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06-14-2026 · 6h 14m
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Me, it didn't feel like a lot changed from that EMEA Grand Finals coming into this event,
which I'm kind of disappointed with, in all honesty, and frustrated with,
because they had extra time coming into this event as the first seed,
and yet we were seeing them getting overwhelmed time and time again.
Vitality had to be prepared for where it was often the weakest side of the map,
and we see the adjustments come in from Vitality as well,
being able to use that attack operator to their strength,
to a point where Team Heretic's got too scared to push out on the defense,
and it kind of killed their game plan off a little bit, I think, is fair to say, Mimi.
Yeah, I think the way that they were anchoring as well on that was pretty good.
I don't want either of these teams to get knocked out this early.
I'm not going to lie, so the LR.
To be, yeah, I mean, dude.
I don't want either of these teams to get knocked out early.
Like actually neither.
But.
It's got to happen.
I don't see Lev losing to Harrisix. I just can't. I don't. Not after the way they lost to PaperX.
I just, I mean, both teams got slaughtered in their matchups, but I truly believe Lev win here.
Slayer, thank you to the tier one, man. Thank you.
I mean, yeah, NA versus EU, this is like a really good matchup, man. And the fact that we're getting
in the first low like lower round one is insane okay well my PC initially started up it immediately
crashed so I have to think that I'm not gonna crash for a little bit so we should be okay
it for at least a game.
I only saw two of their maps, there was underperformances on top of it, it has to be way better today.
Yeah, well I'm sure all the heretics players feel exactly the same way.
Bro, these guys don't believe in heretics, what the hell?
It's not, dude, look at the matchup, they're playing lead, it's not easy.
I'm playing for team heretics, I'm frustrated because...
I think I have lead today, without a doubt.
Showed ourselves like fools like I mean they showed it really easy against us and it's kind of an acceptable
I think they're playing good. I mean they were playing good in Grand Final as well. That's why it was fifth map over time
They're really like playing well, but I think the difference was us not them. We played pretty well
I'm being frustrated while losing is fine because that means that you care and you need
to fight back.
So for me it's not like calming yourself down, it's like more what you put in game.
If I'm frustrated to myself that like I played bad, I'm talking with my teammates and acknowledging
and you know telling my teammates that I played bad or I made a mistake and then next round
I'm just resetting myself fully and I'm focused on next
you certainly see that composure there and we're of course hoping to see that on the stage here
now focusing on some of these 1v1s you know more individualistic battles right we got
an interesting one here between I would say the two players that are just kind of the
the Neons, you know, they're rolling with this agent. They're not really changing anything
up.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Today here.
I got to go with left. I'm sorry. I have to go with Lev unless like for some reason they
go missing. They play paper X. I think the vitality heretics match up. Heretics getting
owned as badly as they did in comparison to Lev getting owned by Paper Rex? I think that's
more justifiable. I also think I've been more impressed overall with Lev's form. Heretics
have had really good games, but losing the way they did in Vitality, I refuse to believe
maybe they can win the event. I refuse to believe it.
Con? Wait. Yeah, I'll call him.
Uh, here, I'll...
It's a point when we consider the preparation.
And I think the contrast between these two is the spike.
He took a little bit of time to warm up to this tournament,
And I think it's fair to say the past couple of games that you've been playing.
Hello?
Great, but as you mentioned...
What's up?
I'm actually ready for love here today, so we're on the same side.
I think when I look at Kosh...
Thank God.
That's a great way with too much.
I just think there's no way.
I mean, I think it's more justifiable to lose to Paper X the way they did, as opposed to
what happened to Heretics.
Yeah, I agree.
I don't think I can see a world where Heretics can win this event.
Even if they somehow win this game, I just don't see a world where their floor is too
love, in my opinion.
Yeah, I just can't see it.
Yeah, I mean, the one person on heretics, like, I technically have connections in both
these games because Rien is someone like, I love and respect a lot because back in champs
24, after we lost, like I was very emotional and he came over and gave me like a big hug
and everything.
When was this?
What match was this?
Uh, lower final in champs 2024.
We got third.
I mean they're good ass dudes in general all of them. Like Benji? Obviously playing in his hometown, it sucks to see either team lose.
I think I guess the worst thing was what we didn't start really well. We were not present enough in my opinion.
So I think in terms of like in-game stuff there's not much to fix because we didn't really get into it.
some well full chan thank you for the tier one meh i just want to say i reviewed yesterday's match
meh's hella funny but you know thank you there now i have my own reasons i wouldn't say i believe
in it but i can't ignore it as well so it's like a bit weird um but yeah i mean yesterday was a funny
Start today yesterday was a fucking like chat
Like I don't think you guys understand after I ended stream I was laughing walking around my apartment
Just trying to understand gravity. Thank you for the prime and
and
Jilla, thank you
Edwards thank you. That's your wonder who you're rooting for in a World Cup right now
Okay, so I want the unks to win so like either name are messy or an Aldo
So any of those teams are the Portugal, Brazil, Argentina
Netherlands is the team I've always supported in general
So like all World Cups. I've always gone for another lens
So that's like my main team and then England. I don't know there's like no reason for I just chose
them at a very young age and then just continue to support them okay and then
England because they have a lot of Arsenal players so five teams that I'm
completely fine with winning and I'm not like that into like I was very into the
World Cup at one point like very deadie now I don't think I'll care till the
knockout stages like once groups are done then I'll like start locking in a
little bit what was like you're like why are you an Arsenal fan like when did
that all that sorry my all my dad and my brother all both had teams right that
they supported yeah and neither of them supported our song my brother was a new
castle united fan at the time and my dad was like a Chelsea fan so I was like
fuck I gotta pick a team that's not theirs and so I chose our song because I
really like the way they played number one and number two at that point in time
they were getting really good and then and then they had like the golden era
basically like in 20 oh three oh four oh five oh five oh six they were just
dominant I say so I chose them and then since 2006 they hadn't won till this
year saying ask him about PSG PSG the best team in the world and people are
people think I'm gonna get rage baited by the fact that we lost to the best
team in the world by far. Essentially, Lev lost to PaperX. Consider Arsenal as like Lev.
Oh, I see, I see, I see. And I should be rooting for Arsenal too, is what you're saying.
Yeah, I think so. I bet. But that's the comparison in a sense that it's like a lot of talent,
but like obviously PaperX is more polished. So like they like PSG just like won, but they
didn't even score a normal goal. They got a penalty goal versus us to win. Because we're
nice like that. And people think that I'm going to get rage baited by the fact that
we lost the Champions League final to the best team in the world, but I'm not. Now ask
your chat who they support.
If they say Chelsea are united start banning them one by one
the players will not forget what we have a little bit of a set of rules for everyone to pull.
That's the first message I came up with.
I got my control.
Kind of started this one off quickly.
Yeah, I mean, just be nice.
Yeah, United Spurs, Liverpool.
Spurs, I hope that guy never typed anything about Arsenal at any point.
Right.
The five or the win.
I feel like Weber just wanted to see how he fared against game.
Bayern, Liverpool.
Baby, I will soon start to question.
If you're a Spurs fan or a United fan, you should not be publicizing that.
You should be embarrassed.
Good point, good point. Let's go ahead and see where we're headed with our map pool picks and bands.
Check it out.
All right, hello and welcome guys. Let's do the map people real quick.
Oh, map fans.
Leviton versus TH today.
And Leviton won the skirmish.
I hope Lev's Ascent is played again.
I need to see the Merdine.
And Ceratix is team game.
They're much better than Leviton's.
Well, PaveX.
Dude, I love their Ascent.
They, I love Lev's Ascent overall.
Yeah, it's really good hoping they didn't lose confidence
I doubt it man. Like I think they literally just went backstage and they're like, yeah, we just got obliterated by the better team
So they take split brother
I'm telling you are split literally the past if they got to a map 3 like I'm not trying to bring up the past
If that went map 3...
You're not wrong, you're not wrong.
It could have gone...
It would have been weird. Map 3 would have been weird.
It would have definitely gone like...
We're going like 15 to 15.
Think about how many matches you have played in your professional career where...
That has happened.
Where you get cleaned out map 1.
Almost win map 2 and pick yourself.
Dude, if this went to map 3, we would have won.
Every time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll send Levite and defense everything correct. All right. Good luck guys
Okay, these maps completely favored left by the way
The windcon for let our fur it heretic split I'm telling you right now Benji fishy edit Benji fishy holding down a that's it
What's your plan on this map?
Cypher? Viper maybe? I think Cypher though.
But it's more of his positioning. He plays that fucking slant position.
Oh yeah.
And bro, he fucking gets three every time.
Yeah.
Oh he's wise, he's wise, he's wise.
Nice, okay, okay, okay.
The thing about it is like, whenever I've watched that play, like, they're notorious for the B main default and playing like retake A a lot, right?
Yeah.
We're lagging under A retake.
But the thing is like this last game they played on split spike scene was actually like baiting and slam all blows
It's like baiting for him and Evan like it was the same retake. Yeah, and it's like a three
They have layers dude, they're like happy playing the 5v5 retakes remember like how Sen used to do it like bull 5v5 split retakes
But their retakes are so solid. I don't blame them for like
Trying to play that way losing is fine. Yeah
I mean they know what they're good at and they like
Continue to like layer off that yeah, they're also like low key anti themselves a little bit sometimes
They are 4 rookies, 1 veteran, same as us in 2024.
All come with strong, same as us.
We have 2 in.
Maybe this is our last game here in Masters, but I'm pretty sure we won't have much more sports to do.
Where are they?
Whenever we see each other, we always pitch to Turkish Shorts.
Today's flood place, you're stuck.
Have a safe flight.
Nah, he did not just tell us to have a safe flight.
Nah, that pissed me off.
Now it's personal.
Nah, nah, nah.
Wait, did you watch our happy yesterday?
Uh, I didn't watch much.
I was working a lot of things with my dad.
Oh man, you gotta go watch my stream from last yesterday.
just specifically the last 20 minutes I'm telling you I never promote my
stream like this but this one is special I haven't laughed this hard in a
quite a while I was comparing g2 in the way that they lost to XLG similar to us
first BLG because of the you know they like celebrated big pic des XLG do you
remember that video or do you see the video yeah yeah yeah so I kept watching
the video after the game ended and I was like fuck me like this is hilarious and
then I watched for the first time in my entire career the live fucking press
conference because I remember our faces in that press conference and it was funny
And dude it was one-to-one it was the funniest shit
Oh
My chatter said job was looked discombobulated
So funny genuinely so funny
They answered I don't even remember they they were fine like that one was out answering their question answering questions. It's fun
It was more just that the ones what the faces were one-to-one in terms of like
How they looked and it's just funny because I just kept comparing how happy they were getting like picking XLG
To the press conference
Because I thought yesterday their adaptation in that game. They lost was really weak
This is their chance to show us what they've learned what they rallied yesterday
It's not gonna lie to you guys yesterday was probably one of them actually it has to be the funniest dream
I've ever had laughing. I was cackling dude. I was legit cackling
Fucking full cackling bro. Yeah, I couldn't I couldn't I can't even dude I couldn't even breathe afterwards
I was just laughing around in my apartment off-stream
Like you're going to talk to your girl too. Yeah, just like I'm just like this is the funniest shit ever like
It's just fucking the things I've seen are so weird. I saw the Knicks come back from 29 down
Do that I see I see fucking XLG beat G2
I'm just seeing the weird are still one finally like everything that's weird is happening
Did you watch the finals yesterday?
For what?
Finals?
Oh yeah, I did.
They choked again.
Yep, they choked 5 games in a row.
In terms of choking leads, it's essentially the equivalent of they were like at minimum
5-0 up in every single game.
In Valorant.
In terms.
Dude, when I was watching, I'm like, every time, like, here comes a joke.
Jaylen Brunson just drops a...
I mean Ethan, bro.
I can't even like...
I don't even like him that much and I could respect
Dropping 45 points in a final game
You can't shit talk and take away flowers from somebody who does that
Yeah, I got to go with left here I want to see live
At the very least gained a little bit more confidence over the course of this event and like keep, you know winning some games
I can't see them getting first-rounded. I would like to not see that so I have a little bias towards love as well
Because I do think this is a team that
Can catch fire and like win their event heretics. I do not believe can win the event
I really just want to see these guys keep having fun, like I even texted some of the guys after
I just keep having fun.
I mean, they also, you have to understand, I don't know if you agree with this, but when you get PaperX out of the way and you felt that, that like, how good they are at their best, it's very like, it's like, okay, that's out of the way now.
of the way now. We got our L out of the way. Now let's play some normal teams. Now every
game will feel easier. You know what I mean? Yeah, like, definitely. You understand, like,
even if you take some things from that game, you're like, right, we should kind of be like
that. They should have, they can even argue they should have one Lotus. So for them, it's
all positive, I think. I think the way LeB lost is more respectable than the way Heretic's
lost for sure and the team they lost to no offense to vitality but it's like an
EMEA matchup right you shouldn't get obliterated like that
if I if I watch I would have I think I would have
yeah
that's in contrast to team heretics to the known repeated famous
repeated defeats essentially yeah their team one respectable well obviously
I'm talking about Lotus
Yeah, which they if you want your objective about the game, you know left should have won that map
That's the thing dude they just they tried to be chaotic against paper X there
Paper X to me, you have to match their face, but also they make the player game.
Yeah, yeah, it's hard to do both of those things.
Yeah.
As we watch, in front of your eyes, you're seeing...
What happened?
Why are we in three selection agents?
I have no idea.
...teams crashing out during the Swiss stage.
It feels a bit more volatile.
Do you remember back in, back in 23, whenever franchising came in?
Yeah.
Like, whenever Locking came in, Ethan, Ethan Locked in Cypher on stage, and he's like,
He's like, bro, I thought it was a test.
We're going into our batch.
We're like, can we change this?
And they say no.
Next time you cannot.
Next time we couldn't.
But I said there was a first event.
We've done that multiple times.
And I think the statute of limitations has passed,
so I can say this now.
We restarted our PC every time we accidentally did it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Holy shit.
Interesting.
WTAC, bro.
Baddest so it uses that now?
This is... this is...
Firecook, you think of the Prime?
Uh...
Ssum, please?
Negative Tier 1, and Orzborg, I think it's Tier 1.
You're looking at Shrats?
I'm not playing anymore. Who cares?
Alright, Bobbles. Let's go, bro.
Is Sentee not needed on Split?
Not necessarily if you have good ways of taking that control on defense side, not necessary at all.
Because you can take deep blinds and know where the opponent is going, and then when they hit sites,
there are so many areas you can play in bomb sites, B and A, where you don't need Cybertrips or...
You, like, there are enough gaps on Split 11 for a 70 to be needed.
Bobo-Kahio!
Elimination at door tie it's leviathan versus team heretics. We start with that. Oh, it's a calm
Loud enough guys the bread and butter or too loud. Maybe they got countless wins at it
Many a team has tried to antistrap them
And it wasn't very much time parents. It's to figure out who that was
It's good. Oh, it's perfect. Thank you. No is the angles well
But as team heretics predict level mostly give them the site so it's a 4v5 post
It's got another 5e x retake from them. We're gonna see a lot of this
Every round we're gonna see these 5e x retakes bro from these guys
Because I think he's already I can
Feel like they've already ain't see it like just going a quite point
And just see that he takes off CT right now. They're fighting for one area
Yeah, it's gonna get bled off the clock. Neon's doing a good job though, man. He's good, bro. Wow
Would be going for them.
Waiting and wondering little too far ahead.
Not really.
Not not not not not not.
Move can sorry flexia.
Incredibly aware retake from left.
Whatever we give any gave me your time to play against.
We'll do we'll do.
With immaculate patients.
Start the patients of a rookie player.
But that's what you see from him.
Over and over again on many different agents.
It really feels like it's special talent that they found.
He can do it all. Yeah, that boy will never get caught that aggression. You'll see that
So good, but there's such a crucial part of the puzzle
I'm at nine eight seven. Okay. It's almost for one second
Really one second push the productivity
Three two one. Yep. On split against lev and lev just play better
There's a reason why this has been their home territory mark
countless times
The on the task of anchoring here gets this young lives for these
So there's gonna be running in straight down here tomorrow. So if you see if you can leave the challenge forwards
But it's the duo guns in the hardens. They're left them farm again
Problem it's a problem like this is gonna be a problem
They're getting bonus. I'm guaranteeing you they're gonna get bonus
Yeah, I mean he might have wanted an extra little toss I got the boys. Oh my god. The boys are starting out
HAHHA!
I should have come to...
Genre is ultimized by the HAT.
As you say, and he's super quick.
Another 2k.
From Team Heretic's play, his spacing is too tight.
It's fucked because they can literally play to hold the site,
but they can easily just play to retake,
and the way they retake is probably the best in the world.
Like, Lev's retakes.
They're so drilled.
It's been round here for Team Heretic's soul to come to me, actually.
Like, they know every reaction to whatever happens.
Yeah.
They're like, be the name of the game.
Bit of spam into the door. I'll come into our judgment. Be careful here. Shall we? Yes, come in come in
Never mind no no bonus fucking nice you so
That's hard to predict a second guy in vents there they kill three men
It's still a bit of a pressure display and a customized world cat's blows
Team Heretics, we're not ready to get back to the ground
We're going to have to win this yourself
Anticipating that final player
Many layers of bait and switch setups going on
Heretics come out on top
It's going to be incredibly tough for Nio
4 and 0 currently but with only a Bulldog
No great awareness of where Team Heretics are
Should be a chance for the EMEA team to get on the board early
This wall
What is this wall actually
The ball's going to be triggered, it gives away his position
Yeah, that's runs over.
I feel like the mid, they were trying to fight for mid there, right, Love?
I mean, they, they, they, it could be better.
Definitely that fight could have been better from them.
Like, good, good, utility by, the heretics don't get me wrong.
That's pretty standard utility for vents.
Yeah.
They shouldn't really get caught by that.
I'm surprised they went so hard through.
The heretics will be found.
By the even doctor, they tell you there's a bit of a mess going on.
Yeah, they just full committed prevents.
Smoke left and then just go full dense.
Because even if the opponent throws counter-use though, you go past it.
So they didn't want to do the back and forth, they just went for it.
They mind if they play for mid right away.
They're comfortable playing that kind of tempo and left did get spanked in that opener
Sato Phoenix all hot time of it on a cent
Wow, they beat that out
That's just from the astra util no one is actually home of the woods be made to full of acuatio
Wait, what they beat up the Phoenix all as well. We're claim a bit of space
Soon enough
Just live just live they have a double site. It's not to holding CT. They're chilling actually they have this guy in main
Wow man
Oh my god.
This is where you see Brent, the value of the neon.
He's going to take contact again here.
He's everywhere.
Yeah, he's actually all over the place right now.
Probably sees it swinging.
Vamu!
Vamu!
What a crowd.
What a clean round.
Holy shit.
They lose mid, they instantly fight the lurker eh?
Beautiful play.
You know why I think Spikes CS, the honest guess.
The spotting story, I went over to the left side
So I was hanging out with the king and saunter
Then I go in, I see Spikes in
Just on Rocket League
He's a spiky roto rocket league like he's on Neon
These curl are a little cracked boy
He jumps around like a movement guy
Yeah, literally
This is why you're good at Neon, he's like yes bro
What?
Yes bro
Yeah, early Paranoia.
Neil!
Oh, fucking...
Oh, King!
They know me at here, they know.
Yeah, they do.
Because he Paranoia'd.
Sanchi?
These are the kinds of rounds where Benji gets weird.
Yeah.
Yep.
Finds his mark finds the target that he needed now to be one and it's guns to be picked up
Wow, I could now into the palms of boo. Great trades man. This was a light by round
I wasn't saying they do it such a good job. He won spawns 18 blows in the curiosity
Yo, he's quit both times that's a 50-50 fight both times
I mean all of them is here and they fought together. I don't even know what's more. I can ask of them
Only thing that kind of better is if like neon helps, but he's smoked off like I don't
Yeah
Hey, I'm doing one HP as well. Okay, here it takes you guys want to play let's play
around. Ultimate's close to being built by.
Let's try. If they want to try.
Oh, and look at his V set up.
Send this in many different directions.
Oh, I like this.
Sato breaks too.
Yeah, Sato baits Uto.
They walk right into the high low.
Oh my god, they're retaking.
Ah!
They got his reflight attack.
Ugh!
Three, three on B main.
Oh my god, they killed all three!
Wait, the layers are nice though.
The high low, if they get aggressive, if they don't, we retake B main.
Ketamin push.
That's actually insane.
That's actually insane.
I'm just saying, heretics have the layers for this.
I mean, they're just winning kind of low-key.
I mean, heretics wants some good runs.
Wait, wait for me.
They're playing pretty good.
They're playing.
I'll just stand here.
I think I'll just stand here.
I'll also smoke this.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
You can do it.
I'm Phoenix Slash.
Yeah, Phoenix Slash.
That one right here already pushed back, posh shit.
We'll be a town that re-fighting to main.
Second clean round for Lev.
I love that, man. I love that setup, though. I'm not gonna lie, everyone's gonna skill that setup.
The high low into the retake.
Sato coming through the Phoenix, but I'm really like
Yeah, because
Because the high-low is perfect
Since Sato is the one eating all the utile, right? He's playing in a very standard spot eating utile from the side
You're never gonna expect them to retake that late as well
If the guys are breaking utile from there and shit pretty good
Yo, how is blows always good for one and living in these retake positions
this space around I think I might have a game like this over a hundred games and
then look at this they're all up a ramp party they already have all of a ramp
this round is legit over this time is dangerous from the head I mean they have
spawn actually oh my god they're pivoting back to have a look at this
same as pistol though it's the same exact set up as pistol oh my god the
retake is dangerous here off angle hold still got
I mean, they're trying man. They're trying to play together. The thing is, you know what
teams I feel like don't do often? What? When they show themselves somewhere, like you know
on the tax side, once you get bombed down and you say you get bombed down at be on Lotus
and you'll show yourself heavy be heaven, like you're jumping up and fighting be heaven
and you're just end up beating hello uto. They rarely, if ever pivot to somewhere else,
Like, fuck it, let's go take door now.
Now let's go see Link.
Like, that, those, those comms and those calls make such a big difference in whether you
would or lose the post.
Because the opponent now knows you're playing B Heaven.
They have to use, their retake is now based around you being in B Heaven.
If you pivot to door, now you're playing it, like they have to play at your pace.
Yeah.
So.
Something we were really good at.
Yeah.
I mean, it's so necessary in post plans. Like you have to have these scenarios pre-planned
And it's like okay guys like if we end up in a situation where we take B and we have four or five people alive
Make sure we push spawn with three if we do push spawn with three
Insta call pivot if if something weird happens
You just call pivot and then pivot pivot and you always know that you're running with three people in different spots
So you're all fighting together in all these areas because if you go heaven at the start
Chances are the the ceiling guys or the broken door guys are gonna get like okay. They're having their heaven
That's the calm they get from their teammates
So you have to be ahead of those comms
So I was bringing that up because I feel like heretics need to do that in that post plan for example
Show themselves CT then go back to a site, you know and then triple peak heaven. So those comms have to be so fast
I would assume Benji. I would I would have to assume Benji, but I'm sure they all do it boo probably does either caller
This is what you're talking about
The astros useless as well these guys are out, but it doesn't matter let plays retake perma
Yeah, I think they're looking for Astro though
They're just waving, faking the retakes for you to beat you to.
I like that they're fighting together at least, that's backside but what are you going to get done?
Yeah, they have to take space. Even the loots are used to play for a long range, but listen,
already half of the views of win-cons have been played for an earth out-left arc, fully
dominating this.
Can someone explain to me why the Astro, actually Astro is late mid-lurk. If the mid guys
get the kills, then Astro holds events, it's fine.
in a fight ultimate will be heaven those three plays in mid this other knee on all
these players yeah yeah with Ray's ulting um where are you talking about left oh
uh well they i think they were just splitting b with alts like just alts on either side
like do us all time either side and lever running away with things they've now knocked
heretics down onto an eco they're back the same round veggies all despite being great
They're not going to find many opportunities here. You'd imagine dude think about the rounds heretics of one
We're good if we find a couple of picks like I they feel like miracles like the Benji miracles
The best one was the only legitimate round is straight up forwards
I
Oh my God, these boots.
Oh no, it's over guys.
They're not winning this.
Sato and Spice are still alive.
I believe you said Neon's the only good player, bro.
That actually made me sad, bro.
He's the only good player versus PaperX.
what she was. Your only good player for Shaco.
I mean, everybody's gonna be watching for this one, attack to see if they can drag him
way out into the open. 33, and he's gonna go for it.
Yeah, but I mean, they're probably gonna lose the round anyway.
Yeah, I think you just have to take a risk. They don't fully know about this fight.
What do you do if you're left here? I feel like it's too obvious you're about to pressure a and like go a ramp
I think left for sure is about to go. Sorry. No love
Heretics is for sure is about to do an a ramp control like that's what I would think if I was defensive in my head
So they should fake that and walk up mid dry because yeah, I need they still haven't opt
He's just still having bottom up
gap right now between these two. If I know level, I think they're gonna triple swing top ramp here.
Like, out of this time out, they're gonna do their triple swing top ramp micro,
and they'll go into their default. Yeah, I think if I'm loved right now, I am predicting an A ramp
pressure guaranteed. Like, I stack A ramp pressure too. But if heretics know that and they fake it
and walk up middle, they'll have vents for free and they could default. I have straights. You
Yeah, and go back and forth
But sometimes like I feel like
Kind of get brain fog
How can the coach like they timed out how can a coach get brain fog?
I don't know like I feel like sometimes it just happens to teams and they get so fixated
I'm not gonna lie. That's some bitch shit. I mean, I agree
This is where it started to come to fruition. This is the year where it was supposed to be a little bit different
Yep, heavy as you didn't amy a but right now
And I'll play in like it
Raising after a father. I'd be like a double-irk. I'm not just mention. He's gonna be going to go back to mid
They're gonna fake a ramp. I think or pressure it really you come. Yeah, neon's gonna get up a ramp fake and then leave
So it's a stun for a stun.
Pound for Pound.
Clever.
Try to stop it a little bit.
It's a good call.
I think it's a good call for heretics.
This is exactly what I would have called here.
Spike used his counter stun, so now it
doesn't have that available.
Take a ramp pressure, and then go mid.
In the late round.
Saturn's inside this pit for a moment.
How you deal with this?
Vyper ult, though.
It's a call shot.
Only ramp clear, though, with the horn.
Reveals a little bit.
Especially Saturn is still here.
Yeah.
They're sniffing out the heretics' want to try to.
Knock on the light as Vyper ult makes it so I would have
Take a day having at this point. I wouldn't have I wouldn't have I would have canceled and just gone
If you take it right for free
Look at blows look at blows look at spike to the rotators are going to see
It's too obvious, right?
This doesn't even hear it because he's blind. I mean, it's just done there
Get TP, get off his boys, and I love, oh it's just perfect, it is, it actually is, oh my god.
I mean okay dude, I didn't account for the Vypheralds, I think if your Neon takes A-Ramp that easily,
he should stay there, pressure, if they use Vade Util to push him out, have someone behind him
farther away, that helps, and then eventually just take A-Heaven.
You have Viperal, there's a Viperal in mid dude.
Unless you're committing through it, there's no reason to go B here.
Yeah.
When you have A ramp or had A ramp.
Yeah.
And then they, even with the Viperal, they lost all the space.
Yeah.
And that's just like, it's just bad.
Like, Loki they need to insert against a lot of them.
And just like Jiggle, play for info and then just react.
They're doing it again.
This guy's, this guy's like, fresh dude, they're, they're sending this guy to his fucking death.
At least
Yeah, this is fraudulent I can't lie
But yeah, I know love is good. Don't get me wrong and I knew that was probably gonna win this game
Up Kushmarus is dink 23
What the fake-ass-
If paratix loses this round, do we put him in jail for at least six months?
Probation maybe?
Community service, right?
It would be...
Shut up, Dave, for sure.
First round where they've had an enormous advantage.
Face your teeth!
They're not going through this, either, right?
They wouldn't dare.
Make sure at least one or two players potentially get a tie.
Oh my god, Benji's playing with fire.
Normally I wouldn't like a post-plant like this, they're all playing in the bomb site,
but at least they're together and they have numbers.
They're gonna be able to handle this.
Yeah, they'll be fine.
Ooh, they're double peeking spawn. I like this.
Smoke Heaven, double peek, yeah.
We'll play.
We'll take it.
I mean, I don't know. Do the only round I have a really big issue with is that post-pause round.
If you have space, keep the space and make the opponent take it back from you. Don't just hand it over.
going into an attack side from left that have told people
Make a mark for it a little bit
I feel like they're not even making left like
No, they didn't worry
This is a map that they're dominant on
Hentix need to find that self-belief
What do you think that comes down to though?
Like I feel like that's like on the individual
or like maybe the ideal is calling like
go all the way back
I think it was a set call
It's usually that comes from a set call
So like, oh yo fake a ramp control
and we're gonna do a B split or something like that
Because you're only faking a ramp control
to get that rotate by Fade, and then they, you know,
they retake a ramp and while they're doing that,
you beep up, right?
That's the hope.
That's the timing you get.
Yeah, and it's when you go standing.
It's just too obvious in that moment, I think.
22, it's impressive.
He also didn't think long enough.
He stayed there for a second.
I always imagined.
He stayed for a second and got the fuck out.
He said I don't have the answers.
Amazing players on our team.
And we always sort of central.
And looking at him now, he's doing great.
Dragon Slayer, they're in the problem.
Sorry, what was that?
only took him three years but now he's doing it. Yeah I mean I'm so proud of
Rien's like he was so talented like we instantly knew from like the first day
that we played with him that he was gonna be amazing and like yeah I mean you
can see him he's always making internationals and he's playing well
every single time. Not at the moment but they won the last round so I'm happy
for that and hopefully Harry takes good like start on some momentum now with that.
Yeah what or why do you think they're not finding the momentum so far they knew
that level gonna play fast? Yeah I mean it seems like Wu and Kosh are getting
shot down very early in the round so hopefully now that they're on the fence
they can start getting some entries and feel the game a bit more and yeah that
should be fine. But you have also played with Kosh Maras very quickly you play
with him just a few months ago? Yeah Kosh is really insane he's like one of the
most he's probably the best like space-taking Julius V ever played with
And it's just a pleasure to see him and he has so much fun playing on the neon and you could just see on the server
Well, hopefully they can take space quicker in this second half. Thanks guys. Let's get back into it. No, they lose
when you watch split like left side of split they're also so good when they
take control of something so say a ramp or say be main they're very good at
at keeping that space.
There's a whole point of defaulting.
Why are you defaulting in area
if you're not going to try to keep that area?
Yeah, because you're baiting U-Till.
Defaulting is baiting U-Till,
so they have less U-Till for you when you bait retake.
It's not just space.
They always do the take it as like three or four,
and then they freeze the space.
Here we go. Here's the retake.
Oh, and then somehow they lost HB.
Being done
Yeah
See now that's a rent pressure right there. They went for a retake it didn't work now in Leves mind
They think these guys are just are going left-hand sorry heretics mind. These guys are definitely just chilling a ramp
They're gonna do an ace like oh here we go
forcing this guy to push like you don't have anything that's how you default yeah
Just hoping that that was an a re here and they get in some good retake positions
the pistol rounds a brutal story for her it's a new assignment and this is easy
trade-out
she keeps going doesn't ever this one is to be and all my god neither pistol has been close
CHP in a dream opposite side of the map in a 1v5
this beginning to masters London is feel bad for Benjy then came here to get
forward yeah individually doing fly top of the clouds haven't been more on like
let's say like energy side and like binges to be able to heretic side find
that potential like hard cheering for them need no intervention I think from
the place just gonna be trying to play to the most of his outside step of the
start into the pain is that clear doesn't go his way it's Satou
Flames his life, 10-3, another pistol, add it up here for Leviathan.
The way in which both teams are gonna have to play in the next map, Bren,
it's very aggressive, double Julli's caught the mirrors.
And I'm starting to get concerned that Heretic's gonna be out of him mentally because of how much...
Man, what the hell are you doing? What the hell are you doing?
When teams go down like this badly, I always wonder to myself, like,
why have we got, like, no one on Heretic's is sitting there going like,
Dude, I'm way better than these guys like in my head. I need to just fight
I want to lose on my own terms at least let me die. Let me lose by fucking fighting the balls
Yeah, tough to shake off just start taking fights. Just start taking unfavorable fights if you have to
I'm stuck in the right place there. Yeah, don't let them set the pace
They were waiting for that one to flash on a peak
Oh my god, Ace!
Get it! The rules!
Give it to Sato! I want it for days to get it
Sato just cleaving through the opposition
opposition consolation prize is picked up but that's what i'm gonna get i mean
players have been top of like skittles it's not even fun
time we've seen them lined up
i'm just emoting out
actually
they were incredibly ready for boo
you know the same could be said on the other side i think heretics were
extremely aware that neon was going to be playing in that same spot but they
just never found the punish
Like, there's, there's not even any pressure right now.
There's no pressure at all.
Well, yeah, I know. They won.
Like, it's just...
Actually, Lotus, it might get close, I can't lie.
They won't.
Yo, I think so. I think it's gonna be...
It's a creep.
I mean, it can. I just don't think so.
I mean, what is this head of the...
Like, press that.
Go towards his b side of the spot. No, I'll pay off here. It's a good kill to claim especially on side
I don't know all to earn. Oh, no, they don't really suppose to see if you can even out the score. Oh, no
Oh, no, they have to play together somehow
Pulls it back from the brink team heretic should have a complete control of it. He's gonna pie
He's actually just gonna play lose
I just want to let you know it would display
against Vapor X. This is what would have happened.
Okay man, yeah, just like a sender right?
Just like a sender right?
Get him in a co-streamer booth.
He might have the time after this one.
It's tough man, it's tough for Heretics.
What a feel for him man.
Okay, if Heretics is actually like...
If they want this, they need to have their Lotus gameplay be aggressive as fuck.
Yes.
Most plants have to be aggressive.
Defaults have to be aggressive.
Yeah, period.
Goodness.
See, this B-exec of the B-default that Lev does is also just...
It feels so hard by the way.
I'm surprised it's not red more often.
The thing is, like, they even mix up.
But they are so slow at doing a lot of things and it's just sometimes it's really hard to just be a ball
Just a bit spread around
You're saying he's by himself thinking?
Doing the work in the final pose
Who's the last one left and not for much longer
Well, he's the biggest
So they have two walls right?
The Phoenix wall and then they have Neon wall as well so they could just like fake for a bait, Utah bait
And then re-hit with Neon wall
Like at least how I think their people goes is they start be main, they fake be main space
then they go debate out util if they meet no resistance no spam no nothing
There's go. They'll get right to exec. Yeah
Sometimes they just take the first timing. It's it's good because they have like two or three different
Timings they can take with the but the util they have just individually so
It's actually good because
No matter what they come come out ahead and take the site well
but yes, the problem I have with other teams that play against the split is
why aren't you doing similar setups to the high low to at least get some spam
damage in maybe get a spam kill and just completely break the the exec in the
first place so I think that exec especially you're playing to do this
needs to be challenged at the choke point not when they're out if they're
out they're ahead yeah if they if they get the space and you give them that
space they're gonna run you over yeah you guys want to see stats really that's
That's what you want to see?
Sure.
Sure, man.
Enjoy.
Okay.
Reans doesn't deserve, like, he's insane, bro.
I can't hate on Reans at all, bro.
Like they're against my favorite team, but I love Reans too much.
I'll say it.
This team is fucking fraudulent.
Like I don't like how they don't have layers after being together for as long as they have
Like, it's no hate to heretics.
People think I hate heretics, and I did use to hate heretics for no reason, actually.
But now I don't.
I'm saying this objectively.
I think this team just lacks layers.
For the talent that they have, they play as if they know they're going to lose before
they start the game.
Like they don't play post-plants actively enough.
And when they do play actively, I've seen it, I've glazed it before.
they do play post plants actively, they're very good. But I feel like it's momentum based
with them. If they start off slowly, they don't know how to recover. Yeah, I feel like that's
not a team that can win an event. Do you think it's more like emotional? Like how you show
I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to I don't want to pretend to know these guys.
Like I don't know how their team works or like what kind of comms they have or what kind
personalities that have. I'm just seeing what I'm just saying what I think I see.
It's just frustrating to see because of how good that like the individually they individually
have been at different moments. Oh yeah, I mean they're all insane players. It's just maybe it's
a mix of like consistency like between the players. I don't know. I don't know what it could be.
I don't know. Explain what layers is. Look. Okay. The best way I can describe it is if
if you have a game plan, right, you are okay. So chemistry, as I've explained in the past,
chemistry to me is being able without any kind of game plan in the mid-round, being able to
know how each other play without even having to say a word. Like you know this guy has you,
This guy has this guy has this like not that things that don't have to be calmed
Where you would have to communicate it in like a ranked game, for example
Like that's building up chem, which I think the heretics have plenty of that
but layers
essentially layers to me is
Being able to not only change up your game plan
and ante yourself
But being able to fake a bomb site then re-hit instantly like having three different execs
basically. That looks similar but aren't. Like you fake with a Phoenix wall, B-pop,
and then you have to re-hit with neon wall. If that doesn't work, you're able
to go back to middle. You have to be able to have these different stages of a play
that I feel like Heretics only shows one layer every time. Their initial plan
doesn't work, they fall apart, and I don't like that.
for how long they've played together.
Yeah, thank you for the five gifts. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
It's not just adapting though. It's
It is adapting. You're right. It is it is part of it, but it's also knowing like do in practice sessions, for example
You have to be able
to have like four different post plans or five different post plans
for each bomb site that you play that you that yeah that you're going into so for
B and a you have to have a post plant where you push a ramp you have to have
a kind of miss when paper X and lever playing yeah like no plan B no plan C
you're on opposite sides wait what you said I miss when paper X and lever playing
against each other I don't think that you miss that no I don't I don't think that
No, I don't think that you do
No, I don't think that you do
I'm pretty sure that's not what you want
You want to just keep it easy?
Okay, that's not what I said
We would win, like whenever we play again
We will win
You understand, ascent?
Ascent is your best map by far
Okay, it just is
I'm not totally sure about that
It's up there
And you have 13-1 on it
I don't know what to tell you man
13-1 is not luck. You've been slaughtered. Sent to the grave, brother.
No, we'll play again. No, don't.
Oh yeah, also, Paper X, when they picked you guys, they chose you. You know why? You know what the reason was?
It was like the last two.
What was Alex's reason? Do you remember for why they picked you?
No, I do not. I listen.
For fun?
Oh, for fun?
Yeah.
And trust me they had fucking a blast they had a blast
No, we'll see you again, we'll win. What's that?
I mean, I don't think you're seeing paper X. I think you
Actually, no, I would like to see that. I would like to see Lev make a run for sure. I genuinely would
Dude shut up your coach is talking
It's like a new experience for us every series. It's like
We learn something new the communication against VRX was too high
We are trying to keep the same energy
See we learned alive. We'll come back better
Keep learning bro
You do that you learn
Oh
Anyways, I feel like I'm not explaining the hair
Wait, I'm explaining something in my chat real quick. Okay, so
With me for me layers is
Having a plan B a plan C for all the common situations
You know what I mean like a common
scenarios that you're going to run into. It feels like when paper X, or sorry, paper
X, when heretics lose a player or when they default an area, they'll just let go of the
area that they just defaulted. What was the point of taking that place if you're going
to leave it and then default around elsewhere? It's not like they're like taking B pressure
and then instantly hitting A. They still continue to default. They just leave the areas that
that they take, it's too fickle.
Like, there's no power in the way that they play.
You know what I mean?
Like, there's no, what's the word I'm looking for, chat?
Like, conviction, yes, correct.
There's no conviction sometimes from what I watch.
When they play well, it's great
because they gain momentum.
And when they gain momentum, they start playing at their level.
But when, when they don't have momentum, they don't know what to do.
There is no layers to like, okay, we're having a bad game.
Let's go back.
Let's, let's have these fallback strats that we can rely on to win us
couple rounds.
They don't have that.
But for a team that's been a lot like for around for as long as they have
and together for as long as their core has, you should have these things.
You should.
You just should.
So it's disappointing to me when I don't see that from a team that's been around for so long
So it's not that I hate them. It's that I I hate I've always hated
How easily the team crumbles?
Hi there, which is you know disappointing but I think for me, I see on thank you for the problem to be able to get to London
To get on to this global stage
I have a standards! Exactly! Correct! I have a standards!
When you have a team that has been together for this long and have the talent, I expect more.
That's nothing crazy. Just like I expect more from Chelsea Football Club,
and yet they embarrass themselves every time they go on that pitch.
A standards! It's one of the rare occasions where I've not been
able to question our mentality or our desire to win. We just got into class
and ran over. They were shooting so hard and every chance they got they took. We
made some really bad mistakes and a team like that when they're that
individually skilled they capitalized on it really well. So yeah we need to go
into our map pick now and come back fighting because that was...
Hamilton won? W. Mapping for him.
How long has it been since he last was a winner?
something that really stood out to me there was 23 24 not 23 that was
Leviathan's whole game 20 24 they really did take advantage of that because
heritage would give him the space absolutely dead he's bringing up Lotus
as a way to bounce back in this series but frankly I'm worried about heretics
I think in their last match on your defensive side they have a composition
that doesn't play with the Viper it's into this double duel sorry I'm done
by the way I was explaining why heretics disappoint me sometimes you went on
ran about it. Yeah, because I do think that this team has been together for too long to not
it's not to lose like I don't give a fuck that they lose. It's the crumbling and the not having
the layers that I think are required to be a tournament winner. I say for like how long they've
been together and how much talent they have. There's no excuse. What's math number one against a team
who I think is strong on Lotus. Yeah, Despicable is definitely a ward choice there maybe and I
I agree with you. You need to come into this potentially last map of the event. Let's not forget
I think for heretics starting on this defense in particular
Hopefully not by this time please someone give us
Yeah, help the boy out but more importantly for heretics, this is it Mimi they need to put up or shut up
They don't win this one. They're out their journey here at London concludes. They should be their way back in
This is the left sperm event before sure they played paper ex-close, but this hasn't been the top of their pool
Team heretics on the other hand sure you have a young player coming sure you have changes
But this is a team that in the past always had excellence at global event was in the discussion to make it to finals
They've got to turn it around well folks is this gonna be it can't heretics bring that back for map three
Let's head back over to your casters for map two. Here's Brad inside show here
What matchup do you want to see?
I want the rematch bro!
Alright, that's what I want to see.
Why are we scattering? Why are my chats scattering?
The fuck did people say?
Bro, forget the rematch. You're gonna fucking lose. Be realistic. Who do you want to play?
Dude, I know we are winning the rematch. Why are we doing this? We don't we don't have to argue. Why are we arguing?
We'll just give you g2. Okay, you guys have fun with your regional matchup
Dude, you know paper X is about to be the ultimate like champions, right?
Nice fucking what was that was that like a C retake a C C non retake
I have no idea. Like I wasn't thinking then I saw we were all dead.
Wait a minute.
Was that a C bound retake?
Nice shot, Reigns.
OK, that was a C bound retake.
As soon as they exact C as well, so they're in like the open up.
The timing of it was really good.
W. So they were going to come in, team it to low.
You understand that Paper X beat Lev, right?
That's an American's team.
Yes. If they beat Vitality Damoro, then they play probably EDG, right?
So they're gonna defeat America's Yamye and China on their way to the grand final brother
Can someone just like it
in the next time they play it
they will have better comps, they've learned
oh my god
i don't know why, i just...
i'm scared right now
for what? i'm scared of the side of the map
heretics, like, the first round was good
and then, like, you're fine, we will take you home, brother
next time
yeah
Chops off the head of blows looking for a few more years very cautious here by Lev
He's slow mid rounds
Are a really important way that Lev like to play they're fast early on then they slow things down a lot
You didn't get to see on split as we barely watch them play
They finally got a pistol and
They converted it so we're chillin
Fights the skirmishes towards mound
to this kind of stuff where they go for the slow walk in afterwards.
Prove them why they went to Lotus.
Oh, shit.
What is this?
You two are crying.
Now, I don't even talk about it.
I'm not going to talk about that too much.
No, this is all.
They've lost their minds.
That's what we used to currently.
Team Heritage.
How much did Ryan get paid for that?
A pretty healthy bonus.
Nothing. He does that for free.
Oh, it's in the last round.
Free.
They're going to be careful.
This one.
Oh, he's dead.
I was saying it. Yeah, good clear.
I think we don't clear that blue.
Are we serious?
It's a kill.
Okay, so C defaults and then they...
We don't know what those things are.
When you get spammed, you actually leave a little mark on the wall.
Brother, you don't have to glaze every round.
Rotations though.
This is an L-rated face.
You don't have to glaze every round.
That's like a very standard spam.
I can't wear this VICE wall.
You can't be glazing every little thing, okay?
It's okay.
Like, I want you to have more faith in your players, so just know to do that.
Yes, they're certain things I don't realize. Yes.
Whenever they get into an advantage position.
Whatever they don't throw around, it starts to become a W glaze, no?
Yeah, like I don't believe that.
Look at this little C stack.
Oh god, you're going to fall into it.
Oh, yeah, you are, because you're too young.
Too young.
Youngs
If your exec is good enough it doesn't matter how many people are in the bomb site
I will always stand by that
If you actually have a solid exit, good call, is everything?
Yep.
I like the over stack.
Yeah, that's a good call. Good ideas.
I think if those 45, you either have to, like, 3-1 stack aside or, like, walk together, correct the player.
hearing a lot of this but refining for the game and control looks like it's a
really good game they want to try and take this fight forward so you're a bitch
that's an aside it's all come back
nice
oh wow
well commencing this hit and customers
this guy has an audit
what?
well that's scary
oh that's scary
oh yeah
I told you he's gonna take you home
you gotta have more faith in your guys
Benji you'd have to be a monster
yeah you would
sometimes I can be a little anxious
so you're a bitch
Okay
Yeah
Look at this set up here from love contacting all the way Benji's got a chance like this one impossible to win for Benji like actually impossible
Q's giving away
But beautiful beautiful
How does that if I go so badly like how is neon able to get those two kills so cleanly not blind nothing
Wait, how do I look like this?
It's bruliness!
Well that's annoying, they're gonna just confidence in their A fight now.
Kidding, they're A fighting again.
They never broke, it doesn't matter though.
Hold on to her for utility team heretics run an eco who goes and snatches up that all one away from a show stop
But I'm gonna stack in the right spot again, but never already. Yeah much faster now left almost around
You told me
He actually
with he does not fuck with me
Alts who cares
I was in a movie theater. I'm pretty sure I don't know what movie I was watching
watching no actually happy because at that time I knew that you guys were like
in super form if you don't win there you're never winning again
eventually like I knew the next sort of eventually when I wasn't so sure about
you guys like if you don't win that chance I don't think you would have first
of all your team would probably just separate it anyway and secondly I don't
I think you guys would have won again.
Let's take a listen in the live.
Whatever.
I'm not sure about that.
That's what I thought though.
That's what I'm telling you my thought process.
Yeah, it's fair.
It's fair.
Whenever you won your Masters,
was that like the happiest you've been
in like your competitive career?
No, just the most relieved.
I genuinely did. I don't know what like.
I've had more happiness winning matches than I had winning that Masters, like a specifically big match.
You can't lie, every time you do a listenin', feels like you're changing scores.
But like, actually winning a tournament, it only feels like relief sometimes.
Seeing em' blows will do the best in it.
Yeah, that's true.
Is what I realized.
Did you feel happy when you won Champs?
Or did you feel relief when you won Champs?
Or both?
It was a mix-up though, because I think the feeling I felt was like,
I couldn't really fully believe it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for like a week.
Like I didn't set a new...
This week, yeah.
Then we got all news and stuff after like another week.
So I only got to enjoy it for like, I think like a week.
I mean, your whole family and stuff was for there, right?
Or no.
My mom was it?
Because she had to try to take care of something.
That's true, that's true.
My dad was there.
See, that's lit.
I've never won in front of like, or like even one match.
Like my parents have never been able to see me play everything so that would be an unreal feeling
You know, it's funny. My wife
She's from like a really small town right like population maybe like 800 people
And her dad came out to that event. It was her first thing or his first eSports event ever
I'm like, yeah, you just got spoiled for your first eSports event ever
Yeah, it was really cool like well honestly that whole year was like
kind of crazy for me like I really yeah it was my first time like I guess
only believe I could do it because I think before that there was a lot of
like I mean you're the good next year to know it's way forward as well as good
Yeah, obviously we're in the same boat.
We should have gone back to back, but we just kept flanking.
It's kept up! Oh my god.
I can't keep falling for this ragebait, actually. It's just always gives me...
It's like too good.
Dude, I just... oh my god, I can't not get ragebaited.
Everyone just ragebaits at every second.
The one what a trade is in sight once more
I'm not I'm just being dead ass like why don't you change the way why don't you change the way that you play like you have just they know your
Does not want to risk it. He's a player with no money
I mean if you say yes this early everyone just gets mad at you but it's about believing
that someone can do it if you're asking me if someone like he can it depends on the trajectory
of his career and how long he can stay on like I do think that Lev if they with enough
success like you know third places fourth places at masters constantly making it
can become like a paper x-side team where they can stay together for a while
and grow together you know because that's the advantage paper x-sides of our
other teams keeping their score succeeding for so long and staying together
for as long as they have
unbelievable flexibility this the my I truly believe in it like a lot like
Whenever I first met him, I didn't know if he was gonna be like that 18 year old that came in and was like cocky and stuff.
Like he's so like emotionally smart, like mature, all these things.
And he's like takes everything like, he got his own performance coach and everything.
They obviously care, dude. And I love that you're like the owner has a team similar to I think a team that he believed in in the past with Taco Leela, remember?
And like those guys those guys always impressed me. I'm not gonna lie when we scrim them
That was probably some of the best scrims
I've had in terms of learning things the way they defaulted the way they lurked the way they again the layers that they have in their
execs in their post plants they taught me a lot when I scrimmed against them
That was like probably my favorite scrim partner was like Levi Levi took him back and like when they were a new team and
Like Taco Lil was like full chamber running around
Those were good scrims. So I always liked the way he has coached at his teams and now he finally has the talent to
Match that coaching
So then you also have to get past the hurdle of the individual aimers. Oh, yeah, they go hitters in every single role
It's kind of thing we used to say about team erotics, but I'm gonna call with the
Better it's the talent and how mechanically good they are. Yeah, so we see
I said that the team had a science actually let them want to take this one all the way over to the site
Really open here just a piece of you told the thorns that were laid down to see if they can delay this take all the way forwards
What a shot
You tell
He went for the
Yeah
Jesus, oh my god!
Mark Zuckerberg!
Bang!
Dude, it's effortless. He makes it look effortless.
They use when I think it came through but the individuality they couldn't get past the on
He's already by far away
Our rookie of the eight Canada in America's a challenge
That's playing like this this hand in it. He just is
Maybe team herds and strobe at this tournament is just to get whacked by rookies this guy's unbelievable
Like
triple kill to win the round. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they are kind of relying on things going into
Wooten Reans. Just holding for now, no pinging out the weaponry. They would be guessing correctly
to heretics. They had around like how fast he kills these guys and shit, like it's literally like
one for one. No, no, no, Julous available. It's gonna be harder. I don't like that you're saying
nothing. Dtt is spike. See those guys. And just need a bit of bail out and help from the rest of
of the team that was going to be committed that's an old thing give me a time to breathe
give me a time to breathe
I don't I don't understand I want to lock too what's the joke
I'm really close nice swing
who's better overall primi or neon
Now that 1v1 would be fucking insane though.
Just raw aim, that 1v1 would be stupid.
Obviously, first of all, I clear both. Secondly, I would love to see them like fight for a second.
to take rapidly at this point.
He realized.
I want you to know something.
You have won more events than all these kids.
And I know.
Bones.
You're a better player.
I know.
And I want HP to fuse now so that they win an event.
They will never be dead.
Wait.
And that's way.
Wait.
Wait.
Close.
Close.
Close.
Why are we not?
It's outrageous, though.
Well, that there is experience versus we're counting on.
Are we going to count that as a charity round?
It hasn't.
We got 15.
and
the feeling of sex are really matter too much
But he's on the opposite side of the map, let me see a lot
I'm setting it rapidly over the walls this area. Oh my god, they're just rage rushing now
He's in he's in for free three here though steeper vice. What's gonna be delaying potentially for it was a
huge old Benji
He's starting to heat up
Wow great flood dude great flood
Any more bodies where that came from two team heretics have complete control over the
whole team.
They have stunted the hit of Lev.
Fujon, you know you're like one of the most decorated players in Valorant.
Sorry.
You've actually been able to find value when you read the contest.
You literally won two games instead of two majors.
I don't want to toot my own horn, we should just talk about someone else.
Let's talk about premium Neon again.
Individual form has not been lacking.
Lev, a dangerous and 2v4 sports, if you give them anything.
Definitely are.
I mean heretics were committing ults
2v5 earlier
How much pressure this left team do exert?
Yeah, that will make it a little bit nicer
blows
Handed an uneasy task an impossible one at that matter five to five wait
Heretics clawing their way back in
This heretics actually gonna like maybe do this
First this time they blew on me like I'm getting curious. I think they're gonna blow on me though
I
13 honestly genuinely
13 is not 13 9. I don't think they get double digits
I think so
There's two rounds left to play for in the half.
Ono wants to adjust something, and they've been opening Mound a lot, which is an unusual
way of playing non-viper compositions.
So Coinbase win condition here that Ono might have...
When you have no hope, Heretics does good, but when you have expectations, they shut
themselves.
You're not wrong.
Well, maybe because of A-Reclear, because the more the boo gets pushed up on those deeper
rubber lines, the more that A-Reclear is going to work, but they haven't actually been exploring
towards A-Less.
The only thing that gives me hope for heretics is every time I see a team get destroyed on
map 1, somehow they bring it back, map 2 and 3.
I think it's a mix of like the other teams mentality going into it, maybe like a foot
off gas situation potentially.
Yeah, like it's like a reset from those 2 to be honest, when you just get kind of like
stomped, you're just like, okay, like forget that map.
Yeah, so with EG and XLG yesterday, we're 0-1 down and they didn't even, the first maps
were not close. Yeah, it just feels easier. If you lose like a 13-10 and there's like
a round you like think about that's like damn would have won the map if you won that, you
know, then. True. It's easy to reset when you get clean. Yeah, exactly. Not much to think
about at that point. Yeah. So flat. Oh, that was risky.
Perfectly played wow one by one. They're dying. Oh my god. It's off the time out as well
That's the track the attack is walking directly into it. Oh
My goodness beings
Okay, momentum
They got momentum. This is a good defense side. It's a great defense. Oh, this has been an enormous swing
I'm like it one bit
Heretics have up in themselves that masters London and these last three rounds. Maybe they're remembering who they really are
Yeah
Sideways Andre
Yesterday Andre was dying just looking at walls and shit. I don't know what he was doing
Andre necessary out there by the way he goes is this what it felt like to lose the Billy Billy?
Correct
I see you buddy, I see you.
I think he's got three players posh towards that B site.
I think so.
It is.
It's exactly how it felt actually.
Not misplaced with the way that he's been playing.
It's another mound open from Leviotan, but this time they leave King lurking over towards A
so they have options maybe to look to sneak back in.
Okay, back to slow play for love.
The faster just isn't working.
C rush didn't work. The last round, they rushed with the Omenhold didn't work.
Back to slow play, I'm down.
Oh no, there's 3 C, brother. With the AWP here, and both Duelists.
GG. That's right.
Wow, they're being read like a letter.
I feel like Lotus isn't as good for us as like all our other buffs.
Yeah, I mean you gotta set next if it doesn't matter.
Redeption.
I would hope so. 13-1 is embarrassing.
used execution styles the shorty brought out who's gonna be able to
watch it because right hold it we gotta get we have a game
necessary into the game but I don't like it the team heretics why why wouldn't
you want a third map here I just want a easy to to oh yeah I get that but like
it's a set third map you know then we see then we do our thing then we would be
o
. We see Piper X. Wait, what?
Do you mean?
Oh, you talking about lambs?
Brother, focus on the games at hand.
Stop worrying about paper.
half of Lotus is just on dick. Now, this would be a cool ass run, though. No chat.
Beating Vitality. So they beat an America's team. They beat EMEA. They beat China to the
grand final. That'd be pretty dope. Like, that would just be cool objectively, if it happened.
Okay, that vitality paper-ish game is actually going to be insane though.
I know. It's going to be good as fuck. I'm down for a map 3 there.
Yeah, that one's genuinely going to be insane. Yeah.
It'll play tomorrow, yeah?
What do you hate? You team so much? I don't.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
The
the drops are done by any stretch of the imagination here for Team Heretics, but it is a much better
beginning than they've had so far at London, 7-5. I think it's fair to say that Rien has
finally come onto something here where he was saying we didn't show ourselves, we didn't
show the real Team Heretics in that game against Vitality. I'm not sure they really
show during split or even the glimmers of it. Okay round one yeah okay but all of the rifle rounds
that came after in this first half were rough up until that final spur of rounds towards the end.
Those last four of what team heretics has to promise. They could win another pistol here,
they'd be feeling great about their chances but the way things are going in London,
It's not looking pretty.
That's been tough.
In their fashion here, this is going to be...
Take it over a bit of a split approach.
Let's lock in here.
3-1-1. Sorry.
Sorry.
Flip is going to be...
I need to take this for you.
I'm going to take a D main control.
This time over towards A to...
Scuttling and scurrying at a footsteps.
A couple of bullets also whistling past.
Ah, the B-split never fails.
Oh, it fails to isolate one side.
Yeah, it's going to work perfectly. Look at it.
Yeah.
And they hear Spike, bro.
They know Spike is watered.
That's not good.
Apparently they have a lot of control here.
A lot.
This is where I say pivot.
You've got to fight one side, and then instantly go to the other side.
That's huge
Good paranoia
They didn't do anything off it
They didn't do anything off it
Oh my god they didn't do anything
They didn't do anything
They didn't do anything too
I love, impossible
Close
Made up for his clutch
Made up for the 1v1 earlier
Yeah
of the
really really good fight here and it's won the reason is well
and then this re-battle I have to show on this post of those in the organization that they have a lot of control and
that the
really did it's too much to ask
of the
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
go to map 3. Hitting swept is sad. They actually had sad.
Not too many. Yeah, they're going nowhere without a thing. So it's just me on a spike.
It'd be susceptible to it.
At least they made playoffs.
True, I guess. Just that's something.
Yeah, and if you see that your opponent likes to do this kind of thing where they force by the outlaw, then...
I didn't make playoffs in America.
All good, then.
It's hard out there.
Two smoke up onto the staircase.
They are really contacting me.
I'm trying to threaten and that's all
bring down a king in the end still
aware of it now
I'm trying to wait here and he's having a bulldog
he's got the answer to that
it's a good ship damage though
so I'm trying to weave in and out
the store guy has to go around over
heritage to get back into it
player advantage
come face now but now
what are you gonna do
wow the patience they do
holy shit
It's good from heretics still need to get the spike down though
These are the correct guys to have a lot of Bench here ends
Mark Zuckerberg will win this around
here with the rifle I
Like that Benji's playing a patient out sound cues be amazed
Neon's trying to pull Benji way out into the open that's it
I'm sure be working with this guy. Neon gets half. He's already earned himself potential wind comes even more
We put a second top of it. He's fine. What is player is nice? Wow?
I wish they were able to play the 2v1 with both players, you know not to be once
the
second half of the area's had a read this guy's
Oh, no, I see this falling apart. I don't think they're getting double digits, dude
I think left just runs away with it. I have to think that
See again together. Oh, no, no, no, no, no
Oh my god, it all came down to that first skill
Holy shit what a kill
That is the kind of thing you need to see for...
Wait, he's gonna have a Ray's ult. They're gonna have Neon and Ray's ult for next gun round.
He's gonna get his legs under him here.
On the attack side.
This might be a very different game.
Show us the front line as well.
Exactly right.
They're not gonna be in a prime position to take this even further forwards.
They had no guns, yeah, but they had Neon on a gun.
Look at the ults, though, is that what I'm saying?
They might sound crazy, but I don't think that might be the first...
The ults, I don't think that's the first.
They fought against each other a ton in this series so far
There's been struggles of impact. Oh and fatal
Oh boy the lever cornering here
Oh boy to the A5 perhaps heretics could
They can't really fight A. They could retake A maybe, but even then this raze ult's like scary.
The retake is a lot harder I feel with no Viper. They can walk up closer.
They might just fight one side, either door or main.
so far has been lovely as well. He's given them zero opportunity to play our map.
Yeah, Omen's gonna break all the Utah from the sky. He's gonna get sky slashed and shit.
Keeps re-peeling. Oh, he left.
That's gonna have to start adjusting and making it to read.
That means they're all right on this T.H.A.
It's all that depends on these A guys.
Do these A guys get the info? They're dogging right now.
They're doing it now.
Yeah.
That's some a bit of information here on A.
Omen's leaving.
Let's see how fast.
Let's see how fast.
Oh my god.
God.
Too late.
The rotate is too late, I think.
Mark Zuckerberg?
He doesn't know!
The round's gone.
The round's gone, brother.
You saved this.
Guaranteed saved this.
No, they can't do it.
They don't have a flanker.
They don't have anyone opening the B door.
No pressure at all.
You saved this.
They will not get a kill.
They are not retaking this.
the end is the one that's on the way
yeah, they're not using any utility
how many of them are the old that they've already
walked all the way
they're not rescuing this
they're not rescuing it, I'm telling you
they're lost, they're lost
oh man, terrorism
what a time to activate
oh no man
why not TIG
the difference maker in this game
if Rude decides that this is
a match he wants to win
a tournament he wants to stay alive
we need a pause
we actually need a pause
he can make the difference here
at least on Lotus
to be fair they used every ult, yeah but you lost all your guns so now you're forced on
a save.
That's not why I just keep coming.
Right now.
Utility to use let's economy mangle neon though one away from getting a bladestorm online
So they're gonna try to push her if it's out early here all in front again was that a main space DTP cuts it up
What's the size and
He did
Oh my god, he's getting dogs for more.
He's asking for more.
Oh my god!
Oh my god, we have two guns too.
We're fully getting.
I mean, Bindi could be a problem in this round, but he's still huge.
And it's gonna slow things down and you know another chance to contest at waterfall
That's it, but I don't think I realize that Benji has worked all the way every takes one
It's the back of sight can't leave all this space
It's a good small control over what seed is
Because if he aces to bring this back then he kills team heretics in the process
It's like the same thing is like losing that
Yeah
Wait, sir, just one blade left. I'm gonna get that reset in time. But I'm gonna be
No, no, no, no one be three
Rightful hands and over could just be starting to beat out doom. What is that? Oh my god
This guy's on this guy's on this guy's genuinely unbelievable
It's a straight back. So good
Heretics have done the hot pot. This is sick. What is that shot?
Nice, he's ridiculous, he's not.
It's poetry, I get it.
The thing I really like about Neon too, is even after the round, I feel like most of the players are pretty calm.
He's even doing the extra, typing up the TNT and creating more rounds.
He's definitely, definitely high.
Spidey just lets you to the comfort level of his teammates, they're probably all so close.
Yeah.
Playing with his boys.
Nah.
Nah, man.
Yeah, now it's the opposite.
These guys have the better ults for this retake, and Lev's retakes are fucking insane.
When they have five people alive.
they're gonna threaten like they're pushing waterfall but actually we're going to heavy spawn
really nice we're gonna only blind bin and then we're gonna result all of
frontside
I'm gonna be broken they rebounds into the corner spike
we're going to be sending it by forward here it is show stop but
it's not done wait good trade though no one's scared of what's on the
Wait, actually no one scales.
Oh my god.
One by one.
Honestly,
I want to kill.
I want to kill from Kashmaris.
No!
How do they recollect?
Just, uh, the trade was too fast for Mood there.
Yeah, it really was.
That shit was so fast and no one scaled.
Like, I feel like usually left, there'd be like open TPing in with them, like jet-passing.
Yeah, but no one.
Okay, they hit double digits.
Job done.
Game winning round for Heretics here.
This is the map winning.
But Leva not buying it this time. Not quite very quick. They were torn off. Oh, I see
That's huge
Oh my god, he's still alive. Oh my great scaling
I can't mad it so good it's actually making mad.
It's neon alive though.
Well they're fighting together, look at them.
Look at them, they're not even prioritizing mom plant.
They're prioritizing space.
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful now they get bombed down into better spot instead of panicking.
Oh my god they reset the fight.
It's getting too weird, bro. I don't like it.
They all have one spot now.
Wait, could get weird. Could get weird.
Could still get weird.
Gorgeous. That's gained by the way. We're going up through it.
I love that. I love that they did that. It's a perfect round to do it as well. Take your time, get the bomb down in the correct spot, get that space.
Yeah, it's really good and sectioned off the fight is really good.
He's playing really intelligently too.
For a rookie play that's coming in, let's go baby.
The way the booze asking him to mix in these faster rounds with some of the slower tempo
contact plays.
Wow, such a big decision there dude.
Most teams in that situation probably just try to get bombed down in a panic and play
the post.
But then that means people are isolated.
So they decided to play together, take the whole site correctly, make sure back sites
clear, then freely get the bomb down to make sure they don't lose any random HP.
If there's a player there, they trade.
That's such a key decision in such a big round.
Yeah.
I'm just showing you they're playing really well.
I'm just slowing the game down and making them play on their own.
At their own pace, yeah.
Wow.
Ascent, map 3.
Surely, you guys don't collapse again, right?
Don't say that.
Remember, Hereticz was the team that came back on 12-9 on a set or cinematic.
when they've attended these globals and been met with disappointment.
That did happen.
Now they're finally playing like it.
And this whole day is EVA-based.
Oh, yeah, America's landing a big blow early with that 13-3 on split, but...
Heretics has still got that dog in them.
They won that MasterCut thrift the early...
This is elimination, yeah.
...Neyon was able to get his Bladestorm online.
This one, there's Guardians around, but he was not one of those players with one in hand.
It's a classic idea.
teams run in they run up against the fight but the smoke will stop the line of sight
of the guys and now we're pivoted into the beast side and through the blue you guys are
going to retake with this these guns these are the guns you're retaking with this this
bomb goes down for free you lose oh yeah it's over i'm going to be called for here
you didn't even plug it's over no no no you're done you're done you're done
safety can get this plant down we're finally now we're waiting for smoke
It could be sailing up and overhead
We'll wait for smoke, we smoke from B
What is up?
Yeah, it's 1 and 2
It's a 3-1
Yup
Watch this
Smoke from B, King's gonna open the door
Open blind, we're gonna go
Watch
Push and pull, Lev
Are you amazing when it comes to these B retakes?
Even with the weaker weaponry now
But I just need to find these shots
And I'm still
Landing them for the rightfuls
Into the hands of all this time
King, please
You can't see me every bound
Sato pushing
Nice, Sato
Oh my god
Perfect tickles
NOOOOO
He died to Nate, I didn't even realize!
Oh, so cool!
My god.
That was a perfect jiggle, though.
My god.
Oh my god, he had a side.
He side after like, oh my god.
That was a good Jiggle though.
Okay.
And you're going to have to play off the back of it.
Rings team here except the 12 on the cusp now sending it all the way to a 70 dash.
That's giving them the best Jiggle award.
Wait.
Oh, Dion.
Oh my goodness.
He's so good at it though.
Shoot.
Oh my God.
He's so good at it.
Shoot.
Shoot.
Shoot.
Oh my god, he's so good, bro.
We can still win this, we can still win this.
I mean, you can, but you won't.
We have enough, we have enough.
So good, dude.
Great dash, great reposition.
What can't this kid do?
Oh, this is good. This is good for Lev. They need to ice like kill this guy. Yeah. They
start for here. They gotta get the space. Oh no. Oh no. Okay. Okay. I don't know why
I just keep them and you would kill them
Okay, here's just loses from
It's the C fake it's the C fake they're trying to go be
They just want to kill here first
heretics here if heretics like walk pushes on level for this one they could
have a way to know actually think the way they went is passive here to retake
towards you yeah the confirmation comes in hopefully the retakes just ass I don't
think they can get proactive anywhere it's too obvious like what they're gonna
try to do you know from left perspective yeah maybe they have to go for like a
Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying.
They need to like trade through smokes and shit.
This Vizal, do you use it here?
That's the key question.
Game.
It's not a game, but round over.
Wait, what?
Oh my god, what just happened?
How'd Reans kill three?
I have no idea. I genuinely don't know.
What?
Oh my god, that was way too close.
The fuck am I watching right now?
What are these replays?
Oh!
Oh my, spray closet!
Oh my god, I think if they would have won off that
That guy's the reins is a fucking insane play around no ascent as well
Don't get it twisted though. This is not going to go to you. Well, you will lose
Oh, this is going to oh my god, I just saw all their old
Yeah, you're gonna lose
What's their money?
Did they have fight last round? Or is it a full buy?
Let's full buy the rest
I thought I saw someone with Aries
They had, oh, maybe there was half buy
Does they have any Aries? Oh, there's a full buy
Interesting situation. That's fine. They're gonna buy save buy, so it's fine.
For you in this situation, say there's a guy like, say Neon, right?
You want to like, feed someone to kill them so they don't get ult, cause like, Vyze can get ult, and Sky can get ult on this round.
You just go to the dead site. Like, it takes that gamble, instead of feeding them ults that they could win in the 5 ult round next round.
Always the risk of violence.
Vice can get ult.
What do you want about it?
Like, if Vice gets like a 3, I get the wrap.
I guess, yeah, no, I don't think so.
You just play.
I wouldn't look at it that way.
Because we still, you still have 5 ults.
So even if they get their 1, that is Insanity by Spike.
Same with a reaction time, Prowler forward.
Anticipating the Riftway.
Lame, and Gummy stops.
See, there's a kind of a, no, they still have it.
I guess it's not a big issue.
This is the big round.
Here we go.
What?
Oh, yeah, well, that's fine.
Cushmarus is on an equal ground using the Neonold, very reasonable, very economical in store.
All in a few of the trades now.
Cushmarus is 20 and 14, how has he gotten up there?
Why haven't I seen any of his skills?
No, I swear I haven't.
Interesting, is this that play?
They need to get an entry, they need to get an entry before these ults come in.
They're going to use Fade results for exec or Vice Result and they're going to keep one
for post.
no booze the only one here pretty sure it might be thinking they're saying it for
beastlet i mean they inserted both and see you know they're so risky this is
yeah with an off with an off in play too they're gonna go retake it
Okay.
Oh no.
Oh, this is not good.
Oh my master class from Boo.
Please use two walls going in seats.
Please use two walls for no reason.
Oh my god.
They don't have a result.
Yes.
Two walls.
Okay.
So they still have a nice propose.
Wait.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Big kill.
Oh!
That is a big kill!
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Oh, that is a big one!
Oh my, these thorns, these thorns can be the end of you.
We need to make out, we need to wave it, we need to wave this fight out.
Yeah, we need to.
Okay, nice, we got it out.
And we can go back pretty easily.
Because you have thorns though.
They have thorns, that's why.
The wall is well by the way.
That's really not good, I did not realize that, I don't like it.
to take it all the way to my brother was just gonna be triggered all they have to go left
it's so damn awkward already it's over it's been real though it's forcing the
play into their hands right now for the real time they need more in absolute
Oh man, GG's.
Great post, great post play in Utila.
Or advise yourself.
There is a world.
Oh don't say that.
So I played better that map though, I can't lie.
It looked a lot more like thought out.
For sure.
Guys, look at my, look at my, look at my score, look at my score.
Go go go!
What do we got?
Do you fuck with a 6-7 thing?
No.
You don't like it?
No, I don't like it at all.
It's ruined my chat.
It's ruined brains.
It's just brain rot.
It's ruined society, to be honest.
What if someone in your team said that?
That would definitely, like, 100% they get replaced.
Like what? Are you telling me?
No way. No way I stand for that shit. Are you kidding me?
Koshmara's on an insane map. I can't even lie.
It's like I didn't even notice it that much.
Yeah, I didn't even see his skills.
So we have a game by the way. Just so you know. I don't know if you noticed.
But we definitely have a game here. No, I have realized. That's why I'm starting to show us out. I told you.
And then also I'm pretty sure Heretic's going to start defense.
Soooo...
You guys may be cooked here. No, don't say that the last time a team started defense versus you on a stunt
Wait, yeah
Love is starting defense. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. Are you 100% sure on that? Yeah, because hair ticks got last ban
Alright, okay, okay. Oh my god, so loud
Okay, well, that's good at least you at least have that going
Good luck, man
I mean, I'm just let's go through a third map. I actually think love is gonna win, too
It should be fun
There's a map they me what they want as third map right now
Being love it has to be a scent. That's the map you want
Yeah, and we're not against like paper X comp and let a heretics also is a type of team that goes stage though
Is the working part? Yeah, they might low key. They might just do exactly what paper X did. Yeah
This is how badly they dominated
G2 has to play again after that devastating loss yesterday
Honestly, it's better for them less time to like think about all that shit and just move on
How do you think that game's gonna go
G2 for sure. I would think G2 win. I dude. I legit had G2 peg to win the tournament
And then they lost XLG. So now I don't know what the fuck to do
Yeah, I think they'll come back a lot better. I think honestly that first game is like
They already showed in their in their video right that they felt so like overconfident going into it
Yeah, that is like it's like humbling. It's like good. They backed up bad. They're back on earth, you know like confidence wise mental wise
These losses can go one of two ways they either break you or they make you better that's it. So we'll see
I think that seems the type of one that makes them all better, to be honest.
I'll just thank you in tier 1 then.
clutch defuse from boo that would have been with the doctor order yeah more
passion that's what i wanted to see coming out from team heretics and i think
flow with thinking of the prime for me at least in this map was the pivotal
moment for team heretics to find out i'm not so sure if andre's watching
how the map started off for them it wasn't looking too hot but then boo got away
with this play i think that really that unlocks a lot of competence and a lot of
if lev lose this series i will legit take a break from work tomorrow
do this first half but after he gets this they're not losing i'm sorry
Like I know the heretics is good on Ascent, but no, the only thing that
Heretics has an advantage in they've been here before on a third map Ascent or like a
These situations they've been in them way more often than Lev have
So it's an experience it could be an experienced if
on the last round though, I must say.
Yeah, got a little scared.
So what was my access on that one?
I mean, they were moving really slow, and I was a bit concerned.
But on the other side of that, though, one player that we were a little concerned about,
because he has often been the entry, the tip of the spear for this heretic squad, Kaushmaru.
Chat, let's be real.
Whoever gets the better start will win.
Think same thing.
I think this is the best one.
Whoever insta-gains momentum is going to be a problem.
Disappointed in Kaushmaru, and this one, I think he was okay in the second map of the first series that they played.
Like the 3-0 I'm talking not like some absurd start but like the first the 3-0 or the 2-0
I'm telling you whoever wins pistol wins skin Joe. Thank you. That's your woman. Who's Thanos on the server neon
Ken's David's your one
This guy's a detective
Wait, is that an obvious statement? I'm saying whoever wins pistols wins this game. That's not always the case
This is definitely not always the case. What do you mean Einstein?
Most of the times it's cap because the team that wins pistol could just get ecode
We've seen so many situations where they win both pistols and still lose the game
Now fuck you guys man.
You guys man
He's watching your jet gameplay who
I don't feel like they have a terrible ascent.
I think they do.
Calm is watching my Jack Implan?
It's probably triggering him that I'm not flanking.
We show aggressive problems on the defensive side.
They were constantly repushing into mid-getting picks,
repushing into extremities and getting picks.
And I felt like level's far too passive.
This map, I want to see a leviathan who's showing more
what they show in this series so far.
And he's taking the initiative to go for these very heavy early
fights into extremities to prioritize getting orders to their Phoenix
and be willing to be the team taking that initiative again.
And I guess we're looking at Neon on the chamber here
to be able to take those fights
and take that aggression to Team Heretics.
Team Heretics at times have been struggling
with keeping up with the temple, the aggression,
the pace that we're seeing coming out from this website.
What I will say for Team Heretics though is
this is a flawless map for them in EMA.
Four wins, zero losses.
And it was a crux for them in playoffs, I will say,
for them to be able to walk and have that lower bracket run
and be able to make it to this event.
So honestly, I feel like this match is not going to be a gigabyte.
Yeah, I mean, it has to be, right?
We made it to Math 3.
Heretic's managed to force things as well
and bring this to that point.
It's a lot of pressure on these players on stage here.
But I've been following Benji's career for years.
Kid's used to the pressure.
He can shine in those moments.
So I have no doubt that he's going
to be bringing that energy with the squad.
These players have been here before.
Number one, DNA seeded team.
This is a brilliant squad that is really just one or two
solutions from picking up the dub here.
You know what I mean?
There's only one player different from Matzee Williams.
12-24 did that, made it to two back to back finals.
Two years ago now, it's been slower, 14-Harrisic,
but this is their home event.
This is Benji finally in front of an English crowd.
Benji's been the problem.
Trying to show up in a way that he didn't earlier
in this tournament looked good on Matzee.
Going out to the Cypher here as well, I think this is great.
And he's one of the players that I want to highlight,
especially on attack, to be that exterminator player.
No problem.
Especially once they have the up on one.
Oh, 100%.
I'm looking at heretics here and getting a little worried that they haven't steered away
from that composition.
Hoping that doesn't mean that they're going to rely on old habits and fall into things
and not see anything new from them.
Like I had kind of highlighted at the very start of the day.
Let's go.
Starting on this defense, we mentioned the aggression and the pushing out mids that we
are expecting from this locker, especially in the composition such as this.
Yeah, for Levitan, this is where you have to show up.
great stage
Do anything anything in chat and then scatter after okay? Okay? Everyone understand the mission?
All right
We out. We out. We out
You're asked better prey that this neon guy takes you home here
Making all the way to that John final. Oh, you will
And so we'll also take us home
I don't know bro don't count reins out
But we got this shit, okay, we'll see
Also, I actually pause so I might need a timer check
Serena
One two for now blow for blow. Oh, yeah, I mean if Luke wakes up
It's a big problem and there's a lot of questions that we have
Play this map you guys have issues bro. It's genuine issues
What happened both of these teams?
Incredible performances individually inside of inside of America's team heretics four and zero with this jet neon coffee
All right game time, baby
Zero they found out 39 38 37
Another 55 reason I'm lucky on the stack
Oh, you guys have really good retakes though.
Oh no, look at this trip brother.
Oh no, they see it.
Oh, W.
Oh, he doesn't go with it?
Oh, I thought you were pretty sure he was going with that trip.
The shorty.
What's he going to do now?
What do you mean?
They dropped him, he kills him.
Okay, this is good patience.
This is genuinely good patience.
Okay, this is good patience. This is genuinely good patience
Well done. Well done. Well done by the cat players
They tried to get proactive they pivoted
Yeah, that was actually a good post. Yeah, like every holiday. It was a good post, but the level's aware of it
Yeah, it's too many times
Heretics are trying to come up with ideas trying to create some pressure over there
Yeah, I sure don't do shit
Retakers they feel they'd be right next to the door all in tree
Instead they're tucked back pretty same spots actually yeah being played by
neon and king there
Damn it shit you guys got one round last yesterday you already have one round team heretics on their attack side
Full armor with an outlaw
It's fire any kind of opening saying congrats should be ready for this setup
This is something that let's do a lot on a second. That's gotta do that's gotta do something for the confidence on a son
Move a judge in a main Saturday's jiggling with a Molly in Kat
They've done their homework they're gonna know how Lev wants to play this round the judge is a bit of a nightmare if you give it over
booze smoke
Cut in the gap might be baiting King in yeah, I mean it's good for the judge obviously
but it's also good
wait
they're pretty aware I think
what?
ahhhhhhhhh
and king is like
kinda low
oh my god this attack
ala is fucking the shit out of us
yeah he's done this twice now
it's an ace split
it's an ace split
but I mean king has a judge
I'm not too too worried
to get online early doors.
Heretics cannot get bonus.
They must get bonus.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm going to press.
We default early.
We default beyond like 8 after you're out here.
Uh-huh.
Uh-oh.
Oh my, oh my god.
Are they just going to go?
They know this is the weak site.
Are they just going to go?
They're gonna keep prodding. They're gonna keep prodding.
And your Neon left.
They're going. They're full gun.
Round over brother. No way you're taking this.
And they have a midler. Oh boy.
One for one, get the intro though, yeah this is a clean round for her, six damage.
We might have a game. I'm so happy to didn't get bonus, we have a game now.
It's possible to get bonus or you're saying it's like hard to come back for it?
It's hard to come back for it.
Yeah.
just like the snowball just gets
that's gonna be on spike
see if you can do as much damage as possible
just a little bit
that's such a big kill on neon early
I don't know why he didn't unscope
he might have died
he probably would have died anyway
he would have hit one and died
cause three people peaked him
two people
it's very simple stuff
they just post up on angles and they're looking for the aggression to come into the
aggression to come into them. Be made default, go into a B attack, utilize your knee on to
be able to put a lot of pressure on the site anchor. Usually though, Levy and Tanigun have
much better weapons to be able to work with. Be made control now, be made control of the
Hold in operator in play here listen in to see what level got at their sleeves
I'm losing the attack
I don't want to be close to the enemy
Stop, stop, stop
I think neon is in a power position
Neons rassle from some of the sound cues that are being heard
They're about to walk into neon
Bang!
I'm anticipating onto that angle
That's a sick setup, I can't live
It is bro
Dude, those micro-saves are so good bro
So it's so insane. It's fall apart. They already know there's two a main one guy runs away or fake run away
Is it something gonna run out of these smokes?
Oh, he's got around 20 seconds until the boat another one can be deployed
There's a gap
Yeah, it's over. Wow, no one's gonna die. No one's gonna die from love. You just save here
as much as they possibly can.
Oh my god, he got both.
Now there needs to be a bit of a speed up here from the rest of the game.
They don't know about Benny's goal yet.
He's gonna be TPing in, trying to get that plant down.
Oh!
He's got the side Benji fishy!
Oh my god!
He is insane!
I don't even know what to say.
Holy shit!
He's really the messiest of all, by the way.
Like, not us.
Or he will be.
He doesn't have to accomplish this yet, but he will be.
and accomplishment yet
Oh yeah, that's right
Like, you have more accomplishments than him and me
because you won both suit and suit stage
Oh yeah, I know that
Exactly
Heretics seem like they were in two minds of weather to commit to that
but when Rienz delivers you two beauties on a swing out A
you've got to at least fight for the round
You have to
But it did destroy their economy
So now they're on a half fight
Man, it's going to be weak here
and it looks like A main is going to be pressure, power
Oh my god, that's dead
Oh my god
They're running into the south
Wait, no so far
Yep, Molotov!
Bang bang!
One for one or no? Two for two?
Oh, get my groceries!
No treats?
What?
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
I don't think he has exceeded pause here
I don't think so
No
Yeah, this guy's taking you home, guaranteed.
Love the stuff, it's just too good with these little traps that they have, they have aggression
towards B as well.
Their Ascend is too solid.
Like David, when he played against Neon, that's what he means.
2-0
Should've
We just had to raise that tactic
Yeah
You think you were a better city player than David?
No
He's the best to ever do it
Best ever?
Yeah
When it comes to a sense, how do I look in board?
Elimination game, by the way
Don't do this, Sasho
G2 did shit like this
It did not edge well
That's my boy
Hey guys, you really wanna break?
What are you calling the pods here?
Early b-bay defaults, and then B-split, I mean there's not many options that you really have.
They do have sub alt though, so they could just B-split sub alt stairs, and back side.
They're going A.
This is fake A pressure into a B-split, I guarantee it.
Benji's gonna walk up mid and take that space while his teammates are pressuring A main.
I'm gonna put the Octo to get spotted now, be ready to do it
Incage the moon, let's get close
Yeah, baby
I'm gonna take this space, depositing somebody in there
Yeah
He pushed over Neon
Cam's gonna be spotting
He's off
Oh, Neon's stuck here now
He is
Bro, he's so...
He puts so much pressure on it bro, look at that
There's a multiple angle here, it's gonna have to be insane reaction times
Come on, boo, peek from the other side
His play is still hard, committed onto different angles
Yeah, boobies from the other side.
You always got his teleport to be able to escape here.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
He's making them drones in here.
Yeah, look at this shit.
Who's-
OH!
OH!
OH!
OH!
SHIT!
Koreans.
What?
On the angle, it's like the back of his hand.
He was fishing for that one a couple of times.
Yeah.
Oh, there's your wincon, God.
I'm gonna play a water.
Jesus.
Oh, man.
Yeah, beautiful.
Oh, I've seen you.
Wait, you have another wincon?
I was also getting involved.
Yeah, of course we did.
You have some more.
Got her.
You have the Exalt now too.
You basically have five players left.
There we go.
We can see if they can even think of the drone.
We can put a Paranoia, but it gets the tank down.
That's a good one.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Listen, TP was going to be all over the place.
He's gone down too, and that's going to crack.
Round over, four left.
That's another media adjustment.
Santos burned his ultimate there, thinking that it was a full APOP.
He even got lucky.
He failed the teleport, and that actually let him survive.
Let him survive.
Well, that was a good one.
Did he readjust spam the box and kill Neon?
Yeah, he did.
He would just be a save-out for Leia.
What a sickening guy.
You don't have a clue where any of the team heretics
players are, but with that kill,
Sado twice now, just barreling into heretics,
taking heads, taking names.
Not quite entries, but he's just taking
straight-up royal-aimed duels.
Still got a bit of save, though.
Yeah.
They're too far away to make anything of it, and King too low.
But he's scoping out some of the setup.
They're fully playing like anti neon at this point
He's the only one that gets super aggressive unless you guys do like a team aggro
Usually, it's just him's an aggro angle. So they're just playing for him
It's true. Like if you kill him in the whole round becomes 40 times easier
Yeah
Like even if he doesn't even get a kill, a kill on round, he's demanding so much.
Yeah.
Seize down!
In terms of asking questions, we're coming into these teams' need.
No idea. Nope. Not a clue.
Thank you, thank you.
That's defense.
Nira?
Damn.
So close.
Not good.
can he miss and now they've all rotated into him this mid round has to be
perfect from heretics
I mean boo's in a good spot to maybe call it back but wait they're on board
wait what?
Neon was like why is my team dying?
I have beef
I don't know about boo yet
bomb though we don't have bomb
Yeah
Can he alter no he can't all neon's awareness angle waiting for the overextension waiting
It's too good
It would have been better if he spoke spawner went through it
Like smoke it like regular, right?
Yeah.
It throws a fast lane to try to help me on.
Swings out to take the fight into Reans,
closes the market door so that there's only two angles
to hold with two players instead of three.
You need players that are willing to take a risk in a spot
like that.
They're all the time out, right?
They already paused once at 4-1.
Kushmaras picks up the Aries again.
That's a pre-emptive shock that looking
to try to stop a drone that might be going through the map.
The drone
We got up early
What's on what's on what's on him? Yeah, I'm almost positive
Wow, and now he's gonna now he's gonna reposition it the sicko into a different spot
Straight for me. Oh, he's gonna keep be they're gonna go in broken by Benji
I
Was not a good old and then she's in a really good spot
He's doing as much as he can and he's putting up so much pressure. Yeah
They can't do anything for some
I think they got to do cat control the gardens, I think that's the play here
Gardening like you smoke door and you go heavy garden. It's the only place neon isn't gonna be
Yeah, I know like you just clear that with drone
It's like you just you can even drone over tiles and clear that angle at the start
Yeah, and you spoke about a minute and you just go cap and you go
Wait, this is a good round to do two seven they have nice chat just dashes garden
That's what fast gas split especially when he's leaving they are going
Avoiding neon
Fighting out.
Are you out, guys?
Are you going to be putting the squeeze on the anchor plays
or something?
So you're looking for the clearance, Benji.
Right on top of it, Kosmaras as well.
Inserts himself into the conversation.
Answer them all to the tally.
Are you in their comms right now?
Are you fucking serious right now?
Make sure that there's no opportunity of throwing away
a 5v2.
This is how I kept beating Prime EG's ass, brother.
Stick around there, heretic secure.
They get a pressure.
Slap y'all around.
More expensive weapons.
What do you mean?
We beat y'all.
Wait, we beat y'all the second time?
First time brother, not when I matter. I sure you know what I'm done
Yeah, and then we'd be
Different directions there were chances I think hot shots from left where they could have actually come away with a kill or two
But it was a lack of hesitation. I think that's the name of the game
Dude, if we don't choke against PaperX, you know you lose to us at Tokyo, right?
You know, every time we knew we were playing, we actually all got it hard as fuck.
Like, wait.
Blast? That did not happen.
Don't even talk about the optic there. I don't even know what team you were on back then, brother.
There was only one team that was challenging us. I don't even know what roster that was.
They won't even talk about 22. Let's talk about 23
Okay, I want to have the 23 brother. They're very separate. Okay, I mean, yeah, yeah, you did
I can't really take that away from you. Yeah, I mean, Boosia one usually just there for the ride
Yeah, they were done watch parties like when Boosia is so funny ish that dude
I really wish because I remember I was talking to him and he's like I was like G2 is gonna win this event
And he was like dude, they don't know how to win. They're not winning shit
If they if I was watching with him when they lost to XLG it would have been beef. It would even be even funnier
I think that would have been perfect. Why are you watch party with them?
I don't know, he just appears sometimes, sometimes he disappears.
No, he's there.
Like, he's the king of like, you text him.
Plus, like, I'm watching a riot game and this guy's like, promoting deadlock all day.
Okay, yeah, that is true.
Oh, wait, don't lose this.
Haritix cannot lose this round.
They know where both players are.
Still danger though, especially as I was door closed
She's never know you might just get I think that's not as bad as that. Wait a minute. Oh, that's that's bad on no
Yeah, that's bad box. That's bad on love
No, thanks. Oh
My oh
Look at that
That's we have a game. No, no, no breaking doors an actual crime. They should be punished
of the
six four
while
What around from Kishuar is though?
Early on, in EG23, before everyone knew about my playing, were you aware of the way I played?
Or no? Or is it just like, oh it's like...
Wait, when?
Like, early on?
In 23?
23, yeah.
I don't remember.
I actually don't remember if we had like, a calm protocol.
Nah, I'd say.
But...
Yeah, no, I actually don't remember.
We just like playing you guys though. Like I feel like it was a good matchup for us
Like in terms of how you played and it was a good matchup for us
I remember the first time we played on a set we would fake a lot and we'd be like playing that way
Like we faked a lot of things and then like yo, what over is it?
But then the second time we played the actual y'all just stayed in y'all said all the time
I think I'm faking and then y'all just y'all were just like sitting there and then they'd wait through the matter like guys
We had that big issue at the start as well, yeah, those rotations that was like a constant theme in regardless of who we played early on
Second god drops not dissuaded from taking the main space early on first man. He dropped them if anything
Oh my god, just an A exec with no resistance.
Oh, we're flooding.
We're trying to flood.
How do you kill blue?
What?
Why are these sites so clean, by the way?
Is A weak? Do we need to be on A?
I think it's just because levels are always played for like this.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
That civil line is so prime, by the way.
It's so bright, by the way.
Oh! Oh, shit!
Oh, my God, how are they main? They know, they know, they know.
Oh, wow, they lost the surround.
The Lev retakes.
The Lev retakes.
Wow, all that from Rienz just to lose that.
I feel bad for him.
That is gorgeous. That is a gorgeous start.
This is just weird.
That's just weird.
Moon has been a liability. Well what do you want him to do about getting shot through a cage?
What would you have like to do there?
I mean, that's not what they're implying. They're just like annoyed a little bit. I know they're not implying they would be better
It's more they're just annoyed because they know he's like a good player. That's like not owning
Well, not what. Not what.
Okay, well, they know where he is. They'll just gladly sacrifice a player there to figure out where he is.
I mean, there's gonna avoid him. There's no way. There's no way to go out.
Defense
I think I think he'll die I think he's guys are getting one
Yeah
That's not a good enough done
How are they all already here, all the TV's?
Oh wow, no impossible. Impossible to do anything here.
This guy's stairs too.
Yo, this kid is a f***ing genius.
This guy's an actual genius.
Why don't plant maybe because there's fucking four seconds left
And it's a guy that he has to get the gamble there
El gambler
Why don't plant?
It's the same thing as when a guy is playing
Marks the bomb confusing or the bomb dying the bomb. Yeah, why don't plant?
That was a fine play Russian. Yeah, I always assume they're Russian. Yeah, I don't know why though
Categorize my chat in one word. Yeah
a confusing I think is the word because they they can be really smart and really dumb all
at once like my chat knows what's happening and doesn't know anything all at the same
time like they have their like really really smart moments yeah also have
like the like I don't know yeah like they might have been like dropped on their
head sometimes oh like not just dropped like banged over and over and over and
over and over again like full concussion like just constant concussions
and it's always it's always that extreme it's always one or the other like
sometimes they'll call out shit I don't notice and they're like it's like they
did just see it right and I'm like wow like oh thanks chat like that was a
good call and then there's other times where I'm just blown away by some of the
comments so it's a little bit of both.
Black mold in their head.
What? That's a crazy thing to say.
the crazy thing about my chat is the chemistry that they have sometimes they're
like yeah yeah like sometimes it's blows me away I'm like holy fuck if you guys
had this kind of chem inside the game you guys would leave gold
your team heretics here in this elimination game America sometimes you
guys this chem is absurd
Yeah, but sometimes they are some like weird topics and they'll all say the same thing like regarding it
It's like really strange
Well done that blows not taking that flight smart very smart and he has all been oh no
Oh, they could be split so easily and and little heretics is playing to choose. They're not pushing
I find his form. Yeah, they have to
Clear this what what is wrong with the search?
Yeah
Send tweet
Like that, like I know there's sending tweet at all, but they're all saying it allows course like all at once
Yeah, I don't think he's gonna go for a challenge here. They're all on Twitter at the same time together
He's quite aggressively heretics
As safe as anything giving up a lot of control up towards cap though, but the cam's gonna be spotting that
There's no paranoia for boo
There's no real trips even to interact with you know, I hate these two twos and these four refives
Yeah, I hate them
I mean he almost sent around
Like you need something like that
Yeah, I know. Miracle.
And that's over.
Reans? No, Reans. It's weird. He's weird.
Yeah, yeah. He is a weird guy.
Oh my god.
No, no, no.
Sanity.
Oh.
That's good.
They got a double P3?
Two.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's the same jump.
Yeah.
I know that's what King is saying.
That's fucking perfect.
And that's GG.
Yeah.
Ah, I mean, we like to make it weird.
No, it's GG.
It's GG.
They're in fact, what am I saying?
It's still GG.
It's still GG.
I refuse to believe that the heretics come back from this.
Actually, heretics do come back often.
No, it's GG. Sorry.
The heretics' coaches have known misery before,
but this is, again,
them being plunged back into those depths.
back into those deaths.
This was supposed to be the tournament where things would be different.
They're not choking a 9-4 lead in an elimination game.
Don't say that.
I don't like this Jinks.
It's not.
You believe in Jinks'es?
No.
Like I'm not able to come back.
No, I don't.
But I just say it for fun.
Okay, well.
Contrast that with Lev, the way that they're playing, it's freeing almost.
Ever since ED23, I don't believe in Jinks'es.
Playing to the crowd, I ever.
Cuz we were just saying some crazy shit
Even ones I can't wait to fucking destroy all these kids and then you just destroyed all the kids
Still left it available in the map pool is that max 3
Crazy shit about every reading
He is back in
Ah, no, you're done buddy
It's been real though
No, no, not like that
Slow, slow
No, they're gonna get rifles
Oh, you're good bro, don't worry
You're fine
But now fully committing no dart player advantage here to heretics to grand opportunity
This kid is so good, bro. Lev is good, man.
Wow.
Nice try for her, from Heretics there.
They made it weird as fuck.
Come on, come on.
I told you, it gets weird.
Brainwave gets weird at the right time.
Pass. Cat?
Do they clear this jet at wine though?
I feel like what's about to happen around in there?
I think it's gonna get drowned.
Well, he has a teammate right there. He's gonna break it for him
And he's been struggling. I wonder if they do that the same time though where it's like kind of hard
He's dead here
It's pure brilliant in the moment now. Don't choke this away calm. Do you don't want to choke this away?
Promise you don't it's a huge round from the team heretics. You less
Funky positions, but neons dealt with
This would be a hundred thieves level choke. I love this is a hundred you scoreline by the way ten the number ten
They can't get past it
If the game was like first to ten hundred these would have won three trophies already minimum
White face into mid.
Like you said, here comes the real deal.
This is the last round without gunner's weaponry in the hands of these left players.
Five rounds being the difference for Heretic, so you're gonna have to claw it back one round at a time.
Loot is looking to try to get aggressive.
Fighting is dash forwards.
They're gonna fight straight to them.
Good thing is they have to re-clear all of that.
They have to assume that
Herobrine's gonna reach our
Fully sacky
At least the rotate is fast. Good decision here to go be here
Yeah, he surprised with that a main push here takes didn't over sack me
They're doing the thing where like they think enough if they take it great if not they have the option to go back a
Boots and wine though again, do they expect them there's same spot
Oh my god, it's over. They've been completely, like they took every part of the map, like
fully broken down. What a call. Do you understand how many times King is getting away with this
this slurk, this slow cat lurk with a fake commit at B
it's so good bro
I think also it makes it to where
which position is like worse
because of everything that happened
I gotta say man, that level exploit gaffes really well
from playing with king, I know like
he knows how to do that
Yeah, it's solid.
They did the same shit on Pearl, by the way.
How should we do it on every map? They do it on Split.
In terms of mid-rounding, I think King and I...
Like, we and I had a lot of chemistry, but also King and I, because we played together for so long.
Yeah.
We just understudied each other.
Yeah.
So much when it came to this game.
Well, it helps you guys are probably on the same page.
Like, you think they're playing the same game the same way?
Yeah, we did.
100%.
round eleven
we're still talking about it, like even now, we like talking about the game
he does not like you anymore, bro, trust me
it'll be weird
it'll be weird
you know what was the double-summon
the moment
what?
between king and i
so whenever i had my wedding
i didn't expect him to come because he would have to come all the way from chili, right?
that's expensive
like, everything, right?
it's like, so much to just come to my wedding texture
yeah
He took time and money and everything out of his day to like and heretics are just forced to just come
Kind of back into a 3v5 enjoy the wedding with it was really also like my wedding was like the other shoulders
I combined of like my e-sports friends and also like that's pretty fire people have grown up with my new environment
It's time to shine
And likely also gonna be stacked against him here to one way
So we're gonna be tested here once I'm this cage is sad up
It's gonna be saved up yet soaking up an abundance of this you to return a play forwards and around inside the
changes but as far forward Benji reveals it's not get weird inside
clenching to the side wait oh my god it's so over now they're gonna start
staring the score line the streets and let fight him so you know the scoreline
really well don't you brother your butt the pause on the patience is so nice
there have been multiple times in this match so far the heretics have expected
live to lose control why am i my mods also spending it in clutch scenarios they
They're going to put you in the portrait.
Bro, going out like this is sad, man.
At least they got map 3. Whatever.
And they have 7 chances to close out his lower bracket match.
Not even a close game, though.
It's all in now for heretics, sir.
Matter of survival.
I'm telling you, we will see you again.
You will see you guys sitting far earlier than anticipated.
I hope so, man, because that's just a free win.
What?
Do you think Karen takes the spand after this loss?
Look, there's always been that speculation that that might happen and it never does.
So...
Like, I thought they were gonna disband after Toronto and they didn't, so...
the map remember last time they went like from what I know that team is just
like really close knit yeah they're good players it's like hard to even cut
anyone certain themselves playing more anchoring positions but the ball is
gonna be canceled out drone out look at this they just walk out me yeah it's over
man it's over I don't even think they know there's a guy here
up to his pilot is good
Wow look at this big dude
That's time for him ready for it
it. Wait, Rien's trying to save them. Four seconds, three seconds, two seconds. Wow,
that's how they win the round
they're holding on with their fingernails
like it's barely on
unbelievable
I like that they're still trying to get Hive. Like I hit it when teams just kind of give up whatever they're down.
He's a tiles crunch!
Trying to get play 4A.
GG.
Neon, Neon is position complete.
That's right, GG.
It's just like that blink of an eye is all gone starved.
Oh wow.
On the Livia Tand!
Nice try.
I guess.
The protagonist in this story of this player of the tournament run.
We live to see another day.
It's good though. I actually think Lev is capable of making a run.
I do too.
You knew it was going to be a difficult run here, whoever lost that game.
And they got battered on ascent. Here they strike back at 13-6 victory.
Yeah. I feel bad, man. I feel bad for heretics, because like I know for Benji,
he probably meant a lot playing London.
And then also just losing the way that they lost, it felt like they had no chance.
Yeah, they got dominated on the two maps they lost.
Yeah.
I feel bad for them, too. They're all negative. Like look at this. It's just got on.
Did I? Yeah. Boo minus 20, Woots minus 21. 4 and 11 for first bloods.
Like, I don't even think, like at least in my opinion, whenever it's like all negative like that,
and you got dominated two maps, it's not even that bad, because it's just like, you just got wiped.
Well, yeah, if you're not eliminated, but that's their elimination game.
And the thing was the hair takes is the same thing as G2 like they have been
Like they haven't won that's the problem this roster with this much talent they have not won other than EWC
That's it. Yeah, do you count? I personally do but I
Know overall it won't like I don't know I do
You're saying like the prestige of the right, right?
doesn't feel as like big. Yeah, it just doesn't feel the same. You know, there's always going to be that asterisk for that win. Yeah, it makes sense. So I just feel for them because I respect that they kept the same line up in a similar line up. And nothing's really changed. Like, they're qualifying. Sometimes they'll do all right and get top four. But they're they just I think they're past the point where they were supposed to win. Does that make sense? Like,
They were supposed to win a while back, and they'd lost.
Yeah.
And so now, I think their time is done.
Like, that's what makes me sad about them.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel like that happened.
Do you feel...
Okay, this is an interesting question.
Like, a lot of like the older players, right?
Yeah.
Aren't as involved in the pro scene, and it feels like at times,
like, I can see from a viewer perspective,
it's not as fun, because you grew up with those, like, players, right?
Yeah.
Watching those players.
So do you think that's like a bad thing that these new players are coming in and like
we're a viewership perspective?
I don't know how I'm trying to answer this question but
This is a bad thing and on who's perspective?
Like viewership perspective, does that feel like viewers, like especially esports or so?
So you're saying the more popular player is being gone and then a new player is coming in?
I like it in a sense that there's always like new breakout players and I think
Seeing how good these players are at the age that they're at for example this neon guy you got pretty
You know these are all newer players, right?
Yeah, I think that variety adds a new element a fun element to the game
But you always miss the players you you love in the past, you know
It won't be the same. It's never the same, but it doesn't mean that's bad.
So you can live through it through nostalgia and be like, oh, I remember when this
how this made me feel
but
For me personally, I think it's great that you I think it's fine is what it is. I think there's good and bad to both
We don't have like much pressure like from whomever we're gonna face or not
We just like try to do our best on our link play against them
But he won this on a cent. And last time you played a cent, you got 30 lund by PRX.
So how did you manage to get the map right this time?
Let's not think about the past, let's not present ourselves, let's live in the present,
let's not think about what the paper says, and we've done everything we can to help and we're very happy for today.
I
Comebacks have been insane. It's fun to watch like I said the variety is awesome
I think this guy is a top five player in the world.
Yeah, like, I think that's... I don't even think that's a hot take.
I think he could even beat us.
I am really happy with all the support and all the fans that normally, personally for
me, for the votes, they're the way he positions himself.
That's my favorite part, his positioning.
I don't give a shit about his shot.
His shot is insane, but I think the way he positionally plays, he is the least greedy
player I have ever seen for the talent that he has minus maybe asbestos
yeah the only american team remaining in this competition you'll find out what
our next game is these guys decision-making is like insane for such a
young talent like insane he makes almost all the right decisions yeah like it's
It's just a wait, shut up, king.
Fod, Heretics is an incredible team.
But I want to go back to the beginning
because it really did feel like you guys were not just
playing with the confidence at that start,
but a dominance as well.
You guys felt like you were unstoppable on map one.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, we had a very good beat
on their map, on their split.
We were just looking at the rounds they played and stuff.
And we kind of knew many times what
We're gonna do from the literature to start the run. Yeah. Yeah on map 3 as well
You guys looked great. It was back to that form for them hair text looking obvious
Consistently and I think that's been the the thing for your team that they were talking about
You even called asbestos a leader before you have so many I mean, I don't know if you're raising or the team
That is designing these ideas. How do you guys come up with that?
So I have to give obviously I get context when I said that yeah, they do an incredible work. They
They make
Whenever we show around it's like okay, we need to adapt this or just throw like
Think outside the box. Yeah, I have to give my profit on yeah
So I want to ask them because you have had to show a lot you had a long Swiss stage
You're in the lower bracket now if you want to win this tournament you have to go all the way through the lowers
Yep, do you think your style can hold up to that? Do you guys have enough in the tank to do that for me? Yeah?
as I said
We do have of course like our rounds and stuff, but we mix them up so much like one round
We can be doing a set trap, but we're mixing the macro like you don't know
We're actually doing a trap or if we're actually playing towards that side
So you'll show the same thing but have a different round off. Yes, and eventually just coming up with new stuff or layers
At some point I layer is lately
Perfect explanation of what
Pretty much read off of them. Yeah like that. Yeah, it makes sense. Hey, well, look, we're not gonna keep it too long
I want to know who's this guy who's this stuffy who gave it to you my girlfriend
Awesome here with me and right now awesome. I don't see her in the stage, but I don't even see her. She's yeah
She gave it to me. I think when we were like one year in the relationship now
We're four years in so well, it's just like whenever I'm alone because many times I'm alone
It's like this sign
She's here with me. Oh, yeah, I know that I know that now. I gotta ask my wife. Where's my stuffy?
Come on, ladies. Come on, Cynthia. Step it up.
Hey, King, always a pleasure to talk to you, my man.
Congratulations to Leviathan on an incredible win,
but that is going to do it for us here.
Of course, folks, we have plenty more to come
because it's going to be another EMEA.
Well, congrats, man.
It'll be f***ed up.
Seriously, congratulations, man.
Thank you, bro.
I mean, you should have an OK match show.
I mean, they definitely make it to lower round three, I think.
Lev, I have a lot of faith in Lev making it, making a run.
At least to here after lower round three just gets weird. I don't know depends on the matchup depends on the day
depends on the maps I
Do definitely think they'll be either edg. Ah, fuck me. I don't know anymore. I don't know anymore
That's that's what I'll say anyone can win. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know anymore
After what XLG and edg did yesterday, I don't know anymore
Yeah, I agree
I don't know, bro. I mean
Anything can happen in this tournament. I think we literally saw it yesterday with yeah, EG and Goli
because everyone was like saying foot and
G2 we're just gonna mop the floor with them, but now they're playing for elimination today. So yeah, anything can happen PRX will stop
it stop this masters. I don't really like saying shit like that because
PRX played Lev playing at their best like PRX was playing at their best
We haven't seen PaperX play bad yet. So if they have an off day, then your entire opinion will change.
You'll call them bad all of a sudden. There is that possibility. Yes, if they stay consistently top level and play their A game in every tournament or every match this tournament, yes, they'll win.
But maintaining your A level is hard.
Like, that's what I'm trying to say.
It's dependent on matchup, it's dependent on how you start.
It's dependent on the opponent's game plan,
it's dependent on maps.
So, we'll see.
Yeah, literally anything can happen, bro.
Like, even in 23,
Like us playing against that fanatic team would have been extremely hard, you know.
Yeah, I mean, it's so it's dependent on too many things to be able to like,
just say, oh, just based off what I've seen,
it looks like paper X is going to dominate everyone. Well, yeah.
But like vitality also cleaned heretics, you know,
EG came back from an absurd, like,
you know, like by down like a lot, they didn't look convincing.
So just because a team doesn't look super convincing in one matchup doesn't mean they won't dominate their next and
Opposite goes to the system team dominated their last matchup doesn't mean they won't lose the next line. I might watch this
G2 game
Yeah, but he hates you though, so it's weird that you that's I respect that you support him. Don't be weird
If you're gonna support jaw at least go watch the press conference, it's fire
should I fucking hilarious yes okay let me look this up all right I'm gonna not
that I don't love watching with you but I have I get distracted too easily so I'm
gonna lock in for this next game yeah I go for it but I will watch all the left
games with you okay got you got you okay peace peace peace GGs sorry I get
too distracted like I just like talking to him so I get distracted sometimes but
WCOM. That's fucked up? No, no, no. That's honest. That's maturity. That's being real.
Bitch ass. Fuck you and your opinion.
Welcome back to Masters London and it's time for our second elimination match of the day.
It's gonna be foot east force taking on now. It's just because now we go on tangents like my issue with watching with people
I like is I just go on tangents
I don't lock into the game as much and I'm very interested in this g2 game
So if one of us is yapping away, I won't pay attention
Yeah, I think so. I definitely think that Lev had two politics number
I think that two politics maybe weren't expressing the expecting the aggression that Lev were able to come out with
G2 hate watch this is not a G2 hate watch you hear me. I would be happy with either team qualifying, but
Fuck it might be a G2 hate watch. I
Like these guys foot
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, you know I need you to win listen. I'll explain
I'll go I'll give you guys the context and you tell me okay. I'll give you the context
If G2 get 0 forward, sorry, if they get 0-2, 1-2, whatever, if they get first-rounded,
people will hate them even more.
I don't want that.
However, Foot also have this guy that was called out for racism when he wasn't racist
at all, and now he's getting bullied.
So both teams, I would feel bad for.
If g2 lose
It's gonna look really bad
Right, like really really really bad because of how happy they were if foot lose
People are like there are people hate watching g foot as well because of what happened yesterday that misunderstanding yesterday, so
It's sad either way I
Think it's worse for g2 though because they already had haters like people want foot to win people's foot still has like a lot of fans
No one wants G2 to win.
It's G2's fault for getting hate watch, they're mean org and mean people.
What story have you made up in your head?
Where did this story come from?
How did you come to this conclusion?
Like how?
How have you come to this conclusion? I don't get it.
How can you just say things like that?
They are mean people.
How? How are they mean?
What did they do to you?
I don't want to say much about losing or losing, but I don't think we will win, even if we are not here.
Let's see if we can win the game.
I mean, we are most definitely expecting a clash here because on the other side of I don't know
I'm not gonna lie. I have to root for g2 here. I have to because it would be way worse
Like they would get a lot of shit for losing man. Oh my god, they're showing it again
They can't help themselves celebrating the fact that they got to pick XLG and then like look at this dude
They're making it worse right is milking them learn the g2. Hey, not disrespect the Chinese teams
Because they will find a way to pull off a dub. Yeah, they've beaten the steam twice before eliminated them into I agree
I agree. It looks bad. I've been through it. It looks bad talking shit about a team and being happy you picked them
Or they picked you whatever just to lose. I agree. I agree with this. It's bad. Look. It's a bad look
But not redeeming yourself and getting first-rounded when a lot of people had you at least taught for at this event is
is even worse, especially when you're already hated.
Especially when people already don't root for you, now you've given them another reason not to root for you.
You guys lost to BLG and you didn't redeem it.
Exactly, so when I say it's bad, it's bad. I know from experience that it sucks
I don't want them to go through that as well. I want them to at least make it further in the tournament
Instead of getting first-rounded
Here with baby Bay of G2. Hello, friendly old man
What areas of foot demands the most attention from you today? Oh, I mean soft, you know, I can't let him do what he did the cruise
You know, I gotta kind of get the get back for cruise, you know the unctuous
So hopefully this guy's not updraft dashing on to me and doing that stuff. I gotta shut that down
Yeah, hopefully the overwatch aim prevails, you know, all right sounds like a plan
Jerry, I don't know if you know this is a different game
What do people realize that banter slash should talk before the match is the way worse or as they're just waiting till after you win
But it's easy after you win brother
That's the point.
And they didn't even shit talk.
They didn't say anything like disrespectful towards XLG.
They were simply happy because they got on paper the easiest matchup there.
Which if we're being honest, is fair enough.
But then they fucking lost.
Which, if we're being objective, is hilarious.
Vanessa, stop acting like you actually care.
What do you mean by actually care? I do feel bad. Yes, but I think it's hilarious, too. I
Could there could be two emotions felt at once
This doesn't mean I don't like I care enough to where I don't want them to get fucking hate
For sure. Why would I want any of my friends to get hate? That's weird
But I think it's funny and I'm not gonna just not
This would be something completely different if they get upset by a Chinese team and sent home now by foot
But this would be, I think, a low for a G2 that has had a pretty great last few years.
I guess my question then is, do you think that this quick turnaround time works in anyone's
favor?
Because I'm kind of team-foot in that aspect in the sense that it does.
Yes, I was laughed at for losing to BLG.
Who cares?
It's a bad loss.
I understand it.
And we got laughed at.
Very much so.
In fact, people still laugh at it.
It's okay.
It's just what happened.
Now, you can't sit there and tell me I'm a bad friend for laughing at my other friends
When they would have laughed at that result as well. It's a funny fucking result
What versus G2? G2 won the skirmish, so they're picking their side
I'm laughing at myself for losing those games
As well, it's a bad loss
And I lost twice
All right, Haven is banned and foot is speaking the first map
Pick a scent
Assented is and site for a son, please you to defense
Defense and your map pick Lotus
Lotus and what is your side on Lotus foot defense?
Okay defense
We have fracture pole and split left and foot is winning first
I don't care team was dead doesn't count in my book. I mean, yeah, I already told him that
He was dead, but still it's a bad loss
like
When we lost to Billy Billy, I expect everyone to be laughing. That's hilarious. That's a fucking funny as result
No matter how you look at it. I think it's funny. I can look back and be like, yeah, that's objective objectively funny
Let me give you quick recap. We start a sense G to defense then we have low whose
And if you go to the decider, which is split, foot defense, everything correct?
Alright, good luck guys.
Alright folks, the stage is set.
You see that countdown?
Ten seconds and it's time to bring out your two teams.
They got a release of documentary on the NRG team.
Trust me, there's zero footage from that champ's event,
because of how dead that team was.
Besides what you've already seen.
There's always a supporting that we have to start like this.
Down in the lower bracket.
I see my G2 that's always fighting back, kept in check.
We kinda just have our backs against the wall.
Exactly, Aiden.
But it's still just very pressuring.
Shadowclaws, think of the tier one, man.
Let's go!
Can't be doing this, man!
But he's kinda like a new team on the radar.
This is about to be an insane match by the way.
We're all thinking it's your win.
Let's see if they can get it to your win.
We don't want to leave. We want to prove that we're better than all of them
and make it all the way through the lower back gate.
Which personally, which team would you want from champs to go to champs from APAC?
I would like here and then there.
I would like PaperX there.
And honestly I would like T1 there.
incredible teams and all boils down to this for foot you heard in that video doesn't matter who's in front of him
He's gonna have to take him out because that is what is being asked of him
But on the other side maybe you have a g2 e-sports that came into this event
Feelings like there was a fourth team
There's someone and either between full-sense or g2 what are g1 of them it's match for them one of those teams
You're not familiar to lose that being the lower bracket for g2
We do it every event in the last few years, but it was different against XLG against an opponent they celebrated picking now
It's time for them to atone make the run back this team they're facing is a difficult one
I think foot has been the biggest standout team for me that people had low expectations for already
Not only making it out of Swiss, but playing that competitive game against EDG. They've been in good form
We've been talking about how to have this new era was this fresh roster the changes that they made between kickoff and stage one
To find themselves finally back at a global event. They're looking at this map veto
So like to get sent we've not seen that from them this event just yet
So I'm hoping that they've got a trick up their sleeve to go ahead and pick that
Yeah, who do you think ended up winning on this map picks and bands here Billy?
Ooh, honestly, looking at that, I think G2 have caught pre-bitch.
I think that you can definitely see the lessons that they would have been able to learn.
I think when we get to that level, I'm looking at the great site anchors in Baby Bay.
Anyways, yeah, if something like that happened again,
if G2 lost another upset like that after a video like that comes out, I'm laughing again, bitch.
That's fucking funny.
People have laughed at me enough. It's my turn to fucking laugh.
Yeah, I think I do lean a little bit more towards foot in favorability in this map, so I think that, well, that Lotus is absolutely a strong point for G2.
They're gonna feel very confident getting that map into the pool.
This split to me has been a little bit rocky for G2, and we were watching that one both regionally.
Who are you rooting for? G2 here.
I think G2 will get a lot more genuine hatred on Reddit and Twitter and all that shit,
and I feel like they're gonna lose a lot of confidence in themselves if they lose today.
I think they won't be the same after today's loss if they get first-rounded foot. I think all well they'd they would be just fine
But like this is their rise, you know
This is their rise. So as far as I'm concerned if they get first-rounded here, they're gonna come back strong no matter what
I feel like this is way worse for G2 to lose today
this G2 lineup to gain that comp is good once Jogama's feeling good. They're getting Karma,
yeah I see like 30s, I get it. But Karma was them losing to XLG. It's like what?
You miss crashes in chat? I didn't. I responded to this thing.
We will perform at that global level where he was the star player on this
real world sir. We don't see that in quite some
creches creches Austin Roberto but I don't present in recent games in recent
performances. Rance make it to tier one. People are starting to notice. He always shows up
in the biggest games in the biggest moments. That's what we remember. Have you seen a session?
Yeah consistency for me right now. To revisit the map Vita. I have a lot of questions around
We saw G2 in America's, come out, play this Yoru-Kam, I didn't particularly love it, they give it
Tell Crashies to make, lock in and make champs, brother, he can't even keep five players together
They gotta get five players on the team first, and then they'll make it
It would certainly be interesting to watch, I do think that's a better agent on this map, especially Billy against the Cypher team
Yeah, I definitely agree with you Mimi, I think starting on this defense is gonna be a key one for them
one for them we've spoken about how incredible baby Bay has been as a site anchor but but I'm
looking towards boot I've played with four different teammates in six months it's fucked it's actually
fucked it's fucked what's happened to you guys this year like genuinely it is aids what's happened
to you guys this year I don't even have like I can't even criticize you guys because like what how
the fuck are you you guys are just juggling teammates love to see it here and of course I think
that waylays certainly going to be looking to try maybe bring out that wall like try and force a
a little bit of those plays maybe suss out where that sage is going to be
positioned there's a lot of work that g2 need to do in order to crack the egg
that's fun yeah I think as a dive agent the way
lay is a lot stronger right now on a map where a lot of teams are trying to
bring stencils especially into a double sensey comp like this I think it's
quite tough to get value out of that neon there's
few players that are still making it work right now
god is confident on that role before they've made a pivot after that tough
loss but so at foot it's bound to be good all this is gonna be a good
Alright, I'm going to tell you right now, Valin is about to fucking shit on these guys.
Valin is my man of the match before this game starts.
They don't think it's a prime then.
For all the primes that I missed, because I was like, yeah, I'm in common shit.
I'm so sorry, thank you for all your primes and subs.
about DT coming out obviously the nature of the loss now my internet is so asked the ads are
not reloading dude fix the internet i need you to watch these ads the fuck is the point otherwise
kameeco thank you for the five gifts it thank you
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you sorry this is valian's game
bit with this sage couple of seconds until it starts g2 on the defending side of course
foot on the attack and the tone is anything different from the word go gonna find the
first they just double swung and killed jaw for free are we are we serious might be to
go aggressive behind that but I'm paying on the reveal here at least still curious towards
short. Catch a glimpse but no damage done yet. Did they know Trent's here? No, he sucked.
Very early on, isolated. Very easily. Paranoia a little too late there and also catching on
to leaf. What is going on? What is this? Are they going to fight mid or not? I thought
this was supposed to be like a mid fight from G2. Everyone's died one by one. Not a great
example, that's the sort of thing Foot will lap up. I guess the cat guys got blinded to
be fair wait they're going into valine
please leave a oh no bro no way
One has to try to hero this round. He needs to TP in. He needs to get in.
GG.
Yeah, it's just gets removed.
Yeah, and Furt give me up for every single one of these fights.
I know that Furt can play a disciplined game.
We know that they play a very solid game,
but they aren't still Turkish players.
They will be up for every single fight
if you're going to play that game against them.
And for G2, I haven't seen them warm up enough, really.
Even in that first game, the first one to really do anything here
is Baby Bay.
They're picking up where he left.
They did lose HP.
They just wrapped their heal.
G2 system.
But to find four more is a very difficult prospect.
Three on site.
one over toward main.
And the other J is just going to play safety to this.
I mean, he was spotted, but yeah, they
have to come and clear him if they
want to be a little more proactive towards site.
Now the clock going to apply a ton of pressure to baby bait.
Have they want to pistol this event?
No.
Because this one's wraps.
Yeah, the round's out of reach, but baby bait.
He's going for an I. If you see him,
they haven't.
We're headed here.
The grinning assassin waiting.
He's going to do good damage on the way out.
Good start for baby bait.
Bang!
I saw him actually burst out laughing. We got the first kill of Dazoo's way ahead of any of this happening
But his foot to find the pistol
So I was on the board here fairly comfortable in approach
And their consolation at least a little boost of vibes, maybe
Yeah, they were losing to XLG, of course it was Bleak, they would bust 34 and 7th, what
What do you want me to do? Who's smiling there?
Let's light the bomb.
Let's light the bomb.
Valin feeling it, Valin feeling it, hello.
Dude, it's around to simmer yourself
Why the fuck are we not dying the ball?
Are we scared of question marks from the chat?
Okay, Phoenix, Silva, Wayley, all the words B, these guys are doing a B default, probably a B pop, all five are here, I think this is a B rush.
the
one
of the gold
, Jogbo repositioning is insane in the other round
Cat dealt with sociable. Can you give him an option now so healthy behind that as well? And of course some rotations here surely
Okay, I thought he would do it off angle like like when they're running up cat
Does that mean they get punished if maybe G2 wants some info on this? That's what you've got to be careful of
Transwaiting it's 15 seconds of the car. So he's shouldering this now for info
Phoenix is still here. He can flash through the smoke. Fuck.
Oh no, now Phoenix has to go help.
in with the algebra. Brilliant! Push and pull. Sociable striking towards market. Carving
our path. They know Trent is down in the doldrums and the site is theirs. It's composure from
foot. Valon and Baby Bay, they're on the other side of the map. It was a long road and a
long walk back. It's Valin though. It's Valin. With utility for Valon is not too much.
He's paranoid as well. No, this is a good setup dude. They're all playing off each other.
it. You don't have to be.
That's the first key step, can he carve out one more? No, yet a J just ahead on the angle
and stills leaves cross to leave the unknown quantity and time being such an issue now
for baby that he's got to get away the one he knows it as well. Try to do the dance,
try to do the one two step and yet a J.
This guy's dancing.
Bro, he's dancing and being in.
Disco-gobulated Dada.
I don't think I can watch this game.
If you guys are going to be like this,
I don't think that I can watch G2 play anymore.
You guys are ruining the vibes right now.
But it just wasn't it was the execution. I'm not on on my life
I came into this fully ready to support G2 now. They're taking and pausing out round three
They're not making this easy and you guys are making this is very difficult
And that could be the
In condition really if you're looking at that in this moment
You could be kind of threading that through because they've got a lot to fix
But it just feels like they're not able to activate and it's so baffling to me
We know the caliber of this team, and I think there's Mimi who's saying on the desk as well
Our concerns with G210 to kind of pop up a little bit later. You're talking those top three pushes
Yeah, I mean these are the sort of performances where you see them dip out like towards the end
Yes, it's hitting early. Yeah, that's that is a bit of a concern and a backwards trajectory
Now completely that's you know I can get behind
Football fans they might get that one however, this could be far maintain yap. It's obviously that's true football football fans
Have a chance for every single play. I cannot say it time and time again, but it's a clear clear picture to us here
Treating that previous series as an ignition point really something to start it again
And already leaf with a good start. That's a lovely scout to claim Zeus now gone
reset PCF
Finding out for pause would be huge here. It's done a damage, but
Don't shy away from this
Drona will at least know yet to jay
Vice B alone. Omen ready to rotate and they have 3A and it looks like foot is gonna hit A here. Cypher is nowhere near B.
This is a late lurk from Cypher Cat.
This is really good by Leif not peeking this stuff. He dies, they run in.
Yeah.
So he's gone so they have isn't a main smoke. How's he getting shot?
She can you can move
I mean if you can catch somebody especially this time
That wall still there. This is this is a real opportunity
That smoking message just to keep their attention keep them present now. They're going into the exact correct monster
He's got that wall to give them hopefully the way forward. However that TP is now an issue
He's gonna see the dart to follow. He knows what's coming 13 seconds
They've made it through the door baby's gotta go big here 10 seconds though
I don't think you really swing this they've done enough to create a safe avenue out towards the B site
That's a fury here as well just in case they need it hands across delete
It's on site. I guess the only yeah
Okay, I can we bend the word this come bobbulated from the chat
Very easy for foot to navigate the map right now
Again a similar situation
Kind of low-hanging fruit, but there were some of the things that just word going right for G2
They took about just one engagement here and there a gunfight. I have to look at the definition of this word
Just a death sentence. Yeah, some of those rounds. I guess the only redeeming factor now is confused
disoriented
They've got the buy behind them now they got baby Vazel they're one away from leased
They have key tools, but without in mind just put them kick up the tempo
So
Throne off kilter audacious here in terms of an opening engagement
Safety on the approach don't do it. Don't say it now ferried through again G2
on that wrap through gap but Leith with a very diligent recheck but social
removing the players it's all really on Leith for now maybe they try to clear the
side he placed it in the smoke they're still doing work G2 not down just
he's getting tense and that time is gonna start ticking they put everything
towards this but frosty Lee could not care less Leith you look good but he is not enough to deny the walk the run the foot is going on
great awareness from Leith even hope for the second player there you can't
They just have to run down the clock. Could you be safe right now great?
See all the way back there. We actually look on down the clock basically pressure from captain's that prevents anybody
Really getting back onto site. This is open and it's just
We're not aware of any need at all
This execute and then the other two players from G2 forced further back onto the site
the
if someone or something has left you not knowing up from down or feeling unsettled you are discombobulated
He's shocked after the way from the checkpoint
Bro is John starts you really gonna have to pause twice in round six
Whatever they could afford
They felt this out and again the reposition here to what's middle together J should be hearing
When there we are that's a star that it feels like they haven't had in a minute
and never have cancelled out here yeah and now we're back down 5v4 disrupted the
stack haven't they look at this instantaneous rotation a little bit of
a gamble here tasks with this he's gonna hear sound cues on the other side but a
total misread from G2 and they look at yet again he's just the insult screen is
zoomed what do you mean it should be good no for G2 I mean yeah yeah no he's
Should we go now?
How much did you bet?
He's putting every every cent on this game.
The most insane part is I know for a fact
Why they all die looking sideways
lose on us. Our ascent is so fucking bad. Just lose ascent and just play the next map.
What is this? Shitty as fuckin' comp. I know for a fact Ryans put all his money on
G-Godfoot winning this.
You don't really want to give away the extras. You don't have like a...
I don't have a jet player. What does Jajima's best duelist? I don't even know. I don't
I don't know anymore. Raise. I don't know anything. It's just raise.
Dude.
They look like...
like scary bad.
the tour is completely
unconsidered
operator in hand now for Joe
they look like they don't know up from down high progressive here I see what
it was having
for me not necessarily the answer the wall up here leave
vintage play here over the top
the soft but
the other two is just wide swinging
all the off angles that be
No way, no way Andre misses this, right? Nah.
two to operate on but are they gonna rotate it feels like it's about how
foot are approaching this who are being quite slippery again you got info on
be there's more than one here but then you just seen an alder on the other side
of the map I mean obviously that's miss click he's like laughing and shit a
slower well considered approach from foot and it looks like someone's to keep
him locked in on this he's got the angle for it too they gotta get around on
board bro they gotta get around on the board no cap to get a bit of a move on
here for
Stop you only sent back
Late a split they can play off time. They're free a here. This is their best chance of winning around they have three a
There's so much delay here. I don't like this 15 seconds singed and
slightly crisp jogger mode gonna spot one towards main the sights not secure here
with a
Finally G2, waking up, patience, perfection, break back in, but first taking way too long.
Okay, they're back.
Like I said, for me, slowing these rounds down isn't necessarily the go-to answer.
Almost like a G2, but footplay into it here.
They're good, they're good, they're good, they're one round at a time, not in a row.
One round at a time.
It's like right now, they know, right, the chicken's up.
Have to make a room for you.
Let's go!
Stop slowly clearing up to some of these angles
I
Mean that is the other side the equation, right? So we don't commit to these opening engagements
But that's a little bit. They're good. They're good now for me
They had a ton of space a ton of time initially to play into
No one broke the fucking guard the advantage in terms of the most basic guard Andre has to break that
I mean see if they do get another opportunity has the players on the server learn the same lesson the coaches felt that they
Got a reward from they have a main and be main
I did go for it. I guess they're just eating the execs at this point
They're playing to just let them exec and then just hold it, which is fine
Getting active on be main as well first time I see a bit of a walkabout towards that baby
They searching a bit deeper here joined by Trent okay, they don't be many more. It's good
Okay, the good thing is
Should be a free kill for Jaws.
Jaws in the right spot.
They're fine.
Oh my god
Already committed, but the off angle, the high angle, it's there for the reward!
Again, foot instantly, troubleshoot, problem solve, and come back in with an answer.
I don't know how the hop shot missed.
I know, it looked like it was...
Did he step? Did he step just before?
I'm looking to you for answers, where's that guy?
I'm looking to the developers for answers, but I don't see him here.
They might have just hidden away.
Send me the replay file.
Yeah, honestly.
Bro, my mods are psychos, they said W Riot.
What kind of hate watch is this?
going down basically what boils out of me.
I mean we kept saying yesterday fine margins versus XLG it's another example.
I think it's just don't go G2's weight.
At some point though we do have to kind of look...
You only get away with that excuse this whole lot.
Yeah exactly so you've got to become more severe in fate here
because Sop is opening things up.
Expectations there for a follow up.
That's two on the entry and the sights now bears.
him with ease but yet a J's been a nuisance even for rotations he's been
catching them I mean this has been a dream attack for foot been given a lot
of freedom and in some of these rounds they are really running away there is
again jaw gets shut down feels almost scripted you could rinse and repeat this
over and over and there's a lot of credit to foot for keeping it so buttoned
up but on the other side the G2 just can't stop it initial adjustment we were
Discussing coming out of that very early time out, by the way.
Christian, just yeah, for the lead.
I mean, it's so impressive, but it has to be more than this.
These little shows of brilliance are not going enough to get the round again.
We've got the ability, we know mechanically they're good.
But at this stage in Masters, it's not enough.
But certainly, we're in their sails now.
And you give a play like so up a couple of confidence boosts certainly
Yeah, to open up some of these rounds
Absolutely not
It's ocean boring. That's J. The ones top of the board here for foot. I don't get it was work horses
I actually don't get
This is like they they have any of these players can step up
Like they're crumbling straight up
Oh, no, I have good ults as well and nobody's playing Indy.
Not one B player.
He's in.
Free B bomb site and no retake ults.
Actually, they have Phoenix ult, never mind.
the new landscape
he vigilant watch the individual predicament yes he is going to be scanned out has to fall away that's not the problem is even if sociable dies here this civil fucks them he altered away
oh my god man
you'll serve this 100%
okay should go to catch
we're in scene to kill feed yes he does okay sociable gonna go down another crashing on the site leap again this time looking far more viable to maybe convert the rounder to before this is essential
They got to win out though. They have to win out here. This has to be an 8-4 half a new and their first pistol win of the tournament
But, again, as much as we look at G2, right, and we know their capability, I need a star
to start shining.
If it's going to be lethal, cool, if it's going to be, I don't care who it is, they
need someone to step up to the plate.
It can't just be a G2.
They need the same for half.
They need the same for half.
They need the same for half.
That needs to result in stability across the team as well.
We said we had a couple of hero rounds here and there, but it's the consistency that really
lacked and here's sitting an A2 deficit this position man from Andre it's huge
I think they're gonna slow peek him you can get one by salt oh
he's dead he's just dead and they thought so by as well no one's gonna all
All good smoke, good smoke my gal, great smoke.
to go in doesn't necessarily force anybody out into a tricky spot
what kind of held here at the first step of this set piece up mid
not too much damage done though do we have the red still for Zeus so
can commit if they want to find an opener sociable might
Just quarter glimpse of your did he?
I'm not sure if you're like a big stuff with them huge
fucking huge hold
Leaf waiting
You clean rounds. I mean yeah, they're good. They're good. They're good. They're good. They're good. They're actually good
It's a heartbeat
G2
side of the stage so she bought out guns
He's got to would need three more 18 seconds
And they're backpedaling away. They're playing with a lot of respect here. They don't want to explain any nonsense
Thank God, that's the case.
8-4, but they need pistol.
The rounds really slipped through their fingers now.
And no, they need to close this out.
Again, 8-4s didn't necessarily suit them yesterday either.
Hope pinned on a prayer.
I
Mean I mean gonna be struggling financially just feeding into Trent here unable to trade this
Really even thought that he's basically the tool Trent's just like usually on point with the Odin
And maybe a chance here for the little theft but nothing else gonna be available to offset this
It's just the res for foot Johnny's around bro, but they have Johnny's around here
fashion a purchase for the final round of the first half but certainly be lacking in some areas
see crostily and yeti suffering under that but on the outside leaf
very passive again very very very passive
i mean it's good they're avoiding getting uh first pick
maybe it's gonna be the second layer to what we well they attempted to do in the previous
he's gonna really careful to get overwhelmed if you're gonna force them deeper
So I thought putting a higher prior and trying to get mid control this time
Still shift of focus back towards three here
Garden they're going garden into Valin and it's a job right off. They're not
It stops ahead of it. He can clear behind this face. Yeah, he's gonna take all of this advice all three six
Oh, you look at it Valin
If I saw three tickets, okay
But I don't think they got really much of a chance if I had to give up sight here
Chance maybe thank you find a kill here hunters fury could change
Landscape here in a retake you have the TP and baby base ultimate as well
The cat big flank chat
It's it's gonna be useless this has to be the goal if you want to get it done get it done
Wait, what do you mean?
Wait, what the f**k is that?
Oh my god.
Dude, they legit?
Yeah, this is like if they look bad they straight up are looking they look bad
Narratively this looks terrible like they came into this tournament with by far the easier side of the bracket in the playoffs
They won Americas got that top seed and now this is what's happening now, bro. This is a collapse
They have to recover this
Beer beer
That's how we won the match.
I mean, it doesn't matter if it's a fun match or a low order match.
It doesn't make any difference for me.
I will play like I usually do.
If I don't win the match, I won't be a champion.
That's why low order doesn't affect me at all.
I will look at the next match.
It's a lovely sentiment to say it doesn't matter upper, lower side, they look fired up today.
They look like they are out of the blood.
I think we saw at the very start of things is kind of held up true in game.
This is bad.
Three rounds for G2.
Yeah, I feel like this is G2 paying the price for the performance they displayed in that
previous series.
I think we have to make much of an adjustment in terms of their game plan, in terms of
their mentality over all that cockiness, the bravado they like to lean heavily into, but
you haven't even got the two main factors of that delivering this half. It's just a very
well considered approach here from, uh, there I say, a really low confidence, like really
low confidence. They're not committing to the fights, they're missing shots they should
never miss, their retakes look off, map control, let's see. On defense they resorted to just
playing passive and eating execs because they were too afraid to fight. It wasn't working,
they kept getting first picks. They weren't able to out in. Oh, not this again. No, don't
get spammed. Holy shit. They saw him. They saw him.
of at least a pixel there but they're gonna carry on leave one sip the damage
can't heal the damage with it but again they're a little bit deeper now no they're gonna fake be and
go away the timing of that yeah you know you gotta make it it's fine it's fine straight up middle now
like you're wrapped towards tree crunch coming in costly he's considered it he's prepared for one
one, but he can't get the rest and so should...
Oh! Oh my God! How's he still alive?
Finally goes down, but he tracks two with him.
He's given the energy a chance here to 1v2,
but maybe they and Trent need this round.
This is gonna kill their team.
If G2 lose this round, it's gonna kill their team.
Their team's dead, and they're gonna have to force by with stingers.
Trent's still healthy, but two sheriffs in their hands.
Trent's still been sharp as well.
These two have been one of the heavier hitting portions
of the G2 squad, so...
It's too good a crossfire. I don't think there's anything the other day can do here unless he instill one bullets one of them
Huge they double peaks or they were trying to beat there
They got their pistol. They got their pistol. So help me God if they get a eco. I'm replaying the clips
Haunted them
I mean just absolutely disregard
For any of the footplayers here sociable put them one one for eight pistols. They got one out of eight pistols
I'm able to find trend though
That's terrifying. Yeah, oh one of seven himself. Well, I guess wait. Yeah, okay, whatever now, right? They get the first starting block
but they've gone for a touch of a stack so if they get echoed here dude I don't
know what the fuck to do they have it's full blocks yeah well he's coming to
that free kills for Andrea should be okay stay alive at least baby base on
this is dad the baby bacon's engine and the crowd's gonna be devastated at the
So should we're gonna find him leave in the rest of G2 try to get away. No, there's no violence. Oh
Dear no no no no no no this can't be how it goes Mike
Nice shot your lands a nice shot. Holy fuck
That was discombobulating before left standing for foot
G2 have to hold on to this
Nice clean. Okay, John's starting to feel himself. That's massive
It's good, that's very very good
Dude if they lost that I don't know what to say I wouldn't
the
real life in terrible of the real is not terrible at all strings of the words of
Alright
Some semblance of vibes the G2 camp alright back for foot
I suspect they need this bonus a
Little bit of B pressure here with the drone and way lay
Yeah, be main control, it's fine, nobody's lost any HP.
They do have to repress to that back though, they can't let Jeff just keep that line.
I don't think Andre has any clue a guy can be to his left, none.
I'm gonna try and sell it in, but they basically give you the attention of three, that felt ambitious at the best of times.
And this is no contingency in that situation.
They are fucking 3A.
No, you're so alive.
Yeah, the wall drops now, and at least we'll open up the possibility, but Zeus gets a kill ahead of the paranoia.
Slow warp goes in, they can't scan out from that, that's the spike kept back.
They have to win this somehow, they have to be able to win this somehow.
Yeah, it's a long road around for right now.
Oh, and at least they can catch it.
Can't hold the site this over they're not even gonna get some on down
I don't think you're hoping I guess believe even picking up towards heaven
Maybe trying to you know puff up the chest a little bit catch one, but I get a feel already here
It's because it took so long 20 seconds
To the fight. It's a firing squad of foot there
flawless coming through this the second they got the rifles Mike. They're having none of it
Yeah, whatever what is with these Chinese team upsetting a team and then the team just dies
I'm over this shit, bro. I leave just get shut down immediately on this peak
Watering at that point this is so few ways
The g2 to recover that trend looking a little baffled
Oh my god, oh my god, they look so lost
Dude.
Dude.
Dude.
Maybe they even prompting what are you guys gonna do?
Trying to allude to the fact that maybe you don't wanna go this way.
Maybe you wanna,
Not many heads left on shoulders after Yedorjay almost massacred the lot of them.
I mean, so unlucky not to actually find this final tag.
10 HP difference.
Sure, find it through the aim punch.
One alive is not good.
One Alive is not good.
Calm the spell hectic man. They have to win this round. G2 lose this round this game over. They have many good ults as well
The buyer just yet still gaps here for G2
Ults time to come online though
Jaw leaf and Trent on the other side social boy and yet to jate
All goes up and be main a little bit of an adjustment here a heavier lean towards the other side of the map and mid
To look into disrespect that initial control found
the
main thing kind of got in
huge entry
OK will leave this kind of useless make this out of flash
Oh my god, what is happening? What is happening? That's a massive kill. What is happening?
It's over. We're getting over. That's over. That's gone. What a retake. So many ults.
But it's 11 now in the hands of foot that's the trademarks all around foot can give you it's so chaotic
to try and pull this the trades were just too quick dude
Just get into the weirdest positions to push it back onto this b-side the trades were so quick the cipher all to help
So much was knowing what the opponent set up is on the put in the post plan
They figured out the guy was in B main essentially just useless
Just keep holding him while everyone else just retakes and they traded so well in the site
Way, I was not even a point in this pause this game this maps gone
They have three guys two guys only two players can buy
Rifle or two, but it's not gonna be much you are looking at and they gave up all their ults. I don't even know if they have any ults left
Ballad baby bait
ults to invest
This is flip smash and leave. I mean these old didn't really net them much
They didn't necessarily guarantee the scale up on that yet. She even finds the response kill there
Where usually like I said, this is always just when conditions for G2 not landing once more at least round by round
Yeah, and it's never free against fur feels like they're so happy to kind of refight. They're happy to pull out
My god, bro. This game wasn't close. This map was not close
They got shut on
G2 had to do it with even less a couple of alts, but not even massive instigators either
Stop a chance. I mean doesn't even need to farm. He's got his blade storm behind this anyway
Hunters fury here for cross to Lee as well TP as noted
I mean, I can safely say this is the worst I've seen them play which is insane to me. I did not know
That this is possible for me too
But I guess it did affect them losing the way they did the DXLG or maybe something happened before that. I don't know
They're so like it's not hesitance, but
Based off those comms
I'm not gonna look too much into it because Andre simply asked like what are you guys going to do?
But usually the comms should be made right away. He's a okay. Let's go be let's go
Just gonna be just gonna be just gonna be just gonna be like instant, you know
There shouldn't be a question of like what are we gonna do here like there's just a small thing
But it just feels very indecisive is all
Like that decision should be very quick
It just doesn't look good nice kill
Love the pressure
Yenorjay is nice though, it's good damage, it's good trade, wait, now we have to run into Yenorjay, oh no, and Ominor is headed, oh no, round over, not a chance, great Uto, great Ominor.
Now I didn't see we've Alan tried to TP to but
Shut down rhinestream, I mean I got even the way to be saying he knows they're playing up
Shut down
It's so late in the day as well
I think that's a goddess to be cancelled
Yes, I thought yesterday was a fluke all down the floor here. I truly believed yesterday with a fluke
I did not think g2 would perform like this again today
Well today, it's way
Okay, we lost xo g because we got overconfident and we're fucking around in terms of how they're playing
Now I'm sitting here, and I'm like are we actually bad. They're just playing a better time, right like a more
High skilled roster I would say
They didn't look super indecisive yesterday, okay lowkey split was bad.
Split is where it began for me, split I was like holy fuck this calling is bad, somehow.
baby bay oh no couldn't quite get the job done in time so yet a jay gets to live for another fight
a set i don't know why i can't remember it i mean 13-4 is bad though you're right
but i don't remember it being this bad i don't know why this looks terrible
ready and still gets them to yet a jay left oh my god
and look how far away baby is what are you meant to do man oh he's gonna get a double
Oh my god. It's disastrous.
Wow.
I- I- I mean, prostiflits though. They're playing insane.
But holy fuck is G2 playing bad right now.
I have never seen so little commitment and like...
balls.
And then I did in the first six rounds out of them.
That first six rounds that I watched, they looked horrendous.
No dude, don't tell me this team is full regressing now.
Like at the very least, yes they haven't won an event, but don't tell me this is like the
heretic situation where this is it, that's it, now it's downhill.
this is a steep fucking drop. At least they were relatively consistent overall in events,
even if they didn't win. But I've never seen them play this bad. I'm not even trying to overreact.
I've never seen them play this poorly as a team. And just start like they literally just gave up
on even playing their game. After they pause, don't give up picks. That's it. So that means
Everyone play passive you've given like that's it GG like you're done. You're not even keeping map control at that point
So there's still heavy heavy favorites for the next two maps. I'm not talking about
Losing it's the way that the game was lost is the way that they played
I don't give a fuck that they lost a map. They can yes, of course, they can still come back and win
It's the way it's happening
They look so off
I mean credit to foot though, they just fuck it. Oh my god, they ran through them
Like, it's not like Flitz making it easy on them, it's not like Flitz is a bad team,
so don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to discredit Flitz's playstyle here.
They are making it annoying for them, but G2 is lacking a lot of awareness right now
in a lot of situations, and they're also not making decisions fast enough.
I don't know, I guess we see.
This is, okay, let's look, no matter what happens, Lotus is their home, dude.
Like their Lotus is almost always solid.
If this also looks terrible, nah, we got a heretics problem here.
This is like, you know what I said, like, heretics had to win in their event when they
were playing really well, and because they missed out on that, they will never get back
to that point.
That's going to be G2 from now on for me.
If they manage to get owned on Lotus as well.
So let's start with this side of the crowd, okay?
Three, two, one, make some noise!
Okay.
It was kind of just the form, I didn't hear you guys at the back, you're a merry guy.
You said yes!
You so spun the stick, but I need to hear your voice too, okay?
Bro, we'll take it to the prime then.
You're not going to let me down, okay?
This side of the room.
And three, two, one, make some noise!
Do you think G2 will ever win?
I literally had them as my favorites to win this event.
And I said, if they lose again,
I'm not putting them as favorites ever again.
But the way they're playing right now,
if they lose two zero to foot,
I genuinely believe they're past their time of winning,
period, as a team.
They might win individually on other teams,
but as a team, it's similar to Heretics.
I don't see them ever winning another tournament.
The season, G2 fans, get past the team.
I will say that they are past their chance to win again,
like to win. Like, I didn't believe that with G2. I do with
heretics, but I didn't believe that with G2. But if they lose
the foot here today, I will believe that.
I don't know. We're in London. It's fine. Everything goes.
We're in international city. Everyone to European teams to
stay here in London. That's what I should say. Make some nice
with that.
I love it. I love the jump. I'm enjoying the sign. Okay. Thank you so much.
Every time, Chot, the reason I've had faith in G2, because every time they at least maintain
a top four world standing, like they put their, they just played the level they've maintained
for the last couple of years has given me that confidence that they'll just, they just
have to break through but this right here this event changes that the way they're
playing though not the results fuck the results it's on split yesterday the
five-man execs that were really obviously read the terrible map control like
the things they were falling back on are not things they've done in the past it
looked bad this is now looking even worse
I honestly don't know because it's a heavy regression at that point. And I feel like of course they're just going to work on it and come back and try again because they're going to dominate America is probably who knows at this point.
I did not realize that G2 had a floor this low. Let's put it that way.
I did not realize that G2 had a floor this low. Let's put it that way
Because of how high their form has been maintaining like battle
top fours constantly good form for him
It's I mean it's it has been such a long time
We haven't been playing ascent because like we have a hundred percent win rate on haven
But it's good to show the ascent as it on form right now. So we're feeling good
That's good. That's good to hear and I was glad with foot with the W on a Turkish map
Oh, yeah, I forgot for a minute with the turkeys a game
On the set. Okay. Be honest. Be honest. Be honest. Okay. I don't care if you hate G2 if you like G2
Can we at least agree? This is the worst we've seen them play decision-making wise map control wise defaults wise defense sides
Everything just looks way worse than it ever has in the last year or two
Like I can actually react to this and be like, okay, they're genuinely playing bad
This is not like a oh, you know 13-11 close
Both teams were really good. You know one team came ahead like it's all good. This is not that a foot is way better than them right now
And one of the highlights for me in that map yeah, it looked really good
I like this pivot out a foot the post funds on attack with this composition also looked really nice later in those round
Whether you hate or love them you have to admit they've maintained an absurd form over the last couple years
This is the worst they've looked to come back after that pistol went, but it was yet a giant two key rounds
They shut it down 24 kills to end it from I'm not gonna sit here and speculate why though because obviously could be anything
There's a billion reasons why a team could just start regressing really allowing G2 to feel comfortable in a lot of those moments
And honestly one of the big things that we were seeing from foot was just Russian
I really like how they wanted to just be in the face of G2 not let them have any kind of face to work with
They took advantage of it
Yeah, I want to go back to the first half because I think Jitsu's read in this one was that they wanted to play quite passive.
They didn't want to go for proactive fights on their defensive side.
And I think their comp honestly looks like it benefits from it when you have a Phoenix in play,
but they were so often playing to hard anchor as execs coming in.
I think the read is that because it's a comp without much exec power,
they relies more on playing the post plant.
You don't want to give them early picks and instead want to play to shut them down as they exec.
But despite that being a solid idea on paper, I think the execution from G2 ended up with them more often having to just fall back, give massive amounts of space, and then Foot is excellent in these post-plant positions.
They were always fighting D, they were always disrupting G2, and they ran away with the attack side. I think off of rounds like this, consistent.
Yeah, and I think the part where I started to get worried when I think about G2 is they struggled against triple sentinel when we think about their game against XLG on Lotus and that's the map that we're heading to next.
So if they've had a quick warm up of playing against that double sentinel, I worry here because of course we're not expecting foot to play that kind of composition coming into Lotus, but I would have thought that they would have learned those kind of lessons playing against those type of compositions.
Yeah, no, there certainly is a lot of work that G2 need to do in order to put themselves in a position to take.
Did they do a JoshRT interview?
What's going on in the G2 camp?
We have the coach standing by the gen.
Oh, shit.
Well, with adaptation needed from the both sides,
JoshRT, where did G2 struggle the most on ascent?
We didn't really play our game.
And I know that's cliche to say, but sometimes we start off
by before.
And we didn't know how to keep it.
We didn't know how to transition on defense.
Obviously, we started off with like, we lost our pistol.
But you can always bring this back with just
first good gun round, the second good gun round, and like we didn't play that right. So it's going to
be really hard when you start that way. I'm glad that the boys called back won our first pistol
of the vet. So the message to the boys was just, hey, we started the momentum now. Let's do it on
our map and then just keep it going. Let that map go behind us right now and just win Lotus.
After you win the pistol on Lotus, that was Josh RT and let's head back into the game,
They have to man a grimoire sense from G2 Josh not really leveling too much more off of that one
But I think it's especially so for jaw guys normally they have to they have to win now. It's fucked
This is the most pressure dude
This is more pressure than having to win against T1 when it was 12 9 or where the fuck the score was
They have to win the amount of fucking shit
They're going to get if they lose today is just beyond anything they've ever had before
foot here not only are they out but I think that's such a massive change in form from expectations
a hundred percent I think we look towards americas for the inspiration of some of the compositions
that are ran on lotus I like what you're mentioning here Mimi for G2 this event would be a failure to
go out at this point and I should get eliminated by foot too yeah dude flits I got nothing but good
things to say about them straight up this team is fucking insane these guys are insane one of their
I'm happy to be wrong about that because I thought they were mid as fuck. I was so wrong.
This is it bro. This is a max pressure for G2.
G2. If they come out of this game, the winners, and get to the 2-1 victory, no matter how it's done,
the back.
It's such a, like, defining moment for this team right now.
Winning this map.
Just from the context of how this event has gone for them.
Shoky thinking it's here one move.
Power, thank you for the front, thank you.
Okie could be the difference between the roster change, I would not even be surprised.
Yeah, this is the map, this is their map.
There's no excuse here.
Zero excuse here.
I need a reason to believe G2, but now I've said foot looking great.
They have a good understanding of the map, but more than that,
they have a lot of things they can fall back on on this map.
This is their most drilled map by far.
So in the mental game down the stage, you can see this looks bad.
There's something wrong, but they look composed as hell.
Again, it can be a little more scary when they're on their feet,
but G2, a little muted.
Now have to bounce back on Lotus.
Let me lead here towards C, initially from foot.
We overstepping the mark just yet, but G2, have the spike.
Headed towards Rubble here.
Yeah, they have a control.
They pressured C at the start as well a little bit.
Set a line in the sand here and just come...
Damn, these guys have committed to this high-low and they will not move from it.
Now, fortunately for G2, not going that way.
G2's at least chosen right.
They're gonna get a post.
Omen's gonna play retake no matter what.
Right.
Wow, good damage, man. Great damage.
So she's both low as well and he's playing on, yeah, he's fucked.
It's a miracle he got one. That's huge for him.
Let that get away with this round crossfully finding three that
Wow
my word
They did everything right they chose right and then just did get the bomb down and all separated didn't even take any fights as a team
They've got some work to do a hunch don't know if they're gonna have the time to do it here need I remind you
This is a lower bracket game. It is do or die situations for these teams
very few chances to recover at this point, so I understand his ground, he doesn't outstay his welcome, but slowly but steadily backing away, energy close enough by if needed, and this time around everyone in the right place here, and you can see they're on the mini map as well, so she's probably going to catch the bait, there's a drop of a smoke and stop getting
I
Position here is about to get an across fire with the other J as well
Yesterday to close the account
Take some of these crucial weapons
Of course, they're just missing one for his old
I'm gonna have the upper hand here to the weaponry book.
Said there's two bulldogs maintained for always a threat.
In rounds like this.
Let's see the gun round.
Let's see the gun round.
Or a bonus round.
Okay, they're gonna make sure Leaf doesn't get to lurk.
He lurks consistently.
Leaf hears all this utile so they speed up.
Uh, is he here?
Is he here or no?
At the very least they're gonna pressure it.
by. So she will see her already. I can do some damage with it. Ideally G2 at least pressure
A rubble a little bit. Okay they want to they want to get rid of the wall if it's there.
Bane out of the thorn. So far so good. Audrey is holding B push. Viper is holding A. So far
so good. And then they walk back A late. It should be the weaker bomb site obviously.
Because they've pressured C for so long and baited out U2.
So well played rounds so far.
And then they're gonna B-splits?
They've had eyes on C this whole time, no one's pushed C.
It's just a B hit. It's a late B hit.
Kat, thank you for the prime.
If they can catch somebody off here with the paranoia ahead of the wall.
Wow, four tags.
Absolutely huge, you're gonna leave the way, but with 18 seconds it's dangerous.
He's alone.
He's all alone and he's surrounded.
Leaf trying to save the day.
The 14 seconds, keep your eyes on that timer.
Oh my god.
He got away.
Oh my god.
8 seconds, 7.
8 seconds, 7.
They need the time on their side.
And look at the positioning from the energy.
Oh, what a kill, Leaf.
What a kill.
And Leaf gonna get all the way.
Holy shit.
it. I mean, certainly didn't look as if that was going to pan out. That's a bonus timing
here on the investment. So much inside actually saved them. I mean, it's a miracle that you're
able to live that long that leaves even get an angle to compliment that real chance here
to converse. Go on and roll it. Yeah. Holy shit. Delivered one by Leaf. Such, what a
good ult from the fade, Christali. Good belief. Great ult, good Utill. He made it so difficult
and allowed his team to actually run in with him. Or allowed his team to go in. And the
the visor wall as well up there.
Wow, these guys are gonna flop.
Aggressive at A and C.
They're aware of this, they're gonna clear the sociable here for sure.
Especially if Yennajai commits.
They're gonna clear...uhh, social buff 100%
Sopp is back at C?
Oh, no.
And Leaf hasn't lurked all the way up A yet.
Because he thought Sopp was here.
Now he's back at A.
They're going B with no one B.
Oh, Leaf.
Oh my god, Leaf. You saved this round. I swear to god you have.
halfway towards the A site is crossed to me once again on patrol
keep to attack site oh my god he is saving them
an X Factor player finding form when it matters
now a 3 V4 leaf just
let off the chain a little let off the leash go and walk about I'm gonna look
deeper towards
stairs should give good information across the way
do not throw this away
I need to pick and G2 just aren't giving it to them.
With paranoia though, that's pretty solid.
That could have been exceptional.
A stopper's trying to there to be essentially an outcome.
And yet, J.Cill alive. Hold on, Leaf.
The man who started it, who wants to end it.
Brilliant again from the man.
An necessity for G2's fight.
Holy fuck man.
Follows up with a 3k here.
G2 keeping foot in check.
If that guy lives that tree and Andre doesn't kill him,
Kill him while full blind?
I think... I think they just lose.
I think G2 just lose.
No way.
No way. No way. No way.
Andre! What a saviour!
Bro, they're getting saved every round by a new player.
They're getting saved every round by a new player.
This guy's gonna be able to pick up a gun though.
Devise wall though.
To be noted very early on here. Well, that's something just to back out my lease goes back turned
What scares me the guy try to double peek him and get shut up
Purely
And the energy leave a baby. They should be solid in this this man does come on some attention
those contacts
Wow get away from it
Flash will play saving that round in my mind. Oh my god. They've been saved every round
They've been saved every round, but they'll take it, they'll take it.
Poor Alts.
the TP for Valin.
Four fucking ults.
Great position to snowball.
If there was any...
If there was ever a round G2 is not allowed to lose, it's this one.
Look at the minimap.
Aggressive from float. They need an entry before these ults come in.
Completely flipping the script.
And G2's completely avoided the entire...
Like every player.
Huge man.
and he's still doing it go on in motion however the trade goes through no no no no no no no oh my god
he got the timing we've got the god timings well played one single holy shit he's gonna call
them back a though I threw two sides of this map now issues galore for foot oh it's beautiful what
he's done they have to look for him now he has two people like just pinned on him and Jesus is
waiting this is how this is normal play from them
keep foot on guard towards eight and do they try and dig leaf out or just
they're gaming cross to find in something here
it's a very very strange round
without timing here on the wall
should i stop the popped
everyone's not going to find anybody here towards C
look who's still here
the
act of a city, actually saving them
on and so the two
can just let him off the leash in some of these rounds
and since born just let him cook and work with the map
the
state of the four again
, my god
is a pause guarantee solute
a long
they need a time out for they are being dictated to not bring me doesn't get over like
president too much here and I first
business in the second adjustment the calling it's like when we've been right this
just let him go
let him create the opportunities for you
stop contrast is due to have no pause is crazy
no pause here is insane
He's untouchable absolutely untouchable
Do they have any other plans in mind or is this kind of where they end? He's dead. We've just died
Yeah, they'll let you lurk again
It's right in the NA fans like it. So yeah
Still on guard
Still on duty still dead
They'll take that. Good read. I mean, I don't know why he played there when they knew that
he has a fucking Bucky. Of course he's going to sit there. Where else is he going to play?
It's gonna need to land
Couple back-to-back. There's any chance of really stopping horn horn
Nice play
We too finally looking like that. I don't see for myself with a team that we expected to be seen
And so I get carried away though five to nothing to play back with so far
I expect a time out to be pretty soon if I'm honest just to be able to kind of talk through the options
I mean especially with that where they left the A site open they went to explore mid
It's the sort of thing that maybe requires a checking with a coach now
Wow
What that thought, mate?
That's not bad
This guy's gaming
Look at the reveal here
It's so good
It's impossible
It needs to go nuclear
It needs to go!
Where are you going?
Oh my fucking god
The dog water, the dog shit
They're actually dogs
The dogs
They need to start barking because they're fucking dogs
Oh my god
Oh my god
fucking dogs oh my god oh my god oh my god you're not meant to be doing that one do not think
this is over yet oh my goodness i also i also knew this thing that happens
i mean fair play to zoost for it but still
that is all individual fights insane to find this fork eight
balance own smoke did that I'm pretty sure was that not balance smoke G2 is
stopping them I gave him that opportunity choke point was that not his
smoke it wasn't a smoke okay good at least there's not be punished but bring
it within one we'll call a timeout now and I mean probably a time for
celebrations you're actually that probably singing their praises but leave
no rule sort of game plan though it feels like you can you'll get a couple of
those obviously we've seen the capability of foot but it feels like that
Ethos check in that kind of mentality approach of how do we handle leaf on one side big baby Bay on the other?
We're not getting the info even though we are taking space. Oh my god
But just not getting what we need
That could be the start of something for food condition come out of this now some ults to play with on the side of foot
Maybe couple of players are buying hand here do see an operator on the table. I mean still G2 though
Only the showstopper previously invested like said I mean
Job dropping was bad, but he got satcheled off, right?
Someone said, in shock?
Like, he wasn't trying to drop.
Look at the ults, guys. Look at the ults on G2.
Actually, both teams have good ults.
Oh, it's about to be a nightmare of a round.
This is huge from Leaf, though.
This AWP is so unexpected from him.
No one's walking into it. So should we're gonna look to get a little further forwards?
They'd probably be main probably this
There's walking up. Oh, yeah, they're
It's not leaf on a solo endeavor this time and he's not damn all of a charge at all crossfully though
Activity
Wow, this is a good ass old
Unlucky that was a good ass. Oh quick
That's a really, really, really good ult from him.
The damage.
The damage.
He killed one.
He fucking killed two.
Oh, what a legend.
He's making up for it.
Holy shit, Valin, you saved them.
You fucked up last round, but then you saved them.
Oh my god.
What a round, brother.
the end of the round what are these rounds Lauren individuals shining on both sides here
your balance just capitalizing on sj the denial of information here
and runs away with this one oh my god the ball's on this guy beautiful stuff
The ball's on this man
One gun Zeus is the only one with the gun do not lose this round
Stinks they're gonna rush from
Okay, just your reacts see if they can somehow find a way to kill yet a jade before this we take comes in
they could just play this post passive to be honest. It's a good plant for
outside B as well. That's the god plant. They're good. They win, right?
I think they're fine. It's because it's god plant. I feel like they're fine.
Oh my god, they're fine.
Double, they're 30 twice, they're 30 times, 30 twice.
Very good.
I mean this is the sort of thing if they can remove leaf spur on G2 to make one of these reactive
mid-round decisions. I mean, okay look leaf dying he got run down
But I think Valin's got to get one there even if he got one his teammates take care of the rest
Because of the plant just just one though
game maintain this purchase oh my god oh my god huge yeah no no no don't let
him have another hero around try and keep this one in check and this time he
makes it out breathing they're good that they're good now they know all men all
10 as well they don't all men all 10 they are very separated right now so this
is a good pause this is a great pause from g2 to work the map a little bit
Crossedly though, he's curious outside beat
Now they have to wait for miss tacky's miss tacky's number one right here
This guy got away with murder this and that's just good play from Crustalli. I don't even know what to tell you
could read from foot as well look where they're headed they're going to send two towards the
seaside oh my god the reads man this is all about reads at this point
oh my god it's gonna hit
but then he's gonna die they won't think there's a oh good eye no so he's turning his head
that's a good eye it's not like doesn't come in yet a jay wins the round at this point now as he's
so i don't think they thought there was another player there they still don't know you can see
Yeah, look at the mini map social has to clear everything
The way back in here does have a paranoia to play with and he isolates somebody off that
They cannot afford to drop this round though. I mean I want to see them with margins here
If social hits back to back for where he's going they're good
Even if he gets one kill he gets instant rated. No is that smoke that TP, but he wants one early
He wants it before he's what's leaky can't get
to
And if you were doing the same fight, Crustali didn't hit them though.
He's not lucky that the parlor didn't hit them there.
If the prowler is even 0.5 seconds later, it hits one of them
Holy shit, he almost got it. Well done
I
Look at the alts again
Look at the alts on g2 for next round if they can save these alts for this round from this round
Which they should be able to since they have be for free
They get this post plant. They don't have to use any alts to free round
They can get this 8 for half so easily with the alts next round
Cause real issues here in rotation for
It doesn't have a bit if this gets crazy
the
bill take a four considering how they've been playing all day they'll take a four
Gonna find Valon close to Paranoia is good, but the shots are there Valon well handled
Do you see the rest of the balls coming through? Oh, that's a late investment from stop
Shut that down quick. I think she's like fucking
It feels like a formality now, but social we're still gonna do some damage
Get any more
Grounds out of the realms of reality here
I'm not sure what they thought was going to happen now after the old but sociable.
Alright, big round.
Big round, big round, big round, big round.
G2 up to 7 now.
G2 must, must win around here.
Must win.
Fantastic position to be in.
Great isolation here with the paint shelf adjoining.
himself up for success. Overall, GT has obviously been a better team this map. I mean, the foot
has thriftied them twice. Yeah, and one pistol.
to secure a huge advantage here we didn't have given the state of the pistols really
want them to be four up yeah
I think foot would take that one for one any day
Yeah.
Oh, what a kill.
I think G2 have too much of the sight to lose this round.
That was risky from Trent.
Oh, no
They didn't have anyone watching heaven
They didn't have a player watching heaven and they didn't comment
Oh, oh, do you guys think if I didn't say anything there that maybe oh, maybe Trent would have
turned around and looked at heaven.
Oh my bad.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
I mean what reason is there not to look at heaven though?
Okay, whatever, Andre got slid on at door pretty hard killed a trade even if there was a player around there
But you're on your back site. You're only really dangerous spot
the only place
Where they can just win the round easily from is heaven
He was stairs, they probably didn't hear him go heaven.
Even if they don't think there's a player heaven, going up the zip and just sitting at
the heaven spot is already a good angle because you cross fire with your site players when
they run in.
if they retake from main. Heaven is a good spot, no matter whether they're coming from
heaven or not. So I don't understand why there isn't a player from G2 in heaven there. That
makes zero sense to me.
But look, I'm not going to harp on that one thing because they've had a good half. They've
They've had a great half, they got thrifty twice, they lost their soul, and they still
won 7-5.
Great half for G2.
Air dumps, they give it a prime.
They had a hero rounds?
Bobby, you could consider the thrifties hero rounds as well, so fair, but they still good
half overall.
they gained momentum they were able to win rounds cleaner and cleaner like I
said I did they don't give a fuck how they went oh my god he's in a good spot
he's in a good spot to isolate the guy door
are the ones to receive all the attention paint shells paranoia just about everything but
they're still standing strong until then first from foot and the sights all there's simple simple
stuff for foot the pistola gone gone so execute is just lethal again it this is a viper device
here holding this site. Oh, man. That was not how I dreamed it happening, Mike.
A flawless pistol converted here.
Taking the right steps into this lotus or back into this lotus immediately in the second half.
Oh
No, oh this can't be but love this come babu-lissha the first step on the ladder really to run this one back to an even affair
Holy what the laser beam of a grenade
I got an arm to cannon for the A site to open.
It was a stack to start with. Fair enough.
Again, you look at the round, they haven't invested massively into this.
But seeing their resistance thus far, until then, I think the foot has figured it out.
Alright.
could just maybe well yesterday's timing is crucial and just dead so you will get
shut down
eco
yesterday's timing amounts to that thing as well
yeah stop took a load of damage too this is the
electric gear hot
this is this is getting messy stuff here at least
okay I'm not gonna lie this is fine this is kind of fucked
Zeus though does have a phantom that's a really big weapon to bring into this
I
Got in the other way as well. This could be a lifeline for G2
Bring it back. Oh god. Oh, what a tether
Slowing and down buying a couple of seconds. No seconds become
Flash comes in turns it buying more and more time another target, but he drops on this one now down a Zeus
I want me to three to hold on to this
I cannot believe he got away with that holy shit what a lifeline
What a lifeline dude.
It's happening. They can do this.
Oh, they got him. They got his ass. That was the wincon. His speed was the wincon there, what do you tell?
He was looking after and G2 starting to stamp their authority and so these aggressive stall played what played what played all played
Okay
Stabilized earlier looking
Now it's on them to lose
This whole time leaf looking to get right behind this play, but might not even matter
Hostily tucked into tree right now. Yes, Jay
Doesn't have a ton of space clean round. It's clean as it gets not one player will die here
G2 freeze, just have to hold their positions. Round two flip, a flawless to find number
nine. Yeah, this is a big, big cushion now.
All progress really not to know on either side of it cross to Lee dismissing two, but
give me split. Take us the distance here. Finally see shades of this G2 side we've heard
about right the regional masters always look good okay g2 this is in your hands
now this is your best map the most thrilled map you have and you have nine
rounds now you will be this is the one that I would get you back in this will
you choke the door it's an aggressive at least taking space for g2
now put the task has to try and find some space to play into g2 exploring
Where there's a three-man commitment towards C
Define something towards the B site now
Be split they have hypermolio they have to be guys they have to be
It's good Tyler
Oh my god, they killed the one lurker
They killed the one lurker. I don't know why Leaf stayed, why did they just leave?
They said let's play on the site.
Chocomore, what a kill.
What the fuck is he doing? What's happening?
El Bounzo?
Why is he bouncing?
They ground huge round
ABC defaults the pushback trend they open doors
Wow
Letting go of the paranoid of that early is kind of crazy, you know Zeus does have all though
Traded right behind them stops falling traded by everyone is here. It's a good major
Oh my god, yeah, no, no, no, baby. They's very aware Andre
Going on that they've considered this now. Oh my god, they're gonna pinch. They're gonna pinch water. Oh my goodness
Big up on down it's cooked. Oh, it's cooked
Choco chocolate
the
When foot dig their heels in
Michael, what have you done?
That's our obligations as is out of my hands.
Are we actually like was it three for three now?
We are three for three
In the hometown
Wait was their plan really to open TP so when that open TP'd into that smoke was he trying to like get rid of a wall there
So get a jake and later flank that after they hit C which they knew they would take because of the result
Because that is some fucking fire-ass thinking.
How do you say genius in Spanish?
Or Portuguese?
Elfinko!
You guys are stupid!
He's dumb, dumb guys!
So cute!
Elfinko!
You're starting to feel a little bit more like yourselves
That reality check does start to hit at this point because
Again, it's a normal game. Hello. Does that actually that sounds like right
You and you already lost a hand you some of those concerns come back in you get a momentum swing
So I'm a hit for foot at the right time you're peeking at the right time. That's why I'm worried as
I mean the signs already being written. That's a concerning sign here
But they have jogging mode sitting ready with an op, but it's the fire. Oh my god. It is talking about it
I'm gonna hand you what was behind it. I think this is why we are
I mean, he's only up there. You're asking for something. He's up. He's up top. Don't watch the coast room. I promise you
He's around he's on site. He's waving like the Queen to people
King I guess these days
But thank you for your patience if you are playing along at home
Wow, I mean, that's just well played dude
They they they make sure there's no wall at B. They all see
They get the bomb down somehow with four people. They're spamming. I guess two people spamming and
Yetej takes the lurk timing and
Then they pinch water as the post plan that means their post plan was predetermined
Like that's a start to end set round based based off how the opponent would normally move
Credit credit where credit to do that's just a good ass round
I
Elvis thank you for the front. Hey, you guys you too. Leave here. We just lost to XLG one to two
It was a very tough very stressful loss
We made a huge mistake on a set just like gave them so many rounds and then it's just really hard to work with and on
Split, you know, we were barely there
We lost a thrifty and then just kind of crumbled overall just very disappointed with myself
And also I think we're all disappointed
I think that's off. They're just been very entertaining. You're recognized in person in public in general sometimes
He's he's making it work within neon nerves and he's showing everybody wise
You know the new duelist in town and he's just funny like all the little taunts that he does on stage
And so if you can tell is a guy that kind of has like duck lord. Thank you. That's your one man having fun with the game
Thank you
Tech thank you for the prime then. Thank you. Thank you
You don't leave your house when I do
I'll let you guys know if I go to Singapore trust me brother
You guys will know if I'm going anywhere you guys will know
Echoed back to those previous series. What happened to your aim as well as a player
I'm sure the coach is trying to keep you in that mentality. It has to be there somewhere in your mind, right?
Both of these two teams have
necessarily, but maybe wake up calls or maybe just kind of taking away some of that comment
Sure. Yeah, I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't characterize them as upset. Yeah, it's it's massive missteps
So like
Looking odds on favor
Okay, dude
So, I like sitting on the side of the series.
You don't necessarily want to come back into this series now
and see G2.
Abuelo!
Abuelo!
So, don't talk.
Oh, no.
Abuelo.
What is really my answer at all?
And again, as I said, we've put, because I think it's the first time we're going
to see them tested to this degree, with it being put under such high pressure, be it
in the game, out of the game, and then having to kind of keep going forward and kind of
find that momentum.
Because I know a lot of people are talking about even just like a sense being probably
And that was meant to be theirs if you're looking at it and a weird choice maybe from G2 potentially if that's how you want to see it fair play
But what is this tech pause? Give me a fucking break. It's who runs up to
Saying I love you what G2 wants and that's a big mistake, right? That's where leaf or we sort by running away with rounds single-handedly
necessarily had
The opportunity to replicate that success.
Now, I hate to say it, folks.
We are going to be taking a short break.
Just because I have technical problems and to save us yapping away forevermore.
Oh my god.
Can you guys bring me rice and salmon upstairs?
Just a little bit.
We're going to take a short break.
Katie, make me food now.
I'm hungry.
I'll be right back in time.
For a bit, I've made a beverage of your choice.
We're going to take a short break here.
Once everything sorted, I promise you, we'll be right back into things.
How long till this meme dies, you guys think?
I think this is etched in history.
I think this is just like, fucked.
Because the G2 haters never had anything concrete to say to discredit the team, because they
always had good performances.
Till now.
The only thing they could say is they haven't won an international tournament.
But now they have actual fucking ammo, and it's like a 50 cal.
It's not just like some random shot.
They have genuine ammo now.
BRB.
BRB, BRB, BRB, BRB, BRB, BRB, BRB, BRB.
to kind of give us the green light to go once they feel everything is solid here and then we'll get
this one started again so thank you for bearing with us Mike I'm not gonna push you for a prediction
on this but how concerned are you for G2 seeing Alex? Oh you're heavy buddy. El Gato!
Concerns for G2 and I was coming into the series to go to you I mean I had to go in top three. Yep.
Yeah, I mean this is a team that how many times can you just pray that they break the curse, right?
You gotta see he's cross-eyed.
What if he's getting to that stage and nerves or not being able to feel as comfortable as they are.
But you're perfectly.
That's okay.
Yeah, that's okay.
I'm not any more worried about you.
Oh shit, a live up!
Alright.
Terms of dictating the outcome here on Lotus.
No harm no harm.
Appreciate your patience.
We go back in.
If you're just tuning in, it is eight to nine.
The time is not moving.
The time is not moving.
We've full-time detected tech pauses.
We know how this goes.
Another curse on display.
Oh!
Oh!
We've been hit with the double! We've been hit with the double!
I can't take it! Get the Alice Desk back out of here!
Get us a camera up to the close room, they've got to do something for him!
Frankie! Frankie!
Dude!
Jesus, Chip! They're playing rock, paper, scissors on the stage, I'm pretty sure.
I can't see who's up, I can't see who's up, I can't see who's up, I can't see who's up.
It's baby, I think.
Paper.
That always goes to the...
Who's winning?
I can't tell.
There we go.
Oh, we've got a split screen up now.
Oh my god, this is the best segment VCC has ever had
It's not even close
We're used to that as well. Come on. You should know this by now. Oh
Dear me, what's your favorite charm been so far
The baby
This fucker kicked his PC and then proceeds to play a raw paper scissors
Dude, nobody wants the tech pause
Oh cool to action. I think we are just holy fuck imagine taking your PC to play a couple extra
You know just have a little extra time on stage because you know you're out
Who's lost again? It's making things right
That's that is I don't know I'm terrified normally I can find this
What's the camera
No fun allowed
Are you surprising G2 with quite the British contingent of chances though?
No, no you like that. You're not surprised by that. I mean the ENA fans are still plenty of them
Okay, they're ready. I think they're ready
Think they're ready guys
Elimination match. Yeah, it is
Four five or please that
Boring boring
Well technically this is a shoey as well. Oh, I'm down for a shoey
These are quite foul though. We can go down to like primani or something and get me science sorted
I'm all for it. I
Actually have evaded all shoey so far. I didn't even do one in Australia. Have you been Germany's 7-1?
Again doing a shoey now that
That'll be all for
We'll have to do an ID check first.
Who'd they do it to this time?
Yinzu.
Yinzu, we're doing a hard one.
Kurakau?
Absolutely, lad.
Hopefully, we get an update for you guys.
I'll just start to sit down and look it through.
Nah, the game I want to watch is Netherlands Japan.
I don't even know where Kurakau is.
Where is that?
TNV, I think.
TNV, I think.
Kurosawa.
We're having a little guy.
What are you guys doing?
North of Venezuela
Next question, where is Venezuela?
Why do I still see people reclined?
Look, that has always been a concern
As far as kind of took the concern out
I was like, oh, they just chillin' out and like, hmmm
I don't know
Not sure at this point
Not sure
So, okay, take a picture then
Do you still hold foot within your...
On earth? Thank you
Got it
If I was looking at the globe
Yes, it's not even a globe
until the time the moves prod haha
that you see I'm seeing
okay okay okay I'm putting the phone down
alright back to business back to my job the nine to five all right
some odd grind isn't it eight to nine no actual scoreline here
let's see if this is essentially offset some of the
I can't say come stingers G2 stingers if you run this one through with a little
Oh my god, after the tech pause they're definitely not expecting these stingers.
They're pulling everything out of the bag to win this game.
Welp.
Entrado?
Yeah, good job beating that wall.
Great job, actually.
The problem is they're all going from the same spot and look at this.
They have all of heaven.
Let me guess, are they going to keep one there?
Probably.
Obviously, they're going to keep one in heaven.
It's a good spot.
No spawn there if there's a little rough. I can't laugh. No like late heaven player? No later when I'm not.
the entire time.
Can't fall G2, they can't go any quicker here on the flank.
Draugano, Razel, Zeus, one away from Razel.
G2's closer to ult though. They gotta get in this round.
to try and maintain the lead here
oh this is such a big shot
at least control the Lotus
oh they're avoiding it
they're avoiding the up entirely
but then Jha having this line allows them to stack C
they won't be available
easy
easy no smokes
that's bad man
that's losing smokes there it's horrible
not good
not good
uh
look at 90% chance for what just loses rounds
Might just be leaf tested once more
Wait Andre got his kill and by Zoltan for delay
Oh my god, they're walking back though, they're walking back and they're gonna avoid Andre's up entirely
Which means the right flers gonna have to fight these guys
Fade still thinks there's a lurker at a
Okay, the walls should help though, the vise walls should help that V. They got to commit
B a little bit here.
Beautiful man, beautiful work.
I thought they were going to fake B and go C while the other J took a time in C.
That's what I thought they were going to do, but instead they committed B.
7-1?
Harvard-Tatric? Let's fucking go, baby.
Let's then go right there.
I'm back into the stock as old but nothing else available now and talked about G2's
old cycle aligning.
See, Jor and BabyBerry investing, they're still crucial alts.
We have to string together a couple rounds here.
Yes, two.
Oh.
Still the goate.
This is, hopefully just a normal time out, the foot.
I think it is.
Yes.
I believe so.
I want to see the coaches talking.
You know, that's what I want to see.
That's not the coaches, but it's fine.
There's some draw.
And again, it does feel like I want to see more from Jorgamo.
It's when you know the caliber of a player, it always leaves you wanting to see it again.
We'll get him out through.
I think we're going to get him out through.
I'm not doing anything here, but again, those kind of moments...
I feel it.
I feel it in my loins.
Okay, there we are.
We are seeing the coaches kind of checking in.
So it does look as though...
President, thank you for the prime.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So, opportunity for G2 to have a chat as well.
They kept a lot of ults, they've got Viper ults, they've got Fatal ults.
I think G2 can secure.
The fact that they have an AWP on top of these ults, I feel like it's going to be really
hard for Flipp.
They've got to find a way to figure out where this AWP is without losing a player.
First and foremost, this is looking like a fast B-split.
It is a fast B split, and there's 3B.
Oh boy.
I'm going C now.
Leaf is aware though.
Yet a J2 away from By's vaults.
It can get weird if you can get a couple, but I don't think he will.
Oh yeah, this big flank is fucked. This big flank is fucked.
They're gonna make enough noise for him to flank.
It's Raps. This is done.
I mean, Social Bulls is aware of it, but as soon as they start retaking, he's gonna turn and die.
Yeah, he's gonna take his time.
This has gotta be... This has gotta be Raps.
for the push through now. Wow what a kill.
He has to half it.
Oh my god they got two before.
down force valence handed to her a do or die situation why did i spy this immediate valence
like a little too long absolutely beautiful i thought he was gonna insta trade those kills
he's gonna be right there taking their timing as they were retaking but he is the winner there of
the round scraping a bye together this is why there's a time out here for g2 they need to check in
they've got to have a plan in mind now like because they just don't yeah like actually five seconds
too long. Dude, I thought he was gonna walk in off the very first contact. First guy that
dies, he goes, because everyone is looking at those guys. But he took way longer than
I thought he would.
Now effectively looking at conceding number 11, and again with that kind of blip along
the time line at the loss bonus won't align for them depending on what they spend here
a horrendous position to be in here
for g2 yeah terrible and i think that's probably so a couple of rounds ago for almost getting
it they're but no my god they're on a save down g2 we're approaching i didn't even realize the money
situation they're actually on a save now they couldn't capitalize on sops flank quick enough but
there they drew leaf out of the pit that creates an opportunity for next round
potentially calm thank you for the prime thank you calm if they can save some of
these alts and use them next round oh god huge and he gets away so try to be
active in this instigator literally has to use the one with Vandal
Yeah, this is a great round right now for G2. They can't lose this. Oh my gosh, good play.
three baby based on as well
Trigger that will look for other options. Maybe other upgrades that timer is an issue and silver linings don't feel like enough
Dude they given any opportunities in
They were such a good spot. There's another door shot on G2 in this round sociables found in baby
And confused up
And the financial woes continue I mean is only two players sitting north of free Kate
This by is everything 42 operator in hand for Joe
All right, well, last chance.
Off the up, last chance, and they're avoiding Jaw completely this round.
Good thing is Jaw has the line, so they can play three people, two B, two A. They can
avoid the A split, sorry, the B split, and the A hit.
They can flood into A with the Visu-Till and they just shut down B.
Where are you gonna get bodies ahead of this?
There's no one really present on site to do much with it.
They've been tempted, sure.
I'm gonna come down here and make sure no one's lingering on site.
Actually, Zeus got him back in the game.
Huge fucking kill, dude.
And a shot from the train, then life's killed in the veins of G2.
Oh my god. Oh my god. They're aware.
They're aware! They're aware of the zip!
Oh my god, this 2v4 would be absolutely criminal, by the way.
Jog'emote!
Okay, Jog'emote's far. I thought he was plank.
Oh my god, they're gonna try to go B right into Jaws hands.
Jaws has all of B. It's over. It's over. It's over.
They're trying to go B. It's over.
He gets one minimum. One in lives.
Easy.
This guy has to 1v4. He literally has to 1v4.
Legit impossible.
He's the first couple cleanly hit and they're stacked up all
Trying to maybe divide this site in a new way
Look how big play from does he get given the first huge good swing
Holy fuck holy fuck
We have a game and four left standing. That's crucial in terms of the reinvestment required
That first kill from Andre, oh my god, and then obviously Trent as well.
Fade ult.
Fade ult Zeus 2 away from results.
stay closer than jaw. I can get weird. This time they're not a... Oh, what a shot! Oh
my god, he's dead. It's okay. And they have C control sort of. Oh my god. This is it.
This is it. It's their game to lose now.
It's actually their game to lose.
3A.
The read is 3A, they're gonna go away.
They've left Leaf C by himself.
They have the perfect read.
The perfect read they have.
No way they read this Hilo. It's not a chance. Oh my god. Oh my god.
Holy shit, guys. Free kills. Easy. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. It's been real. GG. Wrap
What a read. What a fucking read.
But now they have to worry about the Razor. Now they have to worry about the Razor and the Fatal.
if
the spike of the two-shot that they were both of this angle to say, down eight
start feeling like this might be a marathon of a game at 11 to 12 g2 now
one away from taking us to that third map split on the horizon but the pace of not stopping
the foot oh my god right into all this time baby bait in danger swing into it stop gonna take
his life five before my god leave for the kill leave for the kill and he's alive you know they
hear the flank sociable they're clearing him sociables here but it's not just him
He's got support, he's got support.
And they're gonna clear it, clear it!
Fight, fight, fight, bold!
Jogbo's down, balance down and stop, it's standing tall!
This has got OT written all over it now.
29 HP now, looking an impossibility for Lee to clutch this one out.
Bustly will find it.
Overtime found here by Foot.
Another turn of pace that suits them so well, G2.
caught totally off-guard in this round
just when you think you're gonna convert this one the timing for Zeus as well
to get back onto this angle it is beautiful imagine sociable relaying
that information of both players being noted on the plan if you're gonna fucking
clear it just god damn clear it what is this half-assed pussy bitch shit
oh my god
Leafs got to read...
They have to beat the timing.
They have to beat the timing.
They're gonna reset with 4 alive.
I'm gonna go fuck myself.
Not even a little bit of pressure.
Not even a little bit of pressure. The wall is still up at B by the way.
Well, thankfully for them they have the right read or rather have the wrong read.
Not even a single player jiggling eh.
Not even a jiggle.
No one's even close to eh.
Is anyone even close enough to hear the door open at it?
Okay.
Are they gonna take Heaven at least?
Audrey has Heaven.
Here we go!
And it's all on Jogamo! He's desperately trying to!
Everything he got!
Oh my god! The final hurdle!
That was probably better. Nice try, nice try, nice try.
Oh my fuck.
Nearly saw it all as magical moments from Jogamo.
Oh my god.
But it's yet to jake.
What a retake.
What's that? That Utah was insane.
To find the advantage here.
God almighty, he did so well to get to this point.
But as you said, the final boss, the final man, the energy!
On such a key round, if they literally showed...
Okay, I'm glad they showed that reaction right there from Jaws.
If they just showed both teams, like just split screen both teams reactions to that round boss.
Why is it so hard to do that?
Like, I would love to just see both teams, one on top of the other.
in the first heroics in the second hell they did such a big round why wouldn't
we want to see that and it's so close to your top of the board for g2 lots to be
discussed here during this time out you see the amount of pressure the valent
is under yeah
No surprises, but only Dua continues to deliver for this roster.
Can they close out here?
Cover going.
We're not spied on that, forced away by the reveal.
See, very easy to control.
Plant the seed.
They didn't go A.
How easy C was, they think it's an A trap.
They just didn't go A at all, but it's not an A trap.
And now fate is clear today
Nobody's even curious outside C right now
Vice, Ominab B, or C, sorry
Oh god, they're commiting C
Holy fuck, this is it
They haven't even dropped the wall yet
They're just full commiting through the wall
Hold down the floor for G2, Zeus is in here
He's in that place as well, but doesn't show up
Oh my god, they just got bullied out of the bomb site
And bullied
How the fuck are they in there?
I mean, one point down the 29HP there with the paint shell is about to pop
Oh my god, they're there PTSD from the yeti jay lurk
Oh my god, oh my god
My god, what a wall from yeti jay
Christy's low
Oh, it's beautiful retake! It's a beautiful retake!
How did he do the stand? How did this guy die, the next guy?
Oh my god, that one that's happened
Holy fuck, holy fuck, holy fuck
And fire, and fuego
It's a real father's ago. Oh, yeah
It's still pushing
Everybody's gonna be really careful on the other side. Hey again, so the rest of G2 Andre's taking his time
He hears the fate for parlor as well
Good or they're going in no matter what here
Unless they reset back to see they put so much pressure here. Oh my god, and they found where the wall is
What a default this is
This is a great default, but the problem is these guys are rotating out of sea. They're staying see
I'm looking towards B right now. Oh my god
This is so risky brother. This is so risky G2 haven't seen him either
Wait
You left
G2! It took so much to clear this angle and now subs back already on site!
Take a TPL course, he's never wanted this, he's gonna respect it for now.
An advantage.
Oh god, they're gonna spam him.
Oh my god, he's delayed the bomb plant.
He hasn't planted yet.
Nice time.
He's taking a lot of crystal leave of the dog.
Oh god.
It's random
Dude, I cannot believe it John missed his satchel to go up
One of the slump stops, they have to-
Chat, Jha missed his satchel to do the- go up on top of him.
He would have killed him.
And it would have been a 4v4.
Oh no.
Answering right back, number 14 on the board.
No, no, no.
This G2.
Underscrutiny.
There.
For what seems like the hundredth time this map.
go again Trent here early this time
Jorgamo as well Sop's been punished a
couple of times on this push-up
baby take
oh my god social wasn't a god spot
but no one's running into him
That's the thing no one's really running into sociable, but the problem is his teammates never have to look at this angle
The problem for G2
Traits the trades
oh my god we have to check on El Sanko
we lost to China and we lost the foot how is that even possible Casper bro
there's a lot of G2 fans of us watching right now we have the managers are in
here. Oh god. I'm ready to come back to pro play. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'll be the secondary
duelist, bro. You guys need to do-
Brother got run out of the plumber league and now he wants to come back and play these
fucking phenoms. I'll buy the outlaw. I haven't seen us buy an outlaw one fucking time, bro.
Just buy the fucking outlaw and start farming. Like, oh my god, bro. These guys- Foot are
so bad. If you buy an op against Foot, you just win. I watched Chang-Chang op the 12 rounds
in a row they don't use utility but we buy it off we win the round but then we
lose the next time we don't have off and we should lose just buy it off like
oh my god
I don't want to be that guy, but do we just watch the press conference?
Oh my god, Akira, thank you for the five gets it man, thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Wow, I mean congrats to foot dude. Congrats. I got nothing else to say. Congratulations to foot
I'm just going to let him play this very cute selfie, I have to say.
And then we're going to talk about, well, first of all, Essen, the double senti cup.
I never thought I'd see the day that Turkish team wasn't going double-challenged on Essen.
So talk to me about that decision.
Actually, we tried so many comps,
but we just find a good one finally, and it's Sage.
And this is like, so good player,
has really good aim power,
so whatever we give him, he will do it.
Was the Sage also a plan to just slow down G2's attacks?
I guess no, like we didn't see the score, so.
Yeah, you didn't see the score.
I mean, it was a fairly quick opening map.
In the past, Fert has had an issue
with actually closing down the series.
Today you managed to do it to zero.
Is there something about being here in London
that's making you believe in yourselves more and more?
Funds, obviously.
Yeah, it's just funds.
They're just giving so much confidence per win, though,
to, you know, like, they know they can do it
every single time.
It doesn't matter, we are here for ring eyes.
Well, I've been talking to the fans,
and they're quite a lot of people.
Even when they like lose, it's close games, so.
I feel like, when I'm out here meeting them,
I guess what I'm interested in now is, how far do you think foot can go here?
Maybe we can see the finals.
You think the finals? What about the win?
I don't know.
You don't know. Yesterday this is not your first land, but you are playing with four players who've never played a land before.
Top six isn't bad. You guys could go all the way. Would that be the dream?
dream yeah that was our dream and we really want to go for top four because
we did Shanghai top six like on 2024 so we need to do better than top six well
listen there's a good chance if you keep playing like that thank you so much I
mean I just want to congratulate them they're they're insane they're insane
they fully deserve it they played really really well they still have like holes
in their game but like in terms of individual form these guys are
unbelievable. Their retakes were so fucking good versus G2. That cannot be understated. However,
G2 is, they look terrible overall. That Lotus was better. I'll give it to them. I'm not going
to criticize them for Lotus that much. Their Lotus was better. Probably the best map they've played
in this entire tournament. Actually, that Lotus, maybe the initial Lotus as well.
But unfortunately Lotus is the only map in their pool right now.
I don't know what else to say, I mean this is just rough.
They looked better on Lotus without a doubt.
They won most of the gun rounds.
But fuck me dude.
This is just...
They've been 13 forward and 13 sixth on a cent.
I mean, I have to say this is the worst.
Obviously this is the worst they've played.
This is obviously also the worst result they've ever had internationally.
I don't even know, like, this is a heretic situation, repeat.
It's just they're done, I think, I'm sorry, I think they're just done.
I have to just be honest that I don't think this team can win anymore, that I truly believed
that when they were placing top fours and shit, all it took in my head, I was like,
they just need to break through, they just need to break through, they just need to break through.
That's it. But now that I've seen this, it's like,
I can't imagine this helps the mental at all for the players. I feel like this is just,
they'll win somewhere else, they can't win here. That's my personal, obviously I can just be wrong,
but that's what I think. I think it's the same thing as Heretics. I think both, both those teams
can't win.
individually the players can maybe go somewhere else and win though, but I don't think these
cores can win together.
Just like I say, it's been an emotional roller coaster because like after EDG game, we had
to like we went through some difficulties and then we had to kind of stay awake for hours
and hours to prep G2.
Like the map pool shifted because we have been playing parallel fracture haven all games
so far.
As individuals they're all cracked I agree.
We showed we're not a single map team right and yeah we struggled and lost us but I think
I'm quite satisfied with our map pool.
Yeah, awesome.
I kind of want to ask you as well.
Is finishing number one doesn't help now because honestly, you might be low key, right?
Honestly, I think it would help for them to play group stages at this point.
They need to start throwing throwing regionals.
They don't need any more regional titles. Just fucking start tossing.
Split two, they should not even attempt to win it once they get in that grand final.
Just let the opponent have it. Play the groups.
Who cares?
Holy fuck.
Literally everything was handed to them on a silver platter.
Everything.
They got free spot into playoffs by winning regionals.
They got to play XLG first by pure luck and their next opponent, had they won, would
have been what, EDG?
They would have to play two Chinese teams.
What many considered the worst region going into this event.
Everything was ready for them to make it to the upper final
They could not think they could not have dreamt up a better group like if you told them when they won regional the next day
If you had said to them, you know, did you see the playoff brackets are already out?
The groups are done and this is gonna be who you play they would have celebrated all they would have party
They would have gone to the club
With with that group with what they had to deal with in that bracket and they lost
Our final six that are left in the running. That's crazy. That's genuinely that's crazy.
That this is where they are. They're out. They're out. They're actually out.
These two teams, I don't think can win with their current course at Masters or Champs.
anymore. I don't believe anymore.
Can you send me the link to the press conference mods, please?
I'm not clicking your guys's links cuz I'm scared. I'm gonna get Rick rolled. I don't
want to get Rick rolled anymore. I'm tired of this shit.
Thank you.
Wow.
What insane results this event.
Heretics are out, G2 are out.
There's out.
That's it.
They just go home.
That's insane.
What are we saying to me?
What do we think? I need you two fans in the chat. What do you guys think?
Do you guys think this team can win a tournament?
I understand that right now they didn't but like I'm saying
Without any roster changes, with nothing done, do you think you're going to turn it?
A regional tournament, yeah.
Still don't know, man. I don't know.
I don't even know who you replace.
They may do a coaching change, who knows.
I mean, yeah, they've got O2, so, of course, maybe Bay is a bit inconsistent in his comps
seem indecisive and just brings chaos about.
Well, I mean, that was just one example.
His comps are probably usually good.
I think that's the team currently.
I think something maybe practice is not going well with this team or maybe they're just
getting hella flustered for some random reason and they don't even understand it, but this
is just the way they were playing.
I think was the consequence of whatever is happening during practice or just this specific
event.
I don't know what it is though.
If there's a change, who do you think is in the chopping board?
I think if anything, it would be the coach.
I think that's the only thing they can do that they would think is maybe like not that
crazy of a change, you know?
But I don't know.
I honestly don't know what they do.
I honestly, I don't.
If they can get oxy, maybe, sure, if they can get oxy.
Can they get primmy?
I think they would make a coaching change before a player change.
That's my honest opinion of what I think will happen if they were going to make a change
at all.
Imagine Kaplan is the G2 coach.
I don't understand this baby bait doesn't fit this team.
You guys, like, I don't know what that means, like, before baby, I mean, first of all, he's
playing fine. Secondly, where are you getting for him? Like, that's my question. Like, who
are you replacing him with? Cryo. Yeah. Cryo. Hundred thieves will let Cryo go. That's
what's going to happen. Yes. That's going to happen.
Demon one. There is a world, dude. I don't know. I don't think they make a player change
right away. I think if anything, they will make a coach change if they make any changes.
This is a crazy fucking, I don't know, I don't even know what they do to be honest.
This is crazy though.
Never saw a world where they would get fucking first-rounded, truly I did not.
And apparently neither did they.
If I'm this surprised, I can't even imagine the players.
Here we go, I got a few.
you
you
All right, on a more positive note shot, I was thinking, I was saying this earlier,
If paper X can maintain their form and don't completely fall apart, which is very possible
for any team ever, they have a chance to beat an America's team, a top EMEA team, a top
Chinese team, and then to make the grand final.
That'd be fucking legendary.
I don't know, Ryan, for real?
Do you not think they would make a coach change
before they made a roster change?
Oxi wouldn't be available.
Cryo cells would not be available.
So like, if you're able to get either of those players,
they kind of probably just do it.
Because this is like a regression
on a level of heretics, you know?
Like this is like heretics level of regression.
Where you think like, okay,
They're past ever even thinking about winning with this roster again.
If we can't get Oxy or Primi, we make co-changers in my opinion.
I mean, I just think that's likely to happen at this point.
Because at least they had that aura of, okay, at least we placed top four at every event.
That means we are so close to breaking through.
We just need to make little adjustments.
But now that this has happened, I think there will be a lot of doubt within the team about
certain people or coach or whatever.
These kinds of results just do that.
Speaking from experience, I think I could be a good opera too.
Ryan, you got ran out of the plumber league.
You cannot be a good opera.
got the stream team though next year. Scuba owns you. I know. I retired. That does not
hurt me. We're scuba right now. Oh, we need to coach to the stream team. Hit me up, man.
me up free though or no right for free you got your ping we're gonna get an
org we're doing a shift for free
no let me watch party you ride no Ryan I'm gonna watch party you ride you and
and song, and fucking magazine.
Jimmy.
Get Jimmy on the team though, please Ryan.
That's the one thing you have to do,
is get Jimmy on the team.
I don't actually care about anyone else.
Jimmy, I need on that team.
You guys doing man.
Bro, I need this press conference to go live, man.
I think PaperX would go through same thing, only differences for players of PaperX is literally unreplaceable and respectively best player on their role.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, if this is G2, dude, what heretics have done over the last like, nine to 10 months?
They are unbelievable in comparison to every other team, like the form that they've been able to maintain.
Holy fuck, everyone has fallen off except them.
Everyone.
Wait, did I say heretics? I'm at PaperX. I don't know why I said heretics. The fuck? Sorry, PaperX.
That is what I meant.
Like, how do they have the results that they have every single event?
But, okay, on the real though shot, I will tell you this, okay?
Speaking from a player that's been on a successful team into a team that's declined into nothingness.
When you're playing with players, right, and you have a lot of trust in each other and
you're succeeding, dude, all there is on the team is good vibes and happiness.
But the second a result, I'm not saying every team is the same.
I'm just saying this has been my experience with my teams.
The second there's any kind of.
Bad results, like a bad one, like compared to your expectations of where you should place.
Dude, the vibes changed fucking so significantly, like.
It's. No, not BLG.
We were dead before BLG.
I'm speaking just in general, like the vibes, just the trust, everything.
you second guess everyone and everything.
And it's just human nature, man.
So that's what makes me scared for G2.
I think they will start second, may potentially,
second guessing themselves, second guessing their coaching,
second guessing their game plan, second guessing
everything themselves.
And that's a dark road, man.
True. Everyone's different. PaperX did come back, to be fair. You are right. They could
bring it back by, just in general, a can. But the mental just has to, the trust still
has to be maintained. This is where leadership from the coaches and Valin even has to come
in and be like, look guys, like, yes, it was a bad event, but let's figure it out instead
of doing something drastic or overthinking the situation, you know, because it's not
going to help seeing all those comments of like, oh, this guy should be replaced, this
person should be replaced, look at these results, this thought, if they can somehow
tune all of that out and just kind of trust in each other, then sure, they'll come back.
it. Not everyone can do that. Can I get a link, a balance tweet link? Please? Thanks.
0-2-foot, such a shitty feeling. One by one all the boys get the flu and can't show what
capable of, feels like a go next, see you in Paris for EWC. Amen. They weren't playing
like themselves, so I totally believe this. It's not about excuses. Yeah, I mean, everyone's
gonna say it's an excuse, but they were playing worse than we have ever seen them play, so
I will go ahead and believe this narrative. I have no reason not to. Say what you want.
Say what you want about Cope. I don't care. I've been a player, you have not. I believe
this completely. They cannot possibly play that bad without something happening. I refuse
to believe it. That's like saying us saying we lost to BLG because we were a dead team
as an excuse. You can say it's an excuse, but it's also true. It definitely affected
the way we played on the team. Definitely it affected how we calmed. It affected how
we fucking plate. So I believe that. Oh, shit.
Good evening, everybody. We're joined by G2. We'll begin with questions from the on-site
media and then move to those of you joining us remotely, if you'd like to begin.
Hey guys, first off, sorry for the loss. I know you guys had very high expectations
at international tournaments and unfortunately you guys didn't do quite well this time, but I just
wanted to ask you guys, are there any takeaways that you can take from this loss and apply it to
split two and also for… Yeah, it's just artist's beat on the artist's beat right now.
I think there was a lot of good takeaways. Sometimes, despite our best approach, doing
all the good things, sometimes you don't get the result you want, but this is one of those
tournaments where we learned and we grew. We knew what, like, there's some things that
broke within, I think. The team chemistry, like, in the server was a little bit off.
Our condition, like three of us were like sick back to back to back.
And like, there's some map whole issues we're trying to fix things.
And despite that, we're like, I'm particularly proud of like our improvement from yesterday to today.
And, you know, it's, it's about the small victories here and just trying to have this optimistic approach.
And we're like, we're all pretty exhausted. We've been doing this for a while, right?
But we do have two more tournaments potentially. We got you ever see and then
If we do if we do our jobs right we can get champs, you know and
That's what we're looking forward to so yeah, I mean
This was and this was a tournament where like we could have done more but it is what it is
We live in this reality
We'll do our best for the next ones and sorry that we disappointed y'all, but uh, yeah, we'll do better and
And, um, yeah, it's just like a ball submerged under water. Hopefully this is a thing that just we just pop back up.
We'll bounce back. Thank you so much.
Thank you. We'll take the next question from Kyle.
Hey guys, sorry, I'm a loss of a question for baby. They, so this is your second international term being a mainstay of the roster. And.
One of the reasons why they upright you one was because you kind of help with like the mentality and keep my the fives up.
How do you help the team in those really tough moments where like, say, in map to it in that over time and just not being able to get it done. How do you try to mitigate that manually breathing.
Yeah, like Josh was saying, like a lot of us have been dealing with sickness. I was the first to get sick.
And I kind of like, I'm like, 90%.
But like you could just tell even like while we were talking in the first game like everyone just felt like we were just dead
Like the comms like we weren't like tilted or anything like that, but it was just like
Like we're trying our best to like give the energy
it's just not hitting like it normally would like if we were all on a percent and
I think even on the second map like we were still giving it our all and
It just didn't go our way
But we we tried the whole time like everyone. I mean Jake was
This guy's literally sniffling the whole time today.
He looks at me in the morning and he's like,
I'm ready to play and his eyes are like teared up.
But he really gave it his all.
So I'm really proud of him because especially
on the second map, he was giving so much energy.
I know that's probably so hard because he's really
going through the ring right now too.
Thank you.
Hello, guys.
First, so sorry for the lose.
Yeah, really thought so is today.
Beyond the tactics and the results,
the question is for Josh.
What are you the most proud of, of the guys, of the team?
Your chat is super harsh towards you.
Yeah, I know.
Just how we rallied after that.
Because it fits their narrative of them being bad.
Honestly, terrible loss yesterday.
I mean, we tried our best to prep.
And in that one day turnaround, we were all,
it feels good to be in a room where everybody's
super committed on one goal.
Just got to beat foot tomorrow.
Let's just rest and recover the game plan.
Let's all do this together.
And despite the issues that we had in the server,
and honestly, it's all muted.
I couldn't fix it all.
We did our best, I think, and I can only
be happy about that.
OK, thanks.
You also know they played bad?
Yeah, I said that.
Hello, Sierra, Zoby Freelance, and Sport Commentator
in North America, first off.
Without a doubt, the worst they've ever played.
as Christian can go to one of three people, Val and Trent or Josh. As you know, VCT
America's stage two allows VCL teams to earn their way to playoffs via the play-in stage.
Giving your background as the guard, an ascended team who made a global their first year,
are there any teams in VCL, NA, Latin or Brazil that you could see beating current
VCT America's teams for a spot in playoffs where you'd likely be meeting them?
now. You got a trend, Patrick. I would probably say M80 just because like they have a mix
of like young Challengers players but also experience like in the coaching staff and
with this know and those players that like been around so Alexander so like I think they
have a chance like if they get on a stage with pressure like they've tried logged off although
their teams are really young maybe they don't have the experience to like travel and do well like
that um but m80 i think has it maybe maybe shop before i mean bro look i'll accept the excuse
that they were sick because there's no way they're capable of playing this bad otherwise i'm sorry
I have to accept the next question from rubbish.
Thank you, everybody.
I don't talk to you for y'all today.
I just want to just get a bit more, especially from for Val and Jake,
you mentioned about the sickness, right?
I know Andre kind of talked a bit about just how much
it's been affected you guys and how you and you mentioned how it's kind of
like spread once a once a one.
I just want to understand a bit more.
So like what happened was just like something like somebody sneeze was like
I'd go through just did just the whole team man like it seems like it's because it seems pretty rough real
How did everyone get sick? Yeah, I mean with how much we talk about it. It just sounds like you know excuses
And I feel like our team we try not to like
You know we explain yourselves a bigger deal than it is
But like one by one like Andre gets sick then they and then me like it's not like it's one or two people at the same time and then
and everyone fixes it, you know?
And like, for us, we've tried to make this year
like the year of traveling well, bringing in Robert.
And like, we try so hard to get good sleep,
go to the gym, get sunlight, sleep at consistent times.
Like we do, we try so hard to get ourselves
in proper condition and like,
at the second chance of the year,
it just feels like there's an uphill battle
and we can really place our potential
or practice our potential either.
So, yeah, I mean, without going into too much detail,
it just kind of sucks like, I don't know,
the London weather is, I don't know.
I'm like, just go next, yeah.
Hey, fair enough, man.
You're right.
Just quick follow-up as well,
to get a bit more context from Josh as well, right?
I imagine with all these kind of just,
he can see things that happen,
especially with the guys kind of going through it, right?
I imagine practice must have been a struggle
to us when we get a bit more context on that
how you guys maxed the persevere past all these days of kind of dealing with a bunch of different adversaries one by one by one.
Yeah, I mean, keep in mind, like this probably some other teams like deal with this too. It's not like, oh, it's just woes us. But.
Funny enough, like in this camp, we really don't like publicly tell our excuse, not really excuses, but like the things that affect us, given that people are perceived as excuses. But.
Guys, we don't say a lot of stuff just because we think that's the best way to approach it, plus it doesn't tell other teams what's going on for us.
I'll give you an example. I don't mind saying this now because our view has changed a little bit.
In Santiago, Trent was super, super sick. He got cleared.
And then that was when the one game against Purex,
where he like whiffed against the Isoalt,
like coming out, it's like, bro,
like he was just coming out of like,
just got cleared, he was just super dead.
No tweet, no nothing, they're not mentioning anything.
We're like, all right, it is what it is, we move on,
like all right, Purex, they beat us again,
you know, we'll focus on next.
And we're all about going next, going next, going next.
I can go on and on, there's a lot more that I'm not saying,
but you know, like here in this camp,
We try our best and we try to give no excuses.
We just want to inform you guys, like, man,
this was tough for us.
Our scrim win rate was, like, 51%, which is abysmal, by the way,
in our standards.
We usually get 70%, 80%.
Marginal margins, like, plus 9%.
That means we're barely winning our scrims, which
is, like, way below our standard.
Again, we had a lot of issues.
Like, we're not converting any of our 3B3s, 3B4s, post plans.
We got, we lost, like, 4B2.
We're getting clutched on.
And that's just, like, desync errors.
like we're not understanding situationally like in this pro game like if you miss a
second or two and like you're not processing information like where's the guy oh shoot
he's in hell and uh was it happy way want me to like actually there was a guy lying sometimes
right that's what's happening and that's our fault you know like we should have done better
honestly and it's you know it's on me in in the sense like uh i didn't have enough like let's
Let's say it's like safeguards in the way.
You guys are stupid, bro.
You guys are legit stupid.
But yeah, we'll do our best the next time.
Again, sorry to disappoint all of y'all.
This guy said, you know they're like,
when they start bringing out statistics,
no one can prove.
I just wanted this.
I appreciate it, guys.
Thank you.
And what's up all you guys?
Did you just take care?
How was it?
Josh, you touched on this a little bit,
But what are the next few weeks look like with EWC coming around?
What's the team schedule kind of like coming out of this event going into the next one?
And then stage two.
I just told the boys like, hey, you guys look exhausted.
Let's take a break.
Let's enjoy London a little bit.
Let's, let's watch the games, you know, or like explore to say a little bit.
And, and then after that, we're going to go right back into it.
Hopefully rejuvenated, ready to go.
We'll boot camp and we'll just stay, stay in Europe.
the ravish you should have been like second question okay but like how did
everybody gets the same question the second time follow-up question how
though what kind of sickness and witches did you guys all the doctors know
journalists in the Americas region is it can you prove it over here it's gonna go
to a bit towards Josh I said I want to ask some of G2's best performances come
from starting in the Swiss stage getting some time and then going to play
Do you think the team is just better starting from there and being able to build up momentum
versus just starting in playoff?
That's a good question.
We're like, we do need the stage experience just to get the ball rolling.
We need momentum.
We ran into two hot, very hot teams.
They're very confident.
And so when we were like little, we're a little shaky, so it would have been nice to get like
a win under our belt.
Fake call!
Yeah, I mean, we did get a buy into playoff.
You're dumb. You're actually dumb.
And then one more real quick. Just touching on what you talked about staying in the earth for a little bit.
Just kind of like anybody. Is there anything you're looking forward to doing after your time?
Just to relax, to do what you guys are here?
I don't know. I'm pretty boring as a person, so that's more all on these guys.
We're sick. Can I even do it again?
Maybe some shots will take the sickness.
He takes some shots to take the sickness in it.
We can hope, right?
We can hope.
I don't think you guys, good luck in your next games.
Look, dude, there is literally, they know how you're going
to perceive them saying they're sick.
But they're still being transparent about it.
There's no way for me to lose two games that you end up
getting kicked in.
I don't know why they would need,
they have high expectations of themselves.
Why would they lie?
I appreciate the.
For what?
But it's hard to.
What would be the reason to lie about this?
I haven't, we didn't win any games here.
Honestly, I think with the more we play
and the more losses we have.
How does that save face
when they know you're gonna see it as an excuse?
How does that save face?
It tries a lot to try to patch up those weaknesses for me
to give me a broader perspective
of what I can do in the server or what I can call.
I feel like sometimes, or some maps, I didn't feel like I had the tools I wanted to fully
showcase that, and our map pool was just not there.
So I hope that in our next event we can polish up our map pool more and I can feel more confident
with any pick teams give us, because right now, if you pick a set, you can't say they
are inherently shit.
Of course they can, dude.
They can literally be like, okay, we are in terrible form right now.
We're making mistakes.
We shouldn't be making.
seems off and we don't really know what's going on and we'll figure it out. They can
of course say that.
But when they're this shitty, like when they look this, when they don't feel like good
at all, they're going to tell you guys they're being upfront and honest.
I think that's like a really nice thing to have under my belt, but I want to strive
for more and try to like do that internationally as well and yeah I want to
try to get the best out of everyone here because that's how you get wins and I
think that's my strength is I just know what people need and hopefully next
event I just we just focus cater to what people need thank you so much thank
you I just don't get it I don't okay if you actually think these are excuses
yes they can be defined as excuses yeah I I sucked because I'm sick but they
know better than anyone how you will react to that information. They're gonna, you're
gonna say it's, it's a, it's a, sorry, it's an excuse. They're making up excuses because
they played like shit. They know that. They also have higher expectations of themselves.
Oh sure.
Today, as I would see like in other matches, but you know, it kind of reminds me of like
just like the old school meta, just like running around, just doing this, doing this thing.
And then obviously Kankang, still like big inspiration. I mean, that guy's been consistent
for so long, I mean, I mean, beat foot for a reason.
And I think, yeah, just having these operators,
you know, these hard off players,
like that's what I'm kind of trying to strive for.
You know, there's a big thing right now in the meta,
like if you can Oden, if you can off,
if you can share, you know, even band it right now,
just mastering the guns and figuring out, you know,
where your best spots are
and figure out what you can do basically with that.
And yeah.
G2, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us.
We'll see you at the next event.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Sex.
I don't know.
They have high expectations of themselves, man.
They're not going to sit here and lie to your face.
They're going to tell you if they don't fucking, if they sucked, they, they're
going to tell you, yeah, we fucking sucked because of X reason.
Right.
But the fuck is the point of lying?
Doesn't do anything for them when they are already going to get shit.
They're going to get shit no matter what the reason was.
If they had not said they were sick and they literally said we were just
because they didn't give a reason.
They just said, yeah, we just played bad.
You guys will find a problem with that as well. I think it's fair to assume that they were sick
They've been maintaining the same form high level form with a high floor for a very long time
Especially internationally or definitely internationally as well. They've been top four every single time
So all of a sudden there's an insane drop off. There has to be a reason
This is an insanely bad result from them. So of course, there's gotta be a fucking weird reason why I believe that they were sick
Yeah, and I believe it's way worse than the normal sickness because
Dude, there's like they're they're all playing that like I believe them the foot
They know how it comes off
But I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt that they're not gonna sit there and fucking lie about that
They have way better excuses they could come up with if there was an excuse
They know the being sick excuse just sounds like a dog should excuse and they're telling you anyway
Cause you like them? I like a lot of teams. I'm just saying how it is. If this was foot,
I would say the same thing. If foot came up and Sop was like, well, I have COVID. I'd
be like, yeah, motherfuckers got COVID. I have no reason to not trust them.
W lawyer.
They weren't sick during the pick reaction.
You're weird.
You're weird.
Look dude, I am inclined to believe that this was a one off.
Sure.
Okay, I'll accept that I guess.
I'll accept it. I mean, if they really did feel like shit, then yeah, I could I could see that in the video in in the game that they were playing.
They played like shite. They played bad. And that's the first time I've ever said G2 has played bad.
Every time I watch them play, they at least maintain a level that is top four minimum in the world. Always.
So, as far as I'm concerned, yeah, they were they felt like shit. If they were playing like that,
There's got to be something like off.
Reassessment of the dead team slash coach swap after knowing they were sick depends on the ESWC result.
Look, they're making a change no matter what if they don't win anything this year.
I don't know what that change is going to be.
Maybe they just keep their team because right now,
Because right now, it's midseason and that's kind of hard to do since there's still people
under contract and things like that.
It's impossible to get the right people that you want to get.
So I don't think they make a change midseason maybe, but they will for sure make a change
if they do not win this year, in my opinion.
Like I would be shocked if they kept the same lineup.
Whether that's a coaching change or a player change, I don't know, but I think they for
sure we'll make a change that's my guy I mean to be fair energy also played at a
level I've never seen them played like I've never seen energy play this bad
either so I think they were just juice though I think that's just an
experience thing they were fucking juiced
That's not an excuse though. I feel like you guys, I don't think it's fair to then be like why the fuck do you think they played that and then they give you a reason why and then you say excuses like it's a reason you can get fucking gassed, you know.
What is the NRG tweet? Link, link, link.
Thanks.
I don't know why they're tweeting that.
I can't even believe they're tweeting that.
That's I guess that's balls
One g2 beats them every time they play against them and to energy lost before g2 did we talking about
Exhaustion being the reason it puts teams like Astralis into such a higher echelon,
how are teams going to achieve that in this game? Well, PaperX already is achieving it.
PaperX is one of like, I think they're one of one when it comes to how consistent they've
been throughout their entire tenure. They've had very few bad periods and they've mostly
had good periods in this video game. You know, that's why consistency is what I claimed
When I say, if a player is good or not, if a team is good or not, I think consistency.
Because so many factors go into how, like, if you can maintain a certain level.
That's why I was giving G2 so much praise, because they consistently maintain top 4s.
You know?
Ten year.
What the fuck do you want me to- Okay.
Okay, clowns. All right, who are we rating guys? Tomorrow is banger matches, by the way.
This is a day you do not want to miss. You might want to miss this, but this one is definitely
not missable. Who are we rating? Rosa again? I'm like the rating the same person twice
the
already rated
Okay, fine. It's seen it is
All right, love you guys. I'm gonna go watch the world cup game. Netherlands, Japan. I will see you guys tomorrow
Thanks for all the subs. I actually didn't think as many subs today. Sorry about that. I missed a lot of them
So apologies, but thank you. Thank you for all the subs. Thanks for all the follows appreciate all of you
I can't believe you two's out, but it would it be
Paper X tomorrow guys. I'll see you guys then. Peace