyes have been on Minipio
and Kuklu, especially after the performance at EWC,
where we saw them win a game during the group stages.
Now, we got to talk about a region that is down and under.
That's right, everyone.
Brazil.
Now, they're down to fight.
and they are underestimated.
It's all been about Lula and Romero for me though.
They are the new Argentinian kings
of the Brazilian region that encompasses all of South America.
But also we have to focus on GRX and Brandu
and they were able to take down the likes of King and Phaesar
and Knight and Gon in the last chance major.
Now obviously we've got to talk about my favorite region,
my home region, N.A. West.
Freak up the likes of Epic Whale and Pump,
Arc and Canada or at least I thought we'd be working
40 seconds Kelly.
Because we have Phoenix and Brecho
and they have been looking pretty dang good in N.A. West
the last last dip cuff they got first place almost 200 points over second place now out of OCE we have three teams to talk about but the one team that I do need to talk about is resigns and tinkia and it's pretty obvious to see why because they had such
a good performance at the summit land they were able to put a game in the EU powerhouses and speaking about performing well at land well guys we have to talk about Salvatore representing the Middle East region with his player Mchari but of course we're going to focus on Salvatore
because he had such a great performance during the reload release series finals.
He was taking height, kicking games, and now looking to take that momentum here at the global stage.
Ladies and gentlemen, Kelly Lee face of the watch, Kelly Lee!
Around the world in 80 seconds!
Oh my gosh!
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You know, we need a moment to catch our breath.
Why don't we go catch up with Minivider and see what he's up to?
I mean, you know, we need to
talk about you this weekend,
but I want to talk about you
sort of historically you are
the most experienced player in
this lobby. Nobody has more
experience than you. I want to
take a look at some of these
stats. First thing before we
get into that, what's the
secret about looking good
info is a little like, little
I got the little jarline. It's
always about the line. So let's
take a look at the right side.
So let's take a look at the
right side. Let's take a
look at the right side. Let's
the right side 30 out 31 FNCS finals. What is the secret to longevity in
fortnight as well? I think the longevity I think it's mentality right like you
want to know how you're thinking you want to make sure you're the best player
you want to make sure that nothing's getting in your way right you might have
a bad game you might have a bad tournament but don't let that beat you
down you know you got to get back up you got to think you're gonna do it and
you're gonna let it happen. Where's the wisdom motivation? I love this look at
this first FNCS final way back 29 scene chapter 1 season so long ago. So long ago.
I mean, I don't know if I've
ever been in a game where you
have to be the best fighter in
the world. You remember it? Yes.
I actually like it was yesterday.
I love you. You would see
for the gap, right? But still
even last year at global
championships. Yeah, 20 25.
Your best land placement was
fit. How do you still do it
now at this level in what like
seven years later? I mean, to
be honest, like it's about
understanding the game. A lot
of people focus on mechanics
aim trying to become the best
being the smartest player. It's so important. Yeah, I mean, that's why you two time fncs champ. Now let's take a look at this weekend, how things are panning out. We're taking a little look sort of at the drop spot situation. Of course, you guys are landing up towards the sort of northwest of this area. First of all, how do you think this reality is rain of spawn is going to play out near to here? Dude, I have no clue. All I know is I talked to Peter. He's like, I'm just playing like sky and
the game. And the game was
really really really really
interesting. And so the
team is really really
interesting. The sky and
scroll was saying that they
were going to just 50 50 and
then salad tour like he might
have a little sneaky clean up
or they might just three way
split it and just play for
like loot on the outside or
going for like lurks on
other teams. Yeah, now the
team next door. So you
cringe and fly. We know
they like to sort of play
this area. We just spoke to
cringe and fly. They
reckon that you are
scared of King. That is
so crazy. They said that
because we just played a
rehearsal game and we were
to hear what I have to say because he was so scared that he didn't know he
wanted to know what I was doing so bad you hear that cringe and why the fight
thing was from canada right here thank you so much for doing this as well
canada can't wait to see you perform today sir now let's get back to the desk
thank you so much minivan minor and shout out to canada thank you so much
for your time here before the competition man you know obviously I'd
love to hear from canada and all of his insight but I can't lie I was
just looking at that drop app and I'm just thinking what are we doing here? We're in a triple contested
situation. Peter, Bob, Pollo, Sky and Skrull and of course Salvatore there as well. Friends, talk us
through this. What are we going to be seeing? I mean, listen, Raleigh's rain is one of the best
POIs. So it makes sense that we would have a lot of our top teams try to go for that POI and
obviously with them being different regions, they haven't had to face each other. But I
think there was a little bit of an expectation that maybe one out of these three duos would
believe, especially once we did get here to global championships where there was a bit of a discussion, even kind of
watching Sky and Sprawl kind of follow Peter Bot and Sharia and Salvatore around, you would think that one of them would drop, but Levin, I have doubts, I'm wondering if we're going to see all three teams fight here.
Yeah, look, I've heard from some people, some of my inside sources discussing that and Sharia and Salvatore may leave. And I think they're so good as players that hopefully they realize that what is better off for them to leave, right?
and go contest some of them.
They had a better chance in the weekend that way.
And then, you know, contested Skyon scrolled Pete and boy.
I think it's so rough because I think you look at both those teams
and they've been two of the key protagonists in fortnight
across their regions, right?
Skyon scores being the team that has dominated EU,
winning both majors there.
Pete and boy, of course, just the main characters of fortnight.
You've got the greatest players of all time there.
We want to see these guys full throttle,
playing at their best, getting the opportunity to play 12 games out.
And there's a word that we use a lot with Pollo and Peterbot.
and that is conditioning.
And obviously it was a little bit more during chapter five,
but they have been able to condition the lobby
to kind of just force and bully
and do anything that they want,
whatever POI they want, they get.
If they want to take height,
no one's gonna even look for it.
But something's kind of changed, obviously.
Their major performances hasn't been that great.
We did get to see a great performance out of the summit land,
but that kind of intimidation factor
is no longer there.
And sky and sprawl,
they're not gonna be intimidated
by Peterbaugh and Boyle.
I'm so nervous.
I can't even lie.
Obviously I hope this doesn't stay triple contested, but I guess game one will reveal all for us now
Obviously, I would like to ask you both a for a do it specifically that maybe has something to prove being here on land
Kelly I don't trust you right now. So I'm gonna come to Levin first
Levin, what's it to you feel like maybe has something to prove?
Well, that was a mistake because I'm actually gonna steal from Kenny and I want to buy more than one
Well, if I told it to my whole region, I mean, I'm just tired of you any people all of you any people that sit there and tell me
Yeah, and it's the best region based on what I mean if we look at the last land winners, right the last five man winners
Vika Malabuca, Swizzing Creasy Mustache obviously at Global Zasha
We're lucky we didn't actually include EWC that land because that one would have made it look even worse
Back in the day when you'd argue with any fans you would say yeah
EWC was like the whole top five just one NA duo happened to win the whole event and I had to just hear that
I had to take that to say you know what at least you guys won the event
Yeah, we dominated the rest of me the book, but you've got the win
Kelly listen, I know you have the power to fight passion against his passion, but I have to bring in a ringer
Okay, I've got to bring in someone else that has just as much passion is living to K. Vivid get in here. I need you now
Oh
Oh, Zeke, you need a little bit of help.
You need a little bit of a hero on this topic.
Don't worry, buddy, I got you.
Levin, I am disgusted with you, man.
The bias that you are showing down there on the desk,
absolutely disgusting, Levin.
How dare you be so biased?
But I want to go ahead and bring up those points, right?
You're talking about all these past events.
Let's go ahead and talk about those winners.
I mean, yeah, EWC, you won that.
I mean, that was a different game, bro.
Why would you talk about that, Levin?
We had that mid-year LAN event, the summit.
Again, dude, not a global championship, bro.
Let's go ahead and can that one as well.
Global's last year, different game mode, that was Trios.
Who really cares about that?
Then finally, those last two years, 2023, 2024,
I saw them up there on your little graphic, dude.
NA winners, the last time we had a global championship
in the duo's category, who won two for two?
That was NA, man.
Listen, this might be a little bit of copium
coming from me up here,
but I feel like I gotta put a little bit more respect
on the name of NA and watch out with that bias, man.
Back to you guys.
I'm sorry you had to see that for night, and we had a pit passion against passion on this topic. Okay
Kelly, I'm gonna come to you now
Apparently you both lost your minds duo you feel like it's got something to prove here at globals
Before I knew what the other guys picked. I also picked an A to you
God it don't feel like I should pick someone else
But this isn't a team that needs to prove because they're doing poorly
In fact, I think that they're doing so well that I want them to prove the haters and the doubters wrong
And it's going to be clicks and rapid.
Listen, I know I talk about them a lot,
but for this season, this is the best
that I have ever seen clicks.
Look, we start with major one,
where Rapids playing with Colton.
He has such a good performance.
And then major two clicks and rapid join together.
And it's a big question mark on how they're gonna do.
And it kind of seems that they're floundering.
The edgy flows just aren't there.
But then we get into this new season
and there is just something different
about clicks, his mentality,
the focus of what he's prioritizing
for this global championship.
I just think more now than ever,
they have so much to prove to all the doubters here.
Absolutely.
We're gonna need the Clicks fans to rise.
To rise up.
To rise this whole weekend.
They're gonna need it.
It's kind of funny because, yeah,
things actually shaping up really nicely for them.
Yet, it doesn't actually feel like
there's as much pressure.
Right, I feel like in the past,
maybe there's been a bit more hyper
on Clicks going into the Globals.
Yeah.
It makes you look set up to be very successful.
I think we know what to expect out of Clicks
more or less.
I've seen him on the stage so many times.
I'm looking at Rapid as a difference maker here.
Let's talk about it.
EWC, reloading these series finals.
It didn't go too well for Rapid.
He was playing with colds.
I love colds, that's my brother,
but he kind of threw Rapid under the bus a little bit.
You know, Rapid stocks were kind of looking at it.
He has a lot to prove.
I think if I'm Rapid coming into this event,
I'm like, no, no, no, I need to show people.
I'm not a dad.
You know, whatever other brothers are trying to tell you,
I'm not a dad.
I'm that guy.
And he has a history of success on this stage.
You look at last year.
He was playing with Canado and Bolts,
they were bossing it right, the winning games.
I think he has shown that he can perform on the stage.
I'm hoping Rapid can bring his A game
and lead Clicks to victory.
Interesting, we talked a bit about Rapid,
but I kind of wanted to go back to Clicks, obviously,
kind of in these types of circumstances.
Clicks has sometimes been known
to kind of crumble under the type of pressure.
This is the biggest stage, right?
How do we expect him to do?
I, again, just by watching his streams recently,
or say his lack of streams actually has been that prioritization where maybe you know he's
a content creator and a pro player, but he wants to focus on the global championship.
He's not caring about kind of his content right now because he wants to prove everyone.
And so, I don't know, for me, Klick, I know he's like a very emotional player when we
saw him play with Venno, who was a bit of a harsher IGL.
And then we saw him play with Higgs where the two of them were kind of crashed
out together.
I think that there is just a new maturity in Klick right now, especially playing with
something like rapid where that crash out just isn't going to be as likely.
What do you think?
Love, what do you think?
No, the reality is I got a lot of love for clicks.
I think to do what he's done at the highest level performing while also doing
content at the highest level for as long as he has nobody else considered
done that. The reality is, is people want to see clicks get a job done.
Finally, we've been waiting for some time.
It's a bit overdue.
I'm hoping he surprises us today with one of his best performances yet.
Yeah. And of course, and obviously we're not trying to be hyper critical,
But this is the biggest stage in the world right in terms of Fortnite.
So we have to be critical in those moments.
But this is it to I mean, look, it's clicks.
Clicks fans rise up big time here.
He needs y'all this weekend.
We're getting closer to kicking off the competition.
I mean, obviously being in this crowd, hearing them all or there's so
many different components as well.
We've got streamers up here, co streamers who are all doing their thing.
Having a great time up there.
We could see some of them.
They're getting excited.
How are you guys feeling now that we're kind of in it?
I am so ready. And this is still just day number one.
We honestly don't even know where all these teams are going to be landing.
So much can change the way that these players have been rotating.
I mean, just the way that a Fortnite had been evolving to playing in Storm.
Are we going to see a lot of these teams play in Storm?
The way that we've had so many changes to Storm's third.
How are these players going to now adapt to that in this kind of setting?
We can't predict anything.
We can talk all day and yack up here and say, oh, this is going to happen.
You don't know.
The only thing you can predict in Fortnite is that it is unpredictable.
The reality is, this game one is only a teaser, right?
We've been speaking for the years how things switch up after game one, right?
Somebody might decide, actually, though, you know, we're gonna land here.
Let's go to our backup option. Let's switch things on.
Let's rotate this way. Let's fight this team.
It just gets crazier and crazier and crazier.
We obviously learn a lot about these players.
We learn a lot about how much this crowd loves certain players, which I'm on.
And the players don't like as well, you know?
There's not a bit of a balance to that, you know?
You know, you love someone, you hate somebody else.
I think we'll learn a lot about about globals and the state of competitive this weekend. Yeah, and of course can't forget
It is a two-day format, right? So after these six games
We'll have the players have tonight to kind of go back bottom view and maybe make some changes going into tomorrow
So man, I'm excited. I'm so hyped. This is our favorite time of the year
But for now, why don't we go hang out with Frankie see what she's got for us?
Thank you so much, Zeke. Now, remember, everyone, there's just 12 games here before we crown a global champion.
There's no upper or lower bracket. There's no second chances here.
So, Antwerp, all of these players need to know that you're behind them.
Are you ready to meet some players?
Now, my friends on the desk where we're talking about North America,
America but we've got so many other regions who you're about to meet on this
day so please one more time and make some noise!
Back to back majors make them kings of the EU but can Sky Ants growl take the throne with the whole world watching!
They will get lost in the spotlight, lost the hands they owe for fighting the blue minted
champions.
It's not going to make an impact on the biggest stage Fortnite has to offer.
It's King and Prey's aggression and fire powers the name of the game, and they look
run through the competition.
Get left for Mack and the Gitter!
No matter the loving difficulty,
these guys are sure to show up and show out.
They've run it all year for this moment,
but the end missed you all year
and they're ready to put it all on the line.
Sky and Skrull, we need to talk about reality's reign. Peter Bottenboyo, Mshari, and Salvatore.
We know that they're planning on dropping there too.
Why aren't you moving?
We've been there since day one.
We were the first team that marked and then it's hard to land on us.
So we didn't really have a joint, jokes.
And how does that impact the way that you plan for this game, Sky?
I mean, if we've been working on it for weeks,
what are we going to do when we're planned,
what are we going to do when we win?
And yeah, we'll just see how it goes.
And for all this training, do you think that you are
one of the best off-soul players here?
Yeah, I think for sure we're the best soul form team here in Riga.
Well, we're going to see if all that teamwork and practice has paid off.
But right now let's head over to Levin with Darm and Dimas.
Thank you very much, Frankie. I'm here with two of Poland's best Darm.
I want to ask you about the year. The year you've had leading up to this point.
How have you thought about it and how has it helped you prepare with your coach for global championships this weekend?
I mean, we just had an easy fight on the Summit finals and we just worked hard, like really hard all year.
And hopefully it just pays off this weekend.
You mentioned you guys have been working hard. I believe you, because you're two hard workers.
Obviously, it looks like you're contested right now. That's what the drop map says at least.
When you've worked so hard, how do you prepare for that mentally knowing you're going into a contested?
Yeah, of course. We're planning mentally for this for the past three months. So, yeah, I think we're ready.
I've spoken to a lot of people, Dimash, and a lot of people actually think you guys got
something cooked up.
You know, they know you feel like very smart players, they know your coach Sven is also
very smart.
Some people don't think you are actually going to be consistent, you might have something
cooked up as anything you can tell us about your plans this weekend.
We got something cooked up, but not trying to make.
Alright, keeping it close to the chest, we're going to send it to Francois, Swizy
and Pixie.
Thank you, Levin.
11. Yes, that's a voice from habit.
Thanks.
So this year, we have seen you, Pixie,
adapting to becoming an un-game leader.
How has that been?
I mean, it was harder first, but other than...
No, it's fine.
I mean, it's looking pretty fine.
You guys are going from strength to strength
as the year has gone on.
Swizi, what is it like being back at a global championship
as a reigning champion this time.
Just use this.
You're just used to it now.
I mean, you will get used to it if you are able to win.
So let's see what happens for you guys at South Butterwood.
Currently uncontested, but right now
we need to meet some more players.
Atchwell, let them hear you!
Atchwell, let them hear you!
Atchwell, let them hear you!
You're in a major two champs, Acorn and Bones. Consistency of key for these guys as they
look to take it all.
You've got to watch out for the quiet ones because R&D can be scared by his screams,
It's
They can go the full distance. I drop and condo
You run as up from the Middle East
27 they have nothing to lose and everything to gain
There's nothing scarier than two of the best neighbors in the lobby with their sights set
Welcome in, Thomas and Focus!
Bonitila!
Nera and Pink!
This duo might be last minute, but they're still prepared to pop off on the big stage!
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GRX Qualifying from back to back land
with just the learning experience,
but now the true test begins.
Just get caught in the deep end
because sure you can't do
a sacred competition to swim to the top.
I'm here with box and a corner acorn. You are one of the most experienced IGLs in the game. Is this going to be your year?
Hopefully.
And you say hopefully and I'm hoping for the best for you, but you're deciding to land at stone sanctum with a couple of other gyros. Why do you want to stay there?
You know, we like the spot. We've landed there on an A and we think we can make it work.
But can you make it work with all these other jurors?
You're going up against Europe, after all.
100%. We're the best duo here,
and we're going to show you guys this weekend.
And you had a phenomenal global last year, Vols.
What feels different, though?
Obviously, we're in juros now,
but what's it like working with Acre?
He's the best IGEL in the world.
I'm one of the best fraggers together.
We're the best duo.
All right, then. Let's see how you guys are,
and let's see how Levin gets on with Thomas and Focus.
Thank you very much, Frankie.
Obviously, this weekend it looks like you're going to be contested by some OCE players.
How do you prepare for being contested?
You have experience being contested at Global Championships.
And what do you think of their chances against you this weekend?
I mean, zero chance. They moved just probably over them.
Has your own previous experience been contested?
Do you think that helps you mentally today?
I mean, yes, sir.
Focus? I'm not going to ask him this,
but I know you guys have had some problems of zones throughout the year, right?
right as the leader right how do you prepare for things what's your game plan your strategy when
things don't quite go your way maybe don't quite get the best zone I mean we work very hard with
our coach and he's helping us I think it's gonna go good with par zones uh as of now obviously you
know everybody wants to see Thomas get that first start you've had a great year do you think
this can be the one what has to go right for you for this to be the win we need zones
Well, fingers crossed for them, but also fingers crossed for this drill, though I don't think
they need any luck because they are probably raged as the favorites.
Dini, what's it like being at a global, knowing that everyone expects you to win?
Feels good.
And how does it vary compared to previous global championships?
I mean, it feels the same.
I'm already used to it.
I mean, you're so used to being here.
Shark, it feels like you're getting used to being here to your third LAN this year.
How do you feel about potentially raising the trophy?
I mean, yeah, it's gonna be amazing.
And you are currently coached by last year's champion, Quizzie.
What has he taught you?
What?
What Quizzie taught you now is coaching you?
I mean, still just have fun.
Just have fun?
Are you going to have fun out there, Tini?
Definitely.
Definitely going to have fun.
We're going to have so much fun watching these guys.
We're also going to have fun meeting the new players.
It's Josh and Ianzo, with a lead duo with raw mechanics and attack potential, where
in for a treat today.
Representing the land down under, it's all the ancestors.
Time to show the world exactly what's up.
Good things take time, but Chap and Flixy
have what it takes to be great.
So let's see these fellas put in work.
It's not about stumbling, but getting back up.
A fresh talent with a seasoned man,
Brad Sanyan is re-channeling the festival world
to showcase their talent here today.
Some improve and they're back down from a fight.
It's Mini-Bio and Boo-Boo,
ready to duke it out for their spot on the leaderboard.
New challenges on the rise and it's Brad and Boo-Boo.
How will their story cut out at this global championship?
Let's see that championship
caliber. We know you're made up.
Cheeto and Pablo.
All around the world, people are
waiting to hear from Clips and
Rapid. But is it true, Clips? You're
not streaming this event. I'm not
streaming. We're locking in
Wow, so how did you explain that to your community?
I mean, they know. Whatever I got to do to lock you in my duo,
they're going to support it.
Do you think that takes the pressure off you a bit,
wrapping up in knowing that it's not being live streamed?
It's just being streamed as part of the general broadcast?
Oh, 100%.
And how has that been, having the expectations,
not only of yourself, but also the community?
Yeah, so you don't feel like you've got to live up
to what they want from you.
You just got to do this for yourself.
Yeah, exactly.
And so for you guys today,
are you expecting any unwelcome visitors at Shaken Sanctuary?
I mean, we're prepared, but we'll see.
We will see. Thank you so much for talking to you guys.
Good luck. Wrap the set today and the twist of mind,
and we're going to head over to Leven with Ark and Canada.
No surprises here. Obviously, we want to talk to Canada.
It feels like you're 10 million of into the year,
and so what do you want us to see every week?
I mean, I don't know. I kind of see the same thing every time.
I'm here to win. Let's do this.
I don't know if you have a cringe in
why it seems very, very comfortable.
Obviously, I know you're not landing directly on them,
but you guys are landing close and you're
almost consistent for the LN.
What do you think is going to happen in that situation?
You think they're going to have to deal with them this weekend?
I think they are going to land on us,
and I'm ready for that.
I want that to happen.
They want it more than us.
I'm playing like I've nothing to lose.
They have everything to win.
So let's do this.
I'm very excited to speak to you.
We've had quite the interest in years since she popped off last year at Global's.
She's pretty clever at playing at Lacey.
I mean, when you talk about that, like, the experience,
did you learn anything, anything at all playing at Lacey?
Playing with Lacey was honestly one of the most fun things I ever did,
and I learned how to, like, guide with the player and idea of someone who,
you know, is just really good at the game.
You know, I think he was insane, and he got potential.
Well, I was hoping that confidence was going to help you today.
Good luck, boys. We're going to send you back to Frankie.
Thank you very much. I've got everyone's favorite dark horse. You're with me. It's Gino and Pablo Wingo
What's it like Gino knowing that you are a bit of a dark horse in this race?
How has this year been like because I don't think it's lived up to your own expectations so far
So how are you gonna prove yourself here in Antwerp?
I mean we had we've had a barbs and downs
Now we're here to try and do our best and we have nothing to lose, only something to gain.
Well, let's see what you can gain because you guys are part of a triple contest.
But we need to get even more players out and to have that to eat you!
A duo, Senators with top performances in this year!
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Shadow and Furglough are here to play with no regrets!
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From crazy solo punches to solid duo performances, they want to know that on a show that got what it takes for a winning result!
Another pair of Polish contenders is fixed and firing.
The lobby's stacked, but they want to show why it's falling on top.
It's a quick and an HQ, they've probably shown the second chance to learn.
Not given, but they're not done yet.
Feel the breeze, it's cold and ritual.
What a big stage!
Agents and Venno. Wrapping North America, but really, your heart belongs to Europe, surely, Venno?
Obviously, of course. I'm from the UK, I'm here to represent.
And yeah, I feel like there's a bit of friendly rivalry happening between you guys and Twizy and Pixie next door.
you're sharing the battle
with. Yeah, it's only because
we're sharing the same spot
and we're trying to see who's
going to come out on top. Do
you think given that your
booths are next door to
each other, we could see some
some gestures, some raised
eyebrows during the games. I'm
going to be screen peeking
him every game. He is not
going to be screen picking
him every game, but maybe
when one of them knocks
the other out, we could see
some moments in the booth.
You are known for liking to
Are you going to beat W King to these guys, Swizzing Pixie?
I might have beat a devil these next 12.
OK, well, watch this face.
In fact, watch these faces, Levin.
I'll be watching.
I'll be watching.
I'm here with two of Argentinas.
Finest, then carrying the region on your backs.
Lela, we have to talk about your performance at EvaVC.
You guys were amazing.
You had a crazy solo clutch.
You're playing out of your mind.
And you've got the region on your back.
A lot of people are reliant on you guys to perform.
How do you handle that pressure?
You know what?
Like, I like to play under pressure.
Because, yeah, I like it.
I feel it.
He likes to pressure, he likes to pressure.
Romero, obviously a lot of people that help you guys,
a lot of people are wondering
how you guys are gonna do this weekend.
People think he might be landing in different places,
he might be contesting how you're fishing,
maybe he landed somewhere else.
What's the plan, give away?
First of all, there are a lot of people who are not sure how you are going to play this weekend.
Where are you going to fall? What is the plan of the game? What is the plan that you have with this weekend?
I'm not going to say anything, but we are going to get the worst. We are going to get suicide.
Yeah, I mean, you know, we're just locked in, we put in the word, and hopefully it plays
off.
And we do see so much synergy between you guys in your end games, but how do you maintain
that here on LAN?
Um, I mean, we don't play for a lot of awesome past chemistry, like you said, so I think
it's just, basically, anything that needs to be discussed.
And you guys, so much experience of playing on the world stage, no trophies at a global
championship yet.
Do you think you can defy the odds and raise it?
I definitely think this is my way and I'll prove myself and I will look to talk.
Yeah, let's see if you can do it guys.
You've got a lot of fans watching you back home.
We've got ten more G-Ros to bring out to complete the Battle Burst.
They understood it best, Asia has to offer, it's for Yoda and Yuma, with the Termination of Pure Mechanics, they're sure to put on a show.
You bashed all energy as fellow hand-signers, no better time than now to submit yourselves as some top tier competitors.
Say hello to Slutzy and Wagers! Their last chance warp was really just the beginning!
Because these two are headed for being next up!
It's not other than here to enter! The reason for performance is I've consistently put them around the top!
But can they make it in first place?
And it was runners up Phoenix and Redshox.
The quantity is unknown, but they for sure, that fire will never burn out.
The last door to lock in for OCE.
That's the end crusades.
Better like they never, but they're looking for a hot start to globals.
Here's the damn show we had in Salvatore.
Redjumped the performance of the reloading series, they're translating that to globals.
You're too dark, I wanna champion!
Be going!
Oh god!
They saved third time the job, but it'll be big!
They actually secure it!
The first never agreed me!
I am here to interrogate Peter Bottom Boyo.
I mean, what we really know
is going on. So we're just
going to like loading game one
and that's going to flow. Maybe
I should ask you in game
leader. P. Have you got
something naughty plans? I
mean, you'll see. We'll see
but isn't worth the risk. If
you do go there because
there's a trophy at stake. You
guys obviously incredible, but
we want to see you get off to
a great start. It's the 12
You want to see you get off to a great start.
It's a 12-game format.
Yeah, I think the games that we went off to find,
we could probably do really good in the games.
Yeah, and the thing is, he sounds very kind of relaxed.
And to be fair, that's one of the players
that is most dangerous, Levin.
When it comes to you right now, Higgs,
you've got to talk about it.
Last time you saw you on the stage at Summit,
I don't want you to, you know, I don't want to get you in trouble with the Klicks fans.
But what went wrong then that has to go right now?
Um, I mean, that was just one of the worst performances I've ever had.
And I'm gonna bring it back today.
Right. Obviously we got a big up, big, big Logan.
You're one of the brightest stars in all of Fortnite.
I want to try to keep you humble. I'm not going to big you up too much.
But obviously we know, Viko Malibu can land very close to you.
close to you what's gonna happen if they decide to get aggressive on you this
weekend I think we're gonna have to contest them if they if they're like
T-S or anything so yeah ready for the fight I'm ready for it let's see if they're
ready for the fight Frankie who you got next I have got none other than Vika Madapura
we saw them race in pre-match summer we saw you as well at the reload elite
series championship taking the double.
So now can you do the treble?
Well, see, I mean, hopefully we can, you know,
it's come up to this, but I mean, we've heard a lot,
so hopefully it can be.
And you've clearly got a huge crowd
chanting for you, Malibuca.
Does it help knowing that so many people
want to see you lift the trophy?
Yeah, we're always excited to play in front of the crowd
because it's a nice pressure,
but it's also helped us to play
because it's more exciting to play.
So another word, if you want these guys to do it,
you've got to make so much noise for them this weekend.
Viko, can you already visualize yourself
being a global championship?
Because this is one achievement you don't have yet.
I mean, of course, you know.
If not this time, then when?
You know, I mean, we're the best team in the world,
so hopefully we can take it home, you know.
I would love it.
Well, you're putting the pressure on your own shoulders
there, but we've seen so many times that is something
you are more than capable of doing.
Malibu, Kudo, when you are up here,
How flexible is the game plan when people are trying to key you and prevent you from being number one?
We've got to be really flexible because there's not really like a game plan for every game and that's like this for every team.
So it's not to be flexible and ready for everything.
I think you guys are ready for everything from everything we've seen you do on this stage in 2026.
Let's head back to the desk there and see what they have to say.
I'm very excited is what I have to say you got to see a look at all of our players finally on one stage
We're all gonna hop aboard one battle bus, and they will all
Entertainment sorry about that
Your sound effects just keep downloading you sound effects
It's a firmware update, you know I got they got you a sound patch there guys
It feels the air in the like the air wait sorry about that the air in the room
because I found it
I can see the fog slowly turning
I thought it was happening I wanted to help you but I also wanted you to get there on your own
but listen Levin I'm sure you are so excited after all of those interviews just
listening to them listening to the confidence from me though I've been
watching fortnight commenting over fortnight for the past five years now
And to see the growth and maturity of so many of our players because we've got to grown up with a lot of these players
And you can just see from the interviews of yesteryear how shy how quiet they are and just to see them all be so confident
So calm cool and collected. I love to see that. Yeah, I mean it's great
I look at because example right people was like a scrappy little kid
You know, you so yeah, you know, you know, it's always like a two-year-old
Revvin up and he just keeps going
And now he's a 19-year-old. He's had all the success, but you still see that kid in him.
He still loves to have fun on that stage, right?
And I want to see a lot of these players have fun.
Again, you sort of see people in between, and you see them trying to keep themselves calm,
keep themselves locked into the moment.
But the one thing we can all know for certain is, Fortnite is such a reactive game.
Right.
And the reason why sometimes you ask these players questions about, like, what's planned?
Well, most of the time, a lot of them, though, it doesn't matter what's planned.
I just got to figure things out in the moment as they go as they come into our play.
So it's it's not easy out there.
There's also a lot of teams out there that have kind of teased a little bit that they
have some strategies in their back pocket.
And there has also been some dialogue on if we've seen some of our teams kind of sandbagging.
I don't know if that's been the case in EU, but in North America, we've been
not kind of questioning how if the ages and been on the last dip was kind of just
going really aggressive, what are they trying to hide there?
And then of course, we got to talk about Cooper and re landing mid doing such a good
job and then week one and then for some reason just not performing that we saw them do in week one
maybe again holding some strategies in their back pocket not wanting to expose too much
yeah there's almost like this like snapshot we have right now right like and it's kind of like
the initial plan that we as on the outside it's like hey yeah this is what everyone's planning
to do it's like hey okay cool but is that what's actually gonna happen in game number one could
we see Levin touch on it earlier literally anything can happen game two because he's
something game one game two game three could be completely different like this is the biggest stage
and when you're trying to earn a title of global champion you can't just kind of do what you've
been doing maybe some can't but not everyone can. No it's inherent to fortnite in itself where you
have these changing zones you need to be able to be adaptable and that is something that our
players have shown time and time again that they have to adapt not just in a tournament
but throughout the seasons the game will change and the dime will have completely new
of a couple of weeks right
before the tournament.
These players have constantly
been on the toes of having to
adapt on the fly.
And a lot of these teams right
here are so smart and so
mechanical, but they also have
their coaches.
We've seen a lot of coach
pushups and everything.
And you know, those coaches
are watching right now, and
they're going to be
ball reviewing from day one to
day two.
It could be a completely
different story on what
strategies these players are
bringing to the table.
So I just got so locked in
watching the players there
just seem to see, you know,
you know, I'm trying to micro analyze any sort of facial
It's good to see I just smiling, you know, I think obviously these big questions about his ability to perform
You know consistently in the biggest moments is playing with a young playing console
I think that's the thing that we have a lot of questions for these players
We'll see who comes up with some answers. That's right. Well fortnight fam. I am getting word
It is almost that time to jump aboard the Battle Bus.
This is just day number one.
We have six games ahead of us.
What do these players have planned?
It's time to find out.
Let's go beat up with your casters right now.
Thank you so much, Zeke.
This has been an exciting time.
We're not even here yet at game one,
but teams from around the world
spent all year long just to make it to this stage,
and it's not even done yet.
Yeah, and one of the toughest things, too, to recognize
is just everything that's been going down
inside of the practice room environment.
Also, we've seen the players have the opportunities
to kind of interact with each other in person,
whether it's your duo or not.
There's always that bit of mind games being played,
and now we get to see how it all unfolds here in game one.
Yeah, you mentioned in practice.
Here it is, reality rain, the most talked about off spawn fight that we have seen in
such a long time.
And that's saying some big things because we have some contested fights all around
the map.
some drops that players are hoping to split with one another to try to make it to that end game.
And it's when you get to that end game taco where all the points matter. I mean you get close your
eyes and throw some darts at the map and I'm sure you're bound to see something you're taking
place. All of these many mid map contestations are also going to be so problematic for teams
that are located a little bit more towards that central position. But for right here right now
We've got to see whether or not that 50-50 actually comes to fruition.
And who's actually going to be able to make the most of it, but Mshari, I mean,
trouble already brewing, doesn't even really get the chance to touch down.
Too many players posing a threat from a distance.
Yeah, you gotta imagine that.
Could have been, that could have been Reid, that could have been Cooper.
They were the ones gliding past that drop spot.
And it kind of alleviates the pressure of this triple contested fight.
And it all really depends if they saw it actually happen in the feed.
You can see it in the minimap, the top left, that revive.
them. Shari is going to get back into this game. But now they're off to such a slow start
compared to the rest of the players at their POI. And they're not just any player. This
is Peter bottom. This is Skye and Skrull. These are some of the best players in their
region. And essentially Skye, Skrull, they seem to be making the most of the current
situation. Pete, Koyle though having the opportunity to reunite. So a little bit
of a swing and a miss there. It seemed as though Skye and Skrull were hoping to
isolate Peterbot initially, but with the way he's managed to kind of finagle his way out of that last position
Things are going to sort of simmer out Pete Boyo going to have to
Recalibrate how they actually want to approach this yeah, and this is kind of something we saw in game two of those practice games yesterday
Just practice doesn't mean much but Peterbot and Boyo taking a different approach the disengage but fight happening all
Around the star view where and now are able to take down Gino all of the gates and already
It's not looking good for Pablo.
We got two different triple contested fights here,
and both of them have impacts right out of the game.
Deja vu right now for Pablo and Chino
and just dealing with the triple contested POI.
They have the same situation back during Summit.
They are very familiarized with what that's going to be like,
but it's another beast entirely
when you're actually in the thick of it.
Still only game one of 12, Jacob,
and knowing that it's a two-day format,
You just need to make sure that you can lock in for the rest of these matches.
Fika Malibuka though, just a walk in the park, they don't really have anything pressing them just yet.
Pete and Poyo on the other hand though, they want to get active with Jule and Tidy.
Yeah, they left so early out of reality rain, you know, they're just hunting for loot.
I think it was Lebanon, maybe it was Kelly, they're breaking it down trying to talk about what they expect to see.
This right here was one of those possibilities.
Maybe you can get a little bit more aggressive at the end of the day.
day two actually fight it out, but Peter Barton Poyle are looking to give themselves a good start to the entire tournament
But they're going ahead and pushing to a jewel and tidy we're already at they already looted up the top of that mountain
And I'm trying to do the same thing for themselves finish up their loadout
You could see missing item slots low on materials
So this is obviously not the start they were hoping for it's definitely put jewel and tidy into an awkward position because we already saw it there
Tidy scouting out the facts I is scary not too far away, and if they go just a little bit too close
That could be the end of it
They'll get sandwiched between two really solid fighting do us but for came in hurry
just trying to
Make sure that they have everything that they need a hurry holding it down currently inside of their surge base a little bit
That mountainside control is also going to make it rather difficult for Josh any yam
So to kind of navigate where they're currently fixated because you don't want to get tagged up
You don't want to give away free search.
Yeah, it's just one of those things,
especially with those massive changes that
came to the start of this year.
It's damage dealt minus damage taken,
kind of get to your overall net search.
So this is why you typically have
seen team major after major.
Kind of be welcome to stay in the storm, get those yields.
And it kind of eliminates the possibility of them
taking surprise damage.
But we go for clicks of rapid,
kind of uncontested on their split to teeny and sharp.
This is their POI.
It's Shadow and Virgo that need to watch out
because they're walking in the enemy territory.
But Shadow sparks out Teenie, fires the first shot,
and now it's all gonna break loose.
That trigger discipline by Teenie ends up biting him back.
Virgo and Shadow now ready to completely defend
everything that Teenie and Shark
had just invested so much time to set up.
We don't even know whether or not
they even feel all that positive
because that material load up,
Not the strongest there from Teenie and Shark.
They were clearly anticipating getting that opening shot.
And since that opportunity has just fizzled on out of Teenie,
Shark recognizing it might just be better to get out of dodge.
Yeah, you can even see the kind of lack of mobility.
Yes, he does have the Sonic, but he used the Shark waves.
And you see Shark has nothing in his inventory.
So they might feel pressured.
Hey, you're coming over to the off territory.
This is the team that not only knows but loves to fight
as well, but on the flip side for NA, Shadow and Virgo.
Remember when they qualified to the global stage, they were fighting.
They were not only first on the leaderboard to punch their ticket to the Summit Finals,
but they eventually won a game as well.
So now they're not a team that's just gonna get pushed over easy.
Smart though by Virgo and Shadow.
They're the ones currently extending the invitation,
trying to force Tini and Shark to actually get up close and comfortable
because Virgo and Shadow, they got the vending.
Right now they have the luxury of waiting things out.
They can stall.
Portio Pete also caught in a bit of their own mix-up here.
Both incredibly injured.
Portio might have an opportunity here to play
and restore some of that shield, but with Pete having
to take that defensive, metric, tidy tool,
they're already looking to press inwards.
Yeah, it's just a scary fight, but all it takes
is one shot like that from Pete to try to turn the tables.
Now he has tidy on the back, but trying to push him back.
Julie's there as well.
And now he's just getting detected
because Peter Bok found the opening of Portio,
The third party! Ziya takes it down!
Now it's a 1v1 in this close quarters combat.
Third party is also closing in!
And Ziya's in scary, more than content
to take their sweet time with it.
They're forcing Pete's hand here.
Jewel trying to see the complaint for the relic,
but it's not going to be an option just yet.
Pete's still pressing.
Now we're gonna get the ultimate cleanup
because he knows sooner or later
the Spaniards are going to get even more directly involved
but Pete's still doing what he can
to try and put himself in the best possible position here for a recovery match.
Now, you know, it's eventually, you know, it's just kind of going for the revive yet again.
That's exactly what he's trying to attempt.
But, yeah, he's right.
To me, the gage, he's playing aggressive, but he trades off a massive shot,
where it's not too much to worry for Peterbot actually staying alive.
You see the three medkits, one being used, but he has no extra shield.
And you got to hope on the other side they have some sort of HP,
because as soon as the revive started, Choco, he goes right back to it.
a hundred plus dammit, the first elimination, and he's got to back to keep him in the game!
And that is the kind of catalyst that someone like Peterbot desperately needed,
because flashback season, think about what's happened whenever Pete has gone down
in these opening matches of a LAN environment. It doesn't usually end well for that day,
Jacob, so desperately needing that one. Now we'll have to wait and see whether or not
and then they're going to be
able to get to the top.
They're going to be able to
get to the top.
Not boy is going to eventually
reboot and how they fare from
there, but.
Other teams like ages and
Venno.
Getting the opportunity here
to sort of foster rock.
Engage whether or not they're
able to establish enough
surge against the likes of
pixie and Swizzing.
Yeah, you can see early on in
the mini map.
You see at the top left or
the top right.
I should say that little
line.
That's the zone.
So Venno and Rangers know teams will have to rotate in and around this location.
So as long as they keep themselves healthy, take themselves away from getting work, they
should be okay.
And right now Venno's kind of doing what he does best.
He's kind of lurking around the map, trying to grab some extra heals, reform those materials
so that way he can bring it back to that tower.
So eventually Taco, when they do have to move, they have everything that they
need.
It's just so funny though when you think about how Swizzy and Pixie specifically
tried to play for getting full claims to all the battlewoods throughout those
online majors and yet here at the global championship recognizing the fact that
Venno Agers just incredibly strong competitors maybe a split is in our best
interest but for a team like cold and ritual who are trying to just make
their way forward these are gonna be a little bit more complicated but Venno
managing to pull up with a nice elimination there on to Slepsey and
that's what I put him in the driver's seat against wagers now. Yeah he put in
work with that learn to get that elimination and now he's just continuing to
press forward on the wagers and it might seem like he's all alone but
ages closing that gap realizing maybe this fight more important that we made
things storm surge will impact our games not only today but throughout the
weekend so you gotta stay ahead of the pervert right now they're doing more
than just that waiters almost getting full boxed up multiple times these
quickly moving through these builds trying to stay alive but it doesn't look
like ages of Venom aren't going to give up on this play.
Wagers fighting back, big shot to land on Venom,
but it's just not enough.
There's just only so many places that Wagers
could actually try to escape to.
Just a great cut off there fromagers and Venom,
just refusing to budge, taking every single opportunity
to get that surge established very early on.
Sharp teeny, though.
Even after that, early hiccup,
now trying to see if they can duke it out
against the likes of the Argentinians.
Romero and Lewa in a bit of a pickle here too over by Wonkyland.
They don't have a whole lot of time left to work with here.
They don't want to find themselves also getting caught out by third party circumstances.
And for Romero, you might not have a choice.
Shark and Teeny gonna close this one out.
And I think Shark, Teeny, Lewa, and Merah are kind of feeling that side effect.
If when you're the best on your region, most teams don't mess with you.
You're kind of playing a whole different game than you and you might feel here
in the global championship where less and less teams are scared.
Even M. Shari Salvatore.
We saw him go down early.
Salvatore getting M. Shari back into the game
and they're just disengaging.
I don't think they want to fight this team.
They probably saw on the feed who it was
and now they just want to go on with their game.
It's extremely common to see Shark and Tini
opting to play early storm.
They always like to try and capitalize on teams
retreating back, looking for those reboot opportunities
and from a place like Wonky,
bound to be a decent influx of players
that are just a little bit more injured
but Serge still not looking the best year for Shark and Tini.
They are definitely going to need a little bit more damage
if they want to have a much better setup for the end game.
Yeah, you gotta imagine what their damage would be like
if Shadow and Virgo didn't lurk around Golden Grove
to kind of hit that first monster shop
that kind of opened up that whole scenario
on that side of the map.
They already rotated ahead,
but Tini is already putting that range of work,
getting some damage on the Shadow and Virgo themselves,
trying to just get as comfortable as possible.
He knows where he's at now.
Isn't enough to survive the entirety of the game,
but he's just taking it one step at a time.
Oh, we're getting a chance to look back
into what Pete and Poyo have been up to,
and it just seems like disaster continues
to strike at every opportunity.
Saez and Scary had just sort of been trailing Pete and Poyo
this entire time, ever since they initially scouted out
the fact that Tidy and Dual found themselves
in that sandwich positioning.
Zaya is scary. Just fully understanding the type of advantages that could possibly work with here, but you never know.
Things could 180 at a moment's notice and people are not exactly the type to let you get away with things.
Yeah, especially there in a moment like that when you kind of hit some big shots with Ranger.
Sometimes it's a giant green light to go.
Swizzy and Pixie go from the battle with.
We were going to talk about Venom and Ager staying here.
The zone is suiting them. Pixie and Swizzy doing the same thing.
221 above the damage threshold and continuing to increase from there.
But you can see kind of their game plan.
They're just not trying to one shock into zone.
They're taking their time.
They're re-boxing up because they know trying to play this perfect is going to be impossible.
They're just trying to break it down into steps.
Heads up play though from Swizzy and Pixie.
They saw that Meadow and Agers were clearly preoccupied with trying to get tags onto those northern teams
that are sort of trickling down that mountain span.
I've made it a much easier for them really only having to deal with pink and rora
Just a little bit of separation between these two duos, but pink rora
Maybe even looking to spice things up a bit here if they find themselves in an engagement
You have to imagine it might also be a play of desperation because how much surge that they really manage
Sort of build up for themselves while they were waiting on the outskirts of battle woods
Yeah, and it's just tough
I even saw Higgs and Curve in the distance starting to set up inside of the zone, so when
you start to get towards that congested edge, that's when you start to rethink a lot of the
scenarios.
Darman Demers though 227, you're seeing them happy to float around in the zone, but it's
for now.
They are taking two ticks of damage per second.
They stay out here, and if they're out here in the next zone, it will tick for
five.
So it's not what I wish on any of my enemies.
On that same note though, we've seen so many teams, even throughout that the
traditional comes most recent ladies trying to tank up some of those early ticks off the
ice arm and well, if you have the heels for it it makes total sense, but for a duo like
me and Boyo, they have really just been struggling from start to finish that early delay on
their overall game strategy has now put them in such an awkward position and Boyo, he
might not even be able to make it into the next zone. Pete's already been not
just too much damage to handle.
That is one of the most selfless things
I have seen at a global championship.
Peterbock, Pollo, reading the situation.
We are not going to be able to survive together
with the amount of heals that we have.
Peterbock dropping everything for Pollo.
I said this at the Summitland.
Pollo is the new crown king, but he is making it work,
but he has such little heals left.
The pain involved here, Jacob.
They didn't actually see him on that last rotate.
So Ponyo will just narrowly skirt by, but he still has to make it,
break into that edge of zone and hope that no one is going to be a flexible on the way.
But the moment that he touches down, easily cleaned up.
Just too little to work with.
So Darman, DMS, Rapid Flicks, now trying to dictate who's going to actually get
the leverage here.
Yeah, and then you start to think of your sky and scroll,
your triple contested competition,
start to have some troubles early in it, game number one.
That's gonna start to boost the confidence a little bit,
but you still have to exit here in the end game.
You see Teenie already down 152 below the damn threshold.
Sharp falls as well.
That is a very rare sight.
Two incredibly strong fan favorites
already taken out before placement points
really even begin to factor in.
Elimination is going to be what carries over for most of them.
But obviously, Jacob, nothing ever goes to plan
when it comes to that land environment.
Malguka alluded to it, but now Clicks and Rapid,
they're still trying to see if they can manifest
a big performance here in game one.
Yeah, you can see they still need some search,
couple more damage points here.
Not necessarily a ton, but if you're gonna take shots
like that, it's definitely gonna give you
deeper and deeper into the hole.
And that's why you see Clicks was looking out,
A4 and trying to go for a cheeky little shot.
something players like to do to sneak up, but now Storm Search is activated. Every 7 seconds, 25 damage.
He has only one bandage in his inventory, so he needs to go. They need to figure out where they're
gonna fight this fight at, otherwise it's gonna be lights out. But what makes you get a move on?
They don't have any mobility to work with. They are bores to just try and fight their way
through this one. Maybe Higgs, Curve, but Klicks just all ready to beat and knock,
and that's going to be easy peasy wipeout.
Now, Rapid, let's to see if there's any form of recovery,
something he can salvage.
We know exactly what he's capable of,
but this is a grim loadout and a dire situation.
Yeah, the only silver lining I have for Rapid right now
is for the next couple of seconds or so.
The storm surge will deactivate.
We'll move into the next zone.
Then it will turn on again.
So for Rapid, you've bogged yourself some time here.
But what are you going to do with that time
as you see him looking off in the distance,
seen the boat scuffle breaking down but everybody's essentially full built no
shots can sneak their way through and then I want to age is also trying to
avoid the problems of focus from the rest of the lobby but do a decent job so
far coming that way forward and now they're gonna get a little bit tapped up
here is better starting to fall incredibly low does have a chump just
still to work with and for overdrive but it doesn't matter ages watches on as
As his duo gets taken out, now trying to see whether or not he can be able to survive himself,
these material counts are just falling at such a rapid rate.
Yeah, it's just even worse. He's 54, below the damage threshold.
Of course, only one player needs to go down, storm surge will deactivate for the rest of this game.
So right now, playing kind of either for the most part, doesn't want to take any unnecessary things.
Wrapping it on the other side, though, down to 34 HP, two build.
He is praying for a miracle.
Well, hey, make it worse.
Stop it.
The bush buddy doesn't get the chance.
Ionzo and Josh, they're just not going to let that one slide by.
Ager's still trying to make a solo sort of come up here.
But for Curve and Higgs, currently holding down the high ground
and doing a great job at ensuring that nobody else being
a little bit of a late straggler into that back side of zone
is going to have an easy time about it.
phrase lost so much of his HP there already as a solo to Higgs knows that
this is a very uncomfortable spot to be in for everyone underneath them and
they're just trying to control the flow of traffic.
Yeah, the only thing they really have to watch out for is anybody trying to sneak
me trying to shockwave up and they go ahead and move to the front side of the
zone making sure to reinforce their position.
Viko Malibuka sky and straw.
There goes their first elimination.
Troll is going to go down but Viko did take a big shot.
can't help but notice how messy this mid-ground territory is starting to become.
The Green Hill zone just so problematic with some of these elevation shifts,
but Malibuca and Viko still managing to stay side by side.
They've done a great job at following each other,
but even taking over that front-side zone,
they're going to have to start looking back.
They need a refresh.
Yep, Hicks curve still up above.
Nobody has tried to contest them yet.
So re-jumping around.
Josh get elimination along with the Amzo.
Viko getting another one onto Gondo.
The second one of the game, sometimes it's not the shield, not the eliminations, Taco.
It's what you get from those eliminations.
It's just how many players are still managing to barely survive here in the end of it.
Swizzy cut off there by Pico, but only momentarily.
We'll get an opportunity to try and read a line with Pixie.
Now it's all about cringe.
Volko, Pico spotted them out.
He has control, but he doesn't want to take a cross shot at them just yet.
We're gonna actually look, play a little bit more patiently, but
Have you to break through a lot of these pre-existing tarps?
It's going to pose some threats now
because they've lost a little bit of that frontside control.
And again, nobody's even given a chance to look up.
Hicks and Herb, anybody, anytime somebody,
and it's one of those boxes,
anytime they see somebody build something fresh,
they're immediately pressuring down.
They don't even give them a singular second
to start to look up, and it's from Mac and Roar.
You see the plenty pressure on the candy, Ari, Gar, and Beeman.
Everybody now, it's just being suffocated down below,
and even in the back side of the zone,
where you see Pink going down.
That's exactly what Vika needed, though.
That cycle material to every little bit counts at this stage.
Underneath, though, Malabuca going to be wiped out here.
Vika now opting to just play the chug jug for what remains.
Open to the place, drag the team which is compiled for him instead.
But now the pressure of the lobby is starting to fold in.
High ground looking directly at him.
He'll be forced to drop right around the corner.
But it's too little too late.
Tries to go for the elimination.
The cheeky play just does not work.
Everybody down below is certainly going through it.
But even Demish right now, oh my god,
I'll even know where we're from,
but it doesn't matter because he's right back to the lobby
and that's exactly what you need if you're Demish.
It's only Scythe and Mabstokko,
but it's better than nothing.
But will it be enough?
Is that going to be the spark of life right now
for Demish?
And no, Hari, Kami,
immediately shutting that one down,
but this right here is where Kami and Hari
can begin to thrive.
We know what they're capable of
in a land environment and for heads,
They've had the high ground largely uncontested, but it all depends on whether or not Hari and Cami could continue controlling what's happening underneath.
They've got to have some of the most eliminations in this game as fast as much as gets ran through by Brazil.
Seven eliminations though for Cami and Hari.
Make it eight, eleven, nine!
Eliminations already almost in the double digits as they smoothly walk into the top three.
3.
Harry is hitting his own level of flow state right now as Harry, Cammie, beginning to just
dropping layer by layer.
Eventually, they'll force the high ground to potentially come right to where they want
him.
But Cammie and Harry, they're looking up, they're also looking underneath.
They're trying to make sure they don't get caught in the middle.
They were in the middle of that sandwich, and they get a bite taken out of them by
the Gwendolyn.
Not as bare as well, but y'all forgot about Higgs and Curd.
This is EU versus Brazil versus NA!
NA6 is going in the track and see if they can get it won!
The first strike has landed!
I know Bob McGurr got to be going for raising somewhere in this audience.
Big smiles all around.
Because curve and Higgs finding this first victory royale, it's definitely a statement.
I'm not gonna lie, boys.
What's that?
It's easy to look at.
It sure is.
It sure was.
Why would no one contest your high ground?
I literally said on first moving,
I said the whole lobby's nervous.
We're just going to win the game on high ground.
Do you think they're going to continue
to be nervous after seeing you play like that?
No, I think the nerves will start going away for everyone.
And what about the nurse that you know, Higgs?
Now you've got a victory royale on your belt.
Yeah, I mean, I feel good.
You know, first win on land in five years or four years.
So yeah, it's nice.
Let's see if this momentum can continue.
For Yuka, you're just a LAN natural.
Do you think you're also the best controller player
in the world right now?
Uh...
I don't know.
Say it.
I think I'm the best.
I think you might be the best too,
but we've got so many other incredible players here
looking to prove themselves,
so let's see if they can do it after the break.
Hit the card, everyone!
and I don't know how to feel about it.
You're not used to losing, Garry Beaton?
Like this these players are just so locked in could it be the milk
Stay there
Oh
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Four night fan and a we're safe.
On land. Oh and they were saying everything's okay.
Levin, what do you have to say to that?
I have to say it's the first game to come on man. Let's get serious.
Have some shame, Zeke.
I will give it to you. I'm a big fan of Higgs and Curve.
I think Curve is an absolute star.
Higgs is one of my favorite characters we've seen.
I was talking to Vivi in the back and we were saying,
when you're looking at NA's best chances here of a win,
you're obviously looking at vendor ages and battlewards,
but then you're looking at straight at Hicks and Curves.
You have to have the ability here in this first game.
They played it so well, Kelly.
The thing I loved about them is they did exactly what
you need to do in first games.
Game one in almost every tournament I feel like,
any big tournament, people don't look up at height.
You play for height early,
you're gonna be able to hold it.
And you can hear from that interview that Hicks and Curves
They had that tower. They had
it on top of this plateau that
just gave them so much awareness
and they were smack dab in this
thinner zone six so that once
it did start rotating, they were
able to kind of just follow
that along and Green Hill Zone
kind of play back and forth.
They were a little lucky with
some of the rotate, but there
is just such verticality in
Green Hill Zone that they were
literally able to just bring
each of these plateaus together.
But there really wasn't an
opportunity for these low ground
to just bring heat of these plateaus together.
But there really wasn't an opportunity
for these low ground teams to kind of chop.
They were up there for so long.
And you know what I love the most about this
is we actually caught up with Papa Kerr.
He's actually here.
This is Kerr's dad.
He's here with his brother.
And Papa Kerr was saying, hey, Mama Kerr
had to stay home.
So shout out to you, Mama Kerr.
I'm sure when you saw this moment,
you were taken.
That's my beautiful little boy.
But man, to see them come coming with.
How you reaction or yours, man?
That was my reaction.
What a fantastic moment for Higgs and Curve, though, again.
But remember that 11's right.
That was just game one.
That's just kind of the feeler game.
Let's take a look at our leaderboard
to kind of see how things are going.
Remember, can't forget four points per elimination,
but at the top, as it stands, Curve and Higgs
right there in first place.
But Cammy are 11 to game.
What is an elephant doing in Ohio?
I mean, this might be the only time we've seen you
coming in high with the most limbs in the lobby.
It's Marvin in it while we can.
Harvey was popping off.
Oh my goodness.
He had seven legs, Wolfian.
They were feeling anywhere.
Electric, that's the exact type of first game.
You want to see those two have it.
Yeah, I was writing down notes.
I was like, OK, six, seven, eight, nine,
all of them, but you just call it a play.
And they were running that mid-ground,
and that meant to me with the smart play.
Because they're obviously going to be able to steal fight.
low ground just had so many teams fighting each other that they weren't really going to be able to do that.
So, love to see that play from them and hopefully they can do it in game number two as well.
So many high-profile duos. Gotta talk also to Darman, Dimas.
Dimas put a situation where you've got to solo clutch. These types of situations are so difficult.
Then you add on the layer of, hey, we're at global, this is a land, you've got the crowd going crazy,
and still, even through all that, managed to clutch up.
What I loved about this play from Demish is that at one point he just was in shambles.
And when you don't have skills and you don't have mobility, you're loadout, well you might as well pick up every gun that you find in the game.
At one point he had four different guns in his loadout.
And that was definitely allowing him, I'm sorry, in Demetri's loadout, that was allowing him to be able to kind of get more and more eliminations as a solo player at this point.
To be able to get four or five eliminations is so pivotal in being able to raise you up in the leaderboard.
That's a beauty of this duo. Both of these two have the ability to have plays and end games just like this one.
Demons, you know, we know how much of a fantastic solo player he is and so when he gets to these moments,
he is in the face, he's able to stay in the moment, knows what he needs to do.
Look, it's looking good for the polls so far after game one. They're clearly impressed and we want to see everyone else step out as well.
I think we're concerned to be a little bit friends. We got to look at like Peterbop, Pollo, Sky and Skrull, Viko Malibuka.
I think of all of the three, Viko Mali, they did the best, right, kind of finding themselves a top 10.
But for Peter Bonham Pollo, it's sky and scroll, very tough first games.
It was a little rough. I mean, even just as hard to get alone was a little bit shaky.
It seemed like there was actually, it was such a far Western bus path
that a lot of those Eastern POIs really struggled.
We actually saw one of those players go down really early.
I think it was Nshari. They were able to bring him back up.
But it did seem like they were kind of able to separate their P.O.I. a little bit.
But the real struggle was after they left their P.O.I.
Peter Von Hoyle stayed just a little too long in Storm and ran into the likes of Gary and Staya.
Then unfortunately at some point you just can't keep fighting in Storm and using up all your heels.
Yeah, I think what concerns me is I think we all sort of thought in the ideal situation
they're both going to be able to somehow survive off-Sport and then get to play games out, right?
We saw that scenario in that first game and it didn't quite look so good for I've lived in and so
Something else is gonna have to click something else is gonna have to shift
Very messy games from both and that's not what you're using at least in the sky and small sense
Yeah, we used to see them have a lot cleaner games. We sort of running down there low
Still lots more for that to be played though. So I'm not panicking yet. Yeah, I think of course
Sharkate TV as well man at 39 plays from the duo again
I don't want to freak out too much it is just game number one out of 12 right so we do have a lot of games like you're
Mentioning here. I also want to highlight Mac and big wet up my gosh
Let's go beyond man
I literally talked about almost every single small region team and I somehow didn't talk about them even though
They have been one of the best in the region and you know it just makes me think about how leaven every time we talk about
Smaller region teams and we bring up Brazil. He's like stop saying that they are a smaller region team
They are not and obviously every time we get to see a Brazilian team come to land
They always come out with a win against some of the biggest names to receive back in to where handle this
Crazy in game for game number one is exactly what we need
Vibes are just so high both of them feeling so confident. They know people are sleeping in them because their situation
Let's be real. It's not ideal, right?
Triple contested in that first game.
They make quick work of it.
Again, the talent in this lobby,
the talent in some of these other regions,
it's absolutely there.
It's the platform, the opportunity to showcase that.
Let's not kid ourselves.
Are they going to get the chance to play out all 12 games
in that same manner?
Probably not.
But if, when they do survive,
they can keep having games like that.
Look, we might be seeing another visiting team
in that top 10,
and these two definitely would deserve it.
I love that, guys.
We also wanted to highlight Swizzy and Pixie for you.
It's crazy.
We just, anytime, I'm like, oh, maybe that's not enough.
Like, we've talked about a bunch of things.
No, Zeke, there's 50 to us here.
All worthy of mentioning to see them again.
And again, I wonder, I have to remind myself, even.
This is just the context of just game number one.
I'd love to maybe shift perspective a little bit.
After this first game, what are you guys
maybe seeing out of game number one
that could potentially change moving forward?
I think seeing how many teams that were trying to tank Storm just get of the littering, right?
Shout out to my brother Rhys, I'm using the crowd here somewhere, that brother's done video after video after video about just how much people try to play Storm.
I think everybody knows that's going to keep you successful in a lot of the different seasons and matters we've had this year.
In that first game, so many of our top teams trying to tank, trying to rotate late into the half-nile zones.
It just was not working, it wasn't clicking a lot of them, it really struggled in there.
It's really interesting because Shark and Teenie, who at the start of the season,
wasn't necessarily painting Storm as the weeks have developed, have been doing it more and more,
and I just feel like I haven't seen success from them when they do that.
But obviously, you can tank Storm and you can get these great Dead Side Rotates
if no one else is doing it, but if half the lobby is staying in Storm
and trying to get these Dead Side Rotates, it's no longer a Dead Side Rotate.
with a poyote actually when he was trying to rotate in right he tries to rotate in he's hiding in the bush
he wanted to keep flapping to the side of the zone but then i drop in guns or come passing he's actually
can't grow that way but then he has to wrap back around he's in the storm because he wants to be
where nobody ends up wrapping down into more congestion it's like it is really going to be tough
like you say kenny when so many more players are trying to do it we'll see how that ebbs and
flows right because now a lot of those guys might go oh actually we don't want to do that again
next game and it actually doesn't become free so if you all the people thought they're in it
it's a bit easier so you know it's always a tough one to pull with some of these big game rotates
I wanted to also touch on fifth place racks and Janice oh my gosh guys like we could sit here and
talk about duos forever but again how was game number one for them and maybe similar type question
what were you seeing I was just saying when that camera pans over I'm expecting some MA noise
You finally does come through
The reality of these two is that I think very slept on
This is a problem with you being as deep as it is as far as I'm so many good teams is that a team like Rex and Janice can
Almost go under the radar because they might be considered like the Mike tempest team in EU
But that just don't means they're very good team and Janice has so much experience on this day
That's books and early in the week, and he looked at me as I love a man
I think it's a good idea.
I think it's a good idea.
It's a good idea.
It's good to be back.
People are writing me off.
I'm done.
I'm back on the stage.
And so hopefully using that and
all the talent that racks has.
I mean, that kid is, he's going
places.
So really looking forward to
seeing what they do this
weekend.
Yeah, just to build on that.
Obviously I come from the
North American region, but I
have been seeing and watching
Janice play for so long.
But rax is definitely a newer
player for me.
So to see him do so well is
exactly what we need for
game number one, but I'm
ready for the next game.
That's right.
game number two. It's always so crucial though getting off to a hot start here in
day one Jacob because all these teams know sure you might have 12 matches told
to work with but there's only six split across both of these days of
competition so we've seen a little bit of pop-offs and for some of our duos
that didn't get off to the best spot well let's see if they can make up for
it here in game two.
I know this fight right here didn't necessarily go down the way anybody really thought it would
but a whole different bus path means a whole different game plan.
We saw M. Shari get knocked right out of the gauge.
Peterbott, Koyos, Skye, and Skroll take two different sides and eventually both disengage
out.
Honestly, we might have called this an off-spot fight,
but in game one, it's anything but that.
Look at Pete go, one of the first to actually touch
put on the ground, already picking up Shaka and trying
to see if he can get an angle onto Sky or a scroll.
But the moment might have been lost in just a couple
seconds here.
Instead, falling back, slurp truck claim.
Sky scroll though, now trying to look
and see if they can go on the offensive.
And you can never factor out how
the release is getting up to here.
Yeah, and this is really putting a wrench in the Peter
They also plan on the south side and just like that last game, they didn't necessarily spend a ton of time looting up the reality rain.
They went back towards that backbound where we see Tidy and Jewel kind of focusing up their position at.
And that's exactly what you're seeing here.
But if you notice, look at their loadout. Just like last game, they have little to nothing to even take a fight.
They fight, but hey, action elsewhere on the map this time.
It's going to go in the favor though of Gino and Pablo.
And that's a little back to back cleanup to shut down Brazil,
Mac of the Yeta.
Gonna have to wait and see what happens next in game three.
Because for right now, it's all about Gino, Pablo,
other teams elsewhere too.
Clicks, Rapid, the pace sort of being a little bit more
passive, but these are the early matches.
This is what we expect.
outside of the zone post clicks and rapping. They've garnered a lot of respect for this drop spot.
They get the whole actual sanctuary, the side as well. You got 27 and Kyle there on the side,
but they're actually showing clicks and rapping a lot of respect. Maybe that'll change at the
end of the day, maybe going into game two depending on where you're at on the leaderboard.
But for clicks and rapping, you really got to take advantage of the amount of freedom you're
given. I was a really big fan of that quick flash over of the leaderboard though. Seeing
They were in that third place position after their game one performance because of the successful off-spot.
So now, can a team like Gino and Pablo also translate that early success into a solid end game finish?
Because they're going to have to if they want to keep up with the competition.
And seeing all around, Sharkantini free for now, but with no shadow and Virgo go up that beachside on the Eastern.
Vico Malibuca still uncontested at the Vico of course they have the game one
winners of Higgs and Kerb just towards their West and he heard Higgs and Kerb hey
if they contest us if they try to push us might as well go to LiftyLogic so
so I don't think Vico Malibuca wanna poke the bear just yet. It's just so hilarious
because if you ask Kerb anytime throughout the practice room days how
do you think you're gonna do this weekend? Ah it's cooked! We got Vico Malibuca
they're right there two-time wearing champions and you know it's just
like Leven said on the desk earlier during that pre-show.
You can never believe a single thing these pros say,
because they've all got their own little schemes
that they're trying to abide to and sort of map out
as the day progresses for Curve and Higgs.
They've got to be a very big target currently
for the rest of this lobby.
Yeah, I think it's one of those things
so where there's so many superstars on at A,
it's kind of easy to forget about some players
in some cases, but for Higgs and Curve,
They've already put themselves on the map in game one.
And honestly, look at how these positions have changed
just a little bit.
Peter Bottenpoie have taken the top side of that mountain
in back to back games, kind of first in tidy and jewel,
off of that position.
And hopefully this time around, instead of just kind of keying
straight for a fight to try to get that loot,
maybe they kind of accumulate that surge,
kind of make the rest of their game easier
with the start here.
If Mshari and Salva just weren't
towards that north side of reality's reign,
this would be so much less awkward, though,
for Pete and Poyo because they could potentially wrap around the POI after prioritizing the
slurp truck.
Instead, Tidy, Jewel, trying to take advantage, trying to get early surge tags.
They've already awarded a little bit of that map presence out of Pete and Poyo in that last
lot.
He put them into a really, really tough situation where they spent the entire game
just trying to make up the lost time at the start of it all.
And then you have other teams like Plakes Frappin, you know, a little bit more
So we're doing a little bit more quiet to the notion,
but Gallaght 27, keeping them on their toes.
Yeah, even hitting a couple of shots.
It was breaking the shield to wrap it.
And those little interactions early on in the game
is kind of what causes a little bit of the avalanche effect.
If you do get that max ball, you're not really
able to recover the damage for Serbs.
Agers and Venno, though, kind of doing what they do best.
They do land on the north side of the battlefield.
But just like you saw in game one,
Venno is not scared to look around,
whether going for loot, going for damage, or just straight eliminations,
he's a driving force for this duo.
Already got their surge base set up.
Likely just going to continue trying to play through it as Tidy and Jewel.
Continuing the harp upon Peter, but and for you.
Not only that, but also just trying to scope out the entire area.
Fully wary of the fact that might be other teams starting to trickle in.
Darn Dinesh, not too far away and Tidy and Jewel.
They are really causing a decent amount of disruption here and kingling and craze also discovering that there are teams already
Boxed up on their own going to come short and even though Peter bottom player are kind of pushing them off that mountain
It's not before they actually get all their loops
Peter bottom player are only getting the mountain where tidy and you are still able to collect everything that they need in terms of
Loadout, so is he pixie?
Lately able to kind of rotate away from their initial drop spot
And I think teams are going to start to learn more and more yes kind of staying in zone has worked so well so far
But what I'm seeing is if you make it and kind of position yourself in sort of the zone very very early on whether you hold
Forward not it might be worth the sacrifice of sky scroll take down our guy
Do I saw it in the feed and now we see it for his hand. I was just our coping and nobody was gonna catch him just
sitting out
Almost looked like he wanted that let's play for himself, but yes guys girl not really wants to fold that easily
Acorn bolts
Really trying to rain things back in
Definitely recognizing the fact that there are still some leftovers here at reality's rain
But this is also a really big turn
And I think in general for Acorn Jacob because that land reputation
reputation. They've taken some hits lately and we know exactly how poking of a player
he really is. The guy is a mastermind when it comes to IVL and he's such an experienced
bet and yet the LAN results just haven't really translated that success we've seen from him
online.
Yes, especially since we know they are the NA major two champs. We know they could
pack a punch. They just need to be able to pull it together. I think this could
be the perfect lobby for them to start gaining some traction. Peter Bottenfoil,
enough disengaged out of realities rain early on and now they find themselves back into that
POI this time around they'll talk about what do we see four five six teams there now just like
some of those practice games but it's a little bit more passive teams are realizing how late in
the game we're actually getting more towards that mid game so we have to be a little bit more
careful but man talk about Viko and Malibu really going the distance currently trying to get
the full dead side wrap around and the Analses already kind of touched on it. We are very likely
going to see teams trying to commit to tanking up some of these early storm takes even going as far
as to invest into that five tick territory but if you have the heels for it and if you know that
there's a bending along your directional rotation that makes it all the easier and feasible to
come by. Yeah especially if you have those uncontested drop spots the amount of gold
you're able to get kind of hit almost every vending machine on the way.
Kamihari 88 points, the most eliminations in game one.
They're only one point shy of Higgs and Curve as of now and it's a team that honestly if they're down
they know how to come back so if they're in it they probably know how to take a lead here
so I'll be looking out for them. The rest of game one is Chap and Flixie.
End up in a box-to-box scenario here against M. Shari and Salvatore and you can kind of see
they do lack some shields and in my head they're taking a long time to heal up
So now I'm starting to ask the question, Taco, do they even have extra shields?
It doesn't seem like it, but even if they do,
Chad Flix, he's still being rather cautious with the approach,
largely due to the fact that they only sit 46 above on the search threshold.
If they have even the slightest misstep, that could put them in a very difficult position
because you don't want to fall under search, especially not when there's so much of a lobby
kind of contesting in the same POI, it's just going to make you an open target.
because Boyle, Peterbott, a team that is struggling with their surge already.
Those consistent ticks forcing them into a very impulsive decision here.
They don't care who it is. They're jumping into a box. They're getting ready to fight.
Yeah, but they're building up too high.
They're getting a lot of attention from the lobby, both up below, side to side.
Chap and Flixie, they turn the tables around.
It was Pete and Boyle looking to push them,
and now they're pushing back.
Peterbott has fallen again here to Chap and Flixie this time around.
And there's only so much left for Pollo to do, really caught in the thick of it, just sitting idly by hoping that Salva and Shari can continue to beat a little bit more of a preoccupation.
Jack Flixy though, obviously aware of the fact that they've already got one piece to buy here and they're just looking to collect.
Pollo cannot afford to move.
Nebby's officially on a pause.
As we know, they were already down below the damage threshold.
Peterbots have even more damage.
So when this next storm surge does pause,
I got to imagine how far below they're actually going to be.
And you can see 30 HP, 25 shields, nothing
to get that back up to tip top shape.
So he's lurking right now against Mshari and Salvatore
waiting for them to make a mistake.
But we know the secret.
He's not going to get much, even
if he takes down both of those guys.
The problem right now is, even if he gets Emshari or Salva, you still have Chap and Flixy
right there.
You have to hope that Chap and Flixy are content to an extent with that last elimination refresh
off onto P that they got enough surge damage, that they feel as though they'd rather just
spend their time prioritizing the rotate, but they don't have to leave any time soon
and that's the biggest problem right now for Puyo.
He has just been stuck all of this time,
ticking by, leaving him even further and further out.
And you see, M.Sharian Salvatore kind of rotating around.
This is kind of these little opportunities
that Poyo is kind of looking for.
Somebody to kind of get hungry for some loot, farm up,
try to find a safe haven, but then they run into him.
But M.Sharian Salvatore, they've landed at this drop
from the start.
They probably know teams are already positioned over there,
especially Chap and Flixy, so they're not really wanting to go in that direction.
But they are moving closer and closer to prize and months while already position up.
You see in the distance, acorn and bolts in their tower, and
even cringe and twire getting closer and closer.
It's like every corner of reality's reign has just got a team based up somewhere.
Even if Foyo manages to survive the threat that's looming right now with
Chap and Flixy, it might not matter because after the fact,
there's just several other strong contenders left trying to take him out.
Janice and Rax though it's got to feel great getting off to a top five star from that first lobby
But Janice obviously he's been here so many times before he knows just what kind of a marathon is involved with this two-day format
And Rax though you really just have to respect how heavily the gentle mates are showing up for him big time here
Yeah, and they got a lot of time here coming in these chop-chops who are in five above the damage threshold
There are going to be some teams in their path, but as long as they're very very careful and kind of aware where teams are positioned around the Green Hill zone, they shouldn't be okay, but I did see in the feed talk.
Oh, Pollo has been taken down. So another game with Peter Bottenpollo going down relatively early, not just in the game, but compared to the rest of the players at their POI.
Well, you called in. We'll get a chance to actually review it.
it, boy oh, only one over God, just gonna get the chance to use it.
Pablo and Chino immediately collapsing the shots from afar.
He never even really had a fighting chance there, but other teams definitely still looking
to try and play things out.
And Shari and Salva, they've at least had the opportunity to rebuild some of their
shield issues, but with only one damage above and Ryze-Maz on the other side of
their wall.
This is extremely problematic right now.
And for Ryzen Muzz, you just have to expect
that they really understand that they have
the control space right now.
And especially since they know they're 261 above the damage
threshold, you don't necessarily
hear that storm surge is affecting another player,
but you will hear those shields crack.
And that's going to be a huge giveaway if any team starts
to position themselves closer and closer to not only Muzz
and Ryzen but any team that may be above that damage
threshold and the zone is even pushing them away. So they're just waiting for
that last possible moment possibly zone on their back to use that shot way but
another team talk of swizzy pixie 64 below. And it's just like not that much
damage when you really think about it but it's just so complicated to find
that damage in a set lobby of this caliber. Pixie and Swizzy they're
hoping to try and build up some shots here but they don't want overexposed
themselves. They're both just so weak that if they get beamed, they're just gone. They are eliminated
and it's going to be even worse still because Pixie immediately removed from the lobby here.
Just too much damage starting to factor in. Swizzing no kills in sight. Serves might get it done.
Yeah, I only has two more. Take seven seconds. He gets above the damage threshold but instantly
and falls further below.
Taco, this is really going to show
how tough this lobby actually is.
Even if you find yourself in a comfortable spot
in toward zone, if you're above the damage threshold,
it almost doesn't matter.
It's almost like you just have to treat
every single lobby as if it's the first one
because things are fluctuating so quickly
for everyone that's involved right now.
Tini and Shark though, still hoping to have
a slightly better performance
than what went down in that last match up.
The Lurks, definitely not panning out in their favor,
but they might be able to chase down Skye's scroll.
Realistically, it's all about maintaining
that little bit of elevation,
trying to utilize it to their advantage.
Next overdrive, you send them.
They get deeper into the edge of the zone,
but for A's gingling, it's Skye's scroll.
Fortunately for Teenie and Shark, Skrull,
caught dealing with YRX and Randu,
so they'll get their chance to move in.
Yeah, you can kind of see about the idea.
Teenian Shark, we're going to have to scroll.
They were the ones who not on the practice field,
but landed a ton of damage on the way on over.
Teenie finally gets the elimination.
Fina for King, who actually went down in the zone.
This five take actually causing players a few nightmares here,
at least more than they would expect.
The Shark Teenie rotating in side by side.
You see Skye and Skrull.
And even if they don't found a comfortable spot yet,
you see how crowded and congested
the zone is actually getting.
Yeah, Skye and Skrull, Shark Teenie.
They're not really interested in what he has.
Yes, he had to fake it.
Avoid it.
Alavuca, though, liked to himself,
trying to even see if he can avoid becoming the focal point
as this lobby fresher.
He's got a little bit of space carved out here.
He's at least elevated enough to avoid some of the congestion
that's going to start cooling.
But when you're making your move inwards
from that backside of the zone,
other teams are bound to recognize the fact
that you're going as a lone man.
It does have a decent amount of materials, but it's a max pull.
One blessing comes with another curse.
Being a solo, this one's going to be hard.
You see Muzz towards the top, getting eliminated by Syed.
We saw Ryze go down in the feed early on.
Higgs without perps, so our game one winners already have their backs up against the wall.
And Taco would still just take one point different from us.
Higgs, a bad peek all the way across the map.
And now Storm Surge is active.
When it rains, it definitely pours.
He is just hoping that he can even make it out.
The way things are starting to shape up here though, Jacob,
he is working against the clock,
running directly into where Ari and Gammy are at.
Gets a decent shot on the fault of them,
but still sitting by the low
and that surge is continuing, taking away at him.
They're going to restore enough shield,
but Ari and Gammy take a little bit of revenge here
as the rest of the lobby also looks back at Higgs.
At least, at least they have that game one victory.
So first place might get taken from them,
but they shouldn't far too far down the lead
before the Sky and Skull find a key elimination here
on the tidy.
That's their second one of the game,
but they get a full chunk.
You gotta imagine all the maps that Skull just got here,
and they're above the damage threshold.
It's top 24 placement points will start to come in,
and they're gonna get even greater
with every team that falls.
They're gonna need to split some of that material soon
Enough though, just a really quick look back.
Now Skye and Skull were able to establish their last refresh,
but the way the lobby is continuing to just pull
further and further away.
These zones are not making it easy for anyone.
Yeah, luckily though, it's not too many various elevation
chains if you are going to the shore side.
There is going to be some water in the mix,
but it's not too drastic that you can't fight your way out
of it is Kami Hari officially take that first place spot.
Sky and scroll still looking good.
Honestly, much better than we saw not too long ago,
where they were missing huge chunks of HP and shield.
Now, the biggest thing you gotta worry about
is the materials.
Do they have enough to continue basically full tarp
and get to the front side of zone
as high ground goes through a whole other team?
It's Klix in rapid, if you look up.
It's not the first time we've seen Klix in rapid
try to establish hype,
but now the question is whether or not
they'll be able to hold it down,
Making their way over towards frontside, looking back,
trying to see if they can get a little bit of pressure,
application, prevent the lobby from challenging them just yet.
And Klicks with a big shot there,
gonna get a knock on to Venom.
Ager's also eliminated.
Those little peace stops just buying them
so much more time here on High Ground.
You know, it was Basie, I know he was trolling.
He said, game three win, Klicks in rapid.
He might have been a profit for the actual tournament.
Six elimination so far.
They're on high ground, and it doesn't look like too many teams have an opportunity to look up.
There's no recycled builds down below.
They was feeling the pain from Maros already out.
You can thank Sky and Skrull for that one.
Sky, Skrull, trying to deal with 80 fast goal down this low ground position.
When Elevator just one layer up above that ultimate long,
trying to still see whether or not they'd be able to pick apart anybody else that looks a little bit worse from where here,
but they have gotten an opportunity to heal,
clicks, wrap, and manage to connect to the building's overhead.
That's going to buy them so much time
when taking the material.
Bananas, rats, still fucking still moving forward.
Yeah, it's kind of full-tarping over.
Literally not taking any chances here.
And that's why you see him kind of popping out the window,
realizing you can't build a wall there.
Better safe than sorry as he tries to lurk back.
Try to reform as much as possible.
He is inside of the building.
Toyota humor in there as well.
And Cryptid is moving by.
This is becoming more and more of a dangerous situation.
But I'm getting real nervous right now for Klicks and Rapid
because teams were definitely posturing to try and overtake
high.
Toyota eliminates Rapid.
You are still up above Klicks forced to drop.
He won't be able to reestablish in short.
Tini, they've spotted out the fact
that there is a big scuffle taking place on that high ground.
They're also looking to make their move.
And now Klicks has a solo.
Zero materials to his name.
The force to just lie in wait almost gets Teenie in the mix up here, but Teenie returning fire immediately!
Big elimination there!
Just the sliver of HP is all he needed to take him down.
But I thought it was good as soon as Teenie gets that elimination he goes down to Yuma.
Toyota and Yuma are taking over this game.
They are taking apart pieces of some of our Titan team we expected to see today.
But Sky and Skrull are still up into the putt.
The trend is there, but he has played hide and seek only for so long.
They find Pablo instead.
That's six.
He's having a shit up this game as they move into the top three.
But just look at the movement.
Skrull is going every which direction.
Raxian is already been sure which way to turn.
Raxian is now seeing if they can close in.
Skyscroll is still matching up all of them back,
where Raxian doesn't have any built.
Trying to farm some form of mats off of the tree here,
but Raxia is understanding.
Now he's got a little other response.
I won't matter though, but I'm here to watch for threat, and skies grow up breaking through.
It's Koyota and Yuma though, they're the most healthy in this situation.
Remember the heartbreak at EWC, they win the game, they don't qualify,
and this is a new chapter for them to be one situation against one of EU's best teams.
And they make it through easy 10 eliminations for the win.
Look, if you're just gonna ask Yuma and Koyota to put on an aim course,
They're going to deliver on it every single time.
A clean close here in Game 2 to ensure that Asia gets their mark
on the 20-26 global championship.
Toyota in Europe, please stand up.
Let the crowd here in Antwerp see you.
First of all, Toyota, where did you guys know
I know it was the right time to challenge Klicks and Rapid for heights.
When did you know you were going to challenge Rapido?
When we were fighting.
Of course, it was a good thing.
But I thought I could do it directly from the top.
And I was strong, so I went to the high ground.
We saw them fighting after we used the shotgun.
We saw that, OK, there's maybe a good chance now.
We felt very confident about attacking them at this moment.
And it was such a great move to make.
If you saw a 702-odd actor scared in Game 1, Yuma, how did you act without fear?
I think it was a very scary moment.
How did you overcome this fear?
Did you decide that?
Well, playing is a real game.
It's like playing a game.
If you feel like you're playing, you can play tonight.
Yeah, we did basically what we do during training,
during scrims, and we decided, yeah,
you know what? We play in the real place
the same way we play during practice.
I just went for it.
Yuma, what is it like to be the first Asian team to win a Victory Royale at an FNCS LAN?
Well, I hope to stay. I'm very happy.
We can see you're so happy. You guys are some of the best fighters on this day.
It was to see how hard they'll be fighting after the break.
Congratulations, Koryo Trogura!
And I don't know how to feel about it.
You're not used to losing, getting beaten?
Not like this.
These players are just so locked in.
Could it be the milk?
Mm-hmm.
Pfft.
Aaaaaaah!
Aaaaaah!
It's okay.
Aaaaaah!
Aaaaaah!
Stay there.
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I'll wait if you're on my plate.
100!
100!
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Oh my god!
Welcome back, Fortnite fans!
I hope you enjoyed this video.
Thanks for watching!
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye!
the global championship. Game
number two goes over to Yota and
Yuma with 10 eliminations.
Bivvy is joining us here now on
the N. O. S. Bivvy. That was a
crazy game. Absolutely crazy
game. I mean to see a smaller
region team go ahead and pick up
that win there and game number
two absolutely incredible stuff.
But the thing I love about it
the most there was actually the
interview afterwards, right?
Because it was kind of like,
Hey, how did you win that
game, right? What comes down
to that decision to actually
go for height? And they were
played it like we do in practice.
And if you have players like Toyota and Yuma playing
like they do in practice,
that means they're comfortable up there on the stage.
But honestly, can they be pretty scary
for the rest of the competition?
Absolutely.
These two have so much talent.
And I actually want to point out the fact that, you know,
back in 2024, whenever it was, and everybody was like,
look, Toyota was the Asian people,
but it's crazy, all the mechanics,
you know, we were jumping in,
and we were celebrating, and everybody was hyped.
This year, I think especially after EWC,
I want to say shame on the Western Fortnite world.
Because we sort of worked it off,
didn't have the best tournament.
And you know how we are,
we had to move on to the new shiny toy.
Everybody was like,
little mini Pio and Fruits on there.
They were like, they're our Asian team.
People were sort of writing off creating
and then you were like,
ah, ah, ah, it's over for them not.
No, still here, still on top.
Great to see them performing at the LAN
and getting the first dub here for Asia.
Really impressive stuff.
They can look at our standings after just two games.
Wow.
Janice wraps up five places.
132 points all the way up there.
We'll come back to them because we
got to talk about Sky and Scroll up 13 places.
What started in left, we kind of
talked about this last game.
They didn't have the strongest game number one,
but now we come back.
This is what one game can change.
And this is what I said.
We cannot overreact to that first game.
It was a rocky one for them.
It didn't look like a typical Sky and Scroll game.
Didn't look as comfortable as we used to see them here
in that element on the low ground.
What we've seen from them in EU all year
vivid here on the global stage.
I actually do want to go ahead and take the value
from game number one and game number two here.
Pretty, pretty intensive because the one thing
about the Sky and Scroll factor here
is that both games, they haven't been bought all
the game, and they didn't
know what to do. And it's
fun. Everybody coming into
this competition expected
sky and both you have to
fight the likes of Peter
Bond play. Oswald. We've seen
what Peter Bond player is
doing. Oswald. They're not
actually running at
Sky's. Well, they're not
actually taking that flight
to a skying school that's
going to be able to make it
on small. It's a team you
can almost guarantee to be in
every single end game if
that space the case. And I
feel like if anybody at
home kind of had this
insight into this
competition, they would have
I'm just gonna get to play out all 12 games. How could you not put them? Yeah with how they have played this year
I'm sure sky and scroll fans will be jumping for joy with just how that game looked and if that's a sign of things to come
These guys might be lifting that trophy at the end of the 12th game. Dude, you got to think about it, right?
They missed out on winning by just one game in the final game of the tournament
And that just has to have lit that that fuel that fire back in summit, right?
Like to see them in high spirit to see them doing well after that again. No, so good to praise
There was just two games
I didn't want to go back to the old leaderboard though to continue kind of breaking down what we did have or what we've been
Seeing out of just game number two as we bring that back up
Let's get all these names that are continuing to shift
I mean look we saw a curve and Hakes win game at number one, but then had you know again a rocky game
You know the it's kind of what you talked about left the like ebb and flow of the game
But we got to go top. Let's talk about Janice and Rax suddenly finding themselves at the top of the leaderboard
You can start to hear the fans they they've chosen. They've got their favorite duo
I want to talk about yeah, that's the back like why are they actually in first place obviously?
It's only been two games. It's been pretty self-explanatory like oh, yeah, dog
But if they're in first place, they're obviously doing well
But they're currently the only team that actually made it into the top 10 and both of those first two games
There's of course, why they're sitting up there in that first place, but that just kind of speaks to how tough this competition has already showed itself to be
All other 49 teams have not been able to kind of showcase that consistency like Anna's and Rack them
And that's what makes it weird about coming to an event like this something because obviously the competition
It just rises so much that all of these teams are going to find it very very difficult to be
Consisted in all of their games for those games
We can make it to the end game you have to make the most out of them
because in reality you're not going to be able to make it to every single end game in a competition like this.
Yeah, great first two games for Italian Fortnite and other CDMA fans in French for an hour.
Juntun will join with that one.
Look, when you're a player who's running his racks, he's had as much hype as he's had this year, right?
A lot of people were very critical at the start of the year as far as some of the decisions he made,
as far as who he was playing with, right?
He was chopping and changing quite a lot with his duo partners,
he's landed with Yannis, and to be performing like this even in the first two games,
The reaction, when they went down from Yanis, was what I was really happy about.
The way he was so excited, infu-daping, looking at him like,
this is your moment, man, you're playing amazing, very excited about these two right now.
Oh man, so many more names to discuss. Let's go to Klicks and Rapid.
Man, they had height up in eighth zone and, you know, as much as I love Klicks and Venno,
Klicks did get a little bit of a shutdown onto Venno in that last game,
But then it ultimately was Criota and Yuma who pushed them out of that high ground and went on to win the game
But kind of what you're talking about that you can't really expect to play every single game to its length
So to see them kind of make it deep into the game find those eliminations we're starting to build up on that consistency
Yeah, I mean a great strategy complex rapid obviously secure and hide at any point in the game means you did something right
It's just all about defending it here for them
If they were able to actually go ahead and fend off
while I took for Yoda and Yuma,
then they probably would have been the ones
that actually ended up winning this game.
But even so, even though they didn't win the game,
I mean, look how well they did, right?
The eliminations are there for them.
The placement was obviously there for them as well.
There's a little bit of a misstep
in actually going to go ahead and defending that higher ground
was pretty much their demise,
but still a great game number two.
They play every single game out like that.
We're gonna top five.
I mean, again, speaking of people with lots of fans,
Kriks obviously is one of them.
They will be very ecstatic with what we're seeing.
The signs are there.
Again, when we're talking about some of the best in the teams,
the people who have the best chance of doing something,
you have to look and pick some up
as moving their way into that category.
And that was, again, just game number two, right?
Now we're kind of getting into the point.
We're about to go into game number three.
We've had these kind of two failure games.
Now it's really time to bring everything up,
because we're starting to hit the halfway point.
We cannot be making these types of mistakes.
But with that being said, I hear game number three is ready.
So it's gone over to your casters.
I gotta agree right there with Sieg Taco.
You can't be making these kind of mistakes
for the rest of the tournament.
Maybe you could have one more kind of feeler game out
for game three here,
because then we're 25% of the way through this tournament.
You gotta realize it's more of a marathon
instead of a foot race.
And there goes the next game.
Tie up those laces.
Let's get going.
The thing that's catching me off here though Jacob is you guys are saying mistakes. I think
that this is just the rest of the lobby not only playing catch-up for what's been taking
place throughout the course of this year but also just forcing unnatural responses.
Again, players have been harping on the fact
that they weren't sure what to actually expect
inside of the practice room until the day actually arrived.
And here on day one, things have certainly not gone away
that he or Boyle would have initially intended.
Yeah, they feel like they're one of the only teams
out of this round that's not necessarily
getting the chance to play.
We've seen Sky and Skrull 116 points
make more than just an end game.
And Shari's salvator, even in that last game
where we saw they had nothing
and then we kind of tuned back in with them,
and they had something, so it's just interesting now,
but you see Skye and Skrull, this is the same loop half
that Peter, Pop, and Foyo have been taking
the two previous games.
They have stolen away the opportunity
to move around reality-train from Skye and Skrull,
but they're much quicker to the punch.
They're already up on the top of that mountain.
A little bit of a flip of the script here, if you will,
but look at where Tidy is at.
That has been the constant thorn in the side
for Pete and Foyo.
Every single time that they've opted to try
go for this hillside. They have had to deal with the likes of tidy and jewel.
Except this time, tidy, he doesn't seem like he's all that set up.
He's still waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike and whether or
not he's actually able to land the shot. That is going to be the ultimate
difference maker. But this is clearly going to be a bit of a time sink here.
Tidy is waiting for that chance. Yeah, the biggest difference right now
when Peter bottom poyo pushed on over. It was a little bit later on second
still it's late around the game but you see the stone sanctum fight still going down Brazil won it
in game number one Gino Pablo one game two and they already solidified another elimination but even
that is triple contested but as I was saying Skye and Skrull they actually landed at the mountain
almost directly trying to take away Lu from Tadeon Jules and hey winning those immediate 50 50s
if anything is still going to be a huge swing of confidence.
Quick glimpse of chop-chop like your P.O.Y.
Yannis and Rats obviously having a lot of success early on.
The day one, but Leo on Romero.
A little bit tied up here with Huddy and Fishy.
A couple of rumors whether or not Leo on Romero would actually stick to it.
Contesting Wonky Lanner if this was going to be a clean split
or if they were going to go somewhere else entirely.
All of those options still up in the air, but at least we're right now.
Vlamato and Lewa seem very intent on forcing that engagement.
Yeah, depending on the first two games, sometimes you feel like you might not have
no other play.
Maybe you feel like you were giving it up a little bit too easy, and so they're
trying to turn the tide up that whole scenario.
You don't respect earned, not given, so you gotta make sure to fight for every
inch.
And if you can't see in the feed, Romero is gonna go down at Wampyland, and so
is Lewa.
But Viko and Malibuca HQ encrypted.
This is something I kind of expect to see,
especially since going into the tournament,
HQ and encrypted thought they were going
to be contested through and through.
And this is what Viko and Malibuca need.
They have had constant issues of trying
to contend with those surge roles
as the Mastavellas.
Malibuca beating HQ currently and Viko just waiting
for the chance to collapse here.
HQ and encrypted just continuing
to find themselves getting stumped lower and lower
inside of their own belts here but Albuquerque and Vico still trying to
proceed with a little air of caution here they don't want to throw away the
advantage yeah especially since they do have that first elimination already
solidified they're dropping down lower and lower just trying to make sure that
all of these covers are going to be checked at least a little bit and I
talked about the fight up on this side of the map where Carol actually went up for the fight and that's what it led to an eventual demise
down for those they will take the fight against fishy and we just
chuck right on top get both of those limitations back to back
here with the president won't be bad for themselves whoa okay buddy I mean hey
whatever whatever feels best I guess in the heat of the moment clearly things
have started to get a little bit aggressive over by wonky land but now
how do you fishy they still need to convert it into some solid points
Good placement. They'll have a little bit more time, but that also all depends on what's happening with the rest of the lobby.
How many times have we seen teams kind of retreating towards those outskirts of the map, looking to play for reboots?
And that little bit, if you're not completely set up for it, could work against you.
Those teams could then capitalize and try to find the refresh on you instead.
Moving on over. We're seeing the north. We're seeing the mid map.
Now we see the full southern over towards Clustered Coast.
three teams here as of now and you kind of seen them hunkered over towards the hotels. The good
elevation that is over at this POI but it also houses that vault. I'm wondering if Coyota and
Juma were able to get that in the first couple games because you could see why maybe they were
able to pack a punch and win that second game and teams are also disengaging away so you
got to imagine they have it kind of confirmed for themselves. For Juma and Coyota I think what
What I really want to see is them not stray away though from those aggressive instances just because they had such a big swing of points in that secondary matchup.
Clicks and rapid on the other hand, clearly a couple of issues surfacing at the start of game three clicks will be able to go for the reboot play.
And then it'll just be up to him and rapid to see how they actually want to venture forward, but
At least for right now coast is clear doesn't seem like it's gonna be too many problems for rapid get back into this one
So I just need to see my whole theory that I'm crafting right now all depends on like what loo
Rapid was able to find and I don't see him healing shield getting a full load out
I thought they were going for one of those cheeky strategies to
to reset their storm surge,
or maybe rapid was just simply taken down,
but now he's back into the game.
Kamihari rotating out 104 points.
At one point or another, during that last game,
they did take control of that first place spot,
but they eventually went down and kind of giving up.
But you're taking, seeing them take a slower approach
towards this game.
They're going up and around that wonky land
to try to land towards the north side,
where you can kind of see
there's not too many teams currently at.
They're fully aware of the fact
They'll be having to contend with Viko and Malibuka eventually though if they continue this path and even in that last lobby
Something I thought was very interesting was the way that Hari even though he's based up inside of the zone
Was still looking towards that north side position almost as if he was anticipating
Viko and Malibuka to show up somewhere eventually on that northern side
So both of those teams very likely taking pages out of each other's books. The strategies are going to continue to build up here though
and for the home zone and Josh.
A little bit more quiet on the day start things off,
but hasn't been the worst hasn't been the best yet either.
Yeah, and you gotta imagine, you know, coming into major two,
they were another one of those teams that kind of went up against
Reid Cooper, the off-spawn battle almost days before the major.
They've lost it and kind of had to pick a POI out of nowhere
and actually ended up playing very, very well all things considered.
Here they got more but defined drop spot zones kind of floating in that way and we currently see them in the top 10
So I'm interested to see how they continue to perform over on that side of things as Yuma coyote
You still see them looping around not leaving clustercoast just yet
And I just wondered has anybody actually been able to gain access to that fault because the duck key does spawn in very
Different spots on the map one of them being over on that but we're Saydo and mom's he were just at you see
It's not in their inventory, so maybe Yuma and Coyote have got a chance at it.
One thing's for sure though, Yuma and Coyote are definitely kind of forcing Sato and Monzy out of the POI,
not really giving them a chance. The proper loot up the area, Virgo and Shadow though.
They're only going to get aggressive with what remains over by Wonkyland.
Providing to make sure that they don't get caught off guard here by Odie and Fishy,
but we'll make good use of them machines.
It's kind of been the strategy so far for Shadow and Virgo.
Even before coming in, when they were practicing
for the Global Championship, they kind of
go up that sideline in toward Golden Grove.
We saw early on, were they able to actually
go against Shark and Teeny.
Even Team actually going down, but Shadow and Virgo
actually winning the exchange due to damage.
And interesting enough, they kind of take that same path
here in this same game.
Not necessarily be lighting it to the zone.
And out on Ark Beezer, they've had some trouble
so far in this game.
fringe twine and depending on the bus path so many other teams because they do
land near that mountain side so if any team wants to lift their way they could
get some cheeky damage possibly the down like we've seen so far just tough for
cannot add arc when they know then that search base just above them is
swizzy and pixie and not only that but teeny shark also continuing to
monitor the horizon from inside of the storm they are just posing such a
big threat and it's that extra layer of complication to for teams that are
trying to opt for those dead side rotations.
Teenie's always going to do his homework.
He is a mastermind of the cutoff method.
He's practically perfected it.
And when you're so notorious for that type of strategy,
it just causes a lot of paranoia
for anybody that's trying to venture
through those dead side positions.
Definitely a mental game that's gotta stay composed.
Hey, this zone almost looking similar
towards that game one.
It did move a little bit more towards the south.
of battle was at the North Green Hill zone inside.
And then obviously that mid map split
or reek and Cooper kind of currently housed to themselves.
So even though there are some drastic pulls
that we've seen so far, a zone right here
relatively center is giving everybody
as equal opportunity as a game can give a team.
But a halfway point of day one here,
pixie, swizzy, obviously a little bit too early
of a departure from that last lobby.
And they are looking to make up for that last time
almost immediately with so many teams kind of
cornering around battle woods,
things could be complicated.
Of course, problems also brewing right now.
Or if she went out and designs Team Goodwill,
seemingly with the better end of things right now
against Farron and Volko, but never know.
One good shot, could be the difference.
Hey, this year between the Summit,
major two-land and even EWC.
OCE man has been packing more and more of those haymakers
resigning Tika, even winning a game
in some of the biggest moments.
They just need to figure out a way to replicate that here.
But this might not necessarily be the moment, Taco.
There's two teams directly fighting in that box.
There's another team towards the south.
There's another team towards the north.
And then every bone pump, there's another team up there.
So anybody that's kind of planning to smooth sail
by overstaying their welcome in the zone
might have another thing coming.
Bell and Xynox were really hoping
that they could get a surprise alert
onto one of these two teams.
Instead, they're just getting tagged away piece by piece
from the search itself.
And with so many eyes on you,
it's only a matter of time before Bella and Cyanautz's hand
is forced into a very awkward box fight here.
Either that or they're gonna find themselves
getting eliminated by the search itself.
And for Skye's scroll,
they just wanna keep that momentum
after what took place in the last lobby.
Yeah, you can see it's taking their time,
being careful.
They want access to that mending machine.
Not getting greedy and kind of over pushing forward,
even grabbing some extra shots.
But this is where you can see they're just
running low on gold.
So this might be their last pit stop
to one of these mending machines,
unless they find themselves at the elimination,
or maybe more surprises around the map.
A resigns, Tinka.
Storm surges on Taco.
They find themselves over 100 below that damage threshold.
They essentially need a full elimination here
without taking damage.
But there goes a big surprise there by resigns.
He gets pushed back a little bit along with their search.
Well, the way this is started on Volko, Jacob,
and it's almost seem like there won't actually be any winners here.
Fatten Volko, sure, they might be the last to outstanding technically speaking,
but there are just so many other teams already boxed and paced up around them
that it's going to be very difficult for them to leave the area.
And Velo immediately taking advantage of the situation,
resides and Tinka eliminated by two separate teams.
Granted, Velo, the Leaf is currently a solo.
Yeah, but now they know everybody is here.
They know that there's players above,
there's players below,
so even though you may have eliminated one team,
but there's another one definitely going to be there.
They're trying to disengage on out.
You can kind of see that they're separated,
but just like you were saying, both of them are weak.
And now on top of that,
they're taking active storm surge.
Zynox is gonna go down.
And if he takes one of these ticks,
he's gonna go out.
Velo is now on the clock.
Must in second seconds remain.
He needs 122 damage, and I think he knows what's good.
Sometimes he's just gotta face the facts.
The fighting was a solo earlier on,
but it doesn't make a difference at this stage.
Too many problems, creating an impossible situation
for them to crawl their way out of,
to prevent both of their journey keeps going,
but Gammy, Tori, certain difficulties continue
to rise up for so many of these teams.
Again, not very many opportunities.
You have to always proceed with Gaussian
because it's just so easy for teams
that are a little bit quicker to the punch,
to look back, spray, get that additional damage
and just put you even deeper into the hole.
Yeah, they got a whole different ball game.
Instead of in the first couple of games,
teams rotating into them,
they now have to rotate into others.
And you see them 39 below the damage threshold.
Opens up to try to get shots,
but instantly has to heal.
He doesn't have time to go ahead
for shots or at least not just yet and they even have the zone on their back.
This is gonna go from a two tick to a five tick and they are really feeling the pain.
Kami at least goes down to himself so he's not gonna give up any
elimination points but Storm surge is still active.
Hari is just down to bandages and timing.
I know the math taco is not on his side.
Hari is doing everything in his power to fight against the inevitable but
whether it's another team or whether it's the surge itself.
Fahri is losing all of his options and sure enough will be eliminated on the bright side
though they have had a rather solid day so far but every single one of these teams know
especially the experienced veterans that you're going to need at least four solid lobbies
to remain inside of that top ten position for day two.
Yeah and you can kind of see the frustration on his face and also just shows the passion
and how bad they really want this win.
Rax and Yannis rotating in.
40 above the damage threshold.
It's not much, Taco, but at this stage in the game,
it's better than being below.
As Peterbot and Pollo below the damage,
he goes down to search.
Didn't even get to, oh, it gets down to search as well.
Peterbot and Pollo, it's already been three games.
Eventually, Taco, that switch has to flip.
And it's just so hard too to shake that off mentally.
When you are me, Peterbot and Poyo, all of the hype,
everything that's been building up to this global's championship,
Pete Poyo, they're not gonna run from a fight.
And yet, it's looking like they can't even pick their own at this stage.
Tough situation to find yourself in.
219, what am I supposed to do?
Now, this is a tough situation to find yourself in.
Two essentially empty chug chugs.
You're not gonna be able to outheal Stormsurf
with 19 players needing to go down.
Especially what looks like Tom is trying to push his way in and other teams in the distance to end that run
They're gonna get taken out but King is there as well
Praise is there as well. This side of the map is actually getting congested and they might be fine for that pile of loot
They saw just fall but look at sky and scroll
Currently sitting in that second place position on the leaderboard and with first place having just been eliminated
This is a perfect opportunity for them to try and play
captains of this lobby and they can overtake at the halfway point of the
day that confidence swing is going to be immeasurable but still other Titans to
contend with can never forget about what shark and teeny are starting to build up
to. Yeah feeling a deja vu you might be correct stone sanctum is where the zone
is moving around this game as well it's relatively towards the center of the
map it's just a journey to get here as any PO goes down flixie but a lot of
damage coming out from shark that's obviously gonna alleviate storm surge
something that it's going to get less and less
prevalent as the game does go on.
Once 40 players are remaining in the lobby, it turns off all together.
But they're just building that cushion, so it's less and less for them to worry about.
Pretty brutal situation now though for Pablo and Gino.
Pablo, I don't even think you realize it.
It was his toes that were getting tagged up there by a shark.
And now, those moments that they have to take to pause and yield,
it's opportunities that are slipping away from them.
Rest the lobby, getting in to a much better position.
Skye's sprawled, immediately making sure
that they navigate towards that front side.
But Kalabuka as a solo Jacob,
this is a very difficult position to try and contend with.
Only eight builds remain.
He is trying to pour some sort of breathe fresh.
Looking back has a little bit of leverage
with positioning, but it's a healthy duo
just behind him in every well and fault.
Yeah, especially with only one shockwave left.
He talks about the lack of material and shields.
Malibuca really needs a miracle here to continue going in this game.
Because even if you shock with it to the front side of the zone,
he barely has enough builds to make a singular box.
And you kind of see on the other side,
clicks and rapid below the damage threshold.
Before this game, they were inside of the top 10,
and they're both going to fall around 23rd or so plays.
That one is definitely going to hurt.
It's just slim pickings.
There are very little opportunities to actually try and recover
you fall behind. Nebs and Nathan though, trying to seize this opportunity here, want to make
sure that they capitalize on that front side almost immediately, but now La Bucca, 13 HP
is all that remains. It is refresh or bust for him.
Remember I said he couldn't even build a full box and you're seeing a ear forced to
basically hide in his cone. Most of it is protected by him. Where he's waiting for
the zone to catch up. Waiting to see if there's anybody in a similar situation
And I don't think there's too many there are other solos but 13 HP zero build
This gotta be the most drastic situation in the lobby and don't be fooled right now
We are looking at a different sort of dynamic all together darn Dmish
Incredibly healthy, but will it stay that way can they manage to keep themselves intact as they begin new make their way forward
Closing in backside of the zone needs one shot to connect
CCRX, buddy, walk at the chance,
chap immediately picking him off as he slides on.
Yeah, tough run, but they're still at least getting some points for it.
Same with Toyota and Yuma after winning that last game.
But we got a new team on high ground, catching fire with all of my thirst.
And he goes down.
Now it's no simple himself, but that's okay.
We've seen what kind of firepower these guys possess.
He's trying to hide the body in.
Nathan Nathan actually go down Dharma Demons crossed the party even though he can't get the rebound
He's going to get some of that Lou
Will it make a difference?
No, sirs still stuck inside of all that congestion now having a battle his way through it
GRX and Randy though they've managed to make something with the high ground temporarily after that last shot
But Skrull underneath it all back side the zone immediately trying to catapult themselves forward Skrull already in position
Already looking out, but they just don't have any build.
Cald and Ritual might get taken out for it,
but all they need to do is look back for one second.
Skrull, they're just so incredibly weak,
but Cald and Ritual, they're not able to dish it back
just in time.
Pablo bailing them out with that Elimanta scroll.
Ritual and Cald barely escaping.
Probably at all or nothing plays.
They find multiple eliminations here,
but finally Cald goes down, he meets his match.
Ritual still up for 5 HP, one build left.
You think you got something out of the Chug Chug, but that one is down on E.
Hope finally does get cleaned up.
Top 10 scenario, Taco Ritual's one of six players making five running around as solos.
And damage-riding in DEMO science is gonna get that siphon, but at what cause?
Only to a C-Left in that Chug Chug, it is not the lifeline he was hoping for.
Acorn still, as a solo, trying to see whether or not he can actually find a scenario
elimination. He needs anything to work with the Irving. Darm, Demis, they have just been eating up
everyone in these middle layers, taking full advantage of their opportunities.
Yeah, they've been picking up the elimination, but they haven't been able to reap the reward
in terms of loot just yet. And then another chase begins, and another elimination. It's
going to be secure. Demis, this time, able to grab the build. It might be the bare minimum,
but it's keeping the mouthy. High ground beginning to focus down. Oh, my God!
Xe just got deleted!
Darvin' Demich are looking unstoppable currently cringed!
Why? Learning about?
Will they be the ones to actually take out the Polis?
They didn't secure enough!
Darvin' getting a trade off here!
Demich now looking back, chasing down Cringe.
He makes it that he can't leave the role!
Another refresh added to the count!
But essentially now 1v2 scenario!
All those eliminations also put them in the limelight, getting targeted out.
Now he has to try to be line his way back.
He does have a healthy amount of fell,
but it's not gonna matter.
Brandu, G.R.R.R.R.S.
Put their region on the map!
Sometimes positioning can make all the difference,
and G.R.R.R.S. brandu
ever since they were in for to make their way
over towards that high ground,
they've managed to close things out.
This is bound to be a very big spring on the leaderboard.
Now Jacob, there are so many teams
that fell so early on,
and not to mention that,
but when you have these big pop-out performances,
That's exactly how you put your best foot forward and set yourself up for paintball.
What you do there is so great for us there with Argentina.
Oh, God, thank you for this.
I'm so grateful for you, Argentina.
I'm out of here.
I'm out of here.
I'm out of here.
It is crazy.
It's crazy that I can't believe it.
I'm so crazy how you took my ground.
Why did you know that the time was right?
So, it was very...
So, you had to take the height,
to be able to maintain the position.
How was it?
It was very high,
but the height was 3.
The height was 3,
and there it was.
So, it was very high,
so...
So, like, high ground was free,
like, nobody was contesting,
so we just decided to go for it.
I think that's a fantastic thing to do.
be an opportunist, but down on the south side of the map,
you think he thinks you are stepping as to where you want to drop.
Are you thinking of switching things up,
or are you comfortable always going south?
They're going to keep where they are.
The plan is working,
and they're going to come for the other games.
Well, we have got to see if the plan can continue.
We've got a bit of a player break for you guys,
but you guys don't go anywhere at home
because we've got loads more for tonight having your way.
And I don't know how to feel about it.
You're not used to losing, Gary Beaton.
Not like this.
These players are just so locked in.
Could it be the milk?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Stay there.
Oh
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
Oh my God!
game number three, which means you're at the halfway point.
Math and W for Brazil.
GRX brand new get themselves a victory royale on land.
Man, no man.
It must feel pretty good for the deal.
You can see the excitement on their faces.
And of course, Shadow Sword Boy Tokata,
who I know wherever you are, you're going to squeeze, bro.
It was crazy.
You mentioned it.
I already have the half a point of day number one.
Where does this games go?
And I feel like I'm feeling absolutely mixed up.
But yeah, here we go. Game number three, GRX and Brando.
I mean, I think we're starting to pick up on something
for these winning teams.
It's going to be, of course, all about the higher ground
so far over the course of these three games.
Low elimination is kind of leading into those final couple
of zones.
But once we actually get there, that's
when these teams start to pick them up.
What is going on, Gus?
But what is actually going on in these games?
Talk to me.
Talk to me.
There's a lot of teams who I was expecting
to just handle these moments on what
but as far as just being made consistent.
You've got three games, three different regional winners.
I mean, props to these two, right?
Because the passion is there.
They capture the opportunity, well, and I think
that's what these games have been about, right?
It's quite messy, there's a lot going on.
You find yourself in the right situation.
You make the right play,
and then you have a chance to win the game.
And then you have a chance
to really move yourself up into the stand-ins.
Look how much he's moved 24 places
into the top 10 now.
Yeah, today, oh man, can I say one thing before Z can vivid speak?
Ah, I know one thing.
I'm just gonna say one thing, guys.
Yeah, you know, somebody beat him.
Please do not mute me.
This is a very fascinating leaderboard.
Yep.
There are no NA players.
Not even like NA center, like not even West.
Like, there's just no NA to be found.
Guys, is it too late to just rip up my predictions
and just start again?
Because I can't believe I even put any NA teams in there.
how these games are going. I'm trying to give you the benefit of doubt.
I don't know if the math right, we're going to need a double-cycle leaderboard or so.
You know what I mean? I don't know. It's tough. It's tough. Higgs and Kern currently in 12th place.
We'll come back to them. Anyway, why don't we focus on some cool stuff?
That's our Dartmouth game-ish first place currently.
What is interesting about that again, off the back of a Demis solo clutch?
Again, I feel like, boys, this is going to be very critical,
especially here at the Global Championship.
The solo clutch factor from these duels, right?
They, I believe it was you who said,
you can't expect to play every roundout,
or every came out the same, right?
So really adapting to a situation, going,
hey, back's against the wall.
You need to clutch right now.
This isn't a major, this isn't a last chance.
This isn't a Global Championship, playing for a title.
It's kind of funny.
I was talking to Levin and Mini
prior to the day even starting today.
And I was like, what have Garmin Demish kind of been doing throughout this year?
Like, where have they been?
And all of a sudden, here we are, the halfway point.
Here, absolutely crushing it.
And really, a majority of the points on the back of that game right there,
what did they finish this game at?
Was it like 12 eliminations?
Absolutely stomped their way to the mid-ground.
I think the key thing when you look at how this game played out is,
you know, obviously, Demish ends up as a solo.
But as to what they did when they were a duo,
Yeah, this is the chaos.
These guys, five in the chaos.
They love it.
Both of them have the ability to just get
raggy when people are on their edits.
Quick little edit, bang, one pump.
That's what they're all about.
And again, in a lobby where a lot of people
are struggling to find consistency,
these two clearly have some excellent rhythm right now.
20 eliminations.
Guys, we got to bring up the fact
that eliminations are worth four points, right?
Like, obviously we can try and play four of those placement,
But this is why they're way up there on the standings, right?
20 eliminations in a lobby like this is crazy.
I'd love to take it back to the middle board to continue kind of breaking down what we're seeing.
Because again, we are at the halfway point.
The players now have time to kind of take a step back,
reassess, short break, and then right back into the action.
Sky and Skrull is well currently in second place.
Have really picked up steam.
Remember that first game wasn't that strong,
But now we are firing back.
We have to say, look, and, you know,
they can't forget tomorrow six more games,
but we're trying to end day one in a really strong
and favorable position.
Yeah, 100%.
I would say this is another 12th place from Sky and Skull.
They got 12th.
First game, they got 12th.
Third game, that second game was obviously
where we saw them kind of perform the absolute best.
But I would say for the rest of the competition,
when we do actually take a look at that leaderboard,
where I think the spread right now is 80 points
from first to 10th place.
I feel like a lot of these teams have actually
had the opportunity in some of these games to kind of extend that lead to the fact that like sky and roll have gotten to 12 places, even though they made it to the end game and all three games so far, like, realistically, they can be on much higher points.
And right now the competition is still being kept like close enough to where I still feel like you can't count anybody out.
I'd love to go into replays real quick and just look at what they're looting, right?
Because in one of those games there, we sort of saw the early game situation with the three teams at ready, and they sort of ran out of POI with that.
you know, clearly, I'm a seeming
not working with much, but they're
making so much out of it. And to
anybody that wants a close
competition, you're going to have
to hope these guys again have
somewhat fall off because you allow
these guys to get rhythm. They do
not look back. They are so good at
just keeping the games churning.
I like that. Well, hey, guess what?
Now at the happy point, we have a beat here
to talk to Darm and Dmish.
Frankie, what do we got? Well,
Givet said it on the desk. Boys, where has this version of Darman Dimas been all year?
I mean, like, before all the cups in the season and all this season before,
like, we tried to hide some things that we did today, you know?
But we have to keep our clear mind anyway.
So, talk to me then about bringing things out into the open
and showing the world what you can do.
Are you worried now that people have seen what you've got and they might be coming for you?
No, not really. I got it.
So tell me then about that last game, second place, 12 eliminations.
Absolutely insane. What was it like for you guys on Coms?
On Coms? I was just screaming my lungs out, you know?
I just, like, my throat is, like, so sore right now, so, yeah.
Does that not panic you, Demos, when your captain is screaming?
No, I mean, I was like every five seconds, I was like that, that, that.
Like, actually, like five seconds, you know?
I'm so sorry to cut you off. You said every single second just shy of the microphone because I pulled it away because I am so excited for these guys.
It's part of the game plan. Come towards me, dumb. It's part of the game plan. Simply run towards the chaos in the endgame.
Sorry?
Do you intentionally see the chaos occurring and run towards it?
Sometimes. It depends on the situation. But yeah, when there is chaos, there's us probably in it.
And when there's a chaos, they'll be causing even more of it.
Congratulations on being number one on the leaderboard.
Dama Dima, so let's see if you can keep it up.
And let's head back to the desk.
Charm is such a funny guy.
Yeah, he's so funny.
You know, shout out to them again.
Currently in first place, we do have three more games to go.
And then we'll kind of wrap things up
as our prepared for tomorrow's six games.
I'd like to continue the conversation, though,
of that kind of top five situation.
We did see something interesting in that last game.
Janice and Rax, we saw them originally
in that first-place spot.
They fell 36th place in this last game
with only one elimination.
Now, you know, sure, they got them so something,
but guys, 36th place, that's tough.
The ping-pong back and forth in these early games
of a competition like this,
maybe we've kind of talked about it already,
but the consistency is just super, super hard
to kind of find for any of these teams.
So over the course of the first like,
I really, you could say the whole day, number one,
we're going to see this leaderboard just change so much.
And then these teams are actually going to kind of find
their footing when they figure out
where everybody's actually laying in,
what looting paths all these teams have actually kind of
decided on, and then they can play around it.
And then we'll probably start to see
the consistency tomorrow.
But today's just going to be all about finding
as many points as you possibly can
and pick up on as much knowledge
as you actually can as well,
with all the teams laying around you.
Yeah, you have to get a feel for the lobby.
You have to get a feel for the lobby.
have to figure out where the opportunities are, right?
I think instantly we saw game one,
the map didn't quite look like how we thought it was gonna look.
Yeah.
Right?
There were a lot of teams who,
we thought they were gonna be contested,
ended up splitting their spots, right?
Okay, all of a sudden now,
this team's not fighting, that we thought is fighting.
Hmm, we thought I was gonna be a surge opportunity
for us to go in and get some tags on that fight.
It's not a fight.
Where do we go for surge now, right?
You're trying to figure out what's happening around us
that we can capitalize on.
And like you said,
Again, in this half-time break, there's gonna be people in the back, on the computers, in the replays, straight, just figuring out what is happening around the map that we can capitalize on.
Yeah, it's gonna be a quote-unquote break, right? Because I can almost guarantee you, they're not actually gonna be taking a break, they're not gonna be working hard, right, jumping on and seeing what they can actually improve on.
You have to, man. Yeah, it's so strange, right? Like, there's a certain way, I almost feel like I expect some of these games to go, and then we hit LAN, it's like, some of the best teams are slow on surge.
like a surge of all things like how crazy these situations can be. Can you guys maybe
speak a little bit to that? You know, what are the, what were some of the expectations
for any duo you had coming in that haven't quite been met?
Well, I'll tell you what, I mean, Higgs and the Curves, they came out of the, out of
the game swinging, right? Like I was like, oh my gosh, yes. We've got a team here
ready to play all 12 games. It's going to be absolutely fantastic. And the kind
of back that up even take a look at the staff, right? How much damage they took
game number one. I mean Higgs took like 37 damage of course the whole entirety of
game number one and then Herbal the other side of things took like 38 like they
both got hit like a single time that whole game I was like oh my gosh they have
Serge figured out this is awesome and they got zero points over the next two
games. Game number two and three and honestly they went down to Serge each
one of those games as well so it's like you had to figure out fill well in game
number one and then it's just so completely different for games two and
three. I'm surprised you're asking me about expectations. My expectation was
was that halftime break was going to start and Vivint would have his cape ready.
I was ready to have it on. I was ready to have it on.
I thought on though. It's not.
It's fine. We still have half.
We have three more games to go. Everything's going to be fine.
Everything's going to be fine.
I want to also kind of double back really fast.
Sky and Skrull wanted to highlight them.
This is a duo we believe could go all the way, right?
Just again, missing out on Summit in that final game.
We even saw that highlight not the long ago of the duo,
kind of trying to make it as far as they can. I'm so curious to see what they may be learning
at this and during this time. I would love to see Frankie or somebody have a chat with
them. In the leader, right? I had a couple conversations with them. And genuinely, I don't
think they were lying to me. I think they genuinely didn't really expect much out of
this weekend. Like it just gave the vibe of like, eh, whatever happens happens. Well,
you called her, you summoned her. So Frankie is standing by right now. Frankie, why
Why don't you find out how the duo's doing?
Yeah, I think the duo's doing great so far.
How are you feeling, Sky?
Better than expected.
Yeah, so tell me about that.
Did you not expect to be second on the leaderboard
after three games?
Not at all.
I mean, we had, like, we're travel guys.
Like, no, we didn't think we'd be here.
And there must have been such a hard decision
to make for you guys deciding to stay at Realty's
or in how are you finding it so far?
I mean, we're just residing to a game plan.
That's what we're best at, so yeah, that's how we do good.
So talk to me then about game three.
The loop path switched things up.
Why did you call that decision?
We saw Pete on right side, which is where we usually went.
So I just took like a quick decision and tapped it.
And yeah, I decided to go the other way.
So a key part of the game plan potentially
is avoiding a flight off spawn against Peter Bottom Boyo.
Not that it's to avoid, more just
like the three teams in the few eyes.
So if we take a flight, then the other team
going to come. You definitely don't want that third party and so far making all
three end games what do you need to do though to get that victory Roy Allen to
try and place second or first as we just saw you do in game two. I mean we
started out just feeling the lobby and from now on we're just gonna play how
we do normally. Is the fact that eliminations are worth four points on
your mind? Not really. But for you guys you're very consistent you're
making the end games, but if you don't get the eliminations you need, are you worried
about being able to stay at the top?
Not at all. We're only three games in and I'm not worried about the last night.
Okay, well I'm not worried about you guys at all after seeing the first three games,
so let's see if you can stay consistent. Let's head back to the desk.
Okay, alright, a nice little tip check from the duo. Man, we'll have to see, man.
I'm so curious to see what they kind of take away from this break. But first,
you a four-knife M out there. Don't forget you can jump into Legends Lending right now
and help determine the format for Battle Royale in 2027. Do you want to see duos? Do you want
to see trios? Hop in, go vote, make your vote known. Today is the last day, okay? Today,
we started the day just under, barely under 400,000 votes. Can you guys take us to 500k?
Can you take us beyond that would be absolutely incredible jump in make your votes?
No, um crazy stuff. I don't know if you guys have voted but make sure you whoa Levin
Don't influence anybody don't tell them the vote for anything. Oh, what are we? Oh, sorry. What's that? What's that? Oh?
Wait something super secret some someone's hacking the something about codes
What's happened actually you have a graphic with some some power our
Information and some codes the fans can use right now in game. What the heck a dusty sprites looks like
It's gonna give a sprite dust you guys can play the game use dusty sprites code right now
Yeah, I actually have to take a step off the desk
Was another one who cracked the code oh
Battle Pass XP wait wait. I'm on need to live and I might need some battle pass XP
We are the world champions today.
We are the world champions today.
I'm getting word that's an FNCS back bling.
What the heck?
Okay, shout out to Fortnite.
We got some codes.
Go check those out in game.
Yeah, why don't you guys just start talking.
I'm here back.
I'm going to leave the desk.
You guys just don't follow me camera.
Yeah, uh, I think it's I know I don't worry about that anyway guys being here at the halfway point getting closer to getting players back up on the battle bus talk to me about feelings currently halfway through the competition
What do you like? What are you not liking? What are you hoping goes different?
different. My predictions, I
mean, a lot of the teams I
thought were going to come
through and just bust the
lobby. They're going to be in
an anonymous. Um, let's get the
elephant in the room out of
the way. Yeah, shark and see
me. Yeah, people are thinking
these guys are going to come
through and just win the
whole thing again. Not
usual. What's quite going
wrong for them, but it ain't
looking good so far. Hey,
hey, guess what? What? And
he's ahead of shark and
I was going to say, as like just a general fort, I think you want to see shark and Tini do well. Yeah, I think we also want to see that Peter bottom, Paulio as game right. We haven't seen them really kind of find their groove yet kind of have one of those high elimination games like we would like to see shark.
And there's roof yet kind of have one of those high elimination games like we would like to see sharkini have
Like she kind of like Peter bottom Paul you have one of those games as well
But yeah, I think I'll find them and we've had some pretty good games so far. It's funny because we got something down here
Actually, I'll get it
Sorry guys, why don't why don't we just step away? I actually I need to go cry and put some coats in
Why don't we guys check out this cool hot drop content piece check it out?
I think we know the four I'm a pretty decent like everything you show me here. I shouldn't know where it's at
Yeah, could I just get a nice perfect soaring coming
It's not something it's not faster. It's not fake
Gonna be helpful all here
Literally zero right
I need to know that I need to never know that's for me my school where Mikey listed
Yeah, let's lift it, let's lift it. Finally.
I think you're right.
Yeah, I'm gonna go lift it.
That was basically our draw song for some reason.
There we go, see?
We all were thinking, but I just know.
I've never played literally.
I have no idea how to play it.
I don't know the name, literally.
Yellow, Wolf, and one.
Okay, easy one.
And you got this one.
Okay, this is Stake and Sanctuary.
You can see them.
You can see them.
It's possible.
It has to be something, sure.
Something, sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
Shake down here.
I'm not talking to you, my man.
I'm not talking to you.
You're doing it.
That's the day.
That's nothing.
You see banana.
Oh, I know this one.
It's a Helo Barber.
Oh, I know this one.
Is that Heal or Warp?
That is not on the map.
That is on the map.
That is not on the map.
Could it be, um...
Cluster Coast?
No, that's not on the map.
I don't think it's on the map.
Why did it feel like this was, like, battlewood?
Like, the beater or something?
Oh, you know what?
I actually do think it's a battlewood.
I mean, we're already down.
I can't put battlewood in.
Okay, I'll send it.
Wait, what?
That's battlewoods?
It's at our own spot.
Yeah.
That's why I kept saying I can remember it because it just is that elsewhere.
No, no, no, that's, that's, that's kind of, they moved it.
This has to be South and Shores.
What are those trees?
That's like almost a mountain.
Is Cluster a mountain?
Is it Cluster?
Is it Cluster?
Is it Cluster?
Is it Cluster?
It's Cluster.
It's Cluster.
Cluster.
That's why I said Cluster.
Cluster Coast.
We don't know.
We're just going to go to Cluster Coast.
How about?
It's probably He-Way.
It's He-Way.
Oh my god.
I forgot, was he way?
Oh, I forgot about this guy.
He's way.
It's just that we're in a struggle.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.
Oh, my God, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go.
I've never seen this in my videos.
We're going to be one.
No, no, no.
Look, because of the background,
it has to be...
Look.
Look, look.
Look at the mass.
Monkland is never.
Monkland is never.
The green building this is something that's on tonight. Yeah, this is gotta be something. I know I know something something because I house
Green building green building this one is something chores
Yes, five times. Okay, but this one has is one has to be all right
Where's the water what is the water?
Let's go let's go
I'm surprised Pablo wanted to shake his hand off to have that Chino with one in that one
to the others of you, mate.
Shee, you know, what, where's your map knowledge, mate?
Come on, go get on the grind, mate.
I feel like we might be able to say that
from the collective of the select
that we had up there.
I mean, that was crazy.
Shout out to Boltz, because Boltz started off pretty out.
We were like, wait, this guy's, wait, wait, wait.
Boltz looked at it, like Boltz, like,
and stream him playing ranked all day.
Now, he's a grinder, so I expected that from Boltz.
I love it.
Thank you, production team, for that.
Why don't we start ready to get focusing back
into the game?
Why don't we take a look at some of the stats?
We'd love to pull some stats here from games to kind of help
kind of sell the story or tell the story a little bit.
Demish there, 12 eliminations.
Oh my gosh, Darm also on this list at A.
We saw them and we kind of touched on the fact that they had 20,
which is why they have a bit of their lead.
Any other names jumping out to y'all?
Actually, let's go ahead and I'm going to ask them a question
because I actually got asked a question from Levin earlier
and I had never actually answered it.
So I do apologize, but I'm very, very curious
know what you were gonna say to your own question you asked me you're like
then like at the end of globals who do you think gonna have the most
eliminations after the 12 games yeah there's two players for you the first
one that was came to my mind surprisingly actually teeny okay teeny
is someone who like when you look at a lot of big competitions like he's
played a shark this year a lot of time he actually is the one leader of them
to think at summer he led on the limbs and I think both of the grants
he might have led in the limbs and then the second was Renault was
then I was talking about dropping 40 and every time he said I'm dropping 40 this year he's
dropped 40. So like I was like yeah man it's happening there's time but yeah none of the
people I was expecting were the ones up there. I mean a lot of them are plausible. I mean if you
ask me here does Rax have the ability to be up there leading and dragging. I'd say yeah
absolutely right and he's obviously showed it. Sky I think is a big surprise. Sky with
eight eliminations already doing really well. Well are you was there any that surprised
you live in. That's not I think
our name is just in general
obviously both of them being up
there on the same exact do. That's
always super, super difficult to
do being found in the top five
as individuals, but they're
obviously doing super, super
good. Yeah, but just the lack
of like the teams that we are
used to seeing find so many
eliminations. Obviously like
sure you kind of expect to kind
of find his way up there, not
up there necessarily yet. But
that there's nine games up the
plane. We know how good some
of these players can be. I
wouldn't be surprised if we do
end the competition with some
of those names in that
And that's on five.
Okay, okay, I like that.
Guys, we're here.
We're only three minutes out before getting ready
to jump back into the battle bus.
Let's remind ourselves with the old leaderboard,
where are we at?
Where do things stand?
Well, what we do know is that Darman Demetra
currently in that number one spot.
Sky and Skrull were right behind them
with Janison racks not that far behind,
but boys, the competition is still very close.
We saw what one game can do for any duo.
I'm looking at Suzy and Pixie in fourth.
Yeah. Of course.
Again, I think the first three games of this competition,
a lot of the teams we were expecting and predicting
to be contenders to win, haven't quite been there.
The one team that were considered big contenders was Suzy,
was Pixie.
They are the ones that look closest at least
to delivering on that right now.
A big third game there to move them up in the standings.
Again, a team who I think is definitely finding the momentum,
finding the rhythm in the Soviet,
It's a scary, scary prospect for everybody else.
Yeah, I mean, it's still fine other way towards the top of the leaderboard,
but I think we have to get to kind of see the full potential of this duo.
So, you guys kind of open the home.
And it's just, they were about to be in a good position,
and Swizzy kind of just get picked out of the sky there,
but Pixie, solo clutch still makes it worth it.
And that is just a prime example of just the minor details in Fortnite.
Just him getting his head buffed there on the rotation,
rotation having to spend that extra bit of time gets eliminated.
Yeah.
It's like you cannot afford to make mistakes in this lobby.
These two are two players I don't expect to see making many more mistakes.
And I think getting them out of the way in the first couple of games is obviously a good thing.
Yeah, absolutely.
Boys, three games left to go.
We've had this time.
Right.
What are you guys anticipating?
We could see in these last three games, what adaptations will we need to make to make sure
these last three are good games.
I think for us up here kind of, you know,
analyzing and watching the games very, very tightly
for all the fans of him, I think now on,
from now on the games we have to take them
a little bit more like valuable, right?
Like how our teams actually start to perform
because even in like interviews, right?
Sky and Skrull was like, yeah, the first three games
we're kind of just like feeling it out.
Now we kind of know what's happening.
Have a little bit of break through
where we can kind of discuss what we need to do
and what we could potentially do.
These teams have had the time.
They've had those three kind of warm up games.
They have the half time to kind of go ahead and compare.
They know what they know.
Now these games are going to start to meet a lot for me personally.
Yeah, you took the words right in my mouth.
Literally what I was going to say is, in the next three games, we are going to figure out
who is actually going to be competing to win the Global Championships.
I think this is where we start to see who is going to establish themselves to believe
in the board, who are going to be the major threats.
I'm not going to be here at the end of the day on the desk, but a stats request for
when you guys are at the end of the desk, that I'll be very interested to see.
I would love to know what the
knowest position after day one.
Somebody has come from to then
win Globus right?
That's really because again,
as we get to game six, that's
where we're really going to start
to see like you actually has a
chance of winning and historically
where is that come from?
Because yeah, you can't let these
three games, whatever happened in
those first three, put it
beside you have to start to
step up now.
That's so crazy to think about,
man.
But yeah, I mean, again,
obviously we can see your talk
and I think so many people back
people back at home, even fans here.
Look at these players.
They are the best players in the world,
but how are these players feeling?
How did they wake up?
Do they feel okay?
Are they, you know, under these lights
and they're starting to break?
Even if they are duo in a good place mentally,
did someone accidentally say something crazy?
Is my mouse just a little heavier
than the one back at home?
There's so many factors that go into this event,
right, this type of citrus.
I mean, Viv, you're a pro.
You've gone through this before.
you know what that's like. Yeah. I mean this and I was always very, very picky when it came
down to the setups that any ever felt different at all. I was so uncomfortable. Like it really
did. Does take you quite some time to actually get used to it. That being said, I mean I was
pretty new to the game at that point because obviously I played when the game just kind
of like kicked off and everything like that. But most of these players up there on the
stage have kind of been exposed to this type of environment. In fact, there've been
more lands this year. They've had the opportunity to be exposed to newer environments
time and time again. So in my opinion, they should be used to it at this point,
you know, you know, you're
not going to be able to do
that. You're not going to be
able to do that. But hey, you
never know. Yeah, of course,
there's a couple of little
is going to be a hand forward
in our game of players who
are new ones in this
environment. We haven't had
as many reps, but for the
most part, a lot of the
big hitters per se. They've
been on the stage before
they've been experiences. They
should be used to those
adjustments. You know, I
was even joking around with
some of the players like
does it feel weird playing
their shoes on when you're
on the stage versus when
you're not at home, and
it's like a lot of them
like not. I'm just getting
used to, you know, so
for the moment. Um, and so again, I don't want to see them type of excuses. I'm only here.
You aren't comfortable with this word. The right height. You've been it. I think right
now when I played, I just took my shoes off. Yeah. I was I was gonna say that took them
off. Okay. So if you win the tournament, right, and you've got to walk up to lift the trophy,
you're gonna like quickly slip the shoes on. Oh, you're just gonna put them on.
Yeah, you got time. Right. Yeah, I just, I just won the competition. Just give me a moment
to slip the old shoes on. Probably my worst habit when I've played professionally. I used to
sit in my chair crisscross applesauce oh my feet didn't even touch the ground i like had to take my shoes off when i was
well final band it's you know i don't quite do the same thing
yeah dude maybe if you send like the throne of or like the FNC players are sitting in that might work
yeah we can get to one of those i'll talk to someone make that happen for you uh well guess what fans
mini miner had a chance he was walking around the venue getting the perspective from the fans on site
Let's check this out.
I'm here in the concourse and I wanted to ask some fans here
who they think is going to take home the title at the end of the weekend.
I'm here with Rudolf, a lot of you guys might recognise him.
Who do you think is going to win?
Honestly, I feel like Higgs and Curve are a really good chance.
Clicks might have been holding back a bit.
This might be his time to really prove it to everyone.
I'm here with...
Keanu.
And?
Finn.
I want to ask you who you guys think is going to win this weekend.
Who's taking it all?
I mainly think it's going to be Shark and Tini.
They are contested, but I think they got it in the bag, man.
It's going to be exciting. What about you?
Yeah, I really like clicks and, uh, and reppin.
One of the XB42 boys. Who do you think's gonna win this weekend?
Quick, quick, come on!
Let's go!
That's right.
Thank you for that, hooded miner. Oh my gosh.
Shark and Teenie was brought up, boys.
Shark and Teenie was brought up.
The ones that we thought would walk away,
potentially winning this whole thing, have yet to show up.
Is this the time, Levin? With three games left to go,
anything can happen.
I hope so for the sake of my own prediction selfish, but again, I'm not going to have to change. I do want to quickly point out next before you two boys because I've picked up Suzy and Pixie.
Pringentower behind the point. Yeah, and so I came out and said, we're here to win no mucking about this weekend. Yeah, gotta be looking forward to it as well.
as well. But I mean, even still, you kind of hear the predictions, we've seen all the predictions from
obviously some of the big names in the scene. I don't think anybody kind of had dormant
damage towards the top of, you know, winning the whole event for global championship. And I think
that's kind of the sentiment going into this global championship is that's the predictions
in general. I've just been very, very difficult to actually establish and be like, yeah,
I am confident in this list, which obviously is great for us in a viewing perspective because
really, that just means we're going to get some great 49 and it's probably going to be very,
very very close when you get down to the end. Take a look at the second page though, maybe we see Curb and Higgs.
I mentioned it in zero points since you know game number one, Rapid and Clicks also kind of in that area.
Shark and Tini, 84 points for them as well. Acorn and Boltsman, it looks like the NA boys are kind of just hanging out in this general area around 80 points.
No, Levin, stop! Cameraman, do not go to Levin immediately. Do not cut to a close-up. Do not worry about it.
Don't you stop stop production?
I'm even gonna say that I'm just gonna leave the boat man. I'm I'm even gonna speak too much man
No, I'm just happening. I don't gotta speak either because it's gonna talk about but no production. Don't sue me not it don't sue
Don't give up the satisfaction
Yeah, come on it could stop in look look we have three games right here right now that in here for three games
games right here right now.
Hicks curve one game number one.
They won game number one.
It can happen again.
I mean, it's still super close.
Like they got 90 points or getting one.
If they get 90 points right now in this next game
and everybody else gets zero points
and they'll be in second place.
Right. So still plenty of opportunity.
Right.
Yeah.
There is.
Let's not.
Let's not.
I love to throw in it.
I love it.
There you go.
There you go.
But there are three more games.
And I think a lot of those players
have already shown in some of these games,
they can make things happen.
Of course, they can throw one again, right?
So it's not out of reach completely.
Let me go, get a move on with it.
Let's be real.
I mean, Clicks of Rapid, I'm also looking at them,
right, can they pull off something?
We've seen kind of glimpses of them performing really well.
We just need to put those pieces together
and make it through the endgame.
Yeah, I mean, Clicks of Rapid are doing,
it's just sort of like a typical strat
that we've seen from Clicks before
where he tries to go ahead and take higher ground,
but just actually kind of finishing out the game.
It's kind of been a little bit of a struggle point for him.
So that they can find their way back up there.
But I think we just continue to go around the world, right?
Over these next three games.
Why don't we just have a different regional winner
over the next three games?
Yeah, no, who's left?
So we need an EU win.
We need an OCE win.
And then what, a West win?
Is that what all the Western men?
And then we're missing.
Middle East?
Throw you.
Come on, the Middle East.
We've got to step up.
There's a lot of talented Middle East players in the lobby.
So yeah, man, I'm down to see more regions
get the opportunity to sign on the big stage.
Yeah, for sure.
I like that quick key in there.
Coyote, Yuma, we saw them get a victory, a royale
around the day celebrating.
Kelly Link actually informed us of what he was doing
celebrating.
Apparently, it's a very popular song right now.
So that's what you saw.
I was like, I was just confused.
I just was like, bro, I'm sorry.
I'm so old at this point.
It is what I've resigned myself to my fate.
Just a heads up for you, Fortnite fans.
Just a small tech issue.
We're trying to get everyone back on the battlebushes.
That's why we're just taking a beat here,
but yeah, I would love to see that be kind of crazy.
Is that, would that be the first LAN
in which every region gotta win?
Probably, right?
If we somehow collect them like infinity stones
right here right now.
Right, that would be great.
And yeah, that's definitely an item to fill.
Okay, I like that.
Okay, well, hey, guess what?
I'm getting word gains already.
Let's jump back into all the action with your casters.
I honestly taco this has been such an exciting tournament so far. It's my birthday and I get blessed with great fortnight action
And honestly, I got to give huge shout out to spy in scroll
We all looked at that triple contested fight and said nah all those teams are done cut up
Nobody really guessed them into the top ten and they have changed things up game four is ready
Can they continue the jump in?
I mean, Jacob, you're talking about the general public not expecting this for Skye and Skrull.
I mean, Skye and Skrull themselves had zero idea that this was actually going to go down.
But obviously, there are going to be more complications involved at that BOI, Reality's
Rain.
It's just not an easy spot to work with.
I mean, we are seeing heavy hitters like Pete Hoyle, shortworked out the course of today.
Mshari and Salva equally similar footing.
They just haven't really been able to find that sort of presence that can really measure up to the performance that Sky and Squirrel have delivered so far today.
But obviously, Jacob, we want to ensure that everyone is on equal footing for these opening stances after the halfway mark.
and it almost makes you wonder, you know,
depending on how far you're able to drop
into a situation like that.
If you're stone saying them,
which also has acorn and bolts,
even though we haven't really seen them
in the off-spawn fights,
but you also have realities,
rain and any other contested drops for that matter.
If the tournament hasn't been going your way,
I think this is the halfway point
to try something different.
You don't have to do anything drastically different
by any means, but you cannot continue
in the same trend with the way things are going,
how they're going, especially if you're a little bit
you would have expected obviously if your sky and scroll you don't want anything to change.
You're getting the better of the mix. We saw them kind of take the south side of realities
rain in a couple games. We also saw them kind of disengage entirely towards that south mountain
showing that hey no matter what happens they're ready to turn the page and figure it out.
And look don't get me wrong. Obviously I'm going to be excited when I see you doing their thing.
Also seeing the representation from a lot of our international regions has been very impressive
that there is a special someone
here in this audience today that
was incredibly loud throughout the
course of this week inside of that
practice room area and Jacob you
should already know exactly who I'm
alluding to it's a big brother
himself facts and I need him to keep
getting loud because this is almost
starting to be like salt in the wound.
I look over 11 I see him making
these faces the satisfaction that
shared between us but we love seeing
a good fight get put up at the same
time. And so for NA specifically, we need to see that kind of motivation. I don't I don't
care what it takes from facts. Lacey Ron, whoever is necessary, but get loud, make them
proud like it showcase that you are still having signs of life out of that region. Yeah,
and honestly, whether you watch sports or eSports, you kind of know the phrasing
any given Sunday, anything can happen at any moment, which is why you play the
games out and we really need to see that from Peter botten poyo we have seen tremendous
comebacks from them and other teams that are also in this lobby when things have looked
pretty kind of look at ages in Venno during their major one victory are to say ages are
to say Venno and curve excuse me there during their major one actual victory they were
behind they weren't in contention necessarily for that first place spot but they came back
they change up the strategy they got plenty more eliminations they handle their storm
and so we've seen teams kind of laid down a little bit of a blueprint.
Yes, a much drastically different game of the past,
especially with the changes to storm surge,
but I still think anything is possible
and Skynescroll has proven that to be true.
Without a doubt, and not only that,
but I mean even continuing that topic of just the NA presence
and seeing them really step into the limelight here,
I think more specifically there's been so much emphasis
on the whole Peterbott-Hoyo narrative,
but you have to remember,
We have so many heavy hitters from NA representing at the global championship, Acorn and Bolts.
They're always going to come to the forefront of my mind.
I think that those two specifically, when they really find their rhythm, they're a very scary team to actually try and shut down.
We know just how impeccable the performances have been from the online nature.
And to see that carryover into the LAN environment would just be a perfect send-off on day one.
But these teams, they're going to need to start finding that catalyst soon enough.
enough we have seen a little bit of a notion from it out of the likes of clicks
and rapid even but it's not easy the competition is that stiff here today
yeah definitely is you're honestly seeing big names honestly in all regions kind
of hitting a little speed bumps but you also seeing big names in those same
regions we saw randu grx get a win so far coyota and yuma and that was the
biggest one for me considering what happened in the past but the game is
ready so let's give it a go
of a speed bump, but these teams have all had a brief opportunity to sit and review, pick
the brains of the coaches that are present to see what kind of new strategies you can
muster up.
But biggest takeaway from me during one of those halftime interviews was what Sky and
scroll had initially landed on. We are freestyling. That word just speaks monuments to today because
there has been no premeditated plan I think that has actually come to fruition the whole
way through.
Yep, and kind of seeing another one of our contested fights throughout the day, the Stone
Sancton, and it's been essentially days two teams here, Max into the first one going
down, Jinu gets the drop spot and gets the opening elimination for him and Paava,
But they got to be careful.
You draw this one out.
Acorn and Bolts, my ear, what's going on?
They are separated from now.
That's probably Acorn and Bolts strategy.
Lude up, take the fight later.
But DeGroire is going to be by himself.
And he has no extra shield.
So this is going to be one tough hill to kind of conquer.
He's got to nail the perfect shot.
And more importantly still, he might not even
be looking for a shot, period.
He might just be hoping that he can actually
just scurry out of the vicinity.
He doesn't want to find himself
getting fully eliminated.
That would just spend this offspots so favorably
towards Chino and Pablo, despite such a strong start in game
one, the Etta map just struggling to repeat it.
All right there, Chino did not see that one coming.
Does have it down to a 1v1 in an HP lead,
but it's the numbers game that's working against them.
Rangers going to hit, kind of tag him up just a little bit
more.
And yes, he does grab the reboot card,
But where is he gonna go to actually make it matter?
Because Pablo's still closing in on the distance.
You gotta understand that Gino is as well.
They're taking two different approaches to this fight,
but they're still being very, very calculated.
Running straight in, W King,
they're just trying to take their time
and make sure they secure the elimination
without taking too much damage.
You have to be calculated in these types of scenarios
and Gino, I'm not gonna miss a beat here.
The Etta has been shut down effectively.
They will have control of the POI
and lead Brazil back to the drawing board.
But Bolts, Acorn, they might have sniffed out
that little bit of a delay, that slight hiccup in the game plan.
And we're talking about delays.
Oh, yes, Thomas.
They are quick.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You notice something right there, though, right?
Focus and Thomas going against Shadow and Virgo.
Remember, Shadow and Virgo is a team that has marked
the far eastern side of the map.
So they're already changing things up.
Human Coyote over at Cluster Coast.
They've been winning this more times than not.
And here goes another example of that.
This is the team from Asia inside of the top 10.
One of only two non-EU teams even inside of the top 10.
Hey, a tough break there, the four little Frenchies.
But still, a couple of these left
to look for a recovery point.
Bigger take away still though.
We see Sky and Sparrow.
We saw Salva and Shari briefly.
But Skye's fault, they don't have eliminations.
Pete Pollo don't appear to be anywhere near reality rank
currently, and that leads meatably, Jego,
that they either steered off rather rapidly
like we have seen them do in previous lobbies,
or they decide to pull the dice on a different strategy
altogether.
Yeah, seeing both Skye and Skrull really just
played comfortably whatever's tossed at them.
And then you kind of see Darman and Demis here.
Both of these teams, Skye and Skrull,
Darman and Demis are two leaders in terms
of overall damage.
They're one, or say two of three teams,
over 3,000 altogether.
Darned Deemers 35, 100, Skynes Squall 3400,
even out of that triple contested drop.
Darned Deemers, just like you said,
what's kind of opening the gap
between them and some of the other teams
is just the pure elimination.
They have 20 eliminations so far in this game.
And you've got to think, Taco,
the next highest team is Rocks and Yanis, which won.
An elimination points being worth four of keys.
Well, it's not exactly the prioritization
from so many of these teams.
Obviously, they're all gonna be hunting out
for peak placement, but it's still four points, Jacob.
It builds up fast.
And one thing that has been very occurring
throughout each of these online majors
for throughout all of these lands
is that you need big elimination counts
to really build up leads that give you that buffer zone.
And for Pete Coyle, well,
looks like they wanted to pay Shark and Tini
a little bit of a visit here,
but hasn't exactly edited them anything just yet.
You asked the question yourself,
where in the world is Pete and Poyo?
We see him kind of rotating towards the east
his time around, just outside of Golden Grove,
Sharkatini as well.
That's what we saw in that last game,
that massive surge tower that they built,
trying to help accumulate that surge.
So even though these two teams aren't necessarily
going to fight, you gotta go ahead
and give Pete and Poyo a little bit of credit
for trying to change things up
and take control of their own destiny.
They say change things up, but Shark and Teenie,
they seem like they were expecting that.
They've been free plotting how to avoid it all day long.
And they're able to measure up no problem,
start things off here in game four.
Have to attest a little bit of that towards Coach Queezy.
Sometimes it helps to have that pro experience,
that insight and Teenie in them,
what the revisits see what happens next.
But Venom and Agers, they want to take a bite
out of Rex and Yannis.
Will this lurk work? Venno, the patent pending situation here.
He's done it, tournament after tournament, almost year after year at this point in time.
You see her in the crowd, just going crazy right now and they have absolutely no clue.
He already rotated past, they're trying to look and figure it out, but the chop is in.
Brax at least saves himself, not before taking a little bit of damage.
Yannis as well, the chop is in.
Venno and Agers have gotten a good amount of damage
and it even looks like they're trying to approach
the situation from two different angles.
But they've got to win their ones
if they're going to try and collapse that swiftly.
And Venno, Agers, that took a very split apart.
Rax and Yannis have at least staked them off
for the time being and you've got to be so cautious
with how you step next because Swizzy, Pixie,
always going to be a background factor here.
And Venno, just lurking about one more time
going to apply a little bit of pressure now
against Yanis, but even with those opening shots,
it hasn't actually invaded them just yet.
Yeah, neither team.
Kind of really getting the benefit.
Yanis-Rax, honestly, surviving there is a plus for Venno.
Adrian, they had a good amount of damage onto Rax,
but then eventually they did take it back.
So you've got to wonder how much damage overall
did they kind of net in that situation
as Venno-Ager's go back.
Over towards that vending machine,
see Rax-Yanis kind of reposition.
They used so many mats for that first tower.
I'm going to go for it again here.
It is very active right now, though.
Over by Walkie Land, Slepsie, Wagers.
Now trying to throw their names into the mix.
Slepsie, Wagers.
Not sure if they were initially trying to go to the tone
without Ian Fishy, or if it was Leo and Romero
that they ran into first.
But either way, at third 40 presents,
still not netting them anything more than maybe
a little bit of additional surge damage.
They might have even intervened with a full elimination sequence there,
because Layla didn't see Romero anywhere in sight.
Yeah, luckily for him, though, you can kind of see both of them kind of
relatively distracted by one another.
I can continue to kind of move towards the outskirts and
potentially get the reboot back in the game.
To continue to watch all teams around the map, Shark and Teenie.
I felt like so many teams, you know, fantasies, thanks to 11,
so many teams' predictions on social media,
had short and teeny near or on the top of that list.
So to see a mere 84 points, not necessarily drastic,
you got to imagine them in a desperate situation,
but I think everybody thought they would be much further
up the leaderboard, much more kind of taking over the game
and confident overall.
What makes them so threatening is
that they can have that pop-off performance.
When you see them size up with those double elimination
victory royals just like that,
It changes things up so swiftly on the leaderboard.
So even if they're sitting a little bit closer to the top,
it's so easy for them to overcome that
with one solid performance.
And Josh Yamzo still hanging out over by Battle Woods,
but nothing is safe here currently.
So many other teams also just kind of prowling.
Yeah, we already saw Feno kind of move in and around
this location.
That moves so quickly through the battlewoods each and every side.
That's why you see him being a little bit more careful.
Sia, scary.
You can kind of see them not necessarily just working
for damage possible.
The elimination here on this side of the map
is that mending machine.
You can kind of see the force flashes full chug chug in scary.
You want to kind of buy med kits
and kind of stay in the zone that much longer.
But on the other side of that is going to be Peterbot
and Puyo, where we kind of seen a drastic change
in this game going towards the eastern side of the map.
But honestly, at this stage in the game, it might have worked out.
They have a much better loadout than three of the games we've seen so far.
Heat and Pollo.
They are boxed up and they look like they want to stick around for quite some time.
They're hoping to try and play interceptors to anybody that might be
looking to hit those machines, get a little bit of additional
heals, buy some time inside of taking those early storm ticks.
They can prevent that.
That might be the perfect opportunity for them to swing things back into their
favor because very similarly, Sharkantini, Pollo.
We know exactly what they're capable of.
They can always have that huge game
to just turn things back in their favor.
Yeah, especially if they feel like they have nothing to lose here.
Janus, Rax rotating back over towards the chop shop.
It is going to be a one tick zone for now.
Once we get to the fifth, that's when it is going to start to ramp up just a little bit.
Kind of become painful by the sixth.
Rax goes in, gets the first drop on the Saizers from up above.
Maybe a little help from the storm on top of that.
The saw feed, he takes another big shot.
Brax feeding that one up, not only getting the loop of the siphon, so he doesn't have to use the medkit,
and now they find themselves literally out of the way of every third-party potential in a 2v1 situation.
Tick, tick, tick, clock is ticking here for Salty.
Big shot there, though.
Yanada has dropped incredibly low.
Unfortunately for him, though, Brax finding healthy, and Brax looking to just continue bearing down on where Salty is at,
not really giving him the chance to try and close in.
Yanis already finding up to you to heal up with Rax taking the offensive front now.
Sobi's still just dancing around inside the garage here.
If they take too long, other teams might decide to intervene and Yanis has actually been dropped.
Sobi, just like that, has now floored it.
The initial intentions here even with Rax closing things out, the damage has already been done in HQ.
So nearby, might be able to take Rax out for it.
And, luckily for Rax, he was trying to pop that big pot, instantly cancels out,
he makes it to play over towards the reboot fan.
Earlier in this game, encrypted did get taken down, which is HQ's teammate.
These guys already know the last chance global qualifier.
They earned their right to be here, but they realize it's not going to come easy.
Actually playing in a lobby just like this,
luckily for him, he is above the damage threshold.
Rax is not.
So, Rax is honestly getting blessed with an opportunity to fight this year.
You say, bless, but this looks like more of an issue than not HQ
understanding the fact that this is a player that's clearly pressed for time.
Rax, everybody hits, and Big Shot's going to land.
Only 61 damage separates Rax from being above that sort of threshold.
Just narrowly avoiding falling and even himself.
HQ now still looking to try and apply some additional pressure here,
but Rax, he's better to get the job done.
Gannis has made it back into the lobby.
And you can kind of see the surge lightning up just a little bit with her turn out.
Yan is kind of resets for him, but it's still above for HQ and below on the other side.
So he just needs to survive.
I don't know if HQ has the information.
He's probably not here in this form, sir, to actually take him down.
But if he just stays alive long enough, he could probably hit a one pump to take him down.
Yan is already disengaging.
So this is essentially a 1v1.
and Rax versus HQ and Rax is now taking out the serve of 95.
Big shot from above.
He pushes down on the HQ again.
He is playing with so much freedom here as he gets the elimination.
Lights out onto Rax.
Sure enough, those kinds of shots.
He couldn't afford to miss the rookie just
delivering in the heat of the moment.
And that is going to buy every single second there for himself
and Yanis to try and look for a recovery point.
Kind of seeing that, again, I mentioned that they're so isolated.
They are so far away.
So, Rax, Yanis, we'll get back in the game.
But look where Venno and Agnes are actually at.
They're center map, and they're not even at the zone yet.
They got a max pull.
It's going to be tough for not only them,
but everybody else to try to rotate in.
You can see how congested it actually is.
So it's not going to come without its sacrifices.
may need to take damage all along the way, unless you want to go ahead and try to wait
as long as possible into the five tip, which I don't recommend.
All the managers found some additional tags there on to Phasma and Crusades. No one really
willing to risk it just yet, but they're gonna have to get a move on eventually and
they are open to taking up. They can't to start off with they know that they put
fast on Crusades and a little bit of an awkward spot getting those initial damage
tags in, but a thorn has fallen.
It's all of the bolts now, and he's just got so many different
directions to look as a solo.
It's a lot to keep track of.
Yeah, it's busting years.
Two tick into five.
So yes, it is going to hurt the HP,
but he was above the damage thresholds.
And look plentiful, but instantly falls 164.
That's what essentially took down a thorn,
and that is what looking like it's going to hurt both.
But he immediately finds Yamzo and Josh
and goes for the fight.
That is a must fight for Bolts.
This is big though for Skye and Skrull.
For not only trying to play catch up
for the first place position, but darn Dynish.
At least for looking last off,
a little bit under the rest of year.
Skye and Skrull will find that elimination onto Bolts.
Some big opening shots,
but it's still just barely keeping them
above the serve threshold.
I'm gonna go for some personal,
and unfortunately, despite their best efforts,
Braxton Yanis not able to make it out
Yeah, falling outside of the placement points at least they were able to get those elimination and it's not a zero point game
So you can kind of keep progressing here as you see sky and scroll matter that triple contested fight
And they are playing it perfect or as perfect as one can in a situation like that
I was kind of giving credit to even Darwin Demish here, but Demish is now stuck by himself still
He's no compete above the damage threshold and he's increasing that even more 120 right before he rotates in
because he knows just like anybody else, if you gotta rotate that far especially with a shot, it is gonna come with a tone brisk
and he is playing this rotation perfect to not take a single scratch.
Hey, Demish needed that, but looking in now, sky and scroll, they're never gonna get the chance to get even make it into the next zone
immediately picked off by the lobby focus as part of the dangers involved when
you are tanking up some of those early stormtakes you're opening into a poor
position but other teams already based up already looking back ready to shut you
down a spizzy big seat they are so neck-and-neck with cringe and twi on the
leaderboard this could be the gap between who decides coming out of
this box fight yeah I want to say Garmin Dean is though overall kind of
looking at that leaderboard kind of see second place, third place already out.
There's about a 52 point gap between first and fourth.
But remember, Darman Deems, they're stuck as a solo,
one of them already eliminated out of this lobby.
So we really have our eyes on the team like Swizzy and Pixie at 132 points
to try and close the gap.
Place two points haven't even set in, so this is just the elimination
credit all around the lobby.
And it doesn't help when you see Pixie just beating away at Pink and Roura.
I believe they got credit for at least that ULM onto Pink Ruror taken out by other teams elsewhere, but Pablo, Gino, that offspun.
This is the moment that they can look to continue trying to convert that into some solid placement points.
Creeping their way off the leaderboard, still definitely fighting it out for those top 10 positionings.
Yeah, you kind of see below the damage threshold,
they find rise and mud trying to rotate, lay in.
They do get the elimination, but most importantly, that surge.
But we look on high ground, it's Klicks and Rapid.
We have seen a similar situation in some of our earlier games.
And honestly, Taco, it was Coyota and Yuma
that they needed to watch out for.
Yuma and Coyota are in the feed already taken down,
Gino, so you know they're at least busy.
Yeah, but at the same time, Klicks, Rapid,
we know they like to play for hype,
but there are so many other heavy hitters in this lobby
with the same sort of mentality.
That's the one thing that makes me nervous
seeing this high ground position
currently out of the flicks and rapid.
You have to be very proactive
with controlling the flow of the lobby suppressing teams
from having the ability to try and challenge you on height.
And for Yuma, Koyota, this was the moment.
Chino and Pablo are actually gonna be
at the forefront of that pressure from those two.
You got me scratching, kind of wiping my eye.
Did I see that right?
1,400 damage above the threshold.
I don't know what these guys ate today,
but they have came to play.
That's one thing they don't have to worry about here
is Pombo has to worry about a lot.
He is by himself.
And remember, Taco, that 50 plus point gap
is him that has to try to close it.
But look at the teams that are separating first
through 15, even though big take down.
Onto the focus, the high ground
already gone for a really big shake-up here. Sharp and Teenie clearly in the
advantageous spot. Tom is forced to drop as a solo. Won't be able to continue the
conversation just yet. Still, he could look to play spoiler later on. Yeah, we
definitely can. Clicks rapid. You got so many teams kind of moving up. Sharp and
Teenie even conceding that one. Ray had to play by Teenie though. Looked like
he was gonna at least try to save. Sharp for a moment, but Zone pulled so
far away. And now we have our fourth different team here on high ground in
In this game, Viko and Malabuca, the team that's looking for a back-to-back-to-backland
wins.
And Malabuca, Viko, they have needed this performance, Shinga.
They have had a bit of a shaky time, but if they can deliver in this secondary half
of the day, set themselves up in the best place possible to enter day two here, nice
chop, but a good reconnect almost immediately out of Viko and Malabuca, they are refusing
to budge from this high ground position.
And then it's Coyote and Yuma that are feeding the nuisance out of them all.
They topple down, clicks and wrap it in their game ring to go for high ground.
So it seems like maybe coming into this one, Asia is looking to take that top spot.
Not just the leaderboard, but the high ground as well.
Peter Popton, Coyote, the first time today, we're actually seeing them in this end game.
And it's bringing life to not only them, but Pete Nation all around along with Coyote.
They find elimination, a little bit of blue.
It may not be a time, but at least it's something for them to work with.
Belly's benefit from the damage the fishy had done.
They needed every bit of material.
They could factor in years.
Now, Peterbot looking to try and carry them forward.
Every little bit of placement is making a big difference
in their scorecard here today.
But can Pete do it yet again?
You see him time and time, delivering
in these crucial moments.
How do you just won't get the chance, the lobby pressure,
too steep to deal with, and now Cole
trying to take the reins here, solo position.
Yeah, that's the first time.
really staying cold in the endgame as well.
Finally at a fast woken up, a Peterbock does go down,
brand new GRS, one of our game winners,
following as well the chat by himself.
He has two different men kits,
more than half left on the chug jug,
the mythic AR that is burning through the box
on the cold, but he fights back,
getting into back down just a little bit,
but cold and forced outside of the zone,
and so he goes back in,
tries to get the elimination on the clicks,
but falls short.
A tip of short, and they pick three every time,
for Yoda and Yuva.
These guys are looking unstoppable, girly, Coyota with another onto Ozone.
Six eliminations already, 10 in total.
They have already factored in.
Big placements here, but can they bring down Biko and Malibuca?
We might have a new first place team after this.
Coyota and Yuma firing shots, trading back and forth.
Then I put the bones down, though.
Coyota and Yuma, it goes down to a 41, 10 HP, and a 3.
Coyota and Yuma, they're first team this weekend.
It's about two degree lawyers!
What is happening?
What are we watching?
Asia yet again striking through Coyota and Yuba.
They are snatching their chain back.
They want everyone to remember exactly what kind
of potential they bring.
We're all doing the RTZ dance now, boys.
Absolutely incredible.
Show me those moves.
Oh, yeah.
The crowd are loving you guys here.
Tell us about that final 2v2 versus Pico Malabuca.
I'd like to talk a little bit about the final 2v2.
Both of us are not in the same position,
so I was very nervous, but I'm glad we won.
Well, neither of us had any resources left,
so we are very, very stressed, but we just went and did it, and well.
You managed the stress so well.
Tell me though how you're managing aggression,
because previously, international lands,
We've seen you go all out.
Here, though, you are managing it so well
against the international teams.
Tell me what you've changed for this LAN.
Yeah, we're just really trying to play the same style
that we actually have in Asia,
and just go forward and they'll be okay.
Well, I think that might mean that Asia's got the best style
at this land.
What do you think, Coyote?
Well, I think Asia has the best style at this tournament.
What do you think?
Okay.
I think Asia has the best play style.
What do you think?
I think so, as well.
Everyone give it up for Coyote at Yuma!
We'll see you guys after the break.
And I don't know how to feel about it.
You're not used to losing.
Getting beaten?
Not like this.
These players are just so locked in.
You need to be the milk.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Stay there.
Oh
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Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
This is CIDIVER!
So you're a human.
is SEDEMA KOYOTA YUMA! Another victory royale on the land. I can't even kill
many I can't even I can't even I don't do this too. What do I do? I mean listen
Koyota definitely put himself on the map as far as lands concerned years ago we
saw him popping off all the way back I think in like 2024 maybe 2023 but to
see him still do that. I think it's not so much of a surprise, but to get two wins,
Mini Miner, I mean, that is absolutely incredible. They obviously have had a pretty good year so far
in the region as well. Absolutely fantastic. We're all celebrating first Asia win here at
FNCS Global Championships. Let me go ahead and do it again. Hang on a sec. That translator is
working overtime today. This is fantastic gameplay from these guys. Fantastic ways that
are actually fragging out here as well. A lot of times when you think about smaller regions,
You also think about a little bit more passive gameplay.
You don't see them as teams that are going to be pretty forces to be reckoned with in the lobby,
but this is a team that completely flips the script on that particular engagement
and that particular game right there because we just saw them actually frag out, Kelly.
This mid-ground play is so smart.
You can see how low they're consistently with those builds
because they're kind of running that mid-ground,
but they're able to get so many refreshments back-to-back
that it doesn't matter if they don't have any build
because they're just going to get it again.
Coyote here with a final moment.
going up against Vigo, one of the best players in the world.
You know that they're working on that high,
and they're continuing this momentum
out for the rest of the weekend.
And you can see that, their hypes, they're excited.
First time winning on land.
A lot of that adrenaline can really get to you,
but the way that Coyote played that final little moment
right there against Vigo just oozes confidence,
oozes that, just ability to keep calm under pressure.
And that's so, so valuable on this stage,
because that can carry you through the games.
that little bits and little
hints of momentum can be really
good. If you can keep that
consistency and that calmness
throughout the whole day, you're
looking really good. I mean,
even at the start of the day,
they look like they were
having fun. They were having
hype when we were doing these
player walkouts. Everyone's so
serious of what's smiling and
waving and everything. And now
you kind of wonder maybe just
coming into that with like
that mentality coming into land
just be like, you have to
see your place in fortnight
and that is all you have to
worry about. I mean, it
seems to be working out for
them so far. Oh my gosh.
I think we have to celebrate with them at some point when we get back on camera. Kelly. I think it only makes the most sense that we do the dance that I'm going to do it. They give me the camera and they cut to the ISO shot. I'm going to do that dance.
Okay. Hold on. Way production. Get ready. Give me that camera right there. That camera right there. Boom. Yes. Yes. They won. That's right. Koyote Yuma. That's for you. Love you guys.
Shoutouts to the duo again the first time we've seen a victory royale on from Asia in a land setting let alone two let alone a 12 elimination
What an incredible moment for fortnight now obviously in the last game
We did see them go up against Viko and Malibuca a duo who's trying to hit the treble
Which means they get a third land with oh my gosh, I can see yeah
Yeah, who's he looking at?
And what's crazy is that's the Vico I'm used to seeing,
Mini Miner, that's the very animated Vico.
And that's a scary Vico as well.
When he's vibing, I was speaking to him a lot
when we were at the summit as well,
and he was saying in between games,
and when he's in these sort of moments
where maybe things aren't going his way,
he likes to sing, he likes to dance,
he likes to stay calm in that way,
he likes to sort of exude all of that energy
before he actually gets into the game.
And when he's chilling, when he's happy,
when he's vibing, he is next level.
Pretty unfortunate right there though, Kelly.
I think it was an unfortunate overdrive, but I think Malibu got sent into the storm which
pulls them a few issues then getting back together very unlike them because we're used
to seeing them so cohesive, but they can still build off of that as well.
I will say though, finally someone kind of able to bully and steal height away.
I feel like that we've seen in the first three games that once a team is kind of
able to claim height, they're just kind of sticking up there.
Not too many people looking up, Klicks and Rapid did a great height take there
and a little bit of early height take like we know that they love to do.
I do want to give credit Viko Malibu a very clean height steal and also credit to Klitz and Rapid
They were able to disengage pretty well, too. I love that. I mean look again Viko Malibu good
They're trying to get a third hand win to make it a treble and what I love is this is coming off of the back of that break
They've had time to kind of go what were those first three games like how can we come back stronger in the latter half of this and
We also have six games tomorrow. So this could be the trajectory
the reset we needed for the duo.
And that could easily be it.
And I mean, we've already seen them kind of,
I don't want to say necessarily struggle,
but Higgs and Curve obviously had a really good game one,
and that is the team that we thought,
oh, is this the team that's going to be going up
against Viko and Malibuca?
And they didn't necessarily have a great game one.
So you got to wonder, was there necessarily
an interaction there that kind of
threw a wrench into their plans?
And how were they able to recover?
Because it does, like you're saying,
we've seen the steamroll,
we're seeing the Viko and Malibuca that we all know.
Well, remember at Summit, they didn't actually win a game.
They were that team that was consistently making end games.
a lot of people going into the summit weren't like, oh yeah, this is definitely the sure fire team to win.
They just kept keeping consistent games and that's all they need to do this weekend as well.
I, uh, yeah, dude, at the moment, we like, if we had, if this happened to get for Vika Malbuka,
let me cut the Vika and we just see one of these, right?
I'm doing one of these and now he kind of just looking like, uh, it's my duo, you know, that's how I know.
Okay, we're on, we're live, we're ready to crush some more duos.
Oh my gosh, I am just so excited.
But guys, I'm getting word.
I want to talk more, but game is ready.
We're jumping right back into the action.
Look, we're checking out the leaderboard.
First place, Yuma and Coyota.
Second place, Darm and Demish.
You know who coaches those two teams?
Spen.
He's been cooked yet.
Let's see what game five has in store for us right now.
That is one thing that he's cooking up. I don't know if there's ever been somebody
to coach a team to a first in second place. I could be wrong, but this could be a time
not only is history made for coaches, but the entire region of Asia as well. And you
take a flashback. Remember, EWC, the survival stage, they went back to back games to
end the day and miss out by just a few points.
That was heartbreak at its finest.
They come in here and after four games they're in first place.
But this is where it becomes absolutely critical
that you don't lose yourself in the moment.
Right now though, it's all about Pablo and Chino.
Can they deliver yet another off-squand win?
Mac D'Yeta looking to try and give a little bit of a punch
back here, but Chino, Pablo, despite being incredibly weak,
D'Yeta finding himself in a very similar position.
He'll opt to play for the Mekki at that point,
leaving him as an open threat.
Yeah, this is one of the more drawn out fights
that we have seen at the Stone Sanctum.
And we haven't seen it yet with eight corner bolts
trying to rotate over.
They take a whole split on the western side of the POI
and it kind of takes them down far away from the fight.
But if this one continues to drag out,
that can give them more than enough time
to get that full load out and go straight in.
He's going out of the vehicle though.
They seem like they are hustling currently over
at Lifty Lodge.
They've clearly got intentions to try and get scrappy elsewhere
on the map.
That last lobby really lighting a fire underneath them
to try and see if they can carry through some of this energy
for a very solid closure to day one.
And going back to that initial message,
I'll send a sort of break for life.
You don't want to lose yourself in the moment
because you don't want to find yourself
starting to autopilot the brain thinking about,
oh my gosh, we're in first place.
You still have a whole secondary day to work through.
Yep, agree with that one 100%.
Can't let your foot off the gas at any one of these moments.
And this is them at the Cluster Coast,
and they get one of the legendary POIs as well.
Up's the chance for you to get one of those rare chests,
kind of get a little bit more loot out of that.
You can kind of see they also have the golden apple,
the birthday cake that is nearby,
but they also have Sato and Momzie.
And you gotta wonder who actually has the vault card
underneath because it could very well be Sato and Momzie.
Hey, we saw an El Brugandica, though, just moments ago,
being quick on their feet.
This is the reason why they wanted
to get active against the likes of Epic Whale
and pump a great little early elimination there
to kind of keep that momentum rolling forward,
sky scroll, also looking outwards from the outer range.
Apparently, it seems that it's a clear 1v1.
And talking about these duo situations, those 50-50s,
Coyota and Yuma, their success has come exclusively
at the expense of Monty and Sato.
Yeah, and immediately going out again.
They just have like a new whole strategy going into this one.
They're playing high, getting full aggressive.
I think they realize their skill is there.
We've seen Kayota in the practice room
go up against the best of the best
and actually come out on top.
When it comes to VR, I think maybe they played
a little bit scared in the past,
but we are seeing a whole new version
of this team coming out from Asia.
We call them the under-skidded class for a reason.
For Monzy and Ceddo, though, respect to these two.
We're still willing to stick it out no matter how grim things
might seem after these opening four lobbies.
The fifth game, that could be the turnaround.
One good shake-up is all it takes.
Coyota and Yuma, sure, they might be top of the leaderboard
right now, but if they get even one early departure,
that's all the rest of the lobby needs to play catch up.
I say that might not even necessarily be a problem,
but as I'm thinking that you see coming in
from the north side of clustercoast,
there's a whole another team, Khaled and 27,
and they're a team that probably has been taking note
of what's going down at clustercoast,
they've probably seen the fight ending very, very quickly.
And then in this game, they realize,
hey, no eliminations, no knock, perfect time to work,
and they couch out mom's not a lot of damage though.
So let's say for mom's, you have to chance
to try to run away, reach Sado, get boxed,
Even say though is weak luckily though he does fire shot through the window to slow down them
But the unpredictability that 27 and Gallant have now brought with them to cluster coast the attempt at the third party
It's just fizzling out and for you for coyota. They're actually the ones continuing to directly benefit that is unless
27 and Gallant can begin applying a little bit of steady pressure and bring some shots here and there
But the surge, I think, is already pretty heavily in Coyota and Yuma's favor.
They could take this fight, but they might not need to risk it whatsoever.
They're just gonna kind of let Gallad in 27 dictate the retreat here.
And for Seino and Momzi, you can't even be relieved because look at where it's left them.
No materials, having to use up the last bits of their gold on what remains in these machine,
and it's just so problematic because you still have to deal with Coyota and Yuba eventually.
Yeah, that's right. Coyota and Yuba disengaged. They found a golden fishing spot as well.
So that's definitely going to help them out. Peterbot and Coyote, we saw that switch up in the last game,
whether they left Reality Rain earlier, just didn't land there at all. They're back in this similar position.
And that last game was the first time we've seen them today make it into the end game.
of strategy almost remind you of the Peterbott ritual and called triple
contested global championship of last year they had a comeback in day two but
it was far too late so I think they're just changing the page here rewriting
the script saying hey we have to do it today if we want any chance at first but
with the way that shark and teeny are already set up it just seems like they
were fully aware of the fact that someone would eventually be trying to
challenge them early on whether they expected it to be the employer to
believe that that was the case just off of what was kind of running around in the practice room all week long, but more importantly still, it's just going to measure up everyone's ability to adapt to every single one of these lobbies, because teams are starting to get very experimental on these closing matches of the day.
Especially ones that may have been on a high early on in the tournament slowly, but surely have start to fall a little bit flat.
They're still two games.
That's plenty of time to pick up some points.
Maybe not necessarily take first,
close the gap to tomorrow is a brand new day
and a brand new opportunity,
but you're essentially three teams locked down here.
Two and a half,
because King is gonna be by himself.
Doesn't have a ton of HP here.
And he's only 11 above the damage threshold.
And I think that's where the mental games come in
for him as a solo.
Problem though for King is where do you go next?
A little bit too far to the east.
It's spotted out, there it is.
It's just not really a whole lot of little room for him.
And as a solo, I was trying not to get caught out,
but Rax and Yannis, they're trying to see whether or not
they'll be able to bring things back with a bit of ups
and downs.
Everyone calm also, sharing a very similar instance,
especially after we saw that early elimination.
But if you've got Malibuca, they've already left.
Again, I gotta imagine the reboot is what drew over Rax and Yanis' attention over towards this side of the map.
Both teams above the damage threshold here.
I just don't think Rax and Yanis thought they were gonna run into this much trouble.
Epic Well and Pump do have a little bit of loot, but you can kinda see them both from the HP.
The extra HP is what both teams are lacking.
Even more so for Epic Well and Pump, they lack a ton of materials as well.
This is absolutely worst case scenario right now for Epic Whale and Pomp and Rex.
He is just steamrolling his way back over to where Epic Whale is trying to create a
a little bit of separation. He's gonna at least send Rax and Yannis on a little bit of a chase here,
but I don't know how long can he reasonably try to delay the two. He didn't have any
lights last week checked in his inventory, so this is only going to go the way of Rax and Yannis.
It's just a matter of time before these shots connect and Rax sure enough will seal the deal on that one.
I'm fortunate for Hedvick and Fon. Kind of getting put on the spin cycle there for a moment.
Thinking things were looking good. They were above the damage, so I thought, okay,
They had med kids, bandages, anything I felt like that would have played up just a little
bit differently.
But you got to give it up to Yanis and Rags falling below the damage threshold, how weak
they actually were.
They continued to fight and they got both of those eliminations all along the way.
That's what you call kind of picking up the pace, especially what happened last
game.
Without a doubt, but very different scenes currently for Dmish and Darm already inside
of the zone.
Have a little bit of elevation inside of their base and Darm, Dmish, the ability to
look out and kind of gauge where the rest of the lobby is going to start trickling in from.
Acorn and bolts. So looking to see whether or not they can get the better of the exchange.
Fully wearing. Where's building up elsewhere? Cold and ritual. Actually eliminating sky.
That is a big blow to a top five meter board. Yeah, especially without well sky and scroll.
We're doing at what started as a triple contested drop. But honestly,
I'm not too frightened.
You know, you cast a heal region.
Sky and sprawl sometimes just take turns solo-clutching.
We actually saw it at the last submit land.
Most of their points came from various different
solo plays throughout it all.
So I see sprawl knows how to play this one perfectly,
especially since it is relatively early.
Still one ticket damage per second inside of the zone.
The only real worry I have is the naked.
You see it, a huge lack of overall materials,
picking up a chug jug, but there's only 30 on it.
So he is gonna get Sky back in the game,
But where is there a boot going to come from is the bigger question.
And the bigger issue stemming out for me right now is that even if Sprawl is able to get that reboot off,
how many teams are also looking to take up this frontage?
How many teams are looking to play for those dead side rotations?
Do you think that you're heading to an open area and it might start off that way,
but by the time you actually make it back towards zone,
teams that are already much healthier,
if already had success with their Osbum fights or just finding eliminations along the way,
They could definitely punish guy and scroll after the fact.
Well, I got to say, at least there's not too many players nearby,
but then they will and Romero in the distance.
They're definitely going to hear this reboot about how they assess the situation
and figure out if they want to kind of move over and get aggressive.
We're going to get in peaks all around the map, though.
Clicks of Rapid already set up.
They're going to kind of walk down that base.
There is a mending machine underneath,
so they're not necessarily pressed for time here.
It's been very impressive intentions out of Clicks and Rapid.
Two separate lobbies, we have seen them make the attempt to try and lock down the high
ground, but the lobby just has so many strong duos that are also looking for that same type
of leverage and that's going to be something for Clicks and Rapid to essentially figure
out for themselves in the moments that they need to actually close out, prevent
those duos from trying to challenge them.
It's just so tough because it's not just one duo.
we're seeing two or three teams.
We're going to take a stab at height and it's just how
will Flitz and Rapid finally overcome that?
Yeah, it's not just them.
You've got to worry about overcoming some obstacles here.
Sky and scroll.
Sky is back in the game, but instantly gets knocked yet again.
You kind of see there are 107 below the dam threshold.
He is going to go for it once more,
but it doesn't mean it's going to get any easier.
And you kind of see the nine bandages, 30 on the chug chug,
another team rotating in.
but at least that's going to be a solo player and that's Sky and Skrull's only opportunity.
You have to respect the hustle. You have to respect the grit. Sky doing everything in his power,
trying to ensure that Skrull can even touch back down, but Fishy immediately looking to move the challenge.
Both of these players just so incredibly weak, Sky wanting to get the chance before he heal it out,
it out, search continuing to tick away, scroll 1 HP and a dream and that's going to be short
and lived entirely. Fishy doesn't profit either. Zero winners out of this circumstance.
Hey, that's what happens when both teams fighting are below the damage threshold and
on this end in a no one situation every single time. Then you see Peter Bottenpoil in the
distance, if they heard or saw any of that, they can at least pick up some food. I don't
think it's going to be too game changing by any means, but depending on what they got on them,
for sure. Rax and Yan is still finding that trouble. Honestly, I thought this game would be a
little bit different with the zone being a little bit closer to the chop shop, but they are almost
stuck in that same cycle they were in that last game, below the damage threshold, taking damage,
and now separating. Rax is going to have to dig deep here. It's less about connecting the
shots and more so about not drawing the attention of a healthier team altogether.
Fill up, try and fall back so you can get a separate entrance.
The edge of zone, but Coyota and Yuma.
This could be disastrous for these two.
There's only about a 30 point barrier or so between themselves
and Darm Demesh currently fixated in that second place position.
They don't want to have a mix up here
that finds them being eliminated
before the placement points can even factor in.
To happen sometimes,
of course disengage early out of your P.O.Y.
You're 200-plus below the damage threshold.
Chomp continues to fire off in your direction, 300.
He finds Clixin' Rocket on the other side.
Lanta's shot, but he is so far down and so far gone,
it doesn't matter.
He gets eliminated and first place is out of the game.
But you can only look so many different directions
at the time, right?
Not when the whole lobby is beaming you.
Just stuck between the rock and the hard plays there,
quite literally, but that's exactly what
They're not the only ones that are trying to hunt out a little bit of leapfrog action for these leaderboard standings.
GRX brand new.
We saw them get a win earlier on in today's competition, but ever since then, things a little bit more quiet than what they would have preferred.
And now 109 below, 107 below.
Surge picking away at their life.
They don't have anything when it comes to shield.
So they'll have to depend exclusively on finding another refresh altogether.
Yeah, there's just tunnel vision on the backside of the zone, but look how far they actually have to go.
And there goes the first knock. There's no HP to come back into this one, and Randu has officially been left by himself, which is unfortunate.
Look at their materials. If anybody takes down Randu here and finds that treasure trove, it's essentially like opening up a loop llama here,
but he realizes still being below the damage threshold, he can't take a singular tick of that storm surge damage when it finally does turn on.
We never get the chance.
He tried his best, but if Cringe actually makes it to that body loop, he is going to be stacked
with a 5-5-5, and right now, you're going to look back into what went wrong here for
Yates and Rax, despite having that little bit of a victory over Epic Welling.
Pong turns out that that delay was all it takes.
They were just not able to fully recover their surge damage, and getting shut down.
such a crucial lobby for day one. It's all going to be banked on to how game six actually pans out.
All eyes on Darman Demish. Second place. 34 points away from overtaking that first place spot
and the only team alive inside of the top five. Honestly, if anybody else in the lobby notices
this, you almost want to try to focus out Darman Demish going to alleviate the pressure, try to
to catch up, but this is Darman Demish.
They've been on fire almost all day long so far.
The problem is, how do you focus on what Darman Demish
are getting up to when you have your own game plan
to try and bend her out in your favor?
Shark Teenie, not gonna get the chance,
both of them eliminated yet again so much earlier
than what they were obviously hoping for.
And with Darman Demish already taking over
a high ground position, they'll have the benefit
Sizing up the rest of this lobby,
we know that they're getting on surge for the time being,
but can they maintain it as they make their move forward?
Yeah.
Nine players need to go down.
Storm surge will deactivate all together.
So if you're below that damage threshold,
almost place a little bit of mine gains.
Do you want to try to reach above it?
Simply try to out-heal it.
And there's the mine gains right now,
but they have no option but to go for it.
92, they get above.
Even without these eliminations,
that goes to Izzy, that goes to Curve.
They are the ones also kind of taking part
and getting a little bit of back reward for their efforts,
but they only have a little bit of heels
to pass around between the two
and even back might be fresh out.
But it is still wild to think about just how rapidly
these search thresholds have been shifting.
Only four more players need to go down before
it's not even a problem for anyone in this lobby
to even think about,
it's subconsciously for Darm Dimesh,
being very aware of the fact that they are
the only team we're standing in that top five.
There are still other players that are looking to try and shake that conversation.
Not Chino Pablo, certainly one of them.
Ooh, I think Chino might have Stormsakenus.
I was seeing him take big chunks of damage.
Not sure if it's just this late in the zone where he was taking that damage while healing,
or maybe he's just taking double.
Stormsakenus essentially doubles what the current storm is actually doing.
If you're in two tick, it does four damage so long and so far.
Either way, he makes it inside of the zone just in time for this next rotation to go through.
You see, Viko and Malibuco, though, relatively healthy versus most of the players we have
seen in this lobby so far, making sure to elevate themselves above the rest of the competition.
Such a smart approach, though, from Viko and Malibuco.
They even opted to tank just a little bit outside, and they immediately capitalized
for that later rotation.
They've got a great frontside position, and they might even have the opportunity to
look towards the high ground because Curve and Higgs, this zone pulling right back
to where they found that game one success and they're hoping that they can replicate it.
Yeah, I've seen more and more teams since that game one go up and try to contest that
high ground. I think that's game or maybe the game before we saw four or five different teams
up there kind of trading back and forth. They were unfortunately is gonna go down not eliminated
just yet. You kind of see his HP down below kind of running out. Not sure his teammate could be
the hero in that situation. But the next team that they really have to worry about
Swizzy, Pixie, maybe, and Shari, and Salvatore, but Demish does go down.
He has worries of his own now because Darm is almost out of the builds.
He has Scythe and Maths left.
Still, it's Darm.
We've seen Demish go absolutely ballistic.
I'm left in a similar position, and Darm definitely trying to put all those
practices and creatives into actual live practice here.
He's managed to kind of carve out a little bit of breathing room.
No one's looking his way just yet.
the team on high higgs and curve a little bit more fixated.
Other 2-0s leaning towards that front side.
Even the back side of zone getting picked apart now as Klitz will fall.
Doesn't get a chance even to make it into zone and wrap it.
Sized up for it.
Yeah, goal and then an O is on a labor surgeon's end of this one.
I believe before this game started they were inside of the top 10.
Consistency is key for them.
Sike, Geno and Pablo every time they make it off spawn,
they really try to make it count.
This is another one of those moments.
Elimination in the back side of zone.
He tries to hurry up.
He grabs the 8-bit instead of the chug-chug, so he has to try to beeline his way back, but he runs into problems.
Frank is going to take him down, but I'm not sure he's going to be able to get out alive either.
He gets knocked, credit goes to Paolo, and that's a blessing because Siphon will keep him healed up.
At the same time though, Paolo kind of in no-man's land right now just benefiting solely from the fact that
Kyrgynyx kind of managed to actually gauge exactly where he's at.
he'll continue to play the heels from inside of the storm,
but it's only a matter of time before the sickness takes over.
Fiko Malibuka, though, big shots onto Pixie.
Billies have won a new first play team for Yota,
and Yuma went down 232 points.
Now Fiko and Malibuka have surpassed that.
We're talking about the three-beat here.
And in game five, they can be in the number one spot,
but they still got to run through Hades and Kurzweil
on high ground.
You said it yourself, that feeling of deja vu.
Nobody really has a chance to look up as we speak.
Ozone and Golden though really starting to come alive here in Game 5.
They've done what they can to make use of this lobby.
But still, Nathan just on his other wall, they chunk out of his AP,
but not enough to actually bring him down for the count just yet.
He's going to Alibuka now, tripping their way forward,
sort of hovering these lower layers,
trying to see if they can get top on to anybody's floor,
maybe even look down for themselves, gauge whether or not
There's going to be a lone player that they can take advantage of.
A lone player might be Pablo right above.
There's three different solos running around this game right now.
Trying to make something happen.
Pablo is going to be one of those solos.
He has enough left in the Trub Joe to get four HP and shield.
But he don't know if he has enough to survive people of Malibuca
who accidentally slipped just a little bit too far down.
But they go from one player to another.
Tidy's going to get pot out.
Slyzzy could have been next.
But he steals away the actual elimination.
against the Siphon, but he doesn't get any of the maps so high ground that it's hard enough for free.
And Viko Malibuka immediately capitalizing on the fact that they are the lone contenders currently
towards this frontside position. Viko knows there's gotta be at least one player above us.
Don't do a quick round over ahead immediately building out some clear space here.
But Viko Malibuka, nine eliminations already can they make it a 10?
I don't know if he meant to do that or not, but that was looking nice for a moment from Viko.
He tries to climb up further and further Higgs and Kurt they get that elimination
But maybe inadvertently helping the pressure from Viko and Malibuca
So now it's gonna come down to this 2v2 situation NA versus EU
Viko and Malibuca are in first place jumping around that's that first shot on the curb
Even sliding around taking damage back and forth Viko's gonna fall
Higgs and Kurt have done it yet again
That brief little moment of Malibuca having to mantle over the ground
But what choice did he have? No materials left to his name.
They made the most of the situation at the end of it.
A 9-point second, but watching Curve and Higgs
find that game one success yet again. What an impressive feature.
That was incredibly impressive from these two,
but Higgs, you seem so calm off to get your second victory, Royale.
It's only day one.
I mean, we've seen him make end game and then we'll be there.
So basically now for you guys, it's about consistency.
consistency in notes again though that you have high ground for free. Yeah, this
game was a little bit harder to play to be honest, but it was a good zone for us
again. What made it harder? People like we're looking up. So people now know to
watch out for you. I mean a high ground is dominating the winning games at the
moment. There's only one drug that didn't take height to win. So for you
now, do you feel like you're North America's best hope? Yeah, we might be.
I'm going to be honest.
And how do you like that pressure on your shoulders,
Kerb?
I don't know.
I'm not really feeling pressure at all right now.
Because you're a diamond?
Yeah.
He is absolutely diamond.
You've got a diamond of an in-game leader as well.
Higgs, what has it been like for you this year,
having to form a last minute duo with Kerb,
going into major two, now having these two VRs?
Yeah, I mean, feels good.
Kerb is the best teammate I've ever had.
So, you know, it's just easy to win when we're in that game.
Let's see if you can keep taking this smooth road
all the way to another VR.
Congratulations, guys.
Everyone, give it up for Hicks and Curves!
They vote for you guys at home, so don't go anywhere.
And I don't know how to feel about it.
You're not used to losing.
Getting beaten?
Not like this.
These players are just so locked in.
Could it be the milk?
Mm-hmm
Stay there
Oh
Oh
I'm here with PapaCurve, James and Higgs' dad, Pete.
What was the feelings like after that first game?
Oh, it was super exciting.
You know, it was the first win on land for Higgs.
So it gives pumps to everything.
And what's it like for you being a parent,
you know, of a player, a fortnight,
you know, a professional fortnight player as well?
What's that like at home?
We're very supportive.
The whole family, we definitely like support them 100%.
And so we're proud of them, very proud of them.
How do you think they'll bounce back?
You know them better than anyone.
I think they'll be okay.
We just saw them, they're already talking about it.
They know what they need to do, what they've done wrong,
and they've been doing this long enough
where they're going to be okay.
I think they'll be good, they're talking with each other,
they're doing good, I think they'll be fine.
Love it, well thank you so much guys,
enjoy the rest of the day.
By the way guys, Curve's the best controller player
in the world.
I'm not afraid to say it, but he is.
I'm in, yeah buddy.
We've got the best viewer right here,
we've got the best viewer on the stage as well.
Enjoy the rest of the day guys, thank you so much,
and let's hope they bounce back.
Yeah.
I don't even know what's going
on here. I can't even see
through the darkness, but this
is a big moment. We saw them get
a victory out back in game
wanted. That's many when you went
by your life. Hey guys, we had
to talk to you. Now a second
VR. Yeah, this is great for
this joy. They had such a great
start. And that's always the
big question. Can they then
continue that? And I really
like that. Actually what both
of their dads are actually
saying. They know that they
know that they're going to
dads are actually saying they know that they have the confidence in themselves to
actually come back they were saying yeah we know what they can do they've been
here before they've both been on a land stage they will come back and here we
saw the results of that and even having the confidence and we were sort of
talking about the support system behind them as well having the confidence in
these players that they can then take into the game it's gonna do them a
world of good you can see it right here Kelly for the rest of these games
today it's gonna be great to see them continue that confidence and for them
to be able to hold height for this long without barely any mats and barely no
heels. They knew that they had to kind of play it a little passively, but it takes
in curve. They're still able to get eliminations on the low ground.
Unfortunately though they weren't able to drop down and get those mats, but that
didn't matter. They were able to play that so conservatively and fortunately
for them that low and mid ground again was just such chaos that no one was
able to look on high. I'm really impressed with Hakes overall. I
think of course when he was playing with Clicks, a lot of the spotlight
team. I mean, it's not like
it was on clicks, but I think
it's important to highlight the
development of Hicks as well.
The way you've been able to
lead this team because sort of
the onus is now on Hicks to
try and leave a curve in this
environment. Of course, we have
seen curve on land before. Uh
looking quite confused, maybe,
but he's, uh, yeah, we have
seen him on land before, and
I think it's sort of on Hicks
right now to sort of exude
that confidence and show that
this team can stay consistent
and make this not one or
two games just having good
games. It's all about
having that consistency as
I got a little word of something. We got to go to the standings. You wouldn't believe me if I told you so
I'll just let the standings speak for themselves. We have a tiebreaker
Can we look over at lifty lodge real quick cuz the fact that Viko and Malibu is able to be in second place
still jumping up six placements there and then, of course, having Curve and Higgs get their second
victory Royale. Definitely a lot of players might be looking towards that northwest corner of the
map in day number two. But the thing that stands out even more to me right now is Yuma and Coyota
are still holding strong in first place after having a really rough game five.
Yeah, it's tough. It was an ideal for them. And that's that's ultimately what the question
was for those guys. Of course, they got two wins today. Were they able to keep it up? I
I think I'm most sort of impressed with this Viko and Malabuco, right?
We saw them up on high in that last game.
Things didn't exactly work out, of course, in the game before.
In this last game right here, we saw them more playing low ground.
And this is very similar to what we saw at the summit as well.
And another reason why this team are so good
is that they have all these options in their arsenal.
They are capable of playing high.
We know they take it when the time is right.
And then when it comes to these low ground layers,
the way they're able to play off each other is so, so important and effective
that they just trust each other so much, Kelly.
and that's why they're always you can see them in the same box looking at the same angle you don't often see them split
But if they do they do have enough firepower
Individually to get the job done as well
And they're so aggressive on this mid ground and they kind of came into the end game there with a ton of mass
And you would think maybe they're gonna lift a height one
Yeah, but no they stuck to the mid ground and I think that allows it to even be more
Aggressive and recover and then finally once they keep that aggression going and they do start to run on the mats
That's when they're able to get those refreshes and then of course coming down into the final moment here
a 2v2 and you know that Viko and Malibuca, they are set up for it.
But when it's Higgs and Curve, two incredible,
fragging players, there's only so much you can do.
But regardless of that, Viko and Malib, what they best
is be consistent and that is what we are seeing here
once again today.
Mini, you called it out earlier.
That's the scary Viko right there.
That's the scary Viko.
That's the Viko that has come alive.
We are now at a tiebreaker.
I want to talk more about what you want is more games.
Castors, take it away.
I know I'm usually the guy that says NA West and Asia this time.
Coyota and Yuma history could be made.
They got their two wins.
They are tied, but they're breaking the tiebreaker
with those wins.
Look, right now, I think Coyota and Yuma
are just glad that Viko Malibuca have taken up
until now to get things figured out.
But we still have one more game to go, so game six.
Let's see.
the final game of the day.
Number one. This could be the
pinnacle moment and a chance to
break that tie. Vico Malibuca
back to backland winners
looking for the three P and
the Coyota and Yuma a team
that is looking to make not just their dreams come true, but dreams of an entire region and look it's
very easy to want to spotlight what top two leaderboards we're getting up to for Fortuno and Pablo.
One more time running it back here at StoneSaint and Pablo with the opening elimination credit that
not going to buy them so much time all they need to do is figure out exactly where Mac is as
they are not looking to risk anything.
These two want to be fully certain
that they have total control of the PLI.
And just like they did in that last game,
they can go and hunt for him,
or they could just try to loot up.
They know he has to be around here somewhere
while I try to pause.
There goes that elimination there.
So he did obviously know he wasn't going for the revive.
So now they just need to play kind of literally
the same way they did before Toyota and Yuma
this time around we saw to draw out Spawn fight in that last game for Yoda and Yuma getting so
aggressive here and getting the eliminations once more and that's the thing I noticed not just them
in first place not just them with the two big three royals it's the eliminations I think on
that first page they have the most eliminations out of any team. And more importantly still they
needed that to be a very quick off Spawn fight because what happened in the last lobby
when things took a little bit too long for the dust to settle.
We saw that third-party intervention and that was just enough of a delay
to pose a big enough problem for Yuma and Koyota that they found themselves
with an early departure in game five and now they know
they have to be absolutely flawless in this six game
to put themselves in the best possible position for day two because Viko and Malibuka,
they are taking names and they are writing off every single duo in this lobby.
with one knock onto the young Josh trying to do what he can still stay standing
but so much pressure coming in from you.
They probably see they're trying to go for that Pac-Man ghost.
Get that one, get a little bit of extra loot.
Maybe if Josh and Yamzo got it, they could try to go ahead and keep Josh alive
because it does give you that extra gold.
Can you see him returning back?
No, they didn't even get a chance to grab it.
Chug jug, gold, it spawns a blue or higher rarity weapon as well.
They got everything they could have asked for out of that situation.
Completely perfect execution there by Vico and Malibuca.
And that's only going to add a list of roles for some of these other teams.
The Lockies, Sky, Scroll, doing what they can to try and defend their positioning on the leaderboard.
And climb back up to a more steady placement.
But it's just not going to be easy.
Reality's rain is really starting to heat up here.
I'm sharing salva
They're going for it all out effort right now to just take this fight outright. Yeah
I'm sure in Salvatore is one of those scenes where they might have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder against sky and scroll
They were the ones kind of getting farmed out of the sky in a game that EWC
They took that personal and they're not leaving reality great because of a shark and teeny do a little bit of a board play
the game on with shadow and
Virgo went over to Golden
Grove. Teeny and shark get
their fight back. Not only
that, but Teeny shark, they
don't look like they're done.
Yes. Yeah. I mean, they
ventured. So rather quickly
and call it 27, even though
they're going to send out
some straight shot here. It's
not actually going to net
them anything of benefit.
Just giving away their
position. Yuma Coyota
might be the ones who
need to keep an open eye
out because if sharking
might be the ones who need to keep an open eye out because if shark and teen
are lurking about nothing is safe. Yeah sometimes first place is fine and dandy
but at this day and age when it comes to Fortnite first place also puts a target on your back
and it's not just mbiko and malibu because it might have to worry here for they did get
aggressive early on with the armadillos taking some shots trying to leave the
sum to chores but you can kind of see their load out double chugs they got chug splashes
They got big pause almost maxed out of the materials.
So they kind of got everything they would need out of some controls.
So there's no reason to overstay their welcome by any means.
Yeah, why stick around when you already have the benefit of everything you can need and then some.
They'll have to be a bit cautious.
Definitely going to spot out for Indiana, Lucie.
Top of that hillside.
It's Mack.
Now, kidding for his life, hoping that the falls don't actually spot him out.
Can't move a muscle just yet.
clicks and rapid though still doing their best to try and maintain a decent
positioning here in day one it's been rough at times but we have still seen
those glimpses those opportunities that they've been able to try and create for themselves
yeah and they're still in contention not too far away from that top spot so they got to make sure
this game counts and then go in tomorrow and that's something I feel like they could do
especially at any more matches here team is found him out. Oh no, Demish gets the one
pump drops him down full box them. There's four more points on their way up that
leaderboard. I think they might only be eight points shy of tying the first and
second place teams. It wouldn't surprise me in the slide is for Demish and
Darren to just continue to go hunting to make up for those leaderboard points
too. But Pixie, Swizzy, another team sort of hovering around that top five you
You can see just above them tied.
It's their exact score.
Curve and Higgs, thanks to their double victory royals,
it has put them from keeping NA completely locked out
of the top five, but Regen definitely
still a bit on life alert.
Yeah, you can see points spread here and there,
starting to kind of open up, six and seven,
roughly 18 or so points.
So this game, honestly, is very, very telling
where you land on the leaderboard.
If you're looking for a first place finish
the weekend is over is really going to dictate how you get to play tomorrow. If you're further down
the leaderboard you may need to get aggressive. Close the gap with elimination points. If you're
higher up on the leaderboard maybe just switch one or two things up. Yeah but better late than
never and for Higgs and Curve they might just be able to keep surging forward at this rate.
It's definitely what they're trying to see if they can continue to spill
any sort of a gap. Keeping teams locked out and away from them on leaderboard would be the best case scenario.
But obviously things are hardly ever going to go to plan, especially in a land environment, but for Ozone and Golden,
these guys have definitely started to come alive here.
Yeah, and honestly, before kind of flying on over, you know, the last eval cup in NA, they didn't win a game,
but they were consistently top two, top three. You go to Saturday, they pop off, and now coming into the global championship,
13 that's not necessarily catching fire like Toyota and Yuma but look at them on
seventh place 174 points climbing up Pablo and Chino as well we talk about our
triple contested fights they're the second of those could triple tennis that
suffice and they're inside of the top ten as well it's really impressive to
think that Chino and Pablo have essentially gone five one with their
off-sponsoring here in day one it is going to lead a huge question mark in
In terms of day two and whether or not that can get
to actually feel comfortable with trying to pursue
that kind of off-spot interaction.
But Kanata, Ark, getting a bit sneaky here.
Pablo, Chino gonna take some tags along the way.
Looks like Golden and Ozone are going to profit
from that initial surge base.
But freaking Kanata, how long are they willing
to wait for their opportunity to strike?
Yeah, you can see Chino and Pampu are kind of putting
their heads in the basket.
If it's rotating towards the Eastern side of the map,
let's just beat every other team there.
because if we wait until the zone closes,
the Western and the Southern side
could very well be stacked up.
You kind of see there how many teams
are continuing to rotate in.
I think there's more teams or just as many teams
outside of the zone as there is inside.
I know we got at least three at Guantanet,
a couple still around reality range,
a bunch split at the top of the mountain
that even Guantanet landing all the way towards the North
has a couple players inside.
Also a good netting of teams
still hanging out towards that Southern section
up the map, tanking up some of those stormtakes early on.
Malibuca and Viko though, these last two lobbies specifically,
we have seen them get off to a very quick start.
They are not spending a lot of time at their initial POI,
but even with their quick departure out of Lifty,
still being able to hang around that northern side of the map
and done such a great job at just following their tracks
backwards.
See, Viko, Malibuca, and Cammy have qualified
for their six FNCS land finals.
They have never missed one.
We always talked about Kanata never missing a grand finals
and you kind of look at lands,
they're a little bit more prestigious,
that's gotta be better.
I think what would be even crazier though
to think about is if they do manage to repeat
a third land victory out of the six
that they have fought for, that's a 50-50 odds
of beating a land champion, a crazy record
But they could strike in Fortnite history, but they got to get there first.
They still got to make it through day number one.
And they've got to see whether or not they can even overtake Toyota and
Yuma along the way.
We call it unorthodox rotation by any means.
Toyota Yuma, standard gameplay out of coming out of Cluster Coast.
You know you're gonna stay in the zone.
A good portion of that early game, but at least when they do make it in,
I think they're kind of above or at least quicker than a lot of these other
teams so they should be able to position themselves accordingly. Clicks of
Rapid though on the other hand might not have that same luxury. You already see
teams ahead of them at reality rain. You gotta matter how many more up in front
as well. And I'm not trying to get ahead of things by any means here, but for
clicks specifically, he is definitely marking off that inch from what happened
over at land during summit. He's just ensuring that they have best case
scenario heading into day two. This has been a night and day performance.
And seeing off in the distance, those two teams, Tide and Jule, Sky and Skrull, they're going to have to kind of rotate past them.
Maybe not necessarily right through them with Brax and Yee-Hiannis.
Honestly, pretty impressive, 156 points, and we've seen how the last two games have gone.
It almost looks like they have full control, and then one misstep kind of cost them at all.
And obviously Storm served to be in the main focal points of their downfall,
fall even with getting elimination they're just taking too much damage in those fights they're usually
below it glad to see a whole switch up in this game it's still early but 218 above is going to give
you a whole different type of comfort ability to rotate in and around the zone it's just so difficult
to actually stick to the same strategy when every other duo that has yet to find success on the
day is immediately going to try and switch things up it's definitely thrown a little bit of a
problem into the actual strategy for Rax and Yannis, but even with a little bit of a haul throughout that midsection of today's games, if they can finish strong on the day, that would still put them in a great position for day two.
We're tuning the nebs and Nathan, we see Thomas and folks and they disappear off the map, see
the three eliminations there.
So you know what the dust settles, who kind of got the better end of that deal?
Janice and Rax kind of getting followed by Epic and Pop.
Whether this is intentional or not could be an opportunity for a get back from Epic
and Pop.
We saw what happened in that last game as well.
Then they just straight over.
Viko and Malapuca took them down.
The reboot came in, but Janice and Rax took them down shortly after.
after and they have to make this decision. They're still above the damage threshold,
but if they start a fight against Epic, look at the south side of battlewood. There's another
team there that they might not know about and could get surprised by. Well, Epic and Pomphimore
have already put a bit of a stinger here onto rax in the Ennis' plan. They clearly add the
intentions of wrapping around that north side of battlewood, but with Epic and Will getting
the opportunity to surpass them, that's going to force them to kind of opt for a little
bit more of a white line approach, and that does put them at the exposure of those teams
towards the south side, but Nebs, Nathan,
we knew they were already in the spot of trouble here,
and Nebs managed to return things around.
Pay the limitations on to focus and Thomas.
Nebs really putting it on right now.
You see the frustration coming in.
They weren't necessarily in the best spot
to kind of start with.
You saw both of them relatively weak,
but just getting one V2 like that
got to hurt just a little bit mentally.
But at least it's the last game of the day.
That nothing to worry about.
They can go hit the bots after this
and come back stronger tomorrow.
You see Yanis are back game after game.
They've been progressively getting better each and every time.
182 above the damage threshold.
And I think they're taking these learning lessons,
kind of the mistakes they had in the previous games,
being below serves too far away from the zone.
They took it seriously right now.
They're kind of speeding up their game plan
like they have before.
It's a little bit of a scary spot
to be in though still for Rax and Yanis.
are still a handful of teams kind of trickling either way
from where these two are currently at.
In the moment, they look to exit off
of taking that Ascender upwards.
Venno and Agers, of course, with that little bit of elevation
off the mountain face.
When you get a couple of good tags in,
and that immediately sticks racks in Yanis
to a situation where they're 87 below,
trying to change that conversation very rapidly,
though they can take out Venno a little bit of revenge
here even, and right back to being 34 above,
but it's still just enough.
They're doing barely enough. They're literally putting one foot in front of the other here, and this is where it starts to get dangerous.
They're in a two tick zone that immediately changes to a five tick. They're above the damage threshold,
but how are they going to make it alive? How D-Clix is in that same scenario, and he's much further away with only two shots and his last med kit being used.
You want to believe that it could be step by step, but one team making a very quick approach from that same
Southern section and it's sky and scroll of all teams to be trailing behind clicks right now
Headed back over to wonky land
Barely managing to scrape the light
Engine zone one more tick of storm would have been the end of it, but he's still alive at least for right now
We're about to witness one of the greatest so little clutches of all time.
I'm all here for it.
We'll give him some time to cook up.
We know Skynexpro, I've gotten their opportunities as well.
His game has not been friendly to them either,
or at least they're above the damage threshold.
Right, we're missing some shock waves and a couple extra heals
and some materials on top of that.
But it's better to have that than be eliminated out of the game.
Especially since it's the last and final one of the day.
Just such a fickle spot to be in.
Clicks knowing that they're just hovering inside of that top 10 position
and as a solo, trying to clutch out placement points,
not even factoring in yet, and Skye squirreling,
seemingly having a pretty solid position.
Largely due to the fact that they've got a decent amount of service to work with,
but Wonkyland just seemingly causing a lot of problems right now
for other teams, darn dealers though,
I can actually beat the target.
Rick's maybe if he can get a refresh,
that little bit of siphon will go a long way.
Yeah, he got the Elan when I'm saying like air quotes here,
it was a knock.
So that's why he didn't get the siphon.
Either Fortnite is celebrating my birthday
or is it the global championship?
All jokes there aside,
if you see how that extra noise
might be causing a little bit more confusion
around the rest of the lobby.
Cause a lot of these players,
they really utilize the audio.
So kind of having that in the mix
kind of might throw a wrench in it just a little bit.
Hits and curves, little bit of a replay, 235,
a bad beat with the shark.
That's going to cause Hits' life.
And now Curve gets focused out,
and he's going to fall as well.
That bounce back was just so brutal.
Any little bit of collision,
it's just going to end up in a crash course landing.
Shark teeny, just away from all of it.
But Coyota, close enough
that he could definitely be scouted out
But he has to do this as a solo, Jacob.
He has to try and lock down a first place position,
and then we don't even know what Malibuca and Vika
have been getting up to.
I believe.
I believe.
There's a whole region watching this at home
that's believing as well.
310 split between two chug jugs.
He has four different shockwaves.
As long as he doesn't get max pull after max pull,
this could be doable for Toyota to pick up some points,
keep this one relatively close.
We've seen what Klicks has been able to do.
He saw a sliver of HP earlier on in the same scenario,
And he's consistently staying above the damage threshold.
The first right now is he's so far back,
teams begin to notice and Rax takes him out.
He just didn't have any other options.
That was his best bet on trying to make it
into a safe spot so he can actually look
for playing the shield motions.
It's just so unfortunate, but still a decent day.
We'll see how it holds up for the overall standing.
Starm, Dmish.
Now trying to gauge whether or not
that he even try and head a little bit closer
towards that high ground territory,
but it seems like low.
is the pool folk is currently, they're recognizing the fact
there are so many teams underneath them just encountering
their own school problems.
Yeah, they're trying to pop themselves.
Saw that pre-edit come in, they went for the opportunity.
Unfortunately, they left empty handed, but no harm, no foul.
Didn't take too much damage.
Kind of see the leader board, Viko Malibuca,
still tied with Toyota and humor,
remember Toyota is going to be by himself,
250 and counting, Darned Demons right there,
only 16 points away in Pixie and Swigsy,
not too far away on top of that rotation coming in,
not necessarily gonna be a far pull,
but at least it's something that's gonna force
Viko and Malibuca out of position.
Viko and Malibuca though,
they just want that secondary height front side.
They are going to try and make an attempt
for the high ground eventually,
but ultimate height, it almost looked like
Pete and Foryo might've actually been one tier above
where we just saw Malibuca and Viko at,
and this is a crucial moment right now for Spurl,
Solo yet again trying to hold it down, but Swayze and Pixie are actually going to lead the charge on the ultimate high ground.
And we saw them fourth place on the overall leader part. Hey, winning here to put them in first to end the day.
They still have to take down Viko Malibuka, Coyota relatively early, but it's still giving themselves a shot.
They have all their attention focused right down below Peterpot and Coyote.
Not sure they got the memo that it's them, but that is their biggest threat at second height.
Check out Rax and Yannis though making their way up the silver face.
They've had to use a decent amount of material and Yannis though able to strike.
Callan has been taken out.
Rax, Yannis, we end with a refresh.
Coyona still making his way forward as a solo but playing this far in the back side of the zone.
It's just going to be so problematic to actually make his way into that next entry point.
Pete looking up immediately, beaming Swizzy.
Now off the track.
Oh, he's making it! Peter Pan does his best!
Elimination means high ground is open.
Now you know why they focused them for as long as they have.
Up until this point, they were the biggest threat.
But now teams are turning the tables.
Shark and Teenie are now going to adjust a little bit of tension here.
They also want that high ground.
Peterbott, Boyle, Shark and Teenie also need big games here to close out today
if they have any hope of winning the global championship.
They're doing their best bad at holding down those scores above them.
They don't want to allow any kind of weakness
for piano to play a pickup part, but Boyota has fallen.
Riddled 270 old already starting to drop
in that leaderboard stand-in as B and Boya
now tearing away at these lower layers.
Welcome, Darm Dinesh, join the conversation.
Well, I will say Darm,
because he's been clutching it out here as a solo
for quite some time inside of the top 12.
A couple more placement points,
he will at least get half of them,
but he has to make his way back.
Pixie's gonna go down on an O-zone,
They've got another place, but they go down!
Gonto takes them out this game!
It's just so chaotic!
This could be the big one out of Pete and Poryo!
First they'll have to survive the Argentinians, though,
because Lewa and Romero looked like they wanted
to take a stab now at the high ground.
But Darm, finally finding a little bit of pocket,
manages to just escape the pump shot on the end of things,
but still trapped inside of his own box.
Looking back, he needs a shot.
He needs a refresh.
He needs everything, Jacob, including a miracle.
We got a punch to sew those down, running around.
Let's see Pauliogo go down in the feed.
Bridgeroads getting dropped.
Fiko, Malibuca still alive side by side as well.
Yanis and Rats do get eliminated by Romero.
And they shock wave towards the front.
They're trying to take advantage of everybody.
And they're still falling down the side of the mountain.
Peter Bond has a haymaker shot.
Almost everybody in this game, Tocco, is soloed.
How can the team alive?
Arsora's got one.
And Twi's going to be the one to put an end to it here.
Shark and Teenie.
They've got so many materials to work with, they can take their sweet time.
Shark and Teenie have been waiting for the moment to start, and they find it in Game 6.
And you poke the fair, one and two many times, they will start to bite back.
Shark and Teenie feeling out the lobby most of the day.
They kept it relatively closed, and now they have closed out day one,
with a huge gap in the air.
head that relatively close and now they have closed out day one with a huge
momentum shift and a victory royale on top. We have been waiting for this moment
from you two all day. Shark what's it like to wrap up day one with a victory royale?
It's got to feel great but has it felt bad at any point today, Teenie?
Oh I mean we're just gonna have to focus on tomorrow, that's it.
What do you think has been difficult for you guys today?
Just the difference of the lobby, like, we've got further up, I guess.
And so, do you feel like you've got enough experience of this lobby now
to prepare to win tomorrow's shark?
Yeah, exactly.
So, what's the plan now?
What do you do to get the game plan on form for tomorrow?
Do you go talk to Clesi?
We're going to see.
We are going to see.
Guys, it was worth the wait.
Congratulations on the victory, Roy.
Yeah please Antwerp, give it up for Shark and Teeny.
Alert, alert, this is not a drill, Shark and Teeny, just one game number six of the global
championship.
Kelly, I don't know, this is a crazy thing right, it's a two day format, I think if
this was just a one day format it would be over right, I would be like, I think I
Yeah!
That is.
It's not.
It's crazy.
Really quickly before I can let Kelly Lee take over, hey, Fortnite fam, if you want to vote
for next year's format, I need you to go into legislative landing right now.
When this show's over, voting concludes!
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Do us a trios!
You tell us, Kelly Lee, that was a crazy...
Yeah, no, that was quite crazy.
Congratulations, of course, to Shark and Deanie.
Better late than never in that interview gave me so much more confidence.
He honestly didn't even seem to care about the victory royale.
He's like, I'm ready for tomorrow.
We are going to prepare for tomorrow.
And obviously with Queezy as their coach,
you know that he's already coming up with some plans,
coming up with some strategies,
so that day two looks so much better for this duo.
That's unlike them.
They usually really animates it
and excites it after a win, right, usually?
No, they're not.
That's sorry.
That's the wrong duo.
I'm pretty excited about these guys though for tomorrow.
I mean, they're the team
that so many people had high expectations
of coming into this lap.
So many people had high expectations
them coming into the summit. Same with EWC as well. Always, they have so many high expectations
on them and it just haven't delivered today. So I'm really intrigued now to see what they
can do now tomorrow in those six games because they're not necessarily going to have all
of those expectations on their shoulders. They still will to an extent, but because
of how they perform today, not to the standard we'd expect, maybe now this sort of performance
will give them that leapfrog for their tomorrow as well.
This is what we expect from them though, making sure that they're grabbing great
eliminated, but doing it at such a good pace that they're kind of able to recover, find their footing again, and then go for another Elim.
Six Elims onto Tini as well, almost ten eliminations, and of course those 65 points is going to get them a hundred points or nearly that.
And obviously that is going to shoot them up the leaderboard. We had some big names go down a little early in that game.
And some other teams, some other teams that we've kind of been waiting for, kind of been expecting doing well.
Obviously, I gotta talk about that incredible Peter bot jump up into high ground getting the elimination onto swizzing and then stealing height away
But obviously Lou and Romero then stole height away from them
Just so many teams that I love to see kind of go for that aggression on the high ground because it's been a
Relatively relaxed high ground over the last couple games
Shut us the production for getting those shots there. Yeah, Malibu got brutal stuff, but Valley. It's okay, bro
It's okay. You have time to kind of take a step back and come back in tomorrow even stronger
We got to take a look at these standings. You've got to see how things are settled
So remember we played six games today. This is what we're coming into
tomorrow
Malibuca and Vico currently leading the pack first place mini-minor
We're in trouble. Sorry, baby. Travel, darren, darren.
Oh, I hope so. I mean, you know just for the law just for the narrative what a story that would be
But I think those shots you mentioned it just there is that you can really tell him because yes, they're in first place
Yes, they're a decent chunk ahead of that second place and you can sort of see the different personalities playing out because like yeah
Let's go for it with first place on the day one shape a hand Malibu could not happy with it at all
He sort of brings it down a notch
And I think that level of sort of that balance of excitement
But also that calmness that this duo have in between the sort of dynamic will help them
Improved for tomorrow as well because it hasn't been their best day
of course they haven't been able to find the highs that we'd expect from this is
what I was talking about right here look at that just a complete just a
complete difference in the reaction Kelle. Yeah as Mali the IGL to be able to
kind of run that low ground when he barely had anything and to still do as
well as he did but I love that I'd love to see that emotion from Alibuka
because he's not okay with second best third best whatever staying up top he
wants to make sure that he's doing the best every single time and once
again Vika Malibuka with zero victory royales but somehow the most
replacement points out of any team right here just goes to show how important consistency is on this leaderboard.
It's just passion, right? It's all passion. You'd look at that game and you'd think, wow, in the situation they were in that game, they got a top five.
That's incredibly impressive. And that's not enough for Malibu. Right? Like, they're both thinking we could get this figure out.
We could walk away not only global champions,
but be the first duo that three back to back land wins.
The pressure is on for them.
Let's turn attention back to these standings.
I mean, look at this right behind them as well.
Yuma and Koyota, we saw the two VRs from them earlier on.
Kelly, I can't even lie.
We all were freaking out.
Oh, 100%.
The entire audience is freaking out.
When have we ever seen a smaller region team
get two victory royals in a single day,
little victory royale on the global stage.
Of course we are all freaking out.
They did unfortunately go down a little early
and that's why we do see them drop down to third place
where they've been holding first place
for quite a long time there.
But still plenty of opportunities for me though.
Sorry production, I'm gonna make you go back
onto that leaderboard because we have to talk
about Shark and Teenie of course.
I think 15 placements if I'm not mistaken
to get into sixth place right now.
That is insane just how much a game can swing.
And this isn't like, oh, game two, game three.
This is halfway through the tournament.
And this is a scary position for Shark and Sinead to be in,
because we know what they can do in individual moments.
We know what they can do in individual games.
But give them six games tomorrow,
where they're capable of having many of those end games
that they've been having today, as well,
and what we've seen them in the history.
If they could just replicate what they did there in game six,
they're on for a winner here.
Is Golden and Ozone the highest performing
North American team right now?
What a time.
They weren't even playing together
at the start of this season.
whatever conversation they needed to have,
whatever synergy they needed to rework,
obviously worked so well for them.
Golden and Ozone, especially towards the end
the last couple of weeks, have been looking so good
for them to be folding up NA on their back.
I don't know if anyone could have predicted that though.
Yeah, and really quickly,
I love that we've kind of been highlighting
all of the little differences and all that,
but when I do look at even like Shark and Pee,
just double back really quickly.
This is the team we all thought
would go ahead and walk away at the win.
They're at 2.19, right?
They're not that far behind
Diegler-Malibuk in first place,
which is kind of insane to think
we come back tomorrow for six games
where they've had time to ball review
and come up with a new plan.
When it comes to Diegler-Malibuk,
it just amps up the pressure
because remember, yeah, we talked about it at Summit.
They didn't get a victory.
They were a really consistent member.
That's only eight games.
They've got another four games on top of that
for this weekend.
So it makes it even more difficult
to play that level of gameplay
when they can have to do it for so, so long.
And I was looking there on the leaderboard,
Swizzy and Pixie, of course,
they had a decent game right there.
They're playing higher.
I thought, yeah, finally, this is the time
for them to get that win and really show us
what they can do on this stage.
But it just crumbled.
There's a couple of those height teams now
that aren't doing as well.
So that could cause them problems up on high as well.
Crazy tough, crazy tough.
We gotta do something really special here.
We gotta take a look at our hot toys,
hot plays of the day.
Shout out to our friends over at Hot Toys.
No surprise, I did also jump the gun.
We got to talk about Koyota and Yuma.
Just replay after replay from the duo.
Just again, so incredible.
I think it's been such an incredible just first day,
right guys?
I can see the variety of play styles of region,
stepping up, getting victory out.
Teams we thought would just be like,
oh yeah, they're going to go ahead and walk away with it.
Nope.
I mean, we've got a competition on our hands.
Yuma and Koyota have just been so good from high ground.
And fortunately for them, these were definitely some of the games where a lot of other teams
were kind of just trying to feel out the lobby, sticking to the low and mid ground and going
for those engagements as well.
But I do not want that to discredit Coyota and Yuma because they had it so confidently.
Because they were able to make sure that their high ground was never getting shot,
but also getting eliminations as well on the high ground.
That's a laugh up there to me.
So I was just wondering, anyone knows, this is a K-pop dance.
This is from a tease.
I love the fact that Coyota is bringing that to the audience.
He looks like he's having so much fun.
Even when they went down early, I think in Game 4, he was still smiling and laughing.
Exactly. They're going to need all of that energy now for tomorrow, because this completely changes their complexion and the sort of framing for their weekend,
because I'm sure even themselves weren't expecting them to be on this level at this position currently right now.
So it sort of changes the framing for tomorrow.
They were very expected and maybe need a little bit of a comeback come day, too.
But now they're in a position where they need to hold on to it, which a lot of these smaller region teams is not a position that we find themselves in very often.
So as much as today was super exciting to see,
I want to see what they're going to do tomorrow.
What are they going to bring?
That's what's crazy, right?
And I think I was talking to Vivid right before this last game.
And he was kind of thinking and calling out, like, OK,
what position in previous LAN environments
has the winner come out on day two, come back to win?
He went best for back his third place, right?
So tomorrow, really anything can go.
And what's crazier is just think about how many games.
Like, we were like, oh, the number one team,
they're in first place, they come to the game.
all day immediately were eliminated.
And now the entire landscape, the entire leaderboard shifts.
You know, I really think that there is actually
an interesting discussion to be had
on how smaller region teams are able to easily
adapt better to a mixed lobby like this.
In EU, they practice and play the same lobbies
over and over and over and over again.
So they're used to, oh, this person's
going to be rotating this way.
They're going to be playing like this.
But by going into a global settings,
and we heard it from Teenian Shark themselves,
this is not the lobby that we were expecting.
So by having these smaller region teams kind of have a bit more of a haphazard
dip cubs throughout the weeks.
I think they're kind of able to handle this inconsistency in the lobby so much more.
And remember historically there hasn't been that much pressure on these smaller region teams as well.
So they can come into it with a little bit more freedom.
You look at Shaq and Sini, yes they have that aura about them.
Yes they try and act calm in interviews but I'm sure they'll be feeling a lot of that pressure now.
Because remember Shaq, this is only like a third LAN ever.
Like you know all these expectations must be weighing so heavily on their shoulders.
and for some of these smaller region teams,
they don't necessarily have that as of right now,
maybe in the future that might change.
But right now, this is a prime opportunity
for a team like Toyota and Yuma
to really take tomorrow and really just go for it.
I love that.
Such an incredible breakdown from both of you guys.
Fortnite Fam, that wraps up day number one.
Now listen to me, Fortnite Fam,
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Bye.
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Keep it.
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