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Welcome Siege fans to the first episode of the legendary tales of the Six Invitational.
The Crown and the King.
Every era of siege gives birth to battles that outgrow the scoreboard.
Stories not told in numbers, but in memory.
This is one of them.
From Europe and Mena, two powers rose above the rest.
Two banners destined to cross again and again and again.
G2 Esports, world champions,
already etched into history.
Team Falcons once denied the crown, now reborn.
In the first act, the balance was clear.
G2, they dictated the rhythm.
They moved like a force that knew victory.
because they'd already tasted it.
Discipline, precision, the calm of those who
carry a title and expect another.
But legends are not written by comfort.
They are written by those who rise from the shadows.
Stage two, Munich, the EML final.
Falkens answered but not with words, with authority,
at the heart of this rivalry, a name already whispered in prophecy.
Sheikah, Sheikah, a legend forged in rowing and relentless precision.
And across from him, King, not yet crowned, stomping, supported by a role ruler by peasants.
This is his first invitation, no past trophies to defend, only a future waiting
to be claimed, but wars are not won by a fire alone. They're shaped by minds like Alamo,
a commander who fights on the front line, calling, bragging, winning. Already crowned,
already proven, and Likafak, a strategist, strong, structured, a builder of systems where others
shine. G2, Vulcans, different philosophies, but the same ambition, proof that neither stands above
the other. Yet, at the Six Invitational, there are no rematches of the past, only chapters waiting
to be written. And this year, you don't play to win. You play to make history.
Our window is closing. We only get one shot at this.
It is midweek madness here at the Six Invitational 20-26, Wednesday I feel is the most important
of group stages because we've got precedents set from day one and day two but now everything
unfolds in front of us, teams go home, potentially and teams may qualify, Jens, I'm going to go
with you first, Alex, because he's pissed me off this morning, how are you doing?
I'm feeling great. I'm refreshed. I'm revitalized ready to get yet another day here at the six invitation will go
Yeah, I'm excited. We've had amazing games so far and you're right
I think this is going to be the pinnacle where teams starts to make a run
Towards getting a most amount of points teams still at the bottom. You still have no hair
So it's just one of those things where one campaign that cannot be conquered. You know what you know what that's so fair
But still look like be even no matter how hard you try you look like Baltimore. Well, okay
I'm not reading this battle, I'm versing two North Americans, let's have a look at the standings.
I'm gonna have to cook something up in the back of my head, lax it's on you mate.
I mean honestly, there's been quite a shock to some of these groups.
I mean we talked about the group of death, we weren't sure who was going to be at the top, who was going to be at the bottom.
Sure enough G2 is currently at the bottom, no points.
It's crazy to think that, but D plus Kia, their game versus the rebellion yesterday.
Being able to achieve that win, putting them sitting at the top.
I mean you really can't predict any of these games at this point the level and prestige of this event really is being showcased
With every single team here and where they lie. Yeah, you would have never been able to predict anything
I mean weibo being at the top of the charts for them
They've had an uproar throughout the start of this stage so far
So it's amazing to see all of these new teams also transcending and playing against some of the old teams that have had their own trophies
What's really important to note is teams can qualify teams can also be
eliminated
elevate are actually in a really awful spot right now. They have
Furia in their opening match if they lose O2 and wild card going to win one single map
elevates future the
2026
Invitational are done and dusted but of course we're talking about a lot of things that have happened over the last couple of days
How about we show you what happened yesterday?
I
I love those recaps. It really goes to show the emotions that people run through from
You see the lows of a team like Daystar, a high of the teams like wild card, everything starts to find its place just like we are right now in the panorama.
We kickstart with the monster and this is a monster that has been here for an eon now and I think rightfully so.
Yeah, I think Ace said it, you know, candidly with the raw aim, with the constant precision, it has to be Shaco.
to be Shaiko. I mean, in their yesterday's game versus Elevate, it was an absolute tear.
I mean, he was getting multi-frags. He was able to pull out rounds that you weren't going
to think are possible, but that rounds that come out of Shaiko, they are always going
to be possible.
But a key thing to take away from this is this is the Shaiko that Falcons need to be
having very early on to propel them into the playoffs, to propel them even further into
a main stage to a grand final appearance and to hopefully solidify their name as a sixth
in the national champion where they are so desperately and hungry for but again the painter the paint is being I mean
Oh my god
The art is being painted by psycho's performance here today
I mean if anybody's in the spearhead for this team
You they always look to psycho and seeing him show up earlier in the tournament is better than not seeing a show at all
As you were stumbling that I looked at you and just figured out that you kind of like a homeless harry potter
That kind of came to me as you were stumbling through that, you know, I don't know where some ball more of that
Yeah, yeah, that's that's totally fair. Let's look at the moment and this was a very big moment
The entire talent room was up off their feet losing it because I mean what a way to close out a map
I mean the trophy holder Gavin you are gonna expect them to be in a situation like this
You got to pay attention to the time
This was able to close out map one for M80 versus NIP and he's put in a terrible situation
Where he ends up in a 1v2 with no time on the clock no diffuser in his hand
He knows he has to make something happen. He runs in to a 2v1 scenario, but there's one player upstairs and look at the time
He gets the first kill and then sees Bullets Rogue top and gets the kill and immediately
What's the first thing he's gonna do reach for Fabian's kid?
That's real teamwork right there. That's brotherhood. You know you pointed that out in rehearsals, but I couldn't say that I couldn't say it
That's a full that is a full
Yeah, that's the very good one.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Fist real love right there.
Straight to Fabian.
If we could ever get a slow-mo on that,
I'll tell you what, we need to go back and re-watch that.
But speaking of watching, this is one
that you want to keep your eyes on.
It's the must-see of the day, M80 and Waybo.
They're currently the two teams that we went into group A
looking at saying, you are the ones
that we expect to perform the best.
You are the ones that should be fighting for that top place.
Now, I wouldn't necessarily put Waybo in the same category as M80, but by God, they could cause an upset today and maybe rewrite their own history going into this.
Again, we mentioned earlier the elevate and fury a matchup that is kicking off on stream B for the very start of the day, and that's going to be super important.
And of course, I mean, games throughout the day, these ones are the ones that you don't want to miss, but if I'm being completely honest, team heretics right now,
I think they are in a fantastic position, and it's up after this.
All right, it's our first match up of the day here on stream a tin heretics go head
head-to-head with NIP and the context for this matchup that we didn't really
mention at all in the pre-show so far. Team Heretics, if they win at all today,
am I right in saying that? If they win at all today, they qualify through to phase two.
Again, it goes back into what I was talking about early on, that go post is
constantly moving for this team. The fact that they have no pressure on their
shoulders, we heard from Flexi himself in that interview saying,
we don't have any pressure. The fact that we made it here was a surprise to
themselves to say the least, but with each and every single win that they can
accumulate again that goalpost is constantly moving and everything that we've seen from them
is in the right trajectory but they have to stay consistent. Yeah now they're at a crossroads
because we have to look at heretics specifically on day one. We didn't get to see them play
yesterday but if we want to pick apart what they were doing right and where they were going wrong
it really came down to very simplistic. It felt like their brain was active in full charge but
their nervous nerve system was a little shot because when you look at the trades all deaths
It was really, really abysmal, but that being said, it wasn't for nothing.
They're getting plants down.
They have an amazing defensive win rate and again, the clutches,
they have some of the most clutches.
They have amazing players in those situations to be able to win rounds.
That late game is going exactly the way they want it.
But the early game is where they're struggling.
And that's why I say they're at a crossroads.
This is where it's their second opportunity to show themselves.
Can they be able to shake off those nerves?
Can they become the team that start to finish?
Is their brain working at 100 percent capacity?
or will the nerves crumble them?
One of my favorite things about kind of the last couple
of years and the innovations get brought to broadcast
are the interviews that we get pre-match,
Milosh caught up with Skeptik.
Yo, yo, yo, what's up?
Oh, you Skeptik, you good today?
I got a question for you.
Can you talk to me a bit about how kind of
mid-round adaptations happen for you and Team Heretics?
I know this is your first big event as team together
for yourself, invitational is a lot of pressure.
how do you kind of get things together
when they're not going according to plan and around?
I think we just talk as much as we can
about what they're doing and what we can do to react.
And I think the main thing for us is just translating
what we do in scrims to game days,
because in scrims, we're really good at adapting
and just reading what they do,
and then saying, oh, we should do this instead.
So I think just having the confidence
to come in a game day and do it
and not be afraid of the result.
And that's the main thing,
just don't be scared to make a mistake
and then we're good.
What are your thoughts on that, Fox?
I mean, we're kind of breaking this down
a little bit here to take heretics, but does that give you the insight you need?
It does. I do think it paints the picture that they understand what the angle is going to be.
They understand what the direction is going to be, and they figure out when things go wrong,
how to be able to get the diffuser down, how to be able to win the round.
But we want to see it smoother. We want to see them be able to get those kills early on,
not lose those trades so poorly.
I think what I also want to see is obviously they've had a day off.
They've been able to watch NIP. There's a lot of bots on NIP in their previous games.
I mean, look at what other teams and what they were doing to beat them
and then indoctrinate that into your own playstyle
to get ahead of NIP, because like you were saying,
if they get a single win here today,
they propel themselves into playoffs.
Getting ahead of NIP at the moment,
this might be the opportunity to do it.
They go into this 2-0 down.
They lost, sorry, to Waybo and then to N80,
so it has not been the dream start.
However, they have been playing pretty decent opponent.
Yeah, they definitely have.
I mean, it's nothing to take away from NIP.
Sure, it's not the results they want to find themselves in,
but something you have to look at back in Munich
in their group stage.
They would go 0-2 and face their backs against the wall,
all the pressure being applied.
And that's where we would instantly
see that fire lit from underneath them,
where we would see them skyrocket and propel
themselves into an eighth place finish.
Now, I don't want to give them that much leeway.
Given the fact here at the Six Imitational,
you are the best of the best.
You're playing best of threes.
There isn't an excuse for their performance here
that what it's been so far.
So going into today, we need to see something change drastically.
I mean, we have to.
It comes down to the pressure ability.
I mean, NIP has always been that team that crumbles
when things don't go their way.
And you always look to players like fantasy
to lead the team.
But more importantly, you should be looking at the IGL.
Kans, we have to be able to talk about him
in the way he's going to lead his team out of this.
I love that you talk about Kans because we've talked about him
plenty throughout Munich.
We talked about him plenty throughout the SAL.
And these are currently where he's been rated as a player
throughout the entire year.
It hasn't been great to say the least.
And it's not to put the full blame on Kans as a whole,
But being that IGL, also playing the shields, where again,
that region as a whole is not notorious
for their shield players like NA, like e-mail.
But the fact of the matter is he is on that shield role.
And something that I wanted to take away
going into these matches is look at players like FeliPox.
Look at players like just any other IGLs
that are using shields, hot and cold.
How do they play?
How do they pivot?
Because that's where we need to see cons
to be able to do that.
Because using that shield, I mean,
able to utilize that information, that power
to be able to take control.
He can facilitate a mid to late run execute at a far better pace, at a far better style
than what we're currently seeing.
And for me, if we can just see a little more gumption out of his calling, out of his play,
out of his sense of direction, we will then see NIP thrive and possibly make it to a main
stage here at the Six Invitational.
Let's dive straight into it, shall we?
Let's not waste any more time.
Let's have a look at the in that vetoes and figure out where we're going for this series.
I really think that this is the best opportunity for Team Heretics to have at the moment.
They are setting themselves up for success.
Yeah, they're set up pretty well.
I mean, the fact that NIP is picking bank right off the gate, giving Heretics defensive side-star.
I mean, we've seen NIP play bank.
They're not necessarily one of those teams they like it, but it's not one of their better maps
just because of how defensive-sided some of the sites are.
Whereas, Heretics, we talked about how their goal-orientated.
They're able to deny plants and get the case down.
They understand what the angle is going to be.
NIP really, to have a leg in this game,
has to be able to meet them at the gate,
not let them in the building.
Looking into Chalet, I mean, we've only seen
Heretic's play this once throughout their qualifiers.
They did win, but again, it was a scrappy game.
It wasn't super convincing.
And again, they're a brand new team.
They don't have a lot within their map pool.
So the fact that they're allowing this to go through,
they have to make something work here.
Now, I am, in terms of what you're talking about,
being goal-oriented, we have to see on those attacks.
They need to get those opening picks going in their favor.
Then they need to find that mid to late round synergy
so those executes can be flawless.
But ending on that cafe, I can't agree with this.
This is going to heavily favor the side of NIP.
They are currently 9-1 on it.
Cafe isn't a terrible map for heretics.
But again, that serving sample is completely different
because they were playing very early on
into their qualifiers against T2, T3 teams.
And again, you are not going to be exposed
or punished nearly as much
than when you're versing teams of T1 level caliber.
I agree. I think we have to see heretics
take it out on a tour.
Absolutely.
That's, I mean, that's a tough order, a tall order,
I should say considering it is NIP, but big important qualifying matches do require quality level commentators.
Unfortunately, we've found one of them standing by.
Free time.
Hey, I said you guys can figure it out.
Jake Guz, how are we feeling this morning?
I was feeling great, Robin, then you decided to just once again throw us under the bar.
So I don't know why you keep doing it.
We made the comments.
Yeah, it pissed me off.
I'm not familiar with you.
My folks are my favorites.
They're cool.
They're chill guys.
No, my two-tone paint job analysts over here started to piss me off and now I'm taking
it out on you boys.
How are we feeling for this match?
Yeah, feeling good.
I mean, for Heretics, of course, if they can win, then they secure themselves out of
groups, which I think would probably have surprised a lot of people coming into Sixth
Invitation or being an LCKQ team.
For NIP, maybe an opportunity to kind of get their SI going as well.
Yeah.
I mean, I still hold the belief that NIP can lock in.
It's day three.
This is the time, as you boys said on the desk, right?
basically do or die at this point. There's no more time to warm up. Now's the time to
show us what you've got.
Production yelling at me to shut you two up. So, boys, we'll leave it in your somewhat
capable hands.
I can't shut up.
We've got to talk now.
We've got to talk now. If we were just kind of like, shut it go, it would be like a bit
boring. But I think a good way to start the day. You've got a qualification team in Heretics
if they can win. They've only actually played the one series funnily enough. And then for
NIP, as I said before, an opportunity goes to kind of get their ass eye rolling.
Yeah, I came for this match up and I'd be firm favorites though
Just like a slower start to this event that being said they had some quality
Opposition before this much. Let's see. Well, let's go. Let's get underway. It's bank for the opening map of this series
Well, let's rise and shine here this lovely morning. Paris is looking beautiful and we
had to bank though. It's heretics. It's NIP. Heretics with the opportunity to secure themselves
a place in playoffs for NIP. But they look a little bit better against their matey and
I think that they will take that confidence coming into this match up and feel as if that
they should be favorites as per social prediction. Nevertheless, it's never that easy and for
The heretics, they're all coming into this entire event, playing with free money.
Yeah, absolutely. And that pressure fact that probably cannot be understated, there'll
be an element of it for heretics in the sense that they are now so tantalizingly close to
making it through to the next phase. But NIP said there was the expectation to really
fly the flag for the LATAM region at this event, following the footsteps of so many
great teams before them. As for the bands, we did see them play out as a quick recap.
Monty, Glaz, Azami, Mira, so very standard bands, Glaz gets doubled in a little bit on
this particular map given his strengths, especially top and bottom floors, but standard
outside of that, and probably a follow-on from the map Vito itself, which again dipping
into very standard maps.
Now unfortunately I do believe we maybe, okay I thought we were under the impression
we needed the tech floors, we did some technical gremlins, but it seems like that is not the
case and we can jump straight into the action of the basement for this opening
and I did like the other guys, I suppose it has been fixed, they were preparing me for it, it doesn't even happen.
Yeah I mean Heretics is going to be the team that I'm very more curious about in this matchup
because the expectation really should be for MIP, good opportunity, get inside back into things
and from there then kind of get underway this event. They have not really been awful by any
stretch of the imagination, competitive against N80 but it should be the favorite term. What I want
to kind of see them from energy in his first half on the attack trying to get into the building,
trying to take these gunfights, trying to get into the face of Heretics. The Heretics have
been playing really, really well so far, and they of course only beat Fear X, but they beat them
pretty convincingly. I'll see if they can back it up here. They did have yesterday off, and there
are benefits from having the day off. The I Heretics, the NRP has played two different series,
Heretics just the one, and funnily enough Heretics off that one, now win this and they can get out
out of groups. If we pop down clear here from NIP at a full belt of utility, essentially
available for a lot of portion of this round. Key players, like the Kino and Wiz, the belt
of utility that they come to town and the Yin can provide. The map clear itself has been
rather successful. It's been, of course, peeled by Heretics. Yeah, it's a pretty soft
kind of roam from Heretics, not wanting to engage small time denial up above because
they've gotten actually the operators to deny from the load. They're not going to play this rather
default. We do look at that lineup that they've got, the smoke for denier, when it comes to the gas
babes, F-not mines, it's more for the entries. Well, the canisters have to be dealt with in clear
and then the Chachanker is the, well, he's the king on the crop when it comes to deny with the
Shamika launch out. 90 seconds left and I'm here, of course, now, no, there's no real contest from
Heretic's upper blast, although I'll get to work, open up the hatches. Don't you cast them to delay a
little bit, but it's not going to really do too much against hate. I think the emphasis for me is
He's going to be probably on fantasy of Wizard.
Now you're playing two operators that are going to really huff the entry.
And it's also that he can win this battle on the World of Blue Stairs against Oscar,
who still has three gas babes.
And with the hatch open, he's not stuck necessarily,
but a lot more difficult to get out of this position.
He likely needs to now commit three gas babes,
needs to juggle this utility appropriately.
60 seconds, he can waste a lot of time.
And that's why the OP pick onto Black Sea.
No more Zoto canisters.
Indeed, it looks like Oscar's going to fully commit to this Blue Stairs hole.
first gas bay of hands bit used, two more in pocket, only 45 seconds remaining.
I have to take in mine cause what kind of utility has he dealt with on site. Nice double drop into
server, fantasy finds the kill with the vent data. Though returning up above for any of the three
defenders for heretics have to stay on site and put a lot of hope into skeptic. Yeah there's a real
lack of plantar on the outside of this Jamaica launcher and I think should be enabled to go deep
here if required. Three candellas look like they're going to get thrown out now by Wizards.
You find another one onto you. Balling apart now for Heretics on what is a very strong
defensive side when it comes to tanks. So Grummit then brought himself off main stairs.
Didn't work. It's flawless from NIP. Often that you see a flawless attacking ground on
lockers and CCTV. That's a great start for the Brazilians.
Yes, one steady winning the race there in that round for the attack. Initially it was
clean force the pill from heretics and then they're able to isolate a couple of ones pre execute
really weak in the plant and I'll potential there for heretics you naturally have the sense
that they need to try and play make and take risk and IP clued in ready for that and shut it down
according that's an interesting way to go about it if you're heretics because they didn't really
do anything wrong they played at default and that in itself might actually be considered wrong when
you get to six invitational the default meta is worked out it is known teams like NIP know how to
to play into, especially locker CCTV, utility Nile, that's it, five down below in basement,
it's common. So that's where if you're heretics, you've got to throw a couple of curveballs
in there somewhere.
Yeah, I mean that kind of kicked started over to what's there for right, we saw a good flow
of smoke and it's enabled from there.
Well so you've got the trend that continues at the course of this effort and now if they
aren't here strong on entry and their conversion is good, what kind of wind conditions can
They look to explore, make an answer to that here, second floor for the second round.
The lineup here from NIP is quite intriguing, the sense in play, you can see what kind of
damage the RAUs can do.
Typically played from repel to cut off some of the lines of sight deep from this particular
objective, they don't facilitate emphasis over the wards.
Most likely, hop-square control here for the entire team.
We know that Kons, who is going to bring a lot of that shield play, is something to consider.
Heretics did not opt to ban shields, we saw on the death lax was bringing it up before about the shield play from NIP.
They're expecting Kons on the Blitzes, on the Blackbeards for instance.
And obviously Monty has been banned down, but he's got two more options and then one of them might then get banned.
This helps facilitate the special enemy might bank a lot of these entry positions.
So in return, then therefore you'll see the likes of the clash being fought out by Heretics Oscar playing that down.
Pressure on Kong though to perform in this matchup, he's been lacking a little bit in numbers so far at this particular event.
Although we know how talented he can be, so if he's able to flick that switch and find some form today, it can be a big difference maker for NIP who have taken that top square control.
And typically plays a bit more on the Black Heat and the Monty, so on the Blitz now as it is available and the Monty is not.
He fought over towards Jettander, knows that they're going to be close by, and to open up the Exothermic.
You know, should be able to get this done on both walls.
They delay a little bit, Headlack's king is out there to see if he can control that, not coming up that quick.
Push, hour of use now, this seems like it should be an execute.
Trading to Jettander, goes Kong's got Flash, hasn't quite been able to get the full kill, but he falls down.
Anyway, only two up right now for Hereticz, three up for NIP, lots of time remaining.
They can slow things down if they wish.
No!
Now for NIP and Skeptic has gone and just found two.
Now making it a two versus two, as Cons is forced to push over to War's Handlock.
He knows he can't make that push across.
He's being watched by Skeptic.
This will allow me to isolate one more.
Oh cons now the one versus one we spoke about him prior to this round
Oh, wow, just misses a little bit slightly
Makes the blitz work a little messy for NIP not how they envisioned I imagine that execute to go
But it's a win there with a little like that not quite a skeptic inside of that smoke
Wow, what a what a risky play to make but
probably required in that particular situation for heretics to find some kind of win-con because they
surrounded and
Equally flooded the site so nicely NIP
But that wildcard play almost was the difference
What the funny thing is for cons not getting that actual chill inside all
Janitor, he's not quite sure that I get down, that I get the clutch, but has he got away?
Just took a little bit of time off there for NIP on the attack, but he's the one that ended up getting the clutch.
Yeah, the 1v2 isolating both, and then just the discipline there in the 1v1, not to rush things though.
There was plenty of time, a difficult fight shoot.
And individually for the comp as well as a player, when you've been kind of struggling to play two different matches now,
Minus 18 on KD, and it's not his role necessarily. He's playing a lot more with the shield ops, but
When you knock his up looking great, he's rated 93rd so far at the event through now heading into day three
So you start three nothing you have a big implant player 1v2. You're making the shield play work
It just kind of gets you going doesn't it so two nothing stuff for nip so far following the script that we probably expected
Carrot takes no full while this is going to be a tough one much more difficult than vrx
And I'll be smack pick as well for clarity so
Expecting the Brazilians to be rather formidable on this opening map is best at the free
And they've had international experience of this
Probably mid year where we finally started to see and I p yeah repeat international events after what felt like
I think I have like a solid gear break from from making international events
That's now finally come to a point that they're becoming breakers again. That's what happens
I'm trying to get gatecaps. Yeah
But that's probably made them extremely hungry to convert these opportunities when they attend overseas events.
Need a response from Heretic Star. I think early... Oh, Heretic Star!
Hello! He heard me! He did indeed hear me!
Needed that response early and around. Get yourself on the front foot.
Manusil does win the battle over towards Main Stairs, but Oscar got quickly back into the fight.
Hates them there too, and it's now down to a 3v3.
Scrappy starts the third round.
Follows with the Vendetta up.
changing back there is actually two players archives and tell us right now
the heretics you pull my headshot onto cons advantage heretics straight
dueling here in the third round and it's heretics now with a narrow advantage
they lose the clash but three two up still a favorable position for them
some denial utility as well skeptic to smokes I think they'll be feeling rather
comfortable now that the tamper on the pacing has slowed down and nip find
themselves trying to reset here. We'll be looking for some information. Hades and
Wizard will be looking to connect the fears of retrieved. No grim bees for the
Guam hive launchers, not ideals. I mean they're kind of lacking a little bit of
utility in the two versus three and on the flip side you've still got Nitro impact
gas bay. Like heretics are pretty well set up, heading into this final 50 seconds
of the round. Like they're gonna make sure that they consolidate. Don't throw
this from here. Half an open area of sight. There is gonna be that one and
Final gas bay from skeptic thrown out to just prevent an early drop a wizard goes anyway
He dropped on in probably with the razor point kill on to hate
Wizard on an island of which he cannot escape from heretics on the board
Yes, the strength of the thorn and full display. I feel like
We were casting back on day one and we're pretty limited on impact
But it's an areas like that where especially in the clutch
Sometimes it can be the background of your mind or perhaps you don't really have the opportunity to actually
Change your aim and even even shoot the device
Well, if it's not finding kills or doing a large amount of damage, it's still just a place action
It's reaction. It's still displacing. It's still utility that needs to be kind of found thought of information because it makes sense
Exactly
We've seen a decent amount of thorn usage so far. Yeah, I mean I actually kind of want to
throw this to you so that I can go and find out how often we've seen thought in
terms of pick rate because I think prior to this event it would have been what
was in that bargain bin towards the bottom like 1% pick rate.
It's Sean Primary as well and Groovy opened up the account for heretics with a really sharp shot onto that lobby rappel.
Stabilization is top 9 and the TDM kind of followed on throughout that round.
That's not mine going up.
There's good resistance in heretics on offer there in the third round.
Two won the scoreline as we enter the second rotation sense and Goryo to take no further part in this part.
So I've got the date off from the first two days at six invitation.
What do you think's pickering?
Ask me to guess that.
Let's have some pap.
She's great with the...
25%?
No, it's 12.4%.
Oh, okay, 25.
To give it a try.
You get contacts, whether they're like the top picked operators or around that 30% mark.
We not.
Uh, the most fit is a smoke at 42%,
187 and then drops to Azami 34, that's at the top.
Sorry, that smoke is very highly picked.
What about presents though?
We've been talking about presents,
because she would be getting banned rather frequently.
Uh, Azami's, it's the same presents for top three.
Right.
Smoke, ace, Azami, cool.
Well, Twitch in play for the fourth round and we're going to see the Shock don't get to work over towards Garage.
Brava also in play, so Clutch Green's available as well.
NIP will be looking to take their time in this round and try to disrupt as much utility as possible.
It's actually darling stack outside Garage, but the BPC here from Heretics can feed information in return
and maybe just challenge this a little bit. NIP may not be comfortable too from there, but Collins does go deep.
This is a gamble from NIP, you've calculated one at that though and if they can at least
boost the playoff here, deep in garage cuts in through site, quite elsewhere though, and
4 vs 4.
NIP are taking good ground though.
I do lose the smoke early in the round on a pivotal site.
Heritage though at the very least, this is how they probably needed to play it, adjusting
on block and CCTV rather than go off the floor, 5 man bunker.
Hopefully there's a lot wrong with that. It's a valid strategy.
I think the good map control is still a decent amount of time in the round.
Double 9s were available for heretics on the defense, so they do still have decent denial, and it does come to that plant going down.
It is though 4 in base, but so no one kind of lurking that first floor and trying to take some control.
This is a commanding position.
Fantasy, this is also very aggressive the way he's just kind of standing out there in garage.
Which it has taken some damage in server by the way. He's the only one over there right now for NIP
Getting some help from cons who's gonna make his way through sewer
So there is a decent split
Away from fantasy three stack now NIP coming through server. They're gonna go default plant
They're gonna then leave fantasy to watch the cross to garage back to self-thrown
No, I'll bet grubby does find the kill onto cons and cons
Goes down copy then comes through from blue Pino then forced to push forward
He knows though that Grubby is in blue stairs, so he has to take this fight.
There is still 30 seconds. Flash, win, he does. 2v2, you've still got fantasy that can make this push out of garage.
Flexi's ready though. Inside a CCTV, deals with Pino.
Fantasy in the 1 vs 2, but hasn't spotted out where Oscar is located.
Now he does take it down to 1 HP, and this should be a heretic's round firing and catastrophe.
Oskar just falls back, allows then the fantasy to push forward, makes it even easier, really well played from heretics and a really solid flank from Grubby.
Yeah, Grubby, the difference maker in that round with the setup that NIP had on Offer, especially fantasy towards garage, it split that defense, it isolated those players into a site, it would have made default denial very, very challenging.
So a successful flank to disrupt that was absolutely perfect and nip lacking a read on that plate over the board to blue
You know tried his best to recover the round and it was a delayed trade
But close in the meantime, he was able to push forward to hit a beautiful wall bang
Fantasy, no HP, no defuser, no chance to win that one out. The scores are drawn to a piece
a good response from heretics because really for nip and the games in the first two rounds
especially taking blocker cctv in a flawless fashion so looking quite dominant and then
go take top floor yes a little bit messy but you're the ones looking to really engage on
that execute top floor we go once again and the lighter this goes on for heretics the
The more confidence they'll build within themselves that we could maybe knock these guys off and if that does happen then I'd be at very high risk of potentially getting grouped which would be a disaster.
Long way to go, best of three.
Sometimes you consider when you're a team that comes to Six Invitational with little to no expectations, you get to just do what you want, you get to just have some fun, there's no pressure.
So the blitz re-enters the discussion here for NIP as we head back to the top floor objective for Heretics.
Some emphasis on execute utility but so I've since been out there to compromise things a little bit.
So I like that target band from Heretics and emphasis on this top floor.
Really looking to make NIP work for an eventual site control when it may change up their initial early round plans as well.
Well, they've been able to garner some really good information,
making the wards of the site itself good drone work.
And there's the back line from NIP with a really solid read now into wards.
This defensive hold.
Maestro in play to note as well here, of course, buffed prior to this event.
So expecting it to be garner information where POTS is.
Oh, Grogly finds the open kill.
They've started to turn that trick around a little bit.
Two of the last three rounds now for heretics.
for heretics, you pull backs up, get through to Wizzip,
they're going through to Kandala, Mo Yin.
Now remaining, the rush for NIP has halted much earlier,
this time in the round.
I'll get both of them for fantasy,
but good catch from Flexi.
Over the water, Archives from below finds the kill
and lose the maestro, now becomes a 2v2.
Again, scrappy on this top floor.
This is a strange fight now with Flexi.
Isolated down below, fancy fantasy rather trying to help,
hey, it's the Flexi's dealt with.
Down to Grubby, over towards Sight, where both Fantasy and Hades are first floor. They'll make their way back up.
The kit, by the way, is in Sight.
So Grubby hasn't really got a lot of maneuvering in terms of how he's going to position.
He'll pretty much just have to play around Sight. Currently inside a long desk, a good drone.
Good drone, good information. There's the kit. 48 seconds, 1v2.
What can Grubby do from here?
Needs to be able to isolate the first, there's the run across, he'll know the other, may look to play behind the door.
Grubby, as he goes for the swing, there is a shield being used by Fantasy, H8's inside the gather there now.
Grubby needs to reposition, reload.
Done well to stay alive here, 30 seconds, then you get shot through the couch.
NIP take the round.
Yeah, common spot, very easy spray down.
The decent game sense in NIP take top floor once again despite the opening kill from Grubby being in the 1v2 position
and I think largely throughout that round it kind of felt like maybe heretics were slightly advantageous
but NIP were able to turn it around and they take the lead once again they go 3-2 up final round of the half coming
Yeah, it took a little while for the Cogs to start turning on the presence that they had on on first floor
that had big investment on the puck and they're able to finally get some value
but the information gathering on the side itself the maester specifically
there for the defense there's quite a few problems despite that though able to
get the round across the line and with that a small lead hitting into the final
half open area as expected can heretics die back to be hidden here in the
preparation phase and I pay not wanting to get that info away.
It's been a pretty even spread performance from the 10 players as well.
You know, there's no one really lagging behind 8-7 and 2.
He leads all comments in terms of the franking department.
But it's been a pretty decent match thus far.
I'll see if it continues that way and I pay definitely with the deserved lead ever so
slightly.
One thing that Heretics have done a little bit better of in the last few rounds though
is playing a bit more aggressive on the defense earlier in the rounds.
Trying to put NIP a little bit more at risk when they enter positions deeper within the
building.
I think that might have been a misstep by the way, it's a Flexi.
Flexi kept himself hidden.
Never mind, he comes back, does get rid of the drone, knows they're on the repel, and
Flaxie call lovely wall bang from fantasy. Yeah
He was committed at that point too high risk to run back
Cross the lapel and a great shut down there from MAP
Quick reaction off of just the drone information and I think if the opening kill once again
So that'll be all from the six rounds in their favor changing my indicating a very strong attacking half
We'll see if they can make it four rounds in total for their tank
That was so good
Just limits now the possibility for heretics to sort of re-aggress Oscar open water. I say that I say that and he might just go for it
We did not see him
God, I thought it's an error. That's a mistake in fantasy. We'll punish
If you're gonna crack that barricade you're gonna stand there you're gonna search for information
You don't find anything initially you are now vulnerable
You are now known you have to then maybe fall back
He opted to stay stay too long got punished and the round falls apart for heretics
That's maybe the kind of play that you would get away with against a lesser opponent where maybe you do hang around and still pluck a kill
I can understand why you're desperate to make the play you're a player down
It's now flipped very very quickly towards a almost
Unloseable round for NIP a five versus two minute on the clock
60 seconds remaining it's the one
saving great potential especially if you can win this battle towards Lone he does
put it onto Pinot this is where you've just got to try and bring this clock
down 2 versus 4 far more manageable when there's a little time remaining in the
round yes he will cancel the deathmark and in a great position knows they're
offside now knows they need to make their way back in that's what a dupor
But that is information for Hades over towards Printer.
U-Paw's in a very open position.
From above.
Oh, go on!
Oh!
U-Paw!
Flick headshot!
Turn around for the cut!
And the round now becomes alive!
Just like that!
And the blink of an eye!
But fantasy puts a bullet through the eye of U-Paw!
Now down to just Grubby and Orphi 2!
And the vendetta is lethal from below!
Twist and turns within that round to close the half!
U-Pork giving heretics a sign of life for a 2v5 to a 2v2,
but ultimately falling short as RIP closed the half out with the 4-2 lead.
There's not too many worse feelings as a player when you get duped on the angle like that.
And I could well have had pretty significant consequences in that round,
but fantasy with a really clean shot to finally hit that delayed trade
and a clean up from their 4 to the scoreline at half.
Heretic's keeping it competitive, I mean, let's not get it twisted.
They are the LCQ qualifier playing on NIP's map.
Pick, this has been a respectable performance so far,
and they're still in a position to remain competitive here on the opening map.
Coming into this series as well,
there's six key categories that I keep track of.
Attack, win rate, defense, win rate.
Open kills, and it's therefore conversion, multi-kill them, plans.
Across those six categories, there's only one category that NIP actually had better statistics than against heretics, which was multi-kills,
but the asterisks of that have also played an extra series.
So even that statistic is ingrained for NIP and it really sort of highlights how good heretics played against VRX statistically,
and for NIP, they've been quite poor.
They're playing two series and this is across all teams at six invitations or 13th for attack
14th for defense 12th opening kills 15th for
Conversion on those opening kills and 15th for plant. So the only strong stat was actually multi kills first
But taking to account some teams that had their buy
You put an asterisk a little bit to that. So
That's why coming into today. This was an opportunity for NIP to kind of get their ass I go
10 kills now for Fantasy going into the second half.
They certainly have the edge, but they've been slightly impetitive.
You just get that feeling that Heretics are in this match.
It has a bit of magic about them.
Probably pulling short of the cup.
Pulling short of some of the 1%ers so far, but that's kind of frame before.
Respectable so far, work lobby.
Basement for the opening round.
Mirror, Echo, Monty, Ace, the Bands for this half.
this half and Hades walls on cams there for a second but Oscar's never really
gonna push forward without a lot of information might not know is there
someone main stairs is there someone beepers so you can't just go wandering
towards elevators a little bit of a standoff Hades watching the drone hole
Oscar still has not moved from what I can see on the top down a lot of drug
work now from heretics to begin this second half
And it has now been a drop confirmed by H. Lee's elevators and all five members of NIP down below.
I'd say five with a slight hesitation. He's playing blue stairs on the water.
And Triggin, they bring the water to the foes of the smoke without compromising them, maybe for late round denial.
That being said, Chanka or you're available.
The benefit of water on the blue stairs though is it's a lot harder to flash dump.
Flash dump, the Euclid dump, and more of a challenge under the stars.
Get off the floor back. Now Fnesee is playing inside the server as well, so this is aggressive server hold defense from NIP,
which leads me to believe at some point they might want to bring Pino back to site on the wall,
rather than committing to a full blast next hold. Good angle found from U-Paul, they lose the Izami,
and that now kind of weakens the position of Pino, because Hatch is open, no longer has the Izami holding behind him,
him and there's 60 seconds remaining in the round. Strong drone work, headlamp on kill,
but clearing this warden. Will this be into the detriment of heretics?
Line up, push off that, no, he didn't stand past the fall back, Pino getting a great
ball, nice work from you, Paul. Swing around the corner with a Vendetto is clean and precise,
gives the advantage now for heretics. If they can take lockers, CCTV, do to NIP, what they did
to them, it's a way to really get off to a good start in the second half. Two player
advantage, 30 seconds. Don't overthink this, don't over-cook it. You've got plenty of time
here to execute. RAU utility to facilitate the drop. Constantly close. Can he be a difference
maker for NIP? 20 on the clock. The Falcon counters you in the pocket of Wizard as well.
Such important utility on this site. Constance does get one through the RAU screen. It was
Oscar. You thought Pips up the kit. He will go through the plant. No one there to deny
Another spring throw in the screen, Wizards so close, but it doesn't connect.
Hades dead, shot down, Flaxi gets the double, and it is indeed Heretic's the fun of the attacking answer.
Unlock the CCTV, matching what NIP did in the first half.
Yeah, absolutely.
Played out in a very different fashion, but the end result, the same.
Good start from Heretic's.
Being able to break down a lot of those defensive elements before the exit, great drawing on to FnC.
Great position from Newport as well, don't we?
You mean that FnC is playing an aggressive attack position?
Back into the old underground gap together.
They were able to flood from there.
Kept a pretty standard and always a big confidence boost to bring that opening round basement on bank.
It's got to be a good feel.
I need to really go back and forth between these two teams, which the longer that that goes on, it stays closed, it's back and forth.
That puts just more doubt and pressure on to MIP.
They're not facing elimination off the loss here. You do lose here and your next game is literally must win.
That's the kind of pressure that puts on there.
The aeritics, of course, you win this series, you're locked into playoff, you can't get grudged.
That's already a big win.
Okay, yeah, hell yeah.
I mean the fact that they are quite literally even at this event is special in itself and
I think on a great element of this implementation, the ability for teams of this nature to
qualify for the event.
And now being in a position where they're looking quite competitive against
and quite a strong roster is
impressive to watch.
To your executive for the eight rounds. Will there be a response from NIP once again?
They do still have two rounds prior to that win there for heretics, so
Before school line is amped and I pay still being the better team, but heretics just you got that feeling they're starting to really bring the pressure
I'm gonna get a pick rate check on Osa this event because it looks like heretics will shape up for everyone over an old school approach
It top square right side use those talent shields for plant coverage
It's not, of course, super common nowadays, as it was perhaps a couple of years ago.
0.5%.
How many rounds is that, what, one?
Two rounds picked out of 4702.
Oh yeah.
What's the win rate?
That's one more than Jackal.
What's the win rate?
The win rate's 0.
So this might be the first round at SI, we'll say the host of the win out.
If Hereticz can win it, they'll do it.
No other team has done so far.
There's invitational Oscar the moment help not ideal on the green
Time is okay
Think you're always better off hitting this site though when you've got at least 30 40 seconds under your belt where it came
Get quite a bit. See that sometimes it could be a bit of a grind especially if the talent show gets destroyed or other things
Go straight. It just gives you that pocket time and space to reset
Geno'd have flamed out, you pause just outside stock now, fantasy get the kill, there goes the ossa.
I think it might be 0-3. It might be 0-3, it's a long way to go in this round.
Need to put some pressure elsewhere, there's no pressure on the backside of this site now from Heretic.
Nothing pushing through stock, trying to clear out Geno'd, a hallway, Wizards just sitting out there in the open.
Flexi's now jumped out there as well.
So with 50 seconds left, I've actually just started to kind of rotate around and change things up.
Well, they've had this read on cons for a while, but converting that into a kill proving to be a challenge
But it goes to the square side here
They're still got the extra thermics from flexi, but that means you got to get and win the battle against wizard
Damn guys convert there we go for fun finally goes down, but there's 30 seconds from any this is what I'm saying before you want to have
The time to talk about what I do win the battle though against wizard
That's crucial that puts way less pressure now towards square fantasy long
angle. He got the second of the Oscar. Three who went for the shoulder peak when he was
low on health. Make it three, make it four in the round. Flex is the only one left. It's
NIP's defense holds strong on the top floor. The last second rotate from Heretic has not
come to fruition. Pino finds the final kill and NIP get themselves a fifth round.
Yeah, it started to look maybe a little bit more hopeful with good time in the stock hall
clear but you rewind in the round and by losing the osa it throws the entire plan into disarray
and you need a lot to get away especially on the fights deep um over towards the likes of banana
and front desk and as you quite clearly saw it went to straight uh i thought just not here for
skeptic this gets caught with a slight misstep this is too easy for him to pass this lines up dm
that's 14 kills by the way here on bank ap and not just that as well xenox fun fact of the day
already going super early here on the a-stream but every single round that nip have one
only a single one of those rounds has not had a multi kill from nip member yeah so three k from
consa three k from hate a four k from fantasy and a four k from fantasy hence why he's 14 and four
so it again goes to show that maybe that statistic i mentioned before where they're first for multi
kills and they probably remain so after this battle is not a fluke by any means. They can be
very very strong with different individuals capable of finding multiple frags in a round.
That gives you good firepower. And on the flip side for heretics just the single round throughout
the eight rounds played where they've had a multi-kill that was from U-Ball for the 3k
They're back in round 7.
This is the test now, though, for heretics.
Got to win this round.
Got to keep that scoreboard close.
They also didn't work out, so that goes 0-3,
and Skeptic gets back from the Blackbeard.
NIP electing to go open area here for the 9th round.
They seek this map point.
point. Oh, oh, I think fantasy just got a little bit bloodheaded. He just he just
watched it and then grumpy just over swings and go straight through the
window. It's pretty fair. He almost got it. It goes down to with it as well.
Over towards staff. Thanks to pick over towards open area and they all fall apart.
Heretics just get demolished.
Wow.
Good boy.
That was a round of three.
That was so fast, so quick from NIP.
And they take a three round lead
here on the opening map of Bank.
Their map picked for a reason.
They beat M80 on it yesterday, 7-3.
And they're looking strong to do so once again,
7-3 in their sights.
And the unfortunate nature of where we are in the game now,
the story like quite quickly pivots from heretics looking competitive to a likely 7-4. We are going
back down to basement and sure they wanted out on their first attack, don't get that wrong but
statistically basement bank is typically very difficult to attack into. Now that is though
to be fair coming from our APAC region where maybe the attacking prowess isn't always
Let's say up to power
sometimes
I mean bank is actually being played four times
So there's a decent amount of information from it. So lockers and CCTV
So far at six invitational
Has had a 53% defensive win rate, which is the highest
Defensive winner
But bank is that as a math guy is the second best attacker sided man looks number one let
Yeah, okay. Outside of, yes, the top four. Yeah, it just makes a bit of sense there.
Top four, 52%, and then live bounce, he's the second side. It's actually kind of similar to the bank in that sense, except it's the base one side that's far more difficult.
We've been in, actually, a lot of the numbers. I feel like the maps are in a pretty good position.
The only one actually that's above the 60% threshold, because it's at 60% on the top.
The way the dispatch went round and I've been with three opportunities to close out back
and probably seems the more likely outcome I think at this point, Phantasy is just popping
off. He's been exceptional. Two 4K rounds, 14 and 5.
When you have a difference maker like that, it's really hard to overcome for a team like
Heretics.
We've only won one of the last five rounds now.
Smoking capital banned out, so a heavy emphasis on this objective with the additional bans
introduced by both teams.
Oscar again will look through Lobby, he's done this on multiple occasions.
Yeah, mixed success, hasn't really been able to fight a lot because it's to the credit
of NRP defensively, they don't go roaming around.
I haven't been to his life, I haven't been to Frigley.
Not once.
But he's a slightly different position, this one watching through beepers.
Oh!
H8 fight, see if he can get a grubby.
Also I think he's starting to get the idea, I might need to push forward here and play
this work position more aggressively.
I think he's gonna get completely calm.
He does get one, at least over the wall to main stairs.
He takes out Luzer to get traded and in the end, like the previous round, NIP just make
quick work of heritage.
It is indeed, 7-3 on Bank. They take their map, but NIP, a really big start to today.
They needed to get onto a good start against the LCQ email team. They do so on their map.
They back up what they did against their matey on Bank, and now have got themselves in a position where one more map win
and they're right back into a good position in the group stage.
A 2-2 start, Heritage looks very competitive in the opening phase, but NIP hit that gas pedal and send us to map 2 with the lead in this series.
You
that fast and furious. They look so damn good in the back end of that match up. You mind
that one?
Diesel.
Huh.
Right, right, right.
Hey, anyway, looking at this one, Fox, a very impressive game from NIP, all these things.
It was very impressive. I mean, we talked about how Heretics was unable to find the trade
game and I think NIP took advantage of that. Multi-kill after multi-kill, constantly being
able to, you know, gap and believe that they're able to get once they got one kill, it just
kept going.
And we have to highlight fantasy yet again.
I mean, he is constantly a walking highlight reel
for this NIP roster.
We've already touched up on early on
of how imperative he is for this roster.
He's a big proponent for a lot of their success.
Constant multi-frag from it
that he's really able to just pull out of nowhere.
But again, he needs to keep this up
because this is really what puts NIP
into winning positions.
But I also want to give quick credit to Kahn and his play
using the shield one round and then rotating off.
but again, fancy by far was the biggest MVP
and the big turnout for NIP closing it out here.
Yeah, we're starting positives off for NIP,
but do we look to Team Heretics
and ask the question, was it good enough?
No, let's say it wasn't good enough.
I mean, we talked about it in the pre-desk
when it came down to their trades.
It was very abysmal.
That was the biggest downfall for Heretics.
They struggled in the trade department,
opening trade department,
and that's exactly what we saw in this matchup.
No trades, no trades from Heretics
when it came to that opening kill, that first kill.
So not only were they not converting
where they weren't able to bring back the advantage
if they were losing.
So unfortunately for heretics,
that's the exact same thing that we saw.
And it answers the question,
will they let the pressure get to them?
Will they let it stump them?
And I think that's what we're seeing.
I think that's the inexperience speaking as well.
Yeah, I agree.
The nerves, the nerves is what's getting for them.
This is the problem now because in this context, right?
Team heretics are realistically,
they're two maps away, I understand that.
But you guys said before we started this,
it had to be a two worded for team heretics.
Are you concerned, Lex?
I'm definitely concerned just because of what we're seeing from NIP.
I think based off the two games that they played,
we really saw a difference in how NIP was approaching their style.
In some of those rounds, they were letting heretics play aggressive.
They were letting heretics play into their line of sights,
and they were shutting them down,
which is why we weren't seeing those trades happen.
And then we talk about the pressure.
You are one game away from losing your spot,
well, not losing the spot, essentially,
but losing the opportunity to be instantly qualified for playoffs.
So again, that pressure is there.
And when you're making these rookie mistakes,
not being able to play the trade games,
it's really going to be hard to get that going.
Someone has to have a pop off round
to get behind going into Chalet.
And that was the map that would favor Heretic's play style.
Being able to be objective focused,
getting the plant down denial,
but we saw it on the Heretic's attacks
that you could not be able to stop bleeding kills.
You go to a map like Chalet,
that's not something where you're gonna be able
to have the comfort of being able to play back,
play behind utility.
You have to get up into NIP's space,
and right now, everyone in NIP, specifically Fantasy,
shooting so it really comes down to the trades that heretics needs to look to and unfortunately I just think it's a little bit too late of a situation for them to find themselves.
Unfortunately it might be a fire has been lit underneath NIP. It's time for us to get underway with map 2.
Thanks Vin Diesel. That's the wonderful desk work from you. I mean honestly if he shaves the beard off he's honestly halfway there but one thing to know is we're going into
This is a map that was played and won by heretics of the last chance qualifiers. They had a one-nothing record
Against twisted might so I'm pretty quality opponent. I think they'll be feeling a lot more comfortable on shall a bit again
We've got a new team. You haven't really got the depth of that map
Paul really known to us full of extent and I people great on bank as they were yesterday as well against M80 heavy
Favorites in this second map as we get underway with the second map of the series
to get a two zero fashion. We'l
do them a world of good here in
the group stage sets them up
nicely. They're still gonna a
break day. They're still gonna
to reset. We'll see if heretics can bounce back. They will begin on the attacking side
of Chalet. Again, looking at the map statistics, Chalet is the most even map so far at 6 Invitational.
It's been played six times as well, which is equal first, and it's pretty much dead
set 50%. Cool. That is, that is, yeah, an intriguing
statistic. I suppose Chalet probably enters the realm of the map that you kind of expect
to be pretty even under most circumstances.
Well, let's jump in.
Heretics will start out on attack.
So the onus on them to heavily contest this map entry
and meet fire with fire.
We saw that back on bank.
And the boys were talking about it.
The trade game was lacking.
NIP were contesting on the fringe.
And they're making it very difficult for Heretics
to play make inside all of the map.
And I don't really anticipate that storyline
to change all too much on Shelle.
In fact, there may even be further emphasized,
given the nature of the map, a little bit more compact.
and NIP will be looking to carry momentum forward from the previous map.
The Operator Bands have played out as Army Castle Deimos and Ying out of play.
Some of the numbers for heretics, but mainly from their first matchup against VRX,
You know, they're worth the greatest when it comes to their attack to win rate, 46%.
So that put them kind of around 11.
Where their strength actually was in that series was their defense.
71% defensive win rate against VRX.
So and then also open kills.
So they were winning open kills and they were strong defensively.
And I think that's a good hallmark of a winning recipe you can get.
Early picks, strong defensively and getting planks down on the attack,
which they had a 40% plan.
great. I only have a one point back on Bank. It usually sets you up to win, but it's going
to be his first half that's quite telling. To not allow an IP to get out to a strong
lead, fuel that confidence even further after winning the OP map on Bank. You can switch
left here from U-Port. I was able to shout at the mirror window.
Not sure if Fantasy's position is known. Oh, it does get forced out. It does get caught on the
crossed by Oscar. An opportunity, I never wanted that. It does go straight early in the play
for Heretics. They have subsequently taken some decent control with at least their drones
are gaining information garnering that. Bonds with a captured drone. Spots the soul of a
parallel in play from Skeptic. Three confirmed that position. Not really what they can do
off of though.
Opening pick for Flexi. That's exactly what Heretics are going to need in this first half.
Find the opening kills, get the early advantage, stretch that defensive NIP where you no longer
have the numbers to cover all of the positions. And this is really good as well in this round
for Oscar on the glass, so he can kind of maybe get into a stronger position, probably
wants to play the run now. That could also go something like Solar Side. Logic Bomb
activated by Grubby, still has one more available. Heretics clearly taking their time though.
rather split attack. It's also a very stretched defense from NIV. This is
Bedroom and Office. They have all the players at the U-Paw's library side.
You know got one back, Traitjow by U-Paw, so the numbers are there for heretics.
Now they've got a clear advantage. Barley hates us still over towards library.
The fantasy by himself over towards piano, and he does catch out U-Paw. I
imagine off guard, I don't think that they would have been aware of the fact
there's still one over towards library. Then Traitjow comes back. I think that's the big one though.
a little dicey towards the end
of the round, but heretics get
the job done. The opening kill
really set up that round from
there. They were able to follow
on really clean work from
heretics. They're very fluid
round from both teams lacking
probably the more traditional
structure that you would expect
to see such as like a full
commit library across or front
mezz. Um it was a little bit
more all over the place as you
literally as well. Defense
stretch didn't end up here
constantly trying to rotate
I like your patient. I saw Oscar here. Good example. You can often find those kills simply because the defense is forced to
continuously rotate flexi
as well, but
Heretics
It's very far he entered the day with 125 VPS. Yeah pop players at the
event of course just wild. Yeah
But well, it was plus 10 in the PD department.
It was a little bit quieter in comparison to that
Metrufrak on map 1.
There's certainly a playlist player that if he can tap
into that view on Shalik, could be a difference.
Yeah, I remember we had the opportunity to actually talk
to him back at reload when he was on Fnatic.
Attackers are moving to defuse a bomb.
I need to run and run.
Unfortunately for him, I think his time at Fnatic didn't
quite go the way he would have liked, but you can probably
make the case for a lot of members who have been on
Fnatic over the years.
Yeah.
Stay close to me.
Calling your magazine!
Flex it on the Monty.
The drone is ready to go.
Don't clash in response for NIP.
Flexing can get some good groundwork here.
Bargames though, does mean in terms of map control,
you should be able to get it pretty comfortably
unless usually the defense offers a bit of an extension.
Which isn't really much of an extension,
extension but what that is hates on a lurk rune up west main.
He'll be the point of difference to watching this round out for NLP on the defense.
Oh it's Pino though to find the air of the kill.
A clean shot inside of this box position to start disrupting this top floor clue.
In the meantime they flexly has pushed towards that lobby pressure into mezz, keeping fantasy
on his toes.
the one that is top library on the balcony.
He danced that run out from A-Test mentioned before,
out of West Bay and fights the free kill onto Grumpy.
Good active defense from NIP in this round.
Now, Flexi wants to create this pressure,
but he needs someone to come in from the library side
to get the pinch.
Unfortunately, he's needing to go very much,
play by himself, pistol out.
Skeptic finally comes into library.
Pino was watching it, though, helped from Wizards.
So as soon as Skeptic got into library,
instantly dead, NIP on the verge of flawless.
Oscar does not have the kit by himself in bar position is no can't even hit the
shot fell to fantasy cons gets the free kill flawless from NIP really strong
active defense had good pieces in good positions hates on the lurk West Bend he
got his free kill onto grubby they found the opening kill onto the grim and then
from there it's a 5v3 and it kind of falls apart and the Monty's forced to
then play solid Monty with the pistol out rather than what he was doing which
is in a good position, up fire, play stairs, put the pressure onto the
medicine, get pressure then coming in from library side and try and take the top
floor. He can't really get that, he hasn't got the bodies to help him.
Yeah there's very few contingencies with a place, a set play like that. If the
Monty isn't enabled, you have almost no fallback option. The Monty needs to be
the star of the show. In terms of gathering that information, then you need to
pull up elsewhere, you know, got the open kills done to destroy that. And like very
if you have in fact into round 4 heretics.
So they'll be brushing that one aside as we head over to dining for round number 3.
The pulse, interestingly, can be introduced on this occasion from defence.
I'm not afraid of that at all.
It's a bit of a disappointment to maybe see the kick-rave rise a little bit, especially with the UMP Barcaid into disband,
although he has a lot to do with shotgun for this particular selection.
A couple of different options available, like basements, a latiff required for 1st floor info,
like 1st floor itself to help aiding information gathering for the top 4,
clear the peri-tics elected to go for that as well.
Nice for the attack, plenty of info gathering tools available for them as well,
and none better really than the Kludge drones here from Oskar, we counter onto the BPCs.
with this defense. Combine that with Skeptic on the floor as it actually does a pretty good job in shredding.
Quite a bit of this cap utility as well. Also one off from N over.
Expecting Hades to have another impact in this round.
He's playing the poll, still get the information.
He could be the one over towards kitchen to maybe try
and take one of these horizontal fights.
Just the way he's setting up to deny that lobby push.
Flex is the one that is outside,
it needs to be careful if he does make his way in.
Flashbang down to get rid of some of these,
we'll buy discs.
Decent spread right now for NIP.
Kitchen dining site, you've got members up above,
you've got hate stand below in kitchen,
you can get some good information with the cutout extensor.
Of Intel, you pour finding some with the shock drone,
gets rid of one of Denari's tripwire connectors.
AIDS did actually take some contact
by the way towards kitchen gussing.
He's now low, which doesn't mean he can't quite get
as aggressive anymore on the pulse.
Analogic bomb activated from Grubby.
How late into the round will this five versus five persist?
standoff at the moment as we encroach on the 60 second mark. Information are
plenty here for Heretics, especially in Forts Kitchen. That's a great drone, good
intel for Heretics. Flexi can't find the kill. He knows he's there, he wants the
reconformation, Kuanhive launcher, but that now means even if it does connect,
the Fenerbahce now knows he is spotted. Watch it pop, push straight in, shot in the
back of hate. The slide control there, but the one caveat to all of this is
Hurtix don't have any top floor control. Good Cleo over towards Westman.
Phantasy dies at the stairs and they go for the plant inside of dining.
So where's the pressure from NIP up above? Pino searches but can no longer find.
And the plant goes down successfully.
Really good. Selection of plant position there. And the retake from NIP looks incredibly challenging.
Cons looks like he doesn't know where he wants to run, where they are.
2-2, finds the kill on Topino. NIP look a little bit lost.
Cons find that, I think spotted through the floorboard.
Skeptic at West Main Stairs can just fall back, play basement,
Wizards down the round. It's down. Heretics find 2 straight in this attacking half.
I'm not quite too straight, but 2 in general. Still, that's a really good start on Chalet.
2-1 lead. Good attacking rounds.
Yeah, that was a really nice attack, a good example of not over-complicating things all
too much.
They had that really good info, in towards kitchen, had lobby control, they had the appropriate
operators to then facilitate that push through with a bit of disruption, a bit of sound coverage,
allowed that like deep in towards kitchen.
Once you get that first initial pick, it starts to throw the differential off and I get it
And I want you to know exactly what we're talking about, bro.
That we...
Man, I'm going to take care of you guys, bro.
You guys are going to take care of the bro, you know?
We're helping there, obviously, in the moment, we know what we can do,
but we have to take care of the bro, you know?
We're moving a lot, for example, with the SWIT bomb,
and we're going to fuck up, you know?
The guys are just baiting and throwing resources, the guys are...
Man, we're losing all the drones, you know?
We're losing all the drones, they're going to get stuck, you know?
I think we have to support the bro a little more,
get a cop that's better for us there, you know?
In the kitchen, whatever I want, bro, I want a solo, you know?
Be it a condos or a pina
We'll see this plant below, you know?
Second time already
Or we'll give it a win on this portal, you know?
Ok
The raid goes to the bottom of the pit
And we'll guarantee it for the el, you know?
And we'll just let the kitchen...
Where's the plant you gave us?
Not...
Not good
Non-existent?
Not non-existent?
Wow, the horse!
Well, NIP are going to need to VAMMOS to have a free kind of, what was said a little bit to be fair, so I feel like that was just a really good attack.
I feel like it's a little bit of an early time out though, because it's only 2-1, and NIP's got a round on the board, they won bar games defensively.
As you said, yeah, really good attack from a hero, so it was less to do with what NIP were kind of doing.
They didn't play that bad, never. I mean, the only thing that was maybe criticized from them a little bit in that round is kind of some flat-footedness.
react to the lobby
opening pick but yeah, and then I think as I probably mentioning is like the push horizontally straight into dining
There wasn't any coming from office like and then the plant and I mean again
There must be maybe some more systematic problems
To that occurring that maybe I've they are looking for just something in the communication department potentially or
Well, we go back to bad-driven office, which was one of the opening round by heretics at
NIP.
Maybe that's also part of the discussion.
Kind of a redo over for NIP on the defense.
Just think, I haven't opted to go basement just yet and play a bit more of a worm game.
I'll be squanced one on the drone as that one's gonna be dead.
I uh, he's waiting to actually back on day one on the B-Stream, but I forgot to clarify regarding the drone counter if that's actually been fixed or not, no?
No.
Don't know?
Ah, I was looking at it on bank.
Unfortunately it is still a little bit, a little bit drunk.
What's this? I can't even say that.
BOSKER, I've dropped your stairs!
I think went on or not you know actually took damage on doors piano, so two separate fights happening at the same time
And then slips into office waxy on the glass smoke out what can he find?
I'll stop that was Oscar on the glass back in the opening round so this time flexing will take over the roll
It gets off the repellent goes back over towards main entrance and slow and steady the pacing here from heretics
Again, except for now, they've got themselves a decent try on good information.
This time on to Kongstroll's piano.
With the flash, but it's really just a bit of a fake flash.
Oh, Flexiw, I mean, if you're peed on your swinging then into the smoke,
you have to imagine the glasses on the other side.
Flexiw gets an easy kill from his perspective,
and it's losing the battle, Flexiw with another one as well,
and the push-in glance on the front lines is successful.
He found another one, three from Flexi before falling.
Leads it down to Collins in the 1v2.
He haven't seen too many clutches so far in this series,
remind the team.
And he's pinned now between both attackers.
With 40 seconds on the clock,
Heretic's find themselves in quite a strong position.
Collins to make the course, maybe the right play.
Hacks the pin information, got some damage into Grubby.
Knows that they're split.
Knows that he can actually all be one,
but U-Paw wins his.
A third round acquired for Team Heretics, and so far a very successful attacking half on their map pick of Chalet.
Yeah, another really good flood into Lloyd's side. That timeout facilitated by the gloves.
And out of the timeout for NIP.
I think it would be quite intriguing actually to track over the course of this event what the attack timeout conversion actually is for each team.
Well, Superbunny showed me a graphic yesterday for SSI 24, and I believe he said he's going to be doing it again for this SSI.
I think he did it for the last SSI as well.
It's a really intriguing statistic, yeah.
It's showing the coach influence on the team.
You only get one per map.
They are very critical to get right.
I know you can, of course, communicate during the operator ban phase, etc., but funnel limited.
I'm sure you're calling it so early.
as well. Not completely atypical but I think you want to get impact from it.
Third round onwards.
But third round onwards I think it's fine.
But on the third round is as early as you probably want to be going.
They ripped the cord, it didn't quite pay out.
Start from Plexi and Upoor though, 13 kills combined for both of them inside 4 round play.
Oscar's turning the ball into a blitz with his entry through kitchen hallway.
We've gone back to Bar Games by the way, this was the only site that was successfully won
by NIP.
You will need to do so once again or this half is really getting away from them.
Prussia is on and Heretics is doing this without Grubby having large influence.
Plexi and Upor leading the way, 7 and 6 respectively.
And the drone work from the others has been up to the task as well.
It feels like they've had a very good read on NIP over the course of the last several
rounds and converting that into a lot of mid-round pressure.
Well like last time out on bar games, Hades played that lurk role.
He was at West Main, got the run-out free kill onto Grubby.
Slimey sits blue, down below, actually making his way up flying from stairs.
He can help out with it.
He's watching from that close moment as the push from Erotic's coming from top floor.
Pretty standardised push.
DAS Bay thrown out by cons is denying Oscar the ability to continue to push forward.
So, time denial here by NIP in effect.
That's fantasy that falls early.
The thorn goes down.
DMR for Pino too strong.
always get rid of Genji and lost Flexi.
So one of the top gunners, Heretic's now no longer available.
Grovick, he find a kill.
He's first kill.
Certainly will need him to do so in this round now.
A douche teller of the montagne available,
but Oscar's low on health.
Oh, there you go.
Pinot went for an aggressive peek back through the doorway.
He did not need to do that, and Grovick collects a freebie.
Freebie's three into the final minute.
Eight's on a flank.
Is the king that in mind?
Can heretics flood side?
60 seconds on the clock. Do they have a raid on the Razorbloom?
Oh, the Razorbloom catches Oscar who was low on health. They do have the raid. They do have the yellow pink information.
Upor opening up that wall does then suggest to Hades that his position is known.
Upor, one bar stock, and you get the peek out of Kons and get the free kill. No.
Kons is disciplined. Hades is disciplined.
NIP not making this easy for you. They're not running at him. They're holding their positions
30 seconds remaining in the 1v3. This is how you want to play it if you're NIP
Very very well played from NIP. No running around. No rushing at the final member not giving him 1v1s and free opportunities
And just in pajamas find their second round one more to go in the opening half
You've laid a close out the round.
That's the face of a man who got razor blued.
The razor move is actually a pretty significant impact over the course of that.
That round is a hole.
Heretic's like, looked to be aggressive for the Luggerstay's clear, but Pino was very aggressive.
Found a few, overstepped the mark and died, but unfortunately the rest of the team did fold off.
and then you're pouring this positioning and Reeve is actually quite strong in 1v3 and there was a bit of info available but NIP did not give him an inch
with that they take the round now trailing by one for the final over the half we go to the kitchen
opting to avoid basement altogether for NIP so they're not feeling comfortable on that site
Kitchen and dining once again but the only site that NIP have found success on
is Bargains so this is gonna be the real test for them now. Last time out was in
the third round and it's actually a bit different lineup so last time for NIP on
kitchen and dining they played the pulse setup the force setup
Well, my Malusie, Tamari, in fact, is the only operator that's followed through now into this lineup, so it's a big change up from NIP.
And the clash is going to be very important against his Blitz, maybe even denying space away from the Glaz.
Good trap utility with the Malusie, along with the Fenrir out.
Shot drunk, get shot out.
FANACY looking to push forward now trapped by Oscar gets the shot as he kills, really
played well from FANACY.
He's going to lose his life there but he knew for a while that it's okay so I've got to
take one one.
One and done.
Yeah one with me but they lost other members elsewhere.
Well FANACY did go down, they lost Wizard and Aids at the same time and they got caught
by Grubby.
Well it's a clean way to end the half for Heretic, certainly one of the more fast paced
rounds and it is going to benefit.
Pino's the only one left.
He knows exactly where Oscar is, but he's trying to find the kit, and Oscar does have it.
You know, create an opening.
He's being the nuisance.
Most is one on the repel outside, that's skeptic. Oscar to reposition and find a space inside a dining mat is safe and away from the eyes of Pino.
And in the end, Flexi gets the kill.
So it's a 4-2 half for Team Heretics here on Chalet.
And well deserved, I mean that was one of their better rounds overall in the series.
NIP, the one side and is unfortunately for them in that opening half and it could prove costly,
Heretics has lied off that particular objective, able to make some nice moves.
Their attacks look clean. Two round lead now, defense though will continue to pose challenges
on a map that has proven to be very even for both attack and defense at this event thus far.
The bands for the second half, Monty, Grim, Azami, Clash, so no edge cases there.
176 EPS now for Flexi. He goes 10-3 in that first half, but more importantly,
3-0 on entry. So he's not just getting frags, he's not getting mid-round frags,
end of game he's getting the opening picks and obviously don't matter out
but now 1.67 KPR really really strong half from flexi up all was strong as
well six and four
they've got standouts for NIP but also no one really towards the body in fact the
The lowest-rated players in the server is Oscar and Skeptik for Heretics.
So you're winning 4-2 and you've got the two lowest-rated players in the game on your team.
We're actually in neutral, pulling the team on the back.
See what NIP you can now do on their attack was we go past Event-Druven Office,
defensively chosen by heretics.
So no, we will not be anywhere close to panic stations for NIP here on Shell Ages.
Yup, but they'll be looking to set the tone here nicely on this opening attack.
Good information gathering early on here from NIP. All five members of that defense available.
available to death marks throughout the entirety of this round and could review this little
in isolating this defense.
They saw the Pratt mug from FLEX, shot out by U-Port, two nitrocells brought into the
round for heretics on Edge of Office.
Okay, and is he just toying around with his deathmines?
Finally going to go for selection all over the Valkyrie, you poor entry into West Main.
There is one on the Stateness though, that's Flaxie, you poor that helps out.
Good Tinkwa from heretics, to combine on that opening kill.
They got nothing out of the day, Moss, and then they lose Pino.
He just gets the sense that heretics are in full control here on Chalet.
Tons with a slow walk but flexi with a quick headshot.
Now Hayflavigar as well, but he too falls into their trap.
It's the combination between U-Paw and Flexi towards West Main that guesstimates NIP.
They've won four of the last five rounds and are setting this series up to go the distance.
Yeah, they laid the trap and it snared successfully.
Great start to the half for Heretics, dictating the round nicely,
and they have the individual skill to back up that playstyle.
We've seen it on several occasions.
We saw it back in the bank and here on Chalet as well.
Thanos, you miss that opportunity and it's snowballed against them from there.
Everywhere you turn, NIP, losing fights, just losing jewels.
That's a round that I'd love to see the desk highlight break down the positioning there
From upore and flexi the way they're not over peaking over
They're playing off each other and I would imagine we don't get to here
But the team comms there between especially those two I'm being pushed not knowing when to swing
I think there's more to it in a round like that than what we just see on the surface level
It's not that easy nine kills for upore 11 for flexi
those two have been absolutely sensational here in Charlotte. Now the question is can they get
the job done? 5-2, it's a decent lead, you've got some breathing grip, you're on defense to close out,
you win the opening round of it, you're one-fourth of the last five, you've got one bit of a heater,
you go by games which we know is a strong side defensively too. Everything's set up here for
your heritage, you just got to cross that finish line. Oh Ruby, Grubby can come and see if he can
You have a little bit lucky.
He does allow hate.
Up onto the roof.
He gets himself out of mud.
Pressure building for NIP.
Of course there is a third map if required.
Caffe.
This instance.
They would be back themselves in the win this Qo if we did go cafe as well
Heretics are a very good defensive team based on what we've seen so far at this event
So the most defender side of map could be a map that is slightly favor towards them
Heretics were to win that map as well as this then nip would be on two points with
Heretics will be through to the second phase. Well, yeah exactly
Now 30, office control for NIP, looking to enclose over the boards mezz, a fierce hold
here from Heretic, stairs, box, mezz, they've got the triangle set up.
And we'll shield as well, so U2 layering strong here from Heretic, flexing under immense amount
of pressure but he's got 11 kills so far, how many can he find in this round?
Well they've done well so far Heretic's where they haven't really just fully fallen back,
They're looking to still play off these positions, so there's only a minute left.
So NMP is slowly running out of time.
Nice and Dutch will come, so towards Library.
Flexi, quick turn around, can't get the kill.
No one pushed forward.
Over on the off the side.
Fennesee got ready to grab me.
Good capture onto Flexi though, through.
One more.
Very small gap.
Oscar found two back.
It is only skeptic though.
Top Library stares.
There's the clear.
Now to 1v1.
He did push up, find the kill on Topino.
Wizards towards Mezzanine.
Into Library, grabs the kit and has 40 seconds to think his way through.
The remainder of this round, Skeptic does also have a nitro cell, so he's got options.
He could go play Barstock, he could try and play off the nitro, he slips into Bar.
Wizard, how's the drone?
This drone absolutely critical.
The defense does have a BPC stairs, they keep that in mind.
Spots the drone, Skeptic now knows he's been spotted.
Positions over towards Barstock, and Wizard starts to now leave himself with little room for error.
The margins are slim, with 13 seconds at this point.
He's on camp.
He's on camp.
He needs to go and find his kill.
Headshot was almost there.
Hive behind the reinforcement.
Wizard looking for the reposition.
Needs to point.
Find the kill.
Skeptic gets the tag.
Wizard is on 1 HP.
He doesn't even push.
He doesn't even push in the end.
That one peek swing from Skeptic.
Enough to scare him off.
And he hits him with the ZZZZ in chat as heretics goes 6-2 up.
Four map points.
Really good round again there from heretics. Their ability to play off one another and lean in to the trade game was massive.
The desk highlighted that it's been a weakness for them.
In that round though you wouldn't have known it.
Really great work. Flexi's position was incredible.
incredible. And then Oscar saves the crowd. It was amazing. Great 2K. And then he laid
in there. Wizard getting caught in that banshee. Unable to push forward. Regardless, low.
I doubt he wins that fight. He was low prior to the peak though. That's the thing. Yeah,
true. Probably was. Again, library's there. There was a BPC. So, information difference
was huge there on the 1v1. Very ticks. With the likely. Here's the modern even though.
but Pena spotted first with the drone when he was in bar, you know, like, it's exactly what Ebsen plays in that little 1v1.
Still, it's a 6-2 lead. The boys on the desk were not happy with the way that Heretic's played back on Bank,
although they'll be certainly happy with the way they played here on Chalet, especially Duo of U-Porn Flexi.
Yeah
And so far no attacking ground found for NIP here on Chalet bar game still both two defensive rounds the only site
The only rounds that found success
Doesn't look great on the Chalet resume. I'm out of kitchen and dining now
Opportunities for heretics to look out tickets to cafe
I trace out
early toss not too bad I mean with it's also done while to kind of just move
away from the danger area very common repel spot nitro kind of spots a wizard
aware of it clutch drone from wizard well hates actually just lost his life to
you for it shouldn't be too surprising the way that he has now been playing
alongside flexi he joins him with double digit kills 22 between them
advantage again for heretics another opening kill they haven't been completely
dominant in that area but they've been stronger than an army fantasy with a
push through from library this could be the next big battle against Oscar at
mezzanine position fantasy by himself you bought has now slipped in as well to
help out that lost with it
benefit instant probably stuck into the corner he does get the collection of the
You've got the numbers. Relentless aggression on the defense from heretics.
And it's a four versus one against Pino, who couldn't even win the 1v1, shakes his head and knows this map is done.
And that cafe is required in this series.
This has been a suffocating performance from heretics. They have given NIP so few opportunities here on Chat Lane.
There's one almost immediately traded, knows that he's in a crossfire, knows he's got enemies on both sides, all sides surrounded, and Chalets decimated by Team Heretic 7-2 beatdown by the EML-LCQ champions.
They are one map away from getting themselves out of groups.
That was a mega performance.
If they can play like that on CAFE,
this could be quite the upset.
13 kills from Flexi, 10 kills from U-Port.
Those two were outstanding as heretics.
Bounce back from their first map loss.
It's CAFE's turn to come.
Let's go!
I'm breaking necks in the body now
reckless in the key I'm not enough
I'm a kid with courage today, no knife
I'm breaking necks in the body now
with my ill bones shoving my money out
cause I can't take it down so much, run it out
I'm a kid with courage today, no knife
I'm going to a hurt no knife
I
It's a game of two completely separate maps, two completely
the expectations going into those maps as well.
Map one, we were hyping up heretics,
map two, we were hyping up NIT,
and it just keeps flipping.
The storyline, it won't stay steady.
It won't at all, and something that won't stay steady
as well is the trade factor.
I mean, we talked about heretics being cornered
coming into this match.
That's what we saw in NIP and map two.
They could not be able to get a trade succession.
I mean, their opening kills were bad as it is,
but when you're losing the opening kill for a team
so aggressive as NIP and map one,
we saw them constantly trading.
We did not see that in Chalet.
looked like heritage just always had a response for what and I few show yeah
they absolutely did I mean there's a few rounds that really showcase how well
their attacks were looking and then even on their defense I mean round three right
off the get-go the fact that flexing finds this opening through kitchen
regardless of vertical pressure instantly follows up with this killing
kitchen goes to find fantasy chase them down West Main and then you pour getting
two big massive kills to open up this round entirely really came off the back
in a flexi phenomenal job from these two and then you pivot into the round seven
where this was a big moment where we would eventually just see the synchronization between the two players of Flexi and of Upors being able to systematically play off one another,
always keep an NIP on their toes, not knowing who is going to swing, not know who is going to take the engagement,
but every single time Eritik was walking away with the man advantage, closing it out in a flawless round.
Again, to have that synchronization such early on
with these two players, especially from a player
like Flexi with the least amount of experience,
really, again, is showcasing how well this team is developing
from one game to the next, and it is tremendous
and exciting to watch.
Of course, and when you have the entries,
getting amazing kills to start off the bat
it makes things that much easier.
But again, half the stress that Heretic's being able
to understand that the biggest issue is the trade game.
And all those clips that you showed,
what was the main common denominator?
There's always three, four members
in a matter situation for heretics ready to go against what NIP is going to show.
So, unfortunately for NIP, heretics has been able to respond to the issues
that they had in that not just being able to respond, but the resilience.
That is something that newer officers don't typically have.
The fact that they go down so bad for performance, they can't muster up success.
That is the exact opposite that heretics is showing.
Yeah, heretics looked a little stiff going into map one, map two, they were loose.
They looked like they were having fun in the background, but we had some
at three and cafe should be very interesting. We have two individuals right now, Fox, that
are absolutely leading their team. Yeah, I mean, it has to go with fantasy from the
side of NIP and then Flexi from the side of heretics, the two players that you would not
have put neck and neck when it comes to coming into this tournament. But Flexi has been very
impressive. Yes.
He didn't outside of the server. I mean, his interview yesterday was very good, but him
himself on the flex support constantly being able to be there to support his team, be that
player who's fixing out on those trades. As for fantasy, we talk about it. He's the star for NIP,
but when it comes to NIP, they play around them or bust. And even sometimes when they're playing
around them, they're still getting completely blown apart by the fact that heretics team play
is taking advantage of the fact that everyone is focused on fantasy. So he needs to be able to
execute. He has all the pressure on his shoulders and cafe. The pressure is going to be on him to
be able to find those openings. We've been talking about opening kills, opening deaths, all of these
things that are super important, but I mean, Cafe, this is going to be an absolute bloodbath,
a bit of a battlefield, if I will to say. Yeah, great. We're going to leave that with
more capable hands than this Aussie with two blokes we brought off the street.
Oh, that was an excellent throw, Rob. Well done. Good from you.
Improving as you go along. 7372 on the first two maps. We now head to Cafe 4, the decider,
the beauty of the fact it's day three at SI here in groups means that if you win this map
for heretics you are out of groups you are qualified for playoffs and we are down to a 50
percent split on the socials. It's anyone's guess from here Jake this has been a real back and forth
and I pay just leading the prediction. Let's get this third map underway.
I think that's a good idea.
Well, the desk spoke at length
and highlighted fantasy and
flexi. I also want to give some
props to you born hate. They've
been sort of the Robin to the
batman's if you will. You put
1914 33 on the entry, so he's
been actively involved for
hates for one on the entry
team. They're going to have
to be able to standouts for
their respective teams. Grubby
also around in the fifth best
player kind of conversation so
far in the series 97 EPS. It's
been quite from the likes of
Wizard 8 13 skeptic 5 11, although
he had some good moments. It's
going to come down to cafe, but
when we know defensively, it's
the most Defender sided map so
far at SI heretics begin there
in the first half, so they'll
It's been an intriguing series so far to be frank, probably more entertaining than I'd expected on paper.
I'm sure it's been back to back 7-3, so not necessarily close in round.
Count.
7-2, shall I?
Oh, 7-2, my apologies. So even more lopsided, but the fact that it's now, you know, pivoted into a third map,
and it's so tricky to have a read as to where this one may lie, it's a tantalizing prospect.
The bends for this opening are very quickly done to you, no matter as I'm possible.
Is it a case of following the one trend that has gone across both maps, which is the four players that we've been talking about?
So what happens if one of those or two of those have a step down here on cafe that he's ready to step up, make an impact?
That's going to be the question mark, so very curious third map to follow along.
Honestly, as the social prediction kind of went, genuinely think it is 50-50, but it comes to this third and final map.
It takes of course more to gain, if they win this, they cannot get grouped.
NRP, begin on the attack.
Yeah, pacing and tempo is going to be intriguing on path 8.
It can at times be a slugfest, especially if teams on the attack opt to go top down, not
wanting to be too high risk.
I'll see how NRP is shaping for this opening round at least early doors suggesting that
may be the case and heritage when you fire with fire on this top four initially.
Three two split four them.
Flex the along way off over towards small bakeries and keep that in mind as well on the
Stullers could be impactful as the round progresses.
I see all the roam towards Red Stairs, and it's already has tense feeling about it in
this turn, not every moment so pivotal.
Ellie Candela's thrown in, Fantasy Con, Ellie though by Grubby, cons taken very low, good
response from Pino, pushing into washrooms off of his Candelas, but they did indeed lose
cons.
Grubby, now also in a battle.
He too, now on about one HP,
eight pushing through cigar,
he gets caught though by Flaxy
who was holding Top Red stairs.
The flank works for Heretics.
The defensive lurk roam pays dividends
and now they've got the two player advantage
for the remainder of this opening round.
Frag grenade from Wizard, follow them.
By the drop, Top Red, Flaxy those still inside a cigar shop.
The numbers are here for Heretics
Flexi just keeps on flexing on N.I.P.
Wizard by himself, they know exactly where he is located.
It's Grubby Up Close, who's also a round minding now.
Actually, it was Flexi who was up close.
He lost his life, 1v3.
Grubby is low, so is skeptic.
So is Wizard, unfortunately, into the final 50 seconds.
This becomes very difficult for the solo.
Yeah, it's low percentage from here.
See if Wizard can muster up something special.
Doesn't have the diffuser, though.
and plenty of utility in his way.
Strong round from Heretic, again making a statement
in the opening round that the pressure has been
a real standout over the last dozen or so rounds.
Oscar's dropped by the way into Pillar,
so if Wizard goes out that way,
he is gonna be put decked right down at the chorus.
That was gonna go in the skeptic,
he was low on health, the swing comes through,
for Gruddy.
I don't know if telling your opponent to wake up is always the right idea, Grumby.
I wouldn't want to end up in a big week.
Exactly.
I will say though, Heretics now lead the series for the first time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know why that sounded so German.
You're the German one of the two of us.
And honestly, a decent round from Hereticz, because NIP actually tried to bring some aggression on that top floor clip.
Yeah, we saw that explosive play from Pinot to open up the account, but again, Hereticz,
mid-high with fire, flex with a great rotation, he nets two in the round. Again, it wasn't that long before this,
where he's lurking down below, trying to gather information, but then he finds his route towards being an impact player.
And that's kind of been his strength, especially on Shalei, has been impact.
Like Ting is here on Cafe, that's going to be a big boost for Heritage.
Early days there, second round to follow.
And what helped him really there is the fact that no one from NIP went for a top red,
kind of dropped down the hatch entry at that point.
There was more around corridors for instance, and cocktail.
So then it allowed him to have this gap, this space, and push up red stairs,
and he's just completely by himself, gets three kills.
We are expecting the defense to be much, much stronger here on cafe.
That's the expectation.
The NRP can't get into their hands if they do drop the first two or three, maybe even
four rounds.
So we go from reading fireplace to now mining fireplace, small change up for heretics.
Probably early.
I was wrong. That wasn't too likely.
NLP would not have heard the end of it if that one were to have landed.
And it would have actually been very impactful. The day must have been full of death-like targets
available, but the nature of course does go astray.
Don't mind the early attempt though from Grubby because really sitting under that skyline
you don't want to do that for too long. You qualify as the opening killer of the round.
Get through the pinot and get through it at the block. So they can almost
now inadvertently say hey we don't worry anymore about them having third floor control and you know
the bucketings work with the skeleton key so if they want they could actually bring it all back
and they kind of are and now it's a bit more standardized it'll just be cocktail you've still
got one lounge nevermind oscar's actually going to rotate off he's going to fall back too so heretics
no you can definitely pick you get rid of the clock we can start to fall back stripping away that
potential here is massive for Heretics and NIP will need to pivot accordingly.
Some information on site available, but actually translating that into kills will
prove to be a veteran.
And Grubby all the way down first floor as well.
He's around VIP right now.
Oscar gets caught.
Nice kill and catch from hate so they get rid of the clash, brings it back to a 4v4.
Full top 4 control down for NIP established.
Come on, come on, nitrocells left for heretics.
Grubby will play VIP and then can push up white stairs later in the round.
There's a drone inside of Trame Museum.
This is now the lack of the buff though.
So being reliant on fantasy with that Vandetta.
Yellow ping still available.
But skeptic, playing this really smart, his position rather safe.
Well, NRP is going to be so low on time here.
How do I have the buff with the skeleton key?
With the Benningham, it just goes bang bang bang bang.
Oh no!
Oh no!
Oh no!
I still haven't been able to collect this killer.
He is just stuck inside a train.
Skeptik doing a decent job of staying alive,
but NIP missed opportunity.
And again, it's only 24 seconds left.
They need to pick up this pace now towards the end of the round.
They really butchered that opportunity
to have the lead heading into this execute.
Now, 4-4, 15 seconds.
You fall with a decent angle.
Skeptik finally gets clear, but now we head into red time.
Flash is thrown.
Flexi finds a kill on to Cogs.
U-Paw was full white, hates drop them dead in quick succession.
Fantasy as well, fall into Grubby,
who came up with the flank, Wizardine, and Staphano.
Time of course, it is two straight for Heretics.
They are hiked up now,
knowing full well what's on the line.
Five more rounds, and you went into playoffs.
Now this is testing the mental, I think, of NiP,
and you can see pretty evidently their body language.
They look very quiet.
I don't need that!
We need to, you know?
But if we talk, it's better, bro.
Probably they're going to cook now, bro.
Remember our plans, bro, to counter their advance, ok?
And against their normal road.
Don't take the T-shirts and give them a little discount,
because if they don't advance a little...
timeouts and I usually feel like 3rd round onwards it's fine it might be early but 3rd
or 4th round that's fine. Once you're doing it in the first two rounds though.
I didn't know it was a fire up timeout. Yeah exactly. They just look really quiet and the
body language look rather negative. Guys we're only two rounds in so you can tell like couple
rounds in the couple round map but certainly not the end of the world.
Especially when you're attacking into cafe. Yes that's where you need to be positive.
You've got to find those playmaking opportunities. Heretics are running all over them at the
moment. To be fair they did try to make some plays in that last run, really good
info train, a great example. The conversion was really poor, soaked up a lot of time,
it just gave them no options in the last 15-20 seconds of that previous round.
The concern for me though, if I may, is the fact that you've got Flexi, again, playing well,
grubby, now playing well too. He adds an extra element to what we've seen from
heretics on the on the fire power scale and on you know the flip side of things
when you again look at the series as a whole fantasy has been the number one
he's so far he had to find the kill. A bit of help from our lovely friend Maria who
was saying that they were talking about communication being really bad not
having enough information either so not getting intel and then also joked about
picking Twitch brava playing with 15 turns to get intel if that's what they
Which we do see the twitch not quite the bravo, but clearly the conversation
Communication information, you know not really working for us especially on the attack so vital
Yeah, that's it. They're fundamental as well. There's some information now communicate it. Okay. Yeah, there's the yellow thing
Almost the kill the company gets away
The stage can be a very frustrating game at times when the little 1%ers aren't going your
way like that.
There's a different world in which the headshot lands a fight before you start to gather momentum
in the round.
But Grubby escapes.
He will remain 10 alive inside of the server.
And this lineup from the heretics defense, the clash of play, the smoke, the wild wardening,
as well as getting in on the actual 8 round.
We should be quite strong.
NIP will now look to pivot him in the spawn.
That's a little bit too much available of course to deal with that.
So just increase that difficult curve a little bit.
Take all the blocks this time around so that play is available.
Looking to flash out this time.
Strangely enough there's only a bit left.
So you've got to start to question as well the pacing too.
If you're an IP
Like you still got to do the clash later in this round you've finally got you know
Train and mining control work on this four balls that are you's not gonna go down that second one will that was also the last one though
For cons so you don't even have a backup one
Push down
Get out towards bar
Skeptic inside a code check still good positions here for heretic to quickly found we'll get one that's in the back of skeptic
They see though got rid of haste, both numbers firmly with heretics, oh he gets shut down,
you won't fight, he's third kill of the game, he don't bite himself, pushing down brown
stairs, this is looking like a third round straight for heretics and for the second
map straight, NIP out of a tactical timeout will not find a successful round win.
It's feeling a little bit like the foundations of NIP are crumbling.
Well, I was sceptic said, back up Chalet with the Z's, he's bored, he does it again here
as well, 3-0 for Heretic, 4 rounds away from playoffs and immediately a shake of the head
from Pino.
And he did that as well on Chalet, so you started to wonder is the tilt setting in for
NIP?
I think so.
And one thing I would really love to see, or I suppose here, is the comms from Heretics.
Pino looks devastated!
Yeah, the comms from Heretics surely have got to be really flowing at the moment.
We saw it back on Chalet, that last round there, a good example here on Café, which
is really quick trades, they're finding good positions, they're double teaming on opponents
from NIP with really good tempo.
It's been fun to watch, and NIP just constantly playing on the back foot.
opening kills straight as well for heretics grubby you pull flexi grubby
you pull flexi that is the that has now been the series off the back of those
three players flexes 5-1 grubby's 4-1 you pause 3-1 you look at the the summer of
the entire series flexes up to 25 kills while death he is the best player in the
server across three maps now you pause not far behind him with 22 grubby now
over 100 EPS. So it's been, it's gone from a dynamic duo to now a three-headed
hydra. And MIP have just got no response to a tactical time-out, did it work?
I've been seeing a heretics type throughout this series, I don't remember a
different kind of, I don't believe so, definitely didn't get on a show like, as it was back on
bank it would have been a while ago but I'm not even sure if we got one there.
Again, emphasis for this half, it needs to be stated. Two attacking rounds for MIP,
half the course. That's fine, that's totally good. We've got three opportunities to find two,
Ying and Clashbanks. We've got to see them find another gear though, they've been stalled out here.
the first three rounds. Strong from Heretics.
That is just starting to bounce well. I mean, NIP haven't been able to really get a
semblance of decent map control, find a pick, start to then, you know, force Heretics to roam around on defense.
Nitro. Nitro here from Grubby.
This one up on the roof earlier, that one's gonna fall short.
just good attempt that attend to be oh he just overextended on the row how am I
goodness that is a very rookie mistake from fantasy maybe he wasn't expecting
for rubbing to push a little bit to find that extra angle but he does get the
damn lost to half how fantasy was exceptional in the first few maps 0-3
so far on cafe midpoint of the round some work potential another opening kill
it's the opening kill as the shot comes shorty from the new mozzie Oscar with
the nitro ulticons for only a part right now for nip they look like they are
drowning a leg sport and it cannot find the kill is that the third time we've
seen an opportunity for nip to catch someone off guard from heretics or
punish a positional mistake yes you
pause on one HP but it really should
have been a four versus three and it on
the clock fantasy boots on ground half
HP one of the wards comes out Oscar
goes down Oscar's he's credit at least
took one with him got rid of hates
45 seconds of fantasy and Pino
Try and clutch this round for the 2 vs 4 deficit.
It could be the circuit breaker they need.
Like they on Volcam as well, there's info available inside of Bar here for Heretics.
Yeah, good spot. Oscar watching that one.
There's also one of the walks to go.
Got down from Fantasy into Villa.
I'm playing close by though inside of Reading so he does walk his way straight on in.
Longer angles though as the walls have been opened up.
Fantasy getting close to the walls. Laundry.
There's only 14 seconds by the way, and Tino still has got that cheer.
Right now, fantasy find himself. Yellow pink, Utah double kill from skeptic,
and the round goes the way of Heretics once again for the fourth time straight.
Four rounds straight, four opening kills straight, two more rounds to go in the half,
and dare I say, NIP need to win them both. Yep.
And the unfortunate thing for them is they haven't looked particularly competitive in
any of these rounds so far.
If you look at the survivals, 2, 2, 4, 3, yeah.
The fundamentals have crumbled beneath their feet here in the third map.
They're just lacking any kind of semblance of early advantage.
You're not getting the opening kills, you're not stretching the defense.
And Cafe is a very difficult map to game like good map controller.
You can get map controller in Cafe, but a lot of it can be kind of useless.
It's definitely tough.
Dang it, it's very tough.
Yeah, Cafe is a very challenging map, but...
And I mentioned it earlier in the broadcast as well, but yes, off just one series, yes,
off just FioraX, but Heritage had a 71% defensive win rate in that series coming into today.
So, strong defensive team on a strong defensive map, kind of put two and two together, going down my server.
And they have 42% attack of win rate for NIP coming into today as well.
That put the port in.
So, you then couple that with a team that's not exactly following on the attack themselves.
As I said, it's still two rounds, two opportunities for NIP.
You win these two and you're right back in it.
You're a really good spot then going into the second half.
Just got to stay locked in.
Now the early nitrous stoplight, dropping this down to two and a half minute mark.
U-Ball playing aggressive with the DMR half close, thrown on through, U-Ball will back
up through shop.
One thing though that heretics haven't done despite being rather aggressive is any runouts.
It has been pretty contained.
It hasn't been...
Flex is thinking about it here and as I've mentioned it, he does go for the runout.
Oh, that's all I had to close.
Forced the drop off the repel.
But he didn't overplay his hand.
No, he didn't.
He didn't over extend it.
Oh, and then Flexi captures P-Mode!
Oh, that was some beautiful siege from Flexi.
Because he had every right, if you wanted to, to overextend that hand on the Bakery run-out.
Now they're open to kill for Heretics. They lose the bucket again for NIP.
So it's Nitro, then it's the able to dodge it.
One minute, 15 on the clock, and opportunity to the NIP to get attacking rounds here on
cafe to keep their head above water, not only on this map, but potentially this event.
Starting to wither away.
He's only got one death mark target by the way, Skeptic and he's playing train.
So you remember where you're getting from that, we've been in this position before.
We've been here the last time and then just get there again.
So you're getting nothing out of your Deimos.
He's taking down a 1H me by the way.
Skeptic the Frag grenade, that's gonna be a new stick.
He's not clearing him from train.
No.
Even with the Frag grenade just launching his position.
He's smacking.
Skeptic.
He's playing a really good game of duck and weave.
30 seconds by the way in the time NIP, if you're not aware time is now running out.
Deathmark onto Oscar, forces him back into reading.
reading. Flexi finds the killer to
win and they've just dropped all
together. It's flawless from
heretics.
Oh, they are hot right now.
NIP floundering.
Wow.
Things are going
from bad to worse.
So, NIP
one more
opportunity to get an
attacking round on cafe
against the LCQ team
team from E&L. Wow. After Bank certainly didn't expect this to play out where it did.
7-2, shall I? 5-0, cafe.
Oh, flexi. I mean, he was the one to open up the account, and then 7-2, with the dance.
In the last 14 rounds, in the last 14 rounds, between these two teams, it has been absolutely
one-sided. 12-2.
I don't think anyone saw this coming, not to this extent.
Remarkable from Heretics and it comes at the perfect moment, their opportunity to book
themselves a ticket into the second phase of this Six of Cages.
And it curls back to sort of what I touched on very briefly before this map was, we've
add the quote-unquote top four players two from heretics two from nip that's
been the storylines what was going to be a difference maybe the difference is
probably probably got me 62 and two he's been able to have two opening kills
he's been active on the defense with nitrosal usage and you still that had
the same output from you poor flexi but those two haven't dropped at all fantasy
on the on the flip side like pretty much he's a high team it's struggling
Nothing working for NIPA on the attack of cafe heretics win this they go six nothing up
Then they just go to choose one round and done and they're in playoffs the captain set play here by three from NIP
Cupcake clear yeah got to execute this and they let him out again. He's got a way
He's just one killed.
He's got Gagsawai, Lodjuva, and Activator.
Good wall for Hades.
And I'm there for him.
Vulture to the win.
They're going to pick up the pace and go for a rush through Bakery.
Now there is a drone.
There is Yo-Kai through to everywhere, by the way.
Everywhere.
Walk into the New Yorker.
You've got three of them.
Oscar though, opening down Phantasy.
Finally, the first opening kill for NIP in this half.
They've got Bakery control.
They've got nothing up above though.
Hades is now over towards Red Spare.
So a little bit of a split for Akronage.
Fragornade, deeply thrown, avoid the throws by heretics, and now they just spray and pray.
And maybe a player down, but Oscar now can sit on those Jokos, on those Maestro Evelizer,
feed info to the rest of the defense.
Grabby again, and then subsequently, we'll drop in towards Freezer, deathmark activated onto U-Pore.
Fragornade, second one thrown by Fascist, he's trying to put the pressure onto U-Pore, inside of cooking.
Gasbape thrown out by Flexi, he's got now Nirm left.
Still over a minute remaining.
Hates over the waltz museum starting to just try and give
NIP some kind of verb. Is this a stall out or a build up for the attack?
Oh! It's a 4! 3v3! Pushed forward past the nade, found a head of cons at least one for one there from
U-Paw. Pino collected in 3v3, coming down red stairs now as hate stall for a point of
difference.
Deathmark onto flexi, Grubby takes some damage towards Freezer
but there's no real pressure over to Wards, VIP, or Freezer side of the map, so for Heretics,
they are able to keep their attention towards the Bakery side of the map.
They know exactly where NIP is pushing from.
U2 lacking for NIP. Can they find an opening with 30 seconds on that block?
They got two flashes, one frag grenade, fantasy low on health, but does still have a death mark as well.
H2 stayed over the watch, Rekstas, well a shake of the head again for Pino,
because Flexi is able to catch. He's had 8-1 and 2 now for Flexi.
Forces hate into action. Over to watch the corridor.
He's caught, though. Fantasy. 1 HP, 1v3.
Not surely possible, but put Heretics now. Fix nothing up.
They have six match series playing off points.
Oh, wow. Another strong round from Heretics.
wasn't the best of stars they lose that opening pick but they back themselves in with the maestro info
the echo info they don't feed any more picks for free and we see nip stall out they find themselves
in a leading position for the first time in this half and they don't know what to do with it
well are we going to see a seven zero to close this series out heretics
that first half and immediately to start the second half we go bar cocktail
NIP just getting I was finding it very difficult to ask the team was it
still at all was it build up and trying to get a feel as to what NIP would gain
in those large morphings on the ground whatever quite stagnant thing I think
compared to how weak he was starting to lack and it did lean towards
No, NIP have not had a single plant in this entire Vesla 3.
Not one plant, but not a single plant has gone down for NIP.
Across Bank of Chalet and now Cafe.
I mean that's got to be a little bit concerning. It's not the BN door, it's just one category, one statistic with many, but it is still a concern.
Now the real question is, how quick do we close this map out?
For reference, it's a 20-80% of my faith and I'm here over the last 6 months, so not
particularly weak either.
He's looking to centre this composition around the Monty, flexing 8-1.
And so much execute utility then surround that with crimp, line combination.
I like this spot here from U-Port.
Nose, that hates his stock pixel.
He knows he's in there.
It's on the shoulder, I think.
Oh my god!
Oh, fantasy though!
Frog cocktail!
Okay, that's what you need, NIP. That can get you going in a round.
You caught her, P.
Very, very good in this series and had a very good position,
playing the Grimms of no Bs, no Q on high, board shot.
Get an opening kill for the second round running.
Defense, it's a lot easier to capitalize on that opening kill now.
This becomes a bit more difficult to port heretics,
flexing on the Monty through shop.
Who's gonna be the one to find that next kill? Oscar in lounge.
He now falls.
It was on 1 HP prior to that nitro cell, finished off now by cons.
As the NIP looked like, they're gonna start the second half as best possible.
5v3 advantage.
And with the Monty, you're now lacking a little bit of that firepower,
so you gotta try and find a way to play off him.
Grubby knows though that Wizard is stuck here in bar, but it doesn't matter.
Jump out, there's Grubby getting the kill onto Wizard.
2v3 still over a minute.
Grubby find a way back upstairs to play behind the Monty.
Nitro thrown nicely.
But it gets Flexi only to half health.
That was a good jump to stay alive and Grubby...
GRUBBY TIGHTING KILL!
Oh, Fantasy was looking deeper down right stairs.
Fantasy then collects the kill onto Flexi.
No more Monty, Grubby and the 1v3.
They're trying 7-0 NIP.
Here's the Flynn boys, 3 versus 1.
Don't need to give him anything.
If you were 6-0 I'm sure you could run, but you're 6-0 down.
You stay, you hold.
Oh, the splits keep coming though from fantasy and he's out!
Headshot Grumpy but Pino with the DMR!
Oh, they survive to fight another round but need five more straight.
I believe, I believe for a split second that he may have been able to pull that one off.
If he had pulled that one off, NIP would have been tilted for the rest of groups.
Probably.
Six-one.
Five opportunities remain for Heretics.
regulation to secure their spot in phase two kitchen to be the second side of
choices we look back at that previous round you poor court so strong position
wizard was known underneath styled for a large portion of that round
they brand new utility to this launch if he had a hit that headshot on top
you know first time it becomes a 1v1 fantasy low on health he also knows
where fantasy is and fantasy can't get the immediate trade because they're on the other
opposite side of each other so yeah would have been very doable well for nip it's just a matter
of one round of the time mentality there is a lot on the line here in terms of what they gain
points wise for groups so they will want to give everything they've got to get back into this
probably goes to double digits first to do so here on the third map
we're kind of doing a little bit of that form that's where the Erex matchup
where he posted 125vps really strong stats was a little bit quieter through
max 1 and 2 of this week was really not alive and created a trifacta for heretics
As mentioned, kitchen side of the choice, Monty to the SIFT here for the attack.
Voxy jumps onto the ramp so there's potential as well on offer here.
Oh, you pull like you can't pull.
Oh, but Voxy finds the trade and he'll be picked up.
That's actually a net win for Heretic.
He's funnily enough.
Yeah, you pull guys from being almost the opening death, he'll now get revived and
The opening kill goes the way of heretics.
This is the way you want this round to go now for them.
And he keeps the RAUs available on the sands.
So he can just kind of sit back and play a little bit
towards the more back of the field.
Here are those RAUs that now get to go out.
They wouldn't have had these had he been finished off.
Geldscreens activated for heretics.
Monty V Clash coming up soon.
Well, paper view in you.
Clash versus Monty.
Get him in the ring.
Oscar's in a position to maybe drop for the back...
Oh, hang on.
Oh, I see a red outline.
Hates and Oscar very close to each other.
Neither of them realizing.
Logic Ball, this might help for Oscar.
No, no, he doesn't.
He just drops.
Oh, and he finds the killer to a wizard anyway.
Now, that has activated Hates.
Hates him, drops straight back into freezer as well.
He's gonna get caught to the right.
Does he get caught?
It does, dude!
The feet holes!
You ballcatchers out Hates.
It's only Pino, that's up.
the 7-1 against the Brazilians.
It's only fitting Pino to fall.
And then that's all she rose as Heretics are out of groups,
but not the way that many would have thought.
They're out of groups because they're going to play off.
Oh, my goodness.
What a game from Heretics.
Wow, that final map, honestly, left somewhat speechless.
their ability to shut down NIP phenomenal. On the flip side, NIP need to step up massively
if they are to survive.
And Ninjas in pyjamas now on the ropes in this group, it's not looking great. They've
played three different teams and have not been able to find and win. They're facing
elimination from Sixth Invitational going into the next two days. Like they need to pick
it up and do so quickly. Their fate is on the line in their remaining matches. It's
as simple as that. The Heretics though, their playoff bound. What an amazing job from the
AML LCQ team.
Guys and gentlemen, Team Heretics victorious. I got Flexi here with me to have a chat. I'm not going to leave you hanging. Come on over. Let's go.
I will be sure. He called me by surprise.
always here for you. You know what, NIP seem to have countered you by surprise in the first
map, but you brought it back. A big thing with Heretic's, and I guess a new team compared
to a lot of people around here, is mid-round adaptation. How do you feel what's going on
for you?
I mean, mid-round adaptation is the thing that we strive for the most. Our whole system
is based on reading what our enemies do, so 80-20s, 20% of what they do, what we're going
to do is the other 80. So that's all we do. First map, we always start really slow. We
sent this yesterday when we lost as well. We have really top quality players that are
able to read rounds so that's it we just read the round we say what are they
doing what are we gonna do and as long as we anticipate what they're doing we
see it in scrims and just like I said our interview tomorrow yesterday and I
might say tomorrow as long as we know what they're doing and if we make a
plan there's very little teams that we have scrimmed and played against that
can stop us and I'm not saying we're the best team in the world I'm not saying
I'm the best player in the world there's teams here Falcons is sitting right
there wildcards sitting right here we know who we are we know we're not the
best but we know we're capable you have to be one of the best anyways to
qualified to an invitational from the start. But you talk about tomorrow you're playing against
M80, it's a tough opponent regardless. What do you expect to go down my game?
I mean, hopefully we don't start slow again. I think it's going to be a very difficult match.
They have really good players, give any gunner, they have really good agile, hot and cold and
they have Fabian. So Fabian used to be my agile back in 2021. So it's going to be nice to play
against them. So it's going to be an interesting game. I think we can take the fight to them.
There's a lot of project Delta players that end up showing up around here
in there and in competition. So I want you to look into the camera here for Fabian for M80 drop
those glasses down for a bit and give him a final message before tomorrow. Fabian, I know you're
ready but your players might not be so you better teach them. There you go wise words and strong
ones from Flexi. Thank you very much. Good luck tomorrow. Back to you. Being taught we're getting
from these players I mean I can't be out of this. Yeah it's right. Flexi has been phenomenal and I
I think that, uh, Jake Zanuckson, did he did say it best when he said team heretics are out of groups, not in the way anyone would have thought.
I mean, like, this has been a phenomenal run.
So yeah, it absolutely has.
I mean, to start out the day, obviously me and Fox were a little worried.
We weren't sure that they were going to be able to bring it back again.
Another time I'm getting my foot put immediately back in my mouth.
Once again, heretics is just showing why they're here, why they qualified.
All of the work that they are putting in is paying off.
You know, we've talked about this in the green room
with the other talent of saying, you know,
maybe with the little pressure,
there's very roster changes coming after this.
A lot of these players want to get highlighted.
Maybe they're going to play for themselves.
We are not seeing any single one of these players
play solo, just playing for their own stats.
Everyone is playing with a purpose.
Everyone is playing with a goal in mind.
And that is beating the opponent that is in front of them.
And they are making a damn good job
sure that is happening.
Jeez, I mean, just look at the performance from Flexi.
Not only is he doing the interviews and doing a phenomenal job on him, but also in the server, he is absolutely annihilating.
Okay, I mean, just seeing how he handles these interviews, it's not a surprise to me to see how well he is as a player and the numbers that he's putting up.
I mean, he really is playing and looking like he doesn't have any pressure on his shoulders.
And again, he's brand new to this. This is his first international event, and to come in here to play against these international teams,
to have the inexperience make it to seem like he doesn't it's insane to me and I got to give him all the flowers that he absolutely deserves
100% they are looking phenomenal right now and flexi as an individual I think is definitely someone to continue to watch but
someone I enjoy watching a little more fuck say what have you got for me mate
I mean I got a great round that displays why heretics is so good it's their lockdown defenses now NIP understood they are in our iron wall
So they try to throw a little bit of a bait and switch.
They're gonna use the sense to be able to bait
that they're going for a default cafe, bakery,
all the way in the freezer plant.
Now, what NIP is actually going to do
is send Pino all the way down white stairs,
send fantasy down brown stairs,
and Wizards gonna come make a pinch,
essentially, on Flexi in the back,
providing the bait and switch.
Now there's one player that you need to keep an eye on,
the X Factor.
Kons is gonna walk down red stairs and try to get a pick,
try to go for a plant, that's NIP's game plan.
But, Heretics is always one step ahead,
and we need to look at where they're playing as well.
You got U-Pore in the back, being able to watch Bakery,
Red, assist from site, Oscar is able to watch the hat drop
to feed information if anybody's gonna be dropping for site,
and is able to actually read that there's a bait
and switch happening.
Then you're gonna have Grubby watching the brown stairs.
Skeptic is the co-player who can assist from any position,
which way, and Flexi, the man that you need to keep an eye on.
Who is the pin holder?
He's watching Brown.
He can smoke white stairs, smoke the hatch,
whatever the case may be.
And that's exactly what you see happen.
He smokes the hatch.
Oscar gives the information that there
is a bait and switch happening.
Everybody goes for a pinch on Flexi.
He's there with the crossfire from Grevy.
Gets two.
And unfortunately for an IP, their plan actually worked.
You see in the backside, Kahn's is flanking all the way through.
He gets the first pick, but there's a three-man pinch.
And unfortunately, there's nothing really that he can do.
Everybody on the front side of the pinch did not work out in his favor and that's just goes to show how locked down heretics
Defense is they're always preparing on where the actual push is going to come from and that being said heretics has really impressed
Me hopefully we get to see much more from them, but I want to be impressed by Rob back in the studio
So hopefully I'll throw it to you guys and you got more for me
Thank you very much for that fox. You know what he's actually so good. He should play. I don't know what he's doing on the analyst
I mean, I played with him. He was a great IGL. It's no surprise me that he can break it down
just the way they did and understand the plays that one NIP was trying to go for
and then also reading on the same side of what Heretics was doing to be able to shut it down.
But it does really speak into how well Heretics is reading the play.
We even heard from Flexi saying 80%, 20%. 20% is what the team is looking at
and the 80% is what they're going to implement. And we're seeing it time and time again
with their team play, with their coordination. And again, it is a beautiful thing to see
to see with such an inexperienced team and a brand new team that doesn't quite have that foundation
just yet. It's genuinely a dangerous roster but of course the A stream is not the only stream we
have running. We also have the B stream and that match just concluded. Demo, what are your thoughts?
We're back everyone for another B stream update. We've just seen the Brazilians show down between
Elevate and Furia. Elevate came out the doors swinging. They have the game plan in mind to go
aggressive against their Brazilian brethren. But what did Furia do? They called the timeout.
They knew how to counter their opponents. And well, what can I say? A point from Herds.
He stole the show. He was the man of the match, the man of the series. He's left in the hammer.
You heard it here first. Furia to win it all. I tell you what, sometimes our talents face
them outlandish things, but I don't disagree too much. Furia are definitely looking pretty good
right now. They're Brazilian brother. Elephite. I don't know what's going on. I mean, you could
say the same thing for NIP. What's going on with these teams? I mean, regionally, they're
all extremely strong. They're all formidable opponents. But when it comes to these international
levels, I mean, Elevate is clearly struggling. You can see from the side of Psycho. And it's
unfortunate to see that because, again, he won these six Invitational back in pairs. Same with
the side on NIP. Pino won with him. And both of them, it sucks to see them struggling this hard
because we know what they're capable of.
Unfortunately for Alivate, fate is completely out of their hands.
Wildcard, that is who control their fate in their group.
And also just a S.I. in general.
If Wildcard win one map against granted, it's Falcons.
But if they win one map, Alivate are done and dust it.
I mean, it's very possible.
If there's going to be a team that powers up an event,
is able to essentially lose you guys a chance to continue competing,
it will be Wildcard.
You do not want to have the fate be in their hands.
I mean, the amount of teams that Wildcard sent home in Munich that were from Brazil,
I'm sure that they aren't going to try to be on a friendship level of L.A.
And they want to get past Falcons because if you remember during reload,
Wildcard should have beat Falcons.
There were many opportunities that they just fumbled themselves.
That Falcons did get that win.
So if I'm elevate, I'm scared.
Yeah. And I'm kind of scared to see the prospects of what is to come.
But we do have a cheeky little content team running around.
Let's go ahead and check in with them.
My name is Justin, I'm the assistant coach for Wildcard.
I'm Bay 94, I'm a player for Wildcard,
and we are going to draw a logo and guess what it is?
What the hell is that, bro?
what is that bro I don't know bro fear X I don't know is this a team a team in
the side bro
I don't know any team with the smiley face
might be the worst thing I've ever seen
what who has horns
what is that bro
Throw a team bro it's very obvious. They used to are I don't know
Bro you are the work bro is that the W7 home?
Have you ever played this team? Yes, Nip?
Multiple times OXG SSG slow down
Is it G2? Yes, oh my god
Wow. That's beautiful.
Ninjas and pajamas. Oh my god.
I can tell because it's like a circle that like stutters.
Yeah. Thanks for watching guys. I'm sorry Justin's not good at guessing logos.
logos I mean he's the goat I guess and logo so I mean this got a line from this guy yeah
well thank you guys for watching and goodbye
Available now.
the
team. Hero ticks have booked
their spot through to the
playoffs and another team has
that are going head to head at
They have looked increasingly better ever since the X bleed days and now with this roster with this iteration these coaches
They are looking absolutely phenomenal, but box probably the biggest question is are we getting our hopes too high?
Considering the caliber of teams that play yeah, maybe a little bit in my opinion. Yes, they have looked great
But I don't think they've been tested. I mean the teams that they played
Elevate didn't really look too hot.
Essentially, it's a team where, yes, they have shown up.
They have surpassed expectations.
That being said, the teams that they play against
weren't necessarily at the caliber that we expected them
to, I guess, have a challenge against.
And today is the first time that they're approaching that challenge.
But with all the momentum they've built up,
I'm hoping they arise to the occasion.
Yeah, absolutely. I think you also have to just look at the simple fact.
When we were looking at Group A from the get-go before this event even started,
We were looking at M80 was going to be at the top where it was going to be a fight for second
But that isn't the case. Weibo is coming into the day already
Qualifying for playoffs and when you're looking at this as a whole you're right
They haven't been truly tested yet
But I think it's still important to note that the games that they have already played regardless of being in IP regardless of being fear x that they were
Absolutely dominating their opponents. None of these matches were close. I mean they are plus 20 in round differential
No one is even statistically close.
And then we have to look at the dynamic trio of this roster.
Typically, we've talked about reefs time and time again,
being the grim reaper in the lobby,
just slaughtering the competition.
But this time around, we're seeing Ape,
we're seeing Hoven, the flex entry side of this roster,
really coming to fruition.
Even in their game, we would see Ape use that DMR
on a zombie extremely well.
So pivotal, it's not to take anything away
from their supportive staff.
Speakeasy's done a phenomenal job,
But these three have been carrying so far.
Yeah, I think it comes down to them
with how unpredictable they are, with how aggressive they are,
the way that they're able to get in, get an opening pick,
or get position that's necessary.
I think that's the most important part of Way Those Attacks.
Well, on the other side of the coin,
there's just a little old team called M80.
This roster have looked very good.
Back in Munich, they were absolutely phenomenal.
And I think the question has always been,
where is this team coming from?
Where are they going?
And I feel as though we might actually have a good answer.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I think they definitely have a little chip
on their shoulder coming into this event,
being the Munich champions.
Sure, it doesn't rise to the same level as FaZe
being the current world champions,
but still everyone is going to look at MAD as a threat.
So they are absolutely going to play their hearts
and soles out against these guys.
We saw them come into that, well, yesterday versus NIP.
And it was a very close game.
That's not the game that we usually see from them,
but it's the fact that matter,
they're getting their toes into the water,
They're warmed up.
Everything should be fleshed out coming into their match
versus Wave-O today.
I'm glad that you mentioned that because, yes,
their match against NIP was too close for comfort.
It was.
If you are an M80 fan, you know, with the fact
that they won the Munich Major, you didn't expect it
to be as neck and neck as you would have liked to see.
And honestly, they got bailed out
by a lot of big individual players.
Right out the gate round one, we saw the fuser
with an amazing 1v3 to be able to win that first round.
And that's just the caliber of play
that you get from M80.
Yes, they're very versatile, but they
have amazing individual players that
consistently show up to be able to touch these rounds
and being able to set off the tone,
we would have thought MAD would have ran away with it,
but it went all the way to the wire to round 14,
where the beautiful clip talked about round the world
with Gavin getting this nice 1v2.
The fact that he shoots that gets the head shot,
and then to be able to transition in map three,
when players need to be coming alive,
we have Gunner getting his first ace in three years
that we all heard about to be able to get that first round,
to be able to set MAD on the right track
after a loss on map two.
That's what we want to see is that maybe not only having the big plays,
but not letting it get too close to a point where they need the big place to win.
There are so many things that define a world champion,
but I tell you why M80 have all the makings of a team that will lift a hammer.
If other teams do not stand in their way, let's have a look at to how these will pan out.
What are we thinking here?
Well, I mean, it's no surprise you're going with the classic clubhouse
from the side of Webber.
I mean, we saw them absolutely dominate for your ex on it.
I can't imagine that they aren't going to go into this matchup
uncomfortable against M80.
If you remember, M80 hasn't played this since December.
Back where it was against SR in those regional finals,
they did lose it to, I believe it was 6-8.
So, I mean, if you're a Wabo,
you're looking at this extremely comfortable.
You're going to try to exploit where M80 went wrong.
And again, the way that Wabo plays clubhouse this time round,
they make it far more vibrant than I've seen
any other team currently when it's came to a clubhouse.
That being said, it is clubhouse.
and I feel like if you're Waybo,
you're really setting yourself back by going to a map
like clubhouse that limits your creativity
or unpredictability.
And then to be able to go to Consulate,
I understand why Consulate's going to be picked out.
It's a situation where M80 feels comfortable on it.
They know that it did go the distance against NIP.
It was only won by a big clutch from Gav,
but they should not be going that way normally.
That's not the type of M80 caliber that we're used to seeing
and we're expecting them to be able to correct
those mistakes going into it.
But I really like the maps in M80's favor.
for label, in my opinion, they cut their own creativity down.
I don't know.
I see it with obviously, yes, very default map from Clubhouse.
But if you beat M80 and you shut them down,
that is a shot at their mental at such a simple map,
simple things that need to be done.
If you can't do that, it definitely weighs on you.
Well, one thing's for sure.
There's nothing better than a good story.
Actually, no, there's one thing better.
It's a good storyteller.
It's the Canadian sensations.
I'm not even going to roast you boys today.
How are we doing, Parker?
You and I are best friends.
I'll tell you what, it's not true.
I was just trying to be not, you know what, Jesse,
how are you doing?
I hope that you're having a tremendous day.
Rob, I'm having the best day, okay?
Cause I got to share a broadcast with you, the desk,
and other people who are involved with this show.
And we've got an insane game in front of us,
M80 and Waybo, the battle for what is likely
first place in Group A.
I don't know how we have two polar opposite humans,
but go and enjoy the match.
Thank you so very much, Jesse.
Exactly one year ago, something crazy happened
that's now happening again.
Would you like to tell the good people?
Well, Parker, I'm glad that you set that up
because one year ago on this very day, February 4th, 2025,
M80 played Joel Esports at the Six Invitational Group A.
That team, Joel, eventually moved on
to be this Wave-O-Core that we know today.
It was a bit of a slam.
M80 walked away with that decisively,
But there's no doubt it was not the best form from this APAC team.
They're looking better than ever.
So strong with a good organization and a strong roster so far.
We'll see what they can do against Sene's best.
Two Titans going head to head on Clubhouse to start our first map in this series.
Expectations are high.
We are hopeful that there will be fireworks.
But you never really know.
Let's get ready for Clubhouse map one.
Waybo versus M80!
The million territory for Waybo is they're gonna come up to clubhouse and after they played just a couple of days ago up against NIP
That was that 7-1
Domination this is really where they got to you know get a little bit of experience in what their feet a bit at the six
Invitational as they started off with a really strong wind up against nip the desk touched on it
Of course weibo being that first team to qualify into playoffs
We know how good that they have done
But it was an interesting point that maybe the opponents that they have faced were not the best of the best and that this
Kind of will be the first real test to see where weibo or as a team. Yeah
Yeah, because we've only played a couple days, or had a couple days of games played over the last couple days,
we still don't really know. And I mean, just take the matchup that occurred before this as a great example of that, right?
Team Heretics versus Ninjas in Pajamas. After the matches that Nip has played so far, after day one, it was a bit of a stunner for Nip.
They did a lot better yesterday, and certainly looked like they could be world beaters, and then they got kind of...
by team Hurtix if we're being honest, you know first map was good, but
Second map was okay. Team 3 or map 3 obviously wasn't the best. Yeah
So you kind of have to ask the question
You know like how is this gonna go take a look at that G2 group G2 gets beaten by Shopify rebellion on day one
Shopify rebellion look terrific in that matchup
Yeah, both teams commit a whole bunch of mistakes and D plus Kia coming in most people think okay
They're not gonna be that great of a team. They're gonna be somewhere near the bottom and then they absolutely shell
So sometimes you just have a bad day, sometimes a player will have a bad day, sometimes you lose the map band phase.
It's not best of ones, so there is time to recover. When you're in a best of three situation, the better team that day usually wins.
Conventional wisdom, right? It's best of one. It's whatever team is better in that exact moment on that exact map.
Best of three is better team that day. Best of five is almost assuredly the better, more experienced team period will win.
win. We have a small re-host for you because it appears that the lobby has crashed, so enjoy the
beautiful views of all these players. Hot and cold still waking up.
But hopefully they're a little bit more awake in the server.
Yeah, I mean yesterday, NAD did get the victory. There's no doubt they managed to secure their
first win here at the Sixth Imitational, and they should be happy with that.
You see there's no doubt. Was there any, like, were we kind of worried?
No, there was no doubt. In terms of the results, maybe we were, I called it the most
loseable game for M80 in group. You did, you used those exact words actually. And I said
that because I thought NIP were a strong opponent and they were. They were, they were. They
played well that game despite it was a good match. It was a good match. And also just
the fact that it was M80's first game here in Paris. A lot of teams from the best teams
in the world to some of the underdogs will struggle in their opening match of a tournament.
M80 I think were no exception. They started a little bit slower. I think what we saw from
M80 yesterday is probably not their final form. So M80 took them a bit of time, struggled
a little bit especially on that second map, but they did walk away with that victory.
Weibo is probably a more difficult opponent, but I am fully expecting the North American
major champions to walk into this in better form than what we saw from them yesterday.
Have you talked about the Fabian Tweet yet?
No, we can bring that up. Fabian obviously put out a Tweet after that game concluded
and I thought it was a really strong quote from him.
He said that I believe that how you do things
is more important than what you do.
So for me, today was not good enough.
Tomorrow we will show you more.
You have my word was his exact tweet.
So I'm excited to see more, frankly, from M80.
Because I think if they play like they did against NIP,
Weibo will win this match.
I mean, Weibo is surprised an awful lot of people.
They've got a great team, a lot of depth here,
good, fragging potential.
It's crazy to think back when Speakeasy was on that old AeroWolf team way back in the day, way, way, way, way back in the day, and it was on a couple other teams that, uh, I think he was on Invictus Gaming, and then Giant's Gaming as well, out on Instagram, or...
Good lord to think how many years ago these wards were in our scene here, but yeah.
I mean, Speakeasy was a terrific and formidable player, but now he kind of stands in the shadow of players like Reeps and Turds,
and though it's Ape who has been the statistical best player for Weibo through their two matches that they played so far,
entering the day with an eye-watering plus 1-T3 KD for Ape.
He's seven kills away from 50 at this tournament, which is, of course, a high-water mark.
Yeah, and as the second highest cost on the team, pretty much across the board, even for M80, there's a lot of depth on the side of M80, Gunner was the stand-up performer yesterday, so watch Othé, watch Gunner, those will be the two potential star franquers to keep your eye on.
And as we just get into round number one, we do have a basement setup coming through, and it is a pretty heavy roam game coming out from this M80 Squad as well.
So this will not be an easy clear to be tackled by Wave-O. They're going to start to open some of these top floor sites, top floor windows.
Of course, we did get both the electricity operators banned out for their fender, so the hatches shouldn't really be a problem.
They've got the Habana with Reeps, worst case, they got can openers on Alpe as well.
So they've got a lot of tools to start opening up onto these hatches, but clearing the road is the more difficult task
As I say that it doesn't seem like weibo are so focused on at the moment
They've got a couple of players up on the top floor
They've got some pressure around main stairs and here comes the entry under after gunner the first of all
Bit of a missed opportunity there from the defenders diffuser and Gavin go down
Falling shortly thereafter and trip riders be damned. You could just assert yourself
You flushed three of those players out, leaving Hot and Cold and Kino downstairs.
You guys, what happened?
We're at 1-45 still to go, and now we are on our lonesome.
It could have been a 4v2, but Op-A is recovered from above, and now, it should be a relatively quick clear.
It's just basic math will tell you these last two players are going to be the basement.
They know for sure that Hot and Cold was down there. They saw him. He just survived with explosion.
And now the assault begins.
They've got some stall, right, with the Gyo-Kanzers and Toxic Babes, but you're just delaying the inevitable.
inevitable. You need a real hero play and support you with hot and cold and Pino.
You want any chance of winning this one out. Pressure from blue, pressure from
main stairs. It is descending on these M80 anchors. They don't have long. Wow, what a
dropping! Hoven kills two and just like that, Webo wins round one flawlessly.
Domination to start. I mean that's pretty much as good as it gets. We talk
about maybe Webo not having the highest level of competition before this game
while you're playing the major champions and it looks just as easy to get things going. Welcome's
back to that roam clear, of course. We saw such a heavy commitment from M80 in towards CC, in
towards Rafters. They had Denari setups up there. They had Kiba Bears being used up there. They had
a ton of utility, not just the players, but lots of their resources were placed up on that top floor.
You've got to give Weibo credit for identifying that, figuring out very quickly how they wanted
to approach it with the CC window and the CC breach, and then just collapsing as a team.
It's a 5v3 if you can isolate those roamers away from the site players, and that is exactly what Waybo was able to do.
Yeah, I mean, it was an interesting roam upstairs. It's not unconventional, certainly not odd.
On an app like Clubhouse, there's a lot of ways that you can go with that basement bomb site, right?
There's the wide way back in the day that SSG roam that would often involve Castle, Mute, Mawzie, but that was ages ago.
So much so that I think some of these players that are currently competing around the age of 13 when the SSG roamers
Was well popularized, but nowadays you see roams involving vigil you'll see roams involving scophos
You'll see these operatives play off-site to hold map control because clubhouse is a really big map
And yes, it is an older map in the map pool
But Jesse if you are going for a full clear without any roamers
It's gonna take you about a minute and 30 seconds to clear the whole map
That's if all five are sitting in the basement, so you throw some roamers into that and it can really trip up your opponents
Clevos meta has really evolved though in the last couple of years you're seeing a really interesting setup this time from M.A.D.
where they pop the mirror window in the main breach with both electricity operators banning.
This is your best hope for keeping out walls closed.
Mute's not gonna do it for you. They do manage to get it open with a case.
Threatening if it was a thermite or something being brought by the attackers,
but it looks like it's being handled very nicely by Weibo.
Also fully enforced from Raptors over into the Bonsai.
So, kind of leaving their zombie out to dry.
Gavin's gonna have a tough spot out there, but if they do manage to clear out Gavin, they don't get a whole lot from that.
They still have to fall through that one window or spend more hardware to try to get into the site.
A lot of teams, I would say most teams these days, are playing with this setup.
This is one of the full ways of this bomb site, is that once that breach gets over the duct, it can paralyze you and all of the others.
I think it is very kind for Waybo to get an additional couple rounds of terrorist touch under the belt before they actually start their match here.
Both Houghton and Gavin die in areas where they are not looking and this was very similar to round number one.
Wave-O catching M80 off guard. I don't know if it's unpredictability of the attackers or just a lack of preparation from the defenders.
But obviously things not going well. I guess the only real saving grace is that at this point in time in the previous round they've lost three M80 presently has only lost two.
And so now again, all cellmates have been used. They're not really going to be able to open up between rafters and the sites.
They just have to look for this window and that allows Kino to launch that nitrocell.
Get his team back in the game. That's that sight adaptation coming through.
The new meta really evolving here on Clubhouse.
Fuse rests biggest presence down perfectly.
Baited by the track. Stingers off they with two. My goodness!
What a shot on Nikito.
And Gunnar all by himself.
Unable to stop that diffuse plant from going down, his gas canister will tickle the Blackbeard
as Reaps gets the very final kill and things are not going well in M80 land.
Two rounds in and it looks like Fabian's tweet, maybe.
Maybe not coming to fruition yet.
I mean, in one sense it is.
Tomorrow we'll show you something different.
This is different. This is worse for M8.
Different doesn't mean good.
Different does not necessarily mean better.
And I mean, it really comes down to how clean these opening gunfights have been for a way.
They woken up this morning had a good breakfast. They've drank their coffee and they're looking really sharp in the server today
Just the shots that they're hitting
That practice just now want to go back to Gavin's hard holding the door. He sees the black dude for a moment
He's watching the correct angle, but in an instant
Speak easy hits that shot. He gives him no opportunity to fire back
I think offense shot as well down on the bottom floor was absolutely crazy to the player on red stairs
So some of these kills coming up in WABO are just happening so fast and 80 maybe a little bit sleepy this morning
Maybe getting a little bit distracted by other things going on the map
Not sure what's happening, but it's not the major champions that we know of. No, I will say this is WABO's map pick
So it is 80 could just have some unfamiliarity in the way that WABO plays this
I doubt that ADS team is unfamiliar with a map like clubhouse
It is about as default map as you're gonna get for a lot of these teams
and maybe this start on the better side so I mean you can argue against
yourself here if you want we talked about a scopus room we see gunner in
action over by strip club that's a very common spot to hold you can very easily
go undroned in that position or forgotten about entirely by playing in
strip club it allows you a lot of power to oversee the hatch that's inside a
bar you can quickly rotate to kitchen or you can hit down the stairs as well
I think it's also just a good way to commit to the roam without committing everything right last time they had three players a
ton of utility everybody was taught or now they've not really got that much of a roam game
But they still have a presence top floor gunner is able to find op a he gets miss drones
He's able to get that flank down
But if he had been droned if he had been cleared worst case he teleports back
You don't even lose a single body for it. So a much more conservative defense being brought up by m80
it's being aided by these Valkyrie cameras and it pays off for Gunner.
I think it is worth making a distinction here.
You're not incorrectly saying he was misdroned, but the issue wasn't the lack of droning.
That was the issue right there.
Potten is supporting this roam with a set of Valkyrie cameras, two black eyecams that are assisting Gunner,
so that when they do push Gunner, there's information there on the side of M80.
So a good one to punch from the defending Major Chance.
this way they'll get baited into it just as we saw.
Defuser get baited and they'll kill my op-ed in the last round.
So, mind games by both teams.
And we're finally finding these Valkyrie cameras. This is good.
Happens after you lose Op-ed.
Frankly, if you're gonna lose somebody, Op-ed is not the worst player to lose.
Obviously, he fought off last round, so maybe as a player, but for an operator,
you know, you generally bring the Damos to help with that roam clear.
Gunner gets droned out now, though, and with the bottom of the stairs being held,
Parker, he's gonna have to teleport back into the site.
And he'll do that just now, or maybe by this time a little bit.
They're not pushing him just yet, so he could try to waste even more time.
Finally falls back to the bottom floor.
I think that's a really good roam from Gunner.
A lot of time killed, and again, part of roaming, if not one of the main goals of roaming for
a lot of teams, is to waste time on utility.
It's not always to get kills.
If you can take somebody down with you, excellent.
But if you manage to use a lot of utility, kill drones, and take the clock to as close
to zero as possible, that sets up the rest of your team for some serious success.
And now from their back foot, Wave-o with 30 seconds left will swing for the fences!
That's a bit of sloppiness, but he manages to get them both.
Ultimately, in the end, he could speak easy, look like he might have missed those opportunities.
He's cracked this round open, and now Wave-o with the advantage.
Looking for a perfect start to this series.
Party up 2-0.
Things will continue to get better.
Kino was the one with the pulls in the previous round.
He's doing his job perfectly this time.
Two kills for him.
Speakeasy getting diffuser down.
And it'll be Kino with a 3K to save the round.
Terrific stuff.
Diffuser and gunner, the other two kills.
And M80 is on the board.
And I think great adaptation to come up from M80.
And we talked a lot about that roam game,
committing a whole lot last to it,
getting a lot more out of it, despite committing less to that roam game,
with both the time and the kill that Gunner was able to get.
And then whilst there were some nice shots being hit by Weibo,
I think, especially to credit Speakeasy, the captain of this APAC team,
the way that he was able to get a couple of kills pushing down through Main Stairs,
pushing him through Modo, it really gave them a chance,
but with the time, the way that it was, they had to go through the plant.
Absolutely, God, that's fucking right.
Matt, don't talk to your teammates like that ever again,
like you did to Gav, that shit doesn't fly here.
We are a positive environment, we don't do that.
The thing we're doing wrong in the game right now is that we're overreacting to everything
and we're f***ing spassing out on every single decision we're making.
Here we have five on four and instead of allowing them to come to us to a certain extent,
we're just going, but we're going to.
Like, if we're gonna activate, we need to activate more of us,
or we just let them make their mistakes.
They're good shots. That's what they're gonna be going with.
The stuff that it says on the paper, that's what they're doing.
Matt, the first one I didn't have on paper, that's on me, but they're doing that stuff.
Read the fucking papers so we can talk about it.
If you die, you can go on camps and check the paper for prep work, what they're doing,
because most of it isn't correct to it.
Perfect.
What were you like, sir?
Just a bit of a tense start to that time out.
Yeah, I'm not kidding.
I feel like I'm in trouble.
I'm not even playing on the team.
Yeah.
I wouldn't think that Huntin' Cold's the kind of guy to talk poorly to his teammates,
but I mean, accountability is important.
I know after the Munich major there was a great debate about whether Fabian's tone and some of the times being that
Disappointed father and stern coach of the team can wear on the players, but sometimes you need a wake-up call
Yeah, it's early ish. I guess it is 2 p.m. Technically, but for North America. It's early
So maybe they just needed to have some sense talk to them. Yeah, I mean listen. This is a high stakes match
This is probably going to determine whether you can get up the high through the first round of playoffs or not when we do get
to that second phase of this event.
So obviously emotions are going to be running high.
And I think it's one thing to maybe slip up
and maybe talk to a teammate in a way that you don't need to.
But as long as you can take accountability and say,
you're right, I don't need to be doing that,
it's not going to happen again.
As I think Hot and Cold is a 10 player to do, that's OK.
Fabian is aware of the team's mental state, right?
He knows how to reset this squad.
They're a very mature team, despite how young they are.
So I do think I'm able to reset this.
I love that tax I'm open flabby and a bit early can be a bit risky,
but sometimes that's the call you have to make when you're a coach.
Class has been the second most played map tied with bank and layer,
believe it or not. We haven't seen any layer ourselves.
That's crazy. There's been six plays of layer and none of them have occurred
under our site.
He's not a map where all four bomb sites will be shown.
There's no bar stage just yet.
I know that you and I joked about this in one of our matchups yesterday.
I think it is highly unlikely that we will see it unless all hell breaks loose or in a desperate attempt to catch your bones off guard
Every bombsite defender sided cast DC TV TV by far and away the most favorable territory here
Yeah for the defenders and they lost it and 80 did lose it and they because
Because the only bombs that they've won is downstairs. They can go back there
They've opted for Jim Pedgerm though also a good one
But still a little confusing as to why they don't want to go with cash DC TV. It could be because of the operating
Yeah, well, we'll see an east side over clear happening from Webo led by speak easy on that Monty
Hopefully this is something that something had put into the sheets of paper that horsey gives to his teammates
I would I'd love to get a copy. I don't think they would share it with me Parker
That's probably top secret information, but maybe they think you're a webo spot
You're going to take it and just deliver it right to them.
Well, Parker, I would do no such thing.
But listen, this is going to be a nice pinch going on right now.
This gym position is really, really awkward to hold onto without a zombie, so the diffuser's going to talk to us.
Oh, boy, diffuser in a real tough spot. There's some heavy lifting for him to do inside a weight room.
Reeps picks him off. Flores drone was answered by a nature of selling.
Now a slip from the Goyo. There's a lineup from Hobbit using the new DMR on the newly reworked stature.
That DMR hits like a truck, which should be no surprise.
Anybody who plays this game knows how good DMRs are at this present point in time.
We always remind you, if you are a casual player, launch your game,
click DMRs, you're hero, really freeze.
Reeps almost gets another.
As you see a swing from Kino over towards that jacuzzi breach,
Gavin picks up a double.
Reeps still posts up on this position.
Speakeasy encroaching on the bomb strike.
Hot and cold deals have been quite easily swings onto Hoven.
And it's Reeps's last man's game against Gunnar and Gavin.
Sidearm out!
No way!
Reeps gets both of them!
Final two kills!
Dunn found it.
Frankly, I don't know how they went around like that, Parker.
The beast is what Huffin types into Chad.
And I mean, that's exactly what he did in that round,
went beast mode to clutch up in that 1v3,
makes that space there, initially trying
to commit to a gym plan.
and that's really default, especially with that early kill into Defuser.
You'd expect that from Waybo.
Speak Easy, about halfway through that execute makes a really interesting call
to get off the Defuser and push into Bat Room.
It's quite aggressive. I was a little confused by it,
but it did seem to catch NAD off guard.
It starts to push some of them back, and even though Speak Easy died,
Reeps was able to follow up on that aggression, follows his Monty in,
makes that pressure, turns into frags,
and just does things that only Reeps can do.
a miraculous play from the Starfrager of Weibo.
Entering into today's matchups,
Weibo has the best round differential
in the entire tournament, plus 20 round differential.
They are winning their maps, they are doing it quickly,
they are very, very efficient.
So because of the history that Weibo has,
you need to be a little bit concerned
with them running up the score.
Obviously it was a 2-0 victory over Nip.
Start off the group stages a couple of days ago,
And then a 2-0 over Fir-X.
Webo has tomorrow off, and then is back in action against Team Heretics on Friday.
Both Team Heretics and Webo have clinched a spot on the, quote,
unquote, main stage, so that we in phase two,
neither of those teams can be eliminated.
Here's in group A, M80, Nipz, and Fir-X, all still in jeopardy, off going home.
Fir-X has today off.
And speaking of map differential, over on the B stream, Wildcard and Falcons are doing battle in the second match up the day on that stream.
And, my oh my, map one, Wildcard defeating Falcons 70 and with that scoreline, Elevate is the first team to be eliminated from the six-invitational.
Unfortunately for them, the APAC slash Brazilian team will still compete, but for really nothing
because no matter what happens, their fate is sealed, as you saw, the bears of fate that
was displayed on the screen on the pre-show wild card effectively knocking out.
Listen, at least something's going well for North America this morning because nothing's
going well for them on this stream.
M80 now struggling 3-1 down.
Their best case scenario is timed, their offensive half off the clubhouse and it starts pretty
strong on round five.
They get Havin' down to 1 HP, Daven in the scrafter's position, not to fortify on a zombie,
but doing a lot better than what we saw from them previously, 1 down and more on the way.
There's a clown car of Waybo players just running up the rafter stairs and he gets one,
and I mean, getting rid of the glass is actually a huge boon for M80.
The ability to just keep them locked in is so strong with any of these sniper operators,
be it glass, be it collie, etc.
So a little bit of a weaker push from Weibo will come in.
They do end up getting gav and with it they have Racer's control Echo receiving a third
drone in the mid-season changes just about a week or two ago.
And as you can see, Hot and Cold is piloting those yokais into positions where, I mean,
you're kind of like Valkyrie at that point, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, hoping to get some information with that when the push comes in.
Gunner and the Puget are putting them down.
Two players left alive for Weibo.
They're being stunned and smoked out.
They have to try to get a plant down, but I'm not sure where look at all this intel. It's being cleaned from these yokai drones
M80 playing as well as you could possibly imagine after sacrificing Gavin now. It's all up to turds to
On top of red stairs choking on some gas disoriented from the yokai and impact thrown at him
What was it used to get rid of turd?
M80 finds another round and that again
the defender side of nature of that bombsite, far and away the best soil,
the fertile soil for the defenders and it works so effectively for them.
Wabble were very quick to open up that breach and then decided to pivot over
towards the garage and rafters portion of the map. There just wasn't enough
support ultimately to take down Gavin. I do wonder how it plays out if Gavin is
punished before the glass can go because the glass posts up on rafters Jesse.
You can control all the way through both of those bomb sites
And if you want to maneuver over to watch hot and close position on red stairs
I actually really like their position in the 4v4 Parker full actors control with over 60 seconds
It's usually a great spot to be as an attacking team
I think you can not have a heart breach to open up from rafters into the bomb site made things a little bit more awkward
They had a couple of players that were seemingly stranded in garage due to that and then diffuse kick trying to go in through construction
The fact that it was also being held by Hoven, who had one health, that was probably a bigger issue.
Because once they get struck, you can't get a slant down CC.
Effectively on the other side of the bomb site, really awkward little ends of the round from Webo.
But those are mistakes that happen in high pressure situations.
They'll get one more chance to attack. That's down on the basement here, where N80 will go for the third time this game.
They started with a very heavy roam, they reigned it back in the second attempt, and they're gonna go for that once again.
But even worse, Gunner, punished on an early aggressive peak,
and the Skopos will have no impact today.
Changing mics!
Oh, they've been very quick to go to chat!
And I mean, why not?
If you can use it as a sign of mental warfare
and get under your opponent's skin, that is part of the game.
I know that there are some viewers who might not like
that teams will talk trash to each other, but...
I mean, it's a competition.
Competition will bring out the best and the beast in these players and sometimes
Beast shows up
Toxic trust. Oh, yeah
Nice little punish there on the gunner. So you've got yourself that man advantage. How little rest of M80 responds
Looks like Gavin's gonna take that as an opportunity to re-aggress up on towards the top floor
He's playing just talk red at the moment
The future as well in a precarious position playing in stock with multiple angles train his direction has the hatch
but can't really do a whole lot from this spot.
Gonna fight them and wants to take the kill
and he takes down Turd.
Nicely well played.
He's not much longer for this Earth.
His hope is there to gun him down M8
and now just down to two players.
Their support's hot and cold and Kino remained
and make that just hot and cold.
I mean, entrenched in the bombsite with your Yokai drones.
Your teammates will be able to use those
very similar to Black Eye cams,
Bulletproof cams, defaults, et cetera.
At this point in time, you are nothing but a guy.
I know my goodness, he almost gets all of them!
Haun Kold with so many targets, he does an immense amount of damage, only claims two,
and Waybo ultimately dog-pile him.
That's the first half in the books.
Waybo taking the statistical weaker side of Clubhouse 4-2, albeit it is their map.
Yeah, with a better gun, maybe Haun Kold can clutch that one out, but in the end it's
not quite going to be enough in the 1vx.
4-2 side split, you're right Parker.
That's not where MAD wanted to be.
They're going to have to really pull things back on their attack.
Now, I know MAD are a great attacking team.
We've seen that from them before.
When you talk about their attacks,
we often focus on how objective focused they are.
They had the highest plant percentage of any team
coming to the six-invitational.
They loved their shields.
They loved to plant.
And none of that has really been focused here in the bans.
Thermite and Gamos being removed by Weibo. Thermite is a very common band on Clubhouse just because Hardbridge is so important on this map.
Gamos is a little bit of a strange band, but it was Gavin's most played attacker yesterday. Gavin can be incredible with that operator.
We know how good he is with a pistol based on that clip defended at map 1 yesterday.
So, not going to be a tool available to them and might imply that Weibo will be going for some heavy roam strategies if they want to avoid that Gamos track.
It is worth noting that the average amount of diffuser plans across the entire event at this point is just 3.
Permap?
Yeah, it looks like 3, unless I am mistaken.
I'm assuming it must be Permap because I have to imagine teams have done that.
But the reason why I say that is because M80 is at 4.
M80s only played a single best of three at this point. Most teams have played two matches at the stage in the tournament.
There are obviously a couple outliers, but the fact that M80s are already that high with how few games they've played,
actually beating the average, be it permap or in general, just goes to show how strong your point is.
This is an objective focused team. M80 will now walk the case in with Daven holding Diffuse Kit,
Hot and Cold, he can play shields, Kino can play shields. You don't have a distinct hard breach on the side of M80,
So they're going to go with this dual hard breach focus of the striker of diffuser and the grim of Gavin
Why bother with a dedicated hard preacher bring guns bring secondary utility bring a shield
You've got pretty much all the makings of a decent lineup
It really comes down to I want to see how confident MAD are entering because I'm gonna tell you
Maybe he's looking like they're a little shaky through those first six rounds
They're not playing with the same level of confidence that we've seen before
Oh, no doubt, Wavell want to take advantage of that by going for such a heavy roam game.
You don't need hard breach when you're trying to clear a guy on a top floor,
when you're trying to clear these roamers, that's where you want the logic bombs,
that's where you want the greenbies to come through.
A couple of these players have now started to fall back.
It's really just been Turd who's left up on that top floor inside a construction,
bit of a wrap position, very similar to the role Gunner was playing on his defensive side.
But instead of the Scopos, he'll bring some more utility to help out his anchors.
Just based on N80's position, I don't think they've seen him up on that top floor.
They might assume that there's somebody here, but with where Gunner's playing,
this could be a really big mistake if they don't get aware of where Turd is playing.
It's as cheeky with how I made he roams on this map.
You gotta go for a full clear, right? They've already expended one logic bomb.
They see the utility upstairs, the meat jammers, they've gotta know.
Yeah, they have a feeling. They might have drone him directly,
but they definitely know somebody could be here and they'll hear the phone call now.
Immediately he turns to silencing it.
Gunner realizes he can't spend too much time here because there is an actual objective
that you need to complete and two minutes have now fallen off of the clock
and they maybe have really come out empty handed on this roam clear.
Kino sees that underbarrel red dot sight on the wall of escape tunnel so he knows somebody's
playing close by. What weaponry they're dealing with is anybody's gas.
Juggling his shield now, hoping for a swing, but great patience for Weibo.
45 seconds left.
I'm about made a little bit closer, that's going to keep that Kibo alive and make it even harder to push out through dirt.
Oh my goodness, there's turrets to backstabbing.
This M80 assault down goes Kavan.
Kino still posted up on dirt tunnel as a flurry of bullets go past him.
Off into your cabin, down the side of Weibo, there goes Hoven.
As now, an answer back from Speakeasy taking down Gunner and he can retreat back over to church.
to church, Waco sweeping through all four final members of M80, put in the dustbin of that round,
and it's a fifth round for Weibo. Is there two away from sealing the fate of M80 on Weibo's map?
And it's incredible to watch Weibo all be on the same page every single round. That defense was
beautiful because while it started as a full roam, everybody falls back and they leave just
turd alone up on that top floor. Now, M80 know he's there. They've got Gunnar hunting him down,
aware of his position thanks to that logic bomb and they've got hot and cold playing on the nomads
so you can set up those airjabs and yet still turd finds a way to get that flank down he comes
through blue he ends up with two kills in that uh in that round while the rest of his teammates
just hold down sight they don't overextend they don't play crazy they play behind their kibas
their utility and they really do lock things down on sight i believe like the yokai cam as well
Which saw gunner on the main stairs that gave the information to turd that okay. I can't flank main
Maybe I can go flank down red does exactly that finds the gap and hits it perfectly really good play by the New Zealand player
There's been a lot of chatter about
What role does IQ have on a team?
And
When you saw a
Bevy of info ops being brought by M80
back five rounds ago. What operator did Weibo bring but IQ? Yep. And used it
perfectly to counter only of course after I think it was Gunnar on the
Skopos. Yeah. Roamed and got it killed. Only then were they like oh there's they're
using it to support him. Okay let's find them. Sure. And it was a great response
by that you know. Now obviously it didn't end up working out in that round but if
you know that they're gonna be bringing a ton of intel off. So if you know there's
gonna be a lot of electronic gadgets there especially ones that will be used
to enable a rogue? That's a great way to bring IQ, because you're not going to be using that
big Thatcher cannon to see where everything is in blasting EMPs on it. You just want to
use a scanner to determine where the cams, where the yokites, where the reed jammers,
what do I have to deal with here? That could have been a response that I maybe could have
used, and keep in mind, we are long past the days of attackers being locked in. You can
switch off with all but a couple seconds left in the Cup phase, so you can bring a Thatcher,
You can bring an IQ to counter these hard intel ops, oh my.
That was a close one.
Speakeasy and Gavin were almost shoulder to shoulder in that blue door and that would
have been very, very bad for Speakeasy.
Yeah, going for something a little cheeky, hunting down without, uh, without pay, but
doesn't manage to find anything there, so I can just go back to the site.
The other shield across the map is clearing rafters now, though, and this is going to
be Turd's job to stow this guy down as much as possible.
If he can stay alive, get a killer too, this would be massive for Turd.
This is a very typical extension upstairs on rafters.
You've got to keep a barrier as you've already opened up.
You've got the ADSs.
Try to bring those ADSs.
Use the shield to put some pressure
and they need to cap it out there.
That is a perfect clear by M80.
It is a lot of utility that is expended
by both the defenders and the attackers.
But there is a rhythm to this part of the map
and M80 comes out ahead.
All right, well, we'll take that for sure for M80.
Still got to breach this wall.
Once again, they have full reinforce from rafters
that brought some Havana pellets from the diffuser,
as well as a tunnel from Gavin.
so it shouldn't be a problem.
60 seconds to work their way through as well.
You gotta feel that way they need to do something.
They have no more nature cells to toss out.
They don't really have a lot of plantamal other than this clash.
They've got to find somebody to get aggressive to disrupt this plan.
If MAD are allowed to do what they want, they will get a plantamal.
How many opportunities if MAD had slipped through their fingers
or they could have done some damage to the clash,
they almost get her to do the feed holes as well.
Pumbin isn't just lying on the ground,
completely dominated by MAD.
Kino can walk on a Kino leaving the team with seven kills by the way something
We don't say all that often diffuser and op-ed will trade out separate players
And now op-ed will go down below leaving speak easy to hold this together upstairs
We only 20 seconds left the castle of op-ed will now reunite with his teammate speak easy working his way through cash
Kino pulling off a successful diffuse and look at who's tucked into the corner heads gab and
Finding one kill on the speak easy still in a powerful position
Position but he's rewarded by a shot to the head by op a who now has to find three more players
One of which is the fully extended Monty of Kino
This is an almost impossible task
Opening a Monty somehow op a gets the pick on the gunner and will now have to deal with Kino as well
Knocked on over and Kino finds his eighth kill to keep it as close as humanly possible
possible that would have been match point for Lebo, but in
comedic fashion. Always nice to see a always nice to see that
air jab. Kino was able to take advantage and win the round for
me. Even in rounds where I think strategically M80 are
completely dominating. Weibo have the guns to take everything
close that wealth way closer than it should have been very
standard from M80. A Raptors clear with the main breach open
nothing crazy about it. You gotta wonder a little bit what the
plan was from Wable to dedicate a lot of resources to Rafters with those ADS's and the Kiba barriers.
And then they had the clash from Speak Easy and Op A kind of playing aggressive towards Red Stairs.
And when your Rafters player falls so quickly and that Red Stairs aggression doesn't really pay off with anything,
you just don't have a lot of tools to stop M80 from going for that plan.
They didn't have planked them out, they couldn't really go for a flank because of the push that was going on there.
They kind of all relied on clubbing, ratting, and hoping, ratting the corner.
So, unfortunately, I didn't really go their way from Wave-O, something to rethink maybe, but I made you.
Looking pretty clean in that round. Keep it to 2.
Another fun fact about Wave-O here, Jesse, with the current scores being what they are on the bottom right of your screen,
and with the scores from the previous two games, every single player on Wave-O has a positive KD at this point in time.
The only player that had a negative KD entering this matchup was speakeasy at a minus 2
with the 6-5-4 scoreline he has now drawn even if you include the assist.
So, that is a pretty big accomplishment for a team to now be in their third best of three
and have every player with a positive kill differential.
Now, I'm no mapologist like you are.
Yup.
Really?
But I...
So I'm going to quote Fabian, there's no way to talk to your teammates.
Well, Parker, I apologize, you're right, you're right, that's my bad.
You might be the lone Albert who actually knows how to do math, so...
Once again, the gym bedroom hold coming out.
This time from Weibo, of course, their third bomb set to be brought on Clubhouse,
and it does look like M80 were looking for an east over clear.
They've got a couple of drones here for them to speak easy,
easy, which is finding out that maybe it's not a full commit. Opening up that
breach, deny the angle on the CC window and then rotate players over towards
Jim, over towards Jacuzzi, over towards the Loggy Hatch as well. A lot has been
opened by M80, but not a lot has been taken so far.
This is a full clear now as Oh My Hot and Cold bottles one of those
Candelas, anticipating the lob out, down goes off a turd still, trade off
diffuser, so neither team with an advantage as they will come to blows
halfway through this round.
Turds is next to die as Gavin asserts himself over by Red.
It's a scramble for the three remaining players of Labo to get back into the bomb site and just bunker down at this point.
A sizable stack up from them, 80. Over on Red Stairs through Cash.
Great player, hot and cold able to distract those site players. He even baits Offade to jump out on him and he manages to survive.
If he dies, it's very scary, but he doesn't do so. Kino and Gavin easily come through that east side with the help of Gunner.
So that's gonna be a lot of map control for it to M80. I like their timing here Parker
I like their positioning and they've got the man count advantage as long as they can avoid these yokai drones
There's already wasted that night yourself. This should be a clean push
And I mean look at the shotgun that's being run by hot and the idea is that he will support Kino here Kino having some
difficulties over in lodging getting knocked over by a yokai drone still up right but a little disoriented gunner had died moments before and now
Another blast as Kino is surviving for the time being
He's being used to try to deal with these last two players of Weibo standing in Kino's way.
The third player far removed from the altercation.
Gavin has been dropped.
Kino and Hotten reduced to basically rubble.
Speakeasy taking no prisoners on the shield.
Supernova in hand.
And my oh my.
Supernova is a great word to describe this Weibo team.
Yeah.
Has their up 6-3 on map 1 and have looked like one of the best teams.
if not the best team here at SI so far.
I mean, what did I just say around to go, Parker?
Even when Weibo looked like strategically,
they might not have set themselves up
for the best late rounds.
Their guns are ridiculous.
They hit shots that nobody should be able to.
I love Hovind getting aggressive on the Jacuzzi Bridge.
He just barely finds the head of Gunner
to equalize that into a 3v3.
Gunner was the one player not part of that east push
when we got to the execute, right?
Everybody else was trying to barrel their way in through Lodgy.
They didn't have any nades left to clear
that deployable shield, ended up being a real power position from Speakeasy as
he was able to work with both Hovin and Reeps, excellently done by Weibo. I just
feel like they've got such a good read on where the game state is, when they need
to get aggressive, and if they need to get aggressive, God, they will not miss
many shots.
Unfortunately for M80, they had to burn their timeouts so early in this
altercation that there is no parachute available for them, and I mean, Weibo's
was not going to call a timeout. I mean, you know, there's no way go well if you do that.
Did you imagine?
Just, you know what? For the sake of viewership, they're all about it.
Let's just call it. Let's not talk. Let's just let them talk. Yeah, I don't think. Gohan
is a fierce competitor. He's a really nice guy, but he's not the kind of guy who's going
to willingly sink his team.
Yeah. Oh my...
I remember actually back in the, I believe it was the APAP finals, Gohan talking a lot
with that's a good one with uh with vince
what he's been trying to do with this team um and
look at the little smile on his face you know they're tricky they're trickier
than you think those little tripmines they are
not it's not as straightforward as you think maybe i'm just not smart enough
don't answer my favorite quote from gohan in that interview was that
anytime you lose you don't lose you learn you know and i think that's
something that he's been able to inspire on his team
culture, getting better every single tournament, getting better throughout the year.
There's no doubt that this Weibo team had had their faults even going back to previous
organizations, previous seasons, but since picking up Gohan, it just feels like their
progress has sped up dramatically and they've been looking better and better at their single events.
I mean, think about Gohan's trajectory as a player now to coach.
If there's anybody who's spent a great deal of time learning, especially all that time he was in the Wilderness,
He was out of this competitive scene for a number of years, he's definitely living by example and to go from being on, you know
What if it wasn't for this current phase clan iteration many people would probably consider the high-water mark for the old phase clan when Gohan was on that
you know, he's
He's been a terrific competitor now. He's been able to become a coach and you know boy. Oh boy, you can see
The coaching obviously helps these players an awful lot.
They're good players, but with a good or great coach,
great players can become among the best.
And right now, obviously it's still early.
Things can change, but Weibo has really looked
like one of the most dominant teams here.
They may want to disrupt that narrative.
They're going to have to do a lot.
Those Denari tripwires that we were seeing get set up
inside of dirt will be a nightmare for this double shield
comp to try to clear through on the side of M80.
They've really committed to these shields.
They've been all season long, the number one shield team in the world, so we'll see if they can make something work with it.
Looks like there's a lot of pressure over towards main stairs. Kitchen hatch is of course going to be an objective, but so far,
Hoven's done a great job of keeping the hatch closed and not letting these can openers pop off.
Oh, my Maggie and I trust how three bottles from and maybe all around that kitchen hatch, they will finally get it open with just a little bit below a minute to go.
Everybody's still alive, so by my mark, this is the slowest round that we've seen so far from these teams, and go figure.
Waybo is on that point, so typically the team that is staring down that point, M80,
a little bit more patient and a little bit more practiced, so as to not throw this game.
Vaughton's likely to try to play inside of B, they've got the hole opened up for him,
he can make his way into the bomb site while the team cries to distract Moe though.
That's a nice read by Speakeasy.
Controlling at FMG, almost taking Kino down, and now it puts Kino in a bit of a risky situation, especially with impacts and smokes still available, but hold on!
They found their way into the bomb site, Gavin and Kino with two quick kills, Speakeasy takes down Gavin.
He needs to find Kino at some point, but he won't be able to do that, not from the grave, as Gunner finds one of his own.
Out goes the nitro cell, Hoban eliminating Gunner, running out of time, they have to get the diffuser planted.
Hovind's last man standing, seeing the blitz, out goes the impact, and great coverage from Defuser.
As M80 stays alive for the time being, still not point for Weibo, and probably still too close for comfort.
But Asaya relief sweeps through the bench of M80.
And we're starting to see M80 lock in a little bit here, Parker. He's been really clean attacks from them.
No mistakes, nothing crazy, nothing brand new. We're not bringing anything ridiculous.
We'll see how they adapt on Weibo's side.
Let's finish this game. One more round. What we're gonna do?
Look, let's do range in, we're gonna do the late rotate, okay?
They miss a lot.
That old one.
We'll come for them now.
Is it a catch or a basement? I think we go basement.
Yeah, yeah, but maybe after, you know?
So now, cash, what are we gonna do?
Bro, we're gonna pick the same stuff, the same clash.
But now, what are we gonna do?
We're gonna put the shoe down, this guy on the plot can't pick, they jump on window.
So we're gonna fight on garage.
Time they are pushing towards, we're gonna fight and win the round, okay?
That's the play.
Okay.
Okay, guys, keep going, huh?
We are the best.
It's also close. It's also close. Let's go. Let's go.
Let's go up there.
Might be one of the most efficient timeouts I've ever heard.
He didn't need that for 45 seconds.
That's for sure, Parker.
And we were just talking about Gohan's experience.
Once again, that 32 year old coach joined this team very recently,
the September of 2025, but he's really had a big impact.
And I think it's interesting.
He's focusing very much on one specific bomb site, one specific
on how they're going to play cash wanted to be easy to stick on the clash and I
talked about this after the round ended I didn't feel like the clash had much of
an impact in that previous round remember he and off they were trying to play
around those red stairs they were trying to get aggressive but ultimately they
just didn't do much for most of the round turd on the rafters position got
rolled over it was a very easy plan for m80 I think he wants that clash to be a
bit more aggressive be able to assist her a little bit in that rafters
position. I think he's right, you know, if they can pull that off, that's going to disrupt
M80's push. It's not going to allow them to go for that rafter's play that they went for last time,
but it's not the easiest thing either. Speakeasy's going to get over aggressive,
then that opens up his back to more angles. It opens the opportunities now for M80 to find
different positions onto him. I'm sure these Castle Barricades are part of the reason that,
are part of the way they're going to negate that, and they're going to allow Speakeasy to play a bit
safer down towards lounge, but difficult task that's just been given by the coach at Go-Hon.
Defenders have been doing an excellent job of drawing blood first, over the last four rounds M80 has drawn first-borscher on their attackers of drawing first blood, over the last four rounds M80 has drawn first blood every single one of those rounds, obviously they haven't converted.
Very effectively Kino was involved in two of those, he has been really quite terrific for this team today, he loaded into the server, he is far away excelling compared to his numbers yesterday.
He is presently the lowest rated player on the team and had the worst kill differential
coming into this matchup, but that is very normal for Kino, that is normal on his role,
that is normal on his execution, and frankly, when you're surrounded by three guys named
Defuser, Gavin and Gunner, you really shouldn't be the one getting the kills to begin with.
The reason why Kino is doing so well and support across the board from an 80ist excelent is
that there are two main entries that we've seen on this map, and there are two main numbers,
Gavin and Gunner are having a bad day numbers wise.
They are struggling against the good guns of Levi.
It's not necessarily that they're having a bad day, Jesse.
They're just not having as good of a day
as the Gunners on Levi.
So, a little bit of a nod there.
Oh, nice.
That is exactly what Gohan asked for.
They get aggressive with the clash.
They push up on the Raptors player
and they completely stop that push.
This is over, Jesse.
90 seconds to go in the round
and it's just Gavin and Gun...
It's just Gavin left.
Oh my goodness, Gohan said, listen, and boy oh boy,
did they ever.
Waybo, demolish, and 80 on map number one.
An incredible final round.
They do win their own map pick, but a 7-4 scoreline
over the defending major champions.
On route to what I have to imagine
is going to be first place in this group.
Waybo woke up today and chose violence.
Scary game from Waybo.
They played so well mechanically as individuals
and as a team coordinating, and then when things started to slip,
when they maybe didn't know what the last step would be,
where there was the direction from Gohan,
he came in and he finished the job.
One more map for a 2-0 for Wave-O.
Do they hit it?
We'll find out in a couple minutes.
to get into the next round.
match as well on the back of
their earlier matches. I mean,
this is the way both it as
APAC fans you always want to
see, but you just don't know
what they're going to turn up.
Blacks. I think it's really,
really confidently said they
are tuning up here at the
16th. Absolutely. I mean, we
were questioning, you know,
they haven't played against top
echelon teams, but clearly that
is in the case and then in this
round four, I mean, Reeks made a
phenomenal comeback for them to
be able to win this. I mean,
go back and watch this round four, watch Reeves in particular because he's out on the balcony
shooting open that gym window, baits the C4 out of hot and cold then hops on the rappel
upside down, grabs the kill on diffuser and that's what even allows them to open up that
site, gets that power control into gym and then the round just plays on like I said.
He makes that clutch happen.
I don't know how he does it time and time again.
He's the Chinese assassin as we've called him from time and time but again Reeves.
He is a big proponent again, just getting kills after kills after kills.
That follows into what you were saying in the map ends.
When you bring them to a map like clubhouse, the way that they're so explosive on it is
exactly what we saw.
They take their time.
They're always finding that first pick.
They're not giving an M80 a chance to retake positions, refight for positions and angles
to get that advantage back.
And then once it's too late, Weibo explodes onto the scene.
They're able to just get trade after trade and that was a success.
Now obviously this is a phenomenal game from Waybo, but the A-Stream is not all we had.
Earlier, Allovate lost their most important match of the Sixth Invitational, which meant
that their backs were against the wall.
We said that their fates were in Wildcard's hands.
All they had to do was win a map, and by God, they did not just win a map, Fox.
They cleaned sweet Falcons.
Yeah, which, I mean, I thought Wildcard was going to put up a fight, but the 7-0 against
that was expected. It ruffled
the feathers of Falcon so much
so that when I we're in between
the first map, I actually saw
all of Falcons outside. Licky
Beck was screaming at everybody
on the team saying, I don't
understand how we're losing.
You're making rookie mistakes.
We can't underestimate them.
Wildcard plays like they do in
scrims. That's not something that
most teams do and it shows that
they're giving Wildcard a little
bit of credit to. Yeah, but that
being said, they're coming back
with a lot of intensity because
they were very upset. Yeah, I
Yeah, I mean you're gonna give the underdogs their flowers as you would say right now
It is five to Falcons are up and I know that Falcons do get loud leaky fact, especially
I'm telling you right now. It is deafening in here when they win arounds
They are slowly and surely chlorine that came back and hopefully it will continue to go to a third map
But for us focusing on our second map here
Wabo are definitely looking confident, but we can't underestimate M80.
No, absolutely not. I mean, M80 has been down before. They know what it's like to be here.
They have resilience. You can't be a major winning team two times in a row without facing some losses.
And that's the thing that they're going to take away from is the mistakes that were applied in Clubhouse
and are we're sure going to fix it on the Consulate?
Well, it's a crazy, crazy thought that Wabo might actually be able to do it.
But I do have a probably more point of question.
Does this skew your perspective of N80 at all?
The fact that they started slow yesterday,
they're into today, they're going down to A-Pactine.
Yes, they're an A-Pactine.
They are the best that we've had probably maybe ever.
Is it skewing your perspective?
Not exactly.
I mean, is a slow star team.
I mean, I had a chance to speak to Pedro.
Their analysts outside as they were losing that first map
and he said, where does the slow star team?
That's the biggest issue when it comes down to it.
first three rounds on defense, we struggled, we didn't do anything, we couldn't retake anything,
but they know what they need to switch going into map two, but he needed them to lose or win that
map so they could have a chance to talk about it. So I'm expecting a different look at them maybe
this map. All right, well they're gonna have to, they're gonna have to dig their heels in Wayvon
currently in the way this is going. They were at the top, and to a say, that's not just behind us
right now, you cannot understand where the emotion is coming from. Let's go ahead and leave you in
in the kite with the hands of Jesse.
Whoa!
It's very, very excited about that match.
So we're excited about M80 Wave-O.
And I mean, hey, if you are an A-Pack enjoyer,
and I know that there are A-Pack enjoyers out there, Jesse,
you are feasting with this Wave-O team.
What a feather in the cap of Wave-O it would be
to humble the defending major champs by beating them.
Will they be able to pull it off?
This could be the end of the road for M80 today.
Let's find out on Consulant.
The major champions were supposed to have an easy road, everybody said this was the free
group for M80 and yet they have struggled their first day against NIP, barely getting
away with a victory and now down 1-0 to Weibo. They get to come to their map pick, they
get to come to Consulate, and this is a comfortable map for them. They beat NIP here yesterday
8-6. So it's not going to be a map that I'm 80 or unfamiliar with, but the nerves have
got to be setting in for the North American team. And I think Parker, just based on how
they played map 1, if I'm a gambling man, I'm going Weibo for map 2.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Weibo has been a bit of a surprise. This team's entire history
has been filled with mixed results right team Joel bleed now Waybo that's the
core structure of this squad I will say as doom and gloom as we might come
across for M80 there's only two things that you need to do you need to beat
nip and you need to beat fear X that is it well guess what M80 did one of those
yesterday they defeated ninjas in pajamas yeah it wasn't a clean 2-0 and
there were some struggles there from M80 but to M80's credit it was their
first match of the event, and sometimes the first match can be often the hardest.
Both M80 and Nip still need to play Phyrax.
So there is some potential here for Upset, and there is still some potential
for Nip to jump up, but ultimately four of the five teams make it onward, right?
Only one team goes home.
Nip and Phyrax are at the bottom of the group right now.
If you can beat both of those teams, you basically seal your fate.
Team Heretics and Waybo have both clicked to spot onto the next phase.
All M80 needs to do is either beat Wave-O here, or that ultimately do 2x, and even though they might not statistically do it, they basically don't.
Yeah, and you know, that's maybe a bit of a silver lining for these teams, but if you're an M80, getting out of the group is not the goal, you know, like you need to be entering, I would say, upper bracket, and you expect the buy, you expect to get first in a group like this.
I believe I saw a tweet from Fabian where he said, I don't care how well we do, I just want to win.
I don't know what he said.
Almost the direct opposite.
It's not a good partner, but yes, MAD have high expectations of themselves.
They need to be able to show a strong performance up against Weibo.
And I think that they have the potential to do it, but again, it just has to be better than on Clubhouse.
We'll start, of course, on the top four of Consulates.
And Weibo have really focused Kino in these operator bands, both Ying and Glaz, big operators for the Brazilian.
And we always talk about his Glaz play, but actually on Consulate,
Yang is his most played attacker.
So going to be interesting to see how he drives to adapt that.
Looks like it's the blockbinder of the round one.
And targeting Kino, who is the best player on MAD after map one.
I think he's a pretty good idea.
Not only does he play those annoying support nuisance ops,
but he is also the top fragger.
Best cost, best KV on the team, best performer so far today.
Now, admittedly, the numbers have been particularly great.
The worst player on MAD is Gunner.
A little under water on stats.
yesterday. Far and away their best player. So Gunners regressed a little bit. If he can bounce back and look a little bit more like his old self,
I think a maybe is more of a fighting chance here. Additionally, it is there. So a maybe will hopefully from a competitive perspective
show a bit more promise than they do. Well Gunners taking the position on the main balcony.
He's opening a breach with his can openers. Now he loves to play this position.
We'll always find himself over on the south side of the map when attacking the top floor.
Most of this push is coming east, but they've got good window pressure from bottom cold and a lot of gadgets being thrown into meeting.
One of the operators that received a small change, but still a significant change was the Lion.
He stands a little bit longer, you just saw how he was used to paralyze Weibo,
and immediately Gunner is off to the races. He and Gavin shredding through Weibo.
Diffuse Plant looked to be attempted by Kino, but he takes a bit of damage as does Gavin, so they think better of it.
You reference this before M80 a team that loves to plant the diffuser a nice toss up on the nature stuff from Speakeasy takes down
What little remained of Gavin but Speakeasy's got his hands full along with turd stuff as Gunner finds his second hit
And we're thrust into a post plant now. It's diffuser on the board
turds just shredding through Gunner
Potential three came to start things off for Gunner, but no Keenum keeping up from map number one
Excellent start by M80, and you can hear it as Joy seems to break out amongst the team.
Yeah.
They desperately need a shot in the arm.
Yeah, and I think that was it. You know, you hear that energy from Fabian and even from the players.
They're excited about that first round win, and I think it's because everything went to plan.
We saw it, but I think even in most of their clubhouse attacks, they had really good plans.
They were being disrupted sometimes by Weibo.
Wabo that time they got to execute everything that they wanted the pulse down below with a bit of a thorn in their side a
Bit of a wrench in the gears, but in the end they were able to work past it
They found solutions to that problem
They had players going down below us user down the visa stairs with one answer to it
He eventually got that pickup on to speak easy and whilst they did have to deal with thorn shops and smokes
It was nothing they weren't ready for it was nothing that had turned out ahead of time
perfectly played admin side over clear from I-80 and they set themselves up
with a 1-0 lead on what is now the most defender-sided map in the competitive
map. Did you not say that yesterday? I did. And now you say it again today? I say it again
today on the A-Stream. You let the B people hear you yesterday but now you
have to bring that and sprinkle that knowledge over to the A people. Everybody
deserves to learn partner my motto is that your motto that's what I say every day
everyone deserves to learn wake up stretch your arms turn your dots and go
good morning everybody deserves to learn all right let's start the day yeah it's
a good philosophy it's got me this far you get your nice fold yours in your mug
and enjoy your morning coffee you know me you know me heck of a way to start
the day consulates about middle of the road in terms of play rate we've seen
one fortress it's obviously at the bottom but beyond that it's actually been
pretty even across the map pool. Obviously the most played map so far has
been Chalet it is a touch above the rest but I mean we actually have some pretty
good map diversity so far and that's excellent on only day three because then
we don't end up in a situation where we're trying to court numbers on a map that's been played one or two times.
Nice entry yet again M80 despite their loss true first blood quite a lot of map number one
They've done so successfully here on map number two.
Speak easy, dies, that's the pulse.
And now, Hovind has to deal with a blitz,
as Kino looks to be quite the aggressor inside of Visa.
Nitrocell goes out, does not hit anything.
Hovind's been dropped, the Okai there for an assist,
and Kino should be able to clean up,
wary of what's down below, Jesse.
This is some good vert play from Weibo
to try and slow down his Visa push from M80.
Yeah, done a great job so far of clearing
these somewhat isolated players.
Obviously, Hoven was close to his teammates, Verticale there, vertically at least, but ultimately wasn't able to get much of an assistance.
So this is going to be a two-man advance from M80.
And again, you start to wonder who on Weibo is going to get aggressive to stop this push from coming out.
With full Tofflore control, M80 have a lot of options with what they can do with this plant.
Still three exothermic charges on Hot and Cold, so you got to imagine that that main breach is going to be getting opened.
You get the hatch open right now as you hear it explode on your 3 Rears.
So, we've got a lot of resources being used by MAD on this first flight.
Ultimately, I mean, if they're headed towards Yellow Stairs, part of them are headed towards the main breeze.
This looks very cut and dry. I don't know what the game plan is from Waverly to disrupt it.
A tough spot for them. They've lost some pretty decent intel on that pulse active intel, that is.
But you've also got two sets of eyes that can watch Yo-Kai drones.
As it says on the bottom, they're just watching, Jesse.
watching Jesse. They're watching. They're dialed in. 30 seconds to go. Perverbial rubber will meet the
proverbial road as you've got Ape looking for a late plate from above. Finds Gavin that was the
Ram watching. Hot cold a successful diffuse plant two for two so far for the team that loves the
objective. And now it's all up to Terence to down below on the bomb site as Reeps has been
felled. No kills so far for Reeps. In fact, fragging has been a huge problem for Waybo through
these two rounds it does not get any better. M80 starts off with a nice 2-0 on
console. Yeah I think the big thing for M80 if they're not given Waybo fair
fights you know Waybo are incredibly talented mechanical players they're so
good at the aim games at shooting you in the head when they can get a 1v1 but
you notice on the clear it's like a 5v1 it's like a 4v2 right there's always a
man advantage for M80 so even if they lose that first gunfight they will
trade out they've been winning their entries they've been using some smoke
some util to try to get those kills cleanly.
And then I think OpA going for that flank was the right call,
but it was too late.
By the time he's able to work the verse after getting
that kill on the top floor player,
the plant is already gone down by hot and cold.
MAD are just a little bit too quick on that execute.
And Webo don't have a good response in the 3v5,
so it's soft to an early lead for MAD on their map pick.
And both of these bomb sites are defender-sided.
The bottom four bomb sites statistically
is one of the most defender-sided sites
in the entire map pool at the moment.
And yet for an idiot it looked like a bit of a cakewalk.
The site that you typically lose
is the Expo Piano Bomb Site from a defender perspective.
So with Consulate, you're used to winning Top Gear,
you're used to winning basement,
and then you lose the middle four.
A fun little wrinkle.
Just like with Clubhouse,
only three bomb sites have been played.
We have yet to see the split site
of Teller's Archives up here.
So for this map, you've already lost
the two strongest sites as Wave-O.
Yes.
Yes.
When do you start to panic?
No panic yet from Gohan, I guess.
But you're right, Parker.
This is going to be setting off alarm bells soon.
If they can't win their tertiary sight,
attack time would have to come out, I think, sooner rather
than later.
Mid floor bombsite being played, which
means the top floor clear is likely.
They've dedicated a lot of resources
to keeping those walls closed up with the top floor.
I'm looking at Aupay on that.
Kyi is playing in sight.
So it won't be the first one into gunfights,
but his utility has done great work
to keep some of those walls closed top floor. He's got the wall kind of between CEO and
meeting, closed up with electrifying claw and then of course has his roamers up here
to play for him as well.
This doga bee's been a real hitterance for Weibo and it's a major pain this round though.
M80 quick to capitalize on the previous two rounds from those logic bombs will not be
able to do so this time but even if you don't get a kill you'll still get information through
After the two completed rounds, Wavo has only mustered two kills.
One round, one kill per round?
Really quite terrible.
This is much worse than what we saw out of M80 who had a slow start on Clubhouse.
This clear really didn't engage much.
They're actually happy to just set up their airjacks.
They get out of control and they say, we don't need vending, we don't need meeting.
We're good.
We're going to set up our traps and go elsewhere.
That's of course doesn't give them vert over the bomb site.
That doesn't give them that control that they're looking for.
Sometimes you'll see teams try to sneak a plant in without clearing the top floor.
Often that's done with some disruption, maybe a ying, maybe a capitao being tossed in.
So there's top floor players, but none of that's really been brought by M80, so we'll
have to see what their plan is to stop these top floor players as they go for their push.
Well, there's a lesion, Marnus, lowdown, Kino, Hot and Cold, and Defuser are both felled.
This will be Defuser's first death if he cannot be retrieved.
Down goes the Mazi as Gunner is elsewhere, six and oh, a terrific start from Gunner.
Complete turnaround as he's already eclipsed his kill total from map 1 and we're only 3 rounds into map number 2.
Trips will fall as well, the fusers will pick back up, so because of that, M80 is actually taking an advantage in numbers.
And with just under 40 seconds to go, that's a great time for it to happen. Remember, this is the bomb site the defenders are supposed to lose.
And yet, well, Wave was actually putting up more of a fight than they did through rounds 1 and 2.
things have been turned around completely off a shredding through these attackers.
Gavin now needs to go upstairs.
This is a rough spot for Gavin to find himself in Kino attempting to defuse play, but there's
that zero coverage.
Gavin is a mile away.
He'll charge over towards the bomb site, but I think this is all she wrote.
Reaps, who gets to kill, he was relatively quiet that round.
Diggs are backwards.
This is the bomb site that defenders are supposed to lose.
The other two are the ones that defenders are supposed to win and well that's not what
happened, the complete opposite.
So, at least Weibo gets on the board, I guess no cause for concern just yet as they looked
a little bit more poised that round.
I was getting a couple of flashbacks there, Gavin in a 1vx, Nomad pistol in hand, running
through the sights, I thought anything's possible but Lighten doesn't strike twice
and it will be Weibo getting on the board that round.
It is typically thought of as the worst bombsite of the three Parker but I also think M80's
push was a little bit less coordinated, a little bit worse of an idea when they went for it.
We noticed how they didn't full clear top floor and we were a bit confused by that and then immediately
speak easy from the top floor gets a vert kill as they try to jump in through that closet. I think
they were hoping the distraction from the admin push would have been enough if they were quick
enough to rotate right there to the closet window that could have gotten in. It's not the plant down,
but unfortunately the top floor players like speak easy were way too quick to recognize what was
going on, and I think just as importantly, Opé in the site with that TCSG was hitting
some brutal shots that NA used to have no chance against.
Yeah, those, that one-two punch of Opé was really something.
I mean, that's what TCSGs do, right?
You got the eight-cog on it.
It hits like a truck.
We are a little bit past the days of where you get hit with a single TCSG slug, and you
would be at 20 HP for the remainder of the round, but that thing is still an absolute
powerhouse of a weapon.
There are a few DMRs on defense that I know the TCSG is technically a slug shot.
The gun aficionados are gonna get that with what I'm gonna say, but it is effectively a dmr at this point for most players
Yeah, so if you've got the access to a greater scope
Optic housing and you've got a gun that can do some serious damage you take it and as you can see
Reaps and turds
We don't see them going back to the top floor
They're not exactly repeating their sight rotation you lost both basement and top and figure to play both again
anyways, why not mix up give them a bit of a chance to
Get in the minds of your opponents. Don't make it so obvious what you're going to be going for.
Last time this top floor clear was pretty solid by M80.
They didn't have to play against many roamers, but they cleared the one out very quickly.
Weibo committing to an even more conservative hold with all five players down in the basement.
Likely to be a good two minutes before we get any action to this round.
All the discovery phase while teams sit on their drones and attempt to figure out where
these players are situated.
It is fine that we talk a lot about NAD in their streams, but we don't usually highlight
their drone work all that much.
You think that's just because it's relatively average, or do you think there's just so much
more for us to talk about?
No, I think it's the latter.
I think their drone work is very strong.
We've seen it a couple of times, I think even back to round one, how good their drone work was.
Being able to find a lot of those thorn traps, being able to discover certain utility, even if they're not...
...right, like hot droning and finding a rat position. They're finding a lot of that U2, which they've been able to problem-solve around, which I think has been really nice.
And right here, we're seeing that again. Maybe it's not a drone that's spotting out player positions, but you spot the electroclaw, you spot the...
...the tube route being played here as well, so you know all that's going to come up on this main breach, and it allows M80 to problem-solve and find solutions to get this wall open.
in ways they otherwise probably wouldn't have.
No flank drones and no dedicated flank watch operator.
What a shot by Reeps that appeared.
Diffuser softened up as he was engaging with some bird play
himself, the buck in a very, very strong spot.
Typically, where you'd see a ram get used,
Matt's diffuser in the ground.
Wave on with a great start with a minute still left to go.
Second time now across two maps,
we're seeing Wave will go for really anchor-focused
basement defenses.
And it didn't work on Clubhouse Parker.
I'm not sure if it's working so much on this one either.
You have to imagine with Webo's incredible gun skill,
if they want to win these rounds,
they have to get into gunfights.
But they're patient, right?
You've got to wait for M80 to bring the gunfight to them.
I don't know, I don't know how they'll confront
this yellow push now.
As Keena looks for an opportunity to go in,
waiting for the smokes to go off there, they will.
Slightly concealing his position.
Now he's frozen out by the Zodo canister.
Gunner on the board, keeping up his consistent play
as he's at seven kills now through these three,
almost four completed rounds. Gavin's sidearm out, down goes Reeps two, Turd's to Barry,
and there are no kills remaining on the two players who are still alive on the side of
Wabo, one of them bleeding out, the other still active with the gun. Gunner finding Turd's
done, Humming watching from above. Kino getting diffuser to the halfway point, the Damos to
Gavin keeping him away, down goes Gavin. Oven thought he had something, but that vert play
will not be his friend and now you got a post plant a 1v3 with the shield still
upright all you need to do is watch those stairs watch the main entries back
gunner with three kills on that round an impressive run of his yeah 8-1 for
gunner through four rounds averaging two kills per round that is terrific and
m80 you're up 3-1. again the full anchor doesn't pay off will we get attack
timeout from Gohan is my question Parker they're down 3-1 attacking on car
are defending on Consulate I should say, doesn't?
So guys, guys, look, let's win this,
let's two hounds on defense.
So look, what you gonna do?
Ladies, the jungle one, okay?
But let's put a lot pressure on enemy, okay?
And be patient on the drone, guys.
Less hounds, we lose on top,
they have like only one extra drone or maybe two.
And you guys don't notice that, you know?
So next time they do that, bro, just hold position, you know?
Now we're gonna have five players on top,
so that's win this shit.
And after that, after that,
We're going to have feathers again.
You're just going to go back piano.
Go back piano.
So yeah, we're going to do the flip one, OK?
I'm fine.
Yeah.
Yeah, the flip one.
Safe.
Let's go.
Let's go, guys.
You're doing great, huh?
Let's go, let's go.
You just need to fix those, some details, and you'll
need these sheets.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's go, guys.
Let's go.
Hard time, huh?
Really interesting to hear the difference in the tap time
motion of two coaches.
And I think it largely has to do with the difference
in circumstances.
Fabian's one tap timeout to start this series
was very focused on communication, player behavior,
the emotional side of the game.
And then we see it from twice from Gohan,
where he's very strapped focused.
And I think that is more what Weibo need in a situation
like this, where they're already qualified to play off.
So the nerves maybe aren't quite as high for this APAC team,
who have been just crushing the competition
through the first two days of Paris.
But it kind of does come back to what I was talking about,
where maybe sometimes you're mixing things up
by playing the full anchor strategy.
But you're an aggressive team, right, Mark?
You've got to play with your strengths.
You've got to play aggressive.
You've got to go and fight these guys on the roam early.
That is what Webo have shown that they do best.
That is what M80 have struggled with the most
so far through this series.
So I hope that we do see more of that from Webo coming forward.
Don't be afraid to fight them as they get in the building.
Don't be afraid to fight them underneath or above the bomb site.
Make it messy.
Make it scrappy.
Don't let M80 get set up in these executes
that they've been really enjoying so far on that too.
Not to take away from your point,
but I've already got some people very angry that I called GMR or the TCSG of GMR,
so thanks for taking the bait, everybody. Really appreciate you.
Uh, there we go. Always good to get interactions.
Yeah.
That's what we're here for.
That and maybe it.
Every day I wake up and I say,
alright, everybody, let's get some impressions.
And then I drink my own cup of Folgers and I go about my day.
We're still in our lifestyles, you know.
We do live a very, yeah, that's true.
Uh, we're a little quaint Canadian living.
This is kind of what I was talking about, by the way.
Fighting things a little bit more aggressive as they get into the building.
This is an old C4 that was popularized right when this map was first coming into the map.
It's beautiful.
What's that?
Shot his own C4.
And I think he's, I think he's laughing about it.
Hovinshot, his own teammate C4.
Yeah.
So the lineup from Reeps was perfect and then Kino was probably thinking,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, and then Hovinshot.
And then Kino lived.
It happens.
But something small like that can have such a profoundly huge impact on a round.
Yeah, 100% and even in the mental department, right?
Hopefully you can laugh at it because those things can make a big difference.
Was on door shield operator?
May or may not have died to that, but even still, that extra damage would have been nice.
It would have been a lot of damage.
It would have been a lot of damage for sure.
If it didn't have an eye kill him, it would have been a lot of damage.
He was right in the space.
But with this admin clear parker, they're actually rotating and 80.
They aren't going to go for the same style of push they went for last time.
Last time they've rotated the fuse kit up towards the north. They're gonna go for a fast play. It looks like around spiral
Weird blend of the line up that was brought him rounds to three my goodness diffuser is not exactly having the best day so far
Is this a double up for weibo in terms of kills Gavin and diffuser both gone the 3v5 for me to become
So 3v4 is Kurtz just still looking for his first kill drop
Kino in on the action guns down species he traded out by off a immediately
And it's all up to hot and cold who's also shredded by op a the timeout working wonders in the gap between these teams now reduced to a single round
Of all the players attending the six of the national parker a hundred people are competing here at this tournament
I don't think anybody has impressed me as much as op a has he is attending his first ever SI
He's the only player in this lobby to be an SI rookie because he was not a part of any of those former SEA rosters not bleed
not Joel, etc. that many of these players have played on in the past.
So he's making his SI debut, he was phenomenal for the first two days of competition,
and even today, I just think he's so smart in his positioning.
He saw him in the TCSD earlier, that kill right there onto the back of Kino,
I think put the nail in the coffin to end things out,
also cleaned up the Blackbeard limits to that round.
Ape has consistently been finding high-impact kills late into the round,
whether he's playing on the bombsite or whether he's off on a roam.
The 22 year old has looked really, really nice on Weibo and it makes me ask the question,
why wasn't he at any of those XIs before?
Because this guy's crazy.
It's not his first live event, so he has at least competed on land before, but you're right.
I mean, but sometimes, especially in APAC, depending on the way that the APAC sub-regions work,
there was always good teams and good players left at home.
That's right, right?
Yeah.
Two-year point about him being one of the best players at the event.
The numbers also back you up.
Here is the current top five highest rated players through two play days.
Number one is Solz, Chogger, number two is Cyber, obviously, obviously, and then
fourth is Hanson and fifth is Herd. That is incredible company to be in.
Really impressive stuff, especially as Neopack players, especially playing next to Reeps,
who always gets the flowers on this Weibo squad. But yeah, they definitely deepened their roster
here this season and have been looking better than ever.
That way you just offer a brief second
is why you keep your shadows at the highest possible setting
when you play.
Because turning off shadows actually
does get rid of the ability for you
to see certain players outside of the building.
You saw the shadow skim across that barrier outside
of the window.
That's information.
It's the same as when you're playing clubhouse
and you're in rafters and garage.
When somebody is swinging you from the left side of the goal
and you're on rafters, you can see their shadow before them.
Keep shadows on, kids.
This round, we're going to see fire fighting
with fire. We've got Gunnar on the capitol who's going to be playing up against Speak easy on the Chonka and the CEO position.
Speak easy is a great spot to deny the plant vertically, protect himself with that fire grenade.
But if Gunnar can hit a great arrow, he can force the Chonka out of position, maybe get himself a free kill on the top floor.
Lost his team, tries to sneak a plant in down on the main floor.
It's been a while since we saw Davos shunt him, just a few favorite you've played recently.
but I saw Hotton playing the shotgun on yin and yin earlier on clubhouse now
It's Kino running that SAF shotgun in the hands of Deimos
And I mean it's gonna function a lot of ways similarly to these other ops where you've got your sidearm as your main gun
I saw that razor bloom go off
But I mean he had a shield so it didn't do too too much damage Kino the demos that we're talking about first one in the grave
Gavin
Join him before the body is even cold the op a continuing his reign of terror over the last couple rounds now
amounting to seven kills. The rest of the team, combining for nine, Ape at seven, that is quite
the amount I've been on his role. You can just play with impunity.
And they're speaky, too. I was just talking about him playing up above the bomb site, has a great
spot. Ape finally goes down, but is it too little, too late, Parker, out here than it is?
You look at the utility that you see on the side of Leibah, and honestly,
isn't that much. Just when you've got five of the Molotovs, they can tickle. They don't do a ton
a ton of damage.
Haun Kohl might actually be able to get away with this successful defuse plan, his gun
watching the coverage, Hove and attempting to get back to the bomb site.
Haun Kohl's been shredded, Gunner on 10 kills and Reeps will say that's quite enough.
That's the first half in the books and guess what?
Three rounds of peace.
Turds the man, they're just making out, getting carried like, he's from New Zealand?
Yes.
Getting carried like a baby koala.
I think that's like a 0-5, 0-5 getting carried his way through that first half.
is that playing pure utility. Don't get those impressions Parker. I'm just
rage baiting. I'm farming it today. You know it's like when I wake up every
morning I just think to myself gotta get those impressions. I'm gonna have to start
waking up in the morning and thank God I wish Gohan was my coach because I think
he really has done an insane job. Both of his talktime notes he's talked about in
the first map he talked about one strategy one round and this map talked
about two rounds two strategies. Every time he says guys we're gonna do this
They do it exactly like he calls and they win the round because of it
I really think that Gohan is a is an underrated piece of this team
Kind of replaced me be as the head coach of this way
Oh squad late last year me be still on as an assistant coach
So still likely doing a ton of work behind the scenes
But when it comes to the end the moment calling I think Gohan's been doing a great job with that and
Maybe still sitting a three-three tie, but weibo looking like they're starting to pull things back in this game
I mean there's no reason why they look like one of the best teams at this event
It doesn't matter who they go up against, right? I mean you want to be the best you have to beat the best dude
Yeah, and what more of a statement than taking out the defending major champs
Suspection on their own map. I mean a devastating loss for M80 if they lose consulate here
That's way about taking the series 2-0 and indisputably topping the group. So it's
Again, this is something that you know team heretics obviously is something to say about this
But for a lot of people, MAD and Nebo were the high-water mark for this group, often considered to be the top two to go out.
Spurbootie's been doing a lot of our stats for us.
You know Spurbootie very well. He's done stats for a ton of events. He's really quite terrific at his job.
He showed off a graphic to us yesterday of the percentage of coach timeouts translating to an immediate round victory.
This was from a couple years ago.
You know, it's crazy, acing a lot of the coaches who aren't around anymore.
Goddess, actually, was the coach of Sonics at the time.
She had the highest conversion rates to credit to her.
But I would love to see that here, because we do talk about how good conversions are.
Go on, it's two for two.
Yeah, I actually had a conversation with Sprott a couple days ago, and he said that you will
have that later in this event.
So we look forward to that.
We should be able to get that in our hands very shortly.
For now, though, M80 will still have their attack time out to try to stop the momentum
swing.
3-3, depending on constant. I don't want to rain the alarm bells too early.
I would still rather be M80 in this game than Wable, but the momentum has shifted a little bit from what we saw through the first three rounds of this game.
Good information being gathered by Wable, and it leads to an entry.
Wow.
Not one, but two! Two players of M80 gone within the first 45 seconds.
Gunner the top frag on this team and in the entire server taking out all 10 of those kills will be in the ground as he was
Reinforcing and he gets killed through the opening that had been created earlier on
Now a lot will fall on the shoulder for remaining M80 players
I mean you got Gavin if you just still watch anything is possible
Speak easy just jumps on in and it's a flawless round. Holy smokes
a 2k from the glasses turned to breaks the goose egg as well and m80 take the lead or
Waybo take the lead on an 80s map, and I love the speed of that push from Waybo. They were in the building
35 seconds or so into that rounds. They had a drone in ceo
They saw the player reinforce and they said we can get aggressive here
Hogan was immediately in to try to secure that pick reaps gets another one right there after through one of the windows
And it's a really fast push that credits Weibo with that victory
Nicely done. I mean not much to say other than that was clean. That was a clinical
That was that was really really clinical and I I don't know if the rush was the intention
I mean look at the liner that they have
Glass, Lion, Union, Gridlock, that really does to me show a lot of versatility
You can absolutely go for a rush strat there
You can pin them down to the gridlock
You can pin them down with the glass, freeze them in place with the Lion, get to fuser down, you're great. Or
Or, you can go slow and set things up.
Use those secondary hard breaches to open things up slowly,
work your way across this top floor,
paralyze them with the line,
have the glass posted up somewhere to hold the cross,
and you're in a very powerful spot.
And I think a big reason why Weibo thrives so much in that situation
is because they're so good when they play fast,
and following that up with more and more kills.
They're the highest conversion team in this event,
from the end to day three.
So they win the highest percentage of rounds
if they can get that opening pick.
So if they do go fast, especially on the attack, if they notice a gap, if they can get that early frag,
they're so good at playing together and not letting those advantages slip away.
It's something M80 needs to be really careful for over the next couple of rounds.
And when you talk about that, Wabo has drawn first blood five rounds in a row.
They've only been unable to convert a single one of those rounds.
So M80 was also very good with conversions too, through this map and the tail end of the previous map.
So I mean both teams showing some success here
I do have to wonder if they hadn't gotten that early pick on gunner
Yeah, if they wouldn't have hit them, you know, they would if they would have hit the chance
Yeah, they got that pick on gunner and then they just said let's go go go go
Maybe the intention was always to be a quick push but certainly after that pick
This site was wide open for you. Well round eight time to reset. We go to the default bombsite of top four
This is very clearly gonna be a CEO take no secret about that and maybe we'll be well aware
They know that if they can get the buck out from below then they can go below to stop the plant
Reaps after opening some floorboards survives on one HP and gets out to his team
Speakeasy on the osa has the defuse kit in his pocket of course osa another one of those operas
I got a slight buff a little bit faster to put down and pick up that shield
But is it going to be enough when you're playing against these toxic wager quinoa and all the explosives that they could potentially have
times the stall potential from the Canadian they can ride out whatever obfuscation you want with the warden on the board
It will really hinge upon Reaps down below, but he's walking wounded.
There's very little left of them.
What remains is taken out by Kino.
So at least one player on M80 has a set of eyes down below,
and that is extremely beneficial for this North American team
who are looking to hold on for dear hope.
They've kind of lost the plot on their own map,
but they've got time to fix it.
And given that they picked this map, Jesse,
and with this being so defender-side,
it should be in a strong spot moving forward.
But just because you're there doesn't mean it'll happen.
This is awkward, but there's really no backup plan for Webo.
They have to commit to the CEO plans.
They've got to bait out those smokes.
Speakeasy takes so much damage when that talks with Babe,
as he almost puts the shield on the ground.
Now, they've probably got to get that
defuse to somebody else.
They're still talking to Babe in the pocket of Kino.
This push is going to require some real plunder
from MAV for it to work from Webo,
or they're going to have to keel off and do something else.
I think that's what we're seeing right now.
Hard to overstate how important Reeps was for this push.
He needed him below to make those defenders so uncomfortable.
It has not worked out the way that they wanted, and a very linear push has now come through really unraveled.
Playing keep away as N80 is Wabo wanders towards the bombsite with very limited time remaining, and they are just getting picked off one by one.
GRIPS will go down, off they down, turns to an overlast two remaining, toiling over by guest Kino finding two, hotting with one, and a flawless round by N80 to equalize.
That's a desperately needed round. A loss there for a 5-3 scoreline for Weibo.
Could have broken the backs of M80, but they managed to stick to landing.
Yeah, really good defense coming out from M80. They read that attack like a book for Weibo.
They knew what they had to focus on early with that buck being taken out down below.
I think Kino on the smoke was the real star player of that round for M80.
Using those talks with babes, of course, to stall out the osa plants.
Make sure they could not get comfortable, but at the same time, fragging out.
Making sure he walks around and gets those kills, I believe, ended with a triple through round number 8.
So really nice stuff from Kino. Obviously didn't have the best start to this event.
He went minus 14 through the first two maps yesterday.
You and I cast that game, Parker. We got a couple of criticisms from Kino.
But then was the highest rated player on map 3.
When it mattered the most, Kino locked in and was able to come up with a win for M80.
So good to see Kino jumping back on the saddle. He's playing really well so far today.
Yeah, really good stuff by Kino.
Lowest rated player yesterday, but again, his roll often necessitates that.
We do tend to focus a lot on the support players who do poorly,
just because numbers are really easy for the audience to understand, right?
If somebody goes 0 and sticks, you do need to kind of point fingers at them,
because it doesn't matter ultimately what roll you're on,
you probably should be able to muster a couple kills when you're put in that situation.
Not all kills are equal.
Sometimes you're getting those, you know, zero frags,
because you're getting killed in comically bad ways.
Sometimes you're dying because you're droning and doing nothing involving the fight and other times you're playing entry and just getting
Smoked every time you get into the building and ultimately failing on your role. So it's really important that
Really important that we contextualize it. Is that it G36
We're going old-school Parker, I mean, maybe he's trying to do it to kickstart his own fragging potential
We talk about lack of kills turts does two kills came in just a single round
Round seven. Yeah. So beyond that, he really is not an effective outside of whatever utility play
and calling that he can do to his teammates when he does.
And there's the play from Gunnar shutting down Turd once again. Two and seven will be the stat line after nine.
So really not where Turd wanted to be.
Gonna happen to make this push work. Four of E5 now from Weibo. We're back over towards the piano.
There's no rush. They really don't want to go basement, which is very interesting for M80.
And as this admin clear starts to take shape, Parker, it's really been struggling with his clash.
No real movements happening until just then.
Hotten's in a bad position. There's a nade behind him, a nade in front of him.
They'll trade kills before Gavin and Gunner both get on the board, leaving Speakeasy and Ape empty-handed at this point in time.
The free-touch saw Speakeasy trying his best to deal with the clash of Hotten.
Having some difficulties, though.
I mean, hey, you've got two good Gunners, Starmaning on Weibo, and lots of time.
Anything is possible, but M80 certainly look far more comfortable on the better side of their own map. Go figure.
Well, Wabble has sight control right now, Parker, but it's not a mystery to M80.
They would rather play above the sight than directly inside of it. Even with a Blackbeard, they should be able to stop this plane.
The Clash will continue to assume the position. This is the real trouble for Ope.
Speakeasy's not really in much position to help at all.
He'll test his reflexes here, but even on land, that's small peekers advantage in the break in favor of the Clash.
down goes off a to Kino and now it's a picture-poison situation look to the left
look to the right Speakeasy finds Kino you'll have to deal with Gavin Gunner and
hot and Gunner it's a team kills a really quite tremendous feat and I mean he
was the Manchester Major MVP you know how good Gunner can be the rest of this
team though look like they're just gonna wait it out Speakeasy moving as far away
from the bomb set as possible I think Wabo is gonna settle it down take a
technical timeout, even though it won't be a real timeout and the round will go to M80.
Yeah, and I think this is an interesting point you brought up, Parker.
When you said Waybo had five straight opening kills, that has immediately flipped on its head.
M80 getting the last two opening frags, so turning that stat on its head a little bit.
And you think about the way they've been getting these opening picks too.
They're going out and hunting for them. They recognize the buck is below them on CEO.
They go and they get it. They recognize somebody's over on the admin windows.
Gunner jumps out and he gets that kill.
It's really been M80 hunting for these early frags, something that a lot of teams are kind of afraid to do up against Wable
because they are so talented and in those early gunfights, they can often just
fry you, but M80 are playing confident here today. They know they're on the better side of this second map.
They know it's their pick. They know a third map is well within their reach.
I think this confidence is starting to snowball for them now.
It's been playing really really well these last couple rounds to get that early entry.
I think sometimes it's nice to inject silence in especially when you've made a good point
and there really just isn't anything to immediately add.
Also, sometimes we can't pick up team comps.
So after the round is over, sometimes it is nice to just be a little bit quiet
because the players will do a little bit of chatter and...
I mean, hey, one of the beautiful things about being on LAN
is that we can actually hear the players and the coaches speak
that it's something that's absent from the regular seasons
that go on throughout the years.
So sometimes maybe we shut up and we let the players do the talking.
Interesting note, just the fact that we are back on Consulate.
Obviously, MAD played this map yesterday against NIP.
That was a 14-round game, so they played a lot of rounds,
not once, to defend the split site.
This was the one bomb site that they avoided,
so any bot review Weibo have been able to do
will not matter on this specific site,
because they didn't even play against NIP.
So, very excited to see what kind of strategy
it got set up, obviously,
the Nara being brought by Defuser,
and a lot of information being held by Kino as well,
with that Paul.
It's gonna make it kind of awkward to maneuver around the way up.
Jesse, you got the numbers in front of you.
My numbers, you're just, this is the first time we're seeing this bomb site here at SI.
Okay, okay, yeah.
There's a whole SI, makes sense.
I referenced it.
I referenced it earlier, I think there was a clubhouse where we'd only see three bomb sites.
Oh, yes, there was.
This is called a callback, Jesse.
Oh.
And then it just further strengthens your plan, Jesse.
Hang back, thank you.
It's what I say every morning when I wake up.
I want to strengthen Jesse's points, and then I have my cup of folders.
I'll tell you.
We live very similar lives.
Logic Bombs just got popped off. They want to clear this mid-floor aggression, but so far they haven't found any of the roamers.
Huge investment to try to track down Keto, and as the pulse does an excellent thing to do, this is a bomb site where you can pull off a really quick execute.
If the defenders are not structured around Visa and Admin strong enough to slow you down, the pulse will be quarterbacked and is called from down below.
So if you can pin him down with Logic Bombs and those Deimos death marks, you're in a really good spot and they are trying to isolate him, keep him from getting back upstairs.
That's what that grenade was just tumbling down the stairs almost landing in the lap of Kino
Blank safe so far though Parker hasn't left these large bomber demos calls get to him off
And first to fall with a nitro self and Gavin one of these top four roamers playing with diffuser trying to take this space
heard need to trade back
He's fighting right now for his life upstairs
Cusil lets that we see none that are available for him. Oh missed opportunity
He might have almost caught the head of what I imagine is diffuser. Yep
You can't have turds to get bogged down up there, because then that puts a 3v4 on the rest of the side, especially with a holding net.
Vert angle, Kino who's tracked so hard before, finds one, but that's all she wrote.
It's a full push downstairs. This is not abnormal, but it's something you'll feel it often hot and cold fighting for his life.
And Gavin will find the last kill to propel M80 forward. Oh my goodness, map point for M80.
Matthew Stevens, hot and cold on the bottom floor, the trade game from M80, exceptional.
You go back to the start of this game where maybe some unfriendly words were being exchanged between hot and Gavin and some of the other players.
In that round, you saw the teamwork coming alive. You saw everybody on M80 communicating with each other, being aware of that fast push back down into the basement,
trading things out and making sure that they never lost that man's count advantage.
It was a sneaky play from Waybo to have some pressure up above
and then quickly come down trying to hit that bottom floor site.
They spent so much of the round on the mid floor, so much of the round on the top floor.
But when it came to walking down the site, hot and cold,
Daven, Kino, those players really were able to do great work
and they really did shut things down.
The attitude on MAD is totally different than it was about an hour ago.
You honestly had like a funeral vibe in that very first map.
They were yawning, gunner yond, hot and cold yond, they did not look particularly awake, nor very alive, and frankly, they weren't really alive either if you watch Clubhouse.
They were dying over and over and over again, most rounds. Completely different now though, a huge injection of energy on the side of M80.
And a team like M80 that you know structurally is going to be good, strategically is going to be good, mechanically is often quite good.
but sometimes confidence is the difference maker here.
Wave-O have shown up, and through all three play days
that they have had here, they have stumped their opponents
and surprised them.
That's the confidence-inspiring situation to be in.
So if Wave-O can go up against a formidable foe,
which they are right now, and M80,
and M80 can find that same Moxian confidence
that they've had at so many events,
well, now it's Wave-O who have the long faces
and are looking like a shadow of themselves.
It will be intriguing to see what happens in map number three.
It's looking pretty likely at the current point.
And time is at 80 or on the good side of their own map and are a single round away from us going all three.
Yeah, this is where, this is where Webo needs to prove that they can really step back and have that impact that they need to be able to find against a team like M80.
This is that top team that they've been looking to play against all tournament long.
They haven't been able to come up against six to four, two rounds.
The toughest bombsite on Consulate and an opening death for Speakeasy, that is unlucky.
It could be the first domino to fall down goes the no-man, a strong operator on a flank roll that will be able to enable this push.
You've still got a couple other strong ops on the side of Weibo, but these are not looking particularly good.
The guns on Weibo have really fallen silent over the last couple rounds, the latter half of this map in particular.
Jesse here 11 rounds in and all but one round has been decided by the opening
day get the first part you win the round the only time that did not happen was
round number four well guess what I'm a bit about the opening they're gonna
continue to double up how about tripling up only one still standing is
hoping up he's been down he's down but not out so he can still be retrieved but
I don't think that's the focus for hoping at this point in time and he was
being watched by a bulletproof camera.
Got a lot of gadgetry in front of him to deal with
as he has to work his way through this maze of consulates
upstairs.
He'll make noise in the process.
They know exactly where he is.
Top spiral.
He can vault out the window.
He can rotate to bathroom.
But this is not looking good at all.
No, the Huffins really got nothing to play for.
He just gets shot in the back.
And 80.
Managed to win the second half of this series,
forcing us to a third, the Munich and Manchester
Major champions have brought this all the way to another decider series.
Parker, what a fantastic game we've got in front of us.
I'm glad it's gone this far.
It couldn't have gone any other way.
No, and I mean both of the maps, seven four score lines.
You pick the map, you win seven rounds, your opponent has held the four.
That's it.
And maybe it didn't look good through a couple of these rounds,
but both teams showing some deficiencies.
Now we eye Nighthaden Labs as the tiebreaker.
Both of these teams, in terms of the hierarchy of this group,
Said to be near the top, which one comes out ahead?
Lows will determine the victory.
Enemy devices are off the board.
That window is closing. We only have one shot at this.
We're all tied up, won a piece here and things are getting interesting.
and this map in particular lacks was very much dictated by opening picks.
We were talking about it off air just then.
M80's ability to utilize those opening picks were just phenomenal.
Yeah, definitely. I think the caster said it best.
I believe Jesse was the one I talked about, you know.
In the early rounds, Webo was getting five opening kills going in their favor.
And then what M80 understood is they needed to play more aggressive.
They needed to pick those gunfights early on and get that man advantage going into their favor.
and then rely on those layers on their defenses,
then forcing Wavell to feel uncomfortable.
But not only that, I want to focus on Gunner.
We've highlighted Gunner many, many times,
and in this specific match, Clubhouse, he went 4-10.
This, he's ending it 15-5.
Gunner's plays out, it's a very unique plays out.
The best way I can put it, it's essentially like a 3D chest.
Not only is he playing against himself,
but he's playing how he's going to play against his opponents.
Whether he's applying that ghost pressure,
whether he's just coming up out of nowhere,
showing up out of the blue, getting that first kick,
It is so instrumentally sound in how well he is playing his position.
Again, 15 and 5, but everyone across the board was putting up numbers, supporting one another,
also just playing for the objective.
Well, I mean, we're going to see it on our hands now because it's going to get a lot more intense.
And fortunately, we've got an absolute legend standing by to help us break it down a bit more.
Thank you, thank you. Now, first things first, we talk a lot about MAD being the Munich major champions
because of their diversity and flexibility in play,
but we don't really see what that exactly means.
Now, this is a prime example of a round
that displays that type of flexibility,
but first, let's break down what MAD is going for.
We're going to see Kino and Defuser taking sight door control
and Checker's hallway control
to be able to go for a sight hit or take top spiral.
X Factor player number one, Gunner,
is putting pressure with Grim to be able to take cubby control
and then locking down a crossfire to, again,
Aiden getting the plant down, or taking top spiral control.
Another layer to this onion is Han cold, applying the exact same thing, but another layer never hurts.
But now, X Factor player number two, the most important player, Gavin, who jumps in top spiral.
And whether he gets a kill, or just makes his presence known, it doesn't matter.
It forces Webo to make a decision, specifically, speak easy downstairs with the diffuser.
Do I respond to the plant in sight, or do I deal with Gavin top spiral?
And we see exactly what happens.
Now, all of this play in theory is beautiful,
but it only really works if there's an opening,
and that's what Gunnar sees.
He sees that Reeves throws a smoke, there's an opening,
he can make a play, and he executes on it.
The smoke, a little too far, Reeves gunned down, gets the pick,
Gavin jumps in, top spiral, he gets the pick.
He's in the pin position, Speakeasy makes the wrong decision.
He handles Gavin, but the diffuser's already down,
diffuser is downstairs, and the round was even over
before Gavin was ever considered a threat.
That being said, that's the type of flexibility
that makes MAD so lethal.
They push us to a map three, but before we get there,
we have to go back to the studio.
And before we get there, we're gonna wrap these up here.
Thanks, Fox, for that one.
Let's leave it at the capable hands of Intero and Jesse.
Oh, thank you very much.
It all gets settled here on Night Haven Labs.
MAD came in to this event wanting to lift the hammer yet another for the trophy of their trophy case their coach
Favion for hammers potentially he's already got three and he stands alone in that regard
But I mean, he's at their hands full against Waybo
Are they able to overcome it or does Waybo manage to right the ship after a disappointing map to?
We'll find out on labs now
The
champions of the group of bluets, which is the flower that represents group A, will likely
be determined on Nighthaven Labs, a secure military facility located just off the coast
of Singapore, which is indeed the hometown of Weibo's captain. Speak easy. Is it a sign?
Is it a message from the fates gods themselves that Weibo are destined to top a group for
APAC here at the Sixth Invitational? Time will tell. M80, certainly hoping that that's not
the case. The major champions from Munich are hoping to disrupt the winning streak that
Weibo are on. And on Night Heaven Labs, I think they got a good chance of doing so. Parker,
They played it twice in the North America League finals, losing to SSG, but then beating
the Rebellion.
Weibo really haven't played this map a whole lot outside of APAC, even against Elevate
in the APAC finals.
They won it, but it took them 14 rounds.
Blueette, that's a flower.
The Blueette?
I used the French name for the flower because we are in France and because the English name
is Cornflower.
Were you Cornpup?
Don't know how that spell is.
Did they name the flower after you?
Yes.
It's entirely relevant.
OK.
I'm glad you think that.
It just, like most things, Jesse,
it sounds better in French.
Yes, it sounds much better in French.
Well, it was a bit of a slow start for M80,
all the way back in map number one,
both teams winning their respective maps.
Wabo doing a great job early on.
M80, they were to show some fire before Wabo closed out
Clubhouse.
Then we looked towards Consulate,
and M80 goes off to a strong start.
Wabo wins a couple of rounds, looking a little bit more
self-assured before he switches to the favorable side and closes them out themselves.
You are exactly where you want to be for both of these teams.
Well, I mean, neither of these teams want to be in map 3.
Both of them ideally would have liked to have stolen their map pick here in their opponent's
map pick.
But you, most coaches will tell you, and most players will tell you, you go into a best
at 3, especially against a strong opponent going, we'll lose their map, we've got to
win the third map.
So now here you are, a single best of one on a map that some teams know really, really
well and others have some struggles with. We'll likely see an early mid-floor clear coming out
from M80. It's very rare to see defenders here on the bottom floor, but Hoven is actually playing
inside a cargo, so there will be something to contend with as Gunnar makes his way below the
bomb site. At the same time, his teammates happily opening up the IT wall. Some good ace breaches,
of course, with the bans of Bandit and Kaede. There were no real issues opening up that wall,
all Miranaki in play, so happy to get that open quite quickly.
But look at Speakeasy, he's actually come downstairs to play alongside Hoven below the
bomb site.
It's rare to see one player down below the site, even rarer now to see two.
I think with Kino's intel, Gunner is very aware of what awaits for him on this mid-floor.
This is a relatively big map that plays out quite similarly to others.
So clubhouse back in map number one and right here is almost bar for bar what you see from clubhouse
This wrap is this garage portion. It's being taken by Kino very similarly to what we saw in club
Can't really use the clash like you did previously, you know
This is the strategy from Webo that was called by Gohan to stop the Monty from taking this space like
Positions a little bit more awkward for a clash to try and take out hasn't been brought by Webo could try to do that later on
but not for today.
Plant is eventually going to come Aqua side.
That Burkina with Loki will use VMP triggers the Thorn gadget and backs right back up.
That tells them exactly where he is.
Still more utility clear though with the Thorn pressuring and the Mellusi down on the ground as well.
Only real damage has been done to Hoven at this time.
He just waits and there goes some fire from Capitao.
Capitao also we're seeing a buck.
Intimate season change again, been following along.
Diffuser clears out Hoven on fish stairs and he's got
Hot and Cold and Kino in tow.
Diffuser gets dropped so the guns finding their marks
on the side of Wave-O at least temporarily.
Diffuser can be retrieved.
Ritz is also died so for Wave-O, they've managed to get
one player down but nothing's secured.
Diffuser gets picked back up.
It's a swing over towards that cow on door.
Speakeasy finds two.
Hot and Cold gets one and it's suddenly turd stuff.
He didn't exactly have the best second map.
Can he make up for lost time here?
Three players in front of him.
He will just have to pick his targets appropriately.
The bucket counter will scoot on mine.
Turnstaff finds him and hot and cold.
He needs to play keyed away for the remaining
couple seconds and Gavin will not be able
to grab the diffuser in time.
What a post up from Turnstaff to hold the round together
and give Waybo the lead.
unbelievable round from the support to a one way, but we saw it of course turns
to late there at the end clutching the 1vx, but then also his captain speak easy
early in that round gets a couple of crazy shots to keep the numbers close to
stop that aggression from M80 coming in on the aqua hall. They did a great job of
coordinating despite the fact that M80 had a lot of advantages. They had the IT wall open,
they were winning fights towards rafters, her bottom floor was being cleared with
Great utility with great information. It felt like M80 were doing everything right, but those two first kills come through and speak easy
and then turned in the 1v3 knows exactly how to position himself.
The time is a little bit too low for M80. A decently common criticism of this team is how sometimes it takes them
bit of time to get that defuse skip on the ground while this time that does come back to fight them in Webo. Take the first round.
That's a good start, and this is I imagine will be a dogfight moving forward.
These teams should be pretty evenly matched on paper, from what we've seen of them so far through the first three days of group stages.
Well, MAD had a bit of a struggle against ninjas and pajamas in their maiden voyage yesterday.
They had the first day of groups off, and they struggled a little bit against Nip.
Jesse, you were spot on when you said that ninjas and pajamas would very likely be the team that would trip up this MAD squad.
Ok, pretty close. Weibo for their credit, they crushed Nip in the very first day.
Round number one, Weibo and Nip rounded out the playday and it was a 7-1-8-6 across the two maps for Weibo.
And then Weibo did a significantly better job against VNK, Fear X with a 7-2-7-0 scoreline.
Conventional Wizards suggest that Fear X is the team that has the most room to improve in this group.
Fear X has the day off today before Nip plays them tomorrow, and then M80 plays them on the final day.
And again, if you want to make it out of this roof alive, all you really got to do is beat Nip and Fear X.
Yeah.
And that's it. Again, M80's done one of those.
You'll have to settle for the second on the final day.
M80, with this map win, if they can secure it, will secure Playoffs and cannot get eliminated mathematically.
Webo already in that position, and this top floor roam clear, I think, has played pretty well for them so far.
It's taken about a minute, but M80 have the full top floor, midfloor is still something they're working on,
but they've got ram, they've got buck, they've got shields, they've got a lot of pressure
as they can apply onto these roamers to force them back into the basement to fuse their strikes first.
Define D's on the opponent from outside the building, takes them out inside the hallway,
and that's going to give them that advantage and put a little bit more pressure on the Waybow players.
Now if you feel you have to stick around, maybe go lurk inside a cafeteria,
maybe go for a flank back up into that top floor in order to equalize the man count,
Or are you just going to play into their hands and retreat back to the site?
Sitting and waiting now as Hoven has died yet again.
It's not ideal for a team that really cannot afford to be giving up first blood as often as they seem.
First bloods were quite mixed all the way back from the clubhouse, but...
Oh my, I typically did have quite an impact.
We'll get into that in just a second because both of these teams seem eager to come to blows with still plenty of time in the clock, just a little bit over a minute left.
This is what I was saying, right? You kind of need to get aggressive, equalize the man count if you're Waybo.
Have the most amount of say utility. You're burning your last box of data top of cargo stairs getting aggressive and speak easy
Gets a kill and still is not gonna be easy clear out the shop and finds a second
Flash out before he finds a third
It's a 2v2 now Jesse
Again trading blows we expect them to go round by round not kill by killing it here we are
Oh my a flash and a missed opportunity now turds does last alive as op a goes down speak easy with four of the seven kills
and he is in the grave.
Turtsda clutched out that first round by getting two kills
and then playing keep away.
He won't have the same luck here.
Hold on.
He takes down Haughton, and now Gunnar
is exposed in this position.
He's just at reach, and he finds him.
My goodness, Turtsda.
Two rounds in a row for Waybo, and he has ample time
to get to the diffuse kit.
Where was this last map?
Parker, it's the exact same story over and over again, where M80, they've got a good game plan.
They know how to attack these sites. They get the man advantage, but then again, back-to-back, round-winning clutches from Turd.
And it's his positioning, I think, that shines through as the key example of how he's able to get these wins.
He really does seem to find that success when he can get himself into those last dying seconds.
M80 are forced into a plan because they don't have time to do anything else.
He was able to retake that top floor in the midst of that, and I think Turd really did just pet the team on his back for the second round in a row.
Excellent job being aware of where that plant went down.
You've got to credit me. Easy again though too, I think.
Parker, I'm staying the same thing as the set after round one, but it's his aggression in the mid-round.
His willingness to go forward and find some picks that gets the numbers low enough for Turd to be able to clutch.
Turd's the exited map number two with four kills.
He is currently at that tally already. We are two rounds into map number three. So just as we saw from gunner
As he did in map two compared to map number one now turts is doing the same in map three
As to what he did in map two again, you can have a bad map
You cannot really have a bad day if you have a bad day and there's no bounce back
Especially at this level your team is going to suffer greatly for it
We've seen turns to frag out really well across all of the events that he has played at, it is nice to see him having a good start to this third and pivotal map.
Again, this might be for who finishes atop the group. Team Heretics, obviously, wants to throw a spanner in the works. They have looked quite good.
They did crunch a spot in phase two earlier today, as Weibo did yesterday. We've already had some pretty quick results.
Two teams have clinched their spot in phase two in group A. Elevate eliminated from the six invitations already even though they still have matches to play just because of how that way that group has gone out.
We didn't really expect to have results today, maybe tomorrow at the earliest, but hey, take them and get them.
Yeah, I mean the way it goes competition right tough tough start from elevates and not mathematically bounce back at this point
Wave will look in a walk in
Other brackets if they managed to get a win on this map here today against m80
Of course fourth in every group will have to start in the lowers
And that's never a disadvantage that you're happy to play with only having one life in playoffs is often not enough if you want to lift the hammer
Caught floor clear from the Monty coming through from M80 Kino the one rocking the shield this time around but he's got teammates
On all sides trying to find these frags. It's kitchen by the way as the bomb site
Which is the least commonly played site on Nighthaven labs
Do tend to see all four sites played on this map, but again your car yeah
That middle floor is where it gets a little bit muddy and it gets based on team preferences, etc. Yeah
We have not really seen teams taking chances on the bad sides right tellers archives on console
It played for the very first time in the match that we just had we've seen a lot of fun house and yet just
When we were just in our break, I think I heard that a mom was being played on fortress the first time on the stream
I mean obviously
Or just to still move
But I was also told by many people that it might be at the worst site that I guess
The fact that it's getting played yeah, it's quite surprising, but hey
Teams will pull off the unorthodox and if you're not prepped for it even if a site is terrible
It could kill you a home and gets tripped up on his run out
He tries to play aggressive to give way below the edge
But it's a maybe you strike first once again
The early advantages have not been enough for them historically to win these games
and they've still got a lot of utile to work through.
This lobby hold from Speakeasy and Ape is going to be really annoying to clear past with the shield
and all of these ADSs protecting Ape as he pilots these Yo-Kai trunks.
Another run out from Speakeasy and he gets too low!
Outside for so long but still walks away with the double.
Incredible stuff.
We're not in the mid-round, just see where that at the end.
10 seconds left, great read from Ape.
is Gavin watching right into his cross there. Now it's Hotten and Defuser is the last two
standing with limited time. Defuser getting the kit down. Hotten will have to go perfectly,
but he gets jumped on by Aki. Defuser does get off in time, but Terz is there to clean
out. A 3-0 start from Lebo. An incredible hold and a great retake. Things looked a little scary,
but they managed to fix it in post and 80 held off the scoreboard now for three rounds and you
have to wonder when they'll slap that timeout button. Frankly Parker, Weibo are doing things that
I've never seen before. This would be a good time for Fabian to maybe jump in and ask for attack
timeout. It would have to be after the bands if it does come through like this because
0-3 through the first site rotation is devastating result especially when they didn't go to what is
Usually the third site, which is of course storage room and control on that mid-floor, but Weibo just making aggressive plays late without advantage.
Bobbien's microphone is up, so I will take that to mean there is no tack timeout coming through from M80, feeling confident in his players.
It's been a hot minute since he's had to call one.
Wabo really strong hold inside of Lobby. I don't know if NA really ever addressed
that front Lobby position. They may have known it was there, but with
AWP playing in the Lobby's stairs, with the ADS's and the shields, it was an
impossible nut to try to crack. And then from that position, they expanded
outwards. AWP went up the stairs. They jumped out the window as well. Speak
easy with the crazy run out for two kills. I don't know how this works, but
But, Weibo makes the impossible look easy.
Like most maps in the map pool, this is defender sided.
No real shock to anybody here.
It touched on it a little bit in map number two.
First Blood has had a significant impact on this series.
Some games, it doesn't really matter that much.
Yesterday, when we were casting the Faze Black Dragon matchup, didn't really matter at all.
It was just whatever.
But here, map number one on Clubhouse, 11 rounds played, 9 of those rounds, won by the
the team that drew blood first. On Consulate, 11 rounds played, 10 of those rounds won by
the team that drew blood first. Yet in Night Haven rounds, 0 rest. M80 has struck first
in every single round and has failed to convert successfully. So, just sometimes maps play
a little bit differently. You highlighted how good the mid round has been from Weibo,
and turns to do clutch 2 rounds, so that can also skew the numbers a little bit. So, I
I would bet you as well, that's part of the reason
probably it's not calling attack time.
Because M80 have played better
for the majority of all three rounds.
They've had the advantage going into the final 60 seconds.
I would say every single time,
but ultimately Waybo are just pulling out some heroics.
Turds are currently sitting in a 241 EPS.
That is screaming high.
That is higher than God at this point in time.
So, I mean, eventually that number will come down,
but through three completed rounds
And now into live action in number four,
that is quite an impressive tally.
Speaking as he's sitting at 176.
Two, those are great numbers.
Well, Kino's Monty has been banned by Webo,
so he jumps onto Ying instead.
He's got the shotgun, he's got all utilities still in pocket,
and he's posted himself just up outside of Rafters,
hoping to cause some chaos to clear and leave it to Greeks
that could be playing inside that position.
Often times, that garage spot can be very, very strong.
At the same time, the Fuser does work down below.
This is where we saw the buck previously playing.
Let's reach back soft,
starts to reinforce that wall,
plug it back up with Keeves.
I think Leibar is saying we've wasted enough time.
Thanks.
Hey, I kept you knowing.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, okay, uh.
Controller disconnected.
Can you really know what to say there?
Ope was waiting for Keeves to evolve into Electrical
and then throw the nitrous cell at him
and Keeves did that and then Ope did not move
and then Keeves did the other thing in the truck.
and I'll make it not move at all.
Don't really know what was going on there.
Maybe it was an improper sound cue.
Maybe somebody was cluttering the comms.
Yes, must have been a sound issue,
but it happened from time to time.
And the opening pick has not done anything
for I made him so far.
Kino's looking for more with those Candela's down going off.
Turks will get on the board continuing his hot play.
Hovin' is cannot just finding anything right now
as he gets shredded.
Speakeasy guns down on Kino.
Speakeasy and Turks have really been restoring the Lego
through these three rounds.
Reaps goes down to Hans MacGavin.
But again, he's still got the two big bads that remain.
Hovind gets picked up by Tertzda as he returns to the bomb site.
30 seconds left and M80 with three players.
Gavin getting diffuser down.
That means diffuser and Hotman will now watch over that kit.
Hovind and Speakeasy right now, a single gust of wind away from dying.
Here Jab will go off.
Hot pull is through double D.
Duty, Speakeasy sweeping through.
Tertzda drops and diffuser gets all three.
M80 is finally on the board perfect play from diffuser in the power position of rafters plays with that buff shotgun
Exactly as he needs to really nice stuff coming through and I got a credit Kino in that one as well
Got a couple of kills of course got to the first for a month for a couple of reasons obviously in late rounds
We need to cough ourselves down and then decide what we're doing as a team
I think if we're going to team one, we slept the guy and we just go for the kill. All right
Second of all Matt's call is final no matter what it is Matt's cause final
When we have this sort of run where we get one man power advantage, and we have a guy flanking,
set the site again, count the players and go together, we kill the warden, use the ying, go through.
Make sure to take initiative, so we don't just stand there, walk around on the lawn, looking fucking everywhere, take initiative.
Matt is calling the faces of the rounds super well, but we need to utilize the calls that he's giving us.
Because right now we've kind of looked a little bit like our eyes are looking two different ways.
Focus up, listen to Matt, initiative, initiative, together!
I was caught off-guard a little bit by that tax time, oh Parker.
You don't see it called after a round wins so often,
but you heard the reasons from Fabian himself.
He wants the team calming down in that late round.
The team needs to listen to hot and cold,
they need to listen to their captain.
And I mean, he's right, the late round problems have been great.
Even if maybe in that round they were quite solid,
and I do think they were,
the first three rounds, the late round was getting away from them.
I think going back to round 4 quickly, Kino's positioning on the Ying was critical, not only
just getting the kill on the ward and getting the second down, but he drew a lot of eyes
over towards the east side of the map, over towards connector and electrical.
So if they can continue to have executes that look like round 4 and not like the first 3 rounds,
then M80 are still in a good spot.
10 seconds left.
I do like that we started off with Fabian's first time out, basically admonishing Han and Cold
for not leading properly and ends what will likely be the last time we hear Favi and at least in this
best of three, saying missing the leader. Max call is final. It's just goes to show you that
you can be temporarily mad at somebody and rebuke them or admonish them whatever you want,
but at the end of the day you still keep to that structure, you still understand how the team functions.
Yeah, so that's the maturity again, right, with this roster. They've been through so much together
as a unit. They respect each other at such a high level that you've got that level of trust in your
players and your coach. Yeah, awesome. Very critical round. Weibo can put
themselves into a 4-1 score line, which would objectively win the first half,
which is something that you don't really want. But I mean for Weibo, that is the
win condition. This is a defender-sided map. If you don't go 4-2, you're in a bit
of trouble. Uh-oh. Hoven's in trouble. Parker, he's just been caught on a drone.
Heba gets him out, hopefully for now, but if he tries to go back down the cargo
stairs, they could still have a cutoff. That's the window being opened by Gunner
as he speaks. Lucky to be alive if you're hoping yet to find a kill through this third
map, despite being one of the best players on Weibo over the last three days.
Ope's cooled off a little bit, but that's okay. Again, depth on these teams is ultimately
what will separate you from being one of the good teams, being one of the great teams,
or being a major winner. I mean, M80, if you look at their Munich run, if you go back to
Boston, you look at phases run,
the king of bad games,
cyber at bad games in Austin,
that's bound to happen.
Kino had bad games,
Gunner had bad games,
Diffuser had bad games,
and then Diffuser ends up being the MVP.
It happens.
You will have bad games,
and again, as we said,
you have to fix it.
Turd's had a terrible second game,
and now look at it,
he's been instrumental,
and two of the three rounds,
Wabos won,
are basically because of Turd's,
said nobody else.
Reeps in a tough spot,
how is he alive?
Makes it back to cargo stairs,
fishing for a bit more though,
He knows that his teammate of Hoven is committing himself to more so that he can keep playing aggressive,
trying to get aggressive too, just on this mid-floor, finding a pinch onto Kino.
But no pills, still through this first two minutes.
A lot of damage that's being done, and these rounds are just flying by, Jesse.
I mean, you blinked it, it was 10 seconds to go in the previous round.
Gunner will kill Hoven. It has not been a good run for M80 after getting first blood.
They have managed to drop a lot of these rounds again, mostly because of Terence's heroics.
He won't be able to do much this round as he's put in a body bag with 35 seconds left.
Gunner shredding through him and he gets to lose a player though a lot of damage has been done.
Kino dropped, bleeding out. Suddenly the whole server is gone.
It's just Speakeasy standing against four on the side of M80.
He'll confront Hot and Cold and scramble off of his position.
Still one gas canister with 20 seconds remaining on the clock.
This is winnable for Speakeasy, but boy oh boy would it be mighty hard.
It just got a lot harder now. As the diffuser gets planted,
It's Big Easy, storms his way over and gets caught out by Gavin.
Another round, 1 by M80, looking way more poised than we saw.
You feel like you're kicking yourself after those first two rounds
that probably should have been 1 by M80, but weren't.
This scoreline could be completely different.
That's a great point, Parker.
This could be a match that's running away for the North Americans.
But it has not been so thanks to a couple of heroic plays from Turd.
We do see M80 still finding some success
In these early rounds, in these mid rounds before going for the executes, they were really together.
And it brings me back to the conversation we were having about their drone game, I believe on Consulate, map number two,
where maybe someone don't talk what I made these drone games enough, but it gets such good information.
Even when I stopped finding a player, it's clearing what angles are not there.
They were very aware of how many roamers were up on that mid floor.
It was a three-man commitment to that kind of area around control area around the cargo stairs
They did a great job pinching that out found their players. They needed and then speak easy
An impossible task despite how good he's played today just not able to clutch up in that one before so really good stuff to come
Through from M80 and they have bounced right back in this game. It's always impossible until it's fine. Yeah
Speak easy didn't get it done, but I mean go back to round number one
Do you think turds to clutch as a 1v2? Most people probably say no. Does it happen again in round number two?
Again, most people say probably not and then it does.
Here's a spawn cake that we've seen before. Reach running out of the IT breach.
I remember turds that doing this with the boss G years ago. Maybe a year, maybe a year and a half or so.
And he got like 99% damage onto somebody at one of the first events when boss G was still really being discovered as one of the best guns.
But now since then, so of course we don't see that anymore
Run out from Reeps
It's slightly worse DMR and shotgun does not do as well
But even still I like that that spirit is live for Weibo. They're willing to go for those aggressive moves
Look at this, this is a lot of value here for the single drone
They spotted the legs of two separate players and obviously drone intel is only good for a very small period of time
You have about 5-ish seconds until that intel that's doubted out by the drones is no longer relevant.
This is something that is often misunderstood by more of the casual viewership and casual audience.
It's like you'll spend 10 minutes droning basically.
Realistically, you'll spend about 25 seconds droning and in the vault through a window.
And guess what? By the time you have left that room, somebody has now rotated into it.
You need to be able to drone and follow up an action on it immediately unless your drone is being used for intel.
because a lot of times that you tell what gadgetry is not moving.
See a bolt through camera?
Probably still gonna be there in five seconds.
Oh, Hoven will end the first half without a kill.
Oh, and Sixth is gonna find him.
Turn inside of Electrical Ticks a bit of damage, too.
This pressure that I made here able to apply over towards Electrical
was the key factor that got them at entry points
in the previous attack on the call four.
They've got it once again.
It's not with the ying this time.
In fact, the whole team's really playing over towards the east,
but it's bleeding Weibo at the moment.
They're dropping players. They've got to find some way to answer back because once these walls get open the plants going to be there
Gunner holding the fuse kit at the moment. Not sure if he'll be the one to commit to the plant
But it's a smoke stick up the glass to go for the cover. It can still be strong even without the shield
Oh my goodness Kino execute speak easy a little bit too late though the user goes down
At the hand of the speak easy, but still you're able to keep these numbers close reach for equalize
The 3v3. Kino seeing through that smoke takes down Ape. Now it's Turd's been
reached to clutch out Turd's and now with seven kills holding this position
inside of Electricals. Webo has watched as their grip on this half has slowly
loosened but Turd's still once again might be the saving grace of Webo. Two of
these three rounds largely because of him. Can he pull it off once more hot and
cold in a daunting situation, 1v2, and a lot of time left, he doesn't hold the
diffuse kit either so he will have to go for frags. He's made his way over, he gets
very clearly distorted, and it is turn to once again save the day. Four rounds for
Weibo, three away from defeating the major champs. From Wellington, New Zealand
to Tokyo, Japan to Paris, France, fans around the world should be excited with
How turd has played this half of seeds just saving Waybo bailing them out of bad situation after a bad situation
I thought M80 had the keys once they took connector control
Kino is hitting beauty shots on that glass the best sniper player in the world in my opinion
Let me add but it didn't matter which I could say that because we got to see
Turds stepping up into electrical
He hits a rat spot and he downs the diffuser the second he sees that kid hit the ground
I think a light bulb goes off and turds head and says oh I'm winning this round now and my god
He just seems so good so composed in the late moments of this game
Dialed in opa was the player on the team that we highlighted
Heading into this matchup third highest rating in excellent company with some former world champions surrounding him and then
Can's in there for the ride as well, but I mean when your contemporaries are soul cyber and herds
I think you're you're standing shoulder to shoulder yeah with the Giants at this point
He's regressed a little bit, and I mean, in the best of three, that is bound to happen.
Even Shiko, a player that people often refer to as one of the greatest skill-related
off-hegrain players that is still actively playing the game, does tend to fall off and
have some issues in best of threes.
Everybody does.
It's more about your contributions alongside your team.
Yeah.
I really feel like this has been the biggest story for Waybo.
We've always known that they are Talc of Dunners.
We've always known that Reach is insane.
People have been talking for years about how good Reach is,
but they feel like the first time this Weibo bleed,
whatever you want to call them, core, has shown up to an event
and they've got five guys who I am terrified of going up against inside of a battle.
I mean, Speeky's is a 10 kills, Parker.
Turd has flushed three times.
Hoven has had some ridiculous numbers as you were just talking about shoulder to shoulder with Giants.
I feel like Weibo are far more of a complete team than we've seen before and frankly, I mean, they're beating the major champions right now, Parker.
There's no reason to say this APAC team couldn't go all the way and do what's never been done.
No, I mean, absolutely. APAC has not really had much to assess over the last couple of years.
I mean, you have to go back to SI. I think it was 2019 where Fanatic and Nora Wenger made that deep run.
Might have been SI 20. All those tend to blur together, but...
Either way, Apex domination, or at least success at a top level, has been very far between recently.
Usually when people are making their tier lists, they're towards the bottom.
And a lot of people had these Apex teams in their groups, big or small, the first to go home.
The only team that has gone home from SI so far is Elevate.
The team that has comprised of Brazilians, but competes out of Apex.
Yeah, a team that is quite polarizing admittedly, as they are, you know, just entirely in ports, but still, an APAC team nonetheless.
The only real glimmer of hope for the region was Cag finishing second at reload, but that wasn't a major.
That was a one-off introductory event for C.Jax, so you can't really look at that and base APAC off of it.
Well, sometimes a second half can be a whole new game, and that's what M8 are hoping for.
But we play the top floor first as we see Wave-O start to take Garage control.
Always gonna be the Azami locking this part of the map down in his Gavin's job to be the first point of contact.
But after waiting 90 seconds, he seems fine with conceding the Raptors position.
Don't mind that at all, staying alive is not a bad decision in this situation, especially because I think he has delayed good time.
But with Garage in their control, Hoven down below, we are seeing the pieces start to assemble for Wave-O.
and I feel like at some point someone in M80 has to step up and make a disruption.
The fuses I think are very, very good game. It comes at a great time as he's been
in the middle of the road. So far through this matchup,
he's using the statistical best player through this best of three,
Four Waybo, Ape, second worst, and second worst in the entire lobby,
which again, way below what we see from him. But good news, you've got players
We're doing very very well on turrets. There's been huge disnap in particular. 19 kills between Speedyzy and turd stuff.
Four kills between Arthur and Lutzenholm. So 35 seconds while Toxic Bade's going out.
Uncold strikes first and second for a two-man lead for M80.
Uncold continuing his great run. Diffuser's on the board now as well. M80 looking to make up for lost time.
They're on the statistical better side of this map. They cannot lose out a couple of these rounds
Ope taken out by Daman now it's Reeps on very limited HP holding on to the diffuse kit
Maybe a look at confusion and worry on his face. Han cold gets the job done in M80
reduces the lead to buddy single round very nice round from on cold the second really big
Multi-kill he's had here on night Haven labs and talk about hot and as a captain
He's been the focus of our cast for a good chunk of this just based on how the series started with attack time out
But I truly think he should be thought of as one of the greatest
IGLs in the world go back to the start 2025 right gets a drop from his organization half his team leaves to go sign with
M80 he's kind of left in the middle of nothing
Assembles a pickup team an orgless pickup team called unwanted leads them to fourth best in the world at last year's si
does an impossible task as an IGL through that run. He proves himself along with Gavin that they're good enough to get picked up by
M80. This work kind of reassembles the super team that won Manchester and they go ahead, they win another major, the Munich major becomes
theirs. They go through highs and lows through the season, of course, but I feel like without the leadership of
Cotton Cold inside the server, a lot of this would not be possible. Good to see Matt stepping up for some kills late in the round as well.
has a big impact in round number seven. It keeps M80 very close in this third map.
Yeah, I mean, all it takes is these two rounds, right? And again, the scoreboard could look completely
different if you don't have turds to pulling two rounds out of his behind to start off this map,
right? Improbable clutches back to back. Might have mentally set this M80 team off,
but it did put them in a deficit on the score sheet. It could very easily be 5-2 right now
for M80. So I think ultimately the better looking team has been M80, but just because
you are the better looking team does not mean you're actually going to win the game. Sometimes
you as a team in a unit, it would be far more cohesive, but if there's just one or two players
who have just legendary games, sometimes the luck is just not there for you. And Kino strikes
first in round eight, finds the head of Hovind and is just trying to work with his teammates
to open this wall again really rough match for Hoven as he's been trying to
get on the board that has yet to find any success at all. It's the DMRs and
shotguns that have really been the focus of this round for M.A.D. Gunner bringing
out Vosti as well which we were just talking about. I really think Turd was a
pike in the ear of that gun coming into the meta but it is spread to be popular
by all teams at this point in Siege's life so we're happy to see it across
multiple different defensive lineups. The wall eventually gets open honestly
It takes a bit of time for Ape. It's a bit messy. They lose a body in the midst of that.
Thankfully, the second soft-reacher will break it open, so this is objective achieved,
even if it takes more time than they would have liked.
Explosions go off as you see Gavin now holding up on the rafters,
plugging the lane.
Hovind is just having a really rough game, and again, it's not even fragging, Jesse.
It's utility, it's commitment to the team.
If it wasn't for Speakeasy and Turds to just beating everybody silly, this one would be a cakewalk for a Navy.
And this is when we talk about consistency and being able to battle back.
You can often lie on two guys going supernova as they did on Clubhouse.
Turds to walks in, decapitates hot and cold, ten kills for Speakeasy, ten kills for Turds to...
Odd day with defuser in hand, now with the halfway mark.
Gattago's gunner and diffuser, and it looks like Wave-O will wake up the lost time after that disappointing first round of his second half.
Kino will now need to save the round, and he takes down off a from above.
35 seconds as the timer will now run away, and against a turds to steal up.
Reeps still up. No utility remaining other than a single frag grenade.
Oh boy, Kino knows how hard this is to longarm.
He'll find a position to do so, but he's very exposed from the window.
Reeps trying to draw him out, Kino takes the bait, Nitro-Sell will go.
Reeps using the grenade to flush him off at the position, very limited time to go.
Kino will now hop on, only a couple seconds, upside down for Pelopon.
Reeps, Kino doing some damage past the point of no return.
A valiant effort for M80, but Weibo seals the deal and now moved two rounds away from a victory.
And what an incredible round once again.
Weibo just doing what they have to against the major champions to get round after round.
And Parker you said something I would say very foolish in the midst of that
You can't just rely on two players going supernova. Well way post said watch me
22 kills between speak easy and turd stuff
I don't want to take anything away from reaps who I thought also played fantastic in that round of course winning that 1v1
We don't talk about reaps brain I think I know as
broadcasters he is known for having a ridiculous
Aimee's only for having a ridiculous sensitivity with which he gets all of these kills, but his play was so smart in the midst of that using the Nade to delay a little bit of time in the post-plant, going upside down on the repel so that it's such a difficult angle for Kino to get in that 1vx.
Good try from Kino to get turret at the end there, but ultimately it's just too difficult of a position. Webo sneaked that plant just under the noses of M80 and they are now two rounds away from locking in upper bracket at 6-invitational.
I don't think many people had this on their bingo card, especially with Nip and M.A.D.
in this group.
Yeah.
I think honestly what's used this is, A, it's the lack of success at an international
event and B, the last N.A.R.S. I think got blown up.
Yeah.
Right?
Obviously they had the flu.
If you remember, you go back to that Joel team in Boston.
They were tremendously sick.
you know when people say like I'm dying like that is like that's a life-old compared to what they had yeah they were
Incredibly unwell and unfortunately they had no Michael Jordan flu game. They just did not show up so
That plus a pack historically being a weaker region at international events. Yeah, you look at the defending major champs
You look at a team like nip that is you know widely considered by other Brazilians
Yeah
Yeah, it's been really impressive to come through. No doubt the not controversial, the
best team in APAC showing exactly how good the region can be. And they don't go kitchen
cafeteria to defend for round number nine. Potentially their second last bombsite to
build get a chance to defend here today on Night Haven. But again, both teams seeming
to like this bombsite so far. Already we see Wave or take control of meeting. They cleared
one of those shells being used by gunners and no teleportation is going to be happening with discophos just yet.
Lobby control, I think with the real linchpin that let Weibo win this last time, they were defending on kitchen cafeteria,
but it's not being held as heavily by M80. Instead,
they've got a lot of players in the site, gunner a bit off site, kind of over towards meeting more so, and then Kino of course just
the one lone player trying to lock down Lobby. No shield, no ADS, it was just a nitro and a dream.
No, Dreamer's on cloud nine just now.
Ope with one big kill, Speakeasy with another, Webo overpowering these M80 players off-site,
and Diffuser, whose top frag on the side of M80 is in the ground,
persistent utility from Diffuser will still be present, Kimondo, an active gadget.
Losing the Warden is rough, but as you can see from the line of the Webo,
not the end of the world, but you don't have a Warden.
Yes, there are smokes present from Ope's Thermite,
But Warden is not the be-all end-all.
It's not like you have a Yanis on, you have a Brazzon,
like you have all these smokes that are going to be thrown down.
Hovind finally gets his very first kill, and it comes in round number nine.
It's reduced M80 to two players, and the five still upright for Webo.
30 seconds remain in the round, hot and cold on the run inside the kitchen,
and it doesn't look like he can handle the heat at all, Jesse.
Unfortunately for him, he's toast, got him with two picks very quickly,
bursting out of his position, looking for the flank.
the flank, op-ed the halfway point of the diffuser, what can done and accomplish?
Nothing! Turnstile with a dozen kills and it's match point series point for Wabo!
They look so composed, they look so ready up against what is sometimes called the
best team in the world. They are not able to be fumbled, they're not able to be
stopped Parker. Hovind also on the board, he types and shot off-screen, thanks for
the first kill. Congratulations. It's a team effort here in Paris. Parker, everybody's getting involved.
I mean, I said the turdster was getting carried like a baby koala in the previous map, and I'd like to
issue a correction. Hoven is taken over now. Yeah, he's the one being carried around, but
and again, that's okay. Hoven is also the dedicated hard support on the team. If there's anybody who
should be towards the bottom of that squatting kills, it's him. Yeah, obviously, I mean, we talk
Well kind of a trident of weibo sometimes of being op a reaps and hoven
I think the last couple of days they have been the ones to really shine today turn and speak easy have kind of taken over
But that's just again going back to the depth right? I mean
Consistently this weibo squad looks so deep so composed
for m80 talk about a
Team that have done the impossible multiple times a for isn't to be the best in the world on two separate occasions
months apart or than a year apart between their two major championships.
At what point do they lock back in or is this going to be a stumbling point that they so rarely see?
This isn't a team where things come easy.
This isn't a team where you get easy to a wins of the last ten best of three's.
M80 have played across the NA finals this tournament and of course the unit major.
They didn't get a single 2-0 win, but they did get nine 2-1 wins.
To not find one here up against Wayvo would be a dramatic departure from what they're used to
Maybe a wake-up call that they need
Yeah, again speak easy in turrets and now with 24 kills a piece
It's kind of been more equitable down below 10 kills between the three remaining players, but yeah
I mean there I did I don't say I missed that but with the way that hope it has been playing recently in this particular instance
They've been using turrets in far more
aggressive, spots than usual, and I don't know if that's maybe a stylistic change, just for this map or set of maps,
or if they've been using Holven as more support because he's having a bad day.
We have seen teams change it up famously in the Charlotte Major final, DZ vs. Astralis.
Iconic came into that match as the highest rated player of the entire event,
and he laid an egg in the grand finals, so much so that by the, I think it was the third map,
They literally moved him on the hard support because he couldn't make water if he fell out of a boat.
So sometimes teams do make changes in the midst of it just to try and kickstart something.
I mean, it's working for Lebo right now.
Turds has been exceptional since that second map.
Conclusion, now, let's start for Lebo as they've lost off a M80.
Desperately need to win this round. They lose? That's the ball game here.
A lot of shot from Turd onto the player behind the clash, managed to find the head of diffuser.
potentially the last time that we'll see the former rookie of the year play
inside this server for N80. They now have to clutch up 4v4. It was a good early
pick onto Gunner. It was an aggressive move, not afraid of anything in situations
like this. The two-time major MVP knows how to lock in when things get tough. But
here comes the Blitz. They're inside of Electrical. They need to make their move
now. Stalled temporarily by the toxic base. It's gotten cold a chance to move over
the clutch. You see it's a waste time, right? And with the shield being there, you
He can knock that shield off, it gives an opportunity for Speakeasy to take some serious
damage here.
Speakeasy's been having a rough go of it with that, uh, miracle gas out of his position
outside of electrical.
Hot and Cold has flushed them out, but they didn't expect Reeps to sweep on through.
Turdstone handled by Gavin, and now here comes the Blitz.
A nice follow up for Hot and Cold walking away, and Speakeasy gets baited in.
Excellent play by M80 to draw out these Weibo aggressors.
Reeps attempting a jiggle peek on the gunner. He fails and now Hoven giggling as he gets as far away from the as possible and it looks like he
Asking a digital panhandler begging for a kill
Don't think he's gonna get it
15 seconds no diffuse kit four players still up on m80 and way bower just gonna sit and wait this one out
He knew the gunner was up there
He's having to pick the wrong part of the rafter position and they'd be putting together a comeback now
So a couple of things in that round Parker number one as I kind of said briefly in that round
I like the confidence from m80. They're still going for swings. They're still going for runouts. They're still having these high
High risk but high reward moments where they're getting rewarded for going for some of those big jump out some of those big swings
Gunner the most obvious one
But even Gavin I think in the midst of that round having some big swings on to the connector players
on the other side of things, Weibo, I liked the the brunt of their pushing through electrical
But Hoven was a bit disconnected
It's hard to get kills when you're not really a part of the action and it felt like in that round
He was all the way he was on the bottom floor
He was more towards kind of the the the garage side of the map
And I think he was trying to go for a play with the Capitao where he can burn somebody from down below or throw some
Smokes from down below that would have assisted in that push
But it just didn't feel like he was able to find the impact he was looking for ended up being the last alive not really impactful
Throughout that execute. So something that I'm sure Hoven will be looking to get more involved in in these next couple of rounds and
And eight have just chosen to go to kitchen cafeteria for around 11 Parker
This did not go well for them previously
It's been played twice today. It was successfully won by Webo both times
and it's thought of as the worst bombsite on this map.
So this is a huge risk from M80 believing in their ability to go back to this site,
not wanting to go into the basement at all costs.
I'm a bit confused by some bombsites being chosen by certain teams.
Again, operator bands do play a big role in why certain teams go to certain sites.
It could be the case. I'm fine, I'll be honest.
I'm just not smart enough to know.
If I'm not smart enough, I don't play this game.
play this game would be a good interview question after the fact of course I
made it would have to come back and get the wind for that to the case
Jesse you decided to leave the desk you don't get to get to the desk
guys when you are done casting okay
kitchen and cafeteria had two plays prior to this matchup
and yeah not exactly the the greatest sight but
across all four times that we've seen night haven labs and of course these
numbers are for the start of the day so if labs has been played today this
The stats do not reflect this.
Both assembly and tank and storage control room
actually have favorable win rates for the attackers.
So it could just be that even though it's not
the greatest type, they feel like outside of command
and external, which is the upstairs bomb site,
that kitchen is the next winnable.
That's my best guess as far as the logic here goes, Parker.
But tall floor meeting push has gone pretty well for Weibo.
They've gotten most of their ram drones out at this point.
They've used all of that utility,
and they speed up Skobos, Gunner, his barrel sticks out before he does and Hoven is holding an angle
begging for kills in the last round and gets the beer in round number 11.
That's about as free as a kill as when Gunner tried to reinforce on console, and so I mean, I guess, hey, that's a big gun.
Skobos is a crazy operator.
You found it, now the other remaining drone will just simply be a sentry turret at this point in time.
Kino gets knocked by Ctesi and Webo found themselves in an excellent position.
Three kills to go for Webo to conquer the defending major champs.
Time to be a hero, diffuser in the smoke, long angle with the DMR, what can he find?
Hot, cold, and Gavin hoping they can feed him some information.
Hot, of course, with the clash, but they know exactly where he's at shots.
Going his direction, he has to retreat temporarily.
What a showing this has been from Webo.
But this has been an excellent series so far, by the way.
Just in terms of the caliber of the gameplay,
the way these teams have traded back and forth,
this is a must-watch match for those of you
that have not seen it from start to finish.
And the finish seems like it's coming pretty soon, Jesse.
Diffuser on an island, and it's won flawlessly by Lego.
They conquer the defending major champs.
What a statement for three play days
For this APAC team, they look like world beaters right now.
There's no stopping Lebo in Paris, Parker.
They seem to know exactly what it takes to beat even the best of the best.
It wasn't a fluke.
It wasn't just that they were playing poor opponents earlier in the tournament.
You put them against anybody with the gun skill that this team has,
the coordination that they need in the mid-round,
and that late coaching coming through from Gohan as well.
All the pieces are here to send APAC all the way to the finals.
Incredible showing but we've still got more games to go. We'll be back after this break
I'm back, I'm here with the one and only turd from Weibo Gaming, an incredible game we just saw between Weibo and MAD that went really in the distance that was pulling on all of our heartstrings.
I want to talk to you about this because I feel like every time there's massive doubt cast by a lot of fans out there on APL teams and Weibo in particular,
but you've been doing so incredibly well in your group and you defeat a team like MAD, the major champions in Munich. How are you feeling overall?
I'm feeling really good and like proud of myself, my teammates, our coach, you know, like
We have a lot of deltas as you said, so to be able to like beat a team like in Mady, you know, the most recent major winners
It's a really good like just happy feeling, you know for ourselves and for the hard work we put in
Of course, this is all in best of three is not even best of ones
So all of that major stuff that you have in the initial phases out
three maps, big, big pressure on both squads. And the big part of this year is
you've been telling me that this is the first time you all as a team in Weibo
get to bootcamp and prepare. How does that enter into your preparation for
teams that are this big this will be playing against throughout the term?
Yeah, so in APAC like, you know, any APAC pro knows, scrimming in APAC sucks.
You don't really get, you don't get to scrim any, you know, world, world championship
winners. You get to scrim like Pharex and Kag. So being able to boot camp, even
Just for like six, seven days, there's such an advantage for us
and give us an opportunity to learn,
scrimmage the best teams.
When we got to the Netherlands for our bootcamp,
we tried to only book the best of the best.
I feel like scrimming for those seven days
against good EU Brazil NA teams,
it's really like prepared us for this event
and propelled our level of play.
Even just for one week, so yeah.
It's clear to see in the gameplay itself
and for all the doubters out there,
have a message to send to them at the end of today.
I'll enjoy watching APAC win their first time at this event.
Lifting the trophy.
Can APAC do it?
Can OABO do it?
Thank you very much, Ter.
Congratulations on the massive win.
What many would have thought near an impossible feat
many, many years ago is now becoming a reality.
And I feel as though this is a monumental victory
for OABO for APAC.
I don't want to hone in on that as much,
because I think that what we've seen throughout this game
in particular, shows that Waybo in particular are on the level where they can compete and might actually be a contender for things like main stage and beyond.
Of course, I mean, we've slowly been seeing APL get better and better, but seeing Waybo not only have the best individual players,
but they have the confidence and, speak easy, was a big reason to this confidence.
I mean, round two right out the gate to get those two kills to then give Waybo the opportunity to clutch up.
was amazing in the top four position just seeing the peak of the head to be able to close it out and go get the
Diffuse, but a lot of that came off the back of the peak easy and we've seen great plays out of Slade
Play was this place specifically was insane because it radiates
Confidence and that's something that we can't always say we've seen from the APL region
We're always talking about them being you know little underperformed lacking in strats lacking in some aspect
But not only have great players great strategy
But they have the confidence finally and you could seal radiating up. I mean not just the confidence everything you said also Gohan
I think Gohan has really played a tremendous role in this team's performance as a whole
I was speaking with him after their win and I was asking you know
What are the things that you're bringing on to this roster?
What is your view and he said that he's taking from each and every single region and what they do extremely well and
Throwing it at his players and letting them cultivate their own sort of style and play around those operators around their ability
and just let it kind of manifest into currently what it's looking like right now and by all means it is looking absolutely beautiful
One thing that was always talked about is the fact that a pack were gunners, right?
They were mechanically sharp, but it was always in the strategy and the adaptability where they fail
And I feel as though Gohan is now bringing that together. It's looking good. Speaking of looking good
They're on top of group a this is a good way of having a look at it because I
I couldn't be happier couldn't be proud of but of course just underneath them team heretics for the game in hands
This is gonna be an interesting group to see the way that it pans out
I think most would have expected MA to be M80 to be topping it at the moment
Yeah, I mean that's what we were saying when we were coming into it that it was gonna be a battle for second place
But that being said it's the six-invitational anybody can win anybody can top the charts and so far way those there
And I do believe the only team that could pass them is heretics if they win out
So, Weibo's one game away from securing first place.
Yeah, it's, again, it's really crazy for me to,
this is where we're at currently.
It's only the third day after six in the table,
but there are so many of these games.
There's so many of these teams
that are really showing why they're here,
why they're deserving of it.
And a team like Heretics, a team like Weibo,
could easily be the top two coming out of Roubaix.
I'm excited because leaning into next week with phase two,
and then obviously into main stage,
anything could be a possibility.
Speaking of main stage, there's been so many
are the greatest players to, I guess, grace it over the course of all the six
invitations that we've ever had, but there are two that really stick out.
Hengu and I think a bloke named Shaco.
Honestly, a lot of players are scared of you, obviously.
We were suspicious because you're too good.
Like, that was literally what happened.
And I'm the one who sent the email.
So, like, I'm the one who did it.
That's the story, right?
None of us really thought that you were legit.
No, you're not.
What happens when you put two goats in a room?
With a bit of heat?
Right here, the two goats.
Okay, relax.
What are your thoughts on that one, Lax?
A very interesting prospect for a piece of content.
Yeah, I mean for the people who are unaware, which I'm not sure how many that are,
but for people that are brand new, Pango, Pango.
That's what you mean.
You know, I mean, I think
you know, I mean, you know,
I mean, I think a lot of
people think, you know,
Pingu actually kind of went at
Shaco as you heard, they thought
he was cheating. They thought,
you know, it was kind of not
typically things you see. But
shaco has proven time and time
again that he is that player
that Pingu met back in the day
and still showing up today.
Maybe not. In today's match up,
But yesterday's for sure.
You see a full circle moment,
you know, the old being able to.
Respect the new in a way,
even though Shaco has been
around a little bit, so.
to do it. Well, thank you very much for joining us, James. It's been an absolute pleasure
for the kickstart of the day. However, I'm not the only Aussie that's about to grace
the screen. Dev Mada, what have you got for us?
Hey, guys, I'm here with Savage and we're going to be playing a little game. Savage,
how are you feeling? I'm all good. I'm all good than you. Yeah, I'm doing great. Thank
you very much. So I'm going to say a couple of words and you're just going to tell me
the first word that comes to your head. All right. Okay, team secret. Diversity. Oh, nice.
SI 2026
Win
Paris
New
New?
First time, I don't know, I don't know
Sure, we'll take that
Chalet
Gunfights
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Alright, Mowgli
Aggressive
Rainbow Six
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uh op and uh last one thank you go thank you very much
game. It is time for the third
match on the A stream here at
the six of attention. My name
is and I'm joined by fresh and
Foxy to talk us through this
third game. Um because it is a
group C game. We're going to
start with an update on group C
as well. Just to see where we
are at currently. It's looking
like for these to use because
surprise when we're looking at
this guy's D plus up top versus
against Shopify Rebellion in terms of that clean 2-0 victory,
D-plus at the top of the table.
We really didn't expect it coming into this one.
And of course, G2, they have only played one game.
They had to buy yesterday.
So, and the fact that they lost that first game
puts them currently at the bottom of the table.
So, you know, when you do new stand-ins and new predictions,
it's not going to take one.
Everyone's predictions at home is going to be wrong.
You wouldn't expect G2 to be at the bottom of it.
But like you said, they only played one game,
so you can't be too worried too early on,
but a lot of it's going to come down to today.
the first place. If there is
a chance of a second place.
Given this is the third
match and due to already had
their day off, we can start
talking about the
implications of this matchup
and what it would mean for
them in regards to their
position inside of this
group should a D plus win
this matchup. They actually
secure upper bracket, and
that's kind of huge. But G2
they can't get first place if
they lose. Yeah that's I mean
that's absolutely massive.
Obviously the upper bracket
gives you a chance through
that bracket, but also for D
plus who were not expected to
be a team that were in the
upper bracket. We go back to
play they want. We were
talking about them maybe
scraping through in fourth
I think for G2, it's just about the upper bracket for now, so it's not yet panic stations.
Yeah, well, of course, G2 having only played that one game, having lost that one,
it's not for them that they lost it, at least they delivered us some content.
As we can trust G2 to always do, we talked about that one round,
where, I mean, obviously, props to the user for as well.
The fact that we got those two, I guess, team kills, health kills, whatever they were,
right after each other, you can always expect it from them.
Yeah, it's a funny moment for G2, obviously, the moment of the tournament so far,
so far, not only the back to back name, but the thermite kill to be able to take out the two Brazilians from the roster that you would have expected to be the ones to
Make every single round that much easier. They just take each other out and it happens. I mean first game jitters G2 slow
It makes perfect sense that that would be the team to have a round like that
And they still were so chipper looking at it positively. That's the biggest takeaway
They didn't let that dwell on themselves
It would have been very very easy for the team to have got angry gobs have gone
you know, you know, they're
not going to be able to see
anything. They're not going to
see anything. Oh, everything's
not going away. They actually
reacted really well. They were
laughing. You know, those kinds
of rounds can happen, and they
always seem to happen to do to
as well. But you know, it was a
close game against Shopify, and
I think they realized that this
this tournament. Is a marathon
and not sprint and clearly
integration looking at it. Yeah,
I'm glad we get to see some of
their, I guess pregame rituals
or fighting each other doing
some stretches and everything
before the game starts. We've
noticed the insane amount of
stuff behind them as well. So
You got to expect it from the G2 roster to be able to have 10, 11 people behind all being able to make sure that the team works out perfectly and for D plus on the other hand they only have one staff behind them that doesn't speak Portuguese like the rest of the roster speaking English or the translation ladder takes a little bit of time but even having that they're still able to be at the top of the leaderboard right now when it comes to their group so it's impressive nonetheless.
They have one walk out forward today when we talk about one player in specific who has a number of a player on the other side in the last 12 months
We talk in a head-to-head with doki and that nearest biggest doki skill nearest eight times
But nearest hasn't even managed to kill doki in the last 12 months
Of course
This is going back to a sense of the game that they played in the Munich major where doki
Absolutely owned nears. I want you to go that to zero clean victory
the scoreline is 8 to 0 between the two frontman for each team.
That's the first time that I would look at Doki being seen as a bully, so to say.
That being said from their games that they just played,
Doki has not been having a bad tournament, they've only played one match,
but Niers on the other hand, wow, he's been a big reason as to why D-plus have been able to win successfully
in specifically that match against Shopify Rebellion.
He was the reason as to why they won.
So it could be a moment of turning tides where nears will finally be able to get a kill against Stokey
And it's not just these two players have a story in history with each other
It goes way further and way deeper when we talk about the history between these two teams
We talk about LMAO and Levy who are on the same team
We talk about one of us on the same team with camera men for example winning events all the way back in
2021 I mean LMAO and Levy even have the same tattoo
the team. I think that's a
big part of it. Absolutely
same tattoo on the forearm for
that win over in Mexico, of
course, two players on the same
team, like you say, and then in
Yavler 2021, of course, there's
actually Romario, camera man
and bullet as well. All three
were on the same roster when
they were winning in 2021. So
I feel like we're at the
six invitation. You throw you
throw anything you will hit
Brazilian here because they're
on every single roster bar to
but certainly these two teams
player perspective playing against that team one roster or the fake
roster they have teaching guys the all 10 of them are very loud and
empowering that's why they bring 10 that's why they get scared everybody with
that being said playing against those two teams was scary back then and now
all of that history the experience all together on both those types of teams put
them in a position where there's no real one team that is at a fault at a
deficit d-plus has really been surpassing expectations g2 haven't had
much of an opportunity to show anything. Yeah, the suppressing expectations things. I want to talk about that because we definitely saw that when D plus took down Shopify or belly. And I think that was a matchup where a lot of people did not expect that. Yeah, I didn't expect it as well because I feel like obviously Shopify in my mind are one of the best teams in the tournament. I think a sad front runner from North America. And the one thing that I will say, Fox and maybe you'll agree with me, maybe one is I think North American
So, you know, when you're in
a position to play against
the team, you can see that
the team's siege is a little bit
more strategic. It's a little
bit slower pace. They tend to go
through the process is
properly. Now. What what did I
identify? D plus excuse
strength. Counter analysis
being able when you know what
your opponent is going to do.
You can create a plan against
it, and you can execute a plan
against it. So where they
strong map one when they
put up against black dragons
and when they've played against
North American team, I think
why D plus might struggle is
where our team is a little bit
more unpredictable. Now G two
don't know what they're doing
know and I think that could be a weakness for D plus K in terms of they
don't quite know what G2 are gonna do and it's about the reaction. That is the
magic of a G2 but I mean when you look at D plus I think the biggest thing for
them is confidence is being able to have that momentum and a player like near
specifically that we've been talking about all throughout the stage so far
has been showing up. He was the main reason for SR and we talked about them
being counteractive finding the opening everybody on D plus is able to
execute and they have the same caliber level of players as the rest of G2 so
So if it comes to a gunfight battle, that'll just be entertaining in itself to watch those
two teams go head to head.
But when it comes to structure, being more methodical, I hope we'll be able to see both
sides from G2 because they'll be able to adapt more.
They'll need to use their brain a little bit more and hopefully no more nading.
Oh dear.
It might also really depend on the maps that we're getting for this series, right?
How structured can you play?
What are you going to show to us here in Canada's best of the three?
We're looking at the first pick being done by D-plus and they're going to send us to
a bank.
I think it's a little bit of a
surprise this one for me in all
honesty because G2 are known as
one of the best bank teams. G2
ended Falcons run on bank when
Falcons were the best bank team
in the world and they also played
it back in the Munich major where
G2 one now going on to the G2's
pick up order, maybe a little
bit unconventional in terms of
map preference. But that for me
is G2 saying, Hey, we know you
like we know you like strategy.
We know you like step by step.
Let's take it to a map that's
both gunfights and we back
ourselves. That's exactly what
G2 needs, especially with the
rough start of the tournament.
up and instantly going for an ego pick of picking a good map for D plus.
I mean, yeah, it seems like both teams pick the respective good map for the other team.
So I'm expecting us to go to a map, which will be cafe, and it's one of those maps
that you're not going to be able to rely on individual play, finding those gaps
because it is so linear.
Yeah. And that's where we'll need to see if G2 can use that edge of having 10 staff,
having the brains a little bit more and experience behind them.
Well, the match is ready.
So we're going to send you without further ado to our casters, Gus and Zedoks.
Well, what an important match this shapes out to be. G2, we didn't think that they were
going to be in this position this early on in groups. We're into day three and they're
at the bottom of it and they need to find a win and they need to do so now. Backs up
against the wall and D plus are playing some really good stage. Yeah, crunch time for G2
and D plus are firing on all cylinders here in Paris. Our deeply historical matchup between
these two. It runs very deep indeed. Cannot wait to jump in. Need to add the caveat of course that G2
did have yesterday off. We'll see if they've been able to bounce back as they head into bank for this series.
loss for G2 would put them in a terrible position. Again though guys they've only played the
ones here, that was back on day one, but they got 2-0'd by shopper fireballion, who then
in turn got 2-0'd by D+, so it only makes sense now if G2 go in 2-0 D+, so then they've
all 2-0'd each other.
Which for the final couple days would have been that group C would be particularly tantalising,
but anything is possible in this matchup. I'm finding it very difficult to predict
the way and what the.
There is an element, I suppose,
weirdly of a pack, but it's
kind of from our perspective on
this particular matchup will
claim D plus when they play
well, when they play well,
that's the kind of they lose
this matchup. They're not a
great pack. But they've been
playing well and that's I guess
their story so far. There's more
known about them because we've
seen them play two matches that
D plus actually don't get their
day off until the last day of
groups. Yeah, so they get to
play their four matches and then
they kind of at that point know
roughly where they're at and
Obviously don't get to decide their fate on the final day, but we'll have done all of the work
So they play G2 today and then phase tomorrow
Which shapes to be a pretty big match if D plus do win this that would be the battle for the top spot
You would imagine of course phase do play Shopify rebellion after this later today
D plus on the defense first here on Bank G2 will be attacking. It is a very intriguing
Vito though and then the guys on the desk kind of brought it up as well like you know
in an internal sheet. Both maps are like seven prefects for both of their respective picks.
So it shapes to be quite intriguing to see how this plays out. E plus have the momentum,
have the confidence from the first few playdays, they're on a bit of a roll. G2 had the date off,
we'll see if that's gonna be enough to reset them. Alamau will go on the Monty with the Bands.
Double hard breach ban, ace of honor, makes opening canto pretty much impossible by in and mirror.
What kind of approach would G2 have in this matchup?
Oh, Malagresionelli.
That is very early.
Let it go straight away.
Goodspark for G2, opens up the map and gets a good space,
played behind Alamo on the 1T.
Ironscanned from Blast as well, just to make sure the D-Posts aren't
running around too much.
Who have opted for the full roam, essentially,
because you've got Midi still top floor.
We caught up towards the corridor, is bullet as well, perfect start for G2 on the roam clear.
Ken Midi wrangles something back here for D+, still lurking on the second floor, but the roadmaster has capitulated for D+.
And you look at the lineup for D+, the operators they've brought, they don't have as much of the fallback option to go back and play fight.
the fight, the light stays on the repel, Nia's then gets swept on site, this is looking flawless
territory, falls by himself inside a vault, does at least catch Stompin, Alarmal can get
the plant inside a blocker so denying the flawless from Foles, but it is going to be
a round win for G2's, flawless does get four-wided, doesn't get pushed, the discipline, Loire
gets the kill and G2 with a statement in the opening round that was a very clinical
room clear. I think a statement piece is the best way to categorize that particular
round playing out in a rather contrast fashion to most basement attacks where
it's a real grind. You're typically playing for some kind of plant wind
condition all the work done off site essentially.
The anticipation is for Alomar to be very both cool in this matchup of course so
the Portuguese will travel across to the opposing player area and DPS may well need to try and
block that out over the course of this matchup. But that will likely go both ways as well,
I'm sure he will also be on the receiving end there. Quite a bit of bad stuff about this match.
We had five guys last night actually by the way, but it's all top it in there.
Oh really? Yeah. And James actually said to him, of course the Americans in here.
Peek, athlete diet, thought that we could talk, we also had burgers last night.
We got top 4 CEO executive for the second round, D-plus will get a fettigar one this time,
and that run was just absolutely demolished, really good work from G2.
I love the fact that in that round for G2 they didn't hesitate on the end,
you play the multi, you feel confident, you got the shield, you take space,
That would just happen when every single fire, D-plus had no real opportunities
This looks more than that, we don't have D-plus on this top floor in terms of hand positioning
Our force will blame it towards elevator, of course with no ace, no Havana
Kanto doesn't even need to be electrified. That's a safe position
more D-plus and uh
littering above the canisters
outside of front desk
And if you may have missed the desk as well another little mini story within a story for this particular matchup the doki v. Nears
matchup
Doki is taking down the years on eight occasion nears has not been able to find one in return over the course of 12
Months, so we will be watching that quite closely about this best of three. You make it sound like they play every day
It's a little fun fact, I'm even off it. It is a fun fact it is
Well look at this, I'm out, I'm trying to find an angle, so I want steady right now for G2, so total opposite from the opening round, a different sight the way the D-plus are playing this,
hit you over towards Long Desk, pull it front and falls elevated so they're really well positioned at the back end of this sight, here's the what's generous,
All the way through default setup from D plus.
They're just trying to really hold their angles.
They're hoping that D plus make a bit of a mistake.
And step out into a bad position.
Logic bomb activated from glass.
That gas babe is really far away.
DMR is strong, stop and gets one soda.
It's all amount just like that.
Look at the switch, G2, a little 3-2-1 countdown.
Go floorless done, all in about 10 seconds.
It was set up, they were patient, holding good positions and obviously based on their communication, they all went at the same time, all executed well at the same time.
Clinical again from G2.
Blink and you miss it.
Yeah, blink and you miss it.
That is close as you can get quite literally to that.
That's the downside though for D plus defensively when you're playing that way.
Very default is it's also very defensive minded and it allows G2 to just kind of step up, get into the rep positions.
Yeah, I mean they committed to the quad repel they just found that trigger point they laid the necessary utility hit their shots
It was you know rather straightforward basic siege in the sense that it was
Simplified, but they played off some really good information their positioning was great timing of course critical and they nailed that as well
Strong start for G2 if the first round wasn't a statement the second one most definitely was
I mean, it's early wake-up call time now for D plus. Yeah, G2 aren't messing around today. At least not in this first map so far.
Comparatively to the maybe some of the bombers we saw in that last match up, they've fended up so far.
And I think Jan was talking about the bomb with gas. I don't want to misspeak here, but it's something along the lines of the counter analysis from D plus and Jan Stratting and trying to work out what the other team's doing in the counter.
Well, here you go, on the fly.
You're playing very fast, aggressive executions all in.
You're going to find a way to get in the counter punch before G2 goes for that execute.
So you've got to play a little bit more on the front foot here defensively.
You've got to start from the open area, third-in-front sight, third chance for D-plus on the defense.
Now this is going to be the stopway.
D plus do need to be somewhat more aggressive.
Alarm on the put straight into archives.
The aggression from G2 stays at a heightened state.
The flash was successful, but decent for me
is to just run away from that and get help from Admin.
That was levy.
Lawyer did get the kill onto falls.
D plus over the Slidesman advantage.
Just bought enough time by running around
instead of taking the direct fight.
D plus able to play off one another this time around.
Oh, it stompers!
D off of kill alive!
One hell of a shot on the bullet to even that man count
Yeah, bullet one, one bullet and two the half blacks then the drop down the nose that nears his inside arc eyes good turn around shot though from the
Valk
Stomp and has continued to a crest for it by the way
He's second logic bomb still isn't ready because this is so early into the round
I just sell still available for MIDI no longer though for nears and that logic bomb now ready to go for stomp and the four flashes available here for G2
Do not discount the impact that that may have adding to that the drones as well available
G2 actually find himself in a pretty good spot
This has been spotted and taken down
That's like down from lawyer up leaves it down to midi in the one versus two loads of time remaining logic bomb activated
The no exactly where is the drop down though from stop it literally was a little late to enter up close shotgun a chance
He's ready. Well, it's really the drop shot will not work from lawyer
just the miss timing on it in terms of the communication D plus though finally on the board win their first round
The concern for me though is still this early ground early round aggression because I set the time straight away
It's done an amazing job. They just simply run away by time for the support
This is a little one town from Stomper and that brought the round back alive
This is a 3v as well and so from that point there on the drop 3v2 and the nears good shot again from him
So really decent individual skill coming to the foray from D cross kill and yeah
Just the timing there from stomping left lower than in the 1v1 maybe with a shot got up close
Some words
Well, by the way, in Portuguese, I'm not too sure what that is, but...
He's getting a rear on speed after this matchup.
Well, I don't know how much of a...
We're gonna be straying the appropriate.
Head back to Lockers and CCTV for the fourth round.
Big round from Mitty.
Do D-plus commit to the round this time of the year?
What?
Well, you look at the line.
The line-up is always so suggestive when it comes to Lockers and CCTV.
So, if you thought after, yes.
You're going to win the Moddy, the Oryx, the Malusie.
It makes it very obvious how they actually want to play this round.
We've had a little bit of a translation.
Something about shouting louder.
Plus, can't hear them.
It's quite faulty though for DPLUS to actually commit to another drone for Locker 60TV.
Exactly what I was thinking. Actually in A-Pack I'd say the default nature is to play more time denial down below.
So he keeps loaning through the janitor hallway, letting it get caught.
Yeah, he was just completely unaware which is surprising. If you're playing that position, this site in the roam game, you need to be switched on.
Midi will give away that Sankyu impact grenade and caught.
What are you doing? You know exactly what he just was.
That was a little unusual.
And for the second time running, D-plus, this roam game of Locker's CCTV is not working.
G2 reading into it nicely, solid positioning, and that leaves the game into a 3v5 state
where again, D-plus don't have that option of just fall back to site, play it to Chanker
for instance for denial.
Neers will go prone in an open area under the desk looking to hide away.
Hopefully for his sake, he doesn't get spotted by that half mark, Yellow Pink.
Force trying to find the angle and he does, lended a small amount of damage onto Doki, but Doki now knows the hatch is being watched.
Nautracell, by the way, in hand, prepped from bullet over to Ward's basement hallway.
He's just waiting, so again, like even the way that they're playing this now from basement side, it's very aggressive.
No one there, just hoping to frag.
GLaDOS will get rid of Niers, and he was the only one that Ward's first floor, leaving the final two members of DPLOS in basement by themselves against the 5 man of G2.
Well, they've looked clear on the roam clear view too, and from this particular position, 5, 2, 60 seconds,
should be a very simple task, and closing out this round barring, essentially a miracle for D plus K.O.
Falls and bullet, just the one picked between them so far.
Hey, look at this right now, even they're from Loira, the way that G2 are playing this, they're not rushing,
they've got 45 seconds, I know it's a 5v2 advantage, this is a very systematic, very clinical seed,
We're very easy in your mind as this thing, we can just one of them.
But they're playing this as if it's almost like a 5v5, great angle from Blaz, wins the shot for the distance,
bought by himself, almost now again flawless, but the 90-50 to Alamount, quick trade though,
front stomping. And it's a 3-1 lead for G2, they're looking much, much better than D-plus right now.
Yeah, in all facets really. Last round was a little bit awkward for them, but the other three
have been very clean an intriguing decision from the plus to gamble them down on basement with the
rome and it didn't work okay guys so they're only playing the timing timing rush in the early
of the round guys so there's so many privilege thrown on the second floor that they they're
ringing the lion and they pushed the so early times guys the communication communication is
the key like we are i don't vibe it's so different from the like they won and they do guys let's be
Be more energetic, that's be more communicative, you know?
Yes.
Okay, that's it.
I think the next one, I will meet.
You can say it.
I will pick Echo.
I will pick Echo.
I will try to kill this guy for a second.
I will leave like 2 Drones 1 in the light, 1 C.O.
And I will have to kill this guy for a 0-0.
You can do it.
You can do it.
You can do it.
You can do it.
You can do it.
You can do it.
You can do it.
You can do it.
Well, not a lot of panic in the camp and rightfully it's only 4 rounds that have been played,
clearly some worrying signs and glad that sort of what was mentioned was sort of
what g2 is doing right they bring the line they're trying to get aggressive
they're trying to push you got to communicate and you got to understand
also what your opponent is doing so I think they'll clue on to that a little
bit more D plus and two more rounds of this is a 3-3 half I think that's fine
for both teams it does now mean g2 in the driver's seat
Yeah, I don't think the influence of the drones is what could be understood at all too much.
Those roams are best counted with really good clean information and then actively playing
offer and we have seen that from G2 on every single attempt and for the vast majority of
them clearly as the scoreboard reflects has been clinical.
Although as the series progresses that's something to keep in the back of the mind, especially
DPSR to not back down and continually play aggressive off-site on defense.
We've never turned to the top floor, where it would likely be a little bit more puckered down.
Fast downwinds back through last attacking attempt from G2, they had the quad repelled.
Three new airlock, one lobby, one like L-square, and they were able to flash outside very effectively.
It is such an interesting dynamic though, Korean coach, Brazilian players.
P.J. kind of just says a bit more of the simplistic things that need to be noted and then allows them
You know executive for the fifth round
To we're able to win this like last time in the second round already getting active again
I'll now see lawyer close fire
This is where also bringing the echo the okra isn't going to do much against this kind of aggression
Good opening kill from Lawyer, and he's trying to contest the Gatsby though being thrown out early from Levy.
That's a good thing. All three though have been expended. Not going to have them for the late round, but you have been able to delay this push.
At what cost though? G2 again are commanding the round. They've got to give that more spot to the square.
These YOKA's have got to be more offensive than possible. Look at this, Alomar straight into Janina. Easy kill onto Levy.
Easy clear. D plus is just not again on the front foot. They're allowing G2 to take space by these early picks.
falls in the air as though combined.
What a piece that makes it 3v3 and Lawyer is down,
forcing now the 14 from Doki into the EO to play alongside Alamau.
He opts for the plant.
Alamau will shield, cover up, hope the play can be successful,
but you can hear the yokai in the background.
That will deny Doki the ability, but it's down.
Law broken down from that. Alamau's on the other side with the pistol out.
Two versus two, back in goes Doki.
And he might just be able to get Lawyer back up.
Hit comes Alamow again, full right on the fourth pistol, double from Alamow on the round.
He's salvaged this for G2, and Niers has to beat all three remaining.
They got the reviver as well, 60 seconds, Niers with it all to do.
Could just land a body tag, he does, he got one, don't give the trade, G2.
What a salvage mission.
Alamow ever influential on the Blitz.
Yeah, he's been really good so far in this match.
Typically, actually it's been early round finding that space and that pressure and throwing chaos.
But in that round, really good late.
I think it probably does go a little bit into the realm of throw, unfortunately for D plus.
Bullet taking down the castle barricade that has Yohkai information to play off.
It's like a soft throw, it's not full, but no.
They have it off, get started again for Genji, look at the time.
211 on the clock opening kill the amount of phrases they already have pop square
I don't know about that one from bullet very strange
And then again, look at this from hell amount but in the balls
He's being able to get the flash get the pistol out takes care of that front-depth position and poro tears
They're in a very difficult position
position and doki and duck how good was doki by the way back in Munich he was
sensational sizzling form due to sizzling right now for one lead final round
all the half coming up
I believe I look across at the uh, I think Doki got another kill on Teniers as well.
People checked that.
He was the 8th kill in that previous round, 54 seconds on the clock.
And so I believe that has now extended the shaker unless I've missed the one back elsewhere.
Aggression from Fall has been killed to D plus Kea.
Well, it's just a counter aggression that was probably needed two three rounds ago once they started to understand that G2 are playing a really fast tempo here on bank
There's the adjustment adjustment and so Laura goes down. Don't have to throw my but it is stuff open at the end of the world
Be fair it means a position like Quad is just gonna stay completely reinforced
And and what this does as well
So when you play like that now G2 also have to be a little bit more cautious with the way they move
And apparently it does not matter. Doki onto nears, Blaz gets through the bullet
And Vantage now suddenly for G2, despite the opening kill for D+.
Midi targeted over towards Talos
Now midi lost playing this position, usually very strong towards Talos
But when you're getting deathmarked by Doki, you're outnumbered, you don't have as much help
much help. He can get multiple players into position. You can see clearly he's watching
three different angles. He's got a bit of help from Levy over towards Beepers.
Oh that's a good shot. Good swing from Levy. Tokido with the Vendetta pushes in and takes care of
Mithy. A Vennet still maintained for G2 and again they give themselves so much time in these rounds.
Their time management has been absolutely perfect here on bank. They're giving themselves so much
freedom to pivot to find information to adjust their game plan as required
Let me try to take the active battle. Oh what a shot from Blaz
Pushed into water event falls down by himself. It's a very dominant half from G2 as they take a 5-1 lead
They really are playing properly as a team. They are in sync. They're getting really good information
They abused the day must really well over the course of that half
half, the Blitz as well with some notable appearances, D-plus constantly trying to match
their tempo. We saw a couple of increasingly more aggressive attempts as the half progressed,
but unfortunately they just could not match the skill of G2.
And Toki, I'm your Thanos.
By the way, that round was the first round that a G2 member got a multi-kill, which
was Toki with a 3 kill.
Really?
Yeah.
And you say that because it's like that was so dominant.
What?
It just goes to show that the spread performance from all five players performing in the heart.
Truly is a team effort.
8 and 2 from Blizz, 7-1 from Doki, leading, but
Lera stomping an L amount, all positive.
Barry, Barry stomping on from G2A.
Again, I think this is much better from D-plus.
That kind of gameplay they needed to do more of on their defense.
Okay, what a shot from Doki.
Doki's looking so sharp today.
The day must play for him has been really strong.
It's difficult to play weaknesses on this GT team at the moment, which if you're D-Pass
and started the server looking to try and exploit any potential weaknesses, it has to
be a pretty suffocating feeling.
Yeah, they got four opening kills in the six rounds, played, converted all four of those.
They got a flawless, they had a low key with the multi-killing in the last round.
A lot of the stats there, just it's completely a white wash.
to have ran all over D-plus. We'll see if they can replicate in the second half and
try and get their own attack in game going. But this is now going to be the curiosity
is, well how are G2 going to want to play on defense? They keep the same mindset, the
same mantra, play aggressive, train in the face of D-plus. They don't want to sit back.
Again, we go lock as easy as Tv. And like we saw in the first half, it's going to be a
roam. Stop it on the vigil, Doki on the fan area. But with the way that D-plus are coming
through sewer, I do wonder if they want to just go for a straight direct site here.
Now if they want to do that, Alomar is actually in the best position to deny that.
The Asami blocking sewer is a thorn in the side of T-plus.
Don't give any ears by the way, quick update.
10-0. The streak continuing. Double digits.
What can Alomar do here over towards server? Maybe he's a big one.
And the thing is, as soon as they push through this and multiple bodies block out, Alomar just has to call up with the rest of the team.
team they start to fly back to site. They give up on the room game because they know it's not needed.
This is such an aggressive position from Lera. You wouldn't typically see defenders holding hats like that, but they know for a while that D plus are playing a sewer push.
Elemental is the one that gets the opening kill. I love these smokes. They're actually helping him. He's just playing off them perfectly behind the server rack.
Like Levy hasn't even been able to get in with the glass and play off of them
They have not used these smokes effectively at all and then the swing from Alamow against the glass
This round seems like it's already done
Surely a foregone conclusion
Midi top square so Lora's had to then back over towards archives
Alamow does not need to peek anymore. He wants to but I think he really wants to
This wants to go for the right timing. That's still a key, but Barry as well.
And a full minute remaining. I mean, there's so much time here for D plus, but
position. There you go. Went for the swing. This time gets counted by Nears.
But surely around it's gonna be very difficult for D plus. Laira eventually losing his life
towards archives. Patience pays off for Nears. They lose bullet and they didn't need to lose him.
him at that point it became a 3v3 with a minute became more salvageable, but Blaz is fortunate
that he does not fall there to Niers inside of server.
It seems about time they have the man advantage here G2.
Blaz is pinched but here comes Soplin to help out up close on the vigil and shot to Niers
Doki finishes Midi and this map is looking like a foregone conclusion.
G2 speed running bank. It has been incredibly one-sided. I mean there's winning, there's
one-sided winning and but this is just so dominant that there's not much you can take
away from the D-plus camp because G2 have controlled the match in its entirety. The
pacing at the start of rounds it's G2. They decide how they want to play this. Guess what?
on the attack thing. Okay, we will try to decide what we want to do. It doesn't matter.
D2 is one step ahead because Alamo is sitting server with the Azami to block that silver push,
which allows the other four members to roam up above and not have to worry about a direct hit
into site. Obviously a disappointing result on day one to lose the Shopify Rebellion to nothing,
but they had yesterday off and whatever they did yesterday, it has worked because D2
D-plus have been in good form!
This is certainly a matchup where maybe three event you pencil it in as a confident D2 victory,
but you're right, given the way both teams sort of have played so far,
they were limited of course for D2,
but D-plus have had very respectable results,
unfortunately so far here in this particular best of three,
they've been out-classed in essentially every fast-emotional game D2,
Now it's just a matter of closing it out.
And don't forget this is the map pick of D-Plus.
Oh, chance of life!
My head shot on to Levy, but by Doc could be...
Deploying troll.
Look, we've had 7-0 as we saw one earlier today while up top this was Falcons.
This is pretty much the same kind of territory.
These rounds have been so dominant from G2.
D-Plus now look a little bit scared to even try to enter the building and Falls has been able to find the trade onto Doki
But not before he was able to get rid of bullet maintaining disadvantage for his team. No capital
No doc could be you're losing a lot of weaponry here for D-Plus on the attack in trying to aid any kind of chance of getting into top floor
Yeah, you pretty much don't have anything here left you've got some air jabs
You're sleeping, bomb located.
Start contrast to G2, pretty much at the beginning of every single round, already at the place
that a foothold and formulating a plan, D-class just continued to scramble.
The round was probably over, by the way, does that mean a single round played where the opening
kill was after the 2-minute mark, which was the second round, mid at 17, everything else
to a 2-minute mark and more?
That's a shot, midi.
Captures Blythe as he steps into the long angle, now we might just have a round on our
But there are still three gaspates for Alamow, two nitroids as bold for G2.
Even though it's a 3G3, the attacking team for me is still at a disadvantage.
Yeah, the double nitro makes things incredibly precarious for this attack.
They need to clear Stomper towards Stockholm and he's getting back up.
So Alamow's rotated, he comes in to now either play behind Stomper
or at least backfill in towards Long Desk.
So they've got more presence towards the back of this site
and they can surround the site a little bit better.
Stomper caught on the reload, midi pushed up, good timing,
Good timing, takes space in towards Janitor, Alomar by himself in long desk.
He tucks in the corner, and underneath he captures Midi.
Could Alomar send this game into a 7-1 fashion with this clutch?
Three gaspapes that he can still play off of.
The push is coming though from Niers, by himself.
Foul didn't push with him, but Foul has the angle from CEO.
And we continue on.
6-2, D-plus stay alive here on bank.
And they're not going about it the easy way, D plus Keele, but they get that round result.
Full straight though, required for overtime.
I thought for a second when Alinal went for the rotate, that he pushed in plate with Stomper
and they made me together, double push down to hallway, had they actually done that, you
had the numbers, you would have gotten the kill, Midi would have easily died there instead.
Stomper gets caught by himself, he just finished reloading, Midi hears that push, gets the
kill and then Alarm out by himself in long desk wasn't able to actually have
the influence on that position still came down or 1v1 the force was in a
great spot at that point in C.O it's the team by seeing decent in the B-class
camp even though they're 6-2 down that's a BESA 3
got a good moment to go to build exactly I'll be shooting your mental and the
map one otherwise you're never going to find success in best of threes.
Statistically though, D-Fast still trailing by a significant margin in this series, not
a single player above 100 EPS, Levy and Bullock currently below 50, so really trailing below
what is required of this level, and on the flip side for G2, Stompin finally, I've actually
had a hundred dollars to load G2 and that's what a sentence you ticket this in.
Blazers we watch him here playing the Capcan, EDD's plays, he's been the best
player 155vPS and three all on the entry 88% cost and three 63% survival rate
I mean he's just done it all and the assists as well as the boot. The nears
Here's what's living in top square.
All the way on the side of the janitor.
The player will play the hallway.
And to note, by the way,
Stomp is in archived.
That's going to be
kind of the offset position here
for G2 defensively, where they're not all
kind of playing default top floor.
Doki's also a first floor square,
but Doki Stomp would be
active defenders here to watch for G2.
Information for Doki.
spotted, but it has not claimed. And now probably can't necessarily play that position permanently.
Midi gets the kill onto Laira. Still got Stompin in our custody position may not necessarily
be known if he hasn't been thrown out. No one now knows he's going to be cautious inside
of Janada. He hasn't got a lot of help around him. Because you've got the two Romans, he's
now on an island in Janada. You've got no one top main, no one towards stock. So Alamoz
used all of his gasbases to buy some time for these Romans to rotate. So Stompin now gets
over to main to help out.
He's so deep.
RG2 aware of that advanced position.
Blythe's from rotate, flashed out.
He's in that top main hallway position.
Stompin needs to push up and turn.
Take that fight, take that space.
He's looked into long desk now.
So that's forced L amount to drop.
The top floor's completely cleared at 5v3.
D-plus now can play vert.
This is a really difficult position for G2.
They're trying to back this defense into a corner
as is typically the case on open area.
Then have lurk threat main blue etc stompin. What can he do bot main?
At the wrong time levy though taken down a 1 HP
And that makes it very difficult for levy to push this fight
But they do have the positional knowledge of stompin towards bot main. Biddy is above top main
So he's they've got him completely trapped here, but 35 seconds means the D plus you're the ones that need to make the move
Levy doesn't want to push forward, so I love this game.
He has to push forward, there's 30 seconds left.
Unless you just go sight and you leave him there and allow Levy to push up behind him,
Alamau and Doki then get one of these because now D-plus are panicking.
Stopping then gets rid of Midi.
They've completely chalked it, they had the numbers, but they ran out of time and so they started to panic around the map.
There's only 12 seconds left, Levy's stuck down below.
He's actually gone for blue, they don't have defuser, this is done.
is done. It's going to be 7-2 to G2 because D-plus didn't know what to do in a winning
position. They fumbled the bag. But G2 do not on-paint. They steal D-plus' map pick
in a very dominant fashion. 7-2. And looking much, much better here today on Day 3.
And if G2 play like this on-boarder, it could be a bloodbath. They were playing so well
synchronized as a unit. This is the G2 we love to watch.
It was fast, it was frenetic, but it was also concise.
Yes.
Just upon siege, all of the elements that us made successful siege, G2 were able to present
to the table.
Of course, another map in the series to go, but if they play like that, you would imagine
this could be 2-0 territory.
It's dangerous times here for T+, but for G2, it's good times.
I
Available now
the game, but also in the game
with the dominant first map
here for G2. And we're glad to
see this result, especially
after they were at the bottom of
that group. I think lost the
first game the day off already,
but this is a solid result that
they needed. Yeah, I'm glad to
see that that first loss didn't affect them too much. Yeah. And I think what we need to
talk about is how impactful of the game when this is for G2, because yes, they are playing
D plus, but the way that they were going about it was so methodical. And we got to see both
sides, the aggression where it was needed, but also being able to manage deep plus aggression,
being able to catch the trades out and handling D plus. And once that was taken into the equation,
D plus didn't have a response. I was actually a really big, I was shocked when D plus picked
I couldn't figure it out. I thought she was so good at bank. They've already lost it against you to I just wrote to
Doki and he said bro
I don't understand why they picked bank against us
I actually have got a really good example of this in terms of clipping that G2 were looking to take away the defaults away from D
Plus we've known D plus to be really really good at layering through defaults when they're facing up against teams that they will do step
One then two and three whereas G2 they won't do that
They will just do step five straight away.
Every single entry kill was coming within the first minute,
and that's where G2 were doing one.
Yeah, with the clips that you want to show,
I mean, we're talking about some kind of differences
that we're seeing on the site here.
One thing we've also been tracking in this matchup, I guess,
is the head-to-head between Doki and Niers.
We're talking about Doki killing Niers every single time
it happened back in Munich,
and Niers not being able to do so, so far,
and it seems like that's still the case.
Yeah, still bowling in Niers.
He hasn't been able to get a kill against Doki.
Doki is having an exceptional game himself,
and Bank is one of those maps that I would say
Amplify Doki's play the way at least from when I played against him was always very rat heavy
You never know where Doki's gonna be
He's always roaming a lot longer than you would expect any other player to go for and he makes very in your opinion
Questionable questionable plays, but they always succeed. They always catch you off guard
Yeah, and it's further to talk about what you were saying earlier
We're even despite G2 being so good. We're still seeing new things. Yeah, so this is the one round the G2 loss
And I'm showing G2's run lost because it's still showing the dynamic of how they're changing away from D plus
the team. They're going to
lose the first two. Normally
for an open area attack. You
will take top club work through
what the best tools and then
look to take into tells our
guys what did you do to
breach possible? It's in through
a repel through the window on
a team side. They actually lose
doki and they lose all amount
in this clip. It becomes a
free versus free. The stump and
then ends up getting amazing
ones up to get it for free
versus free in the end, and
then they ended up losing the
two versus one in the clutch.
That's the one round D plus
from the initial areas, and just putting it into, you know, areas close to 30-40 seconds,
keeping D-plus thinking, and that's outside of their comfort zone.
Making them uncomfortable, and them losing that round too, made it so that not only would they
get aggressive, but once they got that advantage, they slowed it down, they wait for D-plus to
respond, shut it down, and then win the round out.
They have lost one of our big European teams is currently playing, one of the other big European
teams, Falcons, played earlier today against Waco, and Jameson's update on the game for us.
So we just had wild card take on Falcons and it was a grueling two on series.
It all started on board and you had to expect the unexpected wild card 7-0.
That wasn't on my bingo card and it was all thanks to their Frenchman baby shark
making sweet love to Falcons.
Moving into map two, Falcons, they fired up.
They looked a lot better.
A 7-2, they shut down baby shark and they just cleaned house with clubhouse.
classic Falcons. Onto map 3, Fortress. What we've all been waiting for, the newest map in the pool
and we've never seen either of these teams play it before. It was an attack as paradise. Wildcard
started, went up 4-2 on their attack, Falcons flipped the switch and they do the exact same
thing right back to them. Into overtime and Lika Fak was fired up, Shaco was firing on all cylinders,
Baby Shark, still nowhere to be seen. But guess what? Kansan, the clutch king, he had a massive
17 kills and Fortress was won by Wildcard across the line 8-7 leaving them in second place in Group B
and Falcons scrounging for a victory. Their second loss of SI so far. Can the Parisians, can the tournament favourites bounce back?
Is anyone's guess? Falcons had some serious soul searching to do.
I'll maybe the hope of Europe is just resting on the shoulders of G2 who are looking good in this matchup.
Can they clear it in 2-0? We'll send it back to the casters to find out.
Bro, the most excited I've seen James for a hot man.
He looked like he was having an immense amount of fun there with the Mike as have G2.
They've been having an immense amount of fun in this series thus far.
We had to port up for the second map and the D+, well they've got some soul searching to do as well.
I don't want to say it's an impossibility for D plus to win this map and I'll tell you what it's gonna be tough
It certainly is let's head over to board and to see if G2 could put the two into zero
The real question is, does Nia's get a kill, the 2 into 0?
Alright, well you could have just...
That was not your finest call.
You could have just left it.
You could have just left it.
I could have.
You could have left it.
You're better than I am, Jake.
You know what?
T plus a better than that on the first map.
And they're going to need to do better here on border.
Do we see Niers finding a kill against Stokie?
That's the real question.
That's the real stat we need to follow.
I have a sneaky suspicion that that particular stat line
may be more heavily contested than the stat line
at the very top, meeting the round count.
And I'm not saying that to be disrespectful towards D plus.
They have a pretty intriguing record
on this particular map.
I do want to mention it.
sure you lead into that first go. Yeah well the last time that D plus actually
won on border was the 28th of June which was against Mer gaming and for those
that follow the airpack region Mer gaming is not really a powerhouse. And in
terms of this series as well in isolation G2's aggression especially on
attack and their willingness to hunt players seek map control early etc etc
on boarder that could lead to some serious deep and rooted troubles for D plus. That's why in the band phase, right?
They've targeted that on the side of G2. They've taken the blitz off the board, which is really impactful back on the main.
The Ying is wild, which will facilitate their playstyle, and so I'm intrigued to see then how G2 looks to play themselves.
Take out the Azanling, it's my pretty 8, uh, 10 seconds on that plate.
The Armory and Archive is for the opening round. The good news for D plus though, it's 0-0, alright?
So you've got to kind of reset lock in reset the mental you know that g2 are gonna play aggressive especially in the attacking half
So you've already got that information from the opening map of bank
The question will be how does the plus thing utilize that information and how do they opt to play?
Can't just play default. It's not gonna work against g2
But g2 then are also gonna be thinking well, they know that how we want to play in so therefore
We now know how they want to play so we need to change how we're gonna play welcome to the mind games of best
We're up already in towards customs. We'll use his first death mark along with the lion's gambler of doki
immediately
Well, it's able to survive the first few shots of the bed debts up
Here's we'll take over from that position inside of security the team was surprised that that was made out over the year
We saw a really impactful back on bank opening kill though is actually on Tuesday
And it's because midi went first four
So he actually wrapped on down and put the pressure back onto lawyer rather than just trying to find it from a dirt perspective
But doki then catches midi on the rotate back towards site
four versus four
But you're the least out with the day most that already released quite a bit of pressure for the remainder of this round and lawyer is of course
Very dominant on maps like border on the day most he can be sort of
He's active again from Doki, so only one remaining from him.
Stomper trying to make his way top-east.
And it's 20 on the clock.
Stomper looking for info on the black pit.
Alamow defusing in hand.
There is Yellow King though on the foot side available here to D+.
Macho ripped from legging.
Looking for a Q over two wards.
He's off on a single and does damage Alamow, but not enough to net the kill.
Yeah, very close. Now that's actually left side. I think that is fully aware of it though. I think he's sensing it.
Wow, great angle in the ears when searching! Wow, it activates though!
Quick double kill. Opens up this site now for G2.
D-Post trying to get on that front foot, trying to make some moves.
And it has not worked. They walked straight into the site lines of G2.
And Lee's falls over towards Lockers. Ballot's over towards Security.
He's got a long angle. Falls does get the kill on to Alamow.
38 seconds remaining in the round. Blast has got the kit in hand. Stompin on the Blackbeard can provide a way forward.
Blast inside the archives. Behind the bomb, Chassis. Vols trying to find the tap angle, but Doki wins the battle.
These are down for Bullet in the 1 versus 2 as Doki is down, but not out. Stompin on the Blackbeard will be very difficult to beat though in any 1v1
and still has Blast in archives behind the bomb, Chassis, right on top of the kit.
Blast is trapped. It can make it interesting. Stompin has to stay alive.
Bullet is just capturing it, hoping he can catch some kind of angle, taps the feet of Stompin.
Blaz has not moved, still behind the bomb chassis. He is still stuck there. Ragnade not doing a lot.
Now Blaz has been able to sneak out, put strength into the sight line of Bullet.
1v1, 12 seconds remaining on the clock. Make it 3 really big for Bullet to get on this kit.
No time. Stompin plays this perfectly. Sits back. It's not flashy, but it does not matter.
They're going to win the round. G2 will kickstart Border the way that they did on Bank. It's a win.
Yeah, that's really clean from Stomp and doesn't get the
stat to reward that effort, but he plays a cool, calm and collected,
uses utility correctly to stall out additional time, doesn't panic,
and critically values his life as the key win condition in that post-plan.
And I'm sure you may be sitting there saying,
oh, well, it's easy, it's on the back, but you can just sit there.
But sometimes players under pressure can allow that gap to close
and allow mistakes too creepy.
Double some Ks in that opening round. Deces are for D plus, but they play for Blizz.
They're intact in the corner. Gets the first. Tenses that maybe will go for the trade.
They just need to reach all there in that moment. I don't know, like this.
And this is the problem with what's happening mindset-wise.
D plus kill. It's damned if you do, damned if you don't.
We're sitting back, like, hey, we're getting beaten. Let's go for the pause, but we're getting beat.
It's about understanding the right time to make those kind of plays.
Stompens. Yeah, played that while. He knew that blast is stark, bomb chassis. I've
got to then get in the face. Off-baller. I gotta make it very difficult for him to
push. But not too close. Not too close. It's a very fine line.
Did a good job.
And not ideal for the Eplos, because it's killing the army out of us. It's really
defensively. It's like, you know, you're bleeding. And it's the one side that,
Especially on the corner it's gonna allow you to play a bit more of that structure defense
Force you to have to deal with the layers
Get out of the bathroom and Talos now
Just can't play a little bit similar force people will have plenty of players up on that second floor
Yeah, the mirror in support
Compared a little bit more playmaking opportunity or it's as well
Yeah, make it a grinding selection
Maybe it will probably handle anywhere from security over towards Toppy stairs all along there.
Keep target like this, Stomp them on the back there.
Well, this isn't intriguing, Liner.
Oh my goodness. Wow!
That is a perfect Liner, but my nears, Frank grenade from Stomp and from three.
And he's being able to connect with that opening kill, maybe being tracked down by the deathmark, perfect counter from Loira.
That was nice.
I wonder what the reaction time was for nears in terms of that grenade fuse.
Clearly, not a lot.
No.
He did try to get aggressive, but it is the Blackbeard on the other side of it.
Lira's going to fall back, Stomp and close by.
Oh, it has activated the death mark again. This time, onto Falls, over towards Wading.
He's just trying to hold this angle and hopes that maybe an overstep from Lira.
Good headshot, now onto Blawz. Has taken damage, forces the Volts in from Stomp and
Can't get back down safely though
It's gonna be a four to two advantage for G2
Bringing more of the same strength that we saw long bank over to border to begin in their attacking half
It's really measured though. It's not ridiculous levels of pressure from G2. It's not overzealous
Who will lose is that battle to Levy?
Clean headshot does still have a nitro cell as well himself. Well, it will play over the ward's bathroom
TG likely looking to rotate here for the diffuser as a win-con.
No one top four right now for G2.
Toki wins the battle against Lavi and Bullitt finds himself again.
In a precarious position as he did in the opening round, this time it's even more difficult.
1v3 runs on a 1v2, although he now makes it a 1v2.
Toki got a little bit of grassy pushing into bathroom by himself.
Stopping an island out playing together, coming through lobby.
And this is perfect. I mean, stop him giving us more straight up ballot.
What are you gonna do?
Nothing.
You try and take on the Blackbeard, Aldermaus swings, gets the kill, you don't take on the Blackbeard, then the Blackbeard kills you.
So we're sailing for G2.
Couple of rounds, now there's a return to Armory and Archives, the D-plus key.
Here's the back loop, you can see with a really nice liner.
There was no time for Niers to react.
with that position perfectly the video is not a lot of pressure
get a nice shot but immediately stompin front foot
black beard catches it
they must offering good value like bank it's feeling very simple
it's playing one each other so well like the communication is clearly evident
not perfect well not perfect
I hope you got a little bit hungry there towards the end but this is what I mean
I mean if Paul tries to take this fight against stompin
Alamo is just sitting perfectly there to easily get the kill
Nothing bullet actually goes onto the thorn first time we're going to see that
the series and honestly match up guys I think the form of the race to points
makes a lot of sense tracks tracks tracks it's understandable maybe a little
bit more so on bank that you a little bit more limited in the tracks that you
can bring but on board now you want to play it you can go almost full track
They go back to Armory and Archive, so a second attempt, looking at the lineups in terms of
what D-plus is positionally playing, it looks pretty much the same, mainly just different
operators.
Got a big change up there to be honest, it's mainly just actually the Thorn rather than
the Aruni.
It's going to be fair this way because I don't think it had any kind of impact in the opening
rounds of the Razerblades are on upgrade. And this is what D-plus need to do on the border.
They need to try and deny G2 the easy ability to get into the building, get into good positions.
Oh, good drone from Stomp and then break. And that's where the Grismot mines and the
Razerblades are very helpful. That's much better. Stomp would try to force his way in
through break. Bullet had a good angle. His midi was in that position as well, so it was
a 2v1 push against Tom Stomper.
Come on out!
Doki down a half HP, that's his final lion scan as well.
This is much better from D-plus, starting to control.
Don't need this.
There's a lurk from Doki.
A little lurk in through Archives.
There's nothing in formation.
He's in a very good position to find his kill.
Wonderful from Doki, but the exact same moment the kill field lights up, but it's mainly
orange.
Nias does find a kill back onto Lora, and they just pretty needed that one.
90 seconds remain.
Nias at half health.
Still got blasts on the black bead Alomar on the Deimos means there's a
Very high likelihood G2 can still take this round should be a plan Alomar to cover nears on flank the club by death mark
Drop the D plus again
Plank will go down successfully Alomar makes quick work of nears. Let me know on v3
And so by another three rounds of play have looked all that close G2 continue to bring their best against the plus key up
It hasn't looked close, but it's also not particularly surprising given how map one played out not, but it's not Vito
I expected more from T plus coming into today again. I think you said it before if it's day one coming into the day
Yes, I agree, but after bank. No after bank. No, I mean, I'm not too surprised what's happening here on board
I baby T plus beat black dragons to one they beat Shopify rebellion to Neil yesterday
7471 and this is a Shopify rebellion team that of course beat G2. Admittedly those
games were close 8-6-8-7.
They are still focusing on the kill our kill the us right so keep the lion I mean how about the kaito and the hokkaba
Yeah that's gonna be option let's keep the spend the traps and here is bro you're the best
I haven't seen bro, be more confident
Okay, man confident
Yeah
Alright, that's all
Well, you said traps, traps, traps
And PJ says traps
More traps and trying to obviously pump up near his tyres. He's 1-3 at the moment, 0-1 on the entry.
This is what really unlocked it for G2 with that moment there from Doki.
They're just slipping to archives, get a very deep position, and simultaneously again elsewhere they've got two more kills at the same time.
Flip the round and yeah, became again pretty comfortable round for G2.
Nice! Let's go bro!
Pretty quiet D plus camp.
Well, we mentioned traps, but you look at the composition for round 4, there's one trap operator.
So, is this maybe a preset trap for this particular site and they don't want to deviate?
Well, to be fair, so the player gets banned now, and they could be playing that free round straight.
The daimos, of course, also gets banned out while you're not holding our play bar in all three rounds.
The one that I already capped now. At least, yeah, you're on it.
As we go into the event workshop for the first time, so this might be a differing selection
of operators as compared to the other sites.
That's what I'm thinking.
Let's go give G2 a license once again to more comfortably contest some of this map control.
The PPC, the proxy alarm as well, the micro, line-up here suggests it could be set to play in front door.
I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if G2J were a fast hit here, and we see it a lot on that workshop.
Could also be a bit of a split, sir.
Doki and Alamow probing the opposing side of the map.
Oh! Oh, Ducky! What a clean headshot on the bullet. Well, this might be the go-kart activated
now for G2. Levy at least answers back on the Stompin', but immediately then, Niers
will fall to Alamau. Alamau over the wall to half-dice is causing an absolute ruckus
on that top floor, falls towards Arbri, by himself, and he's losing the battle against
Alamau as well. He's found two in the round. Falls still trying to find the skill desperately,
but unable to do so and shot in the back from lawyer up.
Total decimation.
This is one-sided siege in the entire series,
all the way to G2.
Levy got one,
doesn't matter, surrounded outnumbered and outgunned,
as G2 continued to put D plus to the sword.
G2 showing no mercy in this match so far.
How did the time out as well?
I don't think the time out was very effective.
We're not seeing really even G2 get all that animated with these round wins because it's 11 to 2 in the two maps played
I've got off to an awkward start. Doki for the open kill. That was the trigger point for the push
With split pressure posing calls off the map
Levy was left with it all turned on versus three. Can't fault him
4-0 the score line
G2 march towards
a clean 2-0. So Maria, by the way, said during that time out that
so what Niaz said was that we are split and dying, we should play more defensively.
And the irony in that is Bluette then went for the nitro cell at the window directly close to her
and Dice and Doki gives up the opening kill and then they all go, ah, there you go. So again,
there clearly seems to be some kind of communicative issues with D-Cos in terms of also what they
They want it to do strategically, it's not working, and G2 will just all over the land.
I need to run.
That's fine.
I'm only damaging.
Tell the mine stand from G2 in the fifth round and utility dumped into sight from Doki.
The Reora brought once more, or an early runner as well from Midi,
And it can test G2 on the fringe sensing that once G2 that boots on ground. It's very difficult to then
slow it down
This is a good spot. Heist is done for a midi and he gets the second a really good use of the visual there
I can counteract the lion stand take that space and catch G2 off guard. Well, here we go finally D plus look like they're gonna find
Around on board. I had taken them well quite some time until the fifth round
2v5, Doki and Stompin.
They don't have the kit.
It's actually a decent way he's away from where they're both located.
Pull up the drop bathroom.
Off the back of the lion's scan.
And he will stay armory, so he's still top floor.
And now has help. Reinforcement arrives.
Midi on the vigil. Also will play alongside him.
That's a really test the problem solving of Stompard and Doki.
Midpoint of the round.
Just seeing if he must give away a pick. There's one.
There's one, four to go, and another one from Stompard.
Oh no, that was a chance. Four wins the battle.
Stompard found a second, and now has the 1-2 opportunity with over a minute remaining.
So plenty of time for Stomp to think his way through this and has a flash as well to isolate one of these defenders
She does he I was gonna say does he probably getting the kit, but it's pretty close by to him now
Just outside security. He will go and grab it. Maybe he's a late-round faker. Yeah, he still has a minute
So he's got the time to do so
Also drops and now it can come in from a different
What about these positions from D plus? I'm starting to get a little unnervy for them.
They had both stacked tallars, falls will slip into bathroom.
And with Shotgun, I like that a little bit better for falls. Play the close ankle fight.
Stomper's still with a drone, 37 seconds. What I like right now from Stomper though is just the way he's using the time.
He knows that he's short on time but doesn't want to leave this down to 5 seconds.
Yellow being intel, wallbang, unsuccessful, never mind headshot. And now the 1v1 is kept falls.
As you mentioned has the flash but once put out the drone,
Falls gives away his position stomping on 1 HP.
The shotgun shots have connected.
Stomping cannot take a shot here from Falls or he will lose this.
10 seconds remaining as we enter right time.
A chance he lands the tag.
Will Falls go for another peek?
Stomping!
He believes Stomp the shot through the wall but landing it again!
Oh, this is what this event is made for at Stomping.
The best of the best in the best tournament with the best plays!
5-0 G2!
It was a 2v5!
Oh no!
It's all going wrong for D plus Kia.
This was great to start from, maybe a little bit more aggression at the window.
A drop from Doki netted at least one kill, but then he got traded.
and stomping. He's done it again. Had it to the highlight reel.
That shot was gnarly. And then Paul's just kitchen against the ground shot.
He's just moving around. There's two seconds left.
I know exactly where he is.
We were fortunate back in Munich for the stomping class. Remember the 1v3 on consulate, the
shot through the wall, the shot through the smoke.
That was even nastier than that one.
But this was also very, very good. 5-0 G2. If that doesn't deflate the tires with B-plus
for the remainder of this map, I don't know what it does.
Well, if we wanted traps, PJ wanted traps, we'd get them all.
No, they took two rounds.
Zanari, Thorn.
Double Nitro.
And I'm out on the Monty.
And it's funny, because I feel like up until that clutch there from Stomper,
he hasn't really taken over this game.
There's been others on this picture.
He lost about three beyond the falls.
And it's all falling apart now for D plus. Let's be honest. This one, you may as well wrap it up
Let me think about the long range nitro cell
But I wouldn't go window right now. I just want to try to just make you behind like you need to throw this behind the monty
There you go, but it's too short. It's not towards the door. How long does he live as well?
He might be on one hp, but that is shield up. That's still a safe position for players to go for the plant
He gets the last one off him and he gets to kill him!
Lyra then shuts down Nia's attorney bullet and let him kill him to stop from kick back.
Razor bullet from bullet onto Alamow. He was on one HP and the round is salvageable.
Somehow.
Oh, my D-plus grinding away.
What can Blaz and Lyra now do?
A demon.
The bullet denies him.
it has been really good on board a lone figure in the night for D plus Kia and
Blaz now for his 1v2 opportunity and he too has 90 seconds. I think his way
through this. Up close, close, straight away, Levy at the window.
Blambles rotate off after using the QH launcher. He'll create 1v1. Sees the
shadow, knows that bullet is there. He's not quite sure where Levy is. He
We have an overstep, the Mark Goods went from Levy from Fountain.
And for the first time, D plus Kea have won a round on border.
G2 trying to be a little sneaky in that round, the plant behind the Monty.
Massive dump of utility.
We saw the double nitro, we saw the razor bloom be successful.
Inside of D plus, the Grimm was well to try and flush back that defense.
kept grinding, 2-2, and we'll then go on to close out the round.
I mean, there are some smiles on the side of D-plus, so...
The good news for them is they've already won two matches, right?
So... Exactly.
I mean, the odds of D-plus getting grouped is exponentially low.
They're technically not confirmed, but it is exceptionally light.
Like, it's surely not going to happen.
But they know for a while you can have a blunder today.
It's not in the world, but then they've got to bounce back
can play phase tomorrow. It's not going to be an easy one.
Still, it was a round win, but it was a hard fought round win
for D plus kill.
They just couldn't really deal with Alarm now
with the double nitrous until it was actually
the razor blade that got the kill.
Showing the versatility of thorn.
This is it.
This is it, guys.
We got them.
We're out where we want them.
We're just an attacking team.
The Bans saw this second half smoke as army, one tank and a gun.
And they won the one attacking around on Bank.
There's a guy standing there going to need quite a few more than that here on Border.
He prompts the Bort though in the way that he's been playing.
Yeah, he's the one who's head down here on Border.
I'm saying that, he was 1-9 on Bank, so he...
I kinda had to get back to the team a little bit.
By the way, across the two maps now, guys, five players for G2, so all of the players for G2 are now double-digit kills.
There's only a single player for D+, double-digit kills. That's midi.
There's actually a 4-1 on entry as well.
And there are two very quick... Okay, the rounds are...
Okay, so there's still two and a half minutes.
There's still two and a half minutes.
I looked down for five seconds and I didn't see any of that.
This is the time when we get to look at the stats and talk about these kind of things
while you guys are prepping.
G2 is just like now.
Let's kill him all.
Doki and EZ by the way have not crossed paths at all on this second map.
I was actually thinking that as well.
Yeah that's why I was checking.
Okay well wrap this one up.
Does he get a kill?
Yes or no?
Quick.
Midi?
Yeah he'll get one.
No.
He's good for one.
Nah he doesn't get one.
I don't think it's gonna be much different here to close out border. There's nothing to suggest that it will.
No, I don't think it's gonna be much different here to close out border. There's nothing to suggest that it will.
lost here with 72 on bank and I don't think it's going to be much different here to close
out border. There's nothing to suggest that it will. Now I'll use this time to go over
some of the statistics but in terms of EPS rankings, Blood Falls, Nears and Levy are
all below 85. Midi's on 97. It's not good. And then you've got Stompin, Alomar, Blaz
that are all 115 plus. Remember 100 is the average and the lower is on 104.
Last 4-1 on the entry and also it's been three plants to zero across the two maps in favor of G2.
There is no statistic that D plus have been like okay but we haven't been too bad in this area there's
We actually have the privilege of following G2 throughout the remainder of this.
Yeah, we do have a phase where they have Black Dragons tomorrow phase that they follow it.
That's a big one.
It feels like it's all leading towards that being quite a grandstand matchup to close the phase.
What implications that may have we don't.
Yeah.
No.
Look at this from stomping.
And...
There you go.
You're dead.
Oh my.
You think it's just me?
This is laughing at me!
Laura says the GG.
Niz feels the GG.
Then Niz killed Okie.
Well, I mean at this point it's the only thing that they can get from a winning perspective
for D-plus out of this one.
By the way, four Microsofts for G2, so they're going out with a bang.
I don't think they'll use a single one to get a kill.
This is gunsaw.
They've come to a few games so far, who had six in potential, you and I, and this is the
most dominant one-sided performance I've seen.
G2 have been exceptional.
Take nothing away from them.
Yes, maybe D-Plus haven't been at their best, but it's been more a case of the winning team
playing far better than their opponent.
Ooh, that's a nice shot from Levy.
That was a nice...
That's body shot, obviously, just for headshot.
how low Levy is as well. If Elementor hits the head he would have got that kill.
Jump out.
Oh, and then Lodgy Bomb activated by Bullet.
Got a couple of flashes here D-Plas, nice second, so plenty of time in the round remaining.
I've really been able to play off that Lodgy Bomb from Bullet.
I could use one of those matches on the planter, right?
Here's where you use the cell box.
Open up the wall.
Do they check the plan?
Feel like players isn't in unchecked position. I don't feel very good about D plus is clear
No one with drone in pocket or a quick clear either and false is probably gonna be more thinking about the plan smoke thrown in
As it just rushed in straight away though to be fair hasn't got a lot of cover
Levy outside, Niers gets the kill on to Leroc and he finds the kill on to Doki. He's low health.
He's in archives right now. Logic Bomb will now expire.
Lance trying to get activated in there. Niers gets caught in the back from stomping
and then force will go down. The Blitz is no longer available. Levy has to enter the building
and so it is bullet with 30 seconds left. You can no longer just play outside the map
for a potential post-flight retake. You have to get back in now.
And G2 in far better positions to deny their entry.
Levy, get rid of Blanz, that's a good kill.
He loses more of his health though.
Now quite literally on 1 HP.
15 seconds, they need to make their move.
Drogionto Levy, bullet has to get the remaining 2 or a 7-1 territory.
Starting to rush on in.
8 bullets left and he runs out of bullets for bullet 1.
Stopping with the final kill.
7-2 bank, 7-1 border.
G2 arrived at 6-invitational, had the day off yesterday.
yesterday after a disappointing day one, but these boys are here to perform and to put on the show as they teach D plus Kiera a lesson.
Now a statement piece from G2 and the questions will begin to roll in as to what kind of momentum they can build off the back of this result.
For them and back to the drawing board for Team Plus Kiera.
The drawing board is going to be using a lot of markers to try and fix a lot of issues.
Disappointing for D plus care after what's been a very good run from them over the first few days wins over black dragon
Wins over Shopify rebellion. They play base tomorrow for what will be their last group stage match
So they'll need to bounce back and do so quickly for G2. Well, it feels like we're just getting started
I
I'm gonna keep it going I'm gonna keep it going I'ma keep it going I'ma keep it going so I ain't got nothing
D2's had the pace of the game while D plus was only trained to follow that but just couldn't.
While you were very unpredictable, how predictable was D plus?
Very predictable.
I think the games that they've already won on the group stage were really a surprise.
I think they're better than both teams that they played, including Shopify, so I wasn't
underestimating them, but I knew that we were way better than them, so we kept playing
the confidence and just walking the park, so.
What do you think you are better than them?
Why do I think I'm better than them?
Yeah.
I just am.
We are.
I know we are.
Better players, better coaches, better strats, better team.
Sorry.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, I need to have your thoughts about the map video, especially because of Bank.
Yeah, I have no idea.
like historically our best map they pecked it against us in Munich when we played them we also
won 7-2 so i have no idea uh i get i understand that teams have comfort maps so maybe that's our
comfort map um but you don't peck that against us it's like our map so yeah yeah you don't you
don't you don't peck oh my man i guess me so yeah nobody gets into the the g2 bank okay okay uh but
we need to also talk about day one about some mistakes that we don't commonly see in tournaments
like the SI, you know, killing an athermite, grenades, you know, so I want to talk about that.
Why was he too having such a troubling store in day one?
For me, we were playing like with our balls in our hands too much, sorry,
rather rude statement, but it's true. Shopify historically just always beat us, my teammates.
So, yeah, I think Tripify are terrible.
So, we played so bad yesterday, like, oh, sorry,
our day one, like so awfully bad,
and we still managed to go like 86, 87.
So I think that speaks more to Tripify,
I'd love us to be honest.
So yeah, I'm expecting this to have a relaxing day today.
We, V-plus, remove the trolls from the first day
and then reset against more against Black Dragons.
So, yeah, feeling really constant now, yeah.
Yeah, very sad, but funny store for detail in the tournament. But now they just won their first game from retaliation on that
All right, then do keep bringing the heat in the interview saying that
D plus is actually better than the teams they have played and have beaten already as well
But what a result for G2 for all components and that shakes up the whole group because so booty confirmed to us even D
Plus can get eliminated. Yeah, absolutely. I think you know for G2
I think they they had a good game plan. They got the maps they wanted
I think for D plus who are sitting on top of the group now can still be eliminated. You know, this group is wide open
It was actually a really woeful performance from them
You know, I'm I'm still astonished at the fact that they picked bank. Yeah, and they're loud border for against you too
It just doesn't make sense. I actually can't fathom it and
Realistically, you know, that's it's just not gonna go well for them
And even though that they're still sitting top of the league
They're still sitting top of the group G2 are back into it phase ass still to play shop if I have silver points on the board
anything is to play for yeah I completely agree I mean I think Doki was right in them having the better coaching staff because yes bank was a
Question mark going to a map like border. We've seen a D plus played a lot and the consensus was they just do
Minimals and so G2 had a very easy run on that final map just to be able to pick apart
I mean of course they have amazing
Heroics to be able to carry them through but at the end of the day when it came to the strategy
It looked like G2 was one level above you plus today
I feel like that reflects in the scoreboard as well what we're seeing with all the players having higher ratings or higher EPS at the side of a D plus
We're joined by a player from G2 the Highlander player on the roster that we're joined by Stonflin in the studio
He has to talk about something
It happened again a clutch at the wall bang. What's going on?
Yeah, I mean to be honest they kind of just trolled around but I killed the two above and then I
Knew the fennier was like bottom east so I threw a drone
He exposed himself to that wallbang to him and then in the 1v1, I just made it out to mute and then
Picked the hole he thought I was gonna peak the door. Yeah
When you're in a clutch situation like this, what is going through your mind? Are you focused at all that?
Oh my god, I'm about to clutch or is it just something that second instant?
It's kind of just second instinct. I mean the second was a 2v5
Our teammate Alamo. He was like you guys can win this and then we actually won it
So yeah, it's kind of just a second instinct. I guess too much war right there. Yeah
I'm how did you play against D plus? What was the game fun that the guys were speaking around beforehand because you know
You guys were playing a lot of fast fast teacher. I remember on bank
I think every entry apart from one was within the first minute
Yeah, cuz like we do a lot of prep on them and they don't really change how they play
They play the same every game
So we knew like where they weren't playing or where they were playing and we just avoided it and it's caught them off guard
I guess they weren't prepared for this. So yeah, yeah, I agree with that statement completely
What I was going to say is when it comes down to you being in a situation like this, you guys didn't have a good first day when it came to the Invitational.
But that being said, it looks like you guys are playing close to peak performance.
Do you still think there's a lot of room to grow in the group stage so far, or do you feel like you're already there?
I mean, there's definitely room to grow.
Like, we're playing really good.
Yeah, we lost to Shopify.
We played bad, but I think this will help a lot.
This win, I think it will help a lot for tomorrow and the next day.
So, yeah, if we just keep on playing today, I mean, no worries for the next games.
I've just got one more question for you, and it's actually about the desks that you play out,
because I can't help but know it's both you and Doki have the desks really high compared to...
I'll be honest, pretty much everybody else in the tournament. Is there a reason for that? Is that tight?
I don't know. It's just comfortable for me, and I've always played with a high desk.
So, whenever we were at bootcamp, our desks didn't change heights,
and I was terrible because it was really low.
And now that we're here, I feel a lot more comfortable on the setup, so...
Do you think Doki's just copying it? Because he's like up here?
No, he's shorter.
He's been doing it for like years apparently, but I've always played like this too.
Yeah, I think it just helps me, but I don't know why.
I thought Doki played standing.
Yeah, it looks like that.
One more question before we let you go. Since it's your first 6th official,
any team that you're really looking forward to playing against when the groups are done?
Oh...
That's a hard question.
I mean, we already played them, but I kind of want to play M80 again.
I think it would just be a fun game.
I know all the N.A. people, so it's more fun playing people I've, like, scrimmed a lot and seen, you know.
And get some revenge as well, potentially.
Hopefully, yeah, hopefully.
All right, awesome. Thank you so much for joining us in the studio.
That means we're going to go to our next game now.
But before we do, get to that.
We had an extraction point, escape room content filmed earlier with Enterprise and the spoiler relatives.
I had some struggles.
This side, this side, yeah, this side, okay.
Ha, easy, I shot one, but it was the other two.
Let's try, four, one, eight, seven, four.
I'm genius!
Yeah, say it to the camera.
I'm genius!
Dude, sometimes we can use this one.
For East Cape, I guess.
Flash, flash, flash.
24.
Flash, claymore, claymore is 42.
Claymore, alarm, alarm is 21.
No, flash is 8.
I really should have math, so...
Claymore is 18.
Usual, 21 minus 17.
What is that?
17, 8, 2.
So we have 2.
Yeah, it's this one first one.
So this is one and then we got two.
So two, one, and then we had to bring this one, right?
And side 26, French.
So we have to pick French operator.
This one is French.
2024, Brazil.
Who is Brazil operator?
Is it Cavalier?
Yeah.
So six, 23, hold up.
2024, let's go.
For me, so easy.
Wow.
That's why I made two times.
Sorry, I'm...
You're late.
One more time here.
And then, it's six.
So, two, one, six.
So, this one will be last.
They have how many?
One, two, three, four, five, oh.
Three, one.
Boom.
Well, well.
Let's get closer.
I can't see.
They don't have any number in there.
It's gonna be a troll.
It's a non.
Oh!
Cyber zeroes.
Okay.
Nothing.
Eight.
Nine, eight.
Seriously, I can't see.
Find it.
Few younger than me.
From one.
Four.
Nine.
Eight.
Zero.
Yeah.
Four.
What?
Usual?
Oh, oh.
It's seven.
Two, one, six, seven.
Seven.
Wait, yeah, I'm locked?
Yeah.
Yes!
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Yeah!
Honestly, a lot of peos are scared of you, obviously.
We were suspicious, because you were too good.
Like, that was literally what happened.
And I'm the one who sent the email.
So, like, I'm the one who did it. That's the story, right?
None of us really thought that you were legit.
Thank you.
Oh, I do love this of a drama.
Goosebumps every time I see that clip.
But I cannot wait for the full version to be out
we can watch and see everything that happened in that talk.
But it's the final game of the day,
and we're joined by Leo as well.
And Leo, I feel like we always talk about this being
in the home country of players.
But hey, it's your home country as well.
It feels so real to me.
If you're all in the real, to welcome
6th Intentional in Paris in France.
I've waited for that for years.
I love to see that was a side 2021,
but now we're going to have a crowd.
So it's different.
And the other direction is absolutely crazy.
I love the forest.
Yeah, it is.
It's very good to have you here and talk about this game,
because when we look at Group C as a whole,
to be shaking up by that result that we just had. We have FaZe, a verge of Shopify rebellion,
the Brazil Superteam versus the NA Superteam and FaZe gets to care playoffs with a win.
And if Shopify rebellion lose here, that means they can't get first place anymore.
Yeah, it really just goes to show how open this group is. FaZe only came in kind of this time
yesterday with their first game in the fixture. I know they can already be through. And the same
for Shopify rebellion, they were looking great. Playday one, they were on cloud nine. I know
that background watching, but you know, they were on cloud nine. They were loving life and the big
take-ups that happens and suddenly first place could be at my side after this event.
It's a game of Karen Naus, right? You have D plus, you have Shopee TheraBillion, you have D2,
everyone beats each other, it's a bit of a tricky one, but at the same time, in mid-group stage,
interesting. Until the very last day, we won't know who makes it.
And that's the beautiful part.
Exactly, and I think it was called the group of death for a reason, and we're seeing that
unfolding right in front of our very eyes. When we look at FaZe Clan, one of those big
tightets inside this group, the sleeping giants so far inside this event, look at these teams
100% attacking win rate?
I mean, that's what happens when you go 7-1, 7-1,
and 2-0 the team, when you go into the first match of the event
and you display the full dominance of face-climbing.
Jack, we look at this roster and we think,
wow, did they break the A-side curves?
Are they back?
I mean, that's the thing.
Normally, you will see teams win a 6-centation
and really fall off.
Now, Faze is fall off.
It really wasn't that magnificent.
They're still in it.
They're still amongst it.
Try that place.
Remember, at the Munich match, you know,
They went very, very close, lost out to the ultimate champions.
And this roster is, you know, they're one of the best,
if not the best roster at this tournament.
They seem to have absolutely everything, the reactions,
the depth of strategy, the players that can turn up,
the clutch potential.
And I think yesterday they come into it,
they see the group of death, they see all the games going on,
and they think we need to just put our mark.
And not only did they do that, they only continued two rounds
across that whole fixture, picking up four points,
but a massive advantage in round difference as well.
the way they're looking. They're coming forward at second hammer two in a row potentially for them. But on the other side, we're looking at Shopify rebellion and especially with that result from yesterday, I feel like that's
shook a lot of people up. Yoki's even saying like D plus was actually the better team inside of that matchup, but they need some points because they're off day tomorrow. I feel like they're their own, the architects of their own
downfall often. I think Shopify success comes from within. It comes from when they've got you are united from behind their IGL, great communication, shot calls, and they're in sinkers one when that seems to break as it
seemed to break yesterday, then they can look a little bit
weak. It's like they've kind of got a soft underbelly. That was
a big result, a big shot coming out of absolutely nowhere. But
I don't really think I know Doki convinces us that he's the
prophet. I don't even think he would have seen it coming. And
actually, they've put themselves under a lot of pressure now.
Yeah, we look at this team and we think super star, super NA team,
you've got the most accomplished IGL from this region. You've got
MB, Mabin, one of the best rookie, if not the best rookie of
generation. You've got SPOIT, another best player of his generation. And you think of it, and you
think it should work, but I see flaws in there. I see flaws in the way they ideal. I see flaws in
the fact that they expect four fraggers to compensate for Canadians like a frags. The problem
is when one of them drops out, the team in general suffers, right? And that's what we've seen yesterday,
against a team that they should have beat. So that's the thing that they need to fix right now,
right? They need a united front like you've seen. It's the roster that we need to stick on alive,
a super team that gives up to the expectation.
And I want to talk about the player that you're seeing behind you to still talk and some strats with the coach.
There seems to be an issue when they have to play against Brazilian teams, the Achilles heel of a Shopify rebellion.
Well, coming into this matchup, I had a gut feeling.
I was thinking, when is the last time I've seen a Canadian beat a Brazilian team?
And I was thinking, wow, it must have been a long time.
Well, actually, in the entire history of Shopify rebellion in CG sports, they have played six Brazilian teams.
They have only beaten one and it was during a BO1, which means that they have never beaten a Brazilian team in a BO3 jack 17% win rate.
And there's two big losses in there that I'm looking at. I can have actually three, including the one yesterday against D plus, but one against Nip there and one against rather company Academy back at six in the station as well.
And I think realistically, we're not just talking about your furious and your phasing. You can kind of excuse that being competitive. That's going to happen.
But when you're looking at some of the kind of middle level Brazilian teams, that's where you start noticing a pattern actually.
The IGL-ing, the style of play, the way that the team plays as an international, it doesn't clash well, it doesn't merge well against the Brazilian teams.
And yeah, a 17% win rate, it doesn't fill you with confidence.
I was going to look for a reason why that might be the case, but I'm glad you've given that to us.
So that means we can move on to the map picks and see where the series will be taken to.
I've seen a lot of fortress from NA coming out in particular, maybe inside of this one as well,
but it seems like Shopify will be setting up some Nighthaven labs.
It makes sense, right? You want something of a frame for FaZe, right?
You want to give them a frame. You want Canadian to be at ease, to speak about structure,
to go step by step, and Nighthaven Labs is just that.
In the same way as Gledouts, it's a way for them to box in FaZe, right, and to play step by step.
And Canadian against G2 on Nighthaven Labs was the match winner for that team,
that he made in terms of the
big place that he made and the
calls that he made. So I'm not
surprised to see them pick it
phase picking into shallow. Now
let me take you back just 12
months ago a year ago. That was
weird months ago. That would
have been the weirdest thing
ever. In fact, Falcons in the
SI Grand Final picked it into
phase because it was phases
time about since then they
brought it into their map. All
they play a lot. They love it
and that speaks testament to
phase as a team. They
identified one weakness
because that was a clear and
obvious weakness this time
last year, and they fixed it
that much that they're picking
from Northomark. And what better way to set all things up on Clubhouse? A decider that
is perfect to test who's the better team in terms of collision, in terms of strategy,
which are, in theory, right, the two biggest strengths of these roasters. And the fundamentals
will really come into play there as well. We're seeing the final hurdles between these
two teams. I think we have talked about the implications of this matchup and how important
it is to get these points. I mean, especially with Choppa Firebell and having their day
off tomorrow, Faye's having a chance to get some good points here as well. And the fact
Look at this group are so open and everybody beating each other as well, it makes it so difficult to predict what is going to happen.
Yeah, but I think there is some kind of pressure and mounting, especially on Shopify Rebellion.
The way that phase got into this tournament, when you win 7-1-7-1, I mean there is no better way to do that.
Okay, maybe 7-0-7-0, but you would be a perfectionist.
If you look at Shopify Rebellion though, it's mis-stated for mistakes.
It's disappointment in Boston, it's a disappointment.
Then later in Munich, it wouldn't suffer for them to have another disappointment at this side.
need to happen. And that would be
terrible for that roster. I will say
pressure does create diamonds.
That's the old saying, right? So
if there is a time for Shopify now
to turn up, but it feels crazy
saying it that we're still in
group stage, I still expect them
to get out of group stage. But
if they're going to put in a
performance that's going to
convince people they can go deep
in this tournament, today is the
perfect day against the current
world champions, and they need to
pull something out because as
much as there has been good and
there was good with the G2
performance, there was also bad
yesterday against D plus, and
there is a cloud kind of looming
with a big question mark over
the team right now. You don't want to see them because I said that on day one
right so much on top potential with this roster when you think of these names on
that team every single one of them individually is a star the same could go
for FaZe as well I mean we've seen them really carry their own way through all
these important matches but looking at it here as well and seeing them that beat
off who takes it. It's a tough one, it's a tough call. I will say FaZe is still the
heavy favorite for me they have fully recovered and they top three at Munich
You know, they could have beaten MAT, the major winner,
and with the way that they've entered the tournament,
I have to back them.
I'm just gonna, I'm gonna disagree with you
for the sake of disagreement.
Of course, Jack, I'm always do that.
I'm also gonna go for the blind faith,
just because this group has been full of upsets
and it's been full of performances
that we don't quite expect inside the Group C.
So I'm gonna say somehow, I think,
Canadians gonna break his cast
against Brazilian teams and Shopify will take it.
Well, that's a very valid point to make.
Yeah, lots of upsets so far in this group,
but the match is almost ready.
We have the perfect voices lined up for this matchup as well as we're joined by entero and jesse
You've got a great matchup with the NA as well on there
How do you feel the chances of your region are going into this matchup? Well, seventeen percent's a pretty pretty bad win rate
I don't really like that. No
There's no chance Jesse we're hoping that you've got start you can pull out maybe to redeem try
Listen, there's no stats that redeem redeemable talk about here. I think you guys set it up perfectly
This is going to be a hard game for SR.
Yeah, I mean I agree with that as well.
I think there's two ways that this match goes.
Yesterday based on what we saw from both teams,
Fazeclane either does this in a quick 2-0.
It might be two scrappy maps, but it's a 2-0 nonetheless.
Or SR wins through three maps and it's a dogfight till the very end.
I don't know if I see SR taking this in two maps.
Alright, well that's a difficult thing.
There's one more goal that you mentioned.
It is the fact that it's by for Sophie Farrell and tomorrow.
So if they lose now, back against the wall,
all the way to the last day of group stage,
I would hate that as a player
That's terrible should we maybe not put more pressure on them than that we've already done I mean the match is about to start
Let's see what these two teams can do
Thank you very much
The good news is that the last match up the Shopify has is against black dragons a lot of people you consider them towards the bottom of
The group, but there's a big log jam here all the way down in group C face clan Shopify rebellion and G2 all now tied at four points
because of G2's result earlier that we saw D plus having a bit of an interesting matchup
but Shopify rebellion phase plan to Titans do battle on night Haven labs. Let's get into it.
Rebellion will have to do much better than what we've seen from them so far if they want to topple the world champs
Faze clan made their debut at the six invitation yesterday after having a buy on Monday
So that means face clans run in the gauntlet four straight days of matches in a row and well
Blink and you miss that they played yesterday
They went up against their regional counterparts of black dragons the team that made it here through the sal last chance qualifiers
and boy oh boy it didn't look like Black Dragon showed up very much at all for
yesterday's matchup. Phase Clan demolishing them, crushing them, annihilating them,
slaughtering them, disemboweling them. Whatever terminology you want to use it was
7-1, 7-1. Yeah. That is a drubbing and I mean they know each other they play
each other quite often but man it looked like Phase Clan has not missed a beat.
No and I for any maybe rebellion fans that didn't watch that Phase Clan Black
Dragons game you and I had the pleasure of casting it Parker let's be honest
That could have easily been a 14. Oh, I mean phase were having a good time with it
They were having fun with black dragons and the rounds they lost frankly
I you know they didn't have to lose if they didn't want yeah
It was not a particularly well structured series
This phase clan team it looked like they were pugging it out. It looked like they were playing ranked
They were running around cyber was doing stuff that was you know defying logic
And a front to God a man frankly, but I mean when you're face clan you can do that and yeah
I I know that for old heads that watch this e-sport
They will recall the whole saving strats thing that g2 talked about ages ago, but it is just smart gameplay
Why give up strategy and show how you're actually gonna handle a real adversity when you can just
Have a good time show up have some laughs and still ultimately
But I don't think there was ever a period of time where FaZe Clan was in
Jeopardy all yesterday in their matchup
Total start contrast to Shopify rebellion after their matchup on Monday
I think a lot of people were like wow they handled G2 very effectively this team is the real deal. Yeah, they get
Bottled by the pluses even that many had been the worst in the group
Mm-hmm. Yeah for all intents and purposes SR should not be having a big time in this game
But there's a reason we play these matches Parker and there's no doubt the talent that this rebellion roster has so
We've got to see that shining through today
It'll start of course attacking top floor of night Haven labs by far most popular bombsite on the map good maverick work to start
Things off from circle get the IT wall open and no for
Shopify rebellion they always say a good saying from Canadian that we've
Said from time to time is that when you're attacking this top floor site on night Haven you need to have IT walls
plus one so you need two or three IT connector rafters you've got to have at
least two of those entry points Shopify rebellion clearly getting IT now where
else did they go for their second point based on player positioning it looks
like it's gonna be kind of rafters Aqua side for that second dimension to the
push and is in commonplace whether it's clubhouse or night Haven labs as part of
the map will need to be able to present explosions galore the Azami now
being watched quite heavily as Poles is under fire, there's Airjabs going out, there's Flames in front,
drones being sent his way, the Airjab knocks him into the fire and in the flames,
Spoigt will capitalize the first kill of this series goes to the Swede.
Great coordination between Rexon and Spoigt, they work together to clear out the Azami,
Solz, the most deadly player of the tournament so far after yesterday's 4.0 KD, 4.75 KDR I should say,
Putting up against Black Dragons, he gets dispatched early, and another one is Andy takes down Viticant.
Great start for this team. They are unfamiliar territory.
Shopify Rebellion may be a lot of things, but one thing they are is consistent on this map.
They are a great labs team. They should be able to handle this, even if they are on the unfavorable side.
Andy with a lone kill so far for a phase clan, and that'll be all she wrote.
Rexon doubles up. Canadian gets active as well, and the first round goes to the North Americans.
Nothing complicated to start things off for Shopify rebellion. They go in for rafters
a little bit of a pinch from ambi as he comes in from meeting side and kind of a prop applies that third dimension to the push
That was already pretty complicated
But face nine didn't move too much try to keep things closed with the two brow didn't work try to keep things
Both the Azami didn't really work one thing you didn't really catch
I think from our main POV
You have to quickly split head to sprint up those rafters stairs to get in that position of garage to get the opening pick onto
He was outside the building really when Rexon was starting to poke with those airjabs
So crap this boy we're getting in so fast and then I think Rexon working with him Raptors position MVP around one
To take this match a bit more seriously of your face clan not that I think they did it
Quite downed I mean Shavify has now done in a single round what black dragons did twice
Face so the bar is in hell at this point. Yeah, and you know you just want to clear it
I mean, Shopify Rebellion are a bit of an enigma, if you look at it, right?
They have all the tools to be a super team, and super team is often bandied about quite a lot.
But when you've got a young prospect like Ambie, who has really come into his own,
and is among one of the best fraggers at this event, you've got Spoyt, who won a major as a rookie himself.
Huge content creator.
Oh my.
Cyber and Ambie will be battle Ambie, actually, winning that.
There are very few that can stand up to Cyber, and I'm glad that Ambie's the one to do it,
as it just further proves my point.
And then you've got, you know, Rex and Sirf
there to round it out as they are both terrific players
in their own right.
And yet, for whatever reason,
success for this team seems to elude the more
than it really should.
Bay's clan is going to be a formidable opponent.
I don't think anybody is doubting that FaZe Clan
is the better team on paper,
but that doesn't always translate to that.
It's hard not to be the better team on paper
when you're the world champs, right?
It would take some pretty phenomenal feats.
So, yeah, obviously SR, big task ahead of them,
but they've looked great so far.
Winning round one, opening pick for Ambi almost dies in return.
He's taken a ton of damage north side of the map.
It's that same window that he's been battling on
and does fall up against Handy, playing over towards the lobby side of the map.
Very solo position from Ambi as the rest of his team are already in the site.
Yeah, it's a quick one.
Canadian leading the charge on in, waiting for the all-clear.
And Fiddler King waits very patiently.
They must know that this is happening.
Circuit Canadian literally on top of each other,
waiting for someone to move on the side of face-lan.
Nobody will they are using Selma charges on the inside of the reinforcement you get to the outside of the map
That is something that is so seldom seen
It's been enjoyable Canadian trying to take up spaces
Fika shuttle at by vitteking and now return to the bomb site by KDS work these MP7
Stinks in great damage handy on the board as well and Rex is all on his loan some
Tearing strips through the mausoleum, but can't quite complete the job
They gave the bomb site to Shopify rebellion and it turned out to be a bit of a room
Yeah, he's bounce back and it's a tiger. Yeah, nice little triple kill from that was handy in the midst of that
Don't believe everything you read did a great job just trading his teammates inside the site was doing really good work after the plant went down
This is the one thing with phase playing. They're never gonna panic. They're not gonna lose their cool in the situation like that
I think they did know the plant was going down. It's like they snuck it in there. It's a blitz
coming down cargo stairs and getting down behind pillar.
That's something quite loud that was happening.
They had the information that that was going down,
but recognize that most of their players
were on the top floor,
and they're not gonna be able to stop that plant,
of course, from behind the pillar position.
So, let's take our time,
let's get back down into site,
and then win in that host plant.
No need to worry about it.
Great cautious play coming through from faceplant
and in particular, handy.
Now, one thing that we'll be referencing throughout
the course of this match is how Nighthaven Lance
steadily drifting towards being more attacker favored than before. There was a period of time
where Night Haven Labs was almost perfectly balanced through a couple live events. Jesse 50-50
across the win rate of attackers and defenders, of course broken down by the particular bomb sites.
We have for the first time in maybe even Everett or Esport, we have a whole
whack of maps that are actually quite attacker sided through this SI. Layer, attacker-sided.
It's quite crazy.
Knight even lands, starting out really strong for the defenders, but is steadily regressed
to the point where the only defender side of Bonsault is on the top floor.
Every other side skews towards the attackers.
That is quite unique.
There was a great stat on the desk about how, there was multiple stats on the desk about
how FaZe Clan are basically winning in every category.
Overall round win percentage, attacking win percentage, recovery percentage, objective
percentage.
recovery percentage, objective percentage, face kind of really done a great job in general in this game and ask me if I had any stats to maybe give some hope to shop for our belly and I still don't but what I do out of the sample size is basically one game so far today at this tournament before right now and even for these maps that's Parker we're only on day 3 I wouldn't worry so much about the numbers that you're hearing what I would be more worried about is what I'm seeing in the server and so far that is SR all right.
off to a fiery start.
I don't know if you saw the player came reaction of Rexon,
but he literally shook his head and said,
what's that guy doing?
Because why is a malusi sitting in an exposed position
on IT wall when you know that there's
going to be another available?
Like, that wall's going to get opened up.
You're not actively defending it.
There's no denial present on the side of phase.
I have to wonder what he was thinking.
I think he's thinking, I got a 3K last round.
These guys stank under his foul on them, Parker.
But the top five dragons you're up against this time
Not a bad thought.
No, not a bad thought.
And for Handy, that's often a correct thought.
But SR being a bit more of a difficult opponent, they've got another player dead to rights on a drone.
They spotted the King's Off Floor, they push him over.
I believe that was him that they hit with the air jab.
Isn't alone, of course, they've got some players up there that still is playing soft force.
They do need to be careful with it, but also the mid floor looking enticing.
And Canadian going for another quick defuse.
It did not work out so well in the previous round.
He falls off of the case.
simple attempt it again, Rexxen eliminating souls to smoke a Vitteking, throwing some
gas out, Canadian punish for it, cyber out of nowhere, finds two and the case is now
surrendered inside of the Lions Den. This might be tough for Shopify rebellion to recover
from but you've got three incredible guns still up, Rexxen's gonna find his third kill
of the round with just two remaining, we're on ace watch.
Yeah, I already have 35 seconds left in this round, but it can be Katie Essey to hold things
down with a low man count situation that a fuse kit still just outside of storage windows
so they can jump in and go for the plants but it's pretty obvious what they want to
do.
Rexon's still holding this part from above but he's outdulled by KDS.
The Scorpions just tearing through no matter who finds themselves on the opposite side
of them.
Surf last man standing, defuser gets planted and would you look at that.
Faze for the second round in a row sweeps through the moment the objective goes down
and is perfect in the post plant.
They start to fire up again. It is still a defender-sided map even if it is more favorable territory to the attackers and with it being Shopify Rebellion's map, Jesse, you know they're going to do well, but FaZe should have the upper hand for this first half.
I'm very intrigued by the game plan being brought up by SR30's first three rounds. It's obvious they want to go for these fast plants. They don't care about how much map control they have. They want to get in, get their diffuser on the ground.
I think after just seeing it one time in round two, Faze did a great job of adapting.
They came a little bit closer. They forced Canadian off the plants that first time.
Cyber pushes up and gets that kill, and then even though they get the plant down in rounds two and three,
Faze are in a far better position in terms of where their players are on the map to win in that post-plant spot.
I would be surprised if that was something that SR decided we want to do this ahead of time before they almost headshot, sir.
It was so close to hitting him! Oh my goodness!
I shoot you back!
That was probably part of the game plan.
SR had to come in to this.
My big question is, it has failed dramatically twice in a row now.
Do we rein that in?
Do we stop going for these fast plants?
Do we play a little bit more of the round?
Go for a little bit more map control before we plant?
That would be my guess.
We'll have to see what SR want to do, though, in the second quarter.
There really is a concerning sign yet for either of these teams.
I mean, you just got to make it, I think, to the halfway point.
There have been good looks from the Rebellion on both rounds that they lost.
FaZe Clan, outside of that first round, when they were playing a little cheeky,
have looked pretty practiced and praised as well.
This is a historic and infamous map for FaZe Clan, as this is where the tides turned on their
quite eventful SI Grand Final against W7T, who now plays under the Fury of Banner.
Mm-hmm.
You mentioned that Shopify Rebellion is a day off tomorrow,
and they will not be in action.
Black Dragons was the team from this group that did not play.
FaZe Clan will play their fellow countrymen of Brazilians,
but from a different region, as D plus Kia
is a Brazilian set of players, but technically an attack org.
And it's D plus Kia that actually sits on the top
of the group right now, which is a little bit surprising
when you've got these juggernauts.
FaZe will play D plus Kia tomorrow.
Black Dragons will play G2, and then on the very final day G2 and Fairies will be battle,
while Black Dragons and Shopify Rebellion swear off against each other.
Feeblisk here in pretty good spots, so even if they do have the final day off,
their destiny will be out of their hands, but if they can topple FaZe tomorrow,
which seems like quite the task, they'd be in great shape for their final day, which we don't play.
Round 4, completely different defenses that are based on, which includes Cyber on the Pichonka.
For the first time in, I would guess, ever? Maybe not, but I certainly never see him bring out this operator.
The, uh, ridiculous player that he is, the 27 year old, is almost always on entry-fragging and far-roaming roles,
but with a strong setup, he can be a plant-eniled player as well.
But he's got him set up deep behind a deployable shield inside of the B bomb site, while SR have also just changed up their site a little bit.
Not gonna be bringing in that ying-capitao combo that they had previously.
And now we've got Canadian on the block here, who really wants to be the focal point of this push.
I think it might lead to them going a little bit closer towards connector.
Spoiler's already inside of rafters though, so maybe they do just want to go a similar style to what they did before.
And nowhere near the same extensive setup here, so fall back, and this is one thing that FaZe have actually excelled in over the last couple rounds,
which is inviting the rebellion into the bomb site, and then beating the stuffing animal on the way out.
If you can just speed all this ground, if you realize that roaming isn't really helping you,
and that there's a better strategy to be had here, forfeit this part of the map if you can work out.
Finneking will start the killing with a minute left, and around Ambideye, Cyber is traded out.
Spoight and Surf on the board, the king will find his second kill.
The Surf is waiting with the defuser in hand inside of IT, waiting for the All Clear to walk it on it.
Yeah, now we've got two players, IT. Spoight the Lone Man, not with his team, is going to be going over towards Aqua.
He needs to be able to get a pick, but he's no 1v1 with handy lined up and handy doesn't miss these often
Who on face does that's the real question good question?
It's a tough spot for spuit handy making some noise and overture for him
But he gets called back to the bomb site and there we go
It's almost got the nitro style hucked out
Vinikin finds a third and surf is still poised not far removed from his position
and KDS, who was largely invisible that round,
finds the final frag.
And just like that, FaZe Clan have stitched together
three consecutive rounds.
Defending on this map, yeah, that's not terrible,
but if I'm the rebellion,
maybe I'm starting to get a little worried.
Yeah, I mean, honestly,
it was a really well-played round by FaZe.
That is a tough bomb site to attack,
so maybe it's not the end of the world for SR.
A lot of crats gotta go to Vitaking,
maybe the best IGL in all of South America.
He had to get quite aggressive to get those kills.
He actually pushed up out of the bomb site into Connector
to be able to get the opening pick in that round,
start the killing off, as you said,
and then swung deeper into Electrical
to kill Canadian from Jungle, from Connector.
So had a lot of these really tough angles
that he had to fight, managed to walk away with the win there,
protecting Cyber, playing on that,
the Chanka did go down to the IT players eventually,
but really good stuff coming out from Bittaking.
Bittaking 4-0 in his career up against Canadian
has never lost to what is almost certainly the best captain of all time to come out of it.
I know that they played a best of three that went the distance.
There's a second match up against D-Tesquilla wasn't really that long of an affair in 74-71.
And yet still heading into this match, Ambien and Serf are both sitting at 40 kills a piece.
Just two best of threes that is quite the effort
Canadians to the bottom of the team which is no surprise. That's on that's how his role plays
He's only a minus six. He fragged very well against G2 if you recall he almost top-frag
I think it was the second map
Against G2
Stoic is not that far ahead of Canadian that is probably the bigger issue here
I know that people are used to being this incredible killer of everybody
Especially if you watch his YouTube content or his streams for sure, but that's not the role he plays on this team
So it is not usually the one required to get kills that surf ambian rex's task
So and for your expectations. Yeah, I mean he does play in that entry duel alongside ambi
Obviously, he is often one of the first players into the building
But you're right
Hasn't maybe had the same impact that we've seen from him even on former team talk about sport on road
Absolutely star fragger star guy that you're gonna see getting all of the kills actually hasn't gone
since his first SI in 2023, so definitely plays a bit more of a passive role when he has to,
can sit back and let his teammates frag out. Does it mean he's washed? Chad,
it just means that he's playing maybe a different position sometimes.
Right now, the roam game is strong from FaZe playing handy on the top floor, watching souls
in the mid-floor. Cyber's not too far away either. There's a lot of players from FaZe still out and
about on the map, and Shopify haven't really cared to clear up those players. The rebellion
and have taken their time.
They've gotten some space over towards cafeteria,
but not so much that they can comfortably go for a plant
unless they're going right down XO
and trying to get something very cheeky tucked in
on maybe the assembly door.
Let's have a look.
There goes the death mark.
In the hopes of finding Viniking,
and Canadian will be off to the races again.
I like the tempo that is being set.
Whoa, my goodness.
How did Andy miss that engagement?
They walked right into each other.
face clan not looking in the direction that the rebellion are coming from
they barge into the bomb site they've surrendered the diffuser it needs to be retrieved to spoik
it's gunned down kbs takes quite a beating 45 seconds back and it's time for a reset from the
rebellion after they were hoping for an early push again and i was just about to praise sr for how
quick they'd been to get into the bomb site the killing will continue this time canadian taken out
by KDS.
Sol is still searching for his very first kill.
His diffuser gets planted by surf.
Explosion goes off. They have a read on it, Jesse.
And they'll watch it from above.
A 3v3 is now the timer
shortened by the case being planted.
Rexon outdulled
by Scyther.
And he takes care of KDS. Hatch opened up.
An easier drop into the bomb site.
FaZe will take advantage of that.
The Rebellion just catching FaZe Clan
looking the wrong way.
in time again, Sol's now last alive in the thick of it,
targeted by the death mark to add insult to injury.
Nobody enjoys being in this particular situation.
He knows where Ambi is.
They know where he is, but a couple seconds
for Sol's to get on this kick.
Nope, a nice shot onto Ambi, but at best,
a pure victory for Sol's as the timer
will give it to the rebellion.
And that's two rounds for the North Americans
with one more round in this first half.
Shopify Rebellion, really allergic to clearing the map on Night Haven Labs.
Clearly, they've done some prep and have decided it's going to be too difficult
to try to clear these FaZe Clan roamers out.
So once again, they go pretty direct to Site Parker.
Thought maybe they would try to take it through Cafeteria down those Exo Stairs,
just straight in through the breach, right?
Got pretty deep with it.
Vidikin caught sleep in a little bit, goes down to Canadian midway through this round.
That three-player watching right here.
Vidikin very concerned with the Exo portion of the map.
We saw Andy pushing in that direction,
but in the end the fuse kit just came straight into the bomb site.
Canadian eventually does go down the surface, the one with the fuse kit.
So there's no problem planting it on the pillar.
They can avoid the solace from up above because they plant
in that spot behind the pillar where you can't wipe it.
And in the end, Shopify rebellion keep us within one.
I'm about to say something that is going to sound absurd.
Say it.
Phase clan have played a single best of three
If these clan wins this doesn't matter the circumstances as long as phase
Give me a two one meal by the 15 15 15 doesn't matter use the bomb
phase and D plus are locked for phase two well, so phase plan
Bully black dragon yesterday they come in maybe they maybe they have a quick two-oh against the rebellion
That would leave Black Dragons G2 and SR fighting for the final two spots only one team goes on final three spots
Sorry final two spots, but yes only one team goes on there's five teams in the group. Well, no final two spots to qualify
Three spots would remain, but that's fine. He plus qualify. Sorry, I didn't listen to you when you spoke
I would like to remind everybody that Jesse went to university for math
Yeah, and he also has ears, and he's also in the same production chat that I read this stuff from.
And yet he chooses to sandbag me, and say that he doesn't listen to me.
Shopify Rebellion, obviously hoping to equalize it for you.
Base Clan in just five rounds have doubled their amount of rounds lost here at the Six Invitation from two to four.
The aggressive fight between KDS and SPOIT, but SPOIT misses the head, only gets some
body shot damage on the KDX, so that's not going to be a kill just yet for SR.
Clearing this top floor should be the primary objective, but as long as they have IT control,
that has historically been enough, and SPOIT doesn't miss twice, eventually gets KDS on
the repeat.
Yeah.
KDS is a big get, he's the top frag on the team and has survived, deep into most of the
rounds that he's lived in so this is a late breaking player in this final few
moments. I have to deal with the treachery of that Brava as Vinny King has to shoot his own
Malice band. She will not, he is I guess, take on his team, but it's his own teams.
As this spot inside of IT is getting away and he's collapsed upon by Andy, now Souls is
urged into action. Stibber on the board, face print of the exceptional Jesse getting
two quick kills in reaction to equalize and set us often into a 2v2 or a 3v3 situation.
But Canadians got other ideas, taking matters into their own hands. A kill and now,
close to planting the case down. Spoigt dies at the hands of Handy, but still an advantage for
Shot in the Fire Rebellion. Handy's been reduced to about half HP, but he's still fragging. Now it
soles down below, surveying the damage that was done above. You know how hard it is to hop on
this case and go for a defuse in this position. And they'll soon start to run out of time,
about halfway point of the defuser now. The Azanis swinging, a small missed opportunity for
Rexon. Oh my goodness, they fall off! These post plans for FaZe Clan have been so damn good,
and they win yet another! Four-two the first half for FaZe! Oh, that's a brutal one to be losing
as well. Parker, they had all the positionings. I was getting ready to say, maybe face-clanchions sent
somebody above. You know, this is going to be a tough post-plant, but they just win the vert battles.
They kill the player that's outside on, not even on repel, but outside the building.
Man, that was really tough. I even wanted to get credit for Canadian, because instead of just jumping
in immediately planting, he took the time to kill the site player. He could still get credit. He went
and he killed Cyber, and he did his job. He got that if you just get on the ground, but the post-plant,
Just out of reach for Shopify Rebellion over and over again, they can plant, but they can't win the round.
Brutal stuff, and I mean, a lot of that is also structural, so in Rounds 2 and 3, FaZe Clan deliberately played farther back.
They deliberately opened up the bomb site, especially on that basement bomb site, right?
The idea was to go for a retake. That was the whole strat.
But two of these final rounds that we've seen, the two most recent ones, they were not designed to deal in a post-plant.
They were scrambles from phase to try to regain the footing that they had lost earlier in the round after a strong start for the rebellion
So it's a situation where honestly you have to praise both teams right you have to praise the rebellion
Yeah, the way that they're able to take up map control the way they're able to entry and then you have to praise phase for the way that they
Retake yeah, it's a situation where you can do everything right and still lose it is possible
And it honestly seems like that was the case
Not that we're tripping over ourselves here to compliment Shopify Rebellion, but I don't think this scoreline is a proper representation. How close this match has been.
Yeah, I would put it like this. Shopify Rebellion are playing better in the early game. FaceClan are playing better in the late game, but in the end of the day, the team that wins the late game wins the round. So, FaceClan are winning when it matters.
And you're spot on five of the six rounds. First blood drawn by Shopify Rebellion.
Yeah, not surprising at all. I mean, if you watch this game, SR have been dominating, always with the man advantage, always with the first blood, but base plan ways to battle back, whether that's SR, maybe not taking as much map control as they potentially could have, or more skill as much as coming up in the post plan.
Space plan have been the better team, but Siege is a game of two halves, Parker, and now on the attack, things could start to change directions.
His base now will have to attack on this top floor. We always talk about it
One of the hardest sites to attack two halves, but also four quarters, Jesse
and
Yes
Yes, you're what me flipping on is going to bring up that's it's a little hard for us to track because unfortunately
The counter is broken look at the top left of your screen
It still shows that they're going two or three left at all times that is not accurate. So do not rely on that
It's a bit of a frustrating situation because I have to wonder if Intel is hard to come by for Shopify Rebellion because they're losing a lot of drones after that initial burst.
So if they're getting a lot of intel during the discovery phase, it's the mid-round where they suffer because they don't have drones to follow.
That would then be a credit to Facebook.
Well, it's not something they're gonna have to worry about until overtime or MAP2 because this is all defense now.
I like this use of the class from Canadian he's providing coverage direction who was trying to get a nitro out that mirror window
That's been popped in order to punish cyber here on the maverick lot of support works for cyber today
But unfortunately was quite able to find the mark that nitro got wasted and it looks like the wall has been made soft now
So they should be able to get into this bomb site right side. I believe in openable. There we go with Andy's secondary shotgun
That's job one done, but it's taken quite a bit of time. They were very afraid of Canadian there on the clash
Based on positioning it looks like the second angle of this bush is gonna come towards jungle
It's gonna come towards electrical cybers already inside of me to make that happen
I'm glad that FaZe have maybe picked up the pace a little bit because I was a little worried with their speed and their ability to get in
Things working well for them
Everybody's still alive and we have under a minute to go in the first round of the second half
Or the first round of the third quarter as you like to refer to the mass
Mm-hmm the teams will come to blows at some point over by electrical never mind
And he moved out of that position names magnetic
They're following him
Spoit just as he did in the first half we'll get the first kill of the second half as well cyber trades it out immediately
But it's rex if you don't lines and he goes down now. It's point to die and phase clan are saying we don't really care
What does that say about this map? We're gonna clobber you will find you attackers defenders doesn't matter at all
An immediate execution by phase will give them a fifth round
And now I have to wonder if the rebellion will call their timeout because you are very quickly running out of runway to land this thing
I like a muslin around
will be super's call if he wants one or not.
Maybe, maybe waiting? Yeah, maybe waiting to see what happens in the next round,
but I mean if you lose that round, you call a timeout, which is...
It's a risky gamble for Super, but if White goes in to go for,
trusting in his team's ability to defend on these other bombsites that are not top floor,
that was just a really clean push from FaZe Clan, to be honest with you.
You handy gets that trade onto Spoit, top floor inside of Rafters.
That was whipped at a few skips, by the way.
So if handy loses that second gunfight to Spoit, that whole thing could go differently.
Surf also, he was playing on that SAS operator, he had the shotgun on the smoke,
wasn't choosing to play close on the electrical door.
Often you'll find a shotgun player right there because it's so difficult to get into sight
when there's a shotgun close on the electrical doorway.
Surf ended up being, I believe, last alive in that round.
He was over towards the last.
I wasn't quite able to get there fast enough to help out his team
playing the long angle instead stopping any flanks that were to come
but being rolled over from the east were Shopify Rebellion
so FaZe Clan ever closer now like Apple III is the best they've had all day.
The desk told the story about the struggle against Brazilian teams
and even though they play in APAC, D plus Q is ostensibly a Brazilian team.
The struggles will continue though.
I will say FaZe is a bit of an aberration here.
They are not just a Brazilian team. They are but
Behemoth it doesn't matter what region they're from. Yeah, incredibly good
You could have a you could literally be perfect against Brazilian teams never having played faceclan
I still would suspect you'd lose. That's just how it works. Yeah faceclanner are absolutely ridiculous
And if you count this SR team is the same as a sonics team
They haven't beaten this faceclan squad in a best of three since dream after month at all 2019
The game by Castle of the Flynn, which should tell you everything you need to know about
how far it is.
How good is the game?
We know the castle is bad.
How good is the game?
All right.
A brief push now by the yin enabled by the first kill of Cyber, second kill from Cyber
and off top and the defuse kit was getting planted, it does get planted.
Vittacke and Cyber now existing on borrowed time.
What remains of Vittacke is gone.
Cyber will join him.
10 seconds off the diffuse kit though the job becomes ever harder for the
rebellion time continuing to run away souls handy and KDS still alive death
marks in pocket for handy he can use them in his leisure that will make things
even more challenging for Shopify rebellion KDS with one handy dies back
to even numbers to be to surface the drive-by and now it's KDS over top of the
diffuse kit all he needs to do is buy another second surface on it stop him in
In his tracks, Surf does not fake, and the Rebellion will hang on to the round.
A confidence inspiring finish, the gap will close and FaZe will be denied match point.
Wow, that's a crazy one to go through.
Shopify Rebellion disabling at the last possible moment, they used that clash shield as well,
being placed by Canadian to give them a slightly better angle to hit that disable.
Really good stuff.
I thought Cyber had won it for them with that entry up onto the top floor.
It felt like they had all the numbers in their basket.
They had the plant very close on the breach,
but honestly it's a lot of the same problems that SR had in the midst of that push in the very late round.
It's a great comparison because both teams tried to make fast plants in through the main breach of assembly.
Slightly different plant spots from the two.
Certainly different strategies, one with a glass and a fuse.
The other with Shopify not quite the same.
But in the end, the post-plant was still better for the defenders, and Shopfire Rebellion did a great job of holding back, winning some of those hurt angles when they had to, winning some of those trades in the midst of the site when they had to, and doing a great job of sticking on that diffuser when they eventually got down to it.
opening picks still overwhelmingly favoring the rebellion to six two is the
scoreline right now when it comes to opening duals so FaZe Clan picked up
five rounds in which they have not drawn the first blood now I will say FaZe
Clan did strike first in the most previous round so FaZe isn't winning
all the rounds that they strike first either again Justin you're spot on the
mid to late round the late round in particular has been
We decided to back off this map and right now FaZe Clan just look more like a cohesive unit that can handle the pressure and everything else that is required to deal with the final 20, 30 seconds of run.
And honestly, it's something we saw when they played Black Dragon yesterday. They had an 89% recovery against BD, which is the highest of any team in the tournament, so it is their only game played.
So we know how good this game can be, even without the opening pick.
This is a team that is ridiculously good at getting advantages back when they lose them.
Now, I thought most of that was probably because Black Dragons were not playing the greatest of Siege yesterday,
but even against SR, who I think are playing a better game,
based on our finding success in that area, so that really speaks to just the quality of team that we all witnessed.
We saw this on this map three hours ago?
Yeah, we did.
In the Waybo game where Waybo was just winning rounds even though it just looked like they should and they just have heroic efforts. Oh my goodness
He's not gonna get another is he nice that yourself from surf will net one, but there are more in tow
Sir
Be heading vittacombe
Playing very selfishly inside a storage
There's a third to be had as he was watched on drone
Oh, that's the Badger of Souls, right?
It sure looks like it based on, yep, based on his silhouette.
Happy to get used to a different silhouette from Badger, by the way.
The progression of Top Aqua is handy.
Just barely gets pulled back, thanks to that Dreadmine from Fenrir.
Little early damage on Erexen as well.
They have to kind of come up with a new game plan, Parker.
That diffuser is dropped in the sights.
That...
Does the ponytail have a hitbox? I actually don't know.
I don't believe so.
don't think so. Were you playing the game when Blitz's earmuffs used to have a hitbox?
Yes. I think when they changed that I would assume a zombie's ponytail also would not
have one. I mean realistically if you were wearing like a big set of like earmuffs and
a bullet hit it it would probably disorient you but maybe not damage you. 35 seconds Parker.
FaZe Clan's plan B is taking a long time to come to fruition. They've got to find some kind of a
pick but SR they're giving them nothing. Yeah and I mean SR's very patient here Jesse giving them nothing
not moving standing pat they got crossfires held phases utility starved at this point those EMPs for
Stetsoles have are really ineffective but I mean hey you've got two DM's you can do some serious
damage but with time running against you I think it might be a little too late maybe not there goes
Rexon, 3v3, running at a time, defuser walked on in, drop and no way in the final two seconds,
they find anything. Half of the round, or half of the lobby still survives. Two players on
phase claim, three players on Shopify Rebellion, and the lead has now fallen to just a single round.
Shopify Rebellion putting together a pretty nice set of rounds here to almost draw even.
And I gotta say, SR are in a much better spot down 5-4 because they still have that tactical time
All credit in the world to super for being very restrained with that tackle timeout
The team has brought it close even without it
And now they can still use it either here after this round or even into overtime or if FaZe eventually do hit that match and
that point
Really good play of course from surf we have to mention it
I'm gonna say it if you definitely bought the diss first beeper they toss out was his nitro cell
We've all done it playing on century. Okay, it's confusing
which button is your first gadget and which button is the second.
But in the end, the Gubai installed him out enough so that C4 was there in time to get the kill
to massive kills coming out from Serf, and I thought he had a really nice tweet
after yesterday's embarrassment.
So the game against D-plus was not the result we wanted, but it was the one we deserved.
Now he's top fragging the lobby for, top fragging the team for Shopify Rebellion.
That's really coming in clutch.
So, because Shopify is a Toronto-based company, and their headquarters are in Toronto,
that and I mean obviously, Toronto is from Toronto,
Spoight has stayed in Toronto multiple times now,
first when he was on an 80, now when he's on Shopify Rebellion,
the team has boot camped there a few times,
and then of course there was the Spoight Contender series as well,
a couple months ago that you and I both worked,
and the whole team was there at the same time.
I didn't really know surf all that well,
until the first time we met, the first time they boot camped there,
And I can say this there are a lot of good people who play this game
There are a lot of normal people smart people funny people kind people etc
I am consistently struck by just how nice of a guy
How aware of his life
Surf is if you ever get a chance to meet surf in person
Should shove a firebell you never make the main stage of a live
You are you are there. Yeah, I urge you to spend some time talking to him
I guarantee you just as impressed as I was the first time I met him. He's genuinely a good
Yeah, couldn't agree more. I really enjoyed hanging over surf and all the SR guys honestly
It's at that split contender series that we got the pleasure to attend earlier this winter
Yeah, the whole team is well good being so I mean I don't I don't have anything really bad to say about any of the
10 people in this lot like they're just
Honestly, I say a lot of bad things about Canadian. Yeah. Yeah
I think it's funny that you say good game and you say bad egg.
Why not good egg, bud?
I need really something for something on the jump side.
Just reply to the things I say I beg you.
I believe it's fishing for spoit.
We're still playing that top rapid position this time, of course, on the Ella,
but not giving up anything.
I think spoits played a very restrained game, a very cautious game,
and I think it's paid off for them.
I think I'm mad with this defense, and there it is.
Rewarded with a nice yourself from Canadian, giving the first block on the side.
Bad A, good aim from Canadian, there you go, how about that?
Nice try for Ocel to blow things wide open.
Face then obviously having good numbers across the board.
Cyber has died 10 times though,
that gives me a little bit of concern.
We mentioned this in our matchup yesterday
when we talked about Cyber.
He is a player that will literally go like three and eight.
And then we'll suddenly you blink and he's 12 and nine
or he will start off six and oh
and just continue that hot streak.
He had a good beginning to this game
but he's been brought back down to earth.
But again, the thing that all of these great teams
have in common, Jesse, is the fact that there's depth.
And there is so much depth on FaZe Clan
that if Stiver's having a bad day, you've got souls.
You've got KDS.
You've got all these guys that can easily shoulder
some of that weight.
Handy's another name that gets used a lot.
And down goes Ambie to equalize into a 4v4 with 44 seconds.
Yeah, 4kandela is still three smokes, plus Capitalfe
makes it five.
There's a lot of utilities for FaZe Clan,
and it's coming, Maryland, in right now.
A bit of disorientation from those Fenrir F-Nauts trying to outdo themselves.
There's some Kuzhmuk minds as well that Handy is dealing with around the corner.
Oh my goodness, he's breakdancing on him and Handy styles on Spoit.
Sol's getting the diffuser the halfway point, but he has to bail off and will now attempt it yet again.
But two for the price of one for Surf and Rexon sends us to a tie game.
Surf has really earned his key.
These last couple of rounds, the Uto play is phenomenal.
He's known for his clutches in North America.
He's known for his breakneck play, just at the end of rounds when he can really clutch up.
Press the stuff. We might be in attack time out here. Sure looks like it.
He's gonna be in the 54th, the guy's gonna be in the chill.
I don't want to say they're in freefall, but things are not looking very good for FaZe Clan at the moment.
And again, you can go back to a couple of those rounds in the first half,
and make a pretty credible argument that Shopify Rebellion was strategically the more sound team,
and could potentially argue that they should have a lead in this series.
So, I mean, the scoreboard obviously doesn't reflect that, but it is abundantly clear that there's a reason why the rebellion picked this map.
They have leveled up their game play with the side swap coming in and phase clan are show now at the same time
Rebellion get to talk to super and they still maintain their own timeout. So should this round go for phase clan
What do you think the odds are that we see the rebellion slap their own timeout button to try to prevent a 7-5 scoreline?
I think the odds are pretty good Parker
But we've also got a very interesting decision and this was likely just called by super although we didn't get to hear it
Shopify rebellion have just won a full site rotation back to back to back. They won basement storage and then top floor
Instead of going back to that site rotation instead of going back down to the basements
They've mixed things up if faith plan were discussing specific things about this next 11 to 12 crowns
Because you're going to a bomb site you won't have been expecting now kitchen cafeteria kind of stinks as a site
It doesn't have a great win rate at least historically
I'm not sure about this event, but man, if FaZe Clan have been preparing a very specific strata in that attack time though,
this would be a really good way to throw them off.
Undeniably so. Surfed out breaking 10 kills, double digits for him, trailing just handy in this lobby.
Surf is a very deceptive player. He's very sneaky. He'll get eight kills, and we barely say his name,
but we'll be talking about Ami, we'll be talking about Rexon, we'll be talking about Cyber, and then all of a sudden you're like,
Wait, hold on a second. It's fucking eight kills.
I feel like Souls is kind of the same way,
and often times KDS is in that same boat.
Wrecks him the star of the shed to start off with.
Manages to go even on Kill Count now with his eight kill.
Getting rid of Vidicang.
Vidicang died early a bit too many times in the matchup
against Black Dragons yesterday.
He's played far more shelter today here on my hidden laps.
Well, both of them.
What is this?
He's trying to find his left hammer.
No!
But the air chopper got people low instead.
They eventually clear out the class,
but it cost them a couple of bodies, and it's a 3v3.
You best know if you hit him with the hammer,
I had a good ball climbed up for that.
But unfortunately, that will not come to pass.
3v3 would have the round still to go.
The loser will be staring down match point.
The winner will be looking out the way from putting this map
into their win calling.
A lot of damage has been done to both Rexon and Cyber,
So both of these players wounded but still with a gun in hand maybe might play
Bit less aggressively if they're concerned about gambling their life. Yeah
How do you play these last 70 seconds if you're faced when you've got the majority all of your players really lobby side?
You've got two more capitalists most plus a fire bolt to try to burn out Raxen and they'll do a great job with that
Miss with the first fire didn't aim high enough that time though
They hit their mark with a man advantage. They can choose to go kills. Do we go plant?
Player has been really quiet so far, this map's Spoyt was being tracked by the deathmark of Deimos.
Hammy still has one more in pocket that's currently regenerating.
40 seconds left, that's some good timing here.
Black eye cams will persist for Spoyt.
It'll be watched by the rest of his team.
Surf has the pulse sensor, the cardiac sensor.
It means he can actively call, but at this point I think you need to have it done in hand.
Spoyt at the read, but handy just as the better reflex.
Surf fighting for his life now,
tucked inside the vending machine.
What will pop out?
Handy now, getting diffuser down with all 12 kills on gamble,
cyber, not far removed, nature so goes.
Not enough to shake handy off of this spot.
Surf will now rotate.
Stare at the other portion of kitchen.
Being watched by the gamemos and Handy is just so good.
My god.
Clinical from FaZe Clan to move to map point.
Three clutches might have been asking a bit too much from Surf
and we'll see if that will prompt Attack Time Out from Shopfire Ballion, or if they do opt to save it for overtime.
I would bet the Attack Time Out is the call.
There's a miraculous play coming out there from, uh, from Handy.
There's my play.
Good couple of kills.
I wanted this. I wanted it.
I know, uh, you came close with it, but unfortunately the Zaps just slowed him a little bit too much.
Handy really the star of the show in that round, uh, after all of the chaos.
He uses the deathmark to get in, wins the fight against the boy.
A really tough fight to come through there,
plants the diffuser, and then also kills Seraph to get up to 13 kills.
Yesterday he was 16 and 9 across two different maps,
versus Black Dragons, one of the top 10 players in this event coming into today,
and of course, the reigning 6th Invitational MVP.
He's a deadly player to go against, many players across the world fear him,
and now with 13 kills Shopify will have to find a way around it if they want to make overtime.
few reasons to doubt them. Even in Munich they made a heroic run towards the finals. They didn't
make it the whole way, but they got it as close as you can get. And they looked mighty damn good
on the way there. They have picked up from where they left off, if not outright leveled up, because
Black Dragon's now here to Shopify Rebellion's map, FaZe Clan, are showing just how formidable they
can be. So SR has choice. They could go Basement or they could go Storage. FaZe weren't sure which
which one they would go. It ends up being the mid-floor site.
Scorage and control to end out regulation.
Shopify Rebellion, of course, playing with a heavy two-man roam up in the top floor,
while R&B Surf and Rexland still maintain that main floor position.
Base plans certainly have a lot of information on this meeting side.
They've got a lot of bodies over on that meeting side as well.
I don't believe that they have done any work on the IT breach.
There is still just a mirror window in that, but the top floor clear is underway.
They're hoping to get some space with it now already.
Vittacang on the electrical door.
I feel like we don't really talk about how good Vittacang can be on that shield.
Gazebane doesn't exactly use shields as often as some of the other teams, but Vittacang
has played a history of being a good shield player.
Oh yeah.
I think before Shield Scott cool, Vittacang was the best shield player in the world.
I think he's the best traditional shield player.
And then Shield Scott Bobb, they're going to start playing Shields, you could debate.
Canadian with a crossfire. He wasn't the only one involved in that action. KDS goes down and again.
The beginning of action is not the problem for the Shopify Rebellion Squad. They have done really well in these opening tools.
But now things get tricky. The moment that they get a single kill, that's when the worrying signs for the Rebellion come in.
They've put up a great effort. And again, those first couple rounds, there are some things that could very easily make you say,
this should have been a 7-5 for the Rebellion, but that's not the case. Let's see how they do for the next minute.
next minute top floors been conceded by SR face have full second floor control but
watch out for surf he is in the basement with a nitro cell and there are
Valkyrie cameras he has won multiple rounds this series with a last second
nitro to deny a plant he's looking to do that again in this round everybody's
still alive and at full HP on the side of the rebellion to his credit getting
some high impact kills even if he is toward the bottom of the standings
Ambience point now shrugging off some damage here is out though the bees
This is just an area denial as days are desperate for information and how very little time to make it
Into the wind column. I don't think it's gonna happen. Spoit going huge. Jesse
Which member of the five remaining rebellion players will get it?
It's boy a four K for sport is the round is one flawlessly
and we're going over time.
Willie with four gets back on the board
statistically a great round from him.
They really stalled out phase plan
and that one Parker tall floor.
They just tried to make that impact happen.
They tried to clear through,
but after losing one body, SR fell back.
They concede that space.
They're happy to play that close range gunfight game
with sport on that scorpion.
They had the nitro ready in case the sport didn't step up
and get those four frags, but wasn't needed.
Excellent performance coming through from Floyd, who himself is still looking for his first six-inputational win.
So well played, and I mean, we're looking at a lot of close quarters' engagements on these maps.
I'm sure you've noticed more shotguns being run, more scorpions being run.
Now, granted, if you are not a pro player, the scorpion might seem like the type of weapon that, beyond a couple feet, forget about hitting your shots.
We even saw Cybert struggle with it yesterday, if you recall.
He was chalet that we watched that game of.
But if you're playing close quarters, that thing shreds.
Ella is a close quarters specialist as an operator.
If Gadget created for close quarters for roaming or for sitting on site,
don't forget the Ella shotgun is still might have been as well,
but the Scorpion got a steady amount of box that is now in a position
where it is simply a better gun than the shotgun,
nine times out of ten.
And the Wasteboy played it was great.
Tucked himself into the corner, waited for them to come to him,
and in the moment that Faze panicked because there was only 50 seconds left,
left he punished them perfectly so great read and their sport has bolted up the
standings on the side of the rebellion two rounds potentially three now for OT
as Shopify rebellion will go on to be better statistical side of their map
defending twice defending at least one yeah depending on how they get all
yeah Shopify rebellion they'll go to the top floor this was locked in the last two
rounds so they couldn't come back here but now it's open once again it's the
exact same operator lineup from SR. They're going to run this one back. They thought it worked well enough previously.
Even if they could rely on surf flanking down Aqua stairs and eventually getting a last-minute nitro cell, that was a round win.
They're hoping to get some kind of replication there. For FaZe Clan, the focus is instead going to be Rafter's side.
Previously, they went over towards connector. They went over towards electrical. This time with Vita King starting to open up things bottom Rafters.
Gonna put a lot more early pressure onto Spoit, could put some early pressure onto Surf as well,
playing in that Aqua Hallway position, so that seems to be the direction change from FaZe Clan,
hopefully for them what can turn the tides to make this a more successful round.
Sounding like a bit of a broken record here, Jesse, but
Shopify Rebellion still leading the way on opening kills, 10 of 12 opening kills for the Rebellion.
They've been much better at converting these rounds to their credit, but they are riding
the side that makes it a little bit easier. Halfway point of the round and very minimal
damage has been done across the board. KDS and Vitikin may be losing about 10, 20 HP a piece.
No Vitikin is just taking quite the beating. Play me outside of the breach. That's KDS.
Magged up and in, but not finding anything. Oh my goodness, Canadian touching in the corner.
That was a similar position that we saw earlier. Why were you there? Brexen will equalize,
is taking down Stryval with an nitro cell.
The assault now spread out over on rafters,
through electrical.
Focus on IT is mostly gone now,
as KDS has rotated the rafters to link up with Vidic.
Yeah, the IT breeze is a little ugly,
but they got it done.
They can jump in if they need to.
That rafter's fully under their control,
but Spoyt is still close,
playing with that scorpion of Ella.
Rexing not far away either.
That's the person at the end of that.
Oh!
What a shot, removing Rexing and his head
from the server, serve trades it right back.
So whether they're surrendering these opening picks or not,
they are keeping it so close.
A small advantage now for the rebellion
is the last two players from FaZe are close enough by.
Spoight gets flushed out by KDS.
Excellent use of the gadget.
KDS now on ace watch as he's picked up three kills
with still two remaining.
They push the server over towards Aqua.
A down now as they pivot towards Ambie's position
in electrical, walking his way towards the defuse plant.
in the hands of KDS, Soles gets the final two,
and FaZe move back to match point.
And what an end round from Soles and KDS,
perfectly pushed through that positions
in through Rafters together.
They play it by isolating those defenders,
managing to find those last couple of players,
really tight round.
Likely an opportunity, maybe the last opportunity
for Super to call that tack time out.
He's held it all this time.
But as far as we're seeing, it doesn't look like one will be called.
So Parker, this is going to be round 14, a math point for FaZe Clan to win Estar's pick.
And still a tap time will remain in pocket.
I know that this would probably be a heated discussion on social media
should the rebellion go on to lose this map.
You got it.
Or this round in particular and then hit the map.
Yeah.
But I have spoken to coaches before when it is a situation like this
And I have asked why do you call your timeout?
And they usually say the same thing.
One, our problems are pretty obvious.
Two, I can hear the team working through it.
There's really nothing I need to say.
And three, if I call the timeout,
it lets my opponents talk as well.
The last thing I want to do is have them
potentially assess and fix mistakes
that we think we can exploit.
So it is entirely possible that Super said all he needed to
in phase this timeout of two rounds ago
and trust the team to get the job done in the server
without the aid of a timeout. So don't come for his head on social media. There is some
method to the madness. Or maybe he's just really confident that they're going to win
this round and then he'll call it at the end of this round. Who knows? But again, we have
to ask him in the post game. Maybe Super is a huge phase plan fan and wants them to win
this game. I have often wondered if he's a double agent. Imagine they lose this game
super rips off his jumper and there's a phase clan jersey underneath it.
We're the WWE now, okay? We're getting crazy over it.
We've been all along, Austin!
I can see that.
Back to the top floor we go as we expect.
Phase clan trying to play the best site on this map.
They were pretty successful with it back on their own half, of course.
They chose the very start and lost it, but then we're able to win it in round four.
Wow, it was just round four, I should say.
One it in round seven on the attacking side as well, of course.
Good heart operation to start things off.
Be careful of cyber, actually, his push down the lobby stairs
and is likely going to be playing from this position.
Note Chaka from him in overtime.
He's going back to his old-fashioned shenanigans, where he likes to play aggressively,
likes to play a little bit sneaky.
He could walk back up those lobby stairs,
if it ends up being a commitment to this connector side push.
He can also rotate over to the aqua stairs if he's needed in that direction,
or even bottom rafters if he really wants.
And he's gone quiet for Shopify rebellion that is a little bit concerning on my end
especially with how good he was in the first half.
He was taking engagements with no fear whatsoever and I mean if Andy is fearless and is engaging
against FaZe Clan and beating them, that's your secret weapon right there.
You know that Andy as a player is fearless.
It's all about how Troy and the rest of the team want him to be deployed.
from the Rebellion seem very keen on getting into the building just yet.
Spoid and Rexon are in, but they haven't really taken a lot of map control with them
in it to go.
And they do need to worry about droning a second time.
You mentioned Cyber on the road?
Yeah.
Take a look at where he is.
Yeah, he comes back, he's gotten bored, he's returning back to the site.
There's nobody pushing this direction partner, it's an AquaSide push, and he opens this up.
And that's what you might need, but again, the opening pick has not really been the problem
for this Rebellion team.
So what do they do with the lead that they have?
Got plenty of utility.
Selbin pocket extra thermic charge, Candela smokes, Flashbangs, another set of smokes,
a lot of tools here for the rebellion to crack open the sound.
Candela's coming in as you say Parker, it could be an early kill from Canadian,
but he's gotta be so careful who drops the defuse instead.
He had one close by, he knew the right read, but KDS at the long range engagement,
Solz and Vinikin go into the ground at the hands of Ambien Rexon,
and now Cyber hits the flank through Aqua walking his way up.
Can he catch them off guard?
Ambi is waiting for it three kills for the youngster who's now planting the diffuser
What can't he do?
KDS trapped inside of the site shrugging off damage dragging played out of them
But a 4k from Ambi sends us to a 15th and final round
You were just asking for him to step back up. Weren't you Parker? I was
Ambeasy does it when it's needed. He steps up and has a massive round to force that
15th and final round here on Shopify Rebellion's map pick puts the pieces together
And I really don't think Faze expected that push to come exactly in the way that it did
There was a lot of pressure early over towards connector. We saw cyber
You hear me? Yeah, think about what they did the last round they tacked us remember what I said when they went rounds
They typically want to repeat it. They brought the Monty. I think we can't clash
I think we should run the clash just to fuck with the Monty
Well, I don't know if you're getting the value out of Ella because we're backing
up. No, what I'm saying is we bring Goyo. No, listen, we bring Goyo, put Goyos on the door,
board up the mud door, put a Goyo on the door, and then put one under window, and just fucking
delay Raptor. We put the Raptor rotate on the middle of the wall. I go to Chonka and I can
play close left on the Raptor, just keep firing the stairs for the Monty walking out. Listen, let me focus
on the delay, bring the Goyos, just spam them apart. We can put one like Evox door. They're
gonna split con side every time so don't leave that it's gonna be a gap if you
leave it okay okay let's go a lot of cooks in the kitchen there Jesse a lot
of the cooks but in the end the coach has the final say super demands what he
demands and for this hot war defense he's gonna get it the clash the go yo very
worried about a Monty walking up these rafters stairs that's indeed what
that a game likes to do on this site.
And if Super says it, Jesse, it must be true.
It must be true.
So we speculated if they would use it this time around.
Yes, they did.
While we get the perspective of Super,
Thaze Clan is also talking.
Of course.
So both teams get to take this time out
in case you're unfamiliar with how it works.
I like the idea, but yeah, some chaos in those cons.
And I do need to ask the question.
If they're taking timeouts like that, what is every day shot calling sounding like?
Because we as the playercams on the bottom of the screen, there is a lot of talking on the side of the rebellion.
Rexon is often talking, Serp is often talking, Comedian of course is talking quite a bit.
Could there be too much?
Potentially, Parker, but the good news is, even if there was some debate on how to counter the Monty, there is no Monty to counter.
Bittikin has swapped over to the Ying, which will completely change what this push wants to look like for FaZe Clan.
They are bringing a new look. It's not the same read that they were expecting on the side of Shopify Rebellion.
They've been, if they're going to pair this with KDS on the nuke, rocking that new DMR, I do believe, as well.
So some strong weaponry coming the way of FaZe Clan.
This could be a look that Shopify Rebellion just not ready for.
I'm clapping, and I'm getting like a schoolgirl, Jesse, because there's a suppressor on the DMR, on Nook.
I cannot wait to hear what this sounds like.
Let's just ride along. Let's just ride along.
There's just something so satisfying about some of these suppressed weapons.
The LMG Young's Young's LMG suppress is one of the most satisfying sounding guns in any game I've ever heard.
Unless he shoots the default, there's nobody really to find at the moment.
He's just holding the flank at the bottom of lobby stairs, and nobody from SR is making that kind of a move.
It's definitely gonna be a connector focus push. You've seen Canadian on the on the clash rotate over to this direction
So it's being read by shot by rebellion
No, but really on the face plan side adding any other dimensions to this one
Do we don't split is on the top floor or is he down below? That's my question. He is on the top floor
So that should be really no flamethrower. No, a sport would be the rafters position if anybody planks
It'll be surf but he's on the smoke. I just don't know if he's really playing the operators do it
No, and serve his position inside a command so that he can smoke both rafters and both doors leading into the B bomb site.
The execute might be underway in a second as they're going to the Candelas, but Vinikin backs off.
Nitro cell in hand for Rexon as he's crept in ready. Out it goes, completely blind.
Hard to tell if he hit it or not. I believe he did. Handy now just slowly edging his way in,
And Rexon somehow beat him!
Excuse me!
Vinikin will say something about it, trading him right off.
But I have no idea how Rexon was able to land that kill.
Chaos has been thrown in the midst of this site.
Diffuser picked up by Solz is now there will be a brief wall
as the smoke clears on the side of the B site.
One more toxic babe in the stairs pocket.
They can still delay this longer.
They've got to force that out of their face plan
or they're going to have to go for a different plant spot.
Sol's in the bombsite now, starts the plant, the flash sees it, and the smokes come through.
And I think he's gonna lay exactly, and they have to get out of there. KDS is down below.
Well, juggles a diffused kit, they don't know how many smokes are left.
Spoy takes one more down. An advantage for the Rebellion is,
Canadian still persists on this clash. Here's KDS on the flank,
and he goes out. He could do so much damage, looking around towards the bomb chassis,
taking down Ambi. Multiple Dominoes fall, very little time left.
Canadian just needs to stay alive and he's doing a good enough job at it
and they'll win the round off the timer!
The rebellions survive quite the scare, but manage to do it in all 15 rounds.
They hold that taktano till they need it.
They use it to win the final and most important round, 15.
It goes the way of Shopify Rebellion.
It wasn't easy, but the world champions have lost a map of the six-invitational.
Huge kudos to FaZe Clan for pushing Shopify Rebellion to the 15th round on Shopify Rebellion's map.
Up next is FaZe's home soil. How will they fare? We'll find out in a few minutes.
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Almost the team kill, but in the end, quick kill ended up coming out, but yeah, all the way, and I think, I think that was a game for the Siege purists.
I absolutely loved watching 15 rounds. I could go back, watch again.
I mean, the tactical aspect of that game was absolutely crazy. You see it on all the operatives that you saw there, the Blitz, you see it.
Oh, the C4 kills, the Devils, they just don't want to know that in the sledge to come through the clash.
Look at this, Jack. It is perfect beauty. It is very crafting.
And just on that C4 kill as well, throughout the proximity alarm to bait out the Factor, and then throw the C4, it was just a game of utility, it was a game of teamwork, honestly, as a game of siege, pure game of siege, that was beautiful to watch as a mutual.
And every single round, as to utility being used either to directly kill someone or indirectly lead to a kill, it was absolutely insane.
In attack, they were using the green, the capitao, and the shields to move things around.
On the opposite side, you saw the clash being used,
the guys we nailed at the very last moment,
and the very last round to win the round.
The utility and tactical aspect of these two teams,
what makes them strong, it was beautiful to display.
A clash of six heroes, like you said.
I feel like the viewers at home couldn't see it
during the highlights, but you two are about
bouncing off the ceiling with the enthusiasm
about this matchup and the quality of seats that we have seen.
But one of the things that we saw in this matchup
is when we talk about all these kinds of assets.
One of our basic aspects was the amount of plans
and the amount of retakes that we see coming out.
Yeah, absolutely. We saw both teams kind of structuring their games for utility and for layers and for playing for the attack to take ground to allow them the ground and even especially in the side of face playing for the retake, which is not something
that we normally see in Rainbow Six. We see it in other games, not in Rainbow Six because when the diffuser goes down in Rainbow Six, the advantages to the attack so often. Now in the clips that you'll see, we start with this one, but there's three in total.
The phase went all three of these by retaking in a post-point scenario, which is a little bit uncommon.
But it was specifically playing for Shopify, being the North American team, playing through those layers, as we said,
and then trying to get them when they were vulnerable in that retake.
And look, that's another one, another retake that they successfully achieved.
And if you think about it, it was a smart play.
The idea of Canadian is going to lead in an old way. He's going to be structured.
He's going to go step by step. And in a way, yes, it's good, but it's also very predictable.
So we're going to fall back to our layers, we're going to wait for them to take the spot,
we're going to wait for them to plant, and then together, let's retake.
And you look at Handy, Souls 1, pulling that one up, the third one in a row.
Because when I was thinking about it, I was like, it's actually insane that they're allowing
to go further back than we anticipated.
In most games that play to layers in this sense, they will stop at the very last one, which is the bomb site.
Your face took it at another level, they gave away the bomb site to play the retake,
and that was beautiful to see.
And when you do that, you back yourself as a top team.
You back yourself with communication and coordination
because when the diffuser is down, you have 45 seconds,
well, less than 45 seconds, to successfully communicate
and navigate a plan that can be on the fly.
And face management pull that off three times.
Again, rebellion managing pull it off one time as well.
Almost had the same amount of kills,
same amount of death, incredible amount of plants and redigs.
That's two technical teams playing each other here.
Also, it sounds incredible to me,
but I feel like we need a bit of a breather after this matchup
before we continue in towards the next match.
So we have demo standing by with an update on the B-Stream with Enterprise and Secret.
Welcome back to the B-Stream update.
We're here in Group D this time and we took a trip to the Aussies of Enterprise
up against the Europeans of Team Secret.
And whatever forward from Team Secret, as you would expect,
they're top of the group right now.
And for good fashion, the Australians were sent packing today and a 7-3 into a 7-1.
Your MVP was Jim for this day.
Secret to left to Hammer. You heard it here first.
Secret to an invite
Thank you very much for the update demo while we continue here with our match
But we get to set it to our cast and surely this result has given some more hope for shovel fire billion
I mean for good reason and they won their own map
But maybe not in the most confidence inspiring of ways when you asked us
What do we think of this particular bout I said phase will win 2o or shop of I will scrape it out through three maps
Well, that means FaZe has got to win their own map. Will that happen?
Chalet on deck.
FaZe Clan and Shopfirebellion both played exactly eight rounds of Chalet yesterday.
a loss and embarrassing result
versus D plus Kia for Shopify
rebellion, but phase clan
crushed black dragons on this
map just 24 hours ago, and
that's got to be part of the
reason why they picked a map
like this. It was. In my mind,
one of the most obvious bands
that Shopify rebellion could
have gone for in the map veto
phase, but they chose to let it
through understanding that
there'll be a different team
than they were yesterday, and
hopefully we see that coming
out starting there, but I
yesterday and hopefully we see that coming out starting the defense now
against face. A reminder of what's at stake as we get ready for Chalet if
FaZe Clan win this best of three which now can only be done by a technical
reverse sweep though I always do find it kind of funny calling it a reverse
sweep when it's just three maps especially if it's your map in second
you're not really sweeping you are losing your opponent's map then you win
yours and then the tiebreaker but if phase clan win this series they and D plus
Kia will be immediately qualified for phase two that will leave two remaining
spots in this group that will be up for grabs three teams competing for it
it'll be the Shopify rebellion it'll be g2 and it'll be black dragons and on
your screen there you go the stakes that are at play here obviously if you're the
Rebellion you've already picked up one point for winning your map. That's excellent. That's what you want
You win your own map your opponent will probably win theirs, and then you go to the tiebreaker
Face clan are quite the team a very formidable foe and you saw that on that haven labs
We know that face claim is a good night Haven labs team
It doesn't matter how good Shopify rebellion is yeah face plan are good on lab
So giving you a run for your money. That's typical phase the real question is going to be if Shopify doesn't or shoveler million
doesn't win this map, how many rounds do they get? If they can scrape by with four or five rounds
and push phase all the way in regulation, I think that sets us up pretty well for Clubhouse
as our third map to be a good match. But if phase show up like they did yesterday,
and Shopify Rebellion show up like they did yesterday, I don't know how much hope I will have
for map number three. I'll say this Parker, I don't think yesterday is even in the considerations
anymore. From what I just witnessed, Trapfirebellion on Nighthaven Labs, I'm not worried about
yesterday's demons, haunting SR once again. What I'm more worried about is just the fact
that FaZe are an exceptional Chalet team. This map really lends their ability to play
aggressive, to get up on those windows, to make some wild swings happen. We've already
seen it kind of in the Operator Bands, how some of these teams are going to try to address
that. FaZe Clan banning out the Azami, specifically so they can play on some of those
outside angles they can grab some of those players without having to
necessarily address into the building and then Shopify Rebellion they didn't
choose to ban the Monty yesterday against D plus Kia they end up choosing to
ban this this time they banned Grim Ying against D plus now they ban Grim and
Monty so a little bit of respect being shown over towards Vita King who is
again exceptional when it comes to the traditional shields. Well in keeping with
what we said earlier about the way that maps are starting to trend towards the
attackers. Chalet is not immune from that same trend. It has an almost identical win
rate across both attacking defense as Night Haven laughs. And just like laughs, there is
a single bomb site on Chalet with a positive win rate for the defenders. Boy, oh boy, is
it defender favorite. Bar gaming has been won over 75% of the time by the defenders.
is an overwhelming number. Usually most bomb sites are around 55 to 60% and then the other
side obviously is anywhere from 45 to 40%. To see it be won over 75% at a time by the
defenders is really something else. That's Bargaining by the way. Every other one of
the sites on this map, Attack or Fager. That should immediately benefit Face Clan. Providing
that Face Clan are locked in and well if you watch their hidden labs, there's pretty good
Yeah, Faze Clan are gonna be just as deadly as they always are. There is no easy game to shop for our rebellion tonight, no matter what map they end up on, so...
We'll see what this approach ends up looking like. It's not Bargain's Bargain, it's the other mid-floor site to start us off.
The rebellion choose to go kitchen and dining for their first defensive round, and Faze Clan, a bit of an untraditional way of approaching this so far.
this so far they haven't entered in through library go for a full top floor
clear like we see a lot of teams do instead they've got they've got some
players outside of solar they've already got some players pressuring around the
mid floor they will definitely get a sound cue about ambi's positioning
outside of bathroom but into the day it's not gonna result in any kills it's
pretty passive place to place an air jam. Yeah I was gonna say they immediately hit
that air jam so that's information that's gained without leaving to do too much
and not a number of air drops so it's not the end of the world and one of them is used
maybe a bit inefficiently, I would say that's still a pretty big use of it.
Right now main focus is Solarium side and he was hitting these shots towards the end of
map number one but struggles with the Selma so it goes. That's just a little bit of utility,
going to make those top floor players a little bit less secure. Surf is going to be the main guy
who will be affected by that, playing that master kind of closet and bedroom area we see on our
screen now. We've also got Spoyt to back him up way inside a piano so it's a really constructed
top floor hold from Shopify Rebellion. They've got a lot of different angles. And again,
FaZe Man really hasn't committed much to being on the top floor.
And first kill is going to go to Ambi. In keeping with what we saw on Nighthaven Labs,
Shopify Rebellion were excellent at opening picks. It was what comes next that is a bit of a problem.
And while history is repeating itself, Brexit and Canadian felled by Cyber in very short order.
Brava bursts in, not just snatching gadgets, but also snatching some life away from them.
Vitikin will smoke himself now over towards the chassis. There goes the
diffuse kit. Surf is called into action. He's got a perfect read. That's an
excellent counterplay. Vitikin will scramble off of that position. Upstairs
control in place and Vitikin is taking quite the beating from surf. Under 30
seconds to go. Diffuse kit will be maneuvered elsewhere. It was that
bulletproof camera that was the problem. Cyber with all three kills in the
side of phase clan. He's in fine form.
To Ambi and Cerf that you need to take care of.
Cerf, unrelenting upstairs.
Ambi drops down to take matters into his own hands,
greeted by KDS.
And Solz will sit outside on the Solarium window
to give FaZe round number one.
Couple of things in that round, Parker.
Number one, cyber went nuclear.
We don't need to expand on that much more.
Entered into the south side over towards fireplace.
Gets two big kills.
Spoi tries to flank.
He tries to go down those main fireplace stairs
to be able to get the trade back on his two teammates,
but also ends up losing the gun fight to the 27-year-old entry
fragger on FaZe Clan.
Then in the site, I mean, it takes
Vidicang a very long time, but eventually realizes
he's on a bulletproof camera.
He's able to punch that out.
It's unfortunate, and those players above, particularly
Serf or Ambi, couldn't find that denial onto the plant.
They couldn't actually get the kill onto Vidicang.
Once that plant goes down, it becomes
such a difficult round for Shopify or Bellion
to try to get the win, they deal 99 damage it feels like to viticine, but in the end
can't actually get the finishing blow, and so that plant goes down, and FaZe Clan go
one-o-up.
Canadian was so effective on the clash in the previous map, it didn't waste their time
to hop onto this operator, and if you look at the lineup, an operator that has seen his
own pick-rate flourish is Denari, and this is a great map for Denari, this is one of
the first maps actually that we saw on Swiss Operator get played quite regularly.
The newest technical operator added to the game because Thatcher was a rework.
The good thing about a map like Chalet for the defenders is that you can have multiple ways into a bomb site or into a portion of the map,
but you really only need to watch one or two of them. Denarii can stretch his gadgets, especially on those first floor bomb sites,
but also upstairs in need be through a variety of walls and
Head holes, deep holes that are created by that secondary shotgun brought so effectively
Brava has been a real nuisance for Shopify rebellion and looks like
Slaver will use that first pledge drone to pretty good effect. Yeah, all the utopia already coming out very
sharply from phase plan still plenty to find Canadian played this flash on this bomb say yesterday in their matchup against D plus
Yeah, obviously it wasn't the most successful as most rounds were not in that game against the Brazilian team
Fighting inside of the library as we see some quick shots coming out from KDS
But he resorts back to the utility as the player close on his window surf falls all the way back to mezzanine
A little bit aggressive maybe coming out from from Damian, but in the end he does manage to step back and keep himself alive
First name first name first name are you pals with him or something?
Serf is Damien if people are curious.
Handy will strike first in this second round, coming down Ambie who's not exactly the most
productive start to show play, but that's okay, Ebb's in place for these players.
He just has to make sure that Ambie is good when it counts the most.
Spoint will dive and his gadgets will persist.
That's two quick blows for the rebellion and a third could be had as Serf has flushed
out of his position dancing around a nade punished by FaZe.
They've only surrendered Vitteking at this point.
Rexon and Canadian are lost to a live Canadian,
squelched by the Nade, sent out in hand by Solz.
Rexon will now retake the bomb site,
playing between B looking at A, out doing KDs.
Solz is there in tow as the last two players
could have easily pinched him.
The Deimos gets the job done and FaZe Clan off to a quick 2-0
start.
Huge 4K coming out.
I always thought Rexon had that for a moment there.
He was very close with that second last kill, but in the end shut down by souls gathering his fourth kill of the round
Fifth kill of the map. Don't forget yesterday souls was a beast
I know we go off to a slow start over on map one, but yesterday against black dragons
He put up a 4.75 KDR as far as my data goes and I only go back a few years
But as far as I can find
Crazy as that is the best KD of any player in their opening game with a six-initational
So Solz really was putting in the work yesterday afternoon when they had that late matchup against Black Dragons on the B stream.
Here on the A stream, he is finally putting in that work once again. A 5-0 start is nothing to sneeze at.
Yeah, and again, Solz obviously was a player that we see the name of quite often, but it is speaking out of some of these impressive things.
He's got a lot of incredible amount of kills.
Mm-hmm
Highest rate of player heading into today. We'll see where he shakes out when all is said
Not that we want you to stop watching this broadcast of over on the B Street
What's our W7M and OXG oxygen are currently doing battle
Can be exciting to see how this one goes by
Bottom floor bomb site is what we see from Shopify Rebellion if
I didn't take issues there, so I apologize if we did, but...
Apparently they lost my armor.
Okay, wonderful.
And that's okay, for the haters, for the haters, they probably enjoyed it very much.
I don't know, I'm just, I haven't moved.
I'm still sitting here.
Alright, well, Parker, I'm excited to tell you that this bottom floor bomb site from
Shopfirebellion is a new site, despite the fact that it played six rounds of defense
for its D plus Kia, this bottom floor was the one that they never decided to bring out.
In fact, shop for our belly in this season have only played this bombsite a single time.
That was back in June.
So there's really no footage for what SR like you on this site and FaZe and I will have
to problem solve it before it can be off the stop floor.
I had a good point to be made, but I, I seemingly lost it when they lost my audio.
Oh my goodness, FaZe playing with two yet again.
The real glimmer of hope for this SR team was how often they could strike first and
Now that seems to have fallen by the wayside.
Rex and Ambie gone again.
Ambie having a rough start to Chalet.
Cyber taking a beating.
Oh my.
Oh my.
I surfed just standing completely still.
Now it's going to fall onto the shoulders of Spoight
and Canadian.
Spoight with one.
Still four more targets to be found on the side of FaZe.
The Brazilians having a great go of it with a minute 20
Maybe there's a reason they haven't played this site since June. Parker, everybody's falling
to pieces, but Canadian gets one back and now they're only down by a one-man deficit.
He's in the bomb site, Spoyt's inside a bar, sliver of HP being hunted down by cyber, as
the other two Brazilians are attacking the wine bomb site.
Out go the fire arrows. Canadian pushed off in this position, isolated inside a connector,
pulls out the nitrous cell a bit too early and gives himself a greater vantage point
As it's now given time for Spoyt to maneuver towards blue,
these two remaining players from the rebellion are both in the same spot,
neither of them able to stop Handy from getting into the fuser planted.
Sol's yet to die.
Handy now lined up, Sting along the ground down, goes Spoyt, Handy turns around,
they know they've got Canadians stuck inside a connector,
and it's Cyber with the final kill.
An unstoppable attack!
Three times in a row, a four-phase clan.
What more can be said here?
Beautiful little push. I mean, they did exactly what they needed to on that bottom floor site might not have been something
They were expecting given shopfire billions history
But did a great job of pressuring that bottom floor in through big garage
Well at the same time applying pressure up on the top floor as well hunting down a lot of those players very quickly very early
Love the use of the RAM to have an entry in through the office doorway
Nothing crazy nothing that we're not seeing across a lot of different teams
But it's just cyber's ability to make that entry happen on a ton of different operators that I find so impressive
I think it's fine if we switch back, but I just want you to be aware they are doing the stuff that we expected them to do
We just have to make sure when we're moving around we're covering gaps because they've been we've been delaying time
But we're getting solo pick right the thing that we talked about is we want to be fighting wherever they are
And trying to like force trades get the numbers down. We're not doing that at all. It's one by one by one, okay?
But if we know they're going solar think about the positions right if they're on the repels
They're gonna be setting up through trophy walking up West Main. We literally know that with with the like backside pressure
If they're going for this master, they're gonna bring a demos under be careful of that if they go solar
If not, they're just gonna full clear and set it up that way the biggest thing guys
It doesn't really matter what the fuck they're doing. We just need to be playing together because right now it's not happening
Okay, right. Can we fast to move do you okay? I'll say maybe run vigil and now
He's an important and wise words coming out from Super, the single oldest known support
staff that we have here at the Sixth Invitational and an extremely experienced one as well.
Don't forget, Super's first SI came all the way back in 2018 when he, Bosco, and Gurney
Wormie along with others, and it's the play for...
My God!
ERA eternity and finished in dead last place.
Super has come a long way since that event and I think has made himself an exceptional
coach in the North American scene wants his team to be playing together, listening and
focused on these straps that they no face can like to play.
Gurmey Wormey, oh my goodness.
That you didn't think you'd be getting a shatter in the 2026 SI broadcast?
In position.
When I was first getting into Siege as a caster, Gurmey Wormey and Adam, some of those guys
I spent a ton of time with.
Just an awesome dude all around the board, all across the board.
I haven't spoken with him in so long.
I hope he's doing well.
There's some of those old NA guys.
Maman was another one, basically just,
Obey Alliance basically ended the career of several players.
It went so poorly, and then I mean,
Maman was just like, I'm gonna go work for my dad,
and then nobody ever heard from him again.
Chopstick is another name of an old player
that every now and then I see him online on Steam,
and I hope he's doing well too.
I don't know.
I did search to try to find some info on Girmie Warme,
but he's deleting his Twitter profile,
so couldn't find him.
Why would you need more info for that anecdote?
He just played with Gourmy way back in the day.
If he had gone on to become like a lawyer or something, I think that would have been worth mentioning.
I'm sure we could find more info.
He probably is a winged in if he works a real job.
Uh, Yuto plays been strong from FaZe Clan.
We've got the cast of Barricades being cleared out and already handy inside of games.
There's three bodies across the hallway from when he finds one.
The kills going back the other way to KDS enters in through mudroom gets a double kill and this is on all the way now
For face clan three for KDS and they've got everybody but Canadian
You can play a lot better at this event, but usually having Canadians your last alive is not particularly confidence inspiring
He was in arguably the least mechanically skilled of all the players on the rebellion
But again, it's not really his job to be a mechanically skilled guy
He gets beaten by souls and it's 4-0 for face clan. So
Let me back it up a bit here. Okay
Do you remember what I said about what we could predict map three of it?
Yeah, in case you need a reminder
If the rebellion can get three four rounds
Here on shall a that I think that number three is gonna be pretty competitive. Yeah
Faze Clan is three rounds away from winning 7-0. So I do kind of fear for the rebellion.
It's never a great sign or very rarely, let me correct myself, very rarely is it good when
you have to scrape by to win your map? 8-7. Yeah. It's very rarely confidence inspired.
But it wins a win. Nobody is gonna care that you won 8-7 if you end up winning this best
step 3 on that number one. Maybe you'll care. Maybe the coach will say. Maybe we'll get
in their fobby and S2 race because I don't care that we want you to do that.
But there is very little good here on the side of the rebellion. They have seven kills
through four completed rounds, averaging just under two kills around.
Yeah, and I mean that last round might have been the worst of all of them Parker. All
those deaths not even happening close to the bomb site, all towards games where much of
utility was not being set up so Shopify rebellion caught I think a little bit with their pants down
in that previous round which means FaZe Clan have just started to roll momentum into even more
momentum and that's never what you want going up against such a dangerous team like FaZe Clan.
They'll treat back to kitchen this was one of those bomb sites that they started the map with
they like to play on this site quite a bit. Running back to it now here in round number five could
Offer a bit of a chance to repeat some, some sight, maybe change things up.
Fix some mistakes, if you will, going into this one.
I like Vittaking on the ying-doh, Cyber on the blitz.
This is going to be a very annoying operator lineup to play up against in Shopify or Ballyam.
I'm not seeing a warden, so these flashbangs could be really devastating.
They have to rely on the magnets, and of course there's three of them.
And off the races is Cyber on blitz, a bit perplexing, and he throws it to Amaya Serp against the job done Serp.
Yet to find the kill, he's the only one on his team that's held off the spore sheet.
Cyber still in hot pursuit, pushing these players from the rebellion.
Death into Solarium, spoilt firing away.
Two kills for the sweep, KBS will gun down Rexon, that's top frag on rebellion.
Now Handy will try to follow, good targeting, but just missing out on Spoi, you scamper's
off, still just running away from Handy.
Canadian found by KDS and it's all up to Spoi, big willy, fighting against the Blitz.
Never gets slapped on that shield so hard, you lean IRL.
I am amazed at what Spoi was able to pull off there, but they were in pursuit for so
So long it was only a matter of time until they got him and get him.
They did 5-0 for FaZe Clan.
No help for the superstar.
He's trying to do everything that he can, but Spoit just cannot manage to find 5 kills
while also being tracked by the deathmark.
KDS, another multi-kill to come through.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe that is now 6 kills across the last two rounds from KDS, is finding a huge impact
on exploiting these gaps, finding out players
when they're focused on other distractions.
Both of those rounds actually, last one and this one,
most of the defenders are staring at a shield.
Most of the defenders are worried
about the big clunking machines,
scrambling through the map at them,
but it's really KDF has been the big threat,
nice final kill to come through there,
but in the end, there's just so much to look at,
there's so much to focus on,
and FaZe Clan have been so scary on Shelly.
big clunking machines they're not next Jesse they feel like them when cyber is the one doing it
you know he's the cyber cyber shield player before insertion there's cyber he's a cyber sportsman
there's something there something before insertion we can workshop it we will get there chat we'll get
back to you not three maybe we'll have something i mean hey we have a little audience participation
here we've got at least one intelligent person in twitch chat i'm sure they could come up with
something good. Alright let's be realistic. Zero KDS now. Seven kills across three rounds.
He's been unstoppable ever since that back time out frankly. Not sure if it was something
being said by the coach but he's been powered up the last 10 minutes. Yeah no kidding. Souls and
KDS have combined for 16 kills. Up to this point. 10 kills for the rebellion across the
the board again. Kills are the problem. FaZe Clan have been taking no prisoners on these
attacks, droning very effectively, and following up briskly. Chalets are relatively favorable
now to the attackers. As we said, there's only really one good bombsite for the defenders.
It just gets played so frequently. Servant's point where the kill appeases, but Vitteking
dies to some martyrdom as the grenade that had been, or served dies to the martyrdom
that was used by Vitteking. Souls get taken down cyber in the midst of the smoke on one
One HP, the user goes down and he does not make it out of the building.
I don't want to say too little too late because at any point in time it's good to get on the
board.
But the final round of the first half when the Rebellion should have won easily two more
rounds.
I don't know, FaZe Clan 5-1, they'll swap sides and things should get better for the
Brazilians from here on out.
Listen, you'll take the 5-1. Any day you'll take the 5-1, it's better than 6-0.
That one round can sometimes make a massive difference.
It was the score at the half, I believe, when FaZe Clan choked out their first SI Grand Finals, right?
So they know what it takes to lose from this position.
Also know what it takes to win. They've been around the block quite a few times.
I want to go back to Rexon on that previous round.
His play inside of library on the vert was absolutely exceptional.
getting that last kill on a cyber, of course, but was able to get it just as critical kill in the midst of that round on to Katie
Yes, through the verticality. A lot of those faceclam players were not so focused on the top floor hoping they could sneak a plant under the smokes
under the yings, under the shield. They had a lot that could get that plant down, but with a good anchor play from surf, some really nice vert play from Rex,
and it just didn't get the job done.
I've already used their time out and now they go on to the harder side.
Well, I mean, hey, that's harder side based on statistics.
That's not necessarily harder side based on practice here, Jesse.
And I mean, there are times where we will go to one of the most defender sided maps in
the game.
Say like back on clubhouse, there's over 60% of the rounds are being won by defenders.
And then a couple bands and some really bad defending teams with great attacking rates.
Go head to head.
while the attackers win 10 out of 12 rounds.
Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you this, Parker.
Faze Clan played six defenses yesterday on Chalet
against D plus Kia, and they went five and one,
and that doesn't sound so inspiring for
Shop Firebellion fans.
But six rounds is six rounds of odds.
Six rounds are six rounds of strats.
That's a lot of research that SR should have
on Faze Clan's defense coming into this game.
It was against Black Dragons, but I do hope
that there might be some way to shop for our belly and soot.
Look into their notes, look into their stats,
and be able to bounce back.
The opponent is Urella.
It was the fact that they played six rounds.
Yeah, it doesn't matter who they played against.
Wow, you know.
Now, do you believe in what you just said after we said that
basically they played ranked?
They ended up playing ranked, but I think at the start,
they were, it's not like they were just saying,
That's fun defaults is black dragon. This is still SI ended the day. I think they were playing their main strats
Cyberspawn peaked with a scorpion and he got the kill
He jumped down a bathroom actually as well. Well, he did both. He got the kill from bathroom
He did not get the kill
Got the kill when he jumped out. He did not get the kill when he spawned. They still play the scorpion
So that is his main strategy. Well, they saw how quickly FaZe could crack this egg. Well, what if SR does exactly the same?
It's quite already thrown at that ROU projector.
There was some...
Ambie's having a bad game.
Fair to say.
That is a bit of a shake that he's going to need to settle down
just a tiny, tiny bit.
I should settle him a bit.
I don't think that will help. I think that will make it worse.
It'll take the next couple minutes off at least.
Chobify Rebellion finally getting on the board.
spoit eliminating cybers we have the half way point in the round but the
scorpions again the sting from the scorpion tail after so hurtful KDS
gunning down serve and Canadian at least he's smiling we flicked to Canadian this
is almost turned into a comedy at this point yeah Canadian we flicked a
Canadian right as right as the last player died and Canadian literally leaned
back in his chair, put his head up, and then just started laughing like, what do you want
me to do?
A 6-1, 4-phase incoming, unless Troy Jaroslavsky can clutch out, and he could not.
Handy gets the final kill right as Canadian vaults into the library window, and one round
away from us, going to a break, and clubhouse.
And there's no thought in Troy's mind just sit on the roof and save his KD, because
his KD's unsavable anyways.
That's me.
He's a big bad native.
He's not on this team for his gate. He's on this team for for the brain and for the columns
Big brain Nadion big brain Nadion
They clamped down on the ability to do stuff like that because there was a period of time where I actually really enjoyed
Players would be on the outs. Mm-hmm. They would put super in that is so hurt
That is mean that's so mean don't say I'm mean when that's me
I
Back in the early days around the time of the Paris major at Lanex City all that jazz
Players when they were facing elimination would put super in front of their hand
So I super astro super live in Canadian would go with big bad. Nadian when he was on the outs. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm
It was cool stuff and the production was like you're not have that fun anymore
Yeah, I always think a big part of that change was
Gio would change you like all the time.
And you have the ridiculous names.
The worst part was that that was back when the UI was on the top of the screen,
and it would only share the first three letters of your name.
So Gio would go with like Sleepy Gio, and then his name would just show as S-L-E,
or he was Stem Poppy Gio, and it would just be S-E-N, and you're like,
who the hell is...
There's no way to know.
Your name is just the three letters. You can see your full name.
It was very amusing.
If you wonder why we're waffling, it's because FaZe is showing us a masterclass here on Chalet.
They toppled Black Dragon's 7-1 on this map yesterday.
And they're playing a little bit more freeform now that they've been able to run up the score.
Can't get too cute though. Handy, the first casualty. He died very early in the round, so out of four remaining players from FaZe,
gotta get a bit more aggressive and Solz will do that.
Rexon taken out by Main Door. That's the vigil of Solz, not roaming, but sitting inside the site.
Mm-hmm
Couple of players already. I mean exchanging those fights
We I think you take that trade ultimately just because any trade is takeable for Shopify rebellion with with handy going down
You just want to get some of these players off the board
And he's had such a good game so far seven three everybody I think you can say that for phase clan
They've extended a little bit above the bomb site and shop fire belly and they're actually going for a full master side
Over clear so they're gonna end up with a lot of map control very different to the approach that they were
of course, back on Night Haven Labs, opens them up potentially to a bit of a late round
plank if somebody does want to go for it, but I think if your phase can, you're kinda happy
just to wait until this round comes to a close.
Canadian on this sense is probably gonna be what you're focused on for the brunt of this
plant.
You can try to use that sending wall to maybe dodge past some of those library players and
get down the stairs, but ultimately it's going to be that verticality that has to be cleared
out if they're gonna play this objectively.
I was so confused there, we saw the Vector in hand and then we heard the Scorpion
and then it was like, what is it?
What is that sound?
Assembling outside of library, now the Grenade will go in,
flushing KDS off of his position, successfully done,
souls with three kills, shut down by Canadian.
Now Serpent Canadian will link up,
the Vita King and KDS as the two to fall.
A tail of two completely different players,
Vittacang with just a single kill,
through seven completed rounds, KDS with 10.
Surfing Canadian, not much better than what Vittacang has.
They're wandering upstairs, no time for drones,
though it does show the Canadians won in pocket.
He will take some time to go into discovery,
but he is running out of room, 30 seconds left.
Vittacang spotted, he'll be on the run
and will rotate over towards blue,
leaving KDS on the bomb site.
to defend against these players spot on.
Surfing Canadian from above.
Drop now in from Canadian.
Finally, E1D will go.
These two looking to get it so effectively.
But FaZe Clan put this one away.
An anticlimactic ending.
Chalet played twice by FaZe Clan over the last 24 hours,
and they have not lost more than two rounds combined.
That is an impressive tally.
And I suspect this map will move into permaband territory
against FaZe from here on out.
Shotfire Rebellion playing this map two times left way for hours two and have one or two rounds combined.
So maybe permanent territory for SR as well.
This series still has yet to be decided.
The buffer is still remaining.
So one more map will see us as we get to the start of the phase and Shotfire Rebellion.
I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, I'ma keep it going, so I ain't done that.
You'll watch this!
Change!
Nothing can!
Nothing can!
Nothing can!
Nothing can!
That was a serious lock in from FaZe to bring this series back and something we weren't talking
about inside of the series was the layers that we saw on that first half of the Chichini
gameplay.
And yes, sure, Shot of Fire Brilliant has so many, but FaZe has way more.
I mean, you stop playing other labs and you have one of the slowest games ever.
You go into Shalien suddenly.
Yeah.
In the round you see a lion running at you, a blitz, a demos, and that's faced for you.
A completely different play style.
They understood the entertainment, they understood they were not able to beat the entire rebellion
at the slow game, so they brought in the pace and the aggression and genre.
It seems to work.
And ultimately that's what makes FACE a world champion team, right?
It's the ability to play a slow, methodical, stretching, utility-based game on not having
labs, and then get to Charlie and play your shields, choose your players, play your oppressive
three, two, one, double swinging,
you know, a question coming out on that attack.
Having those different layers, those different styles,
those different identities,
but not just having them, being able to commit to them
and being in such sync.
And that's why FaZe just ran away with Shelly.
The map definitely lends itself to that change in style.
And I think Shopify were just not ready for that one as well.
Ouch, if is what I'm thinking,
when I'm looking at the right side of my screen right now,
we're seeing a head-to-head between the two players
that we expect to pop off inside this series.
so far in map 2 it seems like it's only KDS who's doing that.
Yeah, the two players supposed to be the entries and if you think about it,
if the pace has been the main difference maker in this match,
then the fragger should be at the forefront of that.
And in the results of pace versus should be Fire Rebellion on Shelly,
you see the two difference between the two fraggers.
KDS 11 and 4, 100% goes.
You look at ambi, you know, divided by 4.
It's been a real struggle for him.
Yeah, and I will just say, I absolutely love the operator selection that KDS brings.
I love the fact that he plays so much strike.
that offer is so versatile, obviously you can use it as a utility based off whatever you can also just use it as a pure entry. You can burn anything, you know, with the flashes for the, you know, Jager's one, my is a Rooney Gates, anything like that. And then you have the names as well.
Now the question is, what do these two teams need to show us on a map like clubhouse, which is completely different than the first two ones in this series to make sure they secure the most money.
the way that the team is
going to be able to get
the ball. Well, there's a
train of thought that
actually if you're a shop
fire, a brilliant fan is
that you're thinking right.
Shallie is not over that style
of Mark is now over. We go on
to clubhouse where even if a
team brings more pace, it can
be managed because all of the
attacks and all the defenses
of clubhouse are so well
fought out structured and
known at this point that they
can't be surprised. So real
specifically for them. I think
it's just about writing off
about to and getting back to
what works them on my here in
maps. At the same time, I think
way that face could look into clubhouse. The idea is if we play slow and methodical in clubhouse like
we should and we see that should be fairwell in his gaining advantage and momentum again,
let's try to be disruptive again. Let's change the pace, let's bring unusual operators and
they won't know how to adapt. I like how we get a bit for both these teams here. The question is
though, who really can make it happen? The final map clubhouse is ready. All right, Justy, what happens
here in this final and third map do the rebellion manage to screw their heads back on after
that quick chalet or does FaZe Clan put them and even maybe us out of our misery?
What the fine now Parker Clubhouse is scary map, but FaZe and Shopify they're ready for
it.
I was going to say Parker in the history of the six invitational only one player has
has competed at every single event since the game's inception.
Can Canadian, the most experienced player in the world,
lead his team to bounce back against FaZe Clan
after a brutal 7-1 loss on map number two?
The deaths seemed to think there was hope
with a change of playstyle.
With this map, I would say,
leaning more towards the playstyle of Nighthaven
than the one of Chalet.
Maybe we can see SR pull themselves back together,
get themselves back on track, slow the game down to beat FaZe Clan, but it's really going
to be dependent on how FaZe want to start off on these attacks.
There is a pause that has come in. Not sure why. You saw both Rex and Surf were calling
for it right away. It looked like the admin was talking to them. Curious what the reason
for that is. They are... I'm getting some word. Apparently there is a bit of a disruption
on who starts on what side, so they're going to get that figured out, and then we'll either
resume or remake based on what they determine.
Right now we have FaZe on the attack, which is why I said FaZe are on their attacks, but
we'll see if that does hold.
Wait, Admin confirmation here?
And I believe we're switching it up.
I imagine so.
So with FaZe Clan moving back over to the defense, I would honestly say that that gives
anyone a particular advantage in this map, Parker, but I think it's going to make this
a little bit less clear how the game is going to go because I'm most worried about what
FaZe Clan's attacks look like.
I think if Shopify Rebellion cannot find some way to slow down these FaZe Clan attacks,
cannot find some way to make this map look more like Nighthaven than it did like Chalet,
that's going to be where the danger comes.
And we're not going to see FaZe Clan's attacks until at least, well, until definitely round
seven with them starting on the defense.
So you're going to have to wait and see exactly how this one goes through.
But if we do get to see FaZe Clan off on those attacks, whether it's the first half or the
second, and they can keep the pace up, as Leo said on the desk, I worry for the North
Americans.
What he's trying to hear what Rexon was saying is they've all been talking.
There are technically rules about not talking during a tech pause, but this is considered
a rehost, so I don't know if those same rules apply, Jesse.
Chalde is the most played map.
We just saw it on our screens.
Well, Clubhouse is second.
It's an 84 rounds play, trailing Clubhouse by three rounds.
Clubhouse right now is the second most defender-sided map after Kaffee Dostoevsky, but we've seen
very little Kaffee Dostoevsky.
So, obviously smaller sample sizes will skew the numbers because if you only have a map
played once, for example, and let's say it's a 7-0 and you start as a defender, you go
6-0 as a defender and then lose one attack, they win as a defender and then you win it
as an attack.
Like I said, just skew those numbers.
Here on Clubhouse, we have seen a single bar stage.
was won one time by the attackers. Shout out those of you in chat that can name the team
that went there. Beyond that, it's just the three usual bomb sites. They've been taking
up most of the oxygen in the room. Obviously, the basement bomb site is the most played.
That is as normal as can be. And we referenced this in our matchup earlier today that we
did when we saw Clubhouse. That's CCTV cash bomb site is approaching a 70% win rate for
the defenders eating up so much of the time and energy from these teams, the other bombsites
have swung towards the defenders as well. There is really no good attacker bombsite
on this map. So Shopify Rebellion starting attack will certainly have their work cut
out for them early.
Yeah, and it's interesting as well, just talking about Clubhouse as a map that FaZe Clan got
both Chalet and Club in this best of three series because those were the two maps where
they beat Black Dragons yesterday. And because that game was so quick, there's not a ton
of footage there will be some but there's not a crazy amount of footage for SR to go back and
Voderview. It also means for FaZe Clan going deeper into this group stage and especially
if they can get a deep run into the playoffs which FaZe Clan they almost certainly will
we're going to get this they're going to hide some strats before they on some other map before
they have to show them off in those later best agrees so FaZe have really done themselves a
bit of a nice deed for the future playing the same two maps across both their first and second
playday meaning they have plenty of maps hidden up their sleeve for the rest of the events.
Yeah I mean there is something to be said about efficiency right? If you're winning all your games
2-0 and pretty quickly 2-0 I know that I made a joke about it when you referenced it on Chalet
in the previous map that oh you know they would when you said oh well they've got they've got
vods on them and I'm like yeah but if they're running around like a bunch of chickens with their
head cut off you know you're not really gaining a lot from those vods. Uh-huh. But it really is
true if you are only playing eight nine ten rounds on two maps in every single one of your series
it will be much harder for your opponents to counter-strat you even if they do counter-strat
you the level of success you can find in dealing with that is far from guaranteed
Seth super their coach literally said guys they're doing everything that he said they would do yeah
And yet, it was a 7-1 victory for FaZe Clan. The Rebellion knew what was going to happen, and there's no way to prevent it.
Well, it's a full anchor to start things off for FaZe, so we're not speeding things up on the defensive side, that's for sure.
They've got five guys still stuck in the basement, and there might be some meat-jammer's tossed around that top or middle floor.
That can sometimes be a strategy that teams use just to try to fake like there might be a roam, force them to try to go for some more committed roam clears,
and that's exactly what we are seeing, Canadian,
pre-firing nothing at all, because you don't know what's clear.
You can't exactly drone it out with those mute jammers
being placed where they are.
So a nice tactic from FaZe Clan,
hoping to slow down this roam clear as much as they can,
but shop Firebellion at about the 90 second mark now
are realizing for sure there's no roamers
that we can just focus on this time.
And this goes back to what gets set off
to the receipt clubhouse on the map, right?
It's that, we're on the board.
When you see clubhouse, you know it's gonna take
a minute and 32 minutes to drone out.
If there's no one in Roman.
Yeah, now, of course, on these bottom floor bottom site,
there's a lot of ways you can go about it.
Some teams can extend to just a main floor realm.
Some will just play heavily upstairs.
And then if they don't get picked off,
they can fall back to the site really effectively.
It's really just comes down to a matter of preference.
Cyber getting killed by a spoid is an interesting start
to this map.
Yeah, it tries to push up the main stairs.
It tries to get cheeky with it.
Maybe that's the speed that they're
trying to incorporate into this game.
but ultimately doesn't pay off for FaZe Clan.
The breaching also going very well
for the North American team.
They get the church wall.
They get the kitchen hatch at the same time
as you saw in that picture and picture.
So lots of angles opened up for Shopify Rebellion
for the final 40 seconds.
And credit to Shopify Rebellion for looking more confident
on this attack than at any point they did on Shelling.
This is a big difference in how they approach this map.
They are gonna run head first into this FaZe Clan team.
Limited time remaining.
Canadian holding that case.
Andy will now drop and go through Modo. Canadian is in the exact same spot.
KDS gunning down Rexon. Church has not been flushed out.
Nathan go off surf on the board. He joins Spoitzkill.
That's Spoit now gunned down by Vinikin.
Andy charging his way through Modo, but he gets gunned away at.
He takes one down and it's all up to Vinikin.
Andy's surfing Canadian, or they're Canadian with the fuse kit.
Very limited HP. Vinikin, no gas canisters remaining.
Maybe he takes Ambi down, but Surf shuts this down and the Rebellion start off with a win in round one.
Scary first round though. If Vidickeen had found the head of Canadian, we were on triple zero.
That would have been a defensive round win, even without finding every frag.
But in the end, it's good push coming through from Shopify Rebellion.
The core of that push, of course, Canadian plus Ambi plus Surf, those were the guys pushing Moto and pushing through Main Stairs.
They also had Spoilett on the kitchen hatch and Wrexen pushing in through Blue.
Didn't maybe find too many kills in that execute, but we're able to distract enough for those main pushers on Shopify Rebellion to get that space, get into a plant position, and get the kills that they needed to protect that plant, really nicely played by SR.
The player that I'm going to be watching the most this game is a player whose game came up a few times in map 1 and map 2, but not necessarily for the same reason across those.
That's gonna be Ambi.
Ambi enters as the lowest rated player in this lobby.
Now, if Ambi was playing hard support,
probably wouldn't even really be worth talking about
more than just the casual mention.
Yeah.
But Ambi is the guy who should be carrying your team
quite blank.
He is consistently one of the best performing players
on the Rebellion, and yet today he has had
a really rough game.
I don't know why, I'm not gonna begin to speculate why.
We saw he had some very obvious struggles
aiming his weapon. Yeah. Chalet. Maybe it's nerves, maybe it's fatigue. You never really know,
but you're going to need more out of them to keep up with the team-like phase. We can certainly
say it's not arthritis because for the last two years Andy has been the youngest player at the
Sixth Invitational. This year that crown was finally stolen by Stompin, so he is no longer
the youngest player, but being 19 years old and already competing at your third Invitational is
a pretty ridiculous beat. He entered today with a plus 42 KD across all of his 6th invitational
games as well. So we're used to see him popping off and being the main fragger on the team.
Just hasn't really come to fruition yet. And I mean, it's partially that ambi
might be having some issues, but you also have to credit this phase team for sure phase consistently
makes top fraggers look weak. That's just the way they play. They're often stifling their role
having to match up against guys like CYBER, like KDS, like souls, consistently,
who can easily kill you without a second thought.
It's tough opposition, and I mean,
if you've got a great gunner and you just cannot deal with the aggression on their side,
oh, I think I did it again, Jesse.
Last time I talked to him, he was reporting he was okay.
Ambie starting off this round with a pick.
Ambie is gone, and Shopify Rebellion get the opening pick.
call out the caster of bless and it really has been ambi spoiling radian
focused on this garage side of the map he got that takeover towards customs as
a lot of the team were focused on the rafters player we see that position has
been given up for free now by phase clan KDS and viddicking are the only ones
still lurking around cash and top red how long they want to stay here is really
going to determine what this defense looks like for us around they've got
face plan on the run holding off over towards CCTV and cash that's the beach
head that's usually established to reinforce that CCTV wall, acquire the attackers to waste
time in utility to cut right through it before they can get to the bomb site. Perfect use
of that time for FaZe Clan watching the clock, using the utility to their disposal and then
oh my goodness, getting out of there. The Sol's life. Canadian becomes Canadian on that one.
Sol still survives and Nassiver gets on the board as well. Finally, Sol's is punished
by Rexon, but Canadian having some issues. I think he hit the gun. The gun is on a hip hop.
You can light up the weapon as much as you want, but that is an unfortunate situation.
And it's left Shavapai Rebellion in a bit of a hole with only 30 seconds to go.
A hole they are unlikely to climb out of. Now Jesse, as Rexon is all alone with
spoits death happening moments ago. Pretty unwinnable from Richie. We'll see what
he can do outside the building. Jumps in, he is, and the crossfire knows it now.
KDS hits the final shot to make this one go the way of FaZe.
Tyusup at one. You really go back to that gym bedroom plant.
Everything was looking quite good for Shopify Rebellion, but not being able to get the kill onto the Azami makes a gym plant just impossible with Canadian going down.
It becomes really tricky.
You need a spotter when Canadians in the gym, I guess, and they just didn't have one.
That was a joke. A spotter is somebody who helps you when you're trying to lift weight.
Parker, I've never been to a gym. How would I know that?
I didn't need confirmation, but I had suspicious.
Yeah.
Okay, I will say when you see it in slow motion, it does kind of look like he should have hit
him a couple times.
I will give a little bit more credit and grace to Canadian than maybe my initial giggle,
warranted.
Honestly, like I was really impressed by Solz. The fact that he knows I'm being fired out by Capitão,
I've got to go to the other corner where the window can't see me, then gets that kill,
then gets the second frag on the Jacuzzi player. I mean, that was a really impressive play by the Azami.
And I'm sure that he gets an intel with that Jacuzzi for each, but it's very easy to just stay posted up and watch that wall,
or watch that window because usually there's somebody else out there in that position.
Instead he gets fed info that even with the Azanibari, the Azanibari, the Keebibari, on the main door,
he pivots over, gets the pick, and it is, oh, so important for him and his team.
Now, the most defender-sided boss site on this entire map unfolds in front of our eyes, casts ECTV upstairs,
and I suspect this will be a garage push. They were answering to shoot away at those garage panels, quite a heavy investment from KDS.
A very default setup here with the Keeper Barriers being used for protection.
The ADS is hoised to eat up whatever's thrown or shot in that direction.
KDS will sit and govern over it.
Hoist is going to try to use these smokes with the glass to get that pick onto KDS.
He's hoping to just smoke himself in the doorway, peek out, and then pray that he gets swung by KDS.
There will be some tapas households at the same time to try to force the movements.
Here it comes out now.
I mean, as long as you can slowly move this blast, you can do some serious damage,
and exploit us out of some struggles.
KDS is watching the fire around him, and he has to reposition.
He manages to get away because of the coverage from his teammates.
Handy, the first kill, as Handy drops.
Handy is taking quite a bit of damage.
Handy, the first casualty yet again.
That's not the player that you want to be losing time and time again, especially on
the utility heavy striker that likely brought some explosions or flashes or something.
That could have been used a great effect for the Rebellion.
Surface begging to get a kill on KDS, so low HP already.
They were used all their capital bullets, they've really shortlisted clear him out of this spot.
He's playing so past it now that he just walked in bottom garage, but all eyes are on KDS right now.
He has lived, he's just lasted for so long Jesse, living much longer than many would have suspected.
KDS and Handy very limited on HP, KDS is punished for it, Handy is still low on HP, but he can persist over towards blue.
Vidikin will join him on just a sliver of HP.
We will get the Erune on the run.
Souls and Cyber still at full HP.
Well, Cyber actually knows taking a bit of damage too now.
So it's just all up to Souls.
As you can see on the side of the rebellion, they've taken a beating.
Spoight is barely alive.
Rexham has lost about a fifth of his HP.
Give or take.
Maybe he's gonna make it to the site.
He's still bought a garage park or a bit of a journey to make it up there.
He'll have time, but not a whole lot.
He's going over to platform to play with his teammates.
Three players on shop by rebellion,
all rocking that new GMR.
The only one not using it is the glass.
Oh my, we'll bring a very different weapon to this fight
as he looks to jiggle peek around.
Souls is that one right up handy yet another.
Souls in this position, fisting for a third, can't land it.
Starts rushing in with very limited time
and he knows that he has to stick the plant
Pass from down below, Vitteking will do the job.
All credit goes to Souls there in his position.
Surf was in this spot where you just got to stick it.
If you don't, you lose the round either way.
Face Clan, take the lead.
Really nice little stall there coming up from Face Clan.
It felt like Shopify or Belling just had wasted all their utility.
And I'm not too early because you do want to use it
on the Raptors position, don't get me wrong.
But it took so long to find the kill onto KDS.
Then Canadian from bottom garage rotated all the way out the door, up the platform, time was really, really low,
and they had no more smokes to go for that execute. The Capitow Bolts were completely out,
the Glaz had no smokes to try to play with some garbage angles that you can't fight back against.
All of the utility from Shopify had been used before the execute, just trying to get that rafter's position.
So despite having the numbers advanced from Shopify, the angles were better from FaZe Clan, the time was better for FaZe Clan,
And they were able to just catch SR if they were running into sight.
WAAAVUKARAN!
WAAAVUKARAN!
I was hoping we'd hear it three times.
It sounded like he was yelling across, like, Leia's trash-talking shop by rebellion.
I'm quite certain none of their players speak Portuguese though, so...
It would not be immensely affected by that.
But sometimes it could just boost your own taste more, you know? Why not?
Yeah, I mean let off some energy, let off some pressure, if you had a particularly tense round, why not, right?
But, no, I mean, one reason I do need to ask is, is why did it take so long for Spoyt to get a position in Raptor?
I mean, you used the glass to good effect, a tiny utility was done to relinquish the base clan of their hold on that part of the map,
but then it honestly felt like Spoyt was a bit of an afterthought in that position.
When you've got the breach open, that glass can hold a pretty decent cross,
It's really good that Solz is getting this information that there are players pressuring
dirt early because it says that hey there might be a fast push that is ignoring our
roam game unlike on round number one face might have opted for a very aggressive strategy
where they put the vidicking on the top floor KDS roaming on that scope post even cyber
still on that main floor they've drawn it back a little bit but I doubt this roam will
ever be fully gone unless SR come in and clear it themselves if committed to playing this
more aggressively if souls does get cleaned up inside of dirt tunnel that could open up
But big dad, but Seoul doesn't give up his life easily.
He knows how important it is for him to stay alive in that spot.
Staying alive.
A good song by the Bee Gees, but an even greater motto
than his being practiced.
Oh, so effectively by Seoul, still persisting in this position
down in Dirt Town popped one of those Goyo canisters.
20 seconds is what it buys you.
Speaking of the Goyo.
Oh.
They don't really have map control, Parker.
They've got a little bit of kitchen control
Andy and Raxner are working their way down blue as we speak, so this is kind of what the push is looking like, but there's not a ton of options.
His voice is going to drop. What back control do you need? Have you got the element of surprise? But Andy is not surprised in the slightest.
Two kills in his hands, souls with one as well playing inside dirt.
Andy and Canadian will then start racking up the kills. The Black Fear of Canadian gets one, but he's got a lot more to do.
Souls have been dropped in Canadian will have to maneuver his way over there
But a crossfire is established and handy gets a third kill for his trouble
It's surrendered control of that diffuse kit underneath the kitchen hatch as it was a dead drop from Shopify rebellion that goes
nowhere phase clan
Really not showing many weaknesses on this map either big S our word
We're hoping for something I think the biggest thing for these last two rounds is just pay attention at the time because in my opinion
We're self-stalling out a lot that round is a bit different, but I also think we could have called to just rotate off way quicker
Right, we can pull we can pull and move around the map
Right, I think we just need to trust what we're doing and commit to it right?
So if we want to clear a gym over here, we just commit to doing it
We just need to be quick about it because a lot of this is our mid-round
We're sitting there thinking about what to do when to be honest. We already know what to do
Right like let's get get to where we need to be
Say what you need. Let's get decisive. Let's start doing it guys. We've got two attacks here
Let's get some on the board, right? Stop playing against ourselves. We're playing against them teamwork. Count shit down play together
Okay, let's fucking go
Self-stalling I think the key phrase uttered by super in that talk time out and it's something that we've definitely been seeing
In short barbell in the last couple of rounds
I talked about it when that CC round came through but how they took a long time to rotate from garage up over towards the platform
And then he's talking about Dirk Tunnel there as well when he says we could have called to rotate off a little bit earlier
He's absolutely right. They took a long time staring at dirt
They were hoping that that would be an easy entry point given how much face had committed to the roam game
But there were go-yo canisters and a few canisters and so much denial that they had to eventually decide listen
This is not going to be our way into sight
They didn't end up with a very good plan B because they committed so late to falling off of Dirk Tunnel
They hot-dropped them through kitchen and I mean
Nade's twin brother makes quick work of them dropping, so really good round for the base plan.
Not having to do too much in the midst of it, it is really Shopify beating themselves right now.
Go all the way back to 9h even last all 15 rounds, obviously needed for Shopify to win their own map.
When we watch them, we often part on how weak they were through that mid round and especially the late round.
To back up our point and reference the fact that out of the 15 rounds played 12 of those rounds
It was SR to get the opening pick. Now things get a lot worse on Chalet
There was very little good before SR on Chalet, but to their credit they did drop a lot three times before phase
Here on Clubhouse it's been 15-15. Four active or four rounds played were in the fifth active round and in that
Job of Fire Rebellion got the opening pickin' rounds one and two, and they won one of those rounds, but then dropped the second.
So I'm glad that Super has said something that we have been pointing out for all three maps.
The mid-round, what comes after you get the first volley of kills, or just the first kill period.
That's been the big issue for SR.
Very different hold from FaZe Clan.
to go back to gym bedroom. This time it includes a clash being rocked by souls.
He's positioned himself towards the construction side of the map and I think
the big difference between this round and the last time we were hearing round two
is just how little is being committed to that cash side. Last time they had a
rafters player, they had that opening depth to ambit down inside of customs.
They were really focused on the eastern side of the map. This time while they did start there,
they reinforced the cash walls. They've fallen off very early. They've kept all five players alive
as they retreat back through construction.
Honestly, at about the 60 second mark in this round,
it did not take them very long to concede that ground.
So Shopify Rebellion will take that space,
and the inspoid will maintain their positions over there.
And now they can start to work towards the site,
but there are a lot of players that they have to find.
There's not a whole lot of space that they could beat.
Swapped around, which players are playing which operators,
but it's still a pretty similar operator lineup
That's being used by this SR team.
RAPERO COMPROMISE!
Flush out some of these defender gadgets.
Rexon takes quite a beating as he's used all of his ex-kairos,
and even if he does die, his job of opening himself as a hard breacher has been handled.
It would have been pretty bad for this Shopify rebellion team for losing that hard breacher.
If the BOT 6 is used to great effect, they blow it up, and what?!
KDS with a triple kill from a single nitro cell, but immediately the Rebellion turned it back on its head.
Ambien surf managing to narrow these numbers down back to a 2v2, back to even footing.
He'll flash on in.
Wilmaia's cyber will now need to corner Pete, but it's surf all on his lonesome.
Working his way through weight room, but he's having some trouble.
He'll reposition.
Ten seconds remaining.
He has a good vantage point, spraying through the wall.
Now he'll try for another plant running out of time.
And Cydor will just play the clock with Shotgun in hand,
pass the point and he'll return.
And Surf will not give him the benefit of a kill.
I can't believe that three kills with a single Nitro,
that is absurd.
Parker, that was such a cool round
to come through from faceclan.
I mean, on all levels, there were different
back and forths about that, right?
We saw, and immediately, the Azami ban
makes it a lot easier to plant inside a gym, right?
You ban up that Izami, so you don't have to use the Capitao.
You can get that spot a lot better.
So it says I'm going to cut the Clash,
and it's a really neat adaptation.
He says, if I can play behind my Clash shield,
as long as I'm not holding it,
I can safely see when you jump in the window.
I can stop you from planting inside a gym.
It's great.
Right up until the shield dies,
and when the shield gets blown up,
the Hutzpals is in big trouble, immediately dies,
but then, of course, KDS uses it as an opportunity
to toss the Nitro out.
He gets that denial off, gets three kills as we saw it, because they're all grouped up on it, right?
One guy had to shoot the clash, one guy had to shoot the gone six, a third guy is just there for the vibes.
It's all three of them with the single Nitro, and then for FaZe Clan, they can just play passive, play Steg and you know that you're in the advantage point at that spot.
Hit some really nice shots from Shopify Rebellion, surfing that 1v1 against Siebra, he tries to go over the plans.
I think if he goes for the kill he might have slightly better chance there, but I mean cyber's got a shock on close range
There's really no win that situation cyber played it perfectly
So if needed a mistake, and he didn't get it
Sir found himself in a nearly
Unlinable situation, but a great read on the Valkyrie was terrific enough in its own right
Start having a very good game seven kills leading the rebellion the rest of rebellion eight kills
across those four players so sir the heatsink for kills at this point in time
final round of the first half Jesse Faiz have won it they've got four rounds of
five runs is definitely possible and honestly could be bordering on probable
territory with the way that Faiz has played so far we'll see I think with
the Azami ban rafters should be a lot easier to clear out for shop of fire
rebellion Katie S is playing up there but that's why he's getting aggressive
loses the opening dual display that's a nice shot from Willie to give the man a
advantage over to Shopify rebellion makes it again very difficult to hold on to this
Raptors position. Sure you've got ADSS, sure you've got the Suria Gates, but in the end
they have enough burn on Shopify to clear this.
I don't know if Andy needed to do that Swing, but I mean why not if you're feeling pretty
good about yourself and go for it. The thing is is that the rebellion are not playing poorly.
They're not doing really badly.
It's just FaZe are in a world of their own
at this point in time.
There are shadows giving the position away yet again.
Cyber has to take a bit of damage
to work his way through to stock.
Canadian guys, that's really quite unideal
for the Rebellion and as you can see,
it's the full-court press from FaZe Clan.
They are engaging through doorways,
through walls, through windows.
Shopify Rebellion has struggled to take up space
inside of the map because FaZe Clan
not even allowing them in the building.
Favre playing strats you can only do when you have some of the best gunners in the world.
Cyber in lounge, the swing from handy, even Skulls who play aggressive on the billiards window
earlier in this round.
Chopfire Belling cannot find a way past it.
Finally, Circe gets the trade, but you're less than 60 seconds to go Parker.
You have knocked Fearhote Raptors, which I claimed would be easy.
The Maid Breach is open, at the very least you've got that,
and Voight is still filled with two Candelas.
They need to get value out of this utility.
And guess what he could see in his position? The shadow.
He could see the shadow of Ying.
Big Y KDS! No sprays away!
They've got that bulletproof camera giving him intel.
Is he's being hunted down in that position?
Juggling around, waiting for the right call.
Ambi's the lone survivor with two players from FaZe Clan to deal with.
Not a lot of time to work through this.
Maybe looking to go positive right now, still battling his own demons.
He's recovered pretty well from Chalet, but it's FaZe doing FaZe things,
and Solz loves that perch inside of Cache 5-1, the first half for the defending world champs.
It just feels like everything Shopify and Bellion want to do, FaZe are one step ahead.
Yep.
I mean, they know exactly what to do when the Azami gets banned.
They've planned for that.
They've got backup strategies on how to play that.
on gym, that means playing the clash on season to be cash.
That means getting hyper aggressive with Romers
and billiards, with Romers in lounge,
with big swings on garage.
They know when they need to play aggro.
They know when they can rein things in.
If your utility's not good enough, that's okay.
They'll find another way to win the round,
just an impossible team to attack against.
And they go up five one through this half
on the deciding map.
The scoreline obviously looks a lot more like map two
than map one Parker.
but I really feel like the level of game that we're seeing feels more like map 1.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I get kind of worried for just the competitiveness of this game, and there we go.
We see the highlights from this position.
This one was quite spectacular.
Yeah.
He would like...
You can't even hardly see him. He's a blur.
I'm eager to see how FaZe tackles these next two games of theirs, because not that I don't
have the utmost confidence in Shopify Rebellion, but I mean we walked into this group thinking
okay FaZe is probably going to be the Titan that emerges first, but Shopify Rebellion
looked pretty good, G2 probably fixed their issues.
I think after the hot start taking down G2 at the very first playday, Shopify Rebellion
and we'll be heading into their off-date tomorrow,
not feeling so great.
I mean, I think they played a lot better today than yesterday.
Nobody's going to deny that.
But U-plus-Kia with one of the more beatable teams
in this group, BT2, FaZe Clan were probably not going to be one
that were ever going to be a simple task,
though I'm sure they believe they could do it.
Last playday, they'll play Black Dragons.
You have to imagine they'll be the favorites in that one.
But even still, you never like going into that final playday
in a bottom spot where they very well could be.
I mean it is a good time to get a bit of a reprieve if you've got some issues you can work through those on-your-off day.
True.
A reminder for those that have not heard us say this yet or rather new information,
or a reminder for those that have heard us and have forgotten,
a victory here by Phase Clan.
Didn't matter if they did it in two maps or three maps.
Guarantees that both Phase Clan and D plus Kia will move on to Phase 2.
They will avoid elimination here in the very first set of groups.
At SI, four teams will go home.
We already know one of those teams is Elevate.
We're waiting on who the next three will be.
At this current point in time,
Black Dragons are at the bottom of this group.
If you're Shopify Rebellion,
that is your last chance to pick up points.
That is your final opponent.
Once this baseclam match is done,
SR have a day off and then Black Dragons
to wrap up the groups.
You just have to not be last.
Right now, BD is sitting in that situation.
Spoiled in a rough go of it,
he was eliminated pretty early on in this round.
Since then, nothing much else Jesse was hurt.
KDS loves this nookies.
It's the second time he's brought it out so far in this series.
And of course, with that new DMR, it hits like a truck.
Keep it silent so that you can try to maintain
some level of stealth.
And KDS has done a great job at pressuring these roamers.
We did also see Rexon was roaming very nearby
to spoil inside of customs, but decided to take the drop.
Decided he didn't want to maintain that spot.
Instead, he'll just retreat back to site confident in this 4v5,
hoping that FaZe will waste their own time, much like SR did, and not have the utility to go for this final push.
Jesse, 6-1 for FaZe Clan, series point.
I mean, what can you do?
The early game is great from FaZe Clan.
They're able to spot up those roamers.
They know exactly when things fall back.
They time things so well.
They've got an extra 45 seconds to spare in that round.
You said it, they dropped pretty early,
but they had everything they need.
They had the map control, the hatches were open.
They were ready with their Candelas,
Vidicang, great job dodging that nitro cell.
Could have been a very different round
if he goes down in the midst of that two rex and but instead
side steps it lives on a sliver of HP then downs the mirror right after
canadian doesn't get a whole lot done dies to handy as he's pushing through
parts of this map as well pressure towards blue pressure towards dirt it
just looks like a really clean push from phase clan and Shopify rebellion in
danger of going down 7-1 for the fourth time in two days
Not good. Not good.
On the other side, this, if they do win 7-1, this will be FaZe Clan's 4-7-1 victory in 5 mats, Jesse. Sorry.
Third time in 2 days. They did lose 7-4 to D plus D on Lyra.
Speed chat. I defer numbers to Jesse all the time because he's a number halogist.
I caught it. He did catch it.
So when Jesse says, is it this number I always go,
sure, Jesse, sometimes I miss things too.
You know what, every morning I wake up
and I say to myself, I trust Jesse's numbers,
and then I have a nice big cup of Folgers
and just enjoy my day, you know?
You love this thing, you really do.
It's becoming a thing.
Folgers is such awful coffee.
And when we were discussing the bit afterwards,
Jesse's like, you kept saying Folgers,
and I wanted to be like, Folgers is bad.
And I was like, that's the point.
Yeah.
The point is, is that I think it's good.
or at least the joke thinks it's good.
But now, can you imagine,
FaZe Clan wins this 7-1.
It will be their fourth 7-1 victory in five maps.
The only map that they dropped
was literally as close as it could possibly be
a 7-8 loss to Shopify Rebellion on the Rebellion's map.
FaZe are in full form, Parker.
They look absolutely unbeatable,
hoping to be the second team in history
to go back-to-back in six-invitational victories
force after G2 in 2019. This would be a big moment for them. They're still early in their journey.
They're still early in this round relatively. They cleared through the eastern part of the map.
Cash is under their control as is CCTV. Construction is being worked on and we still hold it with some
key barriers. Canadian on the clash has fallen off all the way back to site. Jakuzzi remains
closed with just the mirror window not seeing any pressure on Lodgy just yet either. So for
or phase clan just really working to calm him down.
And he dies, and that might be the start of the end
for Shopify Rebellion here in this series.
If so, it's been a very valiant effort
but phase are just phase clan.
And I hope that people don't take away from this
that Shopify Rebellion are not a fantastic,
just how utterly and absurdly dominant this phase team is.
Through these five maps that we've seen,
there really hasn't been an Achilles heel.
There's been no weakness from FaZe Clan.
Even their matchup in map 1 against SR, they didn't really have any weaknesses.
They just got beat by a team that knows the map even better.
Vitaking managed to pull the diffuser down, successfully 9 players still alive with the objective planted.
KDS removing Wrexon's head, looking for another.
Vitaking remaining and Starf Canadian is gone, and it's all up to Willi.
A flawlessly won final round and a 4-7-1 victory for FaZe Clan.
Who is going to take this team down? What does it take?
It just looks like an unduable task. FaZe Clan's so strong early at this
invidational, vitticking for the fifth time in his career, taking down
Canadian a 5-0 record now in the battle of the IGLs.
Chop, Firebellion, get tomorrow off. They can take some time to review these
last couple days of matches but you have to imagine they'll be back on a fire
under their asses. If they're not, it could be going home.
And FaZe Clan about to place the spot in FaZe 2 alongside D plus Kia, who happens to be their opponent tomorrow.
An incredible game for both these teams but oh my goodness, doesn't FaZe look good.
Jeffy, that's quite the match.
It absolutely is Parker but I think that's about it for us.
We've got Studio ready to break this game down and interview with our winners.
different light for me and the shopper firebellion was actually able to get up to phase
Yeah, take them to 15 rounds and what was a man I was gonna say I can even blend should be fire
brilliant I think that they pay decent they play to their level I think it's just that face somehow
is just above and beyond every single point every single point in the round they will find
a way somehow to bring it back even when it's closed it's always going to go their way yeah
it's impressive out there ability to close rounds and I think there's two things for me well you've
just mentioned the ability to close rounds I think there's the two things for me is the strategic
the ability to play very
differing styles and do it with
such conviction and coordination.
And then the second bit is the reactions.
Their reactions in the round seem to be perfect
every single time. And I don't know if that's
down to their preset theory, their coach
Raphael, or whoever it's down to Peter King as well.
But all of them just seems to be so
in sync on everything.
It feels almost as if we're
tying them up for a back to back
header at this point. The way that
we're seeing this face compete so far inside
they look really dominant, we talked about their stats. I mean, the 100% attack win rate is no longer there, but still so dominant from this roster as a whole.
And it changes the group even more. I mean, the fact that Shufflefire Billion got a map and therefore a point might actually be huge.
Yeah, I actually think in hindsight, you know, it's obviously going to hurt for those guys right now, the fact that they've lost the best of three, but the fact that they did get a map, the fact that they did get a point in the context of this group will just keep them plodding along.
I mean, you see the group tables, group standings here, it keeps them in contention with now
D plus Q and G2 for probably that second spot with the way FaZe are playing, let's be honest.
And for me, it's also the way it took to take that point, let's be honest, like it took for
them to get the best level possible on their map to take it all the way through the time
and manage to win that map. And that point was so very hard to get. It's incomparable,
the level of the two teams right now. And I gotta say, like FaZe, I mean, priced by the longevity.
If you think about all the way the Yabla Major, of Cyber, of Souls 1, there, then all the way to 2024,
the level that they showed in the SI Grand Final, despite losing it, they come back, they win Boston.
We're one year later, and they're still one of the top teams in the world.
Right now, maybe, the most dominating team at the tournament, it's just impressive to see.
Which is wild, because if you think about it, right, Virtus.Pro now having gone rid of some of their players,
this is probably by far the longest-standing roster we have inside the ecosystem of Rainbow 6C's esports.
That's quite wild, the thing that they're still so successful, so long after forming together as a team.
But we have the interview ready with Vita King as Maria speaking to him.
Taking? It's better? Yeah.
Well, after the first map we thought, okay, we have a tough game, but you still managed to pull a 7-1, 7-1.
How did you make to look so effortless?
our hand, which was where we had planted it, I think it was to be a quiet map, it ended up being
very difficult, but I think our team was very hard, so we were already with the head better
for the other maps and did what we could.
We threw some rounds in the first map, it should be easier for us, but we have a lot of experience,
so we were prepared to the next two maps and we actually saw that. Also, something that we also
saw is that you played the same two maps of yesterday. Are you trying to hide the other
maps for later on the tournament?
So they are leaving the maps that we have the comfort of playing and we will continue playing until someone wins.
These are maps that we have a certain comfort, have very good readers, have a lot of variety of play.
And that's it, we are not trying to hide the map, not the map, because at the end of the day we want to win too, right?
is the death group? Do you still think it is because you just beat half of it?
In the early tournament we thought that Group C was really the death group, but we don't think that
anymore as the day passed and now we think the group from Fluxo W7M and also Furious is one of the
strongest one so thank you so much Vita King, thank you very much and tell people to turn in
tomorrow for more games in portuguese
about the game of the morning?
Yes, tell the people to watch the game.
Come on, people! Come on, come on!
Come on, people, watch the game.
It's going to be a Brazilian game.
We're going to face the Asian players there,
but it's going to give us a new one.
Okay, thank you so much, Kingo.
I just told him to say a Portuguese message for you all.
So, turn in tomorrow to see Faze Clan playing against Apex.
They will win. That's what he said, not me.
Hahaha!
I love that.
Also, can I just say, I'm so glad that we have Maria here.
Because of me, so we get to speak,
Especially when the Brazilian teams come around too, some of the people that we always get to speak to.
It's nice to hear from Peter King the mastermind in this team as well, and talk about how they don't no longer think this is a group of death.
Yeah, it just goes to show it. When you 7-1 and 7-1 after losing a map, and then when you 7-1 and 7-1 on the first day, I think at some point you've got to build some confidence, right?
And I just love the way that he just said, oh yeah, we lost the first map because we threw.
Yeah, and we just thought, okay, there's still the two of the maps, and then 14 and 2, yeah, it's just impressive to see.
the game. And also when he
said, Oh, they keep picking the
maps that were good at and I
was thinking, Well, which
ways? Climb up. Which one do
we pick? Does anyone question
about which one? Fortress.
Fortress. We don't know about
the only one. Shall I go to it?
I'm telling you, you can even
pick it. They are scary team in
this time, and I will tell you
it is. It is. We'll talk about
them so much more. First will
have a look at all the results
for today, especially from the
yesterday saying like oh you know there's so many O2s I want the games to be
closer today I got what I wanted which I'm really happy about more competitive
games and you're looking at something as specifically
Wildcats beating Wildcats? That's a tough one, that's a tough one, but one of the
Frenchmen is on Wildcats so I can be happy still but
but also on the other side and the A stream whilst that was going on
Wayvo beating our current major champions M80 like
what is going on? Heretic's beating Nip. Heretic's beating former major champions.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know, that's crazy.
I'm glad we get to see what this does to the group settings, right?
Because these upsets and results from today must mean something for the results.
We know that Elevate is the first eliminated team from the tournament.
Inside of Group B, they will not be able to overtake.
They start anymore inside of those points.
Wildcard currently first.
That is probably something they, maybe we're thinking of in their wildest dreams
to finish that Group in first and the advantages that you get with that as well.
And then Group D, which is, I guess, according to Vita King, the new Group,
the last few years. I think
it's a very important thing to
be aware of. It's a very
important thing to be aware of.
Secretly in that one. It's
pretty good for the European
I actually think Group B is
shaping up. Obviously as a
group there, I think oxygen
flux. So do we have an M's
going on right now just behind
us. That seems to be a very
competitive game. Ssg. You've
always got a lot of loss in
them alongside secret. I think
I will say the way I'm looking
at all four of these groups.
The team that is currently in
the bottom place in the
groups. Have a lot of work to
I'd be very surprised if any of
them obviously elevate already
when we head into tomorrow, we're gonna start thinking about actually who's going into the upper bracket,
who's the teams that's getting the buys, and who is escaping that lower bracket gauntlet from the very first round.
I can't wait to see more from these upsets if you think of Daystar that managed to move to a competition upset.
If you think of Fuebo, for example, having been looking amazing.
All of these teams are surprising everything, and that's the beauty of international siege here at the 16th day in a row.
Oh, games free and fall on A stream, our low king's spicy tomorrow.
the game. We're going to be
going up against the eight is
well currently number two and
three inside that group. Oh,
there's a lot to really look
forward to and think about
when we're getting to the
matches for tomorrow. Yeah, I
agree with that on the HM as
well. The later matches there,
especially given those are
inside of that group of death,
but. As you mentioned, when we
looked at the result, there is
still a match going on over at
the B Stream, so we're going to
send you guys over to that one.
As we finish a four tail be
back in tomorrow with the same
time same place 11 AM CET as
the first starting time for now.
Plants, a lot of slow rounds going the distance, an airjet going off, but there's no one there to answer, so
they just kind of tank it, they burn it, a flash that goes out, a second air...
C4 and trade?
The tip's still in the frame, yeah.
Though this also stepped back, hasn't had that experience and sound cues to work together.
But this has been the least explosive round for the attacker Fluxo, but look at the attack a lot.
They've got the brawl, they've got the nomad, they need to set things up before they can start fighting.
We're just about in that spot where we're gonna see some action.
It's been very slow, but they still have to deal with these mirror windows.
As I say that, the ace of Selma is certainly gonna help out with that.
Open is the wall.
The Yogg is now in an awkward spot.
It's really hard to challenge this angle once that mirror is gone.
Are they gonna look for some kind of retake here?
It's possible.
The ball's looking, but here we see those in electric box.
Denying the wall, denying the push.
There's only one more C4 impact on Pog. So they could deal with it. There he goes.
What is that?
What is that?
Oh, come on guys. That's two for two, missing the mark. But 35 seconds.
If only there was a smoke on defense right about now.
Oh, without it, they're gonna have to deal with this setup. One shotgun from Volbs.
And that's a close range fight. Flooding into the site now and he finds another one with the DMR.
Forest is on the floor. All up to Grixxer. You'll find two, but it ain't enough.
match point for Fluxo W7M!
Boa, Boa, and the push comes through.
Again, that is a tight timing for the Brazilian players that are working together,
and it's so smart to get a primary shotgun to fight on that e-box door,
because it's such a hard fight to win.
And we're going to have back-to-back tactical timeouts,
because OXD, down 4-6, have called their own tactical timeout.
B, ready for the rush.
teams they will have mostly players talking in Taktama, some teams have a bit of a mix,
and some teams, like OHG, it's all the coaching set. Kiki is just calling every single word there.
I mean the thing is, there's something I learned from Fabian mostly back when he became a coach
at first for a PC talent, right? I was like, Fabian, you're a man who says a lot of things
over a very long period of time. What do you prioritize in Taktama? He was like, well,
And of course, it depends, yadda yadda yadda.
But it really is about processing what is the most important thing to say,
and how can you say it in the least confusing, but also shortest time span possible.
And then of course, when you have a team where you're not all speaking the same language as your nature tongue,
you also gotta make it accessible for those people as well.
And often I find that coaches will have a specific player that they're kind of talking to,
because they know they can relate the message correctly afterwards, right?
whether it's because of language barrier or because of how you think about the game
because you might be in the same team, but the way the coach is thinking and the agenda is thinking
and the interplayers are thinking are completely different and that's a good thing, but there has
to be somebody translating that thought to everybody else sometimes. That's why we call upon
people like TrickyNin on Chamber of Rebellion or I say having Troy, he can translate a lot of things
into all his younger players. And here I think it's mostly dots being spoken to right, usually in
From flux or side of course really I think so it means that dots and or lobin when I know
Somebody's typically just like a no-brain. Yeah, he's really attentive. No, no, he is
Yes
But that's always is kind of very centered whenever I see the tech timeouts
He's kind of looking and listening and also playing his shield operators obviously having a bit of a voice
Whereas kiki's he's walking down the aisle look talking to all the players all the time
We kind of funny seeing the difference there. Oh, that's injury. He said be ready for the rush
Lobin fast in and fast out. Yeah, good shot from Yogg.
Confidence, right? Down 4-6, that gunfire can quite literally be one of the big reasons why you win or lose this one.
It's the first and the last four rounds that
Oxygen have actually found that opening kill.
Flockster have dominated this early rounds and now without lobing without those docks could be calls and still the mirror windows at large
There's a lot of work to do this round and time is ticking away. They don't have to hover, push stones non, as is none.
C4 shot by Erdo?
Getting shot from above so that forces him out of position Grick said takes his head clean off 3v5 now
Volts needs to push for a refrag. Who's laser is that? That's not his. Is that his teammate?
I think it's actually Yogg whose bottom aqua stairs double door. He surely he can see it surely
He can see he's gonna have to know that Yogg is there
He actually knows about Grick said now. He knows Yogg is there is a lesson for you kids
Be careful where you point your laser give away your position
mind blind somebody too right be careful always those are cute don't blind
people with the laser keep it on people's feet oh oh that's fine the second one but
yeah you wish a little bit Gomez takes him down looking for a refrag now
Polly with a DMR as well in close range the DMR is a bit fickle and Gomez
will best him with the SMG-11 Dodas 1v3 caught on the camera they know exactly
There he is. Oh, it's a good prefire on the forests
He's got a goodable decent. He fell into the other two. Doesn't have a diffuser though as OXG fall back on the side
Oh, they're a bit scared there on the hatch. Does he the cam though? It's not for kills. No diffuser. You see a good spot actually and
Both of these oxygen planes are isolated. Lot of damage done, but y'all goes for the reload. He's not gonna expect it
Oh, like on the box. He's not gonna
He makes it a 1v1
The balls are angry!
Fluxo fumbled the first map, but fire up to the finish and undefeated!
They remain at the 6th Invitational!
Did he run towards OHG?
He's still missing!
He's gone!
Up the chair, into the hallway.
There he is!
He's already going straight to them!
Oh my god!
That was so unwinnable in the 1v3!
So unwinnable!
What was that game?
I mean, Dota's take about one versus three, and he lands every single shot to perfection.
He touched early as well on top four as a Sami.
That is two set with 1v3s in one map.
And this was such a crazy series.
Cast your mind back to border.
8-7, two-match point opportunities that Fluxo W7M fumbled.
Oxygen got it across the line, only to lose on bank.
The distance was required for it, but Fluxo said no overtime on the third undefeated.
They remain here, but it only gets harder from here on out.
They've got space station and team secret still yet to play.
Hopefully they can take a moment and really relish in this hard for victory because they
were pushed.
They were and I mean the thing is I feel like I always see there definitely is a pretty
bright light for them, right?
Again, it comes back a little bit too consistency,
but for Fox, so the bigger story is,
they are definitely here to play, like he said.
There's something about this W7M organization
always finding ways to keep us entertained.
Yeah, all these guys, look,
they've commanded our respect over the years
with a runners up finish and Atlanta and a championship
a year later in Montreal.
They would by no means tournament favorites.
I think a lot of people will always regard them
as a mid-pack team here at SI, likely to make top 12,
maybe top eight, but not go the distance,
and they're certainly making a little bit of a case
for why this incredibly confident ego-challenging team
could be in contention for one of the top places here at SI.
It's funny how we start off this entire segment
with Lobin as the highest EPS for his team,
and we're ending the segment as well,
with Lobin as the highest EPS player for his team.
He has stayed mad consistent all throughout,
and he plays many different positions, many different operators, but to this end success, time and time again.
Very true, but look, I can't help but admit all five of the players on this roster really had their moment.
Like, let's not forget Dota's insane clutch ability, Palu's had a few big ones as well.
Yeah, Palu and Bota was all he used everywhere.
Even DOS, who typically we wouldn't really talk about as much because he's a support player.
He had a few really big moments, especially on those shields, but unbelievably, that ties up the day.
Here on our B stream it kicked off and unfortunately we didn't have a massive result on the elevate fury a game
But man our games have been awesome personally. I mean falcons wild card that was sick surprise
EP secret also a bit of a Peter out, but W7M oxygen. We got the good games today
We got the time. We had the fast ones the other days. That's what damn is sure here is the group bracket situation
Secret I think of actually beating expectations
Yeah, we thought they're gonna be good, but they are really good sitting a very high bar and taking down SSD in a close game
Sure, but then running on the teams like enterprise, which is no big thing there and also taking on OXT and their first play D
So yeah, the bracket is kind of playing out the way that we expected low-key though. Yeah one through four
Yeah, look group D is looking pretty competitive. I think enterprise the one team that haven't really
They've been below expectation
expectation. Oh, actually, uh, no, enterprise. Oh, sorry, enterprise. Um, on the flip side
of that, another APAC team, uh, Waybo have exceeded expectation and I'm mentioning them
because they and Team Secret who are here in Group D are the only teams that have gone
three for three so far. It's been quite a day here at the six invitation, upsets on
both streams. Of course, tournament favorites going down in Falcons and M80, both suffering
losses. I don't know what's going on with that phase game on the other stream, but that's
I'm gonna go check out right now and I think it's where you guys should too because it's time to close out the B stream for today at the
Sixth invitation. It's been such a pleasure as always paying you, but we're gonna be back tomorrow for more si
So why don't you come back tomorrow for now? Let's go watch phase versus Shopify rebellion